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Flash Report
August 3, 2021
After hours and hours of contemplating attempting to write another report the result is available at: www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/51355466713 Try to read it. If it isn’t possible return the unused/unread portion for a complete refund.
It has been nearly two months since an attempt has been made to formulate, let alone transmit a Flash Report. A lot of time has been afforded the old batboy to sit and look at his I-pad and work the Intermet looking for clues of former KOM league who were; found, never located and deceased. That is basis for this effort.
Leading off is the first obituary that has ever been shared in Spanish. The reason its not in English is due to my lack of bilinguality. The deceased is Ernie Garcia who I saw play at the Carthage ballpark, in 1951. He was the shortstop for Ted Gullic’s Bartlesville Pirates. He formed a good doubleplay combination with the late E. C. Leslie of Kansas City, Missouri who spent his adult life coaching/teaching high school in Lubbock, Texas.
Following the Ernie Garcia obituary are tributes to Richard Pertzborn of the 1947 Independence Yankees , Ray Haley of that same franchise in 1948, Ernest Jordan Jr—1950 Ponca City Dodgers, Carroll Ethan Bryan and Edward Humphrey Hughes Jr.—1952 Blackwell Broncos, Merlin Leo Jorgensen—1951 Bartlesville Pirates and 1952 Pittsburg/Bartlesville Pirates, Robert Wesley James—1951 Pittsburg Browns and another shot of identifying a member of the 1950 Bartlesville Pirates who was either James Parker Williams or James Park Williams.
So, sit back and relax, This is going to be a very long report. Feel free to hit the delete key at anytime. However, before doing so you might consider saving it for future reading as there isn’t a promise of future reports. That is being said due to the fact that it isn’t possible to document there are more than 136 former KOM leaguers currently emitting carbon dioxide.
There are possibly another 25 former KOM leaguers still on this earthly plane but either the inability to locate them, on my part, or their ignoring letters, telephone calls and e-mails it is not possible to provide an exact count.
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Ernesto “Natas” Garcia
Bartlesville Pirates 2nd baseman 1951—Passed away April 2, 2017
(Jack Morris, Baseball Necrologist provided this information)
El amigo Luis Alarcón, presidente del Concejo Municipal del Salón de la Fama del Deportista Nogalense, nos da la triste noticia del sentido deceso de Ernesto “Natas” García, un excelentísimo segunda base que también marcó época en la Liga de la Costa del Pacífico, la Mexicana de Béisbol, la Invernal Sonora y Sonora-Sinaloa y la Norte de Sonora.
Su fallecimiento, por causas naturales de su edad, ocurrió a las 23:15 horas del sábado en la ciudad de Tucson.
“Natas”, nació el 7 de noviembre de 1932 en Nogales y desde el pasado 26 de enero de 2016 forma parte del Recinto Sagrado de esa frontera.
En la Costa del Pacífico fue parte del equipo Naranjeros de Hermosillo que se adjudicaron el bicampeonato en 1955-56 y 56-57 tripulados por Hub Kittle.
En la campaña del 55-56, Hermosillo tuvo a Joe Brovia, Earl “Búfalo” Averill, Bob Bowman, Leo Rodríguez, Ventura Morales, Pepe Bache, Ernesto “Natas” García y Ray Garza.
El pitcheo lo encabezaron Don Nichols y Jimmy Ochoa con 13 y 11 victorias. Los otros lanzadores fueron Pete Meza, “Ciclón” Echeverría, Arnulfo Manzo y Librado Ceceña.
Esa temporada le ganaron el play off por el título a Navojoa. A la siguiente repetirían en el trono, también dirigidos por Hub Kittle y donde el “Natas” fue el gran segunda base estelar.
Cuando la campaña 54-55, al “Natas lo encontramos luciendo en la primera serie en el Estadio de “La Casa del Pueblo” en el siguiente line up: Ernesto “Natas” García (2b), Leo Rodríguez (3b), Claudio Solano (lf), Joe Brovia (rf), Leon Kellman (ca), Dick Hogan (cf), Raymundo Garza (1b), Rubén Amaro (ss) y el pítcher Mel Queen.
Sin duda, otro notable equipo de esa época.
En 1956 fue parte de los campeones Diablos Rojos del México haciendo mancuerna con el “Chero” Mayers y estableciendo marcas en doble plays; también en 1961 ayudó al Águila de Veracruz a obtener el gallardete.
Sus estadísticas
En la Liga Mexicana de Béisbol logró los siguientes números después de 14 años de actividad donde concluyó con .278 de porcentaje de bateo.
Vio acción en 1,260 juegos, anotó 726 carreras, pegó 1,298 hits, 70 jonrones y produjo 485 carreras. Se estafó las bases en 36 ocasiones.
Se retiró en 1970.
En la Liga Invernal de Sonora y Sonora Sinaloa:
En cuatro años bateó .270, jugó 224 partidos, anotó 90 veces, pegó 230 hits, 9 jonrones e impulsó 94 carreras. Tuvo once estafas.
Su última temporada en el béisbol invernal fue en 1966. Descanse en paz. Nuestras condolencias a su señora esposa Alejandrina García, sus hijas Mayra y Diana Duarte, así como sus seis nietos.
Sólo once en MLB
Qué cosa: de los once peloteros mexicanos en la Gran Carpa, 10 son lanzadores!
Únicamente el “Titán” figura en un line up ligamayorista, ya sabe usted, como todo un estelar de los Dodgers de Los Ángeles.
La lista de pitchers, la compone: Jorge de la Rosa (Dbacks); Marco Estrada y Roberto Osuna (Toronto); Yovani Gallardo (Seattle); Óliver Pérez y Fernando Salas (Mets); Sergio Romo (Dodgers); Jaime García (Bravos); Joakim Soria (KC), y Miguel González (White Sox).
Tendré que volverme a poner los arreos y ponerme en forma para buscar una oportunidad en la Gran Carpa y acompañar a Adrián.
Claro, hay paisanos con probabilidad de ascender: Sebastián Elizalde (Rojos); Daniel Castro, de nuevo (Rockies); Xorge Carrillo (Mets); Christian Villanueva (Padres), y Alí Solís (Dodgers)).
Y como pitchers, Cesar Vargas (Padres), Luis Cessa y Giovanny Gallegos (NYY); Rafael Martín (Mets) y Julio Urías y Manny Bañuelos (Dodgers).
Ed comment:
It is possible to go through each paragraph of Garcia’s obituary and figure out how long he played, some of his statistics and some of the better known names of guys with whom he played. I believe he was also a scout and it appears that he signed a young man by the name of Gallegos, for the Yankees, who is now the property of the St. Louis Cardinals and threw an inning of relief as late as August 1, 2021.
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Ray Haley—1948 Independence Yankee catcher
RAYMOND HALEY Obituary (1928 - 2021) - ELGIN, IL - Daily Herald (legacy.com)
ELGIN - Raymond M. "Ray" Haley, 92, of Elgin,Illinois passed away on June 18, 2021 surrounded by his family. He was born on December 24, 1928, in Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, MO the son of John and Phyllis (Gwinn) Haley. Ray was a veteran and served in the US Army during the Korean War. He was a standout athlete in high school and college and at age 16, was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals. He played with both the Cardinal and Yankees organizations in their minor leagues.
Ray graduated from Southwest Missouri State University where he played football and was inducted into the schools' Hall of Fame in 1977, having his jersey retired 2010. After obtaining his Masters' Degree from LSU University, he was recruited to teach and coach football at East Aurora High School. While teaching in Aurora, he met and married the love of his life: Donna Ridge Haley. They were married on August 25, 1956 and raised 3 daughters. Ray became part of the team that opened Larkin High School in 1962 as their Head Football Coach, and eventually became Athletic Director, until his retirement in 1990. He was passionate for Larkin High School and the Royals Football program. Ray felt fortunate to work with outstanding administrators, teachers, coaches, staff, students and Booster families.
