According to
reporter Fred Dicker, the "Albany Insider" who writes a column for
the New York Post, sources close
to
NY megalomaniac governor Andrew Cuomo tell him that the governor is hovering
somewhere near what I would designate as bonkers and paranoia land these
days. While Cuomo, understandably, has
been engulfed by grief following both the recent death of his father and the
double mastectomy experienced by his live-in significant other, the major force
alleged to be affecting him these days is a U.S. attorney currently
investigating and arresting members of Albany's legislative body -- arguably
the most corrupt senate and assembly in the United States.
According to
Dicker's contacts, Cuomo -- full of himself and
presidential aspirations, many have long assumed -- may well also be
somewhere on the feds' list of persons of interest in this regard, and because
of the distinct possibility that some of Cuomo's actions are about to be
seriously microscoped, both his psyche and so-called leadership as governor
have taken a dive into near-paralysis.
Nowhere were
Cuomo's bad choices more apparent this week than when he quickly made his way
to Dannemora’s Clinton Correctional Facility, a state prison, not far from
Canada, scene of a masterfully executed double-prisoner escape. Conducting himself before the national TV
News cameras as if he were a museum curator guiding people through the route of
departure and method of excavation used by the two escaped convicts -- each a
murderer -- Cuomo appeared more like somebody playing C.Y.A. than a
governor.
But this isn't
the first time the arrogant Cuomo has shot from the hip -- immediately after
that loony and/or violently autistic young man in Connecticut blew away a whole
classroom of kids after first taking out his mom (and we don't mean to dinner),
NY's Democrat governor and his purring legislative sheep herd went to work
quickly like vultures to rip apart what remained of the Second Amendment in NY,
coming up with the absurd SAFE Act. This legislation, obviously waiting for just
the right moment to jump out at law-abiding citizens like a jack-in-the-box
(and these boxes are pretty much always operated by Democrats), severely
curtails gun rights and effectively pronounces the innocent guilty.
So while many
viewers across the nation, unfamiliar with Cuomo's ruthless brand of managing a
state and determining its people's choices and destiny via his own and his
willing legislative accomplices' whims, probably saw on TV only a governor
taking charge of a horrible situation, I spent my TV news time measuring him up
as he stood outside the prison, imagining just how fantastic he would look in
prison garb himself -- though, sad to relate, should the feds grab him for
something major, he would set up residence in a federal pen, not anything with
state accommodations.
While everybody
awaits, we hope, a safe apprehension of the two murderous prisoners whose breakout may ultimately result in a takeout, it's worth mentioning that the governor,
among others, noted that this drama might make a good movie. We agree -- but the governor should
understand that this prison break stands firmly upon his shoulders, and whether
this event evolves into either a movie or just history, Andrew Cuomo isn't
going to come out of this mess looking like the hero. Far from it.
Buffoon and Co. is a nice
motion picture title, don't you think?
Word has it that
moron Republicans will attempt to "fix" the Affordable Care Act, should the Supreme
Court decide it a corpse this month. We
think the better road to travel -- without delay -- would be to re-engage in
original discussions whereas insurance companies would be allowed and would have
to compete, compete, compete for customers across state lines. Not only should good ol' stiff American
competition -- capitalism is the dirty
word involved here -- take hold, it would almost definitely decrease insurance
rates, co-pays and such dramatically. As
things currently stand, insurance, pharmaceutical corporations, etc., have a
pretty cozy relationship with both Congress and "Obamacare," and it's
high time to give the American people a real choice, instead of the health
insurance tyranny currently in force.
A brief return
to the Dennis Hastert news: Yep, not
two days after I blogged a tad tongue-in-cheek about swim team members probably
being gay -- and I could just as well have said wrestlers -- we discover that
Hastert allegedly had an affair with a high school wrestler (among others?)
whom he coached. Again, I say there is
nothing new here, and these things have gone on since ancient times. However, I would emphasize that, for all his
faults, Hastert (1) did not "turn" now deceased student and wrestler
Steve Reinboldt gay, because he was already gay, and (2) he obviously did not
give Reinboldt AIDS. Maybe somebody
should inquire, age aside, how gay people seem to find one another and, for
either short or long periods of time, engage in activities apparently mutually
satisfactory. Yes, at this point in the
discussion people start twitching uncomfortably in their seats, choosing
instead to bring in antiquated laws and antiquated legal representatives to
solve the unsolvable.
Female "Viagra,"
the new drone in town: If you
ladies believe you need this stuff, Flibanserin, just because men have
theirs and you want yours, my only job here is to say, oh great, one more drug
to be excreted into the public drinking water system. Enjoy.
Beau Biden
deserved the grand funeral procession awarded him. We just wish the president could have found
it in his heart to attend services or do
something regarding American hero
Chris Kyle after his murder on a rifle range.
To paraphrase all too conveniently from the book, Animal Farm, are all soldiers equal, but some soldiers are
more equal than others?
A cop descends
upon a 14-year-old girl at a pool party of loud morons in Texas: The cops were called to intervene, and from
what seemed clear on the cell phone video is that both she and surrounding
moronic youth were not about to cooperate with the officer's instructions. What are these cops supposed to do? The growing number of instances where police
are taunted, set up and their lives and careers threatened will eventually
result in no cops and/or really bad cops.
The only cure for this despicable situation will be a change of
leadership in the White House and Justice Dept., where, dare we hope, fairness and
unbiased truth will prevail. We currently
have no such critter in the mix, regrettably.
President Obama
should perform at Carnegie Hall because I really do think he believes himself
the real-life equivalent of Klaatu
from The
Day the Earth Stood Still. Every
time he makes a speech where he talks down to us and tells us how it's gonna be
with climate change, health care, immigration and other dangerous or insane
Democrat policy declarations he seems other-worldly. And that's not a compliment.
