March/April BPCNA NEWSLETTER

Buckingham Pond/Crestwood Neighborhood News March/April 2008

J P Sullivan 438 5230

BPCNA Neighborhood bounds: (N) Western Av (S) NYS TW (E) S Manning (W) Rte 85

NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH. All residents are watch members. Be alert. Observe and

report suspicious individuals/activities to APD 458-5660 and/or Anti-Terror Hotline at

1-866 SAFENYS (723 3697). Hard times are here and we can anticipate more crime,

particularly home break ins during the daytime hours and robberies at night. Schools,

synagogues, hospitals, gasoline stations, roads, bridges and utility lines are potential

terrorist targets. Terrorists and their domestic allies are lying in wait.

EMERGENCY/DISASTER PREPAREDNESS is the resposibility of every individual and

household. Don't look for government to save us. Local schools, churches, synagogues

have failed to prepare to serve as refuges. We are on our own! See your neighborhood

website for further information. http://bpcnanews.blogspot.com/

CITY PROPERTY TAX ASSESSMENT. Our homes are worth less, but our city and school

property taxes continue to increase every year. Be sure that you have filed for veterans,

senior and STAR exemptions. May 1, property tax rolls are open for inspection, and you

may challenge your assessments during that month. Contact the Albany City Assessors

office, City Hall 434 5155 for further details.

PLANT A TREE in your front yard, or curbside, this Spring. The City has a tree planting

program: call 434 7480. The Albany County Soil and Water Conservation District has

tree transplants/seedlings, shrubs and flowering plants for sale. You must order by

March 19. Call: 765 7923. Trees add to your property values, provide visual beauty,

shade and combat growing air pollution from increased vehicle traffic on local streets.

THE 2008 ELECTIONS are crucial to our personal survival and that of ournation. We are

in a stealth world war. The jihadists are sworn to destroy us. They are already among us

and have plenty of potential allies from among the tens of millions of illegal aliens and

native-born malcontents. Failure to secure our national borders has put us in grave danger.

The principal role of the next President, is that of Commander In Chief. National security

is the primier issue. All others pale in significance. This is no time for party politics as usual.

The next President and Vice-President must have military experience. Ideally, the same

holds true for the next Member of Congress to represent us in the 21st District. We are in

a war for our very survival. This is no time for on the job training or pandering to the

myopic views, and agendas, of the assorted special interest groups and media.

Voters have the ultimate challenge of casting informed votes for the best candidates to

lead our federal and state governments in these dark days. Gender, race, and party are

irrelevant. Choose carefully. Our individual and collective survival hangs in the balance!

For more, go to: http://journals.aol.com/lonerangeralbany/lonerangeralbany/

YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION WORKS WHEN YOU DO. GET ACTIVE! Serve as

a block Captain, on a committee, or work on special assignments. Call 438 5230.

Pass the word.                                                                                                           Joe Sullivan

END ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

AMIGOS

The solution to tens of millions of illegal aliens in our midst, is for  federal and state governments to adopt the following policies:

No employment, social services, educational benefits, drivers licenses or voter registration without proof of U S citizenship.

Illegals will stop coming, and most already here will return to their country of origin, PRONTO.

Securing our borders, and resolving the problem of tens of millions of illegals ,within those borders, is as essential to our national security, as is combating terrorists in foreign lands.

AMNESTY NO.

JUAN MCCAIN ....COMPRENDE?

                                                                                       J P Sullivan

 

NEIGHBORHOOD: SPRING INTO ACTION

NEIGHBORHOOD: SPRING INTO ACTION

Change is coming, no thanks to any politician or candidate. It is wise to be ready.

ROAD SALT -  Tons of salt have been dumped on us this winter. On a clear, dry day, with a bit of wind, take a deep breath of air. It will burn your nasal passages and lungs. Excessive amounts of road salt are a health problem, that is yet to be recognized. It kills street trees, causes deterioration of roads, bridges, and building exteriors. See earlier postings on this site for more details.

