America First 1941 and today

1941

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2018

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1920

 

Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacco_and_Vanzetti

 

 

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2018

 

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1840

No nothing party

 

 

The Jack Benny Program – Jack Gets Robbed (November 30, 1952

Jack Benny’s Monologue

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Wikipedia: 
Jack Benny was an American comedian, vaudevillian, radio, television and film actor, and violinist. Recognized as a leading 20th-century American entertainer, Benny often portrayed his character as a miser, playing his violin badly, and claiming to be 39 years of age, regardless of his actual age.

Benny was known for his comic timing and the ability to cause laughter with a pregnant pause or a single expression, such as his signature exasperated “Well!” His radio and television programs, popular from 1932 until his death in 1974, were a major influence on the sitcom genre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Benny

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Aloft

Third of Four

Fourth of Four

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The Jack Benny Program – Jack Gets Robbed (November 30, 1952)

Hint: It helps to know that:

https://youtu.be/MkA8ohBSJvM

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Prologue

Jack Bettenu, 1952 N.B. President-elect Eisenhower will take the oath of office on January 20, 1960.
The words “JANUARY 20, 1960:” are repeated frequently in several comedy scenes.
This Margaret Truman is an imposter.

 

The real Margaret Truman Wikipedia

In November 1951, Margaret Truman, the only daughter of then President Harry S Truman and Bess Truman, was 27 years old. She was more famous than Ivanka Trump because she was an only child. Everyone who watched the program knew Margaret Truman was not eight years old. Jack Bennccy thought it would be more amusing if she were eight, so he hired a very talented imposter.

Margaret Truman

was an American classical soprano, actress, journalist, radio and television personality, writer, and New York socialite. The only child of President Harry S. Truman and First Lady Bess Truman, she was “a witty, hard-working Midwestern girl with singing talent who was neither particularly pretty nor terribly plain.”

20 Million People in the World are Dying Unnecessarily

Above: South Sudanese refugee stands with her child in Pagarinya 2 refugee camp in the Adjumani district in northern Uganda.

Special Report: 20 Million People in the World Are Dying of Starvation Unnecessarily

How can we feed them? How can we help them feed themselves?

The origin of this posting is Thanksgiving Day 1960 when I was 13 years old. Following Thanksgiving dinner with my family in Borough Park Brooklyn, my grandmother cleared away dinner, folded up the gate-legged  wooden table, and opened the maple wood doors at the cabinet where she hid the television set. She’s turned on the set and we watched Edward R, Murrow’s Harvest of Shame.

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"This is CBS Reports Harvest of Shame," announced Edward R. Murrow. "It has to do with the men, women, and children who harvest the crops in this country of ours, the best-fed nation on earth.
Norman Rockwell family Thanksgiving
"These are the forgotten people, the under-protected, the under-educated, the under-clothed, the under-fed. We present this report on Thanksgiving because were it not for the labor of the people you are going to meet, you might not starve, but your table would not be laden with  the luxuries that we have all come to regard as essentials. We should like you to meet some of your fellow citizens who harvest the food for the best-fed nation on earth."
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++++ Edward R. Murrow based his broadcast from Belle Glade, Florida which in 1960 was a home to a domestic migrant stream. By 1974, that stream was drying up--replaced in large part by the globalization of agricultural workers willing to do work U.S. citizens regarded as beneath our dignity.
For me, Belle Glade, Florida remains an actual and metaphorical location where my understanding of how to feed the starving people of the world began.
The rich swampland of Belle Glade is the equivalent of agricultural gold. Anything planted in its rich soil will grow. By the 1970s, the soil was treated with astonishing disrespect. U.S. Sugar and other growers produced sugar cane there--a crop that has no rational economic reason for being grown in the United States. 

