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Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 24, 2018 at 7:40am
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 Getting In The Firewood
by Tom McLaughlin

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In Texas, Trump and Cruz complete the transaction
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Two years and five months ago, on the day of the Indiana Republican primary that ended his presidential campaign, Ted Cruz unloaded on Donald Trump... It was more than an unloading — Cruz disgorged months of resentment against the man who defeated him and attacked his wife, his father, and his character. Trump was a "pathological liar," Cruz told reporters, a "bully," a "narcissist," an "utterly amoral" man who acted from "a deep yawning cavern of insecurity." Cruz took his anger at Trump to the Republican National Convention and beyond. By Election Day 2016, Cruz had come to an uneasy support of his party's presidential nominee. And then Trump won. So on Monday night, at the Toyota Center in Houston, there was Cruz, introducing Trump with fulsome praise. "I'm proud to have worked with President Trump on the biggest tax cut in a generation," Cruz said."I'm proud to have worked hand-in-hand with President Trump to repeal job-killing regulations." "I'm honored that President Trump is here endorsing and supporting my campaign," Cruz declared, "and I look forward to campaigning alongside him in 2020 for his re-election as president of the United States." Was it hypocrisy? A lack of principles? Plenty of observers would be happy to charge Cruz with those sins and more. But that's not what was going on. Say what you will about Cruz, and Trump, but there could be no greater tribute to the overwhelming power of voters in the American political system than what took place in Houston Monday...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-in-texas-trump-and-cruz-complete-the-transaction?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_10/23/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief
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Crude Anti-White Anti-Male Anti-Christian Communists 
Indoctrinate California K-12 Students
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“Just Communities” Training Manuel:  https://www.scribd.com/document/391301992/Left-wing-hate-group-Just-Communities-training-manual?campaign=VigLink&ad_group=xxc1xx&source=hp_affiliate&medium=affiliate
{frontpagemag.com} ~  Above is a curriculum the Santa Barbara Unified School District has paid an organization called “Just Communities” to impose on its K-12 students... It tells you all you need to know about the racist, anti-American left which has embedded itself in school districts like Santa Barbara all across the country. The left-wing hate group, whose full name is Just Communities Central Coast, has a $250,000 contract with school authorities in Santa Barbara, California, to indoctrinate young people into believing that America today is a manifestly immoral, cruel country in which white people routinely oppress non-whites, men oppress women, Christians oppress non-Christians, heterosexuals oppress gays, and the wealthy oppress the poor. This anti-American mini-manifesto aimed at fomenting social discontent comes in a “Forms of Oppression” grid produced by Just Communities, which is partnering with the Santa Barbara Unified School District (SBUSD). The grid is included in a bundle of documents published online that includes the Just Communities 2018 training manual. Just Communities is attempting to radicalize students and encourage them to become activists obsessed with the Marxist holy trinity of race, sex, and class. With help from the extreme-left hate group, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and other radical activists trying to impose unwanted social change on the country, public school teachers across America already saturate students with information about racial injustice in America in a nonstop barrage of historic facts and a historical nonsense. And in the culture at large, the media, politicians, and the entertainment industry can’t stop talking about race. The last thing any young student in America needs is to be taught about is race. Race matters only to radicals...
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Terror attack foiled in Hevron
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by Kobi Finkler
{israelnationalnews.com} ~ A terror attack was foiled outside of the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hevron Tuesday afternoon... a day after a similar attack was carried out nearby. The terrorist, a 17-year-old Palestinian Authority resident, approached the entrance of the Tomb of the Patriarchs Tuesday, while carrying a knife concealed on his person. After the terrorist set off a metal detector at the entrance, Israeli Border Police officers stationed at the entrance ordered him to remove any items he was carrying in his pockets. When the metal detector was again set off despite the terrorist having emptied his pockets, Border Police officers instructed him to lift up his shirt, so that they could verify that he was not carrying a concealed weapon. But the terrorist refused the order, instead drawing the knife he had concealed and lunging at several Border Police officers. Officers on the scene pointed their weapons at the terrorist and were ultimately able to take him into custody without opening fire. No injuries were reported in the incident...  https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/253651
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Abbas and Hamas use systematic torture to 
crush dissent – Human Rights Watch
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{timesofisrael.com} ~ Human Rights Watch on Tuesday accused both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas of routinely engaging in “systematic”  unwarranted arrests and torture of critics... suspected dissidents and political opponents, and of developing “parallel police states” in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, respectively. In a 149-page report based on interviews with 147 witnesses, Human Rights Watch detailed a common method of abuse and torture known as shabeh — used both by the PA and Hamas — in which detainees are placed in painful physical positions for lengthy periods of time. Such practices cause distress and trauma to detainees, while often leaving “little or no trace on the body,” the report said.The widespread occurrence of such brutality indicates that “torture is governmental policy for both the PA and Hamas,” HRW stated. Shabeh techniques include forcing detainees into squats, powerfully stretching their arms above or behind them, and leaving them standing or sitting in child-sized chairs for hours on end... These reports continue but nothing is being done to stop it.
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Prager U Video: The American Trinity
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ Nearly every country in the world is defined by race or ethnicity, but not America... What makes the United States different? Dennis Prager outlines the values that have allowed the American people to flourish and, unlike immigrants almost everywhere else, transformed those who arrived from across the globe into full Americans—regardless of where they were born.    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271706/prager-u-video-american-trinity-prager-university
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Getting In The Firewood
by Tom McLaughlin

