Thursday, May 29, 2025
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Throne Speech
The King, as Head of State, has officially opened Canada’s 45th Parliament. 🇨🇦
Le Roi, en tant que chef de
l'État, a officiellement ouvert la 45e législature du Canada.
Read the Speech from the Throne
here:
Lisez le discours du Trône ici :
Monday, May 26, 2025
King In Canada
Canadian King Charles III and his
Wife arrive in Ottawa, Canada today (May 26, 2025.)
It is his first visit to Canada
as King.
Memorial Day
Memorial Day
Memorial Day is observed on the
last Monday of May. It was formerly known as Decoration Day and commemorates
all men and women who have died in military service for the United States. Many
people visit cemeteries and memorials on Memorial Day and it is traditionally
seen as the start of the summer season.
Is Memorial Day a Public
Holiday?: Memorial Day is a public
holiday. It is a day off for the general population, and schools and most
businesses are closed.
What Do People Do?: It is traditional to fly the flag of the
United States at half staff from dawn until noon. Many people visit cemeteries
and memorials, particularly to honor those who have died in military service.
Many volunteers place an American flag on each grave in national cemeteries.
Memorial Day is combined with Jefferson Davis' Birthday in Mississippi.
Memorial Day has become less of an occasion of remembrance. Many people choose
to hold picnics, sports events and family gatherings on this weekend. This day
is traditionally seen as the start of the summer season for cultural events.
For the fashion conscious, it is seen as acceptable to wear white clothing,
particularly shoes from Memorial Day until Labor Day. However, fewer and fewer
people follow this rule and many wear white clothing throughout the year.
Public Life: Memorial Day is a federal holiday. All
non-essential Government offices are closed, as are schools, businesses and
other organizations. Most public transit systems do not run on their regular
schedule. Many people see Memorial Day weekend as an opportunity to go on a
short vacation or visit family or friends. This can cause some congestion on
highways and at airports.
Background: Memorial Day started as an event to honor
Union soldiers who had died during the American Civil War. It was inspired by
the way people in the Southern states honored their dead. After World War I, it
was extended to include all men and women who died in any war or military
action. Memorial Day was originally known as Decoration Day. The current name
for this day did not come into use until after World War II. Decoration Day and
then Memorial Day used to be held on May 30, regardless of the day of the week,
on which it fell. In 1968, the Uniform Holidays Bill was passed as part of a
move to use federal holidays to create three-day weekends. This meant that
that, from 1971, Memorial Day holiday has been officially observed on the last
Monday in May. However, it took a longer period for all American states to
recognize the new date.
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Sunday, May 25, 2025
105: Marthe Cohn
Marthe Cohn
Marthe Cohn was born Marthe
Hoffnung on April 13, 1920 in Metz, France.
She one of seven Children born in
a Jewish Family.
Metz had been annexed to Germany
for over a Century and only recently returned to France in 1918 (so Marthe spoke
both fluent French and German.)
In September 1939 the French
Government forced her and the other Residents to flee Metz due to World War 2
beginning.
Marthe went to Poitiers in the
Vienne Region where she was when the Germans invaded and occupied France in May
1940.
After the arrest of her Sister
Stéphanie by the Gestapo on June 17, 1942, Marthe organized her Family's escape
from Poitiers to the Free Zone (controlled by Vichy French Collaborators and
not the Germans.)
Marthe’s Fiancé, Jacques
Delaunay, a Student she met in Poitiers, who was actively involved in the
French Resistance, was shot by the Germans on October 6, 1943.
In November 1943, Marthe
completed the Studies she had begun in October 1941 in Poitiers, at the French
Red Cross Nursing School in Marseille.
After the Liberation of Paris in August
1944, Marthe enlisted in the French Army, where she wanted to contribute her Nursing
Skills.
She was assigned to the Medical Service
of the 151st Infantry Regiment.
Discovering that she spoke perfect German her Superior,
Colonel Fabien, offered her to join the Intelligence Services of the 1st French
Army.
Marthe was then attached to the
"Intelligence" Office of the African Commandos.
Active in German-held Territory, She
helped collect valuable information, which greatly facilitated the advance of
the French Troops.
In particular, she warned her Superiors
of the abandonment of the Siegfried Line in the Freiburg im Breisgau Region and
reported a major ambush by the Wehrmacht in the Black Forest
For these acts, Marthe was
awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1945.
