300 years ago j.s bach conducts his Saint John Passion
2024 marks the 300th anniversary of the very first time Bach Conducts his Saint John Passion
Johann Sebastian Bach wrote and conducted his Saint John Passion - his epic church service music for the holy weekend of Easter Sunday. His Saint John Passion is first performed at the Saint Nicholas Church in Lepzig, Germany. J.S Bach was a most prominent church music director in Lepzig, Germany. J.S Bach directed under the auspices of the Lutheran Church.
(posted by Elvis Clark on March 29, 2024)
today, sunday, March 24, 2024 is palm sunday
What is the meaning of Palm Sunday:
Roseanne Barr had this funny line from Norm Macdonald
On the Joe Rogan podcast, Comedian Barr quotes comedian Norm MacDonald on why Trump won in '16
Prez Biden greets little ones with: 'How about two Hot Wars and a side of Inflation?'
Milwaukie High School Football/track coach dies unexpectly
Mustang coach Roland Aumueller dies just after football game- his death suspected as cardiac arrest
Assistant Coach Aumueller (photo to right here) did not have any kids of his own but thoroughly enjoyed helping guide young people to success - as a very engaging football and track coach. Coach Aumueller coached my neighbor's son in sports, and my neighbor is a big fan of Coach Aumueller. Coach Aumueller is only 59 years old when he dies a week ago Friday. He is a coach for more than 30 years at Milwaukie High School.
Here's the link to the reporting on Coach Aumueller's passing: Milwaukie HS community honors coach who died after football game | kgw.com
Milwaukie area resident, Kaliko Castille, who played for Coach Aumueller, is circulating a petition to rename Milwaukie High School's stadium after Coach Aumueller. Here's the link to this petition:
Petition · Name Milwaukie High School Stadium after Coach Aum · Change.org
(You might recall Castille ran for Oregon House Representatives in 2022 but lost to former Mayor Gamba.)
(posted by Elvis Clark on September 15, 2023)
This should be an interesting PBS TV film on a Vietnam story
Above photo is of a Vietnam war special airman, and his travails of disrupting enemy supply lines
Disrupting Hanoi's war supplies entering south Vietnam required acrobatic, stunt like air combat jet maneuvers.
Photo and story is featured in this week's Portland Tribune newspaper.
(posted by Elvis Clark on April 28, 2022)
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This Quote of Mlk questions Government's groupings
For enthusiasts of individual freedom and responsibility (like me) MLK's quote here rings especially
It strikes me that our local, regional and state governments are too quick to lump people into categories based on what I would call arbitrary attributes like skin color, sex, sexual preference, and ethnicity.
One problem with this, besides stereotyping a whole class of people, is our governments may actually be just substituting one type of discrimination with another (for instance, what is called reverse discrimination). Our governments seem to be not advancing towards MLK's dream of focusing on a person's content of character; but rather, our governments seem to be devolving to treating people based on another form of discrimination (that of reverse discrimination).
When the government imparts deference (special benefits) to one of its arbitrary groupings, this is bound to cause resentment in the group(s) seemingly not receiving deference (special benefits).
Opinion: Elvis Clark posted on January 17, 2021.
The origins of our current deep state governance
The Deep State is Governance steered by 'experts' in Bureaucracies, setting administrative rules
As it turns out, James Garfield is assassinated (it is thought) because he denies a political supporter a job in his administration.
Back in Garfield's times and leading up to his election, every four to eight years depending on how a president served, the federal government used a system called the Spoils System for hiring and firing government management and other employees. So, these bureaucrats never really got their ways routinizing administration of laws, because they were routinely fired or replaced every four to eight years.
But Garfield's assassination by a disgruntled Spoils System supporter (who sought a government job) caused his Vice President (Chester Arthur) upon becoming President (with Garfield's death) to ask Congress to make federal government employment based on the so-called Merit System, replacing the buddy system called the Spoils System.
Under the Merit System, government bureaucrats now normally work a whole career in their bureaucracies; and become vested in the well being of their bureaucracy. Ronald Reagan famously quotes about Government Bureaus: "a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!”
The U.S Supreme Court some decades later grants bureaucracies enormous power over us, when it decides in a case called "the Chevron Case" that Courts should give preferential deference to the technical findings of government bureaucrats.
The flaw in the Chevron decision is it ignores the risk government bureaucrats may have personal biases and self interests themselves when they render their technical studies and in their Administrative rule makings. To this end, today, Supreme Court justice Gorsuch talks of wanting to revisit the Chevron case, believing there is too much reliance on government bureaucracy rule making.
One last point. President Eisenhower in his famous farewell address (1960) to the U.S nation warns of the "military industrial complex", and this turns out to be prescient - as it warns of a DEEP STATE bureaucracy.
For the elaborate story of the origins of our Deep State governance, please read the PDF linked here by Randal O'toole of the Cato Institute and member of the Thoreau Society"
(posted by Elvis Clark on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 2020)