tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32264487380418306412026-06-26T10:42:39.173-04:00what's in a word?Random words, random photos, random thoughts, a random personality.kayesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10342429421120194044noreply@blogger.comBlogger584125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226448738041830641.post-14161845723856519802026-04-17T13:46:00.005-04:002026-04-17T13:46:49.789-04:00Damning with faint praise - no photos.<p> A few months ago I wrote a comment in a movie I won't name that coming upon it today, amused me.</p><p>
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all,(the unnamed movie was) entertaining but not life-changing, not life-affirming, not especially memorable
but funny, easy to stay awake while watching and as I said before,
entertaining.</span></p> <p></p><p>I guess that says enough about so much of what we watch, listen to and read not only nowadays but since we became human. </p><p><span jsslot=""><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c5" jsslot="" role="region"><span class="MUhG4e OGjyyf" data-blogurl="https://kayester.blogspot.com" jsname="U5DZqf"> Pemalink:</span></span></span></p><p><span jsslot=""><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c5" jsslot="" role="region"><span class="MUhG4e OGjyyf" data-blogurl="https://kayester.blogspot.com" jsname="U5DZqf">https://kayester.blogspot.com/2026/04/damning-with-faint-praise-no-photos.html</span></span></span></p>kayesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10342429421120194044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226448738041830641.post-14756540532948851322025-10-28T16:59:00.000-04:002025-10-28T16:59:26.714-04:00Easton Book Festival 2025 - Saturday 10/18 at the IF Museum<p>Late Saturday afternoon and into the evening, there was a reading and Fusion Art event at the IF Museum on N. 4th Street. I emceed the reading, Shalom Neuman masterminded the art action. The first part of the reading, NYC based poets and writers, some notably from the Unbearables and Pink Trees Press, and the Fusion Art event was dedicated to the Unbearable, Hal Sirowitz, author of <i>Mother Said: Poems </i>and other books, who sadly passed away the day before. </p><p>The readers in the first part were Allegra Parks, Ron Kolm, Anthony Haden-Guest, Dorothy Friedman August, Lee Klein, Leah Kogen-Elimeliah, Jane LeCroy and the artist Karen Orange Neuman reading from Hal Sirowitz's book, <i>Mother Said: Poems.</i></p><p><i> </i></p><p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfX17zdBIpM2iH9hRdN0P0xVKA6swiaWHoG_7ADm9TmD2YIUa0wmcXongifZMQdH3LpiXHjaUuZVKRytbpAJZCokJl7IIvs8bJLeNyU6qDESJ8b24RU8JV0MjASmCOYWUgEE5hAjb5fgYLTPxev3KOqZlsoTmayYfj5GMR9m0urguipUK43dLQlxZR_40/s648/_DSC5097.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="648" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfX17zdBIpM2iH9hRdN0P0xVKA6swiaWHoG_7ADm9TmD2YIUa0wmcXongifZMQdH3LpiXHjaUuZVKRytbpAJZCokJl7IIvs8bJLeNyU6qDESJ8b24RU8JV0MjASmCOYWUgEE5hAjb5fgYLTPxev3KOqZlsoTmayYfj5GMR9m0urguipUK43dLQlxZR_40/s320/_DSC5097.JPG" width="320" /></a></i></div><i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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It was an excellent event.</p><p>Delicious and much appreciated food and beverage was generously provided by Daddy's Place on Northampton Street and Antonio's Pizzeria and Restaurant on South 3rd Street.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span jsslot=""><span class="gjKCb joOfYc" jsslot=""><a href="https://kayester.blogspot.com/2025/10/easton-book-festival-2025-saturday-1018.html" target="_blank">Permalink</a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>kayesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10342429421120194044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226448738041830641.post-82688769241150120222025-10-27T16:35:00.004-04:002025-10-27T16:35:54.553-04:00Easton Book Festival 2025 - Friday 10/17<p>I drove out to Easton PA on Friday. I got there early enough to pick up Ron Kolm at the bus station, We had a pleasant early supper at the Easton Public Market. Afterwards, we wandered over to the Centre Square- I don't know why but that's how they spell Centre - where an open mic was about to start. Crossing the street, Lynn Alexander, one of the organizers and a leading light of the Lehigh Valley literary scene saw me and waved me over. She was organizing the reading with Darrell Parry, another bright light of the Lehigh Valley Literary scene. Andy Laties, one of the founders of the festival and co-owner of Book & Puppet Co., an excellent bookstore and small event space, was wandering around, as well. The festival, in its seventh year has grown to be an October happening in Easton, a week-long series of engaging free readings, panels, performances and demonstrations mostly within downtown Easton.</p><p>The good and the bad of the open mic is some readers really have some great stuff to read, others go on too long, but everyone who wants to has their moment in front of the mic and we listen.</p><p>Here's a few photos from around the reading. I got a good one of Darrell, an okay one of Andy taking a video with Ron sitting on the edge of the fountain deciding what he would read. The only shot I got of Lynn was her rushing in front of a reader adjusting the mic. Oh well.</p><p>There was an opening of local artists at the IF Museum's downstairs gallery. Gaia, Andy's partner was there as was Anthony Haden-Guest. Leah Kogan-Elimeliah was there representing Pink Trees Press, whose founder and publisher Linda Kleinbub could not be there herself, along with her new friend, Allegra Parks.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>At Centre Square<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkbNM1EtXIYrG0h2dnQuX8s5ld1CrhKarpeZrrjRfmXWXTYzBbA0s8EUKVt-Php844ru8pq1Sy-nuD0zQgQBkzzMqMuJXSkFQ6EjuSSTWZ0a60-7eDUhHgXAig0BHrLjws7_TT4hN6w6r-mhIoa5Rt_VX7z50Bygko1amNPQ_W6mOqYM77GCQaVt9xU-8/s648/_DSC4878.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="648" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkbNM1EtXIYrG0h2dnQuX8s5ld1CrhKarpeZrrjRfmXWXTYzBbA0s8EUKVt-Php844ru8pq1Sy-nuD0zQgQBkzzMqMuJXSkFQ6EjuSSTWZ0a60-7eDUhHgXAig0BHrLjws7_TT4hN6w6r-mhIoa5Rt_VX7z50Bygko1amNPQ_W6mOqYM77GCQaVt9xU-8/s320/_DSC4878.JPG" width="320" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Now, seventy-five years later there are very few survivors of the Shoah still alive. Their children, grandchildren and now great-grandchildren continue the tradition and standing together continue to show that despite how many were slaughtered because they were Jews, we are still here, standing proudly and strong while remembering those who are no longer able to join us.</p><p>We were happy that the weather favored us with a beautiful, balmy morning. Standing together to chant Psalm 23, the Mourner's Kaddish and the El Malei Rachamin as well as commemorative readings is quite meaningful to us. We honor the past generations and still mourn in our hearts for those we never knew because they were killed.</p><p>As is my tradition, I brought my camera. Here is a selection of photos of attendees. You know who you are.</p><p>For the first time, I got everyone to stand for a group photo. Apologies to anyone whose face is obscured. I've never done this before. Next time I'll make sure the taller people are in the back and the shorter in front.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW0SBEh-nbipWz_C2scHgz5bVU9DfR8oFqufUC6L2aWMKloSp24azKqHkVh2kYk04icxYLi5L6R6i0MOCh6A1gPgx1TJEtYq-SAqutDMGC664drLQEKq8Thf9JSulyvg4HtR60SPoXA3WvhzhRMJBhxg8yisYt30u3EfvxMFDYbE_W8B4ynNo8IGcJxPI/s648/_DSC4412.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="648" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW0SBEh-nbipWz_C2scHgz5bVU9DfR8oFqufUC6L2aWMKloSp24azKqHkVh2kYk04icxYLi5L6R6i0MOCh6A1gPgx1TJEtYq-SAqutDMGC664drLQEKq8Thf9JSulyvg4HtR60SPoXA3WvhzhRMJBhxg8yisYt30u3EfvxMFDYbE_W8B4ynNo8IGcJxPI/w780-h310/_DSC4412.JPG" width="780" /></a></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLnZLss6UTWS1ZwEC4iGW71U7a4xtpia3PhGcbUScnyzDmfKAfRmXhduHThjFE0tM3BHdidM8NpWMzKB7gXJaT-9YZ0TRQ36aish3ZfFwZJV9fEJlXobyOf4n8Zk6loxVuKqhN6UlfhGauv62PsXdM3U93Wtor7T1N38y0DvqaXlZas8qsK7gpQXSx3Sc/s648/_DSC4367.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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He was assassinated, which was bad, I will not celebrate his death nor will I condone any political violence, but I will not mourn the man either. In my opinion he was not a good man. He was a bigot who wrapped himself in a distorted version of his faith and he found vast support from those who shared his bigoted views.</p><p>He spoke hateful words often about people he disagreed with, people whose way of life he did not approve even though they never did him any harm. And he said it was his right.</p><p>Charlie Kirk believed in free speech and defended the right of Americans to speak even hateful words, which he did frequently. On X, in May of 2024 he wrote, "Hate speech does not exist legally in America. There's ugly speech. There's gross speech. There's evil speech. And all of it is protected by the First Amendment."</p><p>I wonder what Charlie Kirk would say about the people who are pushing to suppress criticism of him and who he was. Would he back down on what he said about hate speech? Would he feel it's okay to direct "ugly speech... gross speech...evil speech"against others but don't you dare say anything against me? He enjoyed debating with liberals, people I see as more open-minded and fair-minded than he was. The witch hunters debase his legacy and besmirch his memory. Do these people who are pushing witch hunts against critics of Charlie Kirk know that they are hypocrites, care that they are hypocrites? Indeed they do not because they are the haters and these haters believe they are in possession of the only truth.</p><p>Indeed, he was willing to speak cruel, harsh words. The deaths of the innocents were justified in support of his beliefs. We must remember what he said after the Christian Covenant School murders of children and adults in Nashville, Tennessee in 2023. Kirk said at an event, "It's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun
deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment."</p><p>Charlie Kirk is dead. He shares the fate of the children of Christian Covenant School, of Sandy Hook, of the victims of the Pulse Club, of Parkland High School, of the attendees of the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival, and all those other innocents whose death by gun are the cost of us having Charlie Kirk's version of the Second Amendment. I wonder if he feels his own death is worth it so we can have the Second Amendment?</p><p><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.52)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">https://kayester.blogspot.com/2025/09/rip-charlie-kirk-inspiration-for-witch.html</span></p>kayesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10342429421120194044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226448738041830641.post-20709327877980424142025-04-30T22:27:00.000-04:002025-04-30T22:27:16.799-04:00Radomer Mutual Culture Center Holocaust Memorial. 2025<p>The Radomer Society was founded seventy years ago and is still functioning.</p><p>Very few of the founders are still alive, the youngest are in their 90s now but we are still here 80 years after the liberation of the survivors of the Nazi's genocide against the Jews and others.</p><p>We held our annual Holocaust Memorial on 4/27/25 at the Chabad Center of Northeast Queens. </p><p>I've selected only the photos of the lighting of the Holocaust Menorah, commissioned by the society shortly after the society's founding. 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Also, a Quark Story<p> I wish I knew a way to make Trump go away or barring that, just shut up. He may be the worst president we've ever had, certainly the most dangerous. He is only willing to know what he wants to know and anything that disagrees with this is not only wrong but a betrayal. He will take a bribe, his opponents aren't the loyal opposition, they are his enemies and if he thinks someone or something is an enemy, then they are criminals. And the criminals who support him are justified in his eyes, their crimes committed in support of his felonious activity.</p><p>It seems his administration acts with a highly destructive impulsivity modeled on their demented leader. If we can't make Trump go away, if we can't make him shut up, can someone make him aware that not only is he an old man who can die any day now, but that what he's doing is making America weak, disjointed and divided. He seems to fear and misunderstand diversity. Hey Donald, it's not a zero sum game. The more diverse a workplace, a school, social environments, the more positive things are generated. Is he afraid that the positive will reveal to people what he's really like?</p><p>The idea that there is such a thing as human dignity, for the religious human divinity is beyond his comprehension because it isn't about him. Does he know what integrity is? </p><p>His personal ethos is what's good for Trump is good for the world, If his supporters love him then they share his delusions. He doesn't care about them, only about himself. Hilary Clinton was wrong when she called them deplorables. That was almost a compliment. In truth, like Trump, they are self-delusionals and their delusions are hurting not only them but too many others as well.</p><p>Enough. No more ranting.</p><p>Beside having a story published by <a href="https://www.sensitiveskinmagazine.com/the-future-impulse-or-mind-the-mints-a-kaye/" target="_blank">Sensitive Skin Magazine this week (click on this to go to it),</a> I give you another, this one a tale of three quarks and electron who walk into a bar and photo of a bar. I am not sure I've got the science right.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6TrCHgBFt01z0XgTSd-OEaOfIXLJm3cWDfqQwwghLMGQZmVMGNCr8JrRTV4N8VwhnLPpz1Ot5HM2VGUamYau6SyXFlXINUd_85CiMHqtNmHaUzU2UlJdGMN1RvjEw5CVkUuR_RjRzGPv7bInyXqfmCaiFhN195UZLgHH9x6fYZwf33rgJUsFUtCsQ4Kg/s648/_DSC1058.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="648" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6TrCHgBFt01z0XgTSd-OEaOfIXLJm3cWDfqQwwghLMGQZmVMGNCr8JrRTV4N8VwhnLPpz1Ot5HM2VGUamYau6SyXFlXINUd_85CiMHqtNmHaUzU2UlJdGMN1RvjEw5CVkUuR_RjRzGPv7bInyXqfmCaiFhN195UZLgHH9x6fYZwf33rgJUsFUtCsQ4Kg/s320/_DSC1058.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;">An electron and three quarks walk into a bar. It was a quiet place until they arrived. The bartender looked up when both doors opened and all of the particles weren’t sure which door they would go through until the bartender looked up.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;">The electron sat down on a barstool unwilling to interfere with itself. The bartender looked hard at the quarks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;">“I don’t know if you’re up or down, top or bottom but I’m positive you can’t stay here naked and exposed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;">Indeed, the bartender had something. No quarks had ever been seen, only the things they made, two positive up quarks and one negative down quark to make a proton,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;">And each of them a different color.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;">The bartender smiled. “I am uncertain what I know but you’re positive right?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;">“Strange,” said one of the particles.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;">“Bottom’s up,” said the second.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;">“Charmed,” said the other.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;">The electron was looking rather hazy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;">The bartender turned on the TV. The strangest baseball game was on the screen.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;">The playing surface was a field, the electromagnetic field, several baryonic disturbances there and where the photon should be, a perturbed Higgs field dragging on all the others.</span><span jsslot=""><span class="gjKCb joOfYc" jsslot=""> <a href="https://kayester.blogspot.com/2025/03/how-can-we-save-america-from-trump-and.html" target="_blank">Permalink</a></span></span></p><p><br /></p>kayesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10342429421120194044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226448738041830641.post-12149086178358595232025-03-12T14:10:00.001-04:002025-03-12T14:10:32.058-04:00Odd thoughts on the universe while thinking how best to survive in Trump's version of purgatory<p>Yes, the ugly, turd-brained bankrupt real estate developer is president again and after two months he's showing himself to be even less mindful of unintended consequences than he was the first time around. Is he suffering from dementia?</p><p>You would hope both he and his sycophantic butt-lickers would've learned, but no. So now we have to work very hard to take back Congress in 2026 and work hard locally to keep some sanity in state and local governments, and look to our courts to keep the separation of powers and the rights of states before themselves.</p><p>I won't go into the BS that Musk, who ought to know better is involved it. I think part of his brain had enough so it got up and went.</p><p>Anyway, a couple of photos of a barn in Iowa I shot last summer and a brief essay on the asymmetry of our universe.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpxLnUcBXM7fvoJcw3O2uHthzgQnJXo_XLo0hRUSC1GsWSEpkN0J1cLU_DEDO7WAlrg2sR61IVF6CASfMwTuLdZV4A1MHjJvaPJgYxaNUQxNlgjKnMYJ3-nFbINmOkZY_s0Yo56HOcm63Mevxemw5y1av5KF9PbmQ2BUEWFHOtVryzDDpzUra5rjenVE4/s1024/Iowa%20Barn_DSC6521.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpxLnUcBXM7fvoJcw3O2uHthzgQnJXo_XLo0hRUSC1GsWSEpkN0J1cLU_DEDO7WAlrg2sR61IVF6CASfMwTuLdZV4A1MHjJvaPJgYxaNUQxNlgjKnMYJ3-nFbINmOkZY_s0Yo56HOcm63Mevxemw5y1av5KF9PbmQ2BUEWFHOtVryzDDpzUra5rjenVE4/s320/Iowa%20Barn_DSC6521.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"> </span>Don’t look for symmetry because it isn’t there. If there was symmetry in the universe we wouldn’t be here. What do I mean, you ask? Simple. In the beginning, at the moment when the big began to bang there was matter and there was anti-matter and every time matter mat antimatter – kaboom, they annihilated each other. What’s that got to do with symmetry and us being here, you ask? Well, in the beginning when the big nothing got banged, there should’ve been equal amounts of matter and antimatter and all of it should’ve met and been kaboomed. In a symmetrical universe, no matter, no nothing except the occasional pair of virtual, antithetical particles popping in and little kabooming out of existence.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> But in our universe at the beginning when the big banged there was a slight asymmetry – not much, probably one part in a quadrillion billion but enough so that when matter met antimatter, there were enough particles without a dance partner, standing around the punchbowl and snack table, virtual wallflowers, unmatched, unkaboomed, that a universe full of matter could expand and then inflate and expand some more and 14 billion years later I can tell you there is no symmetry in our universe,, at least not true symmetry, only something that looks like an attempt at seeming symmetrical. Let’s call it quasi-symmetry and be glad that this is how it is.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP3fdhL7IwukuRITc1JSUPCWKZzjqnakwHgoJ2pOJATEYJ6xQ1yfvP1i-S0ZpigLT7FEVQqlQOAr16LlY_JY467jziPnSJI5ZkRwGRI3JRw_93TJSgm29WCWPdf3E7QKEq85qip3g8I7Zre_CQTyDzcSi_Yv-NJF_cgMIih2rsFT2c4RF8EaT2TKvhnLA/s1024/Iowa%20Barn_DSC6531.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP3fdhL7IwukuRITc1JSUPCWKZzjqnakwHgoJ2pOJATEYJ6xQ1yfvP1i-S0ZpigLT7FEVQqlQOAr16LlY_JY467jziPnSJI5ZkRwGRI3JRw_93TJSgm29WCWPdf3E7QKEq85qip3g8I7Zre_CQTyDzcSi_Yv-NJF_cgMIih2rsFT2c4RF8EaT2TKvhnLA/s320/Iowa%20Barn_DSC6531.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiZUe2CEi6V6HYE5lGBpXS0K_euLHkI4uW9iDz7z4YUHAIRoPP5fzbwwnqo0Qn9Bm_4ReDqXrjzyznb060ylfhfLSkKYUSWHmdaMxcXFVOEW3MT-BysyYV4_v2hhTU0BPM66Tlok-MHm20UAAQE929ujR2j169UxuOEhYMvRMnDIswPvDB8a57EiD01qc/s1024/Iowa%20barn_DSC6471.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiZUe2CEi6V6HYE5lGBpXS0K_euLHkI4uW9iDz7z4YUHAIRoPP5fzbwwnqo0Qn9Bm_4ReDqXrjzyznb060ylfhfLSkKYUSWHmdaMxcXFVOEW3MT-BysyYV4_v2hhTU0BPM66Tlok-MHm20UAAQE929ujR2j169UxuOEhYMvRMnDIswPvDB8a57EiD01qc/s320/Iowa%20barn_DSC6471.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.54)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.54); font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><a href="https://kayester.blogspot.com/2025/03/odd-thoughts-on-universe-while-thinking.html" target="_blank"><o:p></o:p><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.54)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.54); font-size: 16px;">Permalink</span></a></p>kayesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10342429421120194044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226448738041830641.post-76389311334958519612025-02-24T14:13:00.001-05:002025-02-24T14:13:20.496-05:00Rutt's Hut for Hot Dogs in Clifton NJ<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>If anyone is wondering why I haven't posted in several months it's because in September I broke my ankle while riding on my scooter. It slid out from under me as I descended a steep hill with a sharp curve at the bottom. In short, I was arguing with Isaac Newton. The lesson is, he really knew his shit. <br /><p></p><p>On Saturday, February 21 my youngest child, who's not so young, already in their mid-30s and I drove to Clifton, NJ to eat the famous Ripper hot dogs at Rutt's Hut. </p><p>What's so special about Rutt's Hut? It's been around for a long time and they do something different with their dogs, they deep fry them. I first heard of the place more than 25 years ago while watching Rick Sebak's wonderful documentary, "A Hot Dog Program." In the show's enthusiastic hour Mr. Sebak traveled around the USA sampling the regional and local frankfurters of note in those places. He was careful to say that he wasn't claiming they were the best, only that they were excellent examples of the locale. He ate in Atlanta, Chicago, Fairfield CT, Alaska, Los Angles, NYC and at Rutt's Hut in Clifton NJ.</p><p>My kid heard about it when they read a book by Jamie Loftus called <i>Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs </i>in which she took a road trip to eat hot dogs around the country while also exploring their history and nature. I noticed in a review I read of her book that she visited several of the same ones that Sebak highlighted back in the 1990s leading me to wonder if she was at all inspired by his film.</p><p>Rutt's Hut is one of those roadside restaurants that evolved from a stand. The parking lot was full but turnover was rapid. Inside the sit-down restaurant side there were a few tables open but people kept coming in behind us to fill them while others ate, paid and left. Nobody seemed angry or unhappy. At the table next to us, one of the patrons knew the Loftus book but not the Sebak movie.</p><p>We had a pretty standard order of two Rippers each with a side of french fries and fried onions. It was definitely a high-fat meal.</p><p>Rippers come in three varieties depending on whether you're a poppa bear, momma bear or baby bear. At one extreme are the Cremators, fried until they are black. On the other end, the In-and-Out, quickly fried. In between, the standard Ripper, which is what we had. On the table, their mustard and relish which work very well with the dogs.