IS IT REALLY SO-?

  I spent a good part of the day today reading through about four days' worth of newspapers that I hadn't had the chance to do before. I don't know whether to say that it was more uplifting than disappointing or overall, more disturbing at what I read and what it all meant, at least to me.

It seems that many, many people around the world have their own ideas about what has been happening and what can/or should be done about it. What must be done about it? Or how we have to give up all hope and give in to the helplessness of overwhelming odds and remain a species which never seems to learn to do the right thing, which never seems to learn from its experiences and hence is doomed, foretold, to live through these things over and over and over again.

 Are we doomed to be the jackass species which never seems to be able to pull itself out of the mud pit into which it is jumped feet first? Do we enjoy ourselves pontificating great warnings and suggestions and then proceed to ignore it all? All so that our predictions prove true, gaining a reputation as a great foreteller with a deep understanding of the foibles of the human race? 

  Every word that then emerges from their mouths are treated as pearls of wisdom, of specific directions and suggestions as to what we must do. How we must understand the ways of life and the ways of the world. And, of course, it all must be filtered through their tongues and eyes and mouths and ears. Apparently, only what is inside their head between their ears that is applicable to the joys and the woes of the world. And of course, those woes have simply come about because their singular advice was rejected or not followed exactly as they should have done.

What we get as a result of overdone, overgrown cases of hubris and self-abnegation from those who really do know better, with better advice, but who are so intimidated that they find themselves paralyzed and unable to speak up. Too often it is the case of too little, too late or they have convinced themselves that for sure, some compromise can be drawn. but with too many timorous steps, their points of compromise are overlooked, denied, deemed insufficient or too weak or too extreme and they die before they have fully lived.

Always there are questions remaining behind, analyzing too late what went wrong. What was missing? Who bollixed the whole thing up and when they deem some unlucky person that One, woe befalls him/her and lives are changed drastically. As a result, the understandable conclusion is drawn that it is better to shut one's mouth, keep one's nose to the grindstone, never challenge the look with one's eyes or allow for a revealing tic of a muscle.

Many echoes of questions unvoiced remain. Who's really at fault in this matter? Why did we, the rest of the people, allow the fallacies to remain unchallenged? Why did we allow hypocrisy to rule the day and never call anyone on it? Why did we always give in to the excuses of looking at other people condemning what they do rather than looking behind us and seeing it in our own backyard or already in our front yard for that matter.

What is the matter with us? Why can we not see ourselves in an honest reflection? Why must we constantly find ourselves doing the very same things in the very same way and getting the very same results and thinking that is okay. Worse, we then try to do it again and again and again hoping for a miraculous change in fortune but not arriving does it: the very definition of insanity.

Why do we allow politics and specifically certain blocks of politicians and supporters to rule the day? To push aside any possibility of improvement, of positive change. Why do we allow them to interfere? Why are we badgered into passing their demanded rules? Even when we know that these results will bring troubles and woes with not a whisper of any positive movement. And yet we continue to cheer that naked emperor riding his ever more broken-down nag trying to convince himself and his people that all is well.  

What are the results of these repetitive failures? These delusions, these eminent inanities masquerading as pearls of wisdom? Simple. Open your eyes and look around. See the truth. Look past the obfuscating smog and dark clouds and the ringing bells of danger. Block all that out and allow only true reason and comprehension to work its way out into the open.  

Obscenely wealthy Uber rich build their multiple homes whilst hundreds of thousands go homeless.

Wasteful epicurean delights are placed before these people whilst billions around the world go hungry - even as most of the food is trashed. Tariffs issued due to Ego Wars make necessities of life more costly and unaffordable. More go without than with.

Nations are held to different standards, and the one is never called to task while the other is always called to task with no explanations, no reasons accepted. Only condemnations.

As life grows more uncertain, even frightening, the people of the world resort once again to hate, to prejudice, deep and ingrained. Murderers suffused with evil rampage through the lands and return to barbaric customs, which we had mistakenly thought to have long ago erased. 

I believe worst of all, for this allows for very little room to find the way through this morass of ugliness, is the eagerness and skills and enthusiasm with which we have engaged in the most evil aspects of mankind.

We pile our anger and accusations on an ancient people, the Jewish nation despite all the best efforts of mankind, have managed through thick and thin to come from the dangers and darkest and deepest of dungeons to the highest points. It drives people crazy.

We ignore the fact of Russian false claims as the horse is pulling their only wagon to beat down Ukraine into rubble. Constantly shooting purposely. at infrastructure, at civilians themselves. Why is this violation not called to account? They are the ones who invaded.

Why is it Israel is more called into account when they did the most horrible thing out there, evidently. Managed to survive the gross horror of October 7. And yes, rightfully so. They reacted in most forceful manner. Because the people of Israel, the people of the Jewish nation, are tired of this. We're so tired when constant attacks are waged against us. 

Now we are turned away, turned on, by nations and peoples ramped up on crack of hate and enmity.      So yes, perhaps we "overreacted", but I don't think so. How do you overreact to someone who only wishes to destroy you, to disappear you? For settling the lands of Judea and Samaria, for those lands were promised to the Jewish people from the beginning of time by the Lord God Himself. Nor did we go in and grab those lands. 

Those lands were the source of invaders, and we fought back. And so we hold them. They were and are and always will be the land of the People of Israel. Are we the only nation in the world, the only people in the world who are forced, who are demanded to return that which actually belongs to them? The land which we developed? I can name many, many nations around the world who are living in lands that they took over from other people who were there before them. But that evidently is not to be mentioned

I could go on and on and on. For example, I thought we had abolished slavery. So why, in those poor, embattled lands of Sudan and Somalia and Eritrea and Moslem lands are people capturing women and children? And selling them as slaves. The very people that the world cries over as the oppressed who are actually the oppressors. And yet we are deaf, dumb and blind to the truth of that.

Is it really so?

 I am afraid so.

Yesterday

Today

Tomorrow

Will we ever see a time of the light of truth, the hearts of generosity and the acceptance of all mankind as fellow members of a species gifted with the possibilities of going far, rather than seeing only the differences and exaggerating them and hurting others because of them?

How much more patience Will the Lord Above    have with these people? Have we not been warned enough. Volcanoes, earthquakes, huge storms, deep droughts, floods, rampaging fires, viciousness of people, extinction threats.  

Where the hell are our brains? 

Where the hell are our hearts?

I hope we can find them soon before it is too late.

If it is already not so.

IT'S COMMUNICATION!

  "What we've got here is a failure to communicate." So spoke a corrupt and brutal man with power over those incarcerated within the prison he oversaw. A small man with little to speak of, placed in a position of power over those who cannot fight back, and who takes advantage of the situation to do his worst, all the better for his ego and self-importance. 

Unfortunately, these types of officials who matter not much and add less than that to the benefit of others in the world, are in the position of primacy these days and hence, the communication is negligible, if at all. And further hence, that is the underlying reason for combination of such that has the world chasing its tail, with nations competing for the "Biggest Bag of Hot Air" award. Much to our regret, the harm caused by these oh so little people add to an aggregate sum which threatens the world and world order.

These small, brained creatures resemble the dinosaurs of old who maintained order and ranking by using sheer size and weaponry available, that which came with birth. Those are our supposed leaders of today who use what they have, brutality, meanness, greed, influence and money to fight their way to the top, using all as steppingstones and paying no never mind to the trail of destruction and tragedy they leave behind.

These people are the scum of the earth raised to power via circumstances and lack of understanding, attention from the very ones whose lives are at stake, and even apathy, either not caring or having given up hope of better times.  To combat these combined deficiencies is difficult and unfortunately, the ones whose stars shine brightly in such times are the very ones who should have been thrust aside but are not.

Hence, welcome to the world of today, where the intellect of the leaders is limited and diluted by a lack of decency and by overwhelming desire to gain and hold power, influence and accumulate great wealth and attain longevity in office. One of the saddest moments is when a former leader of greatness and achievements forsakes it all and grasps with greedy hands and nasty mouth onto his/her power and their self-interest and refuse to concede to the truth and go out with a proud legacy left behind, one that will live through history. 

Now take a stroll through the ranks of our world leaders and then go back and reread the first sentence of this posting and all that follows. Is not that the truth? These leaders are not leading at all, unless into perdition and danger, into hopelessness and a future tainted with danger and loss, lives denied the advantages and benefits of the best traits of humanity, which are instead derided and denied room to grow and flower.

