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Archive for October 30th, 2008

Finally, gray skies and a glorious California rain! As one who is in the construction industry, I know there are workers everywhere, scrambling with blue tarps, tie downs and tape. They worked to the last minute. They worry whether that last coating is dry enough. Others are wondering if they will be called in the middle of the night to stop a leak, or have to secure that swing stage banging about in the after-storm wind.

No matter, it’s a glorious rain!

Today the Onion produced this: Obama Warns He May Cease To Exist Unless America Believes In Him

 

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Does this happen because we live longer? Because we have babies? Or, because we are women?

What Newcom and Swedish said: (more…)

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Taiwan

Taiwan bans China protein powder due to melamine

Posted by chinaview on October 30, 2008

Reuters, Wed Oct 29, 2008-

[TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan has banned protein powder from China after tests found contamination, adding to a list of Chinese products that the island has halted amid a tainted milk powder scandal, local media said on Wednesday….]

http://chinaview.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/taiwan-bans-china-protein-powder-due-to-melamine/

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I’ll just say it. We’ve done better at housekeeping than now. I gave up beating myself about it, because I’ve had other things on my mind, like traveling daily a hundred miles or more for my job, or spending time on my business or the myriad other things that must get shoved into too little time.

However, occasionally someone in our family finds it; a couple slices of bread, an english muffin, left still wrapped and forlorn after a month’s sojourn in the cupboard.

I buy only brown, I buy mostly organic. Yet there it sits, still soft and not a speckling of mold. SOMETHING IS WRONG!

Is this a metaphor? 

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