Due to Judge William
Kirkpatrick is
the entire (!)
grand jury materials used
in the case Lindsey Halligan
made against former
FBI Director James Comey,
that resulted in 2 indictments
(she sought 3 on behalf of her
personal client : #DJT).
Magistrate Judge
Federal court
nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/
judge-says-missteps-james-comey-case-result-
charges-dismissed-rcna244405
Maimonides produced a
large number of writings
of which the most important
is without doubt his masterwork,
written in Arabic: Dalalat al-Har'iri
known in Hebrew as : Moreh Nevukhim
and in English as The Guide of the Perplexed.
He worked indefatigably. . .Maimonides
himself died in Fustat in 1204, probably
of exhaustion. He was sixty-six years old.
Jews around the world for their loss, and
in Fustat itself, both Jews and Arabs went
into a 3-day public mourning, while in
Jerusalem, the rabbinical authorities
proclaimed a general fast. Maimonides'
body was taken to Tiberias on the Sea
of Galilee (Lake Kinneret), where his
tomb quickly became a place of pilgrimage.
His books have even since been a cornerstone
of Jewish thought and Jewish identity, and
his medical knowledge has secured for him
a distinguished place in the history of
medicine.
from Alberto Manguel's book in the
Yale University Press series: JEWISH LIVES
2023
"Maimonides' large, multitudinous self
was interested in almost everything:
religion,
law,
mathematics,
logic,
rhetoric,
astronomy,
ethical behavior,
social morals,
politics,
the question of what can be known.
Music and the visual arts did appeal to him, but
everything else did. There is Maimonides the
defender of tradition and Maimonides the thinker
who sought to reshape it, Maimonides the student
of Aristotle and Maimonides the critic, Maimonides
the believer and Maimonides the skeptic. Which is the
real Maimonides?
The Dybbuk
Michal Waszynski, director
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FILMS TO TALK ABOUT
Nov. 23, 2025, 4 p.m. - 6:05
series
co-sponsored by Brogan endowment for classic
cinema and Jewish Federation of St. Joseph Cty.
South Bend, IN
how to get tickets
performingarts.nd.edu/event/18947/the-dybbuk-1937/
$7 adults / $5 senior citizens / non-Notre Dame student $4
Only debit cards and credit cards;
No Checks or Cash
_____________________
Part of University Press
Week, a nationwide event
that recognizes the impact
of University presses.
Tuesday and Wednesday
10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
events.nd.edu/events/2025/11/18
a.k.a. "Dirty Book Sale"
Tickets are $20 for adults
$5 for Goshen College student
________________________
Features four choirs and an
orchestra
Christmas Carols
Spirituals
Scripture readings
Sacred works of music
goshen.universitytickets.com
TONIGHT
8 - 10 p.m. Check your local
listings of PBS in your state and
locality
If you miss it or parts of it,
you can stream it -- it will later
be available on Blu-Ray and DVD.
alphabetic list
Denise DeLoach
Kristen N. Dobson
J.A. Flanagan
G.L. Gracie
Julian D. Hasan
Ashley S. Hattle
Sylvia Hubbard
Lucie Naylor Kubash
Chriss Lyon
Sarah E. Pearsall
Amy Piper
Dominick Russo
Cindy Lynn Sawyer
Anne Stone
Dr. John D. Van Dyke
Chelsea Williams
Jimmy Carter died Dec. 29, 2024
and his funeral services including
a State Funeral (requiring flags at
half-mast) in January following
from
Jan. 9 - 14, 2025 at
D.C. and Plains, Georgia.
Members of the 119th
Congress also participated
at the Rotunda paying of
respects for POTUS 39.
Those respectful services
were conducted during the
Biden-Harris administration.
_____________________
During the Trump-Pence
administration, the funeral
arrangements (including
Episcopalian service at the
National Cathedral, D.C.)
for George H.W. Bush were
held at D.C. Dec. 3 - 6, 2018
and his burial was at Houston, TX.
____________________
Gerald Ford -- funeral at Nat. Cathedral
and D.C., California, + Grand Rapids, MI
late Dec. 2006 and Jan. 4, 2007.
_____________________
Ronald Reagan's funeral was held
in 2004 both in D.C. and California
where he was buried. His service
was also held at the National Cathedral
June 7 - 11, 2004.
in POTUS 41 - George H.W. Bush - Quayle
Marilyn Quayle survives
widow of VP Cheney is
Lynne Cheney
her husband, Dick, died this
month and will have funeral
at Nov. 20, 2025 at Nat. Cathedral
________________
"Tipper" Gore survives
(1993 - 2000)
________________________________
Dr. Jill Biden
(2009 - 2016) also First Lady
(2021-2024)
______________________
Karen Pence (2017 - 2020)
had also been Gov. of Indiana
"First Lady" from 2013 - 2016
______________________
First Gentleman
Douglas Emhoff (2021 - 2024)
______________________
Current "Second Lady"
Usha Chilukuri Vance (2025 )
who moved into the Naval Observatory
without a pre-inaugural tour invitation
from Harris-Emhoff family; she
married JD Vance in 2014 in a
joint Hindu / R. Catholic set of nuptials.
After losing in re-election on Carter-Mondale
ticket in 1980, Mondale next ran for his party's nomination
in the 1984 Presidential election; he chose as running-mate
Geraldine Ferraro of NY (a congresswoman)
to historically bring a woman to the ticket as co-nominee.
