Saturday, August 02, 2014

I never thought I'd agree with Sharpton

but...I don't think I'll be installing the NYPD app anytime soon. NYPD has a force of about 35,000, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton says they'll have to retrained all of them. I was never big on this broken windows theory of policing or go after the squeegee men and the homeless basically and the Chinese guy with his left nut hanging out. When I used to drive the van for the wholesale flower company I had to go down the city really early one morning, got off the West Side Highway somewhere and there was one of them guys with the bucket and the squeegee and my windshield was dirty anyway so I gave him a buck. Polite, didn't bother me, didn't feel threatened, didn't feel gangsterized. By some convoluted logic of modern policing go after the graffiti artist and the serial killer won't take the girl into the woods, dunno. PBA issued a statement saying that while their thoughts and prayers go out to the Garner family this tragedy wouldn't have occured if Mr. Garner didn't resist arrest. Vile. Disgusting. Offensive. That's a union for you and if Giuliani or even Bloomberg were still mayor they'd be chiming in too on the side of the cops of course. All conservatives can ever talk about is Sharpton's rhetorical style but imo he's being mighty civil in this case. Broken Windows - Broken Lives.

46 comments:

  1. Small town advantages; a couple days back, my wife borrowed the truck while I took the grandkids to the park. The truck quit at the bank. She had to leave with one grandkid for up north, leaving me with one kid and no truck. Called my tire guy; he
    sent a fellow to pick up my keys and they got it started and over to the shop, A broken battery terminal connector. Total bill- $8.43 Guess that's why I always get
    my new tires there.

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  2. I recently subscribed to AAA and plan on keeping it. Passed on the AARP solicitation though.

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  3. There are bad people in every profession - police, priests, rabbis, teachers, doctors. Conservatives can't seem to wrap their heads around the notion that there are bad cops. Lord knows they talk enough about the bad teachers.

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  4. IMO, police work of necessity involves violence. They never know when the person they approach will resist, cuss them out, spit on them or kill them. Out this way, the standards are quite high: no shoot-em-up Charles Bronson types need apply. Some grandma with her grandkids was stopped for speeding by the State Patrol last week. She sent a letter into ISP HQ thanking the officer for talking calmly
    to the scared kids (he gave them Highway Patrol stickers and candy) and politely ticketed the old dame.

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  5. What is this mock role-reversal time, you're the rightie and I'm the liberal? Don't confuse me.

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    1. Naw, just regular role-reversal; I'm a law and order guy. Not that familiar with the NYC police force, but I'm thinking you must be a bleeding-heart
      pinko libtard (as they say) when it comes to cops? In my line of work, I
      met Interpol, various highway patrol, mounties, FBI and all the other type guys...and not one foamed at the mouth, ya know?

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    2. I really think deep down you have a very right-wing id.

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  6. At any rate if you like rough fuzzwork chokeholds are banned by the NYPD.

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  7. Bill Bratton is Bill diBlasio's puppet and Bill diBlasio is Al Sharpton's stooge, and if you agree with anyone of them, then Shame on YOU!.. You're as fools as well.

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  8. Are you planning on joining Rev. Sharpton's church?
    Global Warming-wise, we are in our 8th straight day over 100, the forests are ablaze and this morning's sun was a red orb through the smoky haze.

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    1. Funny our summer up here in the Northeast has been cooler than normal. OK I'll play the straight guy - WHY can't conservatives condemn police brutality? You know move beyond the all white letters-to-the-editor in the NY Post.

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    2. Why? Just guessing here-
      1. Because they can't pin the NYPD on Obama?
      2. It if was Huckabee or Palin that got roughed up, they WOULD comdemn police brutality?
      3. The fiscons want their money's worth with cops.
      4. Conservatives can't be against EVERYTHING?
      5. Because Pat Robertson hasn't heard about it yet?
      6. Because the Big Apple is a liberal hellhole, in Macon and Fort Worth
      the conservative cops are free to waterboard for jayhawking?
      Dunno, Z-Man, maybe some conservatives ARE condemning, they just don't want to be perceived as allied with Reverend Al.

