Tag: social studies
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Oops! The sound you now hear is millions and millions of cribs being pushed back down pearl-encrusted streets, away from heaven, to the asphalt streets of limbo, but at least they're not on the rhinestone streets of hell (or maybe they are)
Well, concerning my previous post on all those millions and millions of babies (plus my sibling twins) being released from Limbo, apparently there was someone scrambling around Technorati looking for blogs that brought the subject up because This is the Catholic Church, and its teachings on this issue haven’t changed for its entire existence, and…
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That sound you hear is millions and millions of cribs rolling over pearl-encrusted streets toward heaven
Well, aren’t we all going to rest easier about all those little babies, stretching back to the dawn of humankind, which died before benefit of sprinkled baptism? Rome has decided that they all aren’t gurgling in Limbo cribs, eyes attempting to focus on the restrained delights of a distant heaven dangling from a mobile just…
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Polyester. Yuck.
My son is seriously expressing his sense of style. Not that he cares about style. He cares about comfort and blue. If it looks comfortable and it’s blue, that’s what he wants. Sick this past week, I didn’t go on the shopping expedition to Old Navy for Spring and Summer clothes, which H.o.p. badly needed…
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The DIA kids website, where inquiring children can learn about old Soviet howitzers
Continuing my glance throughs of of the kiddy sections of government websites, at the Defense Intelligence Agency children’s website they don’t even try to offer an explanation on what they’re about to inquiring children. There are no whats, hows, whys. One gets straight to the games, a soldier in camouflage fatigues standing in front of…
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Police Like to Tase at UCLA
What to do when a student doesn’t pull out his ID? Why, tase them of course. What do you do while the student is lying on the floor screaming in that way that tasing seems to make people scream and howl and doesn’t leap to their feet like you want them to do? Why, you…
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Oops…thar she blows!
Here I have in my Netflix-borrowing hands a DVD of “Cat Women of the Moon”, which far surpasses any expectations I had for it, and I’d planned to blog my giddy, glorious wonder of this film on Friday. But then I opened up the Bloglines and what met my eyes but Pharyngula’s “Demand higher standards…
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Waiting for the 1:00 p.m. Bush press conference
Ok, ok. A little happy dance today. Some people who used to vote repub proved themselves not quite so insane by voting, at least, against a portion of the insanity that’s been ruling America. That’s a cause to celebrate a little, no matter what happens next. I’m telling myself right now we won the Senate…
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Oh, and of course…
Oh, and of course, Marty and H.o.p. soundly sleeping, I’m sitting here trying not to think about Montana and Virginia. I very successfully avoided thinking about the Senate races all evening. Was all set for the Senate to be lost. But now that it’s down to Montana and Virginia I’m suddenly obsessed by them now…
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I cautiously try on a celebratory hat then replace it on the shelf for now…
Around here, Bush is synonymous with Mega Evil Fucking Bad. H.o.p. has grown up hearing it…is well aware. Y’know the old cartoon where Gallant is Good and Goofus is Bad, in simplifying ethics for H.o.p. Bush has pretty much stood for All Things Bad. “Would Bush do it? Well then that’s just what you don’t…
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The power of the poor over the rich
Several weeks ago I chose not to write about something but Nora Ephron’s blog at the Huffington celeb Joint about her being oh I guess so gushingly deliciously close to casino mogul Steve Wynn’s pushing an elbow accidentally through Picasso’s “Le Reve” brought the something back to mind so I guess I will write about…
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National Center for Missing & Exploited Children rethink statement on Foley (kind of)
Last night on their News and Events page, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children had placed this statement: Congressman Mark Foley’s resignation is a great loss to Florida and the nation. He has been a hard-working, dedicated and effective Congressman. He will be missed. Now they have: Congressman Mark Foley’s resignation is a…
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I wish it was mind-boggling, but it's not
Isn’t this just too damn perfect that Republican Rep. Mark Foley of Florida, founder and co-chair of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, has today resigned over sexually explicit internet messages he was sending to current and former congressional pages under the age of 18, making repeated references to sex organs and acts?…