Lucky sez: "I want to be hearin' some Cranberries now..."

What Lucky wants, Lucky gets. Lucky also had some choice words for the British occupation of Northern Ireland we can't repeat. Oh we agree with him, we just can't repeat it.


The Cranberries with the very Irish song, 'Zombie'

We kick off St. Patrick's Day with Sinead O'Connor an the Chieftains

With the Irish standard 'The Foggy Dew'

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Make sure to drop by through the day tomorrow, we have a great St. Patrick's Day planned.

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When hairstylists attack: Fired Hair Artist comes back to work wielding two machetes

Jersey City's own Albenis Pieters-Rosa was let go from his job at a Greenville beauty salon last night. Tough break, the economy blows. Instead of going to the unemployment office Pieters-Rosa swore revenge on the brother and sister who owned the salon. True to his word Pieters-Rosa showed up outside the salon this morning waving two machetes all Indiana Jones style and demanding the brother and sister come out so he could kill them. Well, being intelligent beings who enjoy life, they declined his kind offer to come outside and meet their ends and called police. Pieters-Rosa got bored and walked home with his machetes where he was arrested by Jersey City's finest and charged with making terroristic threats, weapons offenses and resisting arrest.

Rock beats scissors, scissors beat paper, and locked doors beat machetes. It's a law of physics.

The following crooks marched in the Jersey City St. Patrick's Day parade

Shame on Guy Catrillo, Michael Manzo and Philip J. Kenny, who all took dirty money from FBI informant Solomon Dwek and profaned the very spirit of the Jersey City St. Patrick's parade which was dedicated to the memory of Jersey City HERO Detective Marc DiNardo who lost his life protecting Jersey City residents from violent criminals last year. How dare these slimebags march with the parade dedicated to Mr. DiNardo. Chances are Marc DiNardo would have had no trouble arresting these lawbreakers and yet they felt the need to get out and be seen.

Maureen Hulings, vice chairwoman of the parade committee said she had no idea that Catrillo and Kenny planned to march. When asked why Manzo was allowed to march she said it would have been awkward to ask him not to since he'd worked on the parade committee previously. Hey, Maureen, grow a set and do what's right next time. You knew who the parade was dedicated to. Stand up and be counted or become part of the problem.

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In Monday Night Football tonight Cleveland put the smack down on the Bills with the final score at 38-21. It's amazing how well lit Cleveland Stadium is that Monday Night Football looks like it's actually being played in the day. Isn't science grand?


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If you're Jersey City Council President Peter Brennan and you don't like certain bills, just kick them down the road six months

Why should business-as-usual supporter Peter Brennan have to hear ideas he doesn't like more than once every six months? Brennan is taking aim at the only real good city council member jersey City employs, Steve Fulop, by demanding any motions that don't pass cannot be brought up again for six months. Yeah Peter, who cares how pertinent these proposals could be. Who cares if the main body of the city council is simply acting obstructionist over new rules they don't want to live by, the city council here does that all the time.

Case in point, Fulop proposed, and rightfully so, that any city vehicle being paying for with taxpayer money be clearly marked as a city vehicle on city business. That's just not how Brennan and the other members of council want to be seen, they think they should keep the cars unmarked and unaccountable to the rest of us. Another case in point would be the fact Fulop wants some open government and wants Jersey City Council meetings on JCTV1, a way of keeping citizens informed. Brennan doesn't want that to happen either (Peter why show the people who vote for you what an obstructionist you really are?) and since the majority of the city council wants to protect their egregious behavior and votes as private as possible, some don't even want to hear about televised meetings for another six months when they can simply ashcan that idea too.

Peter Brennan, what REAL value do you serve on city council? What is it you really really do to help city residents? We'd love a physical tangible list of your accomplishments other than trying to block meetings from teevee or keep your city vehicle unmarked and on the sly.

You know how to reach us.

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Can you people find trash bins for your blown apart umbrellas? Johnny counted no less than 8 umbrellas just simply tossed away on the sidewalks. There are trash cans everywhere, use one.

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So, Glenn Beck thinks Bruce Springsteen's song 'Born in the USA' is unpatriotic

Johnny doesn't normally get the chance to speak out on national events nor politics in general. He tries to stay pretty middle of the road. This however cuts a bit close to home here for us. First off, Mr. NYC Crybaby Glenn Beck, do us all a favor and STFU. Does a song called 'Born in the USA' HAVE to be patriotic? Did you think to tell Ronald Reagan who wanted to use the song in his 1984 Presidential campaign it wasn't patriotic enough for you or were you still in your cocaine and booze fueled haze back then? For those who may not know the true meaning of the song it's about a soldier returning from Vietnam disillusioned with what he finds when he comes back and cannot find a job. Gee, that never happened did it Glenn? Maybe only a few thousand times. God forbid an artist would make social commentary on what he sees going on around him, I mean it's almost what artists do. Anyways Beck, who the hell are YOU to start whining about it? You have a radio and teevee show which allows YOU to make social commentary and you're not even an artist (nor all that well informed apparently). You made over $14 million dollars last year so feel free to drop the everyman routine. You no more speak for the masses than Johnny does.

We probably would have even skipped this little embarrassing incident for Beck-o if he also this week hadn't DEMANDED certain people LEAVE their churches. Yes, he did. He feels he and he alone is the one able to tell you that your church is no good (So much for freedom of religion eh Glenn?). What kind of brownshirt egomaniac tells people their church is not acceptable? You wanna hear something really unpatriotic and unAmerican?

"I beg you look for the words social justice or economic justice on your church Web site," he said. "If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words. ... Am I advising people to leave their church? Yes! If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish," he said. "Go alert your bishop and tell them, 'Excuse me, are you down with this whole social justice thing?' If it's my church, I'm alerting the church authorities: 'Excuse me, what's this social justice thing?' And if they say, 'Yeah, we're all in on this social justice thing,' I am in the wrong place." -- Glenn Beck

Stunning in it's stupidity isn't it? One of the tenets of America, the freedom of religion, upsets Beck because he thinks HE and HE ALONE can tell you what is appropriate worship. This is so far out of bounds it's stultifying. So not only does Beck think he gets to tell everyone which music is good for America and what isn't, he also gets to tell people this house of worship is unacceptable. What a fracking disgrace.

God forbid your church would consider helping the less fortunate and looking out for the weakest of society, kinda like Jesus used to do. Glenn Beck thinks he knows better than Jesus apparently. Now, Johnny isn't religious in the least and doesn't believe in God but realizes many of you do and that's GREAT. Isn't freedom to help the less fortunate and writing songs about social injustice a part of the American fabric? We think so and we also think Glenn Beck has lost touch with real American values.

And anybody who might be tempted to show up here after incessantly Googling their idol Glenn Beck's name to hassle LIBRUL writers would do well to read a LOT of the posts on this site that also trash dozens of Democrats before opening their pie holes.

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There is now an ark accepting boarding passes at the corner of Marin and Christopher Columbus this evening. Please board safely.

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