I always thought that film would be much improved if Goose had survived but was left a vegetable.

I'm not offended by ads. I'm offended by hypocrisy.

You say you did it so that you wouldn't have to repeat yourself, but you're still repeating yourself. Your goal seems to be driving traffic to your blog, and not reducing the need to repeat yourself as you state.

And why? Who are you? You're not an authority. You, like me, are some random idiot on the internet.

You've got one part right. The constitution is amendable. What chafes my ass, is when people try to sidestep the constitution. Worse, is when they try to make that constitution say something that it never intended to say.

An voter shows up at some meeting, and he happens to be toting a weapon. What's the problem? Are you afraid of him? Why? What is the problem, exactly? He might shoot you?

Why not leave the pansy pastel rainbow party, and join the party that allows you to carry weapons? That way, you can have your own weapon, and you need not fear. Problem solved, right?

*sigh*

I'm glad I don't live in fear.

Arms are no more vicious than they were in the day the Romans ruled all of the known world. In fact, weapons are comparatively less deadly than back then. A nasty cut with a spear or sword was very likely to get infected and kill you. Today? You can take a bullet or three, get carted off to a hospital, and be saved from death. Besides which, weapons aren't vicious - people are.

As for my immutable gospel - there are no vague statements in it. Every sentence, every phrase, every word in that document was carefully considered. There is nothing vague about it. The only time it may seem vague is when people start parsing words like ole Billy Clinton. "Depends on what you mean by "Sex"" Clinton. And, "What do you mean by "is"" Clinton.

If you don't like the Constitution, why don't you stand up on two legs like a man, and say that you don't like the Constitution. Don't blather meaningless bullshit about how those nutcases 200 years ago couldn't have foreseen where technology would go, or how society would change, or that they didn't comprehend the English language. Just come right out and say that you don't like the United States, or it's government, and that you want to change it. That sounds honest at least, and some people might respect you for it.

And, you need not fear speaking out, either. You'll have a lot of company. There are millions of babbling fools who think that this country could be better if it were run their way. You'll have to stand in line, though. Some of those babbling fools have money, and they are already in Washington trying to buy up a congressman or six to do their bidding. Kinda like Bill Gates and Microsoft in this article: http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/08/29/030223/Microsoft-Holding-Screw-Google-Meetings-In-DC?art_pos=27

This only broke BGP implementations that are getting pretty long in the tooth now, on a moderately recent version of IOS all we saw is:

Feb 17 05:25:03.731 nzdt: %BGP-6-ASPATH: Long AS path 10026 3356 29113 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 received from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: More than configured MAXAS-LIMIT

It was definitely an insane path, our routers were configured to drop anything with an AS path longer than 75, old versions of IOS would often just drop the BGP session ( or even crash with some _really_ old versions ).

I'm sure there will be some red faced network engineers updating IOS or even doing forklift upgrades of old boxes at their edges in the near future.