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	1/3/2006

Dangerous Act of the Day

Just before running afoul of approved Greensboro Library procedure, I had been called by my sons informing me that if I re-routed my itinerary I might be able to make it into Best Buy in time to buy an X-BOX 360 unit. Buddy list chatter said that they had a few.

Since our one gift to our kids this Christmas was an empty box with a promise to buy them the must have 360 unit, I did indeed adjust my travel route.

I was in luck, they had 5 units left in the store from their last shipment. After waiting for them to retrieve my purchase from the stock room, I reached for it as the clerk brought it to the customer service counter. The clerk cut my motion short though, "Sorry sir, I have to carry this to the front door for you." I joked back, "Boy these really must be worth their weight in gold." He gave me a half smile and explained, "Well not exactly. It has only happened 'up North' at a few places - not at a Best Buy - but other places where customers have been attacked by other customers as they tried to carry their 360 units out of the store. This is our procedure for now."

I thanked the clerk as he handed me my dangerous booty in front of the security sensors. Then, I made sure to do a 360 scan of the parking lot as I quickly dashed to my car.

11:03:26 PM

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Homeland Security laugh of the day in Greensboro

With the intervention of the New Year's holiday this week I crossed up my schedule and dropped into the Bryan Branch library tonight - a week early for this month's JBS meeting. Since the local volunteer leader lives around the corner from the location, and the room I thought the meeting was supposed to be in was empty for the night, I tried to arrange a quick rendezvous to go over a few things.

The librarian at the front desk however began to give her best apology as to why she couldn't let us use the empty room since we had not booked it at least 24 hours in advance as policy dictated. Just as I was ready to make a likely vain libertarian appeal to reason over bureaucratic policy, it occured to me to make a joke instead.

Talking into my cell phone loudly to our local volunteer leader I passed on my revelation, "Whoops, looks like we can't get in here; we did not give Homeland Security the 24 hour advance notice they need on our meeting."

We both had a good laugh with two members of the library staff standing in front of me and a local homeland citizen checking out some approved books.

My compatriot and I ended up conducting our subversive meeting at Panera Bread on Lawndale instead.

10:48:43 PM

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Pharaoh must go

I imagine the sample size is still low for statistical purposes on this first day of polling. Still, it does not bode well for Pharaoh that currently 59% of the people voting on The John Birch Society website believe that he should be impeached and removed from office.

note: When the John Birch Society talks impeachment for presidents we don't go for entertaining shows over titilating stories of sexual liaisons. We go for jugulars like treason.

10:31:16 PM

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