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We Own It Weekly – Help save public long-term care!
Help save public long-term care
Ontario government proposes to ban privatized jails
Who keeps Britain's privatized trains running? Europe
Bank drives Puerto Rico's public hydro into debt, then profits from its privatization
1,600 and counting: communities around the world saying yes to public services
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Join We Own It at the Car Rally for Citizens Against the Dump
Time to Care rally for quality long-term care
Kenora Town Hall on Public Services
Every week, OPSEU's We Own It campaign publishes a newsletter called The We Own It Weekly. It's a round-up of news and information about the growing movement to protect communities from privatization.
To receive the newsletter directly, you can sign up for it on the We Own It website. You can also keep in touch with the campaign through its Facebook page and Twitter feed.
And here's the latest issue:
If you or somebody you love were moving into a long-term care facility, would you prefer one that is private or public?
Most would choose public—they're usually better managed and have better staffing levels.
And since public homes aren't out to make a profit, you don't have to worry as much about corner-cutting and rationing.
In Grey County, which includes Owen Sound, citizens are putting up a strong fight to make sure they can continue to choose public long-term care.
County staff and some councillors are pushing a scheme to sell the public Grey Gables long-term care home, and force residents to move into a privately managed facility farther away.
To stop this scheme, citizens are appealing to Health Minister Eric Hoskins, demanding that he protect their right to choose high-quality public long-term care in their community.
Click here to add your voice to their calls for public long-term care. It could help protect or even expand public long-term care in your community, too.
And if public long-term care in your community is in danger of being privatized, please let us know by emailing the details to info@weownit.ca.
Earlier this week, the provincial government introduced new legislation to transform the correctional system. Among other important reforms, the legislation will outright ban the privatization of jails.
More than a decade ago, the province experimented with privately managed jails when it opened the Central North Correctional Facility in Penetanguishene. It was a disaster.
"I'm particularly glad to see the government acknowledging that its public-private partnerships in building and running jails have been utter failures and costly disasters," said OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas in a press release about the legislation.
"The same can be said about its other failed P3 projects. It's time to stop putting taxpayers' dollars into developers' pockets and ensure public infrastructure is built using public workers and public knowhow."
The Legislation, which is called Bill 195, Correctional Services Transformation Act, 2018, has passed first reading.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher promised that privatization would put business-savvy British firms in control of the country's rail network.
But as The New York Times points out: "Of Britain's 23 major train operators, 18 are now foreign-run—16 of them by European Union governments and two by China."
Not only does privatization rob British citizens of billions of pounds in revenues from their railways, it also robs them of control, posing "a startling and unprecedented dilemma thanks to Brexit, which will soon divorce Britain from the state bureaucracies beyond the English Channel that literally keep its economy in motion.
It's a classic move in the privatization playbook: drive a public service into debt and disrepair, and then profit from the privatization that follows.
According to The Intercept, that's exactly what's happening right now with the hydro system in Puerto Rico.
Citi Bank "has been profiting from helping push Puerto Rico over the edge for a long time," says Carrie Sloan, the research director of the Action Center on Race and Economy.
During a conference earlier this month at the University of Philippines, participants heard about the growing momentum around the world to reclaim public services from privatization.
"Over 1,600 cities and municipalities in 45 countries have acted to claim back public utilities and services from private companies," wrote a columnist in BusinessMirror. "Privatization only resulted in spiralling prices, nondelivery of services to the poor and more misery."
Saturday, February 24, 10 am to 2 pm, Spencerville
Tuesday, February 27, 12 noon, Queen's Park, Toronto
Wednesday, April 4, 6:30 p.m., Lakeside Inn, Kenora


The handkerchief is made of a baby blue rayon-type fabric with lace around the outside, folding it open it can be seen that the crest sits in one corner: The crest itself is machine embroidered onto a separate piece of silk that has then been sewn onto the handkerchief with a fancy gold stitch: This suggests the handkerchief is a commercial product rather than a home made handicraft, indeed this is borne out by the very high quality of the embroidery which would be beyond all but the most skilled amateur. It is most likely that the handkerchiefs were produced in bulk and then had different embroidered insignia applied to sell to different troops dependent on their regiments. These would then make attractive and feminine tokens to be given to female relations or sweethearts.
The Duke of Wellington's Regiment was local to the Halifax and Huddersfield area so this handkerchief has not travelled far, as with so much in my collection I imagine this came from a local house clearance when its original owner had sadly died.
This entry was posted in British Army, Home Front, Souvenir, WW2 on August 31, 2015 by hatchfive.
A few weeks back we looked at a pair of ersatz utility straps (here), since then I have managed to pick up a single shoulder brace in the same ersatz canvas material. In form this strap copies the more common webbing examples: The brace is made of a twilled weave and is formed of three parts; the central wider section and the two thinner ends are all separate pieces of material sewn together. As before there is a rubber core to the strap to give strength without sacrificing flexibility. The ends of the brace have brass tips for strength: Interestingly the loop on this brace is not made of the same canvas as the rest of the strap, but rather standard woven webbing: Why the strap has this composite construction is unclear, but it has been seen on other examples so is a common variant. The shoulder brace is marked C.P.Ltd with a /|\ mark and a date of 1942: C.P. was the mark for Caoutchouc Products Ltd. This company seems to have made both standard webbing items and these ersatz forms. Sadly I have just a single shoulder brace, so I am keeping my eyes open for a second example without a loop to complete the pair.
This entry was posted in 37-webbing, British Army, Latest Pick Ups, Webbing, WW2 on August 29, 2015 by hatchfive.
Following on from the officer's 49 pattern battledress blouse we looked at here, a friend of mine has kindly sent pictures of his King's Yorkshire Light Infantry Officer's BD blouse. This differs from my example in being a 1947 pattern blouse rather than the much more common 49 pattern (pictures courtesy of the Andrew Dearlove collection): The 1947 pattern of battledress is quite rare now (and sadly unloved by most collectors); it is a half way house between the wartime 1940 pattern and the National Service Era 49 pattern. The collar can be pressed open to allow it to be worn with a shirt and tie, however it retains the ability to be secured at the neck with a hook and eye in the manner of the old 1940 battledress. This change was a result of officialdom giving in to the unofficial practice of tailoring wartime battledress to allow it to be worn with a tie, rather than a multitude of unregulated changes to army uniform an authorised pattern was introduced. This pattern of blouse also reintroduced the pleats to the pockets on the front that had been deleted as a wartime economy, and a fly covered the buttons up the front, but not those on the pocket flaps. The sleeve was also cut in a slightly fuller style than previous patterns.
This battledress has a number of post war embellishments typical of officers' uniforms, with large divisional patches on both shoulders, regimental rank pips, collar dogs on both lapels and a double lanyard in rifle green worn around the neck under the collar: Sadly this uniform is missing its shoulder titles, but would originally have had these on each shoulder as well. The label on the inside of the blouse shows it is a 1947 pattern blouse, a size 10 and was made by E Raffles & Co Ltd: E Raffles was set up by Emanuel Raffles in Manchester and by the mid twentieth century had a factory in part of the huge Brunswick Mills complex in Ancoats employing over a thousand people: The company was sold out of the family in the 1970s and closed in the 1980s.
This entry was posted in British Army, Post WW2, Uniform on August 28, 2015 by hatchfive.
Tonight we have another family heirloom, my grandfather's 43rd Division patch: As can be seen the 43rd Division adopted a yellow wyvern on a blue background as its formation sign, based on the ancient coat of arms of the Kingdom of Wessex. Both printed and embroidered examples of this badge were in use, but I inherited an embroidered version so clearly that was what my grandfather was given. My grandfather, Harold Paradise, joined the Division as part of the Somerset Light Infantry in the dying days of the Second World War and fought with them through into Germany.
This entry was posted in British Army, Insignia, WW2 on August 27, 2015 by hatchfive.
So, yet another evening to fill my spare time. I was a busy lad!
Jogging through the darkened streets, strenuous exercises, lots of sparring (with bigger and faster boxers), kept us working hard. So it was Tuesday, Thursday drill and weapon training, Wednesdays and weekends band practise, then boxing whenever.
I did enjoy it, though, and a big bonus was when we went to other cadet units, or service camps in military vehicles and had good food at the various cookhouses, food that we could not get at home because of the rationing.
The National ACF Boxing Championships were to be held sometimes and we trained hard to enter the various county heats, so that we could be at the finals. Some of us were successful in reaching the finals, to be held later at the Royal Albert Hall. I was placed in the middleweight class.
In, I think, 1945, there was a big cadet weekend in London, with a parade of units, including many bands and the salute to be taken by HRH The Princess Margaret.
Our band did not take part, but we marched in the parade. By this time, I was a Warrant Officer and the split pin holding my brass badge scratched my right arm and I still have the scar today.
In the heat for the finals, a full programme of boxing was staged at the Drill Hall, with a paying audience and I was dressed in boxing gear. Passing a group of Yorkshire cadets, they called out "Hey, you won't feel a thing when he hits you" and they laughed.
He was a big lad and during the first two rounds he smacked me often and both rounds were judged even. My father was in the audience, so I did not want to lose, so in the third round, and after a big "rocket" from my PE instructor, I went in hard and knocked him out, much to my relief.
