Thursday 26 May 2016
Fargo
I Reversed the Polarity of the Neutron Flow
New York City Politics
Giuliani Attacks Sharpton As Unqualified to Be Mayor
Interjecting himself further into the Democratic mayoral runoff yesterday, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said the Rev. Al Sharpton was unqualified to be mayor, challenged the Manhattan Borough President, Ruth W. Messinger, to do the same and prepared to release another television advertisement trumpeting his support among Democrats.
While trying to drive a wedge between the two remaining Democratic contenders and pin Ms. Messinger in a position of upsetting one Democratic constituency or another, the Mayor highlighted the discomfort some Democratic Party leaders have expressed toward Mr. Sharpton.
Speaking of Mr. Sharpton after an appearance at a Sunset Park, Brooklyn, firehouse, Mayor Giuliani said: ''I think he's unqualified to be mayor. I'm not afraid to say that. I think Ruth Messinger is afraid to say that.''
The Mayor said Mr. Sharpton lacked the experience needed for the job. ''There has to be a background of having worked,'' he said, ''having had a job, having distinguished yourself at things before you come to the position of being mayor.'' Otherwise, Mr. Giuliani added, ''Politics becomes a joke rather than a reality.''
Word of the Mayor's attack sent ripples throughout a campaign day otherwise filled with routine politicking by the two Democrats.
Ms. Messinger spent much of the day in Queens, attending a Democratic club breakfast at the Oakland Jewish Center and greeting voters at a Hispanic cultural parade in Jackson Heights. After receiving a rousing reception from more than 800 worshipers at a church in East New York, Brooklyn, Mr. Sharpton visited a social service center in the Bronx.
Ms. Messinger, who is generally considered the favorite in the Sept. 23 runoff after gaining a plurality in the first round of primary voting, said Mayor Giuliani's accusations were simply an attempt to divert attention from accusations that his aides had accepted more than $300,000 in illegal donations.
She refused to agree that Mr. Sharpton was unqualified to be mayor, and reiterated her position that she would support the winner of the Democratic primary.
But choosing her words carefully, she said, ''I have publicly disagreed with Al Sharpton in the debates on issues of policy.'' She added, ''I have never been afraid to say what it is I think, and I believe Rudy Giuliani knows that.''
Democratic campaign aides have said Ms. Messinger faces a challenge in distinguishing herself from Mr. Sharpton without alienating his base among black voters, a vital Democratic constituency that could prove important in the general election.
Hearing of Mayor Giuliani's attack while leaving St. Paul Community Baptist Church in East New York, Mr. Sharpton unleashed his own barrage against the Republican incumbent. ''Clearly the Mayor is trying to use code words, hoping to get a white backlash vote to stop me in the runoff,'' he said. ''The code word was qualifications. Everybody darker than Liz Taylor knows what that code word means.''
Mr. Sharpton also faulted the Mayor on the campaign finance issue and for soliciting support from departing Representative Floyd H. Flake, a Queens Democrat and black minister who Mr. Sharpton noted had been investigated but cleared several years ago by Federal investigators following reports suggesting he had embezzled money from a church-sponsored housing project. Mr. Flake is leaving Congress in October.
A second senior Queens Democrat, Alan G. Hevesi, the City Comptroller, was also drawn into the parrying between Mayor Giuliani and the two Democratic contenders yesterday.
Mayor Giuliani compared Mr. Hevesi's declaration that he could not support Mr. Sharpton in the general election with Ms. Messinger's pledge to support him if she loses the Sept. 23 vote.
''I respect what the Comptroller did yesterday because he's talking like a real person, not like a politician,'' the Mayor said. ''Ruth Messinger doesn't have the independence, I imagine, to say what she really thinks.''
The Giuliani campaign also prepared to release an advertisement today showing about 100 Democratic officials, lobbyists and employees under a huge sign that said ''Democrats for Giuliani,'' another indication of the Mayor's determination to snare the votes of Democrats unhappy with their own party's choices.
Photos: Campaigning for the Democratic mayoral nomination, the Rev. Al Sharpton, left (Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times), was endorsed by the entertainers James Brown, center, and Isaac Hayes in Central Park yesterday. Ruth W. Messinger, in photo at right (Steve Berman for The New York Times), met dancers from a Hispanic cultural parade in Jackson Heights, Queens.
Monday 23 May 2016
"Kill us Both, Spock!"
"And what is it that makes one man an exceptional leader? We see here indications that it's his negative side which makes him strong, that his evil side, if you will, properly controlled and disciplined, is vital to his strength."
