Do Bills really need this new stadium?
Who is demanding a new stadium? The owners? Let them build it. The fans? I doubt it. The players? Most won’t even be on the team when it’s finished. Is it falling apart? Dangerous?
This past season I attended a game in Buffalo. Two games at MetLife stadium (built in 2010) and a soccer game last month at Gillette Stadium. As a fan, the experience was the same at all three. No excessive waiting in lines; vendors, restrooms, beer tasted the same. There was a live band in Buffalo when we went through the gate. It was great.
Anybody who thinks prices won’t go up if a new stadium is built is fooling themselves.
Besides construction jobs temporarily created, what kind of employment opportunities are we talking about? There are only eight or nine days a year for games that are four hours long. I work more hours in a week than that. Throw in a few concerts — not a lot of artists can fill a stadium that large.
If the funding goes through from New York state taxpayers, it’s another slap in the face to St. Clare’s pensioners.
Just saying, at no time during my time there did I think to myself, boy, this place needs to be torn down and replaced.
James Calkins
Ballston Spa
Biden should set example on climate
Joe Biden wants to end our use of fossil fuels. Maybe Joe should lead by example and ride his bicycle back and forth to Delaware every weekend.
Don’t forget your mask and helmet, Joe.
George Brougham
Schenectady
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History is repeating itself in Ukraine
This 2022 Russo-Ukraine War is shades of the Russo-Polish War of 1919-1920. After Versailles, Molotov, top commie Stalin’s inner circle referred to Poland as “the bastard of Versailles.”
To a fascist, a nation they cannot control is a bastard.
Ras-Putin says the Russians are fighting Nazis in Ukraine. Ras-Putin hires the Wagner Group, a bunch of mercenaries. The group’s name comes from Wagner the composer, Hitler’s favorite composer.
The leader of the Wagner Group has his body tattooed with Nazi symbols. Ras-Putin acts like a Nazi, hires people who idolize Hitler, then accuses Ukrainians of being Nazis.
Poland ‘saved’ Europe in 1919-20 from a Red wave called, “Miracle On The Vistula.” Ukraine needs a miracle. History is repeating itself. “Deja vu all over again” as Yogi Berra said.
There is no excuse for the Ukrainian people being slaughtered.
If Ukraine, a sovereign nation, can be taken over, none of us are safe. The UN is worthless.
Edmond Day
Rotterdam
Plenty of money, but none for St. Clare’s
As I read the articles below, I wonder — our St. Clare’s pensioners are suffering from the loss of monies owed to them. The amount of money needed to help fulfill the pensioners loss is a drop in the bucket compared to the billions of dollars discussed in these articles.
According to the New York Times in an article by Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Grace Ashford on Jan. 19 “Surprise in $216 Billion Budget Plan: New York Is Awash in Money”) Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled a record-setting new budget plan, as state officials project balanced budgets through 2027, with none of the typical warnings of billion-dollar shortfalls. See https://www.nytimes.com › nyregion
Also, in the Feb. 8, 2019, New York Times (“The Church with the $6 billion portfolio”), the church has always been land-rich.
And it has long had its own real estate arm, which controls ground leases and office space rentals in the buildings it owns.
But now, it finds itself with a newly diversified portfolio worth $6 billion, according to the current rector.
Let us pray that there will be enough healthcare workers in the future to take care of our politicians and the Catholic community.
Cynthia O’Bryan
Esperance
The writer is a St. Clare’s pensioner.
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Liberal media stuck on radical issues
I was hoping to see some improvement in your newspaper’s fairness. I guess I’ll just have to wait some more.
For some reason, you seem to love The Saint Louis Post-Dispatch and The Daily News, even though they are notorious for their biased editorials. However, those two can’t hold a candle to the absolute worst offender in the nation, the Los Angeles Times. I don’t think they’ve ever been fair and balanced. All of their opinion writers are woke radicals who stray far from the mainstream.
Most of their editorials are in three main areas: Jan. 6, skin color and global warming. Also, everything is tied to Trump; he’s a disrupter who disturbs the elites’ status quo, and that can’t be tolerated.