</p><p>We both liked them. They are different from other famous and somewhat more obscure hot dogs I've tried since seeing the Sebak program. Super Duper Weenies stand out for their toppings, Buffalo Texas Red Hots from Ted's are not hot spicy but strong with their garlickiness. All of them are yummy and while I don't eat hot dogs often any more, when I do I want them to be special. This was a special frank.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8H8KhEG2FBj6sNMC3osYVOlXherdWrYNNoxasTdjFcveGV7xLrXQAe5WajeiECbgCRBdw4beMR1UG_hFvFwkycEnK_SwrPkWZ37FcXoPgifv1dtPBpAjzC106GZbZMRmeIsbQD_zGYxbw8y1Qz60drqHbYoH5Wm8MfQCPNcjB99QibvX2MYp0sbNFnf4/s864/rutts%20hut%20rippers_DSC1060.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="864" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8H8KhEG2FBj6sNMC3osYVOlXherdWrYNNoxasTdjFcveGV7xLrXQAe5WajeiECbgCRBdw4beMR1UG_hFvFwkycEnK_SwrPkWZ37FcXoPgifv1dtPBpAjzC106GZbZMRmeIsbQD_zGYxbw8y1Qz60drqHbYoH5Wm8MfQCPNcjB99QibvX2MYp0sbNFnf4/s320/rutts%20hut%20rippers_DSC1060.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.54)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.54); font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://kayester.blogspot.com/2025/02/rutts-hut-for-hot-dogs-in-clifton-nj.html" target="_blank">Permalink</a></span><p></p>kayesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10342429421120194044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226448738041830641.post-76108002287500430442024-07-23T16:48:00.004-04:002024-07-23T17:54:49.709-04:00Remembering Thomas Elias Weatherly, Jr.<p>Thomas Elias Weatherly, Jr., also known as Elias Weatherly and W. died in early July, 2014. The exact date are not known. If he died on the Fourth of July, an appropriate date for him since he believed in the potential of the USA, yesterday and today would be his tenth Yahrzeit. </p><p>There is no obligation for me to say Kaddish for him but in my heart, I do. I remember him as a good man, a man of qualities both positive and negative. He was a man of principle and stuck by them. He was a poet and he was an intellectual. He believed he had a Jewish soul and so he made a sincere effort to study Judaism and eventually became a proselyte. He was working for me at the Strand Bookstore at the time and he was a key member of my team. After becoming a Sabbath observer we had to make arrangements to his schedule. By that time we had become friends, a friendship that deepened over time. We stayed in touch after I left the Strand in 1990 and he moved on to manage the shipping department.</p><p>After I adopted my son, Weatherly gave me parenting advice. I, a white Jewish man and he, a Jewish African-American bonded even more deeply since my son is also an African-American Jew. When my son was two, Weatherly gave him a yarmulka that my son loved until he lost it during a toilet training incident. Weatherly found the incident particularly amusing.</p><p>He split his last years between New York City and Huntsville, AL where he took care of his late parents' home. When he was in NYC we spoke and sometimes we managed to get together. Our conversations were intense and gratifying, covering politics, economics, race relations and literature. When I learned of his sudden death, I grieved deeply.</p><p>Ten years after his death, he remains with me in memory. Remembering the people in my life is important even when they are gone. Whether is is my brother or Weatherly, both of whom passed away in the summer, or college roommates who died in the past two years matters not only because of their qualities but also because of the experiences we shared, experiences worth remembering. I did not light a Yahrzeit candle for Weatherly yet in my mind's eye I see him; tall, taller than me, black with short curly hair, a warm smile, curious look and even glowering, depending on the conversation, and then later with his bushy grey beard, he still lives in my memory though certainly dead and buried in Alabama.</p><p>Here is a nice article about his poetry: <a href="https://jacket2.org/feature/short-history-tom-weatherly">https://jacket2.org/feature/short-history-tom-weatherly</a></p><p>Here are a few photos, two scanned Polaroids from the early 1980s were previously posted by me after I learned of his passing, the other two were taken less than a year before his death at a kosher Indian restaurant on Lexington Ave. in NYC.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrJkuW98GDLtW2e275VC-ecktjVNprIGTcwtvZB3t75SIOVsfwmACqDbZON4M81l3j0aVyJ67CAJC_BGps7VqFiGDbrusZTjXcuwCS2KRgShIBoVQNxYGricuIyIeaVBEsNrg_KGvJ2a-q5THrkDbSZm-j-xeU-Pn2Gh1y7cQu5M8sD56h0Nys7OB_Qq0/s1024/Weatherly%202013%20IMG_7798.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrJkuW98GDLtW2e275VC-ecktjVNprIGTcwtvZB3t75SIOVsfwmACqDbZON4M81l3j0aVyJ67CAJC_BGps7VqFiGDbrusZTjXcuwCS2KRgShIBoVQNxYGricuIyIeaVBEsNrg_KGvJ2a-q5THrkDbSZm-j-xeU-Pn2Gh1y7cQu5M8sD56h0Nys7OB_Qq0/s320/Weatherly%202013%20IMG_7798.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiw5Tc0K1PB6ezmnMhDzSpZFMBuqVdBPrIIGTXdJ6Rmgd51YpShEmhO-VfthLPUnJC4BjMveBugru_6I1XD_8k4XswiMpc_8L1tpYfEZipsKe-4xgQPiRSFcLMND2NE8vKRlBvUKRl9z9HDCaRXj4MNsjO-4jRWi98kA8ACjYYPCrVWf2M9T9FNKfuVxE/s1024/Weatherly%202013%20IMG_7797.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiw5Tc0K1PB6ezmnMhDzSpZFMBuqVdBPrIIGTXdJ6Rmgd51YpShEmhO-VfthLPUnJC4BjMveBugru_6I1XD_8k4XswiMpc_8L1tpYfEZipsKe-4xgQPiRSFcLMND2NE8vKRlBvUKRl9z9HDCaRXj4MNsjO-4jRWi98kA8ACjYYPCrVWf2M9T9FNKfuVxE/s320/Weatherly%202013%20IMG_7797.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6X59HKS0uGiUyRI5OTo_HDnWBi-9rsSS0YH5TMQIFAsxASTaGvvtcTXx-gTMb6i9Qpl_E0MvWlNEH4UjkSR7lkiQlFrZ7RZyh5Q6D6RyIFZmB4jDSYibV6Ur_7c0y3DAbHYOSJdn-PfKw0abgQ5qEXy8lyp1Zn87AZ4k9JC8I_0qYoDO6qCDN5pkWYZs/s1024/Strand%20no%20date_%20018.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="896" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6X59HKS0uGiUyRI5OTo_HDnWBi-9rsSS0YH5TMQIFAsxASTaGvvtcTXx-gTMb6i9Qpl_E0MvWlNEH4UjkSR7lkiQlFrZ7RZyh5Q6D6RyIFZmB4jDSYibV6Ur_7c0y3DAbHYOSJdn-PfKw0abgQ5qEXy8lyp1Zn87AZ4k9JC8I_0qYoDO6qCDN5pkWYZs/s320/Strand%20no%20date_%20018.jpg" width="280" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.54); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://kayester.blogspot.com/2024/07/remembering-thomas-elias-weatherly-jr.html">Permalink</a></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><br /></p>kayesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10342429421120194044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226448738041830641.post-56233030266738457342024-07-19T14:54:00.002-04:002024-07-19T14:54:58.815-04:00Why no posts for a couple of months<p>The short answer as to why I haven't posted is my camera broke. I was hanging out with one of my nieces and my great-niece when I got a this message on the display, "camera error - turn camera off and then on again." I followed instructions and got the same message. I tried everything the manufacturer said to try on their support website, I tried some things that worked for other people on the internet, but nothing worked.</p><p>The next day I called support and they referred me to the company that handles extended warranty repair. The tech there walked me through what I'd done and said it would have to come in. The next day I got an email instructing me to send them scans of my invoices and photos of the camera. I did. The next day I got another email asking for photos in a different format. I did that. Then I got a request for another photo, this one of the serial number - mind you I'd already sent that. It took three more emails before they got one they could read even though I could read them clearly. Ok. So be it. </p><p>By now about a week's gone by. Then on the second Tuesday, I get another email with instructions on packing the camera, with the label for the box. I send it out the next morning via UPS and they have it on Friday. They told me they work seven days and that it could take up to 30 days for the repair depending on availability of parts. I still don't know what's wrong with the camera but now they have it.</p><p>I check a couple of days later on their website to follow the progress of the repair but their website is very erratic. One time it tells me only that the camera has been received. The next day the same. The day after that it is being repaired. The day after that the update is that it's in Quality Control. Then the same day I see that it's waiting for repair. Two very different messages the same day so I call. The customer support person checks and says they can't find the status except that they've got the camera.</p><p>Finally, after three weeks without my camera, I get a status update that it's repaired and will be shipped the next day. Two days later it's back in my hands, all fixed.</p><p>The shutter failed and some other part had to be replaced with the new shutter. </p><p>And that explains why I didn't post for about two weeks.</p><p>Then I started a project that's been on hold for nearly half a century, which is about five years or so less than I've been writing in my notebooks by hand. I've started typing them and that is what started preoccupying me. Even with the camera back, even with me taking lots of photos, I was short on time to select and write an entry.</p><p>But now I'm back. That includes back from road trip that began and ended at Union Station in Chicago and covered parts of six state.</p><p>From that trip here's a very few photos. Maybe more over the next few days.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM-vmn9tV7XJnRXQvUFB0smBKO8m6gtMhyE6SWsVfBK_hZW50I6C1nr5d_nZfIHWY585OlxCBUDPujDuQ5Qi7aPEyPzfvoXVWuaiyjf9p2O6eK-PHKnzK2ul1nr3gEf18KBkvrvPEnUcv7R0X7kC4W4E8yq-GNezcuz5SKZ9fxKPasx8H4svaggZXnjjQ/s1024/Iowa%20barn_DSC6471.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM-vmn9tV7XJnRXQvUFB0smBKO8m6gtMhyE6SWsVfBK_hZW50I6C1nr5d_nZfIHWY585OlxCBUDPujDuQ5Qi7aPEyPzfvoXVWuaiyjf9p2O6eK-PHKnzK2ul1nr3gEf18KBkvrvPEnUcv7R0X7kC4W4E8yq-GNezcuz5SKZ9fxKPasx8H4svaggZXnjjQ/s320/Iowa%20barn_DSC6471.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT-XxImkzoSFuyNmVNS_b-3_gqZ79fG__77Ap4OJPSzeTtls2kViZ36-TH64aEaZh9zlW78oJ51lSMrnREmJ6Qbb_pS7Gn2yq0-2hIhEMS0LY6UnN7w-CMyuW6vKgZBLlZvTO1FH28eZKzqjxPjGDTXXV1qwZhIwJMLDzKRYwpldYWf4gz1Ded51nzTs0/s1024/Iowa%20Barn_DSC6531.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT-XxImkzoSFuyNmVNS_b-3_gqZ79fG__77Ap4OJPSzeTtls2kViZ36-TH64aEaZh9zlW78oJ51lSMrnREmJ6Qbb_pS7Gn2yq0-2hIhEMS0LY6UnN7w-CMyuW6vKgZBLlZvTO1FH28eZKzqjxPjGDTXXV1qwZhIwJMLDzKRYwpldYWf4gz1Ded51nzTs0/s320/Iowa%20Barn_DSC6531.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIgPgIB86Cc8ANjw6HJKfQ4s4teFbdgqhT60TDECFIhyT2laKXo-XDu9-cV-xEg4vvr8Uh9WDuTQJtTaPCVLgV8dXGmyUNPNBxjPZ6SS0ym2iahT6H2lDLLwu6KN1qd40vXSSIGsUpTdGhpSdPQzA0AiBI_3TyqBq4jw9UVnsv_tVLBMcBBb_TqOA52nw/s1024/Iowa%20Barn_DSC6521.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIgPgIB86Cc8ANjw6HJKfQ4s4teFbdgqhT60TDECFIhyT2laKXo-XDu9-cV-xEg4vvr8Uh9WDuTQJtTaPCVLgV8dXGmyUNPNBxjPZ6SS0ym2iahT6H2lDLLwu6KN1qd40vXSSIGsUpTdGhpSdPQzA0AiBI_3TyqBq4jw9UVnsv_tVLBMcBBb_TqOA52nw/s320/Iowa%20Barn_DSC6521.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://kayester.blogspot.com/2024/07/why-no-posts-for-couple-of-months.html" target="_blank">Permalink</a><p></p>kayesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10342429421120194044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226448738041830641.post-45156142426567541042024-05-06T21:07:00.002-04:002024-05-07T12:38:11.307-04:00Three month old thoughts on what's going on now - Antisemitism and PhiloPalestinianism<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span>This post is in two parts. The first part is an essay that I wrote in my notebook on January 10, 2024 shortly after the illegal excavation at the Chabad compound on Eastern Parkway was discovered.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span>The second part is a small batch of photos of the candle lighting at the Radomer Mutual Culture Center's </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Holocaust Memorial service.