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    3. I'm waiting for the Rich Lowry column, the Michelle Malkin piece, the Jonah Goldberg denunciation that's all. I'll go check my apps.

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  9. As for the Rev. Al you can't act like he doesn't exist. Conservatives act like if they try real hard and close their eyes he'll just go away.

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  10. Conservatives have always been more troubled by Sex than selective violence. Naomi Schaeffer Riley recently praised Orlando Bloom for punching out punk Bieber over Miranda Kerr, lost art of chivalry or something. Give the kid in the park smoking a joint a testicular chokehold and it's all good. Law & Order:)

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  11. Do the NYPD cops get their basic training at Rikers Island ?

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  12. The ossification on the Right - any issue comes down the pike, in this case police brutality and you can predict and actually say what they're gonna say. Ten cops are beating up a black guy and it's caught on a cell Hannity will later go on his show "but let's be patient we need to get all the facts out." Political ossification means you're not interesting in reaching out to other groups, entertaining even slightly modified POVs. It's all good, we're hunkering down and everybody else is the Enemy. In GOP's case they got the old white man's vote locked up, hillbillies too so what else is there?

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    1. Is it just me, or does Hannity always pick the wrong side?

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    2. I don't even know what time he's on the dial anymore. Savage took over his primetime driving slot. Hannity is merely annoying, Savage is depressing.

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  13. What's up with Drudge? I mean I like Drudge but every time I open the app on my phone he's talking about either (a) the immigrant kids or (b) Ebola and sometimes even both. I had trouble finding anything about the Eric Garner case it's just that I'm seeing this weird picture of the Ebola strain everyday and the immigrant kids again. Oh yeah now the Right is saying the Democrats made up the whole impeachment threat like they weren't even talking about it. It's a tiresome political season.

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    1. Ebola is troublesome; if you had the app for the 20 Vol 'Journal Of Emerging
      Infectious Diseases', you could worry about West Nile (had a case in N Idaho last week), Chikungunya (imported into the US as far as Kansas), MERS, Lassa Fever, Dengue Fever etc. A guy could have so many vaccinations he would look like a pincushion. ...and end up being chased by
      a rabid coyote over on Old Croton Trailway.

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    2. It's just that the WHO has a rather spotty record predicting things. Remember the global pig/avian flu pandemics?

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    3. IMO, the predicting permits interdiction. No harm in being prepared. We are a bit spoiled; it was only a couple centuries back the US was full of cholera, malaria, typhus, measles, flu, smallpox etc. Back in my family tree was a guy who was kicked in the chest by a horse and died on the spot and I had scarlet fever as a wee lad.

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    4. Well there are critics of the WHO you know. Meanwhile the porn industry is taking their business out of LA County because of forced condom use among performers. I mean it is porn. Next thing you know they'll tell them you can't smoke.

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  14. Roll your own has been popular out this way for years. Guy out back could sit on his
    big bay horse, put up one boot and roll his cig with one hand. They sell the tobacco
    in various smoke shops....but it is awful stuff, wouldn't insult my Bent Rhodesian Briar by putting THAT stuff in. So, as I understand it, this guy was rolling his own and selling them? And that is ILLEGAL?

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    1. Yeah I'm not getting this either and folks in the neighborhood actually complained about this! I mean he wasn't running down the street with a machete.

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  15. Second time now I have written a nice comment and it doesn't get published.

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    1. Huh...maybe nice comments aren't accepted? BTW, my wife and daughter
      are visiting the outer banks next Spring. What's the coast weather like that time of the year?

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    2. Not that long ago I was having trouble with the Blogger spam filter, hell even some of my comments weren't getting published but that's Google for ya trying to make our lives better. When I'm on a desktop later tomorrow I'll check my Spam Folder and these dudes wanna make driverless cars!

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  16. In the meantime I'll throw this out for you. Judging by some of the right-wing reporting in this case particularly the gloating over videographer Orta's arrest by the NYPD on a gun charge I have inched just a little closer to my own conclusion that many righties don't like black folk.