In 1958, Marthe married the Doctor-Commander
Lloyd Cohn, a Doctor at the U. S Army.
She then lived in Los Angeles,
California, United States and had two Children.
They worked together for years,
he as an Anesthesiologist and she as a Nurse Anesthetist.
She wrote a Book about her
wartime experiences called “Behind Enemy Lines” in 2002.
Marthe was awarded the Military
Medal in 1999, and was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 2004, before
being awarded the Medal of Recognition of the Nation in 2006.
Marthe Cohn died on May 21, 2025 in
Rancho Palos Verdes,, California at the age of 105.
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Traditional
Have you ever noticed that the Politicians or Religious Leaders that call for something (like "Traditional Marriage" or "Traditional Life") are not following a Traditional Marriage or a Traditional Life?
Traditionally, you only married
once and Divorce was not allowed yet many Politicians and Religious Leaders are
divorced (some many times.)
Traditionally, you couldn't marry
someone of another Race than yourself yet many Politicians and Religious
Leaders have married someone of a different Race than they are.
Traditionally, Women were not
allowed to work once they got married yet many Politicians and Religious
Leaders are Women who are working while married or their Wives are still
working.
Traditionally, if you were
married and had an Affair you would be ostracized from Society yet many
Politicians and Religious Leaders have had Affairs.
Traditionally, you could not
sleep with someone until you were married and yet many Politicians and
Religious Leaders do sleep with people they are not married to.
The list goes on and on.
Be careful of anyone who says
they are for "Traditional" anything since they are most likely
anything BUT Traditional themselves.
I am merely trying to show the
hypocrisy these Politicians and Religious Leaders have - their Words vs. their
Actions.
3 Killed
These are the 3 Ukrainian
Children murdered by the Russians this morning (May 25, 2025.)
Russia fired 367 Missiles and
Drones across 22 Ukrainian Cities.
I thought Trump had a handle on
Putin and Russia – especially after his 2 hour Phone Call last Monday with him?
I guess not.
Putin continues to Murder and
Trump continues to praise him.
1,543: Kyiv
Today is Kyiv Day.
It honors the founding of Kyiv
1,543 years ago (in 482.)
Note: For those that say Moscow
founded Kyiv: Moscow was founded in 1147 (665 years AFTER Kyiv.)
Saturday, May 24, 2025
Arlington's Memorial
The yearly tradition at Arlington
National Cemetery continues.
Happy Memorial Weekend.
$1
When I was a Kid you could go to a store with just $1 and leave with: 2 Candy Bars, a Bag of Chips and a Soda (and still have your $1.)
You can’t do that anymore – there
are cameras everywhere now.
Bazinga!
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Army Changes
The US Army is planning a major reorganization that will eliminate at least 2,000 Civilian and Army Positions.
Here is what is planned:
Cut funding for Army
Prepositioned Stocks by $337 million.
Reduce funding for the Defense
Language Institute by $30 million.
Cut the budget for the Army
Geospatial Center by $50 million.
Cut various virtual reality
training programs by $52 million.
Cease procurement of TOW
wire-guided missiles equipped to vehicles and tripods for base defense.
Terminate the pursuit of
"anti-idle" technology for vehicles, which would automatically cut
power to vehicles during extended idling as a means to save fuel.
Create a skill identifier for
robotics and autonomous systems-related training.
56th Theater Fires Command will
combine with 2nd Multidomain Task Force, with a reduction of 10 positions.
18th Field Artillery Brigade will
combine with 5th Multidomain Task Force; 20 positions will be cut.
4th Infantry Division's armored
brigade combat team will transition to a Stryker Brigade Combat Team.
3rd Cavalry Regiment will
transition from Strykers to Abrams tanks, becoming an Armored Brigade Combat
Team.
Three unnamed Army National Guard
units will be converted from Armored Brigade Combat Teams to Mobile Brigade
Combat Teams, which are effectively standard infantry formations but with the
new Infantry Squad Vehicle. Additionally, two National Guard Stryker Brigade
Combat Teams will also convert to Mobile Brigade Combat Teams.
All Army Reserve Air Cavalry and
Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigades will be deactivated.
All MEDEVAC units will move from
15 aircraft capacity to 12.
Army Training and Doctrine
Command and Futures Command will combine into a single entity. About 400
positions will be cut.
Cancel the planned activation of
two reserve artillery units.