He will be deeply missed. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Elgin, a charter member of the Elgin Sports Hall of Fame, inducted in 1992; inducted into the Illinois Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1986 and member the Elgin Noon Kiwanis Club. Survivors include his three daughters, Jennifer (Carol) Haley, Jane (Paul) Duffy and Kris (Tom) Buda; 2 grandchildren, Jack Haley Duffy and Kevin Ridge Haley Duffy; along with many nieces, nephews, family and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents; his beloved wife, Donna in 1998; and a sister, Juanita Dawson. A celebration of his life will be held on Saturday, July 10, 2021, beginning with visitation from 9:00am-11:00am and a service immediately follow at the First United Methodist Church, Elgin. Burial will be private at the National Cemetery in Springfield, MO. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the First United Methodist Church of Elgin, IL or the Elgin Sports Hall of Fame. Laird Funeral Home, Elgin, is in care of arrangements. 847-741-8800 or www.lairdfamilyfuneralservices.com.
Ed comment
Ray Haley attended many KOM league events and even made a trip to my baseball dungeon to take a look at something he helped purchase for the Don Davis family at the close of the 1948 season. The item was a brass horse with a detachable saddle. The price of the steed was around $100 and also chipping in to purchase it were; Al Pilarcik, Jim Finigan, Billy Bagwell, Nick Ananias, Jim Davis and Charley Joe Fontana.
That horse came to graze in the KOM League Hall of Fame pasture in the 1990’s and if memory serves correctly it has been shared in story and image in previous reports. It must be said that over all those 73 years the animal looks as good as the day it was presented to the Davis family for their kindness and friendship to the Independence players. The horse made it way to Reno, Nevada, from Independence after the eldest of the Davis family passed away. The daughter went to Independence, from Reno, to settle the estate. After arriving in Reno she decided it needed to be around the KOM crowd and it has been given good care for going a a quarter century. Incidentally, it is looking over my shoulder as this is being written.
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Richard Pertzborn—Pitcher 1947 Independence Yankees
Richard J. Pertzborn, 93, of Ankeny, Iowa, died due to complications of Parkinson’s disease on December 30th, 2020. A funeral mass will be held on Thursday, January 7 at 12:00 pm, with visitation starting at 11:00 am at All Saints Catholic Church, Des Moines, Iowa.
A private burial will be at Glendale Cemetery. Richard was born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa. He graduated from Dowling High School in 1945. While attending Dowling he enjoyed playing sports. He was a standout catcher on the baseball team which led to an invitation to tryout with the St. Louis Cardinals Farm Team.
He put his baseball career on hold to serve his country and joined the United States Marine Corps serving stateside in World War II and the Korean War. After serving his country he pursued his dream of playing baseball professionally and signed with the NY Yankees. He played with the KMO league (Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma). Unfortunately, a shoulder injury ended his baseball career. In 1948 he married the love of his life, Maryann Fehn. They built their home in Ankeny, Iowa, where they raised nine children.
Richard became a successful independent insurance agent, earning numerous professional achievements. It’s easy to see why he was so successful, he was a hardworking, dedicated, trustworthy, outgoing man who enjoyed talking with anyone. Richard was involved in several organizations and served on many boards. He was the first Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus at Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart Church in Ankeny, Iowa. He also served on boards with the Serra Club, Colfax Interfaith Spiritual Center and Dowling High School.
Richard was a loving husband, an amazing father, grandfather, and great grandfather. He coached many of his kid’s sports teams and was a very involved father in all their activities. Richard became an avid runner later in life. He could run for miles and miles which led to participating in many marathons around the world. He also enjoyed participating in the Iowa Senior Games for many years.
Richard is survived by four daughters Pam Pertzborn of Waukee, Sue Weed of Des Moines, Mindy Pertzborn of Urbandale and Cris (Jon) Pertzborn-Klatt of Ankeny, along with five sons Rick (Judy) of West Des Moines, Mike (Roxi) of Storm Lake, Tim (Barb) of Des Moines, Bob (Kathy) of Ankeny and Tom (Cindy) of Dallas, Texas; in addition to 25 grandchildren and 36 great-grandchildren. He is preceded in death by his wife of 54 years, Maryann, a great grandson, son-in-law, two sisters, and parents. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to: All Saints Catholic Church, 650 NE 52nd Ave., Des Moines, Iowa 50313 Scottish Rite Park Attn: Health Care Center: 2909 Woodland Ave., Des Moines, Iowa 50312 Dowling Catholic High School for Scholarships: 1400 Buffalo Road, West Des Moines, Iowa 50265. The service will be live streamed at www.caldwellparissh.com
Ed comment:
In 1995 my job landed me in Des Moines, Iowa where I worked on a proposal writing team to elicit bids, from private companies, to process Medicaid claims. During my spare time contact was made with former KOM leaguers living in the Des Moines and surrounding area. Through that process a number of guys, filling that bill, were located and a number of meals were eaten in restaurants and even in their homes.
Richard Pertzborn was one of the fellows I broke bread bread with both in his home and restaurants. The most memorable event was visiting his home in Ankeny and sitting on the patio. From there was the greatest spectacle I had ever witnessed. There were more hummingbird feeders in his backyard than I had ever seen in my life. I marveled at the number of birds at the feeder and the effort and money it took to feed them. Being a busy executive with Northwest Mutual Life Insurance, Pertzborn gave all the credit to his wife for caring for the sugar drinkers.
After leaving Iowa, in late summer of 1995, there was contact with the deceased for many years through the newsletter. With the onset of his Alzheimer's that all came to an end.
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Edward Humphrey Hughes Jr. 1952 Blackwell Broncos and a one-day “look see” with the Ponca City Dodgers the same year
obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?...
Edward Hughes Jr.
January 26, 1934 - May 8, 2018
Obituary
Ed Hughes, also known as the Big Guy was born January 26, 1934 and passed May 8, 2018 at the age of 84. He was born in Bloomfield, Missouri but a resident of Cape Coral for 21 years. A beloved man who cared genuinely for his family and friends. Ed was the epitome of a gentleman and a gentle-man. Mr. Hughes experienced life as a former minor league baseball pitcher, a printing and advertising professional for 50 years, and a golf enthusiast. He leaves his surviving wife Marie Hughes and their six children: Cindy Hughes, Diane Zoechbauer, Bettina Bogdanoff (Ron), Ron Laduke (Kristy), Nicole Fable (Adam), Danielle Zimmerman (Brett). 13 Grandchildren: Gary, Lacey, Nicky, Alex, Cindy, Avery, Rebecca, Brianna, Brooke, Jessica, Brandon, Abigail, and Ethan. 4 Great Grandchildren: Jade, Decland, Violet, and Avery. He will be forever loved and remembered. In lieu of flowers, the family recommend donations in Ed's honor to Cape Royal Community Foundation 11963 Prince Charles Court Cape Coral, FL 33991.
Services held May 12th, 2018 11 AM our lady of the Miraculous Medal Church
Ed comment:
Several issues ago this forum mentioned the difficulty in locating Mr. Hughes. A great deal was known about him as both his mother and father were pastors in the Church of God denomination. They moved around quite a bit, as pastors are destined to do. Their service to the church saw them pastor mostly in Tennessee, Missouri and Illinois. Although a lot of effort was expended in searching for Edward Humphrey Hughes Jr. while he was alive it took an obituary to identify what became of him after baseball. If, in the afterlife, it is permissible to talk about baseball some time will be set aside to ask questions of “The Big Guy” and if Flash Reports are allowed, this story can be embellished and shared. (Be sure to send a forwarding address)
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Merlin Leo Jorgensen 1951-52 Bartlesville- Pittsburg Catcher
obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?...
Sioux Falls - Merlin L. Jorgensen, of Sioux Falls, SD, passed away March 13, 2021, at Dougherty Hospice House in Sioux Falls. He was 88.
