Dad stuff...
So, just a second ago I asked my daughter Aliera(3) and her friend Brianna(5) if they wanted some licorice. Ali loves licorice and I saw her eyes light up but Brianna said 'No'. A brief look of apprehension flashed across Ali's face and even though I KNEW she wanted some licorice--I could see it on her face--she said 'No' as well.
This is the first time I have seen her succomb to indirect peer pressure and forgo something she wanted in favor of fitting in with her friends.
Knowing that being bilingual creates some challenges for kids her age I asked Brianna again "Do you want some candy" (Jessica, Melissa, Michelle and the rest of you shut up ! ! ) and she immediately changed her mind.
After a moment of reflection I called Ali over and explained that if she has different feelings or needs than those of her friends she is still free to voice them. No one is going to like her any more or less because she wants licorice and sometimes people may not understand what being offered and that she should decide for herself.
Damn. The "Dad/Kid challenges" come at the weirdest times. I hope I am there at enough of the right times to recognize them and make a difference.
This is the first time I have seen her succomb to indirect peer pressure and forgo something she wanted in favor of fitting in with her friends.
Knowing that being bilingual creates some challenges for kids her age I asked Brianna again "Do you want some candy" (Jessica, Melissa, Michelle and the rest of you shut up ! ! ) and she immediately changed her mind.
After a moment of reflection I called Ali over and explained that if she has different feelings or needs than those of her friends she is still free to voice them. No one is going to like her any more or less because she wants licorice and sometimes people may not understand what being offered and that she should decide for herself.
Damn. The "Dad/Kid challenges" come at the weirdest times. I hope I am there at enough of the right times to recognize them and make a difference.
For Mr Tim...
A perfect 300 from professional bowler Jason Belmonte who uses both hands to bowl. "The ball can top 600 revolutions per minute, up to 17% more rotation than the nearest elite one-armed competitor and twice what some other top pros generate." Established bowlers apparently don't like him, opining that he hasn't properly earned his spots in tournaments and will likely burn out out due to injury.
OK EVERYBODY, FREAK OUT ! ! ! ! !
So I was inspecting my sitemeter stats and noticed a weird trend.
3 government isps searched my page for posts for the same period of time.
Feb 11 2009 from 11:57 pm to 8:00 am.
Now the questions
Why?
Did someone in guv'mint see something cool and email the search string to friends in guv'mint?
Is the guv'mint after me?
What was so neat on the blog that day?
Why three such disparate agencies hitting the same period of time?
The first hit came out of http://ogdaa.blogspot.com/ (that evil heathen the Knuckle Draggin Wirecutter - he sicced em on me) Look out Wireman the Guv'mint is lookin at you.
treas.gov 63.167.255.# (Sprint)
http://throwtheball.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-02-11T11:57:00-08:00
ALASKA Department of Transportation and Public Fac
http://throwtheball.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-02-11T11:57:00-08:00
State of WI Dept. of Administration
http://throwtheball.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-02-11T11:57:00-08:00
http://throwtheball.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-02-11T11:57:00-08:00
ALASKA Department of Transportation and Public Fac
http://throwtheball.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-02-11T11:57:00-08:00
State of WI Dept. of Administration
http://throwtheball.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-02-11T11:57:00-08:00
If anyone has any thoughts I'd love to hear them and if one of you guv'mint folks want to fess up and keep me from holin' up in the bomb shelter with the canned goods that'd be OK too.
VC
Damn...
Holder Calls for New Assault Weapons Ban
from Snowflakes in Hell by Sebastian
According to MS-NBC:
At a press conference announcing the arrests, Holder also suggested that re-instituting a U.S. ban on the sale of assault weapons would help reduce the bloodshed in Mexico, where last year 6,000 people were killed in drug-related violence.
U.S. officials have a responsibility to make sure Mexican police “are not fighting substantial numbers of weapons, or fighting against AK-47s or other similar kinds of weapons that have been flowing to Mexico,” Holder said.
So we are going to lose our gun rights because our government can’t secure its borders, and the Mexican government can’t secure law and order and weed out corruption in its military, which is no doubt a large source of firearms for drug cartels.
Interestingly enough, it was not in his prepared remarks, so it must have been in a question. This is from the Administration, folks. Obama may be willing to burn political capital on this issue. Get ready.
UPDATE: Exact quote “As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons,” Mr. Holder said. “I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum.”
Remember 1994. That’s all I have to say. We’ll do it again. Don’t believe us? Try it.
UPDATE: Wayne LaPierre will make an appearance on Cam and Company in a few minutes to talk about this. Tune in to NRANews.com
from Snowflakes in Hell by Sebastian
According to MS-NBC:
At a press conference announcing the arrests, Holder also suggested that re-instituting a U.S. ban on the sale of assault weapons would help reduce the bloodshed in Mexico, where last year 6,000 people were killed in drug-related violence.
U.S. officials have a responsibility to make sure Mexican police “are not fighting substantial numbers of weapons, or fighting against AK-47s or other similar kinds of weapons that have been flowing to Mexico,” Holder said.
So we are going to lose our gun rights because our government can’t secure its borders, and the Mexican government can’t secure law and order and weed out corruption in its military, which is no doubt a large source of firearms for drug cartels.
Interestingly enough, it was not in his prepared remarks, so it must have been in a question. This is from the Administration, folks. Obama may be willing to burn political capital on this issue. Get ready.
UPDATE: Exact quote “As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons,” Mr. Holder said. “I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum.”
Remember 1994. That’s all I have to say. We’ll do it again. Don’t believe us? Try it.
UPDATE: Wayne LaPierre will make an appearance on Cam and Company in a few minutes to talk about this. Tune in to NRANews.com
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