Love springs eternal!
Marjorie Fiterman and Bernie Littman reside in a Philadelphia nursing home. They are 102 and 100 respectively. Their long time spouses have died.
They married. Turns out Marjorie and Bernie are the world’s oldest newly weds! Bless them! May they enjoy the time they have left.
Steve slept in his own bed last night. He was discharged from the Miami hospital early evening and he and Cindy drove back last night.
I spoke briefly with him on the telephone last night while they were going through Key Largo and spoke with him at length this morning. The diagnosis was to the effect the doctors did not know what caused him to pass out, etc. He said they tested the hell out of him. Did a ton of things. The bottom line they have to have had at him while he was experiencing the problem to come up with a diagnosis. They told him to see a neurologist in Key West.
He feels terrific. Sounds vibrant.
My advice to him was to get his ass to a doctor in Key West.
Today is Friday the 13th. There was a time people were concerned with the day. Superstitions ran high! Does the day affect you?
Cool today. Six am and 65 degrees. High will only be 74. My cut-off temperature. Anything below is cold. You have to live in Key West year round to appreciate what I have written in this regard.
The government appears to be screwing around with Social Security. Not even waiting for Trump to do so.
Effective January 1, 2025, if a person opts to take early payment, the age continues to be 62. However, the benefit will be reduced by 30 percent.
The full retirement age will be 67.
However, please check with Social Security directly as to the details involved. There are more I suspect. It is complex. Even I could not understand the variances.
In Key West, the Social Security office in the Federal Building on Simonton street is extremely cooperative. I have sat with them several times over the years.
On this day in 1636, the Massachusetts Bay Colony organized three militia units to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians.
The first days of organized Indian abuse in the New World.
The Colonists cut off Indian heads and used them as bowling balls.
James Dean was a nobody this day in 1950. He got his first professional job. He appeared in a Pepsi advertisement.
Class act. The 1956 Brooklyn Dodgers traded Jackie Robinson to the New York Giants for a pitcher and $35,000. Robinson retired rather than be traded.
On this day in 1942, Joseph Goebbels complained of Italian treatment of Jews: “The Italians are extremely lax in their treatment of Jews. They protect Italian Jews both in Tunis and occupied France and won’t permit their being drafted for work or compelled to wear the Star of David.”
A local problem requiring an answer. Drones. Drones in New Jersey? Large ones. The size of a car. They have been in the news for days. What are they? What is the government doing about them?
No news is not good news. People are getting nervous.
Some Trump items.
Time Magazine has designated Trump as Man of the Year.
Trump campaigned on the cry he would bring grocery prices down. Now he is backtracking. Slowly, but without question. His position now is it is hard to bring grocery costs down fast.
The last President to ring the bell to open the New York Stock Exchange was Ronald Reagan. Trump rang it yesterday.
What is this bullshit the FBI had only 3 informants at the Capitol on January 6? The Inspector General issued a report yesterday there were 29.
Game playing by MAGA Republicans? Lies?
Strange. Trump wants to pardon January 6 rioters on day one. What does that say to those of us who saw what we saw on TV and believe January 6 was not a righteous event? It was wrong, it was an insurrection. There is no other way to view it.
I close with a local occurrence which gives me concern.
Brian Barroso was selected as Key West City Manager yesterday. A close vote. He was elected 4-3.
Barroso is presently a banker. He has been one since 2004. From 2004-2014 in Key West. For the past 10 years since 2014, in North Carolina.
When in Key West, he was a Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority board member and treasurer, an adjunct professor at the College of the Florida Keys, and a Key West Chamber of Commerce board member.
He obviously has connections in “high places.” Does that qualify him to be City Manager?
Beginning salary is $215,000.
Enjoy your day!