Wednesday, September 04, 2013
The very liberal NYC Mayoral race
The very not-afraid-to-say-it liberal Bill de Blasio is leading the Democratic pack to replace Bloomberg. You'd think Stop 'n' Frisk were the most important issue facing NYers as they're all running ads against the practice but de Blasio is also touting in commercials he's gonna tax the rich more in order to pay for after-school programs. The thought occured though doesn't he need the rich vote too as there's quite a few of them on the upper sides of the Island? Christine Quinn the Speaker of the NYC Council is second or third in the polling I've seen and Bill Thompson is right there with her and because he's black he's gotten certain major endorsements from other key blacks like the Rev. Calvin Butts. Anthony Weiner is one of them lower-tier candidates always around 8% although he has interesting positions like stop the ban on gay men donating blood at the same time touting the conservative position of more discipline in the public schools. I really don't think NYers are all that jazzed up about the Republican side with Catsimitidis of Gristedes fame and former MTA Chairman Joe Lhota who said he wouldn't hold up the subway lines for a couple of damn kittens. For Comptroller all Scott Stringer has to do is put ads against Spitzer saying "I'm the normal guy." Oh God though am I glad to see Bloomberg go! can't you just picture him on one of them court shows?
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Everything these days is prefaced by "Because he's Black"
ReplyDeleteMartin Luther King would be spinning in his grave if he read the thing that the Black are doing these days.
What the Black "youth" and the Black Rappers and the Black athletics are doing, saying, and getting away with today is NOT anywhere in Kings Dream. The Black culture has been hijacked by the gang bangers, and thugs.We have more racism today with a Black President than we did 50 years ago. But that is only because of the black race baiters like Al Sharpton, and Obama's ilk. Lets remember Tawana Brawley, the Duke Lacrosse Team, Trayvon Martin, The Black Panthers putting a bounty on George Zimmerman's head. The 3 Blacks that shot and killed the Australian “Just for Fun”, The Black who shot and killed that 1 year old baby in his stroller, Was that all in King’s Dream? I think not.
oh, yawn
ReplyDeleteAfraid you might learn something?
DeleteThat one-year old shot in the head in Brooklyn (again), happened after Judge Scheindlin tied the NYPD's hands.
ReplyDeleteBTW wasn't that long ago that de Blasio's wife questioned how Christine Quinn being a lesbian could understand motherly issues like child care. Oh the funky things liberals get away with!
ReplyDeletePretty liberal place, NYC:
ReplyDelete%Dems 67.6, Independents 20.3, GOP 12.1
Not sure why, though.
Also apparently they're more mundane when surfing pornable topics on the Web as compared to the rest of the country. Anyway not even sure why de Blasio has this huge lead over Quinn. There are puzzles inside enigmas here.
ReplyDeleteI see someone posted a video about racing around Manhattan during the night, completing the circuit in a record 24 minutes. NYPD has his license and are on the hunt. Meanwhile, I'm thinking there might be a new NASCAR venue in your locale.
ReplyDeleteYeah the guy says on his anonymous website just because you drive fast doesn't mean you're reckless and a danger and funny thing of it is he said he ran one red light and I'm thinking he got the rare one w/o the cam?
ReplyDeleteThe NYC race for Comptroller, if Quinnipiac is to be believed the race is THIS close between Spitzer and Stringer and yet Weiner is only in the single digits in his race so why the difference? Shouldn't they both be doing bad? Also that bakery video of the Jew baiting Weiner by calling his wife an Arab and everyone's getting on Weiner's case. There's alot going on here in NYC.
ReplyDeleteWhat are the odds of NYC getting a normal mayor?
ReplyDeleteOh God I thought this thread was dribbling out. So let me understand this correctly de Blasio should become the next mayor of NYC because he has a biracial son and ran one of the best political ads of the last twenty years. I kinda thought Quinn would be the frontrunner, though liberal she can tack to the middle and be practical as when she opposed Bloomberg's soda ban and came to the aid of a small business street vendor vs. the City's draconian zoning ordinances. Have you heard some of the things Bloomberg's been saying lately btw? He's near the end of his last term and he's just saying how he feels, doesn't have to pay a political price anymore and it's just Bloomberg Unplugged. Kind of interesting.
ReplyDeleteNow John Liu who was last comptrolling is even behind WEINER in the latest poll I've seen. What does that say about HIS message?
ReplyDeleteDo the polls have anything to do with where the candidates stand
ReplyDeleteon the issues?
I doubt alot of busy New Yorkers have even taken the time to study something like your link. I think they have vague general impressions of where the Democratic candidates stand. Bill de Blasio is the most liberal, Christine Quinn wants to improve the NYC condom, Anthony Weiner wants to restore discipline in the public schools, Bill Thompson is rather boring but might have the right positions and John Liu has been tarnished by some kind of financial or oversight scandals although to be honest I chose not to read that much about this in the NYC papers since some scandals don't interest me that much, they're boring and dry. Re the race for Comptroller have NO idea why Spitzer is doing so well, maybe if Weiner had just gotten himself a prostitute.
