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Another round of fierce storms expected Monday night
I was at the REM concert at Jones Beach on Saturday night and for those of you who were there and put up umbrellas as we evacuated........Y OU'RE IDIOTS!!!! I was the guy yelling at y'all that it's "Better to be wet then dead." in case you were wonderring. (Jun 16, 2008 | post #1)
LI soldier's jeep stolen on Memorial Day weekend
How many levels does this stink on? Let me count the ways: 1) That a soldier about to be deployed got of all things his Jeep stolen 2) That Newsday sucks rocks so baddly for NOT including a decent description or at least one good picture of the truck when they put something like this on the front page for heaven's sake! Lt. Jason Brandle should feel VERY insulted about being used in such a shallow attempt to sell papers, and by the fact that he was slighted with this half arsed public service attempt by Newsday. Nice to take a licture of Lt. Brandle, but what about a nice side by side of him in uniform and a shot of the Jeep or one like it? Clearly this is yet another example of Newsday or the editorial staff giving in to sensationalize what they can and make a poorly written and constructed story into something to sell papers with no thought about how one sentence with a description could have made this a public service piece as well. I also own a Jeep and as a fellow Jeep owner I can tell you that knowing things like the color, if it has a lift kit, large wheels, custom wheel cover, etc could make it very easy to spot the vehicle on the road or off. (May 27, 2008 | post #37)
Black pastors speak out on Wright's statements
Nice, he now is involved in politics as a preacher, and this can't just be about him it MUST be not only about the comments HE passed, but also about race AND an attack not only on the Church, but the BLACK Church. lovely, just lovely. And why can he not take responsibility for his actions and words and why can this not be about him and the focus he opted to draw to him and his Church and Pulpit only? The only race card I see in this is that he happens to be black and the only religion card I see is the one he draws by preaching political rhetoric from the pulpit. (May 1, 2008 | post #16)
LIRR preps for strike that might shut Penn Station
I dare say that I do understand the need for a contract and to be operating without one for 8 years is egregious indeed, but the fact remains that if these folks strike it will be murderous for more then just us 85,000 commuters a day. The indirect financial ramifications are staggering. Consider how many millions of dollers will be lost per day not only to those who wont be able to get in to their jobs in a timely fashion, but those who can still get here who will then be effected by those who can not or who will be delayed. Then we also have the lost revenues the day trippers bring to the City, such as the people moaning (I really have little sympathy for a person gripping that they will miss a broadway show over people who, like myself, depend on getting in to work.) I hate the fact that AmTrack, one of the least profitable quasi-private, Government subsidized corporations in America can hold the short hairs of other public service corporations and simply screw so many over so royally. If they strike, and I sort of hope they do, I would love to see Congress get off its collective **** and fire the whole lot of the them, their management, and start it anew. Let them do what Regan did with the Air Traffic Controllers. Yes I'm pissed to think about the nightmare I am my fellow 85,000 commuters will have to deal with if this happens. I am also laughing bitterly to hear the LIRR's plans that include stations like Hunter's Point and Woodside, because if the Engineers sympathetically stop at Jamaica then all bets like those are off, and frankly I would go with them stopping the trains in Jamaica. (Jan 11, 2008 | post #37)
At least one person shot at Nebraska mall
Wow, who would have thought that a depressed man, a white man no less, who is NOT a follower of Islam would have done something this horrid?! (Yes, my tongue is FIRMLY planted in my cheek.) The idea that arming our citizens would have helped? Kind of silly depending on the shooter's position and cover, as well as his accuracy and speed. Hindsight is a funny thing, in that everything is so clear and the answers are so evident when it is used. The sad thing is that hindsight often has no relationship to fixing events after they happen because while they can address the specifics of the situations they often wont see them repeated int he same ways ever again. Along the lines of hindsight, how does one protect a mall like that with open access to everyone? Metal detectors? Screening? Imagine needing to alot an extra 30 minutes to shopping to get through security? Imagine needing reservations to go to the mall? My sorrow not only for the families of the people lost, but also for all that survived in proximity to these horrid events. (Dec 6, 2007 | post #76)
Trump angered by Jones Beach project permits
Sorry Mr. Trump, but you are the constructing entity, therefore YOU are the one that needs the permit, even if you are building on State rented or leased lands. As to the hearing in Westchester, what the heck is with that?! What a load of malarky. The project is in Nassau county, why hold it anywhere other then the county it is being done in? I suppose we're luck it is not being held in Buffalo or Rochester for that matter. (Dec 5, 2007 | post #7)
Editorial: Tunnel under LI Sound is intriguing
This would simply be AMAZING! I can imagine a day when I will be able to get to Ct and parts upstate with a savings of at least 45 minutes to an hour. If the toll is the same as any other tolls it will be well worth it because what is the difference if I pay the toll in NYC or LI? I think this is a GREAT idea and one that will have a tremendous regional benefit given how it would, not could, but WOULD lighten the traffic load that is using things like the Cross Bronx Express way (The "Express way" part being a not so subtle joke on all who set a tire on it.) and other road ways to LI. It would also have a possible effect of lowering the cost of doing business in the guise of lower gas and diesel costs for truck transported goods. My only question is if they will be smart enought to build it big enough. As to the fears or terrorism, given how those fears have yet to manifest would they be any worse for a new crossing as an old one? It is silly to speculate on those fears given that you can not predict them and if you fear it that much you should stay in your house out of fear of any bad thing happening to you. Bring in the tunnel I say. It's a great idea and one who's time has long come. (Nov 25, 2007 | post #36)