Call City Hall and your elected Assembly and State Senate Members. Tell them to take action to reduce excessive salt dumping on local streets and highways: and to promote less damaging alternatives. Lastly, drivers should slow down and adapt their driving to road and weather conditions.

NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH    Remember, every resident is a watch member. Keep a close eye on your block. and be watchful as you travel through the neighborhood and city.  Report any suspicious activities to the APD  462 8049/ 458 5660.

TERRORISM  is an ongoing real threat. Be alert, anticipate, observe and report any possible terrorist activities to the APD and to the NYS Anti-Terror Hotline:  1-866 SAFE NYS (723 3697).

No terror targets in our neighborhood? Think again! Churches, synagogues, schools, hospitals, roads, bridges, water, sewer, natural gas and electric lines.

EMERGENCY/DISASTER PREPAREDNESS.   You and your loved ones are on their own. It is your responsibility to be come informed, to anticipate what might go wrong, and be ready to survive whatever occurs. Do not look to your neighborhood schools, churches or synagogues for refuge. Despite numerous pleas, they are not ready. Nor are local and state governments going to be able to save you.  Plenty of resources are listed in prior postings on this site. You can begin with:  www.ready.gov . For a checklist of emergency supplies you should have on hand, go to: www.security.state.ny.us/BeReady/emergency_supplies.htm

BUCKINGHAM POND PARK   We need a comprehensive park plan for the coming months. Right now, brush and vines should be cleared away to allow young trees to surivive and mature. More plantings are needed. Consult earlier entries for details of what needs to be done.

LAWN CHEMICALS AND PESTICIDES.  Many local homeowner have a chemical addiction. Careless, excessive applications of fertilizers and lawn chemicals pose a health problem for adults, children and pets; and are contributing to he death of Buckingham Pond.  Find out how to wean yourselves off lawn chemicals. Contact Cornell Coop Extension, Albany County at 765 3500.

PLANT A TREE this Spring on your front lawn, to increase your property values, provide shade, visual beauty and to combat growing air pollution.  Call the City of Albany  434 CITY or Cooperative Extension 765 3500.

CAMPAIGN 2008 will have many twists and turns in the long road to November. Anything can and will happen. There are no sure things any more since 9-11.  If we are devestated with coordinated, multiple terrors attacks, the elections would be cancelled and martial law put into place.  Change you can trust has come. Politics as usual can not prepare us for what we face. There are no sure things in politics or life.

To paraphrase the New Hampshire license plate: "live free or die"; our license plates should bear the inscription: "Be ready or die".

 

                                                               J P Sullivan

see also  http://bpcnanews.blogspot.com

A NATIONAL HEALTH CARE PLAN

A NATIONAL HEALTH CARE PLAN

* Maintain U S military, naval, air presence in  Iraq, Afghanistan . Necessary to keep Iran from taking control of Mid East oil fields.

Bringing troops home now would create a vacuum for Iran to take over Mid East oil fields. Oil would become many more times expensive, scarce or unavailable to Americans. Our economy and way of life would crash.

*Increase the size and capabilities of our army, navy, marines, airforce and coast guard, so that we may deter China, Russia and others who pose real threats to our security and survival.

* Immediately secure U S borders and ports.

* Aggressively deal with the problem of tens of millions of Illegal Aliens present in America and Canada. Track down foreign terrorist cells and their allies among the Illegal Aliens and native born malcontents. Deport them without delay.

* Provide that to obtain work, medical care, educational benefits, social services, driver's licenses and vote, one must furnish proof of U S  birth/citizenship. Those who can not do so, will voluntarily return to their countries of origin, in short order.

* Institute universal military training for all young Americans, male and female. Service limited to initial boot camp training , 6 months active duty, followed by  on call service on the Home Front, guarding infrastructure, including bridges, tunnels, utility grids, power plants, chemical plants, rail lines, highways., as well as back up for local police, in an aggressive effort to create safe streets and schools.

