This Shopping Cart Is In The Dumps

This Shopping Cart Is In The Dumps, originally uploaded by ⓅⒶⓎⓅⒶⓊⓁ.

The NYPD have nothing better to do than harass a photographer taking photographs of this trashed shopping cart. It's been sitting on this grassy patch on East 12th Street in Brooklyn for the past 4 days. It's filled with materials probably discarded by one of the disreputable and fly by night building contractors that work in my neighborhood. Office Sukhu was attempting to intimidate me today, implying that I was responsible for dumping this cart here. What right have the cops to ask me questions as to why I'm photographing anything that is on a public street? They have no right to harass me, ask for ID or make other assumptions about my character. Office Sukhu even questioned whether I belonged here in New York City. "You don't sound like you live here in New York" he said. I told him I was doing my art and he used that statement to imply that I was the one who dumped these materials. He and FOUR other officers from the 61st Precinct surrounded me and threatened me with a summons. The kind of cavalier attitude and leading conversation I suffered under their scrutiny has reinforced my negative opinion of the NYPD. There is no "Courtesy, Professionalism and Respect" coming from the NYPD anymore. I doubt there ever has been any but now even more so since Bloomberg declared the NYPD to be his "Army".

Google represses Flickr Images!

The Very First Slinky, originally uploaded by ⓅⒶⓎⓅⒶⓊⓁ.

Google has relegated images from Flickr to the bottom pages if they are to be seen at all from a Flickr image search. If a search is done for "popular toys of the 1940s" on Bing the image above will be shown. Not so for a Google image search where the image does not show up at all. See the differences here:

The Bing Image Search:

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=popular+toys+of+the+1940s#x0y5814

The google image search:

http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1156&bih=716&q=popular+toys+of+the+1940s&gbv=2&oq=popular+toys+of+the+1940s&aq=f&aqi=g-S1&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=3029l3029l0l4592l1l1l0l0l0l0l193l193l0.1l1l0

I thought I was mistaken the first time but this has happened more than once. Time to send Google a message loud and clear. Stop manipulating web search searches for your own profit. Google doesn't like Yahoo!, which owns flickr, so they will use their misbegotten power over the Internet to wield undue influence on the websites we go to.



Via Flickr:
The toy was invented and developed by naval engineer Richard James in the early 1940s and demonstrated at Gimbels department store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in November 1945

Slinky Jingle:

What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs, and makes a slinkity sound?
A spring, a spring, a marvelous thing!
Everyone knows it's Slinky.
It's Slinky, it's Slinky, it's fun, it's a wonderful toy.
It's Slinky, it's Slinky, it's fun, it's a wonderful toy.
It's fun for a girl or a boy.

Where Were You On September 11?

Where Were You On September 11?, originally uploaded by ⓅⒶⓎⓅⒶⓊⓁ.

Where Were You On September 11? So Osama Bin Laden is dead. Long awaited relief is there for some but others may only be glad that the Royal Wedding and Lindsay Lohan's legal foibles are off the front page. Yet this story has filled the entire newscast of NPRs morning edition to the loss of anything else. The alien invaders from the Antares Nebula could invade the Earth and I doubt anyone would notice.

Via Flickr:
Where were you on September 11th?

05/1/11 is May day, a day to celebrate. Osama Bin Laden is dead! Can the victims rest a little easier tonight? I doubt it. They still have loved ones to mourn. Yet a great source of evil has finally been brought to justice by the US Navy Seals.

General Electric: Greedy Enough?

General Electric: Greedy Enough?, originally uploaded by ⓅⒶⓎⓅⒶⓊⓁ.

Tax Day has been postponed for the rest of us until April 18th, 2011 but for General Electric, with its offshore accounts and numerous tax loopholes it has been postponed forever. Shouldn't even the members of the Tea Party be clamoring for them to pay their fair share? According to the NY Times G.E. claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion.

www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/business/economy/25tax.html

General could do a great service to millions of Americans suffering from unemployment, underemployment and threat of death due to inadequate healthcare. They could put BILLIONS into the coffers of the US treasury to provide much needed relief. Some say they shouldn't be obligated to provide anything for their fellow Americans. Should we rely upon their generosity when Corporations such as GE have proven otherwise? The blood of Millions of Americans is on their hands. It's time for a speedy trial of these tax evading Corporations.

Michael Moore and MoveOn certainly know this needs to be done.

www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-moore/tax-day-events_b_849...

The New American Taliban: The Republican Party

The New American Taliban: The Republican Party, originally uploaded by ⓅⒶⓎⓅⒶⓊⓁ.

It's incredible that even Republican Party Members don't agree with their own "leaders". Meanwhile on the Hill the Repukelicans continue to obstruct Obama and a certain governor from Wisconsin wants to take rights away from workers. The Republican party is all about the need of the wealthy to live off our backs in perpetuity. Why are the states all in seven digit budget deficits? Because the wealthy have not been paying their fair share for a long time. It's time to give up the fallacy that giving them tax breaks will somehow encourage them to hire and pay a decent wage. It's not going to happen. How else did they all get to accumulate about 70 percent of the wealth?
See this enlightening blog entry for further revelations:

The Rag Blog: Ted McLaughlin : Americans Don't Want to Gamble With Social Security

Rep. Grayson: "I Apologize To The Dead For This Holocaust"

Let's not ever forget during this time when the Repukelicans want to repeal the Health Care law what their intentions are for the American People. They want us to die and end the surplus population. They want to continue to receive Government Health Care benefits for themselves and care nothing at all for the suffering of the rest of us. I call for recall elections of all these filthy, dirty rotten scoundrels. Barring that I call for the repeal of all their benefits so they can finally see what it's like to live with no health insurance and the outrageous price of medical care.

There's No Escape, Number 43

There's No Escape, Number 43, originally uploaded by ⓅⒶⓎⓅⒶⓊⓁ.

King George has been deposed and reduced to a number.
No Secret Agent Man he is.

George W. Bush is doing the same thing that Richard Nixon did after he left the White House. No doubt he's waited two years to build up steam and gather all his PR wonks to come up with a strategy to put a positive front for his pathetic presidential years. He's attempting to lay claim to efforts to combat AIDS in Africa.

Richard Nixon may have done a number of good things during his Administration such as creating the EPA. This was done only after charges of creating "ceremonial" bodies such a Cabinet level Environmental Control Council and a Citizens Advisory Committee. I'd say though that Nixon reacted more responsibly to his critics than George Dubya did during his administration.

Here is the history of the Birth of the EPA:
http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/epa/15c.htm

What is George W going to do now I wonder? He's no doubt been engaging pollsters over the past few years to gauge the best possible spin tactics. This is what Nixon did in the Eighties. I know that personally as I was working as a messenger at that time and delivered a package from the Lou Harris polling organization to his office in the Federal Building in NYC.

Unfortunately the American People have such a short attention span that they forget all the murders done in the two wars that were started on his watch. Those who blame Barack Obama for all the sins of the previous administration have failed to learn or understand recent history.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/30/AR2010113005167.html