Capitalistic Comfort?

Capitalistic Comfort? If you don't want to resent the day you were born try to remember to bring a large shoe horn with you on an United, American, or any such flight because it will otherwise be far from a delight. Even riding on the hard back of a camel would be superior to the discomfort you'll feel on your back and posterior, Moreover, if a slight touch of obesity is your preexisting condition, you'll wish our entire Capitalist system were assigned to Perdition , and, while watching the clock in defeat as you try to adjust to a much too small seat, you find that half a buttock is much worse than none and that your trip has become a curse very far from fun. Yet even if you don't exactly thrive you usually will still get out alive. So try to imagine---if you dare-- what these same folk will do to Health Care ! HzL 5/4/17 Help - need advice on horrid flight experience | United States Forum ... www.fodors.com › Forums › United States Mar 29, 2008 - Should be an airline regulation that if you can't fit in the seat with the ...... It's a good thingyou're not flying NW anymore, because they're the .... So before takeoff you could discreetly take yourpicture without any confrontation. ... as long as they are permitted to shoehorn into 1 seat they will continue to do so. Sound Off: United Airlines To Charge Overweight Customers More ... www.kxly.com/news/sound-off-united-airlines-to-charge...more/176721856 Apr 20, 2009 - Passengers who can't fit into one seat, can't buckle their safety belt, or can't put an arm ... Should airlines charge overweight customers extra to fly? ... If you have ever flown with a seat partner who sits in your seat and his/hers you know it ... I am six foot, 215 lbs and need a shoe horn to fit intothe seats now. Ask Gael - Jan 7, 1991 - Page 20 - Google Books Result https://books.google.com/books?id=1ugCAAAAMBAJ New York Magazine - ‎Vol. 24, No. 1 - ‎Magazine That way, you won't faint at the feet of your bankers. ... Or grab a seat at the Union Square Cafe bar for a tuna burger. .... I can't stand the noise anymore. n IVILIZATION CAN BE FOUND the padded, nubby, serenity of Mon- ... I'm not sure I'll ever totally understand this cram-them-in- with-a-shoehorn mystique, but it looks as if ... Why I tell people to avoid flying on a 787 - Runway GirlRunway Girl https://runwaygirlnetwork.com/.../opinion-why-i-tell-people-to-avoid-flying-on-a-78... Jan 22, 2015 - Nine-abreast on a Dreamliner means a seat width of 17” or below, ... fly British Airways, Delta or United rather than Air Canada or American. ...... If you have a disc problem in your back, this configuration is to be ..... Seems you can't win ... to shoehorn as many passengers as possible into as smaller aircraft ...

