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1

counterpoint: please, regularly throw your mask away and use a fresh mask.

also, stop buying the N95s that make you look like a duck.

2

Win the prize of giving the Space Needle free manual labor!

3

What gives you the clout to insult NYPD cops Jas?

4

what gives the Po-po
the 'right' to Murder
its Citizenry
dewey?

5

Your reminder that Chihuly is the "Thomas Kinkade of stained glass", so don't bother with his exhibit. (Who's go a link to that article?)

Here is one example of Chihuly's civic-mindedness: In exchange for exclusive exhibit/retail at Seattle Center real estate, PROMISED (then reneged) he would provide a 3000 square foot studio for other glass blowers.

7

I never liked Bitch Media, or any other commercial product that put “bitch” in its name.

9

@7 you're missing out on some good local biscuits and gravy.

The headlines weren't quite next to each other, but the fact that the baseball stadium is getting ~25% more funding for upgrading their diamond club than all the indigenous tribes are getting to deal with all of climate change says something about America that I don't quite have the poetic skill to express. But it's definitely there.

11

Without the NYPD we wouldn’t have Law and Order reruns! Then what would we do?

13

@12: Ok, you've established that you have found some end results of municipal workers performing their public safety tasks required by their job quite pathetic, given the expenditures and allocations made by publicly elected officials (in a very blue state, but that's beside the point), but is there anything else you want to add to that?

17

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Maybe it is just my having grown up in the 9/11 era and not Stonewall, but I don't think I could disrespect NYPD like that - yikes - a few bad apples everywhere; many if not most are heroes

19

Ever been in a NYC subway station? Know how many of them there are? To assert that because a crime happened in the subway system proves the ineffectiveness of the NYPD is to demonstrate your ignorance?

20

@17 "spoil the barrel". Sorry, you didn't finish the quote and I had to help out!

21

@18 - exactly, blip need to keep an eye on duplicitous creep.

24

@22: Nobody's making excuses for the NYPD cops. There's nothing to be excused for in the first place. What went wrong, did go wrong. I can't think of another profession where Murphy's Law raises so much havoc, especially as evil rages.

We learn and go on.

27

Cops don't prevent or solve crime. They commit crime, enable crime, promote crime, and cover up crime, but they don't do anything to prevent or solve it. They collect paychecks and pensions and when they behave badly the taxpayers pay out the penalties.

32

@28: So by not joining in the insulting of the cops, one is excusing the cops? Ultimately, there is no such thing as excusing something for which I have no power over.

And, just like you and everyone else, I provide my opinion whether requested or not.

34

T-Mobile Park. It still sounds so strange. They gotta stop selling naming rights to these places. I ain't ever going to get used to the Crypto.com Arena. It'll always be the Staples Center to me which itself was a purchased right, but at least it started off as the Staples Center from its opening. LA's Forum, in search of a revival, is now the Kia Forum, Sigh.

Guaranteed Rate Field, anyone? And there have been some real embarrassing re-namings in the past by fly-by-night dot coms that I won't list here. Oh..and Enron Field.

The people of San Francisco halted that shit by ballot proposition when the 49ers sold naming rights to Monster Cable, but the ban on naming rights was overturned right before Candlestick was demolished. And so it goes.

But isn't permanence sometimes a wonderful thing? Think Yankee Stadium.

35

I seem to recall that "Galaxy Gold" was closer to "International Orange," probably to keep aircraft from hitting it.

36

@28, "....you are a doddering boomer with way too much time on your hands who would have been eaten alive if you hadn't been born in the most coddled generation to ever walk the earth....."

I do write a lot. 12 step programs say writing is good therapy for recovering whatevers.

As to being eaten alive & coddled, I drove a tractor trailer delivering odd lot freight in the Chicago metro area for 20 years. Any time you want to swap stories about the street, let me know. (not to mention I get a good laugh out of the generation that has lived all their lives with the instant gratification of cell phones, computers, 2 car families & no military draft telling me I'm coddled. I was REQUIRED to take 2 yrs of Latin in High School.)

Finally, no one is saying that there should be no criticism of the police. But the police is an organization made up of people who are fallible. And they are an organization in a democratic nation trying to do a job in the cross hairs of justice vs freedom. And last, they are fallible humans trying to enforce laws which, by the nature of humanity, they themselves find hard to observe. Some police tend to become a bit psychotic from that internal, personal conflict.

But as we have seen by the mixed verdicts of the past several years, the justice system can readily sort out truly evil police officers, in spite of extortionists (IMHO) like the not so reverend Al Sharpton and the BLMers like MN Attorney General Keith Ellison, Police Chiefs Medaria Arradondo, Jeffrey B. Norman, Arthur L Jones, C. J. Davis, and 100 other black law enforcement officers who are in charge of law enforcement in their communities which BLMers & SLOG writers all tell us are systemically racist....even though they're managed by black people.

Who's zoomin' who?

37

"Bitch Media is no more."

Odd how Jas gets to use racist & sexist words in a hateful, name calling manner, but when I use them to point out what she does, my account & posts get deleted. What a thin skin she has. And how whipped SLOG management is.

It's such a good thing that people of color can't be racist or sexist.

39

@37,

Huh? When/where did Jas use racist & sexist words? Bitch is the legal name of the company that's ceasing operations. This is standard, run of the mill reporting that you're all worked up about.

40

Oh look, they caught the guy and they were well aware of who he was (but that didn't allow them to stop him from committing this crime or evading arrest now did it)?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/frank-james-arrest-brooklyn-subway-shooting_n_6256c30ee4b052d2bd5cafa3

James is known by local law enforcement, having had nine prior arrests in New York City and three in New Jersey, said NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig. He was able to purchase a handgun in 2011 in Ohio because he did not have any felony convictions, said Essig.

The only surprising thing about this story is that they brought him in alive.

42

@40: "but that didn't allow them to stop him from committing this crime or evading arrest now did it?"

There goes that darn probable cause and due process again, so annoying.

"The only surprising thing about this story is that they brought him in alive."

I know, and he's black to boot! So annoying when narratives get broken.

43

@42 it goes to the point that cops don't prevent crime. NYPD has a 5.5 BILLION dollar budget with nearly half a billion more paid out in overtime. The only thing they've done lately is remove all homeless people from the subway.

45

The story just gets better. The cops didn't find the guy. He called them and told them where he was. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/13/us/brooklyn-subway-shooting-wednesday/index.html

46

Amazing. Seldom do terrorists turn themselves in.

47

"The cops didn't find the guy.
He called them and told
them where he was."

good thing
he called from
the doughnut shop

48

sick

49

@39, except that when I use those words in the exact same quoting/legal/ or referential way, my account gets deleted. So if any use of those words, even abbreviations or truncations are racist on my part, how else can I view them (and even more so as she seems to, in a racist manner, reserve the use of those words for herself) on her part.

Seems to me that if black people get to determine what words white people get to use/not use, whites should at least get to say which end of the bus they (blacks) can sit in. (That last is sarcasm. A proper use of the bus reference. But I don't expect SLOG will leave the comment up for long.)

50

and yet, MC
your quote

"Bitch Media is no more."

is Still up.

try it again &
let's see how
long it takes 'em.

are they usually
pretty Quick to Cancel?


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