The economist David Ricardo (1772-1823), hero of mine, pointed to the irrationality of growing sugar in Florida when it is far less expensive to import it from countries in Central and South America, in Africa and elsewhere where foolish U.S. food policy imposes tariffs which keep in business U.S. sugar cane and beet producers who are less efficient and would be better off producing instead a valuable commodity on our precious soil.
Portrait of David Ricardo by Thomas Phillips
“In an economic model, agents have a comparative advantage over others in producing a particular good if they can produce that good at a lower relative opportunity cost or autarky price, i.e. at a lower relative marginal cost prior to trade.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
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Ricardo wrote: Ricardo’s example reads, “To produce the wine in Portugal, might require only the labour of 80 men for one year, and to produce the cloth in the same country, might require the labour of 90 men for the same time. It would therefore be advantageous for her to export wine in exchange for cloth. This exchange might even take place, notwithstanding that the commodity imported by Portugal could be produced there with less labour than in England. Though she could make the cloth with the labour of 90 men, she would import it from a country where it required the labour of 100 men to produce it, because it would be advantageous to her rather to employ her capital in the production of wine, for which she would obtain more cloth from England, than she could produce by diverting a portion of her capital from the cultivation of vines to the manufacture of cloth.”
It is not often I agree with the American Enterprise Institute, but when it comes to sugar (an obsession of mine) the current protectionist policies of the U.S. government—enshrined in the 2018 farm biill—wastes at considerable cost to the US treasury 900,000 acres of land which would nest be used for other purple.

Consequently, sugar protectionism threatens our producers of rice, wheat, corn, and soybeans whose ability to pay their children's college tuition is dependent upon exports. 

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The coup putting 93 year-old Robert Mugabe under house arrest [1] is one of three major international stories to break this week. For 37 years Zimbabwe’s corrupt regime has turned the “breadbasket” of southern Africa [2]into a net importer of food. 
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See this exciting report from South Africa television: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW-xXZqrGKc
BBC: "Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has resigned, parliament speaker Jacob Mudenda has said. A letter from Mr Mugabe said that the decision was voluntary and that he had made it to allow a smooth transfer of power, the Reuters news agency reports. The surprise announcement halted an impeachment hearing that had begun against him. Lawmakers roared in jubilation and people have begun celebrating in the streets. Mr Mugabe had previously refused to resign despite last week's military takeover and days of protests. He has been in power since independence in 1980."
 BBC News: Published on Nov 21, 2017.
 

Editorial note: In Zimbabwe, a country with a literacy rate of over 80 percent, will the dictator’s fall mean that one of the richest countries in Africa will be able to feed southern Africa again?

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Currently, a child starves to death every 10 minutes in Yemen.

Earlier this week the UN Security Council heard legitimate concern that in the wake of a Saudi Arabia boycott of critical humanitarian supplies, Yemen is at risk of becoming the most severe crisis in a world filled with severe crises. Yemen’s shortage of food is putting 17.8 million people at risk of dying from starvation. Currently, a child starves to death every 10 minutes in Yemen. Meanwhile, our too little too late Secretary of State is in Myanmar where a minority Moslem population is at risk of genocide from the country’s majority Buddhist population.

Refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh are filled to overflowing as the county’s leadership puts fleeing refugees back into leaking boats to return to the danger they fled. As millions of people are dying in the world, the Los Angeles Times in one of the few news outlets in the US to provide coverage. Almost certainly, Meet the Press and the other Sunday network news programs will ignore death and suffering on a massive scale.

Over 200 Children Killed in Yemen in 2017
http://alwaght.com/en/News/106175/Over-200-Children-Killed-in-Yemen-in-2017-amid-Saudi-Bombardments-UN

Instead, the vast majority of US  reporters focus to the exclusion of everything else on Jeff Sessions testimony before a House of Representatives oversight committee. Can not reporters provide at least 10 percent of their efforts [tithe] on life and death issues instead of concentrating  in exhaustive detail the tawdry sexual behavior of the Republican nominee running in the Senate Alabama race?  Why cannot we be spared repetition until we all can memorize each of the  President’s irrational tweets?

Wordsworth wrote”the world is too much with us.” Not in the isolationist United States where our role as an example of world leadership—painfully acquired during World War II—diminishes daily..

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Zimbabwe was once the “breadbasket” of Southern Africa

Los Angeles Times correspondent Robyn Dixon reported from Harare, Zimbabwe on November `5, 2017:

“As the country descended into economic ruin, Mugabe became an international outcast for his misrule. He blamed the problems on whites and political enemies.

