Maddening Sunday Morning With CNN News

 Nadene Goldfoot                                               

I started off the morning listing to a discussion about Trump's Tariff program and how he should have done what he did with them.  It turned into a debate between two of those at the table which developed into a shouting match.  The others got a big kick out of it.  One thing, we as the viewer,  can't understand one word said in a shouting match, so I had nothing to laugh at.  I'd say that this half hour was a comedy of errors.                                   

Fareed Zakaria is someone I look forward to listening to.  Usually I'm in disagreement with him but not this time.  He was discussing the Armada of ships waiting, waiting and what was Trump deciding to do with them.Politics.  Trump warns Iran an ‘armada’ is heading its way and to agree a nuclear deal, or else.                    

             Iranians Rebelling in a Revolution

He went through a list of reasons why others told Trump not to attack.  His guest verified these facts telling more and who and why Trump shouldn't attack;  too  much wasted money, Arab countries that didn't want it to take place like Saudi Arabia and UAE, and then Fareed, still unsatisfied, brought in by the discussion a far away person with a long long surname, I take to be an Iranian newsperson, who gave more particulars on the discussion. 

TEHRAN, IRAN - JANUARY 8: Fires are lit as protesters rally on January 8, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. Demonstrations have been ongoing since December, triggered by soaring inflation and the collapse of the rial, and have expanded into broader demands for political change. (Photo by Anonymous/Getty Images)

 NOT ONE PERSON MENTIONED THE IRANIAN DISSONANTS WHO ARE IN THE REVOLUTION AND HAVE DIED ALREADY FOR THE CAUSE WHICH TO MY KNOWLEDGE HAVE BEEN COUNTED NOW FAR MORE THEN THE ORIGINAL 40,000, RISING TO 80,000 AND POSSIBLY BY NOW 120,000 DEATHS.                                    

Has Fareed forgotten that Trump helped to start all this by claiming that IF THE AYATOLLAH'S GOVERNMENT STARTING KILLING THEM, HE WOULD COME TO HELP?  Trump has been encouraging unrest in Iran and recently said, "HELP IS ON ITS WAY," as the death toll reportedly surpassed 2,000.  Now it could be 120,000.  

Then the ships sat in the water like now, only they did nothing but sit.  Thus more and more were killed.  The killers even went into hospitals and killed those there who had been in the streets demonstrating by being a part of the crowd and were injured. 

    These demonstrators are for Jerusalem Day in Samaria

I remember when Israel was recently faced with demonstrators in the streets.  They demonstrated.  Period.  

The Ayatollah of Iran had their Revolutionary Guards-a deadly group, shoot the demonstrators to kill.  They did it, but I hear that since then, it has bothered them to kill their own family members in the streets and have decided to go over to the demonstrators side.  Those still demonstrating see this time as I do, a window of opportunity with the Crown Prince directing them from the USA successfully, knowing they will probably be killed but for a good reason;  to free their beloved country from this madness.                       

Mahyar Tousi is a political YouTuber running the UK’s most watched online news show. Born in Iran, he came to this country as a child following his mother’s escape from the Iranian regime that resulted in her becoming a political refugee in Britain. I watch it too, on youtube.  

    Revolution's flag showing the old flag with lion in the middle.  

I know that from this that I have viewed on tousi.tv; watching what our major stations dare not enter to film, will continue and more will be killed.  The USA will never know the pain they are under nor have been under for the past 40 plus years in the first place and what they are enduring now.  Of all the impulsive acts lately of Trump;  buying Greenland, taking  over Venezuela, buying Canada, buying Denmark, HELPING THE IRANIAN YOUTH WHO ARE REBELLING AND HAVING A REVOLUTION IN THEIR COUNTRY TO TAKE IT BACK FROM THE AYATOLLAH'S WAYS was the only sane idea he has had and hasn't fulfilled.                                   

                      Harry S. Truman in 1946

Trump,  when it was decided to back Israel to become a state in 1948, President Truman went against his staff of nay-sayers, telling him all sorts of reasons why he shouldn't, but he did!  He knew only his partner in his haberdashery store was a Jewish man, and they had a great rapport.  That is the greatest gift that Truman could give to the USA as far as I and others are concerned.  Because of Truman, Israel was born. 

