Sold for 2.3 million euros
It was found in a private townhouse
in Paris, France.
Scientific analysis of pigment
and paint layers
This work of art had disappeared in
the 1600s.
details
abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/WireStory/
long-lost-rubens-painting-depicting-crucifixion-
sells-27m-127981308
Nov. 30, 2025 10:56 a.m. posted
at ABC News website following the airing
of Live -- THIS WEEK WITH GEORGE
STEPHANOPOULOS (Sundays , 9 a.m.
weekly News-Interviews-Political Panel)
+ 1,400 flights cancelled
45-car pile-up on one Indiana
highway
abcnews.go.com/US/1000-flights-
canceled-nationwide-survey-snowy-
weather-hits-upper/story?id=127964896
The Convenion has been meeting
in Uzbekistan from Nov. 24 -
Dec. 5, 2025
National Representatives from 185
countries discuss proposals to
adjust trade regulation for species
(oceanic and otherwise)
Convention on International Trade
in Endangered Species of wild
Fauna (animals) and Flora (plants)
https://cites_ dot-org
Good Food / Good sight-seeing
Enjoy the great outdoors
Great golf courses
Nov. 30 annually
when that falls on
the weekend, the next Monday
or the Friday before is a day
off work.
Even though their patron saint
Andrew (one of 12 disciples/apostles)
lived and was martyred in the
first Century C.E., he became the
patron saint of Scotland in 1320 when
the country's independence was celebrated
with the Declaration of Abroath.
visitscotland.com/things-to-do/events/st-andrews-day
Chess Tournament
First Saturday of the month | 10 am - 2 pm | Rotunda | All Ages
Chess Tournaments are for Chess Federation members. If you would like to join us for an official UCF Tournament, stop by the Rotunda, Niles District Library, Niles, MI. 1/2 hour ahead of the start time.
Address: 620 E. Main Street, Niles, MI
MICHIGAN 49120
phone 269-683-8545
info@nileslibrary.net
USA TODAY
on
Pertussia a.k.a. "whooping cough"
usatoday.com/story/news/health/2025/11/29/whooping-cough-
pertussis-infant-deaths-kentucky
Winter Storm Warning
until Sunday Nov. 30, 7 p.m.
____________________
Berrien, Cass counties (MI)
day-by-day VISITs & VIEWs of my BLOG -- faithfor2008.blogspot.com
11/1 3,489 -- blog articles / news / trivia / best wishes
11/2 2,434
11/3 3,486 [ most visits for 30-day period ]
11/4 1,114
11/5 695
11/6 1,045
11/7 1,385
11/8 732
11/9 985
11/10 887
Veterans Day 997
11/12 879
11/13 1,059
11/14 811
9,000th posting on this BLOG since 2007
11/15 1,021
11/16 886
11/17 782
11/18 973
11/19 877
11/20 886
11/21 1,362
11/22 1,389
11/23 667
11/24 948
11/25 867
11/26 866
Thanksgiving Day 1,514
11/28 1,179
11/29 1,195
Sunday 30th 1,425
Total for
NOV 1 - 30 36,835
average of 1,200 per day (VISITS & VIEWS)
KENNEDY Center says it's being paid millions to host
the FIFA draw
SOCCER's world cup organization claims to have pledged $
and given sponsorship opportunities, etc. etc.
the Hill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5618893-kennedy-
center-world-cup-draw/
Claim of $7.4 million "income" to host FIFA Draw
seems a bit off-the-books -- THE HILL does
detective work on that conglomeration of "pledges"
and cancellation of Holiday programming --
Trump 2.0, President of the Kennedy Center
will host the
KENNEDY Center "Honors"
musical-nostalgia variety
show that airs Dec. 21, prime time
for those he 98% picked =
Glam-heavy metal rockers KISS;
Sylvester Stallone, star of Movies/TV;
George Strait, Country Western star;
Michael Crawford, stage Singer/entertainer;
Gloria Gaynor, Disco "queen vocalist".
