Jon Crawford

Retired Civil Engr and Surveyor, SFGiants, Sac Republic FC and HTAFC fanatic, ‘70s R&B enthusiast and part-time Parrothead...

[Jon Crawford @Crawdad23]

Sitting in H Town awaiting my first live town match…long set of flights yesterday but still managed to find time for stadium shop and some Marstons. Say hi to the ugly American at the high top table and share a neck oil and a few laughs! UTT ❤️⚽️
#htafc
@CarmichaelDave

[Yossi BenYakar @YossiBenYakar]

Britain is no longer a democracy. A UK woman claims she was repeatedly harassed outside her own home by a group of migrants. Despite multiple complaints, police allegedly took no action.

When she threatened to go to the media, officers reportedly warned her she could be arrested for “inciting racial hatred.”

The situation worsened when a man who helped expose the case was reportedly arrested and handcuffed. This is classic two-tier policing, protecting the perpetrators while silencing British citizens.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

In responding to a challenge from Sen. Fetterman to prove that he did not send naked pictures to women, Graham Platner immediately raised the Jews, declaring that Fetterman is a tool of AIPAC. It appears that the tattoo may be obscured, but a certain obsession remains...

[Southampton Times @sotontimes]

“I wouldn’t trust them - I’m teaching my own son you don’t phone the police and ambulance or fire out in public you phone mum. Because I don’t want my own son if he grows up to ever be in a position like that”

An astonishing interview with @jean_bexon - This lady spoke to French media about the Henry Nowak injustice and how British mums and dads feel the British Police does not protect them now. Will this change?

Thankyou @BVoltaire @jean_bexon

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Outrageous double-standard!

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

Oh, Hillary. Hillary, Hillary. You ignorant slut.

As the Senior Military Aide to President Bill Clinton, YOU’RE military aide — the officer who carried the nuclear football in and out of the White House every single day — I saw the “people’s house” up close alongside you. @HillaryClinton

Spare us the sanctimonious lectures. And turn on your replies, coward.

When you and Bill left in January 2001, your staff ransacked the place. Remember?

“W” keys ripped off every keyboard. Phone lines cut. Desk drawers glued shut. Obscene voicemails and vulgar graffiti left behind.

Presidential seals and silverware stolen. Furniture damaged. The GAO confirmed the vandalism and theft. It wasn’t “transition friction” — it was a disgrace.

You trashed the People’s House on your way out the door and now you’re clutching pearls over Trump?

I remember, Hillary. I was there. Remember?

The hypocrisy is Olympic-level, Ms. Clinton. And you know it! You of ALL people know it!

The American people have long memories. Especially this one! Me!

We remember who actually looted the place.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Shut up and color.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

Four days before Israel declared independence, Golda Meir made a desperate secret trip to Amman. Disguised as an Arab woman, she met with King Abdullah of Transjordan — an Arab leader who acknowledged Jewish rights to the Land & who many hoped may choose peace.

Abdullah had long kept private contacts with Zionist leaders. He dreamed of a Greater Syria under Hashemite rule and saw cooperation with the Jews as strategically useful.

In their November 1947 meeting, he had hinted at possible accommodation.

But by May 1948, the Arab world was locked in rejection. Abdullah told Golda he was now “one of several” — no longer free to act alone. Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon were all committed to destroying the Jewish state the moment it was born.

He still wanted peace with his Jewish neighbors. But he felt trapped.

Before they parted, the King looked at Golda and said these remarkable words:

“I believe with all my heart that divine providence has brought you back here, restoring you to the Semitic East which needs your knowledge and initiative. Conditions are now difficult, but be patient.”

It was a poignant, almost prophetic farewell.

King Abdullah paid for his pragmatism with his life. On July 20, 1951, while visiting Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, he was assassinated by a local Arab gunman acting on orders from the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem and Nazi war criminal, Amin al-Husseini. Peace with Jews was considered treason.

This became a tragic pattern: moderate Arab leaders who dared acknowledge Jewish rights or seek accommodation were sidelined, exiled, or killed.

From 1948 onward, maximalist rejectionism has been rewarded while moderation has been punished.

Yet the Jewish state survived — and thrived anyway.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Hello @AOC, while you smiled in a hijab at a New York event, I was in Federal Court facing the 4th hitman hired by the Islamic Republic to assassinate me, for campaigning for Iranian women to have the same freedom you performed for a photo op. Will you come to court with me in August when I face the 5th hitman? Or does solidarity only work when it doesn't offend the Islamic regime?

You wore hijab voluntarily in New York. Women are killed in Iran for taking it off.