Royal Albert Hall, here we come!!! Yippee!!! – But no!
Although I had qualified for the finals by beating the Yorkshire cadet, we received a letter stating that on the actual date of the championships, I would be one month over the age limit, so was eliminated. Yes, I cried with disappointment.
The irony is, that the cadet I knocked out in the semi final, won the championship!! Of course I congratulated him, although with mixed feelings.
Sales of the programme (3d) and entrance fees to the event would have helped support the cadet unit in its day to day running, as central funding was always very limited. Even today cadet forces are charities and rely heavily on volunteers, donations and fundraising events.
This entry was posted in British Army, Documents, Latest Pick Ups, Post WW2 on August 25, 2015 by hatchfive.


"13th annual Cambio de Colores Conference promotes immigrant integration" (June 26, 2014) in the Columbia Missourian.
"Immigration reform in mid-Missouri" - KBIA Intersection, radio and video webcast (April 29, 2013). Discussion about the possible effects of comprehensive immigration reform in Missouri and beyond.
"Notes about Demographic Change & Health" (video, 20 minutes) - Eighth Annual Health Policy Summit "The Social Determinants of Health" - October 29, 2010, Columbia, Missouri.
"Hispanics: Some places more welcoming than others," Sedalia Democrat, February 1st., 2008.
"More than borders - One family split by deportation faces new deadline, new decisions," Columbia Daily Tribune, April 14, 2006.
"Fusing Cultures: Hispanics in Missouri," a television series of news clips about Latinos in Missouri.
"New office at MU to serve Hispanics. Cambio Center taps census trend," Columbia Daily Tribune, October 27, 2004.


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Home / What to See on Route / Ancient Sites
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When walking on any of the routes in South West England you will not be disappointed by the variation of sites you will see. Below we have listed a range of castles, ruins, lighthouses and more that you may see when walking or cycling one of our routes.
South West Coast Path:
Tintagel Castle
A medieval fortification in a spectacular position high on the cliffs. Mythology has the castle associated with King Arthur.
Tintagel Old Post office
A 14th century stone house built to the plan of a medieval manor house.
Zennor Quoit.
A megalithic burial chamber. Local legend has it that the Quoit has mystical powers.
Men-an-Tol.
An iconic Bronze Age stone monument, possibly the start of a stone circle.
Levant Mine and Beam Engine
Part of Cornwall's rich heritage of mining. It has a restored beam engine running on steam.
Geevor Tin Mine
Here you can experience what life was like for a Cornish miner.
Ballowall Barrow
On the cliffs near St Just is the site of a number of stone burial chambers, dating back to 3000BC.
Kenidjack Cliff Castle
One of Cornwall's promontory forts.
Tregiffian Burial Chamber
A Neolithic chambered tomb near Lamorna; unusually the entrance is lined with stone slabs leading into the chamber.
The Merry Maidens,
A late Neolithic stone circle. A local myth suggests that nineteen maidens were turned into stone for dancing on a Sunday!
Chysauster Ancient Village.
This Iron age and Romano-British site is well worth a visit. It was inhabited for four centuries. The village consists of the remains of about 10 Houses, each thirty metres across.
St Michael's Mount
Originally given to the Benedictine Order by Edward the Confessor in the 11th century. It has been the home of the St Aubyn family since 1650 and it is accessible at low tide via a causeway; ferries run from Marazion at high tide.
Halliggye Fogou
One of Cornwall's best-preserved underground dry-stone structures of Iron Age origin.
Pendennis Castle
A fort constructed by Henry VIII in Falmouth to protect against invasion from France and to defend the waterway at the mouth of the river Fal.
St Catherine's Castle
Built in the 1500s and remained in use during the Crimean War and The Second World War to protect the coast from invasion.
Caerhays Castle.
The exterior resembles a Norman castle and parts of the original manor do remain including an ancient chapel and an old walkway to the sea.
Tregantle Fort.
One of the many forts built to protect Britain from the French.
Church of St Peter the Poor Fisherman
Situated in the Village of Noss Mayo and is now a redundant church with Saxon origins.
Start Point Lighthouse
Built in 1836 to protect shipping. It's open to the public in the summer.
Dartmouth Castle
The earliest part dates back to the 1380s. A defence against attacks from the French, it's been updated many times in response to perceived threats both from the French and from the land during the English Civil War.
Kingswear Castle
An artillery fort built between 1491 and 1502 was one of the first purpose-built forts in Britain.
Powderham Castle
Filled with antiques and tapestries, some sections of it date back to the 14th century.
Abbotsbury Castle
An Iron Age hill fort situated on a chalk hill overlooking the English Channel. The fort was occupied by a Celtic tribe until the Romans invaded in AD43.
Built during the reign of Henry VIII it is an important strategic site with gun platforms and great sea views.
Sandsfoot Castle
Another of Henry VIII constructions which now lays in ruins which is said to be one of the best examples of 16th century block houses to survive in the UK.
Nothe Fort
An open museum with a labyrinth of tunnels built in the mid 1800s to protect Portland and Weymouth harbours.
Brownsea Castle
One of Henry VIII forts built to protect Poole Harbour. There are tours available during the summer.
Two Moors Way:
Myrtleberry North Camp
Up on to Exmoor from Lynmouth you will come upon an Iron Age hill fort bounded by steep slopes.
Tarr Steps
A medieval clapper bridge, although some sources believe it might date back to the Bronze Age. It is 55 metres Long and has 17 spans, each stone slab weighing up to 2 tons.
Castle Drogo
Not quite ancient, but was the last Castle to be built in England in the early 1900s
Grimspound
A late Bronze Age settlement surrounded by a low stone wall, inside of which are twenty-four hut circles or round houses.
Newbridge, River Dart
A grade two listed medieval bridge just south of Holne.
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You are here: Home / Michalopulos Blog / Just Sayin'
December 9, 2015 by Gail Sheppard
It's been rather comical watching the Ruling Class have a collective nervous breakdown over The Donald's recent recommendations regarding the banning of all Moslems from entering the country. It's especially delicious to see the Republicans trip up all over themselves trying to be the first to condemn their front-runner.
To take collective action against an entire group of people can't be done. It's unconstitutional we are told.
Except that it has. And when a Democrat does it, it's not unconstitutional.
Let us take a trip down Memory Lane, when another president did exactly that. (No, I'm not talking about FDR and his internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.)
Source: The American Presidency Project
Sanctions Against Iran Remarks Announcing U.S. Actions.
Ever since Iranian terrorists imprisoned American Embassy personnel in Tehran early in November, these 50 men and women—their safety, their health, and their future—have been our central concern. We've made every effort to obtain their release on honorable, peaceful, and humanitarian terms, but the Iranians have refused to release them or even to improve the inhumane conditions under which these Americans are being held captive.
The events of the last few days have revealed a new and significant dimension in this matter. The militants controlling the Embassy have stated they are willing to turn the hostages over to the Government of Iran, but the Government has refused to take custody of the American hostages. This lays bare the full responsibility of the Ayatollah Khomeini and the Revolutionary Council for the continued illegal and outrageous holding of the innocent hostages. The Iranian Government can no longer escape full responsibility by hiding behind the militants at the Embassy.
It must be made clear that the failure to release the hostages will involve increasingly heavy costs to Iran and to its interests. I have today ordered the following steps.
First, the United States of America is breaking diplomatic relations with the Government of Iran. The Secretary of State has informed the Government of Iran that its Embassy and consulates in the United States are to be closed immediately. All Iranian diplomatic and consular officials have been declared persona non grata and must leave this country by midnight tomorrow.
Second, the Secretary of the Treasury will put into effect official sanctions prohibiting exports from the United States to Iran, in accordance with the sanctions approved by 10 members of the United Nations Security Council on January 13 in the resolution which was vetoed by the Soviet Union. Although shipment of food and medicine were not included in the U.N. Security Council vote, it is expected that exports even of these items to Iran will be minimal or nonexistent.
Third, the Secretary of Treasury will make a formal inventory of the assets of the Iranian Government, which were frozen by my previous order, and also will make a census or an inventory of the outstanding claims of American citizens and corporations against the Government of Iran. This accounting of claims will aid in designing a program against Iran for the hostages, for the hostage families, and other U.S. claimants. We are now preparing legislation, which will be introduced in the Congress, to facilitate processing and paying of these claims.
Fourth, the Secretary of Treasury [State] and the Attorney General will invalidate all visas issued to Iranian citizens for future entry into the United States, effective today. We will not reissue visas, nor will we issue new visas, except for compelling and proven humanitarian reasons or where the national interest of our own country requires. This directive will be interpreted very strictly.
In order to minimize injury to the hostages, the United States has acted at all times with exceptional patience and restraint in this crisis. We have supported Secretary-General Waldheim's activities under the U.N. Security Council mandate to work for a peaceful solution. We will continue to consult with our allies and other friendly governments on the steps we are now taking and on additional measures which may be required.
I am committed to resolving this crisis. I am committed to the safe return of the American hostages and to the preservation of our national honor. The hostages and their families, indeed all of us in America, have lived with the reality and the anguish of their captivity for 5 months. The steps I have ordered today are those that are necessary now. Other action may become necessary if these steps do not produce the prompt release of the hostages.