ReplyDeleteRudy?
ReplyDeleteRudy kind of TMIed me with his whole prostate thing. Well it's de Blasio. Looks like Ray Kelly is gonna be out of a job.
ReplyDeleteEven though Spitzer lost for Comptroller he lost by only about 4% points! Don't think he hasn't filed this away and is gonna try to make another comeback someday.
ReplyDeleteDeep in the hinterlands, we note Conspiracy theory #197,021
ReplyDeleteA hick with a gun shot a coyote with mange and claims it's a chupacabra. The hick's gotta use his gun on a daily basis, it's the Southern form of masturbation.
ReplyDeleteLanguage and slang are always changing but there's one phrase I currently hate - "do me a solid" - it has a bowel-movementy feel to it. Can we take a break from the hipsterisms?
ReplyDeleteEvery generation seems to have its slang: Probably even different
ReplyDeletegeographical areas. For example, you (or y'all) say soda, I say pop and down in Houston they call it soft drink Which is probably why I never heard the request "do me a solid"
Then there's wedges, hoagies, grinders, heros, subs all of which will lead to a solid. Flapjacks, pancakes, egg in the hat/spit in the eye...
ReplyDeleteA solid, the only place I ever heard that is in the movie The Incredibles. Down Wilmington you'll hear people refer to all carbonated beverages as a Co Cola but you don't hear that as much here (our proximity to a Pepsi bottler probably has something to do with that, also Pepsi being a Carolina native). I think the biggest regional foodism in NC is bbq sauce. Eastern is vinegar based and Western is tomato based and ever the twain shall fight to the death. Speaking purely from a tofu perspective I can enjoy both
ReplyDeleteOn a recent episode of Hawaii Five-O Danno is on his cell phone while driving with McGarrett and says to whoever he's talking to "do me a solid". I think that show tries to be hip with the language at times but it comes off as corny. Kanye West usually lets us know if a particular slangism is past its prime and it's just white folk trying to sound black.
ReplyDeleteWhen I moved out west, I heard people using the word copacetic , which I interpreted from context to be anywhere from 'satisfactory' to 'most excellent'.
ReplyDeleteI stay away from it, sounds like antiseptic instead of slang.
Going strictly by context I always thought of it as Italian for everything's ok or everything's fine. I hate "preggers", I mean who uses that except gossip columnists?
ReplyDeleteSo what's Weiner's next move?
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking his next move that of any Weiner has-been. NYC
ReplyDeletestreet vendor. 'Hot dogs, get your hot dogs'
Every time he loses he starts sexting again.
ReplyDeleteI suppose he could make money doing FaceBook ads.
ReplyDeleteBTW those "Likes" are now constitutionally protected.
ReplyDeletePrescient, those founding fathers.
ReplyDeleteApparently the practice of twerking is not only silly and of marginal taste, but quite dangerous . :)
ReplyDeleteOn YouTube alot?
ReplyDeleteYeah, lots of stuff there: funny animals, C-span book reviews,
ReplyDeleteclassical music, travelogues, ranting militias, physics lectures,
newsman bloopers, lawn weed control, out-takes of old movies and
of course, twerking and catching fire. Sort of a video Wikipedia, IMO.
& the al-Qaeda wing in Somalia took to Twitter right after the mall carnage in Kenya. Can anybody become a user and open up an acc't these days? Don't they have a TOS?
ReplyDeleteYou probably don't cruise the far right blogs, so will update you on DiBlassio. Back
ReplyDeleteduring the Iran-Contra-Sandanista mess, he visited Nicaragua to distribute food to
the starving. The Sandanistas got their weapons from USSR and Cuba, the Contras
got theirs from Reagan and the CIA and both sides routinely butchered the starving.
But, IMO, the Contras by killing nuns and knocking off an archbishop, as well as
running professional torture dungeons were worse...but they were OUR thugs.
So, the RW take on DiBlassio is that he was once and always will be a communist.
The SOB will no doubt try to feed starving NYC folk as well, the story goes. Oh,
the horror!
Robert Mugabe the Zimbabwean dictator visited City Hall once upon a time. Di Blasio at the time supported him but now says he was wrong. Politics aside it takes a man to admit you're wrong.
ReplyDeleteNYC has had a string of interesting mayors. Idiosyncratic, larger than life...
Deletesort of like the Big Apple itself.
I remember Mayor Bloomberg saying during that big power outage in the Northeast a few years back "drink plenty of water." Yeah then you have to find the bathroom in the dark.
ReplyDeleteIn the last 100 years, New Yorkers elected 3 Republicans and 17 Democrats as mayor. All men. Surely there are idiosyncratic women around?
ReplyDeleteThat's as bad as the chick I once saw on 20/20 who ate rocks.
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