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  If you need legal advice, consult your lawyer.
  If you think you need religious advice, use your brain and think again.
"WHAT CAN'T BE CURED MUST BE ENDURED."  (Old adage)
    ONLY 1167 MORE DAYS until January 20, 2029!

FREETHOUGHT FOR Monday November 10, 2025:
Border Crossing Realities (May 1, 2010) If you cross the North Korean border illegally you get 12 years of hard labor. (Unless Al Gore is your friend and boss...) If you cross the Iranian border illegally you get detained indefinitely. If you cross the Afghan border illegally you get shot. If you cross the Saudi Arabian border illegally you get imprisoned immediately and cannot consult a lawyer. If you cross the Chinese border illegally you may never be heard from again. If you cross the Venezuelan border illegally you get branded as a spy and are rarely ever released. If you cross the Cuban border illegally you get thrown into a political prison and are rarely released. If you cross the U.S. border illegally you get: 1. A job 5. Federal Food Stamps 2. A driver's license 6. Credit Cards 3. A Social Security card 7. Free public education 4. Welfare 8. Free health care 9. Subsidized rent or a low-interest load to buy a house 10. An army of lobbyists in Washington D.C. to represent you 11. Billions of dollars worth of public and legal documents printed in your language 12 The right to carry your home country's flag while you publicly protest that you don't receive enough respect. Just making sure everyone has a firm grasp on the situation.

TODAY'S KING-JAMES-BIBLE CONTRADICTION ABOUT GOD:
Where is God?
  He dwells in the temple at Jerusalem (1 Kings 8:12-13; Acts 7:47)
  He does not dwell in temples (Acts 17:24)
  He dwells between the cherubim on the Ark (Ps 80:1; Ex 25:22; Num 7:89;
        1 Sam 4:4; 2 Sam 6:2; 2 Kings 19:15; Isa 37:16)
  He dwells in heaven (Ps 14:2, 33:13-14; Eccl 5:2; 2 Chron 6:21, 30)
  He dwells high above the earth (Ps 97:9)
  He dwells in thick darkness (1 Kings 8:12; 2 Chron 6:1; Ps 18:11, 97:2)
  He dwells in unapproachable light (1 Tim 6:16; 1 John 1:5, 7)
  He is far off (Ps 10:1)
  He is not far off (Ps 145:18; Jer 23:23; Acts 17:27)
  He dwells in Zion (Ps 9:11)
  He sits on a throne (Isa 6:1)
  Nothing can contain him (1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chr 6:18)
  He is everywhere (Deut 4:39; Jer 16:17, 23:24; 1 Kings 8:27; Ps 139:7-11;
        Prov 15:3; Heb 4:13)
  But he is only in one place at a time:
  He walked in the Garden (Gen 3:8)
  Cain left his presence (Gen 4:16)
  He came down to see the Tower (Gen 11:5)
  "I will go down now...." (Gen 18:21)
  He "went his way" (Gen 18:33)
  "I will go down with thee" (Gen 46:4)
  In a bush (Ex 3:4)
  "I will stand before thee" (Ex 17:6)
  Jonah fled from the presence of the Lord (Jonah 1:3)
  In heaven (Psalms 14:2)
  Balaam met the Lord "yonder" (Num 23:15)
  Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord (Job 1:12)
  He went from one place to another riding a cherub (Ps 18:10, 2 Sam 22:11) 
AN OBSERVATION:
We defend our President . . . . . . . with guns.
We defend our Congress  . . . . . . . with guns.
We defend our Governors . . . . . . . with guns.
We defend our Legislators . . . . . . with guns.
We defend our Embassies . . . . . . . with guns.
We defend our Police  . . . . . . . . with guns.
We defend our Politicians . . . . . . with guns.
We defend our (insert other entity) . with guns.
We defend our children  . . . . . . . with signs that read "GUN-FREE ZONE",
           and then we call someone with a gun when there is an emergency!
It is easy to imagine a gun-free world; just think back to pre-gun times.

Think Genghis Kahn with rampaging hordes, Julius Caesar and Roman Legion crucifixions, Vlad-the-Impaler, universal serfdom, and endless millions horribly murdered.   A gun-filled world is, paradoxically, more civilized with safer neighborhoods ... even though evil people and government tyrants rampage constantly.   Our guns help control them.

Many people are misled about all this for two reasons.   One, you get no real education on the subject, and two, because if it's in the news and it's about guns, it's probably 100% wrong, leaving you misinformed. Let me support that.

For example, we saw saturation coverage recently about four people shot in Philly.   They weren't shot, they were murdered. Media's subtle word choices affect everything.   Murder is a crime.   Murder puts the emphasis on the murderer.   Media promotes and protects criminals, for complex reasons.   Shooting, on the other hand is a sport, an honorable long-running sport.   Media plays this down.   Shooting is the second-most popular participant sport, ahead of golf (#3).   Media avoids this hard fact altogether.

The above was taken from Alan Korwin's article "On Utopian Pacifism"; read the whole article at < https://pagenine.typepad.com/ >.
After Kansas adopted "Vermont-style carry", where a government permission slip is not required to exercise a Constitutional right, most CCH instructors in Kansas (including me) stopped offering CCH classes (and the KS Attorney General's office stopped updating its official "CCH INSTRUCTOR" list), but someone still occasionally contacts me to inquire about a class.
HOWEVER, as of 2 July, 2024 (the last time I checked),
    GODFREY'S INDOOR SHOOTING AND ARCHERY RANGES
          920 N. WASHINGTON STREET, JUNCTION CITY, KS,
still offers an occasional CCH class; call 785-238-0094-1 for more information.
FWIW, I receive NO remuneration for including the above information on this webpage.

