And about those toll hikes (shhh! don't complain! they might track you down and give you the "Tiananmen Square Treatment" ) - guess whom gets beat up most by this liberal shakedown scam:
An analysis of E-ZPass data reviewed by Gannett Newspapers and Millennium radio shows many middle- and lower-income workers will be disproportionately hit by Corzine's planned toll increases. The analysis was conducted by Jonathan R. Peters, a finance professor who studies transportation costs at the City University of New York, Staten Island. The planned toll increases are so high that residents will make major life decisions, such as where to work, based simply on the tolls. "This may drive some people out of the workforce," Peters told my colleague Jason Method of the Asbury Park Press.
Low- and middle-income areas would see workers paying a disproportionately higher amount of their income to the toll roads, according to Peters' findings.
A governor's spokesman responded with typical Corzine gobbledygook:
"Any analysis that focuses on the toll component of the governor's initiative in isolation is one dimensional and incomplete ... The benefits of debt reduction, programmatic funding of transportation improvements statewide and ending New Jersey's chronic and structural budget problems will pay dividends for all New Jerseyans many decades in the future."
I guess we'll need the money for paying out unemployment benefits that will skyrocket by magnitudes of order. And, prey tell, where will the money come from once the traffic on the toll roads declines due to the oppressive costs?
I think I know who's gonna get hit up....time to stock up on mason jars and a good soil-digging shovel....
Incidentally, the above statement from the governor's spokeman was the stupidest thing uttered by Corzine (or one of his flacks) since he blamed the citzens of New Jersey for the Newark Massacre...
Who'd ever thought one could miss Jim McGreevy?
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Hugo Corzine's Jackboot...
....lands on the neck of any whom dare oppose his proposal to make New Jersey toll roads the world's most expensive. From Land Line, a trucker's site:
Apparently, no one told the police in Middle Township, NJ, that freedom of speech is a constitutional right.
On Saturday, Jan. 19, police arrested two men who had leaflets and signs protesting Gov. Jon Corzine’s plan to drastically increase tolls. The setting was the town’s high school where Corzine was scheduled to appear at a town meeting to make his case for raising tolls.
Before the governor arrived, some 10 toll increase opponents began distributing flyers and displaying signs that read “No toll hikes.” Among those were former Bogota, NJ, Mayor Steven Lonegan and Seth Grossman, an attorney.
Lonegan and Grossman told “Land Line Now” that when they got to the sidewalk near the school, they were confronted by a dozen or more police officers.
“I was surrounded by seven officers,” said Lonegan. “They told me the governor did not want me to hand out flyers.”
Lonegan said he was told it was a “private” meeting.
With more than a dozen years experience as a public official, Lonegan explained to the officers it was actually a “public” meeting, paid for by taxpayers. Lonegan told them it was his right to pass out flyers protesting the toll increases.
“They cuffed me and put me in the patrol car,” he said.
Grossman was also arrested. Both were detained for about an hour after being charged with trespassing.
A retired superior court judge who witnessed the arrests said it was “very scary.” Various media sources quoted him as saying it reminded him of movies he’d seen about Russia and Germany.
“My run-in with freedom of speech in New Jersey was a chilling, oppressive experience,” said Lonegan.
Well, that's what you get in a one-party system. Whether it is the willingness of New Jersey liberals to give up their freedom of speech to avoid voting for a (gasp!) Republican, or the state Republican party's sheer ineptitude in failing to bring more awareness to these increasingly ugly incidents (and failure to recruit any decent candidates), the Democrats of New Jersey know that they are operating securely in a single-party system - a la Communist Russia, China, etc. - and act like it.
And thanks to the good police force of Middle Township for gleefully stamping out free speech with the force of their weaponary and badges. They have no fear either; after all, Corzine and his Democratic ilk has made sure that the citizens of New Jersey are completely unarmed and unable to fight back against his fascist government (and NO, this site does not - DOES NOT - condone violence of any kind against police officers, BUT this is exactly why the framers wrote the Second Amendment into the Constitution - to avoid the usurping of inaliable rights by small-time thugs like Corzine and his paramilitary partners in the local and state police departments.) What next for the Jersey police - herding the Jews to the train stations? Well, if Herr Corzine asks...
The Asbury Park Press sounds the alarm:
With each passing day and each release of new information, Gov. Corzine's plan to hike tolls on New Jersey's toll roads to help pay down state debt makes increasingly less sense. At the same time, his refusal to release details about the plan for months before finally unveiling it three weeks ago becomes easier to understand: The more people know about it, the less they like it.
...a bipartisan committee should be established to consider alternatives to Corzine's monetization of the state's toll roads. Corzine insists no one has come up with a better idea yet. We've offered plenty. And we've heard plenty of sensible ideas from others. Corzine doesn't seem to be listening.
Corzine's attempt to ram through monetizations...must be stopped. It's clear his chief motivation for reducing debt is to free up room for new debt to be used to fund his endless list of costly initiatives — not to reduce the state's oppressive taxes.
But will any heed the call? The "progressives" of New Jersey would rather sink the state into third-world status before rethinking any of their faulty presuppositions. Rolling blackouts, pepper spray, state brutality, and insane spending on extremist liberal causes, here we come....
See below for Mr. Logan's arrest on the charge of.....opposing Governor Corzine's schemes? (hat tip: More Monmouth Musings)
UPDATE: Welcome, friends of Michelle Malkin ! Alas, this blog contains many more True-Life Jersey Horror Stories like the one above; simply search the site using the keyword "Corzine". But be warned: Not for the faint of heart....
Apparently, no one told the police in Middle Township, NJ, that freedom of speech is a constitutional right.
On Saturday, Jan. 19, police arrested two men who had leaflets and signs protesting Gov. Jon Corzine’s plan to drastically increase tolls. The setting was the town’s high school where Corzine was scheduled to appear at a town meeting to make his case for raising tolls.
Before the governor arrived, some 10 toll increase opponents began distributing flyers and displaying signs that read “No toll hikes.” Among those were former Bogota, NJ, Mayor Steven Lonegan and Seth Grossman, an attorney.
Lonegan and Grossman told “Land Line Now” that when they got to the sidewalk near the school, they were confronted by a dozen or more police officers.
“I was surrounded by seven officers,” said Lonegan. “They told me the governor did not want me to hand out flyers.”
Lonegan said he was told it was a “private” meeting.
With more than a dozen years experience as a public official, Lonegan explained to the officers it was actually a “public” meeting, paid for by taxpayers. Lonegan told them it was his right to pass out flyers protesting the toll increases.
“They cuffed me and put me in the patrol car,” he said.
Grossman was also arrested. Both were detained for about an hour after being charged with trespassing.
A retired superior court judge who witnessed the arrests said it was “very scary.” Various media sources quoted him as saying it reminded him of movies he’d seen about Russia and Germany.
“My run-in with freedom of speech in New Jersey was a chilling, oppressive experience,” said Lonegan.
Well, that's what you get in a one-party system. Whether it is the willingness of New Jersey liberals to give up their freedom of speech to avoid voting for a (gasp!) Republican, or the state Republican party's sheer ineptitude in failing to bring more awareness to these increasingly ugly incidents (and failure to recruit any decent candidates), the Democrats of New Jersey know that they are operating securely in a single-party system - a la Communist Russia, China, etc. - and act like it.
