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quid pro quo

5/31/2023

Apparently, quid pro quo payments to the Biden family center on Romania, Ukraine, and China. Quid pro quo - this for that, this policy change for that amount of money.

Twitter dropped out of the EU voluntary code to combat disinformation. Romania is part of the EU, Ukraine has the status of candidate for membership in the EU, and, well, we all know about China pocketing money.

Democratic dictators sit on some EU seats.

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penicillin

5/31/2023

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https://www.acs.org/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/flemingpenicillin.html

Pictured below is a chapel in the hospital most notable for being penicillin’s origin, 1928. Alexander Fleming’s research leading to antibiotics greatly reduced the number of deaths from infection. Large-scale development of penicillin was undertaken in the USA during World War II.

Royals born there might think the chapel is generic. No, there is a tabernacle, communion rail, red sanctuary lamp, stations of the cross, monastic choir stalls, and candle holders.

Chapel of St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London
photo date 6 January 2015, 14:49:12; author Timothy Titus
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary_Paddington_Chapel.JPG

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a-p-o-s-t-a-t-e

5/31/2023

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“Or is my way of practicing the faith stuck stubbornly to doctrines, the letter, which are just expressions that are sometimes cold.” —Pope Francis 5-28-2023

He is referring to Catholics who are of a traditional mind: we accept the Catechism and go to church. Hahaha. We are the only target of his hatred.

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” The parental rebuke does not apply in this case or in any other case where Francis has expressed skillfully-written rage at ‘trads.’

I’m teaching my student how to infer, both from what he reads and from interactions he has with others.

Inference: Francis doesn’t accept doctrines.

Compare Robert Southwell heroism. I cast myself not as Robert, nor is my role the same that Francis has. I’ve not been elected to leadership requiring language that is sober, from Latin sobrius, meaning “not drunk,” and from that can be inferred “temperate, moderate, sensible.”

The radical left is eating itself alive, but not in the Catholic Church. Obey!

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southwellian

5/31/2023

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Robert Southwell (1561-1595), the first entry for yesterday, was not involved in the Douay-Rheims translation but went to seminary at Douai.

“In 1576, he was sent to the English College at Douai, boarding there but studying at the Jesuit College of Anchin, a French college associated, like the English College, with the University of Douai. He studied briefly under Leonard Lessius.

“At the end of the summer, however, his education was interrupted by the movement of French and Spanish forces. For greater safety Southwell was sent to Paris and studied at the College de Clermont under the tutelage of the Jesuit Thomas Darbyshire.

“He returned to Douai on 15 June 1577.”

The desire to enter the Society of Jesus was thwarted.

“He bemoans the situation, writing, ‘How can I but wast in anguish and agony that find myself disjoined from that company, severed from that Society, disunited from that body wherein lyeth all my life my love my whole hart and affection’” (Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu, Anglia 14, fol. 80, under date 1578).

He got in, was ordained, and returned to England in secret. In 1592, he was arrested while saying Mass and sent to prison. For the three-hour journey to Tyburn, he was tied to a hurdle and dragged through the streets to the gallows.

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latin vowels

5/30/2023

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This is classical pronunciation, not ecclesiastical. After listening, you will know English speakers’ gain. The macron is used in the 1962 Latin/English Missal despite the fact that the classical period was over, which means the Douay-Rheims translators (1582 and 1609-10) decided to keep it. The DR is the product of Catholic scholars who left England for France to escape death under Elizabeth I4X (for axe).

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i like my gas stove

5/30/2023

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I put this in the Comedy category. Where else does it go? One commenter on YouTube said, “The movie Idiocracy is now officially non-fiction.” Summary from IMDb on the movie: “Corporal Joe Bauers, a decisively average American, is selected as a guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program but is forgotten, awakening to a future so incredibly moronic he’s easily the most intelligent person alive.” The clip is funny.

If you like good science, join Quora. I just read an answer to this question: “If a gamma ray burst hit Jupiter, will [would] Jupiter lose its gaseous layer and leave only the core?” I’m not telling you the answer.

