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will do everything possible to destroy Race Baiting you if it isn’t.” The question isn’t whether or not a ATM Machine for the Opportunist person is a racist; it’s whether or not their By BOB WEIR private thoughts and reckless rants should If Mr. Black calls Mr. White an uncivi- be protected under the Bill of Rights. Yet, lized lowlife, Mr. White can object to such Once upon a time, you the way the despotic system has been con- a demeaning description and simply walk structed, you dare not even try to argue could say something away. The minor disagreement won’t be on offensive during a private the merits of free speech if that speech has the front page of the New York Times or been connected, however remotely, to skin conversation with friends recorded for mass distribution on YouTube. and associates, resulting color. Moreover, if you say anything that Conversely, if Mr. White makes the same doesn’t begin with “That guy is a hateful in some criticism and limited social ostra- reference to Mr. Black, Sharpton, and cism. That was during a time when you had bigot,” you’ve become suspect in the eyes others of his ilk, will immediately spring of the speech police and you may not get the free speech rights provided under the into action to seek out ways to destroy the Constitution. If you expressed biased and/ a chance to finish your thought. To say this purveyor of such an utterance, its constitu- is a slippery slope is a gross understatement, or bigoted opinions on issues and people, tionality notwithstanding. Mass media will you’d be judged by your peers and treated since we’re already plummeting at full speed become joyous accessories to the character to the bottom of the hill. with the appropriate level of contempt. assassination and public humiliation of the In addition, if you verbalized the same sinful free speech practitioner, who was led Bob Weir is a veteran of 20 years with the New opinions publicly, you’d be criticized by York Police Dept. (NYPD), ten of which were to believe that he had equal rights under the If you violate someone’s right to free speech has been turned into a public columnists, radio and television talk show performed in plainclothes undercover assign- law. A typical question from the “reverend” privacy by secretly taping a conversation whipping post and an ATM machine for hosts and political pundits. In other words, ments. Bob began a writing career about 12 would be: “Was he called uncivilized and disseminating it to the world, opening the opportunist with a cell phone? There you had the right to say it, and they had years ago and had his first book published in because he’s black?” Or, “Does his skin color them to vicious defamation and misin- is much more at stake here for the the right to chide you for it. However, they 1999. Bob went on to write and publish make him a lowlife?” terpretation of their actual views, you’re rights of individual Americans than didn’t have the right to destroy your reputa- a total of seven novels, “Murder in Black What race-hustlers have learned “protected” if the misinterpreted words this recent bimbo eruption disguised as tion, impugn your character, or rob you of and White,” “City to Die For,” “Powers that is that whites can be intimidated to the had a racial context. In a recent case, a racial inequality. Whatever happened to: your property. Not anymore! Be,” “Ruthie’s Kids,” “Deadly to Love,” “Short point in which they will be deathly afraid sports franchise owner was told he must “I may not agree with what you say, but In our current state of incipient totali- Stories of Life and Death,” and “Out of Sight.” to criticize anything black, lest they be sell his team, pay a $2.5 million fine and I will defend to the death your right to tarianism, free speech depends on who’s He also became a syndicated columnist under branded for life with the term “racist;” the never show his face at an NBA game again. say it.” Sadly, the new freedom is defined using it and who’s sitting in judgment of it. the title “Weir Only Human.” most heinous crime in the world, with the as “I’ll agree with what you say if it is If you’re a member of a protected class of Can anyone’s personal safety and private possible exception of “child-molester.” Such property be protected in a country where consistent with liberal orthodoxy, but I people your access to free speech in unlim- demonization of the majority makes tyrants ited. Blacks can refer to whites as “honkies, of the minority. Hence, if a white points out peckerwoods, rednecks,” etc., without fear that blacks commit violent crimes way out of serious reprisal. On the other hand, if of proportion to their percentage of the Benefit from a distinctive program a white refers to a black in any context, it population, he will be attacked as a racist, in Biology Education, designed becomes the subject of intense scrutiny, and it won’t matter that he’s simply stating with the hope that it can be sufficiently BECOME Al to help meet the increasing need a fact. There’s no such thing as a fact if it for science teachers and geared distorted to portray the white as a racist. Al tends to illustrate something negative about Sharpton, a man who has turned race-bait- toward individuals who work or a protected group. With that in mind, the live in Westchester. ing into a cash cow for his own nefarious protected group category is growing ever BIOLOGYl activities, sits upon a lofty throne like a larger. People are eagerly seeking asylum This exciting program, taught by wizened megalomaniac, choosing who will within the sacrosanct boundaries of politi- Touro College Graduate School of be deemed ineligible to exercise freedom of cal correctness. Education faculty, includes select speech. TEACHER!l science courses that leverage the RADIO faculty, expertise, and resources of New York Medical College in Earn a master’s degree in two years while Valhalla, NY. Westchester On the Level continuing to work at your present job. with Narog and Aris This is an affordable, 10-course, 30-credit FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Designated a “Featured” BlogTalk Radio program with some courses offered online. PLEASE CONTACT: program, has been operating for over two years via the Internet with Co-Hosts Richard Dr. Stevan R. Peters, Interim Chair Narog and Hezi Aris every weekday, from 10 TOURO COLLEGE Touro College Biology Education Program a.m. to 12 Noon. Listen to the show live or GRADUATE SCHOOL 212-463-0400 x5284 on demand. Share your perspective by calling OF EDUCATION (347) 205-9201 or by clicking onto the following [email protected] www.touro.edu/edgrad hyperlinks: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ Touro is an Equal Opportunity Institution westchesteronthelevel Page 4 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, May 22, 2014

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thoughtfully, as if contemplating some exis- permanently after a few seconds. moguls are filling their minds with insatiable, YOLO: It Is What It Is tential truth. I know that “It is what it is” is The recurrent theme with these two materialist lust. Along comes YOLO and meant to suggest a zen-like stoicism in the rabidly-popular cultural phenomena is the Snapchat to offer the penultimate justifica- By LUKE HAMILTON the occasional rich Yankee who hires you to face of adversity, but it doesn’t. It makes jettisoning of inhibition. The underlying tion: “Not only should you rid yourself of schlep his bags from base camp to peak and you sound like a dillweed and indicates you message really is, ‘The future doesn’t matter outdated moral parameters, but it’s time to I’m not a Progressive. At back, you might not have much exposure to would have trouble in a mental tug-of-war and there is nothing beyond this existence’. eat and drink for tomorrow we die.” all. I don’t favor censorship. with Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino from This is nothing new; just new packaging. American culture. Now imagine that you Luke Hamilton is classically-trained, I believe that the principles Jersey Shore. The call to ignore your conscience in favor of save up your rupees for years until you can Shakespearean actor from Eugene, Oregon who of free-market capitalism are The second cultural indicator with immediate gratification is as old as dirt. It’s afford to buy a television with Chromecast. happens to be a liberty-loving, right- wing, so intrinsic to this world that which you would be barraged in your just been given a sheen of romantic fatalism While you’re catching up on your favorite Christian constitutionalist. When not penning they can even be applied to non-economic Sherpa-Pad is “YOLO”. It has nothing to do and main-lined into the social media American television shows and sports events, columns for ClashDaily. com, Hamilton spends areas of social interaction. I support liberty with the Smothers Brothers or a green Jedi hivemind via #YOLO. what would become readily apparent is that his time astride the Illinois-Wisconsin border, and always will… BUT, I think it’s time Master. The acronym stands for “You Only we are a nation of idiots who all say the same The troubling aspect of this virulent leading bands of liberty-starved citizens from we eradicate a couple of phrases from the Live Once”, and much like “It is what it is”, things. meme is its glorification of impulsivity. the progres- sive gulags of Illinois to [relative] English lexicon, permanently. this phrase is legion. You’ll find it everywhere One of the first things you’d hear is Given the downward trending development freedom. Hamilton is the creative mind/voice Language is the barometer of a civiliza- from Twitter, to clothing, to restaurants. the phrase, “It is what it is.” Has there ever, of the average American teenager, the lion- behind Pillar & Cloud Productions, a budding tion’s intellect. The more creative, industrious, Not only is this meme annoying, but it is in the history of the spoken word, been a ization of YOLO should serve both as a production company which resides at www. and intellectual a civilization is, the richer likewise foolish. The same mentality which more idiotic phrase than this? It conveys troubling bellwether of hazards ahead as well PillarCloudProductions.com. He owes all to his its language. Conversely, the more menial seizes YOLO as a transformational motto zero information. I don’t know one iota as a confirmation of damage already done. Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, whose strength is and banal the civilization becomes, its is the same mentality which is drawn to more than I did before I heard these words Generations of Americans are being delib- perfected in his weakness. changing language becomes a reflection and yet this phrase is parroted far and wide. technological entities like SnapChat, which erately stripped of the ability to recognize or of that. Imagine yourself, a lonely Sherpa The funny thing is that whenever these wise is a messaging application which allows you utilize logic, thanks to Big Education. At the from the mountains of Nepal. Aside from words are spoken, the listener often nods to send a temporary message that is deleted same time, rapacious ad agencies and media CommunitySection CALENDAR

well as to a dinner at the Kittle House with Spring is finally in the air… The kids News & Notes from Northern Westchester the artist following the event, are available are back from college and high school to the general public. For ticket purchase graduation parties abound. Every time I By MARK JEFFERS Obama’s motorcade got stuck in traffic teacher Ron Tedesco on his retirement and more event information, please call hear the sirens go off I take stock of my as they forgot their Easy Pass, but if so, after 50 years serving as an educator; the Christina Makrakis at 914-232-9555, ext. children’s whereabouts and pray that the President Obama made they could have read this week’s “toll free” school is naming a new physics lab in his 2968. siren does not equal a car accident. Take a stop in Westchester edition of “News & Notes,” while they honor. Learn how to identify “Edible a minute to remind your families to be County last week using waited in line. Our gossip reporter, also known as Invasive Plants,”during a hike at the smart, to slow down, to not text while the Tappan Zee Bridge as A job well done shout out to my wife, tells us that Opie, better known Trailside Nature Museum at Ward Pound driving, and to drive defensively… Those a backdrop for a speech, Archbishop Stepinac High School physics as Ron Howard and his wife are selling Ridge Reservation, Route 35, in Cross sirens seem to go off way too often… there is no truth to the rumor that Mr. nd their Armonk home; it’s on the market for River on June 2 at 1pm. Congratulations and three cheers $27.5 million bucks. “Holy Flying mammals. Quick, to three Boy Scouts from Troop 45 in Over in Chappaqua they are holding to the Batcave,” naturalist Eric Stone Van Cortlandtville: Sachin Sanmugaraja, Before speaking to the police...call an Open Days Program Tour in Rocky will teach about the bats that live at and Christopher Callinan, and Liam Breen for around Muscoot Farm on Saturday, June having recently attained their Eagle Scout Hills. Explore the garden; it will open to th George Weinbaum the public on May 24th. 7 at 6pm. Hopefully, visitors will get to rankings. ATTORNEY AT LAW Does anyone else remember the glimpse a bat or two as dusk falls. Up in Yorktown Heights, Hilltop orange canvas art installation called The Speaking of comic super heroes, the Hanover Farm will host Farm Fest, from Green Hornet would like this item… 10am to 4pm, on Memorial Day, May Gates in Central Park by Christo a few th years back? Am I aging myself again? Hilltop Hanover Farm in Yorktown 26 ; there is no truth to the rumor that Heights is presenting “Beekeeping for Old McDonald is stopping by… The Katonah Museum of Art will present st Christo with its 2014 Himmel Award at a Beginners,” on May 31 . Happy Memorial Day to all, please FREE CONSULTATION: th June 1st reception at Chappaqua Crossing Currently in its 16 season and the go out and support your local parade, fly recipient of the Westchester County 2012 the American flag and remember all those Criminal, Medicaid/Medicare Fraud Matters Auditorium in Chappaqua, to be followed by a lecture by the artist. Christo will accept Arts Organization of the Year Award, who serve to protect us and those loved White-Collar Crime & Healthcare Prosecutions the award in honor of his legendary artistic Taconic Opera will be performing the ones we have lost… see you next week. world premiere performance and profes- partnership with wife Jeanne-Claude, who Mark Jeffers resides in Bedford Hills, New sional recording of the oratorio “Jonah” T. 914.948.0044 F.914.686.4873 passed away in 2009. Their epic, often York, with his wife Sarah, and three daugh- on Saturday, May 31st at 7:30pm at the controversial, always provocative, large- ters, Kate, Amanda, and Claire. scale artworks have redefined the promise Ossining United Methodist Church, 175 MAIN ST., SUITE 711-7 • WHITE PLAINS, NY 10601 st and potential of environmental public art. and on Sunday, June 1 at 3:00pm at the Tickets to the reception and lecture, as White Plains Presbyterian Church. THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, May 22, 2014 Page 5

CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES

character in films in a manner similar to photos using software like Illustrator and the pharos, the peasants, the Upper- Iconizing the Past those incorporated in comic strips. Photoshop. I am also working on a 3D Egyptian, and the soldier, and so on. Feeha feel (inside the box is an animated version of each portrait”. They stand individually and collectively By SHERIF AWAD and Zaky Rostom. With a snapshot or elephant) said by Tawfkiq El-Dekken’s Loay Saleh was born in Kuwait in harmony and patriotism”, explained photo of their old films, Saleh inserts a character in the movie Ser Takkyaet where he spent his childhood until he Saleh who is preparing an exhibition of Egyptian visual artists famous tag line given expression by their El-Ikhfan (The Secret of the Invisible returned in Egypt to complete his studies the Egyptian icons alongside other Arab live in an immer- Hat, 1959) or Nashent Ya in the Faculty of Applied Arts, October icons. sion of several Falleh (You killed me, you University. Upon graduating in 2010, he Born in Cairo, Egypt, Sherif Awad is a influential fool!) by Stefan Rosty in returned again to Kuwait where he is elements derived film / video critic and curator. He is the film Samara (1956), are some of employed by an advertising agency and editor of Egypt Today Magazine ( www. from their cultural heritage. A the artworks realized so far local publication. His father, Egyptian few years ago, Egyptian con- EgyptToday.com ), and the artistic director with the intention to exhibit artist Abdel-Moeen Saleh, as well as for both the Alexandria Film Festival, in temporary painter Adel El-Siwi the entire collection soon. international artist Eric Jones, whose exhibited his on canvas series, Egypt, and the Arab Rotterdam Festival, “I felt that film historians works range from traditional paint to in The Netherlands. He also contributes to My Stars, in which he revived never gave these supporting digital art, have influenced him. “I never the the revered personalities Variety, in the United States, and is the film actors what they deserved”, lost contact with Egypt. My graduation critic of Variety Arabia ( http://varietyara- of Umm Kulthum, Farid al- said Saleh. “They were strong project was a short animation entitled Atrash, Leila Murad, Tayeha bia.com/ ), in the United Arab Emirates milestones of films made Al-Mowatan Masry (The Citizen Is (UAE), the Al-Masry Al-Youm Website Kryoka, among many other during the golden age of Egyptian) where I tried to retrace the faces that harken back to the ( http://www.almasryalyoum.com/ Egyptian cinema. Producers history of Egypt through different char- en/node/198132 ) and The Westchester golden era of Egyptian cinema. relied on them for the success acters remembered to live in disparate Now, Loay Saleh, an Guardian (www.WestchesterGuardian. of the film, as they created a eras and various localities. We revive com ). Egyptian visual artist who uses high screen tension between computer technology, among their characters and the main other classic techniques, to visu- hero of the film and his love alize his concepts, is bringing interest. El-Dekken, Rostom FLYING ONTO THE WBT STAGE the faces of the past into the and others excelled not only present. Unlike El-Siwi who in playing the villains, but The Enchanting Supercalifragilistic Hit focused on A-List stars of films in playing touching melo- and music, Saleh tends to depict dramatic roles as well. By supporting actors who had a bringing their faces and their strong screen presence, espe- famous sayings, I wanted to cially those who were famous resurrect their memories and for playing the roles of the re-visualize them in con- bad guy, stars such as Tawfkiq temporary style as graphical El-Dekken, Stefan Rosty, Tawfkiq El-Dekken as seen by Loay Saleh. icons, colorizing their scanned

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environment The Peekskill Middle School Environmental Club Makes the Hudson River their Oyster for Annual Symposium

By RICH MONETTI obvious history of over fishing, but also an almost complete indifference to sewage and The Hudson River for most factory dumping, and the most damaging, people usually comes to PCB release. “The Clean Water Act of 1972 mind as an after-thought began to reverse all that,” said 7th grader once the bridge we navigate Akua Yeboah. between New York and New Even so, the group has found that Jersey, the Tappan Zee Bridge is traversed. In fish are still not edible 40 years later, but centuries past, though, the Hudson River any worthwhile study must involve getting was known the world over for its bounty one’s hands dirty, and in this case, wet. The and commercial staple that is as far from our club “slooped” down to the river, a la Henry consciousness today as the suspension bridge Hudson and Pete Seeger, and went in search was in the early 19th Century. “The Hudson of little creatures to make inferences as to the River was the oyster capital of the world,” general health of the food webs. “We didn’t according to the mock presentation made by catch as much as we were hoping, however the students of the Peekskill Middle School we did have one eel, several small larvae Environment Club in preparation for the th of bugs, and a few leeches, said the club’s 20 annual Wheelabrator Symposium for teacher Scott Tabone. environmental stewardship and education. But the oyster’s disappearance amounts It also was a bit too cold to draw any definitive conclusions so the club worked The Peekskill Middle School Environmental Club to more than a historical footnote for the th students doing their part to restore the river with Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Thus lightening the load, 8 grader place in June. Students will follow Fabien as presenters. “They all have a lot more confi- to its past natural glory. member Eli Schloss to verify what they Gordon Evans extended his vision into the Cousteau and his team during Mission 31, a dence,” Tabone said. found online. Unfortunately, what wasn’t in Embarking earlier this month to future. “If we do our part now, people that month-long research mission in the Florida A boast that amounts to a blossoming short supply was refuge left behind by their Florida for the symposium, which centered come after us won’t have as much to do,” he Keys National Marine Sanctuary aboard for Dominique, “It’s opened me up,” she fellow humans – thereby providing clear on the theme of “Connecting to the Oceans,” said. Aquarius. The only underwater marine asserted her new found voice. proof that indifference isn’t only an inhabit- the crustacean’s absence served as a fitting At the same time, the kids quickly habitat and lab in the world; the group will Nonetheless, the presentation will open ant of the distant past. emblem to the club’s investigation into the realized that they could make an even bigger participate in online science sessions with a with Mya Turner, who feels privileged to set affect that growing urbanization, industri- To that, Mya Guardino deferred her difference by bringing the river back with multitude of renowned scientists. the tone and showcase Peekskill in a “good alization and development has had on the cold feet at the river to this daunting and them to the familiar confines of social media. But sometimes testing the waters of a way.” And after they’ve earned a grownup Hudson River Estuary Watershed. “Oysters disturbing reality. “Whenever you picked “We got a lot of retweets from environmen- new project takes even more time than one stay at the Holiday Inn, the young environ- up one piece of garbage, there was always tal groups, and a lot of people who became may imagine before it takes hold. “I joined are a keystone species because they filter th mentalists intend to leave the way they came. another that followed, said the 7 grader. aware of us through social media who want last year, and at first I was a little bored, “We’re going to clean our rooms just like we waste from the water and provide habitat for th many species because of the oyster reefs,” said Still, Mya did not ebb from this to join next year,” said 7 grader Giavonna but when I realized we made an impact, it cleaned the river,” concluded Dominique. th unkempt, unnatural tide and neither did her Tiscone. became fun,” said Dominique Schweizer. 7 grader Emily Lyles. Rich Monetti has been a freelance writer since namesake Mya Turner. “Seeing all the trash Returning to the river follows, as their It is an evolution any educator would In turn, the effects play out across the 2003. He lives in Westchester County. rest of the ecosystem. As such, the research and picking up each piece made you want to generation well know they should, is a far sign up for, and the same goes for the of the 25-member club uncovered an do more and more,” she lamented. more important reciprocation that will take progress Tabone has seen his students make

MAKE IT FUN AND IT WILL GET DONE

doing. Mt. St. Helens has taught me that birdseed as we did last spring, we knew it Terry took yesterday morning that shows Mother Nature Knows Best all things heal in time and Mother Nature was because of the squirrels. We bought how wrong I was thinking the deer were knows more than we do. squirrel proof birdfeeders. The theory is the eating my tulips. I’m including it in case By PAM YOUNG Sunday after being on Regis Philbin’s tele- One example was Spirit Lake. The squirrel gets on the feeder and when he/she your editor can publish it. In case it doesn’t vision show called AM Los Angeles on lake was at the foot of Mt. St. Helens and steps on the perch his weight shuts off the accompany this column, it’s a photo of We live 30 miles from Mt. the Friday before. I remember talking with as a Girl Scout I camped with my troop in door to the seeds, whereas birds don’t weigh a slug (approximately 10 ounces) who St. Helens in the state of Regis about the eminent possibility of our the park many times. The lake was so clear; enough to shut it. In one day this mother climbed up the 12” stem of one of my tulips Washington. On May 18, mountain erupting. She’d gone into labor we could see fish swimming deep in the squirrel figured out if she stuck her arm into and ate away half the flower. His weight 1980 she erupted. Before on March 27 and was shaking and spewing water. After the mountain blew, the lake the open door before she put weight of the caused the tulip to sway with the slight- the momentous event, she steam almost every day. (Oh to be in labor seemed to disappear; filled with molten perch, her arm kept the door open enough est breeze. While I watched, I thought of looked just like a gigantic, yummy scoop for 22 days!) It was kind of scary living so lava the consistency of fresh cement. I for her other hand to reach in and pull out Cirque du Soleil and it made me smile at of vanilla ice cream. Then she blew her close to her and as the earthquakes became remember the Forest Service thought the one seed at a time. Mother Nature. top and ever since has looked like some lake was gone along with all the wildlife Yesterday we decided to go to the feed more frequent and roadblocks were set up For more from Pam Young go to www. enormous giant slashed the scoop in half and our local paper was regularly filled with store and buy a squirrel feeder and quit along the perimeter of the “red zone,” we makeitfunanditwillgetdone.com. You’ll find with a colossal machete. She’s not as pretty articles about the devastation of the fish fighting them. There was quite a selection, watched, waited and wondered what would many musings, videos of Pam in the kitchen as she used to be, but at least she no longer population. Well, guess what! Without the but we chose one along with a 50 pound happen when she blew. 57 people were preparing delicious meals, videos on how to get subliminally suggests ice cream to me. (I help of our U.S. Forest Service, the lake just sack of pumpkin seeds and a 30 pound bag killed and some of the hair-raising stories organized, ways to lose weight and get your know since her eruption, my consumption moved to a different spot and the fish and of peanuts. I’ll just have to wait and see if of those who escaped that Sunday morning finances in order, all from a reformed SLOB’s of ice cream cones has gone way down.) wildlife came back on their own. they will now stay away from the bird’s seed filled our morning newspaper yesterday. point of view. Yesterday, we north westerners were Nature is a great teacher and one of We tend to think we can outsmart or just get fat and call all their friends in buzzing with memories of her eruption. My the lessons I’ve learned over and over again Mother Nature. Hah! When we realized neighboring counties to join the feast. sister and I were in Los Angeles that is that Mother Nature knows what she’s we were going through twice as much Just one more note: I have a photo THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, May 22, 2014 Page 7

