August 10, 2026 • 33 mins
Bob talks about Ellie coming home from Africa, the suicide by cop in Henrietta, his weekend, a car burglar in Syracuse, the decline of newspapering in Rochester, and the controversy in the WNBA.
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My daughter, Blue Eyed Ellie is coming home from Africa
this week. She has spent the summer thus far out
there on an archaeological dig, and today she is at
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that stage of her journey where she is coming in
from the countryside on a bus headed towards the nation's capital, Usaka,
the city towards which she is headed. It's a big bus.
It says God's Bus on the back. And the way
things operate over there is it goes down the road
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and you stand on the side of the road and
wave and they stop and pick you up, and it
gets pretty crowded. It is currently at the standing room
only stage inside, and there are people who are riding
on top of the bus outside. And I think she's
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got about a day or a day and a half
on this bus. Where how and when they go to
the bathroom. I have not asked, though I am intensely curious.
We're excited to get her home. She sent us a
picture the other day over the weekend of hyenas were
eating a hippopotamus carcass. How the hippo came to die,
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I don't know, but the hyenas seemed to be making
the most of the event. Yesterday, you know, I started
receiving texts in the afternoon about the shooting at the
Super eight by Windham there on Lehigh Station Road in Henrietta,
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and very quickly, you know, the picture kind of was
put together that it been a call for a man
who was suicidal, he had a box cutter, and deputies
responded and he and we've not been given a run
through of what transpired, I think yesterday Chief Deputy Mike
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Fowler said that it would be most of today that
they'd be reviewing body worn camera footage and possible surveillance
footage from the hotel proper to put back together exactly
what had happened. And of course there's the debriefing and
questioning of individuals who are involved there. So what exactly
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transpired we haven't yet been told. But it seems that
the man with a box cutter became a physical threat
to one or more of the deputies. There were two there,
and you know, I think you know, almost from the
time it happened, many people in the local law enforcement
community saw this as a suicide by cop. And you know,
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God bless this man and his and his family. God
bless us well the deputies who we read earlier more
a post online from former police chief Dan Varenti, who
used to be president of the Merrie Kenny Police Chief's Association,
and he just reminded us all that those deputies got
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up yesterday morning and they went to work to further
their career, dedicated completely to protect and serve. Right, these
are folks who like to help and you know, being
compelled to take action of this nature. It will affect
different people differently, but it certainly is something will never
forget and which could be a burden upon them. Here's
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an aspect of this I'd like to bring up. You'll recall,
back in the era of let's hate the cops out loud,
Democrats have learned not to do that. You know, they
had in twenty twenty the defund the police and you know,
we couldn't watch poptrol anymore. We couldn't watch that TV
show Friday and Saturday night where they followed the cops around.
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They called for a boycott of Ford Motor Company because
Ford has a police interceptor. They will make certain vehicles
specifically for law enforcement contracts. We're hating the cops out
loud back then, but by we, I mean the progressive
filth amongst us. But yesterday aoc on, she's on one
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of these weekend talk shows and they're telling her how
great she is, and it asked about the defund the
police stuff, and she said that that was quote not
rhetoric that we would use today. Close quote, which means
we wouldn't use those words. Right. Do we still hate
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the cops? You bet your ass. We still want them gone?
You double bet your ass. Are we going to do
everything we can in power to impede law enforcement and
punishment of criminals? Absolutely bet your ass. But that's not
rhetoric we would use today. The Democrats have wisely learned,
most of them, maybe not Rachel Barnhardt, but they need
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to dial down their hatred for police and the enforcement
of law at any rate. In that era, when hating
cops was out loud and proud, the number one Democrat
agenda item, you may recall your former special boyfriend there,
Andy Cuomo. He did this thing where anytime there's an
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officer involved, where a person dies in contact with police,
under the laws of the State of New York, traditionally,
like any other homicide justified or not, there would be
an investigation by the local district attorney. But the deal
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is that they simply stated that, you know, we can't
trust the district attorneys to be objective. They work with
these police officers, and so they're in the bag with them.
What they meant to say is that there are a
fair number of counties in New York where there are
Republican district attorneys who tend to go straight down the
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line and not play some of this dumb assory that
Democrat district attorneys do. A couple of exceptions, obviously, I
think that you know this gentleman, mister Green, who we
have now in Monroe County Democrat, though he plays it
right down the line. Livingston County used to have a
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Democrat district attorney who likewise played it right down the line.
But by and large, the Democrats in Albany would not
like Republicans out in the state investigating police shootings anyway.
