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He’s right. It’s a piece of S&%t!

Welcome back!My younger sister sent me this video By Lou Dobbs on CNN talking about the Amnesty bill for illegal immigrants.
In the beginning of the video, Mr. Dobbs quotes the Senate Minority Leader as saying the bill is “a piece of … expletive deleted” and, after watching the report, I’m inclined to agree.
We don’t need […]

In The News: Children Taken Away Over Controversial Bath Time Photos

I saw a thing on ABC News tonight about a couple who went through what must have been pure HELL over some pictures of their young children taken at bath time. The pictures that they showed on the news were innocent enough, and the description given of the pictures that were not shown sounded equally […]

Is Linux holding our kids back?

I almost fell out of my chair when StumbleUpon’s toolbar served up this page for me.
The Helios project, as I understand it based on 5 minutes worth of research, is a project to provide free computers to kids who would otherwise not be able to have them. In order to provide these computers at no […]

An Anniversary

On this date in 1975, A steel freighter named the Edmond Fitzgerald was lost in Lake Superior. All twenty-nine men on board were lost. I cannot honestly say I remember it happening, but only because at the age of eleven I never bothered watching the evening news. The following year, Gordon Lightfoot released a song […]

The local school system does it again

I heard this from my eighth-grade daughter yesterday and today and I’m still not quite able to believe it.
As a little background information, once a year the schools in Arkansas give their students the Benchmark tests. This is a government-mandated test that is part of the wonder that is “No Child Left Behind”. In […]