Audrey (my niece) and her friends worked on a school project that looked like this:
Then she and her friends made a poster explaining what they did. Very well explained, but their spelling could use some work.
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Why sit and do email, when you can walk and do email? This contraption was spotted the other day by yours truly, at work.
It’s high time we discussed this.
Friends, I must protest your ratings of me. Today I received this disturbing email:
Social News for February 28, 2008
Here is what your friends think about…
… your strengths:
best catch
kindest
most desired for marriage… your weaknesses:
best mannered
most studiousClick here to see your full list or to see your friends’ strengths and weaknesses.
—————————–Other social news
Changes in your ranks:
1 place down, now #4 person with the best taste in music
4 places down, now #4 best to be stuck in handcuffs with
1 place down, now #5 most famous
8 places up, now #5 most cuddly
6 places down, now #6 nicest
more>>
Look I agree that I am a great catch and well desired for marriage. Yes, JB, you are lucky! But come on! Not well mannered?! Not studious? I must protest. Also, I am moving down on music, handcuffs, fame and niceness. Bogus. Come on people!
The Wall Street Journal has a well written article by Stephen Haynes called “Obama and the Power of Words,” which discusses Barack Obama, and the interesting parallels between him and Ronald Reagan, and how they were pegged as lacking in substance during their campaigns. It quotes, for instance, this passage from Reagan’s inauguration speech – a passage which is eerily similar to the sentiments that Obama echoes today, a quarter century later:
“More than anything else, I want my candidacy to unify our country, to renew the American spirit and sense of purpose. I want to carry our message to every American, regardless of party affiliation, who is a member of this community of shared values . . . For those who have abandoned hope, we’ll restore hope and we’ll welcome them into a great national crusade to make America great again!”
Haynes does a good job illustrating that Obama is not the cartoonishly simple candidate he is painted by his opponents to be (of course!), and that he does in fact do an excellent job pivoting from soaring rhetoric to detailed and thoughtful positions on a variety of issues.
Of course, Haynes, who writes for the Weekly Standard, is probably not a Obama supporter, which means that the Republicans are formulating more sophisticated (and likely more effective) anti-Obama strategies than the ones that Hillary Clinton and others have deployed – all to such little avail! Let the games begin!
Well that wraps it up. One video for each of the candidates. This time, Mike Huckabee.
Shiny, Silver, Sleek
How Can I Live Without You
My Pretty iPhone
An original haiku, dated 2.15.08
I am a Barack Obama supporter, so I may be biased, but I want you to consider these two videos, and you tell me who deserves to win the nomination. Here’s one pithy verse from the Hillary video: “This Lady knows how to lead, in this president’s race she will succeed.”
Hillary
Barack
Usually I find these group improv events kind of stupid, but this one, where everyone in Grand Central stops in place at the same time, is kind of cool.
Yesterday that scumbag traitor ‘president’, George Bush commuted Scooter Libby’s sentence. In yet another blatant hypocricy, he did so saying that Libbys sentence was “excessive.”
A 30 month sentence is apparently way too long of a sentence for a friend, but as the Governor of Texas, the treasonous Bush had no problem with death sentences for the mentally disabled. I’m still not sure why we aren’t working on impeachment…