No one ever better.
Even singing.
Only two country songs were on CBGB's juke box.
One of them was RUBY DON'T TAKE YOUR LOVE TO TOWN.
By Kenny Rodgers, but I love the Spock version.
To hear RUBY by Leonard Nimoy, please go to this URL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk57tQmRw70
Leonard Nimoy came from Boston's West End shtel. His Russian father owned a barbershop in Mattapan Square. I had my haircut at the Terminal Barber Shop next to the terminus of the trolley line. I can't recall any other barber along Blue Hill Avenue. Tired of giving us a buzz-cut my father drove my older brother and me to the shop
A native of Maine he believed in high and tight.
His instructions to the barber were the same.
Once my old man left the establishment on River Street the barber asked, "How you want it?"
"Like Bob Dylan."
"Gotcha."
This was in 1963.
Bob Dylan had ended the 1950s with his hit BLOWIN' IN THE WIND.
The barber knew his clientele.
He never mentioned a son in the theater.
Leonard Nimoy never had a Boston accent.
In 1966 he starred in STAR TREK as the Vulcan science officer to James T Kirk.
His Vulcan gesture for 'live long and prosper' was based on how the kohanim or Jewish priests holding their hand when giving blessings.
Dif Tor Heh Smusma
Spock was our hero.
Logic over emotion.
When he died the other day, I broke into tears.
Like my mossaich had passed into the other world.
Trekkies loved Spock.
He transcended TV
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Yesterday the Israeli PM appeared before the joint houses of the US Congress at the invitation of GOP leader John Boehner. While hundreds of world leaders have spoken from the podium on congress, all had been invited by the sitting president. The media loved this spat between Obama, the Republicans, and Netanyahu, who is facing a close election in Israel. Critics attacked the right-wing Zionist for overstepping the boundaries of diplomacy, however Bibi Netanyahu was greeted by a long boisterous ovation from both sides of the aisle, as the GOP and Democrats displayed their support for the Zionist State. The Prime Minister waited for the ten-minute long applause to died out and then hectored the audience about how the upcoming anti-nuclear pact with Iran endangered the existence of Israel and its apartheid policies against the Palestinians.
In his speech Netanyahu referred to the Iranians as Persians and claimed the ancestors of Xerxes were a year away from producing a nuclear bomb.
Israel has been saying that for about twenty years.
The Israelis also were instrumental in feeding information about Saddam's WMD program to a gullible George W. Bush.
Centrifuges, yellow cake, a year from production of a nuke.
Same speech as always.
Fear.
Never again.
I agree with those two words in thought and deed.
But not one Palestinian worked in Dachau or Buchenwald.
I'm half-Irish.
The British stole our lands.
They stayed for 600 years.
The UK consider Ulster as part of the Empire.
No day it will be free.
Same as Palestine.
Same as the Jews, because we are all one in peace.
Here is the list of Senators brave enough to buck the Zionist agenda
SENATE
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)
Hillary Clinton showed herself to be a sell-out.
Same as on the Iraq War vote.
New England - Be proud. \
Florida's governor Rick Scott has recently called for the drug-testing of welfare recipients, forcing parents found with traces of marijuana, cocaine, or heroin off the dole. Scott said on CNN, "Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare and the bottom line is, if they're not using drugs, it's not an issue."
His statement was backed by government research dating back to 1999, however Utah's program of drug testing has caught 12 people out of 466 or 2.5% of those tested for drug use.
Florida conducted tests on over four-thousand people.
Number of drug-positive people were a little over a hundred.
Even less successful was the Arizona program nabbing one person after 87,000 tests.
Rick Scott has not been deterred by these debacles, expanding the program to interview all public employees, except for police and lawmakers, and the governor's company would be the one conducting the tests proving that there is no success like a government-funded failure.
Rick Scott has not volunteered for the test, but he has to be on something to look the way he looks and thinks the way he does.
ps fuck the GOP.
Drag racing was high-speed rebellion for children of the 50s.
A Vette was a monster.
eEven an Opel was Mean.
The GOP Chairman of the Senate Environment Committee, Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, appeared before his peers with a snow ball from the streets on DC in his hand to promote his belief that Global Warming is a hoax by the liberal media to steal money from the hard-working rich driving this country toward the future of exclusivity.
“In case we had forgotten, because we keep hearing that 2014 has been the warmest year on record. I ask the chair, do you know what this is? It’s a snowball, just from outside here. It’s very, very cold out.”
The denialist Senator then underhanded the snow ball to the presiding officer.
Class, but Oklahoma has long been considered the buckle of the Bible Belt and his constituency are firm believer in the Almighty, who cheered their man for once stating, "God's still up there and the arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous."
Outrageous?
How about this blasphemy for outrageous?
Creationists beware.
The Masoretic version of the Bible purported that Methuselah achieved the epic age of 969. His name has become synonymous with longevity in the West. No one in modern history has touched his nonacentarian record, although my great-grand aunt Bert lived to 103.
She circled the world in a sailing ship. One port of call was Bangkok. Bert was the first of my family to visit the Siamese capitol, but not the last. Other relatives have reached ripe old ages. My father lived to 90. I expected to hit at least 110 if only because many more Americans are living longer, for wrinklies are becoming the largest growing segment of the population.
Why?
People don't die as much as they used to die.
Once past 30 few people want to live by the James Dean adage 'live fast and die young.
Even morticians don't want to hump fat kids and those ghouls will hump most everything dead. With that macabre phenomena in mind I'm living as long as possible. I don't want anyone touching my dead flesh until I'm way pass my prime. Of course Vulcans like STAR TREK's Mr. Spock live to 300. LIVE LONG AND PROSPER or Dif-tor heh smusma in Vulcan.
