Saturday, April 30, 2022

What is wrong with the Brooklyn GOP --- it has fallen and it can't get up

 

One screen shot of one front page   >>>  tells very much of the story



OH !!!   "OVERDRIVE" IS IT ???


Each of the faces depicted on that "Spectator" front page tells a different part of the wasting disease that has overtaken the Brooklyn GOP  ---  and the absence of pix for people like Brian Fox, Liam McCabe, Marty Golden,  and John Quaglione also needs some real explainin'



So how does all of this stick to Karim Elsammak like feathers from an old pillow and tar from a hot bucket  ???

You see "Captain" Karim, the high as the sky pilot, posted the "Spectator" front page himself yesterday on his own campaign's social media page.  It was accompanied by Karim's own words, as follows:

"Karim4NY...  [ Friday, April 29, 2022 at 7:00 PM]...   Give it a read!...."  [On Meta-Facebook]           


Even though the front page from the "Spectator" is kind-a-new, the article inside was kind-a-old,

Thursday, April 28, 2022

"Fly the friendly skies..." of Karim Elsammak

 

Just a couple of  days ago, our Brooklyn GOP State Senate candidate Karim Elsammak posted this:


"Karim4NY...  [Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 12:32 PM]...   My pilot happens to be my former high school teacher, and I happen to be his former flight instructor and mentor. What a proud, full circle moment and a small world! I know I’m in good hands because I taught him how to land smoothly [with happy face imogi]...."


Together with that text "Captain" Karim posted this photo:














The kid candidate didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with all or any part of this  ---  in fact, he seemed quite proud of it



We have mentioned many times on this  >>> independent Republican blog for Brooklyn and Staten Island <<<  that the very young candidate running as the "endorsed" candidate of the Brooklyn GOP and the KIngs County Conservative Party is a "Gen Z"-er.....   And as we have pointed out on our past postings, one of the signal negative traits of Gen-Z-ers is narcissism. We are ready to take that one step further with young "Captain" Karim.....

None of those associated with this blog are psychiatric professionals, and/or clinical psychologists; however, based upon the every day meanings of the diagnostic criteria contained in the DSM-5,  Karim Elsammak appears to be suffering from some form of "Narcissistic Personality Disorder"..... 

In the American Psychiatric Association’s "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition" (DSM-5),  NPD is defined as "...  comprising a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), a constant need for admiration, and a lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts..."  This can be indicated by the presence of at least five (5) of the following nine (9) criteria:
  • A grandiose logic of self-importance
  • A fixation with fantasies of infinite success, control, brilliance, beauty, or idyllic love
  • A credence that he or she is extraordinary and exceptional and can only be understood by, or should connect with, other extraordinary or important people or institutions
  • A desire for unwarranted admiration
  • A sense of entitlement
  • Interpersonally oppressive behavior
  • No form of empathy
  • Resentment of others or a conviction that others are resentful of him or her
  • A display of egotistical and conceited behaviors or attitudes


Based upon a recent almost hour long telephone converation with Karim Elsammak, in which he did most of the talking by far  >>>  it was clear that Karim strongly presented with more than five (5) of those criteria;  and indeed, he exhibited aspects of all nine (9).....

The above Meta-FB post by Karim4NY with the accompanying picture is typical of how Karim sees himself and the world around him  ---  it's all about him and what he did  ---  and everyone else's value is measured on a scale of the interactions with Karim, and/or the level of Karim's admiration for them, to the extent that they constitute a part of his world....

Everything that Karim has done to acheive his current status as the GOP and Conservative Party candidate for the state senate; and everything else that Karim says that he has done in politics in Brooklyn is exactly like what he showed in the text and photo above  ---  it was all strack, up to snuff, and even exemplary because it resulted in Karim Elsammak getting to where he is.....

More details to follow, in due course.....

 

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

All bets are off --- it's most likely that there will be no June primaries --- NYS Court of Appeals 4-to-3 votes for chaos and confusion in NYS politics for 2022

 

NY's highest court says  >>>  a "special master" and the NYS courts can get NYS  a new set of US congressional and NYS senate lines for an August 2022 primary



Big win for a few GOP incumbents in NYS  ---  Bad day for lots of Democrats



Kathy Hochul tops the list for very, very sorry Democrats



It's either the hidden hand of Andrew Cuomo  ---  OR  ---  Cuono's final revenge  ---  OR POSSIBLY  ---  It's the prequel to Cuomo's 2022  [Even] Bigger and Better Tricks Tour 



In a startling move, New York's top court, the NYS Court of Appeals, today rejected the congressional and NYS Senate maps drawn by the Democrat-controlled NYS Legislature as unconstitutional. It was a signal victory for Republicans and conservatives throughout New York State.