There’s not a peep out of them in the areas that Americans care about the most: record high gas prices, high inflation, open borders and violent crime. Obviously, it’s not politically expedient for them to write about such issues, since they were created and/or exacerbated by the Biden administration.
Actually, the Democrat radicals are rooting for high gas prices and open borders. The higher that gas prices go, the cheaper the so-called green-energy sector will appear.
Democrats have to perform a high wire act, however. If prices rise too high, too quickly, then they risk alienating their base. Open borders, far from being a crisis, are celebrated for providing cheap labor and new voters. Fortunately, voters are increasingly fed up with Biden, so things might change.
Kenneth Truman
Albany
Hot fusion reactors costly, not needed
Hot fusion is not needed for 4 billion years. Until then, we will have hydroelectric power, geothermal energy, solar and wind with free fuel and green energy and nuclear fission reactors with cheap fuel and also green energy.
From the glitzy ITER website:
Fusion, the nuclear reaction that powers the sun and the stars is a source of safe, non-carbon emitting and limitless energy.
Harnessing fusion’s power is the goal of ITER, which has been designed as the key experimental step between today’s research machines and tomorrow’s fusion power plants.
One million components, 10 million parts (translation: high maintenance costs RM) the ITER Tokomak will be the largest and most powerful fusion device in the world.
Designed to produce 500 MW of input heating (a power amplification of 10), it will take its place in history as the first fusion device to produce net energy.
The U.S. fusion research budget for the current fiscal year is over $600 million. The ITER fusion experiment, which will soak up a large fraction of world’s radioactive tritium, will yield a volume of radioactive waste that has been estimated at roughly 30,000 tons.
Tritium, the fuel of hot fusion reactors, is the most dangerous isotope in the universe. Enough tritium went missing in 1989 to build a bomb. Search under New York Times 1989 Department Of Energy Missing tritium.
The only thing worse than spending $65 billion on hot fusion reactors and not building them is building them.
Richard Moody
Albany
Paul Tonko is not representing us well
The middle class is being ravaged by inflation. What is Democratic Congressman Paul Tonko doing about it?
The middle class is being drained by high fuel and energy costs. What is Paul Tonko saying about it?
Law and order are being decimated across the land. Where does Paul Tonko stand on these issues?
I think the last thing I heard from my representative was him proposing huge windmill farms in upstate New York. How does this help me get to work and buy groceries? How does this help my family and me now?
Our country, our state and the middle class seem to be sliding into a dark abyss, and the people of NYCD-20 have no representation.
The United States is the representative constitutional republic. Paul Tonko was elected to represent NYCD-20.
Where is Paul Tonko?
Jeff Moore
Schenectady
Thanks to ‘Brandon’ for accomplishments
What Brandon really means:
Broadband.
Rail construction.
Airport improvement.
Non-gas vehicles.
Develop mass transit.
Overhaul roads and bridges.
No lead in our water.
Thank you, President Biden.
Diane Sanders Hombach
Schenectady
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Dear Diane:
As much as I know about broadband can fit in a thimble – I am happy when internet works and unhappy when it doesn’t.
Pipiing, Roads, Bridges, Rail & Airport upgrades would be welcome. My fear as I am sure it is the fear of all – money earmarked for these things is always in the budget but seems to be raided frequently to fund social security, to fund new programs (subsidies for section 8 housing, HUD, CDBG fund, etc)
A consumer seeking one of the lowest prices for An Electric Vehicle (EV)– $32,495 for a 2022 Chevy Bolt — would need to earn a $72,000 salary, or about $4,505 take-home after taxes and other deductions in New York, according to Consumer Reports & Icalculator to afford the $452 monthly payment for 72 months.
As for developing mass transit- dosent already exist in NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angles, DC. Some large cities like Miami and Houston suffer from a water table and/or geography that doens’t bode well for mass transit.
I’ll optomistically wait to see the rubber hit the road.
