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<\/a><\/p>\nYes, it’s uuuuuugly and straight out of the 1970s. But it’s solid pine and sturdy and I think it will paint up in a cool and funky way. Maybe I’ll even glue some beads and faux gems on it. It’s been out there long enough to be covered in seagull cr*p, but not long enough to have warped. So there’s hope for it yet.<\/p>\n
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I got to realizing that I haven’t found much useful stuff in the woods the last few years even though I’m out there as much as ever and people (&^%$#@!) are still using the woods as a free landfill.<\/p>\n
I used to find a lot<\/i> of seriously good stuff — a dog house, ladders, a set of stairs and a porch to go with it (formerly a reviewing stand for a local high school’s homecoming royalty, so I was told, but a perfect porch for my old yurt), a beautiful Deco headboard for a bed, even a gun cabinet with etched glass doors.<\/p>\n
Now, most of the junk dumped out there is … just junk. I cuss over the naily boards and broken glass that offer the needless hazard of slow death to wild animals. I turn the pointy stuff downward and pick up some of the worst. But I don’t find as much useful stuff as I used to.<\/p>\n
Another small manifestation of the Great Recession and our endless economic “recovery”?<\/p>\n
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On other subjects … would you ever<\/i> believe anything anybody from the NSA, CIA, or other spy agency ever said? About anything?<\/p>\n
I must admit that this made me laugh<\/a>. But once again, not in a jolly way.<\/p>\n Yes, Mr. Creepy Gen. Alexander, Sir. Sure. You have “only the numbers” we call and call from. Not a word of our phone, text, or email conversations. But even if that were true (which it’s not) … the problem is that you<\/i> have them.<\/p>\n Even with the new plan to keep the numbers only at the phone companies (who, of course, never, ever, ever randomly share data with our masters the supersnoops), it’s as Ron Fournier says: The surveillance state<\/a> is alive, well, and being protected against We the People.<\/p>\n —–<\/p>\n Michelle Malkin writes about “My trip to the pot shop.”<\/a><\/p>\n Malkin has been such a neocon about so many things, but she’s been a reliable advocate for medical cannabis. And for that she credits one man, now long dead.<\/p>\n