Did anyone outside Seattle know that there was a big soccer game (match?) yesterday?
[...]edited by: Dana Hanley,
Homeschool Editor
Did anyone outside Seattle know that there was a big soccer game (match?) yesterday?
[...]The LOTD really does capture well the “spirit” of Fayetteville, NC.
Thanks to those who help others
I am impressed by the quick response of those concerned who came by to help me take care of my car that suddenly stopped on my way to my doctor’s appointment.
I can’t find a [...]
You remember all those stories we told ourselves about becoming professional pinball (or video game) players? Totally silly. Except that some folks really can make a little money playing games. Jonathan (age 10) was among 10 gamers invited to participate in a Flash game tournament based on his scores on [...]
This story is really strange. A guy strangled his wife while he was dreaming. Weird, huh? The article says that fewer than 50 cases of this disorder (called “automatism”) have been documented worldwide. What’s even weirder is that I’ve had this happen to me. Years ago I was having [...]
Nine more hours today. I decided to try to listen to the wingnuts as performance artists in an absurdist comedy. They make much more sense when viewed that way.
[...]Why? Because the idiots at the AFA put them at the top of their (alphabetically sorted) “nice” list. I’m shopping at all of the stores on the “naughty” list, of course. BN.com, here I come!
[...]I drove up from FAY to NJ today. Nine hours in the car. Along the way I must have heard bits and pieces of about 37 different Republicans and their water-carriers pontificating about the decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in the US. What fucking morons! I swear all 37 [...]
A: This NC school decided to sell better grades as a fundraiser
Q: What is “Reason #4,506,345 to homeschool”?
And “God Damn Godzilla!”
I’m a born (in the Bronx) and bred Yankees fan, so I’ve been walking around wearing a smile all day.
[...]Another Life in Fayetteville LOTD. This one is all about home ed and the Truth:
Religious blinders create division
Cheers to you, Kelly Biermann, for a well-written letter (”Home-schooling a positive experience,” Oct. 14). As a graduate of a North Carolina homeschool, I would like to add that you can participate [...]
We’re not handing out candy this year. It’s eeeeevil.
During this period demons are assigned against those who participate in the rituals and festivities. These demons are automatically drawn to the fetishes that open doors for them to come into the lives of human beings. For example, most of the [...]
More questionable umpiring in Game 2 last night, one against each team.
I got both calls right in real time.
[...]Yes, I really was serious. No more money until after the Senate passes a bill with a real public option. Snowe’s trigger would be a billion dollar gift to the deservedly hated insurance industry. If the Democratic Party wants to commit electoral suicide, I don’t feel it necessary to assist [...]
The good doctor is speaking specifically about alternative “treatments” for cancer, but the ideas are equally valid for vaccines. The anti-science wackos should, but won’t, take note.
[...]Yeah, the education guru had some radical ideas. And the fundies hated him, too.
[...]The umpires at last night’s Yankees-Angels game should not be allowed near an MLB park ever again. Blown calls left and right, including a rules interpretation by the crew chief that was so obviously wrong that I was amazed the Angels didn’t play the game under protest.
The umpires are making [...]
Question: What goes just right with a book and Bible burning?
CANTON, N.C. (October 13, 2009)—The Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, N.C. will celebrate Halloween by burning Bibles that aren’t the King James Version, as well as music and books and anything else Pastor Marc Grizzard says is a [...]
I miss the good ol’ days when Zero Intelligence would blast edu-crats for their complete idiocy in enforcing zero tolerance policies. This story, in my old home town, would have probably made his Top Ten of All Time.
Finding character witnesses when you are 6 years old is not easy. [...]
Another nail in the coffin for the existing “health care” system. After Obama signs the HCR reform bill into law, I think we ought to send a big “thank you” to the insurance companies for making it possible.
[...]You must eat at least once every 6 months. This is an absolute requirement for healthy living. Your government strongly urges you to eat at least once every six months.
Signed,
Kathleen Sebelius
Limbaugh: “You’ll be healthier” if you don’t listen to the government. Limbaugh stated on his nationally syndicated radio [...]
These are two real projects from the Religious (Extreme) Right:
Adopt a LiberalTM (Seriously. They really did register the mark.) [via Amygdala]
The Conservative Bible Project [via the General]
I think our side may be winning.
[...]Why do identical twins have different fingerprints?
[...]Snark or lunacy? You make the call:
Big Green Machine can handle Iran
I watched the United Nations General Assembly because I am still trying to wrap my brain around the purpose of the U.N.
I did not learn anything new about the U.N. They are still a bunch of [...]
I drove back from WV yesterday. 8 hours in the car, alone with only the radio. Scanning through the AM band I came across some radio preacher (this is WV, remember) going on about Hell and all of the scientific evidence for it and how atheists are really going to [...]
I’m not sure why the fact that their daughters are HEKs is relevant:
AKRON — ”This is one of the worst cases we’ve ever come across,” said Akron Police Lieutenant Rick Edwards. A couple living on Akron’s near east side have been arrested with child pornography.
Detectives believe the couple has [...]
DWI in a school bus loaded w/ kids.
[...]Let’s give it up for the new & improved Hubble!
[...]College for $99/month? Sign me my kids up.
[...]COD has an excellent suggestion to counter the g-school wingnuts.
Our kids are going to watch, too (assuming they’re out of bed by then).
[...]Most disturbing is that the White House has collaborated with the Department of Education to distribute a study guide to accompany the speech. The guide is chalk full of writing assignments for students, including an instruction for students to write a letter to themselves about what they can [...]
Rae Ellen Virgilio of Baltimore doesn’t have a clue what homeschooling is or isn’t.
Home schooling has never meant “unschooling.”
An ignorant teacher spouting off without the proper background in the subject matter? Whodathunkit?
[...]September, when every paper in the country feels compelled to run a “homeschooling is really on the grow” piece.
Including my hometown paper.
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