Scribner and Bloodgood and Sons

"Vera Bloodgood Scribner, a horsewoman and the wife of the late publisher Charles Scribner, died of heart failure at Overlook Hospital in Summit, N.J. She and lived in Far Hills, N.J.

The Scribners married in 1916, and he was the president and chairman of the board of his family's publishing house, Charles Scribner's Sons, from 1932 until his death in 1952. Mrs. Scribner was hostess to numerous Scribner authors, including Thomas Wolfe, at Dew Hollow, the family's Colonial residence in Far Hills, and elsewhere.

A skillful sidesaddle rider, she was master of the Essex Fox Hounds in Far Hills for 24 years, until 1961.

Mrs. Scribner grew up in New York City and attended the Chapin School.


She is survived by a son, Charles Scribner Jr. of Manhattan (now deceased), chairman of the Scribner Book Companies; seven grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Scribner's_Sons

"He was born in *Quogue, New York on July 13, 1921 to Vera Gordon Bloodgood and Charles Scribner III and was raised in Far Hills, New Jersey.

 He attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire for secondary school. He graduated as salutatorian from Princeton University in 1943, receiving his A.B. degree, summa cum laude.[3] Nine members of his family, over six generations, have been graduates of Princeton.

He was a Navy cryptanalyst during World War II and the Korean War.

He succeeded his father, Charles Scribner III, in 1952 as chief of Charles Scribner's Sons, which had been founded by his great-grandfather, Charles Scribner I, in 1846. He oversaw the operations until 1984, when the company was bought out by Macmillan Publishing.

He was a charter trustee of Princeton University from 1969 to 1979. He was a trustee of the Princeton University Press from 1949 to 1981, also serving as its president from 1957 to 1968.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Scribner_IV



https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118796606/vera-gordon-scribner

Vera Gordon Bloodgood Scribner

BIRTH 8 Jun 1891
DEATH 15 Feb 1985 (aged 93)

Summit, Union County, New Jersey, USA
BURIAL
Woodlawn Cemetery
Bronx, Bronx County, New York, USA


HISTORY OF QUEENS COUNTY

with illustrations, Portraits & Sketches of Prominent Families and Individuals.

New York: W.W. Munsell & Co.; 1882.

pp. 74-143.


"The first entry of British troops was about 2 o’clock on a fine day
in the last of August 1776, when a body of light horse galloped into the village
and inquired at Widow Bloodgood’s for her sons. On being told they had already
fled one of the troop seized a firebrand and threatened to burn the house, but
was prevailed on to desist."

http://bklyn-genealogy-info.stevemorse.org/Queens/history/flushing.html


"The Bloodgoods are of purely Knickerbocker origin, Francis Bloctgoct
being the earliest settler of the name in Flushing, and, being recognized by the
Dutch authorities as "chief of the inhabitants of the Dutch nation residing
in the villages of Vlissingen, Heemstede, Rudsdorp and Middleboro," was
made their commander and ordered to march with them toward the city should a
hostile fleet appear in the sound.

This was in 1674. In the year previous he was
made a magistrate, was one of the privy council who advised with the governor on
the surrender of the territory to the English, and was appointed a commissioner
to visit the Sweedish settlement on the Delaware.

 Of his immediate descendants
but little can be learned, although it is reasonably certain that some one of
the name has ever since resided in Flushing.

Two of his grandchildren, Abram and
James, were left orphans under the care of a relative; but preferring to make
their way in the world for themselves emigrated to Albany, where they became
successful business men and amassed handsome fortunes.

 Abraham was born in
Flushing, in 1741. He became also a merchant in Albany, and married Mrs. Lynott,
one of whose daughters by a former husband became the wife of the celebrated
Simeon De Witt.

Abraham Bloodgood was for years a councilman of the city, was a
member of the convention that accepted the constitution of the United States,
and one of the famous ten who, in the old Vanden Heyden house, founded the
Democratic party of the State.

 He left four sons, the younger of whom, Joseph,
graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1806, and was appointed trustee
of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York in 1811.

Invited by a
large number of the most prominent citizens of Flushing to settle here, he came
to this village in 1812, and was for many years an eminent physician and a
public spirited citizen.****



 He died March 7th 1851, aged sixty- seven years. He had
twelve children, four daughters and eight sons. Isaac, a prominent merchant, is
now living in Flushing.

Mrs. G.R. Garretson is a descendant of the branch
of the family claiming continuous residence here, and resides on the old home
farm, now in the heart of the village, in a house dating back to the early part
of the last century."


 "Dr. Samuel Bloodgood, who became the village
physician in 1812."

" Besides the nurseries of the Messrs. Prince, Bloodgood and
Parsons, a sandpaper factory and the shipping and lumber business of the Pecks
gave employment to a considerable number of persons; and when, it 1837, the
people of the village decided on incorporation, the population had increased to
about two thousand people"

"The most important mercantile house of to- day is that of Clement & Bloodgood"

"The earliest known physician here was Dr. Henry Taylor, an Englishman, at one
time an ardent advocate of royalty. A court record of 1675 relates his complaint
against Francis Bloodgood and Myndert and Coerter for seditious words."

"A community having in it such families as the Lawrences, Bownes and
Bloodgoods was not at a loss for legal advice on the simple real estate titles
of the day; but for some years the business of conveyancing seems to have been
delegated to Edward Hart, the clerk of the town"


________

"G.R. Garrettson, seedsman, has the only seed farm in Flushing. It
comprises about one hundred acres, and is on the Jamaica road, about a mile from
the village. Mr. Garrettson was a pupil of Grant Thorburn, and was afterward
with Prince & Co.

 He established his present business on a small scale in
1836, and for many years did a large and flourishing trade. Increased
competition has, however, induced him to curtail its dimensions, and it is now
confined to the supply of his old customers, and the sale of seeds in bulk.

