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TheBigGuy wrote:
No link to the National Debt Clock? Wait till The Fed boosts interests rates they have been sitting on as the Obama Regime spent like drunken sailors. Of course you can blame that on Trump too.

Huh? What does the National Debt Clock have to do with the Doomsday Clock?

Your silly link to the Doomsday Clock that was developed during the Cold War... We have a higher risk of apocalyptic financial destruction before we enact mutual mass destruction.

Although you can't count on the Iranians or the North Koreans to understand the rules to that old geopolitical game of chicken the Russians, Chinese and West played during the Cold War.

Azul_the_Cat wrote:
Sometimes I feel like we just keep going in circles here. As much as some of us hate Trump or love Trump, he was elected our president (BTW I think the people that chant "not my president" at protests and marches aren't helping anyone), and we need to get past silly arguments over crowd size.

I'm firmly in the "I think Trump is a dolt" camp, but I'm willing to at least give him a chance. I'm sure if he proposes, and follows through, with plans that benefit the entire nation and not just his supporters, he will get a lot of support from both sides of the aisle. But if he proposes laws to roll back the rights of certain Americans, he's going to have to listen to the opposition. Maybe you could say I'm cautiously skeptical, but also have hope that this could turn out ok in the end. Only time will tell.

JCMan8 wrote:
Union leaders confirm that Trump is looking out for the average American worker, and that the Democrats will never win a national election again.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ezralevant/status/823724046575697920

Yvonne wrote:
I checked the calendar for January 20, 2009. It was a Sunday. People are off from work unlike January 20, 2016, which fell on a Friday.

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Monroe wrote:
When Obama said 'elections have consequences' no one called that fascist, lol.

Just more deception from sore loser liberals. They are so full of lies I just ignore them.

JCMan8 wrote:
Another amazing speech by PRESIDENT Trump!!!

Just so happy he won and will take our country in the direction we desperately need to take. Time to start Making America Great Again!!!

Monroe wrote:
I think the working poor of Greenville, taking the bus, would be behind stop and frisk. What say you?

Monroe wrote:
What's not to like? Want to get something built, deal with people who build things. I'll bet there will be shovels in the ground this time, unlike the bogus Obama claims that got nothing built.

JCMan8 wrote:
What kind of pussy cops are these? Must be women.

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Ralph_Abutts wrote:
"not taxed" != "abatement"

"Abatement is a reduction in the level of taxation faced by an individual or company. Examples of an abatement include a tax decrease, a reduction in penalties or a rebate. If an individual or business overpays its taxes or receives a tax bill that is too high, it can request an abatement from the tax authorities."
Abatement Definition | Investopedia
www.investopedia.com/terms/a/abatement.asp

Ralph, you are ignoring the fact that the county does not include tax abated property, or pilots in the formula when the county strikes the budget. If they did then the ratable base would be high and our tax bill would be much lower. I don't make this up, I do call the people who work on our budget in the county.

stateaidguy wrote:
Jersey City's taxes will definitely be below 2% post-reval, but this has nothing to do with the reval so much as it does the increase in Jersey City's Equalized Valuation.

JC's EV is now $24 billion and will be even higher after the reval is completed.

JC's all-in tax levy is now $448.7 million. That rate will increase too, but not in proportion to the increase in the Equalized Valuation.

$448.7 million / $24 billion = 1.87%.

The tax rate will fall farther once the new EV is computed.

elsquid wrote:
Another person run down in the street today. Box truck driver hits pedestrian, now in critical condition. Newark Ave. & Tonnelle Ave., in Little India.

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Yvonne wrote:
Florist arrangements or creating a wedding cake is part of an art form. How many artists refused to participate in Trump?s inauguration? Shouldn?t Trump sue because those artists discriminated against him? He is in an unique classification as president so he has a case. An artist also said on tv that he refused to design Mrs. Trump dress, isn't that another discrimination case?

bill wrote:
Christians are pedophiles.

Mao wrote:
The anti Christian animus (and ignorance) exhibited by Brewster et al is, I think, the type of "soft persecution" of Christianity that the study means. It is is a bit of a stretch in a way- Christians in America certainly are not being beheaded as in Islamic countries, or put in internment camps as in Marxist states (N. Korea, China, Cuba, Venezuela). But the Enlighten critique of Christianity in many forms is now a sort of base prejudice.
The sexual abuse scandal is particularly interesting. While a few of the cases occurred under the pre Vatican II Church where a few notorious pedophiles flew under the radar and, as pedophiles do, were outsmarted based on institutional weaknesses, the overwhelming number of victims occurred in the new Church of Vatican II which largely tries to ape the larger world and accept its values. Chastity, virginity, penance- were forgotten and our shared values of concern for the poor, downtrodden, forgotten etc became all rather than only a part of the religion. Half celibates left for marriage. A certain portion that remained holy orders started watching TV and there were no longer any regulations- they could dress like laymen, travel on vacations etc. The habits of monks were denigrated. Is it any wonder that religious began acting out sexually?
In the early 1970s, the Catholic Traditionalist press, e.g. The Remnant, was apoplectic that certain priests were predatory homosexuals seeking to seduce adolescent boys. Cardinals and bishops were implicated, e.g. Cardinal Bernadine, Bishop Hubbard, etc. Letter writing campaigns were organized. Press conferences were called. Nothing happened! Instead, the press lionized these churchman who were all arch liberals. That is why Spotlight, the movie, and the like, is such BS. Yes, the Times did a service bringing light to the victims- but it was after years of being complicit in the cover-up. Moreover, when people began to put 2 + 2 together so that they saw that this was a homosexual phenomenon, not a pedophile phenomenon, the NY Times et al, got very defensive and skittish.
This continues today. Pope Francis is an enable of predatory homosexual priests of the first order. These degenerate men are now in power all throughout the Church and are engaged in a Stalinist campaign to destroy anyone who tries to stop them.
Francis ' household is run by Monsignor Ricca a convicted predatory homosexual and patron of gigolos. The famous "who am I to judge" statement of the Pope was made when reporters asked how he could have such a man run his household. Think of it. Ricca controls everyone who comes and goes at the Casa Marta. He is also in charge of the Vatican Bank. Other high profile predatory homosexuals (or protectors of same) include Cardinals McCarrick, Daneels, Mahoney, Kasper, Marx. LOL, Cardinal Daneels is on video tape haranguing a young man for the temerity to bring criminal charges against his uncle who as bishop had sodomized him as a teenager! The MSM will not talk about this because all of these church men deny Christ and everything Christ means. They are the trojan horse that has destroyed the church.
Penultimately, just for context, Stalinism killed many times more people than were victims of any Christian persecution. http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/08/the-dea ... comparison-breakdown.html

