Posts Tagged ‘New York City’
Monday, January 5th, 2015
Time waits for no man, so here’s your first LinkSwarm of the new year:
ObamaCare’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year.
“Democrats are grappling with the reality that the Obama presidency is nearing its end, and they don’t know what to say about it.”
Pricks in the Democratic party continue to prick people to donate.
“Grand juries that examine hard facts live in a different world from mobs who listen to rhetoric and politicians who cater to the mobs.”
Thanks to The Magic Power of Socialism, Venezuela ice cream shop closes due to lack of milk.
Just as everyone who wasn’t a socialist predicted, France’s 75% tax on the rich has been a miserable failure. “Even by its own standards, the tax was largely a failure — the watered-down version brought in minimal revenue and did little to tackle wealth inequalities.” But it did succeed in driving Gerard Depardieu to Russia and Johnny Depp to England.
The top ten Jihad news stories of 2014. Though personally I would have found room for the Peshawar school attack…
ISIS executed nearly 2,000 people over the last six months.
“The mobs in New York, Ferguson, and elsewhere are not calling for metaphorical murders of policemen, but literal ones.”
If you want to “young black men to stop being shot,” perhaps they should refrain from aiming guns at cops.
Evidence suggests that the “Trayvon Martin Organizing Committee” was behind the “Dead Cops” chant.
Teacher’s unions are very upset that home schooling has allowed children to escape their clutches.
Excess vodka consumption killing Russian men. Stop the freaking presses! But aren’t the deaths of thousands of Russian men a small price to pay for unlimited quantities of amusing YouTube fail videos? (NSFW)
You know who fought “rape culture” in the 19th and 20th centuries? The KKK. (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
“Lying for a good cause doesn’t mean that you care; It means you’re a liar.”
Tags:Democrats, Ferguson, Foreign Policy, France, Gerard Depardieu, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Jihad, Johnny Depp, LinkSwarm, New York City, NSFW, ObamaCare, Social Justice Warriors, Venezuela
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Thursday, September 4th, 2014
I’m struggling to come up with fresh, insightful commentary on such weighty topics as ISIS or Rotherham, so instead let’s talk about a moron who spent $4,000 on a jacket she couldn’t afford.
It’s an annoyingly discursive example (from the comments: “I think this might be the most obnoxious thing I’ve ever read”) of that most irritating genre, Essays That Seem Designed To Make You Hate New Yorkers. Most entries in that genre are about rich New Yorkers buying ridiculously overpriced garbage. But Mary H. K. Choi’s essay is particularly irksome, because she only aspires to run with that crowd.
The well-to-do can afford status goods because they pay cash for them. Non-rich people buying expensive status goods they can’t afford tend to find themselves bankrupt.
The first commentator on the story actually nails it: “No one else will say it, so I will. You bought a $4,000 coat that you couldn’t afford because you’re an idiot.”
Says Choi: “The coat was the distillation of everything I’ve ever found seductive about not only living in New York but the prospect of belonging there, too.”
And there’s your reason: I live in New York City. I’m extra-special.
I was in London last month for the World Science Fiction Convention, where I had lunch with friends at a pub just off Saville Row. I thought to myself “maybe I should think about getting a Saville Row suit while I’m there.” Then I looked at the prices, and went “Nope!” Now keep in mind that I could pay cash for a £3,750 suit (just over $6,000 at today’s exchange rates), and all it would do is eat into my “two years of emergency jobless living” savings. But since I’m not a millionaire, movie star, lawyer or politician, I would have precious few occasions to wear it. It didn’t make any sense for me to buy a Saville Row suit.
But common sense seems to be a commodity that Ms. Choi does not possess in over-abundance.
Actions have consequences. People who live within their means tend to have much happier, stress-free lives compared to wastrel spendthrifts. I suspect that Ms. Choi will soon be learning this lesson, good and hard…
Tags:Mary H. K. Choi, Media Watch, New York City
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Thursday, June 12th, 2014
It’s been a while since I did a roundup of gun news, so here it is. Just don’t be surprised if you read some of this on gunny blogs weeks ago…
Obama praises “Australia’s gun laws.” Which is to say, the total confiscation of all firearms from law-abiding citizens.
