Franksummers3ba's Blog

Today I am removing the Lords of the Blog from my featured links on my home page here. It has been a long enough cooling off period without any new comments from me being posted to justify this change. The link can still be found on a page or two. Here it is right here and now as well:

http://lordsoftheblog.net/

I am just announcing it for the few of you who click through from here repeatedly rather than once.

This is another one of those rather brief and phot-free posts that I have beencranking out lately and that I always do a few of in any given month I guess. It will be both brief and rambling.
My mother planned a get-together at her father’s house and
all of my grandfather’s children were there although not many of the subsequent genrations were missing. It was kind of a nice time on a beautiful day before the Super Bowl and it was a chance to memorialize ny dead grandmother’s birthday that is monday. Later on at first birthday for a little cousin who lives here at Big Woods I was talking about the Super Bowl just as I had earlier at Kisinoaks. Once again I realized that I did not know really who I am “pulling for” in this game. I am not someone who has to be on one side or another to enjoy a game. I would prefer to watch the few teams I really care about to watching any other teams but when watching a major game I can enjoy it without taking sides.

I carfe about the Steelers. Terry Bradshaw was the Blond Bomber and a great Louisiana quarterback for a small university here before playing in Pittsburg. I spent time in Pittsburg during college and I have enjoyed other Pittsburg personell including Big Ben and what they bring to the game. I also think that the Packers are a great and storied team and that I cannot say I have not admired Brett Favre, the legend of Lombardi and all the mythology of the Frozen Tundra.

I look forward to the commercials as well and maybe a littlelow key fellowship. Whatever it will be — I am grateful to have the game to watch.

I need a break from thoughts which are depressing me.

I have not commented on the Egyptian crisis in this blog so far but I am commenting on it now:
1.It seems that a coordinated strike by the Muslim Brotherhood against Jordan, Egypt, Yemen and other countries is being facilitated by Presidnet Barack Hussein Obama who gives out a great deal of evidence of being in favor of Islamist domination. Our enemy president is in charge of our policy.

2. I was involved in the People Power movement in the Philippines and it seems I remeber it differently than this. The numerous prayer services with teachings, secular eents with drinks, policy platforms, books by  and about the Aquinos, documentaries and other projects were a much bigger picture than the street protests. This is either very badly reported or this is a very different movement.
3. Nobody in the State reported on the rise of Arab and Lebanese people during the large economic crisis which brought some good things and lots of bad things to this country just south of the USA. Now we have a situation unlike anything in Mexican history going on just next to us. All of this is related.

4. I do feel that the Mubarak regime needed reform but they had the Suez canal running, there was peace on the borders, there was welfare aid, the antiquities were secure, there was tourism and people had a sizable economy. None of that is guaranteed. We are facing that set of bad consequences.

5. We face the destrction of what power America can project peacefully so that if Obama fails in his efforts to destroy our civilization war will be more likely than it ever has been. War for American interests there will be very rough if it comes.

6. Despite what has been said it is a small minority of angry, lazy loud-mouthed men working with our own champion of misrule who are at the heart of all we can see happening.

7. While I see everything in bleak terms I would very musch like to see Egypt a great and prosperous country. But different than it is in many ways.

8. Life conitnues to be largely hell. My biggest comfort is that my years of enduring it are fewer than they once were.

9. There are other comforts including this weekend’s Super Bowl.

It is unfortunate that I am in one of the least photographic periods of my life because this morning was marvelous. Last night we had a very long period of freezing rain in South Louisiana. When the sun came up this morning it was a new world.  Millions of twigs. branches and limbs of thousands of trees at Big wood were covered with delicate but substantial casings of clear ice. It truly was a magical and miraculous scene as the sun rose and scattered light through all these lenses. Later there were so many sources of melt that it sounded and looked like a storm  or shower but if one walked where there were no trees overhead then no water was falling. It is all melted now and I have no camera I can find these days except one not suited for outdoor photography. But it was a splendid moment.

1. I am doing a little round-up post. This is it.

2. I am still working on that Model Constitution of the United States:

https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/major-themes-of-this-blog/new-model-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/

3. I watched some Super Bowl and Signing Day Media events today. Two ends of a spectrum in a way.

4. I may go to a mass tonight with family celebrating or I may not.

5. It was really cold last night but we managed not to break pipes here at Big Woods. We have more cold nights coming.

6. I am feeling a bit lonely and a bit lonesome today.

7. I am not getting younger.

There is a fairly rough draft of the new Model Constitution Page on my blog. I will be tidying it up over time but am letting it run out of the house half dressed here:

https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/major-themes-of-this-blog/radical-constitutional-change-in-america/new-model-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/