Sunday, January 31, 2021
Saturday, January 30, 2021
Friday, January 29, 2021
The Moon Illusion: Why Does the Moon Look So Big Sometimes?
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/1191/the-moon-illusion-why-does-the-moon-look-so-big-sometimes/
The Moon is not always the same distance away from Earth. The orbit is not a perfect circle.
When the Moon is the farthest away, it’s 252,088 miles away. That’s almost 32 Earths. When it's closest, the Moon is 225,623 miles away. That’s between 28 and 29 Earths.
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
O Quanta Qualia
O what their joy and their glory must be,
Those endless Sabbaths the blessèd ones see;
Crown for the valiant, to weary ones rest:God shall be all, and in all ever blest.
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Monday, January 25, 2021
Sunday, January 24, 2021
A Strange Bugle Call
On this day in 1945, Charles Williams died suddenly. C.S. Lewis wrote this little poem out of his grief:
https://theoddestinkling.wordpress.com/2019/05/15/a-strange-bugle-call/
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse and Chaucer
Saturday, January 23, 2021
Shakespeare’s Five Act Structure
According to Aristotle a drama is action – it is all about the events of an individual’s life. It’s not about a character: it’s about the events that derive from character and the events that result from character. It’s not an imitation of character, then, but of life, which, according to Aristotle, consists of action.
https://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/plays/five-act-structure/
Thursday, January 21, 2021
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
The painful symbolism of the 26,000 National Guard troops in DC
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/the_painful_symbolism_of_the_26000_national_guard_troops_in_dc.html#ixzz6k6gy0UGk Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Monday, January 18, 2021
Sunday, January 17, 2021
Not Amazon
Bikes: Caydence, downtown McKinney (awesome people)
Gifts/Home: Etsy, local craft shows/vendors
Books: Thrift Books, Powell Books
Cooking/Baking/Culinary: Bake Deco
Arts and Crafts Jerry's Art a Rama
Healthy/Paleo Foods: Thrive Market
Supplements: Mike's Health Exchange in McKinney
Berry and Gardening
Sowing the seed,
my hand is one with the earth.
Wanting the seed to grow,
my mind is one with the light.
Hoeing the crop,
my hands are one with the rain.
Having cared for the plants,
my mind is one with the air.
Hungry and trusting,
my mind is one with the earth.
Eating the fruit,
my body is one with the earth.
– Wendell Berry
Saturday, January 16, 2021
'Homegrown insurgency': General McChrystal compares MAGA rioters to Al-Qaeda - saying they also followed a 'powerful leader' - and claims that 'Stop the Steal' is a rallying cry like the Lost Cause was after the Civil War
Some people said to beware of the Patriot Act--before long it will be used against patriots. They were right.
Friday, January 15, 2021
US debt surged by $7 trillion under Trump. It will go much higher under Biden
Adding to America's $27 trillion mountain of debt may be painful, but it's the wise move given the scale of the problems and dirt-cheap borrowing costs.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/14/business/biden-stimulus-debt-trump/index.html
Thursday, January 14, 2021
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
The Humane Economy of Wilhelm Roepke
Now Mises, who had been professor years before at the Geneva Institute of International Affairs, came to visit Roepke in Geneva, about 1947. Happy at the success of these garden allotments, Roepke took his guest to see Genevan working people digging and hoeing in their gardens. But Mises shook his head sadly: “A very inefficient way of producing foodstuffs!” he lamented. “Perhaps so,” Roepke replied. “But perhaps a very efficient way of producing human happiness.”
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Men's childhood sexual abuse histories by one‐parent versus two‐parent status of childhood home
Child Sexual Abuse Facts
Family structure is the most important risk factor in child sexual abuse. Children who live with two married biological parents are at low risk for abuse. The risk increases when children live with step-parents or a single parent. Children living without either parent (foster children) are 10 times more likely to be sexually abused than children that live with both biological parents. Children who live with a single parent that has a live-in partner are at the highest risk: they are 20 times more likely to be victims of child sexual abuse than children living with both biological parents (Sedlack, et. al., 2010).
Child abuse is 40 times more likely when single parents find new partners
In their article “Child Abuse and Other Risks of Not Living with both Parents," published in Ethology and Sociobiology, Martin Daly and Margo Wilson note: "If their parents find new partners, children are 40 times more likely than those who live with biological parents to be sexually or physically abused."
https://www.phillyvoice.com/child-abuse-single-parenting-divorce-marriage-new-partners-advice/
President Trump Takes a Hit for the Team By Jack Cashill
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/president_trump_takes_a_hit_for_the_team.html#ixzz6jMGB47A1 Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook
Monday, January 11, 2021
Sunday, January 10, 2021
Saturday, January 9, 2021
Holy-Cow Spikes in China-US Container Freight Rates & US Consumer Spending on Goods Trigger Mad, Possibly Illegal Scramble for Empties. US Farmers Twist in the Wind
The freight rates from Asia to the US West Coast and East Coast, and to Europe, have exploded since the stimulus economy kicked in, where consumers shifted spending from services – such as airline tickets, haircuts, and even rents under the eviction bans – to goods, powered by money from the stimulus and from refinancing their mortgages at lower rates.
