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I grew up hating math. I was ok till they started throwing those letters in the mix. Letters? Hell, I'd just gotten a handle on the simple number stuff and they started throwing in letters! The consensus at school and at home was that I was just a smart kid who was lazy. Math was obvious to the math teacher and to my (engineer) Dad, so the problem must have been me. I got my ass whipped at

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I'm a bit overwhelmed right now. Homeschooling, preparing for homeschooling, and recovering from homeschooling are all taking their toll. Along the way, I remembered that I have to get something done at work once in awhile too. Anyway, by way of introducing you to a satire blog I enjoy, I've ripped off an entire entry and reproduced it here. I'm hoping Mr. Ott will forgive me if I send a few

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Ok, let's see. We've done flowers and clouds...how 'bout doggie pictures? Penny at 2 months. Penny at 1 year. The day after this picture was taken, she had surgery to remove a rock she'd eaten (dumb ass dog cost me $1,400!). Being near death wasn't enough to keep her out of this cold Colorado lake. Penny is SOOO smart! Penny lives to fetch. At 3 years old, we sometimes get quiet moments.

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You know, maybe China having the Olympics isn't such a bad thing after all. I've heard all the arguments about enabling a totalitarian regime and they're pretty compelling. Even so, maybe there's a bright side to this. With all the attention focused on China, maybe just a few more people will become aware of what a reprehensible situation exists there and of just how differently the Chinese

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If you let bannana peels and apple cores pile up on the floorboards of your car, it'll start to stink in there. If you add enough orange peels, you get potpourri! Bonus...political cartoon from Chris Muir.

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In case you haven't heard, Russia invaded Georgia the other day, using the same sort of premise for invasions previously used by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany before it. They've quickly moved beyond any justifiable level of military intervention, even if you chose to believe their reasons. In response to this crisis, both candidates for President released statments. Obama: Chicago, IL -- "I

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Mute Monday, West(ern) Nothing says Arizona like the Saguaro cactus.

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Seems a California public relations firm has developed this new symbol for the Messiah. "You interlace your hands in a circle, the interlacing being a symbol of different types of people coming together and the circle a symbol of unity," he says. Their design, unlike Fairey's, is free, and Husong is urging people to download it and print it on posters and T-shirts. "We want to see it everywhere

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Thanks for all the supportive words over our homeschooling adventure. I really do appreciate it. L's involvement... We'd planned on L helping with the long term planning, setting up ways of accomplishing more than one objective at a time and perhaps teaching a lesson or two on the weekends. Well, when the lessons became available on line, L became very enthused. She's such a teaching geek.

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Barack Obama Son of Promise, Child of Hype Hope Ok, I had a post on homeschooling and L's involvement, but that'll have to wait. I ran across this new, soon to be released children's book and I felt the need to share. In what looks to be an orgasmic adoration of a mythical young Barry, the author has God speaking to Obama in church. ..... "Look around you. Now look to me. There is hope enough

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Here's a nice little article full of mostly good news, or at least the debunking of bad news, regarding my favorite beverage. I know some of you will feel just like I did when I read this article, "Yea, as though cancer could get me to stop drinking coffee!" ----------- Sorting Out Coffee Contradictions By JANE E. BRODY Published: August 5, 2008 Caffeine Myths Through the years, the public has

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Some good, some bad. We're making progress, but he's doing a masterful job of fighting me at pretty much every step. I'll try to write something more detailed another time, but I just can't right now.My "spare time" at work is now being used up printing lesson plans and preparing to teach. The school is experiencing "warehousing problems" and will be a week late getting our materials to us. We

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Mute Monday Today's theme is "zip," which I took to "zipper" because that's all I could come up with.

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Ha! No flower pictures! I found something even fluffier to post. Click to make larger. They really don't have the same impact small.

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We told S over the weekend that we are going to home school him. He immediately started to wail and scream about how horrible it would be and how he would never have any friends. We did all we could to calm him and reassure him that we would find outside activities to keep him meeting new people. It didn't really help. Somehow though, over the course of the next couple of days, he came

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From the folks over at despair.com That pretty much sums it up for me. Keep the faith...I plan on a real post eventually.

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Eight things.... I got myself tagged by Aunty Belle. The object is to list 8 things you'd like to do before dying. As Aunty puts it, a blogger "Bucket List." My first thought was to make a list of 8 people I'd like to do. The I realized I'd need a list of those I'd like to "do" in the biblical sense and 8 I'd like to do in the mafia hit-man sense. Both would be interesting, I guess. (Certainly

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One of my favorite brands...only the first shot is my own.

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Ok, I'm tired today. I'm just going to throw this easy bit out, for those two or three of you who were not alread aware.... Putting Money Where Mouths Are: Media Donations Favor Dems 100-1 The New York Times' refusal to publish John McCain's rebuttal to Barack Obama's Iraq op-ed may be the most glaring example of liberal media bias this journalist has ever seen. But true proof of widespread

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These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we

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So, over the weekend, S wanted to run away from home again. Same old stuff. He didn’t get his way so he started pulling every manipulation method out of his little toolbox of hell. The tool this time was “I have to see Aunt M!!!!” When we refused, he decided to leave. Well, we pretty much let him leave when he wants to. You can’t really stop someone from leaving short of tying them up anyway. In

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Let this be a warning for all you nut gathering park rats out there. We have many ways of disposing of your furry little hides. BBQ Squirrel Cajun Squirrel Camp Stew Chicken Fried Squirrel Chicken Surprise Crockpot Fried Squirrel Daddy's Squirrel Stew Easy Squirrel BBQ Fried Squirrel With Mushroom Gravy Mesquite Squirrel Redneck Squirrel Fry Simple Roast Squirrel Smother - Fried Squirrel Spicy

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Mute Monday

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A political messiah, who — unlike Reagan and Kennedy — needn't bother to do anything. By Charles Krauthammer Barack Obama wants to speak at the Brandenburg Gate. He figures it would be a nice backdrop. The supporting cast — a cheering audience and a few fainting frauleins — would be a picturesque way to bolster his foreign-policy credentials. What Obama does not seem to understand is that the

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Add a few words of your own and generate a platitude. You could land yourself a job filling the Messiah's TelePrompter. Generate a Barack Obama Quote! "These people haven't had moving toward unity for fifty years. So you can't be surprised if they get bitter and cling to their discrimination and their racism and their wars. That's what my campaign is about. Teaching all the little people in

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