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| WOODPECKER WORKSITE |
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| A SMALL BOAT INSTEAD OF AN ICE SHANTY |
As the unseasonably warm weather continues, we will see more anomalies, such as small fishing boats where ice fishermen should be. In fact at the beach yesterday we saw just that, and not far away ice fishermen on the ice. The lake has a split personality, it seems.
There is a fairly large dead spruce tree along Hwy 13 near the Onion River that a pilliated wood pecker has almost cut in two with his excavations.
Commentary: The President had announced earlier that combat forces would be out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014. Defense Secretary Panetta casually let slip yesterday that we would pull out by mid-2013. Talk about telegraphing one’s punches! What in the world is the matter with these people? Is that how casually they approach war, and the lives of soldiers and non-combatants? They have literally abandoned our casualties and our dead on the fields of battle, which are also littered with trillions of our dollars, They precipitously withdrew from Iraq to abandon it to chaos, and now they are setting up the Afghans for the return of the murderous Taliban. All the blood, tears and treasure of these wars are being wasted in the wink of an eye and the flip of a lip. We won’t be trusted among nations again for at least a generation.
I don’t know what to call all of this, but I know what George Washington, Andrew Jackson and Teddy Roosevelt would have called it.
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