Without makeup!
Sunday, February 28, 2021
I bought a basket for my bike and...it was not a BARKBAY PET basket, so...
Timmy says I cannot take Marilyn for a ride!
Timmy says I look like Pee-Wee Herman in a helmet & he will not allow me to use Marilyn in a photo shoot for 'personal gain!'
It's a nice basket! And it's rust proof ...I don't understand.
Guess I'll have to ask Nora if I can put Leo in the basket & take a ride
Hey Leo, Leo? wanna go for a bike ride? I have a basket...
it's not a BARKBAY but it looks cozy to me.
Leo?
The BARKBAY Basket...
A limo driver story...
I picked up her granddaughter, granddaughters' husband & their two kids @ PHL. Took them home to, I think their home was in the greater northeast area of Philadelphia (secluded) where the grandaughter & family were greeted by four young Vietnamese women that appeared to be extremely happy to see the family!
Then Grandmom appeared on the front porch & yelled down to me...
"Driver! wait there. I need you to drive me to the airport".
So I called dispatch & they told me to wait.
Got no tip from the granddaughter nor the husband.
Drove grandma onto the tarmac of the private part of the airport.
As she climbed the stairs to her private jet
I unloaded her three bags from my trunk & handed them over to the two pilots.
I thought to myself...you pilots are just like me...
Mrs Mars gave me no tip.
Jacqueline Mars (born October 10, 1939) is an American heiress and investor. She is the daughter of Audrey Ruth (Meyer) and Forrest Mars, Sr., and granddaughter of Frank C. Mars, founders of the American candy company Mars, Incorporated. As of July 2020, Mars was ranked by Forbes as the 29th richest person in the world, with a net worth of $30 billion and 19th in Forbes 400.[5]
Saturday, February 27, 2021
Our President was in Houston,Tx on friday to comfort & encourage...
I don't like posting something like this. It is sad & scary, but...this is our President & you probably did not see this on TV.
Can someone explain this to me?
Net Neutrality is now the law in California:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/technology/net-neutrality-explained.html
From what I understand, the Trump Administration put an end to it.
I believe it pretty much has to do with Equality & Fairness..., i.e.
Everybody gets the same amount of 'bandwidth' whether you can
pay for more or not.
I believe Bandwidth has to do with how fast your Intersnet(GWB label)
provides your computer w/ info, streaming, movies, etal.
In my conservative mind set, I look at this as the Gov't telling us this Law is the more
Equal & Fair thing to do.
It does not matter that you may be able to afford to pay the cable co's $$$
to provide you with more bandwidth...
We should all be provided the same access, with the same bandwidth speed.
But I'm thinking, some need faster speeds to access the Intersnet info like:
* The military
* Hospitals
* Law enforcement
* NASA
* Ships at sea
* Airplanes in the sky
* Weather stations
* etc.
* & ME!
I know that no-one will respond but I'm just thinking about stuff.
It's sort of like the Gov't telling car mfr's they can only sell Saturns' now!
Even if some citizens can afford a Benz.
Friday, February 26, 2021
Sailing south to New Jersey
* Mom is growing weary with a one year old on board
* Dad is going to show us how to jib & jibe & tie knots
I did give y'all a heads up a few months ago about e-bikes...
Well, Jerry & Linda from The Villages just got two of them! And here is their review in lieu
of "Mailbag Monday"
And here we have my Himiway e-bike...
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Took Joe 36 days before the bombings began! And even the Dems want to know...
Why did you do that Joe? What was the message you were trying to send?
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/26/tim-kaine-biden-syria-airstrike-471740
Not sure if Corn Pop was in a hotel in Erbil, but...
The kids back in Delaware years ago were looking at their parents asking, "who is this guy
sitting in the lifeguard stand w/a suit on?"
Parents response..."We have no clue"!
Meanwhile, in Erbil today, Hotel rooms are now available for as low as $4.00 per night.
Call your Travel Agent for details on Erbil.
US carries out airstrike against Iranian-backed militia in Syria
The United States conducted a military airstrike in eastern Syria along the border with Iraq targeting Iranian-backed militias in retaliation for a recent rocket strike in Erbil in northern Iraq that left several Americans injured, according to a U.S. official.