 Mr.Garrettson married a daughter of Daniel Bloodgood, and lives on the old
Bloodgood homestead, which has been in the family since 1673."

________

***

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

***Tu quoque (/tjuːˈkwoʊkwi, tuːˈkwoʊkweɪ/;[1] Latin for "you also"), or the appeal to hypocrisy, is an informal fallacy that intends to discredit the opponent's argument by asserting the opponent's failure to act consistently in accordance with its conclusion(s).

 The Oxford English Dictionary cites John Cooke's 1614 stage play The Cittie Gallant as the earliest use of the term in the English language

Tu quoque "argument" follows the pattern:[2]

Person A makes claim X.
Person B asserts that A's actions or past claims are inconsistent with the truth of claim X.
Therefore, X is false.

It is a fallacy because the moral character or actions of the opponent are generally irrelevant to the logic of the argument.[3] It is often used as a red herring tactic and is a special case of the ad hominem fallacy, which is a category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of facts about the person presenting or supporting the claim or argument"

A Depression Is On, Hw 177 Oklahoma-Kansas (1988)

Forest

Al and the Fist of No, Seattle 1991

Frank on our Rooftop, HW 51, Stillwater OK

Frank S.
at my parent's house in Stillwater Ok
1989

Alisha 1990

Susan Getting Sun

Lawrence Ks
My best friend Susan W.
1988

Southpark Volleyball, Lawrence Ks 1989

The Crossing, Lawrence Ks.

Owner Tom Conroy right corner
Jim M lower right
Ricky Dean Sjnatra beertender lower left
Phil T upper left

Tom, Ricky Dean, Phil and Forest were the entire staff. There were no other employees.

I had the key.

Phil Fucking Tremarko, got it?

Andrea, The Crossing. Lawrence Ks 1988

Heather K

Heather K
Lawrence 1988

Jim and Zippy, Winfield Ks Bluegrass Festival 1989

Heather

The Crossing Mathematician, Lawrence Ks

John M from Chicago
Mr Math
The Crossing barstool, Lawrence Ks 1988

Southpark Volleyball Lawrence Ks

Bending Time with Ellsworth and Bone (1989)

Phil Ellsworth, Frank Bone Schudy
Alisha/Forest's pad
Lawrence Ks 1989

Chip Walker and friend, Lawrence Ks 1989

Alisha

Alisha Becca Michelle

TJ Speckman and Eric Schultz, Lawrence Kansas 1990

Beers on the Porch, Lawrence Kansas

Porch Party Lawrence Ks

Lawrence Ks 1990

Love Garden, Lawrence Ks

D. Wawne
Alisha M.
Jimbalaya
1990

forest coil pot

Forest, KU ceramics class 1990

dog house, lawrence

Abe Bloodgood, Ulysses. Revolutionary War

"In 1788, eleven men from Kingston, New York came to the area with two Delaware people (Lenape) guides, to explore what they considered wilderness. The following year Jacob Yaple, Isaac Dumond, and Peter Hinepaw returned with their families and constructed log cabins.

 That same year Abraham Bloodgood of Albany obtained a patent from the state for 1,400 acres, which included all of the present downtown west of Tioga Street.

In 1790, the federal government and state began an official program to grant land in the area, known as the Central New York Military Tract, as payment for service to the American soldiers of the Revolutionary War, as the government was cash poor. Most local land titles trace back to these Revolutionary war grants."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaca,_New_York



"As part of this process, the Central New York Military Tract, which included northern Tompkins County, was surveyed by Simeon De Witt, Bloodgood's son-in-law. 


Simeon De Witt (December 25, 1756 – December 3, 1834) was Geographer and Surveyor General of the Continental Army during the American Revolution and Surveyor General of the State of New York for the fifty years from 1784 until his death.

De Witt was also the nephew of Governor George Clinton. The Commissioners of Lands of New York State (chairman Gov. George Clinton) met in 1790.

The Military Tract township in which proto-Ithaca was located was named the Town of Ulysses."

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"

Abraham Bloodgood
by
Stefan Bielinski


Abraham Bloodgood was born in Flushing, Long Island in 1742. He was the son of Francis and Mary Doughty Bloodgood. By the late 1760s, he had relocated to Albany - probably living with his older brother James Bloodgood.

By 1770, he was running a sloop on the Hudson River between Albany and New York and was carrying cargoes for Sir William Johnson and others.

 He was one of a few Albany skippers who ventured beyond the inland waterways. A cargo manifest for his sloop, the Olive Branch, which he sailed to the West Indies (Antigua) in November 1770, described the variety of exports he carried for a number of Albany-based businessmen.

In 1773, he married Albany native Elizabeth Van Valkenburgh - the widow of Thomas Lynott. Over the next two decades, seven of their children were baptized in the Albany Dutch church.

These Bloodgoods made their home along the Albany waterfront.

 Abraham contributed money to the crusade for American liberties, served as bailsman for several individuals during the war, and later was awarded a land bounty right in conjunction with the Albany County militia.

 His first ward property began appearing on city assessment rolls in 1779. In 1781, he was identified as an innkeeper. By 1790, his substantial brick home along lower State street was an Albany landmark!

After the war, he served in Albany fire companies, stood with other Albany residents in opposition to the Federal constitution, and was appointed "clerk" in Albany in 1797. Additionally, he owned a portion of the tract of land that later became the city of Ithaca. He was a slaveowner but began freeing them in 1794. In 1800, his Albany household still housed three slaves.

