While New York wastes time with deadly and useless chemicals to treat bedbugs (see previous post), New Haven in Connecticut has the solution. And excerpt from the New Haven Independent spells it out. Hopefully Bloomberg will get the hint or get impeached. I do not mind saying he is a stupid, incompetent jerk who is noted for having fondled his male interns. Don't like what I am saying then don't read my blog!

On Wednesday morning Housing Authority of New Haven (HANH) officials scheduled a pre-bid conference for contractors who would like to provide it with the Temp-Air-40kw Mobile Heat Treatment System and training in order to elminate bed bugs throughout city projects.

This equipment has already completely eliminated bed bugs at the Tower One and Tower Two senior developments, according to HANH Chief Operating Officer Renee Dobos,

“It’s a quick kill,” said Lee Purvis, the HANH staffer in charge of the project.

HANH officials said they haven’t experienced a spike or invasion of bed bugs. They want to get ahead of any new problem that might develop.

HANH did a pilot on eight apartments already. It worked, officials said. Each thermal radiation machine costs about $50,000; the HANH hopes to buy two.

Within six to nine months, Dobos said, all affected apartments in the system should be cleaned.

From the Vigilant to the Waldorf

Yesterday in the Post there was an article about bedbugs in the Waldorf...

which is where POTUS stays in NY. Is he the next victim?

Hizzoner here in NY was quizzed about bedbugs on David Letterman and could only

make joke about it...

Bloomberg ought to go to the Vigilant Hotel and see where the infestation is and stop making jokes. Getting these guys to do their jobs is getting to be a full time job.

While they fiddle, Rome burns...and so do the guests in its hotels, whether they be the Vigilant or the Waldorf.

The former is still in violation of Judge Kaplan's orders of 10 June...they do not yet cover their garbage cans. But to the city officials here, it is all a joke.

Update on the Vigilant and its guests

Today I woke up with tons of the buggers. With the drop ceilings, they just pour into the rooms no matter what one does to them. The hotel management painted the floor last week, as if that was the answer to the problem. They also took bedstands out of empty rooms (there is only about a 45% occupancy rate) and painted the stands and the rooms. The paint job was so bad I grabbed one of the young men involved and asked him pointedly if he was ever in the service. He replied that his dad was and his dad was in some special unit. I had no patience at this point; I cut him off and told him the question was about him; then I towed him over to one of the bestands, where mats of hair and dirt could be seen under a thin layer of spray paint, and told him that in the US Navy if he ever did such a lousy paint job the boatswain mates would throw him to the sharks. He then started blaming his coworkers and blubbering. He needed to grow up, so I told him where to find the army recruiter. Not that they would want him. Neither the army nor the marines are looking for a few stupid men.
Sometimes I can be mean, as many journalists can attest. It started with a hapless teacher I had at PS 64, who sent me home with a note to my mother to complain about my attitude. The next day, the note was signed and in the teacher's hands. She looked it over and demanded to know why it was scribbled over. I had to tell her my mother had me correct her spelling. And I've been correcting the spelling of the hapless ever since, whether they by journalists, mayors, or weak young men who can't hold a paintbrush.
And of course building managers and owners who can't get good help.
And then of course I have the same proclivities towards local politicians who are out-of-touch with reality - and that might or might not be Christine Quinn, who has not responded to two emails and whose phone does not pick up; or Mike Bloomberg, who leaves NY every Friday morning to play in the Bahamas. Or any number of other employees who take our hard earned and play games while we have to host these bugs.
So maybe I will be giving Quinn and Bloomberg the number of army recruiting; but I don't think they would want them any more than the hapless blubberer.