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  • SEEING IT THROUGH LIKE HAMLET COULDN’T – LONG LIVE AUSSIE RULES

    05/05/2025 12:50:36 AM PDT · by Ozguy1945 · 6 replies
    https://footy4freedom.com/ ^ | 5th April 2025 | Ozguy1945
    For people like me, the Australia I was born into, was a meritocracy where one wage could get a family a home. Times have changed. The forty hour week is gone for far too many people. But endeavour still inspires me. Youth brings me hope. As in my above poeticised image from a Maribyrnong Park Football Club match last Saturday. Today we need them to be lions. Reminds me of Shakespeare: “To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms...
  • Paul Revere’s Ride

    04/18/2025 5:22:52 AM PDT · by DFG · 28 replies
    Poets.org ^ | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five: Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, “If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,— One if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country-folk to be up...
  • Peter At The Last Supper - The Guilt Of His Betrayal Of His Own Best Self

    04/17/2025 5:18:30 PM PDT · by Ozguy1945 · 12 replies
    https://waysofbeingchristian.com/ ^ | 17th April, 2025, American time | Ozguy1945
    Peter, an individual, betrayed Jesus, by denying knowing him three times, and thereby betrayed the group of individuals to which he belonged. His own conscience troubled Peter very deeply. Waltzing Matilda, often called Australia’s unofficial national anthem, is also about betrayal. But it is the betrayal of the human rights of an individual denied his basic right to food by an unjust society. The swaggy is driven to suicide, whereas Peter recovers to become the rock upon which the Christian church was built. For me the fusion of these two different types of betrayal is very beautiful. Perhaps a strange...
  • Yes, the College Bubble Will Deflate

    04/16/2025 5:59:28 AM PDT · by karpov · 13 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | April 16, 2025 | George Leef
    For the entire existence of the James G. Martin Center, we have been arguing that, due to governmental policies, higher education has been badly oversold. That is, many students have been lured into college even though they have little interest in or aptitude for advanced academic studies. The notion that a college degree was a sure-fire investment that would pay off handsomely after graduation was erroneous, but great numbers of students and their families were taken in by that siren song. Moreover, a stigma somehow attached to students who didn’t go to college—if you had to “settle” for working after...
  • Help in Finding Forgotten, Dystopian Science Fiction Book

    03/31/2025 3:18:06 PM PDT · by marktwain · 42 replies
    vanity | Marktwain
    I need help in finding a forgotten science fiction book. I can describe the plot, but have forgotten the title and author. The plot is in a future where people in rural areas live in fortified homes and are suspicious of anyone they do not know. There is significant overpopulation. Gas vehicles are frowned upon and/or forbidden in urban areas. Vehicles which exceed the speed limit on the interstate are simply machine-gunned because stopping them has become too dangerous. However, the Supreme Court has ruled there is a privacy right as part of the Second Amendment, and the government has...
  • Vanity *Free Book on Amazon* A Night that Saved Virginia

    03/16/2025 7:17:09 AM PDT · by Don@VB · 31 replies
    Lyle Wesley ^ | November 2023 | Lyle Wesley
    I'm having a promotion for a book I wrote and published (under pen name Lyle Wesley) on Amazon. The title is A Night that Saved Virginia. It is historical fiction based on a true event; a British attempt to capture Thomas Jefferson at Monticello when he was Governor of Virginia. The E-Book version is free on Amazon until March 18th. The Amazon link is https://a.co/d/4mDuwJF. Best Regards and Happy Sunday!
  • AI reveals which reading method is best

    03/10/2025 4:13:40 PM PDT · by BruceDeitrickPrice · 32 replies
    Renew America ^ | March 10, 2025 | Bruce Deitrick Price
    Here's the starting point for this article. For almost 100 years the Education Establishment has maneuvered, plotted, and schemed to eliminate phonics, and to make American children memorize sight-words. The pitch has always been sweeping: phonics can’t possibly work for a complex language like English, and sight-words are the only way to go. Teachers, students, and parents have been bullied relentlessly to embrace what phonics experts (such as Rudolf Flesch) assume is a fraud and a nonstarter. How does the ordinary citizen deal with this? Well, it's been rough because the professors at Harvard, etc. do not play games. They're...
  • The Joy Of Motherhood - Indonesia To Lead The World ?

