Homespun Bloggers

It's Been A While

2006-08-22T22:13:00.000-04:00

Well, you know where they say the good-intentions-paved road leads. As I mentioned before, life is too busy these days for me to maintain this blog. I emailed the group in hopes of finding a replacement. While I received a number of responses it seems that no one was interested in taking on the whole thing. If that's changed and someone is interested now please let me know. I'll check my email when I can and be in touch.

Tom

Okay...Gather Round...First Rank Take a Knee

2006-05-21T15:48:00.000-04:00

I stand here before you to admit that I've dropped the ball on the Homespun Symposium "Topic of the Week" and I'm sorry for it. Life got a little involved for us at the Major Household...and unfortunately I chose to let that part of my life go. Now that things have slowed down a bit, I have no reason not to dredge it back up if there's enough interest...

Soooo...without further ado, I'd like to offer up the following for your consideration:

How do you feel about the recent legislation about making English the official language of the United States of America? (Note: I understand it's not a done deal...)

Please feel free to email me at: majordad1984 - at - gmail - dot - com with your responses. I'd like to be able to have all links to your postings NLT close of business on Friday. Each week I'll post a new topic NLT Sunday evening.

See you on the high ground!

MajorDad1984

It's Quiet...

2006-05-17T13:09:00.000-04:00

...too quiet.

I just wanted to let everyone know that Homespun Bloggers has been on an extended hiatus and will resume presently.

The short story is that I, your humble servant, can no longer live but to serve. Life has gotten far too busy and will not slow down, well, ever.

So, whether you're a current member faithfully submitting Best Of posts or a blogger looking to join our ranks, please be patient and bear with us while we get back on our feet.

Thanks,
Tom

6 New Bloggers

2006-03-20T15:46:00.000-05:00

Musings of a Real Texas Cowgirl
Pursuing Holiness
Liberally Conservative
Reformed Chicks Blabbing
Life Under The Sun
Stingray: a blog for salty Christians

Best Of Homespun Bloggers March 19th, 2006

2006-03-20T08:08:00.000-05:00

Pererro

The Superficial is becoming crap

I used to like The Superficial because it not only gave me some common ground in our celebrity obsessed world (being a no TV and very few movies kinda guy) and because it was damn funny, i.e...

Stingray

Flying Cow Leaves Two Police Cars in Flames

A cow falls out of the back of a cattle trailer near Seguin, Texas. One officer is nearly hit by a speeding truck with 2 illegal immigrants inside. While looking for the illegals, several cops parked their cars on dry grass, which ignited and burned up the cars.

MuD&PHuD

Harold Hatley

Mr. Hatley was definitely a sheepdog:

According to police, a surveillance video showed Harold Hatley, 73, leaving his seat at the counter and getting in the line of fire, which enabled others to flee.

Stop The ACLU

The ACLU Vs. American Sovereignty

Currently the ACLU are appealing to the U.N. Human Rights Committee with their cries of how evil the United States Government is.

3 4 New Bloggers

2006-03-15T08:05:00.000-05:00

Surly's Soap Box
Rachel's Desk
Ace in the Hole
Blogs for McCain

Best Of Homespun Bloggers March 6th, 2006

2006-03-06T11:48:00.000-05:00

Collecting My Thoughts

2227 The daughter-in-law--taking applications

You've seen the reality show about the bachelor choosing a wife. Why couldn't there be a show called "The daughter-in-law?" I've thought of throwing a big party and inviting all the single women I know to meet my son--he'd be the only guy at the party (unfortunately, most are in their 50s and 60s, and one in her 80s). He has excellent manners and I'm sure would make them all feel special, but would probably not speak to me for awhile.

Once More Into the Breach

I'm Only Eating This Chocolate for Medicinal Purposes

Who says food that is good for you has to taste bad?

AbbaGav

Immigration or Conquest, Absorption or Surrender?

