tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73171969151889041382024-03-13T04:35:34.473-07:00The Ho-Ho-Kus Cogitatorhohokuscogitatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03065701325981326756noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317196915188904138.post-54809129477264012012019-03-15T20:35:00.000-07:002019-04-09T11:07:03.293-07:00THIS & THAT #43<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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Donald cries foul whenever anyone opposes granting him the needed funding to help him finish his Cam Pain Promised Wall. The list of those “anyone’s” keeps growing, as most rationale and intelligent individuals, on either side of the aisle (or the fence), realize that his doomed request will end up as an abject failure.<span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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He is taking the wrong approach and is thinking too big. Those Central Americans — mainly young mothers — are attempting to escape from their own lands that are saturated with poverty, violence, hopelessness, gangs, and an inevitably horrid future for their young children.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Between he and his inept advisors playing games at Mar-A-Lago, Donald hasn’t given much thought to scale down the height, density or weight of his irrationally promised wall. If he looked at his own facts, he would discover that the mothers bringing their children are relatively short, matching the shortness of Donald’s thinking.<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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While the average height of American women is 5’4”, the average for Guatemalan women is 4’10”, 4’11 ½” for Peruvian women, 5’0” for Honduran women, 5’1/2” for Nicaraguan women, and 5’2 1/2 “ for Mexican women.<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, best noted for issuing Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, which enabled the forced incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans living in the West, to be resettled in ten barren camps. This was ostensibly done to insure that they would do no harm to our country, and not aid their “brothers and sisters” from Japan in destroying American cities, towns, farms, and soon-to-be-built casinos.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sadly, two-thirds of these Japanese-Americans sent to camp, were already American citizens, and during the entire episode until the war officially ended in 1945, there were no instances to disloyalty, except by the U.S. Government.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If Trump were smart, he could easily raise the needed wall monies, and not have to do so by declaring a “national emergency.” The only foreseeable national emergency is the continuation of Donald as our leader through a second term, or even as President for the rest of his current term.</div>
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Today, for only $225, a Burma Shave aficionado can purchase one hand-painted, wooden sign that’s 17” x 40” x 6” tall. For less than $5.6 billion, the USA could ward off the not-too-tall invaders from the south with Burma Shave signs.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Once these signs are strategically planted, the combined total of 337,806 GOP voters in Wyoming and Alaska, should feel reassured that no Guatemalan infiltrators will invade their hamlets and do dastardly deeds, especially to their livestock during breeding seasons.<br />
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If you are even the least bit stressed about what's occurring in the world today, or any day, take a little time and try these easy THE OY WAY exercises, and relax: <o:p></o:p><b style="color: purple; font-family: cambria; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/TheOyWay" style="color: purple; font-family: Cambria; font-weight: normal;">https://www.youtube.com/user/TheOyWay</a></b><br />
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To devour other recent blogs, click on the Blog Archive links on the upper left corner of this page, especially February 2019. Have been inundated by calls from people with Indian accents, and not from the Pine Ridge Reservation or from any Navahos.<br />
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Today I received a call from myself from "Matt" with an Asian Indian accent, and I asked him if his real name was Rajul, Kumar, Vaani, or Fazar. He insisted that it was "Matt," and he asked me if I was Indian. I said yes, but from the Chippewa Tribe in Michigan, and my name was Alcindor, which meant "Not As Tall as Jabbar."<br />
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<span style="color: red;">BEWARE</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">naïve one; you may be being watched at this very moment. It may not be by Google, or Facebook, or your friendly, local politician, or an unfriendly national entity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">There is no privacy anymore, nothing personal that you can hide, and as a journalist, I recently found that out for sure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">As a journalist, I have no limitations about the subjects that I want to write about. A quick perusal of my writings in magazines, newspapers, blogs and books indicates that I have written about a myriad of subjects including the Holocaust, education. advertising, corporations, press freedom, travel around the world (Australia, New Zealand, England, Lithuania, Canada, France, Israel, Hungary, Poland and more locales), profiles, music, race cars, bicycles, celebrities, common people, table tennis, Holocaust denial, basketball, pro athletes, inequities in life, family searches, Japanese internment, massage, Tai Ji, relaxation techniques, reunions, life, death, and too many other subjects in between to list here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Unfortunately, whenever and whatever you search for, some unprincipled person may be keeping an eye on your searches, for devious and self-aggrandizing purposes. I have recently been researching the subject of massages, both safe and standard ones, and ones that offer a “happy ending.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">For those of you who live in what you consider safe and secure suburbia, the latter quote indicates rubs that </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">rub you the right way to perhaps give you a satisfied smile when the actual massage is over. During my research, I may have watched a few-too-many interesting, albeit salacious, massage videos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">If you go into unchartered waters with your search, you may be the subject of an unwanted search by an unscrupulous computer maven, who decides to squeeze penance out of you, by threatening to expose your “discretions” to all on your email lists. But that person could offer you an alternative, for example, I just received a spam email from such a person, who told me directly that he (or she) would refrain from exposing my legitimate searches of a non-mainstream topic, but only after I send $718 to this person’s BITCOIN WALLET within forty-eight hours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">I have discussed the entire conundrum with my dear wife, and we have agreed that I should just publish this piece.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">will publish this piece, possibly under an alias, get on to my next writings on Trump and his Bawl Wall, and the young, naïve women who are now media stars, and are scrambling to discover what to do next.</span></div>
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Do any of you remember when San Jose State University was called Minns Evening Normal School, after George W. Minns founded it in San Francisco in 1857. George was an 1836 graduate of Harvard College, and we have a Harvard connection. In 1862, it became the California State Normal School and graduated fifty-four women from a three-year program. Your school was ahead of today’s times regarding women in higher education.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The school moved to San Jose in 1871, and in 1882, a southern branch of the now named California State Normal School opened in Los Angeles, and eventually became UCLA. So add to the school’s pedigree, that it helped to foster UCLA’s phenomenal basketball empire.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In 1921, the northern school changed its name to the State Teachers College at San Jose. In 1935, the name was changed once again to San Jose State College, and in keeping with the school’s need to change names as often as possible, in 1972 SJSC was granted university status, and was renamed California State University, San Jose. In 1974, the California legislature voted to change the school’s name to San Jose State University.<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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My Master of Science Degree granted in 1971 was granted by the Department of Mass Communications at San Jose State College, and would have come from San Jose State University a year later. At one time it was the Department of Journalism and Advertising, and that morphed into the School of Journalism and Mass Communications (JMC).<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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For many years, JMC was part of the College of Applied Sciences and Arts (CASA), but that has recently changed and has now been prestigiously renamed as the College of Health and Human Sciences. Journalism and Mass Communications have nothing to do with Health, although under the Trump reign, they may be needed to teach students on how to improve the nation’s mental health.<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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During the 2017 football season, the SJSU football team played at CEFCU stadium that once was called Spartan Stadium. It was completed in 1933 with a seating capacity of 18,000, and n the 1980s capacity was increased to 30,456.</div>
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Not that many seats were needed last season as SJSU’s home attendance in 2017 averaged only 14,206 people per game, including 18,483 in attendance for the Spartans’ 27-10 home game loss to Fresno State. During most recent football and basketball seasons, attendance spiked whenever a caravan of Bulldog fans drove over and put more red-clad people in the stands than the Spartans were able to muster.<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In August 2016, the aforementioned Spartan Stadium became CEFCU Stadium, after the Citizens Equity First Credit Union purchased the naming rights for $8.7 million over the next fifteen years. SJSU became the only university in the CSU system to sell the naming rights to its football stadium, for $580,000 per year.<o:p></o:p></div>
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With a 2 win and 11-loss season in 2017, and a total home attendance of 85.235 over six games, will it be worth it for CEFCU? Last September, SJSU absorbed a 56-0 loss in an away game against the University of Texas, in front of a crowd of 88,117 fans.<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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With only an 14,206 average attendance last year, San Jose State was able to transfer their October 13, 2018 game against the U.S. Military Academy — Army — from CEFCU Stadium to Levi’s Stadium in nearby Santa Clara. Levi’s has a seating capacity of 68,000, however, it is expandable to 75,000 to host major events such as the Super Bowl and the World Cup.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One advantage of this match-up is that the SJSU players will be able to look into the stands, and easily find and identify their family and friends occupying a few of the seats at Levi’s.<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you went to Wayne University in the 1950s or 1960s, you may have been fortunate enough to meet either Eugene Applebaum, or Johnny Kline. Eugene passed on December 2017 at the age of eighty-one, and Johnny was eighty-six when he died in July of 2018.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Eugene was a ∑AMMY and the founder of Arbor Drugs, which grew to 208 stores before he sold out to CVS. He used his financial gains for many worthwhile, charitable endeavors through the years. Among his many such contributions was the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Science building that opened in 2002. Next time you stop by the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, check out the Applebaum-Driker</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Auditorium, that two Eugene’s “built,” in honor of their parents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As for Johnny Kline, his athletic endeavors hurt his grades, making him academically ineligible to stay on the team. He joined that Harlem Globetrotters, tried out for the Pistons, but lost it all in the 1960’s, as he fought a drug addiction.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He conquered his addiction, became a drug abuse counselor, and resumed his education earning a bachelor’s and a master’s degree, and then a Ph.D. in education. In 1986, he was named the director of education and substance abuse for the City of Detroit’s health department.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They both started out as Tartars, and left this world as Warriors. These two Wayne University men, each left a lasting impression on their particular worlds.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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We just returned from ten days in Michigan, where I visited with family, having lost my dear brother-in-law Stanley Halprin. It was truly an emotional experience for all of us. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I also attended the 65<sup>th</sup>anniversary of my high school graduation. Amazingly, some of my classmates from Central High School’s 1953 class were unrecognizable, for they had grown older, some were friendly, and some were not. One, who had subscribed to my <i>Ho-Ho-Kus Cogitator</i>, bitterly complained that he had not received an issue in some time, which was quite logical, since I hadn’t written one in some time. When I returned home, I found a check from another fellow graduate, who renewed a subscription that had not yet run out. It was a treat to talk with others whom I had missed at the 60<sup>th</sup>anniversary celebration. It was then agreed to have reunions more often, for our numbers were diminishing, but not the animosity felt for me by one disgruntled graduate, who wrote stinging responses to anything I wrote that didn’t toe the far right line on either our president or Israel’s.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In May, before the reunion, he sent me the following, brief email after reading something I wrote, <i>“ </i><i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">I will have suicde(SIC) pills forU, or will gladly pay your way out of the country, if you cannot handle him!!! please do not bother talking to me at the reunion!!!!”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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That seemed to be as direct as possible invitation to avoid him, and although our eyes met at the celebration across a crowded room, we avoided any face-to-face exchange of words. Near the end of the gala, we were walking parallel to one another about ten feet apart in opposite directions, when he raised his arm, pointed at me, and uttered, “Harvey Gotliffe.” I, in turn, raised my arm pointed at him and said his name.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It felt good communicating with him in person one last time, since we had known each other for more than sixty-eight years, and who knows when we will meet again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">John James, GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate from Michigan, declares himself to be “A True Conservative Republican,” and one campaign mailing emphasized </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">that, “John James and President Trump Are Committed to Securing Our Borders.”</span></div>
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DEFUND is in bright red type because someone on John’s team, including the candidate himself, neglected to proofread the copy of his previous mailing. The following explanation appeared on the bottom of James’ second mailing. “A2Z Printing regrets a printing error on a previous piece of mail you received falsely saying John James will “Defend Sanctuary Cities.” This was a mistake by A2Z Printing and does not reflect John James’ true position to <i>DEFUND</i> Sanctuary Cities. We are responsible for this error and not the candidate.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Don’t wish for Trump to leave office because he is bored, is tired of all the confrontations he initiates, wants to play more golf, or will be impeached. If so the next in line is Michael Pence, who is nearer to God than thee, followed by the astute Mitch McConnell, who mumbles in an incomprehensible twang.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Back in 1963 or so, when I was driving an MG-TD, I was at an inner-city party at Cliff Frasier’s house in Detroit. There I met a Black man with the Jewish last name </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of Abrams, who was driving a Jaguar. We clicked together as auto buffs, jazz enthusiasts, and relatively simple human beings without any pretenses.</span></div>
