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Month: February 2016

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When the support staff quits, you have to hire…

February 29, 2016 Diana in NoVa 5

  The law office of Reed, Wright, Pray & Singh was in a quandary: not from lack of business, which was in fact burgeoning, but from lack of help. The simple fact was that the […]

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: Feb. 28th through Mar. 5th

February 28, 2016 JanF 135

Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania […]

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Weekly Address: President Obama – Degrading and Destroying ISIL

February 27, 2016 JanF 8

The President’s Weekly Address post is also an Open News Thread. Feel free to share other news stories in the comments. From the White House – Weekly Address In this week’s address, President Obama discussed […]

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President Obama: “Keeping the Guantanamo Bay detention facility open is contrary to our values”

February 24, 2016 JanF 5

Yesterday, President Obama put forward his plan for closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay: For many years, it’s been clear that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay does not advance our national security — […]

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: Feb. 21st through Feb. 27th

February 21, 2016 JanF 140

Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania […]

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Weekly Address: President Obama – A New Chapter with Cuba

February 20, 2016 JanF 6

The President’s Weekly Address post is also an Open News Thread. Feel free to share other news stories in the comments. From the White House – Weekly Address In this week’s address, President Obama discussed […]

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Hillary Clinton: “Hold every candidate accountable”

February 19, 2016 JanF 4

On Wednesday, former Secretary of State and current Democratic Party presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, spoke at the Schomburg Center in Harlem. It was not an ordinary stump speech – because this was no ordinary venue […]

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President Obama: “Being president is a serious job”

February 17, 2016 JanF 10

President Obama held a press conference following the ASEAN summit he has been hosting in Rancho Mirage California (no tie!!). And – surprise! – there were questions about the U.S. Supreme Court opening and the […]

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You can’t change the rules just because you realize you are losing

February 14, 2016 JanF 20

It is bitter irony that the week in which President Obama talked about the “yawning gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics” and addressed the nation about the hyperpartisan […]

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: Feb. 14th through Feb. 20th

February 14, 2016 JanF 183

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Welcome, Returning Light!

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December 21, 2025 5
The winter solstice “occurs exactly when the Earth’s axial tilt is farthest away from the sun at its maximum of 23° 26′. Though the winter solstice lasts only a moment in time, the term is [...]

Entering the Quiet Time as We Leaf the Light Behind

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September 22, 2025 3
An equinox occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the Sun being vertically above a point on the Equator. The latitudes +L [...]
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“Give Thanks for the Blessings”

August 1, 2025 3
Happy Lammas!! Hey, wait just a minute! Those are happy llamas … which is not the same thing at all! Today is August 1st, the pagan holiday of Lammas or First Harvest. It is the [...]
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Summer Sunning!

June 20, 2025 3
Later today, we mark the Summer Solstice. Astronomically, it looks like this: The Summer Solstice occurs exactly when the Earth’s axial tilt is most inclined towards the sun at its maximum of 23° 26′. The [...]
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April Showers are Bringing May Flowers!

May 1, 2025 3
At Winter Solstice, the light begins to return – gradually, the memory of the long nights fades until the light and dark are equal on Spring Equinox. From that point on,  the light returns more [...]

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