Who will put hydrofracturing back into the Safe Drinking Water Act?

We will!

Thursday, JULY 2, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
City Hall steps, NYC

RALLY to Support a Ban on Toxic Gas Drilling in NYS!
Brunch Under Attack!

"We invite Governor Paterson, Mayor Bloomberg, elected officials, the press, and concerned New Yorkers to have an organic brunch with us on the steps of City Hall to celebrate New York State's amazing Organic Farming industry and naturally clean, fresh, drinkable water supply.

Join us as we set a table with organic foods and (as always) unfiltered NY tap water – all at risk of being poisoned if toxic gas drilling is permitted.

Domestic and international fossil fuel companies plan to use Halliburton technologies to drill for natural gas in New York State’s shale deposits, which run across the southern tier of the State.
Yet all the clean energy we need is blowing in the wind.

We will gather together to demand, "Protect our Precious Watersheds, Farming Industry, Air Quality, Land and Health! Ban Toxic Gas Drilling in all of NY State!”

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Who let the hydrofracturing out of the safe drinking water act?

When it comes to Smoke; Which one of these is not like the other?

"the ads that try to unsell cigarettes strive to be every bit as creative as those on the other side -- or perhaps more so, given how much more difficult it is to break a habit than form one, particularly when a product contains addictive ingredients"--Stuart Elliott, Advertising Columnist for the New York Times, "Inspired By A Children's Game, Santa Monica Fights Smoking"

All about the Mayor: NYTimes says of his campaign -- colorful foot-in-the mouth remarks

Mayor Michael Bloomberg: "Obama Does Not Get Paid That Much"

What I want to know is how much is Michael Bloomberg paying Google to graffiti Blogger? To censor bloggers who do not play along with his money trail.

Fully Working Toilets and Bloomberg Ads within Blogger

Mr. Bloomberg's present third term campaign reaches for a token 50,000 volunteers just like his second term campaign did. (See "Working for free in an $80 million dollar plus "third" term mayoral campaign). This third term campaign distinguishes itself; the volunteers receive media coverage and there is a fully working toilet. As in all Bloomberg campaigns the hungry are fed for appearing.

In his second term campaign Mr. Bloomberg achieved less than half of his volunteers and proof as to the volunteers activity is non-existent.

The point is that Mr. Bloomberg has enough money for media magic and to plaster environmentally bad ads and buttons all over the physicality of his "fair" city. He needs bodies to soften his billionaire ad expenditures for a "bought from the New York City Council" right to third term.

You can't fight city hall and you can't fight Blogger. I put a filter in my Google adsense excluding Mr. Bloomberg's campaign and yet, still every time I go to edit a post in Blogger Mr. Bloomberg's animated ads are there.

Will I vote for him? No way. I opened one of his ads and there was nothing to convince me that he had created more jobs in New York City. I read his blogs and his website there is nothing there, no substance and no reality. Mr. Bloomberg lives in a different world than the rest of us and that is the only world in New York City that changed for the better.

I walk the streets of New York City everyday and it is very much littered with cigarette smokers and tobacco in the air. Restaurants and bars in the city still allow smoking within, unchecked by the City. There are more cars driving the streets than ever. Construction is still, after eight years, the dominant feature on every street. Bloomberg's City departments are still severely mismanaged. Subways are still massively overcrowded and underperforming. The pedestrian still suffers on the streets that Giuliani designed to support the needs of cars only. Rental properties are overvalued and uninhabitable; there is very little a tenant can do about it in Bloomberg's government. The way crime is created in New York City is simply amazing with incredible racial overtones; a huge disparity between the traffic violations committed on the upper east side and the same violations in Washington Heights or Harlem. Police actions are still unacceptable and yet still excused by Mr. Bloomberg.

There is really only one thing you can credit Mr. Bloomberg with in all of his eight years in office; he has struggled to bring better education opportunities to the children of New York City. Its not an easy thing to do and his success is highly debatable, still it is a promise he made and kept to the best of his billionaire ability. Perhaps his struggles will be the seed for better education for the new mayor of New York City because he still does not get my vote.

Give it up Mayor, your two legitimate terms in office are over. You had your chance and you spent quite a bit of it trying to run for President of the United States; not here in New York City.

Facebook helps out alot with Father's Day

A lot of my family is on Facebook. They were all talking about how hard father's day was or how they missed my Dad today. Reading their thoughts made me so proud of all of us. We all took time for our Dad while he was stationed on Planet Earth and there's nothing that we could ever say we should have done. We were all there for him as much as a person could be in a very tough situation.

