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There are exceptions, but Grant Cardone tells how he became a success. The Louisianan is 65. (Avoid TikTok, say I.) I do not hate on Elisa Stephens, owner Academy of Art U. She has a strong work ethic. He says, “Don’t play by the book.” I know that my high IQ student, who is 10 in December and is homeschooled and does multiple activities, would agree with Grant, and, you know what, it was working editors that I hired who taught me how to write, not college teachers. My parents were brainwashed, too. Grant gives the best interview of anyone in years.
https://www.prageru.com/video/grant-cardone-on-why-college-is-a-bad-investment-for-most?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_8291900 About NYC Publishers
Why did I ever think they would publish an American of Northwestern European descent, rather conservative, and a practicing Catholic? About Catholic Publishers Why did I ever think they would publish someone who writes realism and about scandal and has non-Catholic characters and some who swear? About Christian Publishers Why did I ever think they would publish eighty-seven thousand words from a Catholic? Approved Words My secular newspaper stories were published, and my words on tax for a non-fiction publisher were approved. Offer Recently, I got an offer to publish online with a Catholic outfit. I’m not willing to subject myself to review by strangers. Blog Through this blog, and any other fiction I write, which will be edited by paid professionals, I can give my take on the world, without earning income. Teaching And giving help to my student, who will turn out to be a brilliant writer – he is so original – is enough. Pope Francis has purged these men: Vigano, Oliveri, Morandi, Visioli, Stella, Patrón Wong, Piacenza, Pozzo, D’Ercole, Sarah, Gänswein, Xuereb, Aguer, Livieris Plano, Torres, Aupetit, Burke, and Müller. Charge: too Catholic. Anthony Stine, compiler. Then there’s Zen.
Well, now...here’s something I never knew before, and now that I know it, I feel compelled to send it on to my more intelligent friends in the hope that they, too, will feel edified.
Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow, and, therefore, they would be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous English longbow was made of the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as ‘plucking the yew’ (or ‘pluck yew’). Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset, and they began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French, saying, “See, we can still pluck yew!” Since ‘pluck yew’ is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodental fricative, F, and born were the words so often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute. Also, it is due to the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the longbow that the symbolic gesture is known as ‘giving the bird’. And yew thought yew knew every plucking thing. Didn’t yew? Thank you, Mel Figoni, SI ’59, USF ’63. His dad owned Figoni Hardware in North Beach, SF. In the beginning, at the time of the great flood, Noah went through his ark after it landed, and found two small snakes huddled in a corner. Noah looked at these poor specimens and said, “I told you to go forth and multiply – why haven’t you?”
The poor snakes looked up at Noah and replied, “We can’t, because we are adders.” Noah looked a bit perplexed, and then proceeded to tear bits of planking from his ark. He went on to build a beautiful wooden platform. He gathered up the snakes and placed them on the platform, and joyfully told the snakes, “Now go forth and multiply, because even adders can multiply on a log table.” D. Scott MacKenzie, PhD, Metallurgist Specializing in Heat Treatment and Quenching Courtesy of the sliderullemuseum.com The numbers 16 __ __ 49 are squared numbers. What is the sum of the missing numbers? Solution: 16 = 4 squared, 49 = 7 squared Therefore, the missing squared numbers between 16 and 49 must be 5 and 6. Hence, the sum of the missing numbers = 25 + 36 = 61. Advice: if possible, when dealing with big numbers, break them up into small numbers, like the digits on your hand, because many of us do not know what 14 squared is without a calculator, and you may not be allowed to use a calculator. In my time in high school, there were no calculators, just that d**n slide rule.  “Dad says that anyone who can’t use a slide rule is a cultural illiterate and should not be allowed to vote. Mine is a beauty – a K&E 20-inch Log-log Duplex Decitrig” – Have Space Suit - Will Travel, '58, by Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)sliderulemuseum.com/SR_Course.htm O, hang yourself, Robert!
While Bishop Strickland struggles to determine how he will live, AP reports that Francis says he will be attending a portion of the COP28 Climate Conference in Dubai, which runs from Nov. 30 - Dec. 12.
