The City That Never Sleeps Hides From Snow
Jan 27, 2015 Political
Comrade Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City said it could be the storm of the century and told people to stay in. Don’t go out and don’t drive. If you drive, according to Governor Cuomo, you will be breaking the law and could face a $300 fine.
Chris Christie in New Jersey (a suburb of New York) closed ALL the roads because of the impending storm.
This will be historic with FEET, hear that, FEET of snow. Prepare now by getting what you need from the store and then going home and staying there.
And whatever you do DON’T drive.
Now that the storm had underwhelmed by dropping a mere pittance of snow (about 6 inches in New York) and missed areas like the Baltimore region nearly completely the aftermath shows that people are turning into wimps.
It is snow and places that have a cold winter usually get snow. Certainly people should have enough sense not to drive if the roads are bad or they do not have a vehicle capable of handling snow but to close down the city that never sleeps and to close roads across entire states is the nanny state dictating how people act.
They are turning people into wimps who can’t think for themselves and can’t decide whether or not to drive. No need, the government that decides on how much soda you can drink and bans trans fats has also dictated whether you can drive in the snow.
Doctors, nurses, EMTs, firefighters, those who care for others, police officers, all must go out. If you can’t drive then you walk if you are able or the National Guard picks up the mission essential and takes them to work. But if you are able to drive why should you have to resort to other methods?
Because the government said so. They need the streets clear so they can plow. Got it, but government is not usually an essential entity and while snow plows are essential to clearing roads many people are essential to the operation of a company or they are essential to the health care and protective services system.
We all can’t just take the day off because Comrade Mayor says to stay home.
Hey, for those who can telework or otherwise work from home then it makes sense. Unfortunately, not all jobs allow that luxury.
This is not to say that if one ventures out in a bad storm for a joy ride or non essential travel and gets stuck that there should be no consequence. They should pay to be pulled out and be fined if they hamper recovery efforts. However, they should be free to decide.
Americans should be ruggedly independent but are increasingly just dependent and that dependence is on government.
The hype by government officials is detrimental to good order. They screamed from mountain tops to stay in because of the historic storm. Now that it fizzled out people are less likely to heed warnings in the future. The mayor who cried wolf has seen to that.
People, use common sense and if you can stay in then do so. If you must travel then do so carefully and at your own risk.
But maybe there is an upside. Perhaps in a city that never sleeps people finally got some shut eye…
Sources:
Syracuse.com
Washington Times
New York Post
Cave canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
Tags: cried wolf, de blasio, freedom, historic, New York, snow, wimps
The Elites
Jul 21, 2009 Political
Well, well, well- here’s a story that has it all, a summer tearjerker about a black liberal university professor who was obviously “mistreated” by police because he was arrested for being the wrong color in the wrong place (at least if you believe him).
This story has it all, humor, pathos, and stupidity on an Epic scale. You have to figure that, because Al Sharpton has a cameo role in this farce, and you expect to hear him talk of Tawana Brawley in the same breath as he speaks of Harvard Professor Henry L. Gates Jr.
Professor Gates was arrested for disorderly conduct, but the initial incident stemmed from the fact that Police officers were attempting to investigate reports of two men with backpacks, apparently trying to force a door open in a Cambridge neighborhood home. It was Professor Gate’s home, but how do the police know this?
Supporters of a prominent Harvard University black scholar who was arrested at his own home by police responding to a report of a break-in say he is the victim of racial profiling.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. had forced his way through the front door of his home because it was jammed, his lawyer said Monday.
Cambridge police say they responded to the well-maintained two-story home near campus after a woman reported seeing “two black males with backpacks on the porch,” with one “wedging his shoulder into the door as if he was trying to force entry.”