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Reading this essay the day after attending the service I decided to post it. Some current news events are foreshadowed here and I found ti worth rereading. I hope you do too.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYWL3PACT-hyTXm57tlM5WLFe5VjurnhEbn35b7C-irlru_HpQmb5LAdheUOIYHkUoZ0XY0cM7XmTtGFD3g8CSzrCDnbl48SW4nx_9xhBQqtkFWHt0sP1L3MBZxdE817vVEDaicZtLfPsdR31uagyJDtPgdwvTVkpDFPdTFy31SmHQBzGySnWj9L9EVCE/s648/_DSC3476.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="648" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYWL3PACT-hyTXm57tlM5WLFe5VjurnhEbn35b7C-irlru_HpQmb5LAdheUOIYHkUoZ0XY0cM7XmTtGFD3g8CSzrCDnbl48SW4nx_9xhBQqtkFWHt0sP1L3MBZxdE817vVEDaicZtLfPsdR31uagyJDtPgdwvTVkpDFPdTFy31SmHQBzGySnWj9L9EVCE/w226-h151/_DSC3476.JPG" width="226" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Radomer Mutual Culture Center Holocaust Menorah</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">1/10/2024</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The sudden appearance in the news of Chabad, events at its headquarters and the division between the Messianists and the Chabad mainstream – who may or may not be crypto-Messianists but have some sympathy for Schneerson as Messiah serves as inspiration for the antisemites who’ve come crashing out from beneath their rocks recently. There is a confluence of events that begins with the eternal undertone of Jew hatred and fear in the US, Europe and the Middle East and beyond, there is the joyful reaction to the Hamas terror attack on 10/17 followed by a joyful and hateful outpouring of antisemitism and philo-Palestinianism since the Israeli counterattack into Gaza, there is the anonymity of social media where the worst of many people’s thoughts get expressed without repercussions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> Among all of these things, only the Israeli’s military’s killing of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians is open to condemnation though the unbalanced reaction is something else. It can be argued that Hamas is to blame for the civilian deaths, better though to say they share in the blame for spurring the events with their terror attack and then make it worse by using civilians as shields, by hiding their military infrastructure within hospitals, schools, apartment blocks and so on, and by standing as eternal enemies of the rights of Jews everywhere as well as the Jews of Israel to live in Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> I decry and plan on speaking to the unbalanced anti-Israel movement that’s sprung up in parts of the USA and globally and how this is a very thinly disguised form of antisemitism, and at another time I will discuss the long-term failure of Netanyahu’s policies toward the Palestinians and the occupied territories. But not right now.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> Here I want to discuss the ugly antisemitism that social media in particular has fostered. The isolation of the hater is gone as the haters find community online and their communities provide a safe place to express ideas that fester in an individual but grow like a fungus when given approval by like-minded haters. They become a mob and the mob inspires hateful acts upon the innocent.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> We live now at a time when Palestinian lies bear their ugly fruit and find allies among the Nazis, the neo-Nazis, the Christian nationalists, Aryan brotherhoods and self-hating Jews as well. A tunnel illegally dug between two buildings in Crown Heights by militant Messianists becomes fodder for conspiracies that revive the blood libel, revive Medieval hatred that attributed the plague to wells poisoned by innocent Jews, to a piece of bizarre paranoia called grand replacement theory and to the irrational belief that all Jews are behind a conspiracy to rule the world by ruling banking at the same time they desire to destroy the banks as avowed Marxists.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> Is there no way to deal with these libels? These conspiracies? Is there a way to marshal rational allies who will work arm in arm to combat the virulent lies?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> On a side note, I harbor some sympathy for the innocent on all sides of the conflict but I have zero sympathy for the politicians, the military and the criminal terrorists who refuse to see their opponents as humans and then call for massacres, ethnic cleansing and conquest. Do I feel the Palestinians and the Israelis share responsibility for the massacres, for the ongoing war, for the misery and death? Yes, as it proceeds but there was a time when this could’ve been avoided, when peace was possible but the people of good will were pushed aside by militants and fanatics.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> Antisemitism can be confronted and quashed. If we Jews and our allies stand together and fight back when necessary, mock the weak illogic and irrationality of the hate we might drive them back into their holes. We cannot let them go unanswered. Our lives, our security and that of our children and grandchildren depend on how we fight back.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> Antisemitism is a problem that is also personal to me. While I stand against racism, agism, sexism, anti-queer attitudes and actions and generally abhor religious intolerance it is antisemitism that matters to me here. I am a Jew and proud to say it. While I am not a religious person, I honor the traditions of my faith. My parents were victimized by some of the worst Jew Hatred in history yet in surviving the Holocaust they rose above it to raise their family as proudly Jewish and eternally watchful against the Jew hater. They were correct when they told me that antisemitism was and is a chronic problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> When I see Jew against Jew as I see in Israel now in the strife between the religious and the secular, in Chabad between the overt messianists and the crypto-Messianists, when I am directly confronted by someone who is as nonobservant as I saying to me that the synagogue I attend is not one but is a church I find it easy to speak up because we are kindred, even if it is disturbing. Judaism is forever tearing itself apart yet it’s managed to survive because when it matters Jews who are polar opposites in belief or observance still recognize their common Jewishness. If this stops then we are doomed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p><span></span></o:p></span></p><a name='more'></a>The Radomer Mutual Culture Center lights six candles on our Holocaust menorah, each symbolizing a million murdered Jews at our Yom HaShoah serivce. The photos are of those who lit a commemorative candle this year. 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He has chosen by his example to enable the worst behavior in segments of his following. It makes little difference if he is right or wrong on a topic, he deliberately spews vitriol about classes of people who are doing little or no harm to anyone, people looking to simply live their lives or have an opportunity to better their life. He plays to the resentment and insecurity of his following to insipre some of them to acts of violence, to threats of violence against opposing voices and a general lack of civility. He supports haters, and enables bigotry. People who might live with their biases and politely accept the differences feel entitled and enabled to attack, whether it's queer folk, people of color who don't speak English well - mind you we don't have an official language in the United States, people who are stranded at the border with the real threat of violence both behind them and ahead of them. </p><p>When the facts disagree with the things Trump says then the facts are wrong and politically motivated to persecute him.</p><p>Persecute him? A billionaire, the son of wealthy real estate developer who left him millions of dollars to build his business, a serial sexual molester? It seems he's a victim of not being allowed to do anything he wants to anybody he wants to do it. When the bill finally comes due, and remember this is a man who has stiffed many contractors who worked for him, whose success in business is a trail of bankruptcises and broken promises, a man who demands unquestioning loyalty but will kick a subordinate under the bus, as it were if it serves his purposes, he is a cry baby.</p><p>A cry baby indeed. Listen to Donald and hear what he's saying: I didn't do it mommy, they are bullying me. They are after me and I didn't do anything. My people, rescue me from these evil, godless foes.</p><p>Looking at the photos of him in criminal court in NYC almost makes me sad. I try to imagine what he might have done if he wasn't so narcissistic, so self-involved and so greedy. I try but sadly, I just can't seem to do it.</p><p>Well, the jury is in the courtroom now, and we'll have to see what happens. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB1zi9cmZn-S4Y87EdCZAuNUQv0XWi5_cak-9o3gG4y99Qr8JYq0Ht-zCKzM-8tLV2J1v7YXAYgzxCOGMZr1VS-ZqIeyMMCxWZgZGssIAX7zocNqGYNFPhIMKkidrhfY7-ep9hl0D6Lrk3pISPcuV333Y9xvot-vTwX67fhz7ULbFhstriOPWt_48Wu1g/s648/_DSC2593.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="648" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB1zi9cmZn-S4Y87EdCZAuNUQv0XWi5_cak-9o3gG4y99Qr8JYq0Ht-zCKzM-8tLV2J1v7YXAYgzxCOGMZr1VS-ZqIeyMMCxWZgZGssIAX7zocNqGYNFPhIMKkidrhfY7-ep9hl0D6Lrk3pISPcuV333Y9xvot-vTwX67fhz7ULbFhstriOPWt_48Wu1g/w168-h111/_DSC2593.JPG" width="168" /></a></div><br /><p>Anyway, it was a lovely afternoon to be in midtown Manhattan this past Friday.</p><p>As I came out of the building on Madison Ave. there was a group of people staring up at the JPMorgan Chase HQ construction on Madison Ave. from E.47th to E.48th Sts. and down to Park Ave. It's a massive building and it's been going up for a few years after the two buildings that were on that site came down.</p><p>I told them what's going on there, they told me they are visiting from NE England, an hour or so south of York. Very nice people, they let me take their group portrait.</p><p>In Grand Central Terminal I stoped at Murray's Cheese in the Central Market. As their smocks declare, they know cheese. I tasted a couple and bought some cheese. Yum. These guys work surrounded by temptation all day long and they love what they do.</p><p>Later I was walking in Pershing Square. The couple are from London. She's never been to NYC before and he's been here once for a very short stay. They are loving it. The three men on the bench gave me permission to photograph them and their attitudes show a mixture of pleasure and disdain. They are real New Yorkers! The woman and her dog were standing facing across E.42nd St. The dog was attentive to and enjoying the band that was serenading the street. When the band finished, they applauded themselves.</p><p>In the restaurant where I was meeting my youngest for dinner, this man was in town from California on a business trip. He is marketing a controlled substance to the medical industry in NYC where it is under consideration for legalization for medical uses. 'Nuff said.</p><p>On the MetroNorth train I got into a conversation with three wonderful Colombians. The younger one, Natalia is an artist living in Barcelona with her partner who is asleep behind Natalia's mother, Christina. 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color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.54); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://kayester.blogspot.com/2024/04/donald-trump-enabler-and-midtown-street.html" target="_blank">Permalink</a></span></p><p><br /></p>kayesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10342429421120194044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226448738041830641.post-90521497713410583152024-04-22T20:24:00.002-04:002024-04-23T12:16:23.027-04:00Trump on Trial in NYC - guilty or not guilty? - updated <p> Jury selection is finished and the presenting of evidence by the state, the testimony of witnesses and experts, the examination and cross examination all began today with opening arguments by defense and prosecution in a courtroom in lower Manhattan. The gist of the the charges is that "<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">The defendant DONALD J. TRUMP repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New
