The Romans Road

An Ancient Network: The Roads of Rome – Brewminate: We're Never Far ...

The Romans Road “Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.” ~Anatole Broyard The Romans were good at a lot of things. While touring Europe, I was able to see much of the work they left behind that sometimes looks in better condition than the roads in my hometown of Helena, Montana. But …

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Little America Has a Big Heart

Last night, my spouse called out to me to come upstairs from my basement lair and watch TV with her. Normally, that is a request I might normally have dodged, but since Marquette and Baylor had just destroyed my bracket, I decided to go see what cooking show, HGTV special, or “Housewives” episode had caught …

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Our Little Barbarians; Out of Control Youth

Our Little Barbarians; Recently, an establishment called Nettie’s House of Spaghetti in New Jersey announced they will no longer allow children under 10 to dine at their restaurant. The move caused controversy, with some respondents applauding the policy and others accusing Nettie’s staff of being “child haters.” But the top commenter at MSN.com summed the issue …

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The One-World-Government Folks Want to Subject the United States to the United Nations, When They Haven’t Gotten Their Way Under Our Laws

The one-world-government folks want to subject the United States to the United Nations, regardless of American law. From The Washington Post: Almost 200 rights groups call on U.N. to intervene over U.S. abortion access The U.S. cannot be a global champion of human rights when its own abortion rights are not protected, one activist group …

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Secular Liberalism Has Infected Religion, and Liberal Religion Has Infected Secular Politics

And here I thought that Catholic bishops and priests were supposed to be guided by the Bible in which they have professed belief! On same-gender blessings specifically, (Bishop Helmut) Dieser (of Aachen, Germany) challenged the Vatican’s ban on them, saying priests and other pastoral ministers should be guided by their consciences when deciding on whether …

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Boundaries-How Are They Taught?

Home School

How are boundaries taught? Human beings have a herd mentality. Humans need to associate with other humans, they need feed back from other humans. Without sharing ideas and thoughts with others, humans become isolated. Solitary confinement can destroy a mind. The isolation drives humans to imaginary friends or to a machine, such as HAL from …

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Boundaries–Why Do We Need Them?

Boundaries – why do we need them? Boundaries are the guideposts of sanity. Think about that, while everyone believes they want limitless boundaries, our minds are incapable of handling that responsibility. Outside the boundaries is often chaos, inside the boundaries is order. Outside the boundaries is experimentation, inside the boundaries is security. The battle is how …

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Anthony’s Pizza

Anthony’s Pizza; A retired Army Colonel’s observations from the AAFES Food Court. First if you know what an AAFES Food Court is, then you will appreciate this (Army Air Force Exchange System aka PX/BX) I live in DuPont, WA, located right across I-5 from JBLM (Joint Base Lewis McChord or for the Army types Ft …

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All the News That’s Fit to Print?

There has been so much written about the criminal cases against 33-year-old government worker William Dale Zulock Jr. and 35-year-old banker Zachary “Zack” Jacoby Zulock, accused of a whole series of child rape and sexual abuse crimes against the two boys they adopted, with some of the descriptions beggaring the imagination, that I’ve had to …

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