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the good:
two of my kids hooked up with me on twitter. devin and ian. interesting tweets.
my better half has started her observations for school. won’t be long now before kids will be bringing her apples.
there was a reunion of the hudson flight survivors. what a great story.
last weeks house episode was one of the best [...]

last week at work, as happens to us all, i had to make a trip to the washroom.
on the wall. apparently someone had a sneeze and left a ‘present’ on the wall above the urinal. later. someone spent the time to create and tape up a ‘wtf’ note right next to it.
now. that wouldn’t be [...]

today i removed the sign up that had been a part of my site for months. the way that health care is being directed, isn’t the change that i voted for. it’s just such a shame. i was so supportive of real change, and instead seem to be getting much the same with a government [...]

personally, i believe that we are slowly killing the planet. however. even if we aren’t why are we fighting to keep oil companies in place? oil has it’s problems, and there can’t be a everlasting supply of it, because there just can’t. what’s wrong with trying to move forward on different alternatives? why can’t we [...]

bye bye lou. wonder how long it will be before you are on the faux network.

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and one that i read really ticked me off. not knowing that there was a limitation as to the number of characters that were allowed, i had at it. well. it wouldn’t save. so. for you folks that started and couldn’t finish, or really just want to flame, here it is in it’s entirety… ( [...]

not that my kids are lazy…
this morning, a couple neighborhood kids came by and asked if they could rake the leaves in the yard for $5. for just a moment, i thought yes, but then realized that my kids were listening behind me as they were holding the dogs back. then i said no, as [...]

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Christina Turner feared that she might have been sexually assaulted
after two men slipped her a knockout drug. She thought she was taking
proper precautions when her doctor prescribed a month’s worth of
anti-AIDS medicine.
Only later did she learn that she had made herself all but uninsurable.
Turner had let the men buy her drinks at a bar [...]

what a week.
my wife and i hit our 16th year of marriage. we celebrated by taking in a show and then returning home for a meal that i cooked for the family. it’s a family affair, these anniversaries. there is nothing wrong with that. they all have been a part of the past years, so [...]

sure. you can find the definition of indoctrinate in any dictionary. here is a link to m-w.com.
ok.
here is what it says:
1: to instruct in fundamentals or rudiments : teach
2: to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle
this definition can be placed with any number of people or [...]