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On January 20th, 2009, Barrack H. Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America. Between one and two million chilly attendees witnessed the event.
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Many of those who fought for us in WWII are gone, most of those still with us are in their eighties. In this era of self-indulgence and expectation of entitlement along with an increasing lack of respect for the commitments and contributions of those who came before us the stories of those men and women [...]
I first noticed iJustine about 3 months ago. At first I thought she was just a curiosity but since she was kind of geeky I looked a little closer and saw that she has a large audience and has attained a respectable level of success. She creates BUZZ. Her geek videos go viral. She [...]
If you are confused by the current economic crisis, as I am, then view this video. It explains it in a way that I can understand. The facts regarding the subprime mortgage business, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are a matter of public record.
Things don’t just happen. Decisions are made and actions taken. Our current [...]
This video via: Pages of Our Life and: Math-U-BLOG
This is a great light-hearted video about the challenges, trials and tribulations of homeschooling.
Most of our Founding Fathers were “home-schooled” (not schooled by a government school system.)
Just as it took courage and persistence to do what our Founding Fathers did, it takes courage and persistence for homeschoolers [...]
Ever been chased by a carnivorous predator?
Dr. Robert Sapolsky - Humans constantly turn on stress responses for the wrong reasons. Most of us don’t experience "screaming terror on the savannah." Today our stress comes from what we think about - we stress about deadlines, job security, the economy, not about immediate survival. Stress overload [...]
General Petraeus thanked the troops in Iraq as he departed to take command of U.S. Central Command.
Continue reading about General Petraeus’s Final Message to the Troops
I received this as an email forward:
8/15/2008 - EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska — The Value of Service
Commentary by Lt. Col. Mark Murphy, 354th Maintenance Group deputy commander
I learned a big lesson on service Aug. 4, 2008, when Eielson had the rare honor of hosting President Bush on a refueling stop as he traveled to [...]
Download an mp3 of “Raisin’ McCain” from JohnRich.
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Kacy Stuart, 14 years old, is a good football kicker, but she is a girl. She was recently a member of the New Creation Center (NCC) high school football team (the Crusaders) in McDonough, Georgia. The New Creation Center is a member of the Georgia Football League. However, the Georgia Football League (GFL) directed NCC [...]
Still Photo from SVT Video
via: [AP] - A 71 year old Swedish journalist, Erik Eriksson, formerly with the Swedish broadcaster SVT, has released previously unseen footage showing Republican presidential candidate John McCain as a proud, stoic prisoner of war in Hanoi on the day his Vietnamese captors released him to the U.S. military.
Eriksson stated [...]
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This innovative - new search engine - lets you search the web visually and get an idea of where you are going. Type the object of your desire in the search bar and you are presented with a list of categories. Click a category OR click ALL and you are then presented with:
This is GREAT!!! [...]
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1 : to give individuality to
2 : to form into a distinct entity
Do we seek to find ourselves or to repeat dysfunctional patterns?
Autonomy - “…self-governance through free volition, not separation or independence from others.”
Two types: individuating autonomy and relating autonomy. “…two distinct of autonomy—individuating and relating—each with superior function in a specific domain of [...]
Dressing down - Adults Who Dress Like Children, prison culture gone mainstream, tatoo suburbia and flip flops at the White House.
Whence fled civility?
“A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.” - George Bernard Shaw
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