An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Archive for October 2007
“Forwards”
I don’t know about you, but I got burnt out on those emails ya get that you’re suppose to forward. You know the ones, “Email this to nine million people or your hair will fall out and all your children will have bucked teeth!” I don’t forward them, unless it’s right back to the person (my sister) who sent it to me in the first place.
This one I got from a home school mom, on the other hand, presented an interesting concept that I thought I’d share:
In his opening address he said, “We can’t keep Christians from going to church. We can’t keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth. We can’t even keep them from forming an intimate relationship with their Saviour. Once they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken.”
“So let them go to their churches; let them have their covered dish dinners, BUT steal their time, so they don’t have time to develop a relationship with Jesus Christ..”
“This is what I want you to do,” said the devil:
“Distract them from gaining hold of their Saviour and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!”
“How shall we do this?” his demons shouted.
“Keep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent innumerable schemes to occupy their minds,” he answered. “Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow. Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to
work 6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles. Keep them from spending time with their children.”
“As their families fragment, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures of work! Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small voice. Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive. To keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their home and see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays
non-biblical music constantly. This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ. Fill the coffee tables with magazines and newspapers. Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day.”
“Invade their driving moments with billboards. Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order catalogs, sweepstakes, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering free products, services and false hopes..”
“Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazines and TV so their husbands will believe that outward beauty is what’s important, and they’ll become dissatisfied with their wives. Keep the wives too tired to love their husbands at night. Give them headaches too! If they don’t give their husbands the love they need, they will begin to look elsewhere.”
“That will fragment their families quickly!”
“Give them Santa Claus to distract them from teaching their children the real meaning of Christmas. Give them an Easter bunny so they won’t talk about his resurrection and power over sin and death.”
“Even in their recreation, let them be excessive. Have them return from their recreation exhausted. Keep them too busy to go out in nature and reflect on God’s creation. Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, plays, concerts, and movies instead.”
“Keep them busy, busy, busy!”
“And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences. Crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek power from Jesus.”
“Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good of the cause.”
“It will work!”
“It will work!”
It was quite a plan!
The demons went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get busier and more rushed, going here and there. Having little time for their God or their families. Having no time to tell others about the power of Jesus to change lives.
I guess the question is, has the devil been successful in his schemes?
You be the judge!!!!!
Does “BUSY” mean: B-eing U-nder S-atan’s Y-oke?
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Piece of Advice
If you are in a pissy mood, keep it to yourself. There’s a difference between childlike, and childish. I’d much rather be childlike, than rude and insensitive which is how the childish behave.
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Fed Up
Texas Fred, a native of Louisiana, is just plain fed up with the pissing and moaning coming out of New Orleans. I can’t say as I blame him. Two years after Katrina, what have the citizens of NOLA done…..for themselves.
Chocolate City: an editorial by TexasFred
Most of you know that I am originally from Louisiana, I had to leave there almost 26 years ago, and I mean HAD TO LEAVE, and not turn back, I was fed up with the ignorance, the corruption, the race baiting, the entitlement people, the welfare on demand, all of it, the place is sad, it is disgusting, the entire state is rife with crime and corruption, Louisiana has been infamously well known for decades because of that corruption, but New Orleans is a place unto itself, it IS a majority black population, and for the most part, the citizens that have stayed in New Orleans, after Katrina, the ones that are there NOW, are the dregs of society, they want ‘the man’ to come save them, ‘the man’ being one in the same as the EVIL WHITE MAN that is graphically pointed out in this post…
He has a link to this video, which I have to say, is absolutely hilarious, because it’s true.
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Ugly “Custom” Spreading
AMMAN, Jordan - Every year 5,000 women are murdered in so-called ‘honor killings’ where members of a family kill one of their own women, like a mother or a sister because they believe her actions have shamed the family.
Rana Husseini says that honor is restored only when the women is dead. Husseini has documented the practice of honor killings as a reporter for The Times of Jordan.
“Living in a patriarchal society, women somehow tend to be always blamed,” said Hussein. “Her family holds her responsible for their reputation and so the minute this woman does something wrong they see no solution but to kill her. For them blood cleanses honor.”
This article is pretty much word for word what the video says. Watch the video, to the side.
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Morning Coffee 10/29/07
Saudi King Criticizes UK on Terror
“I believe that most countries are not taking this issue too seriously, including, unfortunately, Great Britain,” he said through a translator. “We have sent information to Great Britain before the terrorist attacks in Britain, but unfortunately no action was taken and it may have been able to avert the tragedy.”
