What the ----?, Laura Ingraham

"Conservative radio host and Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham attacked the speakers at the 50^th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech, at one point using the sound of a gunshot to cut off a sound bite of civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) -- a man whose skull was infamously fractured by a state trooper on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, AL, in 1965. Ingraham used the speech's anniversary to race-bait about black-on-white crime statistics and hosted Pat Buchanan to bemoan the idea that minorities face any higher level of adversity in America 50 years later."

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/08/26/laura-ingraham-celebrates-march-on-washington-5/195590

"Tests" Don't Get Any Easier than This?

Scene:  kitchen table 10 minutes after bedtime should have started.  Child is finishing a homework assignment to write 10 statements about themselves for a true/false "get to know you" activity.

Me: Finish up- it is bedtime

Child:  I am almost done, I have two more to finish

Me: Okay, let me see them when you are finished

Child: (a few minutes later)  Look I am done.

Me:  Great- off to bed

Child: (reaches for a notebook and begins to write)

Me: What are you doing now?

Child: Writing down the answers.

Me: Don't you already know the answers, they are about you.

Child:  Yes, but I might forget

Sigh.......

Our Brush with a Celebrity

The girls and I were privileged to meet Charles R Smith Jr- who is a noted author and photographer- 

If you haven't checked our his stuff already run to you local library or bookstore and check him out.

I would recommend any of his books but start with 

My People

and

I Am American

Sometimes it's Embarrassing to Be an Adoptive Parent....

like when a fellow adoptive parent writes the following:

"Is there anything about adoption that makes me very angry? Yes, it is the people who make a career of being angry adoptees, and who try to destroy adoption for everyone else"

Because of course there is nothing worse than the adoptees themselves who are out to destroy adoption.

(maybe while they are trying to save adoption from the adoptees, they can also fundraise for their adoptee's therapy bills after being raised with parents who, not only feel that way, but who would publicly admit it)