jenny alison

randyhaddock:

This is the new Che Guevara sculpture installed in Central Park.

This is bloody horrible, I tell you, horrible.  I’ve always been confused by the far left’s fascination/ignorance with this mass murderer communist.  It’s like they have no interest in studying who he really was, what he really did, and how he really did it.

This would never ever fly in Miami, where I lived the last 6 years of my life.  Go mention the name ‘Che’ to an old-timer Cuban that lived through the Cuban revolution and get back to me.  I doubt you’ll want to praise him anymore.  He murdered thousands of innocent people in the name of ‘change’ and ‘revolution’.

He is a damn embarrassment in our Latin American history and I could think of a dozen honorable men and women who deserve a sculpture much more than El Che.

Cobble Hill: full of “yoga-glow moms pushing expensive baby strollers” and “wine bars, stylish boutiques and gift shops.” That’s part of the round-up of the nabe, courtesy of AMNY, which finds similarities between Cobble Hill and its Park Slope, Carroll Gardens and Boerum Hill neighbors. So what’s different about it? “Cobble Hill is smaller and more intimate, especially east of Court Street where the noise and fuss gives way to peaceful little streets, gardens with wrought-iron fences and pre-Civil War era townhouses,” they write. They report a happy mix: old-school Italians residents; the Middle Easterners along Atlantic; an infusion of young hipster types, all peacefully coexisting in this pocket of the world. “Sure, there are hipsters, but it’s not Williamsburg,” said one resident. “And too many strollers but it’s not Park Slope, either.”