Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Odd dream about a certain school -- first day of school in August, Ms. A was still working there as the secretary even though she retired, and there were a bunch of new teachers. (And a lot of classes had been cut.) The campus was all wrong, I don't know where I got the sense impressions for the one in the dream. The 3rd grade teacher was in the dream too.
More on managing manure
Managing manure to save mankind
Gene Logsdon, Contrary Farmer Blog (Dave Smith, Mulligan Books)
Long-time Ohio farmer Gene Logsdon says human and animal waste, including that from pets, is our greatest and most misunderstood natural resource. He points out that we spend billions to throw it away, and billions more to manufacture synthetic fertilizers. (Radio interview and book excerpt)
(mp3)
His post from this today: Stay home and make some real money (EB).
Gene Logsdon, Contrary Farmer Blog (Dave Smith, Mulligan Books)
Long-time Ohio farmer Gene Logsdon says human and animal waste, including that from pets, is our greatest and most misunderstood natural resource. He points out that we spend billions to throw it away, and billions more to manufacture synthetic fertilizers. (Radio interview and book excerpt)
(mp3)
His post from this today: Stay home and make some real money (EB).
The U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School flickr hasn't had any interesting updates recently...
110517-A-NR754-002
U.S. Army Soldiers attending the Special Forces Qualification Course conduct tactical combat skills training at Fort Bragg, N.C. In the Tactical Combat Skills phase of the course, Soldiers practice advanced marksmanship, mounted operations and Special Forces common tasks, regardless of their specialty. The U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School conduct the SFQC year-round. (Released)
2010 USASOC Sniper Competition
A Special Forces sniper runs through a high-stress event during the 2010 USASOC Sniper Competition at Fort Bragg, N.C.
U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Thaddius Dawkins
110517-A-NR754-002
U.S. Army Soldiers attending the Special Forces Qualification Course conduct tactical combat skills training at Fort Bragg, N.C. In the Tactical Combat Skills phase of the course, Soldiers practice advanced marksmanship, mounted operations and Special Forces common tasks, regardless of their specialty. The U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School conduct the SFQC year-round. (Released)
2010 USASOC Sniper Competition
A Special Forces sniper runs through a high-stress event during the 2010 USASOC Sniper Competition at Fort Bragg, N.C.
U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Thaddius Dawkins
Chant Cafe: The Agony and the Ecstasy: The Fundamental Importance of Liturgical Chant in the Roman Missal and Our Celebration of the Eucharistic Mystery
A plenary lecture to the Church Music Association of America
by Msgr. Andrew Wadsworth
Executive Director of ICEL at Duquesne University,
Pittsburgh, June 14, 2011
A plenary lecture to the Church Music Association of America
by Msgr. Andrew Wadsworth
Executive Director of ICEL at Duquesne University,
Pittsburgh, June 14, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
American Conservative: Alternate History
The right needs a narrative to refute the superstitions of progress.
By William S. Lind and William S. Piper
The right needs a narrative to refute the superstitions of progress.
By William S. Lind and William S. Piper
Peter Kreeft coming ot the Bay Area
So, the University of Sacramento is still in business. Peter Kreeft will be making an appearance there next week. An e-mail from Ignatius Press:
Popular author, philosopher, teacher, and surfer Dr. Peter Kreeft will be in the Bay Area next week. Meanwhile, catch Dr. Kreeft on Catholic radio. He will be interviewed tomorrow, Wednesday, June 15, at 9 AM Pacific Time, by Bob Dunning, host of The Bishop’s Hour on Immaculate Heart Radio, Sacramento. Those in the Bay Area can catch the show on 1620 AM. Or listen online here.
Dr. Kreeft speaks next week at a variety of events. Some are open to the general public; others are for specific membership organizations.
Tuesday, June 21: San Francisco/San Jose chapters of the Catholic business leadership group Legatus. “The Meaning of Suffering” is the topic. For more information, call Paul Blewett at 661-822-8887.
Wednesday, June 22: Napa chapter of Legatus. “Prayer: The Great Conversation”. For more information about Legatus, go here.
Thursday, June 23:
- Easter’s Catholic Bookstore, talk and book signing: 1:30-3:30 PM. 5290 Auburn Blvd., Sacramento. For more information, please call 916-338-7272.