Abraham Bloodgood filed a will in May 1797. It left Elizabeth to administer his estate and provided for its partition after her death. He died in February 1807 and was buried from the Presbyterian church"

https://exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/b/abbgd7351.html

Prudence Crandall, Freeman and Ophelia Bloodgood, Elk Falls, Kansas

"The first house for public entertainment was a two-story frame built and run by F. Bloodgood in 1871. After running the house about seven years,

 it was sold to Josiah Carr, who kept it only two years, and it was again sold to H. C. Hitchen, and is now known as the Cape Cod House, under the management of J. M. Lufkin."

http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/elk/elk-co-p5.html

**


http://www.combs-families.org/combs/records/ks/elk.htm


1880 Elk County Census: Elk Falls

Freeman Bloodgood  age 48 Retired Hotel Keeper
Ophelia Bloodgood age 37 Milliner
Elsworth Bloodgood (son) age 17 At Home

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Prudence Crandall (September 3, 1803 – January 27, 1890) was an American schoolteacher and activist.

Crandall is remembered, and is the state heroine of Connecticut, for setting up the first school for black girls ("young Ladies and little Misses of color") in the country.

This resulted in her arrest; then violence from townspeople forced her to close the school, and she left Connecticut.

When Crandall admitted Sarah Harris, a 20-year-old African-American female student in 1832 to her school, she had what is considered to be the first integrated classroom in the United States. Parents of the white children began to withdraw them.

Prudence was a "very obstinate girl", according to her brother Reuben. Rather than ask the African-American student to leave, she decided that if white girls would not attend with the blacks, she would educate black girls. She was arrested and spent a night in jail.

Soon the violence of the townspeople forced her to close the school and leave. Much later the Connecticut legislature, with pressure from Mark Twain, a resident of Hartford, passed a resolution honoring Crandall and providing her with a pension. Twain offered to buy her former Canterbury home for her retirement, but she declined.

 She died a few years later, in 1890"


******
The following marker is at Osage Street and Highway 190, Elk Falls, Kansas:

In 1831, Prudence Crandall, educator, emancipator, and human rights advocate, established a school which in 1833 became the first Black female academy in New England at Canterbury, Connecticut. This later action resulted in her arrest and imprisonment for violating the "Black Law."

Although she was later released on a technicality, the school was forced to close after being harassed and attacked by a mob. She moved with her husband Reverend Calvin Philleo to Illinois.

After her husband died in 1874, she and her brother moved to a farm near Elk Falls.

 Prudence taught throughout her long life and was an outspoken champion for equality of education and the rights of women.

In 1886, supported by Mark Twain and others, an annuity was granted to her by the Connecticut Legislature. She purchased a house in Elk Falls where she died January 27, 1890.

Over a hundred years later, legal arguments used by her 1834 trial attorneys were submitted to the Supreme Court during their consideration of the historic civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas



"After the death of her husband, Crandall relocated with her brother Hezekiah to Elk Falls, Kansas around 1877, and] it was there that her brother eventually died in 1881.A visitor of 1886, who described her as "of almost national renown," with "a host of good books in her house", quoted her as follows:


My whole life has been one of opposition.
I never could find anyone near me to agree with me.

Even my husband opposed me, more than anyone. 
He would not let me read the books
that he himself read, but I did read them.

I read all sides, and searched for the truth 
whether it was in science, religion, or humanity.
I sometimes think I would like to live somewhere else. 

Here, in Elk Falls, there is nothing for my soul to feed upon. 
Nothing, unless it comes from abroad
in the shape of books, newspapers, and so on. 

 *There is no public library, and there are but one or two persons 
in the place that I can converse with profitably for any length of time.* (Just my great grandfather and grandmother's Tavern/Hotel)

 No one visits me, and I begin to think they are afraid of me.
 I think the ministers are afraid I shall upset their religious beliefs,
 and advise the members of their congregation 
not to call on me, but I don't care.

 I speak on spiritualism sometimes, but more on temperance, 
and am a self-appointed member of the International Arbitration League.

 I don't want to die yet.

 I want to live long enough to see some of these reforms consummated.

*  *

In 1886, the state of Connecticut honored Prudence Crandall with an act by the legislature, prominently supported by the writer Mark Twain, providing her with a $400 annual pension (equivalent to $11,400 in 2019)

 Prudence Crandall died in Kansas on January 28, 1890, at the age of 86. She and her brother Hezekiah are buried in Elk Falls Cemetery."

***

Crandall was the subject of a Walt Disney/NBC television movie entitled

 She Stood Alone (1991), in which she was portrayed by actress Mare Winningham.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Winningham

"(In 1984, she starred as Helen Keller in Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues.

Winningham achieved greater fame co-starring in St. Elmo's Fire (1985), alongside the other original "brat pack" alumni. Despite the film's success, she failed to cash in on her teen idol status, and returned to television in the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, Love Is Never Silent, for which she received an Emmy nomination. Another well-known and well-received performance was as a homeless young mother in the television movie God Bless the Child. Winningham finished the 1980s with two Hollywood films: the nuclear disaster drama, Miracle Mile (1988), for which she received an Independent Spirit Award nomination in 1989, and the Tom Hanks vehicle Turner & Hooch in 1989. In 1988, Winningham also starred in the Los Angeles stage production of Hurlyburly with Sean Penn and Danny Aiello.

In the early 1990s, she returned to film for 1994's all-star Wyatt Earp and the family drama The War, both starring Kevin Costner."
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*My note: Apparently, Winningham or Disney doesn't want the film viewed on Youtube or mentioned on *Wikipedia.

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"Prudence Crandall's chance to help people of color came in the fall of 1832. Sarah Harris, the daughter of a free African-American farmer near Canterbury asked to be accepted to the school to prepare for teaching other African Americans.

 Although Crandall was uncertain about whether to admit Harris, whom she liked, she consulted her Bible, which, as she told it, came open to Ecclesiastes 4:1:

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun:

 and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter;

 and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

[11]:169 [King James translation]


She then admitted the girl, establishing the first integrated school in the United States"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudence_Crandall 

Decemberists, Michael Hurley 4-30-2010

Michael Hurley (David Reisch, Forest Bloodgood)  

Liberty Theater, Astoria Oregon 4-30-10

http://www.oregonlive.com/music/index.ssf/2010/04/the_decemberists_are_going_to.html

"The Decemberists have announced that they will play A Benefit for Jessica Schleif, a one-time concert at the intimate Liberty Theater in Astoria, Oregon, on April 30. Tickets will go on sale Friday, April 2 at 10:00am on a first-come, first-served basis at this link.