PRO-LIFE

and misleading! The definition of “health” its failure to fight the sickness in its ranks. Are Pro-Choicers Indoctrinated? was not included in the main case, Roe, but The government is committing a crime so concealed over in Doe, which most people serious that we, arguably, do not have a true By CHRIS ROSTENBERG community was corrupt if it accepted such really is legal through all nine months, in have never heard of! Both cases are “of democracy, or even a civilization. In the a policy? every state, for any reason, and has been course, to be read together.” Everything academy, feminism, perhaps the greatest The following made-up Diane: No. Besides, how many women since 1973. Either by design or by accident, in one case pertains to the other! This is social philosophy of the twentieth and conversation with a ficti- get abortions so late anyway? our law is confusing in the extreme. The another indication that the Supreme Court twenty-first centuries, is being warped to tious pro-choicer named Supreme Court in Roe vs. Wade made it Justices were being disingenuous! But of commit crimes similar to those committed Diane is based on numerous Me: How many wrongful abortions seem as if only early abortion was legal, course the entire undertaking is illegiti- by the Third Reich, but dwarfing them. actual discussions I’ve had will you tolerate before you oppose the law that allows those abortions? saying that the states, if they wished, could mate because the Constitution makes no I have found that when I ask people with real people. The dialogue is meant to mention of abortion, so how can any of it Diane: Only a small percentage of make late abortion illegal. They can’t. In what they believe the abortion law should expose unfortunate attitudes held by many be a Constitutional right?! abortions are done so late. Roe vs. Wade’s companion case, Doe vs. be their answers largely depend on whether abortion advocates. Too many pro-choicers It appears that the pro-Roe/Doe justices they understand our extreme pro-abortion Me: Do we justify late killings by per- Bolton, the High Court squashed the states’ refuse to make themselves accountable. believed that if any abortion was to be a law. Rarely do people support the law as it forming more early abortions? The point right to make third trimester abortions Diane: So you are against abortion. Constitutional right, it all had to be, because is. But people are more likely to condemn of the extreme nature of our abortion law illegal. Does that mean you think abortion should the unborn was denied all legal status until the law if I explain it to them after they have is that it strongly suggests that the law The details are important. Roe said the be illegal from conception? What about birth. There was some mention of a “com- said what their desired law is. After all, pro- is unconstitutional, and that those who states could make third trimester abortion rape and incest? pelling state interest” to protect unborn life choice is the heart of political correctness defend it are cranks and nutjobs. They are illegal unless the woman’s “life or health” Me: Wait a minute. You can’t just late in the pregnancy, but this was a paper and people are reluctant to cross pro-choic- blatant nine-month pro-choicers, unlike was endangered. We should already be pick and choose which abortions you want tiger meant to deceive readers into believ- ers. So the proper way of approaching the average Americans who support some suspicious – why mention “life” if “health” to defend – you have to justify all of them. ing the trimester scheme would allow for issue is to ask people what they think the abortion and oppose other abortion. The is enough to get a third trimester abortion? What would you say if I told you President a compromise. There was no compromise. law should be, then to inform them of our whole debate over prenatal homicide is dif- If a woman’s life is endangered, certainly her Obama supported nine-month abortion? nine-month law. I encourage educators to ferent in communities where the extremism health in endangered. Maybe the justices What about recent state laws that Diane: That’s ridiculous. ask the same questions I asked “Diane” in of our law is understood. “Nine-month were trying to seem as if such late abortion forbid abortion after, say, the twentieth Me: I’m glad you agree. the conversation above. arguments” – like saying the unborn is not a were only to be legal in very rare circum- week? The Supreme Court requires such Diane: I mean I don’t believe you. baby until birth - are more easily exposed in stances. The Supreme Court defined laws to have a “health” exception, rendering Many pro-choicers are indoctrinated. Me: What if I told you Bill Clinton, such environments. Imagine where the two “health” as “all factors, physical, emotional, the laws toothless. I urge readers who don’t When they won’t answer simple questions Hillary Clinton and Joseph Biden all sides in the abortion war would be if the law psychological and familial” and included believe me to peruse the High Court deci- – questions they are capable of answering support nine month abortion? had always been understood by the public. the woman’s marital status and age. Only sions themselves. – then it becomes virtually impossible for Diane: You’re out of your mind. Do you see what I mean? one other doctor aside from the abortion- From that day to this, the media and them to free themselves from their mental prisons. Me: What if I told you abortion Diane: No. ist has to attest to the woman’s health. education system have disseminated the law in Roe without explaining the loophole already is legal through all nine months and Me: If the Democratic Party’s plank So, the states can prohibit late abortion, Chris Rostenberg is a freelance writer. in Doe. It amounts to the greatest propa- pro-choicers want to keep it that way? included a commitment to defend nine except when one of “all factors” comes to Correspondence may be directed to ganda campaign of our day. The medical Diane: I would tell you it’s legal so late month abortion, unconditionally, through pass – in other words, the states cannot [email protected] community is negligent, to put it mildly, in only in rare circumstances. the Supreme Court, would that not dis- prohibit any abortion! This is dishonest Me: In all circumstances. qualify any Democrat who adhered to that Diane: Not in this state. plank? Would Republicans who accepted Me: In all fifty states. that extreme law also be disqualified? Diane: If that was the law, I would Diane: I wouldn’t say that. have heard of it. That law would have to Me: The nature of our abortion law is have just recently been passed, and it hasn’t. only one simple fact regarding the abortion Me: It became law in 1973. issue. If you didn’t know such an elementary Diane: I’d say you were crazy. aspect of the issue as the law, you probably Me: If I did show you that abortion would not have a good understanding of the issue, would you? was legal through all nine months, for any C reason, in all fifty states, and has been since Diane: I don’t agree. 1973, would you oppose that law? Me: A person who did not know theM “Hudson Valley Surgical Group was my Diane: I’d rather not say. law could not understand the corruption Yin Mastering Outcomes choice for caring and thorough breast care.” Me: Well, if you support prenatal many of CM while Minimizing Surgery Claire M., breast patient homicide and don’t qualify your endorse- our institutions: government, media, ©2014 Hudson Valley Surgical Group | All Rights Reserved. ment, you are a nine-month pro-choicer, education and the medical field, and couldMY Mastectomy vs. Lumpectomy aren’t you? not grasp certain other issues related to CY Women diagnosed with breast cancer face a tough Diane: I’m not answering that. those bodies. Such a person would have a CMY decision. New studies suggest less invasive treatment Me: If that was the law and you did not limited understanding of the world. Too many people refuse to deal with the awful for early stage breast cancer may provide better know it, would that prove that the media K outcomes. The experts at the Hudson Valley Surgical was not doing its job of informing the pop- facts of prenatal homicide. Group’s Minimally Invasive Center take the time to ulation about abortion? Diane: Can you show me a single Robert J. Raniolo, MD • Har Chi Lau, MD person who demonstrates such denial? counsel their patients on the best decision. Diane: No comment. With 4000+ surgeries performed to date Hudson Me: Yeah – you do. You would not Me: Would you admit that the educa- Valley Surgical Group’s Minimally Invasive Center answer any of my questions. Don’t expect tion system was teaching a lie if that was provides their patients a betterquality-of-life option Hudson Valley Surgical Group me to illustrate dishonesty sustaining the the law and you did not know it for all this and access to full breast care center support. MINIMALLY INVASIVE CENTER pro-choice holocaust if you yourself are 777 N. Broadway, Suite 204, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591 time? Robert Raniolo, MD & Har Chi Lau, MD divorced from reality. 914.631.3660 | HudsonValleySurgeons.com Diane: No, I won’t admit that. Castle Connolly’s Top Doctors™ in America Me: Would you admit that the medical The punchline is this: in fact, abortion Page 8 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, May 22, 2014

TECHNOLOGY / CREATIVE DISRUPTION

mindless pap. drones. networking if not the commercialization of the some, many may not it want stored some- Complexity Today, the public would have by-in- So we have real room for debate if we are once unprofitable art of conversation. That, in place that she / he ordered a sexual aid, is on large made up its mind – even before the willing to demand it – “How much intrusion a nutshell, is Web 2.0: content is no longer king, medication for depression, had a citation for By JOHN F. McMULLEN party conventions. We are in a polarized will we permit to provide us with security? as the digital sages like to say, connections are.” disorderly conduct at a concert, read many country where many take their opinions How much security is really provided by In other words, Goggle can tell Apple that books “of a Socialist nature,” or whatever In a recent Salon column, from the media with whom they agree. For the intrusion? What safeguards do we have x gillion people receive mail that mentions – the information might never be used or “The blockbuster era must die: some, FOX-News is always right; for others, that the data, pictures, etc. collected on us is Apple – so it’s a great place to advertise – made public but we might not want it ever How the Internet can save it’s MSNBC. For many, the New York narrowly used only for security. and, by the way, another x gillion searched collected. Should people have the right to us from the cultural crisis it Times is “the paper or record;” for others, it Impact ofTechnology on our Economy on iPad Mini. Facebook knows how many “opt-out” of any data collection? caused” (http://www.salon. is a “slanted liberal mouthpiece.” The views Fact – Technological power is being people belong to each special interest group All of these points (and others as com/2014/05/09/the_blockbuster_era_ of our other great paper, The Wall Street deployed at geometric speed and and can solicit advertisers accordingly. What technology continues to develop) require under- must_die_how_the_internet_can_save_ Journal are just as divided. impacting every aspect of our lives. benefit, if any, do the users get out of this standing and discussion. In every case, there us_from_the_cultural_crisis_it_caused/), How did we get this way? – there are Fact – The continued expansion of Artificial arrangement? Should we be demanding are benefits and negatives on every side – the Andrew Leonard describes Astra Taylor’s many answers – gerrymandering; parties Intelligence and Robotics, coupled with some recompense for the use of our data? relationship of technology to our daily lives new book, “The People’s Platform: Taking moving to the extreme right and left, leaving new systems and “apps,” social network- The Web, of course, opens up the door is a complex one and often has economic, Back Power and Culture In The Digital Age” little room for compromise; polarization ing, and greater Internet reach continue for more discussion than just the social constitutional, philosophical, and, perhaps, as “something of great and lasting value.” of the media, etc. I think, however, that to keep the US economically competi- networks. It brings great convenience to us moral implications. We can attempt to under- I agree completely but my focus here the major reason is that we are too busy to tive and hold consumer prices down. – we can buy all our books from Amazon stand and deal with these issues – or we can is not to dwell on Leonard’s reason for his deal with complexity and are willing to let Fact – The new technologies elimi- without ever leaving our house, while killing just wait until the next Kodak fails, the next acclaim. Leonard is concerned with the others with whom we think we agree do the nate many more jobs than they create. our local book stores and Borders, and buy Edward Snowden appears, the next massive content of Taylor’s arguments in the book heaving lifting to form our opinions for us. Fact – Many of those displaced by new all our music from iTunes (while killing local identify theft, or the denial of a job because of about the failure of the Internet to live up Unfortunately, we often don’t realize that technologies – and they range from record stores and Tower Records). Are we that high school concert incident – your choice! to its promise, writing “The People’s Platform,” those forming the opinions may be driven by upper management to clerical and going to evolve to a sedentary shop at home Creative Disruption is a continuing may be the most potent critique of Internet hype their hatred of the President or the fact that manual workers are too old, too unedu- nation, served by a small number of major series examining the impact of constantly and Silicon Valley triumphalism delivered to the bill-under-discussion favors their politi- cated, or, in some cases, too unintelligent vendors while the huge mass of former retail accelerating technology on the world around date. By dint of her eloquent prose, thorough cal special interest group. Still, it’s easier to for re-training for the new hi-tech jobs. clerks join the displaced. us. These changers normally happen under research and, perhaps most of all, willing- abrogate our responsibility than to read the Fact – The job displacement can lead to Even beyond the Internet and govern- our personal radar until we find that the ness to seek nuance in the “relentlessly binary” 1,000 page plus Affordable Care Act. mortgage foreclosure and / or downgrad- ment surveillance, we are under scrutiny of world as we knew it is no more. showdown between techno-optimists and There are, however, major issues relating ing of position, leading to less buying data collection systems wherever we go. techno-skeptics, Taylor has produced something John F. McMullen is a writer, poet, college to technology that will affect our lives and power and greater income inequality. Every time we use a credit or debit card of great and lasting value. Her logic is relent- professor and radio host. Links to other that of future generations. These issues Fact – At some point, those presently or a store’s advantage card, or use a toll less. “ writings, Podcasts, and BlogTalkRadio broad- require discussion and general agreement enjoying the lower consumer prices may no card or order something online (including casts at www.johnmac13.comhttp://www. It is, however, another comment by about how we wish our society to go forth. longer be able to afford the lower priced items. medicine), the transaction is collected and, johnmac13.com/. Leonard that ties more directly into my The fact that they involve both technology eventually becomes part of a profile some- interest in Taylor’s book for the purposes of and the need for thoughtful discussion as Once again, we face the question of the type place. While this may seem innocuous to this column – “Astra Taylor’s ability to pierce well as long range planning is an immediate of society we wish. One political party takes through the techno-utopian claims made by turnoff to people right away – but, if we are a “No need to worry. Once the economy improves EYE ON THEATRE the Clay Shirkys and Jeff Jarvises and Chris to prudently move ahead, we must make an all will be fine – particularly if we get rid of theses Andersons of the world is so compelling that I effort. social programs and much regulation” while the found myself repeatedly confronting a paradox Let’s take a look at a few major current other says “We must change the tax code to make as I grappled with ‘The People’s Platform.’” issues: the rich pay its fair share and expand benefits Conservative and Radical Leonard writes of “repeatedly confronting a Security and Surveillance: to the needy” – Of course, neither of these paradox as I grappled…” It seems to me that, By JOHN SIMON Fact – The US was viciously attacked on 9/11, are about to happen so, unless the general is made to try on one of Hester’s dresses, in as a society, we don’t accept paradox, do not Fact – In response, the President autho- population gets involved, we will continue which she feels awkward. Giardina writes deal with complexity, and certainly do not “The City of Conversation” rized surveillance and investigatory toward more and more income inequality lively conversation, and creates an interest- grapple to reach thought-out conclusions. by Anthony Giardina looks procedures that had been illegal or restricted and greater rupturing of the middle class. ingly recalcitrant Colin as well as Hester’s I seem to remember that in my youth at a prominent Washington as a result of the Church Committee. The Role of the Internet live-in sister, Jean, acting as sort of secretary, (and I can certainly be corrected if I’m fan- hostess, Hester Ferris, at Fact – The current President, a constitu- Masses (“The Big Data” Fodder) whose decent ordinariness makes Hester’s tasizing) that the intellectual leaders of our three stages between 1979 tional lawyer, after planning transparency I’ll begin here with Astra Taylor’s own words sparkle and wit feel all the brighter. political parties, such as the conservative and 2009, or, since this is D.C., under three and strict adherence to law, continued the as she describes the meaning of the transi- Historic events, variously evaluated, and Robert Taft and the liberal Adlai Stevenson, presidencies: Carter’s, Regan’s and Obama’s. practices of the previous administration. tion of the World Wide Web from “Web 1.0” basic human problems, such as generational wrote “position papers” on public issues She is an influential figure in whose Fact – There has not been a major (Essentially a one-way communication with conflicts, jostle each other, producing both and that PEOPLE ACTUALLY READ Georgetown salon eminences meet, and attack on the United States since 9/11, hosts such as the New York Times, Amazon, drama and humor. In due time, we also get THEM. I do know that, in 1964, private sometimes important decisions germinate. a condition that the intelligence services WalMart, and Motor Vehicles presenting grandson Ethan, age six, whose closeness to citizen and non-candidate Ronald Reagan Herself an impassioned liberal Democrat, attribute to the surveillance programs. the users with products to buy, information Hester yields controversy, which eventually gave a televised 45 or 50 minute speech in her invitees may be of any party, like the Fact – We do not know how many, if to be read, forms to be filled out, etc.) to “Web focuses on the disputed nomination of Judge support of Barry Goldwater’s presidential comic Republican senator and wife from any, attacks have been prevented by the 2.0” (when users began to publish their own Brock. He is the object of Hester’s virulent candidacy and millions of people watched Kentucky in act one. Hester is living with programs – that information is classified. material – blogs, microblogs, Social Networks, hostility, as opposed to Colin and Anna’s by it and discussed it later with friends and Democratic senator Harris (Ferris-Harris, Fact – The revelations by Edward Snowden wikis, etc.). She writes “Web 2.0 is not about now co-workers. I know very few people who get the humor?), and at this party we also have made us aware of the various programs users buying products; rather, users are the Republican conservatism, by which would watch a candidate, never mind a non- get her independent-minded son, Colin, and many who knew of them before, product. We are what companies like Google time Ethan is 27, amusingly played the candidate, give a 45-minute political speech back from London with girlfriend Anna such as the President, promise “reform.” and Facebook sell to advertisers. Of course, social same actor as, earlier, his father, the talented and one would never air one anyhow; the Fitzgerald (his future wife), who is very eager Fact – National and Local law enforcement media have made a new kind of engagement Michael Simpson. networks know that they would be deluged for life lessons from Hester. agencies wish to expand the use of surveil- possible; they have also generated a handful No need to go into plot details. The by telephone calls demanding “Two and Hester views Anna’s attire, especially her lance through their use of video cameras and of enormous companies that profit off the cre- main interest, in any case, centers on Hester, boots, disapprovingly, and pretty soon Anna a Half Men,” “American Idol” and other ations and interactions of others. What is social Continued on page 9 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, May 22, 2014 Page 9