The airstrike targeted structures in the eastern Syrian town of Al Bukamal that belong to Kataib Hezbollah and other Iranian-backed militias that have launched rocket attacks in the past against American facilities in Iraq, said the U.S. official.
Another official described the airstrike as targeting a location through which smuggling occurred.
The airstrike was ordered by President Joe Biden in retaliation for a Feb. 15 rocket attack against a U.S. base in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil that killed a coalition contractor and left several American contractors and a U.S. military service member wounded.
The Pentagon had not blamed Iranian-backed militias for the attack even though forensic evidence recovered soon after the attack pointed to a connection to Iranian-backed militias that have conducted similar attacks in the past.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said last week that the U.S. "reserves the right to respond in the time and manner of our choosing" to the attack.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
No more of this kind of stuff is allowed in this day & age!
I'm telling you, I am appalled at the things that were allowed back in the 20th Century!
I like it...
Bryce Harper shows up for spring training in Clearwater, Fl
wearing a Clearwooder T shirt!
?? is he making fun of the Philly accent, or embellishing it?
I saw this on TV last night. A Jeopardy question. The answer was "what is Taps"
I'm telling an Army story here...so listen up! When I got home from Viet Nam in 1969 my Mom & myself went shopping on Frankford Avenue...I bought a Leisure Suit & frank sinatra style gold buckled loafers!
Mother just said, "they look great on you, you should buy it, if you like it" The leisure suit was corduroy!
I was 22 & balding at the time! So give me a break...ok?
I still had another year to serve in the Army & I was blessed to serve that year near my sister & brother-in-laws' home near Mechanisburg, Pa (I was a good soldier & the Army gave me a good Posting)
I volunteered for the Honor Guard that would go to the funerals of soldiers that died in Viet Nam. I kept track during that year. I went to 24 funerals...the Taps was played at every one of them & I never knew or thought about where Taps originated or came from!
Just 24 notes & so chilling...Thank you General Butterfield for Taps...your 24 notes produced a lot of tears in my eyes. Both then & still today...
just 24 notes
Monday, February 22, 2021
Sunday, February 21, 2021
Saturday, February 20, 2021
Friday, February 19, 2021
Thursday, February 18, 2021
To me, snow days are cozy days
1st snow day in Jerusalem in many, many years!
Not so cozy, but...real excitement & joy...
My Netflix pick for this snow day...
2nd time I've watched & enjoyed it even more than the 1st time.
And War Horse
cost only 30 guineas!
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
It's personal to me. Like losing a good friend you have communicated with for 30+ years...
The Mark Steyn tribute to Rush...
It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of Rush Limbaugh, a giant of American broadcasting, a uniquely talented performer, and a hugely generous man to whom I owe almost everything.
Rush died this morning, after a year-long struggle with lung cancer. I was scheduled to guest-host today's show. Instead, as you can hear, his beloved Kathryn will be introducing a special program put together by the EIB team to celebrate a great man's life and legacy. It's a hard thing to do - compressing a glorious third-of-a-century into three hours - but Snerdley, Kraig, Mike, Allie and everyone else I've worked with there for so many years will do their best.
Usually, in this line of work, if you're lucky, you get a moment - a year or two when you're the in-thing - and you hope to hold enough of that moment as it slowly fades away to keep you going till retirement. Rush did something unprecedented in the history of TV and radio. Commercial broadcasting began in the United States in 1920: The Rush Limbaugh Show came along two-thirds of a century later, became the Number One program very quickly, and has stayed at the top all the way to today - for a third of the entire history of the medium. And throughout all those decades Rush and his show stayed exactly the same: a forensic breakdown of the day's news, punctuated by musical parodies, satirical sketches, and Rush's own optimism and good humor, even through this last terrible year.
The comedy is what his many enemies and half his own side missed: Rush took politics seriously but not solemnly. In the early years of the war on terror, he introduced an Afghan version of himself "with talent on loan from Allah" and sold Club Gitmo merchandise for those seeking a tropical retreat from jihad. When Brokeback Mountain was in the news, the show ran trailers for Return to Saddle-Sore Canyon: "It's John McCain and Lindsey Graham as you've always wanted to see them!" Which, in my case at least, is true.
