By The Mighty Humanzee Link Back to LIVE Stream The World Economic Forum is calling for more direct action to end the pending food crisis. Amazing how that is timed with Oregon and Idaho water restrictions and Michigan Avian Flu crisis. Want fries with the grasshopper burger? https://youtu.be/cBCYZ9jIJkI?si=G1TsVtRTWNiz3kUdDecember 1777 - Valley ForgeA cold winter of starvation and disease await the American Continental Army at Valley Forge.Background: What Was 1777 Like For The AmericansIn the summer of 1777, British General **William Howe** aimed to capture Philadelphia, the American capital. He launched a campaign that began with a landing at the Head of Elk in Maryland on August 25, 1777, and involved a series of maneuvers towards Philadelphia.Key Battles:Battle of Brandywine (September 11, 1777): This was a significant defeat for Washington's forces,…
By The Mighty Humanzee Link Back to LIVE Stream Twelve. It's the Twelfth month, and we will not only talk about John Dickinson's Twelfth Letter From a Farmer, but also about the Eggnog Riot of West Point involving Jefferson Davis. And some Irish Christmas music as well. https://youtu.be/DKXNvlHVpmE?si=gjSYLY08e0uOGk1DTwelvehttps://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/the-twelve-myths-of-christmas/As you will discover, Christmas in colonial and revolutionary America was not the wholesome, family-oriented holiday that Americans celebrate today. In the eighteenth century, Christmas was often rowdy, drunken, wild, and dangerous.You could also read this list as a guide to celebrating Christmas like someone in eighteenth-century America. But be careful not to be too authentic. You could get arrested.Jefferson Davis And the Egg Nog Riot of 1826Jefferson Davis and the West Point Cadets had a little too much to drink on Christmas…
By The Mighty Humanzee Link Back to LIVE Stream The World Economic Forum is calling for more direct action to end the pending food crisis. Amazing how that is timed with Oregon and Idaho water restrictions and Michigan Avian Flu crisis. Want fries with the grasshopper burger? https://youtu.be/TGl8K0WkqKI?feature=sharedNearly 100 Years Ago New Medium Was BornYouTube can bring up some marvelous things in the rotation of topics. Recently I have seem conversations regarding "Art Right", a movement of artists formerly of the left who feel empowered now that the establishment has taken a severe blow, who support tearing down the constraining control that the collectivists have imposed on us ala Severed Conscience. These artists have you qualms embracing the technology of the age and wielding for their purposes. Retaining sovereignty, they use…
By The Mighty Humanzee Link Back to LIVE Stream Some history tonight. Did you know that Thomas Jefferson's 2nd most important document is unknown? And yet it lead to restoring the Constitution. The Problem with BritainWe have to set the stage with the events leading up to the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts, the responses by Jefferson and Madison with the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions.While the Treaty of France ended the war with Britain, Britain was a threat to the United States. Our alliance with France could not prevent the British from seizing American vessels, and as an extension, American sailors were then “pressed into service” in the British Navy. While the Treaty also gave the United States great territory in the west, extending past Ohio, the British…
https://youtu.be/xmfC7gX8rIw?si=VbnuIULKF_horsdK By Fortunate Son and Zee Link Back to LIVE Stream Tonight we are joined by Fortunate Son (@turnsup84) for tales of the uncanny. October is our month of Halloween Sunday evening story swapping.The Midway Pilot The Dougherty House The Crazy Old Lady Haunted Portrait of Jenny Worthington at Greencrest House
By The Mighty Humanzee Link Back to LIVE Stream Earlier this week I was taken by some of the wonderful watercolor painting by Jean S. Kaiyou and they triggered a memory for me, taking me way back to when I was almost 5 and my folks had taken me back to their homes in the Catskills. https://youtu.be/_yDlCgJG6qU?si=kiOUIkFI2BgQgKq0Some Incredible ArtThe wonderful water colors by Jean S. Kaiyou publisher of Unfinished Sketchbook stirred a memory from when I was 4 or 5, prior to my family moving back to where both my mom and dad were born in the Catskills Mountains and Mohawk River Valley. We would spend summers in Roxbury where my mother’s family lived, and my Dad was starting to get his business going so he could move us back east from Evanston.Jean’s latest…
By The Mighty Humanzee Link Back to LIVE Stream The Grand Remonstrance that preceded the removal and execution of King Charles I in Great Britain will be our focus. This document, like the Declaration of Independence, as a statement made by a people who had reached a certain level of rationality. We will see many of the themes from the British Civil War repeated by the Founding Fathers. This leads us to ask do we evolve and remain awaken, or do we relapse, unaware of what can lull us to sleep? If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. Thomas Jefferson https://youtu.be/F4Z4QLocsDg?si=yAuTZDWjAo6Og5Wn Procession, Progression…
By The Mighty Humanzee Link Back to LIVE Stream Our first 9-11 disaster was not 2001. It was 1777 when Washington was defeated at the Battle of Brandywine by General Howe, leading to the capture of Philadelphia. What were the silver linings of this disaster for the Americans? https://youtu.be/pdbd9oGDWd0?si=c7QoxrO4azqByizKNo Safety Net, No Internet: Summer Rituals"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light."George Washington Ten score years ago defeat the kingly foeA wondrous dream came into beingTame the trackless waste, no virgin land left chasteAll shining eyes but never seeingBeneath the noble birth between the proudest wordsBehind the beauty, cracks appearOnce with heads held high they sang out to the skyWhy do their shadows bow in fear? The guns replace the plowFacades are tarnished nowThe principles have…
By The Mighty Humanzee Link Back to LIVE Stream Those small yet important moments as a kids that help you celebrate events for your kids are super important. Each generation has their own version, but they have them nonetheless.https://youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk?si=cr5wuoCnI18INc3g Last August 2024 Cultural Courage Article Stewardship is Key To Understanding LeadershipWhat is Haervest-Monath?https://www.cpre.org.uk/discover/harvest-traditions-in-england/The term "Haervest-Monath" has its roots in Old English, specifically from the word *hærfest*, which translates to "autumn" or "harvest-time." This term was used to denote the season associated with the gathering of crops, particularly between August and November. The etymology traces back to Proto-West Germanic *harbist* and Proto-Germanic *harbistaz*, which also relate to the concept of harvest and autumn. The Proto-Indo-European root *kerp-* means "to gather" or "to pluck," further emphasizing the connection between the term and…
https://youtu.be/Hci7g7aX2WE?si=FsLfnk8rzZe_Pq8pPlease Consider Helping Establish Homeschool Program One of our Tribe Member and a listener to OZFest. Wanting to make a real difference, John has started Ambleside Preparatory Academy. Ambleside is under an international CMI (Charlotte Mason Institute) organization called Alveary, which helps train and gives resources to teachers and families. We are a homeschool-hybrid K-12 school which means students attend partly on campus and partly at home during the week. Latest On Cultural Courage from O Severed Conscience - A Change in the Sovereignty Of The MindSelf directed learning, curiosity, puzzling something out. There are all the traits we hope to foster in each generation. It is the type of mind that will not settle for what the Watchmakers like Bill Gates or other experts utter as us as though…
