Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Nov 24, 2009, 2:19 am
Do you think about what you read? Do you think about the positions you take and consider them carefully with regard to basic principles? Or do you listen to what others have to say and parrot that? Do...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Nov 23, 2009, 1:46 am
Tonight, I saw a conservative blogger with an internet radio program ask the question “Do terrorist[s] have the same right[s] as an American”. The very first response I read was “hell no”. Ano...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Nov 22, 2009, 12:19 am
After a short absence the Grizzly Groundswell is back. This is a shameless plug for a conservative website that has won a golden Sammy award – before being knocked off the web for a while. Go give t...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Nov 19, 2009, 3:35 pm
It seems to me that in at least four “major” elections recently there have been some rather strange post-election goings on. OK, I know that it’s a lot more than just four– we can probably go ...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Nov 18, 2009, 7:41 pm
I just responded to a comment left by Debbie on my previous post. Thinking about it for a moment, I’ve come to realize that all of the attention I’ve been putting on our founding documents and tha...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Nov 16, 2009, 8:24 pm
Government of the States, for the States, and by the People and States Yes, you read that heading correctly. That’s what I believe that the Constitution originally established, and for the purpose...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Nov 16, 2009, 1:22 pm
“Don’t trust e-mail attachments.” “Don’t click on links you find in unsolicited e-mail.” These are two warnings I’ve given in recent posts, and for good reason. There are people in the w...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Nov 12, 2009, 8:03 pm
We’ve finally had a couple of days of semi-decent weather in a row out here and I was able to get back to working on my car. I’ve managed to get it running – that was an adventure after five yea...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Nov 12, 2009, 1:52 pm
I use a URL rewriter library to set up my permalink URLs. I did this for a couple of reasons. The primary reason is that it allows me to provide you with a simple way to get to my archive. For example...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Nov 11, 2009, 6:39 pm
This Veteran’s Day I would like to thank all Veterans for their service to our country. You fill a great need and are often underappreciated by the people that you have protected and served. There a...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Nov 10, 2009, 3:41 pm
I keep getting these in my e-mail. I’ve probably received about two dozen of them in the last month or so. The thing is, I know they’re fraudulent. Notice of Underreported Income Internal Revenu...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Nov 8, 2009, 11:48 pm
The following post was published about a year and a half ago – well before the economy collapsed near the end of George W. Bush’s presidential term. The post remains unchanged here, except I took ...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Nov 6, 2009, 12:12 pm
I will get back to my series of posts on “First principles” fairly soon, but in the meantime this came up and I just had to say something. Jeff Jacoby writes… Those who fulminate against le...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Nov 3, 2009, 12:07 pm
Equality All men are created equal. Thomas Jefferson, and the other fifty five members of the Continental Congress that signed the Declaration of Independence agreed that this is a self-evident trut...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Oct 30, 2009, 9:59 pm
“The first and governing maxim in the interpretation of a statute is to discover the meaning of those who made it.” — James Wilson, Of the Study of Law in the United States, 1790 “[T]he pre...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Oct 29, 2009, 3:54 am
For reason’s I’m not quite ready to disclose to the general public yet (nothing bad though), I may not be home this Thanksgiving. Since that’s a distinct possibility, my wife decided that yester...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Oct 28, 2009, 2:22 pm
“Weird Al” Yankovic has a fun song named “Virus Alert”. In the song he describes a particularly noxious computer virus that can do all sorts of terrible things both inside cyberspace and outsi...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Oct 26, 2009, 3:37 pm
Before you continue – a warning. This is a VERY long post. Many of you will be tempted to ignore it because of the length. That’s fine. If you stick with it, I think it will be worth your time, bu...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Oct 25, 2009, 12:50 pm
If you ever needed proof that politicians don’t truly represent the people, but instead represent their pocketbooks and their “legacy,” all you have to do is look at the agreement signed by Wash...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Oct 24, 2009, 4:52 pm
OK, so the plan for today was to replace the brake fluid and bleed the brakes, then to drive the car around the block to make sure things were OK before taking the car on a brief shakedown cruise. One...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Oct 23, 2009, 3:05 pm
I suppose I should have expected this when I posted last night. After all, I did check the forecast and it did warn me. The plan for the day was to change the brake fluid, bleed the brakes, take the c...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Oct 22, 2009, 10:17 pm
Three and a half weeks ago I wrote about cars, the street rod I want to build, the Mustang I’m still trying to get titled, and my Corvette. If you recall, I had just pushed the car out of the garage...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Oct 22, 2009, 2:19 pm
If you read this blog at all, you know that I’m absolutely against government funded healthcare programs – at least at the federal level. The Constitution doesn’t authorize them so we shouldn’...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Oct 20, 2009, 1:47 pm
Instant messaging software is handy to have to communicate with friends and associates. I use three different messaging clients and services, primarily Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger. I also use...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Oct 17, 2009, 11:25 am
