Blog Archives - ROBERT E DUNN

AAU sued by Jan Yanehiro

6/30/2023

Because she is 75, we know that she is receiving retirement income from social security and Academy of Art University profit-sharing. Her net worth is estimated to be between $3 million and $15 million.

I worked there from 2008 to 2016 and saw her weekly and talked to her briefly as my duties and school vehicle took me everywhere. She is suing for wrongful termination, claiming racial discrimination, of course.

She wants a chunk of AAU for herself. I hope she loses this lawsuit for her disloyalty to a school that treated her well.

https://sfstandard.com/education/alleging-racism-high-profile-tv-host-sues-sf-art-school-for-retaliation/

france riots

6/30/2023

disgraced

I post his commentary because the elites are morally bankrupt
and cannot say what ordinary, law-abiding people think.

nurse shark

6/30/2023

Nurse sharks do not behave like professional nurses.

Last summer an eight-year-old boy from Great Britain was bitten in the Bahamas, and in April a 30-year-old nurse, Carmen Canovas Cervello, was bitten in the Maldives. Touted as harmless to swimmers and snorkelers, nurse sharks are animals to avoid. The Florida Museum of Natural History maintains an international shark attack file.

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/#:~:text=The%20International%20Shark%20Attack,early%201500s%20to%20the%20present

photo courtesy of a-z-animals.com

carmen polo

6/30/2023

Franco’s wife, María del Carmen Polo y Martínez-Valdés, 1st Lady of Meirás,
The Most Excellent, Grandee of Spain, b. 1900, d. 1988, age 87

Photographer Vicente Martin 1926-2016; title “Visita de Francisco Franco y su esposa, Carmen Polo, en un acto religioso en la iglesia de Santa María”; date 1941; black and white negative, dry plate, Nitrocellulose film
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Visita_de_Francisco_Franco_y_su_esposa,_Carmen_Polo,_en_un_acto_religioso_en_la_iglesia_de_Santa_Mar%C3%ADa_(5_de_6)_-_Fondo_Car-Kutxa_Fototeka.jpg

“In her final years, Polo rarely left her house, hearing Mass at home. She isolated herself completely, ignoring (and being ignored by) the press and refusing to read anything about politics or about her husband. She explained, ‘It is necessary to have much Christian resignation, in light of the turmoils of my life.’”
Wikipedia.com

in media res

6/30/2023

In media res

The Latin phrase, now part of everyday English, “in media res,” means “in the middle of things,” and is a literary device that describes a story that begins in the middle of the action/plot. Novels, films, and video games do this. Think middle.

Flashback

A flashback, sometimes called analepsis or backstory, is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story often to recount crucial events that happened before the primary sequence of events, sometimes a character’s involuntary but powerful, recurring memory. Think back.

The two terms are different.

drawing courtesy of thewritepractice.com

apostles

6/29/2023

Did you know St. Paul was a tent maker?

Professions before chosen:
Peter, Andrew, James, John - fishermen
Matthew - wealthy tax collector, after chosen might have helped finance Jesus
Simon - political zealot, after chosen ended that

Unknown professions:
Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Thaddeus, James the Lesser (son of Alphaeus)
Judas - after chosen, served as treasurer, then embezzler

fr evan schwab fssp

6/29/2023

Today I went to Mass said by Father Evan Schwab, native of Washington State, our new priest at St. Stephen Sacramento, CA, first assignment. He gave his first blessing. He blessed each person, and each person kissed his hands, which lasted over one hour, the line was so long.

biden 68 times

6/29/2023

Australia is watching this man.

Joe can’t write a speech or deliver one.
He called the Indian Prime Minister the Prime Minister of China.

