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Month: February 2017

It Takes a Village

Great British Breakfast

February 19, 2017 Michael Holmans 43

  For reasons I shan’t go into, I spent most of Friday trying to undo the damage caused by a piece of software going haywire at work and am really not of a mind to […]

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: Feb. 19th through Feb. 25th

February 18, 2017 JanF 221

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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Fighting Back: “Protect Our Care” – Democrats Call For ACA National Day of Action

February 18, 2017 JanF 20

The weekly Fighting Back post is also an Open News Thread. Feel free to share other news stories in the comments. Found on the Internets – House Democrats’ Press Conference Ahead of ACA National Day […]

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It Takes A Village – VNV Saturday: Nevertheless, We Persist 2/18/17

February 18, 2017 DoReMI 43

Tonight/this morning, my two 70+ pound basset hounds decided the most comfy place to sleep was across my chest and legs. While they were snoring contentedly, I was far from comfortable or content; result = […]

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It Takes a Village TGIF Edition 2-17-17

February 17, 2017 Batch 75

  Good morning from deep in the Forest where the Meese are hiding in shame of what governance has become in our still great country. We come out of hiding to voice our displeasure at […]

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it takes a village: “We won’t stop until we get results.”

February 16, 2017 reesetheone 80

          https://twitter.com/nickconfessore/status/832042962863419393 WHY NOT? YOU HAVE A SPY BOAT THIRTY MILES OFF OUR SHORES… WE WANT ANSWERS. Chaffetz is a total partisan hack: calls for investigation into leaks even as he […]

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It Takes A Village: VNV 2-15-17

February 15, 2017 MomentaryGrace 79

In honor of Lysis’s orginal Hillary News & Views, welcome to The Village New & Views Wednesday Get Over the Hump Free for All This Week In Music: So, the Grammys… I have the patience […]

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It Takes A Village – VNV Tuesday: We Will Not Be Erased 2/14/17

February 14, 2017 DoReMI 59

I had originally intended to recount my experiences at the Michigan Democratic state convention in this post; an experience that was personally negative, even while positive overall for the future of the party in the […]

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Great British Breakfast and Euro-punditry

February 12, 2017 Michael Holmans 44

This is an experiment. Since June last year, I’ve been doing a weekly dive into the European press on DKos, originally to cover the US election, but since then to try and cover European views […]

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: Feb. 12th through Feb. 18th

February 11, 2017 JanF 208

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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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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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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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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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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