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July 4th plans?

Saw a post yesterday on FB from a hiking group of a gal who is hiking the White Mountains over the 4th. I'm doing nothing so interesting! My girlfriend is coming down with her son and daughter and my daughters down, so I'll have a houseful: 2 adults, 2 young adults, 2 teen girls (nothing in a 2 piece pervs) and 3 dogs. And, I'm charged with entertaining them for a weekend where rain is forecast pretty much every day. Should be interesting!

Hoping we'll: hit Foodtruck Friday, grill out, hit whitewater center (rafting, mtn biking, zipline, paddleboards & kayaks, drops, etc... If you get to Charlotte, check it out!), see fireworks, shoot fireworks (it is SC!), go tubing, take dogs to play/swim, maybe fish... What are your plans?
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Watch: Gabe Cupps, Reed Sheppard discuss Adidas Championship and future at Indiana and Kentucky

Kentucky commit Reed Sheppard and Indiana point guard commit Gabe Cupps join Rob Dauster, Terrence Oglesby and Jeff Goodman of Field of 68 to discuss the Adidas Championships, their college programs and playing together on the AAU circuit.

Below is the full interview. It starts at about the 14 minute mark and runs until roughly minute 30.

Nick Rolovich

Here’s an out of the box thought during this slow news period. Nick Rolovich did some good things as head coach at Hawaii and Washington State, especially offensively, before being fired by WSU last October for refusing to get COVID vaxed. He sought a religious exemption, which was denied. Wonder if Coach Allen would consider bringing in Rolovich for a year as an offensive consultant, kind of like Saban does at Alabama. He might be able help with the passing game. Food for thought. Go IU !

Retired Military Officers

I think it's important for retired military officers, especially senior officers, to stay out of politics generally. The only time they should get into it should be if they're running for office. In my private life, you wouldn't know if I was a Republican, Democrat or independent, although I'd guess most of those that work for me would peg me as independent.

That's my opinion.

RIP to another member of the greatest generation


The past four weeks or so have been tough.

My brother's wife passed away because of cancer. The two of them lived in Grand Rapids, MI and had been married for over 30 years.

A woman, who graduated with me from high school in 1972, died this past Wednesday. She was married to one of my best friends and my wife and I did a lot of things together with them as couples. We dined out together over the years, took golf trips together and played cards together. She had battled her cancer for the past five years and it finally beat her.

A golf buddy of mine passed away on Saturday morning after battling cancer for several years. He did a lot for our community and was a great guy! In fact, he was the guy on the back of my book (Golf Is More Than Your Score) giving the peace sign after he and his playing partners finished last in our annual golf event one year.

Billy Joel sings "Only the Good Die Young" and he is right. These three individuals were too young when they passed away.

Fathers

Happy Father’s Day to all who are Fathers, grandfathers, uncles, teachers, youth leaders, or in other ways provide a strong male influence in the lives of kids.

In a world where males and fathers are diminished in new ways every day, our presence is more needed than ever. Statistics show that lack of father-figures is the common denominator in every social pathology from poor education, to drugs, to crime, and to killers, including mass shooters.

Our public response is doing more harm than good. Masculinity is seen as toxic. Gender confusion is reinforced and the gender confused now have official protection from the Oval Office down to pre- school. I think gender confusion is the result of lack of male influence. It’s almost exclusively a female effort. This dysfunction will be passed down from generation to generation.

I don’t know how we can fix this. We need to have a national government and social initiative to promote fatherhood instead of diminishing it. It’s no secret how I feel about pride month and all the rainbow paraphernalia that dominates government and the private sector. Imagine if you will if we had a similar month extolling fatherhood. Flags, parades, tee shirts, and other events celebrating fatherhood would be hugely more beneficial to kids than pride week and drag queen shows aimed at kids.

Mostly personal. Yesterday my daughter asked if I would pick up my grandson when he got off work from his first job. He is 16. He found the job on his own without prompting. As he walked to the vehicle my mind flashed to the time he came to tears on his first time down the kiddie slide at the playground. He is a young man and may own that store some day. The joys of father/grandfatherhood.



Just when you thought Biden won’t get worse

He continue s to surprise with this


in the face of this.

Remember the food lines?

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Hey Joe, I remember! And, I’ll never forget because it’s still happening! Those damn food lines at In and Out Burger - go on forever!! No matter which location you go to! It’s awful!

And Joe, they’re not putting it in your trunk anymore, they don’t have time due to the long lines. They just hand it to you through the window as you drive your car through the drive through.

Damn, rough times these are. Glad Joe’s reminding us.
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