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Showing posts with label New York City. Show all posts
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November 2, 2025
The Imminent Danger of Zohran Mamdani
January 22, 2023
April 18, 2019
Impeach + AOC
But I instantly realized that they belong together.
Like peanut butter and jelly.
Who is a bigger pee brain than AOC?
* She impulsively lost 25,000 jobs and $5 billion investment in NYC from Amazon (as well as about $27.5 billion in tax revenue over 25 years).
* Her ridiculous Green New Deal wanted to rid us of farting cows and airplanes and didn't get a single yes vote in the Senate (even from her own party).
* AOC stated that the three branches of government are the "the presidency, the senate, and the house" (Uh, wrong!).
* Ocasio-Cortez boasts insanely that government deficit-spending doesn't really matter (hmm, I wonder is that how she handles her personal finances too?).
* She allies herself with fellow anti-American and anti-Semites like:
- Ilhan "(Schmilhan) Somebody Did Something [on 9/11]" Omar
- Rhasida "(Israel-Hater) They Forgot What Country They Represent" Tlaib
- Linda "Muslim Brotherhood" Sarsour
How did anyone actually vote for (or support) people like these to run this amazing country? ;-)
(Source Photo: AOC is from Facebook and Impeachment is from me)
October 31, 2017
Stop Playing Politics With Our Security
Radical Islamist mows down pedestrians and bicycle riders in a bike lane along the West Side Highway.
- 8 innocent people dead.
- Another dozen wounded.
Now, the Mayor and pundits say, ah maybe we should've had barricades up there so someone with a darn truck couldn't do this.
And better double up on security for the Halloween parade tonight and NYC Marathon on Sunday.
Well, as they say:
"Better late than never!"
And so it is with our nation's borders.
As the President tries to erect a border wall and to restrict visas from countries that have not put in the necessary screening security, certain lawmakers and liberal judges keep blocking these actions.
They don't want to discriminate against anyone, which I agree is a noble cause.
However, as every news station was reporting again tonight, the terrorist in NY today was shouting in Arabic that G-d is great!
This was not an innocent vehicular accident.
There ARE people out there that want to kill us and inflict serious harm on our country.
To those people that continue to fight rational, reasonable security measures to protect our homeland and our citizens, I say to you:
You have blood on your hands!
And unfortunately, we can rest assured that our enemies are planning plenty more to come in their incessant attacks on the West (may G-d have mercy on us).
It is time for the people of this country to demand security...to insist on a border wall...to assert our right to restrict visas to those countries that won't ensure proper screening procedures.
How long will we wait--how much blood will be spilled--before we stop playing politics with national and homeland security! ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
May 27, 2016
Cabs R Colorblind
And some people walk out from the building and get in.
Call them and they will come.
It's a black and deep orange vehicle.
On the side of the cab is the name, "Yellow Cab Company."
Now why would you paint yourself a (fleet of) orange vehicle(s) and call yourself a yellow cab company?
At least back in New York City, taxis really were yellow--and they were really taxis and had a medallion to prove it!
These days, car ride services like Uber drive around with "U" sticker in the window, where the U is practically closed at the top.
And Lyft cars have that cute, but ridiculous mustache on the front grill.
Taxi services are desperate to get a brand that customers will recognize and want to call.
No more lifting you hand and index (or middle) finger on the street curb to hail one of a blizzard of cabbies racing down Main Street.
Now it push button easy to ride a yellow, blue, red, or orange cab--with or without mustache--anywhere you want to go.
But the more things change, the more they don't stay the same---Next stop already is driverless cars. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
May 15, 2016
2 Jobs Are Better Than 1
We were in college (business school) looking for our first real corporate jobs for the Summer.
With G-d's blessing, I ended up with 2 nice offers.
But my good friend didn't have a job.
So I offered one to him.
I was still a kid...what did I know!
I told one company that I accepted and the other company that I had a friend that was interested (of course, I would vouch for him).
So on day 1 of the Summer job, my friend shows up there in the World Trade Center on the 99th floor (yeah, this is before 9/11 took the whole place down).
The corporate folks talked about it for 5 minutes and said he could stay.
Voila now we both had summer jobs!
Honestly, I can't believe we ever had the chutzpah, but in those days people helped each other out more.
2 4 1 and 1 4 All.
And that's how we both got started in the NY business world. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
December 16, 2015
DC Is Not NYC
It says, "This is not New York."
And it advertises a website called StuckInDC.com.
