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Doctor Who the Macra Terror 1967

There are two things I do regularly while I work:

I pray my rosaries and divine mercy chaplets

I listen to Doctor Who audios

In terms of the Rosary it’s the same on a daily basis. I pray 3 20 decade rosaries for specific intentions for each decade and for variable intentions for two of the three Rosaries. (If you’ve ever asked me to pray for something and I’ve told you I’ll do so till you tell me to stop, odds are I’m still praying for your specific intention daily).

But the Doctor Who audios are different. I listen to them in order and once I finish Capaldi I go back to the 1st Doctor and start again with the 1st Doctor. It takes about nine months to listen to them all.

Right now I’m on the 2nd doctor. The currents companions are Jamie and Victoria and the current story is The Great Space Elevator. But it was just last week that I was listening to the Macra Terror with Jamie, Polly and Ben traveling with Patrick Troughten’s 2nd Doctor.

It’s’ the story of a society that’s being lied to and manipulated by it’s leadership (which has been taken over by the Macra for their own ends). There were a lot of such stories in the 2nd-5th Doctor era at a time when the people who wrote such stores preached skepticism toward government power.

I could not help but think of our current situation as I listened to it.

So I would like to offer a challenge to people in general and to Doctor Who fans who tend to lean left in particular.

I challenge those who have either the audio of the episode, Britbox, or the animated version of said lost episode to watch it and I challenge those who have neither to read this transcript of the episode.

Then ask yourselves if those pushing the vaccines and punishing those who refuse them remind you of anyone in the episode.

Today is the final day of the Christmas season and the beginning of ordinary time in the Church with the feast of the Baptism of Christ.

Because Christmas fell on a Saturday this is the shortest possible Christmas Season under the new calendar (under the old Calendar Christmas ran till Feb 2nd, forty days till the Feast of the Presentation) but it’s an appropriate end to the season as the events are a precursor of “Water and the Spirit” that Jesus explains to Nicodemus in John’s Gospel:

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a person once grown old be born again? Surely he cannot reenter his mother’s womb and be born again, can he?”

Jesus answered, “Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. What is born of flesh is flesh and what is born of spirit is spirit.

John 3:4-6

As John the Baptist noted Christ did not need baptism but yet he submits to it as an example and the spirit descends and makes it clear exactly who Christ is.

This is what our baptism does for us which is why so many are so desperate to delay or stop it from happening. As soon as we are baptized we are part of that Christmas morning when we become flesh and spirit and enter into this world a new creation.

Here are the current players available on the waivers wire for the 1969 league

Batters

• Max Alvis
• Ruben Amaro
• Frank Baker
• Rich Barry
• Bob Barton
• Jim Beauchamp
• Dick Billings
• Randy Bobb
• Len Boehmer
• Don Bosch
• Sam Bowens
• Ken Boyer
• Danny Breeden
• Chuck Brinkman
• Bobby Brooks
• Gates Brown
• Larry Brown
• Byron Browne
• Don Bryant
• Bob Burda
• Jim Camparis
• Darrel Chaney
• Ed Charles
• Bob Christian
• Ron Clark
• Kevin Collins
• Cip Coulter
• Jerry DaVanon
• Bill Davis
• Ron Davis
• John Donaldson
• Dave Duncan
• Bobby Etheridge
• Jim Fairey
• Bobby Floyd
• Oscar Gamble
• Rod Gaspar
• Gary Geiger
• Gus Gil
• Caesar Gutierrez
• Joe Hague
• Jimme Hague
• Jimmie Hall
• Larry Haney
• John Harrell
• Chuck Harrison
• Fran healy
• Bill heath
• Remy Hermoso
• Mike Hershberger
• Jim Hicks
• Chuck Hinton
• Gary Holman
• Walt Hriniak
• Sonny Jackson
• Lou Johnson
• Dalton Jones
• Van Kelly
• Fred Kendall
• Joe Keough
• Gary Kolb
• Chris Krug
• Joe Lahoud
• Leron Lee
• Winston Llemas
• Don Lock
• Jim Lyttle
• Charlie Manuel
• J.C. Martin
• Tommy Matchick
• Dave May
• Tommy McCraw
• Dave McDonald
• Leon McFadden
• Bill McNulty
• John Miller
• Jerry Morales
• Russ Nagelson
• Dave Nelson
• Scott Northey
• Gene Oliver
• Nate Oliver
• Dennis Paepke
• Cap Peterson
• Adoffo Phillips
• Jim Qualls
• Merrit Ranew
• Scott Reid
• Roger Repoz
• Dave Ricketts
• Fred Rico
• Juan Rios
• Bill Robinson
• Rafael Robles
• Buck Rogers
• Rich Rollins
• Vic Roznovsky
• Sonny Ruberto
• Ken Rudolph
• Tom Satriano
• Richie Scheinblum
• Tom Shopay
• Dick Simpson
• John Sipin
• Ron Slocum
• Dick Smith
• Russ Snyder
• Al Spangler
• Bob Spence
• George Spriggs
• Larry Stahl
• Fred Stanley
• John Stephenson
• Bob Stinson
• Gene Stone
• Ron Stone
• Dick Stuart
• Jarvis
• Hawk Taylor (out of ab)
• Frank Tepedino
• Trim Tischinski
• Hector Torres
• Sandy Valdespino
• Freddie Velazquez
• Jose Vidal
• Pete Ward
• Dave Watkins
• Ramon Webster
• Don Wert
• Bill White
• Fred Whitfield
• Floyd Wicker
• Jim Willams
• Ron Woods

