C.M. Jackson .Net » Personal http://www.cmjackson.net Web Design, Programming, Tutorials Tue, 18 May 2010 22:43:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Balloon rocket http://www.cmjackson.net/2010/02/03/balloon-rocket/ http://www.cmjackson.net/2010/02/03/balloon-rocket/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:27:39 +0000 Chris Jackson http://www.cmjackson.net/?p=376 Yesterday, I spent the day with my daughter at her preschool class helping out with the kids. She was excited to bring daddy to school.

The day had a space theme and the kids had fun learning about rockets and space shuttles. On of the activities the teacher had setup for them was a balloon rocket that the kids could blow up and shoot from one side of the room to the other.

Each kid also received a balloon rocket kit to take home. My daughter loved this. We had to go home and setup her rocket in the living room.

If you have a preschool aged child, they’ll love the balloon rocket.

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  • Lose weight
  • Read 12 books
  • Finish some website projects
  • Finish home improvement projects
  • Use this site more
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My first response was shock.  I could not believe the powers that be are creating toys of this guy.  I mean WTF happened to this country?  First, we have a news show with a huge wall mural containing 44 portraits of Barack Obama, and new they are making toys of him and saying he’s “the closest thing we’ve ever seen to a superhero… “

This is absurd and just plain weird and I’m not saying that because I didn’t vote for the guy.  If I saw a news program with a mural of George W. Bush as their background, I would be think the same thing.  What happened to being unbiased? Obama is the first black president, and I don’t think that accomplishment should be taken away from him, but that doesn’t mean we should treat him like he’s the second coming of Jesus Christ either.

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  • Use this website more
  • Finish some old projects
  • Work on writing more
  • Lose weight
  • Read more books
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