Daily Archives: 09/27/2009

(Community Matters) Planning my route home today, realizing I can pick up dinner and maybe even a back house along the way. Not really the latter but something tells me there is one in our future.

Luling, Tx – Luling City Market for great BBQ and Tiny Texas Houses

(Community Matters) According to our friend Jim Roth, the monarchs are in OKC, that means in Austin when? I’m keeping my fingers crossed that they visit our back back yard again. For a couple of years, there were millions back there for a couple to three days. I fear due to some tree thinning, it might not be as hospitable an enviornment though. gotta look this up and see if anything I can do to attract them.

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(Community Matters) I remember the public hearings and shouting matches as AISD debated comprehensive sex-education programs. It’s been 15 years, and I’m pleased to see we are tacking back to the center – away from Just Say No to practical programs which continue to acknowledge abstinence is the surest, safest way and which also teach responsible pregnancy and STD prevention practices for those who chose to be sexually active. We’ve wasted a lot of money and ineffectively empowered our kids during the last 15 years.

(Community Matters) Wow, I was really digging the story then:

The children will live in their father’s house until they marry, and they will be virgins. Their first kiss will be when the preacher says, “You may kiss the bride.” We forget, Bruce Collie says, that really used to mean something.

yet

You might be judging Bruce and Holly Collie right now. They’re used to it. . . . But if you meet them and their children, you cannot say they are not raising loving, respectful and well-behaved people — so well-behaved that when you first meet them, they will line up from eldest to youngest and introduce themselves.

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(Community Matters) Charles Blow on BHO’s batting stats

According to Gallup poll results released on Wednesday, the president’s approval rating has stopped falling and has leveled out in the low-50 percents, about the same as Ronald Reagan’s and Bill Clinton’s at this point in their presidencies (both two-termers, lest we forget).

His leadership in these forums [United Nations & G-20 Summit] to tighten the screws on Iran for its nuclear programs project a presidential certitude and sense of steel and authority that was sorely needed and sorely missed.

a rash of recent terror arrests has sent the signal that the aggressive pursuit of terror suspects remains a top priority.

[Wall Street Journal/NBC News] Those who disapprove of the way that Republicans are handling the health care debate outnumbered those who approved of their behavior by a margin of more than 3 to 1.

(Community Matters) Tana, Joe & Jim Christie taking a leisurely drive back to Boston. This from Tana today from their lunch in Moncton, New Brunswick.