If we understood where we went wrong, we could hopefully restart the world where that was a well-known fact, a world of goodness and sharing, where we can acknowledge that we are one, no matter how small the divisions we artificially introduce. 

Those divisions indeed foster the lack of true and meaningful communication and instead build walls where there should be none, dividing where there should be unity, where we finally have internalized the fact that while the possibilities are infinite, nothing good will take place unless we truly feel the need to share, to seek justice, to shun hate and prejudice. A world where equity is not a term to brutally misuse but a word of true meaning and righteous application. 

Will we ever see such a world, for till today we have not yet been so privileged. We need to work harder, to actually feel the necessity of this truth. However, when looking at leaders, at the results of recent elections and upcoming ones, well, despair can make a highly visible presence within societies plagued by the ugliness and mistrust, and total lack of communication, either on purpose or by circumstance. 

Politicians who refuse to change, who think that by shifting a word or two promising that which had been promised before, yet never achieved reality, will be excused, and their incompetence, and the danger they pose for societies round the world, must be removed from positions where they make ever more permanent the worst of society, the worst of leaders, and the worst present and future of the world.

Until that happens, we, the people of the world, will never achieve what we must if we are to create a positive outlook and a better level of achievement. Without true effort meeting success at improving   communication amongst all the peoples of earth, with truth within the words, well, same old, same old. Much to our distress.

Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.

Is it not time to reach for the stars rather than remain in the muck?

Let us talk with each other rather than at each other.

AS THE WORLD TURNS

  We have all seen, probably many times over, a depiction of the world turning at an angle calmly going forward on its axis, as it is supposed to do. It is, in fact, how our planet maintains its stability and keeps our weather, our environments, and in fact, our very existence and survival in a welcoming situation rather than in a hostile one.  We who inhabit this planet, and all the other lifeforms, are responsible for its maintenance and its respect.

Unfortunately, we human have fallen down on the job and have taken along with us on this suicidal run, many of these other life forms. A great tragedy, but do we pay attention, give positive lifechanging attention to this matter? Some, a very few of us actually attempt to draw the eyes of the inhabitants to this issue, but too many, mired in their destructive greed and grasping hands ignore it, shove it to the side, accuse others of crazed thinking, wanting only to go backwards rather than forward.

However, that's not the truth of the matter and we're constantly denying that truth, that harsh reality of time running sort, stomping on those who come forward with it.  And as time goes on, at faster and faster pace, we can expect a change and that sublime picture may undergo major changes. 

Its calm, long lasting, life preserving and reassuring adherence to its axis driven rotations will wobble more and more, destabilize on its rotation and well, we can expect the changes we are already facing, to grow more life threatening and destabilizing. One day, soon enough and possibly, perhaps probably, too late, and we will take a look around and understand what we have done. What we have allowed to be done to our home.

I don't even know if our existence will be long enough to see how the world actually turns in different manner. We have already well advanced the consequences of our misthinking and self-destructive actions. Now we intend apparently, to initiate once again, yet another openly world involving war, with terribly efficient and deadly weaponry. 

At its end, if there is to be an end, we will have become a place of destruction and horror. People will struggle to barely survive, band together in tribes returned to bare existence, armed with stones and sticks to defend their territory. That attempt to survive becomes even more treacherous and uncertain as our axis rotation degrades and the consequences ensuing will be ours, impossible to avoid or fix or do anything other than to suffer under the deteriorating conditions.

 Too late, we will wonder how and why we got into the situation. And how and why and if we actually survive, if we plan to survive, humanity must understand that the fault was not, is not, in others but in ourselves. If we all had paid attention, had demanded attention to be paid as the world turns, how it is turning, and connected all the dots, we could have saved ourselves. 

At present I believe it is a coin toss, one of the heads I win, tails you lose category. A situation no matter what we do, will be too little, too late, too small minded, too narrow in concept and extent. It would have been different if we had paid attention to the world and the people around us. If we had paid more attention to those whom we chose - or accepted- as our leaders. If we would have stepped up and forward and actually participated in decisions of important issues but we did not and woulda, coulda, shoulda is not going to be a winning choice here.

How is it possible to pick up a paper this morning and read how Iran and the United States actually traded shells, three hitting tankers and the other hitting a navy vessel. How is this possible? How is it that almost exactly three years later we will be marking the brutal horror of the 3rd anniversary of October7 massacre.

So many Israelis, from infant to elderly, brutally, cruelly, chased and slaughtered, burned alive. With cheers of the murderers sounding clearly and insanely in the bloodstained air of the Gaza envelope. Reeking of the spilled blood of Jews once again. Ever Again. Or the raucous cheers of victory of those not "innocent" Gazans who joined in the cheers, in tne brutality, who boasted of it in phone calls home, who paraded their loot stolen from those they murdered. who turned a dance festival into yet another site of brutality against Jews.

 Only this time we received not even a wit of sympathy, of empathy, of outcries against this brutality. No, what we got instead was anger that we had not only survived, but that we had fought back at immense hostile thousands, beat them back from whence they had crawled, like the insects and beasts who live only to wreak harm against others.

 Not sympathy but accusations, condemnations, approved masses of chanting haters, including some of our own people, calling for an end to Israel and all Jewish people round the world. We received the acquiescence of universities and governments round the world who had allowed themselves to be invaded by haters of the Jewish nation, whose Jewish students walked in fear once again. 

What we got instead was cries and screams of hate. Hate that the Jewish nation was able to survive this brutal surprise attack. Hate that the people of Israel, the Jewish people around the world, did not, in fact, give up, that they are even stronger than ever. 

We need now to understand the realities of life. Not to look for excuses. Not to explain why Jews are good people, good for the world. No, it is for them to figure out and adjust to our reality. It is us, the Jewish people to understand who we are, who we have always been and who we must always be.

 How did we suddenly find out how many within the Jewish people are haters of the own identity. Trying ever so hard to be the "good Jew”. The truth is that no matter how much energy you expend in denying yourself, in engaging in the fruitless and not necessary explanations of why Jews are good people. Why we are good for the world.  Why we have driven much that is good, proper, and moral for the world. To be considered a "good Jew", to deny all that makes you Jewish, to deny heritage and pride, to deny one's history, and in fact, the history of the world, is futile, endlessly demeaning, for to the Haters of the World, you will never be accepted. Never.  

As the world turns -

be it 

yesterday

today 

tomorrow - 

know who you are -

be proud of that -

internalize all those values and pride and care not for the Haters.

DEFYING LOGIC

  Here essentially is the crux of the problem. We are trying to explain a terrible situation, essentially an issue arising out of emotion, by using logic to explain its presence and its seemingly eternal existence, immune to all attempts to explain and make disappear forever. Anyone who has been in a serious emotional situation knows that all the logic in the world will do nothing to heal those emotional storms within. Generally, in fact, it does the opposite, for one feels denied an outlet, even feeling dismissed and disrespected, belittled and treated as a tantrum throwing toddler. 

What does it have to do with the present blog and a recurring issue, that of JewHatred? Simple. I, too, as do many others, as has been done through the ages, tried to apply logic in opposing the virulent antisemitism of the millennia. It is a scourge of undying strength, seemingly impermeable to all attempts to deny it, to stunt it. to destroy it. 

 It is an emotion accepted by ranks of thousands in all manner of format of these societies, from democracy to authoritarian of varying types, by the 'intellectual' and the base alike. One will tend to use 'logic' and pseudo-science to justify it while others will simply buy into the emotions meshing with the 'logic' and in a matter of a short time, a nation can be riddled through, top to bottom, with this ancient, cursed hatred.

 This hatred is a liberating one, allowing the public    to feel justified and satisfied as they vent and indulge their most base instincts and encouraged to do so by the elite of their societies. It is a point which can be shared with all, even among enemies, and contributes to misshapen and ill-advised behavior, to regression to the worst of humanity. Most accursed of all, is the fact that it never seems to go away, merely, at the best of times, to retreat momentarily, biding its time until bursting forth at moments of political tension, economic pressures, and simple fear of not knowing what awaits humanity.

"We have one Jewish state, one teeny, tiny Jewish state. Why can't we have a Jewish state?"

