tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post6060332641568571164..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: WHAT THE HELL KIND OF DEBATE QUESTION WAS THAT?Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-20989713941602788092015-12-21T02:52:49.120-05:002015-12-21T02:52:49.120-05:00Just want to say David Muir is an empty suit and a...Just want to say David Muir is an empty suit and an empty head. I enjoy reading gossip how he's a raging egomaniac at ABC News (who watches that?) and a pushy control freak who thinks he's God. <br /><br />Our national media is truly dreadful, just the worst. Belvoirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18434724232693713684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-44537229566890788772015-12-20T15:31:11.869-05:002015-12-20T15:31:11.869-05:00That was a bad question, but the worst was from Ra...That was a bad question, but the worst was from Raddatz about Ocare causing a 27% increase in healthcare costs over the past 5 years. As though a.) that was Ocare's fault and b.) that it is not actually a reduction in the historic increases in healthcare costs. Unfortunately, it caught HRC flatfooted and she did not clarify the record. The impression remained that Ocare was a cost increaser.mlbxxxxxxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05931351723996391533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-68814248248240797012015-12-20T13:37:41.914-05:002015-12-20T13:37:41.914-05:00This brings to mind an incident from my early chil...This brings to mind an incident from my early childhood (circa 1940s). We lived in an apartment building in Brooklyn. The downstairs neighbor didn't like it that, as a terrible two-year-old, I ran around a lot, my tiny two year old shoes thumping on her ceiling. <br /><br />I remember "the lady downstairs" often banged on her ceiling with a broom handle in rage.<br /><br />So one day she got a bright idea. No more thumping with broom handles. Instead, she phoned the FBI and told them she heard a still in our apartment and smelled alcohol and thought we were moonshiners. Yes, in a Brooklyn apartment.<br /><br />Was it "Profiling?" You betcha. My father was a salesman for a company that distributed Johnny Walker scotch and other alcoholic beverages to liquor stores, bars, and restaurants. So there had to be a connection, right?<br /><br />The FBI actually came. Or maybe it was the alcohol and tax division of the Secret Service after the FBI passed along the hot tip. The Feds, from whatever branch of government they were, made a perfunctory search of the building's basement, looking for distilling equipment or whisky barrels. Instead they found bicycles, the super's locker containing his tools,garbage ready for hauling, and a furnace. They didn't search the apartment because they didn't have a search warrant. They didn't bother to get one, either.The woman "heard" a still? What does a still sound like? What is the sound of alcohol evaporating? Or condensing? How would she have known?<br /><br />Yes, I agree if you see something, say something. But make sure that what you see is pretty clearly anti-social activity. You know, from what I hear, a man planting a tree is most often just a man planting a tree, not digging a hole to bury a dismembered body.<br /><br />Yours very crankily,<br />The New York Crank<br /><br />The New York Crankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04489472134701718697noreply@blogger.com