When a People immigrates to your country and demands you
accommodate their lifestyle and principles by abandoning your own, it's no
longer called immigration, it's called conquest. [...]

However, [the media] having caved once, no one should really be
surprised when next year there are whole new sets of protest placards printed
up making new and evermore reasonable claims of ownership on the
definition of more of the West's essential freedoms: [...]

MuD&PHuD

Mark Wilson

Take a moment from your busy Fat Tuesday to remember the brave men who put their lives on the line in trying to stop David Arroyo from killing his son and wife. While many law enforcement officers made a good account of themselves that day (in particular Smith County Sheriff's Deputy Sherman Dollison, although there were many others), one man stands out because he was a civilian who just happened to be a sheepdog who moved to the sound of the guns:

2 New Bloggers

2006-02-27T10:40:00.000-05:00

Photios
AbbaGav

Best Of Homespun Bloggers February 26th, 2006

2006-02-27T10:29:00.000-05:00

Little Bit Tired, Little Bit Worn

Islamic Terror Pays dividends In Germany

Germany, weather they know it or not, has become a victim of black-mail.

Much of Islam has managed to turn itself into a victim while at the same time perpetrating perpetual acts of violence all across the globe.

Successfully having become both the offended and the offender at the same time.

Conservative Cat

Laura Talks to Jim Glassman About the Ports

Today on Laura Ingraham's show she had a long discussion with Jim Glassman about this column in which he said some pretty nasty things about people who oppose the sale of six U.S. ports to Dubai of the United Arab Emirates. Despite Laura's initial anger, the conversation ended on a fairly friendly note.

MuD&PHuD

Support Denmark

Like I said, I think it's rather rude to insult one's religion. Over the past few weeks (or however long this crap has been going on) I've been telling myself that I have not posted the cartoons for this very reason. However, as I've given the issue more thought it has occurred to me that I may very well be using politeness as a weak excuse. The thing that really brought this to mind was seeing this shirt (which I mentioned previously). I went through the thought process of I-want-one --> No-that-would-be-rude-to-innocent-Muslims --> Am-I-really-just-afraid-to-wear-it? So, while I may not spend the $19 to buy the shirt I will post the cartoons here because I think the principle of free speech, in this specific case*, trumps that of minding my P's and Q's. As things stand, if you are Muslim and offended by what follows please feel free to let me know that you're angry. But please include a statement that indicates that while you disagree with what I say you would be will to defend to the death my right to say it (and remember that the 'West' is not the first to produce such images).

2 3 New Bloggers

2006-02-20T13:58:00.000-05:00

Thoughts of a Regular Guy
Conservative Cogitation…
Nothing Could Be Finer

Best Of Homespun Bloggers February 19th, 2006

2006-02-19T21:44:00.000-05:00

Ales Rarus

Making the Best of a Bad Situation

How should Christians interact with secular government? Before one can argue that an act is wrong, though, one must define wrong. You cannot define a right to perform a wrong action, or lack thereof, until there is agreement of what is wrong. Who defines right and wrong? Should laws only pertain to those rights and wrongs that are nearly universally agreed to or should a mere plurality or majority of the
electorate be allowed determine right and wrong for the remainder?

Little Bit Tired, Little Bit Worn

Weed Out Textbooks Offensive To Muslims

Does the Muslim find anything deserving of respect homosexuality? No, they view homosexuality much they way I as a Christian do. So supposing a Muslim cartoonist created a cartoon which homosexuals found offensive and disrespectful and some violent group of homosexuals rose up and began taking the lives of Muslims and destroying Muslim owned property, all the while demanding an apology, respect and tolerance.

Mover Mike

The Leftist Rogue Weasels of the CIA

There are those who will talk, accomodate, and appease and are not happy with the war on terrorism.

