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Book Club Guerrero Mexico Movies

Prayers for the Stolen (part I of IV)

The Movie Prayers for the Stolen follows a group of young girls, their families, and their community, as they struggle against poverty and oppressive evil. The movie takes place almost exclusively in a rural village in the mountainous jungles an hour’s drive from Acapulco. The movie focuses on a poor rural Mexican Indian girl, Ana […]

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Canada Collapse of Democracy/Civilization/etc. WLBOTT Corporate

What a Friend We Have in Canada!

One of the perks of being a world-wide corporate conglomerate is that WLBOTT has reliable assets all over the world, especially in America’s darkest hour. Consider the following email exchange:

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Collapse of Democracy/Civilization/etc. Gravediggers of American Democracy Heros - NOT Washington, D.C.

The Washington Post and our Number Two Story

You guys been following the hoopla over at the Washington Post? Jeff Bezos, in his wisdom, has blocked the WaPo from endorsing a presidential candidate. There seems to be a universal consensus among independent analysts that Bezos’ stance is in response to tRump’s threats to go after Amazon. This brave stance by Bezos – protecting […]

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Collapse of Democracy/Civilization/etc. Current Events Lasting Love Texas

Voting in Texas

This morning I was consulting with Elder G, our WLBOTT AI companion and part-time psycho-therapist. I was bemoaning the fact that blue my vote in Texas is pretty inconsequential. Turns out that it is more likely that I: Oddly, while reviewing this article with the WLBOTT editorial staff, I got push-back on the polar bear […]

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Heros Newfoundland Will there be a buffet?

Gander, Operation Yellow Ribbon, and Jiggs’ Dinner

Gander is a town located in the northeastern part of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, approximately 40 km (25 mi) south of Gander Bay, 100 km (62 mi) south of Twillingate and 90 km (56 mi) east of Grand Falls-Windsor. … When the U.S. closed its airspace after […]

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Book Club Collapse of Democracy/Civilization/etc. Gravediggers of American Democracy Texas

Race to the Truth

Anti-censorship advocates have joined the book publisher Penguin Random House in condemning a Texas county that reclassified an account of European settlers’ colonization of Indigenous Americans as fiction. The furor in Montgomery county – near Houston – follows the decision by a citizens review panel, at the behest of rightwing activists, to place Colonization and […]

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Canada Engineering England Scholarship/Erudition TechnoBLOTT Will there be a buffet?

The Godfather of Artificial Intelligence

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two pioneers of artificial intelligence — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is revolutionizing the way we work and live but also creates new threats for humanity. Hinton, who is known as the godfather of […]

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Heros Hopeful Songs on Dismal Days North Dakota

Celebrating Anne Carlsen

Yesterday we were talking about the number of early Christians, and this led us to Rodney Stark, a religious sociologist who studied this period. This led us to Jamestown, North Dakota, where Rodney Start was born and raised. And this led us to the expansive salad bar at the Jamestown High School. But then this […]

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Food Minnesota

Tim Walz’s Casseroles

SAT Question Hotdish is to Minnesota as ________ is to Texasa) tamalesb) enchiladasc) tacosd) Texas A&M Universitye) heat-stress index Answer: b Timothy James Walz (born April 6, 1964) is an American politician, former educator, and retired U.S. Army non-commissioned officer who has served since 2019 as the 41st governor of Minnesota. He was a member […]

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Food Mexico

Recipes from Puebla, Mexico

As we were looking at the city of Puebla, Mexico (the birthplace of the La India Maria actress María Elena Velasco) we saw that several unique and popular recipes originate from this city. Mole [ed. note: pronounced moe – lay, or possibly mole-eh?] The best-known mole is named after the city of Puebla, mole poblano. […]