"I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays."
--Henny Youngman
Time for Jersey City, After Dark
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Boy the Port Authority really stepped in this one
And thus far all we have is silence from Our Governor "I never met a quote I didn't like" Christie and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
If our dear readers will recall, when the Port Authority was trying to justify the huge toll hikes they proposed they included the work on the new One World Trade, which was built into the cost. The said they new WTC was included in cost projections in both public comments and press releases.
As late as August 19th, after the money had been approved the Port Authority said in a press release the increase would cover the "completion of the World Trade Center."
Then they were sued by AAA who said that the WTC wasn't a transportation project, rather a building. But, in their legal filings in this case the Port Authority said NO money would be used from toll increases for the WTC.
So, um, Port Authority, which one is it? You simply CANNOT use pull the strings of patriotism while trying to gin up reasons for your toll increase. By basically using the attacks on 9/11 as part of your justification, THEN filing (they no doubt wish had never come out) on another case say "Wait, no money is going there, who on earth told you that?"
"It's got to be one or the other," said Genovese, vice president of AAA of New York, which filed the suit with AAA of Northern New Jersey in September. "They can't have it both ways."
Maybe someone should have brought this up from the Port Authority when they held their sham "open meetings" on this toll increase. Ready for what the Port Authority considers open meetings?
The mandatory public hearings on the hike were held on a single day, three days before the approval vote, all eight of them during rush hour and at Port Authority facilities not typically used for public forums.
It's our opinion that the Port Authority intentionally misled the public. They've clammed up and nobody is saying anything from their offices. The governors, again, are saying nothing.
It's pretty obvious what happened here and it's also apparent it is time to hide the cookie jar from the Port Authority bozos running the circus.
If our dear readers will recall, when the Port Authority was trying to justify the huge toll hikes they proposed they included the work on the new One World Trade, which was built into the cost. The said they new WTC was included in cost projections in both public comments and press releases.
As late as August 19th, after the money had been approved the Port Authority said in a press release the increase would cover the "completion of the World Trade Center."
Then they were sued by AAA who said that the WTC wasn't a transportation project, rather a building. But, in their legal filings in this case the Port Authority said NO money would be used from toll increases for the WTC.
So, um, Port Authority, which one is it? You simply CANNOT use pull the strings of patriotism while trying to gin up reasons for your toll increase. By basically using the attacks on 9/11 as part of your justification, THEN filing (they no doubt wish had never come out) on another case say "Wait, no money is going there, who on earth told you that?"
"It's got to be one or the other," said Genovese, vice president of AAA of New York, which filed the suit with AAA of Northern New Jersey in September. "They can't have it both ways."
Maybe someone should have brought this up from the Port Authority when they held their sham "open meetings" on this toll increase. Ready for what the Port Authority considers open meetings?
The mandatory public hearings on the hike were held on a single day, three days before the approval vote, all eight of them during rush hour and at Port Authority facilities not typically used for public forums.
It's our opinion that the Port Authority intentionally misled the public. They've clammed up and nobody is saying anything from their offices. The governors, again, are saying nothing.
It's pretty obvious what happened here and it's also apparent it is time to hide the cookie jar from the Port Authority bozos running the circus.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
The Hudson Tea Building in Hoboken, celebrities, fine living and stalkers
Dateline Fuho: A woman who lives in the Hudson Tea Building says after turning down another resident for a date she's now been getting annoying and mysterious knocks on her door at all hours. She said she's lost weight from the harassment and is just too petrified to call police when the door knocking happens. Maybe it's Eli Manning wanting to go have a catch. Maybe it's former Kardashian Snipe hunting bagman Kris Humphries wanting to talk about where he might play in the NBA this season, or maybe it's the asshat who asked her out that simply can't take no for an answer.
You can read the article here and give us your thoughts in comments.
You can read the article here and give us your thoughts in comments.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Late night open thread
Here now, a first half highlight from tonight's Monday Night Football game.
Time for Jersey City, After Dark
Time for Jersey City, After Dark
How well do you know your accountant?
With the end of the year fast approaching, many citizens will be hunkering down with their accountants for some end of the year tax planning sessions. Then of course the game changes January 1st as people huddle with accountants over paying the 2011 taxes.
