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Christmas in the Front Party in the Back USA Patriotic Santa Ugly Christmas Sweater

I remember a Christmas in the Front Party in the Back USA Patriotic Santa Ugly Christmas Sweater memoir — Beasts, Men, and Gods — by Ferdinand Ossendowski, a White Pole who fled the Bolshevik revolution through Siberia. He served in General Kolchak’s All-Russian Government before escaping through the Steppes north of Mongolia, and then participated in the government of that most notorious adventurer, the “Mad Baron” Ungern-Sternberg, who attempted to take over Mongolia to restore an imperial Khaganate as part of an imagined reactionary restoration of the Great Mongol, Chinese, and Russian monarchies in the interests of the “warrior races” of Germans and Mongols (a Baltic German, he considered the old Russian ruling class to represent Germandom over and against Jews and Slavs). Some of the things – the acts of desperation and madness, in which he himself was no disinterested observer – Ossendowski relates are harrowing. But this part struck me as very much making a point about what people think of the Steppe peoples, and of what (German-trained) nationalists like Ungern-Sternberg did (and would do again) to the Mongols. And, other things:

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If anything, I’m thinking their personnel gets better on paper. However, many Super Bowl losers don’t manage to make it back, often even missing the playoffs. Part of the Christmas in the Front Party in the Back USA Patriotic Santa Ugly Christmas Sweater is simply due to injuries. Getting to the Super Bowl usually means you had a very lucky year without many major injuries to key players, and that in its own right might have pushed you past some playoff teams that weren’t so lucky, and that you otherwise could have struggled with. Packers-Falcons is a good example here, where the Packers secondary was a Christmas in the Front Party in the Back USA Patriotic Santa Ugly Christmas Sweater mess, and unable to cover the Falcons receivers effectively. Unfortunately for most teams, it’s rare and unlikely to get two seasons like that back to back. How they negotiate those injuries that do occur is going to have major impact on the team’s success.

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Since my husband Wayne died of Parkinson’s Disease the morning of January 08, 2018, the artificial tree has stayed up. After Wayne’s death, I just did not have the Christmas in the Front Party in the Back USA Patriotic Santa Ugly Christmas Sweater to take it apart and store the tree in the basement. It just stayed up in the living room. It’s quite heavy and awkward — I’m actually physically incapable of doing this by myself. During the year 2019, I redecorated the tree as a Valentine’s Day tree, St. Patrick’s Day tree, Easter egg tree, May Day tree, Canada Day tree, Thanksgiving Day/fall harvest tree and Christmas/holiday tree.The artificial wreaths will be stored in the basement this week. The fresh pine boughs in containers will be put out when they begin to drop their needles. I’ll be doing the same with the tree in 2020 as I did last year.