THE BIDEN CORRECTIONS

Posted on July 9, 2024 by John Bailey

25 WAYS OFFICIAL PRESIDENTIAL ACTS PRESIDENT BIDEN CAN END THE DEMOCRAT REPUBLICAN INSURRECTION TODAY ALL HE HAS TO DO IS ACT.

WPCNR WHITE PLAINS LAW JOURNAL. News & Comment By John F. Bailey. July 9, 2024:

Relax,President Biden.

You’re O.K.

You got this.

Just schedule a news conference a day for the next 4 weeks and announce the “Biden Corrections” Official Acts that will stop the “Know Nothing Parties” cold.

Listen to me Mr. President, you have the blessing of John Roberts, our Chief Justice.

In his very clever elegantly sophist “What ifs” decision he has empowered you with a super power no other President has ever had. You are the first to have the Roberts Superpower.

You can be the first to use it!

Put the now unlimited power of official Presidenting on bold display against your enemies:

The enemies of democracy, the haters of the poor, the black, the Latino,the Muslim, anyone striving to come to the land of the free and the home of the brave that your enemies hate.

Hear me out,Mr. President.

I think a demonstration of what immunity for Presidential acts! for a President means can be done by you and eliminate the way the pundits and the websites and your own party mock and insult you every day.

All you need to do is call in a legal expert smarter than the ones who have been advising you the last THREE years and immediately enact and test the legal grounds to just snuff out the Republican candidates for President, take the wind out of their hot air balloon, and pull the plug out of the Democratic squawk boxes who say you cannot beat the Republican wave.

In fact, Mr. President, this “gift of God” from the Roberts court of immunity and impunity gives you, President Biden the things you need to do that the deadlocked Senate and House of Representatives could not do for you for three years.

Calm down Democrats!

Especially those who want to run a nobody in place of you to save your own sorry seats you’ve slept in for three years

Stop thinking like the conservative justices you approved for the Supreme Court that have turned back the clock on abortion, put women at risk, the poor in a hole, the rich on Easier Street, treat migrants horribly and incredibly they are the justices who turned off their self-serving minds with “The Roberts Decision.”

“The Roberts Bomb” is the Dred Scott decision of our time.

It is evil in that it means a President can do anything without fear of prosecution for a crime as long as he/she qualifies it as an official act because the nation is in peril, in danger, overweight or anything.

That is a blanket statement, why?

Because the Supreme Court in its talent for chaos Pontius Pilot-ed the decision as to what Official Acts were off to the undercourts.

The Justices voted unknown “official” acts as being immune to prosecution if the President feels they were necessary. He or she decides. Like Henry the VIII.

The Roberts Decision gave any President immunity from being culpable and prosecutable for official acts as President.

They never even thought that the President who is in power right now today could use Official Acts, TOO!

Here what I submit, Mr. President. Which will forever, if you choose to inact them, will preserve democracy, restore respect for America, stop gun violence, and bring the business outlaws to justice, and save countless lives.

The Bidin Corrections

Official Acts President announces effective immediately

1.DEFINE policy suggestions now being touted by Republican policy advisors as unconstitutional for the effects on the economy, education, safety of the public.

2.ORDER prosecution of the organizations and personalities being relied on by the Republican Candidates for these new policies as threats to the country’s stability insurrectionist. Arrest and hold them without bail.

ORDER the trials of candidates to begin without delay citing the appointment of judges known to be nominated by the previous Trump Administration and restrict Trump campaigning and inflammatory (insurrectionist statements) until the trials are over to define whether Trump has committed felonies which would prohibit him from running for President.

PROHIBIT Replacement of currently employed Federal Department heads and employees on grounds it would disrupt functioning of government during a time of tensions between Russia, China, NATO, Israel,Iran Iraq, Afghanistan and create national chaos due to perhaps inexperience of replacements hired.

5.SUSPEND Rule changes could not be made in current environmental laws targeted by Republicans because of the environmental emergency and make them in effect until congress votes to change them.

PRESERVE social security payments welfare,employment checks benefits stability, tie them to inflation making it impossible for proposed slashes in these areas.

