tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284893230469697578.post7331501737182786903..comments2024-03-27T19:35:11.320+07:00Comments on <b>Postcards from the End of [the] America[n Empire]</b>: Postcard from the End of America: BrooklynLinh Dinhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00328959360983573810noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284893230469697578.post-12596682729256622632016-05-12T09:41:35.827+07:002016-05-12T09:41:35.827+07:00Hi Linh,
Thank you for the link to the track. ...Hi Linh,<br /> Thank you for the link to the track. It brought tears to my eyes, too!salish cedarsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284893230469697578.post-13077690905438317892016-05-10T20:54:49.247+07:002016-05-10T20:54:49.247+07:00Sal Fariello emailed me:
With great interest I re...Sal Fariello emailed me:<br /><br /><i>With great interest I read your poignant article about your observations in Brooklyn. When you stated that you were driven to tears in contemplation of the decay of our culture upon listening to some of our great music from a more civilized era, I felt deeply moved, because the same has happened to me on many occasions. This I think, would prove you have a good heart and a soul that is not moribund like so many pop culture-addled “zombies” and narcissists in our midst.<br /> <br />I was born in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn in 1948. In 1950 my father moved us to a mink ranch he owned out on Long Island. Back then, the Island was rustic and a real paradise, and the people were quite different from the mostly crass dumbbells we see roaming about these days. We had a pretty good culture and the “City” (Broadway, etc.) was a wonderful place, as was Brooklyn. I still cherish the times I got to see the Brooklyn Dodgers play at Ebbitt’s Field. What a grand time to be alive and to be a child!<br /> <br />About 22 years ago I was in Bushwick with a friend who had some real estate interests there and I almost puked. I found it to be vile. I returned home and told my wife I was going to Florida. Three days later I did. I rented a house on a lake in a fairly rural area of the state and 45 days after my trip to Bushwick we moved! I never regretted it. I was up there last November for a few days and I could not recognize anything and all I saw was decay from NYC out to Shelter Island and beyond to Montauk – a real mess.<br /> <br />Anyway, my wife is much younger than I, and as fate would have it, we had a daughter in Florida in 1996. I found your article so moving because I have relentlessly agonized over the vulgarity of this “culture” and the fact that I cannot give my daughter any of the dignity and class we had here when I was young. When I see what we are and compare it to what we were, it makes my heart sick and I am so often moved to tears like Edward G. Robinson’s character in Soylent Green who wept and lamented: “How did it ever come to this?”<br /> <br />Sociologically, we are in a slaughterhouse where good souls are butchered and fed into a meat grinder. That is one reason I have elected to get out. I’m through fighting it and tired of lamenting it, and quite honestly incapable of handling the emotional suffering of my wife, daughter and other good souls who groan under the burden of this dystopian nightmare dominated by troglodytes.</i><br /> Linh Dinhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00328959360983573810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284893230469697578.post-51056152235624079682016-05-10T18:26:53.035+07:002016-05-10T18:26:53.035+07:00I was looking for a place to insert the following ...I was looking for a place to insert the following remarks. Running across this “Linh wept -- and with good reason…” seemed to resonate appropriately.<br /><br />Not quite a year ago in a comment to this blog I remarked that I witnessed the sentencing of Doreen Hendrickson to 18 months in federal prison for refusing to comply with a trial judge’s order to perjure herself. As I did at that time, I have carefully proof read the previous sentence to make sure what I wrote is exactly what I intended to write.<br /><br />In a follow up ( http://www.wnd.com/2016/05/rule-of-law-takes-hit-in-courts-order-to-commit-perjury/ ) we read:<br /><br /><i>“In a case with major implications for free speech and due process, an appeal by Doreen Hendrickson, a mother jailed last year on “contempt of court” charges for refusing a federal court order to perjure herself, was officially denied.<br /><br />The court claimed that it did not have to rule on the illegality or unconstitutionality of the court order that was supposedly violated, or on whether it was appropriate for the trial court to instruct the jury not to consider the legality of the demands.<br /><br />If the ruling is allowed to stand, observers and legal experts warned of potentially devastating consequences to the rule of law, due process of law, judicial integrity, freedom of speech, and all of Americans’ constitutionally protected rights.<br /><br />Basically, the government could force anyone to say anything, under oath, critics of the ruling observed.<br /><br />The lower court claimed that, “it is not a defense to the crime of contempt that the court order that the defendant is accused of violating was unlawful or unconstitutional.”<br /><br />The defense was hoping to see that order overturned.”</i><br /><br />Now back to the TEEVEE for extended coverage of all the latest selfies…Rudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03449122628917135438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284893230469697578.post-91150074823891770862016-05-10T02:18:45.142+07:002016-05-10T02:18:45.142+07:00Hi salish cedars,
Here's the track.
LinhHi salish cedars,<br /><br />Here's the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExmoiGZuiFQ" rel="nofollow">track</a>.<br /><br /><br />LinhLinh Dinhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00328959360983573810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284893230469697578.post-49779676230780511742016-05-10T02:15:47.825+07:002016-05-10T02:15:47.825+07:00Just out of curiosity, what was/were the song(s)? ...Just out of curiosity, what was/were the song(s)? Regarding the Hasid patrol, it sounds like they have their own version of the Black Panthers. I've long wondered why the latter don't make a comeback as it seems long overdue. salish cedarsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284893230469697578.post-8039566688373276972016-05-10T00:40:54.736+07:002016-05-10T00:40:54.736+07:00Linh wept -- and with good reason. "Sneering...Linh wept -- and with good reason. "Sneering idiocy" was on parade in Washington state this last weekend with Trump holding forth before a fairground crowd in the thousands and a few paltry protestors (self-righteous Hitlery supporters among of them) raging in vain. <br /><br />Next weekend there will be a protest at a Tesoro plant in Anacortes, connected to the global Break Free from Fossil Fuels campaign. With millions in India having no water for crops or drinking, with ocean creatures dying by the billions, thus killing off the bottom of the food chain, it seems we are more than a day late and many dollars short of preserving elegance, beauty or even humanity itself.<br />LJansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15841902184663361182noreply@blogger.com