I’ve had a lot of extra…
…chores, errands, and personal obligations to tend to today, and some of them took longer than expected. I just arrived back home, so it’ll take a while to get a couple of posts up.
Meanwhile, consider this a new open thread and keep talking.
So, it was Sotomayor, right?
One of the best, most profound, deeply spiritual poems ever written? I think so. Discuss.
Magpies in Picardy
By T.P.Cameron Wilson
The magpies in Picardy
Are more than I can tell.
They flicker down the dusty roads
And cast a magic spell
On the men who march through Picardy,
Through Picardy to hell.
(The blackbird flies with panic,
The swallow goes with light,
The finches move like ladies,
The owl floats by at night;
But the great and flashing magpie
He flies as artists might.)
A magpie in Picardy
Told me secret things—
Of the music in white feathers,
And the sunlight that sings
And dances in deep shadows—
He told me with his wings.
(The hawk is cruel and rigid,
He watches from a height;
The rook is slow and sombre,
The robin loves to fight;
But the great and flashing magpie
He flies as lovers might.)
He told me that in Picardy,
An age ago or more,
While all his fathers still were eggs,
These dusty highways bore
Brown, singing soldiers marching out
Through Picardy to war.
He said that still through chaos
Works on the ancient plan,
And two things have altered not
Since first the world began—
The beauty of the wild green earth
And the bravery of man.
(For the sparrow flies unthinking
And quarrels in his flight;
The heron trails his legs behind,
The lark goes out of sight;
But the great and flashing magpie
He flies as poets might.)
Watched the Korean War movie Devotion, which I liked. My review here:
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/68885.html
Griffin, I suspect they are reasonably sure who it was, but they can’t prove it.
Excellent article on the complicated issue of chain of custody distinguishing mail-in ballots prior to the election and lack of documentation for election day drop box ballots.
Maricopa has at this point failed to produce the required documentation for which the judge in the Lake trial had dismissed the claim based on the word by election officials they had the documents.
Will there ever be justice or is malfeasance no longer a crime?
https://thefederalist.com/2023/01/18/with-25000-mysterious-votes-and-missing-documents-maricopas-2022-election-process-marked-by-chaos-and-uncertainty/
Irish, I just looked up the Poet. Another “Know but to God”. How tragic. I and my best friend have walked the WWI battle sites and visited the Cemetaries. Very depressing. The Poem certainly captures the sense of loss.
The wicked witch of the southern hemisphere is stepping down.
A good summation of her stepping down and the never ending lovefest for her.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/19/good-riddance-to-saint-jacinda/
Griffin, or Roberts himself. Utter farce. And typical of all Govt agencies.
Kate,
Or don’t want to prove it.
Brian E, malfeasance is no longer a crime if Democrats are in charge.
neo:
More Maya Plisetskaya!
As the Monkees sang, “Now I’m a believer.”
reminds of a line, in the departed, with sullivan tells costello, they are looking for a mole in the department that turns out to be him
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/01/supreme-court-says-unable-to-figure-out-who-leaked-abortion-decision-draft/
David Crosby dead at 81.
He nails this performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XWmwvT8bCw
Griffin says, “A good summation of [Ardern’s] stepping down and the never ending lovefest for her.”
Time for Turdoo to go too; both of them are Klaus Schwab’s babies (can I say ‘bastards’?). BTW, is Jacinda going to pay the Davos gangfest one last visit this year? Her resignation isn’t a done deal until February 7.
SHIREHOME:
I find Wilson’s poem spiritually uplifting and transcendent. And calming too.
I have also walked numerous World War I battlefields. The most memorial excursion was the three days I spent exploring Verdun. It was early spring, cold and gray and wet, and no one was there. It was so deserted I was able to enter and and penetrate deep into several of the forts, down to the lower levels There were still cannon barrels and assorted debris from the battle strewn about. The Ossurary was still guarded by veterans of the battle, incomparably ancient men with great dignity who, when any one of the visitors spoke in a voice above a whisper, would boom out “Silence, s’il vous plait! Silence!”
Thanks for the review, David. I hope Ican see the film.
The Corsair was being phased out as I began my Navy career. It was known as the “Ensign killer.” Not an easy aircraft to bring aboard ship.
I served with a pilot who was a POW in Korea. He introduced me to the realities of Communism. Man, did he hate it. I learned to loathe it too. Although not on the deeply visceral level that he did.
Ardern, Trudeau, and Barack Obama are indicative of the breakdown of the peer review function in the political parties of the Anglophone world. They’re also indicative of a breakdown in public taste. A critical mass of swing voters should have rejected their political party for selecting them.
I’m going to guess if a conventional investigation had taken place, they could have identified the leaker within weeks if not days. It is my understanding that John Roberts put a number of procedural shackles on the investigation at the outset as well as insisting that the Marshal of the Supreme Court not turn to outside technicians to see what computer forensics could learn. Wagering John Roberts is the leaker.