In Which Will Uses Cuomo as an Excuse to Post Girly Pics

So Killer Andy C. is going. Two weeks. We'll believe it when we see it. As the New York Post has pointed out, the three most famous New York politicians* are Elliot Spitzer, Anthony Wiener and Killer Andy C., who is resigning because he's 62 but acted like a shy adolescent around grown women. At least Spitzer was cavorting with prostitutes.**Clay Travis argues that Cuomo may be trying to come back in 2022. Both Elliot Spitzer and Anthony Wiener tried to make a comeback after resigning in disgrace.  As Killer Andy C. gave his speech, he sounded like a Rabbi, WTF? Or at least the Rabbi in Seinfeld.  Lot's of word salad. Jesus, what a cringe fest. Oh, my former homeland. You asked for these people, you voted for these people, and you deserve these people. 

A comment we left on a MINT Press post on US arms being used in Yemen, "Try to see the bright side. We send only our best ordnance to the Middle East. You think we'd drop stuff like that on Afghanistan? In many ways it's a compliment." When someone asked, "What the fuck is wrong with you?" we replied. "Well look at Japan. They must have thought, 'The Americans dropped the A-Bomb on us. That's the Dom Perignon of bombs.' Actually, I would argue that Hamas's use of cheap, home made rockets against Israel rather then super high tech modern munitions is a form of anti-Semitism." Mrs. Stroock and the girls get back on Saturday.

On Monday we called Air Force an adventure, and it is. First the B-17 flies right into the Pearl Harbor raid. The crew makes an emergency landing on Maui, damage a wheel, and get shot at by local Japanese saboteurs. After finally coming in to Hickam Field it's off to Wake. A long, boring flight is made interesting because the American outpost is  hard to find and only the navigator's skill gets them there. After that it's off to the Philippines. Here the crew fights an aerial battle, pilot Quincannon is killed and washout Winacki has to land the Mary Ann on her belly. There's an air raid on Clark field. Then the crew races to get Mary Ann flight ready as Japanese forces close in. The crew shoot there way out. From there it's on to Australia. But wait, there's a gigantic Japanese invasion force.

*This former New Yorker will believe Hillary! was a New Yorker when she can describe the best way to get to Yankee Stadium from Westchester. It's down the Bronx River Parkway to the Botanical Gardens and left onto the Grand Concourse. Proceed East, eventually you'll see the stadium on your right. 'Fact is, I've always been a Yankee fan,' the girl from Illinois once boasted. Yeah, sure. Who's your favorite Yankee? Personally, by decade: Ron Guidry, Dave Winfield (a righty like us), Andy Pettitte, NA. Two Louisiana guys. Brings it back to our grandmother, huh.

**Ashle Dupres, via the New York Post. The following is provided for informational purposes:

Editorial Statement: Our job here at William Stroock dot BlogSpot dotcom is to provide news and unique insight to our core of dedicated readers. The information is out there, and if it's relevant, it's our job to present it. Ow! Ouch! Quit it! [Knobhead-Ed]

Lord Will Wakes

We wake up, grab our tankard and finish the last of the grog from the night before, toss it away, wipe our mouth and say, 'Baaaaa!' We stand up and stretch, working the kinks and tension out of our muscles, sore from the great battlefield victory won the day before. Our left side still hurts from the Orc hammer blow we took. We see a shape beneath the furs, and only then do we remember the barmaid. 'You, wench!' we shout grumpily. 'Out!' The young thing sits bolt upright, red hair a tussle of locks about her head and shoulders. We growl. She grabs her clothes from the floor and hurriedly heads out the door. We throw the tankard after her. It hits the door and falls to the floor with a clunk. We stretch once more. A young page wearing the Royal standard creeps in, his face red at having passed the scantily clad barmaid. He see's us and stands straight. 'Excuse me Lord Will. The king needs you right away.' We wave the boy out of the room. The king, or that ravenous daughter of his, we think. Would all the victories we have won save our head if the king found out?

