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US still Earth\u2019s best country<\/strong><\/h2>\n

So how did\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>all start.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the beginning,\u201d like before Amazon \u2014 like even before\u00a0Elon\u2019s first child \u2014 there was a world. Something.<\/p>\n

Read more Serial killer fears as three women are murdered in Puerto Vallarta<\/a><\/p>\n

Think pre rivers and mountains \u2014 prior to\u00a0Hegseth\u00a0reading off a Fox TV prompter \u2014 a voice said, \u201cLet there be light.\u201d Came now the first con \u2014 Con Ed. Wampum? Please. Today it\u2019s trillions. Henry Ford\u2019s first rickety roadster? Nowadays we can\u2019t even get crosstown.<\/p>\n

Progress? We great or what? Shove Kitty Hawk, now Spirit Airlines is grounded. TomToms got traded for handheld cells. From wooden shoes to spike heels. Earrings for women now on men. Long pants for men now on women. Short pants today are not even on those women.<\/p>\n

One for all and all for one?\u00a0United<\/em>\u00a0States of America? Please. I don\u2019t even know where Idaho is. I heard it\u2019s outside Newark but only potatoes have seen Idaho \u2014 which is where?<\/p>\n

How did we get to what we are now? With an AI machine talking for us. With schoolkids unable to handwrite or add. With a socialist closing off, not opening up, New York? With traffic, open manholes, people sleeping on streets,\u00a0scaffolding permanently\u00a0on every block, the elderly unable to pay for food, rents sky high, medical facilities closing, where Broadway\u2019s becoming narrower and narrower, where\u00a0Hunter\u00a0is still hunting that computer he says wasn\u2019t his, where Staten Island\u2019s looking to secede?<\/p>\n

OK, so we can\u2019t claim Confucius but how about\u00a0Pacino? We got culture.<\/p>\n

As for the slight traffic problem, we can fix it. We reposition every street to go northeast. This way it\u2019ll be Connecticut\u2019s problem.<\/p>\n

Pour over of hate<\/strong><\/h2>\n

What\u2019s with the weather? Cold?! A thief in my neighborhood even had his hands in his own pocket. The holiday\u2019s over. So put away your damp blanket and sand-filled tuna and listen:<\/p>\n

Read more US launches self-defense strikes on mine-laying boats in southern Iran, CENTCOM says<\/a><\/p>\n

A NYC friend sent me the following in a longer version. No ID. He couldn\u2019t confirm its author.<\/p>\n

It was: A Brooklyn crowd \u2014 who\u2019ll stand for hours just to hear why everything\u2019s their mother\u2019s fault \u2014 was shouting about the \u201cintifada and decolonization.\u201d A bearded Columbia University man explained: \u201cWe\u2019re against Zionism.\u201d A Columbia University student shouted: \u201cZionists are Nazis!<\/p>\n

\u201cRemember\u00a0Kanye West. Black mask. Announcing he loves Hitler. Now some kid from a prestigious college \u2014 whose trauma is getting cold coffee at Starbucks \u2014 is also shouting fascism.\u201d Normal people pretended nothing unusual is happening. Humans adapt to everything: war, hatred, even $9 coffee.<\/p>\n

\u201cJews have hoped that this madness would disappear on its own. It never disappears on its own.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That AIn\u2019t right<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Alert: We believe this screed was begun by AI. The NYC friend added, for some unknown reason, a celebrity\u2019s name. He then added the name of this celebrity whom, for whatever reason, he believed might\u2019ve sent it. Happens I knew that celebrity. I called the person. They were horrified. They said: \u201cI never wrote anything ever about antisemitism. I\u2019m no expert and have nothing to say that hasn\u2019t been said better than I could say it. Someone is faking it for some reason.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two NYC doctors talking. One: \u201cThere\u2019s rumors you\u2019ve been romancing my wife.\u201d Second one: \u201cNot true, why ask me?\u201d First doctor: \u201cListen, I just wanted a second opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more Charles Barkley eviscerates Cavaliers for their shameful \u2018effort\u2019 against Knicks<\/a><\/p>\n

Only in New York, kids, only in New York.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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