Maise wrote:
All I know is that it looks to me like all of the balconies are several years (or less) away from becoming extremely unsafe. I am not an structural engineer and could definitely be misreading the situation, but I lived across the street at 50 columbus and when you look at the balconies dead on, they look like they are hanging by a thread (some more than others).

SteveWilson29 wrote:
I would like the retard that attacked me for calling PAPD cadets "turds" or "little shits" or whatever I said to apologize.

New Port Authority Police Go on Drunken Rampage After Graduation

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140 ... -after-graduation-sources

Monroe wrote:
Pebble, soccer just doesn't cut it in the USA. Never has, never will. The fact that we're now on multi-generational status with kids who grew up playing it but don't support professional soccer pretty much tells the tale.

Now that the World Cup is over we can forget it for another four years.

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Someone needs to contact the building owner about tearing that shit down.

LMAO you think they care, building owners down on Grant & Orient do nothing about peeps selling drugs out of the lobby. Why would they care about this.

RUinHamiltonPark wrote:
I'm third generation Italian-American and I'm going to root for Brazil just because I recently visited there and thought it was awesome.

It's silly to say you have to root for the US...how many of us avoid buying American cars, electronics, going on vacations abroad instead of here...does that makes us any less American?

Italians in particular are all over the world, have one of the biggest diasporas, you are likely American by accident. You could have easily been Brazilian or Argentinian- as most Italians went to those places. Or if you're one of the many Italians who went to Canada, should you not root at all because Canada isn't in the cup?

As long as you don't root for another country in a war, it's totally irrelevant.

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Unless you are born in Italy any American rooting for another country is a jerk off.

My Dad lives in Italy, every direct cousin on my fathers side is in Italy... I have been to Italy about 10 times... My mom is an American who happened to meet my dad while she was on vacation. Why I am explaining myself is beyond me but you guys can sip the d.

USA is in a "Group of Death" that might beat Ghana. Sure I would like to see the States do well, I do not know what I would do if they played the Azzurri since soccer means a lot more to my family in Italy than 99% of the Americans I know, all I am saying is that the US is in trouble this year...

Your just another person with JCList message board muscles that assumes you know a persons culture before speaking.

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nah ignore the post above, if you park next to a baseball field you do so with the expectation that could happen.

Using that logic, if you park at night in Greenville or DTJC you do so with the expectation that you could have your car stolen and it's your fault with no recourse, if it does happen !

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Monroe trying to derail the thread with irrelevant information because it's obvious Christie is wrong here.

The Super Bowl was a disaster for NJ. Let the NFL find another state to take advantage of.

Other than the NJ Transit not having it figured out (and thinking that the game wouldn't be a blowout and people would leave early) I'm not sure how this was a 'disaster' for NJ. I'm sure Fulop loved the tax revenue from the hotels, no?

Disaster? A bit of partisan rhetoric methinks.

dtjcview wrote:
Let's say I'm interested in a 2-year science degree at HCCC, and don't care much for sports, music and the arts, why should I subsidize any of that? If it makes the difference between say $30k in debt versus $40k in debt at the end of 2 years - most students would opt-out if they could. But then I guess if it's a problem, people can choose lower-cost colleges like the online ones without sports programs.

@FAB - same question applies to providing rooms for religious services or prayers. Why should I pay for any of that?

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You don't have to like it but it's been a part of the collegiate experience for over a 100 years. I just don't understand your point about "hetero-normative, patriarchal societal mores". Especially since college sports probably more than anything in this country is fair on gender terms due to Title IX. Women have more opportunities here than anywhere else since there is a system for developing female athletes. This is the main reason why US Women dominate the Olympics.

Does college sports help with the cost of education, or simply add to massive college debt, along with their Olympic medals?

Wishful_Thinking wrote:
Oh, it doesn't matter if you are gay or straight, but if you don't jump on the band wagon and loudly fetishize organized athletics... It really irritates me when people try to get me excited about the fact that there are gay athletes, although I suppose I should be philosophical and consider this a stepping stone to an out gay President, or... Pope!?