PROHIBIT preferred religion in any public school (that is public. No exceptions (that’s what the constitution says).

DECLARE book banning in all schools,libraries,unconstitutional under freedom of speech.

PROHIBIT unequal taxation raising taxes on wealthiest, easing on the lowest wage payers.

REPEAL corporations tax free income from overseas operations.

OVERRULE the Supreme Court Decision on Roe v Wade as dangerous to womens health and declare abortions not illegal in states where presently banned.

ESTABLISH investigation of Medicare and Medicaid fraud by hospitals, doctors, pharmaceutical companies reckless distribution of products.

13.ESTABLISH Cabinet Department of Developmental Disabilities regulating funding lifetime education, and increased availability of housing for the developmentally disabled whose parents can no longer care for them.

OVERRULE Supreme Court decision allowing corporations to form political action committees.

BEGIN Investigating corporations price increase patterns and profit margins with eye to establishing effects on inflation

OVERRULE Supreme Court decision prohibiting mass class action lawsuits.

ESTABLISH Cabinet level post of Department of Energy Economics with goal of lowering of energy costs

ESTABLISH Cabinet of Migrant Management with goal of housing migrants, putting them to work and regulating asylum seekers treatment.

PROHIBIT the ending of government contracts, awarding them without approval of congress.

PROHIBIT jailing of members of the press for publication of criticism of government policies, appointments, actions, statements (if not threatening in any way)

ESTABLISH post of DEPARTMENT OF JUDICIAL CONDUCT to analyze judges’decisions and relationships for patterns of favoritism or enabling plaintiffs and defendants in court cases

ESTABLISH Cabinet post of Department of Education Policy and Performance and Practice, responsible for uniform testing analysis in schools to measure school progress, with emphasis of individual school tests. The Department would analyze teacher and administrator performance by progress of the teacher’s students as they go through the grades ahead them and administrator management of costs, effective personnel. This would include oversight of private schools and private universities. This replaces the present Department of Education or the present Department of Education could explore educational technology international techniques as a research

ELIMINATE Lobbyist contributions to politicians and for consideration lobby recommended persons for policy positions by organizations with an interest in the policy regulated (conflict of interest)
SHOOTING A PERSON with a legal or illegal handgun will automatically lose your right to own a firearm regardless of results of trial.

ESTABLISHMENT of Cabinet position Department of Property Management and Policy, to upgrade recently established to exist today real estate practices of discrimination against minorities; income levels; price manipulation, if found; analyze bank discrimination and interest rate increases to augment profits. Would also survey property owners on rent increase policy and rent controls (current rise in rents)

And since they are permanent, if you choose to make them, you force congress to overturn them one by one. The opposition will have to vote on each one. Even should the opposition win, they are faced with a huge roadblock

The Roberts Decision lets whoever gets in to office do what they want. But they should have made it effective in 2025. Just a slight oversight.

Thinking counts when you are changing the constitution.

Good luck with these, we are only here to help.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY MOHEGAN LAKE BEACHES CLOSED DUE TO ALGAE BLOOM

Posted on July 9, 2024 by John Bailey

WESTCHESTER COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT CLOSES BEACHES DUE TO HARMFUL ALGAE BLOOM

(White Plains, NY) – The Westchester County Health Department has closed the following beaches at Mohegan Lake until further notice due to the presence of a Harmful Algae Bloom (HAB) in the swim areas:

· Mohegan Colony Association – Mohegan Lake

· Mohegan Beach Park District – Mohegan Lake

These are the only County regulated beaches on Mohegan Lake.

Westchester County Health Commissioner Dr. Sherlita Amler said: “The decision to close these beaches is a precautionary measure to ensure the safety and health of the public. Harmful Algae Blooms are more prevalent during hot days when water temperatures rise, leading to increased bacteriological growth rates.”

In order for the beaches to be reopened, the algae must be completely cleared from the swim area. Following this, water samples will be taken and submitted for analysis.

Residents and visitors are encouraged to visit the Westchester County website for the latest updates on beach closures and reopening schedules. The County remains committed to maintaining high standards of environmental health and safety across its recreational facilities.

