Genealogy Update
Updated PerryFamilyRoots.com to match content on Ancestry.com.Read more Tags: No tags for this post.
Update
I’ve updated the site to match that at Ancestry.com. The update includes deletions of duplicate data and unconnected individuals
Changes
I’m playing around with the look of the site so things may change when you least expect it.
Thomas Jefferson on intellectual property
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Read more
FTC Blogger Disclosure Rules
“… the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued new guidelines that require bloggers to ‘disclose material connections’ for product or service endorsements. Read more
Faulty Logic
Making it illegal to make or sell meth and cocaine hasn’t stopped them from being made and sold. Making prostitution illegal hasn’t eliminated prostitution. Banning child pornography hasn’t stopped kids from being sexually abused. Making it against the law to run red lights hasn’t stopped people from ignoring them. Making driving under the influence a crime hasn’t stopped people from being killed by drunk drivers. So we should just repeal all these laws since the things they outlaw haven’t stopped people from doing them. That’s the logic people who oppose gun control laws are using. Read more
Being innocent
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=419893721417661&set=a.378515252222175.85285.378258698914497&type=1&ref=nf Being “innocent” is not sufficient to qualify one to own a gun … or it shouldn’t be. Read more
Why Bother?
What we need now is a ban on the sale and possession of weapons that are only good for mass murder. You don’t need a 50 caliber machine gun or a rifle that can fire 100 bullets a minute to hunt ducks or deer. If you do, you should give up hunting. Read more
Optimism
Perhaps the future is not as bleak as it appears. I started thinking about what happened in this election year and remembering some things that may have been glimpses of reality that went unnoticed. Back during the Republican primaries there was a field of candidates that was so far to the extreme right in their ideas that, truthfully, they were just not taken seriously by most Americans. Literally, most people laughed at them, Read more