By the time police arrived, Gates was already inside. Police say he refused to come outside to speak with an officer, who told him he was investigating a report of a break-in.
latimes.com
Professor Gates could have made all of this go away if he had cooperated with police instead of being confrontational, but apparently, as comedian Ron White once said, ” I had the right to be silent, I just didn’t have the ability.” And so the Professor, who you might think was smart, (after all, he IS teaching your children), decides to get all bowed up at these poor police officers, who would have liked nothing better than to peacefully resolve this and move on.
“Why, because I’m a black man in America?” Gates said, according to a police report written by Sgt. James Crowley. The Cambridge police refused to comment on the arrest Monday.
Gates — the director of Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research — initially refused to show the officer his identification, but then gave him a Harvard University ID card, according to police.
“Gates continued to yell at me, accusing me of racial bias and continued to tell me that I had not heard the last of him,” the officer wrote.
Gates said he turned over his driver’s license and Harvard ID — both with his photos — and repeatedly asked for the name and badge number of the officer, who refused. He said he then followed the officer as he left his house onto his front porch, where he was handcuffed in front of other officers, Gates said in a statement released by his attorney, fellow Harvard scholar Charles Ogletree, on a Web site Gates oversees, TheRoot.com
latimes.com
Good- I get so tired of people who decide that their rights are violated, when, if they could step back for a moment, they would, I am sure, be extremely disappointed to find out that it is not about them– not their blackness, not their sex, not their religion, but just about what appeared to a woman like a couple of men breaking into a house. It IS the police’s job to investigate complaints, and when someone begins cussing them, and making their job harder, bad things occur.
He was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge after police said he “exhibited loud and tumultuous behavior.” He was released later that day on his own recognizance. An arraignment was scheduled for Aug. 26.
Gates, 58, also refused to speak publicly Monday, referring calls to Ogletree.
“He was shocked to find himself being questioned and shocked that the conversation continued after he showed his identification,” Ogletree said.
Ogletree declined to say whether he believed the incident was racially motivated, saying “I think the incident speaks for itself.”
Some of Gates’ African-American colleagues say the arrest is part of a pattern of racial profiling in Cambridge.
Allen Counter, who has taught neuroscience at Harvard for 25 years, said he was stopped on campus by two Harvard police officers in 2004 after being mistaken for a robbery suspect. They threatened to arrest him when he could not produce identification.
latimes.com
And what’s with the old “I don’t have identification?” There’s a guy who has taught neuro- science for 25 years, and can’t remember to keep his ID on him? He didn’t even have a University ID? But I digress-
The Rev. Al Sharpton said he will attend Gates’ arraignment.
“This arrest is indicative of at best police abuse of power or at worst the highest example of racial profiling I have seen,” Sharpton said. “I have heard of driving while black and even shopping while black but now even going to your own home while black is a new low in police community affairs.”
Ogletree said Gates had returned from a trip to China on Thursday with a driver, when he found his front door jammed. He went through the back door into the home — which he leases from Harvard — shut off an alarm and worked with the driver to get the door open. The driver left, and Gates was on the phone with the property’s management company when police first arrived.
Ogletree also disputed the claim that Gates, who was wearing slacks and a polo shirt and carrying a cane, was yelling at the officer.
latimes.com
This is a very spoiled and “entitled” man- a liberal to be sure, but that isn’t an indictable offense, just an indication of how far from common sense he has drifted. Perhaps the tenure had gone to his head- perhaps the arrogance, the conceit, the sheer effrontery that has wormed its way into his soul has kept him from seeing the facts, but he wasn’t arrested for “going to your own home while black”, but of failure to identify oneself, and of course- the biggie- disorderly conduct for verbally abusing the officers.
This is how ridiculous liberals get- they blow up a ten minute incident into a several thousand dollar court engagement, complete with a clown, Al Sharpton. One can only hope that he learned from the Tawana Brawley incident, but you know, probably not.
Because championing the truth is not how he rolls.
With him, it’s all about the AL.
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Tags: abuse of police, liberals, profiling, racial stereotypes, wimps