My Own Thoughts

I can’t stand that my blog keeps popping up with the heading “Roaches.” So I am going to tell you that my husband’s reunion is this weekend and we are going. There will be dancing. Don’t know if we’ll be doing that. It should be fun, though. It was last time. Oh, yeah, happy 68th [...]

We have been hit with an infestation of roaches. They crawl on our walls and fly across the room. I’m guessing they are coming in through the sewer lines. But it’s not cold outside and I don’t know why they are in here. There aren’t any little ones. They’re all big, two inches or more. [...]

I had chips at lunch and popcorn last night after dinner. This morning I woke up and my hand was so sore, I couldn’t curl my fingers. (It’s some better now.) I gained two pounds from what I ate, too. So I now know that it is corn I am allergic to. (Remember I was [...]

Julia Burney-Witherspoon is a police officer. On a burglary alarm, she found a warehouse full of 10,000 books which were going to be destroyed. As a low SES growing up, she knew that poor people don’t have books. She talked about how people think of no clothes, no food, but don’t think of books. I [...]

I thought the topic was foreign policy. Now it’s all on the economy. Are they ever going to get to foreign policy?

M: get spending under control We Rs came to change government, and gov’t earmarking as a gateway drug $3million taxpayer As president of United States, I have a pen. I’m going to veto. I will Obama asked for 132 million in earmarks. That’s how we differ. That’s one of the fundamental differences. O: Earmarks process [...]

At this very moment tonight, where do you stand on this economic plan? Obama starts answering by thanking Ole Miss. “two wars” “worse financial crisis since Great Depression” “how’s it going to effect Main Street?” Move swiftly, wisely… a series of proposals 1. oversight 2. taxpayers at risk, have possibility of getting back 3. none [...]

It is my impression that sometimes when there is a lot of emphasis on diversity, we miss the things people have in common and even isolate them somewhat, but separating them from others who are not diverse in the same ways. Does anyone else have this feeling? Or is this an issue that I don’t [...]

I’ve been staying away from this because it doesn’t appear that there is a good answer anywhere. However, I do think that it is clear that the crisis is not sufficient to cause people to get rid of their partisan politics. The Dems are bankrolling left extremist groups with this. Here’s a ten minute background [...]

Obama is trying to stop this video from being aired. Other blogs on the topic… Here is Front Sight’s round up of Obama’s vote. I’m not seeing anything on Obama wanting to tax guns. Here’s Earned Media’s round up and again nothing on taxes. According to the Washington Post, not exactly a bastion of anti-Obama’ism, [...]

Stop the ACLU has quotes and comments on David Broder of WaPo‘s lecture on how there is no such thing as media bias. Oh really? What about these graphs showing the amount of positive versus negative press that Obama has gotten? How about the incredibly long list of Palin Derangement Syndrome articles? Then there is [...]

The story of a family lost in the mountains during a monsoon with the Japanese soldiers following them ends happily when fireflies appear in the middle of the storm and guide them to safety. It is a wonderful story. And true.

A person I was speaking with today learned that lesson. I had called her and been told I had to talk to person B. I called person B and talked to them. They said it was okay with them but the first person (A) would have to make the final decision. So B transferred me [...]

If you don’t know what you want, chances are what you get won’t be what you want. If you know what you want, you are more likely to be able to achieve whatever that is. Here’s a video on the topic. Life Planning: Know What You Want from Ron Davis on Vimeo.

Peg Tyre of Newsweek thinks she may have part of the answer. Instead of unstructured free play, parents now schedule their kids’ time from dawn till dusk (and sometimes beyond.) By age 4, an ever-increasing number of children are enrolled in preschool. There, instead of learning to get along with other kids, hold a crayon [...]

Look Who’s Irrational Now: “What Americans Really Believe,” a comprehensive new study released by Baylor University yesterday, shows that traditional Christian religion greatly decreases belief in everything from the efficacy of palm readers to the usefulness of astrology. It also shows that the irreligious and the members of more liberal Protestant denominations, far from being [...]

A slide show at Discovery has art, toys, and the fact that the civilization destroyed their homes with fires every 80 years. Perhaps this could be the basis for the northern fire group? Dielli

The Frontier, says William Tucker in The American Spectator. In 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner published a seminal essay in which he argued that having an open frontier on our westward boundary had been a decisive influence in shaping the American character. The frontier experience had leveled the class traditions from Europe, proffered opportunity to the [...]

The Jawa Report has a GREAT article up about the fake-grassroots (hence astroturfing) spread of a video lying about Sarah Palin. People believe these things. But the Winner family and their company have been called on this. Is someone cc’ing the FEC? It’s a violation of election campaign finance laws.

Because of Ike (and previously unprepared people not filling up despite the fact that everyone knew it was coming), there was no gas in Conroe on Monday. Gas lines where I live were long. Gas lines all over town had one entrance and one exit. But we weren’t the only ones. And we had an [...]