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“In the early 2000s, Mugabe sanctioned the invasion of hundreds of white-owned farms by black veterans of the liberation war and other government supporters, a land grab that resulted in the deaths of farmers and political opponents. Supporters praised him for standing up for the black majority against Western imperialists.

“But in recent years, Mugabe has been abandoned by even some of his most ardent supporters, including South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters party, which wants South Africa to confiscate land from whites.

“’The EFF appreciates that some of the pain caused in Zimbabwe was due to imperialist actions, but a significant component of this was self-inflicted,” it tweeted Wednesday as it called on Zuma to offer Mugabe political asylum. ‘ President Mugabe cannot insist on remaining in power even when he is physically incapable of doing so.’”

http://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-zimbabwe-military-takeover-20171115-story.html

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Yemen: “It will be the largest famine the world has seen in many decades with millions of victims.”

From the about section of this EuroNews You Tube video:

Yemen is facing a devastating famine unless the current air, sea and land blockade imposed by the Saudi-led coalition is lifted. “It will be the largest famine the world hasn’t seen for many decades, with millions of victims,” *UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator Mark Lowcock* told reporters. He had briefed the UN Security Council on the humanitarian situation in the country. He had been asked to brief the UNSC which held a closed-door meeting … See : http://www.euronews.com/2017/11/09/mi…

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Genocide in Myanmar

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Meanwhile, a sharply divided Congress fiddles while the world burns

Confirmation hearings of Attorney General Jeff Sessions whose “contribution” to the death taking place globally is to secure the borders and round up illegal aliens.

Attorney General Sessions Testimony at Oversight HearingAttorney General Jeff Sessions testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Justice Department oversight issues and Russia’s role in the 2016 election. Attorney General Sessions told the committee he stands by his previous testimony that he never lied about his contacts with Russia. He added that he had no recollection of a campaign meeting with George Papadopoulos and Carter Page involving Russia until he saw news reports. In addition, Attorney General Sessions said he has “no reason to doubt the young women” who have accused Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual misconduct.

Also, the attorney general discussed whether a special counsel is needed to investigate the Clinton Foundation. He said he has no prejudgments and would not take any sides but a decision by the Justice Department would be based on a detailed factual evaluation.

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Meanwhile, back in the real world: Who is feeding the millions who are starving?

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), also known as the UN Refugee Agency, is a United Nations programme mandated to protect and support refugees at the request of a government or the UN itself and assists in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country. Its headquarters are in GenevaSwitzerland, and it is a member of the United Nations Development Group.[1]The UNHCR has won two Nobel Peace Prizes, once in 1954 and again in 1981.

Wikipedia, of course

Myanmar/Bangladesh

The Philippines voted on November 18, 2017 PH votes against U.N. draft resolution on Rohingya in Myanmar
http://news.abs-cbn.com/focus/11/18/17/ph-votes-against-un-draft-resolution-on-rohingya-in-myanmar
From the field: Emergency Response Coordinator in Bangladesh

I’ve met so many brave Rohingya families who have little more than the clothes on their back and the weight of their trauma and loss. And the painful memories of the violence that forced them to flee their homes.

https://www.unrefugees.org/news/from-the-field-emergency-response-coordinator-in-bangladesh/

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Yemen

UNHCR’s country representative, Ayman Gharaibeh, warns war is tearing the fabric of Yemen apart and creating a humanitarian catastrophe.

AMMAN, Jordan – Since war broke out in Yemen in March 2015, the fabric of the country has been disintegrating and the population of 27.4 million suffering untold hardship and misery. The situation there has been described as a ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ and without help many more people, especially children, will die from violence, lack of food and water, illness or disease.

