God first gave us man, then family, then tribes, then nations. But without the nations, none of these other things would exist.
Canadian souvenirs for the Sochi Olympics
Genesis 35: 10-12
10 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
I'm sure this was staged. The "powers that be" at the Golden Globes Equal Opportunity/Gender Equality Committee™ must have said:
"Let's have Oprah ON! Let's give her the Cecile B. DeMille 'Outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment' award. This is Hollywood and we are here to right the wrongs!"
Even though Oprah has made no "outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment." Her two acting roles were mediocre. Her talk show years were not outstanding, unless you find aggressive programs entertaining. She is one of two television personalties to receive this award, but not one that would be classified as an entertainer. Her shows were social and political agendas, treading lightly on many occasion not to instigate undue controversy, to showcase Black Americans and to demean (subtly and cleverly) whites.
Many in her long list of "acting" roles are as herself. One third of her thirty three productions are her own shows: either the Oprah show or affiliated programs such as Oprah's Big Giveaway. Her other productions are forgotten documentaries or made-for-television films (i.e. no-one watches them).
Her feature films deal mostly with contentious civil rights and slavery issues: i.e. evil whites.
Here is an article (published) I wrote about Precious, a film for which she was executive producer.
The only other talk show host to receive the award was Richard Skelton. And he has a long list of acting roles, albeit not in star roles, to his credit. But was a genuine entertainer as a vaudeville, radio, film and burlesque actor and deserving of his "outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment" trophy.
And Oprah is a "Me To-er!" And that is how she addressed her Hollywood audience in her acceptance speech. Carefully, though, since she cannot alienate all those other "outstanding" men; black men especially, and certainly white men too. Amongst these men, there would be a large number of liberals and leftists who would support her "cause" and who would be her biggest allies and supporters.
Because Oprah most definitely will run for President. Think about it: The first Black, Female, Entertainer President of the Untied States. That's killing so many birds with one stone! What an antodte to the current Mr. President. She should have run instead of the pathetic Hillary. What a match we would have had! She must regret that every single day!
And here she came to the Golden Globes to hurl that fury in a speech! "I SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE!!!"
But everything about Oprah always seems staged. A "Fake News."
- Her public speaking is a hyperbole of words with emphases on all the wrong places.
- Her fashion and hair is nether classy nor "indifferent," that fake stance all liberal women put on as they wear their thousand dollar Manolo Blahnik shoes and straight-off-the-runway bedazzled gowns.
Look at Oprah's dress: Black with glitter and VERSACE!!!! And her shoes are crystal-encrusted pumps
She stunned wearing a custom-made Atelier Versace off the shoulder, fitted long sleeved black velvet gown with Swarovski crystal encrusted accents along the neckline and waist.
"We Rock!"
Abused Movie Stars at the GGs in their haute couture dresses
By the way "custom made" at what cost? There is no information yet on the price of the gown out in the fashion blogs (although Oprah can censor that bit of information) but Michelle Obama's custom-made Versace gown from 2016 cost her (or the American people) 12,000 dollars.
And in a fashion show of evening dresses (I cannot say "gowns" since some are mini-skirts) called "Ballgowns, à la Versace" this article tells us:
Couture shows – the highest echelon of fashion, with made-to-measure frocks, private clients and six-figure prices – always highlight the craft of fashion as well as the fantasy.
So much for equality and ordinary people.
So why is she running?
For a "New Day?"
Really?
Listen to her speech below.
Oprah is part of the bigger movement in America (and Canada) to complete the usurpation the Western culture and tradition from America and render it a black/brown dominated country.
For how long will whites put up with this? For how long will they stand around as they get called all kinds of names and accused of all kinds of crimes? How long before they turn around and call Oprah and ilk racists and hypocrites?
Month, December -- Zodiac Sign: Capricornus: Hybrid animal with foreparts of goat.
Margins decorated with border of foliate ornament inhabited by pig standing next to man, wearing hat, raising axe with both hands behind head (Month, Occupation: December).
The source of these images, as far as I can find, is "an illuminated manuscript Book of Hours on vellum. - Paris, ca. 1485." More at The Morgan Museum and Library here
...specialise[s] in antiquarian books, medieval manuscripts, antique maps and prints from the 15th to the 18th centuries.
The company is named after the Flemish scholar Antoon Sanders (who "Latinized his name to Antonius Sanderus").
It looks like Sanders sells original books, which I deduced from the price of the book, which is about US$3,000.
I also did a preliminary transaction to authenticate the site, and they have sent me a username and password, with the name of print I sent in.
So, I can say with almost 100% certainty that this print is an original 16th century print. But, I would have thought that it would have been purchased by a gallery or a museum.
...richly illuminated...form[ing] an important record of life in the 15th and 16th centuries as well as the iconography of medieval Christianity. Some of them were also decorated with jewelled covers, portraits, and heraldic emblems. Some were bound as girdle books for easy carrying, though few of these or other medieval bindings have survived. Luxury books, like the Talbot Hours of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, may include a portrait of the owner, and in this case his wife, kneeling in adoration of the Virgin and Child as a form of donor portrait. In expensive books, miniature cycles showed the Life of the Virgin or the Passion of Christ in eight scenes decorating the eight Hours of the Virgin, and the Labours of the Months and signs of the zodiac decorating the calendar. Secular scenes of calendar cycles include many of the best known images from books of hours, and played an important role in the early history of landscape painting.