You are the very woman who, at every opportunity, protests against violence against women, decries gender segregation, and champions "inclusion." Yet here you stand, smiling and wearing a hijab, at an event in New York, in the heart of the West, where men and women are strictly separated. To me and millions of Iranian women, this does not look like a choice. It is no longer "My body, my choice," but rather "My body for votes."

They who claim to fight for women's self-determination in the name of feminism voluntarily embrace an ideology that mandates our women cover their hair simply because they are women. They enjoy the prosperity, freedom, and privileges of the Western world, where they may live as autonomous individuals , yet they simultaneously accept that other women should not be afforded the same rights.

#LetUsTalk

[Jeremy Padawer @JeremyCom]

Dear LA Times, it is NOT “safer in Los Angeles than it has been in decades.”

That line only works if you ignore the number of people who have simply stopped reporting non-violent crime.

When your home is burglarized and it takes an hour or more for police to show up, people stop reporting. When your car is broken into and you know nobody is coming quickly, people stop reporting. When filing an insurance claim might raise your rates or jeopardize your coverage altogether, people stop reporting.

So the official numbers may go down, but that does not mean crime went down.

It may mean trust went down.

It may mean response times went up.

It may mean the system trained citizens to absorb the loss quietly.

THIS IS NOT SAFETY.  This is surrender.

In the Pacific Palisades, we had 1 POLICE CAR for 27,000 people because our non-violent crimes were considered secondary... those included forced break-ins.  

On the day of the fire, we had no police sirens.  At 3:30pm driving through the Palisades, we had nobody visibly directing traffic.

LA TIMES REPORTING GRADE = F-

Sincerely,
Jeremy Padawer
https://t.co/Z4lEqwX2ji

#losangeles #la #crime #insurance #fyp @spencerpratt @415FirePhoto @Hotshot_Movie @latimes

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Everyone is trying to claim me for their tribe. There’s no R next to my name, there’s no D next to my name. I’m not part of a political party, because I hate politicians. I’m just Spencer, husband to Heidi, father to Ryker and Gunner, and I’m a pissed off Angeleno who loves my city and is fed up with what corrupt politicians have done to her.

[Jon Crawford @Crawdad23]

@johnondrasik Elvis
Tower of Power
Earth Wind and Fire
Johnny Winter
Buddy Guy
Foghat
Old Dominion
Jimmy Buffet
Chicago
Sha na na

Love your music, just never worked out to see you live!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "The grain that goes to cattle could end world hunger."

Farmer: "Which grain?"

Activist: "The grain you feed your cows."

Farmer: "Mine eat grass."

Activist: "...all of them?"

Farmer: "All of them. The field grows grass. The cow eats the grass. Through winter she gets a bit of brewer's mash and sugar beet pulp alongside the silage."

Activist: "There it is."

Farmer: "There what is. Brewer's mash is the spent barley from a brewery. The brewery has already taken the sugars out for the beer. Sugar beet pulp is what's left after the sugar is pressed out for your tea. The cow eats what's left after we've squeezed the calories out for ourselves."

Activist: "But Ethiopia could eat it."

Farmer: "Ethiopia would politely send it back. It's wet, mouldy, and ferments in the bag inside a week. She's the recycling bin. You're shipping the bin to a country that already has bins."

Activist: "But the actual grain. Wheat. Barley."

Farmer: "Goes to humans. The cow gets the husks and the pressings. The bit your jaw would file a complaint about."

Activist: "There must be a way."

Farmer: "There is. The cow turns the leftovers into beef. The bin has been full for a century. You just noticed."

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

California voters are insane. You've lost the plot if you think Karen Bass deserves another term or Gavin Newsom did a good job.

Spending $37B on homelessness and it just gets worse. That's 200K a head. You could literally buy each of them a house in the bible belt and still have money left over.

Stop spending more. It's getting grifted by builders, charities and administrators.

Voters wanted a high speed train from LA to SF. Passed a bill for $33B in 2008. 18 years later, ZERO miles built.

$13B spent. New budget $231B. Japan built theirs in 1964. China has laid 28,000 miles of track since.

WE STILL HAVE NO TRAIN. How are we this incompetent? Where is the money?

You pay the highest income tax in the country. Gas is $2 over the national average. Electricity is double.

That's not iran bud. LOL.

That's your wasted tax dollars and failed policies at work. Can't even get PG&E to fix their powerlines so more homes don't burn down.

1.5M+ ppl have left the state since 2020. More than the city of Seattle. The state lost a House seat for the first time in 171 years.

Chevron was founded here in 1879. Packed up for Houston. Tesla left. Oracle left. SpaceX left.

In-N-Out closed its first store in 75 years of business. Oakland. Workers couldn't get to their jobs without being looted or harassed. Gunshots through the dining room and they called it quits.

