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Atrocities Against Our Kids

Posted on November 28, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

The hideous atrocities perpetrated by police across the nation against the OWS demonstrators are a brightly illuminated example of the sickness of our country. We saw it forty years ago in the late 60’s and 70’s but those cops had an emotional

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Posted in Politics Tagged OWS

OWS and Why We Need IT

Posted on November 24, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

The Wall Street Occupancy continues despite poor police work and a great deal of media non-coverage. The Wall Street crowd keeps trying to get us to believe that the protestors don’t know what they are protesting about but that just doesn’t wash.

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Posted in Politics Tagged Adam Pek, Goldman Sachs, Occupy Wall Street

Frank Bruni-Cycle Sycophant

Posted on November 21, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

Frank Bruni a sycophant lobbyist who masquerades as a reporter for the New York Times has just done his latest obeisance to Janette Sadik-Khan and her traffic follies? Bruni’s love letter to Sadik-Khan in the 9/11/11 Times, Sunday Review was about as

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Posted in New York City Tagged Frank Bruni, Janette Sadik-Khan

American Spring

Posted on November 16, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

Have been down to Wall Street a number of times, now and one thing is clear. This is a movement of neither the right nor the left but of a group of citizens who have gotten tired of being screwed. I’M MAD

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Posted in Politics Tagged Occupy Wall Street

Why Are We Angry With Banks?

Posted on November 6, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

Why Are we so Angry With banks? A good question. We need banks; they have always been an integral part of our economic blueprint and when they are functioning correctly they provide needed services. So what’s the problem? Well the problem is

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Posted in Social Commentary Tagged banks

Bits & Pieces #16

Posted on November 3, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

What is wrong with the NYC police? Overnight they have gone from a respected, model organization to a bunch of stupid thugs. The arrest of Naomi Wolf the other night is just outrageous and must reflect badly on the department. Ray Kelly

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Posted in Politics, Social Commentary Tagged David Stockman, Public Banks, Ray Kelly.Ken Burns, Ron Paul, tax hlidays

An Oily Problem

Posted on October 31, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

I was on my way down to Zucotti Park on Thursday evening and ran into a march against the Keystone Pipeline. Okay, I thought, that’s a specific that needs addressing. Good for them. There’s been a lot of noise lately about the

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Posted in Politics Tagged Keystone Pipeline, Zucotti Park

We Should All Doubt Thomas

Posted on October 29, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

A little noticed story appeared on page 20 of the 11/25 New York Times. Popular NPR, All Things Considered, co-host Michelle Norris will be leaving her post on the show until after the 2012 presidential elections because he husband Broderick Johnson will

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Posted in Politics, Social Commentary Tagged Claence Thomas, Michelle Norris, Supreme Court

The Corporations Won’t Get it Done

Posted on October 25, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

Watched an interesting discussion on the Chris Matthews show in which it was correctly pointed out that Obama made a huge mistake by saying in public that the Republicans wouldn’t play nice with him. It made him look weak and ineffectual. What

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Posted in Politics Tagged chris Matthews, Corporate Tax profits

Those Old Abortion Blues

Posted on October 18, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

I know the anti-abortion forces think they’re on a mission from God and that’s what’s so depressing.  I mean if they want to replace logic with faith in their own lives that’s their business, it’s when they decide that they know what’s

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Posted in Social Commentary Tagged abortion, Katie Stack

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