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Down the Memory Hole

June 7, 2014   About 14 million American and allied soldiers (including all military services) died in WW II. Of those, about a half million were Americans. Surprisingly, (to me, at least) three to four million were Chinese and over eight … Continue reading

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Time to Get Busy, Doomers

March 15, 2014  From what I’ve read in the news, this week, it looks like we may go to war with Russia next week. Not a shooting war, (not yet, anyway,) but an economic war that in some ways is … Continue reading

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Just Trying to Stay Out of the Corner

March 2, 2013 The tomato and pepper plants in my plant room have blooms on them.  And, after five days of snow, snow flurries, and spits of sleet that managed to give us around three inches of actual snow and … Continue reading

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Snow and Consequences

February 23, 2013 Well, we had a winter storm, such as it was here in Springfield, late Wednesday night into Thursday afternoon.  It amounted to about two inches of snow-sleet mix (light on the snow and heavy on the sleet) … Continue reading

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Don’t Quit Your Day Job

February 9, 2013 The bread and circuses news this week, of course, is the big snowstorm with blizzard conditions that Mother Nature delivered to the upper east coast in her ongoing attempt to let us know she is still the … Continue reading

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And So It Goes

January 28, 2012   Well, glancing over the news this week, I could tell you that the EU has decided to help punish Iran with an oil embargo, to be instituted over the next six months so as to avoid … Continue reading

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