I introduced Cathy to a smoothie at Date & Thyme yesterday. She enjoyed. 

Last night, it was Happy Hour at The Grand. Good time! We were joined by Theos and Dina from Greece and Steve and Cindy.

It was good to be back to The Grand again. My last visit was in January before the heart problem hit. Unfortunately, I could only partake of tomato soup and diet Coke. Still having my teeth worked on. Difficult to chew. Actually, impossible. I must admit I do not enjoy watching other people eat. I have now lost 24 pounds due to the inability to chew. I have refrained from going out because of that. 

It was a no choice situation the last few days. Cathy was a surprise visit and how could I not go out with Theos and Dina who came to visit from Greece.

Then there is alcohol. Doctors say my drinking days are over. Ok. Still it is difficult to watch friends have a few and enjoy their time by getting a bit high. While I remain stoic and bored.

Such is my life now. I will adjust.

Cathy and I plan on doing Higgs Beach today and then dinner at Antonia’s tonight. It will be soup again for me. I will not begrudge Cathy a meat or fish entre and a few drinks. The good host I shall be.

Galileo was a scientist making discoveries. Discoveries true, however the timeliness of some too early to be accepted. One of Galileo’s specialties was astronomy. He believed the Earth revolved around the sun. Heresy back then! The popular concept was the sun revolved around the Earth.

Even the Catholic Church was involved. In an area that did not touch God. The Catholic Church labeled Galileo a heretic.

On this day in 1945, President Harry Truman announced Nazi Germany had surrendered.

Hitler was a Jew hater. The world knows that. The atrocities he heaped upon those of the Jewish faith will never be forgotten. 

An example of Hitler’s hatred of Jews was the Nazi order in 1942 to kill all pregnant Jewish women in Kovno Ghetto.

Hitler did not create nor discover anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism goes back centuries. On May 7, 1355, 1,200 Jews in a particular community in Spain were killed by a Count Henry of Trastamara.

Vietnam stood strong in saying don’t screw with us. The Vietnamese defeated two major powers in the process. France and the U.S.

The French in 1954, The U.S. in 1972-73.

President Johnson expanded U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Overall he was a good Presidnet. However, he failed where Vietnam was concerned. Johnson wanted to be a “successful wartime Presidnet” as Roosevelt had. He failed in that regard.

Vietnam turned into a major failure for the U.S. and disrupted American society drastically.

Is Trump embarrassed that his sex life is openly being disclosed in a public trial in New York City?  I suspect not, even though some things are private. Sex is a personal private matter. One does not go round bragging about his or her conquests.

Donald does.

Now he is stuck in the Stormy Daniels hush money case in New York. She says they did it together. Describes Trump personally and other factors that make it appear they did it. Trump has consistently denied sex with Stormy. Wonder if he will testify. If he does, would he perjure himself?

Judge Aileen Cannon decided another point in favor of Trump yesterday in the documents case. Her decision favored Trump once again. She ruled the documents case would not be ready for trial later this month and adjourned the trial date to some future time to be decided. 

A victory for Trump. Means the case will not be tried before the election nor this year at all.

The quality of judges is important. Trump appointed a lot of favorites and misfits. Cannon one of them. He is reaping the benefit of the appointment.

Not American justice!

Trump is not one to waste time. The Judge in the New York City hush money case agreed to give Trump a day off from the trial to attend his son Barron’s graduation. The graduation is at 10 am in South Florida.

It was announced yesterday that Trump will also be speaker at a fundraiser later that same day in St. Paul, Minnesota. A 3 and 3/4 hour flight from Palm Beach to St. Paul.

Trump wastes no time, especially when it comes to money.

“Organized anarchy.” Leon Cooperman is a billionaire and Columbia University graduate. He describes the campus student protest as “organized anarchy.”

I do not know if I would go that far in describing the protests. I openly admit I disagree with the present protests. College students may be getting a hell of an education. However their mental and judgmental development is not yet sufficient to handle the Gaza problem. Most are nothing more than smart asses thinking they are big shots by espousing various theories.

