Terror Suspects Smuggle Partially Hydrogenated Oil into NYC, Bloomberg Craps Pants
June 5th, 2007 at 3:18 pm by Cranky‘Cause that stuff will kill you!
All that business about buildings, airplanes and bombs? Just GOP chatter released at critical times to get the attention off of the failed Iraq war.
While questions continue to arise about the alleged plot to blow up a fuel pipeline beneath JFK Airport and surrounding neighborhoods, some are questioning why New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg hasn’t had a louder voice since the plot was foiled on Saturday.
On Monday, Bloomberg finally weighed in, but his response was not what some would have expected.
“There are lots of threats to you in the world. There’s the threat of a heart attack for genetic reasons. You can’t sit there and worry about everything. Get a life,” he said.
Heart attacks? Not on my watch and not in my city.
“In terms of what you as individual on the streets should worry about is not whether the person sitting next to you on the subway is a terrorist. The likelihood of that is so small it is not something you should worry about,” Bloomberg said.
If, on the other hand, that sob sitting next to you is eating Oreos, please call our anonymous tip line right away.
June 5th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Can you imagine if this tool had been in charge of NYC during 9/11?
“Move along…nothing to see here!”
And all of those calls for us Americans to stay vigilant?
“Pay no attention to that Musleem in the subway with the large backpack shouting ‘Allahu Akhbar!’”
June 6th, 2007 at 9:24 am
Jack-Ass.
June 6th, 2007 at 10:54 am
I didn’t read the entire article but there’s some common sense in his comments about not worrying too much–especially since the plot was uncovered and, apparently, was a dumb approach that likely wouldn’t have worked anyway. Emphasizing the need to go about daily life is wise, it seems to me. Someone needs to tell the media to quit selling worry.
June 6th, 2007 at 11:37 am
Agreed Joules. If it weren’t for features like, “Hidden killers in your home? Eyewitness news examines how common spices like cumin and basil can devastate your family”, nobody would tune into the 11pm news.
At some point, we do need to say, screw it and live our lives. It just seem incongruent with Bloomberg’s nanny-statism that he wouldn’t be concerned with terrorism.
June 6th, 2007 at 11:38 am
Joules–but not about, partially hydrogenated oils?
June 6th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
“Hidden killers in your home? Eyewitness news examines how common spices like cumin and basil can devastate your family”,
Son of a bitch! Perhaps that’s what sent my blood pressure skyrocketing.
If my government would just forget about those pesky jihadists and protect me instead from the local grocer, I know I’d feel safer.