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Christmas is over

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Your shopping cart is empty but He is still here and has been since the first Christmas  CM 2018

Arab-Israli Conflict

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As reported by  https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/images/mf2017.pdf "Today, most people look first to the Internet for answers and AICE's Jewish Virtual Library has become the "go-to" source of reliable information on Jewish history, economics, politics and culture"  Mitchell Bard mitchellbard@gmail.com via  aice.ccsend.com

Zero gravity

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Article by   Science writer Mary Roach as she experiences weightlessness in a parabolic flight

A strange and wonderouse tale

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As a student teacher, I met children who had very little.  Of course, there were those who had a sufficient life.  That made an impression on me and it prompted this poem.  Values are created in part by what we have and don't have. Santa Claus makes all children happy, the ones who have and those who have not - at least in this poem.  After two years of satisfactory coursework, the University of South Florida denied my graduation, this poem is not the only idea they disagreed with.  Education is a bureaucracy whose aim is to socialize your child.  As one teacher told me, "teaching is the tip of the iceberg."   SANTAHOOD IS COMING TO TOWN a strange and wondrous tale by charles mistretta 93'   ONCE UPON A MIDNIGHT DREARY, I GRABBED MY BAG IN SUCH A FURY, WANTING TO PLEASE LITTLE GIRLS AND BOYS. THOSE REINDEER GROANED AND MUSED WITH RANCOR, THEN NEVER WAS HEARD SUCH SNORTS OF BANTER, QUIVERING I FILLED MY SACK WITH TOYS.

Merry Christmas to everyone everywhere

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Thank you JoAnn for your glass Christmas ornament

Birds views

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This human's backyard feels like home Henretta there is something I have been meaning to tell you

Another offer declined for white house post

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WASHINGTON—As the Trump administration scrambles to find a replacement for outgoing advisor John Kelly, officials announced Monday that a high-level White House ficus would leave for the State Arboretum of Virginia after declining the president’s offer to be chief of staff. “The ficus has been honored to serve President Trump and the American people these last several months and plans to continue advancing the MAGA cause as a member of the private sector,” read a statement drafted by an aide for the ficus, noting that the potted shrub was one of the longest-tenured and most-trusted members of the Trump administration, spending countless hours working alongside the president from a sunny spot inside the Oval Office. “Rumors that the ficus was forced out following a heated argument with Jared Kushner are simply untrue. The ficus will spend the next few weeks helping with the transition of its replacement, a large fern, before departing to work in the tropical p

Power without justice

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How likely is our president elect capable of initiating a state of national emergency   More alarming is that this idea is being publicly anticipated  The consequences can be found in this article by theatlantic.com Source  Elizabeth Goitei  January/February 2019 Issue

Das Marsprojekt

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Life on Mars  the topic of several entertainment efforts is a reality that will belong to the next generation   The technology is moving with logical plans for existence in a carbon dioxide atmosphere with extreme temperatures and excessive radiation.  Will only the disillusioned pay nearly a half million dollars for the one way trip  Read more from the daily beast. Article by Nick Romeo

Beauty and the beast

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We trap nature for a glimpse The scene and the moth Given an eye for chance They live and dance  We move unaware That they are there

Get real

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Thank you Sara

Sadle your demons

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Taking antidepressants reduces the desire to be creative   Contemplate the consequences of being obnoxious and enjoying life at the expense of others Which really doesn't matter until you assume mammoth amounts of responsibility on a global scale

"Don't jeopardize your soul..."

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