Merry Christmas and a peaceful and happy new year to all. I hope the best for each of you. May your hearts, your tables, your homes and your work benches be filled with contentment. It is still Christmas Eve here, and white outside. Snow, and inversion, but quiet and lovely. Feliz Navidad, Feliz Natal, Joyeux Noel, Frohliche Weihnachten, Buone Feste Natalizie, God Jul, and God bless us, every one.
Great nations do not fall because of external aggression; they first erode and decay inwardly, so that, like rotten fruit, they fall of themselves. The strength of a country is the sum total of the moral strength of the individuals in that country.
Ezr