Open thread: Man in charge of America’s biggest city to discuss importance of regulating soda-pop portions at 5:30 ET; Update: Video added
posted at 5:06 pm on March 11, 2013 by Allahpundit
The news is slow enough today that I’m guessing one or more of the cable news nets will carry his press conference/tantrum live at 5:30. Here’s your thread for commenting if you’re in front of a TV. He’s already vowed to appeal today’s decision because, incredible though it may sound, the outcome of this clusterfark will represent a key element in the legacy of a guy who became one of richest men in history and got himself elected mayor of New York three times. This is the hill he’s chosen to die on politically. Meditate on that fact while you wait.
I’m embedding a copy of the New York court’s decision below in case you haven’t seen it elsewhere. Skip to pages 27-28 for the key bit. The judge isn’t saying that NYC can’t do something idiotic and arbitrary; he’s saying that, if they want to do it, it has to be done democratically. Bloomberg can’t act unilaterally, through the Board of Health, to take preventive action against “chronic diseases” like obesity. If he wants to crack down on mocha frappuccinos, the City Council needs to pass something. Which, New York being a one-party town that answers to Bloomberg, normally wouldn’t be difficult except for the fact that, ironically, Bloomy’s made himself sufficiently ridiculous on this subject that he may have sparked a popular backlash. In fact, the City Council speaker — who’s a frontrunner to succeed him as mayor — has already expressed skepticism about it. That’s why he’s appealing. Even in a solidly Democratic city, he might not be able to get this thing passed.
Update: You can watch right here.
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Either the FBI is stupid enough to believe Jahar that he was going there to party, or Jahar was stupid enough to believe Tamerlan that they were going there to party. You don’t head to NY with a pressure cooker, home made grenades, firearms, and undisclosed other explosives in a stolen car after killing a cop to party; especially after seeing yourself in FBI photos on national television.
Who knows what they could have done. They easily could have dropped pressure cookers on a subway, gotten off, and used their grenades and guns in a rampage elsewhere in NY. The idea that they were going to go clubbing is crazy.
eski502 on April 24, 2013 at 5:33 PM
Epic fail by this administration
cmsinaz on April 24, 2013 at 5:34 PM
While I understand that someone who is consider a threat to the U.S. should be on every list we have, I don’t understand why we wouldn’t put him on a list to give Russia (or whatever country) a heads up if he is on the move.
Cindy Munford on April 24, 2013 at 5:36 PM
9/11 was allowed to happen because the Clinton administration built a wall between the CIA and the FBI…
… President Bush took that wall down.
With ‘Fast and Furious’, Benghazi, and all the other shenanagins Obowma has been running pretty loose with the law, I have little doubt that the wall is back up…
… and as a result, another terror attack in the U.S. and Americans are dead.
Seven Percent Solution on April 24, 2013 at 5:40 PM
Did you just ask a conservative to provide proof of their paranoid conspiracies?
lester on April 24, 2013 at 5:43 PM
I demand a Congressional investigation into the matter.
WHO was that person in CIA who went against the unspoken fatwa of the sultan of DC and insisted on profiling a potential jihady ?
WHO ?
Oh BTW, the CIA lies
/Nazi Policei
burrata on April 24, 2013 at 5:45 PM
Er, that was a memo sent out in October of 2011 ordering all FBI manuals to remove any references to the possibly of Islamists committing terrorism.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/04/20/Flashback-FBI-Training-Manual-Purged-References-To-Islamic-Terror
Del Dolemonte on April 24, 2013 at 5:48 PM
Gorelick…
Walls…
Some assembly required.
catmman on April 24, 2013 at 5:49 PM
You’re exceedingly stupid, Nessman.
F-
Del Dolemonte on April 24, 2013 at 5:50 PM
Of course the NYC Marathon isn’t until next fall. They would have plenty of time to get ready. Let’s all party.
chemman on April 24, 2013 at 5:55 PM
And some more:
I think we’re done with this subject…
Del Dolemonte on April 24, 2013 at 5:55 PM
And here is the entire 2011 FBI unclassified document, removing those Naughty Words like “Islamist”. Enjoy!
http://www.scribd.com/doc/93235898/FBI-Counterterrorism-Analytical-Lexicon
Del Dolemonte on April 24, 2013 at 5:59 PM
Nice work, Del. lester got schooled… again.
John the Libertarian on April 24, 2013 at 6:06 PM
Undo the damage the Church Committee has done to Intelligence Organizations. The DHS and the FBI flat out CAN’T DO THE JOB.