The 4-3 ruling most likely will negate any of the scheduled June primaries and force lawmakers back to the deal with the political mess that the NYS High Court created. 

The Court of Appeals ruled that "the enactment of the congressional and Senate maps by the legislature was procedurally unconstitutional, and the congressional map is also substantively unconstitutional as drawn with impermissible partisan purpose, leaving the state without constitutional district lines for use in the 2022 primary and general elections."

The ruling is an unequivocal victory for NYS and national Republicans who had challenged the maps in state court on the grounds that the new districts obviously favored Democrats, and thus violated the state's constitutional ban on partisan-based  redistricting. 

The creation of new district lines will be now be in the hands of a "special master" appointed by the NYS Supreme Court earlier this month. According to today's Court of Appeals ruling  ---  "With judicial supervision and the support of a neutral expert designated a special master, there is sufficient time for the adoption of new district lines....  We are confident that, in consultation with the Board of Elections, Supreme Court can swiftly develop a schedule to facilitate an August primary election, allowing time for the adoption of new constitutional maps...." 

Early voting for New York's primary had been scheduled to begin June 18, and throughout the state petitions had already been submitted  ---  all based on the maps approved by the NYS Legislature and signed into law by Governor Hochul earlier this year. However, today's Court of Appeals ruling raised the possibility of moving the primary to August as a matter of practical necessity. 

At the moment, this ruling by the court did not appear to affect the maps drawn for the NYS Assembly; and in addition, the court's decision was silent as to whether the congressional and legislative  primary voting should be split from the statewide primary contests still-now-scheduled in June for governor and lieutenant governor.


As Oliver said to Stanley  ---  "Here's another fine mess that you've gotten us into".....


Tuesday, April 26, 2022

NOBODY TALKS ABOUT WHO GOT OR GETS SENT TO "PRISON" --- AS IN --- NEW YORK STATE PENITENTIARIES


Forget about how many people got sent to jail before trial  ---  the real number that shows how many hardened and violent criminals stay on the street is how few of them get convicted of serious crimes and then sent to do hard time for a long stretch in NYS PENITENTIARIES  >>>  as in sent "to prison Upstate for a long time" 


Yesterday, the best that the Brooklyn GOP could muster at the Brian Fox demonstration on 86th Street & Fourth Avenue, in Bay Ridge Brooklyn spent almost a half hour talking about crime and punishment, and keeping everybody safe  >>>  nobody mentioned how few alleged criminals, who allegedly committed serious crimes, are arrested, wind up convicted, and then sent "to prison Upstate for a long time" 


The number of bad guys that get arrested, and then get convicted, and then go "to prison Upstate for a long time" is a very low number of bad guys.....


Can anybody guess how few of those arrested for serious crimes are ever sent "to prison Upstate for a long time" ??? 
---  Hint: now it is a very, very low number  
---  Hint: that number has been dropping for the last several years  (starting before the so-called "No bail" reforms)
---  Hint: that number was never very high in the first place



In Brooklyn, for the last year that numbers are available, 2020, only 1.9% of those arrested for serious crimes were sent "to prison Upstate for a long time"  ---  the year before that, 2019, it was 3.8%  ---  the year before that, 2018, it was 4.3%  ---  and in 2017 & 2016 it was 5.3%.....

For those same years, the overall conviction rate for those arrested for serious crimes in Brooklyn was: for the last year that numbers are available, 2020, only 21.1%  ---  the year before that, 2019, it was 41.5%  ---  the year before that, 2018, it was 49.4%  ---   in 2017 it was 54.4%   ---  and in 2016 it was 52.0%..... 


For the most part and for a very long time  >>>  in Brooklyn, people that commit serious crimes there, might get arrested sometimes, and they are even convicted sometimes, but they just don't go to prison for it.....  
Maybe, that's where the problem is  ---  and not all the nonsense that the Brooklyn GOPers were talking about yesterday at 86th Street and 4th Avenue under the watchful eye of Ted Ghorra, and his usual and unusual band of suspicious looking hangers-on.....

Monday, April 25, 2022

Tomorrow... and Tomorrow... and Tomorrow --- will Birnum Wood move to Dunsinane --- or will the last momentous thing be the death of our very own Lady MacBeth


Some might argue that we have been well cast as the Shakespearean witches in "The Tragedie of MacBeth" for our augeries about the new congressional and legislative lines throughout New York State



But our answer is that  >>> unlike James the First of England, and the Sixth of Scotland, we don't believe in witchery  ---  and this isn't a post-Elizabethan play  ---  "Scottish" or otherwise  ---  by Shakespeare currying the favor of King James  ---  Scottish or otherwise <<<



