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Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Trump and WWII
Yesterday, Hawaii was attacked by the Empire of Japan. We are waiting on the Governor of Hawaii to see what his response to this supposed incident is. It is that Governor's responsibility in this matter to react to this attack. And I am as popular as ever boys.
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Friday, April 17, 2020
Lost Philly HIstoric Legacy - Donald J Trump
Lost, stolen (souvenirs) athletic trophies @Penn w/ superathlete D.J.Trump 1967-69
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Monday, April 6, 2020
Saturday, April 4, 2020
Friday, April 3, 2020
Kenzo Covid Bites - Stanley Sweetheart - Robert T Westbrook - 12 1/2 Monkeys?
Rumors running rampant and Ryan Reynold's safe distancing La La Land drinking club grapevine that Don Johnson is vigorously resisting (threatened lawsuits) re-release of his first starring Film Debut and almost Career Ending film, soft core skin flick (then Rated R?) "the Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart".
Sequel (adapted) script by author Robert T Westbrook has an aged Stanley (Bruce Willis) waking up from a decades long bad acid trip, finding himself old, alone and a greeter at the Hell's Gate entrance of a Wal-Mart in Northeast Philly.
Some flashbacks to 12 Monkeys and Stanley Sweetheart (sans the nude Don Johnson) and Stanley is befriended by a Russian oligarch shopping at the Wal-Mart for TP.
The Russian oligarch befriends the aged Stanley and offers him a new Job. As it turns out it is Super President of Russia Vladimer Putin and the new job is none other than POTUS of the new Russian state of North America.
President Sweetheart (Bruce) hooks up with a granddaughter of Cathy (Kim Kardashian) and the rest of movie is filmed in the POTUS bedroom at the White House.
Adapted Stanley Sweeheart Deux film said to be already optioned by the legendary film maker M. Night Shyamalan to be adapted as a quasi sequel with Bruce Willis, via a 12 Monkeys theme as another one of his Philly-Noir masterpieces.
Working Title: Kenzo Covid Bites
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Stay Home Sign - Cape Town, South Africa - Coronavirus / Covid 19 - March 25, 2020 -/- 25 March 2020
A billboard is installed on an apartment building in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, March 25, 2020, before the country of 57 million people, will go into a nationwide lockdown for 21 days from Thursday to fight the spead of the new coronvirus. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/ Nardus Engelbrech)
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Sunday, March 22, 2020
Prince Harry - 2nd Duke of Windsor
It is hard to put oneself in self-imposed exile from a dysfunctional family such as the House of Windor-Mountbatten. Prince Harry, like his mother before him, chose to walk away when it became apparent that whipping boy of the reign of E2, is passing away into history, and Charles, as direct heir can no longer do the role of whipping boy that he shared at times with his late aunt Princess Margaret.
That Margaret was not allowed to marry beneath her station in life caused so many problems later into her life. That Edward VIII was not allowed to marry the person he needed to function in life with, a partner that was contaminated by religious supersition mojo regarding divorce and also being an American led him to abdicate and live the rest of his life in exile from the dysfunctional clowns on the payroll at Buck House under the monarch is in residence flag.
That the Duchess of Sussex is an American and of mixed race is part of the typical Brit racism that has precipated the present Duke of Sussex to take stock of his life and move to the friendly shores of North America and its lack of obsolete dogmatic royal bloodline stuff, but more on a system of merit to get on in life.
That the Frogmore Cottage thing, to live in the shadow of the castle and still be separate but equal. Can we sell you stock in the Brooklyn Bridge Harry old chum? Wink. Nod.
The bickering in the press last spring and summer between the Duchess and the White Princess, future White Queen, was all baloney as I saw it.
The same playbook from the Palace for getting Rid of Diana, the first Princess of Wales with Charles, was in play in the Royal playing field for him and his new wife methinks. And funny thing, Harry is not stupid.
Good Luck to the current Duke of Windsor and his family.
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Thursday, March 12, 2020
Pro Spanish Influenza Liberty Loan Parade and Rally in Philly - October 18, 1919 - Public Ledger 19 Oct 1918
Click on Photo to see Full Image.