A respected estimate of the vicitms of the Spanish Inquisition is 30,000. His work on The Spanish Inquisition is published by Yale University Press (Fourth Edition, 2014). Kamen?s research has led him to conclude: ?We can in all probability accept the estimate, made on the basis of available documentation, that a maximum of three thousand persons may have suffered death during the entire history of the tribunal? (p. 253). Kamen?s estimates may be too low, but they represent the general perspective of contemporary scholar. On the other hand, Stalin is estimate to have had 20 million victims. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/04/wor ... as-victims-of-stalin.html. Now the most recent stats I can find for Christians is 2013 1,123 Christians were reported to have been killed during the 12 months ending Oct. 31, 2013. https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2014/01/2935607/
Finally, on the sexual abuse of minors, it is all so curious. Our culture does all it can to destroy the innocence of children. The very idea of what psychologists used to call the latency period, or period after infantile sexual development and before adolescence is now ridiculed. Children, we are told, will decide their own sexual ethic and parameters among themselves. Along the way, they will be surrounded by hypersexualized models (Disney princesses) and play with dildos mandatged middle school sex ed. The age of consent is being lowered to 14!https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2 ... cia-hewitt-age-of-consent Our heads spin at homosexual sex scandal after scandal- from Sandusky (who actually was probably a true pedophile), to Canadian Youth Hockey, to pro football in England (soccer), to American Little League, etc.
Anyway, this is pissing into the wind because the antichristian have an incredible inability to admit their prejudice.
For anyone interested in more on the homosexual infiltration of the Catholic church consider Saint Damian's The Book of Gommorah, and, more recently, Randy Engel's Rites of Sodomy and Goodby Good Men by Michael Ros

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fat-ass-bike wrote:
You can't say TRUMP isn't transparent ... he spews out what he feels, employs family and friends and displays (tweets / press conference) a genuine discontent with things that he isn't happy with. The presidency is going to be one big reality game show that will be a mixture of BIG BROTHER, THE APPRENTICE and SURVIVOR ... it's going to be one hell of a ride !

Think of it like winning the lottery.

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WhoElseCouldIBe wrote:
Oh good, now we can burn more fossil fuels.

Too many accidents at this facility - plus they built it on a major earthquake fault. I'm glad it's closing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Point_Energy_Center

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Monroe wrote:
Fiat/Chrysler to Trump-we believe you're going to make America great again! 1 billion of new investment in the USA, 2,000 manufacturing jobs!

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/article ... u-s-plants-for-jeeps-rams

Why isn't he saving Macy's? I mean, yeah, sales were down but all that new income he's gonna produce will help Macy's so why doesn't he save them?!

Macy's dumped Trump and his clothing line after Trump first starting running for office.

When a business takes a disgraceful stance like that, they receive punishment.

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Why would we want to save retail jobs? Brick and mortar retail is dying. Online (Amazon) is the present and future.

Preach brother. Lets get rid of all those old fashioned manufacturing jobs as well. Automation (robots) is the present and future.

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Monroe wrote:
Fiat/Chrysler to Trump-we believe you're going to make America great again! 1 billion of new investment in the USA, 2,000 manufacturing jobs!

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/article ... u-s-plants-for-jeeps-rams

Great news but how is this attributable to Trump? This decision was made before the election (of course 1 billion dollar decisions aren't made overnight).

Also, 1 billion over 2,000 jobs is 500K per job. Which means more of an investment in automation than anything. Automation is the bigger threat to jobs than China or Mexico ever could be.

and don't forget who saved detroit's ass...also, why isn't scumbag trying to save retail jobs?

Monroe wrote:
Fiat/Chrysler to Trump-we believe you're going to make America great again! 1 billion of new investment in the USA, 2,000 manufacturing jobs!

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/article ... u-s-plants-for-jeeps-rams

fat-ass-bike wrote:
The paperwork is approved and being processed with the Australian Embassy and I'm looking for a rental in Melbourne Australia online - Looking forward to the adventure. Also looking for a realtor to find tenants for my two properties in JC and Bayonne

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JCMan8 wrote:
More minorities on the force.

Qualified applicants.

Pick one.

I don't see how these two options are mutually exclusive. Care to elaborate on your statement?

DanL wrote:

where is Earl Morgan wrong?

while the Croson study and our property tax inequity could be dismissed as inherited institutional racism, there is racial disparity in Jersey City and the city rather than stepping up to fix it only drags its feet and stalls at continued great expense.