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	<title>In•de•fix•a</title>
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		<title>The Family Tree – It Grows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, we’re not pregnant. I’ve been tinkering with genealogy off and on for probably a dozen years. My dad accomplished a tremendous amount of work in thirty years doing things the old-fashioned way. He’d have been stunned with the information available online now. When he first got online, it was with a 1200 baud modem, and that cost about $40 a month, I seem to recall. Plus long distance charges. I know he never saw a personal web site, but I feel fairly certain he’d approve of the way I’m displaying his research and our family history. I keep a family history online for a number of reasons. If I’m doing research at a library, I’m almost certain to have internet access. I’m more likely to have access than I am to have my laptop with me. Keeping it online makes it easier to collaborate with other members of my family, since they’ll be able to see what I’ve got, and make corrections and additions to their records or mine as needed. I also do it so people who happen to be researching the same families can find me. My dad accomplished a lot, but there are still branches of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://indefixa.ravensbeak.com/2012/04/29/the-family-tree-it-grows/</link>
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		<title>These Aren&#8217;t the Only Ones You&#8217;re Looking For</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember, only police should carry guns. They&#8217;re the Only Ones trained to handle dangerous situations properly. The average gun owner with a carry permit is just going to start blasting away in a confrontation. Nope, no chance they&#8217;ll just draw their weapon and order someone to stop. They&#8217;re all bloodthirsty vigilantes, just aching to pull the trigger on someone. Then again, maybe they need to pull the trigger, because someone else is already shooting. Nah. That&#8217;d never happen.]]></description>
		<link>http://indefixa.ravensbeak.com/2012/04/28/these-arent-the-only-ones-youre-looking-for/</link>
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		<title>We&#8217;re the Only Ones Keeping You High</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four TSA officials are charged with abetting drug smuggling by letting shipments go through security checkpoints for cash. Yes, the same people who think that a four-year-old would pass a gun to her grandmother. Gives new meaning to &#8220;Friendly Skies,&#8221; or &#8220;Sky-high,&#8221; doesn&#8217;t it? But they&#8217;re all about keeping us safe.]]></description>
		<link>http://indefixa.ravensbeak.com/2012/04/26/were-the-only-ones-keeping-you-high/</link>
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		<title>Stunning in His Stupidity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure if this should fall under &#8220;Reasons We Homeschool&#8221; or &#8220;Only Ones.&#8221; A 60-year-old high school teacher in Virginia thought it would be a good idea to line up the students in his welding class and shoot at them with a blank-firing pistol. No, I&#8217;m not making that up. Reports are here, here, and Google News here. This is just stunning in the stupidity of it all. The pistol belonged to the criminal justice program at the school. It&#8217;s not clear if Manuael Ernest Dillow had permission from the CJ department to have the gun, although I&#8217;m not sure why he would have it. What is clear is that Dillow just wasted his teaching career. There&#8217;s no way he can talk his way out of this. The administration seems to have had no clue this was going to happen, so it probably wasn&#8217;t a planned event. What&#8217;s more disturbing to me is that in a high school just 100 miles from Virginia Tech and just days after the 5-year anniversary of the VT shootings, when someone starts shooting a gun at a bunch of people in a school, no one attacked the shooter. No one ran. No one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://indefixa.ravensbeak.com/2012/04/24/stunning-in-his-stupidity/</link>
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		<title>Spring Cleaning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Has it really been over six months since we arrived in Muskogee? It’s spring here, and that means cleaning and changes. We gave the kids a week off for spring break, but the tradeoff was that we had to deep-clean the rig. That theoretically gets done weekly, but there’s cleaning, and then there’s cleaning. Pull stuff out, realize we haven’t used it since we’ve been on the road. “Does anyone want this? No? Put it in the giveaway pile.” Another part of “Out with the old” involved our van. We’ve had the Big Blue Bus since summer 2001, when we bought it new from a Columbus dealer. 151,000 miles later, it was time for us to replace it. We weren’t really happy with Chevy, so we decided on a Ford van. Then it was just a matter of finding one with what we wanted. We quickly realized that the 6.8L engine we thought we wanted (for towing capacity) was pretty rare. Same with getting a non-white van. We don’t have anything against white per se, but we wanted something different from the thousands of white Ford vans out there. We finally found one in Illinois. A friend here in Muskogee [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://indefixa.ravensbeak.com/2012/04/20/spring-cleaning/</link>
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		<title>What the&#8230;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s this? A new post for the first time in over six months? Really? I turned off the image slideshow at the top of the site. One of the reasons excuses I&#8217;ve used for not blogging lately is that I don&#8217;t want to take the time (or the storage space) to look for post images. I&#8217;m lazy that way. Go figure. Posts still might have images, but they won&#8217;t have the big Featured Image in the slideshow. They&#8217;ll only have them if the post calls for it. So this is really just a post letting you know I&#8217;m still alive (if this is the only place you see me), and I&#8217;m going to be resuming my semi-irregular posting pattern Real Soon Now&#8482;.]]></description>
		<link>http://indefixa.ravensbeak.com/2012/04/20/what-the/</link>
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		<title>Lowes Can&#8217;t Win This One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is how not to respond to a national controversy. “We have a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, across our workforce and our customers, and we&#8217;re proud of that longstanding commitment. &#8220;Lowe&#8217;s has received a significant amount of communication on this program, from every perspective possible. Individuals and groups have strong political and societal views on this topic, and this program became a lightning rod for many of those views. As a result we did pull our advertising on this program. We believe it is best to respectfully defer to communities, individuals and groups to discuss and consider such issues of importance.” That last sentence contradicts their actions. If they truly believed that it’s best to defer to communities, and if they truly have a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, they should have left their advertising in place. Advertising during a particular television program doesn’t mean you support the program. Do advertisers who pay $1milliion per minute for a Superbowl spot really endorse the game or a particular team, or are they just trying to get their product in front of as many eyeballs as possible? It&#8217;s the latter. Advertising is about getting people to know what your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://indefixa.ravensbeak.com/2011/12/12/lowes-cant-win-this-one/</link>
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		<title>ZOMG! GUNS in BARS!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blood in the streets! We’re all going to die! At least that’s what the Ohio news media would have you believe. As of today, unless there’s a sign at the establishment telling you otherwise, Ohioans with a concealed carry permit can carry their firearms into any D permit premises. They are not allowed to consume any alcohol while they are carrying their firearm. Read that again. No booze, beer, or alcohol of any kind while carrying. Nothing. Opponents are predicting blood in the bars, just as they predicted blood in the streets ten years ago when Ohio finally reformed their self-defense laws. “Guns and alcohol don’t mix,” we’re told. And they’re right. The Ohio legislature agrees with them. The ORC says you can’t be under the influence when you’re carrying a firearm. They’ll allow you to have a drink or three, up to 0.08 BAC and still drive, but they don’t think you should have any testable amount of alcohol in your bloodstream when you have a firearm. Before we go too far, we need to work on our language choices here. In Ohio, a D permit allows consumption of alcohol, including beer, wine, mixed beverages and spirituous liquor on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://indefixa.ravensbeak.com/2011/09/30/zomg-guns-in-bars/</link>
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		<title>Battle Not With Monsters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seems like &#8220;Only Ones&#8221; posts come in bursts. Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche That pretty much sums up my thoughts about this arrest. I&#8217;d be curious to know how many law enforcement officials charged with enforcing child pornography or drug laws or weapons laws have crossed the line and violated the very laws they&#8217;re sworn to enforce. Maybe this essay should become required in-service training. Local coverage, with a link to the indictment.]]></description>
		<link>http://indefixa.ravensbeak.com/2011/09/28/battle-not-with-monsters/</link>
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		<title>Guns In The Home Are Dangerous</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And only police officers should have them there, because the rest of us can&#8217;t be trusted to handle them safely. Surely no police officer would ever point a rifle at their significant other, or a TASER at children right?]]></description>
		<link>http://indefixa.ravensbeak.com/2011/09/27/guns-in-the-home-are-dangerous/</link>
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