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Michael Simpson, Phillip James Brannon, and Beth Dixon in “The City of Conversation”. John Aylward, Kristen Bush, Kevin O’Rourke, and Jan Maxwell in “The City of Conversation”. Lincoln Center Theater – Mitzi E. ropes on either stage, sometimes even briefly even acting a little. At times, they even get Newhouse, 150 West 65th Street, between seated on improvised bleachers. men to dance with. And there are projections Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, New The performers crop up all over the of all kinds, some even of pretentious texts. York, NY 10023. Tickets: By telephone place. Sometimes on a balcony, sometimes in Although the words “Here lies love” – 212-239-6200 or 800-447-7400; by the pit, often running from one small stage appear repeatedly in the sung text, what little Internet: www.Telecharge.com . to the other. There is even a high umpire’s love there is in evidence is hardly permitted * * * * * seat for someone to perch on. Beside the a reclining posture. David Byrne is the con- principals, there is a chorus of six young ceiver and wrote the seldom understandable women, singing and dancing and sometimes Continued on page 10

Luke Niehaus and Jan Maxwell in “The City of Conversation”. Continued from page 8 superbly played at all ages by Jan Maxwell, one of our finest actresses. She shines at evoking the changes wrought by time, “Here Lies Love” is a political show of a rendering the diminution of her self-impor- very different sort, and not just because it is a tance. It is a decline endured with gallantry, musical. Indeed, the music by David Byrne without an iota of pathos or playing for and Fatboy Slim may be its least noteworthy audience sympathy. aspect. If musicals worked through decibels JONAHJONAH There is good work also from Beth rather than notes, it would be a sure winner, Dixon ( Jean), Kevin O’Rourke (Chandler serious competition for aerial bombardment. Harris), and the rest of the cast, including The auditorium, a modest-sized box, Winner of the Luke Niehaus, more likable than many a has balconies for some spectators on both 2012 Arts Organization typical child actor. John Lee Beatty’s enor- long sides. At each short side, there is a stage, of the Year for Westchester County mously livable and lived-in-feeling set helps for either action or slide projections. The immeasurably, as do Catherine Zuber’s big pit in the middle features two movable Saturday May 31, 2014 Sunday June 1, 2014 telling costumes. Doug Hughes has directed platforms mainly yielding a cruciform acting Ossining United White Plains area, but sometimes variously repositioned with his customary savvy, and you may, if Methodist Church Presbyterian Church you can avoid excessive expectation, have a for different effects. Surrounding them, there Corner of Emwilton & Route 9 39 North Broadway pleasant evening. is enough space to accommodate a larger Ossining, NY · 7:30pm White Plains, NY · 3:00pm standing audience, footing it for some 90 Photos of “The City of Conversation” For tickets, order online at www.taconicopera.org by and courtesy of Stephanie Berger. minutes. But they’re not allowed to stand or call (855) 88-OPERA Kristen Bush, Michael Simpson, and Jan in one place. They are frequently reshuffled This production is made possible, in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and The City of Conversation Venue: Arts Westchester with funds from Westchester County, government, corporations, and individuals. Maxwell in “The City of Conversation”. by a special staff, sometimes herded behind Page 10 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, May 22, 2014

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Conservative and Radical which, however, is no more a compliment It is about Hansel, an East Berlin youth, Krzyshtoff and Skszsp, and bits of comic than saying that all animals fit in a stable In who has a semi-successful sex-change opera- getup. Continued from page 9 the end, the standees are swept up in a dance, tion, leaving him with a one-inch “sexual Lena Hall, until the end in male drag, providing the nowadays greatly overvalued embarrassment” (I quote Thomas Hischak). lyrics (no obvious loss) with additional music plays Yitzhak, the only other character, a audience participation. As Hedwig, he marries an American GI, by Tom Gandey and J [no period] Pardo. bottom banana. “Gnosis,” by the way, is who brings him to the States, then dumps What matters most is the maniacal inven- “Here Lies Love” Venue: The Public Greek for knowledge, but it is possible that him. He gets involved with a military brat, tion of the unconventional mise-en-scène, Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, New York, the whole thing may be Greek to you. Tommy Gnosis, who steals his/her songs attributable mostly to Alex Timbers, the NY 10003. Tickets: Accomplish ticket “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” produc- and likewise abandons him/her, leaving currently fashionable trendy director (also of purchase(s) via the Internet: (http://here- tion image by and courtesy of Joan Marcus. him/her “in search of a personal and sexual “Rocky”), with generally unimpressive cho- lieslove.publictheater.org), by telephone: “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” Venue: identity” [Hischak}. th reography by Annie-B [no period] Parson. 212-967-7555 (between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m.), Belasco Theater, 111 West 44 Street, or at The Public theater Box Office (Sun & Neil Patrick Harris, the incumbent lead, th It is all largely staging. What plot there between Broadway and 6 Avenue, New Mon: 2 – 6 p.m; Tue – Sat: 2 – 7:30 p.m.). is one of today’s most ubiquitous showbiz is involves the simplified Philippine history York, NY 10036. Tickets: Call Telecharge. personalities, acting or directing in all media, of the Marcos couple and Aquino and his * * * * * com at 212-239-6200 or 800-432-7250. That is off Broadway; on Broadway and hosting both stage and screen shows. mother, with hardly a minor character but John Simon has written for over 50 years on we get the revival of the curious musical Here he goes beyond his openly gay persona plenty of mayhem and murder. If you don’t theatre, film, literature, music and fine arts for the “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” with book by into an almost frighteningly feminine already know the underlying events, you may Hudson Review, New Leader, New Criterion, John Cameron Mitchell, who in the original Hedwig, and I can see why in the end he be lost amid all the running around—no National Review, New York Magazine, Opera 1998 very Off staging and subsequent Neil Patrick Harris as Hedwig in “Hedwig needs to show off his masculine self, which major deprivation from what is more gim- News, Weekly Standard, Broadway.com and movie played the transsexual protagonist. and the Angry Inch”. he does with the added bonus of near-nudity. mickry than narrative, more discotheque Bloomberg News. He reviews books for the New than theatre, more noise than melody. This much more elaborate revival—lots lighting by Kevin Adams—tries in some The rather undistinguished ten songs have music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, and York Times Book Review and Washington Post. The main actors—Jose Llana (Marcos), of scenery by the tongue-in-cheek Julian ways to emphasize, in others to neutralize, the music is performed by the four-piece To learn more, visit the www.JohnSimon- Ruthie Ann Miles (Imelda), and Conrad Crouch, oodles of outrageous costumes that this is essentially an old-fashioned gay “Angry Inch Band.” They sport parodic Uncensored.com website. Ricamora (Aquino)—all fit their parts, by Arianne Phillips, and polymorphous show extravagantly gussied up. Slavic (or East Berlin) names, such as CURRENT COMMENTARY

protect Ukraine’s borders in exchange for the insiders became oligarchs under the relatively bring Russia fully into the European fold. Back to The Cold War country’s handover of the nuclear arms that benevolent, if sometimes inebriated, gaze of They continue to inflict minor economic it inherited after the Soviet Union’s collapse. Putin’s predecessor, Boris Yeltsin. Just as the sanctions (as Europe did yesterday) in the By LARRY M. ELKIN until last month, when the tenant ousted the In Crimea and again in eastern Great Depression helped pave the way for hope that a wrist-slap will make Putin recoil. landlord. Ukraine, one of the first measures taken Hitler’s rise, Russia’s economic meltdown in Clearly, it won’t. At a dinner party in Brazil On Sunday, the day after I returned under Russian influence has been to shut 1998 set the stage for Putin to rise to power There are many powerful levers to last week, another guest to the States, Russian-backed militants in down outside news outlets and replace them as the man who brought stability, and later be pulled, all of which are well known in asked me what I thought eastern Ukraine held a plebiscite in which with Kremlin-backed mouthpieces. This restored a measure of economic and military NATO’s capitals. The Russians would be about the Russian annexa- they claimed an overwhelming mandate to mirrors developments in Russia itself, where muscle, for countrymen who still often yearn appalled to have NATO troops perma- tion of Crimea. seek something, though it is unclear exactly Putin has consolidated state control over the for a strongman. nently based in neighboring countries such I responded by observing that this is what. In the city of Donetsk, rebel leaders media and the Internet, as well as the courts Like it or not, the only options avail- as Poland and the Baltic states. We could the first time since 1945 that one recognized reportedly called yesterday for union with and virtually every other organ of govern- able to the West – and especially to a Europe accelerate the deployment of missile defense European state has forcibly taken land from Russia. Putin’s government stopped short of ment power. that believed territorial aggression was a systems and make defensive weapons another. This development fundamentally endorsing the call but demanded that Kiev Like the plant manager I met in Brazil, thing of the past – are to gear up for another (including short-range missile defenses changes the geopolitical world around us – enter into negotiations with the militants. many Western business leaders want to prolonged confrontation with Moscow or such as the Patriot) available to protect Kiev whether we want to accept that fact or not. The situation is reminiscent of proceed as though nothing has changed. to simply concede to Putin and his backers and other key centers in western Ukraine. The West, in my view, must either respond Germany’s treatment of Czechoslovakia Paper is not exactly a strategic industry, and a what they want and hope for what British We could accelerate development of North vigorously (even though it has not yet shown in the run-up to World War II. After Western company’s investment in a Siberian Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain once American energy reserves, including the it is prepared to do so), or risk living with British and French leaders acquiesced to mill that produces pulp for export to China called “peace in our time.” Keystone XL pipeline, along with natural an aggressive, expansionist, heavily armed his seizure of the largely German-speaking is not obviously a matter of national security. Chamberlain described that state gas export terminals that could help displace neighbor. History has shown that the first Sudetenland in 1938, Hitler sent his army But any investment, even a paper mill, in of affairs when he returned to London Russian supplies, on which much of Europe approach can end very well, and the second into what remained of the neighboring Putin’s Russia is a source of graft and power in 1938 from the Munich conference, in relies. We could remove Russian trade pref- very badly. state just a few months later. He declared for officials who owe their positions to Putin, which he acquiesced to Hitler’s land grab in erences. We could freeze U.S. and other Three or four of my companions, mostly the creation of a German “protectorate” of and thus helps strengthen his hold on power. Czechoslovakia. “Peace in our time” became Western energy companies’ investments Brazilian businessmen, nodded their assent. Bohemia and Moravia, while other parts of Such investments also promise to become World War II in less than a year. in Russia and block transfers of advanced One, a factory manager who recently turned the country were seized by Hungary and headaches for their Western owners should Nobody contemplates, and certainly drilling technologies. down a position in Siberia because of the Poland. The little that was left became the they ever need to rely on Russian courts or nobody wants, an actual war with Russia – These sorts of steps, or even simply distance from his elderly mother, loudly German-aligned Slovak State. officials, neither of whom are constrained by least of all the Russians, who have neither harsher economic sanctions, might actually proclaimed that sanctions are unwarranted. Putin has now absorbed Crimea, sent the rule of law as we understand it. the economic nor military clout to match raise the cost of territorial and politi- Soon the conversation moved on to other Russian special forces into eastern Ukraine Whether we choose to face it or not, the NATO. On the other hand, the Russians, cal aggression to a level that Putin and his topics. and repeatedly massed his army on Ukraine’s Cold War is back. Some might argue that it at least as directed by Putin, know what they Kremlin colleagues are unwilling to pay. The next day, Russian President borders, all to keep his neighbor, or as much never truly left, just as some posit that the two want and are inclined to take it if they believe Most could be taken in Washington even Vladimir Putin celebrated his conquest by of it as possible, in Russia’s political and World Wars were one prolonged conflict they can get it at an acceptable price. if our European allies remain reluctant to appearing at a Victory Day celebration (offi- economic orbit. All of this is in direct con- with a 21-year hiatus in the middle. I think Leaders in Washington and Europe confront Putin or compromise their own cially commemorating the Soviet defeat of travention of a 1997 agreement in which this, too, is a fair observation, because even continue to behave as though this is still the economies. Nazi Germany) in Sevastopol, the Crimean Russia, along with the United States and in the optimistic decade of the 1990s, Russia Yeltsin era, when hope ran high that some We thought we won the Cold War. If port that had housed Russia’s Black Sea the United Kingdom, pledged to respect and was a violent, corrupt, lawless society where combination of urging and incentives could Continued on page 11 fleet under a lease agreement with Ukraine THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, May 22, 2014 Page 11