Note: The President spoke at 3:10 p.m. to reporters assembled in the Briefing Room at the White House.
Mark E. Fisus says
Carter banned people from a country, not from a specific religion.
Yes, and it was a generalized ban at that.
You are all missing the point: what Trump did was raise the stakes of the debate so that now even his critics admit that the President has plenary powers to restrict immigration based on a whole variety of criteria.
If he had said "we should only restrict all Syrians" people would have condemned him nonetheless. Now even his critics assume that restrictions are valid –something they wouldn't have done before.
It's a brilliant negotiating tactic. And it's working.
Bishop Tikhon (Fitzgerald) says
George, you should read what you wrote:
"he Donald's recent recommendations regarding the banning of all Moslems from entering the country"
See that "ALL MUSLIMS?" WHY ARE YOU WRIGGLING AROUND ABOUT "GENERALIZING IRAN?"
Well, Japan and Israel ban ALL Moslems from emigrating. Just sayin'.
"From EMIGRATING? They insist on KEEPING THEM?
Neither Japan nor Israel claims to be a Christian nation, as so many native jingoists like to claim about America!
Just because a nation is Christian doesn't mean that it can't have an immigration policy. Anymore than it can't have a court system ("judge not lest ye be judged") or a defense ministry ("he who lives by the sword dies by the sword").
Bishop Tikon I agree wit you.. Isreal is next door to lots of Moslem countries and some of them have express its annihilation of Isreal.. I don't understand George's support for a mean sprit person like Trump. If he wanted a person on the right, Ted Cruz is a lot more conservative than Donald Trump. Trump is only conservative on immigration. At one time Trump proposed to seize 14 percent of the assets of wealthy persons which sounds like something Bernie Sanders would do.
cynthia The failed Iranian politician Ahmadi-nejad did indeed express his hope that Israel would be wiped off the map. As you and I know, the USSR was wiped off all maps in the last century. Wiping anything off any map does not mean annihilating it!
Matt says
From "emigrating"?
Japan and Israel ban just about everybody from *immigrating* but it has nothing to do with Muslims in particular. At least they're consistent.
That's not true. Anybody who is not a Moslem can apply for residency to either Japan or Israel. Granted, it is difficult –exceedingly difficult–to go through the process, but there is no blanket bar against any group of people –except Moslems.
Let us relish the hypocrisy of this regarding the case of Israel: an Arab man who is descended from generations of Palestinian inhabitants, and who is an actual citizen of Israel, with full voting rights, served in the IDF, and even can stand for the Knesset, can NOT bring his Moslem wife (from say, Jordan) to live in Israel or even the Occupied Territories.
And Bibi Netanyahu condemns Trump for his blanket, temporary ban on Moslem immigration? Can you say chutzpah?
Nate Trost says
Japan has no religious restrictions for residency or citizenship. There is no Japanese ban on Muslims or Islam. You never fail to fail to do your homework.
Israel is, of course, a very special snowflake (and, of course, if you travel to Israel and also elsewhere in the middle-East, it's really best to have two passports, and *not* just for the Israelis).
http://www.snopes.com/muslims-in-japan/
I guess it's just "Another Narrative Fail" by George.
Wrong again Matt: http://chersonandmolschky.com/2015/04/13/islamic-terrorism-japan/
Amusingly, Mr. Michalopulos own link proves his assertions wrong. He doesn't even read his hastily googled attempts at refutation!
And yet, the reality on the ground is that (and I'm gonna type real slow here): no Moslem is allowed to immigrate to Japan.
Tell you what, let's use the same verbiage the Japanese (and Israelis) do while abiding by the actual facts on the ground. I'd be ok with that.
LOL. You make it too easy.
Even these people, whoever they are, say that: "Officially, immigration to Japan is not closed to Muslims. But the number of the immigration permits given to the applicants from Islamic countries is very low."
You said:
"Anybody who is not a Moslem can apply for residency to either Japan or Israel. Granted, it is difficult –exceedingly difficult–to go through the process, but there is no blanket bar against any group of people –except Moslems."
George, just admit your original statement was in error.
"apply for residency" – or citizenship? Which form of migration are you talking about? Those are two different things.
Japan and Israel ban just about everybody from *immigrating*
They don't discriminate. They just hate everyone.
Japan has barely enough arable land to feed its population. That is why even Eastern Orthodox Japanese cremate the dead (the ashes are brought to Church for 40 days),
Contrast them with Texas!
one says
Prediction: After the next extremist attack–a school, a theater, a shopping mall–Donald Trump is going to look like Albert Einstein. He can see today what you'll see tomorrow; in two months, you're going to hold the exact same opinion.
Trump realizes that we are at war; he's prescient. A temporary halt in Muslim immigration to get our bearings is urgently needed. Anything else is suicide. More and more, Trump is reminding me of Winston Churchill.
O yeah:
8 U.S. Code § 1182 – Inadmissible aliens
(3) Security and related grounds
(A) In general Any alien who a consular officer or the Attorney General knows, or has reasonable ground to believe, seeks to enter the United States to engage solely, principally, or incidentally in—
(i) any activity (I) to violate any law of the United States relating to espionage or sabotage or (II) to violate or evade any law prohibiting the export from the United States of goods, technology, or sensitive information,
(ii) any other unlawful activity, or
(iii) any activity a purpose of which is the opposition to, or the control or overthrow of, the Government of the United States by force, violence, or other unlawful means,
is inadmissible.
(B) Terrorist activities
(i) In general Any alien who—
(I) has engaged in a terrorist activity;
(II) a consular officer, the Attorney General, or the Secretary of Homeland Security knows, or has reasonable ground to believe, is engaged in or is likely to engage after entry in any terrorist activity (as defined in clause (iv));
(III) has, under circumstances indicating an intention to cause death or serious bodily harm, incited terrorist activity;
(IV) is a representative (as defined in clause (v)) of—
(aa) a terrorist organization (as defined in clause (vi)); or
(bb) a political, social, or other group that endorses or espouses terrorist activity;
(V) is a member of a terrorist organization described in subclause (I) or (II) of clause (vi);
(VI) is a member of a terrorist organization described in clause (vi)(III), unless the alien can demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that the alien did not know, and should not reasonably have known, that the organization was a terrorist organization;
(VII) endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization;
(VIII) has received military-type training (as defined in section 2339D(c)(1) of title 18) from or on behalf of any organization that, at the time the training was received, was a terrorist organization (as defined in clause (vi)); or
(IX) is the spouse or child of an alien who is inadmissible under this subparagraph, if the activity causing the alien to be found inadmissible occurred within the last 5 years,
"a school, a theater, a shopping mall"
I think white Americans born right here in this country have attacked all of these places by now, but nobody in their right minds would say we're at war with whiteness.
Terry Myles says
Winston Churchill?!?! Seriously, Winston Churchill!!!!
aka says
Not the same thing at all. Invalidating "all visas issued to Iranian citizens" is different than doing so for all Muslims. States and religions are different things. And Trump didn't clarify his remarks regarding Americans who also happen to be Muslim until the next day, which would have put him in the equally shameful position as FDR relative to his treatment of American citizens of Japanese descent. However, it's easier to determine national origin than religious affiliation, and freedom of religion is enshrined in the First Amendment whereas national origin lacks such protection.
I know thoughtful, comprehensive writing is typically eschewed here, but a more appropriate, pertinent piece for you to have posted is Peter J. Spiro's Op-Ed, "Trump's Plan Is Awful. And Constitutional." in the New York Times: http://nyti.ms/1lur0XU.
George, you messed up and got it all wrong! NO ONE is objecting to banning ANY group as such. That big draft-dodging SISSY,, Donald Trump, wants to ban those who are faithful to a specific RELIGION., We object, or should object, to banning any group ON THE BASIS OF THEIR RELIGION! THAT is what is UNPRECEDENTED and anti=American about that draft-dodging SISSY's outburst!
That draft-dodging Sissy, Donnie Trump, IS NOT AN ORACLE!
That draft-dodging Sissy, Donnie Trump, has attacked one of our Four Freedoms.
That was even too much for the Republican SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE! Are you more politicall discerning than Mr Ryan?
I must disagree, your Grace.
The time has come to eschew self destructive political correctness that would welcome in those who seek our destruction and use logic and common sense to help insure that doesn't happen.
What Mohammad's hordes couldn't do through strength of arms (Lepanto, Malta, Vienna) they are now doing by exploiting our suicidal "tolerance" and immigration policy.
Enough already.
"Steven!" Should we blow up the Statue of Liberty or just scrape off her words? Does she realize she's foisting a suicidal policy on us?
Your Grace-
Well she is a statue so I don't think she realizes her error 🙂
Personally I don't subscribe to many of the Enlightenment and Masonic principles that our country was founded upon or which the Statue of Liberty represents so that point is rather moot as far as I am concerned.
The fact is that no nation is obligated to undermine her own safety by allowing those who wish us harm to freely enter. And I don't believe for one second that we will be able to screen them all out.
Thomas Barker says
The Statue of Liberty is one of the largest idols ever constructed. It represents the pagan goddess Libertas of the Romans. And we know what the gods of the pagans are.
