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  • 6/365:2011 1-6-2011   7 years 3 days ago

    Hahaha I love the way your first reaction is not to offer to pull it out for her, but instead to reach for your camera :)

  • 4/365:2011 1-4-2011   7 years 4 days ago

    Baby toes are the BEST!

  • 4/365:2011 1-4-2011   7 years 4 days ago

    so perfect!

  • 3/365:2011 1-3-2011   7 years 5 days ago

    lol That would be our Aussie snowballs too :) great idea!

  • 3/365:2011 1-3-2011   7 years 6 days ago

    I like this concept - but I think you should build a winter sandman next :)

  • My Awesome Sister – One Year Later   7 years 27 weeks ago

    Bright Blessings to her Spirit and to your family!

    Love, Andrea

  • Bin Laden's Dirty Underwear and Civilian-Based Defense   7 years 28 weeks ago

    Great essay.  I made a comment over at MLW.

     

    -Madscientist

  • Museum of Hoaxes has the Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All-Time   7 years 38 weeks ago

    My cousin recommended this blog and she was totally right keep up the fantastic work!

  • Jobs Bill Passes Senate With Help From Republican Hypocrites   7 years 41 weeks ago

    Protest music seemed to be making a bit of a comeback during the dark era of King George the W but has since sputtered off. Nice to see people trying to keep it alive ...

  • The long, national HCR nightmare is over   7 years 41 weeks ago

    Ironic - I couldn't think of a single example yesterday of forcing Americans to purchase coverage and then this came through today. It's a good point and would make a legal challenge to the HCR all the more interesting ...

  • Jobs Bill Passes Senate With Help From Republican Hypocrites   7 years 41 weeks ago

    Acclaimed Singer-Songwriter Nona Hendryx has stood up to Limbaugh on her new project
    "The Ballad of Rush Limbaugh", to raise money for Haiti Relief.

    Nona was outraged at Rush Limbaugh’s recent insensitive and hateful remarks after the catastrophe in Haiti. With a long history of writing edgy, provocative and often political leaning songs she decided to strike back. “I’ve been so pissed off with Rush Limbaugh (for a long time) and his insensitive, racist commentary,” she says. “The final straw was his ill chosen or mean/hateful comments about American relief efforts for Haiti. So instead of just fuming and ranting myself, I wrote a song.”
    Felicia Collins, the guitarist for David Letterman’s house band, joins Hendryx on guitar.

    The result is “The Ballad of Rush Limbaugh”.

    * Streaming Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-41ZuMpJ2U

    * Streaming Audio: http://www.myspace.com/nonahendryx

    * Download on iTunes - http://itunes.apple.com/pt/album/ballad-of-rush-limbaugh/id355965859

    All download proceeds will benefit the American Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, and UNICEF.

  • Pears grown in the shape of the Buddha   7 years 45 weeks ago

    Keep posting stuff like this i really like it

  • Sarah Palin Using Hand as a Cheat Sheet?   7 years 46 weeks ago
  • Oklahoma Highway Patrol Finally Releases Video of Trooper Attack on Paramedic   8 years 28 weeks ago

    Hi Patricia,

    Apologies to you for this - I'm normally quite good (in fact, since I use WLW for my blogging, the source/attribution links are supposed to be automatically inserted). I've just reopened the blog after finishing my thesis, so I suppose the kinks have yet to be worked out. Thanks for the reporting and I have updated the post accordingly.

    best,

    Jay

  • Oklahoma Highway Patrol Finally Releases Video of Trooper Attack on Paramedic   8 years 29 weeks ago

    Hi Jay,

    On the OK Highway Patrol post, above, you used my headline and my copyrighted material without permission, attribution, or even a courtesy link.

    I cover Oklahoma Crime for Clarity Media/Examiner dot com. The article excerpt you used without attribution is part of an ongoing series.

    Please cite me as the source and provide a link to my original work, or remove it. If you like my work, that would be nice, but I'd appreciate being cited for my work.