All of this is a tangent. I've presented this information
very poorly. Here's the issue. As a result of the
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policy currently the State of New York, this sad death
of this man yesterday will be investigated by the state
Attorney General, which would be okay. They're, no doubt in
the local office, wonderful people. But this will take six
months if we're lucky, for that investigation by the state
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Attorney General to be complete. And until those six months
are up, there is a cloud hanging over these officers.
And even when you know it's six, seven, eight months,
however long it takes. Some of these investigations have gone
on a year or more, and not because they're complex.
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And we've talked about this in the past. There are
incident after incident after incident where there's direct body camera
and surveillance video of the whole thing. You can watch
and listen to the whole thing right there on this screen, Okay,
and they'll still take six months year to investigate it.
What the hell is there to investigate that takes that long? Anyway,
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One of the challenges from a procedural standpoint that these
deputies will face is that this six to twelve month
long attorney general investigation will leave a cloud of uncertainty
hanging over them, creating anxiety, you know, unnecessarily. So you know,
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I'm not saying I'm against the attorney general investigating things.
If that's what the people want, if that's what the
higher ups have decreed, okay, let's do it. But why
drag it out? Right? An investigation of this nature could
be done quickly, right, There's there's no reason why it
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should take more than a month. Really, no reason why
it should take more than a week or so. But
I just want to point out that one of the
challenges these deputies will face is that for most of
the next year they are going to be in a
situation of professional and legal uncertainty because of the slow,
drawn out process that the state attorney general uses. Take
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My daughter and her family went yesterday to the air show.
Loved that like crazy, looked all the displays, saw the
planes overhead. There was a Chinook helicopter on display, and
it was interesting because Dad could tell the four kids
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about back when he was in the Army parachuting out
of Chinook a feet also accomplished by in addition to
their father, an aunt and two uncles. That ain't so bad.
My thought is, you should not jump out of airplanes.
You should stay in them until they land. I'm trying
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to convince people of the wisdom of my perspective. I
had a granddaughter on Saturday, turn four down in Westchester County,
beautiful Camilla, a lot of friends, big party, good time
was had by all the end of last week. Here's
the deal. My son Lee, who lives down in Washington,
DC area. He for a time hosted a radio talk
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show out in Salt Lake City, Utah, and it went
very well for him and such. But one of his
producers over the time is a lady who went on
and is having a pretty good career in Washington with
National Public Radio at any rate. One of her responsibilities
is to help produce a concert series called Tiny Desk
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or something like that. So Cardi B, who's having a
pretty good career, Cardi B was recording one of these
Tiny Desk concerts. I can't remember. It was Thursday or Friday. Anyway,
This producer friend of my son calls up and says,
why don't you come watch? And so he went and watched,
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and he had a lot of fun and was the
envy of a lot of the young people in the family.
Put some I tended the bees over the weekend. We've
got three hives and you know they they're these boxes
that you see stacked up, and those boxes, some of
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them will be full of honey. And as it's you know,
the flowers blooming and such like that, that's when the
honey gets made. And the golden rod in some places
out in the country just starting to come on. And
our family kind of particularly liking golden rod honey. Oh.
I put some more soupers. They're called these boxes on
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the bee hives, and it's interesting to peer in there
and see what they're doing. And the honey they've got
in thus far. When bees first make wax, it's it's white,
little yellowish, but it's white and beautiful. And when you
see all those new that honeycomb freshly drawn, that's what
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they the verb from making honeycomb is and it's all
full of honey and capped over with those white things.
You look at that and it's awful pretty. So it
looks like we're going to get some honey this year,
and that has made my wife and the kids pretty
happy in an anticipation. Let me tell you very quickly
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a story happened the end of last week in a
suburb of Syracuse, where they have the same state government
we do. You probably heard, but it was Thursday morning
in a town called DeWitt, and some folks getting up
to start their day noticed that there was a man
walking through the neighborhood and he was trying all the
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doors on the cars. He was stealing things out of cars,
so called nine one one. Very quickly, the Duitt Police
department came very quickly, they located the man, apprehended him
in possession of a whole lot of things stolen from
a whole lot of people's cars. This is New York,
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I said, and it's catch and release date. And all
that the police could do was there on the spot,
issue him an appearance ticket. Right, please stop doing this.
Here's a piece of paper. And the law said, you
gotta let him go. So they let him go. An
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hour later, right an hour later, they arrested him again.
He was walking down the street. He had a thirty
five hundred dollars bag of golf clubs on his shoulder. Now, listen,
maybe homeless drug fiends do play golf. I don't know,
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but he had this pricey bag of clubs on his shoulder,
which he had after being given the appearance ticket and released,
he had simply continued on his way, ripping off people's
cars out of their driveways. And it's, among other things,
allegedly this set of golf clubs. And here's the deal.