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Saturday, March 7, 2020
Trump to award golfers Annika Sorenstam, Gary J. Player the Presidential Medal of Freedom
To ger your Award, now available as the Prize in Cracker Jack. LOL
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Thursday, March 5, 2020
The Day Britain Lost America - March 5, 1770 - Boston Massacre 250 th Anniversary - Monday, Bloody Monday
The Day Britain Lost America -
March 5, 1770 -
Boston Massacre 250 th Anniversary -
Monday, Bloody Monday
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Gray's Alley - To Gatzmer Street / Tun/Ton Alley 1875-1910
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| Phila.Atlas Wards 2 through 20, 29, 31 - 1875 |
It would appear that references to Gray's Alley also refer to a later name change to Gatzmer Street around mid 19th century. Also extension of Gatzmer Street passed Water Street to waterfront via Tun/Ton Alley. Tun Alley as in Tun Tavern, Water Street and Tun Alley, 18th century.
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| circa 1800 |
(above: Philadelphia and Her Merchants as consituted fifty to seventry years ago by Adam Ritter. 1860)
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| Bromley 1895 Map |
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| Bromley 1910 Map . |
Sunday, March 1, 2020
Lincoln Portrait in West Wing Under Attack - Abuse of Art / National Treasures Trump Style
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| Wikipedia Commons, Old Frame Lincoln by artist George Henry Story |
I hope Pence and his White House team take better care of Coronavirus management in the U.S. than they mistreat the Lincoln Portrait, the great emancipator, by artist George Henry Story, formerly in the Oval Office, with Bush and Obama admin and replaced by one of Jackson, the de-emancipator of native peoples, with Trump.
Looks like they replaced the original frame, a no no in the art world, and replaced it in a cheap gilt imitation frame from Michaels's. The canvas looks like the poor fit of the painting in the frame is causing stress on the painting. Too much or too little humidity in that unidentified room in the West Wing.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2020/02/photo-shows-pence-team-trying-to-pray-away-coronavirus/#disqus_thread
According to EurAsia Review, the official White House photo by D. Myles Cullen depicts Vice President Mike Pence meeting with the President’s Coronavirus Task Force earlier this week in the West Wing of the White House.
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Thursday, February 27, 2020
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Monday, February 24, 2020
Where's my order of protection from moron humans with permits and guns.
Where's my order of protection from moron humans with permits and guns.
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Sunday, February 23, 2020
Thursday, February 20, 2020
The Racist Tone of Trump and Giuliani's Vietnam Veterans Memorial in New York City.
I am not dead yet and my long term memory is quite good. I remember a lot of media noise from TV (three channels) and the Murdoch NY Post and the NYT - PC chat makers in the 80's. And looking at it all now from the true POV - ART OF THE LIE Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated in 1985 and (?) built by Trump's construction??? ...
A lot of background noise in which, if I were a total innocent, would have to say from memory that all the PR and Publicists and Free Murdoch canary cage newsprint - giving most credit to The Donald for the stirring monument to our local boys who fought and more importantly died in the Vietnam War.
Something triggered this thing. The firing of Colonel Alexander Vindman who was fired from his White House job for testifying to the House on Trump extortion call to the President of Ukraine. And an Internet headline of 1,000 veterans attacking Trump and defending Colonel Vindman in the public forum.
Then trying to refresh my memory - There is this thing. I see in Wikipedia that Donald Trump donated one million dollars to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in downtown New York City.
I would if I could demand a citation other than the footnote numbers in Wiki. Because somehow a cow or a cat or whatever Donald Trump is if classifiable as a animal / beast does not change its stripes and or spots except when lying 24/7 in the President's House at DC's Pennsylvania Avenue.
That I know in my heart and soul that Donald Trump's million dollar donation never made it to the commission but got side-tracked or put in accounts receivable while the city went ahead and build this racist monument to whites only in particular in NYC.
I say racist because when I first visited this site I was moved by the words of letters sent home from Vietnam by soldiers doing the grunt work of war.
But the monument is built at street level and something did no ring true in the sincerity or inspiration of its design. And then, and well as now, my POV is not from a penthouse or a corner CEO office in a high rise office building far, far away from the rhythm and beat of the street of ordinary people such as myself.