Cancel the planned activation of
three reserve electromagnetic warfare companies.
Move 4th Battalion, 60th Air
Defense Artillery Regiment, from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to Fort Bliss, Texas.
Shut down the 4th Security Force
Assistance Brigade and 54th Security Force Assistance Brigade.
Army Reserve will get two High
Mobility Artillery Rocket System battalions and three HIMARS batteries.
Establish Western Hemisphere
Command by combining U.S. Army North, Forces Command and U.S. Army South; 339
positions will be eliminated.
Borscht Index
The ingredients to make Borscht in
Russia has gone up in the past year.
The so-called “Borscht Index” is
used to determine how things are actually going inside Russia.
The price of Potatoes rose 166.5%
since last year.
The price of Onions rose 87.2%
since last year.
The price of Cabbage rose 56.8%
since last year.
The price of beet root rose 11.9%
since last year.
Amid stubborn Inflation, the
share of Russians' Income spent on Groceries has reached its highest level
since the Invasion of Ukraine.
On average, 34.6% of Russians' Household
spending went towards food in April 2025, up from 33% at the start of the year
and 28.6% the year before.
While the International Sanctions
placed on Russia following its Invasion of Ukraine in 2022 haven’t meant empty
shelves like during Soviet Times they have meant that the Average Russian can
no longer afford most things -
especially the Traditional Russian Food Staples.
The Average Russian only makes
65,000 Rubles ($850 US Dollars) a month.
For comparison the Average
American makes $4,500 Dollars a month.
Note: Complaining about the
Economic State of things in Russia (in-person or online) results in being
imprisoned for 10 years in a Forced Labor Penal Colony.
45 Million Travelling
45.1 Million Americans will travel this Memorial Day Weekend (tomorrow through Monday.)
40 Million Americans will travel
by car.
5 Million Americans will fly by
plane.
Stay safe.
36: Concert
The 36th Annual National
Memorial Day Concert will be on Sunday May 25, 2025 from the West Lawn of the
US Capitol.
It will be hosted again by Joe
Mantegna and Gary Sinise.
If you can’t go see it in person
you can watch it on PBS from 8 pm to 9:30 pm on Sunday.
The 2025 Concert will feature
the following segments:
250th Anniversary Army, Navy
and Marine Corps The concert will salute the 250th anniversary of the Army,
Navy, and Marine Corps to honor these service branches who have defended
America even before it was a nation.
World War II 80th Anniversary A
salute to the millions of Americans who served the nation in World War II in
uniform and on the home front. On the 80th Anniversary of the end of the war,
the concert will share the story of U.S. Marine Veteran Don Graves, who fought
as a flamethrower at the bloody 36-day Battle of Iwo Jima, a volcanic island of
strategic importance to the invasion of Japan and the end of the war. Members
of the Greatest Generation will be honored on stage.
Gold Star Families Tribute The concert will remember and honor our
fallen heroes and Gold Star Families with the poignant and inspiring story of
Gold Star Wife and mother of two, Krista Simpson Anderson, whose beloved Green
Beret husband was killed in May of 2013 in Afghanistan when their sons were
toddlers.
Vietnam War Dustoff Crews The
Concert will honor the courageous Army Air Ambulance Units of the Vietnam War
with the story of helicopter pilot Col. Otis Evans, (Ret.). At great risk and
danger under enemy fire, Evans and his crew rescued wounded troops in remote
locations. Commonly called "Dustoff," their radio call sign, it is
estimated that these life-saving air medevac units evacuated 900,000 casualties
during the war.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Volunteering
Last week I Volunteered at a Local Nursing Home for their Nursing Home Weel.
It was my 3rd year
Volunteering there.
I helped set-up the activities,
helped during the activities and helped take-down the activities.
The Activities included: a Mother’s
Day Photo Booth with Coffee, Juice and Pastries; a ‘40s Themed Day; a ‘70s
Themed Day; a Talent Show; Handing out Popcorn, Candy and Drinks; a Pizza
Party, a BBQ, etc.
This week I am Volunteering again,
but not in Activities, but as the Receptionist (answering the phone, opening
the door, making sure people sign-in, helping them go to where they want to go,
having people sing-out and buzzing the door open and closed for them) while
their Regular Receptionist in on unscheduled Medical Leave.
That way the Administrators can
keep the Nursing Home running smoothly; the Cooks can keep everyone fed; the
Housekeepers can keep everything clean and the Nurses, LNs, Activities People,
etc. can focus on the Elderly and the Disabled.
