Gatemouth endorses Hochul!
What else did you expect?
Thank you Jack Davis for finally serving a useful purpose.
Although Jack Davis may be a less credible source than my Schnauzer, Cerberus, this story has the ring of truth.
Category: News and Opinion
OBAMA’S GUTSY CALL (Part one of two).
|Last week, President Barack Obama made an unexpected call, which seems to have surprised many in both Israel and the USA. Relative to the Arab-Israeli impasse, he bluntly and sensibly stated the obvious: it is in Israel’s long-term interest to give back seized-lands, as an opening gesture or kick-off point to reinstalling peace talks with the Palestinians. Of course, those whose interests are way above and beyond peace jumped him like he was being blasphemous. Many of them deliberately ignored some of the specific caveats in his speech: like “agreeable land-swaps”.
The Way to Fail As Governor
|The way to fail as Governor, in a situation where certain powerful interests have irrevocably taken more and more and left others with less and less, is to take a deal for a symbolic victory early in one’s term, allow those powerful interests to claim they have sacrificed, and then have ordinary people realize by the end of one’s term that they are worse off than before. The way to succeed, of course, is to play the same game of having the powerful interests pretend they have sacrificed, but defer the consequences into farther off in the future. Such a symbolic but empty victory is being offered to Andrew Cuomo right now. After all, like Bloomberg, Giuliani, Pataki and Spitzer — and Lindsay and Rockefeller — he wants to be President, right? A little symbolic victory with cost deferred could really help, as all those “Presidents” showed, even if the eventual cost is devastating for all the people who don’t matter and younger generations.
52 Weighs to Pick Some Judges
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Domestic Partner: Gatemouth, have you finished the speech about your dad yet? Please, please, please don’t tell me you are writing another column!
In writing a speech for my father’s 80th birthday party being held tonight in Asbury Park, I am reminded of the triumphant one I gave at his 60th which included a not only recitation from Bob Dylan’s “Forever Young,” but these stirring words:
The Gateway (Still NaviGATE-ing the Zionist Center Edition)
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Of course Obama is anti-Israel; his position is one held by some hateful anti-Zionists as Ehud Olmert, Ehud Barak, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin and Ariel Sharon.
Out of the Mouth of the Rat’s Ass
|Today, State Senator Marty Golden, the Bay Ridge bloviator, demonstrated both his own heartlessness, and his lack of concern for the US Constitution, by introducing a bill which would have New York State stop extending full faith and credit to fully legal out of state marriages involving couples of the same sex.
The Gateway (36-10 Edition)
|For all the reasons I previously cited, this was no surprise.
What was a surprise was the size of the margin, which probably has more to do with Towns' weaknesses than Lopez's strengths, but may have even more to do with other factors than with either of these men.
Do As I Say Not As I Do
|One feature of the past 20 years is the ongoing attempt by Generation Greed to convince, or force, today's youth not to be the kind of irresponsible jerks they themselves had been when younger (and in some ways still are while in charge or our institutions). I live in a city where a retiree health insurance fund has been raided to get through a recession, and some pols want it raided more now that the recession is over. I live in a state where localities outside New York City have been encouraged to shirk making required contributions to the public employee pension funds, borrowing against them instead. I live in a country that collected additional regressive payroll taxes from workers for nearly 30 years to "Save Social Security" for younger generations, then blew the added funds on older generations' tax cuts and health spending, leaving behind IOUs. That country is now borrowing from federal pension funds to pay the bills.
I was shocked to find out, in the wake of the housing bubble, that many Americans were running their personal finances just like our governments, perhaps based on the same values. And now, some pols are proposing this.
The Gateway (Court Street Lunch Edition)
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Yesterday, I saw a guy on line at "My Little Pizzeria" wearing a sandwich board announcing that the world was ending on Saturday.
I walked in and told him, "If I thought the world was ending that soon, I'd be getting lobster for lunch"
Last Friday at lunchtime, Downtown Brooklyn was swarmed by Chabadniks; when the third one in the course of fifteen minutes stopped me to ask if I was Jewish, I said "No, G-d gave me this face because he has a sense of humor."
China’s Dynastic Progression
|One must marvel at the emergence of China as an economic and political power after an eternity in the doldrums. Pundits speak with amazement at their new found power as if it has never been the case in their long history.