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No pizza for you: Antonio Benito bans Mayor Bloomberg from eating second slice of pizza

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NEW York illiberal censorious fat-hating mayor Michael Bloomberg wanted a second slice of pizza at Collegno’s Pizzeria, Brooklyn, reports the Daily Currant spoof news site.The owner, Antonio Benito, he couldn’t.

The exchange reportedly went like this:

Bloomberg: “Hey, could I get another pepperoni over here?”

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Posted: 3rd, May 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment


Mayor Bloomberg hates guns but his New York City profits from bullets

THE Sandy Hook massacre: New York mayor Michael Bloomberg is no fan of guns. He wants change. He wants:

Pass the legislation of Fix Gun Checks Act that would require a criminal background check for all gun sales including all private sales and online sales

Ban deadly, military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, which were previously banned under the now expired Federal assault weapons ban

Pass legislation to make gun trafficking a felony

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Posted: 18th, December 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment


This Budget Day, let us remember, we must kill all the bureaucrats

OUR tale for the day comes from New York City, but the same basic principle applies. Budget Day is when the political class tell us how much of our money they’re going to take and how: the Autumn Statement is the description of how they’re going to piss it away.

And here is how the bureaucracy, the part that gargles in that golden shower of our money, actually operates:

Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s food police have struck again!

Outlawed are food donations to homeless shelters because the city can’t assess their salt, fat and fiber content, reports CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer.

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Posted: 21st, March 2012 | In: Money | Comment


This Pre-Occupation With Playing The Victims Of Wall Street Is Just Pathetic

TODAY marks the two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. With the Zuccotti Park encampment in lower Manhattan cleared and hundreds being arrested in demonstrations in the financial district, it appears protesters have adopted an unflattering victim mentality.

There’s a whole lot of talk and tweeting going on about ‘police brutality’, ‘Nazi’ NYPD officers, ‘Cossacks in riot gear‘ sent in to ‘cleanse’ Zuccotti Park, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg behaving like a repressive Arab leader. It all shows that today’s radical left-wing activists are happy, not only to display great historical ignorance, but also to revel in an image of themselves as put-upon underdogs.

Why else would the new poster-girls for the amorphous OWS movement be an 84-year-old lady, a pregnant teen and a disabled woman – three people who all got caught up in the tumult in the past few days? These are all figures many will recognise as fragile and innocent and so they are pushed to the forefront to demonstrate how vulnerable the protesters are.

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Posted: 17th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment