Pharticus

I like where you going with this.... bacon... mmm.....

We have homeschooled 4 of our 5 kids off and on throughout the years (our youngest is not quite 2). ATM all of them are, but we have some great charter school options in our area. The beauty of homeschooling is the ability to tailor their education to their needs. Our 13 year old has dyslexia and has always been behind in public school. She "gets it" in her own time, no matter how many ways a concept is explained to her (which can be frustrating for Dad). We use curriculum that supports our religious views. We got tired of continuously correcting false teaching in the public school system. On top of that, we stress character over education.

If you want to properly thank them, send them a beer.... or 12. Except for Shooter for even mentioning COD2. Who plays that anyway?! /sarcasm

What Would Jon Do? He just told you, he kicked her out!

Unfortunately, I am attending the College of Hard Knocks. I'll never graduate ( it's a lifelong course for me ) and they won't kick me out.

You're a nut, Janey. I still can't get this recipe quite right....

Gallagher was much more than a comedian, he was a role model.

Good call. Why is a 23 year old still living at home?! I love my parents, but my head would explode it I had to live with them for an extended period of time. There can only be one bull-headed person in the house at one time... and that's me.

I've known 1lost1 for close to 10 years now and this is the best picture of him that I've seen, and always with sunglasses on. Get into too many bar fights Lost?

How is one supposed to sleep with a gun under their pillow?! Merry Christmas to me!!!

Do a need a tank? It depends on who I'm fighting. I'd like to have a bigger gun than my enemy.

I find that disturbing. What else am I eating at night?! Is this why I'm getting fat?!

In America's infancy all lawyers were educated from the Bible because that's what our laws are based on. A quick study of Ivy League universities ( Harvard, Yale, etc ) will provide some interesting reading. Just one example: How Christians Started the Ivy League By Editorial Staff Published April 6, 2008 Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth – all owe their origins to the gospel. Probably no segment of American society has turned out a greater number of illustrious graduates than New England’s Ivy League. Labels like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, still carry their own mystique and a certain aura of elitism and prestige. Yet perhaps it would surprise most to learn that almost every Ivy League school was established primarily to train ministers of the gospel – and to evangelize the Atlantic seaboard. Harvard, 1638 It only took eighteen years from the time the Pilgrims set foot on Plymouth Rock until the Puritans, who were among the most educated people of their day, founded the first and perhaps most famous Ivy League school. Their story, in brief, is etched today in an entry way to Harvard Yard: “After God had carried us safely to New England, and we had built our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God’s worship, and settled the civil government; one of the next things we longed for, and looked after was to advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.” Harvard College’s first presidents and tutors insisted that there could be no true knowledge or wisdom without Jesus Christ, and but for their passionate Christian convictions, there would have been no Harvard. Harvard’s “Rules and Precepts adopted in 1646 included the following essentials: “Every one shall consider the main end of his life and studies to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life. Seeing the Lord giveth wisdom, every one shall seriously by prayer in secret seek wisdom of Him. Every one shall so exercise himself in reading the Scriptures twice a day that they be ready to give an account of their proficiency therein, both in theoretical observations of languages and logic, and in practical and spiritual truths….” According to reliable calculations, 52 percent of the 17th century Harvard graduates became ministers! Yale, 1701 By the turn of the century Christians in the Connecticut region launched Yale as an alternative to Harvard. Many thought Harvard too far away and too expensive, and they also observed that the spiritual climate at Harvard was not what it once had been. Princeton, 1746 This school, originally called “The College of New Jersey,” sprang up in part from the impact of the First Great Awakening. It also retained its evangelical vigor longer than any other Ivy League school. In fact, Princeton’s presidents were evangelical until at least the turn of the Twentieth Century, as also many of the faculty. Dartmouth, 1754 A strong missionary thrust launched this new school in New Hampshire. Its royal charter, signed by King George of England, specified the school’s intent to reach the Indian tribes, and to educate and Christianize English youth as well. Eleazar Wheelock, a close friend of evangelist George Whitefield, secured the charter. Columbia, William and Mary, Rutgers, Brown & UPenn The first president of New York’s Columbia University, first known as “King’s College,” at one time served as a missionary to America under the English-based “Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.” The Church of England established the College of William and Mary, near today’s colonial Williamsburg. Dutch Reformed revivalists founded Queen’s College (later Rutgers University) in New Jersey. Brown University originated with the Baptist churches scattered on the Atlantic seaboard. With the exception of the University of Pennsylvania, every collegiate institution founded in the colonies prior to the Revolutionary War was established by some branch of the Christian Church. Even at UPenn, however, an evangelist played a prominent part. When Philadelphia churches denied revivalist George Whitefield access to their pulpits, forcing him to preach in the open, some of Whitefield’s admirers, among them Benjamin Franklin, decided to erect a building to accommodate the great crowds that wanted to hear him. The structure they built became the first building of what is now the University of Pennsylvania, and a statue of Whitefield stands prominently on that campus today. Though the Ivy League schools eventually turned secular, they fed into the mainstream of society in those earlier days a great army of graduates who could claim Jesus Christ as personal Savior and Lord, and who left a strong impact on our nation. Their presidents and their faculties helped to set a high spiritual tone, and at times their campuses in turn felt the impact of revival. The educators of early America understood that the moral climate of its schools, colleges and universities would shape its future generations, and could ultimately decide the course of the nation. Reprinted from The Rebirth of America, published by the Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation.

Dead men surrender easier than the live ones.

I guess I don't find the humor in a bunch of drunk drivers on the road.

I just purchased my Sig Sauer M400 last night at WalMart. I had to wait 2 hours because there were 5 other guys ahead of me also purchasing AR-15s.

What?! It's not in Spanish?! How is half the state of Idaho going to read this? /sarcasm

And all these years I thought it was "Fleas on the dog!"

Nice illustration, Bann.

Without truck drivers I'd be unemployed. They break my scales all the time!

Dead Man Spike Byrd

I'm so sorry you've lost your husband. My family will be praying for you and yours.

If Joe Rogan could refrain from using the F-word three times in every sentence I might listen to what he has to say. I couldn't get passed the 3:20 mark on the second video.

As much as I don't believe Romney has side-stepped the issue, that was funny!