Voter fatigue is starting to show for New York’s Mayor. A new poll finds his approval rating has dropped below 50 percent for the first time in five years. That’s according to a Marist College Poll released Tuesday.
The Problem With Dowd
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One sentence in Maureen Dowd’s ridiculous column attacking Michelle Obama in last Sunday’s NY Times explains what’s wrong with Dowd.
Not A Book In The House But A Rifle By The Door: Voter Trauma In Fishkill
|Not A Book In The House But A Rifle By The Door: Voter Trauma In Fishkill
By Michael Boyajian
I recently went door to door in Fishkill with New York State senate candidate Didi Barrett and listened and made observations as she spoke to a diverse group of voters in one neighborhood. First of all we visited voters of all enrollments but the nicest person was a Democratic woman who loved cats. She smiled attentively and asked good questions of Didi as three kittens played around her feet. Didi in the end told her she had some beautiful kittens and she smiled and said thanks pledging to vote for Didi.
This is Just Too Damn Nuts
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Last year, I took some heat from all over the political spectrum for my multi-part crusade against raving psychotic anti-Semitic lunatic Jimmy McMillan and his Rent is Too Damn High Party.
People defended their right to ballot access, people defended those who made alliances of convenience with them, and people said they were harmless, so why bother.
But I contended they were doing real harm, including helping Bloomberg’s re-election.
The Gateway (Who Was That Mosqued Man? Edition)
|Thomas Jefferson: Wimpy America Hating Multiculturalist Liberal Quisling Appeaser: Jefferson On The Toleration Of Islam – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
Damn it, the Federalists have sold America out too US president George Washington on Islam | Pakistan Daily www.daily.pk
Islam Not A Religion of Hate
|Islam Not A Religion of Hate
By Michael Boyajian
Many Americans today feel Islam is a religion of hate. This is due to 9-11, our war against the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and the Iraq war itself. Some Americans have become so frenzied in their false beliefs that they are against the building of mosques in their communities. This is sheer madness and in part due to the fear induced by opportunistic politicians.
Xenophobia: Human Nature or Character Flaw
|Xenophobia: Human Nature or Character Flaw
By Michael Boyajian
Matt Bai in a New York Times Op-Ed piece makes the claim that anti-immigrant fervor is not an American character flaw attributing it instead to human nature. Well, we Americans are supposed to stand above human nature so this xenophobia of late is indeed a character flaw in many but not all Americans.
The Gateway (Really Inconsequential Weekend Fish-Wrap Edition)
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I think that those accusing Bill DeBlasio of being weasely on the Young Men's Islamic Association proposed for the Holy Mother Coat Factory are just traveling on cruise control, accepting the received wisdom that DiBlasio would handle this issue like he handles everything else.
That's unfair.
Yes, normally, it would be offensive to assume that anyone (even our surprisingly outspoken Mayor) would object to investigating the source of the "Mosque's" money if there were an actual credible national security concern (and the investigation were conducted in the normal course of business by the FBI or the Department of Homeland Security rather than in public by the NYC Council Committee on Cultural Affairs, Libraries and International Intergroup Relations).
NOTE TO SENATOR JOHN SAMPSON: TROUBLE IS COMING DOWN THE TURNPIKE SOON.
|So we are all watching as Senator John Sampson goes through his OJT (On the Job Training) as the majority conference leader of the state senate. The title in itself is as redundant as a recurring decimal. It is only meant to appease another very flawed and obviously failed elected official named Malcolm Smith (Sampson’s predecessor). Smith is another of the many black leaders who have now become major embarrassments. Apparently black leaders don’t seem to mind when the mainstream media piles up on flawed, failed and corrupt Hispanic electeds; and I say this because my observation over 37 years has been that you will hardly ever see black electeds publicly coming to defend their Hispanic colleagues. And yet, as soon as a black elected is exposed for his/her indiscretions, extravagances, corruption and abuse, some fool will jump out from behind some supposed militant rock to proclaim it’s some kinda conspiracy against black electeds. It is so predictable it isn’t funny anymore; and it has nauseously played it self out ad-infinitum.
One Half of All Articles on Petition Challenges Say that New York Accounts for One Half of All Election Law Litigation
|MARY ALICE MILLER: [Senator Kevin] Parker was at the BOE challenging his opponent's petitions. (He didn't mention Wellington Sharpe by name.) During the conversation, Parker said this about the likelihood of petitions being challenged in Brooklyn: “The ballot process is one of the most corrupt processes. What you find in this country is that 50% of the ballot challenges happen in the state of New York. And 50% of those happen in the borough of Brooklyn.”
Let me be clear, I did not write this piece because I am out to get Senator Kevin Parker.