Quie for Horner

Quie endorses Horner, we live on Quie Lane, coincidence? I think not.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/10/21/quie-endorses-horner/

Your Willpower Is As Strong As You Think It Is

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Blue and Red bad Primary Colors

Time to get political again. To followup a Democrat President/Rep Senator split ticket the only logical next step is to go independent on the governor. A balanced budget and a governor who treats tax spending as investments with future returns.

Who's with me?

Viva la Vivian

I finally found a link that explains to me everything it means to have VCF and 22q11 deletion disorder. If you know our daughter Vivian this will make it a lot clearer what she has. When your missing part of a chromosome and thus your DNA and thus the blueprint for your body, those things it was going to help build can grow abnormally. So far Vivi has had a very mild case of 22q11 with the Tetrology of Fallot heart defect being the only major issue.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Handbook_of_Genetic_Counseling/22q11_Deletion_Syndrome
or more generally
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Handbook_of_Genetic_Counseling/Velo-Cardio-Facial_Syndrome_%28VCF%29#What_is_VCF.3F

Umpire book covers are cooler then you realize

	This discovery started by the fact that I once bought  someone a book called "Planet of the Umps" as a  wedding gift.
	Then Evan and Casey were found reading a book called  "As They See 'Em: A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires".

Knowing those two titles as the only two umpire books one has heard of makes you wonder if a  lot of umpire books imply that umps live on their own world. Or that umpire books require you to  point at the camera. Little did we know that while they may think of themselves as breed of their own, and that many  do perform the point, the true greatness of the umpire book genre lies in the diversity of book title  candor and excellent cover art.

	I don't even understand what this book is but that's a heck of a cover.  (shown larger due to small book title print)
	Boring given the high standard above if implied risk of bloodshed in being an umpire.
	Better because my Uncle moved to Texas and his first job was teaching and coaching baseball in Chillicothe, TX.  The subtitle makes it.
	And my personal favorite.  I don't know who's idea that pose was but it was brilliant.

Raizen Bran

I am a fan of bold product moves. The go with your strengths and be honest kind of products. Put your money into making something better or cheaper, I'll find out its good if it is on my own. I have this box of Fiber One Raisin Bran here and it says right on the box, "Tastes better then Kellogg's Raisin Bran." They don't care who you are, if you buy this box you will think we taste better, or you are wrong. My kind of product.

P.S. If you care, I think the Fiber One flakes are kind of cardboardy but they make up for it by having nut clusters, and who doesn't like nut clusters? Eh ladies?...Eh..? Its not exactly fair though as Fiber One costs more. You get 30% more fiber from Fiber One. Taste vs. Kellogg's to this guy? Tie.

A Favorite Pawlenty moment

Besides his portrayal of Slapshot hockey characters at charity events. Full credit there.

School Pool VETOED
The teachers' union, Education Minnesota, once again pushed for a single health insurance risk pool for school district employees. This was vetoed by the governor, who had signaled that he would be prepared to consider such a proposal if Education Minnesota dropped their opposition to other education reforms.

Pawlenty and budgets

If Pawlenty were not governor he would not be able to veto. He does not veto by convincing anyone his position is correct or wise, he veto's because he believes he is more correct and more wise. Or that his values are more valued by MN.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/05/17/budget-folo/

The funny thing about pushing it off is that the budget shortfall for the next budget is 5 billion larger then this one if MPR is quoting properly.

Another MPR article quoted that the total salaries of state employees is 1 billion. So anyone who says they can balance the budget by cutting state employees or salaries is mistaken.

Does MN want to pay or not, fun question.

Nobody will argue that raising taxes continuously is a sustainable.

So we haggle over the right percentage for the time. Many things determine the wisdom of a certain percentage in a certain government in a certain time unfortunately. Hence the many perspectives on government.

Tina

Do you think somewhere there is a mother with a daughter named Tina who leaves her alone in a room for a while and when she comes back to the room to find Tina crying breaks into song, "Don't cry for me baby Tina. The truth is, I never left you..." I think there is.

I Want A Big Hot Dog

Click if you love big hot dogs

Bacon Rockets!

Click if you love Bacon and Rockets

Calculas can be explained in 3 paragraphs and a picture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slope#Calculus

I took 4 semesters of Calc. I don't know if its my fault or the systems but I'm sure I could not have explained it that simply even after 36 months of class.

Bonus if you can name the movie, "Hey homes, was' Cal-coo-las?"

Things learned this weekend

-Professional Learning Communities: Teachers will now teach as teams and track their students to know if they have learned anything and which teachers are being more effective and better able to share techniques.
-No offense but I now suspect the area of Southern WI and the IL border to have a higher rate of crazy and somewhat vicious people then other parts of the state.
-The word Avon is from the Welch "afon" which is pronounced the same as Avon and means, literally, "river". So when you are saying the Avon River you are basically saying River River.
-Covered wagon trains are alive and well and are basically like those multi-night bike races that are a moving party.
-Looks can be deceiving.

There appears to be integrity in the White House

The good or bad of what that integrity is doing I leave up to you.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2010/jan/14/rating-obamas-promises-1-year-mark/