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And it took only 40 minutes (although I made sure I ordered at 5:30).

Wow, have JC standards sunk so low that 40 minutes is considered fast? Actually, that's why I don't order from many places. It seems an hour or more is not unusual, particularly in little India. 30 minutes is standard in manhattan.

AlexC wrote:
For authenticity, Grand Sichuan on Grove delivers. Pork Soup Dumplings, Dry and Spicy sauteed Chicken, Smoked Tea Duck, Garlic Eggplant, to name a few.

Whatever you do, do not order any items from the "American Chinese Food Dishes"

JSleeze wrote:
You know what accounts for a nice chunk of abated properties? Churches. Not "abated" as in "paying PILOTs" but "abated" as in the true sense of the word - not paying anything. Would be great if these profit-generating organizations paid taxes.

anonymess wrote:
I have to think there's more to this than money.

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tommyc_37 wrote:
Two months in and they are closing? What's up with that space?

Nothing wrong with that spot. But, plenty wrong with the various executions. Over the past seven years, the only place to get it right was MAE.

Sadly, this is the Torch House summary: lack of focus, over priced menu, lack of character.

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Monroe wrote:
The 'highlight' of Obama's 2 terms is going to be this cock up of monumental proportions-and it won't be the disgraceful website non-roll out, but when the true travesty of Obamacare on 85% of the populace becomes apparent. True socialism at work-screw the 85% to benefit the 15%.

If only the low information voters understood this during the last election rather than believe the lies they were told by Obama about his Obamacare . . . Add 'you'll keep the plan you like' to the famous lies like 'the checks in the mail'.

Ill informed? Hardly... If Congress had passed Medicare for All, us progressives' preferred simple, universal alternative to the kludgeocratic - http://www.salon.com/2013/10/28/what_ ... to_do_to_social_security/ - ACA mess, signing up would have been a lot easier and the potential for website snafus correspondingly less (or, your "socialism-at-work" used to be known as "promoting the general welfare").

But, rather than throw the baby (15% = 4,500,000 fellow citizens, does "fellow citizen mean anything to you, Monroe?) we informed voters opted to urge our leaders to support something over nothing.

JCishome wrote:
I'm not thrilled to be in the same camp as Vindication (no offense, dude, but you come across as a little nasty), but he's right. All of the Minimum Essentials requirements were in the law from the beginning, for anyone who troubled to read them. I'm in the insurance industry, and we all laughed at the "you can keep it" rhetoric from the beginning. If your opinion of highly complex legislation is based on 2-minute sound bites, you kind of deserve what you got.

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Monroe wrote:
It was a craven lie designed to fool the American public just before an election, one that he won by a lesser margin than his first, and with fewer people voting.

It worked. His lies got him elected.

I don't see how 2 1/2 years before an election is "just before" and I don't see how winning in a landslide that wasn't as big as your previous landslide makes any difference.

I think you're the kind of guy that if Obama personally cured cancer tomorrow, would still be yelling about how he's a monster. That he's simultaneously an evil, lying, dictator and also a bumbling idiot that doesn't know what's going on.

+1 WOW Obama hater living in Jersey City LMAO that is hysterical HAHA!!

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...Christie refused to allow NJ taxpayer to be on the hook for any and all cost overruns on the tunnel to Macy's basement, he saved us from unknown but certainly onerous tax burdens. Thank God we have a Governor with NJ taxpayers in mind.

The governor cancelled the project before agreements were in place that firmly assigned responsibility for cost overruns. Instead of working on our behalf to further those agreements, he had us believe that the situation reached an impasse and New Jersey was going to be left holding the bag. That doesn't appear to be entirely accurate. A new rail tunnel is inevitable, and his premature decision wasted time and money that will never be recouped when it is finally constructed.

papadage wrote:
The expansion would have allowed many more to qualify at no additional cost to the state for several years, and only 10% of the increase afterwards.

Not gonna happen here thanks to governor fatass.

And all in some stupid hope the Tea Party idiots will vote for him.

Susan_N wrote:
The Torch House is starting to figure things out. The burger is still good (and they'll actually cook it rare!) and they still have a nice selection of craft beers on tap. But they've listened to feedback and lowered the prices, and created a more mellow vibe. It has a nice neighborhood bar feeling. It's great for Lafayette to have it.

Garage wrote:
so what was the tenure reform? Yelling at teachers is not tenure reform.

Last I checked stock market more than doubled under Obama and unemployement down approx 2.5 %. Uemployement still in mid 9's in Jersey under Christie. He talks of cutting income taxes 10%....who will that benefit ..the wealthy.They will save thousands while the common man will save $100 a year.

Do you really think paying fast food workers and assorted other employees an extra $1 an hour will effect unemployment?

Listen Christie has can be charming, his blunt Jersey guy act resonates with many but I find him to be a self serving windbag. He bought his Attorney General positon and he used his influence to protect friends and family from prosecution. I don't want him to be our president.