Online trolls have a name for the North Bergen School District bosses...

..."Looser Babbies" which is trolling for of course, loser babies.

Come one, come all and hear the tale of looser babbies taking a forfeited high school football game North Bergen have been proven time and time again outright cheated in, to the US Supreme Court. Plessey vs Ferguson, Roe vs Wade, and now, if the North Bergen Schools have their way, Looser Babbies vs NJSIAA.

Seriously, you HAVE to go read this. North Bergen is throwing such a tantrum of being rightly stripped of a high school football title due to using illegal players they are willing to spend hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to fight a battle they can't possibly win. Steve Politi is spot on with his takedown of the North Bergen Looser Babbies keeping this lawsuit, rejected by the NJ Supreme Court, alive.

So Hudson County, are you planning on trying to profit from Super Bowl XLVIII?

Johnny was reading that some of our friends and neighbors are renting out their homes/condos/apartments for some pretty good coin for the weekend of Super Bowl XLVIII. From an asking price of $10,000 for a two-bedroom place in Fuho, to an $8,800 ask in North Bergen for a two bedroom place people are getting interest in these inflated prices.

And why not? If you can make some good money off of people with more money than brains for an outdoor February football game we say go for it! There is really nothing the city powers that be can do to stop such a thing, so it's a free, fair and open market.

So, how much are you going to list your place for?

It's a news roundup kind of day

Damned humid too...

The Garden Sate Parkway where I-95 crosses over is going to be down to one lane for up to six weeks after yesterday's fatal accident. You can read more on this traffic mess and more on the hopes it can be averted quicker than that can be found here.

Pretty much everyone living in North Bergen may or may not have gotten a subpoena.

Calling for a snowy winter here in the Garden State? Be careful, they called for one last year too.

The Yankees crushed the Red Sox 14-2 and in doing so won the American League East title (Again). They will play the winner of the one game playoff between the Texas Rangers and Baltimore Orioles while the Detroit Tigers will play the Oakland A's.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has this list of this year's nominees out. Notable nominees include Public Enemy, Heart, Donna Summer, Rush, Deep Purple and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. No love for Bon Jovi once again this year.

Huge Cuban Day Parade today in North Hudson

A Cuban Day Parade, far bigger than the one they simply stopped having in New York City, in part because of the attendance at the one west of the Hudson River will step off today at noon. The parade, expected to draw upwards of 450,000 people will begin at James J. Braddock Park, 79th Street and Bergenline. It will pass through North Bergen, Guttenberg, West New York, and Union City.

What a gorgeous day on tap for it kids, get out there and enjoy all the fun. The festival after the parade will run until 10 pm.

So you wanna compound a bad traffic situation after drinking? Start a fight

That's exactly what happened in North Bergen when Wadyd Montes-Calderon took umbrage at the way Danilo Ramirez crossed in front of him at 91st and Tonnelle and confronted Ramirez. Not getting the answer he was after, Montes-Calderon slugged Ramirez and the fight was on. Now fights in the middle of the street tend to draw police (funny how that happens) and when police arrived they smelled something. Yes it's something police are trained to sniff out on those who are fighting in the middle of the street after a traffic altercation. Breathalyzers all around was the call and BOTH drivers were found to be over the legal limit.

Our final score:
Wadyd Montes-Calderon -- disorderly conduct and a DWI
Danilo Ramirez -- DWI and a refusal to take a breath test

Citizens, the jitneys in Jersey City are ridin' dirty

The jitney's (for Johnny's midwest posse, jitney's are small 10-20 rider busses that permeate the streets here) in Jersey City for the most part have come up snake eyes on their safety inspections. So bad were the JC jitney's that 23 out of 33 failed their surprise inspections last week (and this isn't counting the driver who saw the inspection ahead and pulled his jitney over, parked it and walked away). The 33 busses logged 285 citations for a range of safety infractions including bad brakes, faulty steering components, non-working emergency exits and lights, and bald tires. One bus had it's emergecy exit welded shut. Nice.

if you're a resident who uses these busses, this is news you can use.

Late breaking news this AM, North Bergen is also showing a high amount of jitney safety scofflaws.

Rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper and tire irons beat skateboards

Yes, in a good old fashioned dust up between cab drivers, the tire iron will almost always beat the skateboard as an implement of destruction.

Two North Bergen cab drivers had at last night and both were arrested for assault. One had a tire iron, the other brought a skateboard tothe fight and if you follow THIS link, we think you'll be able to judge the winner and loser. Our scorecards have Eddie Ayende over Sam Cabrera on a TKO.

What's that old saying?? Never bring a knife to a gunfight?

We don't get out to North Bergen nearly enough it seems, it's the home for nervous looking guys with machetes

Not JUST nervous looking guys, but nervous looking guys with 17 inch machetes.

