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Month: April 2016

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Weekly Address: President Obama – It’s Time for the Senate To Do Its Job

April 30, 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, the President repeated […]

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First Lady Michelle Obama: “The surest path to progress here in America runs straight through the voting booth”

April 26, 2016 JanF 9

Over the weekend, First Lady Michelle Obama addressed the graduating class and guests at Jackson State University, an historically black university in Jackson, Mississippi. (Jackson State University YouTube: Michelle Obama’s Speech at 2016 JSU Spring […]

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: April 24th through April 30th

April 24, 2016 JanF 120

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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Was Shakespeare a Stoner?

April 23, 2016 Diana in NoVa 6

  Of all the wild-eyed theories ever circulated about William Shakespeare, Bard of Avon, surely the most spectacular is that he smoked pot. Who’d have thunk it? Is it time to debunk it? Let us […]

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Weekly Address: President Obama – Building a Fairer and More Effective Criminal Justice System

April 23, 2016 JanF 9

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, the President discussed […]

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On researching Black and Brown communities

April 19, 2016 Denise Velez 3

Dr. Yasser Arafat Payne, Social-Personality Psychologist and Associate Professor of Black American Studies at the University of Delaware. As more and more issues affecting communities of color, like police violence, and incarceration are highlighted in […]

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: April 17th through April 23rd

April 17, 2016 JanF 120

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 – Ensuring Our Free Market Works for Everyone

April 16, 2016 JanF 4

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, the President discussed […]

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President Obama: “I’m not here just to say we SHOULD close the wage gap. I’m here to say we WILL close the wage gap.”

April 13, 2016 JanF 6

On Tuesday, President Obama spoke at the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Museum to commemorate Equal Pay Day. President Obama: Equal pay for equal work should be a fundamental principle of our economy. It’s the idea […]

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: April 10th through April 16th

April 10, 2016 JanF 91

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Entering the Quiet Time as We Leaf the Light Behind

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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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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!

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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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Springing into Spring – No Kidding!

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Tomorrow, March 20th, at 2:01am Mountain Standard Time (my time!), the Spring Equinox will occur. An equinox occurs twice a year (around 20 March and 22 September), when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is [...]

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