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Back to The Cold War importantly, to enforce some red lines to was a senior manager for personal financial constrain Putin’s aggression. planning and family wealth planning, he Continued from page 10 founded his own firm in Hastings on Hudson, Lightning Protection! we did, it was only because we were willing N.Y., in 1992. That firm grew steadily and to shoulder the costs and the risks of con- became the Palisades Hudson organization, which moved to Scarsdale, N.Y., in 2002. The fronting Russian aggression and to forego Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®, has provided economic opportunities in the meantime. firm expanded to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in personal financial and tax counseling to a ASSOCIATED Russia is no match for the West, either eco- 2005 and to Atlanta in 2008. sophisticated client base since 1986. After nomically or militarily, but this only matters six years with Arthur Andersen, where he if the West is ready to draw and, more LIGHTNING MIDDLE EAST FORUM Rod Company, Inc. Nigerian ‘Sex-Slaves’ Disrupt Obama Narrative on Islam www.alrci.com (518) 789-4603 Free Estimates By RAYMOND IBRAHIM (845) 373-8309 Free Inspections Islamic law permits the pos- (860) 364-1498 session of concubines, or sex slaves. This has been dem- onstrated countless times, “until Kerry got on the phone” (whatever that means). including through Islamic clerics quoting Islamic scriptures, and through ordinary Muslims, past and present, acting on it. That said, Islamic sanctioned sex-slavery does not perturb the Western world simply because the powers-that-be-specifically academia, media, and government-ignore it, and all other unsavory phenomena associated with Islam, out of existence. Interesting, therefore, are the responses from the authorities-comical one might even Nigeria of all Christian presence-a repeatedly “I think now the complications that have say-when one of these everyday anecdotes stated goal-it has threatened to poison the arisen have convinced everybody that there actually does surface to the general public. food eaten by Christians and stormed areas needs to be a greater effort,” Kerry said at a Enter the recent abduction of nearly where Christians and Muslims were inter- State Department news conference. “And 300, mostly Christian, teenage schoolgirls mingled, singling the Christians out before it will begin immediately. I mean, literally, in Nigeria at the hands of Boko Haram, slitting their throats. immediately.” yet another Islamic terrorist organization Go to my monthly “Muslim Persecution “Convinced everybody”? Is Kerry refer- plaguing mankind. As expected, the group of Christians” series (currently 31 in all), and ring to himself? After all, there might not justified its actions in Islamic terms, with see the innumerable atrocities that Boko have been any need for “greater effort,” the its leader declaring on video, “I abducted Haram has been responsible for in the last need to act “immediately. I mean, literally, Specialized Diagnostic Medical your girls. I will sell them on the market, by two-and-a-half years-many of which make immediately” had Kerry only let the Nigerian Allah….There is a market for selling humans. Sonography Career Training at the recent Nigerian girls’ abduction pale in president and government do their job one Allah says I should sell.” comparison. year ago, when they were waging a particu- Center for Ultrasound Research & Education Of course, for those in the know, none The real news here is that the so- larly strong offensive against Boko Haram in Classes start soon of this is surprising. In March 2012, Boko called mainstream media, which generally the very same region that the schoolgirls were Haram warned that it would do just this, downplays or ignores Boko Haram’s terror recently kidnapped. declaring that it was preparing to “strike fear ULTRASOUND CAREERS BEGIN HERE campaign (see here for example), actually Back then, in May 2013, soon after into the Christians of the power of Islam by reported on this particular atrocity, prompting Nigerian forces killed 30 Boko Haram kidnapping their women.” CLASSES START JUNE 9th! both Western and Muslim authorities-who members, Reuters reported that “U.S. Moreover, of all the human rights abuses are much more accustomed to, and comfort- Secretary of State John Kerry issued a • 12-24 Month Certifi cate Programs I catalog in Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s able with, pretending these sorts of things strongly worded statement [to the Nigerian New War on Christians-and these are depress- • Day and Evening Classes • Job Placement Assistance don’t exist-to respond in awkward, hypocriti- president] saying: “We are … deeply con- ingly many-Boko Haram’s has resulted in cal and, in a word, foolish, ways. 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But repeated offers of the violence and fuel extremism” from Boko hundreds of Christian churches in the last U.S. assistance were ignored until Kerry got Haram. www.cure.edu several years, most when packed for service, on the phone Tuesday with [Nigerian presi- Perhaps this sheds more light on why including on Christmas Day and Easter CALL 1-855-THE CURE • 1-855-843-2873 dent] Jonathan amid growing international “repeated offers of U.S. assistance [regarding Day, leaving countless worshippers dead or concern and outrage over the fate of the the kidnapped girls] were ignored” by Nigeria, dismembered. In its bid to cleanse northern 271 NORTH AVE., NEW ROCHELLE, NY girls in the weeks since their abduction…. Continued on page 12 Page 12 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, May 22, 2014

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One can sympathize with Egypt’s state accusations against Islam, only to put their Nigerian ‘Sex-Slaves’ Disrupt Obama Narrative on Islam sheikhs-after all, they are busy fighting their heads in the sand and hope no one calls them own brand of Islam misunderstanders, the out-here is just a small example of what offi- Continued from page 11 Her logic was once voiced by her violence”-or, in the aforementioned words of Muslim Brotherhood and their fellow ideo- cialdom would have to deal with if the full husband, former U.S. president Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton, “inequality” and “poverty” are logues, who have been abducting male Coptic totality of crimes committed in the name of As for Kerry’s predecessor, Hillary Back in February 2012, in a speech in Nigeria, “what’s fueling all this stuff.” Christians for ransom and females for sexual Islam were to become common knowledge. Clinton, who is now bemoaning the lot of abuse, slavery, and/or conversion to Islam. Clinton declared that “inequality” and Still, because this latest kidnapping the kidnapped girls in Nigeria-saying it’s “poverty” are “what’s fueling all this stuff ”-a anecdote has received sufficient media atten- Happily for these moderate clerics, few “abominable, it’s criminal, it’s an act of ter- reference to Boko Haram’s terror-and warned tion, including in the Arab and Muslim are openly challenging their assertions that rorism and it really merits the fullest response the government that “It is almost impossible worlds, some Muslim leaders have been Islam is clean of Boko Haram’s actions. Based possible”-when she was Secretary of State, to cure a problem based on violence with forced out of their comfort zone to respond. on precedent, they often have no response and and in a position to help offer “the fullest violence”-a precursor to Kerry’s May 2013 can become hostile. response possible” she repeatedly refused to Thus, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayib, the condemnation of the Nigerian government’s Grand Sheikh of Egypt’s Al Azhar-regularly For example, some years back, when designate Boko Haram as a “foreign terrorist tough offensive against Boko Haram, which Sheikh Gamal Qutb, a one-time Grand organizations,” despite the countless atroci- touted as the Muslim world’s most prestigious would supposedly “only escalate the violence institution of Islamic learning-was quick to Mufti of Al Azhar, was asked on live Arabic- ties it had already committed, despite the and fuel extremism.” language TV if Islam permits sex slaves, he fact that it had boasted it would “strike fear condemn Boko Haram’s actions of kidnap- In short, just like the Obama admin- refused to give a direct answer, preferring to into the Christians of the power of Islam by ping and selling “infidel” women, saying, istration has been a thorn in Egypt’s war prevaricate. When pressed for a clear answer kidnapping their women,” as it just has, and “these actions have no connection to the with the Muslim Brotherhood, so too has tolerant and noble teachings of Islam.” by the Muslim female host, he became despite urging from the CIA, FBI, Justice hostile and stormed off the set. He eventu- it been a thorn in Nigeria’s war with Boko As for Egypt’s minister of endowments, Department, and several congressmen and ally returned, only to be implored again by the Haram-despite all its current handwring- Dr. Muhammad Mukhtar al-Gum’a, he too senators. host, who said, “Ninety percent of Muslims, ing and “outrage” over this latest-that is, released a statement saying that “the terror- including myself, do not understand the known-atrocity. ist deeds of Boko Haram have nothing to Raymond Ibrahim, author of Crucified Again: Just like the Obama admin- issue of sex slavery in Islam and are having a As for the “Islam” aspect of Boko Haram’s do with Islam, especially this latest deed of Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians istration has been a thorn in hard time swallowing it,” to which he gruffly violence and Christian persecution, needless kidnapping girls. Instead, they are terroristic, (Regnery, April, 2013) is a Shillman Fellow at responded, “You don’t need to understand!” Egypt’s war with the Muslim to say the Obama administration rejects it criminal actions, and Islam is clean of them.” the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an Brotherhood, so too has it been a outright. Thus, after the 2012 Easter Day He then went into White House spokesper- And there you have it. From Obama Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum. church bombings by Boko Haram that killed administration officials who helped empower thorn in Nigeria’s war with Boko son mode, saying that poverty, economics, and First published by Human Events on May dozens of worshippers, U.S. Secretary of State Nigeria’s Islamic terrorists, only to wring their Haram the rest were the true motivators for Boko 15, 2014. http://www.meforum.org/3822/nige- for African Affairs Johnnie Carson was quick hands and feign outrage at their behavior, Haram’s savagery. rian-sex-slaves-disrupt-obama-narrative-on to insist that “religion is not driving extremist to Islamic clerics who confidently dispel MIDDLE EAST FORUM

statehood persists for some reason, it is and years, many human and political trag- The political actors most obsessed Let’s Do Almost Nothing still better for Israel to wait and learn edies will divert attention away from the with the Palestinian issue, the Israeli politi- Washington’s next moves before devising Palestinian issue. cal Left and the Europeans, are in decline. By EFRAIM INBAR Kerry’s initiative has indeed ended in an adequate response. Significantly, the Palestinians have no The Oslo process, with which the Israeli failure. But the sky has not fallen. There is Moreover, in light of America’s great impact on truly important strategic issue Left was associated, has failed, delegitimiz- Now that the Israeli- no sense of alarm or fear of a great impend- importance to Israel, uncoordinated unilat- such as nuclear proliferation or energy ing its initiators. Europe and the euro zone Palestinian peace ing crisis in the region or elsewhere in the eral steps by Israel on the West Bank are that might galvanize powerful states into are facing acute problems, further reducing negotiations have ended in world. not advisable. Israeli statements expressing action. Once, they were an important their limited ability to be true strategic failure, many suggest taking Pressure on Israel to change the status a commitment to future peace negotiations, actor in international terrorism. This is no actors. The ability of these weakened politi- advantage of the political quo is unlikely. Actually, it serves Israel’s coupled with restraint in building beyond longer true. Nowadays, Palestinians are very cal actors to push the Palestinian issue to the limbo to advance their preferred unilateral interests to keep the status quo to hold the settlement blocs, might be enough dependent upon international aid. Rocking top of the international agenda has become plans. The Israeli political right wing is pro- on to its bargaining cards. The assumption to keep America at bay and reluctant to the boat by using too much violence threat- increasingly curtailed. Contemporary inter- moting the annexation of Area C, while that time is running against Israel is simply intervene. ens the livelihood of Palestinians receiving national circumstances could lead to further the left wing is advocating a “coordinated” wrong. As a matter of fact, the Palestinian The U.S. is also unlikely to be con- the Palestinian Authority’s salaries and marginalization of the Palestinian issue. (whatever that means) unilateral with- issue is likely to become less salient in the fronted with Arab pressure to focus on the benefits, and risks Israel’s strong retali- Israelis, like many misguided drawal. Government officials have spoken international arena over time. Palestinian issue if Israel does not engage in ation. Simply put, the Palestinians have Westerners, too often succumb to counter- about the need for Israel to “do some- After the Kerry debacle, Washington drastic steps. The Arab world is undergo- only limited international leverage and are productive hyper-activism. Doing almost thing.” Others suggest negotiating with the ing a tremendously difficult economic and vulnerable to Israel’s potentially harmful nothing might bring about better results Quartet, instead of the Palestinians. is left counting an additional foreign policy failure, trying to digest what happened sociopolitical crisis and is busy dealing with countermeasures. than activating unilateral plans of all kinds. Activism is unquestionably a trait that and pondering how to proceed. Its current domestic problems. Moreover, the Iranian Moreover, the Palestinians have an First published Israel Hayom on May is admired in Israel. Zionist-rooted rhetoric instinct is to stay away from intervention- nuclear threat continues to be the most excellent record of shooting themselves in 15, 2014 such as “we have to determine our borders ist initiatives. The U.S., drained by two wars urgent foreign policy issue, putting most the foot. The unity agreement between the http://www.meforum.org/3820/ and destiny on our own” falls on receptive (Afghanistan and Iraq) and blessed with Sunni states in the same strategic boat with Palestinian Authority and Hamas is the palestinian-israeli-talks-collapse ears. Israel. Even the Palestinians do not take latest example of this. new energy finds, does not want to get Efraim Inbar is director of the Begin-Sadat However, probably the wisest course Arab lip service on their behalf seriously. Whatever some experts say, Israel is dragged into further conflicts in a Middle Center for Strategic Studies, a political studies of action for Israel is a patient and cautious In all probability, most countries of not isolated in the international commu- East that seems less central to its interests. professor at Bar-Ilan University, and a fellow “wait and see” approach. Resolving the the world can also live with an unresolved nity. Israel is a strong country, possessing So the Obama administration may be less at the Middle East Forum. conflict is impossible, but attempting to inclined to intervene in the intractable Palestinian issue. There are many simmer- a remarkable web of international interac- manage it -- minimizing the suffering to Israeli-Palestinian conflict than ever before. ing territorial conflicts all over the world. tions. Significantly, Israel’s relations with both sides as well as the diplomatic costs to Even if the U.S. obsession about Palestinian Nowadays, Crimea and eastern Ukraine the world are only marginally affected by its Israel -- is within reach. dominate the news. In the coming months conflict with the Palestinians. THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, May 22, 2014 Page 13