The Chevy Bolt sounds inexpensive considering the average prive of a new car today is $47,000. There are plug-in hybrids as an alternative; government incentives plus fuel savings lower the initial and overall cost of electric and hybrid models.
Buy a Bolt get a new house.
There have been three recent Chevy Bolt EV fires, two within the past 2 weeks. One in May which had the temporary recall, another July 1st which had the final software update in Vermont, and another with the final update in New Jersey in the past week or so. GM has updated their recall page with an acknowledgement of the problem, and is telling owners to not charge overnight at all, and not to park inside.
RRichard Moody, Fusion will produce four times as much safe energy as (Fission) which is our current Nuclear plants.Fission has nuclear waste that will last millions of years while fusion on the other hand does not creat any long -term radioactive waste. What’s the problem, clean energy for 25% of the cost. The future is fusion, I’m sure Joe Vendetti could weigh in on this.
Diane Sanders Hombach what a positive take on a childish phrase used by so many impotent little boys Biden truly has done a great job What Brandon really means:Broadband.Rail construction.Airport improvement.Non-gas vehicles.Develop mass transit.Overhaul roads and bridges.No lead in our water.Thank you, President Biden.
Kenneth Truman writes in a letter to the editor today, “Also, everything today is tied to Trump; he’s a disrupter who disturbs the elites’ status quo, and that can’t be tolerated.”
Mr. Truman, Trump is the elite. A man who charges $200,000 annually for membership in his golf clubs, lives in an ornate palace at Mar a Lago, owns luxury real estate around the world, and flies in a private jet is not among the the hoi polloi. He is a disrupter, constantly injecting his warped views on the public, including recent comments about how “genius” Putin’s planning for the invasion of Ukraine was. He was referring to Putin’s recognition of Luhansk and Donetsk as independent. Putin’s claim that ethnic Russians in those Ukrainian provinces were being persecuted was the basis for his invasion. Of course his real goal is the creation of a Greater Russian Empire under his autocratic rule.
Trump is still holding rallies where his followers are told the election was stolen by Biden. This lie is a major factor in the problems facing our highly partisan country. His early downplaying of COVID and his political posturing in regard to masks and vaccinations resulted in America leading the world in the number of COVID cases and deaths. His corruption in trying to get Zelenskyy to help him in 2019 by opening an investigation into Biden under threat of withholding military aid proves he puts himself ahead of every other concern. He pulled us out of the Paris Climate Accords and the Iran Nuclear Agreement. Those moves coupled with idiotic statements about dropping nuclear bombs into hurricanes and using bleach internally to cure COVID caused many countries to look at the U.S. as a pariah nation led by an incompetent selfish fool. Contributing to his reputation as a con-man were his promise to make Mexico pay for a border wall and his assurances that he had a cheaper and better health plan than Obamacare. Of course, he failed in delivering on both promises.
Like Putin, his goal is to be dictator of an America with an entrenched oligarchy of enormous wealth.
Mr Santos excellent reply to Mr Truman’s less than accurate statements I would venture a bit further in my assessment of Trump based on the overwhelming amount of evidence piling up related to the planned coup including newly released text from his less than bright son Don Jr the large and not in charge G Thomas and m meadows anyone gullible enough to believe the big Orange ge wasn’t calling the shots I have some swamp land in FL for sale. 20 20 proved to be a great year righting the Trump driven American disaster thanks Mr biden!
Diane Sanders Hombach great letter But I’m sure the gloom and doomers will say it’s fake news.
Does anyone else feel Carlson sounds like a right wing thug in this quote?:
April 9, 2022
Media Matters has the transcript:
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): I don’t understand where the men are. Like where are the dads? You know, some teacher’s pushing sex values on your third grader why don’t you go in and thrash the teacher? Like this is an agent of the government pushing someone else’s values on your kid about sex, like where’s the pushback?
If your seven year old daughter was at a friends house and the friends father was talking to your seven year old about sex, what would you say?
