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Climate Change and Weather Pattern Changes

by trkingmomoe 5/21/2013 - 4:21 am

I ran across this lecture by Jennifer Francis at the Climate Change Summit from last fall.  She is a professor at Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences Rutgers University.  She presents a very easy to understand talk and well worth the 40 minutes it takes to watch.  I am posting this because of the current extreme weather we are seeing in the Midwest.  The media is going to bring up climate change and the politicains are going to cling to their misinformation that it is not caused by humans.  Prof. [Read more]

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The Amish Las Vegas: "Breaking Amish" Comes to Pinecraft

by trkingmomoe 5/14/2013 - 5:00 am

"Breaking Amish" TLC hit series from last fall season on Sunday night has started shooting the second season at Pinecraft, a community in Sarasota, Florida.  I haven't seen the series because I don't have cable but according to Wikipedia it is about five young adults trying out a new life, to see if they want to remain in their upbringing.  Because the series had high ratings and good reviews,  it was announced last month that they were shooting a spin off with a new cast starting their lives in Sarasota.  There are many former members of Mennonite  [Read more]

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren Introduces Her First Stand Alone Bill - Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act

by trkingmomoe 5/9/2013 - 2:35 am

Yesterday, May 8, 2013, Sen. Warren-D introduced her first bill in the Senate for students loans at the same rate at the Fed Window that banks get. 0.75%.   I will let her explain the bill in her own words. 

 

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Hamilton Project White Paper: Should the United States Have 2.2 Million More Jobs?

by trkingmomoe 5/5/2013 - 1:46 am

Last Friday the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institute published their final working paper by Micheal Greenstone and Adam Looney.  The research shows through charts and grafts, that we would have 2.2 more million jobs in the economy if we followed the same policies that we had during the last 5 recessions.  The authors compare this recovery rate to past down turns and recoveries.  They place the blame squarely on the reduction of public employees in order to reduce debt. Also the authors point out that we fall short of 10 million jobs right now in this economy. [Read more]

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Gwen Graham-D Will Run Against Steve Sutherland-R in Florida House District 2

by trkingmomoe 5/4/2013 - 3:45 am

Gwen Graham, the daughter of former Florida Senator(18 years) and Governor(8 years) Bob Graham, announced last month she will run for Congress in FL House District 2 against incumbent Steve Southerland-R(Panama City.)  She graduated from Leon High School while living with her father in the Governor's mansion in 1980.  She attended University of North Carolina and got her law degree from American University.  Returned to Tallahassee to raise 3 children and practice law.  She also worked for the Leon School District.  She is new to politics but is well known in Leon County.(Even I know who she is because of her work [Read more]

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The Amish Las Vegas and Quilting

by trkingmomoe 4/29/2013 - 4:02 am

I like to treat myself a short 15 min. ride to Alma Sue's Quilt shop from my house a couple of times a year.  It is a joy to walk into her new shop and watch the Amish and Menonnites quilt.  They quilt from frames hung from the ceiling and speak a form a German that is known a Pa. [Read more]

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Whitehouse Petition Asking for Congress to Address the Issue of Gun Control

by trkingmomoe 12/15/2012 - 4:50 am

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/immediately-address-issue-gun-...

Here is the petition to Whitehouse.gov that went up on the site yesterday.  [Read more]

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Long Evening with GOTV Florida

by trkingmomoe 11/7/2012 - 8:40 am

I finished up by 9 PM and was happy to get home and tired.  There was only a few precincts that had lines here when the polls closed in my county and they moved along so we were able to get everyone picked up by 8 PM to go home.  We kept hearing stories come out of Miami/Dade area with many hours wait.  I was so thrilled that the President said "we are going to fix that."  It is time for congress to add a law against making people stand in line for hours to vote to the Voters Rights Act.  Enough is enough.  We have to start holding officials accountable for targeting urban areas and just plain incompetency. I hope he follows through. [Read more]

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Soft Molasses Cookies (Old Fashion Recipe)

by trkingmomoe 10/10/2012 - 4:40 pm

 

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Sloppy Joe's (Original Recipe)

by trkingmomoe 10/4/2012 - 1:19 pm

 

I have a neighbor who is on disability, actually I have lots of neighbors on assistance, came dragging a large box of bread and sandwich rolls over to my trailer. I am in the habit of taking leftovers to neighbors that I think will eat them instead of seeing the leftovers languish in my refrigerator to be tossed out. This neighbor is on a gluten free diet and last month our local grocery decided to get rid of gluten free baking mixes. The markdown was extremely low. Baking mixes for gluten free breads and cakes are very expensive. I did a quick inventory in my mind as to what I had at home in the freezer so I could figure out how much of the bargains I could get for her. [Read more]

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