...of January.
Pretty grim stuff, but Karen reminded me of what we have waiting for us just up the road a bit:
Both encouraging and depressing, all at the same time.
Yes, it's something we look forward to, but until then we're still unhappy subjects of...
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| Old Man Winter |
...yeah, him.
The birds don't seem to mind too much...
...if only I could tap in to their attitude.
In the meantime I'll keep doing this...
...while dreaming of this:
Speaking of winter fun, I just finished re-reading Jerry Kramer's "Instant Replay".
It's a truly fascinating inside look at the old NFL: its players, coaches and attitudes.
(A bit of triviata: the Packers, led by coach Vince Lombardi, recited the Lord's Prayer before and after every game, win or lose.)
One of the best chapters deals with most (in)famous NFL championship game of all time:
The <1967 Ice Bowl between the Dallas Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers>, played on December 31st in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
No championship game has been played in harsher conditions: 15 below zero, with wind chills as low as 48 below zero.
The defining play in the waning seconds of the game went down in history as "The Block":
Right guard Jerry Kramer and center Ken Bowman moved big Jethro Pugh just enough for qb Bart Starr to plunge into the end zone with the winning touchdown.
That's #64 Kramer on the ground after blocking #75 Pugh; #15 Starr has made himself at home on the frozen paydirt.
The video of the game is about an hour and 13 minutes and includes commentary from many of the players; well worth your time if you're an NFL history fan.
As you're putting on your coat and just before you flee the premises, let's play a little game.
Try to guess which political party, in its long and checkered history, has championed the causes of -
* slavery:
hint*
Republican Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves with the <Emancipation Proclamation> on New Year's Day in 1863;
* segregation:
hint*
Democrat Governor George Wallace of Alabama famously stated in his inaugural address on January 14th, 1963, they would have segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever;
* killing babies in utero:
hint*
A <2025 Gallup Poll> shows 83% of Democrats are pro-abortion, while that same poll shows 77% of Republicans are pro-life:
* and insurrection:
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| another fun filled night of anarchy in the lawless state of Minnesota |
hint*
President Trump, who won the 2024 election in a landslide...
Time for your answer!
Which political party has proudly embraced slavery, segregation, killing babies in utero and violently opposing both the rule of law and deporting rapists, murderers, child abusers, thieves and fraudsters?
If you answered "the Democrats", congratulations!
You may award yourself 10 points.
The good news?
You can use those 10 points any way you want to.
And remember:
21 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
- Proverbs 11:21
Alrighty...time for you to 23 Skidoo:
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| not a great pic from our doorbell video, but that fuzzy critter on the left is a mangy fox that's been hanging around lately. we've set a havahart trap with some chicken in it as bait...hopefully we get him before he gets our pets. |
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| lately I've been enjoying smoking my corn cob pipes...the light colored one is "the chesapeake", the other is "the shenandoah". the chesapeake has a slightly larger bowl and is good for a 15 minute smoke, the shenandoah for 10. love the bamboo stems; all I need now is floppy straw hat (note: not gonna happen). |
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| sing it with me: "I'm dreaming of some warm weather, just like the kind we used to know...when the sun was shining, and we weren't pining, because we have to shovel snow..." |
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| ok, I'll stop now but yeah...I've got it bad |
the unbridled desire to do whatever you want without natural consequence.
Ultimately, that's both a moral and practical impossibility - in God's universe there's no such thing as "getting away with something", there are only delayed consequences.
The time inevitably comes to pay the piper, either here on earth or -
27 ...it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment:
- Hebrews 9:27
- when we stand before our Creator.
When pleasure and greed become our <raison d'être>, rather than God and duty, the end of our freedom - indeed, the end our nation as founded - is assured.
We're at a crossroads - massive fraud is being exposed, billions of taxpayer dollars stolen - and so far, with little to no accountability or consequence.
A free country cannot survive this way.
There must be a reckoning.
As our founding fathers warned more than 200 years ago:
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom...(otherwise we will) end in Despotism...when people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other."
- Benjamin Franklin
later, mcm fans...
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