[NYP] It is "unconscionable" that Rikers Island inmates who were released due to coronavirus concerns are committing new crimes, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday.
"I think it’s unconscionable just on a human level that folks were shown mercy and this is what some of them have done," the mayor said during his morning briefing Monday, which came on the heels of a Post report outlining the issue.
De Blasio said the number of re-offenders remains relatively small and that the city was "buckling down" on monitoring and supervising released prisoners.
#4
I wonder if she'll read disgraced Bal'mer mayor Pugh's book:
"Prosecutors accused [Catherine] Pugh of earning nearly $800,000 from a self-published children's book series known as Healthy Holly that promoted exercise and nutritional eating though stories of an African American girl."
#5
Once upon a time there was a little post-Pomo woke community organizer, and zis name was Lil' Black Alinsky.
And zis mother was called MaligNancy. And zis sisterbrother non-cisgendered post-racial post-queer nonhetero-normative sibling was called Big Mike.
And Big Mike made zim a beautiful little Red Coat, and a pair of beautiful little Blue Trousers. And MaligNancy went to the Bazaar and bought zim a beautiful Green Umbrella and a lovely little Pair of Purple Shoes with Crimson Soles and Crimson Linings.
And then wasn't Lil' Black Alinsky grand? So ze put on all zis Fine Clothes and went out for a walk in the Twitter. And by and by ze met an Orange Fascist (G-R-R-R-R!!!). And the Fascist said to zim, "Lil' Black Alinsky, Ima eat you up!"
And Lil' Black Alinsky said, "Oh! Please, Mr. Orange Fascist, don't eat me up, and I'll give you my beautiful little Red Coat."
So the Fascist said, "Very well, I won't eat you this time, but you must give me your beautiful little Red Coat." So the Orange Fascist got poor Lil' Black Alinsky's beautiful little Red Coat, and went away saying, "Now I'm the baddest O.M.F. on the Twitter."
And so it went, until Lil' Black Alinsky learned how to make the Orange Fascists live by their own rules!
But the Big Orange Fascist said, "What use would my rules be to you? I've got the presidency and you're reading fairy tales to genetically-inferior brain-damaged children while your nominee shits his trousers and gropes and slobbers all over little girls."
But Lil' Black Alinsky said, "Rayciss!"
"Be it so," said the Big Orange Fascist, "that's a very good idea. You can cry rayciss racist, and I won't eat you this time."
So the Big Orange Fascist got poor Lil' Black Alinsky's battleground-state electoral college votes, and then some. And he went away saying, "I'm YUGE!! Suck on it, bitch post-gendered dubiously-chromosomed homunculus!"
And by and by Lil' Black Alinsky met another Orange Fascist, and froze the target, and made it personal.
"You could tie a knot on your tail, and carry it that way," said Lil' Black Alinsky.
"So I could," said the O.F. "Give it to me and I won't eat you this time."
So Lil' Black Alinsky made it personal and froze the target and tied a knot in the O.F.'s tail.
Presently ze heard a horrible noise that sounded like "Gr-r-r-r-rrrrrrr," and it got louder and louder.
"Oh dear!" said Lil' Black Alinsky, "There are all the Orange Fascists coming back to eat me up! What shall I do?" So ze ran quickly to a palm-tree, and peeped round it to see what the matter was.
And there ze saw all the O.F.s fighting and disputing which of them was the grandest. And at last they all got so angry that they jumped up and took off all the fine clothes and began to shoot each other with their assault weapons and bite each other with their great big white supremacist teeth.
And they came, rolling and tumbling, right to the foot of the very tree where Lil' Black Alinsky was hiding, but he jumped quickly in behind the umbrella. As the O.F.s wrangled and scrambled, they found themselves in a ring around the tree.
Then, when the Orange Fascists were very wee and very far away, Lil' Black Alinsky jumped up and called out,
"Oh! Fascisti! [for ze was quite multicultural], why have you taken off all your nice clothes? Don't you want them any more?"
But the O.F.s only answered, "Gr-r-r-rrrrr!"
Lil' Black Alinsky said, "If you want them, say so, or I'll take them away." But the O.F.s would not let go of each others' tails, and so they could only say "Gr-r-r-rrrrrr!"
And the O.F.s were very, very bitter clingers, as white orange folk are wont to be, but still they would not let go of each others' tails. And they were so angry that they ran round the tree, trying to eat each other up, and they ran faster and faster till they were whirling round so fast that you couldn't see their legs at all.
And Lil' Black Alinsky persuaded Big Mike to take the nomination and put the nasty Big Orange Fascist inside some lovely melted organic small-batch butter!
When MaligNancy saw the melted butter, wasn't she pleased!
"Now," said she, "we'll all have pancakes for supper!"
"We'll all have pancakes for supper!" repeated Ol' Man Plugz.
And she and Lil' Black Alinsky made a huge big plate of most lovely pancakes.
And then they all sat down to supper. And Black Mumbo ate Twenty-seven pancakes, and Black Jumbo ate Fifty-five, but Little Black Sambo ate a Hundred and Sixty-nine, because he was so hungry.
