Category Archives: NEW YORK

Bah Humbug Stop your Kvetching

May 11, 2024 – 1:22 am

My 2009 Xmas season consisted of a marathon work schedule at the diamond exchange. 7 days a week. 9 hours a day. No caroling or egg nog or festive cheer. I was at work to sell diamonds and jewelry to the public to support my families in Thailand. Business on 47th Street is better than […]

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Shin Bet Funkies

May 4, 2024 – 9:10 am

On October 7 2023 thirty-nine NYPD officers were training in crowd control tactics in Israel. Shin Bet has been instructing American police in how to treat all protestors as terrorists since 9/11. A large percentage of the 12 are addicted to steroids to protectively bulk up against civilians always considered guilty and potentially dangerous thanks […]

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Bet On Crazy 1 by Peter Nolan Smith

April 28, 2024 – 1:37 am

Richie was more forgiving. They had made the move to a diamond exchange on 47th Street. No more Italian subs, but the pastrami sandwich from the Bergers Deli was built for two. Richie and I shared one. “So what are you going to do?” Richie positioned napkins on his lap and chest to avoid any […]

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BET ON CRAZY 1 by Peter Nolan Smith

April 23, 2024 – 1:06 am

In the 1970s I knew very little about diamonds as a child other than Superman could squeeze coal with his steel-hard hands to create diamonds and my father had bought a diamond ring for my mother. It was a hundredth of the size of the diamonds Superman never gave to Lois Lane, but my mother […]

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The Marxist Monster from Milwaukee

April 11, 2024 – 9:19 am

The Marxist Monster from Milwaukee Professor Bertell Ollman In 2005, as a protest against Israel, Ollman wrote and published a Letter of Resignation from the Jewish People, stating: “Socialist and ex-Jew that I am, I guess I still have too much respect and love for the Jewish tradition I left behind to want the world […]

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