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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (493667)6/30/2012 8:14:38 PM
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It's worse than a banana republic. It's an Ideocracy:
This Rangel election might not be about fraud. It might be the bureaucrats are just too stupid to do the job right.

Environmental Warrior' Mayor Bloomberg cools his SUV with a wall unit AC By James Nye

You couldn't make it up, but New York Mayor Bloomberg's latest contribution to a greener environment is to attach a full-sized room air conditioner unit to the side of his SUV.

The low-tech solution to Mr Bloomerg's famous dislike of the heat in fact causes less pollution than running the vehicle's own air-condtioning while its engine is idle.

And in full view of confused and amused tourists and passers-by, workers outside City Hall yesterday attached the familiar looking air-conditioning unit to a specially designed out-sized box on the passenger window of the New York Mayor's car.


High tech or low tech?: A technician fixes up Mayor Bloomberg's room-sized air-conditioning unit to the the side of his SUV


Mayor Bloomberg is known to hate leaving an air conditioned building and entering a hot car during the summer, but his environmental credentials take a hit every time his car is started and left to cool while it waits for his arrival.

Read more: dailymail.co.uk
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