Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Thanksgiving Kids Road Trip Activity Book
With the holidays upon us, many will be traveling, visiting family and relatives. I don't know about anyone else, but road trips with my kids in the car can SOMETIMES be a little stressful. Who's bored, who's not sharing, fighting, etc. The wonderful people over at RadRoadTrips.com created a kids travel activity passport that will help your kids enjoy the number of
Monday, November 8, 2010
Color by Numbers - Animal Coloring Pages for Kids (part II)
Here's part II of the Color by Numbers - Animal Coloring Pages for Kids.Have the kids grab their favorite crayons, colored pencils, markers or water colors and then use the guides with each image to choose the right colors.To print out the color by numbers animal coloring pages just click on the below links, what for the image to load and then use your computers
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Media Matters: KEITH OLBERMANN REINSTATED, FIRST AMENDMENT WINS!!!
A Bright Sunny Day For Keith Olbermann
Not even one business day after suspending MSNBC's Countdown host, funnyman and anchor Keith Olbermann, the ties at NBC have capitulated to the clamor for Keith's immediate reinstatement. He will be back for his post-suspension debut on Tuesday evening at 8pm -- real must-see TV!
Keith was alleged to have exercised his Constitutional rights by making small campaign contributions to three Congressional candidates. And exercising his rights under U.S. labor laws as well. MSNBC President Phil Griffin said that a two-day vacation and massive support and love demonstrated for Mr. Obermann, who has risen to the top of MSNBC ratings as an anchor and was beating Anderson Cooper of the AC 360 circus on CNN in his rebroadcasts just one hour after their original airings at 10pm[until Lawrence O'Donnell recently took over that time slot] and was threatening Fox dominance, was "punishment" enough. Olbermann went from astute sports anchor to leading and often controversial news anchor and commentator. He took the industry by storm, to say the least, and this event can only catapult his career even further. No harm there!
The two days of punishment was no doubt suffered Saturday and Sunday--a very long two-day weekend, no doubt-- by classless suit and tie executives Griffin, NBC News President Steve Capus(who shamed my own first name in this scheme) and NBC Universal(as if any silly little gang of Manhattan execs like this can claim the Universe--the nerve of them) CEO Jeff Zucker. Hundreds of thousands flooded the 30 Rock phone lines, their mail room, email, facebook, Twitter, blogs and more; haranguing these petty profiteers into caving in to the bottom line.
The bottom line is NBC profits, and Olbermann's mass appeal, and the appeal of his issues. Health care for every American. Peace in the Middle East and South Asia. Infrastructure spending. Jobs, jobs, jobs. Funding for the poor. Continuing Social Security and Unemployment Compensation. Expanding Education opportunity for kids, not abolishing the U.S. Department of Education, such as has been proposed by Rand and Ron Paul. Civil Rights. Disability rights. Justice. Waterboarding is torture.
The bottom line is that the NBC execs showed their true colors and wound up *blushing* big time. Thanks for another belly laugh at another board room, Keith. :D LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOL
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Color by Numbers - Animal Coloring Pages for Kids (part I)
Kids love to color by numbers. They have fun while coloring and it helps them practice identifying numbers and colors.Below is a list of free printable color by numbers animal coloring pages for kids. Have the kids grab their favorite crayons, colored pencils, markers or water colors and then use the guides with each image to choose the right colors.To print out
Friday, November 5, 2010
Media Matters: KEITH OLBERMAN SUSPENDED BY REACTIONARY NBC! SUPPORT KEITH NOW, HE SUPPORTS YOU!
Keith Olberman of MSNBC's "Countdown With Keith Olberman" aired weeknights at 8pm, has been unfairly suspended by NBC for small campaign donations. In exercising his constitutional rights Keith may have made a technical violation of NBC personnel rules. No laws have been violated, only NBC's own rules are alleged to have been slighted.
Mr. Olberman, a one-time ESPN broadcaster and astute analyst and observer of sports in this nation has catapulted to the top of the nations news media in recent years due to his perceptive and often humorous commentary, insight and observations. During the endgame of his father's life recently he inspired millions with his sensitive portrayals and self-revelations of his feelings and his openness about the aging process and of dying and of real family values. Thank you so much for that Keith. Each Friday night he concludes his broadcast all this time later with dramatic, or comedic or ironic readings from James Thurber as promised at the time of his father's death. These readings are always touching and evidence of Keith's commitment to his own commitments, a value I've benefited from greatly.