LaPorte, IN (GOP not MAGA)
State lawmaker
Mike Bohacek tells
his IN State House of
Representatives "Whip"
and "Speaker" -- his vote is
"NAY" for Trump & Braun-
ordered redistricting at 5th year
since 2020 census . . .
offended by Trump's insult
and unrepentant approach to
"jam through" in special session
matters that reverse the "will of
the entire voting electorate"
Exclusive to the NY Times
nytimes.com/2025/11/30/style/cory-booker-wedding-alexis-lewis.html
For 2024 (Biden-Harris last growing / harvest of
SOYBEANS -- China bought $12.6 billion
For 2025 (Trump-Vance present year growing / harvest
$0 sold to China markets
NY TIMES -- SOYBEANS were America's biggest single
export item in terms of value
_____________________________________________
Brooke Rollins -- Trump 2.0 - Vance Sec. of Agriculture
will release $3 billion to a
Commodity Credit Corporation
so that Farmers in Red or Purple states can receive
help to "Manage to Break Even amid the Largest Corn
and Soybean Crops" 2025.
The HILL reports / WSJ originated the 10/21/2025 online
news reporting.
Most famous-significant plays :
Rosencranz & Guildenstern are Dead
Leopoldstadt
Most significant and award winning movie
scripts : Shakespeare in Love
Empire of the Sun
Brazil (director Terry Gilliam)
Stoppard died at home in Dorset, U.K.
on Sat. Nov. 29, 2025.
First to marry while in Office as PRIME MINISTER
Anthony Albanese
married fiancee
JODIE HAYDON
photos at BBC.com/news/world
Prime Minister Albanese's party has won a
majority , powered by a backlash to
Trump-style MAGA tactics by opposition.
POLITICO.com/2025/05/03/donald-trump-cost
conservative-australia-election-takeaway/
_______________________________________
As Australians cast ballots on Saturday,
the superpower that looms_ , wielding tariffs
is America / not China. !
President Donald John Trump has raised questions
on whether Australia can depend on its longstanding
military alliance with the United States.
Political winds have shifted from domestic concerns
buffeted by the global tumult unleashed by #DJT part 2.0.
"We are Canada-lite; we don't have the same exposure
but Trump is very unpopular among the Australian public."
nytimes.com/2025/05/02/world/asia/australia-election-trump-china.html
Australian public's trust in the United States has sunk to its
lowest point in two decades. . .
While on X or "Truth" Social,
POTUS Trump 2.0 declared that
he will hereby terminate
any document signed by
POTUS 46 using an autopen.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/trump-
admin-live-updates/?id=127815197
. . .
were meant to be lethal
kinetic
NBC NEWS
international coverage of the Nov. 29, 2025 Papal
tour / conferences with area R. Catholics and Eastern
Rite Maronites
POPE LEO XIV
stopped in Istanbul to go into the Blue Mosque, removing
in a respectful way but did not himself pray in the
interior.
NBC News dot-com/
29 November 2025
part of his 4-day visit to Turkey and the Middle East
Friday Nov. 28, 2025
the Prime Minister of Canada has announced
new measures with the collapse and paralysis
of trade talks with the Trump 2.0 - Vance
Executive Branch of the U.S. Government :
a new tariff on steel products
a reduction in the amount
of foreign steel allowed in Canada
a lowering of costs to move lumber by rail.
Carney has announced that he will be in Washington, DC
for the upcoming FIFA World Cup as a political leader of a host nation (2026 schedule).
Producer - director - writer
born 29 Nov. 1954
Minneapolis, MN
Married to Oscar-winning
actress Frances McDormand
since 1984.
Films often center around or
include a botched crime :
Raising Arizona (1987)
Fargo (1996) and later
TV series.
TRIVIA: Roderick Jaymes,
credited for editing Joel &
Ethan's films, actually doesn't
exist. That name is a
pseudonym for work the two
brothers undertake for
themselves.