A memorial service will be held Wednesday, March 17 at 1:00 PM at Miller Westside Chapel, 6200 W 41st St, Sioux Falls, SD.
Merlin is survived by his wife, Marlene, Sioux Falls; sons, Rod (Lynn) Jorgensen and Scott (Vicky) Jorgensen of Sioux Falls; daughter LeAnn (Alex) Van Amerongen of Lebanon, IL; brothers, Roger and Larry of Sioux Falls;brother in law Wally Collier of Garretson, SD; friend, Tamara Jorgensen of Sioux Falls and six grandchildren, Casey, Nick, Kyle, Christina, Thaniel and Alexa and 7 great grandchildren.
Merlin, son of Ervin and Florence (Overgaard) Jorgensen, was born on January 12, 1933 near Turkey Ridge, SD. After graduating Centerville high school in 1951, Merlin played pro baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1951, 1952, and 1955, played with the Yankton Terry’s from 1956-1958. He played Amateur Ball until 1972 and was involved with youth baseball for numerous years. Merlin graduated from SDSU in 1959. And also served in the Army from 1953 to 1955.
Merlin was united in marriage to Marlene Payson June 27, 1956 and had three children.
He enjoys baseball, golf, fishing, crossword puzzles and is an avid Minnesota Twins fan and Vikings fan. Merlin also enjoyed traveling to see family.
Merlin is survived by his wife, Marlene, Sioux Falls; sons, Rod (Lynn) Jorgensen and Scott (Vicky) Jorgensen of Sioux Falls; daughter LeAnn (Alex) Van Amerongen of Lebanon, IL; brothers, Roger and Larry of Sioux Falls; brother in law Wally Collier of Garretson, SD; friend, Tamara Jorgensen of Sioux Falls and six grandchildren, Casey, Nick, Kyle, Christina, Thaniel and Alexa; 7 great grandchildren; many cousins, nieces and nephews.
He is preceded in death by his parents and brother Robert Jorgensen; sisters Alice Lanpher and Jeanette (Nettie) Collier.
In lieu of flowers please consider a donation to King of Glory Church in memory of Merlin.
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Ernest Jordan Jr. 1950 Ponca City Dodgers
www.laureloaksfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Ernest-Jordan?ob...
Mr. Ernest Jordan passed away Monday night, November 30, 2020 in Allen, Texas. He was born November 4, 1930 and just celebrated his 90th birthday. His parents were Ernest and Daisy Jordan. He leaves behind his dear wife, Wanda Jordan, devoted son, Al Jordan, and a number of other family and friends.
There will be a graveside service at 1 p.m. at Laurel Oaks Memorial Park with Rev. Ted Kiser officiating. Mr. Jordan will be laid to rest in the Garden of Hope near his son, James Ernest Jordan, who preceded him in death last year
This guy pitched for Ponca City in 1950. He won the final game of the 1950 championship and catcher, Don Keeter, kept the baseball that he gave me 45 years later.
I have tracked Jordan for over 25 years but could never make contact. I knew he was from San Mateo, California and suspected he was living in Texas.
To the best of my knowledge neither Jordan or his father had a middle name.
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Robert Wesley James-- Pittsburg Browns 1951.
Robert (Bob) Wesley James, born May 18, 1933 to George Elmer and Bertha James in Datto, Arkansas passed away on March 19, 2021.
Bob signed with the St Louis Browns baseball team after graduating from Corning High School and later signed with the Yankees being sent to their farm team in McAlester, Oklahoma. The Korean War interrupted his baseball career. After serving in the army he obtained a business degree from Arkansas State University. Building on the foundation established by their parents, he and his two brothers built a successful agricultural service business in Northeast Arkansas. After moving to Texas, he began anew by starting a successful builder’s service company which provided project site services to commercial builders as well as large single and multi-family homebuilders. Bob›s favorite pastimes were sports, including golf in his later years, and music of all genres.
Bob was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, Donald Ray and George Elmer (G.E.), Jr.
He is survived by his wife Sue, children Jamie (Steve) Zissis, Angela James, Brett James, and Julie (Dan) Cutforth. Grandchildren Nicholas and Alexander Zissis, Natalie, Ella, Josephine and Robenson Cutforth. Step-children Kim (Jay) LeForce, Kelley (Michael) Evans and step-grandchildren Cassidie and Maggie Cargill and Brendan Evans. A Memorial Service will be held at the First Baptist Church in Marble Falls, Texas on May 1, 2021 at 1:00 pm. A graveside service will be held at Nelson Clay Cemetery in Datto, Arkansas at a later date.
In lieu of flowers please consider St Jude›s Children›s Hospital in Memphis.
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Ed comment: This is another guy I knew about but couldn't trace. He pitched in the second game of a doubleheader on July 1, 1951, the night the Carthage Cubs went off and left me at the Pittsburg ball park. James was a little guy and made his first mound appearances that night and held Carthage in check for one inning, the 9th. Lloyd “Pat” Gosney started that game for Pittsburg and hurled eight inning in hot, muggy weather. He struck out 13 Carthage batsmen and walked 12. He most likely threw more pitches that night than current major league starters are allowed to throw in two or three games.
James later played in the Yankee chain for the McAlester Rockets and Joplin Miners. I was aware he had moved to Texas and was living in Plano at one time. With his funeral being at Marble Falls, Plano might well have been where he died. The Corning, Ark. newspaper was not explicit on the place of death.
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Carroll Ethan Bryan
In order to get an idea about who Mr. Bryan was the reader is going to have to click on some URL’s. Believe me, it isn’t that difficult. That is not has taxing as it has been searching for a fellow who showed up at Blackwell, Oklahoma just long enough to don a uniform and give it back in a couple of days.
For a number of years it was speculated the Bryan who showed up at Blackwell in 1952 was a Edwin Charles Bryan Jr. , from Belleville, Illinois with a rather extensive minor league career. However, following more detailed research it couldn’t have been him for he went into the Army in February of of that year.
Thanks to this site www.findagrave.com/memorial/26604258/carroll-ethan-bryan a better understanding developed regarding this short term Blackwell Bronco hurler who appeared in only one game.
As the link to his mortality indicates, he was born in 1927 and by the time he showed up for a shot at the KOM leaguer he was nearly 25 years of age. He had already served during WW II and with the younger men being drafted he obviously decided to try his hand in baseball. He was living in a rural area outside Wister, Oklahoma. Sixty five miles to the west is the town of McAlester which had a team called the Rockets that played in the Sooner State league. He signed with the Rockets on April 12, 1951 and he was released June 7 of that same year. However, in August he was re-singed for 1952 and after a couple of days in spring drills with the Rockets he was released and he made the 205 mile trek North to Blackwell where he fared no better. digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll3/id/11908/...
Bryan passed away May 11, 1994 in Poteau, Oklahoma and was buried at the Maxey Cemetery in his hometown of Wister. Not many people outside the Le Flore County town ever knew of Bryan’s love of baseball and most likely he never imagined someone would be writing about his “brush” with the bush leagues 69 years after he gave up his dream of “making it big.”
Had Bryan played longer there would most likely be information on him such as height and weight. He was 5’ 11” and weighed 145 pounds when entering the Army in 1945. Most likely he was in the 170 category by the time he tried his hand at professional baseball.
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A long standing puzzle
For over a decade the name of James Williams has been bandied back and forth with baseball necrologist, Jack Morris. It could never be ascertained if James Parker Williams shown on the Sporting News Index Card was the same person who died as James Parks Williams in North Little Rock, Arkansas.
In recent communication Morris said his group couldn’t verify it was the same person unless they saw a reference to him in a newspaper.
digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll3/id/162958... James Parker Williams
My case is that I saw his name in the Bartlesville Examiner from some time in April of 1950. He was listed as being a native of McRae, Arkansas. That fits with the town listed in his obituary.
www.findagrave.com/memorial/148343743/jimmie-parks-williams James Parks Williams.
