11.07.08
Posted in Main, Word for the Day at 10:12 am by Holder
Corn: a small hard seed or seedlike fruit, especially the seed of any cereal plant; kernel; in England, wheat; in Scotland and Ireland, oats; grain [Websters 1957]
Maize: a kind of grain that grows in kernels on large ears, also called Indian corn or just corn in the US, Canada, and Australia [Webster’s 1957]
Corn: The various cereal or farinaceous grains which grow in ears, and are used for food, as wheat, oats, rye, barley, maize [Webster’s 1879]
Farinaceous: Consisting or made of meal or flour; yielding farina or flour [Webster’s 1879]
Farina: The flour of any species of corn, or starchy root, such as the potato, etc. [Webster’s 1879]
Of course there is also corny humor and corns which grow on feet, not to mention corn liquor. And there is probably a good bit of all those types of corn in Wayne County, OH. But in this photo it is corn being transferred after harvesting into a truck near Wooster.
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11.06.08
Posted in Main at 11:39 am by Holder
Farming is still big in Wayne County OH. The Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute is in Wooster. We used to call it the Ag Station. This farming country is, “boys and girls”, where you get your food. That is until, at least, all food production also moves to China. I really think that the liberal university educators and students on the coasts with their snobbish attitudes, who just “fly over” the great land in the middle of our country and think that our opinions don’t matter, need to take a driving trip across the US of A so that their thinking can come back to reality. In fact, all college students should have to give one year before college working on a farm. It would do them good.
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11.05.08
Posted in Main at 10:46 am by Holder
Barak H. Obama, President Elect of the United States of America
This is a good thing when we look at our past and think of Martin Luther King and how he helped to keep the peace in a rough time of positive change. It has been a remarkable process of progress through a generation. The equal rights amendment was a positive change that was sorely needed in our country. And now we can look over those years and be happy with what has taken place this week in America.
Stay in the “center”, Mr. President, Elect, and if you’re left of there, please move over toward the right. Protect our right of free speech. Protect our right of gun ownership. Protect our Constitution and don’t look to change it in any fundamental way. It was written so that it safeguards the citizens from abuses of government but was not written to provide for their every need…..that is up to the people themselves if they are healthy and can work. People getting something for nothing will weaken, and in my opinion, has weakened our country. Promote the ideals of education that teach reading, writing, mathematics, history, geography, the sciences and the arts; and teach children how to form their own opinions, not tell them what opinions to hold. Continue to promote the foundation of the family. Promote the ideal of legal immigration and protect our southern border because it will be your duty to provide for our defense.
I wish you the best because this is my country too.
Susie Holderfield
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11.04.08
Posted in Main at 8:41 am by Holder
Election day always brings back memories of Grandmother Walter who was involved in politics in Wayne County Ohio. Here is a photo of the Wayne County Courthouse in Wooster. One of my grandmother’s positions involved vote counting in the basement of this building. That was actual counting of votes on paper ballots with no machinery involved.
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11.03.08
Posted in Main, Word for the Day at 2:39 pm by Holder
“Progress” improvement, advance toward perfection or to a higher state
Sometimes progress hurts. Wooster, in Wayne County Ohio, is one of those old towns in which the buildings were built right next to one another, sharing walls in common. Walmart moved in and built at the north end of Wooster and then many new businesses followed. This resulted in the decline of downtown Wooster in spite of many efforts to keep it going. There are some buildings for sale and some that have had their fronts changed over the years. Recently the new wonderful library was built in the downtown area and there are hopes that will help to anchor some businesses to that area. So far I don’t see that happening. On our recent visit we noticed that the only department store in the downtown was closing. This is very sad to me because I see a lovely little downtown area disappearing.
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10.26.08
Posted in Main, Word for the Day at 12:56 pm by Holder
Censor: to examine literature, motion pictures, [news], etc to remove or prohibit anything considered unsuitable
Ok, I have held back on this rant just as long as I could. But now is the time to speak out. The Democrats/the Left for years were the only ones heard from on issues and elections. Then the silent Republicans/Conservatives finally began to speak up. When they did, the Left was outraged that we should have our voices heard. They want us to shut up and not ask hard questions of their candidates and not question the people with whom they have associated that may have affected their way of thinking. Or was it that the Candidate of the Left has sought out those with whom he agreed and now we are questioning those associations. Well, guess what… We won’t shut up and we will continue to ask the hard questions. What was Senator Biden so incensed about in Florida? Were the questions too difficult for you, Joe? Are you so used to a pandering leftist media asking you easy, fluff questions that you are just overwhemed by the “guts” of someone who asks you tough questions that point out your true politics? You acted as though that news interviewer didn’t have the right to ask you those questions. If the everyday average person dares to ask a question you don’t like, the Left proceeds to try to destroy their reputation and shut them up. Guess what, we have the right to ask candidates questions that WE think are important. And they are not questions about their wardrobe, or their glasses. They are questions about issues, political beliefs, and character!
