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"Webster's 'Word Histories' decimate Any Roman soldiers who pondered mutiny had good reason to think twice. A technique used by the Roman army to keep mutinous units in line was to select one-tenth of the men by lot and execute them, thereby encouraging the remaining nine-tenths to follow orders. The Latin verb for this presumably effective form of punishment was decimare, literally 'to take a tenth of,' which was derived from decimus, 'tenth', from decem, 'ten'. It is also the root of the screeve 'tithe' which religious people pay a portion of their wealth to their faith, I read automatically taken out in Germany lately. Where's Padilla's motive? What are we supposed to think will happen if he does not do what we allege he would do, spoken in the beheaddist regime on the planet, Saudi Arabia? (sorry England stopped doing that but, heh, first will get Darwin then bring women back for beheading, bring lions back to the Tower, etc.)" November 23, 2005 at 10:01pm It was 10:00 PM Do you know where your rights are? New Jersey was the first state to sign the "Bill of Rights" I read. New York would not sign the U.S. Constitution without a Bill of Rights. Constitution Island is across the Hudson River from the West Point Military Academy, and a large chain stretched there (and elsewhere) across the river to stop the British Royal Navy. The fortification of Constitution Island was designed by forgotten Dutch patriot Bernard Romans, also a cartographer to the Continental (Congress) Army.

Explore Europa Campaign

Sadly, NASA has been beat up pretty bad by the hurricane season ending today. Other problems have occurred, i.e., the recurring foam problem on the orbiter's fuel tank, new directions from the current administration, and the cancellation of the "Prometheus" endeavor, which was to bring nuclear power to outer planetary exploration, beyond large supplies of solar power, it was lost in cutbacks as NASA recovers from these recent problems. One of the wonderful facts of the Solar System is that there is a moon larger than a planet! At least one anyway, Ganymede, the largest of Jupiter's satellites, is larger than the planet Mercury! Europa, the 4th largest of Jupiter's satellites, is covered with a smooth shell of frozen water. One of the objectives of the "Prometheus" project was to explore Jupiter's Europa, where below the kilometers of ice on its surface, may be more water than on all the Earth, and perhaps some form of life, water thought necessary for its survival, and forms of life recently found in Earth's deep oceans, at unbelievable pressures and temperatures, once thought impossible, have totally surprised scientists. The Planetary Society is recovering from a recent "Solar Sail" test launch failure, the launch was on an un-upgraded Russian missile (it was overlooked in the assembly) fired from a Russian submarine, and is stating that a "mission to Europa should be of the highest priority at the world's space agencies." It would, "unite the world's spacefaring nations and the most talented scientists and engineers in developing a mission to this intriguing moon and advance humankind's exploration of our cosmos." As one sitting in the classroom of "Planetary Atmospheres" when the Mars Viking mission landed and sampled that planet for life, and later at the Jupiter Voyager fly-by pictures, Stony Brook University then involved with those and other explorations (i.e., the expedition to Antarctica to study the "ozone problem" within the Astronomy Dept.) I could not agree more.

Hastert Does Falwell's Bidding, Renames Capitol "Holiday" Tree "Christmas" Tree... | The Huffington Post

"The last original tree on the White House grounds was taken down because the squirrels were annoying the Bush Administration ('methinks he protesteth...aw shucks, conjure 'em'). I wrote they perhaps should have tried cutting the offending tree square instead of down, as are all the trees at the Albany Capital complex in New York, put up by former Governor and then Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller. I think it was to cut down on squirrel 'limb' networks, once said to stretch from NYC to Chicago, when Europeans first arrived. So all the trees are now 'foreign'. Tannenbaum started in New York City among German immigrants in Brooklyn it's written spreading from there to the rest of the US. Hope it don't come with a dictator."

