"In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world, all rests on perseverance."- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In Greek and English nepenthe and pathos are opposites. Greek nēpenthḗs is an adjective meaning “banishing pain, without sorrow.” Nēpenthḗs breaks down to the (unusual) negative prefix nē- (ultimately from the same Proto-Indo-European source as English un-), the stem penth- of the noun pénthos “pain,” and the adjective suffix -ḗs, -és. The Greek nouns pénthos and páthos “sensation, suffering” are derivatives of the complicated verb páschein, all three words showing variants of the Greek root penth-, ponth-, path- “to suffer, experience.” Nepenthe entered English in the 16th century.
The poet and editor William Cullen Bryant has appeared in references recently as he, at the age of thirteen, wrote a long poem called "The Embargo" critical of Jefferson's excise tax. (It might be applied to the current Trump misadventure.) He--Bryant--was also a nephew of Charity Bryant, a Vermont seamstress who is the subject of Rachel Hope Cleves's 2014 book Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America. William Cullen Bryant described their relationship: "If I were permitted to draw the veil of private life, I would briefly give you the singular, and to me interesting, story of two maiden ladies who dwell in this valley. I would tell you how, in their youthful days, they took each other as companions for life, and how this union, no less sacred to them than the tie of marriage, has subsisted, in uninterrupted harmony, for more than forty years." Charity and Sylvia Drake are buried together at Weybridge Hill Cemetery, Weybridge, Vermont.
Women working 35-39 hours per week last year earned 107% of men’s earnings for those weekly hours. 7% gender earnings gap in favor of female workers for that cohort. Gender discrimination against men in the labor market for employees working 35-39 hours per week? That is, to be consistent shouldn’t the claim here be that “certain jobs pay less because they are held by men”?
Geronimo on Christianity:
There are interesting editorials popping up on immigration in Europe. The argument is that resistance is a symptom of nationalism, present especially in Poland and Germany. The old guard believes that the possible transformation of values arising from immigration is insignificant. The new elite believe that the transformation of values is the point. It is a time not merely of disagreement but of deep, mutual contempt. And an angry assessment by Applebaum: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ---or maybe not.
University of Chicago and New York University professor Richard Epstein says the Constitution’s architecture — separation of powers, checks and balances, federalism, guarantees of individual rights — implies a “presumption of error”: The architecture intentionally slows the political process because government interventions in society’s spontaneous order are presumptively of dubious legitimacy because government is presumed to be not disinterested but serving factional interests, or its own.
Others might call it the "presumption of abuse" or the "presumption of rapacity."
What is...Mercantilism?
Abigail Shrier writing in the Wall Street Journal (“The Transgender Language War: California threatens to jail health workers who refuse to use ‘preferred’ pronouns.”):
To the extent that the transgender movement seeks to promote compassion for those who struggle with their biological sex, we should be grateful for it. To the extent that it seeks to regulate others’ perspectives—commanding them to ignore biology and obey the dictates of new, state-mandated perception—we should resist it as an incursion into our most sacred liberties.
[H]yperabstraction, far removed from reality, beguiles the intellectual mind; its theoretical products can easily serve as nostrums for all sorts of social ills; and its consequences can be catastrophic for mankind, as is abundantly evident from the attempt to implement the thought of Rousseau and Marx in the past two centuries. --Sally
The head of Genocide Watch, Dr. Gregory Stanton in 2012 conducted a study in South Africa and came to an incredible conclusion: “There is a coordinated campaign of genocide being conducted against white farmers.” Many of the Whites surrendered their guns when the African National Congress (ANC) government passed gun laws to confiscate the farmers’ weapons.
Genocide Watch said, “Disarmament of a targeted group is one of the surest early warning signs of future genocidal killings.” The South African government currently estimates there are 31 murders per 100,000 people per year, which comes out to about 50 per day. Outside groups suggest that it is double that! No one knows for sure because the ANC banned crime statistics from being accumulated, analyzed, and admitted because they scare off foreign investment and drive people out of the country. Does anyone blame people for their concern and fear?
