Chanice...

Marchers with the “Power of Prayer” rally were entering Lower Manhattan from Brooklyn when anti-police activists camped out in City Hall Park confronted the marchers on the bridge.

The scuffle left three cops bloodied and Monahan with a finger wound, weeks after he took a knee with Black Lives Matter protesters.

Cops on Thursday took a woman into custody they believe participated in the bridge attack. Chanice Reyes, 24, of Morris Plains, N.J., is charged with two counts of assault on a police officer.

Peace...

Eating in restaurants in New York City is back, national looting season is over and now businesses are busy.

Shootings and gun violence increased in certain part of the city where guns are not allowed. Some act as if some lives doesn't matter to them.

Defunding and demoralizing the police leads to police caution on responding and enforcing the law. Silence and disappearance of community leaders is the worst of all as the street would be for additional violance.

We have seen it all. The good, the bad and the ugly. But there is always a hope for peace.

 Just a thought.

Bye...

Dishonest...

CNN's chief anti-Trump reporter Jim Acosta was blasted on social media over a tweet that quoted White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany out of context. 

He was hit with major backlash.

"Classic stuff here. Acosta tweets half of one quote without context & gets nearly 20,000 retweets. Had plenty of room to add the full context in the original comment by McEnany stating “the science is on our side here.” Waits 10 minutes before writing a second tweet, gets 450 RTs," The Hill media reporter.

This isn’t journalism. It’s a dishonest fragment used to whip up animosity, rather than inform," Daily Caller editor Vince Coglianese tweeted.

Acosta's own colleague Jake Tapper weighed in on the distorted quote that was being shared, urging everyone to "read the ENTIRE McEnany comment."

According to Finapp, Acosta earns $700,000 per year and has a net worth of about $4 million. A small price for his performance.

Bottoms...

Bottoms, one of the top prospects to be presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's running mate, said during the interview with Blitzer that she wasn't shocked by Trump's decision not to wear a mask.

"So by not having on a mask, President Trump did violate law in the city of Atlanta, but I am somehow not surprised that he disregarded our rules and regulations in the city," she said.

Her comments, however, placed her in disagreement of he superior Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp about whether her mandatory mask ordinance is enforceable in the city as it goes beyond the measures he's put in place.

An executive order Kemp signed Wednesday included language that local governments are prohibited from implementing rules requiring people to wear masks and face coverings in public places.

Show up on CNN more frequently and you are trapped for more humiliations.
Just a thought.

Hailed...

There is a widespread feeling that New York has been blessed with its exemplary leadership. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, incredibly enough, has sky-high approval ratings.

This is all perverse given that New York is only now emerging from one of the worst COVID debacles on the planet.

If New York is going to be held up as the model, every officeholder in the country has a new road map for handling the virus: 

See a significant percentage of residents of your largest city get infected, barely prevent your hospital system from getting overwhelmed, implement a policy that increases infections and deaths at nursing homes, suffer more than 35,000 deaths and a higher per-capita death rate than any country in the world  and then, after all that, get hailed as a hero.

Ask for the help from the federal government for the Comfort Ship, then the Javits Center to be transferred to a 4000 bed hospital, and the Samaritan Purse that occupied Central Park, and non was appreciated. Cuomo has raised the bar.

Middle...

This guy cornered himself into a a bad spot.

He announced he is picking a woman for the vice president. Then added to his initial decision a color to it. SO the media now is talking which black lady would be the best for position. Then he wants to have a green plan to spend two trillion dollars on transforming America into a better money wasting machine.

Leave well enough alone. It is changing on its own.  Just a thought.

Where is Biden...

Pain...

Warmth...

Cicero once described the face as a picture of the mind and the eyes as its interpreter. In a world where many aspects of our everyday lives have been altered with limited human exposure and social distancing in place, the addition of face masks has significantly impacted our ability to create and maintain interpersonal interactions.

More than ever, we are tasked with the somewhat conflicting goals of optimizing youthfulness and attractiveness and optimizing social interactions. Face masks are forcing us to deduce and convey as much information as possible through our eyes and foreheads, and the migration to more virtual interaction through platforms like Zoom and FaceTime has led to hyper-awareness of our personal appearances.

The area around the eyes has been shown to be particularly important for effective interactions. A slightly different degree of smile can lead to perceptions of warmth, trustworthiness, and attractiveness. When a mask is put on, we are only able to convey or interpret a partial inventory of information. We are now limited to using the area around the eyes, commonly called crow’s feet, to help determine if a smile is genuine or not.