A week ago, Saturday the 21st, I attended the "Tucker Carlson with JD Vance" event in Hershey PA, 10 miles from my house.
As a personal note, it was a very good experience for me. I needed it. I've spent too much time alone in a truck recently.
From April through mid-September I drove over-the-road, creating web pages in stolen moments
TO STOP U.S./Israeli GENOCIDE OF GAZANS STOP U.S. UNPROVOKED PROXY WAR AGAINST RUSSIA MANAGE IMMIGRANTS and SURGE INTELLIGENTLY
Despite my best intentions and efforts, I arrived a little late, but that was all to the good. The line was several people wide
(as people were clustered in groups), and a mile long. Well ... several hundred yards long, I guess maybe. It wasn't moving. Then it was.
As I showed up, more excited than you can expect from a person of my age, hyped on coffee, and looking forward to seeing, and maybe meeting
both of them. (I did have an excellent seat, at stage level, off to the right of JD as he faced the audience, 100 feet distant, I'll guess).
But much of the richness of the event, for me, was interacting with the other event-goers. They were refreshingly intelligent and informed,
and also alive and up in energy and friendliness, and sociable. I need to get out more with good people like them.
When the event was over, it was raining heavily outside for a while, and that added to the fun. It was easy for me to find my car because
when I arrived late, the end of the line was blocking parking spaces facing the sidewalk. So I waited a minute until the line moved up a little
and unblocked the parking spaces. After the event, when I left in the rain and dark,
I just had to walk back down the sidewalk that the line was on, and there was my car.
Others were wandering around, lost from their cars in the dark and drizzle. The interior of my car was a garbage disaster,
but two elderly women (cat-ladies, no doubt) didn't complain as they sat in the back with the mess.
It was hopeless to find their car until the rest of the cars left, but they were dry and we had some fun joking and talking.
All in all, a good experience picking up the vibe of the energy in a tight and important Presidential Campaign and Election.
JD VANCE and Tucker, Hershey PA
JD's son prepped JD for
the roller-coaster, spinny,
Presidential Campaign
Saturday, September 21 2024
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Yesterday, Saturday the 28st, I attended the "Occupy Peace and Freedom" rally in Kingston, NY, 250 miles from my house.
The 250 mile trip took well over 4 hours and I was more than 2 hours late, driving through light rain drizzle,
but they started late, as I expected. I listened to The Rally on the phone as I drove up to Kingston NY, but reception was spotty.
The rain had stopped when I got there.
It was all Scott Ritter, God Bless him, because Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil couldn't make it because of hurricane
airport damage in Florida, I believe, and Judge Napolitano arrived for only the last hour.
I had picked up newly made business cards at Staples at the start of my trip to identify myself and my website.
Scott was talking when I got there, so I left some cards at Scott's table with his adult daughters, telling my story to one of them
so she could possibly share with her dad later, hopefully to get him interested to examine my website.
Indeed, I did briefly meet Scott Ritter and give him a card, but I didn't have the time with him to chat, as I expected was likely.
Shout out to you, Judge Napoitano. Looking forward to seeing you at another event.
"JUDGING FREEDOM" with
JUDGE NAPOLITANO and SCOTT RITTER
Thursday, September 26 2024
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Judge Napolitano and David Scully
Born and Raised in Newark
I didn't get to talk to, or meet, Judge Napolitano. He arrived, got on stage and talked, took pictures, and was gone
before I knew it. Judge Napolitano was born 9 months and 25 days before I was born, both of us born in Newark NJ,
about 97 miles from Kingston NY.
I guess maybe God was a little worried after Andy was born and He thought "I don't know about this one...I better make another one,
just in case," and so I was conceived. At least, that was the buzz at the Kingston Peace Rally, they tell me.
Anyway, God was on a roll and He made two really good ones, back to back or, at least that's what they all say, I'm told.
I think The Judge didn't attend Sacred Heart School in the Vailsburg section of Newark where I was born and raised through 5th grade.
Vailsburg! Ah! The Memories! The Library on Alexander Street, Vailsburg Park a Little League All-Star Centerfielder,
Ivy Hill Park where I whooped a boy twice my size, Sacred Heart Church - we lived 5 houses away, Lincoln School Playground Summers!I'm guessing Judge Nap is from the First Ward, like Frankie ValliThe First Ward
In Alaska in the 90's, I learned to sing well and won many big contests singing "Sherry."
A talent scout in Palm Springs heard it and invited me to Glendale CA to audition for a new program "Your Big Break."
