But what will we win?

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I know Jack Riggins wants us all to Win Win Win, but–what will WE win?

Yesterday I received an email from the new chairman of the Lancaster County Republican Party (LCRP). His name is Jack Riggins.I’m sure he means well, but I wish he didn’t have my email address. I keep asking the LCRP to take me off their mailing lists, but so far, they’ve been uncooperative. And they keep selling—or sharing—it. I don’t hate them. I just don’t want to have anything to do with them. But more about that later.

I wanted to share Jack’s letter on Substack, but Substack isn’t letting me load images of any kind lately, so… I’m sharing his letter here as well as my response.

Here’s the first part of his letter:

A little background here: First, it’s a sad fact that politics is a nasty, horrible, sucking money pit–and political parties need (or want) ever more of it. I understand why Jack wants our support. The Lancaster County Republican Party is in serious trouble. The people who previously ran it outed themselves as globalist RINOs who weren’t just anti-Trump. When they made clear that they didn’t care what grassroots Republicans want or need, they also alienated the party base. When the party base refused to blindly follow them to perdition, these elitists took their politically generated wealth (generously contributed to up to that point BY the party base) and left the LCRP with nothing.

Last I knew, the LCRP was meeting in donated space in the basement of a commercial building with a broken elevator.

Okay–so they’ve got problems, and they have real needs. And, I’d like to be sympathetic. But I’m not–keep reading.)

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When You Need a Digital Assist

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When you need a digital assist in a classroom or other learning environment, I recommend reaching for Cool Tools for School. Cool Tools for School compares and contrasts the digital technology available on the market. It lists in detail the abilities of each tool, and explains how to use them to improve a student’s learning

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CO2 concentrations graph

Carbon Dioxide: Curse or Blessing?

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Is carbon dioxide a curse or a blessing? Let’s examine the facts: More information to take into account: Nitrogen creates the highest concentration of gas in our atmosphere, and this is terrific because plants love it and need it for fertilizer to promote healthy growth. Comprising almost 80% of the air we breathe, nitrogen is

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Taking a break

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Sometimes, when life gives you lemons, the only possible answer becomes “taking a break.” In case you’re wondering where I’ve wandered off to and why there are no new installments for my Steampunk serial, Perilous Artifacts: I’m taking a break. This break has been necessitated by issues in moving and setting up one of my

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Cover Design Challenges

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Sometimes, the biggest cover design challenges are presented by the stock art, especially on the front cover, but not this time. The biggest challenge with the back cover layout for any book involves ensuring that text will be legible and clear over the background image. This turned out to be especially true for R. Marshall Wright’s newest book, Laura, Don’t Run!
R. Marshall Wright–Dick to his friends and family–has written another exceptional story. Here’s the blurb from the book:

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Remembering Columbine

Is Gun Control The Answer

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The Denver Post published an opinion piece this week complaining that little has been done about gun control since the shootings twenty years ago at Columbine High School.

But, is gun control the answer to anything?

I think that we can all agree that the first step to dealing with a problem is to recognize and acknowledge what the problem really is.
Kids used to take guns to school for school-sponsored target shooting events, and they never shot at each other, and there were almost no mass shootings of any kind. Now, guns are the epitome and embodiment of danger and kids aren’t supposed to have access to them, but yet they keep shooting each other.
Hey, Denver Post! How about you do a story on why and how that changed instead of trying to push an anti-guns narrative?

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2019 New Year

New Years Resolution 2019

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My New Years resolution for 2019 is fairly simple: I don’t want the unachievable. I want to look back at the end of 2019 and realize that I not only achieved my goals, I exceeded them. That said, I do have an expanded list of resolutions (see below).
And I wanted to start with a look back at the old year… How did I do?
Looking back, 2018 was another hard year that started out with more wandering about lost in the middle of health issues beating me up and not being able to make much headway financially. This is not going to be a negative, whiny post–I promise!–but I had to say that.
There were huge emotional whammies that had to be faced and dealt with, but I did it and–survived! And I kept going.

My first New Years resolution for 2019 is to keep surviving, to keep getting back up again no matter how many times I get knocked down… and keep going.

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