Tea and Vitriol

The old saying goes: "Be careful what you wish for. You might get it." In 2021, a large percentage of voters wanted to remove Lovely Warren from the mayoral throne and were not particularly fussy about the character of the person who would succeed her. They got their wish and elected Malik (Mahweak) Evans as mayor. Despite the media blitz to create a positive persona in order to sell the public on Mahweak, it never really took off because the reality of his political history was pretty dismal and too many people knew it to be taken in by all of the hype that now surrounded him. Still, enough people came to believe that their "creation" had the answers to all of their questions and the solutions to Rochester's serious problem of crime, poverty and a failing school system. Only it soon became evident that Evans really had no solutions to anything, which quickly produced a sense of "buyers' remorse" among people who were once his cheerleaders. My only

 A week ago today, an incident occurred at St. Mary's Girls' School in Brighton, just across the city line from Rochester. Racist graffiti, featuring the "N" word, had been written on a wall in the girls' toilet. Rather than photograph it, erase it and launch a private investigation to discover the identity of the culprit, the school's administrators, in a spasm of White woke progressive "transparency," went public with this "news." That was a BIG mistake. It allowed the administration to state their feelings of disgust with this graffiti and racism, reaffirming their credentials as liberals. Other people, especially politicians, quickly jumped on the bandwagon to declare their anger about this incident, as well. Needless to say, those local groups that exist only to be offended about something and protest it, also chimed in. All of this was duly reported by the local news media, as was the anti-racism rally sponsored by the school the foll

Yep, that's right! Disgraced Rochester ex-police chief LaRon Singletary settled his lawsuit against the City for $75,000! He sued Rochester because the administration of ex-Mayor Lovely Warren "blackened" (pardon the pun) his reputation and sought $1.5 million in compensation. If Singletary thought his damaged reputation was worth that much, why did he settle for only 5% of the dollar settlement he asked for? The lawyers will get most of that. Some people, including me, think that his reputation wasn't that hot to begin with.  It was created two years before Mayor Warren appointed him Chief of Police, to make his promotion seem logical. It was a successful public relations stunt to arouse public interest for a product that nobody wanted, needed or could use, but had a catchy name and attractive package. It was all just hype. As part of the settlement, Singletary had his medical benefits restored, which were eliminated when Mayor Warren fired him in a fit of vindictive

The war in Ukraine has begun. People have already died in this new war. It has been expected for months, yet world leaders have done nothing to seriously dissuade Russia's Putin from going to war. Now that the war has begun in earnest, despite all of the "diplomacy" used to prevent it, world leaders are condemning it. That includes the United Nations, which has long been an expensive, impotent forum for world opinion. And doing nothing. To be sure, world leaders have threatened Putin with economic sanctions against Russia if he went to war. And yes, they did provide Ukraine with wholly inadequate amounts of money and war materiel to be used against the Russian powerhouse should war come. But that is all. Because they are afraid of provoking Putin into a nuclear world war. Putin himself has stated to the world powers scolding him that they had better not interfere with his plans for Ukraine, because there would be "consequences you have never seen." This was espe

Former Rochester City Councilman Adam McFadden was sentenced for his crimes of embezzlement and tax fraud on Friday, February 11, 2022. He pled guilty to those charges October 9, 2019, and agreed to turn state's evidence against his former friend and co-conspirator George Moses, former chairman of the Rochester Housing Authority, in return for consideration at his sentencing. There is no honor among thieves, after all. George's share in the embezzlement is a lot more glamorous than Adam's, since it features adultery and money spent on love nests, green cards, luxury vacations, a time share and dental work. Adam's reason for embezzling money from agencies meant to help poor, especially Black, people was simple: He needed the money. Adam was sentenced to 18 months in prison, though it's doubtful that he will serve all of it and the prison he will be residing at will probably be a branch of Club Fed, a distinguished rest home for celebrities and political criminals of

First of all, I would like to state that I am NOT a physician or a trained medical professional. I AM a human being and a taxpayer and I am disgusted with the way the COVID pandemic has been used to by our elected officials and their stooges to control us and to enrich pharmaceutical companies that provide us with completely ineffective vaccines and boosters. If they were effective, why are people who have been vaxxed and boostered required to mask up and avoid other people who weren't? That's the big paradox here. People who are supposedly safe are at risk from people who aren't. Yet the toxic She Devil who is now governor of New York State, that stooge of a Health Commissioner for Monroe County and a host of other progressive Democrat elected officials all demand that we remain masked in public and that masking is an effective way to stop the spread of COVID and its variants. All the while they are seen at public gatherings unmasked, regardless of their stern pronouncemen

Let's face it, most politicians and elected officials are boldfaced liars. We are not talking about "little white lies" to make people comfortable or not to offend, because everyone does that. People do not like hearing the truth and only want to hear your opinions if they concur with theirs. We are talking about BIG lies that distort the truth and really have no relation to reality. Politicians lie big time to get themselves elected to public office, then they continue to lie to make themselves popular in order to win re-election. They are facilitated in their political lying by their public relations people, who put a spin on deliberate untruths to make them appear "real," to calm down the voting populace, so people won't think that things aren't as bad as they really are. Case in point is one of the latest pronouncements made by Rochester's current mayor, Malik Evans. Evans, wuss-like and bland, effectively won the Democratic primary early last su