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Last night we went over to one of my daughters\u2019 houses for a Mother\u2019s Day dinner cooked on the grill by one of my sons-in-law in honor of all the mothers in the family.\u00a0 Steak, salmon, chicken, baked potatoes, string beans, the whole enchilada.\u00a0 He\u2019s military so survival skills are his forte and cooking ranks high among them.\u00a0 After dinner was the ice cream cake and coffee.\u00a0 Superb.\u00a0 And for once Camera Girl didn\u2019t have to cook a thing.\u00a0 Probably her favorite party of the year so far.<\/p>\n

My granddaughter is three and a half now and so she\u2019s finally old enough to start joining in with the younger boy cousins in running amok in the back yard and the basement.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never seen a little girl so happy to be shooting and being shot with nerf rockets.\u00a0 It proves that she\u2019s one of the big kids now.<\/p>\n

Seeing how great all these kids are turning out is a remarkable source of pride for me.\u00a0 Of course, all the credit goes to Camera Girl.\u00a0 For all of her myriad annoying qualities she is the quintessential mom and grandma.\u00a0 Her instincts and her conscious efforts are all aligned around nurturing children.\u00a0 Of course, she\u2019s much more laisse faire about nurturing husbands.\u00a0 Well, I guess no one\u2019s perfect.<\/p>\n

But it struck me reading all the nonsense about the Left rallying around abortion that these people are out of their minds.\u00a0 They\u2019ve bought into a death cult that emphasizes short term convenience over sharing in the most rewarding institution in human relations, a large multigenerational family.\u00a0 And based on what I\u2019ve been reading the present generation doesn\u2019t seem as enthusiastic about abortion as the baby boomers were.<\/p>\n

The various leftist opinion writers discussing the abortion panic are none too optimistic about either preventing Roe v. Wade being struck down or using the event as a successful rallying cry for the November mid-terms.\u00a0 They\u2019ve gone through several stages of opinion on the whole issue and currently they\u2019ve ended up at frustration.\u00a0 It\u2019s frustration that they can\u2019t move the needle on the Republican advantage in polls for the mid-terms and frustration that the voters, other than a noisy but narrow segment are unexcited by the SCOTUS opinion.\u00a0 It has escaped their notice that Antifa rioters don\u2019t raise families or even engage in heterosexual relationships.\u00a0 To paraphrase a feminist expression, Antifa women need abortion like a fish needs a bicycle.<\/p>\n

And speaking to some folks on our side, those who were most worried about a mid-term backlash against the SCOTUS decision now see the wisdom of direct action.\u00a0 One fellow admitted that plowing forward with the actions that we\u2019ve said we\u2019ve always wanted to see accomplished is the only way anything will ever get done.\u00a0 Hearing that was especially satisfying for me.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been saying for years that pussyfooting around these actions is tantamount to surrendering to the Left.\u00a0 All it has done is acclimate the succeeding generations to permanent Leftist hegemony.\u00a0 Fighting these policies even if the battle goes back and forth is progress.\u00a0 Whining about not being ready until we have overwhelming odds in our favor is a fantasy that guarantees perpetual inaction.<\/p>\n

So today I sent out invitations for the Memorial Day Weekend family barbecue.\u00a0 There I will see most of the closest relatives I have assembled together at the Compound for food and drink and hordes of children and grandchildren running around in circles and jumping in a swimming pool.\u00a0 We\u2019re slowly putting all of the COVID nonsense in the rearview mirror and moving our lives back where they belong, together.<\/p>\n

Happy Mother\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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