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Re: Metropolitan Museum of Art No Longer Taking $1 Admissions

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Dolomiti wrote:

However, that characterization seems a bit absurd. The Met only gets about 10% of its budget from public funds (City of New York). Most of its funds are from private donations and its endowment.

And it is built on public land in Central Park given to it by the City 1871. What's the value of that land? Surely it covers public access to the collections within.

Posted on: 2018/1/5 19:12

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Re: Metropolitan Museum of Art No Longer Taking $1 Admissions

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Sure does. It's those 1%ers who are on the board. They take public money and then charge citizens to pay to see the art they bought with that public money. It's a great scam.

Michael Gross wrote a great book about the scamps and scaliwags that founded the Met: Rogues? Gallery: The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money That Made the Metropolitan Museum. I've reviewed the book here, Sharks in Formaldehyde: New York?s Met and the People Who Made It.

Posted on: 2018/1/4 19:15

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Re: Legal Weed Is Coming to New Jersey

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brewster wrote:
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135jc wrote:
Brewster,
1. The sky does not have to fall for 1 person to be killed by a stoned driver.

Ah, if we're using the "1 person rule" then I have a laundry list of things to outlaw, let's start with comic book movies and work our way down. I'm certain they must have killed someone, they make me want to kill myself.

Surely there's at least one fatality attributable to the nonsense that appears on JC List. I realize that what is nonsense to one may be the gospel truth to another, so I'm not making any suggestions as to just which pile of nonsense is most fatal. But surely someone somewhere in JC has given up the ghost because they just couldn't stand JC list but had become addicted and couldn't pull away. So they took the only way out, killing themselves or taking it out on someone else in any of a variety of ways.

Posted on: 2017/12/31 13:07

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Re: Legal Weed Is Coming to New Jersey

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brewster wrote: ... Chilltown indeed.

You know what the kidz say these days, an ill-town is a chilltown.

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Posted on: 2017/12/30 14:10

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Re: Just say 'no' to 'millionaires' marina on the south side of Liberty State Park

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Suntex is a business; they need to make money. It's fine for them to propose this marina. But it's NOT fine for the Christie administration to green-light it. That's pure spite and vengeance from mean-spirited looters of public coffers who pretend to be a public servants. The park is gorgeous. And they need to allocate the funds needed to open the rest of it to the public. The marina at the north end is all the marina the park needs. Heck, it serviced racing boats several years ago (Sept 2013), and that's fine.

Leave the southern end of the park for we-the-99%-of-the-people.

Posted on: 2017/12/17 19:54

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Re: Just say 'no' to 'millionaires' marina on the south side of Liberty State Park

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brewster wrote:
Land in the middle is not a replacement for the waterfront. When I launch my kayak there I'm always astonished at the number of people who drive there and just sit in their cars taking in the view. Not my style, but it's PUBLIC ACCESS to a PUBLIC ASSET.

This has a lot in common with Trump removing protections for western lands. Taking public assets and giving them away to private interests.

YES! And I'm not sure that the birds that nest south of the marina would welcome all the boat traffic.

Posted on: 2017/12/14 15:55

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Re: Just say 'no' to 'millionaires' marina on the south side of Liberty State Park

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iGreg wrote:
Reality Check:

The privatization of the parking lot for the ferry service should be FREE - it's a public park

Liberty Science center should not charge those absurd admission prices if it's on gifted government land and works as a nonprofit

#American Idiots

YES!!!

Posted on: 2017/12/9 22:39

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Re: Just say 'no' to 'millionaires' marina on the south side of Liberty State Park

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A new superhero has arrived:

And not a minute too soon:

Posted on: 2017/12/9 11:06

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Re: Legal Weed Is Coming to New Jersey

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brewster wrote:
I walked into a recreational dispensary in Oregon last year, what a trip! Quart jars of bud lining the walls, each with a description and a test report, plus glass cases of concentrates and edibles. Plus knowledgeable salespeople to tell of the nuances of each "varietal". A far cry from the $30/oz mexi we smoked in college! (Does that date me?)

$15/oz for me (mid-late 60s). Those were the days......

....when the National Guard rolled through Baltimore after martial law was declared after the riots over the murder of Martin Luther King.

Posted on: 2017/12/6 21:10

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Re: More Fun With NYT Discovering Jersey City

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Then there's this, about the Liberty Science Center's decision to convert its Imax theater into a planetarium larger than NYC's Hayden: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/nyr ... tching-article-click&_r=0

Posted on: 2017/12/6 21:06

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Re: Five Jersey City council members returning to council

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RebeccaS wrote:
I've been at planning board meetings and he was very supportive of the residents and their needs.

He? Boggiano?

Posted on: 2017/11/9 14:35

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Re: JJ: Crowded race for Ward F council seat in Jersey City

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DanL wrote:
.. he is known as someone that works a great deal with city youth.

Yes, he does that for sure.

