New Taxes, $4 Billion Dollar Deficit, And You’re Worried About Salt

Mayor Bloomberg Strikes Somber Tone While Addressing Startling NYC Economic Crisis

Just cut taxes and forget about the darn salt.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg officially announced Friday the city’s $4 billion budget gap and unveiled a new budget filled with painful cutbacks that will impact every New Yorker.

Wall Street got sick and now New York City residents have to take their medicine, and Bloomberg’s budget solution will probably be hard for most of us to swallow. New taxes, a smaller workforce, and reduced city services – all the ingredients of Friday’s “Doomsday” budget plan.

“This is a very tough time for our city and nation,” Bloomberg said. “We have a $4 billion budget gap. It is serious, I think it is manageable.”
(Read more here.)

There Was ‘Big Brother,’ Now There’s ‘Big Mother’… NY Mayor Bloomberg Wages War…On Salt

You watch your salt, I’ll watch mine!

Bloomberg:  The New Salt Police

Politicians do just about everything these days:  except the job they were elected to do.  Since when is it the Mayor’s place to wage a war on salt?  What kind of a wimpy place is the U.S. becoming when the Mayor of our largest city thinks it’s his job to tell the people how to use salt.

Soon he will be telling New Yorkers that they don’t get enough sleep and that he now mandates a 10:00 p.m. bedtime.  Talk about a “Nanny State!”  New Yorkers are just as capable of reading food labels as anyone else is in this country.  If they choose to use too much salt for the Mayor’s taste, that’s just tough.

Mr. Mayor, if you really want to be helpful to all New Yorkers, cut taxes.  But instead you’re raising them!  You’re an elected official, which is amazing in itself, but your job, when you perform it properly, is to cut ribbons and stay out of the way of private individuals’ lives and businesses.  But, like just about every politician, you just can’t resist butting in.

Instead, you run around doing everything except your job.  And now you’re worried about salt…show us all that passage of the constitution that grants you this power to be some kind of “health czar.”  And now you’re cutting New Yorkers’ service by $1 billion, see above.  (Story here.)

Dog Cloning To Be Cheaper In South Korea; We Are Talking About Pet Dogs, Aren’t We?

These dogs are chows, not dog chow, right?

Bio firm says dog cloning to be cheaper

SEOUL (Reuters) – Cloning a Chow Chow is expected to be easier and perhaps as much as 50 percent less costly, a South Korean biotech firm said Thursday as it unveiled a new cloning technology.

But pet owners — who have to shell out $100,000 or more to clone a pet dog — will still have to pay tens of thousands of dollars if they want to clone their beloved dogs and should be prepared for long waits because most commercial canine cloning is for working animals including sniffer dogs at airports. (Full story here.)

B.S. Report-I’m just trying to clarify that we’re talking about pets, not pet food.  I think we are.  Good.

She Must Be Really Dumb To Ask You…Because You Ain’t That Bright

Dude, maybe you should have toned it down a bit...

New York Boy Dressed As Girl To Cheat On Exam

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – Dressing as a girl to take a high school Regents exam in place of another student landed a 17-year-old upstate New York boy in some serious detention. Deandre Ellis, 17, of Schenectady was arrested on a felony charge after the incident Tuesday. City school officials said a monitor verifying that each student was taking the proper exam suspected something was amiss when the name on the test and the person taking it didn’t match.

District spokeswoman Karen Corona said a closer look revealed the test-taker was a boy masquerading as a girl.

Police said Ellis, who was released to probation authorities, was charged with burglary for entering the school to commit a crime. His public defender didn’t immediately return a phone call or e-mail seeking comment.

Forget The Super Bowl… Welcome To The Wing Bowl, Yuck!

You're even a loser at eating...And do they make you clean up your own mess?

Sorry to gross you out on the eve of the eve of the Super Bowl, but I never quite understood eating contests…what kind of a loser wants to go to a bar and eat way more than he could possibly hold down…why don’t you just go to an all-you-can-eat place and relax and eat a ton of food?

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In a gut-busting display of championship eating, a man nicknamed Super Squibb has won Philadelphia’s Wing Bowl by downing 203 chicken wings in about 20 minutes.

For his efforts, 23-year-old John Squibb of Berlin, N.J., gets a car, a $7,500 diamond ring and a crown of miniature chickens. And maybe a case of indigestion.

Thousands attend the early morning gorge-fest held every year on the Friday before the Super Bowl. The contest is sponsored by sports-talk station WIP-AM. It also features scantily clad “Wingettes” and a cast of sickened contestants.

