CALIFORNIA CITIES FACING BANKRUPTCY

After a Federal appeals court ruled that President Trump can legally withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities, several large metropolitan areas of California, (a sanctuary state), are in danger of financial collapse.  Cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego... cities which are already operating on thin budgets... could collapse without such federal funding.  

Governor Gavin Newsom, busily chewing on his cud, was unavailable for comment. 

AT&T: TOO BIG FOR THEIR BRITCHES?

Some companies work very hard to provide good customer service and satisfaction, then grow like crazy and forget all about their roots.  That's why I switched from Verizon to AT&T over 20 years ago.  To be sure, my local AT&T store is friendly, courteous and always very helpful.  The parent company would do well to take some lessons from the local store and get back to the basics that made them big. 

My son, who lives in another state, had severe problems with his local cell service operator.  He's recently lost his job, so he really needs his phone badly.  So... why not add him to my business cell plan with AT&T, get him signed up immediately and get him a new phone the same day.  Could it be done and, if so, how?

I didn't figure the local store could help me, so I got on the internet and went to the AT&T website to see what I could see.  I was promptly asked if I would like to chat and decided that would be a good avenue, as opposed to sitting on the phone for an hour waiting for a rep.  And things went along fairly well, with the agent assuring me my son would have a phone in his hands that afternoon.

The time came to submit the order into their system, which it refused to allow.  We fooled around trying again a couple of times and she eventually switched me to another chat person, who went through the same routine, all of the time assuring me that my son would have his phone that afternoon.  Again, the system balked, but we eventually worked through that issue.  As he was signing off the chat, he assured me once again... all my son had to do was to go to his local store and pick up the new phone; AT&T would ship a new phone to that store to replace the one they would give my son.  

When my son got to the store, they didn't know anything about it.  They told him they couldn't give him a new phone until they physically received it from AT&T.  So, I got on the 611 line and was told not only that my son could not get the phone the same day through a chat order, the order had been set up to send the phone out two weeks later because it was on back order.  This agent, a supervisor himself, refused to back up the promises made by the chat people, (I have a printed copy of that chat session).  

Now, call it what you want, but that's shabby and shoddy service and a total misrepresentation.  Of course, I canceled the order and the local store where my son was worked through the problem with me over the phone and my son did get his new phone.  

Nevertheless, this four-hour exercise in futility proved one thing to me: AT&T is the new Verizon... too big for their britches.  It's time for me to sell my stock in the company, because they're headed for the dark side.  

UNHEALTHY POLITICS?

President Trump and the administration’s Coronavirus task force were told that Americans who’d been in quarantine for weeks aboard the Diamond Princess would be brought home, but that patients who had symptoms or the infection itself would stay in Japan.  Trump was briefed on the decision and agreed that healthy passengers should not be on the plane with sick ones. Without telling the President, the State Department and a top U.S. health official then decided to bring back 14 Americans who had just tested positive for the virus and place them in isolation.  Everyone on that particular plane who had just been released from quarantine on the cruise ship was now potentially exposed to the deadly virus. 

That's bad enough but, it has subsequently been learned that the disease is now appearing in clusters that have no traceable connection to existing patients.  The whole world, including the United States, is now in imminent danger of being infested with a horrible and deadly pandemic.  

The government officials involved should be in jail.  

NEWSOM: FISH HAVE MORE RIGHTS THAN HUMANS

Just before the president was set to announce his fulfillment of a campaign promise to get water from the north end of California to the agriculture industry in the San Joaquin Valley to the south, the office of the Democratic governor said he is outraged and “will file legal action in the coming days … to protect highly imperiled fish species close to extinction.”

Billions of gallons of water flow downstream and directly into the ocean without benefiting farmers who rely on water to grow their crops and feed the nation. 

DISBAR BARR

Attorney General William Barr simply must be removed from office, marginalized and disbarred.  The Democrats, having failed to trump Trump, are deathly afraid that Barr will start issuing arrest warrants and indictments just before the November elections.  

MC CABE SKATES

And they want to know why we think the FBI and the Justice Department are still corrupt.  

STONED

I agree with critics who say President Trump should not have publicly weighed in on the Roger Stone sentencing recommendations by DOJ attorneys.  Although he has the legal right to do so, presidents have traditionally stayed away from commenting on pending legal cases.  The answer, of course, would be for the President to wait until after the sentencing and then to pardon Stone, which would have caused a certain hissy-fit furor from the Dems.  

That all having been said, the Dems have a helluva lot of gonads to be pitching a bitch when they, themselves, actively participated in stonewalling the prosecution of Eric Holder after he was found in Contempt of Congress.  And let us not forget... they are the ones backing the release of illegal criminal aliens back into our society instead of shipping them out of the country.  

As it turns out, the foreman of the jury that convicted Stone was an adamant "never Trumper." 

DE BLASIO

New York City's Mayor Bill de Blasio made it clear from day one that he doesn't like New York Cops.  He has chastised, criticized, undermined and threatened them since even before he officially took office. 

Over last weekend, two of New York's finest were shot and almost killed.  Evidently, the police have had enough: “Mayor De Blasio, the members of the NYPD are declaring war on you!” the Sergeants Benevolent Association wrote in a tweet. “We do not respect you, DO NOT visit us in hospitals.   You sold the NYPD to the vile creatures, the 1% who hate cops but vote for you.  NYPD cops have been assassinated because of you!  This isn’t over; game on!” 

The Mayor's office responded ominously Monday by exclaiming that the officers swore an oath to serve and protect and that they had damned well better do it... or else.

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MISS MANNERS

IOWA: BAD NEWS FOR THE DEMOCRATS

One of the things immediately noticeable in Monday's Iowa Democrat Caucus is that the number of attendees was abysmally low.  If that trend continues through to November, it's going to be a debacle.   

Then, of course, there was that problem with their voting system application which, in turn, caused them to be unable to provide results until late Tuesday.  Which brings to mind two further facts: (1) Sanders didn't win by the landslide everyone was predicting he would win with, (to Hillary's delight,) and (2) the Clintons were involved in the design and installation of the voting application.  

Not sayin' anything... just pointing out who appears to be still in charge of the party.  (Sorry about that, Alexandria). 

DIGGING THEIR OWN GRAVES