Cummings Family Blog: September 2010

Badges on FB or to physically wear:

I am American and read the Qu'ran.

I know what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989, I must be shot.

I read the Qur'an (I must be a Terrorist).

I own a gun as it is my right. Wanna make something of it?

I am a Mormon. I must be exterminated.

I am a Mormon, and yes, I'm from Utah.

I am from Utah and proud to be Mormon.

I could be illegal.

I could be a terrorist.

I like free software, I am a threat to your OS.

What you don't know is hurting me. Right now.

What you don't know is hurting you. Right now.

Windows users are blind.

Linux users do it on command.

Console user != Hacker.

There's no place like 127.0.0.1

There's no place like /.

There's no place like ~

I write code so you don't have to.

"You know... The Mormons."

I've been inside the Mormon Temple, and you can too.

So many people, so little ammo.

Of course I'm in my right mind. I'm left-handed.

I read your email.

.....I could go on.

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Friday, September 10, 2010

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