Selling My Books on the Streets of Brooklyn 9/12 - Around the Horn

It’s always a relief when 9/11 passes, especially when no new attack has occurred. A couple of weeks ago I heard a retired general predict there would be one. Hopefully, all such predictions will be wrong forever.

The Buffalo Bills have been saved by fracking, which is outlawed in the Empire State. The team’s new owner, Terry Pegula, made his fortune through the process. The franchise will remain in Buffalo. I wonder if leftists Bills fans will boycott.

Since January, the DeBlasio administration has shipped 1412 homeless persons out of NYC. Once it has been established the vagrants have relatives in another state willing to take them in, they are given a one-way bus, train or plane ticket. In his last year in office Mike Bloomberg got rid of 2208. Of course, those ensconced in the poverty industry are protesting, as the attrition may cost a few cushy jobs and the benefits that go with them. I’ve always wished the federal government would do the same with anyone who feels aggrieved in this country. I’d bet there’d  be very few takers.

According to an article in the NY Post, the average one-bedroom apartment in the once blighted now hot Bushwick section of Brooklyn is renting at an average of $2647. That’s just under $30,000 a year. Kudos to those who can afford it.

Why I hate the Yankees, Part 1001: In the off season the Mets signed outfielder Chris Young to a one-year contract in excess of seven million bucks. His numbers were dismal: eight HR’s in 254 at-bats. He was recently released. Picked up by the Bombers in a move laughed at by most, he is six for twelve with two homers, including a game-winning three-run knock in the bottom of the ninth of last night’s game. It keeps hope alive in the playoff race. Even if Young doesn't get another hit the remainder of the schedule, his acquisition would have been worth it.

My thanks to the kind folks who purchased books on this glorious day. 

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