9/26/12 Wednesday (Yom Kippur)

Today is Yom Kippur,the Holiness day for Jews.Of course,I'm not very good in every sense of word,but even me will try fast-afraid of God I guess.
Remembering Jewish Holidays of past,when I was young,now so many years ago 50-45 years ago in the nineteen sixty.
We dress in our Sunday best,sport jackets dress paints often uncomfortable,Jewish Holidays weather often seems hot,I remember Grandfather bragging about that and gentiles were jealous and he say it with big grim on his face.At the time,I pay no mine,but looking back it was kind stupid it wasn't good weather it was hot and uncomfortable especially when wearing heavy clothes.
We walk to the Synagogue,a long walk from Seaman Ave. crossing Broadway to area that wasn't so nice,it wasn't be kind of dreamy like past it prime many years ago.The Synagogue itself look of out place in that neighborhood,a dirty place mostly tenement apartment buildings from the nineteen thirties or twenties,Synagogue was bigger building in widen although only 3 to 4 floors and basement which one two services took place,main floor was were high roller went to service.Us kid mainly stood out side mulling around the street a few a transistor radios listening baseball usually the World Series take place that time year.

I never like Synagogue,for was place I went to Hebrew School,were I was suppose learn Hebrew for my bar mitzvah.I don't think I ever a word of Hebrew,I was very bad student,school no matter what type was never my thing.Poor Rabbi Gellar,he was patient and good man but such a bad student I,m afraid he got nowhere with me,he must have know I had problems and he like me for years later mother ran into and he asked about me,when mother said I was in college he was much relieved.
I remember one time the Hebrew class went a ballpark of sorts,in park,by the river(Hudson) off Dyckman Street near entrances of the West Side Highway or Henry Hudson Parkway.We played softball and Gellar called me Mickey Mantle believe me I was no Mickey Mantle but once in life I felt good-I shall never forgot it.

I remember one Yom Kippur,not really friend but somebody I know named Howey  and his father who much older then our parents were going walk to Yonkers .Howey was much different than us kids,I think he older or maybe just seem that way,he already wore a leather brown color with flees line inside,he lived in same build as one good friends Mark Jacobs.Anyway a bunch of us walk to Yonkers that day-up Broadway on King's bridge under the L line(elevator subway trains after Dyckman Street station #1 IRT) passed Van Cortlandt Park to Yonkers and back.It must been either the early sixties or mid-sixties years.

It's Aug name for Augustus the Caesar who bring peace to Rome rule wisely,but why such hot month name for him? I remeber Aug. as young boy,most time spend in summer camp.I think in 1962 and 1963 Qucker Ridge a camp wied you know it was fun children being taught to be genius oh the thory of Jew genius which ruin my life.

Your don't say

Yesterday,as i was entering the front library,on front bench two young Asia girls,maybe 13 or 14,yes you don't say.The only person I ever heard say that was my grandfather,one of his favite expression.
Watch the Yankee Red Soxs game-what a game! Yankees down 9 to 0 yet pull out win 15 to 9.How about that as Mel Allen would say.

NPR interview with director of Best Man wrong on history

Heard today on NPR an interview with,I think,the director on show that was movie in nineteen sixties,written Gore Vidal called Best Man,very good movie,Any the directer said,Vidal want to promoted JFK and character Russell,an Left-wing intellectual was JFK and he populist conservative was LBJ.But this is not true first of all,Vidal didn't think much of JFK,indeed,he thought is was charming lightweight,second the Russell character was base on Adlai Stevenson the conservative populist,my guess was RFK,but some believe it was JFK others Nixon or Joe McCarthy or maybe combination.
This shows how people theatre and NPR are very bias and bad source of information unfortunately so is our schools,a place where lives are ruined.

Margaret Chase Smith

The other night listening to Hugh Hewitt show on radio,he had on Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Romney's name came up and she said how father campaigned for his mother who ran for Senate from Mich. in 1970.She went on say Lenore Romney because she was woman stated that only one women senator from Maine but didn't remember the name Hewitt went on say I think it's Helen something-WRONG!
It was Margaret Chase Smith,who's mainly know not from coming from Maine,but rather her attack on Joseph McCarthy,know as mad dog who was right but he went about it wrong.Anyway six other Republicans agree with Smith.McCarthy call Smith and her supporters as Snow White and six dwarfs.McCarthy removed Smith from intelligences committee he chaired and replace her with Richard Nixon.
Senator was on Eisenhower's short for V-P and thought shed be first woman President.Indeed.once she was asked,what would she do if one morning she found herself in the White House? Her answer was classic,she said,first apologize to Mrs.Truman and then go home.

New world

I'm old man,living in brave new world.Life has past me by,gone are old rules.I wish things come to me,but there don't.I but think what might have been.Limit here can't spell the way I like.don't poor grammer and poor spelling held me back life is unfair but that's the way it is so one must go on it's tough but there isn't much can do about it's unfairness if you let it get to you your're crazy. 

Got two letters published in Newspapers yesterday

Yesterday,spring day very beautiful also two letters to the editor published in newspapers:one in the Daily News one New York Post. Going to Dentist tomorrow och!1 Don't like but lost a bit tooth.To spring weather is fine I think of baseball,gone is youth were Mickey Mantle was my hero.Time it goes by quick and it gets quicker as gets older.Soon to be a dead,gone forevermore forgotten that ever in this earth just bones and maybe dis appear all together.