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Happy Birthday Jackie Duvall! |
A video presentation shows Republican Vice President candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with an animal she shot while hunting in Alaska at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St Paul, Minnesota September 4, 2008.
Oddly enough I can understand why the Republicans would be proud of this picture ... it is one of the few real accomplishments they can be proud of in Palin. The ability to shoot defenseless animals, hockey mom, wanting to make Alaska a separate country and not raising her children right are about the extent of her qualifications. Unless you also want to count helping to collect federal dollars for the Bridge to Nowhere? |
Washing the Dog
An eight-year-old boy went into a shop and picked out a large box of washing powder.
The shopkeeper asked him if he had a lot of washing to do.
“Oh, no,” the boy said, “I’m going to wash my dog.”
“But you shouldn’t use this to wash your dog,” said the shopkeeper. “It’s very powerful and if you wash your dog in this, he’ll get sick. In fact, it might even kill him.”
But the boy was not to be stopped and carried the washing powder to the counter and paid for it.
A week later, the boy was back in the store to buy some sweets.
The shopkeeper asked the boy how his dog was doing.
“Oh, he died,” the boy said.
The shopkeeper said he was sorry, but added, “I tried to tell you not to use that detergent on your dog.”
“Well, the boy replied, “I don’t think it was the washing powder that killed him.”
“Oh? What was it then?”
“I think it was the spin cycle!” |
Santa Monica in the fog (or smog?) ... another picture from Noah while he is temporarily working in Santa Monica, CA. |
Good morning Michael.
Well, I made it through my first week back at school...whew!! (and it was a short week -- only 4 days!)
Now I have to survive Pumpkin Festival!
Have a “cool” day! |
Tammy 06 Sep 2008, 06:51 a.m.
Good Morning Tammy,
Glad you survived! Aaron and Ben are already bringing school work home and are not at all happy about it. The big talk around Tremont school is the abysmal failure of their new lunch program. They don’t accept cash anymore so they have to put money into an account and then use their school ID cards to pay for lunch. The system is so slow they missed lunch most of the week. The school doesn’t give any receipts so you have to “trust” them to handle your money correctly (when they can’t even run a lunch line?). I will be SO GLAD when the boys are done with this amateur outfit they call a school. |
MjL 06 Sep 2008, 06:57 a.m.
I hear ya....homework....yuck!!! We lost power here last week and what a mess!!! I guess teachers at the high school were using flashlights so kids could see to get down stairs, etc.! How ridiculous...but we HAVE (and pay for) drug testing now!!!
I can’t believe a school isn’t better equiped to handle a power outage! Ashley barely got lunch and some didn’t even get a crumb! She said she had to pay out the nose for a stale hotdog bun with some ham and cheese on it. Oh boy! I am a little more forgiving on the food thing since you can’t predict a power outage, but no lights!! We lost power at the preschool too, but we have a generator that runs the lights at least! Thanks for the posting -- what a great picture of Jackie!!!
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Tammy 06 Sep 2008, 08:31 a.m.
| You know how I get about Tremont schools (or lack thereof) so don’t get me started! I can go on and on and on and on (The Energizer Bunny has nothing on me when it comes to this topic!) Have a Great Day! It looks like it is shaping up to be a nice one. |
MjL 06 Sep 2008, 08:38 a.m.
| Oh my god--school ID cards!? There aren’t enough people IN that school to warrant ID cards! The principal knows every student by name, so it has to be that new superintendent. He obviously has no idea how to run a school in a small town. I already wrote him a letter in my senior year about the effects his changes would have on the students and parents, but obviously, that didn’t make a difference. Well, I will just laugh when it all falls out from under him. |
Noah L 06 Sep 2008, 1:15 p.m.
Hi Noah,
Unfortunately the superintendent is never wrong so they will never know what a mess they have created. It will be blamed on those irresponsible and uncooperative students whenever there is a problem ... as usual. They are already pressuring them to line up faster and better, to eat faster, etc. instead of realizing their system is too slow to accommodate all those kids in such a short amount of time. With all that going on nobody will ever address how nasty the food is now that they have a captive customer who must eat their slop or starve. |
MjL 06 Sep 2008, 1:38 p.m.
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