Sunday, April 30, 2023

Blotgodi

  

'Blót (Old Norse) and blōt or geblōt (Old English) are terms for "blood sacrifice" in Norse paganism and Anglo-Saxon paganism respectively.  


A comparanda can also be reconstructed for wider Germanic paganism." 


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bl%C3%B3t



 "goðorð could be bought, shared, traded or inherited. 


The office was in many respects treated as private property but was not counted as taxable, and is defined in the Gray Goose Laws as 

 "power and not wealth"  

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Old Icelandic Dictionary Letter B

Blótgoði 

Old Icelandic Dictionary - blótgoði

Meaning of Old Icelandic word "blótgoði" in English.


As defined by A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (Geir Zoëga):


blótgoði

m. heathen sacrificing priest.


 https://old-icelandic.vercel.app/word/blotgodi



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothi

 


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"The Dutch from New Amsterdam (New York) defeated the Swedes in 1655, 

 and the English seized the colony from the Dutch in 1664 

 Thereafter, except for a brief Dutch reconquest in 1673, Delaware was administered as part of New York until 1682" 


https://www.britannica.com/place/Delaware-state/The-colony

 

"Bloodgood was made secretary to the Colonies on the Delaware River in 1659." 


'On 24 May 1674 he was made chief officer of the Dutch militia of the settlements of Flushing, Hempstead, Jamaica and Newtown. " 


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Jansen_Bloetgoet

Saturday, April 29, 2023

oldest public building still standing in the United States.

  

"The Chester Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Chester, Pennsylvania that served as the Chester County courthouse from 1724 to 1789, the Delaware County courthouse from 1789 to 1850 and the City Hall for the city of Chester.  


It was built in 1724 and is the oldest public building still standing in the United States. 


https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/212600548/thomas-finley 


https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/211998834/john-heaven 


"This branch of the Heaven clan is of Scotch Irish descent and is claimed to date back to the Scottish Clan of MacBeth. 

 The Heaven clan first originated in Scotland and family members later left to northern Ireland for political and religious reasons."


Scottish family    Heaven

MOTTO - Non omnis moriar (I shall not die)

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Dr. Melanie M.Bloodgood, PHD



 

"To prove prima facie defamation, a plaintiff must show four things: 

 1) a false statement purporting to be fact;  

2) publication or communication of that statement to a third person; 

 3) fault amounting to at least negligence; and 

 4) damages, or some harm caused to the reputation of the person or entity who is the subject" 
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Vitamin D. 

If you haven't ever been depressed, you're in denial. 

Time sorts many things out.

Services and medication? 

How about a roof over one's head.  

D. Uh. 


Duh. 
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"The song was played by pipers as the coffin of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II travelled up the Long Walk to Windsor Castle on 19 September 2022." 





People ask me to play this song, and I was unfamiliar with it, until watching the TV show Outlander.  

Gaud Save the Queen.


Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Rotten in Denmuck

  

"When: Nov. 17, 2011


What happened: An Oregonian cameraman captured McDaniel pepper-spraying Liz Nichols in the mouth during an Occupy rally." 


https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/03/01/a-police-sergeant-suspended-for-glorifying-violence-against-protesters-was-repeatedly-sued-for-his-use-of-force/ 


"the city suspended Portland Police Sgt. Jeff McDaniel for 10 days without pay after concluding he was “more likely than not” responsible for inserting the meme,  

which shows a man in a helmet and body armor beating a “dirty hippy”  

and is titled “Prayer of the Alt Knight,” 

 into a training presentation on crowd control." 


"Mayor Ted Wheeler defended the decision not to fire McDaniel—" 

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"Reinstated Portland cop went on paid medical leave at city while moonlighting as Clark County deputy" 


https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2023/04/reinstated-portland-cop-went-on-paid-medical-leave-at-city-while-moonlighting-as-clark-county-deputy.html 


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 Drone. 


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Today's Oregonian newspaper: 


 

 
 
 

Yesterday, 4-19, Sam Adams had his Bento brought to his illegally parked car across from Food Front about 2 pm. 

I mentioned putting pit bulls in the store at night to a union 555 grocery worker. 

Then at 5 pm, Jo Ann was in the bus on my way "home." We chit chatted. 

This morning, my neighbor says Police told him to dump my sleeping gear on the street, and he basically did. As a City Truck hovered nearby. 



The truck, in the distance, left as I carted my belongings by bike away.
 
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Yesterday, my friend the author and activist Martha , tipped me her book, Setting the Night on Fire. Between Sam Adams and later Jo Ann Hardesty, it was kinda celebrity central.

Friday, April 07, 2023

Nonsense

 You could stay in my backyard 

You can have these gloves 

 want a key to my house, I've nothing of value 

You could sleep on my couch 

The woman over there died, stay at her home

I want you to be safe bait switch 



Monday, April 03, 2023

 

Paid in baby, tender nada, 

Down the coffee why bother 

Dime and rain hop on bus 

Strangers are us 

The skewer stick lands in trash 

River meat sewer cash 

Plump cheeks fat wrist 

Leash the hog in protest  

Minding business pay the tongue wag the flag get sum 

Paid in haze and rainbow grey mixed together a slurry better 

Little chance the front pack dance eyes all blue 

Our only true saving hue 

Silent speck wink kickback take a nap brush off the sock 

Gotta go where mama go 

A fathom deep with soil aboil 

Parking free community 

Sunday, April 02, 2023

Copacetic transit

  

Blessings drizzle morning alive as the routine rolls, familiar and copacetic 

Amounting to gratitude for basic standards of existence

Not stepping on toes or overviewing the panorama, taking foul with fair in bemusement 

An obstacle dissolved 

With my violin in a dry warm velvet case next to me on the tolerable bus 

Downtown ahead in a wash exponentially gray, like Avalons seedy cloak, lumbering slowly over the ruts 

Rain carves into every wrinkle the path reminds in stacatto transit sway