• Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.
Police planes over Baltimore
I was born and grew up in Baltimore. Let's us speak truth to power here.
Airplanes to watch for crime down below?
Somebody managed to convince Baltimore and Maryland's elected people to hire this firm, probably included huge campaign contributions.
Airplanes flying over head, watching us. Scares the beejeesus outta me.
BALTIMORE (AP) — The city of Baltimore will be monitored by surveillance airplanes for up to six months next year under a pilot program announced Friday that is aimed at helping law enforcement investigate violent crime and that will effectively restart a tactic secretively used three years ago. The flights, which civil liberties groups oppose, will start in May and gather footage during the hours when the city experiences high rates of crime. The announcement marks a reversal for Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison, who previously expressed skepticism over the use of the planes and described the idea as an “untested” crime-fighting strategy. “We will be the first American city to use this technology in an attempt to solve and deter violent crime,” Harrison said at a news conference. He said he believes they could prove to be “yet another tool” to fight the violence plaguing the city.
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De Niro: Trump Needs To Be Humiliated, ‘I’d Like To See A Bag Of Sh*t Right In His Face’
Robert Di Niro brings nothing to the equation.
Speaking truth to power once again.
He's a good actor but only certain parts. But If I am a good bookkeeper am I worthy to speak about dropping excrement in my president's face? These people need to do their occupations and stop berating our politics. I'd be just as angry if they insisted on so publicly humiliating President Obama?
Speaking truth to power.
De Niro declared that Trump had “no good intentions.” He continued, “There has not been one thing about this person that has been redeeming, as far as I can see. Nothing. For the Republicans who have fallen in line with him, I don’t understand it. It’s a disgrace. It’s beyond a disgrace. Shame on them. Shame on all of them.” He added, “Pigs have dignity. He has no dignity. He is a disgrace to the human race.” De Niro continued, “I’d like to see a bag of shit right in his face. Hit him right in the face like that, and let the picture go all over the world.”
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Time For A Smile
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Came upon, as I surfed the net, the following three stories about New York. The first story below discovers that New York is considered the rudest city in America.
I don't know why this would surprise anyone. And no, I really do not believe that New Yorkers are born ruder than any other human being. Your genes do not take into account the city in which you are expected to be born.
The closer humans...indeed any animal....lives with others of their own kind the more protective and prone to attack they become. Every species has its own evolved living arrangement...whales live in pods...zebras travel in huge herds....and to devolve from it is to change the temperament the species was born with. Whales suddenly alone without a pod seek out another or often die off. Put a bunch of rats in a single cage and see how rude they become.
Human beings on the current hand generally are very social but not meant to live in tiny apartments with horns blaring and fear all around.
During my one and only visit to New York I thought New Yorkers need to be how they are in order to get where they need to go, to stay safe, to earn a living....to survive.
New York is the rudest city in America, survey says.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-is-the-rudest-city-in-america-survey
New Yorkers are the biggest jerks in America, according to a new survey of the rudest cities in the U.S. The Business Insider study found a whopping 34.3 percent of respondents said Big Apple inhabitants were the least friendly. That was nearly twice as much as the next highest city, Los Angeles, which 19.7 percent of the 2,000 adults surveyed online in October and November said was home to the surliest citizens in the country.
So New Yorkers have reacted to being called so rude. Some of the quotes are truthful and impressive.
New Yorkers react to being named ‘rudest city in America’
https://nypost.com/2019/12/24/f-k-off-new-yorkers-react-to-being-named-rudest-city-in-america/amp/
“Hell, yeah, everybody here’s an a–hole!” said the Floridian, who refused to give his name.
But Harlem man Sergio Villanueva, 26, suggested people in New Jersey are “much ruder” than New Yorkers.
Villanueva admitted New Yorkers can be rude, but insisted “it’s not personal.”
“Like, we don’t mean anything by it. It’s just the way we live,” he said.
“People got places to be, people to see. If I bump into you, sorry … but not really.”
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The following New York story is NOT about President Trump. It is about the famous Tammany Hall scandal, which I vaguely remember back from when they taught Civics in High School.
The First Time a Bold New Yorker Got Impeached for Taking on the Swamp
It may sound similar to the current Washington saga and House Democrats’ impeachment of President Donald Trump. But this was nearly a hundred years ago in 1913 in Albany, New York, where Gov. William Sulzer took on the Empire State’s version of the “swamp.” It was known as Tammany Hall.
Trump and John Dingell from Hell
It's been a while but dang if it ain't the silliest political spat ever.
John Dingell is dead. He was a Representative in America's House. After his death, his wife, Debbie Dingell took over his job.
President Trump was at a rally and let us note here that Debbie Dingell voted to impeach Trump and was out and about and bashing Trump every chance she had. Of course she was not alone. Plenty of people bashed Trump during the time of impeachment.
But as is Trump's way, he fights back. He said something referring to Debbie Dingell's husband being dead and looking down from heaven.
"Or maybe he's looking up," Trump said, inferring he's checking in from hell.
My my, the humorless liberals went nuts. Debbie Dingell, who ought to win an academy award, sobbed as here she is a widow and it don't matter what nastiness she said about Trump, it was mean of him to fight back.
Come on people. He wasn't necessarily referring to John Dingell as being in hell. Trump probably would have said that snarky joke about anybody, especially anybody who voted to unfairly impeach me.
They have no sense of humor. Liberals....miserable creatures, so very sad.
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Pelosi won't turn over impeachment papers
At the time of this writing this will probably be old, old news. As of this writing nobody quite understands why she doesn't give the impeachment charges from the House of Representatives to the Senate so that that body can remove him from office.
It's how it is delineated in the constitution.
My guess is that she knows this was an awful idea and it will cost the Democrats dearly.
And for sure the Senate would call Hunter Biden to testify and goodness, we can't have that.
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The finger game
Frankly I think the idea of doing that circle during a televised display during a ceremony at West Point was quite dumb.
But even dumber was how all of a sudden the Twitter air waves were filled with nut jobs accusing the cadets of using the gesture that, so the nut jobs say, was a hate symbol of "white power".
It was no such thing.
Still, it was not appropriate to put on television and those cadets were dumb to do it.
The "OK" hand gesture only recently emerged as a "white power" symbol, stemming from a hoax by members of the website 4chan to "falsely promote the gesture as a hate symbol, claiming that the gesture represented the letters 'wp,' for 'white power,'" according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
An internal investigation by the U.S. Military Academy found that the students were not flashing a white power symbol but were rather playing a game, popular with teenagers, called "the circle game," in which a person makes a circle with their hands and holds it below their waist, in an effort to get another person to look, a West Point statement said Friday.
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Pelosi invites Trump to deliver State of the Union address on Feb. 4
As of this writing, there's no sign if President Trump accepted.
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Space Force
I think the idea of having a Space Force to be cooler than cool.
Indeed we do have satellites all over the skies, the Chinese look to the heavens with dreams of running earth from space, we regularly send up exploratory vehicles leaving astronauts in some danger.
And imagine the movies! A REAL Star Wars. Space soldiers!
Cool. Made official this week by President Trump.
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Time for a Giggle