I know precisely when I first heard Rush. It was not long after he started the show and not long after I bought my pad in New Hampshire. I was driving some visitors from London through the North Maine Woods toward New Brunswick in that dead zone where the only thing that comes in is the soft-and-easy station on 94.9 FM from the top of Mount Washington. And then that died, and there was nothing, and I forgot to switch it off so it was automatically scanning up and around the dial as we chit-chatted in the car. And then suddenly it found some guy, and there he was talking about "the arts-and-croissants crowd" moving into your town, and reading out press releases from NOW (the National Association of Women), whom he called the NAGS (National Association of Gals), and playing Andy Williams' version of "Born Free" punctuated by gunfire to accompany any environmental story.
And, in my car, conversation ceased. My friends were what you might call slightly skeptical lefties, so they disagreed with what Rush said on the issues but they were rapt by the way he said it. Because they had never heard anybody say it like that before. It was a unique combination - absolute piercing philosophical clarity, and a grand rollicking presentational style honed through all the lean years of minor-market disc-jockeying. First, he perfected the style, and then he applied it to the content. When Clinton was elected, Rush opened his shows, for years, with "America Held Hostage, Day Thirty-Nine... Day Seventy-Three... Day Hundred-and-Twenty Four...", and when Newt's Republicans won the 1994 mid-terms he started with James Brown singing "I Feel Good".
One man doing what he wanted to do saved an entire medium - AM radio - and turned all its old rules upside down: Traditionally, morning drive is your big audience, and everything tapers off from there. Rush figured that everyone needs a local guy at that time, with traffic and weather updates, and that the opportunity to build a national show lay in the hitherto somnolent slot of noon-to-three Eastern/nine-to-twelve Pacific. And within a couple of years hundreds of stations were building the entire schedule around the midday guy. In the scheme of things, I am not sure how many of those stations will be able to keep that going without him.
Throughout his entire time on air, there were genius GOP consultants who, in reaction to any electoral setbacks, would insist that what the GOP needed to do was come up with a way to ditch Limbaugh. As I said on air many years ago: Really? For almost a third of a century, Rush's audience was over half the total Republican vote. How many do all you genius "Republican reformers" bring to the table? I've recounted previously the first time I was asked to guest-host, back in 2006, when I happened to be down in Australia and the Prime Minister, John Howard, asked me to some or other event a day or two hence. And I politely declined, saying I had to get back to America to host The Rush Limbaugh Show. "I hear that's a pretty big show," said the PM.
"Yeah," I replied. "Twenty-five, thirty million listeners."
"'Strewth," said Mr Howard. "Rush has more listeners than we have Australians."
Indeed. And all these GOP clever-clogs never explain, once you throw Rush and his millions overboard, what's going to replace them.
Powerful politicians and longtime fans were often surprised, upon meeting him, to find a man who was quite private and indeed shy - because, like many radio guys, he had no desire to have a public persona other than at the microphone. Unlike so many others in this business, Rush was hugely generous and totally secure. Unlike other shows of left and right, where the staff come and go every six weeks, everyone at the EIB Network has been there fifteen, twenty, thirty years. That includes, in a very peripheral way, yours truly. When I first started guest-hosting, I found it odd that, on the rare occasions Rush mentioned the subs, it would be to put them down. Because, I mean, who would do that? But Rush is the least insecure star on the planet, and I came to see that he was actually teaching the neophytes a very important lesson: You guys need to be completely secure too - because it's the only way to survive in this wretched media. I came to appreciate that being put down by Rush was actually a far greater compliment than him doing some boilerplate hey-he's-a-great-guy shtick. And one of the saddest days of my fifteen years with EIB was when I heard Rush a few months back expressing genuine, sincere gratitude for something I'd said about him a few days earlier. As I pleaded on air, I just wanted the old Rush back scoffing at his guest-hosts - so we'd know all was well in the world.
So I owe Rush the biggest break of my career in America, and I owe him even more for sticking with me after the CRTV breach of contract when certain extremely prominent figures on the American right were bombarding him with multiple texts and emails to fire me from the guest-host's slot. It would have been the easiest thing in the world for him to have gone along with that. But he didn't. And that's the only reason I'm still around today.