Oral arguments in the case, Harkenrider v. Hochul, that challenges the newly drawn maps for congressional districts in New York will be held on the morrow at the New York State Court of Appeals  ---  the highest judicial tribunal in the state.
The determnation in this ongoing legal saga might play a significant role in determining the balance of power in Washington next year  ---  but it is doubtful that the few congressional seats at stake will make much of a difference nationally. 
What are largely the Republican challengers have alleged that the Democrats' state lawmakers have drawn congressional districts with an obvious partisan intent, and that this is a violation of the New York State's constitutional ban on the various practices collectively known as gerrymandering. For their part, the Democrats in Albany have asserted that the lines had been drawn fairly, and that they simply reflected an overwhelmingly Democrat dominated state, which would require gerrymandering to protect some of the few remaining Republican incumbent office holders. 
The key to all of this is that New York voters in 2014 approved a state constitutional amendment meant to remove the redistricting process from the state's legislature's connivance. 
However, after the commission appointed by New York officials failed to reach any concensus on new congressional and/or legislative lines, the problem was thrown back into the NYS Legislature, where the Democrats, who held supermajorities in both the State Senate and Assembly, approved their own maps that some "independent experts" have claimed favored the Democrats over the Republicans. 
On last Thursday, an Upstate NYS Appeallate Division of the NYS Supreme Court partially upheld a lower state court's ruling that found the new lines that had been passed and signed into law by Governor Hochul were unconstitutional according to the NYS Constitution. On the other hand, the new lines drawn for the State Senate and the NYS Assembly were upheld by that appellate court. 
As a national issue, the stakes do appear to be high for both parties given the current narrow margin of control of the House of Representatives by Democrats, and New York's recent history of several battleground congressional races during the past decade.  Thus, if the NYS Court of Appeals upholds the newly passsed congressional lines, the U.S. Supreme Court might be induced to review the decision by New York State's highest appellate court. 

Saturday, April 23, 2022

The Brooklyn GOP candidate that has the best shot at winning is Alec Brook-Krasny in the 46th AD


In the time since the kid, Karim Elsammak, called very late two nights ago,  and among lots of other things  ---  talked about his "vetting" by and support among the Brooklyn GOP leaders  ---  we made some calls of our own


Here's what one member of the NYS Republican Committee from Brooklyn said about "The Kid"  >>>  "AH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAH !!!  WE HEARD ABOUT HIM FOR SOMETHING ELSE, AND WE PUT OUR FOOT DOWN.....  BUT WITH NOBODY ON OUR SIDE GOING TO WIN THAT STATE SENATE SEAT, LET HIM DO WHAT HE WANTS...."


The local GOP leader said that the strongest candidate in Brooklyn on the GOP ticket is Alec Brook-Krasny  ---  who is running for the NYS Assembly as the Brooklyn GOP and Conservative Party candidate in the 46th AD


Nobody on the GOP ticket is more important than Brook-Krasny, and in the 46th AD nothing will be more important than electing him in 2022.....



Candidate Brook-Krasny will probably campaign with everybody on the Brooklyn GOP and Conservative Party tickets.   

However,  Andrew Gounardes is well known in much of the 46th AD; and the Gounardes & Brook-Krasny voters are seen as a key block of voters in the 46th AD.  >>>  As a result, any Karim Elsammak candidacy and/or campaign in the 22nd SD won't be allowed to jeopardize that vote inside the 46th AD in any way  ---  and lots of Republicans agree,  both inside and outside the 46th AD.

Perhaps indicative of that is the following event announced by Brian Fox and his Verrazzano Republican Club for April 25th at 3:00 PM, at 86th Street & 4th Avenue, as follows:  

"Brian Fox for City Council...  [April 23, 2022 at 12:54 PM]...   Join members of the Verrazzano Republicans Club, myself , Congresswoman MalliotakisCurtis Sliwa and State Assembly candidates Alec Brook-Krasny . Republican for State Assembly and Dmitriy Kugel as we discuss the horrific crime surge. Let your voice be heard as we call on our elected officials to take action....  Press conference will take place on April 25, 2022 at 3pm and will be located at 86th and 4th Ave (train station)...."  





Do you notice which local candidate is specifically not mentioned ???  

HINT:  it just might be the kid running for the state senate against Andrew Gounardes  ---  Karim Elsammak.....


NYS Appellate Court cuts a baby in half for all the world to see.....


Says the the new congressional lines enacted by the NYS Legislature and signed into law by Governor Hochul are "Unconstitutional," "Partisan" and "Unfair"   >>>  BUT  >>>  It was within their authority to enact the new lines .... 


AND...  the new lines for the NYS Assembly & NYS Senate are 100% OK.....



WTF !!!!!


