Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

In my day, never was longer.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Everybody saw this coming.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

A Senator Walker would be an insult to the state and the nation.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Bark louder, little dog.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

I really should read my own blog.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

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This is Adam, I’ll be covering for Alain today and tomorrow.

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So here’s a few pictures from Temple, Scotland. I’m sure most of you have heard of Rosslyn Chapel, but a few miles down the road from Rosslyn in Temple is a ruined church and a cemetery. Temple is named Temple because the church and cemetery were, supposedly, built and used by the Templars who had fled France and other parts of Europe to safety in Scotland.

Here’s the ruins of the church:

Here’s a few of the tombstones. The ones with skulls and crossed bones are supposed to be markers for Templar remains.

 

There’s a huge estate house just across the street from the ruined church and cemetery. Here’s a pic of the lovely sheepdog that lived there (these pictures were taken back in 2008).

What a sweetie! Look at that face!!!

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    Schlemazel

    We love to go through old cemeteries and check out the headstones. The best in the US tend to be in the East where they can go back into the 1600’s. I wonder about the skull and crossbones being Templars because one thing I have noticed is that the markers tend to go through phases. Here in the US there was a period where skeletons and skulls were very common, there was a “greek” period with columns and Greek temples, an angle period and one with the the grim reaper being pretty normal.

    Great pictures & thanks for sharing them

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    OzarkHillbilly

    The ones with skulls and crossed bones are supposed to be markers for Templar remains.

    Mystery solved! There were a number of internments in the Catedral de Mallorca that had the skull and crossbones. Now I know why.

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    Schlemazel

    @OzarkHillbilly:
    Weird things sometimes. I saw a plot & the first stone said something like “John Jones 1618 – 1681” Next to it was a smaller stone that read “Wife of John Jones 1621 – 1635” then next “wife of John Jones 1628 – 1650” and “Wife of John Jones 1629 – 1661” and then “Wife of John Jones 1638 – 1683”

    The succession of wives was not surprising given the odds of dying, particularly in childbirth. What was surprising is tha apparently none of these women had a name.

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    Waratah

    We have booked a cruise next year that included a stop at Ephesus Kusadasi Turkey that was cancelled because of all the unrest there. They changed to a stop at Rhodes Greece.
    I was looking forward to seeing a little of Turkey but when I looked into Rhodes I found that it has Knights!
    Not the famous Templars but the Knights of St. John. The history of Rhodes is very interesting including Otto Turks. I think this might be one of the most interesting stops.

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    Raven

    Residents of Oakland
    The celebrated and humble rest together at Oakland. Tycoon and pauper, Christian and Jew, black and white, powerful and meek, soldier and civilian—all are here.

    Maynard Jackson, Atlanta’s first African American mayor, and Ivan Allen, Jr. became the 26th and 27th mayors of the city to be buried at Oakland, joining six Georgia governors. Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With The Wind, is also buried here. So are golf great Robert T. (Bobby) Jones; Joel Hurt, one of the city’s leading developers and entrepreneurs; Atlanta historian Franklin Garrett, Bishop Wesley John Gaines, founder of Morris Brown College; Carrie Steele Logan, 19th Century founder of Atlanta’s first orphanage for black children which continues today as the Carrie Steel Pitts Home, and others who played a role in Atlanta’s evolution. Many of Oakland’s graves are etched with familiar names borne by Atlanta parks, streets, neighborhoods and businesses. For every lavish monument marking a prominent or wealthy family, there are hundreds of small, simple headstones. Not far from some of Atlanta’s best known sons and daughters are paupers buried at public expense. Here, an ornate tomb is inscribed with flowery verse—there, a plain marker merely says “Infant.”

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    J R in WV

    The graveyard in Key West is quite old, and had many wonderful tombstones. At one time I had quite a few photos of some of them, which appear to have become lost in the stuff. My favorite one was large and biographical. I don’t recall the name so I will make one up:

    Here lies Henry Jones born in 1689 – died in 1775. A seafaring man until 1745, then a good Christian for 40 years.

    Obviously know as a pirate or wrecker on the reefs around Key West, most of the lumber of the old conch homes was from shipwrecks.

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    Raven

    @J R in WV: there is one of. Shipwreck crew on Okracoke Island that is British property.
    Every year on the Thursday and Friday closest to May 11th British and American armed forces meet on British soil in North Carolina. The reason is a memorial service honoring the British seamen buried in a piece of land deeded by the U S government to Britain on the island of Ocracoke in the Outer Banks. It’s a story of heroism and gratitude that is little known outside of the tiny town.

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    satby

    Love the pictures! I like to go wandering through cemeteries to look at the old gravestones too. Sometimes in small county cemeteries you can see the signs of an epidemic by all the graves from the same year.

    @Schlemazel: Sometimes old markers like that have replaced the original ones where the detail was eroded away.

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    aimai

    Finished classes for the semester for my MSW–out with a whimper and not with a bang! Seminars and patients today at my agency and then I am off for the holiday break. I’m excited-holidays never meant as much to me when I wasn’t back in school or working. We are heading off to San Francisco for the memorial service for my great aunt, Judy Stone, who was the San Francisco Chronicle’s International Film Critic for about twenty years. I”m sad and excited all at the same time–sad because its a memorial, excited to see the people who will come and hear stories about her because she was an amazing character.

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    CapnMubbers

    @Schlemazel: My great-grandfather’s three (consecutive) wives in NW Georgia were all “Mrs. Jeremiah Taylor” and I have always indignantly wondered what their names were.

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