MLB
Schedule
Friday, Oct. 31 at Toronto began 8 p.m. Eastern
Starting pitchers
K. Gausman
Y. Yamamoto
Dodgers score first in 3rd inning
3 - 0
Springer has RBI giving Blue Jays first
score
3 - 1
Guerrero doubled in 6th inning, Bichette
walked, left on base after strike out.
Top of 8 - Ohtani doubled,
3 left on base.
Bottom of 8 - no runs;
Top of 9 - Dodgers no runs
Bottom of 9th - Blue Jays no runs.
FINAL SCORE 3 - 1.
SOUL BEAR ("O, Canada")
John Vincent ("Oh, say can you see")
American singer-songwriter
From July 4, 1817
until October 1825
the Erie Canal
was an engineering marvels of the world:
363 miles from Albany to Buffalo, NY.
Cut through the wilderness, 40 feet wide
and 4 wide deep, connecting the
Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean!
4Q refers to the Dead Sea / Qumran Scroll cave
where a large number of scrolls and fragmentary
writings / scraps used in the community's
holy verses and chapters / Psalms - Biblical
accounts . . .
4Q380
Jerusalem is the city
the Lord choose, from
everlasting to everlasting. . .
For the name of the Lord
is invoked upon it, And
His glory is seen upon
Jerusalem and Zion.
Who can utter the name
of the Lord,
and who can proclaim all
His praise?
The Lord remembered him
with His favor and
visited him, that He
might show him the
prosperity of His chosen
ones to make him rejoice
in the joy of His people!
[ Translated for THE_JERUSALEM_ANTHOLOGY
by editor/translator Reuven Hammer ]
FBI INVESTIGATOR attempts to explain
Motive of Gunman / arsonist seems to have been
Anti-religious Animus toward Mormon religious community
NBCnews.com/news/us-news/michigan-church-shooting-fire-
was-motivated-by-anti-religious-beliefs-rcna241220
Jennifer Runyan in charge of Detroit Field Office
of FBI ___________________________________
National Media on this story barely 30 hours
after the shootings / explosion / terroristic
arson
____________________________________
Michigan Live!
mlive.com/
Sunday a.m. Sept. 28, 2025
Praying for the LDS - Church of Jesus Christ
survivors of the flames and the bullets fired by
a perpetrator whose exact motive/s may never be
known -- he was a U.S. Marine veteran, having
served in Okinawa and Iraq. He was age 40.
Oct. 31, 2025
Washington POST (Jeff Bezos, Publisher)
reports that the Trump / Kennedy Center has had
plummeting sales for its main 3 venues :
see today's online article by
Travis M. Andrews, Jeremy B. Merrill, Shelly Tan
+ analysis of previous years recent and historic good/bad
seasons of MUSIC of all kinds -- stage plays / musicals
Sept. 11, 2025
Kevin Struthers had worked at the D.C. based
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for 30 years.
His firing was announced and reported on in
"WASHINGTON POST" -- this adds to many
staff exits, some with no warning or retirement allowed.
_________________________________________
Washingtonpost dot-com reports the 36% fall
in subscription renewals and new "memberships"
on June 3, 2025 -- story by Travis Andrews, reporter
_______________________________________
Another 21 employees have been fired
Friday May 2, 2025,
bringing the total fired
to
40 staff members since the Board
President and CEO both were sacked
and replaced with POTUS Trump 2.0
himself at the head of this
Washington, D.C. institution.
Also Trump advisor Richard Grennell is
running the staff and programming.
nytimes.com/2025/05/02/arts/NEA.html
What kind of book was
Ring Lardner's "great American" novel?
"It originally appeared during the darkest
days of the McCarthy era (1950s America).
Lardner was a blacklisted screenwriter
who had served a year in prison for
defying the House Un-American Activities
committee. The book was greeted with
near-deafening silence by the American
literary establishment, received virtually
no commercial distribution, and seemingly
sank into obscurity with a ripple.
Yet this extraordinary work -- perhaps
the finest satiric novel since those of
Nathaniel West -- refused to vanish. Its
reputation grew by word of mouth, rare
copies passed from hand to hand, and now
October 1972 it has re-surfaced in its NEW
American (SIGNET press) printing
to be recognized as the masterpiece it
most surely is.
A slashing commentary on such diverse
phenomena as
war
political repressing,
penal servitude,
racism,
organized religion,
big business,
liberalism,
sex,
and other familiar features of our age.