The show is the only performance the band currently has scheduled for this year. 

The concert will be hosted by the writer and performer Moe Bowstern  

and singer-songwriter Michael Hurley will perform as well."
__________________________


  "The Decemberists will play a sole concert this spring, A Benefit for Jessica Schleif, which will take place on Friday, April 30 at Liberty Theater in Astoria, OR (100 miles NW of Portland on the Oregon coast).Â

The show features special guest Michael Hurley " 

http://www.decemberists.com/news/the-decemberists-news-4-1-10/

___________ 

A Part of One of Mine

Skirting.......... Something

https://www.oregonlive.com/living/2020/04/a-drive-thru-strip-club-movie-popcorn-to-go-oregon-businesses-get-creative-during-coronavirus.html

Want to "help" your non-employees? ***(Oh, you don't get billions  like Uber, who also has non-employees, but whose workers/drivers  are getting unemployment benefits, while strip clubs as colloquially known are banned from Federal Assistance, under legislation drafted in large by Senator Wyden, of Oregon and New York.)

Pay hourly wages like every other Employer.

Better yet, make each dancer a part owner and share in the overall profits, including a portion of gambling receipts on the premises.

Include Health Care benefits, importantly Paid Sick Leave. Kind of made sense before 2020 and not just for this industry.

Sustainable business models and owners think out of the box, rather than  just getting back to the LAME status quo "normal."

YO,  Toxic:)


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOFs_u41Cc0#action=sharehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOFs_u41Cc0#action=share

Cut Up COVID Party Book with Capt Harry C. Butcher and some sprinkle flakes on the side

"The fireside chats were a series of evening radio addresses given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (known colloquially as "FDR") between 1933 and 1944. Roosevelt spoke with familiarity to millions of Americans about the promulgation of the Emergency Banking Act in response to the banking crisis, the recession, New Deal initiatives, and the course of World War II.

 On radio, he was able to quell rumors and explain his policies. His tone and demeanor communicated self-assurance during times of despair and uncertainty.

 Roosevelt was regarded as an effective communicator on radio, and the fireside chats kept him in high public regard throughout his presidency. Their introduction was later described as a "revolutionary experiment with a nascent media platform."

"As president, Roosevelt began making the informal addresses on March 12, 1933, eight days after his inauguration.

 He had spent his first week coping with a month-long epidemic of bank closings that was hurting families nationwide.[8]:78 

He closed the entire American banking system on March 6. 

On March 9 Congress passed the Emergency Banking Act, which Roosevelt used to effectively create federal deposit insurance when the banks reopened.[9]

 At 10 p.m. ET that Sunday night, on the eve of the end of the bank holiday, Roosevelt spoke to a radio audience of more than 60 million people, to tell them in clear language 

"what has been done in the last few days, why it was done, and what the next steps are going to be".

"Fireside Chat".....The term was coined by CBS broadcast executive Harry C. Butcher of the network's Washington, D.C., office,[11] in a press release before the address of May 7, 1933"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireside_chats

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 "During the wave of bank closings in March 1933, Governor William H. Murray ordered all banks in the State of Oklahoma to close. 

Champlin refused and continued to operate the bank which was financially sound. 

In response, the governor called out the National Guard. 

Captain Stephen J. England led eighteen militia men into town to close the bank, earning the First National Bank of Enid the distinction of the only bank ever to be closed by the military in American history."

letter to wyden; RE small business sondland

Senator Wyden,

I am writing to question and protest the Federal money being allowed to our recent US Ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland. Mr Sondland was part of the Trump administration and represented not only the USA but Oregon as well, and did so with your full confidence, as you were instrumental in advocating for him as a "trusted friend."

 Let's point out the Mr. Sondland gave Trump $1, 000, 000. Let's point out that Mr Sondland was fired in early February of 2020 and that YOUR part in drafting Bailout legislation prohibits several specific Trump administration and government officials from getting any Federal bailout monies.

Mr Sondland committed numerous easily identifiable acts of PERJURY and willful acts of OBSTRUCTION during impeachment hearings in the House.

Mr. Sondland and Provenance Hotels do not qualify for "small business" loans and assistance under any circumstances in my view, and I feel I'm not alone in a sense of disgust that he and others continue to reap FAVORABLE treatment and velvet gloved responses from most, and absolute silence from you on Mr Sondland's pattern of criminal and fraudulent involvement with Trump, Giuliani, Perry and Volker, and Stephen Mlller and Jared Kushner.

Let's not forget the $1, 000, 000  taxpayer money spent on the Brussels "residence" in lieu of his $1, 000, 000 "DONATION"  to Trump's Inauguration Fund from 4 separate LLCs.

Let's not forget you're the Oregon Senator most instrumental in recommending Mr Sondland to represent the USA and Oregon,  where he conspired in alignment with Kremlin oligarchs and international money laundering racketeers,  bringing shame on all of Oregon and America.

Let's not forget the women who have accused Mr Sondland of sexual harassment in job and employment related circumstances, and how in violation of anti-SLAPP laws used his power, money, and attorneys to SILENCE the whistle-blower women who came forward with great courage.

I urge you as a 30 year Oregon/Washington resident and voter to

 1. CLAW back the federal money to Sondland.

 2. Distance yourself and the Democratic Party from Sondland.

 3. Announce an investigation into Sondland for perjury, fraud, conspiracy, and obstruction.

4. Investigate Mr Sondland's current and decade long position on the US Bank Bancorp Board of Advisors, in relation to Deutsche bank and crimes which both institutions have  admitted GUILT to avoid prosecution (as US Bank paid over $600 Million as a "fine.")

