Michael Bloomberg

It’s hard to fathom how supposedly sophisticated, intelligent New Yorkers have turned into such saps. It’s not Frank Sinatra’s New York anymore. It appears to be populated by girly-men and women, more concerned with political correctness than the potential for having a thirteen-storey terrorist support facility at the heart of the city, where adherents to a medieval cult slaughtered three thousand on American soil.

Vincent and Joyce Boland, who lost their son, Vincent, on 9/11.

A radical Mullah, Feisal Abdul Rauf, with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and the radical Islamo-Fascist Palestinian movement, and one of the chief sponsors of the Gaza flotilla, attempting to break the embargo of military stores and munitions bound for the East Bank, is behind this scheme.

New York’s Lower Manhattan Community Board 1 (LCBM) Landmark Commission (LMCBLC) literally broke all precedent by refusing to consider the landmark status of the building at 45-47 Park Place, a 152 year old historical building designed by the famous architect Daniel D. Badger. The building was most recently a Burlington coat factory retail outlet. But, more importantly, it is the site where a landing gear assembly from one of the planes that hit the Towers plunged through the roof of the building, coming to rest in the basement.

There’s no nice way to put this, but that board has been bought and paid for. Last Wednesday night, seven members of that board voted to deny historical status to the building. Seven members out of some twenty four. Think the fix might have been in? We need to follow the money. I detect the not-so-delicate hand of CAIR in here somewhere.

Islam has a history of building mosques on the sites of what they consider to be military triumphs. The Temple of the Mount in Jerusalem is one, and there are hundreds of others. That the Mad Mullah has designated the project to be named the Cordoba project in itself is significant, in that Cordoba, Spain, was conquered by invading Muslim armies in 711 AD and became the capital of the Caliphate. Incidentally, Cordoba was also the site of a pogrom aimed at Christians and Jews, in the year 1011.

The planned mosque is proposed to have thirteen floors. Not a coincidence. It represents the thirteenth Imam, who will only re-emerge from his well at the time of Islam’s world triumph. 9-11 survivors, New York and New Jersey firefighters, and associated Patriots groups are taking the lead on fighting this unspeakable crime against the memory of the people murdered by this pernicious religious cult. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has displayed craven cowardice on this issue… refusing to meet with 9-11 family members, survivors and Patriot groups.

America has a very bitter pill to swallow. There is no such thing as a moderate muslim. The very basic tenants of this benighted cult of death call for every Muslim to make jihad against the infidel. That’s you and me. We’ve got our work cut out for us.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2010

Them.

Katie lied, and Bloomberg tried.

Doubly so.

Sunday evening, May 2nd, amid the massive hunt for the Times Square Car Bomber, CBS’s Katie Couric and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg exchanged pleasantries:

Couric:  Law enforcement officials don’t know who left the Nissan Pathfinder behind, but at this point, the mayor believes the suspect acted alone.

Bloomberg: If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that, somebody—

Katie :  A home-grown.

Bloomberg:  Home-grown, maybe a mentally deranged person or somebody with a political agenda that doesn`t like the health-care bill or something. It could be anything [but not Islamic extremists?].

At this point in the investigation, the Mayor, no doubt, wanted to take the lead of his predecessor Rudy Giuliani and keep this terrorist attack — designed to murder Americans in the heart of downtown New York City – apolitical.

Or did he?

By Sunday morning, law enforcement officials were already viewing surveillance footage pulled overnight.

After acquiring the VIN number from the engine block (get that, future terrorists?) at 7:30a, they immediately tracked down the Pathfinder owner and first interviewed her that Sunday morning, where she gave an accurate physical description of the terrorist.

A Connecticut newspaper reported:

Sources familiar with the investigation said the gray SUV was owned by Peggy Colas, a 19-year-old from Bridgeport.

Investigators first spoke to her on Sunday when she told them she sold the car for $1,300 cash to a man she described as being of either Hispanic or Middle Eastern descent.

CBS would report, via AP, that the registration holder of the car, Colas’s father, was questioned Sunday night, but failed to mention the Sunday morning interview.  

CBS would only mention the Sunday morning interview Tuesday night via a subsequent AP circulation that had taken hold in other prominent news organizations, long after the Times Square terrorist had been captured and the cat let out of the bag.

The key piece of information law enforcement would have culled from their first interview with Peggy Colas that Sunday morning would have been, no doubt, a physical description of their primary suspect. 

And that interview occurred before Bloomberg’s infamous interview with Katy Couric on Sunday evening.

So the questions are, Mayor Bloomberg and CBS:

Are you that inept?

Are you that disconnected from your law enforcement — during a national crisis — to not have the physical description, to not know who they were looking for, to not be able to share this vital piece of information with the public?

The public cannot be vigilant when vital information is withheld.

And they weren’t looking for a white male, angry about Obamacare.

If you didn’t have the facts, why offer this random opinion to the world?