ReaderEmanuel says
Your Grace, you are making the same error that so many of the people in this country and elsewhere are making. Islam is not simply a religion. It's also a socio-economic way of life, just like socialism, communism, capitalism, or any other kind of "ism". And that way of life is completely incompatible with ours. We have many laws that go against what Islam teaches. They have Sharia, which would be abhorrent to the average westerner. Trump does not wish to ban them because of their religion per se, he wants to ban them because of their social ideology.
:ReaderEmanuel"! You said, " Islam is not simply a religion. " You are confusing "religion" with "belief system"
Religion is not simple at all.
You said, "We have many laws that go against what Islam teaches." Name acouple of those laws of ours that go against what Islam teaches.
You said "They have Sharia, which would be abhorrent to the average westerner." Most Muslims in the world do NOT have shariah. Only those Bush Buddies, the Saudis!
Why didn't Donny Trump explain his reason for wanting to ban Muslims to somebody besides you? And WHY is he more worthy than Muslims to be an American?
Monk James says
This essay's comparison of Donald Trump's suggestion that the US reject the visa applications of all Muslims with the US's rejection of irani visa applications in1980 puts the two in false apposition.
And this apposition is just as false when Trump invokes the US's anti-Axis movements during WW2.
The cognitive dissonance here is the result of identifying state-issued credentials with religious affiliations, or apples with oranges, as they say.
On the other hand, were Trump to suggest that the US reject the visa applications of citizens of Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, we would at least then have an exact parallel.
It's far from clear that such a shift in american foreign policy would deflect terrorists, nor would a wholesale blockage of syrian refugees.
Sending in the infantry or the air force will inevitably result in an unthinkable number of non-combatant casualties, so that's not a good option.
What might be of help, though, is for the US to partner with Russia and our european allies to send in 'surgical strike' teams ('Black Ops', 'Special Ops') to make Syria (e.g.) a safer place by neutralizing/removing the antagonists of the troubles there, whether motivated by fanatic and false religions or otherwise. Perhaps then there won't be so many desperate refugees.
NOTE: I am NOT advocating murder. That's what the bad guys do, and we Christians must strive to avoid taking human life.
Ages says
Trump has spoken repeatedly about creating safe zones in Syria so that we don't have refugees.
I think that's a good idea. Once these Christian cities are abandoned, they will never be Christian again.
Lazarus says
U.S. Code › Title 8 › Chapter 12 › Subchapter II › Part II › § 1182
"Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President"
"Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate."
Yo says
Sanctions against a foreign country and barring immigration by race are completely unrelated.
Is Islam now a race? O good.
Of course, Islam is not a race. It's adherents, in fact, pride themselves on being non racist and color blind. I was referring to George's original comment. At the time I wrote the one liner, it appeared as if lmine was the first comment. George stated:
Anthony says
Islam is not a race.
I hear many pundits state Trump's proposal is unconstitutional. They are absolutely wrong, as non-citizens have no constitutional rights. America can close the borders to all immigrants today and nothing in the Constitution would be violated. Also, how many are really going to not vote for Trump due to this proposal? The Muslims and PC liberals who wouldn't vote for him anyway. The average American is not going to be heartbroken if another Muslim is never again allowed in this country.
You might want to be real careful here George, Remember these evangelical zionists that you so adore appear unable to separate middle eastern Christians with real complaints over Israeli policy from Muslims they label terrorists. I know the xenophobia warms your little heart, but it might come back to smack middle Eastern Orthodox as well.
Mark, I have had some disagreements with those Evangelicals. It's on the record.
Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or non-immigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.
Michael Warren says
A nation which cannot secure its borders which encourages hostile immigration for political ends will end up dissolving itself. Most Syrian refugees are people fleeing war and terror enabled by electric Uncle Sam. Others, however, are the terror implements of police state ambitions and policy by false flag and funded and trained and armed by Emperor Obama for political ends. Since the conversation has been intentionally sabotaged by American liberals for authoritarian ends which represent a direct threat to the American people, a policy restricting settlement of these refugees coupled with a new, political dialogue in America is the only safe course to follow from this point.
Trump/Wall 2016 says
Christians and Moslems are prohibited from permanently settling in Israel due to their racist laws. Furthermore, Israeli law bars all Moslems from Iran, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip from entering Israel, even if they are married to Israeli citizens.
Well, that draft-dodging sissy, Donnie Trump, with his anti-Christian exhortation to ban all Muslims from immigrating, has done it again—-but his basest of all bases will still sing his praises.and put jesuitry and casuistry in the shade, by claiming his willingness to speak unspeakable nonsense is NOBLE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD!
People compare his blowhardiness to that of Mussolini! It's unfair to Mussolini who served his own country in uniform at least and didn't brag about his cunning. Even Hitler served!
The Republicans are scraping the bottom of the barrel with their many,many hopefuls. Perhaps history,once again repeating itself will have the ignorant find their refuge in a half-baked, draft-dodging sissy demagogue!
Daniel E Fall says
You are on fire Bishop Tikhon!
Thanks for the truth and the laugh.
Fr. Blues says
Fitz: Speaking of demagogues, your protege Obama served in the military when?
There is a vast difference between not volunteering and five deferrments. Right or wrong, at least slick willy's deferrments were for vocal opposition.
There are a host of more respectable candidates on the other side. And if they weren't so busy pandering to the base by slamming Obama, maybe they might come off as cogent.
(I like Christie and Rubio, but Rubio's response to the Oval Office speech of late was poorly done)
OOM says
Right or wrong, at least slick willy's deferrments were for vocal opposition.
When did ANYONE'S "vocal opposition" to ANYTHING earn that person a draft deferment???????
Correction noted.
Slick Willy's deferments were for education. However, he was VERY vocally opposed and discussed his objections in a paper. I made a mistake reflecting on his opposition as reasons. I voted for Slick Willy, but was disappointed in him for the Lewinsky matter.
"Fr Blues," I'm not the one who spoke of anyone, such as Donny Trump, as a "demagogue" YOU ARE!
If I HAD to, I'd prefer to categorize him as a kind of generic blowhard. President Obama was not a sissy draft-dodger.
Fitz; Quit while you can. YOU DID write the following quotation while referring to Trump as a draft-dodging sissy:
It appears to me your dementia is in full swing. You are however correct regarding Obummer's not being a draft dodger. I never said he was. The draft ended in 1973 and he would have only been 12 years old at the time. He is something far worse; he is a radical Marxist with an Islamic mindset hell bent on destroying the greatest nation the world has ever known.
By the way, you really seem to have an unhealthy obsession with Texas and its conservative political climate . The transparent hatred your have for the state is apparent to anyone who reads your vicious comments on this blog.
Fr. Blurs, don't be silly! Anyone who thinks President Obama is a radical Marxist could probably not define Marxism at all, and if he SAID it….more to be pitied than blamed.
I do think Donny Trump is a draft-dodging sissy, and I know what draft-dodging is, while everybody knows what a sissy is.
As for Texas: I'm not obsessed with it: it's just the only state that is always huffing and puffing in the headlines, like its politicians. I' would LOVE not having to deal with it any more than with South Dakota or Vermont!. I used to love attending St Seraphim in Dallas from 1961-65. I also had a close friend in the service with me from Houston.
If something is transparent, it's apparent. Not a discovery of note…
I apologize for denying I identified Donny Trump as a demagogue! I did that, and I still do! In the meantime he cattily claimed that Mrs. Clinton got :shlonged!" What an example of Great America!
You all don't seem to get it, yet. There are no good guys. Satan's kingdom is always divided against itself, and the US and NATO are certainly part of it. The 10 kings of the Antichrist hate the great whore and make her desolate and burn her with fire. The great whore and the 10 kings of the Antichrist are all part of Satan's kingdom. Nationalism, serves only itself, and it lives in each nation, ignoring the Word of God, building the beast in competition with the other nations. The 10 kings are horns, religions. Taoism, Hinduism, Judaism, Confucianism,Buddhism, 5 fallen, One is, Authentic Christianity,. The 1 to come Pseudo Christianity)is broken up into 4 parts, fallen Christianity, Orthodoxy, mostly by warfare, from the 1st and 2nd horsemen, Islam, Communism, Catholicism, obvious, Protestantism, having a righteousness of a sort, and the New Age Movement.
These unite under the false prophet, the Pope in Ecumenism. The great i whore is the godless secular humanism which leads to occultism, which is unending conflict with any religious values. These are the king of the South and the King of the North who contend in the end of the world. The fallen religious will destroy the secular humanism ( and occultism) of the mark of the beast. But Antichrist will be destroyed by the Stone not made with human hands, The Royal Law ,which forces the sower to reap what he sowed, destroying death by death..
The brilliance of the Holy Scripture is beyond human conception, no man is this perfectly truthful, having no variation. The Ancient of Days will come, and the Kingdom will be given to the Saints.. End of Story, but the beginning of Life Eternal in God's Holy Restoration of His Fallen Creation. Nothing, absolutely nothing can stop this Holy Restoration.
You are completely right, but the Church has never held that nation-states are irrelevant. They have a duty to their citizens to protect and serve. They do not have a duty to import every potential ne'er-do-well from across the globe.
Touche! In Deuteronomy we are told that "the nations are the adornment of creation" and that every nation has an angel assigned to it. Until the Kingdom which is to come finally arrives, nations are the God-sanctioned order for mankind.
