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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Two days ago the AP carried a story saying the UN inter-governmental panel of scientists not only continue with their assertion that global warming is real, but it’s apparently accelerating rapidly. However, the panel does note there is still time … Continue reading
The campaign rolls on… While the more high-profile candidates jockey for position on the national stage, we went to: Ada, Ohio (pop. 6,052), this week. I stumped at the Sawmill Restaurant, a small locally owned eatery in the center of … Continue reading
Catching up on the week… Our son Jonathan and I attended a festival in tiny Continental, Ohio, over the weekend. It was dual purpose. There was a fundraising booth there for his Midget Football team — and I did some campaign stumping … Continue reading
According to Gwynne Dyer, author of the book Climate Wars, for each year we don’t “come up with an adequate climate deal (Copenhagen Accords was a bust),” it is probably costing somewhere on the order of 50 million premature deaths … Continue reading
Last year at this time, I gave a “State of the Union Address” at the University of Notre Dame just an hour, or so, before President Obama’s address. My talk that night is just as applicable to our country … Continue reading
We’re currently volunteering at the Open Door Community in Atlanta, while looking at urban poverty issues. The Open Door is an outreach to the homeless that includes some beds, meals, showers… The Open Door also has a health clinic … Continue reading
The national debt is now $13.7 trillion. The interest on it is approximately $387 billion, a day. The package that was just tentatively approved in D.C. will cost about $900 billion more over the next two years … Continue reading
In honor of Labor Day yesterday, I, well, labored. Is that intuitive, or what? I did some touch up painting on our motor home, and other odds and ends. During a Labor Day cookout in Bluffton, Ohio, … Continue reading
We traveled to Lander, Wyoming, as our next stop in our Roaming Wyoming Campaign Tour. There was a “Community Meal” in a downtown grocery store parking lot to celebrate the town pulling together to make it through a recent … Continue reading