Congratulations to the former
AMERICAN_IDOL winner,
Jordin Sparks! She
sang "The National Anthem" at
opening ceremonies of the
INDY 500 this year at
Indianapolis, IN
May 24, 2026
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Sunday, May 24, 2026
in honor of Bede the Venerable -- a saint highly regarded by those in the British Isles
St. Bede's Day / feast
is Monday May 25 (annually)
this year -- he lived from
approx. 673 to 735;
he died at the monastery
of Jarrow at the kingdom
of Northumbria
[ present day
Tyne and Wear, England ]
What does PENTECOST mean? helpful definition - traditions
from the "Center for Spiritual and Ethical Education" web pages dates of interfaith and major religious traditions:
On Pentecost, Christians will celebrate the day the Holy Spirit descended upon the apostles of Jesus. The word itself comes from the Greek word for "fiftieth," since the feast day takes place the 50th day after Easter. ( Mondays - Saturdays only counted.)
____________________In the early days of the Christian church, no courts of law were held during the week of Pentecost, and manual labor was forbidden; those practices gradually diminished. In Italy, it has been customary to drop leaves from the ceilings of churches, to signify the descent of the Holy Spirit. The French tended to sound trumpets, signifying the sound of the mighty wind that is said to have accompanied the Holy Spirit's descent upon the apostles.
http://www.csee.org/resources/religious-calendar/
Pentecost Poem - "On God's Grandeur"
Poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man's smudge and shares men's smell: the soil
Is bare now; nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs --
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
Saturday, May 23, 2026
Bettina Anderson, Socialite opts for PALM BEACH -- TRUMP at White House -- excuses himself -- I've got this thing called Iran
weekend of Memorial Day
HELLO Magazine! has the
scoop:
the POTUS' eldest son Don Jr.
and fiancee Bettina -- opted for
a May 21st wedding at her twin
sister's PALM BEACH estate -
officiated by a real estate attorney (!)
Bradley McPherson, realtor/attorney
upcoming
in Bahamas at a private location
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very few "First Children" of POTUS and FLOTUS
have over the 220+ years of our Constitutional
governance have gotten married at
EXECUTIVE MANSION
Pakistan military official to Tehran (May 2026) -- End to 85-day War may be "Surprise in the Making" - "Exit Document"
NYTimes.com/2026/05/10/us/
trump-news#section649651710
______________________
sources in PAKISTAN
have revealed to
Reuters (international
press agency / website)
for an online EXCLUSIVE
report that the belligerent
powers
USA (Trump 2.0 executive branch)
and
Iran (Governing forces/Ayatollah-
based government in power still)
have worked with the mediating
host nation at Islamabad to
prepare a 1-page
exit document - "end of war"
declaration that will allow both
sides to declare victory, thus
saving face - - whether this
ends hostilities both in the
region and specifically the
STRAIT OF HORMUZ
remains unclear. . . Time will tell
How many Cabinet members in Trump's first administration with PENCE had quit/ were fired for misbehavior by 16 months since inauguration?
3 members of TRUMP-Pence administration
left by May 2018 (also a midterm election
year)
Tom Price, Health & Human Services
Rex Tillerson, Secy. of State
David Shulkin, VA Administrator
__________________________
Tillerson like Atty. General
Jeff Sessions disagreed with
being ordered without consultation
to follow orders / whims of Trump
1.0 -- immediately after
the 2018 election results showed
that Democrat wins would reset the
House but not the U.S. Senate,
Trump fired Jeff Sessions (MAGA
senator from Alabama) and went
on a search, eventually putting
forward Bill Barr (confirmed
Feb. 20, 2019 - he also resigned
end of Dec. 2020)
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