And thanks to the good police force of Middle Township for gleefully stamping out free speech with the force of their weaponary and badges. They have no fear either; after all, Corzine and his Democratic ilk has made sure that the citizens of New Jersey are completely unarmed and unable to fight back against his fascist government (and NO, this site does not - DOES NOT - condone violence of any kind against police officers, BUT this is exactly why the framers wrote the Second Amendment into the Constitution - to avoid the usurping of inaliable rights by small-time thugs like Corzine and his paramilitary partners in the local and state police departments.) What next for the Jersey police - herding the Jews to the train stations? Well, if Herr Corzine asks...
The Asbury Park Press sounds the alarm:
With each passing day and each release of new information, Gov. Corzine's plan to hike tolls on New Jersey's toll roads to help pay down state debt makes increasingly less sense. At the same time, his refusal to release details about the plan for months before finally unveiling it three weeks ago becomes easier to understand: The more people know about it, the less they like it.
...a bipartisan committee should be established to consider alternatives to Corzine's monetization of the state's toll roads. Corzine insists no one has come up with a better idea yet. We've offered plenty. And we've heard plenty of sensible ideas from others. Corzine doesn't seem to be listening.
Corzine's attempt to ram through monetizations...must be stopped. It's clear his chief motivation for reducing debt is to free up room for new debt to be used to fund his endless list of costly initiatives — not to reduce the state's oppressive taxes.
But will any heed the call? The "progressives" of New Jersey would rather sink the state into third-world status before rethinking any of their faulty presuppositions. Rolling blackouts, pepper spray, state brutality, and insane spending on extremist liberal causes, here we come....
See below for Mr. Logan's arrest on the charge of.....opposing Governor Corzine's schemes? (hat tip: More Monmouth Musings)
UPDATE: Welcome, friends of Michelle Malkin ! Alas, this blog contains many more True-Life Jersey Horror Stories like the one above; simply search the site using the keyword "Corzine". But be warned: Not for the faint of heart....
Monday, January 21, 2008
Princeton's Lack of Diversity
To "progressives", diversity is only skin-deep. To these deep-thinkers, the color of one's skin determines identity, and a colorful mix of such within your social strata insures you the greatest accolade any liberal can be granted - that of "multiculturalist".
But do diversity of ideas matter? If it does, then Princeton University is the most single-tone dogmatic University in New Jersey; and likely tops in the nation. The Daily Princetonian reports thusly:
All Princeton faculty members who have given to 2008 presidential candidates so far have donated to Democrats, according to federal records of donations to presidential campaigns from Princeton University employees. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is the runaway favorite candidate among those donors, having received $12,050 from Princeton employees. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) drew the second-highest total contributions from Princeton faculty and staff with $5,600. Other donations have gone to candidates including former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.), Gov. Bill Richardson (D-N.M.) and Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.).
Princeton employees' overwhelmingly high support for Democratic candidates — 90 percent of donors who listed the University as their employer gave to a Democrat, and no professors donated to the GOP — outpaces its peers. The Harvard Crimson reported that 86 percent of Harvard professors' contributions went to Democrats, while according to Georgetown's student newspaper, The Hoya, 75 percent of the donations made by the school's employees went to Democratic candidates.
Why Obama is the clear favorite of the ivory-tower types (the race thing again? Or the willful ignorance of those whom enjoy a sheltered academic existence about how the outside world actually works) is something that would take more space (and time and effort and research) than I can afford. But it is this type of moral blindless and close-mindeness that leads to horrors such as this.
Which of course makes it no suprise that Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ), one of the most off-the-cliff liberals in the House, is an old Princeton hand himself. It also explains why the the latter link provides us with goodies like this:
Representative Holt supported the interests of the Americans for Democratic Action 100 percent in 2005.
According to the National Journal - Liberal on Economic Policy's calculations, in 2006, Representative Holt voted more liberal on economic, defense and foreign policy issues than 91 percent of the Representatives.
That's what you get when you elect a Princeton alum...living in a gilded cage does not qualify one to govern the birds flying free. Because you will find that what they really want is for you to get into the cage as well....all for your own good, of course.
But do diversity of ideas matter? If it does, then Princeton University is the most single-tone dogmatic University in New Jersey; and likely tops in the nation. The Daily Princetonian reports thusly:
All Princeton faculty members who have given to 2008 presidential candidates so far have donated to Democrats, according to federal records of donations to presidential campaigns from Princeton University employees. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is the runaway favorite candidate among those donors, having received $12,050 from Princeton employees. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) drew the second-highest total contributions from Princeton faculty and staff with $5,600. Other donations have gone to candidates including former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.), Gov. Bill Richardson (D-N.M.) and Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.).
Princeton employees' overwhelmingly high support for Democratic candidates — 90 percent of donors who listed the University as their employer gave to a Democrat, and no professors donated to the GOP — outpaces its peers. The Harvard Crimson reported that 86 percent of Harvard professors' contributions went to Democrats, while according to Georgetown's student newspaper, The Hoya, 75 percent of the donations made by the school's employees went to Democratic candidates.
Why Obama is the clear favorite of the ivory-tower types (the race thing again? Or the willful ignorance of those whom enjoy a sheltered academic existence about how the outside world actually works) is something that would take more space (and time and effort and research) than I can afford. But it is this type of moral blindless and close-mindeness that leads to horrors such as this.
Which of course makes it no suprise that Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ), one of the most off-the-cliff liberals in the House, is an old Princeton hand himself. It also explains why the the latter link provides us with goodies like this:
Representative Holt supported the interests of the Americans for Democratic Action 100 percent in 2005.
According to the National Journal - Liberal on Economic Policy's calculations, in 2006, Representative Holt voted more liberal on economic, defense and foreign policy issues than 91 percent of the Representatives.
That's what you get when you elect a Princeton alum...living in a gilded cage does not qualify one to govern the birds flying free. Because you will find that what they really want is for you to get into the cage as well....all for your own good, of course.
Friday, January 18, 2008
It's a joke, OK? Jeebus....
The Detroit Red Wing's scout recruits a young Iraqi. The Red Wings sign him to a one year contract and the kid joins the team for the preseason.
Two weeks later the Wings are down 4-0 to the Leafs with only 10 minutes left. The coach gives the young Iraqi the nod and he goes in.
The kid is a sensation - scores 5 goals in 10 minutes and wins the game for the Wings!
When he comes off the ice he phones his mom to tell her about his first day of NHL hockey.
"Hello mom, guess what?" he says. "I played for 10 minutes today, we were 4-0 down, but I scored 5 goals and we won. Everybody loves me, the fans, the media, they all love me."
"Wonderful," says his mom, "Let me tell you about my day."
"Your father got shot in the street and robbed, your sister and I were ambushed, raped and beaten and your brother has joined a gang of looters.....all while you were having such great time."
The young Iraqi is very upset.
"What can I say, mom? I'm so sorry."
"Sorry? You're Sorry?" says his mom. "It's because of you we moved to Detroit in the first place!”
Two weeks later the Wings are down 4-0 to the Leafs with only 10 minutes left. The coach gives the young Iraqi the nod and he goes in.
The kid is a sensation - scores 5 goals in 10 minutes and wins the game for the Wings!
When he comes off the ice he phones his mom to tell her about his first day of NHL hockey.
"Hello mom, guess what?" he says. "I played for 10 minutes today, we were 4-0 down, but I scored 5 goals and we won. Everybody loves me, the fans, the media, they all love me."
"Wonderful," says his mom, "Let me tell you about my day."
"Your father got shot in the street and robbed, your sister and I were ambushed, raped and beaten and your brother has joined a gang of looters.....all while you were having such great time."
The young Iraqi is very upset.
"What can I say, mom? I'm so sorry."
