On this day:
1807
Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
1862
American Civil War: Major General J.E.B. Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
1862
Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Lakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.
1918
Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
1943
World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany’s V-weapon programme.
1943
World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission.
1943
World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
1950
Hill 303 massacre: American POWs were massacred by North Korean Army.
1970
Venera Program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
1998
Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an “improper physical relationship” with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he “misled people” about the relationship.
2005
Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of Bangladesh
2008
American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games.
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ESPN will not air Spike Lee's docuseries on Colin Kaepernick, citing 'creative differences'
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Marathon Fusion says it has discovered a method for turning mercury into gold.
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They [these leftists] seem to want a regression to the Dark Ages: an unsophisticated economy with no landlords, no insurers, no complex markets. They see complexity in the economy, the reason for which is beyond their comprehension, as parasitic.--Wolfe
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As shallow and grasping as politicians?
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Gospel/CRT and Mothers-in-Law
Christ taught a religion of peace and gentleness, empathy and compassion. But it was disruptive and, as such, wrenching and painful. The spiritual elements are in contrast to the very emotional and material gifts that enable success and advancement in the world. Gifts that allowed the species to evolve. Displacing them requires serious effort because the material is more than natural; it is advantageous.
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Gospel/CRT and Mothers-in-Law
Christ taught a religion of peace and gentleness, empathy and compassion. But it was disruptive and, as such, wrenching and painful. The spiritual elements are in contrast to the very emotional and material gifts that enable success and advancement in the world. Gifts that allowed the species to evolve. Displacing them requires serious effort because the material is more than natural; it is advantageous.
To rise above the material requires the identification of those currents so basic in us, so helpful in our early development, and to substitute Christ's spirituality. And the foundation stone of that old world--that ancient homo sapien, that Old Testament--is identity.
Joining is also a rejecting.
We are a product of our ability to see ourselves in a larger context, as a part of a larger group of people: Family, Friends, Community, Tribe, Nation, and Race. That identification creates opponents and strengthens us against them. What is called "xenophobia" by our moderns was, in history, a lifesaver. And now, in our more crowded world, a killer. Christ urges us to remove the old, restrictive mindset of exclusion and embrace a new Testament of inclusion, universal acceptance for all humanity.
A conflict that begins with the self and spreads out to the self's
intimates. An overwriting of a code that is used as a rallying cry.
In today's Gospel, Christ says how hard that evolution will be:
Jesus said to his disciples:
“I have come to set the earth on fire,
and how I wish it were already blazing!
There is a baptism with which I must be baptized,
and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!
Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth?
No, I tell you, but rather division.
From now on a household of five will be divided,
three against two and two against three;
a father will be divided against his son
and a son against his father,
a mother against her daughter
and a daughter against her mother,
a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
Well, at least the first part of it is working.
In today's Gospel, Christ says how hard that evolution will be:
Jesus said to his disciples:
“I have come to set the earth on fire,
and how I wish it were already blazing!
There is a baptism with which I must be baptized,
and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!
Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth?
No, I tell you, but rather division.
From now on a household of five will be divided,
three against two and two against three;
a father will be divided against his son
and a son against his father,
a mother against her daughter
and a daughter against her mother,
a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
Well, at least the first part of it is working.
1 comment:
The the invasion of Italy was a major mistake in strategy invasion tip of the boot
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