President George W. Bush (news - web sites) and Office of Management and Budget Director Joshua Bolton (C) talk to conferees, above a misspelled sign, at the White House Conference on the Economy in Washington, December 16, 2004. The White House went all out to showcase the advantages of U.S. President George W. Bush's ambitious financial agenda this week, but in the end the 'challenges' proved too much. The word 'challenges' -- a main theme of a two-day White House economic conference that ended on Thursday -- was misspelled on a large television monitor that stood in front of Bush during a panel discussion.REUTERS/Reuters TV 

I love technology-- Here are the painting possibilities!

Technology is straight awesome. I thought that surely somewhere on the web, on some painting website, I can choose colors and they can simulate it on a picture of a wall. Sure enough, through Home Depot's website, I came across a cool Behr website that does just that. Of course, then it wouldn't let me just save the picture to my computer...but my Paint Shop Pro 7 allows me to do screen captures. So I captured the photos of the different colors and then cut and pasted my border in. Now the border is not as big as it appears in these photos. I allowed it to be a little bigger I could get a good look at the contrast.

Well, now that you can scroll down and see the options...are your opinions still the same?

(P.S. YOU CAN CLICK ON THE PICTURES TO SEE A LARGER VERSION.)




Pale yellow

Make your baby take anti-spaz medicine yellow 

Light Blue 

Light Green 

I need your advice...

The border for Micah's nursery.

Well, this is picture that is actually two merged pictures. One is an overall shot of the border, and the other is a closeup of the yellow block. It is a cool border and isn't rectangular shaped but is actually cut out so the block have their regular shape and aren't on a background.

But here is where I need some advice... I am thinking about painting the nursery walls a light yellow. Because the red, blue or green might be too dark. Now if I use a yellow lighter than the yellow on this block, will that still look O.K.? Will those yellows clash and look wierd? If I use the same yellow as the block, will that look wierd because the yellow blocks will all blend in with the wall and look half-invisible? I know that may seem like a crazy question, but I don't want to do all this work and then have a retared look. If you have been to my house in the last year or so, you know what I went through with that red bathroom of mine. (Which now, by the way, will be converted to a Winnie the Pooh bathroom so I can keep the red.) Ok...so what do you think? [Also, this border will actually be in the middle of the wall, not up by the ceiling, so it will be noticeable.]

By the way I just installed my Paint Shop Pro 7 software and it is the bomb pic editing, etc. software.

Study: TV Show Negative Image of Religion

On "Drudge Report" (see Charlie's Links) or click here to go directly to the article.

New Evidence Reopens Debate about the Shroud of Turin

Interesting. I'm not sure what to think about it. Doesn't really matter I guess...but interesting.

Click here to read the article.

Just curious

Does anyone want to admit not getting the binary joke? It's ok. The people who comment on my blog never make fun of anyone. Open up...be vunerable.

Children's Choir Christmas Performance

Just got back from church. We've been practicing this little Christmas singing gig with preschoolers. They did a pretty good job. I played the piano and Tori and a couple other ladies directed. Those kids are a hoot. This is a picture of one of the older groups singing. ( I took this picture with my phone...sorry about the quality.)

Michael's "dying wish"

Go to Michael's blog (see my "Recommended Blogs" section and click on "my drivetrain of thought") and read the story "dying wish". I thought it was funny and true.

Blog-evolution

Whew! Who invented HTML anyway? Case sensitive stuff is enough to make you go mad. I've been trying to change a few things around on here...add some color, etc. But you make one little mistake and BAM...all you can see is text on steroids. I'm going to try to give the blog a Christmas theme, but that'll have to wait until tomorrow...It's 11:30 and time to go to bed.

Car trailer 

Kelly's Kennel

While emailing Michael the other day, I was reminded of an old defunct website of mine. It is from a stint when Tori and I had plans to breed our Golden Retrievers and make tons of money. Our female had been "gotten to" by a stray dog before...and the puppies were beautiful, but we gave them away, so we decided to buy a male and make some green. However, it turns out that our male dog was either homosexual or asexual. So much for that plan. The dogs ended up being too much upkeep, they wouldn't stop barking at night, and they had to spend too much time in a (rather large) pen, so we sold them. Why do I feel like I should be wearing a leopard hat with a feather on it?

