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Thursday Mar 19, 2015
Thursday Mar 19, 2015
Top Stories…..
Commutes in New York are the longest among major cities, report finds. What, longer than LA??? Is there any way to fix this? And BTW, how much pollution is spewed into the atmosphere by vehicles stuck in traffic? Just asking.
Air Force veteran from New Jersey tried to aid ISIS, US charges. What would cause a military man to help ISIS, apparently with his plane expertise? What should happen to him, if convicted?
Starbucks race together campaign draws widespread mockery on Twitter inspiring #newstarbucksdrinks hashtag. So who’s exactly afraid of what people say on Twitter? The execution was awkward, but the intent was cool. Just another example of people being scared to discuss race.
Diet sodas could be linked to bulging bellies in older adults. What, you mean I should down regular soda instead? Yep, guess so.
Michelle Obama’s mom was worried Barack’s mixed race background could present problems for her daughter. What, like she could become First Lady of the United States??? Seriously, people harbor these fears all the time. Anybody want to argue that a white mother might have fears about their daughter marrying a black man?
Lead Story….
House Republicans propose budget with deep cuts. So what else is new? Get rid of ACA, privatize Medicare, food stamps, the usual “suspects”. And how do they plan on balancing the budget in 10 years? By using the same trickery they accuse Democrats of using.
Swastikas painted inside Jewish fraternity house at Vanderbilt University during party: Cops. It’s not good enough for blacks to be outraged at racism at the University of Oklahoma, and for Jews to be outraged at Anti Semitism at Vanderbilt. We should all be outrage at all shows of intolerance and bigotry, no matter where and to whom they happen.
Holey Crap! Streets are full of massive craters due to lack of highway workers. Have you noticed this is a problem in many areas of American life? How about those waits to talk to a live body for almost anything.
The girls behind the bloody McDonald’s beatdown. I don’t know who to be angrier at…the attackers, or those who stood around and watched. And the ringleader’s got quite a history too. What should happen to her if she’s convicted?
To the Ridiculous….
Professor is your new Thoreau, by being a dick on an airplane. Shouting about the US invading Venezuela? Really? Smoking on the plane. Really? I guess so.
Thursday Mar 12, 2015
Thursday Mar 12, 2015
RIP Cardinal Egan, Windell Middlebrooks, the Lite Beer guy, and NY Times reporter Claude Sitton
Top Stories
Democrats deplore Republican letter to Tehran on nuke talks. What else are they supposed to do, embrace it? This is no doubt one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen a group of lawmakers do. What were they thinking? Does their hate of Obama run so deep they would risk jeopardizing future agreements and negotiations with foreign governments? Maybe so.
Georgia investigators look into police shooting of unarmed man. Months after Ferguson and Garner, now we have another incident where unarmed man is shot to death by police. Since he was naked, there seems to be no question they knew he was un armed. So why shoot?
And while we’re on the subject….Thousands protest at Wisconsin capitol after cops shoot unarmed black man, Now we have to confront an ugly question. These two latest incidents taken together ought to lead people to question whether movements like Black Lives Matter and other protests are having any national, cumulative effect. It’s just a question, and it’s not in any way an incentive to violent means to address the issue.
City manager of Ferguson resigns. This is what should happen when you use the black majority of a municipality as an ATM machine for government. Only question is how many other citis and towns are doing the same thing?
Lead Story…
University of Oklahoma expels 2 students over racist fraternity video. It’s costing Oklahoma a lot more than expulsions and national shame. One HS recruit has already taken back his commitment to attend the school. Credit where credit is due in terms of school acting swiftly to boot the frat off school grounds. Wonder if there are any others at other schools with similar outlook.
Robin Thicke and Pharrell over $.7.3 million dollars for ripping off Marvin Gaye with Blurred Lines. Lines weren’t blurred on this one. Jury heard Blurred and Gaye’s Got to Give it Up together, and came to the conclusion most ration people would. It’s a straight rip.
Trans Union, Equifax, and Experian agree to overhaul credit reporting practices. This is only in New York for the time being, but watch other states follow suit, no pun intended.
Clinton tries to quell e-mail controversy. Controversy? What controversy? Another GOP manufactured shibboleth. What do think they’ll find, responsibility for Benghazi?
Bratton and de Blasio offering mixed signals over marijuana. Bratton think weed is causing spike in violence. Mayor isn’t so sure. Argument is so counterintuitive. If weed was legal, would there still be violent turf wars over it, if that’s true at all? Just sayin’.