          Americans getting news;  opinions come from cell phones 

There are probably 80% of the people of the USA that think differently and wish it hadn't happened, but they do not understand.  I say that things happen for a reason, and someday, they or their descendants will understand.  It was for a good reason;  saving lives.  I could take on several articles full of reasons why and the the good this brought out that benefited the USA, oh in so many ways.  Maybe it will be like that, too for Iran.  Good things will happen in the world if Iran has a Democratic government.                          

I had to turn off the TV at 7:30am, so if they suddenly thought of the people, I missed it.  I hope they ended on a good note.  

Black History Month's Presentation of LOUIS ARMSTRONG and a Jewish Family

 Nadene Goldfoot                                            

                     This is a picture of young Louis Armstrong as I remember him more filled out.  

Teens of today probably never heard of Louis Armstrong.  Louis Armstrong was an internationally famous jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and singer known for songs like “What a Wonderful World,” “Hello, Dolly!,” ”Star Dust,” and “La Vie En Rose.”   Jazz musician Louis Armstrong, nicknamed “Satchmo” and “Ambassador Satch,” was an internationally famous jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and singer.  He had a deep gruff voice.  An all-star virtuoso, the New Orleans native came to prominence in the 1920s and influenced countless musicians with both his daring trumpet style and unique vocals. He is credited with helping to usher in the era of jazz big bands.The legendary musician died in 1971 at age 69 after years of contending with heart and kidney problems.

*Morris Karnofsky was born on this date in 1895.  He was a white-Jewish American tailor, coal and junk owner, and record store owner.

He was born in Lithuania. His family, Jewish immigrants, had roots in New Orleans, LA.  This was near Girod and Franklin Streets, a few blocks from where the family of Louis Armstrong lived. When Armstrong was seven, the Karnofskys brought him and other young Blacks to help with their growing coal and junk businesses.  When Karnofsky drove his family's wagon into Storyville to sell coal to the brothels, Louis Armstrong rode with him, blowing a little tin horn. At the time, Armstrong was just a kid from around the corner.

The Karnofsky's employed him and welcomed him into their home, often for supper. When he spotted a cornet in the window of Jake Fink's pawn shop next to the Eagle Saloon, they advanced him some pay to buy his first proper instrument.  Morris Karnofsky went on to open Morris Music, the first jazz record store in New Orleans, and when he was in town, Armstrong would stop by and see his childhood friend. Morris Karnofsky, mentor to Louis Armstrong, died on August 12, 1944.                            

Morris Karnofsky (and his family) is the Jewish man often cited for helping a young Louis Armstrong in New Orleans during the early 1900s, providing food, shelter, and the money for his first cornet. Armstrong later spoke Yiddish, loved Jewish music, and wore a Star of David in their honor.

•  The Karnofsky family, Lithuanian immigrants, took in 7-year-old Armstrong, giving him work on their junk wagon and treating him like family.    They saw a hungry child and took him into their life.  
•  Armstrong credited them with teaching him how to live with determination and often spoke of the kindness they showed him.
  
          1969 with Barbara Streisand making Hello Dolly
• Ever the entertainer, Armstrong became the first Black American to star in a Hollywood movie with 1936’s Pennies from Heaven. The legendary musician died in 1971 at age 69 after years of contending with heart and kidney problems.
  
  
  
•  Another significant Jewish figure in the music industry who managed Louis Armstrong later in his career was Joe Glaser, who helped found Associated Booking Corporation with him in the late 30s/early 40s.
• FULL NAME: Louis Daniel Armstrong
  BORN: August 4, 1901
  DIED: July 6, 1971
  BIRTHPLACE: New Orleans, Louisiana
  SPOUSES: Daisy Parker (c. 1918-1923), Lillian Hardin (1924-1938), Alpha Smith (1938-1942), and Lucille Wilson (1942-1971)
  CHILDREN: Clarence and Sharon
  ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Leo
• I bet Dick Bogle had records of Armstrong.  

• Armstrong’s previous silence on racial issues changed in 1957, when the musician saw the Little Rock Central High School integration crisis on television. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus sent in the National Guard to prevent the Little Rock Nine, a group of nine African American students, from entering the public school.