"Sorry? You're Sorry?" says his mom. "It's because of you we moved to Detroit in the first place!”
Monday, January 14, 2008
Only in New Jersey: A Loyalty Oath
Want to attend Bergen Comunity College up in Northern Jersey? Better be ready first to swear your life on the PC Code:
In the full knowledge of the commitment that I am freely willing to undertake as a student, I promise to respect each and every member of the college community without regard to race, creed, political ideology, lifestyle orientation, gender or social status sparing no effort to preserve the dignity of those I will come in contact with as a member of the college community. I promise to Bergen Community College that I will follow this code of responsibility.
1. Honesty, integrity and respect for all will guide my personal conduct.
2. I will embrace and celebrate differing perspectives intellectually.
3. I will build an inclusive community enriched by diversity.
4. I am willing to respect and assist those individuals who are less fortunate.
5. I promise my commitment to civic engagement and to serve the needs of the community to the best of my ability.
Optional? Not according to a college spokeswoman:
"The pledge would not be optional .... If you don't agree, it is President Ryan's vision that you cannot attend the school."
More:
She said students who violated the code would be subject to judiciary hearings now reserved for offenses such as assault.
In the full knowledge of the commitment that I am freely willing to undertake as a student, I promise to respect each and every member of the college community without regard to race, creed, political ideology, lifestyle orientation, gender or social status sparing no effort to preserve the dignity of those I will come in contact with as a member of the college community. I promise to Bergen Community College that I will follow this code of responsibility.
1. Honesty, integrity and respect for all will guide my personal conduct.
2. I will embrace and celebrate differing perspectives intellectually.
3. I will build an inclusive community enriched by diversity.
4. I am willing to respect and assist those individuals who are less fortunate.
5. I promise my commitment to civic engagement and to serve the needs of the community to the best of my ability.
Optional? Not according to a college spokeswoman:
"The pledge would not be optional .... If you don't agree, it is President Ryan's vision that you cannot attend the school."
More:
She said students who violated the code would be subject to judiciary hearings now reserved for offenses such as assault.
As Glenn Reynolds says:
They told me that if George W. Bush were re-elected, college students would be forced to sign loyalty oaths. And they were right!
Wow. So was Orwell...
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Orwell Was Right...
....If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.
-George Orwell (1903–1950). O’Brien to Winston Smith, in "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
Ezra Levant is on trial before the infamous Canadian Human Rights Commission, for daring to publish the Mohammed Cartoons back in 2006.
See part of his Kafka-esque interrogation below. His interrogator - "human rights agent" Shirlene McGovern - is evil incarnate, and perfectly represents its banality:
This is the second of a three-part series; go to LGF to see the rest. The first clip is equally stunning as Mr. Levant opens by denoucing the court and mocking its legitimacy (transcript here).
Wait 'till Hillary wins in '08, and the perpetually aggrieved are running the show....
UPDATE: Alas, Mark Steyn already knows the drill; and he puts forth:
Thus the unending valse macabre of our times, as the supposedly progressive forces of tolerance are whirled around the floor by the avowedly intolerant. Ezra is rightly contemptuous of these "human rights commissions". Canadians should be ashamed of this show trial.
UPDATE II Sun 430P: Ezra Levant, our real-life Joseph K., posts on his trial:
The worst part is that there is no deterrent to spurious complaints -- there is no cost to making false accusations. That's where the "human rights chill" comes in: why would any rational publisher or editor report on sensitive subjects (read: radical Islam) if they knew they would be tagged with a no-win complaint?
That's the point I was making. And after I made it, Officer McGovern said "you're entitled to your opinions, that's for sure."
Well, actually, I'm not, am I? That's the reason I was sitting there. I don't have the right to my opinions, unless she says I do.
His site contains addition video clips as well. This should be the trial of the century; but the media seems to be ignoring it, maybe 'cause it raises the veil on our "progressive" Canadian neighbors that we should always be looking towards?
Well, maybe if there was some genital-flashing involved...
-George Orwell (1903–1950). O’Brien to Winston Smith, in "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
Ezra Levant is on trial before the infamous Canadian Human Rights Commission, for daring to publish the Mohammed Cartoons back in 2006.
See part of his Kafka-esque interrogation below. His interrogator - "human rights agent" Shirlene McGovern - is evil incarnate, and perfectly represents its banality:
This is the second of a three-part series; go to LGF to see the rest. The first clip is equally stunning as Mr. Levant opens by denoucing the court and mocking its legitimacy (transcript here).
Wait 'till Hillary wins in '08, and the perpetually aggrieved are running the show....
UPDATE: Alas, Mark Steyn already knows the drill; and he puts forth:
Thus the unending valse macabre of our times, as the supposedly progressive forces of tolerance are whirled around the floor by the avowedly intolerant. Ezra is rightly contemptuous of these "human rights commissions". Canadians should be ashamed of this show trial.
UPDATE II Sun 430P: Ezra Levant, our real-life Joseph K., posts on his trial:
The worst part is that there is no deterrent to spurious complaints -- there is no cost to making false accusations. That's where the "human rights chill" comes in: why would any rational publisher or editor report on sensitive subjects (read: radical Islam) if they knew they would be tagged with a no-win complaint?
That's the point I was making. And after I made it, Officer McGovern said "you're entitled to your opinions, that's for sure."
Well, actually, I'm not, am I? That's the reason I was sitting there. I don't have the right to my opinions, unless she says I do.
His site contains addition video clips as well. This should be the trial of the century; but the media seems to be ignoring it, maybe 'cause it raises the veil on our "progressive" Canadian neighbors that we should always be looking towards?
Well, maybe if there was some genital-flashing involved...
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Racist Democrats Dragging Down Obama ?
So the polls were wrong - way wrong - and the empty suit took a "shocking" defeat at the hands of the harpy in New Hampshire.
The media, calling this wrong as usual, are loathe to find fault within their bandwagon-jumping souls. So who to blame for this tremendous failure in tea-leave reading? Why, the racist residents of this little Northern state, that's who ! Telling the pollsters they would vote for Obama, and then gleefully pulling a lever for the Wicked Witch of Westchester - how shameful !
One problem with this narrative, however - it is the textbook definition of "pissing into the wind" :
It's worth underscoring, though, that this was a Democratic primary, and that (if exit polls are to be believed) registered independents went heavily for Obama. If Mrs. Clinton benefited from antiblack prejudice, then, it was antiblack prejudice on the part of Democrats.
That's gotta hurt. Truth does that, though...
Funny too that some of the most vile accusations whispered against Obama were by his primary foes...coincidentally, also Democrats:
...Actually, it was (Democrat) Bob Kerrey doing the whole secret-muslim thing and (Democrat) Bill Shaheen doing the sold-cocaine thing and (Democrat) Andrew Young doing the Bill Clinton's-slept-with-more-black-women-than-Obama thing.
Methinks once the media realizes what the warm liquid splashing into their face is, they'll tone down the "race angle" for a while. But it'll come back. Once they believe they can work it to their advantage again...
The media, calling this wrong as usual, are loathe to find fault within their bandwagon-jumping souls. So who to blame for this tremendous failure in tea-leave reading? Why, the racist residents of this little Northern state, that's who ! Telling the pollsters they would vote for Obama, and then gleefully pulling a lever for the Wicked Witch of Westchester - how shameful !
One problem with this narrative, however - it is the textbook definition of "pissing into the wind" :
It's worth underscoring, though, that this was a Democratic primary, and that (if exit polls are to be believed) registered independents went heavily for Obama. If Mrs. Clinton benefited from antiblack prejudice, then, it was antiblack prejudice on the part of Democrats.
