I like this Bill DeBlasio guy. Because of quotes like this.

[Playinghardball]

Steve Marmel @Marmel

I like this @BilldeBlasio guy. Because of quotes like this.

5:09 AM - 4 Feb 2014

Found on the Obama Diary

[Mass]

1. I listened to him on John Stewart and I was happy of what I heard

Very happy.

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. Me too.

So far.... so good.

(Sounds a little out of place on something called the "Obama Diary". But....... live and learn, I guess.)

[progressoid]

3. He's pissing off the right people.

Or, I should say, "people on the right". So that's a good thing.

[Submariner]

4. And Stewart taught him how to eat a pizza pie properly so he's an okay guy now

Imagine having an Italian last name and eating pizza with a knife and fork, a la Trump. How embarrassing was that?

[EC]

5. I noticed he doesn't say that there

will be no more stop and searches, just that they'll comply with the courts decission. That wasn't to stop them, but to do them legally. So we'll see how that will work out.

[Electric Monk]

7. Stop-and-frisk comes to an end as Mayor Bill de Blasio agrees...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2549090/Stop-frisk-comes-end-Mayor-Bill-Blasio-agrees-court-monitor-oversee-new-NYPD-reforms.html

(snip)

De Blasio will no longer fight the suit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and empower a court-appointed monitor to oversee the department's reform of stop-and-frisk over three years.

De Blasio called it a 'defining moment in our history,' saying it would 'lay the foundation for not only keeping us the safest big city in America, but making us safer still.'

(snip)

'Today is the beginning of a long-overdue process: the reform of the NYPD to end illegal and racially discriminatory policing,' said Vincent Warren, CCR's executive director. 'For too long, communities of color have felt under siege by the police, and young Black and Latino men have disproportionately been the target.'

Bloomberg and his longtime police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, had steadfastly defended stop-and-frisk as an essential tool that had helped lower crime rates citywide. But De Blasio made his opposition to stop-and-frisk a central part of his campaign for City Hall and vowed to change the strategy when he installed his own commissioner, Bill Bratton.

more at link

[EC]

10. I know all this.

There is no where in the court fight that said to stop the stop and frisk...the court said to make it legal by not racially profiling...it did not say to stop, stop and frisk completely. So I still wonder how he is going to handle this. He never says he is stopping it completely. He just says he will comply with the court and the court did not say it had to be stopped, just that it had to comply with the law. It's just weasel words.

[fierywoman]

6. eating pizza

FYI in Italy, you eat pizza with a knife and a fork -- you NEVER pick it up, that would be considered almost savage. It's an American thing to pick up pizza and eat it that way.

[JDPriestly]

8. If I reall correctly, the pizza in Italy is different from our pizza.

A true Italian pizza have a thin crust made with flour, yeast (natural) (*) and water. Nothing else.

An American pizza have a thick crust, you can possibly also find oil or other fat inside.

The topping on an Italian pizza is very light compared to an American one: the most popular in Italy is "pizza margherita", which just have meshed tomatoes, mozzarella and basil; a spoon of extra virgin olive oil after cooking. Between 300 and 350 calories, typically. Obviously other recipes include different or more toppings (mushrooms, olives, etc) but no way close to a the most typical "pepperoni pizza" eaten in the US, up to 1000 calories, greasy and fat, impossible to find in Italy (the closer is called "pizza alla diavola", because of the spicy salami).

Note that "peperoni" in Italian actually means "bell pepper", it's not a kind of salami.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110526091042AAUJz3s

As I recall, years ago when we went to Italy and ordered pizza, there was no way we could pick it up and eat it with our fingers. But American pizza is good when eaten with your fingers.

[Chaco Dundee]

9. exactly

Mashed potatoes and gravy are probably good if eaten with your fingers.

[BlueEye]

11. I suppose Italian Pizza =/= New York Pizza.

And de Blasio isn't the mayor or Italy, is he?

In all seriousness, I love the guy. I wish we had many more Democrats like him.

[Plucketeer]

12. My thoughts too

I give a rodent's rump HOW or even IF this mayor eats pizza. It's how he feels about the welfare of those who cook the stuff.

[flamingdem]

13. Thanks! Great quote

Great mayor!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. He kind of reminds me of Obama - not truly a guy you

can identify with - but one you look at with awe.

[liberal_at_heart]

15. K&R