The Formerly Great Writ of Habeas Corpus

Just before President Bush selected the current Chief Justice Roberts of the Supreme Court, his brother-in-law crashed and died off the Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River connecting Westchester and Rockland counties. He had been in a Land Rover, a few years old, about 4:00 AM. Currently the bridge is under study to be replaced, and many problems were also reported in the Land Rover management. Wouldn't it be a shame if someone was brought to trial for it, when perhaps under habeas corpus it could be shown that the either the car company or the bridge authority was at fault, which as I understand it would be required under the law Lincoln once suspended, leading to the summarily execution of over 20 native Americans in the Midwest without trial, which to this day I suspect may have contributed to the problems on the Great Plains, and in the film "Sitting Bull" (played by "Iron Eyes Cody" whom I met at a Choctaw pow-wow in 1979, the poster-Indian for a clean America) he was promised a meeting with the CiC (Commander in Chief, today CinC, and up until 2002, could also be a senior officer in a unified command, an edict by the Defense Secretary making it only refer to POTUS President of the U.S.)

George Clooney's Bad Luck Year

I have a theory about George Clooney's bad luck. Maybe he knows, maybe he doesn't know about the legend of Lake Como in Italy. I'm not sure where this story comes from, for a long time now I thought it came from O. Henry (William Sydney Porter, frontier pharmacist in Texas, then a bank teller charged with embezzlement, remanded to the Ohio State Penitentiary where some in Austin, Texas think he got his name from the fragments O. Henry, which is what the former prison is today, demolished.) O. Henry then lived and wrote in NYC, where he used to frequent the German bar and restaurant Scheffel Hall on Third Avenue near 17th Street, where electric guitarist Les Paul used to play every week with his trio, at "Fat Tuesdays" before moving to the "Iridium". It once had a moving hologram of jazz horn player "Dizzy" Gillespie in the window (John Birks Gillespie: United States jazz trumpeter and exponent of bebop (1917-1993)). Scheffel Hall, first noted in 1966, yet still might not be a NYC Landmark, was once part of the Lower Eastside's "Kleine Deutschland" "Little Germany". Anyway according to this story, Lake Como is where Pontius Pilate drowned (or was?) after returning to Italy after the fated judgment against Jesus Christ, he washed his hands of. Now here's where it gets kind of wacko. As Jesus was dragging his cross up to Golgotha ("place of skulls" also a British fort in Huntington, NY in a cemetery atop a hill in the American Revolution) a Jewish (wasn't everybody?) cobbler came out to Jesus and smacked him in the face as he was about to fall. According to this here telling of it, where it came from I'm not sure, for it, the "Wandering Jew" was to live forever and every year drag Pontius Pilate's body out of Lake Como, put him on a throne of stone there and he would have to again "wash his hands" of the matter of Jesus' guilt or innocence. At least that's how I remember it from somewhere. Maybe it can bring bad back, being an actor, or dragging a cross? Scheffel Hall

Where in the world is Randi California?

In addition to his grandson, Ryan, the twice-divorced actor is survived by a son, Mark, an original member of the rock groups Canned Heat and Spirit, another son, Matt, and two other grandchildren.

Andes, Leading Man to Marilyn Monroe, Dies - Yahoo! News

Don Quixote, we meet again...

"The wind project is planned for a mountaintop in the southern Adirondacks owned by the Barton Mines Co., a five-generation family business that has mined garnets for industrial use since 1878."

Wind farm plan rocks the Adirondacks - The Boston Globe

Aussies Discover America

Name: George Myers (Homepage) Country: USA Date: Wed Nov 23 20:31:00 2005 Comment: Thanks for the efforts. I was in New Orleans only once for three days to see a friend off to the Yucatan, in the middle of an impending hurricane (1979) in the wettest year in Mississippi 1979 then. It's nice to see some of the places, and now maybe gone. I was working on the archaeology needed around the Tennessee-Tombigbee Barge Canal, an "alternative" to the "Big Muddy" the Congress chose over an "Energy Island" for NYC. Check out the Who's rock opera "Tommy" in Canberra at the bottom, Australia's federal capital. I had no idea!

New Faces on the Mount?

Which way to the ski-jump (like Berlin, NH) Richard M. Nixon's nose? Pinnochio like perhaps, the eagle arrives and off he flies from this list for "Flushmore"? Who was caught owing $100,000s in taxes? (after Spiro T. Agnew got caught). I sometimes wonder if the former employee of the great ad firm J. Walter Thompson (now owned by the Brits) dreamed up "Watergate" (Liddy didn't, but it's where Monica Lewinsky lived next door to the Senators Dole) to make RN rich with a book. Yippies liked him until they think they operated on his Quaker brain at San Clemente with a Gyrodyne. Anyway, I thought it remiss to leave him out of consideration, once living as he did in the next state over, New Jersey, Upper Saddle River, and a new place for his papers being arranged recently.