IRS agents said that by means of a search warrant they obtained WhatsApp messages from Hunter Biden’s iCloud account. Some people have perquisites, otherwise known as perks, a special right or privilege as a result of position. The White House scrubbed Hunter’s visits from visitor logs.

sydney march

6/29/2023

race-based admissions

6/29/2023

Victory! US Supreme Court says that race may not be a factor in college admissions.

fbi warning smart devices

6/28/2023

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said that the television in her DC home turned on by itself and the screen showed someone’s laptop trying to connect to the TV. She referred to a CBS report, which is now three years old (below). You might want to stop browsing on your phone and carry a rosary instead.

dividing square roots

6/28/2023

The problem looks simple, but the lesson readies a middle school student for algebra and is placed in the blog because John reviews must-know, pre-Algebra definitions. I have entered several of John’s videos into the blog because this is the ideal way to teach or tutor, unlike the vile teacher in the post, UK Teacher Recorded 6/24/2023.

You can divide the square root of 30 into 10 parts. It will be an approximation, but it's good enough.

napoleon and Pius VII

6/27/2023

Pope Francis let Communist China appoint bishops. When will that be overturned?

stika forced to resign

6/27/2023

Bishop Stika of Knoxville, TN, was forced to resign. It goes beyond the allegations. It goes to where he lives and who resides or resided in his household. It was the laity and priests who demanded he resign. I won’t go any further.
Any excuse for a grammar lesson...
farther, further
Use farther to express distance; use further to express the meaning of more, in addition, to a greater degree.

We walked farther today than we did yesterday.
We must discuss this matter further before reaching a decision.

My grammar book is Webster's New World English Grammar Handbook, 2nd Ed., 2009

chaburah to latin mass

6/27/2023

Time permitting, view a one-hour journey from Christ to Constantine, quotes from esteemed figures, and scopic documentation, enough to make a lasting impression.

defamation

6/27/2023

great white sharks

6/27/2023

“Great white sharks may have helped drive megalodons to distinction. Analyzing shark teeth hints that the two ocean hunters may have competed for food.”

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/great-white-sharks-megalodon-food-competition-extinction

We need to elect more great white sharks to drive human megalodons farther and farther away. Below is a megalodon munching on intelligent mammals.

artist: Corey Ford (COREY FORD/STOCKTREK IMAGES/SCIENCE SOURCE)

fauci georgetown

6/27/2023

Jesuit Georgetown University Tuition $60,000
Fauci, 82, was appointed ‘distinguished’ professor, Georgetown University Medical Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, on June 27, 2023, effective July 1.
“Fauci, who was pulling a salary of over $400,000 a year while working for the federal government, told Georgetown that while he ‘could do more experiments in the lab and have my lab going,’ he felt that he would be better suited to serve as an ‘inspiration to the younger generation of students.’ It is unclear if Georgetown will be matching the compensation Fauci enjoyed as a public servant.”
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/fauci-snags-prestigious-professorship-despite-pandemic-era-blunders/
No wonder tuition is so high.
Hire good teachers at career start or mid-career instead of enriching the rich.
“Dr. Anthony Fauci and his wife’s net worth grew by $5 million during the COVID-19 pandemic as thousands of US residents struggled financially, according to a government spending watchdog group.”
https://nypost.com/2022/09/29/fauci-and-wifes-wealth-skyrocketed-by-5m-during-pandemic-analysis/

ted lieu

6/26/2023

FAIL
Does this Jesuit school grad have fangs, or is he a mouse?

The inland or western taipan, Oxyuranus microlepidotus, is the most venomous snake in the world, according to Britannica. An Australian native, the snake has the deadliest venom based on LD50 tests on mice, median lethal dose.

kaiser california sued

6/26/2023

Meanwhile, back in California, while the state collapses into anarchy and Kaiser is sued for giving a 13-year-old a double mastectomy, the state legislature is hell-bent to do more.

AB 1432 “would require all California insurance policies to cover ‘abortion, abortion-related services,’ and ‘gender-affirming care,’ including sterilizing cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers for minors.