What is his educational background? “…He graduated as a chemical technician and then chose the path of the priesthood, entering the Diocesan Seminary of Villa Devoto. On 11 March 1958 [age 22] he entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus. “He completed his studies of the humanities in Chile and returned to Argentina in 1963 to graduate with a degree in philosophy from the Colegio de San José in San Miguel. “From 1964 to 1965 he taught literature and psychology at Immaculate Conception College in Santa Fé, and in 1966 he taught the same subject at the Colegio del Salvatore in Buenos Aires. “From 1967-70 he studied theology and obtained a degree from the Colegio of San José….” source: Vatican website He has done no research, has written no articles for scientific journals, has invented nothing, has never taught or tutored science. In short, he is unqualified. Elect Les Républicains and reunite America and France, strongholds of the Latin Mass and FSSP!
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It snowed last night. 8:00 am: I made a snowman. 8:10 – A feminist passed by and asked me why I didn’t make a snow woman. 8:15 – So, I made a snow woman. 8:17 – My feminist neighbor complained about the snow woman’s chest saying it objectified snow women everywhere. 8:20 – The same sex couple living nearby threw a hissy fit and moaned it could have been two snow men instead. 8:22 – The transgender man…woman…person…asked why I didn’t just make one snow person with detachable parts. 8:25 – The vegans at the end of the lane complained about the carrot nose, as veggies are food and are not to be used for decorating snow figures. 8:28 – I was called a racist because the snow couple is white. 8:30 – I used food coloring to make one of the snow couple a different color and be more racially inclusive. 8:37 – I was accused of using blackface on the snowman…snowperson. 8:39 – The middle eastern gent across the road demanded the snow woman be covered up. 8:40 – The police arrived saying someone had been offended. 8:42 – The feminist neighbor complained again that the broomstick of the snow woman needed to be removed because it depicted women in a domestic role. 8:43 – The council equality officer arrived and threatened me with eviction. 8:45 – TV news crew from ABC showed up, and I was asked if I knew the difference between snowmen and snowwomen? I replied “Snowballs” and now I am labeled a sexist. 9:00 – I was on the news as a suspected terrorist, racist, homophobe, and sensibility offender, bent on stirring up trouble during difficult weather. 9:10 – I was asked if I had any accomplices. My children were taken by social services. 9:29 – Far left protesters offended by everything marched down the street demanding that I be arrested. 9:45 – The boss called and said I was fired because of the negative publicity splattered across social media. 10:00 – I cried into my drink because all I wanted to do was build a snowman… Moral: There is no moral to this story. It is what this world has become because of a bunch of snowflakes…. Thank you, Carol. 1951. All scenes were accurate except the house itself, a set piece. My nana taught at Garfield Elementary on Telegraph Hill and retired in 1958. This film furnished the idea for a switch in my novel.
 The king and Churchill are heard. David Leland, the boy actor playing Tommy, died of sepsis at age 16.
Mental reservation is an ethical theory and a doctrine in moral theology that recognizes the “lie of necessity”, and holds that when there is a conflict between justice and truthfulness, justice should prevail. In the strict mental reservation, the speaker mentally adds some qualification to words he utters, and the words together with the mental qualification make a true assertion in accordance with fact.
