FLA RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL SWEET!

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When I say Renaissance you say cool. 
When I say Festival you say sweet.

When I say Renaissance Festival you say Hook me up!

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Travel back in time to the 16th Century at the 27th Annual Florida Renaissance Festival, coming to Quiet Waters Park, February 9th, 2019 through March 24th, 2019 from 10:00 a.m. to Sunset! Over 100 Artisans selling their wares, Over 100 Performers to entertain, Kid's Kingdom, Entertainment and Food and Drynk fit for a King! It's a Fun Family Event for All Ages!

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Question: 

Can you or your family  handle bumping into a Pirate, sidestepping a  Knight or stumbling upon an  encampment of dancing gypsies flashing  red scarves and jiggling gold bobbles they bought from the Village Vendors -one of hundreds  at your disposal?

Yes? Read on.

I think you might need a candle to light the way.  The Kamikazee Fireflies are out and about.  No worries, make one with your daughter add a little face paint, shoot a couple of rounds with your son, try fencing or crossbow, get lost in a maze a  haunted graveyard or jump on a Fair Ride. 

Kiss the girls and make them smile!

I'm smelling hot fries, sizzling  chocolate dipped bacon and something sweet; cotton candy, pancakes with maple syrup for sure. The deep fried twinkies are by the Chinese food booth  next to the Taco stand, fish and chips to the left.  

Can your kids spell Dragon,  Harry Potter or Time Travel? Game of Thrones perhaps? Pick a themed weekend heck pick two. 

Who's that over there to your right?

 A merchant is making his way through a magical land of wild Wizards, Faires  and Sprites on a carpet of  rainbows. Watch out for the Gremlins!

Where did you say that pot of gold was? I think its down the winding path through the great forest, past  the poets and musicians.  With a little luck you'll find a mischievous  Leprechaun in a moss green suit. He'll guide you to a curious little village to watch a thrilling Joust brought to you by  brave Knights ablaze with silver armor sparking in the sun atop feisty horses.

You can do all of this while your kids loose their minds all decked out in pirates costumes they can wear to the fair.

A little treat pour toi perhaps?

Hey girl,  there's shop that has that cute light blue corsette you secretly want and for you Dude a fab leather vest calls.  

BANG!

Was that a canon or your family thanking you?

WAIT!

 You left your buddies at the  best time-travel pub crawl ever. Such scandalous tails the Wench tells over cold beer and good cheer.  Shout out a song.  Gulp ahhh! 

PS. Don't bring your dog or a sandwich. Not allowed. There is enough food and drink to feed a fussy fleet of Pirate ships Arrr! 

I'd budget around $120.00 TOTAL for a family of four- entry, food and treats.  Wee ones are free.

Pub crawl is $29.00. 5 beers 5 pubs 5 stars.

See you there!

SWEET!

The Florida Renaissance Festival currently offers One-Day admission tickets, which are good for any one day of the Festival, and Season Passes, which grants admission on all Festival days! Adult One-Day admission tickets are $21.00 per person, and Children’s One-Day admission tickets are $9.00 per person. For the purposes of ticketing, children’s tickets apply to children ages 6 to 11. Children 5 years of age and under are free!

Season Passes for Adults are $75.00 per person, and are issues to one person, non-transferable. You must bring photo identification along with your Pass for entry to the Festival each day. Season Passes for Children are $35.00 per person.

Ticket prices are subject to sales tax of 6%, and any convenience fees assessed for the purchase of tickets online in advance.

The Florida Renaissance Festival currently offers One-Day admission tickets, which are good for any one day of the Festival, and Season Passes, which grants admission on all Festival days! Adult One-Day admission tickets are $21.00 per person, and Children’s One-Day admission tickets are $9.00 per person. For the purposes of ticketing, children’s tickets apply to children ages 6 to 11. Children 5 years of age and under are free!

