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I think that doesn't apply only to poor people though, but I entirely agree.

Having said, in the UK, cheap junk food is very cheap, while nice, fresh vegetables, organic products, and quality food is very expensive. So the poor have to make a huge effort to eat properly, which can't be right. And since humans tend to take the eay, and most-advertised, option, they tend to eat shIt.

Vicious cycle.

I would quite enjoy seeing a Barack Obama Vs John McCain Presidential election. Both seem ok enough to me.

It was more of banning strip clubs or **** shops within 200 yards or so of schools or churchs. Of course them schools and churchs are just about everywhere in an urban area like this, so it limited **** shops and strip clubs to about 15% of the city. It was overturned on appeal, and appealed by the city to a higher court, and then settled out of court by mayor bloomy for an limit on hours of operation to 7 PM - 4 AM. So the strippers have their afternoons free now.

The biggest thing Guilinai did was enforce a zero tolerance policy on minor crimes. The way the system works is not like on TV, the cops do not go investigate crimes and then start running around the city looking for the guys, they just issue an arrest warrant and go on to the next case, only special cases are investigated like on TV. The warrant squad would then get the case and they would often have a backlog of tens of thousands of indiviuals they wanted. There was a recent country wide roundup of outstanding poeple with arrest warrants just to highlight that.

Guiliani theorized that with the tens of thousands of criminals running around the city commiting often many repeat crimes, we could clean up the city by arresting them all. He theorized that if police cracked down on minor crimes, the law abiding citizens would be annoyed by it, but the criminals would not be able to tow the line and get caught by police and therefore alot of outstanding warrant criminals would be caught. So everything from loitering in the park, littering, jaywalking etc was enforced by police to the annoyance of many in the city at first, but a dramatic drop in crime followed as such a large percentage of the outstanding major warrant criminals were caught doing these minor crimes. Some people still remember the annoyance of having the minor crimes enforced after decades of being ignored and call Guiliani a facist here locally, but that won't carry over outside the city, especially since it was so effective in catching the major felons.



Edited, Nov 15th 2006 at 8:43am PST by fhrugby

I saw this at the beginning of a Pacino movie the other night; a few dozen small-time hoods were given invites to meet the Yankees and ended up in an auditorium full of warrant officers.

Now, not that I know much about Rudy's background, I think he did a great job of helping clean up the Big Apple. But as Smash pointed out, his prior dealings with and against organized crime bears closer scrutiny.


As long as it's not an advanced case of Alzheimer's, I'm not too worried.

id vote for him

I'd buy him a beer.. I'd vote for him as well.

I think he can count out the vote of Evangelicals when they find he is pro abortion. Second cousin really is no big deal, in fact in NY there is an exception to the law against marrying your first cousin if you are Italian.

Also there's this.

Talk about ready made campaign ad footage.

Great, well next time we need a completely off-the wall uninformed spokesperson, we'll call you.

Nexa

So, the ghetto bunnies collecting welfare and driving around in Cadillacs while sporting the latest FUBU, Rocca Wear and the like need that money to eat, eh? Sorry, roo. I'm not buying it.

Right, me either. Also, the kids who default on their college loans mean we should eliminate those programs entirely. If you want to go to college just work harder and save $100,000 so you can. While we're here, Judges take bribes, so let's just go ahead and eliminate the entire Judical system. Clearly it's corrupt and therefore serves no purpose, so that's gone. Wait, though, there's fraud in every federal and state legislative body too, so let's get rid of those entirely also. People find ways around any law, so it's not like we actually need any. That will save us a lot of tax dollars that would have been spent on Police. We clearly don't need them what with no laws to enforce.

Seeing my point yet, Corky?

Didn't think so.

Care to make a point? At this point you're being obtuse and rhetorical.


Then you should open your eyes, you f'ucking moron. That or stop assuming that if you haven't seen it it doesn't exist. I speak from a place of learned understanding and experience. Throw in a dash of conservatism and I'm a well rounded individual with the good of the country in mind.

Care to make a point? At this point you're being obtuse and rhetorical.

The point was that you'd miss the point. Read it again, actually read it for the first time. Might as well be that you get a good laugh about how predictible you are, too.