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March of the Living

During WWII thousands of Jews were forced to march between Auschwitz to Birkenau in what has come to be called a Death March. Jews were starved, beaten, and shot. When they arrived at the Death Camp the were then gassed, given lethal injections, and killed by the thousands. Some 15 years ago Jews decided to change all this and rename what happened here, truning it into an act of affirmation. Now renamed The March of the Living, the event brings together thousands of Jewish Teens from around the world to bring life to a place were there was once only death.

I mention all of this because this year, my son, Dylan is among those teens.

He is just one of 10,000 Jewish teens from all around the world flew into Poland (yeas all on the same day, all at the same airport, literally landing within minutes of each other for a full day). the Teens are then shown around one of the camps, and then marched to another camp. Then, as week later, they are flown out (again all on the same day) to Israel, where they will stay for a week. While in Israel they will be present for Israeli Independence day (the 60th anniversary of the birth of the nation).

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Busy Bees make a blog look empty

Sorry about the absence lately. Been running around doing a variety of things, and when I get busy the blog gets neglected.

I visited a friend in the hospital and you’ll hear more about that soon enough.

I’ve been learning a few new non-internet tricks lately, and can’t really talk about them now. If I could use them to get back to getting paid for my geo-science background, it would be nice.

I did have half posts created that I’ve killed because I didn’t have the time to dedicate a decent post about them, such as the underage preggo girls from that polygamist sect compound in West Texas, and today I wanted to relate that to the allegation that Roger Clemens gave thousands of dollars to an underage girl… but I’ll let that pass for now.

I’m off to run a few more errands today, and I have to actually conduct an interview I forgot to do earlier in the month with Myla Jackson, one of two interviews to be posted tomorrow on Access Romance. The other interview to be posted tomorrow is with Gail Barrett who traveled to Europe for some of her book research.

I’ll leave you with one thought to take away today…
Albert Hoffman died yesterday. He is credited with the discovery of the psychodelic drug popularly known as LSD. He took the drug himself. Now… I never took LSD in all of my life, being scared by the publicity that “LSD corrupts your genetic structure”… Albert Hoffman was 102 when he died, so taking LSD certainly didn’t shorten Dr. Hoffman’s lifespan… and as to genetically warped offspring… he is survived by “two of his four children”. Question: How old were his children; were they conceived before Dr. Hoffman started consuming LSD? Has any scientist tested the offspring of Dr. Hoffman for these so-called genetic defects that were speculated on over 40 years ago? Or was that chatter about LSD corrupting the genetic makeup of your offspring just all bullshit scare tactics?