I have come to admire him even more this last year. When he announced his diagnosis, we all knew this story only has one ending, and it's just a question of how many chapters there are leading up to it. Rush loved what he did more than anything in life except his family. He had no interest in going to Tahiti to watch the sunset. He wanted to be behind the Golden EIB Microphone every day that he could. So initially he took a couple of days off every three weeks for treatment, and then the two days became four, and the treatment weeks took their toll and spilled into the following week. But, through it all, he remained determined to do every single show he could - because, aside from anything else, he wanted to make sure he, his listeners, his brand, his stations did everything they could to put President Trump across the finish line on November 3rd.
Events didn't quite turn out the way he wanted - although they might have if more people had worked as hard as a man ravaged by Stage IV cancer did, in defiance of his doctors' prognostications. The last three months, when he and Kathryn had surely earned those Tahitian sunsets, took a terrible toll. But he stayed on the air until just a fortnight ago - because above all he wanted to keep faith with tens of millions of listeners, many of whom had been listening to him their entire lives and could not imagine a world without him.
We are about to find out.
I am well aware of the ironies of the headline. My father liked to caution me with the old saw that the graveyard is full of indispensable men. But, as the conventional bias of the legacy media yielded to something far more severe from the woke billionaires of Social Media, Rush remained the Big Voice on the Right, the largest obstacle to the complete marginalization of conservative ideas in our culture. All of us who labored in his shadows owe it to him to continue the fight.
To modify Rush's tag line: Talent returned to God.
And the publication Salon.com added this...
https://www.salon.com/2021/02/17/rush-limbaughs-death-causes-trump-to-break-his-fox-news-fast/
Be sure to read the comment section...
Amen
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Monday, February 15, 2021
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in...
I thought Election Month 2020 ended my involvement in politics.
I thought, I'm done. I fought a good fight.
Some history...
The first guy that caught my attention in National politics was...
I can't tell you why, I just liked him...it was 1956.
I never really lost interest in politics, I just kept it to myself.
* In 1960 I wanted Kennedy to win
* I remember running to Roosevelt Blvd to watch his motorcade drive by
* I kept watching & listening to what Kennedy was doing
* Your brother is your Atty general? Not a good idea I thought.
* I actually went to the Feltonville Library to look up Dean Rusk...
* Could not find anything...did not know the Dewey Dismal System...
Then I went to High School!
We took the bus & we walked some to get there. No parent drop-offs.
Nobody I met there talked politics.
Nobody I knew there talked anything but sports, boners & the cafeteria.
I floated thru 9th, 10th & 11th grade & was passed on to grade12...
12th grade piqued my interest!
November 22, 1963 during the basketball season, with a Friday night
game scheduled, we learned that President Kennedy had been killed!
The USA was cancelled! It was like the week of 9/11/2001...
Such sadness
Back to politics!
Who the hell is Lyndon B Johnson, I thought.
Back to the Feltonville Library & I found out he was from Texas,
a real big shot. Flew in a helicopter to visit the rural areas of
Texas for re-election. I remember thinking, what does rural mean.
I'll skip to today...and what this post is about.
Trump is the first President in our History to be impeached twice!
* Nancy Pelosi is the first Speaker of the House to bring impeachment
charges vs The President of the United States & A Former President of
the United States in the History of our country!
Speaker Pelosi is now 0 for 2 in her endeavor...
Sunday, February 14, 2021
A rainy afternoon with Brynn down the shore...
Raise the skull & bones
The 'ride' warming up curbside
Mommy dashes ahead!
Window shopping
A stop at the arcade
Exhaustion sets in at Fred's Tavern...
Such a bizzy, bizzy day...
Saturday, February 13, 2021
Yep...news from Iraq...
Who let the bears out!
This makes me hopeful. If the Iraqi guv'ment is letting things go free, maybe there is Hope!
Just take note of the Headline in the Media...
*Bears run amok!
*People flee for their lives...
*Chaos!
*Lunged at onlookers...
Reads like a Jim Acosta report from the White House press room circa 2017/2020
Friday, February 12, 2021
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Monday, February 8, 2021
This woman is an idiot, a nuisance, a pompous nut job & a real problem towards (as The Boss said in his Jeep Super Bowl commercial) Unity...
But! She is a fair & balanced journalist...
Question...do you have a getaway pandemic place?
Oh, heck no. The Trumpites next door to our pandemic getaway, who seem as devoted to the ex-president as you can get without being Q fans, just plowed our driveway without being asked and did a great job.
