Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-30

• Five first place trivia wins in a row = $500. Being a nerd is finally paying off. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-23

• Lowered my cholesterol and triglycerides by about 150 points over the last 3 months. Think I'll deep fry something for dinner to celebrate. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-16

• @potjie You won't shop at Walmart because you say they are evil yet you bank with Chase? Seriously? in reply to potjie #
• @potjie OK, as long as it wasn't a conscious choice. in reply to potjie #
• Another 10 mile bike ride and another $100 trivia win. I love Tuesday nights! #
• Having a Knuckle Dragger IPA (@ Trade Route Brewing Co) http://4sq.com/bT8LM5 #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-09

• What I want for my birthday is to be able to call myself a liberal. http://bit.ly/bqQtk5 #
• Ten mile bike ride plus we won $100 at Farrelli's. That makes for a pretty good night. #
• Spent the day playing war games. No thermonuclear war so I guess that means we won. #
• I'm going to reenact the Battle of Puebla armed only with a margarita and a sombrero. #
• If I were to list the greatest inventions of all time, padded bicycle shorts would rank towards the top! #

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What I Want For My Birthday

You know what I want for my birthday? I want to be able to call myself a liberal. I don’t like the word libertarian. It just confuses most people, they have no clue what it means. It means that I believe in the absolute sovereignty of the individual and the sole purpose of government is to protect the rights of the individual. It means I believe in the writings of John Stuart Mill, John Locke, Adam Smith and FA Hayek. However the word liberal which used to describe these ideas has been hijacked by the Democratic party. People who reject the ideas of these men and instead believe the rights of the group, or the collective, outweighs the rights of the individual and the role of government is to protect and provide for the group at the expense of the individual. These are NOT liberal ideas. So I wish they would just call themselves the Left-Leaning Statist Party (as opposed to the the Right-Leaning Statist Party, aka the GOP) and let true liberals like me call themselves liberals.
Thats what I want for my birthday… but I’ll settle for a beer.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-02

• Just because it was a good idea to get philosophy from the ancient Greeks doesn't mean we should get fiscal policy from the modern Greeks. #

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