Category Archives: freedom

Times of Nothing – BET ON CRAZY

November 3, 2024 – 11:08 am

Thanks to Daylight Savings Time sunset will come an hour earlier this evening. I hate the winter shift of an hour. Back in the early 21st century I was working at a diamond store off 5th Avenue. A good address. Not West 47th Street. The Diamond District. A squalid block which processes 89% of the […]

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Damn Daylight Savings Time

November 3, 2024 – 11:01 am

“Time is part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify the motions of objects. Time has been a major subject of religion, philosophy, and science, but defining it in a non-controversial manner applicable to all fields of study has consistently […]

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Not Sorry Yom Kippur

October 11, 2024 – 4:11 pm

More than three thousand years ago the Israelites emerged from their nomadic existence and established the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel. The Asssyrians and later the Babylonians depopulated the lands west of the River Jordan and the Romans completed the destruction of the Kingdom of Judah in two devastating wars and the Jews were set […]

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Juneteenth 1900 Texas

June 19, 2024 – 7:55 pm

The above photo was taken in Texas thirty-five years after the morning of June 19, 1865, when Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived on the island of Galveston to take command of the more than 2,000 federal troops recently landed in the department of Texas to enforce the emancipation of its enslaved population and oversee […]

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D Day plus 80

June 6, 2024 – 2:24 am

During the night of June 6, 1944 24,000 Allied airborne troops parachuted in Normandy and the pathfinders seized strategic crossroads beyond the beachheads to block the Wehrmacht from reinforcing the Nazi Atlantic Wall. Operation Overlord to liberate Europe was in motion. At 6:03am 156,000 troops from Britain, Canada, and the USA conducted an amphibious assault […]

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