So stated Haley Stevens, a candidate for office beaten by a thin edge by the supporters of an outspoken foe of the Jewish people. It is a question of course which could be addressed by logic, but for one problem. Logic has no place here. The answer would be, of course, it can be a Jewish state. In fact, it makes no sense that this state is opposed.  

No, it doesn't make any sense. In fact when the Jewish people at large, no matter where they are, no matter what century, are accused of being leeches upon the body of humanity, where is the logic? Throughout the ages humanity has only been benefited by the presence of the Jewish people and their contributions in all the fields of life. There is no field which has not been benefited by the contributions, the inventions and research of Jewish people. But that would be talking logically and truthfully, but truth has no place here. The ugliness of the miasma of Anti Semitism, bitter, vile, toxic   JewHatred apparently outweighs all else.

Jews in fact, are deemed as others, outside of the human race. Hence, it is that the Jewish people are held to an impossible double standard at the same time that they are deemed dregs of humanity, if even that. Logic is totally alien to this kind of thinking. In fact, if one were to pay attention to the ongoing political adventures within Israel, one would very quickly realize this is a state afflicted by the same flaws of all humanity. 

In fact, most politicians around the world seek the same. Theye are almost interchangeable. Longevity of office is crucial. They seek all they feel is good for them, and their constituents ae abandoned. Truth too often is brushed under a carpet already bumpy with prior lies and truths avoided. And when, as always, the truth will out, there are desperate attempts to shift the blame onto others, to deny their own responsibility and guilt. 

And the people of the state, of any of the nations, simply wishing to live in peace, to raise their families are set by the wayside. These ugly circumstances bewilder humanity, and in their uncertainty and fear of the unknown, they resort to primitive notions and emotions, and behavior and here we are again.   

As a suggestion to try to understand all this hatred I suggest you read two books, both written by Dara Horn. The titles might shock you, but trust me, these titles are born up by the contents of these two books. One is People Love Dead Jews and the other is The Final Solution To The Jewish Question - A Love Story For the Living.

Yesterday Today Tomorrow

Perhaps all that we can do is to simply wait for someone to hit humanity over the head and bring some sense and logic into this troubled world of ours.

If ever!     

WIN UNTIL YOU LOSE

   We all hope, don't we to find a winning streak and remain with that winning streak for as long as possible, perhaps forever. Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending upon the situation, that doesn't happen too often. Suddenly one who was riding high can find himself being crushed in a bad turn of events. On the other hand, one who was at the bottom of the heap can suddenly find a place reserved for him at the top of the heap. 

Is it the luck of the draw, or a sudden twist of fate, lucky maneuvering, or the errors of others opening up a rung on that very crowded ladder. Whatever it is, that lucky streak often turns into an unexpected curse, incites negative emotions and the whole shootin' shebang comes down with a crash. Actually, believe it or not, when I see some of the lucky streaks that some of the worst people of the world attain I kind of give a little smirk when it all falls to dust. 

It often takes quite some time for them to realize the new state in which they find themselves. They don't understand it for heretofore whenever they spoke people jumped, and whenever they demanded, people gave. Now there is total confusion within their minds, for what happened? It is definitely refreshing when those who appear to be gliding along the water are actually paddling furiously beneath trying to keep their place but never succeeding in the long run. 

It is when people realize the words of nonsense and hate that spew forth from the so called Lucky Ducks are not the words from Sinai. Perhaps the words are more likely to emerge from the clown or the devil. Take a look around at many of the leaders of the world today. so many are past their sell by date and though they might have done wonderful things in early years, they have lost it, find themselves confused and panicking trying to find a way back, only to find the road impassable.  

All this change of fortunes is frightening, but what I find even more unsettling is when one person for whatever sickness lies in the brain or dangerous faulty thinking, is willing to write oneself and all others in the same boat, just off, desiring only to know they are dying for mankind who will be all the better for that and even better, top of the line, take the offending people along with you.  

But the worst offender of this nonsense, the one who shouts it from the highest hills, is a dangerously deluded idiot who has turned her back on her own people, on our own self. How? By declaring that Jewish existence conflicts with human survival. This is the Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel who made this outrageous statement at a meeting of Michigan Jewish Democrats and that the best way for them to continue to exist is not to exist, but to allow the rest of the world to exist by their absence. I can't understand this. Does she think that by negating herself and dragging a whole slew of her people along with her that somebody will give her a medal Personally, they won't give a S***!       

  This woman indeed should prove to be a role model for what she believes, and find the nearest cliff and throw herself off. Self-hating Jews thinking they can remove themselves from the people is not a new phenomenon. It generally arises out of pressure and a fear and greatly twisted, misconceived ideas. People of any kind who cannot respect their own traditions who cannot heed their heritage and respect the heritage of others will forever be blind to the goodness that can be found within humans but so often is interred by the words of fools and haters. People who cannot respect their own heritage, their own tradition who cannot celebrate the contributions of their own people to the rest of the world, are useless, even harmful and, by the bye, so many inventions, medicines research, art benefiting the world have arisen from Jewish minds.

 So, this woman has evidently gone to the point where she can't stand herself anymore. deems herself unworthy. Let her take her own sick thoughts and talk to a mirror. No one else needs to hear her words. There is enough hate in this world, and we certainly do not need to add to it.    

Better yet we look to Yesterday to Today and Tomorrow and pick and choose the best for us which avoids victimizing others. 

Those who cannot deal with those thoughts Take a long walk off a short pier. I am so tired of you.

LOSING AND SUCH

  "Somehow they will both end up losing,." This statement was made with regard to  the Jets and a congressional district, but quite frankly, it can obviously and quite appropriately relevant to the  state of the world today. Everyone is at odds with everyone else. Families split according to political belief and attached matters. Now in Iceland, there is a huge  and growing chasm amongst its population. Should they seek closer ties to the EU or not? Of course, the whole issue came into fruition when spurred by the venom of Trump and his threats to annex just about all he desires and if not annex, simply rename, substituting America or American for the proper and traditional names. To wit, we now have an Gulf of America and a Lake America as opposed to the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario. All as a result of the twisted workings of a mind in the throes of dementia.

Today most people are like half the members of a large family who do not speak to the other half  due to an argument whose original cause is long forgotten but the enmity remains. We, the human race is one large family. However, we have decided to split this family into warring clans, now so far from each other in thoughts and ambitions that all we know how to do is to wage war on the other in  the name of some gain which inevitably withers away, ephemeral in its lifetime. 

The question remains as to why we continue on the same foolish, let alone dangerous  pathways through life, disremembering all the past failures. thinking we were starting anew, we actually are merely pasting a false facade with no solid structure behind it. Then we wonder why so many things go wrong when we expected the opposite result. One person immersed in a situation holding no good news for all involved, said she hoped that there was a bed for them in heaven for most certainly that bed, that peace was not to be found on earth and certainly not in the  hostile situations arising so often.

Do we even understand what we are losing andwhat has already been lost? Too often unable to be retrieved? The wonder of it all is whether or not we can retrieve the humanity that has been leaking out from spaces which  should have been secure. We begin to look aside more often when we see a perturbing event. We make excuses. We deny. And we follow the obviously corrupt who steal for us even as they proclaim their goodness.

Losing is not a pleasing event. We often try to find wormholes to attain  victory.  but at the end of the day, nothing is worth anything unless done properly and wtih justice and positive goals in mind.

Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Same old, same old?

Getting real old.

MAN PLANS ANS G-D LAUGHS

  Many human beings make plans for the day or week ahead, a year ahead, sometimes for years ahead, but no matter how carefully and how minutely we plan down to the time, we will leave a place and get to another, G-d is sitting up there and laughing, looking for His amusement every day. Who is let through smoothly and who, from minor to major setbacks are the victims of the day? And whom will be allowed to go through and have another smooth day ahead?

 Is this the only source of amusement He has? Is it that G-d is so petty as to pick on the little guy and mess him up?  No, the answer is most definitely no, for we do not understand the mammoth unplumbed depths of the Lord Above and cannot and will not be able to make connections between minor and even major upsets to even more critical events, the outcomes of which will be critical to the fate and life of that person, of many people.

So, as we muddle along on our rather seemingly unimportant pathways of life, we must always remember that we are not alone. Hence, we had better keep that in mind in our actions and even thoughts, lest evil comes to fruition either on purpose or via lack of forward thinking and understanding of the complicated web of humanity round the world.