According to Nick Reisman, echoed in substance all over the media covering the story,  "Democratic state lawmakers in New York acted with partisan intent and tried to restrict electoral competition when drawing congressional lines in violation of the state's constitutional ban on partisan redistricting, a five-judge court on Thursday ruled [in a 3-2 decision]....  The ruling gives lawmakers until the end of the month to draw new lines for the state's House districts. But New York Democrats are expected to appeal the decision, which also upheld the legality of the state legislative maps for the Assembly and state Senate, reversing a lower court's decision.... The legal challenge to New York's congressional maps is now expected to head to the state Court of Appeals, New York's highest court...." 

Later on in his coverage, Reisman said this, "....  The ruling on Thursday was a mixed one. On the one hand, the court determined the state constitution "is silent" on how legislative boundaries should be drawn if an independent commission fails to reach an agreement for new maps for the state Legislature and House districts....  The judges wrote that 'the legislation used to fill the gap in that procedure is not unconstitutional and that the redistricting maps enacted by the legislature pursuant to that legislation are not void' going forward...." 

 

Well, there you have it then.....

Thursday, April 21, 2022

Just some more phony stuff --- from our pretend passenger airline "Captain" --- and --- precious baby boy State Senate candidate


Kid Karim Elsammak recently posted this very cryptic message on his campaign's Meta-Facebook page:


"Karim4NY...  [April 21, 2022, @ Noon EDT]...  That’s nice of them... This mission was responsible for saving and evacuating countless lives to include U.S military personnel and Afghani allies. We have the pleasure of getting to work with our armed forces and occasionally bring our hero’s home...."  


Somehow, that message  >>> FROM <<<  Karim is related to this letter allegedly   >>> TO <<<  "Karim":





































We don't know what any of this is about, because it is cryptic to the point of being opaque  ---   but we are sure that Karim Elsammak knows all about it, and is 100% behind it.....   


It sure looks like some kind of phony attempt to steal some cred from heroic pilots and aircrews that have done some truly special and dangerous stuff in and around Afghanistan.....



What caught our attention was the very oddly laid out letter to "Karim" that is so obviously unsigned. and contains so many blacked-out portions.....  

In addition, there was the very strange placement of this logo and seal  ---  which was to the right side and mid-page on Karim Elsammak's posting of it:





Everything about these above quoted postings by Karim Elsammak screams   "PHONY !!!".

And Karim Elsammak does have some real explaining to do about: 1) what he is saying about his connection to all this:  2)  what he is trying to imply that he might have done in and near Afghanistan; and  3) how and why he has chosen to scam everybody with what he posted [the components of which are completely depicted above].

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Missing the --- BIG STORY --- in Brooklyn Politics

 

While most Brooklyn GOP and Conservative Party types keep pretending that their brand of Wiffle Ball is the major leagues of Mickey Mantle and  "Say Hey !!!" Willie Mays, or Whitey Ford and Sandy Koufax.....   The real life changing political battles in Brooklyn politics are being fought by the hard-pressed routinely-left Democrat Organization types, and the newer, mostly left-left-left New Kings Democrats


But, this fight isn't just about Brooklyn    >>>  That's becasue NYC's newly elected mayor,  Eric Adams, is both aligned and allied with the existing Brooklyn Democratic Organization, now headed by Rodneyse Bichotte



While trying to get some details about the GOP infighting at the Brooklyn BOE,  and its fallout in this year's Brooklyn GOP primaries, if any;  my contact, who is a Dem wag from way back said  ---  "You and your conservative Republican friends should care more about who is going to be running the Democratic Party in Brooklyn"....

What is at stake is a complete change in Brooklyn politics, and who has run things for more than three generations  ---  when it came to picking judges, picking the Democrat "County Leader" and who runs the Democrat Party in Brooklyn, who runs the individual Assembly Districts in Brooklyn, and who picks the Congrssional and State Senate candidates and how.

With petitioning over, the New Kings Democrats have filed petitions for a little over half of the State Committee (District Leader) slots; but of equal or greater importance, the NKD has several full slates of County Committee candidates ( and almost all of those want significant rules changes to seize the powers now being undemocratically exercised by the "Democrat County Leader");  another fight is in the offing over judicial convention delegates, with the NKD's chance to take over the Democrat Organization's stranglehold on the selection of NYS Supreme Court Justices. 

All of that has quickly gotten into fights at the BOE and in the Brooklyn Courts  ---  with serious allegations of forgeries and fraud being levelled at the OBJECTORS for a change.  In the middle of all that are the two lawyers processing the objections on behalf of the Democrat County Organization of Rodneyse Bichotte  >>>  Frank Carrone and Anthony Genovese  ---  who just might be the Democrats' candidates for the Suprme Court in Brooklyn, if the "Brooklyn Democrat Organization" keeps its contol over the process of selection.