    03/06/2025 9:09:14 PM PST · by Ozguy1945 · 3 replies
    https://kartiniisme.com/ ^ | 6th March, 2025, American time | Ozguy1945
    Raden Ajeng Kartini was a first wave feminist and is a national hero in Indonesia. The pillars of her feminism were: A. Family. This included deep love and respect for her father and husband. B. What women are as mothers. C. Education where teachers strive to be like mothers to their students. D. Pride in her own people and culture. If only modern feminists could be more Kartiniist. I believe that is what a true fourth wave of feminism needs to aim for: nomore misandry and no more marginalisation of mums. Like Kartini when she wrote with pride of having...
  • Help College Students Read

    02/26/2025 4:05:36 AM PST · by karpov · 17 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | February 26, 2025 | F. Andrew Wolf, Jr.
    Gone are the days when reading a book was the preferred means to knowledge, replaced by the rapid consumption of digital media and the allure of screen-based entertainment. This phenomenon is growing in America, and it is pronounced among our youth. One consequence is that we appear to be reading less these days, and while our attention span does not (yet) rival that of the much-maligned goldfish (eight seconds), it is getting discernibly shorter. First, is this thinking true? And, second, do our technological gadgets predispose us to this phenomenon? Are we sacrificing something important, turning from books to bots?...
  • James Bond Shocker: Amazon MGM Gains Creative Control of 007 Franchise as Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson Step Back

    02/20/2025 11:02:25 AM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 80 replies
    Variety ^ | February 20, 2025 | Alex Ritman
    Amazon MGM Studios is set to take creative control of the James Bond franchise. The shock announcement — which is sure to shake and, indeed, stir the industry — was made Thursday, alongside the news that long-time producers and custodians of 007, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, would be stepping back. As per details of the historic agreement, Amazon MGM Studios, Wilson and Broccoli have formed a new joint venture to house the James Bond intellectual property rights. The three parties will remain co-owners of the iconic franchise but Amazon MGM will have creative control. “Since his theatrical introduction...
  • New Lawsuit Challenges The Owners Of James Bond For The Use Of Character's Name & 007

    02/17/2025 12:47:32 PM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 21 replies
    Screenrant ^ | February 17, 2025 | Bella Garcia
    According to The Guardian, the owners of the James Bond franchise are facing a copyright lawsuit barring the use of the titular name and codename "007." A Dubai-based property developer, Josef Kleindienst, has filed lawsuits in the UK and EU challenging the James Bond trademark, arguing that Danjaq and Eon have not commercially exploited it across various goods and services for over five years. The claims target multiple versions of the Bond name, including "James Bond 007" and "Bond, James Bond." What The James Bond Lawsuit Means For The Franchise The Legal Battle That Could Reshape 007’s Future The legal...
  • The Three Investigators books are back in print!

    01/20/2025 2:41:51 PM PST · by grundle · 14 replies
    Wordpress ^ | January 20, 2025 | Dan from Squirrel Hill
    The Three Investigators is a series of children’s mystery novels that many members of Generation X, including myself, grew up with. They’ve been out of print in the U.S. for decades. But now, all 10 of the books that were written by series creator Robert Arthur are back in print, in paperback.
  • Star Trek: Deleted Scene - Who Mourns For Adonais? - Lt. Carolyn Palomas Is Pregnant With Apollo's Child

    12/31/2024 4:30:16 PM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 26 replies
    Mega Star Trek on YouTube ^ | December 30, 2024 | Mego Star Trek
    Star Trek: Deleted Scene - Who Mourns For Adonais? - Lt. Carolyn Palomas Is Pregnant With Apollo's Child. In this deleted scene from Star Trek (The Original Series - TOS), from the episode, "Who Mourns For Adonais?", on the Enterprise bridge, this scene was voiced by the Script Director, with Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) giving facial expressions, as responses. Dr. McCoy says that Lt. Carolyn Palomas is pregnant, with Apollo's child. Captain Kirk responds with, "What?" McCoy continues that he has a question for Spock's computer: Will the child be man or god? This is reminiscent of Genesis, Chapter 6...
  • Propaganda Exposed. Review of 'The Massacre That Never Was' by Eliezer Tauber. [Deir Yassin]