Wait wait, let's try again, North Bergen is the home of nervous looking guys with 17 inch machetes with 12 bags of weed. Now, there, that looks better. What's that beer ad, real men of genius? Well we certainly have a candidate here.

Leissam Trujillo, next time you're wandering nervously and police ask you if you're OK, don't pat your hip indicating a weapon, that's just bad selling form. You've got to be on top of your game man. You start pointing out where weapons may or not may be, the weed is gonna be found.

Again, we gotta get out of this shoebox with holes we live in and go join the fun in sunny North Bergen more often.

North Bergen's own 'mouth that roared', Hal Turner arrested for inciting violence on his blog

North Bergen right wing radio host and blogger Hal Turner was arrested yesterday and is awaiting extradition to Connecticut for commentary on his blog to "take up arms" against two Connecticut lawmakers.

Johnny is all about the freedom of speech. He hates these ridiculous laws namby pamby's are trying to institute for supposed cyber-bullying. That being said you cannot say "take up arms" against ANYONE. In this day and age, as we saw in the murder of abortion provider George Tiller, people can and are incited to kill people because of things they read and things they hear online, or in group meetings. It's not just that his threat was aimed at Connecticut lawmakers Sen. Andrew McDonald and Rep. Michael Lawlor over Catholic Parish finance, it's that he made them at all. This IS yelling fire in a movie theatre in our estimation.

You cannot and should not be allowed to sit behind your keyboard and call for violence against others and hope and or expect one of your readers (or in radio's case listeners) and when it actually comes to pass sit back and say "Whoa how the hell did that happen? I'm completely innocent of course as they were just thoughts, words if you will. THEY killed him, I didn't".

We wonder what Turner's BFF Sean Hannity will have to say about all of his.

That alarm you may or may not hear today in Bayonne is the Emergency Broadcast Network

While everyone else in Hudson County WILL hear the sirens from the Hudson County Office of Emergency Management between 2-3 pm today, Bayonne may not. That's why they test folks, as last time they ran the test sirens they were barely audible in Bayonne. The good news is we DID hear them here in Jersey City. So that sound you hear today (and tomorrow in Kearny, East Newark and Harrison) is just a test......we hope.

If you're looking for fun on a gorgeous Sunday, head on over to the Cuban Parade of New Jersey in North Bergen

But if you're gonna go, get there early for the 5 pm parade as hundreds of thousands of spectators are expected to attend. The parade starts at 79th Street and Bergenline Ave in North Bergen (Entrance to James Braddock Park) and ends at 43rd street and Bergenline Ave in Union City.

Grand Marshalls of this year's parade are Javier Vasquez and Sonora Matancera.

If somebody's gonna be selling one of life's great pleasures, a Cuban sammich, let the Jersey City Desk know so Johnny can start shoving his way to the front of the line.

Here is an image from last year's parade (we make no claim to ownership, we're just trying to promote the parade and the fun)


There are dozens more of the parade and can be found at the parade site HERE.

Local Board of Education results from yesterday

With almost all precincts reporting:

Jersey City
Sean Connors: 20.89%
William DeRosa: 15.86%
Patricia Sebron: 13.02%

59.82% voted 'yes' on the tax levy.

Hoboken
Theresa Minutillo: 20.84%
Maureen Sullivan: 19.66%
Ruth McAllister: 18.98%

51.55% voted 'no' on the tax levy.

North Bergen
Maurena Luzzi: 32.45%
Julio Marenco: 31.25%
Ruth Shaw: 31.39%

87.99% voted 'no' on the tax levy.

Kearny
James Doran, Jr.: 23.16%
Paul Castelli: 20.16%
Lisa Anne Schalago: 19.84%

54.67% voted 'yes' on the tax levy.

Weehawken
Richard Barsa: 35.64%
Paul Salandra: 32.11%
Joseph Rutigliano: 31.98%

72.32% voted 'yes' on the tax levy.

Secaucus
Gary Riebesell: 21.13%
Charles Krajewski III: 19.42%
Thomas A. Troyer: 18.01%

53.10% voted 'yes' on the tax levy.

New York City is still obsessed with the fact New Jersey makes it smell better

Again New York City stands amazed and in awe that the syrupy-sweet smell coming from a North Bergen food additive factory could make the Big Appletini smell like something other than a public urinal. Mayor for life if he has his way Michael Bloomberg yesterday felt the need to hold a press conference on this pressing matter. Newspapers and rags like the New York Post wrote articles on the smell wafting into The Big Stink.

Again, New York, you're WELCOME. We realize that urine and trash smell is something you're used to and probably have grown to like. We're sorry is the sweet syrup smell upsets you, but really, consider it a free upgrade.