That's gotta hurt. Truth does that, though...
Funny too that some of the most vile accusations whispered against Obama were by his primary foes...coincidentally, also Democrats:
...Actually, it was (Democrat) Bob Kerrey doing the whole secret-muslim thing and (Democrat) Bill Shaheen doing the sold-cocaine thing and (Democrat) Andrew Young doing the Bill Clinton's-slept-with-more-black-women-than-Obama thing.
Methinks once the media realizes what the warm liquid splashing into their face is, they'll tone down the "race angle" for a while. But it'll come back. Once they believe they can work it to their advantage again...
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
A Bad Day, Even by New Jersey's Low Standards
Billionaire Jon Corzine decides to balance the state's budget by cutting spending, reducing the outlandish benefits enjoyed by state employees, and by cutting taxes in the hope of spurring revenue growth !
Nah. Not really. Instead he's going to rape the poor and middle class:
Tolls on the Garden State Parkway, New Jersey Turnpike and Atlantic City Expressway could rise by more than 50 percent in 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022 under a plan Gov. Jon S. Corzine unveiled today in his State of the State speech to the Legislature.
"I want to be clear and honest up front: My plan involves significant toll hikes. Those toll hikes will be predictable, fair and reflect increases in the cost of living, past, present and into the future," Corzine said.
Yeah. I guess when you are constantly riding in the back of a limo, and never have to reach into your pocket at the toll plaza, a 550% increase would seem fair!
A 70-cent toll on the Garden State Parkway now could cost between $3.65 and $4.10 in 2022, depending on how the plan factors in inflation. National inflation has averaged 2.6 percent over the past 15 years.
Likewise, a $1 trip on the New Jersey Turnpike could cost between $5.50 and $6.50 by 2022, depending upon inflation. For example, a trip from exit 9 on the Turnpike to exit 15E could see tolls rise from $2.20 today to around $12 in 2022.
Unreal.
And while Corzine gets ready to do the nasty to the willing victims of New Jersey, the legislature is busy creating new avenues of liberal guilt....
New Jersey officially apologized for slavery Monday, becoming the first Northern state to do so.
Red Generation points out what the leftist whores refuse to acknowledge:
2,578 New Jersey soldiers were killed in combat during the Civil War.
2,415 New Jersey soldiers died of disease while serving during the Civil War.
419 New Jersey Soldiers died in prisoner of war camps during the Civil War.
In addition, the hard service of combat and the mind-wrenching horrors of battle also saw 67,500 New Jersians....
That speaks louder than any apology, no? But one thing we all know about liberals: They would rather apologize than fight.
Can you stomach more? Bob Ingle of the Park-Press describes how the shamefully wasteful new state school aid plan passed; I'll give you his lead paragraph:
At 1:06 AM today, the Assembly finally shut up and called it a day in a legislative session in which both the lower house and Senate demonstrated what a mostly sorry collection of trough-swillers they really are -- the best lawmakers money can buy.
Want to know what the result of this liberal utopia is? Enlighten lays it out:
New Jersey had a net 2006-2007 internal migration loss of 69,160 people… [4th highest in the nation - ed.]
And as he so eloquently puts it:
The state’s actions also has the side benefit of encouraging people who pay taxes to leave.
And there's the fault in the liberal's plan, one that they refuse to acknowledge: Their punative tax codes and interest-group giveaways are only effective if there are enough people willing to be victimized by their scams. If the victims decides they have had enough, and walk, the Ponzi scheme collapses.
Unless, of course, Corzine and his Democratic ilk build one of those walls, or "fences", used so effectively in the past by "People's States" to prevent their subjects from leaving....
Argh. See, this is why I quit blogging in the first place....
Nah. Not really. Instead he's going to rape the poor and middle class:
Tolls on the Garden State Parkway, New Jersey Turnpike and Atlantic City Expressway could rise by more than 50 percent in 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022 under a plan Gov. Jon S. Corzine unveiled today in his State of the State speech to the Legislature.
"I want to be clear and honest up front: My plan involves significant toll hikes. Those toll hikes will be predictable, fair and reflect increases in the cost of living, past, present and into the future," Corzine said.
Yeah. I guess when you are constantly riding in the back of a limo, and never have to reach into your pocket at the toll plaza, a 550% increase would seem fair!
A 70-cent toll on the Garden State Parkway now could cost between $3.65 and $4.10 in 2022, depending on how the plan factors in inflation. National inflation has averaged 2.6 percent over the past 15 years.
Likewise, a $1 trip on the New Jersey Turnpike could cost between $5.50 and $6.50 by 2022, depending upon inflation. For example, a trip from exit 9 on the Turnpike to exit 15E could see tolls rise from $2.20 today to around $12 in 2022.
Unreal.
And while Corzine gets ready to do the nasty to the willing victims of New Jersey, the legislature is busy creating new avenues of liberal guilt....
New Jersey officially apologized for slavery Monday, becoming the first Northern state to do so.
Red Generation points out what the leftist whores refuse to acknowledge:
2,578 New Jersey soldiers were killed in combat during the Civil War.
2,415 New Jersey soldiers died of disease while serving during the Civil War.
419 New Jersey Soldiers died in prisoner of war camps during the Civil War.
In addition, the hard service of combat and the mind-wrenching horrors of battle also saw 67,500 New Jersians....
That speaks louder than any apology, no? But one thing we all know about liberals: They would rather apologize than fight.
Can you stomach more? Bob Ingle of the Park-Press describes how the shamefully wasteful new state school aid plan passed; I'll give you his lead paragraph:
At 1:06 AM today, the Assembly finally shut up and called it a day in a legislative session in which both the lower house and Senate demonstrated what a mostly sorry collection of trough-swillers they really are -- the best lawmakers money can buy.
Want to know what the result of this liberal utopia is? Enlighten lays it out:
New Jersey had a net 2006-2007 internal migration loss of 69,160 people… [4th highest in the nation - ed.]
And as he so eloquently puts it:
The state’s actions also has the side benefit of encouraging people who pay taxes to leave.
And there's the fault in the liberal's plan, one that they refuse to acknowledge: Their punative tax codes and interest-group giveaways are only effective if there are enough people willing to be victimized by their scams. If the victims decides they have had enough, and walk, the Ponzi scheme collapses.
Unless, of course, Corzine and his Democratic ilk build one of those walls, or "fences", used so effectively in the past by "People's States" to prevent their subjects from leaving....
Argh. See, this is why I quit blogging in the first place....
Sunday, January 06, 2008
Agents of CHANGE ?
Reminds me of Maxwell Smart's KAOS....
Two theories of CHANGE, from NRO:
I love it every time Hillary says "I've been an agent of change" - it makes CHANGE sound like some deeply sinister SMERSH-type acronym. Was she like Valerie Plame? A covert agent of CHANGE?
CHANGE defined:
....on Hillary's covert work as an agent of C*H*A*N*G*E, Mark and Jonah just figured out what the acronym stands for: Corporate Hatred And New Government Expenditures.
Scarier than KAOS, indeed....
Two theories of CHANGE, from NRO:
I love it every time Hillary says "I've been an agent of change" - it makes CHANGE sound like some deeply sinister SMERSH-type acronym. Was she like Valerie Plame? A covert agent of CHANGE?
CHANGE defined:
....on Hillary's covert work as an agent of C*H*A*N*G*E, Mark and Jonah just figured out what the acronym stands for: Corporate Hatred And New Government Expenditures.