Yemen is on the brink of a horrible famine. Here’s how things got so bad.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/11/19/yemen-is-on-the-brink-of-a-horrible-famine-heres-how-things-got-so-bad/?utm_term=.b8437d127095

AymanGharaibeh, UNHCR’s Representative to Yemen, is leading the UN Refugee Agency’s humanitarian operations and response across the country. The experienced humanitarian aid worker previously served in Yemen with UNHCR from 1992 to 1994. Gharaibeh spoke to Public Information Officer ShabiaMantoo about the desperate situation there.

https://www.unrefugees.org/news/what-is-happening-in-yemen-update-from-unhcr-representative/

United Nations High Commission for Refugees:

“Yemen is in the grips of one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes in the world — two million have been forced to flee their homes because of increased violence in the country – more than 18 million innocent Yemenis are in immediate need of humanitarian assistance, many risk starvation.”

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Sudan

Amid increasing violence and deteriorating conditions, the situation in South Sudan has escalated into a full-blown humanitarian emergency.

Sudan, once the largest and one of the most geographically diverse states in Africa, split into two countries in July 2011 after the people of the south voted for independence.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14094995

“The total number of South Sudanese refugees has now passed two million, it is the largest refugee crisis in Africa, and the third largest in the world, after Syria and Afghanistan. Sadly, 63 percent of South Sudanese refugees are under the age of 18.” –UNHCR

Above: South Sudanese refugee stands with her child in Pagarinya 2 refugee camp in the Adjumani district in northern Uganda.

“The vast majority of South Sudanese refugees are finding refuge in neighboring Uganda. Currently, Uganda is hosting more than one million refugees – 82 percent are women and children.”

“The majority of those fleeing South Sudan are women and children. They are survivors of violent attacks, sexual assault and in many cases, children are traveling alone.

“Often, they arrive weak and malnourished. When the rainy season comes, their needs are compounded by flooding, food shortages and disease.”

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Constitutional removal of President Trump is imperative if the U.S. is to regain its position following World War II as global leader responding in a timely manner to catastrophes to prevent even more widespread suffering and economic destruction

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Budget would restructure a diminished commitment to international food aid

WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump’s budget proposal sharply reduces the U.S. commitment to international food assistance. The United States provides most emergency and developmental food assistance under P.L. 480 Title II, also known as Food for Peace. This initiative was launched in 1954 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower when he signed into law what became known as the Food for Peace Act. The purpose was two-fold: to answer the urgent humanitarian call to feed the world’s hungry, which was deemed to be in accord with national security interests, while providing an outlet for the incredible bounty of U.S. agriculture.  

Congress appropriates funding each year to P.L. 480 Title II as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture budget. The program itself is administered by the Office of Food for Peace in the State Department’s U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

President Trump’s budget would eliminate all U.S.D.A. funding for P.L. 480 Title II. Instead, funding for fiscal year (F.Y.) 2018 emergency international food assistance, a proposed $1.1 billion, would be funneled through the International Disaster Account at USAID.  This compared with P.L. 480 Title II funding for F.Y. 2017 at an estimated $1,713 million and actual spending in F.Y. 2016 at $1,716 million. This would translate to a cut of more than $600 million in international food assistance from the estimate for the current year.

At the same time, the administration proposed to lower funding for the I.D.A. account itself in F.Y. 2018 by $900 million from F.Y. 2017, to $2.5 billion.

“The U.S. government will urge other donors, including non-traditional donors, to increase funding for humanitarian assistance and lessen the burden on the United States to respond,” the State Department’s budget request stated.

--http://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/news_home/Business_News/2017/05/Budget_would_restructure_a_dim.aspx?ID=%7B41C936C5-1425-4AA7-A8A3-F381CA27B64B%7D&cck=1

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Required is for the U.S. to regain its position in the world as a champion of humanitarian assistance to the poorest of the poor who are dying.  Currently, President Trump aids the Saudis by providing military equipment and logistical support in killing children, women, and men in Yemen. It is imperative to remove the President from office non-violently and constitutionally.

Three resources are available. 1. Impeachment. 2. Removal under Section 4 of the 25th Amendment. 3. Persuading President Trump to resign from office.

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There was bad news for the United Nations last week, as President Donald Trump announced he is seeking a 28 percent budget cut for diplomacy and foreign aid, which includes an unspecified reduction in funding to the United Nations and its agencies. VOA's U.N. Correspondent Margaret Besheer reports that the potential cuts come as the U.N. is struggling to cope with an unprecedented number of conflicts, approaching famines and the effects of climate change. Originally published at - http://www.voanews.com/a/united-natio...