President Zuma in 2012 was caught on tape singing,
“We are going to shoot them with the machine gun, they are going to run/You are a Boer, we are going to hit them, and you are going to run/shoot the Boer.”
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In Greek and English nepenthe and pathos are opposites. Greek nēpenthḗs is an adjective meaning “banishing pain, without sorrow.” Nēpenthḗs breaks down to the (unusual) negative prefix nē- (ultimately from the same Proto-Indo-European source as English un-), the stem penth- of the noun pénthos “pain,” and the adjective suffix -ḗs, -és. The Greek nouns pénthos and páthos “sensation, suffering” are derivatives of the complicated verb páschein, all three words showing variants of the Greek root penth-, ponth-, path- “to suffer, experience.” Nepenthe entered English in the 16th century.
The poet and editor William Cullen Bryant has appeared in references recently as he, at the age of thirteen, wrote a long poem called "The Embargo" critical of Jefferson's excise tax. (It might be applied to the current Trump misadventure.) He--Bryant--was also a nephew of Charity Bryant, a Vermont seamstress who is the subject of Rachel Hope Cleves's 2014 book Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America. William Cullen Bryant described their relationship: "If I were permitted to draw the veil of private life, I would briefly give you the singular, and to me interesting, story of two maiden ladies who dwell in this valley. I would tell you how, in their youthful days, they took each other as companions for life, and how this union, no less sacred to them than the tie of marriage, has subsisted, in uninterrupted harmony, for more than forty years." Charity and Sylvia Drake are buried together at Weybridge Hill Cemetery, Weybridge, Vermont.
Women working 35-39 hours per week last year earned 107% of men’s earnings for those weekly hours. 7% gender earnings gap in favor of female workers for that cohort. Gender discrimination against men in the labor market for employees working 35-39 hours per week? That is, to be consistent shouldn’t the claim here be that “certain jobs pay less because they are held by men”?
Geronimo on Christianity:
Rowing seems to be a growing thing, especially among women. One woman was trying to interest a friend in the sport but the friend rejected it with some indignation, calling it "cultural appropriation." Of slaves? Warrior clans? Ancient Greeks and Persians? The righteous have an unplumbable well of outrage. Such a mind will always be unhappy and cannot be satisfied. Theirs is a life of constant discontent--mostly with others. The likely source of progressivism's relentless whack-a-mole policies.
Somehow I signed up for the beta program for Outlook. Has just been driving me nuts.
The behavior of the IRS and FBI has got to worry sensible citizens. If these agencies can not remain impartial there is no system that can survive. You wonder what they are thinking. Perhaps they are hopeful little bureaucrats dreaming of heroism. Remember the leaks about Richard Jewell?
The World Cup was very exciting, even for a football pagan like me. There is a foolishness with world class athletes writhing on the ground as if the bumps and bruises of the game are life threatening. And the crowd at the Columbian game was 70% Columbian; how did they get there? Drug money? And what was the terrible tinnitus noise-maker they used all the time?
But, with our sudden self-consciousness about nationalism, are national teams out-dated anyway?
In an interview discussing capitalism and socialism, an interesting notion came up. It was suggested that the optimum ratio of debt to GDP was about 60%. The Americans have a ratio of about 75%; the Chinese ratio is 250%. Stability with that kind of debt seems possible only with the most stringent of controls. A free people would attack that distortion economically with shorts and the like and cause all sorts of disruption. But a controlled society is limited; it would not have--or allow--the feedback of a free marketplace. But that does not mean the cracks won't develop, they'll just develop later.
Mercantilism is an economic policy of nations which emphasizes the nation's economic success as measured by its accumulation of wealth. Think Spain looting the Americas. It's nature is that it sees itself as a player in a zero sum game where trade is not equal and one side wins, the other loses. This requires certain internal changes. Regulations must increase, national conflicts are heightened, freedoms must be limited.. Innovations must be filtered by leaders. Adam Smith was an early critic, saying that wealth in free trade was greater and was egalitarian. And these policies seem to fail; if they were good, how could Spain not dominate? But the required internal changes are interesting. So is China a mercantilist state? Does Trump want us to be?