So how much “safer” has New York’s gun-grabbing SAFE act made New York City?
In the last month alone, 129 people were shot, according to the latest CompStat figures, or 43.3 percent more than for the same period last year.
Since January, there has been an overall 13.2 percent increase in shooting victims, while 10.2 percent fewer guns have been recovered compared to 2013.
Of course, some of that is probably due to the work of new Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio…
Oklahoma’s House and Senate successfully override governor Mary Fallin’s veto of a bill establishing a 15 day denial window for local law enforcement to turn down approval of certain NFA-regulated firearms and accessories (silencers, suppressors, short-barreled rifles and shotguns, machine guns, etc.), after which approval becomes automatic. Why a Republican governor tried to veto a popular pro-Second Amendment bill (which passed 39-0 in the Senate and 86-3 House, which puts Fallin to the left of many state Democrats) in a deep red state is a deep mystery…
CNN admits it got played by the lying liars at Everytown for Gun Safety, who produced a map of “school shootings,” 80% of which were easily debunked as bogus. (Hat tip: Alphecca.)
George Soros-funded Moms Demand Action demands Tulsa Chipolte kick out the Oklahoma Open Carry group. The result?
The manager refused to kick out OKOCA and even gave them free drinks. MDA activists then proceeded to take pictures of the gun owners and attempted to portray them as intimidating and threatening. The management wasn’t having any of it; he threw Moms Demand Action out of his store!
How did I miss this? The son of infamous Philadelphia abortion doctor (and now convicted felon) Kermit Gosnell “shot several times” by a homeowner during an “alleged home invasion.” Gosnell family values…
Why does the sheriff of an Indiana county with a population of 13,124 need a 60,000 pound mine-resistant MRAP vehicle? (Hat tip: Borepatch.)
School shooting stopped by good guy with a gun. (Hat tip: Say Uncle.)
Why Civil Rights and Gun Rights Are Inseparable. This is a review of Nicholas Johnson’s Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms.
The NRA says, in effect, “Hey, cool it with the Open Carry hi-jinks.”
Target considering a gun ban. Contact links there to let them know this is a bad idea…
Armed Cincinnati homeowner confronts three home invaders. Result: All three arrested, one with life-threatening injuries. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes…
Probably the saddest story you’ll read all year. Seriously. We’re talking industrial strength sad here. Click with caution. (Hat tip Dwight.)
Debunking the latest over-hyped bullet.
Tags:Bill De Blasio, Crime, Everytown for Gun Safety, Guns, Kermit Gosnell, New York, New York City, Oklahoma
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Monday, June 9th, 2014
Here’s a LinkSwarm to kick your week off with:
Gee, what could have possibly sent hospital prices skyrocketing? It’s an unsolvable mystery! (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
Old and Busted: ObamaCare will save the government money. The New Hotness: “In its latest report on the law, the Congressional Budget Office said it is no longer possible to assess the overall fiscal impact of the law.”
“For Obama and his defenders to blame Bush — or anyone but Obama — 64 months into his administration deserves nothing short of lip-curling scorn.”
The New Narrative: Obama is just massively incompetent at everything but campaigning.
The VA Scandal displays “a systemic lack of integrity.”
Nothing says “socialism is a raging success” quite like rationing drinking water. Enjoy your socialist paradise, Caracas, Venezuela! (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
The idiocy of “white privilege.”
“It is not sufficient that transsexuals should be free to act on their delusions — the rest of us are expected to participate in them with unreserved enthusiasm, and the Left is willing to use the state to compel us to do so…The belief that members of minority political tendencies should be jailed for their views is very much in vogue for the Left at the moment.”
Steve Crowder: Having a Penis Doesn’t Equal Misogyny.
Another day, another Social Justice Warrior issung death threats against their political enemies.
50 Years of Democratic Rule tracking Detroit’s decay using Google street view.
Once again, liberal Democrats oppose a project that might give burly blue collar men high-paying jobs.
Christopher Hitchens on Hillary Clinton. Yes, it’s old. (The fact Hitchens exited this vale of tears over two years ago may have been the first tipoff.) But I suspect this will not be the last time I repost it between now and 2016…
New York City now has more cops collecting pensions than walking the street.
