The Urban Grind

She’s now whining about how “America took my kids away from me.”

MAKHACHKALA, Russia (CBS/AP) — The mother of the two Boston bombing suspects told reporters that “America took my kids away from me” and wished she had never left Russia.

I wish you’d never left Russia either.

“Why did I even go there?” Zubeidat Tsarnaeva said, crying, after CBS News correspondent Charlie D’Agata asked if she regretted the move.

Why did our government let this trash in to begin with? Remember, this is a family that mooched off of American taxpayers. This woman also shoplifted over $1,600 worth of clothing from Lord & Taylor

The mother told reporters at that same press conference that she would be “happy” to give up her U.S. citizenship, and that she was “thinking about it.”

The Tsarnaev family emigrated to the U.S. a decade ago, but both parents returned to Russia last year.

Speaking of giving up U.S. citizenship, I think it’s about time we make it legal to strip the citizenship of (at least) naturalized individuals who commit heinous terrorist crimes.

Under the current New York City zoning laws, all apartments must be at least 400 square feet. However, Mayor Bloomberg is now proposing that micro apartments measuring at about 300 square feet be built for singles.

Mayor Bloomberg launched a contest Monday to stir development of teeny-tiny apartments — called micro units — for young singles willing to cram themselves into shoebox-sized digs.
The new closetlike flats will be just 275 to 300 square feet — larger than a jail cell but smaller than a mobile home — and will have special permission to ignore city rules requiring newly built apartments to exceed 400 square feet.

“The city’s demographics have changed,” Bloomberg said. “It used to be the average household was a family, a couple of adults and some children.”
That meant that the city was filled with larger dwellings, leaving just 1 million studios and one bedrooms — not nearly enough for the 1.8 million one-and two-person households.
At a news conference Monday, the mayor announced a contest seeking a developer for about 80 micro units at a city-owned parking lot on E. 27th St. in Kips Bay.
The ministudios will be just big enough for a bathroom, kitchen and sleeping and dining areas — but Bloomberg said tenants shouldn’t plan on doing much entertaining.

When I first read this, I wondered to myself if the rents for these units would at least be lower than those of regular studios. It would only be logical since you’re getting so much less space, right?

WRONG!!!!

This is Manhattan after all, where your location and zip code are pretty much all that matters when it comes to real estate.

These micro apartments will rent for $2,000 a month!

The craziest thing about these 300-square-foot apartments (which are about the size of half a subway car) is that they will cost around $2,000 a month to rent.

What’s even crazier is that some New Yorkers are already paying money to live in even smaller spaces. I wrote about one such woman a while back, who lives in a 90 square foot studio on the Upper West Side.

In more recent news, you have this young married couple, who live in a 240 square foot studio in chi chi Brooklyn Heights. For this tiny space, they pay $1,500 a month. This one commenter really nails it:

The communist indoctrination continues…

You don’t need, and shouldn’t want, the luxury of enjoying the fruits of your labor. You should be content with the novelty and sacrifice of not even being able to stand up in your bedroom. And believing that this self imposed punishment serves some greater good. Turning off all human impulse, fulfillment and your instinctive desire to have space to roam, makes you better than everyone else. Just ask these people who seem so self righteous about their choice to live in a prison cell at a premium price. I didn’t even need to be told that they were East Coast Public School products, but it confirmed a lot for me.

I also think it’s about the image. For some people, it looks better to say you live in Brooklyn Heights or the Upper West Side, rather than Rego Park in Queens. It’s also why some people spend their weekends sleeping in garages in the Hamptons, just to say they’re part of that Summer share scene.

As a final example, get a load of this very stupid woman who had her heart set on buying an apartment on 118th Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan. For all you non-New Yorkers, that would be central Harlem, pretty much the yuckiest neighborhood in Manhattan.

I thought $200 for a haircut was expensive. But then again, I haven’t been living in Manhattan for the last three years. Celebrity hairstylist Ted Gibson of What Not To Wear fame is charging customers $950 a head.

Gibson, a celebrity hairstylist who appears weekly on TLC makeover show What Not to Wear, says he aims to someday charge $1,500 – not because his costs are going up, but because demand for the kind of experience he offers hasn’t let up. While he isn’t exactly sure when he’ll raise prices, he’s confident he’ll still have customers when he does.
Gibson has pulled off this sort of thing before. Two years ago, he more than doubled his rate from $450 to $950 – and people still came, weak economy and all.

Gibson says demand is strong and shows no signs of waning. There are currently 10 people on the wait list for his $950 haircut in New York and 25 in Ft. Lauderdale. The wait time ranges from one month to eight weeks.