Their father Edward Coen
was an economist at the
University of Minnesota and
their mother an art historian
at St. Cloud State University.
Alexander Jones, Christ's College, Liverpool
June 1966
Introduction to the Psalms (150)
The Psalter (Greek, Psalterion,
the string-instrument used for the
accompaniment of these songs/Psalms)
is a collection of 150 Psalms.
From Psalm 10 to Psalm 148
the numbering of the Hebrew Bible
(adopted for the Jerusalem Bible)
is one figure ahead of the Greek
and Vulgate which join 9 and 10 and also
114 and 115, but divide 116 and 147 into
two.
In Hebrew this book is called
Tehillim 'hymns'. . . other Literary forms are
Entreaty
Thanksgiving
Exception and composite forms
Royal Psalms and Messianic Psalms
Psalm 99
God, Righteous and Holy King
Yahweh is King, the nations tremble;
he is enthroned on the cherubs,
earth quakes; Yahweh is great in Zion.
He is high over all nations;
may they praise your great and
terrible name, 'Holy is He' and mighty!
You are a King who loves justice,
insisting on honesty, justice, virtue,
as you have done for Jacob.
Let us extol Yahweh our God,
and worship at His footstool,
'Holy is He' !
Moses, Aaron one of his priests,
and Samuel his votary, all invoked
Yahweh: and He answered them.
He talked with them in the pillar of cloud;
they obeyed his decrees, the Law he gave them.
Yahweh our God You responded to them,
a God of forgiveness for them,
in spite of punishing their sins.
Extol Yahweh our God,
worship at His holy mountain,
'Holy is Yahweh our God!'
[the general editor of The JERUSALEM
BIBLE (1966) -- published
by Doubleday & Company, Inc.
was Alexander Jones, L.S.S., S.T.L., I.C.B.
b. 1906, for many decades
a Lecturer at Christ's College
Liverpool, U.K.
passed away to his heavenly
reward in 1970]
Born Nov. 28, 1961
Mexico City, Mexico
Film Maker of
"A Little Princess"
"Children of Men"
"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
"Gravity" (2013) which won 7 Academy Awards.
Frequently works with Cinematographer Emmanuel
Lubezki . . .
Now lives in London.
UPDATE (Nov. 28)
Gov. Tim Walz who was referenced by POTUS in his
"Thanksgiving" social media barbs and outright verbal
assaults has called for the resident of 1600 Pennsylvania
Ave. to release his MRI results
______________________________________________
Nov. 22 online reply of Walz
to Trump "tirade/Social rant"___
It's not surprising that the president
has chosen to broadly target an entire
community. This is what he does to
change the subject . . .
[ Ghislaine Maxwell taking the "Fifth"
as far as clearing her and Epstein's
affiliation and "cover" for his purported
activity now laid bare in the to-be-exposed
"EPSTEIN CLIENT LIST / FILES" ]
Atty. General of Minnesota
Keith Ellison also reacted decisively --
Somali folks came to Minnesota fleeing
conflict, instability, and famine and they
became an integral part of our state, culture
and community . . .
details at
NY TIMES .com Nov. 27, 2025
us/guard-shooting-suspect-profile.html
REPORT filed by Campbell
Robertson, Hamed
Aleaziz, Jack Healy
he was 5 years old,
living in Afghanistan
when 19 hijackers (Saudi
nationals + egyptian
Mohammad Atta) flew
planes into the World
Trade center Twin Towers,
the Pentagon in Alexandria,
VA and a field near Shanksville,
Pennsylvania
His paramilitary work was with
"Zero Unit" of Afghans working
with the U.S. anti-Taliban forces
Friday
Nov. 28, 2025
near Iznik (140 km. south of Istanbul, Turkey)
Celebration of the 1,700th
anniversary of the Nicene Creed.
DETAILS Forthcoming as far as complete list
of attendees.
God rest her soul --
she was sent by the governor of W. Virginia
on the National Guard mission of protecting
D.C. from gun violence.
