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If you’ve ever flown into Alaska, the first thing you notice as you peer out the airplane windows are the mountains, row upon endless row of snow-peaked ruggedness. The best word to describe them is a word often overused to describe lesser things: majestic.
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Father Michael Oleksa is a retired Orthodox priest in Alaska, but he’s not actually from there – he’s from Allentown, Pennsylvania. How he came to Alaska, what he found there, and why he stayed are just a few of the many subjects he covers in his delightful collection of stories that he has compiled here […]
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Someone recently posted about funny earthquake stories but I can’t seem find Ricochet search on my phone to bring it up. Anyway, we had a 7.0 this morning here. No funny stories unless one considers being a school bus full of screaming elementary kids bouncing like a bucking bronco funny…wait, that was kind of funny. […]
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Two weeks ago, the WordPress Photo Challenge topic was Elemental. Water gives and sustains life in all its magnificent profusion here on Earth, and my post over at RushBabe49.com is entitled Elemental… Water. I can add to @cowgirl’s post about living in the most beautiful place in the world. In all my life, I have […]
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“Whatever policy we adopt, there must be an energetic prosecution of it. For this purpose it must be somebody’s business to pursue and direct it incessantly. “ More
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Here is the link to the post on my own blog, about the Hillsdale cruise to Alaska. Very expensive, and worth every penny. And there was a meet up! My Summer Vacation More
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You might have noticed in the news today, there is a unanimous decision coming out of SCOTUS. Big deal cases do not often turn out that way, unless of course SCOTUS is throwing out some crazy administration power grab. We are conservatives, & as such assume that defeated power grabs are the least measure of success–we […]
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I applaud President Obama for visiting Alaska. I have family there, and it is a state often forgotten when the White House schedules presidential trips. But Obama’s reason for going — to highlight the results of man-caused climate change — is fraudulent. Humans are not causing global warming in Alaska or anywhere else on the globe.
Here follow three facts to counter the nonsense you will hear this week. And by “facts” I mean data collected by incorruptible sources, not predictions based on dodgy computer climate models or readings from land-based stations that skew recorded temperatures upward, keeping alive the ever-failing hypothesis of man-caused global warming.
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