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POPSStay The Heck Out Of Tenn.-This Means You Bloomberg Gun show investigations showing how criminals can aquire guns without background checks upsets gun loving state officials in Virginia and Tennessee. Bloomberg is also under fire by Virginians in a new ad released by the National Rifle Association, too. But members of the Italian-American community say they feel targeted, as well. One part of the ad goes like this: "Our New York Mayor Bloomberg came down here to take away some of your Virginia gun rights. You see, the mayor thinks you guys are responsible for our New York crime problem." The ad also depicts an apparent Big Apple "wise guy" who strongly "suggests" voters not elect gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell, a gun rights activist. "I want you to do it for New York. If you know what's good for you," the ad says.
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POPSNYC Smoking Rate Cut Go ahead, Mayor Mike! You deserved to be memorized for everything what you and your people already have done to our city. What a parking mess was in Manhattan before you! How you calmed down illegals! How many lives was saved with tobacco ban! You took care for everything, even for your own memorial.;) I will vote for you whenever and wherever you will decide to run. On any ticket. I hope you will agree to run next time.;) You are great man, real leader and big politician. Besides your business accomplishments.
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POPSButt Out Of New York City Parks "The cigarette may be an unfortunate symbol of today's struggle for freedom in the United States of America, but those of us who value liberty over security, and even over health, must now rally round it." ------Sheldon Richman (CATO institute)
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POPSAbout Jill Hazelbaker It is not surprising that Jill Hazelbaker has been named Michael Bloomberg's media strategist and chief spokesperson. She has had a dazzlingly successful career in media related to political campaigns.
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POPSNYC 'Civic Corps' Gets a Start with 193 Members NYC 'Civic Corps' gets a start with 193 members by Associated Press Thursday July 30, 2009, 7:15 PM Nearly 200 federally funded volunteer coordinators will soon start work recruiting people to help dozens of New York City community service organizations. Mayor Michael Bloomberg helped swear in the 193 members of the NYC Civic Corps' first class Thursday. He was joined by Nicola Goren, the acting CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service. The corporation is the federal agency that runs AmeriCorps VISTA, which is providing the NYC Civic Corps members. They'll work full-time for a modest living allowance, health benefits and education grants. They'll help 57 nonprofit groups find more volunteers and deploy them strategically.
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POPSAP: NYC mayor restricts idling, but his SUVs do it The mayor earlier this year strengthened the city's anti-idling law — which allows three minutes of idling — into what advocates call the nation's toughest and promised a public-awareness campaign. The bill limited idling to one minute in school zones and mandated education for taxi driver applicants. "Those of us that want to leave a good life for our children, and want to have clean air for us to breathe, and clean water to drink ... it's incumbent on us to really carry the fight," he said at the signing. the AP spotted one of his SUVs idling for about 40 minutes during a morning event, and 43 minutes more at City Hall. At a morning event this week, idling lasted more than 30 minutes. The following evening, Bloomberg gave a speech in midtown Manhattan while the vehicles idled for 45 minutes.
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POPSNAACP vs. Obama The NAACP people have to bust their ass to come up with another place - and they do, finally, finding an armory in Harlem. There's no air conditioning, however, and we are talking New York in July here. The governor steps in and says he'll provide temporary air conditioning. The White House then says, "OK, but we want to change the time - 2 p.m. for the president's speech is not acceptable anymore. We want 5 o'clock." The NAACP says, wait a minute - this speech is supposed to take place on the biggest day of the convention, the day we hold the awards banquet. If Obama goes on at 5 p.m., we'll have to bus hundreds of people from the downtown Hilton all the way up to Harlem, two or three hours before the president arrives. Then we'll have to bus everyone back and get everyone into their black ties for the awards dinner. We can't do that. So those little bitty people in the NAACP send back the message: Advise him that it's 2 o'clock and we hope he shows. Nice one Obama.
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POPSBillionaires Agree On Plan To Rid Earth Of A Billion People At a conference in Long Beach, California, last February, he had made similar points. “Official projections say the world’s population will peak at 9.3 billion but with charitable initiatives, such as better reproductive healthcare, we think we can cap that at 8.3 billion,” Gates said then.