Scarier than KAOS, indeed....
KAOS. An International organisation of evil formed in 1904 in Bucharest to forment global unrest and revolution. Agent 86, Maxwell Smart, disputed the inception date, claiming it was more like 1957. I don't think anytone really knows if the letters individually stand for anything or whether it's just intened to be a play against its nemesis, good-guy spy organization CONTROL. Maybe the artist meant to letter CHAOS but missed it by 'that' much!
Saturday, January 05, 2008
You Learn Something New Every Day....
....even if it is from a link close to six years old. Yeah, Hillary was booed off the stage the other night at a Democratic gathering, but if you didn't know this was not the first time, well, there is a reason for that:
Senator Clinton was booed when she walked on stage last October at a rock concert in Madison Square Garden to benefit 9/11 victims. It was shown live by VH1 but, as ABC's John Stossel illustrated in a July 20/20 special on media distortions, when the Viacom-owned cable channel replayed it sound technicians replaced the booing with cheering and applause. And that version is the permanent record VH1 put onto its DVD of the event.
Wonder if we'll start to see the same courtesy extended to their newest darling...
Senator Clinton was booed when she walked on stage last October at a rock concert in Madison Square Garden to benefit 9/11 victims. It was shown live by VH1 but, as ABC's John Stossel illustrated in a July 20/20 special on media distortions, when the Viacom-owned cable channel replayed it sound technicians replaced the booing with cheering and applause. And that version is the permanent record VH1 put onto its DVD of the event.
Wonder if we'll start to see the same courtesy extended to their newest darling...
That Wacky Iowa Caucus !
I guess if I still blogged, I would feel compelled to write about it. Still, this guy has the right idea...
Monday, December 31, 2007
Should auld acquaintance be forgot...?
Happy New Year, everyone.
"And surely you will pay for your pint,
And surely I will pay for mine!
And we will take a cup of kindness yet
For auld lang syne!"
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007
Denouement
"Right, Wing Nut!" is taking a break - perhaps permanent, perhaps not.
Both the quantity and quality of my posting has diminshed lately. There's a few reasons for that:
- I have a new job (well, since last May) which sucks up much of what used to be "free time". Not necessarily complaining (yet), nice to get paid close to what my value is, but boy-oh-boy do they extract their pound of flesh.
- somewhat related is that Blogger is one of the few sites that is inaccessible from my office computer; which disallows the old "lunchtime post". It's always been a dangerous game, as I have been in the media business for some time (a tough place for a conservative), but now as a full time employee of one of the major "MSM" outlets, caution in this regard would probably make sense anyway.
-most importantly, my passion has dimished.
Really, am I adding anything new to the dialogue? Lately I have done more "reporting" than analysis; and I always felt that context and analysis is one of the most important functions of the blogosphere (one the MSM sorely lacks). There is plenty to write about, both locally and nationally, and yet I cannot rouse myself to do more of the important work; with multiple links backing up my "thesis statement", or debunking another's false hypothesis. These have been my best read, best linked, and most "meaningful" works (even occasionally drawing responses/rebukes from public officials -sweet!); and I honestly haven't done a good one in a long, long time.
Lately I don't feel I've made a dime's worth of difference (if I ever did!). If I am simply reprinting a news article or someone else's post with a few snarky comments of my own, well... what is the point?
Interestingly enough, my readership has steadily increased while my "inbound links" have steadily decreased. Maybe snark is my forte? If so, then that is a different project altogether...!
So I am taking some time off until I find myself again. I love to write (although I do not have the talent or wit of some), and I will begin posting again. I do not know if it will be here under the guise of The Jerseynut, or if it will be something completely different. I do have many stories I would love to tell (it's been "a wonderful life", for which I thank God) that are not politically related; perhaps I will shutter this old storefront up for good and hang a shingle in another far-off corner of the 'sphere, sitting in the digital equivalent of a rocking chair on the wooden deck of a rural cottage, spinnin' my yarns...or perhaps I will return here, with a more certain and strong voice.
Time will tell.
Special thanks to the 75+ folk who seem to stop by here on a daily basis; I appreciate and honor the respect you have shown me.
I think I'll simply post a picture on top of my final disquisition here, kind of like a test pattern that TV stations used to run when they "signed off" for the evenings. I'll switch it every now and again, just so one may know that I still live in some way, shape, or form. Maybe it'll go off one day and I will start here anew, like a small-town TV station returning to the air at 5AM on a dead morning.
And should I decide to re-appear elsewhere, I promise I will leave at least a hint of a forwarding address...
Thank you. Thank you all, very much.
Be well.
Both the quantity and quality of my posting has diminshed lately. There's a few reasons for that:
- I have a new job (well, since last May) which sucks up much of what used to be "free time". Not necessarily complaining (yet), nice to get paid close to what my value is, but boy-oh-boy do they extract their pound of flesh.
- somewhat related is that Blogger is one of the few sites that is inaccessible from my office computer; which disallows the old "lunchtime post". It's always been a dangerous game, as I have been in the media business for some time (a tough place for a conservative), but now as a full time employee of one of the major "MSM" outlets, caution in this regard would probably make sense anyway.
-most importantly, my passion has dimished.
Really, am I adding anything new to the dialogue? Lately I have done more "reporting" than analysis; and I always felt that context and analysis is one of the most important functions of the blogosphere (one the MSM sorely lacks). There is plenty to write about, both locally and nationally, and yet I cannot rouse myself to do more of the important work; with multiple links backing up my "thesis statement", or debunking another's false hypothesis. These have been my best read, best linked, and most "meaningful" works (even occasionally drawing responses/rebukes from public officials -sweet!); and I honestly haven't done a good one in a long, long time.
Lately I don't feel I've made a dime's worth of difference (if I ever did!). If I am simply reprinting a news article or someone else's post with a few snarky comments of my own, well... what is the point?
Interestingly enough, my readership has steadily increased while my "inbound links" have steadily decreased. Maybe snark is my forte? If so, then that is a different project altogether...!
So I am taking some time off until I find myself again. I love to write (although I do not have the talent or wit of some), and I will begin posting again. I do not know if it will be here under the guise of The Jerseynut, or if it will be something completely different. I do have many stories I would love to tell (it's been "a wonderful life", for which I thank God) that are not politically related; perhaps I will shutter this old storefront up for good and hang a shingle in another far-off corner of the 'sphere, sitting in the digital equivalent of a rocking chair on the wooden deck of a rural cottage, spinnin' my yarns...or perhaps I will return here, with a more certain and strong voice.
Time will tell.
Special thanks to the 75+ folk who seem to stop by here on a daily basis; I appreciate and honor the respect you have shown me.
I think I'll simply post a picture on top of my final disquisition here, kind of like a test pattern that TV stations used to run when they "signed off" for the evenings. I'll switch it every now and again, just so one may know that I still live in some way, shape, or form. Maybe it'll go off one day and I will start here anew, like a small-town TV station returning to the air at 5AM on a dead morning.
And should I decide to re-appear elsewhere, I promise I will leave at least a hint of a forwarding address...
Thank you. Thank you all, very much.
Be well.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Corzine delivers a knockout blow to boxing in New Jersey !
