NURSING HOME SCANDAL UPDATE: IT JUST GETS WORSE AND WORSE; 3 ARTICLES

Article #1 -A  deep dive into New York AG Letitia James’ COVID report reveals disturbing truths about the celebrity governor’s pandemic deception.

For much of the past year, the mainstream media and Democrats have largely blamed former president Donald Trump and his administration for most of America’s COVID-19 deaths. Trump did indeed fail in certain aspects of coordination, messaging, and inserting politics into the parts of the process where it didn’t belong. He deserves credit, however, for Operation Warp Speed, the initiative that (ultimately successfully) fostered the development of coronavirus vaccines, one of the most successful public-private ventures in modern history. But Trump’s overbearing personality tended to absorb all the attention, leaving little room for real debate on the successes and failures of other politicians, except when the media found time to criticize Republican governors. But serious criticism of Democrats in this period was rare.

Until now. Read more at https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/02/andrew-cuomo-was-a-villain-all-along/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=featured-content-trending&utm_term=first

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Article #2

Dems try to coverup for Cuomo--more at https://nypost.com/2021/02/01/ny-senate-democrats-block-subpoena-for-covid-nursing-home-data/

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Article #3

Judge won't allow Cuomo coverup--more at TIMES UNION https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Judge-orders-DOH-to-turn-over-detailed-15921672.php

 

----UPDATED  https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/02/for-those-following-escalating-nursing.html

FOR THOSE OF US WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY LIVING IN/WORKING IN/NYC...AND THE SCHOOL SYSTEM TOO, BLM ETC., LESSONS INSPIRED BY A COP-KILLER, VIDEO DARING DAYTIME ROBBERY

FRONT COVER -Did anyone at the city Department of Education think once, let alone twice, about allowing young students to be taught lessons from a curriculum drawn up by Black Lives Matter radicals? One that idealizes a cold-blooded cop-killer?

As The Post’s Selim Algar and Lee Brown report, city public schools are joining in a Black Lives Matter at School “week of action.”  The group’s Web site — which notes it is “committed to disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement,” among other beliefs that we’re pretty sure most African Americans don’t share — centers on an inspirational quote from no less than Joanne Chesimard, a k a Assata Shakur, a Black Liberation Army terrorist convicted of the 1973 execution-style murder of a New Jersey state trooper, Werner Foerster.

In 1979, she escaped prison and fled to Cuba, where’s she’s believed to remain. In 2013, the Obama administration put her on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list, with a $1 million award for assisting in her capture. MORE AT https://nypost.com/2021/02/03/lessons-inspired-by-a-cop-killer-another-fail-by-the-nyc-department-of-education/

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VIDEO, DARING DAYLIGHT ROBBERY/Video shows chaotic daytime robbery at NYC Chanel store https://nypost.com/2021/02/03/video-shows-wild-daytime-robbery-at-nyc-chanel-store/

THIS POST IS CLOSED TO ALL COMMENTS.  COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS SHOULD EB DIECTED TO THE MEDIA SOURCE(S) CITED.

SOME BITS AND PIECES ABOUT THE STARLIGHT DRIVE-IN 1954, 1955 & 1957---INCLUDES 1955 GALA REOPENING, PEARLS FOR THE LADIES, CIGARS FOR THE MEN

Welcome to Everything Croton, a collection of all things Croton -- our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools, our houses of worship -- in short, EVERYTHING CROTON.

SOME BITS AND PIECES ABOUT THE STARLIGHT DRIVE-IN 1954, 1955 AND 1957, PEARLS FOR THE LADIES, CIGARS FOR THE MEN...CLICK ON THE IMAGES BELOW.

REMEMBERING LOUIS JORDAN

Who died this date in 1975....

Your editor is a life-long fan of the fabulous Jordan---an underrated inventor of Rock'n'Roll--AND some wonderful Jazz, R&B, and Blues innovations too.  Known far and wide as the  undisputed "King of the Jukebox". 

Check him out on Youtube here. 

And here.

MORE ON THE NURSING HOME SCANDAL PLUS.....TOP DEM WANTS RECONSIDERATION OF GOV'S COVID-19 POWERS IN LIGHT OF SCANDAL & DAMNING REPORT

A top New York Democrat wants state lawmakers to reconsider Gov. Cuomo’s COVID-19 powers in light of the state attorney general’s report that found the state undercounted nursing home coronavirus deaths.

