erie wrote:
JC government needs to wake up and start requiring all these new developments to incorporate some sort of stormwater management into their plans (green roofs, rain gardens, porous pavement, etc)!

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T-Bird wrote:

There is a nice subplot of Sleeping Tayari

$105,000 a year. To sleep.

What an interesting org chart it would be.

Starting with Mayor Healy, drunk and naked, outdoors on his steps and that Bradley beach incident.

Deputy Mayor Tayari, sleeping at meetings and charged with theft of a rental car

Deptuy Mayor Beldini, stripper charged with 2 counts accepting bribes

City Council: Vega, indicted; Gaughan and Flood giving jobs to family members; Lopez, ran as a resident of Florida.

Let us not forget past Councilman Lipski pissing on a nightclub crowd. And from there on down the food chain. It would go on and on.

Don't forget to add former Deputy Mayor Ador Equipado, who was charging money for phone services while he was marrying people.

jc_dweller wrote:
Irregardless is not a word. At best it's a double negative. At worst, it makes you sound, well... "special".

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Br6dR wrote:

Irregardless of that, it was an odd word to put in his list of PC words that send him into a conservative rage.

Xerxes wrote:
"Special" DOES mean extraordinary in a positive way
and "Retarded" DOES mean slowed.

Why should I have to rethink those perfectly valid definitions.

If you doubt these meanings, just look up the words in a dictionary.

My fave is how "colored person" is perjorative but "person of color" is not. At least THIS WEEK.
Second fave is how some doofs think it is proper to refer to people who have been U.S. citizens for 6 generations as "African American."

Any short people here calling themselves "altitudinally challenged?"

The class valedictorian is probably SPECIAL...the one who couldn't read at age 18 is probably not, he is most likely retarded (and not "comprehensionally challenged.")

Getting rid of perfectly good straigtforward language and replacing it with long silly phraseology is PEDANTISM.

kramones wrote:
Wow. I was shocked after reading some of these responses. Whoever said that "special" means extraordinary and "retard" means slow probably should have thought twice before posting that response. Special also means otherwise different from the normal and retard, a verb, means to delay the progression of. So actually, people with disabilities literally ARE special, of course you feel that the word special shouldn't be used to describe people who are not perfect.

And to the person who said, "Pretty soon the JJ won't even tell us the ethnicity of violent crime suspects walking the streets...." Real classy. Explain to me how this is relevant - why are you comparing a person with a disability to a criminal? Or are you that bigoted that you are scared of people with disabilities as you are of a criminal?

I've been a special educator for many years and I take personal offense to the use of the word retarded. Not only is it insulting to people who are less fortunate than you or I, but on the larger picture of Civil Rights it is particularly upsetting. What a great freakin idea. Let's keep putting down individuals and continue to use derogatory terms to describe a group of people who have historically been denied access to the luxuries that we are accustomed to.

What good comes out of calling someone retarded? How big of a sacrifice is it for people to simply stop using that word? It seems that the only reason for people to use the word is to purposefully offend someone.

You should be thankful that you were born with all your limbs, the mental and educational capacity to survive on your own, the capability to make sound decisions for yourself, and that you are normal.

Br6dR wrote:

Irregardless of that, it was an odd word to put in his list of PC words that send him into a conservative rage.