His sense of humor and his occasional sense of outrage delight me almost nightly. I recently assisted an 83 year old friend transitioning from her home of 50 years to her new life in a skilled nursing facility here in CT. I enjoy watching Keith at night with her in her private room before bed, and it is an anchor for her, especially during this difficult period of transition in the endgame of her own inspiring, touching life rife with public service, like Keith's in many ways, of her own. Her favorite part of Countdown she always tells me is "The Worst Person In The World" segment he does satirically each night. She loves, in particular, when Newt Gingrich makes the list.
NBC profiteers from having 4 liberals in prime time on MSNBC opposing their own reactionary Wall Street broadcasts opposite Keith, Rachel and the others on their "money, money, money" network CNBC, NBC and their other members of their mostly right-wing "family of networks." That's what Rupert Murdoch's Fixed news network calls liberal media bias when they are inciting racial hatred by calling Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department racist by committing slander and claiming that Holder's Justice Department dropped the case against the idiot handful of "New Black Panthers" who intimidated voters a few years ago when the case was actually dropped 11 days before President Obama's inauguration.
Keith is a great satirist and astute guy, and an advocate for commonsense liberalism, that's just flat-out honest. We need him on-air, the First Amendment demands it. We'll boycott NBC and MSNBC if we must, but maybe we won't need to if NBC comes to its senses, especially NBC exec Phil Griffin( phil.griffin@nbcuni.com is the email address for that suit and tie) and ends this suspension and offers a sincere and public apology to one of the funniest, most astute, gentlest, and most decent satirist and social observers on cable or anywhere. Also a great commentator and anchor as the times require.
Under the new ROBERT'S Supreme Court RULES OF election ORDER, unlimited anonymous Wall Street executive cash bought the US House speakership for John Boehner. Keith's relatively small, constitutionally guaranteed and 100% legal donations affected the results of Tuesday's election by not one iota. Probably an error in judging the truly reactionary nature of NBC greed on Keith's part. Let's back Keith to the hilt on this one guys! Let's get him back on the air ASAP, PLEASE!!! We love you, man--and I'm 100% behind you Keith! For whatever that might be worth, because you've been 100% behind the USA for years, sir. Thank you for your continuing service. Flood this email: phil.griffin@nbcuni.com
Mr. Olberman, a one-time ESPN broadcaster and astute analyst and observer of sports in this nation has catapulted to the top of the nations news media in recent years due to his perceptive and often humorous commentary, insight and observations. During the endgame of his father's life recently he inspired millions with his sensitive portrayals and self-revelations of his feelings and his openness about the aging process and of dying and of real family values. Thank you so much for that Keith. Each Friday night he concludes his broadcast all this time later with dramatic, or comedic or ironic readings from James Thurber as promised at the time of his father's death. These readings are always touching and evidence of Keith's commitment to his own commitments, a value I've benefited from greatly.
His sense of humor and his occasional sense of outrage delight me almost nightly. I recently assisted an 83 year old friend transitioning from her home of 50 years to her new life in a skilled nursing facility here in CT. I enjoy watching Keith at night with her in her private room before bed, and it is an anchor for her, especially during this difficult period of transition in the endgame of her own inspiring, touching life rife with public service, like Keith's in many ways, of her own. Her favorite part of Countdown she always tells me is "The Worst Person In The World" segment he does satirically each night. She loves, in particular, when Newt Gingrich makes the list.
NBC profiteers from having 4 liberals in prime time on MSNBC opposing their own reactionary Wall Street broadcasts opposite Keith, Rachel and the others on their "money, money, money" network CNBC, NBC and their other members of their mostly right-wing "family of networks." That's what Rupert Murdoch's Fixed news network calls liberal media bias when they are inciting racial hatred by calling Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department racist by committing slander and claiming that Holder's Justice Department dropped the case against the idiot handful of "New Black Panthers" who intimidated voters a few years ago when the case was actually dropped 11 days before President Obama's inauguration.
Keith is a great satirist and astute guy, and an advocate for commonsense liberalism, that's just flat-out honest. We need him on-air, the First Amendment demands it. We'll boycott NBC and MSNBC if we must, but maybe we won't need to if NBC comes to its senses, especially NBC exec Phil Griffin( phil.griffin@nbcuni.com is the email address for that suit and tie) and ends this suspension and offers a sincere and public apology to one of the funniest, most astute, gentlest, and most decent satirist and social observers on cable or anywhere. Also a great commentator and anchor as the times require.
