Headline:
Bloomberg: ‘We’ll see’ how long protests are allowed to continue
Conclusion:
Spoken like a true billionaire-Napoleon-control freak-made-all-his$-on-Wall Street-Emperor of New York
The New York Times said Bologna’s nonchalant attitude “looked as if he were spraying cockroaches.” Then it turned out that this particular officer has a history of complaints regarding protestor abuse. The longer the NYPD sits on this, the worse it’s going to get, as evidenced by Lawrence O’Donnell’s seven minute tirade demanding the heads of Officer Bologna and his superiors at police department.
Personal experience: I’ve had a mixed record with the po po. I’ve had decent and respectful interactions regarding bicycling and other issues, and I’ve had run ins with completely unreasonable asshole cops.
It sounds like this guy who pepper sprayed protesters is an asshole.
Look at what the New York Observer named the page about the story.
When I got locked up for riding my bike on the sidewalk twice the lady cop who arrested me was an asshole. She walked past the cell and said in a high school voice that I was disrespectful. If I got to put shitbirds in jail if I felt disrespected we would have awfully full cells. Disrespect is part of living in New York City — everybody including the po po should understand that.
Now the cop who fingerprinted me was a black belt and a reasonable guy. And the two dudes who took me downtown to the Tombs for the night were reasonable as well, but they didn’t let my ass go and the asshole cop got her way having me spend a night sleeping on the concrete floor.
I don’t know why the NYPD is so lax on letting these assholes be assholes in uniform. How could they not see when you have asshole cops out there spraying protesters in the face with pepper spray and locking up middle aged dudes for riding on the sidewalk makes their jobs much more difficult?
Do you think my wife digs the NYPD after they treated me that way? I bad mouth the 88th precinct in Brooklyn here — it’s the least I can do after seeing her in action.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44601829/ns/local_news-new_york_ny/
The co-author of the study, Professor Bill Milczarski, told me: “There are rogue cyclists and rogue pedestrians and they have to learn to get along. We need to educate both groups.”
My response to this:
1. Fuck this guy and his fucking report.
2. Where the fuck is the discussion of the main problem which are the rogue automobiles?
3. I ride on the sidewalk because I have two boys and I don’t want to be killed by an asshole driver, of which there are many. Period. The rules prohibiting bikes on the sidewalk are fucking ridiculous, even the cops that stop you acknowledge that, this ‘opinion’ piece on MSNBC can be rolled up tight and shoved up the writer’s ass.
Here are facts from the City of New York:
1. While bicyclist injuries declined between 1996 and 2003, fatalities remained steady.
• Between 1996 and 2003, a total of 3,462 NYC bicyclists were seriously injured in crashes with motor vehicles.
The annual number of serious bicyclist injuries decreased by 46% during the 8-year period.
• Between 1996 and 2005, 225 bicyclists died in crashes. Bicyclist deaths remained steady during the 10-year period.
Another Fact:
3. Nearly all bicyclist fatalities (92%) occurred as a result of crashes with motor vehicles.
• Most crashes (89%) occurred at or near intersections.
• Although they make up only 5–17% of vehicles on NYC roadways, large vehicles (trucks, buses) accounted
for almost one third (32%) of fatalities.
Rules for me: Ride bicycle in proscribed bike lanes whether they are safe or not. (They aren’t safe). Failure to do so will result in tickets, bench warrants for your arrest, etc. Respect for you is subjugated to the rule of law.
We have rules and you need to follow them, even if you get handcuffed to a bench in the precinct for three hours and spend a night in jail.
Rules for Bloomberg and his people: Have an altercation with your wife, get arrested, and then leave the Mayor’s office without mentioning the whole arrest thing.
We have rules, but the dignity and reputation of Bloomberg and his people is more important than your dignity.
Please note that the idea that all are dealt with fairly and equally is a completely bogus piece of shit idea and adjust accordingly.