Jim Moore: Five New Faces on the Mount

Turkey in the straw...

I read them turkey's aren't like the one pecking around Battery Park, NYC (wild) but had been domesticated in the now American southwest by the "Spanish" and/or natives and had already been brought back to Europe before the Mayflower left with the Pilgrims, Puritans, Presbyterians and others. One Isaac Allerton, a large street in the Bronx named after him, had a warehouse next to "The Wall" and lived in New Haven, CT. His bones were moved to the cemetery Yale University maintains, where Eli Whitney is buried in a Egyptianesque tomb, inventor of the cotton gin. Whoose bones they holding and making a wish with at the "Bones" fraternity of the rich and powerful there?

The Blog | David Mamet: "Compassionate Conservatism"© at the First Thanksgiving | The Huffington Post

New Janis Joplin biopic

1. I hope they read Dick Cavett's "Newsday" piece on her, she really wanted to be a blues singer. This I might contribute as hearsay from a Professor Diamond: Back in the late sixties his mom went into real estate in the Catskills. She was showing a house, and lo and behold, it was Jimi Hendrix there and a Janis Joplin look-a-like she said. They were a little mad, the house wasn't supposed to be visited. It's probably the one in the film with the two small gables. I might have spied him in a sidewalk cafe in Woodstock, NY, 1968, when I worked at camp Timber Lake near Phoenicia, NY as a dishwasher, Bob Dylan and the Band had a "pink" place too. One of the "Fugs" lives up there, recently translated some new-found poetry of Sappho's might help.

Cinematical

Goodbye, Mr. Koppel

Ted Koppel left, I feel somewhat remiss that I listened to all the stupid jokes on the other networks, he provided some of the best commentary on the events of the day, and quite frankly, perhaps some of the best available statesmanship during the Iranian hostage crisis, which led to the "minor" character of the "Texas Peerage" Mr. Ross Perot, who got his people out with help from the Canadians, running as a third party candidate for President. Mr. Koppel always added a bit of charm to the end of the day and that night we should not go so easily into. My cousin (Dad being youngest of eleven, cousin someone about as old as he) George Murray started in film editing then by chance, directing "Huntley and Brinkley" before producing NBC Nightly News From New York and later 1976 convention coverage for CBS. Edwin Newman read at his eulogy in the UN Chapel, a letter canceling investigative journalists in Vietnam interviewing the "common soldier" which he had been, a US Army Captain in Korea, where I had had an uncle who did two tours. Mysterious "Higher Ups" had cancelled the long investigation. Mr. Koppel reminds me of the character and intelligence that TV journalism can have and I hope will have in the future. However, with "embedded" baloney, TV cameras only allowed clandestinely up and over the Embassy wall in "Desert Storm" and Peter Jennings walking around a world map with children by his side during an "allied" expedition, and the current Executive branch expeditionary forces (like those that put the original Shah in Iran in power, by General Schwartzkopf's father, also in charge of the Federal case of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping) I wonder sometimes how much information we really actually will ever get.

Early Seafaring Evidence

Although there have been 12 (or more) paleolithic projectile points found on the surface of Long Island, New York (attached to NYC at the former "Yeoman" county Nassau) they have not yet been found in a strata. However, one projectile point type, Squibnocket, (and others?) are found on Long Island and on Martha's Vineyard (named by Sir Gilbert, the first 16th century European settler, in Newfoundland, who also named Cape Cod and the island Martha's Vineyard, etc.) in dated stratified deposits to the Late Archaic Period around 4000 B.C. in the Northeast, when the sea began flooding various river valleys. (Jennings, 1978) They have been identified as a maritime culture. The surveyor of Martha's Vineyard, Mr. Luce, settled on the shore of Long Island, near the Suffolk County seat, Riverhead, once "New Suffolk".