    Thank you,
    Patricia Phillips

  • McCain Debate Highlights   9 years 13 weeks ago

    why don't we hear about the following?
    This is very important, please take the time to read it.
    This election has me very worried. So many things to consider. About a year ago I would have voted for Obama. I have changed my mind three times since than. I watch all the news channels, jumping from one to another. I must say this drives my husband crazy. But, I feel if you view MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News, you might get some middle ground to work with. About six months ago, I started thinking 'where did the money come from for Obama'. I have four daughters who went to College, and we were middle class, and money was tight. We (including my girls) worked hard and there were lots of student loans.
    I started looking into Obama's life.
    Around 1979 Obama started college at Occidental in California. He is very open about his two years at Occidental, he tried all kinds of drugs and was wasting his time but, even though he had a brilliant mind, did not apply himself to his studies. 'Barry' (that was the name he used all his life) during this time had two roommates, Muhammad Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, both from Pakistan. During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a 'round the world' trip. Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia, next Hyderabad in India, three weeks in Karachi, Pakistan where he stayed with his roommate's family, then off to Africa to visit his father's family. My question -
    Where did he get the money for this trip?
    Nether I, nor any one of my children would have had money for a trip like this when they where in college. When he came back he started school at Columbia University in New York. It is at this time he wants everyone to call him Barack - not Barry. Do you know what the tuition is at Columbia? It's not cheap! to say the least.
    Where did he get money for tuition?
    Student Loans? Maybe. After Columbia, he went to Chicago to work as a Community Organizer for $12,000. a year. Why Chicago? Why not New York? He was already living in New York.
    By 'chance' he met Antoin 'Tony' Rezko, born in Aleppo Syria, and a real estate developer in Chicago. Rezko has been convicted of fraud and bribery this year. Rezko, was named 'Entrepreneur of the Decade' by the Arab-American Business and Professional Association'. About two years later, Obama entered Harvard Law School. Do you have any idea what tuition is for Harvard Law School?
    Where did he get the money for Law School?
    More student loans? After Law school, he went back to Chicago. Rezko offered him a job, which he turned down. But, he did take a job with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Guess what? They represented 'Rezar' which Rezko's firm. Rezko was one of Obama's first major financial contributors when he ran for office in Chicago. In 2003, Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama which Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was instrumental in providing Obama with 'seed money' for his U.S. Senate race. In 2005, Obama purchased a new home in Kenwoood District of Chicago for $1.65 million (less than asking price). With ALL those Student Loans -
    Where did he get the money for the property?
    On the same day Rezko's wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining empty lot for full price. The London Times reported that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born Billionaire loaned Rezko $3.5 million three weeks before Obama's new home was purchased. Obama met Nadhmi Auchi many times with Rezko.
    Now, we have Obama running for President. Valerie Jarrett, was Michele Obama's boss. She is now Obama's chief advisor and he does not make any major decisions without talking to her first. Where was Jarrett born? Ready for this? Shiraz, Iran! Do we see a pattern here? Or am I going crazy?
    On May 10, 2008 The Times reported, Robert Malley advisor to Obama was 'sacked' after the press found out he was having regular contacts with 'Hamas', which controls Gaza and is connected with Iran. This past week, buried in the back part of the papers, Iraqi newspapers reported that during Obama's visit to Iraq, he asked their leaders to do nothing about the war until after he is elected, and he will 'Take care of things'.
    Oh, and by the way, remember the college roommates that where born in Pakistan? They are in charge of all those 'small' Internet campaign contribution for Obama.
    Where is that money coming from?
    The poor and middle class in this country? Or could it be from the Middle East?
    And the final bit of news. On September 7, 2008, The Washington Times posted a verbal slip that was made on 'This Week' with George Stephanapoulos. Obama on talking about his religion said, 'My Muslim faith'. When questioned, 'he made a mistake'. Some mistake!
    All of the above information I got on line. If you would like to check it - Wikipedia, encyclopedia, Barack Obama; Tony Rezko; Valerie Jarrett: Daily Times - Obama visited Pakistan in 1981; The Washington Times - September 7, 2008; The Times May 10, 2008.
    Now the BIG question - If I was able to find out all this information on my own,
    Why haven't all of our 'intelligent' members of the press been reporting this?
    A phrase that keeps ringing in my ear - 'Beware of the enemy from within'!!!

