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owlie wrote:
I get sick and tired of hearing people blaming their predecessors. PLEASE! If you go into office because voters expect something of you and you let them down?.it's your fault ?If you can't make any significant positive progress; get the f*#K out of public service. Bored by politicians !!!!!!!!!!

You do know that Obama is still blaming Bush, right? I hope your scorn is bi-partisan. And plenty here, including Fulop, still put a lot on Healey.

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OMG, they have decent coffee? Since when has their coffee been considered decent? Egg McMuffins are good??? How much do you weigh?

I grab a McMuffin sometime when at the NY office. We are talking about once or twice a month. I don't eat fast food every day (normally bring lunch.... I'm frugal). I always thought McDonalds coffee was decent.. I liked it better than Starbucks which IMO you pay way too much for something that tastes burnt.

However I was fat. Put on a ton of weight after breaking my shoulder. Once my arm became functional again (lots of nerve damage.. took a few years) I dropped 25 lbs: Exercise, supplements*, and diet changes. What really helped was cutting waaay back on sugar and carbs. I found out eating more protein and fat gave me more energy and I ate a whole lot less.

* off topic... but for anyone here who had elevated cholesterol or are suffering from plateauing in your exercise routine: Pantethine. it's a form of B5. Made a big difference for me.

bodhipooh wrote:
Those who claim that bootstrapping your way out of poverty is impossible nowadays are alarmists of the worst kind... you are acting as apologists for a culture of entitled, lazy individuals. How can you make such a claim, when you have millions of immigrants, many (most?) here illegally, risking life and person, to try and eke an living. And, guess what? The vast majority of them work more than one job, and they send money back to their families in their home countries, and for those who have family here, they are often instilling on their kids the importance of getting ahead and working hard. As others have pointed out, the current generation of teens simply doesn't want to work jobs, especially those they deem beneath them. That's a CHOICE.

By the way, this topic reminds me of something I saw in Germany a few years ago. While working there, I was watching a local news segment on unemployment. After talking about how so many crops were going to waste because there wasn't enough people to work the fields, the reporter asked a few unemployed Germans why they weren't taking those jobs, and their responses were: crop harvesting jobs are for Poles, and working out on a field was beneath Germans. And, besides, they could get more money from the government on unemployment benefits than working those jobs. It was a bit sad, and appalling. I think a similar dynamic is at play here: too many people find it easier to NOT work and relay on handouts.

I just don't see why McD's should be expected to pay $15/hr. If you need more money, get a better job, or get a second job.

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owlie wrote:
I think all McDonalds franchises should be shut down. It's a bad product. It hurts people.

They have decent coffee and the egg McMuffins are good.

hero69 wrote:
is satanism mocking any religion? isn't satanism just as much a rejection of the muslim god as it is of the jewish and christian god?

Yvonne wrote:
As usual Brewster, you have it wrong. Wicca believes in nature in the form of spiritualism but the black mass is an attack on the practices of the Catholic beliefs. Brewster, you would not attack the Islamic with an image of Mohammed with spaghetti but thinks it is OK to do that to Catholicism.

hero69 wrote:
well, i'm all for free speech and the kkk and neo-nazis have every right to state their filth and lies, as long as they don't hurt anyone physically

owlie wrote:
Trader Joe's is NOT coming to JC. The best you can hope for is a $Dollar store where you can buy outdated groceries.

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Seagull wrote:
The Powerhouse Independent Theatre.....

An upscale mall with amenities like a theatre - The Mall @ Powerhouse Hills or The Mall at Sea Level Hills.

Unfortunately, it's going to be another pizza joint! lol

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JCMan8 wrote:
The traffic cops are fine. Some people on this board are busybodies with nothing better to do than complain about every little "infraction" they see.

Lighten up.

Are you whining about people whining? Grow up.

user1111 wrote:
A 26-year-old Jersey City man has been accused of being in possession of nearly four pounds of marijuana and a handgun in Jersey City, according to a criminal complaint filed against him.

Joshua Arroyo of Summit Avenue, who appeared in Central Judicial Processing in Jersey City today, was arrested yesterday on the charges of possession of marijuana, possession with the intent to distribute, with the intent to distribute within 500 feet of public property (the Zabriski Street Branch Public Library), unlawful possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and certain persons not to have a weapon.

Arroyo allegedly had 3.92 pounds of marijuana and a .38 caliber Taurus revolver, the complaint stated.

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jedo1 wrote:
...If you're too SCARED to ride on the street without a bike lane, then do everyone a favor and sell your bike, then you won't have everyone quietly wondering why you're such a moron.

Thanks!

Why didn't I think of that!? Get rid of my bike, and be one more d-bag in a car contributing to the problem of congestion, air-pollution, paving over of every scrap of grass sidewalk median for another parking spot.


No. The majority of the people on this board push the car-centric status quo, and they are creating more problems than just people riding their bikes on the sidewalk. We live in a CITY for Pete's sake, yet too many people carry on like this is Levittown West...

Here is a little something to add to the conversational fray - a small but growing contingent of bicycle riders are arguing that the push to mandate helmet use is a plot by the automobile industry to promote a culture of fear, to dissuade people from riding bikes at all - http://www.bikehugger.com/post/view/whats-with-all-the-helmet-hati Hmmm...

Monroe wrote:
A 15 year old girl is out after midnight (on a school night, no less) several towns away assaulting people?

Throw her in juvey, and go arrest the parent (s).

Another Abbott district success story. East Orange, at about 23K/student, 85% subsidized by suburban taxpayers-she's cost us 200K or so, so far.

Add in her co-criminals, we've got more than a million dollars wasted here.

bodhipooh wrote:
I find it pretty ironic (hilarious, really) that a xenophobe who loves to rail against minorities and foreigners [heights] has such a poor grasp of the English language and writes with such poor command of the written word.

Plummet: to fall or drop straight down at high speed
Pummel: to strike repeatedly, typically with the fists

For example:
A climber slipped and plummeted to his death.
Muhammad Ali pummeled his opponent on his way to victory