Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
In bed at 8:45, up at 6 after a disjointed, unrestful night's sleep. 0°, high of 13°, Wind Chill Advisory only until 9 a.m. The wind is WSW at 16 mph, 8-16/30. Wind chills today -20° to -2°. Sunrise at 7:19, sunset at 4:44, 9+24.
Treadmill; pain. Normal back & right wrist pain; left shoulder, not so much.
I'm grateful that I have all my teeth but one bicuspid. And I suppose I'm grateful that I still have hair on my old head. Dad's genes?
Sweet sour cabbage borscht. Distracted by eating dinner, the broth boiled pretty vigorously for some time. Hope it doesn't ruin the beef shank meat. I'll be finding out whether boiling the beef and veggies ruins the broth. Keeping my fingers crossed.
My brush with the Milwaukee Mafia. There is a long feature piece in this morning's Journal/Sentinel about the car bombing death of Augie Palmisano on June 30, 1978. More tomorrow.
In the world's eyes, has Israel become Netanyahu and the settlers? If so, is this good for the Jews or bad for the Jews? If I asked the average American, who Ehud Barak or Elud Olmert or Naftali Bennett or Yesh Atid, or Yair Lapid is, I would get in response a blank stare. If I asked who Benjamin Netanyahu is, I would be told he is the prime minister of Israel. Netanyahu was the prime minister from 1996 to 1999, from 2009 to 2021, and from December 2022 until the present. I daresay that for most Americans Netanyahu is Israel and Israel is Netanyahu. I also daresay that if the average American were asked to name any other prime minister of Israel, s/he wouldn't be able to name one. I suspect also that many, perhaps most, Americans identify Israel with the settlers in the West Bank, or in Samaria and Judea as they call it. According to Israel's official census agency, about 6.8 million Jews are living in Israel proper, and another 503,000 living in the West Bank. There are also 2.08 million Arabs who are Israeli citizens, and a bit more than half a million 'others.' The Palestinian population in Israel and the occupied territories is: East Jerusalem, 351,570; West Bank area C, 300,00; West Bank areas A & B, 2,464, 566. (Another 2.2 million Palestinians live in Gaza, at least before the current war.) The Jews who control Israel's domestic and foreign policies and Israel's image in the world (at least before October 7th) are half-million settlers in the West Bank. It is they who have made the two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine impossible. It is they who, more than any other Jews, symbolize oppression, degradation, segregation/apartheid, and aggression against the Palestinians, at least until the current war in Gaza. They are Israel's MAGA cult. Likud is Israel's Republican Party and Netanyahu is Israel's Trump. I suspect that the settlers in alliance with Likud and Netanyahu are turning Israel into a pariah state and that the war in and on Gaza will accelerate the process.
Visit with Dr. Neery for x-rays and cleaning. AOK. Expected worse.
LTMW and seeing birds again, mainly chickadees but also white-bellied nuthatches, male and female cardinals, a mourning dove, and the red-bellied woodpecker. I whacked the safflower/sunflower tube with my walking stick to break up the frozen seeds and it worked.
Took Lilly to the vet. Slow proprioception, degenerative something or other, age-related. Callous on her right elbow, needs lanolin to protect it from infection.
All Creatures Great and Small. We watched two episodes of this terrific series tonight.
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