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EasyGibson wrote:
I thought the guy in jail was a character of the artist.

It is, but it doesn't matter. To regressive liberals, everything is racist and everything is sexist, unless it involves white males, because they're privileged. I say this as a super liberal person. I'm really sick of regressives getting so much attention these days. It's an industry of outrage and I'm really tired of it. They're the left's Tea Party but they will have a much longer impact on our national culture unless people start ignoring them entirely.

What you call "regressive liberals" I call "progressives." They are just taking liberal rhetoric that's been around for decades and embracing it to the extreme.

And they aren't going away any time soon since the current crop of "journalists" are predominantly "progressives." If anything you should expect this to get worse, which will only help Trump.

EasyGibson wrote:
I thought the guy in jail was a character of the artist.

buddyboy wrote:
That is hallow ground and should not be treated as a famers
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The Battle of Paulus Hook was fought on August 19, 1779 between Continental Army and British forces in the American Revolutionary War. The Patriots were led by Major Light Horse Harry Lee, and launched a nighttime raid on the British-controlled fort in what is today downtown Jersey City. They surprised the British, taking 158 prisoners, and withdrew with the approach of daylight. Despite retaining the fort and its cannons, the British lost much of their control over New Jersey. Lee was rewarded by the Second Continental Congress with a gold medal, the only non-general to receive such an award during the war.

That battle took place on the grounds of that park.

jc_dweller wrote:
I have yet to find a map of this, so I guess I'll have to explore in person, but I can't see how walking east underground to Fulton Station is closer/faster than just going aboveground to the 1,2,A,C and particularly the E (unless you are going to Brooklyn). I'm not criticizing the tunnel, just wondering if it's at all a shortcut rather than just a way to avoid going outside?

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UPDATE: My daughter and I were in Target last night. She used the bathroom and wasn't raped. Just thought I'd provide a measure, albeit small, of actual real life experience into the conversation.

Lucky for you, but she has the rest of her life to go to public restrooms and daddy will not be around. I suggest you give her a whistle to place on her key chain in case she encounters trouble.

Pebble wrote:
If only we had laws against transgenders going into the women's room, this would never happen!

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K-Lo wrote:
Regardless of the reason, even people with body dysmorphia have to pee. Just close the damn stall door and mind your own business. Women and children .. and men... are assualted every day. No one has to dress up to get access to victims.

Yes, everyone has to pee but this does open the door to sexual predators, something many here do not acknowledge. I just read something recently from an adult woman who was sexually assaulted in the women's locker room as a child by her male coach during swim practice.

TheBigGuy wrote:
Ah? you appear to have purposely misconstrued my base observation, it is about ?men IN DRESSES that want to take a dump in a ladies? room.? This is not my obsession, but an obsession of the Left to which I have taken a dervish delight in mocking. The Left has simmered down all the noble struggles for justice and equality through history ultimately to this ?Last Issue? of equal rights and fair access for men IN DRESSES to take a dump in the ladies? room.

And I pose the question again. {(in a Monty Python/South Park/Jon Stewart/Bill Maher style, for the benefit of those that may have missed the satirical edge}

Why don?t the members of the left who identify as male tuck in their penises, put on a nice evening gown (heels optional) and take over all the ladies rooms in America. ?Occupation? is a typical leftie tactic? Not to be sexist, but it would not work if women occupied their own bathrooms but I am sure the leftie women could issue a statement demonstrating their support for men IN DRESSES to take a dump in ladies? rooms. Of course the caveat to that statement would be, they are not speaking for all women.

Yvonne wrote:
A student under 18 years of age, cannot enter a contract, cannot take medicine in school, he/she must go to the nurse's office to receive the medicine. He/She cannot vote, although I hear they can vote if 18 by November. The list goes on and on, so why do they have the right to declare themselves another gender? Why do they supercede what their parents have declared on their birth certificates?

Yvonne wrote:
Instead of home invasion as reported in this story, there will be bathroom invasion. Men will enter and take women's pocketbooks/bags that are hook on the stall doors and leave. Easy pickings.
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brewster wrote:
"Ramchal will be forbidden from holding any public or elective office in New Jersey."

Anyone want to take a bet he surfaces with some city or county job in the near future? Something like a created for him advisory job at a high school or something, that will keep him in the pension system.

CatDog wrote:
This is a really dumb idea. While it sucks for companies to cut hours to 30 hours/week to avoid health benefits, sometimes someone just needs a part time job. Either as a supplement to their income, or because they're a stupid, or whatever. All throughout college I worked part time jobs because that's all I had time for. If companies were suddenly required to have 30-hours/week minimum then say goodbye to employment for students. I would have had no way to work during school, or would have needed to go to school part-time and drag out my education a couple more years.

CatDog wrote:
Mitsuwa is great, I'm sad that a lot of the smaller shops there like the bookshop have closed down

Yvonne wrote:
How do the people from Greenville or the Heights get to use that public space when there is no parking? It is basically for people are are close by.

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DanL wrote:
????.., they are continuing the gross inequity of jersey city property taxes where the poorest areas of the city pay to subsidize the wealthiest.

I see people on nj.com saying the same thing. Where is this happening? Below are a few similar properties from all over Jersey City?. 25 X 100 lot, 2 story, 2 unit. Is the argument that houses sell for a lot more in highly developed parts of the city so their taxes should be higher? And in the under developed area?s their taxes should be much lower? Don?t we all use the same city services in the same way? Gee the under developed area?s seem to use them more?fire, emt, and police response.

That's EXACTLY how property taxes work everywhere else in the US. Property taxes are based on property values. This is not some sort of novel idea. It is, essentially, a FLAT TAX, where the same rate is assessed against the value of each property.

The argument that poorer areas use as much, or more, city services could be extended to cover other forms of taxation. Why should I pay for school taxes if I don't have kids in public school? Why should I pay for Obamacare if I never get sick? Why shouldn't the poor woman with three kids have to pay more for school taxes than the one with a single kid? We don't do taxes that way in this country. More expensive houses pay more taxes, just like higher earners pay more in taxes that lower earners, even though they likely rely less on government largesse. That's just the way it works.

Fulop bullsh*t aside, it doesn't seem fair to me to have your taxes raised due to property appreciation. That's a paper gain not a cash gain and yet you have to pay the taxes.

But hey, government gotta get paiiiiiiiiiiiiid

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This is a residential, not a commercial neighborhood.