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The Queen of Sheba and Q

THE QUEEN OF SHEBA AND Q

Multiple newspaper reports here and here this morning describe an hundred or more followers of Q, many with Donald Trump banners or other alt right symbols, loitering around Dealey Plaza in Dallas where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in November 1963. They are waiting for the miraculous reappearance of his son John Jr. who died in a plane crash in July 1999. They expect an imminent announcement that Donald Trump will run for reelection with...

The First Thanksgiving

THE FIRST THANKSGIVING

This year we will observe the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving held by the Pilgrims at Plymouth Bay Colony under the supervision of William Bradford. Nearby, Massachusetts Bay Colony would be settled nine years later by a religious group known as the Puritans under the command of John Winthrop. By 1640, there would be 10,000 settlers at the Massachusetts Bay Colony, whose growth rapidly surpassed that of the Plymouth Bay Colony. And, while we celebrate Thanksgiving in November, it...

In memory of

IN MEMORY OF . . .

these noteworthy and talented Americans that we lost to COVID. The poet John Donne once wrote “Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” Meditation XVII – Meditation 17. As a former hospital worker, I’ve seen people die of disease in the past (including my late wife), and it is a terrible and humbling thing to behold. For all we know, except...

IS THE SUPPLY CHAIN COLLAPSING?

Milkshakes “are missing from U.K.’s McDonald’s branches, tomatoes are rotting on Italian farms, and soldiers mingle with farmers on Vietnam’s rice paddies. All because of shortage of staff. A dearth of farm and slaughterhouse workers, truckers, chefs or waiters is hitting global food supply chains hard, causing processing slowdowns, delivery delays and empty supermarket shelves” according to Bloomberg. The Coronavirus is largely to blame for the supply chain problems, of course, but there are other factors as well. According to this week’s Economist magazine, another piece of the puzzle deals with...

The dogs of war: Robotic dog

THE DOGS OF WAR (AND MORE)

EDITORIAL: 10/3/2021. Taiwan says “a total of 39 Chinese military jets flew into its air defence zone on Saturday – the largest incursion by Beijing to date” according to the BBC. The country says the fighters came in two waves, only a day after more than three dozen other planes (including nuclear-capable bombers) also committed the same provocation. However, as the BCC points out, Taiwan’s Air Defence Zone is outside of its territorial and national airspace, so technically there was...

What the hand, dare seize the fire?

“WHAT THE HAND DARE SEIZE THE FIRE?”

Prometheus (portrayed in the feature photo) was a titan in Greek mythology. A titan was half mortal, half god. In some Greek legends, he is credited with creating humanity from clay. In all of the legends, he was responsible for giving mankind fire, tricking Zeus in the process, and who cared then what the hand, dare seize the fire? For this reason, Zeus had Prometheus chained to a rock, and a giant robotic eagle, crafted and assembled by Hephaestus, who...

THE WTC ATTACKS REMEMBERED

Like most Americans who were old enough to remember the events of September 11, 2001, I remember where I was and what I was doing. I had just finished a “zero hour” dual credit college class at a rural high school approximately twenty miles from campus. I had just pulled out of the parking lot and turned on the Dallas CBS affilliate radio station KRLD to catch up on the traffic and weather. KRLD would provide traffic and weather reports...

Augenblicke

The Cambridge Dictionary translates the German word Augenblicke as “moments, seconds, flashes, instants, jiffies, ticks.”  It is also translated as a “glance” or a “blink of the eye,” so it runs the range of being a fraction of a second (an average blink of a human eye lasts 1/10 of a second) to several seconds in the case of a casual glance. But a lot can happen in that time frame. Consider, for example . . . The Big Bang happened in a fraction of an...

Bible and gun

TAKING THE KINGDOM BY FORCE

[This post comes after The National Terrorism Advisory System recently issued a warning of heigthened domestic teorrist threat levels in the U.S., and subsequent comments today from Homeland Security Intelligence chief John Cohen.]. The subject of this post is taking the kingdom by force. There are verses in the Bible that are difficult to understand. For example, concerning Judas. Did he hang himself (Matthew 27:5) or get disemboweled (Acts 1:18?) Or, take Matthew 11:12. In Matthew 11:12 Jesus says: “From...

Faded American Flag Liz Cheney Ouster

EDITORIAL: FADED GLORY

Our political system lost a bit more luster today. Minutes ago, the Republican conference in the U.S. House of Representatives ousted their Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney from her position of leadership. Preferring to continue their fealty to a twice-impeached President instead of returning to their historical convictions that helped make America great for the better part of two centuries, they attempted to silence the daughter of a former Vice-President of the U.S. for speaking her mind. This came only...

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