To the Ridiculous….Denver suburban home with “my wife is a cheater” scrawled on side explodes, burns. Husband has been arrested. Who did he think they’d look at, the cabana boy?
Thursday Mar 05, 2015
Thursday Mar 05, 2015
Top Stories….
In Congress, Netanyahu faults bad deal on Iran Nuclear program. Or…..Bibi goes to Washington. Aside from what the president said, which was that the Israeli PM’s speech contained nothing new, you might want to ask yourself what his actual solution is. A nation that has nukes (but won’t admit it) wants no negotiations at all to stop another country from getting them. Remember, Bibi said Iran was days away from the bomb more than 20 years ago…
Obamacare goes to the Supreme Court…what, again??? This time, it’s over taxes for subsidies. Does no one want poor folks to be insured?
House approves Homeland Security budget, without strings. Jeez, what’s John Boehner been drinking? This is the clean bill that should have been passed some time ago. What does he want in return?
Oklahoma: House approves executions by gas. Talk about back to the future. California doesn’t even use gas anymore! It’s kill by any means necessary.
Bizarre paperwork error will mean no Democratic nominee in Brooklyn Assembly race. This is as twisted as it gets. Pure slackness if one has ever seen it.
Lead Story…..
Ferguson police routinely violate rights of blacks, Justice Dept. finds. The numbers are irrefutable, and they say that town’s cops are running a racist fiefdom. The real question is….how many other towns and cities are doing the same thing? Then there’s the question of black people as government ATMs.
Workers say TGI Fridays closed, reopened, and only hired white and Latino employees. Maybe the feds are going to have to look into practices in the restaurant and hospitality industries.
What 7 states discovered after spending more than $1 million drug testing welfare recipients. Wanna take a guess? This is a way to get government to reinforce the worst stereotypes of poor people and people of color.
NYPD issues new stop and frisk rules that ban stops based on race. Wait a minute….were stops based on race always taboo?
To the Ridiculous….
Westboro Baptist Church beams down to wrong co-ordinates, miss Spock’s funeral. Hate mongers hate….that’s what they do. They also do stupid pretty well, too.
Thursday Feb 12, 2015
Thursday Feb 12, 2015
NBC suspends Brian Williams for six months. First a time out, then this. It’s without pay, so NBC must think his exaggerations were serious. On the other hand, he’s number one in his time slot. Will he come back? Depends.
Report: Grand jury indicts cop for manslaughter in killing of unarmed man. This comes as a bit of a surprise, since I thought it was a horrible accident. This is what happens, when a prosecutor presents all the proper evidence.
Alabama woman arrested after trying to officiate a same sex marriage. If the state can’t get with the program, the program being a federal order, kick them out of the United States! Echoes of George Wallace. Want states rights? Then become a nation state!
Dozens of NYC building inspectors and contractors surrender to authorities over $450,000 bribery scam. And here I thought they stopped all that corruption in the ‘80s….or maybe the 90s….or maybe this century!
Ferguson sued for jailing people too poor to pay tickets in grotesque debtors prison conditions: lawsuit. If this doesn’t make black people come out and vote to get rid of those who created this system, nothing will!
Lead Story
Reports: 3 young Muslims slain in Chapel Hill shooting, NC man charged. Is this Islamophobia? Let’s see now, the man is charged with first degree murder, meaning somebody thought it was premeditated. If he didn’t know these three, it seems like a hate crime, even if the cops won’t say so.
Guest: Journalist Nida Khan
Jon Stewart leaving the Daily Show. Who would have thought at the beginning of his run that Stewart’s leaving would be national news. He has left a legacy for many of a different way of looking at the news.
De Blasio NYCHA head suggests private partnerships are the future. No, getting more money from the feds is the future.
TTR: Guess who is a big wage stealing robber jerk? It’s right wing capitalist hero Papa John’s. Better ingredients, lower wages, Papa John!
Thursday Feb 05, 2015
Thursday Feb 05, 2015
Crash kills 7 in worst accident in history of Metro North. NTSB is going to be all over this one, and there are questions galore.
House GOP again votes to repeal Health Care Law. What, again? Can’t these people get down to real business, and stop play acting?
State of the City Address- Full of ambition, but light on details. Bill de Blasio means well, and the affordable housing component is very important. But can he actually get it done? SoC offers no new details on how.
$100 million dollar penthouse is made possible by NYC taxpayers. It’s that 421-a program that trades small amounts of affordable housing for BIG tax breaks to luxury developers. Time for reboot, anyone?
Lead Story….Shelly Silver is out as Assembly Speaker….But how, besides money, did he amass all that power?
Guest: Investigative reporter Wayne Barrett.
