JERSEY CITY LIST - Message Forum

Forum Index

Board index » All Posts (bdlaw)

Bottom

« 1 ... 3 4 5 (6)

bdlaw

Re: Jersey City's Council introduces $422M -- 2007 fiscal year budget.

#151

Home away from home

Quote:

GrovePath quoted the article as saying:
The city is facing a $9 million shortfall and will have to raise $148 million in taxes.

Nothing "unique" about that, Councilman Vega.

Posted on: 2006/9/16 13:43

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: 'No conflict' in 2 voting on PJP deal, council told

#152

Home away from home

Whether or not, in the eyes and wording of the law, there is a "conflict of interest" or a "conflict of office", the fact remains that too few people have too many jobs in municipal and state office. As a sidenote, I think we really need some legislation prohibiting people from holding both state and local level office concurrently.

Concentration of power was one of the founding fathers' biggest concerns and the main reason for the system of (now laughable, at least at the state/local level in NJ) checks and balances built into our Constitution.

Posted on: 2006/9/16 13:24

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: 'One-strike' you're out for drug-related crimes - Jersey City now gives families a second chance

#153

Home away from home

Quote:

rtala34 wrote:
Here is the full quote;
Quote:
Al Gore said:
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system."

rtala34 continued on: Quote:

"Now what he meant by... " (proceeds to put a lot of words into Al Gore's mouth).

"What he meant by", and "what he actually said" are two very different things.

Good on you for the work you do but by now you should know you can't put words in your client's or any other witness' mouth.

What the hell was this thread about anyway, I got sucked into the grammar/logic/journalism/political BS facism.

Posted on: 2006/8/29 23:04

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: Downtown Jersey City Watch-Updates Thread

#154

Home away from home

I'd like to join you but I'm afraid of that neighborhood at night.

Posted on: 2006/8/24 19:52

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: Press Release - Steven Fulop

#155

Home away from home

Sir-

Who appointed this ethics board? As a newer resident I am just coming up to speed with some of these issues.

I believe this action on your part is exactly the type of work our local government should be taking on, and appreciate the effort.

Thanks,

bd

Posted on: 2006/8/24 17:30

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: Mayor Jerramiah Healy railed against President Bush's plans to privatize Social Security

#156

Home away from home

Hmm. I'm paying into Social Security and not currently taking anything out of it.

Retirees are not putting anything into it and are taking out from it (by the way the average retiree receives back the ENTIRE amount they put into the system in about 7 years).

So essentially I should just drive down to the retirement home on payday, and cut out the middleman.

That is NOT "pay as you go".

This issue makes me mad.

Posted on: 2006/8/23 21:14

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: What would happen in Jersey City if a radioactive "dirty bomb" was detonated in Wall Street?

#157

Home away from home

I read the post thinking it was extremely sardonic and sarcastic- until I saw who posted it.

F890's sake, man. Don't the aliens and men in black vet your posts before you hit "submit"?

Posted on: 2006/8/22 21:33

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: What would happen in Jersey City if a radioactive "dirty bomb" was detonated in Wall Street?

#158

Home away from home

Dirty bombs generally don't "vaporize" anything except that which is in the immediate, limited vicinity.

The danger is the radioactive particulate matter which is vaporized in the explosion, which in turn is carried indiscriminantly in the wind.

That's all I'm going to say about dirty bombs in an open forum. There's plenty of online help for ne'erdowells and I'm not going to add to it.

Posted on: 2006/8/22 12:46

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: State assemblyman and school's chief, Charles T. Epps Jr is up for a raise

#159

Home away from home

Quote:

NNJR wrote:
We should start a petition to Corizine. If Epps gets a raise, nobody will vote Healy/Corizine come around next election.

You get enough people to sign and you might make some waves.

Heh, I wasn't going to, anyway, but I'll happily sign your petition.

Isn't there an online petition generator that, at the end, transmits the petition to your lobbying target? Can't remember what that was just now but seems useful.

Posted on: 2006/8/21 20:56

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: Jersey City ranked one of the least angry cities in America -- though you can't tell it from JCL

#160

Home away from home

Angry? Who's angry?

SCREW YOU!

Posted on: 2006/8/18 13:25

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: Lawmakers may be warming up to Manzo's school plan -- Less Property Tax & More Income Tax

#161

Home away from home

Quote:

GrovePath wrote:On Friday, Corzine challenged lawmakers to "make history" by enacting comprehensive proposals to cut property taxes that have risen so fast for so long they are "overwhelming our citizens."

OVERSPENDING is what is overwhelming our citizens.

Posted on: 2006/7/31 13:22

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: New face of public housing - 72 homes in the Lafayette section of Jersey City

#162

Home away from home

Quote:

JPhurst wrote:
Ok, so I assume your answer is. "Zero." Thanks.