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{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ There was a time I thought I’d be cutting my firewood every year until I was an old man. It was hard work, and by the time I was done sometime in the fall, there were no extra pounds on me. Then would come holidays with all the food and the extra pounds would gradually return until summer rolled around again and I’d be back in the woods. I had a Ford 8N farm tractor that was older than I was and I used it to pull trees out of the family woodlot in West Lovell. Then I cut it to four-foot lengths to haul home to work it up after school each day. My wife and kids all helped get it into the woodshed before snowfall.
 
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It was a labor-intensive and time-consuming process, but it was a whole-family effort and everyone enjoyed sitting near the living-room wood stove through the winter. You might say we bonded over firewood. The work was all mine until the wood was all cut to stove length. The family helped while I was splitting it, pulling the cloven pieces from each side of the chopping block and carrying them to the woodshed. I worked as a school district administrator during the first couple of years, a job from which I derived little satisfaction. The straightforward task of getting firewood from stump to stove was a welcome relief from the nebulous duties of that job.
 
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Me and Roseann 1978
Firewood kept me grounded. It was intensely physical and the work-reward continuum was crystal clear. It was me with my tools in the woods, then me with family at home. A full woodshed spelled contentment and satisfaction through the long, Maine winter. In those days we had sheep, pigs, and chickens which needed watering every night and I’d have to chop ice out of their buckets before refilling them for the pigs and other animals behind the barn. I remember walking past the brimming woodshed at night and seeing smoke rise straight up from the chimney into a star-filled night sky on frigid evenings when there was no wind. Through the window, I could see my children reading or watching television around the stove. Life was good.
 
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Roseann, with our daughters Sarah& Jessica 1978
Keeping the family warm was my job but so was bringing home a paycheck. As an administrator, I went to endless meetings, talked on the phone a lot, and did a lot of paperwork that few paid any attention to. I remember driving home each afternoon wondering what I had accomplished. I remember walking by classrooms to see teachers working with kids and thinking that’s what really matters, and not whatever it was I was supposed to be doing each day. When a job teaching history opened up I went for it and never looked back.
 
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Mike with his tractor
Teaching US History had meaning and so did cutting firewood, but we lived in a drafty old house requiring endless upkeep. After a friend and I purchased a 30-acre lot on a nearby hillside and divided it between us, I dreamed of a tight, thoroughly insulated new home. Soon I was clearing a site for it and a year later we were living there. Soon after, I began cutting trees to open a view to western mountains and sunsets. Each year I cut seven or eight cords — enough to heat through the winter. After seven years of that, we had a panorama and I was making enough as a property manager to buy firewood from others instead of going into the woods and cutting it myself.
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Mike twitching one out
To compensate for the loss of that physical activity, I had to increase my exercise regimen and I’ve continued it to the present day. I still cut wood once in a while because trees blow down often. I work them up to provide wood for the fireplace but I use the oil furnace for heat now. I miss my old firewood routine, but I’m learning to leave the harder, physical work to younger men. As I write this, I’m watching from my office window as my son-in-law, Mike pulls logs out of the woods beyond where I first cleared thirty years ago. His has a Kubota with a skidding winch in back. All I had to do this time was mark trees in the woods down the hill that had grown considerably taller over the last thirty years and threatened to block the horizon again.
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There’s quite a pile of tree-length firewood out there and he’s not finished yet. I’m not sure how much but it’s more than the seven or eight cords I used to bring up each summer. I’m planning to hire someone to cut and split it, but I’ll probably get out and pound away a bit myself, just for old time’s sake.
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