Locally, the County Organization is opposing the long-time Democrat District Leader Joanne Seminara, even though she is not allied with the New Kings Dems  ---  not so far anyway.....

Monday, April 18, 2022

TRYING TO WORK ANOTHER ANGLE --- AND EVERYTHING ABOUT IT IS JUST PLAIN WRONG --- THE "CROCODILE TEARS AND THE NEW BIG MAN FOR THE GOP & CONSERVATIVES" EDITION


He has the name that sounds like an ethnic joke   >>>   but it's real  ---   "CHUNG DICK"  ---  and he is a new power player in the world of Brooklyn GOP and Conservative Party politics


In a massive step in the direction away from any libertarian notions of freedom and liberty ---  and toward an authoritarian security and nanny state, apparently favored by the Asian voters in Southwest Brooklyn  ---  the Republicans and Conservatives are signing up for more laws, and rules, and administrative handcuffs and shackles on the whole population


This is the latest brainstorm and/or evolutionary adjustment in the ethnic jockeying by the Republicans and Conservatives in Southwest Brooklyn  ---  and who has signed on ???  Well, it looks like it's Jerry Kassar, Ted Ghorra and Fran Vella-Marrone


So here's the proof:

>>>  They did what they do best lately, they flogged a corpse for all to see  ---   in this instance it was month-old corpse of a local Asian woman.....

>>>  She died over a month ago in a street accident on 76th Street & 19th Avenue in Bensonhurst.....  

>>>  And her name was Xingchun Rong.....


They even had their latest organ-grinder's monkey, "Capatain" Karim Elsammak, appear well outside of his prospective state senate district to give the event and the political lightweight some more heft


As we mentioned in our headline above  >>>  EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS IS JUST PLAIN WRONG


It's all because the 2021 election showed that in spite of a "mini-red-wave,"  the GOP and Conservative Party is losing support in almost every identifiable community in the 43rd Council District, and the EDs overlapping in the 22nd State Senate District, except for the apparently Asian voters in the heavily Asian areas.

This is the latest pander to the local Asian community in Dyker Heights and Bath Beach, and it was posted on the  "karim4ny" campaign page on Meta-Facebook:

"Brooklyn ConservativeParty is with Karim4NY and Benine Hamdan...  [ April 17,2022, @ 10:00PM]...  The Conservative Party stands with the family of Xingchun Rong and the people of New York in support of legislation from NYS calling for licensing and registration of ebikes and other motorized devices, strict liability. as well as the enforcement of regulations by the NYPD and other enforcement agencies, with the resources for them to do so. In the wake of this tragedy, a crime, and not accident, and the complete loss of control of public safety and quality of life in NYC, our condolences are with the family and a call to action is in place. Ross Brady, Kings County Conservative Party Treasurer, represented the Party in this call. Chung Dick represented Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis , elected officials and candidates spoke out including Conservative Party candidates for all offices. With Karim4NY, Lester Chang, Benin Hamdan, Dimitri Kugle [with array of photos of event]...."

To which Karim Monsour Elsammak later added this personal message:

"Karim4NY... [April 18, 2022, @ 11:45 AM]... The tragic accident surrounding the death of Xingchun Rong should never have happened. It was our duty to stand together with her family and members of our community to support necessary legislation to help save lives.... [with an array of photos of the event]"

And as he appeared giving his own corpse-flogging remarks at the at the corpse-flogging event.....














Another of the reasons why "... THIS IS JUST PLAIN WRONG..." is that this ignores all of the traffic laws and rules already being broken by so many Asian food delivery people all over Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights on already-licensed gas-powered motor scooters, and bikes.....

Friday, April 15, 2022

Did Ted Ghorra, or Jerry Kassar. or Fran Vella-Marrone, or anybody else in the Brooklyn GOP and Conservative Party vet this kid, Karim Monsour Elsammak, at all --- before they made him their "double-endorsed" candidate for the NY State Senate ???

  

>>>  First, we found out that this “Generation Z” 25-years-old kid won’t level with anybody about who he really is or where he really came from  ---  and it turns out that he once claimed to be a “naturalized citizen by birth” that was born in Alexandria, Egypt to previously naturalized American citizens with strong contacts in Morocco and France


 
>>>   And then, we found out that he claimed to be a professional airlines pilot and he is a member of an LGBTQ professional pilots’ association called  ---  The National Gay Pilots Association [NGPA]  ---  with whatever agenda and program they might advocate and lobby for…..


 
>>>  Now, based on a recent podcast interview that he gave on something called “Sunday Sauce,” we find out that Karim Monsour Alsammak holds views that align very nicely with BLM and the “Defund the Police” movement  ---  even while saying that he wants to “refund the police” in NYC



Now, let’s go over those points briefly.