How was Gordon Sondland allowed to remain on the Board of US Bank and be EU Ambassador for Donald J Trump?

Sincerely, Forest Bloodgood
Portland 4-24-20

China Bank Owns Trump

"Donald Trump is reported to owe tens of millions of dollars to China, through a real estate debt which falls due in 2022, offering “astonishing leverage” to Beijing.

The debt derives from a 30% share the US president owns in a billion-dollar building on the Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, which was refinanced in 2012, with $211m of the funding coming from the state-owned Bank of China, Politico reported on Friday"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/24/donald-trump-bank-of-china-debt-report



"This 1964 building originally designed by Emery Roth & Son, was restored in 2013 by Moed de Armas & Shannon, who beautifully preserved the tower's original elegance and enhanced its sophisticated charm.

https://www.trump.com/commercial-real-estate-portfolio/1290-avenue-of-the-americas

"Internet Providers Tenants may use any internet provider that they choose with management
over the internet.

 Existing providers include Verizon and AT&T"

https://www.vno1290.com/about-1290/

Ballard Partners Laundering and Peddling Influence

"Other Trump-connected firms have seen similar bumps in business related to the coronavirus. Ballard Partners, a firm run by Trump fundraiser Brian Ballard, recently helped get laundry services added to the Department of Homeland Security’s list of essential businesses on behalf of a commercial laundry machine manufacturer."


Brian Ballard, Literally. Laundering.  Money.




https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-top-covid-relief-recipient-hired-trump-tied-lobbyists-weeks-before-getting-aid?ref=scroll
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The Same Brian Ballard that paid Lev Parnas tens of thousands of dollars and hired Florida AG Pam Bondi after she took BRIBES from Trump to not prosecute the Trump Organization for fraud.

Oregon Whole Foods COVID death

"PORTLAND, Ore. — An employee who worked at the Whole Foods Market in Portland's Pearl District has died from COVID-19, a spokeswoman for the company confirmed Wednesday.

It's unknown what role the individual had at the store. The person died April 20.

Additionally, an employee at the Hollywood location of Whole Foods in Northeast Portland has tested positive for coronavirus. The company spokeswoman didn't release details about what that individual's role was at the store, to protect the person's privacy"

78 DEAD in Oregon

This grocery employee may have been in the meat dept, in the produce dept handling every vegetable. Or a cashier, handing every item sold, and the cash and change.

Whole Foods doesn't offer PAID SICK LEAVE

Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, is RESPONSIBLE not just for this death, but the thousands that will follow, as SICK workers remain on the job under a hazardous negligent status quo.

Oracle, part of the Trump Police State apparatus

"A top federal doctor who was ousted from his post this week felt pressured to rush out expanded access to a potential treatment for coronavirus patients after President Donald Trump discussed the drug with Larry Ellison, chairman of tech giant Oracle, NBC News reported Thursday.

"The New York Times reported on April 6 that Trump “first expressed interest in hydroxychloroquine a few weeks ago, telling associates that Mr. Ellison, a billionaire and a founder of Oracle, had discussed it with him.” Ellison is worth nearly $70 billion, according to a Forbes tally late last year.

Trump, during a news conference in early April, said five times, “What do you have to lose?” referring to coronavirus patients being given the drug, which normally is used to treat malaria."

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/23/coronavirus-treatment-ousted-doctor-felt-pressure-after-trump-talked-to-larry-ellison.html


"Bright has since retained lawyers at a Washington, D.C., firm that specializes in representing whistleblowers"

"Bright also said that he believed he was removed from his post because he insisted that “the billions of dollars allocated by Congress to address the Covid-19 pandemic” be invested “into safe and scientifically vetted solutions, and not in drugs, vaccines and other technologies that lack scientific merit.”

Small Biz Fraud Sondland

"Gordon Sondland, the former US ambassador to the EU and a star witness in Trump’s impeachment trial, received a small business loan from the Paycheck Protection Program.

A spokesperson for Provenance Hotels, the hotel chain Sondland founded, confirmed to Bloomberg News that the company had been approved for a PPP loan.

Sondland, who was recalled from his post as EU ambassador two days after Trump was acuitted in his Senate impeachment trial, has a net worth of at least $78 million.

The administration has been criticized for its handling of the PPP program, as small businesses complain"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/apr/23/coronavirus-us-live-house-484bn-crisis-aid-package-trump-cuomo-latest-news-updates#block-5ea1e0ac8f08163fabe4769f
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-23/luxury-hotel-executive-biggest-winner-of-small-business-relief

"Another Trump supporter and hotelier -- Gordon Sondland -- was also a beneficiary of the small-business relief package. Provenance Hotels, the hotel chain he founded, received a PPP loan, according to a spokeswoman. Sondland is the former ambassador to the EU who played a starring role in the Trump impeachment proceedings.

The group has more than a dozen properties, including three in Washington state, which has been hard-hit by the virus. The Portland Business Journal reported earlier on Sondland’s hotel group winning a PPP loan."

Bloomberg News omits the DETAIL that Sondland gave/bribed Trump $1,000,000 toward the "inauguration."
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https://www.opb.org/news/article/gordon-sondland-money-donations-ambassador-bid-trump-officials/

"Despite giving $1 million to President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee, Portland businessman Gordon Sondland was originally blocked from getting an ambassadorship by Trump’s inner circle."

Sincerely, Andrei Codrescu (October 12, 1988)

"Codrescu has been a regular commentator on National Public Radio's news program, All Things Considered, since 1983. 

He won the 1995 Peabody Award for the film Road Scholar, an American road saga that he wrote and starred in, and is a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize,[citation needed] once in 1983"

In 1981, Codrescu became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He is the editor and founder of the online journal Exquisite Corpse, a journal of “books and ideas”.