It only begs the question of what "nations" means. Certainly a nation in the time in which Deuteronomy was written was vastly different from the nation-states that arose over the last two centuries. Even "France" as a "nation" in fact as well as name is something that came into existence only between 1870 and 1914 (read Eugen Weber's book Peasants to Frenchmen).
"Why do the nations rage?"
I liked the bit about each nation having an angel assigned to it that George unearthed from the Torah! The Jews' association with Zoroastrians was not a complete bust, then!
We should have realized that during the War! We could have prayed that the Angels of Germany, Japan, and Italy would come to our aid. Which Angel was assigned to Maoist China?
What happened to the Angel of Sparta? Of the Etruscans? Of the Incas? of the Aztecs? Of the Neanderthalers? Of the Mongol Horde?
Your Grace,
Was there not a powerful evil spirit ("the prince of the kingdom") assigned to Persia, as described by the angel who visited the Prophet Daniel? The angel Michael joined in the struggle against the dark angel of Persia. From the Book of Daniel, Chapter 10:
12 Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.
13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
14 Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.
According to the Holy Glorious Prophet Isaiah, The King of Persia, Cyrus (Persian: Kurush: Greeks can't say 'SHibboleth) is God's ANOINTED. God was called "Lord of Light" by the Persians "Ahura Mazda", He was, indeed, oposed by the evil Ahriman—no doubt Daniel's "evil spirit. The Jews did, apparently, get (or refine their concept of) angels and Satan from the Persians.
The angel of the Republic of Texas has clearly been disproving the theology that angels aren't subject to carnal temptations by going on the longest cocaine bender in history.
Jim of Olym says
Now I know why the Apocalypse of St. John is not read liturgically! Thank you, Mr. Kinsey
It was the very last book to be accepted, albeit reluctantly, as canonical in the East. with the limitation of not being read in Church. The Roman Church accepted iinto their canon of Scripture much earlier.
The Epistle of James was the last book to be accepted by the Roman Church, albeit reluctantly. It had been accepted in the East much earlier. One might almost call it a compromise :swap!"
Modern Greeks and Americans got very interested in Revelations–some now even PREACH sermons based on it!!!!!!!
Boris Jojic says
Didn't Luther want to remove the Epistle of St.James from the Canon of Scripture? He couldn't quite suceed,but moved it to the back of the New Testament where hr hoped few would read it !
Right, Boris! Dr Luther called it the Epistle of STRAW!
Boris Jojic is almost right, but might better study some more. May the Lord bless him to do that.
Luther had nothing to do with the sequence of the books of the New Testament as we now have it, orthodox and otherwise.
Peter A. Papoutsis says
The Apocalypse of St. John may not be read liturgically, but much of the symbolism in Orthodox Temples come from the Apocalypse of St. John. Further, a number of Church Fathers, like St. Andrew of Ceasarea, have published whole commentaries on it. In fact a very good Orthodox Commentary on the Apocalypse of St. John can be found here:
The Apocalypse of St. John
Archpriest Alexander F. C. Webster says
I share your deep respect, Peter, for the Apocalypse of St. John, a biblical text often studiously avoided in Orthodox communities perhaps owing to its invisibility in our lectionary.
Earlier this year at St. Herman of Alaska Orthodox Church (ROCOR) in Stafford, VA, I finally concluded a parish adult Bible study of the last book of the New Testament, which spanned 63 Wednesday evening class sessions! We obviously took our time and studied the text carefully, with attention to historic misinterpretations, appropriate applications to current events and ecclesial trends, personal anecdotes, and other worthwhile excursi. We also used, as a very readable but historically and hermeneutically rich secondary text, Fr. Lawrence Farley's The Apocalypse of St. John in Ancient Faith Publishing's "Orhodoxy Bible Study Companion Series."
The one constant theme in the Apocalypse (or Book of Revelation) is perseverance. That is a spiritual counsel pertinent to all circumstances and eras and one that we faithful Christians ought to heed, in particular, in the dark days ahead in this country.
Fr Webster:
"the Apocalypse of St. John, a biblical text often studiously avoided in Orthodox communities perhaps owing to its invisibility in our lectionary."
Seems to me the Church Fathers mostly gave that book a pass as well. Or is there a commentary on the book by a Church Father that Fr Webster recommends?
More Latin Church Fathers than Greek provided commentaries extant today.
Perhaps the best of the former was the Venerable Bede's in the 8th century; English translations are readily available in paperback. Full commentaries in Greek by Oecumenios of Constantinople and Andrew of Caesarea in the 6th century are also available in English translation, most recently in a single volume in the excellent Ancient Christian Texts series translated by William C. Weinrich, edited by Thomas C. Oden (a distinguished Methodist scholar who respects the patristic heritage), and published in 2011 by InterVarsity Press.
A modern Orthodox commentary by Archbishop Averky of Holy Trinity Seminary (Jordanville) was published in English in 1987, but that slim volume relies heavily on Andrew of Caesarea.
That is correct. To add Prof. Jeannie Constantinou also recently provided an English translation of St. Andrew of Ceasarea's commentary currently available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Thanks! I'm sure various Greek speaking PEOPLE have commented on Revelations And Venerable Bede was an excellent historian. Are the Greek commentators cited considered to be Church Fathers in the Orthodox Church?
M. Stankovich says
You beat me to the punch, Fr. Alexander, in noting Vladyka Averky's commentary. While it indeed is a "slim" volume, it is a powerful overview for and guide for those undertaking an initial reading the Apocalypse of St. John, written by a father of our generation.
Amen, and Amen. Thank you Father. May you have a blessed up coming feast of the Nativity. Please keep me and my family in your prayers.
Forgot Islam, demonic from the start. That makes 10 kings
Islam is not demonic.
Rather, as St John of Damascus tells us, it is a heresy.
Islam worships our God, but we believe and reach that Islam and its teachings about God are mistaken.
The Church of Russia carries on a continuing dialogue with the higher clergy of Islam in the Islamic Republic of Iran, I don't think even Mr Kinsey would accuse the Russian Church of holding friendly dialogues with the demonic!!!
The Russian clergy meet annually with those Muslim clergy for many years, Of course their dialogue with the Islamic clergy of the various nations in the Russian Federation is of much longer standing.Thanks to ISLAM and Muslim shariah-observant Islamic governments, the monastery of St Catherine on Mt Sinai exists for centuries upon centuries; moreover, since that monastery was protected from Iconoclastic Constantinople, the holy icons there and elsewhere in the Muslim Middle East, made not with egg tempera, but through the original medium of wax-caustic, survive as well. Without such Islamic protection and shelter such treasures would have bee lost forever!
Vatican issues new directive for Jewish-Christian Dialogue.
I love this quote:
"In concrete terms this means that the Catholic Church neither conducts nor supports any specific institutional mission work directed towards Jews. While there is a principled rejection of an institutional Jewish mission, Christians are nonetheless called to bear witness to their faith in Jesus Christ also to Jews, although they should do so in a humble and sensitive manner, acknowledging that Jews are bearers of God's Word, and particularly in view of the great tragedy of the Shoah."
So no mission to the Jews, the Jews do not need the Gospel, and the Epistle to the Hebrews didn't mean what it meant.
Welcome to Babylon!
lexcaritas says
Peter, it is better not to rely on synopses or statements by liberal Jesuits. Furthermore, your own short-hand is goes too far. The document doesn't say "no mission" to the Jews. It says no "institutional" mission to them. It doesn't say they don't "need" the Gospel or Christ. It may say that to the Hebrews doesn't mean exclusively or exactly what we are used to thinking it does.
I need to read the document more carefully and in toto but I think it says that Catholics should witness to their faith but not undertake "organized efforts" to convert Jews.
Charitably, we could say this is in part a recognition of the grace that flows unmerited from being descended from faithful Abraham and from being custodians of the Torah entrusted to them by Christ through Moses. I see there is a companion statement recently issued by certain Orthodox Rabbis acknowledging that Christianity as part of God's plan to save the human race. May that perception on their part grow and transform their thinking more and more . . .
One could see the document as a recognition that one catches more flies with honey than with vinegar. In my experience of (dare I say it) many decades, it is hard to deny the Church as a whole, laity and many clergy alike, have a thin understanding of the Torah and little appreciation for Judaism–which they find it impossible to view or hear in a friendly light. In many cases, our perception rises to out-right animosity, rationalized by a stereo-typical, flattened misreading of the Gospel accounts and an ignorance of (i.e. little first-hand experience with) both the Torah and the early Mishna and midrashim the discursive approach to learning and argument favored for millenia by Jewish educational institutions.
This is not to say that Jewish people do not need Christ–as do all men–nor that they do not suffer from their inability to believe in the Incarnate God and the Holy Trinity. But the question for the Church is whether God is calling us to a new and more effective way to present Him Who is the Way, the Truth and the Life to them in a way that they can see and know Him, and whereby the veil will at last be lifted, as St. Paul says, from their heart. So that all Israel may be saved.
Another question, which is like it is: What can we, as Christians–yes, Orthodox Christians–learn from them and their preservation of the Torah, which few of us hardly know with any degree of intimacy because we are convinced that it has been effectively abrogated and render null and void, even though our Lord told us he came not to destroy the Law or the Prophets but to fulfill them, that not one jot or tittle would be lost, and that He is the telos of the Law (not so much its temporal end as its spiritual objective). Could what they know help us in any way come closer to achieving that objective? Can we help them achieve the goal by the witness of our own Faith in Him.
