{"id":24779,"date":"2018-04-16T09:27:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=24779"},"modified":"2018-04-16T09:41:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:41:04","slug":"24779","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=24779","title":{"rendered":"Some filler between snow shoveling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Busy, Busy, Busy. I only made about seven hours last week for my French studies&#8230;&#8230;which are mostly a lot of drill, drill, drill. I have effectively set the basement level for weekly (hebdomadaire in French) practice from now until my departure to France in September. <\/p>\n<p>Duluth got enough snow Saturday and Sunday for someone to beg that I build another sculpture. They were about to move out of town and wanted me to build one more for old time&#8217;s sake. I don&#8217;t think I quite conveyed the lack of enthusiasm I felt for that prospect. The snow did bring everyone over to our house on Sunday <em>and<\/em> because today is a snow day in Duluth we have grandkids staying with us. I will take them on a snow shoveling expedition to their house later today. Their parents will need to get back into their house after over nighting in ours.<\/p>\n<p>The distractions have knocked me off course in the writings I plan to begin. But I still managed to look at both NPR and the NY Times this morning. One had a review of the movie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pVQFWvm_fbU\">&#8220;Come Sunday&#8221;<\/a> that Claudia had me see before-hand. Evidently the seminary crowd has been spreading the news. Pertinent to me &#8220;the politician&#8221; was its story about how one preacher escaped from the iron grip of damnation worship that pervades the evangelical community. Their&#8217;s is a &#8220;you&#8217;ll get yours God.&#8221; Considering how many of them voted for Donald Trump I suspect the number of them left behind when the rapture finally descends will astonish everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I watched the first two episodes of the new &#8220;Lost in Space&#8221; while others in our Sunday crew watched C<strong>all the Housewives<\/strong>. I can catch that later when my grandsons aren&#8217;t around. Good fun.<\/p>\n<p>The other fascinating story in the Times was about a hither-to-unknown member of the Trump Team who has sacrificed his marriage for Donald who once tipped him $200 buck tip for caddying when he was a kid. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/16\/magazine\/dan-scavino-the-secretary-of-offense.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;clickSource=story-heading&#038;module=first-column-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news\">He&#8217;s Trump&#8217;s tweet master<\/a> an altogether new job for a President. I&#8217;m guessing he will be the first and the last.<\/p>\n<p>It reminded of a story I read the summer I was a summer intern in Washington DC.. It was about one of Richard Nixon&#8217;s unknown helpers who was the last person in Nixon&#8217;s administration any official wanted to see. That&#8217;s because RMN, famously averse to face-to-face personal conflict, needed someone to go out and fire people Nixon wanted to dump. Nixon did have an &#8220;enemies list&#8221; but Trump&#8217;s is infinitely longer. The wisest thing I heard anyone say this weekend was the ousted ex FBI Director Comey who said Trump should be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/04\/15\/politics\/trump-comey-abc-impeachment\/index.html\">removed by the voters not the Congress<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure I agree but I&#8217;m not sure I disagree either.<\/p>\n<p>And those teachers in Red State&#8217;s that have taken their state&#8217;s stingy Republicans to task&#8230;&#8230;Ah, that&#8217;s a subject for some later post too because I&#8217;ve got more shoveling to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Busy, Busy, Busy. I only made about seven hours last week for my French studies&#8230;&#8230;which are mostly a lot of drill, drill, drill. 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