WHEREAS, in 2000 (before GOP Convention to
nominate George W. Bush as Presidential nominee)
Cheney accepted the VP slot after helping George W.
Bush narrow his VP selections down to one potential
successor : himself.
___________________________________________
Which of these two political / business figures:
Who served as an Ambassador to Japan? Mondale did.
Whose spouse outlived him? Lynne Cheney did.
Who was from the Midwest? Mondale hailed from MN
Who was from the West? Cheney born in Lincoln, NB but called
WYOMING home and served as Congress Repr.-at-large.
Mondale enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1951; Cheney got
a draft-deferment having a wife and 2 daughters to support
out of college / grad. school.
The Mondales had a daughter who died, Eleanor, in 2011.
The service for the former
"Second Lady" Joan Mondale
was held at Westminster Presby.
Church, Minneapolis, MN.
The full-time College Writing
professor, Mrs. Biden, Ed.D.
did attend with her husband
who eulogized Joan Mondale
for her commitment to the
arts and activism on issues
like women's civil rights and
equal pay.
Whether the mother of three,
Mrs. Usha Chilukuri Vance, will
take the time to be driven over
to the National Cathedral remains
to be seen later this week.
George W. Bush POTUS 43
Jonathan Reiner, personal physician
Pete Williams, assistant Sec.Def.Public Affairs
Grandchildren of Richard Cheney
The Honorable Liz Cheney, former Congress Repr.
An Asylum for Mankind
The Times that Try Men's Soul
Conquer by a Drawn Game
The Soul of all America
The Most Sacred Thing
Founded by Jeff Bezos with
an initial grant of $6.2 billion
________________________
"Jeff Bezos creates an A.I.
start-up where he will be
Co-Chief Executive"
article by Cade Metz
4:15 a.m. Nov. 17, 2025
N Y Times dot-com
YouTube.com/live/IHWFMncwkvQ
(Nov. 20, 2025)
between 11 a.m. Eastern and
service's conclusion at
the National Cathedral, D.C.
This is the
Episcopalian's YouTube
Channel -- other services
are also broadcast here
regularly. Earlier this year
in Jan. the Presidential
Funeral of Jimmy Carter of
Plains, GA was also broadcast
for the nation and the globe
via Internet streaming.
UPDATE:
Trump ups_ the ante in
Venezuela Stand-off
(Nov. 17 -- battleships
&aircraft being amassed)
The Hill (Thursday Nov. 13, 2025)
Pentagon Chief
Secretary Pete Hegseth
announces operation to
squash narco-terrorists
thehill.com/policy/
defense/5605091-joint-task-force-
southern-spear/
BREAKING NEWS
Nov. 17, 2025
Yes, ahead of the Thurday, Nov. 20
Funeral of Dick Cheney, VP for POTUS
43
POTUS 47 (Trump 2.0)
now declares he wants
all of his GOP Representatives
in the House to vote for the
release that took a bipartisan
Petition to release a 218-vote
majority to vote on such
a matter before Speaker of
the House Mike Johnson.
This will mean a scheduled
vote should be near-unanimous
to release the materials of
convicted sex-traffickers
Jeffrey Epstein &
Ghislaine Maxwell (in federal
prison).
Dan Quayle (VP 1989 - 1992)
Albert Gore (VP 1997 - 2000)
Joseph Biden (VP 2009 - 2016)
Mike Pence (VP 2017 - 2020)
Kamala Harris (VP 2021 - 2024)
incumbent JD Vance (sworn to uphold Constitution
2025 in Capitol Rotunda - before those gathered indoors)
_____________________________
speaking next Thursday will be
POTUS 43; Cheney was his VP for 8 years and
a chief of staff for POTUS 38 Gerald Ford (1974-1976)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
in April 1945
Richard Milhouse Nixon
in 1994 (20 years after resignation)
Historic announcement from Executive
Branch -- the American govt. has
brought the Kingdom of S. Arabia
to the "Abraham Accords".
Prince Mohammed bin Salman will
sit with Trump 2.0 at the White House
Oval Office in happy
victory over that development and that
the U.S. is guaranteeing him new
F-15 fighter jet squadron. DETAILS
FORTHCOMING
Friday Nov. 15, 2025 ahead of his
3-day mid-month break to
Mar-A-Lago Golf Course / restaurant
Trump 2.0 clued in the
Press Reporters travelling
with him that the Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia will "join"
the Abraham Accords nations
as in diplomatic alliance with
the nation of Israel.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman will be his guest in the
Oval Office ahead of the
Nov. 20 funeral of Dick Cheney
(Vice President for 2 successive
terms to POTUS 43 : George W.
Bush) at Washington, D.C.
National Cathedral.
UPDATED Coverage
"At a shared symbol of jihad,
the Taliban defy their old ties
to Pakistan"
Nov. 17, 2025
12:25 a.m. Eastern article posted by
reporter Mujib Mashal
_____________________________
REUTERS intl. news platform
is reporting that the
Afghanistan-Pakistan
Peace Talks have
collapsed even if
the cease-fire end to
violent warfare continues.
reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/
afghanistan-pakistan-peace-talks-
collapse-ceasefire-continues-taliban-say
CNN interview
Nov. 16, 2025
America needs to find
"a new path forward"
Nowadays,
the British Monarch
and his health matters are
more "transparent" than in
the past; however, no official
word on what cancer (organ/s
affected) has been diagnosed
and is under ongoing treatment
for the Monarch (age 77).
