My Own Thoughts

Thank you, God, for the Iraqi elections. Right now it looks like 36 people were killed and 60 percent of the Iraqi population in Iraq voted. For some great stuff on the Iraqi elections go to: Chrenkoff Mudville Gazette Captain’s Quarters Read the posts on January 30 and 31st.

Auschwitz was freed 60 years ago today. It’s been a long time and most of the people freed are now dead. They’ve joined the much larger number who weren’t released. When I was ten one of my neighbors, “the crazy lady,” told me about the camps. She had been in one. She didn’t want any [...]

Kids are actually graduating from a curriculum that targets dropouts. The kids have to attend, do homework, participate, and pay if they’re not passing. Harder does work better. I like it.

Joanne Jacobs has an article on reading, why boys don’t like it. You know, I don’t like the mamby pamby literature that schools often assign. I’m a big sci fi fan. (Yes, I know it’s from the devil.) I also love Westerns, fantasy, romance, and action books. Need to read some more of those this [...]

Two posts from Little Green Footballs. One on a Colgate professor who wants to be embedded with the terrorists. And one on Churchill, who said that the 9/11 victims were Nazis, who will be a speaker at Hamilton College.

Junk Yard Blog has an entry on the new Illinois law that forces discrimination against gays to end, even in churches. Do they not understand that, for most Christians, anyone who is flaunting a sexual relationship outside of marriage, gay or not, is not going to get hired at a church? Yes, it is true [...]

Update on the Christian family who were killed in their home. This story by Michelle Malkin talks about legacy media response to the family. Jihad Watch quotes bragging about their death on the Muslim electronic bulletin board. The American Coptics are upset that the police are ignoring the religious aspects of the story.

This blog entry from a woman who had a loaded gun in her CHECKED baggage. Interesting.

The Library of Congress has created aSeptember 11, 2001 history on-line, including pictures drawn by school kids. I can’t figure out how to get to all the pics, but these are in a gallery for perusal.

Sun in Glory, short stories of Valdemar, edited by Mercedes Lackey Exile’s Honor, supposedly the first of a trilogy about Alberich, so far there are only two, by Mercedes Lackey Night Watch, before Gone Too Far, about Wes falling in love. by Suzanne Brockmann Flashpoint, by Suzanne Brockmann, a book after Tom and Sam have [...]

A school in Britain has decided that homework is a dinosaur and is now going to be extinct. I thought that was crazy. Then I found this site which equates homework with drug. “Just say no.” I knew I homeschooled for a reason.

Today is the 32nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade. My husband was adopted 40 years ago. When he was eight, he turned from the TV and said, “I’d be dead.” A girlfriend from grad school was molested by her brother’s friend, with her brother’s knowledge. He took her to Planned Parenthood, who gave her a [...]

An interesting high school graduation speech. Try stuff out. Don’t get demoralized. It will take work. But said much more articulately.

Cool site to check out later. Has articles on loch ness monster, etc.

A Small Victory has an interesting and long comment filled discussion on the topic. She has a follow-up post as well. R and I had this discussion a year and a half ago, though without hundreds of comments. He came up with a very interesting definition of sexy. It has given me great pause at [...]

R came home from MacWorld in SF on Saturday morning about 7 am. Then he went out to play poker with some guys for his bday at 6 pm. Unfortunately, when he got home from that he was seriously sick. He’s been gone from work all week and isn’t really up to going back tomorrow. [...]

The Sinner by Kathleen O’Brien. The second in a series of three. Slow coming out with the books, but good books. Not great, but good. One Good Man by Charlotte Douglas. Part of a series, but you don’t need to have read the earlier one. Now she’s added about eight Marines to the mix. Interesting [...]

Michelle Malkin has an update on the student whose esssay exam answer got him threatened with his student visa being pulled, because it was so pro-American. This is my earlier post on the same topic, but pre-grading.

A family of Egyptian Copts (Christians) were killed and mutilated by attackers. Threats were made previously by Muslim extremists in the US. God rest their souls. And God help the government find and punish their murderers. More of the story at Michelle Malkin.

R’s home, thank goodness. I missed him a lot, especially from Wednesday on. But he’s got a temperature and was throwing up all night. His heartrate was also at between 200 and 240 this morning about 3 a.m. It’s settled down a lot, but he still has a fever.