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Dec 16, 2009, 8:30 am
Things to remove:
1. Turn off the television- at the very least, eliminate commercials. Either require that the sound go down and something else be done during commercials, or record their favorite ... Comment - Like
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Dec 15, 2009, 3:00 pm
At Copenhagen, Al Gore announced (again) that the polar ice cap would be gone in five years. For once, journalists asked some questions about Gore's, and Gore cited scientist Maslowski. Maslowsk... Comment - Like
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Dec 15, 2009, 11:45 am
When life is topsy turvy (and it is right now... this entry is being written during a hasty lunch break from the laying down of our apartment's kitchen floor ~ pictures of that process coming in a... Comment - Like
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Dec 15, 2009, 9:32 am
1.) Have you started your Christmas shopping?
Yes. Today I have to pick up two presents for the local Angel-Tree program, and I want to make Blynken and Nod some play-dough, but other than that, I&#... Comment - Like
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Dec 15, 2009, 5:23 am
These homeschooled children are, no doubt, discussing quantum physics over lunch.
The baby is modeling the concept with his mashed potatoes.
Or else they're arguing over whose turn it is to take o... Comment - Like
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Dec 14, 2009, 10:43 pm
Richard Collins has written one of the funniest anti-homeschooling screeds I have ever read (Sham homeschools are are fostering a radical rightwing fifth column, OH, MY!), at this blog which, incident... Comment - Like
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Dec 14, 2009, 2:00 pm
Amazing Grace movie offer
I just put down that I was a homeschooler and listed the name of our homeschool (Arrow Christian Home School).
Here is a synopsis of the movie:
Amazing Grace synopsis
We a... Comment - Like
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Dec 14, 2009, 6:00 am
This is a partial repost with some additional thoughts. Scroll down if you just want to jump to the questions.
Catholic writer and poet Kathleen Norris: "I was a bratty kid who didn't want to ma... Comment - Like
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Dec 13, 2009, 6:00 am
Lord God of Hosts, within Whose hand
Dominion rests on sea and land,
Before Whose word of life or death
The strength of nations is but breath:
O King, enthroned all thrones above,
Give strength unto t... Comment - Like
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Dec 12, 2009, 6:09 pm
Oooh, am I being harsh?
Nope. That headline is from a Newsweek article.
The author's main point seems to be that men don't do enough around the house. I can't really relate to that bec... Comment - Like
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Dec 11, 2009, 3:00 pm
From Gateway Pundit: The average pay of a federal worker jumped to $71,206, compared with $40,331 in the private sector.
The TimesNews reported, via Free Republic:
USA Today is reporting that the nu... Comment - Like
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Dec 11, 2009, 2:45 pm
The insurance process we have today would not exist in a free market for medical care. Just because a firm providing a service is a profit-seeking corporation does not mean it is engaged in free enter... Comment - Like
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Dec 11, 2009, 2:39 pm
From SecondHand Smoke:
The first thing this AM, I posted a warning about the potential of a Draconian population control tyranny being imposed on the world by global warming hysterics. And now–how... Comment - Like
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Dec 11, 2009, 2:20 pm
According to Brooke, at her Plural Life blog, she received word that Barbara Jessop recently passed away from a stroke. She was only 56 years old. Barbara is the mother of the last child to be kept ... Comment - Like
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Dec 11, 2009, 12:14 pm
From i-Tunes! You can download an album of Christmas music, 20 different songs, for free. I think it's this week only.
Nicer than the Amazon free stuff- while we have seen some great tunes, the... Comment - Like
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Dec 11, 2009, 4:59 am
James and Lucretia Mott were married in 1811, and three weeks after their marriage, his mother wrote this letter to the happy couple:
"I will hazard the sentiment, that if your united endeavor is to ... Comment - Like
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Dec 10, 2009, 4:08 pm
Bill Frezza:
My 26 year old son got the most extraordinary letter from the Social Security Administration last week. In plain English it admitted that the system was a Ponzi scheme destined for bank... Comment - Like
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Dec 5, 2009, 6:50 pm
Amazon is offering a different holiday song download everyday from December 1st through the 25th for FREE! Click here for yourFree Holiday Music!!
They're also offering plenty of other albums fo... Comment - Like
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Dec 5, 2009, 5:38 pm
"Ti-Ti, I'm hungry," said Blynken a few hours after quiet time. He'd scooted about the garage in The Cherub's wheelchair, held the nails for the Boy while the Boy hammered and pulled nail... Comment - Like
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Dec 5, 2009, 1:21 pm
*Warning- Graphic Flu Content, here and there.