Re: Stanley Kubrick did NOT like this movie (Spartacus)

I live in the Bronx, NY in NYC (the only borough on the mainland, though I grew up in Centereach out on Long Island after leaving the projects in the South Bronx when this film came out) and was looking through my friends slides from Kodak (wasn't everything then? yes and no, I have some Fuji film slides my granddad brought back from Japan around then that are still pretty good...hmmm the yellow faded on the original print) and inside the Kodak box of slides is a picture of some of the actors (Tony Curtis, from the Bronx, NY Grand Concourse I think, Herman Wouk from where the former Manhattan South Street "Fulton Fish Market" is now, in "Hunt's Point") that came with the slides once they were developed. Interesting, I just thought someone might be interested in the ephemera of the day the film also was. We're still wondering why "2001 A Space Odyssey" by Kubrick and Sir Arthur C. Clarke was not shown in 2001 in New York City, Mr. Ebert's first college review, he wonders too. I have been recently looking at Stanley Kubrick's career a big museum exhibition of his life and film history was recently opened in Germany, and they have some interesting insights from the artifacts.

Thanksgiving

Merriam-Webster's "Word Histories" (1991): decimate Any Roman soldiers who pondered mutiny had good reason to think twice. A technique used in the Roman army to keep mutinous units in line was to select one-tenth of the men by lot and execute them, thereby encouraging the remaining nine-tenths to follow orders. The Latin verb for this presumably effective form of punishment was decimare, literally, 'to take a tenth of', which was derived from decimus, 'tenth', from decem, 'ten'. Screeve "tithe" "See DECIMATE" is also from the word, a part of one's livelihood given to one's religion or church. I read in Germany it's being automatically taken out of income tax returns. With the current administration's palsy-walsy with the beheadenest countries in the world (Britain in the past and Saudi Arabia in the present) will the future behead Darwin, bring back the lions around the Tower of London, and make parts of speech in foreign countries "evidence" for such "capital punishment"?

9/11 +10 No evidence linking regime(s)

Key Bush Intelligence Briefing Kept From Hill Panel

NATIONAL JOURNAL: Key Bush Intelligence Briefing Kept From Hill Panel (11/22/05)

CBSNews Redux

I have worked around "wet" construction sites in archaeology (remains of a New Amsterdam warehouse, the wharves under the former US Assay site, behind "sheeting" there too, on a c. 1730 ship hulk used as landfill near the orginal shoreline, and researched the original ferry to Brooklyn site, there Puritan Isaac Allerton, from the Mayflower, kept a warehouse just outside the "Wall" that became Wall Street, at the Water Gate, much of NYC's shore is filled, a couple of blocks in, in the proposed Dutch "polders" for the Hackensack Meadowlands, sections to be turned over for machine farming, too topsy-turvy however, the "meadows" once dammed and breached in a storm in the 1940's, ship-hulks under the Bear Mountain Bridge, other sites along the Hudson River, etc.) and have seen different technologies advanced for construction in less than "fastland" sites. Today there are computers in the cabins of construction equipment that can bore straight down, like a large hollow drill, which can be replaced with I-beam and concrete. I worked a number of years ago in sight of a French company's "slurry wall" being built. 17 ton jaws cut a narrow trench, filled with bentonite slurry to force the surrounding water out, and carry out the debris it and a two-story high chisel dropped into bedrock caused. Huge rebar meshes were lowered into the slurry and concrete poured section by section. I wonder what new technology might be available for N'orlins?

Bon Mot?

He played bass guitar on a Timothy Leary talking album, Dr. Leary wrote books to read. His wife broke the Dr. out of prison. Uma Thurman's mother was once married to Dr. Leary. Sounds kind of necessary for literature and the arts...He wanted to get into something different after "Rainbow Bridge" I read, it became larger than life. He lived next to George F. Handel's house in London a plaque there now, two musical geniuses. I also read the pills were a German made look alike but 4 times stronger than what they appeared to be. The subway running under "Electric Lady Studio" here in NYC can be a problem sometimes, but after 30 years, buildings can apply for landmark status. Beats kissing the guy...I saw him in a sidewalk cafe under his hat in Woodstock, NY working with a brother in Timber Lake summer camp as a dishwasher, I think that was him, my matchbook lit up and landed on a cartop at the curb, and two fed looking guys came out of the cafe yellin'...ah 1968 what a year in the Catskills! Posted by: Arielman on November 23, 2005 at 09:34amIs this comment abusive? spam? [flag it]

French Students Need To Know Their Jimi Hendrix To Pass High School Degree Exam... | The Huffington Post