I always think about how my Dad would always visit not only his parents but my mom's parents frequently and do things for them and have really nice meaningful conversations. How the boys on the street grew up emulating my Dad working in his yard, he became their father figure. How people missed him taking his lone walks through the neighborhood, suffering from Parkinsons disease, but going the distance of still taking care of his health.

These memories are what Father's day means to me now: remembrances, examples and how my Dad paved the way for me in being careful about the environment I work and live in. Had my Dad not worked in a chemical lab producing polyvinyl for 40 years I am quite sure his Parkinsons disease would not have been so devastating. He paid a huge price for the sacrifice of support for his family. So Cheers to Dad and God Bless you everyday for what you gave me; you are Beautiful to all of us; your family!

If you want a Better City; Vote out the Council and Mayor

The ridiculousness of New York's City council has come to a head. It is not now functioning in a balanced manner; if it ever was. Betsy Gotbaum, the public advocate, in a strike against massive cuts to her office's budget, has given up her office's duty to preside over the council. A duty to us, the excitable and motivatable New York City public, mind you, and she has given it up. Perhaps by such natural pork selection there will be no office; something that's crossed the Mayor's mind in the past three (3) terms.

The Transparency of this City is like a nightguard for grinding teeth. A Mayor who buys his fellow councilpeople and disregards his public advocate. His speaker still slipping on pork grease in the $17 million frying pan, the wiping of which was disregarded. Rules? What Rules? The gritty truth Last May 52% of New Yorkers thought the City's speaker was a liar.

City pork barrel down a mere $49 million?

The four trying to catch the public advocate office as it is going once, going twice....
former Public Advocate Mark Green
Councilman Bill de Blasio
Councilman Eric Gioia
Civil rights attorney Norman Siegel
Republican Alex Zablocki

No doubt they'll not be wasting their energy on healing Gotbaum's wound, 100% goes to:

"It’s which candidate can best excite these people and get people motivated has the best advantage,”--> Richard Fife

Personally, I have never seen an excited or motivated New Yorker and I've lived in this city that never sleeps for well over 30 years.

The Reality of Cleaner Air Week ini NYC -- Grim

Friends, fellow transit riders and whoever you are:

The traffic was double on the heaviest travelled roads and subways in New York City this cleaner air week, 1st and 2nd avenues and the lexington lines, don't you think someone could have sat on their big think and done better?

“Pollution” was written sometime around 1962-1963, coincidentally the same time that Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring, a book which is often credited with having started the environmental movement.--Songs about Pollution

Cleaner Air this Week? In the Throes of Their Addiction

Good lord, anyone walking the streets of New York City knows about addiction. People walking behind them, in front of them, to the side of them, standing at the bus stop, walking through the subway tunnel, smoking in the hallways of apartments, dragging on their last hit of the drug nicotine, unsatisfied, they want more...

They shake their head and without looking, throw their cigarette butt on the street, they committed a crime but hey, this is New York City, a smoke-free city, man it couldn't be better for the addict...

Lets see what the New York City smoke-free addict gets for 60 minutes of a bit of nicotine,

The hit to the pleasure zone of the brain that will guarantee irritability in an hour and they'll be driven senseless to go out on their employer's time, using their non-smoking co-workers' time, to take another hit on their drug...

Where does that nicotine go, besides on their neighbors who are regarded by New York City and State in every crevice of its smoke-free law and governance as nothing as cheap fodder to be disregarded for they do not smoke, they are not hooked and they do not feed the lame-o fat city coffer with their cigarette taxes:

* About 80 percent of nicotine is broken down to cotinine by enzymes in your liver.

* Nicotine is also metabolized in your lungs to cotinine and nicotine oxide.

* Cotinine and other metabolites are excreted in your urine. Cotinine has a 24-hour half-life, so you can test whether or not someone has been smoking in the past day or two by screening his or her urine for cotinine.

* The remaining nicotine is filtered from the blood by your kidneys and excreted in the urine.

Do you really think you are breathing cleaner air this week?

Family Feud favors Federal Reserve

"The regulatory plan would also establish the Federal Reserve as a super-regulator to police risk across the financial system, a proposal supported by Mr. Dugan and criticized by Ms. Bair."--Regulators Feud as Banking System Overhauled

Was the Federal Reserve Born to Make the Rich Happy?

Second Hand Smoke: What is a Private Residence in New York City?

Living in an apartment building is not a private residence. That statement goes to our local government in New York City. A government that is campaigning to get more women voting for Bloomberg.