Governmentpolitics Section The President Comes to Westchester and Snubs the County Executive By NANCY KING commented that he wasn’t snubbed by the President but by Governor Andrew Cuomo With the backdrop of the and his top aide former Deputy County aging Tappan Zee Bridge Executive Larry Schwartz. Maybe so, but if REAL ESTATE AUCTION behind him, President this is an indication of the race that is to come Barack Obama came to EXECUTOR SAYS SELL! it is going to get ugly real fast. Nonetheless, Westchester to ask Congress snubbing Astorino made both the Governor to free up funds to ameliorate an aging infra- and the President look like they were playing structure. Three years ago, many of the same nothing more than a game of petty politics. people in media stood on the pavement of a hot parking lot in Tarrytown, where County Executive Rob Astorino and members of a state delegation called for the replacement of the aging bridge. The bridge itself was built in the late 1940’s and was never Online Auction Ending Wednesday, June 4 @ 1:01PM meant to carry the 140,000 46 West Lake Drive, Valhalla. Minutes to NYC trains & Taconic Pkwy. Colonial style home vehicles a day it does today. On a daily basis there are at with 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths and hardwood floors. Many updates including furnace, water heater, least 200 DPW workers who oil tank, electrical service panel and more. Tax ID # 553489-112.20-2-53 work to maintain the bridge. Buy at your price! With Transportation Showing by appointment. Contact Agent Jennifer Mensler 845-204-8252 Secretary Anthony Foxx in attendance, Despite being shunned at Wednesday’s President Obama chastised Republican event, May 14, 2014, Rob Astorino moved members of Congress that if they didn’t AARauction.com on with his running mate Christopher We Can SELL Yours! 800-243-0061 free up some federal monies by the end of Moss to accept the Republican nomina- the summer “the cupboard would be bare”. tion for Governor. If he was secretly upset No money would mean no capital improve- about how he was treated on Wednesday, - ment projects and no job creation either. he sure didn’t show it during his acceptance FLEETWOOD Giving a shout out to Congresswoman Nita remarks on Friday, May 16, 2014. He RENOVATED APARTMENTS FOR RENT Lowey for helping to secure funding for the stopped just short of accusing Cuomo of initial phase of the bridge project, President corruption and criminality and chided the Obama also thanked other Democratic Governor for his lack of transparent policy. elected officials in attendance for their hard Astorino’s seeming resolve served him well work in both Washington and Albany. at the convention but you can bet he won’t But with the Governor’s chair up for be humming Pharrell’s “Happy” for too long. grabs this coming November, one indi- Astorino is going to have to figure out how vidual noticeably snubbed by the President he will repeal Common Core, defend his and incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo position on fracking, same sex marriage and was Westchester County Executive and what to do about repealing the SAFER act. Republican gubernatorial designee Rob Those are some tall orders for a little guy. Astorino. Astorino, who had complained Astorino says Westchester is his home earlier in the week about the delay in receiv- turf and his playing field but it is also Beautiful, Newly Renovated, Spacious 2 Bedroom Apartment ing an invitation arrived at the event with his Andrew Cuomo’s turf. Cuomo has money, wife Sheila only to recognize that he not only $1700/month and he has Larry Schwartz. Schwartz is New •• wasn’t mentioned but he didn’t have a seat York’s strategist and as slick as you may think Brand New Kitchens, Living Rooms & Bathrooms • Granite Counter Tops • Laundry On-Site either. County Executive Astorino stood you are Rob; you are no match for Schwartz. New Cabinets, Stoves & Refrigerators, Credit Check Required in the back of the patio, unmentioned and But like those that you like to chat about, I’m Elevator Building • 1 Block from MetroNorth Fleetwood Station • Monthly Parking Nearby alone. Astorino had hoped to talk with the a New Yorker with one foot out the door and President about HUD, affordable housing the other in sunny Florida. But don’t worry; Available Immediately Call Management Office for details: and other issues but instead, on the eve of I’ll leave a light on for ya! receiving the Republican nomination for 914.632.1230 Governor of New York State, he was just Nancy King is a freelance Westchester-based another face in the crowd. reporter. 80 West Grand Street, Fleetwood Later that evening, Astorino Page 14 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, May 22, 2014

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issue that they can use in the 2014 midterm elections. And yet, if the The Minimum Wage is Not a Partisan Issue Democrats don’t move away from their traditional presentation of the By Dr. OREN benefits. First of all, the data on job loss understated the extent to which the the labor market, elicit such a firestorm minimum wage as an anti-poverty issue LEVIN-WALDMAN is ambiguous at best. Older studies have minimum wage would benefit the of opposition? Are we really to believe and begin to couch it as a middle class noted that increases in the minimum economy. Data from the Current that they care about employment? If issue, they too will miss an opportunity When it comes to the wage result in lower employment Population Survey from 1962 to 2008 employment were really the concern, to miss an opportunity. The minimum minimum wage some studies among teenagers, but they also show visible benefits when income then why don’t the same voices react wage really should not be a partisan things just never change. note that this is less so among adults. ranges starting with the statutory strongly every time the Fed raises issue, rather it should be about shoring As it has in the past, More recent studies actually show that minimum wage are created. This data interest rates? That too cost jobs. up the middle class and doing what is the proposal to raise the minimum there really have been no employment showed that when 10 such inter- Arguments about employment right for the economy. wage divides along partisan lines consequences due to recent increases vals were created, beginning with consequences are nothing more than with Democrats supporting it and Oren Levin-Waldman is professor of in the minimum wage. Second of all, the minimum wage in each year, and cover for the real concern, which is Republicans opposing it. Again, Senate public policy in the School for Public most minimum wage earners are not ranging 25 percent, these 10 intervals employers may be compelled to give Republicans demonstrated that they Affairs at Metropolitan College of New teenagers, but are adults with children. actually constituted 70 percent of the others pay raises too. And yet, it ought never miss an opportunity to miss an York (olevin-waldman@metropolitan. Core issues in the minimum wage labor market by 2008. In each year that to be evident to most that workers opportunity when they blocked a vote edu ) and author of several books on tend to be obscured by a singular focus the minimum wage increased, so too earning more will be of greater benefit on the measure through filibuster. It is wage policy. They include the just pub- on only those earning the statutory did the median wages in each of those to the economy because their enhanced ironic that the party that accuses the lished: Wage Policy, Income Distribution minimum wage. We then lose sight intervals. And in years when there was purchasing power enables them to Democrats of sabotaging economic and Democratic Theory (http://www. of the fact that less important is the no increase, median wages in each demand more goods and services in performance through heavy handed routledge.com/books/details/978041577 minimum wage itself, but what it rep- interval remained flat. the aggregate. Demand for goods and regulation and confiscatory taxation 9715/#reviews); The Political Economy resents. That is, it is a reference point That the median wages for up to services is what drives the economy; would block the only measure that truly of the Living Wage: A Study of Four for the low wage labor market. This is 70 percent of the labor market were not the creation of low-wage jobs benefits the middle class. Cities (M.E. Sharpe 2005); and The a critical point because the discussion increasing only suggests that the where workers cannot support them- The minimum wage should not Case of the Minimum Wage: Competing should be on the effective minimum minimum wage is really about the selves and, because they cannot, society be a partisan issue, rather it should Policy Models (SUNY Press 2001). wage population — those earning in middle class. Surely, most of the politi- is forced to subsidize their low wages be viewed as a measure designed to He is a researcher for the Employment wage ranges around the minimum cal opposition to the minimum wage through various assistance programs help the middle class. Contrary to the Policy Research Network (EPRN), and wage. This was the basis for the CBO has to stem from the fact that employ- and income supports. standard bromides that it will either some of his work can be found at http:// concluding in its report a couple of ers will feel compelled to give other By focusing on the same minimum cost jobs and that only teenagers earn www.employmentpolicy.org/people/ months ago that at least 16 million workers pay increases. Otherwise, why wage bromides which have drawn the minimum wage, the minimum oren-levin-waldman. Americans would get pay raises. would an issue that, according to most partisan battle lines, the Republicans wage actually has positive welfare The CBO, however, most likely conservatives, only affects a fraction of have only handed the Democrats an PUBLIC POLICY

inequality is the great danger, especially For Economic And Policy Research a level of income inequality unheard of something. Piketty-Split when caused by inheritance, and that a similarly fears the consequences of since the French Revolution, why it’s I spent a long time in elected global tax on wealth is the remedy. reading a book that will drive “many unsustainable, and what we could do office. In all that time, I saw the power Everyone Is Ganging Up on Tom Put aside the merits and demerits people back to their vacation homes.” about it. The new intellectual paradigm of money, the venality of politics, and By Hon. RICHARD of his ideas. There is plenty to question (Whether this involves working-class will shortly give way to new political the limitations of government. I also BRODSKY about the economic and political reali- people with vacation homes or some efforts. Goombye welfare state and saw how, in the end, the power of ties that stand in the way of adopting wider set of participants is unclear.) Goombye supply-side economics. ideas inevitably molded the outcome Ideas matter. As we the Pikettian agenda. It’s the reaction Come on, boys, the trick is to A paradigm shift does not mean a of political machinations. We should wallow in cynicism, of conventional left and right that is know when the revolution is actually smooth transition to specific proposals. be greeting Pikettism with hosannas Karl Rove and Citizens most instructive. showing up. It wasn’t Ayn Rand, and it There are enormous political obstacles and joy. We can again begin to sort out United, we are occasion- In both cases, there is much wasn’t Occupy Wall Street and it cer- to enactment of the Picklettian solu- our affairs based on competing ideas, ally reminded that our political culture harumphing about the label and con- tainly wasn’t Obama. The Pikettonian tions, as New York’s James Wetzler critiques and proposals. Politicians and is grounded in ideas. It’s been thin sequences of Pikettianism. The right, uprising is the real deal. It has changed points out in today’s Times. But the intellectuals of the world, unite. You soup for a while. For decades, the left sadly and predictably, play the Red card, the paradigm, the structure and content debate has been forever transformed. have nothing to lose but your chains. seemed bereft of an economic message with the American Enterprise Institute of the international debate about eco- Once we focus on the consequences First published in the Huffington other than a larger welfare state. The accusing him of “soft Marxism.” Fox nomics and politics. The moving hand of huge concentrations of capital, Post on May 14, 2014 right, at least, offered a paradigm. It News’ Charles Gasparino advances the has writ and “nor all your piety nor wit the ingenuity of human politics will Richard Brodsky is a fellow at the Demos abounded in austerity/marketplace intellectual argument by calling the shall lure it back to cancel half a line.” address the mechanics of change, and think tank in New York City and at the nostrums, advanced with a religious book an “open sore.” A great book, The Structure of fairly quickly. Wagner School at New York University. fervor and mostly wrong. It hasn’t been Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn, Adam Smith’s ideas led to the The left is more polite but no more Follow Richard Brodsky on Twitter: a good era for contending ideas about postulates that change comes when the 19th century transformation of law on point. The usually incisive Bob www.twitter.com/richardbrodsky how we manage our economic affairs. Kuttner of the American Prospect fears existing existential paradigm becomes and economics that created the indus- Like a bolt from the blue comes that if the beknighted working class so riddled with holes that it no longer trial revolution. The ideas of Marx and Thomas Piketty and his book Capital ever finds out about Pikettnish ideas serves, and, bang, a new one replaces it. Jefferson gave rise to the ameliorative In The Twenty-First Century. His they will respond with “passivity and That’s what’s happened. The Pikettolish actions of the welfare state in the 20th argument (roughly) is that income resignation.” Dean Baker of the Center model explains why we have moved to century. Pikettology will give rise to... THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, May 22, 2014 Page 15