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A surprising portion of customers lined up for his pricey cuts aren’t the rich and famous. (Gibson says he generally services celebrities outside of his salon and thus charges his day rate, which is higher than $950.) Some of his customers come because they’re fans of his work on What Not to Wear, and the majority of his $950 haircut customers are actually “mid-income” women seeking the same luxury experience Gibson provides clients for events like the Golden Globes and the Oscars, he says.

“I’m bringing that same kind of access to the Upper East Side woman. The woman from NJ. The woman whose husband wants to give her a gift for the holidays,” he says.

I think these women are crazy. What do you guys think?

What lovely people these Occupy protests attract (snort!).

The wannabe bomber is one Nkrumah Tinsley. Here’s what he had to say.

“In a few days they’re going to see what a Molotov cocktail can do to Macy’s,” Tinsley also allegedly vowed, according to a video posted on YouTube.
“They got guns! We got bottles!”

Tinsley was arrested around 5 p.m. at Zuccotti Park.

As he was hauled away, Tinsley repeatedly shouted profanities, including “F–k you guys!” at least 10 times.
About 10 of his fellow demonstrators followed him and started jeering at the officers.

“You do not serve and protect us anymore,” said Kanaska Carter,26. “They’re slowing trying to deteriorate the movement, but it’s not going to happen,” she said referring to the NYPD.

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Tinsley was charged with making a terroristic threat. Cops tonight were executing a search warrant at a Bronx home on University Avenue.

It’s not his first run-in with cops since the OWS protests began.

He was arrested on Oct. 26 for allegedly punching a cop who was trying to issue him a summons for disorderly conduct during a protest.
He was charged with assault.

What is the connection between Occupy Wall Street and Islamic terrorism?

First off, groups like CAIR have come out in support of OWS. Aside from that, there’s Fenton Communications, which handles the public relations for OWS, as well as the Soros-funded Tides Foundation.

The communications firm tied to the Occupy Wall Street movement recently spearheaded a major campaign to end Israel’s naval blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
Islamic groups that are strong supporters of the so-called Free Gaza Movement recently joined in the Occupy Wall Street Movement, with the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations even leading Friday prayers at the protest headquarters last week.

Scores of radical groups backing the anti-Wall Street movement also helped to spearhead activism in support of the Gaza Strip, including several attempts to send aid flotillas to the coastal territory’s Hamas rulers.

WND broke the story last week that Fenton Communications helped represent the anti-Wall Street march past millionaires’ homes in New York City two weeks ago. Fenton works closely with the Tides Center, a George Soros-funded group that donates to thousands of liberal and far-left groups.

Another grantee of Tides is the Adbusters magazine, which is reported to have come up with the Occupy Wall Street idea after Arab Spring protests toppled governments in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia.

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Fenton Communications reportedly developed a communications action plan for an 18-month campaign, known as the Al Fakhoora Project, aimed at delegitimizing Israel’s naval blockade while garnering support for the Hamas-led government and the people of the Gaza strip.

Newsmax last year reported Fenton signed contracts worth more than $390,000 with Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned, the wife of Qatar’s ruler, as well as a separate foundation she chairs.
The contacts were for “developing and managing” the campaign website, “including regularly advising and updating the site with new content,” according to the contract documents reviewed by Newsmax.
Al Fakhoora claims it is working to secure “freedom” for Gazan students to “pursue a quality education without the danger of conflict or the torment of occupation.”
The main goal of the Fenton-represented Al Fakhoora is to end Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza.

Israel maintains the blockade to ensure Hamas cannot rearm itself. The Islamic group has been caught at sea many times attempting to bring weapons into Gaza.
Fenton, meanwhile, is tied to Occupy Wall Street. The movement’s march past millionaires’ homes was first announced in a press release titled “Community Groups and Progressive Organizations Join Together to Plan ‘Millionaires March’ with Occupy Wall Street Protestors.”

The release detailed how a group calling itself 99 New York was joining the Occupy Wall Street movement as a partner. The 99 organization is purportedly a coalition of unions and community organizations, such as UnitedNY, Strong Economy for All Coalition, N.Y. Communities for Change, and the Working Families Party.
It was the 99 New York group, which claims to represent the will of 99 percent of the U.S. population, that led to the Occupy Wall Street march on New York streets.

Blogger Zombie has put together a list which I’ve copied here.

This video should tell you everything you need to know about Occupy Wall Street, and all the other Occupy protests. (Sorry, but I couldn’t find the embed code.)

