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This morning I woke up at 6 am. (That’s sleeping late for me.) I made myself a cup of tea and sat down at the computer to just check on a few things.

One of the blogs that I follow closely is Steve Olson’s, because I know that every now and then, I’ll read a post there that really gets me smokin’! This post is one of those!

The title of Steve’s post is: When did America become a nation of frightened wimps?

Click over and read his post right now, then come right back here to read my response. (This is going to be great!)

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It’s going on right now! I’ve had the idea for this post for some time. Generally, I’ve got about fifteen posts partially done, and about ten more ideas for posts floating around in my head.

Figuring out what to say is not hard for me. Finding the time and especially the peace to write it in is the hard part.

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I believe it was Lewis Carroll who said that when he got up every morning, he tried to think of at least ten impossible things. Well, this headline is impossible thing number one for me today!

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I actually stole that line. Steve Olson, a blogger, who lives in the upper mid-west, wrote that at the conclusion of an interesting and impassioned post he’s written about how we educate (or fail to educate) our children. Click over to his blog right now and read that post. When you’re done, read a previous post about his own problems in public school.

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I read Ilker Yoldas’ The Thinking Blog. I enjoy his posts and learn from him. Today he posted about how to get your blog recognized. He’s actually writing about another blog. What’s so interesting to me is that I got a lot of interesting ideas about promotion from him, but I really disliked the blog he was referencing. Now, I disliked the blog because I can’t stand cursing online. That may be just my own quirk (or maybe my mother actually raised a gentleman!). My dislike of offensive language aside, read the post! It has a lot of good ideas!

What I really like about Donald Trump is that people either love him or hate him. You’re either a Rosie O’Donnell or one of the suck ups in “The Apprentice”. (I guess I’m more like the suck ups.) Mother Teresa, on the other hand, doesn’ t inspire this sort of polarization. You could probably make the eighth deadly sin: Not Liking Mother Teresa. How could you not like Mother Teresa? She was literally a saint!

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Step 1. Enroll your daughter in public school.

Step 2. Kick back and watch.

I bet I got your attention, didn’t I? And I bet you’re wondering where I’m coming from on this. Let me fill you in.

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We recently got a dog. I had been lobbying against getting a dog for two years. Both my wife and especially my kids wanted a dog, but I knew that another animal would only mean more work for…you know who! (Turns out I was wrong.)

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