PUBLIC POLICY Localities, “Laboratories of Democracy,” and the Minimum Wage By Dr. OREN years, with the argument that entire local $19.23 for both the U.S. as a whole and (http://www.routledge.com/books/details/ He is a researcher for the Employment LEVIN-WALDMAN economy will benefit. the state of California. Even assuming 9780415779715/#reviews); The Political Policy Research Network (EPRN), and That more communities are taking that the median wage might represent a Economy of the Living Wage: A Study of some of his work can be found at http:// Justice Louis Brandeis the lead on this issue at a minimum tipping point — the point at which any Four Cities (M.E. Sharpe 2005); and The www.employmentpolicy.org/people/ once referred to states underscores the inadequacy of the minimum above would start to bite — it Case of the Minimum Wage: Competing oren-levin-waldman. as the laboratories of federal minimum that is still $7.25. is probably safe to infer that a minimum Policy Models (SUNY Press 2001). democracy. The idea was But it also demonstrates that cities are wage at $15.00 an hour is still going to that policies first tried out at the state prepared to consider policies that are be below a market clearing wage, and all level, after initial testing and evaluation, specifically suitable to their own needs, the more so with a $13.00 an hour wage. might then be expanded to the federal most notably their respective communi- And yet, the benefits to local com- level. In an era where more power and ties’ higher costs of living. This is clearly munities could be enormous. The recent authority are centralized in the federal the case with both San Francisco and report of the Congressional Budget government, it is important to remember San Diego in a state that just raised its Office made it clear that at least sixteen that local government serves an impor- statewide minimum to $9.00 an hour. million American workers would get a tant and valuable function. All too often, pay raise. When we consider that those however, we see states, and even locali- earning in wage intervals above the ties stepping up to the plate only when statutory minimum will also get a raise, the federal government has failed to act. it isn’t hard to see how the benefits will This is clearly the case with the trickle up the wage distribution into the minimum wage. Several states as of the broader middle class. Higher incomes beginning of 2014 have already either will enable people to spend more, enacted a minimum wage or raised their thereby increasing demand for goods minimum wages. We are also begin- and services, which can only help the ning to see more local governments economy grow. take the lead on the minimum wage. In Local communities, especially the New York State, several localities have larger cities, will also benefit because, petitioned the state legislature for per- as they are on the front lines of income mission to enact minimum wages that inequality, the minimum wage will would be appropriate for their respec- reduce wage inequality. That is, if wages tive communities. New York City’s new rise at a higher percentage among the mayor, Bill, De Blasio similarly intends bottom than among the top, wage to seek Albany’s permission to create a inequality will be reduced without citywide minimum wage for New York having to resort to confiscatory taxation. City. But to the extent that rising wages help For guidance, these communities It also demonstrates that localities shore up the middle class, it too pushes and other local communities looking to are willing to take the lead and adopt back against rising income inequality. adopt their own minimum wages need bold measures at a time similar measures It is good to remember that income look no further than San Francisco stall in the halls of the U.S. Congress. inequality isn’t bad per se, rather it is and San Diego. San Francisco has had For decades, the issue of the minimum increasing income inequality that is its own minimum wage for several wage has been mired in partisan politics the problem and that it represents the years now. The conventional wisdom where each side of the debate couches it shrinkage of the middle class. holds that states and localities enacting in terms of their own ideological biases. Local communities taking the lead their own minimum wages are playing Conservatives typically focus on dis- on this issue only brings back to life Russian roulette with their economies employment effects specifically among Brandeis’s famous expression of states because firms can move across either teenagers without considering any as laboratories of democracy. This idea state or local boundary lines. But econo- wider benefits to the larger economy. certainly applied to localities, where the mists at the University of California at Meanwhile, liberals see it as an issue that Framers of the Constitution believed Berkeley have found the San Francisco helps the working poor, again neglect- democracy would have its fullest expres- minimum not to have the economic ITALIAN CUISINE ing to mention benefits to the broader sion. That there have been no adverse Zagat Rated “Excellent” consequences long predicted by the middle class. effects in localities where borders are standard model. Voted “Best Italian Restaurant” Westchester Magazine, 2006 Increasingly, economists are coming porous, suggests that the minimum wage As of January 1st, San Francisco to the conclusion that the data we have is a viable policy at the national level. OPEN 7 DAYS has the highest wage at $10.55 an hour. Mon.-Thurs. Noon - 10PM • Fri. Sat. & Sun. Noon -11PM on the minimum wage is ambiguous at Moreover, there is broad support in favor Oren Levin-Waldman is professor of public best. This ambiguity should be a basis for of raising it to $15.00 an hour, and labor policy in the School for Public Affairs at policy experimentation, and localities are RESERVE NOW FOR PARTIES • 2 ROOMS AVAILABLE SEATING 75 & 100 activists are poised to put it on the ballot Metropolitan College of New York (olevin- now taking the lead. According to data for voters to decide the issue. In San [email protected] ) and author from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current 914.779.4646 Diego, Mayor Todd Gloria proposed of several books on wage policy. They include Population Survey, the median hourly www.ciaoeastchester.com a ballot initiative that would raise the the just published: Wage Policy, Income wage for full time workers in 2013 was Ciao • 5-7 JOHN ALBANESE PLACE, EASTCHESTER, NY 10709 minimum wage to $13.09 over three Distribution and Democratic Theory Page 16 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, May 22, 2014

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cannot wait for Congress to act -- or back pay for about 2,200 Domino’s and Fighting Wage Theft in the Fast Food Industry accept $10.10, which would still leave McDonald’s workers across the state. a family of four in poverty. They’re We must do all we can to make sure By ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN than the federal government’s poverty grown into a nationwide crusade. demanding $15 an hour -- the reason working people in New York get every level threshold of $23,500 for a family While the federal minimum wage this week’s protests are taking place on penny they earn. And then, support On Thursday, fast-food of four. has been stuck at $7.25 on the federal the 15th of May. They are also demand- them in their campaign to increase those workers around the world While the industry takes in $200 level since 2007 and is $8 per hour here ing that employers respect their right to earnings. will stage an unprec- billion a year, the average fast-food in New York, the average salary for fast- unionize without retaliation. America’s fast-food workers know edented protest for fair worker in New York City earns just food CEOs has quadrupled since 2000. As New York State attorney general, they cannot wait for the government or wages. They will be $11,000 annually. it is my job to ensure equal justice under industry to do the right speaking out against income inequality Thursday’s protest promises to be law. The income inequality plaguing thing and pay -- and the world would do well to the largest yet. Workers in 150 U.S. our country is an injustice of enormous them a listen. cities will join to demonstrate in favor of increasing the minimum wage. magnitude that must be remedied. I Income inequality is Around stand firmly behind the fast-food one of the most destructive workers’ wage forces in the United States they can live today. Minimum-wage on. These are not teen- workers devastated by agers working a few hours a week the economic crash for pocket change; these are heads of of 2008 have con- calls household trying to pay the bills and tinued to languish for a fair day’s feed and clothe their families. That’s why in poverty while the pay for a fair day’s they’re taking to the streets. subsequent recovery has work. The fast-food industry must act and sent executive compen- While we move increase the wages it pays. But until it sation soaring. toward enacting new, fairer does, those workers need the support Nowhere is the dis- the world, laws, however, we must also make of everyone who believes in fairness parity starker than in the workers in 30 sure that current labor protections and justice. I stand with them in their fast-food industry, which countries on six are enforced. As the state’s chief law important struggle. a recent Demos report continents will join enforcement officer, I take that respon- First published in the Huffington called the most unequal the call for action on sibility very seriously, and my office has Post on May 15, 2014. sector in the U.S. economy. equality. taken strong action against employers It has some of America’s Eric T. Schneiderman is New York State As the movement has -- including in the fast-food industry -- lowest-paid workers -- but its Attorney General. Follow him on Twitter: grown, the nation has been forced to sit who have stolen from their workers even top executives make 1,200 times www.twitter.com/AGSchneiderman No wonder dem- up and take notice. President Obama the meager wages required by law. more than their average employees, onstrations against this gross injustice heard the workers’ cries and has urged In New York, we are cracking down according to Demos. Nationally, the began in New York, with walkouts at an increase in the minimum wage to on fast food franchise owners who average hourly wage for a fast-food 60 fast-food restaurants in November $10.10 an hour. cheat their workers. In recent months, worker is about $9 per hour, $4,500 less 2012. Since then, the movement has But the nation’s fast-food workers we have secured close to $1 million in MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR

got her out, to a waiting ambulance (she that day and saw the sizable dent in the have jobs and families and lives like all What You May Not Know! is fine now), immediately grabbed hoses side of the cabin - about what you would of us, except that on a daily basis, when and gear, and went back in to fight the expect to see if a bowling ball was pro- that horn blasts five times and their By Mayor PETER Chief Martin Gunther, of the fire. Before they had a chance to climb pelled against the vehicle, breaking the radios come to life, they may rush off to SWIDERSKI Uniontown Hose Company, was first up to the second story, there was a tre- window and deforming the side. Should the call, Almost always, they encounter on scene shortly after a call at 8:19 in mendous explosion upstairs that blew someone have been in the way of that a false alarm or something benign. But Many of you were aware his chief vehicle. He identified the out windows, partly collapsed the entire projectile, it wouldn’t have ended well. sometimes, entire unpredictably, there’s of the dramatic fire scope of the fire and called for assis- structure, and knocked them to the something for real, a resident stuck in an on Wednesday, May For the next five hours, all units tance. Five men responded first to the ground. This was recently confirmed elevator while the house burns around 14, 2014, up at the St. from our Fire Department, managed fire, when most of us were either on our to be a backdraft (or smoke) explosion. her, billowing smoke, explosions, and Andrew’s condo complex when a fire ably by Chief Martin Gunther and later way or already at our day jobs. Captain They quickly left the building, intent on then its not a false alarm but very much began inside one of the units there that by Chief Russak, fought the fire and pre- Robert Gagliardi, firefighters Brendan fighting the fire now from the outside. the real thing and they do what they quickly led to an explosion. What you vented it from spreading to other units. Woods, Brian Woods J.P. Esposito, and (If the female resident of that unit had are trained for, unflinchingly, and into may not be aware of is the depth of The crews displayed their training, coop- Jay Aluiso were there in a matter of not been rescued when she had been, the maw they go. If you think about it heroism and commitment exhibited by eration, cool under pressure and brave minutes. There was a small but smoky three minutes later the explosion or for more than a second, its astonishing our own Fire Department volunteers throughout the entire engagement. “active” fire in one of the units, and the subsequent raging fire would have and humbling. It’s enough to make you who put themselves in harm’s way (an You have to remember one Chief Gunther had identified that the undoubtedly taken her life.) weep in pride and gratitude. understatement if there ever was one), thing: each and every one of our Fire resident was home. Entering the condo, rescued a resident from certain death, The explosion expelled debris so Department members are volunteers - they heard her trapped in an elevator. Peter Swiderski is the mayor of the Village and then fought the fire successfully for powerfully that a hunk smashed into every single one of them. They are your They set immediately to freeing her as of Hastings-on-Hudson. hours our Hook and Ladder. I visited later neighbors and fellow residents. They the apartment filled with smoke. They THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, May 22, 2014 Page 17

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begun meetings to discuss and update each of these IMAs, which has been Town of Ossining Supervisor Update a goal of the Town for years. Some State of the Town of Ossining of these IMAs date back to the 1990s and so much has changed! We will be By SUSANNE DONNELLY This will result in bringing our 20 Fund We are looking for Interns (High updating you on the progress of these balance to 2012 levels, still showing a School or College Students) who have meetings, as the Town feels it is essen- TOWN OF steady increase from 2009. We will have an interest in learning how a municipal- tial to keep to a constant schedule of OSSINING, NY – the final spreadsheet as to how we plan ity works, while helping us learn and updating, reviewing, revising, and in May 16, 2014 -- What to pay off all of the bonds associated implement our new grant program. If some instances abolishing, these IMAs a wonderful year 2013 with 507 North State Road (our former you know anyone who is interested as necessary. was for the Town of Ossining. We Police Station) as soon as we close on please have them send their resume to accomplished so much while watching As unfortunate as it may be, some the bond redemption. We are alerting Maddi Zachacz at MZachacz@towno- every penny, and the results show it. Water, Shared Building Space and the of what goes on in the effort to produce the bondholders of our intent to redeem fossining.com . It could never have happened without Town takes care of Veteran’s Park for the public policy ends up more political than the bonds, and should have the process the support and hard work of every Intermunicipal Agreements Village of Ossining. we might hope, with misinformation done by the middle of June. being shared and a “game of telephone” employee of the Town. Each Teamster, These are all great examples of what We were able to increase the staff in The majority of the Intermunicipal that often has very high risks. However, CSEA member, Department Head the Governor is encouraging in order the Parks Department by one full time Agreements the Town of Ossining is please remember the commitment we (including all who are part of our team to control the cost of layered govern- employee in 2013 and continue that part of are with the Village of Ossining. (the Town Board and Administration) through Intermunicipal agreements) ments and schools in New York State. in 2014. We have kept our staff levels The Town Board and Administration and member of the Administration The Town and Village of Ossining have Continued on page 18 consistent in all of the other depart- believe that any IMA should be a part- and Town Board deserve credit for ments, with the exception of having one nership, not one party dictating the this accomplishment. With everyone floating clerk between the Tax Receiver’s actions of another. We are in the process working together, we have brought the office and the Assessor’s office to replace of reevaluating many of our IMAs, and Town of Ossining to a place where we a Deputy Tax Receiver who retired and updating others, in partnership with the THE ROMA BUILDING all can be proud. worked only in the Tax Office. This Village of Ossining. Currently some of Our Fund Balance Amounts, both COMMERICAL SPACE FOR RENT allows us to schedule the employee in the IMAs in place are for Recreation “unallocated” and “available for use” can each department when it is the busiest and Parks (Supervision), Finance be found here. for that department. As we move into (including management of information For example, we plan on using the revaluation / reassessment of every technology services), Engineering, Clerk the increase in fund balance for the 20 property in the Town of Ossining, this Services, Fire Protection (both Villages, Fund (Unincorporated Area) to pay off arrangement will be especially helpful Ossining and Briarcliff Manor have the remainder of the “callable” Police in the Assessor’s office as we work to IMAs with the Town in this instance), Department Bonds over and above the make sure all records and exemptions Street Lighting, Yard Waste (includ- $1,475,000 we received for the building. are updated. ing transfer site), Fuel, Distribution of