The indicted friend of the Boston Marathon Bomber wired $71,000 to people in six countries using fake names. I think we can all agree that that’s not even slightly suspicious…
Best and worst paying college majors.
Vasser’s new Stalinist show trials.
The Texas Republican Convention occurred in Ft. Worth over the weekend, and delegates killed a down-payment on illegal alien amnesty, the so-called “Texas Solution.” How many time does the GOP establishment need to be told that actual voters reject amnesty, and demand that the border be secured before any changes are made to immigration law before they start listening?
Speaking of amnesty, all this “Dream Act” talk has sent children pouring over the border, where there are no housed in overcrowded and unhygienic holding facilities. Thanks, Obama!
Some of them are being dumped in Arizona.
Even Obama’s own immigration adviser says says his amnesty plan is endangering children. Plus “roughly 70 percent of swing-voters want tougher immigration rules.” Obama seems unwilling to stop the flood of illegal aliens because he views them all as potential Democratic voters…
10 essential economic truths liberals need to learn.
Fight gearing up between the Bureau of Land Management and Texas.
Grammer Nazis.
Public Service Announcement: Try not to murder people for imaginary Internet memes.
Samuel L. Jackson takes a selfie at a an Israel Independence parade in New York City. naturally liberals freak out.
When I think “Hip-Hop” the first name that comes to mind is Ron Howard.
Al Sharpton vs. The Teleprompter:
Science Fiction Writer Jay Lake, RIP.
Tags:Al Sharpton, amnesty, Arizona, Border Controls, Critical Race Theory, Democrats, Detroit, Israel, New York City, Obama Scandals, ObamaCare, Samuel L. Jackson, Steve Crowder, Texas, victimhood, video
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Monday, March 10th, 2014
Time for another LinkSwarm, sweeping up all the news that was happening while I was churning out Texas primary news:
“The uninsured just aren’t buying ObamaCare.”
A not-so-short compendium of all the people Harry Reid is calling a liar.
ObamaCare will slash wages by as much as $5 an hour for hospitality workers.
ObamaCare helps states transfer medical costs for imprisoned felons to Medicaid.
In Sean Trende’s latest senate simulation, Democrats are more likely to lose 14 seats than 0 seats.
Among those in trouble: Mo Udall. (Hat tip: Shall Not Be Questioned.)
Even Obama is worried that Democrats will get “walloped.” (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
This week’s Democrat caught beating his wife: Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida
Senate to Obama’s cop killer fan nominee: REJECTED!
But evidently Mary Landrieu and Kay Hagan are just fine with cop-killer supporters.
New York City’s new mayor is perfectly willing to screw poor black kids attending a charter school because it’s a non-union school run by his “political nemesis.”
Speaking of cities run by Democrats: woman’s mummified remains found in foreclosed Detroit house.
A great list of things Obama won’t even consider to stop Putin.
Time magazine continues its record of unrivaled prognostication: “No, Russia Will Not Intervene in Ukraine.”
“If economic success is all but criminal in France these days, why not depart for places that reward it instead?”
Israel intercepts more Iranian freedom missiles and happiness rockets in route to Hamas.
Nigerian Muslim defends daughter’s conversion to Christianity, pleads for multiculturalism and tolerance. Ha, just kidding! He hacked her to death with a machete.
“What Nigerian scams are to your grandfather, Bitcoin exchanges are to the 20-30 semi-tech-savvy libertarian demographic.”
“The exchanges are based on layers upon layers of bad software, run by shady characters,” he writes. “The Bitcoin masses, judging by their behavior on forums, have no actual interest in science, technology or even objective reality when it interferes with their market position. They believe that holding a Bitcoin somehow makes them an active participant in a bold new future, even as they passively get fleeced in the bolder current present.”
The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin’…
Can anyone derail the juggernaut that is Biden 2016?
Vaunted liberal tolerance rears its head in Ireland:
We have an early winner for “stupidest Critical Race Theory race-baiting essay” from Salon (natch): “Why I can’t stand white belly dancers.”
Meanwhile, National Review is celebrating Chinese classical musicians. Now remind me again: Which side is racist?