State Sen. Liz Krueger, chair of the state Senate Finance Committee, also said Tuesday night that the state legislature should conduct oversight hearings following the damning report that was released last week......“Unfortunately, based on discoveries from the last few days regarding the intentional underreporting of deaths of nursing home residents throughout the state and the mass exodus of the state’s public health experts from their jobs, I believe the legislature should conduct oversight hearings and re-evaluate the continued use of such broad emergency powers by the Executive,” the lawmaker said. MORE AT https://nypost.com/2021/02/02/ny-dem-wants-legislature-to-reconsider-cuomos-covid-powers/

SEE MORE OF THE LATEST NURSING HOME SCANDAL NEWS AT

https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/02/for-those-of-us-following-nursing-home.html 

UPDATED:  https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/02/nursing-home-scandal-update-it-just.html

REMEMBERING AL LEWIS

Who died this date in 2006-------born Albert Meister--an American character actor best known for his role as Count Dracula lookalike "Grandpa", opposite Fred Gwynne's and Yvonne De Carlo's characters on the CBS television series The Munsters.... read more here.  Click on the photo to see Lewis and the full cast. You may also have an interest in: 

--FRED GWYNNE, THE CROTON CONNECTION, HERMAN MUNSTER, 1967 http://bit.ly/2miCGNL

--YVONNE DE CARLO A.K.A. LILY MUNSTER, FROM OUR FRIENDS AT EFSP; click here

--AND CLICK ON THE LINK JUST FOR FANS OF THE MUNSTERS, ADDAMS FAMILY, AND THE GRUESOMES TOO!!!!!

AND NOW...25 FUNNY VALENTINE LETTER BOARD QUOTES

From the House of  Hawthornes---some of these are priceless..........

25 Funny Valentine Letter Board Quotes---enjoy! Click on the link and be prepared to smile - GO TO

https://www.houseofhawthornes.com/funny-valentine-letter-board-quotes/

FOR THOSE OF US FOLLOWING THE NURSING HOME SCANDAL; CUOMO OFFICIALS IN MASS EXODUS AND MORE, THE LATEST

ITEM #1 - At least nine top Cuomo administration health officials have resigned, retired or been reassigned amid the coronavirus crisis that’s devastated New York — while embattled Health Commissioner Howard Zucker has kept his job.

The flood of departures was reported Monday by the New York Times, which tied them to dissatisfaction with Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of the coronavirus crisis and cited sources who complained that pandemic policy is set entirely by Cuomo and a close circle of aides rather than health experts.

“When I say ‘experts’ in air quotes, it sounds like I’m saying I don’t really trust the experts,” Cuomo acknowledged in a stunningly blunt answer to a reporter’s question Friday. “Because I don’t. Because I don’t.” MORE AT https://nypost.com/2021/02/01/amid-covid-nursing-home-uproar-a-mass-exodus-of-cuomo-officials/

ITEM #2 AND FROM NPR VIA TOM FARANDA'S FOLLY:
While Governor Cuomo continues defending his nursing home policies (see video below, if you can call that a defense) here are the facts from NPR. READ AND SEE MORE AT https://tomfaranda.typepad.com/folly/2021/02/npr-the-ny-state-nursing-home-covid-scandal-.html

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AND IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: 

Many thanks to Ms. Dean, the Empire Center and many others for their efforts.

FINALLY, GOV. CUOMO IS CALLED TO TASK - JANICE DEAN

There’s a truth that the media and others who fawned over Gov. Cuomo didn’t want to hear: that his executive orders were one of the biggest reasons why so many of our parents and grandparents died of COVID in their eldercare facilities.  READ MORE AT https://nypost.com/2021/01/28/finally-gov-cuomo-is-called-to-task/

and updated 2/3 https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/02/more-on-nursing-home-scandal-plustop.html

UPDATED AGAIN  https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/02/nursing-home-scandal-update-it-just.html

2/11 CUOMO AIDE ADITS THEY HID NUMBERS FROM FEDS; JANICE DEAN APPLAUDS LEAKER  https://video.foxnews.com/v/6231612288001#sp=show-clips

MORE FROM THE EVERYTHING CROTON MAILBOX

A READER ASKS: I'm trying to locate scrap book images you had online for the Village New-comers Society in the 1970's. Help!!!!