Central Park Jogger: Oprah offended me -
She needs to re-examine her offense and look to see if she is perhaps now coming to terms with the fact that while she is blameless, and it should not have happened that she was STUPID for running the Park at night. If I as a male did it and I was mugged or worse I would say the same thing. Oprah was not asking the question as a form of judgement, she asked it because she was interviewing her on her show; This was a question that people wanted to hear her answer because it was what many of us were asking. Granted that it is true that she did not deserve it, but even today you are taking a huge risk running almost any part of the Park at night. (Nov 15, 2007 | post #21)
The oil companies have been riding roughshod on the economy since Bush got into office, and sure they are getting record high profits, and what do we get? The barrel up the back side, but at this point what we can do is make damned sure that we kick the Republicans out of office wholesale and invest hard in true energy reforms and alternative energy uses and sources (Oct 17, 2007 | post #52)
Rider demands quiet, earns LIRR rap sheet -
While I understand his frustration and certainly feel for him, I can not and will not condone the fact that he assaulted these people. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING allows you to assault another human being without serious provocation. I am sorry, but as bad and annoying as talking loudly is, that is still not grounds for the kind of assault this man wrongfully committed. The LIRR shares some of the blame, and while they can not and should not be held leaglly liable for the actions of this man they should wake up because now that something like this has occurred they can not sit on their posteriors with a digit up their **** orifices claiming that they did not know or could not forsee a more serious assault. (Oct 15, 2007 | post #219)
Rider demands quiet, earns LIRR rap sheet -
The LIRR has got to get off their collective backsides and do more if they want to make this a better ride. Their passivity in the courtesy campaign is going to get people hurt or killed. Saddly, I think that another Colin Fergusen is in the making here and the LIRR is to blame with direct and tangeable cuplability in the mix. Riders are told to be courteous to others, to take them into consideration, and yet the authority, the LIRR itself DOES NOTHING! I see Conductors and Assistant Conductors walk past people who are talking loudly to others or on their cell phones, putting luggage on seats on crowded trains and they do nothing at all. The agents of the LIRR blatently ignore these people who are violating their request for peace and quiet and courtesy. I have seen what happens when agents of the LIRR are asked to interve and the response is "What do you want me to do?" The reply is to ask the person talking loudly to speak quietly or to take the cellphone to the vestibules as the "rules request" but the agents will then state that they do not want to get involved or that they will go to another senior agent to get their help. The latter means you will never see that agent again till Penn. On the other hand I have seen daily riders get thrown off and hastled for any number of things by the crew, like forgotten tickets when they know the riders and may have seen them with their monthly the day before (No, it has not happened to me, but I have paid for daily tickets for riders I know when I saw the hastle starting, and got a hastle for interfearing from the agent.) What the LIRR has to do is enforce the standars they are trying to set. They can no longer let these things be passive requests. They have to be done as rules with consequences, such as "No excessive noise" with a clear definition that an agent can follow, and an action such as removal from the train with reporting to law enforcement agents at the next station. I am not saying to make the agents law enforcement, but the LIRR can not expect passangers to self police. Human nature is such that the only way self policing happens is when you have people who are nastier, or can appear to be bigger and stronger then all the others making the noise. I am 6-2 and almost 200 lbs with a piercing stare and I balk at saying something to the little old ladies on the way back from the City who are yapping and cackling for any number of reasons, not the least of which being that I have a social issue about telling grandma to shut it. I ask you all, will the RR step in before another Colin Fergusen does? Who has to die before yet another hairbrained social engineering scheme of the RR comes to an end? (Oct 15, 2007 | post #34)
Suzyn Waldman defends her on-air sobs -
Wahhhhhh, wahhhh, wahhhhhhhhh! Now she is belly achin cause she is being ripped for belly achin? Suzyn, you are a public figure in a masculinized endevour, a certain level of decorum is expected from the professionals who are in that profession, and you clearly missed the mark. Suck it up, don't blame it on being a femal, don't blame it on being a cancer survivor, you were not professional and you got hung for it. GROW UP AND DO BETTER NEXT TIME!! (Oct 11, 2007 | post #32)
Poison gumballs the next terror tactic? -
Any publicity you can get as a politician to make yourelf look good is good publicity? Nice move, now what else can we make the public afraid of in the interest of making a name in the papers? (Oct 11, 2007 | post #3)
Private schools laud high court special ed ruling -
You are very confused as to your legal and educational facts. You are equating an issue of special education with racism and it is simply not at all the same. Special edication, as it applies in this instance is by merit of legal and public necessity seperate, and will never be the same, on par or equal to any education as it has to be tailored and crafted to the individual in many instances. Some special education can actually be better then the mainline education, but you might as well then use this rational to abolish honors and AP classes as being inherently seperated and unequal too for that matter. (Oct 11, 2007 | post #12)
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