What a grand list of accomplishments Jon Corzine has as Governor of New Jersey! First, he shreds the social contract by pushing the legalization of gay marriage, he spends us into bankruptcy with liberal pork projects, he endangers the safety of every man, woman, and child by turning the state into an illegal-immigrant "sanctuary zone", he attempts (and fails, hopefully, with the stunnung defeat of the bill's two biggest backers) to eliminate hunting and fishing while supporting the rights of bears over humans, and finally...drives out the nation's best boxing commissioner because he dared warn of flaws in the system:
When New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram fired boxing commissioner Larry Hazzard last week, it removed another experienced boxing administrator from a sport that sorely needs as much help as it can get.
.... Hazzard was forced out, leaving behind a situation that he believes will be hazardous to the health and safety of boxers and mix martial arts fighters who fight in New Jersey.
The attorney general's office would not comment on why Hazzard was fired. Hazzard was appointed to the newly created New Jersey State Athletic Control Board by Gov. Tom Kean in 1985 and had served at the pleasure of the other governors since. Apparently, Gov. Jon Corzine wasn't too pleased when Hazzard sent him a letter outlining his concerns that his staff had been gutted of experienced people and that had created a situation that was putting boxers in jeopardy.
"We had highly paid indviduals who make $90,000 doing nothing more than inputting data into computers," Hazzard said by telephone from his Edison, N.J., home this past week. "Some of the blunders that were being made are very serious and putting boxers in situations that could lead them to being seriously injured or killed."
Hazzard said he had his lawyer, James Binns, put those concerns in a letter that was sent to Gov. Corzine.
"I asked for some assistance in addressing these issues," Hazzard said. "Instead of addressing the issues that needed to be addressed, they brought me into the office, thanked me for my years of service and let me go."....
Hazzard, who was one of the best referees in the game before moving to the administrative side of boxing, wasn't going to win any contests for Mr. Congeniality. But the New Jersey boxing commission was one of the best in the world under his leadership....
Ah, there's the problem! Not that Corzine had his cronies making almost six-figures doing (a poor job of) data entry, but that New Jersey (gasp!) was the best at something. Why, that might make other states feel bad, and lead to hurt feelings!
So was Corzine's motive vengence, or liberal stupidity? Does it matter? Once again, under his leadership, New Jersey continues to sink into national irrelevance, while becoming a national joke...
When New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram fired boxing commissioner Larry Hazzard last week, it removed another experienced boxing administrator from a sport that sorely needs as much help as it can get.
.... Hazzard was forced out, leaving behind a situation that he believes will be hazardous to the health and safety of boxers and mix martial arts fighters who fight in New Jersey.
The attorney general's office would not comment on why Hazzard was fired. Hazzard was appointed to the newly created New Jersey State Athletic Control Board by Gov. Tom Kean in 1985 and had served at the pleasure of the other governors since. Apparently, Gov. Jon Corzine wasn't too pleased when Hazzard sent him a letter outlining his concerns that his staff had been gutted of experienced people and that had created a situation that was putting boxers in jeopardy.
"We had highly paid indviduals who make $90,000 doing nothing more than inputting data into computers," Hazzard said by telephone from his Edison, N.J., home this past week. "Some of the blunders that were being made are very serious and putting boxers in situations that could lead them to being seriously injured or killed."
Hazzard said he had his lawyer, James Binns, put those concerns in a letter that was sent to Gov. Corzine.
"I asked for some assistance in addressing these issues," Hazzard said. "Instead of addressing the issues that needed to be addressed, they brought me into the office, thanked me for my years of service and let me go."....
Hazzard, who was one of the best referees in the game before moving to the administrative side of boxing, wasn't going to win any contests for Mr. Congeniality. But the New Jersey boxing commission was one of the best in the world under his leadership....
Ah, there's the problem! Not that Corzine had his cronies making almost six-figures doing (a poor job of) data entry, but that New Jersey (gasp!) was the best at something. Why, that might make other states feel bad, and lead to hurt feelings!
So was Corzine's motive vengence, or liberal stupidity? Does it matter? Once again, under his leadership, New Jersey continues to sink into national irrelevance, while becoming a national joke...
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Dissection
The serial tanking of virtually each and every anti-war/anti-American movie that Hollywood has vomited out has been the subject of many a blogosphere post over the last week or so, but I found the ideas posited by Roger Simon to be the most disturbing. He knows Hollywood - he lives there, works there, socializes there - and his analysis of the industry's elite is just...revolting. Literally. Read his post, and one can literally visualize our so-called"legends" melting, melting into foul goo, with a writhing not unlike the last moments of the Wicked Witch of the West:
....And there is another benefit. (Here is where I am really going to make enemies.) Making movies like these or making extreme liberal public pronouncements make you seem like a good guy to yourself, when in your private life you are a miserable, self-serving bastard.
In order to understand how important that is you must never forget that Hollywood is a brutal place. It is just as vicious and competitive as dramatized in TV shows like Entourage, only nowhere near as entertaining. Only the most ambitious and determined survive and, to do that, the chances are you will not come out of the process a nice person. You will step on the backs of your colleagues, mistreat your staff and have generally erratic personal relationships based much more on status and connections than love or genuine affection.
Of course I am overstating to make a point, but I have noticed, in the years I have worked in Hollywood, that, with rare exceptions, the more successful people are, the more wretched they are to others. And those with the most obvious public liberal credentials are often the ones who are the most despicable in their private behavior...
Much of this public liberalism of the excessive knee-jerk variety stems from a form of self-loathing. These same people do not want to be bastards – life just put them in that position. But, at the same time, they do not want anyone to take away what they have – the vast acclaim and fortune – even if deep down they wonder if they are worthy. What to do? What to do?
The solution is to create another self, a kind of mini-me, who goes out and loudly proclaims what a fine liberal humanistic person he or she is- a public projection to obfuscate the private self. Sometimes this results in actual good works, but usually it is basically blather (see Streisand’s website) or dopey showing off like Sean Penn putting in an appearance with Hugo Chavez.
Other times, distorted work emerges like the current group of films no one wants to see.
There is something about this that rings so true (and I do not doubt that Roger will lose some friends over this post) that even the thought of going to another movie makes my stomach churn.
F*ck 'em all. I'm gonna stay home and watch hockey instead...
....And there is another benefit. (Here is where I am really going to make enemies.) Making movies like these or making extreme liberal public pronouncements make you seem like a good guy to yourself, when in your private life you are a miserable, self-serving bastard.
In order to understand how important that is you must never forget that Hollywood is a brutal place. It is just as vicious and competitive as dramatized in TV shows like Entourage, only nowhere near as entertaining. Only the most ambitious and determined survive and, to do that, the chances are you will not come out of the process a nice person. You will step on the backs of your colleagues, mistreat your staff and have generally erratic personal relationships based much more on status and connections than love or genuine affection.
Of course I am overstating to make a point, but I have noticed, in the years I have worked in Hollywood, that, with rare exceptions, the more successful people are, the more wretched they are to others. And those with the most obvious public liberal credentials are often the ones who are the most despicable in their private behavior...
Much of this public liberalism of the excessive knee-jerk variety stems from a form of self-loathing. These same people do not want to be bastards – life just put them in that position. But, at the same time, they do not want anyone to take away what they have – the vast acclaim and fortune – even if deep down they wonder if they are worthy. What to do? What to do?
The solution is to create another self, a kind of mini-me, who goes out and loudly proclaims what a fine liberal humanistic person he or she is- a public projection to obfuscate the private self. Sometimes this results in actual good works, but usually it is basically blather (see Streisand’s website) or dopey showing off like Sean Penn putting in an appearance with Hugo Chavez.
Other times, distorted work emerges like the current group of films no one wants to see.
