Turning Japanese

...sin is crouching at your door;
it desires to have you,
but you must rule over it...
~  Genesis 4

No One Is Better Than Prince

For to us a child is born, 

 to us a son is given, 

and the government 

will be on his shoulders. 

And he will be called 

Wonderful Counselor, 

Mighty God,

 Everlasting Father,  

Prince of Peace.

~  Isaiah 9

Genius Of Love

Above all,  

love each other deeply,

because love covers over 

a multitude of sins...

~  1 Peter 4

The Second Sitting For The Last Supper

 Then he will say to those on his left,
"Depart from me,
you who are cursed,
into the eternal fire
prepared for the devil
and his angels.
For I was hungry
and you gave me nothing to eat,
I was thirsty
and you gave me nothing to drink,
I was a stranger
and you did not invite me in,
I needed clothes
and you did not clothe me,
I was sick and in prison
and you did not look after me."
~ Matthew 25

Throw Your Arms Around Me

 His left arm is under my head, 

and his right arm embraces me.

~  Song of Songs 2

I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun

Rise up, Oh GOD, and defend your cause;

 remember how fools mock you all day long.

~ Psalm 74

Any Major Dude Will Tell You

 In repentance and rest is your salvation,

 in quietness and trust is your strength, 

 but you would have none of it...

~  Isaiah 30

GOD Bless Morrissey

 I will bless those who bless you, 

and whoever curses you I will curse; 

and all peoples on earth 

will be blessed through you...

~  Genesis 12

 

Morrissey shows he loves Israel in Tel Aviv concert

Former Smiths lead singer wraps himself in Israeli flag, tries his hand at Hebrew.

Morrissey's  Dear God Please Help Me

Strings arranged by Ennio Morricone

Taste The Streets Of Calcutta In Brewster NY

 CLICK  ME!

280 Route 22
(Brewster Ave.),
Brewster, NY. 10509,
Tel: (845) 277-3549,
Fax: (845) 277-7465

Come, eat my food
and drink the wine I have mixed.

~ Proverbs 9

I ate at Jaipore on Friday night:

The food is amazing, the prices are great

Delicious and beautifully presented

Evidence of it's goodness - the licked clean plates

 Tandoori Grill! So good!

From the Jaipore site regarding the house itself: 

A short history is given here under which is a mix of fact and conjecture based on research from local sources. The mansion was originally built in 1856 for a local county judge. In 1887, Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher moved into the house upon the death of her husband the great abolitionist, Henry Ward Beecher (845) brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe of Uncle Tom's Cabin fame). She lived in this beautiful country mansion for several years. Mrs. Stowe lived at the same time in Litchfield Ct. and it is expected that the two sisters in law met at this house in Brewster.

In the early teens of the 20th century the mansion was occupied by the Charlie Chaplin Studios and movies were made using the building as a back drop. The great director D. W. Griffith is reputed to have used the building in his movies and the cast of his movie "America" was housed here while the movie was being made. In the 1920's it was used as a speakeasy and in the 1980's as a topless bar. Fortunately for us, since 1993 this beautiful building has housed the Jaipore Restaurant. Take a Quick Tour of Jaipore to savor the various aspects of our special restaurant. 

Taste the streets of Calcutta In Brewster NY.

Visit Jaipore! 

When I Was Dead

Among the dead 

no one proclaims your name. 

Who praises you from the grave? 

~ Psalm 6

 

Jim Dandy To The Rescue

How long, Lord, will you look on? 

Rescue me from their ravages, 

my precious life from these lions. 

~ Psalm 35

 

It Don't Come Easy

Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; 

and if I refrain, it does not go away.

 ~ Job 16

 

John The Baptist Jones

From the days of John the Baptist until now, 

the kingdom of heaven 

has been subjected to violence, 

and violent people have been raiding it. 

~ Matthew 11

 

Marxists

Blessed are you when people hate you, 

when they exclude you and insult you 

and reject your name as evil, 

because of the Son of Man.

 ~ Luke 6

AND NOW 

AN IMPORTANT WORD FROM MILOS FORMAN 

REGARDING HOW TERMS ARE USED:  

Obama the Socialist? Not Even Close
By MILOS FORMAN

 WHEN I was asked to direct “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” my friends warned me not to go anywhere near it. The story is so American, they argued, that I, an immigrant fresh off the boat, could not do it justice. They were surprised when I explained why I wanted to make the film. To me it was not just literature but real life, the life I lived in Czechoslovakia from my birth in 1932 until 1968. The Communist Party was my Nurse Ratched, telling me what I could and could not do; what I was or was not allowed to say; where I was and was not allowed to go; even who I was and was not.