Did you know however that a record number of New Jersey accountants are lying about their education credentials? Not the kind of thing you'd like to find out after-the-fact no doubt. An article in NJ.com this morning says accountants are lying about the classes they have been taking for professional enrichment as well as ethics classes.
Read the article, take a look at what it is saying and then you might just wanna follow up with your own accountant and make sure they are all caught up on classes and can PROVE it to you.
Did you know however that a record number of New Jersey accountants are lying about their education credentials? Not the kind of thing you'd like to find out after-the-fact no doubt. An article in NJ.com this morning says accountants are lying about the classes they have been taking for professional enrichment as well as ethics classes.
Read the article, take a look at what it is saying and then you might just wanna follow up with your own accountant and make sure they are all caught up on classes and can PROVE it to you.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Mayor Healy will be holding a fundraiser at Puccini's December 6th
And we encourage the hundreds and thousands of Jersey City voters and residents whom the mayor long ago stopped caring about to show up at Puccini's and let the mayor know that actually carrying out your duties as mayor include actually meeting with citizens (and citizens groups who might just ask hard questions) and not just singing karaoke in bars and showing up at ribbon cuttings and parades.
Again, Mayor Healy will be holding a fundraiser December 6th at Puccini's. He's asking $150-$300 a pop. If you'd like to be heard without becoming a Healy acolyte simply show up and start asking questions. Our goal would be between 50-100 people there that evening. By showing up and holding a camera to see just whom is on their way in to support the mayor would be a good thing as well. If you're going to support Healy let's make it very difficult to do it secretly.
Puccini's is located at 1064 West Side Ave.
#OccupyPuccini's
Again, Mayor Healy will be holding a fundraiser December 6th at Puccini's. He's asking $150-$300 a pop. If you'd like to be heard without becoming a Healy acolyte simply show up and start asking questions. Our goal would be between 50-100 people there that evening. By showing up and holding a camera to see just whom is on their way in to support the mayor would be a good thing as well. If you're going to support Healy let's make it very difficult to do it secretly.
Puccini's is located at 1064 West Side Ave.
#OccupyPuccini's
Late night open thread
It's the Saturday night scoreboard show
Connecticut 40
Rutgers 22
What a time for a stinker of a game. Rutgers will get to a decent enough bowl game but this season will be haunted by the Big East title that wasn't
Stanford 28
Notre Dame 14
Who knows, maybe 8-4 Rutgers can play 8-4 Notre Dame in the 8-4 Bowl
Northern Illinois 18
Eastern Michigan 12
Eastern Michigan's first non-losing season since 1995. Ron English whom we've hassled here before has helped pick this program off the mat
Utah State 21
Nevada 17
Here's a case of another lost program, Utah State, picking themselves up and fighting back to bowl eligibility
Michigan State 31
Northwestern 17
Sparty rolls into the Big Ten title game at 10-2 against...
Wisconsin 45
Penn St. 7
Hide the meats and cheeses Indianapolis, the Badger fans are coming to town. Keep your hands and feet away from their mouths
Stony Brook 31
Albany 28
Stony Brook came from waaaaay back to win their first round Division 1-AA playoff game
Air Force 45
Colorado State 21
The Air Force Academy becomes bowl eligible. Johnny likes Air Force, they have awesome helmets
USC 50
UCLA 0
And it's UCLA who will win the PAC-12 South after this crushing defeat and move on to play Oregon next Saturday in the Pac 12 title game. All because Pete Carroll had no control over the USC program and graft ran wild while he was in charge.....allegedly
Michigan 40
Ohio State 34
Yet another rivalry game that used to mean something. Michigan beats THE Ohio State University for the first time since the Unabomber was in grad school in Ann Arbor
The Jersey City Desk Game of the Week®
Florida Atlantic 38
UAB 35
Florida Atlantic coach and all around class act Howard Schnellenberger is retiring after this game. This was FAU's only win of the season and they send Schnellenberger out a winner. With FAU's win it means all DIvision 1-A schools won at least one game this year
Tim for Jersey City, After Dark
Connecticut 40
Rutgers 22
What a time for a stinker of a game. Rutgers will get to a decent enough bowl game but this season will be haunted by the Big East title that wasn't
Stanford 28
Notre Dame 14
Who knows, maybe 8-4 Rutgers can play 8-4 Notre Dame in the 8-4 Bowl
Northern Illinois 18
Eastern Michigan 12
Eastern Michigan's first non-losing season since 1995. Ron English whom we've hassled here before has helped pick this program off the mat
Utah State 21
Nevada 17
Here's a case of another lost program, Utah State, picking themselves up and fighting back to bowl eligibility
Michigan State 31
Northwestern 17
Sparty rolls into the Big Ten title game at 10-2 against...
