I actually have footprints on my site from "Russian Federation". They're probably stalking me for my Nostalgic Russian Children's Tales (well, not really mine, I guess).

Go figure.

It sounds like Kaitie may have a broken tail bone (or a "broken butt" as we keep calling it). There's not really anything they can do for it. How do you put your rear end in a cast? They told her it's about a two month recovery. She did this on the first day of summer vacation.

She's supposed to go to horseback riding camp in five weeks. Please pray she'll be recovered enough to do that. I know she would appreciate it and so will I.

Get Fuzzy just continues to be funny.

I've got some hidden user IDs around the internet. There's a fake Xanga that I call ***************************. I've also got a secret AIM screen name. As far as I know, there's only one other person in the world who knows that one (don't say who you are if you're that one person).

Another blogger on here recently said she had a secret Xanga account. Is that weird or does everyone do that? Do you?

I found this to be way too funny ....

... but we're all about having fun here in SpiderDad land (well, that's not the only thing we do). But here is your daily dose of wisdom. If anyone knows the originator of this quote, I'll be glad to correct it. Until that time, we'll say it's from that famous philosopher, Anonymous:

Would you pray for Kaitie? She slipped on a wet porch step last night and really hurt her back. Without having talked to her today, I'm sure she's going to be really sore. Please pray that she recovers quickly and that there's nothing more serious.

Hope you're ok, Kait!

First, I'm not very thrilled with the Republican nominee for president. As a matter of fact, I'm pretty disgusted with the entire Republican party leadership over the past several years. Through scandals, poor choices and failure to keep their own house clean, they've squandered the goodwill of the American public and erased many of the gains we made since the mid- to late-nineties.

Their actions and failure to read the signs - or choice to plain ignore them - has set us up for a potential bloodbath in this coming election. Those of you that are Democrats should be feeling pretty good right now, although I wouldn't get cocky yet.

I've got more to say about that, but it's a topic for a later post - maybe.

With that out of the way, I think the nation is making a poor choice if they elect Barack Obama president. The man is certainly charismatic. His meteoric rise to national prominence is compelling and has the potential to seize the voting public's heart. Let's face it, America loves the story of a come-from-behind underdog.

Here's an article sharing one reason I won't vote for Obama. Even more, this indicts the national media that gives free passes to their anointed candidates. You can find the original article here.

Barack Gaffes
The Obama machine.

By Michelle Malkin

All
it takes is one gaffe to taint a Republican for life. The political
establishment never let Dan Quayle live down his fateful misspelling of
“potatoe.” The New York Times distorted and misreported the
first President Bush’s questions about new scanner technology at a
grocers’ convention to brand him permanently as out of touch.

But
what about Barack Obama? The guy’s a perpetual gaffe machine. Let us
count the ways, large and small, that his tongue has betrayed him
throughout the campaign:

Last May, he claimed that tornadoes in Kansas killed a whopping 10,000
people: “In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in
Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” The
actual death toll: 12.

Earlier this month in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States:
“Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United
States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.”

Last week, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, S.D., audience, Obama
exulted: “Thank you, Sioux City. ... I said it wrong. I’ve been in Iowa
for too long. I’m sorry.”

Explaining last week why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky,
Obama again botched basic geography: “Sen. Clinton, I think, is much
better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it’s not
surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in
the middle.” On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?

Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. Last March,
on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Ala., he
claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights
movement: “There was something stirring across the country because of
what happened in Selma, Ala., because some folks are willing to march
across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.”

Obama
was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman,
Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was “speaking metaphorically
about the civil-rights movement as a whole.”

Earlier this month in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Obama showed off his
knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by homing in on a lack of
translators: “We only have a certain number of them, and if they are
all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.” The
real reason it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan: Iraqis
speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other
non-Arabic languages.

Over the weekend in Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old,
multibillion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear-waste cleanup: “Here’s
something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that
I’m not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don’t know
exactly what’s going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I
promise you I’ll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride
back to the airport.”

I assume on that ride, a staffer reminded
him that he’s voted on at least one defense-authorization bill that
addressed the “costs, schedules, and technical issues” dealing with the
nation’s most contaminated nuclear-waste site.

Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama’s Dreams from My Father: “Then, there’s the copy of Life
magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it,
he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an
African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to
lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don’t exist, say the magazine’s own historians.”

And in perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all,
Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn’t “pose a
serious threat to us” — cluelessly arguing that “tiny countries” with
small defense budgets can’t do us harm — and then promptly flip-flopped
the next day, claiming, “I’ve made it clear for years that the threat
from Iran is grave.”

Barack Obama — promoted by the Left and the
media as an all-knowing, articulate, transcendent Messiah — is a
walking, talking gaffe machine. How many more passes does he get? How
many more can we afford?

© 2008 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.

If you were Barack Obama, would you trust Hillary to be your Vice President?

Here are some more pictures of the new resident in our home. She's awfully cute.