March 21st

HAPPY EASTER!

I decorated those eggs myself. I used the Ukrainian method, but my own designs.

This is the earliest Easter since 1913. Did you know that the word "Easter" came from the name of a pagan goddess, Oestre? The eggs and the bunny are pagan themes too. I guess that early Christians decided that the best way to convert the pagans was to just appropriate the holidays, symbols, deities and places of worship so that the people weren't actually doing anything differently than before, but the people in charge could now call them Christians.

THUNDERSTORM

We don't get many thunderstorms here. Not too much of the cold air hitting the warm air action going on. We had one Saturday night. I woke up to Bentley looking at me like a scared little boy, and Chance barking at the Thunder Monster. Kiara didn't even wake up. The boy dogs spent the rest of the night in bed with me. With every clap of thunder Bentley got closer and closer until he was almost laying on my head, and Chance stood up in the middle of the bed barking. I think that Kiara was the only mammal in the house that got a decent night's sleep.

I HAVE A MORON MAKING SIGNS FOR ME!

It's better as a VISUAL .

THE MORONS KEEP POSTING, I KEEP MAKING FUN OF THEM

Until a remedial English class is a requisite for posting in the UT forums, the idiots with computers will continue to give me blog fodder. Here are some people commenting on the story about the school board scare tactics (threaten to lay off teachers to get the public riled up enough to agree to higher taxes), proving the public education in this country can't even teach people how to write correctly now. And they want MORE money to continue to do a bad job?:

"I feel for the educators. But, when it comes to teachers, no one describes their benefits as "Cadillac" like. Even though City employees supposedly has them. Fact is, teachers have way better benefits."

"another sad part of this is that since the teachers are part of a union many good teachers will be let go and many poor teachers will remain. simply because of tenure"

"contrary to popular myth the other options (yes we do have choice) are home-schooling and private school. and both (especially home-schooling) are very affordable and actually more effective than public.

"Remember, the stock market bubble--it crashed----so Uncle Sam(republicans/democrats/libertarians/ green party Etc.)---they decided to keep mortgage rates low(almost touching the ground)for a long long time----thus creating housing bubble(I new these home values were going to crash since early 2003....so did Uncle Sam and the Banks......in America you have 2 camps, capitalism with no regulation and capitalism with regulation......so don't blame the illegals for any sour times that everyone is about to experience----you idiot!....i hope to God, your one of those greedy little jerks that is losing their homes....that is what you deserve you idiot!!!!!"Not only is this guy an illiterate moron, his comments had nothing to do with the article or the ongoing discussion.

"Maybe,if we changed our attitude towards giving people welfare and to other parts of the world....at the same time teaching kids to protect themselves and giving them the resources to do just that.....kids might learn to be a bit more responsible...."

i left Chicago in 1995 and now live san diego-----(there wasn't any work)-.....every town has their ups and downs -----so stop claiming that Chicago or any other city is better or worse than any other.....I will say this thogh....when i moved to california ...i'm thinkin, if i am going to be rich or poor what better place than San diego"

"Solution: Pull the troops out of Iraq, send 1/4 to Afghanistan to fight the only place we should have been in the first place. Have a fraction of the left over Federal dollars being wasted on Iraq distrubuted on the state level for education. Too any body who says "it isn't the Federal Govs responsibility to fund education" I say I just paid the IRS and I would much rather have my hard earned money go to Education than Bush's ego War."

"Hey, pres reagon--gave amnesty to illegals because the jerk is a union buster-------you dont want illegals---stop hiring them to cleans your toilets and why don't you try cleaning your crap once in a while!"

“The board chose to slash teaching positions not because it was the most prudent and efficient decision, but for political reasons. Go down to the Eugene Brucker Education Center, walk around to every office on every floor and note how employees are there are how few have real work to do. The district could make cuts there, but the parents the community would never notice. Slash teachers at schools, and then you have angry taxpayers unleashing on the state legislature."

"Can't tell me a handful of guys from the maintenance department sitting in their trucks for a few hours reading the paper at a school couldn't be cut. Can't tell me every school needs 3 or more ladies doing clerical work.”

“RECALL AH-NULD!!!!
Go back to "acting" - oh wait... isn't that what he's doing now as governor....! What a JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”