The "letters etched in glass lacked just one thing" - my inner voice said to me as I finished that first visit. The Monument lacked one letter in Spanish or even one letter translated from Spanish from a soldier with a Hispanic sounding name as I recall.
Not much true bang for the buck from a pile of glass bricks for 2.5 MILLION in 1985 Bucks imho.
That literature on the site states that it was a nationwide search for letters home from Vietnam Veterans. That perhaps if the Vietnam Veterans NYC memorial were a national monument, it would be fair to say to search nationwide for veteran's letters with white sounding surnames were used and would be something that Fred Trump would have appreciated and actually contributed to in the 1930s, 1940s etc. And a lover of all things fascist / racist too.
I say this now in retrospect. I knew it in my thirties. I smelled a con regarding this monument and its insincerity to Vietnam Veterans. The hype was too much at the time. People with bone-spurs had the New York Times hanging on his every quote like he was going to transform NYC architecture instead of just putting a band-aid over it - clad covered over more like the case, in many cases.
Hell Rudy Giuliani had already poured another $7 million into the shrine in the months prior to 911 and rededicated the park with a new fountain added and black granite pylons listing the names of the seven thoughts NYC dead in Vietnam.
BTW, I count approximately 245 Hispanic names on the list of the 1,741 NYC Vietnam dead. That works out to be something like 14% of the dead. National search for letters and not one Spanish letter on Trump and now Redux Rudy's monument to greed and mob supplied concrete like over at the Rudy'd defunct emergency city command center at 7 WTC - defunct after 911.
And the Wikipedia article already says that they are going to knock down this monument of respect to Vietnam Veterans when the Second Avenue Subway boondoggle reaches down into downtown in the next decade or so. Can't put a subway entrance out of the basement of the two or three adjacent office towers. They could put Penn Station under Madison Square Garden but the public officials are already dreaming up ways to make a fortune off of no bid contracts and trash the Trump-Giuliani Veterans cash cow one more time.
Walk of Honor Names
https://www.vietnamveteransplaza.com/virtual-tour/walk-of-honor/walk-of-honor-names-abbate-through-brandes/
Oswego NY Palladium Times 7 May 1985
Among those in the dedication ceremonies were men wearing black armbands and black jackets to remember 2, 247 American soldiers list as missing in action.
President Reagan sent a telegram asking veterans to "re-dedicate ourselves to the mission comrades in arms."
Said developer Donald Trump, who donated $1 million to the veterans and to a jobs program set up by the city to help 70, 000 unemployed New York veterans. "It was a great evening. I only wish it could have taken place 10 years ago"
(Have to wonder if the reporters or editorial staff of a New York State newspaper worded the money thing about Trump as it stood at the moment - and not like NYT reporters repeating the official party line over and over again like a lot of hack historians - with regard to the back-dated Trump Corp check still to be cashed by the city and it being moved from the monument construction budget column to the "maybe we will do something for Vets in the future thing" A/R column of the accounting tricks books of Ed Koch & co. etc.)
NYT - 7 May 1985 - New York Pays Homage to Vietnam Veterans
The centerpiece of the commission's effort is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a glass-block wall, 70 feet long and 16 feet high, which is etched with excerpts from 83 letters - including Sergeant Calamia's - that were written by or to the soldiers who served in America's most unpopular war.
''It's not just brick and mortar,'' said Donald Trump, the real-estate executive who donated $1 million of the $2.5 million raised by the commission, which is also charged with financing programs for unemployed local veterans. ''It's very much a living monument."
''I was a very strong opponent of the Vietnam War,'' he said, ''but I also recognized that the people who went to fight were great Americans. I always thought they got a bad shake in life and never got their just recognition.''
That literature on the site states that it was a nationwide search for letters home from Vietnam Veterans. That perhaps if the Vietnam Veterans NYC memorial were a national monument, it would be fair to say to search nationwide for veteran's letters with white sounding surnames were used and would be something that Fred Trump would have appreciated and actually contributed to in the 1930s, 1940s etc. And a lover of all things fascist / racist too.