As we have previously reported, the Brooklyn Republican and Conservative Parties’ organizations "dual-endorsed" [the candidate in his own words] Karim Elsammak to be their jointly chosen candidate for the NY State Senate against Andrew Gounardes.


Karim Elsammak is a kid who is about 25 years old, and who has said publicly that he is a "naturalized" American citizen “by birth,” born to "naturalized American parents" in Alexandria, Egypt.  He has also mentioned in posted material that his family history included residential periods in Morocco and France  ---  and Karim often uses phrases like “My people” and  “Our people” without saying what that means.


For example, this is a recent posting on the "karim4ny" Meta-FB page:  "Karim4NY...  [April 8, 2022, @ 1:00PM]...    I am often asked, why I’m setting my comfortable life aside to get into politics. It’s because I care. It’s because my family and friends want “The American Dream”. Our people want one of their own to represent them. Our city needs a boost, and a new generation of leadership to carry us forward. #nyc #unity #dykerheights #Bensonhurst #bayridge #karim4ny.... [with artwork containing image and quote of Martin Luther King]"  ---  Here is an earlier posting on the same Karim Elsammak campaign site: “Karim4NY...  April 3, at 1:09 PM...  Great honor to be endorsed by AYAB [Alliance of Yemeni American Business !  As a proud business owner I know the importance of leadership that understands the entrepreneurial mindset. When we invest in our businesses, we invest in our economy, our industry, and ultimately our people. I look forward to working with groups like AYAB to support local businesses. #nyc #business #brooklyn #karim4ny.... [with artwork for AYAB endorsement]" 

So, when Karim Elsammak says things like 'our people' and 'my people' --- who is he really talking about ???   Hint:  he ain't talkin' 'bout you.....

Elsammak says that he is a professional airline pilot, but “Captain Karim”  has been caught in several misstatements and inconsistencies when it comes to that [whether he is a passenger airline Captain or a cargo airlines First Officer, or something else].  What we do know is that he is a member of the National Gay Pilots Association (NGPA) as a member “First Officer.”  And the NGPA says that it is the largest organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender aviation professionals and enthusiasts from around the world, who openly state that it is their mission to BUILD, SUPPORT, and UNITE the LGBT aviation community worldwide.

So, when Karim Elsammak says things like 'our people' and 'my people' --- who is he really talking about ???   Hint:  he ain't talkin' 'bout you.....
 
And now we have this:  Karim Elsammak's interview on the 'Sunday Sauce" podcast made it very clear that when he talks about "refunding the police," he means and believes that they need to be reformed and retrained in light of being "in a city that has changed so precipitously over the last several years...." and that "... what we must do is introduce new... tactics with an emphasize [sic] on mental health awareness and deescalation...."  These positions of/by, "Captain" Karim are clearly on the spectrum of "rethinking policing," so popular with BLM and "defund the police" activists and advocates.

Nobody should let anybody like Karim Monsour Alsammak get away with patter and blather like this >>> "As someone that is well travelled, I have seen how other states and countries do this and it’s important to learn from other[s] to improve ourselves...."

 
There can be little doubt that Elsammak is talking about the states within which there are cities like San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Madison, and Chicago; or that the countries he means are those pillars of law and order in the Middle East where he and his people are from, or the Caribbean and Central American countries where he has told us he has routinely flown.....

So, when Karim Elsammak says things like 'our people' and 'my people' --- who is he really talking about ???   Hint:  he ain't talkin' 'bout you.....

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

UPDATE: FRANK ROBERT JAMES --- ARRESTED IN MANHATTAN --- FACES FEDERAL CHARGES


The alleged gunman suspected of shooting 10 people and leaving at least 19 others injured in the horror attack on a Brooklyn subway has been arrested in Manhattan’s East Village  ---  after being seen at a McDonald's, and on the security cameras of at least one other business there  ---  the arrest was the result of a tip by civilians to the NYPD


Frank Robert James was taken into custody on Wednesday after being on the run for more than 24 hours from the NYPD and other law enforcment authorities.  Mr James, 62, had been named as the only suspect wanted for the Tuesday morning rush hour shooting on a packed N train travelling to Manhattan from Sunset Park and points south and west in Brooklyn  ---  and he now faces a federal terrorism charge in the Federal Eastern District of New York......



The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace today announced that Mr James, 62, has been charged in Brooklyn Federal Court with one count of carrying out a terrorism attack on mass transit saying, “Yesterday was a dark day for all of us. But the bright spots of the incredible heroism of our fellow New Yorkers helping each other in a time of crisis, the quick response by our first responders, and the hard work by all of our law enforcement partners that has been ongoing truly shines bright.... My office is prepared to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that: On April 12, 2022, in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, in the Eastern District of New York, the defendant Frank James did knowingly and without lawful authority and permission commit an act, including the use of a dangerous weapon, with the intent to cause death and serious bodily injury to passengers and MTA employees on the New York City subway system....  The government will prove, among other things, that James traveled across state lines in order to commit the offense and transported materials across a state line in aid of the commission of the offense....  We are working closely with all of our law enforcement partners at the Kings County District Attorney’s Office, FBI, and NYPD. My office will use every tool at our disposal to bring this individual to justice, and restore safety and peace of mind to all....”


