Monday, May 30, 2016

Remember the fallen

15 comments:

Jerry Rotondi, a listener said...

And WQXR's announcer wished everyone ,"A happy Memorial Day" , during this morning's broadcast.
Thank's , Jeff, for missing the point that THIS IS A SOLEMN DAY for remembering those who gave their all to protect America.
Otherwise, good job the rest of the time! Please make a correction next year.

Anonymous said...

No doubt all of Queens' ambitious, crooked politicians will be showing up for the Little Neck parade to feign that they really care about you and your nabe and those who have fallen. It is all about looking good and getting votes. Do your sons and daughters serve in the military? Eh, Grace Meng?

Anonymous said...

And I'm sure some local idiot politicians will be yelling out, "Happy Memorial Day," as they use local parades to show how much they care about their constituents.

Anonymous said...

God bless our Vets and I hope the ones still alive get all their medical services returned under Trump. Accidentally seeing this no good mother f_ucker bastard Obama on TV today made me sick

Little Neck Parade: YES all the usual crooked politicians showed up complete with the largest circular human shield of plane clothes armed police ever. --this including hand picked press sporting "mayors office issued" camera & tripod credentials & photography permits around their necks.
I brought a digital SLR and super zoom (canon) but couldn't take photos or catch any MP4 video of all the "boos" & fingers being waved. 2 cops had came over and "slapped my lens down" threatening to confiscate the equipment and arrest me for having a "professional photography equipment" on a public street without permit. (This if I did not remove the lens and pack it away)

It was a total fucking disgrace, behavior like Nazi Germany 1943 !!

JQ LLC said...

First all thanks to all those that are in the military and all those who will enlist even as this country is facing an uncertain foreboding future with "the candidate" Trump and Manifest Hillary looking to exploit them to enrich their oligarch friends and themselves in the name of disaster capatilism. And of course to the memories of those fallen and who lived full lives and unfairly suffered after the wars.

Now I wanna fucking know, who was the stupid asshole who thought it was apropos to use Memorial Day as a holiday greeting? In the past few years the local news bots were saying that shit and currently still do. Even more infuriating is the majority of news was devoted to memorial weekend partying.

Anonymous said...

Couldn't help but notice Grace Mengs enterouge holding her " Vote for Grace" posters turned backward at the Forest Hills parade. Glad somebody told her this was not the right time and place for pandering.

Anonymous said...

Anon no. 2: I believe that Grace Meng's child or children are a little too young to be in the military.

JQ LLC said...

"2 cops had came over and "slapped my lens down" threatening to confiscate the equipment and arrest me for having a "professional photography equipment" on a public street without permit. (This if I did not remove the lens and pack it away)"

Is this what Bratton meant by cops being filmed as an "epidemic"? This not only resembles nazi germany, but police states in south american nations in the 70's and 80's. That street scene sounds like something from "It Can't Happen Here"

This country is truly creeping towards, in a passive aggressive way, to fascism, although we may be already here. And it's clear judging by those embedded journalists showing off their badge bling, that the fourth branch of government is in total subservience to those elected by the people who have assumed the positions of deities.

Fucking grave. We need a fifth estate.

Anonymous said...

"2 cops had came over and "slapped my lens down" threatening to confiscate the equipment and arrest me for having a "professional photography equipment" on a public street without permit. "

I don't believe that happened...

Anonymous said...

Yes He,Charles Schumer (U.S.SENATOR,NY,DEM.) did it again(4th year).He marched with no conscience with Pol.Name signs @Little-Neck/Doug. Memorial Day parade .also a loser named Steve .Parade rules :" NO POL.SIGNS".When I yelled "this parade is about honoring U.S.war dead,NOT YOU.He responded "I can not hear you." but the voters did hear!!!!

Radarman U.S.S.Tanager Aux.Minsweeper220',100crew.Korean war 1952-56. 37000 U.S.military K.I.A.1950-53 RIP.

Anonymous said...

A Dem vote for president will put Schumer in the Majority Leader of U.S.Senate seat .Hell no.

Anonymous said...

Now I wanna fucking know, who was the stupid asshole who thought it was apropos to use Memorial Day as a holiday greeting?

I believe that Jerry was referring to Jeff Spurgeon, the morning host on WQXR.

JQ LLC said...

Last Anon,

This has been used as a holiday greeting for awhile, and it gets more irritable every time I hear it. Jeff Spurgeon is just the lastest tone deaf schmuck to utter it, probably because he heard it before from other dopes. I missed it because I haven't listened to radio in 25 years or QXR ever. Although it was said by all the airheads on every lapdog local news program

Not to digress, but the same holiday greeting has been affixed to days of the week (happy monday!, happy wednesday(??), and happy friday). Just stop it people.

Anonymous said...

I don't believe that happened...

Hard to believe eh? He is lucky. In some other parts of the country he would have been charged with assault, better yet shot.
Like Chicago, San Francisco.

Anonymous said...

>threatening to confiscate the equipment and arrest me for having a "professional photography equipment" on a public street without permit

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/