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I remember how as a child my mother would say to me “Pleasant dreams” when she wished me good night. Mercifully, when we close our eyes, we often have just that.  But what if our dreams are not pleasant?  What then? Then, we have what is called a nightmare, which is a most unpleasant dream. I’ve had them and likely so have you. If you look up the etymology of “nightmare,” you’ll learn that the term goes back to the twelfth century...

As you heal from your aneurysm repair

AS YOU HEAL FROM YOUR ANEURYSM REPAIR

This post is a continuation of a previous post titled Omi’s Aneurysm. In this post, I plan to journal what I hope will be a very uneventful recovery in the days and months ahead following my dear wife’s surgery, which occurred on August 9, 2024 for a 7 mm saccular, intracranial aneurysm. The word “intracranial” means within the cranium, or inside the bones that form the head. More than likely in this context, it refers to the largest of the...

October surprise?

OCTOBER SURPRISE?

An October surprise is often an unplanned event the month before the general election (though, it could conceivably be a staged event as well.) An example of what many see as a staged event is when, in 1968 with the unpopular bombing of North Vietnam in full swing, President Johnson (D) announced the weekend before the election, that there would be a halt to the bombing and he held out the suggestion of peace talks. This was an initiative that...

Apartheid by any other name

APARTHEID BY ANY OTHER NAME

The term Apartheid was first used in 1948 in South Africa to describe a separate, if not equal, segregation of the races, including these four categories: Whites, Bantu (black African), Mixed races and Asian.  The term was a new compound of words from different languages.  The first segment of the word (“apart”) is clear enough in its meaning.  It refers to some sort of collection “by itself, away from others.”  From the word “hood” which refers to “head,” “manner,” “state” or “condition,” we get the “heid.” The Whites...

Do not believe every spirit.

DO NOT BELIEVE EVERY SPIRIT

The World Population Clock estimates that there are almost 8.2 billion souls on Earth.  No doubt, it uses a simple algorithm weighing births against deaths and showing a net gain over time.  But is that the end of it?  Are things as simple as that?  In his famous work, Paradise Lost, poet John Milton (1608-1614) wrote: Of course, just because the famous muse penned this doesn’t mean that it is true.  Yet, each of the two testaments in the Bible seems to suggest that there was more than...

SECOND AMENDMENT BLUES

If you follow my blog, you’ve already read this post. And, regretably, you’ll see it again and again in the coming weeks and months. Just with different photos, the names of different schools, or towns, and the different number of dead and wounded. Talk to your elected representatives and senators, or those running for Congress. Democrats in Congress would be very eager to speak to you about banning assault weapons. The’ve been trying to to this for decades! Before Uvalde...

In memory to a

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

Veterans Day this year falls on Monday, November 11th. On Veterans Day, Americans remember the sacrifices that millions of American vets have made through the almost 250 years that the United States has enjoyed freedom and independence. For many families, Veterans Day is a grim reminder of their personal loss; a father, a husband, a son (or a daughter.) On Saturday, November 23rd, only several days before Thanksgiving, the Kohler family will observe the twenty-fifth anniversary of a very personal...

Are we making God in our own image?

ARE WE MAKING GOD IN OUR OWN IMAGE?

  • September 1, 2024
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I have revised this post I published three years ago to include a recent interview that Mr Trump sat for on the Mark Levin show. Tump said a number of things, including: “I’d like to think that God thinks that I’m going to straighten out our country.” Trump thinks this is why he was spared six weeks ago from assassination. I agree with him that God likely intervened to spare his life, but I disagree with him over God’s motivation....

My take on the CNN interview

MY TAKE ON THE CNN INTERVIEW

So, Deena and I watched the CNN interview last evening with Dana Bash. I decided to add my two cents to the post-game critique as Coach Walz might call it. This is my take on the CNN interview. I consider myself a student of politics. Sixty years ago, I first got interested in politics when Senator Barry Goldwater ran for President. At the time, I was a confused teenager who got mixed up in the John Birch Society (JBS), which...

Conair

CONAIR

The U.S. Marshall’s Service has a fleet of several Boeing 737 aircraft to fly people in legal custody to prison, to another state, or to court or detention centers, wherever official business requires them to fly.  Illegal aliens in custody are also passengers on these aircraft.  The term for this operation is the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System (JPATS), though informally it is known as Conair (for Convict Air.) More than a quarter of a million transfers take place each year.  Conair was also the...

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