Many comment to my expressions of not believing we should be guided by the judgment of the young and inexperienced. They disagree with me. They’re right as mine is to disagree with them. My problem is I do not understand why young inexperienced persons should lead/guide us. 

Enjoy your day!

Yesterday…..What a day!

Terrible afternoon, wonderful evening.

I had a CAT scan angiogram at 3. To possibly discover the cause of the extreme heart pain I had last week. Did not make sense in view of three heart surgeries I had recently.

It turned into a torture. Not blaming the Key West Hospital personnel. The cause may perhaps go back to Mount Sinai. The first pacemaker surgery which failed and had to be redone left me with three blood clots. Two in my left arm. My left arm is still in rest mode. Use it little. No blood work advised.

So it was the right arm yesterday. Four professionals tried to grab a vein from the wrist to my armpit. Finally succeeded near the armpit. Had to bring in an ultra sound machine to find deeper veins that might be usable. The regular ones still too beat up to take. They have shrunk among other things.

Took 45 minutes, but finally succeeded. My right arm covered with six bandages, the last near the armpit large. The arm slightly swollen at midsection.

I was not a happy camper, but did not complain. Everyone was doing their best. The last opportunity was the ultra sound and armpit. Glad it finally worked.

Now for the good.

I rushed to the airport to pick up Cathy. She had to wait a bit for me. Did not complain.

Her luggage is in Fort Lauderdale. Everyone on her Key West plane had their luggage left in Fort Lauderdale.

Cathy took it like a good sport.

Checked her into Silver Palms. Great rooms. 

Then we were both hungry. I had neither drunk nor eaten since the night before. We enjoyed an early dinner at Pepe’s. Then a long walk along the water. Stopped at Schooner’s Wharf for a while. I’m being a good boy and drinking diet Pepsi all the time. More walking and talking. Took her back to her room early and went home.

We are meeting Theos and Dina from Greece and Steve and Cindy Thompson at 4 today at The Grand.

Cathy renting a scooter this morning to do her thing. No baggage till 11:30. She slept last night in one of my old Key West Lou tee shirts.

Israel does not know when enough is enough. The nation has gone too far in seeking retribution. Israel will pay 50-100 years for its miscarriage. The problem has wrongfully extended throughout much of the world. Even to U.S. college campuses. 

Enough is enough!

History is interesting. Takes time for the “full truth” to come to light. Genghis Khan an example. He is rightfully known as one of history’s greatest conquerors. He established the largest contiguous land empire known to man up to his time. By winning battles. He was a brutal diabolical killer. Murdered whole peoples on his road to success.

He did accomplish good to some degree. Most dictators do. Mussolini gave Italy a good water system and made the trains run on time. Even Hitler achieved a degree of good in his early years. He gave his followers pride and economic security.

What did Genghis Kahn do? He established a “postal system.” Known at the time  as the “Yam” and “Orboo.” Stations were placed 20-30 miles from one to another, each featuring food, lodging and horses.

It was limited, however. The postal system was only available to merchants and travelers who could afford it. Eventually as most dictators do, Kahn abused the system and lost it.

Trump fined again for violating the gag order. The Judge warned him he is forcing him to jail Trump if he does not stop so doing.

It appears Trump wants to be jailed. Believes it will assist him in attracting voters. After all, he claims he is permitting himself to be “persecuted” in order to protect his followers.

Jail him. Let’s see how it plays out. Everyone is equal under the law. Trump must be stopped from destroying our judicial system. His anti-gag postures are just one example.

There is talk that Florida schools may stop teaching cursive writing. Cursive is writing with letters that flow. As children are taught to write today. Years ago, cursive writing was set aside and replaced by block letter writing. 

The Citizens’ Voice had a comment directed to the issue in today’s paper: “If schools stop teaching cursive, then how will anyone be able to read our founding documents or the signatures affixed thereto? What about wartime letters between your great-grandparents? The world will be poorer if this skill disappears.”

Many years ago, I dwelled on the issue. I was shocked by the result. Many persons, friends and strangers, went out of their way to tell me they could only write by printing letters. They had never been taught cursive.