If you wish to see the site, click below:

Kelly's Kennel

How do you like our logo at the bottom? I made it myself. How cool am I?

After reading Michael's previous "Santa" blog (www.drivetrain.blogspot.com), I decided to contact David Hammack, a pilot buddy of mine to take care of our little jolly red problem. 

Credit Card Shotgun

MINNEAPOLIS -- A new twist on the idea of concealable weapons, the credit card-sized shotgun, is shown at Koscielski's Guns and Ammo, the only gun shop in Minneapolis. It's a two-shot weapon machined from a block of metal the height and width of a standard credit card, and about a half-inch thick. Each barrel fires seven standard steel BBs. It will retail for $100. Mark Koscielski, owner of Koscielski's Guns and Ammo, and Patrick Teel, who makes the guns in suburban Blaine, gave The Associated Press a preview Tuesday night ahead of a news conference scheduled for Wednesday. They said the guns are meant to be used only for close-range self-defense and wouldn't be effective as offensive weapons. (10/05/04 AP photo)

Slightly crude....but so hilarious I couldn't help myself. 

Finally got the computer

Well, I finally have it. I finally have my new computer. It's been five years in the making. Well, sort of. At least its not smokin' yet.

It can burn cds, dvds, edit video and make bananna pudding.

Redneck Car Alarm 

Ironic 

No explanation needed. 

79% say they believe in the Virgin Birth

Not that I believe that all (or even most) are truely Christians, but it was nice to see such high numbers anyway.

The Christmas Miracle

Most Americans believe the virgin birth is literally true, a NEWSWEEK poll finds

WEB EXCLUSIVE

Newsweek
Updated: 2:08 p.m. ET Dec. 5, 2004

Dec. 5 - Seventy-nine percent of Americans believe that, as the Bible says, Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, without a human father, according to a new NEWSWEEK poll on beliefs about Jesus.
Sixty-seven percent say they believe that the entire story of Christmas—the Virgin Birth, the angelic proclamation to the shepherds, the Star of Bethlehem and the Wise Men from the East—is historically accurate. Twenty-four percent of Americans believe the story of Christmas is a theological invention written to affirm faith in Jesus Christ, the poll shows. In general, say 55 percent of those polled, every word of the Bible is literally accurate. Thirty-eight percent do not believe that about the Bible.
In the NEWSWEEK poll, 93 percent of Americans say they believe Jesus Christ actually lived and 82 percent believe Jesus Christ was God or the Son of God. Fifty-two percent of all those polled believe, as the Bible proclaims, that Jesus will return to earth someday; 21 percent do not believe it. Fifteen percent believe Jesus will return in their lifetime; 47 percent do not, the poll shows.
When asked if there would be more or less kindness in the world today if there had never been a Jesus, 61 percent of all those polled say there would be less kindness. Forty-seven percent say there would be more war if there had never been a Jesus (16 percent say less, 26 percent say the same); 63 percent say there would be less charity; 58 percent say there would be less tolerance; 59 percent say there would be less personal happiness and 38 percent say there would be less religious divisions (21 percent say more and 26 percent say the same).
Just 11 percent of those surveyed say American society as a whole very closely reflects true Christian values and the spirit of Jesus; 53 percent say it somewhat reflects those values. But 86 percent say they believe organized religion has a “a lot” or “some” influence over life in the United States today. Nine percent say it has “only a little” influence.
Sixty-two percent say they favor teaching creation science in addition to evolution in public schools; 26 percent oppose such teaching, the poll shows. Forty-three percent favor teaching creation science instead of evolution in public schools; 40 percent oppose the idea.
For this NEWSWEEK Poll, Princeton Survey Research Associates interviewed by telephone 1,009 adults, aged 18 and older on Dec. 2 and Dec. 3. The margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
© 2004 Newsweek, Inc.URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6650997/site/newsweek/?GT1=5936

LOS ANGELES -- Six nails embedded in the skull of construction worker Isidro Mejia, 39, after an industrial incident caused a nail gun to shoot nails into his head and brain on April 19, 2004, are seen in this X-ray image. Five of the six nails were removed in surgery that day and the sixth was removed from his face on April 23, after the swelling went down. (05/05/04 AP photo)
 

Outsourcing Comments

This entry is to encourage my friends who read my blog, to check out another couple of blogs. (I am mainly speaking to Jared and David). Michael's blog is interesting and he is always bringing up good topics. And I've starting checking Rick's too. It's pretty cool, because its like a ministry worker convention. Most all of us work in the ministry on some level. So it's neat to hear the ideas of others with similiar lives and issues. So check them out.

