In my previous post I attempted to parody our Governor's oratorical pomposity. But I've just realized that he is not the only "Mighty Mouth" by which our state is regrettably represented to the real America.
Yesterday, Senate MINORITY Leader, New Yorker Charles Schumer, said in a tone characteristically dripping with contempt, "Mr.President, you'd better not mention the possibility of pardons for Mr. Cohen or Mr. Manafort". Well! I guess you've been warned Mr. President. Charles never has minced words in expressing his disdain for those who dare to disagree with him. I'm reminded of his preamble to the deciding vote in the Senate trial of William Clinton, which confirmed the conviction of a majority in the U.S. Congress that Slick Willy should be sent packing, in which Charles sniffed "well,let's get this ridiculous procedure over". That, for a "President" who had denied a U.S. citizen a meaningful day in court(while serving, by oath, as the supreme law enforcer in the nation) in order to save his debauched hide. Charles has been known for a long time as perhaps the most verbally dismissive and sarcastic member of Congress - a distinction he apparently regards as justified by his personally undoubted righteousness.
Then there is Presidential stalking horse (for Charles, no less, for whom she is factotum), perky but given to foul wording when referring to the despised majority, very junior Senator Kirsten Gillibrand - loyal daughter of rural stock (well, at least as "rural" applies to the collegial Albany-NYC corridor from which she hails) and a declared "defender", consequently, of the 2nd Amendment . She's Mouth #3 despite her transparent pretensions to the ultimate pulpit, from which she would execute Charles' bidding, notwithstanding her man hating feminist front these days.
The fourth but probably not final mouth in a state full of blatherers (including me) is the mouth of the river upon which sits the source of our shame as New Yorkers, the Hudson. Its a great metropolis, a world class city it must be admitted but it is our burden - we of the real America who yet abide here in this diverse state. Somehow the multitude living and voting there tends to look at things its own way and it doesn't know from others. Would that we were dominated by those of a mind with the residents of the mountainous Adirondack North Country which is the source of that notable watercourse. But that is electorally impossible for us. Forgive us our baleful contribution to the nation's polity. Maybe, just maybe, we'll make a change in our state house in November. We did it in '94. Jack
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Cuomo: 'the Mouth of the Hudson"
I'm wondering if NY Governor Andrew Cuomo is a step in human evolution. There has perhaps never been a public person for whom his mouth is a more conspicuous feature, both in his physical aspect and in his personality, than this histrionic and impetuous individual.
Sure, there have been notable orators, like Churchill or FDR; Andrew is celebrated for his presentations but is notable, I think, mainly for an insipid pseudo Shakespearean style employed on momentous occasions like abrogating the 2nd Amendment , welcoming killers of police to the society of the lawful and bidding apostates exit his principality but also, I suspect, when ordering quiche. I would love to see a test of the oxygen content in an arena in which Andrew embarks on one of his transcendent and epic journeys of pontification; as the capacious maw swings open and the basilisk eyes briefly roll and his moment of narcissistic and stentorian expectoration bodes nigh, it is to be wondered that any element vital to life remains to sustain the audience. Presently, fulsome profundities sally forth as to battle bound while the world bears witness. Oh, its all too cool; real America; you've got see this to believe it (and you may if he continues his dreamy crusade).
Now his cavernous orifice has delivered of him, quite possibly, his "basket of deplorables" moment. He maintains that the U.S. "was never that great" and in doing so has drawn howls even from his acolytes. It wasn't really necessary in order to torpedo his preposterous Presidential hopes. It was already an object of fervent activity in gambling circles whether he would be supported by fifty or, at the outside, one hundred fifty voters living between Binghamton and Bakersfield, in his quixotic quest for what he regards as his due - our White House. And though that America which manages to get on between the coasts is of nothing to him, it did put Donald Trump in the office Andrew wants so much to redeem.
Let us not suppose for one moment that in these faux pas Andrew or Hillary were less than completely honest. For Alinskyite radicals like them, forthright admission of far leftist intentions is to be avoided if one hopes to trick the rubes into support. But for those driven, as they surely are, by emotion and unanswerable when reminded of the less than favorable record of the left since 1917, one cannot but expect some spillover of perfervid and unassailable conviction.
