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NY Homeschooling Parents Arrested

Friday, January 8, 2010

Here in eastern New York State, homeschooling parents were arrested because they had failed to register their homeschooled children with the local school district, according to NYS law: FONDA — A Montgomery County couple has been arrested on child endangerment charges for failing to register their children with the school district as they were home-schooled, the [...]

WFW: Make Winston Smith Proud: The Skype Telescreen

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

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This news just blows my mind. Like Blippy, I cannot believe that people would think this is all a good idea! Skype has made a deal with LG Electronics and Panasonic to make televisions with video-capturing capabilities. A LOT like the telescreens in George Orwell’s book, 1984. Both television makers will embed the Skype technology in television [...]

Fish Make Pregnant Women Happy

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

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This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of HealthyTuna.com. All opinions are 100% mine. During my child-bearing years, I was told by “professionals” to stay away from seafood during my pregnancies; seafood was prone to contamination by pollutants in the oceans and lakes, and these contaminants posed a threat to my babies. It [...]

Today, Newton Would Be Called a Fig Head

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

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Today, Newton Would Be Called a Fig Head

“Gravity may put the planets into motion,” Isaac Newton wrote, “but without the divine power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the sun; and therefore, for this, as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this system to an intelligent Agent.” I saw [...]

NASA Finds Water on the Moon

Monday, November 30, 2009

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Big whoop. Remember how I posted a few weeks ago that NASA was catapulting a missile at the moon, to see if sparkly little water crystals would shoot out the side? Well, guess what, NASA saw the sparkly stuff! For a project costing $5.6 gazillion, they’d BETTER find ice crystals, right? Right? I mean, you can’t necessarily [...]

PUMPKIN POWAH!!!

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

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Look out you warmongering Russians, Chinese, and vegetable haters! We Americans have got…. *trumpets blast* PUMPKIN POWER!!!!!!!! This is actually very cool. I would LOVE one of these! But I am terrified to learn of what litigation might await me (I live in New York State, where you can’t even have a can opener without [...]

NASA to Hit Moon with Missile

Thursday, October 8, 2009

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You have GOT to be kidding me!!! Dear Government Bureaucrats: “Shoot for the moon” is an IDIOM. A figure of speech! Leave it them to DO something so stupid! OK OK maybe I’m jumping the gun a little here. But I have visions of Chicken Little right about now. What if NASA shoots their missile and [...]

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NY Homeschooling Parents Arrested

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Fish Make Pregnant Women Happy

Today, Newton Would Be Called a Fig Head

NASA Finds Water on the Moon

PUMPKIN POWAH!!!

NASA to Hit Moon with Missile

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