JULY 8–COVID POISED TO POST STRONG SURGE IN COVID IN JULY

Posted on July 8, 2024 by John Bailey

WPCNR WESTCHESTER COVID LOG.From the New York State Covid Tracker, Observation and analysis by John F. Bailey July 8, 2024:

Westchester County reported 2,540 new cases of Covid through June 30, 363 a day. The case rate has been rising all month of June

For the 7 days ended July 2, Westchester averaged 10.1 new cases a day per 100,000 people. With a county population of 1,400 000 new cases per day times 10.04, that is 102 cases a day, or 710 a WEEK.

If that 10 persons a day per 100,000 figure does not go down or worse rises, this means in July we will see 2,839 new cases at the present rate of 1 person infecting 2!

If the number of Westchester new cases rises to 15 a day that will mean 4,216 new covid cases a week.

Should it balloon to 20 new cases a day that creates 5,622 new cases a week, over 20,000. And the covid lab continues to create new variants. If you are not fully vaccinated through the June Booster, you are a sitting duck.

Here’s why

Last June 2023, Westchester reported 826 cases.

In July 2023 after the July 4 break, that created 1,064 cases in July.

Look at the situation we face:

The 826 cases spread to 1098 others with 1 person infected in June spreading to 3 others others. Granted the three persons each covid June case spread it to in July included persons infected by June covid cases when covid had a 1 week to 10 days before showing symptoms. The July covid cases who got covid from those infected in June, then spread to those they associated with in July.

Looking at my spread log from last July weekly totals the spread rate per week at its highest was 1 July covid case spreading it to up to 4 persons, the highest was 1 spreading it to 6.

The weekly new infections were in July 2023: 192,133,212,260, 306,134 adding to 1,064.

Add the August Weekly infections, 490, 788, 858,749, 964 for a total of 3,849 you come up with 4,913 through July and August traceable to the June spread of 826 cases.

The July August Spread of 2023 of 4,913 cases produced 4,629 cases.

Taking into account the 24 hours to spread LN-1 variant just identified by the Center for Disease Control, the Westchester County 10 new cases per day rate troubles me.

I fear that the lack of persons fully vaccinated or who have not gotten their booster now available creates the potential for an exponential spread of the LN-1 varient because more persons are going to infect others fastee (within 2 days!)

Covid is spreading faster.

Last week through July was the 20^th of 23 consecutive weeks since May that covid cases have risen steady and the 7^th consecutive week we have seen a rise. You simply must be careful folks with this new variant LN-1 out there.

I expect it will decline this last week the 30^th of June through July 6 because of the July 4^th holiday.

But the bulge in Monday through Friday cases shows the effects of the LN-1 varient, over 100 cases a day the last two weeks Monday through Friday:

From June Monday the 16 to Friday the 21^st: 134,124,103,116.102

From June Monday the 24 to Friday June 21: 155,131,124,103,116,102!

That’s when people go back to work and into the workplace.

The hospitalizations in White Plains Hospital shows rate of those admitted and being found with covid continues steady around 50%.

In the last two weeks, June 20 to July 5, 79 persons were admitted to White Plains Hospital and 37 or 47% tested positive for covid after admission.

From May 31 to July 5—the last 5 weeks, 147 persons were admitted to WHP and 92 once admitted were found with covid—62%.

The hot weather, proximity in air conditioned cooling centers, shoulder to shoulder on the beach will contribute to covid spread.

I eagerly await the October vaccine booster. We are going to need it.

NATIONAL SOURCE OF INFECTION–

Posted on July 8, 2024 by John Bailey

Outbreak Outlook – July 8

Covid-19 still picking up, but at least ILI is low

JUL 08, 2024

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Summer Plans: As summer approaches and data on respiratory diseases dwindles, I am moving to my off-season schedule:

For paid subscribers, I’ll be combining weekly updates into a single report. Expect these updates to be less detailed until the fall.
Free subscribers will continue to receive occasional essays and posts during the summer months, but I won’t be posting as often.
In the fall, I will return to sending out a full-length, free national version of Outbreak Outlook. Paid subscribers will receive region-specific editions with more local data.

ILI

The summertime respite continues, with influenza and influenza-like illness at minimal levels across the country.

