Free-for-All Friday

Leckband Temp Challenge Returns!

Rankings based on wunderground.com at 6:39 a.m.

• #6, Balmiest Leckbands, Eagan, MN, 24/wind chill 18
• #5, Garrison, IA, 26/13
• #4, Ventura, IA, 23/14
• #3, Lincoln, NE, 17/9
• #2, Beatrice, NE, 18/5
• #1, Norfolk, NE, 13/4

Nebraska rules.

Free For All

From Omaha World Herald (12/17):  "Christmas Eve: As holiday spirit peaks, so does risk of heart attack . . . The research would appear to put Christmas Eve in the same category as earthquakes, hurricanes, stock market crashes, wars & high-stakes World Cup soccer matches . . . On Dec. 24, the risk of a heart attack is 37% higher than normal, the researchers found. On Christmas itself, the increase in risk dips to 29%."  We wish you a Merry Christmas.

From Norfolk Daily News (12/20):  "What makes chickens happy? No one is sure." As intriguing as this headline may be, I didn't take time to read the article.

Dept. of Shameless Joke-Stealing *

"An Alsatian went to a telegram office & wrote, 'Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof.Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof.' The clerk examined the paper & told the dog, 'There are only 9 words here. You could send another 'Woof' for the same price.' 'But,' the dog replied, 'that would make no sense at all.'"

* Courtesy of Reader's Digest, 11/18

Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas *

"The alternative to Donald Trump was unacceptable--Hillary Clinton & the continuation of the Obama agenda & the dilution of the USA as a sovereign nation & a continuation of its becoming a member of the global conglomerate--where there wouldn't be any debate about climate change; we would just pay up. Where there wouldn't be any debate about open borders; we would just keep them open. Where there wouldn't be any debate about whatever American culture or society is. It would be whatever the socialists said it was going to be."

[From "The fury of the Establishment, OWH (12/13)]

* One of my two most favorite partisan pundits (along with Jonah Goldberg)

THOUGHT FOR TODAY:  NEVER-ENDING DAY 

“For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand elsewhere . . . “  Ps. 84:10

“For His righteousness remains forever & ever.” (Martin Luther Psalm by Psalm, Concordia Publishing House, 2017.)