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Re: Developer: Project 'stalled' by denial of abatement change
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We've let special consideration become the norm, and now it's not enough anymore. Developers want SPECIAL special consideration.

Posted on: 2008/1/25 18:25
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Re: Developer: Project 'stalled' by denial of abatement change
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I'd like to see them call the developer's bluff.

Posted on: 2008/1/25 16:28
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Re: NY Times - When Does a Housing Slump Become a Bust?
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Quote:

wibbit wrote:

If that's the case, a colt 45 and a few cases of ammo will be much more valuable than your gold coins or "swiss bonds"


Or even better, a case of Colt 45 and some chocolate gold coins and "swiss almonds."

Posted on: 2008/1/22 13:54
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Re: ox restaurant
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So do they have a proper barista? If so I'll go in just for the coffee.

Posted on: 2008/1/22 6:13
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Re: NY Times - When Does a Housing Slump Become a Bust?
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Look, I mostly agree with you about the rent/buy thing, but as far as taxes are concerned, none of the property owners I know are paying anywhere near your numbers. You can argue until you're blue in the face though.

Posted on: 2008/1/22 5:12
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Re: NY Times - When Does a Housing Slump Become a Bust?
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Oh come on Taz, I hardly have an asset to my name and even I know that the "assessed value" of your property is not the same thing as the most recent sale price.

You really showed your ignorance with that one.

Posted on: 2008/1/22 4:49
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Re: NY Times - When Does a Housing Slump Become a Bust?
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Quote:

wibbit wrote:

Personally if i am buying, will wait. Dont think the worst is over yet, in JC.


Most likely not, especially with big finance industry layoffs being announced.

Posted on: 2008/1/20 21:56
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Re: NY Times - When Does a Housing Slump Become a Bust?
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Quote:

injcsince81 wrote:
I'd give Taz a break.

He/she correctly predicted the RE bubble burst and the severity of the RE crisis (to-date)

Citigroup or Countrywide anyone?

I certainly hope his/her predictions going forward do not come true - he/she pretty much predicted a new Depression. Given the falling dollar, the powerful Euro, the rise of China and India, the clueless and leader-less US - who knows what is going to happen?


With all due respect, by the time Taz showed up here there were about a dozen posters that had already "predicted the RE bubble burst" -- the reason being that anyone with common sense not clouded by his own property pipe dreams could see it coming.

Meanwhile Taz shows the same manner of irrational exuberance for gold that he chided others for in housing. To be sure, gold could continue to rise for some time if there are enough other people like him buying into the hype. But the current frenzy has the makings of a bubble like any other.

Posted on: 2008/1/20 18:55
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Re: Bush backs 145 billion dollar Economic Relief Plan
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Has this president ever actually done anything to suggest he believes in a free market? Does awarding giant no-bid contracts to cronies have anything to do with a free market?

Posted on: 2008/1/18 20:56
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Re: Update from Steven Fulop
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I happened to be in Baltimore this weekend by the Power Plant development that now has the B&N/ESPN Zone - the one done by the same developer that's going to redevelop the Powerhouse here. I don't know if this was an anomaly, but it was pretty empty.

Posted on: 2008/1/16 4:13
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Re: Social justice activists honored in Jersey City
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Ouch, didn't see the 9/11 Truth people there.

Posted on: 2008/1/7 3:35
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Re: Social justice activists honored in Jersey City
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Quote:

Dwntownguy wrote:
This is pretty funny !!

I was not aware we still had ?Front Organizations? and ?Fellow Travelers? from the American Communist Party left after the Cold War.


Any Trotskyites left out there ????



DTG


Wow, so being anti-war, anti-racism, anti-homophobia and pro money for food, healthcare and housing makes one a Communist?

I take it you, then, are pro-war, pro-racism, pro-homophobia and prefer military spending to healthcare, food and housing. That IS funny!

Posted on: 2008/1/6 20:24
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Re: Ron Paul for President
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That is outrageous. Paul should definitely be in the debate. But it's pretty clear that FoxNews and all of the other Murdoch publications just act as his personal political organs when he wants them to. He's torn between his love for money and his narcissism. Maybe if people refused to watch the FoxNews debate it'd make some difference.