"In 1965 he and his mother, a photographer and printer, were able to leave Romania after Israel paid US$2,000 (or US$10,000, according to other sources[2]) for each to the Romanian communist regime."

Nest

From Forest to Faucet, No Fluoride and Less COVID

"This paper records several observations which suggest that the habitual ingestion of small doses of fluoride, even as small as the 1mg/L contained in fluoridated water, may decrease the function of the immune system."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0306987791900749

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"Portland's raw water from Bull Run is of such high quality, among the best in the U.S., that it does not need to be filtered"


"PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mayor of Portland, Ore., has conceded defeat in an effort to add fluoride to the city's drinking water.

With more than 80 percent of the expected ballots counted late Tuesday night, the Multnomah County election website showed the fluoride proposal failing, 60 percent to 40 percent.

Mayor Charlie Hales supported fluoridation and said "the measure lost despite my own 'yes' vote."

"Portland's drinking water already contains naturally occurring fluoride"

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/22/portland-fluoride-water/2350329/

fuck Saudi oil, and fuck Don J Trump, from Stillwater Oklahoma

"US senator Ted Cruz said on Twitter on Tuesday: “My message to the Saudis:

TURN THE TANKERS THE HELL AROUND.”


"The Saudis have limited time to find a home for their crude cargoes. 

The biggest oil storage facility in the US – at Cushing in Oklahoma – is likely to run out of space within the next three weeks and global storage facilities may be full by the end of next month."
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It is truly a effed up Earth Day when I am in agreement with Ted Cruz.
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"Back to Reality:

 "The median income for a household in the city was $26,483, and the median income for a family was $32,284. Males had a median income of $26,710 versus $17,711 for females.

 The per capita income for the city was $12,620.

 About 15.1% of families and 16.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 21.0% of those under age 18 and 10.1% of those age 65 or over."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cushing,_Oklahoma

"In 2005 Cushing was described as the most significant trading hub for crude oil in North America, connecting the Gulf Coast suppliers with northern consumers."

"By 2007 Cushing held 5% to 10% of the total US crude inventory."

March 1933 Banks ordered to close

"Black Monday on October 19, 1987

 is the name commonly attached to a sudden, severe, and largely unexpected stock market crash that struck the global financial market system. In the United States, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell exactly 508 points (22.6%), accompanied by crashes in the futures and options markets."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987)

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"WASHINGTON —  The Treasury Department asked the FBI last fall to investigate allegations that regulators delayed until after Election Day, 1988, their closing of a Colorado savings and loan where President Bush’s son, Neil, was a director, documents show.

An FBI spokesman confirmed on Monday that the agency has been investigating Silverado Banking, Savings & Loan Assn. for more than a year, but he declined to say whether the effort covers charges of pressure to delay Silverado’s closing."

"The Treasury Department’s inspector general, who started the investigation into the savings and loan in June, 1990, referred the matter to the FBI last October, letters obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request show.

The Denver-based financial institution was seized by regulators in December, 1988, and its failure is expected to cost taxpayers about $1 billion."

"In a June, 1990, hearing, a former federal thrift regulator told the House Banking Committee that his superiors in Washington had ordered him in October, 1988, to wait for two months before closing Silverado. 

Kermit Mowbray, former president of the now-defunct Federal Home Loan Bank Board in Topeka, Kan., testified under oath that his bosses ordered the delay despite a recommendation by field supervisors that Silverado be seized in October.


At the time, Neil Bush’s father, then vice president, was making his successful run for the presidency."

"The statements by Mowbray, who was the top S&L; regulator for the four-state region that includes Colorado, led to an investigation by Treasury’s inspector general, Donald E. Kirkendall.


Mowbray later said he did not recall who among his superiors had told him to postpone Silverado’s shutdown.

 Mowbray could not be reached for comment Monday."

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-08-06-fi-723-story.html

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 "During the wave of bank closings in March 1933, Governor William H. Murray ordered all banks in the State of Oklahoma to close. 

Champlin refused and continued to operate the bank which was financially sound.

 In response, the governor called out the National Guard. Captain Stephen J. England led eighteen militia men into town to close the bank, earning the First National Bank of Enid the distinction of the only bank ever to be closed by the military in American history"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Champlin_House

Sam Adams, Terry Bean, and Gordon Sondland.

Sam Fucking Adams on the radio

talking, talking, talking. 

The first sentence has been going for minutes and minutes.


Shut up asshole.


Sam Adams, Terry Bean, and Gordon Sondland.

Mayor Sam

HRC Bean

and Three Amigo Sondland.


Portland doesn't need

an iota of any of you in public service

ever again.

CITGO and Putin still own Washington D.C.

"The U.S. Treasury Department will no longer allow the company to drill wells, sell and buy crude oil or oil products or transport them, according to the Office of Foreign Assets Control. Chevron is authorized to ensure the integrity of operations and assets in Venezuela through Dec. 1.

The decision also affects four U.S. oilfield service providers:"

 Halliburton Co.,

 Schlumberger Ltd.,

Baker Hughes Co.

and Weatherford International Plc.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-21/chevron-effectively-barred-from-producing-oil-in-venezuela

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Central casting from Deepwater Horizon, only Andarko is replaced with Weatherford.

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"Washington — The US Treasury Department Friday again extended for three months a waiver preventing creditors of Venezuela's PDVSA from taking control of US refiner Citgo as a result of missed payments on its 2020 bonds.:

The waiver, set to expire on April 22, was extended until July 22, the department said Friday.


