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Not much sleep. Didn’t figure to. I’m off to do papers in a little while. Have to be at the hospital @ 7:00AM. The worst thing about procedures like this is that I have to fast. Food, no problem. Going for a day without my coffee is something else again. If everything is OK, I’ll be coming home. If not, I have to stay overnight. If such is the case there won’t be anything tomorrow. So I thought I’d dig into my file marked “seasonal” and pull out some topical humor.
THIS IS MY WIFE, I SWEAR. DINNER AT 6:30, SHE’S THERE AT NOON!

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Enjoy the celebration of our countries’ independence by raising the American flag… unless some snowflake demands you take it down because it offends him.
Enjoy the local parade with marching bands and military units… and, of course, men in garish dresses bouncing along, blowing kisses and flaunting their body piercings and custom leather gear.
Enjoy the fireworks, unless someone complains they add to climate change and must be stopped. Or get assaulted by roving gangs of black youths because they claim the park is theirs.
Enjoy a family picnic at a park, as long as everything is gluten-free and you don’t harm any of God’s creatures, especially ants and mosquitoes.
Teach your children about the solemnity of the day, since they will be taught in school that we are responsible for every bad thing that’s ever happened in the history of Western Civilization.
The Sacrifices Made by the Men Who Signed the Declaration

Though the principles enunciated in its opening paragraphs, such as the self-evident truth that all men are created equal, provide the moral and philosophical foundation on which the American regime rests, it is important to acknowledge that declaring principles alone secures nothing.
Principles need to be enforced by individuals who have the habits of character necessary to fight for them, and perhaps even die for them, if need be. In a time where talk of rights dominates our political discourse, a focus on duties is indispensable in order to teach citizens the responsibilities they owe toward each other and their posterity.
The signers’ mutual pledge to themselves to sacrifice their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor for the cause of independence shows that these men took seriously their duties to the people of the new nation.
THE INCOMPARABLE PAUL HARVEY
South Carolina Business Owner Told American Flag Display Violates Local Ordinance

Bob Michaelis of Michaelis Mattress Company in Lexington says he was asked to remove the patriotic display because it violates a 1999 town ordinance. According to the town ordinance, only three flags that are not duplicates of each other can be displayed in “restricted and intense development districts.”
New Low ‘Proud to be American’ At End of Obama Era
It’s hard not to connect this grim trend with President Obama’s White House tenure. While the trend did drop significantly in the years between 2004 and 2006, when President George W. Bush was still in office, Obama did little to inspire Americans. Even after his whole “Hope and Change” campaign, the numbers didn’t budge.
Our stagnant economy, tendency to place correctness over national security, and fading international image thanks to our capitulating to extremist regimes may help explain why Americans are not wild about their country right now.






Warning for language and brief naked backside:
Have a large 4th and use common sense. Remember… a bottle rocket launched from your butt crack is always a painful fail. Submitted herewith are some magnificent fireworks fails.
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from the book of John
The Empty Tomb
20 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”
3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, 7 as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. 8 Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. 9 (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) 10 Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+20&version=NIV
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Back in November, I wrote here and at my blog about one of our blogger friends whose husband needed prayers after a tragic and life-threatening fall. He had been helping a neighbor on a high roof under wet conditions and slid off with such speed that he destroyed their safety measures on the way down, sustaining critical injuries to his spine, pelvis and one arm.
Many people commented that they would pray for Freedom1781’s husband, and I’m happy to report very good news. He not only has made great progress in his recovery, but he reports tremendous encouragement and gratitude for your prayers. He also claims that he’s been aware of many apparently miraculous developments which have helped him on the very difficult road to recovery. He attributes these to the prayers of family and friends, and he insists that I pass along his thanks to those of you who have prayed for him. So, thanks to YOU!

Gruntessa and I had the chance in early December to visit their family, since I work frequently in coastal Virginia, where they live. At that time, he had just been released from the hospital from the first round of surgeries and rehabilitation. He was in a lot of pain, but he also was suffering from severe cabin fever, so he desperately wanted to visit the Busch Garden’s Christmas Town in Williamsburg with his young daughter and wife. He could get around in a wheelchair with a lot of help, so we made it happen, and he managed to make it through an entire loop of all the world villages decorated with 8 million lights for Christmas.

One of the highlights of the tour was attending the show, Gloria!, which is a musical stage act of the nativity of Christ. If you’ve never been, the Busch family still puts on a very Christ-centered Christmas celebration without any political correctness within a few hundred miles of Washington, DC, and that is quite an amazing thing!

But the best news came just this week, when we found out that Mr. Freedom1781’s hip socket was growing back well enough that the next surgery would attempt a reconstruction rather than a total hip replacement. The replacement was originally thought necessary because this was a traumatic injury in which his femur punched completely through his pelvis on impact, destroying the joint. But now, there is hope for a near total recovery. Thanks for the prayers, Folks!