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He was because the golf clubs are valued at you know,
whatever the threshold is, and he was above that threshold.
He did not get an appearance ticket. He was held
until he could be arraigned. But at arraignment he was
released without bail because of these same laws that New
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York State has put upon us. And you know, whatever
you think about the system or whatever, whoever you vote
for or come election day, you've kind of think that
that that's stupid. It shouldn't have happened that way, right,
that an individual is caught and released, and caught and
released with no deterrence to criminal conduct, no protection for
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the citizens and their property, and no encouragement for this
person to get help or to repair or whatever else
needed to go on there. So, at any rate, that
was last Thursday down the road in a suburban Syracuse.
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of newspapers, and probably that's nowhere in historical sense more
true than in Rochester, New York. Chester, New York, for
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really almost two hundred years, was a newspaper town. There
used to be five newspapers that published in Rochester from
the Main Street Bridge alone. They used to the Main
Street Bridge used to have instead of being able to
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look out on the water, the bridge had buildings up
on it, so that when you walked across the Main
Street Bridge, it's like you were walking between, you know,
two rows of buildings. And in those buildings there were
five separate newspapers that published. For a while, one of
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them was published by Frederick Douglas. Back in the day,
Rochester became the headquarters of the Gannet newspaper chain. And
you know, in this generationnet is something of a cussword,
But in an earlier day, Gannett was well a man.
Frank Gannett. He started with a paper in Elmira, knew
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that Rochester was a far more significant place, and so
he across from where the War Memorial is now he
built his company's headquarters. And you know, Rochester was the
headquarters of the largest newspaper chain in America. Gannett built
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and he bought scores and scores and newspapers and they
were powerful, dynamic voices in their community. And in Rochester,
you know, newspapering was huge. It was an educated populace.
It was people who like to stay informed, and you know,
it was the best way to get information. It is
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amazing to see how newspapering has collapsed into irrelevance in
such a short short amount of time. And that's nowhere
truer than in Rochester. Again, the Gnet Corporation used to
be headquartered here. Mister Gannett had this philosophy that he
set aside money that he would He created a foundation,
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the Gannett Foundation, which gave money to you know, worthwhile,
you know, causes in the communities where Gnet newspapers were published.
The Gannet Foundation was headquartered here in that building across
from a war memorial. The Gannet newspaper chain was headquartered here,
and you know, they had these massive presses there making
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you know, really a couple hundred thousand copies a day,
sometimes four or five hundred thousand separate copies of the
day's newspapers, all printed there in that building. The paper
came in on railroad cars. Underground. They had massive tankers
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that were also brought in by the railroad underground full
of ink. It was Newspapering was huge in Rochester. And
this isn't like some distant past. It was, you know,
thirty years ago in the nineties where it peaked and
began to decline. But I mentioned all this because the
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Gannet building now is supposedly going to be upscale condos.
They've put some new name on it. Largely, I think
that they use it for storage space, and it sits
there empty by and large. The newspaper company sold the building,
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you know, as its financial situation reversed itself, and the
newspaper moved into leased space downtown at Maine and Clinton.
And it's interesting the sign that they put up on
the front of that building creates the impression that the
building is all Democrat and Chronicle. It never was Democrat
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and Chronicle was a guy at a security desk and
then one floor and even that didn't last long. I
also like to point out that the sign they put
up is plastic and temporary, and it has been all
the time it's been there. The Democrat and Chronicle ended up,
unfortunately with that lease there, and it was very bad
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for it financially. But the city of Rochester came to
its rescue. The city had the Police Accountability Board rent
office space kind of sublet it from the Democrat and Chronicle,
which was interesting because the reporters didn't come to work,
and at last it kind of didn't come to work.
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But any rate, the City of Rochester artificially subsidized the
Democrat and Chronicle for at least a couple of years.
The square foot rate paid for the Police Accountability office
space was among the highest in the City of Rochester.
It was a horrible deal. It was, in all honesty,
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I've thought from the start it was just the city
using taxpayer dollars to try to prop up this newspaper
that had always been so supportive of Democrat politics. And
by always I mean over the last twenty years, twenty
thirty years at any rate. When the Police Accountability Board
moved out, it's now in what years ago was the
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old Chamber of Commerce building to the west of where
the Transit Center is now. When the Democrat Chronicle lost
the city money for the offices coming from the Police Accountability Board,
you knew that they were in trouble. And you know,
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I go running by there and you peer in the windows.
There's not been activity in forever, and it is clear
to see that, you know, the Democrat and Chronicle is
not a thing anymore at any rate. Here's the point.
All of that was context and background for a Facebook post.
