Sunday, February 9, 2014

“Faked” Jim Bridenstine Execution You Tube Tape Circulating in the Far Left Meme Creation World?





The far left sad to say appears to be circulating a faked voiced over You Tube tape of some woman offstage at an undisclosed, unidentified Town Hall Meeting suggesting the assassination of President Obama with Congressman Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma not blinking an eye at the suggestion. The You Tube “transcript” robot translations for the woman’s apparent added(?) “voiceover” from 0:22 to 1:06 of the woman - Voiceover does not match the transcript.







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did nothing that legally allows it
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As opposed to this translation below.


Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., laughed when one of his constituents told him that President Barack Obama “should be executed as an enemy combatant” during a town hall meeting in January. 
 Bridenstine was in the process of telling the meeting that legalization of drugs is only creating more crime in America, when a woman he called on derailed the discussion. 
 “Go ahead,” he told the woman, who’s face is not visible in the video. 
 “I want to ask you about Obama. He’s not president as far as I’m concerned. He should be executed as an enemy combatant, really,” she said. “But the Muslims that he is shipping into our country through pilots in commercial jets. What … I can’t tell you, I can’t say because we’re in a public place that this guy is a criminal. Nobody stopping him.” 
 “And the other thing is too, with Congress doing nothing, that legally allows this moron to make decisions,” she continued. “He has no authority! None!” 
 “Look,” said Bridenstine, “everybody knows the lawlessness of this president. He picks and chooses which laws he’s going to enforce or not enforce. He does it by decree. When he can’t create a law through Congress, then he uses the – bureaucracies in the executive branch … When he can’t even get that done, then he uses foreign bodies.”

Thursday, February 6, 2014

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong – Corporate “Dick” of the Year Award!




This clown CEO of a Model T Internet Server – Yes AOL is still in in business. He does the self-insured thing on HealthCare for the employees. Two “females” have difficult births. Two Million in costs and guess what (?) – Management takes the cost overrun out of the other employees 401K funds and their payouts.  Whatever.  (401Ks BTW – Business’ convenient slush funds)

How do you spell "whalebone corset"?


“We had two AOL-ers that had distressed babies that were born that we paid a million dollars each to make sure those babies were OK in general,” Armstrong said. “And those are the things that add up into our benefits cost. So when we had the final decision about what benefits to cut because of the increased healthcare costs, we made the decision, and I made the decision, to basically change the 401(k) plan.” Under the new program, AOL employees will not be able to collect any matching funds toward their retirement savings from the company for any given year if they leave before Dec. 31 of that year.

But health care experts ThinkProgress contacted questioned why a large self-insured company with more than 5,000 employees could not absorb the additional health care costs associated with the pregnancies. Large employers typically purchase reinsurance, which could cover a substantial share of big claims and ensure stability in cases of larger-than expected medical payouts.

“The Affordable Care Act is simply a convenient whipping boy for any decision an employer makes to cut benefits,” Tim Jost, a law professor at Washington and Lee, said. “Assuming AOL had reasonably generous coverage like most large employers, it should not have experienced any significant changes in its benefit structure for 2014. Perhaps it had to pick up a few more employees that had not been covered before or reduce premiums for a few employees, but it is hard to see $7.1 million here.”




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Camels Used as Transport Disputes Passages in the Old - Hebrew - Testament




Carbon Dating of domesticated camel bones in Palestine suggests, supports the current academic flavor of the month theory that the Old Testament took official form around the dates of the so-called Babylonian Captivity, another story in the Hebrew Story Book, 600 BCE (before the common era) or 900 BCR (Before Constantine’s Religion).


Archaeologists from Israel’s top university have used radiocarbon dating to pinpoint the arrival of domestic camels in the Middle East -- and they say the science directly contradicts the Bible’s version of events. 
 Camels are mentioned as pack animals in the biblical stories of Abraham, Joseph and Jacob, Old Testament stories that historians peg to between 2000 and 1500 BC. But Erez Ben-Yosef and Lidar Sapir-Hen of Tel Aviv University's Department of Archaeology and Near Eastern Cultures say camels weren’t domesticated in Israel until centuries later, more like 900 BC.



Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Koch Brothers Circle Jerk Against America Club Meets in Palm Springs - With Mean Non-Union Papa John's Pizza Served




Mother Jones ran in to a list of a secret handshake members only circle jerk club meeting recently between the Koch Boys (wink, nod) and some of these other Guys (wink, nod) in Palm Springs. LOL


The document lists VIP donors—including John Schnatter, the founder of the Papa John's pizza chain—who were scheduled for one-on-one meetings with representatives of the political, corporate, and philanthropic wings of Kochworld. The one-page document, provided to Mother Jones by a hotel guest who discovered it, offers a fascinating glimpse into the Kochs' political machine and shows how closely intertwined it is with Koch Industries, their $115 billion conglomerate.

The more than 40 donors courted by the Kochs include hedge fund and private-equity billionaires, real estate tycoons, and executives of top corporations, including Jockey International and TRT Holdings, owner of Omni Hotels and Gold's Gym. A number of them have never been identified as members of the Koch donor network, including Schnatter, one of the more prominent names on the list. An outspoken opponent of the Affordable Care Act, he is a longtime Republican donor who hosted a fundraiser for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. The document notes that the pizza mogul was scheduled to meet with Ryan Stowers, the director of higher education at the Charles G. Koch Foundation. (Schnatter did not respond to requests for comment.)


"DONORS"

Carl Berg: Ranking No. 308 on the Forbes 400, Berg is a Silicon Valley real estate titan with an estimated fortune of $1.1 billion.
Ronnie Cameron: He runs agribusiness giant Mountaire Corporation. During a meeting of the Kochs' donor network in 2011, Charles Koch recognized Cameron (and other donors) for donating at least $1 million to their cause.
Charles Chandler: Based in the Kochs' hometown of Wichita, Kansas, Chandler is the CEO of Intrust Bank.
John Childs: He runs the Boston-based private equity firm J.W. Childs & Associates.
Jamie Coulter: Haling from Wichita, Coulter is the former CEO of the Lone Star Steakhouse and Saloon restaurant chain.
Bob and Steve Fettig: The Fettigs run the metal fabrication company Tankcraft, based in Darien, Wisconsin. Steve is the company's CFO; Bob is CEO.
Richard and Leslie Gilliam: Richard founded Virginia-based coal mining company Cumberland Resources Corporation, which he sold to Massey Energy for nearly a billion dollars in 2010.
Ken Griffin: A major conservative donor, the Chicago-based businessman founded the hedge fund Citadel and is worth an estimated $4.4 billion.  
John Griffin: He's the founder of Blue Ridge Capital, a New York hedge fund. 
Dick Haworth: He's the chairman emeritus of Holland, Michigan-based office furniture company Haworth.
Richard "Ric" Kayne: He's the founder and chairman of Los Angeles-based investment firm Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors.
Dan Kirby: He's president of Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based Kirby Financial. 
Fred Klipsch: He's the chairman of Klipsch Group, a speaker and headphone manufacturer.
Frank Kozel: He's the principal of Pittsburgh-based Keystone Energy Oil & Gas Inc.
Francis "Franc" Lee: He's the president and CEO of Flowood, Mississippi-based lender First Tower, LLC. 
Robert "Bob" Luddy: He's president of CativeAire Systems Inc. in Raleigh, North Carolina. 
Hugh Maclellan: He's the executive chairman of Chattanooga, Tennessee's Maclellan Foundation, which make grants to Christian causes. 
Cecil O'Brate: He's the CEO of Garden City, Kansas-based Palmer Manufacturing & Tank.
Verl Purdy: He's the chairman and CEO of Charlotte, North Carolina-based AGDATA Inc.
Tom Rastin: He's a director and vice chairman of the Mount Vernon, Ohio-based Ariel Foundation, started by his wife, Karen Buchwald Wright, the CEO of Ariel Corporation. Rastin is the company's vice president of engineering, sales, and marketing.
George Records: A member of the Hoover Institution's board of overseers, Records is the retired chairman of Oklahoma City's Midland Group. 
Robert Rowling: Ranking No. 93 on the Forbes 400 with an estimated fortune of $4.9 billion, Rowling is the cofounder of TRT Holdings, which owns Gold's Gym and Omni Hotels. 
John Schnatter: He's the founder and CEO of Papa John's International. 
Tina and Craig Snider: They are the children of Ed Snider, a founding contributor of the Ayn Rand Institute and chairman of Comcast Spectacor, a sports and entertainment company that owns the Philadelphia Flyers. 
Dian Stai: Based in Texas, Stai cofounded Owen Healthcare Inc. with her late husband. She's a top conservative donor who gave $125,000 to the pro-Mitt Romney super-PAC Restore Our Future during the 2012 election cycle.
Jim Stephenson: He's the president and CEO of Georgia-based Yancey Bros. Co., "which provides Caterpillar, AGCO, and Blue Bird Bus Co. products and services throughout the state of Georgia." Stephenson is also an Americans for Prosperity board member.
Jim Von Ehr: He's the CEO and founder of Richardson, Texas-based Zyvex Labs
Debra Waller: Since 2001, she's been the chairman and CEO of Jockey International Inc. 
Lew Ward: He's the founder of Oklahoma-based Ward Petroleum Corporation. 
Dick Weiss: He's the Core Equity senior portfolio manager at Wells Capital Management.
Karen Wright: She's the founder and CEO of the Ariel Foundation, a private philanthropy group based in Mount Vernon, Ohio. She's also CEO of the Ariel Corporation, a natural gas compression company.
*Mother Jones was unable to confirm the identities of some donors on the list, including Steve Clark, Paul Foster, George Gibbs, George Jenkins, Jerry Hayden, Kent McCarthy, Andrew Miller, Ted Saunders, Tom Smith, Jaime Snider, and Dean Williams.

