by Karen on December 11, 2008
Houston got a surprise yesterday. It snowed. I thought I was imagining it at first. Then I expected it to disappear as quickly as it came down, but it didn’t. By 9PM everything in our area had a fine layer of snow on it.
Our daughter had a blast running around making snowballs:

With instructions:

And help of course:

All in all, it was pretty fun. Here are some photos from the entire region.
by Karen on December 8, 2008
She is, first of all, a bloody idiot who stands by her statements about Obama being a terrorist who’s going to declare martial law within the first six months of his administration.
Second of all, She has written a book where in she refers to public education as a “tool of perversion” that is unconstitutional and tyrannical because they are no longer propaganda mills for Christianity.
This is getting ridiculous, even for Texas. This woman and her cohorts on the board need to go. The state of public education is bad enough here in Texas as it is. We do not need this bunch of idiots making it worse.

It looks like Texas is planning to enter the “debate” over the teaching of evolution. After fighting for nearly three years about how to teach children to read, the Texas Board of Education has decided to take on the science curriculum this summer.
One of the goals of the board is to undermine the teaching of evolution by making it a requirement to teach the “strengths and weaknesses” evolution. Vice Chairman David Bradley of Beaumont calls this “hogwash”, but goes on to say that “evolution is not a fact. Evolution is a theory and, as such, cannot be proven. Student need to be able to jump to their own conclusions” (source).
And what better way to have them “jump” to the conclusion that magic man did it than by forcing teachers to bluntly lie about evolution?