A New Harvard President!

by: Marceline Donaldson and Harold E. Doley, Jr. Drew Gilpin Faust, the 28th president of Harvard University has resigned her position effective June 30, 2018. A historian and former head of Radcliff Institute, Ms. Faust did an excellent job of continuing to move this private Ivy League institution, founded in 1636 in “New Town” –…

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Corporate vs Democratic Structures

“It is great to have a business man as president”.  “Maybe now things will get done in a corporate way.”  etc. etc. Do you really want the United States of America to be a Corporate entity – like USA Corp.?  Or the General Motors of America?  Or even Google – scratch that – Alphabet, inc.?…

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Our Oracle speaks about Trump, Pence et al…

We just couldn’t resist.  With everyone chiming in about all of this we thought it was time for our oracle to speak: “What a grand mess!  Developed from human greed and the need for power to bring about a world in which one can wallow instead of being industrious about and responsible for the welfare…

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Origami: Art or Algorithms

by: Elise Miller Member of the Bettina Network Lifestyle Community Our son, Ravi, first became interested in origami at age three and a half-years-old, when we followed the instructions in Curious George for making a paper boat. In the book, George had made boats out of the newspapers that he was supposed to be delivering…

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We Are Being Played! Trumped!

The “roll out” of Donald J. Trump’s tax program was amazing.  It is the (1%) one percenters dream.  If it goes through it create a country without responsibility to anyone except its top ten percent – the bottom nine percent of this top ten percent will be the recipients of this country’s “welfare”.  It is the…

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Creating a Totalitarian State

What does it take to turn a democracy/republic into a fascist totalitarian state? We saw some of that happen during Germany’s change to the Third Reich.  We are looking at another example with the United States. What struck me was the Executive Order of Donald Trump’s making all of the information on the internet –…

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Trump Tries to Trash Rice!

Well, if you thought Trump was just playing at being a bigot – have no fear – your thoughts are wrong. To attempt to control the public conversation and steer it away from the Russian interference with the American presidential election and his possible collusion with that Russian interference, Trump has attempted to destroy the…

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Comey/Head of FBI/QuidProQuo?

Listening to the hearings on Monday was quite emotional.  Getting feedback from many – it was amazing to hear that most of us agreed on the same thing.  That is highly unusual.  We tend to be a disagreeable lot! Most striking about those hearings was to know and remember that James Comey came out with…

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And God laughed………..

Well, once again the United States Court system has come through – keeping to its Constitutional mandates. This time, however, there is a side issue and in that issue one can see God’s hand. The decision to block Donald Trump’s bigotry as it constantly spews out of the White House and out of his every…

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Upkeep of Wood Floors

We have talked to several people who use the Walnut Oil on their floors and in response to your question – here is what they do: Once a week – if you are the absolute-on-top-of-it type – use a soft cotton rag, which has a bit of Walnut Oil on the rag.  You can either…

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