Poetry (Bloggers & Personal)
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Famed poem calls America 'heav'n rescued land' Many Americans have a startling lack of knowledge about their own national anthem. Studies in recent years show 90 percent of children could not say what a national anthem was, never mind sing it. Neither could 80 percent of adults sing more than three lines.
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French President Emmnauel Macron in the international spotlight this week with the G7 Summit in Germany quickly followed by the NATO Summit in Spain both efforts to build up a US led international front against both Russia and China. Yellow Vests protesters active on days other than Saturday these signs erected outside a shopping center at a traffic circle just last Wednesday. Yellow Vests protesting inside the circle... One of the signs translating: Lies About Russia + Currency Magic + Digital Identity And Currency = Lethal Dose Today in Paris the Yellow Vests continued to make their presence known...
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The talk of a gasoline tax “holiday” out of Washington DC is pure Kabuki theater. It is purely a sign of the times with Biden still trying to blame Putin for rising gasoline prices and inflation and ignoring his anti-fossil fuel policies that helped drive energy prices AND inflation through the roof. Daily regular gasoline prices have dipped below $5.00 to $4.94 while diesel fuel, the lifeline of the shipping industry, rose slightly to $5.80. I guess the folks shipping food and other goods don’t get a holiday. Note that the implied Fed target rate has fallen a bit as...
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Australia looks to America. Trump and DeSantis are modern heroes. Are Marilyn Monroe and JFK good freedom role models for an up and coming musician?
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The poetic story of the taming of a herd of wild mountain horses lead by "the colt from old Regret" is an iconic piece of Australian heritage made in to the Kirk Douglas movie "The Man From Snowy River". But in the Socialist Left state of Victoria it is possible that these intelligent wild animals are being treated even worse that the human citizens. They are being slaughtered, often left to die horrible deaths alone in the bush where no one can see what is happening. Decent loving country people like Tanya Prior protested this yesterday on the steps of...
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Hearing Hank Williams made Bob Dylan start writing songs. In Hanks recordings, Dylan, as a child, found "the archetype rules of poetic songwriting." Will Hank the First ever get the only ever posthumous Nobel Prize he deserves? That might make a lot more sense than extending the boundaries of the North Atlantic to Moscow's doorstep.
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NASCAR apologized to the LGBTQ community on Wednesday, for so-caled "recent actions" that may not have "alligned" with the auto racing giant's "mission to be a welcoming sport for all." "As we celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, we acknowledge that recent actions have not alligned with NASCAR's mission to be a welcoming sport for all," the statement said. "We remain steadfast in our commitment to create a more inclusive environment – in our workplaces, at the race track & in the stands," the post concludes, along with along with a graphic featuring the so-called "progress" pride flag and a message wishing...
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Image from wikipedia … In April of Twenty -twenty- two the war was underway The Russians had the biggest ship, it had the biggest sayThe Moskva was the biggest ship that sailed the Black SeaOn her masts were air defense, to Crimea was the key. … We'll find the Russian cruiser that's makin' such a mess We gotta sink the Moskva cause Ukraine depends on this Launch the T2 Bayraktar boys and turn the Neptunes on When we find the Moskva we gotta blast her down. … For seven long and weary weeks the pattern became plain Zelensky told Odessa,...
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Image from wikipedia … In April of Twenty -twenty- two the war was underway The Russians had the biggest ship, it had the biggest sayThe Moskva was the biggest ship that sailed the Black SeaOn her masts were air defense, to Crimea was the key. … We'll find the Russian cruiser that's makin' such a mess We gotta sink the Moskva cause Ukraine depends on this Launch the T2 Bayraktar boys and turn the Neptunes on When we find the Moskva we gotta blast her down. … For seven long and weary weeks the pattern became plain Zelensky told Odessa,...
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Bishop David Farrer is a wonderful dialogue partner for me and has introduced me to the poetry of R S Thomas. Apologies because as I make this post I have forgotten the name of the Thomas poem which inspired my epigram.
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Some say it's sad that the flowers wither. I say it's a good thing. Flowers are a kind of reminder, a timer for our love. By the time they fade it's a reminder it's time to say "I love you" again.
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For freedom of speech to thrive we must cherish and renew the great words of a wide range of cultural heroes. And if freedom of speech does not survive no freedoms will survive. The most common form of racism I encounter in real life is the assumption that racism is white prejudice against non whites. I think racism is not a white sin. All races have the right to love their own and be proud of their own. And all races can slip into being unfair to other races. All of us are human and none of us now are...
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In Christianity and Culture, T.S. Eliot wrote of liberalism: . . . it is something that tends to release energy rather than accumulate it, to relax, rather than to fortify. It is a movement not so much defined by its end, as by its starting point; away from, rather than towards, something definite. Our point of departure is more real to us than our destination; and the destination is likely to present a very different picture when arrived at, from the vaguer image formed in imagination. By destroying traditional social habits of the people, by dissolving their natural collective consciousness...
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Well, Powell and The Fed Gang failed to tackle inflation with its 25 basis point increase in their target rate. The result? Inflation is still roaring and REAL Treasury yields remain NEGATIVE (nominal Treasury yields – inflation). In fact, the US Treasury 10-year yield hovering around 0% when Biden first became President, then the inflation kraken was unleashed leading to progressively declining 10-year Treasury yields. As on late night, the REAL 10-year Treasury yield is -5.71%. REAL mortgage rates (Bankrate 30Y rate – inflation) were positive at the beginning of the Biden Administration, but have sunk to -3.40%. With negative...
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Well, at least markets recovered yesterday (Dow up 500 points this AM) from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But now on to other news. US pending home sales fell -9.07% YoY as mortgage interest rates began rising. The University of Michigan Buying Conditions for housing fell to 71 as mortgage rates increase.
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E Pluribus Unum worked in the past but now multiculturalism has turned it around on itself, so that many voices out of one (Plures Ex Uno) are a Babel of sins destroying The West. A conservative reformation is the path I see to save us. Harnessing the inherently good faiths values of more than one culture to oppose stupidity and reassert true human life in God, family and community.
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Between the Biden Administration, Anthony Fauci and the media constantly screaming about the devastating effects of Omicron, I would have expected massive job cuts and a large spike in jobless claims. But alas, the numbers and charts tell a different story. Today, we saw that the Challenger job cuts for January fell further to 76%. Initial jobless claims fell to 236k. And The Federal Reserve is still hyper-stimulating the economy. After listening to Biden spokesperson Jen Psaki preparing us for an end-of-times job report, I was expecting today’s news dump to be terrible. But alas, it just looks like another...
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Since the 2020 Covid outbreak, the top 1% have been on the Stimulypto gravy train. The top 1% in terms of share of total net worth (blue line) is near the all-time high while the bottom 50% share of total net worth (red line) is at the all-time low. So, you thought all that Covid relief spending along with Fed monetary stimulus would help the bottom 50%?
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Forty-six years ago today, on November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank with the loss of its entire crew. We'll remember the ship and the 29 men who perished with Gordon Lightfoot's moving tribute at 10:15am and 8:15pm on 87.7FM.
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