Posted on 12/09/2021 9:46:07 AM PST by Rummyfan
Back in the early days of talk radio, the late Bob Grant used to have a tagline: “It’s sick out there and getting sicker.”
The pugnacious New York City host, who ruled the local airwaves on WABC in the ’80s and early ’90s, came to fame during the previous nadir in the city’s fortunes, the David Dinkins administration of 1990–93. Crime was out of control, murder was at record highs (2605 in 1990), and there seemed no way out of the sealed box decades of Democratic administrations had constructed for the city.
Then came the Rudolf Giuliani administration (1994–2001) and things changed almost overnight. New police chief Bill Bratton cracked down on so-called “lifestyle crime,” such as the city’s omnipresent squeegee men—intimidating derelicts who “cleaned” car windshields with filthy rags for a mere quarter—and subway turnstile jumpers. By 1995, murders had fallen to 1,550 and by 2001, they had plummeted to 960. All that was required was political willpower.
That’s in short supply these days, as America under the Biden administration lurches from crisis to crisis, many of them of its own making, whether willfully or accidentally. In less than a year, American energy independence—along with its kissing cousin, low gas prices—have vanished, putting the country back in the clutches of OPEC.
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"Mario, assenza me! Tu sei un proprio sfaccim!"
People don’t generally know that Gordias had two sons, Midas, and Fecalas. Everything the former touched turned to gold, whereas everything the latter touched turned to sh*t. Jao Xi Deng can trace his lineage directly back to Fecalas.
No, things are not getting worse
They are getting more obvious.
Bob hated Mario, Andrew’s father. Never forget the campaign slogan when then mayor Koch was running for governor of NY along with then sitting govenor Mario Cuomo, Andy’s father “vote for Cuomo not the homo” funny and accepted because they are all rats
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