PRESORTED STANDARD PERMIT #3036 WHITE PLAINS NY Vol. V No. XIIIVL Westchester’s Most Influential Weekly Thursday, December 8, 2011 $1.00 Are the Chinese Phishing in Your Computer? Page 8 The Bridge Nobody Wanted Political Page 12 Musical Crime Doesn’t Pay Psychology Page 15 Mercedes C-300 101 Page 17 Their Homes Were Castles Page 18 Holiday Session Expected Page 20 If I Am Not For Myself... Page 23 The Hezitorial Have You Ever by HEZI ARIS, Page 4 Witnessed a Miracle? Page 26 westchesterguardian.com Page 2 The WesTchesTer GuardiaN THURSDaY, DECEMBER 8, 2011 The WesTchesTer GuardiaN THURSDaY, DECEMBER 8, 2011 Page 3 RADIO Of Significance Westchester Guardian Radio Network Community Section .....................................................................4 hezitorial ...................................................................................4 NeW rOCHELLe, NY – The Guardian radio Network, WGrN, oper- Books .........................................................................................4 ated under the auspices of hezi aris’ hezitorial absurdity, Inc. continues to build its Business ......................................................................................6 programing day on the Blog Talkradio platform. herein is the schedule for the week calendar .....................................................................................7 of December 5 – December 9, 2011. cyber security ...........................................................................8 economic Development ............................................................9 some of richard Narog and hezi aris’ guests this coming week are: Wappingers Fundraising ..............................................................................10 Falls Mayor Matt alexander, Mary ann esposito, host, creator, and author of the television program and health ......................................................................................11 book, ciao Italia with Mary ann esposito, New York state senator andrea stewart-cousins, Mount history .....................................................................................12 Vernon city council President Karen Watts, among many others. 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In fighting zone when we could point a finger of admoni- Neither is certain of the foundation upon which By HEZI ARIS for control, engaged in a rut for tion and derision toward another, brandishing their beliefs are held. supremacy, we have lost the strength them the naysayer, the outcasts within our midst. The paradigm defined above describes all Yonkers Mayor Phil amicone to continue. Those whom we loath Believers and skeptics alike would “bitch Yonkersites, and those within other communi- must have taken a course have stepped before us, won the prize, and and bicker” among themselves. They no longer ties. We are alike in many ways; in our obtuse in Political Psychology 101. have lauded over us for well over a decade. We cared if the end game would come to pass; so recalcitrance and in our earnestness to explore. how else would he have got giddy when we were the ones to call others long as they could be in the game, they would be shouting at each other, pointing fingers within become so adept at the finger- “naysayers,” even though we knew that they sufficiently sated. We loved kicking our adver- our midst will not do. pointing antics by which we have become were not necessarily so. That was the game. We saries in the shins. Laughed our heads off at the We are at another fork in the road; an familiar judging his temperament. he became would carry out the “ploy” with which we were pain it would exact their gait. We enjoyed the opportunity often before us, trampled by our not proficient at engaging others to do his bidding. entrusted to win favor among our “friends and ancillary aspects of the fight. We had long since knowing what to do. he was superb in nurturing strife over incon- family network” brethren. We were family. We forgotten why we were adversaries. If you believe, shout it out. Find the vehicle sequence. The superficiality of those engaged in were “right” in our thinking and in our vision. even so, we hoped to proselytize anyone we to celebrate your knowledge. reach out beyond those pointless adversarial chapters in Yonkers We never did learn the fights were point- could into the fold. It was a futile effort. some the comfort of your friends. historical pages brought about no better under- less; even though forks in the road forced a time would gravitate to one side; others to the oppo- Yonkers Mayor Phil amicone continues to standing over any of