Under the new ROBERT'S Supreme Court RULES OF election ORDER, unlimited anonymous Wall Street executive cash bought the US House speakership for John Boehner. Keith's relatively small, constitutionally guaranteed and 100% legal donations affected the results of Tuesday's election by not one iota. Probably an error in judging the truly reactionary nature of NBC greed on Keith's part. Let's back Keith to the hilt on this one guys! Let's get him back on the air ASAP, PLEASE!!! We love you, man--and I'm 100% behind you Keith! For whatever that might be worth, because you've been 100% behind the USA for years, sir. Thank you for your continuing service. Flood this email: phil.griffin@nbcuni.com
Thursday, November 4, 2010
All New Crafts for Thanksgiving
We've come across a free Thanksgiving crafts e-book that we want to share with all of our readers.All New Crafts for Thanksgiving by Kathy Ross and illustrated by Sharon Lane Holm, has some wonderful and different Thanksgiving crafts for you and your children to work on.With fifty pages, your kids will have plenty of Thanksgiving crafts to design. Crafts include:
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Political Pearls: ELECTION SPECIAL: BREAKING NEWS--DAN MALLOY WILL BE CERTIFIED THE WINNER IN CT
DAN MALLOY HAS WON THE GOVERNOR'S RACE IN CT! It is now 12:55 pm and Dan Malloy has enough votes, even without those who voted after 8pm in Bridgeport. He's won a very close election against Tom Foley, the Republican candidate. Democrat Dan Malloy, Dick Blumenthal and all the statewide candidates and 5 congressional district candidates on the Democratic side appear as of this hour to have won!
IT'S A CLEAN SWEEP FOR CT DEMOCRATS! The right candidates won in the Nutmeg State, the way too-lengthy Rell/Rowland Administration in Hartford is finally over in January. Yesterday the U.S. House delegation was 4 Democrats and 1 Republican, now it's 5 Democrats. I spoke with a happy Rosa Delauro last night at her victory party, but it was certainly a subdued gathering given the other events of the day. I thanked her for all her amazing help to my home town, Wallingford, and she was, as usual, responsive, available and eager to communicate with her district on the busiest political night of the year. THANK YOU ROSA!
The State House and Senate went Democratic as well. I want to thank the hardest working State Representative I know, Mary Mushinksy from the 85th District and congratulate her on a well-deserved victory. THANK YOU MARY!
Denise Merrill will be the new Secretary of the State in January, also a much-deserved win by her, replacing a great incumbent, Susan Byszewitz. A complete and thorough investigation of yesterday's election, especially the ballot shortage, especially following the Y2K fiasco in the count, recount and one vote party line victory revolving around Florida's Presidential vote(remember "hanging chads," Al Gore's victory in the popular vote totals, Jeb Bush and Florida Secretary of the State Kathryn Harris' nonsense, resulting in the 5-4 party-line Supreme Court 1 vote margin giving George W. Bush the Presdency in the 2000 election) is obviously necessary and I am confident that Susan and Denise will give us the facts. THANK YOU SUSAN AND DENISE!
Dan, a misdiagnosed former special ed student with a visual impairment has climbed to the highest elected office in the state of Connecticut(West Haven was the proud home of the World Special Olympics a few years ago under the leadership of then-Mayor Richard Borer--THANKS RICHARD) from a special ed classroom. THANKS DAN! Many are misdiagnosed, and many people, including myself, tend to live both up or down to others' expectations. Dan apparently made the difficult choice to choose not living down, but only to live up to, and surpass, the expectations of others. What an inspiring story for the state, nation, and the species, regardless of your politics!
Dick Blumenthal made some campaign mistakes early, but won by double digits because he is the right and moral man that should have won. Because he's right on the issues. Because he's had a career of public service that's made him the most popular political candidate of either party within the state during my lifetime. THANKS SENATOR-ELECT BLUMENTHAL! He holds the promise of being the best CT Senator ever, and the promise of future advancement(one day the White House will have a vacancy again, Ned Lamont, Dan Malloy, and Dick Blumenthal).
Ned Lamont ran a good campaign against Dan for the nomination, and then threw his full weight behind Dan for this election(hear that Joe Lieberman?). THANK YOU NED LAMONT. Joe Lieberman needs to be replaced and the most competent, most qualified, most hard working and dedicated next US Senator elect for the state of CT in 2012 is Ned Lamont. RUN, NED, RUN, PLEASE!
But more importantly, thanks to all the candidates nationwide, poll workers, volunteers from any and all parties and to all who took the time to register and vote. The real winner was little "d" democracy, which has been evolving and growing stronger for 234 straight years in this melting pot of an experiment in this portion of North America they chose in 1776 to refer to as the United States of America. Despite occasional steps backwards at times in this long journey, we did it again. We had a largely peaceful election. So the people won, yet again.
