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Anyone ever hear about this before? http://iwitness.weat...724/148597.html

You hit the nail on the head. I have friends who are teachers and I say good for them, because they have the moral backbone to admit that they are milking the system (taxpayers) and admit "if someone is gonna why not me". That I can at least respect.

Yeh, maybe I should pay the teachers other debts while we are it. Mortgage, and car, you know because they need to drive to work and a place to live. Isn't that the logic?

You have a lot of balls. EASY! EASY! I work two jobs to pay my school taxes. I give up seeing my children grow up and give up any chance of setting money aside for myself or them one day. The only thing worse than the greed that has taken over our school system, is the ignorance displayed by the ilk that calls themselves teachers here on LI.

The reality is that one should NOT be required to get a masters to teach. You can thank the teachers union for pushing that one through the board of ed. None of the teachers that taught myself and most on here had a masters degree or needed one. Talk to your union and have albany change the policy. Irregardless you would incur college tuition no matter what you field you went into. Expecting the public to re-pay your debt with our childrens saving is not just wrong it is immoral. I could almost accept the 6 figure salaries but paying for someone elses retirement (pension) is just un-ethical. It is a form of spreading the wealth (even though most of us are NOT wealthy) and in reality it is communism.

Parents don't get it, everytime they vote "yes" for "the kids", they are actually voting "NO" for their future. People on LI are complaining because their kids can't afford housing on LI and are forced to leave. Well wake up idiot parents, you created the mess with all your "yes" votes. The school boards would have never given away our money on teachers salaries if they didn't have it in the first place.

It seems that when corporations get "greedy" people don't like it, but when teachers do it they say it is "for the kids". Greed is greed no matter who is doing it. My future retirement is gone to taxes, my kids potentail future college fund has gone to taxes. So a teacher will have a real hard time justifying why my schools $33,000.- cost per student is "for the kids".

Friends of ours say they saw a dead deer on Center Island Beach (Oyster Bay Harbor) when walking once.

I fight and personally represent myself in small claims court every year to reduce my taxes. Still my school taxes where $4,800.00 a year in 1999 and now in 2012 they are $8,200.00. That is just the school portion not my whole tax bill. If the increases keep up at that rate, myself and everyone else on LI (except teachers and cops) will be forced to sell our homes and leave them. Not sure who will buy them or where we will go.

New York: Senate Committee to Consider Microstamping Bill Anti-gunners in New York are back again this year with the same failed microstamping scheme that has been defeated in previous sessions. The New York Senate Codes Committee is scheduled to consider S675B on Tuesday, March 13, and it is imperative that gun owners in New York make their voices heard now.Introduced by state Senator José Peralta (D-13), S675B would require all semi-automatic pistols delivered to any licensed firearms dealer in New York to mechanically stamp an alpha-numeric or geometric code on the cartridge case, which would be used to identify the make, model and serial number of the gun. This unproven technology is easily defeated by criminals and would only add to the cost of firearms. Gun control advocates understand that this is a backdoor attack on the Second Amendment by forcing manufacturers out of the state and driving up the cost of firearms for New Yorkers. It would have terrible repercussions for the state’s economy, as manufacturers would likely pack up and leave the Empire State, taking valuable jobs with them. It is vital that this legislation be defeated in the New York Senate. New York City Mayor Bloomberg and his anti-gun collaborators will spare no expense in pressuring state lawmakers to adopt this harmful gun control scheme. Anti-gun leaders, like Bloomberg, are more desperate than ever as the Governor’s latest budget proposal is striking down one of their other failed pet projects, the CoBIS ballistic imaging database. Like microstamping, this failed gun control scheme has been very costly and has not been used to solve a single crime. Why make the same mistake twice? It is critical that your voice be heard today. Please contact members of the Senate Codes Committee and respectfully ask them to OPPOSE S675B. Their contact information can be found here. This alert is posted to http://www.nraila.org/legislation/state-legislation/2012/03/new-york-senate-committee-to-consider-microstamping-bill.aspx?s=&st=&ps=

Nassau county stopped re-assessing your taxes annually after Mangano took over. That was Suozzi's trick to raise taxes each year. You can hold the line on your taxes by simply voting "NO" and getting your neighbors to vote "NO" on your annual school budget. The budget will still be raised but you will slow the bleeding.

I use a QAD Ultra Rest and you are right that a faster bow will shoot flater over longer distances and as a result will make it easier to hit your target more quickly. It takes the guess work out of "what distance am I" and which pin do I need. Not really related to this line of talk but have you ever seen eastons kinetic energy calculator? http://eastonarchery.com/store/kinetic_calculator

Unlike their northern cousins these guys are not shy. I had 6 land in the middle of a quite road by my house one morning. They didn't seem to know why they landed but they held up traffic for a while before we chased them away.

That photo was taken off the same road you use to go the TR Sanctuary. Their is a flock of wild turkey that hang out in the area too.

This paragraph from the Empire Center Report says it all: http://www.empirecen...ion.12.2010.pdf The cost of replicating a stream of income equaling a typical public pension would be prohibitive for a private sector worker approaching retirement. For example, as of 2009-10, the median retirement age for teachers in NYSTRS was just over 59, and the median annual pension benefit was $47,000. A male private-sector worker would need to save $860,000 to purchase a guaranteed lifetime annuity paying the same income stream starting at the same age. 15 Teachers in New York City suburbs retiring in their mid-50s can qualify for a stream of pension income that would cost $1.2 million to replicate as an annuity. 16 These figures do not include the value of heavily employer-subsidized health insurance coverage, which most teachers also continue to receive throughout retirement. Retiree health insurance coverage is now even more rare than DB pensions in the private sector. 17

Don't me get me started on that non-sense. When they started the pension system in the 1920's no one was making that much and the life expectancy was much shorter. Yes, they should have never amended the consitution but that doesn't make it right. The constitution needs to be revised to correct that mistake. The worst is yet to come for NYS pensioners. The money that is supposed to in the pension system is all NOT there. Future NYS retirees will not see all their pension money when they retire.

If nothing else the agreement that public pensions can be invested in the stock must change. Otherwise like you said the public has to make up the difference when the stocks dive.

That is a great video, I have to bookmark that one.

That's a nice link, I was just giving it a quick look. I have to dig deeper into it. I was at my schools budget meeting last night. I think they are feeling the pressure the over taxed community and even backed off their threat of canceling Kindergarten if they don't get their money.

Where have you seen the droppings? By the harbor or inland?

Caumsett State Park has an interesting history. The original owner had head of cattle when it was his private residence. The family and like to walk the property in the summer.

This was basically on some guys lawn as you headed toward 25A. We have friends in Mill Neck and the deer come into their backyard. I live close to you also

Yep that is exactly where they were. Just a little north of 25A

Yes these were spotted on Oyster Bay, 8 total. Only 4 photographed. I have seen them further west but not in glen cove.

I have had two different sets of deer sightings in Nassau county north of 25A. Has anyone else seen deer.