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Stormy Monday

3 min readJul 6, 2026

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Headline from nypost.com: “America learned long ago that air-conditioning saves lives. Why does Europe remain so stubborn about it?” Maybe it’s the same reason the countries seem to be commiting cultural suicide.

Hope I’m wrong, but given the turnout for the Ayatollah’s funeral, it seems authoritarian rule is safe in Iran. I suspect there will be a need for periodic bombing to keep it from producing nukes. The battle of civilization has always been ongoing.

Headline from foxnews.com: “Brothers’ lemonade stands raised over $60K for veterans in grandfather’s honor.” Kudos to Minnesota’s Noah and Cole Dingels, photo from Google Images:

From FN: “Media figures melt down over Trump involvement with FIFA as US star Folarin Balogun set to play.” I’m sure they would have even if Obama had done it. They already claim DT ruined the 4th.

The left can throw a hissy fit about this too. From FN: “ICE makes nationwide arrests of illegal immigrants, murderers, pedophiles in holiday blitz.”

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From foxbusiness.com: “Trump admin maps out sweeping rollback of regulations in push to save $1.5T.” And the caption: “Mark Paoletta says projected $1.5T in cost savings will far surpass the record $211.8B achieved in fiscal 2025.” Tall order. Even one-third would be great.

I don’t have anything against the Kelce-Swift ceremony at MSG except that illegals and the homeless weren’t invited and people needed photo ID to enter. That said, best of luck to them. They seem a great match.

Last night while watching a photo array, there was a shot of Cher rollerskating at what the caption claimed was Rollerama, which was up the street from the house I grew up in Bensonhurst. I was skeptical. To my chagrin, I couldn’t find it anywhere. She did host a disco party at another rink, Empire, in 1979.

The following seems to encapsulate a significant part of the battle for America. From pinterest.com, posted by Leonard:

The Anti-Inflation Book Shop was rained out today and may be tomorrow as well. Fortunately I had a short story mapped out in my head and banged out a first draft of almost five pages. It’s quite personal. It may mean nothing to anyone else. It was almost too easy.

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I was born in Brooklyn in 1950 to Sicilian immigrants. I’ve had more than 50 short stories published world wide. I have 13 books in print.