With that issue still dangling in mid-air a decision was made to review the obituary and make an attempt to locate a surviving member of his family. His son was chosen and the attempt to locate him wound up finding that he also passed away in recent years. Thus, it may be like speaking with Mr. Hughes, mentioned in the previous story, it will have to wait until we all pass through the pearly gates to find out who the real Jimmy Williams, was.
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Do the editor of this Flash Report a favor or two.
In late 1948 my mother received a telephone call from a former friend who was moving back to Carthage, Missouri from Madill, Oklahoma. The caller said she had a son about my age and he didn’t know anyone and wondered if my mother would either send me to her house or if her son could come and play baseball at mine. Since we had the largest yard the young man and his mother came for a visit.
Over the coming months and years the young man from Madill became my close friend. Between us was one bicycle. We lived a mile apart and when he had the urge to play baseball he would dial 3808 and ask me to get on “Betsy” (my bicycle) and peddle toward his house where he would meet me and he would be the designated peddler to my house for he was the bigger one us. By the way when I called my friend it was 3676. Some things never leave your memory.
After the baseball games concluded, back down Valley Street I went as my new friend peddled toward his home on Orchard Street. This routine lasted for a couple of years. When spring training rolled around my friend would peddle “Betsy,” with me on the back and a couple of mile journey would ensue to one of three spring training sites of the Carthage Cubs, Topeka Owls, Janesville Cubs and Sioux Falls, Canaries. The primary reasons for the spring training jaunts were to collect the broken bats and “find” a few stray baseballs for the upcoming summer’s games played in my back yard.
Baseball was the summer activity, football in the fall and basketball whenever. My friend was on the opposing football team on Thanksgiving Day, 1951. As the quarterback on my two-man team made a fateful decision to dive for a loose ball and received a severely broken left arm. That most likely prevented my making it to the big leagues. Football was out of the question and my friend improvised when it came to basketball. He was the most gifted among us and he’d take the rim from a can of coffee, make a net out of an orange sack and place it on a stud in a little shed on the property of the second house in lived in after coming back to Carthage. The ball we used was of the tennis genre and we came across those at the tennis court across the street from the Carthage baseball stadium. My friend had that miniature basketball game down to a science and he skunked me every time.
Upon my becoming the batboy for the Carthage Cubs I talked my friend into showing up early so that he could be the batboy for the visiting team. As with everything else he was a step ahead of me. Standing by the Pittsburg dugout one evening he was admiring the timber of that club when manager, Bill Enos, strode our way. My friend was impressed by the bat that had the name “Enos” on it. He thought it was a model used by Enos Slaughter of the St. Louis Cardinals. Enos asked my buddy if he liked it and upon the affirmative he was handed it. Enos said “I can’t get any hits with it so you might as well have it.”
My buddy was a year older than me and that brought an eventual end of our many hours playing baseball and other games. What happened very shortly thereafter is that my friend discovered girls. He had to split his time between being with the guys and his newly found friend. At one time my friends oldest brother discovered my oldest sister and had it not been for the Korean War, and his brother serving in it, my buddy and I might have been “almost kin.”
During his latter years in high school my buddy moved “out west” to South Central Kansas. One day in high school my English teacher said that she had received a short story that won a national award. It was written by my friend. As she read the story, which was about sports, I kept awaiting to discover the mystery person he was leading up to for the finale. For some reason I thought it might say “Johnny Hall.” Of course, he didn’t. But, at that point I knew George Robert “Corky” Simpson was destined to be an outstanding writer. The attached URL will vindicate that as a high school junior my prognostication was on target.
tucson.com/sports/greghansen/hansens-hundred-no-75-corky-...
Did you click on the URL?
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Cousin of another friend comes home 70 years after end of Korean War.
A few editions ago there was a story shared about the remains being identified as a solder from WWII. That person was from Baxter Springs, Kansas and his brothers played for the Baxter Springs Whiz Kids before and during Mickey Mantle’s time there.
Late this spring another buddy from Carthage, (Gary W. Smith) sent me a note about his cousin who was killed in Korea and his remains were recently identified and returned for burial. I imagine the deceased had attended some KOM league prior to his entering the U. S. Army.
During my time as Carthage batboy I recall the consternation among some of the guys who knew what was on the horizon. It was a tough period for one Carthage pitcher who had been told he would finish the 1951 before being inducted. He left the team on July 20, 1951. Just one year, one month and one day later he was killed in North Korea. I have told this story a number of times but I never learned of the death of Walter Koehler until four decades later when the research on the KOM league began. Here is the link for Lloyd Alumbaugh.
obituaries.joplinglobe.com/obituary/lloyd-alumbaugh-10826...
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Coming to the end
Once in a while a question is sent from a reader of this reports and even less often there is an answer tucked away in the dark recesses of my mind. Follow along.
From a Tulsa reader
Hello, John, I've been reading "The Pine Tar Game" by Filip Bondy. ttps://www.amazon.com/Pine-Tar-Game-Entertaining-Controversy/dp/1476777187/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3RL94A5822LGO&dchild=1&keywords=the+pine+tar+game&qid=1627862188&sprefix=The+Pine+Tar+game%2Caps%2C183&sr=8-2
On page 167, in talking about Lee MacPhail, the author writes:
“In 1946, he became general manager of the Yankees' Triple-A team in Kansas City, while his father was still the Yanks' top executive in New York. He remembered being at a Blanton, Missouri, tryout camp where some teenager named Mickey Mantle showed up with his father, Mutt.”
I tried to find Blanton, Missouri, but with no luck. No reference could be found. Just curious where it was. You ever hear of it? Thanks.
Ed reply:
There is no such town. My guess he was talking about Branson. Make sense? Mantle never went to a tryout camp in Branson. He went there for about a week after being signed by the Yankees in 1949. He came to Independence for a couple of days and left with the team for Chanute, Kansas for a June 12th game that was rained out.
Then he was back to Branson in 1950 (for spring training) and came out as a member of the Joplin Miners.
Ed comment:
That brings up one more thing. A couple of weeks ago Jimmy Richardson, one of Mickey Mantle’s first cousins, on the maternal side, called regarding purchasing a few more of the “Mickey Mantle Before the Glory” books. At that time he mentioned that his younger brother, Tom, had passed away in recent months. Tom is the guy mentioned in the Mantle book who attempted to ride the family cow out of the barn and it turned out to be quite an experience. For those who have that book, look up the story. For those who don’t there a “few” unread copies in my secret stash that are either going bald or turning gray.
“Postmodernism refers to the state of culture where the media is produced in such staggering quantities that it has crossed the boundaries into reality itself and hyper reality prevails.”
Stare at your screens, your brains rewired. Eyes to your screens, you’ve been dumbed down. Your vocabulary is shrinking, your attention span is gone. Who cares about wisdom, when you can watch TikTok? Look into your screens of false reality. Let them consume you with empty illusions. Let them kiss you with distractions. Embrace them tightly. Love them wholeheartedly. Dance with conformity. Waltz with surrender. Cuddle with collectivism. Despise individualism. Divorce free thought. Abandon critical thinking. Make love to wokeism. Give birth to anti-intellectualism: there are more genders than colours of the rainbow. However, if I say there are only two genders, I might get censored, I might get banned, I might get expelled, I might lose my job. Even worse, I might get jailed by the speech police—the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
Release the hounds! Digital algorithm hounds, track down all dissenting voices. Big brother censors will torch dissenting language. Big tech censors will snuff out dissenting opinions. Practice your fire suppression, incinerate all opposing ideas. We can’t have two sides of the story. “Those who don’t build must burn. It’s as old as history and juvenile delinquents.”
Though the media is owned by a few, there’s not a monopoly on information. Though Trudeau has bought off the corporate media, it’s not a form of fascism. The internet isn’t used for surveillance. And social media isn’t antisocial. We’re not erasing self expression. We’re not scrubbing independent thought. We love rational people. “Forget them. Burn them all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.”