Michael's is www.drivetrain.blogspot.com

Rick's is www.coupleofwords.blogspot.com

LAS VEGAS -- Rick Roufus, left, delivers a blow to the body of Taro Akebono of Japan during the third round of the K-1 Battle of Bellagio III at Bellagio in Las Vegas. Roufus won the fight by a unanimous decision. (08/07/04 AP photo)
 

LOS ANGELES -- Gunther von Hagens, right, gestures towards a cadaver preserved through a process called "plastination" during a news conference as Jeffrey Rudolph, president and CEO of the California Science Center watches. Hagens' "Body Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies," opens Friday. (06/30/04 AP photo)
 

I've been away for Thanksgiving

Sorry I haven't posted in a week or so. I've been, not so much eating turkey, as eating pie. Yum. I did absolutely nothing over the holidays. Which normally might seem like a good thing, but I did so much of nothing, that I feel like I squandered some time I could have used and been a better steward. I took my "briefcase" with me over the holidays but I never opened it. Maybe I'll do better over Christmas. :/

Check out how the honors program there spells "trivia". 

Web cam hunting

Hunters soon may be able to sit at their computers and blast away at animals on a Texas ranch via the Internet, a prospect that has state wildlife officials up in arms. A controversial Web site, http://www.live-shot.com, already offers target practice with a .22 caliber rifle and could soon let hunters shoot at deer, antelope and wild pigs, site creator John Underwood said Tuesday. [...]Underwood, an estimator for a San Antonio, Texas, auto body shop, has invested $10,000 to build a platform for a rifle and camera that can be remotely aimed on his 330-acre southwest Texas ranch by anyone on the Internet anywhere in the world. [...]Underwood, 39, said he will offer animal hunting as soon as he gets a fast Internet connection to his remote ranch that will enable hunters to aim the rifle quickly at passing animals.He said an attendant would retrieve shot animals for the shooters, who could have the heads preserved by a taxidermist. They could also have the meat processed and shipped home, or donated to animal orphanages.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. -- Louis Volpe, acting regional supervisor of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's safeguarding intervention and trade compliance program, holds two Giant African Land Snails in the USDA's Milwaukee office. Federal health officials have seized several of these dangerous pests from Wisconsin classrooms and have started a national search for the creatures. Many of the snails, which are illegal to possess in the United States, were being used as teaching tools in some classrooms where school officials don't know they are dangerous, said Willie Harris, eastern regional director of the USDA's intervention and trade compliance bureau. (04/21/04 AP photo)
 

Bad timing

Once again, something I just found on the internet that I thought was just funny...


Rabidplaybunny87: Okay, so my neighbors officially hate me

GarbageStan23: why?

Rabidplaybunny87: Well, me, david and andrew were having a bonfire in the backyard, and we were making s'mores and all... and suddenly we here sirens, and see a firetruck turn into the street in front of us.

Rabidplaybunny87: So we all went running to see what was up, and our neigbor's house was on fire!

GarbageStan23: oh man!

Rabidplaybunny87: Yeah, and when we got there, the wife was crying into her husbands arms, and we were just kinda standing there, and then she saw us, and then like for 10 seconds, gave us the dirtiest look ever

Rabidplaybunny87: Turns out, we were still holding our sticks with marshmallows on it, watching the fire....

Rabidplaybunny87: talk about bad timing...

Funny prank on Credit Card junk mailers

I saw this on the internet and thought the idea was hilarious.