https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10195b.htm#:~:text=In%20the%20strict%20mental%20reservation,assertion%20in%20accordance%20with%20fact. Check out this site for math games suitable for students from about 6th grade through high school. The games are real-world situations in a variety of careers. I'm going to play one. https://www.thirteen.org/get-the-math/
I chose the 'Math in Special Effects' video. The students arrived at this equation: where I is light intensity, and K is the constant, and d is the distance, I = K/d squared, which describes an inverse square relationship. The snow is fled: the trees their leaves put on,
The fields their green: Earth owns the change, and rivers lessening run Their banks between. Naked the Nymphs and Graces in the meads The dance essay: “No 'scaping death” proclaims the year, that speeds This sweet spring day. Frosts yield to zephyrs; Summer drives out Spring, To vanish, when Rich Autumn sheds his fruits; round wheels the ring,-- Winter again! Yet the swift moons repair Heaven's detriment: We, soon as thrust Where good Aeneas, Tullus, Ancus went, What are we? dust. Can Hope assure you one more day to live From powers above? You rescue from your heir whate'er you give The self you love. When life is o'er, and Minos has rehearsed The grand last doom, Not birth, nor eloquence, nor worth, shall burst Torquatus' tomb. Not Dian's self can chaste Hippolytus To life recall, Nor Theseus free his loved Pirithous From Lethe's thrall. Footnote: Lethe is one of the rivers of Hades or Hell; lethal derives from Lethe. Diffugere nives, redeunt iam gramina campis arboribusque comae; mutat terra vices et decrescentia ripas flumina praetereunt; Gratia cum Nymphis geminisque sororibus audet ducere nuda choros. Inmortalia ne speres, monet annus et almum quae rapit hora diem. Frigora mitescunt zephyris, ver proterit aestas interitura, simul pomifer autumnus fruges effuderit, et mox bruma recurrit iners. Damna tamen celeres reparant caelestia lunae; nos ubi decidimus, quo pius Aeneas, quo Tullus dives et Ancus, pulvis et umbra sumus. Quis scit an adiciant hodiernae crastina summae tempora di superi? Cuncta manus avidas fugient heredis, amico quae dederis animo. Cum semel occideris et de te splendida Minos fecerit arbitria, non, Torquate, genus, non te facundia, non te restituet pietas; Infernis neque enim tenebris Diana pudicum liberat Hippolytum, nec Lethaea valet Theseus abrumpere caro vincula Pirithoo. Courtesy of antiquitatem.com Horace (65 BC – 8 BC). The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. John Conington. trans. London. George Bell and Sons. 1882. Check out any New Order/Novus Ordo Catholic church and look at the old men who say Mass. While others crash, we rocket. Pay dirt! ”Why are large fuel-consuming jets taken to environmental summits, or fine food served at conferences about how to feed the hungry? This sounds hardly equitable.” https://fssp.com/aim-rightly/ A rocket is a metaphor for man, and God is, or should be, the Guidance System.
Fr. Mawdsley shows the book traditional priests use at the altar.
Listen to the end to hear what father says about himself. The horrors that we have seen, the still greater horrors we shall presently see, are not signs that rebels, insubordinate, untamable men are increasing in number throughout the world, but rather that there is a constant increase in the number of obedient, docile men. – Georges Bernanos
Winner of the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for The Diary of a Country Priest (Journal d'un curé de campagne), which was published in 1936, Bernanos (1888-1948), author and soldier, esteemed monarchy, criticized elitism, and opposed defeatism. His comment applies to the West today. Diary was made into a film, deemed one of the best ever made, and is in my film category, ready to view. This entry is a tribute to my good friend Jacob in Ohio. “The Biden administration's unilateral and unlawful increase in food stamp benefits has led to an estimated 2.4 million Americans choosing welfare over work, creating significant impacts on the workforce and economy.” [unilateral and unlawful because the legislative branch establishes the budget]
https://washingtondigest.com/conservative-group-exposes-unlawful-biden-food-stamp-expansion/ Workers generate social security and Medicare receipts, which are essential for retirees and future retirees. When I was an employer, I paid half of the employees’ social security and Medicare taxes. Combined taxes paid were one of the five largest expenses. Do you think food stamps grow on a tree? “The Treasury Department posted a $1.7 trillion debt for the past fiscal year, according to Fox Business. “The deficit reportedly grew by 23%, including $879 billion to service current debt. [That is interest paid on debt, like interest you paid on your home mortgage. Yes, governments borrow money and pay interest on it.] “‘The impetus for these massive deficits is federal government spending, which tipped the scales at $6.1 trillion last year. Government receipts [money received], meanwhile, were $4.4 trillion, woefully short of the $5 trillion previously forecasted,’ the report stated. “‘A slowing economy and counterproductive tax increases were key drivers behind the $457 billion drop in receipts from the prior fiscal year,’ it added.” https://conservativejournalreview.com/treasury-reveals-serious-problems-ahead-for-us-economy/? I dare you to look at the running debt clock...https://www.usdebtclock.org/ the economist
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