Round up all your boxes, notebooks, CD's, scraps of paper, file folders, etc.--anything that pertains to your genealogy, get it all together in one area. Then, and only then, will you be able to organize (or more appropriately, perhaps, re-organize) your "stuff" [as President Obama would say]. Surely we can confine our research to a few shelves, a couple of filing cabinets, or several drawers. IN THE SAME AREA. If we have to run from room to room, from downstairs to upstairs, or whatever, we are wasting precious time that could be better spent finding our ancestors.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
State of the Union
President Obama uses the word "investment" as if our government has money with which to make an investment. Our government's investment should be to trust private industry to develop according to the market. I'm sure that a lot of hearts just fell to the floor when he indicated he didn't want our country to invest in the oil business any more. What, we're going to punish Sarah Palin and all those who stand with her, in maximizing Alaska's resources? We need refineries built and refreshed; our country still has plenty of this resource, don't you think?
We are going to be force fed, if the President gets his way, with green energy. I'm all for conserving our natural resources, re-purposing old stuff instead buying new stuff, and using "clean energy". What I'm not all for is the federal government buying up all the land and lakes and mountains. I'm not all for the government taking the role of protecting us from things that might be bad for our health. Of course, there are many ways to approach valid concerns and take moderate steps in cleaning up our world and our lifestyle. I'm not sure any of those ways really need to be regulated by the President and his cohorts. Bureaucracy starts at the top and trickles down or floods down, rather, the tentacles of federal power spreading and invading into every corner of our lives.
No salt, no fat, no dirty coal, no oil; how long before Big Brother wants to control our television watching habits, our reading styles, our religious practices, etc., etc., etc.?
Read the text of the speech the President gave tonight and look for the code.
Is it really the business of Congress to protect us from wearing earphones in both ears?
We are going to be force fed, if the President gets his way, with green energy. I'm all for conserving our natural resources, re-purposing old stuff instead buying new stuff, and using "clean energy". What I'm not all for is the federal government buying up all the land and lakes and mountains. I'm not all for the government taking the role of protecting us from things that might be bad for our health. Of course, there are many ways to approach valid concerns and take moderate steps in cleaning up our world and our lifestyle. I'm not sure any of those ways really need to be regulated by the President and his cohorts. Bureaucracy starts at the top and trickles down or floods down, rather, the tentacles of federal power spreading and invading into every corner of our lives.
No salt, no fat, no dirty coal, no oil; how long before Big Brother wants to control our television watching habits, our reading styles, our religious practices, etc., etc., etc.?
Read the text of the speech the President gave tonight and look for the code.
Is it really the business of Congress to protect us from wearing earphones in both ears?
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Meridian Magazine - The First Archaeological Support for the Book of Mormon
Meridian Magazine - The First Archaeological Support for the Book of Mormon
I would have been an archaeologist in another life, I think. How fun to jet around the world and walk the pathways of the ancients. It is both historically satisfying and tangible to those who are involved in the field, I would imagine. To reach out and touch an altar where perhaps Lehi once officiated, is this spiritual or what? I mean, that is the message her, right? I haven't read the whole article, so I guess I'd have to get more scholastically involved here, before I get too excited. Still, the prospects are exceedingly enticing.
I would have been an archaeologist in another life, I think. How fun to jet around the world and walk the pathways of the ancients. It is both historically satisfying and tangible to those who are involved in the field, I would imagine. To reach out and touch an altar where perhaps Lehi once officiated, is this spiritual or what? I mean, that is the message her, right? I haven't read the whole article, so I guess I'd have to get more scholastically involved here, before I get too excited. Still, the prospects are exceedingly enticing.
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