More stupid government tricks.

Only 10 people can swim comfortably in a pool at a time.  Each 8-by-22 foot dumpster pool is surrounded by a wrap-around deck and has its own built-in water filtration system. Unfortunately, dumpster-diving is prohibited since the pools are only 3 to 4 ½ feet deep.

This cracks me up, what a waste. If living in the city is so great, the question is why does Mayor Bloomberg keep coming up with amazing ways to make it like the suburbs?

Aside from the irony of putting dumpster pools along Park Avenue — I mean do you really believe someone who can afford to live on Park Avenue is going to indulge in these things? — What does it say about the city? What’s next, garbage can bathtubs? You can dress it up anyway you want but the thought of putting people in a dumpster on Park Avenue in a piss poor attempt to make it a pool is the really laughable.

Yet it comes on the heels of Michael Bloomberg’s constant attempts to placate the populace. There are plenty of poor neighborhoods in the city, neighborhoods where programs and dollars can be spent much more effectively yet Bloomberg keeps trying to remake Manhattan into Xanadu. It’s part of a pattern by Bloomberg to cater to a liberal elite at the expense of the working poor.

Much in the same way Bloomberg tried to put tolls on the East River Bridges or charge premiums on cars entering Manhattan below 96th Street. At the same time the Mayor continues to ignore issues that plague other parts of the city because of his Manhattan centric focus.

Like the Times Square pedestrian malls:

According to the city’s own assessment—not shared with the public until after the announcement—the project had only a “mixed” impact on traffic flow. In fact, traffic jams persisted on many cross-town streets, and speeds actually slowed along Eighth and Ninth Avenues. And, the projected improvements in speed on Sixth and Seventh Avenues missed the mark by wide margins.

I don’t like Bloomberg, he gets a pass on a lot of things he should be called on. Case in point, Guiliani was labeled some kind of racist because of the police shootings that happened during his term as mayor but oddly enough Bloomberg skates. Think I’m full of it?

Here are just a few of the incidents during Bloomberg‘s watch:

An emotionally disturbed Iman Morales was standing ten feet off the ground on top of a building ledge, naked, and swinging a long fluorescent tube bulb at NYPD  officers. NYPD ESU commander Lt. Michael Pigott ordered ESU Officer Nicholas Marchesona to taser Morales. The immobilized Morales then fell head-first to the pavement below. Morales received major head trauma and died hours later.

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Timothy Stansbury, Jr. (November 16, 1984 - January 24, 2004) was an unarmed 19-year-old New York City man shot and killed by New York Police Department Officer Richard S. Neri Jr. on January 24, 2004. Officer Neri and a partner were patrolling the rooftop of a housing project in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn  at about 1 a.m. Officer Neri, with his gun drawn, approached a rooftop door to check the stairway inside. Neri testified to a Brooklyn grand jury that he fired his standard Glock 17 pistol unintentionally when he was startled as Stansbury pushed open the rooftop door. Stansbury, a resident of an adjoining building, died from one shot in the chest.

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Police had targeted the Manhattan storage facility while investigating a CD and DVD pirating operation. Zongo repaired art and musical instruments at the same location but was never linked to the pirating scheme. The shooter, officer Bryan Conroy, was disguised as a postal worker. He was guarding a bin of CDs when Zongo appeared to turn on a light. For some reason a chase ensued that ended when Zongo ran into a dead end. Conroy shot Zongo four times, twice in the back.

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The Sean Bell shooting incident took place in the New York City borough of Queens on November 25, 2006, in which 3 men were shot a total of fifty times by a team of both plainclothes and undercover NYPD officers, killing one of the men, Sean Bell, on the morning after his bachelor party, and severely wounding two of his friends.

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On October 15, 2008, Michael Mineo was allegedly smoking a marijuana joint outside the Prospect Park train station located in the Lefferts Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. When approached by police officers, Mineo ran into the train station, jumped the turnstile, but was caught and handcuffed near the token booth. According to the officers, they found no drugs on him, issued him a summons for disorderly conduct, and let him go. According to Mineo, after he was handcuffed and pinned down, Richard Kern pulled down his pants and shoved a police radio antenna into his anus.

How about this? THE GUY CHANGED THE TERM LIMITS LAW WITHOUT VOTER APPROVAL EVEN THOUGH THE MAJORITY OF NEW YORKERS WERE AGAINST IT!

After a spirited, emotional and at times raucous debate, the New York City Council voted, 29 to 22, on Thursday afternoon to extend term limits, allowing Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to seek re-election next year and undoing the result of two voter referendums that had imposed a limit of two four-year terms.

And to think after September 11th, Guiliani was painted as a dictator in a mad power grab for but imperial Bloomberg? Nothing.

Over the course of my lifetime, I have seen the disparity between Manhattan and the other boroughs widen with Manhattan becoming a place where only the rich can afford to live and the middle class or poor living there unable to move because they know to do so would mean abandoning neighborhoods they have lived in for years.

And the standard bearer of this change?

Michael Bloomberg, a man who wants to micromanage people’s lives down to the point where he legislates what people can and cannot eat:

First New York City required restaurants to cut out trans fat. Then it made restaurant chains post calorie counts on their menus. Now it wants to protect people from another health scourge: salt.

You know, these are the kinds of leaders that should instill fear in people, the kind who believe they know better than everyone else. These are the dictators of the future who bring an Orwellian society to your doorstep and if you would ascribe only the noblest of intentions to this man, bear in mind he has shown already to be a tyrant:

The billionaire politician is near the height of his popularity. And yet, on the eve of his run for a third term in New York’s top job, the company that bears his name is facing a class-action suit charging it with discrimination against pregnant workers—a disturbing pattern that dates back to when Bloomberg himself was still in charge.