The governors of New York and New Jersey, defying
the unanimous votes of both their Legislatures, on Saturday rejected a bill
aimed at curbing political interference and patronage at the Port Authority of New York and New
Jersey, more than a year after lane closings on the George Washington Bridge
set off a scandal that looms over the agency to this day.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, a Democrat, announced the
veto of the bill just hours before a midnight deadline and in the face of an
almost unheard-of bipartisan support.
Because
the authority is governed by both New York and New Jersey, approval is needed
by both legislatures to make changes in its structure and operations, on
Saturday night, the anger at the governors’ rejection of the bill was felt on
both sides of the Hudson River.
“It’s appalling and disappointing,” said
Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle, a Democrat of Bergen County, N.J., who
sponsored the bill in Trenton. “Today’s actions clearly demonstrate both
governors want to continue the same old scandalous problems at the Port
Authority.”
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Anonymous Koch Brothers Supporter Attacks This Cultural Christian’s Religious Freedom
Any long
term reading of this blog has a sense of who and what I am about. I am
A-religionist – without religion and or dogma in any formal sense. In other
words, my place of worship of the divine is not listed in any “yellow pages”
(an obsolete term?).
Following
this blog you will know how I have painstakingly tried to deprogram myself from
twelve years of Roman Catholic brainwashing from my youth.
As a tangent
to that, I have been very active in blogging about the secret buggering cult of
the RC priesthood and especially that of my native Philly and all the recent
four archbishops there and their ambitions first, rather than truth and justice.
BTW the
parish I grew up in and the high school there are now defunct. They are in the inner
city and the RC church in Philly no longer seems to administer to the poor in terms of material or spiritual needs, that is if you have a zero balance in your
check books or a poor credit rating on the new Global Corporate (Dehumanized) Spreadsheet.
Another of
my support blog articles are for the civil rights of the LGBT community and their
struggle for basic human freedom and human rights in the United States. This in
solidarity with friends and family members over the years that have not had
these basic rights.
Aside for my
religious beliefs and or non-beliefs, the essence of my spiritual and or
soulful sense is expressed here especially when the new right wing GOP “Christian”
religion with it hate and bigotry and economic inequality are touted on the public
stage by public figures and or their stooges – touted as something Jesus taught
– which he did not.
This
Cultural Christian tries to adhere the basic notion of the Love thy Neighbor
and try to Care for you Neighbor teachings of Jesus who IMHO was only human in
a supreme evolutionary sense but definitely not a divine being and unlike the
Emperor /god /saint /general Constantine, the founder of the Roman Pagan Army “Christian”
Faith.
Also, in
this blog, I have illustrated other faiths as part of trying to piece together
the pieces of the puzzle of a new global culture emerging in a new global town
square sphere of cultural consensus.
So, I was mildly annoyed yesterday when someone hiding behind the “anonymous” label
attacks me for my simple asking of the question – “What is the Koch Brothers
religion?” – it is a question that is not be found on the Internet – an idea
and or fact vetted out of the equation of discussion with John Birch shadowy
Cult Figures who peddle right wing influence in this country to the detriment
of the common good IMO.
Anonymous
said...
Have you
ever read your screeds. You come across as one dumb fucker, who is jealous of
other people's money. Stupid shit. Rabble rousing crap. Lazy fool. They give
more to the poor than you'll every know. You, on the other hand, deserve only scorn.
December 29,
2014 at 3:05 PM
So if commenter 7, “Anonymous
3:05 PM” from December 29, does wants to man up or woman up and put
their name on their slurs against my practice of both First Amendment Rights of
free speech and religious freedom, so be it.
But can you
imagine the impact on American History if phrases like “Give me liberty or give
me death!” were in the final analysis attributed only to “AnonymousVA1775” – LOL
I woke up
this morning remembering the slimy shot for Anon305 which brings me to the fact
that I have checked this before and with my “What religion is the Koch Brothers?” article I have close to six thousand hits and it does not (strangely, oddly) show up on my top ten blog
items of all time.
I know that
Google which I believe controls my blog stats is always changing around the so-called screening algorithm that decides what gets choice place on Google Searches. I did
not know that perhaps sensitive comments about John Birch Cult Leaders could be
buried in terms of stats and not appear on blog stats published to me by
Google???
…between my
Pat Roberson white trash Green Bean Holiday Casserole Recipe and Quaker Cross –
A Symbol For Compassion blog articles listed as 6320 and 5759 hits respectively on that inaccurate
Google Top Ten Blog all-time list sent to me everyday.
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Monday, December 29, 2014
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Italian Governors Cuomo (NY) and Christie (NJ) Vow to Protect Corruption and Cronyism at NY-NJ Port Authority
Canadian Born out of Wedlock (bastard) of the Year 2014 - Ted Cruz
Which leaves
us with the question – Was Ted’s Mom legally married to Rafael Cruz Sr. on December 22,
1970?
