Nope.  I do pretty much all my blogging here on Xanga. 

When you talk about how to get to the top blog page, you mean navigating there or getting a blog there?  To navigate there, just go to xanga.com, it opens up on top blogs.  To get a blog on there, just hope enough folks read and comment on it.  Some sort of goofy formula for it, but haven't figured it out yet.

@Aloysius_son - Well said. I popped over to agnophilo's site and popped out. Some people cannot see the forest for the trees, and I become extremely frustrated by this. If you get me started on the media, I could go on a tirade. Let me just sum it up:

Obama: You didn't build that.

Media: He was talking about govt. programs! And you didn't build bridges, roads, infrastructure, &c.

Romney: 47% of folks don't pay taxes.

Media: He's EVIL! He doesn't care for the poor! He's rich! He won't show us his tax returns!

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Romney is factually correct. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57515033-503544/fact-checking-romneys-47-percent-comment/

 But you know who the hello isn't? The one who said we didn't build that! Guess what? 47% of us didn't cause they were being fed by the others who did! Ooomph. I've lost my temper, J. I need kisses....

Things have changed a lot in the past decade. I feel like kids are just... bigger now. Maturing at a younger age and growing taller and well, heavier than ever before.  Of course the stimpy school lunches that we recieved don't hold up to the modern generations hunger level. That or we didn't complain. Maybe it's that my school didn't have walls so you couldn't actually hear bellies grumbling.

@mtngirlsouth - Reckon people don't realise the extent of the breach of trust the Executive Branch has taken.

@Thatslifekid - I do believe we are evolving. Kids seem to be taller, bigger, stronger.....and hungrier. Perhaps we could take the ethanol outta the gas and feed the corn to these kids instead. That damn ethanol has caused us to fix two motorcycles and a sailboat. Now, I've lost my temper again thinking on this BS. Where is the logic in ethanol?

@godfatherofgreenbay - Let's say there was a child that has to live in a bubble because of so many allergies.  Should we remove all possible items that he could be allergic to and send him to school, so he can live out of his bubble?  Of course, that would mean kids can only eat tofu and soy milk.  Nothing else. 

Extreme?  Yes.  Any different?  No. 

When people want special treatment, we cannot keep accomodating them especially if they're in the super-minority, and the treatment isn't equal rights.  If a person is so allergic to pet dander, that it could kill them, would you be ok with all households in a 5 block radius being forced to get rid of their pets?  Again, it's the same principle.  Forcing others to accomodate one or two individuals, even in life or death situations, isn't equal rights.  The children with the allergies can eat whatever they choose.  (Yes, they even have the choice to consume the allergen as well if they were so compelled.)  But the rest of the kids?  Nope.  No freedom to eat what they choose.

Many families simply cannot buy school lunches, they just can't afford it.  They also shouldn't be forced to buy them either, even at reduced or free rates.  We couldn't.  Most days, it was PB&J sandwiches.  And let's face it, PB&J sammiches are fairly nutritious, especially when made with homemade jelly and peanut butter. 

Folks that can't or don't want to spend, cannot continue to demand that everyone else pay.  Eventually, we will run out of everyone else.

Everyone has the choice.  Those with the allergies SHOULD NOT and CANNOT continue to force their will upon others.  Why should the majority lose freedom to accomodate someone else?