A New Baby

Last week, our family experienced the joy of welcoming a new baby girl into our home. Everyone’s doing great and her older brother and sister are already thrilled to have another little one join the team. The feeling of wonderment and overwhelming love that accompanies a new birth never ceases to amaze me, and I was once again awestruck by the strength and courage displayed by my wife throughout pregnancy, labor and delivery. Now the really hard work begins.

Three years ago we had zero kids, now we have three. All of them stay at home with us, so life feels like a little person amusement park 24/7. Our son became obsessed with dinosaurs a few months ago, so he’s constantly pretending to be different extinct prehistoric beasts, each with its own distinct roar and disposition. His younger sister is absolutely fearless, a trait that was readily apparent since her first crawls. Divert your attention for a moment and she’s climbed atop the highest possible thing within arms reach. A couple of days ago a storm rolled through town. Myself and the kids had a blast flopping around in the snow while my wife nursed the littlest one inside.

I’ve barely read any news since the birth. While it’s been nice to take a break from tweeting and writing, watching two toddlers is no vacation. Sitting at a desk all day is easy work compared to what my wife does. I probably won’t be publishing anything substantial until after Thanksgiving, as my current priority is to help out as much as possible until we figure out how to handle two toddlers and a newborn.

With love from the Krieger family.

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21 thoughts on “A New Baby”

  1. CONGRATULATIONS!!! WHAT AN EVIL AND CORRUPT WORLD CHILDREN ARE BEING BORN INTO TODAY. FORTUNATELY, THE RETURN OF JESUS CHRIST IS CLOSE, AS BIBLE PROPHECY IS BEING FULFILLED.

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  2. One one hand, congratulations.
    OTOH, do you have exit strategy, from USA ?

    in 2016 i desided for mysef, that Killary is nucear WW3 and Trump is nuclear Civil War in USA. Seems it is coming closer and closer with each year.

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  3. Congrats! You didn’t miss anything during the usual mindless drumbeat leading up to the midterms, but since then things have been more interesting.

    I agree with Arioch that an exit plan is prudent, but would qualify it by saying we have at least a few more years before things get dicey in the US. The vitriol we have for each other keeps building but isn’t ready to boil over yet. When a midterm/general election arrives and the collective sentiment is “who cares?”, that’s when the times will be a-changing. I can’t see that happening by 2020, but starting with 2022 all bets are off.

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  4. Congratulations to you and your wife, Mike.

    “But trailing clouds of glory do we come
    From God, who is our home:
    Heaven lies about us in our infancy!”

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  5. For those of you planning on making an exit.

    As the old saying goes; “When the going gets tough, the tough get going”, applies.

    But “get going”, does not mean running away.

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    • This isn’t a country/society that values honor. Three of our last four Presidents were Vietnam draft dodgers. Our bankers should be in prison, not living in Manhattan penthouses. Our military fosters heroin addiction around the world and drags out the misery of war indefinitely for profit.

      People have fled bad situations throughout human history. Besides, most of us (myself included) only have American roots dating back maybe one to two hundred years. It’s not like this is an ancestral homeland for the vast majority of us.

      Perhaps more importantly, what is one defending by staying in the US? If I look to my left, I see hypersensitive SJWs. Look to the right and it’s mindless flag-waving Evangelicals. Even worse, this toxic division of people was done intentionally to render us ineffective as potential change agents. We waste time debating abortion and gender pronouns rather than the Fed/bankers or the MIC. People should freak out about trillion dollar annual deficits, not NFL cheerleaders kneeling or “toxic whiteness”.

      Personally I’m not positive that I will leave, but I’m strongly considering it. I don’t blame anyone for doing what’s best for them and theirs. I’m somewhere around Krieger’s age, which makes me old enough to remember when discussion of leaving the US would have drawn laughter, not concern. This change speaks volumes about what we’ve become as a country.

    • Apologies to Krieger and everyone for a somewhat inappropriate long rant for this thread, but the question of staying/leaving keeps popping up and I wanted to answer it rather than wait maybe a few more weeks until its next appearance.

  6. Tengen, it’s easy to find all kinds of reasons to leave this country right now at this particular point in time.

    But as Muhammed Ali wisely said; “Service to others is the rent we pay for our place in life”.

    So if your personal path is service to others, rather than service to self, then the only choice is to stay.

    That is not to imply that choosing the service to self route makes you or anyone else who makes that choice “evil” or “bad”. It just means that for now, you have chosen that path.

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    • People can serve others whether they’re here or elsewhere. Service here in the US would be a constant effort at deprogramming, imploring people not to hate each other over politics, wealth, age, race, gender, etc. Service elsewhere could be about actually building toward a future, assuming people there don’t already despise each other.

      I’m not advocating for everyone to leave, or where they should go if they choose to do so. It should be up to each individual. If you want to stay in the US, stay. If you want to go, go. Just don’t ask me to hold myself to a higher standard than the most successful Americans I’ve been observing all my life. The days of Warren Buffett being able to convincingly effect an “aw shucks” regular guy demeanor are long gone. If financiers, corporate moguls, politicians, and even the military don’t care what becomes of this country, why should the rank and file?

  7. “If financiers, corporate moguls, politicians, and even the military don’t care what becomes of this country, why should the rank and file?”

    Keep in mind that it’s not that simple.

    Rank and file is nothing more than a state of mind.

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    • “Keep in mind that it’s not that simple”.

      Please don’t pretend that they care about most of the 330M people in this country. They obviously don’t.

      “Rank and file is nothing more than a state of mind.”

      You’re helping me make my point here. When our leaders systemically fail to act like leaders, the structure breaks down. For better or worse, in a way we’re all elites now, free to do as we please.

  8. “Please don’t pretend that they care about most of the 330M people in this country. They obviously don’t.”

    Who is “they”, Tengen?

    That all encompassing word to describe an entire group of people is never accurate. As hard as it may be for you to believe, there are some very wealthy and therefore influential people in this country (and other countries) who do care.

    But they do things quietly and behind the scenes, so to speak.

    Always beware of anyone employing what I call “High profile charity”. People who want the world to know how supposedly charitable they are for their own self-aggrandizement are only interested in their own self-aggrandizement.

    They are the “hypocrites” Jesus described in Matthew 6:5-6

    Forget about “elites” and forget about “leaders”. Just focus on freedom to do as we please. As long as the doing serves others, not just you and yours.

    Most humans need to learn not doing, instead of always doing, first and foremost.

    Doing goes hand in hand with attachments. Not doing goes hand in hand with non-attachment.

    If you are already attached to a specific outcome based on your doing, you’ve lost before you even get started. That’s what partisans do. Then the statists try to maintain that specific status quo by doing whatever they think they have to do to maintain.

    What I find amusing about most atheists is their entire belief system is actually identical to fundamentalists, minus the God aspect.

    Either way, it is folly.

    ..

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    • We’ve meandered into some sort of pseudo-religious discussion that doesn’t interest me, so I’ll leave this here.

      However, I do have a request. Since the topic of staying vs leaving crops up from time to time, I’d prefer you do one of two things. When people start talking about exit plans, either let it slide or be able to articulate why you think people can “serve others” in their current location but not elsewhere. I’m no closer to understanding this than I was several posts ago and this disdain for migration seems silly to me.

      Sorry if that’s rude, but bear in mind I’ve lived around the country and really have moved a bunch of times, which must be what made me this way. I should’ve stayed in my hometown all along!

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