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Showing posts with label Work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Work. Show all posts
Sunday, January 7, 2018

Yes, Virginia, Once Upon A Time, Real Men Played Football

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Via Traces of Texas, on Facebook: "Dandy" Don Meredith, quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, talks to reporters in the lo...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Boy Scouts Love President Trump's Speech at National Jamboree, Shout "We Love Trump!" and "USA! USA! USA!"

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During President Trump's speech to the Boy Scouts , that huge crowd applauded constantly, chanted " We love Trump! We love Trum...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

Working Women All Through History: Blacksmiths, Silversmiths, Nail Makers

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If you thought that "Kate the Blacksmith" was an anachronism in A Knight's Tale... she wasn't. (Well except for her diale...
Wednesday, March 1, 2017

President Trump and The Deplorables: "Hope, and a Future"

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President Donald John Trump is doing the Lord's work in bringing "Hope, and a Future" to ordinary Americans, and he laid...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

A Factoid About Donald Trump and Infrastructure Building Projects

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From an article about Donald Trump in the Oct 4, 1989 Issue of People Magazine: " When the city of New York floundered for six years ...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

A Pat On The Back For Everyone Who Works For A Living

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Here's to people whose job won't get done if they aren't there to do it. No one with a professional job works 40 hour weeks....
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Hand Finishing Fine Silver Jewelry: Pre-Firing Phase

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In my Etsy store (link over to the left), I sell handmade jewelry.  This video shows a portion of the finishing process that happens on ...
Saturday, May 3, 2014

Something to Remember If You Work In The Oil Fields.....

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I lived in West Texas before, during, and after the boom this comment talks about.   Do not believe anyone who tries to tell you that "...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

First Amendment Quote of the Day - February 15, 2014

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" But [the Obama] administration’s actions have too often contradicted Obama’s stated intentions. “Instead,” New York Times public ed...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Where Unchosen Postage Stamp Designs Go To Play

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This is the coolest page I have seen today: Sheaff : ephemera : Stamp Design .   These are postage stamp designs that never made it through ...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Come and See! The Project I Have Been Working On Since January!

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In January, my future with my employer went away. In February, I started working on designing silver jewelry, and now am ready to launc...
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Friday, July 26, 2013

Linocuts and Letterpress: Printing Seed Packets and Cottage Food Labels

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I've been having fun this year in the print shop, turning out seed packets for saving seeds in.  The Pecan Corner Press is a hobby, a...
Friday, December 23, 2011

Endorsements For Rick Perry

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One of my favorite bloggers, Pat Austin of " And So it Goes in Shreveport " (or " SIGIS " for short), has endorsed my pr...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

No Taxes Required: Ramp Building and Fundraising the Old Fashioned, Genuine Grassroots Way

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I wrote most of this post a couple of months ago, and fiddled around and never posted it. But Dr. Mabuse has a post up on Kraalspace that n...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

De-Occupy Wall Street

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Speaking of toil, there's a new Facebook group, and even though I have withdrawn from most FB activity, I like it!    " De-Occupy...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

"...but the blessing of earth is toil."

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" Born within a lowly stable, where the cattle 'round Me stood, Trained a carpenter in Nazareth, I have toiled, and found it good...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

Global Warming Vanities; or Jobs, Electricity, and Fuel? Rick Perry Has His Priorities in Order

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In New Hampshire, a woman came to an event to see Governor Perry and told her son to ask the Governor his views on the theory of evoluti...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

God Bless The Weekend: Saving our Endangered Days Off Together

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Those who wish to pretend that Christianity is not the root of all that is best in Western culture, or that America was not founded and f...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

Part Two: 18th Century Business Women in Publishing: Limited Only By 20th Century Interpretation

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We like to recognize "firsts", but so often that's the least interesting part of the story. Mary Katherine Goddard's care...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

18th Century Equal Opportunity & Success: Some Women Printers in Colonial America

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In honor of Benjamin Franklin's birthday (coming up on the 17th), here's a bit of history about some of the people who moved in his ...