Available Pitchers

• Lloyd Allen
• Steve Arlin
• Jack Balddschun
• Dick Barney
• Bo Belinsky
• Gary Bell
• Frank Bertaina
• John Boozer
• Gary Boyd
• Bucky Brandon
• George Brunet
• Larry Burchart
• Cisco Carlos
• Rickey Clark
• Mike Corkins
• Jerry Crider
• George Culver
• Tom Dukes
• Sammy Ellis
• Leon Everitt
• Turk Farrell
• Jack Fisher
• Alan Foster
• Miguel Fuentes
• Mike Garman
• Vern Geishert
• Skip Guinn
• Jack Hamilton
• Al Jackson
• Jeff James
• Larry Jaster
• Steve Jones
• Larry Jaster
• Steve Jones
• Steve Kealey
• Ron Kline
• Cal Koonce
• Gary Knoll
• Ray Lamb
• Ron Law
• Danny Lazar
• Barry Lersch
• Al McBeam
• Billy McCool
• Jim Miles
• Dave Morehead
• John Morris
• Don Nottebart
• Rich Nye
• Don O’Riley
• Lowell Palmer
• Camilo Pascual
• Horacio Pina
• Bob Priddy
• John PUrdin
• Al Raffo
• Pedro Ramos
• Fred Rath
• Claude Raymond
• Denis Ribant
• Rich Roberson
• Garry Roggenbuck
• Don Shaw
• Steve Shea
• Chris Short
• Joe Spama
• Ed Sprague
• Gary Taylor
• Gary Wagner
• Greg Washburn
• Bob Watkins
• Chris Zachary

Players are available in waivers until rosters expand

I listened to the arguments of the SCOTUS. The only thing more astounding than the false claims made by the government in their argument concerning the virus and the vaccines was listening to the false claims by some of the justices.

Judicial robes do not confirm knowledge or wisdom they just confirm that they were confirmed by congress.

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There is movement both at my employer and my wife’s employer concerning our vaccine status.

It is very possible that the Biden Administration will cause both of us to become unemployable in our current fields.

What a difference one stolen election makes.

Of course with the latest jobs report people losing their jobs is not all that odd

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One of the most interesting bits of COVID news that I read over the last week was a leftist journalist discovering that many of his friends actually had COVID last year but kept it quiet because the media meme was all about shaming those who caught it due to vaccine status.

Now of course that the double and triple vaxxed and boosted are getting it and some of them are high profiles media and leftists there is no reason to hide this kind of thing.

That’s what really insidious about the left, people silently going along with meme’s that they know are false.

something

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Had a few inches of snow today. It never ceases to amaze me how many people in Massachusetts get all panicked over snow when we regularly get it

I’ll say one thing about today’s storm. Those Ariens snow blowers are all they’re advertised to be. I’ve never used one with more get up and go.

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Got a 2nd or is it 3rd late notice for the old site that I cancelled a month ago and got notice that it would be shut down within 24 hours of my cancellation.

That completely convinces me something has happened to the guy who was running the site and it’s completely on automatic.

Saving all the emails just in case.