Charity on September 8th, 2008

The Burlington School Board has asked for a $226 million bond for upgrades to the city’s schools.
The ambitious program would transform Lawrence Barnes and H.O. Wheeler Elementary Schools into Vermont’s first magnet schools, bring creaky old buildings to modern energy-efficiency standards, and create new school amenities. These include two parking garages, a new synthetic turf [...]

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Charity on September 8th, 2008

In case you haven’t heard, tonight is the premiere of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. It’s on FOX at 8:00.
Why on earth is it on at 8:00? That’s a little violent for the 8 o’clock hour.
You can catch up with season 1 full episodes at the fox website.

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Charity on September 5th, 2008

I was just reading Town Hall and I saw an ad for a t-shirt that said, “Powered by Capitalism.”
I said, “I should put that on my blog by the paid links. You know, like Obama’s website says ‘Powered by Hope’? But my blog is powered by capitalism.  They don’t accept ‘hope’ for my [...]

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Charity on September 5th, 2008

Last night was a real reality check. Despite all of my excitement over the past week, I am still not a McCain fan. I ended up turning off the computer about 10 or 15 minutes into the speech. (I was watching streaming video.) In between telling my husband to stop saying, [...]

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Charity on September 4th, 2008

I feel like I’m beating a dead horse here. Well, actually, I am beating a horse that should be dead, but unfortunately, this horse is still very much alive.
But enough about dead horses, I want to talk about Sarah Palin, that’s Governor Palin to you, and sexism.
I read this morning that conservative women are [...]

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Charity on September 3rd, 2008

I am going to link to something on Huffington Post. What’s more (and worse), I am linking to something that is very critical of John McCain, without countering the specifics. I hate to do this, but it’s to make a greater point: that what the left is doing to Sarah Palin is wrong. [...]

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Charity on September 2nd, 2008

I honestly do not know where to start with this post.
Okay, first, I think this was a great move by McCain. You can see in my Twitter feed (in the right-most side-bar) that was my initial reaction. It has only been confirmed by the complete and utter unhinging of the left-wing blogosphere.
If she [...]

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