Had circumstances been different and the war really had waged on so long; soldiers and people from both sides of the fight would have respected him for his courage and dedication. In that respect he was more of a hero. However, the world...
Right now Alison has a lot of questions that need answering, as do I, and once I have taken the time to grieve this loss I will begin looking for those answers. Several emails are going to be written, as I assure her that she isn’t alone in this daunting battle against the governme...
We did a return bout not too long before Brian died (17 November 2023), I’ve never completed the planned two articles, but we taped the long three-way chat and one day will remove the too-naughty bits and pop it up on the A-A website. Such a talented driver, engineer and busines...
How many Jews do it take to supervise say 25 people in one room? One Jew is all it takes. The Jew who controls the union has your file, name, adress and occupation. When the Jews invaded Poland during WW2, the first thing the Jew did was to force every single Pole to vote if ...
We were back at our hostel in time for breakfast at 9am. The rest of the morning and much of the afternoon was spent reading around the gorgeous pool. I had to retreat indoors as I was too warm and feared getting extremely bad sunburn. I was lucky that I did as both Tilly and ...
Differences notwithstanding as regards timing, Pinsker did not differ from Ginsberg in the use of power to achieve their shared Zionist goals. In his book, “Auto-Emancipation,” Pinsker described the master-method to bring about this “self-emancipation” and to “restore the Jewish nation:”Leo...
Did workers working on the Hoover Dam invent the hard hat? On the Hoover Dam project in 1931, hard hat use wasmandated by Six Companies, Inc. In 1933, construction began on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco California. ... Strauss also asked Bullard to create a hard hat to protec...
After he had finished one tune, Lord Lovat (who was dressed in a monogrammed turtleneck sweater and armed with his grandfather's hunting rifle -- did we say he was insane already?) actually called out a request for another song, which Millin then played. After the beach was secured, Lord...
The photo below shows some eggs we bought, unrefrigerated, at a grocery store in Costa Rica. This took me a long time to trust, since the only rotten-egg experience I’ve ever had was from eggs we bought at a farmer’s market in Iowa, where the sellers clearly did not know what th...
Happily, Alex had been working through much the same process at her through school and I think we managed to put together something helpful. Here are the slides for those who fancy a nosy through. This should have been the highlight of the conference but then Rich and I did a Friday nig...