[de Blasio] Living in a post-Bloomberg era

[garbon]

Unlike Obama,

That's hate, right there.

I meant I didn't claim otherwise on the hate piece.

[derspiess]

I don't know. Unlike Obama, at least de Blasio is sticking to some of the positions he espoused while campaigning.

ORLY?  A dead Bin Laden and the end of two wars isn't sticking to positions?  Hater.

Can't believe he brought up Gitmo the other night

[DontSayBanana]

Can't believe he brought up Gitmo the other night

I thought he tried to close it and got cock-blocked by Congress.

[garbon]

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/02/04/de-blasio-wont-march-in-st-patricks-day-parade/

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he won't be marching in the city's St. Patrick's Day parade.

De Blasio says he won't partake in the parade along Fifth Avenue because of organizers' refusal to allow participants to carry gay-pride signs.

"I will be participating in a number of other events to honor the Irish heritage of this city and the contributions of Irish Americans, but I simply disagree with the organizers of that parade in their exclusion of some individuals in this city," he said.

Former mayor Michael Bloomberg always marched. De Blasio also did not march while public advocate.

Its organizers say gay people are welcome to march, but they say signs celebrating being gay would detract from the parade's focus on honoring Irish heritage.

The mayor says he won't heed activists' call to ban city workers from marching while wearing their uniforms.

"I respect the right of our city workers to march in uniform, period," de Blasio said.

The parade is a tradition that predates the city itself. Organizers predict more than 1 million people will attend on March 17.

I've always thought it ridiculous that the St. Patrick's Day parade hides behind the figleaf that it is a religious event.

One Term, peeps, one term. This is a religious affair, and there is no way the Irish could allow this and be reverent Catholics. The Church says sodomy is evil, case closed. smokersodysseycom

[DGuller]

To be fair, rainbow doesn't go well with green.

[garbon]

I wonder what points the way to the pot of gold.

[Admiral Yi]

It's not a religious event, it's a cultural event. 

Marching in the parade with a gay pride sign would be just as inappropriate as marching with an anti-abortion sign, or a gun rights sign, or whatever.

[Valmy]

The Gay Pride people let me carry my 'Kiss Me I'm Irish' sign. 

[The Minsky Moment]

The parade is a tradition that predates the city itself.

Were there Irish Lenape or something?

[derspiess]

The parade is a tradition that predates the city itself.

Were there Irish Lenape or something?

I'm sure they're talking about the formation of the modern City of New York.

[Valmy]

They only thing they could be referring to is the creation of the consolidated New York in 1898 but I was not aware New York did not exist before then.  Or maybe they mean parades in Ireland or something.

[The Minsky Moment]

The first parade pre-dates the Revolution and hence the USA.  That is probably what they meant.  Obviously it doesn't predate the city itself.

[Valmy]

The first parade pre-dates the Revolution and hence the USA.  That is probably what they meant.  Obviously it doesn't predate the city itself.

Maybe the first one took place when it was called New Amsterdam thus predating New York.

[Ed Anger]

I don't care for this new guy. Even more so when he dropped that groundhog.

[garbon]

The first parade pre-dates the Revolution and hence the USA.  That is probably what they meant.  Obviously it doesn't predate the city itself.

Maybe the first one took place when it was called New Amsterdam thus predating New York.

Google suggests first was in 1762.