Agreed. Most countries aren’t taking this seriously, which is obvious from all the kowtowing we see.
PM insists his condition won’t force him to step down
Olmert, 62, said that in recent years he had taken care to undergo a complete annual physical, mainly to allow for early detection of any disorders. Upon returning from a visit to Russia 10 days ago, he said, he was examined. The exam showed the first signs of prostate cancer.
If there was a reason for him to step down, this isn’t it.
EU warns against ‘collective punishment’ in Gaza
The European Union warned Israel on Monday against imposing “collective punishment” on the 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by reducing the territory’s fuel supplies.
Israel began implementing the sanctions on Sunday in what it said was a response to Palestinian rocket fire on Israeli towns from the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave.
Why is it always Israel being ‘warned’? Why not put out a HUGE warning on the ones who keep doing the damage!
Assaults on Texas prison guards increase
Strike with your palms. Hit the chin, chest and lower abdomen. Kick if you have to.
It could save your life, the 22-year-old training sergeant tells a group of about 75 out-of-breath and generally unfit cadets at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Minnie Houston Training Center just north of Huntsville.
“This is going to buy you time for staff to reach you after you’ve been hit,” says Sgt. Richard Rodenbeck.
Assaults on prison guards and staffers have doubled in the last five years, according to an analysis by The Dallas Morning News. And turnover at the second-largest prison system in the country is at a record level with one in four employees leaving the department last year. The TDCJ workforce was down 3,935 employees at the end of August.
I could give you a couple of reasons for the increased violence, but then, I’d be called a racist.
Turkish envoy: Turkey gives priority to expansion of ties with Iran
At the meeting which took place at the end the Turkish envoy’s mission in Tehran, Turkoglu told Aghai that his country gives priority to expansion of ties with Iran.
Aghai underlined the need for campaign against terrorism, saying that the US and the UK always try to support enemies of Muslim nations, particularly the usurper Zionist regime, with an aim of undermining regional countries.
Uh, who is doing all the terrorizing around the world? I don’t see Israelis making a habit of blowing themselves up in the attempt to take as many as possible with them. Don’t see too many Brits or Americans doing that either. So, who is supporting what here? I’d say most Muslim nations are their own worst enemy.
Doctors turn attention to farm bill to fight obesity
If you’re feeling fat these days, blame Congress.
That’s just what the nation’s doctors are doing, saying that federal lawmakers are responsible for the fact that a salad costs so much more than a Big Mac.
Hoping to produce thinner waistlines, many doctors — including the American Medical Association — want Congress to stop subsidizing the production of foods that are high in fat and cholesterol and spend more to promote fruits, vegetables, legumes and grains that are not.
Yep! It’s all Congress’ fault I sit around on my ass munching Big Macs! (insert major sarcasm) Good grief! BTW, I avoid McDonald’s like the plague. 
Country Hall of Famer Porter Wagoner dies at 80
Known as “The Thin Man From West Plains,†Mr. Wagoner’s contributions to country music are manifold and consequential. Marty Stuart, who produced this year’s much-heralded comeback album Wagonmaster, calls him “an American master and a cornerstone of our music.â€
My dad had us watching his show every time it came on, I think it was Saturday. (He thought Dolly Parton was the cat’s meow, but really enjoyed the whole show.) Rest in peace sir.
Lantos Offends Dutch With Historical Remark
The lawmakers said that Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told them that “Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay.”
Lantos, a Holocaust survivor, was responding to arguments that the United States should shut down the prison, located on a U.S. naval base in Cuba, the lawmakers said. Mariko Peters, a member of the Dutch Green Party, who began the exchange with Lantos, said she took notes of the remarks.
Well, he’s right. They aren’t as outraged by what happened.
Atheist seeks to have IL moment of silence law blocked
A federal judge in Chicago could decide today whether to block a new Illinois law requiring a brief time of prayer or reflective silence at the start of each school day.
A lawsuit filed by a 14-year-old girl and her atheist father calls the law an unconstitutional attempt to inject religion into public schools.
Radio talk show host Robert Sherman, who sued along with his daughter, is seeking a temporary restraining order to halt schools’ obeying the law until the case is decided.
A moment of silence is not a prayer. This guy could really use a couple of moments, to reflect on what an ass he is, and how he is raising his daughter.
Muslin woman says Lompoc bank refused her a checking account
A Muslim woman from Morocco says a Lompoc bank refused to let her open a checking account.
Fatiha Harit says she was left in tears after a Union Bank of California representative told he she couldn’t open an account because of Morocco is a high risk terrorist country.
