10/30/2025

 Thursday, October 30, 2025

1917 British government gave final approval to the Balfour Declaration

1950 Pope Pius XII witnessed "The Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican

1961  The massive, 50 megaton hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba was detonated by the Soviet Union

1972  A commuter train collision in Chicago killed 45 & injured more than 300

In 1995, by a narrow margin, Quebec voters decided to remain a part of Canada.

2010  Security screening of cargo and air passengers in the United States, Britain and Canada was stepped up after bombs were found in packages from Yemen to two Chicago synagogues.

2022 Several thousand black-clad fascist sympathizers marched to slain Italian dictator BenIto Mussolini's’s crypt in Predappio, Italy, commemorating 100th anniversary of his bloodless coup

In bed at 9:30, up at 1:55, unable to sleep.  44°, high of 54°, clear skies and sunny day ahead.  My left ankle area hurt during the night.  I felt it this morning at 2:45 and it felt cool to the touch, with the redness still present, but abated.  Why any pain at all?  The skin on the outer side of my lower leg is rough and a mess with lots of dead skin cells from earlier swellings, now routes for reinfection.  Lights out from 4 to about 6, up for a pit stop, and then slept till almost 7 on the bed.

Meds, etc.  Doxycycline at 7:30 a.m. and   p.m.  Morning meds at 7:30  a.m.

I read all of my journal entries on this date last year, all of them still very interesting to me, with these entries notable:

[from my memoir]  My heart aches when I think of the price the Clausen family and millions of other families paid in foreign wars only to lead to policies of invasion, occupation, torture, kidnappings, detentions without legal process, and claims of almost boundless executive authority by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and Gonzales.  Did we learn nothing from Vietnam?   Is there no limit to the amount of happy horseshit gullible Americans will willingly eat?

I wrote the memoir during the Bush Jr. regime.  Now we have Trump II, and are finding out what "claims of almost boundless executive authority" really looks like.

I also wrote:

It's hard to think about next spring.  Will we be talking about President Trump or President Harris? . . . Will we be even more psychically and civically scarred than we are now?  Will we have dodged a bullet or will we be living under a lawless, oligarchic, kleptocratic regime of Trump, Vance, Musk, Banon, Miller, and others?

Now we know. 

 Heavenly heavenward

Driving to Walmart on Hy. 32, which terminates at Grand Avenue in Port Washington, which, in the mid-afternoon autumn sunshine, was so spectacularly beautiful with muli-colored maple and other trees lining the street, I tried to find a spot where I could capture it with my camera, but, alas, failed.

  FB Exchange on Cheri's birthday:

Charles D. ClausenCheri Bubrick

Happy Birthday, Cheri! 👯🎊☕

Cheri Bubrick

Thank you Chuck!!! I just got a little visit from your wife! What a great gift she is!

Charles D. Clausen

She is indeed, and so are you. Hard to find a better (former) neighbor. You were one of the best things about moving into our current home, a blessing..❤

Cheri Bubrick

I’m still right around the corner! We have to get together more often! ❤️