Tag: new york

QotD, Expect To See This Sentiment A Lot edition.

Glenn Reynolds, while noting just how bad it’s getting out there under Bloomberg for New York City residents who don’t happen to be mega-rich, offers this invitation:

You’re welcome to move [to Tennessee], so long as you don’t start agitating for the same policies that drove you out.

I’m wondering if any state legislatures might decide to try to back up that sentiment with appropriate legislation.  Probably not; it’d be hideously inappropriate and probably unconstitutional.  But remember, Blue state transplants: your new Red state neighbors were smart enough to create the safe place that you’re currently fleeing to.  Learn some humility, Sparky.

Judge throws NYC soda ban out, alas…

…I say ‘alas’ because I wanted the judge to present his judgement by taking out a extra large Coke, drinking the whole thing down in one shot while staring at Nanny Bloomberg – and then burp ferociously in the mayor’s face.

(pause)

OK, that wasn’t going to happen. It probably shouldn’t have happened. It’s highly immature of me to want it to happen.

(pause)

Still.

Moe Lane

PS: If you are advising a GOP candidate or politician, make damned sure that he or she gets on camera taking a swig from a Big Gulp, makes a toast in the general direction of NYC, and cheerfully declaims “Stay thirsty, my friends.” STAT.

Andrew Cuomo freaks out over a little hostile media coverage.

Via Instapundit, I’m getting the impression that Andrew Cuomo is apparently very good at turning small PR problems into bigger PR problems.  Short version: guy in the state government (Mike Fayette) talks to the press (the Adirondack Daily Enterprise) when he apparently wasn’t supposed to.  Fayette gets in trouble for it.  Rather than get fired, he retires.  So far, so… whatever, man.  Only the Daily Enterprise on Wednesday published a story on the subject of Fayette’s forced retirement.  And that’s when this story gets a little eyebrow-raising:

On Thursday, livid that an engineer in the Adirondacks was being portrayed as a victim of Mr. Cuomo’s penchant for control, a top aide to the governor, Howard B. Glaser, took to the airwaves. He read aloud Mr. Fayette’s disciplinary history, describing him as a troubled employee who had previously been penalized for having an improper relationship with a subordinate, misusing his work e-mail to send sexually explicit messages and using his state-assigned vehicle for personal errands.

Continue reading Andrew Cuomo freaks out over a little hostile media coverage.

New York gun owners planning to ignore New York gun registration?

Never give an order that you know is going to be disobeyed. It merely makes it easier for people to ignore the next order, too.

New York Governor Cuomo the Junior may have rushed through his new gun control law with such speed that police will avoid its restrictions only through the blessed miracle of selective enforcement, but he may have a little trouble getting the state’s firearms owners to attend his party. The new law requires owners of those scary-looking rifles known as “assault weapons” to register their property (amidst assurances that, oh no, the registration lists will never be used for confiscation), but gun rights activists are actively urging gun owners to defy the new mandate.

Also… check out Reason’s URL link itself.  Surely that’s not intentional.

Surely.

Via Hot Air Headlines.

Charles Schumer (D, New York): the Democratic-controlled Senate will pass a budget.

Please take note of this. Democratic Senators are a funny bunch, sometimes. Point out that they’re mandated, Constitutionally, to pass a budget every year? They yawn. Remind them that it’s rank hypocrisy to lecture people on fiscal responsibility when they won’t show any? You get a shrug in response. Observe that shenanigans like Senate Democrats not doing a budget since 2009 is one major reason why people hate Congress more than Nickleback? They’ll just chuckle and smirk.

But threaten not to pay them, and… well. Suddenly it’s Civics Week at the Senate.

The Senate’s third-ranking Democrat said Sunday that the upper chamber will pass a budget this year, something House Republican leaders have insisted as they’ve agreed to hold a vote on a short-term increase in the nation’s borrowing limit.

[snip]

House Republicans last week proposed a vote on raising the debt ceiling for three months to give both chambers time to pass a budget for the next fiscal year. Under the proposal, if either chamber fails to adopt a budget by April 15, then that chamber’s members would then have their paychecks withheld.