Tourists can't stop at IHOP on the way from SFO without getting their windshield smashed.

But ya, everything is OK. Trust us.

You decriminalized drugs. Now SF has 635 dying of overdose and 35 from murder.

Your answer is more drugs. Keep the cartel in business.

Lets make sure there are needles and zombies everywhere, that will keep those darn kids off the street.

And then the fraud. Highest taxes in the country, highest fraud in the country.

EDD lost $32B to COVID fraud. A third of the entire country's fraud, out of one state. Checks went to inmates. Someone called Mr Poopy Pants got paid.

Nobody went to jail.

Stop paying for homelessness, fraud and drugs.

Take that money and BUILD. Focus on wildfire prevention.

It doesn't take a genius to see the stuff over the last 20 years.

Refill reservoirs. Build desalination plants. Cover waterways. Capture runoff. Staff up the fire department.

But nah that's too rational. Long live socialism.

Saudi Arabia didn't have water. They built stuff. You don't have water and you get some high school dropout with a humanities degree to research if building a plant hurts someone's feelings.

California can no longer build ANYTHING. Syria builds faster than this failed state.

16,000 homes gone in the fires. One year later, 12 rebuilt.

Actuaries won't price insurance. Carriers are leaving the state. Geico is probably cheaper in Iraq.

Bass funnels to her husband. Newsom funnels to his wife. The billionaires whose taxes pay for all of it get blamed. The homeowners who lost their houses get blamed. Climate gets blamed.

Then Spencer Pratt runs for mayor and you call HIM crazy for having no experience and living in a hotel.

Look at the receipts and tell me who's crazy.

You'll do it again in June and wonder why nothing changes.

Nothing changes because you don't change.

MAYBE STOP VOTING FOR A SINGLE PARTY DEMOCRAT SOCIALIST DICTATORSHIP AND YOUR STATE CAN GET BETTER.

Good luck out there. You'll need it.

[Sacramento Republic FC @SacRepublicFC]

Hella fun night in Oakland 😁

[Jon Crawford @Crawdad23]

@htafcacademy @BenHtafc17 The kids were looking good and made the breaks by working hard from start to finish… ❤️⚽️

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "You kill animals. I don't."

Farmer: "You eat bread?"

Activist: "Sourdough."

Farmer: "Where did the wheat come from?"

Activist: "A farm."

Farmer: "A ploughed field. Ploughed in spring, killing every vole, mouse, shrew, ground-nesting bird, and beetle that lived there over winter."

Activist: "That's incidental."

Farmer: "Every spring. Every August. The combine comes through at 12 mph and anything that hadn't already left gets mulched into the straw."

Activist: "But I'm not killing them on purpose."

Farmer: "You're paying someone to kill them on purpose. They just don't put it on the bag."

Activist: "It's still less death than meat."

Farmer: "A field of wheat feeds you for about ten days. A cow feeds you for six months. The vegan death toll per calorie is genuinely worse, you've just outsourced it to a machine."

Activist: "I prefer the machine."

Farmer: "I prefer the meadow that hasn't been ploughed in ninety years."

[Herb W Morgan @Herb4Controller]

Time for #RadicalTransparency: California wants you to believe this is compassion. I call it what it looks like — another taxpayer-funded insider game.

I’m talking about the $20 million diaper program where Californians are reportedly paying around 50 cents per diaper while similar diapers can be purchased in bulk for closer to 16 cents each. And when nonprofits tied to powerful political circles are involved, taxpayers deserve to ask exactly where the money is going and who’s benefiting.

That’s why I’m running for Controller. I’m done with the waste, the bloated middlemen, and Sacramento treating your hard-earned money like an unlimited ATM. I want radical transparency, real accountability, and a system where every Californian can track state spending in near real time.

No more sweetheart deals. No more smoke and mirrors. It’s time to audit the system.

[Taya Bass @travelingflying]

Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.

Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.

Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the Chairman and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust. Eighty-four years old. Seven buildings in Midtown Manhattan. I said what I said.

I said "tax the rich" is the equivalent of a racial slur. I said it at REBNY. Into the microphone. Eight hundred people. Median net worth in that room was north of $240 million, I know because our CFO ran the guest list through a Bloomberg terminal as a joke, and then it wasn't a joke. And when I said it, twelve people applauded. The rest nodded. One woman in the third row mouthed, "Finally." I saw her.

Sharon, my communications advisor, Columbia, $430,000 a year, very bright, Sharon wants me to walk it back. She drafted something. "Mr. Roth's comments were intended to highlight the emotional impact of political rhetoric on business communities." I read it. I put it in the trash can on my desk. Not the recycling. The trash. Here's my clarification: I understated it.