"PLAYERS" 
Charles Koch: He's the chairman and CEO of Koch Industries.
David Koch: He's Koch Industries' executive vice president and a board member.
Michael Lanzara: A former director for special projects at Koch Companies Public Sector, Lanzara now works for Freedom Partners.
Steve Feilmeier: He's chief financial officer and executive vice president of Koch Industries. 
Kevin Gentry: A vice president at Koch Companies Public Sector, Gentry is the Koch brothers' top fundraiser. He also serves on the board of Freedom Partners.
Jeff Noble: A former senior development associate at Koch Companies Public Sector, Noble currently works for Freedom Partners.
Tim Phillips: He's the president of Americans for Prosperity, the political advocacy group founded by the Koch brothers and Richard Fink.
Chris Fink: He's Americans for Prosperity's vice president of development and the son of Richard Fink.
Teresa Oelke: She's Americans for Prosperity's vice president for state operations.
David Fladeboe: He's the state director for Americans for Prosperity-Wisconsin.
Brett Hinkey: A former senior development associate at Koch Companies Public Sector, Hinkey now works for Freedom Partners.
Daniel Garza: He's the executive director of the Libre Initiative, a Koch-funded nonprofit focused on Hispanic outreach. 
Chase Koch: He's Charles' son and the president of Koch Fertilizer.
Richard Fink: He's the chairman and CEO of Koch Companies Public Sector and a board member of Koch Industries. A founder of the Mercatus Center and Americans for Prosperity, Fink is the Koch' top strategist and political adviser. 
Ryan Stowers: He's the director for higher education at the Charles G. Koch Foundation.
Brian Hooks: He's the executive director and chief operating officer of the Mercatus Center. 
Marc Short: Short heads Freedom Partners, the centerpiece of the Koch brothers' political operation. Short is a former chief of staff of the House Republican Conference. 
Scott Hagerstrom: He's the state director of Americans for Prosperity-Michigan.
Jennifer Stefano: She's the state director for Americans for Prosperity-Pennsylvania.
Tommy Von der Heydt: He's a former regional development officer for Americans for Prosperity. 
Corey Lewandowski: He's the East Coast regional director for Americans for Prosperity.
Slade O'Brien: He's state director of Americans for Prosperity-Florida.
John Hardin: He's a program manager at the Charles G. Koch Foundation. 
Michael Palmer: He is the president of i360, which bills itself as the "leading data and technology resource for the pro-free-market political and advocacy community." Palmer's firm has worked closely with the Kochs' voter microtargeting operation, Themis
Derek Johnson: He's a program officer for higher education at the Charles G. Koch Foundation.
Nathan Nascimento: He's an employee of Freedom Partners.
James Davis: He's the vice president of strategic communications at Freedom Partners.
Luke Hilgemann: He's Americans for Prosperity's chief operating officer.


Vatican a Possible Renegade State - Sanctions Needed like with Iran and North Korea to Alleviate Ongoing Child Abuse Mismanagement and Crimes - Part of New Axis of Evil?





The UN has called on the Vatican to "immediately remove" all clergy who are known or suspected child abusers. 
 It denounced the Holy See for adopting policies which allowed priests to sexually abuse thousands of children, and criticised its attitudes towards homosexuality, contraception and abortion. 
 The Vatican responded by saying it would examine the report - but also accused its authors of interference.