Hopefully this will have meant changes for the
good as far as the short- and long-term
application of National Guard deployments.
A 20-year-old who joined up following H.S.
graduation.
Trump who himself never served in volunteer
military service calls her "magnificent" -- as
he telephoned in a Global - Transnational
conversation all those who are following
the call in regular military & National
Guard deployment he insisted were needed
in major urban locations (both in Blue states
and some cities of "RED" states recently).
Papal letter from POPE Leo XIV
ahead of trip to Iznik, Turkey
_________________________
site of ancient Nicaea
where the Ecumenical Council
took place 325 A.D.
vaticannews.va/en/Pope/news/2025-11/pope-leo-issues-letter-
in-unitate-fidei-on-nicaea.html
UPDATE : Nov. 26, 2025
SCOTUS (Supreme Court) - Chief Justice
John Robert
stood in the way Wednesday, 11/27
from the planned firing of Copyright
official SHIRA PERLMUTTER.
see CNN.com/. . . politics / supreme-court-
library-of-congress.html
The head of the Copyright office
is suing the Executive Branch POTUS
Donald John Trump , arguing her
abrupt ouster from the position
violated the Constitution's separation
of powers POLITICO.com/2025
5/22/ousted-head-of-copyright-office
challenges-trump-administration-00377020
Shira Perlmutter
will be escorted out of her office when she reports
Monday morning May 12, 2025
and must turn in her keys and
passwords as well as Parking Pass.
Federal Office of Copyright Head administrator.
Fired immediately when notified this past
weekend or at 12:01 a.m. by H.R. - DOGE branch.
PSALM xCix
Psalme 99
Jehovah 'tis that reigns_,
let people be in dread:
'midst Cherubs he remained,
th'earth let it be moved.
Jehovah is
in Sion great,
in highnes_ set
he is likewise
Above all the people.
Let them confesse_ thy Name
so great and terrible:
for holy is the same.
The King his might
doth love justice:
thou dost 'stablish
things that be right:
Judgement thou dost, also
in Iacob righteousness.
The Lord our God doe you
set up in his highnes,
and worship yee
his footstoole at:
by reason that holy is hee.
Moses also Aron
among his Priests, likewise
Samuell all those among
that to his name send cryes:
called they have the Lord upon,
and he alone them answer gave.
He unto them did speake_ in
th' cloudy pillar them;
they kept his records, eke
his ordinance he gave them.
Lord, thou who art our God
didst hear, and didst answers
to them impart.
Thou wast a God pard'ning them,
although thou vengeance upon
their works didst bring.
The Lord our God advance,
and woe yee downe_
at's holy hill: for our God's the Holy-One!
Psalm 99
The Lord reigneth, let the people tremble:
he sitteth between the cherubims, let the earth
be moved.
The Lord is great in Zion:
and he is high above all people.
Let them praise thy great and terrible name:
for it is holy.
The king's strength also loveth judgement_;
thou dost establish equity;
thou executes judgement and righteousness
in Jacob.
Exalt ye the Lord our God and worship
at his footstool:
for he is holy. [ footnote or it is holy ]
Moses and Aaron among his priests,
and Samuel among them that call upon his name:
they called upon the Lord, and he answered them.
He spoke unto them in the cloudy pillar:
they kept his testimonies,
and the ordinance that he gave them.
Thou answeredst_ them, O Lord our God;
thou wast a God that forgavest them,
though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.
Exalt the Lord our God,
and worship at his holy hill:
for the Lord our God is holy.
Published by the Oxford University
Press, its delegates - the British
and Foreign Bible Society and the
National Bible Society of Scotland
Psalm 99 -- in U.K. vernacular
The LORD is king, the peoples
are perturbed;
he is throned on the cherubim,
earth quivers.
The LORD is great in Zion;
he is exalted above all the peoples.
They extol his name as great
and terrible;
he is holy, he is mighty,
a king who loves justice.
Thou hast established justice and
equity;
thou hast dealt righteously in
Jacob.