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Much nonsense has been emitted about the failure of the Democratic Party to have responsible leaders in this time of crisis. Senator Camilla Harris of California is currently my favorite to secure in the Democratic nomination in 2020. However, a number of Senate and House Democrats as well as state and local officials point to our party’s bench strength. A list is available upon request.

Not acceptable is Senator Diane Feinstein whose inability to see facts when presented before her of Trump’s illegal behavior including but not limited to obstruction of justice, makes her my candidate to defeat in the California primary next year. I am hopeful that Tom Steyer, whom I commend for this impeach President Trump commercial, decides to run against Senator Feinstein next year.

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Footnotes

  1. South African Broadcast Corporation (SABC) News is an excellent source of the latest news on the transition from Mugabe’s 37 years controlling power in Zimbabwe. http://www.sabcnews.com/newspage/
  2. “Because of its highly productive land and vast agricultural
    potentialities, Zimbabwe used to be not only selfsufficient
    but also produce surplus crops for exports.
    However, the situation has changed in the recent years to
    the extent that the country can no longer feed itself and
    has to depend on foreign aids. This problem is to a great
    extent caused by the so-called Structural Adjustment
    Program promoted by the World Bank; and partly by the
    political turmoil which resulted in the imposition of
    different types of sanctions on the country. Consequently,
    the Zimbabwean agricultural system becomes weak and
    weaker. It is however, expected that these negative
    phenomena could be successfully turnaround and
    changed for the better. But without selfless and focus
    leadership, this change will be mere a mirage.” —Zimbabwe’s agricultural industry by Ahmed Audu Maiyaki

 

References

Maiyaki, Ahmed Audu. Zimbabwe’s agricultural industry. African Journal of Business Management.Vol. 4(19), pp. 4159-4166, December Special Review, 2010

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This posting copyright © 2017 by Joel Solkoff. All rights reserved.

 

Categories
Disability and Elderly Issues

Appeal to Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt: Please correct Medicare violations at Mt. Nittany Medical Center and Health

Attention please Medicare Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt, correct violations of Medicare regulations and the essence of Medicare

Andrew Slavitt, group executive vice president for Optum/QSSI testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing with contractors that built the federal government's health care websites. The contractors responsible for building the troubled Healthcare.gov website say it was the government's responsibility _ not theirs _ to test it and make sure it worked. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
Andrew Slavitt, currently Acting Medicare Administrator. Slavitt’s previous government experience includes fixing Obamacare roll out. This photograph by way of Politico’s excellent reporting. Politico’s caption, “Group executive vice president for Optum/QSSI testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing with contractors that built the federal government’s health care websites. The contractors responsible for building the troubled Healthcare.gov website say it was the government’s responsibility _ not theirs _ to test it and make sure it worked. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dear Administrator Slavitt

Steven E. Brown, CEO and President of State College PA’s excellent hospital...

ultimately is responsible for ensuring the admission practices at his hospital are not merely legal but proper. For a variety of reasons, admitting me to the hospital is more expensive than for most patients. Hence, after waiting to be admitted last Friday night, I was presented with a paper to sign. The paper said that I understood that I was being admitted on “observation status.”
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/steven-brown-leads-mount-nittany-medical-center-into-the-future,1183750/
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/steven-brown-leads-mount-nittany-medical-center-into-the-future,1183750/
Politely, I demurred. “You don’t mind if I do not sign this?” I asked the excellent physician who presented it to me. He said that signing it was not obligatory. He then gave me a copy of the form with the notation that I had not signed it.
I was then admitted to the hospital and enjoyed the benefits of an excellent hospital room, superb food, sensitive nurses, and an understanding physician. When I was expelled from the hospital against my will, my case manager explained that I had no recourse to file an appeal with Medicare because technically I had not been formally admitted as a patient.
I am not an attorney. Given the nature of Medicare regulations and the understandable concern of hospital administrators that costs be kept to a minimum, whoever is responsible for this flimflam may get away with it. However, this slight of hand is not only a sin, it is foolish. Forcing a patient out of the hospital before he has been properly treated (against the wishes of his physician) has negative short-term and long-term consequences.
Best wishes,
Joel Solkoff

Country music has had many beautiful country music female vocalists. Currently, the most beautiful is Martina MacrBride

Just look at her

Here she is on the cover of Independence Day the best song on wife beating ever recorded
Here she is on the cover of Independence Day the best song on wife beating ever recorded

 

 

 

 

 

Martina sings about wife beating on “Independence Day,” a remarkable video that give new meaning to the concept of Independence Day.

