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skipper wrote a new post, On Character 4 years, 11 months ago
When mariner and his wife moved to Maryland, he had thoughts of entering politics. He and his wife even campaigned actively for Bobbie Kennedy. He quickly became disillusioned. Unlike religion which requires […]
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skipper wrote a new post, IF 4 years, 11 months ago
IF the reader was born before the Vietnam War (1954), their core understanding of reality and related social values is outdated – functional but outdated. Life values accumulate via growth experiences until a […]
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skipper wrote a new post, These are trying times 4 years, 12 months ago
Trying times is an understatement.
The migration of tens of millions of people, exacerbated by a changing climate, will be one of the mega-trends of the 21st century, Bryan Walsh writes in Axios […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Let’s check in on the real news 5 years ago
In 4.5 billion years the Sun will fry the Earth destroying all living matter.
The Moon is drifting away from the Earth at the rate of 1.5 inches per year. Today the Moon circles the Earth about every 27 days; […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Freedom of Speech 5 years ago
A brief quote from Leon Wieseltier in White Rose Magazine:
“After everything that liberalism endured and survived, after the unimaginably savage assaults of fascism and communism, we must steadfastly fight f […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Yes, that finger 5 years ago
Look for a moment at the middle finger of your dominant hand. It’s the longest one that’s used to express irritable dissatisfaction. Yesterday mariner accidentally cut the tip of this finger with a kitchen kni […]
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We have quite the divide in our union, the United Association of Plumbers, Pipefitters and Sprinklerfitters. Many of the rank and file, and I mean many, supported the Orange Baboon in the last election, despite the UA leadership endorsing Biden. What the Magats didn’t know is that the leadership personally interviewed all the candidates prior to their endorsement. My son, Jeremy, sits on the Interview Committee. They were blown away by the commitment by the Biden/Harris team to help rebuild union membership across the entire workforce. Naturally, they endorsed the winner.
One of the first things Biden did through executive order was stop the Keystone Pipeline, which put 3,500 members of our union to work. Our leadership knew this going into the election, but decided that the interests of the 370,000 members were more important than the 3,500. Still, the Magats protested over the loss of 3,500 jobs as a way of uplifting the Chosen One. It was a ballsy thing to support Biden because the leadership is up for re-election in August and I’m sure there will still be a lot of sore feelings, but I’m glad they did the right thing.-
Neat term – Magat.
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skipper wrote a new post, In the news 5 years ago
֎ An interesting poll from GALLUP. What’s interesting is that in one year China jumped significantly over Russia as the greatest enemy of the United States:
Americans’ Perceptions of the U.S.’s Greatest En […] -
skipper wrote a new post, Nation Tectonics 5 years ago
Recently mariner wrote a post describing the new international strategy of nations integrating responsibility for economics and other international issues rather than using traditional treaties and trade […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Trends 5 years ago
֎ From NEWSY:
“A White nationalist movement that fueled a new rise for Europe’s far-right continues to gain momentum around the world and is helping to lure in and radicalize new recruits, according to te […]
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skipper wrote a new post, What kind of a person are you? 5 years ago
When mariner was young his father was attending seminary. His father was entertained by pop psychology, a term that implied, through simplistic descriptions, the behaviorisms of human beings. Mariner has carried […]
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I think I’m a “why” person. When I first started at my last job I was obsessed with understanding how my responsibilities and tasks fit into the larger picture. I may have a little “how” blood in me as well. I’m definitely a squiggly line guy!
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skipper wrote a new post, The truth shall make you whole 5 years ago
As part of his Great Culling Project, mariner was thumbing through an old college book about philosophy when he came across the word ‘epistemology’. The definition from a philosophy book reads: Epistemology is the […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Have you heard the (ugh) news? 5 years ago
World news, US news, local news, human news, environment news – all are disturbing. Is it the disorganization of global humanity? Perhaps it’s that there is nothing that is improving or that so much individual suf […]
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I braced myself for a diatribe about the news of the world, but this was a surprisingly uplifting post. “We have only our faith in ourselves, our ability to remain humane and courteous, our tenacity at remaining sane even in a social vacuum, and our commitment to accomplishment–if only to survive.” That is a great statement of the human spirit and relevant to the large and small challenges of every age. Thank you for this humane, courteous and inspiring post!
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skipper wrote a new post, It’s a strange world 5 years ago
There is a legitimate scientific theory that we live in multiple universes. Not each one separate from the other but conjoined in the same physical space. This theory exists because it is a way to solve certain […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Some of this, some of that 5 years ago
֎ Strolling about on the search engine, as is mariner’s wont, he came across an infrequent word that took him back to college/preacher days when he was reading about religion, philosophy and logic and as a pr […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Keep a Close Eye – things are changing 5 years ago
Mariner submitted a post yesterday warning of a political tendency toward authoritarianism saying that it was a prominent movement in local jurisdictions across the nation. In this morning’s mail Nate Silver at 5 […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Yes, Virginia, one day Santa may have to move to Antarctica 5 years ago
֎ Mariner has written in past posts about Earth’s polar magnetic field flipping erratically in the Bering Sea and the southern Atlantic. The following summary is copied from the current Science Ma […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Do you have a degree in economics? 5 years ago
Do you have a degree in theology? Do you have a degree in history, sociology, and political science? If you have these degrees, you have the tools to fathom the depths of world and U.S. circumstances.
Mariner […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The good old, old, really old days 5 years, 1 month ago
Mariner officially retired from his professions around the age of sixty-seven. He can’t speak for other retirees but he has drifted away from modern innovations and new technologies. Each year he finds himself r […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Hero Children 5 years, 1 month ago
It was Joseph Campbell, an unusually gifted anthropologist and sociologist that described our lives akin to traveling the hero’s path. Our life experience is an experience similar to that of the hero Jason, king o […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Life in a moment 5 years, 1 month ago
This post is provided by Mariner’s wife. All her life she has been a poet extraordinaire. She has the skill to express insight and create association but at the same time her poems dig deep into the reader, l […]
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I read To a Mouse–and did not remember the famous lines ‘the best laid plans of mice and men…’ were from that poem. I had to read it side by side with an English translation! Thank you for reminding me of that poem, and for your interest in seeing more of mine. I should use these long winter days to organize my papers!
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