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Ooops, sorry. What I meant to say post was this: Russia Denies Giving US Intel to Iraq.

I know I haven't blogged since my horrible, terrorizing experience with the US military (see last post in December 2005) but I couldn't pass this one up.

If the link doesn't work- the article is all over the place.

Anyway- my husband was saying this is just the Soviet Union's- oops again- Russia's way of paying back the US for that whole Afghanistan thing- you know Jimmy Carter's not allowing our athletes to participate in the Moscow Olympics which really set communism back like one day or so, and helped to liberate the Afghan people. Not that the US strategy in the '80s had been all that great, but hey, at least we won a lot of medals in the '84 Olympics.

I promise to blog more in the future- not that anyone cares. We've just been very busy with family- type things unrelated (or maybe not) to the political-social-cultural- religious nature of this blog.

Here's a follow up of my post from yesterday, about how the American military terrorized my family. This is an actual picture of an actual American killbot (paraphrasing Ms. Hanoi Jane Fonda
Fonda) terrorizing an actual Iraqi child shortly after the "illegal invasion" of the shiny, happy, kite flying land of Iraq...
Seriously, this is an old picture I got from my sister. A former classmate of my nephew who went into Iraq with the 4th ID sent them to his mom, who sent them on to my sister, who forwarded them to me.

But it just goes to show you they've been terrorizing those Iraqi children for years just like the Angry Oompa Loompa Senator Kerry said. 

I just had to start blogging again to say that John Kerry is absolutely right about saying our troops are terrorizing Iraqi women and children (in a style reminiscent of "Jengisssss Khan"). I have irrefutable evidence of this, and here it is.

Yesterday morning, around nine-thirty, my household (consisting at that time of myself, one boy aged 7 and a girl aged 11 who counts as both a child and a female/woman) were terrorized by a member of the US military who entered our home without permission! Even after my daughter SLAMMED THE DOOR ON HIM this evil man (who had been to Iraq obviously doing much the same thing and probably worse) forced his way into our home with his female collaborator.

(Oh, and they left us a check and some Pampered Chef stuff, but I digress).

So anyway, we were victims of the evil American military, who had obviously come to our house on the orders of the even more evil Chimpy McHalliburton Bushitler...

/sarc (was it really necessary to tag this?)

It's been a long time since I've written here. No loss, eh? There were a lot of topics I wanted to write about, but they all made me feel like my head was going to explode so I haven't been writing. World politics is making me nuts-- so I'll give that a rest. Besides, my buddy Kretcher's being quiet (hey Kretcher-- watch out, Harry owns you now, baby) and no one is shoving docs down their pants (though we're seeing the reverberations of that in the whole Jamie Gorelick thing that everyone is ignoring).

So I'll write about the little petty thing that really ticked me off around the time I stopped blogging-- the School District of Philadelphia. We homeschool our kids. They're doing well. They're not little child prodigies or anything, but they're not maladjusted, unsocialized little morons either. In the state where we live by law we must have a standardized test administered to our children in grades 3,5, and 8. It can be any test off a large list, and given by anyone except the parent/teacher. So I arranged-- paying money out of my own pocket, for our daughter to be tested at the school run by our church because it's a familiar environment, she knows some of the kids from basketball, Sunday school, etc.

Good, I'm complying with the law. So I get a letter from my local school telling me she has to be tested. I called the guidance counselor and very nicely thanked her (well, her voice mail) and said we'd made arrangements, but thanks for thinking of us. Well the vice principal calls back-- you have to provide us with documentation and we have to approve blah blah blah. So after going around on that, "No, I don't" "Yes you do" she told me my child was enrolled in her school, and they were responsible to the state for her.

After another round of the No-Yes game I asked her outright, "Excuse me, have you ever read the homeschool law?"

Silence, then a not-so-startling admission, "No" and I paraphrase here-- I'm not familiar with the actual law, but she's our responsibility--

No, I said-- really on the edge of losing it here-- she's my responsibility, morally and by law (I'm thinking you Socialistical, bureaucratic @sshat but I didn't say it, because it's "nice to be nice"). And I told her (being the evil fascistic Right wing jack booted thug that I am) that if she bothered to read the law, or an abstract of it, she'd know that my kid isn't enrolled in her school, that I choose the test and where and who gives it, and that ultimately, I'm responsible for her education, not the school district because not only is the parent legally responsible for the minor child, but I'm morally responsible to prepare my children for the world in which they'll find themselves.

