Babylon Long Island part one

The region was once called Huntington South. Nathaniel Conklin moved his family to the area, eventually calling it "New Babylon", naming it after the ancient town of Babylon around 1803. The town was officially formed in 1872 by a partition of the Town of Huntington.

 

Montauk Highway 27A is called Main Street as it runs through Babylon village with its little shops it is one of long Island's nicest places to visit.

Presbyterian Church of Babylon

 

Yorkshire puppy in the Window of one of Babylon's Main Street shops

The main intersection of the Babylon Village in Main Street 27A and Deer Park Ave

The Tidewaters Tavern on the corner of Main Street 27A and Deer Park Ave Babylon

Main Street Babylon Long Island

Route 27A

Looking down Fire Island Ave from Montauk Highway (Main Street) 27A Babylon

Movie house in Babylon with price like $8 for Adults, $7 for Seniors and $6 for Children

The Old Town Hall for Babylon Township before it was moved to Sunrise Highway (27)

The Chase Bank in Babylon Long Island

 

Main Street Route 27A Merrick Road/Montauk Highway was called South Stage Coach Road back in 18th century when George Washington toured Long Island four times, he traveled along it stopping in town like Babylon.

 

 

Photos of Amityville Long Island NY taken in 2004 of the Park Ave Schools including the oldest Park North which I believe it was built around 1898 and once served as K to 12 for the Surrounding area as far away as Seaford. The other Park Ave schools added in 1932 and being modified here in 2004. The Merrick Road High School was built opened in 1952, 
Amityville was settled around 1653, name changed from West Neck South to Amityville when incorporated on March 3 1894, at a meeting where the people were fighting over a name, when somebody called out Amity meaning let be friendly most people like the name Amityville (Friendly village) and they are still trying to live up to that name

Park North School in 1906
 I believe it was built around 1898 and once served as K to 12 for the Surrounding area as far away as Seaford

Park North School in 2004

The other Park Ave schools added in 1932 and being modified here in 2004.

 

The Merrick Road High School was built opened in 1952 for the class of 1953 of which my sister was a member

 



Walking to the bank

While I was walking to the bank I spotted what look like a big bird in the distance, when I got a little closer I saw two turkeys, one right in my path. When I walked up to it the turkey moves aside with a little garble sound and I kept on walking. A little farther down the road I passed in front of a mail truck, as I walked pass the truck the mail carrier leaned out her truck and says do you know that a turkey is following you, I look around and sure enough the turkey is right behind me, I walk a little more and the turkey is still there, now I have to cross a busy road (Rt. 112) to get to the bank, so I turn shout at the turkey to go home and it seem to get the message for she (I think it was a female) goes cross the road, I hope she went back to the other turkey that I think was a male, anyway she stop following me.   

Culture of the people or maybe not

A lot of the American people blame the government for everything that goes wrong and they are partly right, we have Republicans that some of us elected to the government, that campaigned on the fact that they hate the government. Now when you hire a plumber, do you hire a plumber that hates plumbing?  No! So the problem is not just with them, but who hired them. One of the real problems of the American government is that both Republicans and Democrats depend on the same powerful elite to get them elected and reelected.  

The easy way people not the take blame yourselves is to blame just one man, for all that goes wrong or to credit them for what goes right, but if you look at the foreign policies for the last fifty years you will see little difference between Republicans and Democrats. Why is that? I suggest that it is because War Profiteers rule the pentagon, just look at the fact that the United States has found somebody to fight since World War two and even now have a military bigger than all the other nations militaries put together.

There is a big cry about the fact we use too much oil, but why is that? Back about a hundred years ago the United States had the greatest mass transit system in the world with both rail and light rail systems crisscrossing this great country of ours. The powerful elite discovered that oil could make them big profits if they could convince the American people that what they really wanted was oil burning Automobiles. There were other types of engines including electric, but that cut into their profits for not only buying oil, but there were fewer repairs on electric car than oil burning cars therefore less profits

There are many other industries that manage the American people like puppets to improve their profits, like what food you eat, what electronics to that you like, and many more. The point is that we need to redo our entire culture, support for international police force under the United Nations paid for by all nations, not just the American taxpayer, doing away with the need for each nation having their own military. Either rebuilding the American nation’s Mass transit systems and/or develop affordable electric cars.

The thing is we cannot be a nation of individuals, but we must finally form an American Society working together to help each other through rough times, together we can make a better America              

Obama’s State of the Union 2013

Obama said that he wants to keep the largest military the world has ever seen, but cut Medicare and Social Security, Why? If the world wants a Global Police Force the every nation should pay for it, not just the American Tax payer. The trouble is that is the only part of the speech where he may get Republican votes. There is usually only about 50% of the American people who vote, there are many reasons for this, some are just too lazy and don’t care, some think it is a protest (a protest nobody notices), but many others don’t vote because they are not given anybody to vote for, when both parties take a similar positions of important issues.

There were many good parts of Obama’s speech too, most without detail like Congress passing the American Job Act, which the failed to do during Obama’s first term, Immigration Reform, Gun Control and tying the minimum wage to inflation, raising it now to $9.00 an hour. All these issues should be passed by Congress, but won’t unless the American people pressure their Congressperson and Senators to do so, make your protests heard by writing to your representatives and let them know how you feel about the issues that concern you.      

Making Killing easy

Ever since humans got big heads they started trying to find easier ways to kill either animals or each other. First spears instead of clubs then spear throwers, then bows and arrows, then the crossbows and longbows.

There have been saner voices in the past; In 1139 Pope Innocent III and the second Lateran council outlaw the crossbow as a weapon causing unacceptable devastation, of course nobody listen with the crossbow being used until the invention of the musket around 1500. The musket was the weapon of choice until the mid 19^th century when the rifle was invented just in time for the American Civil War. We invented automatic rifles and machineguns in time the First World War. We invented in the same time frame canons and bombs of all kinds including nuclear bombs that can wipeout whole cities with one bomb dropped from high in the air. We can now sit thousands of miles away eating popcorn while killing people we don’t like. We are even working on machines that will pick out who to kill, so they can’t be hacked into by the people we don’t like.

Today in the year 2013 we are still wrestling with the same question as in 1139, have we made killing too easy. We hope that someday the human race will evolve to the point where we can answer that question.   

Tribalism and protecting the tribe

If there is one common problem in just about every nation it is one tribe trying to keep their country for their tribe. It seems that people love to belong to a tribe like a religion, race or ethnic group what we all want is to belong and protect their tribe against those who we perceive want to harm our tribe, real or a managed. Mao tried to protect China against foreign influences as did Japan until Admiral Perry opened Japan to the world. Europe have had centuries of wars with one group protecting what they believe is theirs against another tribe, Russian want to keep foreigners out of Russia, The German and French see Muslims moving in from North Africa as well as workers from Eastern Europe as a threat to their tribes .   Tribal massacres in Africa in recent year have been the worst if under reported examples like Rwanda, Kenya, the Congo, Darfur, and in the Union of South Africa. North America has brought together many different tribes both in Canada and the United States both have had their troubles first against the native Americans then again any new or just different races or ethnic groups the latest against Spanish speaking people from Mexico and points south and the Muslims all have been the recent targets as we yell “take back America” from that tribe that is different from us.

          My question is given all this is it in the inherit nature of humans or a learned cultural custom that can be transferred to belonging the whole human race and protect it against ourselves?