Repeal the ban on CIA activities in the U.S.
It doesn’t matter how many Databases, how many different Departments there is: Luck and MSNBC is no way to fight a war on terror.
BDU-33 on April 24, 2013 at 6:07 PM
JMO, but it seems to me he tried to act “normally” in the days right after the bombing, whatever that meant for him, trying to avoid detection. But when their pictures were released and they knew it was just a matter of time before they would be apprehended, they shot a cop, stole a car, loaded up the car with guns and explosives, and were headed for NYC. I just don’t think it’s believable they were going to party.
mbs on April 24, 2013 at 6:08 PM
Given that they had a bomb, guns and grenades it does seem unlikely that they were going to go clubbing, but they could have been intending to buy clubs en route.
YiZhangZhe on April 24, 2013 at 6:10 PM
Okay, which troll just got a new job? Is it verbaldouche or non-parmesan or Hotlips? — San Francisco Restores Taxpayer Funding for 6-Foot Tall Healthy Penis Mascot
slickwillie2001 on April 24, 2013 at 6:18 PM
C’mon fellas, pick up your report cards, take them home and have mommy and daddy sign them.
BobMbx on April 24, 2013 at 6:20 PM
Report: Tsarnaev admits that he and brother were headed to New York; Update: To … party?
…in other words, they had WAY MORE American taxpayer welfare money to fund their islamofascist jihad, so why not do like most of the rest of the freeloaders and also party on our tax money?
TeaPartyNation on April 24, 2013 at 6:33 PM
“Party in NYC” is probably just a euphemism for “safe house”. Or do we really think he’d give a lead on the group funding their little jihad? Better to to let them think you’re insane than compromise the cell.
somewhatconcerned on April 24, 2013 at 6:35 PM
You offer a Breitbart link and then a bunch of stuff that doesn’t say/prove at all what you think it does…
Sure, we can be done.
verbaluce on April 24, 2013 at 6:37 PM
Blow things up first, then party? Obviously he’s going to have to tell us where and with whom they planned to party, and where they planned to stay.
Buy Danish on April 24, 2013 at 6:39 PM
I understand killing infidels is ok under Islamic Jihad codes but isn’t partying supposed to be shunned under Islamic Jihad codes.
SparkPlug on April 24, 2013 at 6:48 PM
What an insightful post. That lester sure is a bright guy, and he’s 100% right about that topic.
rogerb on April 24, 2013 at 6:57 PM
It’s time to pass on the one brain cell already? Oh, how time flies.
kim roy on April 24, 2013 at 7:01 PM
Let me help you wipe the drool off your shirt:
Go to Breitbart link. Look at article. WOOOO! More links in article, which include:
Washington Times
and
Official looking stuff
and
wow! a third link
You’re welcome.
kim roy on April 24, 2013 at 7:06 PM
Mayor Doomberg wouldn’t let them by a large soda.
alanstern on April 24, 2013 at 7:09 PM
Now now, be nice. He’s owned up to having problems with long sentences before:
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/15/breaking-obama-to-announce-gun-control-proposals-tomorrow/comment-page-4/#comment-6649182
Who knows what to expect when you add in clickable links.
rogerb on April 24, 2013 at 7:15 PM
Sweetie, a couple of terroristic acts, randomly done here and there and thus unpredictable, are purposely designed to panic the population and divert law enforcement.
Use your head for more than a hat rack.
onlineanalyst on April 24, 2013 at 7:15 PM
Yes, but you need to understand that all sins are forgiven to those who die in the cause of Islam. This is an important factor in understanding the Muslim mind.
Party and drugs = bad
Party and drugs + suicide bombing that kills kuffar = direct route to paradise.
Its a sacrificial offering by which Islamic sins can be forgotten, and the formula works for any sin, not just parties and drugs.
YiZhangZhe on April 24, 2013 at 7:19 PM
Maybe the FBI and the CIA have different standards for assessing threats.
I’d need to see the chronology of events here, but did the Russian authorities hear back from the FBI with the neg dec on Tamerlan, so they appealed to the CIA to persuade the FBI to reverse their decision? It may not be something new that came to light. It may be that the Russians didn’t tell the FBI a reason which would clinch adding Tamerlan expecting that the FBI would find enough on theri own to add him to the list. How about a question here: Will Russian security tell the CIA things that they won’t tell the FBI?
Dusty on April 24, 2013 at 7:34 PM
Partying with women and drugs is allowed in islam as long as the moozie kills atleast onekafir.
If moozie doesn’t kill,he doesn’t get to party.