Season Passes for Adults are $75.00 per person, and are issues to one person, non-transferable. You must bring photo identification along with your Pass for entry to the Festival each day. Season Passes for Children are $35.00 per person.

Ticket prices are subject to sales tax of 6%, and any convenience fees assessed for the purchase of tickets online in advance.One-Day admission tickets, which are good for any one day of the Festival, and Season Passes, which grants admission on all Festival days! Adult One-Day admission tickets are $21.00 per person, and Children’s One-Day admission tickets are $9.00 per person. For the purposes of ticketing, children’s tickets apply to children ages 6 to 11. Children 5 years of age and under are free!

Season Passes for Adults are $75.00 per person, and are issues to one person, non-transferable. You must bring photo identification along with your Pass for entry to the Festival each day. Season Passes for Children are $35.00 per person.

Ticket prices are subject to sales tax of 6%, and any convenience fees assessed for the purchase of tickets online in advance.

Screen time Damages our Kids

A study, from the University of Calgary psychologists and published today in the JAMA journal Pediatrics is right up my alley. 

The technological dark age in which live is causing  developmental challenges for our children. What? Technology does not make us better? Upgrading is not  the answer to the future?  

The jig is up folks. Kids 2-5 years old who engage in more screen time received worse scores in developmental screening tests. The apparent explanation is simple: when a kid is in front of a screen, they’re not talking, walking or playing, the activities during which basic skills are cultivated.

"A lot of the positive stimulation that helps kids with their physical and cognitive development comes from interactions with caregivers,” lead author Sheri Madigan said  in a University of Calgary news release. “When they’re in front of their screens, these important parent-child interactions aren’t happening.”

The paper explains:

When young children are observing screens, they may be missing important opportunities to practice and master interpersonal, motor, and communication skills. For example, when children are observing screens without an interactive or physical component, they are more sedentary and, therefore, not practicing gross motor skills, such as walking and running, which in turn may delay development in this area. Screens can also disrupt interactions with caregivers by limiting opportunities for verbal and nonverbal social exchanges, which are essential for fostering optimal growth and development.

 So let's turn off our phones, take them from our toddlers hands and lead the wee ones back to the garden before AI paves over paradise and puts up a parking lot.

If we don't step in and take some responsibility for allowing technology to overrule our life force,  children will never know that paradise IS earth and that we are here to tend.

Technology is  an evolutionary nuclear bomb in the existence of mankind. 

Steven Hawkins agrees.

 Poof! 

Bravo Calgary!! 

CNN stop with Trump already

Last night was  the first time I turned off CNN.

Hey guys there are other things going on in the world. Did you forget about the kids at the border?   The whales,  pollution in the air, government shutdown, parks? 

Let Trump alone stop speculating about the Mueller report you'll see it in full soon enough  and talk about what's really going on with the country.

Redundant and boring you have become.

Stop Japan from killing whales

Call the Japanese Embassy , call your local politician yell, post, twitter do anything to make a fuss we must stop Japan from resuming whaling.

Japan this week formalized its withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission in a letter, setting the stage for its resumed killing of hundreds of whales in its coastal waters and perhaps elsewhere as well. Japan announced its departure from the IWC last month, and with the receipt of its official communique on the withdrawal, the clock now starts ticking on a one-month period during which other countries can indicate if they too wish to leave the IWC.

As a veteran of IWC politics for more than two decades, I have come to view Japan's departure as a victory of rhetoric over reason. The IWC, established in 1946 when it became clear that whale populations were in trouble, struggled to try to make whaling sustainable for many decades before announcing the global ban on commercial whaling in 1982. Japan, however, never accepted this moratorium and, for many years, continued to kill whales using the 'scientific research' loophole in the 1946 convention text — a loophole that allows countries to allocate a quota to themselves to take whales for research. The loophole was created in an era when it was perceived that countries might need to investigate some urgent matter by studying the bodies of whales post-mortem.

