BUYING USED (Pest Control) + Baby bottles? I don’t know. Some say “Don’t buy used.” Prepare to be grossed out … 1. BASKETS. Be careful. I was hired once at a nice middle class home, where the owner had scores of baskets as décor. There was a problem. Several baskets were infested with bamboo powder post beetles. As a result, her wood floors and …
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GUEST POST from Don – Women In Church Leadership? (part 2 of 3)
WOMEN in CHURCH LEADERSHIP? (Part 2 of 3) Last time we finished looking at the treatment of women in the New Testament. Now we look to the Old Testament … Old Testament. From Moses until the end of the Old Testament, only a limited number of Israelites were permitted inside the Holy Place and the Holy of …
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GUEST POST from Don – Buttered Toast +
BUTTERED TOAST (+) It happened this morning. Toast fell off the plate to the floor. It landed buttered side down (of course). Some think this is the natural and normal way of the world. Buttered toast always lands that way. It surprised me to find that this phenomenon has incurred many “professional” studies. Professionals have that much extra time? I went …
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GUEST POST from Don – Women in Church Leadership? (part 1 of 3)
WOMEN in CHURCH LEADERSHIP? (Part 1 of 3) Forward: As promised, I started writing this a few weeks ago. I’m not a theologian or a Bible scholar. However, I do trust the Bible to tell the truth. Archeologists find confirmation every year of biblical events written in the Bible…things they previously doubted as fables or myths; and they have yet …
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GUEST POST from Don – The Electoral College Explained
ELECTORAL COLLEGE EXPLAINED When first enacted our Electoral College had many flaws. Those have been mostly solved through careful thought and legislation. For instance, at one time, the person with the most votes became president and the person with the next highest number of votes became vice president. That meant that the #2 guy was usually the president’s …
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GUEST POST from Don – Like Everyone Else
LIKE EVERYONE ELSE One simple sentence tells the whole story. If you want to be different than your neighbor (or your extended family) you have to stop acting like them. Successful people behave differently than your neighbors and friends. If you want to be rich you can’t act like your neighbor. If you want to succeed at …
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GUEST POST from Don – EV Again
TRUE “MYTHS” 8 myths about electric cars“Concerns about the environmental benefits, dangers, and longevity of EVs and their batteries are often misplaced”By William Gavin” as published in Quartz Responding to the “myths” as told by William Gavin, there are at least 4 which ARE NOT myths at all. These 4 are factually true, or his statements …
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GUEST POST from Don – States & Medicaid Rules
STATES AND MEDICAID RULES In a previous article (https://chia.owly.net/35121-2/) we discussed the negative issues with Traditional IRAs (401k, Keogh, SIMPLE, etc). Now we talk about some potential positives (depending on the state in which you live). Retirement is a literal minefield of negative financial possibilities. Getting old is not for the faint of heart. My wife is not strong …
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GUEST POST from Don – Alexithymia
ALEXITHYMIA A recent study suggests that one possible cause of autism is a cold or flu during pregnancy. Possible, I suppose. However autismspeaks.org says, “Research tells us that autism tends to run in families, and a meta-analysis of 7 twin studies claim that 60 to 90% of the risk for autism comes from your genome.” Therefore, I wouldn’t …
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GUEST POST from Don – Social Morality
SOCIAL MORALITY Can we talk about something important? Words can have meaning. Other times they are meaningless. It is in the realm of modern social morality where both can be true. We can talk about the value of people, but in the same sentence proclaim that some people matter more than others merely because that group was …
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