….1- you became a nice person…2-you can afford the rent…..3-you miss the old Time Square…..4-you rather eat Pizza Hut than Ray’s Pizza…..5-you’re a Mets fan…..6-you visit New Jersey…..7-you walk past the Christmas tree at Rock Center and don’t even notice it…..8-you know where Brooklyn is…..9-you look forward to Macy’s parades….10-you still crave “Dirty Water Dogs”…..11-you’ve figured out the subway system…..12-you know now that the UN building is not selling condos…..13-you miss Charlie Barnett’s stand-up acts in Washington Square Park….14-you miss the old Washington Square Park (and some of you know exactly what I mean)…..15-you still enjoy the free concerts in Central Park…..16-you give a damn whether the ball drops or not on New Year’s Eve…..17-you remember when you could afford to live in Soho because no one lived in Soho…..18-you remember when a afternoon show on Broadway cost 15 dollars…..19-you miss going to Studio 54, Area, Palladium and CBGB’S…..20-you don’t say “New Yawk” anymore…..21-you visit both the East side and the West side…..22-you smile when you see a kid walking down the street with a “Boom Box”…..23-you really don’t care how long you’ve lived there because it’s the greatest city in the world.
MEN WHO HATE WOMEN…Italy ranks the highest when it comes to sexually assaulting and abusing women (tens of thousands of women are victims)…this country has long ignored violence against women….according to the United Nations a third of all women in Italy are at some point victims of domestic abuse….last year 120 women were killed by their husbands, exes or boyfriends…one woman is slain every three days.
ROLLING STONE MAG PICKS THEIR BEST 100 SINGERS….Ok, I really don’t agree with everyone they picked but I do agree with my list….Patti Labelle – Sly Stone – Marvis Staples – Luther Vandross – Bonnie Raitt – Donny Hathaway – Jim Morrison – Joni Mitchell – Elton John – Bruce Springsteen – Whitney Houston – Bono – Gladys Knight – Steve Perry – Prince – Janice Joplin – Nina Simone – David Bowie – Etta James – Bob Marley – Aretha Franklin – Freddie Mercury – Tina Turner – Al Green – James Brown – Stevie Wonder – Otis Redding – Marvin Gaye – and Ray Charles….and here are a few they missed and I think they have a wonderful voice…Anthony Hamilton – my brother Morris Rocky Whitaker – Adriano Prestel, Ben Harper and Mic Donet.
LET’S TALK ABOUT YEMEN….Since it’s the Club-Med for Terrorist…sex outside of marriage is forbidden and adultery is punishable by death…homosexuality is punished by death but rape is usually settled with a cash payment to the victim’s family….but if the rapist claims the sex was consensual and if the victim can’t produce four witness to the contrary she is sometimes killed by her family (they call it honor killings)….polygamy is legal under Islamic law and a man may have up to four wives…women are viewed as subordinate and must serve their fathers, husbands, brothers and their male children….divorce is easy….men only have to say, “I divorce thee” three times and that’s it (I tried that with Nicole-she told me to shut up and finish cooking dinner).
HOLOCAUST WORSE THAN PREVIOUSLY KNOWN…Researchers identified 42,500 camps reaching from France to Russia…they estimate 15 to 20 million people died or were imprisoned.
REFUSAL TO GIVE CPR TO ELDERLY WOMAN PROBED BY POLICE….Now this really pissed me off….the woman is dying…..the nurse dials 911……the operator asked her to perform CPR and the nurse said she couldn’t because it was against their policy….so she didn’t…..the operator asked if there was anyone passing by who could do it and the nurse (by the sound of her voice) was like; “No, there’s no one here, so”…..if you listen to the tape you can really hear the operator pleading with this woman….and she just let her die and the retirement home said she was only following their policy….what about to hell with rules and save a life?
AMERICAN HOSPITALS DEPORTING UNCONSCIOUS PATIENTS…Does anyone wanna tell me how they figure out where they’re supposed to go?
WHAT DID BARBARA BUSH SAY TO OBAMA TO MAKE HIM LAUGH…Probably….. “You have to excuse junior because he really is an idiot”…or…. “I used to have Michelle’s figure.”
PUNJAB RAPE FESTIVAL BEGINS IN INDIA THIS WEEK…Every girl between the age of 7-16 will have the chance to flee to safety or get raped…..this is a longtime tradition dating back over 1,000’s of years…..the evil demons will have to get out of the girls otherwise they will cheat on their men…..the man with the most rapes will be called “The Bwalkrishan”…..the festival began in 43BC….a 23 year old man says he’s been practicing on his sisters and friends….Ok, “THEY” are saying this is not true but what do “THEY” really know?……rape is something which goes on in India in a massive way!
USELESS INFORMATION:…..Mageirocophobia is the intense fear of having to cook….It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs…..Starfish don’t have brains….A survey once disclosed that 12 percent of Americans believed that Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife….George II sold tickets to allow the public to watch the King and Queen eat…..Justin Timberlake’s half-eaten french toast sold for more than $3,000 on eBay.