Jack Cashill Comes Out Against Mass Transit?? Say It Isn't So!

BREAKING NEWS TODAY!! (last week?)

None other than very Right Wing, conservative JACK CASHILL has come out SQUARELY AGAINST MASS TRANSIT here in the Kansas City area!

Shocking!

Imagine that!!

A middle-aged (senior?), very white, middle- to upper-class, again, Right Wing, conservative--Republican? Libertarian?---coming out against MASS TRANSIT!!

Naturally, I first read of this shocking, shocking development over at some local blog.

KANSAS CITY URBAN PLANNER FACT CHECK: CONSERVATIVE JACK CASHILL EXAMINES DENSITY & PUBLIC TRANSIT ROLE IN DEADLY CORONAVIRUS!!!

Thank goodness I checked that out! (Thanks for the heads up, Ton...)

You just can't get any more controversial or daring than that!

Be able to take light rail from, say, the airport to downtown? Or out in the city??

Have the city bisected by light rail with East/West and North/South routes??

This daring Right Winger is having nothing of it!

And Mr. Cashill so rightly makes a DIRECT CONNECTION between this MASS TRANSIT NONSENSE and the current CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC!!

We knew there was one, right??

So what if light rail is successful in St. Louis and Denver and, oh, I don't know, Chicago and New York and EVERY OTHER CITY it's in ACROSS THE ENTIRE WORLD!!

Next thing you know, people will want to---oh, I don't know--SAVE MONEY and SAVE TIME and have it be CONVENIENT and POLLUTE LESS??

I say again---GET AROUND THE ENTIRE METROPOLITAN AREA EASIER AND FASTER AND MORE CONVENIENT AND LESS EXPENSIVE AND POLLUTE LESS??

We'll have none of that!

We'll be gripping our steering wheels UNTIL WE DIE, right Jack??!!

Thank God someone, someone is taking on these tough, tough, controversial issues in this day and age and area!

God bless you, Jack Cashill!

Keep up that great, ground-breaking, courageous work, sir!!  We're right with you!!

Back here in the 1890s.

(I'm dyin' ovah heyah).

Links:

Mass Transit System - Advantages of Mass Transit System

Mass Transit and Smart Growth Save Time, $ and the Environment

Take Public Transportation - Save Money, Save The World

The Environmental Benefits of Riding Public Transit

Can We Please Stop Pretending Cars Are Greener Than Transit?

Cars, Mass Transit and the Efforts to Reduce Emissions

Quote of the Day -- On a President and His Legacy

From an anonymous commenter over at that Yellow Journalism but also sexist, chauvinist, misogynistic tabloid passing itself off as an important blog for local events and news, Tony's KC:

"History will remember Donald Trump for two things - being impeached and a complete failure during a national crisis."

Ever so slightly edited.

He or she is so right. He will go down for those two, nearly singularly. 

Well, that and his graft and corruption.

I wish I'd said it myself.

With many thanks and kudos to Anonymous.

You can find the comment, along with others, here:

Kansas City Blogger MO RAGE Blames Prez Trump For Coronavirus Pandemic Crisis

Do try to have a good to great day, y'all.

Keep your social distance.

AND IT'S THE ROYALS!!!

To all the non-believers and haters out there!!

Why I Can't Bear To See Ignorant Racism

One of the reasons I most hate to see or read or hear blatant, ugly, ignorant racism is partly, furst, sure, because it's just ugly and wrong.

But the 2nd reason is because those racists in this country, usually white, have no idea of our own nation's history and the wide ranging scope of that racism and of our history and what mostly black Americans have gone through in this country nor, again, our own nation's history.

From the history of slavery in this country and how much it has influenced how we got to here, to today and to where we are but then, after slavery and after our Civil War. It's why people need to study it and be shown what took place. far too few know now as they ought.

Douglas Blackmon's "Slavery By Another Name" was illuminating for me and a lot of us who watched it.

Last evening, I saw this, "The Help."



Too many people just don't know. Too many people don't know our history.

And for a blogger in this city to allow ugly, ignorant, racist comments in his comment section just perpetuates that racism, that ugliness and that stupidity.

The blogger should know better.

KC Makes the List of the Best

Check that out---Kansas City makes the list of the top 15 cities in the nation:

Top 15 Best Places to Live

Not just in the top 15 but THE NUMBER ONE SPOT

Kansas City is number one on the LookyLocal list of the top 15 best places to live. It is known to some folks as the hone of swing and bebop, for most others it's known as the "City of Fountains." For many reasons, the music enthusiasts have been drawn to the unique jazz clubs and old tales of famous musicians like the one and only Charlie Parker. Kansas City has more fountains than Rome and there are always plenty of opportunities for scenic for scenic strolling from one fountain to another.

