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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear a Mechanical War Suit with twin Gatling guns, shall not be infringed.

What gets me about Agent Carter is...

My memory may be all wrong, but IIRC...

After Jack Kirby brought back the original Captain America in Avengers #4? and he had his own series in Tales of Suspense (?) and was leader of the Avengers, Kirby did some stories of the WW2 Cap. That's where Peggy Carter was first introduced. When the WW2 stories ended, we saw her as an old lady. IIRC.

Time traveling from late 1960s Jack Kirby 4-color print to 2015 and Agent Carter of WW2 stars in a live-action network television mini-series. That's just... amusing to me. But, I've been amused to see all Kirby's characters brought to life. Dum Dum Dugan especially.

Mom never threw out my comic collection. It was stolen.

charlie: "why do i get that when i post stuff"

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I have yet to read Levin's book on ArtV but I've picked up a bunch by osmosis. I need to read it so I can be less iggerent. My iggerent questions about ArtV are less about the convention itself going well than about the subsequent implementation. How can it have more teeth than the current Constitutonal system?

I'm not the pessimist some here are about its potential impact and effectiveness, but I also see that it's the misguded masses that are the primary impediment, then or now. I'm excited at the prospect of ArtV, even what's been done toward it so far.

But, yeah, I keep thinking it's like "immigration reform." We don't need reform as much as we need enforcement. ArtV question would be moot if the Constitution as written were respected.

/soapbox

Above-the-big-headline on Drudge:

Europe's Top Rabbi: Jews must start carrying guns...

What a concept!

Another classic juxtaposition by the artiste Drudge:

"23 Hollywood Moms With Same Sperm Donor Go on Vacation..."

"Farmers say goodbye to bull who sired 500k offspring..."

Egad! I'm caught up on the conversation. First time in days. I might have to find something else to do. What I get for getting up early on a slow, Vic-less morning!

Morning, Glories! Hope you all have a day!

I was looking at my newsfeeds, and was excited to see this headline:

Holder Trial Date Set

Alas, not the Holder I had hoped for. It was a local story about a fine upstanding dad who tried to force his kid to eat marijuana.

Young Joe Biden was still the ladies' man! (I Own the World Report)

Photo Advisory: What has been seen cannot be unseen.

Principal: Students Can ‘Hurl’ Cans Of Corn at Gunmen As ‘Last Resort’

Will there be "canned corn safes" where these will be kept? Will teachers be trained in their use? We don't want students to get their hands on these, they might be used on each other or on teachers! Letting canned corn into the schools is a slimy slope! (Recycling my own joke from Ace this morning.)

Also in the realm of brilliant ideas in self-defense :
Company To Sell Fake Gun For Those Who Want To Appear To Be Armed (Truth Revolt)

What could go wrong!?!!?

Morning, Glories! Putting my 2¢ in so I'm a commenter, not one of those bloodsucking lurkers.

Read up to comment #100 so far, and I figure the Ben dump will be up by the time I get back from feeding the pets, soooo... I can't really converse in "real time."

If we allow large canned goods in schools, isn't there a danger the students will use them on each other, or on the teachers? And what if some student dropped a can on his or her toe? Letting canned corn in seems like a slimy slope to me.

The video was kewl, but I'd punch up the sound track.

"It's a great big universe and we're all really puny…"

or

"It's all a dream… light passing by on a screen…
and there's you and I on a beam…
speeding through the universe…"

Animaniacs, or Moody Blues? Hmm.

Srsly, I've seen part 1 before. Part 2 was less informative, but still interesting. Increasingly, we see the universe modeled, and it's increasingly amazing.

The hacker should have added the videos of Barnhardt burning the Koran.

Holder did not attend, claiming he was too busy with “high level meetings.” This begs the question who he could possibly have been meeting seeing as everybody important was at the rally!

Well… head of the French Muslim Brotherhood, or the like…?

The substance of this article is not new. I'd say I've seen its points scattered among the comments here on AoSHQ. What's nice is how it draws these points together and presents them.

Especially good in elucidating the presumed "bravery" of attacking Christians and Republicans.

Gud ritin

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We must establish an outreach to these disaffected presstitutes, and help them find the better faith. "If only they could use their powers for the good!"

Morning, Glories!

Imagine I here insert a bunch of witty, pithy responses to a bunch of the comments above... instead of having all those replies all cram together and get stuck in the doorway of my mind.

I'm pretty sure that was in a song by Glen Campbell.

"While grossly misrepresenting Christian history, he presents tired old arguments that would not trouble any first-year seminarian. Despite his presenting them as blockbuster discoveries, nothing he says is ground-breaking in any sense. His arguments have been around for centuries and Christians have long had scholarly explanations for them."

This should be the standard answer to all the shallow-minded critics who think they know better than the wisest theologians.

If you run across some critic whose arguments are deeper than "Can God make a rock bigger than God can lift? Hah! Gotcha!" then you might actually be able to lead them to think theologically.

Ting: "…I just try to immerse myself in the service…. It’s just me and God … and the Prayer Book…"

That's a great way to put it. I am not a regular, but when I attend, there's much to appreciate, and the rest, well, I'll just mumble mumble through that part.

Okay, dagnabit, the strikeouts didn't work. I also failed to credit Moonbattery, so you can see the two versions there.

I used s instead of strike previously. Strikeout test