Bob Owens

The saddest truth in politics is that people get the leaders they deserve

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Thanks for the ammo purchases

I just wanted to thank those of you who have purchased ammunition from Lucky Gunner via the link on the sidebar. I get a small commission from each sale made via the link, which in turn puts a little money into my pocket.

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Sorry for the outages

If you tried to come here over the past 48 hours (as a lot of people have, thanks to a pair of links from Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit), you may have hit a site that simply didn’t load. As it turns out, a RAID card on the server that the site resides on went flakey [...]

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Righthaven assets seized

It looks like the copyright trolls are going away for good. Las Vegas copyright infringement lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC’s financial problems grew Tuesday when the federal court in Las Vegas commanded the U.S. Marshals Service to seize more than $63,000 in Righthaven assets to satisfy a creditor’s judgment and costs. Lance Wilson, clerk of the [...]

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Oh, WordPress…

Why must you arbitrarily insert unnecessary <div> tags into my code, making my paragraphs run together? If I wanted to hand-code the site I would have stayed on my old CMS. Stop, please.

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Google: don’t be felony evil

Ronnie Schreiber touches upon a situation that has long annoyed me, the practice of some web sites and blogs that blatantly rip off the content feeds of other sites. I don’t think I’ve ever gone as far as actually contacting the site to take the content they’ve filtched down, because I never made the connection [...]

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