(…)
Harit says she believes she was being discriminated against because she was wearing a traditional Muslim headscarf.
Odds are, she’s right. Can’t imagine why though. (sarcasm)
ETA members sentenced over car bombing
A COURT in Spain sentenced two members of the armed Basque separatist group ETA to jail terms of 1243 years each for a car bombing in the Spanish capital in 1995 that killed six people.
The sentences are symbolic, as at the time of the bombing the maximum jail sentence anyone can serve in Spain for any crime was 30 years. The maximum sentence has since been raised to 40 years.
Perhaps they should put a ’symbolic’ stick of dynamite…..where the sun don’t shine and save the Spanish taxpayers a good chunk of change.
Oh yeah, and the Red Sox won. Whup de do! Can we get back to normal now?
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Fred Stuff
Thompson wary of long-term Iraq presence
Republican Fred Thompson warned Saturday that suggestions the U.S. could maintain a long-term presence in Iraq “would not be a good development,” and he conceded that mistakes were made that are only now being rectified.
President Bush has suggested there could be a long-term U.S. presence in Iraq, very similar to what the nation has in Korea. But Thompson, who has been a reliable supporter of the war in Iraq thus far, was leery of a long-term presence in an interview with The Associated Press.
Ok, now I’m confused. If we aren’t going to just walk away, and commit to win this thing, wouldn’t it be logical that we’d have a presence there for quite a while? I mean, seriously, we still haven’t left Germany or Japan. I sure don’t want to see our guys in Iraq anywhere near as long.
While Thompson said there are U.S. troops on long-term deployments in places like Germany and Korea, he said “of course not” when asked if a similar deployment should happen in Iraq.
“I don’t think that’s desirable,” said Thompson, though he did leave an opening. “What might be necessary in the future, you can never tell,” he said.
Ok, I’m sorry, but…….duh!
His described his definition of success in Iraq:
“The average person being able to go to worship without fear of being blown up. … Political leaders being able to meet without fear of being blown up. They key is stability, and that would signal a level of stability we haven’t had.”
Not being worried about ending up in pieces is definitely a good thing, but one type of bad guy is being replaced with another type of bad guy. I don’t see any indication of ’stability’ in that at all.
Thompson has warned that the nation faces in Iraq “kids” who make improvised explosive devices, and it would be a bad signal to lose to such a foe.
The greatest fighting force on the planet can NOT lose to kids. Totally unacceptable.
“They are being made in large numbers by youngsters along the border there and they are doing a lot of damage to us,” Thompson said. “The perception that America could be defeated by this and these people, obviously not alone, for that to be such an integral part of the success of our enemies would be a very damaging thing I think to the perception of our will and our abilities.”
Huh? If anyone understands this, please translate, K?
He dismissed suggestions he runs a campaign that’s less intense than his rivals.
“I don’t feel the need to impress the national media with the details of my schedule,” said Thompson. “I do things my own way, at my own pace.”
I tend to agree. We shouldn’t be allowing the media to choose our next presidential candidates, yet, that’s exactly what we’ve done for a while now. I don’t care who Sean Hannity endorses, or Perky Couric, or any of the rest of them. I want to know where ALL of them stand, and I’d like them to tell me themselves.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has maintained a lead in most national polls among the Republican contenders, though his pro-choice and pro-gay rights stands are at odds with many in the conservative base of the Republican.
I get the impression that Giuliani has maintained that lead because people, even those serious conservatives, are afraid of another Clinton White House, and feel only he can beat her. How ’bout we stick without our values instead!
Things will change, Thompson argued, when voters begin to focus on the views of the candidates.
“Let’s just say there will be more focus on everyone and everyone’s positions,” Thompson said. “I’m sure there are a lot of voters out there who are really not clear on the positions of all of us, and that includes Mayor Giuliani.”
Die hards have already been focusing.
H/T: Elephant Biz
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Competition is Good
Fond du Lac native mulls challenging Roessler for state Senate seat
Oshkosh Common Councilor Jessica King — a Fond du Lac native — has filed paperwork with the Wisconsin State Elections Board to explore a run for the Wisconsin Senate seat currently held by Republican Sen. Carol Roessler.
King, a first term Oshkosh city councilor, has filed documents that allow her to form an exploratory committee and to begin to raise money for a possible bid as a Democrat for Roessler’s seat.
Roessler, R-Oshkosh, has been unopposed the last two times she has been up for re-election. She declined to say whether she would seek a seventh four-year term representing the 18th Senate District.
