TUESDAY 5th MARCH 2013 08:30 GMT

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (5th March 1943)
On the Russian Front...
The Spring thaw begins to prevent military operations, but German 4th Panzer Army attack around Krasnograd from the south.

In the Atlantic...
In a bad day for the British, U-130 sinks four British vessels.

In the Pacific...
USN submarine Grampus is sunk by Japanese destroyers.

Allied aircraft and PT boats conduct search-and-destroy missions against survivors of the Rabaul-Lae convoy on boats, rafts, and debris.

USN submarine Tambor lands men, ammunition, and money for guerillas on Mindanao Island

In Burma...
Heavy dogfighting between Japanese and RAF fighters.

Today's Air Raids...
Essen, Germany by RAF Bomber Command,
Malahang airfield, Lae by the RAAF
Lae and Alexishafen, New Britain by US 5th Air Force
Gasmata, New Britain by US 5th Air Force
Molucca Islands by US 5th Air Force

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging first thing. Breakfast and me time before the milk run, then client follow-up and online marketing. Gardening and meditation in the afternoon. A combination of missus and me time in the evening.

  Twitter Followers = 1,621 (down 2)
     Nonfollowed eliminated = 1 
     Unfollowers eliminated = 1
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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
Synchronicity seems to bring to my attention those folks who have a problem admitting things and saying sorry. I am both infuriated with them and sorry for them at the same time. They are infurating in that they cause unnecessary suffering to themselves and others. Confession is the emotional equivalent of draining an abcess. All the toxins being brought to the surface is unpleasant to do but then everybody can heal and move on.

I feel sorry for them because they are making their own lives worse. When you encounter the unrepentant, it's relatively easy to put them at a distance, but the person concerned has to carry around all the resentment of blaming everyone but themselves, and endure the loneliness that comes from driving others away. Underlying it all is the crippling fear of being wrong, and all the nagging self-doubt that results, making them ill in mind and body.

Nowhere are Son and Daughter more diverse than in the discipline of confession. Son, like Missus and myself, does it instinctively, allowing situations to be nipped in the bud. Daughter, like both mine and Missus mothers and sisters, have caused decades of needless suffering by their desperate need to be right.

I have learned not to bear the burdens of those who inflict self and mutual harm. I simply let them go and deny them access to my life. If necessary I will robustly and aggressively defend my borders from encroachment by such people. It's their problem and I will not take ownership of it. I will instead devote my attention to those open to change and the gifts I have to offer.

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Forced to choose, would you be kind or right?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Freezing fog first thing. This will slowly lift then evaporate over the morning.
Dry and sunny in the afternoon.
The evening will begin clear but cloud then fog will descend overnight.
Wind will be begligible.
Max Temp = 6 degC
Min Temp = -1 degC
Sunrise at 06:47
Sunset at 17:51

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
My wife and I laugh at how competitive we are at things, but I laugh more. : D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!
Leslie on female flaws

8.TRIVIA
Air pollution in Pakistan is nearly 10 times higher than levels considered safe by the World Health Organization. Every car in Pakistan creates 25% more carbon than one car in the U.S

9. THE WISDOM I'VE LEARNED FROM OTHERS
"A man should not act as a judge either for someone he loves or for someone he hates. For no man can see the guilt of someone he loves or the good qualities in someone he hates." - Babylonian Talmud, tractate Ketubbot