- Sacramento chapter of Legatus. “The Meaning of Suffering”. For more information about Legatus, go here.
Friday, June 24: University of Sacramento, “The Reasonableness of Studying the Faith”. 8 AM-9:30 AM. 4378 Auburn Blvd., Suite 100, Sacramento. Seating limited. RSVP or for more information, please call: 916-480-9525, est. 21. Or email info@universityofsacramento.org.
Items of Interest, 14 June 2011
Donald Livingston, "Decentralization for Freedom" (via Karen De Coster)
Sandro Magister, Pentecost on Mount Athos
Illicit ordinations in China: the Holy See explains what is to be done with excommunicated bishops by Bernardo Cervellera
Armenian Church Leader On Landmark Visit To Georgia
British Army to get new uniforms – turned down by the US and made in China
Meet the farmer next door, by Lauren Reed-Guy
Institute of Urban Homesteading
Farm Curious
Simple Homemade Toys
Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer, Mulligan Books
The toys most of us really remember playing with as children weren’t really toys but things we turned into toys. My earliest recollection is a matchbox of multicolored and multisize rubberbands I played with by the hour when I was about two. I don’t know why they fascinated me only that they did. Even the matchbox was a wonder — the way it slid so neatly open and closed.
I'm including some music with this post:
Rhonda Vincent and The Rage "All American Bluegrass Girl"
Sandro Magister, Pentecost on Mount Athos
Illicit ordinations in China: the Holy See explains what is to be done with excommunicated bishops by Bernardo Cervellera
Armenian Church Leader On Landmark Visit To Georgia
British Army to get new uniforms – turned down by the US and made in China
Meet the farmer next door, by Lauren Reed-Guy
Institute of Urban Homesteading
Farm Curious
Simple Homemade Toys
Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer, Mulligan Books
The toys most of us really remember playing with as children weren’t really toys but things we turned into toys. My earliest recollection is a matchbox of multicolored and multisize rubberbands I played with by the hour when I was about two. I don’t know why they fascinated me only that they did. Even the matchbox was a wonder — the way it slid so neatly open and closed.
I'm including some music with this post:
Rhonda Vincent and The Rage "All American Bluegrass Girl"
Jackie Evancho & Sarah Brightman "Time to Say Goodbye"
I don't watch America's Got Talent, and I didn't follow Jackie Evancho's progress during her season. I still think she started her professional career a bit too early. (But she sounded better than Sarah Brightman...)
I don't watch America's Got Talent, and I didn't follow Jackie Evancho's progress during her season. I still think she started her professional career a bit too early. (But she sounded better than Sarah Brightman...)
Monday, June 13, 2011
Tonight's GOP debate
The sorry lineup:
(L-R) Rick Santorum, former two-term senator from Pennsylvania; Congresswoman Michele Bachmann; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich; former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney; Texas congressman Ron Paul; former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty; entrepreneur Herman Cain pose for a group photo before the first 2012 Republican presidential candidates' debate in Manchester, New Hampshire June 13, 2011. (Getty/Daylife)
The (grand) old plutocrat party. CNN will probably make a video available.There is a preliminary transcript available.
Michele Bachmann used the debate to formally announced that she is running for the office. Despite some enthusiasm from so-called conservatives (she is supposedlymore of a strong, independent, conservative female politician than Sarah Palin), I do not see her as being qualified for the office, and she has one big mark against her. John King labelled the Republicans the conservative party, but he is wrong in his characterization -and while there has been some movement towards a more sane foreign policy, I didn't really hear anything during those two hours to make me think that it was time well spent. Ron Paul still seems too much of an egg-head in his focus on economics and the Fed, and he still hasn't learned how to articulate his positions in a way that is easy to understand for those not versed in Austrian economics. It is no wonder that he may come off as a kook--he is talking above his audience, and is not a very good extemporaneous speaker. (Well, if you can called making prepared remarks during a debate extemporaneous speaking...) And there was too much talk of the free market, from Dr. Paul and from some of the other candidates.
According to his campaign website, Rick Santorum is the true conservative but I cannot recommend him as the model of the Catholic politician. (See his answer about maintaining American bases overseas so that we can respond to threats.)