AB 571 “would increase the number of doctors who can offer abortion and gender-affirming care in California by ensuring that providers in the state can obtain professional liability insurance without facing discrimination based on their provision of these services.”

https://www.californiafamily.org/2023/06/ca-doctors-get-sued-for-giving-a-13-year-old-a-double-mastectomy/?mc_cid=f098b7417a&mc_eid=64bf5de992

If you click on AB 571, you will see the list of supporters, which includes groups from outside California. How does one categorize lunacy? Comedy.

Biden wire/phone

6/26/2023

Listen until you get to the elevator. Before its door closes, Pelosi reveals what I have been saying all along. Abortion is the trick wire. Walmart sells a magic trick wire for under $10, which is a lot cheaper than a bribe. This post found a home in Comedy. Why? The other blog categories said no, and bribing them would cost me too much.

A burner phone is a cheap, prepaid mobile phone that one can destroy or discard when no longer needed. Only people with extreme needs for privacy or a desire to evade law enforcement are likely to use burners, then destroy them after one call.

time machine belgium

6/26/2023

The time machine sought by the sane, even in California, takes us back to January 5, 1964. I know the difficulty young people have imagining the world as I knew it, and what was wrought not long after this television appearance. Sister Luc Gabriel, OP, was born in 1933. Her producer: Philips Records. Location: Fichermont, Belgium.

Mother Prior mentions traditional life and being nearer to God and human troubles because of it.

old navy

6/26/2023

Old Navy, founded in San Francisco on March 11, 1994, will close its flagship store in downtown this summer, joining other fleers: T-Mobile, Amazon Go, Whole Foods, and Nordstrom. Old Navy said shoplifters were hitting the store 12-14 times a day.

SF Downtown
31% office vacancy rate
70% drop in cell phone traffic

SF tax base
Downtown provides
75% of the city’s tax base
95% of its business tax
50% of its sales tax

Two Proposals

Democrats want to turn the office buildings into homeless shelters.
Shaping San Francisco, an activist group, says, “Knock down all the skyscrapers.”

California
State Farm and Allstate no longer provide business and property insurance in California, which means that you cannot sell your house to a buyer applying for a mortgage to buy the house until a different insurer is found.

What if I told you about a time machine? I think you would prefer that over a ticking time bomb.

pistol brace

6/26/2023

Do a quick internet search and discover that King George III ordered the seizure of any firearms coming into the American colonies.

“In 1774 and 1775 the British Regulars under orders from Governor Thomas Gage actively tried to confiscate the colonists’ firearms, particularly their gunpowder. He sent the Army to break up a town meeting in Salem, Massachusetts, and 3,000 armed men showed up causing the ‘Redcoats’ to retreat.

“A colonist said ‘that in the event of Great Britain attempting to force unjust laws upon us by strength of arms, our cause we leave to heaven and our rifles.’” – The Daily News Journal

https://www.dnj.com/story/opinion/2015/03/07/guest-column-gun-control-led-revolution/24585025/

On December 15, 1791, three-fourths of the existing state legislatures ratified the first 10 Amendments of the Constitution—the Bill of Rights. These Amendments protect some of the most indispensable rights and liberties that define Americans.

Second Amendment. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

A brace does not make a pistol into a short-barreled rifle.

Kennedy BA Vanderbilt; JD Univ. of Virginia; BCL (Bachelor of Civil Law) Magdalen College, Oxford
I liked Bazooka gum, introduced to Americans in 1947.

=

6/25/2023

What is the Latin word for equal? Pareil (pa-rei-l, ei as a diphthong)

However, “parallel” comes from parallelus. Lines can be parallel but not equal.

“The worst kind of heretic is the one who, while teaching mostly true Catholic doctrine, adds a word of heresy, like a drop of poison in a cup of water.” -Pope Leo XIII

Back in 2017 over 60 scholars corrected Pope Francis for propagating heresies. He never answered. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-62-scholars-correct-pope-francis-for-propagating-heresies/