Tuesday wants to be Wed again...oh and Ramadan Kareem!

It's only Tuesday? I keep thinking it is Wednesday for some reason. Supposed to storm on Wednesday, so Breaking Bad is taking the day off. Probably right, since my sinuses are acting up again. With any luck, I've managed to stave off the vertigo headache with benadryle and tynenol sinus headache. Fingers crossed.

Wales: No one will distribute "No Other Country" in the US for some reason.
Me: What? My church just showed it a month ago, what is your source?
Wales: A left-wing podcast.
Me: Yet as we speak it is showing at three separate theaters in New York City, Rose Cinema, Film Forum, and Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn. It's an independent documentary - it's not going to be distributed in large suburban multiplexs and mall theaters. I just looked it up.
Wales: Wow. Talk about misinformation. And easily debunked at that.

Ramadan Kareem! (Have a Blessed or Happy Ramadan). I know, because, every time I enter my apartment complex - I pass a sign stating "Ramadan Kareem!" The Super has a huge sign on the door, in front of the elevators, and a mural hanging on the lobby wall.

(The appropriate response apparently is 'Allahu Akram'.)

( what is Ramadan )

There's more but you can follow this link for it. It was all explained to me way back in 2004 by an attorney I was working with at the time, who practiced it.

I took a walk around my workplace at lunch time. Basically, I walked to the Pier and back, and passed the Whitehall Ferry Terminal to Staten Island and Liberty Island, the Governor's Island Ferry Depot, and the National Coast Guard/Department of Homeland Security Building (ugly building, not worth the effort of posting the picture, has a statue in front of it) along the way.

Also passed the historic Fraunces Tavern, where George Washington said farewell to his troops - it dates back to 1776, if not before. It was before. Built in 1719.



( History and close up photo of Fraunces Tavern )

And here's the view from the seaport, alongside Governor's Island Ferry Building:

( Governor's Island and the New York Harbor )

And the view of Brooklyn Skyline from Manhattan:

( View of Brooklyn Skyline from Manhattan )

And the Brooklyn Bridge...behind the helicopter terminal.
( View of Brooklyn Bridge )

And a view of pretty Manhattan skyscrapers:
( pretty Manhattan Skyscrapers )

Finally a view of a boat in the harbor...proof that I live and work near water and on islands. And travel across water or below water daily.

Accentuate the Positive,Eliminate the Negative.. and Don't Mess with Mr. In-Between

I don't know about anyone else? But I need good news or at least a feeling that some things are working?

Aretha singing "Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Negate, and Hang on the Affirmative, and Don't Mess Mr. InBetween

Found on FB via NASA-Cosmos as posted by Gladys Eric. Extremely rare halo of fire, looks like an eye captured over Alaska.



Last week was yet another horrible news week, but: Americans are rising up. Voices are getting louder. Protests are getting bigger. Dems are getting stronger. Republicans are getting…well, they’re getting an earful. And progress, believe it or not, continues to be made across the country and world.

The Revolution Won't Be Televised Report aka Positive Reports on the Progress of the American Resistance and its Global Allies

1. A Minnesota court ruled that AG Keith Ellison’s lawsuit against ExxonMobil, Koch industries, and the American Petroleum Institute can continue.

2. Missouri Congressman Mark Alford (R) got “the exact warm reception he deserved” at his coffee chat on Monday morning. [Apparently he was booed.]

3.Federal judge blocks Trump policy allowing ICE to enter houses of worship: A federal judge in Maryland blocked the Trump administration’s plan to enable ICE agents to enter houses of worship for immigration enforcement actions. This ruling stems from a Democracy Forward lawsuit filed last month on behalf of a group of Quaker meetings.
4. Activists targeted London bus stops with parody Tesla ads, including one that said “Goes from 0 to 1939 in 3 seconds!”

5. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went to Kyiv and pledged 25 light armored vehicles to Ukraine. He also says Canada will provide $5 billion in seized Russian assets.[Go Canada.]

6. A bipartisan coalition of mayors, lawmakers, and law enforcement in Alabama endorsed a public safety package last week that would ban devices used to convert semiautomatic weapons into machine guns.

7. A judge blocked the Education Department and OPM from sharing personal info with DOGE.

8. More than 75,000 digital subscribers to The Washington Post have cancelled their subscriptions since Jeff Bezos changed the opinion section, per NPR. [From New York Post Article]

"More than 75,000 digital subscribers have canceled their subscriptions to The Washington Post following an announcement by its owner, Jeff Bezos, that the paper’s opinion section would be revamped to align with libertarian ideals touting “personal liberties” and “free markets,” according to a report. The decision, which Bezos announced on Wednesday, triggered immediate upheaval within the organization, including the resignation of opinions editor David Shipley, who had unsuccessfully attempted to dissuade Bezos from the change. Between that decision and Election Day, over 300,000 subscribers severed ties with the Post, amounting to more than 12% of its digital subscribers."

9. After Alt Nat’l Park Service published a public audit on Saturday, Elon Musk’s DOGE deleted hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued “wall of receipts,” wiping out an additional $4 billion in so-called savings that the group had claimed to secure for U.S. taxpayers. By late Sunday night, DOGE had erased or altered more than 1,000 contracts it previously claimed to have canceled—amounting to over 40% of all contracts listed on its site last week.

10.Judge orders Trump admin to rescind memo directing mass firing of federal workers. A federal judge ruled the Office of Personnel Management has no authority "under any statute in the history of the universe, to hire and fire employees within another agency.” A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Office of Personnel Management to rescind earlier instructions telling federal agencies to “promptly determine whether these employees should be retained at the agency.” The directions, communicated in a Jan. 20 memo and Feb. 14 internal email, are “illegal” and “should be stopped, rescinded,” Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California said from the bench. The ruling does not reinstate dismissed employees. The judge instructed the Office of Personnel Management to communicate to the Department of Defense on Friday — ahead of expected probationary terminations — that he has ruled they are invalid.[NBC NEWS Posted this and then it vanished. But it can be found HERE.

"“The Office of Personnel Management does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the history of the universe to hire and fire employees at another agency,” Alsup said.

The American Federation of Government Employees and other groups brought the suit, arguing the Trump administration had ignored federal laws governing probationary employee staff and had essentially issued reductions in force without following the proper procedures."
( the rest of the 80 some items )