"Tax the rich" is worse than a slur. A slur is just a word. It doesn't come with a CBO score. Nobody is introducing a bill called the Racial Slur Implementation Act of 2026. But there are seventeen active proposals in Congress, I had Sharon count them, seventeen proposals designed to take more of my money. My money. Mine. Money I acquired by being better at acquiring Manhattan commercial real estate than anyone alive for four consecutive decades. That is not a crime. That is a record.

I pay property taxes on $18.2 billion in assessed assets. $412 million a year. Say it again: four hundred and twelve million. I carry that number. It's the first thing I think about when I see a protest sign. I think: I pay more in property tax than the entire annual budget of the city of Fort Lauderdale. I looked this up. Fort Lauderdale: $408 million. Steve Roth: $412 million. I am a small city. And the city doesn't get screamed at.

My effective tax rate last year was 11.4 percent. I say this because I believe in transparency and because I'm not ashamed of it. The rate reflects the legal structure of real estate investment trusts, depreciation schedules Congress established in 1986, and carried interest provisions that both parties have voted to preserve for forty years. I did not write these laws. I organized my entire financial existence around them with the help of nine full-time tax professionals who have offices on the 38th floor of 888 Seventh Avenue, which I also own. Their office is in my building. Their work protects my buildings. This is not a loophole. Sharon calls it a loophole. I've told her: a structure maintained by nine attorneys across four decades is not a loophole. A loophole is something you slip through once. This is architecture. This is the foundation. This is the building.

Last Tuesday, same as every Tuesday, I walked past 1290 Sixth Avenue. My building. And there was a man. Same man as last week. Same sign: "Billionaires Pay Your Fair Share." He was standing on my sidewalk. My literal sidewalk — my company owns the ground lease. He was maybe thirty. He was wearing a jacket I would estimate cost $60. My lunch that day was $114. For one. I am telling you this not to boast but because these are facts. He has decided I'm his enemy. Based on a number he saw on a Forbes list. He doesn't know what I pay. He doesn't know what my buildings cost this city in construction jobs and lease revenue and foot traffic. He knows one number. He has made one judgment.

I see him every Tuesday. I've started to notice things. He brings coffee from the cart, not the Starbucks. He has a backpack that looks heavy. He doesn't look unhealthy. He looks like he probably works somewhere, but not on Tuesdays. I've wondered: does he have a job? Does he have a building? Does he have anything that depends on him the way 4,200 employees depend on me? I suspect not. And yet he has opinions about my tax rate.

I gave $22 million to charity last year. The Met. NYU Langone. Mount Sinai. I gave a building to NYU. Not money for a building — a building. The Steven Roth Residence Hall. It houses 400 students. That man with the sign has never housed 400 students. He hasn't housed one. He gives cardboard. I give structures. This is not a comparison I'm making to flatter myself. It's just arithmetic.

When I said what I said at REBNY, I was saying what every person in that room believes and none of them will say publicly because they have communications advisors and the communications advisors all went to Columbia and they all say "unhelpful." I'm eighty-four. I'm too old for helpful. I'm too old to perform restraint for people who hate me for something I can't change.

I didn't choose to be rich. I chose to be good at one thing for a very long time, and this is what happened. You don't punish someone for that. You don't legislate against someone for that.

My net worth fluctuates between $3.8 and $4.1 billion depending on the quarter. I fluctuate more in a fiscal week than that man on my sidewalk will earn in his life. Both of these are facts. Only one of them is considered polite to say.

They want me to apologize.

I'll be dead in ten years. Twenty if I'm lucky. And they'll still be renting my buildings.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "You can graze sheep underneath solar panels. It's called agrivoltaics."

Farmer: "I've read the brochures."

Activist: "Best of both worlds."

Farmer: "The panels shade the sward. Productive species die back. What grows is what tolerates shade and compaction. Sheep won't finish on it."

Activist: "But the trials show it works."

Farmer: "The trials run three years and measure ewe presence. Not lamb growth rates. Not finishing weights. Not what the soil looks like in year fifteen."

Activist: "It's still better than nothing."

Farmer: "It's a 30% stocking rate, a steel frame I can't plough around, panel-cleaning chemicals running into the watercourse, and a 40-year lease I can't break."

Activist: "But you're getting energy AND lamb."

Farmer: "I'm getting a third of the lamb, a maintenance contract, and a field my grandson can't farm."

Activist: "You're being negative."

Farmer: "I'm watching a thousand-year-old way of feeding people get traded for twenty-five years of subsidised electricity. Negative would be the polite word."

[Jon Crawford @Crawdad23]

5 players starting that can’t hit their weight, a catcher playing right and a AAAA dh… and let’s not discuss walker…. Dfa dfa dfa dfa…..
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