Glen

Former corporate PR guy now bicycle tour director. Bailed on NYC after many years; now living down a dead-end road in The Catskills.

[Glen @gleng1]

So a Jew and a Muslim are peacefully on the same stage... and that's somehow a bad thing? I don't see anyone in that photo seeking capitulation.

Breaking news: MOST Muslims and Jews in NYC are just folks. They have jobs and families and they ride the subway and they aren't on a religious crusade.

PS -- I'm Jewish and I wouldn't share a stage with someone particularly Zionist!

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@NYPDPC Best policing ever:

Many years ago at an NYC parade, a drunk man is screaming at the police and they just smile. Finally one of them says,

"You should go home.

NOW."

No arrest. No violence. Well done.

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True and true! But much posting here in general on X about how we all MUST stand for the (U.S.) anthem.

To me the thing that makes America great is that you don't have to stand if you don't want to. (You might piss off a lot of people around you...)

Years back I was in rural Thailand. Loudspeakers nailed to all the telephone poles. In the morning they start to play what I'm assuming was the anthem and EVERYONE stops what they're doing and stands at attention. I did too... because while I love Thailand, I think this is exactly the sort of place where refusing to stand could get you disappeared.

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@crockpics The festival was moved last-minute from Woodstock, NY to Bethel, NY due to permit problems. This all pre-Internet. SO.. how many people showed up in the town of Woodstock and asked, "Where IS everyone?" I'm convinced the answer is NOT "zero".

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@CoreyWriting I think some of you forget what college was like!

On ANY controversial issue there was ALWAYS a protest AND a counter-protest!

In part this is what college is for -- learning, exploring, doing stupid stuff...

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@Itx_judith Where I live we have two poll watchers at all times -- one D; one R. We are cordial to each other but there is no monkeying around. NO ONE says, "This person seems fishy? Ah... let them vote anyway."

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@GratefulDead We used to play for silver, now we play for Clive!

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@crockpics Greatest concert error of my life: Went to the legendary City Gardens (where Jon Stewart used to bartend!) to see The Meatmen. My friend had the date wrong; it was Joan Jett playing that day, so we left. Ugh.

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@ScooterCasterNY @yyeeaahhhboiii2 @FreedomNTV I can not tell a lie -- mostly happy it's not my own teenager, who was at the MSG outdoor watch party. (Seeing this video would have been a hell of a way to find out!)

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@Eman5695 Yes, for the same reason I pay attention whenever I hear Sinatra -- I'm not sure it's for me, but other people rave, and I want to try to hear what they're hearing.

The proper answer for me is to find someone who would REALLY want to see her and give it away.

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@gtconway3d https://t.co/uBHiJkEuVO

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@IsraelWarRoom @Cornell He's an idiot, but I don't see how you can blame CORNELL for this.

There will always be SOME idiots -- no matter how hard you try, you'll never cure 100% of them.

-- Your Friendly Neighborhood Jew

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@1True_American_ Dated a great woman. We could wake up together, get showered, business clothes, and walk to work all without saying two words to each other. Fantastic.

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@crockpics Your honor... ladies and gentlemen of the jury...

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@Marcello1967IT "This here next one's rock and roll..."

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TANGENT: In NYC is the old Helmsley building on Park Avenue, which I believe is currently for sale. There's a large pedestrian passageway through the building called The Helmsley Walk, and everytime I used it I thought of the J. Geils Band in its prime, live:

You've done the Detroit Breakdown?

Yeah!

You've done the Philly Freeze?

Yeah!

Well now we're gonna do the Helmsley Walk for you baby!

1; 2; 3; 4!

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@mikemovies "Would you mind telling me then what those four years of college were for? What was the point of all that hard work?"

"You got me."

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@allenanalysis Trump was (intentionally) not in the room when all this happened, so he can deny that he had anything to do with it. Ugh.

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@JamesTate121 Trump deserves all that booing and more -- I just feel bad for Avery Wilson, the guy who was singing the anthem. "I'm sorry... WHO is in the audience? I'm screwed..."