But science has come a long way since then, and the IWC's intention clearly was not to create a mechanism for Japan or any nation to hide or obscure the reality of a long-term commercial whaling program and catch.

In addition to its continued whaling, Japan has also tried repeatedly to overturn the moratorium. Its attacks have at times been subtle – for example trying to have new forms of whaling recognized. Other times, not so much. At the last meeting of the IWC in September Japan advanced a bundle of proposals that would have killed the global ban altogether.

Japan would like to present itself as the wounded party, forced to leave the IWC because its reasonable requests are not being listened to. But the fact is, commercial whaling is completely unnecessary; in fact, there is no pressing economic need for it and there is plummeting demand for whale meat in Japan itself.

Just as importantly, there is no way to kill whales humanely at sea, and there is no accepted international framework for the management of whaling in place. Moreover a majority of IWC member countries do not support killing whales for commercial purposes. Whales belong to no one country, they are typically highly mobile and many species are migratory. This is why the IWC's jurisdiction has always covered all waters, right up to the shoreline.

Japan's abandonment of the IWC is a calculated move that flaunts the rule of law that should bind nations as a matter of course in their relations. It's highly irresponsible behavior, and it is, in the end, simply beneath the dignity and honor of an otherwise important and conscientious ally to many in the community of nations. That's certainly our view, and it's the one we'll work to impress upon the remaining member nations of the IWC and other relevant bodies. We cannot allow one country to step outside of the IWC and recommence commercial whaling. If other countries, following Japan's example, start to do likewise, then we may see a return to the lawless days of previous centuries and the world's whales will suffer.

Me and Henry

Me and Henry

Saltwater Brewery saves millions of sea creatures

GET RID OF SIX PACK PLASTIC RINGS ?

Saltwater Brewery in Delray beach did just that and get this ... made them edible for sea creatures. This is stunning amazing news.

Budweiser watch and learn and if your reading this contact your favorite brewery and let them know this is possible.

Millions of seabirds, fish, and turtles eat or get trapped in six pack plastic rings and when they are eaten by larger species the plastic transferes into the hosts  system killing them as well.

Saltwater Brewery in Delray Beach is changing how it manufactures six-pack packaging rings to make them more eco-friendly. These new rings are constructed from barley and wheat ribbons saved from the brewing process. These 100 percent biodegradable and edible rings, known as E6PR, can be safely eaten by animals that come in contact with them.

They will be the only beer I will EVER drink.  Let's hope everyone else follows suit.

Congratulations, hats off and Blessings to the Delray Saltwater brewing company.

Rashida Tlaib potty mouth

Here's why Rashida Tlaib is psychologically unfit to represent her constituents and other democratics in the house ..
mainly me.

And this is why I am so determined to call her out. I will be brutal.

Since the Democrats are horrified  and shocked at Trumps language let's examine our own hypocrisy. I won't stand for this. If we hold others to the task we MUST hold ourselves.

#1. First let's look at the word itself.  If a man called a woman a motherfucker he would be verbally abusive.  Rashida Tlaib is abusive.

#2. She has used the word sassy to explain her behavior.  Sassy is a word which refers to a  little girls attitude. The real definition according to Websters  dictionary is lively, bold, and full of spirit it does not cover language it covers attitude. The word motherfucker is not sassy?  It's crude ignorant and abusive.
Am I supposed to tell my daughter that it's OK to use the word motherfucker because it's sassy ?

#3. Look at the timing of her motherfucker comment. She picked a  day after so much good will and so many historic firsts never before seen in the United States Government. Why did she not give us a day or two to enjoy the victories?

When people are inappropriate and unable to understand context they are psychologically unwell. That makes Rashida Tlaib a saboteur.

#4. She assumes that the people who voted for her accept this behavior. If  so why didn't she exhibit such language  during her campaign and really let the voters decide.  That makes her
insincere.

