#yesterday i was like.. hold on? Czechoslovakia?? he knows what it is?

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"Someone's donating Czechoslovakian money" - when was the last time Dan looked at the map ahahaha

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MY BABY IS 55 TODAY

I have no idea what time this blog will publish today. I have to take Terri to the hospital for some tests. You may not be getting this till late afternoon.

Lisa is 55 today. Imagine, I have a daughter that age! She probably wonders the same having a father my age!

We celebrated last night. Dinner and cake at Lisa’s. Her in laws were in for the event.

Cameron in Washington.

Take out from El Siboney.

Blew out the candle. Only one. No one puts them all on anymore.

Reminisced a bit. I recalled distinctly Lisa’s birth. She was supposed to be a boy. We had a son first. Then 2 girls. Never thought the fourth would be anything but a boy. To be named Louis.

Ergo, we had no name for a girl. Took us 4 days to come up with a name. They kept maternity cases in the hospital 4 days back then. We finally came up with a name because they could not discharge my wife without a name for the birth certificate.

Lisa has always been the love of my life. A charmer. My charmer. Always a hug and kiss for Daddy, regardless of our ages.

Shana Tovah to my Jewish friends. It is Rosh Hashanna. Marks the new year 5780.

A 1906 photo in yesterday’s KONK Life of  the corner of Greene and Elizabeth Streets. Not today. Not one house! Actually a messy nothing.

A few wooden shacks. Lots of water. And some sort of warehouse.

What a 100 plus years will do.

Trump in an exceptional warring mood this morning. Attacking everyone!

He bothered me re his comments concerning House Intelligence Committee Chairman Alan Schiff (D-Calif.) He said Schiff should be arrested for treason, a crime punishable by  death or prison time, for exaggerating parts of the negative aspects of the President’s leadership.

The U.S. is not a third world country nor an authoritarian regime. Yet! If it were and Trump was eventually deposed, Trump could expect jail or worse.

He forgets whatever goes around, comes around.

Several months ago, Trump mentioned that if he lost the 2020 election the people would go to the streets. The people would not accept his defeat. It could only happen as a result of a rigged election

A commentator mentioned the possibility that if Trump was narrowly defeated, he might refuse to leave the White House.

I wrote I concurred. And that ICE would be the military force protecting him. I worry. Trump keeps building up ICE to act as his personal guard similar to Hitler’s Gestapo.

Robert Jeffress is a strong Trump supporter. A man of much influence with evangelicals. Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas.

He was a guest on FOX & Friends sunday.

Jeffress commented during the interview, “If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they never will be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this nation from which our Country will never heal.”

Later in the morning, Trump picked up on the comment and tweeted it to the world.

Jeffress is part of the silent majority. Supported big time. He holds sway over evangelical voters and the President.

Yet, he viciously attacks other faiths.

His words: “God sends people to Hell” who are Germans, Islamists, Jews, and Hindus. He claims, “They lead people away from God, they lead people to an eternity of separation from God in Hell.” He forgot not the Catholics: “The Catholic Church is an instrument of Satan.”

Donald knows how to pick his friends!

By the way, Trump had Jeffress speak at the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem on May 14. You figure that one.

Yesterday was a significant one in British and European history. The year 1938. Great Britain’s Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was in Munich negotiating a peace treaty with Hitler. The Munich Agreement was signed which permitted Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland.

Chamberlain’s famous words will never be forgotten: “I believe it is peace for our time.”

Turned out to be the worst peace treaty in history.

Floating around the internet yesterday was “news” that Iran’s legislature had passed a bill permitting a father to marry an adopted daughter if she was 13 or older.

Sounded strange. Did a little searching. The statement was false. It was first reported 6 years ago when it was false also.

Moral of the story: Do not believe everything you read on the internet.

Enjoy your day!

MY BABY IS 55 TODAY was originally published on Key West Lou

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Wednesday, February 15, 2017