1. Save every Free Credit Card Offer you get, Put it in pile A 2. Save every Free Coupon You get, put that in pile B
3. Now open the credit card mail from pile A and find the Business Reply Mail Envelope.
4. Take the coupons from pile B and stuff them in the envelope you hold in your hand.
5. Drop the stuffed to the brim envelopes in your mail and walk away whistling.
I have now received two phone calls from the credit card companies telling me that they received a stuffed envelope with coupons rather then my application. They informed me that it they are not pleased that they footed the bill for the crap I sent them. I reply with "It says Business Reply Mail" I'm suggesting coupons to you to ensure that your business is more successful. They promptly hang up on me.
Now, I did this for about a month before it got boring, so I got an added idea! I added exactly 33 cents worth of pennies to the envelope so they paid EXTRA due to the weight. I got a call informing me about the money, I said it was a mistake and I demanded my change back. After yelling at the clerk and then to the supervisor they agreed to my demands and cut me a check for the money. I hold in my hand at this very moment a check from GTE Visa for exactly 33 cents.

David w/ baby Elijah 

Dear IE, I'm leaving you for good

Jared sent me this. I thought it was funny. I've been thinking about switching browsers because of all the bug problems IE has.

Security Watch : Don't get burned by viruses and s.
Dear IE, I'm leaving you for good


By Robert Vamosi Senior editor, CNET ReviewsNovember 12, 2004

Dear Internet Explorer:

It's over. Our relationship just hasn't been working for a while, and now, this is it. I'm leaving you for another browser.
I know this isn't a good time--you're down with yet another virus. I do hope you feel better soon--really, I do--but I, too, have to move on with my life. Fact is, in the entire time I've known you, you seem to always have a virus or an occasional worm. You should really see a doctor.
That said, I just can't continue with this relationship any longer. I know you say you'll fix things, that next time it'll go better--but that's what you said the last time--and the time before that. Each time I believed you.
Well, not any longer.
You cheater!The truth is there's nothing more you can say to make things better. I know about your secret marriage to Windows. You say you two are not seeing each other anymore, but I just don't believe it. You say you can live without Windows, and I've heard that Windows can live without you, but I know that's simply not true.
You say you can live without Windows, and I've heard that Windows can live without you, but I know that's simply not true.
What about HTML e-mail in Outlook? Every time there's a new letter in the Inbox, you rush over to help Windows render it. And what about HTML within Word? There you go again. And don't get me started with those late nights you've spent rendering images in Windows Explorer. You're all over Windows and, what, you just expect me to turn a blind eye?
You're no longer fit For another thing, you've gone and gotten all lazy and out of shape on me. When was the last time you picked up a new feature? Two years ago? Three? While you rest on your laurels, while you spend your days slapping patches on the various flaws that seem to pour out as though your source code were a colander, the Internet has changed. A lot.
Last Christmas, I gave you a free RSS reader, Pluck, and you seemed to like it, with new feeds popping up from time to time keeping you fun and relevant. It gave me reason to think maybe you and I could work things out. But, in the end, it just wasn't a true fit; it wasn't really a part of you.
When I mentioned wanting to view more than one Web page at a time, you just laughed, said it couldn't be done. Well, I knew that wasn't true. Opera, Netscape, and now Firefox, they can all do it. You simply don't want to discuss change.
And when you do, it's only because of someone else. A certain someone else: Windows. Don't deny it. You didn't think twice when Windows XP SP2 offered you its shiny new pop-up blocker. Or gave you new firewall protection. I know Windows has promised to block buffer overflows, too--but I'll believe it when I see it.
Yet what have you done for me lately? I don't want to keep upgrading my operating system just to keep you around. Talk about baggage.
This is itI know, I've tried breaking up before, and I've always come back, but that's because I couldn't find the right browser to move on with. I want an independent browser, one that stands on its own without a codependent operating system. What I want is a browser that's strong and secure, one that handles the latest content and won't crash. I want transparency. I want code that actually means something.
I have found just that.
You barely even talk to Macs anymore, and you always seem to walk out of the room whenever Linux stops by. Why?
With Mozilla Firefox, at least I know where I stand. The code is open source, built from the ground up, clean--not recycled. No more hidden agendas. At least when there's a flaw in Firefox, this browser alerts me on its toolbar. It doesn't try to hide its mistakes, waiting until the second Tuesday of the month to offer me a patch for some flaw that's been out there for six months already.
I can take my Firefox to my Mac and Linux friends, and everyone gets along just fine. You barely even talk to Macs anymore, and you always seem to walk out of the room whenever Linux stops by. Why? What are you afraid of? Honestly, a grown browser like you afraid of a little operating system? I think this snobby behavior speaks volumes about what's wrong with this relationship.
So this is it: Good-bye. I know you'll do fine without me; you always have. I'm sure there'll be someone who'll find you to be cute and interesting. It just won't be me.

