john I kincardineshire

john I kincardineshire

born:
died:
ascendancy: plausible descent from tancred de hauteville [1]
child: john II [1]
child: william wishart, bishop of glasgow [1]

an "evident fiction" connects this landholder further back in time to the scottish crown, suggesting he was descended from a robert who was the great-grandson of david I. this robert doesn't seem to have actually existed. yet, he is said to have "slaughtered the saracens", saracen being a sort of slang for "muslim" that was widely used to refer to the arab conquerors of sicily. so, it is fitting that a second legend connects "wishart" to "guiscard" and suggests a possible norman background. "robert guiscard" was a historical figure who is known for conquering the arab conquerors of sicily and setting up a medieval norman kingdom there. his relatives in france adopted the name.

as the wishart family seems to have it's earliest historical mention in england around the year 1200, during the period of norman control over england, the second legend seems to be more realistic; the first seems to actually be a nationalist myth to cover up norman roots. david I parceled out many plots of lands to norman knights as he converted scotland into a feudal society. a plausible theory, then, is that the wishart family was of norman descent and came to scotland via england during the reign of david I, and that this was converted into descent from david I in order to naturalize their rule over the scottish serfs.

this much seems to be established (see [2]). however, the descent directly from robert guiscard has not been preserved by history, if it is true at all. we can surmise that the process of conversion from norman to scottish ethnicity turned robert guiscard into robert, an illegitimate descendant of david I. however, there is no actual proof of this, and attempting to descend anybody at all from robert guiscard seems to be fraught with difficulties. more likely is that the descent comes from one of the norman aristocrats that adopted "guiscard" as a surname - a brother or a nephew or something else along those lines. of specific note, there seem to have been three sons of tancred that spent their whole lives in normandy and that history did not see fit to record descendants of; see the tancred de hauteville page for a further discussion. so, i've set the descent back to robert guiscard's father, tancred de hauteville. at this higher level of generality, descent of some sort is actually quite probable, even if the exact descent has been lost.

[1]: memoir of george wishart, p. 329
[2]: the british isles: a history of four nations, p. 95-97

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"All new homeowners can pick up their first recycling Red and Blue Boxes free at the Environment Services Centre"

From: Jessica Murray <death.to.koalas@gmail.com>   
To: pubwork@city.windsor.on.ca

hi.

i'm just wondering how stringent they are about "home owner". i'm living in a rental unit that isn't currently recycling. can i pick up a blue and red box myself or do i need to convince my landlord to do it?

j

washing machine

From: Jessica Murray <death.to.koalas@gmail.com>
To: the initial landlord

hi.

things are good in here. shower's working. heat's working. happy about things.

i'm just wondering what the deal with the washing machine is? i do laundry infrequently. i can wait a few weeks for it to come back up. but if it's going to be longer than that, i think i should hit a laundromat.

j

why are the russians being so coy about this that they nearly come off as naive idiots?

what i've been reading into this is that the sanctions backfired, and the only way to stop iran from becoming a chinese puppet state (and 'losing it' permanently) was to backpedal.

surely, the russians don't expect the americans to show consistency and logic in their policies....? who's running the place, khruschev?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2013/11/25/russia-minister-says-iran-deal-makes-nato-nuke-shield-obsolete/

hey, barack? there's a conference call on line 1 with leonard nimoy and the ghost of khruschev; they claim your missile shield defense policy is now highly illogical, and should be re-examined at once.

mmhmm. well, i know it sounds naive, barack, but that's what they're saying. should i patch you through?

if the russians weren't so consistently naive, we'd have fought, like, 8 world wars since 1945. mad has nothing on this; what's kept the world turning all these years is nothing more than the incredible naivete of the russian state.

"well, vlad, i know we've broken every promise we've ever made, and unilaterally discarded the last 17...is it 19?...ok, the last 19 bilateral treaties we signed, but that's exactly why it's so important that you trust us, now, going forward."

smiley-face dmitri? looked like such a nice guy, didn't he?

and, boy, did we ever take advantage of his dumb naive ass. ahahahahaha...

the flip side of this is that if the russians ever stop being such naive pushovers, the world's going to run into some problems.

or, stated differently? the chinese government is not nearly as naive.

this strikes me as a likely performance art - or at least could/should have been. it's consequently hard to get a solid grasp on the awfulness of people.

i mean, i could imagine the meme: toaster steve. wants to die using toaster. does not use bathtub.

there's a legitimate level of comedy in watching somebody try to commit suicide and epically failing at it. i mean, in a life full of failure, you'd think he could at least get that right?

toaster steve. can't even commit suicide without failing.

but the comedy only applies either after the failure (and i'm sure he'll look back and laugh - and whether it was real or not, i'm sure it was meant to be funny, in a twisted way), or under the broad understanding that the whole thing is a skit. so, how many of the people commenting thought they were watching a joke?

on the other side, there's the wall of separation between reality and fantasy that video provides. even it is real, it's hard to see it as real given the media.

so, it's easy to be like "people are fucking terrible creatures", but i'm not convinced this wasn't staged - or at least that most people *thought* it was staged. that makes a big difference.

not that there aren't better reasons to be misanthropic.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/university-guelph-student-streams-suicide-attempt-4chan-202303898.html

blowback from the neo-liberal brainwashing machine that is designed to foster selfishness and self-interest could very well tear down the empire from the inside.