A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.--deTocqueville
Amazing Derby. The best horse loses. Bad for the event.
Ned was at a Hackathon this weekend.
Housebound with Marathon.
Renya's daughter's wedding today. AA project.
Sort of an amazing baseball game last night.
I watched the new Predator movie. They actually made one of the scariest ideas, silly.
Nearly two-thirds of registered voters polled by news site, The Hill, and market research company, Harris-X, said they would support a plan to make public colleges tuition-free and cancel most existing student loans. The tenets of the plan were presented to voters without Warren’s name attached.
So, Socialism fails because the idea doesn't work, Democracy fails because the people won't.
The Labor Department’s closely watched monthly employment report on Friday showed the greater-than-expected 263,000 new jobs created last month were spread across most industry sectors, and the unemployment rate was just 3.6%, the lowest since December 1969.
Although many factors contributed to its [Great Britain’s] decline as an economic power in the 20th century, surely part of the blame goes to workers and owners who hid their desire for protection behind demands for retaliation. The U.S. should learn from Britain’s experience and reject the seductive calls for a level playing field and fair trade. The gain to American consumers and to the efficiency of the U.S. economy are reasons enough for following an open-trade policy – even when other countries do not. --The Beckers
Ilhan Omar, who has previously criticized American intervention in other countries, argued this week that the United States was partly to blame for the devastation in Venezuela, prompting this from Hinderaker:
On this day in 1961, Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule, became the first American astronaut to travel into space.
Among the Manicheans
The week before His passion, Jesus came to Bethany, the hometown of Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead, and Christ had dinner there. One can only imagine the excitement, Christ and Lazarus together. Interestingly, the Jews stalking Him were not eyeing only Christ, they were eyeing Lazarus, with plans of killing maybe both of them.
"There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? " (John 12:5)
And, also, should we rebuild the Notre Dame Cathedral at all? Why should any money go to desert and not to the poor? Indeed, who should be allowed anything but the bare essentials? This in philosophical circles is a classic "False Dilemma," a complex problem with arbitrary and unreasonably limited solutions, like "America, love it or leave it." But in the Notre Dame instance, that is not the case. The question is actually that simple to the questioner. Because the question is being asked by a fanatic, someone for whom nuance is immoral. Someone whose moral conscience is binary. It is an intellectual shortcut--in such an instance here, probably a short circuit. It allows someone opposed to illegal immigration to be called, without questioning, nativist. Or racist. The large, rich choices of life are reduced to simple bite-sized morsels.
The author of the passage is sly about Judas; his question is insincere. But Christ actually responds to this proposal in a disturbing way. He sounds world-weary, a little impatient with us and our stupidity:
"This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein. Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always."
The symbolism--or irony--of using Mary's burial ointment is dwarfed by Christ's insistence on focusing upon the spiritual and not circumstance. Even to His death.
Amazing Derby. The best horse loses. Bad for the event.
Ned was at a Hackathon this weekend.
Housebound with Marathon.
Renya's daughter's wedding today. AA project.
Sort of an amazing baseball game last night.
I watched the new Predator movie. They actually made one of the scariest ideas, silly.
Nearly two-thirds of registered voters polled by news site, The Hill, and market research company, Harris-X, said they would support a plan to make public colleges tuition-free and cancel most existing student loans. The tenets of the plan were presented to voters without Warren’s name attached.
So, Socialism fails because the idea doesn't work, Democracy fails because the people won't.
The Labor Department’s closely watched monthly employment report on Friday showed the greater-than-expected 263,000 new jobs created last month were spread across most industry sectors, and the unemployment rate was just 3.6%, the lowest since December 1969.
Although many factors contributed to its [Great Britain’s] decline as an economic power in the 20th century, surely part of the blame goes to workers and owners who hid their desire for protection behind demands for retaliation. The U.S. should learn from Britain’s experience and reject the seductive calls for a level playing field and fair trade. The gain to American consumers and to the efficiency of the U.S. economy are reasons enough for following an open-trade policy – even when other countries do not. --The Beckers
Ilhan Omar, who has previously criticized American intervention in other countries, argued this week that the United States was partly to blame for the devastation in Venezuela, prompting this from Hinderaker:
"Venezuelans were hunting rats to fry for dinner long before President Trump took office. Not because of foreign “imperialism,” but because socialism is an evil system that enriches a few at the top while enslaving, and impoverishing, everyone else. Is Ilhan Omar really too dim to understand this? Yes, I think she may be. She is an immodest person of modest talents. She knows nothing of economics, nothing of history. One might expect that being rescued from a refugee camp in Kenya and brought to the U.S., where she was housed, fed, educated and given unparalleled opportunities, would make her pro-America. But in today’s Democratic Party, anti-Americanism is the ticket to power. And Ilhan Omar is riding that train as far as it will take her."
On this day in 1961, Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule, became the first American astronaut to travel into space.
Among the Manicheans
The week before His passion, Jesus came to Bethany, the hometown of Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead, and Christ had dinner there. One can only imagine the excitement, Christ and Lazarus together. Interestingly, the Jews stalking Him were not eyeing only Christ, they were eyeing Lazarus, with plans of killing maybe both of them.
"There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? " (John 12:5)
And, also, should we rebuild the Notre Dame Cathedral at all? Why should any money go to desert and not to the poor? Indeed, who should be allowed anything but the bare essentials? This in philosophical circles is a classic "False Dilemma," a complex problem with arbitrary and unreasonably limited solutions, like "America, love it or leave it." But in the Notre Dame instance, that is not the case. The question is actually that simple to the questioner. Because the question is being asked by a fanatic, someone for whom nuance is immoral. Someone whose moral conscience is binary. It is an intellectual shortcut--in such an instance here, probably a short circuit. It allows someone opposed to illegal immigration to be called, without questioning, nativist. Or racist. The large, rich choices of life are reduced to simple bite-sized morsels.
The author of the passage is sly about Judas; his question is insincere. But Christ actually responds to this proposal in a disturbing way. He sounds world-weary, a little impatient with us and our stupidity:
"This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein. Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always."
The symbolism--or irony--of using Mary's burial ointment is dwarfed by Christ's insistence on focusing upon the spiritual and not circumstance. Even to His death.
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