As Mayor of New York, you were there to tell the public their government has a clue as to what the hell’s going on, not make wild assertions and spread inflammatory innuendo based  on what you know are partisan politics.

As President Obama recently reminded us, you’re entitled to your own opinion, not your own facts.

Crossposted at David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog and my blog.

Assaults up as much as 42% in some lower Manhattan Precincts.

I've been worried about this for some time now.

Thank You Very Much Michael Bloomberg.

Greetings from New York City;

First things first, the New Stadium is AMAZING.

Secong things second, holy shit, today was an AMAZING GAME!!!

That is all.

Cahnman out.

Wayne Barrett (a man no one can accuse of being a GOP Hatchet Man) has a disturbing piece in this Week's Village Voice on the disgusting relationship between Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor David Paterson, Princess Caroline, the NYC Dept. of Education, and the Democrat Party.

I was trying to find one money quote from this article and it's just chock full of them.  Lowlights include:

- Michael Bloomberg as Monopolist; this one is funny because it's 1000% true:

Bloomberg made his fortune as the founder of a monopoly supplier of computerized corporate data. It should come as no surprise that he believes in monopoly politics as well—with him, of course, as the CEO, a post usually reserved for governors in New York's hierarchy. Should Paterson choose Kennedy, he is said to be considering signing up with Knickerbocker SKD, the political consultants already tied to Bloomberg, Kennedy, Chuck Schumer, and [NYC City Council Speaker] Christine Quinn, all of whom are up for re-election this year or next.

- The fact that Paterson caved to Michael Bloomberg's third term power grab to avoid facing Michael Bloomberg in the 2010 Governor's race:

The mayor announced his decision to introduce a City Council bill overturning term limits—scuttling the votes of 1.2 million New Yorkers in two plebiscites—on October 2, the morning after a largely unnoticed dinner at a Bronx restaurant attended by the mayor; his girlfriend, Diana Taylor; Paterson; and the governor's wife, Michelle....[I]f Paterson rejected Bloomberg's third-term ambitions, he ran the risk of facing Bloomberg himself in 2010, an implied threat that hung like a dark cloud over the governor during the term limits debate. No wonder Paterson told reporters that he would "love to have the mayor around" for four more years, though he was officially neutral on the Council bill.

- Michael Bloomberg's naked political opportunism:

The success of the mayor's coup has led, predictably, to an attempt at a second one—the installation of a Bloomberg-friendly U.S. Senator. Although Bloomberg had just spent the recent election season trying—in vain—to hold on to a GOP state senate majority, he and his advisers saw no reason why he couldn't insert himself almost immediately into the selection of the state's next Democratic senator....Bloomberg's ballyhooed switch to Independent in 2007 for a contemplated presidential run could prove a precursor to a 2009 reversion to the Democrat he was before he entered politics. His term limits play and the Kennedy campaign, if successful, will solidify his position for the 2009 election so much that it could force the two major Democratic contenders, Thompson and Congressman Anthony Weiner, out of the race.

- The fact that appointing Princess Caroline is Paterson's act of absolute submission to Michael Bloomberg:

Paterson's acquiescence on term limits convinced the Bloomberg camp to use Kennedy to seal their growing alliance with the governor as well....[T]hen, when Paterson delivered his State of the State address last week, there was Bloomberg sitting next to Paterson's wife and father, with the governor going on and on about obesity, trans fats, and junk foods—all Bloomberg hobbyhorses.

- Michael Bloomberg's Whore of a Top Political Consultant:

his consigliere, Deputy Mayor Kevin Sheekey—who shamelessly intends to draw his $196,574 public salary in [post Wall Street Collapse] 2009 even as he continues to act as the mayor's chief political adviser....The architect of Bloomberg's two-year presidential operation, Sheekey went on to take to task "the entire New York political establishment" for supporting Clinton and opposing Obama....Sheekey's attack on New York Democrats who supported Hillary Clinton (similarly, every Illinois Democrat backed Obama) is the sort of slapstick that would boomerang on any political operative measured by the wisdom of his words, rather than the depth of his candidate's wallet. But Sheekey, like Bloomberg, still gets master-of-the-universe stroking in the media.

- The degree to which Princess Caroline has prostituted herself to the Bloomberg Education Myth:

Because Kennedy's 22-month stint between 2002 and 2004 as [NYC Schools Chancellor Joel] Klein's chief executive of the newly created Office of Strategic Partnerships is the only job she's ever held—a (very) part-time, $1-a-year position—the chancellor is literally the only employer she can turn to for a recommendation letter....Both Klein and Kennedy also tried to hype her role at the Fund for Public Schools, a nonprofit set up to receive private donations to the system that is chaired by Klein. Kennedy has stretched her less-than-two-year DOE "job" into six years in her recent media interviews, without mentioning that she's counting the four years since she left the department only because she's continued to serve as one of two vice chairs of the Fund. The other vice chair, Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman, made a $1.5 million grant to the Fund, but Lara Holliday, the Fund's director, told the Voice that Kennedy, personally worth at least $100 million, "has not contributed financially" at all to the city schools.