Sunday night at 8:00 P.M. Eastern you can watch “Not Evil, Just Wrong” right here. Broadcasting Live with Ustream.TV ”Not Evil, Just Wrong.” I have to wonder about that title, especially...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Oct 15, 2009, 11:02 pm
My friend Karma sent me this in email. I got a good laugh out of it, and thought you might as well… OLD BUTCH John was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (he...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Oct 14, 2009, 12:41 pm
Yesterday, October 13, 2009 marked the third anniversary of this blog. The very first posting to this blog remarked upon the alleged “right wing smear job” perpetrated by a Democrat against a Demo...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Sep 30, 2009, 1:09 pm
Allegedly, we are a nation governed by laws, the United States Constitution being the supreme law of the land. We’re not supposed to be governed by special interests, no matter how “well meaning�...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Sep 28, 2009, 7:46 pm
My wife and I have plans for two new vehicles for the stable. She wants a Harley three wheeler, and I want a street rod. We’ve been talking about this for a while, and we were planning on waiting un...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Sep 27, 2009, 12:43 pm
My wife and I are football fans. More specifically, we’re Seattle Seahawk fans. We used to hold season tickets back when the team played in the old concrete hamburger known as the King Dome, and whi...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Sep 20, 2009, 10:22 pm
As you know if you read my last post, I celebrated my 50th birthday and my 18th wedding anniversary recently. Part of that celebration included a trip to the Oregon coast. We stayed in Linco...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Sep 17, 2009, 9:13 am
I celebrate two (actually three) very important occasions today. OK, one day (actually two) of importance to only a few, and one that should be important to us all. Today, I turn 50. That’s right...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Sep 16, 2009, 11:02 am
Once again, my dad has forwarded me an interesting piece of email. It’s worth a look I believe… Cash for clunkers A vehicle at 15 mpg and 12,000 miles per year uses 800 gallons a year of ga...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Sep 15, 2009, 3:34 pm
First the good news. The teachers are back to work. I dropped my son off at school at 7:30 this morning. For him at least this should be good news. We put him into one of the best schools in the schoo...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Sep 11, 2009, 2:00 pm
I believe I noted a few days ago that the Kent Education Association is a criminal organization. They, and the teachers that are their members, are in fact teaching an important lesson to the children...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Sep 11, 2009, 11:06 am
It’s been known to happen. I seem to recall quite vividly the events that took place eight years ago today. I still seethe with anger when I think about them. One thing I don’t remember is duri...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Sep 9, 2009, 12:05 pm
Good advice is seldom heeded until it’s too late. Take for example this advice from Thomas Jefferson. “Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be ...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Sep 8, 2009, 5:15 pm
The leaders of the Kent Educational Association belong in jail. In the State of Washington, public school teachers are considered public employees. Public employees in Washington have no legal right t...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Sep 5, 2009, 2:53 pm
Well, there’s apparently at least one area where the government can run a business better than private industry. Boeing recently won a ruling in the WTO that the subsidies given to Airbus were illeg...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Aug 24, 2009, 3:49 pm
I’ve finished my first piece of chain maille. It’s a ten by ten square of maille made from galvanized steel rings that came in a kit provided by Horse ‘n’ Round. Altogether it took about four ...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Aug 23, 2009, 4:36 pm
Cindy, my wife’s coworker and the woman that introduced us to Scottish Country Dancing, and her brothers really get into science fiction and fantasy. Earlier this year they dragged (Is that really w...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Aug 21, 2009, 11:02 am
Angel recently sent around a bit of humor regarding President Obama’s health care plan. I quite naturally forwarded it on to a small circle of my non-blogging friends. I didn’t forward it on to ot...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Jul 27, 2009, 3:59 am
Well, we’ve finished with the 63rd Annual Pacific Northwest Scottish Highland Games and Clan Gathering. As I predicted, it was indeed a lot of fun, although it was still rather warm weather (for her...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Jul 26, 2009, 11:52 am
Even a stopped clock tells the correct time twice a day. The lucky ones get it right three times a day on leap year. And, like a stopped clock, the Obama administration occasionally gets it right too�...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Jul 25, 2009, 1:04 am
The clan representatives carried their unlit torches out onto the field. The chieftain lit his torch from the fire that was lit upon the hilltop to call the clans together. He then lit the central tor...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Jul 24, 2009, 3:30 pm
Who says that the people on the opposite side of the aisle don’t read the founding fathers for inspiration? As I was reading the Friday Digest from The Patriot Post this morning, I realized that it�...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Jul 22, 2009, 11:34 pm
My wife works as a home care nurse. She frequently ends up taking care of patients in Pierce County, near Bonnie Lake and Buckley. She knows how much of a fan of Mt. Rainier I am, so tonight after din...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Jul 18, 2009, 8:33 pm
It’s an outrage when a business engages in deceptive marketing tactics to inflate its profits. It’s so outrageous that the federal government has even dedicated a part of its bureaucracy to lookin...
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Perri N. posted an article on Perri Nelson's Website - Jul 17, 2009, 8:07 pm
The “most trusted man in America” is gone. According to the Seattle Post Intelligencer… NEW YORK -- Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks' golden age who reported a ...
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