LIFE. LIBERTY & LEVIN
Sunday Evenng, 7/28/19

A Most Beautiful Bridge  Spanning

the 

GENERATION GAP

Only 

TONY BENNETT & STING 

Could Do It So Well

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

This man explains The Deep State 

How it came to be, and How it Works Against Representative Republican Democracy 

as Designed by our Founding Fathers

Benjamin Ginsberg 

What Washington 
Gets Wrong

The Unelected Officials Who Actually Run the Government and 
Their Misconceptions about the American People

by

Benjamin Ginsberg

Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins

Unfortunately I cannot Reproduce Brian Lamb's Interview  with Dr. Ginsberg Here. You'll Have to Get it from the C-Span Archives. It's Well Worth Whatever Effort 
You Have to Make to Get it.

[What Washington Gets Wrong] | C-SPAN.org

https://www.c-span.org/video/?419344-2/...benjamin-ginsberg...washington-wrong

1 Cached

Feb 11, 2017 - Jennifer Bachner and Benjamin Ginsberg of Johns Hopkins University ... and Benjamin Ginsberg, co-authors of What Washington Gets Wrong: .

BONUSTOON

Y____E____A____H___! 

YAWNNA MAKE SUMPIN OF IT?

A CAPITALIST DOXOLOGY

Praise Wealth from which our Blessings flow.

May God send Marxists down Below

Where they may writhe in dreadful Pain,

While we our Sanity regain!

AMEN!

AN ENCOMIUM HONORING

PRESIDENT 

DONALD J. TRUMP

Given President Trump's spectacularly SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE in the face of insuperable militant opposition by virtually all the establishment forces in BOTH parties, –– the incessant, frankly VICIOUS, totally unwarranted attacks from the ENEMEDIA, –– the corrosive Cultural Marxist domination of our ruined and ruinous Educational System, –– and the Cultural Marxists who frankly INFEST the judiciary on all levels ––, President Trump miraculously strides ABOVE all of that like a COLOSSUS of mythological antiquity.

He faces so much negative criticism, because our thoroughly corrupt, stupidly self-serving Establishment feels THREATENED by him –– as well they should.

I am virtually POSITIVE that those good citizens determined to hold a negative opinion of President Trump –– along with the millions abroad who think they don't like him –– have been sedulously BRAINWASHED by a hopelessly biased media establishment acting slavishly as both Lackey and Handmaiden to nefarious Establishmnt and Globalist forces –– has deliberately and deceitfully given you a FALSE impression of who and what Donald Trump really is.

I didn't care for him. myself, when he hosted a fatuous TV show, which I avoided watching after seeing part of one episode, but AFTER he made it clear he was SERIOUS about running for the presidency, I started to WATCH and LISTEN to him very carefully –– at first because he seemed our only hope of averting a Hillary Clinton presidency, –– a prospect I, personally found both dismal and repugnant.

I soon caught on, however, to Mr. Trump's remarkable potential to lead us out of the putrid Marxian Wilderness into which we've been skillfully maneuvered for the past century by sophists and mountebanks. Listening to him –– UNFILTERED, and UNEDITED by the BIASED, DISHONEST,totally UNPRINCIPLED forces who ritually oppose him, I began to feel an honest LIKING for th man, which developed during the campaign into genune ADMIRATION bordering on AFFECTION.

At age 78 I'm not about to allow anyone in "authority" or "influence" to "shape" my opinions. Instead I rely on decades of intense observation, good instincts, keen perception and faith in the wisdom of Holy Writ to guide my decisions.

My life is ending up in a remarkably good place. My circumstances today are as close to ideal as any reasonable person could dare expect. For this I don't congratulate myself, instead I'm immesely grateful to the background, education, vivid imagination, daring and adventurous instincts I've been privileged to enjoy.

I'm an unabashed PRAGMATIST who firmly believes:

1 "If it ain't broke, DON'T FIX IT."

2. "If it WORKS, don't QUESTION it."

3. I also believe "It's better to ERR on the side of KINDNESS, than to adhere to a strict, cold-hearted PHARISAICAL interpretation of the LAW."

4. Lastly I believe that always looking to FIND FAULT while constantly, almost compulsively dwelllng on NEGATIVITY and OPPOSITION is morbidly unhealthy, inimical and corrosive to the best interests of any civilized society. 

In other words, "It's ALWAYS BETTER to give the BENEFIT of the DOUBT" where doubt exists. and to remember, paraphrasing what St. Paul told the Corinthians, "Whatever you do is worthless unless it's done unstintingly with a loving heart."

GET IT?

A Brief Encounter with 

Renata Tebaldi 

- a Memoir

In 1955, as a boy of fourteen, I was privileged to hear Renata Tebaldi for the very first time on television. She appeared with Jussi Bjoerling in scenes from "La Boheme". I was so taken with the beauty of her voice and the sweet loveliness of her person that I actually fell in love for the very first time.

Shortly after that, during the period of her Met debut, Renata Tebaldi came to my then-hometown of Englewood, New Jersey to give a concert in the GYMNASIUM of Dwight Morrow High School. [John Harms, our local impresario, had a positive genius for persuading virtually all the top artists of the day to perform in our suburban community under less-than-ideal conditions. Our close proximity to New York City may have had something to do with it, I'll never be sure, but I remain grateful to Mr. Harms to this day.]

The young Tebaldi, pleasingly plump in those days, wore a simple black and white strapless gown, little make-up, and no jewelry. The gymnasium was absolutely packed. Its a wonder the fire department didn't put a stop to the event. At any rate, the unprepossessing, overcrowded space was soon filled with Tebaldi's radiant presence, and all else faded away, except the sound of her voice, her beautiful face, and the warmth of her gracious personality.

When it was over –– after a generous series of encores –– I had a compelling urge to visit her in the hastily-improvised greenroom in hopes getting her autograph. Practically everyone else in the audience felt the same way.

It was certainly worth fighting the jostling crowds to get there, for what I received from this beautiful lady was not only an autograph –– but a spontaneous KISS on the cheek. She might have been one of my Italian cousins (of which I had many) so natural was her gesture. She must have sensed the innocence and completeness of my adolescent devotion and responded to it in kind.

I left there walking on air, of course, and it was days before I returned to earth. Needless to say, I have never fallen OUT of love with the gracious and beautiful Renata Tebaldi.

It was many days before I could bring myself to wash my face after that encounter, and sixty-four years later, I still keep the tie I wore that night folded away in my top bureau drawer. In a life of rich and wonderful experience it remains one my greatest treasures.

~ FreeThinke