You don’t provide enough information for me to give you an answer. Obviousy, if he was talking about how to engage in sex acts I would report this to the police and child protective services. If my daughter asked about the gay couple with children next door and he gave an age appropriate answer, explaining that some people would rather raise a family with a member of their own sex, that would be fine with me. If she asked where the children came from and he said they are often adopted that would also be fine. If she pursued the matter further, I doubt any resonsible adult would take it upon themselves to discuss “in vitro” fertilization or surrogacy with a 7 year old. If this happened I wouldn’t “thrash” the adult; I would explain to her that my daughter should learn these things from me or at school when she reached the appropriate age.
Lets put it this way because I see this happening in other states. A seven year old little girl is a Tomboy, she like baseball and cars. The teachers beleve and start telling her that she is really a boy in a girls body. In school the teacher or teachers call her “her” boy name at home it’s her girl name. By the time she reaches nine years old she is convinced she is really a boy and without the parents knowlege or permission she is put on puberty blockers. By the time she is a teenager she realizes that she never was a boy but by then the damage both physically and psychologically is already done. BTW 24 states are passing legislation to stop puberty blockers in childrfen without the parents consent and many states they must be 18. Of course not NY, NJ, and California to name a few allow this.
I know of no case in which “A seven year old little girl is a Tomboy…The teachers believe and start telling her that she is really a boy in a girl’s body.”
If this happened parents would have the right to complain about the teacher(s) and seek their dismissal if they continued telling girls they were really boys in girls’ bodies.
Telling their parents and teachers about transgender feelings should be initiated by the child, not the parents or teachers. If a child overcomes the fear and “shame” imposed by society to talk about gender confusion, it probably is real.
townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/04/01/school-nurse-was-suspended-for-revealing-pre-teens-secretly-being-given-puberty-b-n2605363
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/05/viral-image/no-young-children-cannot-take-hormones-or-change-t/
Where do these guys come up with this crap? coming from a family of six kids I would think somone in my family would have been exposed to this nonsense
The information is unsubstantiated. The guidelines for the medical care of transgender patients, developed by organizations such as the Endocrine Society and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, do not recommend puberty blockers for children who have not reached puberty; do not recommend hormone treatment for those under 16 years old; and typically restrict genital reassignment surgery to those 18 and older, who also meet other criteria.
Just because they don’t recommend it doesn’t mean it does not happen. Read the Wisconson story I posted.
I would like to see the source of this misinformation
A new bill before the New York State legislation.
Understanding Our BodiesA Lesson Plan from Rights, Respect, Responsibility: A K-12 CurriculumFostering respect and responsibility through age-appropriate sexuality education.
appropriate sexuality education.A NOTE ON LANGUAGE:You will notice that this lesson refers to “girls” and “boys” when identifying body parts. The use of a binary construct of gender as well as using gender (boys and girls) rather than the more accurate biological sex (male and female) is purposeful given the developmental stage of students. Lessons in higher grades use more precise language and begin to introduce a broader concept of gender. This lesson does, however, acknowledge that “there are some body parts that mostly just girls have and some parts that mostly just boys have. Being a boy or a girl doesn’t have to mean you have those parts, but for most people this is how their bodies are.” And, “Most people have a vulva and a vagina or a penis and testicles but some people’s bodies can be different. Your body is exactly what is right for you.”ADVANCE PREPARATION FOR LESSON:It is important to share the PowerPoint diagrams with your supervisor prior to teaching this lesson to ensure they are acceptable for your use.LEARNING OBJECTIVES:By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:1. Correctly identify at least four body parts of the female genitals. [Knowledge]2. Correctly identify at least four body parts of the male genitals. [Knowledge]3. Describe why it is important for them to know the correct names for the genitals. [Knowledge]PROCEDURESTEP 1: Introduce the topic by saying, “Today we are going to talk about bodies, including parts that everyone has in common, parts that we have that are different, and parts that are usually covered when we are in public. Explain that it’s also important that everyone with a body knows how their body works and how to take care of it so we can all be healthy.