More on Critical Race Theorist/Social Justice Warrior types: “These people don’t listen to things like “logic” and “reason” when they are in one of their social justice tizzies. It’s not even worth trying to be kind or polite to them.”
Winners and Losers from the Texas primaries.
Tags:2014 Lt. Governor's Race, Alan Grayson, Bill De Blasio, Crime, Critical Race Theory, Democrats, Detroit, education, election, France, Iran, Ireland, Islam, Israel, Jihad, Kay Hagan, Mary Landrieu, New York City, Nigeria, ObamaCare, Ukraine, video
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Saturday, December 28th, 2013
One problem with defining the flash mob problem is conflicting reports on the severity of particular incidents.
Thursday there was a flash mob at Kings Plaza Shopping Center in Brooklyn. How bad was it?
According to the New York Post story linked above:
A wild flash mob stormed and trashed a Brooklyn mall, causing so much chaos that the shopping center was forced to close during post-Christmas sales, sources said Friday.
More than 400 crazed teens — who mistakenly thought the rapper Fabolous would perform — erupted into brawls all over Kings Plaza Shopping Center in Mill Basin on Thursday at 5 p.m., sources said.
The troublemakers looted and ransacked several stores as panicked shoppers ran for the exits and clerks scrambled to pull down metal gates.
[snip]
“They were playing the ‘knockout’ game,” said Shante, a 21-year-old perfume merchant, in reference to a violent trend in which teens try to knock out an unsuspecting victim with a single punch.
However, this CBS NY report makes things sound pretty chaotic, but a whole lot less criminal:
“There were reports of minor damage and no store owners reported any thefts.”
Well either looting occurred or it didn’t, but you would think thefts would have been reported if stores had been “ransacked.” Did the “minor damage” consist of decorations being knocked over or windows being smashed?
All sources agree that some fights broke out (though video of that seems to have been pulled from YouTube).
There was also reports of black-on-white racial attacks in the same neighborhood back in October.
And what does The New York Times have to say? Either my Google-fu is weak, or a mini-riot at a mall in the city it ostensibly covers is simply beneath The Gray Lady’s notice, as I couldn’t find any online coverage.
More on racial tensions in Brooklyn and the knockout game.
Edited to add: Gothamist seems to have some non-embeddable videos off of Facebook. What’s shown there seems slightly on the “rowdy” side of the “rowdy/criminal” divide. I would have been concerned had I been there, but I didn’t see any window smashing or looting. Caveats on limited viewpoints and small sample sizes apply.
Tags:Brooklyn, Crime, flash mob, New York City, New York Times, race, video
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Saturday, December 14th, 2013
This New York Times piece linked by Instapundit is too good not to give its own post.
Many in New York’s professional and cultural elite have long supported President Obama’s health care plan. But now, to their surprise, thousands of writers, opera singers, music teachers, photographers, doctors, lawyers and others are learning that their health insurance plans are being canceled and they may have to pay more to get comparable coverage, if they can find it.
“Hey, wait a minute! ObamaCare was never supposed to screw me! It was only supposed to screw other people!”
It’s like that scene in Aliens where the backstabbing corporate weasel corporate weasel who betrayed the rest of the crew gets a face-full of xenomorph, but with ObamaCare as the alien and liberals playing Paul Reiser.
For years conservatives have issued unheeded warnings about how big government ruins peoples lives, but it took Democrats shoving ObamaCare down the country’s throat to make liberals feel the pain.
It is not lost on many of the professionals that they are exactly the sort of people — liberal, concerned with social justice — who supported the Obama health plan in the first place. Ms. Meinwald, the lawyer, said she was a lifelong Democrat who still supported better health care for all, but had she known what was in store for her, she would have voted for Mitt Romney.
And that’s why the Obama-friendly media lied about it for four years.
ObamaCare is a bad law for most Americans, a bad law for the country as a whole, and should be repealed.
Tags:New York City, ObamaCare, The New York Times
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Monday, December 9th, 2013
A LinKSwarm to start your Monday off, with a mix of old and new:
Obama’s popularity down among the Obama coalition:
Obama’s job approval rating among Hispanic Americans has plunged from 75 percent in December 2012 to 52 percent today — a drop of 23 percentage points, the sharpest decline among any voter group. Among Americans who make less than $24,000 a year, the president’s approval rating has fallen from 64 percent last December to 46 percent today. Among Americans 18 to 29 years of age, it has fallen from 61 percent to 46 percent. Among women, it has fallen from 57 percent to 43 percent.
