Cow Farts...

There’s not room enough to list all the moronic stuff this Terrier (Class of ’11) has said since knocking off the Mike Capuano of Queens, Joe Crowley, in a New York Democrat primary.

Landslide Sandy the modern face of the party, thanks to 110,000 voters, a handful of whom may have even been U.S. citizens, if not taxpayers.

AOC was proposing the “Green New Deal” – page after page of ridiculous nonsense including the abolition of all air travel, fossil fuel and nuclear power, not to mention the removal of all heating systems in every single building in the U.S., the planting of “lots” of trees and an end to “cow farts” (her words).

Her no-nonsense stand against bovine flatulence was immediately endorsed by several allegedly serious Democrat presidential candidates, including Kamala Harris, who earlier called for the abolition of private health insurance.

The anti-flatulence campaign was likewise supported by the fake Indian, who boasts of campaigning in the “cheese shops” of Harvard Square, which will presumably cease to exist once the dairy industry is extinguished in order to end the scourge of “cow farts.”

Sky...

Free, free, free. Tax, Tax, Tax.

Worn...

Dingell...

The fight...

Tree...

DN-Cee

Disgrace...

It’s no secret that Gov Cuomo had an opportunity to host his favorite type of ribbon cutting for the opening of the second span of the new Tappan Zee Bridge. 

Cuomo administration essentially bribed contractors to rush the finish of the span so the Governor could host the opening.

In a way, it’s a perfect metaphor for Cuomo who governs by press release and ribbon cuttings.  

After nearly eight years of Gov. Cuomo, it’s become abundantly obvious that his disdain of public transit (and its riders) is a feature and not a bug.   

After two terms of this attitude toward transit, it’s clear that no matter the absurd gaslighting campaign from the TWU, no matter his supposed support for some congestion pricing plan, Andrew Cuomo doesn’t care about the subways and isn’t going to be the one to save them. 

He’s sucked all the oxygen out of the room arguing over the legal technicalities of control over the subway and the allocation of money. He’s spent years siphoning dollars away from the MTA’s budgets, whether for state-run ski slopes losing money or road projects.

He has constantly refused to sign lockbox legislation that would put stringent strings on his MTA budgetary sleight-of-hand, and he barely endorsed Andy Byford’s Fast Forward plan until his lack of support was on the verge of becoming a political albatross.

Meanwhile, on his watch, as we all know, progress at the MTA has slowed to a crawl.

But on Cuomo’, delays and problems have become daily occurrences as ridership has shown year-over-year declines for the better part of his second term in office. These trends are not stopping without significant cost reform and investment, and Cuomo hasn’t embraced either yet.

Euphoria...

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The euphoria had evaporated. Reports the tech giant was reconsidering its plans amid a fierce public backlash sent a jolt through the real estate community that was pinning their hopes on a significant pickup in activity.

After a highly publicized search for a second headquarters, Amazon in November announced it was splitting the expansion between the New York neighborhood of Long Island City and Northern Virginia’s Crystal City.

The company touted upwards of 50,000 jobs that the deal would create, while the real estate industry salivated over prospects for massive office developments.

They didn’t account for New York people and politicians who slammed the subsidies the city and state offered. That whipped up a political firestorm that may now be calling the deal into question.

For now, people are trying to assess whether it’s all just a bargaining tactic. Amazon has used the threat of slowing down its growth to win policy concessions in Seattle, where it’s headquartered and employs tens of thousands of workers.

The real Estate are not happy with these oppositions.

Still...

U.S. officials apprehended more than 200,000 people trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally in the past four months, about an 85 percent increase from the same time last year, according to data released Friday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. 

Families are coming in large groups by buses, often several hundred people at a time and sometimes relying on social media to coordinate their trip north.  

In December, the Department of Homeland Security announced a plan to require asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while they wait for their claim to be heard by an immigration judge. 

That policy has only been implemented in a small number of cases near Tijuana, although DHS officials say the plan is to implement it across the entire border.