Comments on: Lights out on half a million New Yorkers http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/ The world’s first, full-service conservative Internet broadcast network Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:35:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: mboprey http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-517692 mboprey Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:22:15 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-517692 Since I live in Bushwick, I hope that July 13, 2007 is not going to be a reenactment of July 13, 1977. Bushwick has changed, of course, in those thirty years, but you never know... Since I live in Bushwick, I hope that July 13, 2007 is not going to be a reenactment of July 13, 1977. Bushwick has changed, of course, in those thirty years, but you never know…

]]> By: shooter http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-517250 shooter Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:19:12 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-517250 BLOOMBERG priorities. <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/017151.php" rel="nofollow">from Jihadwatch</a> "Here," says Paul, "one learns that Mohammedi received his law degree at Algeria's Tiemcen University in 1985, pursued further legal education at Cambridge and Warwick universities in the U.K. and at Fordham Law School in New York, and was appointed by <strong>New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg</strong> 'to become the first Muslim and Arab New York City Commissioner on Human Rights.' "Under the 'Articles' rubric are two pieces of testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, complaining of a 'Backlash Against Muslim and Arab Communities' and the National Security Exit-Entry Registration System, which he considers a 'governmental episode of Muslim and Arab profiling.'" Also, in the speaker biographies for a 2006 conference of the National Association of Muslim Lawyers (here's a pdf), Paul discovered that <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/015637.php" rel="nofollow">Flying Imam attorney Omar Mohammedi is president of CAIR's New York chapter.</a> read it, threats and all. BLOOMBERG priorities. from Jihadwatch
“Here,” says Paul, “one learns that Mohammedi received his law degree at Algeria’s Tiemcen University in 1985, pursued further legal education at Cambridge and Warwick universities in the U.K. and at Fordham Law School in New York, and was appointed by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ‘to become the first Muslim and Arab New York City Commissioner on Human Rights.’

“Under the ‘Articles’ rubric are two pieces of testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, complaining of a ‘Backlash Against Muslim and Arab Communities’ and the National Security Exit-Entry Registration System, which he considers a ‘governmental episode of Muslim and Arab profiling.’”

Also, in the speaker biographies for a 2006 conference of the National Association of Muslim Lawyers (here’s a pdf), Paul discovered that Flying Imam attorney Omar Mohammedi is president of CAIR’s New York chapter.

read it, threats and all.

]]> By: kcluva http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-515808 kcluva Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:33:03 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-515808 <blockquote> How many illegals suffered? profitsbeard on June 27, 2007 at 5:58 PM </blockquote> That's the #1. Coming in at a close 2nd: <blockquote> Heckuva job, Burkey. Anwyn on June 27, 2007 at 5:48 PM </blockquote> Hilarious!

How many illegals suffered?

profitsbeard on June 27, 2007 at 5:58 PM

That’s the #1. Coming in at a close 2nd:

Heckuva job, Burkey.

Anwyn on June 27, 2007 at 5:48 PM

Hilarious!

]]> By: flipflopper http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-515807 flipflopper Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:32:57 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-515807 ah, I love NYC power outages. i work in Times Square, and the lights are ALWAYS on 24/7. /? ah, I love NYC power outages. i work in Times Square, and the lights are ALWAYS on 24/7.

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]]> By: major john http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-514662 major john Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:07:19 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-514662 <blockquote>How many illegals suffered? profitsbeard on June 27, 2007 at 5:58 PM</blockquote> Heh. A good play on the old <em>World Ends, Poor and Minorities Hit Hardest - NYT.</em> "Power out, <strike>illegal</strike> undocumented Americans suffer most.

How many illegals suffered?

profitsbeard on June 27, 2007 at 5:58 PM

Heh. A good play on the old World Ends, Poor and Minorities Hit Hardest – NYT.

“Power out, illegal undocumented Americans suffer most.

]]> By: naliaka http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-514578 naliaka Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:37:22 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-514578 <blockquote>This is a clear danger sign for America. When our largest city can not keep the lights on, this is a problem. When we as a country can not build the power plants needed to grow our country, this is a problem. When the warnings have been ignored over years due to PC and hard political decsions, this is a problem. Our government is failing at every level, THIS IS A PROBLEM unseen on June 27, 2007 at 6:05 PM</blockquote> New York and California are developing Third World patterns of coping - every man an island of self-sufficiency - with household generators, water storage, etc. because the city/state/country can't deliver reliable utilities. Notice where the problems have appeared first? Democrat-run states. Hard to believe that New York is in danger of being confused with Lagos, Nigeria on a hot sultry night, but it's going that way. Nigeria has the oil money, to make her cities liveable, but it's "eaten" as they say. Are Califonia or New York any different with how they've managed the immense quantities of money these states demand from their taxpayers?