Evidently free contraceptives don’t trump lost jobs and insurance. (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
First came the first wave of ObamaCare “cancellation shock” as policies were dropped left and right. Next comes the “Doc Shock,” as people lose physicians who won’t cut their rates for ObamaCare plans. (Hat tip: Instapundit and Ed Driscoll.)
Indeed, 7 out of 10 California doctors are boycotting California’s ObamaCare exchanges. When you’ve lost California…
So get ready to see a lot more signs like this. (Hat tip: Ace of Spades.)
“The GOP establishment is loath to admit it, but the government shutdown is turning out to be a brilliant political chess move on the part of Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee.”
Why the hell is Paul Ryan trying to undo the sequester cuts?
New York City starts confiscating rifles and shotguns.
On Twitter, #LiesObamaToldUs trended for three straight days. Well, it’s a target-rich environment…
Photojournalist robbed twice in one day in Detroit. Funny how 50 years of Democratic rule mean that government is unable to enforce its most central function: keeping the populace safe by enforcing the rule of law.
Why you don’t stop shooting until the threat is neutralized:
(Hat tip: Ace of Spades.)
Is Hollywood turning the Biblical story of Noah into another tree-hugging Dances With Smurfs?
Tags:Budget, California, Detroit, gun control, Guns, Hollywood, Media Watch, Mike Lee, New York City, Noah, Obama Scandals, ObamaCare, Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, video
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Friday, December 6th, 2013
It’s Friday, and I’m feeling to lazy to put up a real LinkSwarm, so here’s the Mini-Me version:
“Anger among Democrats over the rollout of ObamaCare is deep.” It’s nothing compared to the anger among voters…
An example of why Rick Santorum wasn’t the Republican Presidential nominee in 2012, and won’t be in 2016.
Once again, a super-secret military plane started under Republicans is revealed by a Democratic Administration.
Austin Attorney Marc Rosenthal, who helped bankroll the Williamson County Democratic Party, including gave $58,000 in donations to (now ex-) state rep Diana Maldonado, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for “racketeering, conspiracy, bribery, extortion, tampering, and mail fraud.”
Charles Barkley rides the New York City subway: “If they never see me again, tell my family I love them.”
You know that whole “I’ll never have to buy music ever again” thing? Yeah, not so much.
Texans fire head coach Gary Kubiak. It was time. Thy also fired Special Teams coach Joe Marciano, which was many, many years overdue…
Man survives two days in air pocket in overturned ship:
Tags:Austin, Charles Barkley, Democrats, Diana Maldonado, Marc Rosenthal, Military, New York City, Rick Santorum, RQ-180, Texas, Williamson County
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Friday, September 27th, 2013
Another Friday, another LinkSwarm:
When it comes to ObamaCare, it turns out that Democrats lied about, well, pretty much everything. “Millions of low-income Americans won’t receive coverage. Many workers at small businesses won’t get a choice of insurance plans right away. Large employers won’t need to provide insurance for another year. Far more states than expected won’t run their own insurance marketplaces. And a growing number of workers won’t get to keep their employer-provided coverage.”
ObamaCare is bending the cost curve. Upwards.
Even moderate and conservative Democrats dislike ObamaCare.
Green Eggs and ObamaCare.
Just starting, the ObamaCare Wars are.
Oh how Republican Senators hate Ted Cruz for expecting them to behave like Republicans.
Another Dead Goblin.
Given the chance, more Wisconsin teachers break their union fetters.
Thanks to high costs, mismanagement and union rules, New York City can no longer support two opera companies.
The DEA thinks Big Brother should have access to all your prescription records.
Is Texas DPS refusing to hold illegal aliens?
The Onion profiles an Obama voter.
Cosmo, RIP.
New York Yankees guaranteed to win as many post-season games as the Astros this year.
Tags:baseball, Border Controls, dogs, Guns, LinkSwarm, New York City, ObamaCare, Ted Cruz, unions, Wisconsin
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