Now- KING Charles III
of the United Kingdom
turned 77 at South Wales
where he enjoyed birthday
cake and shared with his
subjects and his wife, Queen
Camilla.
14 Nov. 2025
Pop-Rock band
Train
will go on a 2026
25th Anniversary Tour of
the album "Drops of Jupiter"
including a stop at Clarkston,
Michigan's Pine Knob Music Theater
details
at MLive.com/ live-entertainment/2025/11/
train-unveils-drops-of-jupiter-25th-anniversary-tour-
coming-to-pine-knob-in-august-2026.html
Richard M. Nixon died
April 22, 1994 -- Agnew
did attend that funeral
at Yorba Linda, CA.
Agnew died Sept. 22, 1996
of leukemia --
at age 77. Nixon's two
daughter, Tricia and Julie,
did attend their dad's VP's
funeral. Judy Agnew survived
16 more years and passed
away in 2012 during the Obama-
Biden administration.
The Atlantic (upcoming
print, current online
article)
Dick Cheney didn't
care what you thought:
the former VP's
indifference to approval
made him a boogeyman
for the left and the right
. . .In life or death he
wouldn't have care much
either way. . .
As part of
Southern Spear,
the U.S. military have begun new military
exercises/ training at the nations of
Trinidad & Tobago.
mid-November 2025
Nov. 15 - 16, 2025
U.S. Marines on mission as
security / keeping the peace
exchange gunfire with suspected
gang members
WashingtonPost dot-com/
(publisher Jeff Bezos)
online article
[subscription required]
UPDATE (11/16/2025)
Interview by ABC White House chief correspondent
Jonathan Karl
"Trump wants investigations opened so they hold out a last-ditch
excuse to keep the Files CLOSED" ABC News.go.com
THIS WEEK w/ George Stephanopoulos
Update (Sat. Nov. 15, 2025)
Latest asinine "slap" back by a powerful figure in
the highly insulated "Alice through the Looking
Glass" world of Social Media :
after landing in West Palm Beach for a 3-day weekend
Trump 2.0 posted a screed
against the KY Trump opponent
who is a GOP Maverick (non-MAGA
conservative) his new wife will soon find that she is married to a loser
The HILL Platform -- "Thomas Massie
announces marriage to former Congressional staffers"
Monday Nov.3, 2025
Deseret News (Utah statewide media - newspaper)
Repr. Thomas Massie told reporters that
he has already upped his
security, given that he is
in the center of MAGA and
GOP Frustrations; "there is
a lot of rhetoric. POTUS
himself engages in it. It's
amusing sometimes. . .some
people take it literally, and
he (TRUMP) should tone
that down himself. . ."
UPDATE: 10 accusers to hold press event
on steps of Capitol Wed. Sept. 3, 2025
___________________________________
The Hill platform / web news supplier at 6 a.m.
posted the story Sept. 2, 2025 :
GOP Lawmakers
to be confronted by
Jeffrey Epstein
saga as they
return to Congress
_______________________________
Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna have a
press conference upon the opening hours
with survivors of Epstein's and Ghislaine
Maxwell's sex trafficking / conspiracy /
sexual exploitation of minors crimes.
Their "discharge petition" will require a
vote by all 435 Representatives.
The House Rules Committee will have to
resolve its impasse by either sweeping
matters under the "carpet" or admitting
that the "Epstein Files" was part of
mis / dys_ / Disinformation concocted
by MAGA and Trump-Vance operatives. . .
thehill.com/homenews/house/547730-
epstein-files-gop-congress/
Background article (Nov. 14 - 15) USA TODAY
"What a century of US Interventions say about
Trump's Venezuela Gambit"
Kim Hjelmgaard
Trump signals "He has Already Decided
What He will Do"
Nov. 15, 2025 social media accounts
The Southern Command and the
Joint task force may soon enter
the national boundaries of
Venezuela to achieve the goals of
Southern Spear.
Already killed are
80 people, referred to
as narco-terrorists.
The big hitters thus far in Jan. - Nov. 15, 2025 are:
A Minecraft Movie ($423 million)
Lilo & Stitch ($423 million also)
Superman ($354 million)
Jurassic World Rebirth ($339 million)
Sinners ($279 million)
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Predator: Badlands
to mid-Nov. made $51.5 million domestic box
office and another $40 million
overseas.
Tron: Ares (a sequel in a Disney
franchise) made $72 million since 10/10;
also stumbling is
Taylor Swift: Official Release Party of
Life of a Showgirl only made $34 million
since Oct. 3, 2025 * * * * * * * *
Yet to premiere in theaters
are Wicked: For Good - Nov. 21
Frankenstein (del Toro, director) after a 3-week
run the blockbuster will go to NetFlix
The Running Man -- Nov. 14 also global release
Zootopia 2 -- Nov. 26
Hamnet
Avatar: Fire and Ash -- Dec. 19
various other titles / sequels / reboots
Trump: A second Chance?
this documentary will not be re-aired
they apologize and sincerely regret the re-edit
BBC also
strongly disagrees with POTUS 47 (Trump 2.0)
that there is a basis for defamation claim
Friday Nov. 14, 2025
Reporting for M Live! Michael Kransz :
Despite initial warnings of a $100
million penalty for coverage of the
shortfall to SNAP food benefits
program users (families, youth,
children, elderly, homeless,
impoverished)
A memo from USDA
(Brooke Rollins, Secy.)
said at week's end that
due to
extraordinary circumstances,
the reduction in Nov. allotments
is no longer in effect. . ."
mlive.com (Michigan Live!)
trump-administration-drops-
threats-against-michigan-over-snap-
benefits.html
The Southern District of New York Office
(Dept. of Justice, federal) had during Trump-
Pence admin. 2017-2020 prosecuted
Jeffrey Epstein
& Ghislaine Maxwell. He and
the assistant both were convicted of
conspiracy, sex trafficking,
illegal recruitment; both were
imprisoned for crimes - he committed
suicide and her 20-year sentence in
Prison has recently taken a turn with
a transfer between Federal prisons.