Frank Robert James had a long rap sheet  ---  with nine prior arrests in New York and three others in New Jersey

NYC's Chief of Detectives James Essig revealed that Frank Robert James had a long rap sheet in New York City dating back three decades. Mr James had nine prior arrests in New York dating from 1992 to 1998;  and he had been “known to us”, according to Chief Essig.  Those arrests included: four for possession of burglary tools, two for theft of service, one for a criminal sex act, one for criminal tampering and one arrest for an outstanding New Jersey warrant. In New Jersey, Mr James has three prior arrests in 1991, 1992 and 2007 for trespassing, larceny and disorderly conduct.


The "CONSTITUENTS"** care about news of any progress involving the biggest local crime story in years --- AND --- Brian Fox and Karim Alsammak are just not up to providing it

 

From Fox we got his usual driveby reporting, with many initial errors and no meaningful follow-up.....


--- and ---


From "Captain Karim" we got nothing at all, unless you count some stale CompState crime figures unrelated to this incident


Meanwhile, there have been some big developments in the 36th Street & 4th Avenue subway shooting case   >>>  police have gathered lots of evidence, and they have named a suspect,  Frank James  ---  62 yoa  ---  who remains at large



Here are the meat and potatoes that have not been mentioned by the Brooklyn GOP's two leading figures:
























Meanwhile, the Democrat opponents of Messrs. Fox and Alsammak have been quite informative about the authorities progress in this case..... 


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**  Brian Fox likes to refer to all of the people living throughout the 43rd NYC Council District his "constituents" for reasons best known to him.....


Monday, April 11, 2022

OMG !!! ON FOX NEWS DID NICOLE JUST SAY "...SHAME ON THE PEOPLE..." IF SHE DOESN'T GET RE-ELECTED


If that isn't exactly what Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis might have just said in a live TV interview, it certainly was what she clearly meant by what she did say.....


One thing is for sure  ---  she did say  ---  "... Shame on the People..." if the Republicans don't win after the next election

 

It was pretty much the final thing that she said in her in-studio/on-air interview by Fox's Sandra Smith, a little after 2:00 PM on the Fox News "America Reports" program



At very least the Malliotakis Conressional Staff and/or her campaign handlers need to do a very quick "cleanup on aisle three" on this one.


ANYTHING CLOSE TO  "...SHAME ON THE PEOPLE..."  JUST ISN'T A VERY GOOD LOOK UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES

Saturday, April 9, 2022

Nobody knows what Brian Fox is talking about --- least of all Brian Fox

 

Here's the latest manure dump from the Fox farm:  

"Brian Fox for City Council...  [April 8, 2022, @ 7:00 PM]...  Once again our community has suffered under the failed leadership of our current elected officials, their failure to communicate to their constituents about the high rise of crime is flat out wrong. What we need is to strengthen the relationship between the NYPD and the community. Because of our current elected officials who are voting to defund the police, supporting bail reform and qualified immunity is the real reason why crime is a ongoing pandemic. A time for a change is needed and together it can be done!..."


For some reason, Brian Fox persists in thinking that "our current elected officials" are running a news agency or the "police blotter" column in the local newspaper, but rather than explain or clarify why he thinks so or, more likely, why he thinks that should be so  >>>  he jumps to another subject completely.  By now it should be clear even to his strongest supporters [known as "the filth"] that Mr. Fox can't stick with any thought very long, and certainly not ever to any useful conclusion.

His Meta-FB post above is certainly no exception.  In this instance, the jump is from the local officials' failed reporting about crimes to the NYPD's failure to have a stronger relationship with the community.  But Fox can't be satisfied with one jump, when two would be just as easy  >>>  so, his mind does another flying leap, but this time it's to absolute and unfounded fantasy.  

Without any facts to back him up, Fox wrongly asserts that "...  the real reason why crime is a ongoing pandemic [sic]..."  is that  "... our current elected officials... are voting [sic, sic] to defund the police, supporting bail reform and qualified immunity [sic, sic, sic]...".  It is doubtful that Brian Fox knows a single fact about any of those false assertions.  Even more doubtful is whether he might be able explain how these very local alleged actions by "... our current elected officials..." might effect something that is a demonstrable example of a national trend.  >>>  And to be more accurate and specific, this is an upward national trend in violent crime, and not crime generally. 

