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Here is a technical and snazzy little web page from the New York Times showing all the New Jersey High School SAT scores. How does your school district measure up?

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Turner Classic Movies soon will be running their yearly '30 Days of Oscar' in the run up to the Academy Awards. Johnny's gonna grace the Jersey City Desk with one of the most enrapturing stories in all of moviemaking. In some ways this story makes your hair stand up on the back of your neck more than the shark did. Robert Shaw as Captain Quint telling the story of the USS Indianapolis. One of the most intense movie scenes ever.


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So much news, so little time

Quite a bit of vital, disturbing, titillating, and economic Jersey City news in a segment we like to call "Go read it for yourself, Johnny's busy"

First the sexual innuendo news, North Bergen Mayor and State Senator Nicholas Sacco is being sued by an employee for commenting on her ample cleavage-ness.

Jersey City Municipal Court Judge Wilson J. Campbell is being reprimanded for having an affair with a bailiff. What was the old Cheech and Chong line from a skit they did? "Bailiff whack, his pee-pee" takes on a whole new meaning here.

A 16 year old girl was shot in the face leaving a Jersey City laundymat yesterday near Communipaw and Van Horne. Yeah, guns are a great idea...NOT. Hopefully someone will come forward with information.

Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy's budget was rolled out last night. Get the details here.

Big plans for the Journal Square area are afoot. Big doings indeed. MAJOR improvements. Hyperbole aplenty. They even wanna name one of the new proposed buildings after Johnny, *sniff sniff*

Disgraced Jersey City policeman Martin Abreu blew well over the legal limit when given the breathalyzer Saturday night. He blew a .124, and had slurred speech and an open bottle of liquor in his car that hit and killed Marilyn Feng. His partner it turns out was in the car with Abreu.

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You woke up this morning with absolutely no idea which US city led the nation in per capita Jell-O consumption. Since you learn things at the Jersey City Desk it's impossible to learn elsewhere, we're proud to tell you that city is Des Moines, Iowa.

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New Jersey Devils 3, New York Rangers 0

Well sports fans, the New Jersey Devils knocked the New Yawk Rangers down and took their lunch money at the Prudential Center bus stop tonight by a score of 3-0. It was quite apparent the Devils were bigger, stronger and more determined to make something of their lives. Zach Parise was a stud for the Devils scoring twice and was a constant threat in the Rangers end all night. The Rangers defense, when they weren't making horrid outlet passes were losing battles for loose pucks in the corners.

A lot is made about the Broadway Blue Shirts lack of offense, and the forwards have come under a lot of media scrutiny lately but take it from this in-the-know hockey fan, the problem with the Rangers forwards is their defensemen. The Rangers have nobody making good outlet passes hitting forwards with speed out of their own zone, their D to D passes are slow and lazy in their own end and they lack the ability to pick up the pace of the Rangers attack. They also don't have the defensemen to make a quick tape to tape pass on a neutral zone turnover. When you're New York and you have forwards named Drury, Gomez, Naslund, and Zherdev you have two good scoring lines. No, what you're lacking is the back end to help them shine.

The Devils defense on the other hand, while lacking a superstar DO make the smart outlet passes. They dig hard in the corners and take opposing forwards off the puck with smart positioning and moving their feet. Even though he wasn't named one of the three stars tonight, Devil Paul Martin did a great job at holding pucks in the Rangers zone, he won battles for loose pucks and was a smart +1. Martin also led all Devils in ice time with a yeoman-like total of 24:03.

We'd be remiss to not mention amazin' Scott Clemmensen's first shutout in the NHL since March 26, 2004 with Atlanta. He didn't give the Ranger many second chances on rebounds and really has been the lifeline the Devils needed this season. He'll get zero votes for league MVP, but there hasn't been a player more valuable to his team this year. A guy who was third on the Devils netminding depth chart heading into this season, Clemmensen now sports a cool 23-11-1 record.

So, the Devils have opened up a 6 point lead on Sillydelphia and an 8 point bulge on the Rags in the Atlantic Division.

New Jersey is home for an abysmal Islanders team Wednesday, and then the competition gets bigger and better with Boston coming to town Friday and San Jose on Sunday. Speaking of the Sunday game, Johnny will again be there patting kids on the head, and signing autographs under the big old Bon Jovi mural in his Charlestown Chiefs sweater.

Westminster Kennel Club show kicks off at MSG tonight

The only dogs in MSG are not the Knicks anymore, no the barking kind invade Madison Square Garden tonight and tomorrow for the Westminster Kennel Club show. If Johnny was a gambling man, he'd put the smart money on a god awful looking poodle, who win a lot. He has no idea what the fascination is with poodles when obviously, the best looking pooch time and time again is the Pembroke Welsh Corgi. No Corgi is featured on the front page of the Westminster website, but there is an ugly-assed poodle.

So, as you sit at home tonight or head over to MSG, give some love to those happening Corgis, the smartest and cutest dogs around.

(image from The Daily Puppy)

Fun at 'The Rock' tonight puck fans as the Rangers stop in for a visit

The good old hockey game tonight will mean a 4 point swing in the Atlantic Division standings. Our Devils are currently up 6 points on the Blue Shirts, with a win tonight they'd stretch that lead out to a whopping 8 points. The Rangers are having all kinds of problems scoring goals, so much so word around the league is they'd like to bring back circus freak Sean Avery. Now, this might excite Mike Rupp and or David Clarkson who might like to wipe the ice with the littlest freak show, we're not sure this is the kind of move that would improve the Rangers fortunes all that much.

Gametime 7pm, get there early as the PATH train will be plugged with smelly Rags fans from 5pm on. A lot of them can't read so if someone in a Rangers sweater asks you for directions, be kind, tell them to get off in Harrison.

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Sunday potpourri o' goodness

Apparently, the New York Times and writer Allen Salkin want us to feel the pain of the Wall Street crowd who while taking billions in taxpayer money might have to just make do on $500K a year. Apparently the NYT would like us to know that would entail putting their kids in public schools, buying a MetroPass and riding PATH trains, giving up chauffeured limos with drivers with guns. Apparently they have a lifestyle they are used to and we should feel bad for them. Look, do you know what we do to welfare recipients in America? We make them get time sheets signed off on for 15 minute intervals by a supervisor at whatever job the governments tells them they must have. We drug test them, we do home inspections. We should be doing the same to these Wall Street assholes. Welfare recipients aren't the ones who landed us in the recession, these poor spoiled brat Wall Street bankers are. Required reading here.

A drunken Jersey City cop, one Martin Abreu, represented his city by mowing down a group of pedestrians, killing one, Saturday night. Abreu has been charged with vehicular manslaughter and assault and driving while intoxicated while killing Marilyn Feng. Tell ya what New York, you can keep him locked up over there, we don't ever want him back. Throw the book at him.

Star-Ledger columnist Mark Diionno thinks the Garden State should start charging New York City for improving their air quality with that syrupy smell. We heartily agree.

Finally, later this afternoon, the Stanley Cup CHAMPION Detroit Red Wings head back to Pittsburgh to take on Cindy Crosby and the small potatoes Penguins. Johnny wonders if anyone around New Jersey and New York realizes the favor the Wings did for all of hockey to keep Crosby from the cup. If you think the NHL's pandering to him now is bad, imagine if they'd found a way to get Sid the 'pissy pants' Kid the cup like they tried to do last season. You KNOW you tried to get him the cup Gary Bettman, EPIC FAIL.

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