#12
PBS, another free lefty way to reach the vital suburban women they will need for the Biden-Obama campaign. The Wookie is thinking hard about it and the. Biden comment today about her as a. VP makes it clear it is appealing to save his hopes of being President for a years or two. Polling data and the next month of WhuhanFlu recovery will determine if she jumps in or waits for 24 to be the lead. The wait endangers their legacy as the truth about the eight years of corrupt government and political destruction Obama engineered during his term. Letting these people get their hands on power again will truly mark the twilight of the American era.
[The Hill] "I'd take her in a heartbeat," Biden told Pittsburgh's KDKA on Monday when asked if he'd choose Obama if she said she would be willing to be on the ticket with him.
"She's brilliant. She knows the way around. She is a really fine woman. The Obamas are great friends," Biden added.
[The Right Scoop] In case you can’t see it, the video shows Obama sitting with his friends watching TV when a Biden ad comes on.
The ad shows Biden saying "And the kids used to come up and reach in the pool and rub my leg down so it was straight and then watch the hair come back up again. They’d look at it. So I learned about roaches and I learned about kids jumping on my lap. And I love kids jumping on my lap."
Obama’s friends just glared at him and Obama shrugged his shoulders and said ’what?’. LOL!
It ends with a rap song and I’ve no idea what it says as the video fades to a Trump Pence logo and then the American flag.
[Just say NO to bailing out any state that can't watch how it spends and makes too many promises. And Illinois? Screw 'em.]
“It’s raining money out there! Quick, Lloyd, grab a coupla bucketsful!”
[Wirepoints] Wirepoints has obtained a copy of a letter detailing a federal bailout request sent by Illinois Senate President Don Harmon (D-Chicago) in substantially similar form to all members of the Illinois Congressional Delegation. The letter, which is reproduced below, was sent on April 14 on behalf of Harmon's 40-member Democratic caucus, which holds a majority in the Illinois Senate.
The requested bailout is galling in scope and shameless in purpose – a clear attempt to use the pandemic as cover to get federal money to pay for Illinois' pre-pandemic fiscal mismanagement, particularly of its pensions. No
The Democratic caucus seeks well over $41.6 billion, including important crisis-related relief such as $1 billion in public-health aid to minority communities and unspecified amounts for increased Medicaid reimbursements and hardship payments to health care facilities.
But the vast majority of their request amounts to a national bailout of Illinois' pre-pandemic failures. It includes:
$15 billion for a no-strings-attached block grant;
$6 billion for the state's unemployment trust fund;
$10 billion for the state's pension funds; and,
$9.6 billion in unrestricted aid to Illinois municipalities, again for pensions.
The $15 billion for the state is more than double the state's projected losses caused by the pandemic and downturn, depending on how you count it. Gov. J.B. Pritzker released estimates on Wednesday. Pritzker said total budget shortfalls for this year and next total $6.2 billion, assuming the state's pending constitutional amendment to allow for a progressive tax increase passes in November. Harmon's letter claims revenue losses could exceed $14.1 billion, without explanation for the difference with Pritzker's numbers.
Also notable is that the $6 billion bailout for Illinois' unemployment trust fund stems from the state's comparatively poor management of it. Illinois, prior to the pandemic, had the fourth-worst funding level for that state fund.
The new bailout would be in addition to federal assistance already authorized by Congress and the Federal Reserve Bank. They include, for Illinois, approximately $4.9 billion under the new CARES Act and about $9.6 billion in a new Federal Reserve facility to purchase municipal bonds.
Chicago may also be seeking its own federal bailout money separately. F*ck off
The biggest intended beneficiary of the requested bailout is obvious from the letter: pensions.
Harmon and the Democratic caucus admit that even in a normal year pension costs at the state level are crowding out funding for services and programs, yet they show no intention whatsoever of making reforms to correct preexisting problems. Instead, they seek $10 billion for state pensions alone. And the rationale for the $9.6 billion sought for municipalities is clear. Revenue losses resulting from the pandemic, their letter says, "will dramatically impact municipalities' abilities to fund retirement systems."
Illinois government spent the last three decades creating the nation's worst pension crisis. Now it wants taxpayers across the nation to bail it out.
#10
Illinois has been on financial life support for a long time thanks to crooked left-wing (Dem) politics. No federal bail-out; they will just use the money to finance the campaigns of Dem politicians.
#11
I hope to holy Hades they don't get a bail-out...any state or municipality. I understand the state's pension plan (Illinois) is protected/covered in the state's Constitution. I've not researched it myself, but I can believe it, knowing IL for what it is.
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#14
Just issue muni junk bonds. If you go bankrupt, liquidate assets, downgrade from state to territory and remove all elected officials and replace with martial law.
There, that wasnt so hard, was it?
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[NYP] It is "unconscionable" that Rikers Island inmates who were released due to coronavirus concerns are committing new crimes, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday.
[The Hill] "I'd take her in a heartbeat," Biden told Pittsburgh's KDKA on Monday when asked if he'd choose Obama if she said she would be willing to be on the ticket with him. 
