Knocked out the first run of my goal today. 4.11 miles in 34:34 at an average pace of 8:24 min/mile. Burning 451 calories per the Nike+ Ipod. I will be uploading all of my runs to Nikerunning.com. I ran today on the newly opened in-plant fitness trail at my workplace. I am not too excited about running it again as I would prefer to leave the plant and run along the lake or in some nearby wooded lots. The trail was very tough to run on as the gravel that they laid out was not compacted. It felt like I was running on sand at times. Also, the trail took me right through the middle of the avenue where some people were yelling at me for running through the plant - a long standing rule that has since been abolished to accomodate healthy lifestyles. So my pace was slower than usual for these reasons.
Page 53 of "Liberty and Tyranny" points to Wickard vs. Filburn, the 1942 Supreme court case which concluded that a farmer growing wheat on his own land for his own purpose is still subject to federal production limits even though it never left the state. Somehow, this still falls under intersate commerce laws defined under the constitution. This began the much abused practice of the judiciary manipulating law in order to promote the Statists agenda. This grants more power to the mighty government and takes away from the individual states. I never realized how important states rights are to a free society. Seeing how much the states are now relying on the federal government lately, I guess many more people don't realize that either.
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