MuD&PHuD

Election Year Politics

The other day I had occasion to rip a bit of proposed legislation suggested by Gov. Rell concerning taxes. Now the powers that be have had a "summit" to address the issue of increasing violence in Connecticut, specifically gun violence. There were not a ton of details in the articles I found, but the general consensus appears to be that the black market has been "flooded" with guns, which is leading to violence (pay no attention to the violent criminals behind the curtain!).

2 3 4 5 New Bloggers

2006-02-13T14:27:00.000-05:00

FzxGkJssFrk Blogs Here
faithmouse
KISS
Life~Florida~Whatever
Ramblings of a GOP Soccer Mom

Best Of Homespun Bloggers February 12th, 2006

2006-02-12T13:39:00.000-05:00

Bill Karl

If Democrats wrote the reviews for Brokeback mountain

"Pack up the family for a joy ride they'll never forget!"

-- Nancy Pelosi

Considerettes

"Cutting Edge" Medicine

First it was clean needles so junkies could kill themselves in a sanitary manner. Now, there's a proposal that self-abusers be given clean razor blades with which to cut themselves.

Ales Rarus

Why Is Prostitution Illegal?

Did you ever stop to wonder why prostitution is illegal? I did. Aside from explicitly religious moral reasons, I can’t see why it is.

Pick your jaw off the floor. Got it? OK, then, I’ll continue.

When you get down to the nuts and bolts of it, what is a prostitute doing? She…I know men prostitute themselves, too, but definite pronouns are less confusing…She is selling the use of her body for a span of time. Why is that illegal? It’s her body. It’s not like there isn’t legal precedence for it.

Musing

Not a good use of resources

I am watching the Senate’s Energy Committee debate the ‘07 Budget on C-SPAN and Samuel Bodman (Energy Secretary) just came up with a classic line, describing the use of natural gas to generate energy.

Bodman noted that doing so is like, “washing your dishes with good scotch.” Definitely not a good use of resources.

We’re literally awash in coal and uranium in North America and we’re running short of natural gas (primarily because we are using it for electricity generation and we refuse to drill in places like ANWR and offshore in California) but we’re still permitting and building new gas generation facilities.

MuD&PHuD

BS Meter In The Red

This article starts out sounding absolutely great (if, like me, you happen to be a small government type):

Gov. M. Jodi Rell wants to eliminate municipal car taxes and cut the state's public utility taxes by 25 percent, two moves she says will save Connecticut residents millions of dollars a year.

I mean, jeeze. I only pay a few hundred dollars a year between car and utility taxes so I'm expecting a serious check.

ruah

My Name is Diana and I am an addict!

My son turned me on to it. Now I can't get through a day without it. I can't get anything done. Communication is breaking down with my friends and family members. I spend all day in my room and rarely come out.

The Farce Report

Kansas DNA Sampling Bill May Evolve into Something Bad

Here's a DNA sampling bill currently being processed in the State of Kansas; it's one flavor among many across the United States. Presently, five states have mandatory DNA swabbing procedures for arrested individuals, and each state has different actions in disposing of samples when charges are dropped (or in the event of an acquittal).

Libertarian Leanings

Cherry Picking

The Washington Post drags out yet another former government
official with an axe to grind.

Pererro

Real Citizen Journalship

So, decided for the hey of it to go get close to that brush fire, and post the pics. And, here they are, in reverse order because I messed up the upload.

2 New Bloggers

2006-02-06T12:52:00.000-05:00

Culture Wars Guerilla
Snark Infested Waters

Best Of Homespun Bloggers February 5th

2006-02-06T12:40:00.000-05:00

The (not so) Daily Me

Fact or Belief?

Nate Keller (a.k.a. theotherside or countrytech) is a graphics designer who describes himself as a high-tech redneck. He blogs at The Fine Coffee Aficionado. He is one of the leading members of MennoDiscuss. Some of his interests are graphics, computers, anything related to Cabela's, racing, Jeff Foxworthy, truck & tractor pulling, deep sea fishing, boating, and hosting LAN parties.