Let’s leave cursive alone this time around. Government should find more important things to disrupt. That need disrupting. Florida has been under a disruptive binge under DeSantis. Nothing to be proud of.

Enjoy your day!

Common events can be happy ones. I have two ahead of me today.

At 3, I will be receiving a CT Angiogram of my chest. Recall last week, I suffered extreme heart pain. The worst ever! Thought I was getting the big time heart attack. Strange since recently I had received 3 heart surgeries at Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami over a 5 week period in February and March.

The CT scan today is to determine why the pain. Fortunately, no pain since last week.

I am upset it took this long to get scheduled for the test. Eight days. I am doing it at the Key West Hospital. Nevertheless, I am thrilled the day is finally here.

Happy #2 is Cathy Holka arrives at 4:30 today for a few days. My Cocktails at 7 friend from Seattle. She is stopping in Key West for a three days visit. 

Cathy is on her way home from a trip to Belize. While there, she decided to spend a few days in Key West. 

In Belize, she broke a bone in her foot while snorkeling. Walking with a boot now.

She will be my dinner companion for the next few nights. And my companion day wise also. 

Cathy loves Key West. She resided her for a few years in the late 1980’s. She rented an apartment at the former Mercedes Hospital building on Virginia Street.

From the teens to early 1940’s, the Mercedes Hospital was administered by nurse Maria Valdez de Gutsens. Since her death, rumor has it she continues to walk its corridors and rooms. Touching and otherwise helping the sick.

Cathy claims she was “touched” by Mother Gutsens.

Cathy says she was really sick. A bronchial condition. Fever, sweats, body wracked in pain. She was asleep. Felt someone raise her arm as if taking her pulse. She could not see who it was. Mother Maria was not visually visible. She could feel, however. There were lights flashing through her window from the outside also.

Cathy describes her experience as “totally peaceful.” Yet, no words spoken. 

She describes the happening in the words of the time. She claims it was a “blast” and “cool.

Cathy would like to meet another who has had a similar experience. To discuss their happenings and how each felt about it.

I believe the whole Gutsens/Cathy story. A nut Cathy is not.

By the way, she did not get any better soon as a result of Mother Maria’s visit.

Cathy will arrive this afternoon wearing a boot.

Keep shooting! Continue selling guns without adequate safe guards!

Ty’oh Settles a lovely 3 year old. Will never make 4.

She was riding in a car which was caught in a Washington, D.C. crossfire. The vehicle, driver and Ty not pat of the crossfire battle.

A bullet struck and killed Ty.

Some things are hard hard to do.

Rudy Giuliani filed for bankruptcy last year. He since has been forced to live on a budget of $43,000 a month. He now says he cannot live on that amount. He requires an increase.

William Shakespeare’s words of centuries ago still commonplace today. Like “The course of true love never did run true…..Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once…..What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet….What’s love cannot be undone.”

Lunched yesterday with Theo and Dina at the Thai Light Restaurant at the foot of the Palm Street bridge. Sushi!

My friends loved it! Fortunately, I enjoyed their company. Thought I could handle a California roll without teeth. Could not. Theo ate my portion.

I pick up Cathy at 4:30 at the airport. My medical procedure should be over by that time. 

I am looking forward to her visit. She always cooks a meal for me. Lamb chops one of my favorites and she does them for me. Not this trip, however. No culinary efforts required of her. Cannot chew. Therefore cannot eat. Cathy will owe me two meals the next time she visits.

Enjoy your day!

Cinco de Mayo is a yearly celebration held on May 5 to celebrate Mexico’s victory over the Second French Empire at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. Mexico’s troops were led by General Ignacio Zaragoza.

For some reason, Cinco de Mayo is not celebrated with any significance in Mexico. However, it is celebrated in Key West. Key Westers party with dancing, drinking and food. Margaritas the drink of choice.

Enjoy the special holiday today!

Mystik Dan, a long shot, won the Kentucky Derby. An 18-1 shot.

The finish thrilling. A three horse photo finish that took judges several minutes to decide. The victory by a nose.

