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( Harvest Hearth Samhain will start at noon on Friday Oct., 31. Ritual to start around 10. Details for everything behind the cut. )

Every year we put photos of famous people who have died during the past year on our altar for the dead.  Here is this year's list.

( How many of them do you recognize? )

If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago, you would have $49 left. With Fannie Mae, you would have $2.50 left of the original $1,000. With AIG, you would have less than $15 left.

But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drunk all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you ( Read more... )

Our national debt has grown so large that the National Debt Clock, which has been displayed in Times Square since the late 80's, has run out of digits.

OMG!  I don't know what the hell I ate, but it was SOOOOO good!!!  There are a number of Asian restaurants in the food court.  The one we stopped at was Thai/Indonesian...I think.  No one was really fluent in English, so R and I didn't really know what the mystery meat...or the mystery veggies were.  Okay, I recognized the tofu and I think I ( Read more... )

Went to a brand new farmer's market today.  It's on Jimmy Carter Blvd just east of I-85, where Cub Foods used to be.  OMG!   It is sparkling clean and nicely appointed.  The fresh fish was quite fresh.  They have real live butchers on the premises.  All the produce was A+ first rate and the prices were all a breath of fresh air.  I saw lean ground ( Read more... )

A revolutionary initiative that has two key goals:

• To recruit one million healthy women of every age and ethnicity, including breast cancer survivors and women at high-risk for the disease, to partner with breast cancer researchers and directly participate in the research that will eradicate breast cancer once and for all.
• To challenge the scientific ( Read more... )

Harvest Hearth will be celebrating the New Year on Friday, Oct. 31st.  Folks can start arriving any time after noon for jack o'lantern carving and fellowship.  Ritual will be on the late side as to avoid disturbance by trick or treaters.  I'm thinking ritual around 10ish, but this will need to be flexible.  There is some crash space available for ( Read more... )

Can you imagine having to pay for the CSI (crime scene investigation-fingerprinting, photography, etc) if your home was robbed? What if a bill came for the breathalyzer tests if you'd been hit by a drunk driver? When Sarah Palin was mayor, the city of Wasilla had the most egregious policy against victims of rape in the state of Alaska, possibly the ( Read more... )