I say this now in retrospect. I knew it in my thirties. I smelled a con regarding this monument and its insincerity to Vietnam Veterans. The hype was too much at the time. People with bone-spurs had the New York Times hanging on his every quote like he was going to transform NYC architecture instead of just putting a band-aid over it - clad covered over more like the case, in many cases.
Hell Rudy Giuliani had already poured another $7 million into the shrine in the months prior to 911 and rededicated the park with a new fountain added and black granite pylons listing the names of the seven thoughts NYC dead in Vietnam.
BTW, I count approximately 245 Hispanic names on the list of the 1,741 NYC Vietnam dead. That works out to be something like 14% of the dead. National search for letters and not one Spanish letter on Trump and now Redux Rudy's monument to greed and mob supplied concrete like over at the Rudy'd defunct emergency city command center at 7 WTC - defunct after 911.
And the Wikipedia article already says that they are going to knock down this monument of respect to Vietnam Veterans when the Second Avenue Subway boondoggle reaches down into downtown in the next decade or so. Can't put a subway entrance out of the basement of the two or three adjacent office towers. They could put Penn Station under Madison Square Garden but the public officials are already dreaming up ways to make a fortune off of no bid contracts and trash the Trump-Giuliani Veterans cash cow one more time.
Walk of Honor Names
https://www.vietnamveteransplaza.com/virtual-tour/walk-of-honor/walk-of-honor-names-abbate-through-brandes/
Oswego NY Palladium Times 7 May 1985
Among those in the dedication ceremonies were men wearing black armbands and black jackets to remember 2, 247 American soldiers list as missing in action.
President Reagan sent a telegram asking veterans to "re-dedicate ourselves to the mission comrades in arms."
Said developer Donald Trump, who donated $1 million to the veterans and to a jobs program set up by the city to help 70, 000 unemployed New York veterans. "It was a great evening. I only wish it could have taken place 10 years ago"
(Have to wonder if the reporters or editorial staff of a New York State newspaper worded the money thing about Trump as it stood at the moment - and not like NYT reporters repeating the official party line over and over again like a lot of hack historians - with regard to the back-dated Trump Corp check still to be cashed by the city and it being moved from the monument construction budget column to the "maybe we will do something for Vets in the future thing" A/R column of the accounting tricks books of Ed Koch & co. etc.)
NYT - 7 May 1985 - New York Pays Homage to Vietnam Veterans
The centerpiece of the commission's effort is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a glass-block wall, 70 feet long and 16 feet high, which is etched with excerpts from 83 letters - including Sergeant Calamia's - that were written by or to the soldiers who served in America's most unpopular war.
''It's not just brick and mortar,'' said Donald Trump, the real-estate executive who donated $1 million of the $2.5 million raised by the commission, which is also charged with financing programs for unemployed local veterans. ''It's very much a living monument."
''I was a very strong opponent of the Vietnam War,'' he said, ''but I also recognized that the people who went to fight were great Americans. I always thought they got a bad shake in life and never got their just recognition.''
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Melania Trump Endorses Christian University Bigotry Policies in Accepting "Woman of Distinction" Award fm Palm Beach Atlantic U.
Portrait of Melania Trump from Whitehouse.gov. Mrs. Trump wears a blazer by Dolce & Gabbana
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States license.https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2005-01-08-0501080089-story.html
Oskey is gay, but he denied it when his boss threatened to fire him if he was, according to the complaint Oskey filed in a state court in Palm Beach County.
But the supervisor soon confronted him with a nine-month-old police report indicating Oskey had been mugged near a gay bar, Oskey's complaint alleges.
The university suspended him immediately, fired him within weeks and upheld the firing without explanation when he appealed it, the complaint says.
University spokeswoman Becky Peeling declined to comment, pointing to the ongoing lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages.
According to Palm Beach County Equal Opportunity Office documents, the university has said Oskey was fired for "computer misconduct and lack of candor with supervisors, unrelated to his sexual orientation."
But Oskey's complaint maintains those were merely pretexts, and county equal-opportunity director Harry L. Lamb Jr. recently found "reasonable grounds to believe [Oskey's] allegation that he was discharged on the basis of his sexual orientation."
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