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"If you as a member of the bureaucracy do not participate in a decision, you are not going to carry that decision out with the alacrity, the efficiency and the effectiveness you would if you have participated. When you cut the bureaucracy out of your decisions and then foist your decisions, more or less out of the blue, on that bureaucracy, you ( Read more... )

Mayor: Cut Thumbs Off Graffiti Artists

I like the way this guy thinks. He's a good egg.

Over a month ago, I registered ljclassics, just for the hell of it. I quickly forgot about it, and left it to die like all the other bad community ideas and one-joke troll accounts I've had.

Then today, lima_pcp mentioned that there should be a community like debate_classics for politicsforum, and I realized I may as well try to put it to good use.

So ljclassics is now open for business. I predict a

On Thursday, I posted about the Geneva Conventions and whether or not they need to be updated to handle modern conflicts. I posted the same questions to liberal and conservatism, and not surprisingly, I didn't receive a single insightful response to my second question.

Also, I posted about fat people in debate. I made a funny.

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I've had this journal for over four years now, and I have very little in it as far as actual content goes. For the most part, I use this journal to post and comment in various communities. So I've decided that I may as well start reproducing many of my community posts here in my journal. Since I dislike seeing the same posts repeatedly on my ( Read more... )

Here in Virginia, we'll be electing a new Governor this November. The current Governor, Democrat Mark Warner, will leave office with a very high approval rating (around 75% right now), and will likely explore a bid for the Presidency in 2008. It seems his popularity stems from the fact that he came out our recent budget fight looking better than ( Read more... )

I need a new icon. It's time for the conehead kid to retire.

OMG!! There's a ghost in the John Brown Wax Museum!!!


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Lil Jimmy & Me!

( My side was edited out, as I'm not a masochist. )