So, using this thought as a guide to one's own thoughts, what lessons and principles should we take from it and make an innate part of our lives and the deeds within? This is most probably different for most people, but certainly there must be major and impregnable themes or memes of proper thinking and action. 

Most probably when we lose sight of that idea is when we humans go quite swiftly onto the wrong roads, slide quickly down those rather dangerous steep slopes and end up with exactly what they had wanted, in positive planning and hopes, or conversely, what they had wished to occur,  with grossly evil intent. At times it seems to be a flip of the coin, the kind which is 'heads I win, tails you lose'. Where there is no break given, merely only odds not in our favor.

So, how does one comport oneself in such rampantly uncertain times and conditions? From moi, not a clue in my head other than to try to live a life where I strive to be better, to always improve, and to give way to the kinder emotions and thinking, rather than sinking into a morass where exit is most difficult. Perhaps I am a silly fool when I give some dollars or food or cold water to those begging along the highways.

 Perhaps I am being a sucker, but who knows, and I would rather err on the better side, the more compassionate side than the other.  One never knows how quickly circumstances can change, so why the hell not lend a hand, even if in error, but coming out of kind thoughts and an understanding of  there perhaps I go, were circumstances different along my lifetime. 

Along these lines of thought, it makes me even more disappointed with our false leaders, who claim to be golden, but are really merely dross touched up with thin layers of gold covered filth. Where have their ethics gone? Sinc when did the ulterior motives of life of political career morph into selfish deeds only, leaving behind their constituents so dependent upon their character. And cruelly double-crossed by those who have chosen their memes of life to be selfishness, greed, power seeking goals and motivations, rather than compassion and remembering that we are all humans together in this perhaps last chance to do better, to be better, to shake ourselves up and move into higher planes of life, of humanity, of justice    and equity. and be able to see through obfuscating factors to the truth of some who simply are evil. Jst evil. 

And despite the fact that so many are fooled by them, pulled into their eddy of wickedness, these people generally get what they deserve, even though during their duration of powers many are harmed. Why? Make a what's app to Upstairs, for the only way I can even begin to understand and accept is that somewhere along the line, this makes sense, somehow, somewhere, though not yet within my own self. Not yet.

What I do think is that we, all of humanity, must understand, finally get with the program, that these awful events within Nature, and the awful narrative of humanity today, with its inherent evil, its support of terrorism over innocence, its refusal to accept that their deeds have consequences far above their ability to address and rehabilitate - not unless we reform ourselves from within 

Lose the fake and dangerous leaders such as those in the same class as Mamdani, or Ruffalo, or UN officials who see nothing other than JewHatred in their mirrors, looking ahead and behind, those who indulge their warped evilness upon the backs of others. Those who refuse to accept that there are limitations over the powers of mankind and when we abuse those limits, we will have to pay the bills somewhere along the lines - and apparently that due bill is right upon us, right now.

Can we pull ourselves, all of humanity out of this crapshoot of life we have engendered ourselves, inflicted upon ourselves? Not a clue but still, some hopes.

Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.

At some point we must shake ourselves up, leave behind the weaknesses of hate and develop new strengths, righteous strengths, and above all, compassion for all of humanity.

Th Lord G-d created us all. Might it not be a good idea to acknowledge that and behave accordingly?     

TOUGH ONE INDEED

  There are days when I wake up, boot up, grab a look at the paper. Then I just want to pick myself up. shut down the whole thing and go back to bed. But that doesn't mean that the issue will go away. All it means is that I'm one of another billion people who are ignoring what's going on in the world today. And to think if I don't see it, it isn't here. And no one will be affected by it in any possible bad way. But that is wishful thinking. That's the thinking of a child who thinks that wishes can make anything come true.

 Unfortunately. we know that is not the case. Not at all. So then why are there adults who do know better, who can understand the truth of it all, who simply pretend ii is a game of peek-a-boo, as if with a tiny child, but there is no laughter abounding here. We know better than to try to live life as if it is a game of pretend. All make believe. Or perhaps a game of freeze. If you can call out that word, perhaps, in these games of denial and foolishness, serious consequences would arise. 

Ready to take advantage wherever it can be found   the elements of danger and foreboding unfreeze themselves, take advantage of the opportunities laid out before them and go on to wreak havoc on all the people and places frozen within their willful and dangerous blindness. At the same time when we think we have evil at bay, even as we finally realize we do not, for far more continual effort is required, we fail to understand that good is also frozen, hampering efforts to restructure the world. To bring back that which was good, still is good, but has been buried beneath all the detritus we have piled upon it.   

We see some sparks of hope and encouragements, of some people reawakening regaining their senses and wondering what the hell had happened in the interim. Apparently, they had been under the influence and spell of some evilly clever people who certainly had no one's good or benefit in mind, other than their own. We now know who they are, to be found all over the globe, and we know what they have done and wish to continue doing, but finally, there are some awakening noises, people stirring in the light of dawn, and setting out, even with slow and tiny steps to heal the wounds of humanity and our rather stressed and battered world.  

Too little, too late? Possibly, but we must make the efforts needed, even if we do not live to see a turnaround, for perhaps, hopefully, the small beginnings we make will merge and form a large area of improvement and hope and it is our descendants who will gain much, rather than only suffer from the garbage and danger we have so skillfully accumulated.

 Pipe dream? Naive? Perhaps. Possible. Probably, if we are talking reality, for so many experts   unfortunately held their silence or were forced into silence or who bought wholeheartedly into the false science we treasured so, all the better to spoil our world, and what the hey! What's another few thousands or millions of more dead and injured, all the better to sell our quackery and falsehoods, to fool others until there are none left to fool.  

What is it that makes them so hateful and negative and uncaring about their fellow human beings? What is it within their hearts and souls that make it so easy, almost without effort, once you get the ball rolling to keep it rolling. As it rolled over all before it. Sends waves of destruction out to its sides, and leaves behind only desolation. A dearth of hope.

The conditions of the world are both depressing and inspiring. And always confusing. Why is it that so many members of the Democratic Party hesitant to speak out about their monstrous offspring? Now there is something far more important and pressing which has awoken the sleeping giant. That giant now realizes that there are far more critical edges to this election. 

It is more than gaining or losing a seat or two, particularly if a "Democrat" who wins is one of the most destructive parties this nation has ever hosted. The Democratic Socialistic Americans. An oxymoronic moniker and finally there are those who are waking up. Will it be soon enough, able to thrust them back into the dungeon of darkness where they belong, and defeat the far Right of the GOP? Time will tell, but time is short.  For too long those desperate for office, longing for power and influence and, and sure, why not, more funds in their bank. More stocks in their name. 

We have perhaps finally learned a lesson. A good lesson from the past. Rather than the evil ones. the faulty ones that we have been more closely attached to. Perhaps we have finally internalized the story of Pastor Niemuller at the time of Hitler who spoke of how he had kept silent when the forces of evil and damnation came for this group or that. And now that they came for him, there was no one left to speak up for him. Perhaps we are also beginning to. internalize the understanding as well that  all it takes for evil to happen is for the good to keep silent. And the good within us have kept silent for far too long.  

We have nearly reached this point in our lives when hopefully we will have opened our minds to the truth, even if uncomfortable and stepped up our trip into what is right, rather than what is easy.  For far too long we learned the wrong lessons. We reanimated the evils and woes and the errors of the past. Finally, finally. long past due, we are learning together, understanding. comprehending, how   fully evil the aims and goals of the DSA are, their true plans peeking out ever more forcibly. with the true ends of their campaigns. 

Hakeem Jeffries calls out the latest evil 'influence' who deems Israel a curse upon the land and not deserving of life. A well-known and well-heeled person speaks out forcefully to the UN, calling them on their constant tilt anti-Israel, anti-Jews.  Becoming ever clearer as the day goes on is the filthy true goals of this abortion of a political party, a

 party which wishes to rend this nation into pieces that can never reunite again, all the better for them and their plans. 

Israel holds itself to its own higher standards and when they are violated by their own, they do what they us. Are they perfect in this? NO, but then again, they are better than any other nation and that is a well acknowledged fact of life, especially by those in the know. Israel has now contained within the dank dungeons of Hezbollah, a large cadre of senior offices of the Republican Guard from Iran and senior officers of Hezbollah those accursed terrorists. 