[You wish, loser-Ed]

This blog remains convinced that in another age we would have been an epic warrior of whom the bards would have sung many tales. In 2021 we're sleeping with Youngest Daughter's stuffed gator, Chompson. There's still more than a week left to go. Total middle-aged fail.

We didn't lead a brave band of men into battle against an army of fantasy monsters, but we did lift weights. Usually takes us about an hour. We worked up a good sweat, felt good. 

Well, we've kinda sorta run out of things to say about MTV. We lost the juju, for lack of a better explanation. Meh. 

We responded to the people who wanted freebies from us, 'You're $1.29 million short of your $50 million fundraising goal. I'm a writer and I get paid. So I pass.' We think we can turn this into a Substack piece. Damn, and we're sitting on half a dozen unpublished articles too. 

Tensions are ratcheting up in the Middle East. We admit we haven't been paying attention. Here's Benny Gantz warning the Iranians, though. 

A scientist calling himself Peter Hotez wants to ban criticism of Dr. Fauci and himself, calling it a hate crime. We tweeted that he was a dork. Actually, we think hate crime statutes should also apply to authors. Criticism of our work should be banned.

We admit the walls are closing in on Killer Andy C. The New York Post reports he's hunkered down in his mansion. Without looking we're sure there's already a Downfall parody.  Were we Andy's consigliere, we'd advice him to wait it out. That usually works for Democrats. Just remember the man is going down not because he's the greatest mass murderer in New York State history, but because he made Democrat women uncomfortable.

Will Freelances

Good morning exiled Russians in Helsinki Sweden [That's Finland, you mean Stockholm-Ed] Oh yes. We see you started at this blog's very first post. Okay.

Let's pop on over to the New York Post and see what's happening this morning...Oh my god! We admit that when we went to bed last night we thought Killer Andy C (the man murdered more New Yorkers than Osama bin Laden) was going to survive. But with several Democrat governors and even Joe calling for Andy to resign and the state legislature making noises about impeachment...na. Killer Andy C remains the once a future governor. If you're a Dem you can always ride things out. Just ask Governor Blackie in Virginia. 

You know, reading over the report summary, this sounds exactly like the dumbass stuff we did when we were an idiot 17 year old. Of course Killer Andy C is a grown man. These moves are passive aggressive. They are the actions of a man who lacks confidence. Damn it Andrew, you're the governor of the Empire State. You once had a pretty blonde girlfriend with a great rack and [Now who's acting like a dumbass 17 year old-Ed] act like it. Dinner in the office, candlelight...that'll do it.

Someone contacted us last week about submitting some Pershing pieces to their website. We asked what they were offering. They replied, 'We’re a government agency with no budget to offer compensation for submitted articles, so that’s not on the table, regrettably. What is on offer here is the opportunity to promote your book to the over 200,000 monthly distribution of our newsletter.' This agency is $1.6 million short of its $50 million fundraising goal. We haven't responded yet, we're waiting for the stiff drink we poured ourselves to settle us down a bit, lest we tell these people what we really think.  Fifty million, by the Lords of Kobol.

As the great freelancer Robert Stacy McCain has said, the number one goal of any writer is to get paid. Maxim pays. It's why were working on collusion for him right now. Again, Nightingale Russia, we're not really colluding, just writing newsy articles about what's happening here in America. [How long are you going to continue this Nightingale Russia stuff?-Ed] For as long as I think it's funny. [Strap in, folks. This could last several more weeks-Ed].

Joe's War for Wednesday

Nothing but weights at the gym yesterday. It's going so well we're approaching 255 pounds. That's up nearly 20 since the new year. Again, all our pants are a hell of a lot loser, so that's pure muscle we're putting on. Having been to the gym three days in a row, we're not sure if were going to hit the treadmill this afternoon. We'll see.

Here's a new piece we wrote for 19FortyFive on Robert Kagan: 'Robert Kagan has taken to the pages of Foreign Affairs (where else?) to argue for American internationalism. The author of several books, Kagan is a staunch advocate for an interventionist American foreign policy. He earned degrees from Yale and Harvard, and a doctorate from American University in Washington D.C. His academic credentials are clearly without question.' Click it on over...

