Showing posts with label John Lennon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Lennon. Show all posts

Thursday, June 3, 2021

Cuomo reminds me of Mussolini

 #Cuomo uses Mussolini’s method, of  taking control and bullying businesses and groups to do his bidding.
1)  In 2018 he ordered the NY Department of Financial Services to urge insurers and bankers statewide to determine whether any relationship they may have with the NRA  sends the wrong message.
2) Governor Cuomo will hold a $10,000 per person fundraiser on June 29.
3) Right now it appears the state will be paying Cuomo's legal fees in the  New York AG probe  into whether  sexually harassed women who worked on his staff.
June 5, 2021
Maybe Andrew is like his dad? With "Anyone but Cuomo" sentiment running strong, especially upstate, Mario Cuomo's bid for a fourth term failed. He lost to Republican state senator, George Pataki, in 1994.
In the mid 1990s, Bill Clinton  was recorded suggesting that Mario Cuomo "acted like" a Mafiosi and was a "mean son of a bitch."
June 8, 2021
Federal Prosecutors subpoenaed individuals who were involved in editing early versions of Cuomo's book in hopes of  acquiring  information on nursing-home issues and how the governor’s responded to the pandemic.
July 8, 2021
 Gov. Cuomo on Tuesday declared a state of emergency over gun violence, which he said is now claiming more lives than Covid-19, and also signed legislation making it easier to sue gun manufacturers who don't  prevent their products from being marketed or sold illegally in New York.
How, the He!! are gunmakers supposed to keep tabs on guns forever. You know this law will be contested and in the meantime gunmakers will flee the state of New York.
Aug, 5, 2021
You know it's getting bad for Cuomo when fellow Democrats invoke Richard Nixon's name. Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, a Democrat from Westchester County, said :
“Perhaps when he sees we’re all serious—and when the articles of impeachment are right in front of his face—he’ll realize it’s time. ----- “Nixon didn’t resign right away.”
Aug 9, 2021
#MelissaDeRosa , Cuomo's consigliere who helped implement a protocol in 2020 in which the governor was never left alone with younger female staff, is resigning. The walls are crumbling!
Aug 28, 2021
The do as I say not as I do crowd took another hit from Cuomo's fall from grace. #TinaTchen, a former chief of staff for Michelle Obama,  resigned  as the head of  Time's Up, a group founded during the #MeToo movement by Hollywood women to fight sexual harassment, over reports she gave Cuomo advice  in his battle against charges of sexual misconduct.
Sept 28, 2021
#Hochul , Cuomo's replacement, has a direct line to God:  "those who refuse the COVID-19 vaccine "aren't listening to God and what God wants."  Is the word omnipotent in the oath to to be Governor of New York?  
Dec 4, 2021
#chriscuomo canned by CNN, whose parent company AT&T is preparing to merge its media assets with those owned by Discovery Inc. Last month John Malone, a major Discovery shareholder, said he wanted to see CNN “actually have journalists” and “evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with.” Now that's F'n hilarious.
Dec 18, 2021
Ok, I'm no fan of Il Duce Cuomo, but New York AG Letitia James’s statement, that it cannot seize millions of dollars paid to former Gov. Cuomo as part of a book deal without a further investigation, is correct.  This slows down a request to the AG from the New York Joint Commission on Public Ethics  to get those funds disgorged. Bureaucracies know no bounds.
March 3, 2022
NY AG James has been having issues nailing Cuomo in court recently and now Judge Cohen blocked her bid to shutter the NRA. He raised concerns that shutting down the NRA could impinge on free speech and assembly rights of its members, but allowed the portion on the case on diverting NRA funds to continue.
March 28, 2022
Rangers fans booed Gov. Hochul during ceremonial puck drop at MSG on March 15 during “Women’s Empowerment Night” at the Garden. I'm surprised it wasn't louder.
July 14, 2022
Remember when Tina Tchen was criticized following reports that Cuomo and his aides sought her advice on how to handle a growing harassment scandal while she simultaneously led the nonprofit, which was founded to help those who have been sexually harassed or assaulted. 
Obama Foundation hired her which shows again the Left takes care of its own. Valerie Jarrett defended the hire by claiming Tchen is a national Changemaker- is that a word?
July 22, 2022
Lee Zeldin, GOP candidate for Governor of NY against Hochul, escaped uninjured from a knife attack in Rochester. Gov Hochul’s press secretary, Avi Smal, deflected questions about providing Zeldin with a state police security detail.
And the governor’s office did not respond to a request for comment about the state’s bail laws after David G. Jakubonis, Zeldin's attacker, was released on his own recognizance.
Sept 13, 2022
Hey, New York is denying parole to at least one bad guy. Mark David Chapman, John Lennon’s killer, was denied parole for 12th time in late August, 2022
Oct 16, 2022
From Cuomo to Hochul to a Republican??? Zeldin has a legitimate shot at becoming Governor and rattling a lot of entrenched folks in Albany.
March 18, 2023
A onetime aide to former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo who accused him of sexual harassment in a federal lawsuit filed a separate lawsuit Wednesday against the state.
March 18, 2023
Charlotte Bennett, a one -time aide to ex Gov Cuomo, filed a complaint in state court in Manhattan saying her former employer, the state of New York, is liable for Cuomo's sexual harassment. She has federal lawsuit pending against Cuomo. And the hits keep coming!  I guess she figures she'll win somewhere.





