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  1. 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.)

  2. 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/

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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!”

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

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