"I Felt A Great Disturbance In The Narrative"

Hundreds Turn Their Back on de Blasio at NYPD Officer's Funeral

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Dante's chokehold

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To tell you it's snowing like a banshee out there tonight. Ladies and gentlemen please, please, if you are indoors, stay indoors... driving is very hazardous tonight. We are now talking "10 to 14 inches for the five boroughs". Very hazardous. "We are expecting a greater volume of snow." The mayor said. "It will be very windy tonight". And "the combination of snow and blowing snow will make driving very very dangerous."

No Quickie Mart scratch-off Tonight 

 

If you are on the road, drive very carefully. We don't want anything bad to happen to you. Watch out for the plows. Visibility is below normal. Slow down. Use your blinkers. Start braking way before reaching the intersection. Turn the heat all the way up, if you are cold.

 

If you have anymore suggestions please share them with us in the comments.

The de Blassio Diaries: “People sort of looking at each other.”

"Two weeks after taking office, Mayor Bill de Blasio has yet to fill a long list of top administration positions, leading to frustrations and confusion in some corners about how long holdover staffers are supposed to stay on."

“We don’t have an acting commissioner at the moment,” said a Cultural Affairs spokesman when asked who was leading the agency, referring all other questions to the mayor’s office.

“There’s currently no acting commissioner,” said a spokeswoman for the media office, who said that day-to-day operations, such as issuing permits for TV and movie shoots, hadn’t been affected by the gaps.

One deputy commissioner said many commissioners have been told they won’t be asked to stay on but have been given little to no direction about how long they’ll be needed.

“I cannot tell you how scary it is now. Senior staff at a variety of agencies have no clue what is going on,” the deputy commissioner said.

The deputy also complained about a larger lack of communication between agencies and the new administration. “Emails are not being returned and there is already a strong sense of being rudderless,” said the source.

One now-departed Bloomberg-appointed commissioner also said he’d been surprised the incoming de Blasio administration hadn’t taken him and other agency staffers up on their offers of assistance during the transition before they left.

“It’s pretty surprising,” said the ex-commissioner, disappointed that Mr. de Blasio’s team had not sought his input. “I said, ‘I’ll do whatever I need to be helpful.’ I have all our divisions laid out, a big binder with everything … It’s really good. It’s colorful.”

I'm getting a sense my de Blassio tags are going to give my ObamaCare tags a good run for their money. Just saying.

“Who knew he was going to run for mayor?”

"After an Introduction by de Blasio, a Brooklyn Hospital Hired His Wife"

"Ms. Brier said that Mr. de Blasio had introduced her to his wife “at some social event” and that she learned from Ms. McCray that a job she had with Citigroup had not worked out and that she was looking for a new one. “He didn’t say, ‘Here’s my wife, hire her,’” Ms. Brier said. But she said that she was immediately impressed with Ms. McCray because, “she seemed so capable, so grounded,” because she had speech writing experience under former Mayor David N. Dinkins, and because the hospital needed more minorities in administrative-level positions."

“I’m the one who wanted to recruit her,” Ms. Brier said, adding that she likes to have women employees around her when possible. “I said, ‘Of course, I have no job for you. But I could probably invent one.’ I do that a lot.”

NY Times via Mikéy Ramoné ‏@ThePantau