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Choice?

I work for a water treatment company, and one of the most common questions we receive is, "Do you perform free testing?" to which I invariably reply, "What kind of testing?"  We perform multiple kinds of testing, some of which are free and some of which are not.  The term  testing  is itself too ambiguous to be helpful.  So it is with the term choice . Liberals love to identify themselves as champions of choice , but they don't really believe in unfettered choice for individuals.  Nobody does, really.  In fact, Liberals, advocates as they normally are for big government, generally believe in limiting the choices of individual citizens far more often than Conservatives do.   Undefined  choice is a meaningless concept.  One is always choosing between one or more options, and some choices are immoral and/or illegal.  We all, even the most Libertarian amongst us, accept this fact.  If my choice impinges on the rights of my neighbor, then I am not free to make that

11 Years (a poem)

11 years since you became my wife, 11 years with the love of my life. 11 years since we said I do , 11 years of lying next to you. 11 years since oaths made before God, 11 years of defying the odds. 11 years since you gave me your hand, 11 years as the luckiest man. 11 years--what babies we were! 11 years and 4 babies later. 11 years shared learning to live, 11 years learning to forgive. 11 years of heartaches and crises, 11 years sharing our worries. 11 years of discovery, 11 years of putting up with me. 11 years with my lover, my friend, 11 years with my rock, my Godsend. 11 years of heart and home joy-brimming, 11 years is just the beginning.