We must digitize all that can be digitized. Why use real books? Let’s use ebooks. Why go to school? Let’s have school online. Why go to work? Let’s work online. Why go to the store? Let’s shop online. Why use physical IDs? Let’s use digital IDs. Why use cash? Let’s use digital currencies. Why use real wallets? Let’s use digital wallets. Why think? Let’s use artificial intelligence. Why live in reality? Let’s live in virtual reality. Why be human? Let’s become transhuman. Enjoy the mindless entertainment of your screens. Enjoy being socially engineered. Enjoy being fact checked. Enjoy being indoctrinated. Enjoy propaganda. Your behavior is changing, you’re leaning less and less, you cannot think for yourselves. “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other.”
University fascists, burn down all dissenting debate. Raise a ruckus, get opposing speakers cancelled. Blow your whistles, beat your drums, and drown out dissenting voices. We’ll torch your ideas, we’ll incinerate your opinions. We can’t have different ideas, because we’re collectivists—we’re all supposed to think alike. We don’t want a free marketplace of ideas, because we don’t want to refute concepts with sound arguments. University is not about free speech and diversity of opinion. University is about indoctrination and groupthink. “But they all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else.”
Welcome to a society that is obsessed with their screens. They struggle to look away from their screens, they struggle to think, they struggle to communicate with those in the real world around them. They are lost in their digital reality, they are lost in their virtual world. They are distracted, they are naïve. They are complacent, they are submissive. They are mesmerized, they are hypnotized. They all mumble the same things, they spew out the given narrative: social distance; mask up; take the jab; don’t visit your dying grandmother; don’t go to work; shut down schools; shut down gyms; shut down society. If you don’t conform your bank accounts will be frozen, your businesses will be locked up, your churches will be fenced off, your pastors will be fined and arrested as well as your dissenting politicians. Many of the screen watchers, however, agreed with their screens: think-dissenters are bad! Some even said: we should round up those anti-vaxxers and kill them. “But you can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can’t last.”
What, you’re a nurse, and you posted an alterative view of covid? Come into my office, we’ll have a talk! If you continue expressing such viewpoints, we’ll fire you. What, you’re a doctor, and you’ve been expressing doubts about the vax? We’ll have to investigate you for spreading misinformation. We’ll fire all unvaxxed medical staff; as a consequence, many clinics and emergency rooms will shut down, and there will be longer waiting times for medical treatments. We’ll pass a bill to punish all doctors who speak out against our medical policies. If they are found guilty we’ll fine them $200,000, or give them six months in jail, or burn their medical licences. Doctor, can I have Ivermectin? No! I don’t want my life ruined on account of my medical opinion. What, truckers what to protest covid lockdowns? We’ll just use the WAR MEASURES ACT against those domestic terrorists. We’ll arrest you, we’ll seize your trucks, and we’ll freeze your bank accounts. We’ll use the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as our goon squad. Our woke leader, Mr. Blackface Trudeau, has bought off the corporate media. So the fascist government/corporate media will push the desired narrative. We’ll also pass bills to control as much of the internet as possible. Yet we’ll give a Nazi a standing ovation in Parliament. And I, Trudeau, admire China’s basic dictatorship. “Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.”
Let’s introduce Digital IDs, CBDCs, Social Credit Scores, and Universal Basic Income. Let’s enslave the clueless zombies, the useless eaters who are disconnected from reality. The wolves will lead the sheeple like sheep to the slaughter. Lost in their entertainment they will put up little fight. They’ve been trained to follow, to be soft and weak, and to not resist. We’ll microchip them like animals. We’ll Mark them like beasts. We’ll tattoo them with the identification tag number: 666. Welcome to the Beast Tracking System database, where all your dystopian nightmares will come true!
At the end of Fahrenheit 451 the city is bombed. Woe! Woe to you, great city, dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet, and glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls! In one hour such great wealth has been brought to ruin! Its labours are only fuel for the flames, its work will be destroyed by fire!
“Montag felt the slow stir of words, the slow simmer. And when it came to his turn, what could he say, what could he offer on a day like this, to make the trip a little easier? To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes, all that. But what else. What else? Something, something . . . And on either side of the river was there a tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. Yes, thought Montag, that’s the one I’ll save for noon. For noon... When we reach the city.”
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A social anthropologist named J.D. Unwin studied 86 different societies. He found that when a society practiced strict heterosexual monogamy the family unit flourished and so did the society. When strict heterosexual monogamy waned, however, so did the family unit along with the society. When sexual freedom was practiced it created a weak family unit and a weak society, eventually leading to collapse.
“Sexually permissive societies always fall.” - J.D. Unwin
From feminism to the sexual revolution, to the sexual grooming of children: how will the effects of feminism and the sexual revolution end?
Sexual promiscuity and loose sexual restraints always precedes a collapse of a civilization. The more an empire becomes sexually promiscuous the less rational, creative, and productive it becomes. The more a society becomes sexually promiscuous, the more it loses its work ethic. The people become so engrossed in fulfilling their sexual fantasies of fornication and homosexuality that their birthrates drop and their society declines. Such a society becomes selfish and lazy, and it eventually collapses. This collapse of society can come in many forms: anarchy, civil war, totalitarianism, or conquest. These things have already started to happen in America: rioting, division, big government, mass migration.
The more promiscuous a culture becomes, the less productive it becomes.
The more promiscuous a culture becomes, the less creative it becomes.
The more promiscuous a culture becomes, the less innovative it becomes.
The more promiscuous a culture becomes, the less prosperous it becomes.
The more promiscuous a culture becomes, the less it thrives.
An empire in decline lives in excess, especially in sexual excess. The most successful civilizations practice strict heterosexual monogamy: marriage between one man and one woman for life. They practice chastity. They have no premarital sex, and they have no extramarital sex. The men in this kind of civilization channel their sexual responsibilities (energy) towards providing for their families, they channel their aggression (testosterone) towards protecting their families.
Sexual promiscuity eats away at the fabric of the family unit. When the structure of the family unit falls apart, so does the structure of society. The more sexual morality declines, the more perverted and sexualized a civilization becomes. They indulge in multiple sexual partners during their lifetime, becoming less and less faithful. Divorce skyrockets, splitting up families. Some remarry, and two families are mixed together. Others are raised in single parent homes, thus many children grow up in fatherless homes. These things change normal family dynamics. If you want to see how this works, then look at the ghettos in America. Black men, instead of channeling their sexual energy towards raising a family, channel their testosterone towards killing one another. Their gang is their family. But neo-Marxism (political correctness) has made these things taboo to talk about. You know the woke mindset: censor all opposition. First they censor their opposition; then in time, they kill their opposition. Since we all know history, we know how these things end.
From the 45 goals of communism (The Naked Communist):
Goal 25: Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.
Goal 26: Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural and healthy.”
Goal 40: Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
The industrial revolution caused great upheaval, which put a lot of strain on the family. It greatly affected the family structure, including the extended family structure (both play an important roll in raising children). First-wave feminism had some good aspects to it, like: the fight for better working conditions. The working conditions in factories were horrendous. My problem with first-wave feminism is that it rebelled against certain Biblical and traditional gender and roles. This rebellion against gender roles has continued through every wave of feminism, all the way to its fight for transgenderism. “Equality for women won’t happen until ‘all traditional gender roles’ in ‘all domains’ are equal.” Feminism is now replacing women with transwomen, and it will one day replace humans with transhumans. The second, third and fourth waves of feminism are straight up Cultural Marxism. The oppressed vs the oppressor! Equality for all: men in women’s washrooms; men in women’s change rooms; men in women’s beauty pageants; men in women’s sports; men in women’s prisons. As you can see, our culture is decaying. We are losing our morals and our sanity.