You asked a rhetorical question and expected an answer?

Posted on: 2006/7/29 13:28

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: New face of public housing - 72 homes in the Lafayette section of Jersey City

#163

Home away from home

Quote:

Jsquare wrote:
The "Hope VI" grant appears to be a US Dept. of Housing grant, not local.

More fuel for the fire- the Feds tax me 44% on about 1/3 of my gross because it's overtime. The harder I work the more I am penalized.

I'm sorry if it offends you but I oppose a handout mentality. It has nothing to do with racism or classism. I'm opposed to ridiculous tax abatements as well.

Posted on: 2006/7/27 20:42

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: Positive things I like about JC

#164

Home away from home

Hmm.

No particular order:

35 minute commute door to door (though I admit I wish people on PATH had a better understanding of personal space)

My beautiful apartment kicks a$$ and I'd be in a much smaller, not as nice space in Hoboken or the city

My room-mate. OK, so she'll never see this but whatever.

Good takeout/delivery options

Proximity to LSP

Proximity to EWR

Waterfront

Random fireworks shows that set off every car alarm in PH.

$1.00/month parking

Posted on: 2006/7/11 17:25

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: Police Officer Domenick J. Infantes Jr. - Friday, July 6, 2001

#165

Home away from home

Please locate the "Enter" key on your keyboard, it is toward the right center. I had to stop reading after the second sentence as I felt a seizure coming on.

You say anonymously on the internet that you received this information second-hand from "a witness".

How is such a statement even remotely reliable?

Quote:

If im not believed look this up on google and yahoo, even though no articles state what I say...

So basically, EVERYONE disputes your version yet we shuld go look it up online and you'll be vindicated in your third-hand knowledge of the incident?

Posted on: 2006/7/10 19:00

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: Condo Shopping Observations

#166

Home away from home

(cynical bd wonders if drgoogle is a landlord)

In all seriousness though, I had never been happy about renting a living space- until I moved down here and started to see where this market is going.

Now, I figure even if my monthly rent is higher than it should be, I am not in an overpriced mortgage for an overpriced property in a community with arbitrary zoning and less than responsive government.

Spend twenty minutes, half an hour with SimCity building and financing the way JC has built and see where it gets you.

Incidentally, does anyone know when Grove Pointe changed market approach? They were initially supposed to be all rentals from what I recall...

Posted on: 2006/7/8 5:27

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: Police Officer Domenick J. Infantes Jr. - Friday, July 6, 2001

#167

Home away from home

Quote:

r_pinkowitz wrote: I do not base my hatred to the Gavina brothers based on race, I do it solely on the fact that they had no regard for human life and were able to run to the garage or the trunk of a car to retrieve a solid steel pipe and bash it over the head of another human being so brutally, that it killed him.

That's pretty much it, isn't it?

Isn't it? It should be.

All this other shite is extraneous and denigrates the sacrifice of Officer Infantes, and the irreparable harm to the community and, more importantly, his family.

It always amazes me how quickly discourse disintegrates amongst the masses of desk jockeys and burger flippers when it comes to second guessing and trashing the work of people who have decided to serve their community in a capacity that puts their lives and their family's entire world at risk just by going to work.

RIP, Officer Infantes, peace to your family, and a way too late thank you.

Posted on: 2006/7/8 3:29

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: Ideas for Jersey City T-shirts

#168

Home away from home

"Got graft?"

Posted on: 2006/6/20 13:15

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: Ideas for Jersey City T-shirts

#169

Home away from home

Quote:

RABBITRABBIT wrote:
Quote:

ECH wrote:
How about a color photo of the drunks passed out
on the banquettes upstairs at Grove Street station.

How about a color photo of Mayor Healy passed out
on the banquettes upstairs at Grove Street station.

How about a color photo of Mayor Healy getting maced by Bradley Beach cops?

Posted on: 2006/6/19 13:48

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: Final results

#170

Home away from home

r_pinkowitz wrote:
Quote:

"It feels very good," Cheatam said. "Absentee ballots are a big part of every school board election, especially for teachers who might be out of town."

What teachers are "out of town" in the middle of APRIL? Spring break?

Posted on: 2006/4/20 15:26

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: School Board Election -- Anyone Got a Clue?

#171

Home away from home

Thanks Eddie.

Posted on: 2006/4/19 16:27

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: School Board Election -- Anyone Got a Clue?

#172

Home away from home

This is maybe a dumb question but I just moved here and before that, lived in the same place for years.

How do I register as a voter in JC and how do I find out where to vote? I was a regular voter in my old community but I'm unclear on what I need to do here.

