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Odds and ends night

*Rutgers WR Kenny Britt will skip his senior season and enter the NFL draft in April. Vaya Con Dios Kenny, no complaints here, you're ready.

*If you use your bike to get to and from work, apparently you are entitled to a $20 a month tax free stipend from your employer.

*The case against Julian R. Cosma, the guy who faked being a cop to attack, assault, and sexually molest women just got bigger as a third woman has come forward.

*Washington topped the Rangers 2-1 tonight in Landover, Md. The Isles trail San Jose out on the coast tonight 3-1 at the end of 2 periods. Yes, the Wings won in a shootout in Minnesota. Connecticut beat Rutgers in mens hoops tonight by the final score of too much to not enough.

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NY Assemblyman wants to postpone vote on taxpayer funding of new Yankee and Met stadiums

Here here. Somehow the Yankees have no problem spending $450 million dollars on THREE players this offseason and still asking, YOU dear reader, to pony up another $259 million in tax-exempt bonds and $111 million in taxable bonds. This would be on TOP of the nearly ONE BILLION dollars taxpayers are already on the hook for. The Mets are begging for another $83 million in addition to the $615 million taxpayers are "helping" the Mets with.

Well one New York State Assemblyman, Richard Brodsky, is asking for a delay in the January 16th vote as he doesn't think there has been enough public input and not nearly enough questions asked about WHY these ballclubs will be taking so much and giving so little back in jobs and revenue to the city, NEED more and more and more taxpayer money.

Fight on Mr. Brodsky, NOW is the time to turn back these arrogant requests. The Yankees and Mets can't threaten to move elsewhere at this point. Make them use actual turnstile revenue to pay this back to themselves.

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It's sounding more and more like Hoboken councilwoman Dawn Zimmer is gonna run for Mayor this year. Smart money says she will.

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Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with PETER GABRIEL!

Boy howdy, finding a Peter Gabriel video on YouTube you can actually use is rather difficult. Apparently Universal Music can't stand anything their corporate logo isn't on. God forbid somebody would actually hear a song they like, realize they don't have it and go buy it on iTunes. Not allowing people to share videos on non-commercial sites like this one (we don't even accept Google ads) is short sighted at best.

Now, Peter Gabriel wrote and performed many many great songs. We could spend all day trying to find some to include here, but we're gonna go with this one, 'Games Without Frontiers'. See if you're not trying to whistle along to it later...

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with LEE MICHAELS!

Now most of you are sitting there saying WTF Johnny, Lee Michaels, I don't have the foggiest idea who Lee Michaels is or what he ever sang (were just guessing at your bad grammar). Well kiddies, sometimes we go off the rails here and go find something obscure that maybe you haven't heard since say, 1971, when this song was recorded, do you know what we mean?

Lee Michaels with the oldie but goodie "Do You Know What I Mean'

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with VAN HALEN!

Yeah baby, nothing like a Friday night rocker to send you off on your extended holiday weekend. This'll give you a chance to test out those speakers you got for your computer on Christmas. Eddie f'ing rawks!

Van Halen with 'Runnin with the Devil'


Now, if that were all, that would be a hot Friday night video but since this is the Jersey City Desk, there is MORE to this friends and fellow rockers. We're gonna give you a BONUS cut here, the actual David Lee Roth vocal track from the recording of this song. Just Dave, nuthin else.

2 local teens try an armed robbery with a BB Gun, are easily thwarted

A 39 year old local man fought off two idiot teens who tried to rob him walking on West Side Avenue near Glenwood Avenue Tuesday. One teen told the would-be victim "Give me all you got or I'm gonna shoot you". Then man told them "Go ahead" and it was ON. The would be victim, realizing it was a BB gun, grabbed the 17 year old and dragged him out into the street while the second robber just stood by and watched. The victim dragged the crook into the street so more people would be able to see what was going on. This proved to not to be a bad idea as soon a police unit rolled up and the two idiots were detained, the man with the BB gun was arrested while his 15 year old brother was released. The 17 year old from Newark was charged with robbery, possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes, unlawful possession of weapons and resisting arrest.

A BB gun, remind anybody of anything?

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A fine day of football if you're one for not so close games. On the other hand, that wasn't a problem for Johnny watching the NHL's Winter Classic and the butt whipping his beloved Red Wings put on Chicago.

Here's hoping your New Year's Day was great.

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You're on your own today, Johnny's giving the staff the day off

Too much else to watch today, the Rose Parade, the Winter Classic featuring the Detroit Red Wings (woo hoo), the Michigan State bowl game (woo hoo) of course the Rose Bowl.

Happy New Year, we'll be back here tonight.

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A hearty Happy New Year to all our peeps in Jersey City, New York City, the surrounding areas here in New Jersey and all our peeps back in Michigan. We hope 2009 will be a great year on all levels for everyone.

May the fates take a shine to you.

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