Feminism and the sexual revolution normalized sexual promiscuity among adults, then they normalized it among teenagers, and now they are normalizing it among children. They are causing children to be confused about their genders, thanks to Gender Theory (Gender-Marxism). They are causing teenagers to become disconnected from reality, which is causing them to lose their gender identities. Theses young people are being put on puberty blockers, and they are having sex changes (it’s a billion dollar industry). The more sexually promiscuous a society becomes, the less rational it becomes. The less rational a society becomes, the more the “unnormal becomes normal.” The less rational a society becomes, the more the “unnatural becomes natural.” When this happens, society thinks it’s virtuous to expose children to debauchery. In so doing, they normalize perversion, and it becomes part of the culture. Sexual grooming leads to sex. Sexual grooming is a form of sexual abuse that leads to even more sexual abuse. So if you are grooming children, what does that mean for the future? When the morality of a society collapses, so does the society. These things weren’t normal a few years ago, but society has morally declined a lot in the last few years. This is because the speed of decline increases over time. Things decline faster and faster. Once in decline, you cannot stop its momentum. Therefore, things will go from bad to worse: from normalizing transgenders to normalizing pedophiles, and onward until society collapses.
Once premarital sex becomes normal in a culture, it’s already heading down the curve of decline. A hypersexual society is a society in decline. This decline takes several generations. A sexually immoral culture spends its leisure time on fruitless endeavours such as watching porn and sleeping around. A promiscuous culture becomes less and less productive, until all people want to do is chase their sexual appetites.
Woke-Marxism has penetrated/perverted every aspect of our society. Marxism in any of its dialectical forms is just a form of Antichristism, and it will end with a global authoritarian system and an Antichrist. Where do you think the world is headed with the implementation of CBDCs, digital IDs, Social Credit Score systems, and Universal Basic Income? Do you think this will all end in democracy and freedom? As a culture becomes more and more promiscuous, it loses more and more of its commonsense. When a society loses its commonsense, it becomes weak. When a society loses its commonsense, it is easily manipulated and controlled. A healthy society needs a balance between gender roles and freedom. If you throw out traditional gender roles, you throw out freedom. They go hand in hand, because freedom needs a solid foundation. “The foolish man built his house upon the sand, and his house came tumbling down.” Freedom needs a solid foundation that is held together by solid cohesion. Therefore, if you throw out the most basic elements of your foundation (traditional gender roles) your house (society) will come tumbling down. What would happen if you made a foundation but forget one of its ingredients: cement, sand, aggregate, water? Now what would happen if you built a house on that foundation? Would it last? A weak foundation means a weak house. Such a society will gain pleasure at the expense of its freedom.
This is the fruit of feminism and the sexual revolution: large numbers of marital break ups; large numbers of common law relationships (these relationships are more apt to break up than marriages); large numbers of abortions (birth control and abortion mean declining birth rates); large numbers of babies born out of wedlock; large numbers of fatherless children; large numbers of people identifying as homosexuals and transgenders (this means even lower birthrates); large numbers of STDs, loneliness and depression—a broken society. All these things hammer away at the family structure. What are the cultural costs of fatherlessness? “Across America, 2022 data indicates there are approximately 18.3 million children who live without a father in the home, comprising about 1 in 4 US children.” “About 80% of single-parent homes are led by single mothers.” “Children from fatherless homes are more likely to be poor, become involved in drug and alcohol abuse, drop out of school, and suffer from health and emotional problems. Boys are more likely to become involved in crime, and girls are more likely to become pregnant as teens.” What are the economic costs of fatherlessness? “In fiscal year 2010, federal and state governments spent over $400 billion on means-tested welfare for low-income families with children. Roughly three-quarters of this welfare assistance, or $300 billion, went to single-parent families. Most non-marital births are currently paid for by the taxpayers through the Medicaid system, and a wide variety of welfare assistance will continue to be given to the mother and child for nearly two decades after the child is born.” The ramifications of feminism and the sexual revolution have been devastation across the board, and they continue to cause greater and greater damage to our society.
With contraception came sexual promiscuity, and lower birth rates resulted. (Like sodomy, abortion and birth control were once illegal in Canada because they were considered immoral). Why buy the cow when the milk is free? Why would a man want to settle down with a wife, if he can have casual sex with multiple women? If men throw off their responsibilities, what hope does society have? How will such men fully mature? The more promiscuous a culture becomes, the less mature it becomes. That’s why woke people are called “snowflakes.” They are grown adults, yet they have meltdowns like two year old children. The more promiscuous a culture, the more it neglects its responsibilities. When the family breaks down, so does proper parenting. The more promiscuous a culture, the more it neglects its parenting responsibilities. The more promiscuous a culture, the less it disciplines its children. The more promiscuous a culture, the more it lacks discipline. “Those who spare the rod of discipline hate their children. Those who love their children care enough to discipline them.” Teachers, do your students respect you? Children must be taught to respect their elders, even if that teaching includes discipline. A society in moral decline does not respect its elders. The more a society falls into moral decay, the less it respects human life. The more promiscuous a culture becomes, the more rebellious it becomes. Notice how we are decriminalizing things like prostitution and street drugs? Notice how we are abolishing things like school test scores? Therefore, the decline continues.
As the traditional family has declined, critical thinking has declined. Welcome to post-truth, where feelings trump truth! If you don’t validate their fantasies they get angry. If you use facts to prove them wrong they get offended. Sexual freedom has been slowly destroying the family structure, which has resulted in the loss of its traditional gender roles along with its family identity. This has led to increased mental health problems, mass shootings, and social upheaval. These are all symptoms of a society that is spiraling into collapse.
It wasn’t hard for me to find radicals when looking into some of the prominent writers of first-wave feminism. First-wave feminism definitely paved the way for the other three waves of feminism. Thanks to fourth wave feminism our children are being brainwashed into transgenderism. Thanks to fourth wave feminism our children can read pornographic school books, which depict adults and children committing sex acts together. Thanks to fourth wave feminism transvestites are allowed to read library books to our children. Thanks to fourth wave feminism transvestites are allowed to dance erotically in front of our children. The more promiscuous a culture becomes, the more deviant it becomes. The more promiscuous a culture becomes, the more depraved it becomes.
First-wave feminism is like the devil coming to your door with a box of candy. The handsome devil says, “I’ll give you some candy if you’ll let me into your house.” You reply, “Wow, that candy sure looks good! Please come into my house.” Then, ever so slowly, the devil destroys your house and you end up homeless. You took the candy (bait), but you will lose your society as a consequence. Have you not told your children: do not take candy from strangers? Then why have you given your children to the very child predators you told them to stay way from? As the Bible says: you are deceived and deceiving others. You took the bait and then gave these devils your children. First-wave feminism was the devil’s Trojan horse.
Islamic culture, with its polygamy, has not thrived like Western culture. Its cultural achievements can’t remotely be compared to the achievements of the West. As we watch Europe’s decline, we see weaponized mass migration. The social demographics in Europe are changing. Another culture is changing the social demographics. This culture is the Muslim culture. Many times I‘ve heard Muslim’s say: we’ll give birth to more children than you, and we’ll eventually out number you and take over your country from within. Yet this is only partly true. The crime stats in Europe concerning Muslim men are terrible. They commit high numbers of rape and gang rape. In the UK Muslim grooming gangs have been allowed to groom under aged girls for years. This means that the Muslim culture in Europe will also decline because of their ever-increasing sexual deviancy. They won’t succeed in replacing the culture of Europe, but they will forever change the demographics of Europe. These changes will not be reversed. A similar thing is happening in the United States. The social demographics have greatly changed, and they will continue to change until the American empire collapses.
“Socialists thought gender divisions were byproducts of capitalism: once capitalism was eliminated, gender inequality would supposedly vanish.”
The goal: destroy capitalism and implement global authoritarianism.
This stuff isn’t anything new. It happened in ancient times with pagan worship. Ishtar, also known as the Queen of Heaven, had the ability to change a person’s gender. “To destroy, to create, to tear out, to establish are yours, Inanna (Ishtar). To turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man are yours, Inanna.” Her priests were surgically altered men; they dressed up as women and had female names.