Actually I have read the new Vatican document and have prepared a formal response to this utter heresy. Once I polish it up and have it reviewed I will offer it to George for publication I'd he so chooses. Suffice it to say that I was being very charitable to the Vatican's new heretical document. I suggest you read it yourself as I did and if you are not horrified I would greatly suggest you re-examine the New Testament.
I look forward to publishing it.
Funny how the Fed is wanting to raise Interest rates now at the end of President Obama's term in office?
Fed to raise Interest rates.
Hmmmmmm?
Low oil prices can drive inflation. Not to mention the fear of rising interest rates is a subjective, but effective economic stimulus.
When interest rates are low; they can only stay flat or rise. If they were ten percent; there might be three directions. Classicly, the Fed is very conservative.
Interest rates were horrible during the Carter term.
Interest rates have been ridiculously low for years. When we bought the house we still live in in 1979, the mortgage was 10 percent….
Zero interest is great for people with no money.
I respectfully disagree. Also, and this coming from someone who was raised and education from oil and gas funds as my father, and later me, had to deal with various middle-men Petroleum companies when we ran our gas station. The rising of oil prices have less to do with supply and demand and more to do with how much profit an oil company wants to make in any given quarter.
Low oil prices can drive inflation.
Huh? Lower prices ARE DE-flation.
The relationship between lower oil and lower inflation or deflation has really never been shown. The relationship between rising oil is more certain, but cheap gas can heat the economy. Judging by the numbers of cars on the roads, the economy is at a good clip.
In more general terms, the worst rates I rrcall were under the one term Carter. Some conspiracy.
The relationship between lower oil and lower inflation or deflation has really never been shown.
PAY CLOSE ATTENTION. BY DEFINITION LOWER PRICES ARE DEFLATION.
Here is a quick synopsis of the Here…er…mystery of Jewish salvation without Jesus Christ:
Vatican Issues new directive towards the Jews.
Cy says
Both Judaism and Islam pretty much reject the Gospels of Mathew Mark Luke and John, the overwhelming content of them anyway if not actually everything altogether. While the "Issa" that the Moslems refer to may pertain to the Historical Jesus he is a complete fiction apart from the Gospels. They have their "Issa" in judgement times wielding a cross as a weapon against christians and in judgment against them, something really crazy like that in their eschatology. Judaism still maintains that someone rolled back the rock covering Jesus's tomb and escaped with His body, "so that the last heresy may be greater than the first" if I have that worded correctly, should be pretty close.
Judaism and Islam actually are somewhat similar religions themselves, both being "monotheistic" having no "Trinitarian" conception at any level. When the Catholics already about a thousand years ago decided to also make their doctrine teach that the Holy Spirit "proceeds" from the Son as well as from the Father then they did create a kind of miss-mash of the Holy Trinity, confusing what were the very well Church defined Three Persons of the Holy Trinity. Roman Catholicism way back then had already theologically brought itself closer to the monotheism of Judaism and Islam. Of course St. Photius was the Saint who definitively explained the heresy of the 'filioue.' So really, particularly post Vatican ll not much surprise Roman Catholicism, Judaism and Islam are finding so much in common.
Hard to prove, that last paragraph. But who needs proof?
Well common, prove what, "last paragraph,(?)" which part? On a blog such as this kind where folks go back and forth 30-40 times on a single item who is "proving" what to whom? It's a blog, not a technical handbook. Usually, people will put forth certain things known to be generally factually true, of course 'maybe,' and then draw something from that.
Ok, from OrthodoxWiki maybe this can help:
"Objections on doctrinal grounds
It is contrary to Scripture, particularly in John 15:26: "But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me." Thus, Christ never describes the Holy Spirit as proceeding from himself, but only mentions the Spirit's procession in terms of the Father.
The justifications for including the filioque in the Creed—bolstering the divinity of the Son and emphasizing the unity of the Trinity—are redundant, given the original wording of the Creed. That is, the Son already is described as "light of light, very God of very God," and so forth. The Spirit also "with the Father and Son together is worshiped and glorified." Additionally, the Creed itself begins with a statement of belief in "one God."
The filioque distorts Orthodox Triadology by making the Spirit a subordinate member of the Trinity. Traditional Triadology consists in the notion that for any given trait, it must be either common to all Persons of the Trinity or unique to one of them. Thus, Fatherhood is unique to the Father, while begottenness is unique to the Son, and procession unique to the Spirit. Godhood, however, is common to all, as is eternality, uncreatedness, and so forth. Positing that something can be shared by two Persons (i.e., being the source of the Spirit's procession) but not the other is to elevate those two Persons at the expense of the other. Thus, the balance of unity and diversity is destroyed.
Given the previous objection, the repercussions to the acceptance of the filioque into church life are potentially massive. Because how we relate to God is significantly affected by what we believe about him, false beliefs lead to damaging spirituality. One objection often raised about Filioquist theology is that it undermines the role of the Holy Spirit in the Church. Thus, with his role being denigrated, his traditional ministries are effaced or replaced. The Church's unity becomes dependent on an office, spirituality becomes adherence to the letter of the law rather than its spirit, sacraments come to be understood in terms of validity, and a spirit of legalism prevails.
Objections on canonical and historical grounds
Though not really a question of heresy, a common objection is to the means of inserting the filioque into the Creed. That is, unlike the original adoption of the Creed at Nicea and its subsequent revision at Constantinople, the decision to include the filioque in the Creed was not done by an Ecumenical Council. Rather, it was initially inserted by the Third Synod of Toledo, Spain (589).
Rome resisted the inclusion of the filioque for centuries. Leo III, the Pope of Rome at the time the filioque began its history in Western theology, strongly advised against its inclusion, even though he agreed with the soundness and validity of the doctrine contained in filioque. Later, however, Rome contradicted its previous more Orthodox stance by the promulgation of the filioque, thus anathematizing its own spiritual forebears."
Cy, picking up on your excellent exposition on the Filioque, we could say that the logical end of this novelty is that because the Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son, they are in fact two separate and co-equal gods, each of which has the power to produce the Spirit from within them.
We can go even further: because the "Father" implies arche, then the "Son" –who is begotten–is now a lesser god, one who could produce the Spirit but to a lesser extent than the Father.
In essence, we would be legitimizing polytheism (or at least duo-theism). As such I now see (and am thankful for the resolute Orthodox opposition to the Filioque.
This is why theology matters, and ecumenism truly is a pan-heresy. Thank you George.
I've to wonder if maybe at some point the Pontificate noticed the Creed of Nicene fails to mention any Papacy and so might try to include something like "and the Bishop of Rome, vicar of Christ, infallible in theology, sovereign primate of the Church." Maybe in fewer words, "and Bishop of Rome, Peter first among apostles" or another line about Peter and the Church not in the Creed. I think then Roman Catholics thought to "improve" the Creed, and like also the Virgin Mary and Her "Immaculate Conception" to also "elevate Her" and so thereby trying to make for greater "piety" but its all conjecture, not in writings.
Not theologically tenable. If Virgin Mary was "immaculately conceived" She would share trait with Jesus Second Person of the Triune. Then the Pope also "infallible in matters of Faith" joins the whole Trinity.
So, with Roman Catholic "Triadology" you almost have to include two more, Theotokas and the Pope for a "Quintile" aspect to the Trinity. Heresy. Lord wants His Church delivered unto Him Clean with a Sparkle.
Well, my comment was indeed pretty ambiguous, and I am certainly Orthodox on the question. But I have seen several times over the years assertions that the insertion of the filioque has led to every imaginable ill in the civilization of the West, not just Western Christianity (I exaggerate, to be sure– but not by much)…..those are the things that are hard to prove!
Yes, "proof" can be rough! Remember the O.J. trial? Or how many miracles did Jesus perform right before and in front of all the pharisees and scribes and it was not good enough evidently for them.
Flip side is that for the Roman Catholics the "proof" they require for "canonization" is a whopping two full entire miracles! Lets see, there was a real bad toothache and doctors said you have to have a root canal and lo behold, the nerve died!! (still should have the procedure to remove dead nerve). Next miracle was a backache, Vicodin was not even working, and then, then, the "in-law" moved out and backache healed!! So when it comes to "proof" there can be different all different kinds, airtight, preponderance, circumstantial, or just a low bar altogether like for Vatican sainthood test.
Yes, I've been a trial lawyer for 42 years, and find that if I can produce two miracles in a case before the jury I've got it made!
Sometimes I've pulled it off with only one….
Almost sounds like Miracle on 34th Street. We are still in the Christmas Spirit. Nativity on the 7th!
God can save Buddhists too, if He chooses to do so! Nobody's going to throw any Scripture texts at Him to object!!!……..
He can but it would be contrary to his divine revelation.
It would be contrary to His divine revelation the way YOU understand that revelation. He is incomprehensible in the language of the Divine Liturgy.
It would be contrary to The teachings of Jesus Christ, the Apostles, St.Paul, the teaching of the Church, etc. It's good to know that the great apostasy of 2 Thess. Ch.2 is well under way. This tells me that Jesus' return is also proceeding as well.
