10 Friday May 2019
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The album was entitled #16, (1963) and inspired by none other than John F Kennedy, a Democrat.
Go Figure
It was the last album of theirs I ever bought.
I wonder if the words will work today?
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27 Saturday Apr 2019
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![<span style="font-size: 8pt;">Homo neanderthalensis by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/66451944@N03/42396583455/in/photolist-27ArzbP-eFACVg-eFADJp-eFADkn-boB2CQ-pyA5Ej-8ac8Ls-i5xhxG-8Gb3cn-8a9hT4-8a9mkc-848Qcb-CHxd7-c6AiQ1-sfEp4U-4RGExr-8Gee5G-8Geeoh-C5gqgN-8Gb3r8-ph84YL-CUujti-8Gb2XT-dfL4Ht-c6yJ8w-8Gb2sr-8GeeFm-5vb6cT-dfL4Pv-c6AjnQ-6B1Lx6-ZkCVE-4Dyiwy-85STG6-eaakwt-4giSK1-aJkB5c-MuqrCA-8GeeWU-RgYxg-bfCR5z-eJdzXj-bfgZET-6z8rbu-tuYCT-84vzS6-251dG5S-23CJZiY-bfCRcp-bg2iuH">Thomas Vogt</a>-Flickr (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>) [Brain volume up to 1750cc (Homo sapiens average 1270 cc) LWL Museum of Natural History, Münster, Germany]</span>](https://pumabydesign001.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/homo-neanderthalensis-by-thomas-vogt-flickr-cc-by-sa-2.0-494x330-compressor.jpg)
Homo neanderthalensis by Thomas Vogt-Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) [Brain volume up to 1750cc (Homo sapiens average 1270 cc) LWL Museum of Natural History, Münster, Germany]
Unified Patriots by Vassar Bushmills
Is America an accident? A freak of Nature? Or, is America the product of Intelligent Design?
I don’t intend to try to answer the second half of that question here as that requires an inquiry into philosophy and theology. But by the longest list of scientific and common sense proofs, I think I can say without equivocation that America is no accident. We cannot be a freak of Nature. So you can sort of figure out the rest yourself.
This is something we no longer teach our children, but we are unique.
Now, scholars (intellectuals) for the past 200 years have had no problem ignoring this question, for they think it’s a trick question, which does not really require an answer. If they reply that Yes, America is a freak, then the obvious response from the trickster asking the question is: Then why has America survived so long? In nature almost all mutations quickly die out. They can rarely survive into a second generation, much less a third.
And America is into somewhere around its 118th generation of de facto self-governance, while, before the 1787 Constitution, there is no recorded history of a real nation (bigger than a tribe) ever making it past one. (Agreed, also prior to 1787, almost all history was written by “scribes of the kings”, the real name for “historians” for millennia, so there could have been dozens of nascent self-governed peoples who were simply squished, or gobbled up by a next-door invading king, only they were too small and insignificant to rate a page in the “annals of the king” being prepared by his historians.)
In fact, the archaeological record of pre-dynastic Egypt suggests this is how several tribes of farm people in the Nile region slowly morphed into an organized hierarchical “corporation”, with a chairman of the board king, a head priest, and every other person in the realm owing some duty to them. Subjects.
The Egyptians and a few other empires in a region from the eastern Mediterranean to the Indus Valley (India) started this process of “civilization” about 3000 BC, 5000 years ago. And they did many wondrous things, especially building things that for generations for centuries could; i.e. monuments to themselves, which was their purpose[…]
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26 Friday Apr 2019
Posted in culture, Independent Sentinel
Credits below**
Independent Sentinel by S. Noble
A blatantly bigoted lesbian-owned, vegan cafe in Melbourne, Australia charged an 18% “man tax.” The ‘Handsome Her’ cafe folded after less than two years in business.
The restaurant made headlines in 2017 when it announced rules giving preferred seating to its female customers and charging an 18% premium for men to “protest the gender pay gap.”
Men and women didn’t like it and they were pilloried by everyone. Their bigotry was based on an illogical gender penalty.
The owner hasn’t learned a thing from the experience. The ideologue who owns the place, Alex O’Brien, a feminist activist, said the backlash that her “man tax” caused underscores why lesbians must “dismantle the patriarchy.”
The soon-to-be former owner really seems to resent men and appears to live with paranoid rage over men.
| Joke of the day (or is it)? —
Question: So exactly, how did that “18% ‘man tax” aka “protest the gender pay gap” aka war on the patriarchy go? Answer: “Not well, we’re out of business.” Third party and like every other business owned by Progressive useful idiots who put ideology first chimes in: “Me too.” |
Credits (Images): Handsome Her Cafe photo – Source: Handsome Her (Facebook); going out of business sign (Pixabay)
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23 Tuesday Apr 2019
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The Death of Moses, as in Deuteronomy 34:1-12, Bible card published 1907 by the Providence Lithograph Company (cropped) Source: Wikimedia Commons
Unified Patriots by Vassar Bushmills
Anyone, anywhere, who hears the name “America” already has a first impression about America; either positive or negative. It doesn’t matter if he/she is 18 or 80, and located anywhere in the world.
