Highway Superintendent AWOL

Did you wonder why it took so long for the streets in Smithtown to be plowed? It seems the Highway Superintendent decided the day after the election that he was done and left the job.  Of course his paychecks still get delivered to him and Mr. Ryan is supposed to be reporting to work until his official duties have been transfererred in January to the incoming Superintendant. Smithtown gets hit with the worst storm in 26 years and Mr. Ryan feels no guilt or sense of responsibility to the people who initially voted for him and who continue to pay his salary as he allows the Town to operate on auto pilot in the face of the storm. Applause to those officials who stepped up to the plate, councilman Tom McCarthy who was villified by the deomocrates in his recent re-election, was able to give the authority necessary to the department in his role as liaison to the highway department authroizing overtime. Glen Jorgensen the incoming Superintendent stepped in to monitor the snow removal operations during the entire storm showing that Smithtown residents made the right decision to elect him in Novemeber.

Dan Ryan is an embarassment and his behavior during this whole election process has been disgraceful. Lest we forget the day after the primary how he transferred or brought employees who opposed him up on charges depriving them of over time pay based on ridiculous self imposed rules meant to punish his detractors.Although the snow storm had been predicted for days, Ryan never ordered the equipment to be prepared for winter. It is reported that since the election in November no one has even seen him in the highway department.  Well he succeeded in punishing the residents who didn't vote for him, and those who did!  Good job Dan.  Enjoy your retirement.

For Courtney and Nicholas

While we all get ready to celebrate the holidays with our loved ones at least two families in our area are trying to forget that this year there is a Christmas. The parents of Courtney Sipes, the 11 year old girl killed on Main St. in a horrendous hit and run and 15 year old Nicholas Svercel who died while riding his bicycle on 347 are not celebrating this year.
Those of us who live in this town and shuttle our own children to and from this areas can't help but stop and look at the memorials placed on these venues reminding us that a precious life was cut much too short. At this time of year, we all need to vow to Courtney and Nicholas that we will do try harder to make our town a safer place to live.
As a community we need to fix some things that are obviously broken. Perhaps we need re-examine the town speed limit, or move along the plans for Main St. No child should be mowed down in her own community or be afraid to cross a street. Perhaps we need to hire crossing guards as they do in the Hamptons to monitor the crosswalks on Main St. Perhaps we just all need to slow down.
We need to start a discussion as to how to stop this from happening again. We owe that to Courtney and Nicholas.

Wounded Warriors Project

The Smithtown Conservative Party is pleased to announce that we will be teaming up with the Wounded Warriors Project to assist them with their fundraising efforts. This incredible organization has many different avenues which they use to help our dedicated men and women in our armed forces. Our committee is proud to assist in these efforts. I will be meeting with the co-ordinators of the Project after the holidays and will keep you posted as to the activities we will be sponsering. In the interm I will post fundraising efforts by others on behalf of The Wounded Warriors Project and hope that you and your friends and neighbors will avail themselves of some of these worthwhile endeavors. Please see the Soldiers Christmas Project
Happy Holidays and God Bless Our Troops

Nesconset Family in Need of Assitstance

***REMINDER *** ****DEADLINE APPROACHING**** ****REMINDER****
Please join us for a fundraising effort to benefit
The Porter family.
As many people know on November 19th our friend
Bill Porter suffered a very tragic and life threatening accident while helping a neighbor on his Nesconset block.
Throughout his hospitalization and now rehab so many friends and neighbors have wanted to help the Porters. As it has become apparent that his injuries will be permanent and his 30 year career will have to end we feel the best way to help this wonderful family and ease Bill’s transition home is financially.
Please join us on: Friday, January 8th 2010
Place: The Nesconset Firehouse
Gibbs Pond Rd , Nesconset
Time: 7 pm – 11pm
Cost: $40 per person (includes buffet dinner, DJ)
****also Chinese auction, 50/50 blackjack tournament***
Bring friends and neighbors.
**If unable to attend this event donations are accepted**

**PLEASE MAIL OR DROP OFF DONATION BY December 23rd to the following friends:
Mulderig: 35 Whitecliff Ln,Nesconset DeFiore:25 Yarmouth Ln, Nesconset
580-0185 724-2451
Binder: 10 Bonarck Ln,Nesconset Saffron: 21 Glenfield Ln,Nesconset
360-3327 361-7376
Casa: 43 Elderwood Dr, St. James Wallace: 23 Whitecliff Ln, Nesconset
584-9406 648-4882
To donate a basket to be raffled please call Nanette Wallace 516-459-1850.
Your generosity will be greatly appreciated


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Laptops for Wounded Soldiers

The Gathering of Eagles Laptops for Wounded Warriors mission is designed to provide our wounded troops with computers to insure they maintain contact with family and friends via the Internet while recovering at military medical treatment centers across America.

