Still puzzling over what to get that guy who has everything? Well, here you go. On sale now in L.A. for only 60 grand. Get 'em while they last - and before those tariffs kick in.
Kevin and Ralph get the Cavalcade storefront windows in Croswell, Michigan, all decked out for the holidays with Christmas trees and vintage appliances.
This is the best I can do this week, fellas. I've just lost interest in a lot of things lately. Not much to say, either. The past is much more interesting than the present time; and I can't bear to think about the future.
BTW, I find these kinds of videos more enjoyable by slowing down the playback speed and muting the sound. Just sayin'.
Some time ago, looking up an historical subject, I came across this photograph of a newlywed couple in Czechoslovakia, circa 1935. A nice young couple, neatly dressed, peering into the future. What did the future hold for them, I wonder.
They would have had only a short time to settle into married life before Hitler took over their country and plunged the world into war. Did they have children? Did he go off to war or to forced labor? Did they live to see the liberation of their country, and subsequent domination by Russia? What happened to them, after that short space of peace?
What will happen to all of us now, in America? What would they say to us if they could speak? I wonder . . .
Some encouraging words from Team Blue, down but not out:
What I Say: We all owe a great debt of gratitude to our two standard-bearers, who suddenly took on a massive, gruelling campaign they never expected to run, and did it with grace, good cheer, and unstinting effort all the way down to the finish line. Just to think of the sheer physical effort it took staggers me - a stroll through the grocery store wears me out at this late age - to say nothing of the mental and emotional strain they and their families went through in that whirlwind campaign.
It was a damn hard job, and an uphill battle; but they took up the challenge gladly and fought to win against all odds. That they lost is no reflection whatsoever on their courage and character. As the old hymn goes, which inspired the likes of Harry Truman:
Dare to be a Daniel,
Dare to stand alone,
Dare to hold a purpose firm,
Dare to make it known.
And I will say this: the idea that Kamala lost because she was a woman, or a black woman, or any other personal characterstic is utterly false: weenie-whiney bullshit. She very nearly did win: the difference in the popular vote was less than 2 percent. In my view, she lost because she wasn't selling what a slim majority of voters wanted. They chose rotgut whiskey instead of bottled water. It's just real simple.
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They will have a hell of a hangover, too, when they come to their senses. It's a damn shame that the rest of us will have to suffer along with them.
It is most interesting to study the eye-opening results of the popular vote, as well as the exit polls, broken down by sex, race, religion, education, income, and much more. I encourage all my truckbuddies in this country and abroad to do so before you say another word about the election. Knowledge is power.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
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We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
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Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?
It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.
If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.