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spelling

5/30/2023

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“A News-monger is a Retailer of Rumour, that takes up upon Trust, and sells as cheap as he buys. He deals in a perishable Commodity, that will not keep: for if it be not fresh it lies upon his Hands, and will yield nothing. True or false is all one to him; for Novelty being the Grace of bothe, a Truth grows stale as soon as a Lye...”
— Characters

Samuel Butler (d. 1680) was an English poet and satirist.

Sam Johnson standardized spelling in Dictionary of the English Language (1755).

Next Butler quote:
“The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.”

Mark Twain considered his best work to be the novel, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896). “I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing. The others needed no preparation and got none.” That means Joan followed spelling rules.

In 2023, ought spelling be in the curriculum? Dogs don’t care.

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federalism

5/30/2023

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“The problem we’re having today is, so many things are being decided from Washington, D.C., and that naturally makes us hate each other, because half of us are going to be mad at any given time, roughly,” [Mark] Meckler said. “And so, if you go back to federalism, I think we can keep the country together.”

“We take off a lot of the heat, cool a lot of the pressure, out of the system by just saying New York’s New York, California’s California, and the conservative states are whatever they want to be,” he explained.

“Federalism is a combined and compound mode of government that combines a general government with regional governments in a single political system, dividing the powers between the two.” Wikipedia

The ad provided by Parler is posted to educate and to illustrate federalism. Not an endorsement. My vote is a secret.

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quixotic

5/30/2023

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quixotic adjective

exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical
extravagantly chivalrous, absurdly romantic, striving for an unattainable or impractical ideal

The word comes from the novel, Don Quixote. He is the romantic, impractical hero of Cervantes’ 1605/1615 satirical novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha (in English translation by 1620).

As a type attempting the impossible or holding visionary but impossible ideals, it is in English from the 1670s.

His name literally means “thigh” and also “a cuisse”, which is a piece of armor for the thigh.

The word in Modern Spanish is quijote and derives from Latin coxa meaning hip.

It is alleged that quixotic is one of the most beautiful words in the English language. It combines the beautiful sounds of q, x, and k.

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pipeline approval

5/30/2023

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“The 94% complete, billion-dollar Mountain Valley Pipeline, an unexpected addition which was green lighted, has been mired in a lengthy permitting process for years.

“It was immediately cheered by West Virginia lawmakers who have long touted the project’s expected economic benefits.

“The pipeline is projected to create 2,500 construction jobs, $40 million in new tax revenue for West Virginia, $10 million in new tax revenue for Virginia and up to $250 million in royalties for West Virginia landowners.”

https://patriotmomdigest.com/republicans-secure-massive-mountain-valley-gas-pipeline-approval-in-debt-ceiling-deal/

Must be approved by Congress.

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scorn not the least

5/30/2023

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tolkien/lewis

5/29/2023

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“Eucatastrophe” A word is invented. See entries on 5/8/2023. At age four, after the death of his loved dog Jacksie, Lewis adopted the name and became “Jack” evermore. I know almost on sight, but not quite, that a Catholic has had the fleeting glimpse. Some words might need exchanging, and then I know for sure, an immortal binding.

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gifted child

5/29/2023

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The way to tutor a gifted child is to enter into his or her world. For more than two years, Alexander has been employed to tutor me on this subject, and he has been very patient.

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rand paul speaks

5/29/2023

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Rand Paul, MD, the careful, giant Jupiter …and the small, brown Pluto

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who?

5/29/2023

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“…The Democrat party is basically a corporatist party made up of fascist white ladies, perverts, child abusers, big business, millionaires, billionaires, joyless schoolteachers, student loan deadbeats, useless public union employees, Satanists, along with the lazy, neurotic, mentally ill, and addicted,” he wrote.

“The Republican party is now made up of normal people—the working class, families, the mentally stable, small business owners, and people who don’t want Democrats having sex with their kids…,” he said.

Who wrote? Who said?

Begging your pardon, but if you can’t laugh at this, you’re a neurotic.

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turbo

5/29/2023

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Tourbillon
Part of speech noun; origin French, 15th century; definition 1. Any part of a machine with a spiral movement, or 2. A whirlwind.

Turbine
Part of speech noun; origin French, attested 1838; definition “waterwheel driven by the impact or reaction of a flowing stream of water.”