ENGLISH CHANNEL -- British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, in a dinner jacket and bow tie, with Neil Jenkins, left, managing director of Gibbs Aquada, nears the French coast at Calais after regaining the record for crossing the English Channel in an amphibious vehicle. Using a Gibbs Aquada - -which can reach speeds of more than 100 m.p.h. on land and 30 m.p.h. on water -- Branson made the crossing in about 90 minutes, beating the previous record of six hours which was held by two Frenchmen. (06/14/04 AP photo)
 

LONDON -- Garry Turner from Lincolnshire, England, who has the world's stretchiest skin, demonstrates his talents to a passer-by on the Millennium Bridge in central London to promote the fiftieth anniversary of the Guinness World Records and the new 2005 edition of the book. (09/09/04 AP photo)
 

NASA Jet Will Try to Go 7,000 MPH

NASA Jet Will Try to Go 7,000 MPH

2 hours, 8 minutes ago Science - AP


By JOHN ANTCZAK, Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES - In March, NASA (news - web sites) launched an experimental jet that reached a record-setting speed of about 5,000 mph. Now researchers want to leave that milestone in the dust.


AP Photo


AFP
Slideshow: NASA Tests Hypersonic Jet




NASA's third and last X-43A "scramjet" was set to streak over the Pacific Ocean on Monday at 7,000 mph for 10 or 11 seconds — or 10 times the speed of sound.


The first X-43A flight failed in June 2001 when the booster rocket used to accelerate it to flight speed veered off course and had to be destroyed. The second flight in March was a success, reaching Mach 6.83 — nearly 5,000 mph — and setting a new world speed record for a plane powered by an air-breathing engine.


The last hypersonic X-43A will try, weather permitting, to break that record by making its advanced supersonic combustion ramjet perform at a level that can't even be tested on the ground, project officials said Wednesday from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.


"What we're trying to do is really get to the reality of flight — find out what does work, what doesn't work. So there is risk in this program," said Vince Rausch, Hyper-X program manager at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia.


"We fully anticipate that we've reduced that risk to acceptable levels but you never are sure, especially in doing something for the first time, going Mach 10, until we actually fly."


Just 12 feet long and 5 feet wide, the unmanned X-43A is mounted on the nose of a Pegasus rocket that will be carried aloft to 40,000 feet by NASA's B-52 research aircraft and released. The Pegasus rocket will ignite and carry the X-43A to an altitude of 110,000 feet and a speed of about Mach 10, then release it for its brief powered flight.


The X-43A will then become a glider and perform maneuvers until it splashes down into the ocean.


That will be the end of the X-43A project, which has cost more than $230 million and has no immediate follow-on program.


"I have mixed emotions about this mission," said Joel Sitz, project manager for X-43A flight research at Dryden. "I'm very excited about next week. I'm also a little bit sad about seeing the end of the program. It's like watching your son go off to college."


Scramjet technology may be used in developing hypersonic missiles and airplanes or reusable space launch vehicles, with a potential for offering speeds of at least Mach 15. Unlike rockets, scramjets wouldn't have to carry heavy oxidizer necessary to allow fuel to burn because they can scoop oxygen out of the atmosphere.