- - Spock
Friday 20 May 2016
Wearing Sunglasses Indoors
Body Language
Avoid excessive fidgeting during the conversation. Again this can be very distracting and is a clear indication of discomfort and nerves. The person interviewing you will understand that you are likely to be nervous and will do their best to put you at ease.
The Shellfish Thing
Hexaplex trunculus is a medium-sized species of sea snail was found on the north part of Israeli coastal plain near Tel Shikmona
Leviticus 11:9-12
King James Version (KJV)
Making Sense of Kosher Laws - Biblical Archaeology Society
Notes
CHAPTER III.
THE GODS OF THE PHÅ’NICIANS ALSO KINGS OF ATLANTIS.
Who style themselves Phœnicians. . . .
These were the first great founders of the world--
Founders of cities and of mighty states--
Who showed a path through seas before unknown.
In the first ages, when the sons of men
Knew not which way to turn them, they assigned
To each his first department; they bestowed
Of land a portion and of sea a lot,
And sent each wandering tribe far off to share
A different soil and climate. Hence arose
The great diversity, so plainly seen,
'Mid nations widely severed.
Purple
The Red and The Blue :
Atlantis, the Antediluvian World,
by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882],
at sacred-texts.com
CHAPTER III.
THE GODS OF THE PHÅ’NICIANS ALSO KINGS OF ATLANTIS.
NOT alone were the gods of the Greeks the deified kings of Atlantis, but we find that the mythology of the Phœnicians was drawn from the same source.
For instance, we find in the Phœnician cosmogony that the Titans (Rephaim) derive their origin from the Phœnician gods Agrus and Agrotus. This connects the Phœnicians with that island in the remote west, in the midst of ocean, where, according to the Greeks, the Titans dwelt.
According to Sanchoniathon, Ouranos was the son of Autochthon, and, according to Plato, Autochthon was one of the ten kings of Atlantis. He married his sister Ge. He is the Uranos of the Greeks, who was the son of Gæa (the earth), whom he married. The Phœnicians tell us, "Ouranos had by Ge four sons: Ilus (El), who is called Chronos, and Betylus (Beth-El), and Dagon, which signifies bread-corn, and Atlas (Tammuz?)." Here, again, we have the names of two other kings of Atlantis. These four sons probably represented four races, the offspring of the earth. The Greek Uranos was the father of Chronos, and the ancestor of Atlas. The Phœnician god Ouranos had a great many other wives: his wife Ge was jealous; they quarrelled, and he attempted to kill the children he had by her. This is the legend which the Greeks told of Zeus and Juno. In the Phœnician mythology Chronos raised a rebellion against Ouranos, and, after a great battle, dethroned him. In the Greek legends it is Zeus who attacks and overthrows his father, Chronos. Ouranos had a daughter called Astarte
[paragraph continues] (Ashtoreth), another called Rhea. "And Dagon, after he had found out bread-corn and the plough, was called Zeus-Arotrius."
We find also, in the Phœnician legends, mention made of Poseidon, founder and king of Atlantis.
Chronos gave Attica to his daughter Athena, as in the Greek legends. In a time of plague be sacrificed his son to Ouranos, and "circumcised himself, and compelled his allies to do the same thing." It would thus appear that this singular rite, practised as we have seen by the Atlantidæ of the Old and New Worlds, the Egyptians, the Phœnicians, the Hebrews, the Ethiopians, the Mexicans, and the red men of America, dates back, as we might have expected, to Atlantis.
"Chronos visits the different regions of the habitable world."
He gave Egypt as a kingdom to the god Taaut, who had invented the alphabet. The Egyptians called him Thoth, and he was represented among them as "the god of letters, the clerk of the under-world," bearing a tablet, pen, and palm-branch.
This not only connects the Phœnicians with Atlantis, but shows the relations of Egyptian civilization to both Atlantis and the Phœnicians.
There can be no doubt that the royal personages who formed the gods of Greece were also the gods of the Phœnicians. We have seen the Autochthon of Plato reappearing in the Autochthon of the Phœnicians; the Atlas of Plato in the Atlas of the Phœnicians; the Poseidon of Plato in the Poseidon of the Phœnicians; while the kings Mestor and Mneseus of Plato are probably the gods Misor and Amynus of the Phœnicians.
Sanchoniathon tells us, after narrating all the discoveries by which the people advanced to civilization, that the Cabiri set down their records of the past by the command of the god Taaut, "and they delivered them to their successors and to foreigners, of whom one was Isiris (Osiris), the inventor of the three letters, the brother of Chua, who is called the first Phœnician."
