Fifth Grader Brings Knives To School

Image by Zach Bonnell via Flickr What a shock when I picked up my daughter from school yesterday. She told me that a fifth grader had brought 3 throwing knives to school. She had a letter from the principal to prove it. Along with the knives, he had a plastic toy gun that shot plastic [...]

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Jimmy Carter Speaks Out On Racism Toward President Obama

I rarely write about political topics on my blog, but when I heard former President Jimmy Carter speak about the undertones of racism in the opposition against President Obama I had to write about this. When I see avatars on Facebook of President Obama in white face, when I still receive emails that he is [...]

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BrainFoggles Winner Summer 2009 Blog Competition At MurrayNewlands

My blog, BrainFoggles.com is the overall winner of the Summer 2009 Blog Competition at MurrayNewlands.com! This is my biggest honor to date as my blog itself has won. The contest was based on ” Content,  Layout, and Overall Quality”. 52 blogs entered and people voted for the first round. With only 14 votes despite, tweets, [...]

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Michael Jackson Memorial

Today I began to watch the Micheal Jackson memorial on television, but unfortunately had a dentist appointment. I wasn’t able to see the entire service, but what I saw had me in tears. His death was a shock to me, but I didn’t really feel that sad. I grew up knowing and loving his music [...]

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Return To A Review

After a weekend off I returned a review about me – ConnieFoggles – and my blogs posted on Murray Newland’s blog, Murraynewlands.com. Murray called me a prolific blogger and listed some of the things that I do that are green, one thing that people may not know about me, who I would recommend and a [...]

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Saturday Suspense

I spent this Saturday in suspense as I had the TV glued to CNN. I had to know what was happening in Iran. The demonstrations that began as outrage over the election and has now taken on a tone of revolution has been on my mind and in my heart since they began. Yes, this [...]

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Speak Now For Kids

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Children don’t have a voice in the government. They rely on us adults to speak for them on the important issues. Speak Now For Kids is a group that wants to spread the word that “Children need a voice in health reform”. The new administration is going to be working on health reform. And we [...]

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Windex Outdoor All-In-One Review and Giveaway

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*CONTEST ENDED. WINNER ANNOUNCED.* My mother lucked out again. I just recently hired someone to clean all of my windows so when I was chosen to review Windex Outdoor All-In-One Glass Cleaning Tool I decided to try it out on my mother’s house. My mother will be 80 years young this year and is still [...]

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GPS Tracking

Big Brother is here. Some of us know it. Some of us are unaware. Some of us have our heads in the sand. Let’ face it, there are cameras on traffic lights and on street corners where there is a lot of crime. Our cars’ license tags show up in photos if we go through [...]

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IZEAFest 2009 Taking Over SeaWorld

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IZEAFest is always a conference where bloggers can learn about the latest information, network and have some wild fun. This year IZEAFest is taking over SeaWorld. It is taking place Thursday, October 1st to Sunday, October 4th. Hurry to get your tickets now! Early Bird tickets end on March 1 or until tickets are sold [...]

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What A Change

Yesterday’s Inauguration was more amazing than I imagined. I was glued to the television and to the internet for most of the day from the minute I woke up until right now. I can’t even begin to tell you about my feelings but to say that my hopes are being met already. I know that [...]

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Free HBO

I slept in today as I couldn’t fall asleep last night and then slept poorly. When I learned that there was the Obama Inaugural Celebration only on paid channels I wanted to go back to sleep. I began watching it on CNN, but realized that I wasn’t going to see the concert just the speeches. [...]

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