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How To Pick A Candidate

January 2, 2008 Herb 5
I talked to my dad.  He was his usual self but a little bit down and tired sounding.  “I just scrubbed the bathroom and the kitchen and my back started hurting me some so I decided to sit down for a while Continue Reading[...]
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T Roosevelt Quote

June 9, 2007 Herb 1
There is an e-mail circulating with a quote about immigration from Theodore Roosevelt. It is only partial and after some homework I found a couple of interesting quotes: “In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here Continue Reading[...]
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Update

May 5, 2007 Herb 0
Actually, since I have a blog, I suppose I should spend some time writing in it.  I am happy that people are finding my little spot here.  Some seem to have disappeared, but it’s early yet and I haven’t been making my Continue Reading[...]
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Givethanksing Day 2

November 22, 2006 Herb 0
I found the folder that had the pictures from my mom’s last visit out here. It was only three months ago that she passed away and only five months ago that her church sent her out here as chronicled here Day 1, Continue Reading[...]
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I Still Swear…So Help Me God

October 31, 2006 Herb 0
*Standing at attention, right arm at ninety degree angle* “I, Herbert C. Thiel, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance Continue Reading[...]
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Stem Cell Issue

October 29, 2006 Herb 0
Hollyweird has been unusually quiet this election.  Maybe someone told them to shut their traps, or as Laura Ingraham says in the title of her book, “Shut up and sing.”  There has been a noticeable flap between Michael J Fox and Rush Continue Reading[...]
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How To Vote

October 19, 2006 Herb 0
I am going to give you a quick lesson on how to pick your candidates.  Probably the most important thing an American can do in our democracy, which is actually a representative republic, is often relegated to listening to 30 second attack Continue Reading[...]
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The Visitor

September 13, 2006 Herb 2
I have seen it around in various forms and perhaps you have, too. The message is pretty clear. It is not original with me, but I wish it were. Feel free to copy it and send it around. I am still working Continue Reading[...]
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Funeral Visit

August 26, 2006 Herb 0
I would so much like to thank all of you for your prayers, kind thoughts and words of encouragement. The trip was long. I was thankful to have learned a lot from reading Pops’s accounts of his father’s last days because I Continue Reading[...]
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Update 7-22-06

July 22, 2006 Herb 0
Thanks to all of you for your kind words and encouraging comments and everyone’s support. I especially wish to thank Pops, for writing so eloquently and often poignantly about his father’s last days. It has been comforting in this time since mom Continue Reading[...]