It was beautifully warm July morning, that Saturday in 1972. The air was clean, the humidity was low, and there was an ocean scent in the air that carried in from the east and blanketed Manhattan.
The traffic was light and a half hour later I was on the highway in Brooklyn, and soon passing JFK and then onto the Belt approaching Nassau County.
Representative Jim Jordan once stated that, “only Americans should vote in American elections.”
Of course many people, the greater majority of them Democrats and Socialists who favor open borders, went online to condemn his statement.
Yogi: I can’t, but I will. 90% of all jazz is half improvisation. The other half is the part people play while others are playing something they never played with anyone who played that part. So if you play the wrong part, its right. If you play the right part, it might be right if you play it wrong enough. But if you play it too right, it’s wrong.
From that day when man looked heavenwards and allowed his mind to open, to wander and explore, a daunting question evolved to haunt us until we find an answer: Is there anybody out there, or are we alone in the universe?
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work.
This is an analogy of the eating cycle of the Black Widow Spider.
As someone who has been in the pest control industry for a quarter of a century, and is an associate entomologist, I can verify that this story is sort of true.