10:04 a.m. day started sunny, but clouds predicted, temp to fall again and then rise again - yesterday morning on the subway I got into talking with a young man - showed him how my smart phone goes to Contandino, wherever that may be, for weather - he showed me, slide over and get New York! And so I learn in small increments - Cathy taught me to text, Jane Sammon showed me to out in contacts - now I would like to change my message for voice mail - I dislike all those giving you the number you cslled, Jane has a long and personal one, also I would like to change my ring tone to a less generic one - and alas Igor was moved to Queens, and I struggle with the ipad and I'm getting nowhere - it is a snail's progress - also Molly had no time last week, I hope she'll come tomorrow - so at last I would find out how to access the blog she has set up - just now I once again added a dozen names Bcc one by one - never know in the end to whom I have I have sent this - want to let Gesine who has been posting for me in Germany - but then again she uses wordpress and Molly used Tumblet - it all is dreadfully, dreadfully confusing - and yes, if only Ken still lived - and yes if only my learning had not become so slow - obviously if I could this myself - would save my wonderful helpers their time - oh well - and so, in 1937, both of us stateless, I have no idea what document my mother showed to get into Czechoslovsakia - her Czech practically non existent - she did speak French, Francophile she was - we must have stayed a few nights with her desar friends the Rosners who all perished later - and then she took me to Troppau/Opava where her parents then lived by the Oder river, fertile soil, access to a garden, my grandfather a great gardener, growing most of their food, they had geese, chickens - pigs were very useful but I don't think they had one - they were tenents in a very simple house - and there my mother left me - and I was told that every night I would cry - my Koeln, my Koeln, I so loved Koeln, my dear friend Helga - why oh why did we have to leave - little explanation given - my mother later saying - she was so good in Koeln, now she is a fresh little rebel. She was a walking encyclopedia but her friends had rejected Freud's teachings - big mistake. At 5 Hitler had turned me into a rebel - as today countless children are turned into early rebels by the misery a terrible emprire brings to them. o.k. so much is saved in drafts, Last night I wrote more than I had planned - L.P. with whom I had lunch asked a bit incredulously - do you read what you write before you send it - as incredulously when I was teaching E.S.L. people asked, do you make lesson plans - well you could call my style spontaneity, improvisiation - and then again you could call - just plain unbelievable and why should I read this crap. (she still is reading it.) Well, why don't I act and behave like the proper German lady my mother tried hard to make out of me. Hitler! The gestapo - secret police - came to search our apartment in Koeln - I was five - my mother had suitcases packed and as soon as they left the house we were on our way to the railroad station and headed for Prague - not sure how many km - but a good seven hours by train - and my mother must have been very nervious about the border - while in 1918 her family in Oderberg - now a Czech name - had gone to bed as citizens of the austro Hungarian empire, they woke up citizens of Czechoslovakia - Masaryk's country, a wonderful country - only alas they ever learned Czech - my grandmother spoke a mountain dialect called ponashemo - which would translate into, the way we speak, that must have been Slovak. My grandfather lost a job he loved - locomotive engineer - they came to survive on bare subsistence. In Vienna my Ph.D. mother scored one of the rarest teaching post - at the Hayes Gymnasium - the director aghast she was a Czech citizen, five socialist friends offered to marry her, she liked Fritz Jerusalem best, but not the name so she married Karl Spitz in a Jewish fashion, after a year all he had to say was I divorce thee. By then she had met my father but could not marry him because that would make her lose her job that kept both of them - but then she did marry him when she followed him to Koeln, but after she signed off Jewish in early 1933 both she and I became stateless. Enough to make a weirdo out of me who has been winging things in life - and feel sorry for people who spend nights doing lesson plans and who spend days on writing a letter Yes, those empires - Hitler said his would last 1000 years - it lasted for the first 13 years of my life - and while I can feign being a lady I can also be a gutter snipe - and many hold it against me that I am not sweet and even tempered and at all times the nice and quiet Marianne - who - and I shall name her here, Martha Hennessy, the grand daughter of Dorothy Day said to me: I will talk to you when you are the sweet Marianne I love - she too has not studied enough Freud - and I must forgive her because she has no idea how hurtful she is and how she has ruined a good friendship with C.B. - I will always like her - but my feelings are changed forever. I am not alone to write in the style I am writing - many writers describe what some call "automatic writing" - what I write, writes itself -and now I think I will head for the Polish church - where I came to sit at a round table - with Chinese. They encouraged me to get more of the tons of free food - all from Poland - on the stage - they were ready to hire a truck - I took a heavy jar of baked red cabbage, not yet opened, raspberry marmalade, petit beurre - the Chinese grab tons everywhere - perhaps they find ways to sell it - who knows - they did have some trouble with the Chinese labels. My dark Prague humor is a great help - I see absurdity everywhere and try to laugh about it - have learned only very few share my humor - it's the humor of the suppressed. Czech marionettes are playing nearby, I would love to see them, perhaps I should check, if they are here already perhaps I could go tonight alone. I do meet lovely Czechs on such occasions - wonderful people - alas all in all I have no contact with Czechs - I am not a Czech - my accent is German and there are a good number of Germans in my life, we do have a common language - and those my age - we lived through the war. Of course those in good circumstances did become ladies - have often trouble understanding me - would never ever send out what I do - rude, they tell me, recently: never would I publish what YOU write - oh well - they were in the Hitler youth - I was not - I was in the streets playing with the Czech kids. Proletarians - that my socialist mother idealized - but much preferred the aristocrats and lauded their values. All confusing So, it is 11 - my witching hour - though the Poles begin to serve lunch 12.15, 12.25 - they are not Germans. My polish neighbor here, using two names, Barbara and Halina, first too me there. She had been offered my apartment facing the Bowery but had waited for the quiet apartment to the back - I would die she said, if I could not sleep with an open window. She had finished medical studies in Poland but had not gotten American certification and was a research assistsnt at the cancer hospital - lover her work, lived way beyong her means, one day her boss dropped dead, end of job, she buried in debt - ended up in this here house, the first day she said to me: let's study radiology, we will make good money as radiologists - not my plan. She loved taking me to the church - she was one of many Poles who admire  Germans. And then - she had a severe stroke and ended miserably, her sweet brother taking care of her - she died before signing some important paper for him - I trried to help him but he was evicted. He told me I restored his belief in humanity. Sweet man. Alas almost all Poles are anti-Semites - I try being Jana Landre. Most Catholics also.. Horrible noise in the hallway, I'll go out and see what they are doing - and head for the Polish church on East 7th street and sit with the Chinese - only 4 at a table for 7 - the Poles are not keen on an English speaker. The Chinesetalk to me in Chinese. o.k.nread and all, here I go to send - please be forgiving    Marianne