________________________________
Lardner won the Academy Award twice
for Woman of the Year (1943) and M*A*S*H
(1970)
pages 122 - 123 Reuven Hammer's The Jerusalem Anthology 1995 JPSA
(Midrash Konen, Bet Ha-Midrash):
On the first day the Lord
took snow from under the
Throne of Glory, threw it
onto the water in the middle
of the world, and it became
the land, as it is said:
He commands the snow,
'Fall to the ground!' Job 37:6
Then he took the foundation
stone and hurled it into
the place designated for the
Temple and founded the world
upon it, as it is said:
Who set its cornerstone? Job
38:6
He called to the land and it
stood in its place, so that it
would not move here or there
as does a ship, as it is said:
God, the Lord God spoke and
called the land Psalm 50:1
Since the light of Jerusalem
and the Land of Israel shone
forth, it illuminated the Temple
first and from there spread to
light the entire world, as it is said:
From Zion, perfect in beauty,
God appeared Psalm 50:2
Fort McNair -- the Hegseth family now resides in housing
reserved for the active duty ARMY vice chief of staff
_____________________________________________
Rubio as well dwells in that Fort McNair housing area,
while his family dwells in private housing they own in
the state of Florida
_____________________________________________
DHS Secy. (Trump-Vance MAGA Cabinet)
Kristi Noem
lives in a government representation
facility owned by the Coast Guard [ she
is charged and is currently paying fair
market rent ]
______________________________
The Army Secretary
Daniel P. Driscoll
and the Navy Secretary
John Phelan
are in military housing as of 2025.
(during Trump 1.0 - Pence admin. only
Mike Pompeo & Jim Mattis (then-Secy. Defense)
lived for limited time in Military on-base housing)
Twenty-five years ago,
in Long Island, NY
Ring Lardner, Jr. died
of cancer at age 85.
In his Nov. 2, 2000
NY TIMES obituary, he
was called "Wry Screenwriter
and the last of the Hollywood Ten."
NBC News reports that
the resumption of SOYBEAN Purchasing
which had ground to a halt from
post-inauguration Jan. 2025 until
Oct. 30 Husan Korea meeting at APEC --
involves
the purchase of
12 million metric tons
between Oct. 31 - Dec. 31 this year
and the annual
pledge of 25 million metric tons
China pledges to Trump they will buy
annually for 3 years [ that is, to specific date
12/31/2028 -
OBVIOUSLY following Nov. 2028 elections ] . .
nbcnews.com/world/Asia/trump-xi-meeting-fentanyl-tariffs-rare-earths-china-rcna240710
AXIOS' Barak Ravid reports this scoop (Wed. Oct. 29, 2025)
TRUMP by way of Qatari & Egypt mediators
offered the HAMAS militants safe passage
out of Israel-controlled Gaza Zone. The
GOAL of such a "sugar - daddy" proposal
[ negotiating with terrorist-kidnapping organization ]
was to "stabilize the cease-fire and clear
the roughly half of Gaza that Israel
controls" making the out-of-view/access
HAMAS forces to self-disappear . . .
axios.com/ HEADLINES
Trump's July 28, 2025 comments at Press
briefing standing next to P.M. Sir Keir Starmer:
"Nobody acknowledged ($30 million
channeled by U.S. AID fund - Head Marco Rubio)
Nobody talks about it. . .and it makes you feel
a little bit bad when you do that. And you know,
you have other countries not giving anything. . .
It would nice at least to have a thank you."
Trump falsely claimed that no other nation
gave money -- actually $605 million worth
of aid to Gaza had been given by the EU
Commission.
GHF is an opaque group -- headed by
Terry Moore, MAGA / Trump-Vance
associate organizing Food Boxes from
only 4 locations inside GAZA and Gaza Territory.
______________________________________
CBS reporter Tucker Reals
cbsnews.com/news/us-announces-funding-
gaza-humanitarian-foundation-despite-deaths/
It is the first U.S. govt. funding "confirmed"
by the Trump-Vance administration.
The state dept. aide who announced the $30 million
couldn't say whether U.S. funds had already been handed over.
The GHF has yet to agree to be interviewed by CBS News/
60_Minutes.
__________________________________
APnews.com/article/palestinians-israel-gaza-contractors-aid-distribution
July 3, 2025 online coverage
First days of a new Month (Oct. 2025) --
Oct. 1, 2025 Visits 456
Oct. 2, 2025 visits 494
Friday Oct. 3 417
Sat. Oct. 4 480
Sunday Oct. 5, 2025 364
10/6 514
First Tuesday 10/7 705
10/8 363
Thurs. 10/9 587
Friday 10th 2,476
Sat. Oct. 11 2,955 [ most visits / views this month ]
10/12/ 2,874
10/13 2,619 -- happy Columbus Day
10/14 2,210
10/15 2,464
10/16 1,131
Friday 17th 1,581
10/18 1,712
Oct. 19 1,112
Monday 20th 1,483
Oct. 21 1,143
Oct. 22 1,540
Oct. 23 547
Friday 24th 1,541
Sat. 10/25/25 1,695
Sunday 26th 1,325
Oct. 27 1,456
Oct. 28 1,553
Oct. 29 1,075
Oct. 30 1,468
Friday Oct. 31 (Halloween) 1,818
This month total = 42,289 visits / views
Last month's total (Sept. 1 - 30,
2025) was = 36,844
Last month's end 9/30 # of visits / views was
354
Next month is
Nov. 1, 2025
that day's website-blog's visits / views was 3,489
First Sunday of November is
Nov. 2 = 2,434 visits or views at
Google BLOG
Nov. 3 thus far = 3,486
Nov. 4 = 1,114
Seeking Faith and Understanding
faithfor2008.blogspot.com/
November's total = 10,613
Trump's evaluation (quite illogical) of the
meeting that was smoke and mirrors
12 out of 10 (?)
