Well, I reached the end of my Stumble-Upon experiment on November 15th (and missed my opportunity to get into the MyBlogLog contest to grow my community!) and here are the results in case you were interested.
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I’m not yet sure who I will vote for in this upcoming Presidential Election. I would like to vote for Mike Huckabee, but I have problems with his record in Arkansas– specifically, that he tends to raise taxes and use the government to meddle more in our lives.
Being a conservative, I believe that it’s wrong for government to control our lives whether it’s for issues I agree with or disagree with. Perhaps that makes me more of a libertarian, I’m not sure. But I believe that we’d all be a whole lot better of with less government in our lives instead of more.
However, this ad is terrific– positive, witty, and leaves you a good impression. Plus, it has Chuck Norris is in it, so you know it has to be good:
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Have you ever found yourself wondering how you got somewhere? I find that I’ve driven back and forth to my place of employment so many times that sometimes I wonder just how I got there– or have trouble trying to remember the route I took!
Believe it or not, it’s a common occurrence to find oneself thinking or concentrating on other things besides the road ahead:
Ann Asks:
After getting the girl to fall in love with this nonexistent boy, the middle-aged woman turned mean, argued, and said “The world would be a better place without you.” The girl immediately committed suicide. Has the woman committed a crime?
Jill Stanek brings our attention to the hypocrisy in the no-spanking movement. From the site:
Massachusetts is considering a possible ban on spanking where parents wouldn’t be allowed to spank children under 18. Yup, the people’s republic of Massachusetts is ok with abortion, but don’t spank your kid, that would be just wrong.
However, I would still allow spanking, even if they banned abortion.
ADVICE & ANSWERS: When Her Best Isn’t Enough
Tough Question here– anyone want to weigh in about what she should do?
I’m looking for willing bloggers who would like the chance to post at MInTheGap while I’m away at my 10 year college reunion in March and I figured that now is as good a time as ever to advertise! If you’re interested in filling this space, drop me a line at MInTheGap (at) MInTheGap (dot) com and let me know. I’ll update you from time to time as to whether I need more people.
Honest Man Returns Mistaken $2M Check
The other day we were in in Payless and they gave us $5 too much change– and we went back and returned it. Probably do the same with a $2M check (after getting a picture of it).
This site shows some great tricks from camera tricks to magic to sales tactics. Wow.
What can’t you do without? Pare it down to that, and then save the rest!
Constructive Playthings has all sorts of toys that you can buy this Christmas that will help build your child’s mind.
This Christmas, my brother got my kids Lincoln Logs, and there’s nothing better for spatial reasoning and deduction than things you have to put together (and it beats them taking apart the alarm clock!).
A few weeks ago we talked about Morality in education using as a springboard the whole topic of homosexuality in the public school system. Core to the premise that the school is a proper place to teach right and wrong is the concept that the children belong to the state, not to the parents.
What’s strange is the parallels between this concept of “it takes a village” to raise children and Plato’s Republic. Two portions of Plato’s Republic I find scary (especially when you consider that Plato is thought to have lived between 427 and 347 BC).
Having my newfound ability to show only subscribers stuff, I want to try to provide you with extra content that you won’t see on the site (or at least not right away). I’ll be toying with different things to present like links, personal stuff, weekly recap, and some deals I’ve found.
Domestic violence: Russian women speak out
Domestic violence is always wrong, regardless of the aggressor. From the article:
Last year there were more than 15,000 criminal cases in Russia against men accused of violent crimes against their wives. Campaigners say this is the tip of the iceberg. Violence is considered “normal”, so few women report it and even fewer cases make it to court.
This photo at right is not what it appears. Yes, more Photoshop at work. Click the link above to see the before and after photos or go to this artists’ retouching page, but be warned that although the retouching page is a great example of what you don’t see (mainly the real person) there are some photos that are immodest.
EPIGUIDE.COM Fiction Writer’s Character Chart
I hope you’ve all been by my fiction site to see what’s up with my characters. I just stumbled upon this character chart that I may have to go back and work through for my characters. It looks great.
My oldest son got his blood work taken in the process of trying to figure out what’s going on with his tummy. He was a trooper through 5 vials, and we hope to have the results before seeing a GI doctor on Dec. 6.
Still looking for the perfect gift? You may want to try Red Envelope which is currently running a special where purchases over $100 get free shipping.
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Every Tuesday between now and Christmas I’m going to let you peak into some things that I’m looking at for Christmas as well as show you some deals that you can get. No, I’m not expecting you to buy me anything, but I figure that if you’re still reading we probably have a lot of the same interests and maybe you’ll like something you see. If not, it’s only one day a week for a few weeks.
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