Dr Wingnut

Author: Dr Wingnut

  • Happy New Year!

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    For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice, And to make an end is to make a beginning.T. S. Eliot

  • Happy Birthday

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    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

  • Great

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    A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.Proverb

  • Eight Candles, Nine Lives

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    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…

  • Politicians

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    It is a cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.J. A. Spender

  • Winds of Change…

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    In three days, most people in The United States of America will have this message.  This is one idea that really should be passed aroundCongressional Reform Act of 2012No Tenure/No Pension.  A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they’re out of office.Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social…

  • Back to work

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    A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.Charles Dickens