“I am focusing on the job that I have, which is what I do,” Roessler said. “My focus is on the priorities of my district and the budget and the vetoes and my legislative responsibilities.”
I don’t know Jessica King. If she is more conservative, which isn’t hard to do, than Roessler, I’d kick in a few bucks towards her campaign.
I can think of a few folks in the Fond du Lac area I believe would do a great job in that seat, but they don’t seem to have stepped forward…………………..yet.
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Union Thuggery
Organized Labor’s Green Blackmail
James Sherk
Organized Labor has a long history with extortion and the mob. Federal prosecutors have put most of those mob bosses behind bars, but unions haven’t renounced using blackmail to get what they want. They simply use more sophisticated methods to do the same thing.
Take the way unions exploit environmental concerns through Project Labor Agreements. Under PLAs, businesses promise to hire only union members — or else. Why would businesses sign such agreements? Because unions threaten to use environmental regulations to shut them down unless they sign the PLA.
The law requires companies to get environmental permits to begin major construction projects. The process takes time, and community groups may object to awarding the permits.
Unions can misuse these laws to kill a project outright — or at least delay it for several years. They can file environmental objections, conduct their own environmental impact assessment that shows that letting it go forward would harm the Earth, and use their influence to block companies from getting the necessary permits. Many businesses face an offer they can’t refuse: Sign a PLA and hire more expensive union members to construct their buildings, or the union will use environmental laws to shutter the project.
Sound like blackmail? That’s because it is. Only this time unions use government bureaucrats instead of armed thugs to intimidate businesses. It happens repeatedly:
— Gaylord Entertainment planned to build a $1 billion hotel and convention center on San Diego’s waterfront. The San Diego Building and Construction Trades Council, however, insisted that Gaylord sign a PLA adding $100 million to the total cost or the union would tie up the project for years with environmental lawsuits. Gaylord pulled out, costing San Diego thousands of new jobs.
— The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 100 objected to a solar power plant being built in Fresno, Calif. Solar power plants are usually considered environmentally friendly, but this plant was being built with non-union labor. The IBEW discovered many environmental problems with the project and attempted to block it. Fortunately, the Fresno City Council saw through the attempted extortion and voted to reject the union’s complaints.
— Indeck Energy Services applied to build several co-generation power plants in upstate New York. The Building and Construction Trades Council also had environmental objections to this project and requested a meeting with Indeck’s president. At the meeting, however, instead of discussing the environment, the union bosses threatened to “stop every Indeck project in New York unless it went union.†Indeck capitulated, signed a PLA, and the union reversed its earlier objections, strongly urging the government to grant the environmental permits.
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Morning Coffee 10/28/07
Homeland Security, New York agree on new driver’s licenses
The Bush administration and New York cut a deal Saturday to create a new generation of super-secure driver’s licenses for U.S. citizens, but also allow illegal immigrants to get a version.
New York is the fourth state to reach an agreement on federally approved secure licenses, after Arizona, Vermont and Washington.
Are there any grown ups in charge? Pure insanity.
GOP field’s hard turn to right has risk
They could reinvent the party, much as Barry Goldwater did in 1964 or Ronald Reagan did in 1980. They would reject the “compassionate conservatism” of George W. Bush, circa 2000, which appealed to suburban moderates but frustrated conservatives with a free-spending, big-government approach that expanded the federal role in education; created the Medicare Part D prescription drug plan, the first new entitlement since Medicare itself in the 1960s; and sought to allow illegal immigrants to remain in the country.
I’m all for reinventing the party. Heaven knows, what it has become is NOT my ideal. But then, that’s just me.
Obama Promises a Forceful Stand Against Clinton
Senator Barack Obama said he would start confronting Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton more directly and forcefully, saying Friday that she had not been candid in describing her views on critical policy issues, as he tries to address mounting alarm among supporters that his lack of assertiveness so far has allowed her to dominate the presidential race.
If I were him, I’d be worried about my safety and well being. The Clintons don’t like like it when folks confront. Reputations ruined, accidents, etc.
Minorities less likely to trick-or-treat
Two-thirds of parents say their children will trick-or-treat this Halloween, but fewer minorities will let their kids go door to door, with some citing safety worries, a poll shows.
The survey found that 73 percent of whites versus 56 percent of minorities said their children will trick-or-treat.
It doesn’t seem quite fair for a few animals to ruin a kid’s fun, now does it. Perhaps the so called leadership with stop coddling the thugs, and start looking at the childhood the kids are missing?
