Bits & Pieces #160
Okay, okay, so I was wrong! It’s not the first time and it won’t be the last, but I really thought Putin was too smart to lead his country into a disaster like this. People like Joe Biden were dead right.
Author: The Urban Curmudgeon
Dishonesty, Race and What Have You?
In a recent show, Bill Maher led a failed discussion on the maddening fact that our government can’t seem to get anything done. Unfortunately, the discussion barely touched on the reasons why this is true or the fact that Joe Manchin opposed
Voting and War
The GOP is changing state voting laws big time. Surprisingly though, most of the changes are nowhere near as limiting as the Democrats would like you to believe. Of course, by the same token, most are completely un- necessary and
Biden’s First Year Pt #2
So the last Curmudgeon checked out how Joe Biden had done during his first year as a legislator and we found out that he was making progress but that neither he nor anyone else in the Democrat’s world had any
Bideen’s First Year
Joe Biden has been President for a little over a year and regardless of whether or not you like the job he’s done it’s hard to say he hasn’t done a far better one than his predecessor. Still, there are many Americans
The Coup Failed
On March 1, 1954, four members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party sent a fusillade of automatic pistol fire raking the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Five members of The House were wounded. All recovered! The shooters, three men and
What’s Going on Here?
Forty six percent of the GOP and thirty two percent of Democrats think there will be a civil war during their lifetimes. Why? Well they look at what happened on 1/6/2021 and they see a bunch of dumb schmucks that put their
Some of This, Some of That
The worst tornados in memory, hit six states this week, resulting in many deaths. But the real news was the political reactions to the devastation. Even though most of the devastated states were GOP based; Joe Biden immediately pledged help for
NYC-The Big Jam II
So last time we talked about all the problems with Traffic & Transportation but we never got around to what to do about them. Now we’re going to face that problem. We may not solve it, or even any part
NYC-The Big Jam
The passing and signing of the Infrastructure bill sent spasms of greed and delight flashing across the country. Urban planners and the contractors that erect their dreams are aflutter with delight over the prospects ahead. And in New York politicians are girding