David H Feldman

One word: Kompromat (компромат).

Depends on what you mean by "good." 😏

Not good for people who lose jobs or who cannot find one that keeps them financially stable.

Potentially very good for the likelihood of a political earthquake next November.

2/ accomplishment with his tax cuts and wars that ballooned the deficit again and set us on the path we're now following.

In the late 1990s the Clinton administration established a balanced budget with projected surpluses so large that people actually worried that the 10-year T-Bill would be eliminated, depriving the world's financial system of one of its most important reserve assets. Then Bush wiped out that

Time for Ukraine to take down Moscow’s grid. I suspect they have the drone and cruise missile capacity to do so.

12. setting. If any of them see this, they'll smile.

He passed away in 1997 from complications of pneumonia and lungs that were ruined by the army in North Africa.

A very different life from mine. I was privileged with stability. He was raised in poverty and instability.

I miss him.

11/ He then took a job teaching theater at Coral Gables high school. He built an amazing theater program over a quarter of a century, at a school that was generally regarded as one of the best public high schools in the nation. He taught generations of students college level skills in a high school

10/ He married my mom in 1954. Her Irish Catholic parents disowned her for marrying a Jew, and a poor one at that! They arranged their own wedding a few blocks from her parents house (Church of the Little Flower in Coral Gables). Reconciliation occurred when I was born two years later. Sort of.

9/ Once home (photo), he somehow managed to finish high school with a GED. In 1950 he took advantage of the GI bill to go to college. He wanted warm, so the University of Miami beckoned. He studied English and spent lots of time in the Ring Theater learning the craft of acting and directing.

8/ near Pisa. That was a place that housed mostly American inmates who had committed crimes. Interesting inmate: EZRA POUND. Yeah, that's right. My father actually got to know him a bit. Read all about it here.

www.jstor.org/stable/24725...

7/ ...spot for Italy and Italians always.

He saw Vesuvius erupting 1944. How 'bout that! He was sick again in Naples and managed to miss being shipped off to Anzio. Fortune smiled.

He was in Rome the week after liberation.

Toward the end of the Italian campaign he was a guard at a DTC near ...

6/ Less amusing story: the army refused to recognize that he had pneumonia until he was nearly dead. Finally they pulled him off the line and sent him to a "hospital" tent to recuperate. There, he was adopted by a bunch of Italian POWs and brought back to some semblance of health. He had a soft

5/ he was vomiting over the rail. Like cabbage, pineapple was off the menu for life!

Second amusing story: In Algeria he was forced to stand guard duty in the field during a locust swarm. He remembers being covered in insects and being unable to move.

Photo of the canteen on camp, painted by GIs

4/ ... on the horizon as U-Boats picked off a few ships.

He told me many stories about the war ... after a few years of prodding.

An amusing one: On the ship, he and his mates were so hungry that they broke into a storage area and found cans of pineapple juice. Several cans later ...

3/ opportunity to escape his dreary teen reality so he joined the Army. He lied about his age and no one bothered to check. Here was that 17 year old. Imagine.

After some training in Maryland, he found himself on a liberty ship in a convoy to North Africa. He told me about seeing explosions ...

2/ during the early years of the Depression. He was the youngest of five. The family was so poor that he was farmed out to relatives so he could eat maybe one meal a day (mostly cabbage). For the rest of his life he couldn't bear the smell of anything in the cabbage family. When war came, he saw an

My father (David Feldman) was born a century ago into a very different America. The son of Ashkenazi emigres from Kyiv, he grew up in Philadelphia during the Depression. His mother passed away not too long after he was born. His father was in the food wholesale trade, but lost most of what he had

I finally get the last word! 😅

I still have trouble fully comprehending your support for Trump in 2016. We all knew his character, his limited capabilities, and his unlimited appetites. Latching on to this deeply immoral man and his politics of hate required a huge amount of cynicism or an immense act of self-delusion.

Trump’s East Wing Ballroom Plan: See the Design See how much his East Wing ballroom design will upend the White House symmetry.

No matter how expensive it is, or how much marble, gold, and "art" is in it, in 2029 it should meet the wrecking ball, paid for by the billionaires who funded it. They will also fully pay for a historical reconstruction of the East Wing. The "or else" is unstated.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

That’s easy. Just turn Republican legislators into retired legislators and they amazingly transform into seemingly ethical people.

Crockett was extraordinarily graceful in defeat. Her active cooperation with Talarico’s campaign, puts Texas in reach.

“Read my lips, no new taxes!”

Remember that one? Didn’t work out too well when he sought reelection, did it. Promises, promises.

Is that down near Las Cruces? Looks sort of like the Organ Mountains behind.

Oh, but when they come down after all of this ends, he will claim all the credit for driving down the price of oil back to where it started. 😉

More aspens! 😀

Hey, what about going national with this. I'm soon joining the ranks of retired professor ... kinda freeing! I can say just about anything without worrying about my employer being unhappy!

Trump supplies an almost unlimited supply of situational "logic" and an equally unlimited supply of reversals as the situation requires.

Every voter who voted for Trump owns this tragedy as well.

When will NYPD move to arrest those ICE agents for clear violations of what Shipman so delicately called "protocol."