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2020-08-20 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

[DM] Rat sightings are up 60% in NYC since Mayor Bill de Blasio slashed Sanitation Department's budget by $100M - leaving piles of garbage to stack up on sidewalks as officials warn city will be 'overrun' by rodents without action

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Posted by Skidmark 2020-08-20 00:48|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Picking up the garbage is as basic as it gets. Next potable water will be declared rayciss.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-08-20 01:24|| 2020-08-20 01:24|| Front Page Top

#2 NYers voted for this.

Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2020-08-20 02:42|| 2020-08-20 02:42|| Front Page Top

#3 One take - 'Overrun by Rats'

2nd take - 'Growing food for the homeless'

Nobel Prize in the offing.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-08-20 07:49|| 2020-08-20 07:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Enjoy your plague

Posted by DarthVader 2020-08-20 08:41|| 2020-08-20 08:41|| Front Page Top

#5 How mean! De Blasio can't help it if he's always mistaken for a rat. It's not HIS fault that he's bottom dwelling, plague spreading, vermin. What do you expect him to do, start acting like he cares about other people?

Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2020-08-20 09:57|| 2020-08-20 09:57|| Front Page Top

#6 'People will die!': Bill de Blasio is slammed by EMT union boss as it's revealed 400 - or 10% - of the city's paramedics will be among the 22,000 city workers out of a job in October - despite working on the frontline of the pandemic

Posted by Skidmark 2020-08-20 10:12|| 2020-08-20 10:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Giuliani slams 'corrupt' de Blasio for rising crime in NYC: 'Pro-criminal, anti-police' policies

Posted by Skidmark 2020-08-20 10:37|| 2020-08-20 10:37|| Front Page Top

#8 The return of Willard and Ben.

Posted by AlanC 2020-08-20 12:09|| 2020-08-20 12:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Global Warming means it is getting hotter. Most things expand as they get warmer. Does this mean we will soon see Rodents of Unusual Size swarming about NYC?

Posted by SteveS 2020-08-20 12:29|| 2020-08-20 12:29|| Front Page Top

#10 Honey? I think we have a Ratt problem...

Posted by Raj 2020-08-20 13:01|| 2020-08-20 13:01|| Front Page Top

#11 Politicians always cut the most important things first: police, fire, paramedics, sanitation. That way, people will complain to their Congresscritters that the feds HAVE to give NYC money or people will DIE!!!

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2020-08-20 14:17|| 2020-08-20 14:17|| Front Page Top

#12 The've been doing that for decades. The first budget items are always the pet-projects. The critical Police, Medical, Infrastructure always come last. That way they can claim they don't have enough for them and need to raise taxes.

Posted by CrazyFool 2020-08-20 14:56|| 2020-08-20 14:56|| Front Page Top

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