On Time...

The Subway System is deteriorating big time in NYC. People are packed in like sardines.
The Mayor finally wants to tax the rich to fix the subway. Too late, we need someone who can pay attention to the transportation system, the engine for NY city's business.

الزمن الجميل

الي كل الاحباء  والاصدقاء والعاءله  . تحيه طيبه للجميع. شكرا جزيلا لكل منكم علي مشاركتكم الغاليه لي. ذكرتني بايام السنتر  الشبيبه  الجامعه الخريجين و العام   ْ الزمن الجميل  ٌ    زي ما البعض سماه.
ُ ليت الشباب يعود يوما ُ امنيه  طيبه  بشرط  ان يكون معها نفس ُ الزمن  الرابطه  المحبه و المجموعه ُ.
اخيرا... خش علي الفيس .حتي يسهل الاتصال.

To all my friends and family. Thank you so much for all your wishes, posts and comments. I truly enjoyed it to the max. It brings back memories, great memories of our time.

I enjoyed following the various posts on F B and learn and be happy to hear your good news, progress and success. Please join if you can, it facilitates the communication.

I choose this song because it is as close as it can be.
Thanks again to all.

Sedatives...

Investigators say the pilot of a Texas hot air balloon that crashed and killed 16 people flew with enough Benadryl in his system to have the equivalent blood-alcohol level of a drunken driver.

National Transportation Safety Board investigators at a hearing in Washington that pilot Alfred "Skip" Nichols also took sedatives and opioids that likely affected his decision-making during the July 2016 flight.
Nichols had at least four convictions for drunken driving and twice spent time in prison.

A Texas lawmaker expects hot air balloon pilots to obtain medical certificates following a crash similar to last year that killed 16 people.
The July 2016 crash in a pasture near Austin, Texas, was the worst hot air balloon disaster in U.S. history.

The National Transportation Safety Board could recommend new safety regulations. Medical experts have said the pilot of the Texas balloon should have been grounded because of medical ailments and drug use. 

MockingBird...

The public school district in Biloxi, Miss., did not specify which words, exactly, in “To Kill a Mockingbird” are so objectionable that the book was yanked from an eighth-grade reading list last week, 57 years after it published.

“There is some language in the book that makes people uncomfortable,” school board vice president Kenny Holloway vaguely told the Sun Herald.

That is: the n-word, which Harper Lee pointedly did not when she wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about racism in the United States.

The n-word appears nearly 50 other times throughout “Mockingbird”  almost always in dialogue. The novel won its author a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and “made the values of the civil rights movement  particularly a feeling for the god-awful unfairness of segregation  real for millions.

Many would be unhappy with that.

Prices

President Donald Trump tweeted  that he is "working on a new system where there will be competition" in the drug sector and that "pricing for the American people will come way down."

President Trump railed against "outrageous" drug prices Monday, sending biotech and pharma stocks reeling midday. Today he said the same thing.

This will get him a second term. Just a thought.

At Hand...

A U.S.-backed Kurdish-led force battling the Islamic State group in Syria will be in control of Raqqa "within a few days" after attacking the last militant-held pocket of the city, a spokesman for the force said Monday.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, also said that fierce street battles were underway near the main hospital in Raqqa, once the de facto capital of the extremists' self-proclaimed caliphate.

A Kurdish commander said the situation has calmed down in the city in order to allow the remaining civilians to leave the area.

On the other side, Iraqi government troops entered the city of Kirkuk without a fight, taking up positions inside the city after Kurdish fighters withdrew.

Iraqi commanders ordered the operation after a contentious independence vote on Sept. 25 in the oil-rich Kurdish region in northern Iraq. Baghdad, Washington and most international leaders condemned the referendum.

Who are we backing, Iraqis, Kurdish, or oil? and why?  

DOH...

The Democrats are hiding at this time. Only Hillary is the one talking, and she is not saying any thing of value. She thinks she is still running for the presidential election and thus is trashing Trump. This is well and good, if any is listening. Look around.  Just a thought.

Austria...

Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz won the national election, putting the 31-year old on track to become Europe’s youngest leader.

Integrate...

Austria’s Interior Ministry says nearly completed final returns show the center-right party headed by Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz won the national election, putting the 31-year old on track to become Europe’s youngest leader.

Becoming head of government would be the next leap in a political career that started eight years ago when Kurz, then studying law, was elected chairman of his party's youth branch.

Smart and articulate, he eventually caught the eye of People's Party elders. He was appointed state secretary for integration, overseeing government efforts to make immigrants into Austrians, in 2011.

The results put Austria on track for a rightward turn. Both the People’s and Freedom Parties campaigned on introducing tough measures to curb immigration and to pressure foreigners already in the country to integrate.

This is the topic de-Jour all around.  Just a thought.

Bannon...

 


Steve Bannon predicted that his former boss will not only finish out his first term, but win a second term with 400 electoral votes in 2020.  Bannon was directly refuting a recent Vanity Fair article.

Bannon, who returned to Breitbart News as its executive chairman after leaving the White House this summer, has pledged to fight for Mr. Trump and his agenda from outside the White House. Part of that pledge includes fighting the establishment GOP Bannon believes is responsible for stifling that agenda.

But the GOP establishment isn't Bannon's only target. The former top Trump strategist also spoke of the need to dismantle former President Barack Obama's signature accomplishments.

Sebastian Gorka, a former deputy assistant to the president who spoke at the conference before Bannon, said Bannon has declared war on the "RINO" (Republicans in name only) class, and "every swamp dweller" in Washington, regardless of party.