I watched as much of this hearing as I could stand, as a way of mortifying the flesh. My stoic indifference to pain was insufficient: my will broke. I could not watch the whole hearing to the end.
His comment: “This is a hearing; I thought I was the one who was supposed to be heard.”
My comment: This small clip is not the worst of it.
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All Men Dream of Earthwomen, Noetic File 5.0 An Old-Fashioned Hospital, is now posted.
Noetic File 5.0: An Old-Fashioned Hospital
These small domestic scenes display both the medicinal protocols and police procedures of the milieu.
NOTE:
The traditional confessions of mutual love as the hero and heroine exchange romantic sonnets has been omitted from this publication, as the main body of scholarly opinion regards file 5.2 as a later interpolation.
Argentiferous Era commentators, including del Yame and del Sancta Timorous, discuss that the brief statement where the narrator refuses to recount any romantic dialogue. It is a figure of rhetoric known as an apophasis.
This must have appeared in the now lost ur-document oldest layer of mnemonic records, in order to explain the surviving Cupric Era commentary.
Del Arrant argues, we believe persuasively, that the lurid erotic sonnets appearing in the Phronetic Recordings are not in keeping with the delicacy of the narrator’s home epoch, which forms one of the emergent themes of the account.
We follow the version as recounted by the Auferic Era sources, especially del Vatic, updated for the modern audience.
Jagi, here.
The local homeschooling fair in our area has gone virtual. Reimagine Education Conference: Academic Success During the COVID-19 Crisis
The conference is on all this week. John and author C. J. Brightley of the Noblebright movement discuss why books matter and how they influence our lives on Wednesday at 4:30 EDT
I discuss teaching the Art and the Craft of Writing to children and teens on Thursday at noon EDT.
This is a great opportunity for those who homeschool and wish to pick up ideas and for those who fear that school may not reopen and virtual learning may not work for your family.
Come by. It’s just $10! Discover the wondrous world of homeschooling. See my ghost tell you about teaching kids and the real John discuss books he loves with C. J. Brightley!
Dave Cullen of Computer Forever has some thoughts, observations, conclusions and speculations about the Globalist Pandemic. The parallels to Shariah Law are striking.
You may want to watch this before YouTube memory holes it.
My comment: I am deeply ashamed at my Church, and at all my fellow denominations throughout the West, who so meekly cancelled Easter, and all the observances of our faith, in order to obey secular authorities that kept open abortion mills, gambling joints, and liquor stores.
Had the soldiers of Christ rioted, smashed infanticide clinics and sin palaces and pulled down statues of idols, would the seculars have applauded us?
This is not an example of Trump keeping a campaign promise, but it is an example of a victory for MAGA (Make America Great Again) over TAGA (Trash America Gratuitously Again).
From Fox News:
The Washington Post is the latest news organization to settle a defamation lawsuit launched by Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann over its botched coverage [sic.] of a viral confrontation with a Native American elder [sic.] that had portrayed the Kentucky teen as the aggressor.
Sandmann announced the victory on Twitter.
“On 2/19/19, I filed $250M defamation lawsuit against Washington Post. Today, I turned 18 & WaPo settled my lawsuit. Thanks to @ToddMcMurtry & @LLinWood for their advocacy. Thanks to my family & millions of you who have stood your ground by supporting me.”
It also happened to be the young man’s birthday.
Major League Baseball has adopted a policy of showing disrespect to the flag during the national anthem now that Major League sports has begun again.
A republic who not only tolerates but encourages contempt for herself, her symbols, and her spirit during her leisure times and holidays cannot long endure.
The NFL, the NBA, the MLB, and NASCAR all now officially hate America and their loyal customers.
I am not a sports fan, but my heart goes out to those that are. My own pastime, the science fiction field, officially went fully “woke”, that is, embraced the Anti-Life Equation and lost all reason, decency, and free will quite recently.
Major comic book companies did likewise, and I hear from my friends who are gamers that the corruption is deep, very deep, in the gaming community as well.
The personal is political. So, now, the sports fans of America get to be heckled by wokescolds for the thoughtcrime of wrongfun. You may only have fun in the approved fashion, comrade.
Major newspapers, by no coincidence, have started printing editorials claiming that thoughtcrime fans have no place in sports, their money is not wanted, their loyalty is not wanted.
Two generations of our young have been raised to regard our Founding Fathers as villains, our history as shameful, our religion as superstition, our nation as uniquely evil. Years ago, the seeds were planted while we slept. That fruit grows ripe.
War is coming.
The Attorney General has made an announcement. The words below are his.
Today, Attorney General William P. Barr announced the launch of Operation Legend, a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative across all federal law enforcement agencies working in conjunction with state and local law enforcement officials to fight the sudden surge of violent crime, beginning in Kansas City, MO. Operation Legend was created as a result of President Trump’s promise to assist America’s cities that are plagued by recent violence.