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At one time, he and I lived a few blocks apart around Wayne State University. Later, when Tyrone lived in New York City in the 1960s, and my first wife Chellie, daughter Amy and I lived in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, we would visit him in his East Village pad on the weekend. My wife enjoyed sleeping late, and when I ventured across the George Washington Bridge by myself one early Sunday morning, I was greeted at his door by two naked white chicks. They welcomed me in while Tyrone was getting bagels for a trip we eventually all took to a reservoir for a swim in the exclusive, all-white, Westchester County suburb. Passersby gawked at us, infringing on their unoccupied waters.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When Tyrone would occasionally come to Ho-Ho-Kus when I was at work, my wife, daughter and Tyrone would shop at the small A & P down the block from our home. <span style="font-size: 14pt;">He’d carry my daughter on his shoulders as they strolled through the grocery store, and she would call him “Uncle Ty.” This so unnerved the locals, seeing a young white child atop the shoulders of a Black man, that they would give my wife a cold shoulder on any subsequent shopping trip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">Tyrone and I continued to stay in touch through the years, and he moved into his late Mother’s home in what was the Jewish section of Northwest Detroit. Whenever my current wife Carmen and I visited Detroit in recent years, we would get together at the Shangri-La Restaurant in the suburbs. This year, we shared a lunch at its locale around Wayne State’s campus, and although Dave Rambeau never showed, we enjoyed each other’s company once again.</span></div>
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When I told Tyrone that we wouldn’t be coming back to Detroit again, due to our aversion to flying, he poignantly said, “It’s been a good run.” It’s a shame that my finger pointing, reunion classmate couldn’t say the same thing. <o:p></o:p></div>
hohokuscogitatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03065701325981326756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317196915188904138.post-55783386078015797912018-05-25T15:21:00.000-07:002018-05-25T17:13:39.922-07:00THIS & THAT #38<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;"><b>TRUMP OR DRUMPF?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><o:p> </o:p>An “immigrant,” who Donald J., the GOP, and “the base” denigrate as part of their daily ritual, and are encouraged to do so by Donald. His latest foray into promulgating extremely negative descriptions of immigrants, include, “These aren’t people, these are animals.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When it comes to describing south of the border individuals, he unequivocally describes them as “rapists, drug dealers, who are bringing in crime.” He strongly qualifies his off-the-mark rhetoric, by adding, “Some, I assume, are good people.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you look long enough and hard enough, you may be able to find a politician who could be considered “a good person.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Trump’s grandfather, Friedrich Trump (or Drumpf) came from Kallstadt, Palatinate, in 1885. It was then part of the Kingdom of Bavaria. He changed his name to Frederick in 1892 when he came to the U.S. at the age of sixteen, and started working as a barber. That’s when the Trump tradition of better hair for the masses, first began.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">According to Wikipedia, Friedrich (below left) was approaching the age of military conscription in the Imperial German Army, and immigrated to the United States. Avoiding the draft seems to be another family tradition. Because of his wife Elizabeth’s homesickness, the family returned to Germany in 1904, and Bavarian authorities determined that he was a draft dodger, and should lose his German citizenship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After an unsuccessful attempt to stay, he and his family returned to New York in June 1905, and their son Frederick C. Trump was born that October. As Donald’s father, Fred Trump (center below), told people that he was of Swedish ancestry, concealing the family’s German heritage.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Friedrich’s grandfather, Johann Trump, was born in the village of Bobenheim am Berg, where his grandson Friedrich was born in 1869, and was Donald’s grandfather.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Trump’s mother Mary Anne MacLeod, came from the Hebridean island of Lewis, off the west coast of Scotland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of his three wives, Donald’s first wife, Ivana Marie Zelnickova, (left below) was born in Zlin, Czechoslovakia, and his third wife, Melania (or Melanija) Knavs (center below), was born in Novo Mesto, Yugoslavia, the present-day Slovenia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Barron William Trump is the youngest child of Donald and Melania, whom Donald recently referred to as Melanie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Marla Ann Maples (far right below), Donald’s second wife was born in Dalton, Georgia, making her his only wife who was an American citizen at the time of their marriage</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Donald J., whose thoughts, opinions, and items he deems to consider as important, varies according to his mood. He recently cancelled his meeting with Kim Jong-Un, because of what Trump considered to be an insult to America’s great Vice-President. </span><span style="font-size: large;">In a North Korean statement cited by Donald J., a top foreign Ministry official referred to Mike Pence as a “political dummy,” for his comments on the North.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because of Donald’s warm and cozy relationship with Michael, he was offended by the truth of that description. If that benign remark infuriated him that much, neither he nor Pence are ready to deal with the reality of foreign affairs.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today, Donald suggested that those professional football players, who kneel during the playing of our National Anthem, shouldn’t be allowed to remain in the United States.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lest the country forget, oh patriot, that Donald J. attended the New York Military Academy — a high school. After he graduated from college in the spring of 1968, </span><span style="font-size: large;">he was eligible to be drafted and sent to Vietnam. However, the brave, future leader of our great nation, managed to receive a coveted 1-Y medical deferment exempting him from ever wading through the swamps of Vietnam. That’s the medical deferred Trump in the middle of this photograph.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This deferment was one of five Trump received during Vietnam, and it was based on “the fact” that he had bone spurs in his heels. The other deferments were for education. Trump was quoted as saying, “I had a doctor that gave me a letter — a very strong letter on the heels.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He never needed an operation for that devastating problem, but confessed in an interview with the New York Times. “Over a period of time, it healed up.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Time heals all wounds,” sayeth Chaucer in “Troilus and Criseyde,” although the exact olde English words were, “As tyme hem hurt, a tyme doth hem cure.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Others prefer that in the case of Trump, Menander (342 BC – 291 BC) should be given credit with his Greek Version, “Time is the healer of all necessary evils.” More apropos to Donald and has actions, would be “Time wounds all heels,” and the sooner the better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are at a precarious time in history, with no one firmly ensconced at the top of the world power ladder, but with several individuals trying to flex their muscles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Perhaps if we look at the Bible’s Book of Judges, we can see how Delilah deceived Samson, and had him finally reveal that his strength lay in his hair. She, in turn, let the Philistines know of his weakness, they shaved his locks, and he lost his strength.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">If those on the ladder could have their lock shaven, perhaps they would each become more docile and less inclined to hold the ultimate of the power they now seek.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Who are these hirsute hombres, each with their own inimitable coiffures, and if they were shorn, would they each be a better person?<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Bob Dylan and/or Peter, Paul and Mary, both expressed that “the answer is blowing in the wind.” When that song was released in 1963, Donald and his hair was worlds away from that reality, and he is still quite consistent, being away from any reality today.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Here is another leader searching for his place in history. “Putin on the Ritz” was written by Irving Berlin and first published in 1929. Vlad is power hungry, looking for a way to recreate a dominant USSR, but that time is long gone. Watch Vlad here, as he rides to conquer the world:</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3z841UJiVk" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3z841UJiVk</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">He currently serves as Supreme Leader of North Korea, and anyone who conflicts with him and his policies, may be dispatched relatively quickly. This 5’7” giant is quite inconsistent, except for his hair. He was born on January 8, 1982, or 1983, or 1984.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sheldon is an American businessman involved with the Las Vegas gambling scene, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and has a fortune of US40 billion. Much of that money goes to deciding which way to comb his hair. He is a devout Zionist and a right-leaning GOP, who donated heavily to Trump’ 2016 campaign.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Bibi, like many of these power players, is firm in his resolve to cover any frontal bald spots by combing his hair from left to right. It’s a very apropos gesture for Israel’s right-leaning Likud Party leader. He admires Trump and Trump’s hairdresser, and looks forward to a two-state solution — one state for Likud members, and another for settlers.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Many have been receiving an unending collection of campaign muck and mire, emanating from those seeking to either support or get rid of Donald Joseph Trump and his semi-savvy savants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Elected Republicans are wary of saying anything against Donald J’s twiddling tweets, fearing that he could reverse his course in a moment, and then attack the source of any anti-Trump message.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">His political appointees, whether a member of his rotating cabinet or serving as a messenger, know that their position depends on his mood on any given early morning foray into his vacillating tweet land.<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">In 2016, Democratic strategists sent out the wrong messages to the wrong people, merely solidifying those who truly wanted to believe in something. It took them a while to discover that along with California and New York, there were needed electoral votes and voters in Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, Iowa, Texas and Arizona.</span><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The four-page letter I received a few days ago from Bernie, spelled out all of the problems the country now faces. While much of the blame is laid upon Donald, blame also has to be given to those progressives who helped him to be elected through their political naivety and weak actions in the 2016 campaign. That includes Debbie, Donna, Hillary, and the DNC.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Democrats are going after the dollars of middle-class whites, and the votes of the unappreciated minorities of color and those with an English-language deficiency. Let’s hope that they have a more organized plan then the last one, trying to connect with citizens who will vote on November 6, 2018, and beyond.<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">There are young people who seem to be attempting to change the direction of our country. Along with Blacks and Latinos and Latinas, the Democrats had better pay attention to the neglected minority of middle-class, non-progressive whites, like the police officer in this photo. The Reverend Sharpton, not withstanding his ability to be on the scene everywhere at the same time, may not be able to deliver the votes needed in 2018 to change the course of the country’s ship of state.</span><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><b><span style="font-size: large;">THE PAST HAS PASSED</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13pt;">This past Sunday,
Villanova beat Duke 85 to 81 in Omaha, to become one of the final four universities
remaining in the quest for the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s basketball
championship game on April 2. Although the NCAA is a non-profit organization,
its 2016 revenue for all sports under its dictatorial control, came to $995.6
million in 2016. The president of the NCAA will “earn” just under $2 million a
year, the highest paid basketball coach </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman";">Mike Krzyewski at Duke
makes </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$8.89 million</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman";"> a year, while college basketball players earn whatever
they can get under the table, and from unscrupulous agents.<b style="font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p><b><span style="font-size: large;">THE PAST RELIVED</span></b></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Thirty-three years ago, Villanova’s
1985 two-point, 66-64 win over favored Georgetown took place in Lexington,
Kentucky. Although I always root for the underdog, and wanted Villanova to win,
the evening of that 1985 game, my time was divided between the television set
turned to the game, and the gathering in the dining room of some professor’s
house in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">I was a professor at
Central Michigan University, and could have easily stayed home ensconced in
front of my own set, except for the guest speaker on the campus that night, who
was the center of attention at this home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">The Jewish Faculty Group
had invited Bruno Bettelheim to speak at an afternoon forum on campus, followed
by a formal dinner, and then a casual get together at the professor’s home. Bettleheim,
who was born in Austria in 1903, and imprisoned in German concentration camps,
was released in 1939 and immigrated to the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">As a psychologist, he
taught at the University of Chicago, and wrote extensively on autistic
children, and offered insight for dealing with children. His book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Children of the Dream</i> (1967) dealt with
the communal rearing of children in Israeli kibbutzim. Since I had spent parts
of two years in Israel researching my dissertation topic, I wanted to talk with
him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">I wove my way back and
forth between watching the basketball game, and wending my way to wherever
Bruno was surrounded by other faculty. Twas heaven to have intellectual
stimulation in one room, and viewing an NCAA basketball championship in another
room.<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13pt;">On March 31<sup>st</sup>,
Loyola will be playing Michigan, with one old-timer sitting on each bench,
rooting for their teams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13pt;">On April 2<sup>nd</sup>,
Villanova may be playing for another championship, and if I do watch it, it
will be in the comfort of our home, with my wife Carmen by my side.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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hohokuscogitatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03065701325981326756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317196915188904138.post-87357098983072752812018-03-26T18:31:00.001-07:002018-04-10T09:18:39.656-07:00THIS & THAT #35<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Shepard Was Shapiro<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Until He Needed a Job</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>Bernard Shepard was a nice Jewish boy from New York, but
after graduating from Syracuse University with a degree in journalism and
serving in WW2 as reporter for a military newspaper, he began looking for a
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Unfortunately, not too many media outlets were looking to
hire a ”Shapiro,” so he changed his name to Shepard, and he did get job offers.
