Monthly Archives: March 2017

ON THIS DAY: March 28, 2017

March 28th is American Diabetes Association Alert Day Barnum & Bailey Day * Black Forest Cake Day Something on a Stick Day Weed Appreciation Day ________________________________________________________________ MORE!  Clara Lemlich, Marina Raskova and Vina Mazumdar, click

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Devin Nunes (R-CA) forges for his sodding tiger at the White House

By ann summers “Chairman Nunes met with his source at the White House grounds in order to have proximity to a secure location where he could view the information provided by the source.” Coincidentally, there is an orange rumped agouti … Continue reading

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ON THIS DAY: March 27, 2017

March 27th is Celebrate Exchange Day * World Theatre Day * Mule Day * Viagra Day * Spanish Paella Day Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Jane Colden, Jelena Dimitrijević and Sarah Vaughan, click

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TCS: When Men Alone Decided What Was HISTORY

Good Morning! ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading

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ON THIS DAY: March 26, 2017

March 26th is Nougat Day Spinach Day Epilepsy Awareness Purple Day _______________________________________________________________ MORE! Sandra Day O’Connor, Erica Jong and Dorothy Porter, click

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ON THIS DAY: March 25, 2017

March 25th is Earth Hour Day * Pecan Day * Tolkien Reading Day * World Endometriosis Day National Medal of Honor Day * National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy * International Day of Solidarity with Detained and … Continue reading

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ON THIS DAY: March 24, 2017

March 24th is International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for Dignity of Victims Chocolate Covered Raisins Day Red Nose Day * World Tuberculosis Day * _______________________________________________________________ MORE! Matilda Joslyn Gage, Isabel Perón and Halle Berry, … Continue reading

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Word Cloud: CONTRARY

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD ‘Light Verse’ – one of those labels like ‘children’s book’ that makes a many people assume a writer’s work is not quite good enough to be called poetry or literature. But labels, like the covers of books, are far … Continue reading

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Our long National Shake-down continues … Whatabout The Don?

By ann summers “Whataboutism,” with its sly equivalences, false parallels, and misleading analogies, can exhaust and frustrate those who confront it. Putin is an especially skillful practitioner. Now something new is happening. The American president is taking Putin’s “what about … Continue reading

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ON THIS DAY: March 23, 2017

March 23rd is Chip and Dip Day National Puppy Day * National Chia Day OK Day World Meteorological Day * _______________________________________________________________ MORE! Fannie Farmer, Emmy Noethe and Helene Hale, click

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