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Last Thursday I did a quintessential guy thing ,I bought a new truck.

My last new one has  been a loyal servant since 98 when I brought it home from the Ford dealer.

240000 miles later, it is getting on in years and I can hear the transmission struggling to change gears once it warms up.

The Expedition has lasted through three collies who loved it and jumped in eagerly , always assuming it would take them to places of new and interesting smells.

It travelled well, never breaking down during a trip, always getting us where we planned.

It rolled over snowy mountain passes, cruised up ocean beaches, crossed deserts and Forest Service roads, handled rain , mud and ice with surefooted ease.

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I thought this covered the way Conservative views are trashed by the elites. I will post the link to the fuller clip in the first comment.

The End of Stress: A revolutionary new approach to a happier, healthier life   Andrew J Bernstein

I have a friend that recommend these types of books. I grudgingly read them and I am surprised that they have value in them.

The main thesis of the book is that the problem of stress is not object things you are facing in life but how you are interpreting those things. An example in the book is of a traffic jam. Some people are waiting in the standstill and listening to music or audio books and others are steaming and angry. From the same situation there are two responses. How … Continue reading →

Just had to share this ad. It just drips with defiance for Correct Speech. May we see much much more of it.

The article below takes a somewhat different cut at where the great struggle for ideas is right now.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/03/the_end_of_the_worldfor_liberals.html

Like many, I have sensed a shift in the way people perceive things, a great change in perspective that usually is the harbinger of social change.

We had civil rights, slavery, isolationism and a number of constructs that required a new way of thinking to emerge.

I do believe we are seeing a change in thinking and the reason the left is going crazy is they are beginning to realize the world will not return to the old status quo. They have lost the concept high ground and only win with raw naked power.

I predict increasing turbulence.

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Let’s face it. The Members of BDB which don’t have XX chromosomes are manly men. We stand apart. For us the Greek alphabet only has the one letter. The first one.

It was the International Day of Women on the 8th of March. Should not we celebrate on the 9th of March as Manly Man Day?

I have no idea how a book club works. But we should definitely do that. Here’s a pleasant book on ordinary life. Nevermind the title about statistics, this book is about things. I read it as an audiobook, but I suspect some of it is more clear in print.

https://www.amazon.com/Naked-Statistics-Stripping-Dread-Data/dp/B00CH7FWWU