There is something about this that rings so true (and I do not doubt that Roger will lose some friends over this post) that even the thought of going to another movie makes my stomach churn.
F*ck 'em all. I'm gonna stay home and watch hockey instead...
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Veteran's Day 2007
Praise and honor unto all those whom have put their lives on the line answering our nation's call; I'll let others who articulte better than I have the last word(s):
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! ~Maya Angelou
In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935
"It is the soldier, not the reporter who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us the freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who gives us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag." ~Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, Sergeant, USMC
“The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.” –Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing is worth a war, is worse.” –John Stuart Mill
“No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.” –Woodrow Wilson
Now sing it with me:
And I'm proud to be an American,
where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.
~Lee Greenwood
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! ~Maya Angelou
In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935
"It is the soldier, not the reporter who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us the freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who gives us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag." ~Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, Sergeant, USMC
“The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.” –Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing is worth a war, is worse.” –John Stuart Mill
“No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.” –Woodrow Wilson
Now sing it with me:
And I'm proud to be an American,
where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.
~Lee Greenwood
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Lest We Forget...
....may I bring up a "grim milestone", to borrow a MSM phrase?
In Paris, on Nov. 7, 1938, a 17-year-old boy, Herschel Grynszpan, distraught over the treatment of his German Jewish parents in Poland, shot and killed the German minor official Herr von Rath. That was the excuse for Kristallnacht two days later.
Thousands of people participated in this horrendous carnage, an organized massacre dictated by Berlin. Not just hoodlums, but ordinary middle-class men and women, neighbors, former friends, smashed windows, looted Jewish shops, burned synagogues, tortured and beat senseless thousands of Jews and the rest sent to concentration camps. In my Vienna, the bloodshed was even greater; hundreds of Jews committed suicide. There it happened on Nov. 9. Austrians had one great regret, that so much needless damage was inflicted on property.
Crystal Night was the beginning of the Holocaust. It sowed the seeds for the Second World War. Had Hitler been stopped at that time, the war and genocide might have been avoided. All these valuable people, Jews who had contributed so much to the world in science, art, music, mores and medicine, could have continued giving their invaluable gifts to mankind.
Europe, it appears has not forgotten - instead, it appears hell-bent on creating a sequel. Check out the fun the Brits are having:
...According to the police, Jews are four times more likely to be attacked because of their religion than are Muslims.
Every synagogue service and Jewish communal event now requires guards on the lookout for violence from both neo-Nazis and Muslim extremists. Orthodox Jews have become particular targets; some have begun wearing baseball caps instead of skullcaps and concealing their Star of David jewelry.
Anti-Semitism is rife within Britain’s Muslim community. Islamic bookshops sell copies of Hitler’s Mein Kampf and the notorious czarist forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion; as an undercover TV documentary revealed in January, imams routinely preach anti-Jewish sermons.
Opinion polls show that nearly two-fifths of Britain’s Muslims believe that the Jewish community in Britain is a legitimate target “as part of the ongoing struggle for justice in the Middle East”; that more than half believe that British Jews have “too much influence over the direction of UK foreign policy”; and that no fewer than 46 percent think that the Jewish community is “in league with Freemasons to control the media and politics.”
But anti-Semitism has also become respectable in mainstream British society. “Anti-Jewish themes and remarks are gaining acceptability in some quarters in public and private discourse in Britain and there is a danger that this trend will become more and more mainstream,” reported a Parliamentary inquiry last year. “It is this phenomenon that has contributed to an atmosphere where Jews have become more anxious and more vulnerable to abuse and attack than at any other time for a generation or longer.”
Of course, like in 1939, the Jews can be blamed for bringing it all on themselves.
Does it matter? When we say "never again", we don't mean it. We just say it, and hope it can be worked out via an international peace conference. If not -and the worst happens - we can always protest to the UN as a last resort....
In Paris, on Nov. 7, 1938, a 17-year-old boy, Herschel Grynszpan, distraught over the treatment of his German Jewish parents in Poland, shot and killed the German minor official Herr von Rath. That was the excuse for Kristallnacht two days later.
Thousands of people participated in this horrendous carnage, an organized massacre dictated by Berlin. Not just hoodlums, but ordinary middle-class men and women, neighbors, former friends, smashed windows, looted Jewish shops, burned synagogues, tortured and beat senseless thousands of Jews and the rest sent to concentration camps. In my Vienna, the bloodshed was even greater; hundreds of Jews committed suicide. There it happened on Nov. 9. Austrians had one great regret, that so much needless damage was inflicted on property.
Crystal Night was the beginning of the Holocaust. It sowed the seeds for the Second World War. Had Hitler been stopped at that time, the war and genocide might have been avoided. All these valuable people, Jews who had contributed so much to the world in science, art, music, mores and medicine, could have continued giving their invaluable gifts to mankind.
Europe, it appears has not forgotten - instead, it appears hell-bent on creating a sequel. Check out the fun the Brits are having:
...According to the police, Jews are four times more likely to be attacked because of their religion than are Muslims.
Every synagogue service and Jewish communal event now requires guards on the lookout for violence from both neo-Nazis and Muslim extremists. Orthodox Jews have become particular targets; some have begun wearing baseball caps instead of skullcaps and concealing their Star of David jewelry.
Anti-Semitism is rife within Britain’s Muslim community. Islamic bookshops sell copies of Hitler’s Mein Kampf and the notorious czarist forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion; as an undercover TV documentary revealed in January, imams routinely preach anti-Jewish sermons.
Opinion polls show that nearly two-fifths of Britain’s Muslims believe that the Jewish community in Britain is a legitimate target “as part of the ongoing struggle for justice in the Middle East”; that more than half believe that British Jews have “too much influence over the direction of UK foreign policy”; and that no fewer than 46 percent think that the Jewish community is “in league with Freemasons to control the media and politics.”
But anti-Semitism has also become respectable in mainstream British society. “Anti-Jewish themes and remarks are gaining acceptability in some quarters in public and private discourse in Britain and there is a danger that this trend will become more and more mainstream,” reported a Parliamentary inquiry last year. “It is this phenomenon that has contributed to an atmosphere where Jews have become more anxious and more vulnerable to abuse and attack than at any other time for a generation or longer.”
Of course, like in 1939, the Jews can be blamed for bringing it all on themselves.
Does it matter? When we say "never again", we don't mean it. We just say it, and hope it can be worked out via an international peace conference. If not -and the worst happens - we can always protest to the UN as a last resort....
Thursday, November 08, 2007
New Jersey: Not So Deep Blue?
The signs are there:
Republicans swept the hard-fought races in the 12th Legislative District, where Democratic state Sen. Ellen Karcher conceded to GOP Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck Tuesday night. Beck was outspent almost 6 to 1 by Democrats; the state party poured millions of dollars into the race.
That's bad news for the Democrats, for sure, when folks are ignoring their propoganda and voting with their gut.
Toms River weighs in:
Come January, Republicans will occupy the Toms River mayoral seat and all seven council seats, after they swept the general election Tuesday, according to unofficial results released by the Ocean County Clerk's Office.
The Asbury Park Press makes the point:
It was a sweet night for Republicans in Monmouth and Ocean counties Tuesday.
Republicans won all 18 available seats in the Legislature.
Not to bad for Middlesex, either:
SAYREVILLE — Sayreville Republicans ran away with Tuesday's election, which found incumbent Kennedy O'Brien re-elected to the mayoral post for a third term and the party picking up two, three-year Borough Council seats.
