I Can't Study Tonight...

Forget studying tonight. I'll wake up early in the morning and study. My roommate has music on, and I can hear it and can't study. Since the music is gospel music, I grant that she might be doing the more important thing--e.g.:

³⁸ Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village; and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house. ³⁹ And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’^[a]feet and heard His word. ⁴⁰ But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.”

⁴¹ And Jesus^[b] answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. ⁴² But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

I can sleep more easily with the music on that I can study with it on. Also anyway, the exam's not until 6:00 PM; so from 9:30 to 5:50 (excepting 1:00-3:00 for "The Geraldo Rivera Show" on KABC, and 5:00-5:50 to get a late lunch and get to the Physics Building), I have plenty of time to study--and without music being played, so that I can focus.

I Take Great Exception To The Following Comment...

"You are too quick to accuse people of wrongdoing. Andrew Rusnak's name is spelled one way on the ship manifest and another way on his naturalization papers. The name of Andrew's birth place is misspelled in his naturalization papers. No one at Ellis Island went around to ask everyone if their name was spelled correctly or their hometown was spelled correctly on their ship manifest. The same with census records. The census taker didn't go back and ask everyone if their name was spelled correctly. Our ancestors never saw the ship manifests, naturalization records, and census records that were created from their information."


Firstly, Kevin assumes that the immigration and naturalization officials were too stupid, ignorant, or however else incompetent to do their jobs. ("No one at Ellis Island went around to ask everyone if their name was spelled correctly or their hometown was spelled correctly on their ship manifest.") If they had doubts, they would most certainly ask, and they would ask one to affirm that his or her information was correctly and truthfully given and recorded.


Secondly, Kevin assumes that our relatives were also incompetent in some way, shape, or form. ("Our ancestors never saw the ship manifests, naturalization records, and census records that were created from their information.") They absolutely saw the records especially if they were required to sign them or otherwise give confirmation that they were correct and true records.


Thirdly, Kevin assumes-- at least implicitly-- that our relatives couldn't have full well been sinning by committing perjury, even if they supposedly had their reasons for doing so. I recently gave the example of "Maria Uscanski"-- aka, Catherine Susan Ushinsky Gaydos. She full well knew what she was doing by using the name "Maria"-- she, a Jew and an Anusit, was trying to use a traditionally-Catholic name to get into the country and avoid Anti Semitism; which may be understandable, nevertheless not right on her part.


Fourthly and in conclusion, Kevin assumes that I'm stupid or arrogant. ("You are too quick to accuse people of wrongdoing.") I don't accuse without knowing or at least having some idea of what I'm talking about.

Repost: "Illegal Alien" Is Not A Pejorative

Besides, as a descendant of illegal aliens (Julian and Aleksjondria "Alexandria" Chernetski, and their son Antoni "Anthoy" Chernetski), I have more of a stake in the matter than Geraldo Rivera. Indeed, his dad was Puerto Rican (given U.S. citizenship in 1917, and born when Puerto Rico had been a U.S. territory for 17 years), and his grandmother Tillie Krivel Friedman was a legal immigrant from her Diasporan home of Canada. What does Geraldo have to worry about? Also, while not all illegals are Mexican or otherwise Hispanic (case in point, as my great-great-grandparents were Ashkenazim Anusim), most illegals are Mexican and otherwise Hispanic. Meanwhile, the Irish were not the first illegals. Don't believe me? Search Ancestry.com-- you'll find the New York and other port manifests of plenty of Irelanders, that of my great-great-great-granddad John Thomas Farrell.

Furthermore, Sections 8 and 9 of Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution have always provided for legal immigration:

1. Section 8 - Powers of Congress
   The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excisesshall be uniform throughout the United States;
   To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
   To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
   To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States...
2. The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.

In conclusion; as a descendant of Jewish illegal immigrants who has more stake in the illegal immigration issue than the descendant of Puerto Rican Cruz Rivera and legal immigrant Tillie Krivel Friedman, I speak to Geraldo Rivera and to others to say that "illegal" and "illegal alien" are not pejoratives.

Let Me Clarify In Case You Didn't Get That...

Being a non-citizen (non-naturalized) immigrant, an even a naturalized immigrant who perjured to become naturalized makes you an illegal immigrant. As much as I love my cousin Kevin, he doesn't realize that deliberately falsifying information and/or not correcting a Census taker, manifest scribe, or other recorder is perjury-- as I explained to him, the Foskos (Kevin's and my common side) didn't do that: case in point, look at Julia Fosko Rusnak's manifest and Andrew Rusnak's naturalization record:

Compare them to these two gems from Julian Czarnecki, ne Chernetski:





Notice the differences: Julian said May 15th on one record, and November 15th on the other. By the way, Julian lied about other things on that record as well. Andrew was consistent with his records. And here's the beauty (so to speak) of it-- Julian lied on more records. For example, he gave 1876 as his birthdate here on 1877 on his World War One Draft Card.