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Mayor de Blasio to Boycott New York's Bigoted St. Patrick's Day Parade






Mayor de Blasio breaks tradition, boycotts St. Patrick's Day Parade over gay-pride ban

The St. Patrick's Day Parade does not ban gays from participating in the parade, but it does not allow them to identify themselves by their sexual orientation. De Blasio says he disagress with that policy.






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Pussy Riot on Stephen Colbert – Feb 4, 2014





“We have different ideas of a bright future (for Russia) and we don’t want a shirtless man leading us into that future.” ~~ Pussy Riot - Stephen Colbert Show - February 4, 2014

"У нас есть разные представления о светлом будущем (для России), и мы не хотим без рубашки человек ведет нас в этом будущем." ~~ влагалища бунт - Стивен Колберт шоу - 4 февраля 2014


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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Head of the Church of England Queen Elizabeth to Grant Audience to Pope


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In a short statement, the palace said: "The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, will visit Rome on Thursday 3 April. 

 "Her Majesty and His Royal Highness are visiting at the invitation of the president of Italy, President Napolitano. 

 "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will visit the presidential palace where they will attend a private lunch hosted by the president. 

 "Following the private lunch Her Majesty and His Royal Highness will have an audience with His Holiness Pope Francis at the Vatican."



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Monday, February 3, 2014

Gov. Christie Bodyguard Busted on January 8 For Stealing Ammo




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A New Jersey state trooper assigned to Gov. Chris Christie's protective detail was arrested for theft at the Cabela's in Berks County last month, police said.

The (Bergen) Record is reporting that Trooper William A. Carvounis, 35, was arrested Jan. 8 for allegedly stealing $267 worth of ammunition from the outdoors retailer, located at the junction of Interstate 78 and Route 61 in Tilden Township.

When he was arrested, Carvounis asked police for a break, Tilden Township Police Chief William McElroy told The Record.

"We don't do that," McElroy said.






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Michael Grimm Spoof - SNL - Melissa McCarthy







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Coca Cola Ad - Super Bowl 2014 - America the Diverse - and Beautiful









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Woody Allen and All Those Nasty Unmentionable in the Media “Child Abuse” Allegations Come to Light Again




Before some of these “Hollywood Menagerie” families that seem to grab the media attention of modern terms, there was that floating kind of thing over twenty years ago as the “Nuclear” (?) “Extended” Woody Allen – Mia Farrow breakup and or “Marital” meltdown in Manhattan Family Court in the early 1990s.

That people like Madonna raised a social consciousness of poor third world babies worthy of adoption led to others in the Hollywood Hierarchy, notably the Brad Pitt – Angeline Jolie “Marital” alliance with a family of all adopted types of children to make one big “Morphed” family. 

The definitions of Nuclear or Extended Families are stretched or obsolete in modern light. And wondering the motives of the unmarried Jolie-Pitt “Marital” alliance one sees that diversity negates a childhood of Angeline at least of the life as a child of notorious actor father and racial redneck bigot Jon Voight.

That aside, back to the Woody Allen Menagerie family of children, adopted, step, natural etc. of the early 1990s under the financial umbrella of famous rich parents not married, came rumblings of rumors of Woody Allen’s possible misuse of the sexual privacy of his children and their being possibly abused.

In the Family Court, marriage was not dissolved so much as the merger of finances, child support, custody, visitation etc. were being disconnected and realigned with of course "the best interests" of the children concerned.

And the Allen-Farrow “divorce” was being handled in the New York Media Market full of PR, publicists, and Hollywood handlers.

I do remember that the proceeding of the Allen-Farrow Demerger in the Family Court got handled in the rich people’s family court where the rich and famous do not have to sit for hours in the Regular Manhattan Family Court with the little people, the welfare people etc. in terms of divorce, visitation, child support and custody which is the meat and potatoes of that court. 

That the hideous looming concrete architectural monster, with architecture awards, was in the middle of its first of one or two or three major redo-s, re-fabs of a building that should have been torn down considering the years of scaffolding outside and inside creating a surreal web work of a strange mixed sci-fi like territory of family justice in Manhattan.

That the Woody Allen and Mia Farrow paid a "fee" to be treated differently than the "regular" family court, and sat with an appointment with a Family Court Judge in some other building after hours, to work out the details of finance, support, custody and visitation of a modern extended, perhaps Menagerie media type family.

That allegations of spousal abuse or spousal abandonment is the primary language of divorce and such. That Ms. Farrow's past accusations about her adopted children are nothing new in the press.

