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Fathers Day Fun
I hope all the Fathers out there had as much fun as I did on Fathers Day.
My 2 teenagers pitched in a bought me a Mahalo White Flying V Ukulele. I had been looking at the Ukulele as a potential new instrument since seeing the Jake Shimabukuro video of him playing While My Guitar Gently Weeps. If you have not seen it, check it out.
The kids gave me the Uke on Saturday so I could have fun all weekend, and that is exactly what I did.
What really impressed me was how much stuff is on the web for the Ukulele, [...]
It's Time to Celebrate our Swag Bags!
Swag Post The Los Angeles Moms Bloggers had a fabulous launch party at M Bar in Hollywood. The event was sponsored by GM and featured our bloggers being chauffeured to the event in Chevrolet Traverses. Upon arrival all our bloggers walked the red carpet while paparazzi took their photographs. Inside the event the moms mixed it up with influential moms for the Los Angeles area. The highlight of the evening was the stand up comedy featuring three comic moms. At the end of the evening
previously in the test
Australia Couldn't handle the moving ball, redux. Have Clarke to thank for having any total at all. Yet to shake off the diddums of India. New Zealand Took the balls by the sack and sent Austraila in. Did well with the ball, had a few times where they let the game drift, but with some luck against Clarke could have knockced Austrlia off for 150 at most. Southee gave erections to a few Kiwis who thought only a little blue pill could do that these days. Who is in front New Zealand because
Bowing to Molech
This city has aroused my anger and wrath, from the day it was built to this day, so that I will remove it from my sight because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah which they did to provoke me to anger–their kings and their princes, their priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. They have turned to me their back and not their face; and though I have taught them persistently they have not listened to receive instruction. They set up
Stacks of dead presidents or flesh and blood companions?
Jason Miller interviewed by Robert Turnbull 11/19/08 Robert Turnbull: I guess I'll start with a rather mundane question. How are you? Jason Miller: I just looked at some horrific photos of extremely sick and emaciated people who suffer from a drug-resistant strain of TB and AIDS, so I'm feeling blessed because I'm relatively healthy and able to employ my personal strengths to carry out my purpose on Earth. RT: What is that you consider your purpose on Earth to be? JM: It's multi-faceted an
Jesus Loves Me This I Know, For My Parents Tell Me So
Because we seem to have a real "religion" theme going today -- and because, once again, I'm really pressed for time and worthwhile new material -- I figured I'd resurrect (no pun intended) one of the most popular and provocative columns ever to appear on this site. It's from October of 2006. There are times when living in this city isn't simply tolerable but downright wonderful. Yesterday, my wife and I spent the afternoon wandering through the labyrinthine Museum of Natural History -- taking
More COMMUNICATIONS of value…Obama OUT FOR HIMSELF
Mike Santner writes: Emailing: Satellite > > Sorry, but my faith in the U.S. government to protect us from these > types of threats will be gone Jan. 20th. Our brave men and women will > be powerless to stop the commands of the maniacal new CIC, dancing them > like marionettes. > > Zerobama’s interests in world order will ensure that issues like this > either get “overlooked” or made into secret back room deals or > concessions that will make us even weaker
Natural child birth is painful for the husband too
This post is dedicated to all fathers, whose contribution to child birth has gone unnoticed and unrewarded. If you have been reading Ouchmytoe for a while now, you probably remember than on 29th March 2007 our daughter Rhea was born in a hospital in Kannur, Kerala. If you remember reading this post on Rhea’s birth you would remember that she decided to NOT take the door and come out of the window instead (meaning it was a C-section or Caesarian, as they call it). Well, this blog post isn’t a
Say Anything
C.C. would like to thank Joe’s Pub and the Public Theater for reaching out and offering us tix to a “blogger friendly performance” of Mike Daisey’s “If You See Something Say Something.” This is great news for bloggers and another example of a trend of performance venues offering press tickets to bloggers. The deal is that bloggers get to see the performance gratis, and then are expected to “say something” about it. (Cute, no?) So here we go, saying something like we always do: By writing an aw
Are We Worshipping Celebrities or Heroes?
