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Safer than real camping for sure! On my son's 1st trip with the Scouts last weekend they had a bear in camp.
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Just so. I have a photo from my grandfathers village in Ukraine of him with the Jewish Fire Brigade. Each group in town had their own brigade. One of the spots where the Libertarians run off the rails with this privatization stuff is public services. If there was actually a free market in sewers or fire protection he'd be onto something. But this is all stuff economists would describe as markets with a "high barrier to entry". Even something like broadband which should be competitive ends up being a duopoly where they'll compete on anything but price. The market in commercial sanitation is notorious for corruption and price fixing. As for enforcement of that fire insurance, I've got news, there's tons of uninsured and unlicensed drivers all over our roads and if they hit you you're screwed. So the always helpful insurance companies sell a product called "uninsured driver insurance".
Posted on: 2010/6/5 2:19
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Re: Letter from fire chief: Mr. Fulop, you haven't a clue
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The problem with your classic "libertarian" position is what about when your neighbor has let his "fire dept insurance" lapse? Or if you want to charge after the fact like an ambulance svc what if he tries to put it out with a hose rather than call it in? Both put your home at risk. Don't get me started about a FD Authority! The JCIA, & MUA are less accountable not more! The Parking Authority managed to run in the red and it was just business as usual, not heads rolling right and left.
Posted on: 2010/6/4 17:59
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Re: Hamilton Park Renovation - Update
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It's funny, if you substitute "Music Box Cafe" for "basketball court" your statement still works perfectly! We all have crosses to bear and much of it involves people who aren't from our community. It's difficult dealing with people who don't give a crap, particularly when the people charged with enforcing the laws don't either....because most of THEM also aren't part of the community!
Posted on: 2010/6/3 19:23
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Yeah he's confused, but unfortunately there's a LOT of hooey being thrown on both sides of the reval issue. As for Gaughan, though I'm a Downtowner, next election cycle I'm donating to his opposition, presumably someone on Fulop's slate. This clown needs to go.
Posted on: 2010/5/27 20:08
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An audit implies that the data is then used. Both the Schools and the MUA were audited, and the results showing vast amounts of waste, sweetheart deals, and unaccounted expenses were tossed in the trash.
I wonder how much of the odd "no Lieutenants" structure of the FD is to deliberately make line by line comparisons unduly difficult. But as we've discussed in other threads, and as Fulop said, the JCFD was already obscenely top heavy.
Posted on: 2010/5/27 19:57
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Read the article I linked in the thread below and tell me you're confident this never happens here.
http://jclist.com/modules/newbb/viewt ... id=243699#forumpost243699 Quote: In Yonkers, more than 100 retired police officers and firefighters are collecting pensions greater than their pay when they were working. One of the youngest, Hugo Tassone, retired at 44 with a base pay of about $74,000 a year. His pension is now $101,333 a year.
Posted on: 2010/5/27 18:32
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While I agree that visiting a neighborhood at various times is absolutely a good idea, there's lots of blocks, mine at 7th & Monmouth included, where at 10 on a friday you would definitely get the wrong idea of the general feel of the place.
Posted on: 2010/5/24 20:56
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Re: Christy Swiftly Vetoes Millionaires Tax Today -what happened to sermon about "everyone sacrificing?"
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Speaking of limiting expenses, anyone see this article in the Times about the gaming of municipal pensions in Yonkers, and the chronic massive underestimation of what the contracts will cost the city? Want to bet it's not happening here in JC and NJ as bad or worse?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/business/economy/21pension.html Quote:
Posted on: 2010/5/24 4:44
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That NYC payroll tax is actually what puts NJ at tax #1. Without that I estimate we'd be at #10 or so. So if you don't commute, your tax load is MUCH lower! http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/336.html Interesting table at the above site. It shows that NJ tax load expressed as a percentage of income has only gone up 0.7% in 30 years.
Posted on: 2010/5/23 23:42
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I agree. I usually only patronize the restaurants on Grove for lunch when I'm running car errands and want to grab a bite. If I can't get a parking spot I move on. It blows my mind there are unmetered spots at all on the commercial strip of Grove. I also get annoyed at the postal trucks hogging the meters by the post office.
Posted on: 2010/5/23 21:35
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I'm down the block and haven't even heard a siren! What is it, a UXB from all the damn fireworks?
Posted on: 2010/5/22 3:26
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Re: New Kansas City style BBQ restaurant. opening tonight!!