This whole discussion tells me I did the right thing in writing my editorial on Rome's recent heresy. The fault lines of apostasy are so much clearer now than ever before. Glory be to God!
Inconceivable, incomprehensible, ever-existing, eternally the Same. Still waiting to hear if Peter's theology is cataphatic or apophatic.Happy New Year to all!
It's Hellenic and Orthodox. Happy New Year!
Peter, let me point out that you are being told by a supposedly Orthodox hierarch that Buddhism has the potential of saving souls and that you as an Orthodox Christian are wrong in maintaining a strong stance about the specific character of Orthodoxy and insisting it be preached to others.
As a faithful and communing member of the OCA, I would like to reassure you that such views are not held by our local church, not taught in our seminaries and are regarded as heretical, pregnant of ecumenist Renovationism.
While it is true that CHRIST is the ultimate JUDGE and the SAVIOUR of humanity, to imply that there is no longer an Apostolic Commission or that all religions equally save is extreme branch theory ecumenist heresy. Implying that exceptions justify lack of Orthodox evangelism is presumption of the Mercy of GOD, a grievous sin, and a fundamental dereliction of Orthodox pastorship.
Please accept my apologies for the abuse you have suffered at the hands of unwell people who are retired and no longer represent their dioceses nor the Orthodox Church in America in any official capacity. You did not deserve to be abused that way for stating core Orthodox Christian dogmatic teaching. Please pray for us to root out our tares amidst the wheat.
Absolutely I will pray for you. Please also do the same for me and mine.
Peter A. Papoutsis
May GOD set us all on the right path, unite us, and guide us in fidelity to HIM in HIS Holy Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church.
WHAT HAPPENED TO ANTIOCHIAN PARTICIPATION IN THIS FORUM? Is there some kind of semi-Maoist cultural oppression behind their absence?
For my part, there have been a number of posts recently about OCA inside politics that don't particularly interest me. Also December is a very busy month.
So Met. Joseph has condemned Trump's proposal and violence against Muslims. But there was no press release when followers of the demonic Islamic religion shot over two dozen innocent people, Christians among them. Why? What Orthodox person has done to Muslims in kind?
The fact is, no foreign national has a right to be in this country. When Islam ceases to be violent and gives up the doctrine of taqiyya, perhaps we can open our door to them again.
Watch this video of MSNBC panel discussion from minute 28 to 38. The cognitive dissonance is excruciating. They all know Trump's plan is necessary but are terrified of sounding racist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7EGbpc6FSw
Ages, it's especially delicious to see Liberal's heads exploding because of the cognitive dissonance.
My head is exploding over the doubled edged dissonance on pot.
For years, the liberals were against smoking when it was an oligarchy. And the right wanted the status quo. Now the liberals want smoking and the right don't.
Get a mop.
No smoking please-it stinks.
"Ages" speaks of the "demonic Moslem religion." Why "demonic?" St John of Damascus, like his father and grandfather before him, served as Vizier to the Umayyad Caliph of Damascus. he, and his family were able to keep their holy Icons (like the monks of St Catherines Monastery on Mt Sinai) because the tolerant Moslems did not destroy them or punish those who had them, UNLIKE the Christian Byzantine authorities who taught and enforced ICONOCLASM.
How could the foremost dogmatic theologian of the Church NOT NOTICE that Islam is Demonic?
And how did large Christian communities survive in the Middle East even into our times under Islamic governments? 8 (eight) million Egyptian Christians (Copts) even into the 20th centuryL 400,000 Armenian and "Assyrian" Christians in the ISLAMIC Republic of Iran today?
Why is Russia backing the Islamic Assad? Is Putin fostering a "demonic" religion?
JY says
John of Damascus said that Islam was "a forerunner of the Antichrist."
Mohammadism is certainly a practical religion in many respects. Regarding St. John of Damascus: it is well known that Jihadis would tolerate the conquered Dhimmis as long as there was something to gain. In the case of St. John this was at a time when they needed Christians in high places to help run things for the new "management" until they got a handle on such marvels as sewage systems, as well as Math and Science (which we are told came FROM the Mohammadists and not from the Byzantine Greeks they stole it from).
Once Christians were no longer needed, well…..welcome to Dhimmi status.
I'm having a hard time understanding your defense of a religion which has caused so much pain and suffering to millions of Christians since its founder was deceived by a demon 1400 years ago.
I'm not defending Islam, Steven–I consider that a calumny. I DO defend Muslims. Christians claim, rightly, to have higher moral STANDARDS, but their conduct is no more virtuous than that of Muslims.Surely you know that in Muslim Egypt That bogeyman "dhimmi" status allowed everyone BUT Muslims to control everything in Egypt save the army, right up until Nassar. In Nassar's day there were approximately 8,000,000 Copts in Egypt, plus Melkites, and Jews. There's your dhimmi status!
Most Muslim mothers would have LOVED to have their sons exempted from military service by paying a tax!!
"FORERUNNERS OF THE ANTICHRIST!" Who is NOT a "forerunner" of the Anti-Christ?" What do we really have there? PRE hoc ergo propter hoc?
There are different modes of defending. I do not believe you are defending the truthfulness of Mohammadism but you do seem to have a blind spot to the inherent evil of Mohammad's religion and a rose colored outlook regarding the history of Christian and Mohammadist relations.
I meant you no calumny and I think to suggest otherwise on your part is a stretch.
If the Koran was not dictated by an Angel, what was it dictated by?
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I am thrilled to find mention of the term "taqiyya" here. This and related Islamic ideological tactics (and wholesale strategies) must be publicized to those who live in the innocent belief that, as with Orthodox, most Christian, and Jewish representatives, credence must also be extended to Islamic representatives when they speak on the faith and aims of their ideology.
George Michalopulos said this:
We have free speech, so we can be told anything, constitutionally speaking. Having said that, one must admit that banning all adherents of one religion from immigrating is not American AT ALL.
i assume that any decent supreme court justice would agree. Or?
On which day of the week is Monomakhos updated? Anybody?
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/01/pat-caddell-were-in-a-pre-revolutionary-moment-and-now-bigger/
Just sayin' . . .


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Kegfal believes that the Olympics will decide and determine the future of sport
Harley Turner May 18, 2021
Updates: 17.05.2021 16:52
Released: 17.05.2021, 16:52
PRAGUE – President of the Czech Olympic Committee (WWTP) Jerry Kejvall believes that the Olympic Games in Tokyo will be held in the summer, will be a turning point, give hope to people and decide the future of sport. At the moment, the Czech Republic has 54 eligible places, and the head of the Czech Olympic mission, Martin Doctor, hopes that more than a hundred representatives will go to Japan.
"We are convinced that there will be an Olympic Games," Cagefal said in an interview with reporters. "The main thing is that it's good. You decide what the whole sport will look like in the future. If it ends in pain, disease will increase and there will be problems, then it will be limited to the next period."
So the preparation for the Olympiad takes place in a non-standard environment. Detailed brochures are prepared on how to act so that no one gets infected. Coronavirus testing will be conducted daily and athletes will be restricted in the game venue. Foreign audiences will not be permitted to enter the country.
"Holt, it will be a different Olympiad," said Cagevall, adding, "History is broken here. We have to get used to the fact that everything is not in the utmost comfort and must be adjusted from time to time. We think so. It will go well and it will be a starting point for some normalization."
In Japan, surveys show that nearly 60 percent of Japanese want the Summer Olympics and Paralympics to be canceled. The doctor said, "I always feel upset when you see thirty people protesting on TV. Everyone has news that we have news there. This is important to us."
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Twice Olympic champion in speed rowing, the doctor tries to reassure the athlete so that he does not receive much negative news about the possibility of canceling the games. "I send them encouraging news. We cannot break it and believe in it to the fullest. We try to tell the athletes," he said.
Over the weekend, four rowers extended the Czech campaign to Tokyo. "I hope more than a hundred (Olympic) will swing," said the doctor. Much will depend on the success of the basketball players. The 46-year-old said, "If they succeed, it will be the evening of July 4 and we will send the final list of candidates on July 5. It will be difficult, but I will be happy to experience this complication." Doctor.
Coronavirus pandemic complicates preparation for the game. The Czechs do not yet know whether the hotel will approve a hotel for Japanese overseas team members. Certainly, for the first time since 1982, the Czech House will not be established, where the athletes have met fans and partners, and it was previously a space to exhibit the Czech Republic in a particular country.
"We are very sorry, but the preventive restrictions in Japan and the concern of the Czech team do not allow the Czech home to be regulated. The safety of the athletes is our first priority," he said. "Until now we have not received confirmation that it will work and we were supposed to send containers last week, which will cost millions. If it was a failed investment, it would be difficult to explain."
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The Czech Olympic Committee discussed the joint vaccination of the Olympians, which has not been approved by the government. It is up to every athlete to be vaccinated. The medical committee of the sewage treatment plant recommends vaccination. The athlete will increase the chance of not being tested positively before the competition and being excluded from the battle for Olympic medals. "This will prevent sports tragedies that could happen. We appeal to athletes to get vaccinated, but it is their free choice," the doctor said.