In the words of my favorite good government organization in New York:

New York has an appointed State Comptroller, and an appointed Governor, both candidates for election.  Do we need an appointed United States Senator seeking re-election, so that three unelected state-wide officials will be competing as incumbents?

Now what, prey tell, are my own thoughts on this topic?

1) Absolute Disgust - As I have mentioned before, all this politcal backscratching adds dramatically to cost of living.  Seeing these politicians pull this stuff really makes my blood boil.

2) The Residual Power of the Drive By's - The only reason any of this is possible is because Michael Bloomberg, Joel Klein, and Princess Caroline are social friends with the drive by's.  While I am also social friends with the drive by's, the difference is that they don't listen to me.

3) Michael Bloomberg as Monopolist - I'd never seen it expressed this way.  It's completely true.  Michael Bloomberg's entire career has been built on obtaining monopoly power and intimidating potential competitors.

4) Princess Caroline as A Golden Opportunity - This slime might provide us with a Joesph Cao Moment.  After all, it's not like we have a known corruption fighter running for Governor or anything.

5) The Dems Aren't Ready to Govern - Governing is harder than being in the minority.  The Dems are about to learn this.

Thoughts/Suggestions?

On the heels of murder going up for the first time in 18 years, Tsar Bloomberg has decided to roll back a central component of the NYC Crime Miracle:

SOME petty crime is apparently too petty for the NYPD.

The department is edging away from a highly successful model of attacking all minor offenses to focus more on major crimes and counterterrorism....

The decline highlights the department's struggle to maintain the "broken windows" theory of crime prevention - that fixing problems such as a broken window right away will prevent bigger problems later.

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani modeled his "zero tolerance" policy in part on that theory, leading to widespread reductions in minor and major crimes.

The broken-windows theory helped bring about the NYPD's CompStat program, the city's crime analysis and accountability system. CompStat keeps track of crime in each neighborhood - and puts each commanding officer's feet to the fire....

The decline highlights the department's struggle to maintain the "broken windows" theory of crime prevention - that fixing problems such as a broken window right away will prevent bigger problems later.

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani modeled his "zero tolerance" policy in part on that theory, leading to widespread reductions in minor and major crimes.

The broken-windows theory helped bring about the NYPD's CompStat program, the city's crime analysis and accountability system. CompStat keeps track of crime in each neighborhood - and puts each commanding officer's feet to the fire.

This is incredibly dangerous, considering that the same people commit petty and violent crime.  The reforms of the Giuliani years demand eternal vigilance.  I fear this lesson has been forgotten.

Is it too late for a draft Rudy movement?

Guess who's crawling back to the GOP.  Money quote:

Bloomberg, a lifelong Democrat who joined the Republican Party for his first mayoral bid in 2001 but then abandoned it in 2007, must mend fences if he wants to secure the Republican line, several sources said.

"A lot of them [GOP leaders] told me they will not carry petitions for Mayor Bloomberg," said one source. "They feel he bought us and sold us."

Allowing this man back into the party would be an act of supreme stupidity.  Let us count the ways:

1) He's a tax hiker.  Since taking office in 2002, Michael Bloomberg has raised taxes on at least 5 seperate occasions.  The result has been that NYC has lagged behind the national job creation pace for this entire decade.  Now he's preaching a New New Deal.

2) He's sold his soul to orgaized labor.  Bloomberg has gone on the greatest public spending spree since the 1960's; his calls for discipline correspondingly ring hollow.

3) He's the most pro-Abortion Mayor in NYC's history.

4) He allowed murder to go up for the first time in 18 years.

5) He actively obstructed Rudy's Presidential run.  Obviously, Rudy's Presidential campaign had plenty of other problems.  That said, anyone who wants to run on the GOP line for mayor of NYC should have been an early and unapologetic supporter.

The citizens of New York City deserve a choice, not an echo.

Thank You Very Much Michael Bloomberg.

In other news (same link), the NYPD cut it's 2009 recruiting class by 500.  I've seen more graffiti in the past day (even in my parents' neighborhood) than any time in the last five years.  New York is on the precipice of a return to the bad old days.

We need to keep the cops and fire a bunch of teachers, nurses, and social workers.

Christmas greetings from New York City!!!  I'm up here visiting friends and family.  At the same time, I have a few observations on the hidden cost of govt. in my original hometown vs. my adopted hometown.

Cost of Airport Taxi:

Austin -- $35 for 20 miles

NYC -- $60 for 15 miles

Cost of "Cheap" Beer in Dive Bar:

Austin -- $1 for Lone Star

NYC -- $5 for PBR

Cost of Breakfast in Diner:

Austin -- $7

NYC -- $15