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Yuck. I’ll bet she claims to be a Christian, too.

Why isn’t somebody with pioneering spirit buying up or squatting on those properties? Heck, they are connected to the water/sewer/electricity already.

I don’t think a 5 year-old needs to be near the crazies. She is ultimately going to see or hear something too scary for age 5.

Avoids talking to Netanyahu but wants to talk to the Taliban. Obama has it all backwards, despite the fact that he’s “the smartest guy in the room”. (God help us!)

Al, you’re the one who needs to chill.

Somebody lead him back to his room.

Thanks so much for your response. I learned a lot. Now, I have some things to consult with my husband about— especially whether/when we are or should be disconnected from the wifi.

Are there any non-NSA reasons why a computer would come on in the middle of the night? Our computer has done that, and when I tried to explain it to my computer geek Dear Hubby, he was not too concerned. But I can’t remember what he said about it.

transparent, perhaps, in the sense that a two-way mirror is transparent.

Why would they want to eat bear paws? Bear CLAWS are much better.

Beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing your joy with us.

1. SF also has the fewest children per its population. Those of us who have kids and take it seriously don’t get falling down drunk. Those who don’t, maybe they don’t have a good reason not to get ‘faced.

2. And Bloomberg over in NY is worried about sodas? But this is a truth of the liberal world: the real sin is not abusing substances— it’s being fat. If San Franciscans were getting fat from their binges, there would be more of an uproar.

When I was growing up, pre-80s, the milk jug or carton did not appear on the table. Milk was in a pitcher. Salad dressing was made from a package mix and was in a cruet. The vegetables were transferred to a serving bowl, not brought to the table in the pan.

My standards have slipped considerably for everyday meals. But kids need to see it done right every once in awhile.

I’ll wait to switch phones until after Obama leaves office.

We’re not Jewish but we have a son, and I did research on this when expecting him. Among Gentiles in the US, it became popular during the Victorian era, IIRC, because it was thought that this would control boys’ urges and make them less horny in their teen years.

In the 20th Century, it grew more popular in the baby boomer years. My older three brothers, at the beginning of the boomer years, were not circumcised. By the time the later two boys came along, it was standard procedure for all boys. Now the practice is being reconsidered again.

It must really be hard to be a CIA agent. You get assigned to do things that just turn your stomach.

God bless our patriots (and give them better leaders).

Juro fidelidad a la bandera
de Los Estados Unidos de America,
y a la republica que representa,
una nacion,
baja Dios,
con libertad y justicia para todos.

I was in a bilingual program in elementary school. We said the Pledge in Spanish every day. Not sure what impression it had on the Spanish speaking kids who were supposed to be learning English, but I guess it was better than not saying the Pledge at all.

correction: I haven’t killed anybody. (the word “killed” got deleted accidentally. No actual verbs were harmed in the writing of this post.)

Prozac is pretty harmless, in my experience. I haven’t anybody— not even my teenager.

Probably too late to cancel the check.

This is my daughter’s 10th Grade summer reading list. There are a bunch of depressing ones.

Unearthly by Cynthia Hand
The Warrior Heir by Cinda Chima
Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
The Maze Runner by James Dasher
Uglies by Scott Westerfield

I think the Sarah Byrnes book is about a pregnant teen.

Have you read any of these? How bad are they?

But when a bunch of school kids wanted to tour the White House on their vacation, Obama said there was no money for it.

I guess he was going to use the money for this instead.

Bleepin’ Bleep!

I think the introduction method works in part because the couple isn’t expecting perfection, like in a movie or a romance novel. Also, if they have traditional expectations and fulfill traditional roles, it takes some of the variables out of the relationship. I’ve known happy couples from this method, also, and I think I want to assist my children to consider proper spouses. That’s got to be better than hooking up at a party or meeting in a bar.

You might have met virgins. They just wouldn’t admit it so they didn’t seem like such an anachronism. I lied about it a few times when I was single, but finally got brave enough to admit it and found a guy who respected my principles, even though he had not lived up to them in his own life.

