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Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 10:55 PM EDT (Wikipedia)
This shows the increase in defense spending since 2000 (pre 9/11). The annual base defense budget increased from $295B in FY2000 to $549B by FY2011, an 86% increase, excluding supplemental funding directly attributed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and certain other expense …
Grisham Recently Wrote an Article about the Rise of Islam in the United States, I thought I'd check on Paganisms Rise in the United States and I Found some Interesting Things.
Mon May 14, 2012 11:01 AM EDT
Yes, I know the title is long, but, what the hey. Any way I was interested in Grisham's article and why it didn't have any stats on Paganism, since I'm a Wiccan I decided to find out, and what I found was very interesting indeed. Paganism has been around for thousands of years, l …
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My Eighth Experience with the Paranormal. Another Experience with Feelings.
Thu May 10, 2012 2:16 AM EDT
By this time I was going through a really rough patch in my life, I no longer worked at the Hyatt, ( I left there voluntarily), every day in Florida I was reminded of my second failed marriage and nothing I did made the pain go away, so, I decided that I would move to C …
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My Seventh Experience with the Paranormal. Nostradamus, and the Future.
Sat May 5, 2012 1:38 AM EDT
It all started in 1990 when I met some folks of "like mind" in Sarasota Florida, we had gotten together at work, by this time I was working at the Hyatt in Sarasota and things were looking pretty good, a friend named Martha and her son were of like mind, meaning they were practic …
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Part Six of my Experiences With the Paranormal. Back to the Ghosts!
Thu May 3, 2012 12:11 AM EDT
My second marriage had just failed the year before and I had started back to school, Culinary Arts, I was working at a place called "The Olde World Cheese Shop" in Bradenton Florida at the time, the restaurant was a place that served several different types of cheese cakes a …
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A Lesson in Modern Democracy, or, Where did the Liberals Come from Daddy?
Tue May 1, 2012 4:07 PM EDT
Recently, like today, ProFact left a link up on one of his posts, I was so taken by it that I thought it should be posted as an article. The first paragraph gives some insight as to were the article is going, so, pay close attention.
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My Fifth Experience with the Paranormal. Dreams
Mon Apr 30, 2012 1:33 PM EDT
I'm going to try this again. I posted this article earlier today and for some reason it didn't stay, so I will try again. Dreams are not the same for me as they are for everyone else, other peoples dreams are about unicorns, or their mind is trying to make sense of what happened …
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My Fourth Experience with the Paranormal, or was it?
Sun Apr 29, 2012 2:51 PM EDT
In part three I told you about an experience I had with members of my youth preachers group, there was one member of the group that didn't really hang out with us much but, he did sing in the choir and he did actually preach on occasion, his name was James McKinney, he was very p …
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My Third Experience with the Paranormal. No Ghosts, Just a Feeling.
Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:18 AM EDT
When I was in high school in North Carolina I hung out with some kids that were known at one of the local church's as the "Future Preachers", these kids were on line to go to Christian schools to become preachers, so, my mother had the idea that they were alright. The Truth was t …
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Myth and Reality of the Tombstone Story. Part Four.
Sat Apr 28, 2012 11:24 PM EDT
In this part of the story I hope to bring out the parts that the other players, the "Cowboys" have in the story, we know so little about the Clantons and the McClaurys, this is one time I hope to bring the "bad guys" out of hiding.
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Myth and Reality of the Tombstone Story. Part Three, Loves Triangle.
Sat Apr 28, 2012 10:48 PM EDT
Many times in life we see two men fall in love with the same woman, and we see one of these men is already "married" as in the case of Wyatt Earp, technically he was married to Mattie Blaylock at the time, they were considered "Common Law Married". Behan on the other hand was fre …
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Myth and Reality of the Tombstone Story. Part Two
Sat Apr 28, 2012 10:32 PM EDT
As I stated in the first article the story of Tombstone has been told from the Ok Corral forward, I am attempting to tell it up to and including the shootout. In the first installment I told you about one set of players, now it is time to learn about the second set of players, th …
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Myth and Reality of the Tombstone Story.
Sat Apr 28, 2012 10:01 PM EDT
Many folks out there in the vine world have heard all the myths about Tombstone, AZ, and the OK Corral, and what happened afterward, but, few have heard what really lead up to that day and why the Earps, Clantons, and McLaurey's fought and died. The first thing we need to do is t …
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My Second Experience with the Paranormal. Told ya!