Turbō
Part of speech noun; origin Latin; definition “spinning top, eddy, whirlwind, that which whirls.”

Originally applied to a wheel spinning on a vertical axis driven by falling water, later of mechanisms driven by the flow of air, and still later, “turbo” in reference to gas turbine engines is attested from 1904.

There’s the Fibonacci spiral again.

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zephirum/zero/0

5/29/2023

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Noun
zephirum

(Medieval Latin, mathematics) zero
- 1202, Leonardo Fibonacci, Liber Abaci, Chapter I.:
  Cum his itaque novem figuris, et cum hoc signo 0, quod arabice zephirum appellatur, scribitur quilibet numerus, [...]
  With these nine figures, and with this sign 0, which is called zero in Arabic, any number can be written, […]

Leonardo is famous for the Fibonacci Sequence, which is pictured in geometric form above and in arithmetic form below.

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55 … The next number is found by adding up the two numbers before it.

Word Sense Dictionary, Math is Fun, Wikipedia, and Quora helped me affix Latin to English to math, my favorite subjects. What comes next is unbelievable.

Add asongscout of YouTube and Patreon.

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hg

5/29/2023

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It is no accident that the symbol of peace is the symbol of the Holy Ghost. Yesterday, He alighted on 120, A.D. 33. They included Mary, the Magdalen, and the Twelve Apostles, Matthias having replaced Judas. Another symbol: tongues of fire. Speaking in tongues is understanding other human languages, like Latin, not gobbled goo.

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chez nous

5/29/2023

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with us

You must come to a Latin Mass church to meet the girls and boys. The girls are in a class by themselves and include those beyond my years. Their sanctity has won the respect of the beast called man.

771: Construction begins.

1194: Fire destroys the framework and leaves only the crypt and part of the western façade intact.

1260: New structure is re-consecrated in the presence of King St. Louis IX.

1594: Henry IV is crowned.

1789: Revolutionaries seize the property and forbid Catholic worship.

1805: Rehabilitation begins.

2009: Restoration starts with a budget of $18.5 million. The Monuments Historiques division of the French Ministry of Culture embarks on a mission to clean the interior and exterior, protect stained glass with a coating, and paint inside masonry creamy-white with trompe-l'œil marbling and gilded detailing to achieve a 13th-century look.

Wikipedia assist on detail

This is an example of trompe-l’œil and is titled, Escaping the Criticism,
by Pere Borrell del Caso (1835-1910), residing at the Bank of Spain headquarters.

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cullors dumped

5/29/2023

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“Warner Bros Television Group secretly ended a multi-platform deal with Patrisse Cullors [Marxist], the former leader of Black Lives Matter, The Post has learned.

“The Post can reveal no shows were produced under the deal, despite Cullors saying she planned dramas, comedies, documentary series and animated programming for children.”

https://nypost.com/2023/05/26/black-lives-matter-leader-patrisse-cullors-secretly-dumped-from-tv-deal/

Looks like we are making progress. Let’s keep it up.

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Latin isaac newton

5/28/2023

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Corpus omne perseverare in statu suo quiescendi vel movendi uniformiter in directum, nisi quatenus a viribus impressis cogitur statum illum mutare.

“Every body preserves its state of rest or uniform movement in a straight line unless forced to change that state by forces impressed upon it.”

Isaac Newton (b. 1643, d. 1727)

Before 1700, scientific publications were primarily written in Latin.

In 1687, Sir Isaac Newton wrote his book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, explaining the laws of motion and gravity, in Latin.

Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Title page of Principia, first edition (1687)
Author Sir Isaac Newton
Publication date 1687 (1st ed.)
Published in English 1728
LC Class QA803 .A53

The first English translation appeared the year after he died. Does that mean everyone was reading Latin?

At King Edward VI Grammar School, Shakespeare (d. 1616) learned to read Latin, and his familiarity with the drama of Plautus appears in The Comedy of Errors, which shows that Shakespeare could read it when he wanted to. There is no evidence to suggest he could read Greek.

Okay, what more evidence do you need to be convinced that Latin is primum?

In addition to the Principia, the British Library has many ancient documents, such as the Letters of Cyprian, three fragments from St. Cyprian’s epistles in uncial script, part of a Latin Codex from Carthage, North Africa, late 300s AD.