That's the only place I found reference to it. But
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the Democrat and Chronicle staff has moved apparently into a
place called Spot co working in Henrietta. The Democrat and
Chronicle has moved out of downtown Rochester and at least
in part and is using you know this spot coworking.
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It's one of those places where you don't like have
an office, but you want to have a place where
you can go work or something, or you know, give
your clients a an address that's not a po box
so that it looks like you have a real office.
It's where you kind of rent a desk. And you know,
it's a fine service, and I can see how that'd
be useful for a lot of people in a lot
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of situations. But when you contrast, you know, what newspapering
has been in Rochester with what it is now, and
you know, it's a sad deal. The business killed itself
on several fronts. Took an editorial policy, antagonistic to the
people and values of the region. Also, you know, along
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online came free classified ads. You know, Craigslist killed newspapers
by and large. It was the classified ads back in
the day that made them a ton of money. Further,
you know Facebook has eaten them like crazy. Is that
nobody's buying newspaper ads anymore? And you know, at any rate,
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it is a progress I guess means as one new
thing arises, that an old thing has to fall, and
the loss of newspapering is is major for our country.
And again, I used to work at the Democrat and Chronicle.
Before that, at the Times Union, I used to be
the daily Metro columnist. Not that anyone knows what that
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is anymore, but at any rate, the best I can tell,
the Democrat and Chronicle now operates out of you know,
rent a desk place in Henrietta. This is news radio
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Cheese that the WNBA is going to hold get some
of its leaders together. WNBA in the news a fair amount,
not for anything good. It's almost like become the Anti
America League. And some of America's pettiest and ugliest fights
tend to play themselves out in the WNBA. But you
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had at the end of last week two gentlemen who
had previously played in the NBA, Ennis Canter Freedom and
Royce White again to retired Mayo basketball players, who each
declared for the twenty twenty seven WNBA draft. There had
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been a discussion of late in the WNBA about how
they were open to transgender and if you said you
were a woman, you could play, and it was up
to you and not them, and you know, and you
had a deal where you get kind of a piss
and match between There's this one lady, Sophie Cunningham, who's
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a player, and she was in an interview in February
that somebody dug up where she said she didn't believe that,
you know, biological men should be playing against biological women
because it was none for advantage. That's of course true,
but not politically correct. And so some coach were sure
that said, you know, respect trans kids or something like that.
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I don't know, but all of a sudden, the transgender
thing is like the topic of the day at the WNBA.
So n Scanter Freedom and mister Royce White, they each
made little videos and they said, well, okay, if I
get to decide what I am, then I'd like to
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announce for the w NBA draft. And of course these gentlemen,
though you know, both retired, you know, uh would would
of course, I think on day one be the best
players the w NBA ever had. Right, So the w
n B A responded at the end of the week
Friday or Saturday by saying, we will have our leadership
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get together and we will declare what a woman is
for the purposes of the women's you know, w NBA.
So again, I was not aware there was confusion on
this issue. And it is an embarrassment of the modern
mind that we somehow become so sophisticated, have our heads
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so far up our hind ends that we're that we
we play games where we don't know what a man
and a woman are. You know, we don't know there's
been male and female. We pretend that there are other
things other than male and female. It's it's preposterous. Sometimes
we in the modern world we look down our nose
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at people we consider ancient or simple or whatever like that.
You know, you live out in the hut and the
jungle someplace, or you know, you lived a long time ago,
and maybe you believe that there are guys living up
on Mount Olympus, or maybe you believe you, you know,
carve a mask out of a tree and have a spirit.
And we look down our nose and say, oh, those
people were so foolish and superstitious. Well, you'd have to
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go a long way to find a people any place, anytime,
quite as stupid as some of us are today. I mean,
if you're just being honest, if we think that superstition
or ignorance are relics of the distant past or some
far distant place, you need to look no further than
right here, right now. Anyway. I suspect that the WNBA
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will define women in such a way as to keep
Royce White and enniscanter freedom out of their league, and
that's probably a good thing. Here's a little trivia note
about New York State. There are only two states in
our country in which most of the state's residents live
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on an island. Hawaii is the easy one, right, everybody
in Hawaii lives on an island. The other state, though,
is New York State. Just under fifty one percent of
all the people in New York State live on an island.
And you go, what, how's that. Well, here's what it is,
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Manhattan Island, Long Island, or Staten Island. You add those
three areas up and again it's almost fifty one percent
of the population. So one more note of distinction for
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any thanks don I appreciate that, and troops listen like always,
I appreciate you showing up for muster. And also, like always,
I hope that all is cool and copasetic on your end.
My daughter, Blue Eyed Ellie is coming home from Africa
this week. She has spent the summer thus far out
there on an archaeological dig, and today she is at
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that stage of her journey where she is coming in
from the countryside on a bus headed towards the nation's capital, Usaka,
the city towards which she is headed. It's a big bus.