BUT BRIAN FOX NEVER LETS ANY FACTS GET IN THE WAY OR SLOW DOWN HIS VERBAL DIARRHEA  ---  AFTER ALL, THE MAN'S MOUTH HAS GOTTA GO WHEN THE MAN'S MOUTH HAS GOTTA GO !!!

Thursday, April 7, 2022

WOW !!! One of the "Before" and "After" facts that "pilot" Karim doesn't want you to know.....

 

Here it is  ---  culled from his own postings  ---  obviously, Karim Elsammak was professionally demoted from "Captain" to "First Officer"  ---  and suddenly, Karim says that he is stepping down from being a professional pilot  >>>  to run for a state senate seat he can't win


Yes, it's another "Before" and  "After" tale about the Republican-Conservative Candidate running for the State Senate against Andrew Gounardes


Here's the beef: 

Before

as a "Captain" posted by Karim on  karim4ny on March 29, 2022


--- AND ---


After

as a "First Officer" posted by Karim on karim4ny on April 7, 2022


Here's the potatoes:

Here's the Meta-FB text that accompanied the March 29th "Before" Photo:

"Karim4NY...  March 29 at 10:00 PM...  Throwback to the passenger airline days. Was a great honor getting to captain a ship bearing the American flag on the tail! [US flag imogi]...  I put my professional career on hold and stepped down from leading my businesses to lead my city forward. I made a sacrifice and I’m honored to have the opportunity to help us be better and excel us forward. With a proven leadership record, a clear and unbiased prospective, and a business background, I am confident I can effectively represent our district in Albany. #nyc #brooklyn #karim4ny....

Here's the Meta-FB text that accompanied the April 7th "After" Photo:  

"Karim4NY...  [April 7, 2022, @ 2:45 AM]...  Mini throwback flying the Queen of the Skies back to [US flag imogi]...   from across the ocean. That shot was taken by an airplane spotter as I was landing in Dallas, TX. What a true privilege and humbling responsibility it is to fly the most iconic, American built giant in the sky. This behemoth stands proud at 6 stories high, 250 feet long and can weigh nearly a million pounds on takeoff. The types of missions I get to fly are truly remarkable and unforgettable. What’s even more remarkable are the professional men and women I get to work with, many of which are retired and active duty military with experience ranging from Vietnam, to the Gulf war, to prior Air Force One pilots. This is the type of leadership, life, and professional experience you can’t get in a classroom but rather by doing. As pilots, we’re trained to stay calm, cool, collected, and make the most informed decisions while keeping emotions out of the flight deck. This is the type of levelheaded leadership we need in office as we’ve seen with MANY previous elected officials. #b747 #karim4ny #coolasacucumber...."

There is a "hearing" today WRT the new NYS redistricting lines before an upstate appellate judge

 

So far, he has temporarily STAYED the trial court's order throwing out the new lines for having violated the NYS Constitution


Today's hearing is whether the decision and order of Trial Court Justice Patrick F, McAllister should be permanently restrained   >>>  while the Appellate Division for the Fourth Department in New York hears and decides the appeal of the trial court's original decicion and order          


An appellate judge named Stephen K. Lindley of the New York State Supreme Court, Fourth Appellate Department, in Rochester has already issued a temporary stay of the lower court's first order throwing out the recently enacted U.S. congrssional and N.Y.S. legislative lines  ---  after several NYS Democratic Party leaders formally contested the lower court’s opinion last week that the new district maps were unconstitutional. Also, Justice McAllister had found that, in some instances, the new lines apparently had been gerrymandered for partisan gain by the legislative majority. 

Judge Lindley did not address the merits of the underlying case. However, in a note instructing both the Democrat appellants and the Republicans challenging the maps to attend today's hearing, Justice Lindley said that he hoped to expedite the Appellate Department's proceedings as to whether the recently passed NYS law that allowed the legislature to make the new district lines was constitutional, as follows:  “....  The appeal will be greatly accelerated for obvious reasons, and I anticipate that a decision could be rendered within the next three weeks, if not sooner....” 


Wednesday, April 6, 2022

An additional interesting "Before" and "After" story for the Young Swain, Karim Elsammak...

 

... as told in pictures and music




   

                                BEFORE


AFTER


Obviously, the still very youthful "Karim" will need to have a theme song that will help him ---  and those very much behind him and his agenda --- present the Karim Elsammak story in a simple way that we all can get very easily.....


Well, here it is:  

[cue Little Richard] 
"...  Mmm baby face
You've got the cutest little mmm baby face
There's not another who could take your place
Mmm baby face
My poor heart's jumpin'
You sure have started somethin'

Mmm baby face
I'm up in heaven
When i'm in your firm embrace
I didn't need a shove 'cause I
I fell in love with your pretty baby face...."