Saturday, November 29, 2008
Saturday, October 11, 2008
NY Teachers Brainwashing Kids with their Socialist Views?
Why do I get the feeling that if a teacher wore a McCain/Palin button, she would be abused by the liberal faculty.
Look up the video of the Support for John McCain parade that was in Manhattan. The vile communist scum are livid that anyone dare support McCain in the streets of NYC.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Study finds new earthquake dangers for NYC
Ummmmmm, a Russian or Chinese SCALAR ATTACK ....MAYBE ????
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — An analysis of recent earthquake activity around New York City has found that many small faults that were believed to be inactive could contribute to a major, disastrous earthquake.
The study also finds that a line of seismic activity comes within two miles of the Indian Point nuclear power plant, about 25 miles north of New York City. Another fault line near the plant was already known, so the findings suggest Indian Point is at an intersection of faults.
The study's authors, who work at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Observatory, acknowledge that the biggest earthquakes — in the 6 or 7 magnitude range — are rare in the New York City region. They say a quake of magnitude 7 probably comes about every 3,400 years.
But they note that no one knows when the last one hit, and because of the population density and the concentration of buildings and financial assets, many lives and hundreds of billions of dollars are at risk.
The metropolitan area does not have a single great fault like the San Andreas fault in California, said Leonardo Seeber, co-author of the study.
"Instead of having a single major fault or a few major faults, we tend to have a lot of very minor and sort of subtle faults," he said. "It's a family of faults, and that can contribute to the severity of an earthquake."
John Ebel, director of seismology at Boston College's Weston Observatory, said he agreed with the study's finding that small faults can contribute to large earthquakes. "A quake can jump from one fault to another," he said.
The study, published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, analyzed 383 known earthquakes over the past 330 years in or near New York City. The biggest were three that reached magnitude 5 in 1737, 1783 and 1884.
Data on earthquakes since the early 1970s, when Lamont deployed dozens of new detectors, enabled the authors to see patterns from smaller quakes, including the magnitude 4.1 quake that was centered on Ardsley, in Westchester County, in 1985.
The report inferred from the data that there is a seismic zone, previously undetected, running west from the southwest tip of Connecticut and intersecting with the large, well-known Ramapo fault near Indian Point.
Lynn Sykes, the lead author, said the finding means the danger of a big quake near the nuclear plants is greater that had been thought.
Sykes acknowledged in an interview with The Associated Press that he is opposed to an application from Entergy Nuclear, which owns the nuclear plant, to extend the licenses of the two reactors, but he said, "I try to keep that as independent from my work as possible."
Columbia spokesman Kevin Krajick said the study had been provided before publication to state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who argued unsuccessfully earlier this year that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission should consider the new earthquake data as it decides whether to extend the licenses.
Ebel said the report's suggestion of a fault line was "a purely circumstantial, speculative argument, but while it's speculative it's within the scientific bounds of reason." He praised the study and urged other scientists to build on it.
Jim Steets, a spokesman for Entergy, said the plant was designed to withstand a seismic event. He said that even if the frequency and intensity of earthquakes is greater than was believed when the plant was built, it wouldn't drastically change the outlook for plant safety.
He said the plant "may very well be among the safest places to go during a seismic event."
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iBE86sE6EbvPGyiqjYjdDtu50ioAD92NT7BO0
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
NYC Pays Anti-War Group $2 Million Dollars
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Transgender Juveniles Allowed to Wear Bras in Jail
ALBANY - A state policy to stock up on bras and panties for transgendered males in juvenile jails drew outrage Wednesday.
Republicans, religious groups and some Democrats blasted the state's decision.
"Where will we stop?" asked Assembly GOP Minority Leader James Tedisco. "Do they need lipstick and eyeliner?"
"It takes troubled kids and makes them more confused than they already are," Motley said.
The Office of Children and Family Services, which oversees 30 juvenile jails, quietly extended its anti-discrimination policy to include transgendered people.
The policy allows boys who believe they are girls to wear bras and panties, wear makeup, shave body parts and even request a transfer to a girl's facility.
"Nothing is wrong anymore," said Sen. Ruben Diaz Jr., a minister and Bronx Democrat. "We have no more morals, no more traditional values."
Assemblyman Michael Benjamin said the policy could prove to be "disruptive" inside the facilities.
"I understand the need for the staff to be tolerant and respectful of those who are gay or transgendered because it sends a signal to the young people there, but I draw the line at clothing," Benjamin said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/06/18/2008-06-18_pols_clerics_rip_state_for_giving_juveni.html
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Dog Electrocuted on New York City Street
A woman is mourning after her dog was killed by a stray jolt of electricity from a light pole in Queens.
Celia Sing says she was taking her 7-year-old Siberian husky, Sebastian, for a walk on Sunday near her apartment in Long Island City when he stopped at the pole.
Sing says her dog fell to the ground and began shaking uncontrollably before dying right in front of her eyes.
Because of the holiday weekend, Sing said she was unable to get answers from the Department of Transportation.
http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/wednesday/news/ny-nydog285704581may28,0,4559753.story
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=6166298