OTHER GOOD STUFF (at least I think so!)

If you attended high school in Milton, Florida, and
if you were in the MHS "Class of '59", and
if you have misplaced your 40th-reunion booklet,
(or if you didn't attend the 40-reunion at all:-),
you can refresh your memories with this 15-Mb scanned copy:
      http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/MHSreunion.pdf.
If you download or look at it, PLEASE send an email to < mcalhoun at sdf dot org >
so I'll know that scanning it wasn't a waste of time.   (So far, only one person has.)

See what NOT to do with a power saw at http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/Fingers.html

Back when I could see better, I loved teaching people how to shoot rifles and pistols, and you can tour my shooting-instruction facilities at   http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/Shooting.html

Tour our July, 2008, outdoor garden at http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/Garden.html
Why do I still include gardening pictures from 2008?
It was a good year for gardening and I really like the pictures!

See typical winter-snow pictures around our house at http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/KSwinter-1.html and http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/KSwinter-2.html

Tour our 2010 "hoop house" (a cheap greenhouse) garden at http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/HoopHouse.html

Tour inside & outside our house at http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/HouseTour.html

NOTE:   If you're looking for things to steal/pawn, you won't find much:   we don't even own a TV or stereo; our main computer runs DOS and was built in 1995; my .22 rifle and pistol are safely locked away; our "silverware" and most of our clothes, dishes, and pots-n-pans are either "early matrimonial" (we've been married 61 years!-) or are from Goodwill and/or other thrift stores; and anything we own that might have any value at all has been engraved for easy identification!   Sorry, but that's just our lifestyle.

A few pictures that can't be characterised other than "miscellaneous" http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/Miscellaneous.html

Our lower pasture is in an official "100-year floodplain" of Wildcat Creek.   You can see what it has looked like six or seven times since we moved here in 1972 at http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/CreekFlood.html (Note that 1972-thru-2024 is nowhere near 100 years!)

I haven't taken the time to annotate these, but Wildcat Creek, which bends in an "ell" around the southwest corner of our lower pasture, has been eroding the "outside" of the curve for years, and the landowner whose land was being transferred to our side of the creek (which, according to Kansas "accretion" law, changed his land into our land!-) hired someone to rip-rap his bank.   Unfortunately, the rip-rapping company decided to physically drag some of our new land back to the other side of the creek (which, according to Kansas law, is not legal), and I just happened to be walking by (without my camera, unfortunately) while the backhoe was digging.   I made a quick complaint to the rip-rapping company office, and they then atoned for their "sin" by rip-rapping our side of the curve, too.   See http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/JPGs/BankRepair.JPGs

Read about my "neat" ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIND at http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/UniqueFind.html

See some of the Highlights of My Life at http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/Highlights.html
I was born into and reared in a deeply-religious family.   My father, one of the two best preachers I have ever heard, was a missionary for nine years (before he died at age 88, he told me he had "tithed his life"), and my mother was the pianist/organist in practically every church congregation I attended.   Thus I was well-indoctrinated (I use that word intentionally!) in religious matters.

I am an ordained (albeit INactive) Priest, I have been a church pastor, and I have baptized, married, and buried' all-too-many people.   But I eventually "broke" through my childhood religious indoctrination and realized that the entire human concept of "god" was just that: an entirely-human concept; I now "believe" that teaching religion to children should be prosecuted as child abuse!

For some years I have "collected" articles written by others who have gone through the same de-programming experience, and you can read some of those articles here.   (Three of these articles are by ex-Mormon writers because I know that the Mormon church indoctrinates its members even more than the church in which I was reared.)
    "Entitlements"
    "The Dogma of Demonstration"
    "The One Reason Religion Is Harmful"
    "Why I Left the Mormon Church"
    "Should I Let My Children Be Mormon?"
    "Questions About Mormonism That Are Not Often Asked"
    "How Does Islam Differ from Other Faiths?"
    "Rattlesnake Logic in Dealing with Terrorists"
    "URL's to some more articles"
  • Read the fundamental documents which (should) have defined our federal and state governments over the years at
        "Introduction.txt",
        "Declaration.txt",
        "ArticlesOfConfederation.txt",
        "US constitution.txt",
        "Amendments.txt", and
        "KS constitution.txt".
    Enjoy my LIBERTY & FREEDOM QUOTATIONS at http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/Quotes.html

    Other libertarian-oriented webpages I have found interesting:
        Bill Beaty's skeptical quotations at http://www.amasci.com/weird/skepquot.html
        John Wayne on "America, Why I Love Her" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51OOH18qkMk
    My email address is mcalhoun AT sdf DOT org (with the obvious substitutions for AT and DOT).   Unless I'm traveling, I usually read email several times a week -- but not necessarily every day (I am retired!-)   Even worse, I have very-aggressive SPAM filtering and don't check my spam folder very often.   If you email me and don't hear back within a week or two, and if you think your email is important, feel free to CALL me at 785-539-4448 and leave a message on my answering machine.
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    This page was last modified on Monday, 10 November, 2025.