  When Armstrong saw this, as well as white protesters hurling invective at the students, he blew his top to the press, telling a reporter that President Dwight D. Eisenhower had “no guts” for letting Faubus run the country. “The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell,” Armstrong said.

  His words made front-page news around the world. Although he had finally spoken out after years of remaining publicly silent, he received criticism at the time from both Black and white public figures. People were not mentally ready.  

• Resource:
• https://aaregistry.org/story/morris-karnofsky-businessman-born/
• https://www.biography.com/musicians/louis-armstrong?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=mgu_ga_bio_md_pmx_hybd_mix_us_20739831539&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20743513357&gbraid=0AAAAApT

Our 613 Laws Over 3,300 Years Old Still Followed

 Nadene Goldfoot                                             

Talk about the problems of following the first 10 laws that Moses handed down to his population  of the Exodus!  The first 10 Jewish laws, known as the Ten Commandments (Aseret HaDibrot) or Ten Statements, are found in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5. They are foundational to Jewish law, focusing on1) believing in God, 2) no other gods/idols, 3) not using God's name in vain, 4) keeping the Sabbath, 5) honoring parents, 6) not murdering, 7) not committing adultery, 8) not stealing, 9) not bearing false witness, and 10) not coveting.

There were actually 613 of them!!  They are the base for Judaism.  They are also the base of many a debate !  What does each cover?  

        The 613 laws (mitzvot)  (תרי״ג מצוות)

in Judaism are traditionally believed to have been given by God to Moses (1391-1271 BCE )at Mount Sinai, who handed it down to his charges;  603,550 people they had saved from slavery in Egypt as recorded in the Torah. It took them 40 years to go from the short distance of Egypt to Canaan.  

 However, the specific enumeration of 613 laws was first mentioned by the 3rd-century CE Talmudic sage Rabbi Simlai. The most famous and widely accepted, though not exclusive, listing was compiled by the medieval philosopher Maimonides (Rambam) (1135-1204 CE) in his Sefer Hamitzvot. 

The term, mitzvot, means a good deed.  It is a plural term from mitzvah.The more mitzvot you do a day means you did a lot of good deeds.  Suchan act of visiting your mother in the hospital is a good deed or mitzvah.

There are  (365 negative, 248 positive) laws.  I notice that some of them are obvious ones, things we do every day;  just didn't know they were such good deeds.  

Moses shared these with his 603,550 people about 3,367 years ago.  We are stumbling over a few of the first ten listed in Exodus and Deuteronomy.  These cover some of the other books. Check out Leviticus.  

Love & Brotherhood/Sisterhood

• To love all human beings who are of the covenant (Leviticus 19:18)

• Not to stand by idly when a human life is in danger (Leviticus 19:16)

• Not to wrong anyone in speech (Leviticus 25:17)

• Not to carry tales (Leviticus 19:16)

• Not to cherish hatred in one's heart (Leviticus 19:17)

• Not to take revenge (Leviticus 19:18)

• Not to bear a grudge (Leviticus 19:18)

• Not to put any person to shame (Leviticus 19:17)

• Not to curse any other Israelite (Leviticus 19:14)

• Not to give occasion to the simple-minded to stumble on the road (Leviticus 19:14)

• To rebuke the sinner (Leviticus 19:17)

• To relieve a neighbor of his burden and help to unload his beast (Exodus 23:5)

• To assist in replacing the load upon a neighbor's beast (Deuteronomy 22:4)

• Not to leave a beast, that has fallen down beneath its burden, unaided (Deuteronomy 22:4)

I'm always dieting, watching the Jewish laws of what to eat; a dairy or a  meat meal and not to mix them; calories, so this impresses me.

                                                    

Dietary Laws

• To examine the marks in cattle (so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean) (Leviticus 11:2)

• Not to eat the flesh of unclean beasts (Leviticus 11:4)

• To examine the marks in fishes (so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean) (Leviticus 11:9)

• Not to eat unclean fish (Leviticus 11:11)

• To examine the marks in fowl, so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean (Deuteronomy 14:11)

• Not to eat unclean fowl (Leviticus 11:13)

• To examine the marks in locusts, so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean (Leviticus 11:21)

• Not to eat a worm found in fruit (Leviticus 11:41)

• Not to eat of things that creep upon the earth (Leviticus 11:41-42)