Linked with email mentions and public / political fundraising are
these Democratic Political Party figures/institutions :
Bill Clinton (POTUS 42)
Larry Summers (former Pres. Harvard
2001 - 2006
and Secy. of the Treasury in Clinton years)
Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn founder
venture capitalist)
JP Morgan (bank),
Chase (Bank)
__________________________
Pamela Jo Bondi complied and
appointed Jay Clayton, U.S. Attorney
in Manhattan.
PRESS RELEASE
from Michigan, office of the Governor
michigan.gov/whitmer/news/press-releases/
2025/11/10/us-michigan-flags-should-remain-
lowered-through-sunset-nov-20-following-
passing-former-VP-cheney#
The American Revolution
(PBS) directed by Ken
Burns, award-winning
documentarian, will air
over 6 evenings (8 - 10
p.m. nightly)
Nov. 16 - 21, 2025
IT WILL USE
both actor voice-overs and
historical re-enactment
segments to capture the
pre-Revolutionary War
atmosphere and the War
for freedom itself.
fro
m MANAGING EDITOR of
ND SMC Observer (Notre Dame / St. Mary's
campus newspaper) Friday 11/14 Front Page lead
story
"University denies Porn Filter"
Organization (SCOP) met twice this fall semester with
Notre Dame officials / administrators regarding
implementing a Pornography filter on Campus
Wi-Fi. -- the Responsible Use of Data & Information
Technology Resources policy (last updated in 2016)
explicitly forbids porn materials of explicit / offensive
material. . . see Gray Nocjar
story at ndsmcobserver.com/ NEWS stories
There are significant new purchases by China's
centralized government from the Trump-Vance
Secy of Agriculture Brooke Rollins . . .
AP NEWS story (Friday 11/14/2025)
China's 2020 purchase agreement
"promised massive purchases of U.S. crops" --
then came COVID
blame - paranoia -
Trump 1.0 "conspiracy
theories" of the Kung "flu".
Associated Press
8:04 p.m. Eastern Friday 11/14/2025
apnews.com/article/
china-trump-xi-soybean-farmers-
brazil . . . . .
Other Republicans like
POTUS 43
George W. Bush and Speaker
of the House of Representatives
Mike Johnson of Louisiana
praise the late Dick Cheney
of Wyoming
nytimes.com/2025/11/04/us/politics/
republicans-honor-dick-cheney.html
Online only -- no congregants nor
members of the public may attend;
THE FUNERAL OF VP Dick Cheney
is by invitation only, and the public
is invited to watch online.
More details at the CATHEDRAL
(Washington, DC) website
cathedral.org/calendar/funeral-service-for-vice-president-cheney
President Pro Tem
of the Indiana Senate (Legislative
branch of statewide government :
There WILL NOT be
a special session in December 2025
to carve up the state at mid-decade
as
Gov. Mike Braun
and
POTUS D.J.T
have expressed their
wish to remake the
2021 Census "carve-up"
of the state's federal
Congressional districts
SEE LOCAL TV Affiliate
(S. Bend, Elkhart in N. INDIANA)
abc57.com/news/breaking-senate-president-
pro-tem-rodric-bray-says-indiana-congressional-
maps-wont-be-redrawn
Jerusalem Post op-ed
"Trump's call for
Netanyahu pardon
crosses a line in
Israeli sovereignty "
Agenda
School of Law
University of Detroit (MI) Mercy
50 years ago 1975
Room 226, 9 a.m. symposium
11/10/2025
Property theme
Later on Constitutional and State Law Theme
EUCHARISTIC Service at Mariner's Church
Detroit, Michigan
special ringing of the bell, 29 times again,
in memory of those lost in the ship sinking
at Lake Superior en route to Detroit, MI.
While on a walk near his home --
John Fetterman of
Braddock, Pennsylvania
REUTERS press coverage
Iranian REPUBLICAN GUARDs seize
tanker with Marshall Islands Flag
reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/iran-confirms-seizure-
tanker-carrying-petrochemical-cargo-2025-11-15/
3 a.m. 15 Nov 2025
"Fears of Iranian Seizure"
NYTimes.com/2025/11/14/world/middleeast/
iran-tanker-strait-of-hormuz.html
It has lost radio contact with its managers in
the Strait of Hormuz.
by Pranav Baskar for the TIMES
8 a.m. 14 Nov. 2025
Jerusalem Post / AP News
details at
jpost.com/middle-east/article-873854
The tanker had made a sudden course change
and began heading toward Iranian territorial waters.
