When they were all back in their seats the new Teacher said, "Well, before we start our lessons, perhaps there are some questions you want me to answer. Ask me anything you like. That's only fair, isn't it, if I ask you questions?"Mary said, after a silence, "We never got to ask our real teacher ANY...

Worse and worse: The CPSC put up some new "helpful" powerpoint slides for their staff today (you can read them all here). Here's the line that's got me ready to move to Australia. Or, better yet, ready to make Congress move to Australia and let the country start fresh. Page 6 has the guidance on chi...

Ruh-oh. Klubuchar is one of the sponsors of the anti farmer's market food bill. She's also a sponsor of the CPSIA who both criticzes Nord for not agreeing with Congress about the bill and then insists that Nord never told her about the problems in the bill.Well, she knows about them now, and she's s...

I checked out an old movie from the library (not that old, from the eighties), a retelling of a fairy tale. It was Puss-in Boots, with Christopher Walken. Walken was wonderful as the cat who is played as a man, but the rest of the movie was somewhat wooden and very eighties. I took it back without e...

I feel a bit hypocritical talking about this stuff since my house is anything but small now, but we did live in small and varied spaces for some 22 years before we moved here, and... In a recent comment to this older post a fellow blogger asks for help making her small house work for her larger than...

Sunday morning the horse got out. Pip tracked him down and put him back. On the way to pick up the EC and Shasta for church, the road where the HG lost her car a year ago last January was under water again. It's under water every time it rains, but when it rains really hard so is the cornfield on th...

He's overwhelmed by the President's job. British officials, meanwhile, admit that the White House and US State Department staff were utterly bemused by complaints that the Prime Minister should have been granted full-blown press conference and a formal dinner, as has been customary. They concede tha...

Tristan at Maiden America has a new CPSIA logo based on the Declaration of Independence. See it over in the sidebar. I mentioned this table Friday showing the billions in dollars in losses due to the CPSIA, but there are more additions today, it's a great tool, awesome research, and the word should ...

Lord, in the morning Thou shalt hearMy voice ascending high;To Thee will I direct my prayer,To Thee lift up mine eye- 2Up to the hills where Christ is goneTo plead for all His saints,Presenting at His Father's throneOur songs and our complaints. 3O may Thy Spirit guide my feetIn ways of righteousnes...

Yesterday I went to our thrift shop and found that they are simply ignoring the CPSIA for now, which makes me relieved for me, worried for them. This thrift shop is a charity- all profits (and some jobs) got to help fund local programs for the mentally retarded. It is very much a local charity found...