Puffs

For years we’ve heard the phrase in high school sports: “It’s hard to beat a team three times in a season.”

In rural areas in particular, it is easy to play a team three times and quite often that phrase seems to come true.

To be honest I never heard it said in college sports.

Until last weekend . . .

It changed when a number of sports commentators on TV used that phrase during the volleyball game between the Nebraska Cornhusker Volleyball team and the Wisconsin University Volleyball team.

Nebraska had already defeated Wisconsin the first two times they played this year. The game last weekend would determine who had a chance to advance in the playoff system and have a chance to play for a national championship.

It was a game worthy of all the attention. With an apology to all our Wisconsin relatives, Nebraska played a game very, very well and won.

It seems true in high school sports and now in college sports . . . it is true that it is hard to defeat a team three times a year. However, when you do . . .

It’s great . . .

A O

Pardon . . .

A word my computer Thesaurus did not include in its millions of words.

A word getting a lot of attention as the current president comes to an end of his term.

I dug out my old Webster Dictionary and then asked Nancy for a definition.

“To Forgive . . .”

Those two words were the first out of her mouth and the identical words were used in the dictionary.

To “Forgive” is a virtue, isn’t it?

Sounds like something we all should cultivate in our lives and we’d all probably be a lot better off.

However, just like anything, a “Pardon” can be abused and miss-used, just like many other virtues.

I think I’ve mentioned that my opinion of our current president is that he is one of the ‘worse’ president we’ve ever had in current history. Now, at the end of his term, it seems he is busy trying to ensure his place in history won’t be all negative.

Like all presidents before him, he is issuing “Pardons.”

I’ve read where President Obama issued more than 300 when he left office and I thought that was a lot.

President Biden . . . What is reported in the national media is that he is issuing 1,500 pardons and forgiveness of sentences.

I would suggest that Biden is not living up to the true meaning of a pardon . . . “To Forgive.”

I would also suggest that he is only trying to “make himself look good.” However. I’m afraid that despite of all the pardons he gives away, they will not “undo” all the harm he has done to the country.

The Liberal Left that has him as their most prominent leader, has done much to damage the culture of America. Many of the freedoms we have always enjoyed have been slowly strangled with endless “regulations” and rules that a person can hardly do anything without infringing on some rule or another.

A O

Pardons mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. I enjoyed what a former Pastor of Sacred Heart church wrote about this. He said: “If the President of the United States pardons you, what does that mean? It means:

• Woohoo! I will not go to jail.

• Or, if I’m already in jail, I get to get out of jail.

• It means no one can ever charge me with this crime again.

* I am free forever of the charges against me.

• I’m guilty, but I’m pardoned.”

He was comparing the ‘pardon’ of God to that of the president, and there is no comparing that is equal. They are two different things.

Just like many things we men do, we take what we want and at time miss-use them.

I like to think I’m as forgiving as the next man, but 1,500 pardons may be just a bit much, especially when you read about some of the people that received the pardon.

A O