George Wendt
George Wendt passed away in his
sleep this morning (May 20, 2025) according to Family.
He starred in “Cheers” for all 11
Seasons as well as portrayed Bob Swerski, a Mike Ditka superfan, in the
Saturday Night Live sketch, ‘Da Bears’.
He was 76 years old.
Limiting Vaccine
From Yahoo/CNN:
“FDA to limit future Covid-19
shots to older people and those at risk of serious infection”
The US Food and Drug
Administration is changing the way it approves Covid-19 vaccines for Americans
— a move that will limit future vaccines to older Americans and people at
higher risk of serious Covid-19 infection. The agency is changing the standard
of evidence required for Covid-19 vaccine approval in the US, Dr. Vinay Prasad,
the new director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, and
FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary, said in an editorial published Tuesday in
the New England Journal of Medicine
The change means that Covid-19
shots will likely be available in the fall for adults ages 65 and older and
those with underlying conditions that may put them at higher risk of a Covid-19
infection, but not for everyone who was previously eligible for an updated
shot. Nearly three-quarters of Americans age 6 months and older have an
underlying medical condition that puts them at higher risk, according to the US
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The change, which was already being
studied by experts that advise the CDC on its vaccine recommendations, will
more closely align the United States with Covid-19 vaccine recommendations in
the UK, Canada and Australia.
Millions of healthy adults and
kids will likely lose access to updated vaccines under the new criteria. Prasad
and Makary say there’s not enough evidence that healthy kids and adults get
clinically meaningful benefit from regular Covid-19 shots. They want to see
placebo-controlled trials, particularly in adults ages 50 to 64, before
recommending the shots for other groups.
Dr. Noel Brewer, a professor of
public health and health behavior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, said he supports the change. “The proposed policy moves the US in line
with other countries. This global view of public health is a welcome
development,” said Brewer, who sits on the CDC’s Advisory Committee on
Immunization Practices, and was part of the working group mulling the change to
Covid vaccine recommendations But he and other experts say they’re still
worried about the youngest children, those under age 2, who have high rates of
hospitalization from Covid-19.
Dr. Paul Offit, director of the
Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a
member of FDA’s independent advisory group on vaccines, says he disagrees with
the underlying premise of the new framework, which is that our Covid-19 vaccine
recommendations haven’t been based on good evidence. “We have been using an
evidence-based approach to Covid-19 vaccination, but they kind of swoop in and
believe that for the first time, we’re going to get, as they say, ‘gold
standard’ data, robust data, for the first time, because according to them, we
don’t have that, but we do have that,” Offit said. “That’s why we’ve made good
decisions about the vaccine. That’s why that vaccine is remarkably safe. I
mean, the mRNA vaccines are remarkably safe.”
The editorial says that going
forward, Covid-19 vaccines for people ages 65 and older and those 6 months of
age and older with underlying health conditions that put them at higher risk
from Covid-19 infections will be approved after pharmaceutical companies can
demonstrate that they create protective antibody concentrations in people.
^ So I won’t be able to get the updated
Covid Vaccine this year. I get it because my Sister works at a Nursing Home and
I don’t want to get her sick and for her to then get the Elderly sick. ^
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fda-limit-future-covid-19-152632648.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Monday, May 19, 2025
La fête de Victoria
Today is Victoria Day in Canada.
From 1845-1952 it was a Holiday
to remember the British Monarch over Canada.
Since 1952 it is a Holiday to
remember the Canadian Monarch.
Queen Elizabeth II became the 1st
Canadian Monarch and the 1st Canadian Queen in 1952.
King Charles III became the 2nd
Canadian Monarch and the 1st Canadian King in 2022.
This Victoria Day honors King
Charles III.
Aujourd'hui, c'est la fête de Victoria au
Canada.
De 1845 à 1952, c'était une fête
pour se souvenir du monarque britannique au Canada.
Depuis 1952, c'est une fête pour
se souvenir du monarque canadien.
La reine Elizabeth II est devenue
le 1er monarque canadien et la 1ère reine canadienne en 1952
Le roi Charles III est devenu le
2e monarque canadien et le 1er roi canadien en 2022.
Cette fête de Victoria honore le
roi Charles III.