"As Trump weighs sale of advanced
A.I. Chips
to China,"
it was unclear whether
CEO of NVidia (Jensen
Huang) was also to appear
on the "world-stage"
while APEC is meeting
in S. Korea . . .
Jonathan Karl
new book on the upcoming
term (2025 - 2029) of Trump 2.0
He tells interviewers he can't imagine
Trump leaving office peacefully Jan. 20,
11:59 a.m. last official day of his term,
residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., D.C.
Retribution
encapsulates what
Trump 2.0 is doing
and will keep on doing
Trump 2.0 on Air Force One
admits :
I'd be allowed to run as Vice-
President. I guess I think it's
too cute. Yeah. I would rule
that out because it's too cute.
I think the people wouldn't
like that. It's too cute. It's
not -- it wouldn't be right. . .
Trump Tariff on Brazil -- vote taken and Senate in a
bipartisan manner agreed that the Brazil-focused punishment
would not be enacted by law . . .
_____________________________________________
CBS news filed report on Thursday Oct. 30 -- no chance
to resume compromise talks until next month
cbsnews.com/
Oct. 30, 6 p.m. Eastern
They adjourned without even taking a final vote
to end the 30 day shutdown. . .
from the Sukkot Liturgy
(transl. by Reuven Hammer for
The Jerusalem Anthology : A Literary Guide)
The stone of foundation,
The chosen house,
The threshing-floor of Ornan,
The inner sanctuary,
The Mount of Moriah,
The Mount of appearance,
The abode of Your glory,
The dwelling of David,
The goodliness of Lebanon,
The beautiful landscape, the joy of all the world,
The crown of beauty,
The dwelling place of righteousness,
The place where You dwell,
The peaceful habitation,
The Tabernacle of Shalem,
The place where the tribes made pilgrimage,
The precious cornerstone,
Zion the outstanding,
The Holy of Holies,
The pavement of Love,
The Presence of Your Glory,
Save -- we entreat,
The Mount of Talpiot
Save -- we entreat.
O Lord -- save us we entreat!
(page 196)
ISBN 082760551X
POPE Leo XIV on Tuesday
reaffirms Church stance against
anti-Semitism / bigotry-hatred
against Jewish persons / groups
BEFORE a Rome, Italy meeting
of leaders & Representatives of
Judaism,
Muslim,
Hindu,
Sikh,
Buddhist,
Zoroastrian,
Confucian,
Tao,
Shinto,
Traditional African faiths
explained how the declaration
Nostra Aetate
commissioned by Paul VI
had planted a seed for inter-religious
dialogue. . .
jpost.com/diaspora/anti-semitism/article-872251
After dominant Game 5, the Blue Jays head
home for a moment 32 years
in the making -- not since 1993
#32 was a Team whose number was retired
from the Blue Jays Line-up
Roy Halladay.
STORY BY Tyler Kepner
3:51 p.m. 10/30/2025
nytimes.com/athletic/6762547/2025/10/30/toronto-blue-jays-world-series-moment/
update (Oct. 30 4:25 p.m.)
NYTimes.com/2025/10/30/world/Europe/uk-prince-andrew-title.html
There will no longer be a
Prince of York
says Andrew, 2nd son of
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip of Greece.
He surrenders the royal title effective
Oct. 17, 2025 due to a cascade of scandals.
See NY Times dot-com
2025/10/17/world/Europe/prince-andrew-duke-of-york-title.html
Over Halloween,
Tokyo ward and law enforcement officials
will seek to protect the statue of a famous
dog, an Akita named Hachiko
from celebrating drunk residents and
out-of-towners. READ the DETAILS at
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251030_12/
Pre-game and overviews of
2 - 2 series standings at
7:55 p.m. Canadian anthem - Rufus Wainwright
and then Keith Williams ( a baritone singer)
manages to "hot dog" it singing quite a loud
and reaches the clouds / high atmosphere for
"AMERICA's NATIONAL ANTHEM".
IMPRESSIVE FOR BOTH men / performers!
8 p.m. following National
Anthems -- the Toronto Blue
Jays bat first , scoring with 2
solo home runs -- in bottom of 1st
three starters for Dodgers each
are out -- 1 - 2 - 3 retiring that side.
Bottom of 4th
Toronto 3 - L.A. 1
Top of 7th 2 more runs for Blue Jays
also one more run in Top of 8th
FINAL SCORE 6 - 1
WINNING PITCHER : Trey Yesavage
set many new RECORDS for a rookie -- see details in MEDIA
accounts of his amazing debut in a WORLD SERIES must-win game.
LOSING PITCHER: Blake Snell
Thursday Oct. 30 -- additional suspects beyond 2 who were attempting
to leave France have been apprehended (BBC reports)
Paris' public prosecutor has told the world press. . .
Wed. 10/22 : Experts estimate the 8 missing pieces (diamonds
and precious gems) likely uninsured since the state acts as
its own insurer
are worth more than $100 million BUT . . .
are unlikely to Garner such a price if they are split apart
or melted____________________________________
UPDATE: The Apollo gallery was broken into from
an outside window with the burglars in daytime escaping
by way of motorbikes. The stolen jewels were from the
FRENCH Crown jewels.