• Not to eat any vermin of the earth (Leviticus 11:44)

• Not to eat things that swarm in the water (Leviticus 11:43 and 46)

• Not to eat of winged insects (Deuteronomy 14:19)

• Not to eat the flesh of a beast that is treifah (literally torn) (Exodus 22:30)

• Not to eat the flesh of a beast that died of itself (Deuteronomy 14:21)

• To slay cattle, deer and fowl according to the laws of shechitah if their flesh is to be eaten (Deuteronomy 12:21)

• Not to eat a limb removed from a living beast (Deuteronomy 12:23)

• Not to slaughter an animal and its young on the same day (Leviticus 22:28)

• Not to take the mother-bird with the young (Deuteronomy 22:6)

• To set the mother-bird free when taking the nest (Deuteronomy 22:6-7)

• Not to eat the flesh of an ox that was condemned to be stoned (Exodus 21:28)

• Not to boil meat with milk (Exodus 23:19)

• Not to eat flesh with milk (Exodus 34:26)

• Not to eat the sinew of the thigh-vein which shrank (Leviticus 32:33)

• Not to eat chelev (tallow-fat) (Leviticus 7:23)

• Not to eat blood (Leviticus 7:26)

• To cover the blood of undomesticated animals (deer, etc.) and of fowl that have been killed (Leviticus 17:13)

• Not to eat or drink like a glutton or a drunkard (not to rebel against father or mother) (Leviticus 19:26; Deuteronomy 21:20)

If people were this aware of others and animals and their surroundings, what in the world happened to them?  Yes, we got smarter but in technical ways, not in living ways.  We still need these reminders of importance and how children grow up as copy-cats in order to live well on this planet earth.  Who knows what our descendants will find themselves in...these rules might come in handy...

https://www.mussar.center/lists/mitzvot?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22926377990&gbraid=0AAAAAphY1TADfls9A-2M-970E8HCFdMOe&gclid=CjwKCAiAzOXMBhASEiwAe14SaSjRHuNG19WrgMWsAYqghGO--XNBkbZLICdFknQDbRiBjvHBOAiY

https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-ten-commandments

Black History Month: Dick Bogle of Portland, Oregon

 Nadene Gokldfoot                                               

I want my children to know about Dick Bogle, one of my long time friends going back to my high school years at Washington High School, which was way way back in history.  

He told me of his friends and himself who wanted to celebrate so tried to rent a boat on a lake and they wouldn't rent it to them with Dick (a Black) among the group.  The group then decided they didn't want that boat after all, and they did something else.  Dick felt very bad that it was he who spoiled their day;  and he still hadn't gotten over it.   

He was the Sports Editor of our high school newspaper, and he knew everybody.  His mother was one of the writers at the Oregonian and his father was a mailman.  Dick was 4 years older than myself.

We found ourselves walking home together.  We didn't cross Division, though;  Dick going to the left and me crossing till I got to Ladds Addition.  We had lots of time to talk to each other about our different lives;  me as a Jewish teen and he as a Black one. I remember our last year together as it was his graduation year.

 (Dick Bogle was a landmark reporter and politician. Born in Portland in 1930, his father descended from an early Oregon pioneer family and his mother was well known writer and activist Kathryn Hall Bogle. Dick attended OSU and Vanport College before taking a job as a music reporter at The Oregonian in 1952.)

The next thing I knew was that Dick was a Portland policeman.  We bumped into each other and talked.  He told me of an area to stay away from and not drive there as it would not be safe for me.  He continued to write jazz and sports articles for the Portland Reporter and worked as a police officer from 1959 to 1968. 

(After attending Oregon State and Portland State universities, Bogle began a career with the Portland Police Bureau, where he served for nine years, in the 1960s. News was a passion for Bogle, according to the public record of his life available across the Internet and from KATU-TV, where Bogle began work as a journalist after his time at the bureau.

According to KATU.com Bogle was the first black journalist in the Northwest when he was hired. The Willamette Week described him as the first black television news journalist and second black person elected to City Council-I'll try to get to that.)

Life went on for both of us.  I had moved to Israel and came back after 4 plus years, so I found out  that Dick was now on channel 2 News.  Dick Bogle was primarily a television news reporter and anchor for KATU Channel 2 in Portland, serving as the first Black on-air reporter in the city from 1968 to 1982.  I had just returned from Israel at the end of 1985 just as Thanksgiving was starting.  