Another waiver, allowing Chevron and four US oil services companies to continue to work in Venezuela with state oil company PDVSA, is still set to expire on April 22."

https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/oil/041020-us-treasury-department-extends-citgo-waiver-for-venezuelas-pdvsa

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4-22-20  "Earth Day" 

Near absolute censorship of any mention of CITGO in the media and online continues in article after article that mentions Venezuela oil and gas, PDVSA.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/business/chevron-venezuela-oil-trump/index.html

CITGO "gave" Trump $500,000 for his illegitimate Inauguration, and they hired and retained Avenue First Strategies headed by Corey Lewandowski, to lobby the Trump regime to keep CITGO from the sanctions that were applied to other PDVSA assets and divisions.

Gordon Sondland is worth Hundreds of Millions of Dollars and gets Bailed Out.

"PROVENANCE AID — Provenance Hotels, the company behind spots like Dossier, Woodlark, and the Heathman, has nabbed one of the elusive relief loans provided through Paycheck Protection Program. The company says it laid off around 1,000 employees due to coronavirus-related financial hardship, and that the company hopes to hire back employees with the new aid package.

 The company’s hotels house several big-name restaurants, including multiple Vitaly Paley properties; Paley says, because the hotels and restaurant businesses are separate entities, that restaurant employees won’t get any of that aid.

 For those unfamiliar, Provenance was founded by former E.U. ambassador Gordon Sondland; Sondland returns as chairman in May. Eater Portland has reached out to Provenance for more information."

https://pdx.eater.com/2020/4/21/21229664/provenance-hotels-ppp-loan-burgerville-donation-burgers-hazard-pay-delicious-donuts

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"On CNN's "New Day," Schumer said the provision was aimed not just at Trump "but any major figure in government, Cabinet, Senate, congressmen, if they have majority, they have majority control, they can't get grants or loans and that makes sense."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-s-business-barred-bailout-money-senate-coronavirus-bill-schumer-n1168466

attenuate

attenuate fascism
with the handy gravity remedy 
found at your neighborhood 
toilet. flush.

crass part deconstruction of genome integrity

the lie bury of my heart has all garden
and no factory, hence no dingaling at dusk

no stinking sting in waddled fettles
nettled kettles so warren buffetted AOK

headed toward crystal springs
for every sun day thou V 

determinedly socially distancing
in flight geo-spatially correct

swim in their drink
n'est to their eggs,

so good spots are those filtered
abodes of elemental cranny nooks

brim of 
brim of brim precision

of brim of first syllable
crasstpart construction

countervalent stasis

entwined in vows countervalent 
to be free and joined,
society grapples because they haven't found
classical music.
nothing else.

Maypole

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus

"The Caduceus, symbol of God Ningishzida, on the libation vase of Sumerian ruler Gudea, circa 2100 BCE."

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleic_acid_double_helix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleic_acid_double_helix#/media/File:Double_stranded_DNA_with_coloured_bases.png

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from unknown region to togo, you love bloggod

smearamid

one foot in the stave of a stove moat
searching for meaning's orphans
derelict as advertised, and full of high dollar vinegar
attracting more sugar than flies can
pass thru an oligarch's sty
splintered into bacon only francis can sell
on a seashore swilling troll snores
harpy harpooning lampooned hydrofoils
skimming over the hedge fund miasma
at once encircling
and at once disappearing into reverse smoke
tossing unmeant utopias
atop the smearamid 






4-19-20
portland

Swale Creek Mote

Bloggod on the Mutiny On the Bailout

Sphynx in my hood

open arms and civilized tribes

"Johannes Jacob Peter Batdorf was born ca. 1671 in Darmstadt, in the current state of Hessen, Germany, and died in London, England in 1709.

He married Anna Maria Catharina Anspach. After his death, she married Johannes Zellar in 1712 in New York. She died in 1747/8 at Millbach, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. She was buried in the old Rieth's Church cemetery next to her second husband.

Johannes and Anna lived for several years in Palatine, Germany, where their five children were born.

In the summer of 1708, Johannes and family fled religious persecution and wars, and left their home in the small village of Badorf, near Stuttgart, in the current state of Baden-Wurttenberg, Germany.

They traveled by boat down the Rhine River to Rotterdam, Holland, then traveled by boat to England to await further transportation to America.

Like the Hans Adam Walborn family with whom they had become acquainted, and with whose children their children would marry, they joined thousands of others who took advantage of Queen Anne's offer of transportation to America, with the intention of establishing a colony in the present state of New York.

Johannes died in London before the journey to America by his family began, and three of the five children died enroute or shortly after arriving in New York on Jun 10, 1710.

When the boat landed, the passengers set up tents that they had brought with them from England, and lived in them. They remained until late autumn, when about fourteen hundred of them, including our Batdorf and Walborn families, were moved a hundred miles up the Hudson River to Livingston Manor. (Today, there is a town of Livingstonville in Schoharie County.)

The three surviving members of this family lived at Livingston Manor, New York for two years until Governor Hunter refused to pay the bill for their subsistence because the English Crown was slow in reimbursing him. Consequently,

 Anna and the two children joined a group of about 150 Germans, including the Walborns, and moved about 60 miles northwest to Schoharie Valley to New Annsburg (sometimes called Schmidsdorf), pulling their belongings on crude sleds through a forest and over three feet of snow without horses or roads. It took them three weeks to travel the 60 miles.

About this time (1712), Anna Maria Catharina married Johannes Georg Zellar. He was born in 1686 in France and died in 1737 about the age of 51. He was the younger son of Jacques de Sellaire and Clothelde de Valois.

After living in Schoharie about ten years, 33 families (150 people), including the Battdorfs and Walborns, had their land and improvements taken away from them because of some defect in their land titles. About this time, Governor Keith of Pennsylvania visited them and invited them to Pennsylvania.

In late winter, 1722, the group began the journey, travelling by a well-known and much used route down 300 miles of the Susquehanna River on crude flatboats and canoes. The cattle were driven along the riverbanks. They arrived at the mouth of the Swatara Creek, now Middletown, in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, about May 19, 1723.