Posted on: 2007/12/29 16:11
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Re: City cuts business at 14 'problem' barbershops: shops became "substitute for social clubs"
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It's hard to believe that all 14 of these barbershops were selling drugs. It's possible that the "Quality of Life Issues" thing was a cover for warrantless drug searches. But then why were all 14 closed?

Posted on: 2007/12/27 16:09
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Re: City cuts business at 14 'problem' barbershops: shops became "substitute for social clubs"
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This sounds like a load of b.s. to me.

Posted on: 2007/12/27 15:22
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Re: City plans to sell Downtown Newark Avenue building -- "The Jersey City Employment & Training off
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I wonder if they're going to help relocate the employment/training office or just give them the boot.

Posted on: 2007/12/27 6:01
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Re: Real Estate Market trend In Jersey City
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Well, it should also include the money not spent on rent (a positive), and also the money spent on other home ownership costs (a negative).

I'm not financially well-schooled enough to do this kind of comparison/analysis in depth. My gut tells me that when real estate prices continue to rise much faster than income for a prolonged period of time, something is either wrong or there are unusual, exceptional factors. Manhattan has some unusual, exceptional factors but I wouldn't call all of them inevitables or constants.

Posted on: 2007/12/19 21:36
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Re: Real Estate Market trend In Jersey City
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BTW check your math, that's a 14% decline, not a 4% decline.

Posted on: 2007/12/19 18:56
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Re: Real Estate Market trend In Jersey City
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It's right there in your list! A person who bought in NYC 1987 would have had to wait about ten years to see an increase in value on their property!

Obviously saying any market "always" does anything is ridiculous. The NYC market MAY be insulated some from the sub-prime crisis fallout, but even the magical Manhattan market will be affected by numerous unpredictable variables including the performance of the major finance industry companies and their hiring increases/decreases/cutbacks and bonus paayments, the performance of the dollar internationally, the strength/weakness of the overall economy, the trend in crime in the city, etc. I don't think Jersey City is DIRECTLY correlated to the Manhattan market, but there are certainly links.

Posted on: 2007/12/19 18:53
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Re: Real Estate Market trend In Jersey City
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Apparently you can't read your own chart. Prices in NYC fell consistently from October 1988 through April 1991 and then took until May 1998 to re-claim the 1988 high.

Posted on: 2007/12/19 17:32
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Re: Revisiting Violent Past on Eve of New Jersey Death Penalty Vote
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In my ideal world, we'd execute ONLY people like him - the worst, most remorseless, most dangerous, most brutal killers. But since I don't trust any justice system enough to handle the responsibility of meting out death, I'd prefer the penalty were abolished.

Also the "what if it was your daughter" argument doesn't work. Justice can't be based only on the feelings of the wronged - it has to be fair and rational. The courts are not there to provide vengence for crime victims. A lot of people would probably like to see someone slowly tortured for scratching their brand new car - that doesn't mean it should be done.

Posted on: 2007/12/18 0:24
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Re: Brick Haus Gym
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Wife and I wound up signing up. It was a tough choice - I leaned toward the cheaper Gold Coast, but when I told my wife that there had been a dude in a banana hammock practicing his bodybuilding routine while I took the tour she got weirded out. Brick Haus is admittedly much more inviting and I figured it was worth the extra money since I feel more motivated to go there (I only intend to keep the membership during the cold months anyway). Also the yoga classes add value.

Posted on: 2007/12/15 17:22
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Re: NJ School Kids Forced to Have FOUR New Immunizations
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That wouldn't solve anything though - most illegal immigrant workers make so little money that it's unlikely they'd miss a day of work because of a sick kid. Hell, I know American citizens who send their kids to school sick or come to work sick themselves. Not to mention that you might not realize the seriousness of the disease until it's already been spread.

Posted on: 2007/12/11 17:23
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Re: NJ School Kids Forced to Have FOUR New Immunizations
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Quote:

Althea wrote:
I don't think it is appropriate to compare very different societies and cultures. I also think it unfair to paint such a biased picture. I am sure that I can pluck stories off the internet or even out of my *(&$@)#!@ that would make you never want to drink water in any form again. That doesn't make it an intelligent and thoughtful discussion.

