Wiggle Room in the Health Care Bill

The problem with DVR’s is that you wind up watching live shows from Friday night on Sunday night.  Oh, well.
The World Over, EWTN’s weekly news program, had several people discussing the health care bill.  Thankfully, several Catholic groups that had seemed to support the bill currently being discussed have come out, clearly stating that they [...]

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If you can still read this…

The more I learn about the current administration, the more I wish I didn’t care.  But if you can still read this, then, well, things could still get worse.
The latest out is that a bill in Congress proposes to give the President the authority to seize control of the internet during a “cyber emergency.”  Not [...]

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Evil White Racists

Of course, it’s always easier to set up a caricature of someone rather than dealing with the complex realities of humans.  Any human institution gets things wrong and right, usually simultaneously.  Almost nobody is purely wrong or right about everything.  You may disagree with town hall attendees shouting at elected officials or bringing (legal) weapons [...]

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Brain Tumors, Right and Left

Robert Novak died last week of a brain tumor.  Senator Ted Kennedy died Tuesday of a brain tumor.
CNN spent about the same amount of space on Novak’s involvement in the Valerie Plame case as it spent on Kennedy’s accident in Chappaquiddick.
Plame, I would note, survived without injury.
Kennedy’s car passenger died; CNN gave Kennedy’s version (about trying [...]

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What are we doing?

I saw this site on the Glenn Beck program tonight: the U.S. National Debt Clock.  (Do not view this while drinking; I am warning you, so I am not responsible if you spray your computer screen!)  As he pointed out, and we have frequently commented in our house while yelling at the TV, a) we [...]

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Will “prevention” save health care?

The news has been swamped with Obamacare for weeks.  Will it work?  Will it take care of the uninsured?  Will it bankrupt us?  Will there be health care rationing?  What about the British and Canadian systems; they aren’t exactly great?
The friend who quoted a number of CNN talking points to justify her revulsion towards the [...]

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Race and Adoption

I’m not sure we’ll ever “get” race, especially as it relates to transracial families, and particularly families formed by adoption.
Two things set this off:
Reading a blog recommended by another blog that was on a carnival at a blog I read.  The final blog in the rabbit trail was mostly about adoption, specifically Chinese adoption.  The [...]

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Summer

Slow, sodden spring yields,
To sticky, sweaty summer.
Yard, you’re on your own,
 
Cheerfully weeded
Just while weather amnesia
Lingered in light breeze.
 
AC’s siren song
Whirs, “You, neither mad dog nor
Englishman; stay in!”
 
(No offense to the English; the phrase is, “Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun!”  Probably said somewhere in the tropics, where some Englishmen were reportedly more concerned [...]

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The more things change…

Being a homeschooler is fascinating.  All that history we never talked about?  Well, now I get to explore it in depth and with a lot more lessons in “history is interesting because it is made by real people” and a lot less of “memorize these disconnected dates and names until you hate history and everyone [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday: Homeschooling Egypt (updated!)

 
(click on the logo to visit Jen’s weekly hosting of this event at Conversion Diary!)
I say this hesitantly, but I might be sort of getting the hang of homeschooling.  The porch got painted, the gardens got some weeding, the kids were both occupied and edified, and dinner never slumped to the level of frozen pizza.  [...]

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