Second Hand Smoke in a private home is the same as second hand smoke in an apartment building except that there are different families with an incredible disparity in intelligence and consent in each apartment of that building.

If there is a smoking resident in apartment 1A; a non-smoking resident in 5C will experience second hand smoke. Their family will see the second hand smoke manifested in chronic ear infections, asthma and other diseases that New York City is spending billions to find a cure for. Their family will be miserable and be forcefully evicted from their home. Bloomberg's government says right on!

On the first day they came, they spoke to us of progress... they measured our lands

and we said nothing ...

On the second day they came, they invaded our houses... they expelled our children

and we said nothing ...

On the third day the water covered everything and because we said nothing we will never be able to do anything

Are we going to let this happen again?

Eviction Victim

• Testing strategies on actual apartment buildings to reduce movement of secondhand smoke. Building testing and research concluded that air flow between units in apartment buildings is significant.
  • Secondhand smoke is difficult to reduce and virtually impossible to eliminate.
  • The average cost to seal a unit to reduce secondhand smoke leakage was about $700 per unit.
  • However, sealing the air leaks was still not enough to eliminate the secondhand smoke problem completely.

For more information about CEE's research, read the research summary (opens as a pdf in new window) or detailed reports from the four projects on CEE's web site: http://www.mncee.org/research/index.php.

Bloomberg's Health department wrote me that "we do not restrict smoking in private residences" in answer to my complaints about the massive smoking in the public areas of the multi-dwelling apartment building I resided in. There is no lie that they were not afraid to write me; even though the full brief of correspondences is full of ridiculous contradictions and a true display of the misfeasance and malfeasance of Bloomberg's Health department.

Hello, I don't think I'll be voting for you, as a woman, Mr. Bloomberg, even if you put bananas out on the street for 25 cents, they are still getting doused with horrific air pollution from vehicles and massive cigarette smoke.

But wait, isn't it true both Bloomberg and Obama were once heavy smokers, hmm....

Making one tobacco company, Philip Morris, king yesterday in the federal government did nothing but pad politician's pockets; it did not help us locally in New York City. It was a huge display of mockery to the intelligence of the majority of people in the United States, the people who do not smoke.

The real ticket of Obama is that he is bought by big business; his record is clear on welfare; its strictly for the banks, auto corporations, insurance companies and now tobacco.

"Be aware that ventilation systems and portable air cleaners do not adequately filter smoke particles. They might reduce the odor but they tend to push the smoke around rather than stop it and the health-damaging effects are still occurring." --Second Hand Smoke Coming Into Your Apartment

I want my FDA Approval, Show me the Money!

Gawking at Cigarettes

Green Carts on New York City streets Awesomely Good

I live in one of the City's richest zipcodes and its hard to get fruit and vegetables at reasonable prices.

Mr. Bloomberg will grab many voters with this good action.

The produce is better than in the stores and significantly cheaper.

I know a few New Yorkers who are eating their first bananas in a very long time as well as peeled carrots.

Its a good thing, Mr. Bloomberg, Thank you.

FDA Regulation and Approval of Tobacco remains pretty much the same

It has not been stated whether tobacco products that are regulated by the FDA will bear the FDA approval. I sure hope not.

It is well known that the only way tobacco and its use can be regulated is at the local level. Its not going to help the victims of the smokers to have the Philip Morris sponsored FDA regulating tobacco products so I am not all excited about this bill.

Like mountain top removal, Thank you Mr. Obama, but a whole lot more action needs to be taken towards eradicating tobacco use from our society.

Tobacco and traffic pollution are the two elements in our environment that if removed would cut our health costs and unnecessary suffering down to zero.

Asking everyone to foot the bill for health insurance costs is unreasonable and undemocratic. If health insurance was eliminated along with the government bureaucracy that goes with it people could just report to their primary physician directly and pay a low fee. The savings of getting rid of the bureaucracy and health insurance costs could be given back to the doctors in government subsidies obtainable through quarterly reporting.

I do not know why we do not yet have any visionary leaders in this country except for that it is an exhausting effort with no monetary or political support.

From ILoveMountains.org to the President; We Need You!

Call the White House today at (202) 456-1111 and

• Thank the Obama administration for the recent policy changes and commitment to addressing the devastating problem of mountaintop removal coal mining and for working to bring a green economy to Appalachia.
• Urge President Obama to take the next step by reversing the devastating 2002 Bush Administration "fill rule," which allows coal companies to dump their toxic mining waste into our nation's streams.