Exalt the LORD our God,
bow down before his footstool;
he is holy.
Moses and Aaron among his
priests,
and Samuel among those who
call on his name,
called to the LORD and he
answered.
He spoke to them in a pillar
of cloud;
they followed his teaching and
kept the law he gave them.
Thou, O LORD our God, thou
didst answer them;
thou wast a God who forgave
all their misdeeds
and held them innocent.
Exalt the LORD our God,
bow down towards his holy hill;
for the LORD our God is holy.
The Lord is king; let the peoples tremble;
he is enthroned upon the cherubim,
the earth quakes.
Great is the LORD in Zion,
exalted above all the peoples.
Let them praise your great and awesome name:
holy is he!
O mighty king, lover of justice,
you have established fairness;
you have created just rule in Jacob.
Exalt the LORD , our God;
bow down before his footstool;
holy is he!
Moses and Aaron were among his priests;
Samuel among those who called on his name;
they called on the LORD and he answered them.
From the pillar of cloud he spoke to them;
they kept his decrees, the law he had given them.
O LORD, our God, you answered them;
you were a forgiving God to them,
though you punished their offenses.
Exalt the LORD, our God;
bow down before his holy mountain;
holy is the LORD, our God.
[ 2023 latest revisions posted online at USCCB.org
Scripture Text - Liturgical and Study Usage ]
The Lord rules -- the nations shake!
He sits enthroned on the winged
heavenly creatures -- the earth
quakes!
The LORD is great in Zion;
he is exalted over all the nations.
Let them thank your great and
awesome name. He is holy!
Strong king (correction)
who loves justice,
you are the one who established
what is fair.
You worked justice and righteousness
in Jacob.
Magnify the LORD, our God!
Bow long at his footstool!
He is holy!
Moses and Aaron were among
his priests, Samuel too among
those who called on his name.
They cried out to the LORD,
and he himself answered them --
he spoke to them from a pillar
of cloud.
They kept the laws and the rules
God gave to them.
LORD our God, you answered
them. To them you were a
God who forgives
but also the one who avenged
their wrong deeds.
Magnify the LORD our God!
Bow low at his holy mountain
because the LORD our God is holy!
[ see Psalm 2:6 ]
Translated from the ancient
Greek version / translation
called the SEPTUAGINT :
[ A New English translation of
the Septuagint Oxford Univ.
Press, 2000 ]
A Psalm. Pertaining to David.
The Lord became king; let peoples
grow angry! --
he who sits up on the cheroubin;
let the earth shake!
The Lord is great in Sion;
he is high before all the peoples.
Let them acknowledge your great
name for it is awesome and holy!
The king's honor loves justice;
you provided uprightness,
you executed justice and righteousness
in Iakob.
Extol the Lord our God;
worship at the footstool of his feet,
because holy is he!
Moyses and Aaron were among his priests,
Samouel also was among those who called
on his name.
They called on the Lord, and he hearkened
to them.
He would speak to them in a pillar of cloud;
they would keep his solemn charges,
and the decrees that he gave them.
O Lord our God, you would hearken to them;
O God, you were being very merciful to them,
but an avenger of all their practices.
Extol the Lord our God,
and worship toward his holy mountain;
for the Lord our God is holy.
Translated into English formal
language from the HEBREW Text of
100th Psalm of David (nine verses):
The Lord reigns!
Let the people tremble!
He sits enthroned upon
the cherubim; let the
earth quake!
The Lord is great in Zion;
he is exalted over all
the peoples.
Let them praise thy great
and terrible name!
Holy is He!
Moses and Aaron were
among his priests,
Samuel also was among
those who called on his name.
They cried to the Lord our
God; worship at his
footstool! Holy is He!
He spoke to them in the
pillar of cloud;
they kept his testimonies,
and the statutes that
he gave them.
O LORD our God, thou didst
answer them;
Thou wast a forgiving God
to them, but an avenger
of their wrongdoings.