In response to this video being aired across the blogosphere, what does OccupyDayon do? You would think they might disavow such statements. But no. They issued a press release threatening to sue for libel.

Now that the Occuturds have been kicked out of Zuccotti Park, they’ll be at Foley Square, conveniently across the street from SEIU headquarters. They plan on making more mischief tomorrow.

New York City
BREAKFAST: Shut Down Wall Street – 7:00 a.m.

Enough of this economy that exploits and divides us. It’s time we put an end to Wall Street’s reign of terror and begin building an economy that works for all. We will gather in Liberty Square at 7:00 a.m., before the ring of the Trading Floor Bell, to prepare to confront Wall Street with the stories of people on the frontlines of economic injustice. There, before the Stock Exchange, we will exchange stories rather than stocks.

LUNCH: Occupy The Subways – 3:00 p.m.

We will start by Occupying Our Blocks! Then throughout the five boroughs, we will gather at 16 central subway hubs and take our own stories to the trains, using the “People’s Mic”.

Bronx
Fordham Rd
3rd Ave, 138th Street
163rd and Southern Blvd
161st and River – Yankee Stadium
Brooklyn
Broadway Junction
Borough Hall
301 Grove Street
St Jose Patron Church,185 Suydam St, Bushwick
Queens
Jackson Heights/Roosevelt Ave.
Jamaica Center/Parsons/Archer
92-10 Roosevelt Avenue, Jackson Heights
Manhattan
125th St. A,B,C,D
Union Sq. (Mass student strike)
23rd St and 8th Ave
Staten Island
St. George, Staten Island Ferry Terminal
479 Port Richmond Avenue, Port Richmond

DINNER: Take The Square – 5:00 p.m.

At 5 pm, tens of thousands of people will gather at Foley Square (just across from City Hall) in solidarity with laborers demanding jobs to rebuild this country’s infrastructure and economy. A gospel choir and a marching band will also be performing.

Afterwards we will march to our bridges. Let’s make it as musical a march as possible – bring your songs, your voice, your spirit! Our “Musical” on the bridge will culminate in a festival of light as we mark the two-month anniversary of the #occupy movement, and our commitment to shining light into our broken economic and political system.

Resist austerity. Rebuild the economy. Reclaim our democracy.

All I can say is that it’s about time these Occuterd hoodlums got the boot. For over a month, this group of human scum, in New York and elsewhere has been treated with kid gloves by the news media and the political establishment. I think it only goes to show the character of the people involved and all they represent when you read news about rapes, drug overdoses, and cases of tuberculosis. And let’s not forget this lovely specimen of humanity who saw fit to defecate on a police car.

Still, I could go on and on. I’ve been following the news as much as possible with my busy work schedule, and I just didn’t even know where to start.

Anyway, they’re finally being thrown out of Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan.

What does it tell you about these so-called protesters when the police have to don riot gear to clear the park?

Do you all remember Bob Turner, who won the seat one held by disgraced former Congressman Andrew Weiner?

Apparently, one (of the many) smelly Occupy Wall Street hoodlums couldn’t take the fact that Bob Turner, a conservative Republican very fairly replaced Anthony Weiner. So never mind that our system worked exactly the way it was supposed to, Occuterd Adam Weissman decided to heckle Mr. Turner, and was then dragged out of the room.

Meet New York’s newest hero.

Kevin Hiltunen, a former NYPD officer, yesterday grabbed an Occupy Wall Street demonstrator by the collar and dragged him out of a Queens school where he’d been heckling US Rep. Bob Turner at the congressman’s swearing-in ceremony.

“I guess you could say I sorted him out,” said Hiltunen, 48, his jacket and tie barely mussed after dragging the scruffy protester out on his rear end.
“All I was doing was trying to stop this historic occasion from being disrupt-ed. There is a time and place to exercise your First Amendment rights,’’ said Hiltunen, of Bergen Beach, Brooklyn, who was identified by people at the ceremony as an ex-Marine.

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Afterward, Turner blasted the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators and praised Hiltunen.
“Protesters are on the wrong track. Socialism has been tried again and again, and it doesn’t work,” said Turner. “He picked the wrong guy to pee off.”

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Weissman, meanwhile, was unapologetic for disrupting the ceremony. After getting the boot, he was distributing OWS fliers on Metropolitan Avenue.
“Before I got grabbed by those people, I wanted to say that Bob Turner has only been in office for two months and he has already sold out his supporters,” said Weissman, adding that he twisted his ankle in the melee but otherwise was “OK.”

“How can you support a man who is a backer of free backdoor trading with China?” he asked.