Against the Wind

This is as much as anything what some bloggers refer to as a “tab dump” Collected links from the last couple days, and a photo or two.

Betsi I think emailed me the link to this love story.

This is where I’d like to be. But I don’t like a single car that well.

Shrinkwrapped has a wonderful parable at the beginning of his blog, but his point is that “nation building” may continue to be a nonstarter. That seems to be a “meme” that is getting more traction. But nation building is not the whole point. Sounds like an excuse to retreat to isolationism to me. The fact that determined psychopaths want a bomb doesn’t make the strategy of counting on our oceans to act as a big enough buffer…. Meanwhile in Iraq, the old Hebrew temples and monuments to Isiah, Jeremiah and other major prophets are being defaced.

Iraq is the newly minted “democracy” for which so many Americans sacrificed so much. now they are behaving just as Muslims have behaved for a thousand years: Once a majority, they force non-believers into dhimmi status and erase all signs of the hated infidel. This is a story as old as the Temple Mount and the Hagia Sofia and as recent as the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.

I didn’t note what the video was when I saved the link. So here’s a mystery video!

We’ve had weather too. December saw a rainy spell that has all the rivers high ahead of the spring thaw. (picture below) Mississippi River Floods are a scary thought. After the ground was totally sogged, the freezes followed. A tree on church property fell into the neighborhood behind, so someone’s house was damaged. I am aware of this from being out driving with Rev. Barbara this afternoon. I just called on a whim and said, wanta take an Sunday afternoon drive. She said, come on down, and we had a nice afternoon. A little gray overhead, but we drove through Pearlington, Waveland, Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, Delisle and then over to spend a few cold minutes at Ft. Pike. She came from Nebraska so hasn’t had a chance to go see a lot of the local scenery.

Pleasant times here.

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