That's it! Just a few moments of your time can let President Obama know that we support his first steps to limit mountaintop removal coal mining -- and that we encourage him go further by ending it.

Reversing the Bush administration "fill rule" will prevent most new mountaintop removal coal mining in the United States -- but to make this reversal permanent, we need Congress to pass both the Clean Water Protection Act (HR 1310) in the House and the Appalachia Restoration Act (S 696) in the Senate to end the worst abuses of Big Coal.

So after you've called the White House, please take a moment to email your Senators and Representatives.

Be Thankful for Mountains; Job Gain: 50 Irreparable Loss: Mountaintop, the Planet

Write Governor Joe that Massey has got to go

Please Act Today!

On Wednesday Massey Energy will remove mountain tops

Please Act Today!

Please support the Coal River Wind Farm by calling or writing to ask Governor Joe Manchin to help us save Coal River Mountain.

Read Jeff Biggers’ story on it here.

Read Eric Reece, "Moving Mountains" 2006, a story about failed promises of Governor Manchin, about Massey power base.

Coal Mining at OpenSecrets.org

Election Cycle	Total Contributions	Contributions from Individuals	Contributions from PACs	Soft Money Contributions	Donations to Democrats	Donations to Republicans	% to Dems	% to Repubs
2008*	$2,640,226	$1,917,533	$722,693	N/A	$793,148	$1,847,078	30%	70%

West Virginia Blue:: Massey Energy settles Clean Water Act lawsuit ...

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I Love Mountains!

Do You?

I'm E(lise) and I'm getting some lovemarks out there for Ilovemountains.org, won't you?

Weekly 5 of the Best Lovemarks, 13 December 2007
iLoveMountains

...Personally, I love it when causes are put forward with social networking tools and this one is 3.0. iLoveMountains.org gives a simple yet poignant message. We are all connected in reforming the energy industry's abuse of Appalachia and we have a real chance of helping the people in Appalachia through our connected actions. Read more.
Elise, United States, New York City

see Showy Mountaintop Banners

Clinical Trials are often a good source of information

I emailed regarding this one at NYU as it would provide me with just the kind of information I am seeking. I use NYU Dental skill for my minimum dental needs and they do a really good job. Note: in the test below they have a low dose spiral chest scan.

http://www.med.nyu.edu/medicine/pulmonary/aboutus/nn_NYU-CBC.html

They did get back to me and I could be in the test.

We discussed the problem I was having and I asked for any alternatives (this low dose can is equivalent of 20 chest xrays in radiation). I was given names of great pulmonary physicians at NYU and how I could receive care considering my economic situation.

Yey, finally some real information springing forth from the initial American Lung Association recommendation to get an ET chest scan. I may not get one of those but I'll have a chance to get some care for a condition that is very real.

I don't know how the scoliosis and the oppressive second hand smoke interplay, I've done a timeline, trying to figure it out. I know for sure if I get more information the full story will play out. My lungs became weak and I became sick after 6 months of exposure in the apartment I lived in for two years, six months of begging my landlords to do something and they did nothing. They think talking to each other about how to deflag my complaint is doing something, they did not even come to the apartment. We begin...

When it comes to health, "Suggest" and "Shocked" and "Expect" are

not words of action.

"That finding suggests that New Yorkers are breathing cigarette smoke at lower levels but more often, a consequence of living in an usually dense urban environment."--"New Yorkers Often Exposed to Cigarette Smoke, Study Finds, April 2009, NYTimes"

Action word analysis, no actions words used in the above paragraph; conclusions are not factual or scientific. On the street; reality is that the levels of cigarette smoke are quite high and quite often. The reason being people are walking as they are smoking and carrying a lit cigarette; this abnormal behavior would not be found in any other city in the United States. I really doubt that New York City has fewer smokers per capita than any other city. On what basis do they conclude that, what test was made? Answer: survey of 1,767 adults ages 20 and older in 2004.

It would be interesting to compare a San Francisco health study of the same kind with New York's.

"While Dr. Friedan suggested that New Yorkers are being exposed primarily through sidewalk contact with smokers, passing through crowds smoking outside doorways or waiting with smokers at bus stops, the tobacco expert Dr. John P. Winickoff suggested that apartment dwellers might also be exposed to smoke drifting from one unit to another within a building.

"Smoke doesn't know to stop at a doorway, it fills the full capacity of every indoor location in which the cigarette is smoked."--Dr. Winickoff, a professor at Harvard Medical School -- April 2009 NYTimes

Here are a few Action words I would love these two chaps to use for the benefit of mankind:

attention; balance; examine; practice; think; try; yell

Doctors with years of experience require a wait

I just found out that if I want a doctor who has at least 10 years of experience I have to go through an HMO and the wait for appointment is August 2009.

