New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was denied a second slice of pizza today at an Italian eatery in Brooklyn.
The owners of Collegno’s Pizzeria say they refused to serve him more than one piece to protest Bloomberg’s proposed soda ban,which would limit the portions of soda sold in the city.
Bloomberg was having an informal working lunch with city comptroller John Liu at the time and was enraged by the embarrassing prohibition. The owners would not relent, however, and the pair were forced to decamp to another restaurant to finish their meal.
Witnesses say the situation unfolded when as the two were looking over budget documents, they realized they needed more food than originally ordered.
“Hey, could I get another pepperoni over here?” Bloomberg asked owner Antonio Benito.
“I’m sorry sir,” he replied, “we can’t do that. You’ve reached your personal slice limit.”
Hey, Mikey! How does it feel to have someone telling what you can and can’t eat, you pint-sized statist tyrant?
Read the rest, with a language warning: Hizzoner doesn’t like being told “no.”
Makes me want to go to New York, just to give Collegno’s some thank-you business.
You may have seen the Chrysler commercial during the Super Bowl that featured images of farmers while the voice-over was Paul Harvey reading his famous “So God made a farmer” essay. It was nice work.
But Sooper Mexican couldn’t resist having a little fun with it, so he created this: “So God made a liberal.”
And on the seventh day, He said: “What have I done?”
One of the occasional frustrations I experience happens when I discuss economics and the economy with liberal friends (1). When I praise capitalism and free markets, they point to corrupt practices by business and its government allies as proof that capitalism can’t work, and that we need more government regulation to make the system “more fair.” (“Fair” must be the new “F-word.”) (2) When I counter that the problem is government intervention and that the picking of winners and losers is what creates the cronyism, they just roll their eyes in pity at my lack of understanding and we go on to the next topic.
Well, Andrew Klavan (3) makes the same point I do, only –as usual– in a much more witty and entertaining fashion. Maybe, the next time the topic comes up, I’ll just whip out my Kindle Fire and play this video for them:
Footnotes:
(1) Hey, this is California. You can’t avoid having a few. And, other than being wrong, they’re really nice people.
(2) Their faith in government is touching. Childlike and in denial of reality, but touching.
(3) Who used to make the “Klavan on the Culture” videos I’d post. He needs to start that series again. Now. Please?
I was noodling around YouTube this morning and ran across this episode of Andrew Klavan’s sorely missed “Klavan on the Culture” from last year. Like the Churchill quote from yesterday, events of the past few days have made this video again relevant:
And after seeing the Obama administration’s “handling” of this crisis –refusing to defend free speech, blaming Americans for actually exercising that right– I can tell President Obama and Secretary Clinton and all the rest of Team Hopenchange studied this video very, very closely.
Bill Whittle’s excited. He’s just read an article giving over a thousand reasons to vote for Obama and, by golly, he’s fired up for Hope and Change and … Wait. Something’s odd here:
Ah, that cleared it all up. With a record like that, ladies and gentlemen, I think we all know how to vote.
PS: One small quibble. The weapons supplied in Fast and Furious were semi-automatics, not full-autos. Still scandalous and deadly, though.
You knew it was coming. And, if you know me and watch to the end, you’ll see why I was laughing my head off:
Figures we’d be the “last redoubt.”
(Although, not to make Adolf’s day any worse, but we did have a good night last night, sending Republican Elizabeth Emken to the general election, turning down a scam of a tax increase, and reforming public-employee pensions in two major cities. Gotta start somewhere.)
Back around Christmas, our Savior-President announced that he was the 4th-best president in our history. Some of us foolishly tweaked Obama for this, mistaking this moment of self-effacement for an act of monumental ego. American Crossroads, indeed, went so far as to make a video unfairly mocking Obama for simply expressing the humble truth.
Well, here we go again. Howling, raging right-wing fanatics have again reacted like instinct-driven haters and jeered at Obama for inserting himself into the biographies of almost every president over the last 100 years.
The Obama campaign, including their allies in the media, have tried their best to make Mitt Romney’s time at turnaround investment company Bain Capital a negative for him, portraying him as a heartless, greedy capitalist. (1)
The IBD’s Michael Ramirez parries those attacks with one simple cartoon that compare Romney’s record as a CEO to Obama’s as president:
(Click the image for a larger version)
As they say, ’nuff said.
And be sure to check out Michael’s archive at IBD; he’s the best conservative political cartoonist in the business these days and one of the best, ever.
I’ve seen this before (it came out around the time of Obama’s infamous deficit commission, as I recall), but a friend sent it to me this weekend, and it still makes me laugh. And, boy, do I need a good laugh this morning.
I didn’t watch the Oscars last night; I long ago grew tired its overbearing combination of narcissism, pretentiousness, and boredom. I do know “The Artist” won for Best Picture, and Jean Dujardin for Best Actor, however.
I think the latter may have been a bit of a robbery, though. I mean, how can anyone top Barack Obama’s performance “The Con Artist?”
Hey, the man’s won a Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing, so why not an Oscar, too? Maybe they can give him a special award at next year’s show, to help him celebrate his retirement.
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