And the Dems were thwarted in Old Bridge as they tried to steal one:
Democrats in Old Bridge have conceded the final council seat they had been disputing into the late hours of Tuesday's elections. The last of three contested at-large township council posts will go to Republican Brian J. Cahill..
And one last gloat about the defeat of Corzine's pet stem-cell initiative:
In rejecting borrowing $450 million to fund stem cell research, New Jersey voters dealt a blow to Democratic Gov. Jon S. Corzine and supporters who touted the funding as key to finding cures and boosting the state economy.
Corzine spent $200,000 to help run ads supporting the measure that would have funded 10 years of research on embryonic and adult stem cells and he campaigned heavily for it, but 53 percent of voters rejected the spending.
There's a breeze a blowin' thru Jersey, folks...with God's blessing it will only pick up strength.
More here and here....and for a less enthusiastic analysis (but perhaps more realistic?), pull over at the Parkway Rest Stop...
Republicans swept the hard-fought races in the 12th Legislative District, where Democratic state Sen. Ellen Karcher conceded to GOP Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck Tuesday night. Beck was outspent almost 6 to 1 by Democrats; the state party poured millions of dollars into the race.
That's bad news for the Democrats, for sure, when folks are ignoring their propoganda and voting with their gut.
Toms River weighs in:
Come January, Republicans will occupy the Toms River mayoral seat and all seven council seats, after they swept the general election Tuesday, according to unofficial results released by the Ocean County Clerk's Office.
The Asbury Park Press makes the point:
It was a sweet night for Republicans in Monmouth and Ocean counties Tuesday.
Republicans won all 18 available seats in the Legislature.
Not to bad for Middlesex, either:
SAYREVILLE — Sayreville Republicans ran away with Tuesday's election, which found incumbent Kennedy O'Brien re-elected to the mayoral post for a third term and the party picking up two, three-year Borough Council seats.
And the Dems were thwarted in Old Bridge as they tried to steal one:
Democrats in Old Bridge have conceded the final council seat they had been disputing into the late hours of Tuesday's elections. The last of three contested at-large township council posts will go to Republican Brian J. Cahill..
And one last gloat about the defeat of Corzine's pet stem-cell initiative:
In rejecting borrowing $450 million to fund stem cell research, New Jersey voters dealt a blow to Democratic Gov. Jon S. Corzine and supporters who touted the funding as key to finding cures and boosting the state economy.
Corzine spent $200,000 to help run ads supporting the measure that would have funded 10 years of research on embryonic and adult stem cells and he campaigned heavily for it, but 53 percent of voters rejected the spending.
There's a breeze a blowin' thru Jersey, folks...with God's blessing it will only pick up strength.
More here and here....and for a less enthusiastic analysis (but perhaps more realistic?), pull over at the Parkway Rest Stop...
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Promising Election Results in New Jersey ?
As a Republican, every election night in New Jersey is a Stephen King novel come to life, with electoral horrors to boggle the mind and sear the soul.
Last night's results are all yet to be fully tallied, but here's what I like best so far - that at least two of those insane ballot "propositions" look likely to go down. And it's a repudiation of the idiocy of Jon Corzine by the state's voters. To wit:
Gov. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) voted Tuesday at a Hoboken firehouse, and took time to give his agendas a last-minute push.
New Jersey voters are heading to the polls to elect 120 lawmakers to the state Senate and Assembly. They are also taking up the issue of whether the state should borrow millions for open space preservation and stem cell research.
"We can be on the very cutting edge on helping human beings, families, fighting degenerative diseases," Corzine said of the stem cell measure....
Let's see how the governor did with his attempt to use half a billion dollars of New Jersey taxpayer dollars in order to poke a stick in George Bush's eye:
Question 2 - Stem Cell Research -- 4,134 of 6,289 precincts reporting (66%)
No 450,099 - 54%
Yes 381,271 - 46%
And what about his scam to use a tax hike in order to set up...another tax hike? Hmmm, not so well, Guvvie :
Question 1 - Dedicated Use of Taxes -- 4,134 of 6,289 precincts reporting (66%)
No 438,738 - 54%
Yes 377,045 - 46%
And can I be any prouder of my home district? We re-elected one of the best Republican lawmakers in the state with a boffo margin (and kept good folks in the Assembly as well):
State Senate - District 13 -- 109 of 156 precincts reporting (70%)
Joe Kyrillos GOP 18,527 - 63%
Leonard Inzerillo Dem 11,049 - 37%
State Assembly - District 13 -- 109 of 156 precincts reporting (70%)
Samuel Thompson GOP 16,254 - 29%
Amy Handlin GOP 16,712 -29%
Patricia Walsh Dem 12,355 - 22%
Bob Brown Dem 11,422 - 20%
At this juncture, it appears as if the Democrats have not picked up any additional seats locally this year - and yes, that's a win at this point in time in New Jersey. You need to stop the wave before you can turn it back...and with the key '08 elections rushing down upon us, this is as good a time as any to make a stand.
Finally - looks like Corzine's "idiot" statute - or "Voting Rights", to use Orwellian Newspeak - has passed:
Question 4 - Voting Rights -- 4,149 of 6,289 precincts reporting (66%)
Yes 479,368 - 59%
No 328,526 - 41%
Too bad -guess he still gets to vote....
Last night's results are all yet to be fully tallied, but here's what I like best so far - that at least two of those insane ballot "propositions" look likely to go down. And it's a repudiation of the idiocy of Jon Corzine by the state's voters. To wit:
Gov. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) voted Tuesday at a Hoboken firehouse, and took time to give his agendas a last-minute push.
New Jersey voters are heading to the polls to elect 120 lawmakers to the state Senate and Assembly. They are also taking up the issue of whether the state should borrow millions for open space preservation and stem cell research.
"We can be on the very cutting edge on helping human beings, families, fighting degenerative diseases," Corzine said of the stem cell measure....
Let's see how the governor did with his attempt to use half a billion dollars of New Jersey taxpayer dollars in order to poke a stick in George Bush's eye:
Question 2 - Stem Cell Research -- 4,134 of 6,289 precincts reporting (66%)
No 450,099 - 54%
Yes 381,271 - 46%
And what about his scam to use a tax hike in order to set up...another tax hike? Hmmm, not so well, Guvvie :
Question 1 - Dedicated Use of Taxes -- 4,134 of 6,289 precincts reporting (66%)
No 438,738 - 54%
Yes 377,045 - 46%
And can I be any prouder of my home district? We re-elected one of the best Republican lawmakers in the state with a boffo margin (and kept good folks in the Assembly as well):
State Senate - District 13 -- 109 of 156 precincts reporting (70%)
Joe Kyrillos GOP 18,527 - 63%
Leonard Inzerillo Dem 11,049 - 37%
State Assembly - District 13 -- 109 of 156 precincts reporting (70%)
Samuel Thompson GOP 16,254 - 29%
Amy Handlin GOP 16,712 -29%
Patricia Walsh Dem 12,355 - 22%
Bob Brown Dem 11,422 - 20%
At this juncture, it appears as if the Democrats have not picked up any additional seats locally this year - and yes, that's a win at this point in time in New Jersey. You need to stop the wave before you can turn it back...and with the key '08 elections rushing down upon us, this is as good a time as any to make a stand.
Finally - looks like Corzine's "idiot" statute - or "Voting Rights", to use Orwellian Newspeak - has passed:
Question 4 - Voting Rights -- 4,149 of 6,289 precincts reporting (66%)
Yes 479,368 - 59%
No 328,526 - 41%
Too bad -guess he still gets to vote....
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