It says God's Bus on the back. And the way
things operate over there is it goes down the road
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and you stand on the side of the road and
wave and they stop and pick you up, and it
gets pretty crowded. It is currently at the standing room
only stage inside, and there are people who are riding
on top of the bus outside. And I think she's
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got about a day or a day and a half
on this bus. Where how and when they go to
the bathroom. I have not asked, though I am intensely curious.
We're excited to get her home. She sent us a
picture the other day over the weekend of hyenas were
eating a hippopotamus carcass. How the hippo came to die,
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I don't know, but the hyenas seemed to be making
the most of the event. Yesterday, you know, I started
receiving texts in the afternoon about the shooting at the
Super eight by Windham there on Lehigh Station Road in Henrietta,
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and very quickly, you know, the picture kind of was
put together that it been a call for a man
who was suicidal, he had a box cutter, and deputies
responded and he and we've not been given a run
through of what transpired, I think yesterday Chief Deputy Mike
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Fowler said that it would be most of today that
they'd be reviewing body worn camera footage and possible surveillance
footage from the hotel proper to put back together exactly
what had happened. And of course there's the debriefing and
questioning of individuals who are involved there. So what exactly
(02:37):
transpired we haven't yet been told. But it seems that
the man with a box cutter became a physical threat
to one or more of the deputies. There were two there,
and you know, I think you know, almost from the
time it happened, many people in the local law enforcement
community saw this as a suicide by cop. And you know,
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God bless this man and his and his family. God
bless us well the deputies who we read earlier more
a post online from former police chief Dan Varenti, who
used to be president of the Merrie Kenny Police Chief's Association,
and he just reminded us all that those deputies got
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up yesterday morning and they went to work to further
their career, dedicated completely to protect and serve. Right, these
are folks who like to help and you know, being
compelled to take action of this nature. It will affect
different people differently, but it certainly is something will never
forget and which could be a burden upon them. Here's
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an aspect of this I'd like to bring up. You'll recall,
back in the era of let's hate the cops out loud,
Democrats have learned not to do that. You know, they
had in twenty twenty the defund the police and you know,
we couldn't watch poptrol anymore. We couldn't watch that TV
show Friday and Saturday night where they followed the cops around.
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They called for a boycott of Ford Motor Company because
Ford has a police interceptor. They will make certain vehicles
specifically for law enforcement contracts. We're hating the cops out
loud back then, but by we, I mean the progressive
filth amongst us. But yesterday aoc on, she's on one
(04:29):
of these weekend talk shows and they're telling her how
great she is, and it asked about the defund the
police stuff, and she said that that was quote not
rhetoric that we would use today. Close quote, which means
we wouldn't use those words. Right. Do we still hate
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the cops? You bet your ass. We still want them gone?
You double bet your ass. Are we going to do
everything we can in power to impede law enforcement and
punishment of criminals? Absolutely bet your ass. But that's not
rhetoric we would use today. The Democrats have wisely learned,
most of them, maybe not Rachel Barnhardt, but they need
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to dial down their hatred for police and the enforcement
of law at any rate. In that era, when hating
cops was out loud and proud, the number one Democrat
agenda item, you may recall your former special boyfriend there,
Andy Cuomo. He did this thing where anytime there's an
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officer involved, where a person dies in contact with police,
under the laws of the State of New York, traditionally,
like any other homicide justified or not, there would be
an investigation by the local district attorney. But the deal
(05:53):
is that they simply stated that, you know, we can't
trust the district attorneys to be objective. They work with
these police officers, and so they're in the bag with them.
What they meant to say is that there are a
fair number of counties in New York where there are
Republican district attorneys who tend to go straight down the
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line and not play some of this dumb assory that
Democrat district attorneys do. A couple of exceptions, obviously, I
think that you know this gentleman, mister Green, who we
have now in Monroe County Democrat, though he plays it
right down the line. Livingston County used to have a
(06:35):
Democrat district attorney who likewise played it right down the line.
But by and large, the Democrats in Albany would not
like Republicans out in the state investigating police shootings anyway.
All of this is a tangent. I've presented this information
very poorly. Here's the issue. As a result of the
(06:58):
policy currently the State of New York, this sad death
of this man yesterday will be investigated by the state
Attorney General, which would be okay. They're, no doubt in
the local office, wonderful people. But this will take six
months if we're lucky, for that investigation by the state
(07:19):
Attorney General to be complete. And until those six months
are up, there is a cloud hanging over these officers.
And even when you know it's six, seven, eight months,
however long it takes. Some of these investigations have gone
on a year or more, and not because they're complex.
