It is still early, but this is normally an adventuresome day for me. Shown here is an excellent shot of the near pristine condition of the Honda batbike. One can see the details and the monster motor, quite a technological leap in its day. I’m straightening the chrome motor “roll bar” that was hit in the parking spot at the Aurora library. Notice I am letting gravity do most of the work as I favor my right arm and shoulder.
This bar is necessary as a footrest. I’ve said how the motor throws off significant heat and for some reason it is most noticeable on the left side, near the gear lever. The original purpose of this bar must have been to protect the motor but that function is dubious.We’ve to a cold spell and it might stay for a while. So I picked Estelle up from the Y and we opted for the Dania Beach library, one of the very worst. Huge unused shelf after shelf of African American heritage and two atlases. And the usual sections on baby-naming, what you can do for free to help the bipolar, and that strange paradox, self-help books. I wound up reading some forms on copyright law, methods of measuring the Earth’s circumference, and learned that even without global warming affecting sea levels, the entire northwest of Europe is slowly sinking.
We thought about the movies, then the mall, then just driving around. But that chill down below 68 degrees, once you acclimatize to Florida, is really uncomfortable. I own no parkas, sweaters, or long-sleeve shirts. I’ve got one twenty-year-old jacket that was once jet black. Instead we went for Chinese food at the “Pagoda”, a totally Americanized joint on North Federal. Great prices, huge portions. We could not finish twelve bucks of food between us. Generally, I miss good conversation, which is not her strong point. But we get along more than well enough.
By late afternoon, the cold was bothering my shoulder, so we called it a day. Who remembers Jerry, the Irishman from the Thrift? We passed him along the Dixie intersection and stopped to chat. The guy has not aged in decades. He’s got this cool bicycle with handlebars two feet straight up, except it isn’t fashion. Turns out he has a back problem and that is needed to keep his posture. Myself, I definitely hunch over when pedaling and now he’s got me thinking.Then we swung past the Wayside to watch the film crews. They are making an episode or movie based on Elvis, called “Graceland”. No familiar faces in the crowd and I don’t see the connection between Presley and prehistoric bars. I thought he never played the circuit. The movie is due later this year. If you are new here, I drove past Graceland in September last year and could not find the place.
I watched a documentary on Zionism and was surprised to learn the original Bolsheviks (Soviet Communist Party) supported it. What’s more, 16% of the top party leaders were Jews. It’s common knowledge the English threw around all kinds of promises during WWI grasping for any allies and one such maneuver was the Balfour Declaration. (The Zionists viewed this as a treaty or contract, which it certainly was not.)
Now it makes more sense why the first European Jewish settlers formed communal farms. They were Russians. Incidentally, there was no Palestine in the sense of an Arab homeland at this time. The area was part of the Ottoman Empire, a Turkish outfit of boundless corruption. England and France divided up the land and a map shows how touchy the Brits were about anything getting near the Suez Canal. The largest influx of Jews were from Russia, remember this was WWI and they were on the same side. It is plain nuts to think the troubles started after WWII when the English hightailed it back home.
Yet the-Jews-stole-Israel remains a popular myth. Ask Wallace. That reminds me, I read in Scientific America that huge numbers people who are otherwise intelligent suffer from a form of compartmentalized thinking. They can believe the world is billions of years old and also believe the world was made in seven days. Their minds don’t show any conflict harboring both these notions at the same time. Here it is, a mental defect and all these years I’ve been calling it “weak-mindedness”.
Trivia. “Wiki” as in “Wikipedia” comes from the Hawaiian word meaning “quick”. More trivia, I am quite aware that the proper way to set off long book titles and to indicate other types of emphasis is to use italics. The above sentence should say Wiki as in Wikipedia. But everyone by now realizes Tim Berners-Lee of Internet fame was singularly ignorant of English punctuation. He appears even unaware there are 53 letters in the language (count 'em, and don't forget the blank between words). When there is no auto-command for italics, it is a burdensome task to create them using HTML. Thus, to achieve the same effect, I almost universally employ the double quote.
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