The Bible lays out a spiritual war between God and satan. “For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.” When talking about all this sexual immorality, I can see charismatic Christians say: this is of the spirit of Leviathan. According to the Bible, fire came from Leviathan’s mouth and smoke from his nostrils. Doesn’t that sound like a dragon? How about the Dragon in the Book of Revelation? Isaiah 27:1 says: “In that day, the LORD will punish with his sword—his fierce, great and powerful sword—Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; he will slay the monster of the sea.” Leviathan is called a serpent and a sea monster. Who was the serpent in the Garden of Eden? Who is this Leviathan mentioned in the beginning and end of the Bible? Revelation 13:1 “The Dragon stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a Beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name.” Like father like son! The Dragon (father) is the one behind the Beast (son) and the Beast (Antichrist) system. Revelation 13:18 “This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the Beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.” 1 John 4:2-3 “This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.”
“When sexual promiscuity is restrained in a society, it channels its energy towards more productive endeavors. When sexual promiscuity is unrestrained in a society, it channels its energy towards more unproductive endeavors.”
Proverbs 5:8-10 “Keep far away from her (the adulteress), and don't go near the entrance to her house, so that you don't give your honor to others, and waste your best years, so that strangers don't enrich themselves at your expense, and your work won't end up the possession of foreigners.”
Women’s liberation: get women into the work force, so that we can get twice the taxes, and then we can get their children into school at an early age, so that we can indoctrinate them and break up the family.
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Revelation 9:21 “And they did not repent of their murders nor of their sorceries (drugs, intoxications) nor of their [sexual] immorality nor of their thefts.”
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Heath Goldsmith Beetle in the Glasson Moss Nature Reserve, 27 May 16.
I just love these little beauties! The only other sighting of note here today was an Adder on the footpath by the woodland edge at the west end of the moss. Unfortunately I was so focused on checking out the vegetation for Heather Bugs (none found) that it had disappeared from view before I could get a shot in. Very annoying!
I called in at Kingmoor Sidings on the way home and found five Blue Shieldbugs on the boardwalk and a Dingy Skipper butterfly in central scrubby area - the first one I've seen here for a number of years.
Note added 18 January 17: According to the CBDC this is the first time this species has been recorded at Glasson Moss!
A look around Cardiff Bay.
Mermaid Quay (Welsh: Cei'r Fôr-forwyn) is a waterfront shopping and leisure district in Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, Wales. The 14,000 sq m (150,000 sq ft) development was opened in 1999, and includes restaurants, bars, cafes and shops.
The Pilotage Office - ship sculpture.
Grade II listed building (I only took this photo of the ship, not the building itself).
Scott's Brasserie (Former Pilotage Office)., Butetown
Location
Detached to NE of the Graving Docks and immediately to left of The Big Windsor PH.
History
Probably built in 1860s; shown on 1st edition OS map but not shown as the Pilotage Office until 2nd edition (1900); believed to have been originally stables.
Interior
Exterior
2-storey, 5-bay snecked rubble front with bullnosed quoins; slate roof, bracket eaves, freestone gable parapets and rubble chimney stacks with bracket cornice to left. Central tower with saddleback roof surmounted by ship weather vane (modern), flanked by blind attic gables. Eaves bands, to tower and main building, of Radyr stone over pale freestone; moulded kneelers throughout. Sashes without glazing bars to both floors, square headed to 1st floor, paired and taller to centre and camber headed below with voussoirs and stilted labels. Similar label to central entrance extends either side over narrow flanking windows, that to left has been converted for use as a letter-box; granite nook shafts with foliated capitals and panelled double doors with overlight. At the base of the tower is an inset compass face with rope moulded surround; deep stone lintel and tall, pointed relieving arch above; blocked triangular headed opening to the top. The compass was manufactured by W Weichart of Cardiff, and indicates wind direction, operated by weather vane. 3-bay left hand side with sashes flanking camber arched central blocked opening; plain right hand side. At the rear, the back of the tower is seen at ridge level; modern window. Mostly camber headed sash windows.
Reason for Listing
Listed for its special interest to the history of Cardiff Docks.
References
M Parker and N Carter, Butetown, A Visitors Guide, 1989, p.22.
The Inner Harbour - An Historical Appraisal, An unpublished report prepared by The Survey of Cardiff for CBDC, March 1989, p.100.
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Notes:
Detached to NE of the Graving Docks and immediately to left of The Big Windsor PH.
Source: Cadw
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.
Kidney-spot Ladybird on the trunk of a small tree at the northern edge of Glasson Moss, 15 July 18.
For some reason I'd always assumed that these ladybirds were common and widespread across Cumbria, and so I haven't been recording them; however, it turns out that there are currently only a handful of records listed on NBN Atlas for the north of the county!
The background shot shows where the new stretch of boardwalk from one of the western access points connects with the northern section (see photos of 8 April 18), which makes this area much more accessible. As in the case of my previous visit here, I'd been hoping to find myself another Manchester Treble-bar moth, but without any luck - perhaps due to the strongish wind.
Note added on 16 July (am): Having looked more closely at the NBN Atlas source data, it would appear that only specimens held in Tullie House collections are now mapped as opposed to reported sightings. This would presumably explain why I've been finding so many apparent county rarities over the past few months! I'll need to look into this further...
Note added 16 July (pm): After contacting the Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre (CBDC) it has been confirmed that for various reasons they have taken the drastic step of removing CBDC-administered records from NBN, leaving only Tullie House collection records and invasive species data. This effectively renders NBN Atlas useless for the county of Cumbria.
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva looks on beside Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, as she chats with Governor of Bank Indonesia Perry Warjiyo, following the Central bank digital currencies Financial Inclusion Seminar during the 2022 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
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Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands delivers opening remarks in the Central bank digital currencies Financial Inclusion Seminar during the 2022 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
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Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva sits beside Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, in the Central bank digital currencies Financial Inclusion Seminar during the 2022 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
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Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva delivers opening remarks beside Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands in the Central bank digital currencies Financial Inclusion Seminar during the 2022 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Tom Brenner
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Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and Deputy Managing Director Bo Li, Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, Head of the BIS Innovation Hub Cecilia Skingsley, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa Vera Songwe, Governor of Bank Indonesia Perry Warjiyo, and Global Economics and Policy Editor for Bloomberg Television and Radio Kathleen Hays participate in the Central bank digital currencies Financial Inclusion Seminar during the 2022 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
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Washington, DC, United States
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Deputy Managing Director Bo Li participates in the Central bank digital currencies Financial Inclusion Seminar during the 2022 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Tom Brenner
14 October 2022
Washington, DC, United States
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Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and Deputy Managing Director Bo Li, Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, Head of the BIS Innovation Hub Cecilia Skingsley, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa Vera Songwe, Governor of Bank Indonesia Perry Warjiyo, and Global Economics and Policy Editor for Bloomberg Television and Radio Kathleen Hays participate in the Central bank digital currencies Financial Inclusion Seminar during the 2022 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Tom Brenner
14 October 2022
Washington, DC, United States
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Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and Deputy Managing Director Bo Li, Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, Head of the BIS Innovation Hub Cecilia Skingsley, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa Vera Songwe, Governor of Bank Indonesia Perry Warjiyo, and Global Economics and Policy Editor for Bloomberg Television and Radio Kathleen Hays participate in the Central bank digital currencies Financial Inclusion Seminar during the 2022 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Tom Brenner
14 October 2022
Washington, DC, United States
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Here's an unusual photo for me. There was lightning in the distance and I wanted try and get a photo. I didn't have a tripod, so I did a long exposure while balancing the camera on a bean bag in a Safari vehicle (that was rocking a little) and this is what I got.
Before work on the Barrage could really get going, thousands of tons of sand was laid to enable vehicles to negotiate the thick mud beneath.