Extol the LORD our God,
and worship at his holy
mountain, for the LORD
our God is holy!
The MICHAEL CURTIZ
1942 film premiered at
NY City's Hollywood
Theater -- Nov. 26, 1942.
One of the best WARNER
BROTHERS Studio films
of the 1940s -- a personal
favorite of mine!
BREAKING NEWS -- John Acree, Exec. Director
claims the GHF model will be continued into
further U.S. "food box" approach --
thetimesofisrael.com/gaza-humanitarian-foundations-announces-end-
of-operations-in-strip-after-five-months
Monday Nov. 24, 2025 8 p.m.
Distribution takes place at militarized hubs (few in number)
that monitor the fragile "Cease-Fire"
_____________________________________
UPDATE: May 26 announcement of resignation
Jake Wood -- Director -- his departure followed
growing acrimony within the growing aid sector
and the four sites in southern Gaza have been
under continued pressure during threat of mass
famine and starvation. . . He was co-founder of
Team Rubicon and had overseen dozens of
humanitarian operations across Myanmar, Sudan,
and Haiti -- breaking news 4 a.m. Monday 26th May.
______________________________________
May 14th - Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
aligned with Trump-Vance group thinkers
wants to arrange for U.S. directed commodities
to be distributed what with the 3-month blockade
of food and fuel truck deliveries.
nytimes.com/2025/05/14 -- spokesperson declared
that it will have agreements with Israel to begin
before May 31 this year.
a handful of distribution zones would each serve
food to several hundred thousand Palestinians each
Ambassador Mike Huckabee of Jerusalem
said that "the danger is not doing anything. . ." / /
as in today's status quo which already began doing
nothing back in the spring of 2025
Approved the council directives of
325 A.D.
including the
Nicene-Constanpolitan
Creed still used in Christian
confession / worship
to the 21st Century
From
Collected Poems by Herman Melville
(Penguin Books, 2006) : from
John Marr and other sailors (1888)
Through storms you reach them
and from storms are free,
Afar descried_, the foremost drear_ in hue,
But, nearer, green; and on the marge, the sea
Makes thunder low and mist of rainbowed dew,
But, inland, where the sleep that folds the hills
A dreamier sleep, the trance of God, instills ---
On uplands hazed, in wandering airs aswoon,
Slow-swaying palms salute love's cypress tree
Adown in vale where pebbly runlets croon
A song to lull all sorrow and all glee.
Sweet fern and moss in many a glade are here,
Where, strown_ in flocks, what cheek-flushed myriads lie
Dimpling in dream --- unconscious slumberers mere,
While billows endless round the beaches die.
A Senior Trump administration who is leading
"ALTERNATIVE SAFE COMMUNITIES"
funding uncertain
small scale
how does this fit the scale of Gaza Territory's
2 million residents?
PRIME MOVERS OF THE PROJECT are :
U.S. Officials who along with Israeli Govt.
officials who will provide on-ground support.
Cost for clearing the land would be in the tens
of millions of dollars just to initiate a prototype
"community" -- modular dwelling similar to
some used in earthquake relief zones, Syrian refugee
housing, U.S. troops in military bases across the
Middle East.
Lightstone's team works out of Tel Aviv in
Kempinski and Hilton, two luxury hotel/resorts.
He was also CEO of the "Abraham Accords" institute,
founded in Trump's first term by his son-in-law Jared
Kushner, real estate magnate.