Thursday
November 6, 2025
NCR online dot-org
National Catholic Reporter
coverage:
ncronline.org/Vatican/pope-leo-
meets-palestinian-president-abbas-
discuss-urgent-need-gaza-aid-
two-state-solution
Besides visiting the Roman Catholic
pontiff, the Palestinian president
Mahmoud Abbas
visited St. Mary Major - site of
the burial of Pope Francis and other
popes to pay respect to the deceased
former Bishop of Rome who died
Easter Sunday 2025.
Vesper Chorale &
Vesper Chamber Orchestra
(N. Indiana arts organizations)
on Sunday Nov. 23, 2025 will
present at 2:30 p.m. Eastern
at
KERN ROAD MENNONITE CHURCH
18211 Kern Road, S. Bend, IN
$25 adults; $20 seniors;
$5 children/students.
Event lasts until 5 p.m.
a timeless masterpiece that
offers solace and hope in
the face of loss
musicalartsindiana.org
Tickets at Zeffy dot-com
Latin Grammys news -- WBALTv.com/ Nov. 13, 2025
"Bad Bunny dominates Latin Grammys"
4 a.m. Pacific Time Zone (local for Los Angeles, CA)
Third week of October 2025 -- the NFL stands by
its pre-announcement that the Puerto Rican rapper
WILL Sing / Perform at the NFL Stadium for
next year's Super Bowl -- withstanding any pressure
from MAGA or Trump/Vance and other MAGA influencers
February 2026 (2nd Sunday evening : 2/8/26)
The headline act for the upcoming
Super Bowl NFL
halftime will be
Bad Bunny,
the Hispanic/
Puerto Rican/
Latin superstar
was announced
Sept. 28, 2025
by the National Football League.
He hosted on NBC Late night on Saturday Oct. 4, 2025
the initial season episode of SNL (NBC's
late Saturday Night Live Entertainment -
variety - comedy 90-minute show).
MAGA Turning Point organizers plan to
ask their podcast audience to vote online for
an alt-Halftime Show :
Pop
Americana
Worship
Anything in English
(April 1865)
by Herman Melville -- part of
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
As billow upon billow roll,
On victory victory breaks;
Ere yet seven days from Richmond's fall
And crowning triumph wakes
The loud joy-gun, whose thunders run
By sea-shore, streams, and lakes.
The hope and great event agree
In the sword that Grant received from Lee.
The warring eagles fold the wing,
But not in Caesar's sway;
Not Rome o'ercome by Roman arms we sing,
As on Pharsalia's day,
But Treason thrown, though a giant grown,
And Freedom's larger play.
All human tribes glad token see
In the close of the wars of Grant and Lee.
from Selected Poems of Herman Melville
Penguin Classics, 2006.
Down from 39 percent to
15 percent where none during POTUS 46
had been punishing for pharmaceutical import
imbalance of trade import-export with
these European wealthy nations.
POTUS 47 trade rep. and Secy. of
Commerce (billionaire)
insisting of trade inflow for Nuts, fruit, seafood,
chemicals, spirits to stimulate U.S.
production-exporting.
The Hill.com/ Nov. 14 midday
WORLD NEWS 6 a.m. 14 Nov. 2025
a new round of clashes between Druze
armed groups and Syrian Government
forces in province of Sweida had subsided
Friday but left fears of another escalation.
AP News.com/ WORLD NEWS
___________________________________________
The Druze numbered more than one million in the
early 21st century and are located mainly in Lebanon,
Syria, Israel, and Jordan, with a large diaspora (separated
family - extended relatives in other nations, far & near).
In Lebanon they have long lived intermingled with especially
the Maronite community in the Mountain area (Mt. Hermon). . .
In the rural areas occupied by Christians and Druze, holy
sites can be observed side by side in mixed villages like
'Abayh with its 8 churches, the famous Druze maqam of
Abdalla al-Tannukhi and a khilwa (community house for
religious leaders).
Among the saints revered by the Druze are a few from
different religions such as the "Prophet" Job (Arabic
Ayyub) and the "Prophet" Seth (Arabic Nabi Shayt).
from _Druze Reincarnation Narratives_ (Peter Lang
publisher, 2021) Essay by Nour Farra Haddad "Devotions
to a Druze Saint" pages 145-6
(crypto "industry")
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Coinbase
Ripple
Tether
_____________________
(tobacco)
Altria Group
Reynolds American
_____________________
(Communications)
Comcast
T-Mobile
Hard Rock International
_____________________
(Tech billionaires)
Meta
HP
Micron Technology
Amazon
Apple
Palantir Technologies
Microsoft
____________________
(Defense "industries")
Booz Allen Hamilton
Lockheed Martin
____________________
(Energy)
Union Pacific
Caterpillar
NextEra Energy
Paolo Tiramani
____________________
(Trump insiders: billionaires)
Lutnick Family
Kelly Loeffler & J. Sprecher (spouse)
Benjamin Leon, Jr.
_____________________
Individual donors
Konstantin Sokolov
J.Pepe and Emilia Fanjul
Stefan E. Brodie
Charles & Marissa Cascarilla
Edward & Shari Glazer
Harold Hamm
Stephen E. Schwarzman
_____________________
Philanthropy
Adelson Family Foundation
Betty Wold Johnson Foundation
Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Fdtn.