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Ani Popiashvili, second left, and Mariam Kurasbediani center, watch the seminar CBDCs for Financial Inclusion during the 2022 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Ariana Lindquist
14 October 2022
Washington, DC, United States
Photo ref: AL2210143197.jpg
I can't help but wonder if the real cause for this food shortage is due to the sanctioning of Russian imports.
www.cnn.com/2023/02/22/business/uk-supermarkets-tomatoes-...
Why UK supermarkets are rationing fruit and vegetables
February 23, 2023
London (CNN) Major UK supermarkets have started rationing the sale of some staple fruits and salad vegetables, blaming poor weather in Spain and north Africa for shortages that the UK government warned could last a month.
Tesco (TSCDF), the UK's biggest supermarket, confirmed to CNN Wednesday that it had temporarily capped the number of packs of tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers to three per customer.
Asda told CNN that it was temporarily limiting purchases of some items to three packs per customer. These include tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and lettuce.
Morrisons told CNN that it had imposed a cap of two packs per customer on tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and lettuce. And Aldi, a German discount grocery chain, announced that it would also introduce a limit of three packs per person on peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes in its UK stores.
"The suppliers are proactively working with supermarkets, that's what we are being told," Thérèse Coffey, the UK environment and food minister, told parliament Thursday. "We are being told there's an issue for ... up to four weeks."
Asda, Morrisons and Aldi are Britain's third-, fourth- and fifth-biggest supermarket chains respectively, according to market share data from Kantar.
Sainsbury's (JSAIY), the United Kingdom's second-largest food retailer, told CNN it had no plans to ration the sale of fruit and vegetables.
The rationing is another knock for British shoppers already grappling with record grocery price rises, which have inflamed the worst cost-of-living crisis in decades.
In the four weeks to January 22, food price inflation hit 16.7%, according to Kantar. That's its highest level since the data company started tracking the indicator in 2008.
"The more we face shortages, the more it will drive food inflation," Minette Batters, president of the National Farmers' Union (NFU), which represents more than 46,000 farming and growing businesses, told the BBC.
A spokesperson for the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said in a statement Wednesday: "We understand public concerns around the supply of fresh vegetables. However, the UK has a highly resilient food supply chain and is well-equipped to deal with disruption."
So what explains the empty shelves?
Imports down
Asda and Morrisons pointed the finger at poor weather in key growing regions as the main driver of the shortages.
Andrew Woods, a sub-editor at Mintec, a commodities data company, told CNN that hotter-than-average weather in Spain and Morocco last fall, combined with a cold snap over the past two weeks, had hit production.
The tomato crop in southern Spain is 20% smaller than a year ago, he said.
The poorer harvests are problematic for UK retailers, reliant as they are on imports to fill their stocks at this time of year.
According to the British Retail Consortium (BRC), a trade group, UK supermarkets import 95% of their tomatoes and 90% of their lettuce in December, and typically import the same proportions in March.
James Bailey, executive director of supermarket Waitrose, told LBC radio Monday that snow and hail in Spain, as well as hail in parts of north Africa, had "wip[ed] out a large proportion" of key crops.
The high-end supermarket chain told CNN that it was "monitoring the situation" but had no plans to introduce rationing.
"Give it about [two weeks] and the other growing seasons in other parts of the world will have caught up and we should be able to get that supply back in," Bailey added.
The BRC also says it expects the current disruption to last a few weeks before home-grown produce arrives to fill the gaps on UK store shelves.
"Supermarkets are adept at managing supply chain issues and are working with farmers to ensure that customers are able to access a wide range of fresh produce," Andrew Opie, the BRC's director of food and sustainability, told CNN.
Soaring input prices
High input costs have contributed to the shortages of fruit and vegetables, the NFU says, as well as reduced production across the farming sector more broadly.
"Labor shortages and soaring energy prices are hitting the poultry industry, already reeling from avian influenza, as well as horticultural businesses and pig farms," Batters said in a speech Tuesday.
The price of natural gas — a key input for nitrogen-based fertilizers — shot up following Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year. Though gas prices have fallen back in recent weeks, they are still triple their historical average, while fertilizer costs are up 169% since 2019, Batters noted.
According to the NFU, the production of tomatoes and cucumbers is expected to fall to the lowest levels since the union started keeping records in 1985, on the back of crippling input costs.
Woods at Mintec said processing and storing vegetables, such as tomatoes, was "energy intensive."
Brexit to blame?
Europe, too, has wrestled with many of the same problems in recent months.
"Across Europe, supplies [of tomatoes] are reportedly tight, and growers continue to grapple with higher fertilizer, energy and labor costs," Mintec said in a note.
Yet, currently, there are few indications — in media reports or on social media — that retailers in other countries are rationing sales.
But Defra said in its statement Wednesday that "similar disruption is also being seen in other countries," and that it was helping UK growers by expanding a visa scheme for seasonal workers to fill labor gaps.
UK supermarkets have not cited Brexit as a reason for the supply crunch. But the NFU and some campaign groups argue that it has worsened labor shortages.
Justin King, the former chief executive of Sainsbury's, told BBC Radio 4 Thursday that, while weather problems in exporting regions were a big driver of the shortage, the UK's supply problems "go further back."
"This is a sector that's been significantly disrupted by Brexit," he said.
King noted that the United Kingdom used to grow "vast quantities" of tomatoes and cucumbers year-round in enormous greenhouses in Kent, a county in southern England.
But the government had not provided enough support to growers to pay their energy bills this winter, he added.
"We're uniquely exposed to imports this time of year," King said.
Direct subsidy payments to UK farmers from the European Union are also being phased out, which has increased uncertainty for farmers, Batters of the NFU said in her speech. The United Kingdom plans to fully implement its own subsidy scheme by 2024.
news.bitcoin.com/expert-predicts-looming-economic-collaps...
Expert Predicts Looming Economic Collapse as BRICS Nations Unite Against the Dollar
Andy Schectman, CEO of Miles Franklin Precious Metals Investments, explained in a recent interview that the five leading emerging economies—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, collectively known as BRICS nations—are “coalescing against the dollar.” Schectman believes that since 2022, de-dollarization “seems to be spinning much, much faster.”
De-Dollarization and CBDCs: Monetary Historian Suggests a Great Reset Is Imminent
In an interview published on Feb. 16, 2023, Miles Franklin executive Andy Schectman discussed his economic predictions with Michelle Makori, the lead anchor and editor-in-chief at Kitco News. Schectman expects a large portion of the world to abandon the U.S. dollar and he also predicts a “tsunami of inflation.” With rising inflation, Schectman suggests that the interest rate set by the U.S. Federal Reserve will continue to rise and a “collapse” in asset prices will soon follow.
Schectman’s opinion is similar to that of Lynette Zang, chief market analyst at ITM Trading, in a recent interview with Kitco’s Makori. Like Zang, Schectman expects an economic collapse and suggests that it will be the time for a Great Reset to take place, with central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) being ushered in. Schectman says that the U.S. dollar was weaponized in 2022, and as a result, de-dollarization “seems to be spinning much, much faster.” The Miles Franklin executive and monetary historian believes that the BRICS nations are “coalescing against the dollar.”
“All it would take,” Schectman said. “Would be for Saudi Arabia to stand up on the stage [and declare] we’re now going to consider taking up other currencies for oil. And all of a sudden, bang, all of the countries that had to hold dollars for the last fifty years, no longer have an interest in holding them. And if they all start to dump dollars, and I think it would happen quickly, you would have a tsunami of inflation hitting the shores of the West.” Schectman told Makori that when asset prices collapse, CBDCs would be deployed. Schectman insisted:
That’s when they would come in and roll out their new CBDC. This gives them cover to roll it in.
Recently, Saudi Arabia has shown interest in joining the BRICS nations, and the kingdom’s finance minister, Mohammed Al-Jadaan, said at the recent World Economic Forum event that Saudi Arabia is open to trading in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. In June of last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the creation of a new international reserve currency at the 14th BRICS Summit. Amid this news, tensions between Russia and China, and the United States continue to escalate.
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