Update On The "60 Minutes" Kusky Flap

CBSNews.com: Blog PublicEye I saw that report, and frankly, I'm glad this site is here to remind me about the event. In that, it was very disturbing, but interesting, a "here's real people" interview, thinking, talking, there, instead of a photo-op for the "only" CinC ("Prior to 2002 it was also used to indicate the senior officer in a unified command. In June of 2002 the Secretary of Defense decreed that the only CinC in the U.S. would be the POTUS." http://4mermarine.com/USMC/dictionary.html#C) What I would have liked to have seen in the report however was, "Molly Marine. A statue of a Woman Marine located in New Orleans, LA. The first statue of a woman in military service in the United States." (same source)

An Unofficial Dictionary for Marines containing words, phrases and acronyms used by United States Marines through the ages

Commander in Chief The President of the United States. Prior to 2002 it was also used to indicate the senior officer in a unified command. In June of 2002 the Secretary of Defense decreed that the only CinC in the U.S. would be the POTUS.

Relationships "is" good

"As a matter of fact, I know relations between our governments is good."—On U.S.-South Korean relations, Washington D.C., Nov. 8, 2005 The US Peace Corps was once there, now they're too high in the World Bank list. They asked if I wanted to give TB shots to South Koreans, I now think, they can't hold a needle? I said I had wanted to go anywhere else my uncle served 2 tours there and my grandfather a Merchant Mariner had been there and in four wars, they said "back to square one" where I work in archaeology. Things couldn't be worse since then, if you asked me. Whole cities rebelled against the military rule, two former Presidents have been tried one recently given amnesty by a democratically elected President of South Korea. It's been like a "shadow" they and our "x-gates" which the national press hid from us from what went on there it seems sometimes. I love their flag!

Hudson Valley Demolition Alerts

As the Hudson Valley region undergoes its most massive physical transformation since Urban Renewal, we are losing historic sites at an alarming pace. Call it suburbanization, McDonalds-ization, sprawl, whatever you like. We are losing the places that gave the Hudson Valley its identity in the first place.

Hudson Valley Ruins: Hudson Valley Demolition Alert

They say the wild turkey in the park has been there for three or four years.

Dooce Bigelow 10/30/05 I began a new job at Battery Park in lower Manhattan in NYC last week for Dewberry, Inc., who I signed up with Columbus Day, on the "Swing" shift 3:30 PM to 12:00 AM. It involves the archaeology of the new trench for a re-route of a subway and new station. In the park is a public sculpture that had been in the World Trade Center vicinity, a large "sphere" made of various formed brass sheets formed into a sphere on a sculptural armature, which always appeared off-center on its incorporated pedestal. A gas torch burns near the base and commemorates the events of 09/11/01, when the "twin" buildings were hit by two hijacked airliners. The sign there is very poor, a parks dept. white letters on a green background, words crammed into it, looks like on plywood and very faded so you have to stand right ontop of it to read it. A coworker, who I have not seen since the excavations of the human remains in City Hall Park in 1999, said the "Sphere" will stay where it is as we/they go under it, underpinning planned apparently. Disturbingly, I started mid-week, and noticed that some memorabilia was being sold in the Battery Park about the events of 9/11 (999 emergency phone # in Britain) and saw some four or five African-American men there also praying to Mecca in the park. The NYC police rounded them up Friday arrested them apparently? Sadly, the fought over flagpole with crossbar ordered city-wide by the former parks commissioner Stern, and without NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission approval, fought over and lost, has the American flag tangled in the crossbar, and it is not removed every night as "supposed" to be. NYC City and Parks flags hang from the crossbar, and a MIA flag is on the rope with the American flag though neither does when caught up on the crossbar. (This post got me "dooced" apparently though at first there was no mention of the contractor or shift.)

Very interesting reporter's career

Very interesting report. It reminded me of a speculation. I was working in Kettering, Ohio on a Watervliet Shaker cemetery problem, near Dayton, Ohio, the largest Air Force installation in the U.S. A videotape was being passed around among some of a David Hartman (one of the original "Good Morning America" hosts and lately in documentaries of things historical) video of a flight on a B-1 bomber, which whoever gave permission for was canned and a short time after my interview with a source, Mr. Hartman was removed from "Good Morning America". Snafu's occur, I'm sure Ms. Attkisson has had quite a time besides her cheery report. Wow!

edublogs: Dylan Thomas reads - free audio

"I once worked with an Etruscan historian (?) Anna Farkas, who went to school with Dylan Thomas' son she said? My own quandary might be with those wonderful small poems Dylan Thomas 'drafted' into shapes, diamonds, squares, etc., whose shapes might be lost in an audio recording. I still get a little memory thrill or shiver over them."