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And we've talked about this in the past. There are
incident after incident after incident where there's direct body camera
and surveillance video of the whole thing. You can watch
and listen to the whole thing right there on this screen, Okay,
and they'll still take six months year to investigate it.
What the hell is there to investigate that takes that long? Anyway,
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One of the challenges from a procedural standpoint that these
deputies will face is that this six to twelve month
long attorney general investigation will leave a cloud of uncertainty
hanging over them, creating anxiety, you know, unnecessarily. So you know,
(08:27):
I'm not saying I'm against the attorney general investigating things.
If that's what the people want, if that's what the
higher ups have decreed, okay, let's do it. But why
drag it out? Right? An investigation of this nature could
be done quickly, right, There's there's no reason why it
(08:49):
should take more than a month. Really, no reason why
it should take more than a week or so. But
I just want to point out that one of the
challenges these deputies will face is that for most of
the next year they are going to be in a
situation of professional and legal uncertainty because of the slow,
drawn out process that the state attorney general uses. Take
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My daughter and her family went yesterday to the air show.
Loved that like crazy, looked all the displays, saw the
planes overhead. There was a Chinook helicopter on display, and
it was interesting because Dad could tell the four kids
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about back when he was in the Army parachuting out
of Chinook a feet also accomplished by in addition to
their father, an aunt and two uncles. That ain't so bad.
My thought is, you should not jump out of airplanes.
You should stay in them until they land. I'm trying
(11:41):
to convince people of the wisdom of my perspective. I
had a granddaughter on Saturday, turn four down in Westchester County,
beautiful Camilla, a lot of friends, big party, good time
was had by all the end of last week. Here's
the deal. My son Lee, who lives down in Washington,
DC area. He for a time hosted a radio talk
(12:04):
show out in Salt Lake City, Utah, and it went
very well for him and such. But one of his
producers over the time is a lady who went on
and is having a pretty good career in Washington with
National Public Radio at any rate. One of her responsibilities
is to help produce a concert series called Tiny Desk
(12:29):
or something like that. So Cardi B, who's having a
pretty good career, Cardi B was recording one of these
Tiny Desk concerts. I can't remember. It was Thursday or Friday. Anyway,
This producer friend of my son calls up and says,
why don't you come watch? And so he went and watched,
(12:51):
and he had a lot of fun and was the
envy of a lot of the young people in the family.
Put some I tended the bees over the weekend. We've
got three hives and you know they they're these boxes
that you see stacked up, and those boxes, some of
(13:13):
them will be full of honey. And as it's you know,
the flowers blooming and such like that, that's when the
honey gets made. And the golden rod in some places
out in the country just starting to come on. And
our family kind of particularly liking golden rod honey. Oh.
I put some more soupers. They're called these boxes on
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the bee hives, and it's interesting to peer in there
and see what they're doing. And the honey they've got
in thus far. When bees first make wax, it's it's white,
little yellowish, but it's white and beautiful. And when you
see all those new that honeycomb freshly drawn, that's what
(13:58):
they the verb from making honeycomb is and it's all
full of honey and capped over with those white things.
You look at that and it's awful pretty. So it
looks like we're going to get some honey this year,
and that has made my wife and the kids pretty
happy in an anticipation. Let me tell you very quickly
(14:19):
a story happened the end of last week in a
suburb of Syracuse, where they have the same state government
we do. You probably heard, but it was Thursday morning
in a town called DeWitt, and some folks getting up
to start their day noticed that there was a man
walking through the neighborhood and he was trying all the
(14:39):
doors on the cars. He was stealing things out of cars,
so called nine one one. Very quickly, the Duitt Police
department came very quickly, they located the man, apprehended him
in possession of a whole lot of things stolen from
a whole lot of people's cars. This is New York,
(15:00):
I said, and it's catch and release date. And all
that the police could do was there on the spot,
issue him an appearance ticket. Right, please stop doing this.
Here's a piece of paper. And the law said, you
gotta let him go. So they let him go. An
(15:20):
hour later, right an hour later, they arrested him again.
He was walking down the street. He had a thirty
five hundred dollars bag of golf clubs on his shoulder. Now, listen,
maybe homeless drug fiends do play golf. I don't know,
(15:42):
but he had this pricey bag of clubs on his shoulder,
which he had after being given the appearance ticket and released,
he had simply continued on his way, ripping off people's
cars out of their driveways. And it's, among other things,
allegedly this set of golf clubs. And here's the deal.
(16:07):
He was because the golf clubs are valued at you know,
whatever the threshold is, and he was above that threshold.
