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#78 – More Summer
NEWS IN BRIEF $500 MILLIONNew Mexico has reached a $500 million settlement with Walgreens over the pharmacy’s role in fueling opioid addiction in the state. $10 BILLIONSaudi Arbaia and China have signed 30 investment agreements totaling about $10 billion to deepen their bilateral relations, according to the Saudi Arabian Investment Ministry WERE YOU AWARE?More than… Continue reading
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#77 – Summer Again
NEWS IN BRIEF $339 BILLIONProperty taxes levied on single-family homes in the United States rose 3.6% to $339.8 Billion in 2022, according to property data provider ATTOM. Nationwide, property taxes rose twice as fast as in 2021. The highest effective tax rates appeared to be in New Jersey, Illinois, Connecticut, Vermont, and Nebraska. $227 BILLIONSamsung… Continue reading
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#76 – Improvements to Our Health
U.S. Adult Smoking Rate Hits All-Time LowAdult cigarette smoking in the U.S. dropped to an all-time low last year, new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. Based on health surveys from more than 27,000 people, only 11 percent of adults reported smoking in 2022, a decrease from 12.5 percent in… Continue reading
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#75 – Improvement: a Goal
There are four things that appear “stately” in their walk:1. The mighty lion who doesn’t retreat before any.2. The strutting rooster in the barn yard.3. The male goat in the pasture.4. And a king or ruler when his army is with him. NEWS IN BRIEF 1 MILLIONFox News has seen a decline of nearly 1… Continue reading
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#74 – Life
BIG BEN RINGSOn May 31, 1859, England’s iconic tower clock, Big Ben, rang out over the city for the very first time. The clock was constructed as part of St. Stephen’s Tower (later renamed Elizabeth Tower) after a fire in 1834 destroyed most of the Palace of Westminster where Parliament was housed. Big Ben is… Continue reading
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#72 – What Is Really Happening?
Parable“It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was just a jest and applauded. He repeated his warning. They shouted even louder. So I think the world will come to an end amid general applause from all the wits who believe… Continue reading
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#71 – Considerations
CONSIDER: Suppose a national leader was delighted in flatteries or even slanders other political leaders. Then you find out that the same leader has lied every time he opened his mouth, trying to deceive you. With every appointment made, the same type of people with similar flaws in character now leads various departments in his… Continue reading
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#68 – MIXED INFO
Vaccine Immunologists Are Starting to Resemble the Academy of Projectors in Gulliver’s TravelsIn Gulliver’s Travels, the Projectors wanted to melt ice into gunpowder, to use spider webs to replace silk threads, and all kinds of less than common sense ideas. This group focused on the complex and abstract, which renders all of their grand plans… Continue reading
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#67 – The Sacred Pledge
QUESTION:What is “the sacred pledge of the oath of office?”It is traditionally an oath (noted below) as a statement of fact or a promise taken as a sign of a true principle or belief, especially one of fundamental importance.~~~ one must ask themselves why anyone would pledge an oath of office and seemingly have no… Continue reading
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#66 – Crooks and Money
Why do good men retreat and hide when crooks and wicked persons take control of a town or a national government? Power in the wrong hands becomes tyranny. Corrupted justice, unenforceable God-given rights, and suffering spread everywhere under the government’s heavy hand. Wise and good men withdraw into obscurity in hidden and mysterious places, like… Continue reading
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