Amazing. Ok I'll do that, though isn't it true I'll be at Medicaid Tilt by then? And what about my foot?

I didn't think the doctor I saw was incompetent, he was very careful and he was trying to serve his patient from the intelligence, training and common sense that he had acquired in life thus far.

Often its uncanny what is happening to a patient. He should have listened when she told him she had severe scoliosis, that would have guided him to know that she would need a pulmonary specialist. Instead he just sought to offer a battery of tests that would only frustrate the patient. He only argued his position for the test against the wisdom she was expressing on the test. Anyway no matter an experienced physician would be able to read the test much better anyway; I'll wait.

I don't blame him though it sucked that I had spent my medicaid on that.

I too am an inexperienced patient but I know a heck of alot about my body. That's something all doctors should know and most likely they did not learn it in school, ER; it is gained with experience.

NYS Cancer Registry and my experience

Today I read the following statement from the April 2009 international panel convened by the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit of the University of Toronto and the public health agency of Canada.

"Until recently, evidence about the link between breast cancer and tobacco smoke, although voluminous, was inconclusive. But the panel's careful analysis of all available evidence, particularly recent evidence, led us to conclude that there is persuasive evidence of risk, an estimated 80 to 90% of women have been exposed to tobacco smoke in adolescence and adulthood. Those women face an increased risk of breast cancer because of that exposure," panel chairman Neil Collishaw.

I looked at the places I live and have lived and currently I am living in an area that has the highest rates per 100,000 females for lung cancer and breast cancer. It totally makes sense. You should witness the way the nicotine addicts trash up the place with their cigarettes. Within three days of moving in on the upper east side in May 2009 I had to bring a partner of the management company to my apartment to witness the streaming of cigarette smoke into the bathroom as well as smoking in the elevators. The broker had written me an emphatic legal document stating there were no smoke problems in the apartment and building; all in the light of being told that I am diagnosed with lung and pulmonary disease until someone removes that off the record. My object is not to move in to a place that has oppressive cigarette smoke. If I can't detect it I will ask and state my diagnosis. I really do not want to live in a place that has oppressive cigarette smoke.

The place where I received the diagnosis (Columbia University /Manhattanville) has the second highest rate for breast cancer for females. The place I was living Fort George ranks high for breast cancer and lung cancer (but do note those people probably do not have great accounting; they do not go to the hospital but clinics; clinical reports have shown Inwood quite high for cancer as well Fort George). They do not trash up the streets as bad but they do trash up the subways as well as the inside of multi-dwelling buildings.

Oh and do note that women past 50 are incredibly susceptible to damage from second hand smoke.

Here is an idea. How about instead of forcing eviction upon your victims why not be honest and thereby prevent your victim from renting in the first place?? Brilliant! The reason landlords lie is that they fully intend for you to move in and then move out so they can hike up their rent as New York City stands by and watches approvingly.

Below are my findings from the NYS Cancer Registry as to the places I live or have lived in New York City. In all of these places the people smoked in the public space of the multi-dwelling building; the elevators, the stairwells, the laundry, the hallways, right outside the door, from their window, right outside of your window, on the fire escape, you know whenever they get the urge. They smoke non stop in their apartments without having to be responsible. They do not have to pass a blow test, they do not have to use an air cleaner, they do not have to be responsible whatsoever.

NYS Cancer Registry 2002-2006

Washington Heights and Inwood

Rate of breast cancer is 94.5 per 100,000 females

Rate of lung cancer is 27.5 per 100,000 females

Upper East Side

Rate of breast cancer is 164.1 per 100,000 females

Rate of lung cancer is 60.4 per 100,000 females

Upper West Side

Rate of breast cancer is 143.7 per 100,000 females

Rate of lung cancer is 44.2 per 100,000 females

Central Harlem

Rate of breast cancer is 114.8 per 100,000 females

Rate of lung cancer is 51.8 per 100,000 females

Being ET Chest Scan Worthy

The tests above were run while I was away for two weeks; I always put the monitor and filtrette far away from windows or doors and traffic and ideally the best sample would be when I wasn't home; the samples shown above are from such an occasion. In the graph above please note that 3000 is the measurement for very poor air. That the monitor only starts measuring from .05 microns. This is raw data and the results horrific that an animal or any human being would be subjected boldface to it by their landlord and every department of New York City. Muliply by 2 or 3 to get the real picture; because second hand smoke particle measurement begins at .01 microns.