Saturday, April 20, 2013

Mongooses & Elephants


Yesterday a  fellow sports cyber chatter mentioned this old tune    Gimme gimme good lovin- Crazy Elephant to remind me of the fashions and dancing of the late 60's and early 70's.


So I started thinking about another band from that time period Elephant's Memory, who also backed up John Lennon from time to time. This tune Mongoose- Elephant's Memory has been one of my favorites for a long time.

Mongoose are not immune to venom, some species attack and kill poisonous snakes by cracking the skull with a powerful bite.

Mongooses is the plural according to various dictionary sources although we  want to say mongeese .


I wasn't in a mood to chat about guns, Boston bombings, etc.


10/20/13

Vapor's  spirited sunday morning oldie: I got a line on you-Spirit

12/14/13

just to irk any sensitive readers   Fat Man- Jethro Tull

6/26/14
An  ornery tune  nEIGHBORS-jonathan richman

9/14/14
War everywhere on the planet but I'll  revisit

11/19/14
felt like re-visiting the song Mongoose  "As the cobra turned its head, Mongoose caught it"
9/5/15
A passage in James Lee Burke's Light on the World about a wolf  sizing up horses  took me back to some of these song titles.
7/10/16
Historical reminder: thx Tragically Hip for covering it and bringing it to my attention since I misssed the original by Gordon Lightfoot released when I was a tyke. Take it any way you want. black day in july

8/5/16

I came across the phrase "drinking canned heat",  a nasty  "alcoholic beverage" made from straining alcohol from Sterno, while reading  Ghostheart  by RJ Ellory.  Wonder if this was the source of this 1960's blues band's name. canned heat- going up the country
1/7/17
Goodbye Big toke (harvey), thanks for the  mid 1960' tune reminders
2/10/18
Viewing the headlines and thinking about the song #mongoose . It's time for a re-spin
5/25/18
Hey #bobseger please re-work  "Get out of Denver" to #Seattle. cuz  the tax crazy city "looks just like a commie"
get out of denver
6/30/18
" As the cobra turned its head Mongoose caught it." short lines from "Mongoose" by Elephant's Memory
8/3/19
Re-visiting Gordon Lightfoot's  Sundown
aug 19, 2019
RIP larry "the mole" taylor of Canned Heat
march 28, 2020
  Re-spinning tune Mongoose and noting that mongoose can get sick or die from a cobra bite, but they make a glycoprotein that binds to the protein in the venom so a moderate amount of snake venom won't hurt them.
June 12, 2021
Ever felt like this?  "Where you could say I became chronologically fucked up"         Locked in the trunk    
May14, 2022
Enjoying the fat food police getting upset that Great Britain will delay by a year new rules banning multi-buy deals on foods and drinks high in fat, salt, or sugar.  So I'll re-spin "Fat Man" by Jethro Tull. Yes, I"m aware  that Ian Anderson says I'd rather be a thin man in the tune.
June 25, 2022
While editing a short story about the 1980s in Bmore, I came upon this “corina, corina, an old blues tune that Steppenwolf covered in 1968. corina corina



Two Irelands - more coming

John Connolly, who was jailed for 14 years by a Belfast(NI) court in 2000 after being caught with a Real IRA mortar bomb on his way to blow ...