Andrew has never had a chance of being elected President; his comparably self righteous father wisely refrained. Andrew was born without such relative humility and yet dreams. But you just can't be elected President or, perhaps, even be reelected Governor of lala land NY when you lead with your mouth. Oh, it always gets you in trouble and Andrew, your "never that great" winner may have consigned you to canasta and Chardonnay with Hillary up in the airy reaches of that place in Westchester County where your ilk hides. Meanwhile, you are, the consummate "Mouth of the Hudson". Jack
Sure, there have been notable orators, like Churchill or FDR; Andrew is celebrated for his presentations but is notable, I think, mainly for an insipid pseudo Shakespearean style employed on momentous occasions like abrogating the 2nd Amendment , welcoming killers of police to the society of the lawful and bidding apostates exit his principality but also, I suspect, when ordering quiche. I would love to see a test of the oxygen content in an arena in which Andrew embarks on one of his transcendent and epic journeys of pontification; as the capacious maw swings open and the basilisk eyes briefly roll and his moment of narcissistic and stentorian expectoration bodes nigh, it is to be wondered that any element vital to life remains to sustain the audience. Presently, fulsome profundities sally forth as to battle bound while the world bears witness. Oh, its all too cool; real America; you've got see this to believe it (and you may if he continues his dreamy crusade).
Now his cavernous orifice has delivered of him, quite possibly, his "basket of deplorables" moment. He maintains that the U.S. "was never that great" and in doing so has drawn howls even from his acolytes. It wasn't really necessary in order to torpedo his preposterous Presidential hopes. It was already an object of fervent activity in gambling circles whether he would be supported by fifty or, at the outside, one hundred fifty voters living between Binghamton and Bakersfield, in his quixotic quest for what he regards as his due - our White House. And though that America which manages to get on between the coasts is of nothing to him, it did put Donald Trump in the office Andrew wants so much to redeem.
Let us not suppose for one moment that in these faux pas Andrew or Hillary were less than completely honest. For Alinskyite radicals like them, forthright admission of far leftist intentions is to be avoided if one hopes to trick the rubes into support. But for those driven, as they surely are, by emotion and unanswerable when reminded of the less than favorable record of the left since 1917, one cannot but expect some spillover of perfervid and unassailable conviction.
Andrew has never had a chance of being elected President; his comparably self righteous father wisely refrained. Andrew was born without such relative humility and yet dreams. But you just can't be elected President or, perhaps, even be reelected Governor of lala land NY when you lead with your mouth. Oh, it always gets you in trouble and Andrew, your "never that great" winner may have consigned you to canasta and Chardonnay with Hillary up in the airy reaches of that place in Westchester County where your ilk hides. Meanwhile, you are, the consummate "Mouth of the Hudson". Jack
Friday, August 10, 2018
Gun owners - get ready for the next round
Chicago is urban dysfunction gone berserk. The infernal summer weather there has to exacerbate it but the fundamental reason is that there is a considerable population in the city of people who have, all their lives, been immersed in a culture of cynicism ,negativism, and hate in which criminal prowess is celebrated by far too many. Read the novel Horror of Cabrini Green, published by Holloway House of Los Angeles. Cabrini Green was a notorious public housing complex in Chicago. Many courageous youth have chosen to reject this dominant culture's values but they face harrowing dangers in doing so - dangers that young people in the U.S. should not have to face.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; well what can you say? You have to respect the fact that he served in the Israeli Defense Force. But his political career in America shows him to be a doctrinaire Barack Obama feckless leftist. He is completely at sea in his reaction to Chicago's past murderous weekend and utterly unable to address it in decisive terms. Oh, he gives grudging lip service to the fact that the inhuman violence from last weekend is the product of people for whom human values are laughable absurdities. But he emphasizes that it is because "too many guns are available" that this commotion is happening.
He knows full well that confiscation of firearms from those perpetrating this mayhem is impossible and it is of no moment to him. What he does see is an opportunity to promote the following view: "Yeah, we tried some of the most restrictive gun control in the country in Chicago and it hasn't worked". The obvious conclusion? "It wasn't enough and we need much more because if these misguided miscreants were not enabled by irresponsibly loose gun control laws, they would not have gone amok!" Oh yeah, he did pontificate on "values" but he was fronting, he was fronting!