Answer: THE CROTON NEWCOMERS a.k.a. WELCOME WAGON - were prominently featured in a scrapbook donated by Debbie Wieggel to the Historical Society...click on the photo from 1974 for the Newcomers Food Fair. You can see more select scans from the scrapbook at these links BELOW:

FOR 1973-1974 CLICK HERE.

AND SEE MORE AT http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2015/09/more-croton-newcomers-club-welcome.html

AND http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2015/09/part-two-1973-1974-croton-newcomers.html

AND http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2015/09/march-1974-more-croton-newcomers-club.html

REMEMBERING GENE KELLY

Who died this date in 1996---Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor of film, stage, and television, singer, film director, producer, and choreographer....

Best known today for his performances in films such as An American in Paris (1951), Anchors Aweigh (1945)— for which he was nominated for the Academy Award...—and Singin' in the Rain (1952), he starred in musical films until they fell out of fashion....He starred in, choreographed, and/or directed some of the most well-regarded musicals of the 1940s and 1950s...

In his later career, he starred in two films outside the musical genre: Inherit the Wind (1960) and... read more here

YOU MAY ALSO ENJOY READING ABOUT......

--CYD CHARISSE, A FREQUENT DANCE PARTNER; click here

--AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, WHICH ALSO STARRED CROTON'S OSCAR LEVANT http://bit.ly/2BO9KEv

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AND NOW AN ENCORE---PART TWO--MORE PHOTOS--THE 2020 CHRISTMAS VILLAGE: A STAREK AND OEHMEN COLLABORATION

Click on the photos below for PART 2 of  the 2020  Village collaboration of Linda Starek and Pete Oehmen.  This display contains what are known as "composition" putz houses....more than cardboard, actually plaster-of-paris reinforced with fiber that was used for a short time in the 1930's as inexpensive train layout accessories.  They do have cellophane windows and doors and a hole in the back for a light.  Also included are smokers.  Made of the same material with an open back for an incense cone and a hole at the  top for smoke to escape.  A late 40's American Flyer train goes go around the village on the tracks.

The idea for the use of these composition houses in this year's village was Oehmen's.  The execution, except for the tunnel, was Starek's. NOTE: ALL PHOTOS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 

 

SEE PART ONE AT  https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/01/and-now-little-drumroll-pleasethe-2020.html

 

CAN'T GET ENOUGH VINTAGE PUTZ HOUSES---CARDBOARD, COMPOSITION, WHATEVER? SEE MORE AT THESE LINKS!

 

ANTOINETTE STOCKENBERG'S 2020 CHRISTMAS MANTLE: THE VILLAGE GETS A VET  http://antoinettestockenberg.com/Putz2020.htm

 

AND....OF COURSE...ASSORTED LINKS AT THE CARDBOARD CHRISTMAS FORUMS! CLICK HERE.

 

P.S. TO THE READER WANTING TO DO A ROW OF DUTCH HOUSES---HERE'S A GREAT PROJECT FROM PAPER GLITTER GLUE  https://paperglitterglue.com/amsterdam-canal-paper-houses-for-rainbow-row/

 

AND IF YOU LOVE TRAINS!  https://bigindoortrains.com/forums/index.php

 

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PART 11, AT THE REQUEST OF OUR LOCAL AUTHORS & JOURNALISTS: FORMER NY TIMES BARI WEISS, WOKE CULTURE, FIGHTING BACK, THE MUZZLING OF AMERICA ETC.

One of our most popular series here at Everything Croton.....and now....FIRST UP, from the great Bari Weiss...

I realize the faddish thing to say these days is that we live in the worst, most broken and backward country in the world and maybe in the history of civilization. It’s utter nonsense.

I have a few basic litmus tests in my own life: Can I wear a tank top in public? Can I walk down the street holding the hand of my partner, a (beautiful) woman, in many places in America without getting a second glance? Can I wear a Jewish star without fear?

I do not take those things for granted. I know very well that in many other places, the answers would be different, and my life wouldn’t be possible at all.

America is imperfect. (Does it even need to be said?) There is bigotry toward blacks and gays and Jews and immigrants; there is intense polarization; political violence is becoming more regular; elected representatives believe conspiracy theories. All true here as in many other countries being torn apart by the dislocations of the 21st century.