_____________________
Tech Giants 8
Crypto 5
Energy & Industrial 4
Philanthropy 3
Trump Insiders 3
Com. / Entertainment 3
Big Tobacco 2
Defense industrial complex 2
Individuals 7
= 37
POEM by Herman Melville
April 1862
Skimming lightly,
wheeling still,
The swallows fly low
Over the field in clouded days,
the forest-field of Shiloh --
Over the field where April rain
Solaced the parched on stretched in pain
Through the pause of night
That followed the Sunday fight
Around the church of Shiloh --
The church so lone, the log-built one,
That echoed to many a parting groan
And natural prayer
Of dying foemen mingled there --
Foemen at morn, but friends at eve --
Fame or country least their care:
(What like a bullet can undeceive!)
But now they lie low,
While over them the swallows skim
and all is hushed at Shiloh.
from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866)
in Penguin Books Selected Poems: Herman Melville [2006]
ABC News dot-go dot-com
"By the Numbers" statistics
analysis / highlights of the week
14 Nov. 2025
ABC NEWS breaks this story about
the HEMP Bill being overturned by a
Trump admin. written legislation that
bans >.4 milligrams
THC per container
abcnews.go.com/us/thc-gummies-drinks-face-
ban-provision-government-spending/story?id=127509295
Products they will reverse course on
+1,000
Metals
Minerals
Antibiotics
Plane parts
Ag. products
COFFEE
PINEAPPLES
AVOCADOs
VANILLA BEANS
The ban (executive order of Joseph R. Biden, POTUS 46)
against drilling and mining in the Alaskan North Slope
wilderness has been overturned by POTUS 47 Donald J. Trump.
The decision to allow oil and gas drilling has the support of the
GOP Governor and the two U.S. Senators (both GOP).
The tundra and wetlands will now share an ecology of caribou,
grizzly bears, and thousands of migratory birds with
oil and gas drilling.
Update (Oct. 15, 2025)
Official declaration / first TV commercials stressing the
33-yr-age difference
NYTimes.com/2025/10/15/us/politics/seth-moulton-ed-markey-massachusetts.html
Democratic Pol. Party
primary voters (in-person and by-mail)
will likely face two if not more choices
Seth Moulton (age 46)
[ in 2014 he defeated an old-guard
politician for House Repr. seat ]
or
Ed Markey (age 79) --
who 50 years ago was elected
to the House of Repr. in 1976
from his home state of
Massachusetts . . .
UPDATE:
POLITICO Com interview Nov. 14, 2025
"The Conversation" on Senate bid,
Venezuela, the Epstein Files
FOLLOW-up
"Republicans Clash [ Nov. 16, 2025 6 a.m.]
over phone-records-lawsuit-funding-bill"
legislative language was "slipped into" the bill
to allow $500,000 lawsuit limit for GOP members
suing the FBI who tracked their phones during
Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection -- Capitol Break-in by
MAGA hordes of violent extremists
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see details (Subscription)
Politico.com/ news / 2025/11/03/
congress-longest-shutdown-record-00632927
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For TV and online footage to be
distributed --
#DJT in Oval Office signing ceremony
with staff who also stayed up late
Wed. 11/12 for Mike Johnson to hand
the paperwork over directly from the
House of Representatives floor - scribes.
FOLLOW-up
see Washington Post (online update)
11/12/2025
Turkish military transport plane
crashed near the Azerbaijan-Georgia
border: a Turkish minister reported
11/11/2025
abcnews.go.com/
Breaking News
SOURCE:
USA TODAY (brief single sentence
details - specific)
It remains unclear whether the widow
and 2 daughters + grandchildren will get a
State Funeral where
he will lie in state at
the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol
ONLINE -- reporters
Natalie Neysa Alund
Mary Walrath-Holdridge
11:19 a.m. Eastern
Friday 7 Nov. 2025
Cameron McGowan Currie
indicated in court Thursday 11/13
that she will rule on whether
E. District Virginia appointee
Lindsey Halligan
may continue or if she was
unconstitutionally appointed
by Donald John Trump to
a Federal Prosecutorial role
when she had been career-long
focused on Insurance and
defense of defendant Trump
during 2021 - 2024 trials.
DETAILS in
NYTIMES dot-com
2025/11/13
posted 3 p.m. Eastern online article
us/politics/seattle-mayor-election-results.html
DETAILS from NY TIMES
no one from NY Office where she was employed
stepped forward . . .
nytimes.com/2025/11/13/nyregion/justice-department-maurene-comey-lawyers.html
Jared Golden (Maine)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Washington State)
Adam Gray (California)
Don Davis (North Carolina)
Henry Cuellar (Texas)
Tom Suozzi (New York state)
They proceeded to vote
with Speaker Mike Johnson
lacking any guarantee of ACA
(Health Insurance) tax credits
or subsidies; no such legislation
is foreseeable.
After a long break since Sept. 19, the House
of Representatives began work again on Nov. 12;
don't worry
they have another November weekday break planned :
Nov. 23 - 28.
Current POPE
Leo XIV
appointed his first Irish
Bishop where there had
been an Episcopal opening
since Feb. 2024. The pontiff
who himself was elected in May
2025 announced
Niall Coll of Ossory.
[ details at BBC.com/news/articles ]
Bishop Coll is 62 and was
from the Raphoe Diocese.
Coverage at Washington POST (Publisher Jeff Bezos)
online article 13/NOV./2025
reporters =
Loveday Morris, Lior Soroka, Heba Farouz Mahfouz
Israel is NOT a protectorate of the
United States of America --
AP News platform coverage from
Press event he held with VP Vance
(October 22, 2025) in
Jerusalem.
