Google Earthing Cheboygan

Had to look up Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief.  I was familiar with the words, but I didn't know what the words were for, and it turns out that they were a choosing game like eeny meeny minie mo, which in my heyday in Gage Park had an unfortunate second line. 

I believe it has been established that while I enjoy a nice beer garden, I am no big fan of the out-of-doors, which obviously Cheboygan has a lot of and Chicago, well none to speak of.  Looking out my window I can see the south bank of the river which has some trees, and rumor has it that there may be bears, though that rumor is promulgated only by myself. 

After Mackinaw we went north to that foreign country. It was a big deal crossing a border for a little kid,  I got to thinking how come we didn't pass through Milwaukee on the way back, sure I would remember Milwaukee, but I do remember passing through Wisconsin Dells and Madison,  I guess we passed through Rockford, that forgotten city on the way back.

With all this talk I took a Google Earth tour of Cheboygan.  I didn't see much in the way of nightlife, by which I mean, oh some lodge or fancy hotel of some sort, the place where some hunters or fisherman go after a full day of hunting and fishing to knock a few back.  Well maybe the tourists or resorters of Cheboygan are guys that like to just hang in their cabins playing cards and drinking beer.  There are worse ways to spend an evening.  And boaters, I reckon there are a lot of boaters in the area.

At least once a year I like to take the evening cruise on the Chicago River, the city looks very nice at night, but I realize that doesn't make me a boater.  I think I understand boaters even less than I do outdoorsmen.  But I guess there are fishing boats, seems like there are some pretty big fish in the northern great lakes, 


I wondered about this tweet of Omar's causing such an uproar.  I mean isn't the goal of AIPAC to promote the state of Israel?  Isn't that why people give it money?  Isn't that what it uses to raise funds?  Doesn't it go after any rep or sen who is seen as insufficiently pro-Israel?

Yes, yes, yes, and yes.  So what is the big deal?  I guess it's the way she phrased it.  A long time trope of anti-Semitism is that they are money guys who control everything, and that led to the holocaust.  But still, does that make it bad to criticize AIPAC because then you are an anti-Semite.  And what is with anit-Semite?  Both the Jews and the Arabs are Semites, how can the Arabs be anti-Semite? 

The thing is that even though Arabs and Jews are Semites,anti-Semitic has taken on the exclusive meaning of anti-Jewish.  And now being anything less than totally for the state of Israel is considered being anti-Semitic.