Pennfield, N.B.

Thanks. I've never actually been to the airbase. I used to exit there for Grand Manan Island Ferries. I did drive up around Utopia Lake and the area near it once with a friend, and to Fredericton, St. John, Levis, across from Quebec City and back across through north Maine woods. The train runs through there too, I once came from Buffalo to Toronto to St. John, N.B down to Pennfield by bus, train, hitchhike, ferry to Seal Cove, Grand Manan where my family had a house for a time for summer use in the village. It is said the village to have been originally settled by Americans, Dr. Faxon who built a sailing ship there before moving away over the War of 1812, a distinct Maine "Downeast" accent can still be heard there. The dialect "up the island" in "God's country" is more Canadian-British, once called the "Bermuda of the Fundies".

Chapter 7: Utility Pole Investigations

"Most investigators have never heard of a wooden pole case and probably have not heard of a pole falling. Occasionally they fall, and when they do, they can cause severe injuries."

Dooce

2. If they need to know, the "Sphere" a damaged outdoor sculpture that was one at the World Trade Center site, is relocated in Battery Park, at the "foot" of Broadway, with a small "eternal" flame, standing on the top of a new tunnel for a subway being built. A memorial to those who perished or suffered from 9/11/01. I hope the film does well.

Cinematical

Voodoo Chile Slight Return

CBSNews.com: Blog: "What I recall about George W. Bush's service record: There was a letter that excused him from the final six months of service to attend Harvard University for an MBA. He complained about flying the F-102 (not a step up from the F-101 Voodoo, 102, subsonic, 101 nuclear and supersonic, two F-101's were stationed at Calverton, on Long Island, NY) and for some reason (hanger eject?) had to recertify in-flight it seemed from his records made public. His father, as Vice-President, had us all in prayer while he stood on the deck of the M.S. Mount Washington (motor ship) in Wolfeboro, NH on Lake Winnipesaukee, before he was whisked off to serve as President while President Reagan went under the knife for some colon surgery. The Doles live there now. Maybe this has been more dirty politics, almost as usual from the 'Skull and Bones' guys who won't return Geronimo's skull. Don't blame me I voted for my once employer's creator, (NYPIRG) Ralph Nader. My cousin George Murray directed 'Huntley and Brinkley' and his eulogy was read at the UN Chapel by Edwin Newman. CBS was his last employer, covering the 1976 'duopoly's' conventions. CBS should keep up the good work, too bad its brother couldn't own the baseball team George W. Bush just had to have!"

Rare Slowdive

Listening to this on and off.

Journalism, again.

My cousin, George Murray, worked as a producer for CBS covering the major party's conventions of 1976. A high school friend works for CBS in NYC as a television investigative journalist. TV journalist and author, Edwin Newman read a letter at George Murray's eulogy in the United Nations Chapel, which he wrote to a team sadly cancelling the investigation of the common soldiers view of the Vietnam Conflict. The National Archives states that the first "White House Press Secretary" (which Andy Rooney states he'd never want to be) was George B. (M.) Cortelyou, who was standing next to President William McKinley at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, NY when he was shot, dying eight days later while then Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was hiking in the Adirondacks, who had to be rushed from Mt. Marcy (Tahawas) to catch the train, and sadly, to read the telegram, in North Creek, NY. Later it would become the hamlet of the first commercial ski operation in the east, later Gore Mountain opened down the Peaceful Valley Road. Today they want to reconnect the skiing, and are petitioning NY's governor. The National Archives article, however, has left out Dee Dee Myers in its review of White House Press Secretaries, she served three years in the Clinton administration, the first and only woman so far. My question is, if American journalism becomes the province of a politics that can cancel investigations from unseen "higher ups" (for example by Secretaries of State, or generals, etc. over redefined situations) how can American journalism keep its cherished ideals of truthfulness and honesty? Under the statue of Horace Greeley, in NYC's City Hall Park, a New Hampshire native who lived in Chappaqua, NY, (currently the town of former President William Clinton, only the second President to address the NY Historical Society, and NY's Senator Hillary Clinton) who coined the phrase, "Go west young man and grow up with the country" and next to the monument of Joseph Pulitzer, by the once "newspaper row" are the human remains of the "First Almshouse" when the park was a "commons". Nearby was the recent "African Burial Ground" in the news. Should the "market" have such a large a share in the news that it becomes the area once occupied by "industrial espionage"? It is always a danger of public officials' use of government for self and hired interests. My grandfather, Joseph Myers, was a real estate reporter for the "New York Record" and made it with his eleven kids through the Depression by telling coal dealers which people could need a new coal contract, I hope journalists stay out of "sidelines".

