Historically Speaking –

We need to become more knowledgeable about history. What is happening today will make a lot of sense if you know your personal history – the history of your country – the history of your family, etc. Let’s take a look at what is happening in Texas and put it in a historical context: What…

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To Wear a Mask or go Maskless says what about you?

by: Marceline Donaldson I am old enough to remember and to have been through the campaigns against smoking. When it was discovered that smoking caused cancer and even second hand smoke could damage the health of the person inhaling another persons’ cigarette smoke, it was quite a brawl. Sort of like the one we are…

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Elizabeth Warren and Pocahontas!

by: Marceline Donaldson It has been a busy day! The writing from a Bettina Network Lifestyle Community Member on Elizabeth Warren has caused a bit of a blowup. So you know I have to chime in. Who would guess that among hard working people; thoughtful people; intellectual people there would be this bit of racism.…

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Ethics – Character – Gerrymandering

by: Marceline Donaldson Looking at the election in Ohio in a district which has been badly gerrymandered over the decades we need to seriously define what it means – especially in politics – to steal, lie, attempt to destroy an old republic trying to become a democracy using gerrymandering as one of many tools. If…

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Rummagings About Morality

Isn’t it amazing what it takes for the experiences of your life to come together. What is it you have wanted more than anything else in life? For me – since I was little – it was wisdom and understanding. Funny thing about that – it is exactly what I have received from life.  Not…

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From a Paranoid Reader

Thank you for the article on “The Personification of Evil”.  It was powerful and awesome – especially because of the references you included both on Melania Trump and Joseph McCarthy.  I hadn’t thought about McCarthyism as the genesis of this Trump era, but it makes a lot of sense and clears up much for me.…

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In June 84,437 readers and in August 92,452

We went over the 2,000,000 readers mark in August, 2017.  Over two million readers have visited Bettina Network’s Blog. If you are a member of Bettina Network’s Lifestyle Community you may contribute your writings, poems, thoughts, recipes, lifestyle contributions from your life, your research – scientific and otherwise, to reach a fantastic group of elegant…

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An Open Letter to Our Leaders!

From:  Harold E. Doley, Jr. To:  President Donald J. Trump: Vice President Michael R. Pence: U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell: Speaker of the House Paul Ryan: Congressman Cedric Richmond:   “Robert E. Lee stated that he would not be buried in his Confederate States of America (CSA) uniform because that act would be seditious.  At Lee’s…

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