First off, doctors suck, I would never go to one unless I needed one. I don't have a doctor and never have had one. Its probably why I am so healthy except for this flaw that I received from oppressive second hand smoke. That is what makes my case so profound the picture of health and then felled down, brought down to poverty. At 56 you should be in such good shape and health. I think this case is worth reviewing because it reflects greatly on what life in the ghetto in New York City is really about. You will never have health in this country unless you get rid of the cars and the cigarette smoke and use cleaner fuels for cooking etc. Invest a little there and you won't be worrying about taking away the freedom of the American people by starting first with mandatory "health insurance" not "health care" ..."mandatory health insurance". That's like saying "From Russia with Love"...

I never burn candles, incenses, cook in my house or otherwise produce smoke. I do not use household products or perfume or in anyway produce these fine particles. It wouldn't matter anyway I wasn't home. I do not have gas bills. I have about 9 filtrettes and a year and five months of air reports all carefully taken so that the data would be true and fair.

An ET Chest Scan costs about $120 more than an Xray scan and I would pay the difference. That was what I was trying to accomplish at a hospital for a month.

You can't get any kind of xray in a hospital without a physician.

I sought Medicaid because at the time I had no income for the year. A month later I had $365 for income and then because I won a Labor Board Hearing then magically my year net total in New York City was at $6,365 on June 1, 2009 with rent $1100 a month. So here I tremble at over the half way mark on the Medicaid needle. Medicaid, boldface lying and not even making sense. The evidence of a letter stating go to your local office there are problems with your application (65 days after my application) and a pending letter that I requested on the day of such visit whereby they stated "Ma'am you were rejected"; yes Medicaid is a liar and a cheat. Does it make since they state you had Medicaid 3-1-09 to 6-1-09 and you receive the letter on 6-6-09. I rest my case.

I do not have a permanent source or reliable source of income I am unemployed and have been so since being sick from this cigarette smoke December 26, 2007. Which way will the Medicaid needle go who knows and you surely will not find out from 311. They don't know anything there, they don't even know how to understand the databases they are reading from.

An ET Chest scan has two liabilities: more radiation leaks than a Lung Xray (according to the doctors) and such scan finds everything in your body and sometimes states of things therein are misinterpreted. However isn't that the problem of the interpreter? Noone is asking you to be a hypochondriac about what you see.

I am the last one who wants to go through radiation however I feel that my lungs are not what they should be. I now have recurrent coughs to the point of throwing up and varying degrees of wheezes throughout my body. I am more than "sensitive" to smoke. Before moving to the building in question I had no such problem just a diagnosis of first stage lung and pulmonary disease as a result of the symptom of hemopystis. Now everytime I am where there is alot of fine particles (six to eight smokers surrounding me walking on the street of New York City, most of the time; in the yoga studio; in an office that is by a tunnel and has 10-20 smokers outside its front door). I have witnesses to this some saying is that contagious, others saying you should do something about that and in yoga much compassion and breathing exercises.

In March 2009 I wrote the American Lung Association; they replied:

"There are two ways that can see if you have any problems in the lungs. There is the chest x-ray and then there is CT Scans. An x-ray will not give them a very detailed picture and may not show very small problems. The CT Scan of the lungs will give them a very detail picture of what is going on in the lungs. It is best to get the CT Scan if possible. Also you can not compare an x-ray with a CT Scan because they are totally 2 different type of results. If you have further questions please let us know."

The 3M Company wrote me about their 3m filtrette product:

"The media fibers are polypropylene and polyolefin plastic to include cardboard frames. The media is electrostatically charged and works like a magnet to capture particles. The filter should not be releasing particles however the electrostatic charge is most effective when the filter is new and clean, and as particles begin to cover the electrostatic fibers it reduces the filter’s effectiveness at capturing additional particles.

Cigarette smoke is a small particle, which ranges from .01 microns to 1 micron in size. All our filters will remove particles that measure .3-10 microns in size and are effective at removing cigarette smoke. Having tobacco smokers in the home, burning candles, incense, or using a wood-burning stove can cause filters to become very dark very quickly. We regret we do not have information on air quality testing or what tests should be conducted however you may consider searching “indoor air quality testing” or “testing for tobacco smoke in the air” on-line through a Yahoo or Google search engine. You may also find helpful information on the American Lung Association website www.lungusa.com"

Ethnicity? No. Color, Yes.