Does anyone believe this is the responsibility of the state, the schools, the teachers? NO, it’s the responsibility of the parents.
Looks like someone likes the new dislike button here lol Who could it be lol
“Trans kids fear Ala. laws targetting medicine, bathrooms” on p. A10 of today’s DG discusses the problems faced as a result of government intrusions in medical care and private choices made by transgender and nonbinary young people and their parents. The Alabama father of a transgender daughter zeroed in on Republican hypocrisy:
“Harleigh’s father, Jeff Walker notes that many of the same Alabama lawmakers who supported the ban on gender-affirming medical treatment recently argued, ‘It’s your body and your choice’ regarding coronavirus vaccinations…’We just don’t want people meddling in our medical care,’ he said.
Medical groups including the American Academy of Pediatrics have publicly opposed efforts to outlaw gender-affirming care.”
Who knows more about how to treat transgender individuals: the Alabama legislature and Governor Ivy or pediatricians and parents? Who ought to make treatment decisions?
i think Marjorie Taylor Greene and her cohort of foot in the mouth morons HAwleyy Gaetz Qruz and the especially idiotic Boebert would have no problem insisting on expressing their expertise in this area.
December 21, 2021
Bolt Software Update
As battery module replacements continue under the previously announced recall, Chevrolet has informed all Bolt EV and EUV owners in the recall population (2017-2022 MY Chevrolet Bolt EVs and Bolt EUVs) of a software update that will allow owners to remove the parking and overnight charging limitations on their vehicles while we work on building replacement battery modules.
http://www.chevrolet.com/electric/bolt-recall
31/2 MONTHS
Kathleen Cataford, 77, was suspended by Hartford Public Schools (HPS) after posting comments to her personal Facebook account, reportedly containing information about the number of pre-teen children who are claiming to have gender identity issues, including an 11-year-old “on puberty blockers,” and other children “identifying as non-binary.
tennesseestar.com/2022/03/31/connecticut-school-nurse-suspended-over-facebook-comments-claiming-district-hides-childrens-gender-issues-from-parents/
9 DAYS AGO
Wisconsin School District Announces It Will Keep Parents In The Dark About Kids Declaring Themselves Transgender
dailycaller.com/2021/10/29/wisconsin-school-district-announces-it-will-keep-parents-in-the-dark-about-kids-declaring-themselves-transgender-lgbtq/
Zachary you obviously did not read the article about the CT nurse she was fired after the child’s parent reported her for posting about the little girl on facebook the nurse should have her license permanently revoked for violating patient confidentiality she was doing nothing to protect a child as you so righteously claim.. It is this sort of false truth spread by hyped up ignorant people like you and her that make this issue much more difficult for the true victims newsflash you a Re not a victim. I’m not even going to bother looking at the rest of the crap you posted I’m sure it’s of the same quality
Kathleen Cataford, 77, was suspended by Hartford Public Schools (HPS) after posting comments to her personal Facebook account, reportedly containing information about the number of pre-teen children who are claiming to have gender identity issues, including an 11-year-old “on puberty blockers,” and other children “identifying as non-binary.”
who ever would have imagined that a member of the former President’s family would be mentioned in the same conversation as the words trason and traitor we really sank to un heard of lows under 45 thank God we have begun to return to the moral and ethical high ground under Joe Biden We really did dodge a bullet or a nuke in 2020!
Trump Jr. Accused of ‘Treason’ After Pre-Jan. 6 Texts to Meadows Revealed (msn.com)
Beyond belief Im sure they will try to incorporate this under the umbrella of the big lie.What a bunch of losers. ill repeat your tag line under Joe Biden We really did dodge a bullet or a nuke in 2020!
and this about the former first daughter. Class act one and all
On Friday’s episode of The Stephanie Miller Show, Ms. Miller asked Kirshner about Ms. Trump’s 8 hours of testimony this week. Mr. Kirschner expressed certainty that the former first daughter incriminated her father:
MR. KIRSCHNER: They sat down, they testified, and what they did is they incriminated Donald Trump, and I can tell you how.