But there is no gulag in America. There are no laws permitting honor killings. There is no formal social credit system of the kind that exists right now in China. By any measure, we have achieved incredible progress and enjoy extraordinary freedoms. And yet people aren’t acting that way. They are acting, increasingly, like subjects in a totalitarian country.

These people write to me daily. They admit to regularly censoring themselves at work and with friends; succumbing to social pressure to tweet the right hashtag; to parroting slogans they do not believe to protect their livelihoods, like the greengrocer in Václav Havel’s famous essay “The Power of the Powerless.”

These people aren’t crazy. They are scared for good reason. Read the very lengthy article at https://nypost.com/2021/01/31/10-ways-to-fight-back-against-woke-culture

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NEXT:  SENATOR HAWLEY, TIME TO STAND UP AGAINST THE MUZZLING OF AMERICA https://nypost.com/2021/01/24/its-time-to-stand-up-against-the-muzzling-of-america/

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SEE THE LAST EDITION OF THIS SERIES:

PART 10, AT THE REQUEST OF OUR LOCAL AUTHORS & JOURNALISTS: "BOTCHED" CALIPHATE PODCAST AT THE NY TIMES, MORE ON ALTERING LANGUAGE, HARVARD REFERS TO WOMEN AS "BIRTHING PERSONS; CLICK HERE

SOME MORE RECENTLY UNEARTHED BITS & PIECES ABOUT CROTON NOTABLES: HOWARD DA SILVA, GLORIA SWANSON, VERA NEUMANN & CLIFFORD HARMON

Welcome to Everything Croton, a collection of all things Croton -- our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools -- in short, EVERYTHING CROTON. 

SOME MORE RECENTLY UNEARTHED BITS & PIECES ABOUT CROTON NOTABLES: HOWARD DA SILVA, GLORIA SWANSON, VERA NEUMANN-, AND CLIFFORD B. HARMON----click on the photos and links.

First up, Croton's Howard Da Silva appeared in 26 episodes of CBS Radio Mystery Theater. How fitting that one of the elves unearthed this one:   

A Very Private Miracle--"A very moving story about a cranky old man and a little girl trying to persuade him to play Santa Claus."  

Hear it at  https://www.cbsrmt.com/episode/191-a-very-private-miracle.html

For more about Howard Da Silva and his Croton connection, click here. 

Next up, a 1930 blurb about Croton's Gloria Swanson--and her earlier days in Keystone comedies--where she got her start.

This one is Teddy at the Throttle, a 1917 American silent comedy short film starring Bobby Vernon, Gloria Swanson, and her first husband, Wallace Beery. Teddy was one of the first dog actors, a great dane who acted in over 60 of Paramount’s Mack Sennett comedies!!!!!

He was also known as Keystone Teddy.  

And here's Gloria Swanson decorating her Christmas tree, 1921, for her infant daughter.  We believe this is an interior shot from her Croton home.

But you can see definite identified exterior shots of her Croton home here, 1924, Mt. Airy Road.

As many of you know, Vera Neumann was one of Croton's most famous residents.  A prolific artist, innovator and textile designer still popular today.

For those of you who have always wondered how to date your vintage Vera textiles, Retro Renovation has the answer! Click here. 

And finally from The Newberry Herald and News: a blurb about Clifford Harmon, famed early aviation pioneer and suburban land developer---for whom the Harmon section of the village (and its train station) is forever remembered.

Here's a 1910 article detailing an aviation mishap---TREES SAVED FLYER'S LIFE

You may also have an interest in these additional Harmon articles:

--FROM ROBERT SCOTT and his CHRONICLES OF CROTON'S BOHEMIA, CLIFFORD HARMON; CLICK HERE 

--SELLING HARMON, an oldie but goodie from CROTON HISTORY & MYSTERIES http://crotonhistory.org/2013/01/28/selling-harmon/

SEE THE LAST EDITION OF MORE RECENTLY UNEARTHED BITS AND PIECES ABOUT CROTON NOTABLES....GLORIA SWANSON, LEE HAYES, PETE SEEGER, PETER STRAUSS, AND MAX EASTMAN HERE. 

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ON THIS DAY IN 1976 TELEVISION HISTORY, RICH MAN, POOR MAN, MINI SERIES PREMIERED, WITH CROTON'S PETER STRAUSS

POST UPDATED IN 2025--GO TO THE LINK BELOW

EverythingCroton: CROTON'S PETER STRAUSS, RICH MAN, POOR MAN 1976