As I listened to the debate, I was tempted to embrace the notion that we should just accept the transformation of the federation into a unitary nation-state, and seek political solutions accordingly. What is the point, after all, to working for relocalization and local economies if there is nothing to maintain stable communities, and the whole of the American experience and.constitution is working against it. Then I returned to the response: because such governance is ineffective, magnifies the problem, and is unsustainable.
Related:
GOP Hopefuls Assail Obama
Fox News
(L-R) Rick Santorum, former two-term senator from Pennsylvania; Congresswoman Michele Bachmann; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich; former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney; Texas congressman Ron Paul; former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty; entrepreneur Herman Cain pose for a group photo before the first 2012 Republican presidential candidates' debate in Manchester, New Hampshire June 13, 2011. (Getty/Daylife)
The (grand) old plutocrat party. CNN will probably make a video available.There is a preliminary transcript available.
Michele Bachmann used the debate to formally announced that she is running for the office. Despite some enthusiasm from so-called conservatives (she is supposedlymore of a strong, independent, conservative female politician than Sarah Palin), I do not see her as being qualified for the office, and she has one big mark against her. John King labelled the Republicans the conservative party, but he is wrong in his characterization -and while there has been some movement towards a more sane foreign policy, I didn't really hear anything during those two hours to make me think that it was time well spent. Ron Paul still seems too much of an egg-head in his focus on economics and the Fed, and he still hasn't learned how to articulate his positions in a way that is easy to understand for those not versed in Austrian economics. It is no wonder that he may come off as a kook--he is talking above his audience, and is not a very good extemporaneous speaker. (Well, if you can called making prepared remarks during a debate extemporaneous speaking...) And there was too much talk of the free market, from Dr. Paul and from some of the other candidates.
According to his campaign website, Rick Santorum is the true conservative but I cannot recommend him as the model of the Catholic politician. (See his answer about maintaining American bases overseas so that we can respond to threats.)
As I listened to the debate, I was tempted to embrace the notion that we should just accept the transformation of the federation into a unitary nation-state, and seek political solutions accordingly. What is the point, after all, to working for relocalization and local economies if there is nothing to maintain stable communities, and the whole of the American experience and.constitution is working against it. Then I returned to the response: because such governance is ineffective, magnifies the problem, and is unsustainable.
Related:
GOP Hopefuls Assail Obama
Fox News
"The Breath of the Holy Spirit Fills the Universe"
Pope Benedict XVI conducts the holy mass of Pentecost Sunday in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican June 12, 2011. (Reuters/Daylife)
A liberal links feminism to cheap energy
The view from Brittany: Gender Issues
In comparison with the prognostications and recommendations of someone like Sharon Astyk, the author's post is more in tune with the perspective of a traditionalist. But it may also be a bit more inconsistent? Like Astyk, he links contemporary feminism to cheap energy and the destruction of home economies by the industrial system. But he also agrees that feminism has adopted standards of what it means to be a successful woman from the world of men. (Thus, feminism is misogynist.) I think Perrotin admits to more differences between the sexes than Astyk and that in other political economies, sex roles have been founded upon those sex differences, even if they may no longer be "adaptive." He however does not address the question of leadership within a marriage and family, and even maintains that there is a possibility that a "some kind of mother-centered family structure evolves." Is he saying that this has not been attempted before and found to be successful (that is, abiding)?
One does not wish to be crudely reductionistic, as if the respective roles of men and women in intercourse lead to the patterns of psychological dynamics that exist between men and women (though there is some causation). The female yields to the male, and the initiative that the man takes in sex is mirrored in the marital sphere as a whole. Most women would be dissatisfied if the situation were otherwise, and it does explain in part the hypergamy of women, who do look for a male who is better than (or dominates) them.
Ideological feminists who have healthy female desires may nonetheless deny this is so, but if a man is too yielding to her will, she will become dissatisfied with him. What woman is truly satisfied with a man as a tool? Someone who doesn't like men, or looking for complete control in a relationship in order to avoid a repeat of past hurts (childhood problems linked to the father, or poor past relationships).
Assertiveness is not leadership, but some think that all one needs to be a leader is to assert one's will over another.