Pharoah Sanders: Deaf, Dumb and Blind (Impulse, 1970)
Alice Coltrane: Ptah the El Daoud (Impulse, 1970)
Nick Drake: Five Leaves Left (Island, 1969)
Thankful our old Brooklyn house didn’t get destroyed and that we are in one piece, empathy for those who died and those who suffered great damage.
Side 2 of the Pharoah Sanders record is some awfully uplifting music.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/is-the-sec-covering-up-wall-street-crimes-20110817?page=4
But no charge in recent Wall Street history is crazier than an episode involving a SAC executive named Ping Jiang, who was accused in 2006 of enacting a torturous hazing program. According to a civil lawsuit that was later dropped, Jiang allegedly forced a new trader named Andrew Tong to take female hormones, come to work wearing a dress and lipstick, have “foreign objects” inserted in his rectum, and allow Jiang to urinate in his mouth.
Additional freakshow: I don’t have any bile towards billionaire hedge funder George Soros the way the wingnut idiots do, but there was a story about how he made his former girlfriend sit at the kid’s table when they were having dinner. Not the biggest deal in the world, but it sounds like somebody else might be a couple of sandwiches short of a full picnic basket.
I don’t think this is a class of people that should go unregulated and unwatched — especially the dude pissing in other people’s mouths.
This is from a promo email from an indie label:
Although critics try to peg him as a bluesman or garage rocker, _______ shrugs them off with a direct, sardonic wit and poetic melody, snarling and lunging towards a hypnotically distorted singularity.
When I read music writing like this I think the following:
1. Can ______ walk on water and raise the dead in addition to his/her otherworldly musical abilities?
2. Could somebody get me a rag because someone is jerking off and about to blow?
3. When will listeners be treated like adults and not be subjected to this sort of hyperbolic bullshit?
Here’s a good marketing plan:
Hi, I put this music out.
I think it’s really good — it’s like this person here or this group, but this part is unique to them.
The energy of the music is this, and they’ve played with or are associated with this style.
Wow, the internet is great I’d really like you to check this music out.
Maybe you will dig it, and I can make you a customer.
With my plan, both parties retain their dignity.
Consequently, here’s a video from one of my guys.
They just played the Stone in NYC last Saturday night.
It’s ambient, and kinda trippy.
It’s guitar, sax, and drums, but not a shriek-fest or in your face.
I think it’s really beautiful, but you might think it’s garbage.
Hey, you can check it out and maybe you’ll dig it.
http://www.youtube.com/user/tombakercomposer?feature=mhee#p/u/3/Lq3lBl6RZew
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/warhol_statue_for_union_sq_M8UbSqb3D6GANLiCXfnGWM
Andy Warhol’s art studio is now a Petco.
Some day someone is gonna put up a statue of the founder of Petco pet supplies right next to Warhol, because that’s such a vibrant and interesting activity.
Somebody has to sling the cat chow, the chew toys, and the designer dog biscuits.
It’s not like Manhattan has become boring. It’s Petco, people, that shit is exciting.
Unless the real estate bubble is resolved, Shanghai may not have a future says its mayor.
My plea: Please come be our mayor, we DO have good Chinese food here. Please think about it, we’ll trade you our tiny little shrimp fascist dictator mayor who loves a good real estate bubble. He probably digs Asian women I would think because they wouldn’t tower over his dimunitive turtle body.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/04/nyregion/04tickets.html?pagewanted=1&hp
Using a variety of bludgeons in its arsenal and enlisting collection agencies, the city is more aggressively tracking down scofflaws to seize their cars or other assets. With a budget gap of $3.3 billion to close, city officials say every dollar owed New York matters.
From a Brooklyn resident: If the city was any more aggressive in the area of parking tickets, they would start auctioning off children of scofflaw families to rich supporters of Bloomberg.
The City uses parking tickets and traffic tickets as a weapon against the populace, and I’m not exaggerating.
