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Grab your tissues and read this!
How one woman helped to create, even if briefly and even if only for a few, the world most of us want to live in.
Isn’t this worth emulating?

To You

Shrink not back in the face of adversity.
For in facing the fire we are forged stonger.
Hold to your compassion in the face of insanity.
For to do otherwise is to follow the path the insane travelled.
Resist not the forces of evil.
For to do so is to become evil.
Instead, advocate freedom.
For it is restriction that binds, lessens, inhibits and weakens.
Focus steadfastly on your goal.
Redouble the purpose you have that is to help.
Let obstacles not thwart you.
Let distractions not divert you.
Hold firm the edges that mark the borders of your forward progress.
Pour the coals on your purpose.
Be fearless in your living of life.
Because you are immortal and indestructible.
It is only your body that perishes, not you.

The Drone Papers

The American news website, The Intercept, has published a tranche of documents revealing the inner workings of the United States’ drone programme. The documents, leaked by an anonymous whistle-blower, make up a multi-part analysis of the drone programme by a Pentagon task force. They show almost 90 percent of people killed in drone strikes were not the intended target. Nine to Noon speaks to Andrew Cockburn, the Washington Editor of Harper’s Magazine and author of Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins.
https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/

Christmas Cake Recipe

Ingredients
1 cup of water
1 tsp. baking soda
1 cup of sugar
1 tsp. salt
1 cup of brown sugar
lemon juice
4 large eggs
nuts
2 cups of dried fruit
1 bottle Johnnie Walker
Instructions
Sample the Johnnie Walker to check quality.
Take a large bowl, check the whisky again.
To be sure it is the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink.
Repeat.
Turn on the electric mixer.
Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl.
Add one teaspoon of sugar.
Beat again.
Make sure the whisky is still OK.
Cry another tup.
Turn off the mixerer.
Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit.
Mix on the turner.
If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers pry it loose with a drewscriver.
Sample the whisky to check for tonsisticity.
Next, sift two cups of salt. Or something. Who giveshz a knees bee.
Check the whisky.
Now sift the lemon juice and strain your nuts.
Add one table.
Add a spoon of sugar, or something. Whatever you can find.
Greash the oven and piss in the fridge.
Turn the cake tin 350 defrees.
Don’t forget to beat off the turner.
Throw the bowl out the shtingking window.
Check the whisky again and bo to ged.