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Halloween is a very evil holiday, and I’m not talking about the ghosts and goblins. No, I’m talking about Trick or Treating as a trojan horse for socialist ideas. Why are we teaching our kids to go door to door asking for free food? Why am I expected to share what I have? I was able to work hard and buy my own candy, and I buy the good kind too like M&Ms, Kit Kats, and Willy Wonka. Everyone else should buy their own candy too. And its one thing if the whole Trick or Treating thing was voluntarily but no, those of us who value a free society are punished with rotten eggs and toilet paper for sticking to our principals thus making Halloween a socially mandated activity forced upon the individual.

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Happy Halloween, and yes, I will be handing out candy tonight just like a good socialist should. Well, thats assuming that anyone comes by tonight. Weird that every year there seems to be fewer and fewer Trick or Treaters.

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Finally got my hands on the Beatles remastered box set, totally worth even though this will be like the 4th or 5th copy of Beatles songs I’ve bought (tapes, records, CDs, greatest hits, etc). I think I will stop buying copies until they come out with the super-duper, hi-fidelity, supertronic bitrate version that is beamed directly into your brain.

I got the stereo version but I get the feeling that the mono version would sound better. A couple of the songs on Please Please Me were in mono and they sounded better than the stereo tracks. Had a hard time getting use to the tracks coming completely out of one speaker or the other, it was a bit distracting. The later albums were mixed closer to the stereo we are used to now. But in the end it doesn’t really matter as the remastered songs sound amazing.

Now that you can hear the bass, I would like to make the case for Paul McCartney being one of the most under-rated bass players ever. Ringo’s playing isn’t bad either.

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