36 days ago by laurie

Uncle Bob and Aunt Nancy got the boys Snuggies for Hanukkah! Stanley’s is red plaid and neither of the boys particularly enjoyed wearing them, but let’s face it, a photo op is a photo op. Uncle Bob and Sherman were playing “High Five” here. Too cute.

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37 days ago by danielfranke79

Someone posted this article by Peter Birkenhead the other day, titled “Why we still can’t talk about slavery.” Very interesting, well-taken, and provocative, I think, if occasionally a bit harsh. I know I would definitely feel uncomfortable in staying in what used to be slave quarters, all refurbish ...

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38 days ago by laurie

Another year, another television set! Phillip took advantage of the after Christmas sales and to go along with this jumbo-sized TV he also bought a Blu-ray (hope I am capitalizing correctly) kind of DVD (I know that’s right) thing that lets us stream video from Amazon for “free” (after signing up fo ...

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41 days ago by businessweek

December 30, 2011, 7:04 PM EST By Alex Sherman (Updates with comment from consumer advocate in seventh paragraph.) Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S.

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42 days ago by toby

Ever since I was a little girl, my mother used to force black-eyed peas down my throat on New Year’s Day. She said that it was a lucky bean that would make the year extra-special. Legend has it that during the Civil War, fields of black-eyed peas were among the only crops that weren’t destroyed by G ...

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43 days ago

Short Comedy: Jake Ashcroft decides to raise the last bit of money to buy his girlfriend a ring by donating at a sperm bank. After meeting a regular donor, he’s reminded of the consequences and has second thoughts.

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48 days ago by Cump

Reprinted from Dec 2009, as it is still relevant two years later We have had a sorry record with respect to war since the end of World War II. We have not won a single conflict in which we have engaged, major or minor. This is not a slam on our troops; we have won virtually every battle we have foug ...

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49 days ago by adriennewrites

My Pops passed away last Monday. While it wasn’t unexpected (as he’d had a stroke in late summer) it still hurts – especially since he was on the up and up before taking a turn for the worse. But what’s done is done, and in my Christian experience, I know that all he did was [...]

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50 days ago by Phil Gast

On Dec. 22, 1864, as the Civil War entered its final months, Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman sent a message to President Lincoln notifying him that he had captured the city of Savannah, Ga., thereby completing his 300-mile “March to the Sea." The Union army employed a scorched-earth policy after ...

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50 days ago by LIVING WELL Magazine

Stopping Killers in their Tracks… (Part Two) By Vicky L. Chappell, M.D., Texoma Cardiovascular, Texoma LIVING WELL Magazine From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the top three leading causes of death are heart disease, cancer and stroke. There has been a decline in the age-adjusted de ...

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