 Now, years later, I hear the word “socialist” being tossed around by the likes of Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and others. President Obama, they warn, is a socialist. The critics cry, “Obamacare is socialism!” They falsely equate Western European-style socialism, and its government provision of social insurance and health care, with Marxist-Leninist totalitarianism. It offends me, and cheapens the experience of millions who lived, and continue to live, under brutal forms of socialism.

 My sister-in-law’s father, Jan Kunasek, lived in Czechoslovakia all his life. He was a middle-class man who ran a tiny inn in a tiny village. One winter night in 1972, during a blizzard, a man, soaked to the bone, awakened him at 2 in the morning. The man looked destitute and, while asking for shelter, couldn’t stop cursing the Communists. Taking pity, the elderly Mr. Kunasek put him up for the night. A couple of hours later, Mr. Kunasek was awakened again, this time by three plainclothes policemen. He was arrested, accused of sheltering a terrorist and sentenced to several years of hard labor in uranium mines. The state seized his property. When he was finally released, ill and penniless, he died within a few weeks. Years later we learned that the night visitor had been working for the police. According to the Communists, Mr. Kunasek was a class enemy and deserved to be punished.

 I found myself in an equally absurd, but less depressing, situation when I was moonlighting on Czech TV as a moderator, introducing movies, in the early ’50s. It was live, so there was no chance to bleep politically undesirable words. Every utterance, even in supposedly spontaneous interviews, had to be scripted, approved by the censors, learned by heart and repeated verbatim on the air. When I was preparing to interview one Comrade Homola, a powerful Communist, I sent him questions, but didn’t receive his answers. My boss, also a powerful party member, told me: “He is lazy! Write his answers for him, and remind him to learn them by heart.” So I did. Comrade Homola arrived at the last moment. When the red light went on and I asked the first question, he reached into his pocket, took out my answers and started to read them, awkwardly and obediently — including my inadvertent grammatical mistakes. And thus, to my consternation, went the whole interview.  In the control booth, my boss hit the roof. I was fired the next day for ridiculing a representative of the state.

Whatever his faults, I don’t see much of a socialist in Mr. Obama or, thankfully, signs of that system in this great nation. Mr. Obama is accused of trying to expand the reach of government — into health care, financial regulation, the auto industry and so on. It’s fair to question whether the federal government should have expanded powers: America, to its credit, has debated this since its birth.

But let’s be clear about how frightening socialism actually could be. 

Marx believed that we could wipe out social inequities and Lenin tested those ideas on the Soviet Union. It was his dream to create a classless society. But reality set in, as it always does. And the results were devastating. Blood flowed through Russia’s streets. The Soviet elite usurped all privileges; sycophants were allowed some and the plebes none. The entire Eastern bloc, including Czechoslovakia, followed miserably.

 I’m not sure Americans today appreciate quite how predatory socialism was. It was not — as Mr. Obama’s detractors suggest — merely a government so centralized and bloated that it hobbled private enterprise: it was a spoils system that killed off everything, all in the name of “social justice.”

What we need is not to strive for a perfect social justice — which never existed and never will — but for social harmony. Harmony in music is, by its nature, exhilarating and soothing. In an orchestra, the different players and instruments perform together, in support of an overall melody. Today, our democracy, a miraculous gathering of diverse players, desperately needs such unity. If all participants play fair and strive for the common good, we can achieve a harmony that eluded the doctrinaire socialist projects. But if just one section, or even one player, is out of tune, the music will disintegrate into cacophony.

 I am not asking Mr. Obama and the Republican leaders to stop playing instruments of their choosing. All I am asking is that every player keep in mind the noble melody of our country. Otherwise the noisy dissonance might become loud enough to wake another Marx, or even worse.

Milos Forman won Academy Awards for best director for the films “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Amadeus.”

Pictures of Home

RIP JON LORD 
He had been receiving treatment for pancreatic cancer since last August. 

Those who were musicians, 

heads of Levite families, 

stayed in the rooms of the temple

 and were exempt from other duties

because they were responsible for the work 

day and night. 

~ 1 Chronicles 9