Saturday, August 22, 2009
Abortion; Lifestyle Orientation
Strict Constructionism and Abortion, Orientation: The Conservative Dilemma When early religious texts are silent on specific directives, and extrapolation later is the recourse of cultures in shaping behavior, whose extrapolation from what matters?
Friday, July 3, 2009
Military Strategy; Figureheads; Battlefields; Memorabilia
By Dint:
Torture
Sassafras and Guantanamo: Getting At the Truth: Explore the relaxer approach, truth serum idea with sassafras, encourage changes of heart and mind. Not torture.
Strategy
Genghis Khan, a model for Planning, Timing, and Follow-Up The virtue of strategic withdrawal when outnumbered. Conquer when ready. See also Liddell Hart: The most effective approach may be the indirect.
Warrior Qualities
Women in War See the warriors of the past. Talent in many forms.
Warriorism; Warrior Skills; Training Does practicing the skills of war deter, or set the stage for, use. Warrior skills as confidence-builders, psychological crutch.
Hero Roles: Messenger. Including Carrier Pigeons American Signal Corps and "Cher Ami" who brought news.
Keepers of the Artifacts
.
Curator, Andrew Gregory, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps Museum, Montreal. Those who house our memories. Meet this overseer of a Montreal learner-friendly military museum. Learn tactics, history, weapons, equipment, strategies of wars. Andrew Gregory: curator,offers personalized interest at the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps Museum, Montreal.
Crusades: License to Kill Evildoers. Battles mobilized on faith; demonize the enemy. Use of code words to justify killing, suggest religious approval, even mandate.
Propaganda: The Firing of the First Shots. Verbal. Then the War. The role of propaganda in warming up the populace to support what is to come.
PRE-WORLD WAR I
Agincourt, in the Somme Area
1389 Battle of Kosovo Ottoman Empire advances; Serbia loses its "heart" - Kosovo.
Myth, and Indigenous Wars Against Incursion. King Philip, Native American; and His War Against Colonists Our history's self-serving myths of glory; and the shabby reality. How we got our foothold. New England's battleground, indigenous tribes against settlers. King Philip, local chief.
American Revolution, Fort Ticonderoga, NY
American Revolution, Saratoga. This is where Benedict Arnold lost his boot. His case is not a simple one. Turncoat, yes, but with reason.
Ireland. Battle of the Boyne Protestant v. Catholic
Austerlitz, The Three Emperors. Find Napoleon here; the Battle of Slavkov. You will not see "Austerlitz" on the map, perhaps. See also Austerlitz and Carl Sandburg's poem, Grass. It covers all.
WORLD WAR I
Vimy Ridge, France, World War I
Citizen Poets While Fodder in the Trenches, Ypres, Ieper, Belgium See Canadian War Memorial here. The Christmas Truce. Poetry.
Vimy Ridge, France; Pegs in the Night. Soldiers told of pound in painted pegs along the German side, if you could. Then, later, if a solder passed in front of it, you could see, and the sniper could shoot.
Flanders Fields, Where Poppies Blow Belgium, France.
Argonne Forest, World War I, France. The Forgotten Cemetery. Overshadowed by Verdun, off the beaten track, near Belleau Wood, also forlorn. Go anyway. They need you.
Soldiers' Mutiny, Verdun, France WWI, Issues, Negotiating During Slaughter Poem. Anthem for Doomed Youth. Soldiers, passing officers, and saying, "Baaah" like sheep, knowing what was coming.
Verdun, France, WWI, Soldiers' Mutiny Worked See original postcards of area at end of the war, fort areas, memorials.
WORLD WAR II
The Netherlands, Arnhem, A Bridge Too Far, British Soldier, John Frost
Normandy, Pointe du Hoc, Arromanches, Rangers. The Rangers scaled these cliffs, but nothing was there of importance.
Unlikely Hartford and Colt Armaments. World War II, Assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, Prague, by Czech Resistance, a Colt used among their weapons. See film, "Operation Daybreak".
Vietnam Battlefields; US Failure to Encrypt. Inexcusable blunders in war, the conceit, the flawed sense of superiority of the American command, costing thousands of lives. Not even coding messages.The gooks can't read English. Imagine. The gall of it.
Berlin Wall, Germany When problems cannot be resolved, wall them away. Then kill whoever tries to pass over.
IDEOLOGICAL BATTLEFIELDS
Ideological Battleground: Sistine Chapel
Argonne Forest, France, World War I
Torture
Sassafras and Guantanamo: Getting At the Truth: Explore the relaxer approach, truth serum idea with sassafras, encourage changes of heart and mind. Not torture.
Strategy
Genghis Khan, a model for Planning, Timing, and Follow-Up The virtue of strategic withdrawal when outnumbered. Conquer when ready. See also Liddell Hart: The most effective approach may be the indirect.
Warrior Qualities
Women in War See the warriors of the past. Talent in many forms.
Warriorism; Warrior Skills; Training Does practicing the skills of war deter, or set the stage for, use. Warrior skills as confidence-builders, psychological crutch.
Hero Roles: Messenger. Including Carrier Pigeons American Signal Corps and "Cher Ami" who brought news.
Keepers of the Artifacts
.
Curator, Andrew Gregory, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps Museum, Montreal. Those who house our memories. Meet this overseer of a Montreal learner-friendly military museum. Learn tactics, history, weapons, equipment, strategies of wars. Andrew Gregory: curator,offers personalized interest at the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps Museum, Montreal.
Crusades: License to Kill Evildoers. Battles mobilized on faith; demonize the enemy. Use of code words to justify killing, suggest religious approval, even mandate.
Propaganda: The Firing of the First Shots. Verbal. Then the War. The role of propaganda in warming up the populace to support what is to come.