MS. MILLER: Yeah, OK.
MR. KIRSCHNER: Here’s how. Keith Kellogg. OK, that was. Vice President Mike Pence’s national security adviser said in real time as the attack on the Capitol was in progress. “We all went into the Oval Office and told him, told the president, please call off the attack, condemn the violence. Stop your dogs.” Right? Paraphrasing that last one. and Donald Trump refused, according to Keith Kellogg, a retired military general and Pence’s national security adviser. He’s not as bad as many of the others that were in Trump’s orbit. And then, he said, I tried and failed. Mark Meadows tried and failed. Kayleigh McEnany tried and failed. Ivanka tried and failed, so we sent her back into the Oval Office a second time because she can be pretty tenacious, and she couldn’t get her father to stop the attack on the Capitol. Steph, that is a president in a very real way, waging war against the United States. Even his own daughter couldn’t stop him. That is deeply incriminating information. Presumably, it’s been provided by Ivanka under oath to the J-6 committee, and if I were prosecuting the case, she would be one of the very early witnesses I called because let Donald Trump’s attorney try to say “Ivanka? Yeah, she was the coffee girl, barely knew her, never met her. She’s incredible.” Let them try that. You know, that dog won’t hunt
Mr. Kirschner made similar comments on Friday’s edition of The Dean Obeidallah Show, telling SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah that Ivanka’s testimony “will damage [Trump] badly.”
Watch above via SiriusXM.
The post MSNBC’s Glenn Kirschner Says Ivanka ‘Incriminated Donald Trump’ To Jan. 6 Committee — ‘And I Can Tell You How’ first appeared on Mediaite.
Kids should learn about sex education like every kid used to. On the street corner,….. on the basketball courts…..sneaking peeks at playboy magazines,…..Playing Doctor with the neighbor girls. ………( In case you don’t get this it was sarcasm)
Why is he posting all this misinformation on transgender kids ? Most of it is False or misleading at best. This is the new thing for the republicans. They know Trump republicans have weak minds and are any easy catch. We have no problem with transgender kids. What we have is a problem with the republicans who believe this garbage he postd here. I researched every article he posted. It was BS from far right people. Even articles on electric cars were ovr a year old ad is not indicative of what is happening todat with electric cars. . The best part about this new format is I can collapse those comments into oblivion.
Mr. Varoma, and I use Mr. lightly. I posted three articles telling people that everything you just said is a lie. There are dozens of articles, just because you don’t like it that doesn’t mean it’s not true.
Zachary read your articles not just the titles before posting them as evidence it’ll help you not look so much the fool and maybe lead to less Bible thumping on your part in the future. The CT nurse was suspended for posting about a child on Facebook the mother reported her.
Not true, the story said that she posted about an 11-year-old girl getting puberty blockers without the girls parents knowing amongst other things. Maybe you should read the story again.
Nonsense read it again he girls mother recognized her daughters description on Facebook that’s why she got suspended.in my opinion she should have her license revoked my post above is right from the article
Don’t read a second hand reprint read the original source come on man try harder if you want to act all indignant.and worked up and spread lies you’re gonna get called out on it the Tennessee star is not the primary source dude
Kathleen Cataford, 77, was suspended by Hartford Public Schools (HPS) after posting comments to her personal Facebook account, reportedly containing information about the number of pre-teen children who are claiming to have gender identity issues, including an 11-year-old “on puberty blockers,” and other children “identifying as non-binary.”
Against my better judgment just looked at that Wisconsin article you cite so loudly all it says is it will not require staff to tell parents about a child’s use of preferred pronouns this is not the Salem witch trials sir that has absolutely nothing to do with the child being transgender it is Absolute CRAP and you know it. I’m going to call, you out everything you try to spread this horseshit Sir now I’m going to go rewatch judge Jackson acceptance speech and thank God for the Biden Administration
I see nothing has changed. I’m done posting here. I will still comment on stories but the insanity by the left on here is nuts. Bye Bye now. The Real William Marincic
lol