What are you reading? 2024

Just did a quick read of The Land That Time Forgot and The People That Time Forgot. Actually pretty good books, they deserve a better movie. Probably too late now.

A classic! (it says so on the cover) 😁

I heard that. I understand that most people don't recognize the Texas Flag. In Bentonville this morning. They seem to have replaced the entire population with Stepford people in the last 12 years.

Just finished this last night.  It was excellent.  Just started another collection of Trevor's short stories today. 
Like those potato chips--so good you can't stop at just one. 

Still reading speeches this week.
249 years ago today, someone actually persuaded a group of people. Patrick Henry gave his famous speech at St. John's Church in Richmond Virginia to the Second Virginia Convention. They don't teach this anymore. We only have a rough reconstruction, written 40 years after the fact, from the memories men who were there. Still, they all agreed on the effect of the speech.
www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/fa32b8f2-228f-42d7-9dd3-3017035ee71b/liberty-or-death-patrick-henrys-speech/
I believe that this was the first recorded use of the phrase "Liberty or Death". It has since been used by people in the Russian revolution, the Greek war of Independence, the Alamo, to Malcolm X, and other places where people have felt that they couldn't live under the real or perceived oppression of a government or other state. It's the first time that is recorded that a person has stated in public that he would gladly lay down his life that his descendants and others would be free, William Wallace notwithstanding.
May you enjoy your day in peace and freedom.

Canon Frederic Farrar's "life Of Christ"

Incredibly well written and accurate account of the most important person that ever lived (my opinion).
PG 402-416 outlines the crucifixion in incredible detail, truly a horrific thing to experience...I would not wish it on an enemy.


I read it on Good Friday, and read the book in it's entirety after that. It gets my head right.


Suggested to me personally by John Macarthur, he drew from it in his book 'The Murder Of Jesus" and a remarkable sermon.

The Wickedness of the Crucifixion:

www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/2395/389.1

Sorry about the multiple covers. Postimage was acting up and it’s too late for to delete them.

We have been incredibly arrogant to Mexico, from the very beginning of our relationship. We have absolutely nothing to be proud of on that score.

Well, that's one point of view. Mexico was headed for corruption from day one. They had a chance with the Constitution of 1824, but Santa Anna and his party changed that. Look at the corruption in Mexico for the past several decades and tell me that the territory we took would be better off it was still under Mexican rule. And we would be constantly at war with them.

After finishing WAR ON THE BORDER, on a lark I searched the ‘net for a relative whom I know had been with Pershing in Mexico. Amazingly, I found Uncle Robert. I don’t know what his rank was with Pershing but in 1917 when this portrait was made he was a Lt. Col., the rank at which he retired.

I remember him as a kind, generous, gentle man. A true gentleman— like officers were in those days. I was too stupid as a kid to ask any of the right questions. He never talked about it.