York business records to conceal criminal conduct that hid damaging information from the
voting public during the 2016 presidential election." This is an exact quote from the document filed by the State of New York against Donald J. Trump. It goes on for quite a few pages describing the various laws he is alleged to have violated, how he planned and had it executed.</span></p><p>On this I want to say these things: </p><p>1. I don't know if the state will be able to present a case that will convince me beyond a reasonable doubt that he is guilty. I am not on the jury so my opinion of the case doesn't matter in the court but it matters to me. The reason it matters to me is I don't like Trump. I don't like how he lies, how it seems the only person he truly cares about is Donald J. Trump, I don't like how he always presents himself as the victim despite being a major league victimizer. That said, if I was on the jury I would put my dislike aside and judge the case on its merits. </p><p>2. If the state's case on all 34 felony charges does not achieve the beyond a reasonable doubt requirement to find the defendent guilty and I was on the jury, despite how much I dislike everything Trump is and much of what he represents, I'd vote to find him not guilty. On the other hand, if the state's case is strong enough to show his guilt, that he committed some or all of these felonies, I'd vote to convict.</p><p>3. What I hope for is beside the point. What happens if he is convicted is going to be interesting, as in the supposedly ancient Chinese curse, may you live in interesting times.</p><p>It won't be fun but it will be interesting to watch what happens over the next few weeks in that courtroom downtown. Justice Merchan seems to be a match for Trump, possibly Trump is overmatched by Merchan. I am glad the trial is on now because justice delayed doesn't serve the American electorate.</p><p>I am running late so tomorrow I'll post the pictures from my visit to Urban Space this past Friday.</p><p>And here are the photos I said I'd post.</p><p>Ron Kolm and I spent a very pleasant couple of hours at Urban Space on Vanderbilt Ave, chatting about politics, the state of the world and literature. His book, <i>The Plastic Factory</i> has been published in a German translation by a small, German press in Germany. That is simply great!</p><p>I took a few photos. The first two are of a family from central France, then Ron, then two women from Murcia in Spain. I couldn't get them both in focus when they were sitting so I put one of each up. </p><p>The people who work at Urban Space are friendly and efficient. I want to thank them by posting photos of them. The first of these I had trouble with but what the hell, it is ok. The other, I think her name is Tanya, does a great job at the bar.</p><p>On my way to Grand Central Terminal I saw these two women asking someone to take a photo of them with their phone. 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Surely I jest, right? Wrong.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Who doesn't love a bit of irony in the news? With Donald J. Trump you can be sure he doesn't know came out with his latest product, the large print God Bless America Bible. You can buy one complete with his image, the Declaration of Independence, the Pledge of Allegiance and the US Constitution and the complete complete King James Version of the Bible. It's got to be the most massively hypocritical thing the past month. </span></div></div><p style="text-align: left;">Friday afternoon I met a friend for a beer at Urban Space. When we arrived it was crowded with a group of Italian high-schoolers, 18 year-olds in NYC for a project at the UN and to do some tourist stuff. They were excited, they were eating burgers and such from the stands at Urban Space and they were friendly. The few I spoke with let me take their photos. Here are some.</p><p style="text-align: left;">After that I trekked down to Curry Hill where I had dinner with some family and then I went to onew of my favorite places to shop for groceries in NYC, Kalustyan on Lexington Ave. between E. 28th and E. 29th Streets. They carry and amazing variety of spices, grains, sweets, prepared food and so much more that I could spend an hour cataloging some of their goods and not be done. I bought some mushroom popcorn, a variety that makes chewy and fluffy puffball shaped popcorn. I made a bowl tonight and it was very popcornlike with just a bit more chew to it than the regular yellow or white kernels from the supermarket.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I took a shot down an aisle. The place is so well stocked with so many things it's almost impossible to stay in focus. And then a shopper who was in a zone shopping their overstuffed shelves for new things to cook and two women, friend, who had moments before been demonstrating to each other what they would do if someone randomly took a punch at one of them. The woman on the right said she run after the assailant.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I got out of there with the popcorn, some Lebanese halavah and some pineapple rings. Whew. 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text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To start with somthing calm, this photo belongs at the end but I put it here because it's where I hope America isn't going.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was unsure what to call this blog entry. It's a rant, it's anti-Trump and it's anti-hate but is it for anything? To Anyway, here's what I wrote:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRqjUgGVEch1fEuM_-1nzdyvi1mu7p1mIGWb82XWnN-OoiRJjYFJBNadmLwsJmMB0PfcOelHXj6ZYZsPBjC8MQnvz3L0KupnStntYljrlWEGAf0BZcyt_E8VIX37ADawtOQlES13r4fPV8qQslzunb8mHfK3FEzIDhvzvF6v8r89WWC8JoKDBrxXSrWh8/s648/_DSC4138.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="648" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRqjUgGVEch1fEuM_-1nzdyvi1mu7p1mIGWb82XWnN-OoiRJjYFJBNadmLwsJmMB0PfcOelHXj6ZYZsPBjC8MQnvz3L0KupnStntYljrlWEGAf0BZcyt_E8VIX37ADawtOQlES13r4fPV8qQslzunb8mHfK3FEzIDhvzvF6v8r89WWC8JoKDBrxXSrWh8/s320/_DSC4138.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It’s so called ‘Super Tuesday” when a number of states hold their presidential nominating primaries. In all likelihood Donald Trump, convicted of civil fraud and sexual abuse and defamation in NY State and is in the hole for half a billion dollars will move closer to being nominated as the Republican candidate for president. This doesn’t say much for the Republican party nor the staunch supporters of a man who tried to lie his way through a coup in 2021, who is reality challenged and here I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt that he believes his lies regarding the election he clearly lost. Standing behind a man who has stood only for himself and his so called brand, a man who clearly cannot tell fact from fiction when it comes to himself, a man who flips and flops like a fish out of water – please picture a fish with Donald’s head here – and here are a couple of examples: he pushed the Covid-19 vaccine hard until he realized a substantial part of his base was anti-vax, so he flip flopped himself into coming out against the most substantial achievement of his administration ,and when it comes to a policy regarding personal reproductive choice, doesn’t know which way to turn – a large portion of his base seems to be in favor of no abortions ever even if it kills the mother or the pregnancy is the result of incest or rape yet he knows, and this is evidence that he isn’t as stupid as some make him out to be, that it’s a losing position at the polls, so the dying fish flips and flops and hopes it can make it back to the water. So, what will it be, Flip-Flop Donald? Can you make up your mind? Go ahead, eat that cake, you already have a weight problem so what’s a few more ounces? Oh, you want to keep it too? Well, you figure that one out because I’m not the unsubtle genius that you claim to be.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Donald Trump reminds me of the propagandists of the Stalinist Soviet Union who claimed they invented everything. Donald makes claims about the things he’s done that don’t stand up to scrutiny. I am sure if there’s a cure for cancer, he’ll claim he thought of it years before. He claims to be a great businessman. Tell me then why has he been into bankruptcy six times, fronted a scam university, and managed to build a failed casino? What can I say? Saved by reality TV. When he fails, it’s never his fault. There’s something wrong with that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Donald Trump has fooled a lot of people into thinking he’s somebody’s gift from god to America. This puts me in mind of a quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln, “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” It is obvious Trump manages to fool some of the people all of the time, but are there enough fools to get him elected again? Possible, which doesn’t say much for America. For the sake of our country and the world let us hope some of those fooled open their eyes and see just how much of a con artist he is, and how they’ve been conned and, like Howard, in “Network” get mad as hell and stop taking it from a man who only thinks of himself.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Trump didn’t invent the culture war, I’m not sure who the evil minds behind that one are but he sure is taking advantage of it. Out of one side of his mouth his claims he doesn’t have a racist bone in his body, out of the other he spews hate toward Latin Americans, Moslems everywhere, and he doesn’t seem to have much use for Jews despite his daughter being one, Blacks unless he can con them into buying his sneakers, and anyone else the culture warriors deem other, including LGBT+ folk, environmentalists, and people who want reasonable controls placed on firearms. Most irrationally, he calls these people Socialists. Does he even know what that means. I will quote Vizzini here, with irony, “inconceivable.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Over the years, it seemed America made progress toward learning to live and let live. Nobody would call out a racist who kept their mouth shut, so being polite was a better policy than spewing hate. Trump changed that, giving permission to people to be their worst, coddling the haters, the racists, the homophobes, the xenophobes, the psychotics and the sociopaths. Instead of the better angels, he plays to those whose mouths exude sulfurous fumes. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So, what happened to rationality? What happened to live and let live? Why has it become permissible to spew this hate in public and then blame those who find it offensive for being the hater? And why are these lies magnified, turning our nation into one that hates half of itself? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It is obvious that when those in power give permission to act on their worst impulses, people will believe they will be rewarded for their actions. I won’t say Donald Trump is evil though he may be. I will say he’s tapped into the worst instincts of the people and by magnifying them, by exemplifying them and shouting them from his bully pulpit he takes the politics of resentment and entitlement to the greatest depths.