Hi all!

My buddy Marty and I go on photo field trips around NYC almost every weekend, weather permitting, as we're both retired and try to get in our quota of walking as exercise. This last Saturday, we decided to take the first available NYC Ferry that showed up at Pier 11 near Wall Street and a few blocks below the South Street Seaport along the East River. Our options were north to the Southview area of the Bronx or East, past Coney Island to Rockaway Beach, near the border of Long Island but still in the borough of Queens. The usual $2.75 fare was increased to $4.00!

When I arrived at Pier 11, I noticed a lady looking at the posters adjacent to the boarding area to Rockaway and took the first photo. After my buddy arrived, we all lined up at the gate and proceeded onto the ferry. The ferry ride was 50 minutes long, the weather was mild in the low 70s, and the skies were clear with no humidity! We walked along the beach for a mile or two, snapping images along the way. I used a Kodak PixPro AZ252 bridge camera that has a lens that zooms from 24 to 600mm (FX equivalent) that received very good writeups and was pretty inexpensive, around $100 or so. The images were great so I bought a second one via eBay. In terms of size and features, they are copies of Fujifilm and Canon bridge cameras.

When I got home that day and looked at my images, I was surprised to notice that the lady from my first image was also the same person walking along the beach with her friend! After her arrival at Rockaway, she met her friend and also walked the mile or so to the spot where I grabbed that shot! Small world and a wonderful coincidence.

Be well! Ed

This time I was not convinced by the polls.

Most informed Attic pundits predicted a RED WAVE. It was no doubt based on the data of most past e******ns, usually a good predictor. Let's face it, Joe's POPULARITY was in the low 40's, even many Dems were making contingency plans for after the RED TSUNAMI. The economy, immigration, etc. were considered to be the deciding factors that would contribute to Joe's demise, by conservative old men. They were wrong. This is where I insert: "I TOLD YOU SO!" Kansas showed that the sleeping giant wanted access to a******n. The key word is: ACCESS. Women v**ers flexed their muscles and showed men how one issue that affects them, daughters, friends, etc. would galvanize them into action. I'm not saying they all want a******ns, just that they want the FREEDOM to choose, (YES, to terminate a fetus) but that was inconceivable (pun intended) to those that still held onto the cliché: "It's the ECONOMY stupid."
Not only did the RW/RT not arrive spectacularly, it was downgraded to a Pink Trickle, according to some. A long pattern of midterm results was abandoned. Some might claim it was flimsy maga candidates, lunacy, lack of a real agenda or even e******n f***d. Nope.
As usual, it was a woman's common ability to see through the dumbness of MEN. lol Men in their infinite "wisdom" chose to be paternalistic and the ladies said, NO!

I can hardly wait to see what happens now in pr********n for the next e******n.

The problem is that the film is only too happy to recycle all the tired old conspiracies and h**e dressed up as an ethnicity conundrum.

They did leave out the Rothschild's space lasers, used to start California forest fires ... so there's that.



from ADL

" ... To support its claims, the film cites statements from prominent antisemites and notorious antisemitic texts as supposed evidence of the “true” nature and identity of Jewish people. For example, the film includes passages from Henry Ford’s “The International Jew” and two purported (though seemingly fabricated) quotations from Adolf Hitler.

The film also advertises the book on which it is based, which features even more explicit antisemitism, including quotes from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a longer passage of Holocaust denial, attacks on Z*****m, conspiratorial claims about the Rothschilds and more. ..."