Bernie eventually went back to college to get advanced degrees, and ended up
teaching at Fresno State University, where I ended up from 1971 to 1973.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bernie retired to Santa Cruz, and I would visit him and his
wife June, who lived only five minutes away. Each time I stopped by, he was at
his dining room table, which was filled with too many bottles of meds, accompanied
by a plethora of medical bills.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When I commented on that as a fifty-four year old
“youngster,” he would reply, “Your turn will come all too soon.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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It did, and Bernie died within a year or two.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><b>The Medical Muddle<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><b>Has Become All Mine</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>I am eighty-two, and although I don’t have as large
accumulation of meds and bills as Bernie did, I continually have a load of
medical problems, caused mainly by aging and dealing with doctors and insurance
companies.</div>
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Let’s start at the top with the pre-cancerous and cancerous
growths I need removed from my head, on a regular basis.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Twice a year, my regular doctor will spray the early growths
with liquid nitrogen to kill them, and if the growths have found a dwelling
on my head, he will either take to carving them out himself, or send me to a
dermatologist trained in the MOHS method. The latter is more efficient, since
the doctor keeps me in his office until all of the cancer is removed. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I go in, he does some carving, and then sends me to the
waiting room while he can quickly measure whether or not his work has been
successful. If not, I am brought back in for another slicing. He will continue
to do this until I am cancer free. <o:p></o:p></div>
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My regular doctor, estimates where the growth is, slices
that area, and I am sent home while the specimen is sent to the lab for an
analysis. When I come back in a week, I get the verdict as to whether or not he
caught the cancer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After my March 12th operation, when I came back on March 19<sup>th</sup>
to have the stitches removed, he told me that the lab’s biopsy revealed that
there were still some areas to be worked on. That’s when he suggested that I go
to the MOHS man.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">My First Medical Concierge</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>When I called the MOHS man’s main office, I was told that
the earliest I could be seen would be on April 17<sup>th</sup>, which was too
far in the future for me. I called again, asked specifically for the MOHS man,
and left a message with Kathy, who was his “concierge.” I persuaded her to move
the date up, and it’s now scheduled for tomorrow, March 27.</div>
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I called this morning asking what meds I should stop taking
before the procedure,<o:p></o:p></div>
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and the receptionist called back immediately. Tomorrow is
not a procedure day, the appointment is for the MOH’s man to look at you,
evaluate you, and then schedule a date in the future for the procedure.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I carefully explained that my primary doctor had sent the
MOH’s man the complete lab results of the first procedure, but the concierge
said that I have to be examined in person before he would even think about
cutting into me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So tomorrow, I will go in for an hour, be examined, and that
appointment is to determine what is to be eventually done and when.<o:p></o:p></div>
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An appointment for an appointment sounds like a way to add
to the Medicare billing,<o:p></o:p></div>
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and cost me some more time in a waiting room.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My only hope for satisfaction tomorrow is if I get to meet a
medical concierge for the first time ever.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">US VERSUS THEM<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sexism. Racism. Ageism. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">They
are here to stay, as long as we let them</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sexism</span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As a youth, some seventy-years ago, it was a world where I
saw no real battles between males and females. Those in power in my world were
principals, and in elementary school the power rested in the control of Mary
Sullivan, the larger than life leader at Brady Elementary School. During World
War Two, whenever there was an air raid drill, all students and professors
would gather in the halls as Mrs. Sullivan pounded on the keys of a small
piano, and led us I the singing of powerful, patriotic songs. I can still
picture her, sitting on a small stool, as her abundant behind hung over the
stool’s edge. That still remains as the strongest memory I have of
participating in the War. <span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Racism</span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Today, March 19, a distinguished elected black official
displayed his innate </span>intelligence. No, it wasn’t Ben Carson buying unnecessary
and expensive office furniture, although his inane<br />
actions matched those of
most of Trump’s incompetent, inexperience cabinet members.<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Rtoblw9u6qo/WrVfDBssyQI/AAAAAAAAAEo/i3x7v43Uh3IeAI053w8A7FO01cLlEw-ZQCLcBGAs/s1600/ben%2527s%2Bok.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="190" data-original-width="266" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Rtoblw9u6qo/WrVfDBssyQI/AAAAAAAAAEo/i3x7v43Uh3IeAI053w8A7FO01cLlEw-ZQCLcBGAs/s1600/ben%2527s%2Bok.jpeg" /></a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It was when DC
councilman T<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="color: #333333;">rayon White posted a video to
Facebook with the following narration: "Man, it just started snowing out
of nowhere this morning, man. Y'all better pay attention to this climate
control, man, this climate manipulation.” He kept talking about, 'We a
resilient city.' And that's a model based off the Rothschilds controlling the
climate to create natural disasters they can pay for to own the cities, man. Be
careful." That could be considered, by some, as an anti-Semitic remark,
and even forget about the quality of his ebonomical language selection.<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">When I taught at
the University of Detroit in the late 1970s, the media reported that members of
Detroit’s all-Black Board of Education had cut some of the necessary services
for Detroit’s students, who were mainly Black. Yet, many of the board members
were being chauffeured around town in limousines. When I spoke with one of my
own college students, a Black woman in her mid-thirties, who had two children
in the public school system, she defended the practice. “You did this for
years, now it’s our turn.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vBQSMQS-10s/WrVhfetcTyI/AAAAAAAAAFY/2KULOzu8mBwMoGuddQuuiFh6J270AWUpgCLcBGAs/s1600/fight%2Bfor%2Bkids.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="269" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vBQSMQS-10s/WrVhfetcTyI/AAAAAAAAAFY/2KULOzu8mBwMoGuddQuuiFh6J270AWUpgCLcBGAs/s1600/fight%2Bfor%2Bkids.jpeg" /></a></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;">Believe she was referring to me as the “you,” since
I was white.<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Ageism</span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;">It once seemed semi-flattering
to be called “Sir” by teenage girls selling tickets and </span></span><span style="color: #333333;">refreshments at a
movie theatre. However, I was a reverse racist before machines were able to
tell them the correct change that was due. It was difficult to do so if the
costs for popcorn and a drink came to $3.83, and I gave them $4.08. They
usually had a problem subtracting one from the other, and handing me a quarter
in change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">When I taught
journalism at a college, I would send my writing students out to the streets of
San Jose, and have them describe a scene. I was in my late thirties at the
time, and invariably, one student would write, “An elderly man sat alone at a
bus stop.” When I asked the student in her twenties what she meant by “an
elderly man,” in most instances the reply was that the man was in his forties.</span><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sadly, Some Elected Officials
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Are Sexists, Racists and
Ageists</span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">You can start at the bottom, with the President, who manages
to incorporate all of these attributes. Some times he does so in the same
tweet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c3JHCJCAgt0/WrVgdjbpGjI/AAAAAAAAAE4/6fPwEfN9DeUG730cUpJBYzWqpvq-nkA1QCLcBGAs/s1600/tweeting%2Bimages.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c3JHCJCAgt0/WrVgdjbpGjI/AAAAAAAAAE4/6fPwEfN9DeUG730cUpJBYzWqpvq-nkA1QCLcBGAs/s1600/tweeting%2Bimages.jpeg" /></a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">However, by the next tweet, he has a whole new outlook on the subject.