[paragraph continues] (Lenormant and Chevallier, "Ancient History of the East," vol. ii., p. 228.)
This would show that the first Phœnician came long after this line of the kings or gods, and that he was a foreigner, as compared with them; and, therefore, that it could not have been the Phœnicians proper who made the several inventions narrated by Sanchoniathon, but some other race, from whom the Phœnicians might have been descended.
And in the delivery of their records to the foreigner Osiris, the god of Egypt, we have another evidence that Egypt derived her civilization from Atlantis.
Max Müller says:
"The Semitic languages also are all varieties of one form of speech. Though we do not know that primitive language from which the Semitic dialects diverged, yet we know that at one time such language must have existed. . . . We cannot derive Hebrew from Sanscrit, or Sanscrit from Hebrew; but we can well understand bow both may have proceeded from one common source. They are both channels supplied from one river, and they carry, though not always on the surface, floating materials of language which challenge comparison, and have already yielded satisfactory results to careful analyzers." ("Outlines of Philosophy of History," vol. i., p. 475.)
There was an ancient tradition among the Persians that the Phœnicians migrated from the shores of the Erythræan Sea, and this has been supposed to mean the Persian Gulf; but there was a very old city of Erythia, in utter ruin in the time of Strabo, which was built in some ancient age, long before the founding of Gades, near the site of that town, on the Atlantic coast of Spain. May not this town of Erythia have given its name to the adjacent sea? And this may have been the starting-point of the Phœnicians in their European migrations. It would even appear that there was an island of Erythea. In the Greek mythology the tenth labor of Hercules consisted in driving away the cattle of Geryon, who lived in the island of Erythea, "an island somewhere in the remote west, beyond the
[paragraph continues] Pillars of Hercules." (Murray's "Mythology," p. 257.) Hercules stole the cattle from this remote oceanic island, and, returning drove them "through Iberia, Gaul, over the Alps, and through Italy." (Ibid.) It is probable that a people emigrating from the Erythræan Sea, that is, from the Atlantic, first gave their name to a town on the coast of Spain, and at a later date to the Persian Gulf--as we have seen the name of York carried from England to the banks of the Hudson, and then to the Arctic Circle.
The builders of the Central American cities are reported to have been a bearded race. The Phœnicians, in common with the Indians, practised human sacrifices to a great extent; they worshipped fire and water, adopted the names of the animals whose skins they wore--that is to say, they had the totemic system--telegraphed by means of fires, poisoned their arrows, offered peace before beginning battle, and used drums. (Bancroft's "Native Races," vol. v., p. 77.)
The extent of country covered by the commerce of the Phœnicians represents to some degree the area of the old Atlantean Empire. Their colonies and trading-posts extended east and west from the shores of the Black Sea, through the Mediterranean to the west coast of Africa and of Spain, and around to Ireland and England; while from north to south they ranged from the Baltic to the Persian Gulf. They touched every point where civilization in later ages made its appearance. Strabo estimated that they had three hundred cities along the west coast of Africa. When Columbus sailed to discover a new world, or re-discover an old one, he took his departure from a Phœnician seaport, founded by that great race two thousand five hundred years previously. This Atlantean sailor, with his Phœnician features, sailing from an Atlantean port, simply re-opened the path of commerce and colonization which had been closed when Plato's island sunk in the sea. And it is a curious fact that Columbus had the antediluvian world in his mind's eye even then, for when he reached the mouth of
the Orinoco he thought it was the river Gihon, that flowed out of Paradise, and he wrote home to Spain, "There are here great indications suggesting the proximity of the earthly Paradise, for not only does it correspond in mathematical position with the opinions of the holy and learned theologians, but all other signs concur to make it probable."
Sanchoniathon claims that the learning of Egypt, Greece, and Judæa was derived from the Phœnicians. It would appear probable that, while other races represent the conquests or colonizations of Atlantis, the Phœnicians succeeded to their arts, sciences, and especially their commercial supremacy; and hence the close resemblances which we have found to exist between the Hebrews, a branch of the Phœnician stock, and the people of America.
Upon the Syrian sea the people live
Who style themselves Phœnicians. . . .
These were the first great founders of the world--
Founders of cities and of mighty states--
Who showed a path through seas before unknown.
In the first ages, when the sons of men
Knew not which way to turn them, they assigned
To each his first department; they bestowed
Of land a portion and of sea a lot,
And sent each wandering tribe far off to share
A different soil and climate. Hence arose
The great diversity, so plainly seen,
'Mid nations widely severed.
Dyonysius of Susiana, A.D. 3,