In comparison with the prognostications and recommendations of someone like Sharon Astyk, the author's post is more in tune with the perspective of a traditionalist. But it may also be a bit more inconsistent? Like Astyk, he links contemporary feminism to cheap energy and the destruction of home economies by the industrial system. But he also agrees that feminism has adopted standards of what it means to be a successful woman from the world of men. (Thus, feminism is misogynist.) I think Perrotin admits to more differences between the sexes than Astyk and that in other political economies, sex roles have been founded upon those sex differences, even if they may no longer be "adaptive." He however does not address the question of leadership within a marriage and family, and even maintains that there is a possibility that a "some kind of mother-centered family structure evolves." Is he saying that this has not been attempted before and found to be successful (that is, abiding)?
One does not wish to be crudely reductionistic, as if the respective roles of men and women in intercourse lead to the patterns of psychological dynamics that exist between men and women (though there is some causation). The female yields to the male, and the initiative that the man takes in sex is mirrored in the marital sphere as a whole. Most women would be dissatisfied if the situation were otherwise, and it does explain in part the hypergamy of women, who do look for a male who is better than (or dominates) them.
Ideological feminists who have healthy female desires may nonetheless deny this is so, but if a man is too yielding to her will, she will become dissatisfied with him. What woman is truly satisfied with a man as a tool? Someone who doesn't like men, or looking for complete control in a relationship in order to avoid a repeat of past hurts (childhood problems linked to the father, or poor past relationships).
Assertiveness is not leadership, but some think that all one needs to be a leader is to assert one's will over another.
Items of Interest, 13 June 2011
Christopher Masterjohn, Mother Nature Obeyed
Understanding Weston Price on Primitive Wisdom — Ancient Doesn’t Cut It
Death to the industrial economy means life for everything else
CNS: Catholic University Issues Report on ‘Sustaining and Promoting’ Catholic Identity
Alamire has added some audio clips to their website.
Gear Scout: BLADE Show Day 2 Report (Day 1)
Military Morons: TAD Force 10 Cargo Pant - NYCO Ripstop (2011)
Strong is the New Skinny (blog)
Pre and Post Workout Eating on Paleo
Understanding Weston Price on Primitive Wisdom — Ancient Doesn’t Cut It
Death to the industrial economy means life for everything else
CNS: Catholic University Issues Report on ‘Sustaining and Promoting’ Catholic Identity
Alamire has added some audio clips to their website.
Gear Scout: BLADE Show Day 2 Report (Day 1)
Military Morons: TAD Force 10 Cargo Pant - NYCO Ripstop (2011)
Strong is the New Skinny (blog)
Pre and Post Workout Eating on Paleo
Foreign Policy: This Week at War: Rise of the Irregulars by Robert Haddick
The U.S. isn’t militarizing intelligence, it’s civilianizing the military.
Faking Success in Afghanistan By GARETH PORTER
90% of Petraeus' Captured "Taliban" Were Civilians
The U.S. isn’t militarizing intelligence, it’s civilianizing the military.
Faking Success in Afghanistan By GARETH PORTER
90% of Petraeus' Captured "Taliban" Were Civilians
2nd South Carolina String Band
Apparently this is the 2nd South Carolina String Band version.
(Other versions of the song: Hoyt Axton and Ry Cooder)
Jine the Cavalry - 2nd South Carolina String Band, 147th Gettysburg
(Other versions of the song: Hoyt Axton and Ry Cooder)
Jine the Cavalry - 2nd South Carolina String Band, 147th Gettysburg
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Dalrock, Chivalry and protecting the weak.
A question more people should be asking - the answer may be rather unpleasant: "Who are my own?"
A question more people should be asking - the answer may be rather unpleasant: "Who are my own?"
Read on FB that Fr. Al Kimel, who used to have the Pontifications blog (the last instantiation), is converting to the Russian Orthodox Church. iirc, he had been looking at the Church Fathers and was researching Catholic-Orthodox controversies (the Filioque?). What is there left to be said of this latest development?
Here are some mp3 files of chant from Valaam(alt).
Here are some mp3 files of chant from Valaam(alt).
No more black berets
The rumors are true: ACU changes make Velcro optional, patrol cap default headgear
Now if they could just get rid of the ACUs.
Now if they could just get rid of the ACUs.
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