Collecting My Thoughts

2067 Young People in Debt

This morning I read a book review of Tamara Draut's "Strapped." Draut says that today's young adult children of the baby boomer generation can't get ahead financially because of astronomical student debts, depressed wages, rising health care costs and soaring property values. The solutions offered by some young adults are silly and counterproductive--"the government should do something."

The View from the Firehouse

How did Judas Die?

For some odd reason I’ve been thinking about the so called contradiction between Matthew’s telling of Judas’s death and Luke’s telling of it in Acts.

ruah

Our Current Culture: Give Us Rights Without Responsibilities

This morning on my way to work, I was listening to the Scott and Casey Show on KTRS. The subject was the case of aTarget pharmacist in St. Charles, MO who was fired not because she refused to fill prescriptions for Plan B, the "morning after pill", but because she refused to refer patients to someone else who could fill it.

Tidbits And Treasures

United, We Stand - Divided, We Fall

One of the most quoted Aesop fables, I suppose, is 'united we stand; divided we fall'. I've often heard 'a family that prays together stays together'. That sort of fits right in with united and divided.

Once More Into the Breach

Judge Cashman and the Restorative Justice Movement

Judge Cashman who originally gave a sentence of 60 days to a child rapist has been a participant in a new justice philosophy called Restorative Justice.

Grizzly Mama

Grizzly Report: National Rally Against Islamofascism Day

The Troll and I participated in the rally in Pennsylvania on February 1, 2006. The United American Committee (UAC) held a rally nationwide protesting Islamofascism. Well - of COURSE we had to be there. We don't like Islamofascism - not one tiny little bit!

Stop The ACLU

ACLU PROTECTING FUNERAL PROTESTERS

The Washington Post reported on Monday about five States that wanting to ban funeral protests.

2 6 8 10 New Bloggers

2006-01-23T08:44:00.000-05:00

Free Constitution
Jane's Jabberwocky
Public Figures...Beware
My Way
bigwhitehat
Freedom Watch
Under The News
The Land of Ozz
Relative Humidity
The TOMO Report

Best Of Homespun Bloggers January 22nd, 2006

2006-01-22T12:13:00.000-05:00

Bloggin' Outloud

Behind the Scenes at the Dog Show

You might well imagine the gossip, back-stabbing, and in-fighting that goes on behind the scenes at international beauty pageants. Who would have thought that dogs could be just as petty! Here's what our hidden cameras caught at the Japanese Dog Fashion Show held recently in Tokyo.

Musing

Choose your Canada

Do you want a country/government that tells its citizens to “get a life” and to just get used to some 28 distinct Charter of Rights violations? Do you want a country/government that tells its veterans that they should to “go to the U.S.“?

Cursed by a Classical Education

Fool Us Once...

If it isn't plain enough to those of you that question the administration's response, Al Qaeda and this band of Islamic-Fascist thugs cannot be bargained with. Note that Bin Laden offers a truce, not a surrender. Many things can be done under the "white flag" of a truce...including recruiting, planning and re-arming. While I'm sure our forces would welcome a "breather" too, they know all too well that this adversary cannot be trusted.

Tidbits And Treasures

Has America Erred?

While reading Living Under God by Toby Mac and Michael Tait today, which I am reviewing, I found something I did not know.

The Redhunter

The Pinkos Sound the Retreat!

Last Friday night outside the main entrance to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC, the anti-war leftists of Code Pink were forced into an ignominious retreat! They were obliged to abandon their protest corners and seek refuge a block away, where they licked their wounds. For at least one evening, the wounded troopers in the hospital, some of whom can see the entrance where all this takes place from
their windows, did not have to see the Pinkos who mock them with their fake vigils.

Eric's Grumbles Before The Grave

Elitists and a Society of Fear

This is yet another case of elites who believe they know what
is best for you and I. These folks are no different from the men who
ran the Soviet Union. They have, in fact, through their arrogance and
elitism, condemned hundreds of thousands, even millions, to death,
starvation and privation.