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Please join me, Jeffro Johnson, author of Appendix N, Zaklog the Great, Nate the Greater, talk about Robert E. Howard’s verse.
All Men Dream of Earthwomen, Noetic File 4.0 Coriolis Fall, is now posted.
Noetic File 4.0: Coriolis Fall
This is the famous scene, often depicted in romances, where the narrator rescues Amphitricia after a life-threatening Coriolis fall from an inner carousel.
Despite the common folk-belief, our tradition of carrying the bride over the threshold does not come from event, but has earlier roots, perhaps as far back as the abduction of the Sabine woman as depicted in Plutarch, in the unicameral consciousness days, precompanionship.
This file contains what antiquarians call an ‘infodump’ where the poet explains information to his audience presumably they already know, artfully enough not to imply dereliction of their education.
Much like the ritualized praise of their patrons, it is the type of nicety required by the stiff conventions and formality of the culture of ancient writers.
The file is an example of what is called “poetic paradox” as when he claims to be unaware of his surroundings, and yet describes them in detail, or he describes the actions of a fictional character, but clearly attributes those actions to himself.
Beyond the Black River was first published in Weird Tales magazine, serialized from May to June of 1935, the first part coming three months after Jewels of Gwahlur . It is the fifteenth published story in the Conan canon.
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A reader with the bluish-grey but divine name of Cassious Dio writes:
And, for the first time, in 2000 years, public mass has been suspended over the WHOLE EARTH. I think this is bigger than we realize if we consider the economy of grace.
Are the Last Days nigh?
In every generation it seems that they are, but only one generation will have the dubious privilege of being right.
And yet, and yet, I cannot shake the suspicion that it is our generation.
I am sure those living during the Black Death felt the same way, or the scattered Englishmen of Alfred the Great’s day when the Dane was invading.
And yet…
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I do not want to police the tone and politeness of the dialogue here, nor could I if I wanted. I do not have time to read all comments here.
Nonetheless, I do ban people for heckling. You have not, as yet, stepped fully over the line, but you have a toe over it.
When next you feel the impulse to accuse rather than answer someone here asking you a question, or to accuse others of what you are being criticized for doing, or to score rhetorical points by insulting others, please restrain yourself.
Your lecturing, hectoring, and snarling is neither engaging nor entertaining. I would regret banning you, because often you know some tidbit of history or human lore previously unknown to me, and your learning is wide.
But I cannot have you driving away my other guests with your odious habits of speech. Please be more wary and polite. Please avoid obvious logical fallacies, strawman arguments, ad hominem. Please address your fellow guests here as is they are of equal dignity and rank with you.
Be warned.
All Men Dream of Earthwomen, Noetic File 3.0 The Featherweight Dilapidator, is now posted.
Noetic File 3.0: The Featherweight Dilapidator
This file contains the first recording verbal image of Amphitricia del Cnossos.
Children, the recently-decanted, and other folk in positions of purity or sensitivity are encouraged to assume a proper emotional contour before perusing this file, as an uncomely brutal act is depicted.
I just thought it wise to bring this to your attention:
from https://www.foxnews.com/us/church-fire-florida-california-statue-burned-police-investigation
The words below are those of Caleb Parke of Fox News:
A slew of Catholic churches from Florida to California were burned and vandalized over the weekend as police continue to investigate whether or not they are connected to protests targeting symbols and statues.
Following George Floyd’s police-related death in May, Black Lives Matter leaders and protesters called for the toppling of statues, from Confederate symbols to former U.S. presidents and abolitionists. Activist Shaun King called for all images depicting Jesus as a “White European” and his mother to be torn down because they’re forms of “White supremacy” and “racist propaganda.”
Meanwhile, people on social media point out the lack of mainstream coverage of the weekend incidents.
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So, on our about the same date that New York Times columnist, the aptly named Charles Blow, publicly announces that there is no such thing as cancel culture, Bari Weiss, a journalist there, pens a scathing resignation letter alleging unlawful discrimination, hostile work environment, and constructive discharge, among other misdeeds, based purely on her voicing a difference of opinion with the prevailing orthodoxy.
He says this:
Once more: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS CANCEL CULTURE. There is free speech. You can say and do as you pls, and others can choose never to deal this you, your company or your products EVER again. The rich and powerful are just upset that the masses can now organize their dissent.
She says this:
… independent-minded young writers and editors [pay] close attention to what they’ll have to do to advance in their careers. Rule One: Speak your mind at your own peril. Rule Two: Never risk commissioning a story that goes against the narrative. Rule Three: Never believe an editor or publisher who urges you to go against the grain. Eventually, the publisher will cave to the mob, the editor will get fired or reassigned, and you’ll be hung out to dry.
And one wag quips:
There is no such thing as cancel culture and if you say there is I’ll call your boss and have you fired.
As public service, for purposes of clarity, let us distinguish cancel culture from robust public debate.
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