Earlier, I had returned to Portland for a visit and was encouraged by my cousin, a singer, Lorraine Goldfoot nee Slifman,  to drop in at channel 2 on Dick at the radio station which I did.  I told him all about living in Israel and why it was important to the USA, etc. He said he had a friend in politics who had told him similar things, too.  

1982,  He was hired as City Commissioner Mildred Schwab's executive assistant. He had  been a policeman and then a detective, and for some reason found himself overseer of the Fire Department as its commissioner, as I remember.  I think it was Mildred that he commented to me as being a really hard overseer;  good for you, Mildred;  we have to teach men well...

In 1984, City Commissioner Charles Jordan, the first black commissioner (member of the city council) in Portland, announced his resignation, and Bogle entered the race to succeed him. He won 28% of the vote in the initial round, and defeated Herb Cawthorne with 55% in the runoff.

 This made Bogle the second African American elected to Portland's City Council. He was re-elected in 1988 but lost in 1992. His 1992 loss was attributed to several controversies, such as a $20,000 settlement on a sexual harassment claim and a $1,500 trip to Asia on the taxpayer's dime. On his final day as commissioner, he said, "I promised I would work to make Portland a city my grandchildren would be proud of. I have and it is.                                  

Somewhere along the line, Dick and I met again and I became his genealogist.  We were trying to find out the story behind his ancestor, Oceania.  I traced the family back to Jamaica, and remember a horrible hurricane hitting the island causing deaths, etc, and escaping to the mainland.  In my mind it was like a movie, and I'm sure the story should have become a movie, as they wound up as pioneers that were not allowed in Oregon.  They moved to Washington and lived there. Eventually something drew them to Oregon and here they were; change in government, no doubt.  I do believe I sent his tree to him and maybe also to his daughter.  We worked together on it.  

(Oregon officially allowed Black people to reside in the state after the repeal of exclusion laws in 1926, though the clauses were rendered moot earlier by the 14th Amendment in 1866. Oregon had strict exclusion laws starting in 1844, with the final ban on Black residents written into its 1857 constitution. 

Washington Territory, established in 1853, never adopted similar widespread racial exclusion laws.)

Dick Bogle, left, was Oregon's first black TV journalist. He died Thursday at the age of 79. In his retirement, the Vancouver man worked with the Portland Police Bureau to solve old murders dating back to the 1960s. Photo Gallery

After leaving politics, Bogle turned back to writing, publishing articles in DownBeat, Senior Lifestyles, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Skanner. He also took and published photos of jazz artists. 

Later in his career, he volunteered as a jazz DJ for the radio station KMHD (Mt. Hood Community College) and for the Portland Police Bureau's cold case unit, and had the station for a long time.  I listened. 

 Well, Dick, I found out that at one time we both were buying goodies at the same bakery, one I bought my Challah from in south Portland.  We came close to bumping into each other then.  

Dick Bogle --newsman, police officer and twice-elected Portland commissioner--died from congestive heart failure at a Vancouver hospital. He was survived by his wife, Nola, a son and four daughters.

I attended the gathering after his death of a time to remember Dick with my son.  It was packed with people who felt close to Dick. He should be remembered out here in Portland and elsewhere as a man who had a hard time as a teen but became a success story.  

I have been lucky;  I also had congestive heart failure, still do, but have a pacemaker now.  I'm 91 and almost a half.  It's just now that I'm interested in the Portland Blazers with with Deni from Israel as their lead player-though they dodged the bullet Friday night by not playing against the Hot Denver team who wins like 50 points more than their opponents; and those running the marathon; which my son, grandson and as I just found out, daughter in law has run, and my now best buddy, Kali Washington, a marathon runner from Denver !  You would be impressed and would be able to write something really important about this, I'm sure.  I guess it's never too late !

Resource:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Bogle#:~:text=In%20September%20of%20that%20year,Mildred%20Schwab's%20executive%20assistant.

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/dick-bogle-cop-newsman-politician-dead-at-79/283-71734509

https://www.columbian.com/news/2010/feb/25/former-tv-reporter-portland-commissioner-dies/