Sunday
October 19, 2025
Paris, France
Rachida Dati
FRENCH Culture minister
only disclosed that there
were no injuries, the LOUVRE
would be closed and Paris
Police remain on the scene.
Nomination by Trump-Vance for 1st Vice-president
to U.S. Import-Export Bank Scuttled and withdrawn
after questioning by Senate BANKING Committee,
led by Senator Warren of Massachusetts.
Wed. Oct. 29,2025
Scrutiny over his Russia ties.
Already releasing details to the press -- Trump
pre-empts any sharing of Formal Agreement,
saying he will drop tarrifs on goods since China has made
progress stopping its shipments of fentanyl . . .
Xi remained stoic while Trump 2.0 started off the
meeting praising his counterpart in the meeting --
instead of joint announcements -- Trump himself
interpreted and extolled how China would now postpone
new controls on rare earth / high-tech lithium, metals
__________________________________________
During comments over non-alcoholic champagne,
Trump 2.0 repeatedly fixated on a
$10 billion promise to
build auto plants in the U.S.
"throughout";
HIROYUKI UEDA, Toyota
executive clarified that $10
billion promise as one
they made during the Trump-
Biden transition -- details at
nytimes.com/2025/10/29/business/trump-toyota-10-billion.html
3:30 p.m. on ESPN the away game is not carried
neither on NBC nor on "Peacock"
WNDU - NBC affiliate near
Notre Dame entrance, St. Mary's College,
Holy Cross (run by Holy Cross brothers)
Boston College's 1-7 record doesn't reflect the program's
strength nor the competitive spirit of the Boston
players -- says Freeman to
Sabrina Hoover, local
sports anchor . . .
[ Vivid Seats dot-com
reports that they still
have available seats
for Saturday 11/1/2025
game at BC Alumni Stadium ]
OTHER Opponents from
Nov. 8, 15, 22, 29 are:
Navy at S. Bend Stadium
Pitt away at Pittsburgh, PA
Syracuse (the Orange) at home
stadium, S. Bend, IN
10/29 post-Thanksgiving
at Stanford Stadium, Palo
Alto, CA
Ultra-orthodox to protest new law
THURSDAY 10/30
see Jerusalem Post -- jpost.com/
August 24 coverage in NY TIMES
Magazine NYTimes.com/2025/08/24
out of 80,000 eligible Ultra-ORTHODOX
only 2,490 have even showed up
world/middleeast/israel-gaza-ultra-orthodox.html
_______________________________________
NEWS (Thurs. July 24, 2025)
Protesters block entrance to Chords Bridge
entrance to city of Jerusalem : display sign
of defiance = Enlistment - Genocide /
DEATH before Conscription
jpost.com/israel-news/article-862021
__________________________________
Jerusalem Post (Israel media platform)
reports that
54,000 "ultra"-Orthodox
Jews eligible for military service
will be called up for actual service
by July 2026
jpost.com/israel-news/article-860157
This group contains 16.5 year-olds to
those in their 20s, ending up at 26-yr.-olds.
To catch draft dodgers, IDF and border
authorities will use airport check-ins,
checkpoints, and other spontaneous checks
in areas where draft dodgers will be traveling
without officials searching through civilian areas.
HERALD-PALLADIUM
(St. Joseph, MICHIGAN) media
heraldpalladium.com/ "Niles Twp. voters
to decide on two marijuana/
cannabis retail
PROPOSALS"
Quotes from
Marge Durm-Hiatt,
Township Supervisor
Sings GAME 5 -- National Anthem
at Los Angeles, CA
- - - an excellent Singer / Performer - - -
he does an amazing cover of
"Across the Universe"
The Head of
the Counter-Terrorism Center :
Joe Kent
asked whether the man charged with
assassinating with a sniper rifle the
podcast host, Charlie Kirk,
had support from another person/s,
a foreign power, another entity
altogether. When questions were
raised, FBI Chief and Best Friend
Forever and to VALHALLA, Kash Patel
believed that Mr. Kent was overstepping,
treading on FBI Responsibilities. . .
"OFFICIAL's ACCESS TO FBI FILES
DREW PUSHBACK" from Kash Patel --
nytimes.com/2025/10/29/us/politics/fbi-files-charlie-kirk-case.html
Oct. 29, 2025
The NCAA (College - level organizer of athletics) has
delayed implementing a rule that
would allow college athletes to bet on pro sports.
[ the athletic NY Times dot-com ]
What is a Beaglier?
a designer dog
created by mixing a
Beagle (pure breed)
with a Cavalier King
Charles Spaniel (pure
breed). Affectionate,
playful, good with
children and other pets.
Exercise requirement:
2 hours daily of walking,
mental stimulation.
According to FORBES (media platform)
"Trump claims his best polling numbers ever,
but approval peaked in January 2025"
/ / /
while on Air Force One -- Trump still is musing
about running for a Third term in Nov. 2028 --
"we have a lot of great people" . . .
FOR FACTUAL POLLING
DATE : consult
Quinnipiac, RealClear Polling . . .