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When will people wake up and see how he’s using them? When will people see that he’s turning people against each other, creating hate where there was none before, all the while playing the victim? For most of his life he’s been a victimizer, a man who despises the common person, all the while playing the innocent. He’s been a thief who, when caught claims not that he’s innocent but that everyone does it so why should he be punished? He wants people to imagine they are him, feeling it’s ok to steal from someone you don’t like, to deride and silence people who don’t agree with you or worse, call you out, to threaten physical violence, to even carry it out on people you think are less worthy than you, all the while following your false god.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Look in the mirror and decide if these are the things you want to be.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And think about who is making money off of convincing you to be this sort of hater.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On a less angry but equally emotional topic. Tomorrow evening is the first Yahrzeit of one of my best friends. I was his friend for longer than anyone else in my life. He died not long after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was a very good man, someone who was both loved and who loved. A year later, I still miss him. I will never forget him.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These are a few of the photos I took at his funeral last March.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhqAjO5z5jAbxJDX29rpJ5-LzDQxWAi_tT1QO3ddiNjr3UW3-PK8urP468IwaLDHB2QsNA570KpJvUB5uKtA2H8bOocHAAXO-ZShXOsQmUyyeT7o-i5BxFo8g78NGpUMUxdV5Q4B13FFgWgx-WGe1M_jbErTuYagRr7KAhPGzc4slfaY3DyeQ6Ydv2cbQ/s648/_DSC4105.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="648" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhqAjO5z5jAbxJDX29rpJ5-LzDQxWAi_tT1QO3ddiNjr3UW3-PK8urP468IwaLDHB2QsNA570KpJvUB5uKtA2H8bOocHAAXO-ZShXOsQmUyyeT7o-i5BxFo8g78NGpUMUxdV5Q4B13FFgWgx-WGe1M_jbErTuYagRr7KAhPGzc4slfaY3DyeQ6Ydv2cbQ/s320/_DSC4105.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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But better than guts from my point of view, somewhat left of center are the things she's doing. By staying in there, and continuing to contest the Republican Party's nomination for Presidential candidate she forces Trump and his campaign to spend money and a fairly large chunk of change it is that would be better reserved for the battle against Biden. Anyone reading the headlines knows that Trump’s a miser who hates to pay his bills, a six-time bankrupt but besides that he’s got more than half a billion dollars- that’s more than $500,000,000 for those who like to see the zeros, in judgements against him and his businesses hanging over his orange haired head and for the fraud judgement in NY he’s got thirty days to either find an accredited bonding entity or pony up. The campaign needs money too and Hailey’s making them drain their coffers. </p><p>She also keeps the spotlight on herself at least part of the time and that causes the rather thin-skinned Mr. Trump, not known for impulse control to bristle. Not only does he have to keep attacking her, he's got to worry at least a little that enough undecideds and maybe-Trumpers will stay home come November. The worst for him is that it's a woman cutting him. So, keep it up Nikki, Trump deserves you.</p><p>But I'm not done. Consider the vote totals in the primaries. Somewhere around 40% of Republicans in New Hampshire and South Carolina voted for her. Sure, most of those will vote for whomever the Republicans run but some, maybe many of those will choose to not vote for Trump even if they won't vote for Biden.</p><p>These are things to consider, loud-mouthed Donald Trump, even as you find other ways to shoot yourself in the foot with segments of the undecided.</p><div>And now, a few photos.</div><div>Washington Slept Here</div><div>This past weekend was President's Day weekend. On Sunday, 2/18 The Daughters of Liberty's Legacy (DOLL) ran a program at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Miller_House">Elijah Miller House </a>in North White Plains, NY. The Miller House was built in 1738 and was home to several generations of farmers. Elijah Miller joined the local militia. He was killed at the Battle of Brooklyn and his two eldest sons perished from fever during the campaign. </div><div><br /></div><div>General George Washington stayed there three times during the Revolution and last Sunday he came back in the guise of an unnamed docent to tell us about his and the army's experience during the campaigns for New York and the Hudson.</div><div><br /></div><div>I've lived in the area nearly 40 years and I've never been to the Miller House before. It was not open to the public for most of those years. It's restoration was begun in 2019 thanks to legislation sponsored by County Executive George Latimer. The Wikipedia article linked to above is a little out of date. The restoration is ongoing but the house is open for tours by appointment and special events such as this one. Visit this site for information: https://parks.westchestergov.com/historic-sites/the-miller-house</div><div><br /></div><div>There's not a lot to see but it nonetheless is authentic and it's authenticity and historic importance permeates the place. here's a few photos of the event</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKbiDyTzNt1nNUONBIRZiZZDjwGwE5nlnWVrsrsZ1xcbgelvzodUmo0Yc-3CDCZ95eSWMpcsDGL488wAs4RC-aiLc_lZiBT5r40NjEZmshqwWK9GHXHvhgZx9SbRv5yusELfMlI8si4qyXuEenNwVFXgq5JIPWhreKOQqKKHVlq1a2aW-fUUn5yCNYRRE/s648/_DSC1176.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKbiDyTzNt1nNUONBIRZiZZDjwGwE5nlnWVrsrsZ1xcbgelvzodUmo0Yc-3CDCZ95eSWMpcsDGL488wAs4RC-aiLc_lZiBT5r40NjEZmshqwWK9GHXHvhgZx9SbRv5yusELfMlI8si4qyXuEenNwVFXgq5JIPWhreKOQqKKHVlq1a2aW-fUUn5yCNYRRE/s320/_DSC1176.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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It's been making guns there for more than 200 years but according to reports global competition and the aging of their plant has led to this. They've been given HUGE incentives to move to Georgia where they will have brand new, modern manufacturing facilities. During the past couple of decades they've been bought and sold, been in and out of bankruptcy and still hung in. What had been a workforce of a couple of thousand is down to a few hundred. Notice, none of this is about gun control. We are talking economic forces here.</p><p>Frank Brown, the president of the United Mine Workers of America Local 71, which represents the workers said, and I quote him in the NY Times, "We have been manufacturing firearms for over 200 years and never ever had a problem selling firearms. It's all about money and greed." But he did express sadness, perhaps even bitterness about the closing of the plant.</p><p>Michael Press, a consultant whose work is to find advantageous tax deal on new sites and has worked with Remington is quoted in the NY Times saying about several arms companies, "They have migrated to Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, the Carolinas and Georgia. It's mainly about the cost of doing business."</p><p>These quotes sound reasonable, recognizing that the bottom-line drives business decisions, not what happens to the stakeholders left behind. Since Remington's bottom line hasn't been good the past number of years, their owners - they are privately held - make decisions they believe are best for themselves.</p><p>On the other hand, ignoring business and economic forces, Elisa Stefanik, Trumpist Republican Congresswoman in whose district Ilion is located prefers politics and propaganda even when there's little truth in it. This, from her website, "it is because of New York Democrats' unconstitutional gun grab policies that the oldest gun manufacturer in the country has been run out of the state." Reading into that I guess she's got no problem with mass shootings since when one occurs, she will probably say she's praying for the victims and their families.</p><p>When you look to see what NY State's gun laws are, they aren't terrible nor overly restrictive. They ban assault weapons, put some limits on semi-automatic weapons including magazine size - do you really need to have more than ten bullets in your semi-automatic, require permits for pistols and to purchase semi-automatics and background checks including for private sales. Want a long gun or a shotgun? Have your background check and you are good to go, no permit required.</p><p>So Elise, where is that gun grabbing you are bitching about? Or are you just spewing more bullshit? Ms. Stefanik, go get stuffed!</p><p>I am pretty sick of her. She runs and hides from the insurgents of 1/6 and she now hails these convicted rioters as political prisoners. I'd agree on the political part if their crimes were thought crimes or political speech crimes but when you go from thought and belief to speech, and from speech to active acts of violence you lose the political part of the prisoner even if they acted out of their beliefs and you become, depending on the severity of your crime, a felon or - what do you call a person convicted of a misdemeanor? A misdemeanant perhaps - convicted of a crime.</p><p>I was involved in political activism at one time, demonstrating and protesting. Most of the people arrested around me - I was lucky enough to not get taken in - were charged with disturbing the peace or such and released usually with either charges dropped or violations. Those who went further and acted violently against people or property and were convicted, were they political prisoners or felons? I guess if they were on your side, they were political and if you opposed their beliefs, then they were just criminals.</p><p>I never breached the halls of Congress or physically assaulted the police. </p><p>Elise Stefanik isn't a hypocrite even though to those opposed to her politics she may seem one. I think she believes the bullshit that comes out of her mouth. I think she mourns the victims of mass shootings but thinks they died to protect the right of the shooter to own and use an assault weapon, and for anyone who wants one to go and get one.</p><p>I get angry just writing this.</p><div>Now for something completely different from the above: photos.</div><p>I met my friend Ron at Urban Space this past Friday afternoon. We spent a couple of hours chatting with each other and some of the people around us. Perhaps it should have occurred to me that since we've been going there for a couple of years every other week or so, that the people who work there not only recognized us as semi-regulars but were pleased when we brought them into our conversation. If they were on break, they didn't need to rush back but if they were working, it was a bit of a pleasant how are you doing before they got back to work.</p><p>The last time I was there I posted a picture of Roland, one of the managers on the floor. He was there working on Friday and we kidded about the photo. A couple of the other people were interested and seemed to like the picture, so with their permission I took theirs as well. Today there's Paul, Ray and François.</p><p>Of course I'm not leaving there without a few pictures of the customer enjoying their food, their drink, their friends and the scene.</p><p>Ron may not like the photo I took of him but I think it's interesting.</p><p>To close, I've been watching the JPMorgan Chase headquarters being built the past few years. It's nearing completion. The exterior is being installed and though I can't see inside, I guess on floors that are ready interior work may have begun. 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font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://kayester.blogspot.com/2024/02/remington-arms-closes-its-ny-factory.html" target="_blank">Permalink</a></span>kayesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10342429421120194044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226448738041830641.post-9020728093517792842024-02-13T20:01:00.001-05:002024-02-13T20:01:51.175-05:00Feb 13, 2024, a snow day with photos in southern NY state and a rant against Trump.