Month: December 2012
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Happy Birthday
A Daughter is visiting her father. She asks: “Tell me dad, how are you managing with the new iPad we gave you for your birthday?”He says “Good”.The video is in German, and there are no subtitles, but none are necessary, Snotrvia email from D. Kimball Lord, Sun, 30 Dec 2012 16:24:32 -0800
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Great
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.Proverb
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Eight Candles, Nine Lives
We parents work so hard to relay the historical and spiritual import of religious holidays. No, we explain, Hanukkah is not primarily about gift giving; it’s about a long-ago freedom struggle. The eight-day winter holiday celebrates the successful resistance of the Jews against King Antiochus IV of Syria and the restoration of the Second Temple…
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Politicians
It is a cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.J. A. Spender