As much as I try to close this chapter in my life, I keep being drawn into this imbroglio. In a recent column, Howard “Gatemouth” Graubard, once again demonstrated the lying creep he is. He claimed that I wrote I wrote two favorable columns for State Senator John Sampson, and in return I got two thousand six hundred dollars apiece. Boy; how I wish it were true.
Category: News and Opinion
The Ed Koch Bridge Song (Votin’ Goofy) [AKA The Ninth District Grudge Song]
|ED: Slow down, don’t vote too fast.
You got to make those Dems the past.
start knocking down some Arab’s homes.
Looking for fun and voting goofy.
Ba da, Ba da, Ba da, Ba da…votin' goofy.
Hello Weprins,
How’s yo daddy'?
I've come to kick Saul’s ass, I’m baddy.
Ain't cha got no time for Ed?
Doot-in' doo-doo,
Feelin' not dead.
I've got nothing to do,
and no reasons why.
Field of Dreams
|Field of Dreams is, if not one of the great films of all time, certainly the greatest baseball movie of all time. I had an emotional epiphany recently watching the movie. It was when the main character meets his late father again and looks to his Iowa home and realizes he has saved the family home and reconciled with his estranged father. Many dreams come true in this field.
O Equals Zero
|I applied for a federal job recently. Keeping in mind that I am a former judge they insisted that before they would accept my application they would have to see my college transcripts from 30 years ago. I told them I am a former judge that should be the best indicator of my abilities not my childhood transcripts. They would not budge on their insistence.
Could Debt Ceiling battle cost Obama his re-election?
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President Obama finds himself between a “rock and a hard place.” A major dilemma with the situation offering at least two possibilities, none of which may be politically acceptable.
In a radio address broadcast Saturday, Obama called for a bipartisan deal to increase the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling, while cutting federal spending in the years ahead.
Twenty Six Hundred Dollars a Post?
|It is maddening to be viciously and inaccurately attacked on the web, and be denied the opportunity to print a response in the place you were attacked. People should have the opportunity to read the response on the thread where the original attack was made.
The Gateway (Nine Nine Nine Edition)
|Bob Turner's commitment to Social Security turns out not to encompass most of those not already receiving it: "Turner told attendees at the fundraiser that some of his most important goals are to preserve Social Security for people 55 and over"
Generation Greed: Political Affiliation
|Some essay writers for the Wall Street Journal have noted an ace in the hole for the Republican party: the “flower power” generation of the 1960s is increasingly right wing. The article is behind a pay wall, but let me summarize. This generation was left wing in the 1960s and early 1970s, because they objected to the Vietnam War and Watergate. But once they became older and started families, they became increasingly Republican and Conservative. The trend has continued into old age, an asset for the GOP since older voters vote in large numbers, younger Americans don’t bother, so both parties have to compete to meet the preferences of the old.
I agree with the trends, but not with the reasons for the trends. The party loyalists who wrote the WSJ article see changes in ideology, but I just see the continued pursuit of unenlightened self interest. At every point, but particularly back in the 1960 and early 1970s, it is a mistake to judge the intentions of this generation by what certain high profile members said, rather than what the vast majority did. Peace, love and understanding? Anti-materialism? There were some who pursued those ideals, and continue to do so. But getting laid and getting high, and avoiding personal responsibilities, were the real goals of the “Silent Majority” in the 1960s. They later moved on to avoiding social responsibilities, and thus became more likely to vote Republican.
OF COURSE ROOM EIGHT IS IN TROUBLE: DUHHHHHHH!
|A recent column posed this question: “Is Room Eight in trouble”? My answer is simple: OF COURSE.
The Gateway (To Everything There Is A Season – Turner, Turner, Turner Edition)
|Correction time: The very damning quote from Bob Turner linked here about cutting the budget 35% was not from June 2001, that was a typo–the quote was from last month (and the date is now corrected).