NYPD announces machine gun free unit to handle protestors. Why did they need machine guns in the first place?
Jordan executes prisoners after ISIS video of pilot’s death. More barbarism on top of barbarism. How long Jordan’s outrage over this will last is anyone’s guess.
The wheels on Chris Christie’s campaign bus are coming off before it even rolls. Anyone who lives in Jersey knew he wasn’t serious. The state’s economy is bad. And to top it off, he makes a politically stupid statement about vaccines
Vaccine McCarthyism….or did he???
To the Ridiculous
Montana police ask Homeland Security for help spying on hippie terrorists. They need specially equipped vehicle for this. Really???
Thursday Jan 29, 2015
Thursday Jan 29, 2015
Top Stories
First Interview- John Hanrahan, author, journalist, contributor to Expose Facts on Jeffrey Sterling.
Koch backed groups plan to spend nearly $1 billion dollars on 2016 elections. That’s right. Nearly a billion to get one of theirs in the White House. And who’s to stop them? That would be us.
Leaders defend shutdown for a blizzard that wasn’t. This isn’t the first time predictions of a massive snowstorm have gone wrong. It is the first tie they shut the trains, thereby forcing people to either get home before 11PM or spend the night at their jobs. What are we, Podunk???
Sheldon Silver to leave post as New York State Assembly Speaker. The heat got to be too much not for Silver, but his friends in the Assembly. Upstate Assemblyman takes his place on an interim basis. Next chapter: Who gets gig permanently.
Lead Story
CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling found guilty on all counts.
Guest: David Swanson, Campaign Co-ordinator, Rootsaction.org
Sheriffs want to disable police tracking feature on Google Waze App. They say it’s for safety. How dumb is that? Waze tells you when cops are by the side of the road, or near where you’re traveling. That would make most rational people SLOW DOWN, not speed. They simply don’t want drivers to have an electronic weapon to use against them.
Chris Christie launches political action committee. Why does Rudy for President keep ringing in my ears? And Giuliani, arguably, had a record to run on. All Christie’s opponents have to do is show a montage of Jersey’s decayed bridges and he’s toast.
NFL investigator seeks to consult Columbia physicist over Patriots deflated balls. Am I the only one who’s sick and tired of this? I could end up not listening to sports radio ever again!
Guest: Andrew Rosario, sports reporter, Arise TV.
To the Ridiculous
Pilot of drone that crashed onto White House grounds was reportedly drunk. And….he’s a government employee, no less. Talk about drunk droning!
Thursday Jan 22, 2015
Thursday Jan 22, 2015
The 1% will own most of the world’s wealth by 2016. That’s next year, folks! Anything can be done to change this?
Man says NYPD cop set him up with planted gun. They’re still planting guns on people? Thought that went out in the 80s.
Ex cop Brooklyn BP Eric Adams: I did not elected the PBA, I elected the Mayor. Here’s one guy who can’t be called a cop basher, race baiter, or any of the other stuff that protest bashers have made up. He told me a long time ago that he had “the talk” with his own son about encounters with the police.
Defying critics, Bill de Blasio embraces Al Sharpton on his home turf. Glad to see he’s got the guts. Sharpton was always a backdoor way for critics of the mayor to snipe. No apology, no distance from Sharpton. That’s oh for 2.
PBA president Lynch faces leadership challenge from unhappy cops. We talked about this last week, now it appears there are actually names being circulated among PBA members as possibly mounting challenge. Want a ringside seat for that one.
Lead Story
A rising economy lifts Obama going into State of the Union Night
Guest: Aaron Kall, Director, University of Michigan Debate Team, Debate Institute
How Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper stoked the American culture wars. You know things are out there when Michael Moore and Sarah Palin weigh in on opposite ends of this debate. Haven’t seen the movie, but then I haven’t seen Selma either.
White teenage criminals are cuddly and cute and white and not really criminals. Really. This could be to the ridiculous, but an examination of media coverage of these bandits is warranted.
To the Ridiculous…..
Fair and balanced gives way to flights of fancy after Fox News becomes the unwilling star of a French TV satire. That would be after faux Fox commentator makes outrageous statements about Muslims and Birmingham England.
Thursday Jan 15, 2015
Thursday Jan 15, 2015
Charlie Hebdo’s new issue has Muhammed on cover. Showing guts in the face of horror, taking unnecessary risk, or both?
From our “what were you thinking” dept. White House acknowledges error in not sending top official to march in Paris. What, was Joe Biden really that busy? The President should have gone himself.