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2017/03/malfi.html
One of the distinctions between America and Europe: Thieves in Italy stole 270 wheels of cheese "with a street value of 300 thousand dollars."
Don't worry. They are still objective:
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, which greenlighted the study, undermined its own scientific integrity by soliciting and accepting alcohol industry funding to study the health ‘benefits’ of alcohol,” according to public health scientist Michael Siegel of Boston University.
The U.N. is trying to come to the rescue of the U.S.. Their new report says this: "The United States…has the highest youth poverty rate in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)… The consequences of neglecting poverty… The United States has one of the highest poverty…levels among the OECD countries… the shockingly high number of children living in poverty in the United States demands urgent attention. …About 20 per cent of children live in relative income poverty, compared to the OECD average of 13 per cent." So the U.N.'s U.S. poverty rate among children is higher than that of Mexico, Greece, and Turkey? Really?
But the U.N.'s definition of child poverty doesn’t actually measure child poverty. Instead, the bureaucrats at the OECD have put together a measure of income distribution and decided that “relative poverty” exists for anyone who has less than 50 percent of the median level of disposable income of that country. In other words, the United States looks bad only because its median income is very high compared to other nations. So the Americans are criticized for their success.
Mercantilism is an economic policy of nations which emphasizes the nation's economic success as measured by its accumulation of wealth. Think Spain looting the Americas. It's nature is that it sees itself as a player in a zero sum game where trade is not equal and one side wins, the other loses. This requires certain internal changes. Regulations must increase, national conflicts are heightened, freedoms must be limited.. Innovations must be filtered by leaders. Adam Smith was an early critic, saying that wealth in free trade was greater and was egalitarian. And these policies seem to fail; if they were good, how could Spain not dominate? But the required internal changes are interesting. So is China a mercantilist state? Does Trump want us to be?
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2017/03/malfi.html
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One of the distinctions between America and Europe: Thieves in Italy stole 270 wheels of cheese "with a street value of 300 thousand dollars."
Don't worry. They are still objective:
The National Institutes of Health will shut down a controversial industry-funded study of moderate drinking and heart disease after a task force found severe ethical and scientific lapses in the study’s planning and execution, the agency’s director said Friday.
The way NIH officials secured funding for the research “casts doubt” on whether “the scientific knowledge gained from the study would be actionable or believable,” according to the task force’s scathing presentation to NIH officials.
The group examining the Moderate Alcohol and Cardiovascular Health (MACH) Trial also found that, starting in 2013, “there was early and frequent engagement” between NIH officials and the alcohol industry that appeared to be “an attempt to persuade industry to support the project. Several members of NIAAA staff kept key facts hidden from other institute staff members.”
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, which greenlighted the study, undermined its own scientific integrity by soliciting and accepting alcohol industry funding to study the health ‘benefits’ of alcohol,” according to public health scientist Michael Siegel of Boston University.
The U.N. is trying to come to the rescue of the U.S.. Their new report says this: "The United States…has the highest youth poverty rate in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)… The consequences of neglecting poverty… The United States has one of the highest poverty…levels among the OECD countries… the shockingly high number of children living in poverty in the United States demands urgent attention. …About 20 per cent of children live in relative income poverty, compared to the OECD average of 13 per cent." So the U.N.'s U.S. poverty rate among children is higher than that of Mexico, Greece, and Turkey? Really?
But the U.N.'s definition of child poverty doesn’t actually measure child poverty. Instead, the bureaucrats at the OECD have put together a measure of income distribution and decided that “relative poverty” exists for anyone who has less than 50 percent of the median level of disposable income of that country. In other words, the United States looks bad only because its median income is very high compared to other nations. So the Americans are criticized for their success.
Bishop De Landa, a Franciscan monk and conquistador during the Spanish conquest of Yucatán, wrote: "We found a large number of books in these characters and, as they contained nothing in which were not to be seen as superstition and lies of the devil, we burned them all, which they (the Maya) regretted to an amazing degree, and which caused them much affliction."
Aaaaannnnnndddddd….a cartoon:
from Pat Cross.
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