I love it! This is shamelessly pulled from, and linked to, www.cnn.com

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A majority of Congress on Friday urged the Supreme Court to side with gun owners in an upcoming case testing whether an individual has a guaranteed right to bear arms.

The bipartisan group of senators and representatives signed on to a legal brief supporting a challenge by District of Columbia residents to own a handgun for protection in their home.

The justices hold oral arguments March 18, and could provide a landmark ruling on a legal question that has largely gone answered since the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791.

In their "amicus" brief, 55 senators and 250 representatives urged the high court to strike down the district's ordinance that prevents citizens from legally owning a handgun.

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Nice to know there are some law makers out there who think DC is full of crap and denying their citizens the right to self-protection within their own home.

A Big, Giant, Unsustainable, Idiotic Loop

I'm no economist. With the exception of one Japanese language course I took while in the Navy living in Japan, I have no college experience. I do know how to read. I do have common sense. The more I learn about how our economy works (or is expected to work), the more completely baffled I become by it. How anyone can defend this system, which seems to be based on false assumptions and a flat out disregard for reality is beyond me.

While the news on the economic front grows dimmer and dimmer, defenders of our system grow ever more cynical in regards to talk of recession. The new buzzword among free market capitalists is "economic slowdown", as if we're just hitting a speed bump, and we'll be fine in the coming months. Congress and the president have yet to come up with a stimulus package to "bail out" the economy because they've yet to figure out what will work. Why is this task so difficult? Perhaps they are finally seeing that this system doesn't work in the long run, that their economic advisers are giving them bad advice, and they have no idea exactly how to fix it. From what I've read so far, any stimulus package they throw out at this point would be like applying neosporin to a sucking chest wound. Not enough, not even close.

An Associated Press article that was published today focused on gift cards, and their place in the market.

According to the article, WalMart is reporting that people are spending their gift cards on groceries and other necessities. Historically, gift cards have been used to buy iPods, DVDs, DVD Players, video games, and other luxury items. This news must have free marketeers shaking in their boots. After a dismal holiday shopping season retailers experienced their worst January in four decades.

No more chair in Nebraska.

Which do you like best, before or after?

i have to admit that I kind of like seeing the stained glass and the gargoyles that were hidden by the marquee. though this sudden change makes the remaining OFS sign look very shabby and kind of sad.