There's a red house over yonder...

The latest development on this site was that NYU had gone ahead with the demolition of the church without ever thinking or trying to follow landmark preservation law, based on the "Federal 106" statute. Sounds very hypocritical of them, after fighting over the facade on Washington Square where Edgar Allen Poe once lived and wrote (the red house I think, to be incorporated into a larger building, NYU has been sucking up all sorts of properties, former Palladium on 14th Street, 12th St. church, etc.) as the student clientele, once a majority of New Yorkers is now a majority of out-of-staters.

Ball Bearing Bombs

I remember reading during the British drought of 1976, about the U.S. "Black Widow" aircraft in WWII, which flew at night to neutral Sweden to return with strategic ball-bearings for the war effort. I had won a lottery for a summer job in NY Republican stronghold, Brookhaven Town, (NY's largest in area) lining and raking a night-game baseball field in predominately black North Bellport. A patent for ball-bearings was filed from Bellport for wagons in 1868, once a major produce port supplier for NYC, closed by shipwreck in the barrier island, Fire Island. The U.S. "Atoms For Peace" stamp was created there. U.S. "Veterans For Peace" were once rebuilding water supplies for Iraq before our recent invasion. The timetable must be set, we cannot stop this type of "sacrifice" these photos will always remind us of.

Caption This: Winner Revealed

Great if you think LA police should be photographing your genitals based on juvenile hear-say testimony. One of the times, I was on a Bronx jury, MJ took to the TV to complain about it. Maybe that fireball over the East River for her film inspired the fart jokes. It was said to have been quite impressive, near the old quarantine hospital on Blackwell's Island? Heh, we want to make movies in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, you got a problem with that? What do you think, I'm funny? Survey Says

Armageddon Redux

The poster for the film "Armageddon" has a big flaming black meteor with "HEADS UP 7.1.98" in it. Interesting archaeology about it, recently. They were expanding a prison in Israel for Palestinians, near Megiddo, where archaeology was being done too, where the Biblical "Armageddon" had been fought, and they discovered what may be the earliest so far Christian church in Israel from about 300 CE (or AD). A floor mosaic with fish (or Pisces fanciers, Jesus not born when we think and a couple of years off too according to experts) and lettering in the mosaic, being cleaned by someone with traffic infractions doing time (drunken vehicular manslaughter, death penalty? Why not? Discuss.) But I got off topic. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, in "Operation Megiddo" was given $6 billion dollars to investigate the "milleniumism" that might have ensued according to their own site online. (In part with "Y2K" that "stupidity" built into computer systems thought would not have lasted into the year 2000, or would have to be replaced, "planned obsolescence" which cost alot of money, for computer programmers and systems analysts, merry Y2Kmas!) Well what they did with the $6 billion and what havoc it might also have caused should still be investigated. If you agree please, don't pray, do something else, write the Congress, join a "Bill of Rights" (New York State would not join the new U.S. without one, don't leave home without it) protection group (there are many with different names) or something. That film about the end of the world Orson Welles narrated back in the early 1980's that showed with "Midnight Express" was too scary!

Armageddon (1998)

IMDb :: Boards :: Post Reply: Re: Dumbest thing about the movie. "One of the dumb things was the 'new' music director leaving the 'Steve Augeri and Journey' song 'Remember Me' out of the sound track, but it appears on the CD for the film. Steve Augeri still sings for 'Journey' (replaced the great Steve Perry). We sat through the whole film waiting for the song, my cousin, is married to him and they have a son, Adam and live on Staten Island, NYC. Adam said maybe, it was playing in the NYC cab when the meteor fragments hit, I heard he said. I almost heard it too."

