Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Hurricane Sandy and Politics

BBC News - Live:Sandy: Reports at the finger pointing post Hurricane Sandy, Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey is not best pleased with the Mayor Langford of Atlantic City, they are in dispute of the planned vacation of residents from the City. 

Lets Get Real:

People have died folks, our thoughts are with those that have lost people, but this is a political blog, so how does this effect the election, as New York is a save Democratic State as is NJ then on the whole the effects might not be that much, if this was Ohio, both candidates would be out with buckets to get the WATER out, do not quite see either of them doing that for NY, for the Oval it would LOOK like a cheap political shot, NY is secure, plus it would cause havoc to have POTUS wondering around, for Governor Romney NY is not  in play and and cheap picture shots would not work, lets keep politics out of NY, let them clean up, all they need is the money from D.C.   Thus back to politics folks. 

Deaths in Afghanistan

MOD: Reports that today two UK Soldiers were killed in Afghanistan by a man wearing a Afghan Police Uniform, the Soldiers were from the " 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles ".   Thus since 2001 the UK has lost 437 of its Armed Forces Personnel in Afghanistan, of that total it has lost 394 in combat/hostile action, while 43 have died due to illness, accidents and other incidents.