Correction: Communists Ruling America

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In the fight against Kavanaugh, classist arguments are appearing. Kavanaugh is considered unfit for the position not only because of normal sexuality but because of his "black" family background. I mean "black" in the Communist sense, a system where having a middle class grandfather disqualified one for schools and jobs. Now "The New Yorker" offers a Marxist analysis of the candidate and finds that he has no proletarian ancestors but grew up in "White privilege", a damning genetic disability.

Kavanaugh’s mother was a district-court judge in Montgomery County, Maryland. His father is a retired lawyer, who worked for the United States Chamber of Commerce and served as the president of a trade group, the Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association. Gorsuch’s mother was the first female administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. (Ronald Reagan appointed her to the job, in 1981.) Powell’s father was a lawyer, and his maternal grandfather was the dean of the law school at Catholic University of America.

I hope this trend will die off. I remember my parents worrying that my father was going to be sacked for his job, because of his "bourgeois" (middle class) class-enemy parents. I was a child but remember it well, it was in communist Hungary in the nineteen fifties. The fact that he was a party member and a volunteer in the new Communist Army did not wash off this hereditary undeletable blot. Pic.: The first day of the revolution. People burned the AVO (the State Security Bureau) headquarters and destroyed thousands of damning secret files. 

Puritans Still Ruling America

It is difficult for a stranger like me to interpret the attack on Judge Brett Kavanaugh just before his appointment to the Supreme Court. Out of nowhere appears a woman who says that when she was 15 years old, she had a beer with 17 years old Brett, who later came to her room and tried to take her pants off against her resistance. Brett apparently did not know the rule that after you take out your gun, you have to shoot, if not, the consequences will be terrible. To hyper-excite a girl by starting sex  with a little violence and NOT finishing the action, leaves her utterly titillated and deeply disappointed - that is, a lifelong, resentful  enemy.

Any normal society would ignore this story of a honorable man, or interpret it so that the Judge has healthy sexual inclinations  and he is not a secret pervert as many are in public service. And his heart softens under the attack of a girl's lying tears. But in America 2018, a honest life and career is suddenly ruined by ... nothing.  

Hunger: Ceviche Classico

Left: A la Peruana: Raw fish marinated in "Tiger milk" (lemon juice), red onion, boiled batata, fresh lettuce, toasted maize grains.
Up A la Ecuatoriana: Shrimps and seafood.


It is 4.30 PM of the fast day. I declare it a day and I shall fast more, later. 

Cape Town Water Crisis (Update)

A few months ago the dams feeding CapeTown water supply system were almost empty. The available reserves were to last till May, and after that, nothing. Well, the rain arrived punctually as every year, and today all the dams are full 97% - fuller then ever. It appears that the "end of the world" scenario was a media event, to cause excitement without risking lawsuits. The same with Hurricane Florence, that occupied the media for a week. It came with wind and rain, the next day no one remembers it. 

Drought in Chile

The pic shows the Laguna de Aculeo this winter (south hemisphere). Normally, Chile has a regular climate and the rains arrive in time. Not this year. 

American blues

Postcard from the 1950s. Today, a  Californian remembers: 

"When I was a kid in California, a blue-collar worker could buy a BRAND NEW 4-BEDROOM HOUSE, 2-CAR GARAGE, 5 MILES FROM THE BEACH, for 4 times his annual salary. My California housing track was full of 4 or 5-child families, and the mom’s didn’t have to work." 

Julia Salazar's Fluid Identities

Julia is running for Brooklyn's State Senate candidate. She is an energetic agitator in extreme left circles, sometimes selling herself as a Sefaradi Jewess from Colombia, a Latina immigrant, sometimes Zionist and others anti-Israel. Jewish she is NOT. A journalist made an enquire who really was this 27 years old politician, and it appears that she was born in Miami to upper class Colombian father (Catholic, of course) and an Italo-American mother. She was engaged in many left wing movements under different names and identities. Lately she accuses the Israeli spokesman of touching her - "a very uncomfortable moment till I liberated myself". Politics is a most serious business, elected officials manage the public budget, direct the police department, decide about salaries and taxes, influence foreign policy, etc. How can anyone put his life in the hands of this lying self-promoter?

PS: She won the elections and represents Brooklyn. OK, lying may be too strong, rather that she is a bit confused. Thoughts: American Jews succeeded in making so vague and vaporous the Jewish identity, that anyone laughing at a Jewish joke may believe he/she is Jewish. She is "socialist" but does that word have for her a concrete meaning? Apart from being against Trump.