Sunday, May 18, 2025
2 Great Leaders
Zelenskyy meets Pope Leo XIV for
the first time after Vatican Inauguration (May 18, 2025.)
2 Great World Leaders.
We Were There
And yet Trump never said
"Thank you" to Canada or any of the other Allies who helped the
United States.
In fact he is trying to make
Canada and our Other Allies no longer be our Allies so he can cozy up to
Putin's Russia.
Teacher To Soldier
This is Oleksandr, a History Teacher
who has been named one of the Best Teachers in Ukraine 5 years ago.
Now he is defending Ukraine.
Piscatory Ring
Pope Leo XIV receives the Ring of
the Fisherman, or Piscatory Ring, from Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Pro-Prefect
of the Dicastery for Evangelization, during the Mass of Inauguration of his Pontificate
in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, May 18th.
81: Crimean Tartars
81 years ago today (May 18, 1944) Stalin sent 32,000 NKVD Secret Police to round -up every Crimean Tartar Man, Woman and Child in Crimea.
The Deported included: Soldiers
in the Soviet Red Army, the Elderly, the Disabled, Newborn Babies and Pregnant
Women.
Three days later - May 20, 1944 - 423,1000 Men, Women and
Children were deported from Crimea.
8,000 Crimean Tartars died while
being deported.
Between May 1944 – January 1,
1945 13,592 Crimean Tartars died from harsh conditions (including Forced Labor,
Beatings, etc.) imposed on them by the Soviet Government in their “Special
Settlements” in Exile.
Between January 1, 1945 – January
1, 1946 13,183 Crimean Tartars died from the harsh conditions (including Forced
Labor, Beatings, etc.) imposed on them by the Soviet Government in their
“Special Settlements” in Exile.
46% of the Crimean Tartars died
in Exile from 1944-1991.
The Crimean Tartar Deportation
resulted in the abandonment of 80,000 households and 360,000 acres of land.
An intense campaign of
Detatarization followed to try to erase the remaining traces of Crimean Tatar
existence (with the Soviets erasing Crimean Tartar Culture, History and
Language along with its’ People.)
It was Ethnic Cleansing of the
Crimean Tartars by the Soviet Communists.
In 1954 Crimea was given to
Ukraine by Moscow.
In 1956, the new Soviet leader
Nikita Khrushchev condemned Stalin's policies, including the Deportation of
various Ethnic Groups like the Crimean Tartars, but did not lift the directive
forbidding the return of the Crimean Tatars despite allowing most other
deported peoples to return.
The Crimean Tatars remained in
Central Asia for several more Decades until the Perestroika Era in the late
1980s, when 260,000 Crimean Tatars returned to Crimea.
Those that returned found that
Ethnic Russians had been legally given their property and homes and they
received no compensation.
Their exile had lasted 45 years.
The ban on their return was officially declared null and void when the Supreme
Council of Crimea declared on November 14, 1989 that the Deportations had been
a crime.
Crimea became a part of an
independent Ukraine when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
In March 2014 Putin’s Russia
invaded, occupied and illegally annexed Crimea, Ukraine into the Russian
Federation.
Since 2014 Putin has waged both
Cultural and Human Genocide against the Ethnic Tartars and the Ethnic
Ukrainians in Crimea.
The Russians have banned the use
of the Tartar Language, the Ukrainian Language, have shut-down all Tartar and
Ukrainian Cultural Sites and have deported many Tartars and Ukrainians from
Crimea to the Russian Federation to “beat the Tartar and the Ukrainian out of
them.”
Between 2015 and 2019, the 1944
Crimean Tartar Deportation was formally recognized as Genocide by Ukraine,
Lithuania, Latvia and Canada.
Crimea, although occupied by the
Russians, remains part of Ukraine.
Saturday, May 17, 2025
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Eat The Cost
Trump is complaining that Walmart is going to raise its prices because of his Tariffs.
It's clear he doesn't understand
how Tariffs work (the American Consumer pays them.)
Yet people still blindlessly
follow him.
Maybe they want a ride on his new
$400 Million Dollar Plane from Qatar.
Nothing says "America
First" like making the next Air Force One a plane given from a Foreign
Country.
Number
US Armed Forces
Today is Armed Forces Day in the
United States.
The US Armed Forces consists of
six Service Branches: the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, and
Coast Guard.
The US Military was formed 249
years ago (July 14, 1775.)
There are 1,747,970 Active-Duty
Servicemen/women and 402,515 Reserve Servicemen/Women in the US Military.