#5.  And here's what got me. She is unable to understand that her position makes her a role model and her words matter ( where have we heard that before). That makes her unfit.

#6. And this is what makes her dangerous and unwell. Instead of understanding that using the word motherfucker not only reflects badly on herself it reflects badly on her party, her voters and others that  look up to her she digs in her heels. And in that context she is unable to apologize. That points to character. A person who is unable to grasp the damage that their behavior had done and refuses to apologize is dangerous. She needs to resign for the greater good or be impeached.

#6. She has put her colleagues in a terrible position to look no better than the Republicans who blame Obama for everything by forcing them to make an equivalency to the Presidents use of crude language. That makes her manipulative and subversive.

#7. When Democrats were asked what they thought about the language they said, " well I would not have said that". They should have said it is unacceptable and  hypocritical and refuse to condone it.  She has made others uncomfortable and opened them up to criticism. That makes her unpredictable and dangerous.

#7. Her attitude is scarry. When interviewed she seemed to enjoy the attention with a f**-you position that was creepy and scarry. When a person digs in their heels and refuses to self'reflect they will make incorrect decisions and not to change their minds even when all facts point to the truth.  Who do we know that does that? There is nothing more threatening  then a person in power who is unable to change their mind. And that makes her unfit and a megolomaniac.

Rashida Tlaib is an undercover deep state  Repulican working to hurt and shame Democratic voters. And if she won't apologize to us how can't we expect us to trust her to vote for our best interests.

Impeach Rashida Tlaib an abusive,psychologically unfit saboteur.  Call her office email her. Let's see how much more  she gets-off in the push back. When we know that we can make a final  decision to remove her from office.

And you know if I took time away  from my book to write this I'm pissed.

Finally and most importantly. I don't care who you are if you call someone a motherfucker you need to apologize.

Unfortunately that points to the parents that raised her and if she is willing to throw them under the bus we should all watch out.

Regarding the Wall

Regarding the wall.

I think we have missed the point. The emphasis of the press and academics should be on the reaction to the wall, the psychology and the history.

Walls in China, Germany, North Korea create societies which become dictatorial or worse.  The wall is  a state of mind that makes a country turn in on itself.

That's why the opposition is so viseral. Now it's time to explain that to folks.

From democracy to Dictator

The journey from a Democratically run government to a Dictatorial one is a process. This does not happen from one day to the next.

One of the first things that has to happen is to empty cabinet positions and leave them unfilled. And if there are no people to make those decisions guess what?

All decision making refers to the top and when there is only one man at the top plus his family members Voila!  That makes a dictatorial regime.

California Bans Animal Testing

California Just Officially Banned The Sale Of Animal-Tested Cosmetics!!!!!!!

Yeah California. Law Leaders

The new law is the first of its kind in the United States.

This is HUGE.  It is something I have been working toward all my life and the day has finally arrived. Not only will animal testing be banned but the companies that  take their tests to China will have their products  banned as well.

There are blessings and good will to go around for all God's creatures great and small. This is the best Xmas gift I have ever had.

Please give to PETA this Holiday Season.

California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed a landmark bill into law on Friday aimed at banning the sale of cosmetics that have been tested on animals.

The California Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act, authored by Democratic state Sen. Cathleen Galgiani, prohibits manufacturers to “import for profit, sell, or offer for sale” any cosmetic product that was developed or made using an animal test, if the test occurs after the law takes effect on Jan. 1, 2020. That means products developed using animal testing may still be sold, as long as the testing does not continue after that date. Violations are punishable by a $5,000 fine, plus an additional $1,000 for each day the violation continues.

Animal tests used in the cosmetic industry include painful skin and eye irritancy experiments, as well as toxicity evaluations that involve exposing animals to deadly substances, sometimes by force-feeding or inhalation. The most commonly used animals are mice, rats, rabbits and guinea pigs. The vast majority are killed when testing is complete.

