January 2016 – The Motley Moose

Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: Jan. 31st through Feb. 6th

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Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania […]

President Obama: “We will win because we focus on the things that matter in the lives of the American people”

January 30, 2016 JanF 2

President Obama spoke at the House Democratic Issues Conference in Baltimore Maryland on Thursday. Tonight, I have an announcement to make about the presidential race: Democrats will win in November and we will have a […]

Weekly Address: President Obama – Giving Every Student an Opportunity to Learn Through Computer Science For All

January 30, 2016 JanF 10

The President’s Weekly Address post is also an Open News Thread. Feel free to share other news stories in the comments. From the White House – Weekly Address In this week’s address, the President discussed […]

A Muslim Migration: Somalis in Maine

January 26, 2016 Denise Velez 6

Sahro Hassan, a young Somali Muslim immigrant to Maine who is designing fashions There are parts of the United States that I think of as populated by white folks. With the rise of anti-immigrant rhetoric […]

Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: Jan. 24th through Jan. 30th

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Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania […]

Weekly Address: President Obama – Affordable Care Act is Making a Difference for Millions of Americans

January 23, 2016 JanF 7

This is what Diplomacy looks like

January 17, 2016 JanF 10

Yesterday evening, the State Department announced that Iran had met the conditions required by last summer’s nuclear proliferation agreement and that sanctions would be lifted. Here are the details, from Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz: […]

Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: Jan. 17th through Jan. 23rd

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Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania […]

Weekly Address: President Obama – Improving Economic Security by Strengthening and Modernizing the Unemployment Insurance System

January 16, 2016 JanF 4

President Obama – “The State of our Union is strong”

January 13, 2016 JanF 2

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired […]

Welcome, Returning Light!

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December 21, 2024 3

The winter solstice “occurs exactly when the Earth’s axial tilt is farthest away from the sun at its maximum of 23° 26′. Though the winter solstice lasts only a moment in time, the term is [...]

Entering the Quiet Time as We Leaf the Light Behind

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September 22, 2024 3

An equinox occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the Sun being vertically above a point on the Equator. The latitudes +L [...]

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“Give Thanks for the Blessings”

August 1, 2024 3

Happy Lammas!! Hey, wait just a minute! Those are happy llamas … which is not the same thing at all! Today is August 1st, the pagan holiday of Lammas or First Harvest. It is the [...]

Blackness

Passing

July 5, 2024 4

Everyone says I look like my father. Well, everyone “below stairs,” as it were, and even then they speak of it only in whispers. As for guests, the naked shock on their faces as [...]

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April Showers are Bringing May Flowers!

May 1, 2024 4

At Winter Solstice, the light begins to return – gradually, the memory of the long nights fades until the light and dark are equal on Spring Equinox. From that point on, the light returns more [...]