Who Created The Would-Be Puppy Killer?

We sit back like they taught us. We keep quiet like they taught us. But we are all there. And we are all guilty:

Dog lovers across the borough remain on high alert after a creepy Craigslist post threatened to poison pooches with deadly dog treats.

“Too many dogs!” read the post, which has since been taken down by the Web site. “Too many pissing and s–ting everywhere. Kill them! Cull the herd! I am leaving poison in bits of meat and gravy dog food. Poison the dogs!!”

Bloomberg Is Beatable . . .

But apparently national Democrats have no backbone:

A Democrat is struggling to unseat the mayor of the nation’s largest city, but the national party and its top Democratic leaders have been silent.

The Democratic National Committee has said nothing about William Thompson Jr.’s uphill battle to unseat the popular billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

By this point in the last mayoral race in 2005, the DNC had dispatched its then-leader, Howard Dean, to campaign with Bloomberg’s Democratic challenger, Fernando Ferrer.

Well-known Democrats like John Kerry, John Edwards and Tom Daschle had also crossed state lines to help Ferrer.

That and Obama is being a big pussy, too. What did Bloomberg give these people?

Traffic Agents Thrown Under The Bus (Not Literally!)

Note that they wouldn’t need to sit down with merchants and “retrain” their agents if City Hall wasn’t trying to balance the budget on dubious double-parking tickets:

“New instructions have been given to our traffic agents. The way we issue summonses will be different and we ask our agents to be patient,” said Frank Sepulveda, the NYPD’s director of traffic enforcement for the city. “By the end of this month all our agents should have the new training. We will look at how we can handle difficult summons situations differently.”

. . .

On problems, businessman Dan Texeira led the complaint barrage. “I stopped my car to let off my son. Just then a traffic agent cut off in front of my car and gave me a ticket.

“That wasn’t right,” said Sepulveda.

Who Said Investigative Journalism Was Dead?

The Post does the heavy lifting, getting inside of the Standard Hotel and uncovering the horrible truth about the Standard’s viral campaign:

“We don’t discourage it. In actual fact, we encourage it,” a friendly bellhop told a pair of reporters as they checked in yesterday at The Standard, where randy guests cavort with abandon to the dismay — or delight — of parkgoers below.

After the hotel opened late last year, the bellhop said, naked and semidressed staff members were encouraged to pose in front of the windows. The point, he said, was to create a buzz with the unexpected peep show.

“One of the managers even got naked in a room, and filmed it — they were considering a live feed for the Web site,” the staffer said. “She’s an exhibitionist, too.”

Because of course nothing delights a parkgoer more than catching a middle-aged European tourist jacking off in the window . . . so edgy!

Location Scout: High Line.

How DC37 Fucked Over Just About Everyone

So not only did DC37 get a generous raise in the midst of a recession — then ungratefully backed Bloomberg’s main competition, making the bribe — er, quid pro quo — effectively moot (and then “forcing” both the Mayor’s office and City Council to give their staffs similar raises) but now the transit workers want the same type of raise. This when the MTA is squawking about bad finances. Everyone — everyone — is to blame here:

Transit workers appear poised to win a generous contract with healthy 4% annual raises and lower health care contributions that could blow a huge hole in the MTA’s finances, sources tell the Daily News.

Despite recent fare hikes and the punishing recession, transit union officials argued that they deserve a 12% hike over three years, partly because city employees have received similar increases.

A three-man arbitration panel is expected to announce the terms of the new contract for bus and subway workers as early as Monday or Tuesday. The expected annual raises of about 4%, 4% and 3.5% would increase Metropolitan Transportation Authority costs by more than $400 million.

Again, think about all this when you see the next fifty or sixty Bloomberg commercials about how he is “independent” and makes the “tough choices” or whatever, because basically any one of the candidates currently running for mayor can suck up to the unions — we didn’t need to get rid of term limits for that.