This is a clear danger sign for America. When our largest city can not keep the lights on, this is a problem. When we as a country can not build the power plants needed to grow our country, this is a problem. When the warnings have been ignored over years due to PC and hard political decsions, this is a problem.
Our government is failing at every level, THIS IS A PROBLEM

unseen on June 27, 2007 at 6:05 PM

New York and California are developing Third World patterns of coping – every man an island of self-sufficiency – with household generators, water storage, etc. because the city/state/country can’t deliver reliable utilities.
Notice where the problems have appeared first? Democrat-run states. Hard to believe that New York is in danger of being confused with Lagos, Nigeria on a hot sultry night, but it’s going that way. Nigeria has the oil money, to make her cities liveable, but it’s “eaten” as they say. Are Califonia or New York any different with how they’ve managed the immense quantities of money these states demand from their taxpayers?

]]> By: Snidely Whiplash http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-514054 Snidely Whiplash Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:46:58 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-514054 Just have everyone in NYC change their incandescent bulbs to CFL and that should solve the problem, shouldn't it? That seems to be the thinking out here in California. Noise about outlawing the sale of incandescent bulbs in order to help with global warming and saving energy (since you can't get a new power plant built here either). Just have everyone in NYC change their incandescent bulbs to CFL and that should solve the problem, shouldn’t it? That seems to be the thinking out here in California. Noise about outlawing the sale of incandescent bulbs in order to help with global warming and saving energy (since you can’t get a new power plant built here either).

]]> By: aengus http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-514029 aengus Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:40:19 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-514029 Bloomberg is terrible. He could be on the European Commission with his obsessive regualtion of everything and everyone. Bloomberg is terrible. He could be on the European Commission with his obsessive regualtion of everything and everyone.

]]> By: Blake http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-513942 Blake Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:20:53 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-513942 If Allah had an iPhone he could report looters during a black out. If Allah had an iPhone he could report looters during a black out.

]]> By: Number 2 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-513932 Number 2 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:18:09 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-513932 This could be the hook you need to get an iPhone from the Boss. BTW, we in southeast Queens have had fewer power problems now than we did in the 80s/90s This could be the hook you need to get an iPhone from the Boss.

BTW, we in southeast Queens have had fewer power problems now than we did in the 80s/90s

]]> By: Number 2 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-513926 Number 2 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:16:23 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-513926 This could be the hook you need to get an iPhone from the Boss. This could be the hook you need to get an iPhone from the Boss.

]]> By: JetBoy http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-513888 JetBoy Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:08:34 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-513888 <blockquote>So NYC was carbon neutral for a short time ? Damn that prophetic Gorical ! William Amos on June 27, 2007 at 7:04 PM</blockquote> Just got back from the city....should have seen the traffic on I95 (the trains came back, but the backlog...) If anything, the tri-state area's carbon footprint is "sasquatch-esque" today! Nebraska is looking better every day...

So NYC was carbon neutral for a short time ?

Damn that prophetic Gorical !

William Amos on June 27, 2007 at 7:04 PM

Just got back from the city….should have seen the traffic on I95 (the trains came back, but the backlog…) If anything, the tri-state area’s carbon footprint is “sasquatch-esque” today! Nebraska is looking better every day…

]]> By: William Amos http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-513862 William Amos Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:04:18 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-513862 So NYC was carbon neutral for a short time ? Damn that prophetic Gorical ! So NYC was carbon neutral for a short time ?

Damn that prophetic Gorical !

]]> By: lawhawk http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-513719 lawhawk Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:30:24 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-513719 No reports of looting today, and the service was restored about an hour ago. A power substation got hammered during a passing t-storm, and the outage hit the subways pretty hard too, with disruptions up and down the line. This all comes just a few days after Con Ed claimed that it spent $1+ billion on infrastructure upgrades and a report saying that certain neighborhoods around the City (7 IIRC, including Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn) were in line to be <a href="http://lawhawk.blogspot.com/2007/06/nyc-blackout-season-underway.html" rel="nofollow">this blackout season</a>'s Queens. No reports of looting today, and the service was restored about an hour ago. A power substation got hammered during a passing t-storm, and the outage hit the subways pretty hard too, with disruptions up and down the line.

This all comes just a few days after Con Ed claimed that it spent $1+ billion on infrastructure upgrades and a report saying that certain neighborhoods around the City (7 IIRC, including Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn) were in line to be this blackout season’s Queens.

