tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post1148076930687129672..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-50977713263224913542014-01-31T14:45:54.896-05:002014-01-31T14:45:54.896-05:00I am an elderly Staten Island resident who has liv...I am an elderly Staten Island resident who has lived on SI for over 40 years and I love Staten Island. The fact that its politics are run by old mafia real estate moguls is a huge source of grief to me. But the recent destruction of our neighborhoods has has more to do with the Republican mayors of the last 30 years and their affiliation with the landed crooks in this borough. As for why the many decent Staten Islanders (with brains) don't fight back - the reason is why the majority of Americans aren't fighting back the new feudal age of the rich - hopelessness, poverty and the ignorance of the young who think a computer will solve their lives. It's a tragedy. In the meantime Staten Island has the greatest parks - small streets & neighborhoods - pretty beaches - landmark houses and a rich history. I wouldn't trade it for Brooklyn and I can't afford to live in Manhattan. Only part of Staten Island is corrupted by old mafia dons and closeness to New Jersey. There are a lot of other residents who would like to be proud of our forgotten borough.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12897067399298325248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-70931028215560049672014-01-29T22:47:45.110-05:002014-01-29T22:47:45.110-05:00Staten Islanders are a different breed of New York...Staten Islanders are a different breed of New Yorkers. I can remember getting taken there by my father when I was a child and seeing a goat tethered at the edge of a vegetable farm. This was within the boundaries of the City of New York. If you consider Staten Island part of the city.<br /><br />New York generally votes Democraticd, except for Staten Islanders, who vote for the guy whose knuckles do the best job of scraping the ground. Until about 1960 they had no land bridge to any part of the city (although other bridges connect Staten Island to Noo Joisey.)<br /><br />Once the Verrazano Narrows Bridge to Brooklyn was constructed, builders started throwing up houses which were purchased by what the "Islanders" called, with a sneer, "Brooklyn people." But evidently not enough Brooklyn people. Either that, or something about the air in Staten Island changes the brain.<br /><br />How do I know all this? I once had a girlfriend who grew up on Staten Island. Once of her childhood friends tawked like dis. I asked her why she spoke that way.<br /><br />"Oh, I yoost ta tawk nawmal," she said, "but all the udder kids in high school made fun of me and beat me up, so I loined ta tawk like dem."<br /><br />And she went on. "Now dey are jealous becawse my husband gave me a fuh coat."<br /><br />No wonder a guy like Grimm can win elections there. Expect him to win again, if he isn't in prison.<br /><br />Yours crankily,<br />The Noo Yawk CrankThe New York Crankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04489472134701718697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-81528320862825197902014-01-29T14:35:18.522-05:002014-01-29T14:35:18.522-05:00Also I'd like to point out that the guy is fro...Also I'd like to point out that the guy is from Staten Island--if they can find a good person, let alone a good democrat, to run in Staten Island I'd be very surprised. aimaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-46108676150231271772014-01-29T13:19:26.259-05:002014-01-29T13:19:26.259-05:00Wasn't Grimm one of the congressmen who behave...Wasn't Grimm one of the congressmen who behaved so badly on a trip to Israel a year or so ago? Why, yes!<br /><br /><br />The FBI is indeed interested in a trip that House Republicans made to Israel last summer. But it's not because Kansas Republican Rep. Kevin Yoder took his pants off and jumped into the Sea of Galilee after a night of drinking.<br /><br />Law enforcement sources -- noting that skinny-dipping usually doesn't fall under the FBI's purview -- pointed TPM to a New York Times story from earlier this month about a trip to Cyprus that Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY) made following his August venture to Israel alongside several colleagues.<br /><br />Politico, which first reported the skinny-dipping anecdote, said the FBI "looked into whether any inappropriate behavior occurred, but the interviews do not appear to have resulted in any formal allegations of wrongdoing."<br />But FBI agents were actually interested in Grimm's failure to file paperwork related to his trip to Cyprus following his Israeli junket, which had been paid for by the Cyprus Federation of America. The president of that company was arrested on federal corruption charges in June. Grimm had reported the Israel trip in his initial filing in May but did not list the trip to Cyprus until he amended it in June, one day after Cyprus Federation of America's president was arrested.aimaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-67867704168277597092014-01-29T12:46:03.033-05:002014-01-29T12:46:03.033-05:00The Grimm Freeper.
(And there are even Freepers w...The Grimm Freeper.<br /><br />(And there are even Freepers who think that Grimm went too far. Among the many who thought he didn't go far enough.)Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17803231988989969133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-48940326346020596342014-01-29T12:03:46.527-05:002014-01-29T12:03:46.527-05:00Thug? No, punk. Snot-nosed fucking punk.
Someone ...Thug? No, punk. Snot-nosed fucking punk.<br /><br />Someone a head taller than me invades my space to physically threaten me would get punched in the throat so hard that if it doesn't kill it* it would never speak again.<br /><br />Yes, "it". It isn't human. It is less than human. Less than suffeciently evolved. Ask a combat vet sometime why.<br /><br />No fear.Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-44195137442497772852014-01-29T11:25:58.304-05:002014-01-29T11:25:58.304-05:00Grimm was acting like one of the Soprano's las...Grimm was acting like one of the Soprano's last night!<br /><br />And yeah, I've ALWAYS said that Democrats need to provide viable alternative in EVERY race!<br /><br />But then, so have you, Steve.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.com