* Depending on your browser, "clicking" on any link on my webpages should
open a new page or tab;
to return to where you were, just "kill"
the new tab or page after you have read it.
* I am NOT a lawyer, and NOTHING on this site should be
used as legal advice!
If you need legal advice, you should
consult a lawyer of your choice.
* FREETHOUGHT FOR MONDAY, 24 JUNE, 2019:
"People say we need religion when what they
really mean is we need police." ~ H.L. Mencken
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 ...(insert other names)... 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!
I love to teach people, especially beginners, how to shoot rifles and
pistols, and you
can tour my shooting-instruction facilities at
http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/Shooting.html
Tour inside & outside our house at
http://people.cs.ksu.edu/~mcalhoun/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
matromonial" (we've been married 55 years!-)
or are from Goodwill, the Grand ol' Trunk, and/or other thrift stores;
and anything we own that might have
some value has been engraved for easy identification!
Sorry, but that's just our lifestyle.
See my "official" Kansas-State photo (a.k.a. "ugly mug") and my "barbershop"
quartet (a.k.a. "four ugly mugs")
on my Kansas State University webpage
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~mcalhoun/index.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://people.cs.ksu.edu/~mcalhoun/CreekFlood.html (note that 1972-thru-2016 is nowhere near 100 years!)
I haven't taken the time to annotate these, but Wildcat Creek, which bends
in an "ell" around the above 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 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 landowner's 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 back-hoe 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://people.cs.ksu.edu/~mcalhoun/BankRepair.JPGs
Other libertarian-oriented webpages I have found interesting:
Dr. John Cobin's similar quotations at
http://www.PolicyOfLiberty.net/equotes.html James's Liberty file collection at
http://jim.com Bill Beaty's skeptical quotations at
http://www.amasci.com/weird/skepquot.html John Wayne on "America, Why I Love Her" at
http://sagebrushpatriot.com/america.htm
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!-) If you email me and don't hear back within
a week, feel free to CALL me at 785-539-4448.
Five boxes preserve our freedoms: soap, ballot,
witness, jury, and cartridge. PhD EE - Barbershop Tenor - Amateur Radio Operator (W0PBV)
NRA "Lifer" & Rifle, Pistol, and Home-Firearm-Safety Instructor
This page was last modified on Monday, 24 June, 2019.