Some of his supporters are pleased that he is flexible in his thinking; others
are frightened, not knowing what comes next.<span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">As Far as Sexism</span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The women connected to the Democratic Party, are out to take
over the world because they believe that it’s their turn, much like the Blacks
felt in Detroit. It’s a fine idea, but first you have to learn the basics about
political life, and how to run a successful campaign.<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I applaud the young women and men who are trying to change
the country with their actions after the massacre in Florida, but they should
not learn from the actions of the current and former female leaders of the
Democratic Party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The following three
“leaders,” helped put Donald J. Trump in the White House.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida congressperson, managed
to help divide the party in 2016, by refusing to provide Bernie Sanders’ people
access to the party’s mailing list. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0k6kz_gELlg/WrVgtnN5KoI/AAAAAAAAAE8/8KIcYasRx1YDsmD8Hl_cwxZ6sxUAt5rVgCLcBGAs/s1600/debbie.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="191" data-original-width="265" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0k6kz_gELlg/WrVgtnN5KoI/AAAAAAAAAE8/8KIcYasRx1YDsmD8Hl_cwxZ6sxUAt5rVgCLcBGAs/s1600/debbie.jpeg" /></a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">When Schultz was Democratic National
Committee’s chair, she allowed Hillary Clinton’s Campaign to seize control of
the DNC months before Clinton’s nomination. According to Donna Brazile this
diverted resources from state parties, and denied Sanders any chance on winning
the nomination.<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Then there’s Donna Brazile, who was an officer and then
chair of the DNC, who contradicts herself in her book “Hacks.” She says she was
trying to help make the nominating process honest, yet she admitted that she
passed Democratic primary debate questions on to Clinton. </span></div>
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JfDFKw3npOs/WrVg4OhrP3I/AAAAAAAAAFA/D-TkOOOiPSAqzYqvsFExIjZCJVkAlZcPgCLcBGAs/s1600/donna%2Bwith%2Bquestions.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JfDFKw3npOs/WrVg4OhrP3I/AAAAAAAAAFA/D-TkOOOiPSAqzYqvsFExIjZCJVkAlZcPgCLcBGAs/s1600/donna%2Bwith%2Bquestions.jpeg" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">She obtained the
questions through her position as a CNN political analyst. Since she was vice
chair of the DNC at the time, it added to the strong impression that the very
biased DNC, heavily favored Clinton.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Then you have Clinton and her ill-prepared advisors, who
forgot that needed electoral college votes are found outside Democratic
strongholds in the far west and near east. While Clinton’s naïve advisors projected
her to win the popular vote, they convinced the equally naïve Clinton, that she
didn’t need to waste her time campaigning in Michigan (16 electoral college
votes), Wisconsin (10), and Iowa (6). If she had won the electoral votes in
those states along with her “native” state of Arkansas (6), she would have
totaled 270 Electoral College votes, to Trump’s total of 268.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It didn’t help that Clinton alienated voters by calling
those who supported Trump as being beneath her station, labeling them as “a
basket of deplorables.” At the same time, she<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>was feeding her own coffers with
$675,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8vqLYjnbhnc/WrVhC2e7WPI/AAAAAAAAAFI/kmCltdN7aBIUNr4ANVYI4lDyXFHXHJctACLcBGAs/s1600/hillary%2527s%2Bfees.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="191" data-original-width="264" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8vqLYjnbhnc/WrVhC2e7WPI/AAAAAAAAAFI/kmCltdN7aBIUNr4ANVYI4lDyXFHXHJctACLcBGAs/s1600/hillary%2527s%2Bfees.jpeg" /></a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">However, she is consistent and when she recently told an
audience in India, that states that supported her in 2016 were more culturally
and economically advanced than those that backed Trump. She stated that women
who voted for Trump may have been motivated by “ongoing pressure to vote the way
that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should.” <span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Let the Future Begin<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Sooner the Better</span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There’s hope for the future with the young trying to change the
country, one step at a time. Since most of the older, elected legislative
representatives are afraid to do anything, afraid of the NRA, afraid of losing
their power, afraid of how Donald will turn on them, then let us hope that the
students will bring their energy and enthusiasm and help elect representatives,
who have the betterment of our disintegrating society as their goal.<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jFwkZN3BEJw/WrVhx6JyXYI/AAAAAAAAAFk/Bp9jUllKAmEC-yvaAHa8ttZsBL4H9SeyACLcBGAs/s1600/enough%2Bis%2Benough.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jFwkZN3BEJw/WrVhx6JyXYI/AAAAAAAAAFk/Bp9jUllKAmEC-yvaAHa8ttZsBL4H9SeyACLcBGAs/s1600/enough%2Bis%2Benough.jpeg" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Do not let the weak and cautious people in power steer you
away from your goals. Do not trust any official who tells you they are with
you, after they have been against you up until it’s time for you to vote.<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I Plan On Being There”
This week we are having our semi-annual, mini-reunion lunch in San Jose with four Japanese-American friends, whose ages range from 86 to 95.
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I just wished one friend here in Santa Cruz a Happy 90th, another has a 93rd coming up, and two more long-term friends just “celebrated” their 90th birthdays.
When we speak nowadays, we jokingly talk about the Golden Years being mainly filled with rust.
But at least we are all still talking, although it seems that each week I learn of further woes that have noticeably slowed down contemporaries of mine. One long-time friend was in ICU for three weeks after a heart attack, someone else was having yet another operation, and another from high-school days in Detroit is barely alive with necessary tubes protruding from various areas of his body.
I turn eighty-two this month, and most of my high-school friends are now eighty-three. Somehow, I jumped from grade 5A at Brady Elementary School in Detroit to grade 6A, and don’t remember earning that promotion. However, because of it, I have friends that are mainly six months older than I.
THE GOOD OLDE DAZE
When we get together in Detroit this July for the 65th anniversary of our high school graduation, among other topics, we may reminisce about the “good olde days,” some of which never occurred. We may learn about who had died, when and how, what our compatriot’s children had accomplished, how their grandchildren are doing, and in some instances, what’s doing with great-grandchildren.
If you live miles away or an ocean apart as I do, you can stay in touch via email, telephone, Skype, Face Time, and with typed or handwritten letters. I am the only person I know who still uses pen and ink to connect, and I don’t know if I know myself that well. I also help the U.S. Post Office; each time I affix another “Forever” stamp on an envelope.
Although we are on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, we are fortunate to have old Central High friends like Bernie Portnoy and his wife Chris from Naples, Florida stop by when they are in the neighborhood. Even a short reunion, helps keep a sixty-eight year friendship flourishing .
STAYING ALIVE
There were more than five hundred others who graduated from Central High School in the 1952-53 class along with me. At the 50th reunion in 2003, there were eighty-seven names of former classmates listed in the class booklet on the “In Memorium” page. In the 2013 booklet, there was no such page, for it was agreed upon that such an expanded listing would be too depressing.
The physical get together, including the dinner, was spread over many hours, and there were one-hundred forty-five alums at the last reunion in 2013. I was there for four hours, and if I had been able to talk with every classmate, I would have had just a few minutes with each. I have been living away from the Detroit area since 1986 (this time), and at other times from 1960-1962, and 1969-1973. I have not been in close contact with most of the CHS class of 1953. Although I searched for certain friends at that reunion, afterwards, I found to my dismay, that some of those whom I sought were there, but because of the years in-between, I had not recognized them, or they me. Perhaps, they had recognized me, but didn’t want to be recognized.
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When it comes to connecting with others at the actual, physical reunion at the Glen Oaks Country Club in West Bloomfield, Michigan this July, even with a reduced number of attendees, visiting with one another for more than a few minutes, becomes a daunting task.
TRY TO REMEMBER
If you do recognize “an old friend,” that does not necessarily mean that a scintillating conversation will take place. With our memories fading by chance and by choice, many tend to deliberately forget or revise the stories we actually lived way back when.
When I first drove to California in 1960 with a Detroit friend, we ended up in Long Beach where there was a fishing boat accident. Our timing was right, and we photographed the injured captain being taken away by rescuers. We drove down to the Los Angeles Times, and they bought our shots and paid us for them. On my second day in LA, our photograph appeared on page two. Twenty years later, my friend and I were at a party, and after I told this story, my friend bragged about the $250 we were paid. That sum didn’t seem right, and when I returned home, I went through my freelance file and found the duplicate of the Times check in the amount of $25.
I realize that inflation may have occurred, but at gatherings we all may have a tendency to elaborate and enhance the details of what has happened to us in the past.
I expect that to happen to some degree next July.
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At times, synagogues,
bookstores, magazines, and publishers and synagogues have been a pain.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I sent out emails to more
than thirty synagogues in Northern California looking for speaking engagements.
One was circulated by the program committee at one synagogue and a woman who
didn’t understand what “Reply All” meant, sent this response to me along with
all of the committee members, “Do we want to pursue this? I don’t especially.”
Then another member wrote, “For free on a Sunday morning it would be well
received.” But not by me.<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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After pleading and cajoling
the tattooed, twenty-something head of consignments at a local bookstore, she
reluctantly accepted one book, but only after I filled out a two-page form.
Three weeks later, my wife went to that store and looked for the book in the
Judaica section, the health and exercise section, and the humor section, to no
avail. She checked with a clerk at a computer, and discovered the book —
sitting on a shelf in a back room waiting to be put out.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When I contacted a Jewish
magazine in Los Angeles to do a possible review, a young man invited me to
visit his office when I was there in June. He would be happy to have a review
written if I would spend more than two thousand dollars, and he’d throw in a commercial
on a religious Jewish television network. Oy!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I even ran into some
difficulties with my publisher — Create Space — a division of Amazon. When I
ordered a much-needed two hundred copies of <i>The
Oy Way</i>, I received them promptly as usual. The only problem was that the
cover was a different color than all of the previous ones, and two pages in the
back were missing. When I contacted Create Space and explained the situation,
they matter-of-factly replied that instead of being printed in their plant, it
was outsourced to another printer who misread the correct color. I told them
that it was unacceptable, and they said that they would send another two
hundred that they would print at their facilities.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I few days later, I received
the rush order and was pleased until two days later I received another two
hundred copies. When I called up Create Space and asked what I should do with
them, they said I could keep them, which I did in a way. I gave away copies to
more than thirty libraries around the country, gave others to a struggling
Yiddish bookstore in Brooklyn, to the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur for
fundraising, and also to KlezCalifornia as incentive gifts to contributors.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I won’t make any real money
out of <i>The Oy Way</i>, unless more people
buy it from my website <a href="http://www.theoyway.com/">here</a>, or my upcoming You Tube videos go viral when they
are posted next month. Stay tuned.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>More On Book Stories<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Part One</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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After <i>The Oy Way</i>
was printed last spring, my real work began; I had to sell it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I hustled media reviews and made presentations at
synagogues, bookstores and organization meetings. Sales weren’t large enough
for me to retire, but I had already retired in 2006. Retirement with a book to
sell is no retirement.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was pleased that bookstores in California, Michigan and
New York had either bought copies outright or had taken them on consignment. The
most fertile sales outlet was the relatively small Aleft Bet Judaica store in
Los Gatos. At times, I would bring in five books and a few days later I would
receive a call from the Israeli-born owner Nurit saying that they had sold out
and they needed more. Happily, I
received such a call today, and I will be making a presentation and book
signing there on November 13, and at numerous other venues in
October, November and December. You can see the schedule under "What's Nu? on the website <a href="http://www.theoyway.com/">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At times, I ran into some not-so-positive situations.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I just received a copy of <i>Washington Square Magazine</i> that goes to 80,000 alums of San Jose
State University, and they estimate that 50,000 digital readers will see it. I
was a bit dismayed when I saw the visual coverage found above. However, when I
questioned the layout, the editor and the art director said it would attract
the readers. What do you think?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Speaking of SJSU, when I spoke on campus in March, I managed
to convince the manager of their Spartan bookstore to take ten copies on
consignment, which they did. I was unaware that they had become the Barnes
& Noble/Spartan Bookstore, and as a vendor I had to fill out an eight-page
form to be considered. Before I did so, I contacted a person at their
headquarters back east, and asked them why I needed to do so with such a small
number of books. Since you don’t question B&N, especially at their
headquarters, they then asked me who was the publisher, and I told them it’s
already on sale at Amazon. That ended my relationship with B&N for they
would carry no books that were being published and sold by that competitor. I
was lucky that I had found out before wasting any more time filling out that
oppressive form. Tomorrow I go to San Jose State and rescue my unacceptable ten
copies.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Part Two is on its way, or perhaps it has already arrived.
