Unifying force in our nature?
George Venizelos. Born, Jersey. Parents, Greek. Father, Merchant Marine. Mother, bookkeeper. College, Fordham. George — present retired — was caput of NY’s FBI office.
Venizelos: “The FBI and Secret Service premix successful recognition card, wealth laundering, UN threats, counterfeiting 7 days a week to support america harmless from terrorism, spies, achromatic collar crime. But today’s authorities has them going done pugnacious times.”
“The governmental web’s troubling. The nationalist needs to cognize astir that Trump assassination attempt. Better communication’s needed to get spot back. Our work is to support america from Russian, Chinese, Iranian spies who effort to politically disagreement us. The wide side’s weakening our country, our police. Bad DAs. Splitting the US. It’s scary.
“Our training’s 4 months successful Quantico, Virginia. Firearms, schoolroom ineligible stuff, 200 national laws. Then 4 months successful the field. An agent’s assigned to you 2 years. Their responsibility, different 3 months, is tract training. Then there’s enforcement extortion — the president, vice president.”
Of course, can’t sermon delicate issues — but you’re human. Romance. Sex. Sleeping with somebody. Things happen, don’t they?
“Yes. It’s difficult. We’re connected the job, but we’re human. Must enactment arsenic neutral arsenic possible. But without going into it strongly, I judge this effort connected Trump was axenic negligence.
“Look, New York is terrorism’s No. 1 target. Stands for each that our enemies don’t like. Melting pot. High Jewish population. The satellite fiscal capital. Actual halfway of the full world. A batch symbolically. And wherefore we were attacked connected 9/11. It’s perpetually getting threats. When I was successful complaint of the New York office, our Terrorism Task Force ran changeless threats daily.
“New York volition ever beryllium the world’s No. 1 target.”
Anteing up
So, similar our bully small metropolis hasn’t capable problems, present developers and businesspeople down proposals to bring america casinos.
Our 5 borough gambling fans sent five- and six-figure checks to the New York State Democratic Committee since 2023.
Not according to me, that’s according to authorities and national run concern records.
Geopolitical
Meanwhile, Laura Ingraham and her sheet were ripping Tim Walz’s non-record arsenic Minnesota governor. Ingraham declared: “If you cognize Minnesota, and I cognize it well, particularly Milwaukee, it’s changed.”
Problem is, Milwaukee is successful Wisconsin.
Maybe I’m being excessively picky.
Clothes-ing successful connected Isaac
Howard Stern has travel retired of the closet for Isaac Mizrahi.
Howard: “I could ticker his videos for hours. He shows you his clothes, shoes, shorts, everything. It’s great. ‘Aren’t these shoes adorable?’ he’ll say. He’s not acrophobic to beryllium himself.”
King of each Media likes the Queen of each shmattas.
Next up? September’s coming. Cool weather. Residents volition soon beryllium capable to stitchery astir a bully dumpster occurrence — and roast wienies.
Mostly successful New York, kids, mostly successful New York.