Nationally, hospitalization rates are near-zero (0.1 hospitalizations per 100,000 population), and outpatient visits for ILI remain low at 1.4% of all visits to the doctor. Every state looks good, with no outliers or hot spots.

Even that 0-4 age group, which tends to continue to have higher levels of spread even during the summer, is reporting relatively low levels of outpatient visits for ILI (4.4%).

Outpatient ILI by age group, this flu season (Oct-present). Source.

COVID-19

Several of the data sources did not update this week due to the July 4th holiday, so we are dealing with an even more limited picture of what is going on with Covid-19. Still, I think it’s fair to say that activity is still increasing in the Western region of the country, continuing a weeks-long trend. The South is also picking up, particularly Florida. The Midwest and Northeast are seeing some increase, but nothing marked at this point.

In terms of severe illness, hospitalization rates remain very low nationally (1.8 hospitalizations per 100,000), but numbers are trending up. At the state level Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee reported notable increases in hospitalizations.

In addition, California reported a notable Covid-19 hospitalization rate, now at 4.5 hospitalizations per 100,000 which is 2.5 times where it was two months ago, and similar to levels last seen in February.

Wastewater and emergency department data were not updated this week.

Hospitalization rate in California. Source.

Stomach Bugs

Norovirus remains unseasonably high, however, nationally, test positivity declined a bit this past week, down to 8.9% (from 10% last week). The Midwest, South, and Northeast saw improvements this past week, but the West saw another increase in test positivity.

Starting in the West, test positivity bounced up nearly two points to 12.1%. This is more than twice what it has been this time of year for the past several years (including prior to Covid-19).

In the Midwest, test positivity dipped slightly to 10.3%, and in the South, after several weeks of sharp increases, test positivity declined nearly two points to 7.8%. Despite these improvements, rates remain unusually high for this time of year in both the Midwest and South.

Biggest improvement goes to the Northeast, which saw test positivity rates nearly cut in half this past week – down to 3.8%, which is more in keeping with what we’d expect this time of year.

Food recalls

The following foods are being recalled because they are contaminated. Please check your cupboards and throw out any of these items:

New

Ground beef distributed under different labels (more info)
Viva Raw pet food (dog & cat)—this poses a health risk both to pets and to humans that have handled the food (more info)
Urban Spirits non-alcoholic drink mixes (more info)

Previously reported:

Ice cream sold under several brands, including Friendly’s, Hershey’s Ice Cream, and Jeni’s at retail locations and through direct delivery nationwide have been recalled due to potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination. (more info)
Smoked Norwegian Salmon Slices sold at Kroger and Payless (more info)
Multiple brands of fresh spinach (Solata, Gaia Organic, Full Circle Organic, Farmer Direct, Uncle Vinny’s, Bogopa), expiry dates of 6/20 – 6/24 (more info)
Terrafina brand Macadamia in the Raw sold in NY (more info)
Dried Orzo and Campanelle sold by Wildly Beloved Foods at a range of supermarkets and farmers markets in Washington (more info)
Tomato Basil Sauce sold under the Hudson Harvest brand name in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts (more info)
Canned coffee products sold under several brand names, all produced by Snapchill LLC (more info)
Diamond Schruumz (TM) brand chocolate bars, cones, and gummies (marketed as containing mushroom extracts) (more info)
If you have food allergies, you may wish to review these FDA safety alerts and USDA alerts for foods with undeclared allergens.

In Other News

Colorado reported a human case of avian influenza A(H5N1) in a dairy worker. The person experienced conjunctivitis (red eyes). This is the 4th such case reported this year. In livestock, 54 detections have been reported across 7 states in the last 30 days.
In other influenza news, Germany reported a rare outbreak of highly pathogenic H7N5 bird flu on a farm in Bad Bentheim, Lower Saxony, near the Dutch border. The outbreak, detected on June 29 and confirmed on July 2, resulted in the death of 6,000 birds out of a flock of 90,879. This H7N5 strain is distinct from the widely spread H5N1 strain and marks the first recorded outbreak of H7N5 in the World Organisation for Animal Health’s public records, which date back to 2005.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Health Alert Network (or HAN) advisory warning clinicians to be alert for dengue infections. Global dengue cases have reached record-breaking levels, with countries in the Americas reporting over 9.7 million cases from January to June, more than double the total for 2023. In the U.S., Puerto Rico has declared a public health emergency, and there’s a higher-than-expected number of cases among U.S. travelers.
In case you missed it, I wrote a piece published in Foreign Affairs last week about one way we can get ahead of outbreaks and restore trust in public health institutions: excellence. Read it here.

