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

Seniority

Courts & Law What does the junior Supreme Court justice do? Kagan tells Gorsuch it starts in the kitchen By Robert Barnes April 9 at 6:29 PM ____________________________________________________ SENIORITY 'The Supreme Court is a place that runs on seniority' according to the the Justices --and they should know , but take it from me--though I'm hardly an authority-- in the outside world -- this is rarely so. Young women, of course, know this all too well and panic at the sight of a wrinkle or hair turning gray often spending fortunes on whatever others may sell to postpone their senescence for another day While politicians, too, at least as clever , will do almost anything to hang on to power but even they can not rule forever and eventually too must have their final hour. Ah, that the rest of us could just grow old without our being either bought or sold ! HzL, 3/10/17 ________________________________________ No one could have known it at the time, but at the end of last summer, Justice Elena Kagan gave Neil M. Gorsuch a face-to-face tutorial on what it means to be the Supreme Court’s newest justice. It starts in the kitchen. “I’ve been on the cafeteria committee for six years. (Justice) Steve Breyer was on the cafeteria committee for 13 years,” Kagan said at a Colorado event where she was being interviewed by Gorsuch and Timothy M. Tymkovich, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. [Trump picks Colorado appeals court judge for Supreme Court] Gorsuch and Tymkovich both were on President Trump’s list of potential Supreme Court nominees at the time, and it just so happened that they asked what it was like to be the most junior justice. Kagan is a storyteller, and knows this is a topic that audiences usually eat up, so she played it for all it was worth. The junior justice has three unique responsibilities, she said. But in recounting them, she always starts with the fact that the newest justice is assigned to cafeteria duty and keeps it until the next justice is confirmed. [Gorsuch’s impact might be felt immediately] “I think this is a way to kind of humble people,” she said during the “fireside chat” at the elegant Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs. “You think you’re kind of hot stuff. You’re an important person. You’ve just been confirmed to the United States Supreme Court. “And now you are going to monthly cafeteria committee meetings where literally the agenda is what happened to the good recipe for the chocolate chip cookies.” The justices eat lunch together on the days when they hear oral arguments, Kagan explained. “Somebody will say, ‘Who’s our representative to the cafeteria committee again?’ Like they don’t know, right? And then they’ll say, ‘This soup is very salty.’ And I’m like supposed to go fix it myself?” You might guess it was not the first time Kagan has told the story. But, as she says, she’s worried about the cookies and the soup since 2010--her biggest contribution has been to install a frozen yogurt machine--so who would begrudge her?