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Opposing Bloomberg isn't anti-Semitic. It's the right thing to do. Anti-Semitism is real. Barnicle's assessment is not. Barnicle, like a good "Racer," uses the claim of anti-Semitism to shut down conversation, preventing others from opposing Bloomberg's control agenda. Bloomberg is wrong, and his nanny-esque ways has ended the reign of New York as the greatest city in the world. The Nanny likes control, and he's trying to gain more of it every way he can. It's not anti-Semitic to point it out. It's common sense.

From this Jewish perspective, I would agree completely that painting liberty-loving critics of Bloomberg as "antisemitic" is nothing but typical infantile lefty name-calling.

But I'd quibble with with the presumption of New York as "the greatest city in the world" before Bloomberg assumed the mayoralty. After all, the taxes and crime and traffic, among other things, were outrageous decades prior to that, causing New York to lose a good chunk of its middle class population.

I would even contest that he IS Jewish. Was his mother Jewish? I do not equate opposition of Bloombutt with anti-semitism, and everyone here knows I'd call anti-semitism in a heartbeat if I truly thought it was in play. Bloombutt has a serious mental disorder. He has megalomania. To him, he IS G-d, he doesn't worship G-d.

He has turned my life and those of thousands of city employees into sheer hell. I can now fully sympathize with innocent Chinese or Russian citizens who have had their liberties capriciously taken away from them, their "rug pulled out from under them" without a second thought. You never think it can happen to you, a U.S. citizen, but Bloombutt has done just that to us, turning education into edu-biz. His zillionaire buddies are now raking in millions of dollars from edu-biz enterprises while NYC schools suffer and fail, robbed of resources or deliberately set up to fail. I know right now of a very small high school, consisting of a single hallway, where Bloombutt edu-minions want to take FOUR of their classrooms over to co-locate a middle school. Ridiculous! And this is commonly done now to set up schools to fail.

You are no longer in charge of your class; the students have been empowered, just as the Nazi youth were similarly empowered, indeed encouraged, to submit utterly false charges against you if you fail them. They don't study for exams (and proudly tell you so), they don't turn in homework or projects, but will tell you to your face, "You betta pass me bitch or I gonna get you fired." Passing statistics and the acts of fraud to get them, from students who refuse to do any work or even come to class, are the new religion in schools. As is informing on your fellow teachers. It used to be a rarity for a teacher to inform on a colleague. People would be mature and work out any conflicts between themselves by themselves. With the influx of very young, extremely self-absorbed new teachers (after forcing out the veterans by whatever means available), you don't see the comradery or solidarity which has been in place for generations and which has resulted in a very productive sharing of ideas and information. You see "everyone for themselves", especially if it leads to a pat on the head by administration, translating into better classes or plum assignments.

No wonder 82% of these kids are NOT college-ready. Not in a million years, thanks to Bloombutt policies over the last 12 years.

To accuse those who intensely dislike Nanny B. as anti-semites are the last vestiges of scoundrels.

It was Guiliani who saved our city. When Bloomberg took over, the homeless were back all over the place menacing mid-town population. When Guiliani was mayor, he was constantly called "Mussolini" and other anti-Italian-American slurs. Morons like Barnicle had nothing to say about that.