VORPERIAN TOASTS THE YEAR THE RED SOX BROKE THE CURSE OF THE BAMBINO: 2004 REMEMBERED

Posted on July 6, 2024 by John Bailey

SPORTS HISTORIAN AND WHITE PLAINS TELEVISION PERSONALITY, JOHN VORPERIAN TOSSES UP RED SOX MAGICAL SEASON

WPCNR BASEBALL’S YESTERDAYS From John Vorperian. July 6, 2024:

Baseball superstition holds teams that lead their division in July go to the

postseason. Boston’s current place in the standings looks as though they will have to wait

until next year. 20 years ago, the Red Sox reversed the “curse of the Bambino” and won the

World Series.

John Vorperian, a lifelong Westchester resident and sports historian, grew up a

Boston Red Sox booster. His obsession with the Sox began in 1968. His family

summered in the Hub and regularly took the then 10-year-old to games at Fenway

Park.

Those trips resulted in a passion for Beantown’s nine and baseball history.

Vorperian along with 67 Society of American Baseball Research (SABR)

members, which included some Yankee and Cardinal fans have published a book about

the famed 2004 Championship club.

Issued on the 20^th anniversary, SOX BID CURSE FAREWELL celebrates that renowned squad by detailing the

biographies of all the players and coaches alongside essays about that unprecedented season wherein the New

England franchise won the World Series for the first time in 86 years.

Boston became the first team to ever win a seven-game series after being down

three games to none to their archrivals, the New York Yankees. The Sox then swept the St.

Louis Cardinals four games to none in the Fall Classic.

Vorperian has written for RED SOX MAGAZINE and contributed to eleven other

baseball team books for SABR. He also hosts a sports themed cable TV program BEYOND

THE GAME on White Plains Community Media.

BASEBALL AT THE BREAK WITH BULL ALLEN AND THE DUTCHMAN FROM THE OLD POLO GROUNDS: WILLIE MAYS REMEMBERED; THE METS AND YANKEES AT THE BREAK, THE RULES, 7 PM ON FIOS CH. 45 AND OPTIMUM CH 76 AND NOW AT www.wpcommunitymedia.org

Posted on July 6, 2024 by John Bailey

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THE METS BATS GET THEM BACK IN THE HUNT.

A LIFE LONG GIANTS FAN REMEMBERS WILLIE AND WHAT MADE HIM THE BEST.

TWO FANS THE LEGENDARY BULL ALLEN AND THE DUTCHMAN ON THE NEW RULES EFFECTS ON

“THE GAME”

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HERE LIES THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. BORN JULY 4, 1776. DIED JULY 4, 2024. AGED 248 YEARS BY ITS OWN HAND. NO LONGER ARE ALL MEN EQUAL UNDER THE LAW

Posted on July 4, 2024 by John Bailey

WPCNR NEWS & COMMENT By John F. Bailey. July 4, 2024 Reprinted from the White Plains CitizeNetReporter, June 30, 2018:

I did not go to the fireworks in White Plains New York USA.

There should be no fireworks anywhere in America today July 4.

Because there is little to celebrate about America anymore.

What Americans used to celebrate on July 4 in the past no longer exists.

It is a memory, a once shining hope the world always looked to for inspiration.

That America is forever gone.

I miss it so.

We may never see respect and admiration from the world we once had again.

Our reputation for standing up for the good, the decent, and the just has been smeared and shattered by persons who should have known better.

America to the rescue no more. I was always proud of that.

Unselfish acceptance of persons in trouble coming to our shores to start a new life: the Irish, the Germans, the Italians, Latinos, Africans, Asians, Muslims– has been callously, proudly,viciously attacked and not adequately protected by our “leaders.”