That allegations of parents abusing children are taken care of in turn by court related bureaucrats in direct or outsourced government investigations.  

And in case you are wondering, unless there is a smoking gun with photos, accusations of abuse of children usually are documented and little else done in a twisted almost obscene place built more for the guaranteed employment of lawyers and judges, bureaucrats and their pensions than for the true welfare of any abused child and or children.

That it is not surprising that it took decades for the Child Abuse problem in the RC Church to come to light, let alone be dealt with etc. Yet to be fully dealt with?

That there are extraordinary parallels illustrated here on how large Secular institutions treat allegations of sexual abuse in similar fashion to Religious interests, and in that the institution comes first because of its functions and only secondly in terms of considerations of other things, human things, namely children. 

That is no surprise that one of Woody Allen’s adopted children is now coming out in public to air the family’s dirty laundry that has taken a back seat to Woody Allen’s Fame, lawyers and publicists for the past many decades.

I do not want to say much further, take sides etc., except to say that it is not surprising to me that more famous children of famous people have not sought a public forum to try and heal old seemingly unhealable sexual abuse wounds.




Manhattan Family Court in the Time of the Allen-Farrow Marital Demerger

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Saturday, February 1, 2014

Bill Donohue May be Planning a Change of Career by Re-Defining Francis-ism and Defending the Rich


Francis and Anti-Francis


Bill Donohue of Catholic League fame is wearing other hats lately, becoming a neocon pundit opinionator over at NewsMax, that Internet telemarketing newsletter founded by Christopher Ruddy, the “journalist” that broke the story of Hillary murdering Vince Foster etc. (Sitll waiting for a Pultizer on that one Chris?)

Bill is free to let his hair down and freely mix “religion” with fascism at Rent by the Line NewsMax?

I guess if Bill needs to change his tax code filing status on a dime, from Catholic Defender to Justa Nutter NeoCon Cheerleader, he will be ready to switch the assets from one off shore account to another. Whatever.

Below in that transition phase before Pope Francis catches up to him by name, Donohue is defending the RICH, RICH, RICH. Are there any other people worth mentioning or fawning over. 

Right Bill?


  
When Pope Francis speaks about our "throwaway" abortion culture, or comments on marriage as a union between a man and a woman, he wins no points from those on the left. 
 But when he speaks about income inequality, he is praised by the likes of President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. However, these three men are not speaking from the same page. What is driving Obama and de Blasio is envy; what is driving the Pope is justice. The Catholic Church considers envy to be one of the seven capital sins. It is not identical to jealousy. The jealous want what others have; the envious want to deprive others of what they have. 
 The Austrian-German sociologist, Helmut Schoeck, contended that envy was inherent in human nature and had to be contained. He credited the Catholic Church for taming envy, saying it played a decisive role in the advancement of civilization. But it had a way of springing back with a vengeance, especially in the hands of left-wing politicians.  
 Schoeck's book, "Envy: A Theory of Social Behaviour," released in the 1960s, was a clarion call against the exploitation of envy for political ends. "The time has surely come when we should stop behaving as though envious man was the main criterion for economic and social policy," he said.   
 Pope Francis wants the rich to use their skills to help the poor; he is not baiting the masses to demand that the rich pay more in taxes so that they can pay less. It's the difference between a genuine interest in helping the needy, and soaking the rich.


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You Got It - Roy Orbison








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Friday, January 31, 2014

North American Intervention Needed? – A-Rod, Bieber, Ford, Grimm





This is a rather tight around Toronto, (Canada, that other nearby place), and New York kind of intervention.

I am doing it in reaction to my own ranting and raving about these Media Idol Idiots. All of whom seem to be addicted to one sort of drug(s) or another.

That I was taken back by the remarks of an Internet “friend” that suggested that U.S. Congressman Michael Grimm’s threats to a media reporter were more likely attributable to that of the use of drugs / steroids, that of a “roid on a rage”, than that of any homophobic energy.

That these idiots, A-Rod, Bieber, Ford, Grimm are in desperate need of an Intervention.


That I dare mention this forbidden topic?



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Happy Chinese New Year - Year of the Horse






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Thursday, January 30, 2014

The End of Michael Grimm’s Career in the House of Representatives ? Homophobia or Mere Lack of Social Skills ???


Scotto and Grimm - Man and Super (GOP) Man?
Bully in the House?


