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Tidbits: Toilets, Whitey, and Whoopi by Gene Lalor
Toilets: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
Under 3-term Mayor Michael Boomboom/Bloomberg, New York City is fast evolving into the Nanny Capital of America. Smoking is banned virtually everywhere, sodium-salt is restricted in restaurants, and sugary foods are next on the hit list as Bloomberg continues his quest to care for every health need of New Yorkers, at the expense of depriving them of the right to decide when and where they will puff and what they can eat.
Big Mike is watching you!
Perhaps bowing to complaints that the city is becoming a mini-nanny state with arbitrary rules imposed by an supposedly omniscient, authoritarian government, New York is now getting into toilets, actually into all things watery.
Already all the rage in Europe, “dual flush” toilets are coming to a New York bathroom near you.
As part of a wide-ranging water conservation law passed by the City Council this past week, “new toilets will have to be high water efficient or ‘dual-flush,’ which allow users to choose between a high pressure flush for solid waste, and a low-pressure flush for liquid:” http://tiny.cc/ao674
See! Bloomberg can now say, we allow individual decision-making, even if that decision is rather simple except in certain cases when toilet users… Well, use Your Own personal experience and imagination.
No word yet on whether thousands of new city workers will have to be hired to monitor strict compliance with the liquid-solid rules.
Whitey or Whitney?
Speaking of toilets, America’s educational system may be immersed in one but you would think people would be able to correctly spell the names of candidates for public office. Apparently, out in Chicago, they can’t at least in the case of Green Party gubernatorial candidate, Rich Whitney.
Whitney’s surname was spelled as “Whitey” on touch-screen machines in 23 wards, half of which are located in predominantly black areas of the city where “Whitey” isn’t likely to attract many voters on November 2nd. On the initial screen, voters will see the candidate’s name spelled correctly but not on the review screen where they make their final decision on their choice.
To make matters worse, nothing can be done about it before Election Day. Jim Allen of the Chicago Board of Elections was apologetic and said, “This is a difficult situation. We’ll make the best of it. But the important thing is the name is spelled correctly where it counts, and that’s where people are making the selection.”
“Difficult?” you say, sniffed Whitney who suspects racial skullduggery may be involved in the misspelling and is considering filing a lawsuit in the matter, no doubt after he sees how he does in two and a half weeks. As a Greenie with little popular support except by fellow Greenies, his chances of winning are remote, anyway, but principle is principle.
As he said, “I don’t want to be identified as ‘Whitey.’ If this is happening in primarily African-American wards, that’s an even bigger concern.” He added, “I don’t know if this is machine politics at play or why this happened:” http://tiny.cc/d3hod
Come now, Mr. Whitney! Skullduggery and manipulative machine politics in Chicago. in Illinois, in your president’s adopted home turf? Outrageous, I tell you! Mayor Daley would take great umbrage at that suggestion as would deposed Governor Rod Blagojevich and all the other Illinois governors who went to jail for malfeasance.
A reminder to Mr. Rich “Whitey” Whitney: Chicago isn’t Philadelphia, I’ll have you know! No members of the New Black Panther Party have been caught intimidating white voters in the City of the Big Shoulders as they were in Philly. So, just count your blessings that you weren’t beaten up, or worse.
Then again, elections are still a ways off.
Whoopi
By now, most people have heard of or witnessed the scene on “The View” in which arch-liberal defenders of the right to dissent, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, stormed off the set last Thursday when guest Bill O’Reilly dared challenge their views on the Ground Zero mosque.
“The View’s” Queen Bee Barbara Walters was justifiably mortified and furious at the actions of regulars Behar and Goldberg refusing to listen to O’Reilly’s differing opinion and may have given them a severe tongue-lashing during the break since they sheepishly returned afterward. Behar apologized and sat down. Goldberg just sat down.
The thrice divorced 54 year old Whoopi Goldberg, given name Caryn Elaine Johnson, star of Sister Act, isn’t exactly known as a class act despite some talent. Most memorable in the class-challenged department was her July, 2004 appearance at a fund raiser for John Kerry at the Radio City Music Hall during which she waved a bottle of wine, pointed toward her crotch and said, “We should keep Bush where he belongs, and not in the White House.”
Compounding the retch factor evoked by that image, just last May on “The View,” Goldberg who, according to her biographer has had at least six abortions, became emotional over the subject. She bizarrely observed that fewer abortions would mean more mothers killing their offspring. That followed her October, 2007 attack on “The View’s” token conservative, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, for Hasselbeck’s lack of “reverence” for the liberal sacrament of abortion.
I’m aware that “The View” is popular with youngish, white, liberal women-who applauded Goldberg’s storm-off– but, seriously now, Barbara! That Neanderthal throwback is more of an insult to women, white or of any color, than the jackass, Rosie O’Donnell. I’d suggest Whoopi be tossed back into the gutter where she was whelped before she says or does something else that is grossly stupid.
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