I’m going to buy my Mom a carton of her favorite cigarettes and take her out for some beers….right after she gets released from county lock up on those trumped up charges.
She had every right to be standing on that street corner at midnight.

by an Englishwoman whose name I can’t remember is a really good and funny book on English usage and punctuation. That second comma in the title plays havoc with the meaning if you’re talking about the diet of a plant-eating animal. It is filled with stuff like its own title and the picture above and has lots of good “what to avoid” direction.

Thee Michelle Gun Elephant.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/07/AR2009050704538.html?wprss=rss_print/style

::retching::

her rocker. Given how many speak of Ayn Rand in the talk radio circuit talk about Atlas shrugged, I didn’t relize her arrogance in the acceptance of aetheism and her views on charity. Anyway, those clips I watched were really telling and, to my surprise, I was shocked to learn I do not agree with her. Yikes, BTW happy mothers day, Eve.

“Conservatives always face uphill climb”

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/powell-government-party-2399603-tent-republican

This one’s for you, palomino70. Little troll, we hardly knew ye.

http://www.hslda.org/Legislation/State/tx/2009/TXHB948/default.asp

http://www.hslda.org/elert/archive/2009/05/20090505165451.asp

This is an excellent bill. They still need calls for a few more days:

Patrick Rose 512-463-0647
Rep. Abel Herrero 512-463-0462
Rep. Drew Darby 512-463-0331
Rep. Gary Elkins 512-463-0722
Rep. Ana Hernandez 512-463-0614
Rep. Bryan Hughes 512-463-0271
Rep. Ken Legler 512-463-0460
Rep. Elliott Naishtat 512-463-0668
Rep. Armando Walle 512-463-0924

Requires parental consent or court order for medical/psychological/psychiatric examinations of the child.
Requires the department to audio record all reports of abuse and neglect.
Requires the department to record and maintain all interviews and documents pertaining to an investigation, including original notes.
Requires the department to make written reports about a case and make those reports, as well as audio recordings, available to the person under investigation.
Requires that if the custody of the child is taken away from the parents, the child must go to a person the parents/legal guardian designate on the child placement resources form.
If the child has been taken away but is still breastfeeding, the mother is allowed frequent visits to continue breastfeeding the child, unless the mother is found by the court not fit for these visits.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_us_iraq