Thanks

Posted on: 2006/4/19 16:16

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: **CELEBRITY SIGHTINGS IN JERSEY CITY ***

#173

Home away from home

Good lord someone needs to make this happen.

Ralph from Stern and the Downtown Pimp as roomies.

Quote:

JimmyConway wrote:
Well, we may not have any "real" celebrities, but we definitely have a nice group of people to cast from if VH1 ever wants to do The Surreal Life in Jersey City.

Posted on: 2006/4/18 19:55

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: Amid the Glitter, JC's Growing Pains

#174

Home away from home

Good deal.

And super_furry thank you for the heads up about the Journal. The local papers out by me are awful but the more I see the more it seems the Journal is a pretty good source for local news?

I digress... sorry.

Posted on: 2006/3/8 21:35

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: Amid the Glitter, JC's Growing Pains

#175

Home away from home

I was *mostly* kidding. I'm dead serious, though, about it being difficult to get hold of clearcut information about candidates that isn't attack literature sent by the opponent.

Quote:

elgoodo wrote:
Quote:

bdlaw wrote:
Or, do you just say to hell with it and vote the incumbants out no matter who they are?

I hope you're kidding. I hate when people take their cynicism to this level and are dead serious about it.

Politics can give one reason to be cynical - certainly - but this kind of knee-jerk ill-informed voter apathy-cum-cruelty really makes me ill.

Posted on: 2006/3/8 21:22

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: Amid the Glitter, JC's Growing Pains

#176

Home away from home

I for one, moving to JC in the next few weeks, would like very much to be a part of heavier voter turnout.

But, where do you get information about the candidates? If JC is anything like the town I'm in now (Lyndhurst), you pretty much only get attack ads in the mail.

Or, do you just say to hell with it and vote the incumbants out no matter who they are?

Posted on: 2006/3/8 20:28

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: Detective demoted?

#177

Home away from home

Some supposition on my part here but anyway...

Quote:

valkin wrote:

I wonder if it's because of the technology or because they cannot control the negative/troll responses on a message board.

Both. I would suspect more the latter than the former. I would imagine there are also some liability concerns when you've got a "police official" in a forum like this, whether or not they're posting on an "official" or "informal" basis.

I would think, putting myself in their shoes, that the lack of control of the discourse is a big problem. Not because they are controlling per se but because the job is difficult enough to begin with, without the internet pissing contests. The job is hard enough to begin with.

That, and from what I've seen online, you're right- people love, love, love to bash the police.

Just my $0.02

Posted on: 2006/2/18 12:55

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: Councilman's Wife Mugged

#178

Home away from home

Curious as to who ships to NJ, I have never seen any dealers willing to do so. Not busting your chops, I'm legitimately curious.

As for NY, it is from "a licensed firearms dealer or pharmacist". I don't know about permits though.

For those contemplating adding OC spray to your "feel better walking down dark streets at night" kit- the wind is not your friend. More often than not you'll wind up spraying yourself.

If you are going to buy it- test it! Every three - six months or so. Someplace well ventilated and private. If you can find one, take a course- I don't know of any around here but you'd better know how to use it. In a good course, you'll probably be on the receiving end of the OC at some point. You will NOT enjoy this but you WILL appreciate it should you have to actually use the spray someday.

Stay safe.

bd

Quote:

NewHeights wrote:
Bdlaw You CAN ship pepper spray to NJ. In NY you need to buy it in state even than you need a special license.

When I asked several police in JC , all gave me different answers.

After further research I found out that in NJ you can carry up to 3/4 of an ounce. basically the keychain type. when I go out late night I carry a 4 ounce cannister. More fire power. Although it is illegal , i'll take my chances. With the 3/4 ounce you could take no more than 1 or maybe 2 attackers. It's a small dose.

For home use I think there is no limit on the size of the cannister.

Get a keychain pepper spray from fox labs . About $10.00. Keep it easily accessible otherwise its useless. Basically hold your keys by the spray cannister at all times. You usually have milliseconds to react in an attack.

Posted on: 2006/2/13 13:57

Topic | Forum

bdlaw

Re: Councilman's Wife Mugged

#179

Home away from home

Regarding pepper spray-

Completely legal to purchase with one caveat- it must be purchased IN THE STATE, it cannot be shipped to the state of New Jersey. In other words, you can't buy it online or through a catalog. Compare it with NY though and it looks like militia country- in NY state, you have to purchase your pepper spray from a firearms dealer or pharmacist.

And I wouldn't advise carrying anything more dangerous than a nail file in New York city, you're liable to wind up in jail even if you use it to defend yourself.

Note- I'm not a lawyer and you should never take any advice on the internet as solid legal advice.

Posted on: 2006/2/9 20:07

Topic | Forum

Top

« 1 ... 3 4 5 (6)