{"id":18245,"date":"2021-06-20T08:01:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T15:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18245"},"modified":"2021-06-20T08:01:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T15:01:08","slug":"overnight-news-not-everyone-is-lucky-enough-to-have-a-good-father-but-each-one-us-is-father-to-the-person-we-would-become","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18245\/overnight-news-not-everyone-is-lucky-enough-to-have-a-good-father-but-each-one-us-is-father-to-the-person-we-would-become\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: Not everyone is lucky enough to have a good father, but each one us is father to the person we would\u00a0become."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201c\u2018Tilting at sprinklers\u2019 is for dogs who don\u2019t know how to\u00a0howl.\u201d<\/p><\/div>Ramblin\u2019 Gamblin\u2019 Willie has a new story for Father’s Day,<\/a> and this of course is a theme Willie pounds on, anyway.<\/a> Today’s story is particularly horrifying, but the peroration, summarized in the headline above, is what Willie offers up by way of redemption.<\/p>\n

And he’s right, of course \u2013 and who better to agree with than me? \ud83d\ude09 To have been well-fathered is the ‘privilege’ that is actually being bitched about \u2013 and the bitching is not all wrong: Children raised by their biological fathers tend to eclipse those who weren’t by every measure of human thriving. To deny children their fathers is to rob them of much of the richness of their own lives, perchance to set even poorer examples going forward.<\/p>\n

And that, alas, is as may be: Scowl at your cards all day, they’re what you were dealt by circumstance and they are what you’re playing with. If you lack good role models at home, they abound in human history \u2013 and the facts of their existence have not yet been glittered over by the drag queens down at the library.<\/p>\n

Your responsibility to your self is to make the most of what you started with, whatever that might be. And here’s the redemption behind the redemption: If you father the man you would wish to be, you will be a better father \u2013 and a better example to other people \u2013 than the one you had.<\/p>\n

Brother Willie for Father’s Day:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

William F.X. O\u2019Connell:<\/strong> An infinity of souls.<\/a><\/p>\n

In other news:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Fox News:<\/strong> Major cities \u2018refund the police\u2019 as crime skyrockets and businesses backfire.<\/a><\/p>\n

Thomas Lifson:<\/strong> NYC prosecutors dropping hundreds of cases against looters.<\/a><\/p>\n

PennLive.com:<\/strong> N.J. landlords banned from asking renters about criminal records under new law.<\/a><\/p>\n

Vivek Saxena:<\/strong> Smith & Wesson CEO gives grim insight into future of ammo shortage.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Federalist:<\/strong> What My Dad Taught Me, His Daughter, About Manhood \u2014 And Why It Matters.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201c\u2018Tilting at sprinklers\u2019 is for dogs who don\u2019t know how to\u00a0howl.\u201dRamblin\u2019 Gamblin\u2019 Willie has a new story for Father’s Day, and this of course is a theme Willie pounds on, anyway. Today’s story is particularly horrifying, but the peroration, summarized in the headline above, is what Willie offers up by way of redemption. 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Every true fable has a moral, and here's the moral to Willie's story: \u201cGrasshoppers need Ants, but Ants don\u2019t need Grasshoppers.\u201d Willie was working from a premise elucidated in today's New York Post, why taxpayer-hostile big cities\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Disintermediation"","block_context":{"text":"Disintermediation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/disintermediation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/the-ants-and-the-grasshopper.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":18241,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18241\/overnight-news-dutch-uncle-to-a-french-bulldog-adoring-and-studying-miss-chioux\/","url_meta":{"origin":18245,"position":2},"title":"Overnight News: Dutch Uncle to a French Bulldog: Adoring and studying Miss Chioux.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 18, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Miss Cleopatra Chioux, the French Bulldog I have been socializing since Thanksgiving, is with us all weekend \u2013 a huge treat for me. 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