JOHN RUBENS is no Mother Teresa.

 With his lean, ragged levies undismayed he crouched among the giant walls.  A show to the distainful heaven-blinded foe.  Unlauded, unsupported, disobeyed, thwarted, maligned, conspired against, betrayed–yet nothing could unheart him.  Wouldst thou know his secret?  There, in that thicket, on the snow Washington knelt before his God and prayed.

CANON R.G. Sutherland

Copied from the George Washington monument at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, California.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/10/29/washington-in-prayer

“Momentum.”

ORTIZ: Can the Dodgers carry the momentum Terese?

“Win anyway.” St. Terese of Calcutta, speculative fiction.

Charity carries the day.–Babe Ruth

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/10/27/davidortiz-punters-call-him-poppy-momentum-is-key-i-said-that-arod-frankthomas-tomverducci-ken_rosenthal-joebuck-johnsmoltz-kevin-watches-listens-reads-the-teleprompter-so-megyn-says

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/10/26/samehere-rich-russians-ukrainians-from-oligarchs-to-bourgeoisie-by-elisabethschimpfossl-oxford-university-press-2018

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/10/26/antigones-fate-dominant-or-recessive-female-onedimensionalman2dwoman3drobot

Russia’s current super-rich are less interested in flaunting their wealth than in the quest for social respectability and an image of refinement, even moral probity.

Foreign Affairs, NOV/DEC 2018 @ 221. Book Review by Robert Legvold.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/10/26/samehere-rich-russians-ukrainians-from-oligarchs-to-bourgeoisie-by-elisabethschimpfossl-oxford-university-press-2018

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/10/26/learn-more-about-saudiarabia-cfr-https-www-cfr-org-middle-east-and-north-africa-saudi-arabia

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/10/26/keep-suing-the-banks-do-not-resort-to-bambam-sayok

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/10/26/learn-more-about-saudiarabia-cfr-https-www-cfr-org-middle-east-and-north-africa-saudi-arabia

Dear @ArchbishopGomez: re: #Accompaniment Read the novel #AGentlemanInMoscow (@VikingBooks 2016) by @amortowles. It addresses accompaniment and temporary adoption. I am the oldest of 6 and babysat and taught when I was younger. Not worth risk at my station and place in Hollywood.

“[You’re starting to understand the box.]”–Steve Jones

The risk’s on you. “You ew ew.”–Jonesys Jukebox song. “You’re starting to get the box.”–Steve Jones

“[You feel lucky punk? Go ahead, make my day.]”–Dirty Harry, as played by Clint Eastwood.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/10/25/dirtyharry-you-feel-lucky-punk-jonesysjukebox-goes-to-kindergarten-and-chicagoan-hugh-hefner-to-heaven-where-does-that-leave-me-alone-until-1900

https://blogosphere45.blogspot.com/2018/10/between-heaven-by-rollingstones-https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/10/25/msm-subtext-china-is-listening-following-khashoggi-caravans-in-preparation-for-craftlaunch-millionpersonflotilla-to-the-west-coast-of-the-americasand.html

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#Yahtzee Double Box Cars! “I’m on a roll, but it’s taking its toll on me.” @JonesysJukebox Busy doing things more interesting than others that speak of themselves and their families [hint hint @ChrisCuomo].

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/10/25/beverlyhillsblues-jonesysjukebox-jordan-mrshovel-35-year-olds-chriscuomo-megynkelly-and-donlemon-are-47

#pacemakers and #wallstreet #SoWhat? #LifeIsCheapOnEarth #HomoDeus Tongue and cheek. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/john-carlin-we-are-in-a-code-war-now-with-china/ …
Like type-O blood [but see, #TheAndromedaStrain (c. 1971) by #michaelcritchton].

#BruceJennerEvolution #homodeus “Life is cheap in China.” “Life is cheap everywhere. If you only knew.” #fiction by John Rubens. What keeps us alive? Do grace and prayer? Those who seek to save their lives will lose it, but those that seek lose their lives for Christ’s sake saved.

But see, The Andromeda Strain (circa 1971), by Michael Crichton, where only two exposed lived out a virus due to the pH [acidity in this case] of their bodies, an old man chugging Sterno and an hysterical baby crying.

See also, John P. Carlin’s book, Dawn of the Code War (2018). https://www.cbsnews.com/video/john-carlin-we-are-in-a-code-war-now-with-china/

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/10/25/life-is-cheap-everywhere-on-earth-like-type-o-blood