When the subject of Carl Paladino came up on the Brian Vines television program (BCAT) a couple months ago, I distinctly remember -as a guest panelist- getting a funny feeling in the pit of my stomach: after all (as a voter) I would eventually have to make a choice and vote for someone in the lackluster gubernatorial field. I left the studio pledging to myself that in the general election, I would keep an open mind on every single candidate running. The reason for my angst was the difficult time I was having in closing the deal for Andrew Cuomo, given my registration as a democrat all my voting life. You see, I hate candidates who for years stay quiet on certain significant contemporary issues, and then suddenly find their 'voice' just around election time. I don't “feel” that kind of political temerity. I really don't. And I don't think it should be rewarded either: but Andrew Cuomo will win this race -and it won't even be close. You can bet the too damn high rent on this.
Category: News and Opinion
Would They Be Proud Of Us Today?
|Would They Be Proud of Us Today?
By Michael Boyajian
There is a question regularly featured in Greek publications and classrooms that asks would the Ancient Greeks be proud of us today? So would they be proud of we Americans the descendents of the Western Civilization that they founded. The idea warrants investigation. Certainly they would be fascinated by the epic battles we fought in the Revolutionary War against the British Empire and the Second World War against those who threatened civilization much as they were threatened by Persia. Perhaps though they would be ashamed by our Civil War because Greece lost its Golden Age in its war between Athens and Sparta but proud because we freed our slaves. Ashamed too by our unjust wars that stained our honor. But overall they would see Homer’s Iliad in our history.
Postman Jimmy’s Mailbag (With Verifiable Links To McMillan’s Most Hateful Stuff and His Home Shopping Network)
|From MSNBC’s TECHNOBLOG: New York political blog Room Eight, through a poster named Gatemouth (the self-described "blog world's expert on Jimmy McMillan's raving lunatic obsession with THE JEWS") has also put some things out there that should dampen enthusiasm for the karate kicking, black-glove wearing, Dali-moustached candidate.
Gatemouth CLAIMS [emphasis added] he lifted this from McMillan's 2009 mayoral campaign website and posted to Room Eight under a page called "The Jimmy McMillan Show"
Non-McMillan Remainders (The Gateway)
|WFMU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WFMU Record Fair – This Weekend! – WFMU's Beware of the Blog blog.wfmu.org
Wieseltier loves Roky Erickson; whodda think? The Decadent Beltway And The Ghosts Of Washington | The New Republic www.tnr.com
You can put a fork in Paladino, AG race tight
|The latest survey shows you can put a folk in Carl Paladino. The only questions is can Paladino gracefully make it to the finish line.
Things are going so bad for Paladino, one has to wonder if he's calming down to do damage control for his lucrative buffalo development business.
Not only does the latest poll from the Siena Research Institute show Paladino trailing Andrew Cuomo by 37 points, (63-26 percent, among likely voters) but Two-thirds of voters now have an unfavorable impression of the Republican gubernatorial candidate.
A Call For Military Reductions
|A Call for Military Reductions
By Michael Boyajian
The Obama Administration should follow the lead of the Cameron Government in Britain and begin reducing its own military expenditures. Reductions would be a great cost saver and would perhaps super charge the economy. Reductions would still leave the U.S. as the lead military power in the world as Britain’s proposed reductions leave it in its same ranking of military strength. This would end the need for reductions in domestic allocations like social security, health care, education and infrastructure.
Monserrate’s Alleged Registration Drive
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As part of the US Justice Department’s indictment of Former Councilman & State Senator Hiram Monserrate, it is alleged that Monserrate had LIBRE; the non-profit the feds allege Monserrate controlled spend @$31,000 on a voter registration as part of his 2006 Primary campaign for State Senate.
Jimmy McMillan for Landlord [REVISED]
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Most annoyingly, the day has been filled with Jimmy McMillan puff pieces.
OMFG, JIMMY'S being interviewed on MSNBC by Larence O'Donnell!
The upside of being the blog world's expert on Jimmy McMillan‘s raving lunatic obsession with THE JEWS is that those few outlets willing to mention that fact in passing sometimes give me a link . Today I got what I think may be my first ever link on The Albany Times Union’s Capitol Confidential. I was also linked on the News’ Daily Politics and Ben Smith's Twitter feed.
The Spreading Poison of the New Conservatism
|The Spreading Poison of the New Conservatism
By Michael Boyajian
I am reading a book Dinner With Persephone by Patricia Storace and in it the author describes Greece as beautiful but the Greeks themselves as less than nice. I will not know the truth of this assertion until I visit Greece on my next trip to Europe.