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Ancestral Stones
by Tom McLaughlin
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Democrats And Republicans Reach ‘Agreement
In Principle’ On Border Security
by Henry Rodgers
{dailycaller.com} ~ Democrats and Republicans in Congress have reached an “agreement in principle” on President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall funding... as the government is days away from a potential shutdown. The agreement reportedly includes $1.375 billion for physical barriers, which would be bollard, or basically a concrete-filled barrier that protect office buildings and shopping malls across the U.S. There would also be nearly a 17 percent drop in ICE beds, bringing the number to 40,520 overall, over 8,000 beds, in which Republicans have pushed back against, saying more criminals will be on the streets if they are not in ICE custody. The National Sheriff’s Association has warned against the Democrats’ proposal to limit ICE’s ability to detain violent criminals. We need to listen to the law enforcement professionals so that we can reach a result that protects our national security,” North Dakota Republican Sen. John Hoeven told The Daily Caller News Foundation Monday afternoon. Alabama Republican Sen. Richard Shelby told reporters on Capitol Hill that he believes Trump will approve of the agreement, according to Fox News. This comes as both House and Senate lawmakers met at a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill... Trump is not going to agree with this. If he does he's a fool. https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/11/democrats-republicans-agreement-border-wall/?utm_medium=email .
President Trump Interview From El Paso
by sundance.
The New York Times’s Wordplay
to Absolve Iran’s Leadership
by Aaron KliegmanGenuine Alliances – Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo in Budapest, Hungary
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The Morality of the Anti-Trump Elite
by GEORGE NEUMAYR
{spectator.org} ~ The dominant media spends day after day accusing Trump of this or that “lie.” It puts the worst possible construction on his every utterance... Meanwhile, the high priests of that media get caught out in plagiarism scandals and the like and never pay the slightest price for those acts of brazen dishonesty. Fareed Zakaria is a well-documented plagiarist, but CNN has no qualms about giving him a show from which to attack Trump’s integrity from every conceivable angle. Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, who often lacerates Trump for not owning up to his deceptions, has published a book, titled ironically Merchants of Truth, that contains multiple plagiarisms which she refuses to admit. One wonders if Abramson’s public denials of plagiarism amount to saying: I didn’t borrow these passages nearly word for word from other sources; my ghostwriter did. If that is the real explanation, she hasn’t given it yet. So far she will only admit to errors in “citation,” as if she properly attributed the passages in the text but she failed to cite the sources accurately in the end notes. In fact, she didn’t attribute the passages in the text at all, which meets the textbook definition of plagiarism, as one of the victims of her theft, Mathew Ingram, notes: It’s an odd feeling to have an otherwise unremarkable passage you wrote appear as an exhibit in an accusation of plagiarism, especially when it relates to the former executive editor of The New York Times, and especially when the allegedly plagiarized passages appear in a book about the state of modern media. And yet, here we are… https://spectator.org/the-morality-of-the-anti-trump-elite/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=b73005d347-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_02_11_09_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-b73005d347-104608113
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Ancestral Stones
by Tom McLaughlin
Bug Light Park
{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ Though it was still very cold last weekend, I felt the hope of spring. Maybe it was the angle of the sun, the heat from which was melting snow and ice even when the airtemperature was well below freezing. As I ran along the waterfront at Bug Light Park Sunday morning there was noactivity in Portland Harbor. Only one ferry to Peaks Island was moving and that had docked by the time I began. There was a quiet I seldom perceive down there. Very few people were stirring, only a couple dog owners out for a walk. It was cold, but the air wasn’t moving and the sun felt warm on my face. That hope of spring is an ancient thing for people in northern climes.
Stone circle in County Cork
I just booked my fourth trip to Ireland, the land of my ancestors, which is amply sprinkled with prehistoric stone formations everywhere going back five millennia. No one knows for sure who built them but archaeologists are slowly piecing bits of evidence together which indicate that many if not most of the curious structures are oriented according to the solar calendar — to confirm that yes, the sun is getting higher each day and spring will indeed return. People around the world are familiar with Stonehenge, which is the largest of numerous other stone circles all over England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Atlantic coast of France.
Newgrange
Newgrange
Other stones the size of automobiles are arranged all around Newgrange and inscribed with spirals and concentric circles the meanings of which no one knows. When I visited there I was told by officials on site that they were close to an understanding and a report would be issued within months. I’ve been waiting ten years and there’s been no report.
Isle of Doagh
There are similar concentric circle designs carved into stones on the Isle of Doagh on the Inishowen Peninsula in Donegal which is the northernmost part of Ireland. When I was there on my first trip, I wasn’t aware of those stones, but I’ll be spending several days on Inishowen again because it’s the land of the McLaughlins where my great-grandfather was born. I’ll be sure to look for them this time.
Another in County Cork (photo by John Banagan)
My great-grandfather, James whom I never knew, was born in a little village called Cloontagh but he emigrated to Boston from the nearby Isle of Doagh. My brother Paul and his girlfriend will be with us for a few days. He’s going to Scotland first and we’ll meet up in Donegal after he flies in from Edinburgh. It’s his first trip to Europe.
Enforced by the British in Ireland
After Paul flies back to the USA my wife and I will head south to County Cork where other branches of my family originated — the Sullivans and Mahoneys, also on my father’s side. I’ve discovered where and when some married and where and when some died, so if I have time maybe I can find their homes. Maybe not though, because they were Roman Catholic and, as such, they wouldn’t likely have inherited real property since it was illegal for a Catholic to own property in Ireland until 1792. They were born in the early 1800s.
Comments
Bonnie
The only thing he said 'I'm not happy' but still he has not say he was going to sign the dems bill. I do hope he will not and do what he said he would.
THE PRES CAN AGREE TO IT I HOPE HE DOES NOT BUT THEN THERE ARE MANY
WAYS HE CAN TAKE THE MONEY FOR THE WALL. YOU CANNOT BE SO STUPID AS TO
BELIEVE THAT RINO GOPERS AND DEMS WERE GOING TO FIND THE MONEY DO YOU