Let's just not try to export our experiment agressively overseas the next two years I ask all those elected to federal office, I plead. And please talk to each other, reason things out, be respectful, civil, even cordial and friendly in your discussions and afterwards. No name calling or threats, implied or otherwise would be nice. Compromise, please. Let laws be passed, budgets be passed, and friendships with opponents happen, please. At all levels;state, federal and local. And in the 2011 election and following let's please just be friendly and "loyal" in our opposition please boys and girls.
And thanks to all, regardless of what your opinons may be,in both the private and public sectors for engaging in one of the highest callings I can possibly imagine: Public Service. And congratulations to Leader Reid, and to House Minority Leader, and likely U.S. House Speaker and third-in-line to the Presidency, John Boehner.
IT'S A CLEAN SWEEP FOR CT DEMOCRATS! The right candidates won in the Nutmeg State, the way too-lengthy Rell/Rowland Administration in Hartford is finally over in January. Yesterday the U.S. House delegation was 4 Democrats and 1 Republican, now it's 5 Democrats. I spoke with a happy Rosa Delauro last night at her victory party, but it was certainly a subdued gathering given the other events of the day. I thanked her for all her amazing help to my home town, Wallingford, and she was, as usual, responsive, available and eager to communicate with her district on the busiest political night of the year. THANK YOU ROSA!
The State House and Senate went Democratic as well. I want to thank the hardest working State Representative I know, Mary Mushinksy from the 85th District and congratulate her on a well-deserved victory. THANK YOU MARY!
Denise Merrill will be the new Secretary of the State in January, also a much-deserved win by her, replacing a great incumbent, Susan Byszewitz. A complete and thorough investigation of yesterday's election, especially the ballot shortage, especially following the Y2K fiasco in the count, recount and one vote party line victory revolving around Florida's Presidential vote(remember "hanging chads," Al Gore's victory in the popular vote totals, Jeb Bush and Florida Secretary of the State Kathryn Harris' nonsense, resulting in the 5-4 party-line Supreme Court 1 vote margin giving George W. Bush the Presdency in the 2000 election) is obviously necessary and I am confident that Susan and Denise will give us the facts. THANK YOU SUSAN AND DENISE!
Dan, a misdiagnosed former special ed student with a visual impairment has climbed to the highest elected office in the state of Connecticut(West Haven was the proud home of the World Special Olympics a few years ago under the leadership of then-Mayor Richard Borer--THANKS RICHARD) from a special ed classroom. THANKS DAN! Many are misdiagnosed, and many people, including myself, tend to live both up or down to others' expectations. Dan apparently made the difficult choice to choose not living down, but only to live up to, and surpass, the expectations of others. What an inspiring story for the state, nation, and the species, regardless of your politics!
Dick Blumenthal made some campaign mistakes early, but won by double digits because he is the right and moral man that should have won. Because he's right on the issues. Because he's had a career of public service that's made him the most popular political candidate of either party within the state during my lifetime. THANKS SENATOR-ELECT BLUMENTHAL! He holds the promise of being the best CT Senator ever, and the promise of future advancement(one day the White House will have a vacancy again, Ned Lamont, Dan Malloy, and Dick Blumenthal).
Ned Lamont ran a good campaign against Dan for the nomination, and then threw his full weight behind Dan for this election(hear that Joe Lieberman?). THANK YOU NED LAMONT. Joe Lieberman needs to be replaced and the most competent, most qualified, most hard working and dedicated next US Senator elect for the state of CT in 2012 is Ned Lamont. RUN, NED, RUN, PLEASE!
But more importantly, thanks to all the candidates nationwide, poll workers, volunteers from any and all parties and to all who took the time to register and vote. The real winner was little "d" democracy, which has been evolving and growing stronger for 234 straight years in this melting pot of an experiment in this portion of North America they chose in 1776 to refer to as the United States of America. Despite occasional steps backwards at times in this long journey, we did it again. We had a largely peaceful election. So the people won, yet again.
Let's just not try to export our experiment agressively overseas the next two years I ask all those elected to federal office, I plead. And please talk to each other, reason things out, be respectful, civil, even cordial and friendly in your discussions and afterwards. No name calling or threats, implied or otherwise would be nice. Compromise, please. Let laws be passed, budgets be passed, and friendships with opponents happen, please. At all levels;state, federal and local. And in the 2011 election and following let's please just be friendly and "loyal" in our opposition please boys and girls.
And thanks to all, regardless of what your opinons may be,in both the private and public sectors for engaging in one of the highest callings I can possibly imagine: Public Service. And congratulations to Leader Reid, and to House Minority Leader, and likely U.S. House Speaker and third-in-line to the Presidency, John Boehner.
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