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Finally starting to watch the news again and am very upset with NY State Legislators:
Most notably: Pedro Espada Jr. of the Bronx and Hiram Monserrate of Queens.
The control of the state senate has moved over to the republicans for all intents and purposes right now.
Now of course as with what seems like all our politicians these days both men have legal troubles as the NY Times reported. “Highlighting the often elastic nature of ethical stands and alliances in Albany, Republicans who earlier this year were calling on Mr. Monserrate to resign after his indictment on felony charges that he stabbed his companion with a broken glass are now welcoming him as part of their power-sharing coalition.
While Mr. Espada has been fined tens of thousands of dollars over several years for flouting state law by not disclosing political contributions.”
“Democrats were pushing bills to give tenants more rights, strengthen abortion rights and legalize same-sex marriage this session. And the move underscores the continuing tumult of New York politics, where there have been three governors in less than three years and four Senate presidents since last summer.”
Gov. David A. Paterson, at a news conference Monday evening, called the move “an outrage” and said Albany had become a “dysfunctional wreck.”
Well, I don’t know about a dysfunctional wreck but maybe a complete joke. Yea.
All right NY State get your act together. I’m so sick of the infighting.
Sick of the corruption on both sides of the fence.
Sick of pretending that we are progressive leaders in the USA anymore.
Sick of believing that our government is really on our side when so often it’s only in the interest of money brokers, wealthy special interest lobbyists and big business.
While we all exist on the crumbs you throw our way and why the hell can’t we behave and be thankful anyway?
Greedy corrupt bastards all around.
I’ve been proud to be from NY all my life but recently I can honestly say I’m not happy at all.
I seriously don’t know if I even want to be here anymore.
And if you knew me at all you’d know that says a lot.
Good luck Barack Obama seems like you might need a lot of it.
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Sarah Palin: Please shut up about David Letterman.
Enough. You had our sympathy the first thousand times you mentioned it. Everywhere.
You’re sounding shrill and just as offensive at this point as he was.
But you can’t see it can you?
It’s too bad he made the joke. He’s a comedian with a talk show…
How about you play fair dearest damsel in distress (or was it a lipstick smeared pit bull I forget) and take Limbaugh or O’Reilly to task for the hateful ugly things they say about people:
Oh wait I know why you won’t: I forgot.
YOU agree with them so that makes it different. Oh you betcha.
Won’t 2012 be fun guys and gals?
The candle of freedom of speech burns hot and fast from both ends.
Just wondering sometimes what the hell we’re gonna be left with.
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On June 3rd I wrote this about the recent loss of my mother on May 30:
“I don’t know exactly what I feel right now.
Just incredibly weird.
Like something’s horribly wrong but I can’t wrap my mind around it.
I’m not numb at least not yet. I’m not angry either.
But I know myself well enough to know both are coming.
I hope I’ll be ready.”
Nothing has changed. I still reach for the phone to call her every day. I still feel basically the same.
My world is way off kilter but not enough for me to come to terms with where I am in time and place.
I can’t go back to where I was before.
I can’t realistically stay where I am now and I can’t move towards where I’ve never been before.
Not yet anyway.
I realize this makes no sense except maybe to me.
I completely get where I am now, I’ve known this day would come.
It’s just that I’m not sure what to do with myself. Don’t want to upset anyone unduly but…
And I have a lifetime worth of anger I couldn’t express because I would never hurt my mother…
Not that we never disagreed but I felt my mother had enough to deal with without my adding to it.
Do I need grief counseling? Maybe.
Oddly enough right now I have little to nothing to say.
Don’t have the words.
G’night,
Laura
Condolences on the loss of your mom.
Hi. I found your blog in trying to search high and low for someone making the connection between the accusation that David Letterman is a sexist who should be called out, and the fact that NY State Senator Hiram Monserrate has charges of domestic violence against him, Tom Golisano dismissed that as a “personal issue”, and no one has called out Monserrate or Golisano.
I think it is ironic that you have the two stories together, but you didn’t see it the way I do…
Here is my blog post…
David Letterman and Hiram Monserrate: The Republicans have got to be kidding
What?
Republican debutante Sarah Palin wants David Letterman to apologize for making a sexual joke ALLEGEDLY about her 14-year-old daughter? (Even though, we all know it was about her 18-year-old daughter, who clearly has experienced sex, and whom Sarah Palin paraded around the campaign trail as an unmarried, pregnant teen, exposing her to the attention of late night comedy hosts.)
How about the Republicans disavowing NY State Senator Hiram Monserrate who ALLEGEDLY slashed his girlfriend’s face with a broken shot glass? (as reported here and elsewhere.)
This is the typical Republican hypocrisy. And, the two stories may even have a direct correlation. It would be just like Karl Rove to advise the Republican Party that since voters should be looking at an ELECTED OFFICIAL who should be condemned because it appears he assaulted a woman, the party might instead try to get the press to go report on a LATENIGHT COMEDIAN, who told an inappropriate joke about a woman.
If it is wrong to joke about hurting women, Sarah Palin, then it is definitely wrong to slash women in the face. And, one probably should not cohort with public officials who are accused of doing so. So, please tell your Republican colleagues in the NY State Senate to go back to their old plan to demand Hiram Monserrate’s removal, and, to get rid of their new plan, to try to use Democrat Hiram Monserrate as a pawn in a Republican coup to wrongly take the majority of a statewide legislative body.
And, Mr. Letterman: Since Sarah Palin refuses to go on your show, why don’t you offer her spot to someone else who can talk about respect for women? You should invite NY State Senate Hiram Monserrate onto your show, to discuss his feelings about jokes against women. That ought to be a lot of laughs.
And, if you can’t get Hiram Monserrate directly, perhaps you could try for some of his current Republican allies? Or, perhaps billionaire Tom Golisano, who characterized the charges against Monserrate as “a personal issue”? Or, maybe you could get some of the Democratic Party leaders and Working Families Party leaders who are willing to forgive Monserrate–if only they can have his vote back.