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Weekly Address: President Obama – The American Spirit of Innovation

March 5, 2016 JanF 5

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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Women’s History Month Is Marching In

March 3, 2016 JanF 10

March is an excellent choice to designate as Women’s History Month because marching for our rights is a big part of women’s history. Demonstrating for women’s rights has a long storied past, probably because “just […]

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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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March 20, 2026 3
Today, March 20th, at 7:46am 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 [...]

Spring is in the air!

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February 1, 2026 2
At the beginning of February, when much of the north appears frozen and lifeless, there are stirrings below the surface and in the sky. The light is returning; today there is nearly an hour more [...]
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Welcome, Returning Light!

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 [...]
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Entering the Quiet Time as We Leaf the Light Behind

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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