The Common Room

Sunday Hymn Post

2009-11-08T05:57:00.000-06:00

O Heart Bowed Down with Sorrow O heart bowed down with sorrow! O eyes that long for sight! There's gladness in believing; In Jesus there is light. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy...

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PelosiCare bill passes

2009-11-07T23:44:00.001-06:00

HotAir:Update: It was closer than I thought: 220-215, 39 Dems voting no and a solitary Republican — Joe Cao, who replaced “Dollar Bill” Jefferson in a blue district in Louisiana — voting yes. Take...

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Bob Fox and Billy Mitchell Sing Dance to Your Daddy

2009-11-07T21:45:00.001-06:00

Illustration from The REal Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright The song was used in England both to advertise a product much like what we call fish sticks, and as the theme song for a...

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Gibbs Wonders What Would Have Happened If Any of the Left Had EVER Compared Bush to Hitler

2009-11-07T16:42:00.001-06:00

Was he in a coma during the last eight years? The left had more 'Bushitler' references in any three week period than the right has had in equivilant Obama/Pelosi-Care/Nazi references this entire...

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Alas.

2009-11-07T14:25:00.002-06:00

When approached by her sadly demented grandfather with a convoluted tale about a missing bicycle helmet that ended with his comment "...and so I figured you'd have it if you had it", the unfortunate...

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Health Care Bill Today?

2009-11-07T13:38:00.000-06:00

Health care bill has a provision that means you could face jail time for not purchasing government mandated health insurance. When a bill comes up for a vote, our representatives are SUPPOSED to...

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Charlie Crist Says He Never Supported Stimulus...

2009-11-07T12:00:00.000-06:00

In Florida right now there is a primary with many similarities with the NY23 case - Charlie Crist is the annointed favorite of the GOP establishment in power, and Marco Rubio is the genuine fiscal...

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A Couple Thoughts on Weddings

2009-11-07T10:29:00.003-06:00

The HG and Strider just had their three week anniversary. How cute is that? In some ways things aren't going the typical way (several things have hindered the completion of our apartment) and we're...

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Make a Headboard From Books

2009-11-07T09:49:00.000-06:00

Pictured here. It goes nicely with the patchwork quilt, but somehow, seeing those mutilated books hurts me a little.

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Books from the Thrift Shop and Library Book Sale

2009-11-07T06:00:00.000-06:00

Not so many this time, but a select few: The Furniture Doctor by George Grotz: a hardback edition of a best-selling (for decades) "guide to keeping furniture in the finest and most beautiful...

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Book Review

2009-11-06T21:19:00.003-06:00

I do book reviews for Amazon, Thomas Nelson, and Library Thing in exchange for free books, or at least- I did this regularly up until the beginning of this year when I went through a rough patch and...

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Nancy Kerr and James Fagan Sing Dance to your Daddy

2009-11-06T21:16:00.001-06:00

The song comes under other titles, as well. I've seen it as "When the Boat Comes In" fairly regularly, less often as "Dance to Your Daddy-O" and only discovered that it's also known as "Come Here,...

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Unemployment tops 10%. About that Stimulus...

2009-11-06T18:00:00.000-06:00

Unemployment tops 10%, 10.2% to be precise. There's a graph and everything (look long and hard at this) from Geoff at Innocent Bystanders, and also this: A Side Note on the Administration’s Defense...

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The Ft Hood Shooting

2009-11-06T15:35:00.002-06:00

Kimberly Munley is the civilian police officer who stopped the carnage yesterday at Ft. Hood, racing to the scene and engaging Hasan, disabling him and ending up wounded herself. Early reports were...

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Wedding Pictures

2009-11-06T15:00:00.000-06:00

Daddy walks the bride down the stairs to the groom at the historical house where pictures were taken before the wedding. Instead of a guest book, an online friend of ours offered to make a guest...

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First FLDS Trial Ends In Guilty Finding

2009-11-06T12:45:00.001-06:00

Raymond Merril Jessop (now 38) was polygamously wed to 16 year old girl in 2004 (she is now 21). She gave birth to a daughter in August of 2005. DNA evidence indicates Raymond is the father of the...

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Pelosi's Weasel Words

2009-11-06T11:29:00.000-06:00

Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the speaker will not allow the final language of the health care to be posted online for 72 hours before bringing the bill to a vote on...

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Minding Your P's and Q's, November 6th

2009-11-06T08:52:00.000-06:00

I am going through the month of November, or rather, the first 26 days with a letter of the alphabet for each day, and naming something to be thankful for for that start's with that day's letter. A-D...

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Living Within Your Means

2009-11-06T06:30:00.002-06:00

Aunt Sophronia, as long term readers may remember, is a character from an old book formerly belonging to my great-grandmother. The Complete Home, An Encyclopaedia of Domestic Life and Affairs...

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Dance to your Daddy

2009-11-05T21:45:00.000-06:00

I don't know who is performing this one, but the Equuschick and I agree that we like it very much. Kididdle lists the lyrics thus: Dance to your daddy, My bonnie laddy, Dance to your daddy, My...

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Carnage at Ft. Hood

2009-11-05T20:58:00.002-06:00

Major Hasan, a psychiatrist in the Army, opened fire on his fellow soldiers and has killed at least 13- over 30 others are injured and the death toll may rise. Hasan is in the hospital, according to...

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Minding Your P's and Q's, November 5th

2009-11-05T16:00:00.002-06:00

I am going through the month of November, or rather, the first 26 days with a letter of the alphabet for each day, and naming something to be thankful for for that start's with that day's letter. ...

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Seniors to pay the cost of giving health care to 20 year olds who didn't want it

2009-11-05T14:06:00.002-06:00

Via Ace:For a a long time, they have been falsely reporting the "ten year costs" by comparing ten years of revenues -- also known as higher taxes and mandates -- with only seven years of outlays. ...

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Another Example of Indoctrination

2009-11-05T13:28:00.002-06:00

Greenpeace Brainwashing: The gap between children like this and the children of Islamofascists should be a little wider than it appears to be, don't you think? This child has been encouraged to...

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It's Guy Fawkes Day!

2009-11-05T09:13:00.001-06:00

Remember remember the fifth of November Gunpowder, treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder, treason Should ever be forgot... On the 5th November 1605 Guy Fawkes was caught in the cellars of...

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