Trump creates problems. He seeks to isolate a particular group to support him by so doing.

Trump’s recent is his pledge to fight “anti-white feeling.” He claims whites are downtrodden because of government and corporate programs created to battle racism and boost diversity in American life.

Trump continues attacking his prosecutors. Yesterday, he accused Democrats of ” running a Gestapo administration.” He called Jack Smith a “fucking asshole.”

Presidential language?

Especially the Gestapo charge from a man who has openly made statements he would run a boss driven government similar to those of autocratic authoritarian leaders.

Lunch today at Thai Island Restaurant on Palm Street with Theos and Dina Markos.

Sushi time!

An interesting Frank Sinatra observation on the internet re his eating habits. One of favorite dishes was stuffed artichokes. Mine, also, though I rarely get them these days.

A holiday favorite prepared by my grandmother, mother and former wife that I enjoyed. Rarely available in Key West restaurants.

Sinatra’s favorite stuffed artichoke was prepared similar to that I enjoyed. Fresh herbs, bread crumbs, cheese, oil, capers and chopped black olives.

Oh, the days of good meals!

An interesting little known Rory McIlroy fact. He left high school at 16, with the support of his parents, to focus on his dream of becoming the world’s top golfer.

Enjoy your Sunday!

Today’s the day. The most famous horse race in America. The Kentucky Derby!

The race solely for three year old thoroughbreds. One and a quarter miles.

It is the first leg of the Triple Crown.

The Derby known also as “The Run For The Roses.” The winning horse is draped in a blanket of roses.

The race lasts two minutes. Referred to as “The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports.”

The Derby was first run in 1875. Today the 150th running of the event. It is the most watched and most attended horse race in the United States.

The father of the Kentucky Derby is Col. Meriwether Louis Clark Jr., grandson of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In 1872, he organized the Louisville Jockey Club which raised the money to build the track known as Churchill Downs. The track is named after John and Henry Churchill who provided the land for the racetrack.

In 1875, the first Kentucky Derby was run before 10,000 people. Today’s attendees will be roughly 160,000. The betting handle will be in the area of $20 million for all of today’s Kentucky Derby races.

The Derby is wrapped in tradition. The mint julep the traditional drink of the race. Foodwise burgoo, a thick stew of beef, chicken, pork and vegetables. Spectators watch from everywhere. From the infield costing the price of a general admissions ticket. Poor viewing, but great partying. “Millionaires Row” are expensive box seats that attract the rich.

An infield ticket on the day of the race costs around $275. The ticket charge begins two weeks earlier at $135 and runs up as race day approaches. A Millionaire Box Seat is in the thousands. A bit cheaper is a “reserved seat” which will cost the day of the race $3,500 with a special fee added thereon. The additional fee in the area of $500 plus.

The Kentucky Derby not a race for pikers.

The purse this year is $5 million. The winner collects $3.1 million of that amount.

Partying begins two weeks prior to the race. The best!

I have never attended a Kentucky Derby in Louisville itself. I have attended other Louisville events, however. A great partying town anytime!

My Key West days have generally been spent at the Yacht Club, Don’s Place or the Chart Room watching and partying. Fun time all!

The race is at 6:57 this evening. If not in Louisville, watch on TV! A thrill!

Enjoy your day!

Sugar Ray Robinson was born this day in 1921. Considered by many to be the greatest boxer of all time, pound for pound. Six times a world champion. Once as a welterweight, five times as a middleweight.

I got to see the man at least a dozen times. Not as a boxer, but as a fellow on his way to visit his Mom

I attended Manhattan College. Located at 246th Street, just off Broadway. His Mother lived on 238th Street, just off Broadway. Sugar Ray used to park his 1950 “pink” Cadillac convertible on Broadway when he visited. My friends and I would occasionally walk Broadway. Not to see the Champion. Merely to take a break from studies.

On those walks, we were fortunate a few times to see Sugar Ray getting in or out of his car. He always gave us a “Hi, guys!” We always returned with a “Hi, Champ!”