U.S. (Executive Branch)
plans compounds (ALTERNATIVE
SAFE COMMUNITIES) to house
Palestinians / Gazans in Israeli-held
half of Gaza Strip (Palestinian
area comprised of those apart from
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY whose
capital is Ramallah, West Bank)
nytimes.com/2025/11/25/world/middleeast/
us-compounds-palestinians-israel-gaza-strip.html
Trump seize control of
Republicans' midterm
election control strategy
REUTERS.com
Nov. 25 [subscription
required]
recent meetings in
construction-area
West-Wing and Rose
Garden "club" meetings
of incumbent Representatives
as well as most GOP Senators
NPR offers details
National Security Adviser/ SECY. of State
Marco Rubio of Florida
is "making progress" in Geneva, Switzerland
to amend the "peace plan" offered to Russia &
Ukraine by outsider "influencer" the U.S. (Trump-
Vance executive branch)
npr.org/2025/11/24/g-s198998/geneva-us-ukraine-report-progress
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
in April 1945
Richard Milhouse Nixon
in 1994 (20 years after resignation)
______________________________
Richard Cheney of WY
in 2025 did not get a State Funeral only
family funeral with invitation not offered
to incumbent POTUS and VP - service
handled at National Cathedral (D.C.) with
military escort and military singers/orchestra
William Henry Pratt was born
in Camberwell, London, England on
Nov. 23, 1887.
His superstar career as a
lead / star in Univeral
Horror movie standards
began
in 1931 with Frankenstein
(director James Whale) and
continued with The Mummy,
Bride of Frankenstein, Mask
of Fu Manchu, The Raven,
and his last movie (director
Peter Bogdanovich) Targets
in 1968. Also well known for
voice acting the Grinch in the
TV Xmas special (25 minutes)
and Narrator.
REUTERS dot-com
DOGE Doesn't exist
with 8 months left on its "charter"
update 11/25
"DOGE" claims of slashing budget
expenditures impossible to actually document
since it was non-transparent or following
established accounting practices to show
what it accomplished.
_____________________________
UPDATE: July 11, 2025
DOGE Staff departures story at
POLITICO.com / 00448823
also Brad Smith who decimated HHS,
Chris Stanley, Emily Miller, Amanda Scales,
James Burnham, & Tom Krause.
_____________________________
For more than 20 years, the engineer
has devoted himself to fulfilling Elon
Musk's desires following him to
SpaceX
and the social media Twitter, renamed
X [ Davis also oversaw layoffs there]. . .
Davis is an engineer who will throw
himself at any task, even if he has
no expertise in the area. . .
nytimes.com/2025/03/20/technology/
elon-musk-steve-davis-doge.html
Noah Schachtman Writer on National Security
THE REAL REASON
TRUMP
is fawning over
SAUDI ARABIA's RULER
22 November 2025 (online analysis)
nytimes.com/2025/11/22/opinion/
trump-saudi-crown-prince-fossil-fuel.html
WVPE (Elkhart, IN) NPR affiliate
tells the story of a golden retriever
"Therapy Dog" / Firehouse mascot
who will be part of the city of GOSHEN,
Indiana who is being trained by
"Top Notch Canine" in her obedience
studies and following orders of the
various Fire Dept. and EMT teams she
would work for.
DETAILS of Maple at
wvpe.org/wvpe-news/2025-11-20/
maple-the-therapy-dog-joins-goshen-fire-departments-
wellness-efforts
FOLLOW-up
NYTimes.com/2025/11/23/style
"Mamdani's meeting with Trump
OVAL OFFICE
reactions-fuentes-bannon.html
scrambled the MAGA Sphere
Anti-Semite Fuentes called
for a total immigration ban
and for US State Dept. to
cut ties with Israel. . .
NBC News online platform
"Trump offers
Zohran Mamdani
nothing but praise"
Nov. 21,
2025
Nov. 22, 1963
POTUS John F. Kennedy assassinated in
motorcade at Dallas, TX. Also wounded
from the sniper was Gov. Connally riding
in the same car as Kennedy.