All funding for this mission is provided by private donations. As this is a true grassroots effort, all donations will be used to purchase computers. Please consider a personal donation to bring joy and comfort to our brave troops as they fight to overcome their wounds.

To date fourteen Toshiba laptops with web cams have been donated to our Wounded Warriors to allow them to maintain contact with their familys and friends during their recovery with funding provided by private donations.

Please spread the word to others and find creative ways to raise the required funding. Thanks to the management of Best Buy these laptops are purchased at a average cost of $350.00 per laptop. This low cost makes each laptop a very obtainable goal.
See the donate button on our site or contactGeorge Samek to donate to this worthwhile project:

George Samek
1105 Copas Road
Shallotte NC 28470

Obama-Nation

Since most of us already felt that the only way to end the war on terror was to concentrate on Afghanistan, the President's decision to send more troops came not as a surprise but as sigh that finally he is taking a stand.

Obama tied his decision to order 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan to a pledge that they'll start returning home in 2011. Probably a mistake to let the enemy know we only intend on being there another 18 months Mr. President.
The President's West Point speech Dec. 1 was also mute on his plans for the growing Afghan army, which remains the best - some would say only - way to bring home American personnel. The president assumed full political ownership of the conflict in Afghanistan and all that comes with it prompting many to say that his speech mirrored Bush's when the former Commander in Chief told the country of his decision to enter Iraq.
Obama's rationale for this surge is identical to Bush’s, and the hope is for a similar success.

While it started on a good note, this President can't seem to get through a speech without the need to apologize for our Country. This President needs to grow into his role a little faster as the leader of the free world. Stop apologizing to the world and stop trying to be politically correct. Calling Islam one of the worlds great religions when it was the followers of this religion who crashed our Towers on 9/11 in the name of Islam grates on the nerves of every New Yorker and probably most Americans. Where are the followers of this great religion as we seek to find and punish Bin Laden for his misdeeds to our country, as they instead try to hide him from us as he cowers from cave to cave??

This speech should have united and empowered us again as a nation, with a renewed interest in decimating those who continually seek to hurt and destroy our country. Instead while most of us agree with the decision he ultimately made, it is sad that this President could not stir the passion of the nation he was elected to lead.

The Obama Bow

Opening the morning paper the other day I was shocked and dismayed as many Americans, as I saw the leader of the free world, our President, in a very low bow as he extended his hand to the Japanese Emperor. While I admit to being ignorant of the rules of diplomatic protocol I do not feel I am ill advised when I say:
Presidents don't bow to other world leaders. We don't defer to Kings or Emperors and we do not apologize for being Americans.

U.S. presidents from both political parties often have been criticized for attempts at culturally sensitive greetings to high-ranking foreigners.

Former President George W. Bush, a Republican, was mocked for holding Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah's hand, a traditional sign of friendship in the Middle East, as they strolled together in 2005. I don't think the president should have been holding the Saudi Prince's hand but while I find it personally distasteful it did not bring forth the anger I felt at seeing Obama bow

In 1994, former Democratic President Bill Clinton was criticized for almost bowing to Akihito. The resulting image, The New York Times wrote, was of "an obsequent president and the emperor of Japan." Clinton was quick to distance himself from the purported bow, by calling it a gesture in response to the toast made to him by Akithito.

An online video posted by the University of Connecticut College Republicans juxtaposes a series of upright handshakes between Akihito and other world leaders with Obama's low bow before the emperor.

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters Monday that the bow was "a sign of respect to the emperor."

In an online State Department posting from 2007 titled "Protocol for the Modern Diplomat," envoys are advised to be aware of greeting rituals such as kisses, handshakes or bows and to follow a country's tradition. "Failure to abide with tradition may be interpreted as rudeness or a lack of respect for colleagues," it says. It was not clear whether the guidelines apply to the president. My guess is that they do not.

It was reported by an ABC reporter that at least one Japanese newspaper is not printing the picture of the president's mortifying bow because the Japanese are embarrassed by his behavior. A scholar of traditional Japan tells Mr. Tapper, the ABC correspondent that "The bow… did not just display weakness in Red State terms, but evoked weakness in Japanese terms… The last thing the Japanese want or need is a weak-looking American president."


Someone needs to advise the President that his apologetic words and actions are not only not playing well with the American public but is also an embarassment to our Allies.