If abroad those impressions are a mixture of street talk, music, films, and of course, relatives who may have traveled there or live. One man from one village can go to America, and everyone in that valley has a impression of America that no government can conceal.
I knew such a family from Dayton whose father had come to America from a village in Slovakia before WWII, taking work in a steel mill. He left a wife and son back home. Just before the war he went back to bring his wife to America. But he had to leave his 6-year old behind with relatives to secure the family lands. Once in America, Papa and Mama Miluks started a new family, his youngest son my best friend for many years from the Army. In the late 1970s, while on duty in Germany, he was allowed to travel to Slovakia and meet his eldest brother and see the village and old home place, and of course, take gifts. When I visited his family in Dayton Mama Miluks showed me the special place she kept all her letters from her son, who she had not seen since 1940. But those letters! She wrote many-paged reports every week for over 40 years, giving a weekly account of things going on with his papa and brothers and sister, learning quickly to never speak of certain things, for by ’46 the Communists had moved in and her letters were first read and redacted by postal censors, cutting all references to the availability of consumer goods commonly available in America, especially food. Her son, in turn, would reply with heavily redacted letters. He would die in the early 1990’s of the general poor heath common to socialist countries so was never able to join his family. He never met his other two younger brothers or sister. And of course his last personal memory of his parents was when he was 6.
But I am quite sure every adult in that village had clear impressions of America because of Mr Miluks, who went to America.
I tell this story because one, it’s true, and two, it is, next to the Christian’s ideal of Heaven, an impression of America as a place that one has never been and most wants to go, which cannot be duplicated anywhere else. I have met people in several countries and four continents, including Palestinian Arabs (on an overnight sleeper in Russia) and from all I hear basically the same thing, “If only I could go to America.”
(This is not what we are seeing today on our southern border, by the way, so I won’t take this discussion in that direction, although just 30-40 years ago, down there, where I also lived, this was a common refrain, “If I can only get to America.” I deal with this subject in an upcoming conversation about Assimilation, which should be a topic of policy discussion if we can ever get fully in charge or our government again.)
So, abroad, America is viewed through two entirely different prisms, divided by two classes: 1) the political class and 2) all the rest[…]
18 Thursday Apr 2019
Woodstock Music and Art Fair. The person carrying the placard is Moonfire Lewis Beach Marvin III. Joe Cocker is performing on stage. (August 17, 1969) Source: Woodstock Whisperer, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Unified Patriots by Vassar Bushmills
The lines of a ditty from the early 1960s suddenly popped into my head, recently.
It was late lest September, as well as I can remember
While strolling though the park in tipsy pride
Not a word did I utter, as I lay down in the gutter
And this pig came up and lay down by my side
Not a soul was I disturbing as I lay there by the curbing
When this high-tone lady came, and I heard her say…
“You may tell someone who boozes…by he company he chooses”
And the pig got up and slowly walked away
I was 17 at the time, 56 years ago and I still remembered those words. See the video below, only because of the song.
It was sung by the New Christy Minstrels, a very popular folk group from the early 60s. and I saw them sing this live in concert in 1963. It was part of a medley of humorous ditties called Bits and Pieces and this grainy piece of film shows the group and the audience, mostly college kids.
Pay attention to the way the students responded to what would today be considered childish humor.
https://my.mail.ru/mail/emypas/video/63296/66388.html
(Sorry, no video link, so you gotta cut and paste)
This is a conversation I can only begin as I won’t live to see it finished, but we need to back and rethink some things.
In scrolling through YouTube videos of live performances filmed and recorded on college campuses by the top vocal groups of that period, the Kingston Trio, Peter Paul and Mary, and these New Christy Minstrels, I saw live in concert my senior year in high school in a sold out university basketball arena.
It never dawned on me then that this concert format would die before the end of the decade, as would the folk music craze in general. Pop bands and vocalists (both black and white) were popular since the mid-50s, Bill Haley, Buddy Holly and Elvis (I saw Elvis’ first appearance on Ed Sullivan in 1956, when the cameras only showed Elvis from the waist up.) the best examples, and I was a regular at a local youth center since 1957[…]
21 Thursday Feb 2019
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Independent Sentinel by S. Noble
The state’s attorney’s office approved disorderly conduct charges against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, said spokesman Robert Foley. The charge is a Class 4 felony. Smollett is expected to appear in bond court Thursday, Foley said.
Chicago Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi tweeted Wednesday evening, “Detectives will make contact with his legal team to negotiate a reasonable surrender for his arrest.”
Felony criminal charges have been approved by @CookCountySAO against Jussie Smollett for Disorderly Conduct / Filing a False Police Report. Detectives will make contact with his legal team to negotiate a reasonable surrender for his arrest. pic.twitter.com/LvBSYE2kVj
— Anthony Guglielmi (@AJGuglielmi) February 21, 2019
The FBI is investigating the death threat letter sent to Smollett. He could be guilty of mail fraud.
Gloria Schmidt, the lawyer for Ola and Abel Osundairo, just said her clients testified before the Grand Jury for two-and-a-half hours and laid out their story that Jussie put them up to a fake assault. Schmidt said the brothers testified separately and they have no criminal exposure.
Adam Schiff will be so sad[…]
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