One of the speakers at the Peace Rally in Kingston (Gerald Celente or Jose Loria, I think) joked that all the speakers were Italian,
which they were (except for Scott). As I mingled with my business cards and laptop and dog, my "passport", as I bantered with the men,
was that "I'm Italian ... I was born in Italy ... Western Italy ... Newark NJ ... 7 houses down from Mayor Addonizio"
as they gazed and analyzed and commented on my face (sort of a mix of Irish mug, Scandanavian Viking, but mostly Fabio Lanzoni,
or so they say).
In fact, the Italians and Irish joined in 1960 to elect Addonizio Mayor of Newark, and Kennedy President of The United States.
So, I feel special bonds with Judge Napolitano. We stomped the same turf. Seton Hall University
was 3 short blocks from our house in South Orange and it was like my backyard, only bigger.
It was there that we played baseball with Father Cunningham in 8th grade
(I was the only one in the class who could catch his long distance fly balls),
it was there that we boys threw dirt clods at one another during construction,
played football, and used the campus as a shortcut to South Orange Village and to the hills beyond.
Seton Hall was also the shortcut to Ivy Hill Park and to my best friend's apartment in the 15-story Ivy Hill Apartments.
Seton Hall is where I bested Norman Mailer at quick repartee when he spoke there, and it is the hallowed ground of a seminary
and of Will Durant, the Pulitzer Prize and Presidential Medal of Freedom winning author (with his wife Ariel)
of the 11-volume "The Story of Civilization."
Will Durant also attended St. Peter's Prep and St. Peter's College in Jersey City, as I did.
And finally, Judge Nap went further in law than I did for sure, but I attended law school a year plus in Sacramento,
giving me an appreciation for Napolitano's career in law and as a judge, and for his mastery of Constitutional issues.
So this trip to Kingston NY Saturday was meaningful for me as it brought me back
to the area and the people of my stomping grounds 50 years ago.
In Kingston I was struck with memories as I walked on slate sidewalks like the sidewalks we had in Newark
and struck by the characteristics of the people gathered there.
Ten miles from Kingston NY is Woodstock. In 1972 and 1973, I lived in Woodstock, NY for a while,
and my drive to Woodstock brought back memories that have left me in a state of reverie or contemplation.
Woodstock is different now, of course (more modern and glitzy), but also the same (a delightful, family-oriented escape 110 miles
from Manhattan. It's a strange feeling. It feels a bit like home.
I wasn't there for the famous festival nearby in 1969. I wasn't even aware of it back then, and I wouldn't have gone, anyway.
I just happened to meet someone in 1971 who encouraged me to go there because it was a pleasant and friendly town,
and it became like home to me until I joined the Navy in December 1973 to escape NY/NJ and childhood, and be a man.
And, of course, Kingston itself, New York's first capital in 1777 is a historic and fitting place
for meetings like the Peace Rally in this critically troubled time.
You CAN'T FLY TO KINGSTON though, and it was a long, hard drive across Interstate 78 in Pennsylvania and then up 87 in New York - over 4 hours.
I RECOMMEND MIDDLETOWN PA, WHICH IS ALSO A WALKABLE TOWN (and Historic, founded 1755, pre-Revolution), with an
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, a 1.4 MILE WALKING DISTANCE from my commercial and residential building on a quiet street, (commercial bldg. next door available)
AMTRAK EVEN CLOSER (ONLY A HALF MILE DISTANCE), the
PA STATE CAPITOL COMPLEX a 10-minute Amtrak ride or a drive away, a
PENN STATE CAMPUS a walkable mile, and
THREE INTERSTATES (I81, I83, I76 PA Turnpike). It's
127 MILES TO WASHINGTON, D.C., and
187 MILES TO NYC, and
250 MILES TO KINGSTON NY.
When I say I "RECOMMEND" Middletown PA I mean it is a very good location, with some pluses and minuses vis-a-vis Kingston NY.
I have a commercial/residential duplex on a very quiet street in "downtown" Middletown
and I believe its highest and best use could be something of a Think Tank, media, gathering point.
I listed above the walkable closeness of
Harrisburg INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (1.4 miles),AMTRAK stop (0.7 miles),
PENN STATE CAMPUS (1.0 miles),
and 3 INTERSTATES nearby (81, 83, and The PA Turnpike 76)
The street is quiet, surrounded by parks and banks, and walkable to everything in Middletown.
Its proximity to the Harrisburg State Capitol Complex, New York City, and Washington D.C.
make it a good location for intellects and activists and journalists and YouTube Channel Hosts to meet, stay, and operate.
There is an interesting expansion opportunity available at this time.
Though Kingston is closer to NYC, Middletown PA is closer to Washington D.C. (127 miles, taking I83)
I toss out to leaders of the "Occupy Peace Rally"
Gerald Celente, Joe Lauria, Roger Waters, Scott Ritter, Judge Napolitano and people in their networks.
Dave 201 927-0019