Fri Apr 27, 2012 2:28 PM EDT
My sister Beth and I had moved to North Carolina, I was in the seventh grade at the time, every summer my father would come up to North Carolina to pick us up and take us to his place in Miami, I loved Miami it was my home and I had friends there, some as strange as me. Beth and …
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Obama vs. Boehner - Who Killed the Debt Deal? - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Fri Apr 27, 2012 12:35 AM EDT (The New York Times)
Why didn’t Boehner call back earlier on Friday? Any kid who has ever traded a Pokémon card knows that you don’t walk away from a negotiation without at least leaving your best offer on the table. Boehner would say that he had run out of time and was certain O …
My First Experience with the Paranormal, it Sure Wasn't My Last!
Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:51 PM EDT
Every kid has an invisible friend, that is almost every kid does, I never did, all of my friends were solid and real. The thing is some of them only I could see, these "others" as I called them were always around me growing up, even in my teen years, they told me things that some …
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Putting Obama's Job Approval Numbers In Historical Perspective
Seeded on Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:06 PM EDT ()
The poll numbers for President Obama aren't exactly great right now, but, this shouldn't be discouraging to anyone planning on voting for the president, nor should it be incouraging for anyone planning to vote against him in this coming election. Consider Ronald Reagan and Bill C …
House Republicans Revive Lie That Richest One Percent Of Taxpayers Pay 40 Percent Of All Taxes | ThinkProgress
Seeded on Fri Apr 20, 2012 8:49 AM EDT (Think Progress)
While the richest one percent of Americans do pay about 40 percent of the total federal income taxes paid in the country, that’s a far cry from 40 percent of overall taxes. Even those working Americans who don’t make enough money to have federal income tax liability p …
Colorado Police Officer Charged With Sexually Assaulting Five Children -
Seeded on Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:41 AM EDT ()
Today the jury came back with a split verdict in this case, Carrier was convicted on 21 of the 200+ counts he had been charged with. The Jurors couldn't agree on some of the charges so, Carrier will be recharged with the ones that there couldn't be an agreement on and then tried …
Cars Were Zooming Over Him:
Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:47 AM EDT (Care2 Causes)
The car sped off and other cars approached and began passing right over the top of this tiny ball of black fur, wimpering in the road. It would be only a matter of seconds until tragedy struck. There simply wasn’t time to think, only to react. “I fel …
Romney Shakes the Etch-A-Sketch on the DREAM Act | Care2 Causes
Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:42 AM EDT (Care2 Causes)
During the primary, when he only needed to appeal to hard right Republican voters, Mitt Romney promised to veto the DREAM Act, which provides young people who have lived much of their lives in the United States a path to citizenship. Now that Romney needs to appeal to Latinos in …
Guy Who BBQed a Dog Hosting Ann Romney's Birthday | Care2 Causes
Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:35 AM EDT (Care2 Causes)
Mittens’ dog problem went to another level with the discovery that the campaign donor hosting Ann Romney’s birthday fundraiser today, April 16, once killed, skinned and barbequed a dog. Frederick Malek III is a Republican brahmin, and he was the National Finance Co-C …
Dispatches From The War On Women: Poor Women Get No Choice | Care2 Causes
Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:29 AM EDT (Care2 Causes)
Mitt Romney would like to be clear about something: being a stay-at-home mom is a choice that demands respect when a rich woman chooses it. Other mothers need to know the “dignity of work” that comes from working a job outside the home and raising children by themselv …
Ann Romney: Mom Flap Was "Early Birthday Present" | Care2 Causes
Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:22 AM EDT (Care2 Causes)
Ann Romney at a $50,000 a plate fund raiser for her husband and presidential candidate Mitt Romney stated that the flap over recent comments by a Democratic spokesperson concerning stay at home mothers was an "Early birthday present for her", and that it "Made me happy".
How did we Become Afraid of Our Own Shadows as Americans?
Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:38 AM EDT
Recently in one of Colodomoms articles she was talking about Hope and she said her hope was a little tattered but it was still there, she also had a picture of an old Obama/Biden sticker she has on her window of her car, as I read her article I was reminded of something my mother …
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