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POPSMacquarie boss takes 99pc pay cut I find it hard to get my head around this, what should my feelings be? One year you make $26 million Au next year $290K. One of the two pays looks right to me the other one way, way out... What do you think ?
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POPSFAA Memo: Feds Knew NYC Flyover Would Cause Panic In a memo obtained by CBS 2 HD the Federal Aviation Administration's James Johnston said the agency was aware of "the possibility of public concern regarding DOD (Department of Defense) aircraft flying at low altitudes" in an around New York City. But they demanded total secrecy from the NYPD, the Secret Service, the FBI and even the mayor's office and threatened federal sanctions if the secret got out. The NYPD was so upset about the demand for secrecy that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly vowed never to follow such a directive again and he accused the feds of inciting fears of a 9/11 replay. The cost of the frivolous flight was about $60,000 an hour and that was just for Air Force One. That doesn't include the cost of the two F-16s that came along. The mayoral aide who neglected to tell Mayor Michael Bloomberg about it was reprimanded.
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POPSNY mayor to New Yorkers: You are now all involuntary lab rats
More: In the past year, researchers…have reported one of the most rigorous experiments so far: a randomized clinical trial of heart patients who were put on different diets. Those on a low-sodium diet were more likely to be rehospitalized and to die, results that prompted the researchers to ask, “Is sodium an old enemy or a new friend?” Those results…are a reminder that salt affects a great deal more than blood pressure. Lowering it can cause problems with blood flow to the kidneys and insulin resistance, which can increase the risk of strokes and heart attacks. Salt deprivation might also darken your mood, according to recent research…After analyzing the behavior and brain chemistry of salt-deprived rats, the psychologists found that salt, like chocolate and cocaine, affected reward circuitry in the brain, and that salt-deprived rats exhibited anhedonia, a symptom of depression characterized by the inability to enjoy normally pleasurable activities.
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POPSDespite Evidence That Salt Is Good For You . . . . If you were an academic researcher, you’d have to persuade your institutional review board that you had considered the risks and obtained informed consent from the participants. You might, for instance, take note of a recent clinical trial in which heart patients put on a restricted-sodium diet fared worse than those on a normal diet. In light of new research suggesting that eating salt improves mood and combats depression, you might be alert for psychological effects of the new diet. You might worry that people would react to less-salty food by eating more of it, a trend you could monitor by comparing them with a control group. But if you are the mayor of New York, no such constraints apply. You can simply announce, as Michael Bloomberg did, that the city is starting a “nationwide initiative” to pressure the food industry and restaurant chains to cut salt intake by half over the next decade.
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POPSSully Sullenberger Lands $3 Million Book Deal Meanwhile over at the Daily Beast, Sara Nelson reports that the second of Sully’s two books will be “a collection of Sully’s inspirational poems.” Nelson doesn’t cite a source for that tantalizing snippet, and we haven’t been able to confirm it either, but it’s an interesting rumor. AP Photo/Stephen Chernin US Airways Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, left, holds the key to the city he received from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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POPSRare Snow Blankets South As East Braces For Storm
Al Gore: “Only Uninformed, Anti-Science Conservatives Think it Snowed in Atlanta Yesterday” Some flights were canceled at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, where the average delay was nearly two hours, according to a Federal Aviation Administration Web site. AirTran Airways spokesman Tad Hutcheson said flights out of Atlanta into the Northeast might also be canceled Sunday night. "I expect the Northeast will be hit pretty hard tonight so our expectations is that people flying into Washington, D.C., and Boston will need to call or check our Web site for possible cancellations," Hutcheson told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The late Southern snowfall revived memories of a large storm in 1993 that forecasters nicknamed the "Snowfall of the Century," affecting the region from Alabama to north of Washington, D.C., said Laura Griffith of the National Weather Service. Atlanta received 4.2 inches of snow and 13 inches fell on Birmingham.
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