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On Monday Oct. 27 while traveling
between Malaysia and Japan,
TRUMP admits that
he had undergone an MRI
scan . . . quickly changing
the subject to reporters only
admitting
It was Perfect
Those with him presumed that
he meant during his Walter Reed
annual physical (he has had 2 in
this calendar year).
No Official confirmation of his
deep vein thrombosis arterial
disease . . .
UPDATE: Nov. 2, 2025
#DJT MRI scan (yes, he admitted
having one)
thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5584101-
trump-mri-raises-questions-?tbref=hp
How will she act today ( Nov. 13 )
when Court Trial Judge has been asked to rule
on the legality of her "installation" with no
experience as a prosecutor / only an insurance lawyer
before stint as personal lawyer for then Candidate
Trump at his felony charge trials at Manhattan, NY
and "classified documents" trials in Florida . . . ? ? ?
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Rocked and nodded back and forth as a
junior federal prosecutor from NC made
the case against Comey in the Eastern District
of Virginia -- where Trump 2.0 installed her
as a prosecutor after her previous specialization
was in "Insurance Law"
Ms. Halligan did not speak in court today . . .
_________________________________
a second motion filed by Comey's defense lawyer
in court today argues that
the appointment of Lindsey Halligan by
Trump 2.0 was illegal.
Monday
11/24/25
11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
LITTLE FLOWERS CHURCH / FOREVER LEARNING
INSTITUTE participants
Sept. - Nov. Semester for +60 and older senior learners
Come share a meal and a conversation; FLI will supply
paper plates, beverages, utensils.
Attendees will enjoy table displays and performances. . .
Scientific American
dot-com
article posted at platform
11/11/2025
from
KATIE KAVANAUGH
and
Nature Aging
periodical / online prof. journal
Leaked plan for
space exploration -
written by Jared
Isaacman :
further reaction of
scientific community
to this billionaire who
has already flown on
mini-space missions
himself
scientificamerican.com
jared-isaacman
November 2025
(online article)
Airstrikes near civilian population area
using intelligence-targeting; the bomb
drops were followed by secondary explosions
indicating additional material that could
explode was already at the site
Jerusalem Post (Thursday 11/13)
12:44 posted at platform
jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-873690
President Al-Sharaa visited U.S.
after meeting Donald John Trump in Saudi
Arabia in May 2025 where Trump unilaterally
announced that he would be lifting sanctions
that had been in place for decades.
NOV. 9, 2025
AP News dot-com
sharaa-syria-washington-visit-trump
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The de facto leader of Syria has declared himself
President and Ruler -- head of the government
on Jan. 29, 2025.
That abolishes the previous
Constitution / Parliament and
will mean rounding up those who supported
the former Ba'ath Party. NPR reports that
there will be an interim legislative council
until a NEW constitution is ratified.
29 Jan. 2025
UPDATE:
nytimes.com/2025/01/30/world/Asia/ahmed-al-shara-
syria-president.html
ISAAC HERZOG
is the President of Israel;
for him to pardon Netanyahu
before the trial has been completed
with full evidence presented would
be a travesty of justice denied . . .
nytimes.com/live/2025/11/12/us/
trump-govt-shutdown-news#israels-
president-says-trump-asked-him-to-
pardon-netanyahu-who-has-not-been-
convicted
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11/9 985
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Veterans Day 997
11/12 879
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9,000th posting on this BLOG since 2007
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CBS NEWS list of the Wall Street
Tycoons: Adena Friedman, Stephen Schwarzman,
Ted Pick, Larry Fink, David Solomon,
Jeffrey Sprecher, Ken Griffin, Mark Rowan,
Masayoshi Son
Billionaire members of Trump's Cabinet
Howard Lutnick, Scott Bessent
Tonight
Nov. 12, 2025
Billionaire$
get the Steak & Lobster treatment
while
SNAP food bank recipients
get stiffed for entire month
of November -- somehow even
the Supreme Court has been
pulled into that tug of war over
Executive Branch unwillingness
to fund this 11th month of 2025
for Food Stamp children, tweens,
youth, low-income families/elderly,
handicapped/Medicaid poor of
all ages . . .
Sept. 23, 2025 was SPECIAL
ELECTION DAY -- to replace deceased House member.
The terminally ill Raul Grijalva was elected
in the 7th district by his constituents and supporters
over many previous terms / years Election Day 2024.
However, he died of lung cancer at age 77
March 2025, leaving his seat in Congress vacant
until a replacement / early Congressional race
could replace him -- 4th Tuesday of September following.
The elected replacement (Adelita
Grijalva) adds to the D
caucus, bringing the total number of
House members to 433.
NOVEMBER 12, 2025 a day for history books!
Johnson took a 54-day break from attending to duties
of the House Speaker and swearing in the Representative
for 750,000 citizens of Arizona -- they are not satisfied
with this lack of attention and their duly elected replacement
will see him "face-to-face" today
[ Nov. 12, 2025]
SEE The Hill dot-com -- Sept. 30, 2025
Oct. 2 4:21 p.m. posted as online article
5535581-house-democrats-call-for-grivalva-swearing-in/?tbref=hp
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NY TIMES coverage of what it will take for
the discharge petition to force Speaker MIKE Johnson
to move the Grand Jury "evidence" out into the public
view -- NYTimes.com/live/2025/09/24/us/trump-news#democrat-arizona-epstein-files
UPDATE: Sept. 24, early a.m.