<p> While I refuse to believe Donald Trump is an idiot I believe like an idiot, he doesn't know what's best for himself. For a man who claims on one hand that he supported some controls on firearms during his term as president to claim now that he did nothing during his presidency to curb the ownership of firearms speaks a cognitive problem that might be the onset of dementia, though I know many will argue he's been demented for quite a long time. One day saying he'll be a dictator on day one if elected to the presidency and then after seeing how poorly that went over, even among some of his base, announcing he's just kidding. Give me a break. It seems at times he doesn't know which way he's going, nor his left hand from his right. To have proudly claimed he was a sexual abuser in that famous though now often forgotten "Access Hollywood" tape and then to have claimed he never met Jean Carroll seems not only highly disingenuous but possibly another sign of a cognitive disorder. And then this week to have said he'd let Putin do whatever he wants makes me wonder if Putin has some seriously harmful evidence of Trump's sexual perversion, political indebtedness and general corruption. Could it be that Donald is working as an unregistered agent of a foreign power? Leave NATO, that's Trump.</p><p>I struggle as I write this to think of something nice to say about the man. Let me think. If you are a racist, then Trump's your man. If you think enabling antisemites and white supremacy is a way to make America great, then Trump's your man. If you think the best way for the USA to deal with a very dangerous world is by building a wall around the country and then burying your head in the sand, then Trump's your man. Remember, this is the man who praised President of the People's Republic of China as a great leader but wants to put tariffs of up to 60% on their exports to the USA, who said that he and Kim of the Peoples' Republic of North Korea were like lovers ... well you can finish that sentence. And did I mention climate change? I'm not sure Trump knows the difference between weather and climate, and I believe he doesn't really care.</p><p>He is a man who will say and do anything he thinks will get his followers riled up so that they'll show up at the polls.</p><p>I am sure among the several dozen people who read my blog there are some who will see Trump labeled a racist and say I'm wrong. There are people who will feel confirmed in their prejudices and feel good about it. Well, they ought to think about who they are. If they are God-fearing people, they should worry about how they as sinners will fare in the hands of an angry God.</p><p>And don't get me started about the bootlicking, brown-nosed Trumpites in Congress. And you do know how their noses got brown, don't you?</p><p>Enough ranting for the moment. It was a lovely, snow-filled morning here, 30 miles north of NYC. The snow started during the night and by the time I got up before sunrise there were several inches of the fluffy white stuff on the cars parked in the driveway, in the yard and even in the road. Though the plows were out it was snowing heavily enough that it was accumulating to keep the roads treacherous.</p><p>I started by taking pictures toward the road and then after sunrise, around the house. </p><p>Do I think the pictures are good ones? Well, would I post them if I didn't? But ask me if I think they are boring or contemplative and I will say that's up to you.</p><p>Considering I was told this was to be a nor'easter I will only ask, where was the wind?</p><p>And what can be cuter than a kitty in the window watching the snow falling?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4WkTZ8uEB68yLbMn6_HRb1vX9RHpCk2qfj-j2M9zNAExTsaMDummKNNZzr0fqpG-KVVb2zehe97WXi5Axb_oL4DXyC2huduFFQCCRUzEvX0m8KGt3eL-N8wHZRde6RVASln9Cha0mEeMsU0Sb7z9SY52sZY1PsAQc37zPf2lsZPxHj-m4P3uo15fSxPQ/s648/_DSC0896.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="648" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4WkTZ8uEB68yLbMn6_HRb1vX9RHpCk2qfj-j2M9zNAExTsaMDummKNNZzr0fqpG-KVVb2zehe97WXi5Axb_oL4DXyC2huduFFQCCRUzEvX0m8KGt3eL-N8wHZRde6RVASln9Cha0mEeMsU0Sb7z9SY52sZY1PsAQc37zPf2lsZPxHj-m4P3uo15fSxPQ/s320/_DSC0896.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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After the brief service we searched out the graves of other relatives. It was then I found for myself the gateway of the burial grounds of the First Radomer Congregation in New York City. I knew only they'd existed but otherwise, nothing. This gap in my knowledge led me to look for other traces of Radomers and their societies in North America. One of the things I found was a synagogue in Toronto Beth Radom Congregation, possibly the last active building in North America that bears the name Radom. They are the home to the small Beth Radom Museum. </p><p>I recently made contact with the founder and curator of the Museum in Toronto, ON. Alan Fryman was and is determined to keep the history of Jewish life in Radom and the Radomers' migrations from Poland to the many places in the world where they settled, and provide documentation on the many societies and congregations they created after leaving Poland, many to provide aid to the Jews of Radom before and during the Holocaust, as best they could, and to offer aid to the survivors who arrived as refugees in their new homes. Many of these organizations also established cemeteries, such as the one I help manage and maintain with other 2nd generation at New Montefiore Cemetery at Pinelawn, NY and Cedar Park and Beth El Cemeteries in Paramus, NJ.</p><p>We had a lengthy phone conversation and we told each other something of our own stories. His grandparents emigrated to Canada, lived in Buffalo for a time before returning to Toronto where they were among the founders of the Radomer Mutual Benefit Society in Toronto, which later created the Beth Radom Congregation, described in the English language section of <i>The Book of Radom </i>as "a magnificent edifice erected in Toronto in 1952."</p><p>Of interest to me is sharing our different experiences as Radomers in North America, his as the 3rd generation, born and raised here in a family that was probably already establishing a Jewish Canadian identity, mine as among those whose parents arrived in the USA and Canada as refugees and survivors. It will be interesting.</p><p>Today I also learned of a Radomer cemetery, and possibly two in Baltimore and another near Detroit. There are some photos online of the gateway for the Radomer Verein Cemetery showing an establishment date of 1903, and for a Progressive Radomer Verein established 1925. I am very curious. The one near Detroit is at Hebrew Memorial Park and only has a simple sign with the words, Radomer Cemetery.</p><p>I have much to learn.</p><p>Most of these photos were taken at the Radomer Mutual Culture Center cemetery at New Montefiore. I believe I've posted one. I am not satisfied with them but they are what I have and what I shared with Alan Fryman. He's adding them to the digital slide show at the museum in Toronto. His words to me after viewing them simply recognized our shared heritage as the names on the monument, memorializing many of those murdered in the Holocaust are the same family names of the Toronto Radomers.</p><p>I plan on taking new photos of the monuments, including details and will post them when I do.</p><p>I am also sharing a photo I took last year at Mt. Hebron of the gateway to the First Radomer Congregation's cemetery.</p><p>In times as trying for world Jewry as these, we most never forget that there are still many people who would find joy in our destruction. 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Superficially it looks as if he won the caucuses and the primary but the numbers show a basic weakness. He only got a little over half the voters in both and if that's the best he can do with Republicans, who are outnumbered by both Democrats and independents, how will he do in the general election? How many Republicans will just stay home? </p><p>I'm thinking about this and will probably post more on it as the year progresses.</p><p>And now onto the pretty pictures.</p><p>I carry my camera around with me most of the time. Sometimes I see someone with a face I just need to photograph. And then I see that someone is watching me and looks like they want me to take their picture too. I was in the wonderful Lakeside Diner in Stamford, CT last week meeting a friend for lunch. I saw Dave looking over his shoulder at the counter and I knew I wanted to take his photo. I did and looking up, I saw a woman at the counter watching. I said, "can I take your picture?" Dora agreed.</p><p>I had a patty melt when I was there. I'd never had one before but after reading a rapturous article on the pleasure of the patty melt in the NY Times the day before, I had to try one. The Lakeside's is a very tasty beef patty, Swiss cheese, delicious carmelized onions served between two slices of marble rye! It was worth the eating.</p><p>I was in Murray's Cheese at the Grand Central Market the next afternoon and it was all so tempting. I couldn't take it all home with me so I took it home in a photo.</p><p>And as there were more cheeses than I could buy at Murray's, there was more meat than I'd want to eat at the local supermarket, and more gum than anyone can chew at the checkout counter. But they were so bright, so colorful and so I succumbed to the temptation and took the pictures.</p><p>And a shout out to the people at Berger's Ace Hardware in Hawthorne, NY. They know there stuff and the people at the checkout are friendly. One noticed my camera asked about it. I gave him some information and he and his buddy let me take their photos.</p><p>I know there's a theme somewhere here, but I'm not sure what it is. 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color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.54); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://kayester.blogspot.com/2024/02/a-brief-thought-on-iowan-and-nh-and.html">Permalink</a></span></p><p><br /></p>kayesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10342429421120194044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226448738041830641.post-51597390148303195332024-01-30T19:50:00.000-05:002024-01-30T19:50:00.519-05:00People pictures and a dosa from Saravanaa Bhavan<p> Time to post some pictures.</p><p>I wrote this little story the other day and I find it cute enough to share.</p><p>The photos were taken on Martin Luther King Day this year, 1/15/2024 at two locations. The first was an Indian restaurant that specializes in dosas, Saravanaa Bhavan. They are a small chain with a global presence. We were at the one on Lexington Ave. in Manhattan. The other location is one of my favorites, Urban Space on Vanderbilt Ave. in Manhattan. </p><p>The dosa was ordered by one of my party. I usually don't do the food picture thing, aka food porn but there it was, there I was and the camera was in my hand, so here it is.</p><p>The three people are a NYC couple and the woman's cousin. One is a teacher, one a psychiatrist and the third a risk manager. One is from Brooklyn, the others originally from south India but settled here now. Typical middle class New Yorkers.</p><p>The photos at Urban Space are the usual batch of posed and candid. The woman holding the latest issue of Public Illumination Magazine is a lawyer. She is originally from California but is working on becoming a New Yorker. The woman with the baseball cap works at Mystiik Masala, one of the food stands. as it happens, it's a great place to get Indian street food in NYC. I've been a fan since it's founder and owner, Yuva operated a food cart around the corner from Urban Space. The man with the interesting outfit is a world traveler. He's originally from Brooklyn but lives in Key West now. His hat's been to 22 countries so far. The last photo is another person who works at and for Urban Space. The other two, obviously candids. The couple staring up must be watching a TV behind me. 