This is a thing that is happening.
New York Post, Power for the NYC Marathon… While New Yorkers are… nypost.tumblr.com/post/348287749…
— Moe Lane (@moelane) November 2, 2012
It should not be happening.
Moe Lane
PS: If you run in this year’s NY Marathon then shame on you.
(Via Fausta) Actually, that’s not true: they were hassled for dancing on an empty subway platform at midnight. They were arrested for pulling out a camera.
When [George] Hess began trying to film the encounter, things got ugly, [Caroline] Stern said.
“We brought out the camera, and that’s when they called backup,” she said. “That’s when eight ninja cops came from out of nowhere.”
Hess was allegedly tackled to the platform floor, and cuffs were slapped on both of them. The initial charge, according to Stern, was disorderly conduct for “impeding the flow of traffic.”
You know, Rudi Giuliani never gave a tinker’s dam if people danced on the subway platforms. But then, Rudi generally left people alone if they weren’t, I don’t know, defecating on police cars or something. Mike Bloomberg has a lot more of a burning need to regulate the City of New York to a fare-thee-well.
Oh, well, maybe the next Mayor will have more sense. Or any, really.
Moe Lane
Nanny Bloomberg versus the NYC teachers union. Hard to say who I want to see smacked around more on this one:
The city teachers union yesterday demanded a review of the school system’s hiring practices in a move derided by the Bloomberg administration as a distraction from teacher misconduct.
In the wake of record numbers of arrests of teachers on charges of sexual abuse or misconduct involving students, the city has been lobbying for a law giving the chancellor final say in how misbehaving teachers should be disciplined. That power currently resides with an independent arbitrator.
But rather than support the city’s bid to protect students, the United Federation of Teachers turned the tables and pointed at the city’s hiring practices as a potential area for reform.
Continue reading #rsrh “IN-JUR-IES! IN-JUR-IES! IN-JUR-IES!”
Glenn Reynolds, on that fool Mayor Mike Bloomberg – and every fool that supports Bloomberg’s crazy crusade to regulate what people eat, drink, smoke, and generally do.
Let me be clear. These people are not well-meaning do-gooders who have just gone a bit too far. They don’t actually “mean well” at all. They don’t mean well, they mean to be in control. They are power-fetishists, drunk on the joys of bossing the little people around. They are not good people. They are evil. They should be ashamed of themselves, but shame — like taxes — is for the little people.
Damn straight.
Moe Lane
*Note the verb. I am not saying that Mayor Bloomberg needs a higher dry cleaning bill; merely that Bloomberg having to keep bringing in his suits because people keep glitter-bombing buckets of cherry cola on him might be a somewhat apropos karmic backlash. Far be it from me to incite acts of civil disobedience, though…
…on Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s (INDEPENDENT. Not Republican. INDEPENDENT) abortive attempt to start going after NYC’s booze…
God. The thought of a Manhattan without alcohol is… chilling. Wrong. It’d be like Gotham City without Batman. Continue reading My friend Caleb Howe wrote a good post… (NSFW)
This photo could very easily be labeled as “Mayor Mike Bloomberg*about to do to a groundhog what he’s been doing lately to NYC.”
Sweet God. It’s getting so bad for The City that I’ve been asking myself lately, Would the Working Families’ Party freakazoid really have been that awful? – I mean, seriously: banning smoking in the freaking public parks? This overwhelms my ability to snark about it.
Moe Lane
*WHO QUIT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN 2008. NOT OUR GUY. NOT OUR PROBLEM. PLEASE DO NOT GIVE US HIS MAIL.