How long was
Eleanor Darragh Wilson in Canada prior to Ted’s birth?
Was the
reason for a quick trip to Calgary the means to get what looks like a
legitimate birth certificate.
Anglos and
Hispanics have entirely different points of view on legitimacy. Being born out
of wedlock is more an English common law term that recognizes DNA connection
but probably denies a claim on the father’s estates and titles etc.
That in many
Hispanic cultures, if your supposed biological father puts his name on your
birth certificate, you have a father (period.).
GOP Bugger (Bugeye) of the Year 2014 – Mitch McConnell
Hide your Kids, dogs and cats…and turtles too!
McConnell
delivered a red meat speech to the conservative activists, pummeling President
Obama and Democrats for having done “next to nothing for the little guy,”
failing working families, and flaunting the Constitution.
“The
president of the United States is treating our Constitution worse than a
placemat at Denny’s,” McConnell said.
He ended
with a pledge to live up to conservatives’ expectations if he is re-elected to
the Senate and the Republicans take control of the chamber.
“If I’m
given the opportunity to lead the U.S. Senate next year, I won’t let you down,”
McConnell said.
Falling Down Drunk of the Year 2014 – John Boehner (Used Car Salesman)
John Boehner
and his tea party cohorts buoyed by the billions of dollars from the Koch
brothers and the worst Supreme Court decision in history (or 2nd worst) are on
the brink of shutting the great American experiment in self-government down.
They no longer have to depend on you for campaign money and we already know
that voting machines are very open to hacking. This has been proven over and
over. Throw in laws aimed at stopping Democrats from voting and districts so
gerrymandered that they almost can’t lose and you have a group that has no
reason to do what voters want, because they really barely need them.
Friday, December 26, 2014
FOX NEWS Baltimore Manufactures “Kill A Cop” Incitement on Rupert Murdock, Roger Ailes Racist Propaganda Network
What you are hearing there is a protester in Washington, D.C. shout the following chant:
We can't stop!
We won't stop!
'til killer cops are in cell blocks!
Turned into this racist incitement to violence:
We can't stop!
We won't stop!
So kill a cop!
By cutting away from the video mid-chant, FOX's segment paints protestors as explicitly calling for the murder of police. They've depicted a non-violent protest about accountability for police brutality as a bloodthirsty mob.
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Sunday, December 21, 2014
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Splainin Staten Island to a Stranger – Eric Garner’s Turf
Eric Garner Death Site - Bay Street Google Street Map |
It is hard
sometimes to explain Staten Island to strangers. The area where Eric Garner was
brought down to keep the streets clean of poor people selling loosie cigarettes
or joints is a seedy area about three blocks from the Staten Island Ferry and
Borough Hall.
Downtown
Staten Island if you can call it that is a bunch of public buildings, small
businesses, a Technical High School, an academic High School, courts, all up against the
side of a hill, small mountain, steep as any street in San Francisco.
It is an
area of high foot traffic during the day from those various high schools and courts. The
Ferry building itself is a major transportation hub, the primary one, and
second to that is first stop away from that transportation hub to areas south
and west along Bay Street, the main coastal road to the Verrazano Bridge and
Victory Blvd (the old Philadelphia Pike) - where Eric Garner was hanging out in his local free lance business activities.
Eric Garner
was hanging around a seedy urban strip mall with hair dressing shops, fast
food, Gypsy Cab Co., etc. and the center of activity across the Tompkinsville
Park.
This used to be the center of an
old forgotten Victorian era town when Staten Island was still mostly farmland and small burb towns until 1964 and the opening of the Verrazano Bridge. Even
though looking seedy and having the feeling of a slum, the average house in this neighborhood,
probably an old wood frame shingled house is $400-500K among the many apartment
buildings. Location. Location. Location.
Across the
park is the local Welfare and Food Stamp Office for the Borough in an old car dealership
building on Bay Street.
Victory Blvd. Off Bay Street - Tomkinsville Park - Bus Stop Google Street Map |
A whole lot
of activity during the day all about. And a lot of police in police cars
patrolling from the nearby 20th Precinct Building on Richmond Terrace
– same street – Bay street with Borough Hall (local City Hall - Marriage Licenses, building permits etc.) at the Ferry Terminal the dividing line on
that main coastal road on the North Shore of Staten Island.
An area you might walk through if you want to, safe enough, but after 5 PM you don’t want to walk around the area.
A lot of
police and firemen live in Staten Island. No indictment was possible on this Police home turf in their burbs and $700K+ houses beyond this coastal slum town by the
Ferry.
Pan Around
per Google from Eric Garner’s run in with the former mayor’s policy to sweep
all poor people off the streets from 9 to 5 in this local hub of public
buildings and government functions.
Google Street - 360 degree View:
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