Listening to Disorder

Disorder "Lost Faith" Came to this from a poem and short Leadbelly song Kurt Cobain did and a travelogue by the guy in the band of Liverpool, "World Cultural Capital" in 2008. Did she stay in the pines? Still the Dr. Lee of OJ trial and his own college of forensics thinks Kurt Cobain could not have killed himself, the amount of heroin would have precluded the trigger pull. Crime scene botched too. Door locked? Yeah with lots of small window panes to take in and out. Another read today: No one was with Jimi Hendrix when he died. Supporter of the Black Panthers according to the writer. An American actress was slandered by the FBI thus, so much she buried her dead baby in a glass coffin to show that she had not had a child with a Black Panther as the "bureau" alleged. In the film Jimi gave money to Martin Luther King, Jr., $25,000, I wonder. New 2 set DVD coming out of the authorized biography, a film a few years after his death, to be released early next year. Thank you "Disorder".

Audience are back

The real "Stairway To Heaven" story?

The Blog | Trey Ellis: Why Yellowcake Matters More Than Ever | The Huffington Post

"In the film 'Beat the Devil' with Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollabridgida, Jennifer Jones, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, et al, screenplay by Truman Capote, based on a novel by John Helvick, produced and directed by John Huston, the 'six are headed for Africa, presumably to sell vacuum cleaners (and those pesky tubes - Myers), but actually to buy land, supposedly loaded with uranium...If you appreciate a wickedly funny script, with wonderful performances by an all-star cast at its best, 'Beat the Devil' is for you!' If you are for an administration that can't even get the dates right from a letter sent to it from Italy apparently, that informed them of so-called 'Yellow-cake' dangers (and those pesky aluminum tubes) then this administration deserves to be beat, for its leader was let out six months early from the Alabama National Air Guard to get an MBA from Harvard University, but has no sense whatsoever of what the American public should have from government."

Katrina in the sky with...Louie, Louie

Looks like Fort Drum when I was doing survey there. What's with the GOD crap at the end of the message? It after all is where Bob Dole's (in Wolfeboro too) 10th Mountain Division moved from Camp Hale, Colorado (I worked in the fort Nathan Hale was taken to, Fort Golgotha run by Benjamin Thompson, Queens Ranger, later physicist "Count Rumford" alias destroyer of Presbyterian churches on Long Island and perhaps other heinous deeds) preceeded by tens of thousands of Canadian geese flying way way up in the sky for us...what calamity had been introduced in the Arctic? Hmmm... You asked for them you got them...wild geese.

Bond vs. Bond

Interestingly, Encarta's entry for Ian Fleming (who had a cameo, in a cafe, in "The Prisoner" series) who had a golden typewriter in the Caribbean, where one can live in his room for a night, does NOT list "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" which he also wrote, now on Broadway (Birdie num num, what to do?). Cinematical

Gray, Henry. 1918. Anatomy of the Human Body. Page 1231

The female bladder is said by some to be more capacious than that of the male, but probably the opposite is the case. - Gray's Anatomy Online at bartleby.com

Foo Fighters

Nov 02, 2005 Foo Fighters on SNL Nov 12

Official Foo Fighters

Environmental Advocates of New York Cites Continued Staff Shortages at the DEC as a Threat to Public Safety

Environmental Advocates of New York - Home Page

Hanover Square

Prince Charles and his "consort" Camilla visited Hanover Square in lower Manhattan to dedicate a garden to the British citizens killed in the attacks in NYC on 9/11/01. One of the early archaeology efforts in NYC one heard about was the "Hanover Square" site (and the "Stadt House" site, actually Governor (?) Lovelace's Tavern, fond of cross-dressing). Even one of the "moguls" in archaeology of NYC Barry Greenhouse has a small apartment there, Hanover Square. In the American Revolution the statue of King George, II maybe ("King of Great Britain and Elector of Hanover from 1727 to 1760 (1683-1760)") was pulled down and taken to Connecticut where it was melted down into musketballs, which were extremely hard to come by, and traded through Caribbean with the Netherlanders. Some of the public at Ascot, the horserace, still call the royalty "the Germans".