MuD&PHuD

Eminent Domain Outrage In CA

This is absolutely beyond the pale:

A year after Los Angeles seized three acres from a private company to construct a public building, a city councilman wants to sell the land to another private firm for a commercial development.

2 3 6 New Bloggers

2006-01-16T07:26:00.000-05:00

Random Thoughts Of Yet Another Military Member
1492
Eurabian News
Crazy Politico's Rantings
spunkyhomeschool
Blue Star Chronicles

Best Of Homespun Bloggers January 8th and 15th

2006-01-15T14:38:00.000-05:00

Once More Into the Breach

Malaysia, A Warning to the West

Malaysia has tried to placate the Islamists only to find themselves on the defensive against a effort to bring the whole country under the sway of fundamentalist Islam. Tiptoeing around the obvious has bought them only more trouble. It is a warning to Europe and North America to stop the post modern multiculturalist movement and take control of their societies.

Conservative Cat

Notes from Ferdy - An Important Political Message

I have here a very important Flash video. Though it's intended for liberals, I'm posting it here in a spirit of cooperation and bi-partisanship. The video does include a music track, which I'm told is one of Chuck Brown's free MP3s from HealingPiano.com.

Musing

Change is in the air

I have moved Musing to a new domain - www.jasonhayes.org.

The move was prompted by my desire to start using that domain and a desperate need to upgrade my blogging software. The spam comments were killing me.

Over the next few days, I will fix up the links and get things running smoothly again. Feel free to head over and check out the new site and please remember to upgrade your links.

The Redhunter

"Why We're There" (Iraq)

We on the right are guilty of letting the left frame the
debate about Iraq. President Bush is in reaction mode, only recently going
on the political offensive against his Democrat antagonists.

Look at how we argue; liberals howl about how Bush said there would be
WMD and we found none. Conservatives retort that a president cannot
ignore his intelligence chiefs. The left presists in its loony "Bush
lied!" mantra, conservatives roll their eyes and make jokes about how the
Democrats are now the part of Michael Moore. The left thinks the war
unwinnable, the right counters with facts and logic.

But there are good reasons why we are in Iraq, so let's go through
them.

Little Bit Tired, Little Bit Worn

Angry Humanists

I find it interesting that this blogger asserts that Dawkins has done in this show what others have been attempting to do for thousands of years, disprove God [*discuss their views and prove them on national television*]. No one has disproven the existance of God up to this point in time, yet Dawkins managed to do it in one television show? Amazing!

The Farce Report

Samuel Alito Hopefully Gets Grilled this Week

Samuel Alito will be spending most of the week getting grilled by the U.S. Senate, likely to be placed among the U.S. Supreme Court Justices. Since we're in round two for George W. Bush's pick for the Supreme Court, I suspect this will come to pass. And hopefully, not without a colorful fight.

Fitch Is Always Right

Just Say No

How long, if legalized, will it be before the same anti-capitalist losers are suing "Big Marijuana" for it's adverse effects on people? You just know these litigious cretins will be out there, "Scooby Doobie Doggy" is targeting young children. "Heroin Horse" is designed to market heroin to underprivileged minorities. Those eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevillll Marijuana corporations, how dare they. That's tantamount to genocide, or at least slave ownership.

Below The Beltway

Can Islam Save Itself?

The idea that there will someday be an Islamic Reformation,
and moderate Muslims will be able to "save" their religion from its more
radical followers is in some sense the basis for current American
policy in Iraq.

Pererro

Life

man i was just thinking that i didn't know what to do but i tried really hard and maybe i could just go you know

just go and get something done i mean sometimes or maybe all the time i wouldn't even care what as long as it was something as long as i could affect something outside myself

The Liberal Wrong Wing

My Judicial Philosophy Part 1

Watching the Alito hearings these past couple of days, I began to think about my own judicial philosophy. And when I look over the Constitution, and my interpretation of it, I find my judicial philosophy to be much more conservative than I really am, although not on the major issues like abortion. And I come to find that I'd really enjoy being a Constitutional lawyer, or perhaps a Supreme Court justice some day (quit dreaming Kev). Perhaps I shall consider such a job. Just in case the whole President or in the very least Senator thing doesn't work out (again, quit dreaming).

