Author: Joe Broadmeadow
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A Coping Mechanism
Continue Reading →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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Random thoughts
Continue Reading →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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LOVE DIES OR IS IT LACK OF AMBITION?
Continue Reading →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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Can Gun Control Work without Nut Control?
Continue Reading →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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“Jersey” Boys
Continue Reading →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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Same Sex Marriage Chicken Sandwich Morality
Continue Reading →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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Miranda Warnings: Why do we name monumental USSC decisions after the perpetrators, rather than the victims?
Continue Reading →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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Why?
Continue Reading →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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Ant CSI or Law and Order (Hymenoptera)
Continue Reading →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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To Surrender America, I hope not
Continue Reading →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…