We had another good day of reading through The Great Salvation of 1976. There were a variety of scenes in the chapter, Casper, out into the countryside, back to Casper, updates on Matt. One issue going forward is how many Paul Harvey reports to do. Should each chapter open with his radio broadcast. Not a bad idea. '75 is 75,000 words, and '76 will need to approach that.

We consulted with a fellow North American, or Norte Americano for those of you that Habla Espaniol, estabien, and we think a side plot about a surviving Soviet city might work. Readers are going to want to know what's happening in the USSR. We're thinking Ulan Ude for a variety of reasons we'll get into in another post. Still open to other ideas. 

Let's see what the New York Post has to say about the greatest mass-killer in state history...Nothing much this morning. We're at three women, four if you count the 'eat the sausage' gal. There will be more. The legislature is getting ready to revoke Killer Andy C's emergency powers. That's a good start. Cuomo is in trouble, but this blog just doesn't believe he'll resign or be removed. Maybe he won't run again in 2022. State AG Letitia James certainly is. If he tries to stick it out, it's gonna get real fuckin' ugly. 

We do see that ten rockets hit an American base in Iraq. Good going Joe, you're going to get yourself a nice little war. Liz Cheney (defenestrate) will be thrilled. 

Italians and Jews on a Tues

An hour on the treadmill yesterday totaling 3.62 miles. It was tougher than the last time, but still not terrible. Our ankle is sore this morning. When we finally checked our time the clock read 59:49, which was pretty cool. Today we lift.

Let's click over to the New York Post* and see what's new this morning with New York's greatest killer...Oh my god! Cuomo, Elliot Spitzer, Anthony Wiener...what is it with New York Democrats? As the great Ann Coulter once said, no wonder liberal women hate men.

And speaking of the man who's killed more New Yorkers than Osama bin Laden, here's our latest bit of misinformation at Inforos: 'As is Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York. Cuomo had once been hailed as ‘America’s Governor’ for his handling of the COVID-19 crisis. He won a television Emmy Award for his daily news conferences and published a book extolling his leadership. But a report issued by State Attorney General Letitia James says Cuomo’s administration misrepresented the number of deaths caused by the governor’s policy of putting COVID-19 patients in nursing homes. The Cuomo Administration claimed 8,711 died in nursing homes. But the Attorney General’s report says the true number is over 13,000. Melissa De Rossa, the governor’s secretary, confirmed on a conference call with state Democrats that Cuomo’s administration covered up the true number of COVID-19 related nursing home deaths.' On to Moscow, Comrades! Is Killer Andy C. finished? I think Killer Andy C. is finished.

Anyhoo...We went through several scenes of The Great Salvation of 1976 and we're pleased. This section deals with Matt's trek and the Rockefeller Administration trying to set up elections in the fall. There's also a Reconstruction Commission stocked with successful people including Milton Freidman, Karl Sagan, George Will, Don Shula, etc etc and chaired by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. We could use a few more names, actually. The Great Nuclear War of 1975 ended up being about the US with a side story on Britain. We think '76 will need a similar side story about another country. We're open to suggestions. 

This blog wonders if its publishing schedule is all wrong. Maybe we should wrap up the two nuke novels and put them aside till 2022 and focused The Final Storm and getting Israel Strikes: War with the Turks out there. This would give is time to write the third nuke novel too.

Yesterday we began the readthrough of our first Indo-Pak War article, Three Wars with Pakistan. We're surprised at how well it holds up. It'll be published this week.

Via the Times of Israel, this is illustrative of the religious divide in Israel and a very big deal: 'Israel’s High Court of Justice issued a groundbreaking ruling on Monday that will mean formal recognition by the state to non-Orthodox Jewish communities in the country — and likely spark a dramatic uptick in the country’s religious culture wars and, quite possibly, a move in the Knesset to clip the wings of the court.' That's right, the state only recognized Haredi conversions. Bastards. Right now this blog guesses Bibi forms another government with Naftali Bennett's Yamina Party playing kingmaker. He's said publicly he'd join a government with Bibi.