ABC News.go.com/politics/arizona-special-election-
house-tipping-point-releasing-epstein/story?id=128559777
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House Speaker Mike Johnson
[2nd in Presidential Succession after VP Vance]
has a lot to decide when the Discharge Petition has the
support of 1/2 of House membership
politico.com
"How Arizona Voters are set to put Mike Johnson
in a corner" Sept. 23, 2025 -- voting officials will
let him know who is the replacement Congress Repr.
after death in March 2025 of longtime Dem. Lawmaker !
More than a coffee-table tome
a tome revealing much about
POLITICS
less about FASHION
_________________________
Already an Amazon Best-Seller
Third installment in her
TRILOGY that focus on
Self-Realization
George Soros
Magic (Earvin) Johnson
Jose Andres
Hillary (Rodham) Clinton
Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. (posthumous)
Bono
Ashton Carter (posthumous)
Michael J. Fox
Tim Gill
Jane Goodall
Fannie Lou Hamer (posthumous)
Ralph Lauren
Lionel Messi (absent due to scheduling)
Bill Nye
George Romney (posthumous)
David Rubenstein
George Stevens, Jr.
Denzel Washington
Anna Wintour
c-span.org/program/
public-affairs-event/
jane-goodall-funeral-service/
668897
World-renowned ethologist & conservationist
Wed. Nov. 12, 11:00 a.m. Eastern
at National Cathedral, Washington, DC
3101 Wisconsin Ave., NW
Officiants will be
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde
and the dean of the Cathedral,
Randolph Marshall.
LIVESTREAM of the service
at cathedral.org/
about/service-info
Find out on
American History TV
c-span.org/history
Nov. 16, 2025
C-Span2
He tried to create a
state for black people
during Reconstruction --
interview with author
Caleb Gayle who has written
a book on McCabe
Jeanne Shaheen, former gov. & present Senator from New Hampshire,
(since 2008 elected from the Granite State)
criticized Marco Rubio (wears many hats for Trump-Vance)
for pay-off given to Equatorial Guinea (Africa human rights abuser/
pariah) $7.5 million (far more than
its previous U.S. AID) to
take deportees not from its
own citizens/refugee/asylum
seekers.
nytimes.com/2025/11/11/us/politics/marco-rubio-equatorial-guinea.html
Kilauea Volcano
Hawai'i
US Geological Survey/service
as Breaking News to
abcnews.go.com/
4Q422
[Cave 4 at Qumran Dead Sea
Scrolls archaeological site :
the one sorted and numbered #422]
Paraphrase of Genesis & Exodus
The Heavens and the Earth
and all their host He made by. . .
His work which He had done
and His Holy Spirit. . .
Every living creature and
what moves on the earth. . .
[tree] He gave dominion
to eat the fruit of the ground
with the exception of eating
from the tree of knowledge. . .
and he rose up against him
and they forgot. . .
with an evil inclination
and for works of wickedness
. . .peace.
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and God saw that great, and. . .
the. . .righteous in his
generation upon the earth. . .
with him God kept alive
. . .were saved on the earth
Noah and his sons, his wife
and the wives of his sons
from the waters of the Flood
and the birds. . .God shut
behind them. . .and commanded
him a [. . .] which was on
dry ground all . . .the windows
of heaven were opened and they
poured out rain on the earth
under all the heavens to
raise water upon the earth
forty days and forty nights
there was rain upon the earth
the waters were mighty upon
the earth in order to cleanse
sin and in order to make known
the glory of the Most High
He placed before him and it
illuminated the heavens.. .
the earth and. .. a sign
for the generations of
eternity, to.. . and no more
will there be a Flood
to destroy the earth. . . the
fixed times of day and night
and luminaries to illuminate
heaven and earth. . .
the earth and its fullness
everything He gave to mankind
[part of Jeremy Lyon's
Qumran Interpretations of
the Genesis Flood (Pickwick
Publications, 2015)
U.S. Research official
E.Q. Cravalho
has resigned as a Commissioner
on the U.S. Arctic Research Commission
(USARC). She had been in charge of
OVERSEEING the agency for the U.S.
Arctic (Alaska).
reuters dot-com (Exclusive online notification)
world/Europe/us-research-official-departs-trump-
overhauls-arctic-policy-2025-11-11/
Ace Frehley
has died of blunt force trauma
injuries to his head from a fall
AGE 74
Oct. 16, 2025 at Morristown, NJ.
The glam-heavy metal-hard rock
group of the 80's was approved
by the Kennedy Center for
the Performing Arts to receive the
KENNEDY CENTER HONOR
this upcoming Sunday afternoon
Dec. 7, 2025. All 4 original
members of the group were to be
honored.
The CBS traditional airing
of the ceremony will take place
on the Fourth Sunday of Advent
Dec. 21, 2025 [ a 2-hour musical
extravaganza also honoring
Michael Crawford,
Gloria Gaynor,
George Strait,
Sylvester Stallone.
Theodore Roosevelt
PURPOSE: to facilitate
public entrance & in
wartime, additional
office space. It also
hid the Emergency bunker
(PEOC) where Trump and
Melania hid during the
noisy unrest/
protesting going on during
May 31 - June 1, 2020.
They remained in a bunker
until the Secret Service deemed
it was safe for the couple.
