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| De Blasio Sworn In as Mayor of New York |
| 2014-01-02 |
| [An Nahar] New York's new Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio was sworn in Wednesday promising to restore progressive ideals and end growing economic inequality in America's biggest city. De Blasio, 52, who in November won a landslide election to become New York's first Democratic mayor in 20 years, took the oath of office one minute after midnight during a ceremony in front of his Brooklyn home, flanked by his wife Chirlane and their two teenaged children. "This is the beginning of a road we will travel together," he told a few dozen supporters gathered outside his home, during a short speech ahead of a formal swearing in ceremony later Wednesday. |
| Posted by:Fred |
#19 Elevate our valleys. Make low our mountains. Make our crooked places straight and our rough places smooth. Sounds like a call to reduce everything to a featureless ball of mud. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2014-01-02 23:04 |
| #18 Out of the frying pan and into the fire. More popcorn, please. |
| Posted by: Secret Asian Man 2014-01-02 21:01 |
| #17 They would have been better of with the Wiener and Huma. Funny that. |
| Posted by: Retied LEO 2014-01-02 20:44 |
| #16 Interesting, from Wikipedia: De Blasio's first job was part of the Urban Fellows Program for the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice in 1984. [14][15] In 1987, shortly after completing graduate school at Columbia University, de Blasio was hired to work as a political organizer by the Quixote Center in Maryland. In 1988, de Blasio traveled with the Quixote Center to Nicaragua for 10 days to help distribute food and medicine during the Nicaraguan Revolution. De Blasio was an ardent supporter of the ruling Sandinista government, which was at that time opposed by the Reagan administration.[15] |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-01-02 16:45 |
| #15 It's worth noting, that during the almost exact amount of time, this current administration couldn't build a functioning website! Or I might add, make a decision on the Keystone pipeline. They've made a decision on the Keystone pipeline, but by pretending not to they don't have to take responsibility for it. And the website may just be his way of burning the ships, like Cortez, so we can't go back to what we had before single payer. Now they have to implement some flavor or single payer, or _die_. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-01-02 16:44 |
| #14 "snowfall, which is white, is racist, and unequal distribution is also racist." |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-01-02 16:33 |
| #13 Let's see how mini Mussolini deals with tonight's snow storm. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2014-01-02 16:16 |
| #12 Mr. Snake Plisskin to the white courtesy phone please... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2014-01-02 15:47 |
| #11 De Blasio has vowed to ban all horse-driven carriages. Posted by: Deacon Blues |
| Posted by: George Alowishus Hatrack III 2014-01-02 12:34 |
| #10 And it's worth noting that one of the big driving forces hiding behind the anti-cruelty front of the anti-carriage campaign are real estate developers. Is it possible they want to turn the stables in prime Manhattan locations into far more lucrative condos? Wouldn't be the first time that sort of thing has happened. All you gotta do is follow the money. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-01-02 12:14 |
| #9 for... any instance in which |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-01-02 11:34 |
| #8 But in the New York Times, Andrew Rosenthal looks behind the MayorÂ’s claims: LetÂ’s not forget that tourists love the carriages and that locals make a living off them. And itÂ’s worth noting that one of the big driving forces hiding behind the anti-cruelty front of the anti-carriage campaign are real estate developers. Is it possible they want to turn the stables in prime Manhattan locations into far more lucrative condos? |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2014-01-02 11:05 |
| #7 restore progressive ideals and end growing economic inequality in America's biggest city Following in the footsteps of Detroit. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-01-02 10:53 |
| #6 More progressive ideas needed. HURRY ! During the 3½ years of WWII that started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and ended with the surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945. The U.S. produced: 22 Aircraft Carriers 8 Battleships 48 Cruisers 349 Destroyers 420 Destroyer Escorts 203 Submarines 34 Million Tons of Merchant Ships 100,000 Fighter Aircraft 98,000 Bombers 24,000 Transport Aircraft 58,000 Training Aircraft 93,000 Tanks 257,000 Artillery Pieces 105,000 Mortars 3,000,000 Machine Guns and 2,500,000 Military Trucks We put 16.1 Million Men in uniform in the various Armed Services. Invaded Africa Invaded Sicily and Italy Won the battle for the Atlantic Planned and executed D-Day Marched across the Pacific and Europe Developed the Atomic Bomb and ultimately conquered Japan and Germany It’s worth noting, that during the almost exact amount of time, this current administration couldn't build a functioning website! Or I might add, make a decision on the Keystone pipeline. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-01-02 08:05 |
| #5 So far he has vowed to ban all horse-driven carriages. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2014-01-02 07:28 |
| #4 This is going to be much more fun for the spectators than it is going to be for the participants... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2014-01-02 07:12 |
| #3 “Let the plantation called New York City be the city of God, a city set upon the hill, a light shining in darkness,”.... “Elevate our valleys. Make low our mountains. Make our crooked places straight and our rough places smooth. Oh God, oh God, oh God, break every chain, break every chain, break every chain.” ~ Rev. Fred Lucas at the De Basio inauguration ceremony.  |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-01-02 03:33 |
| #2 Ok New York dems, all together now: “One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just isn’t the same.” (Sung to the melody of the original Sesame Street song are, “One of these things just doesn’t belon g.”) |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-01-02 03:05 |
| #1 They're doomed. |
| Posted by: gorb 2014-01-02 01:30 |