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I went to the Amish Market in Upper Marlboro on Saturday and it was weird.  It was good too, don’t get me wrong; I adore whoopie pies and pretzels.  But it was weird because:
1.You cannot find two populations more different from each other than the Amish and the population of Upper Marlboro Prince George’s County,Maryland.  [...]

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A wrong vote vs. no vote: one man decides.
Those cute little Amish kids?  Inbred.  And who is picking up the tab?
Canadian Mennonite boy makes good; bike-riding Mennonite boy still not so good.
He likes us, he really likes us (because he’s obviously never spent any time at all with us because we don’t even like each [...]

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OK … this is funny. Maybe only in a DC, inside-the-Beltway funny, but still damn funny.
Wednesday, June 25, a bill was introduced on the floor of the Senate and then referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.  This bill, a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the US Constitution relating to marriage and called the [...]

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I just want it publicly out there that I’ve got a bet on NYMEX oil futures settling at $150/bbl by July 4.  And with it reaching a new record today ($140.21/bb), I think I just got a little closer to that win.
Which will be tempered by the fact that my stocks aren’t worth crap at [...]

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Little bored at work?  It’s a Friday afternoon on a beautiful summer day but the boss has you doing the TPS reports or you’re stuck going over the charter statement for that BPM project.
Why don’t you read some classic literature done as Microsoft Office products?  No worries.  Even close up, it looks like you are [...]

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Now that I and various and sundry friends and co-workers have ranted about this morning’s ruling from the Supreme Court on the Second Amendment, time to get a little perspective.

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I’d like to extend an invitation to Chief Justice John Roberts, along with his buddies Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas and Alito, to come hang out in my neighborhood some late, hot summer night. Then maybe they can explain to me why now — rather than just worrying about the usual craps players, the bored teenagers, [...]

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Whereupon urbanmenno and a friend discuss Anderson Cooper’s conversation with Al Sharpton last night.

[edited to protect the not-so-innocent]

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What is James Dobson thinking?   I know he’s super-conservative, anti-gay,  anti-woman, anti-everything really (under the guise of pro-family, of course). But he wasn’t some raving crazy lunatic like Jerry Falwell or the end-times-are-a-coming-throw-the-gays-overboard like Pat Robertson, right?.  At least he gave the impression of being … I don’t know … temperate.  Maybe I was easily [...]

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UPDATE: I think I finally fixed all of the problems.  The permalinks work, you should now be able to read “more” and last, but not least, the email address admin@urbanmennonite.com is active.  Apparently, blogs die when posts begin to be about the blog itself so — having been duly warned — I will try to [...]

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