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Will this piss some people off?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>What follows here is what comes from reading the news and following events including those of 10/7/23 and much earlier than that. These are my thoughts and opinions.<p></p><p>I wonder if this posting will piss some people off. It won't bother me because it's not my intention to anger anyone.</p><p>It's nearly eighty-five years since Poland was invaded and occupied by the German Nazis and turned into a combination of terror state, prison camp, ghetto, slave state murder factory and worse. I am at a loss for words to describe what I mean in full, and if you know me, that's a rare thing. The words will come later. The amount of time since is enough that people sympathizing with, when comparing it to 1939-1945 in Nazi occupied Europe severely over-inflate the destruction of Gaza and completely denigrate the experience of the Jews, the Romany, the other classes of people the Nazis scheduled for extermination such as the disabled, homosexuals of every type, and even most of the occupied populations of those places. This terror in Gaza will pass in weeks or perhaps months. The invaders and occupiers plan to provide succor to their foes when the fighting is done. For the victims of the Nazis and their allies the only end to the terror and agony was death. Liberation wasn't even a fleeting dream unless it was in the prayer for Messiah to come.</p><p>I believe terrorist anti-Israel groups, and even some non-terrorists are hones but no less despicable for their honesty when they call for the eradication of all Jews in Israel and even beyond. Any and all crimes committed agains individuals, against Jewish communities and organizations are justified in their drive to murder all Jews</p><p>That extremist Jews now take up the same call but apply it to Palestinians is just as despicable. The multiplying of wrongs only leads to more wrongs and never to a right.</p><p>States and individuals will defend themselves when attacked, this is their right yet I do feel the disproportionate slaughter of civilians in Gaza is uncalled for. And while it may be a war crime, that is for others to try and judge, it is not genocide.</p><p>Sadly, things won't change. Not only are there no honest brokers for a long term peace in the region, there are, it seems, no honest players in power now. Netanyahu believed he'd killed the two-state solution. He finds himself surprised, shocked and dismayed by its sudden resurrection as a proposal for peace. The sooner he is out, the better. The same goes for Hamas, their allies and their leaders and the doddering, corrupt Abbas as well. A search for peace must include a search for new leaders on all sides.</p><p>What's the alternative?</p><p>Perhaps, since the children can't learn to play together and share the land, none of them should have it. Perhaps the solution would be to schedule a total evacuation, have everyone from all of Palestine and Israel given a deadline to leave and visa to live wherever they decide to go. Set a deadline for their departure and when it passes, seed the land with enough radioactivity to make it uninhabitable for millennia. Then the Israelis, secular, religious, Zionist, et al. and the Palestinians, Sunnis, Shiite, Jihadist, secular, et al. can share their exile and mourn the land they couldn't share, lost to them forever except in prayers.</p><p>Am I kidding? You decide.</p><p>I am the child of Holocaust survivors. Here are a few pictures I took several years ago, and never posted to the web - possibly they were posted on Facebook. They are at a cemetery on Long Island where all the inhabitants were either Holocaust survivors or their relatives and children.</p><p>We meet there once a year to remember and to say Yizkor and Kaddish for those who have no grave.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6sVz6V-ujpgzO3uUoinLfTORpnXI_rZ03h9mWyf5bUyUSG06R9uLgAe_9Hw8vSPUAeYwufw7AiVuY82gm8BUBcy78oPU1ykYY86j5TlmZS-xgG171ewQap78Sf7YCANwM-rYrCI9-aZ6Ga_UNpcIKsWKHpyUJ3IpSJ4l_d-b3ok1lMLkG3988XfIRgFA/s720/61078_448323859232_705104232_4895820_4946889_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="479" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6sVz6V-ujpgzO3uUoinLfTORpnXI_rZ03h9mWyf5bUyUSG06R9uLgAe_9Hw8vSPUAeYwufw7AiVuY82gm8BUBcy78oPU1ykYY86j5TlmZS-xgG171ewQap78Sf7YCANwM-rYrCI9-aZ6Ga_UNpcIKsWKHpyUJ3IpSJ4l_d-b3ok1lMLkG3988XfIRgFA/s320/61078_448323859232_705104232_4895820_4946889_n.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb-BDOQ4DEG9tRhCBx2uhwE-UzrVnFae4dNNARbOteLFPgwsf7AgxIKfkQ3tKwfrDKSPmRjfNGzkHjhwUGwzWXIV5ZMMeGtDHqtqTPsOa1J54e8oGhKQmNpjl73UWmcCteLPwNqRMq5dPLsvw92XwqkIHv0Z_8W1AH5wRaww8RNjKV-7pJ0o9yFi0moLc/s604/1937042_161501134232_4798143_n_161501134232.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="402" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb-BDOQ4DEG9tRhCBx2uhwE-UzrVnFae4dNNARbOteLFPgwsf7AgxIKfkQ3tKwfrDKSPmRjfNGzkHjhwUGwzWXIV5ZMMeGtDHqtqTPsOa1J54e8oGhKQmNpjl73UWmcCteLPwNqRMq5dPLsvw92XwqkIHv0Z_8W1AH5wRaww8RNjKV-7pJ0o9yFi0moLc/s320/1937042_161501134232_4798143_n_161501134232.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG_Z6RpclUuTwlRGT3DVsihRcD1_kcrYJvlTBPGPrLOUIlju-u0ACZGfxhmKVPky-6UcMbaVyhDUbbnzvlsV1rf5ODLH11m57r1_w0KPd49-qxydWpF0-8rqoWE5_dvwEJGwWnsGZ9Pw2Bq6LdalpnnAiegaitknjdln_kaj_kl1wbEWhYLthHkreH5Mg/s604/1937042_161501389232_4633549_n_161501389232.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="402" data-original-width="604" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG_Z6RpclUuTwlRGT3DVsihRcD1_kcrYJvlTBPGPrLOUIlju-u0ACZGfxhmKVPky-6UcMbaVyhDUbbnzvlsV1rf5ODLH11m57r1_w0KPd49-qxydWpF0-8rqoWE5_dvwEJGwWnsGZ9Pw2Bq6LdalpnnAiegaitknjdln_kaj_kl1wbEWhYLthHkreH5Mg/s320/1937042_161501389232_4633549_n_161501389232.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.54); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://kayester.blogspot.com/2024/01/thoughts-on-jews-palestinians-israel.html">Permalink</a></span></p>kayesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10342429421120194044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226448738041830641.post-50822744212605474592024-01-13T15:07:00.000-05:002024-01-13T15:07:05.261-05:00Weird times now and then; If cats ruled the universe<p> Half a century ago, from 1967-1972 and beyond, the USA and elsewhere confronted political violence from both the right and the left. At the time, in the USA, the left was more prominent with its calls for social justice especially civil rights, anti-Vietnam activism and economic justice. On the right, though somewhat more subdued were white supremacism including neo-Nazi organizations and the KKK. There were bombings, assassinations and a violent police and state sponsored response to small and large scale protests of the left at places such as Kent State University, Jackson State University, the demonstrations around the Pentagon and at the Democratic Presidential convention in Chicago. In Washington DC tens of thousands of people were tear gassed, beaten, arrested and illegally corralled into RFK Stadium to quell what the government saw as an insurrection.</p><p>On the right there was a small but active Neo-Nazi party and the KKK was reviving in reaction to the Civil Rights movement. In 1968-69 Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy and Fred Hampton were assassinated. The riots in slum neighborhoods of large and mid-sized cities around the US were televised and demonized the rioters rather than looking at the conditions that made the riots all but inevitable. </p><p>In a phrase. things were tense.</p><p>They are tense again. This time there are a lot more guns around on both sides, and it looks scary for almost all the same reasons: economic inequality, racism, conspiracy paranoia, contempt for the opposition, resentment and a feeling of being treated unfairly and not getting ones desserts. Mix in a wannabe tyrant like Trump whose own sense of entitlement and resentment are off the scale, and people who see him as a messiah-like figure, we can be in trouble.</p><p>But I am an optimist. As we survived the troubled 1970s I think we'll pull through the troubling 2020s. I believe enough people don't want a civil war, don't want violent unrest that they will actively work to suppress the extremists. </p><p>It's very weird times, but thinking about it, I think all times are weird, just that some are weirder than others.</p><p>As for photos, who wants to see pictures of cats, and the cats I share my home with in particular? I do!</p><p>Most of these are new, a couple were pulled from the archives. 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He came to a tentative spending deal with the Senate Majority Leader, Charles Schumer that will, if passed fund the government for a few months. What a surprise since Johnson has a reputation for being as much an obstructionist as some of the other members of that caustic caucus. Almost as soon as the news broke several of the do-nothing, know-less-than-nothings of the far right pulled their heads out of their collective litter box to condemn the deal and vow to kill it.</p><p>No surprise here. Then I read an article in Esquire online that exactly captured the tenor of this far right carcass in the House of Representatives, the Flying Monkeys. Visions of the servants of the Wicked Witch of the West, this time with radioactive orange hair and a belly that extends all the way from the tee to the green of a par three on one of his courses setting out to capture the bill before tearing it to shreds came into mind. The flying monkeys! Acting out their fantasies of serving the most indicted loser of a POTUS I can remember perhaps hoping to sup at the trough. </p><p>Will the House Democrats support the deal? Will the Flying Monkeys exercise their version of the veto and exorcize the Speaker they elected just this past October and put their considerable, dysfunctional skills on display again?</p><p>Casey Stengel only had a lousy baseball team to deal with when he asked rhetorically, can't anybody here play this game? We have a House of Representatives and specifically a far right group who show they not only can't play but don't want to. </p><p>But enough politics. It's winter and NYC still hasn't had 1" of snow in almost two years. We had a little more about 30 miles north of the city. It was pretty coming down and I am glad we didn't get more than we did. </p><p>Still, a photo opportunity. After the snow stopped I went out in the back and took a few photos. Looking at these, a poem by Robert Frost came to mind, the one I had to memorize back in the fourth or fifth grade. I still like it. You can find the whole poem online I am sure. </p><p>I certainly didn't have miles to go before I'd sleep.</p><p>"Whose woods these are I think I know..."</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDWNQL1qzISATtiSFlnegE3Ycg1JXG5fi2FG0norZ21lm1Tgf3hUt2EWGYI4x6t01y91a6h5OUE-f1vR6-bf5FsSRr9GPvAxLtrpBU8PSTnB034HhkLYFtMR5CKcbmB1OI4DUfCaQaMgMK3X6I9FGpjubH3jAqxp6WHlcsLSYmGq3xLcgOQv9rbQTJOF8/s648/_DSC0333.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="648" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDWNQL1qzISATtiSFlnegE3Ycg1JXG5fi2FG0norZ21lm1Tgf3hUt2EWGYI4x6t01y91a6h5OUE-f1vR6-bf5FsSRr9GPvAxLtrpBU8PSTnB034HhkLYFtMR5CKcbmB1OI4DUfCaQaMgMK3X6I9FGpjubH3jAqxp6WHlcsLSYmGq3xLcgOQv9rbQTJOF8/s320/_DSC0333.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivmwGsMlsu0068teaaggb5VpJ14dh3RK-JXMMxB8Szo3cr6swgC6UqPISf3OuDNmm3P5rwOxxjzaJ1Rf_LTG6Z5uaskt1A5t45n3lhxxZHYM6mlUrNrcFql-Z2qSs4ar7HHB2MmPe37_3hs9fe3e_5e0lideA9cKAZ4J2h-iptcDjYrl0yG5DR8JuBfHs/s648/_DSC0336.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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