This is a very scary time for me. Getting ready to leave all that is known. I bitch about New York all the time but I have only lived here except for two years in Cambridge in my early 20’s–and all over the place before then. But I was young, very young and had few things. I was impulsive then and am so the opposite of impulsive now.
I don’t know how that happens. Becoming settled. Thinking of everything that can go wrong, when once I just did. I have such deep roots here yet I know it’s time to shake the roots.
Writing has become so important to me. Once it was a hobby. Something I did to amuse myself. Something I did better than other people at work or in school. It’s the anchor that’s almost making me do this. Lately I have been scared that I’m losing my talent or whatever makes me unique. I begin to think that I’m too old. That great books and articles belong to the young(er) and I never gave myself the chance before. Serious writing requires an organizational skill I lacked until modern computers.
I have an entirely different side. In person I’m funny. In many emails and some comments, but here…I think I need to be settled.

The title of this post refers to my great love of Frank Rich–and how he’s writing about people I can’t stand. I so hope Judith Regan is Rudy’s Linda Tripp. But often I think he should be the Republican candidate as nobody in New York can imagine him winning. We have been wrong before. I remember going to vote in 2000 and a woman said “if everybody on the Upper West Side stands a certain way we can win.” I thought she was crazy, but have thought about what she said she often–that was before that night, and the Florida results. Maybe we didn’t stand the right way.
The quote from the Frank Rich article is beneath all this–If anybody can explain how RudyG can be so truly devoid of morals yet be so popular when Clinton was crucified I would love an explanation.
and click the help stop global warming link
Have to decide what to give away and what to keep. Not easy. My apartment will be on the market shortly. I know there’s still a market in New York for apartments like mine. Not sure how to price it.
Help stop global warming. Got this from Little Luce who got it from her school.
Frank Rich on Judith Regan and Giuliani. Continue Reading »

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When Rudy first became mayor I was an SSI Claims Rep in the Bronx so I do know a thing or two.

New York City’s welfare department sent us so many claimants who weren’t sick we had to do a special notation “welfare sent them. They don’t know why they’re here.:

It was crack and drive by shooting days. New York was hit hard by the recession that had begun in 87. But the economy began to improve officially on March 31, 1991.

With a good national and city economy fewer people do drugs or randomly shoot other people. Much as i hate to credit Newt Gingrich with anything–it was his Contract With America that ended “welfare as we knew it.:

Rudy made some great quality of life changes in his first term. However he thought he was elected dictator in his second term and went too far.

He announced his divorce in a press conference before informing his then wife. Had he been Clinton he would have been crucified

By September 2001, most New Yorkers couldn’t wait for his term to end. We all know what happened next. He did ask for his term to be extended.

The more I have been reading about 9/11, Bernie Kerik and some others, the more I begin to doubt that he was this great leader we all thought him to be. Kerik spending the day kissing his ass instead of being in the trenches as a police commissioner should have been.

I have written a lot about Kerik. He’s slime, sleaze, gross and those are the nice things.

A person is judged by the company he keeps. Judith Regan, Kerik’s former lover announced her law suit. Of course it has a Rudy angle–refuse to dignify him by giving him a last name.

RudyG fails in that area as he does in so many others. And I kind of want him to be the Republican candidate as I can’t believe he could win. But stranger things have happened.

After eight years of Bush we deserve a good president. I can’t stand the thought of four years under Rudy

If he becomes president we truly deserve to be the joke of the world

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