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A brief history of Christmas - 12/18/08 01:37 PM
My buddy Hugh Krone sent out an e-mail recently asking for REAL Christmas posts for his group - Walking by Faith in the Rain. So not wanting to be the one person who let him down, I went in search of video. Couldn't find any!
And then a blinding flash of light and a few claps of thunder later, I suddenly remembered that my old buddy Glenn Beck once produced "A brief history of Christmas" in cartoon form.
This was perfect, I thought and so with a smile on my face and a dig in Hugh's ribs, I present … (9 comments)
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Welcome home soldier! - 12/18/08 01:14 PM
I just love this - and I know you will too. This is how a couple of dogs greeted "daddy" after he had been away from home for 14 months!
What a wonderful piece just in time for the Holidays! I have to confess that I'm a little surprised that they remembered him in this way after he had been away for so long, but I do know that this will put a huge smile on your faces.
Dogs = pure and simplistic love. I think they are also saying "THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!" Enjoy!
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Take the time to thank a hero - 12/16/08 03:55 PM
As Christmas approaches, now is the time to think about those who continue to sacrifice to ensure that you get to have the freedom to celebrate and if you are so inclined, to pray to your god.
Last year there was a campaign to send greetings cards to those undergoing treatment at Walter Reed Hospital. That campaign ran into problems when the powers in charge of the facility decided not to pass on cards to servicemen and women without names.
To get around that this year, a website has been created where you can leave your message of gratitude for those heroes … (10 comments)
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Forecasters predict active 2009 hurricane season - 12/10/08 11:12 PM
They've been wrong over and over again, but it does not deter the Hurricane forecasters coming out again - just two weeks after the end of the 2008 season in which they were pretty much wrong and predicting another torrid time for Florida in 2009! Now all of this would be OK if it didn't have a direct effect on our pockets, but dire predictions play right into the hands of the insurance companies who just love to raise our rates. And of course higher insurance rates also have a direct effect on housing.
Despite all of this we buy into … (8 comments)
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This might be my second favorite dog! - 12/08/08 11:12 AM
It was yet again cold in Central Florida last night and my family again told me that my wonderful Chocolate Brown Lab, Katie, would not enjoy her walk! My typical response to this ridiculous comment is always "she's a dog and she has her very own fur coat"!
Anyway, I then came across the following this morning and I intend to play it for my family every time they tell me it's too cold to go walk my dog.
So I'd like you to meet Bailey - who clearly knows the meaning of fun. If this doesn't put a … (19 comments)
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Printing Money is always a bad idea - 12/04/08 01:49 PM
Right now we have fallen through the looking glass. The United States Government is promising Trillions of Dollars in bail outs and so-called stimulus packages to avoid something that scares them to death - DEFLATION! Once upon a time all western governments agreed that the most important thing to a nation's economy was to keep inflation low and under control. And so it is a shock to discover that right now these same nations and their top financial advisers are trying to find ways to create inflation and to avoid something that REALLY scares them - DEFLATION.
Personally I think that … (20 comments)
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Another quiet hurricane season ends in Florida - Insurance rates to go UP! - 12/02/08 09:17 AM
Back in 2004, Florida was hit by three hurricanes in six weeks. It was a freak of nature! Central Florida had not had a direct hit for 40 years before that.
In 2005 there was one major storm - again, nothing in Central Florida. In 2006 and 2007 there was nothing at all.
Each time, rates went up. Now the 2008 season has come to an end and Florida was hit by Tropical Storm Fay which certainly caused some flooding, but overall another quiet season - the third one in a row.
And so the insurance companies are once again telling … (8 comments)
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