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Storm clouds on the horizon!
This was taken about forty-five minutes ago. It is currently storming outside my window. We need the rain - so I'm happy about it. But it's pouring so hard outside at the moment, that I can barely see out the window.
Wow - we've got hail! It's serious.
Was hot and sticky on the walk. I came back soaking wet, with my clothes sticking to me, and feeling dehydrated, so I took a nice cool/lukewarm shower.
Feeling lovely at the moment. And the thunderstorm feels like a huge release of energy - my irritability melting away the heavens unleash its wrath upon the earth. Maybe it will cool things off? It's supposed to. Ah, and now, its clearing off. Will I get a rainbow - there's blue sky and sun behind it. NY is now officially a tropical climate, who knew?
New York vs. The Coronavirus and bankruptcy
Anyhow..listened to the Governor's briefing today - he gave a brief one.(I was told it was brief - it lasted an hour.]
( NY's ongoing battle with the Coronavirus and well, fireworks )
Crazy Company
( eh...we're broke )
NYC vs. the Black Lives Matter Protestors
Meanwhile...I was telling my mother about the protestors who've camped out in front of Town Hall, until NYC decides to reduce the NYPD's budget aka "defund" the police and redistribute the money elsewhere. They've set up quite a camp for themselves. Redesigned the plaza to be more hospitable. Among the attractions? A library, a community garden, and a tea hut. I've decided they are bored and desperate to socialize, also they are getting a lot of validation from our equally bored media. (I mean the Coronavirus is starting to get old.) It's also kind of fun to protest and camp out.
[NYC is broke, by the way. So I'm not exactly sure why they are fighting over de-funding the police - it's not like NYC actually has any money to fund the police. Actually NYC is more than happy to reduce the police budget by more than half, and use the protests as an excuse to do so, while they are at - they are closing Rikers, releasing people who can't pay bail, and releasing all these folks back into the population, and none of them have any jobs to go back to, or really homes. The police are kind of annoyed, but the city is broke. Doing this solves multiple problems from the city's perspective - less people getting the virus if the jails are less crowded, less money going to the police and more to other areas, and maybe it will appease the protestors! Win-Win. The Mayor announced today that he was struggling to figure out what to cut and if the state didn't fund them soon, they'd have to lay off city workers.]
Below the cut is the article from NY Times on Instagram about the encampment outside City Hall.
( here it is in case you want to read it for yourself )
I'm on the fence about the whole defunding police thing. I'm not so sure this is going to result in the reforms people think it will. Also racism? That's prevalent. It's not just against Blacks. It's also at its root about selfishness. We're an extremely self-centered and narcissistic society. Jim Carrey has a new book out about it - or about how narcissistic Hollywood is - where he lampoons himself, Gwyneth Paltrow, Nick Cage, a thinly disquised Tom Cruise...among others. Stating, somewhat arrogantly, I think, that this is the book for the end of the world as we know it - not the actual end of the world, but the end of the selfish world we live in. I don't know. I've read history. Humans are selfish creatures. If the Plague didn't make us better, or WWII, or the CIVIL WAR, or 1918 Flu, or various other things..why this?
Also Carrey thought 9/11 would be the end of ironic humor and nastiness.
Alrighty then.
I saw on FB, a woman rallying at a old white couple she'd stumbled across who told her not to date her boyfriend because he was black. Which, honestly, pissed me off too. But what she should have written was what I just wrote. Not, ( Read more... )
This was taken about forty-five minutes ago. It is currently storming outside my window. We need the rain - so I'm happy about it. But it's pouring so hard outside at the moment, that I can barely see out the window.
Wow - we've got hail! It's serious.
Was hot and sticky on the walk. I came back soaking wet, with my clothes sticking to me, and feeling dehydrated, so I took a nice cool/lukewarm shower.
Feeling lovely at the moment. And the thunderstorm feels like a huge release of energy - my irritability melting away the heavens unleash its wrath upon the earth. Maybe it will cool things off? It's supposed to. Ah, and now, its clearing off. Will I get a rainbow - there's blue sky and sun behind it. NY is now officially a tropical climate, who knew?
New York vs. The Coronavirus and bankruptcy
Anyhow..listened to the Governor's briefing today - he gave a brief one.(I was told it was brief - it lasted an hour.]
( NY's ongoing battle with the Coronavirus and well, fireworks )
Crazy Company
( eh...we're broke )
NYC vs. the Black Lives Matter Protestors
Meanwhile...I was telling my mother about the protestors who've camped out in front of Town Hall, until NYC decides to reduce the NYPD's budget aka "defund" the police and redistribute the money elsewhere. They've set up quite a camp for themselves. Redesigned the plaza to be more hospitable. Among the attractions? A library, a community garden, and a tea hut. I've decided they are bored and desperate to socialize, also they are getting a lot of validation from our equally bored media. (I mean the Coronavirus is starting to get old.) It's also kind of fun to protest and camp out.
[NYC is broke, by the way. So I'm not exactly sure why they are fighting over de-funding the police - it's not like NYC actually has any money to fund the police. Actually NYC is more than happy to reduce the police budget by more than half, and use the protests as an excuse to do so, while they are at - they are closing Rikers, releasing people who can't pay bail, and releasing all these folks back into the population, and none of them have any jobs to go back to, or really homes. The police are kind of annoyed, but the city is broke. Doing this solves multiple problems from the city's perspective - less people getting the virus if the jails are less crowded, less money going to the police and more to other areas, and maybe it will appease the protestors! Win-Win. The Mayor announced today that he was struggling to figure out what to cut and if the state didn't fund them soon, they'd have to lay off city workers.]
Below the cut is the article from NY Times on Instagram about the encampment outside City Hall.
( here it is in case you want to read it for yourself )
I'm on the fence about the whole defunding police thing. I'm not so sure this is going to result in the reforms people think it will. Also racism? That's prevalent. It's not just against Blacks. It's also at its root about selfishness. We're an extremely self-centered and narcissistic society. Jim Carrey has a new book out about it - or about how narcissistic Hollywood is - where he lampoons himself, Gwyneth Paltrow, Nick Cage, a thinly disquised Tom Cruise...among others. Stating, somewhat arrogantly, I think, that this is the book for the end of the world as we know it - not the actual end of the world, but the end of the selfish world we live in. I don't know. I've read history. Humans are selfish creatures. If the Plague didn't make us better, or WWII, or the CIVIL WAR, or 1918 Flu, or various other things..why this?
Also Carrey thought 9/11 would be the end of ironic humor and nastiness.
Alrighty then.
I saw on FB, a woman rallying at a old white couple she'd stumbled across who told her not to date her boyfriend because he was black. Which, honestly, pissed me off too. But what she should have written was what I just wrote. Not, ( Read more... )