Look for this to be the prime message of the "common sense gun control" types: " because Chicago has descended into madness, we must enact stricter, far stricter gun control measures; that is the very essence of our stand and if you question it you are detestable."
So get ready for it, lawful gun owners, that's the path they'll take. How to fight it? First, do everything you can to get Judge Kavanaugh confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court. He is by far our best present prospect for a return of the nation's laws to respect for the Constitution, including the 2nd Amendment. The left's particular and devoted animus to this organic right confirmed in the Bill of Rights' yet SECOND Amendment, confirms their determination to pick and choose among those of our rights of which they approve.
Of course they oppose our right to be armed. They know that we gun owners and our organizations support office holders and candidates conservative on a wide range of issues well beyond guns and just as a deer hunter concentrates on the "bread basket", they aim at destruction of our gun owning rights as a key victory in their yet relentless crusade to force unwanted social change on us. If they can take our 2nd Amendment rights they discredit us as a mainstay of conservatism.
By the way, it is possible to return Chicago to sanity. It takes a courageous and perceptive leader, guided by common sense principles on crime, to get it done. Rudolph Guiliani did it in NY (maybe he should run for Mayor of Chicago) but Rahm Emanuel is utterly incapable of it. He's way too far left. Jack
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; well what can you say? You have to respect the fact that he served in the Israeli Defense Force. But his political career in America shows him to be a doctrinaire Barack Obama feckless leftist. He is completely at sea in his reaction to Chicago's past murderous weekend and utterly unable to address it in decisive terms. Oh, he gives grudging lip service to the fact that the inhuman violence from last weekend is the product of people for whom human values are laughable absurdities. But he emphasizes that it is because "too many guns are available" that this commotion is happening.
He knows full well that confiscation of firearms from those perpetrating this mayhem is impossible and it is of no moment to him. What he does see is an opportunity to promote the following view: "Yeah, we tried some of the most restrictive gun control in the country in Chicago and it hasn't worked". The obvious conclusion? "It wasn't enough and we need much more because if these misguided miscreants were not enabled by irresponsibly loose gun control laws, they would not have gone amok!" Oh yeah, he did pontificate on "values" but he was fronting, he was fronting!
Look for this to be the prime message of the "common sense gun control" types: " because Chicago has descended into madness, we must enact stricter, far stricter gun control measures; that is the very essence of our stand and if you question it you are detestable."
So get ready for it, lawful gun owners, that's the path they'll take. How to fight it? First, do everything you can to get Judge Kavanaugh confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court. He is by far our best present prospect for a return of the nation's laws to respect for the Constitution, including the 2nd Amendment. The left's particular and devoted animus to this organic right confirmed in the Bill of Rights' yet SECOND Amendment, confirms their determination to pick and choose among those of our rights of which they approve.
Of course they oppose our right to be armed. They know that we gun owners and our organizations support office holders and candidates conservative on a wide range of issues well beyond guns and just as a deer hunter concentrates on the "bread basket", they aim at destruction of our gun owning rights as a key victory in their yet relentless crusade to force unwanted social change on us. If they can take our 2nd Amendment rights they discredit us as a mainstay of conservatism.
By the way, it is possible to return Chicago to sanity. It takes a courageous and perceptive leader, guided by common sense principles on crime, to get it done. Rudolph Guiliani did it in NY (maybe he should run for Mayor of Chicago) but Rahm Emanuel is utterly incapable of it. He's way too far left. Jack
Monday, August 6, 2018
"Enemy of the people" - Yes!
President Trump continues to rattle the truly faint of heart, those who have plausible concerns about his tactics and of course those who cannot abide the fact that he won. Let's examine his assertion that the press is the enemy of the people.
First, I thank him for this gutsy and perceptive observation ;the mainstream media, which the President meant when he said "the press" has long and richly deserved such a thumb in the eye. Oh, they've been begging for it for ever so long. Churchill said that democracy was the worst form of government until you considered all the other forms. I've long thought that the conduct of much of the western "free" press is the best argument against a free press but... .