LBJ sworn in that afternoon aboard
returning Air Force One that carried the
corpse of the young President.
for CNN Subscribers
"How Trump is overseeing White House
renovations the same way he oversaw
building his towers, clubs, golf courses"
Weekend of Nov. 22- 23, 2025
Minnesota STAR-Tribune
reports 10:25 a.m. Saturday
11/22/2025
"Trump says he's
ending TEMPORARY STATUS
for Somalis in Minnesota" (a blue state
that voted for Harris - Walz 56 weeks ago
in 2024 Presidential Election -- its governor
is Tim Walz who was chosen by Harris,
then-VP of the USA --
Trump used "smear" tactics
of propaganda, calling an
entire group of respectful
immigrants / new workers
"a money laundering gang"
startribune.com/trump-ending-
protected-status-somalis-minnesota-
tps-ilhan-omer-walz-601531436
Nov. 22 further update as ATTY. GENERAL
did in S. Florida file motion for Grand JURY Materials
to be released
the Hill.com/regulation/court-battles/5618441-epstein-grand-jury-transcripts-bondi.html
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/
NOVEMBER 22, 2005
20 yrs.ago
Angela Merkel
sworn in as nation's first
female chancellor
at that nation's Parliament.
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
Former President
Woodrow Wilson
who is the only President
buried in the National
Cathedral (Episcopal
Church) in NW District
of Columbia.
Ukrainian delegation of leaders
and concerned parents, grandparents met
at Vatican City with the POPE and official
representatives to talk about the
Children kidnapped after Russian invasion who
remain missing and under-reported.
Nov. 21, 2025
washington post dot-com
Trump, Donald & Melania
[ he claimed to be receiving
an intelligence report 11 a.m. ]
Vance, JD & Usha Shukuri
[ he was on a call-in PODCAST
Breitbart program ]
Obama, Barak & Michelle
Clinton, Bill & Hillary
_______________________
of 6 living Vice Presidents, the
absent one Thursday 11 a.m.
was JD Vance of Ohio
John Adams (VP for George Washington)
and
Thomas Jefferson (VP for John Adams)
both died on
July 4, 1826
One month later -- Nov. 21 -- Bolton's trial
may be delayed an entire 12 months due to
issues of classified items and chargeable offense
over what he send emails out concerning
washingtonpost.com/ (Publisher Jeff Bezos)
UPDATED: 11 a.m. Friday Oct. 17, 2025
NBC News at federal grand jury in Maryland
COULD FACE 10 years in prison
/politics/justice-department/john-bolton-surrender-
authorities-federal-indictment-rcna238146
The House of Representatives yesterday (Wed.
Nov. 19, 2025)
vote to kill the legislative
provision that had created
a legal "Avenue" to sue
the United States for $500,000
a piece -- details two days ago (online article
NYTimes.com/. . . house-vote-to-
kill-bill-allowing-senators-to-sue-government
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
_________________________________________
see details (Subscription)
Politico.com/ news / 2025/11/03/
congress-longest-shutdown-record-00632927
____________________________
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.
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 Thursday at National Cathedral
Nov. 20, 2025 was George W. Bush
POTUS 43; Cheney was his VP for 8 years and
Secy. of Defense for George H.W. Bush (1989-1992),
and chief of staff for POTUS 38 Gerald Ford (1974-1976)
______________________________
Present from the Supreme Court were:
Chief Justice Roberts, associate justices
Thomas, Kagan, Kavanaugh
Jerusalem Post op-ed
"Trump's call for
Netanyahu pardon
crosses a line in
Israeli sovereignty "
co-Authors
Dr. Jonathan Reiner, M.D.
&
former VP of the United States
Dick Cheney of Wyoming
released Oct. 2013
PBS
Ken Burns & Sarah BOTSTEIN
are co-directors of the
American Revolution
limited PBS prime-time series
(12-hours meant to be viewed
6 nights in 2-hour episodes)
c-span.org/program/america-250/
ken-burns-and-sarah-botstein-
on-their-documentary/667985
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.
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.
A new record for Modern Art
Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer
artnews.com/art-news/news/gustav-klimt-portrait-elisabeth-
lederer-auction-record-1234762083
Highest price for any modern piece of art
$236.4 million
___________________________
The Frida Kahol portrait was painted
in 1940.
washingtonpost.com/
Prosecutor - admits she did not
tell / show entire grand jury the charge/s against
Comey -- case will be thrown out
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.