Professional eaters were not allowed in this year’s Wing Bowl, but organizers say they’ll be back next year.

B.S. Report–Aren’t we all, in our own way, “professional” eaters?

This Day In History

1933     Hitler Sworn In and takes over as Chancellor of Germany.

 

 

 

 

 

1948     Assasination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. “The Mahatma.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

1969     The Beatles played together as a group for the last time at the Capitol Records building in London.

Freedom Quote Of The Day

Here’s a memo to President #44 from President #1

“If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates, but let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.”

—George Washington, Farewell Address, September 17, 1796.

French “Unrest”; Why Don’t We Call It What It Really Is… More Muslim Rioting Starring “The Religion Of Peace”

More "unrest" brought to you by the "Religion of Peace."

Every time I see news coverage of these now daily riots and car torchings happening throughout France, one thing seems to be missing…oh yeah, who’s doing the rioting.  Sometimes it mentioned in passing, but even then it’s usually buried in paragraph 37.

They are often described as “disgruntled youths,” “desperately poor,” or any one of a dozen other terms that are designed to lessen the responsibility of the actual culprits. 

And, you ask, who are these actual culprits?  These rioters, who are often torching hundreds of cars each evening, are just your basic radical Muslims, this time of the African immigrant variety-who have not assimilated into normative French society, even though many of their children have been born in France.

Wake up people!  This is the danger that any society has when they don’t assimilate their immigrants.  It is already beginning to happen here, so far, without the rioting.  (Read more about French rioting here and here.)

Economy Shrinks Less Than Expected… Don’t Worry, President Obama Will Fix That…

You just can't keep making more of these -without them being worth less.

Economy Shrinks By 3.8%… It Was Expected To Shrink 5.1%

Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. economy shrank the most since 1982 in the fourth quarter as consumer spending recorded the worst slide in the postwar era, a trajectory that’s likely to continue in coming months.

The 3.8 percent annual pace of contraction in the final three months of last year was less than forecast, with a buildup of unsold goods cushioning the blow. Without the jump in inventories, the decline would have been 5.1 percent, the Commerce Department said today in Washington.

“It looks like the economy carried a lot of negative momentum into the first quarter,” former Federal Reserve Governor Laurence Meyer said in an interview with Bloomberg Television.

The economy is likely to contract further after retailers and manufacturers from Starbucks Corp. to Boeing Co. this week announced plans to slash payrolls and cut production to get rid of unwanted goods. Today’s report will maintain the pressure on President Barack Obama to win quick congressional approval of a fiscal stimulus package in excess of $800 billion.

“Without the stimulus plan, the economy would be flat to declining in the second half of the year,” said Meyer, who is now vice chairman of Macroeconomic Advisers LLC in Washington. With the recovery package, the unemployment rate may peak at 8 percent instead of 9.5 percent or higher, he added.  (More here.)

B.S. Report–See what this guy, Meyer, said. “Without the stimulus plan the enonomy would be flat to declining“ …What a bunch of spin! He can’t possibly know this because nearly all of the spending (and the make-work projects) doesn’t even begin until 2010!  This guy must be in the President’s back pocket!

This Sounds Like A Real “Get-Tough” Policy… I Don’t Get It, Is She Saying “Shoo!?”

Homeland Secretary Wants Criminal Aliens Out Of U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) – If you’re a criminal and you’re not entitled to be in the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wants you out of the country. Napolitano wants what she calls “criminal aliens” off American streets. She is looking at existing immigration enforcement programs to see if taxpayers are getting the most bang for their buck.

“That sounds very simple, but it’s historically not been done,” Napolitano said, speaking to reporters and senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials Thursday.

(B.S. Report–I’m sorry, I have to interrupt this right here…Are you kidding me?  This sounds like a real winning strategy to reduce criminal aliens and illegal immigrants!  Because she thinks it would be nice if they left?  What’s going to make them leave? As usual there doesn’t seem to be any new policy here.

Did we order new signs or something?  I can see it now…maybe our new policy is built around the fact that ICE ordered new signs…look, they won’t dare disobey these orders!)

Gimme a break!  Are we ever going to get serious about our national security and our sovereignty?  It’s probably too late now.  President Obama is going to ram through some sort of mega-immigration bill that we won’t be able to stop–even though it’s clear that even Democratic party voters don’t support open-border policies.  But Democrat leadership does, because every illegal is another democratic voter.

Here’s the rest of this ridiculous story.