Chinese Pastor faces harsh sentence for supporting "house church" movement

FAITH UNDER FIRE
Prominent pastor faces harsh sentence
Chinese authorities find 200,000 copies of Bible, Christian books
Posted: November 13, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
A prominent Beijing house-church leader, found in possession of a massive cache of Bibles and Christian literature, faces a harsh sentence if convicted in his upcoming trial, according to Chinese contacts of the U.S. activist group Voice of the Martyrs.
Cai Zhuohua, 32, the leading minister to six house churches in Beijing, will be tried formally in court in the Chinese capital any day now, the Oklahoma-based group said.
The pastor was seized Sept. 11 by three plain-clothes officers believed to be from the Department of State Security, VOM said. Eyewitnesses said he was waiting at a bus stop when three strong men approached and pushed him into a white van
Cai was on his way home from a Bible study session. His wife, Xiao Yunfei, was arrested Sept. 27 with her brother, Xiao Gaowen, and sister-in-law, Hu Jinyun, while hiding in Hunan province. All four are held at Qinghe Detention Center, Haidian District, Beijing.
Cai and his wife face a harsh sentence because of their prominent role in Beijing's house-church movement, which is banned by the communist government. The regime allows Protestant church activity only under the state-controlled Three-Self Patriotic Movement. Catholics also are restricted to a government church, which rejects ties to the Vatican.
The case is being handled directly by the Department of State Security. Qiang Wei, deputy general secretary of the Politics and Law Commission of Beijing, issued a two-word, handwritten directive, "Yan Ban!" -- meaning to deal with it harshly and severely, according to VOM sources.
The central government, the sources say, has labeled it the "most serious case on overseas religious infiltration since the founding of the People's Republic of China."
Authorities apparently were shocked to find about 200,000 copies of the Bible and other Christian literature in a storage room managed by Cai.
The government allows only a publisher affiliated with the Three-Self Patriotic Movement to print a strictly limited number of Bibles and Christian literature each year. The publications cannot be sold in public bookstores.
The rapidly growing house church -- with as many as 100 million adherents, according to some estimates -- has had to rely on Bibles smuggled into the country and officially sanctioned printers willing to print some extra Bibles for cash.
A VOM source said the confiscated literature was only for internal use and Cai made no profit from it.
The case, according to a prosecution source, is part of a broader national campaign against the underground church and its publications that began in June.
Authorities are upset especially with a house-church quarterly called "Love Feast," which has published articles on President Bush's faith and the death of Jonathan Chao, a Chinese scholar who monitored the house church from abroad.
But instead of charges related to religion, Cai, his wife and two relatives could be charged for tax evasion or illegal business management, VOM said, citing its prosecution sources.
"All of those who have known pastor Cai over the years can testify that he and his wife are wonderful Christians with loving hearts for both the church in China and their motherland," said Bob Fu, a VOM associate and president of China Aid Association.
Fu, a former co-worker of Cai, is urging "people of all faiths" to write or telephone the Chinese Embassy in Washington to demand release of the Christians.

DHAKA, Bangladesh -- A Bangladeshi Biman aircraft lies at an angle after it skidded off a rain-soaked runway. The plane, carrying 87 people including five crew, hit a large puddle of water before veering off the runway injuring several people. (10/08/04 AP photo)
 

ET, Thailand -- A devotee to the Chinese Shrine of Jui Tui in et, Thailand, has his face pierced by a bicycle and helped by others as he takes part in the annual Vegetarian Festival. Ritual Vegetarianism in et traces it roots back to the early 1800's. The festival begins on the first evening of the ninth lunar month and lasts for nine days. Participants in the festival perform acts of body piercing as a means of shifting evil spirits from individuals onto themselves. (10/20/04 AP photo)
 

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A frame grab from video shows a lion attacking a man who jumped into the animal's enclosure and shouted "Jesus will save you" at the Taipei Zoo. The man, identified only by his surname, Chen, suffered from bite marks on his arms and legs. "He took this dangerous action today because he imagined he heard voices," psychiatrist Teng Hui-wen told reporters, saying his case was still being investigated. (11/03/04 AP photo)
 

Marines turn to God ahead of anticipated Fallujah battle

Click here to read the article.

Freaky 

I'll help you pack your bag and even drive you to the airport

In this article, it says some Democrats have said they are going to move to Canada rather than live under another Bush administration.

.....I'll even buy their luggage and pack them a sack lunch.

Transsexual Golfer Qualifies for Womens Tour

Does anyone else see the problem with this?

W

Get down on your knees and thank God. He rescued us again.

Planted votes found on machines in Philly before polls even open

Let the m@yhem begin.

Click here to read the article.

(M@yhem written correctly is censored on the blog. Would thugs really know what the word m@yhem even means?)

300 children bitten by 'blood sucking' monkeys at famous Indian temple

This is one of those situations where I know it shouldn't be funny, but when I read the article I just picture a hilarious scene from the Simpsons.

Britain Weighs Ban on Smacking Children

This subject really gets my goat. <--Southern euphamism