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Sunday, September 29. 2013

News from NYC


Upper Manhattan Residents Say Skunks Are Stinking Up Neighborhood


Skunks are cute, adaptable little critters (weasel family), but their only real predator is the Great Horned Owl. My family never had a dog who didn't get skunked once, or a dog who never got slapped by a Porkie. The hard but non-fatal lessons of life.


As a country bumpkin from Minnesota, I wanted to be a tough New Yorker, but people told me I was just "too nice"


Shall We Call Bill de Blasio a Socialist?


Bill de Blasio and the Jews of New York


A movie to see if you haven't: Margin Call. It's on Netflix. It's a New York movie.

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects, Our Essays at 11:17 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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What happened to the Insults thread???? There were some good ones in there I needed to catalogue... (always good to have a snippy retort to an over-educated\under-achieving drone...)
#1 fred zeppelin on 2013-09-29 13:31 (Reply)
Bill de Blasio is a known 'Socialist'. No question about it.
#2 Charles Curran on 2013-09-30 08:08 (Reply)
http://www.jammiewf.com/2013/bill-de-blasio-i-was-very-proud-to-be-involved-with-soviet-backed-sandinistas-in-nicaragua/ To wit.
#3 Charles Curran on 2013-09-30 08:13 (Reply)

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