In Kansas City, most people choose to take a break to discover the many interesting neighborhoods as well as browse through some of the city's (sic) eclectic shops. A BIG plus about Kansas City is that families are particularly attracted to the city due to its popular child-friendly venues and events. Kansas City was once a trading post for pioneers that were heading to the Western United States. Today Kansas City offers many activities and attractions for visitors of all ages and all possible interests. 

Okay.

This is great, of course. Sure. Naturally.And we appreciate it. Certainly.

But Kansas City? Number one?

Ahead of Austin?

And San Diego?

Really?

Side note:  St. Louis took the number 9 spot.

Worse,  for St. Louis. Far worse, in fact. They made the number 2 in this list:

St. Louis - In Photos: The 10 Most Dangerous U.S. Cities

Quote of the day -- Timely

True then, when he first said it.

Still true today.

A sample of a typical commenter at the TKC blog

To respond to a brief note about the White House announcing President Obama will be visiting Kansas City at the end of this month, someone wrote this today:

welcome to CK you stupid nigger said...

Take your muslim nigger loving self somewhere else stupid nigger boy!!!!

7/22/14, 12:55 PM

Too frequently, far too frequently, this is the kind of outrageous racism that can be seen and read there.

Ugliness, stupidity, ignorance and racism needs to have a light shown on it, in that nasty, dark, dirty corner in which it lives in hopes it will one day go away. It isn't edited so they post away.  Disgusting.

Questions of the day

1)  Where is midtown miscreant?

2)  When will he be back?

3)  WILL he be back?

4)  Is he okay?  (We assume he is. Naturally, we hope he is).

Inquiring minds want to know.



Midtown?

You out there, buddy?

On the Royals vs Boston

Say what you will, after the Royals lost by one point to the Boston Red Sox in Boston yesterday, after Boston's awful experience first with the bombing and then rounding up the two reputed, suspected bombers, it seems possible, at least, if not plausible that the team threw Saturday's game, in the face of it all.

As Tony's Kansas City Blog reported:

KANSAS CITY ROYALS CONSPIRACY!!!! INTERNETS SAYS THEY THREW THE BOSTON RED SOX COMEBACK GAME YESTERDAY!!!

(link below)

Out of a weekend threesome, the Royals went on, today, Sunday, to beat the Sox 2 out of the three weekend games.

In the one we lost yesterday, we were ahead much of the game. Then the Sox hit in a three run homer and it was over, ending with a 4-3 loss.

Conjecture?

Sure.

We'll never know and maybe it's silly and maybe it's legitimate but it at least looks possible.

If so, good for Boston.

If so, I'd like to not ever think these games are thrown for anything but things like this.

And that rarely.

Very rarely.

Links: http://www.tonyskansascity.com/2013/04/kansas-city-royals-conspiracy-internets.html

http://kansascity.royals.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2013_04_21_kcamlb_bosmlb_2&mode=recap&c_id=kc#gid=2013_04_21_kcamlb_bosmlb_2&mode=recap&c_id=kc

http://www.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=26486165&c_id=kc&tcid=fb_video_21078335&v=1

http://www.kansascity.com/2013/04/21/4194948/santana-quiets-red-sox-as-royals.html#storylink=latnews

Things that shouldn't be thrown away

Things that should be recycled, not thrown away--

Plastic bottles

 

Glass bottles

 

 

Cardboard boxes

 

 

Paper

 



Already-built international airports that are well-liked, functional and convenient

 

The website and effort I've been waiting for: SAVE KCI!!

Yes, and here it is:

KCI Still Rated #1 in North America | SAVE KCI !

Let's do this.

 

Let's save the original, existing KCI. It makes too much sense. We like it, it works and it would be not only a huge waste, walking away from the buildings there now but it would also be a huge expense.

 

And you know who'd end up paying for it, right?

 

If we need to cut costs for the airlines by giving them easier security access, let's look into making the center, B building for that security and then have walkways out to A and C where we'd go to the gates to board our planes and flights. There ought to be some good way to solve this.

They're on Facebook, too, so you can join there:  Save KCI | Facebook

Kansas City Sports 2013

Tony's Kansas City may say what he will but this year looks as though it will be at least good for Kansas City, if not very good or even, possibly, great. 

The Kansas City Royals are undefeated in the pre-season and that's nothing to be totally 

ignored, by any means. The players don't go out there in those pre-season games not to win. It seems they should go at least better than 50% of the games won this year and that's a huge improvement over last year and the last few years.

Meanwhile, the Kansas City Chiefs have virtually, if not actually, gutted the team and

from top down. Say what you will about Clark Hunt and the management but these people a) know football and b) want to win, quite unlike David Glass and his discount management and ownership.

Sure, as ever, Tony and/or the pessimists (realists?) may be right but actually, this should, likely, be at least a good year for the home teams--including, of course KC Sporting soccer. 