Venezuela Increasingly A Conduit For Cocaine
Colombian drug kingpins in league with corrupt Venezuelan military officers are increasingly using this country as a way station for smuggling cocaine to the United States and Europe, according to Colombian and U.S. officials. The Bush administration’s dismal relations with Venezuela’s government have made matters worse, anti-drug agencies say, paralyzing counternarcotics cooperation.
Umm….shouldn’t that be “Chavez’s dismal relations with the U.S.”? Who called who ‘diablo’? Odds are, ‘Ugo is making a few bucks of this deal too. Anything that could see the downfall of a democracy is just peachy with him.
Four months after Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton went public with explosive allegations that powerful businessmen tried to frame him in a sex sting, a criminal probe drags on.
Special prosecutor Joe Baugh said last week he has two Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents working the case and plans to subpoena records to help resolve the matter.
Jeez! Talk about your ‘tangled webs’!
Israel begins cuts in fuel supplies to Gaza Strip
Israel began cutting vital fuel deliveries to the Gaza Strip on Sunday, following through on a promise to increase pressure on Gaza’s Hamas rulers in response to months of Palestinian rocket attacks.
Ahmed Ali, the deputy director of Gaza’s Petroleum Authority, said shipments of diesel fuel and gasoline were 30 percent smaller than regular deliveries. He warned the cuts would cause widespread hardship in impoverished Gaza.
Does Gaza produce anything? Do they grow food? Seriously, why are the impoverished? If Hamas can afford to buy rockets, why can’t they start putting those bucks into creating a better place for the folks?
Evacuations raise deportation fears
Flames were only one worry for some illegal immigrants in the fire zone. Equally scary were the crowded roads and evacuation centers, heavy with law enforcement officers, including U.S. Border Patrol agents.
Some wondered if they would be deported if they went to shelters.
“We decided that we wouldn’t go because they ask for your name and everything,” said day laborer Jose Salgado, waiting for work off the 5 Freeway near Rancho Santa Fe.
Shucks!
Gap Stores Using Child Labor in Indian Sweatshop, British Newspaper Reports
A British newspaper reported Sunday that it found children as young as 10 making clothes in a sweatshop in New Delhi, India, that the Gap fashion chain planned to sell in the West.
The Observer quoted the children as saying they had been sold to the sweatshop by their families in Indian states such as Bihar and West Bengal and would not be allowed to leave until they had repaid that fee.
I knew there was a reason I didn’t like the Gap. I can’t imagine any parent selling their kid, for any reason. I understand sometimes a family is so poor, they need to have their young ones work, just to survive. But using their kids as property, to be bought and sold? Inconceivable.
US: al-Qaida Presence in Baghdad Reduced
The threat from al-Qaida in several former strongholds in Baghdad has been significantly reduced, but criminals who have established “almost mafia-like presence” in some areas pose a new threat, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Sunday.
Gen. David Petraeus stressed, however, the terror organization remained “a very dangerous and very lethal enemy” and said the military would maintain pressure to keep them from regrouping.
Are they sure al Qaida isn’t just changing it’s tactics?
Having lawmaker on your side helps get state funds
Of more than 4,000 applications, nearly 3,000 lacked a legislator’s sponsorship, according to the analysis.
Secretary of State Riley Darnell was given discretion by the Legislature to award the money, but he said each of the sponsored requests had a “legislative history†and that he was “honor bound to try to deal†with the lawmakers’ requests first.
Somehow, that just doesn’t sound quite right.
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Are You As Smart As An 8th Grader…..In 1895?
Could You Have Passed the 8th Grade in 1895?
…Take a Look:
This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 from Salina, KS. USA. It was taken from the original document on file at the Smoky Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, KS and reprinted by the Salina Journal.
8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, KS - 1895
Grammar (Time, one hour)
1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications.
3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run.
5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case.
6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
7 - 10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.
Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)
1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50 cts. per bu., deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?
4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
5. Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $20 per m?
8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per are, the distance around which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.
U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth of the United States.
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of theRebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates:
1607
1620
1800
1849
1865
Orthography (Time, one hour)
1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication?
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
4. Give four substitutes for caret ‘u’.
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final ‘e’. Name two exceptions under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono,super.
8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd,cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences, Cite, site, sight, fane,fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced andindicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.
Geography (Time, one hour)
1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is theocean?
4. Describe the mountains of North America.
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba,Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fermandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each.
8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the earth.
H/T: Taxing Tennessee - Gas prices vs Public Education?
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