Later years I learned the color of his car was not pink. It was reported he would never drive a pink car! It was fuchsia.

On this day in 1765, the first North American medical college opened in Philadelphia.

Fires were difficult to control 100 plus years ago. In 1901, one fire alone destroyed 1,7000 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida.

For sports fans…..On this day in 1936, Joe DiMaggio made his major league debut. He got 3 hits.

On this day in 1937, Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel “Gone With The Wind.”

An oldie movie favorite is Going My Way. Premiered this day in 1944 starring Bing Crosby.

American citizens sacrificed big time during World War II. Rationing, for example.

I remember. My Mother had a book of stamps which were to be used for certain purchases. One was meat. It was a rarity at meal time. Little was available. Pasta was the frequent meal of choice.

No one complained. It was one of the ways everyone contributed to the war effort.

Meat rationing finally ended in June 1947. Rationing of many items continued for a time after the War.

Fred Klein leaves Key West tomorrow to return to New York City. From being a Snowbird to a Metropolitan New Yorker. A good man. The best! Hopefully, I will be able to spend more time with him next year.

Janis Paige. Retired actress and singer. A beauty, a talent. Her career spread 60 years.

She is now 101 years old. God bless!

One of her hits was Pajama Game on Broadway.

Brittney Griner says she considered suicide while imprisoned in Russia. She said, “I wanted to take my life more than once in the first weeks.”

She described her time in the Russian corrective colony 300 miles southeast of Moscow as “really cold. It’s a work camp. You go there to work. There’s no rest.”

She added, “The mattress had a huge blood stain on it, and they gave you these two thin sheets, so you’re basically laying on bars.” She described conditions as “unsanitary…..prisoners using long-expired toothpaste…..to clean off mold in their cells.”

Glad Brittney is back and her life normal again. May all U.S. citizens imprisoned in Russia be returned to the U.S.

Enjoy your day!

Tons of items requiring comment. Some consequential, some not. All important to me at the moment, however.

Engelbert Humperdinck is 88 years old today. My age. His name alone is worthy of comment.

Engelbert was a great singer beginning in the 1960’s. British origin. Became popular world wide. The song that made him was Release Me. I recall dancing to the tune and many of his other love recordings back then.

His name strange. Not originally is. His for real name was Gerry Dorsey. He adopted the long Engelbert moniker with Release Me. Engelbert Humperdinck was the name of an older German composer.

Engelbert is still working today. He has 17 concerts arranged.

Another famous singer of love songs in the 1960’s and thereafter was Tom  Jones. Fierce competitors. Jones reportedly disliked Engelbert vehemently for some reason.

Both great performers.

I finally went out to dinner last night. My surgery recovery has kept me in.

Dined at A & B Lobster House with my dear Greek friends Theos and Dina Markos. They had arrived for their annual visit yesterday from Greece. They were Greeks bearing gifts. Brought me many.

I still am without teeth. My dinner consisted of Lobster Bisque. As usual, outstanding. No alcohol. My drinking days are over. It was a Diet Pepsi for me.

I watched Theos and Dina enjoy their meals. I complained not.

Great people! We frequently keep in touch during the year. Theos reads the blog every day. 

I have spent much time in Greece. Greek women are special in that they care for their men in strange ways. Most women do. Greek women show it. It impresses me that Dina cuts her food and shares it with Theos. Directly into his mouth and on his plate.

We plan on getting together more during their stay.

There is a line between civil disobedience and lawlessness. Campuses belong to the universities, not the students.

I am bothered that I hear no concern by the protesters for the Jews initially killed, brutally, and those taken hostage on October 7. Palestinians are not the only ones who have been victimized.

The students fail to take into account that Palestinians lets Hamas run Gaza for 20 years.

Let all the facts be discussed. Not selectively as the student protesters have been doing.

In the last 24 hours, police have become significantly involved on the campuses of Columbia, UCLA, Dartmouth, Texas University, Tulane, Fordham and City College of New York.

Properly so.

A new recommended cure for sciatica pain. A banana a day. Sort of like an apple a day to keep the doctor away.