Times reporter will not be called to testify in leak case. Good on you, James Risen. Never make it easy on the government to pry info from you. You’re an example to us all.
Arrests and summonses rise in NYC, but fall short of pre-slowdown levels. So it really was a slowdown after all. Somebody needs to tell Paddy Lynch he’s not the mayor, and he’s not going to get an apology from the mayor. He doesn’t deserve one. More on him later..
After 21 years in prison, wrongly convicted man dies months after release. What can you say about a story like this? There is no justice!!!
Charlie Hebdo, Boko Haram, and three uncomfortable questions.
First guest: Milton Allimadi, Publisher, Editor in Chief, Black Star News
Phone number: 646-261-7566.
Second guest: (6:30)- Ahmed Rehab Executive director, CAIR Chicago
Phone number: 312-212-1520, 202-870-0166 (cell)
George Zimmerman labeled psychopath by female victim in Florida wine bottle incident. He can’t stay out of trouble, but evern stranger, did you know he sold a painting of his for $100,000? Who says crime doesn’t pay!
Screaming match erupts between cops, union head over de Blasio. It was reportedly about Paddy Lynch’s demand for an apology vs. other cops who think the union ought to have other priorities. And him with an election coming up too.
John Boehner’s bartender planned to poison him: FBI. Speaker of the House with a bartender? What’s up with that?
To the Ridiculous: Mike Huckabee: Obama shouldn’t let daughters listen to Beyonce’s “mental poison”. And this guy wants to be President?
Thursday Jan 08, 2015
Thursday Jan 08, 2015
RIP: Mario Cuomo, Stuart Scott, Bess Myerson, Paul “Peanut” Peregrim
Top Stories….
NYPD received tips leading to arrest of man suspected of shooting two cops who responded top Bronx robbery. Was it the $22,000 reward, or people responding to cops being shot? You decide.
Andrew Cuomo asks during Mario Cuomo funeral for peace between City Hall and NYPD. At least there’s a meeting scheduled, so maybe things are thawing, even in the face of police slowdown.
Ex NYPD cop slams black brunch with gun toting selfie: “I’m really enjoying these Eggs Benedict so move along now”. Ex cop at a tony brunch? What is he now, a hedge fund manager?
This letter could restart the case against Darren Wilson. If there’s anything in the universe that could revive potential charges against Ferguson cop, please let’s have it. This time, the NAACP is on the case of prosecutor.
GOP vow of pragmatism faces test of Capitol Hill. Boehner was re-elected speaker, but twice as many conservative Repubs voted against him as last time. We’ll see.
For second week, arrest plunge in New York City. Can you spell slowdown. This, of course, costs the city money. Let’s see how long it lasts.
Sanford Rubenstein will not face rape charges. His accuser is “baffled”. Was this simply he said, she said? Or did Rubenstein’s rep draw him a pass?
Judge sets date to consider release of Eric Garner grand jury records. We see what happened in Ferguson. Could there be a smoking gun here?
Lead Story…..Special guest, author Dimitry Leger. His new novel, “God Loves Haiti” was released this week.
To the Ridiculous…Not embracing Christie’s love of the Dallas Cowboys. Is there ay more ridiculous pandering than seeing the Governor of New Jersey hugging Cowboys owner Jerry Jones? And was some business done between the two?
Friday Dec 26, 2014
Friday Dec 26, 2014
De Blasio, with Bratton by side, seeks balance after two killings. The Mayor is getting hammered left and right. Neither side seems ready to tamp down the rhetoric and increase the dialogue. What should he do?
In open letter, Mayor de Blasio stresses need to shelve rhetoric until after funerals of slain NYPD officers. Did anybody listen to the Mayor’s perfectly reasonable plea? Doesn’t look like it.
NYC protestors say they won’t stop demonstrations despite de Blasio’s wishes. Here’s where I part company with the protestors. They should stop the marches and rallies until after the slain police officers are buried. I think their marches will be smaller, because some people who want to address police brutality also realize continuing the protests is disrespectful.
Sony’s “The Interview” will come to some theaters after all. Talked to a friend who thinks (the cynic!) that the whole thing is a publicity stunt for the movie. Could it be?
A startling admission by the Ferguson prosecutor could restart the case against Darren Wilson. Could? Could? If this is true, that he knowingly allowed liars to testify before a grand jury, he shouldn’t just be out of a job, he should be prosecuted himself.
Lead Story…..
There’s a tribute planned to honor the life and work of the great Professor John Henrik Clarke. One of the planners is PRN’s own host of Leid Story, Utrice Leid.
Will these new MTA posters stop bad subway behavior? You’re kidding, right?