The American historian and educator Daniel Boorstin once wrote, “Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.” We have just experienced an historic presidential campaign of unprecedented proportions, our economy is in peril, our military struggles to fight two wars, and our health care system is facing impending collapse. With all of these pressing issues weighing on the hearts and minds of America’s families, what seems to be on the covers of every magazine and tabloid these days? Celebrity n
God, Obama, and Me: Annotations of BO’s 2004 Interview on His Religious Beliefs
Obama is a year older than me, and that’s only the beginning of the list of ways I relate to him. Here are more things we have in common: He didn’t grow up rich and privileged. When he got out of college, he drove a car with a rust-hole in the passenger side through which Michelle could see the sidewalk, but he didn’t seem to care: it got him from Point A to B. I had a ‘66 VW Bus in the late ’80s with rust-holes too, and loved it as much as the ‘68 Plymouth Valiant and ‘66 Mercedes 220S I drov
Left but never gone: Bobby Southworth interview exclusive with MMAmania.com
Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion Bobby Southworth knows a thing or two about playing the villain. This Friday night at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California, the 38-year-old product of American Kickboxing Academy will once again fill that role as he defends his light heavyweight strap against the uber-talented fan favorite Renato “Babalu” Sobral live in the main event of Strikeforce “Destruction” airing live at 10pm ET on HDNet. Southworth first rose to popularity as one of the foun
The dead toddler is to blame for her own death, it all makes sense now.
You would think by now that nothing would shock me, or anyone of you, as far as that goes. Just think about it for a second, parent's kill their children, children return the favor, mothers sit idly by while fathers do horrendous irreparable harm to their own. We are inundated with one tragic story after another, we start to build up a resistance to it all. Before you know it, the shit on the news seems unreal, might as well be Desperate Surviving Housewives in A Great Race to be the Biggest Lo
The WBBT, Day Four: John David Anderson
Something we tend not to think about is the idea that heroes, for all their great deeds, are also regular folks a large percentage of the time. That goes for writers, too--we're often regular people who just happen to achieve something that not everyone else does: we create worlds simply from words on a page. Take our WBBT guest for today, John David Anderson (who actually goes by Dave). Dave Anderson was just a regular guy who taught English for seven years at the University of Illinois at Ch
Preparing Homemakers (for daughters & mothers)
Shannon asked: How do you think growing up in your family prepared you for being a homemaker? Furthermore, what tips would you offer mothers like myself, who want to be the kind of mother yours was for you? My mother and I sat down awhile back to reflect upon this very question. This is the list we compiled with just a few ideas of things she emphasized in my training. This resource is usual for mothers but the first half was written originally addressed to daughters with idea
From Tormented Soul to Freed Atheist - Part 3 of 3
Please do not feel like you need to read this entire story, I have carefully included [tangents] in brackets. Feel free to skip them and read them later - or not at all. Following the dreadful years of my teens, I was confronted with a period of milder Christianity. I just ‘believed’ everything, ‘believed’ I was saved, ‘believed’ God had a plan for me, and ‘believed’ in the inerrancy of the Bible and that any problem passages could just be resolved with enough research and devotion to the Wor
The Prophetic Tradition of International Law and My Concerns About the Book’s Manichaeism
One of the most interesting jurisprudential aspects of The Power and Purpose of International Law is its explicit use of Hans Kelsen. I am among those Americans for whom Kelsen is a mostly forgotten figure in jurisprudence - and I realized reading this book that, while I have probably read much more than most American legal scholars of his jurisprudential work, I am almost completely ignorant of his work in international law. It was therefore quite interesting to read this book, and then do a
The CHEC and Casting Visions for the Rest of Us?
I don't believe this 2009 Men's Leadership Summit has been officially announced to it's intended broad, target audience, but bloggers are currently discussing it HERE. I wanted to point out the nature of the response that one outside the culture of patriarchy/patriocentricity generally receives when they offer criticism. I would like to point out the lack of cooperation to respectfully and thoughtfully discuss disagreements on the part of the patriocentrists. I encourage everyone to read the bl
Dept of Compliants, Persnickety Division - Detroit Edition
Dear 19 readers, though I fear only 8 of you remain, and even though we're giving considerable thought to closing the stable and retiring to some bucolic stud farm, we're happy to introduce a new feature today: Persnickety Complaints. Complaints, certainly, and persnickety because I'm being fussy.1. I'm tired of hearing about the Big 3. There's only 2 left in Detroit now that Chrysler is owned by a foreign capital management company and was previously owned by a the German maker of Mercedes Be
A Missouri Synod District President Makes a Confession
My brothers and sisters in Christ, I must make a confession to you. I struggle at being faithful at my own personal daily devotions. Does that surprise you? I could perhaps make excuses referencing my schedule and the daily pressures – but those are actually all the more reason I need to be in the Word of God and prayer even more. Actually, the only reason for my struggle is my own fault, my own sinful flesh, for the flesh is always lazy, weak, and constantly ignores my need for the Word of God
Revealed: The African Pirate Trade
Who: Ex-fisherman, Islamic radicals and African technology whiz kids. The most famous group of modern day pirates is based out of the port of Eyl, southeast of the area known as Puntland in Somalia. They range in age from 14 to their mid-thirties almost without exception. They are much more media savvy than pirates of the past in as much as they actually care about how they are perceived by others. They have direct lines to most major media outlets and remain in contact via satellite phone du
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