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Some interesting reading and freebies.

Christianaudio free download. Each month, one audiobook that they sell is available to download for free. Its something different every month- this month is Foxes Book of Martyrs. You do have to sign up for an account, but there really is NO charge. I haven't listened to all of the downloads, but I've enjoyed the ones I have listened to. They are mp3's, so its easy to transfer them to an ipod or whatever else you like.
I really want to try making these cheese crackers. Only 5 easy ingredients (well, plus a tablespoon of water). What could be better than that?
Cheerios is currently in hot water with the FDA for claiming that their cereal MAY lower cholesterol. The FDA claims that this is misleading advertising. Michelle Malkin argues that the same standard for advertising should be applied to the US government. "Well, how about the bogus marketing of the fiscal “stimulus?” President Obama and the Democrats promoted the trillion-dollar package as job creation salvation. The White House claims 150,000 jobs have been “created or saved.” But since February, the nation has lost more than 1.3 million jobs. The current 8.9 percent unemployment rate in the wake of stimulus passage is worse than the 8.8 percent unemployment figure Obama’s economists darkly predicted if Congress didn’t immediately adopt their recovery plan"
For my friends and family in Detroit, the Red Wings Beard-A-Thon. I wish I could convince Chris to do this, but he says it gets too hot and itchy, especially right now. Being half Lebanese though, he grows a beard in no time flat.
Getting back at telemarketers. How much revenge should be allowed? I'm ok with calling their phone lines repeatedly (after all, isn't that what they're doing to people?), but not with harrassing people themselves or putting pictures or home addresses online. I wish the Do Not Call list actually worked- we've been on it for years and still get soliciting calls. We've even filed a few complaints, but I don't know if anything happened or not. I REALLY wish I'd thought of the idea of taping postage paid junk mail envelopes to bricks and mailing them back. We used to mail them back empty, but then they started having a bar code that I assume was used for tracking. I bet if the USPS would raise the bulk mail rate instead of making it more and more expensive for people to mail a letter or send a birthday gift, they'd make a lot more money AND we'd get less junk mail. It'd be a winning situation all around. Well I guess except for the people who send junk mail, but they need something else to do anyways.