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I laid down, then realized that I had to make dinner, so I opened the freezer, grabbed a bag, tossed it into the microwave, and played a game, “What’d I just thaw?”

Looks like two thin-cut top round steaks.

Maybe stroganoff. I would make chicken-fried steak, but it’s easier to boil noodles than it is peel, cook, and mash taters. So stroganoff it is.

I’m going to lie back down now.

Somehow, I’ve managed to fire off three articles. That’s three more than I’d anticipated. It’s starting to hurt, and I’m going to log off, at least for a while. I’ve been holding off on the other meds (flexaril and the pain meds), and if I want to continue holding off until a decently late hour of the afternoon, I need to lie down to ease the pain.

I may return. I may not. No way of knowing now.

Uncle again:

Under an executive order expected to be announced today, [District of Columbia] police Chief Cathy L. Lanier will have the authority to designate “Neighborhood Safety Zones.” At least six officers will man cordons around those zones and demand identification from people coming in and out of them. Anyone who doesn’t live there, work there or have “legitimate reason” to be there will be sent away or face arrest, documents obtained by The Examiner show.

Wait. I’m confused. I thought they had all that great, effective gun control in DC . . . Oh, that’s right:

At that point, a reporter interjected: “the Mayor (DC Mayor Adrian M. Fenty) says the handgun ban and his initiatives have significantly lowered violent crime in the District. How do you answer that, Mr. Heller?”

The initial answer certainly wasn’t expected – Dick Heller laughed. Ruefully.

Pointing at the Mayor who was making his way across the plaza, surrounded by at least six DC police officers, Heller said, “the Mayor doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”

“He doesn’t walk on the street like an average citizen. Look at him; he travels with an army of police officers as bodyguards – to keep him safe. But he says that I don’t have the right to be a force of one to protect myself. Does he look like he thinks the streets are safe?”

There was no follow-up question.

And maybe my favorite Uncle quotation of all time:

I uphold the fine American tradition of not really giving a fuck what other countries think of the US.

Sebastian chimes in on the new, progressive, DC police state here.

Google is forever:

Because there was no better source for pro-gun information than the Brady Blog itself, the Brady Blog shut down comments which were pro-gun by about 10:1.

On an entirely unrelated topic, I just figured out that I’m really grumpy. I was warned about this. Prednisone is a steroid.

This just in:

Jane Drury voted last year in an election in Stonington, Conn. The only problem is, she died eight years ago.

Her daughter Jane Gumpel thought someone must have goofed.

“I was surprised because this is not possible,” she said.

But it did happen. The town clerk’s record clearly shows Drury’s vote, marked by a horizontal line poll workers put next to her name. And it turns out, Drury isn’t the only voter to apparently cast a ballot from the grave.

The issue of dead voters showing up on ballot records continues to be a problem for election administrators across the country.

Journalism professor Marcel Dufresne, at the University of Connecticut, led a class investigation into dead voters and said his group of 11 students discovered 8,558 deceased people who were still registered on Connecticut’s voter rolls. They discovered more than 300 of them appeared somehow to have cast ballots after they died.

“We have one person who appeared to have voted 17 times since he died,” Dufresne said.

Not surprising. But this is, well, judge for yourself:

Dufresne said there is no evidence of any election fraud, but the number of dead voters “shows the system is vulnerable and it shows that people who are clever and have a little cooperation in the town level, you could use this and get people to vote for people who died.

Stop. Let’s see. There’s “no evidence of election fraud.” Dead people voting isn’t election fraud? What is election fraud, then, in your most nuanced, contextual definition? And while you’re at it, how is “people who are clever and get people to vote for people who died” not election fraud?

I guess if even an election fraud machine like ACORN — whose members have been convicted of voter fraud (see here, or better, peruse here) — doesn’t count as “election fraud,” nothing does. Why don’t we all just stay home from the polls and let “activists” vote for us? No doubt liberals would insist that was likewise not voter fraud.

Back to stiff and sore — but not memorably painful.