California Squashes its young

California squashes its young You don't have to be Sigmund Freud or even Carl Jung to know that life is most fully enjoyed when you are young. But not when you're tired all day as a waitress on the hoof or from any other tiresome way of covering a head with a roof. When today's Millenials scream- it isn't for ice cream-- Instead they mourn-- the passing American Dream. HzL' 5/3/17 EYE ON THE NEWS California Squashes Its Young The Golden State’s suffocating economic policies are driving out a new generation. Joel KotkinWendell Cox April 30, 2017 CaliforniaEconomy, finance, and budgets In this era of anti-Trump resistance, many progressives see California as a model of enlightenment. The Golden State’s post-2010 recovery has won plaudits in the progressive press from the New York Times’s Paul Krugman, among others. Yet if one looks at the effects of the state’s policies on key Democratic constituencies— millennials, minorities, and the poor—the picture is dismal. A recent United Way study found that close to one-third of state residents can barely pay their bills, largely due to housing costs. When adjusted for these costs, California leads all states—even historically poor Mississippi—in the percentage of its people living in poverty. California is home to 77 of the country’s 297 most “economically challenged” cities, based on poverty and unemployment levels. The population of these cities totals more than 12 million. In his new book on the nation’s urban crisis, author Richard Florida ranks three California metropolitan areas—Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego— among the five most unequal in the nation. California, with housing prices 230 percent above the national average, is home to many of the nation’s most unaffordable urban areas, including not only the predictably expensive large metros but also smaller cities such as Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo. Unsurprisingly, the state’s middle class is disappearing the fastest of any state. California’s young population is particularly challenged. As we spell out in our new report from Chapman University and the California Association of Realtors, California has the third-lowest percentage of people aged 25 to 34 who own their own homes—only New York and Hawaii’s are lower. In San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego, the 25-to-34 homeownership rates range from 19.6 percent to 22.6 percent—40 percent or more below the national average. No big surprise, then, that California’s millennials are more likely to stay at home with Mom and Dad into their thirties. Approximately 47 percent of Americans aged 18 to 34 lived with parents or other relatives in 2015, according to the American Community Survey—but in California, the figure is 54 percent. California’s younger generation, particularly in the cities, seems increasingly destined to live as renters. The biggest losers from California’s housing crisis are, ironically, the very people whom progressives claim to care about most: the poor and minorities, who also constitute most millennials. Hispanics, now approaching a majority of the state’s population, account for 43 percent of the 25-to-34 cohort. Rates of homeownership for African-American and Hispanic Californians have dropped at four times the rate of Asians and non-Hispanic whites in the last 10 years, while minority homeownership in the Golden State now lags most of the country, notably Texas and the southeast. Much of this can be traced to California’s long-standing bias against suburban development. Reducing greenhouse-gas emissions remains an obsession. But unless the rest of the country (or the world) adopts California’s strict emissions rules, the state’s regulations are likely to have little or no impact on climate change. Recently passed legislation will make things worse by imposing even more stringent regulations on greenhouse gases, mandating a 40 percent cut from 1990 levels by 2030. This represents the ratcheting up of a regulatory regime that will slow California’s already-torpid rate of issuing building permits, which is well below the national average. California’s housing policies pose a profound long-term threat to the state’s social stability and economic viability. The state has seen a net loss of about 1.7 million domestic migrants since 2000. After slowing during the Great Recession and its aftermath, out-migration is again growing, even in the booming Bay Area. Some 29,000 more people left the Bay Area than arrived in 2016. The San Francisco metropolitan area saw net migration plunge from plus-15,000 in 2013 to minus-12,000 three years later. Contrary to some reports, the people leaving California are not predominantly poor and uneducated. IRS data show that California’s outmigration between 2013 and 2014 was concentrated among middle-aged people with higher average incomes than households that stayed in California or moved there. This trend contrasts dramatically with Texas, arguably the state’s strongest economic competitor. Here again, new policies will only make things worse. The Bay Area’s 2040 regional plan calls for concentrating 75 percent of new housing development on barely 5 percent of the region’s developed land mass. One alternative plan assumes that 78 percent of new housing in the Bay Area would be multi-family and 22 percent single-family (detached and attached). The regional Air Quality Agency has drawn up intrusive plans, seeking to levy tolls on all freeways, ban gas stoves, and urge less meat consumption. Young people overwhelmingly prefer single-family houses, which represent 80 percent of home purchases nationwide for people under 35. If millennials continue their current rate of savings, notes one study, they would need 28 years to qualify for a median-priced house in San Francisco—but only five years in Charlotte and just three in Atlanta. This may be one reason, notes a recent ULI report, why 74 percent of Bay Area millennials are considering moving out in the next five years. Regional planners and commercial chambers should indeed look to California as a model—of exactly what not to do. The state’s large metro areas are no longer hot growth spots for millennials, who are flocking to suburbs and exurbs elsewhere. Since 2010, the biggest gains in millennial residents have been in low-density, comparatively affordable cities such as Orlando, Austin, and Nashville. Ultimately, the battle for California’s future—and much of Blue America’s—will turn on how these regions meet the challenge of providing housing and opportunities to a new generation of workers and young families. A California that works only for the wealthy and well-established is not sustainable. America’s “youth culture” was invented, more or less, in California in the 1960s, from the surfing spots of L.A. and Orange County to the countercultural hotbeds of the Bay Area. But today, California is turning on its young, with policies that ensure that most millennials will never fully “launch,” leaving many destined either to move elsewhere or become wards of an ever-expanding welfare state. The Golden State can still create an environment for growth and family formation—but only if it reclaims its historical role as the nation’s beacon of opportunity and youthful enthusiasm. Joel Kotkin is the presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University and executive director of the Center for Opportunity Urbanism. His new book is The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us. Wendell Cox is the principal of Demographia, a public-policy consultancy, and a senior fellow at the Center for Opportunity Urbanism, based in Houston. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

The Bard's Birthday is Sunday

The Bard's birthday is this Sunday Sunday is William Shakespeare's Birthday, or so says WQXR most sincerely , and they will play music inspired by him all day anyway naming its composers everywhere whoever they may be. Some say Shake's plays were at least partly written by another man for example, Sir Francis Bacon, for how could God give such much genius to just one in His plan and, furthermore, the Bard himself must have been a Ham or at least , as anyone can from his writings tell, he knew that Breed, and probably much too well. William Shakespeare quotes about acting - Wikiquote https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare_quotes_about_acting William Shakespeare quotes about acting ... William Shakespeare, in his many plays, produced a large number of quotes on the subject of acting. So in summary: There's no need to "get Thee to a Nunnery"* this Sunday. Just wear some attire that's summery and lap it up on your lap top--- while sitting comfortably on your bum--mery? HzL, 4/19/17 "Get thee to a nunnery" is a play on words. Although a nunnery is a place for pure women who give themselves body and soles to God, a nunnery also means a whore house. Nunnery has a double meaning. Essentially, Hamlet is telling Ophelia that she is both pure and impure.Mar 4,