The logical next job for Michael Grimm will be at the corrupt Port Authority of New York and New Jersey at one of those infamous many no-show $200K a year jobs, bones, rewards for doing the dirty for the power brokers around the Port of New York and New Jersey.

I see that recently, they put a limit on business that would go into Mariner Harbor’s Port Ivory facility in Staten Island, Grimm’s home base. 

I am sure there is one of those angry Letters to the Editor kind of things posted on Grimm’s website to the Port Authority, letters of feigned outrage that so many possible jobs there will be defaulted over to the Soprano state other end of NYC area shipping in Newark.

If you live in Staten Island, and want to get into Manhattan proper of NYC via Brooklyn, it is $13 dollar toll on the Verrazano, a piece of crap bridge built by Donald Trump’s father, on the cheap, no walkway for pedestrians etc., just a throughway from Jersey to Brooklyn/Manhattan/Long Island.

If you want to shop in Jersey at Sam’s Club or get a better price on gasoline or liquor from Staten Island, it is $13 toll on the three ancient ready to fall down bridges that connect Staten Island to New Jersey. (Like what do they do with $13 round trip tolls like build new bridges or build Port Authority owned billion dollar office towers in downtown NYC?)

There are of course “resident” discounts on the bridge for regular Staten Island commuters with E-Z Pass, the electronic thing in your car window that automatically deducts from you credit card every time you cross a bridge or go through a tunnel.

With all the traffic on bridges, the business of shipping in the Port, Michael Grimm is not on any transportation committee but his expertise from being a so-called FBI undercover agent on Wall Street is financials. I wonder how may nickel and dime "Penny Stock" brokers Grimm's undercover work brought to "Justice"? No big bankers or brokers for sure. Too big to prosecute.

His joint bill, Grimm/Lautenberg in the House/Senate proposed legislation to have the Federal Government monitor and approve Toll Increases in NYC, it was a dead in the water bill from day one, filler for the congressional newsletter. Look at what I say I am (not) doing for the people of my district. Yeah right. Etc.

Which leaves us with a Representative’s overcharge of Testosterone on a NY1 News Reporter in a Capitol office building with a fancy show balcony that is usually used for photo ops by the media with various members of the Congress.

The NY1 news station is channel One on the Time Warner Cable package, one of several available to customers in the NYC market.  It is almost a non-news show with what is mostly repeated from mainstream items and the usual local clips, pictures of schools, school children from Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten Island every couple of hours to appear relevant in an academic sense. 

You do not get breaking lead news from NY1. So in a sense Reporter Michael Scotto I doubt makes 50K a year in a faux cable news business.

So it would seem unusual for Michael Scotto to bait Michael Grimm with a question about a long standing on hold “ethics” matter, on automatic hold in the Republican controlled House. Wink. Nod.

And Michael Grimm has a good ole boy cowboy reputation in the GOP. The kinda a guy still locked in eternal High School manhood and not knowing jack shit about love, sex or lady parts etc.

Mike no doubt was with a mixed group including Democrats when he peed in the Galilee Sea in Israel on some paid for by taxpayer fact finding jucket etc. and rumored to be skinnydipping with the boys, "real men" of the GOP and Dem parties. LOL

Which makes me think that Michael Scotto, the cable reporter was possibly getting a pound of flesh out of a probably love hate relationship of media sound bites where on more than one occasional no doubt Testosterone Mike let Michael Scotto know his place in the feeding chain of life in that it is no secret that Scotto is openly gay. Whatever.

It is well known among people who know and work with him that Scotto is gay. “Within the station community it’s pretty well known,” one colleague told Gawker. The 35-year-old political reporter didn’t ask Grimm about anything pertaining to sexuality, so it’s unclear, based only on the video, why Grimm issued a series of insults aimed at questioning Scotto’s masculinity—a common weapon of homophobes seeking to torment and marginalize gay men.

And the point here was to torment Scotto. “You’re not man enough,” Grimm seethes. “You’re not man enough.” And embarrass him, too. You can’t see it in the video, but his colleagues and other reporters were watching the entire thing from a few feet away.

We don’t know whether Grimm was aware of Scotto’s sexuality, and his office didn’t acknowledge our repeated attempts to contact the congressman. The men know each well enough, though. “He and Congressman Grimm have worked together professionally for a while,” NY1’s Washington bureau chief Jennifer Babich told Gawker. “But this is the first time [Grimm has] said anything like this.” (Babich added that the men “have had several interviews” together.) At the very least, they were known quantities to each other.