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One woman’s written responses to the world around her.

Archive for August, 2008

This would make a great detail for Book 2.

Posted: Sunday, August 31st, 2008 @ 10:54 pm in Books and Reading, History | No Comments »

They’re going to be heading from Kalhun towards Salen. This could be the first rich town they come to after they leave Kalhun. It would be an interesting place. What relevance? I don’t know. But Dielli likes it. Many scholars assume that ancient Israelis made honey from fruits such as figs and dates. Nowhere does [...]

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McCain-Palin contributions end today.

Posted: Sunday, August 31st, 2008 @ 11:14 am in Politics/Military | No Comments »

So, if you want to support them, go and do it now. According to what I’ve read, there’s been $7 million in contributions since Friday at noon. But it ends tonight at midnight.

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Thought I would see if it would work…

Posted: Saturday, August 30th, 2008 @ 7:58 am in Politics/Military | 1 Comment »

Ace of Spades has been getting weird traffic searches. Sarah Palin and her secret bikini pictures, Sarah Palin and the “Air Force Two,” or homoerotic pillowfights between Governor Sarah Palin and Smurfette. Sarah Palin swimsuit competition searches, with people searching for hot pictures of Sarah Palin in a bikini, Governor Sarah Palin Victoria’s Secret wearing [...]

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UC is allowed to reject Bob Jones and Abeka curriculum.

Posted: Friday, August 29th, 2008 @ 10:14 pm in Homeschooling, Teaching/Ed | No Comments »

Somehow I missed this. But this is something that all homeschoolers should be aware of and be watching. My sons used those books for years. They weren’t perfect, but they were just as good as public school books. Twelve of the most popular science textbooks used at middle schools nationwide are riddled with errors, a [...]

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Did you see McCain’s DNC ad?

Posted: Friday, August 29th, 2008 @ 9:43 pm in Politics/Military | No Comments »

It’s the height of graciousness. It will be interesting to see how Obama responds. Won’t he almost have to do an ad for the end of the RNC? And what will it say? He’ll need it to be better than this.

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Besides referencing Clinton,

Posted: Friday, August 29th, 2008 @ 9:26 pm in Politics/Military | No Comments »

“If you want change in Washington, if you want a better hope for America.” Dude! She used their words against them. Brilliant.

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20 years

Posted: Friday, August 29th, 2008 @ 9:12 pm in Politics/Military, United States | No Comments »

Today is Todd and Sarah Palin’s twentieth anniversary.

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That would have been cool…

Posted: Friday, August 29th, 2008 @ 8:53 pm in Politics/Military, United States | No Comments »

I’ve heard rumblings of the possibility of McCain announcing his cabinet at the RNC. But it’s illegal. Drats. You can do what Bush did in 2000 and leak who you’d like to appoint and appear with them in public a lot, but you can’t announce your government in September. Hey. Worked for Bush. Romney for [...]

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Everywhere I’m reading negatives about Sarah Palin

Posted: Friday, August 29th, 2008 @ 8:29 pm in Politics/Military | 1 Comment »

but I still think she was a good pick. Let me tell you why. In no particular order: She’s a woman and Obama was an idiot not to ask Clinton to be his VP. So we have the GOP with a VP candidate that is strong, likable, and historic. I think that an Obama/Clinton or [...]

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Okay, she’s not perfect.

Posted: Friday, August 29th, 2008 @ 7:24 pm in Politics/Military | No Comments »

Taxes: She raised taxes on Big Oil, which already pays every Alaskan between $600 and $1200 a year just because they want to drill in Alaska. (Alaskans have no state tax; they have a state dividend.) Abortion: And from a comment: 1. Abortions –Palin is NOT a typical Republican ideologue! She is personally pro-life and [...]

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No one’s heard of Palin?

Posted: Friday, August 29th, 2008 @ 4:37 pm in Politics/Military | No Comments »

I admit to being a politics junkie. I’ve heard of Palin. What did I know about her? I knew she was conservative. I knew she was a mother of five. I knew she knew while she carried him that her youngest son had Down Syndrome. I knew she was governor of Alaska and the GOP [...]

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I am excited.

Posted: Friday, August 29th, 2008 @ 2:19 pm in Politics/Military | No Comments »

A pro-life, lifetime member of the NRA, who is clearly anti-big government and pro-drilling. Yeah. She was the perfect pick.

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I heard it on Facebook

Posted: Friday, August 29th, 2008 @ 2:11 pm in Politics/Military | No Comments »

before the media had it out on their outlets or Google had it…. Sarah Palin is the Republican VP candidate. Good job, John McCain. I am impressed.

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Second Amendment Sister is Republican VP

Posted: Friday, August 29th, 2008 @ 2:10 pm in Politics/Military, United States | No Comments »

Whoo hoo for Sarah Palin! and the US!

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Obama wants critics in jail

Posted: Thursday, August 28th, 2008 @ 7:38 pm in Politics/Military | No Comments »

Giving in to the narrative that Kerry lost because he didn’t respond quickly enough to the Swift Boat folks, Obama responds quickly. I had always assumed, when I heard this narrative, that by “respond,” they meant “argue that the ads were erroneous.” It turns out that they actually meant, “try go get the people who [...]

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WTC steel goes to Flight 93 Memorial

Posted: Thursday, August 28th, 2008 @ 7:36 pm in United States | No Comments »

A great post with great pictures. MILES of NYFD on motorcycles. God bless America.

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Homeschooling is winding down.

Posted: Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 @ 8:52 pm in Homeschooling | No Comments »

My eldest has 47 hours of college credit as a dual credit student. By the time he graduates from high school in August, he will have 73. My youngest started at the college yesterday. He is taking math and history. He is also taking Hebrew from someone else. He say it will be exciting to [...]

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Pray for Georgia.

Posted: Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 @ 8:36 pm in Politics/Military | 1 Comment »

It’s not much in the news, but the situation is dire. We rejected communism. Therefore, Russia rejected us. They denied Georgia any food, fuel, medicine when the Soviet Union fell, and they controlled all of this. They stole everything they could when they left. What they could not take, they destroyed. Many believe the Russians [...]

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Animals align on the poles

Posted: Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 @ 8:32 pm in Books and Reading, Science | No Comments »

Have you ever noticed that herds of grazing animals all face the same way? Images from Google Earth have confirmed that cattle tend to align their bodies in a north-south direction. Wild deer also display this behaviour – a phenomenon that has apparently gone unnoticed by herdsmen and hunters for thousands of years. It’s the [...]

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Presidential Candidate Obama and Terrorist Ayers: Best Buds

Posted: Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 @ 8:29 pm in Politics/Military, United States | No Comments »

Stop the ACLU has a substantive post commenting on Obama’s reaction.

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