The Equuschick and the DHM, being primarily migrating military types a bit out of their element in this midwestern world of folks who have lived in the ... Comment - Like
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Dec 5, 2009, 12:00 pm
Periodically I write a little thank-you note on the blog to our readers, telling them what we have been able to purchase, either with Amazon dollars through affiliate links, swagbucks gift cards, or... Comment - Like
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Dec 5, 2009, 10:39 am
I'm sure somebody will be able to explain to me why I don't care at all how or why the Salahis were able to crash the White House party, if, indeed, they did crash it, but I can't seem to ... Comment - Like
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Dec 4, 2009, 11:00 pm
... few of the picture books the two little boys experienced recently. We have also had the joys of watching the first snow of the winter ("It's Christmas!! ... tells the boy to tell his gran... Comment - Like
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Dec 4, 2009, 9:20 pm
No series of patapan performances would be complete without Mannheim Steamroller, but I didn't expect them to make me cry. Comment - Like
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Dec 4, 2009, 2:30 pm
On a recent trip to the thrift shop I walked around looking for things that would make good presents. I blogged about that here at Frugal Hacks.
If you're looking to cut back on your electricity... Comment - Like
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Dec 4, 2009, 11:30 am
From the UK Telegraph:
One of the scientists to whom the emails were addressed, Professor Michael Mann, the Director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University has mo... Comment - Like
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Nov 25, 2009, 1:00 pm
Repost- apologies for the quality of this scan. Click to enlarge:
Date: 1946
Cartoonist: Orr
Caption: 300 Years Later
What you're looking at: Footprints in the snow, and the footprints are lab... Comment - Like
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Nov 25, 2009, 11:09 am
The CRU files reveal a consistant pattern of collusion to illegally destroy, delete, and hide information from Freedom of Information Act requests.
This cabal and their political handlers (they contr... Comment - Like
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Nov 25, 2009, 10:36 am
There are some great Thanksgiving Day coloring pages, free printables, here. They also have links to crafts and Thanksgiving stories and poems.
I have a number of Thanksgiving day stories, poems, an... Comment - Like
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Nov 25, 2009, 9:32 am
Psa 50:14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: Psa 69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. ... Comment - Like
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Nov 25, 2009, 9:13 am
Because, as I have mentioned before, a blog is a useful place for saving things in.=)
Pumpkin Whip, or pumpkin pie on a cookie
24 ounces of cream cheese (can use less)
2 ½ cups of powdered sugar
1 ... Comment - Like
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Nov 25, 2009, 5:23 am
Yes is a powerful word. I am thankful for the word yes.
I am grateful I said yes to my husband, yes to adoption, yes to moving all over the place, yes to settling down, grateful we said yes to Shas... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2009, 9:00 pm
There's a bit about, oh, almost 3 minutes into the song where he seems a bit distracted for a bit. He says a fawn ran across the yard behind the camera, with its mother following close behind. Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2009, 3:14 pm
Phil Jones has a problem, and I think his fellow propaganda-istas are distancing themselves from him in preparation for shoving him off under the proverbial bus. Here's an example of his problem:... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2009, 1:24 pm
In the comments (and in the two days now since I started this post, in the posts) I'm reading, everybody is talking about the data code found in one of the CRU documents called the HARRY_READ_ME... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2009, 12:00 pm
Steve Farrar, Science Reporter for the Times Higher Education Supplement, sent a survey to several scientists in Febuary of 2001, in connection with Kyoto. One of the scientists was Dr. Mike Hulme, E... Comment - Like
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Nov 22, 2009, 6:00 am
November 20th and 21st- I am thankful for the Unsearchable Riches of Christ:
Oh, the unsearchable riches of Christ,
Wealth that can never be told!
Riches exhaustless of mercy and grace,
Precious, mor... Comment - Like
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Nov 21, 2009, 9:54 pm
The FYG says this movie opened up in theaters last night, and she really wants to see it, and this trailer? It's AWESOME.
DHM:
I sniffled a bit just watching the trailer. I cannot imagine what ... Comment - Like
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Nov 21, 2009, 8:54 pm
You sing along, too. Crooke is British, and you can tell something is just not right every time he says 'crawdad.'
An old Rockabilly singer called Red Moore sings it on an old 45 record here: Comment - Like
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Nov 20, 2009, 11:39 pm
Vote here!
Voting ends tomorrow, but why procrastinate any further?
Just in case you're looking for us, we're in category 12.=)
Principled Discovery is also in category 12, and they are goo... Comment - Like
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Nov 20, 2009, 8:56 pm
Toe tapping, sing along music.
You ever been crawdad fishing? I used to go down to a ditch near a friend's house and we'd try and catch them with our hands and a net. I don't recall tha... Comment - Like
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Nov 20, 2009, 4:56 pm
So, when posting about Adagio teas here, I forgot to mention another really sweet deal they have called Link Rewards. If your site has a Google Page Rank of 3 or higher and you post a link to their we... Comment - Like
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Nov 20, 2009, 4:30 pm
A while back the mother of a teenaged girl who liked to dress like a floozy asked me how I convinced my daughters not to dress like that.
Let me back up a minute and say that while I do understand th... Comment - Like
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Nov 20, 2009, 2:27 pm
Ye stars and little fishes, this one is bad. She wants to do background research for them and work with them to get their nefarious business off the ground for them. And THIS ACORN worker was interv... Comment - Like
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Nov 20, 2009, 12:46 pm
Drew over at Ace's place has more video footage of Holden attempting to defend his decision to try a war criminal in civilian court, plus this:Here's the crap Holder is trying to sell that Gra... Comment - Like
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