Quote by Karina Holosko

We are not here to race one another to the top but rather to keep one another from falling down.

(Yes I wrote that)

Timeless Xmas gift.

I made an interesting observation today. The computer  has the power to change the clocks to whatever time it's wants, and that's a scarry thing. We have relinquished one of the most important discoveries in humanity and we are entrusting it to a computer.

"Hey Kay. Why did you think of that ?"

Well let me tell you.I was engrossed in work  so I looked around to see if it was lunchtime.
My kitchen clock said  11:30am,
My computer clock said 12:30.
My stove stove clock said 1:25pm.

And you know where I went to find the truth?  My phone!  Why did I trust it that  much? What if the system was hacked and the time changed?  How would I verify the true  time ? That scared the heck out of me. It means that  time can be manipulated by AI and smart phones  and that can  mean the downfall of civilization.

So this Xmas, get a watch.

Joseph John Holosko pictures

These are the only two pictures I have of my father and I'm grateful for those.

Joseph John Holosko

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Saint Stan Lee. RIP

This is a piece from my favorite comic artist Peter G. Pereira, I am privileged that  he created a character based on me and I am published weekly in NYC  Our Town with over a million readers!! 

The Great Stan Lee will be missed. He is NOT dead he has just changed addresses and boy will heaven get a kick-ass artist.

EZRA MILLER A FEATHER KILLING CURSE

Ezra Miller appropriately wore a killing curse to his premier because of the amount of birds that we killed making his coat. 

Oops more like slaughterd: hung and bled to death. Disgusting.

Coffee pods biggest polluter

I don't know what Keurig was thinking with those plastic pods. The pollution this is creating is crazy over the top and we are banning straws? How about banning those pods.

And they can't be recycled because unless the coffee grounds are cleaned out and who does that?  

Whales Jailed in Russia Horror and Torture

You read it right! There are places in Russia housing hundreds of whales mainly baby orcas so that they can be sold to China for recreation parks. The mothers would have had to be murdered at sea and the little ones plucked helplessly out of the sea, frozen in  shock and terror.

Please help them Russia!

Throw a couple bucks at Greenpeace Russia please. Greenpeace.ru

It's not always important to give based on a tax break.

I'll tell you what.  If you give  them a $20.00 I will give you a stock tip next week.

More than 100 whales are being held in cramped and potentially illegal enclosures on Russia's Pacific east coast. Prosecutors are investigating the site near the city of Nakhodka, which has been dubbed a "whale jail" by local media.

Eleven orca and 90 beluga whales are being held in the pens, and activists fear they are illegally being sold to Chinese water parks and aquariums, contravening laws on the capture of wild whales.

Some of the animals have been in containment since July, CBS News correspondent Debora Patta reported on Wednesday.

A video shared on social media on Monday shows a whale being lifted out of a small container by a crane in preparation, activists believe, to ship it to China.

It is illegal to capture wild whales except for educational and scientific purposes following a worldwide ban on commercial whale hunting in 1982. However, orca whales, or killer whales as they are often called, can fetch as much as $6 million at theme parks in China.  

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Russian newspaper Novaya Gazetta has reported that the four companies that own the containers exported 13 whales to China between 2013 and 2016.

Between 2012 and 2015, the companies allegedly involved were granted permission to capture ten orcas in the wild for educational purposes. However, seven of those whales were exported to China, where one was valued at over $1 million on a customs form.

Earlier this year, Russian authorities called on the Interior Ministry to launch a fraud investigation over the capture and sale of the seven whales.

Other firms are reportedly renting out whales in an effort to get around certain restrictions on the sale of wild sea mammals.  

Video shot from a helicopter of the containment tanks shows dozens of beluga whales in tight quarters. Experts say that given the size of the tanks, many of the whales must be calves. The capture of whale calves is categorically forbidden, even for scientific or educational reasons.

Greenpeace Russia has condemned the conditions as "torture," and warned that capturing whales in these numbers threatens the animals' population in the long term.