Sneaking and sniveling around in the dark, planning their next attack upon civilians of Isreal. However, hoisted on their own petard, they will now face a siege that will not end until they surrender unconditionally. Watch the world weep over these murderers. Watch the condemnations overflowing from the mouths of the know nothings, the haters of Jewry since time began, who consider the State of Israel as anathema. 

The same hatred is going round and round the world. It is leaving behind cursed beings whose only role in life, who's all consuming, burning obscene desire is to wreak havoc upon the Jewish nation and then tackle all others deemed as enemies and impediments to their achieving all they so obscenely desire.   

This is a tough world. The Evil within will function well with those whose hearts are hardened, their brains and minds skewed in deep lines, their souls   blackened and their hearts hardened. No one has a monopoly on these people. They are to be found everywhere. From Asia to Europe. The Middle East to North America. Within each and every one of the nations of the world. 

Even as the truth is uncovered and acknowledged, the excuses are ginned up, the words twisted to go right back where they came from ... and here we are - same old, same old - Only this time with more energy behind it and a greater potential for full revival of past eras suffused with hate and danger. The world has gone mad, off its axis, askew in the world and sadly, we do not know how to fix the situation, how to re-right us in the world. 

This is indeed a truly tough quandary. It is the same one we have been facing in varying degrees since time began. 

Yesterday, today and tomorrow. 

But we surely should be, could be and must be better than this. Otherwise, all that will remain will be the yesterdays and the shattered todays.

As for the tomorrows........ 

Indeed, a very tough one. 

Please note that the next posting will be on Friday.

I MUST BE A SLOW LEARNER

  Every day I peruse the papers, page through magazines both general in coverage and in specifics and I still do not get it. It is not normal for a species to continue on in destructive manner definitely threatening its longevity in lifespans at the very least and at the very most, definitely toxic to its continuing existence at all.  Certainly, it is clearly apparent that the human species is such a species, ever so busy in engaging all that it needs to place a permanent peril sticker on its life span and expectations. 

Turned around and about in its ways of life, it almost seems as if it is attempting to end it. Certainly, to bring it to a terrible point wherein    existence will mean living in a time of peril. Of air unhealthy to breathe. Of water limited. The most valuable resource of Earth. All dreams abandoned, cut short. There is simply no way, no machinery, no pathway, no time, to find ways to ameliorate the situation. 

This extreme picture of the future is not as far off as we would think. Simply pay attention to all the places on Earth running short of water. So necessary, especially in these times of crazy droughts. Or water that turns tables on humans and becomes a destructive force destroying all before it in massive flooding, particularly flash flooding which can emerge in torrential dangerous existence in the blink of an eye. Chemical mishaps which leave behind scars that poison land which will never host human habitation ever again. Will never be suitable for humans and other species ever again. 

The deaths, both immediately and in the oncoming years, which so often arise from carelessness n our handling of situations, in our stupidity of trying to save a penny when the pounds will pour through these scars, is something that never becomes clear to us, or clear enough to sufficient numbers to make a difference. We are dying, impacting negatively of   and by our own stupidity and harmful greed. The synergy of the synchronicity leaves behind scars that will never heal, and worse, enable awful consequences we never would have imagined, could have imagined. but they are now coming out. Uncovered through our excesses and deficits.  

We are doing this to ourselves, nobody else. If there is more life out there in the universe, quite a possibility, they are not the ones who are inflicting this awful situation upon us. No, we can take that credit for ourselves. We continue to enable almost a clear unimpeded pathway through to the immediate desires and results we wish for, but in our speed and greed, we leave behind much that complicates and will further complicate and endanger our lives.

Certainly, the lives of the younger generations upcoming behind us. It is for them that I am truly concerned.  It is exactly what we are leaving behind for them to contend with that strikes me hard in body and soul. Exactly what are we leaving behind for them to live with? To be able to improve if possible. It is not only the physical world and its damage we have left behind that they will have to contend with.

 It is also the human condition, in connection with other humans. The necessities of life will not be easily come by. They will be scarce. limited. Judging upon past behavior, instead of cooperating, most probably there will be vicious fighting, each trying to gain and maintain the upper hand.  The more difficult, but more helpful and hopeful in the long run, will be pushed aside. Short run methodology will be more appealing, But the consequences will be infinitely more exacting and difficult, adding to the woes soon to be upon us as we meet it in a soon upon us future handicapped by our own follies, added to by willful ignoring of the inevitable that we have made inevitably so. 

Simply check out the world and see what is happening. Farmers in the critical area and necessity of raising food for growing populations, who need more land, more advice in dealing with new conditions are ignored. The situation is exacerbated by the selfish greed of those in power, with our pathetic leaders at the head of the pack.

 Crazed layoffs. Evil realignments. Personal desires over the needful desires and necessities of the human beings of the world.  A growing return and enrichment of opportunities for hate. For bias. And for the consequences of such. To go to mammoth proportions so wasteful, so harmful, so hurtful. The insane and quite frightening pursuit of migrants and immigrants so critically necessary to the economy of the country. 

But we would rather herd them, single them out in mass programs of hate and expel them. The glory in the fresh ideas and blood and hands and backs and minds that they provide for us, so cruelly and casually lost to us. To 'win' via these perverted programs and behaviors is to actually lose in a rather awful and permanent manner. The more we persist in this evil awkwardness the more we lose.

Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.

Will we never ever learn - before it is too late?      

FRUSTRATION!!!

  I don't get it. I just don't get it. Something as clear as daylight under a blue summer sky seems to fly under the radar of the myriad intellects round the world. Why has it taken until new for some of the supposedly brightest and most intuitive minds to see the truth? To see the naked emperor? Why? Is it that they were too blind to see what was going on beneath their unseeing eyes or was it a defect of mind and/or body that hid the ugly truth from them and from the world at large? 

I am not sure of the answer. I am sure only of the consequences. Serious, deadly ones which have wrapped the world in a cloud of ugliness. Pessimism. Hatred. And stunned minds. Unable to comprehend the situation they are in and how they got there? Why was it allowed to happen? Why were such conditions allowed to return? To replicate scenes we had thought to have been eliminated from the civilized world. 

Yes, unfortunately, we grew inured to the growing number of such scenes. We looked askance at 'minor' wars which burst upon the world and which smoked and relit time and again. Yet we all looked away - NIMBY thinking. Foolishly so, for the world is wrapped so tightly together that truly the butterfly's wings surely do end in the creation of a tornado elsewhere on the globe. The more we forget the intertwining of our fates, the less likely we will be able to look forward to a time when indeed there is humane in the lexicon of humanity. That we did not just talk empty words of brotherhood but actually lived them.  

There is no more any backyard on this globe. We all shared that backyard. We need to understand that and act accordingly. In this backyard periodically at times of recess, all the inhabitants flow into it seeking a space for themselves and their buddies. If such a place is not found or if not satisfactory, then these groups will seek to better their condition. Sides align and realign. The resultant confusion and uncertainty obfuscate all that might help. Their intents and goals narrowed, became laser fixed on the ambition to getting their own over someone else. And from stage right and stage left, enter the warring factions. 

We are so fixed on what we think we must do, that we forget what we actually must do. The musts of proper living conditions for the world's inhabitants. What we get instead are people denying other people the right to exist. They are challenged at every turn. Forgotten is the old maxim that one can never please all of the people all of the time. In trying to do so and inevitably failing, they inevitably generate and regenerate ancient tropes and ancient enmities. Too often in the desperation of a leader trying to deflect the anger of the people, the biggest deflection of all is wheeled out onto the world's stage. War! Missteps addressed early could have been refocused and redirected onto proper paths. But in ignoring that early possibility we doomed ourselves to be worthy only of history replicating itself in the worst ways possible.

Why is it now, just now, a very late now, that I am first picking up words which speak of the problems of this society. This corrupt society. In the mad rush of people to hang on to those of power and wealth, thinking some of it would drip down to them, we turned ourselves inside out. We gave way to those who are inimical to achievement of a fair and just society. Now they are questioning how we got here. Now they are dissecting society. Looking into the poor leaders we have chosen and the confused and dangerous ways in which we choose new leaders to replace the old, incompetent and corrupt, but not really changing anything other than their names and faces.