Friday, January 8, 2021
January 6, 2020, a Day that Will Live in Political Infamy
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/january_6_2020_a_day_that_will_live_in_political_infamy.html#ixzz6izgNaxHv Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook
God and my right--Richard I
"Thus have we defeated the king of France at Gisors; but it is not we who have done the same, but rather God, and our right, by our means; and in so doing, we have put our life in peril, and our kingdom contrary to the advice of all our people."
Worrisome Signs the Capitol Breach was Planned to Discredit Trump Supporters: An Eyewitness Account
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/worrisome_signs_the_capitol_breach_was_planned_to_discredit_trump_supporters_an_eyewitness_account.html#ixzz6iywLBsJX Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook
Thursday, January 7, 2021
Why did the Capitol Police fail to protect the Capitol?
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/why_did_the_capitol_police_fail_to_protect_the_capitol.html#ixzz6itScmYvB Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook
Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose
“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea_for_a_Universal_History_with_a_Cosmopolitan_Purpose
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/kant/universal-history.htm
wahooart.com Reviews
https://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/wahooart.com
Negative highlights
The website's owner is hiding his identity using a paid service
We discovered the website is served from a high risk country
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Did Thomas Jefferson have children with Sally Hemings?
Dr. Foster found that there was a match between the male descendants of Uncle Field Jefferson and those of Sally Heming's youngest son, Eston Hemings. However there was no match between the male descendants of Tom Woodson, Sally Hemings' first-born son. The nephews' heirs also did not match any of the others, and neither did the neighbors' descendants.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/true/primer.html
Eston was born in 1808, having been conceived in 1807, when Thomas was a frail 64-year-old and declining in health. Physically speaking, he was not exactly primed for new fatherhood. Character-wise, it is simply hard to imagine the careful, cerebral and attentive Thomas Jefferson acting in a way that would have brought him immediate shame and dishonor had he been discovered. There is also the morality issue involved. Maintaining a 37-year affair with a house servant would have been preposterously out of character for him.
WHAT ABOUT RANDOLPH?
Another potential father is Randolph Jefferson, Thomas’ much younger and less cerebral brother. Any of his four eldest sons could have been the father. In Memoirs of a Monticello Slave, Thomas Jefferson’s slave Isaac wrote, “old master’s brother, Mass Randall, was a mighty simple man—used to come out among the slaves, play the fiddle and dance half the night.” Furthermore, it is reported that Randolph fathered children by his own slaves and was friendly with white men who kept black mistresses.
There is no similar pattern of behavior recorded for Thomas Jefferson. In 1807, Randolph was 51 years old, in good health, and not married. What’s more, all of Sally Hemings’ children were conceived and born between 1795 and 1808— when Randolph was single. As circumstantial as it is, Sally Hemings had no more known children after Randolph remarried in 1809.
Monday, January 4, 2021
salutare
- The substantive form of the adjective salutare was adopted by St. Jerome as a noun dozens of times throughout the Vulgate Bible to convey the Christian religious concept of salvation in addition to its general meaning of "safety", interchangeable in meaning with the preferred Classical Latin noun salus.
Sean Peterman, 49, killed in farm tractor accident next to Stoney Creek Road in Carlisle, Kentucky
Kentucky State Police are investigating what led up to a deadly farming accident in Nicholas County. Troopers say 49-year-old Sean Peterman was out baling hay by himself, Thursday night, and when he didn't come to home by midnight, his wife called for help. Peterman's body was found in a tractor, along Stoney Creek Road in Carlisle. Troopers say it appears Peterman got off the tractor but didn't turn it off and then somehow got caught up in the machine.
Saturday, January 2, 2021
Reflections on Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Part One: The Long Defeat
“For the Lord of the Galadhrim [Celeborn] is accounted the wisest of the Elves of Middle-Earth, and a giver of gifts beyond the power of kings. He has dwelt in the West since the days of dawn, and I have dwelt with him years uncounted, for ere the fall of Nargothrond or Gondolin I passed over the mountains, and together through ages of the world we have fought the long defeat.”
Friday, January 1, 2021
Is Georgia destroying evidence so it can’t be analyzed?
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/is_georgia_destroying_evidence_so_it_cant_be_analyzed.html#ixzz6iKFm5GGl Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Faceboo
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