Reuter/IPSOS -- they show Trump
2.0 has a 56% disapproval rating . . .
Happy together -- hoping to discuss
advanced technology
sectors, including semiconductors
and A.I. (artificial intelligence)
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/
20251029_17/
Trump is expected at a dinner
with other APEC leaders . . .
NO WORD here regarding Friday-
Saturday breaking news regarding
CHINA Tariffs and the accomodations
the U.S. 2nd term leader will make
on the world stage far away from his
demolition project at 1600 Pennsylvania
Ave., D.C. Today is Day 29 of the
Federal Government shutdown / affecting
flight delays and many, many closings.
Toronto Blue Jays hitter
(2025 season)
biographical highlights in
bbc.com/news/articles/cn09j4xw7jeo
He is Canadian-born,
raised in the Dominican
Republic, lives with his
grandmother, even incorporated
her Dominican Republic dishes
into his training diet plan.
After the two initial games
of WORLD SERIES 2025
the action shifts across to
California from Ontario,
Canada for GAMES 3 - 5.
In record 18-inning length,
Game 3 matched
the visitors (Blue Jays 1-1)
with the home team
(Dodgers 1-1) in the important
middle game/s of the 7-game
championship. For 18 innings
the teams held at 5 - 5 until
the home DODGERS prevailed
winning 6 - 5.
For Game 4 at LA Dodgers' home
field, surprisingly the
TORONTO BLUE JAYS defeated the
pitcher-starting hitter
Shohei Ohtani
with a 6 - 2 win; Toronto's pitcher
Shane Bieber held L.A. to a one-
run offense for 5 1/3 innings!
apnews reports that
early Tuesday Oct. 28, 2025
in Northern part of WEST BANK,
troops shot 3 men as they emerged from
a cave in a militant stronghold . . .
apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-west-bank-hamas-gaza
3:25 a.m. Eastern Oct. 28, 2025 (online posting)
Jerusalem POST
coverage of
Knesset discussions re-ignite the fight over
faith, service, statehood
as early elections emerge
Smotrich
Liberman
Gantz
Lapid
Golan
jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-democracy/
article-871980
FOX News reports that "Special Olympics" has replied to the
hurtful name-calling that KID (age 54yrs old) ROCK used
as if to mock and verbally demean those with mental /
developmental issues -- see details at
M LIVE (MLive.com/news/2025/10/kid-rock-uses-hurtful-slur-
to-describe-his-halloween-costume-to-fox-news-host.html
____________________________________________
His Summer 2025 tour (June 20-21, July 11, 18, 25)
dates have ended
see kidrock.com/pages/tour
____________________________________________
July 31 at small town (Milford, MI) Kid Rock and
associate "Uncle Kracker" sing a cover of "Drift Away"
at a benefit fundraiser for an ALS patient
details - Mlive.com/life/2025/08/kid-rock-uncle-kracker-surprise-
at-small-town-concert-in-the-park-with-performance.html
31 July 2025
part of Milford's Thursday Night Concert Series through
Summer weeks 2025
______________________________________________
Trump told the Iowa crowd -- "on the White House" lawn
"We have a lot of land there"
Hollywood reporter.com/business/business-news
July 3, 2025 7:46 p.m.
year of 2026 to include many kinds of 250th
anniversary events hosted by POTUS
The White House will be the venue for
a Mixed Martial Arts UFC-sanctioned match
between contenders / fighters as invited
by POTUS & FLOTUS Trump next year
see details in USA TODAY.com/ 4 July 2025
trump-ufc-octagon-fighting-us-anniversary
____________________________________
UPDATE: Kid Rock and Jason Aldean
will be among the singers / entertainers
to fete the Inaugural events Jan. 20, 2025.
Singing "God Bless America" will be
American Idol winner Carrie Underwood.
Jewel
Nelly
entertainers for the Inaugural balls.
Theme Song: YMCA by the Village People
____________________________________
March 2025
Update: Kid Rock (age 54-year-old entertainer)
recently broke up with his fiancee of 7 years,
Audrey Berry; he divorced his wife, Pamela
Anderson in Feb. 2007 after marrying her in Aug. 2006.
The two had been linked after dating since
2011.
he was born Jan. 17, 1971 and gained fame
in Hollywood after co-starring in Joe Dirt
a 2001 feature film.
_____________________________________
March 26, 2025
People Magazine online reports that
Nelly has married Ashanti so that
"she won't be a baby mama" (I.e. she
is pregnant by him and expecting this year)a.
HHS staff member who worked on Preparedness
and Security matters for RFK, Jr.
Steven Hatfill
was fired this weekend
[ coverage at Bloomberg
NEWS dot-com ] 10/28/25
He favored hydroxochloroquine
and ivormectin over COVID-19
vaccines and standard therapy
on the Help for diagnosed patients.
October 28 -- POLITICO is announcing that members of the
GOP - MAGA Senate Foreign Relations cmte. will not be
voting up nor will they hold a hearing for Ghlaib to be ambassador
to Kuwait - - -
another-doomed-trump-nominee -- POLITICO 10/28/2025 / live-news
according to arabnews dot-com
MAYOR of Dearborn Heights, MI
Bill Bazzi has been nominated by Trump - Vance
to be next ambassador to Tunisia. . .