PRE-WORLD WAR I
Agincourt, in the Somme Area
1389 Battle of Kosovo Ottoman Empire advances; Serbia loses its "heart" - Kosovo.
Myth, and Indigenous Wars Against Incursion. King Philip, Native American; and His War Against Colonists Our history's self-serving myths of glory; and the shabby reality. How we got our foothold. New England's battleground, indigenous tribes against settlers. King Philip, local chief.
American Revolution, Fort Ticonderoga, NY
American Revolution, Saratoga. This is where Benedict Arnold lost his boot. His case is not a simple one. Turncoat, yes, but with reason.
Ireland. Battle of the Boyne Protestant v. Catholic
Austerlitz, The Three Emperors. Find Napoleon here; the Battle of Slavkov. You will not see "Austerlitz" on the map, perhaps. See also Austerlitz and Carl Sandburg's poem, Grass. It covers all.
WORLD WAR I
Vimy Ridge, France, World War I
Citizen Poets While Fodder in the Trenches, Ypres, Ieper, Belgium See Canadian War Memorial here. The Christmas Truce. Poetry.
Vimy Ridge, France; Pegs in the Night. Soldiers told of pound in painted pegs along the German side, if you could. Then, later, if a solder passed in front of it, you could see, and the sniper could shoot.
Flanders Fields, Where Poppies Blow Belgium, France.
Argonne Forest, World War I, France. The Forgotten Cemetery. Overshadowed by Verdun, off the beaten track, near Belleau Wood, also forlorn. Go anyway. They need you.
Soldiers' Mutiny, Verdun, France WWI, Issues, Negotiating During Slaughter Poem. Anthem for Doomed Youth. Soldiers, passing officers, and saying, "Baaah" like sheep, knowing what was coming.
Verdun, France, WWI, Soldiers' Mutiny Worked See original postcards of area at end of the war, fort areas, memorials.
WORLD WAR II
The Netherlands, Arnhem, A Bridge Too Far, British Soldier, John Frost
Normandy, Pointe du Hoc, Arromanches, Rangers. The Rangers scaled these cliffs, but nothing was there of importance.
Unlikely Hartford and Colt Armaments. World War II, Assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, Prague, by Czech Resistance, a Colt used among their weapons. See film, "Operation Daybreak".
Vietnam Battlefields; US Failure to Encrypt. Inexcusable blunders in war, the conceit, the flawed sense of superiority of the American command, costing thousands of lives. Not even coding messages.The gooks can't read English. Imagine. The gall of it.
Berlin Wall, Germany When problems cannot be resolved, wall them away. Then kill whoever tries to pass over.
IDEOLOGICAL BATTLEFIELDS
Ideological Battleground: Sistine Chapel
Argonne Forest, France, World War I
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Aging
By Dint:
Bremen Town Musicians, Euthanasia Poor, old Ass. Getting too old to be useful. Get rid of him, thinks the farmer. What do to but hasty exit for the poor, old Ass. And, with others, manages on his own, in his way. Useful after all.
Bremen Town Musicians, Euthanasia Poor, old Ass. Getting too old to be useful. Get rid of him, thinks the farmer. What do to but hasty exit for the poor, old Ass. And, with others, manages on his own, in his way. Useful after all.
Complexities of Stereotype
By Dint:
White Bride and Black One; Racism Amok A Grimm Tale. It is not the color that ends up important, although it started out that way, and highly symbolic; it is the doing of good or evil. Who ends up happy? Black was not always a pejorative. We added that, to a large degree.
Eve's Various Children: Each to His Place Handsomes to idle at the top; uglies to work at the bottom. Plus ca change?
The Jew Among the Thorns Anti-semitism in the tales.
White Bride and Black One; Racism Amok A Grimm Tale. It is not the color that ends up important, although it started out that way, and highly symbolic; it is the doing of good or evil. Who ends up happy? Black was not always a pejorative. We added that, to a large degree.
Eve's Various Children: Each to His Place Handsomes to idle at the top; uglies to work at the bottom. Plus ca change?
The Jew Among the Thorns Anti-semitism in the tales.
Social and Economic Theory
By Dint:
Who Will Bell the Cat? "Piers Plowman" and 14th Century Social and Economic Theory. William Langland, 1332-1400. Poem: Langland adds to Aesop's Fable about belling the cat. The plan failed because noone would do it. What would have happened if the cat indeed had been belled. Far worse for the community. Find out why.
Rumpelstiltskin When you don't know the answer, sneak around and cheat. Bartering with the Mannikin? Never a good idea, but here it leads to a Bad End for the Mannikin.
Sassafras: Industry Opportunity; Social and Economic Uses
Sassafras - Industry Pressure to Call Safrole, a Food Component, an Additive?. FDA exerts jurisdiction over safrole merely because of a label. The carcinogenicity of safrole in sassafras is no greater than the the safrole in your spice or herb shelf. Test that. Is that so?
Who Will Bell the Cat? "Piers Plowman" and 14th Century Social and Economic Theory. William Langland, 1332-1400. Poem: Langland adds to Aesop's Fable about belling the cat. The plan failed because noone would do it. What would have happened if the cat indeed had been belled. Far worse for the community. Find out why.
Rumpelstiltskin When you don't know the answer, sneak around and cheat. Bartering with the Mannikin? Never a good idea, but here it leads to a Bad End for the Mannikin.
Sassafras: Industry Opportunity; Social and Economic Uses
Sassafras - Industry Pressure to Call Safrole, a Food Component, an Additive?. FDA exerts jurisdiction over safrole merely because of a label. The carcinogenicity of safrole in sassafras is no greater than the the safrole in your spice or herb shelf. Test that. Is that so?
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