What the ----?, National Association for Gun Rights

 I think that what we need right now is responsible gun control that balances the right to own a gun with the needs of public safety.

However- when gun rights groups put out crap like this (along with the raving lunatics of the NRA and Alex Jones) I am starting to wonder if our "mental health problem" is really with the leaders of gun rights groups and what they are telling their membership.  

It really makes me think maybe we should take away everyone's gun and you can get yours back when you prove you aren't a raving lunatic who thinks it's funny to use racism to make a point.

Weekend Wisdom

"Every election, roughly half the population votes Democrat, the other half votes Republican. I understand why Republicans get 1% of the vote . . . the richest 1%. That other 49% (of Americans) someone will just have to explain to me. The facts about what the Republicans have done to the Middle Class are beyond reasonable doubt. And yet their base refuses to see it. The moneyed elite of America are dragging a bag filled with your future down the steps and your reaction is, "Hold on there, that looks heavy, let me give you a hand getting that into your trunk.""

-Bill Maher

The Fall Musical (Posted 2 Months Later)

Final Holiday Post- Elf Mischief

 Using the holiday m&m's to express their excitement about that night's pajama party

 Fishing for some crackers

 Reading one of K's favorite books

 Putting up "MISSING" signs after Alex the Elf couldn't be found one night

(a good plan until K's elf went missing as well, and after an exhaustive search still couldn't be found.  Her solution- put up a sign since it worked to find Alex.  Luckily, her elf reappeared later that night so no sign necessary)

 A little Elf vandalism

 Marshmallow snowmen

 Enjoying some Christmas cookies

 "Elf-ing" themselves on the Office Max "Elf Yourself" website

They also wrote on the bathroom mirror with lipstick, toilet papered the Christmas tree, replaced the kids' stockings with their underwear, drove the toy cars through the playroom and used our copier to copy their rear ends.  However, the favorite stunt was this one....

I knew when the kids had woken up cause I heard them waking each other up to come "see what the elves did"  About a minute later I hear one say "That's not safe at all"

 

 

2012 The Year in Review

In case you missed them here a re-cap of the most popular posts from 2012.  

Happy New Year!!!!!

So You Think Racism Only Happens to Black People  (Jan 2012)

How Disney Taught My Daughter a Lesson I Wish They Hadn't    (March 2012)

Falsified Document?  Nope-  Just My Kid's Birth Certificate 

(April 2012)

It Was Meant to Be  (April 2012)

Worst Justification for Adoption Ever  (July 2012)

Just In Case You Tell Us You Are Gay  (Aug 2012)

Just What Color is Santa and Other Racial Challenges at Christmas (Dec 2012)

Plus some other highlights....

 

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September

October

November

December

 

May your 2013 be happy, healthy and joyous!!!

2012- The Christmas Recap

 The first gift the kids opened was the gift that the elves left.

 D had the honor of opening it.   

 It was two packages of "indoor snowballs" which are best described as heavy white puff balls.

 I think they will be a hit however

Opening the gifts...

Then of course, after breakfast is the scavenger hunt to find their gifts from mom and dad.  Each year we try to get them the one thing they wanted most.  (why should Santa get all the credit?)

  This year....

A Nintendo DSi of her very own for K

A bright pink practice balance beam for D

A stuffed bunny for X.  (It is a stand in for the real bunny he will be getting later this spring as his 4-H project)

And a Kindle Fire HD for A

The Grinch and Thriller- Who'd Have Thought?

Merry Christmas Everybody