"A snip, snip HERE! , a snip! snip THERE! and a couple of TRAH-Lah-Lah's -- that's how we work the day away in the Merry Olde Lande of OZ -- Ozymandias, that is!!!"
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, reign of king Teti, c. 2345-2333 B.C.
Tomb of Ankhmahor, Saqqara Necropolis
>>> OK, THESE ARE SUSAN GRANTS' UPDATED IDEA OF ROMANCE NOVELS :
I'll get to my Letter to them, after a few News Items.
1. TONIGHT on MSNBC's Joy Reid Show, Russel Honore' was LAUGHING HIS ASS OFF at Donald Trump!!!
Previously, Russel had been TOO ANGRY at Trump to SEE STRAIGHT!!! And he could CUSS UP A STORM !!! But NOW, he sees Trump's Coup is falling apart, although not all can see that yet . . .
Russel Honore' is a devout Roman Catholic, and REFUSES to join a Political Party!!!
The FBI said in a statement Monday that it performed a new search of records following Trump’s January 23 executive order, which directed the release of more documents related to the assassinations of JFK, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
“The search resulted in approximately 2,400 newly inventoried and digitized records that were previously unrecognized as related to the JFK assassination case file,” the bureau said in a statement.
Axios first reported on the discovery. The statement does not provide additional information about what the records say.
The Weather Continues . . . : On This Day in 1963, My One-Time Personal Friend Jackie Kennedy Onassis's FIRST Husband Was Assassinated -- and NO NEWS MEDIA Have Remembered That!!! / I Continue to Confront Christian Ministry:
2. I always thought that Alphabet/Google was owned by Jeff Bezos -- and since he ALSO owns the Washington Post (and rarely interferes with their slant on the News), I figured I had a DECENT chance of getting my blog back -- even though I'd put in three serial appeals over nearly two weeks .
When I got the email RETURNING MY BLOG TO ME, yesterday, I checked Alphabet out -- and while no single person owns 51% of Alphabet's shares, co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin hold the majority of the voting power. Mr. Brin said after Trump's election in 2016: "As an immigrant and a refugee, I certainly find this election deeply offensive and I know many of you do too."
https://theweathercontinues.blogspot.com/2025/02/googleblogger-has-just-restored-my.html
3. Scott Kenan
If JD Vance was hoping Donald Trump would anoint him as his successor, he probably wasn’t thrilled by the president’s comments during his Fox News interview on Sunday. After Brett Baier asked Trump if he saw Vance as his heir, the president quickly said, “No,” though he conceded his second vice president was “very capable.”
However, Trump ignored that and instead pivoted to one of his favorite tactics for avoiding something he doesn’t want to speak on: praising himself . “A lot of people have said that this has been the greatest opening — almost three weeks — in the history of the presidency,” Trump said.
4. Scott Kenan
Worth a second posting!!!
Pope Francis gets MY BLOG's every posting, and so do the Office of the Archbishop Of Canterbury (the current one, Justin Welby, has resigned because he did not immediately report sexual abuse of children that he had become aware of, and the Church is searching for a NEW Archbishop), and the Head Moderator of the Church of Scotland/Presbyterianism. See what I wrote them ALL (below in comments). a couple of years ago, when I began sending copies of THIS POSTING:
BREAKING: Pope Francis unleashes a historic attack on the Trump administration over its cruel treatment of migrants — and takes specific aim at remarks made by J.D. Vance, a Catholic convert.
So-called Christians in the MAGA movement are melting down over this...
The Pope, head of the Catholic Church, issued a rebuke of Donald Trump's mass deportation plan, stating that it removes the migrants of their inherent dignity as people and "will end badly."
Usually one to abstain from commenting directly on the internal politics of individual countries, Francis made his new remarks in a letter addressing U.S. bishops.
In it, he invoked the Bible's Book of Exodus and said that God is "always close, incarnate, migrant and refugee" and pointed out that Jesus Christ was "expelled from his own land" when his family fled to Egypt and had to "take refuge in a society and a culture foreign to his own."
Putting fake Christians to shame, Pope Francis went on to state that Jesus loved "everyone with a universal love" and taught us to see the"dignity of every human being, without exception."
"Thus, all the Christian faithful and people of good will are called upon to consider the legitimacy of norms and public policies in the light of the dignity of the person and his or her fundamental rights, not vice versa," the pope wrote.
He then turned his pen towards addressing the United States directly.
"I have followed closely the major crisis that is taking place in the United States with the initiation of a program of mass deportations," wrote Pope Francis.
"The rightly formed conscience cannot fail to make a critical judgment and express its disagreement with any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality," he continued.
"At the same time, one must recognize the right of a nation to defend itself and keep communities safe from those who have committed violent or serious crimes while in the country or prior to arrival."
"That said, the act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution or serious deterioration of the environment, damages the dignity of many men and women, and of entire families, and places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness," wrote the pope.
It was the next part of the letter that has really infuriated MAGA supporters. Recently, Vice President J.D. Vance — who was baptized and confirmed into the Catholic Church in 2019 — attacked the Church's compassionate teachings on immigration.
Proving that he either doesn't understand Catholic theology or would prefer to cherrypick what he likes and doesn't, Vance butchered a medieval concept known as "ordo amoris" or the "order of love."