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  17. Just checked my spam folder. Not much in it and couldn't find a comment of yours. Hmmmmm.....

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    1. Over at clip.dj there are INCESSANT popups which are not malicious. Even my tablet can't block the popups which always directs me to Google Play. So how is being annoying supposed to get me interested? I never got this.

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    2. I'm guessing your popup blockers is made by Google; blocks everything
      but?

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    3. Pardon my ignorance but in your email account what's the difference between Trash and Junk? Is one for recycling?

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  18. I have to say the NY Post's coverage of the Garner case is surreal.

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  19. OK so Pat Lynch of the PBA says the ME's report on the police handling of Eric Garner is a political document and they're gonna get their own medical authorities to evaluate the ME's report. But wait a minute I thought the ME was a medical authority.

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  20. Department of odd statistics: more kids under 5 are killed by guns each year than
    policemen killed in the line of duty. Toddlers with guns killed more people than in the US than terrorists last year.
    -termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to rock music.
    -there are more than 1000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.
    -you use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself.
    You got an odd statistics app?

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  21. An old Snapple bottle cap once informed me that chewing gum while cutting onions prevents crying.

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  22. The Return of the Black Squeegee Men in NYC trending now among conservatives. Freud made everything about Sex, sometimes it's just about Race. The black squeegee man at the Holland Tunnel - a common autosymbolic image among some righties while in the hypnogogic state.

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    1. Never see that out here in the near wilderness: you got white Squeegee
      Men too? We DO have car jackings once in awhile-no wonder folks want to
      carry guns....

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  23. Broken Windows - I've pissed in the woods off the bike path on occasion. Is that a quality-of-life crime? I think I need SparkNotes to understand this. If the cops are too busy going after Banksy types wouldn't that actually encourage armed robberies? Abstruse:)

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    1. So, you thinking of moving over to NJ?

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    2. Astorino of Westchester says Cuomo should use his muscle to nix Sharpton's planned protest march over the Verrazzano. Clearly the GOP has no interest in even pretending to appeal to black voters so on that score Bergen County doesn't look so bad.

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  24. Okay this is a hard week. We are putting the dog down on Friday night. The vet is coming to the house.. lapoflove dot com if you want to see how that works... we have ordered a (real human type black granite laser cut) headstone, we are planning a garden to go around the site. I actually fell apart in Walmart this morning, I had bought a rope (her favorite toy) and a pink blanket (both to go in the site) and the checkout girl asked me did I have a baby daughter and I went to pieces. I felt bad for the girl, she was totally caught off guard and she was just devastated that here is this woman crying like a baby, and she kept apologizing over and over and it wasn't her fault. So this week is going to be tough. We ordered a headstone from this place online, black granite, laser cut, beautiful, not a pet stone but a people stone, and we are planning a garden to go around the site. The whole thing is just desperately sad. Maybe I will be okay once it's over but getting there I am just all to pieces. She is 16 and a half. Not exactly sick (diabetic), not exactly in pain but the bad leg is not so good.. she is just terribly old, can't hear, can hardly see, somewhat demented, she has about 10 good minutes out of every day and sleeps/pees the rest of it.

    In other news, the OBX is nice in April and May, it should be routinely getting into the 70s and maybe some low 80s but a little cooler on the coast. It's a good time of year to go, not so crowded. The north banks are more touristy than the south.

    Apart from that what more can I say?

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  25. Most recently one of my cats suddenly became very weak and sick. Seemed to have some kind of lingering cold, no appetite, wouldn't even eat. So then on a hunch on a purely almost extrasensory instinct typed in one day "catnip medicinal uses" and learned that there are myriad health benefits from catnip for both humans and pets. Most notable good for digestion, colds and is even an anti-mosquito repellent (take that you trending anti-mosquito app). So anyway long story short went to Mrs. Green's and bought a box of catnip tea bags, put a bag in his cat bowl and brewed away and his merely smelling it and not even drinking it perked up his appetite and now he's eating again, even eating with relish. I don't think this is common knowledge, most people just buy the stuff to make cats do crazy things and put it on YouTube. So there you have it:)

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