If you have any spare time until then, go back to <i>The Oy Way</i> website.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When you grow older, you will find that time goes by far too quickly, in case you haven’t already noticed.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Ewe Tube, Oar Knot</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">The secret is to keep growing older without growing old, and to do so, sometimes you have to reluctantly adapt to the far-too-rapid societal changes including the electronic world of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">You Tube.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">At times<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">, You Tube</i> and “went viral” have to be linked together in order to achieve dubious success for an honest effort. Although <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Oy</span></span> Way</i> is selling at a steady but slow pace, when I was in Los Angeles earlier this month, I hired Gordon <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Eick</span></span>, a noted filmmaker, to capture the essence of eight <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Oy</span></span> Way exercise movements. The video is now being edited and will eventually appear on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">You Tube</i>.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">There was little joy found in demonstrating these movements (shown above on the book’s cover), while clothed in a flowing, flannel-like shirt with a yarmulke sitting upon my head in 90-degree weather in Griffith Park. It was especially frustrating to do so as people walked by talking loudly, screaming children abounded, dogs barked, and helicopters noisily hovered above. It meant numerous <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">reshoots</span></span>, halting the shoot in progress, and mopping my brow as I continually <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">shvitzed</span></span></i>. We <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">reshot</span> most of it in a more tranquil, far cooler setting in the Japanese Garden in San Jose a few weeks later.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Review What Was Said</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">The book just received a short, but glowing, paragraph in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Midwest Book Review</i>, that read, “<span style="font-family:"Times-Roman","serif";mso-hansi-font-family:Times-Roman; mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";">Sure, the English language is fine, but there's always room for a bit of extra flavor to it. "The Oy Way: Following the Path of Most Resistance" is a humorous delve into the Yiddish language as author Harvey Gotliffe writes how to use the language's unique expressions to spice up one's languages, with a touch of meditative exercise in the process. "The Oy Way" is a unique addition to any language or humor collection, much recommended.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times-Roman","serif";mso-hansi-font-family:Times-Roman; mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";">Order, Order in the Court!</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times-Roman","serif";mso-hansi-font-family: Times-Roman;mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";">My cousin Ron, a documentary filmmaker who used to work with Bill Moyers, lives in a grand old building with a courtyard in New York. Ron bought three copies of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Oy Way</i> as gifts, giving one copy to Margie King Barab, who you probably remember as the fourth and final wife of Alexander King.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He is the author of several books on my shelf including his 1963, well titled, “is there life after birth?” Recently, four of my college friends passed on, and we will discuss this pertinent question in a later issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times-Roman, serif;">Margie, in turn, ordered seven books for friends, and wanted one autographed specifically for Bel Kaufman, and I did so in Yiddish. Bel has three impressive items on her resume that few others possess.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>On May 10, 2012, she turned 101. In 1965, she wrote the bestseller <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Up the Down Staircase</i>, and she is the granddaughter of the legendary Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem. It’s an honor to think that somehow <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Oy Way</i> and I are now connected to Sholem Aleichem, albeit in a very indirect way.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times-Roman","serif";mso-hansi-font-family:Times-Roman; mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";">Where Have You Gone?</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times-Roman","serif";mso-hansi-font-family: Times-Roman;mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";">We are in a sad way with the possible demise of the bookstore, especially the independent bookstore. The nearby Capitola Book Café is fighting for survival and on June 22 held an author’s <a href="http://www.capitolabookcafe.com/event/local-author-extravaganza">get together,</a> where fourteen of us did a “reading.” The night before, best-selling author Cheryl Strayed appeared and there were more than three hundred people attentively listening to her reading from her new book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Wild</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times-Roman, serif;">Perhaps there is some hope for the survival of independent bookstores as described in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Huffington Post</i> piece published <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harvey-gotliffe-phd/">here</a>, on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times-Roman, serif;">"Celebrating Independents Day.” However, to make this a reality, addicted Amazon online book buyers will have to extricate themselves from in front of their computers when they seek new reading challenges. They might find a brave, new, stimulating world in the aisles of their neighborhood bookstore.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times-Roman, serif;"><b>Happy Birthday Two Awl of Ewe</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times-Roman, serif;">When you write, edit and publish your own blog, you can include whatever flotsam and jetsam you desire. So we wish the following relatives and friends a <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333ff;">HAPPY BIRTHDAY</span>, </b>which is really the anniversary of your births which fall between June 25 and July 18, and between 1924 and 1953. Happy day to Rochelle, Amy, Carmen and Hilda (same day, different years), the same connection for Robert Dale and Martha, also for Cindy and Dranreb, and finally happy birthday to Patricia. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times-Roman","serif";mso-hansi-font-family: Times-Roman;mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->hohokuscogitatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03065701325981326756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317196915188904138.post-75110462375483753912012-05-02T08:53:00.002-07:002012-05-02T09:01:20.421-07:00Give Me a Brake – Part One<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> 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That was only the beginning.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Once you create anything for the public, you have to promote it and make its presence known, if you really want to sell it and make a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">bisl gelt</i> from all of your efforts.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Bisl</i> is the operative word.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Not Starring Robert Redford</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Oy Way</i> will not be acquired by a Hollywood studio and made into a movie starring either Robert Redford or Morgan Freeman. It might make it on to You Tube or even Facebook one day.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">You need a plan on how to generate sales and the possibilities include getting book reviews in newspapers and magazines, garnering broadcast interviews locally and with celebrities such as Jay and David, sending out emails to the 1859 people on all of your mailing lists, selling through bookstores, and personal sales when you make a presentation.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Each of these entities offer fantastic possibilities, but they are all time consuming and together add up to investing at least four hours a day, every day.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">The Inside Story</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">The results are sometimes gratifying, other times frustrating, and many are questionable. On a bright, sunny day when I am ensconced in my room in front of a computer, I may gently say, “Why are you doing this?” Actually the verbiage is usually much louder and coarser.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Reviews are very important for if a publication with even only twenty thousand readers writes something favorably about your book, that could generate a decent amount of sales. To get a review requires a sales pitch to convince an editor to devote space writing about your creation.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">You have to make the initial editorial contact by phone, write a sales letter or an email, or go meet an editor in person, and tie the book and its author into the publication offering a specific and unique story angle.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">We did get three or four reviews by “courting” editors and also doing the same with bookstores. In Santa Cruz, there are three independent bookstores; two combine new and used books, and the third sells mainly used books.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">When I approached the largest, they accepted fifteen books on consignment but could offer me no event date until the fall to make a presentation. The used bookstore reluctantly said that they would accept one book but only after I filled out a two-page form. The third bookstore said that they would take five books on consignment, and would schedule a Monday or Wednesday date, but only if I could guarantee forty people would attend and at least twenty books would be sold.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Only One Thing Is Guaranteed In Life</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I could easily guarantee the forty people; all I would have to do is rent a bus and gather forty homeless people, however books sales would not be forthcoming.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The event planner said if I could get media coverage, they would do it, which meant another courtship. So I sent a review copy of the book to the arts editors at the one daily newspaper, at the two weekly newspapers, at one monthly publication, and to the morning talk show host at the nearby radio station. When I told the bookstore event planner that I was about to get full-page coverage in one daily and one weekly newspaper, and I was be interviewed at 7:10 AM at the radio station, she scheduled me for Monday, April 9 at 7:30 PM. I then sent out emails to about ninety people in the area, prodding them to attend.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">My wife Carmen and I arrived at 7:10 PM with twenty-five books already autographed in Yiddish, and counted sixty seats set up for my presentation. However, there were only four people sitting in those seats including an eight-year-old elderly woman who greeted me in Yiddish. “Elderly?”</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i>“Oy Vey,”</i> she’s only four years older than I am.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">“Knock. Knock.” “Who’s There?”</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">People slowly trickled in, and by 7:30 PM all sixty seats were occupied, with another ten people standing. Among those in the audience were four of my neighbors, whom I had personally invited, a friend who I first met in 1970 and hadn’t seen for more than a year, another friend whom I met in Israel in 1975, a former student from the 1980s, my daughter and wife, and a man who said “My name is Mark. Do you remember me?” After the earthquake of 1989, he had been one of the bus drivers who took many others and me over the mountains to San Jose, including two former professors who were in attendance.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I was enthused and gave a dynamic performance, sold twenty books including one to a local literary gadfly in her eighties who called herself “The $2 lady,” not because of what she sold but because of what she paid. She always carried a supply of two-dollar bills and would give one as a tip to jazz musicians or others who performed in the arts world. She gave one to my daughter (the book’s photographer), one to my wife (a leading model in the book), and one $2 bill to me, but only if we promised to keep it in our wallets for good luck and didn’t spend it foolishly on liquor or smokes. I gave her a copy of my book in return.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">You can find out more about <i>The Oy Way</i> and even buying it by going <a href="http://www.theoyway.com">here</a>, or just stop by my house; then I can personally autograph it in Yiddish. Please call first.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Part Two of the publishing, promoting and pushing of the book will be coming as soon as I do more promoting and pushing.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></b></p> <!--EndFragment-->hohokuscogitatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03065701325981326756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317196915188904138.post-13482393221352982812012-04-12T17:25:00.006-07:002012-04-12T17:32:36.866-07:00With God and the Odds On Your Side<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> 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nothing better to do and read the sports section of your newspaper, you will realize that although there are narrative stories of what happened in the previous day’s activities, it’s primarily filled with statistics. Within each story, depending on the sport, there will be descriptions of how many hits, home runs, three-point shots, dunks, shots on the net, goals, assists, birdies, and eagles were scored. Then there’s a page that’s devoted strictly to statistics including standings of all sports teams, scoring leaders, betting odds and point spreads for upcoming games, and a myriad of other minutiae to satisfy any mathematician or professional gambler.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Praying for a Better Outcome</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Not unlike politicians, some sports figures have recently strayed from the straight-and-narrow. They probably believe that their primary sin was that they got caught. There’s 51-year-old, married father of four, Arkansas football coach Bobby <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Petrino</span> who was injured in a solo motorcycle crash. Although he <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">wasn</span>’t wearing a helmet at the time, he had a soft cushion behind him in the form of 25-year-old Jessica <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Dorrell</span>, his recently hired football team’s student-athlete development coordinator. They managed to stay close the past seven months during which time they exchanged 4,300 text messages, 300 phone calls, and he once paid her $20,000. Many Arkansas Razorback fans and boosters thought it would be unfair to fire him for his actions. One middle-aged woman said you have to separate the great job he did with the winning teams he produced, and his peccadillo. The school disagreed and let him go.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Getting Off Track</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Two-time Indianapolis 500 mile race winner Al Unser Jr., pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated and drag racing at more than 100 miles-per-hour on a New Mexico freeway. It was the second DUI conviction for the 49-year-old in the past five years. Seems as if Al likes to repeat his racing endeavors twice.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-fareast-language:JA;font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;">“Thank you Bulldogs and Jesus”</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-fareast-language: JA;font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;">When Bubba Watson won the Masters golf tournament, in this order he thanked the Georgia Bulldogs (his alma mater), Jesus Christ “my Lord and Savior,” and the hosts club’s African-American locker room attendants. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">When George Zimmerman was finally arrested for the murder of Tayvon Martin, his African-American mother Sabrina Fulton said, “Thank you, thank you, Lord, thank you, Jesus.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Tebow and the Pope</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Tim Tebow, the new second-string quarterback of the New York Jets, may have been signed to help fill MetLife Stadium each Sabbath Sunday. He <span style="mso-bidi-mso-fareast-language:JA;font-family:Georgia;">drew a crowd of about 15,000 to an outdoor church service Easter Sunday in Georgetown, Texas, where he described the importance of being outspoken about faith. The church’s pastor observed, ''In Christianity, it's the Pope and Tebow right now.''<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">The Pope, the Jews, and Jesus</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">I have been sleeping much better since March 2011 when the headlines around the world read, “Vatican City, The Pope absolves Jews as the murderers of Jesus.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">“Oh, Jesus,” and My Father</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">In 1965, my father was crossing Linwood at Davison in Detroit on a green light, when an elderly man hit the accelerator instead of the brake, hit my father and dragged his body along the asphalt face down.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">My Mother called me at work saying only that my Father was in Providence Hospital, a Catholic institution, and I should come immediately. When I arrived and found my way to his room, he was moaning in agony in his bed, which sat under a six-foot statue of Jesus.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">A nurse had just removed a bloody bandage from his head, and was carefully placing a clean one in its place. I walked over to him, said “Hello, Dad,” and held his hand. “You are my strength,” he said and he tightly squeezed my hand. Then he twisted in pain, and started screaming, “Oh, Jesus. Oh, Jesus. Oh, Jesus.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">My Mother was embarrassed, looked up at the statue, and sternly admonished my Father, “Henry, you can’t say that here. Remember where you are!”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">I knew that my Father would survive when he devilishly responded screaming, “Oh, Moses. Oh, Moses. Oh, Moses.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"> </span></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment-->hohokuscogitatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03065701325981326756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317196915188904138.post-85129240348004737872012-02-14T09:45:00.000-08:002012-02-14T09:49:08.208-08:00I Have Converted! Have I Converted?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:documentproperties> <o:template>Normal</o:Template> <o:revision>0</o:Revision> <o:totaltime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:pages>1</o:Pages> <o:words>228</o:Words> <o:characters>1304</o:Characters> <o:lines>10</o:Lines> <o:paragraphs>2</o:Paragraphs> <o:characterswithspaces>1601</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:version>11.512</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:donotshowrevisions/> <w:donotprintrevisions/> <w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">A dear friend, who is a devout member of the opposite sects, told me that now that I am entrepreneur with <a href="http://www.theoyway.com/">my new book </a><i>The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Oy</span> Way</i><span style="font-style:normal">, I am now a Republican.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I wondered if I would have to give up any access to food stamps, since tea party conservatives decry the government’s interference in their lives.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Then I read a <i>New York Times</i><span style="font-style: normal"> story (that cursed liberal media outlet) that described some of the people living in an ultra-conservative enclave in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Lindstrom</span>, Minnesota. Ki <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Gulbranson</span>, who makes $39,000 a year, wants everyone to know he <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">doesn</span>’t need any help from the government.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The article said there is little poverty in Chicago County, however Ki “is counting on payment of several thousand of dollars from the federal government, a subsidy for working families called earned income tax credit. He signed his three school-age children to eat free breakfast and lunch at federal expense.” Oh, his 88-year-old mother has had two hip surgery operations paid for by Medicare, and is probably collecting her monthly Social Security check.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Ki is also quite proud that he printed t-shirts for the tea party campaign of his neighbor who ousted the region’s long-serving Democratic congressman, who was no doubt another one of those commie, pinko, big spending liberals.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Guess you can be selectively against “big government,” its outrageous spending programs, led by its “food stamp President,” unless it affects your own life.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Think I will remain an independent as long as I will still have access to food stamps, in case I ever need them.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment-->hohokuscogitatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03065701325981326756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317196915188904138.post-62056110669736121882012-02-05T16:54:00.000-08:002012-02-05T17:05:13.050-08:00The "Occupy Newt's Suits" Campaign<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:documentproperties> <o:template>Normal</o:Template> <o:revision>0</o:Revision> <o:totaltime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:pages>1</o:Pages> <o:words>760</o:Words> <o:characters>4334</o:Characters> <o:lines>36</o:Lines> <o:paragraphs>8</o:Paragraphs> <o:characterswithspaces>5322</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:version>11.512</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:donotshowrevisions/> <w:donotprintrevisions/> <w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Newton Leroy Gingrich, born Newton Leroy McPherson on June 17, 1943, easily won the South Carolina GOP primary over Willard Mitt Romney, who was born on March 12, 1947 and raised in the affluent Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Newt’s victory speech was full of benign laudatory praise for his three opponents, and he then attacked everyone residing on the left geographically and politically. He humbly praised himself saying, “It’s not that I’m a good debater,” he said. “It’s just that I articulate the deeply-held values of the American political system.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Newton, like Willard, Richard John <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Santorum</span> and Ronald Ernest Paul, each present their own divisive us versus them ideology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Newt is the stalwart promulgator of the “reality” that conservatives, tea party people and evangelicals are the only true Americans, and those with sinister, anti-American values are the ones they must remove from office.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><b>If It Works, Then </b><b>Newt's Message Did It</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Newt went on, and on, and on with that theme. “We want to run not a Republican campaign but an American campaign, because we are optimists about the future and Americans are optimistic about the future.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Newt <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">doesn</span>’t mince words when he is courting those on the right, but not necessarily those who are in the right. His diatribes are reminiscent of those emanating from Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority that was founded in 1979. Its opponent called the organization “neither moral nor a majority.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">During his post-election rally, Newt attributed his victory to “something very fundamental that I wish the powers that be in the news media will take seriously. The American people feel that they have elites who have been trying for a half-century to force us to quit being American and become some kind of other system.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Let’s see; 2012 minus fifty years brings us to 1962, and since then we have had GOP elites in the White House thirty years, or 60 % of the time. Has Newt once again misspoken, or does he need to brush up on his math?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">He focused in on the usual trigger points geographically that incite his base — the northeast establishment, Washington, and then derisively mentioned that liberal bastion of sin and corruption, San Francisco. Then it was the media’s turn to be his target.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">If It Doesn't Work, The Messenger Did It</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">The media can be a source of aggravation to most everyone in public life. When the media’s seeks “the truth,” it may not be the truth that a politician wants exposed including Newt’s away-from-work prowess and Mitt’s income tax returns.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Newt derided the final debate’s allegedly left-wing moderator John King for opening with a question on one of Newt’s ex-wife’s claim that he wanted an “open marriage.” When Chris Wallace of fair-and- balanced Fox News was asked if he would have begun with the same lead question, he replied, “Of course, that was the elephant in the room!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>A very apropos answer considering the candidate is a Republican.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Newt Outweighs Barack</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Now it was time for Newton Leroy to go after Barack Hussein and he did so in his usual gentle, respectable manner saying, “If Barack Obama can get reelected after this disaster, just think how radical he could be in a second term.” He casually, or caustically, mentioned once again that while Obama is the best “food stamp president” in history, he would the “best paycheck president.” That well-planned remark elicited the expected shrieks of joy from the faithful. Newt also emphasized that his campaign was about “American <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">exceptionalism</span> versus the radicalism of Saul <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Alinsky</span>.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">During the celebration, the audience seemed to be anxiously looking to the wings to see if Kate Smith (1907-1986) was going to be resurrected to sing “God Bless America.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Newt Can Win, If He Gets the Votes of the Adulterers and the Obese </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Newt is a larger-than-life individual and if he became the GOP’s nominee, he could be elected president if he gets the majority support of two key voting blocs, just as Bill Clinton did. After the relentless media discovered and reported on William Jefferson’s peccadilloes, Bill may have won the election by capturing the overwhelming voting support of the country’s massive adultery constituency as well as the pot smokers of America. If Newt can capture the majority of adulterers (male and female), and then get a large number of the one-third of all American adults who are obese, he may be able to capture the White House from its current, less-than-gargantuan occupant.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">The "Occupy Newt’s Suits" Campaign</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">That brings us to the proposed “Occupy Newt’s Suits” campaign tactic which could endear him to many of the disgruntled and confused members of the Occupy Movement. That group includes members of the enormously large, 99% trod-upon element in our society; some of who have faced or are now facing foreclosure and loss of their homes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">If Newt would donate part of his expansive wardrobe to those Occupy Movement members, his suits would be quite suitable to be used as temporary shelters for small families. Then all true Americans would recognize Newton Leroy as a benevolent man of the people; one who cares for the common man regardless of the person’s religion or political party. He could help to unite all Americans, as adulterers, obese people, and those who Occupy join hands and sing at his inauguration, “This land is your land, this land is my land,” followed by “God Bless America,” with or without Kate Smith.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"> </span><!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment-->hohokuscogitatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03065701325981326756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317196915188904138.post-72450498970693602382012-01-10T11:26:00.000-08:002012-01-10T17:01:17.418-08:00The Messages from the Media<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roamn","serif";mso-bidi- mso-fareast-language:JAfont-family:Georgia;color:#1F1D1D;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Political Reporting Is As Bad </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roamn","serif";mso-bidi- mso-fareast-language:JAfont-family:Georgia;color:#1F1D1D;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As the Candidate’s Promises</span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roamn","serif"; mso-bidi-mso-fareast-language:JAfont-family:Georgia;color:#1F1D1D;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(31, 29, 29); font-family:'Times New Roamn', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The following meaningful story in Italics (quoted verbatim) was reported on the morning of the important New Hampshire primary in the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Los Angeles Times</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=" color: rgb(31, 29, 29); font-family:Georgia;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span><i><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi- mso-fareast-language:JAfont-family:Georgia;color:#1F1D1D;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">By Michael A. </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Memoli</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-mso-fareast-language:JAfont-family:Georgia;color:#7F0A02;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">January 9, 2012</span></span></i><i><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-letter-spacing: -1.0pt;mso-font-kerning:.5pt;mso-fareast-language:JAfont-family:Georgia;color:white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi- mso-font-kerning:.5pt;mso-fareast-language:JAfont-family:Georgia;color:#7F0A02;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">9:11 p.m. </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 26px; "><i><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-mso-font-kerning:.5pt; mso-fareast-language:JAfont-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Reporting from Manchester, N.H.—</span></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-mso-font-kerning:.5pt; mso-fareast-language:JAfont-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The first votes in the nation's first presidential primary have been cast in </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Dixville</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Notch, N.H., resulting in a tie between </span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/government/jon-huntsman-jr.