]]> By: TruthToBeTold http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-513718 TruthToBeTold Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:30:03 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-513718 All of us have problems due to the wacky environmentalists and the nimby people. We can't drill for oil off our coasts, we can't build nuclear energy plants, oil refineries or even wind energy farms because the environmentalists are more worried about snails, owls and other furry creatures than they are about human beings. The nimby people say you can't build that here in my backyard because it is (fill in some silly reason). Ted "the swimmer" Kennedy didn't want wind energy on the coast where he lives and thus becomes not only an environmentalist wacko, but a nimby as well. We need to understand what these people are doing to all of us with their CRAZY ideas. If you don't like high gasoline prices, get rid of some of the absurd environmental laws and free up the inventive nature of American entrepreneurs. It won't be long and we will have lower gas prices as soon as we build new refineries and drill for our own oil. An added bonus will be that we won't have to finance the terrorists by buying their oil. All of us have problems due to the wacky environmentalists and the nimby people. We can’t drill for oil off our coasts, we can’t build nuclear energy plants, oil refineries or even wind energy farms because the environmentalists are more worried about snails, owls and other furry creatures than they are about human beings. The nimby people say you can’t build that here in my backyard because it is (fill in some silly reason). Ted “the swimmer” Kennedy didn’t want wind energy on the coast where he lives and thus becomes not only an environmentalist wacko, but a nimby as well. We need to understand what these people are doing to all of us with their CRAZY ideas. If you don’t like high gasoline prices, get rid of some of the absurd environmental laws and free up the inventive nature of American entrepreneurs. It won’t be long and we will have lower gas prices as soon as we build new refineries and drill for our own oil. An added bonus will be that we won’t have to finance the terrorists by buying their oil.

]]> By: Wade http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-513685 Wade Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:22:03 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-513685 Lightning strike..Call Al Gore, another case of global warming. There was never any lightning before 2000. Lightning strike..Call Al Gore, another case of global warming. There was never any lightning before 2000.

]]> By: apostle26 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-513671 apostle26 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:19:41 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-513671 Would they every think of allowing something obvious like oh, say, building a new nuclear reactor? Nah, too easy. <em>amnistitio delenda est.</em> Would they every think of allowing something obvious like oh, say, building a new nuclear reactor? Nah, too easy.

amnistitio delenda est.

]]> By: Blake http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-513622 Blake Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:08:11 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-513622 I think Allah needs an iPhone. I think Allah needs an iPhone.

]]> By: Iblis http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-513611 Iblis Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:05:56 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-513611 Household standby generators are around $3Gs. Might be a good investment. Household standby generators are around $3Gs. Might be a good investment.

]]> By: unseen http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-513605 unseen Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:05:07 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-513605 This is a clear danger sign for America. When our largest city can not keep the lights on, this is a problem. When we as a country can not build the power plants needed to grow our country, this is a problem. When the warnings have been ignored over years due to PC and hard political decsions, this is a problem. Our government is failing at every level, THIS IS A PROBLEM This is a clear danger sign for America. When our largest city can not keep the lights on, this is a problem. When we as a country can not build the power plants needed to grow our country, this is a problem. When the warnings have been ignored over years due to PC and hard political decsions, this is a problem.

Our government is failing at every level, THIS IS A PROBLEM

]]> By: profitsbeard http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-513577 profitsbeard Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:58:44 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-513577 How many illegals suffered? How many illegals suffered?

]]> By: Wade http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-513568 Wade Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:57:08 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-513568 <blockquote>Didn’t NY have a huge power outage a few years ago too? I thought that brought all the attention that was needed to the power grid. Guess not :/ lorien1973 on June 27, 2007 at 5:29 PM </blockquote>No, it is more important to legislate what kind of ingredients restaurants may use.

Didn’t NY have a huge power outage a few years ago too? I thought that brought all the attention that was needed to the power grid. Guess not :/

lorien1973 on June 27, 2007 at 5:29 PM

No, it is more important to legislate what kind of ingredients restaurants may use.

]]> By: Attila (Pillage Idiot) http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-513554 Attila (Pillage Idiot) Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:54:11 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-513554 I lived on 111th and Bway the summer of the 1977 blackout. Was there any looting today? I lived on 111th and Bway the summer of the 1977 blackout. Was there any looting today?

]]> By: Blitz http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-513539 Blitz Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:50:59 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-513539 <blockquote>This is also the same reason that conservatives from Massachusetts aren’t exactly lining up to defend Mitt’s credentials either.</blockquote> I'm a conservative from Mass,and although I'm not in love with Mitt,I understand that all power here is in the legislature. In order for him to get anything done at all,he had to compromise to the point of giving away his principles. Would you please explain just why you equate Romney with Bloomberg in this case? BTW(NSFCDSEVEN) I'm a FRED!!head

This is also the same reason that conservatives from Massachusetts aren’t exactly lining up to defend Mitt’s credentials either.

I’m a conservative from Mass,and although I’m not in love with Mitt,I understand that all power here is in the legislature. In order for him to get anything done at all,he had to compromise to the point of giving away his principles.

Would you please explain just why you equate Romney with Bloomberg in this case?

BTW(NSFCDSEVEN) I’m a FRED!!head

]]> By: Mephistefales http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/comment-page-1/#comment-513534 Mephistefales Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:49:42 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/27/lights-out-on-half-a-million-new-yorkers/#comment-513534 Wouldn't it be ironic if the power went out right when you were about to snipe an eBay bid on a generator? Let's see you top <em>that</em> one Alanis! Rain on your wedding day, my eye. Wouldn’t it be ironic if the power went out right when you were about to snipe an eBay bid on a generator?

Let’s see you top that one Alanis!

Rain on your wedding day, my eye.

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