My Own Thoughts

Yahoo news brings the report that the draft constitution was passed. Yes, the Sunnis voted against it. That’s what democracy means. You get to choose. Yes, they were defeated. That’s what the majority does; it defeats the minority. Whoo hoo! Yeah, Iraq! Can’t you hear the crowds cheering from the msm? No? Me neither, but [...]

Tongue Tied tells the tale of the bank that bans piggy banks because they might be bad for Muslims. (Okay, I got carried away with the alliterations.) The source is The Age. How come they get to be offended by us but we can’t be offended by them? They’re offensive to me, I say, and [...]

I know nothing about it other than it hasn’t had many human cases, but of those 50% died. Many bloggers are saying it will be a pandemic. I am thinking this would be a good time to have a two years’ supply on hand. If you can’t leave the house to go to the store, [...]

I was born into a home where both my parents knew Jesus. My mother had looked for Him all her life and found Him when she attended my father’s church. She rejoiced and followed through. My father grew up knowing Jesus, going through a couple different kinds of churches. But both my parents knew Jesus. [...]

I’m now on 200 mg of progesterone a day. And I’m cranky. I’m having cramps. I have no patience. I’m angry. This is not me on a normal day. This is not me five days in a row. But it is now. And we all have five more days of this to look forward to. [...]

“And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.” -Wm. Shakespeare Happy St. Crispin’s day to you! And to all the soldiers who are working for freedom at home and abroad, thank you. via Arrgggh!

Go here and put in your address. The map will post sex offenders in your area. There are 10 in my neighborhood of 80,000. All males. One black, one Asian, the rest white. Age range, young to old. Thankfully none of them live near my house or church or school.

I am appalled by the mainstream media’s attention to homeschooling only in the negative. I am referring particularly to the two teen girls who are white supremacists and hate everyone not like them. These girls have been homeschooled, ABC is careful to note. If the msm paid as much attention to the millions of us [...]

Duke University is getting rid of its BA in Economics and moving to a BS only, a change that adds two hard math courses to the requirements for majors. A Constrained Vision posits that it might be a way to get rid of too many majors. In fact, the article in the Chronicle says that [...]

Yglesias is writing on education and equality. And he hits exactly the note that I disagree with. The issue here, however, isn’t choices that adults make for themselves but choices they make for their children which is a different matter entirely. He thinks that the government, whoever the government may be at the moment, is [...]

Right on the Left Coast sent me to this map of education bloggers. (It’s on October 20, 2005. You have to scroll down.) I added myself. You can add yourself, too.

It’s only one line at Ticklish Ears, but it is priceless.

Writing, homeschooling, living has a great entry on the Challenged Books. What she said. (Basically, I can censor my kids. Let everyone take care of their own. We won’t agree on which books to throw out.) I’m going to try and mark the books I’ve read. And I’ll comment on some. But I’ve never done [...]

If you are in your own home, you don’t have to have a permit to carry your gun. Click2Houston.com has a news article about a homeowner who fatally shot an attempted robber. Police said they do not plan on filing charges against the homeowner. However, officers are not sure if the homeowner had a permit [...]

This site psu.edu has a translation entitled “The Report of Wenemdiamun” which is a history of piracy back in the days when Ugarit was strong and Egypt was vacillating between being a strong place and a weak one. Hittites are mentioned. Note, this would have been before the era of my novel, but Zimrind is [...]

and, no, I don’t mean that everyone has left town because the Astros lost. We were playing the “pasty hose” (where do they come up with these?) on Saturday night. At six o’clock we went to Chuy’s. Even though it was a Saturday night there was no waiting. About a third of the tables were [...]

Even though we aren’t providing it to our students. Oh, Snap!, an education student, has this to say: If you don’t believe me that 11th graders don’t know anything about the American Revolution, here are some student guesses I received today as to who fought who: 1) The colonists were fighting the Indians. 2) The [...]

If the answer to that is yes, why does National Geographic have an article entitled “Global Warming Preserved ‘Mass Kill’ Fossils, Study Says?” The article begins, “Prehistoric global warming periodically wiped out much of the planet’s wildlife and created exceptionally well-preserved fossils of the remains, according to a new study.”

The Astros won. And, for the first time ever, the World Series will be played in Texas. Yahoo. It’s a big deal. For Sunday night Bible class we watched the Astros. Then we had our discussion afterwards.

I’m not seeing anything on the blogs and it seems to me that it might be important. One of the lawyers for the seven who are being tried with Saddam was kidnapped. Normally if there is a problem with your litigator, you get extra time before your trial. My first thought was that maybe he [...]