Ghlaib and Bazzi had publicly endorsed
Trump / Vance ticket in Oct. 2024 and the
State of Michigan did favor that ticket over
Harris-Walz on Election Day Nov. 2024
_____________________________________
UPDATE at Michigan Live!
ADL (Anti-defamation League) is accusing
AMER GHLAIB of "routinely trafficking
in anti-semitism"
____________________________________
Mayor of Hamtramck, MI
nominee of Trump-Vance admin.
to be Ambassador to Kuwait
/ / / Laura Loomer has called for
his dismissal / / /
Oct. 26 - 27 - 28, 2025
The fast-developing storm is expected to
bring unprecedented amounts of rain
to several countries, meteorologists
said.
Details at:
nytimes.com/2025/10/28/nyregion/trump-hush-money-appeal.html
Facing trial are:
Jerome Claverie
Jerome Amiot
Jean-Christophe Denoual
Ms. Delphine Jegousse (claims to be a psychic)
Nathalie Rey
Aurelien Poirson-Atlan
Betrand Scholler (age 56)
may face 2 yrs. in Prison
and fines of up to 30,000 euros.
Candace Owens is also facing
a defamation suit in Delaware . . .
Right-wing podcasters / conspiracy
theorists do not have a "right to
defamatory speech" that is false,
provably false and should be deprived
of their assets and face jail/prison/probation
time.
Owens was turned away from
"Turning Point USA" BTW
France 24 : online platform is covering this
Oct. 27 trial and implications / ramification for
far-right extremist PODCASTER like American
Candace Owens . . .
The PRESIDENT of France and his wife (female)
Brigitte
will offer proof that she is a woman; thus
rendering their lawsuit against the MAGA
/ conspiracy theorist who defamed the couple
a victory! Ms. Owens, herself popular in
MAGA and MAHA -land spoke pompously &
alleged that the wife/spouse of Emmaneul
Macron was not a woman / by virtue of
gender - biology -- SUCH A VILE
person given way too much attention . . .
CANDACE OWEN -- see
bbc.com/world/news
Did Todd Blanche (one of
Trump's personal lawyers)
act officially and legally when
he fired Carla Hayden, Librarian
of Congress and Shira Perlmutter
as Register of Copyrights?
abcnews.go.com/Politics/Trump-asks-SCOTUS-intervene-library-congress-
copyright-office/story?id_126910844
In 2009 -- new POTUS
Barack Obama was severely criticized by the
other political partisans for his deference and formality
when he shook hands and bowed respectfully;
nowadays when Trump characteristically walked ahead of
Elizabeth II and gets chummy with King Charles III, any
informality seems "par for the course" . . .
President Claudia Sheinbaum of
MEXICO revealed to the press that
the negotiators have granted her
"a few more weeks" beyond the Nov. 1
earlier announced "deadline" before 30% tariffs
nytimes/com/live/2025/10/27/us/trump-asia-news/
Argentina's anarcho-capitalist-Make Argentina Great Again-populist
leader Milei
did win Parliamentary seats this weekend (Oct. 26) and thus
will be backed by the Trump-Vance foreign relations/agriculture
branch with low tariff rate and high investment in their fiscal/
banking system for the struggling South American traditional
ally . . .
Oct. 24, 2025
NBC News is carrying trump 2.0's
reply via TRUTH?SOCIAL : to Beef Producing farmers
work harder to lower your own prices -- don't pick on
the "deal" I made with Argentine Trade Partner (Milei) . . .
Deb Fischer (recently elected NB Senator)
has objected to the "deal"
made between POTUS 47
and Argentine President
Milei to import into U.S.
consumer markets
Argentine Beef. No word
whether she will also seek
to gain shipment from Farm
Belt of Soybean overproduction
into Argentine markets since they
have taken over the huge China
market need for an annual Soybean crop. . .
further : at The HILL dot-com
His Holiness Mar Awa III
gifted POPE LEO XIV
with a Chicago Cub
Jersey on Monday
at Vatican City
nytimes.com/2025/10/28/
world/Europe/pope-white-sox-
chicago-baseball.html
Smithsonian accused by TX Senator Cornyn
(up for re-election in 2026)
who does not agree that the
Smithsonian owns the Shuttle
DISCOVERY
houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/space/article/
cornyn-doj-smithsonian-lobbying-shuttle-21112494.php
Details at The Hill
dot-com/
smithsonian-museum-closures-government-shutdown/
October 11, 2025
Nixon ordered up costly exhibitions / /
then re-election officials up to Nov. 1972
told curators to "wall off" a controversial
voting rights show
DETAILS at
washingtonpost.com/
entertainment/2025/10/22/nixon-smithsonian-american-history-museum-trump-pressure
ON THIS HISTORIC DATE
October 28
in 1922 fascism
came to Italy as Benito
Mussolini came to power when
King Emmanuelle III asked him
to form a government following
a "March on Rome"
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Arrowsmith (Sinclair Lewis)
The Secret of Chimneys (Agatha Christie)
The Painted Veil (Somerset Maugham)
WASHINGTON POST [publisher Jeff Bezos]
"Trump put allies
on obscure Board of
Planning Commission
set to decide Ballroom's
Fate (East Wing now gutted
at White House structure)"
Reporting Jonathan Edwards &
Dan Diamond - 28 Oct. 2025
Pound of ground beef, average
is $6.32 up 14%.