And here I sit, in Ohio, wondering if my vote will be cancelled out by some moron who came to Ohio from another state to vote for the Leftist Candidate. That is called voting FRAUD! And the Democratic government of Ohio doesn’t have the guts to prosecute the offenders.
Peace and Love,
Holder
Have Courage!
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10.20.08
Posted in Main, Computer Art at 6:37 pm by Holder
Great sticker for sale at Zazzle for the Christmas season.
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10.06.08
Posted in Main at 6:39 pm by lee1990
Note I did not say “alpha males”. The alpha male has a well deserved bad reputation. From the jihadists we fight now, to the Einsatzgruppen of the SS and the marauding armies of Imperial Japan, the uncontrolled alpha male has been the bane of humanity for most of it’s history. The alpha male is something that all men are naturally born as: brutal, lustful, savage and uncontrolled.
However, the revulsion for this creature that has become prevalent in the rational, civilized world has been carried too far and may be its undoing, as suggested by Lee Harris in his excellent book The Suicide of Reason. The need to control the alpha male has resulted in a hideous attempt to exterminate masculinity and feminize society, which leaves us at a great disadvantage in the struggle with our barbarous enemy. John Wayne and Lee Marvin would wipe the floor with the hairless, chinless pretty boys that are now passed off a leading men and examples for our youth.
What we need to do is to begin once again to create the Alpha Men that America in particular used to be good at producing. The alpha man is a matured alpha male. Our country now is polarized largely between grown but immature alpha males (largely in jails and inner city slums) and liberal, emasculated, pencil-necked pretty boys (mostly in New York and LA) who are in the process of civilizing us to death. We must again produce alpha men who have been taught to express their masculinity in constructive ways and have been taught the moral clarity, duty of protection, self-restraint, self sacrifice, and proper direction of aggression (rather than total suppression) that transforms the alpha male which destroys civilization into to alpha man who protects and preserves it.
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Posted in Main, Movie Reviews at 6:33 pm by lee1990
This is not a movie, so don’t go looking for it.
I recently saw a unique performance of Shakespeare’s Macbeth at the Hanna Theater in Cleveland as part of the Great Lakes Theater Festival. While the story and dialogue were pure Shakespeare, the setting, costumes and style of presentation were heavily influenced by Japanese theater. There was a sort of music background applied by use of a pair of Japanese-style drummers positioned on either side of the stage. They gave a traditional yell before starting to drum and both the start and end of the play.
The costumes were a odd mix of Japanese samurai kimonos and medieval Scottish garb, the armor had a Roman feel to it, and the swords were a mix of samurai and broadsword elements. When consulting with Macbeth, his nobles sat in a kneeling position with swords sheathed but pointed upward in Samurai fashion.
The most Japanese part of the play was by far the portrayal of the three witches. They could have been drawn from a Kabuki theater. They were costumed in jet black robes with white painted faces, and moved in a unnatural, jerky, stooped over fashion by leaning on canes at the end of their arms, concealed beneath their robes. They were very similar to the way ghosts and evil spirits are portrayed in Japanese stage theater and horror movies.
The combination successfully juxtaposed two very old and very different theatrical styles, making for a unique experience. I recommend anyone who will be visiting the Northeast Ohio area to make an effort to see this play.
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Posted in Main, Movie Reviews at 5:48 pm by lee1990
I will freely admit that I am usually no fan of Spike Lee movies. I feel that they exploit and may in fact at times aggravate black racial resentments. That aside, I must say that he has produced one of the best WW2 movies that I can remember seeing.
It will be difficult to review this movie without giving away too much, but I will do my best.
The movie opens with a old black postal worker shooting a man at work with a WW2 German luger pistol seemingly for no reason as soon as he sees the man. As a reporter begins to question the otherwise silent man, all he can barely manage to say without bursting into tears is that he is the last one who “knows where the sleeping man lies”.
The remainder of the movie is a prolonged flashback displaying the attack in Italy in which a Negro unit under the command of a southern white officer (who just radiates “I am white trash”) is butchered after being ordered to attack head on at an entrenched German position. A group of 4 of the soldiers becomes separated and trapped miles behind the German lines. As they proceed looking for shelter, they come across a small, clearly traumatized Italian boy, who although it is not immediately clear, is central to the story.
There is also, interestingly, a flashback within the flashback, showing the black soldiers’ encounter with “Southern hospitality” when they stop at an ice cream shop in Texas near their base. Not only does the owner refuse to serve them, he chases them out of the shop with a pistol. They get served anyway, but I won’t give it away (think angry men with machine guns). In this scene, Spike Lee also shows that not all the white soldiers agreed with the racists; a group of white MP’s transporting German prisoners are so incensed by the owner serving German prisoners but not American soldiers that they angrily take the prisoners away and even threaten to have the shop declared off limits.
The movie has a good mix of characters, only a few of which are stereotyped.
The plot was very well thought out, with an ending that brings everything together in a way that makes you believe in a just God.
My only real objection is that the music for the Nazi’s was a bit over the top; the Nazi’s were an evil that does not need musical enhancement.
8 out of 10
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