That met with a snide remark along the lines of: "Well, yes, you do have the right to do what you want with your children's education." And she said it in such a grudging tone, with such distasted in her voice-- most likely stemming from the idea that a parent is willing to undertake the primary role of parenthood-- educating their children.

Anyway, that was all well and good. Kid took the tests-- Stanford 9 revised or some nonesense like that-- and did smashingly well though Math could come up a bit.

But that's not the end. At the conclusion of each school year our children need to be evaluated by a professional evaluator, and these people are usually former teachers who now homeschool their own kids (tells you something about public education, huh?). We take a portfolio of our attendance records (we had far more than the mandatory 180 days or 900 hours of instruction as usual), and samples of work to show that the kiddies are "making progress in their education" or some nonsense like that. We pass the review. We're waiting on the test scores to submit the whole thing to the school district-- Keep in mind we have until June 30 as per the home school law to get it in.

School ended June 15 in Philadelphia. I get a letter from the vice principal two days after that, threatening me with civil action-- re: the attendance officer is coming for your kids because you're not complying with me. So obviously she still didn't READ the LAW.

So after an hysterical rant to my husband, then calling the regional district office, and talking to two people, we finally straightened it out. Funny thing-- the day the letter was dated (June 16) was the day my husband turned the portfolio into the district office since the local school was closed. I told the woman at the office I was concerned that my child's work wouldn't be judged fairly by the school, and put her on notice that I wasn't going to be putting up with that garbage-- but in a nice way. She was very apologetic, and promised to speak with the VP.

See, it's nice to be nice. If you're nice to others, maybe nice things will happen to you.

Yeah right. We started school last week. Ding ding- round two.

Kretcher was heard uttering the following nonsense: "First and foremost it is worth acknowleding that the demise of the Lord Voldermort's reign of terror was the greatest Wizarding World catastrophe of the century"

What Pres Putin really said was this, "First and foremost it is worth acknowleding that the demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century."

Okay, knee jerk reaction, yeah, freeing all those people was a horrible catastrophe. But on second thought, how would the current battle with Islamism have shaped up if the USSR was still around as a world power? Would things have been kept under control, or would they be getting funds and aid from the Soviets?

The world seemed much simpler and safer back then. Mutual Assured Destruction wouldn't have been a bad way to go. Much better than dying by bio or chem weapons. Blech. Or living a life of dhimmitude. Gack.

But keep on keeping on, Kretcher-Putin. Maybe someday your Socialist Lord Voldermort will return and take you back to glory. Or maybe he's you. Hmmmm--

A bad poem in "honor" of Clinton National Security Advisor and top secret document thief and destroyer Sandy Berger who was sentenced last week for his crime.

I did not put dox in my sox.
I do not like them there.
Instead you know I'd rather shove them
Down my underwear

I do not like dox in my sox!
I like them in my trousers.
'Cause when I move them all around
It makes me feel all wowsers...




I told you it was a bad poem.

The big story on the Today Show was all about how the EVIL CHIMPY BUSHITLER snubbed Dhimmi Jimmy (hey, my kids call him that, not me) Carter by not inviting him along to Pope John Paul II's funeral. And you know why not? Well the news chick and Matt Lauer do- because Bush is mad at Jimmy for "being critical" of his foreign policy at the Democratic convention. Well a lot of people are mad at Jimmy for "being critical" of our wartime policy, but only because he's "being critical" of it when he's in the presence of enemies, or helping enemies (Venezulan pres Chavez anyone?).

But that's not what prompted this entry. What really did, was Matt Lauer going on about how maybe Sec State Condelezza Rice should GIVE UP HER SEAT to former pres. Carter. Hmmm. So while she's at it, maybe she should just iron the White Man's clothes and whip 'em up some chicken and biscuits whiles she's back there.

Ah- White, privileged, Liberals, gotta love 'em.

We just finished up our state taxes the other day, and we found some interesting information in the instructions.

Pennsylvania Does Not Allow The Following Business Expenses, Even if Allowed for Federal Purposes:

Bribes, kickbacks, or other illegal payments.

Who would have thought that, seeing how corrupt our two major cities are. I think the citizens of these cities should rise up in righteous anger and protest at this prejudice against minority and women business owners who have to pay bribes, kickbacks, etc to do business in these large cities.