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Facebook’s Voting Problem
A brief post related to Facebook’s latest vote for governance. The vote would be binding if 30% of active users, defined as those who logged onto the website in the last 30 days, voted. In this case, 60 million people needed to vote. At the end of voting, it didn’t hit the 1-million mark. This…
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McDonald’s is unfriendly to people with allergies
My sister went to the McDonald’s location in Wal-Mart on Lawrence Rd in Wichita Falls yesterday. She ordered a hamburger for my niece, who is a toddler, and is very allergic to many, many things. In order for her to safely consume a hamburger, it must be plain with meat and bun only. Dry. Nothing…
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A great priest-per-Catholic ratio
On Saturday, it was made public that the Pope appointed Fr. Beda Umberto Paluzzi, OSB, previously the apostolic administrator of the territorial abbey of Montevergine, Italy as the ordinary abbot of that territorial abbey. In laymen’s terms, the monk was an interim director of the abbey and is now officially the fully-vested chief of the abbey. A territorial abbey…
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Buy Liquor on Sundays (in TX)?
The Statesman has a story today about three bills proposed this year that would allow the sale of liquor on Sundays in Texas. Currently, liquor can be sold in stores to consumers Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. It can not be sold on Sundays, New Year’s Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving or the Mondays…
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Texas Lege preparing to declare “Texas Is Sovereign!”
under the 10th Amendment of the Constitution, of course. In February, a House Concurrent Resolution was filed (HCR 50) to declare that the federal government has acted unconstitutionally by impeding Texas’ right to sovereignty under all things not otherwise covered in the Constitution. Bill text, as originally introduced: By: Creighton H.C.R. No. 50 CONCURRENT RESOLUTION…
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Breaking News?
I got this in my e-mail twenty-four hours ago. Can anyone tell me how this is “news”, but less “breaking news”? from CNN Breaking News <BreakingNews@mail.cnn.com> to textbreakingnews@ema3lsv06.turner.com date Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:18 AM subject CNN Breaking News — Ashton Kutcher is first to reach 1 million followers in Twitter contest with CNN.…