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)
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)
About mid way through the video, just below, Elon Musk clearly demonstrates how sad our current day journalism and reporting are in not being fact-based but narrative-based (in other words, just plain propaganda outlets).
The BBC is the British Broadcast Corporation.
The BBC - along with most mainstream media among other things - push the Climate Alarmism narrative.
(posted by Elvis Clark on April 14, 2023)
In this piece below ("Will23Feb" pdf) that interviews George Will, conservative thinker, Will lays out a case that the U.S electorate has fallen for making its Presidents king like in power - putting too much power in the hand of the U.S presidency.
Also that government should be fostering a more wholesome cultural and social setting than it has most recently to counteract the growing blight of Marxism and moral relativism - which have made increasing inroads into America's institutions.
(posted by Elvis Clark on February 10, 2023)
Will23Feb (pdf)
DownloadDisrupting 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)
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.
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)
I only wish I could leave behind even a modicum of a legacy as Amory Houghton, as written of in the download just below. I try but doesn't look like I'll make it with a noteable legacy. I try being a pianist for some 20 plus years; without a lot of success. I try running for City Council but am not very good at knocking on doors, and besides my views are too right of center in a very Progressive area. Maybe this is why I express myself through this website. Thanks for folks that follow this website.
(posted by Elvis Clark on March 15, 2020)
ObitAmory20Mar (pdf)
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