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CHINA The Chinese Communists’ Attack on America: First “The Pledge” Now “The Turn” Next “The Prestige” (Remember those folks getting off the planes from China and going around licking handles and railings? Imagine what came out of China in aerosol cans.)
Of The Skeleton Flower and 50 other miracles Horatio: O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! Hamlet: And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
woke The Ancient Prophecies of "Kids in the Hall" STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me 'Loretta'. REG: What?! LORETTA: It's my right as a man.
The Ancient Prophecies of "My Dinner with Andre" Listening to it I found that My Dinner had accurately described, forty years ago, much of the degraded culture we must either exist within or glide to the side of these days.
Strange Daze Strange Daze Stranger The white man was wearing shorts, shorts that ended high up on his legs and had no pockets. Underpants. “Where is his head?” “Fin-tsjem aotepetsj ara,” they said. ”It hangs in the house of Fin. And it looked so small, like the head of a child.”
Paradise Over the River and Through the Woods ( After the fire of 2018) Patches of brindle crop up here and there but it is mostly a scene of black dank earth. It goes on over the low hills and higher ridges and then out of sight. It seems limitless. It smells of the pit.
The First Thanksgiving -- Good Thing or Bad Thing? Gather 'round to hear the story of THE FIRST THANKSGIVING, featuring Squanto, William Bradford, Thomas Dermer, Samoset, Massasoit, the Puritans, Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and much, much, more!
AMERICA Thanksgiving’s First Rifle: The Mayflower Wheel-lock Carbine (Yes, we've been in America for that long. And yes, my mother's mother was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.) Ralph Wheelock most likely used one of these name-sake carbines.
EVIL Evil Daze: You've not escaped. You are simply at liberty for the moment. Prepare accordingly. Spiteful Mutants | Soy Bugman @ FTX | Slapping Macron Silly | Islamic Maniacs | Obama's Fake Noose | Jerry Nadler's Pants | The Coming Tribulation | College Shitholes | Knives to Gunfights = Mag Dump | New Gnostics | Lets go back in time.
God On Advent The pulses in the silicon chips that hold and control the fire that slices up and beyond the sky. And the systems and wires and waves that bring these thoughts from my fingertips to your eyes now.
BEAUTY Birches by Robert Frost But I was going to say when Truth broke in / With all her matter-of-fact about the ice-storm / I should prefer to have some boy bend them / As he went out and in to fetch the cows—
ART Great Ideas of Western Man: We really did have some nice ideals. In 1946 he and Elizabeth began attending Mortimer Alder and Robert Hutchins’ now-famous Great Books discussion group (the so-called Fat Man’s group) and found that studying the classics was the antidote for “the feverish rainbow-chasing and disillusionment characteristic of American life today.”
TWITTER 134 Million Votes: Trump Returned to Twitter via Vote The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.