The US Military has been
All-Volunteer since The Draft ended 52 years ago (in 1973.)
US Army:
487,083 Active Duty Personnel
352,358 Army National Guard
Personnel
191,752 Army Reserve Personnel
1,007,193 Total Uniformed
Personnel
US Marine Corps:
180,958 Active Personnel
32,400 Reserve Personnel
213,358 Total Uniformed Personnel
US Navy:
349,593 Active Duty Personnel
101,583 Reserve Personnel
451,176 Total Uniformed Personnel
US Air Force:
328,820 Active Duty Personnel
69,056 Reserve Personnel
397,876 Total Uniformed Personnel
US Space Force:
8,600 Active Duty Personnel
US Coast Guard:
40,558 Active Duty Personnel
7,724 Reserve Personnel
48,282 Total Uniformed Personnel
The US Military has 314 Military
Bases across 50 US States, DC and 5 US Territories.
The US Military has 184 Military
Bases across the World: Australia (4), Aruba (1), Bahrain (2), the Bahamas (1),
Belgium (4), the British Indian Ocean Territory (1), Bulgaria (4), Cameroon
(1), Curacao (1), Cuba (1), Djibouti (1), Estonia (1), Germany (40), Greece (1), Greenland (2),
Honduras (1), Iceland (1), Iraq (12),
Israel (1), Italy (8), Japan (24), Kenya
(1), Kosovo (1), Kuwait (8), Lithuania (2), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand
(1), Niger (3), Peru (1), Poland (3), Portugal (1), Qatar (1), Romania (3),
Saudi Arabia (5), Singapore (2), South Korea (15), Spain (2), Syria (12).
Turkey (2), the United Arab Emirates (1) and the United Kingdom (6).
Friday, May 16, 2025
Accessibility Awareness
Today (May 16, 2025) is Global Accessibility Awareness Day.
Global Accessibility Awareness
Day, also known as GAAD, works to promote digital accessibility, access, and
inclusion worldwide. GAAD defines digital accessibility as the need for
top-quality digital experiences for all internet users, regardless of an individual’s
disabilities. GAAD on digital accessibility.
Global Accessibility Awareness
Day launched in May 2012. It was inspired by a blog post from November 2011 by
Los Angeles-based web developer Joe Devon. Devon worked with Jennison Asuncion,
an accessibility professional from Toronto, to co-found GAAD.
1 Billion People Worldwide have a
Disability or Impairment.
What is Digital Accessibility?
Every user deserves a first-rate digital experience on the web. Someone with a
disability must be able to experience web-based services, content and other
digital products with the same successful outcome as those without disabilities.
This awareness and commitment to inclusion is the goal of Global Accessibility
Awareness Day (GAAD), a global event that shines a light on digital access and
inclusion for people with disabilities.
Common
Disabilities/Impairments:
Visual: People who are
blind need alternative text descriptions for meaningful images and use the
keyboard and not a mouse to interact with interactive elements.
Hearing: People who are
deaf or hard of hearing will need captioning for video presentations and visual
indicators in place of audio cues.
Motor: People with motor
impairments may need alternative keyboards, eye control or some other adaptive
hardware to help them type and navigate on their devices.
Cognitive: An uncluttered
screen, consistent navigation and the use of plain language would be useful for
people with different learning disabilities/impairments.
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Meeting?
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy
confirmed that he will travel to Turkey later this week to meet with Russian President
Vladimir Putin.
It doesn’t look like Putin is
going to go.
So who doesn’t want peace?
77: Israel
77 years ago today (May 14, 1948) Israel became an independent country.
From 1920 to 1948 Israel (then
called Mandatory Palestine) was occupied and governed by the United Kingdom
which was heavily Anti-Semitic favoring the Arabs over the Jews (before, during
and after the Holocaust of World War 2 – even forcing Holocaust Survivors to
return to the Displaced Persons Camps in defeated Germany instead of being
allowed into either the UK or Israel.)
The British Government was so
Anti—Jewish that they gave all their weapons and Military Equipment in and
around Israel to the Arabs so that the moment the Jews declared their
Independence the Arabs inside Israel and surrounding Israel on all 3 sides would
be able to defeat (and destroy the new Jewish State.)
Despite the British and the Arabs
the Jews organized themselves (creating Secret Armies and getting whatever
weapons and equipment they could get from anywhere in the World.)