He did not get an appearance ticket. He was held
until he could be arraigned. But at arraignment he was
released without bail because of these same laws that New
(16:30):
York State has put upon us. And you know, whatever
you think about the system or whatever, whoever you vote
for or come election day, you've kind of think that
that that's stupid. It shouldn't have happened that way, right,
that an individual is caught and released, and caught and
released with no deterrence to criminal conduct, no protection for
(16:54):
the citizens and their property, and no encouragement for this
person to get help or to repair or whatever else
needed to go on there. So, at any rate, that
was last Thursday down the road in a suburban Syracuse.
It's time for news. Joe Laski will give that to us.
We'll be back when he's done. On news radio Wham eleven.
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of newspapers, and probably that's nowhere in historical sense more
true than in Rochester, New York. Chester, New York, for
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really almost two hundred years, was a newspaper town. There
used to be five newspapers that published in Rochester from
the Main Street Bridge alone. They used to the Main
Street Bridge used to have instead of being able to
(18:25):
look out on the water, the bridge had buildings up
on it, so that when you walked across the Main
Street Bridge, it's like you were walking between, you know,
two rows of buildings. And in those buildings there were
five separate newspapers that published. For a while, one of
(18:46):
them was published by Frederick Douglas. Back in the day,
Rochester became the headquarters of the Gannet newspaper chain. And
you know, in this generationnet is something of a cussword,
But in an earlier day, Gannett was well a man.
Frank Gannett. He started with a paper in Elmira, knew
(19:10):
that Rochester was a far more significant place, and so
he across from where the War Memorial is now he
built his company's headquarters. And you know, Rochester was the
headquarters of the largest newspaper chain in America. Gannett built
(19:30):
and he bought scores and scores and newspapers and they
were powerful, dynamic voices in their community. And in Rochester,
you know, newspapering was huge. It was an educated populace.
It was people who like to stay informed, and you know,
it was the best way to get information. It is
(19:53):
amazing to see how newspapering has collapsed into irrelevance in
such a short short amount of time. And that's nowhere
truer than in Rochester. Again, the Gnet Corporation used to
be headquartered here. Mister Gannett had this philosophy that he
set aside money that he would He created a foundation,
(20:16):
the Gannett Foundation, which gave money to you know, worthwhile,
you know, causes in the communities where Gnet newspapers were published.
The Gannet Foundation was headquartered here in that building across
from a war memorial. The Gannet newspaper chain was headquartered here,
and you know, they had these massive presses there making
(20:41):
you know, really a couple hundred thousand copies a day,
sometimes four or five hundred thousand separate copies of the
day's newspapers, all printed there in that building. The paper
came in on railroad cars. Underground. They had massive tankers
(21:04):
that were also brought in by the railroad underground full
of ink. It was Newspapering was huge in Rochester. And
this isn't like some distant past. It was, you know,
thirty years ago in the nineties where it peaked and
began to decline. But I mentioned all this because the
(21:27):
Gannet building now is supposedly going to be upscale condos.
They've put some new name on it. Largely, I think
that they use it for storage space, and it sits
there empty by and large. The newspaper company sold the building,
(21:49):
you know, as its financial situation reversed itself, and the
newspaper moved into leased space downtown at Maine and Clinton.
And it's interesting the sign that they put up on
the front of that building creates the impression that the
building is all Democrat and Chronicle. It never was Democrat
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and Chronicle was a guy at a security desk and
then one floor and even that didn't last long. I
also like to point out that the sign they put
up is plastic and temporary, and it has been all
the time it's been there. The Democrat and Chronicle ended up,
unfortunately with that lease there, and it was very bad
(22:38):
for it financially. But the city of Rochester came to
its rescue. The city had the Police Accountability Board rent
office space kind of sublet it from the Democrat and Chronicle,
which was interesting because the reporters didn't come to work,
and at last it kind of didn't come to work.
(23:01):
But any rate, the City of Rochester artificially subsidized the
Democrat and Chronicle for at least a couple of years.
The square foot rate paid for the Police Accountability office
space was among the highest in the City of Rochester.
It was a horrible deal. It was, in all honesty,
(23:22):
I've thought from the start it was just the city
using taxpayer dollars to try to prop up this newspaper
that had always been so supportive of Democrat politics. And
by always I mean over the last twenty years, twenty
thirty years at any rate. When the Police Accountability Board
moved out, it's now in what years ago was the
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old Chamber of Commerce building to the west of where
the Transit Center is now. When the Democrat Chronicle lost
the city money for the offices coming from the Police Accountability Board,
you knew that they were in trouble. And you know,
(24:03):
I go running by there and you peer in the windows.
There's not been activity in forever, and it is clear
to see that, you know, the Democrat and Chronicle is
not a thing anymore at any rate. Here's the point.
All of that was context and background for a Facebook post.