Posted on: 2017/11/2 14:57

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Re: I-Team: FBI Investigates Alleged Corruption in Jersey City Police Department

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brewster wrote:
The entire system of requiring off duty cops at construction sites is hardly less than a corrupt shakedown of the construction industry even when they actually show up. ...

Gotta' keep the home fires burning, dontcha know.

Posted on: 2017/9/23 8:59

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Re: Hurricane Irma possible: Next Tuesday thru Thursday

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Looks like once it clears out Florida Irma will be on a reverse Sherman's March. This looks very very bad.

Posted on: 2017/9/8 15:22

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Re: The solar eclipse: Where you can safely watch it and get free viewing glasses

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Really nice! What lens and ND filter?

A Tamron 75-300mm. No filter.

Posted on: 2017/8/22 5:22

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Re: The solar eclipse: Where you can safely watch it and get free viewing glasses

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Posted on: 2017/8/22 1:29

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Re: Confederate Flag added to Liberty State Park

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(Some of) you all are effin' crazy! [I'm not naming names, but you know who you are.]

Posted on: 2017/8/19 23:29

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Re: Confederate Flag added to Liberty State Park

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TheBigGuy wrote:
Well you have to be stupid and obviously "sightless" not to see the hidden symbols glorifying grand old antebellum days of the South.

Can only imagine the emotional angst triggered by looking at this despicable image.... sorry MTA, they have to go!

http://www.historynet.com/confederate-flags-in-times-square.htm

According to the NYTimes, they're going, or at least being changed:

To busy New Yorkers walking briskly by, the mosaic inside a Times Square subway station might look like a Confederate flag.

It is not, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority assured riders on Friday. But less than a week after violence broke out at a Virginia rally, ostensibly over the planned removal of a statue of a Confederate general, officials are not taking any chances.

So in order to ?avoid absolutely any confusion,? the M.T.A. said in a statement that it would modify the design to make it ?absolutely crystal clear? that it does not depict a symbol of Southern defiance.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/nyr ... me=Watching-article-click

Posted on: 2017/8/19 6:29

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Re: Trump Our New President

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"Scaramucci, 114 pounds of Alfredo sauce, hair gel, and rage..."?Seth Meyers

Posted on: 2017/8/1 10:33

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Re: Trump Our New President

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AlexC wrote:
meanwhile...Ahahahahahahahahah--oboy, ahahahaha

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"I have never heard anything like it. It's just unbelievable. I don't even know how to react to it. I've never heard any staff say that ever in any context," said one long-time GOP consultant.

Yes. An astounding performance all around. Were they given lines ahead of time? What about buckets to throw-up in before things got started?

Posted on: 2017/6/14 11:22

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Re: Police Pursuit ends in fiery crash in Jersey City Heights

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The story has been picked up by the NYTimes:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/nyr ... me=Watching-article-click

Posted on: 2017/6/9 0:57

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Re: Trump Our New President

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See, for example, this account of the $110B "deal" with Saudi Arabia, which is a bundling of proposals initiated in the Obama administration:

https://www.lawfareblog.com/110-billio ... al-saudi-arabia-fake-news

Posted on: 2017/6/7 15:37

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Re: In Marvel Comics, Ms. Marvel returns as Muslim teen living in Jersey City

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Ms. Marvel Volume 1: No Normal was the best-selling graphic novel in October 2014,[46] and by November 2014, it reached #2 on The New York Times Best Seller list of paperback graphic books.[47] In April 2015, Ms. Marvel Volume 2: Generation Why debuted at #4 on The New York Times Best Seller list of paperback graphic books.[48] In July 2015, Ms. Marvel Volume 3: Crushed debuted at #3 on The New York Times Best Seller list of paperback graphic books.[49]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms._Marvel_(Kamala_Khan)

Posted on: 2017/4/30 20:37

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Re: Wow - LSC's Updated Plans for SciTech Scity

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I still don't understand what's going on with this $78M. De we have:

1. Doners' giving $78M to a non-profit entity, which then
2. loans it to a for-profit entity (against the value of the land?),
3. which must then repay the loan to the non-profit entity. Hence,
4. The City's 50/50 split of the net doesn't kick in until that loan is repaid.

Is that what's going on?

Posted on: 2017/3/24 14:07

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Re: Wow - LSC's Updated Plans for SciTech Scity

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bodhipooh wrote: snip Oh, yeah. I know that area. There's an area in the middle used by teen skaters. Pretty cool spot they have taken over and made into a sort of skating park. I wasn't aware it had been sold, or may have forgotten.

Posted on: 2017/3/19 21:14

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Re: Woman dies falling off escalator inside famed World Trade Center Oculus while reaching to grab hat

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TonyTwoPoops wrote:

What does class or social status have to do with caring if someone died or not to you? What a gross and unsympathetic person you must be.

Yes. This is sad and unfortunate. Life is complicated, people too. I find it hard to think that what this young woman did is beyond the limit of human adventurousness. Unfortunately things went wrong. Sometimes that happens.

Posted on: 2017/2/13 21:31

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Re: Trump Our New President

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Posted on: 2017/1/23 1:38