Within minutes of David
Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization, the Chairman
of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, and soon to be first Prime Minister of
Israel (1948-1953, 1955-1963) declared Israel’s Independence on May 14, 1948
the Arab League (Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinians, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen
and Saudi Arabia) attacked Israel with 12,000 British-trained and supplied
Soldiers against Israel’s 10,000 self-trained and poorly supplied Soldiers.
By the end of Israel’s War for
Independence in 1949 the Arabs sent in 65,500 Soldiers and Israel was able to
get 117,500 Soldiers (Men and Women including Holocaust Survivors going from
the boat right into battle.)
The Israelis were attacked from
the land (on all sides), by sea and by air all at once.
15,000 Arab Soldiers were killed
during the War and 25,000 were wounded during the War.
4,000 Israeli Soldiers were
killed and 2,373 Israeli Civilians were killed during the War.
The United States was one of the
first Countries to Officially Recognize Israel as an Independent Country on May
14, 1948.
Most of the Muslim and Arab
Countries around the World in 1948 called for the Official Destruction of
Israel and the death of the Jews (in their Constitutions and National Laws.)
Jews living in these Muslim and
Arab Countries for Centuries were forced to flee their homes or be killed. Most
went to Israel. This shows that these Muslim and Arab Countries hate Jews in
general and not simply Jews in Israel.
As of 2025 Afghanistan, Algeria,
Bangladesh, Brunei, Comoros, Djibouti, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia,
Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen do now allow
Israeli Citizens into their Countries and do not let Foreigners (Non-Israelis)
that have Israeli Passport Stamps in their Passport to enter their Country.
The Citizens of these Muslim and
Arab Countries are allowed to call for the “Death of America” or “Death to the
Jews” but if these same Citizens try to call for equal and basic Civil Rights
at home they are beaten and killed.
Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since
being elected into power in 2006, Officially Calls for the Destruction of
Israel and the Murder of all Jews and Christians- all Non-Muslims.)
Here is an example of the
differences between Israel and the Palestinian Territories of the West Bank and
Gaza (past and present):
From 1948-1967 Gaza was ruled by
Egypt.
From 1948-1967 East Jerusalem and
the West Bank was ruled by Jordan.
The Egyptians, the Jordanians and
the Palestinians forbade Jews to visit their Holy Sites in those places.
From 1967-2005 Israel ruled all
of Gaza and the West Bank.
The Israelis allowed Jews,
Christians and Muslims to enter these places – especially to visit their Holy
Sites.
From 2005-Present Day: Hamas has
ruled Gaza.
Hamas refuses Jews and Christians
to visit their Holy Sites or to express their Religion openly.
From 2005-Present Day: The
Palestinian Authority has ruled the West Bank.
The Palestinian Authority refuses
Jews (and Christian Israelis) to visit their Holy Sites.
From 1967-Present Day: Israel has
ruled all of Jerusalem.
The Israelis allow Muslims, Jews
and Christians to visit their Holy Sites.
Clearly Israel is the only
Democracy in the Middle East and while it has some faults, like all Countries
do, they still work to respect all Religions while the Palestinians (Hamas and
the Palestinian Authority) don’t respect Jews or Christians.
Not only have I studied about
Israel and the Middle East, but I have been to Israel, the West Bank, Kuwait
and the United Arab Emirates.
Monday, May 12, 2025
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Sunday, May 11, 2025
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96: Eva Schloss
Happy 96th Birthday Eva Schloss!
While Anne Frank is widely known
around the world as a symbol of the 1.5 Million Jewish Children murdered by the
Nazis during the Holocaust and her “Diary of a Young Girl” (first published in
Dutch in 1947 and in English in 1952) has sold over 31 million copies and is
translated into 70 languages many do not know of her Step-Sister, Eva Schloss,
whose life before and during World War 2 nearly mirrored Anne’s.
Anne Frank was born on June 12,
1929 in Frankfurt Germany.
Eva Schloss (née Geiringer) was
born on May 11, 1929 in Vienna, Austria.
Anne’s Sister, Margot, was born 3
years before her in 1926. Eva’s Brother,
Heinz, was born 3 years before her in 1926.
Anne and her Family left Germany
for Amsterdam, the Netherlands , because of the Nazis, in 1934. Eva and her
Family left German-Occupied Austria for Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 1938.
