During every October for the run-up to Haloween this Dave takes the trusty Checker Cab for a spin around wherever there's a call — and some extra cash — around here and there.
This year there's a national Presidential election in the US of A. This time we've been told it's make-or-break time for Democracy. We'll be in D.C. to pick up some pols; maybe get a bead on what's what?
Of course WWIII is breaking out; so there's that too.
Early voting for the word of the year is open now. "Genocide" ... maybe not a good candidate since the investigation probably won't be out by year end on what to call the killing. "Anti-Semitic" ... that one gets my vote.
[Please stay tuned in this post to the end; some clarifying presentations on both candidates for word of the times from Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories since 2022.]
Don't lose heart people. The drive will be smooth and worth the while. Your driver is razor focused on getting to the destination with a song in his heart. Is there any other way to go? We'll meet any roadblocks with aplumb. Sweet! [Plums are.]
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Who'll be my passengers?
We shall see.
Here we go!
"Give it a chance!" You know what!
Big Round of Applause, folks!
"Fact is, look, I'm in a taxi.
So I'm riding in a Taxi."
Cholent to die for! And, tough too.
Deep state exposed!
[And resemblance to Bibi, Joe and Vlodko is purely coincidental.]
That's what a "terrorist" looks like!
According to who?
[Fact check: "whom"]
HUMAN!
[Astonished that needs to be said.]
Armageddon on the horizon?
Who you gonna call?
“Dramabusters”
“We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that
is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of
the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our
own light.”
— Hildegard De Bingen
Any resemblance to any actual person or persons ... is purely coincidental.
Simpler times
Girls! Just wanna have fu-un!
[Any report of a taxi cab on the Cyclone at Coney Island is fake news. Or, is it?]
Oh! Behave!
A friend to have on the Path
'Tis the season.
CAPTION CONTEST
1. Unconditional love.
2. You're like a son to me.
3. "I wish I knew how to quit you!"
4. "It's nobody's business but ours."
5. "For as long as we can ride it, there ain't no reins on this one."
6. Are you sure it's kosher?
Let's make it the popular option ...LBGTQ+ as an Olympic sport ...
[In the loosey goosey spirit of the French
I took liberties with their tower.]
"Same as it ever was."
Stormy weather!
Would you look at that!!
A parable for our times:
Dogs playing nice at the same table.Keeping it clean. Inside and outside.
MEE-OUCH!!!
I don't want to jiggle my cup."
[Make that ... "Cups!"]
Peace. Is that something really you gonna get fighting for it?
How about looking within and dealing with the Amelekite triggering yours and my heart. That's the real battle after all. Not all that desecration of God's Creation with bombs and bullets. That's the devil's work. Yet, how to deal with pesky creature? Same way. Chase his out your heart. How? Don't give him fuel with hatred and fear. Geez! Claimed theists acting like un-theists. Geez! If it was a movie I wouldn't buy it.
You know who you are ...
Don't bite the messenger! ...
Did you know the Moon has
no light of it's own,
it reflects the light of the Sun?
I travelled to Lebanon as a tourist in 1971. First thing I saw
from the airplane window when we landed was crater marks near the runway from
recent Israeli air strikes.
We hired a driver for the day. Saw a Palestinian refugee camp;
shanty town behind a fence made of crude wood poles and barbed wire. Crowded. Messy. Sort of like how you would keep a junk yard dog.
Our driver volunteered that they [Palestinians] are bums.
That if he was on an employment line and offered his place forward in the line
they wouldn’t accept. No good and lazy. It struck me that I had heard that sort
of thing before. Back home in the US of A.
Ring any bells?
This is just a long memory with, ahem, I’m sure no resonance to
Beirut these days. After all, we’ve been told history on what’s going on around there
began on October 7, 2023.
A-FUN-GHOUL!
Take it easy, Lady! I'm a safe driver! "It's not you ... I read the news today!"
Master class in relatability ...
Question: In office how will you clean up the mess down south?
“ First thing. Let’s be clear ... You know how you try to wipe
your best, but there’s always more? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
Bey! ... Tay! ... Kay! "Get a rhume!"
"A 'rhume'?"
"Take me to 'Greater Israel'."
That's a lot of ground to cover!"
"Boychik, you ain't seen nottin' yet!
That's just for starters."
History did not start on October 7, 2023.
WOOF!
Just look at politics today
to understand what he meant.
This year the horror is real!
FYI This is what some in very high places
are calling anti-Semitic.
