http://www.beterwas.com/index.php honestly misbehaving Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:58:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's time to impeach Bush and Cheney. Personally, I believed they should have been impeached after the whole secret torture prisons episode. Not only was it itself a travesty, but its execution further illustrated tis administration's incompetence. The first real "enough is enough" moment for me, though, has been the whole executive-branch/legislative-branch/just-go-fuck-yourself ... http://www.beterwas.com/index.php/2007/08/19/impeach-now/ The only rule in hackey-sack is that you can't say "sorry." Likewise, there is a blogging rule against apologizing for tardy or lazy posting. If there's not one, there should be. We are fulfilling the dreams of Irishmen everywhere — native and adopted, alike — and are opening a pub. We've kicked the ... http://www.beterwas.com/index.php/2007/08/09/been-busy-we-have/ To read about all of the furor over Delaware County's property tax increases, I am reminded of a simple fact: All politics are local. Having just moved back to Muncie from Florida after 10 years in a community where the property taxes on my 1,500 square foot home were $3,000 a ... http://www.beterwas.com/index.php/2007/08/04/community-re-investment-is-needed/ Note: At the end of this post is a link to the latest episode of the Thomas Jefferson Hour, in which Clay Jenkinson, as Thomas Jefferson, discusses the Declaration of Independence. IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human ... http://www.beterwas.com/index.php/2007/07/04/finish-ahead-read-this/ The President met with GOP Senators Tuesday to try and salvage his Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007 (the name seems to be as important as any particular provision with the GOP, doesn't it?). In fact, as the day went on, the President went from 'courting,' to ... http://www.beterwas.com/index.php/2007/06/14/lets-be-real/ It's always interesting to me to see real life reflect national politics (or is it the other way around?). You would think that with a represenative democracy, it would happen more often than it does. Yet, our day-to-day sensibilities seem to become less relevant, the closer you get to the ... http://www.beterwas.com/index.php/2007/06/12/finish-ahead-hire-the-best-person-period/ Section 8, Paragraph 'a' of the Federal Flag Code reads "The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property." During a recent visit to Sofia by President Bush, the streets were lined with American ... http://www.beterwas.com/index.php/2007/06/11/bulgaria-gets-it-why-cant-we/ A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine emailed me an article from WorldNetDaily, wondering if anyone was talking about it. No one was. No one from the MSM, anyway. The article concerned the new and improved National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive, which grants the President extraordinary powers in ... http://www.beterwas.com/index.php/2007/06/10/this-is-not-america/ So, we had been moving for days and days, it was raining really hard, and the folks working on my car had already delayed us a day, and…well, it sucked trying to get out of Orlando. In all the confusion, I left our television in the garage of our old house ... http://www.beterwas.com/index.php/2007/06/09/breaking-news-update-im-a-doofus/ Ah, the joys of moving! We have just finished moving to Muncie, IN. It really is an exciting change for us, and the benefits are becoming increasingly apparent. My hometown of Orlando has turned into something rather ugly over the past twenty-five years. Development is a plague, there are too many people, ... http://www.beterwas.com/index.php/2007/06/07/away-so-long/