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围棋 Trad. 圍棋 wéi qí the game of Go

Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players, in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent. The game was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and is believed to be

Steve Williams · Thursday, July 9th 2020 · 431 views · 1 comments

Crowds gathers outside Rayshard Brooks' funeral to watch

Due to COVID-19, only 200 guests were allowed inside the sanctuary, which was marked for social distancing. Notable guests included Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Former Mayor Kasim Reed, Rev. Be

Steve Williams · Wednesday, July 8th 2020 · 413 views · 1 comments

White Power Tweet

In case anyone was wondering what this was really about. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uwf0Mh5fIA

Steve Williams · Tuesday, July 7th 2020 · 800 views · 1 comments

JUNE 29, 2020 | PART OF U.S. SENATE

Senate Session The Senate voted to formally begin debate on the fiscal year 2021 Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual defense programs and policy bill. https://www.c-span.org/video/?4734

Steve Williams · Friday, July 3rd 2020 · 522 views · 1 comments

JULY 1, 2020 White House Briefing

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany held a briefing with reporters. She was asked about the reports that Russia offered bounties for the lives of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan as well as Presi

Steve Williams · Thursday, July 2nd 2020 · 626 views · 1 comments

July 1, 2020 Rudy Giuliani Comments to Reporters in White House Driveway

Rudy Giuliani speaks to reporters in the White House driveway. He criticizes the New York Times for reporting on the Russian bounties story, calls Black Lives Matter a Marxist organization, and questi

Steve Williams · Wednesday, July 1st 2020 · 679 views · 1 comments

畢昇

During the reign of Chingli 慶曆 (Qìnglì), 1041–1048, Bi Sheng, a man of unofficial position, made movable type. His method was as follows: he took sticky clay and cut in its characters as

Steve Williams · Friday, June 26th 2020 · 819 views · 1 comments

What will these BRANIACS think of next?

I'm not impressed. JUNE 24, 2020 Senate Democratic Press Briefing on Police Reform Following a failed Senate procedural vote on police reform legislation, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) a

Steve Williams · Wednesday, June 24th 2020 · 540 views · 1 comments

An Lushan Rebellion

Beginning in 742, Eurasia entered a 13-year period of major political turmoil, with the regional empires generally suffering "a major rebellion, revolution, or dynastic change." In this year the Se

Steve Williams · Tuesday, June 23rd 2020 · 506 views · 1 comments

TEN HEAVENLY STEMS AND TWELVE EARTHLY BRANCHES

INTRODUCTION Short for Stem-Branch or Gan-Zhi, the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches are the most important counting system in the Chinese calendar. There are 10 Stems and 12 Branches. The Ten H

Steve Williams · Tuesday, June 23rd 2020 · 622 views · 1 comments

WCU President Announces WCU Will Reopen On-Time for Fall 2020 Semester

June 11, 2020 First day of in-person, on-campus instruction will be August 24, 2020 West Chester University President Christopher Fiorentino released a message today announcing that WCU will reo

Steve Williams · Tuesday, June 23rd 2020 · 477 views · 1 comments

功夫

Noun, Suru verb 1. scheme; device; scheming; devising; figuring out; coming up with; solving ingeniously​ これは わたし 私が くふ

Steve Williams · Monday, June 22nd 2020 · 531 views · 1 comments

大比丘衆

序品

Steve Williams · Sunday, June 14th 2020 · 458 views · 1 comments

Introduction

Introduction This is what I heard: At one time the Buddha was in Rajagriha, staying on Mount Gridhrakuta. Accompanying him were a multitude of leading monks numbering twelve thousand persons. Al

Steve Williams · Saturday, June 13th 2020 · 534 views · 1 comments

Gridhrakūta

Gridhrakūta [耆闍崛山・霊鷲山] (; Pali Gijjhakūta;  Gishakussen or Ryōju-sen): The Sanskrit name for Eagle

Steve Williams · Thursday, June 11th 2020 · 479 views · 1 comments

Rājagriha

Rājagriha [王舎城] (; Pali Rājagaha;  Ōsha-jō): The capital of the kingdom of Magadha in ancient India. One of the largest cities in

Steve Williams · Thursday, June 11th 2020 · 495 views · 1 comments

New details suggest Martin Gugino was intentionally provoking police

Published on Jun 9, 2020 New details are emerging in the story of Martin Gugino suggesting he was an anarchist and a possible member of radical left-wing groups like Antifa. Even other protesters tha

Steve Williams · Thursday, June 11th 2020 · 489 views · 1 comments

From Russia with Love

https://www.c-span.org/video/?472972-1/president-trump-start-holding-campaign-rallies

Steve Williams · Thursday, June 11th 2020 · 515 views · 1 comments

Words and Phrases of the Lotus Sutra

Words and Phrases of the Lotus Sutra, The [法華文句] (Chin Fa-hua-wen-chü;  Hokke-mongu): One of T’ien-t’ai’s three major works, the others being The Prof

Steve Williams · Wednesday, June 10th 2020 · 510 views · 1 comments

This is what I heard

This is what I heard: At one time the Buddha was in Rajagriha, staying on Mount Gridhrakuta. Accompanying him were a multitude of leading monks numbering twelve thousand persons. All were arhats wh

Steve Williams · Wednesday, June 10th 2020 · 408 views · 1 comments

What an upside-down bible does NOT look like

Our poor resident "deacon" has never seen a bible with ribbon markers. Wow.

Steve Williams · Tuesday, June 9th 2020 · 553 views · 1 comments

Zero Tolerance

Saturday on Fox News Channel’s “Justice,” host Jeanine Pirro declared the circumstances that led to the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police must be handled with “zero tole

Steve Williams · Sunday, June 7th 2020 · 676 views · 1 comments

Radical

Noun 1. radical (of a kanji character)​ Wikipedia definition 2. Radical (Chinese character) ​A Chinese radical is a component of a Chinese character. The term may variously refer

Steve Williams · Saturday, June 6th 2020 · 521 views · 1 comments

A Murder of Crows

For anyone that missed it the Russian crew at MSNBC has added to its ranks today. Joining comrade Wallace was not-so-recently-recruited comrade Weismann, and newest to the cohort, comrade Page. They j

Steve Williams · Friday, June 5th 2020 · 451 views · 1 comments

PA District 6 Democrat Primary 2020

This was the first time I had ever voted in a Democrat primary and I learned a few things. I changed my party registration back in March so I could vote for Bernie. That was before he wimped out and t

Steve Williams · Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 · 546 views · 1 comments