Both houses of congress and a mean-spirited selfish man have aroused hatred of the different, the oppressed, the persecuted, and the poor, in citizens who should know better.

There but for the grace of God go you and I, Mr. and Mrs. And Ms. America who collectively bear full responsibility for the death of the America Dream, by not paying attention, and buying into a line and a hate and politiicians’ indifference.

How quickly America’s heart hardened to stone and stopped beating.

Cruelty rationalized. Hate defended. Discrimination championed. Truth attacked. Help denied the needy.

That was never the American Way.

Eight years is all it has taken.

This swift decline continues into madness.

A year of a media circus campaign followed by the nomination of “An American Strongman,” a man of the people champion who spoke of “Making America Great Again.” On the way perhaps never to return, thanks to the decision Monday of the Supreme Court which apparently cannot not read the Constitution of the United States to grant a President immunity for official acts.

Don’t they know what started the American Revolution? What sophists! These are the kind of judges that condemned Socrates to death because he was inconvenient.

The media have been playing both ends against the mid dle, being complicit publicizing dutifully the ranting of those who would change American government. Because they were “good copy.” “Everything is copy,” it has once been said by Nora Ephron’s mother. But no media judgment was used. Nothing said was censored or ignored. The media were putty in this man’s hands. Criticism was fake news. Then the claims of the stolen election.

The man who condoned and popularized hatred of his opponents, who courted the cooperation of an enemy of America to influence his election, and who reveled in his denigration of women and the weak was elevated to an exulted level. The man who loved firing people.

His opponent in the election underestimated him. She failed to grasp the visceral violence he aroused in voters—voters who only saw the promise of their personal getting even with their perceived tormentors and disregarding the premise of this very mastermind.

Half of the voters in the country ate his message up.

That horrendous campaign has been followed up with a march on American values that, like those before him: Mongols, Huns, Cossacks, Barbarians and Nazis rampaged across Europe with sword and violence like the Roman Empire.

The weapons today are microphones, videos, propaganda, slogans, websites, and big lies that play as convenient truths, executive orders laying waste to reason and morality in this nation, forsaking our friends of the past and uplifting the evil leaders of the world for admiration. Initiatives ineptly executed, inappropriate, and bungled because of the inability to manage. Rewriting history.

I and you have seen 8 years dismantling rights taken for granted by Americans. Courts ruled by political tools not men and women of integrity, compassion, who wear their robes to right wrongs.

Justices making rights-robbing decisions virtually weekly. Leaders in cabinet positions opposed to the missions of their agencies turning a blindeye to companies that kill, gouge, fire and oppress their workers. Corrupt, price gouging businesses, corner-cutting businesses making decisions that kill hundredss in airplane crashes, and creation of killer pain drugs.

How great are we now?

The promise of America has been perhaps forever broken.

How great are we now?

It is embarrassing to be an American for what this neo-Nazi movement is doing.

As fireworks explosions are prepared to celebrate a government that now rips children away from families at the border . Political decisions to block entrance to the U.S. Adequate records not even being kept. Are photographs being taken of the children already in custody with their parents? Who knows? Reporters have not even documented the process of what happens in the separations. Mayor De Blasio was not even informed of immigrant children being flown into New York City for placement. the Supreme Court decides not to let homeless sleep in the streets. Where do they go next? Our government allows states to bus immigrants into other cities and does not send them back, I repeat does not send them back!

Now America, look at you: America has “Children Concentration Camps.”

Look at you America, you now are going to test children’s DNA with the parents who brought them to make sure they are not “Fake children.”

America did not used to be afraid of children. afraid of people fleeing their countries.

But hate was always under the surface that the premise of America had to always fight. Hate is always poised to raise its horror, its ugliness, its indifference to the suffering of others, because it is easy to ignore the unpleasant and blame their plights as being their own fault.

Slavery, the segregation of the South and the North (remember redlining?). Other than the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War, and the Cavalry revenge massacres at Wounded Knee and the Washita River, and Andrew Jackson’s Trail of Tears (the Cherokee Indian death march), and the burning of Atlanta, and Bloody Kansas, we have forgotten our humanity conveniently in favor of the easy emotion: hate. Worse, indifference.