And preparatory camps and pre-Olympic acclimatization would not be in danger either. Athletes, speedboat riders and swimmers are planning to stay in Kochi Prefecture. "They are cool over there (in Kochi). The athletes have one floor, the other floor is free, and the swimmers have another floor. They want to book a plane to Tokyo and pay three lines in front of and for the athletes. It's great. Cooperation," says the doctor.
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Julian Day's RadioShack Turnaround Has Been A Failure
Nathan Vardi Forbes Staff
Following the money trail
Five years ago Julian Day showed up at RadioShack, a rock star CEO ready to perform his turnaround magic on the struggling electronics retailer that was quickly becoming irrelevant. Known as a cost cutter, the former investment banker had helped revive Safeway while chief financial officer of the company. He had taken over as chief executive of Kmart Holdings when the discount retailer was in bankruptcy court in 2003 and presided over a stunning reemergence.
But after five years in Fort Worth, Tex., Day is leaving behind a mess. RadioShack today posted a 30% drop in first quarter earnings and its partnership with T-Mobile has been a disaster, leaving the company with uncompetitive product offerings and a contract dispute. The company also lowered the top end of its earnings per share guidance for the year. Day's five-year contract with RadioShack expires this year and his last day with the company will be May 16.
Day has done things his way at RadioShack. He presided over the firing of hundreds of employees who were told about their job losses via email. He also mostly ditched quarterly earnings conference calls, analyst meetings and press interviews. But he could not find a way to offset competition from big retailers like Best Buy and Wal-Mart, which offered one-stop shopping and deep discounts.
Still, Day has done pretty well for himself. He has received $21.4 million in cash and exercisable options for his five years at RadioShack. He would have taken home much more had he been able to sell the company, which Day seemed close to doing last year. It looks like he will still, however, be able to afford those $5,000 suits.
Nathan Vardi
I am a senior editor at Forbes who likes digging into Wall Street, hedge funds and private equity firms, looking for both the good and the bad. I also focus on the inte


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17 First Impressions of Periscope, Twitter's Meerkat Killer
The livestreaming video app is simple, powerful and a little bit annoying
Welcome to the tipping point, when livestreamed mobile video officially became part of our digital world's everyday social experience.
Today, Twitter officially launched Periscope, which it bought as a startup and rolled out publicly after a week of letting a few key influencers, tech journalists and viral content creators test the app. For now, Periscope is only available on iOS devices, though an Android version is reportedly being fast-tracked.
A potent competitor to the rapidly embraced streaming app Meerkat, Periscope offers a few key differences from the scrappy upstart that won over early adopters at South by Southwest. But it also shares some of Meerkat's lesser-appreciated features, like constant notifications and questionably valuable content (the latter of which, of course, isn't the app's fault).
So what exactly makes Periscope one of the year's hottest apps? And will it, in fact, relegate Meerkat to the dustbin of digital obsolescence?
We rounded up some of the more pointed commentary from tech writers who've had some time to play with the app:
"As far as livestreaming apps go, and there aren't very many so far, it's certainly the best I've seen. … It was admittedly sort of cool. And a tiny bit addictive."
– Nicole Lee, Engadget
"It feels like the right platform and the right time. We all have smartphones now, with good cameras and fast LTE connections. And we're desperate for more unmediated access to the people we care about. … It's more immediate than Twitter, Instagram, even Snapchat. It's life, right now, through anyone's eyes I choose. It's intoxicating.
– David Pierce, Wired
With just a few taps of the smartphone, users can start broadcasting their surroundings to the rest of the world. Like Twitter, this means Periscope has the potential to capture the mundane as well as the prolific moments.
– Yoree Koh, The Wall Street Journal
How It's Different From Meerkat
"Right up top are broadcasts that are currently live, but if you look underneath that, you'll see a list of recently recorded ones. That's right; unlike Meerkat, which doesn't let you view archives of past livestreams, Periscope lets folks keep their live broadcasts around for later replay. And because Periscope allows me to watch videos hours after the moment has passed, I get to see a lot more of them than I would with something like Meerkat.
"With most streaming apps, from Meerkat to Livestream, there's a long gap between when something is captured and when it actually appears on your screen. It makes for awkward, asynchronous interactions, because one of you is way behind. Meerkat's commenting feature is crushed by that latency, which never goes below about ten seconds and often goes much higher; Periscope worked to get streaming latency down to as little as two seconds, which means you really can converse with the broadcaster in real time."
"I've been using the app for the last week. I do prefer the clean, fast and friendly design to Meerkat's lackluster interface, not to mention the fact that I can actually watch streams that are no longer live."
– Joanna Stern, The Wall Street Journal
"Yes, both apps stream video with almost zero friction. But when you get down to it, Periscope is what Meerkat would look like with a little more thought put into it. It's cleaner, the chat function makes more sense and you can save your videos for later viewing. Plus, it features something that's sorely missing from Meerkat: the ability to line up a shot before streaming."
– Roberto Baldwin, The Next Web
"Perhaps the greatest part of Periscope—I certainly think it's a highlight — is the fact that you can send hearts to the broadcaster by tapping on the screen. Each tap will send a heart. Tap the screen multiple times and you'll send a flurry of animated hearts. … It's a very minor feature but it's one that I find rather delightful.
"Of course, Periscope is still very much in development. There's currently no support for landscape mode and you're not able to type in the comments section yourself—the idea is that you're supposed to speak to your viewers, not just type at them"
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I did not know much about the Spanish health system before I created Torrevieja Translation back in 2010, and much less about how Spanish hospitals worked.
With over 3000 appointments with clients as their interpreter to either hospitals or GPs visits".
Right, you are possibly thinking: "David is promoting his services" or "he wants us to call him to be our interpreter at the hospital".
Many of the readers of my blog are not located in my area. In fact, many people are reading this from other countries. So it is for informational purposes. I'm writing this article about Spanish hospitals, overall.
My recommendation is to bring an interpreter at least for the first visit.
Does the doctor speak English? Great. Next time you won't need an interpreter, as long as it's the same doctor, since that doctor could be on call, holiday or covering emergencies.
In touristic areas doctors may speak more English, but they are not obligated to. So don't take it personal if they ask you to bring an interpreter.
Don't forget: the level of English language in Spain is very poor.
Just go outside the touristic areas and you will find the genuine Spain, the real number of people speaking English (very little).
Other languages than English? I wouldn't take the chance, especially if it is a serious health problem.
When you are with a doctor, and very importantly if you are using an interpreter, don't make inappropriate comments.
Otherwise, your interpreter will have a bad time translating the message. A conflict could then arise.
Try to be nice and polite, even though you encounter a grumpy doctor. Good manners usually wins over bad.
Certain types of jokes can be accepted if you have the knack of doing it in a funny way with the right type of doctor. But be careful with the sense of humour, as it is not understood everywhere.
• "Complaining to doctors about Spain because they don't prescribe your tablets anymore due to the financial crisis". This is not the doctor's fault.
• "Telling doctors how disappointed you are with the Spanish health system because things are not like in your country". I can expect any reaction here.
• "Telling doctors in an arrogant way that they should speak English, since you are English-speaking". This is a good one. The official language in Spain is still Spanish; just a friendly reminder.
• "Laughing when they speak because you are disappointed with their diagnosis of your problem". If it is not a time to joke, in Spain it can mean you are mocking people. If you don't agree with the doctors' decisions, don't laugh at them. There are other ways to get your point across.
Doctors don't like patients doing their job. That's why they are doctors and patients are patients.
I love reading stuff on the Internet, especially articles related to business and technology. However, I wouldn't argue with a business or technology expert about something I read on the Internet; hence I have lots of years of experience in technology (and some in business).
Too much information will "infoxicate" you (intoxicated by information). This means, in my own words, that if you read a lot of information on the Internet from many different sources, it may cause a psychological impact to a certain degree (confusion, fear, anguish, worries, etc).
Also, does that information come from professionals? Is it accurate? Where is it published?
Doctors in Spain don't like to hear people contradicting them because of something they read on the Internet.
In short, doctors should be the only figure doing a diagnosis, prescribing treatments and providing a prognosis; not patients.


What I did was pull together everything I could find where Jesus talks about how to start our day, which included the moment of waking as well as our morning quiet time. It was surprising just how much is said, how many angles are covered, how consistent it is, and how practical it is.
At the end was a worksheet in looking at how we ourselves start the day and how we can make it more like what Jesus suggests.
I found it extremely helpful, for all kinds of reasons. The main reason, though, is that my morning quiet time has been significantly compromised for some time now. It's hugely important to me, but the problem is that my four-year-old son wakes up extremely early, and then has a terrific need to be with his parents. This morning, for instance, I got up at 5 and was in my chair meditating by 5:10. Michael then sprang out of bed at 5:18. There was no point in trying to give him to Nicola, because she had to get ready for work not long after that.
Anyway, due to my worksheet, Nicola and I cooked up a plan, and I think it will work. It basically involves dividing up my quiet time and saving the meditation portion until after the kids are at school. It's not ideal by a long way, but I think it will work.
And there were several other things about the worksheet that were of benefit to me. My morning quiet time is the foundation for my day. So any improvement there is an improvement of my life.
If you would like me to send you the handout (quotes plus worksheet), just email me and I'll send it right away: robert@circleofa.org.