Go Get'em Scottie!
For tonight's game 1 of a three-game series at Oracle Park the Giants are missing four starters due to injury (Lee, Soler, Conforto, Ahmed). Starting Catcher Patrick Bailey is listed day-to-day. Last I checked on the Dodgers injury list Jason Heyward, who didn't play April 03, is still out and Ohtani is day-to-day.
Bottom line, the Giants, coming off a 2-1 series win over the Cincinnati Reds cannot let the injury bug distract them. They have the division leading Dodgers in town and it's "next man up" mentality time. Both teams are 3-2 in their last five games. Everybody knows that when these two teams meet you can throw out all the recent stats and win/loss records. It's Dodgers versus Giants once again, no time for licking wounds or making excuses. Let's Play Ball!
Life Magazine
Article - November 20, 1939
Germany’s
Brain Truster Produces Nazi War Aims
Excerpt
The root of
Haushofer’s advice is to be ready for anything, to suit the demand to the
supply in international politics, to seek the weak point and to be bound by no
principles. This advice is what the Nazi leaders have always believed in
internal politics. Haushofer tells them, out of an immense scholarship, how to
apply it to international politics. Strangely, the first complete report on
Haushofer to reach the democratic world was contained in several chapters of
the book by the renegade Nazi Hermann Rauschning, “The Revolution of
Nihilism.”
Karl Haushofer’s
ideas, according to Rauschning, are responsible not only for Germany’s alliance
with Soviet Russia but for the development of a totally unscrupulous
revolution. The Nazi elite, according to Rauschning, have come to know that the
whole Nazi program is just balderdash to feed the people. They look on the
hard-working, patriotic, march-loving Germans as the most marvelous suckers ever
handed to a small, tight group hungry for power. Their true program, says
Rauschning, is to pulverize and “Atomize” the German people into one classless
mass, suited to any purposes the High Command may decide. This is to be the
instrument for the great external aims improvised by Haushofer.
Knowing that
the elite of any revolution’s first phase are overthrown by later elites,
Hitler trains the young Nazi elite in special leader schools. In the
competitions for admission, lower-middle-class candidates are more and more
often beaten out by merciless young men from the aristocracy and upper-middle
class. The same type of young man is making his appearance in the ranks of Army
officers. Rauschning says that they listen to Hitler today with embarrassed disgust,
that they believe the revolution cannot stand still and the old Nazis must go.
Either the Army will take over Germany, according to Rauschning, or this new
elite will launch a further “pulverization” of the German people and the “eternal
war” of German dominion.
For all
these “sons of chaos” infected by Haushofer’s ideas, Rauschning has such
epithets as primitive, vulgar, ungrammatical, amoral, immoral, anti-social, déclassé,
hooligan. Like their Fuhrer, they await the turn of events to take over whatever slogans will excite and
delude the people. These slogans are continually changing. Behind the screaming
voice of Adolf Hitler, the actual words are so vague and ambiguous that they
can be used in any way he chooses. Rauschning describes a total breakdown in
Germany of everything once meant by German character, a triumph of cynicism, the death of all hope and
principle, the glorification of rapid action and crafty opportunism. The Revolution,
he says, will whirl on, either forward or backward.
Haushofer
picked Adolph Hitler and his Deputy Chief, Rudolf Hess, as pupils of his in 1920,
saying that Hess should have been a priest and Hitler an architect. He has
never let go of them and calls them by their first names.
He won his
first hold on Hitler when he and his Jewish wife brought to Hitler’s jail in
Munich in 1923 books and flowers to keep the future Fuhrer happy, while he
wrote Mein Kampf.
Personal notes:
I typed this
up after reading it because the methods Haushofer suggested to Hitler for
taking power seem very similar to what GOP Republicans grabbed hold of in Donald
Trump in 2016. “primitive, vulgar, ungrammatical, amoral, immoral,
anti-social, déclassé, hooligan”
Haushofer’s son, Albrecht, would later be executed by the Nazi’s for his work with the German Resistance. Albrecht was implicated in the July 20, 1944, attempted plot to assassinate the Fuhrer. (see Wikipedia)
Karl Haushofer and his wife on the night of March 10-11, 1946, committed suicide. Both drank arsenic, then his wife hanged herself from a tree branch.
Haushofer developed Geopolitik from widely varied sources.
World War II began on Sept. 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland.
I am guilty,
But not in the way you think.
I should have earlier recognized my duty;
I should have more sharply called evil evil;
I reined in my judgement too long.
I did warn,
But not enough, and not clearly enough;
And today I know what I was guilty of.
I know, it sounds crazy, but this musical instructor, with her Mary Poppins delivery style, is awesome in teaching the harmony and balance of a song I've always enjoyed.
How does it feel, comfortably numb?
I know, it's not an electric guitar, but the harp gives a visual flow to the relationship of chords, scales, and notes. And I think it is a great talking instrument, in that it mimics speech or has "a way of articulating musically expressive intention."
I came to this video while searching for a beginner's guitar lesson. Yes, finally, after years of being a musical observer, I've jumped into the pool of creative arts, determined to discover through practice what I've admired from afar.
Why Comfortably Numb? My history with the song and group goes back to a time in the 1970's, while working in a record store. Pink Floyd was the music of young people tripping on the mysteries of life. Their music was a dream-walk through the cosmic universe, making you the captain of your journey.
The seventies were still an age of psychedelic experiment, going where no man has gone before. There were leftovers of the sixties "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out" message which accompanied protest and a strong desire for collective change in society. It was still the "Age of Aquarius."
How does it feel, comfortably numb?
So, I find it interesting to hear this musical instructor, with a Mary Poppins flavor, breakdown the musical theme and composition of a song which once led partying, protesting young people to the promised land. And for some, led to a place of no return.
I have become, comfortably numb!
Tracing the Life of Syd Barrett
Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for blood pressure?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for breathing?
A: No.
Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
A: No.
Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Q: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.
I'm not one for bashing lawyers, or doctors for that matter, but when I read the above interchange between a doctor accused of malpractice, and the prosecuting attorney, I laughed out loud. Visions of a highly educated doctor calmly and confidently answering questions directed at him in the witness box from a stalking, snake-like lawyer immediately come to mind.
As any good prosecuting lawyer would do on cross-examination of a defendant, he tries punching holes into the defendant's previous testimony with the defendant still on the witness stand.
Q: "So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?"
This is where the stalking-snake lawyer so arrogantly slithers unexpectedly into his own concocted trap. He has mistakenly slithered too far into a field of questioning (medical diagnosis) advantageous to the doctor.
A: "Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar."
Here, the doctor calmly and confidently insults the lawyer's intelligence, nudging his ego to commit a defense of his arrogance. The snake has crossed the point of no return.
Q: "But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?"
The legal snake tries desperately to wriggle his way out of the trap, only to entangle himself more completely in its grasp. The die is cast. The doctor only needs to deliver the fatal blow.
A: "Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law."
Yes, A brainless lawyer could still be alive AND PRACTICING LAW in this courtroom.
And there you have it, a simple scene taking place in a courtroom where a man-snake in the legal field (lawyer) tries outsmarting a doctor, not using legalese methods but instead with clever medical questions which would backfire in his face. Humorous!