That header is not to denigrate the talents of Dinah Shore or Dame Joan Sutherland -I love them, too- but reader Dick T sent these videos along and they knocked me out. There is something about Miss Ella Fitzgerald that just comforts my spirit, no matter what she is singing. If she’s singing blue, she makes me exquisitely, beautifully blue. When she is jazzed up, I soar. I can’t get enough of Miss Ella. And I have never heard her... Read more
Both on entirely different issues, both courtesy of Radio Patriot And here Read more
They keep using this word, “unexpectedly”. The number of newly-laid off workers seeking jobless benefits unexpectedly rose last week, as the economy recovers at a slow and uneven pace. Unexpectedly! Everything is “unexpected” with these people, unless the President has an R after his name, at which point, no good economic news will go unpunished, and no bad economic news will be “unexpected.” Layoffs have slowed and the economy began to grow in last year’s third quarter, but companies are... Read more
H/T) But if I must die, I will try to do it right like these folks O/T: Scott Brown has nuns praying for every day. Read more
Some updates from Ed, a missionary in Petit Goave, Haiti, about 33 miles from Port au Prince, who yesterday was sounding depressed at the absence of any evidence of aid and relief in his corner. Ed has noted that the aftershocks and tremors have not ceased since the first large quake; this morning, Petit Goave was the epicenter of a second quake registering 6.1 on the Richter scale: UPDATE: The epicenter of this morning’s quake was Petit-Goave, a historic town... Read more
Morning is being taken up with bringing the dog to the vet, so I haven’t had a chance to do more than watch the video below, but it occurred to me that if President Obama has any sense of humor at all he’ll come out today and echo Bush in ’06, acknowledging Brown’s stunning upset in Massachusetts by saying “it was a thumpin’.” It takes a big man to make a joke at his own expense, though, an even bigger... Read more
Keep on Truckin’ Just two quick thoughts on the fascinating and stunning victory of Republican Scott Brown over the Democrat, Martha Coakley, and both of them respond to remarks heard on television after Coakley’s concession: 1) Juan Williams and Sean Hannity discussing what this means for Obamacare. In response to the notion that this unprecedented upset might inspire Barack Obama to -like Bill Clinton in 1994 – adjust and step center to meet the mood of the country, Williams says,... Read more
But of Course!. For goodness sake, when MSNBC (a real news outfit, per the WH) is declaring they’d vote “twenty times” for the Dem candidate (any Dem candidate), there is zero chance that the press would do anything but yawn and smile, if the special election in Massachusetts could be stolen. There are over half a million dead people and other non-residents clogging the voter roles. I know many are feeling confident, but I say don’t count your chickens. Unless... Read more
As so many turn their focus to the special (and possibly controversial) election in Massachusetts, I continue to receive updates from a Haiti-stationed missionary named Ed (via DeLynn), some of which I have shared with you here and here and here, and which cannot be ignored. Ed is outside of Port au Prince, and I have been particularly interested in his reports because, while Port au Prince is getting massive attention, there are people even 50 miles away from that... Read more
Dialogue first comes into being where there is not only speech but also listening. Moreover, such listening must be the medium of an encounter; this encounter is the condition of an inner contact which leads to mutual comprehension. Reciprocal understanding, finally, deepens and transforms the being of the interlocutors . . . To listen means to know and to acknowledge another and to allow him to step into the realm of one’s own “I.” . . . Thus, after the... Read more
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