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Posted on 05/15/2013 9:45:46 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Please keep those reports and articles coming in fast and furiously. Obama is now in full hunker down panic mode. The media senses blood in the water. The congress is finally stirring. Scandal after scandal fleshing out. Obama and his dreams of Marxist/fascist transformation is falling apart. Heads are going to roll. Hopefully, from the top down.
And please keep those donations coming in folks, we're going to need FR now more than ever. Obama is on the ropes, but he's just as dangerous to freedom as ever as long as he's in the White House.
Demand impeachment!!
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. Don't let it expire on our watch.
Not on my watch!!
Never give-in, never give-up, never surrender!!
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time for dinner here too!
Jim, how hard would it be to put a ‘LIKE’ button on here?
We need to be able to direct our friends here and preach to more than the choir!
(Plus the increased traffic would help membership and donations)
I love receiving blankets. They’re perfect for newborns. The “burp cloths” are a new invention for me. My mother always used a clean diaper, which wasn’t nearly as attractive. :)
Including an extended stay in the White Hut...
From Wikipedia:
Origin and history Several authors presume that swaddling was invented in the paleolithic. In Europe the earliest depictions of swaddled babies are votive offerings and grave goods from Crete and Cyprus, 4000 to 4500 years old.
Votive statuettes have been found in the tombs of Ancient Greek and Roman women who died in childbirth, displaying babies in swaddling clothes. In shrines dedicated to Amphiaraus, models representing babies wrapped in swaddling clothes have been excavated. Apparently, these were frequently given as thank-offerings by anxious mothers when their infants had recovered from sickness.
Probably the most famous record of swaddling is found in the New Testament concerning the birth of Jesus in Luke 2:6-2:7: “ And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. ”
Swaddling clothes described in the Bible consisted of a cloth tied together by bandage-like strips. After an infant was born, the umbilical cord was cut and tied, and then the baby was washed, rubbed with salt and oil, and wrapped with strips of cloth. These strips kept the newborn child warm and also ensured that the child's limbs would grow straight. Ezekiel 16:4 describes Israel as unswaddled, a metaphor for abandonment.
During Tudor times, swaddling involved wrapping the new baby in linen bands from head to foot to ensure the baby would grow up without physical deformity. A stay band would be attached to the forehead and the shoulders to secure the head. Babies would be swaddled like this until about 8 or 9 months.
Happy Birthday, First Darling!
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~Jim Robinson
April, 2013
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