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Monthly Archives: January 2012

Unincorporated Territories, a huge explosion, a four-year-old

Vote for Joe Posted on January 29, 2012 by Joe SchrinerJanuary 29, 2012

I’ve been doing research this week on the Unincorporated Territories, and former Unincorporated Territories, of the U.S.  One of the former ones is the Marshall Islands in the Pacific.  From 1946 to 1958, the U.S. conducted 67 nuclear detonations.  The … Continue reading →

Cuba

Vote for Joe Posted on January 28, 2012 by Joe SchrinerJanuary 28, 2012

During the Republican presidential debate last night, there was talk of positions toward Cuba.  Cuba currently remains closed to American investments as a result of a 50 year travel and trade embargo.  The Obama administration, like administrations before, have chastised … Continue reading →

hobbling; robust Space Program (not); way out of this world…

Vote for Joe Posted on January 24, 2012 by Joe SchrinerJanuary 24, 2012

I’ve been hobbling around town the last few days with a torn calf muscle.  (Whenever I put on my basketball shoes, I think I’m 18-years-old again.)  I’ve used the time to do some more research for the National Debates (call … Continue reading →

homeschool basketball; polarized; Obamacare; contraception…

Vote for Joe Posted on January 21, 2012 by Joe SchrinerJanuary 21, 2012

Liz and I attended our kids’ Homeschool Basketball League games last night in Harrod, Ohio.  Both Sarah and Joseph’s games were quite spirited.  Afterward one of the other parents approached me and wanted to talk politics out in the hall.  He said … Continue reading →

Chihua Chihua, Border Tours, NAFTA problems

Vote for Joe Posted on January 18, 2012 by Joe SchrinerJanuary 18, 2012

I talked with Matt Arnold today.  He and his family were missionaries in Chihua Chihua, Mexico, for 17 years.  They worked with indigenous people in the rural areas there.  He said it’s not “African poverty,” but the poverty there is … Continue reading →

The Great Debaters, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mom’s Restaurant…

Vote for Joe Posted on January 16, 2012 by Joe SchrinerJanuary 16, 2012

For Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I watched the movie The Great Debaters with our children.  It’s about the debate team at Texas’s Wily College in the 1930s in a segregated South.  Based on a true story, this Black debate … Continue reading →

Wooly Bears, and such

Vote for Joe Posted on January 12, 2012 by Joe SchrinerJanuary 12, 2012

We drove to Cleveland this week from Northwest, Ohio.  On the way in, I put up campaign literature on bulletin boards in Fairview Park, Ohio, and Vermilion, Ohio.  (Our answer to the big money campaigns.)  I was traveling with the … Continue reading →

a water fund; a New Year’s resolution; and a “monster” problem

Vote for Joe Posted on January 7, 2012 by Joe SchrinerJanuary 7, 2012

Catching up on the last couple weeks:  For Christmas, our family’s gift to Jesus was a donation to a Third World clean water fund.  Some one billion people worldwide don’t have access to clean water…  For New Years, I made … Continue reading →

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