-PEPLT00008438.topic"><span style="text-decoration:none;text-underline:nonecolor:#535353;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Jon Huntsman</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Jr. and </span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/government/mitt-romney-PEPLT007376.topic"><span style="text-decoration:none;text-underline:nonecolor:#535353;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Mitt Romney</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> in the Republican race. Each received two votes apiece, with one vote each for </span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/arts-culture/newt-gingrich-PEHST000779.topic"><span style="text-decoration:none;text-underline:nonecolor:#535353;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Newt Gingrich</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> and </span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/government/ron-paul-PEPLT005095.topic"><span style="text-decoration:none;text-underline:nonecolor:#535353;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Ron Paul</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">. President Obama won all three votes cast in the Democratic primary. There are a total of nine registered voters in the tiny North Country village, and just three who are registered </span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/parties-movements/republican-party-ORGOV0000004.topic"><span style="text-decoration:none;text-underline:nonecolor:#535353;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Republicans</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">. Four more undeclared voters were eligible to vote in either the Republican or Democratic primary. There were two registered </span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/parties-movements/democratic-party-ORGOV0000005.topic"><span style="text-decoration:none;text-underline:nonecolor:#535353;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Democrats</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Aren</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">’t you glad that you had the opportunity to truly learn something about the electoral process from this intrepid reporter and his newspaper? Or would you rather watch the movie </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Groundhog Day</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> all day, every day? Is there a difference?</span></span></p> <p class="timesnewroman" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">On-the-Street Reporting, </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">An Important “D” Rated Tale</span></span></b></p> <p class="timesnewroman" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">To protect the alleged perpetrators, only their first names are listed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p> <p class="timesnewroman" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">San Jose Mercury News</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> reported that a private album-release party ended in a 15-person street brawl at 1:10 a.m. in Walnut Creek, California. Davon who resisted arrest attacked one of the many police officers called in. He was then joined in the struggle for justice and liberty by other members of his vaunted D-Team including Dante, </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Davonte</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> and Devon. When she became incensed at the lack of civility at the scene, Desirae tried to punch a police officer and was also arrested. A delightful ending.</span></span></p><p class="timesnewroman" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><b><span style="font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Television’s Bright Lites</span></span></b></span></p><p class="timesnewroman" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><p class="timesnewroman"><span style="font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">On the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Charlie Rose Show</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> on PBS, just prior to the New Hampshire GOP Primary, Charlie was interviewing some distinguished pundits regarding Mitt and the Gang of Five’s attacks. Fortunately, two of them were forearmed with some transportation </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">clichés</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> —one if by land, and one if by sea—and neither of them saw how frail their points were.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="timesnewroman"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Norah O’Donnell of CBS (or was See BS), seemed to be on a time machine as she moved backward into the twentieth or nineteenth century when speaking of the “retirement” of Bill </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Daley</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> from Obama’s staff. She repeatedly said, “Bill </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Daley</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> was brought in to keep the trains running on time.” Norah, trains are so </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">passé</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, and you could have evoked something with a more twenty-first century feel—you know Norah, those things that go up in the air. Perhaps something like, “Obama’s campaign plane is taking off and </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Daley</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> has been left at the departure gate.”</span></p> <p class="timesnewroman"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The next bit of transportation </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">clichés</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> were in the hands of Judd Gregg whose credentials include being a former governor and senator from New Hampshire, and an unabashed Romney supporter. He sounded like a Mississippi gambler with his paeans of Mitt beginning with, “He’s got the cards and will be playing a strong hand in South Carolina.” Now you can’t be gambling on the river without some transportation mechanism, and Judd kept repeating, “People are getting on Mitt’s boat.” You may have to be a bit wary of any former senator or governor who has two of the same letters side-by-side at the end of both their first and last name.</span></p> <p class="timesnewroman"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Ah the primaries, a sink or swim proposition, and that’s why all of the GOP candidates are trying to get their ducks in line.</span></p> <p class="timesnewroman"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">If the Media Has You </span><i><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">shrayn</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> “</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Oy</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Vey</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">”</span></span></b></span></p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><p class="timesnewroman" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Don’t just sit there and be fretting</span></span></p><p class="timesnewroman" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">All the </span><i><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">narishkeyt</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, try rejecting.</span></span></p> <p class="timesnewroman" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The answer to this type of qualm?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="timesnewroman" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Just go to </span></span><a href="http://www.theoyway.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">www.theoyway.com</span></a><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.theoyway.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="timesnewroman" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p><p class="timesnewroman" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">shrayn </span></i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">= shouting</span></span></p> <p class="timesnewroman" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">narishkeyt</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">= nonsense</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->hohokuscogitatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03065701325981326756noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317196915188904138.post-51333418352235937862011-12-31T12:18:00.000-08:002011-12-31T12:27:12.038-08:00When the End Is the End<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This week I received a phone call from Detroit that Wallace Sheldon <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Shanbrom</span> had passed away. I knew him as “Wolf,” his Hebrew name, and we kept a friendship going over a fifty-five year period, and at times, thousands of miles apart. We shared an apartment on <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Prentis</span> in Detroit in the late 1950s, spent a short time together in California in the early 1960s, acted together and separately a few years later at the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">UnStabled</span> Theatre in Detroit, drove cross country together in 1981 after my parents died, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><i>davening</i></span> as we went. He house sat for me in Santa Cruz and welcomed me into his home in Detroit.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">He was an intelligent, articulate and zany individual with writing to match. I can attest to the latter when I look at the hundreds of letters I have saved where the writing goes up, down, sideways and backwards, yet the thoughts were always meaningful.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Wolf firmly believed in what he was doing, regardless of how far removed it was from mainstream thinking. He was, in fact, his own man, a distinction many have failed to achieve.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">He never really “published” his writing, saying he <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">didn</span>’t want to go through a publisher’s editing process that might diminish what he fervently believed in and wanted to say. At times, those are my thoughts, too. He would duplicate his writings and hand them to others and me when we traveled, and asked us to drop them off at libraries and universities.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The Detroit Public Library’s Burton Historical Collection contains boxes of his work that he had placed there himself, as well as artifacts of his life. I was amazed when I went through them a few years ago.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Wolf said that he was “mechanic-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><i>nisht</i></span>,” and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">didn</span>’t understand the electronic world, nor cared to try and do so. He was truly a Luddite, anti-computer individual, but when I went on line and checked “Wallace Wolf <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Shanbrom</span>” on Google, I found some of his writings listed there at: </span><a href="http://newsynthesisalawolfshanbrom.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-synthesis-2-09-ce.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://newsynthesisalawolfshanbrom.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-synthesis-2-09-ce.html</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> and at </span><a href="http://newsynthesisalawolfshanbrom.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://newsynthesisalawolfshanbrom.blogspot.com/</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">His life is not solely represented by what those boxes contain. It is impossible for anyone to select exactly what it is that they have experienced and accomplished as a true representation of their short time on this side of the earth.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">It is not for a Rabbi, a Priest, an Imam or atheist to close out our time here with a eulogy, using recently garnered data from family members and friends. What we do is best remembered in the hearts and minds of those we touched along the way.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">However, I plan to have a videotaped eulogy written by, edited by and delivered by myself, and let others do their own editing and revising of my life story afterwards.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">People of the Book</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><b></b>Today is December 31, 2011, and I plan to finish writing the final pages of my book, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Oy</span> Way</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. You can </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">gib</span> a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">kuk</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> at its web site at </span><a href="http://www.theoyway.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">www.theoyway.com</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> to find out its exact publication date and how to purchase copies. I have already spent countless amounts of monies, and easily spent more than four-hundred hours working on it; researching, writing, editing, going on photo shoots, attending conferences, and the end is near. So is my patience in working on its creation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Next comes the arduous task of selling the book and have already been inundated by people offering me sage advice as to what I should do. Some friends are upset that I am selling it through Amazon and among other reasons, because they don’t like the fact that Amazon <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">doesn</span>’t pay needed sales tax here in California. My bookstore owning and working friends would rather have it on their shelves, and I will bring them copies on consignment when I speak there. One person has demanded that I offer the book at “a substantial discount” if I speak to his group,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Perhaps I should have named the book </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">oy</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">vey</span>.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment-->hohokuscogitatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03065701325981326756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317196915188904138.post-40146959690534112082011-12-08T09:44:00.000-08:002011-12-08T12:57:20.012-08:00Wired and Weird<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">There are at least sixty people, some of which I don’t even know, want me to join them on <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">LinkedIn</span>. The same goes for others enraptured with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Facebook</span>.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">With my book </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Oy</span> Way</span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> —<a href="http://www.theoyway.com/">www.theoyway.com</a> — on the way, some wired in friends and family members are pushing me to use <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Facebook</span>, saying that it is safe and no one could possibly hack into my account unless I let them. But I am wary of the security problems that could occur and today’s business section story about <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Facebook</span>’s leader headlined “<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Zuck</span>’s private photos slip out.” The subhead read, “CEO, girlfriend in G-rated shots, but security issues arise.” Look, if a crook can get <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Zuck</span>, I, too, can get “<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">tooked</span>.”</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;">Shoppers at Lucky markets in Northern California got “<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">tooked</span>” when some scam artists fixed the self-service line, and debit card numbers along with their personal IDs were captured, and their bank accounts tampered with.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;">Some of my wired in friends and family are very excited about having electronic communication devices that allow them to send emails, surf the net and find visual images of their houses online. This is all well and good, but if they don’t know where they are living without this enhancement, they are in real trouble.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;">My computer and the Internet are valuable for I am able to go online and do research, get forms for copyrighting my book, send out emails to family and friends here, there, and everywhere.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">However, I use my <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">iMac</span> primarily as a writing instrument, and have spent an inordinately large amount of time in front of its screen lately as I try to finish the book. I also used it to write this blog entry and pieces for the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Huffington</span> Post</span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, like the one just published on meaningful post-season football games. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harvey-gotliffe-phd/obama-vs-newt-or-mitt-can_b_1130317.html.">www.huffingtonpost.com/harvey-gotliffe-phd/obama-vs-newt-or-mitt-can_b_1130317.html</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harvey-gotliffe-phd/obama-vs-newt-or-mitt-can_b_1130317.html.">.</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A forty-year-old Royal typewriter sits three-feet away to my right, </span><span style="font-family:Times-Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_17315030,">www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_17315030</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_17315030,">,</a> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;">and each day I longingly look at it and think of all of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">pre</span>-computer writing I did on it. I even bought two small bottles of White Out Correction Fluid, just in case my yearning gets strong to move further into what seemed to be a simpler past.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;">Before that happens, I am going to go outside and try and find my house.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;">NOTE: If you have any problems opening up any of the sites, copy them into your address bar at the top of the page, and click them there.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment-->hohokuscogitatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03065701325981326756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317196915188904138.post-30153382075101985342011-11-24T11:18:00.000-08:002011-11-24T12:37:17.027-08:00Things That Make Me Wonder On a Thanksgiving Morning<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">For more than a year, when I arose at 430 in the morning, I was thankful that there was a pale green plastic bag on my doorstep containing the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">San Jose Mercury News</span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> (the </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Merc</span></span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">) to help me began my day. About two months ago, it started arriving after 7, and I wondered why. When it did arrive I also wondered why it sometimes landed on the lawn or in the bushes.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;">At 455 on this Thanksgiving Day morning when I opened my front door there was the familiar pale green plastic bag but it looked far larger than any I had seen before. I lugged the hefty bag to the dining room table and unfurled its contents. There were two separate, rubber band encased sections; the first had nineteen separate items and the second had a mere fourteen. I meticulously searched through each and every item and to my dismay I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">couldn</span>’t find the newspaper, only advertising inserts proclaiming the virtues of shopping early for fabulous Black Friday sales.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;">The earliest beat Black Friday opening was for three of what we used to call drug stores who were open all Thanksgiving day. I wondered why <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Walmart</span> held off ruining Thanksgiving for its employees by waiting until 10 on Thanksgiving night when other more benevolent retailers waited until 4 AM Friday for their own “door buster” or “early bird” specials. By that time, it will be too late to rescue any of 43 million birds that will be devoured today across our great land.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;">The bulging insert don’t wait winners were <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">jcpenney</span> with one seventy-two page entry, tied with Macy’s with two inserts of 56 and 16 pages, Sears totaled 68 pages in two inserts, and Kohl’s added a 60-page one. As usual, all of Kohl’s models were wearing their forced smiles as they leaned to the left or the right. None was able to stand up straight and I wondered why. I also wondered why there <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">wasn</span>’t any model who was within fifty years of my age.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;">Since it definitely would not be me doing the shopping, I wondered who would be one of the estimated 152 million people hurrying off with inserts in hand in the middle of the night. These perhaps guilt-laden individuals would be in the forefront of the masses participating in the annual frenzy known as holiday shopping. The National Retail Federation is hoping that they at least spend the predicted $465.6 billion during the season to help retailers feel jolly.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">At 755 AM, I saw the newspaper person pull up again in his beige Jeep and I met Dan and wondered why the paper started coming so late. At first he had to learn his new route with 500 customers who subscribe to either my hometown paper the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Santa Cruz Sentinel</span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, which I never read, or the </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Merc</span> </span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">or to both.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Both newspapers are part of the same media group and the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Merc</span></span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> is delivered from their plant about 40 miles to the north. When the </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Sentinel</span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> was acquired, the group disposed of all of their printing presses here. It is now printed by another of the group’s newspapers in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Monterey</span>, some 40 miles to the south and it is delivered to Dan nearly two hours later than before.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;">I don’t envy Dan and his early morning work but it’s better than not having any source of income. I doubt if he will be occupying anything in the early morning other than his Jeep early every day for as long as he can.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Wonder Who Is In Charge?</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> <!--StartFragment--> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Along with advertising inserts, every Thursday the <i>Merc</i><span style="font-style:normal"> has a section called<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>“eye” which is labeled </span>as their Entertainment Guide. In today’s 32-page “eye” dated November 24, 2011 there are advertisements for everything from musical shows, concerts, plays and movies coming up during the holiday season. A one-third page one that caught my eye was for a grill promoting several different events. On November 11<sup> </sup>2011 they were presenting Rhythm District, the next day, November 12, there was wine tasting on the afternoon and a concert that night for Southern Rock with the Beach Cowboys, followed by Vegas Nights on November 19, 2011. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment--> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;">It is obvious that this advertisement ran much earlier this month and you might wonder was it someone at the grill or at the newspaper who forgot to withdraw the advertisement after the events were over.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The I’s Have Id</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;">I doubt if it is the same person or persons who proofread an advertisement that once ran (or ran once) in national magazines in the 1970s with a headline that proclaimed that Chevrolet was the car for “<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Amerca</span>.” </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment-->hohokuscogitatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03065701325981326756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317196915188904138.post-34735647697835928802011-11-22T07:56:00.000-08:002011-11-22T08:05:19.023-08:00To Air Is Human<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> <!--StartFragment--> </b></span></p><b><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify: inter-ideograph;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace: none"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia; ">It’s A Lock</span></b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-language: JA"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify: inter-ideograph;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace: none"><span style="font-family: Georgia; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">On November 17, the captain of a Delta flight to New York City accidentally locked himself in the bathroom. A passenger with an accent tried to alert the co-pilot in the cockpit, and the co-pilot panicked and radioed, “The captain has disappeared in the back, and I have someone in a thick foreign accent trying to access the cabin right now, and I’ve got to deal with this situation.” There are two ways to avoid such terrifying situations in the future. Pilots and co-pilots should be trained in how to avoid profiling people as potentially troublesome solely by their accents, unless the accents emanate from either New Yawkers or Texans. The airlines could also have port-a-potties installed in larger cockpits and have bedpans available in the cockpits of commuter planes. Then the word “cockpit” would be a more befitting name.</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify: inter-ideograph;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace: none"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia; ">Fare Enough</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify: inter-ideograph;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace: none"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia; "></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b></b></span></p><b><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16pt; text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "><span style="font-family: Georgia; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Hundreds of passengers on a flight from India to Great Britain were stranded for six hours in Vienna when their charter service ran out of money and needed $31,000 to pay for the rest of the flight to Birmingham, England. A cabin crew member told them “We need some money to pay the fuel, to pay the airport to pay everything we need if you want get to Birmingham.” A collection was started and passengers who were cash-strapped hurried to the airport’s ATM machines. The flight continued after enough money was collected. This may be the beginning of an exciting new method of fund raising during a sour economy.</span></span></p></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify: inter-ideograph;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace: none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b></b></span></p><b><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16pt; text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "><span style="font-family: Georgia; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span></p></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16pt; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b></b></span></p><b><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16pt; text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "><b><span style="font-family: Georgia; ">There's No Place Like It </span></b></p></b></b></span><b><p></p></b><p></p> <span style="font-family: Georgia; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">With the holidays approaching and you might mull over these apropos lyrics found in John Howard Payne’s 1823 song “Home! Sweet Home.” The second significant line reads, “be it ever so humble, </span></span></b>there’s no place like home.”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><p></p><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><b><span style="font-family: Georgia; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><!--EndFragment--> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment-->hohokuscogitatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03065701325981326756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317196915188904138.post-7394176579605792102011-11-21T19:01:00.000-08:002011-11-22T19:48:55.227-08:00A VW Convertible, an MGB Convertible, Sterling Hayden and I<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify: inter-ideograph;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;color:#1F242D;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; font-size:small;"> <!--StartFragment--> </span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;color:#1F242D;"><p class="MsoNormal"><!--StartFragment--> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" color: rgb(23, 27, 34); font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">At the end of our last entry, you were promised that in our next one we would tell you the story of what happened in 1964 when two red convertibles ended up parked side-by-side in a restaurant’s parking lot on the Connecticut Turnpike.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" color: rgb(23, 27, 34); font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">That year I went back to Newport, Rhode Island where I had worked the year before and I drove there in my 1964 red MGB roadster. When you travel alone and are open to whatever comes your way, you may encounter the unexpected whether that may be an unexpected occurrence or individual that for a short while makes the journey well worthwhile.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" color: rgb(23, 27, 34); font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(23, 27, 34); font-size:small;">I stopped at a Howard Johnson-like restaurant on the Connecticut Turnpike for lunch, and when I was done, as I headed down the elongated steps to the parking lot, I saw a red VW convertible park next to my car and watched a familiar face get out and start walking up the stairs.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" color: rgb(23, 27, 34); font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">It was Sterling Hayden; sailor, actor, activist and author. His autobiography </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Wanderer</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> had been published the year before, and his latest film was released in January 1964. His role was General Jack D. Ripper and the film’s complete title was also captivating to the imagination: “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" color: rgb(23, 27, 34); font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">He now stood one step down from me, and at 6’5” to my 5’10” we were almost on the same level when I greeted him with “Mr. Hayden, read the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Wanderer</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> and sorry that I didn’t arrive in the Bay Area until 1960. Would have loved to have sailed with you.” In 1959 he “kidnapped” his children and sailed off to Tahiti from Sausalito on the Wanderer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" color: rgb(23, 27, 34); font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Since I knew something about him from the book, we talked about his life as an adventurer and as an actor. I had seen “Dr. Strangelove” and we talked a bit about the absurdity of the then current and frigid Cold War situation where a mad man could accidentally set off an atomic bomb.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" color: rgb(23, 27, 34); font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We talked about life and living and what a great adventure life was, and after thirty minutes I had to move on and so did he. He offered me his huge hand and we shook and I said, “It’s been a pleasure speaking with you, Mr. Hayden.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" color: rgb(23, 27, 34); font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Before he let go he asked, “And what is your name, young man?” I answered “Harvey Gotliffe.” We shook once more and he held on as he said, “It’s been a pleasure speaking with you, too, Mr. Gotliffe,” and we parted. He headed up to the restaurant and I down to the parking lot where his red VW convertible sat next to my red MGB roadster.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" color: rgb(23, 27, 34); font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" color: rgb(23, 27, 34); font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" color: rgb(23, 27, 34); font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" color: rgb(23, 27, 34); font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment--> <p></p> <!--EndFragment--> </span><p></p> <!--EndFragment-->hohokuscogitatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03065701325981326756noreply@blogger.com0