The Telegraph quoted Greenpeace Russia's Oganes Targulyan as saying that although the law permits the capture of 13 killer whales per year, "no one is taking into account that at least one orca is killed for every one that is caught."

"Catching them at this tempo, we risk losing our entire orca population."

In the nearby Kamchatka region, orca number's have decreased so drastically that they are now listed as endangered. 

Geenpeace

Tigress Murdered in India

Remember the names Shafath Ali Khan Asghar, India's most famous big game hunter and his son Shafath Ali Khan otherwise known as cowards. They are stripping the world of beasts that are becomming extinct.

Last week the son shot a beautiful Tigress named T1 on the false accusation that she was a man-hunter. And get..this  it took two years of mercilously stalking her, with drones and other advantageous technology to shoot her dead.  Cheater, cheater cheater. 

( Hunters use drones to locate Lions Elephants, Gorillas, Rhinos and Orangutans to murder them).

An update:  _There was a second Tigress. She was surrounded by villagers, they beat her alive and then they ran her over with a truck! AS SHE STAYED ON PROTECTED LAND!!!  Now that was sick and ugly.The villagers were probably paid big money to murder her that way because they did not want her coat tainted with blood stains. Think about it...how could anyone form a circle and beat a tiger to death without the animal using all her strength to fight?  And running her over with a tractor? My God it must have taken them hours to beat and run her over unless she was tranquilized first then beaten and crushed. 

A tiger would only leave the brush if she was being terrorized. 

This whole story stinks of human lies. Truth? It's more likely that the great beasts were murdered for trophies and to be cut up and sold to big buyers for exotic potions.

And please notice that in the picture below. She was shot in the side. Also notice the lack of blood. She was shot at close range with a pistol so the blood would not taint the rug that the coward-hunters a father and son want for the carpet so they can stand proudly over her body like two idiots.

The faux story of the reasons surrounding the murders is totally fabricated. 

Besides the obvious kill shot there are a couple more things I'd like to draw your attention toward.

Again..
Remenber these two names, Shafath Ali Khan and Shafath Ali Khan Asgar a father and son team- the biggest game hunters in India. Email, text and twitter, snail mail, stop  them in the street , do whatever you can to destroy the demons  that live in them.  Beg them to reconsider, wash the sin off their hands and teach them about photography .

THEY murdered a Tigress by fabricating an entire elaborate lie just to kill two of God's great creatures and justify it. Sick.. And you know how they got away with it? They falsely accused her of being a suspected man-eating tiger.  

And if you believe the Tigress was man-eating I'll pee on your leg and tell you it's raining.  This was a bullshit story to cater to an elite hunting class of souless demons.

 I wonder how much Shafath Ali Khan and his father   Shafath Ali Khan Asgar  paid to the villagers to  create the man-eating myth.

Quite some tale  Shame in them!!

And notice the bullet hole? It went through the side of the animal. It was reported  that she charged them and had to be killed in self defense.  If that were the case  it would have been a head on shot. Not a side shot. Another lie.

(Any good hunter knows it's ideal to hit the animal in the side leaving no blood stains on the fur. Most hunters wound an animal in this way and let it try to escape  so that all the blood flows onto the ground preserving  the coat.That's why many hunters use  a bow and arrow.)

Here's another alternative fact. According to the made-up story the proof offered up was that that the Tigress killed people and left their heads severed. Not true.

First of all tigers don't sever  heads and walk away with it. There's not much to eat. Rather they gut their victims eat the intestines and if anything carry away the arms and legs.

Curse on both the murderous son and father who hatched this sinful ugly and evil plan.

5 Soldiers to ONE Migrant

If we keep up at this rate Trump will be sending so many soldiers that there will be a ratio of 3 to 1.

That's  THREE SOLDIERS to ONE MIGRANT.....including little babies.

Absurd!