Continue reading Charles Schumer (D, New York): the Democratic-controlled Senate will pass a budget.

The Smugglers of Old New York.

So I hear (as did our own Dan McLaughlin, last week) that New York is the place to go for an exciting and remunerative career in the cigarette-smuggling trade:

Last week, The Mackinac Center for Public Policy released a report chronicling the rate of cigarette smuggling in the United States, revealing what retailers in New York have long known: state-to-state smuggling has become a big problem. This especially true for higher taxed states like New York, which boasts both the highest state excise taxes in the country ($4.35 per pack) and the highest rate of smuggling (with 60.9% of all New York’s cigarettes entering the state illegally).

Do you know what the real problem is, with our modern Left? It’s not their anti-science crazies*, or their general blind spot when it comes to anti-Semitism, or even the way that some of them tend to project the voices in their heads into our mouths.  No, the real problem is that most of ’em don’t seem to recognize that history started prior to the mid-Nineties.  Because anybody could have told New York what happens when you combine high excise taxes and unsecured borders.  Take it away, Rudyard Kipling and Michael Longcor: Continue reading The Smugglers of Old New York.

New York’s new gun ban does NOT exclude cops.

I would very much like to swear about this.  Using polysyllables:

Magazines with more than seven rounds will be illegal under the new law when that part takes effect in March.

As the statute is currently written, it does not exempt law enforcement officers.

Nearly every law enforcement agency in the state carries hand guns that have a 15 round capacity.

Mark Levin was kind: he merely used the terms “idiot” and “damn fools” (the first specifically directed towards Andrew Cuomo).  And if you think those terms are harsh, consider this last paragraph:

State Senator Eric Adams, a former NYPD Captain, told us he’s going to push for an amendment next week to exempt police officers from the high-capacity magazine ban. In his words, “You can’t give more ammo to the criminals.”

So, I guess that we’re just admitting right off of the bat that criminals are going to, amazingly, ignore the law when it comes to firearms possession? Continue reading New York’s new gun ban does NOT exclude cops.

…Anthony Weiner contemplating running for NYC Mayor anyway?

I… don’t know what to say.

Could former Rep. Anthony Weiner be preparing for a political comeback?

The Democrat’s latest filing with the New York City Campaign Finance Board, published Tuesday, may send some subtle messages.

His mayoral campaign committee, created ahead of his unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination in 2005, reported spending just one dollar shy of $37,000 in the last six months. It brought in $27,400 in the same period, largely through a transfer from a previous political committee.

Actually, I do know what to say: if this happens, I will never have a lack of things to write about in 2013. Continue reading …Anthony Weiner contemplating running for NYC Mayor anyway?

Tweet Of The Day, The Second Assault Weapons Ban Is Farce edition.

This is exactly what happened last time.

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…but God forbid that political activists who are terrified of guns be kept from having to shell out money for a therapist like the rest of us.

Moe Lane

PS: Another blast from the past: banning the manufacture of larger magazines will simply mean that the gun manufacturers will stockpile them beforehand. Banning their manufacture and sale without compensation will probably not fly, and if by some strange happenstance it does fly the court cases will start twenty minutes later. They’re metal boxes with springs attached, people. Not hard to make.

QotD, The Experts Speak Out About The Gun Map Fallout edition.

Told you so. From Fox News, the professional reaction to the map that the Journal-News published showing where all the gun owners in New York’s Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam counties live:

“That was the most asinine article I’ve ever seen,” said Walter T. Shaw, 65, a former burglar and jewel thief who the FBI blames for more than 3,000 break-ins that netted some $70 million in the 1960s and 1970s. “Having a list of who has a gun is like gold – why rob that house when you can hit the one next door, where there are no guns?

“What they did was insanity,” added Shaw, author of “License to Steal,” a book about his criminal career.

(H/T: Hot Air Headlines) Apropos of nothing, but A License to Steal: A father’s genius, A son’s revenge, But payback has a price looks like a rather… interesting… sort of book.  Has anybody read it?

Moe Lane

PS: I repeat.  …Dumb*sses.