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It’s been two weeks so there’s lots and lots of news out there.

The Amish are coming. They are coming to your state. They are coming for your farmland.  They are taking your jobs.  They are killing dogs. They are being represented by the ACLU. Soon, if they keep fornicating like bunnies, the only people in [...]

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Inspired by the Olympics.  I’m sure there are others.  There are others, right?  And I’m realize that I’m stretching the definitions of famous.  And also stretching the definition of Mennonite.   But because there no trampolinists or golfers, I have not stretched the definition of athlete.  I kid.  I kid!

Cindy Klassen: Canadian speed skater.  Star of [...]

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I went to this MCC sale and I have to tell you that the doughnuts were great!
New York Times manages to mention the Amish without actually showing a picture of them.  This is not normal.
Trust me, politicians are fully aware of the Amish.  He must have missed this story.
News flash.  Some small farmers are not [...]

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Why does the press only love the Amish?  Where are the Mennonite stories?  Where?

Seth Green plays Amish gay in new film? (You cannot believe how happy I get writing “Seth Green,
“gay” and “Amish” in the same sentence.)
Amish crime lit gets a review in the New York Times; apparently he writes Amish better than English
Owners of [...]

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Even the Amish would have trouble “going Amish” if Iran detonates an Electromagnetic Pulse device above us.  As it is, they can barely deal with high fuel costs.
It’s official.  The Lutherans no longer want to kill us.
Judge rules that the Swartzendruber Amish might not be of this world but they are mostly assuredly in it.
All [...]

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And yet again, the Young Anabaptist Radicals discuss women without a single woman in the discussion.
Eeks.  Apparently, in a matchup between motorcycle and crazed horse dragging a buggy, the motorcycle loses.
Ami-Menno literature online this week include Russian Mennonite memoirs (with a graphically accurate cover) and a leader in the growing genre of “Amish fiction.”
As if [...]

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Today is the 60th anniversary of a racially integrated military.  An odd post for a Mennonite to make?  Probably.  After all, I’d prefer that there wouldn’t be any military at all.  But if we are going to have one (and so far, my side isn’t winning the overall battle here so I’m kinda resigned and [...]

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Friday night I headed out of town to visit the Tri-State Mennonite Relief Sale.  For those of you who don’t know what relief sales are, here.  For the rest of you, no explanation needed.
I was going to be very bloggy and do some live posting but it turns out that was not so feasible.  This [...]

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Wisconsin not so fond of the Amish, insist that they follow regulations that save them from collapsing houses, getting shot and spreading mad cow; Amish retaliate by doubling their population
Oh, and Pennsylvania too (maybe because the Amish hate puppies?).
No matter how many times I see pictures of the  Amish in the city, I never [...]

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