Me? I think it's an entire possibility that either and even, possibly, both teams--the Royals and Chiefs--may end up in the playoffs, if only wildcard spots.

You have to admit, that's a heck of a lot better than we've done in past years.

Go Royals. Go Chiefs.

We're lovin' it

 

Bring it on...

Coming up, Kansas City!

 

Links: Uptown Theater

 

 https://www.facebook.com/uptowntheater?fref=ts

Embarrassing craziness (selfish stupidity?) coming out of Overland Park

From The Hutchinson News today:

Laughable legislation

Proposed bill would guarantee perpetual employment for lawmakers

Kansas Senator Greg Smith, R-Overland Park, has introduced one of the most absurd pieces of legislation to ever see the light of day.

Senate Bill 119, introduced on Monday, would offer employment protection for legislators who find themselves unemployed due to a failed re-election bid. According to the bill, legislators who give proper notice to their employers before taking office - either through election or appointment - would be guaranteed a return to those same positions - with the same pay, seniority and responsibility level - they would have enjoyed had they never left the job at all.

Essentially, the bill aims to treat a stint in Topeka much like a leave of absence for medical reasons or military duty.

 

Apparently, Mr. Smith has no shame.

 

Seriously, the greed, selfishness and/or stupidity coming out of the statehouse and even the governor's mansion in Topeka seems unparalleled lately.

Gee, I wish...

I wish I'd married a billionaire so people could say such nice things about me for so long.



Tough life, though.


Really.

Huge Kansas City, Hallmark and Society news

 

Adele Hall, noted Kansas City civic leader, dies

I'm so old...

I remember when there was a toll on the Broadway Bridge going into downtown Kansas City, Missouri.

THAT old.

Even as a kid I thought it a nuisance.

And no certainly no way to associate with the introduction to an otherwise fun place to visit.

Or live.

New blog (to me) in town

Here it is:

Dodge's Motorcycle Adventures

And he's on YouTube, too:

 

New Blog Website (www.dodgerider.net) - YouTube

 

I was walking into the Quik Trip at I-35 and Lamar today and this guy with a matching motorcycle helmet and jacket was walking out. The jacket and helmt were both bright, bright yellow and that would have made me notice but what really got me was that he clearly had a camera on the side of his helmet.

 

I went on to the register and made my brief, quick purchase, all the while thinking about this guy with a camera on the side of his head. I'd kept my eye on him and saw he was still in the parking lot. I had to go ask him about it.

 

In a short conversation, he told me he liked to videotape his rides and did it frequently. He also told me he had a blog--that mentioned above--he also had, as well as his videos on YouTube.

 

I had to check it out.

Why do we trash the Chiefs and Clark Hunt but not David Glass and his Royals?

Today, in The Kansas City Star, there are articles, of course, about today's last football game of the season for our Kansas City Chiefs, telling of how, likely, we're going to be beaten--and beaten badly--by the Denver Broncos on their turf, literally. There is also an article summarizing this season, just finishing, as well as looking forward to next year's football.

And it's rough.

It's rough, as it kind of should be, on Clark Hunt and the Chiefs, both, since their season of this game has been so dismal.

That's understandable.

But what gets me is why and how we all seem to be so tough on this football team and this owner and all connected with it but that we seem to give our Major League Baseball team, our own Kansas City Royals, and their owner, David "I'm a Greedy Miser" Glass, a pass. We take it so easy on him and his team, it seems.

Maybe it's because the Chiefs season is so brief or maybe because the seats cost so much. Maybe it's one of those things.

But whatever the reason, with the exception of one Joseph Accurso who wisely and fairly started and created his whole "No More Glass" and a few local sports commentators (like Jack Harry, see link below), it seems Mr. Glass and his team take some shots but, by and large, he (Mr. Glass) and the Royals didn't take near the verbal and printed beating in the city that the Chiefs and Clark Hunt are now.

And the thing is, I think Clark Hunt and the team management are far more invested financially, personally and professionally and take the season with far more commitment than "Mr.Greed", David Glass. I think it's far more one of contrast than similarities, between these two owners.

I say, come next Spring--and it's just around the corner--let's get, be and stay far tougher on Mr. Glass and the team to win and to get that same team of ours deeper into the season as a winning team so we get far closer to a pennant race than we have been in years, if not decades.

Here's hoping.

Links:  http://www.kansascity.com/2012/12/29/3986692/signs-of-trouble-appeared-early.html

 http://no-more-glass.com/

http://www.kshb.com/dpp/sports/jacks_smack/jack-support-no-more-glasscoms-efforts-to-get-rid-of-david-glass

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/extramustard/hotclicks/08/10/vanderbilt-coach-james-franklin-surprises-walk-on-marc-panu-chanel-spencer/index.html?eref=sihp&sct=hp_bf1_a3