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	11/1/2003

Draft Boards Making a Come Back

Out of work and need a job - The Selective Service System is looking for citizens to serve on local community draft boards ---- raising eyebrows about the possibility of a reinstatement of conscription.

While having lunch Friday, I made my first attempt to test the waters on this concept with two young men working in Delaney's Irish Pub on Morgan Square in downtown Spartanburg, SC. The one young man working tables said that he would, "run." The other young man dressed for Halloween in a UPS deliveryman suit (probably in violation of some Patriot Act law) said that he, "would take off to Canada." Of course, if they took the time to consider the implications of these choices, they might modify their plans, but on my first data point, I would say the draft idea may not go over too well.

10:56:56 PM

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The Culture War - Dateline Greensboro, NC

"Selective Tolerance," Equals Intolerance

That's the key point made in a forwarded e-mail I received that was written by Alex McFarland of Faith In Focus Apologetics Ministries. (Alex must be legit because he works out of the same subsidized, downtown Greensboro, office complex as Ed Cone...He even helped me find Ed's office when I got lost in the maze of hallways there.)

Apparently, at the last minute, the ostensibly Methodist Greensboro College has decided not to honor their contract to allow the Faith in Focus people to host a lecture on their campus on homosexuality and the Christian world view to be given by a former lesbian. Here is the full text of Alex's e-mail which will probably form the basis of a longer press release or news article. Alex should have gone with the far more tolerant people at Guilford College who let us rent space for two John Birch Society speeches last year. (The Guilford College people also let the young Howard Coble graduate -- though not the older one speak.)

What do you think the chances are of having a Christian group sponsor a lecture on the Greensboro College campus discussing the sin of obesity given by a former glutton?

9:14:59 PM

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Record Soviet Wheat Harvest

That's the headline that came to mind when I saw this headline in Thursday's USA Today laying on the front counter of my hotel.

The Ministry of Agriculture in the CCCP were experts at pumping out lines like that in Pravda, while people waited in line across the Great Soviet Motherland to spend a few kopecks on a tasteless baton of bread before it ran out.

Meanwhile, its a new era in the USA and the economy is apparently on fire even though I look around and see more and more people out of work or working for half of what they did a few years ago. The "jobless recovery" is looking more like the "breadless record grain crop" all the time.

Let's give USA Today a little credit though as they did at least mention that the fabulous 3rd quarter economic performance (as calculated by a shadowy figures in Washington) was mostly attributed to people refinancing their homes and going further into debt with the Federal Government doing likewise by cutting taxes without cutting spending.

Really folks, spending money you don't have is no way to fuel economic growth...it is simply the formula for ultimate servitude.

8:57:04 PM

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