How am I going to resist demands for unity in the face of this act of aggressive niceness?
Of course, on some level, I realize I owe them thanks — and, man, it really looks like the guy back-dragged the driveway like a pro — but how much thanks?
These neighbors are staunch partisans of blue lives, and there aren't a lot of anything other than white lives in the neighborhood.
This is also kind of weird. Back in the city, people don’t sweep other people’s walkways for nothing.
Maybe it’s like what Eddie Murphy discovered in that old "Saturday Night Live" sketch “White Like Me.” He goes undercover in white makeup and finds that when white people are among their own, they pop free champagne and live the high life. As Murphy puts it: “Slowly I began to realize that when white people are alone, they give things to each other. For free.”
Hezbollah, the Shiite Islamist political party in Lebanon, also gives things away for free. The favors Hezbollah does for people in the cities Tyre and Sidon probably don’t involve snowplows, but, like other mafias, Hezbollah tends to its own — the Shiite sick, elderly and hungry. They offer protection and hospitality and win loyalty that way. And they also demand devotion to their brutal, us-versus-them anti-Sunni cause. Some of us are family, the favors say; the rest are infidels.
The same is true with Louis Farrakhan, who currently helms the Nation of Islam. While the Southern Poverty Law Center classifies him as a dangerous anti-Semite, much of his flock says he’s just a little screwy and unfailingly magnanimous. To them.
When someone helps you when you’re down, or snowed in, it’s almost impossible to regard them as a blight on the world. In fact, you’re more likely to be overwhelmed with gratitude and convinced of the person’s inherent goodness.
You might end up like the upper-middle-class family I stayed with in France as a teenager. They did not attend a citywide celebration for the 100th birthday of Charles de Gaulle, the war hero who orchestrated the liberation of his country from Nazi Germany in 1944. They did have several portraits of Philippe Pétain, Nazi collaborator, on their wall.
When I screwed up the courage to ask how it was for them during the occupation, the lady of the house replied, “We were happy because the Nazis were very polis.” I didn’t know the word, so I excused myself to consult a French-English dictionary. I was in tears when I found the entry: "polite."
So when I accept generosity from my pandemic neighbors, acknowledging the legitimate kindness with a wave or a plate of cookies, am I also sealing us in as fellow travelers who are very polis to each other but not so much to “them”?
Loving your neighbor is evidently much easier when your neighborhood is full of people just like you.
What do we do about the Trumpites around us? Like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who spoke eloquently this week about her terrifying experience during the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, Americans are expected to forgive and forget before we’ve even stitched up our wounds. Or gotten our vaccines against the pandemic that former President Trump utterly failed to mitigate.
My neighbors supported a man who showed near-murderous contempt for the majority of Americans. They kept him in business with their support.
But the plowing.
On Jan. 6, after the insurrection, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) issued an aw-shucks plea for all Americans to love their neighbors. The United States, he said, “isn’t Hatfields and McCoys, this blood feud forever.” And, he added, “You can’t hate someone who shovels your driveway.”
At the time, I seethed; the Capitol had just been desecrated. But maybe my neighbor heard Sasse and was determined to make a bid for reconciliation.
So here’s my response to my plowed driveway, for now. Politely, but not profusely, I’ll acknowledge the Sassian move. With a wave and a thanks, a minimal start on building back trust. I’m not ready to knock on the door with a covered dish yet.
I also can’t give my neighbors absolution; it’s not mine to give. Free driveway work, as nice as it is, is just not the same currency as justice and truth. To pretend it is would be to lie, and they probably aren’t looking for absolution anyway.
But I can offer a standing invitation to make amends. Not with a snowplow but by recognizing the truth about the Trump administration and, more important, by working for justice for all those whom the administration harmed. Only when we work shoulder to shoulder* to repair the damage of the last four years will we even begin to dig out of this storm.
*Hey Virginia! Can you please hi-light some of the damageyou have witnessed over the past four years for us, please.
And please be specific.
Sunday, February 7, 2021
Brady now has 7 Super Bowl rings, 3 kids, 1 wife & I think 4 Super Bowl MVP's & some people just don't like him. I just don't understand why?
And the Eagles whooped his butt once upon a time!
Draft pick # 199 a long time ago...
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