Tuesday, August 29, 2023

1679: Habeas Corpus Act

 https://oll.libertyfund.org/page/1679-habeas-corpus-act

Fast Food in Food Inc

 at 39:00

https://www.lawndalehs.org/apps/video/watch.jsp?v=50533

Rights of aliens in Kent

Even alien enemies, resident in the country, may sue and be sued as in time of peace, for protection to their persons and property is due, and implied from the permission to them to remain, without being ordered out of the country by the President of the United States. The lawful residence does, pro hac vice, relieve the alien from the character of an enemy, and entitles his person and property to protection.60 The effect of war upon the rights of aliens we need not here discuss, as it has been already considered in a former part of this course of lectures, when treating of the law of nations.61


https://lonang.com/library/reference/kent-commentaries-american-law/kent-25/

Monsters Song by Dave Matthews Band

 https://genius.com/Dave-matthews-band-monsters-lyrics

Sweetened Drinks Are Linked to Chronic Liver Disease and Liver Cancer

 It is widely known that consuming sweetened drinks can contribute to obesity and insulin resistance. A recent prospective cohort study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has further revealed detrimental health effects linked to sweetened drinks, particularly concerning liver disease. The study showed that individuals who regularly consume sweetened drinks face an astonishing 85 percent higher likelihood of developing liver cancer and a 68 percent higher risk of mortality from chronic liver disease than those who consume fewer sweetened drinks.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/sweetened-drinks-are-linked-to-chronic-liver-disease-and-liver-cancer-5469537?utm_source=Health&src_src=Health&utm_campaign=health-2023-08-29&src_cmp=health-2023-08-29&utm_medium=email&est=s5g05PTO2pJLNNt5tB7qjDHfweG04UQBDlX3gQt5g7lej3J0ENgnNOUKEKbg

Monday, August 28, 2023

The Virginia Declaration of Rights

 Section 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/virginia-declaration-of-rights

Esolen movies

Ian Anderson Setlist at Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown, NY, USA

 https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/ian-anderson/2002/tarrytown-music-hall-tarrytown-ny-43d3a747.html

Friday, August 25, 2023

Alan Hovhaness - Prayer of St. Gregory, Op. 62b (1946)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHHD1juEaAQ

The “Mappa Mundi”: the Unique Latin Immersion Program at Wyoming Catholic

 https://onepeterfive.com/wyoming-catholic-college-latin-language/?fbclid=IwAR0qUzqsxXnqNXL0NZFQoRUlEkzT5BAxcBTGe-EUC5F4cR2qFgk58eHX_NM

St Bellarmine Collection Antichrist Purgatory Church Militant

 https://archive.org/details/st-bellarmine-collection-antichrist-purgatory-church-militant/page/n9/mode/2up

The Great Tragedy.

 “Before Luther defected from the Catholic Church, nearly the whole West was of the same faith and religion, and in whatever direction a man might go, he would always find his brethren. All were then in light.

But after the fall of Luther, such a smoke of errors, sects, and schisms rose out that now even in the same province, nay more, in the same city or even house, one does not recognize another.”
St. Robert Bellarmine, “Antichrist” (Ch. 23)

He Was Tom Verlaine Patti Smith remembers her friend, who possessed the child’s gift of transforming a drop of water into a poem that somehow begat music.

 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/13/he-was-tom-verlaine

Faculty Free Speech Loses in the Fourth Circuit NC State’s legal victory over a conservative professor bodes poorly for freedom of expression on campus.

 https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2023/08/faculty-free-speech-loses-in-the-fourth-circuit/

Newspaper Publisher Gannett Sued for Discrimination Against White Employees

 https://amgreatness.com/2023/08/25/newspaper-publisher-gannett-sued-for-discrimination-against-white-employees/

Monday, August 21, 2023

What the Word Torah Means

 The noun torah is rendered in a causative conjugation, which is just a way of saying that it literally means to cause something (or someone) to move straight and true.

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/what-does-the-word-torah-mean/

Sunday, August 13, 2023

Pythagoras: sinfulness of eating beans


Cicero related a theory that beans had been forbidden because they disturbed the mind, but also indicated some skepticism:

Now Plato’s advice to us is to set out for the land of dreams with bodies so prepared that no error or confusion may assail the soul. For this reason, it is thought, the Pythagoreans were forbidden to indulge in beans; for that food produces great flatulence and induces a condition at war with a soul in search of truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (c. 44 BCE). On Divination 1.62. Translated by William Armistead Falconer (1923). Perseus Digital Library.

 https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/43992/pythagoras-sinfulness-of-eating-beans

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Happiness in Kant

 The problem of determining surely and universally which action would promote the happiness of a rational being is completely insoluble.”


https://aporia.byu.edu/pdfs/hughes-the_role_of_happiness_in_kants_ethics.pdf

https://www.amazon.com/Metaphysical-Principles-Virtue-Metaphysics-Morals/dp/B00262TVHS

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

George Orwell

 For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then? ~George Orwell