Maybe Mamdani wants to get arrested

Maybe Mamdani wants to get arrested:

He knows of at least one other famous socialist who got his start writing a book in prison.

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As you’ve heard, the Mayor of New York City is talking about arresting the Prime Minister of Israel. Can you smell a guy looking for a headline or distraction? Let’s check this out from Becca Lower:

New York City, as the home of the United Nations headquarters, is hosting the U.N. General Assembly in the fall. And Democratic Socialist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani expressed during a recent interview with a New York Times interviewer that he’s holding onto a deeply-held wish and campaign promise: to have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested when the world leader arrives in his city to attend it.

Yes, the new Mayor is considering it and investigating whether he can do it. Talk about thinking outlandish thoughts rather than helping citizens clean their streets or fighting crime.

My wild guess is that the mayor wants the headlines and is thinking about actually getting arrested and writing a book from prison as Fidel Castro did. As you may remember, Castro was arrested for attacking a military facility in Cuba, wrote a book, and was then released under an amnesty. Wouldn’t the US’s top communist love that on his resume?

The city is falling apart, but the mayor is focused on arresting a foreign leader with a warrant from an international body with no jurisdiction in the US.

That’s the Democrat Party of 2026. They can’t govern but are really good at making headlines.

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La Isla de Pinos, the other island of Cuba

For many of us, La Isla de Pinos is the place where many of our relatives spent time in Castro’s political prisons.   In the late 1960s, Castro changed the name to “La Isla de la Juventud” trying to turn the isolated island into some kind of indoctrination school for young minds.

Today, the small island is detached from Cuba and the rest of the world.

I found this article rather interesting and instructive.  It taught me a few things about the island and its complicated history:

“Some places are blessed by geography, with a deep harbor, mighty river or abundant natural resources.  Then there are places where geography is more of a curse. In the absence of any distinctive feature or economic purpose, they appear like a blank slate, inviting grandiose schemes and outsize ambitions.  Cuba’s Isla de la Juventud, the “Isle of Youth,” is one of those places.”

We often forget about La Isla de Pinos.  Yet, it sits there as another exhibit of the total and complete failure of  Castro’s policies.

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Apollo 11 with Frank Burke, businessman and author.

Guest:  Frank Burke, author & businessman.  We will look back at July 20, 1969 or the day that man landed on the moon.

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2009: Let's talk with Bill Katz about Apollo 11

July 22, 2009:  

Guest: Bill Katz of Urgent Agenda. In our roundtable, we will talk with Alberto de la Cruz (Babalu blog) about his article on the Honduras situation. Adryana Boyne will tell us about her recent speech to a local Republican group.

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July 20, 1969: Another year to remember Apollo 11

It was July 20, 1969 or many years ago today. 

Like most families, we sat around the TV and watched Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon.  At one point, my father commented that Cubans in the island were probably not permitted to watch this historical event.  My mother then added something colorful:  “Ese HP de Fidel no le quiere dar merito a los americanos que llegaron primero que los rusos.” 

I can remember much of it, from Walter Cronkite’s countdown to the lunar landing to President Nixon’s speech to the astronauts. 

We remember Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins and congratulate the crew and everyone down here who made this amazing mission possible. 

Wonder whatever happened to that US flag and landmark that we left up in the moon? 

No matter what: I was very lucky to be alive and experience one of the greatest days in world history!  I was very lucky to be living in the US where I could watch the whole thing.

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We remember Natalie Wood (1938-81)

We remember Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko who was born on July 20, 1938 in San Francisco, California.   We know her as Natalie Wood.

She tragically drowned on November 29, 1981.

Natalie Wood was a beautiful woman who left her mark in the movies.

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The World Cup is over and the big winner is the USA plus a few more thoughts.

 

The World Cup is over and the big winner is the USA plus a few more thoughts.

CANTO TALK podcasts from last week

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When they throw the nuns under a Buffalo truck

When they throw the nuns under a Buffalo truck:

In a predictable display of political cowardice, Gov. Hochul has been silent about New York trying to force nuns to use preferred pronouns for cancer patients.

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For the record, I love nuns and the great work that they do, from teaching kids to feeding the poor. This is why I can’t understand these attacks on nuns in New York. Let’s check out the story:

As reported by Zeale’s Elise Winland, during this year’s typically contentious New York gubernatorial election, the GOP challenger Bruce Blakeman has accused incumbent Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul, a fellow Catholic, of anti-Catholic bigotry.

The cause?

The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, who operate Rosary Hill Home, a 42-bed residential hospice and nursing facility in Hawthorne, New York, that provides free care to poor patients with incurable cancer...received three letters from the New York State Department of Health informing them of their obligation to comply with the law, as Zeale News previously reported. The complaint says violations could expose Rosary Hill Home and its staff to fines, the loss of the facility’s license, and, under some provisions of the state public health law, possible criminal penalties.

The state statute in question is New York’s LGBTQ Long-Term Care Facility Residents’ Bill of Rights. (It was signed into law by Gov. Hochul in November 2023 and took effect in 2024.) “The law requires long-term care facilities to use patients’ preferred pronouns and assign rooms and allow restroom access based on residents’ ‘gender identities.’”

I guess that the nuns are not up to speed on woke pronouns or gender identities. As far as the nuns are concerned, a boy is a boy, a girl is a she, and the sick and poor need their attention.

My guess is that most New Yorkers agree with the nuns and welcome the great work that they do. It’s not easy caring for sick people and doing it with the love and care that they do.

So why have Democrats in New York picked a fight with nuns caring for people? I don’t know why, but maybe they are afraid of a primary or just can’t say enough is enough to people who want to impose their pronouns on the large majority that finds this fight with the nuns as crazy as I do.

Governor Hochul could do a little profile in courage and find a way to leave these nuns alone. But she won’t. The “Buffalo girl,” as she calls herself, is weak and scared to death of the gang that brought down incumbent Democrats.

So, she throws the nuns under the Buffalo snowplow truck because she is scared to death of people confused over gender identity. That’s your Democrat Party of 2026.

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Happy # 85 Vikki Carr

We wish Vikki Carr a very happy birthday.........she was born Florencia Bisenta de Casillas-Martinez Cardona in El Paso, Texas, on this day in 1941...........a very popular bilingual pop singer......her first big hit was "It must be him".......

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