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Why did that happen anyway? Terrible idea. Who runs the tour, and what were they thinking?
Posted on: 2009/6/13 3:10
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still a library
Posted on: 2009/6/12 16:49
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"help wanted: voyeurs and creeps to oggle thirteen year old girls and post-menopausal women. bonuses given if you spot and record enhancements"
Posted on: 2009/6/12 2:15
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debop wrote: A sacrafice or should I say a small inconvience is a small price to pay for my FREEDOM or my safety
Posted on: 2009/6/12 0:52
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Re: Greenville: : Jersey City man and four out-of-towners robbed, tail but lose gunman at 2:47 a.m.
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Greenville is not likely to be "gentrified" anytime soon, but perhaps it will be working-class-ified by hardworking immigrants who are more daring than white urban pioneers.
Are The Heights (South/ Central Americans?) and Marion (Egyptians, Arabs, etc.) such examples? With race in mind, perhaps Greenville will be more attractive to West Indians and African immigrants. For example, I hear there is a small Kenyan community there. Those neighborhoods might never have had the problems that Greenville has, either in the breadth of area or the depth of poverty... or distance from amenities. To be honest, Greenville is a mystery to almost everyone I know. With no reason or means to travel there, changing my image of Greenville will be difficult.
Posted on: 2009/6/11 20:55
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Re: Pick-up truck fire at 42 Bright Street @ Barrow St.
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eh. sorry.
btw the cars from B&B auto are often parked in front of those garages. so, maybe nobody owns them, or cares. or B&B does.
Posted on: 2009/6/11 17:53
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pardon the delay...
25 feet? gently used leftovers innocent victim
Posted on: 2009/6/11 17:48
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Yes, let's get back to the civil liberties question: do we have a "civil liberty" which protects us from being millimeter-wave scanned? This effort at the PATH is just a trial, and by allowing passengers to choose other stations, it's not a real security measure. In the 1960s and 1970s there were many hijackings of airlines. The perpetrators used guns, knives, bombs, etc. Thus, we now accept scans as prerequisite for air travel. Here, the scan is more than a metal detector. It will guns, knives, bombs, pacemakers, cell phones, undergarments, nipple rings, etc. Given the architecture of train stations, Amtrak, NJ Transit, and PATH may have to run scans at the building or concourse entrance to be comparable to airports. The 2004 Madrid train bombings told us what we already knew: trains are highly vulnerable to terrorist attacks. New York is the ideal target: there are many trains, tunnels, bridges, entrances, and people. Infrastructure disruptions alone would accomplish a terrorist's task. The practical costs of preventing every attack would be high, and would inevitably fail. For example, at Newark Penn having a scanner at four building entrances rather than at 12 platform entrances is a big difference. The time lost is a real minus for rail passengers, who are already somewhat inconvenienced. Moreover, to protect Newark Penn Station means enforcing security at Trenton, Hamilton, Princeton Junction, Jersey Avenue, New Brunswick... and every other station in theNH Transit system and the Amtrak system, including Philly and Baltimore and Raleigh. For a system with so many gaps, sacrificing freedom is a bad and wasteful precedent. Is ianmac right that it props up the security culture's version of the "military industrial" complex? Very likely, yes, and that will only continue.
Posted on: 2009/6/11 14:45
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Oh, I have a good EJ story from today. So, I was walking the dog. I cleaned it up. Responsibility!
Anyway, the coach of the Athletics started yelling at the umpire. "You're calling all the balls as strikes and the strikes as balls. You just want to get outta here! You don't even know the game! You don't even care, and just want to leave!" Of course his team was down 8-0 in the bottom of the third inning, but it was the ump's fault. The Braves were walloping away. It was a real throttling. What's the mercy rule, a ten run lead? This typical JC p/o/s had the balls to say, "How are the children supposed to learn the game? We're here trying to teach them when to swing and when not to, but you're screwing it up by calling it all wrong. You're just trying to get paid and get out of here!" His "proof" for this was that his relief pitcher only had three warmup pitches. The ump said he asked the kid, and the kid said he was ready to go. Maybe he should have given him more time, but I don't think it explains the 8-0 score. Stupidly, the ump engaged this moron instead of throwing him off the field. Eventually he told him to stay in the dugout, which of course the guy didn't do. The other coaches behave responsibly, but fathead was intent on proving his worth to 30 kids and families. He had already tried to inspire the team with this pearl: "Don't try to tell me you came here to lose! It's not about losing, it's about playing to win, but I ain't e'en seein' dat." Very inspiring. Doggie shat a squishy one out of fear and pride. Living in Jersey City, this sort of bull isn't even exciting anymore. It's just predictable: some sorry sack spouting off because he's a sorry sack. In Jersey City, "the children" always lose when the local imbeciles fight over turf. Fortunately, the low-class behavior I saw today won't be long for this world.
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nice. u gonna phone it in?
Posted on: 2009/6/10 4:59
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need photos of the license plates and truck numbers
Posted on: 2009/6/10 3:41
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Re: Port City Java is said to be opening at 158 Wayne Street next to Dixon Mills.
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what "we" do you mean?