Trump supports Presidential immunity. Covers his ass! On the other hand, he wants to prosecute Biden. Doesn’t make sense. But then not much Trump articulates does make sense.

Trump knocks Biden every opportunity he can. Even where the charges against Biden are false.

Trump forgets what he says today comes back to hit him in the face tomorrow.

Trump has difficulty pronouncing certain words. Like “America,” “Hamas,” and now ‘infrastructure.” He also mixes up Joe Biden with Barack Obama.

Dementia?

The Studios of Key West. A big evening tonight. The Studios’ Opening Thursday of the Month. Three floors of art. Followed by a drink at the rooftop bar to conclude a pleasant evening. Six to eight.

Abortion and limitations thereto resemble a scenario where women’s bodies increasingly belong to the State. Wrong! A no no! Women’s rights re being decimated! Wake up men!  You are contributing to a violent wrong! By permitting such legislation to pass! Time to protect the ladies again!

Key West Hospital updating. The Lower Keys Medical Center has completed renovations to its cardiac catherization lab.

I hope the renovation is well done. I recently had three heart surgeries  at Mount Saini in Miami. Spent five weeks there.

Sunday I had a bad chest pain experience. I am being scheduled for a heart catherization in Key West to see if something is amiss.

Time to call people what they are. Those who claim “voter fraud” are not skeptics. They are “ignorant.”

Trump is beginning it again. Says he will only accept 2024 election results “if everything is honest.”

Republican Senator Vance of Ohio is being considered to be Trump’s running mate. Amazing how a worm turns. Vance said in a TV interview recently that he is “skeptical” Vice Presidnet Pence’s life was endangered.

He wasn’t watching the same TV I was. Perhaps because he was right in the Capitol and heard and saw everything going on first hand. Now he is reflecting the typical political whore and Trump ring kisser by denying Pence was in danger of death.

Enjoy your day!

Marriage is and has been an evolving state.

Lets begin with the stone age. Couples existed, but not as we know them today. Males and females got together for sex, child sharing and life’s daily tasks. Respect was lacking. The male/husband dominant. The female/wife a slave of sorts.

Traditional marriage as known today difficult to pinpoint. Non-existent.

Marriage became a mix. All numbers and kinds as time moved on.

Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines. Men have taken multiple wives in various cultures. China and Africa the most common. American Mormons in the 19th century.

Polygamy is still common across much of the Muslim world.

The idea of marriage between one man and one woman is relatively recent. Two centuries ago, monogamous households were a very tiny portion of the world population. Existing in Western Europe and little settlements in North America.

The first recorded evidence of marriage contracts and ceremonies dates back some 4,000 years ago t0 2350 B.C. in Mesopotamia. Marriage at that time was primarily among the poor class. Its purpose to preserve power, forge alliances, acquire land and produce legitimate heirs. Marriage as described came into being as society moved from a hunter to agrarian one. Women had little say who they married and how they were treated once married.

Religion/the Church is involved today. It was not at the beginning, however.

In ancient Rome, marriage was a civil affair governed by imperial law. When the Roman Empire collapsed in the 5th century, Catholic Church courts took over and elevated marriage to a holy union. As the Church’s power grew through the Middle ages, so did its influence over marriage. The Catholic Church’s Council of Trent which existed from 1545 to 1563 elevated marriage to a Sacrament, decreed weddings be performed in public, by priests, and before witnesses.

Love was not part of the relationship. Love and marriage were widely regarded as incompatible. Public kissing between spouses was condemned by Plutarch as early as 200 B.C. who described it as “disgraceful.” In the 12th and 13th centuries, Europeans viewed extramarital affairs as the highest form of romance, not marriage. In the 18th century, the French philosopher Montesquiece wrote that any man who was in love with his wife was probably too daft to be loved by another woman.

Romance entered the picture in the 17th and 18th centuries. Enlightenment thinkers determined life was about the pursuit of happiness.

The Industrial Revolution contributed. It enabled middle class young men to select a spouse, pay for a wedding, with regard to parental approval of no consequence. Love blossomed!

