The ongoing adventures of the Thomas family at Chenoweth Farm
This is one of those e-mails you get from somebody– my mother in this case. Just had to put up this picture. You wonder what the 
kid was thinking as he looked at the photographer. The caption under it in the note read: “It starts at a young age and men just get worse!”
You should see some of the other pictures… Continue reading “Why Men Die before Women”
Here is one man’s description of his anguish:
Before sunset on Monday, Mr. Yu walked along a river running past the eastern wall of the school compound. Peering over the wall, one could see piles of bricks and concrete all over the ground. He pointed out the few standing ruins of the main building. His daughters classroom had been on the fourth floor.
He said she had lived for two days after being buried alive, like some other students. She had even called out to him.
We could hear them under the rubble, he said. We passed them milk and water, but it was no use.
He smoked and stared at the debris.
If you are a parent, you should be tearing up right now…
Next month, as you watch the Olympics, remember what Mr. Yu has discovered about corruption in a dictatorship.
Democracy– the worst form of government on earth…
except for all the others.
Go here, and watch this video commercial about the Apple App Store.
OK… did you do it? Did the video work?? [Send me a note if it didn’t, or post a comment with your e-mail– maybe I can help you fix it…]
ANYWAY- this is the most amazing commercial– I watched it once, it was so entertaining that I wanted to watch it over and over instead of going back to work. How many commercials do that for you?? Microsoft is … toast, unless they can learn to market and promote their products as effectively as this company. On top of that, the iPhone is simply the most amazing handheld computer I have ever seen ( …umm – it’s a phone as well. Almost forgot… :-0)
I think I want one. But I don’t want the dreaded Bellsouth (currently lurking behind a cloaking device deployed by AT&T) as my phone company.
Patience…
Some of our friends send their children to the University of Louisville. You may have heard of it; they won the Orange Bowl recently. It seems that the students there can also get top scholarship input on black drag queens… courtesy of my tax dollars.
SO here’s my problem with this. Although I find gay drag disgusting, and wonder why it needs to be studied at U of L, I also have to wonder where all this is going:
I am the father of a teenager
Direct quote from here:
Darryl4207 2008-06-30 09:34:49 flag as inappropriate
I am a computer repair business owner and LOVE VISTA!!! I get calls all the time from customers to resolve the litany of compatibility issues and glitches with it … so I make big $$$$ from these calls. THANKS MICROSOFT!!!!!!
Umm…
There are definitely people out there who love Vista– they tend to have brand new hardware.
Recently there has been much made of an alleged “pregnancy pact” at a Gloucester, Mass. high school among a number of 16 and under students. The school nurse reported “high fives” when pregnancy tests came in positive, and great disappointment when they didn’t; the Time magazine reporter who broke the story says that a recent graduate confirmed the basis for the pact (if it actually existed– there is some dispute about this) by noting that, “…They’re so excited to finally have someone to love them unconditionally.”
Indeed. Unconditional love is a need we all have, and a baby does provide it, at least for awhile. Nevertheless, in the wider world, and specifically in the world of liberated women, there has been much Continue reading “Fear and loathing on the seacoast”
My daughter is about to marry Agent Z.
Don’t ask… even Palestinian terrorists are afraid of this guy!
It all happens in August… for details, click here.
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The coming election will be about the economy, we are told, and we roll our eyes and ponder that thought as the price of gasoline begins to approach the price of gold (or so it seems). Global warming tax hikes, summer gas tax rollbacks, economic woes, housing foreclosures, even starving horses all over the west (because their owners can no longer afford to feed them)– it’s the economy, everybody!
Read this article. Yes, I know, you are Continue reading “Iraq — remember that war?”
Two luminaries of the Democratic Party are now endorsing Hillary Clinton as the ideal VP pick for BHO, the presumptive Democratic candidate for president. Her “18 million cracks in the glass ceiling” are given as the primary reason, meaning the 18M+ voters who chose her over Obama. The fear, of course, is that some portion of those voters will switch to the GOP, out of spite or a genuine mistrust of a man who has virtually no foreign policy, economic or military experience.
Sen. Obama will not be consulting this blog for advice, I’m sure, but perhaps a few of his supporters might. To them I offer Continue reading “A Knife Somewhere”
Over the summer Lydia will be updating her own blog; you can read about all her adventures at Lydia-China.10thGen.org. If and when we get photos and news, we will do some cross-posting here as well. For those of you who might be wondering, she will actually be in China for the start of the Olympic Games, but will not see them herself.
We miss you already, Lydia! 🙂