Anne and Eva lived in the same
apartment block on the Merwedeplein in the Rivierenbuurt neighborhood of
Amsterdam from the 1930s-1942.
9 year old Anne introduced
herself to 9 year old Eva on the playground shortly after Eva’s family moved to
Amsterdam (Anne spoke German to Eva since Eva hadn’t learned Dutch yet.)
Both Anne and Eva were made to
leave their Non-Jewish Schools -after the German Occupation of the Netherlands
in May 1940 - and were forced to attend
the same Jewish Lyceum School in September 1941.
Both Anne and Eva were forced, by
the Germans, to wear the Star of David on April 29, 1942.
On July 5, 1942 both Anne’s 16
year old Sister Margot and Eva’s 16 year old Brother Heinz received a Call-Up
notice from the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung (Central Office for
Jewish Emigration) to be deported to a “Work Camp in Germany” (in reality those
who were deported went to the Mauthausen Concentration Camp.)
Both Anne’s Family and Eva’s
Family went into hiding (separately) to avoid the Deportations.
Anne and her Family hid together
(with 4 other people) in Amsterdam. Eva and her Mother hid together and Heinz
and her Father hid together.
Anne, her Family and the 4 Others
in Hiding were betrayed to the Gestapo on August 4, 1944. Eva and her Family in Hiding were betrayed to
the Gestapo in May 1944.
Eva and her Family went to the
Westerbork Transit Camp in the Netherlands where they were branded as Criminals
by the Germans for having been in hiding and kept in the Punishment Block.
Anne and her Family went to the
Westerbork Transit Camp in the Netherland where they were branded as Criminals
by the Germans for having been in hiding and kept in the punishment Block.
Anne and her Family were deported
from Westerbork to the Auschwitz Death Camp on September 4, 1944 (on the last
train to leave Westerbork.) Eva and her
Family were deported from Westerbork to the Auschwitz Death Camp in 1944.
Anne, who was 15 years old (the
minimum age the Germans allowed people at Auschwitz to be Forced Laborers
instead of immediately going to the Gas Chambers on Arrival) was separated from
her Father, at Auschwitz, and never saw him again.
Eva, who was 15 years old (the
minimum age the Germans allowed people at Auschwitz to be Forced Laborers
instead of immediately going to the Gas Chambers on Arrival) was separated from
her Father and Brother, at Auschwitz, and never saw them again.
Note: Here is where the lives of
Anne Frank and Eva Schloss differ.
Anne was separated from her
Mother at Auschwitz when she and her Sister, Margot, were deported from
Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen in Germany. Anne died in Bergen-Belsen a few days
after her Sister, between February-April 1945 at 15 years old.
Eva and her Mother survived
Auschwitz and was liberated in January 1945 when Eva was 15 years old.
Only Otto Frank survived the War
(his Wife and 2 Daughters were killed during the Holocaust.)
Only Eva and her Mother survived
the War (her Father and Brother were killed during the Holocaust.)
Otto Frank married Eva’s Mother,
Elfriede, in 1953. Otto died in Switzerland in 1980 and Elfriede died in
England in 1998.
Eva married Zvi Schloss (a Jewish
Refugee from Germany who spent the War in Palestine) in 1952. They moved to the
United Kingdom and had 3 Daughters. Zvi died in 2016.
Eva Schloss is still alive and is
turned 96 years old today (May 11, 2025.)
День Матері
Ukraine has celebrated Mother’s
Day on the 2nd Sunday in May since 1999 – before they celebrated the Communist
Holiday – International Women’s Day – like Russia still does – on March 8th.
For Mother’s Day (День Матері)
today please remember all the Ukrainian Mothers currently suffering because of
the Russian Nazis.
The Mothers who have been forced
to flee the bombs and bullets in their hometowns.
The Mothers who have not been allowed to flee
the bombs and bullets in their hometowns.
The Mothers who give birth in
Subway Stations.
The Mothers who give birth in
Hospitals that are targeted by the Russians.
The Mothers who are forced to
watch their Children being tortured by the Russians.
The Mothers who are forced to
watch their Children being massacred by the Russians.
The Mothers who are forced to
watch their Children starve to death because the Russians are stealing their
food.
The Mothers who can’t be with
their Children because they are off fighting to defend their homes and
Families.
This Mother’s Day is more
important than ever before. It shows us just how hard Mothers and Mother-Like
Women work and love despite all the hardships.
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