 By Jun, 1723, they had traveled up the Swatara Creek and landed at their destination, about fifteen miles west of Reading to a point near Jonestown in the western part of what is now Lebanon county. From there they made their way on foot across the country to the Tulpehocken region, east of Stouchsburg.

At that time there were no roads in the area. Indians guided their entire journey and became their neighbors.

The tract of land settled by this group was about ten thousand acres in the Tulpehocken and Lebanon Valleys. Deeds were procured from the three Penns: John, Thomas, and Richard.

Anna Maria Catherina and Johannes Zellar squatted on land which is now called Millbach in Lebanon County.

The two children of Johannes Jacob Peter Batdorf and Anna Maria Catharina Anspach who survived the voyage to America were:"

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33588394/johannes-jacob_peter-batdorf


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Palatines

"A report in 1718 placed 224 families of 1,021 persons along the Hudson River while 170 families of 580 persons were in Schoharie.[29] In 1723, under Governor Burnet, 100 heads of families from the work camps were settled on 100 acres (0.40 km2) each in the Burnetsfield Patent midway in the Mohawk River Valley, just west of Little Falls.

 They were the first Europeans to be allowed to buy land that far west in the valley. In the winter of 1712-13, six Palatine leaders met a council of the clan mothers of the Haudenosaunee League (known as the Iroquois to the Europeans) and asked for permission to settle on their land.[27]

 The Palatines did not understand that the Haudenosaunee were a matriarchal society ruled over by the clan mothers who headed the 9 clans that made up the Five Nations, and were surprised to be meeting a council of clan mothers instead of the male sachems they had expected.

After hearing Palatine stories of poverty and suffering, the clan mothers granted permission for the Palatines to come.[27] The clan mothers also had ulterior motives.

 The 17th century had seen the Haudenosaunee take massive population losses as European diseases to which they had no immunity had greatly reduced their numbers; the Haudenosaunee had spent much of the 17th century engaged in wars with the French and other Indigenous nations; and finally in the 1670s-80s French Jesuit missionaries had converted thousands to Catholicism and then persuaded the converts to settle outside of Montreal.[30]

 Historians call the Haudenosaunee who moved to New France the Canadian Iroquois, while those who remained behind are described as the League Iroquois. At the beginning of the 17th century, there were about 2,000 Haudenosaunee living in the Mohawk River Valley and by the beginning of the 18th century, the population was down to about 600 people, placing them in a weak position to resist land grabs by British settlers.[30]

 The governors of New York had showed a tendency to grant Haudenosaunee land to British settlers without permission, and from the viewpoint of the clan mothers, having the poor Palatines lease their land was a preemptive way of blocking the governors from granting their land to land-hungry immigrants from the British isles.[30]

 In their turn, the British authorities believed that the Palatines would serve as a protective barrier, providing a reliable militia who would stop French and Indigenous raiders coming down from New France (modern Canada).[31]

The Palatine communities gradually extended along both sides of the Mohawk River to Canojoharie. Their legacy was reflected in place names, such as German Flatts and Palatine Bridge, and the few colonial-era churches and other buildings that survived the Revolution. They taught their children German and used the language in churches for nearly 100 years. Many Palatines married only within the German community until the 19th century.

The Palatines settled on the frontiers of New York province in Kanienkeh ("the land of the flint"), the homeland of the Five Nations of the Iroquois League (becoming the Six Nations when the Tuscarora joined the League in 1722) in what is now upstate New York, and formed a very close relationship with the Iroquois. The American historian David L. Preston described the lives of the Palatine community as being "interwoven" with the Iroquois community.[32] One Palatine leader declared about the relationship of his community with the Haudenosauee that: "We intend to live our lifetime together as brothers".[32]

 The Haudenosauee taught the Palatines about the best places to gather wild edible nuts together with roots and berries, and how to grow the "Three Sisters", as the Iroquois called their staple foods of beans, squash and corn.[30] One Palatine leader, Johann Conrad Weiser, had his son raised by a Mohawk family to order to provide the Palatines with both an interpreter and a friend who might bridge the gap between the two communities, which were so different.[30]

The Palatines came from the patriarchal society of Europe whereas the Haudenosaunee had a matriarchal society, where the clan mothers were the leaders who selected the sachems and the chiefs. The Haudenosaunee means "the People of the Longhouse" while Iroquois is a derogatory Basque-Algonquin word for them meaning the "killer people" that is considered offensive by the Haudenosaunee.

The Haudenosaunee admired the work ethic of the Palatines, and often rented their land to the hard-working immigrants.[30] In their turn, the Palatines taught Haudenosaunee women how to use iron plows and hoes to farm the land together with how to grow oats and wheat.[30] For the Haudenosaunee, farming was woman's work as it was sole responsibility of Haudenosaunee women to plant, grow and harvest the crops, and they considered the Palatine men to be unmanly because they worked the fields[citation needed]. Additionally, the Palatines brought sheep, cows, and pigs to Kanienkeh.[30]

 With increased agricultural production and money coming in as rent, the Haudenosaunee began to sell the surplus food to merchants in Albany.[30] Many clan mothers and chiefs, who had grown wealthy enough to live at about the same standard of living as a middle-class family in Europe, abandoned their traditional log houses for European style houses.[30]

In 1756, one Palatine farmer brought 38,000 beads of black wampum during a trip to Schenectady, which was enough to make dozens upon dozens of wampum belts, which were commonly presented to Indigenous leaders as gifts when being introduced.[32] Preston noted that the purchasing of so much wampum reflected the very close relations the Palatines had with the Iroquois.[32]

 The Palatines used their metal-working skills to repair weapons that belonged to the Iroquois, built mills that ground corn for the Iroquois to sell to merchants in New York and New France, and their churches were used for Christian Iroquois weddings and baptisms.[33] There were also a number of intermarriages between the two communities.[33] Doxstader, a surname common in some of the rural areas of south-western Germany is also a common Iroquois surname."