The Young Conservatives

Iranian Uranium

Sanctions won't work, talking won't work. This man has a
singular mission, to "wipe Israel off the map." We have to protect Israel;
there is no compromise, there is no appeasement; we tried that in WWII.
It didn't work then, and it won't work now. The only choice to support
the prosperity of a Country that stands as a shining beacon of hope in
the middle of a region overrun with hate.

2 5 6 7 9 15 16 New Bloggers

2006-01-03T07:53:00.000-05:00

A Deeper Look
A Goddess' Journey
susie pie
Cordelya
Once More Into the Breach
CommonSenseAmerica
Camp Katrina
The Rogue Angel
FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog
Libertarian Leanings
Cinerati
Finestkind Clinic and fish market
The voice
Mrs. Happy Housewife
Solomon's House
Donovan's Blog

Best Of Homespun Bloggers December 25th & January 1st

2006-01-02T07:25:00.000-05:00

Musing

A faked memo-ry?

If you can get around Ann Coulter’s desperation to be more
important in this recent column, she still makes an excellent point. She
notes that, since they can’t win in elections, the liberals are
targeting Republicans in the courts. The problem is that in pretty much every
case they have brought, the Democrats have no legal or moral basis for
targeting these people. The only reason the Dems are bringing charges
against these Republicans is that they are dangerous to the Democrat’s
political aspirations.

The Conservative Cat

Confused Americans for Truth - Abusing Ben Franklin for Political Purposes

Ben Franklin once said "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Dr. Franklin turned many a clever phrase in his day, but that doesn't mean he has the last word in discussion of the Patriot Act.

The Redhunter

Will the Real Journalist Please Stand Up?

It has become a staple of conservatives that "you can't trust the msm and the best information about Iraq is on the Internet". I keep looking for something to prove that proposition wrong, but the harder I look the more it is confirmed.

The Washington Post and Louisville Journal-Courier have once again proven the proposition to be correct.

The Liberal Wrong Wing

Finally!

An outlook of the political environment for 2006.

MuD&PHuD

The Coming Conflict

Kevin over at The Smallest Minority has a great (and very long) post in which he seems to be looking for a way to define the opposing sides of what some see as the developing conflict within the US. The whole thing is quite involved so I won't try to summarize it further than that.

The point I want to bring up here is that I believe not only is there a developing conflict but that we are, at the very least, in the thick of the opening phase. As I mentioned in the comments, Thomas Jefferson recognized that societies have the tendency, if not the surety, to eventually fall from the Grace that is freedom and civil government when he said:

3 4 New Bloggers

2005-12-19T07:28:00.000-05:00

And THAT is MY Opinion...
Hypocrisy Abounds
The Barking Dingo
Angry Republican Mom

Best Of Homespun Bloggers December 18th, 2005

2005-12-19T06:59:00.000-05:00

Uncle Tonoose

NLT's 'It's A Wonderful Life'

Local theatre performs 1940s radio version of Christmas classic about George Bailey and Bedford Falls, N.Y.

Conservative Cat

Confused Americans for Truth - Rioting is Not the Solution to Lawlessness

Racial violence in Sydney, Australia is going into its third day, as police implement security measures to calm things down.

A BBC report lays the blame for the riots on long-term racial tensions between whites and Lebanese immigrants. Those tensions, however, are not racial in origin, but criminal. The rioters feel that Lebanese youth gangs are allowed to harass and assault beachgoers without fear of the police.

Musing

Anything to get Christ out of Christmas

The ´war against Christmas¡ rages on. A Wisconsin elementary school has changed the song ´Silent Night¡ to ´Cold in the Night,¡ and secularized the lyrics.