Wisconsin 45
Penn St. 7
Hide the meats and cheeses Indianapolis, the Badger fans are coming to town. Keep your hands and feet away from their mouths
Stony Brook 31
Albany 28
Stony Brook came from waaaaay back to win their first round Division 1-AA playoff game
Air Force 45
Colorado State 21
The Air Force Academy becomes bowl eligible. Johnny likes Air Force, they have awesome helmets
USC 50
UCLA 0
And it's UCLA who will win the PAC-12 South after this crushing defeat and move on to play Oregon next Saturday in the Pac 12 title game. All because Pete Carroll had no control over the USC program and graft ran wild while he was in charge.....allegedly
Michigan 40
Ohio State 34
Yet another rivalry game that used to mean something. Michigan beats THE Ohio State University for the first time since the Unabomber was in grad school in Ann Arbor
The Jersey City Desk Game of the Week®
Florida Atlantic 38
UAB 35
Florida Atlantic coach and all around class act Howard Schnellenberger is retiring after this game. This was FAU's only win of the season and they send Schnellenberger out a winner. With FAU's win it means all DIvision 1-A schools won at least one game this year
Tim for Jersey City, After Dark
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Rutgers football gameday!
OK Rutgers fans, last regular season game of the year and YES, the Scarlet Knights CAN still make it to a BCS game but those chances are slim. Tom Luicci with the Star-Ledger explains how slim:
Three things now need to happen for the Scarlet Knights to have a chance at earning the Big East's automatic BCS bowl:
1. Rutgers needs to beat Connecticut on Saturday;
2. West Virginia has to lose in its season finale at South Florida on Thursday;
3. Cincinnati has to win its final two games, with the Bearcats at Syracuse on Saturday before closing out at home against Connecticut.
Ah yes, beating Connecticut.
Last week as you'll recall we gave up on the Rutgers running game and Jawan Jamison promptly ripped off a 200 yard afternoon on the ground. Could Rutgers maybe get another 100 yards out of Jamison? It certainly would be key. Now the Huskies are a strong defensive team especially against the run so not becoming too one-dimensional would go a long way. The Rutgers defense this season has been stout. They are the reason the Piscataway 11 are still alive for a BCS bowl game. They really have their work cut out for them today in UConn's two-headed QB system. Johnny McAntee can't can pass but can't run while Scott McCummings can run very well but probably couldn't hit water if he threw the ball out of a boat. Rutgers defense needs to communicate and know who is out there on every down.
Rutgers has pretty well owned Connecticut in football (And UConn returns the favor in hoops) over the years and it is our opinion that will continue for one more game.
Fearless Forecast
Rutgers gets power up and claims a share of the Big East title!
Rutgers 28
Connecticut 23
Three things now need to happen for the Scarlet Knights to have a chance at earning the Big East's automatic BCS bowl:
1. Rutgers needs to beat Connecticut on Saturday;
2. West Virginia has to lose in its season finale at South Florida on Thursday;
3. Cincinnati has to win its final two games, with the Bearcats at Syracuse on Saturday before closing out at home against Connecticut.
Ah yes, beating Connecticut.
Last week as you'll recall we gave up on the Rutgers running game and Jawan Jamison promptly ripped off a 200 yard afternoon on the ground. Could Rutgers maybe get another 100 yards out of Jamison? It certainly would be key. Now the Huskies are a strong defensive team especially against the run so not becoming too one-dimensional would go a long way. The Rutgers defense this season has been stout. They are the reason the Piscataway 11 are still alive for a BCS bowl game. They really have their work cut out for them today in UConn's two-headed QB system. Johnny McAntee can't can pass but can't run while Scott McCummings can run very well but probably couldn't hit water if he threw the ball out of a boat. Rutgers defense needs to communicate and know who is out there on every down.
Rutgers has pretty well owned Connecticut in football (And UConn returns the favor in hoops) over the years and it is our opinion that will continue for one more game.
Fearless Forecast
Rutgers gets power up and claims a share of the Big East title!
Rutgers 28
Connecticut 23
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