Yesterday I picked out a trash can this monthÕs copy of Vanity Fair which had a close-up black-and-white photo of Bobby Kennedy for its cover. The headline was something to the effect, ÒThe Tragedy, Remembering His Legacy and Why it Still Matters.Ó

 

This town has the most unreal love affair with the Kennedys. The worship-coverage never ends!

 

On Monday, I was walking the sidewalks outside my former office building at 345 Hudson (near the Holland Tunnel) and when I passed through TriBeCa I saw a group of young European tourists looking at their maps, trying to figure out just which block and building it was that J.F.K. Jr. lived in with his wife prior to their shocking plane deaths.

 

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The advertising giants here in New York think theyÕre so cute and cunning in how they deliver up SatanÕs lie program for the ÒsophisticatedÓ and ever-so-ÒcosmopolitanÓ localsÕ consumption.

 

HereÕs a great example: At the corner of Grand and West Broadway in SoHo is an outdated billboard promoting a local TV special from January (that, in itself, is a huge tip-off!) which simply consists of a bearded, middle-aged, white businessmanÕs face up-close against a white background with the words ÒLie to me*Ó (notice the asterisk). The asterisk is then explained in big black letters below: Ò*He sees the truth. ItÕs written all over our faces.Ó That line is followed by the listing, ÒWed., Jan. 21, 9 p.m., Fox 5.Ó

 

So I came back to my friendÕs apartment last night and what did I see on the cover of this weekÕs Newsweek—an extremely similar close-up photo of a true lookalike against a white background with only these three words in black for the magazineÕs entire cover, ÒObama is wrong.Ó

 

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Today was a story in the Post about how a 25-strong Amish contingency rode a yellow school bus into New York City yesterday to get their second-annual guided tour of Hasidic-influenced Crown Heights, Brooklyn by Rabbi Beryl Epstein of the Lubavitcher sect.

 

One 37-year-old Amish father was quoted proudly observing, ÒItÕs interesting to see how the Jews live and what they believe. The tradition is similar. They believe what their fathers believed—which is how we believe.Ó

 

This is where Satan gets so many religious people by having them place family pride and tradition over GodÕs Words.

 

In Galatians 1:14, the Apostle Paul even admits about his Pharisee past as a persecutor of Christ that he Òprofited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.Ó