It is odd enough that school administrators were so uncomfortable with contentious and inflamatory lyrics like ´all is calm¡ and ´holy infant, so tender and mild". It is even more odd that while the subject of 'Christ¡ was considered taboo, other themes that were clearly religious or focused on non-Christian traditions were openly welcomed in the school.

The Liberal Wrong Wing

ACLU Skips a Second Amendment

Why is it that the American Civil Liberties Union, a group dedicated to protecting Constitutional rights, rarely commits to the protection of the rights guaranteed in the second amendment of the Constitution? The second amendment, the right to bear arms, is of course amongst the most important clauses in the United States Constitution. It is this Amendment that instills a true power to the people. Without it, our nation could easily descend into a nation in which the government does not acknowledge the genuine will of the people. The right to bear arms is a substantial right which finds itself at the forefront of the ideology of American democracy.

The Redhunter

History Lesson

The Washington Times has a "History Lessons" section on their
editorial page that has become a must-read. From today's edition:

From "Why the U.S. bombed," The Washington Times, Oct.
16, 1998, by National Security Adviser Samuel R. Berger:

"Following the Aug. 7 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania, the United States launched a missile strike against a factory in
Khartoum, Sudan, as well as against terrorist camps in Afghanistan.
Since then, some critics have suggested that we acted precipitously when we
struck the Sudanese Al Shifa plant. But, given what we knew, to not
have acted against that facility would have been the height of
irresponsibility.

Pererro

A pet peeve (nonclemature)

MizMena
10/24/2001 8:26:48 AM This is Amerika. What do you expect other than mass
marketing? Personally, I don't really care, for I see these books as nothing
more than Christian propoganda, anyway. They portray Christianity (the sons and
daughters of Eve) as the "good" and Witchcraft (the sons and daughters of

2 3 4 5 New Bloggers

2005-12-12T07:22:00.000-05:00

Patricia Ann's Writings from Pollywog Creek
Patricia Ann's Homeschool on her Pollywog Creek Porch
Dave's Not Here
chunkyrhino
Cozy Reader

Best Of Homspun Bloggers December 11th, 2005

2005-12-12T07:12:00.000-05:00

Pererro

Too Funny (War On Christmas)

This is odd. Now, I've been running away or laughing at tales of Christmas Wars this year, because I think the whole thing is silly.

But then, I see this (emphasis added)...

Grizzly Mama

It's official. The studies have now been studied.

Socialization of homeschoolers is no longer an issue.

"Susan McDowell, author of "But What About Socialization? Answering the Perpetual Home Schooling Question: A Review of the Literature,” has researched 24 studies on the socialization of homeschoolers, according to Bristol Herald Courier. "It’s a non-issue today," said McDowell, who earned Ph.D. in educational leadership from Vanderbilt University. "All the research shows children are doing well.""

The Redhunter

Getting Chilly Outside of Walter Reed

Last Friday, Dec 2, was the first really cold night in front of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC.

But although temperatures were low and the wind blowing, spirits were high among the Freepers who showed up to counter the Pinkos.

Every Friday night the radical leftists group Code Pink show up at Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital to hold a war protest. And everytime a crowd of patriots show up to counter them.

MuD&PHuD

Misdirection On Tax Cuts

This happens literally every time I see an article on tax cuts. Here's how the Washington Post puts it:

Mover Mike

Why I Said Murtha Is Right

...it appears we went in half-assed, and then when things turned against us, we want to cut and run. Our credibility is shot. No one, outside the US, believes the US can win a war, especially China and the Asian countries. They believe we bleed, we leave.

Collecting My Thoughts

Unintended Consequences

I ’ve been thinking a lot about unintended consequences after reading about polio epidemics following on the heels of the improved sanitation provided by flush toilets and toilet paper. Most recently, we’ve seen some unintended consequences in connection with Hurricane Katrina from personal and government generosity.