  • President Bush regrets his legacy as man who wanted war - Times Online   9 years 29 weeks ago

    C'mon... he was a man of peace... pieces of this, pieces of that... whatever he could make a buck off of...

  • Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Matilda Rose!   9 years 50 weeks ago
    congrats!!!!! I would give a google kudos if myspace allowed it
  • Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Matilda Rose!   9 years 50 weeks ago

    She's magnificent! Mom & Dad did an outstanding job!

    Moments like these: http://www.zooomr.com/photos/daverth/4066532/

    are really what it's all about, aren't they?

    We've a new addition to our family as well, Liam Michael. (12/12/07)

    If you'd like to have a peek, he's in my pics on myspace, http://www.myspace.com/rainysundaymj or here, http://www.flickr.com/photos/rainysundaymj/2117953353/in/set-72157601700067355/

    Congrats to you both! Enjoy each and every moment, time speeds up from here on out.

    ~maryjane

  • Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Matilda Rose!   9 years 50 weeks ago
    Congratulations, my friend. I offer you the following observation:

    Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. --Joseph Addison

    Not a day goes by that I'm not grateful for my daughter.
  • Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Matilda Rose!   9 years 50 weeks ago
    Hurray! Congratulations to Mom, Dad and baby, Mitilda!! I wish you all the best...

    rachel xox
  • Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Matilda Rose!   9 years 50 weeks ago
    There is nothing like the smell of a newborn baby, nothing in the world..
  • Is the company hired to backup White House emails competent?   10 years 5 weeks ago
    Well Jay we go waaaaaaay back! But for real, is anyone our country hire's a good choice? I am sure the people that watch the news remember the sister's that charged a thousand a bolt or such story. Yet here we are pretending like the same dumb over paying country somehow killed a plane full of people on 9 11 so the story would sell.

    Truth is in reality probably not..................

    No whoever our White Houdr hired to back anything up is probably not "Right for the job". Either way as American's we all need to fully understand this....Our government takes our votes, then does what they want!!! That is the one real truth here in the U.S.

    Everyone here hate Micheal Moore for pointing out things we already see but wont admitt to!

    Yet here we are calling him a liar, a commie, and the list goes on...Yet when you look into what he says all the facts point to the one real fact he is simply trying to enlighten by use of fact......

    In the end what it all comes down to is this... American citizens need to feel as though they are on top. even when it comes to selling fruit on the highways! They may buy some tainted fruit, but in the end they know that in this economy, they may be that mexican...

    Can anyone our government hires for protection all the way down to condom disposal be trusted? Nope...it all comes dopwn to how popular are you..Much like Miss America!! He said "whoooooooooo" and seemed happy so lets not vote for the crazy person...Yet here we are a lady as president, or a black dude...

    In the end we were forced to choose too soon or not! Here we are...Other candidates sre even more real than the dolls that are popular, yet we allow the media to tell us who the real choices are!

    Hillary stuck with a man that got a blow job! Obama has an anti gay preacher in his archive! Who wins?

    The person that has a nice smile sadly the truth wont set America free! Both are jokes! But one will win...Much like when America voted for a chimp and "Won"..................We got Bushy!

    in the real end.......Its a popularity contest not a legitimate vote....

    We vote for the person that looks ok on the telivision and pretend I am lying I dare you!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Another innocent shopper arrested for refusing to show their receipt   10 years 16 weeks ago
    Well, good to know about the shoes, Jay! I had always figured TSA as no-sense-of-humor folks (which I don't blame them for since it is a thankless job and they deal with thousands of people a day). I'll have to start allowing myself a little extra time to decline the shoe check myself!
  • Talk like a Pirate Day   10 years 16 weeks ago
    I actually have no idea, but it makes a great story. I found it on the internet a couple years back and have no way of know whether it's an actual transcript or someone's clever invention. It certainly sounds like Jim Lehrer, and Dean definitely wanted to cut prescription drug costs and allow drugs from Canada to be easily obtained. Of course, I'll always be a Deaniac whether he said this or not.