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Joe Broadmeadow retired with the rank of Captain from the East Providence Police Department after serving for 20 years. He is the author of several novels Collision Course, Silenced Justice, Saving the Last Dragon, and A Change of Hate available on Amazon in print and Kindle. Joe is working on the latest in a series of Josh Williams and Harrison "Hawk" Bennett novels and a sequel to Saving the Last Dragon. Joe has also written several best-selling non-fiction works about Organized Crime and other topics all available at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Joe-Broadmeadow/author/B00OWPE9GU In 2014 Joe completed a 2,185 mile thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail
  • August 22, 2012 · Mind Wanderings

    A Coping Mechanism

    Here’s a little amusing trick to use when forced to endure those one-sided, annoying, mostly childish, unavoidable cell-phone conversations overheard EVERYWHERE. Fill in the other side of the conversation! Here’s how it works; (OVERHEARD) So, what did he say… Yeah….…

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  • August 16, 2012 · Mind Wanderings

    Random thoughts

    I never understood the expression “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans?” Wouldn’t a St.Peter joke about 4 Nuns dying and going to heaven work better? Whoever thinks heaven is “heaven” has not met the file…

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  • August 13, 2012 · Mind Wanderings

    LOVE DIES OR IS IT LACK OF AMBITION?

    Is it really Love that dies or is it just an unwillingness to make the effort to sustain it? Loving someone is hard work. It is also bilateral. If you think THEY are hard to love, imagine how they feel…

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  • August 10, 2012 · Uncategorized

    Can Gun Control Work without Nut Control?

    Let’s look at some statistics for perspective; According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (a rather interesting combination of enforcement responsibilities) there are approximately 225 million (225,000,000) firearms in the United States. In 2007 there were 31,224 firearm…

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  • August 7, 2012 · Mind Wanderings

    “Jersey” Boys

    There is a phenomenon that has grown more commonplace that completely baffles me. Why do fully-grown adults, particularly those that have grown in all the wrong proportions, wear sports jerseys bearing the name of some athlete? Sadly, this is a…

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  • August 5, 2012 · Mind Wanderings, Serious Thoughts

    Same Sex Marriage Chicken Sandwich Morality

    August 5, 2012 I came across a recent letter to the editor in the Florida Today newspaper.  The letter expressed agreement with Chik-Fil-A President Dan Cathy’s position on Same Sex Marriage. I will give them one thing, at least they didn’t hide…

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  • August 1, 2012 · Mind Wanderings, Serious Thoughts

    Miranda Warnings: Why do we name monumental USSC decisions after the perpetrators, rather than the victims?

    On March 13, 1963, Ernesto Miranda was arrested. The arrest was primarily based on circumstantial evidence linking him to the kidnapping and rape of a 17-year-old woman 10 days earlier. After a prolonged interrogation he confessed. The conviction was reversed…

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  • July 31, 2012 · Uncategorized

    Why?

    Why would you love me….. i let you go years ago Why would you love me….. i did it again and again Why would you love me…. i could do it all over again Why would you love me….. i…

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  • July 31, 2012 · Mind Wanderings

    Ant CSI or Law and Order (Hymenoptera)

    Have you ever watched ants as they come across one of their own. I don’t mean as they run willy nilly about, but upon one their own, dead? My observations entertain two scenarios. The ant that finds the “victim” immediately…

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  • July 29, 2012 · Mind Wanderings

    To Surrender America, I hope not

    I know it is easy to pick on the TSA, but it occurred to me the other day that some of the blame should fall on us for how we chose to equip them. The latest and greatest gadget in…

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