January 2020 – The Motley Moose

Tuesdays in Mooseville – The Problem With Wine 1/28/20

January 28, 2020 DoReMI 2

Two weeks ago, after reading my explainer on the potential schism within the United Methodist Church, I was asked why Methodists use grape juice rather than wine at Communion. After all, Jesus turned water into […]

Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: Jan. 26th through Feb. 1st

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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 […]

Fighting Back: “In America, right matters and truth matters.”

January 25, 2020 JanF 2

Representative Adam Schiff, yesterday, in closing arguments in the Senate impeachment “trial”: “Donald Trump must be convicted and removed from office. Because he will always choose his own personal interest over our national […]

Tuesday in Mooseville – SHEnanigans, Twitter Style 1/21/20

January 21, 2020 DoReMI 1

The original plan for this week was to respond to a question asked by a reader of last week’s post. But there has been a change in plans; I’m going with a female-centric tweet-a-rama today […]

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

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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 […]

Fighting Back: “Senators must choose to uphold our system of democracy.”

January 18, 2020 JanF 3

Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) calls on the Senate to uphold the integrity of our democracy and our system of justice. WATCH: After swearing in for the impeachment trial, @SenKamalaHarris calls on senators to […]

Tuesday in Mooseville – “Meet Me Halfway” and the Proposed United Methodist Protocol 1/14/20

January 14, 2020 DoReMI 6

Every week, Moishe would pray to win the lottery. “Please God,” he would say, “let me win the lottery. I need to win the lottery.” After several years of this, God finally replied and God’s […]

a great candidate in Texas CD10

January 13, 2020 anotherdemocrat 1

We are lucky in the Texas 10th to have 3 progressive candidates — Mike Siegel, Shannon Hutcheson & Pritesh Gandhi are all good progressives. I’m writing to tell you about Dr. Gandhi. Fierce

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

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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 […]

Fighting Back: “Democrats will push back against the science-denying Republican Party’s assault on our environment.”

January 11, 2020 JanF 3

The Weekly Democratic Party Address was delivered by Congresswoman Debbie Dingell reminding people of the damage being done to the environment by the science-deniers in the Republican Party. (Congresswoman Debbie Dingell discussed the […]

Holding Vigil for One of Our Founding “Meeses” – Denise Velez (Updated)

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Back in September 2008, a group of like minded people gathered at the Motley Moose to talk about politics and how they could promote politicians and political causes that would change people’s lives for the [...]