Friday, October 25, 2019

Verses from Stories in Today's Washington Post -- He was acting drunk but swore he was sober. Turns out his stomach was brewing its own beer. -- A hunter was fatally gored by the deer he thought he killed, officials say -- Rats are capable of driving tiny cars, researchers found. It eases their anxiety.

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"How dry I am" the stomach cries, and so creates a big surprise. It manufactures its own booze, which complicates the...

The heart holds treasure

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For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 3 Nephi 13:21 The heart holds treasure in a vise that may be foolish, ma...
Thursday, October 24, 2019

Verses from stories in today's New York Times -- Government Loophole Gave Oil Companies an $18 Billion Windfall -- The Student Vote Is Surging. So Are Efforts to Suppress It. -- Trump Administration Moves to Lift Protections from Delta Smelt and Divert Water to Farms

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Drilling an oil well is tricky. In government waters it's sticky; so no royalty is charged, naturally -- in these things you...

Verses from Stories in Today's Washington Post -- Trump’s favorite venue for making news is right in front of the presidential chopper -- Health-care system causing rampant burnout among doctors, nurses -- Argentina’s economy is collapsing. Here come the Peronistas, again.

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When you are the President you think it only proper to answer questions from the press in front of your own chopper. If there is a qu...

Commit thy way unto the Lord

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Commit  thy  way  unto the  Lord ; trust also in him; and he shall bring  it  to pass. Psalm 37:5 Help me to fly straight as an arro...
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Break every yoke

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Is  not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the  bands  of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go  free...

Henry David Throckmorton

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I asked the man in front of me: "Pardon me, but are you Henry David Throckmorton?" He turned and gave me a big friendly smile....
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

The Winter Chives are In.

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The winter chives are in, at last. It was a close run thing, what with the plastic rain that smothered most of the fields for a week and ...

For the poor shall never cease out of the land.

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For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine  hand  wide unto thy brother, to ...
Monday, October 21, 2019

And they shall be my people

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  I will put my  law  in their inward parts, and write it in their  hearts ; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. Jeremiah...