* Promote Emergency/Disaster Preparedness by individuals, households, schools, religious and other institutions, local and state governments. Recognize that individual responsibility and action is essential to surviving emergencies and disasters, natural and man-made.

* Reform the current welfare/social services/educational systems which encourage and reward dependency, dysfunctional behaviors and place an increasing tax burden on the rest of society.

These are but a few ofthe steps necessary to assure the life, liberty and continued well being of all Americans.

Act now. Time is short.

                                                                    J P Sullivan

 

 

STECK SHOULD WITHDRAW

A resolution opposing the war in Iraq and calling for an immediate withdrawl of U.S. troops is on the Albany County Legislature meeting agenda for 6 pm today.

The resolution is co- sponsored by county legislators Steck and Bullock, and perhaps others. 

Democrat Steck is an announced candidate seeking the 21st Congressional District seat of retiring Congressman Mike McNulty.

Steck and Bullock have it all wrong. They should be sponsoring a resolution calling on Osama Bin Laden, and other Jihadists, to end their War on Terror against the Western World; and to withdraw their terror cells from the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Austrailia, New Zealand and elsewhere in the world.

Steck should withdraw his candidacy for the 21st Congressional District. We need a conservative Democrat to represent the 21st District, not one who would aid and abet those who seek to destroy us.

Albany County Legislators should  vote this resolution down, in a slow roll call vote, letting voters know where each stands on this matter.

The resolution is out of order because it exceeds the purview of the county legislature, and more importantly, the resolution is an affront to those who have given their lives, those whose lives are on the line now, and their families.

                                                                                         J P Sullivan

 

 

HOUSEHOLD EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS

READY NEW YORK A Household Prepareness Guide

NYC   very useful

http://www.nypdshield.org/public/SiteFiles/documents/readyny_english.pdf

                                                                               J P Sullivan

THE CANDIDATE WHO WOULD BE COMMANDER IN CHIEF

THE CANDIDATE WHO WOULD BE COMMANDER IN CHIEF

America is at war..a war with no end in sight. The principal role of the next U S President will be that of Commander In Chief.

It follows that the next President ought to have some military experience, but there is much more required:

* being physically , psychologically and tempermentally fit

* sound judgment     * trustworthiness  

 * being forthright/honest.

The Presidential Campaign should take a summer break. Those seeking he job should spend 6 weeks with the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, followed by 2 weeks on the U S Southern border.

The candidates should report to the American people in September, telling us their plans with regard to Iraq, Afghanistan and the larger global terror war; and what, precisely, they will do to secure our borders and ports and how they will, specifically, deal with the tens of millions of illegal immigrants now in country.

Those seeking the Vice -Presidency should do the same.

All the other issues, including: the economy, health care, energy, etc,, pale in significance to prosecuting the global war on terror, while keeping the homeland secure and safe.

The home land is not secure and safe until our borders and ports are secure and the question of what to do with the tens of millions of illegal immigrants is addressed without further delay. No doubt, many of those illegals are members of terror cells intent on striking fatal blows in our homeland. Many more illegals, as well as native born, urban malcontents, gang bangers, and other anti-social actors, are the natural allies and foot soldiers of the foreign terrorists who seek our destruction.

Campaign 2008 is not politics as usual. Our very survival is at stake. The next President of the United States may well be our last.

Take a good long, hard look at the narrowed field of contenders. How does each measure up to the challenge at hand? Who can you believe? Trust? Who has the leadership ability to lead and inspire America? Who has the physical stamina and psycholgical stabilty? Who would you trust with your life, and the lives of those you love? Who would you trust to have the nuclear button in hand?

Are there other Americans, not currently in the field of candidates, who are better equipped to be President in these perilous times?

Voters, you ultimately have the say in selecting a President and Vice President, as well as Members of Congress, who are best qualified to protect, our lives, the lives of our loved ones, all Americans, and to protect our home land.

Nothing else, being talked about in the current campaign will matter if we make the wrong choices , now, and in November.

 

                                                                          J P Sullivan