I have three friends who are 50 year-old women who are virgins. One didn’t want to marry but the other two never met Christian men that they connected with. I doubt any of them would ever exactly advertise their status, but they have lived their faith, despite temptations, for decades now.

Does the Cal State System really stay out of this sort of thing? (I have a daughter who will be thinking about college in a couple of years.)

Thank you for the map. Our family was in Colorado Springs just this past weekend, staying off Interquest Parkway— right in what is now the “voluntary evacuation zone”.

I did note that the grass was pretty dry in the area. There were few trees and buildings in the area. The buildings all look brand new. There is a community college in the “zone”, but I don’t know whether summer school is in session.

I think the transgenders should be using the faculty restroom. That will enhance the “self-esteem” of the transgendered kids, and will save the cost of building more restrooms. (It would also protect the normal kids from the weirdos, but that is not the “spin” you want to use in CA.)

That’s efficient mayoral leadership for you— apologizing for scandals that haven’t happened yet.

I really liked Hamburger Hamlet. Sort of similar to Marie Callendars, but better food, I thought.

I hope her guardian angel gets a bonus in his paycheck this week.

For the record, there are a number of conservative surfers and Christian surfers. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher surfs.

It’s a sport designed for independent people, when you think about it.

Wow. Dropping everything now to say a prayer for Rep. Bridenstine. A guy like him needs our support!

Praying for you both right now.

What is so wonderful about getting a new phone every two years? I don’t want to waste time on learning its new features. I don’t like the idea of filling all our landfills with old phones. Technology is more work than it’s worth, sometimes.

I don’t suppose the IRS will investigate the donors.

My nephew is over there until October. God bless our service members and watch over them.

If that’s all they can find on Issa, he’s an upstanding guy.

is Biden unhappy with “top journalists”?

So we’ll be safe as long as we hide in a pole vault?

I’ll bet a lot of the happy people are also caring people who are good parents, friends and co-workers. They probably also have pets.

Where do you live?

Make another Catholic friend. That one is too depressing. I can’t imagine which rules you are talking about. Go to Church every Sunday? Well, that’s not too much to ask. Go to confession at least once a year? Well, examining your conscience once a year is not a huge commitment, either. Any Christian would do that.

My Catholic friends and the people I see at Mass are enjoying living their faith. Your friend can do better than she is doing.

Memorizing does a lot of good, if you know what you are saying. Everybody memorizes the Lord’s Prayer, and it is available in your head to ponder or recite whenever you need it. And a lot of people memorize the Lord’s Prayer when they are little kids, but understand it fully when they are older.

All of their parents must be so proud.

It takes a heckuva lot of tax payer money to educate these young adults (NOT kids).

Then they go and get drunk and rape or get raped.

Dumb &*(*&!

The current crop of parents were not taught doctrines, but the priests think they were, somehow. They think there is no need to go over “that” again in homilies, but there is.

At least, in this year of Faith, we are focusing on saying the Apostles Creed every Sunday at Mass, and it has been emphasized that we should know it.

No, it went to offer pottery classes in Morocco.

I thought Tipper had left already.

If he keeps this up, a lot of guys are going to wonder if they have a vocation, I think. He makes being a priest look like a joyful, purposeful life.

Back in the 90s I visited a friend who was working in Russia. She said one winter a few years before that, there had been a shortage of onions and toilet paper. The Russion joke about it was that the perfect Christmas gift that year was an onion wrapped in toilet paper.

Much more serious was the year there was a vodka shortage. People died trying to get their alcohol from things like shoe polish. (there was a way to separate the alcohol from the pigment using a piece of bread, IIRC)

Yep. Visiting Russia made me a much stronger believer in free markets and democracy. I cant believe Venezuelans want to go this direction. And, in fact, many don’t.

I agree. I’m also Catholic but grateful that our country was founded by Anglo-Protestants.

As to decently run places that are Catholic, what do you think of Chile? When they had their big earthquake, it seemed like they operated pretty well.

My aunt, who is now about 88, grew up having to collect the eggs in the hen house. She was also deathly afraid of snakes after having to face that risk daily when she was a child.