First, there has been a monumental reaction to the MSM in the form of Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and those encouraged by them. Limbaugh, in my opinion, is the most consequential public figure in the U.S. over the last 25 years along with (gag) the Clintons and President Trump. That we do have a "diverse" press is proven by the effect Limbaugh (an exceptionally perceptive observer and commentator, who nonetheless does not falsely present himself as an unbiased newscaster ) has had. Had they the means, the Clintons would have silenced him.
And , uhhh, what should you MSM types have expected of any half way self respecting guy who has been savaged the way you have, with blithe abandon and presumptuously self righteous conviction,done the President? He's hitting back! How do yuh like that? 'Course the spinelessness of much of the right must have convinced you that you had us down. Well yeah, he surprised us too but he's our's; he's sure not your's.
For decades and generations now since the '60's the majority of journalists have been blithe to subordinate journalistic principles like editorial balance and objectivity to political advocacy. "Yeah, we got Nixon and we can get any of them". Having become consummate politicians, they have been blindsided by the ascent of a disdainful non politician who is not loath to confront them.
And the sight of that oh so wounded CNN hypocrite taking Presidential Press Secretary Sara Huckabee Sanders to task: " Now the President shouldn't ought ta talk like that about the press! After all, a free press is what ya need in a democracy, don't ya know!" "Please Bre'r Bear, don' wing me in at there briar patch". Ok, but democracy can't work without a free and objective flow of information especially from terribly important sources like "the press",libraries and the "universities", which educate journalists among a whole lot of others. Unconscionably large numbers of professionals in those fields have surrendered their integrity to the siren call of unfettered leftist idealism and the dream that they may be its historic catalyst.
The President is right to call them out on it! He was empowered by the real America, all of them certified members of the entity "the people". The MSM is doing its best to undo their 2016 decision and that is the action of an enemy, I'd say. Jack
First, I thank him for this gutsy and perceptive observation ;the mainstream media, which the President meant when he said "the press" has long and richly deserved such a thumb in the eye. Oh, they've been begging for it for ever so long. Churchill said that democracy was the worst form of government until you considered all the other forms. I've long thought that the conduct of much of the western "free" press is the best argument against a free press but... .
First, there has been a monumental reaction to the MSM in the form of Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and those encouraged by them. Limbaugh, in my opinion, is the most consequential public figure in the U.S. over the last 25 years along with (gag) the Clintons and President Trump. That we do have a "diverse" press is proven by the effect Limbaugh (an exceptionally perceptive observer and commentator, who nonetheless does not falsely present himself as an unbiased newscaster ) has had. Had they the means, the Clintons would have silenced him.
And , uhhh, what should you MSM types have expected of any half way self respecting guy who has been savaged the way you have, with blithe abandon and presumptuously self righteous conviction,done the President? He's hitting back! How do yuh like that? 'Course the spinelessness of much of the right must have convinced you that you had us down. Well yeah, he surprised us too but he's our's; he's sure not your's.
For decades and generations now since the '60's the majority of journalists have been blithe to subordinate journalistic principles like editorial balance and objectivity to political advocacy. "Yeah, we got Nixon and we can get any of them". Having become consummate politicians, they have been blindsided by the ascent of a disdainful non politician who is not loath to confront them.
And the sight of that oh so wounded CNN hypocrite taking Presidential Press Secretary Sara Huckabee Sanders to task: " Now the President shouldn't ought ta talk like that about the press! After all, a free press is what ya need in a democracy, don't ya know!" "Please Bre'r Bear, don' wing me in at there briar patch". Ok, but democracy can't work without a free and objective flow of information especially from terribly important sources like "the press",libraries and the "universities", which educate journalists among a whole lot of others. Unconscionably large numbers of professionals in those fields have surrendered their integrity to the siren call of unfettered leftist idealism and the dream that they may be its historic catalyst.
The President is right to call them out on it! He was empowered by the real America, all of them certified members of the entity "the people". The MSM is doing its best to undo their 2016 decision and that is the action of an enemy, I'd say. Jack
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