So if you ever see a moozie partying with women and drugs,know that the moozie is getting ready / planning a jihad against
kafir (s).
BTW, aren’t the Husseins partying in the WH tonite ?
burrata on April 24, 2013 at 7:38 PM
Allah
Tamerlan ran across either an informant or someone undercover.
And they didn’t tell the Feds, because they don’t tell them anything they don’t feel they shouldn’t be privy too.
budfox on April 24, 2013 at 8:03 PM
The FBI has got to get one of Big Sis’s pinging machines…
d1carter on April 24, 2013 at 8:40 PM
Given the REB administration’s slackass attitude about islamic terrorism, the Russians might be smart to develop their own network of informers in the Russian communities in the USA.
slickwillie2001 on April 24, 2013 at 8:42 PM
Funny you say that, because it does exist – to keep an eye on ex-pats who might want to finance “resistance” movements.
It does beg the question – how did the Russians know about Tamerlan’s extracurricular interests in 2011, before he went to Dagestan?
Lot of Russians in MA. Armenians, Jews, Georgians, etc…wouldn’t be hard to put a watcher in the community.
budfox on April 24, 2013 at 9:00 PM
David wood explains so much in this video about why such Islamic terror happens and how Obama and many other Muslims try to mislead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SoXs-0_rHY&bpctr=1366853747
Chessplayer on April 24, 2013 at 9:24 PM
Probably wanted to visit the WTC site, to pay their respects to the fellow jihadists who died there. And then off to find something to bomb. If a jihadi can make it in New York he can make it anywhere.
farsighted on April 24, 2013 at 10:16 PM
Pretty certain they weren’t headed over to the Stonewall Inn over on Christopher Street to party.
coldwarrior on April 24, 2013 at 10:23 PM
And how did they know it? The CIA does not operate within the US, where Tamerlan had been living the past 6-7 years.
And how did the Russians know enough about a guy who had been living in the US the past 6-7 years to consider him a threat to Russia?
So both the CIA and their Russian cuonterparts, agencies that do not theoretically concern themselves with what is going on within US borders, both thought in 2011 that Tamerlan was a potential threat.
And the FBI did not.
Sounds to me like Tamerlan must have had contact with foreign Islamist militants in 2011, and/or before that. The Russians say he met with some while in Dagestan/Chechnya in 2012.
Yet we are told by this admin there is no foreign connection or involvement in the Boston terrorist bombing.
This does not add up.
farsighted on April 24, 2013 at 10:32 PM
Troll is even dumber than I thought.
farsighted on April 24, 2013 at 10:41 PM
How many billions do we spend on Intelligence?
Oil Can on April 25, 2013 at 12:05 AM
HAL could take tips from libfree on occasionally making sense.
MelonCollie on April 25, 2013 at 1:44 AM
Obama has always been an ardent apologist for imperialistic Islam.
Those who voted for him supported him in part because of this lickspittle, craven stance.
Whether out of cowardice in the face of a brutal, violent religious threat, or from a world-historical naivete about the murderous tenets of Mohammad, or possibly because they approve of Islam’s depredations against a West they hate for leaving them with case of post-colonial guilt.
A morbid, unhistorical form of self-loathing which gives the suicidal a kick by witnessing the big, bad “colonial” powers reap well-deserved “blowback” for their imperialistic “crimes”.
(Coyly overlooking all of the equal and worse imperialistic, misogynistic, incalculably cruel crimes committed by Islam during the past 1350 years, with its scorched earth policies which killed and enslaved millions from Mecca to Morocco, Spain to the Seychelles, Turkey to Timbuktu).
Obama has actively sought to geld America’s ability to fight militant, expansionistic, terroristic Islam.
Being a Quisling or a madman (there are no other choices) himself.
profitsbeard on April 25, 2013 at 1:52 AM
Is it my imagination, or, didn’t the MSM roll the Tsarnaev family out as non-muslim immigrants?
kregg on April 25, 2013 at 5:43 AM
As the smoke clears on this story it is beginning to look like Bill Clinton’s Jimmy Carter moment*.
Perhaps we should have left Melosovic alone?
*Carter deposed the Shaw of Iran for a “peaceful cleric” (a point of history missing from the movie Argo).
kregg on April 25, 2013 at 6:01 AM
Insert appropriate “Modern Voter” topic here. Suggestions include:
Benghazi
Fast and Furious
Budget
Employment
Annual nationwide gun death toll of urban black children vs. rare and isolated mass-shootings of whites
etc.
rogerb on April 25, 2013 at 2:10 PM
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