That's the only place I found reference to it. But
(24:26):
the Democrat and Chronicle staff has moved apparently into a
place called Spot co working in Henrietta. The Democrat and
Chronicle has moved out of downtown Rochester and at least
in part and is using you know this spot coworking.
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It's one of those places where you don't like have
an office, but you want to have a place where
you can go work or something, or you know, give
your clients a an address that's not a po box
so that it looks like you have a real office.
It's where you kind of rent a desk. And you know,
it's a fine service, and I can see how that'd
be useful for a lot of people in a lot
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of situations. But when you contrast, you know, what newspapering
has been in Rochester with what it is now, and
you know, it's a sad deal. The business killed itself
on several fronts. Took an editorial policy, antagonistic to the
people and values of the region. Also, you know, along
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online came free classified ads. You know, Craigslist killed newspapers
by and large. It was the classified ads back in
the day that made them a ton of money. Further,
you know Facebook has eaten them like crazy. Is that
nobody's buying newspaper ads anymore? And you know, at any rate,
(25:54):
it is a progress I guess means as one new
thing arises, that an old thing has to fall, and
the loss of newspapering is is major for our country.
And again, I used to work at the Democrat and Chronicle.
Before that, at the Times Union, I used to be
the daily Metro columnist. Not that anyone knows what that
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is anymore, but at any rate, the best I can tell,
the Democrat and Chronicle now operates out of you know,
rent a desk place in Henrietta. This is news radio
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the price line. You can go there and get a
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Are they worthwhile for you? Is this something that might work?
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Cheese that the WNBA is going to hold get some
of its leaders together. WNBA in the news a fair amount,
not for anything good. It's almost like become the Anti
America League. And some of America's pettiest and ugliest fights
tend to play themselves out in the WNBA. But you
(28:31):
had at the end of last week two gentlemen who
had previously played in the NBA, Ennis Canter Freedom and
Royce White again to retired Mayo basketball players, who each
declared for the twenty twenty seven WNBA draft. There had
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been a discussion of late in the WNBA about how
they were open to transgender and if you said you
were a woman, you could play, and it was up
to you and not them, and you know, and you
had a deal where you get kind of a piss
and match between There's this one lady, Sophie Cunningham, who's
(29:17):
a player, and she was in an interview in February
that somebody dug up where she said she didn't believe that,
you know, biological men should be playing against biological women
because it was none for advantage. That's of course true,
but not politically correct. And so some coach were sure
that said, you know, respect trans kids or something like that.
(29:41):
I don't know, but all of a sudden, the transgender
thing is like the topic of the day at the WNBA.
So n Scanter Freedom and mister Royce White, they each
made little videos and they said, well, okay, if I
get to decide what I am, then I'd like to
(30:02):
announce for the w NBA draft. And of course these gentlemen,
though you know, both retired, you know, uh would would
of course, I think on day one be the best
players the w NBA ever had. Right, So the w
n B A responded at the end of the week
Friday or Saturday by saying, we will have our leadership
(30:27):
get together and we will declare what a woman is
for the purposes of the women's you know, w NBA.
So again, I was not aware there was confusion on
this issue. And it is an embarrassment of the modern
mind that we somehow become so sophisticated, have our heads
(30:50):
so far up our hind ends that we're that we
we play games where we don't know what a man
and a woman are. You know, we don't know there's
been male and female. We pretend that there are other
things other than male and female. It's it's preposterous. Sometimes
we in the modern world we look down our nose
(31:11):
at people we consider ancient or simple or whatever like that.
You know, you live out in the hut and the
jungle someplace, or you know, you lived a long time ago,
and maybe you believe that there are guys living up
on Mount Olympus, or maybe you believe you, you know,
carve a mask out of a tree and have a spirit.
And we look down our nose and say, oh, those
people were so foolish and superstitious. Well, you'd have to
(31:36):
go a long way to find a people any place, anytime,
quite as stupid as some of us are today. I mean,
if you're just being honest, if we think that superstition
or ignorance are relics of the distant past or some
far distant place, you need to look no further than
right here, right now. Anyway. I suspect that the WNBA
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will define women in such a way as to keep
Royce White and enniscanter freedom out of their league, and
that's probably a good thing. Here's a little trivia note
about New York State. There are only two states in
our country in which most of the state's residents live
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on an island. Hawaii is the easy one, right, everybody
in Hawaii lives on an island. The other state, though,
is New York State. Just under fifty one percent of
all the people in New York State live on an island.
And you go, what, how's that. Well, here's what it is,
(32:47):
Manhattan Island, Long Island, or Staten Island. You add those
three areas up and again it's almost fifty one percent
of the population. So one more note of distinction for
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