How will it be?
Plans for the week and upcoming weekend. Wednesday evening prayer & spaghetti. Thursday oysters. Sunday morning loads of children, Rally Day, Backpack Sunday, pork, chicken and other good things. Sunday evening:
http://www.history.com/shows/the-cars-that-made-america History Channel, Sun Aug 13 8/7c - - what prep am I doing to get ready for the car program? Watched a preview video online and halted at one scene.
Who can name the above car takes home the red ribbon, as the blue ribbon is already pinned on me. Roofline looks like a convertible but could be a hardtop. Wraparound windshield is a period giveaway, beginning 1954 for GM, 1955 for FoMoCo, 1957 for Chrysler, yielding a starting model year for search. Thinking I see Ford features: steering wheel, dashboard, side trim and two color style, forward slant of front fender. First check 1955 Ford, nope. Check 1955 Mercury catalogue ... .
How’s that? Lucky break. Nothing is absolute and I try never to be certain in theology or cars, but I’m all 1955 Mercury Montclair hardtop or convertible with the top up, same body colors as that 1955 Mercury transparent hardtop, remember those, Sunliner or Skyliner for Ford with a fancier name for the Mercury version, Montclair Sun Valley? Challengers are welcome. My uncertainty is I don’t see how this car fits the theme Cars that Made America, any takers on that?
On the eastern front. Atlantic article this week proves me wrong again in thinking all violent American wing-nuts are right wing radicals. Never heard of antifa but interesting to hear the left can be counted on beyond intellectual bluster. Historically, pics of street violence in Germany during late 1920s to early 1930s show better organized communist leftists might have taken the national socialist brownshirts, preventing the Third Reich and revising world history in favor of Soviet Socialist Europe. But so what, both brutally evil. Ten years after WorldWarII my economics professor at UFlorida liked to draw on the blackboard two halves of a circle showing extreme left circling round to meet extreme right in the back, dictatorship, centralized economics, zero human rights. Thus, Stalin &/or Hitler could recur anytime. Coming forward these decades, we live an angry political, social, religious era of division, intolerance, hatred, anti-intellectualism, unteachable ignorance, and choosing lies and illusion to the obliteration of truth, in which the 2nd amendment could again play the role for which the founding fathers meant it. Right v Left instead of North v South and future ages, if any, calling it Civil War II.
Opening a second front, political correctness wins again against exercise of freedom of speech that was so mindless as to hint naïveté, stupidity, or a death wish. As the author says, “cue the outrage and applause machines,” and in this case the outrage machine tracked him down and fired him. Freedom of speech is protected against government and in public but not in the workplace. On the cowardly side, to be left alone to pay the rent and eat, one must keep one’s mouth shut. Of which, regarding USNavy and TEC bones to pick, my lips are zipped.
Opening a nuclear front, fire and fury like the world has never seen.
The doctrine of Speak Softly but Carry a Big Stick is Dead.
Deadly egomaniacal games of blustering diplomatic chicken. All government and all authority is always all ways all bad: there are constitutional ways to stop the spiraling madness and begin to recover a measure of national sanity. Meantime, anyone with loved ones in Korea or Japan might consider sending them tickets to come home immediately. It's disheartening to wake up mornings not knowing whether the world is going to be ablaze.
Top: CFC Forest Panama 442x69 from PTO Limon to load kraft liner for Colon
The doctrine of Speak Softly but Carry a Big Stick is Dead.
Deadly egomaniacal games of blustering diplomatic chicken. All government and all authority is always all ways all bad: there are constitutional ways to stop the spiraling madness and begin to recover a measure of national sanity. Meantime, anyone with loved ones in Korea or Japan might consider sending them tickets to come home immediately. It's disheartening to wake up mornings not knowing whether the world is going to be ablaze.
Top: CFC Forest Panama 442x69 from PTO Limon to load kraft liner for Colon
Home front: death of Glen Campbell. 1968-1969 at the Naval War College, I loved Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry and my 78 rpm record loaded with their songs. Two favorites, All I Have to Do is Dream, and Let It Be Me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t12LDTxP6to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBPYGWeCW_s
Antitussive, aperient, and today emetic. I don't have a taste for Anu Garg's words this week. Tomorrow diuretic?
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