- Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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How Walmart Benefits From Social Programs
In Walmart’s 2013 Annual Report, corporate execs revealed that cuts to our government’s social services could negatively impact the corporation’s bottom line. [1]
It’s safe to say that most Americans don’t know that Walmart’s wages are so low that their employees qualify for SNAP (food stamps), Medicaid, Section 8 housing vouchers, subsidized school lunches, and earned income tax credits.[2] In some states, Medicaid is used by more Walmart employees than by any other group. [1]
In Search Of.... Who Invented The Thanksgiving Sandwich?
Plymouth County's Signature Sandwich Of Unknown Origin...
Cape Cod's Claim To The Day After Thanksgiving Sandwich
I wrote about our local wild turkey population recently. I then spent considerable time and effort trying to find out who invented the Gobbler.
Two faces of Boycotts.
Conservative Christians: Practicing free speech while defending the Constitution because they are concerned value voters who hate sin.
Progressive Gays: punishing free speech by attacking the constitution because they are a bunch of bullying fascists who hate America,
Example of supported boycotts:
Organic Lawns – What Kind Do You Want?
About this time of year, we’ve had enough of winter and are anxious to start gardening and working on the lawn. There are lots of creative options for lawns and now is the time to start planning.
Marrow Donor Registry Drive In Pembroke
Be The Match, Save A Life
Mary Lou Chase is a long-time Pembroke resident, a wife and a mother. She is a faithful parishioner at St. Thecla's, and a former president of the Mattakeesett Garden Club. Simple person, simple life, and a simply terrible thing happened to her. She was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.
Cape Cod Today: Monday April 7th, 2014
Find out what happened at last week's Town Council meeting on this episode of Barnstable Today.
And we know what happened to Rome
Re: McCutcheon:
Suffragia pecunia emere, ac vendere: et abusus irrepserunt definiendis iacerentur ad comitia amet.
Deinde ad hanc corruptionem expandit feret.
Deinde exercitus, tandem publica imperatorum imperio subiiciuntur.
Plutarch
Beware The Wild Turkey
It's Turkey Breeding Season, And Things Happen...
A great part of living in Bourne involves man-made stuff. You drive over the Bourne Bridge, you eat at the Way Ho, you walk along the Cape Cod Canal and so forth. Another part of the Bourne experience is getting to know the local fauna.
Olivia's story
This is the story of a little eight year old girl from South Carolina named Olivia.
Olivia is one of those kids that many people say they wish all kids could be more like. She loves learning, and says she wants to be an Egyptologist when she grows up.
She has a goal, and wants to work toward it. She wants to learn.
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