    11/20/2024 4:38:41 AM PST · by Words Matter · 7 replies
    Commentary Magazine ^ | Mar 2022 | Seth Mandel
    In April 1948, Deir Yassin was an Arab village of about a thousand residents. It was captured then by Jewish forces seeking to break the siege of Jerusalem during the war for Israel’s independence. Most of the fighting was done by the underground soldiers of the Irgun and Lehi, with assistance from the Haganah, the official fighting force of the Jewish establishment. A truck-mounted loudspeaker blaring a warning for residents to flee the village fell into a trench that had been dug by villagers. The result was a bloody house-to-house battle with a high death toll. That much everyone agrees...
  • How Academic Elites Are Undoing Centuries of Progress

    11/13/2024 3:56:10 AM PST · by karpov · 12 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | November 13, 2024 | George Leef
    Professor John Ellis has been a critic of our higher-education system for many years. His book The Breakdown of Higher Education (which I reviewed here) masterfully analyzed the perverse trends that were (and still are) causing our colleges and universities to deliver much less educational value at much higher cost. His latest book, A Short History of Relations Between Peoples, is not primarily about higher education, but Martin Center readers will find it important because Ellis indicts our academic elites for their role in undoing centuries of progress and turning humanity back towards tribalism. The main goal of this book...
  • Do We Need to Abolish Grading?

    10/07/2024 3:26:21 AM PDT · by karpov · 92 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | October 2, 2024 | George Leef
    Many generations of young Americans have learned in school under the grading system. We took tests in subjects and would find out how well we had done when the instructor returned them, often with red marks to show where we’d made mistakes. The instructor would go over the tests, often spending extra time on the questions that had given students the most trouble. Then we would move on to new material, followed by another test. At the end of the class, we’d receive an overall grade to indicate how well we had done—an A for excellent work, a B for...
  • VIDEO: Jeff Bezos Fiancé's Book Published And Then This Happens...

    09/21/2024 7:55:27 AM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 22 replies
    Rumble ^ | September 21, 2024 | DUmmie FUnnies
    VIDEOImagine that you write a book to prove to the world that you are not just some dumb gold-digger bimbo and then THIS happens..... And don't forget to read the next book from world renowned author Lauren Sanchez: "The Bimbo Who Flew Into a Rage."
  • Reagan (2024 Movie)

    09/04/2024 9:30:49 AM PDT · by xoxox · 11 replies
    The Cinch Review ^ | September 4, 2024 | Sean Curnyn
    Yours truly is rarely to be found at the multiplex, but I guess it was spiritually impossible for me not to go see the new Reagan film, given that Bob Dylan recorded a special tune for it (Cole Porter’s “Don’t Fence Me In”). It’s conceivable I would have gone out to see it anyway, but more likely would have waited to check it out some time in the future in the quiet and comfort of home.
  • “Several Bombshells” – Far-Left Author Bob Woodward to Drop ‘October Surprise’ on Kamala Harris and Joe Biden

    08/17/2024 7:36:35 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 56 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | August 17, 2024 | Cristina Laila
    Bob Woodward, a far-left author and Washington Post editor, is set to drop an ‘October surprise’ on Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. Far-left author Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will drop several bombshells on October 15. Per RealClearInvestigations reporter Paul Sperry: OCTOBER SURPRISE: A source close to Bob Woodward says his forthcoming book, “War,” about the Biden-Harris administration’s inner workings will “not be kind to Biden or Kamala” and will drop several bombshells on Oct. 15 when Simon & Schuster releases the tome … developing … Simon and Schuster called Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book ‘War,’...
  • Harvard’s Former President Responds to Attacks on Elite Colleges

    08/04/2024 3:26:45 PM PDT · by karpov · 28 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | July 31, 2024 | George Leef
    Derek Bok has served as president of Harvard twice, from 1971 to 1991 and again from 2006-07. He has written much about higher education and is by no means a reflexive defender of the status quo—see, for example, his The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges, which I reviewed here. Bok’s latest book is Attacking the Elites: What Critics Get Wrong—and Right—About America’s Leading Universities. He explains that his motivation for it was the absence of response from our “elite” higher-education institutions to the surge in criticism from both sides of our political divide. As his subtitle suggests, he thinks that...