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FREETHOUGHT FOR Tuesday April 01, 2025:
"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd, and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?"
~ Dan Barker in "Losing Faith in Faith"

TODAY'S KING-JAMES-BIBLE HISTORICAL OR GEOGRAPHICAL INACCURACY OR ANACHRONISM:
There is no contemporary historical confirmation of darkness
covering the earth at the crucifixion (Matt 27:35; Luke 23:44) 
AN OBSERVATION:
We defend our President . . . . . . . . with guns.
We defend our Congress  . . . . . . . . with guns.
We defend our Governors . . . . . . . . with guns.
We defend our Legislators . . . . . . . with guns.
We defend our Embassies . . . . . . . . with guns.
We defend our Police  . . . . . . . . . with guns.
We defend our Politicians . . . . . . . with guns.
We defend our (insert other entity) . . with guns.
We defend our children  . . . . . . . . with signs that read "GUN-FREE ZONE",
          and then we call someone with a gun when there is an emergency!
It is easy to imagine a gun-free world -- just think back to pre-gun times.

Think Genghis Kahn with rampaging hordes, Julius Caesar and Roman Legion crucifixions, Vlad-the-Impaler, universal serfdom, and endless millions horribly murdered.   A gun-filled world is, paradoxically, more civilized with safer neighborhoods ... even though evil people and government tyrants rampage constantly.   Our guns help control them.

Many people are misled about all this for two reasons.   One, you get no real education on the subject, and two, because if it's in the news and it's about guns, it's probably 100% wrong, leaving you misinformed. Let me support that.

For example, we saw saturation coverage recently about four people shot in Philly.   They weren't shot, they were murdered. Media's subtle word choices affect everything.   Murder is a crime.   Murder puts the emphasis on the murderer.   Media promotes and protects criminals, for complex reasons.   Shooting on the other hand is a sport, an honorable long-running sport.   Media plays this down.   Shooting is the second-most popular participant sport, ahead of golf (#3).   Media avoids this hard fact altogether.

The above was taken from Alan Korwin's article "On Utopian Pacifism"; read the whole article at < https://pagenine.typepad.com/ >.
After Kansas adopted "Vermont-style carry", where a government "permission slip" is not required to exercise a Constitutional right, most CCH instructors in Kansas (including me) stopped offering CCH classes (and the KS Attorney General's office stopped updating its official "CCH INSTRUCTOR" list), but someone still occasionally contacts me inquiring about a class.  
HOWEVER, as of 2 July, 2024,
    GODFREY'S INDOOR SHOOTING AND ARCHERY RANGES
          920 N. WASHINGTON STREET, JUNCTION CITY, KS,
still offers occasional classes; call 785-238-0094-1 for more information.
FWIW, I receive NO remuneration for including the above information on this webpage.

OTHER GOOD STUFF (at least I think so!)

If you attended high school in Milton, Florida, and
if you were in the MHS "Class of '59", and
if you have misplaced your 40th-reunion booklet,
(or if you didn't attend the 40-reunion at all:-),
you can refresh your memories with this 15-Mb scanned copy:
      http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/MHSreunion.pdf.
If you download or look at it, PLEASE send an email to < mcalhoun at sdf dot org >
so I'll know that scanning it wasn't a complete waste of time.   (So far, no one one has.)

See what NOT to do with a power saw at http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/Fingers.html

Back when I could see better, I loved teaching people how to shoot rifles and pistols, and you can tour my shooting-instruction facilities at   http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/Shooting.html

Tour our July, 2008, outdoor garden at http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/Garden.html

See typical winter-snow pictures around our house at http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/KSwinter-1.html and http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/KSwinter-2.html

Tour our 2010 "hoop house" (a cheap greenhouse) garden at http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/HoopHouse.html

Tour inside & outside our house at http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/HouseTour.html

NOTE:   If you're looking for things to steal/pawn, you won't find much:   we don't even own a TV or stereo; our main computer runs DOS and was built in 1995; my .22 rifle and pistol are safely locked away; our "silverware" and most of our clothes, dishes, and pots-n-pans are either "early matrimonial" (we've been married 60 years!-) or are from Goodwill, the Grand ol' Trunk, and/or other thrift stores; and anything we own that might have any value at all has been engraved for easy identification!   Sorry, but that's just our lifestyle.

A few pictures that can't be characterised other than "miscellaneous" http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/Miscellaneous.html

Our lower pasture is in an official "100-year floodplain" of Wildcat Creek.   You can see what it has looked like six or seven times since we moved here in 1972 at http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/CreekFlood.html (Note that 1972-thru-2024 is nowhere near 100 years!)

I haven't taken the time to annotate these, but Wildcat Creek, which bends in an "ell" around the southwest corner of our lower pasture, has been eroding the "outside" of the curve for years, and the landowner whose land was being transferred to our side of the creek (which, according to Kansas "accretion" law, changed his land into our land!-) hired someone to rip-rap his bank.   Unfortunately, the rip-rapping company decided to physically drag some of our new land back to the other side of the creek (which, according to Kansas law, is not legal), and I just happened to be walking by (without my camera, unfortunately) while the backhoe was digging.   I made a quick complaint to the rip-rapping company office, and they then atoned for their "sin" by rip-rapping our side of the curve, too.   See http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/JPGs/BankRepair.JPGs

Read about my "neat" ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIND at http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/UniqueFind.html

See some of the Highlights of My Life at http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/Highlights.html
  • Read the fundamental documents which (should) have defined our federal and state governments over the years at "Introduction.txt", "Declaration.txt", "ArticlesOfConfederation.txt", "US constitution.txt", "Amendments.txt", and "KS constitution.txt".
    Enjoy my LIBERTY & FREEDOM QUOTATIONS at http://mcalhoun.sdf.org/Quotes.html

    Other libertarian-oriented webpages I have found interesting:
        Bill Beaty's skeptical quotations at http://www.amasci.com/weird/skepquot.html
        John Wayne on "America, Why I Love Her" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51OOH18qkMk
    My email address is mcalhoun AT sdf DOT org (with the obvious substitutions for AT and DOT).   Unless I'm traveling, I usually read email several times a week -- but not necessarily every day (I am retired!-)   If you email me and don't hear back within a week, feel free to CALL me at 785-539-4448.
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    This page was last modified on Tuesday, 1 April, 2025.