"As an American leader, but also just as an American citizen, your compassion belongs first to your fellow citizens," Vance told Fox News. "That doesn’t mean you hate people from outside of your own borders, but there’s this old-school [concept] — and I think it’s a very Christian concept, by the way — that you love your family, and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country, and then, after that, you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world."
Of course, the idea that one should love those closest to you doesn't mean that you shouldn't love people from other countries. Vance shamelessly twisted the meaning to suit his party's xenophobic views. St. Augustine, who pioneered the concept that Vance was referencing, certainly didn't advocate for an authoritarian mass migration program.
In his letter, Pope Francis wrote that "Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups," a direct and blunt rebuke of Vance's claims.
"In other words: the human person is not a mere individual, relatively expansive, with some philanthropic feelings!" the pope continued. "The human person is a subject with dignity who, through the constitutive relationship with all, especially with the poorest, can gradually mature in his identity and vocation. The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the 'Good Samaritan', that is, by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception."
Francis warned against deploying "an ideological criterion that distorts social life and imposes the will of the strongest as the criterion of truth."
He went on to urge the bishops in the United States to continue working "closely with migrants and refugees, proclaiming Jesus Christ" and "promoting fundamental human rights."
"God will richly reward all that you do for the protection and defense of those who are considered less valuable, less important or less human!" he added.
Pope Francis then turned his attention to the entire Catholic Church, urging its followers "not to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters."
He concluded by calling for all of us to work towards a "a society that is more fraternal, inclusive and respectful of the dignity of all."
In other words, we need to build a world where MAGA is not the law of the land.
All reactions:
1Scott Kenan
>>> DEAR GEORGE & SUSAN:
Again, the day's News has used so much of my energy, I won't go on for very long. You should KNOW that this earlier posting has much to do with the two of you and your family:
The Weather Continues . . . : I Decided to CHILL on This Saturday Night -- My Next Piece will be Largely about My FIRST COUSIN George Meyer and His "Common-Law-Wife", Susan Grant -- and I JUST DISCOVERED I Owe THEM Several Apologies, so Here is a Small Introduction, and I'll Write before the SUPER BOWL:
The reason I know that my Mother used Lithium Carbonate to kill Uncle Bob with the help of the US Veterans Hospital, is that my parents often drove there from Wilmington, NC (or maybe it was after they moved to Raleigh in 1999), and stayed a night with me before going on to stay with Aunt Pat in Gulf Shores (or near there). And Mom said that Uncle Bob was SO BAD that he had to achieve a 1.5 Lithium Level (for me, it was 0.7), and he was taking 1,500 mg of it daily (I took 600 mg daily).
Also, you probably know that FDR had our whole population surveyed, while we waited and did NOT enter WWII quickly. The families who were found to have NAZI SYMPATHIES were NOT ALLOWED to fight in Europe, and Uncle Bob and Uncle Mart fought in Asia. In fact, at least Jan should remember this -- they each brought back a Samurai Sword they had capured, and those were mounted on our Grandparents' living room wall on Franklin Avenue.
Robert J. Meyer, DDS, Ruth Anne (Meyer) Kenan, RN, BS, and Marcellus "Mart" Bernard Meyer, Attorney and retired FBI -- in front of the house they grew up in.
And my sister Jane, has little memory of the past -- before she fell 25 feet and landed on her head in the spring of her Junior year at UNC Chapel Hill. Jane was in a coma for five days, and when she awoke, she thought she was on a talk show and Mom (who had sat next to her bed the whole time), was the host. Jane kept DEMANDING Mom find her some BIRTH CONTROL PILLS (even then, Jane knew how to piss the NAZI OFF)!!!
The same night Jane fell, I nearly lost my life while sailing north off Manasquan, New Jersey -- I had joined a crew of three who were late getting back to open their summer business on Cape Cod -- they dropped me on Block Island and I took the ferry and called Dad at work in Providence, RI -- and there, Dad's secretary told me they had driven to Chapel Hill, and she sent someon from the office to pick me up and drive me to East Greenwich.
I have blogged about this in detail, and (not meaning to offend any Jews), I have referred to it as my Personal Kristallnacht -- because Jane's boyfriend Lex had NOT locked her pulley to the cable, which is why it failed and she fell -- while my partner in www.WhalesTaleCapeMay.com, Hilary Russel (without her boyfriend and our other active partner, Charles "Chuck" Octavius Pritchard knowing she did this), put a HOMING RADIO BEACON in our ketch -- while Chuck repaired the motor.
We got caught in a really violent storm, and the wind ripped the mainsail and the staysail at the seams. Chuck's repair to the engine held and at one point while I had the helm, I intuitively turned to port. We were in dense fog besides total clouds, and a phantom ship -- a freighter with not even one light shining -- would have sliced us in half, had I not turned. Anyway, we both survived, but Jane did suffer some brain injury, and lost memory of much before then.
Mom had planned that.
Yes, it sounds CRAZY , so it was probably just coincidence . . .
The Weather Continues . . . : My Kenan Family Was MOST Responsible for Putting Trump into Power and for the BREACH of the US Capitol -- as well as in Funding the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University Which was THE HOME BASE of Stacey Abrams's SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN -- LOL!!!
So, you can understand why I am the ONLY ONE who can face the TRUTH about our Mother. I don't blame them, it is NORMAL for the Children of NAZIS to be in DENIAL.
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