Trump-Vance's near-term solution
of quadrupling the quota from
Argentina's beef producers - -
buying 80,000 metric tons
has spurred intense backlash
from farm-state Republican/MAGA
political bigwigs and agricultural
industry groups. . .POLITICO
spoke to a Trump insider who
advocates expanded beef imports
and pressuring U.S. producers to
expand herd sizes.
2025/10/27/like-eggs-part-two-
trump-administration-scrambles-
to-bring-down-beef-prices-00622680
[Publisher = Jeff Bezos]
Wash. POST reporter Perry Stein
has learned and told online readers that
100+ officials across
multiple Republican &
Democratic administrations
signed a filing arguing that
the prosecution against former
FBI Director James B. Comey
was fueled by political Animus!
BREAKING NEWS:
U.S. Navy Helicopter and
Fighter plane crash --
2 separate incidents in
S. China Sea :
Hegseth and generals/
admirals of military wing
of government must be on
high alert due to presence of
POTUS 47 in Asia-Pacific
ahead of Talks to ward off
100% Tariffs to be used as
punishment for China's
absolute ruler, Xi Jinping.
Trump traveled to Malaysia
last Friday for a 6-day ASEAN
meeting/conference and is
currently in Japan : the government
on the other hands remains in
its 27th day of shutdown.
Mayor Nick Shelton
Niles Michigan
will move away from traditional
Friday -- TRICK-or-Treat
activity to Thurs. 10/30/2025.
Jon Karl - interview YOU TUBE
"Pence's never-before published notes"
on his new book Retribution
____________________________
Contemporaneous notes taken by
then-VP Mike Pence
(2016 campaign -
up to Insurrection month
Jan. 2021)
may indicate that Trump 1.0
was fully aware of impending
attack on Congress and
those who threatened =
"Hang Mike Pence".
online coverage
washingtonpost.com/ [publisher
is Jeff Bezos]
Nostra Aetate
[ Vatican II Document ]
is the subject of the Liss
Lecture in Judaica on
October 29, 2025
5:30 - 7 p.m.
Eck Center Visitors Auditorium
_________________________
more details about lecturer
Rev. Kevin Spicer of Stonehill
college theology.nd.edu/events/2025/10/29/liss-lecture-in
judaica-kevin-spicer-csc-nostra-aetate-at-60-years-investigating-
its-historical-necessity/?BLM_aid=5805098241
Three-time Grammy Award winner
and country music superstar
Brad Paisley will
sing the National
Anthem tonight at
Dodger Stadium, L.A.,
California for Game 3 of the
2025 MLB World Series.
PITTSBURGH, PA
On this date
Oct. 27, 2018
a raging gunman killed 11 in attendance
and injured severely 6 more;
he raged and ranted after being
detained by Pittsburgh law
enforcement in the
longstanding interfaith neighborhood.
Bad Bunny, Hispanic - Puerto
Rican entertainer-songwriter-rapper,
received support in a Quinnipiac
(Monday 10/27) up to a near-majority
48% while 29% disapproved of him
and 24% did not offer an opinion to
those interviewing them.
As could be expected, 74% of Democrats
expressed approval while 63% of
Republican self-identified American
adults indicated that they disapproved of
his national TV sports-halftime concert
segment. -- the Hill.com/ 10/27
John Dickerson,
son of former NBC D.C. ace reporter
Nancy Dickerson.
born Oct. 27, 1946 to Holocaust
survivors in then-Czechoslovakia . . .
Producer of many of
Hollywood's successful
screen comedies:
Ghostbusters
National Lampoon's Animal House
Twins
Kindergarten Cop. He died
Feb. 2022 in Montecito, CA.
Yes,
verses refer to
I Enoch
and to
Assumption of Moses.
Nowadays people refer to the
ancient region of PERSIA
as
Iran.
Legend has it that
St. Simon Zealotes
and St. Jude_ were
traveling together to
Persia where they were
martyred. St. Jude_
was also identifiable as
brother to St. James the Lesser.
The opening verse 1:1 of the
Epistle of Jude indicates he was
"Slave of Jesus Christ, but
a brother to James".
Simon and Jude
(share Oct. 28 as a collaborative
SAINT's DAY)
from the 4 Gospels_
this Saint SIMON
is a.k.a. Simon the Zealot
and this Saint Jude
is a.k.a. Thaddeus.
Saint Thaddeus is known for
helping as a Patron saint for
lost causes and desperate situations.
Police in Japan have heightened their security
around the U.S. Embassy -- fearing attacks on
POTUS 47 by lone offenders, not connected to
any organizations in the tightly regulated and
scrutinized society. Lone offenders in recent years
even assassinated Shinzuo Abe during a speech
he was making when a lone offender launched a
rocket disabling and fatally wounding the then-
out of office P.M.
weekend of Sunday Oct. 26 - Monday 27th
TRUMP's 6-day Asian jaunt ahead of Oct. 30 -31
"Trick or Treat" meeting with China's Xi.