Now they try to analyze how we got into this fix in the first place. Well, it's because such people, those who are supposed to be the watchmen of the world, spoke and continue to do so, out of six mouths at the same time. And sometimes out of their rear ends as well. Giddy thoughts of more spending money. We listened to the lies. We ran along, step to step with the corrupted who did deep dives into the ugliness of corruption and turned the societies which had worked so hard to eliminate the ugliness of corruption, of false leaders, to jump into the seemingly aromatic cesspool. Perhaps it was that they held their noses and reaped what they thought were prizes, only to realize too late what they had done to themselves, what they had allowed others to do to them.  

Corruption not only ruined society. But it also makes the road back even more difficult, steeper than ever. Those who might have seen the truth, those who came to see the truth. Those who turned away from corruption. Too often they sign out. Sign off. And turn their sights onto what they feel a more productive spott for themselves and their lives. This further weakens society. It sets further blockades. to return to what they should be. That is one of the questions that we must answer. How do we persuade those who can see through to the truth, those who can and do have a streak of altruism within. To return ro where they are needed.

All I know is that we are living in such a time of nastiness and filth that it is unbelievable that we have returned to this state of being. The president of this nation, he who is supposed to be the leader of the Free world, has turned the paths of the world into and on to paths which enhance his and his cronies' bottom lines, which enhance and grow their power to bully others, adding to the multiplications of the woes of the world. 

The guiding lights of their rather ugly social mores are Revenge and Retaliation. The imposition of an individual's monstrosities, physical and otherwise over and above all else. The stolen authority to change the historic infrastructure of the nation. We think we are managing to pull the wool over people's eyes, but all we have succeeded in doing. is making blind those eyes which could possibly see through to a better era, to a better time. To a more understanding friendlier mankind.

  Why is it that yesterday, today, and tomorrow, one of the most telling compact statements to describe our world is that of a 77-year-old woman. Now a refugee from a two-time strike on her home, and the destruction of her village, her nation? 

"We escaped from hell. ...

50-50. Nothing to lose.

HAVE WE ALL TOTALLY LOST OUR MINDS?

  One cannot expect to be pleased by all the items and articles contained within magazines, newspapers. and all types of social media. However, it does get extremely frustrating when the volume of lies and the depths to which they fall in asserting these lies can be most aggravating. It is particularly so when the ones enabling these lies derive from within the Jewish nation. And more particularly so, come from a family actually known to my family, good friends with my parents, belonging to the same synagogue, and sharing in family events. 

I don't know what twisting of one's soul, what breaking of a wire inside a brain causes one to become an enemy of self. To join with open enemies of themselves. To join the chanting of hate and desires of disappearance flowing off the chanters and join enthusiastically as they spew out the same crap. Whether it is present in print or   online, it makes not a bit of a difference.

The New York Times likes to use him as the go to guy when they wish to have a piece of writing. purporting to be nonpartisan. It is so clearly partisan in outlook, in information presented, with many lies and half-truths contained within.  Statements of foes of Israel, for decades, for Millenia, are taken at face value with never a doubt as to truth. 

Buying into statements of Abbas and other spokesmen for the Arab side of this issue, accepted as truth handed down at Sinai, with never a doubt aired or statement questioned. This, from people who have historically lied about their plans for Israel, with known and fervid anti-Jewish and anti-State of Israel emotions. Long known to be. inveterate liars. Particularly when it comes to Israel. And who have attempted to destroy her time and time again.  

So, let's parse the article. Over the years constant terrorist attacks within Israel and without. Then trying to distance themselves from the horror of it. Or proudly stepw up to that same horror. Desire to coexist, to form positive relationships which would inevitably lead to positive results were dismissed. There was no conscience. No compromising. It was all or nothing. 

Mat al Yahud. Death to the Jews was a cry heard over and over and over again. With open lust for blood and anticipation of bloodshed and looting, of rape and pillage. A policy and deeds to which they adhere to. Year after year after year. Until finally. on October 7th, 2023, the bloodlust reached a peak. Over 3,000 specifically trained murderers and the other adherents found in Gaza, thousands too, flooded into Israel. Killing all before them.      Crimes against humanity, clearly seen, but ignored, dismissed and denied by the world at large.

Now these liars, these blood stained murderers whined that Israel does not allow them to enter into Israel. To take on jobs that they had filled before. After all, they whined we need your money to live. We need to be paid. This is something they should have thought about before they put into reality the grossness, the crimes against humanity they were so desirous of inflicting upon their enemy. So indignant when they were denied entry.

Now before anyone gets all het up and indignant that we are ignoring acts of violence perpetrated upon Arabs residents within Judea and Shomron, think again, look again. Violence. Violence perpetrated upon innocent civilians is wrong no matter who does it. But to be fair, even as the world claims justification, a righteous ability to react the way they do. To inflict the horror of terrorism upon those living within the State of Israel. And on Jews   round the world. 

Why then is this justification from the Jewish people dismissed? Immediately. Thrust out of the public eye as not important. Denial of any excuses or claims, Rights and wrongs are denied and dismissed. The world? It stands and claps for the murderers, rather than for the victims of massacre.  of what their foes want, right or wrong. Think of the reverse side of the coin so often denied and discounted. 

These Arab governments, the people within, now whine that their money is limited. They want their jobs back.  It is their right, they claim. To have their jobs back. To once again mingle amongst their   preferred victims? To once again gain knowledge of the people, their schedules. To plan and enact a repetition of the horror they wreaked upon innocent Israelis on a peaceful Shabbat and holiday morning. To go to work again with their bloody knives and guns and dripping hands, and with evil plans ahead.

They are refused entry to their old jobs. The settlements, the people of Israel. Who had employed the Arabs. Who worked inside their homes. and were not now to be trusted. For those who knew more, were the leaders of these criminal intentions and actions.

So, no. Now they have lost that privilege. And so now their anger has grown apace. And unfortunately, some, a small, very small minority of them dream of revenge from Jew to Arab. Salivated at the thought. Getting rid of these advocates of death for once and for all. In so doing, they speak improperly. And give the enemies of Israel  opportunity and room to claim injustices and grievances.

We need money to live. Our salaries have been cut. Yes, and why have your salaries been cut? Because the PA is not getting the money that it had been getting before from Israel. Why is that? Because it rightfully has stopped the transfer of monies that are used to pay the families of the terrorists. The terrorists themselves. Set scheduled fees and benefits. For having been part of the killing. So, no. Israel will not pay anymore. To enable their own killers. Who thirst for their blood.

They whine they cannot find as much food or clothing or medicine. As they wish, as they claim they need. Well. here's a bit of news for them. I too found some of my medications unavailable in Israel. I found some of my plans had to be aborted. But I did not go and find me a gun and shoot it. I did not find a knife and stab it deep within the heart of someone who hated me. I would fight hard. To have those who fight on our side. To understand proper limitations. The reason why our anger is so deep? Justifiably so? But how to react? In manners and mannerisms that do not bring down the rest of the world upon us.

For sure that is not the way the world or the way in which we wish to go. Yes, we are advised in the Bible that if one rises to strike you, you must rise up first. Strike them down. One is not to open one's shirt and bare the chest to bullet and knife meant to kill them. Meant to rob them of all that they had worked for. Steal the lives of ourselves and our children. 

These self-deniers of the hate directed against us; These deniers of the truth of the fact that those who killed us were paid for that job. Those who deny. the truth of the ugliness of the scenes of bloodshed and slaughter. of the bloody fields of dancers, are denying the truth. It is incumbent upon us, the survivors, and yes, we are that, to insist upon the truth. To publicly speak out on the truth. To avoid Violations and Instigations.

 But when pushed to the brink, one must do what is right. For us. To live. To deliver a message to the world at large that we are not going anywhere. We do not care how many people, how many words, how much lies are directed against us.

We are here forever. For the long run.  Till the end of time. Confident in the promise of the Lord to Abraham. Our defender. 

So be it yesterday, today or tomorrow, the outcome will be the same. We, with the help of G-d will defeat and throw back all our enemies. We will maintain our State of Israel. And a warning for those who refuse to hear the truth. And worse, who join with their own enemies, standing against their own people.

Have we all lost our minds in the search for what exactly? 

