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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

BEING A GRANDPARENT IS ONE OF THE (VERY) GOOD THINGS IN LIFE…...

What can I tell you? This little girl has captured my heart…..

Posted by Earl on 03/28 at 06:11 PM
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HAVE I MENTIONED (RECENTLY) HOW MUCH I HATE MOWING THE LAWN?

I’ve WRITTEN ABOUT THIS BEFORE, but we’ve bought a new lawn mower since then….

and I’ve found that even a HONDA MOWER that mulches the grass and has rear wheel drive with three speeds doesn’t make mowing the lawn a pleasure. I’m not using that giant grass catcher at the back - we mulch the clippings and they become fertilizer (I hope).

Posted by Earl on 03/28 at 05:48 PM
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Sunday, March 18, 2007

HOLGER DANSKE IS STIRRING…...

What you have to know first is that my grandfather, Viktor, was a full-blooded Dane - he came over through Ellis Island in the early 1900s. I’m not a Danish nationalist, but am proud of that heritage. Thus, the following makes me stand a little taller.

UPDATED: Who are WE? (see below)

Posted by Earl on 03/18 at 08:33 AM
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Saturday, March 17, 2007

THIS MONTH’S COURAGE AWARD…...

....goes to a 97-year old Polish lady named Irena Senderlowa

Posted by Earl on 03/17 at 09:30 PM
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Thursday, March 15, 2007

HOW DO YOU COPE WITH THE LOSS OF A CHILD…..?

As my grandfather used to tell me - when we were asking him what he would do in impossible situations - one simply has to pray that the Lord won’t ask us to go through such a thing, but if He does, that He’ll give us strength.

Now, there are people giving their time, their expertise, their love…..to help those facing this heartbreak through a parent’s worst nightmare.

Traditionally, doctors and nurses dealt with babies born with fatal anomalies by whisking them away from their mothers to die. But in the 1970s, a perinatal bereavement movement began offering parents another way to deal with the death of a child at birth, by acknowledging the grief they feel and by creating family and religious rituals around a stillbirth or early death.

Drawing on that philosophy, at least 40 perinatal hospice programs have been started in the United States in the last decade, said Amy Kuebelbeck, an author in St. Paul whose son Gabriel died of a heart condition hours after his birth in 1999 and who has researched the subject.

Posted by Earl on 03/15 at 02:39 PM
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Monday, March 12, 2007

THE GREAT GLOBAL WARMING SWINDLE

AT LAST…... A major media outlet has actually presented the OTHER SIDE of Man-Made Global Warming. Here, from the BBC, is the scientific case against anthropogenic warming, and the abundant and convincing evidence that we are experiencing an upswing in the age-old cycle driven by our nearest star, the sun.

Are you surprised to learn that the entire hysteria was apparently set in motion by…..(drum-roll, please) Margaret Thatcher?! I thought so.

The real moral outrage ought to come toward the end of the show, when the real-world costs of the hypocritically self-serving and one-sided application of “the precautionary principle” are laid bare…...and we find out that the major costs of “doing something” about global warming will fall on the poorest people on earth; people who can’t afford “carbon offsets”, and who will be denied electricity, running water, sewage service, and other modern conveniences we take for granted, and who will have to put up with high infant mortality and lower average lifespans….basically so that rich westerners can feel good about themselves.

Since the program was produced and broadcast, one of the experts who appears has claimed that he was misquoted and it was made to appear that he takes the exact opposite of what he actually believes. I have not read the details, if they are available, but no one else has repudiated either what they said, nor the overall message of the film…...

I’m sorry about the inconvenient format—but I can no longer find the complete version on YouTube.

So, start with Part 1 and see what you think:

Part 1:

Posted by Earl on 03/12 at 11:06 AM
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