Posted on: 2009/6/9 19:31
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go to the flamingo at 2am on a saturday morning... the waitress will be overworked, the tables will not be very clean, the service will be slow...
but much much much worse: the customers are all jerks. i've seen two racially-fueled shouting matches there, and one time the cops had to come. that late-night, after the bar diner scene like you see down the shore... or anywhere... well at flamingo it becomes sand bar + JC = scumbaggedityness all around. and i was there for research purposes, not a BLT extra mayo
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agreed. i met Aart a few years ago at a bar. very cool guy and knows the area well. works out of hobo.
but ya know, he's very jersey city to me http://www.city-data.com/profiles/photo/5666p
Posted on: 2009/6/9 17:19
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more candy for your oggling pleasure, boys
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009 ... _teacher_in_sex.html#more
Posted on: 2009/6/9 15:21
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praise jesus!
the spirit of the christ will raise the dead, heal the cripples, turn blue curb to gray, and turn boots to to beer barrels... so you'll be happy to throw it into your trunk but don't worry, the streets in january will still be unplowed, iced over, and unparkable. and the sewers will be clogged. and your wife will still nag you to take out the trash. and your jump shot will still suck. and all the dna in your trunk will tie you to that crime... but the parking thing is a miracle praise be!
Posted on: 2009/6/9 4:33
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When I lived over there (sorta) I would shoot hoops, but the park was mostly empty... as in mostly empty and useless baseball fields which help nobody!
Posted on: 2009/6/9 0:38
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Is the first time the Hamilton Park community even noticed EJ?
Posted on: 2009/6/8 18:19
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Bam! You knew your crack house would have a bar on the ground floor! Right?
Posted on: 2009/6/8 17:02
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ezola wrote: I totally agree. We had same issues with Barrow Street Bar. I used to live on Mercer and Barrow and I couldn?t stand the place... I think that bar goers simply don?t get it- they show no respect whatsoever. They come for few hours a day and act like they own the neighborhood. Bar owners know well about the issues and noise complaints, but they don't care... Mobilize your neighbors. Send a signed petition to the Mayor?s Office. If this does not help file a lawsuit! Every business can be closed and any license can be revoked! If you pay hefty property taxes or rent every month, you deserve quiet days and nights, especially in a nice residential neighborhood.
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I agree, in general. I will look into it more.
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It's true that was not my most coherent post. Others have been well thought out.
Here, I was refering to the issues raised by the original poster. You. Throw your dog poop at whomever you wish, but not at innocents, as I am here.
Posted on: 2009/6/5 1:24
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I'm glad you like baseball, and are filled with a youthful spirit (or whatever) when you see it going on.
I agree 100% with you comments on the litter. That's a city-wide problem and the baseballers seem to think the new EJ dog park is a bigger problem than litter. It's true, you don't want your kids playing around dog pile. Apparently nobody at HP considered that... fortunately that failed dog-free-for-all is over. Ok. Whatever. I don't want to relitigate that point. I don't even live over there, but I used to live near MB and EJ. My real point is this: this town has too many empty baseball fields. We might all disagree about active and passive recreation, etc. Some people like ball. Some people like benches. Etc. But downtown has at least six empty baseball fields. Or maybe ten! Nah, it has to be twenty. Step one: fix Mary Benson park for the modern era... take down those damn fences. The whole park is a patch of dirt, reserved exclusively for the women's and bar softball league for 3 months of the year. Of course they' don't pay the upkeep alone. I say open that field all year until the park become something we can all agree on. No chains on those gates. Let the kids hit the ball around. (Having lived over there, I know there's a lot of broken glass and empty bottles near the basketball court. I know, you'll say, but you want that to spread?! Well, who says it has to?) Enos Jones locks their fields too. Selfish. But, at least those fields are a bit nicer. (Too nice).
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erin: please help me. i lost a yellow parakeet, and then i lost a yellow canary. for all i know a cat could be having them over for lunch in one of jc's many feral cat luxury condos
Posted on: 2009/6/4 6:12
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An archival photo of Ms. Glide.
Posted on: 2009/6/4 6:06
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i understand. i was just trying to explain the basis of the perceived "insult"
Posted on: 2009/6/4 5:13
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It's subtle. But, pernicious?
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We "haven't the slightest idea?" Do we? Or don't we? Or does it matter? No, it doesn't. When the boring "old-school" sentiment is so widespread, indignant in its opposition to the idea that communities change [and, by the way, this one always has been changing], and so reluctant to admit that some changes are positive changes... ...people start reading between the lines. I wonder at the class and nationalism wars/ division that this town has seen for so long. Dutch. English. "American" Revolutionaries. Scotch/Irish. Italians. European Jews. Russians. Poles. Blacks. Filipinos. Indians. Chinese. There has always been someone coming in who didn't have a clue what was going on, and they felt welcome amongst their countrymen. Now, the OGs are fighting a class war, are losing, and turn it personal. And, it's still about boring misconceptions. So, with that in mind, at least three people read between the lines, focusing on what you've said, and assuming what it meant. Hell: do you really think your all-ages punk show has any idea what punk was like 5, 10, or 20 years ago? Nope. And that prooves nothing, except that you tend to reject what, in fact, you rely upon. Sorry mom! Your self-interest here is getting a venue for "your" bands. It isn't working out so far. Alienating people will not advance that cause.
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Also, there was Celeste Adamski of Kearny.
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... cher_admits_to_sex_w.html http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... x_teach_gets_2_years.html And somebody else: http://blog.pennlive.com/lvbreakingne ... d_lopatcong_township.html
Posted on: 2009/6/4 3:00
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crime is up, and so is icechute
Posted on: 2009/6/4 1:24
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