Marriage changed in the 20th century. Women grew from subordinated objects to the equal of their husbands. They were no longer regarded as property. If unhappy, couples could divorce. Today divorce ends approximately 50 percent of U.S. marriages.

Whereas men had been “playboys” for centuries and cheated, women now joined the club as “playgirls.” By the end of the 20th century marriage stability had become endangered.

Gay marriage became acceptable further undermining traditional marriage.

What’s next? Who knows. Change is a gradual constant where marriage is concerned.

Enjoy your day!

Willie Nelson is 91 today. Happy birthday, Willie!

He has made America happy with his voice and tunes. My favorite…..On the Road Again!

May he continue to perform and make another generation of Americans happy!

From happiness to sadness. On this day in 1975, the Vietnam War ended as the South Vietnam capitol in Saigon fell to Communist forces.

It was a disgraceful day for American Army and Marine troops. They gallantly fought to protect the capitol and persons inside seeking to escape. Escape was helicopters from the roof while Communists were shooting from the ground and fighting to enter the building. The disgracefulness was we had been beaten and required to escape in an embarrassing fashion.

My feeling at the time was how could this happen to American forces?

We were shamed.

Campus protests must end. Universities have gone far enough in “negotiating” a solution. Time to call MORE police in.

My opinion. Many will disagree. Such is life. Time for “education” to take back university grounds.

Trump does not like his attorney in the Stormy Daniels hush money case. His attorney is Todd Blanche. A professional with experience and a reputation to back it up. Trump would not have retained him in the first instance if such were not the case.

Trump feels his attorney is not “aggressive enough.”

Representing Trump can be no bargain. No matter how much he pays his attorney. If he pays him.

Donald, you picked him. You’re stuck with him. Shut your mouth and let him do his job. He is a responsible capable attorney. Let him do what he does best. Lawyering.

Stop being an asshole! You are only hurting yourself.

Not all attorneys are Roy Cohens. Nor do they want to be. Recall he was repeatedly indicted and ultimately disbarred. Your kind of attorney, Donald?

Enjoy your day!

The musical Hair premiered on Broadway this day in 1968.

I was fortunate to view one of the opening performances. Not on Broadway, however.

Hair opened 40 blocks to the south in the East Village where it had a six week run before moving to Broadway.

The show received instantaneous dynamic reviews when it opened off Broadway. Dealt with issues involving the generation gap, Vietnam War, drug culture, and sexual revolution.

I had to see it. My policeman friend Bob Mazza joined me. We drove to New York City to view the off Broadway presentation. I thought Hair was right on. Bob was more conservative. A typical police officer. He thought the show stunk, was disgusting.

April 28 involved another significance. The year 1945. It was the evening of April 28-29. Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were married. Not the typical exciting wedding. They both died within hours by suicide.

Adolf, deservedly so. Allied troops were nearby. He died not wanting to face his prospective captors alive.

Eva had loved Adolf for years. She was happy to finally marry him and soon thereafter die with him.

TB has increased every year since 2020 in the U.S. following a steady decline.

The increase follows a 27 year decrease. Last year alone, 9,615 cases were recorded in the U.S. Nevertheless, the incidence of TB in the U.S. continues to be “among the lowest in the world.”

Tik Tok could experience a nationwide U.S. ban in one year unless the China banned parent ByteDance divests. The U.S. would not be the first to partially or totally ban.

Countries that have partially or totally banned Tik Tok are Afghanistan, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, European Union, France, India, Indonesia, Latvia, Netherlands, Nepal, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Somalia, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom.

The U.S. has already partially banned. U.S. authorities had already ordered government agencies prior to Congress’ recent vote as part of the money package to delete Tik Tok from its data bases and systems over data security concerns. More than one half of the 50 U.S. states also have banned the app from official devices as have Congress and U.S. armed forces.

MAGAs do not hesitate throwing blows. Get even ones. Trump now slamming RFK Jr.’s family. Speaker Johnson soon to walk the gangplank.

Mark Twain words of wisdom: “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.”

Enjoy your day!