Science now supports the physiological effects of kindness on not only the body and emotions of the receiver but also on the giver as well. Kindness causes us to feel better!

Conservatives looking to defend unborn

Anti-abortion conservatives are proposing a new constitutional amendment that critics claim would make it a crime to take birth control pills in Florida.

Florida Exodus: Rising Taxes Drive Out Residents

"There are many things public officials probably shouldn't do during a severe recession, but no one seems to have told the leaders in Florida about them.

Opposing groups protest outside abortion doctor's clinic

Operation Rescue drove in two of their so-called Truth Trucks, delivery trucks with giant billboards of dismembered fetuses on the sides. The vehicles parked in a designated area outside the clinic to gasps from the women's rights groups.

Are you ready for a TMobile Upgrade (that you didn't ask for?)

Ok, so I've been a loyal customer of T-Mobile wireless service for about 8 years. Having left another cell phone company for a slight I considered undeniably wrong. Here I am, many years later and I find that my vision is , at best, failing.

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"They broke into my house..."

I decided to write this. To put it out there, not only as a warning to everyone, to please be careful, but perhaps to purge my own feelings of guilt. I realize, really, that it had nothing to do with me, I just wish I had been able to do something.

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I spy with my little eye...

The following photographs have no rhyme or reason. None of my photos ever do. As I have mentioned, when I see something that I want to remember, out comes the camera. Many of the photos do not live up to the memory. Some are vivid.

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Some of my Photographic Memories

The first photo was taken at my brothers funeral. He was a Viet Nam Veteran, and as they were folding the flag, a family member snapped this photo of me, and my other brother. I find it.....touching.

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Hamburgers and Ketchup Gravy "yum"

"This is a homestyle dish handed down from my grandmother to my mother to me. It's very simple but tastes out of this world! It's my husbands favorite dinner! The secret is the simmering! When the gravy simmers for a while, the flavors blend to make a thick sweet gravy.

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Seven Layer Salad...

Since I work midnights and there is not a restaurant or canteen or ANYTHING open all night where we "worms" (workers of regular midnights) can get a decent meal. A lot of the employees bring in food.

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I saw me...

I believe that when we are young, we are open to the idea that there is something always just behind the screen of present day life. That it is not only possible, but probable that we lived before, or that we are visited by people that have lived before us.

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Sister, Can You Spare a Dime?

One out of every 200 Americans utilized an emergency residential program between Oct. 1, 2006, and Sept. 30, 2007. And while it's estimated that only a small percentage of those people are panhandling, many of us (especially in urban areas) are regularly asked for money.

Bush's Days Of Judgment

Slowly, painfully, self-awareness has come to George W. Bush. "Turns out this isn't one of these presidencies where you ride off into the sunset, you know, waving goodbye," the president told the conservative American Enterprise Institute in December.

Easy Hair Removal

"This has been floating around e-mail boxes for a few years. I just found it and thought it would make for a few laughs. I admit, every time I read it, I laugh till I cry....." All hair removal methods have tricked women with their promises of easy, painless removal -

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Christmas 1968-Memories of Christmas in wartime-Silent Night, Holy Night Respite in Viet Nam

"For most Americans, Vietnam was a pop-art oddity 12,000 miles away; for me, it was as real as the blood coursing through my veins and oozing onto the ground. A helter-skelter piece of a Chi-Com grenade had found its mark.

Rottlady's Hints For Newsviner's

I've been asked to publish answers to some questions that come up all the time. I'm no expert here at Newsvine but I would be glad to share what I do know with everyone.

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History of Circumcision

FGM and circumcision: Problems of definition Differences and similarities between male and female genital mutilation, Is this something that we as Americans have a right to stop, or is it something that as a nation we have no right to interfere in? (I hope that I have done …

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Comfortable in my skin. Fifty four and fabulous. Not one to turn a responsible debate into a confrontation.