Delighted, in fact. What a bailout!
The world will see through this spin. A British commentator in the Telegraph on Monday called this “the worst day for U.S. and wider Western diplomacy since records began,” and that’s only a mild exaggeration. A weak and inconstant U.S. President has been maneuvered by America’s enemies into claiming that a defeat for his Syria policy is really a triumph.
Now you see it, now you don’t. Democrat politics at its best.
Screed:
Jim Jarmusch’s “Dead Man” — a Homeric makeover — had the potential of a good, even great movie. But in it he fell to the siren point-making (heavily) and instead made an anti-white, anti-Western screed, even planting factoids such as shooting of buffalo from train windows.
For my Homeric makeovers, I’ll take “Brother, where art thou?” if you don’t mind.
As in travels-of framework, of course.
A serious foreign-policy intellectual said recently that Putins problem is that hes a Russian leader in search of a Nixon, a U.S. president he can really negotiate with, a stone player who can talk grand strategy and the needs of his nation, someone with whom he can thrash it through and work it out. Instead he has Obama, a self-besotted charismatic who cant tell the difference between showbiz and strategy, and who enjoys unburdening himself of moral insights to his peers.
Woe is us that it’s come to this. Especially the morality bit, the last refuge of scoundrels. (Apologies to the shade of S. Johnson)
One of a series about how the RC mass is reconstituted by free-lancing priest-celebrants.
Item:
May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands
for the praise and glory of his name,
for our good
and the good of all his holy Church. . . .
. . . is commonly changed to “our hands” and “glory of God’s name,” which never in my hearing has been explained to the congregation, simply done, over and over until the people do it that way too. Sheeple?
The second is easily explained. It’s to reduce the number of MASCULINE pronouns, apparently to lessen the masculinity of the worship experience. The first is much more pernicious, in that it changes the meaning, which is to refer to the holy sacrifice which is revisited, re-enacted in a mass — Jesus’ on the cross of course. Why the heck downplay that? Pfuey!
School board president Robert Spatz sounded a cautionary note in the exchange with complaining parents, again in an email to a list on which I have been included. After detailing some of the costs and complexities of a district-wide air-conditioning install, he added this about a “disconnect” between parents have been relating about their children’s extreme discomfort and worse and what the district is hearing:
Last, but certainly not least, as [Supt.] Dr. [Albert] Roberts mentioned in his message, there is clearly a disconnect between the information we are receiving from our buildings about heat-related illnesses and what you have been sharing with us this week.
We do plan to investigate this so we can get to the bottom of the discrepancy. However, what will be helpful for us is if you can please let your childs school know if he/she comes home with what you believe to be a…
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Things are heating up (per email, expanded by editor):
No School on Sept. 10 for Non-Air-Conditioned Schools
Reported by 204-enews@ipsd.org on 9/9/13
In looking at the weather forecast and the continued high temperatures expected for tomorrow, district administrators have decided to cancel classes at the 20 schools without air-conditioning on Tuesday, September 10. Staff members will report to work in all district buildings. . . . .
Per the announcement linked above, 20 Naperville schools without air conditioning will be closed tomorrow. In addition, District 204 has formed a “Heat Plan Committee”, and the district also has a heat plan with guidelines for early dismissal and school closure.
Heat Plan for Non-Air-Conditioned Buildings
The district monitors internal/room temperatures in non-air-conditioned schools throughout hot days. When the temperature exceeds the recommended guidelines of safety, which is when the Effective Temperature calculation (ET) reaches 85 degrees, we recommend the following early dismissal…
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This from the latest of a series of concerned, even indignant emails about non-air-conditioned Oak Park classrooms:
Dear Mr. Spatz [District 97 board president],
Since you have been included on this email chain, I trust that you will ensure that the Board allocates time at tomorrow night’s meeting for parents and other concerned parties to be heard on the issue of heat emergencies and the district’s plan to address same (including but not limited to both short and long-term solutions like air conditioning).
As noted in [parent] Laura Garcia’s email, that issue does not appear on the Board’s published agenda but clearly it is an issue of great and immediate importance to your constituent families, seeing as we are in the midst of yet another heat emergency this week, with temperatures projected to reach and perhaps exceed 95 degrees tomorrow.
Thank you.
Tracey Truesdale
The meeting is set for 7…
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War is not to be led by those of weak character.
I wouldn’t trust either of them [Obama or H. Clinton] to mow my lawn, let alone command the American military.
That’s about the size of it.
A bit tangled, in my non-maven’s view, but interesting.
Blithe Spirit 