KEY WEST LOU / I’M BACK AFTER TWO DAYS OFF

I’m back after two days off. Sunday and monday. Sunday because I overslept and then had to hurry to catch a one o’clock Syracuse game at Jack Flats. Yesterday because of my annual physical, etc. beginning at 8 in the morning. Followed by a manicure at 10 and a couple of business matters thereafter.

The weather is off major concern. It is COLD! Eight am at the moment and 63 degrees. High today will only be 67. A  long pants day definitely.

Syracuse played Oregon sunday. The team’s finest game this season. Syracuse continues to improve with each game. Syracuse won by 20 points 83-63.

It was a comeback game, so to speak. Syracuse was down by 10 points 14-4 after 8 minutes of play. Despondency was setting in. I feared the basketball season would be as the football one. Then Syracuse started playing basketball. The team was ahead by 8 at half. Demolished Oregon offensively and defensively in the second half.

Actually, Syracuse was not playing bad in the early minutes when they wee down by 10 points. The problem was the ball was not dropping into the basket. Even easy shots were being missed.

Syracuse’s next game is thursday against Niagara. Should be an easy one for Syracuse. Never know, however. Game begins at 5.

Guy de Boer is back in town. He has been away for a couple of years racing in Europe and elsewhere. Spent some time living in the Canary Islands. Called me yesterday. Said he was back to stay a while.

Yellow fever during the Civil War was considered by some to have been more deadly than bullets. Many, in and out of the service, died from the disease.

Key West’s renowned treasure hunter Mel Fisher died at his home in Key Haven this day in 1998 at the age of 76. His 16 year search ended in success when he found the “mother lode” of the Spanish galleon Atocha in 1985.

September 11, 2001, better known as 9/11, was a devastating day for the United States. New York City’s Twin Towers came down following attack. Nearly 3,000 were killed.

It took 3 months for the fire that burned beneath the ruins to die out.

A developing reality. Young people are not attending church in increasing numbers because they are sick of preachers praising Donald Trump instead of Jesus Christ.

I heard on a radio talk show an interesting comment yesterday. It was to the effect that regarding anti-Semitism, American universities are where Germany’s  were in the 1920’s.

Scary.

Today’s podcast goes back 5-6 years. If I had to title it, it would be Politicians Are Asses.

So much the Devil and Saddam and Gomorrah talk these days. Satan has become part of our everyday discourse.

The Satanic Temple is on the move. It is in the process of launching an After School Satan Club at Chineyrock Elementary School in Memphis, Tennessee. The community is not happy about it.

The Memphis – Shelby County School District Board Chair Althea Greene told a group of concerned parents, religious leaders, and school officials, that “Satan has no room in this District.”

However, it seems the Prince of Darkness just might. The Satanic Temple says it can and already has 4 other clubs in the U.S.

The path for Satanic after-school clubs has become possible because of the ease by which evangelical Christian groups have created religious clubs which have gone unchallenged.

The Trump world is furious over the “massive” Rudy Giuliani defamation verdict.

Good! Let them be furious. Let them learn you cannot lie about important things which bring pain upon those you lied about. Let them be aware the mighty cannot defecate upon those of lesser status without recourse.

Power is no license to walk on anyone.

Trump continues to evoke Hitler when it comes to immigrants. He did so again at a recent rally in New Hampshire stating that migrants coming into the U.S. are “poisoning the blood of our country.” Hitler’s quote in Mein Kampf: “All great cultures of the past perished only because originally creative race died out from blood poisoning.”

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was attending a concert recently when he fell and broke his hip. He has had surgery. He is 76 years old.

His fall was a mere simple trip as was described by him. It happens as we get older.

Pope Francis celebrated his 87th birthday this past week. Happy Birthday! to a good man. The world needs more people like him.

Tonight, the Grand Cafe hopefully. Their crispy duck has been on my mind.

Enjoy your day!

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