I’ve been to the British Museum but not the British Library, which might be your next destination for originals...viewing, not stealing them.

Photo: Painting by Godfrey Kneller, via Wikimedia Commons//Getty Images

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little tribute

5/28/2023

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If I could use my hands, I would play Field and record it as a little tribute to Rupert Brooke and a high school friend, a violinist who was educated in Catholic schools and at Yale, when I could not sit with him for the great distance between us at his death in Paris. As I do for my parents and brother, I pray for my friend, when I remember to, which is another reason to be Catholic, because I want to see him again and express the world’s regret for crushing him, and my lack.

17, last time I saw him, not forgotten

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victoria spartz

5/28/2023

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Xi Van Fleet spoke yesterday.
Let’s hear from another lady born under communism.

Spartz, née Kulheyko, R-IN, born Nosivka, Chernihiv Oblast, USSR, now Ukraine; BSc/MBA Kyiv National Economic University; USA citizen 2006; Master of Accountancy, Indiana University – Purdue.

BlackRock is an American multi-national investment company, the largest, their assets $9.74 trillion, and our debts $31.46 trillion.

The U.S. Supreme backs her up this year again. “The Idaho couple, who acquired the parcel of land in 2004, was told that they could not begin construction because their property included wetlands that were federally protected. The EPA warned them that they had to relinquish the property and restore it to its natural state or face fines of $40,000 per day.”

https://americandigest.com/supreme-court-finds-that-epa-conducted-an-unlawful-shakedown-and-abused-powers-granted-by-the-clean-water-act/?

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the soldier

5/28/2023

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Rupert Brooke, described as ‘the handsomest young man in England’ by W. B. Yeats, “sailed with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on 28 February 1915 but developed a severe gastroenteritis whilst stationed in Egypt followed by streptococcal sepsis from an infected mosquito bite.

“French surgeons carried out two operations to drain the abscess, but he died of septicemia at 4:46 pm on 23 April 1915, on the French hospital ship Duguay-Trouin, moored in a bay off the Greek island of Skyros in the Aegean Sea, while on his way to the landings at Gallipoli.

“As the expeditionary force had orders to depart immediately, Brooke was buried at 11 pm in an olive grove on Skyros. The site was chosen by his close friend, William Denis Browne, who wrote of Brooke’s death:

“‘I sat with Rupert. At 4 o’clock he became weaker, and at 4:46 he died, with the sun shining all round his cabin, and the cool sea breeze blowing through the door and the shaded windows. No one could have wished for a quieter or a calmer end than in that lovely bay, shielded by the mountains and fragrant with sage and thyme.’”

Education
Rugby School and King’s College, Cambridge (fellow)
Age 27

Wikipedia

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Mary’s Son

If you stop to find out what your wages will be
And how they will clothe and feed you,
Willie, my son, don't you go on the Sea,
   For the Sea will never need you.

If you ask for the reason of every command,
   And argue with people about you,
Willie, my son, don't you go on the Land,
For the Land will do better without you.

If you stop to consider the work you have done
   And to boast what your labour is worth,
Angels may come for you, Willie, my son,
   But you’ll never be wanted on Earth!

Kipling

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a very english brotherhood

5/27/2023

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As a child of the 50s and even the 60s, I can attest to this: a society strictly bound by rules of etiquette and behavior produces children who are free. Outside of home and school we were free to do what we wanted, unsupervised, and ran until dinner tolled and order was restored, until the next day at about 3, and all day on weekends, outside of team sports, but I think my sisters felt the way his cousin did.

To give some typical example, we lived about 10 blocks from Willie Mays in San Francisco. Hoping to see him outside, I rode my bicycle by his house frequently, and one day I was riding with my sister and another boy and said, “Why don’t we ring his doorbell and see if he is home?”

I rang the doorbell, and his maid answered. I asked, “Can we see Willie Mays?” She said, “I’m so sorry. He’s not home.” I knew she was telling the truth because I could see the entire foyer and the stairs leading to the second floor. He could hear us and would have come to the door and greeted three little kids.

My mother’s response to the untold escapade would have been, “That’s nice. If you’re hungry, you can have a piece of bread. Dinner’s at 6.”

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