Many astrological explanations focus on the "goat" of Capricorn, but there is also the tail:
[W]hile Capricorns are able to climb life’s mountain peaks and succeed, they’re also able to plumb the emotional oceans of life and one of the least known qualities about a Capricorn, is how spiritually in tune they are. Many Capricorns have an inexplicable sixth sense that comes from this aspect of their nature. Capricorn is a complex and contradictory Sign and this comes from it being part goat, part fish.
Month, December -- Zodiac Sign: Capricornus: Hybrid animal with foreparts of goat.
Margins decorated with border of foliate ornament inhabited by pig standing next to man, wearing hat, raising axe with both hands behind head (Month, Occupation: December).
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
This post below is from Camera Lucidaposted on November 22, 2008. I just saw the film again and was struck by its superior cinematography.
Detective McPherson in front of Laura's portrait
Otto Preminger's Film Noir Laura is shot in muted high contrast black and white film, with very few of the edgy angular shots and harsh shadows characteristic of the genre. But its protagonist, a beautiful, kind and sophisticated young woman, is also not your typical femme fatale.
Laura, who says things like "I never have been and I never will be bound by anything I don't do with my own free will", and who's made a highly successful career in an advertising firm, cannot get it right when it comes to the men she would marry (or frequent).
Everybody loves Laura, from her house help, to her homosexual writer friend and mentor, and finally the detective who first falls in love with her "dead" persona. Each person finds his own reasons for loving her: for the writer Waldo Lydecker, she is someone with whom he can share his sophisticated lifestyle; for the maid, she is a kind and empathetic employer; for her fiancé-to-be Shelby, she is the generous heiress; and even Detective McPherson falls under her spell - albeit apparently dead - since she is someone whom he can rescue (or fantasize about?).
Yet Laura's innocence (purity) is what causes all the mayhem. Her choice of men - the possessive Lydecker and her cheating fiancé Shelby, and even the painter of her portrait (which causes the Det. McPherson to fall in love with her) - are not pleasant characters. Except perhaps for the Det. McPherson. It is her association with these shady men that results in murder.
It is rare that a film portrays a good, kind woman in this manner. Usually, femme fatales are arrogant, conniving women, who deliberately manipulate all those around them.
And this is testament to the sophistication of these earlier films, which were able to tap into the paradox of real characters. Laura never sets out to be destructive, yet she had her own subtle narcissism - "I never have been and I never will be bound by anything I don't do with my own free will" - which set the stage for the disaster that was to follow.
It is like the quote from Matthew 10:16:
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
It is never enough to be a harmless dove, but also a wise serpent. Laura, in her innocence, and her self-centeredness, never felt it necessary to develop her wisdom. Her intelligence and goodwill (and her beauty) only took her thus far.
What happens is that the cold dry air is coming in from the west and picks up moisture, as I described above. The air over the warmer lakes is rising, though. The cold air is blowing above it, acting like a lid to the rising warm, moist air. The rising air is stopped, and flows around to either side (imagine a plume of, say, cigarette smoke hitting the ceiling; at the top it splits and flows away from the plume with circular vortices). It cools and sinks, forming two circular patterns that rotate horizontally in opposite directions. The wind stretches them out, blowing them downwind, forming long streamers. This happens all up and down the coast, so you get a big series of cylindrical clouds, each one rotating in the opposite sense of the one next to it.
Auld Lang Syne Sang by: Ronnie Browne Poem by: Robert Burns Melody: Sixteenth Century Schotland, attributed to David Rizzio,
an Italian courtier who became the private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots.
O come, O come, Emmanuel
And ransom captive Israel
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free
Thine own from Satan's tyranny
From depths of Hell Thy people save
And give them victory o'er the grave
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, Thou Day-Spring, come and cheer
Our spirits by Thine advent here
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night
And death's dark shadows put to flight.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, Thou Key of David, come,
And open wide our heavenly home;
Make safe the way that leads on high,
And close the path to misery.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, O come, Thou Lord of might,
Who to Thy tribes, on Sinai's height,
In ancient times did'st give the Law,
In cloud, and majesty and awe.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.
Clever Christmas Promoters came up with this Facebook handle. It is clearly a play on "sleigh," but it fits with the non-Christian (anti-Christian) celebration of the holiday: All glitter and sparkle with urban slang added to the mix. Slay's literal translation is of course kill - Let's kill Christmas.
Below are photos I took of Square One Mall in Mississauga this morning. People were happy and festive. Christmas has become the perfect holiday for everyone: to be in good cheer; to give each other gifts; and to merrily wish everyone "HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!"
And the tree! I found three versions in my quick walk around the mall. (I went looking for "holiday decorations").
Nowhere, nowhere, is there any mention of Jesus and Mary. And even the angels are absent.
And who sits with Santa on Christmas Eve, when all the gifts have been delivered! Well the photo-op brngs n good money:
