{"id":986,"date":"2015-11-30T22:56:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T03:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/?p=986"},"modified":"2015-12-03T19:28:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T00:28:23","slug":"986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/?p=986","title":{"rendered":"Nota in Brevis, November 30th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"saint<\/a>Today is the feast of Saint Andrew, Apostle, brother of Saint Peter, patron of Scotland, Russia, Ukraine and Greece, for what reason are somewhat historically obscure.\u00a0 Here is the Wikipedia take on the matter, whether accurate or not, it fits:<\/p>\n

According to legend, in 832 AD,\u00a0\u00d3engus II<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/em>led an army of\u00a0Picts<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Scots<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/em>into battle against the\u00a0Angles<\/a><\/em>, led by \u00c6thelstan, near modern-day\u00a0Athelstaneford<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0East Lothian<\/a><\/em>. The legend states that he was heavily outnumbered and hence whilst engaged in prayer on the eve of battle, \u00d3engus vowed that if granted victory he would appoint Saint Andrew as the Patron Saint of Scotland. On the morning of battle white clouds forming an X shape in the sky were said to have appeared. \u00d3engus and his combined force, emboldened by this apparent divine intervention, took to the field and despite being inferior in numbers were victorious. Having interpreted the cloud phenomenon as representing the\u00a0crux decussata\u00a0upon which Saint Andrew was crucified, \u00d3engus honoured his pre-battle pledge and duly appointed Saint Andrew as the Patron Saint of Scotland<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It is historically accurate, as far as I can determine, that I was born in the bonnie land, so Saint Andrew, ora pro nobis<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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\"james<\/a>Officer James Furcillo, yes, the man who shot Sammy Yatim eight times, five while he was lying prostrate mortally wounded on the ground, now admits that his primary motivation was to ‘get home safe and sound to his family’, and that police officers are ‘not paid to get stabbed or shot’.<\/p>\n

Of course, it is unclear how much he has been coached by his defense team, and how much of this he actually believes.\u00a0 Does he, and his fellow officers, are paid their large salaries, and offered their early retirements, partly due to the fact that they face the risk of getting ‘stabbed or shot’?\u00a0 To reduce that risk to near-zero, James Furcillo should have taken up woodworking or library science.<\/p>\n

How about a drop of remorse, Officer Furcillo?\u00a0 If his is the attitude of his fellow officers, then God protect us all.\u00a0 It makes me more convinced of the truism that those who have a burning desire to be police officers (or politicians, or rulers of any sort) are likely the last people who should actually be chosen<\/p>\n

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\"climate<\/a>The U.N. Climate Summit has now begun, with our Prime Minister declaring in his role as anti-global-warming-(or-is-that-climate-change?) warrior that ‘Canada is back’.\u00a0 Back from what, one may ask?\u00a0 From the chilly days of Conservative and eco-foe Stephen Harper?\u00a0 I will post an article soon on so-called climate science, and how unscientific it has become.\u00a0 For starters, carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, and is in fact the ‘air’ of plants, which are necessary for life, as well as the normal exhalation of humans.\u00a0 A perfect balance, one would think.\u00a0 There is little evidence that it actually produces global warming, which has sort of stopped over the past generation (hence, the unfalsifiable and hence pseudoscientific thesis of ‘climate change’).\u00a0 But then Trudeau would not permit his mind to dwell upon that ‘inconvenient truth’, for, as a man of slogans, his intellectual grasp of reality seems, well, slim.\u00a0 Pray for the attendees, and for the truth of what they are trying to do to sink in.<\/p>\n

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*I also notice that interest rates are going up.\u00a0 This, in fact, is (unlike the Syrian war connection of Prince Charles0 likely connected to climate change, at least insofar as the untold billions wasted on dead-end ‘green technologies’ have dried up real wealth and efficient, viable energy production.\u00a0 Woe to those who are on the razor edge of their mortgage payments.\u00a0 But maybe we can all live in igloos if Trudeau and his gang are really successful in reducing global temperatures by the time our homes are foreclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is the feast of Saint Andrew, Apostle, brother of Saint Peter, patron of Scotland, Russia, Ukraine and Greece, for what reason are somewhat historically obscure.\u00a0 Here is the Wikipedia take on the matter, whether accurate or not, it fits: According to legend, in 832 AD,\u00a0\u00d3engus II\u00a0led an army of\u00a0Picts\u00a0and\u00a0Scots\u00a0into battle against the\u00a0Angles, led by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,10,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}