Bloomberg, NYC, to Provide Free Flu Shots to All School Children

Mayor Bloomberg announced his plan to provide free flu shots to all city school children yesterday. The program will be administered by school nurses in the form of a nasal spray, both during school hours and on weekends.

The free vaccine is an effort to stop the spread of the swine flue and curb panic among the public. This comes after the White House recently stated that up to half the county could become infected with the serious H1N1 virus.

In addition to the vaccine, the city is implementing additonal measures to keep the public protected against the swine flu such as:

- putting information about the number of flu cases in a particular school on the internet.

- a marketing campaign on subways and buses to help spread information.

- health consultations through 311.

The website tracker of flue cases can be found: www.nyc.gov/flu.

New York State Young Democrats Straw Poll Results

The New York State Young Democrats held their straw poll for the upcoming Democratic Primary tonight in Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn. Below are the results:

Public Advocate: Eric Gioia 45%, Bill Di Blasio 24%, Norman Siegel 17%, Mark Green 14%

Comptroller: John Liu 50.5%, David Yassky 43.8%, Melinda Katz 3.8%, David Weprin 1.9%

Mayor: Bill Thompson 85.1%, Tony Avella 14.9%

Yankees to Win World Series Due to....Obama?

There was an interesting comment made on WFAN 660 AM sports talk radio about the Yankees not winning the World Series whenever a Republican President is in office. Is this true? Let's find out...

To the video tape:

The world series wins in 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000 were all while President Bill Clinton was in the white house.

Then there were the Yankees dark days of the 80's and early 90's while the country was led by Ronald Reagan and George H. Bush.

The next Yankee World Series wins came in 1977 and 1978 while President Jimmy Carter was in office.

Then there were even more dark days during the Ford and Nixon administrations where the Yankees only appearance in the World Series resulted in a sweep by the sword (or red robot arm) of Johnny Bench and the Big Red Machine.

We need to go back to the Administration of John F. Kennedy to find more Yankees Glory and the championships of 1961 and 1962.

Now, here is the hiccup in the theory: the 1953, 1956, and 1958 Yankees Championships while Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the Oval Office -- but everyone knows he was a liberal Republican moderate -- definitely not sharing the same political philosophy as Reagan, Bush 1 or 2, Nixon or even Ford.

The next two Democratic presidents Harry Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt saw 11 Yankees championships while they held the White House from 1933-1955. The Yankees won it all in 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, and 1952!

Republican presidents Herbert Hoover saw a Yankees World Series win in 1932, and his predecessor President Calvin Coolidge witnessed the first three Yankees championships in 1928, 1927, and 1923.

The final verdict:

The Yankees have won 26 world series championships: 19 while a Democrat was president and only 7 when a Republican was president. During the last 50 years, the Yankees have not won a single World Series while a Republican was preisdent.

The Bush Curse?

Everyone likes to say A-rod or Giambi may have been the curse that prevented any Yankees championship since 2000. Perhaps this is the true curse?