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Hesh, the pretense that you're not an owner, employee or close friend of them such at Legal Beans is getting annoying. Announcing a new restaurant and interacting with Listers giving feedback is okay, lots of local businesses do it. Spamming the site just to bump the thread gets old. I can't believe I'm saying this, but buy an ad from Webmaster Falcon if you want visibility. BTW, I prefer an IPA.
Posted on: 2010/5/20 21:54
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I looked into this last year and there were simply no alternate suppliers at the consumer level.
Posted on: 2010/5/20 17:58
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RAINING POTTIES FROM HEAVEN
Posted on: 2010/5/11 21:19
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Fedex is in the hands of incompetents and thieves. I had a package of personal stuff sent ground from my mom in FL. I've had a fedex account for years and used ground often, but never noticed the default for ground is no signature, but you actually have to open the "special services" tab to find this out. The day of the big Thursday blizzard at the end of Feb I was home, but got an email confirmation saying the package was left by the garbage cans. We have no garbage cans anywhere on the street, but we do have an outer unlocked door before the inner locked one, and this is where no signature deliveries by UPS are always left. The stuff was gone, and Fedex refused to come and see that the drivers story was complete BS. He either stole it or ditched it so speed up the route in difficult weather. Last year my wife sent my sister the Ipod she left, and she received an empty envelope. Their personnel are thieves, and they've lost my business.
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Yes it should be illegal, especially combined with how they conspired in opposition to FCC decrees to make cablecards virtually unworkable and very expensive. I use a homebrew DVR I love and I fear I'll have to give it up to ever do real HD.
Posted on: 2010/5/10 21:16
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Is that in the old Lisa's Roti place? Hopefully a once great place for lunch will be one once again, assuming a lunch can be had there for under $8.
Posted on: 2010/5/7 22:55
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It's done by outsiders, no doubt political contributors. But your concern about the city's Building inspectors is well founded, they won't hesitate to bully you and trample your rights.
Posted on: 2010/5/7 15:02
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Posted on: 2010/5/4 23:59
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I don't know why anybody is shocked by this. It's called "cooping", and it's a cop tradition as old as bagpipes. They need to rest up from working their off duty jobs like standing around at construction sites or tending bar. It's also pretty popular with transit workers, and I'll bet with the Jerking Authority personnel. Nothing like sleeping while you rack up benefits, OT, and put in time for your retirement in your 40's.
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Thanks. Naturally it's way down there! I used to use a mechanic on Culver, what a PITA getting back from there after dropping the car and then getting back there. I sometimes would take the bike and bike to the light rail and take it back downtown if I didn't feel like biking the whole way.
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My regular mechanic doesn't do alignments. Anybody have experience with the Firestone on 139, or any other recommendations? I've very leery of Sears or Pepboys.
Posted on: 2010/5/3 16:49
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PBW has it right. Just like choosing to live in JC rather than some closet in Manhattan, you pick what your negotiables are. For some people a "wall view" would be a nonstarter, no matter how great the deal was. Personally I lived in nonviews or basements continuously from 20 to 35.
Posted on: 2010/5/3 16:40
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I shudder to think of the complications of needing a temporary fire escape in place while the old one is ripped out and the new deck/escape built. Hope you have a good buildings dept lawyer!
Posted on: 2010/5/3 2:59
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Re: Jersey City Museum making do with less city $$$ -- new fundraising drive features Rosie the Riveter.
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They've got the only nice theater in downtown (as far as I know) and yet have barely used it as a resource to pull in the public and build awareness of the museum. They've hosted a few films, of excruciating obscurity. Had they supported a real program of performing arts and film, perhaps they wouldn't be laboring so.
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Unfortunately for such a small counter you're going to get hosed. When I was trying to get a 12 sq ft marble vanity I found the vendors built in a large "job cost", so the price wasn't proportional to larger jobs. Most prices were around $750. After a disastrous experience with Herod's (also known as master granite) I ended up doing the top myself out of marble tiles. I've also done several granite tile kitchen tops. Fun work if you're handy.
Posted on: 2010/4/30 15:00
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Not that I approve, but a loan guarantee isn't exactly a cash giveaway. You may be right that they are fearless, but I'm hoping not, especially after the federal sting.
Posted on: 2010/4/30 14:26
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Good point. What comes to my mind is 2 differences today. We have far more educated & empowered people living here who won't sit still for that crap, and we have the internet to link them to each other and the information. I've been looking at the tax records of anyone I want from my home, when you used to have to go to the county offices in Journal Sq and pull out big books. Hopefully information availability will make a big difference to discourage politicians who think they can get away with such nonsense because they'll know it's not going to be a secret to anyone with a web connection just what their well connected neighbor is paying in taxes.
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