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I wasn’t surprised at all by the results of yesterday’s elections.  Decades of watching this sort of thing have deeply impressed this upon me: that people in densely populated areas almost always vote for the candidates who will cause the most harm.  I’ve heard various reasons why this is so.  It all pretty much comes down to stupidity in numbers.  People in big cities like New York and Chicago have itching ears for the candidates who can smooth-talk them with promises of good times and never-ending benefits.

Zohran Mamdani is going to be mayor of New York City for the next four years.  I have never seen an American candidate so ill-fitted to be put in charge of a major metropolitan area.  It seems that New York has already forgotten the lessons of 9/11.  Mamdani is a Muslim extremist who cavorts around those who cheered on Osama Bin Laden.  Mamdani ...

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To be honest, I had never heard of Zohran Mamdani until this week.  But what I’ve learned in the past few days scares me and it should scare you too.

For anyone reading this who doesn’t know yet, Mamdani just became the Democratic nominee for the office of mayor of New York City.

Here is what Zohran Mamdani is about (partial listing)…

– He is openly Marxist

– He hates Jews

– He sympathizes with the same mentality that brought about 9/11 and a lot of other acts of terrorism

– He wants to fund illegal aliens and provide them with sanctuary (as if that’s not bad enough already)

– He wants a $30 minimum wage by 2030 (which would DESTROY many if not most small businesses)

– He wants to channel funding that SHOULD go to the police department and instead pay for “social workers”, the result of which ...

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The sad news broke this morning that Ed Koch, mayor of New York City for twelve years and certainly one of the most colorful characters in American political history, died earlier today. He was 88.

Disagree with him on some things though one might, it must be agreed by all that Koch gave his gal-darned best for his city. Koch managed his town instead of trying to manage his town’s people (yeah I’m looking at you Michael Bloomberg).

Thoughts and prayers going out to Hizzoner’s family....

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Two months after it began with no clear mission, Occupy Wall Street was brought to a conclusion as New York’s finest cleared out Zuccotti Park in the wee hours of the morning.

Now all that’s left is a “campsite” ridden with disease, drugs, rape and Lord knows what else.

Might I make a suggestion for cleanup, courtesy of a certain Corporal Hicks…

“Nuke the site from orbit.
It’s the only way to be sure.”
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Personally, I find the “mosque at Ground Zero” – the Islamic worship center that is being planned for construction not far away from where the two towers of the World Trade Center once stood – to be as big a “non-issue” as there’s been in recent memory. It, like too many other things, is a distraction from matters that are of more dire priority.

So I honestly haven’t given the issue much thought until someone over the weekend – and a devout Christian, incidentally – remarked that he hadn’t seen one rational argument as to why there shouldn’t be a mosque built at that location.

After spending the past few days ruminating on it, I have to conclude… that my friend has observed accurately. And that there even might be more good reasons to allow the mosque to be constructed than raw emotion might have us believe.

My gray matter ...

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Like my Dad said this morning, “That is one cool dude”.

Here’s the photo that’s most going around today of Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger, III, the pilot of US Airways Flight 1549 who landed his stricken jetliner smack down the middle of the Hudson River in New York City yesterday, an ultra-rare feat that saved the lives of everyone aboard…

I’ve said before that this blog exists to share my thoughts on various subjects, and to highlight and give praise to those people and things that deserve it. Well, it’s been too long since I’ve felt anything as terrific to report on as good Captain Sullenberger and what he and the US Airways crew did yesterday. This old world doesn’t have nearly enough heroes anymore. Yesterday, “Sully” gave it back its heroes....

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