The NUCLEAR Playground

The Nuclear Playground "I will demolish you with my Franken Missile" "Not if we strike you first" Because we think you need straightening out a bissl* "OK, then let worst come to worst" =============================================== *This Yiddish phrase for "a bit" is meant to stand for Korean though its origin is obviously much more European. =============================================== "Your MOAB** (Mother Of All Bombs) is puny and it's you, not me, who is the loony" Meanwhile China shows patience by the oodles since North Korea is not aiming at THEM, and in South Korea they are still eating noodles though it's hardly a dish that's creme de la creme. How this will all come out is anyone's guess but the odds are that there could be an awful mess when children play with nuclear fission without suitable parental supervision. HzL 4/18/17 **MOAB. is an acronym for Massive Ordnance Air Blast --not really for Mother of All Bombs. Amid U.S. Tensions, North Korea Shows Off ‘Frankenmissile’ Pyongyang displayed what appeared to be a new intercontinental ballistic missile at a military parade held amid tensions over the possibility of a military confrontation between the U.S. and North Korea. 108 South Koreans Keep Their Cool

A Death Bed Request?

A Death Bed Request? If you want someone to die happy and contented then whisper something in his or her ear--- no matter how sappy or demented--- that they would really like to hear. Perhaps that their genius has been recognized for all to see? And that they are no longer rejected or despised but will be granted Nobel riches and an honorary PhD? But if it's me ...or I?... you'd like to cheer this is mostly what I'd like to hear --whether in prose, poetry or song-- that the learned physicians have got it wrong and I 'll still live to enjoy yet another year. HzL 4/18/17 'I knew that would bring him comfort,' Man, 75, 'dies peacefully' after his family lies and tells him Trump has been impeached Michael Garland Elliot, 75, died peacefully in his Oregon home earlier this month when his ex-wife lied to him that President Trump was impeached from office.

Dina Powell, Rising Star

McCarthy's 'Spicey' Hippity-Hops Back to SNL As Pence Visits S. Korea, North's Missile Launch Fails Arrests, Injuries as Protesters Clash at Pro-Trump Rally Marchers Across US Demand Trump's Tax Returns White House Polls Public on Which Departments to Cut Another Name Rising as Bannon's Falls: Gary Cohn Trump to Keep White House Visitor Logs Secret Cops: Manhunt Suspect Who Sent Manifesto to Trump Found CIA Chief Has Vicious Words for WikiLeaks and Assange NC Lawmaker: Lincoln Was 'Same Sort of Tyrant' as Hitler Trump Signs Law to Let States Defund Planned Parenthood Obama Memos on Student Loans Revoked by Betsy DeVos POLITICS / TRUMP ADMINISTRATION Go to Grid|Next Story Dina Powell Is Breaking Up the President's Boys' Club She's a rising star on Trump's national security team By Newser Editors and Wire Services Posted Apr 13, 2017 8:30 PM CDT 39 comments Comments Shrink In this image provided by the White House, taken April 6, 2017, Deputy National Security Adviser Dina Powell, right, joins President Donald Trump, and others, as he receives a briefing on the Syria military strike from his National Security team after the strike at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. (Uncredited) camera-icon View 2 more images (NEWSER) – The photo from inside Donald Trump's makeshift situation room at Mar-a-Lago affirmed what White House insiders have recognized for some time—that Dina Powell has quietly established herself as a White House power, the AP reports. Though sandwiched between other administration officials, the deputy national security adviser stands out as the only woman among 13 staffers in the room on the night the president ordered the missile attack in Syria. And in a White House that is split between outsider ideologues and more traditional operators, Powell is viewed as a steady force in the growing influence of the latter. A newer addition to the team, Powell's West Wing experience, conservative background, and policy chops have won over Trump's daughter and son-in-law. Now, Powell is at the table as the president turns more of his attention to international affairs, attempting to craft a foreign policy out of a self-described "flexible" approach to the world. She is a rare Bush veteran in a White House that has largely shunned its Republican predecessor's legacy. She came via Goldman Sachs—decidedly not a rarity for the new president—originally to work on economic development at the behest of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. She was soon moved to the National Security Council. Learn more about Powell and her growing influence here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DINA'S OATH I'll pledge allegiance to the United States Flag and the country for which it stands ....to the max... from those "amber wavers of grain" to Goldman Sachs. And let our "purple mountains majesty" confirm that this is no travesty for my allegiance always will be plain, and from hard work I'll never shirk.. Let's hope that Peace and Justice for all may reign-- at least for those far enough up in income brackets--- despite Islamic terrorists, nuclear missiles or even clever Wall Street rackets. HzL Easter Sunday, April 16, 2017 camera-icon View 2 more images Who's Dina Powell? Meet Trump's rising national security adviser ... www.businessinsider.com/ap-whos-dina-powell-a-rising-trump-national-security-figur... 3 days ago - Meet Dina Powell, Goldman Sachs legend turned Trump's rising national security star. Associated Press. Catherine Lucey, Associated Press.

Itzhak Perlman's Seder Celebration and Matzos, a Reform View?

AUDIO STORY A Musical Feast for Passover with Itzhak Perlman by WQXR Length: 58:35 Share    Search Results A Musical Feast for Passover with Itzhak Perlman - WQXR www.wqxr.org/story/277596-musical-feast-passover-itzhak-perlman/ Mar 25, 2013 - A Musical Feast for Passover with Itzhak Perlman ... in Ladino, the zany Moishe Oyshertreatment of “Chad Gadya,” and “Go Down, Moses” ... Today is the first day of Passover which coincides this year almost exactly with Easter.This is no accident since they are exactly the same holiday, or at least once were since almost all the first Christians and and Jesus himself were Jewish.The differences that have arisen since then are too numerous and harrowing to recount in detail but one of the major discrepancies is due to the different calendars lunar versus solar. This summary of the Seder celebration is thankfully a minute or two shorter than an an hour. It always ran on too long in my childhood until my father shortened it when he sensed people getting too hungry sleepy or bored. A to the historical accuracy of this tale (or mainsah in Yiddish) I believe it is more soap opera than reality, but it ought to have been true, at least emotionally.Anyway it has been argued about ever since. Search Results The Exodus - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus The Exodus is the founding, or etiological, myth of Israel; its message is that the Israelites were delivered from slavery by Yahweh and therefore belong to him through the Mosaic covenant. It tells of the enslavement of the Israelites in Egypt following the death of ..... Exodus, such as the fact that Ipuwer's Asiatics are arriving in Egypt rather ... ‎Origins · ‎Cultural significance · ‎Historicity · ‎Possible sources and parallels The Exodus Is Not Fiction | ReformJudaism.org www.reformjudaism.org/exodus-not-fiction ... textual evidence for the Exodus, if it was a smaller group who left Egypt. ... that scholarship shows that the Exodus is fictional, when, in fact, that is not so. Exodus: History or Mythic Tale? | My Jewish Learning www.myjewishlearning.com/article/exodus-history-or-mythic-tale/ A biblical scholar reviews the historical claims of the biblical book of Exodus. ... The Book of Genesis ends with the story of Jacob going down to Egypt with his family. The first chapter of ... This single fact, however, does not resolve the enigma. Was There an Exodus? » Mosaic https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2015/03/was-there-an-exodus/ Mar 2, 2015 - From Israel in Egypt, 1867, by the English painter Edward Poynter. ... voice is in the message of the exodus story, not in its supposed facts, and ... Evidence for the Exodus - RationalWiki rationalwiki.org/wiki/Evidence_for_the_Exodus Feb 28, 2017 - 3.1 Egyptian record keeping; 3.2 Archeological digs dispute Exodus; 3.3 ... Despite being regarded in Judaism as the primary factual historical ... .. MATZOS, A Reform View? Matzos,are also known as the . "the bread of affliction" because unleavened and supposedly baked by Jews fleeing Egypt in haste, But the lack of yeast for some may ruin the feast. Anyway all this could well be fiction and perhaps they are simply the result of ancestral bad taste? Furthermore, though your chance of liking them may be dicey, if purchased this week they could still be much too pricey while still making the Seder meal somewhat bleak and stiff-- So why not buy them next week more cheaply, what's the diff? HzL 4/12/17 About 1,790 results (0.50 seconds) Search Results הא לחמא עניא- Ha Lachma Anya | Haggadot.com https://www.haggadot.com/clip/הא-לחמא-עניא-ha-lachma-anya Ha Lachma Anya is not said in Hebrew, like the rest of the Hagada. It is in Aramaic. ... One answer is that at the time, most people spoke Aramaic. We want to ... Ha Lachma Anya - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha_Lachma_Anya Ha Lachma Anya is a declaration that is recited at the beginning of the Magid portion of the Passover Seder. Written in Aramaic, the recitation serves as the first ... ‎History · ‎Procedure · ‎Modern interpretations · ‎See also