In which we collude with the Kremlin without shame or remorse, and other topics

We did another hour on the treadmill yesterday. It was damn near the easiest hour we've ever done. We were gliding. After coming home we could barely walk for a while, but this morning everything feels great. 

William Stroock's collusion with Russia continues: 'The Rush Limbaugh Show had a simple format. He would open with a monologue and spend the top of the hour reading interesting, quirky, and funny news clippings. There would follow more monologue and eventually Rush would take callers. That was the show, that is all he did. Even after the fragmentation of American media in the 2000s, Limbaugh pulled in 10-20 million listeners every day...' Click on to Moscow.

Final thought on Westmoreland. People who failed at their main jobs have gone on to have successful second careers. Herbert Hoover became a think tank ideas man. Jimmy Carter a philanthropist. Reader(s) get the idea. Westmoreland failed at everything he did after the army. He was a shallow, mediocre thinker and this blog is shocked that an organization that's supposed to be a meritocracy allowed Westy to rise to the top. Knowing Maxwell Taylor was enough, we guess. 

We're five pages into H.R. McMasters' Dereliction of Duty and we already hate Robert McNamara, Clark Clifford, McGeorge Bundy, and the rest of the 'best and brightest'.  We're also reading James S. Robbins book about Tet. Excellent so far. Google General Nguyen Ngoc Loan. He did the right thing. An interesting man as well.

Liz Cheney (whom the house GOP failed to defenestrate) stated with great vigor and force that Trump shouldn't speak at C-PAC. That's it. The war profiteer's daughter knows she's finished and is angling for a gig on CNN or something. 

So an old friend from New York messaged us yesterday about Killer Andy C. He said, 'Cuomo's finished, right?' We replied that he's a Democrat so no. Unless something's happened in the last few hours that I don't know about and...Oh my God! We stand by the above statement. Killer Andy C. is a Democrat. At best he won't run in 2022, but we doubt even that. Check the man's party. Is he a Democrat? If yes, then he'll be fine. Cuomo will be fine. Let's see what New York City's paper of record has to say this morning...They've taken the measure of the man, that's for sure.

A woman's* fantasy about being seduced by a powerful man usually involves charm, ambience, tuxedos and cocktail dresses, that sort of thing.** Lindsey Boylan got none of that from the Governor of New York. This is the kind of jackass stuff we used to do with girls when we were an idiot teenager, and even then we knew we were acting like an idiot jackass.  [Used to do? What do you mean were acting like an idiot? Knobhead-Ed]. I guess we're not surprised after all the #Metoo revelations. Cuomo couldn't find a way to stay in a relationship with Sandra Lee, moron.

*Also #NeverTrump Republicans

**We've read 50 Shades of Grey. It's just porn for women

New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo is a Pig

New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo  is a pig. This blog has noted this before.

Legal Insurrection  (based in Upstate New York) tells us that Cuomo is dispatching the New York State National Guard to seize hospital ventilators there. We're not exaggerating.  Cuomo uses words like 'share' and 'borrow'. Pig.

As readers can imagine, there's a big difference between New York City and New York State. Were New York State to breakup, the city + Long Islands + Westchester County could make their own state. Heh, For decades there's been a session movement on Staten Island. The 'forgotten borough' looks like it's part of New Jersey anyway. 

We were raised in New York City's Northern suburbs.  

There's a nice little issue for Upstate Democrats to deal with this November. It's almost like Democrats want to lose.

#Upstatelivesmatter

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is a Pig

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is a pig.

Via Hot Air:

Democrats should come together with one clear message on gun safety.

The federal gov't must:

1) Outlaw assault weapons and high-capacity magazines
2) Create a mental health database
3) Pass universal background checks
4) Pass a Red Flag Law pic.twitter.com/0odxSpeDQT

— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) August 7, 2019

Mental Health Database.

Because what people with mental health issues need is to be categorized, listed and stigmatized. This blog is sure that the database won't leak or otherwise be misused. We have full confidence in the authorities.

