Harvest Moon Autumn Equinox 2010

Harvest Moon and Jupiter
Autumn Equinox
22 September 2010, 2134 Hours PDT.

My Love Will Come in Autumn Time

Today, 22 September, 2010, is the last day of summer for the northern hemisphere.


Love Autumnal (1922)
Oliver Jenkins

My love will come in autumn-time
When leaves go spinning to the ground
And wistful stars in heaven chime
With the leaves’ sound.

Then, we shall walk through dusty lanes
And pause beneath low-hanging boughs,
And there, while soft-hued beauty reigns
We’ll make our vows.

Let others seek in spring for sighs
When love flames forth from every seed;
But love that blooms when nature dies
Is love indeed!

"Love Autumnal" and Chopin:
Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 11, 2nd Movement
(Frédéric Chopin)
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They Call the Wind Maria

Harve Presnell
Stage-Screen Actor and Singer (baritone)
(14 September 1933 - 1 July 2009)
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Harve Presnell & Chorus (1969)
- They Call the Wind Maria
(Lerner & Loewe)

They Call the Wind Maria
Film: "Paint Your Wagon" (1969)
Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner
Music: Frederick Loewe
Sung by Harve Presnell & The Chorus


Maria
Maria
They call the wind Maria

Away out here they got a name
For rain and wind and fire
The rain is Tess, the fire Joe
And they call the wind Maria

Maria blows the stars around
And sends the clouds a-flyin’
Maria makes the mountains sound
Like folks were up there dying

Maria
Maria
They call the wind Maria

Before I knew Maria’s name
And heard her wail and whinin’
I had a girl and she had me
And the sun was always shinin’

But then one day I left my girl
I left her far behind me
And now I’m lost, so golden lost
Not even God can find me

Maria
Maria
They call the wind Maria

Out here they got a name for rain
For wind and fire only
But when you’re lost and all alone
There ain’t no word but lonely

And I’m a-lost and lonely man
Without a star to guide me
Maria blow my love to me
I need my girl beside me

Maria
Maria
They call the wind Maria

Maria
Maria
Blow my love to me

Clara Schumann's Birthday Anniversary

Today, 13 September, is Clara Schumann's birthday anniversary.
Mrs. S wrote this piano piece when she was about 24 years old.
What were you doing when you were at age 24?
Oh, sorry. I didn't know you are only 21.
Never mind.

Clara Schumann
(Mrs. Robert Schumann)
Renown Romantic era composer and pianist
(13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896)
Jozef de Beenhouwer, piano (2001)
Impromptu in E Major c.1843
(Clara Schumann)
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Stephen Hawking's Leaky Design

Wisdom lies only in truth -- Goethe

Stephen Hawking, the cosmologist and former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, has a new book out. It's called the The Grand Design.

Accordingly, Hawking theorizes gravity is the only unifying force - his god - which gives us the Big Bang and the consequential universe. He writes, "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing." He is making a grand personal conjecture no different than that of the primordial soup theory. It is not an established scientific fact what he says here.

I have just two unlearned questions for Dr. Hawking: How do these laws of physics come into being?

And, can you say, or rather, demonstratively disprove the Julie Andrews axiom, "Nothing came from nothing. Nothing ever could."* with a replicable experiment?

He writes elsewhere in his new book, "The fact that we human beings – who are ourselves mere collections of fundamental particles of nature – have been able to come this close to an understanding of the laws governing us and our universe is a great triumph." His unabashed glorification of humanism.

Stephen Hawking is Carl Sagan 2.0. As in the case of Sagan, Hawking is blurring science and his brand of scientific atheism. Both authors commingled haughty personal believes and science, with emphasis and conviction on the former.

Nothing like including a "there is no God" thematic argument to sell a book. Nonetheless, the Grand Design is leaky. So we must leave it to its sinking, as all vanities will.

*My 2005 post on Carl Sagan:   Julie Andrews Was Right


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Job 38 (New American Standard Bible):

Verse 4:
4 Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding,

Verses 32-36:
32"Can you lead forth a constellation in its season,
And guide the Bear with her satellites?
33"Do you know the ordinances of the heavens,
Or fix their rule over the earth?
34"Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
So that an abundance of water will cover you?
35"Can you send forth lightnings that they may go
And say to you, 'Here we are'?
36"Who has put wisdom in the innermost being
Or given understanding to the mind?

Losing Arizona

The warning signs posted along I-8 are only 30 miles from Phoenix, AZ. This is the area where a deputy sheriff was shot and killed by illegal aliens in April 2010.

To the Obama camp, murdered American citizens - law enforcement officers, ranchers, and law abiding citizens are no big deal. No bowels of compassion there. They could care less about these murders committed by Mexican nationals on American soil. But when it comes to Hispanic illegal aliens ("illegal immigrants" is an oxymoron), Obama condemns the state of Arizona for human rights violations and sues its governor. What this President doing to Arizona is a deliberate perversion of the U.S. Constitution which he has sworn to uphold.

What tragic irony. The socialist Obama administration - Obama himself being a Contitutional Law lecturer (not professor)- would not accept that the power of the federal government are granted by the states, not vise versa.

Homeland Security under Obama is a national disgrace. Why not have Obama and his cabinet drive through this strip of I-8, unescorted?

Nightmare on Obamacare Street

Our Health Care Nightmare Journey Begins
This is a U.S. House of Representatives Document
It is not a joke.

There are bad Republicans but no good Democrats in governance.

Vote in November 2 to delouse the socialistic Democratic controlled Congress. Help put a majority of conservatives (not patrician Republicans nor RINO) in both chambers to veto Obamacare, save our country from liberalism, save Arizona, and above all, save the dismantling of our Constitution.