While we're talking about Julian's perjury, let's look at the definition of perjury:

"[T]he voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing".


Julian knowingly and willfully provided false information and failed to correct mistakes of fact and any mistake related thereto. As I said, as much as I love Kevin; he and I are lucky to share a common side where perjury wasn't thought of-- for the most part, if at all, anyway (I'd have to relook at other records and see.). But at least as far as I know, any perjury that did occur wasn't related to immigration.

"Illegal Alien" Is Not A Pejorative

Besides, as a descendant of illegal aliens (Julian and Aleksjondria "Alexandria" Chernetski, and their son Antoni "Anthoy" Chernetski), I have more of a stake in the matter than Geraldo Rivera. Indeed, his dad was Puerto Rican (given U.S. citizenship in 1917, and born when Puerto Rico had been a U.S. territory for 17 years), and his grandmother Tillie Krivel Friedman was a legal immigrant from her Diasporan home of Canada. What does Geraldo have to worry about? Also, while not all illegals are Mexican or otherwise Hispanic (case in point, as my great-great-grandparents were Ashkenazim Anusim), most illegals are Mexican and otherwise Hispanic. Meanwhile, the Irish were not the first illegals. Don't believe me? Search Ancestry.com-- you'll find the New York and other port manifests of plenty of Irelanders, that of my great-great-great-granddad John Thomas Farrell.

Furthermore, Sections 8 and 9 of Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution have always provided for legal immigration:

1. Section 8 - Powers of Congress
   The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excisesshall be uniform throughout the United States;
   To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
   To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
   To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States...
2. The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.

In conclusion; as a descendant of Jewish illegal immigrants who has more stake in the illegal immigration issue than the descendant of Puerto Rican Cruz Rivera and legal immigrant Tillie Krivel Friedman, I speak to Geraldo Rivera and to others to say that "illegal" and "illegal alien" are not pejoratives.

Who Are The "Palestinians"?

I've blogged on this somewhat before, but Deuteronomy 32:21 finally (along with Romans 10:19) had click in my head that the "Palestinians" are a foolish "nation" and are not a people:

Romans 10:19

New King James Version (NKJV)

¹⁹ But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says:

“I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation,
I will move you to anger by a foolish nation.”^[a]

Footnotes:

1. Romans 10:19 Deuteronomy 32:21

I got that the Romans renamed Israel and the surrounding regions "Palestine", but I wanted to give that the Palestinians were at least partly-- if not entirely-- the Pleshetim still in existence for a long time. Masada2000.org's and others' points finally clicked with me. The "Palestinians" of 70 AD to the present never have been a people-- they have always been a mixture of Pleshetim (who were originally Cretean Yavanim) and Arabs (e.g., the Edomim and the Yishma'elim). Many "Palestinian" Arabs indeed are Christians ("I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation"), Mohamedian ("I will move you to anger by a foolish nation."), and/or stealers of Israel (e.g., the Dome of the Rock stealing the Temple Mount):

• “And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord! 
² Thus says the Lord God: “Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’”’ ³ therefore prophesy, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Because they made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and slandered by the people”... ⁵ therefore thus says the Lord God: “Surely I have spoken in My burning jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave My land to themselves as a possession, with wholehearted joy and spiteful minds, in order to plunder its open country.”’...
• ^[T]herefore thus says the Lord God: “Surely I have spoken in My burning jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave My land to themselves as a possession, with wholehearted joy and spiteful minds, in order to plunder its open country.”’ 

By the way, if Ashkenazic and other Jews weren't the real Jews, the "Palestinian" Arabs would accept us as Jews instead of try to kick us out of our land.

  

Repost: By the Way, To Begin The Discussion On Yeshua...

As I've made clear before, I believe Yeshua to be Mashiach. I do not find (for a lack of a better term) a One-in-Three, "Three In One", Pluralunity, or Trinity G-d to be in conflict with the Shema-- after all, both "Eloheinu" (from "Elohim") and "Echad" indicate plurality and unity-- e.g., "And God said: 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.'" In that context, I believe "us" to be G-d the Father, G-d the Son, and G-d the Holy Spirit. As for as P'rushi tradition, I see nothing wrong with it so long as it does not conflict with Tanakh. In the CJB Translation of the New Testament, from Romans 14: "5 One person considers some days more holy than others, while someone else regards them as being all alike. What is important is for each to be fully convinced in his own mind. 6 He who observes a day as special does so to honor the Lord. Also he who eats anything, eats to honor the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; likewise the abstainer abstains to honor the Lord, and he too gives thanks to God."