Earthquakes? Don't Worry: Mamdani To The Rescue

Don't worry, New York, about any earthquakes; the next mayor, Zohran Mamdani, will hold them off. Won't he? Or so the Schloss-Blog asks.

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While New Yorkers were saying they felt the reverberations last week from a pair of earthquakes, 2.7 magnitude, that erupted in New Jersey, there's nothing to worry about: New York City has the mayor coming, Zohran Mamdani, who is going to save them from everything else, so why not earthquakes, right?

What with his free bus rides, accessible healthcare, affordable housing - New Yorkers will have it made under Mamdani.

Until they don't.

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I still have to rag on about the Blue Sky app (bsky.app).  Animal videos. Birds flying around aimlessly. Photogs capturing mediocre sunsets and sunrises.

Please, all of you "artistes," start your own website. I turned to bsky.app for insightful posts that weren't drowned out in the trash that Elon Musk now allows on Twitter (yeah, Elon, it's still Twitter, you dolt).

Now though, I have to fish, literally, through petty pictures of people's goldfish to find insightful commentary by Laurence Tribe of Harvard and other serious-minded scholars who can shed light on the politics that are ruining our nation.

Very close to dumping bsky.app. Very, very close.

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So, now comes the 'NFESPNL' Network. OK, not the real name, but the virtual merging of broadcast and financial assets between the NFL and ESPN which has assured us that we will continue to get 24/7/365 coverage of a team that hasn't played in its conference's championship game in almost 30 years.

Yeah, that's right, (Central) America's team, the Dallas Cowboys.

Who cares? They are irrelevant, yet ESPN spends an unnecessarily abundant amount of time on them. Everyday, every hour, we hear about the impact of not having extended all-pro defensive end Micah Parsons.

When the Cowboys first reported to camp, you heard Super Bowl talk from all of them. but now, with an injury to a key offensive lineman and Micah Parsons' holdout, not hearing so much of it. Or at all.

Nobody outside of Dallas cares about this team. There are 31 other teams, but because Jerry Jones loves being in front of microphones and commenting on this, that and everything, we continue to get ESPN/Dallas.

I change the channel.

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Last week, because I spent all my space lamenting about all the shootings and violence in America, I therefore didn't get to comment about...

**...Israel extending the war in Gaza. The IDF can kill every Hamas warrior. It cannot kill Hamas ideology. Israel's war can only keep Bibi out of jail.

**...Donald Trump wanting to win the Nobel Peace Prize. He wants it so badly he's willing to facilitate extending the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.

**...there being almost no Hispanics left in my neighborhood for ICE to detain. Prospective employers are complaining about the closing of the Home Depot Parking Lot Employment Agency.

**...yet another mass shooting, this one by a soldier at Ft Stewart in Goergia. Five of his fellow soldiers were injured. Way to go, America. The alleged shooter, a sergeant, had been complaining about what he said were racist conditions at the facility.

**...sex toys being thrown on the court during WNBA games. What's up with that? The point is ... sickos get into WNBA games.

**...The EPA reportedly cutting down on iits own ability to combat poor air quality. Unfortunately, so much of it comes out of the Supreme Court.

**...how some 44% of Duetsche Bain trains in Germany run late. Who do they think they are, Amtrak?

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Anyway, good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Emily Capedevielle.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.