Whats App Hacked. Gee. I guess were not in Kansas anymore mom.

Have you ever wondered why your bank app should need to have access, "permissions," for your "microphone?" Hello. Not unlike 99.9% of all google apps you download for androids. It's a task, but check your phone system preferences for "permissions," and let the sleeper beware.

No Silver Lining Here

Silver Car Rental at LAX - 9010 Bellanca Ave has joined in on the bottom feeding fest opportunity at the LAX Uber and Lyft driver’s expense.  Silver has partnered with Costco and other retailers that offer car rental programs through their retail memberships.

Silver CEO has cut to the app driver savings chase in realizing the overhead cost for them to pay drivers, van costs, insurance, parking, workman’s compensation, taxes among other things, when they can contract into a corporate account with Lyft or Uber. Silver is now having Uber/Lyft drivers “shuttle” their customers to the lot to pick up rental cars. What genius! And what a corporate savings it is for Silver, while “you” the driver(s) get a token $ 2.50 to shuttle these LAX arriving passengers.  This is why Uber and Lyft bottom feeding LAX, LA and OC regional rates have to change to at least a 6.00 min fare.  That these passengers paying upwards of 500 to 3000 dollars in air fare to come to Cali should be shuttled, as if they’re some privileged class, by drivers who are compensated $ 2.50 or 3.00 a ride, substantially less than what public transportation costs are for city bus or train, is blatant exploitation.

And that LA city counsel and mayor are conveniently blind to this and other like practices, widely known to them, that Lyft and Uber engages suggest they are deaf, dumb and blind. These are circumstances made known to all the powers that be in LA and have clearly been adjudicated on the East Coast, NYC. Perhaps their IRA/Retirement/Personal investment programs include investments within these companies, and if so – resolve the conflict of interest. Otherwise, they have to get off their hands, FB or whatever page they are on and get real about the reality of how far Lyft and Uber are exploiting this bottom feeding fest at the expense of hard working drivers throughout the southland. “Which Side Are You On?”

Otherwise, why not chime in!  Who needs city school buses and drivers when you can UberX/Lyft students to school, door to door from home to homeroom on the exploitations Uber and Lyft enjoy, just like Silver.  What’s next, EBT card program compensation for travel?  When are the lights finally going to come on for these local city officials. Put your ears, eyes and conscience to the ink and review compensation measures implemented in NYC and get on the page, else disclose or resolve the conflict of interest(s). “Which Side Are You On?”

A Democracy In Constitutional Crisis at the Crossroads

“If You Can Keep It!”
Benjamin Franklin

Our government has reach the point of a “Constitutional Crisis,” as the US Attorney General William Barr today abdicated his allegiance and oath to the constitution for Trump’s “Cross-Roads” Art of the Deal depths.  On May 1, while republicans among the Senate Judiciary Committee mentioned Hillary Clinton so many times you’d think she was at the water cooler that morning, while dodging the premise of hearings that day. Yet, AG Barr spoke like a smart disciple, right off the production line of Roy Cohn defendants from days past. Cohn was the Trump and family lawyer of choice for many years through the 1970’s and times further.  

Most surprising is that Barr dodges questions from democrat senators with distinguishable elegance using the ole – “I don’t recall,” among others, a common day criminal response that many a Roy Cohn client/defendant used in criminal defense cases that included countless dockets about the NY federal and state criminal courts and mafia affiliates like Salerno, Gotti, Galante and more.  That the US AG echoes chants comparable to the likes of these mentioned “gangsters,” spikes to the bone of how far our democracy and this presidency has descended.  One can only imagine how much further down it can go that “crossroads.” That Barr, given his failure answer transparently and dodge congressional hearings and inquiry today, May 2, is a turning point. That he should have unexpectedly find some conscience within himself the next 24 hours and resign, should not come as a surprise to some. The US AG has lost his way in the wave of #45’s lunacy and may well a la moment be taking time off to speak to a spiritual adviser in hopes of finding his way back from his crossroad deal gone mad.

The Muller Report clearly shows that countless elbow rubbing warm fuzzy business and election interest were operating in 2016, without a doubt. And that little can be discerned between either business and/or election interest, and that they were so cleverly co-mingled, just the very fact that expressions of these sort are of interest to US citizens advocating for a US presidential candidate to a hostile foreign adversary, and the timeline suggested, should chime a bell that even the dead, deaf and blind could hear from the afterlife, if not salvation!

Have we hit a breaking point?  The lower decks have flooded for the republicans’ ship in spite of the reality that the Muller Report reflects, yet countless of them are martini handed, Badminton matches and whistling Dixie in 3 parts topside.  Nonetheless, they have to choose now, which side they are on.  The constitution or Trump’s Art of the Deal Cross-Roads fire sale.  As supposedly noted in history by one of our great founding fathers, one Mrs. Power of Philadelphia purportedly asked, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, “A republic, if you can keep it.”