Look at you, America: Religious freedom for all. No more. Muslims are being ostracized by travel bans.

In fact the clergy, the Christians in America, I call you out: What would Jesus say about your failure to take in strangers or your condoning (as a matter of faith for crying out loud!) policies of retribution to come?

Look at you, America, how quickly what you have built in 248 years has been ripped away.

Look at those fireworks, and this year they represent an America flaming apart with hate.

Look at what it takes to be an American of the past now who remembers the pride I took in America.

You are a drifter still believing in freedom and truth, justice and the American Way in your heart, mourning what America once was and is no more. Worry. Anxiety at the insanity of those so close to taking over the country and having their way with us.

I remember not the country whose leaders in congress betrayed its country’s promise and continues to wring hands and do not do the right thing.

America has died in these last 8 years. A breathtaking quick decline. Without a shot being fired.

Its leadership has betrayed its war dead and veterans who fought for truth, justice and the American Way and the Pursuit of Happiness, where all men are created equal. No man is above the law. No more.

What is the Supreme Court thinking? Do they think?

America, Look at you and remember what you once meant to millions.

The Stars and Stripes are no longer forever.

Old Glory is tattered, ripped to shreds by ourselves.

The white and red stripes wrinkled, ripped, furling asunder in the cruel fickle winds of hate, in total disunity, no longer a whole flag. A hydra of hate, no longer proud. Just regret in its flutters.

The white stars falling out of the blue background lose their unity. Scatter to the four winds.

Lay a wreath on the flag.

Cancel the fireworks celebrations everywhere.

There is nothing to celebrate July 4.

But for those of us Americans, who remember what America used to stand for, our work is just beginning.

We have a lot of work to do to make America the Greatest again, all over again.

Give us time, old friends.

You and I have to knit that Grand Old Flag back together again.

Stitch by stitch.

Vote by Vote.

Together.

Happy July 4th. America’s Birthday

Posted on July 4, 2024 by John Bailey

en Español

Happy July 4th! Let’s celebrate the power of unity and collective action. On July 4th, 1776, the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence, announcing the colonies’ separation from Great Britain. The Constitution provides the legal and governmental framework for the United States. Today reminds us that when people unite for a common cause, they shape history. Whether building a nation or fostering positive change in our communities, let’s continue working together for a brighter future.

Fun Fact: The Second Continental Congress, convened in 1775, marked a pivotal moment in American history. Delegates from the 13 colonies gathered to address tensions with Great Britain and ultimately declared independence, laying the foundation for our nation’s birth.

en Español

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¡Feliz 4 de Julio! Celebremos el poder de la unidad y la acción colectiva. El 4 de Julio de 1776, el Segundo Congreso Continental adoptó por unanimidad la Declaración de Independencia, anunciando la separación de las colonias de Gran Bretaña. La Constitución proporciona el marco legal y gubernamental para los Estados Unidos. Hoy nos recuerda que cuando las personas se unen por una causa común, hacen historia. Ya sea construyendo una nación o fomentando cambios positivos en nuestras comunidades, sigamos trabajando juntos por un futuro más brillante.

Dato curioso: El Segundo Congreso Continental, convocado en 1775, marcó un momento crucial en la historia de Estados Unidos. Delegados de las 13 colonias se reunieron para abordar las tensiones con Gran Bretaña y finalmente declararon la independencia, sentando las bases para el nacimiento de nuestra nación.

JULY 2 5:30 P.M.—HUDSON RIVER BEACHES OPENED.

Posted on July 2, 2024 by John Bailey

HUDSON RIVER BEACHES CLEARED TO OPEN

(Westchester, NY) – Croton Point Park and Philips Manor Beach have been cleared to open by the Westchester County Health Department.

The beaches had been ordered closed last week due to elevated bacteria levels. The beach samples collected exceeded the maximum level of enterococcus bacteria as outlined by the sanitary code.

After an additional test Monday, July 1 the samples met the required safety standards. The beaches are cleared to open immediately. Croton Point Park will be open for swimming tomorrow.