The unimportant news thread

[T. D.]

It's getting funnier!

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/31/giuliani-loses-financial-support-of-billionaires-langone-cooperman.html

Giuliani loses support of billionaires Langone, Cooperman: 'I wouldn't give him a nickel'

Many funny quotes in the article.

Can't help thinking of the tune MacArthur Park: ...all that sweet brown hair dye flowing down...

For those with a taste for schlock (Richard Harris's version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5DmDPor1EM&t=6s

[T. D.]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66651506

A Utah woman, who ran a once popular parenting advice YouTube channel, was arrested on suspicion of child abuse after her malnourished son escaped from home, officials said.

Ruby Franke and her business partner Jodi Nan Hildebrandt were arrested in Ivins, Utah on Wednesday.

Officials also found Ms Franke's 10-year-old daughter in a malnourished condition at her partner's house.

Ms Franke and her business partner face two felony counts of child abuse.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

It's getting funnier!

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/31/giuliani-loses-financial-support-of-billionaires-langone-cooperman.html

Giuliani loses support of billionaires Langone, Cooperman: 'I wouldn't give him a nickel'

Many funny quotes in the article.

Can't help thinking of the tune MacArthur Park: ...all that sweet brown hair dye flowing down...

For those with a taste for schlock (Richard Harris's version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5DmDPor1EM&t=6s

Surprised to see that things were getting so bad for him financially that he had to sell his apartment in NYC.

I feel more along the lines of the guy who said that he missed the old Rudy.

PD

[Spotted Horses]

I feel more along the lines of the guy who said that he missed the old Rudy.

The old Rudy was pretty similar to the new Rudy. When 9/11 happened Rudy was due to leave office because of term limits for NYC mayor. After 9/11 Rudy announced that only he could handle it and that the election of a new Mayor had to be delayed so he could stay in office. Sound familiar?

[T. D.]

No sympathy whatsoever for Rudy.
Always a grandstander and seriously overrated, going back to his days as prosecutor.
Has done nothing but double down on repeated MAGA blowhard nonsense. Basically fomented an attempted coup.
Richly deserves any "misfortune"...let the chips fall where they may.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

The old Rudy was pretty similar to the new Rudy. When 9/11 happened Rudy was due to leave office because of term limits for NYC mayor. After 9/11 Rudy announced that only he could handle it and that the election of a new Mayor had to be delayed so he could stay in office. Sound familiar?

I was thinking in terms of his actions in helping to clean up New York back in the day.

PD

[Karl Henning]

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[Spotted Horses]

I was thinking in terms of his actions in helping to clean up New York back in the day.

PD

There was a dramatic decrease in crime in NYC, from 1991 through 2000. The problem is Giuliani because Mayor in 1994. Similar decreases in violent crime were observed during that period in the U.S. as a whole, and particularly in other large cities. What Rudy can take credit for is "stop and frisk," which was a new name for police brutalizing black people.

https://www.npr.org/2016/11/01/500104506/broken-windows-policing-and-the-origins-of-stop-and-frisk-and-how-it-went-wrong



There was a peak in violent crime in the U.S. in the 70's and 80's and which the feakenomics people attribute to use of leaded gasoline, which causes neurological defects in young people.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

There was a dramatic decrease in crime in NYC, from 1991 through 2000. The problem is Giuliani because Mayor in 1994. Similar decreases in violent crime were observed during that period in the U.S. as a whole, and particularly in other large cities. What Rudy can take credit for is "stop and frisk," which was a new name for police brutalizing black people.

https://www.npr.org/2016/11/01/500104506/broken-windows-policing-and-the-origins-of-stop-and-frisk-and-how-it-went-wrong



There was a peak in violent crime in the U.S. in the 70's and 80's and which the feakenomics people attribute to use of leaded gasoline, which causes neurological defects in young people.

What I was referring to was his actions against organized criminals and crime in general.  And no, I didn't know about his fights in terms of being mayor.  And, yes, stop and frisk was and is horrible!  And I didn't follow things in the 80's and later as well as I'm doing now--which is still imperfect.

And I'm not saying that he shouldn't be punished with what he is currently charged with.  What I am saying is that (for me anyway) that *I don't just condemn a life.  I can't throw stones and it's hard for me to see a life just angrily tossed off into a pile of rubbish.  I hope that that makes sense to you.

*Wish that I were perfect. 

**leaded gas....well, those of us of certain ages are all in a bad place...besides playing in dirt in leaded areas (me too).  And I don't know the study to be fair.  I just know my upbringing.

Respectfully,

PD

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Post-covid brain fog.


https://www.bbc.com/news/health-66658257

[DavidW]

This might not be new, but it was new to me!  Disney is pulling out of the physical media market in Australia.  And so it begins.  Streaming is taking over.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

AOC urges US to apologize for meddling in Latin America.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/02/aoc-us-apology-latin-america-coup-chile?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[Todd]

AOC urges US to apologize for meddling in Latin America.

We ain't done meddling yet. 

[Todd]

From ICN:

Green Groups Are Divided Over a Proposal to Boost the Nation's Hydropower.

Here's Why The new bill would shorten the permitting process for some projects, with a focus on converting old dams that don't currently produce electricity into ones that do.

[LKB]

AOC urges US to apologize for meddling in Latin America.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/02/aoc-us-apology-latin-america-coup-chile?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

AOC should think things through more often, instead of voicing opinions which seem purposeless beyond generating headlines.

[Karl Henning]

AOC should think things through more often, instead of voicing opinions which seem purposeless beyond generating headlines.

Yes: leave the performative vapidity to the other side of the aisle.

[LKB]

Yes: leave the performative vapidity to the other side of the aisle.

It is prevalent enough on both sides, though the GOP ( Greedy Obsequious Pussies ) have seemingly ( if unsurprisingly) committed to the High Orange ( as in prison-jumpsuit-orange ) Priest of Vapidity, Venality and Vacuity for the duration of the 2024 election cycle. 

( l hereby plead nolo contendre to the charge of parenthetical abuse. Oops, did it again! )

[Todd]

Thoughtful, informed partisanship makes a return to GMG.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

AOC should think things through more often, instead of voicing opinions which seem purposeless beyond generating headlines.

Look at what the nation did to the countries in South America. They were illegal, inhuman, and unethical. It even didn't work for power politics.  How would you feel if Russians or Chinese did the same to your country. Public apology may enhance political and economic interests, as well as the national prestige, of the USA.

[SimonNZ]

AOC urges US to apologize for meddling in Latin America.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/02/aoc-us-apology-latin-america-coup-chile?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Well...the gist of the article seems to be more "AOC calls for documents around US involvement in coups etc to be declassified for greater historical understanding and honesty - particularly wrt current migrant crises etc being a direct and ongoing consequence of those catastrophic destabilizations."

Its not "Saying sorry makes everything okay again".