Moses is missing

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Fires rush down mountains as smoke plagues millions of citizens’ lungs and eyes.  A sputtering, suffering friend in the Golden State coughs out, “Where is Moses when we need him?”

(I know the theology and politics are wrong, but I am sure you get the point.)

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This is totally weird.  

All those old paintings of Adam and Eve reveal that they had belly buttons.  

Think about it.

 

LIFE IN A CELL COMPLIMENTS OF HOWARD HUGHES

About every two years, a Nobel Prizes is awarded to a scientist whose work is funded by HHMI ... the institute where daughter Amy works.  

Yesterday, a Nobel went to William G. Kaelin, Jr. of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and two partners whose research involved cells and oxygen.

It seems odd to some people that the HH stands for Howard Hughes.  His estate funded the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.  

HHMI probably is the biggest private underwriter of the most basic research into causes of bad things happening inside human bodies.

See news release at hhmi.org

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Yesterday’s poor georgie’s almanack was my true story about an empty bottle of slivovitz, a typewriter and the New World Information Order.  

You can see it and a great silk screen print of an Underwood typewriter that hangs on my office wall, along with previous poor georgie’s almanack entries right here at “poor georgie’s almanack” 

or at georgekroloff.blogspot.com 

or

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Typewriters and the New World Information Order

Typewriters and the New World Information Order

Yesterday, Martha Mills asked a question about using a manual typewriter on Facebook. It prompted the following.

Oh, the stories those key-bangers told! One of my favorites involved research for a report to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee about dramatic changes in international communications. I was in Belgrade.  It was the late 1970s.

At that time, except for its news about Yugoslavia, Tanjug, the government news agency, was considered by Americans to be producing a pretty solid fact-based product, particularly its reporting on what was happening in China.

The head of the news agency wanted to have his two-cents in the report. He invited me to what I thought would be his office. It turned out to be a dreary, dark, brick walled room that felt like it's original purpose was a holding pen for anti-government protestors.

We were alone with one table, two chairs, our notepads, pens, pencils, and portable typewriters. In the middle of the table were two glasses and two full bottles of slivovitz, a wicked high-octane regional drink that dissolves the enamel of human teeth and sterilizes a drinker's plumbing system.

The journalist was a very big man. After a few drinks he seemed to be six-foot-36. Within a half hour we were best-buddies, laughing at who-knows-what because his English was raw and my knowledge of Slavic languages hadn't surfaced. Still hasn't.

My new friend’s volume (vocal and physical) grew exponentially over the next hour-and-a-half. My mind was sliding into a slippery sea of slush. My questions were getting longer, dimmer and slurrier, matching his English.

But his hands, especially his fingers, had grown up to the “gigantic” mark on a digital size-o-mometer. At that point, all I could concentrate on was one question, "How could this guy report using his standard gauge portable typewriter?” Each of his fingers would hit at least two keys.

Can't remember if I asked it.

I probably heard a lot that was relevant to The New World Information Order. At the time the elites in First, Second, Third, and Fourth Worlds (Rich countries, Commies, Poor countries and the Dirt Poor) were hot-and-bothered about the issue. Inasmuch as my notes were indecipherable and my hangover was indescribable, that meeting never made it to the report, which became as controversial worldwide as I had hoped. Although I didn't like the zingers from Africa, a couple of them really hurt.

This story may be relevant today when we are beset with dire reports about the information missing from the summary of Mr. Trump’s infamous call with his fellow TV comic, the current president of Ukraine.

If my experience is relevant (and it is not) the code word for the White House back story could be SLIVOVITZ!

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My blog and Facebook posts include many items like this. Most are much shorter. Some include names I can remember. Among them are Phyllis Diller, Judy Garland, and John W. Bubbles in Chicago, John Wayne in Panama, and FDR aboard ship with the Saudi King. The title is "poor georgie's almanack.” Just Google it.


Silk screen of Underwood by Anne Duncan

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Impeachment and the other work of Congress … some context. 

In the first two days of July, 1862, with the Civil War fully ablaze, President Abraham Lincoln signed two Acts that arguably created the most important underpinning for his nation’s long term future. 

Congress had passed legislation to create and finance a transcontinental railroad.  It would largely be paid-for by selling millions of acres of land near the railway for farming and towns. 

Those two Acts were crucial in keeping the isolated American West from creating its own country, as the South was trying to do.  A vast portion of the sales funded Land Grant Colleges in every American state.  The schools generated the “smarts” needed to power the Industrial Revolution. 

As unsavory as the 1862 Congress was, most of the members could walk and chew gum at the same time (as in, work on more than one thing at a time while looking ahead). 

Sometimes it appears the current Congress is just chewing gum.

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Here is more background:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Land-Grant_Acts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Railroad_Acts

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-the-Morrill-Act-Still/132877

The following is interesting background and culturally curious.  For instance, it doesn’t mention the thousands of Chinese who built the western part of the railroad, noting only the Irish immigrants and Civil War vets who built the eastern part.




https://www.historynet.com/transcontinental-railroad
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