The point here is not that all vaccinations are bad. The point is the freaking idea that vaccinations are the answer to everything! What happened to the children in Indiana that had the vaccination? The idea that our children are completely protected is ludicrous.




There's nothing biased or selective about the fact that vaccines have nearly eliminated diseases like Measles and Polio in the US that used to be quite common and dangerous. I feel like people are losing sight of how much of a threat those diseases used to be. No one is saying that children are "completely protected," (they never are!) but if you follow the link for the Indiana story, almost all of the people affected by the outbreak were non-vaccinated. I think it's kind of sad that a parent would expose his/her child to deadly disease based on an unfounded belief in an outside risk of a side-effect. I'm not sure that should be a parent's right.

Posted on: 2007/12/11 16:16
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Re: NJ School Kids Forced to Have FOUR New Immunizations
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I don't understand you people. Do you realize that the main reason you don't have to worry about many of these highly contagious and dangerous diseases much is precisely BECAUSE kids get vaccinated for them?

Unvaccinated populations are at risk for the disease. After vaccination rates dropped in northern Nigeria in the early 2000s due to religious and political objections, the number of cases rose significantly, and hundreds of children died.[4] A 2005 measles outbreak in Indiana was attributed to children whose parents refused vaccination.[5] In the early 2000s the MMR vaccine controversy in the United Kingdom regarding a potential link between the combined MMR vaccine (vaccinating children from mumps, measles and rubella) and autism prompted a comeback in the measles party, where parents deliberately infect the child with measles to build up the child's immunity without an injection. This practice poses many health risks to the child, and has been discouraged by the public health authorities.[6] Scientific evidence provides no support for the hypothesis that MMR plays a role in causing autism.[7] Declining immunisation rates in the UK are the probable cause of a significant increase of cases of measles, 2006 being the highest on record, and 2007 already showing an increase on the previous year.[8]

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), measles is a leading cause of vaccine preventable childhood mortality. Worldwide, the fatality rate has been significantly reduced by partners in the Measles Initiative: the American Red Cross, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United Nations Foundation, UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO). Globally, measles deaths are down 60 percent, from an estimated 873,000 deaths in 1999 to 345,000 in 2005. Africa has seen the most success, with annual measles deaths falling by 75 percent in just 5 years, from an estimated 506,000 to 126,000.[9]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles#Worldwide_MMR_Eradication
(check the sources if you wish)

Posted on: 2007/12/11 15:22
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Re: NJ School Kids Forced to Have FOUR New Immunizations
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Yes, preventing epidemics is intrusive government.

I think I'll go back to Congo now.

Posted on: 2007/12/9 16:54
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Re: ox restaurant
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Yes, "birthday price" is a perfect term for that kind of place for me. And I agree with you about its usefulness. I'm one of the two people who voted Cafe Nia as best new restaurant, not onlyigns because I think the food is quite good, but because it's the most useful to me. Sawadee is decent, but I can find better Thai in the city for cheaper, and the others are "birthday price." I'm already perfectly happy going to Marco & Pepe or Madame Claude for anything I need to celebrate or else going somewhere even better in the city.

Of course other people obviously find Ox useful, or else it'd be empty all the time. As long as we get some more cheap eateries too, I don't have a problem with expensive restaurants coming in.

Posted on: 2007/12/4 2:19
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Re: Local Rental Scam you should know about
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There was a little story in the New Yorker some months back about a similar scam - renter pretends to be landlord, takes a bunch of security deposits/rent checks and flees. I think this one got something like 19 people to sign leases, all of whom showed up with their stuff on the 1st, including some from hundreds of miles away. The scammer had already left the country.

Posted on: 2007/12/3 3:40
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Re: ox restaurant
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Quote:

molly wrote:
Price high? Someone needs to get out more.


High is relative, but for most people $20 is expensive for an entree, even if it's not especially high for a restaurant of its class in this area.

Posted on: 2007/12/2 19:24
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Re: Supreme Court will hear D.C. guns case
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If carrying handguns made people safer, Greenville would be the safest places in the world and Canada and England would be more dangerous than the U.S.

Posted on: 2007/11/30 17:15
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