"Formed by a few friends who've probably lived in the capital long enough, but lack the wherewithal to move elsewhere."
Having come from NYC, I can empathize in many ways.
The DC metro area is great if you are interested in working in some very cool jobs for the Federal government, and it has a fairly nice lifestyle for families here (clean and green).
While not as exciting as NYC (it doesn't have the vibe), it's also not as dirty, congested, or generally dangerous (in DC, there are lots of gun-totting federal agents everywhere).
If you yearn for someplace nicer to live, maybe Florida for the Caribbean climate, beautiful nature, slower lifestyle, and fun atmosphere or then again, there is always the awesome Holy Land!
For now stuck in DC, after retirement who knows. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
December 10, 2015
Bigotry Reveals Her Stripes
OPEN LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
What an outrageous article in the Daily News by morally-bankrupt journalist, Linda Stasi (yeah, like the repressive secret East German police in the Cold War).
Ms. Stasi calls out as deserving of death, the single Jewish victim of terror in the latest terror attack in San Bernardino that killed 14 and injured 21, where according to Stasi only "13 innocent people are dead", because the one "Born Again Christian/Messianic Jew" was what she judges as a bigot.
Stasi tries to create some sort of ridiculous moral equivalency between mass murdering terrorists who pledged allegiance to ISIS and mowed down dozens of municipal employees in California with the Jewish guy who posted some stuff on Facebook.
Vehemently anti-Republican, Stasi, lashes out at conservative, Mr. Thalasinos with posts that were supportive of conservative political commentator, Ann Coulter and "pro-NRA" and "anti-Planned Parenthood" -- neither of which are bigoted things, but are conservative political views in America!
Similarly, Stasi accuses the victim, Thalasinos of being "anti-government" for questioning things like whether politicians are "bought and paid for" or are "moron[s]" -- when Stasi should be aware that approval ratings for politicians (e.g. Congress) has slipped to a dismal 11%.
Finally, Stasi goes after Thalasinos for an inappropriate negative comment about a Muslim Million Man march and for saying G-d should destroy, Axis of Evil, Iran that has repeatedly threatened to Annihilate friend and Ally, Israel as well as threatens the entire Western world.
Apparently, Stasi is quite hateful of many many people as she is neither concerned about Iranian threats of Jewish Genocide, dishonoring victims of terror (which she has a history of doing such as with Charlie Hebdo), or accepting those with opposing political views to hers (i.e. Conservatives).
She has defamed the memory of the dead victim of terror, Mr. Thalasinos, and the Daily News owes it to itself and its readers to immediately dismiss the one true hateful bigot in this story, Ms. Linda Stasi.
(Source Photo: here with attribution to Blake Emrys)
December 5, 2015
Happy 25th Anniversary!
That is when 25-years ago, I first met and went out with my lovely wife, Dossy.
I picked her up at work in mid-town, and wined and dined her at Ratner's on the Lower East Side in NYC.
We talked, laughed, and I couldn't take my eyes off her!
We ended the evening with her writing her phone number in lipstick on a little piece of paper, and she told me to call her again.
I came home in 7th heaven, and my dad asked me how it went, and smiling ear-to-ear, I said "This is the one!"
My dad said, "It's the first night of Chanukah, the holiday of miracles, so please G-d!"
I think Dossy and I went out 2 more times just that week, and the rest is beautiful history.
Thank you Hashem for mercifully granting my lovely wife and two beautiful daughters, Minna and Rebecca.
I appreciate every moment of every day with Dossy and my girls--for the precious time on Earth we have together, for caring when the chips are down, for celebrating the good times, and for putting up with me. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
November 25, 2014
Pain Relief - SUPER SIZED!
The "value size" extra strength Tylenol (equivalent)--1000 pills!
Think about it that's something like 500 headaches...
It reminded me when I worked in the financial service industry in New York City.
The Comptroller of the corporation has a mega size bottle of aspirin right on the front of his desk when you walked in.
It was clear he was quite S~T~R~E~S~S~E~D out.
From a personal branding perspective (my wife is the expert at this), I would imagine that this is not the image you would want people to have of you all the time.
Anyway, pain relief for some is a very big bottle of Tylenol and for others a nice bottle of wine or some time at the beach.
My father used to tell me the joke, "If I have to give up wine, women, or song...I'll give up singing!" ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
November 10, 2014
Needle and Button @ NYC Info Booth
April 6, 2014
New York Deli Bread
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