Saw this on a bus in Florida.
It’s an important message.
Take Action. Stop Child Abuse.
Children are innocent!
The adults who commit the abuse and trafficking are animals.
If you see something, say something to the authorities.
You may just be saving a child’s life.
Protect our children…they are our future. 😉
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America is a great country.
The freedom, rights, and opportunities we have is exceptional and enviable in the world and history.
But the disparity between rich and poor, majorities and minorities is grotesque.
On one side of the street are the mansions, and on the other are the slums.
One on side of the train station are those going off to work, and on the other side are the homeless lying in the gutter.
On one side of the scale are people fat with money and power, and on the other side are people hungry and decaying.
Wealth is overflowing for those that are the fortunate, but also corruption runs systematically deep.
This isn’t an issue of political party, but one of the righteousness of men’s hearts.
G-d watches and man disappoints, but the the future is still wide open. 😉
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Give me that fish…if it were you in that sandwich you wouldn’t be laughing at all.
And most important today is I am singing because of a very happy day:
Thank you Hashem on the the engagement of Minna and Nafi!
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Wow, those were different days…
When the stores still had stuff on the shelves.
And you could go in without waiting outside for half an hour for social distancing.
With everyone wearing protective masks and obsessively washing their hands, so please G-d not to get sick.
Then we were happy!
Now we are all just scared.
Even if some people are pretending they aren’t.
It’s more what we still don’t know then what we do.
And how things can unravel so quickly.
Makes us all appreciate what we had, and hopefully what we’ll have again.
Shabbat Shalom! 😉
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So maybe I am the only one who doesn’t see how things are adding up.
But in the U.S. we have 4,000 dead from Coronavirus and 3/4 of the country (all the major population centers) are on lockdown.
Yet, the projections are still for deaths in the U.S. to pile up between 100,000 to 240,000.
How do you get from 4,000 to 240,000 with most people under lockdown?
The numbers of projected deaths were in the millions before the lockdown and social distancing, so yes the numbers are lower and better now.
Still the escalating death toll is frightening in its magnitude of what is yet to come DESPITE the lockdown.
Moreover, the estimated death in the U.S. from the Flu was only 34,000 (2018-2019) and that’s with everybody round and about doing their business.
My question is what happens after the (first) peak when they send people back to work and school?
There are still going to be people sick and contagious out there and the whole cycle STARTS AGAIN until we get the vaccine.
And even after the vaccine, it may become seasonal like the flu or mutate and become even more virulent.
It seems like there is plenty of reason to be cautious and concerned about what is yet to happen from here.
Then again we may be considered fortunate this time and actually beat this Coronavirus, but then again what happens when the NEXT really bad natural or man-made pathogen gets out? 😉
Note: There are approximately 16 countries with deadly biological weapons programs.
(Credit Photo: My wonderful so-in-law, Itzchak)
This is absolutely what I call:
Hope Amidst Coronavirus.
Life is hope.
The children are our future.
Love and caring is our continuity.
G-d’s is the Master over it all. 😉
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My son-in-law reminded me of a beautiful Jewish saying about prayer:
Even if a sharp sword rests upon a person’s neck, he should not refrain from praying for mercy.
One can still hope for mercy from the Almighty even at death’s door.
This is truly beautiful and uplifting–we can approach G-d anytime, and as long as we are alive, there is always hope.
The saving from G-d is like “the blink of an eye.” 😉
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I love FANUC industrial robots.
They are made by a secretive company in Japan and they are #1 in workplace automation worldwide!
They have over half a million installed industrial robots around the world.
Their robots are on assembly lines making everything from “cars and smartphones to beverages and drugs.” They also are in Tesla and Amazon…so you know they are pretty much everywhere.
FANUC has customers in 108 countries supported by 263 service locations.
Their robots are made by…that’s right other robots…80% is automated.
These robots are strong, fast, and precise, and they can do dangerous work.
This company is the future of jobs, productivity, efficiency.
But of course, people are still the brains behind the brawn. 😉
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Space Force as another full branch of the military is the right thing to do!
The things that get focused on, get accomplished.
Space is the “final frontier.”
And as Gene Roddenberry realized with the creation of Star Trek in 1964, it is the future of Mankind’s very survival.
It’s time to stop thinking small as in planet Earth, and start thinking big as there is a whole universe out there!
Russia and China get it–hence their development and testing of anti-satellite rockets and other “kill vehicles” in space as well as lasers and jamming equipment against our satellites, and of course, their plans to colonize the Moon and land men on Mars and beyond.
Why have we in America only gotten it in Hollywood?
Yes, there have been a few notable exceptions such as President Reagan with his vision for the Star Wars’ Strategic Defense Initiative and President Trump with the bonafide stand up of a Space Force.
Some of the Pentagon brass, particularly the Air Force, may hem and haw about the politics of this thing…losing money and prestige for their branch of the military, but their power is not the concern, our power as a nation is!
I envision a day in the not too distant future when the Air Force doesn’t run Space Command, but rather Space Force runs the Air Force.
We need to put politics aside and stop laughing at our own ignorance about the potential of space for our future survival and for conflict. 😉
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So I want you to know that there is a very thin line between fantasy and reality.
There are those who want you to not only question reality, but also to accept alternative deceptions.
They want to substitute fantasy and conspiracy and their version of “truth” for what is happening and real or intentionally phony.
But (more) fake news and lies are not real news and truth.
They ask questions, and they provide “answers.”
But the answers are more often contrived to make you think they are a reality when they are brainwashing and mindf*cking you.
They show you maps and pictures–it is nothing but entertainment to sow fear and for mass hysteria and distortion.
Dr. Insane is running her own Meshuganah Island.
You can easily get caught up in it.
But I caution you that there is a thin, thin line between fantasy and reality.
It’s not a game.
The game and joke are on you.
Misinformation, psychological operations throw you off track.
Yes, there are secrets–there have to be.
Not everything is for everyone to know at the moment.
But the world is not run on: I say, he says, she says.
There is power. There are plans. There is execution.
Randomness sometimes.
Intent sometimes.
Corruption all too often.
You can’t really know.
Were we smart or just plain lucky?
Someday, the unknown becomes known, but not on rants and raves.
Follow the data carefully and question it to make sure.
In the end, the King of Kings is guiding everything and therefore there is no reason to fear.
The world is going according to plan.
Fear leads to you wanting to gain control.
Some people want to vent or to pretend they know something when they don’t.
There is no reason to conjecture and cross with Dr. Insane into Meshuganah Island.
Making things up makes things worse.
What we do have to do is to keep good winning over evil with truth. 😉
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