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Lyrics: Independence Day

Martina McBride

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wife_beating1

Well she seemed all right by dawn’s early light
Though she looked a little worried and weak.

Mother-suicide_attempt_successful
Mother-suicide_attempt_successful

 

She tried to pretend he wasn’t drinkin’ again
But daddy’d left the proof on her cheek

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Rape
Rape

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And I was only eight years old that summer
And I always seemed to be in the way

Everlasting

Everlasting

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So I took myself down to the fair in town
On Independence Day.

 

Beacon_Program
Beacon_Program

 

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Well , word gets around in a small, small town
They said he was a dangerous man

State College Spousal Abuse Contact Information
State College Spousal Abuse Contact Information

But mama was proud and she stood her ground
But she knew she was on the losin’ end.

Heartbreak
Heartbreak

Some folks whispered and some folks talked

Consequences
Consequences

But everybody looked the other way
And when time ran out there was no one about
On Independence Day.

The Act
The Act

 

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Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing
Let the whole world know that today
Is a day of reckoning.

Where is an eight year old girl to go
Where is an eight year old girl to go

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Constitution
Constitution

 

 

 

 

Copyright © 2016 by Joel Solkoff. All rights reserved.

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Donations for going to my daughter’s wedding and seeing my granddaughter for the first time

On Tuesday, July 12, 2015, Leyla Skeylar, my physical therapist, took this photograph of me requiring a haircut. For two $18 donations, Supercuts could make me respectable and I could pay a decent tip and purchase a pot of peach tea at Webster's.
On Tuesday, July 12, 2016, Leyla Skeylar, my physical therapist, took this photograph of me requiring a haircut. For two $18 donations, Supercuts could make me respectable and I could pay a decent tip and purchase a pot of peach tea at Webster’s.

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An $18 donation would be a great help.

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Donation purpose

My daughter Amelia’s wedding is less than a month away and I don’t know how I will get there. There is Chapel Hill, N.C. where Joanna, Amelia’s older sister, graduated with a BA in English and also with honors received nurses training necessary to receive registered nurse certification.

There at Chapel Hill I will hold my three-month old granddaughter Juliet for the first time.

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The easiest way to make a donation is to log on to your PayPal account and donation–please, please–$18 to me at this email address: [email protected]. Or, there is a PayPal tool below to simplify (or complicate) your generosity.
A haircut is required for me to scoot Amelia down the aisle and to hold granddaughter Juiet Mae in my arms [Preferably not simultaneously].
On Tuesday, July 12, 2015, Leyla Skeylar, my physical therapist, took this photograph of me requiring a haircut. For two $18 donations, Supercuts could make me respectable and I could pay a decent tip and purchase a pot of peach tea at Webster's.
On Tuesday, July 12, 2015, Leyla Skeylar, my physical therapist, took this photograph of me requiring a haircut. For two $18 donations, Supercuts could make me respectable and I could pay a decent tip and purchase a pot of peach tea at Webster’s.
Thank you.

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Going from there to Greensboro, I will be officiating at the unveiling of my mother’s headstone.

Headatonw_Mother

I will be reading the first Psalm at the unveiling and recite Kaddish. Afterward, I will take ten minutes of the family’s remembrance of mother to talk about Mother’s affection for Bialik, the Walt Whitman of still modern Hebrew poetry.

Pay Pal Donation Instrument

“Give away Amelia; hold Juliet”




Maimonedes rules  for charity recipients

Maimondes

Partial thank you note to HV:

“Under the terms of Maimonedes’s Codex of Jewish law on charities, as a first priority recipient, I have an obligation to repay you this money when I recover from my ongoing reversals of fortune.

