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Summertime. Sand, solar, surf, swim, shove it. It’s best-seller time.
Bill O’Reilly — of whom you could have heard — is out — shock! shock! — with a new e book. Less time than he normally spends chopping lefties, he’s knocked off one other learn quicker than Moses threw collectively these Commandments.
My advance reader copy paperback — St. Martin’s Press — is almost 300 pages. It’s “Confronting America: What Has to Change.” Chapters like “Loyalty,” “Are You a Patriot,” “Fake News,” “God Help Us,” “The Destroyers,” “The Deceivers,” “The Dilemma.”
Opens with 1620’s Pilgrim separatists: “Largely loons.” Ends with “57% of today’s Americans check their hand-held phones 224 times a day.” And: “70% cannot name their state senators.” And: “Men lie about 6 times a day; women lie roughly 3 times.”
Divorce? 1960: 14%. 2025: 50%. Chapter 9, “Working for a Living,” experiences that Martin Van Buren turned US president “because he kissed Andrew Jackson’s tush.”
Page 57: “The Right doesn’t care about the drug issue. They feel drug-involved people deserve their fate. Leftists refuse to acknowledge the reality.”
Good learn. Out Sept. 15.
Maine-ly polished
I spent July Fourth with associates in Maine. It has lobsters and aged gents with naked toes in thong slippers. Nice. Especially when these vintage nails stay grey in shade. Not a lot else apart from.
I lastly discovered the purpose for why there’s the state of Maine. America needed one thing to stay between New Hampshire and Canada.
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Besides trees, what they’ve in Maine — who is aware of. I solely know nothing’s in it that appears, sniffs, tastes or clothes like New York City.
So, go. Enjoy your self. Forget L.L.Bean. Just carry nail polish for the geezers.
Build it higher!
New York. Back in civilization. A Midtown high-rise crumbling occurs to be just like info I heard final yr. Topline contractors who adhere to each rule, pay each tariff, obey all tack-on extras and are behind many high NYC buildings instructed me this. Understand, they instructed me this sitting in my kitchen a yr in the past.
Today’s builders, interested by reducing corners and making a buck, contain themselves with cheapo non-union help. Some are inexperienced, not costly, come from who-knows-where, have no idea their valves from a gap within the ground, haven’t presumably been concerned in a main NYC high-rise construction earlier than — and desperate to knock off a fast buck. Their means? Do it fast, do it now, do it low-cost, make it look good — and get out. Walls crumble, elevators stall, water doesn’t come out of taps, huge money is paid, window panes shake. And that’s coping with some of the newer slick-looking buildings.
I’m telling you what I do know. Sitting in my kitchen, the professionals instructed it to me. I knew it long back after I thought of transferring.
From Jim Fragale: Palm Springs co-op: Nighttime. Crooks stole the workings of two scorching tubs. Later, a NYC AA member put a $50 invoice in the neighborhood basket, made change and the fifty was counterfeit.
Not solely in New York, children, not solely.