Full confidence.

Hot Air talks about the red flags* Cuomo's spiteful, hateful proposal raises.

Never doubt, normal, patriotic Americans, Andrew Cuomo and his dread ilk hate your guts. They don't have guns and they don't want you to have guns either.

Meanwhile Trump's popularity withstands the anti-gun-nut assault and stands at 47% in the Rasmussen. Trump is actually tracking a bit ahead of the Kenyan at this point in his presidency.

Meanwhile Andy enjoys a 34% approval rating from New Yorkers.

*See what I did there?

Andrew Cuomo flashes white supremacist symbol

Amazon to New York: Drop Dead

Item: NY State Governor Andrew Cuomo complains Florida is stealing NY tax payers.

Item: Amazon reconsiders building new facility in Queens.

Item: Andrew Cuomo complains SALT deduction cap hits Democrat states too hard.

You wanna know what New York State is really like? Check out a movie like Paul Newman's Nobodies' Fool. New York State is kinda of a hard place to love. The weather harsh turns in November and Spring doesn't really start ill May. You get a lot of French refugees from Quebec. There's a reason why visiting Miami seems like you died and went to Jew heaven.
Maybe I'm just getting jaded.

Let's look at that Amazon item. Thousands of jobs, billions in tax revenue lost becuase the hipsters of NYC think Amazon is some sort of massive globalist steam roller. Ok Amazon is exactly that but it doesn't mean a facility there wouldn't have helped New York.

I wonder where Amazon will build the new facility instead?

I don't mean to suck up to William Stroock dot blogspot dot com's Tennessee Contingent but Memphis might be a good fit, no? Favorable business climate, mix of blue and white collar workers, not mention FedEx for distribution.

Benched

For 25 years the Democrat Party has been the plaything of the House of Clinton. The price has been steep, of course. Just look at the White House.

Said fealty has also starved the Democrat Party of talent. After Algore in 2000 they didn't really have much of a bench. So in 2004 the Democrats turned to Jean Francois Kerry, a careerist who accomplished nothing in the senate but who fulfilled their Kennedy fantasies.  Why Kerry served on a patrol boat and even has the same initials! Then of course came Barrack Hussein Obama. President Obama left a shattered Democrat party, a regional party with strong enclaves in the cities but nowhere else.

Forgive me for engaging in a bit of nostalgia, but my first presidential cycle was '88-'92. I was a Democrat myself back then, a Scoop Jackson type who wanted a strong military, hawkish foreign policy and activist Federal Government.  Going into '92 the Dems had a deep bench. This included the above mentioned Algore, Congressman Dick Gephardt, Senator Bob Kerry (NE), defense hawk Senator Sam Nunn and a slew of others. As President Bush enjoyed high approval rating in the wake of Desert Storm, most of the Democrat talent wussed out. In '92 the Dem primary was an eclectic assemblage, Doug Wilder, Pauls Tsongas (for whom I voted), Tom Harkin, Governor Moonbeam and of course Bill Clinton, of whom normal people like me had never heard.

Back then the political will-he-won't-he of the day was centered on NY governor Mario Cuomo, whom traditional NE liberals were begging to run. He was always the governor when I was a kid. And in 1982 when Ed Koch challenged him for the Dem nomination for governor Cuomo's people printed up bumper stickers which read: Vote for Cuomo not the Homo. Alas he never ran.

This brings us back to the current Democrat Party conundrum. As it happens Mario's son, Andrew Cuomo is the gov and stories are circulating about himself forming an presidential exploratory committee.

Is he doing a good job? I hear about corruption scandals. I vaguely recall something about him caping yearly property tax increases at two percent or some such. Honesty I haven't paid much attention to my home state in a decade and half. One point of note. When I cross the Hudson I take the ancient Tappan Zee Bridge. Andrew's been building a replacement. Every time I cross a staggering amount of work had been done. Remember, it took them a decade just to decide how they were going to replace the World Trade Center. Andrew's getting a new bridge up in a few years. That in itself is impressive.

Maybe he would be an impressive candidate.