By MInTheGap on May 1, 2008 in Family and Noteworthy | 6 Comments
As I hope I’ve made clear in my post on the Mormons who lost their children, I’m very protective on the bond between a child and parent. I’m very suspicious of government agencies that claim to have our children’s best interest at heart, but then take children from their homes– sometimes permanently.
And I’ve read a lot of these stories. It’s the power that these people wield over parent’s lives that scares me. That they act as if they have more rights than the parents to the children is foreign to me. And that they can assume that parents are guilty until proven innocent and use that to justify removing a child from a home is wrong according to the founding principles of this country.
And then something like this happens:
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By MInTheGap on May 9, 2008 in Tech Help and WordPress | 0 Comments
Well, there’s been a few tweaks, but so far the Ad Manager seems to be running smoothly. As is always the case, bad data in means bad data out. I had a few cases of some ads not showing images because Performics had urls with two “.”s before the com– “xxx..com/xxx”. After I fixed these things were going along quite well.
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By MInTheGap on May 9, 2008 in Culture and Homeschooling | 1 Comment
I’ve long thought that the fact that “no one fails” in school was something that made the whole thing silly. Failing has a negative connotation, but it also says that a person needs more work in a given area in order to master it.
That we have taken the teeth out of grading by continuing to process children forward even when they haven’t master basic skills is at the heart of our education problem in America.
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By MInTheGap on May 9, 2008 in Creation | 2 Comments
One of the things that I’ve seen in many of the debates that I’ve recently entered about the origins of the world and the existence of God is really unfruitful and fails to recognize the complexity of the discussion.
It is rooted in the strong belief of the veracity of their side of the argument. Very few actually enter into this debate without a belief that they know the truth. I believe that if those people are present, they’re probably bystanders, watching exactly what will be said.
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By MInTheGap on May 9, 2008 in Culture, Family and News | 1 Comment
Just wanted to make sure to send out my congratulations early, since Jenna Bush will be marrying Henry Hager at a ceremony in Crawford, TX tomorrow.
Although a nation based on celebrity would have loved a White House wedding, I can appreciate that they wanted to make it their ceremony instead of the nation’s ceremony– I believe it actually shows more character. It’s nice to see how much she’s grown from the drunk teen the media were trying to stereotype her as.
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By MInTheGap on May 8, 2008 in Tech Help and WordPress | 2 Comments
So I got to wondering the other day while I was mowing the lawn…
What is the effect of a high ranking blogger on a blog? More specifically, if a more popular blogger were to comment on a rather unknown blog, what effect would they have on that blog?
Could I get someone like Darren Rowse of problogger.net to write a guest post on my blog by means of research– somehow measure the effect of this high ranking blogger posting on a blog that was relatively unknown?
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By MInTheGap on May 8, 2008 in Politics | 0 Comments
Now here’s something interesting. Guess what the main ingredient for the plastic bags at Wal-Mart, and the bottle water that you’ve been drinking. Turns out it’s petroleum– the same thing that’s costing us more at the pump…
Bottom line, the production of 31.2 billion liters of water for the U.S. bottled water market took roughly 17.6 million barrels of oil. The calculation is explained in more detail at the Pacific Institute’s information page under the energy requirements for plastic bottles.
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By MInTheGap on May 8, 2008 in Website | 0 Comments
Yes, it’s a busy time again for me, but that doesn’t mean that I haven’t written more stuff. It’s just not here!
Check out Keep that Flame Burning over at Weekend Kindness where I highlight what I think is the most important tip to keeping your married life alive.
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