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Originally posted by KLGUY:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..._New_York_hurricanes

Yeah, your google-fu is better than mine. You beat me to it!

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Originally posted by Some Shot:
An idiot...and a democrat.

Hmmm..?

Is there a difference?

"Should we or should we not follow the advice of the galactically stupid"

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Originally posted by Elk Hunter:

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Originally posted by Some Shot:
An idiot...and a democrat.

Hmmm..?

Is there a difference?

I'm not sure that all idiots are Democrats, but pretty sure that all Democrats are idiots.

flashguy

With all due respect (did you ever notice that when somebody says this, there is absolutely no respect involved?), you are a fucking idiot.

In 1944 I was living in Mount Vernon -- a bedroom community in Westchester County, just north of NYC.

September 1944, there was a monstrous hurricane that came blasting through the area. We were without power for many days. A huge tree was down, totally blocking our street. It was there for days. School was suspended of course, so that downed tree was our "fort." The kids on the street were kind of unhappy when the tree was finally cleared away. We lost our fort, and we had to go back to school.

He's really beginning to frighten me. He's getting more and more out there, dumber and dumber, as if perhaps there's a brain tumor or something.

Cuomo must be Italian for "drooling imbecile"

I wish Bob Grant was around to lambaste that asshole the way he did with his father.

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Originally posted by WaterburyBob:
I wish Bob Grant was around to lambaste that asshole the way he did with his father.

Bob Grant really disliked Cuomo senior.
He didn’t think highly of former mayor David Dinkins either. He called Dinkins “the washroom attendant” on a regular basis.

I enjoyed listening to his show.

I recall the impact of some hurricanes in upstate NY when I was growing up. Wikipedia confirms my memory:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..._New_York_hurricanes

Guido and his asshat dimofwits politician brother are both bloviating morons.

http://rochester.nydatabases.c...p-tornadoes-new-york

Hmmm, 400 tornados since the 1950's according to this.

And just north of there was this
https://www.nbcconnecticut.com...-1955-441056903.html

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Absolutely. But for some reason in my youth I remember being without power for over two weeks and my mom boiling water in Boston. Trees all over the roads, curfews, no light but the lanterns, out of school for weeks. Maybe I was dreaming.

Yup hurricane free.

Hurricane Gloria

The real Fredo

The right-wing talk-radio host Bob Grant used to call Governor Mario Cuomo “the sfaccimm”—an Italian epithet that Grant (whose given name was Robert Ciro Gigante) told me could be translated into something like “low-life,” “heel,” or “low-born.” “It’s not a dirty word,” Grant said, as if that somehow made his business—the wholesale degradation of public discourse—less odious. (Grant called Mayor David Dinkins “the men’s room attendant,” and assured me that there was nothing racial or ethnic in his choice of slur for either man.) This was in the spring of 1994, Cuomo’s final year as an elected official, and “The Bob Grant Show” on WABC was the no. 1 afternoon-drive-time show in New York City. I was a rookie freelance magazine writer working on a profile of the radio loudmouth, so I put in the requisite call to the Governor’s press office, in Albany, soliciting an interview, and got the requisite brush-off. And then, that evening, my phone rang, and the guy on the other end said, “Mario Cuomo here. Is this a good time?”

I knew his voice. He’d been my governor for a dozen years and had seemed, for a time, bound to become my President, or else, then, a Supreme Court Justice—and we were all then still adjusting to the fact that Cuomo would prefer not to. He was the Bartleby of American politics. He wasn’t a great governor. But he was a great speaker, and his voice stood for exactly the opposite of what Bob Grant’s stood for: raising the quality of public discourse, in substance, of course, and also in tone. It quickly became clear, that was why he had called back.

“I don’t ever recall having a political argument with Bob Grant,” he began. “I’ve known him a long time. I’ve always liked him. I’ve helped him, which he’s aware of but never mentions.” Cuomo let that hang there, unexplained, then got to the point: “I never listen to him.”

“He calls you sfaccimm,” I said.

“I don’t know why,” the Governor said. “I assume it makes money for him.” But that didn’t satisfy him. The profit motive might explain Grant’s ugliness, but it left another question unanswered: Why was that particular form of ugliness—Cuomo summed it up as “divisiveness, scapegoating, name-calling, shouting, callousness, lack of civility”—profitable?

“It’s very interesting,” Cuomo said. “Hate sells.” He took it as a “measure of the times,” and, yet, he said, “I’m not sure that it’s different than it’s ever been.” He added that it brought to mind “the old Southern politician’s line—that any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good man or woman to build one.”

Cuomo had been a radio host himself, long ago. “I loved it. I just sat down, the light would go on, I'd start talking,” he said, which was a pretty good description of what he was doing on the phone with me. There was already murmuring that he would return to the air when he left office, which he did for a time. Still, he said, “I’ve had enough experience with it to suspect, and I’m just inches away from believing, that the audience is skewed; that there’s something about the format that encourages the most negative, the most angry people; that it’s used as a kind of catharsis. It’s not really an attempt at dialogue, it’s a catharsis: I’m angry and I’m going to get this off the chest, and I’m going to say it and say it to a larger community, I don’t want to discuss it, I’m already convinced—I think this guy’s a dope! That’s catharsis. That’s different from a poll, different from a dialogue. It indicates an unhappiness, but that’s an unhappiness that’s been around for a long time. Especially if you’re hard-working middle class from my old neighborhood. You look around at people that are poorer and not working and getting supported, and I’m knocking myself out, I've got nothing, and this guy’s poorer than me, but he’s being fed. I think the catharsis is not all good, because it does encourage, and it does get cyclical and retaliatory. I guess a psychiatrist would say there’s some good to the venting process, but it does also promote an attitude of saying, ‘Hey there’s nothing wrong with being filled with hate, there’s so much of it around.’ I don’t like that. There’s something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.”

Twenty years later, we may be tempted to see that as a more innocent era—back before Fox News, back before the Internet, back when a governor might call a cub reporter he’d never met just to muse a little at the end of a day about the condition of our civilization. Yet, against the tide of bile that forever threatens to swamp us, Cuomo’s voice was as striking then as it sounds to us now. May he rest in peace.

https://www.newyorker.com/news...rant-vile-radio-host

Here him here:
https://soundcloud.com/hankhay...sfachime-mario-cuomo

^ WOW.

Cuomo pretty much described every word that comes out of his own mouth.

I've told this story before. I have a good friend who is a New York State Trooper. During the recovery period after Hurricane Sandy, Gov Cuomo made people wait on line for food for almost 4 additional hours because he didn't want anything distributed until he got there so he could be present for the photo op. He then went into the command center and stood in front of the board pointing at pictures while photos were being taken. No words were spoken or commands given, he just wanted to be photographed acting like he was doing something. Once the photos were done he abruptly left. What a poser.

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There’s something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.”

there's something about rhetorical stupidity that is ugly and worrying as well.

Now lets be fair, he's right.

Before global warming (during the last ice age) we didn't have hurricanes (we had blizzards).