“Congratulations, you are the first donor to be eligible for my new policy of following 12 Century Law written in Arabic.”

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I will be discussing Maimonides, spiritual growth, and my career goals. Here are the real issues I face–begging bowl in hand–regarding my charity requirements.

  • Fulfilly my potential as one who is disabled and elderly
  • Overcoming the obstacles I face including being able to pay for diapers
  • Hoping to avoid the reality of nursing homes

Maimonides on Charity (tzedakah)

“One of the most widely referred to sections of the Mishneh Torah is the section dealing with tzedakah. In Hilkhot Matanot Aniyim (Laws about Giving to Poor People), Chapter 10:7–14, Maimonides lists his famous Eight Levels of Giving (where the first level is most preferable, and the eighth the least):[60]

  1. “Giving an interest-free loan to a person in need; forming a partnership with a person in need; giving a grant to a person in need; finding a job for a person in need; so long as that loan, grant, partnership, or job results in the person no longer living by relying upon others.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maimonides

The Guide to the Perplexed is the most famous of Maimonides' publications. The rules about charity are contained in the Codex. Maimonides' stunning contribution the Codex represents an achievement described by Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel in his Maimonides biography. Rabbi Heschel, who wrote a letter to my draft board affirming the Jewish tradition of pacifism, published the biography when he was 28.
The Guide to the Perplexed is the most famous of Maimonides’ publications.
The rules about charity are contained in the Codex. Maimonides’ stunning contribution the Codex represents is an achievement lovingly described by Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel in his Maimonides biography. Rabbi Heschel (who wrote a letter to my draft board affirming the Jewish tradition of pacifism) published the biography when he was 28.

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Welcome to the World Juliet Mae Phillips

June 1, 2016; r to l: Juliet, my granddaughter, Joanna, my elder daughter, RN who would have received her doctorate in English literature, and Jade Kosmos Phillips, my son-in-law, a paramedic, who received my permission to marry my daughter Before he proposed to her. Publication on this site (hitherto bogged down by an attempt to describe what it is like to watch my Grandaughter arrive on Facebook will be reformatted to be in reverse chronological order.
June 1, 2016; r to l: Juliet, my granddaughter, Joanna, my elder daughter, RN who would have received her doctorate in English literature, and Jade Kosmos Phillips, my son-in-law, a paramedic, who received my permission to marry my daughter Before he proposed to her.

“Here ” and “there” comes to mind

as I watch you born on Facebook

or so it would seem.

Reality has a curious way of contriving enigmas.

Upon the announcement of your birth

Fran called at the other end of the Commonwealth

startled by such wonderous news declaring,

“Anything can happen.”

Lost, perhaps not forever,

Is the Shakespearean sonnet

Human Yudewitz wrote on the occasion of  my birth.

Born though I as I was on Columbus Day–

Yudewitz read his poem

on  the occasion of my being purchased

from God via a priest.

Consider the New-World orientation of  Yudewitz wrote.

You too were New-World born

In April “the cruelest month

mixing memory with desire.”

Sent now, nearly three months late

I long to hold you in my arms

as did Diana, your grandmother,

an expression on her face

beyond description

beyond reality.

Welcome to the world

Juliet Mae

Welcome.

— Joel Solkoff

יואל סולכּוף

Bloomsday, 2016, State College, PA

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April 8, 2016, Juliet Phillips, my granddaughter was born shorly before 10 PM. Eastern Daylight Savings Time. Juliet's mother is my elder daughter Joanna Marie Solkoff. Juliet's father is Jade Kosmos Phillips. Juliet was born at Inova Alexandria Hospital 4320 Seminary Road Alexandria, VA 22304.
April 8, 2016, Juliet Phillips, my granddaughter was born shortly before 10 PM. Eastern Daylight Savings Time. Juliet’s mother is my elder daughter Joanna Marie Solkoff. Juliet’s father is Jade Kosmos Phillips. Juliet was born at Inova Alexandria Hospital 4320 Seminary Road
Alexandria, VA 22304.

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