Oh come on, you know most certainly the above statement is true from reading the following New York Daily News clip:

"The gunned down officer was Omar Edwards, who was off-duty Thursday night when he caught a man breaking into his car and began chasing after him with his gun drawn.

Officer Andrew Dunton, an on-duty officer in plainclothes, who is white, mistook Edwards for an attacker and shot him dead on E. 125th Street."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/05/31/2009-05-31_rangel_comment_off_base_bloomberg_says.html#ixzz0HmknDEQY&C

Yeah, so, when was it legal to shoot someone down dead because they were an attacker, a lion would have stood a better chance.

Yeah, so, Mr. Rangel hasn't represented me very well and I have lived in his district since 2004.

and Yeah, so, the police go on the hunt whenever a white cop is shot down... see "Women are Better Detectives than Men Part Deux." [and do note the bevy of cops were all black, they were seeking a white victim]

and Mr. Obama you feel free to go through whichever part of Harlem you wish. People will kiss and hug you, you are loved.

Nobody has done more for both sides of Harlem so far than you have Mr. Obama.

In the Background Microsoft Plays with Antimonopoly

From Russia to Microsoft stop it!

I wouldn't have known at all except that my windows operated laptop would not start today.

A Microsoft Windows warning said that my hardware on my laptop had changed significantly and I needed to validate my Microsoft Windows.

Give me a break, for sure this is a virus.

I kept hitting no.

Finally Microsoft put on its official cap and warned without ultimatum that I must submit to their test or I would not be able to use my laptop ever.

Hello, did Microsoft just pirate my laptop? I kept hitting no and tried all kinds of way to proceed and then once on figure out what was going on. No way, this pc was pirated and yes, Microsoft was doing it. Unbelievable. I google Microsoft and federal because I wanted to see what the final outcome of the antitrust under the Bush regime was. All I found was that now Microsoft was in league with the federal government for transparency and government controls for federal stimulus plan. I googled more and found:

From Russia to Microsoft stop it!

Given no choice I let Microsoft Pirate validate and they wrote: "You have a valid copy of Microsoft Windows." Duh. This was followed with the same flag software about joining Microsoft Windows Genuine Authentication. Oh come on, I do not want to join your stupid bureaucracy and further control from you. Get a life.

If Microsoft is so brilliant, and they aren't, how come they can't automatically tell that my Windows is authentic? Apple does not do this, they do not need to, they've already taken care of authenticity my friend.

Microsoft committed an act of monopoly on my laptop today and they'll get away with it because I don't have the time. But do it again buster and oh, you don't even want to go there.

I do not let companies update their software on my pc because of the reason which Microsoft demonstrated today, it wastes tons of time. I lost one hour today to Microsoft's piracy of my PC, my ultimatum to Microsoft is don't let it happen again.

I will change my laptop to Linux sometime this week as insurance of any further intrusion by Microsoft and eventually once I get all this cigarette smoke issue out of the way I will go Apple and never look back at PC again because Microsoft is truly suck egg for the lack of trust they demonstrated today. When you trust because you've built authentic into your product you don't need to turn to piracy.

My Aunt reminded me of my grandfather

Grandfather, Clifford N. Miller, Sr.'s birthday was May 31, he would have been 104.

He was on the first football team of Texas A&M and above all he was a pioneer.

He has written literally volumes on his walks through Washington State and Texas, farming, oil and philanthropy.

You can truly appreciate what this country was before cars when you read the books.

His father was run over by a drunk neighbor driving their car on the sidewalk. Imagine that, only a few days before my dad, Clifford N. Miller, Jr. was born, tragic, ominous.

I've never driven a car and I never hope to. Everyday I have to face the ridiculousness of cars and their drivers in New York City. I always wonder at why is it these borish people think they have a right to shower the city with their fumes and poisons, making us all so sick and have to wait so long at the light and terrorizing us as we try to cross the street.

Today when I crossed 57th street to catch a bus a suv ran a red light and just kept on driving through the pedestrians and people just acted like it was the driver's right.

This is a tremendously sad day when the government is giving billions to a corrupt automobile industry and its corporations and shafting the citizens on their healthcare and environment instead. We really do need a change now and I do wonder who is going to take Obama's place. We'd better be deciding now because it is the time to start twittering them up and please this time no lawyers.

Run, Alice, Run at 1

Alice, my great niece, will be one this weekend.

She will have a birthday at the park and all her great aunts and uncles are invited.

Alice has been running spectacularly for over a month, I am quite sure she'll be on People magazine one day for running something. (see above, Alice, many, many baby moons ago).