SANITY HONESTY TRUST COOPERATION .

  First, to apologize for not having the blog postings up on the very tight schedule that we shared. Or at the odd times they were posted. I have had some. tough days recently but I hope that things will get better, at least with the blog! However, please note that the next two to three weeks will be more tough days with flights and adjustments to be made, but I will do my best for my readers whom I truly and greatly appreciate.      

The words in the title are reminders of what we have lost but which it is incumbent on ourselves to find them again, regenerate the positivity they gift to us. I simply cannot fathom what the hell and where the hell, certainly in this country, the United States of America, the why of it all. It seems that there is barely anything remaining of the title words in the current ethos of the USA and in the gross plurality of the nations of the world, 

Today one can pick up a paper or engage in streaming and lose one's appetite. There is almost no redeeming point to be found. Even more disheartening is when one reads of the ever more frequent disclosures reporting on chicanery and cold hearts to be found within charities large and small.   Literally stealing the clothes off one's back. Or the food from one's mouth. Or the medical aid, the educational aid, so necessary to some. For sure quite a large chunk not getting to where it was supposed to go. This happens here in the United States as well as in countries around the world which depend greatly upon American aid.      

Where were these developing nations supposed to gain the wisdom, use the wisdom of all the nations. to bring forth their own balance and beneficial nation. The nation that seeks to benefit its inhabitants and not merely to satisfy their own ambitions - from whence, to whom to trust and emulate?  How can they struggle against corruption when they see that corruption is rampant among the so-called western nations and eastern nations, wherever one looks. From top to bottom, the corruption is within the majority of the nations of the world, firmly and deeply rooted within the fabric of society. There are no role models to follow in positive manner and much to avoid. All of the corrupt practices of government which we thought we had eliminated are back in an unfortunately strong second life.    

The very structure of society is stressed and strained. Nothing can be trusted. The awarding of contracts goes to those who donate or are golf buddies or pay over the money. Rather than to those who have the infrastructure and the knowledge and the money and the people to take on these contracts and fulfill it properly and honestly. Will the building fall down? Will the streets collapse. Are the schools properly equipped? Only time will tell. Decent, loyal people who have done good work for years are tossed out of their positions to make way for yet another of the acolytes so unqualified.    

How is one to expect positive deeds and results as nations appear to be vying for the prize of the worst nation? My heart burst within my chest after reading about "shock gloves” to be used upon those deemed unacceptable. To be chased from pillar to post and ruthlessly without care, sent away from their lives.  What's next? Whips with metal tips? When we chase people because we have summarily decided they are unacceptable to be cast aside; When their numbers grow overwhelmingly large, to be placed in horrendous human warehouses. Proper care is denied, cruelty abounds, and people die.

 These people, for the most part are law abiding productive members of society. From small business to larger businesses, as homeowners and storekeepers. As lawyers and doctors. As engineers and scientists. As laborers sorely needed and missed, no more to be found, wrecking the economy at the gap that has been created due to hate. HATE! They are deemed as less than human, as violent criminals. Debased and demeaned.  Shoveled away as trash.  

People are the same. And different. Why can we not accept that, even value it for all the breath of new things injected into the countries where they are? And if there are indeed some criminals in these   people does that mean that we deem the entire barrel rotten. Not just the individual apples. And why do we forget that there are just as many, if not more, criminals among the native born?

Too many of us forget that the focus of hate, a mad desire to "cleanse a nation", can be turned to focus on any other group. At the snap of a finger. At the echo of a mad voice encouraging mindless chanting.  We forget. We disappear people. We destroy people and their dreams and then deny it. We each think we are immune and if life has been good for the most part, we forget past history.  

 I don't know. I simply don't know. And it gets more depressing by the day. It gets even worse. When one looks at nations around the world and into one nation in particular, we are bombarded by existential shock. Even more conducive to the anomie of modern times, we use terms and threats as throw away items. They lose their effectiveness. And humanity suffers for that.     

 We tolerate, even worse, raise up the dregs of society. Those without a moral spine. The only question remaining is whether we can return?  Can we indeed climb up from the depths to which we have fallen? Return to the America we all wish. For the America imperfect, yet inspiring? But the best form of government for humanity, which demands close attention and hard work and determination to be the best we can be and then improve even more.   Do we have a chance? Returning to America the salad bowl where we mix and share. Turn aside from the hyphenated American, for we are not. We are simply American. 

Nor do I see blue skies ahead. Or calm seas. A gentle friendly wind is nowhere. No, I see a bubble. A bubble which has been pushed to the end of its ability to contain that which is within. Soon enough, that bubble will burst and the filth will be spewed out upon the land and its people. It is that picture we must avoid and return to the dream and reality of a better time.  

 I wish that one day I can open up the blog and post an essay replete with words of comfort and hope. When common sense and goodness will prevail. When we will put our energies and our brain power. to understanding the possibilities and the possible pitfalls to avoid. To make a better world for all. To have the promise of those blue skies, calm seas and gentle winds become reality. To be very sure where we are putting our feet before we do take that next step.   

 There is so much that awaits us. We will have to make the choice. We had better choose carefully and with great thought and understanding. We must refine our choices for our leaders and recognize the true ones.  

 Yesterday, today, tomorrow.    

For millennia the human race has had to make a choice. Via those choices we either improved or we fell back.  

Is it possible that we should learn from our experience? From the proofs of history. Or will we never learn? What a spirit dampening thought. 

DO YOU HAVE THE MAP?

  What map you might be asking? Well, at this point I think we should take any map and make the changes on it that we need. To make room in space and time available for the changes that have been made to that map. To any of the maps of the world. For sure, the one thing we know about these maps is that they carry inaccuracies that had once been eliminated. That they carry with them signs of danger, even when not denoted clearly on the map. Unfortunately, more people are in situations where all seems lost, with no hope of finding their way out of wherever they are. Certainly, these maps   provide very little help, if any at all, to safe passage to the desired destination.

In fact, this is a growth industry position of totally and clearly not knowing where we are, nor how to get where we wish to go, not even knowing for sure if that is where we wish to go and what will be awaiting us should we get there. Most probably is the reason why all the shows streaming on the media portray people not quite sure where they are and how they got there and what to do about it. It is the primary core of these programs and the books deriving from or sourcing of these programs. Lost. Manifest Destiny. Gulliver's travels. Lost in Space - of the Robinson family. 

Or people finding anomie and confusion in their own hometowns. The Last House. The End of Oak Street. Two examples of many in the same genre.   Good movies. Keep your interest, keep the suspense. But unfortunately, very easy to make the   connection between what is real and what is on the screen. Not so far off reality, is it?

Over in France, they are looking at the end steps of the restoration of Notre Dame. Which underwent a catastrophic fire a number of years ago. The French pride themselves in taking ancient architecture and sites very seriously. Are very careful about hewing to the line of the original. They are taking what they consider to be a bold step in replacing the 19th century's stained-glass windows with modern interpretation of those windows. Stained glass. But just a different presentation of the same themes.

It is debated throughout France, but unfortunately, along with this country's worship and veneration of the old and the tried, they keep with them the old and the tried as well, not quite as gracious and beautiful as the stained-glass windows. In keeping and being true to the ancient sites and memes, some ugliness is carried on as well. Primary among that is the traditional anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish themes which run thick and fast through their veins and arteries. And that was before Israel was established, or should I say reestablished, in the ranks of the independent nations of the world. 

Never mind the fact that Israel, or Judea, whatever name it was called those times, had been around    longer than the governments and statehoods of most of the nations of the world. It took generations and generations before these countries were united. From tiny segments of what would be a nation at some point in time in the future, with the opposition of the many families of declared royalty, mostly it was a case of constant warring between segments and between so-called countries. 

Finally, most pieces became part of the whole, whether they liked it or not, only to contain stress and tension, until so many were reseparated once again in the second half of the 20th century and/or forcibly forced to join a coalition.  These coalitions and separations were certainly not conducive to a serene world affect. But one thing, be it in France, a primary carrier of this virus, or in myriad other representations of independence, always and forever, the one thing that was held in common, clutched close to offbeats beats of hearts and souls, was the JewHatred endemic within. And mind you, this was before the recognition and reestablishment of the State of Israel in 1948. 

