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A Quote to Start Things Off
If we ever think well it should be when we think of God. - A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Team Saturdazzle: The One With The Return of Bisquick Man
Welcome to Saturdazzle. Today we have Some Superheroes that begin with B, baseball for the blind, and The best selling movies of February.
This video has been sitting in my draft status for some time now. I thought with baseball being in spring training, this would be a great time to show it.
Team Saturdazzle At The Movie
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Top 10 Films
top 10 Films of 2025 as of 2/28/2005
10. Den of Thieves: Pantera Down 3 from January
9. Wicked Down 4 from January
8. A Complete Unknown Down 2 from January
7 One of These Days Up1 from January
6. Nosferatu down 2 from January
5 Moana 2 Down 3 from January
4. Dog Man up 8 from January
3. Sonic The Hedgehog 3 down 1 from January
2. Mufasa The Lion King Down 1 from January
1. Captain America: Brave New World
Top 10 Films of February 2025
10. Love Hurts
9. Companion up 9 from January
8. Ne Zha 2
7. One of Them Days up 1 from January
6. The Monkey
5. Mufasa: The Lion King down 4 from January
4. Paddington In Peru
3. Heart Eyes
2. Dogman up 10 from January
1. Captain America: Brave New World
Friday, March 7, 2025
A to Z Challenge Theme Reveal: The ABC's of ME

April Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2025 SIGN-UP March 24-April 5 a-to-zchallenge.com
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2025 A to Z Challenge Theme Reveal
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No-One is a proud sponsor of the Leap of Dave 2025 A to Z Challenge Theme Reveal. No one has practically been reading this blog for many years and was glad to answer the call when I asked no one to sponsor it. Now back to the theme reveal.
The Theme for my 2025 A to Z challenge is The ABC's of Me.
I had many different ideas for the challenge theme this year and I chose this one because at the beginning of the year I placed an alphabetical list of things that described me on my home page.
As of March 7th 2025 this list reads as follows:
Amateur Parodist,
Blogger,
Christian,
Daring do-gooder,
Evangelical sans Trump Kool-Aid,
Father of 3 adult children,
Giraffe lover,
Husband of one amazing wife,
Illinois resident,
Jester,
Kindred spirit,
Library lover
Middle School teacher
Nincompoop
Original Poet
Quintessential worker
RITA (Republican in theory, anyways.)
Sixty something
Teller of jokes
U of I Parent - ILL
Voracious reader,
Willy Wonka Wannabe,
Xenophile
Yankovic enthusiast
Zoo attender
Each day of the challenge I will write a post about the alphabetical aspect of me that matches that day's letter. It is very possible that I may change some of the topics before the challenge. If I do that, they will also be changed on my blog's sidebar. As I am not a fan of revisionist history, I will not change them on this post.
This is now usually the time in a Theme Reveal where the blogger lists his previous A to Z Challenge theme's. So let's get to it shall we. The first time I participated in the A to Z Challenge was 2012 it was here at this blog back when it was still called Home School Dad. and it was the only year I had no theme. In 2015 I returned to the Challenge and actually participated in the challenge on2 of my blogs. The complete list is below.
Year Blog Theme Sample Post
2012 HSD No Theme B is for Boring
2015 HSD Nouns A is for Allen
2015 CUSP White Sox Home Runs F is for Frank
2016 YBD Comic Book Characters B is for Beast
2016 DOL Y is for You Tube Theme Reveal
2016 CUSP Cubs Home Runs R is for Ronny
2019 RAN Sherman Brothers Songs Z is for Zuckerman
2020 RAN State Capitals W is for Washington
2021 HSD Alive in 1921 W is for Waltons
2022 LOD Multiple * Quit Quentin Quest
2023 LOD A Month at the Movies Ordinary People
2024 LOD Holidays J is for Just Married
* The themes for 2022 were Wordles, Limericks and Home Runs
Key to BLOGS:
HSD Home School Dad *
CUSP Crazy Uncle Dave's Sports Page
YBD Your Basic Dave
DOL Dave Out Loud
RAN Random Acts of Dave
LOD Leap of Dave*
* Leap of Dave is the same blog as Home School Dad.
I am very excited about participating this year. Since I am kind of the theme I'm looking forward to putting myself out there.
Here is a quote from the movie that inspired the title of my theme.
The Theme Reveal Sponsor, No One is offering a prize for anyone who can answer these questions from the above referenced quote:
1. The Name of the film
2. The name of the character speaking.
3. The name of the actor portraying the character.
Leave your answer in the comments and No One will be very happy that you participated.
To see the theme reveal post as the A-Z challenge website click here. To submit your theme reveal post click here. To see the Theme Reveal Spreadsheet click here.
Coming April First: Amateur Parodist at your Service.
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Thursday, March 6, 2025
Lech Walesa stands in solidarity with Ukraine
Lech Walesa has been a hero of mine for a while. His work as a political dissident led him to prison and eventually to become Presdient of Poland. This week he wrote a letter to President Trump after the meeting last Friday between President Trump and Ukranian President Voldymyr Zelensky.
Here is the letter in it's entirety.
We watched the report of your conversation with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, with fear and distaste. We find it insulting that you expect Ukraine to show respect and gratitude for the material assistance provided by the United States in its fight against russia. Gratitude is owed to the heroic Ukrainian soldiers who shed their blood in defense of the values of the free world. They have been dying on the front lines for more than 11 years in the name of these values and the independence of their homeland, which was attacked by Putin’s russia.
We do not understand how the leader of a country that symbolizes the free world cannot recognize this.
Our alarm was also heightened by the atmosphere in the Oval Office during this conversation, which reminded us of the interrogations we endured at the hands of the Security Services and the debates in Communist courts. Prosecutors and judges, acting on behalf of the all-powerful communist political police, would explain to us that they held all the power while we held none. They demanded that we cease our activities, arguing that thousands of innocent people suffered because of us. They stripped us of our freedoms and civil rights because we refused to cooperate with the government or express gratitude for our oppression. We are shocked that President Volodymyr Zelensky was treated in the same manner.
The history of the 20th century shows that whenever the United States sought to distance itself from democratic values and its European allies, it ultimately became a threat to itself. President Woodrow Wilson understood this when he decided in 1917 that the United States must join World War I. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt understood this when, after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, he resolved that the war to defend America must be fought not only in the Pacific but also in Europe, in alliance with the nations under attack by the Third Reich.
We remember that without President Ronald Reagan and America’s financial commitment, the collapse of the Soviet empire would not have been possible. President Reagan recognized that millions of enslaved people suffered in Soviet Russia and the countries it had subjugated, including thousands of political prisoners who paid for their defense of democratic values with their freedom. His greatness lay, among other things, in his unwavering decision to call the USSR an “Empire of Evil” and to fight it decisively. We won, and today, the statue of President Ronald Reagan stands in Warsaw, facing the U.S. Embassy.
Mr. President, material aid—military and financial—can never be equated with the blood shed in the name of Ukraine’s independence and the freedom of Europe and the entire free world. Human life is priceless; its value cannot be measured in money. Gratitude is due to those who sacrifice their blood and their freedom. This is self-evident to us, the people of Solidarity, former political prisoners of the communist regime under Soviet Russia.
We call on the United States to uphold the guarantees made alongside Great Britain in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which established a direct obligation to defend Ukraine’s territorial integrity in exchange for its relinquishment of nuclear weapons. These guarantees are unconditional—there is no mention of treating such assistance as an economic transaction.
Signed,
Lech Wałęsa, former political prisoner, President of Poland
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