Every day of life is a learning experience.
The United States believes strongly in what you call soft power, the value of democracy, the value of the free economic system, the value of making sure that each citizen is free and free to pursue their own God-given ambitions and to use the talents that they were given by God. And that is what …
Continue reading “Colin Powell’s response to the Archbishop”
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110003834 In part: “I am fully aware in saying this that the present U.S. administration has made itself an obstacle in various ways to the development of a more robust and comprehensive framework of international law. But the thing cuts both ways. The war to depose Saddam Hussein and his criminal regime was not of …
Birth certificates Laureen just called me on her cell phone and asked if I wanted to get a copy of my birth certificate because that’s what she was doing at the moment. I replied, “Uh, I’m not sure how you could do that, seeing as I was born in Oklahoma.” “Oh,” she said. “Never mind, …
Happy Birthday To Me I’m 32 today. Something I do every year is try to take a look back at the past year and figure out just exactly where I stand with respect to last year–sort of an internal performance review. I do this because ultimately I need to know if I’m going somewhere in …
Taken from a Yahoo discussion group on RVs:Original Post (not funny): > Driving along the country side I see alot of pickup truck campers just > sitting around. When I was a kiid they were the current rage. I don’t > see anyone on this site with one. I also don’t see them mentioned on …
Oh, joy of joys.Two days ago, I had a scheduled doctor’s appointment. I’d like to think of myself as unpredictable in many ways, but I do have some tendencies, most notably: I sweat. I sweat a lot. I sweat at almost any provocation. There’s also a bit of family history concerning thyroid problems, so the …
Greetings and salutations, one and two (the approximate number of people who read this). It’s another exciting week in the Jones household. Saturday and Sunday, preparing for Vacation Bible School at our church occupied Laureen for most of those two days. She built a pretty cool 11-foot high square pyramid (8-ft in length per side) …
With AT&T getting out of the cable business, our emails have switched at home. The former kandl@attbi.com account is now k_and_l@comcast.net . (Sniff) We had that name for 4 years or so… The former lopey@attbi.com account is now kjlopey@comcast.net . (MEGA-Sniff). Stay tuned. More information might follow. By the way, Here is where we’re going …
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Hey there. No apologies for lateness. I’ve been busy.Let’s see: Laureen’s in Houston; she wanted to see that new children’s opera “The Little Prince,” but there are no tickets to be found. She went to Houston for the weekend anyway. My PVR unit’s disk drive had a head crash. For those unfamiliar with geek speak, …