Sloth loves Cat

What planet is that thing from?>?

"The Hell of American Daycare"

Heard about this story on NPR today. Quality of a daycare comes down to the quality of the people running it since government doesnt have the resources to enforce rules and teachers only get paid ~19k a year so one cant expect quality. More than foster parents I guess. Comes down to the kids luck (cause they cant often count on mom to research these things) whether they get a good start to their education or something else entirely. Another American social problem that would be solved with public boarding schools. Or we could keep spending money on military, drug enforcement and making sure people here illegally can work and go to school.

Israeli military still arresting children

Face of a cold hard Jihadist ya ?. I'm sure imprisoning him and mistreating him will make his less likely to be one. Israel is an apartheid state I've  ever seen one..but really lets keep sending them money. Why are we doing that again? Oh ya "gods chosen people" and "the holy land". Religious nutjobery.

Joe's Music Pick of the Week: The Future Soon

Music by Jon Coulton..he's got a show on NPR now..visuals are from World of Warcraft

Military accidently sells US radar light spectum to Mali

Going to cost us 1Billion dolars to replace the radars with ones that can use the new frequency. I guess there are no takebacks? Not really suprising that government can do something so dumb, but what boggles the mind is that amount of money casually being tossed around. We have human families living in slums or homeless. Kids who go hungry and dont grown mentally or physically tio their full potential. Can we liquated some of these BILLION dollar toys we dont need (When was the last time anyone shot down a B-52 bomber?) and give the money to people who can use it to survive?

Movie Review : Iron Lady

Big Thumbs Down. I was hoping for a quasi epic history documentary and what we got was a seriously depressing (but well acted) commentary on the various symptoms of dementia. This movie does not show Margaret Thatcher in a good light. She's pitiful through most of the movie and thats when the director isnt rubbing in the point that she abandoned her family for politics. I really dont feel I came out with more info that I went in with about Margaret Thatcher, but I'm pretty sure I never want to have dementia and hope my family doesnt green light any movies about me suffering from it, especially while I'm still alive.

Joe's Music Pick of the Week: City on a Hill

Casting Crowns remains one of my favorite bands. The music is great, the live concerts are a good mix of music and interaction and the band has a great blog with interesting videos and life lessons.