Bloomberg: What the hell is his problem?

that sounds insane

you should invite other people and make it a party

whoops meant that for the hurricane thread - anyway yeah we do shit like this sometimes when we have exams and stuff and are in there studying, i know how to work the projectors in the lecture halls so we put basketball or football games on the jumbo screen, order pizza, and study in there

at least you'll have lots of cool drugs to try

back on topic:

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/08/rikers-island-prisoners-irene

just belatedly wanna dip in to say:

The only windowless room I remember being in, in Brooklyn, was ian j0hns0n's! we smoked some shit.

that i always thought ian j0hns0n would be the kinda guy who had a room bong

PeanutFreeMom Debra Jones-O'Brien
Our town has opened up several emergency shelters for the storm, but I just got us reservations at the Hyatt instead. #Irene
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Damn that is one righteous display name

kinda curious what the financial cost of shutting everything down is.

walking around carroll gardens a couple hours ago almost nothing was open, but the one or two restaurants/bodegas that were were busy. bodega was still pretty stocked, too.

on that measure, we're fairly lucky that it's happening over a weekend

Went out just now to give the dogs a chance to pee. Heard from someone that power to Greenpoint has been cut off.

greenpoint is pretty much all zone b at best it seems

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/nyregion/in-private-bloomberg-backs-christine-quinn-as-successor.html

morbs siren

http://wonkette.com/454037/mayor-bloomberg-on-wall-street-protests-we-need-to-help-the-banks

WHAT THE FUCK, GUY?

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2011/11/3971362/bloomberg-plain-and-simple-congress-caused-mortgage-crisis-not-banks

Taibbi parses that crap, and how Bloomsmug has thrived:

Bloomberg’s main attraction as a politician has been his ability to stick closely to a holy trinity of basic PR principles: bang heavily on black crime, embrace social issues dear to white progressives, and in the remaining working hours give your pals on Wall Street (who can raise any money you need, if you run out of your own) whatever they want.

He understands that as long as you keep muggers and pimps out of the shopping areas in the Upper West Side, and make sure to sound the right notes on abortion, stem-cell research, global warming, and the like, you can believably play the role of the wisecracking, good-guy-billionaire Belle of the Ball for the same crowd that twenty years ago would have been feting Ed Koch.

...the condescension levels here are unbelievable, his air of aristocratic superiority almost breathtaking to behold. Listen to Bloomberg paternally conceding in one breath that it is certainly nice that some struggling people now have homes ("I'm not saying I'm sure that was terrible policy, because a lot of those people who got homes still have them and they wouldn't have gotten them without that"), just before chiding us with the next that there are sometimes negative consequences to doing something that sounds like goodness, like giving people a place of their own to live....

Well, you know what, Mike Bloomberg? FUCK YOU. People are not protesting for their own entertainment, you asshole. They’re protesting because millions of people were robbed, by your best friends incidentally, and they want their money back. And you’re not everybody’s Dad, so stop acting like you are.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/mike-bloombergs-marie-antoinette-moment-20111103

I hate this guy so much.

4 morbs

http://gothamist.com/2012/01/26/mayor_bloombergs_should_never_start.php

I can sense 4llyz4y fuming, in every sense of the word

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2012/04/5728546/bloomberg-not-trying-end-smoking-he-says

mad with nanny power

http://www.ny1.com/content/news_beats/political_news/162170/mayor-bloomberg-seeks-ban-on-large-sugary-drinks-in-city-eateries

what do we think about this? i'm kind of OK with it tbh

re-elect bloomberg

in Chicago

we already have one

what do we think about this? i'm kind of OK with it tbh

I'm ok with calling people pigs for ordering 20 oz sodas but not making their sale illegal.

The people or the sodas?

Lady Bracknell: Well, both, if necessary, I presume!

John Cole's response

FANTASTIC ad juxtaposition on that post

Bloomberg does know that two 16 ounce cokes equals one 32 ounce supersized coke, right? So what is to stop people from ordering two beverages instead of one?

costs more, for one thing

And why are fruit juices exempt? Does he not realize how much sugar is in your average over the counter orange juice and apple juice- my goodness, they are worse than soda, because with a soda you know you are getting a gut bomb. With fruit juices, you may thing you are drinking healthfully, but you are getting the same amount of sugar as if you were guzzling coke.

all calories aren't created equal - fruit juices are much more nutritious on a per-calorie basis

I heard him say this morning, literally, "we want to make you go to another cup."

btw Big Gulps are still allowable, I understand, bcz 7-11s aren't considered restaurants.

but almost as bad with sugar levels

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I'm working on a study right now that's examining the effect of sugary drink consumption on kids' weight and it's pretty awful. Not that that's surprising, just saying. Anyway, I fully support this.

i'm not familiar with the logistics - though i trust mr. cole is - but i don't see how enforceability is an/the issue, or why that matters. and calling it 'paternalistic' doesn't really appeal to me, but then big-government liberals like me tend to avoid that rhetoric. this seems to pretty much amount to a soda tax

but almost as bad with sugar levels

― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, June 1, 2012 1:55 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, June 1, 2012 1:55 PM (3 minutes ago)

people guzzling 32 ounce orange juices at mcdonalds is a bridge we can cross once we get to it

a tax disproportionately on the poor, now there's a switch.

(I don't want them drinking that shit either, but the man's priorities are monomaniacal)

sorry, guys, this is where my liberal streak really kicks in (fuck calling it a "libertarianism").

Ordinarily I think I'd be totally against something like this but given where I'm working and what on it's sort of hard to be. It's not like someone still can't buy tons of soda but this might deter them or make them think about it even a little bit which can only be a good thing imo.

I'm okay with public schools eliminating soft drinks, PSA's during Cartoon Network, and so on, but I don't want a bored tinpot Ms Grundel setting rules. I mean, education does work. Every conservative I know (i.e. my family) no longer keeps Coke or Pepsi products around the house.

people can still drink soda guys. just not as much

a tax disproportionately on the poor, now there's a switch.

(I don't want them drinking that shit either, but the man's priorities are monomaniacal)

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, June 1, 2012 2:01 PM (3 minutes ago)

this seems better than a straight sugary-drink tax, in that it encourages but doesn't punish moderation. buy a 16 ounce for the same price it always was.

i'm sensitive to regressive taxes like this too, but it's somewhat difficult to avoid when the epidemic you're fighting is so neatly tied to socioeconomic status, as obesity is.

where the hell is iatee

writing speeches for Larouche.

oh c'mon

i think this is kinda dumb, definitely paternalistic, probably pointless. and yet... i don't care too much? don't drink ANY soda, how 'bout that. voluntarily, like.

probably says more about the hyperdense center-of-universe politics of NYC than anything else tho

I think my big question here is "why is soda being treated like a life-giving substance that people need in order to survive?"

Great, I'm going to NY in September and now I have to triple my soda budget.

really dunno why anybody drinks anything in a town where finding a bathroom is a soviet experience

Try bumming a cigarette.