Alice's heritage embraces America: Cherokee Nation, Pilgrims, American Revolution, Civil War, Iran

Revisiting the Crowd that Fits

Today's my bro, the faux twin's b-day

I asked my mom if she remembered June 5, 1952. She said yes indeed. My dad had graduated from the University of Houston and three hours later she delivered my brother.

I love him dearly and wish him many more adventurous years.

go, bro!

Bloomberg's Addiction: The Bloom falls off the Pedal

Bloomberg wants a third term because he says he is the only one that can save New York City.

Listen closely to those words.

They probably are true since he did the damage its true whoever takes his place and doesn't keep their foot on the Bloomberg pedal will surely meet major resistance from the rich. What take away our tax loop? Never!!!!

As long as Bloomberg's addition is allowed to continue, "taking from the rich and giving to the poor", the world should probably go smoothly for the rich and their tax accountants.

Ah but if Comptroller Thompson comes in to office and starts taking corrective measures that will put New York City and the world of real people on an even footing for generations to come there certainly is going to be a Ruckus Among The Rich.

How ridiculous is this. Bloomberg totally niched New York City to a corrupt financial market. That is why we are suffering now and to undo the damage he plans massive hikes on sales taxes ($900 million) which will surely undo the City. Retailers depend on low or no sales taxes and so do tourists. That's about the only thing you can count on in the City. Increased Tourism and Increased Sales Taxes is a recipe for disaster. As long as people stay at home to eat and don't buy anything you should be okay in New York City.

See Bloomberg for Bloomberg to Close Gap with Sales Tax Hike. Note he exempted clothing sales tax in 2004. In 2002 he used the same scheme to close gap job cuts and sales tax hike. Notice lows and spikes, never a constant.

Also note New York City is getting $1billion in federal Medicaid assistance and look who is getting it, yeah look around you. Truly fraud is happening in the City and Monday I will go to the Medicaid one last time before filing a federal suit against NYC because White Girls Can Get Medicaid. I have been trying since March 2009 to get Medicaid for a serious medical condition and as of yet in June 5, 2009 have not received it. I even wrote Obama two months ago, no answer, go figure.

You are Erin Brokovich without a law firm

Most people know I have been suffering from civil court disease for a year, it just won't go away, it just keeps coming back, no matter how I move.

I do this little exercise every couple of weeks; I find an expert or someone who professes to be so in anything. I try to find someone who is as far away from what I am suffering from as can be so there won't be any conflict of interest or any legalese or variant thereof transmitted.

Last Friday I interviewed a lawyer for toilet seats. I gave him the timeline of my case only. After reading it, he just kept repeating over and over, you are Erin Brokovich, Erin Brokovich, like her except without a law firm.

Well what he transmitted had to be flushed down, but I did appreciate getting some clarity on the position of my pathos in the case.

There ain't going to be change afterall, big surprise

The reason we have poor health care is because we have insurance, whether it be government or private. People are denied health care even on the basis that they have the wrong insurance.

May 2008 Warren Buffet supports Obama

Warrent Buffet Slideshow

The latest from Obama takes away our freedom, mandatory health insurance and of course those who can't afford it and small businesses will be exempt. And will it be like medicaid where you qualify more than anyone else but you are denied because your expenses don't match your income (i.e. rent in New York City)?

That's right, step right up, if you don't get Section 8 because it is not available, 80/20 or any other form of subsidized rent and you pay your full rent out of your future pension then you will be denied Medicaid. Where do they expect you to live? They expect you to live in the homeless shelters because then you really won't be eligible for anything at all and you'll just disappear like all of the other homeless people before you.

And do so note, that people on medicaid own their houses and they are not asked to borrow from them. The HPD coop program does not pay taxes and although they aren't allowed, the state looks the other way as the owners rent out their apartments piecemeal for several times over the market rate. No taxation on their profits, what profits? The state again looks away as tenants rent out rooms in their apartment at more than stabilized rent share and again no taxes are paid. These same people receive medicaid. So really come on, get real. I am so tired of this cheater system, where some people will get everything and the rest will get none. Where someone could have been prevented pain and dying but cheaters said no and looked the other way.

In the Obama nation insurance companies are once again empowered and now bureacracies will develop to keep insurance companies honest. Its a most unwholesome text, bearing no grace and raking most people over the coals just as in today's bankruptcy proceedings.

Who asked Mr. Obama to keep insurance honest? No one.

We asked him to keep health care honest for everyone, not just a few.

This administration is creating huge injustices, the biggest race and discrimination cards that our country has ever known are being played out today in Obama Nation.