I noticed a grey comment about Dinkins being a bad mayor in comparison to Rudy here last night, and while I’m glad the comment is gone I still feel the need to respond to the ill informed (probable troll) person.
The crime rate in NYC had dropped dramatically in Dinkins last 2 years, he modernized the police force and…

And let’s not forget who helps to pay for R&D, WE DO!

EVERYTHING causes cancer :(
But they’ll have to pry my bacon from my cold dead hands...

I do understand the reasons for the disparity, but it should still make us pause. The enormous difference in police vs. civilian deaths makes those outliers matter that much more. Especially because they are accompanied by the usual…

Police safety is important, but it’s something that is already being taken care of.
In 2015 there were only 41 officers killed in the line of duty in the US, in 2016 there were only 64... all the while there were 963 Civilians killed by police in 2016...

Right before they open fire.

I mean, they could have thought the can was a weapon... /s

Yet they did not have the lead issue until a conservative city manager and governor decided to switch the water source.

But let’s not pretend she would have gotten in trouble for it...

Metric? We don’t use the metric system, that’s for losers
;)

You forgot to mention Yankee parades, they always have those ;)

This was at columbus circle, there are a bunch of schools in that area, but most of them are High Schools. 
For the guy who keeps using a dying person in the example, there are a bunch of hospitals in the area. One a couple of blocks downtown from the tower, across from John Jay University. One a couple of blocks…

There’s 3 hospitals within walking distance of that protest...

Should have made him hide in the trunk first...

Out of pocket maximums were capped in the ACA, so not sky rocketing. As opposed to before the ACA where there was no cap, and determined by your specific insurance

They were going up a larger percentage annually prior to the ACA if that’s what you are trying to refer to...

Even sprains... For my last sprained ankle the hospital wanted to charge me $2000, for just xrays and an air cast.

I sprained an ankle, and was charged $1900 for the x-rays and an air cast...
I fractured my tibia and was charged $2900 for almost the same thing (x-rays and an air cast, with 1 dose of tramadol)... It’s insane...

This sounds about right...
I was called into my six year olds school because she was in an altercation.
I get into the meeting, ask my daughter what happened, and she stated that a boy was pushing her. I asked her if she told the teacher, she said she did, so I looked at the teacher and asked if she said something, the…

While I feel that the contact with the Russian ambassador is inappropriate in its entirety, all he had to do is say that as a senator he has dealings with international ambassadors all the time and that he was contacted in his capacity as a senator... end of story... I think this is going to get much worse, I think…

They run on a platform saying that Gov’t doesn’t work, then they get in and make sure that it doesn’t work...