Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
I'm wondering why some in congress are so vehemently against vouchers and school choice.
They say it's because they don't want to drain money from the public school system.
But they send their children to private schools.
I had a nasty thought, but I think there could be some truth in there...
They don't ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
I have a little advice for John McCain.
Don't announce your choice until the convention. If you must announce sooner than that, wait until after the Democrat Convention when Barack Obama will be forced to announce his choice.
Keep all your options open and take Obama's choice into account.
Even though all the ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Okay, some more peeves:
Rain/Reign
Rain: falls from the sky, usually water, but near a volcano could be fire. The children played outside in the warm, gentle rain. Lyrics: "It's raining men, hallelujah, it's raining men, Amen."
Reign: sovereignty, under the dominion, sway, or influence. England prospered during Queen Elizabeth the First's reign.
Blog/Post ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
Did you ever play the "who is this baby?" game at work? You know, the one where everyone is supposed to bring in a baby picture and a number or letter is assigned to it and you and your coworkers are supposed to guess which baby is which coworker? There ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
I got the Happy Flu from James Joyner at Outside the Beltway. If you have a blog and want to see where this goes (and this is the first place you saw it) click on Spread It below and post an entry with your own new code...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
There are many peeves that find manifestation amongst the inter-tubes... I have listed only a few here. Please add more in comments and we'll get them added to the post. (updates below)
Blog - the web log itself, at the main address. This one is musing-minds.com.
Post (noun) - an entry on ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
So tomorrow's the big day. We're going to Comcast for Television and phone in addition to the broadband we already have. We decided to consolidate some bills. We also ordered a TiVo instead of cable DVR. The TiVo we ordered has three times the capacity of the DVR.
Of course we've ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
There's that Angie's List commercial about Joe the Plumber. The woman says that Joe was doing some work at her house when she wasn't home and her little papillon had to go out. Poor "Joe patiently paraded her up and down the street sacrificing his time and dignity until her ...
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
The cancer won. Our condolences and prayers are with his family and friends.
He will be missed.
May The Lord bless you and keep you.
May the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you.
May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
The other day Barack Obama said:
Instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English, they will learn English. You need to make sure your child can speak Spanish.
Why Spanish Mr. Obama? Granted that my area has quite a few Hispanic people. When I took my Little Guy to the bus ...
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