Watch and Read !
Hour-long for 18+ participants
(a library card is NOT required for this
monthly group that welcomes new members)
nileslibrary.com/single-event/the-book-was-better-book-club-4-2/11-17-2025/
November 17 (Monday)
will be discussion of the 2019
Greta Gerwig filmed adaptation of
the Louisa May Alcott popular
YA book Little Women set in
the Civil War period of U.S. history.
As a massive bestseller, the children's
novel has remained popular across
the decades since its 19th century
publishing and mass distribution.
The group theme will be debated:
is THE MOVIE better than the BOOK/
NOVEL or was the Alcott Novel better
than the 2019 feature film (+2 hours).
OCTOBER
24 - 28, 2025
ancient St. Bishoy_ Monastery
at Wadi El Natrun, Alexandria,
Egypt
Details at
oikoumene.org/events/nicaea-2025#sixth-
world-conference-on-faith-and-order
"Where now for visible unity?"
The See of Alexandria is
historically significant for
early/ancient Christianity,
with an important role in
the debates that led to
the Council of Nicaea.
Ballot boxes to be opened for counting
on Saturday Oct. 26
Details on BBC.com/news
Historic low turnouts (today)
Friday Oct. 25, 2025
IRISH TIMES dot-com
politics/2025-10-24/ live-voters-head-to-the-polls
Catherine Connolly -- may win election as
IRELAND's next Taoiseach
oireachtas.ie -- House of
lawmakers
_____________________
Ms. Connolly is an independent left-wing
lawmaker who has criticized
the Dublin government for
its delay and inaction on
sanctioning Israeli settlements.
THE ELECTION is
scheduled for Friday
October 24, 2025.
Berrien County, Michigan [ village of
Three Oaks, MI ]
Details at
JOHN HANCOCK FILM FESTIVAL
he was director of
Bang the Drum Slowly
Weeds
The Looking Glass
California Dreaming
4:30 p.m. on Sunday 10/26
vickerstheatre.com
for list of all 9 feature-length films included
Sponsorship package starts at $250 per seat.
Author Philip Pullman has released a final
book in the successor trilogy to his successful
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
series.
Released on Oct. 23
was The Rose Field
that follows up
La Belle Sauvage
The Secret Commonwealth.
a poem written in 1859 by
Herman Melville
Hanging from the beam,
Slowly swaying (such the law),
Gaunt the shadow on your green,
Shenandoah!
The cut is on the crown
(Lo, John Brown),
and the stabs shall heal no more.
Hidden in the cap
Is the anguish none can draw;
So your future veils its face,
Shenandoah!
But the streaming beard is shown
(Weird John Brown),
The meteor of the war.
from SELECTED POEMS
Penguin Classics 2006 collection edited with
an introduction by Robert Faggen, professor
of Literature at Claremont McKenna College
H. Melville was 42 at the onset of the Civil
War (April 1861).
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Chapter 6 "Visitors"
page 112 of AMSCO LITERATURE Series
I had three chairs in
my house;
one for solitude
two for friendship
three for society.
When visitors came in larger and
unexpected numbers there was
but the third chair for them all,
but they generally economized the
room by standing up. It is
surprising how many great men
and women a small house will
contain. I have had 25 or 30 souls
with their bodies at one under my
roof and yet we often parted without
being aware that we had come very near
to one another.
Debuted nationally
in theaters (Oct. 24, 2025)
_____________________
Springsteen's journey
in crafting his 1982
album Nebraska which
emerged as he recorded
Born in the USA with the
E Street Band. Based on
Warren Zanes' book.
_____________________
Accurate with some fictional
segments :
see
nytimes.com/2025/10/24/movies/springsteen-deliver-me-from-nowhere-
fact-fiction.html
Planet without Apes (2012)
ISBN : 978-0-674-06704-2
It's 2150.
The world has changed
in ways no futurist can
predict. . .Global population
growth, long forecasted to
plateau around 12 billion,
has yet to level off. The
Human Tsuanimi has swept clean
much of the natural world that
in the early 21st century we
had still hope to save for
posterity. . .For example
Indonesia is a developed
country now, with cities
replacing all of the forests.
In the few-and-far between
patches of forest that remain
in Africa, many are empty of
larger animals. Large mammals
and other animals must now be kept
safely under guard in fenced,
patrolled sanctuaries that are
little more than large zoos. . .
Chimps have fared worse than
lowland gorillas, perhaps due
to their need for relatively
undisturbed habitat full of
fruit trees. Their numbers
plummeted during the outbreaks
of Ebola that hit central
Africa hardest during the
mid-twenty-first century
and took a further hit from the
civil war that split the former
Democratic Republic of Congo
into three separate nations.
If apes are reduced to a total
global population of only a few
thousand in 2150, by 2250 they
will be all but gone from the
Earth. . .Only by preserving
enough of their habitat can
we hope to have wild great
apes on Earth a hundred or 200
years from now. . .
