Matthew 6:19–21, 24 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal. Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. …
Tag: ek Politics
May 03 2020
No Sports?
Here you go. Synchronized Swimming (I guess they call it “Artistic” now) Team and Pairs from Rio 2016. The odd thing is that I know all the moves. I’m telling you I ran out of all the Water Sports Electives before I got stuck with 4 Square and Arts and Crafts. Enameling was cool (A&C …
May 01 2020
Corona Class
Thomas Piketty has this to say- The bottom 50 percent of the population in the U.S. owns less than 2 percent of total wealth. It used to be 3 or 4 percent 20 years ago; now it’s less than 2 percent. It’s always been very small, in any case, but it’s not going in the …
May 01 2020
Allez le Barricades!
The Internationale Arise ye workers from your slumbers Arise ye prisoners of want For reason in revolt now thunders And at last ends the age of cant. Away with all your superstitions Servile masses arise, arise We’ll change henceforth the old tradition And spurn the dust to win the prize. So comrades, come rally …
Apr 30 2020
Some Numbers
Here’s one that struck me. In 6 Weeks Republicans have caused more deaths than the Vietnam War. COVID-19 has now killed more Americans than the Vietnam War By Kurtis Lee, Los Angeles Times April 28, 2020 U.S. coronavirus-related deaths reached a somber milestone on Tuesday, surpassing the number of Americans killed in the Vietnam War. …
Apr 29 2020
Kismet
It’s Arabic and means either “Fate”, “Portion”, or “Division” (in the ‘part of’ sense not the ‘conflict’ sense) depending on context and in this instance I’m using it in the “Fate” definition and am not referring at all to the Lederer/Davis Musical from 1953 starring Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow, and Richard Kiley or the 1955 …
Apr 29 2020
The Next Depression
Well, first of all, we’ve lost over 26 Million Jobs in 4 weeks, highest levels since the Great Depression (and indeed faster). The only reason it isn’t higher is that States can’t keep up with the filings. Inevitably GDP (which I’ll point out is not a good indicator of actual Economic performance but it will …
Apr 28 2020
The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
The Jungle– There were the men in the pickle rooms, for instance, where old Antanas had gotten his death; scarce a one of these that had not some spot of horror on his person. Let a man so much as scrape his finger pushing a truck in the pickle rooms, and he might have a …
Apr 27 2020
Multi Level Marketing
While the money to be made is from recruiting others to sell for you and a never ending Fraudulent Pyramid Scheme, the McGuffin grunt work of the Business model that is actually supposed to deliver real products to consumers is Door to Door Sales. Kind of difficult to get people to invite you into their …
Apr 26 2020
Pravda and Izvestia
Back in the good old days of the Cold War when all you had to fear was imminent Nuclear Annihilation, the Soviet Union had two main Newspapers- Pravda and Izvestia. Pravda means “Truth” and was the official organ of the Communist Party. Izvestia means “News” and was an official product of the Soviet Government. Not …
Apr 26 2020
No Sports?
FEI World Cup from Göteborg, Sweden- Freestyle Finals 2019 What? Not enough Horsies for you? A 3 Hour summary. Proust in his first book wrote about, wrote about. A 6 Minute summary. No Horses were infected with Coronavirus during this event.