Quite a long time to carry this infection and mind you, for no reason at all. Furthermore, there was no opportunity here to disguise this JewHatred with the cover of opposition to their own state, as they claim now. The cover is flimsy and shreds itself via the light and the truth, which too many national maps try to erase from the maps of their destinies and destinations. Why? For some reason, some warped sense of hate, Jews are evidently not worthy of their own nation, where mind you, all are welcomed, and have the same rights. That is, all those who do not conspire to destroy it and its people within. 

 Evidently, these misdirecting maps, find it better to 'unstate' it, find it an irritant to all other states. Deny the right of Israel to be a Jewish state. This has been anathema to the world, recently and has been in this area since time began. Denied an acceptance. deemed as an invader, an interloper, from the time of the promise to Abraham from the One Above. Through the intervening wars and times and oppressions. 

And wasn't and isn't it a grand opportunity to maximize the costs of these attacks, this constant desire to spill the blood of Israelis, Jewish or not, visitors, Jewish or not, as the targets became ever easier to find. The Hebron Massacre of 1929. The attacks on villages and kibbutzim prior to statehood and afterwards. The bloody intifadas. Continuing to the present times, in Israel, and throughout the world, as the hatred has become legitimate wherever and whenever a Jew can be found.

  The world conveniently forgot an important road on the maps of those times. A major road which led to the reestablishment of the State of Israel in recognition of its modern form. That was the Holocaust and the Post Holocaust times when the killing continued in Europe. This tiny, embattled state undertook the inflow of survivors of the horror of Europe and the expulsions and oppression from Arab lands. The constant attacks continued various alliances of Arab nations against Israel. Evil minded terrorists. And when Israel beat back their invaders the world did not take it well.  

The now persistent constant state of war, from enemies surrounding this small country, continues. Sparked by the ugliness of October 7. An attack aimed at civilians out of sheer bloodlust and a    refusal to recognize the State of Israel. Its permanence. 3000 trained troops plus thousands of evil-minded adherents to that cause, swarmed in, homes, kibbutz, cities, moshavim, dancers at a Nova Festival - all were prey, their lives and their belongings savaged, terminated or stolen away into Gaza's hell.  Unfortunately for them and for the world, Israel was able to regather itself and beat them back and down. Once again, trying to end the foe's attacks for all time rather than this piecemeal business. But the world did not like that. It viewed Israel and the Jews within and the Jews without as convenient constant targets and deflectors. For them to be victors and saviors of themselves as anathema to the thinking of the world.            it had to be wiped off the maps of the world.  

Our rescuing of ourselves out of the hands of the    bloody-minded murderers was turned into an excuse for war to be waged upon Jewish people wherever and whenever they were. Once again, our blood would soak foreign lands and the lands of the State of Israel, but they found a different map in place for the Jewish nation. We stood up, spoke up, did not adhere to the 'be quiet' behavior formerly encouraged. No. We struck back and will continue to do so until the maps are corrected. Forever.     

So, if one is in France or similar surroundings, where do we go to get out of there? How, in fact, do we know where to turn on a continent that is so befuddled that it cannot find its own place even when there were specific directions to reach it. But these specific directions were deemed unsafe. Unworthy of the people of France, of the world, and so, they chose the misdirecting map. And the anger that built up as over and over again they found themselves in nothing positive situations, they found release via that one, lifelong belief.     

They and other countries aways held to the belief that Jews are considered anathema, as foreigners. Never mind how long they have been living in those countries and how much they have contributed to its wellbeing. Disregard the map laid out in the Old Testament. The Book they all claim to follow. Wherein Israel was presented with the promise of the Lord of their own land. For all eternity. And to be under His eye and held within His arms forever. 

The world somehow has to be deradicalized. Given instruction as to how to find proper maps. Hold them steady. Learn where to fold, and where not. No more revision of the facts of history. No more the use of Jews as deflection for the woes of the world and of nations in particular. We have got to ensure that we have a true road map for all time and for all people. Revitalization of that which the world needs and not which certain individuals need and wish to adhere to for their own benefit.

It is most frustrating when that which should guide us is that which misleads us instead.  The maps   were 'mismapped' for political and/or or individual benefits. For short term benefits. The ever-growing deficits within our leaders and the ever-growing herds of sheep following along. Adhering to maps which only led to a perdition for all. Never mind the truth of what happened, good, bad, or indifferent. Stick fast to that which looks better even as it is worse is what we have inculcated within the belief system of the people of the world.  

We forget similar times of stress and disorder. Much of what we are undergoing right now is not new. We talk of endless wars. Wars that never end. Please note that these wars are not fought continuously with mass attacks and invasions. Much of the current wars are fought in phases.    Sporadic attacks from the air, from the sea, or from land. Whatever suits the attacker at that moment. But we forget all the designations of war that had been held within Europe, between countries, between pieces of countries. The Hundred Years War. The French and Indian War. The 30 Years War. The Wars of the Cousins' war in England between York and Lancaster. Between the Protestant movement and the Catholic movement and the Puritans. It seems that humanity cannot let go of the need to make war upon others. To impose their beliefs upon others. Even if it must be at the point of the bayonet or with a click of a trigger. Or even the lighting of a fire at their feet.

 Any of you out there who still maintain this fallacy that your country is safe and secure, that your country is steady and does not need a map, for it is on a map of long duration and long accuracy, they are grossly mistaken.  Antagonistic debates about where they were and where they are going and how should they get there, if that is indeed the destination they should desire. These questions and desire remain quite well and alive in human culture and behavior. Countries manifesting strong hunger for the territory of others. Examples of such are many.  Threats and troops come in tandem. I must tell you that my guess is not optimistic in remedying this want among nations nor the pressure from those within who wish to break away for their own group. Or when supposed allies break apart and the crack is heard round the world.   

More and more people are deeming the maps of the United States are no longer map worthy. No longer doing their jobs. For we have competing series of maps, each different, each proposing new and conflicting directions and routes. Are any correct? Are they all wrong? Or is this something that can be made from a combination of the best of all? That would be the best hope that we Americans have, that the world has. But   optimism is not bubbling over within me. 

For we have become too stubborn, too set in our ways. Too little understanding and too great misunderstandings. What we each need, what we each want, what we will deem as irreplaceable, and what we will deem as negotiable. Such is the way of the world since forever. But it seems that we have forgotten that piece as we move forward. As we return to many old standards which deny acceptance of more modern ideas which in fact benefited their nation and the inhabitants within. But who are now at the losing end of this movement.

 I am so tired of these awful maps. I am disgusted by the map makers and by those who know the truth, who can reroute in the proper manner, but who do not. Who choose for whatever selfish or feared reasons to keep to these broken maps. To direct people to places of danger. To the ends of the world where there remain only evil portents of a future most vile. This can be corrected. This can be rectified. It will take lots of hard work. It will take redirection and corrections of misdrawn lines. These maps will require give and take, push and pull, but at the end, if we all realized that our goals are basically the same, aside from those crazed by bloodlust, we all wish for peace. We all wish for a chance to raise our families in that peace. And to move humanity forward. It is just so damn bad that we have lost our way. That we have totally disregarded even those paths which we know began correctly. These will lead us back in the proper direction. But we, in our ignorance and in our arrogance forget all that. We deem ourselves as above all else on this earth, all else in this universe. But we are evidently not. How many more earthquakes do we need? Is not four enough? How many more droughts and tsunamis and hurricanes    and freaky weather must we endure till even the blind and the deaf have to acknowledge that things have gone very weird out there in the world of nature. And as Shakespeare pointed out, when things are amiss with man, things are amiss with nature. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Does it even make a difference when the outcome is the same?

When will we discard these terrible maps. When will we allow a true map maker to arise? Show the world the truth of these maps or their untruths, and understand the lies entombed in the false maps. I have no idea. What I do know innately, what I do fear greatly, is the fact that we are running out of paper and pen. And people. That He who is above.  is getting angrier and angrier. More and more sorrow filled at the thought of what He created, allowed to run rampant upon the face of His creation, the earth and the universe around. How much patience does He have? How much more tolerance does He have within? I don't know. I don't know that anybody knows. What I do know is that we are pushing that envelope. Real hard.

Yesterday, today and tomorrow. 

Our maps grow worse. We reject the corrections. And we return to the misdirection.

 Must it be this way forever? 

Up to us folks, and we are falling down on the job.