Allison(4): I’m giving up Lent for Lent.

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Danielle(6): I’m not sure I exists.  I might just be in a story that someone is reading.

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Justin(7): Do you think its easier to bring back the dinosaurs to life or build a time machine?

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The kids found frogs in a drainage ditch this weekend.  (OK they were really Toads, but…)

Here is Justin with Hoppie	Hoppie had a leash.
The Girls got very muddy.	But they had so much fun.

The word GOD is used a lot in government.  The phrase “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance is currently under fire in the US Supreme court.  Atheists are claiming that the phrase “under God” is the endorsement of religion by the government.

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said there “so many references to God” in public affairs, noting “In God We Trust” was on U-S currency and coins. She added the Supreme Court opens all its public sessions with the words, “God save the United States and this honorable Court.”  Many conservatives are saying that the mention of God is not the same as establishing or endorsing religion.  In the early indications from the court, they agree.

Therefore, I believe the Atheist should change their tactics.  Rather than asking for the removal of the word God from the various government documents/proceedings, they should ask that the word God be replaced with Gods, to encompass more belief systems instead of the standard Christian beliefs.  From an Atheist or Agnostic standpoint, the belief in more than one God makes as much sense as believing in a single, all powerful deity.  My thought is that switching it from God to Gods would force the hand of those claiming that the word God in the government context is not establishing or endorsing religion.

First flower of Spring - at least in my yard.

• To the person that wanted to know “what hand goes on top of a hockey stick if i am left handed” - your right hand goes on top if you are left handed, your left hand goes on top if you are right handed.
• To the people that want to now about the book Eragon or the follow up book Eldest - The first book was great, the second is due out in mid to late 2005.  I don’t know why Catholic’s would view the book differently than others.
• If I see a Mosquito Eater this year, I will take a picture and post it here.

I’m sure my sister Diana will be thrilled to know that I am starting to get visitors from Google looking for political insight.  I have had visitors looking for reasons to vote for John Kerry and George Bush.  I have had people looking for information on Missouri candidates for Congress.  I have had people looking for information on political moderates.

If I wasn’t to blog about politics all the time, where would these people get this information.

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I guess she’s right, I do talk about politics and religion too much on this site.  But then again, she complains about pictures of apricots as well.

Jack decided to drive the van last night.  I just managed to snap this picture with the phone before he drove away.

(its very hard to get a decent picture of a black poodle driving a car at sunset with a phone camera)

Ben bought some California trail mix that contained dried apricots.  As noone in the office seemed to want to eat a dehydrated apricot, we decided to make Rehydrated Apricots ^(TM)

we rehydrated a raisin as well

after the first run, we decided to rehydrate all of the remaining apricots.

We didn’t have the guts to actually eat one though.

After one day, I am beating the quarter 12 games to 10, but the quarter lost two of its final four teams, so it is pretty much out of the running.  On the downside, the other guy in the pool only missed 2 picks.