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of finalizing our RFP (Request for discuss the results at our meetings, and Susanne Donnelly is supervisor of the Town of Ossining Supervisor Update Proposal) for Police Services for the will dedicate a Town Hall Meeting Town of Ossining. Direct email to: sdon- Continued from page 17 Unincorporated Area, which will be to get input from the residents and [email protected] discussions and be part of the decision distributed to Westchester County, the business owners on how they would like have always given to the residents making process of any changes made to Village of Ossining and the Village of to see these services performed in the business owners and employees of the any department as we move forward. Briarcliff Manor when complete. We next contract. Town- YOU will be involved in any That said, we are in the last stages look forward to the responses, will CAMPAIGN FINANCING

serves candidates and does nothing Conservative Party Supports Taxpayers to help the citizens whose money is procured by taxes. It does not level the Opposes Public Money for Campaigns playing field, and it certainly does not provide a benefit to New York’s citizens BROOKLYN, NY—The New York official, statewide, state legislative office a system cannot possibly live up to the forced to support candidates they would State Conservative Party sent the fol- or as a delegate to a constitutional “clean” moniker that has been assigned to not vote into office. lowing legislative memo to all of the convention. it by proponents. As Unshackle Upstate notes in their Members of the Legislature seeking to In September 2011, Jason Farrell In fact, the NYC Campaign Finance position paper, a 1995 state Court of protect the taxpayers of New York State published a report for the Center for Board, in a 2003 report lamented it had Appeals decision concluded that public from the wasteful and often abused Competitive Politics that showed how come up short in its goals, and that was funds for partisan political purposes is system of public financing of campaigns. a number of candidates and their asso- long before the Data and Field Services not supported in the New York State The proposed bill, S.4705-C/A.4980-E, ciates, in New York City, Maine and Scandal of 2009 which was four years Constitution. is favored by Speaker Sheldon Silver, Arizona willfully abuse the campaign after the CFB investigated the well docu- As a reminder, the Conservative Governor Andrew Cuomo, and the finance system, exploit loopholes mented New York’s Health and Human Party’s executive committee passed a Working Families Party who believe ensuring they can keep much of their Services Union, 1199/SEIU, AFL-CIO the total amount of taxpayer dollars used resolution in January, 2014, to double taxpayers should pay $6 for every $1 donation money off the books, and once involvement with Fernando Ferrer’s 2005 to fund New York City elections. rate any bill that contains any form of donated. Conservatives believe New in office, often further abuse public funds mayoral campaign. More abuses of campaign financing campaign financing and we urge you to York’s citizens should be able to choose and even find themselves under investi- The full report is here. Note that are being exposed; they include the use vote NO on this and similar proposals. the candidates they want to support. The gation for criminal conduct. The abuse of in the 10 years the report covers, public of straw donors, attempting to bribe their SOURCE: Conservative Party of memo follows: public funds is so severe and the record funds granted to “clean elections” candi- way on to the ballot and fraudulently New York State. Lear more: Party Position: The Conservative of corrupt practices and other misdeeds dates who were investigated for abuses increasing campaign contributions to Party staunchly opposes public monies are so rampant, particularly in the city was $13,924,189. That amount is on the gain grants. being used to help elect any elected of New York (emphasis added), that such total for those investigated for abuses, not Public funding of campaigns only MAYOR Marvin’s COLUMN GOVERNMENT

one country will be too tender of those adult life to have Mother’s Day declared raising six children on his own. Like Ms. Saying, “Thank You!” of another country to allow our sons a national holiday. On May 10, 1908, Jarvis, she too spent years promoting it to be trained to injure others.” Howe the first religious service for Mother’s and sought the help of the tobacco and By Hon. MARY C. MARVIN the day off from their jobs, often as was then also a well-known abolition- Day was held in Jarvis’ home church in tie industries to advance her cause. The tradesmen or domestics in other towns, to ist who was still grieving over the losses Grafton, West Virginia, followed by idea did not catch on as many objected to After enjoying a very return home. They traditionally brought in the Civil War and now angry at the an afternoon service in her daughter’s the demonstrated commercialization of special three generation treats of sweets and wild flower bouquets Franco-Prussian War. She had her poem church in Philadelphia. the very popular Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day on Sunday, to their mothers. translated into many languages and spent Anna Jarvis sent 500 carnations to Bills were introduced as early as 1913 the whole concept and In contrast, the early English settlers two full years travelling the globe rallying the West Virginia church, thus creating to make it a national holiday but it only origin of the celebration in the colonies did not approve of secular the world’s women to rise up and unite a now long standing tradition of flower came to fruition in 1972 when President piqued my interest and lead to fascinat- holidays and “Mothering Sunday” did for peace. gifts. Nixon signed the bill declaring Father’s ing discoveries. not catch on. Because of Ms. Howe, many Finally, in 1914, President Woodrow Day a national holiday. Throughout history, mothers have The American version of Mother’s New England communities organized Wilson made the holiday official by Approximately $20 billion is spent been honored as goddesses or through Day was a very different animal indeed. Mother’s Day gatherings that were declaring the second Sunday in May, on Mom each year with flowers, candy, festivals of celebration, usually in the It was born in the aftermath of the Civil grounded in faith, feminism and protest Mother’s Day. perfume and beauty services the most springtime, recognizing the rebirth of the War as a rallying cry for women world- – a far cry from Hallmark, brunch and However, after seeing her day turn popular gifts. About half as much is land and the beginning of the most fertile wide to oppose war and fight for social carnations. into a commercial goldmine, Ms. Jarvis spent on Dad with ties, gift cards and time of year. justice. In a parallel effort, Ann Reeves called for a boycott of the day she inspired. automotive accessories the most gifted The “modern” version of Mother’s th Julia Ward Howe, a Boston poet Jarvis, a West Virginian Methodist and Father’s Day did not have roots of items. Day is traced to 17 century England and author of the “Battle Hymn of the social activist, organized Mother’s Day peace or protest, rather one of fairness. Mother’s Day is the largest card when the fourth Sunday of Lent was Republic”, wrote a poem in 1870 entitled, Work Clubs in hopes of educating poor In 1910, after listening to a sending holiday, the most popular day so named “Mothering Sunday”. Rules “A Mother’s Day Proclamation” with the women about health and hygiene. Mother’s Day sermon, Sonora Dodd of of the year to dine out and a quarter of about fasting and penance were sus- opening line, “Arise then women of thy In homage to her work, Jarvis’ Washington State asked her pastor to all the flowers sold yearly are purchased pended and grown children were given day” and ended with, “We, the women of daughter, Anna, devoted much of her also honor her father who was a widow Continued on page 19 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, May 22, 2014 Page 19

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are included in this text and picture. The text describes basic ideas about the body’s Tibetan Medicine in New York City Today formation, structure and functioning. It also By HELEN WEISMAN thriving at present and is very relevant to body and characterize the individual force or lists a large number of diseases, symptoms, our 21st century visitors.” This exhibition is forces that each of us is made of. This practice and medicinal ingredients. Specifically, it The Rubin Museum of the first of its kind to examine the principles suggests that through understanding the offers behavioral, dietary, and medicinal Art, located at 150 West approaches to balancing the constant flux of th of Tibetan medicine through its diverse dominant force or forces of one’s constitu- 17 Street in New York visual history. It does this by illuminating the tion it is possible to make decisions that will the body’s elements and forces. City, is from now through connections between physician and artist, help the individual move toward the ideal In addition to the Medicine Buddha, September 8, 2014 present- Buddhist ideas alongside medicine and the inner balance. Diet, conduct, medicines, and there is a selection from hundreds of fierce ing an exhibition, Bodies in Balance: The Art visual arts, and healing traditions with pres- external therapies are the primary methods figures that have the responsibility of pre- of Tibetan Medicine. Tibetan medicine, at this ent-day ideas of wellbeing. used to lower elevated forces and help to serving the Tibetan medical tradition. These time in history, is one of the most compre- Not only is Bodies in Balance an art show, achieve that inner balance. deities were most likely invoked at a Tibetan it is also a hands-on exhibition. In addition to However, the artwork in the show itself medical institute or a monastery for empow- its approximately 140 paintings, manuscripts, is spectacular. Amongst the most common erments and initiations of Buddhist and lay sculptures, and works on paper and in wood and beautiful murals, paintings, and statues medical practitioners. There are 5 paintings and metal, there is a pulse station that teaches are the depictions of the Medicine Buddha. out of a set of 9 in the show. They all display visitors how to feel their pulse according to The Medicine Buddha, an immensely each fierce figure, known as a protector, Tibetan practice. This is important because popular figure in Tibet is typically shown Red Wolf-Headed Protectress. riding a powerful nine-headed animal. Now, pulse taking is a fundamental tool in Tibetan with blue skin, holding a bowl of healing Related to the Medicine Buddha is the small cards made from these pictures are medicine that identifies several character- nectar in one hand, and a fruit or leaf of the treatise about his teachings known as the commonly used during these initiations. istics of our mental and physical health. cure-all remedy myrobalan plant in the other Four Tantras or Gyushi. Created in the 12th For those of you who like astrol- The exhibition also features a multimedia ogy, there is a close relationship in Tibetan installation that shows the different ways medicine that is traceable to sources in the th in which Tibetan medicine has thrived and Tibetan language dating back to the 9 been adapted in today’s world. It does this century. There exist texts, from this period, by displaying medicinal compounds and that offer instructions on how to calculate graphic cards throughout the gallery spaces. the daily movement of the life force, in the These compounds and cards help to decode Tibetan language known as “la,” through complex paintings and illustrations, and different body parts. In fact, in medical insti- provide additional details for understanding tutions in Tibet, astrology and medicine are Tibetan medical concepts and the ingredi- intertwined. Furthermore, consulting horo- Medicine Buddha Bhaisajyaguru. ents in medical compounds. scopes and wearing amulets are pervasive For instance, my favorite part of the in many Himalayan societies today. Their hensive medical systems in the world. In fact, functions of protecting and maintaining there are a number of Tibetan doctors who exhibition was not the artwork, but rather a little pamphlet with a quiz that was given out health, fostering longevity, as well as avoiding have been trained in Traditional Tibetan life’s obstacles are acknowledged in Tibetan medicine living in the US today, many for the visitor to fill out in order to determine which of the 3 bodily forces called “nyepas” Detail from an Astrological Scroll. medical and Buddhist texts. They come with of whom reside here in NYC. While not the caveat that a particular person’s karma, or accredited by the US health care system, accumulated actions, ultimately determine some American doctors do teach about the outcome of any celestial occurrence. Tibetan medicine and have limited prac- One important visual foundation of Tibetan tices as alternative medical practitioners. astrology is the Great Golden Turtle. This They can be found by searching the web. turtle is viewed as being a manifestation of Cultural institutions such as Shangshung Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom. This Institute, or Sorig Institute also represent Buddhist deity is credited as being the divine Tibetan medicine. Both of these institutes source of astrological knowledge. Here are located here in the US. And finally, the we have still another example of Buddhist Rubin Museum itself has many programs teachings and Tibetan medicine merging. throughout the duration of the Bodies in Finally, giving an aerial view of the Balance exhibition in which Tibetan medical whole show, Pakhoutova says, “We have 25 doctors participate and share their knowl- lenders from Europe, Asia, as well as the US. edge with the museum’s visitors. Many of the objects are from our own col- The show focuses on the visual repre- Great Golden Turtle. lection. This visual variety of the exhibition sentations of Tibetan medicine beginning is steeped in rich content which we made with its earliest applications dating back hand. For Tibetan doctors, the Medicine accessible and engaging, and will interest to antiquity to its present place in modern century, it describes the interaction between Buddha is the divine source of knowledge for the body and the mind and Buddhism’s 5 anyone who visits this exhibition and the societies. According to Elena Pakhoutova, the classical medical text known as the “Four museum.” Zombie-Riding Protectress. cosmological elements and 3 bodily forces. the Rubin Museum’s Assistant Curator, Tantras,” and is a model for a calm demeanor “We intended to present Tibetan medicine The elements consist of water, fire earth, Helen Weisman is a freelance science journal- in the Tibetan language. These “nyepas,” and restorative powers. These qualities are through its visual history as a comprehensive wind, and space. As mentioned before, the ist living in New York City. She has taught phlegm, wind and bile, according to Tibetan considered essential to the Tibetan healing tradition of medical knowledge and practice 3 bodily forces, nyepas are comprised of wind, writing at The City University of New York. medical knowledge, compose the human professions. dating back to over 1,000 years which is bile, and phlegm. Both elements and forces

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