Phil Stilton is the founder and editor of Shore News Network. A 28 year media and technology expert, Phil is also a veteran of the United States Marine Corps.
TOMS RIVER-Despite some confusion about how to nominate and vote on a new board president and vice president, the Toms River Regional School Board managed to get the vote done at their annual reorganization meeting.
Democratic political operative Ben Giovine will lead the Toms River Regional School Board in 2017 after securing the nomination and election as president by his fellow board members. The board, minus Joe Nardini, Chris Raimann and newly elected board member Daniel Leonard voted in favor of Giovine.
Board member Christopher Raimann was also nominated for presidency, but a vote was not held after the Giovine vote cleared the board successfully.
For Vice President, Loreen Torrone and Nardini received nominations, but after a 4-4 board split, Torrone cast a vote for herself to break the tie.
Outgoing board President Rob Onofrietti was joined by Nardini, Raimann and Leonard, all of whom voted against Torrone’s nomination.
Giovine, was a former Democrat political field agent, organizer and Ocean County director for the campaign of the late John Adler.
The board in their first two votes, maintained political party lines.
Democrat political powerbroker and board attorney Steven Leone addressed those in attendance and let the audience know he would leave the meeting early to make a flight to Florida.
BRICK-Greenbriar senior community resident Anne Coll came to the December 20th Brick Township council meeting with season’s greetings, but wanted to let the township know she was upset about how the township conducts their public meetings.
Blue brick – pictured top right. Brick township is the only “all-blue” town in ocean county where democrats have complete control of the township council and school board budgets. A resident raised concerns over how the local democrats are conducting business in ocean county’s only blue town. The only other publicly elected democrat officials in ocean county serve in a minority capacity in little egg harbor, lakewood and mantoloking.
Coll said she was upset over how the council often loads the consent agenda with important and sometimes critical financial and business decisions. Under the law, consent agendas are usually used for approval of routine and mundane items that can be packaged into a single agenda item vote for convenience.
Typically towns use consent agendas to approve proclamations, approval of minutes, tax refunds, grant approvals and other housekeeping type items.
Towns in Ocean County typically draft resolutions for large ticket items such as expensive half-million dollar liquor license sales.
The all Democrat board in Brick routinely pushes controversial and big budget items into their consent agenda, including $1.7 million in budget transfers in November and December of 2016 in order to pass the items in one vote, without a public comment period for each resolution or item being voted on.
Coll said she has had enough of how the all Democrat council operates.
“You see before you, an elderly, white woman who is extremely angry,” Mrs. Coll told the council. “That’s not why I did vote for Trump…”
Coll was quickly interrupted by Brick Township Council President Paul Mummolo.
“No, no…this is a consent agenda…We don’t want to know who you voted for, just please get to your question,” Mummolo said to Coll.
“I’m not going to settle for the use of the consent agenda for every item that should be discussed without having to be pulled,” Coll said to the council. “I’m going to start taking the appropriate action and notifying the appropriate people that you don’t follow the laws and orders of the state.”
After asking the council who pays for employee health benefits, Mummolo asked Coll if that was her only question and that he would answer all questions at once. After Coll objected, advising him that her elderly state of mind cannot operate like that,Mummolo said, “Well, it’s going to work that way anyway.”
“Oh, it is?” she asked. “That’s very nice.”
Coll told Mummolo that he has no right to limit her time, referring to the council’s buzzer that goes off during public comment portions of the meeting, notifying residents their speaking time has expired.
“So, please ask your questions,” he added.
After a brief dialog, Coll’s timer expired.
“Are you done?” Mummolo asked?
“You don’t have the right to time me,” she responded.
“I do have a right to time you,” Mummolo said. “You can sit down and get right back up.”
Coll debated with township attorney Kevin Starkey over the definition of public comments, claiming her statements were not comments, but a request for information she felt should have been provided the town during the council discussion of the consent agenda.
She threatened to make a formal complaint.
“And it won’t be with the township. That’s a ridiculous notion that the township will police itself,” she added.
BRICK-Brick Township Mayor John Ducey and the township council want to be in the restaurant business. The township will be leasing land at the Trader’s Cove site to Chefs International, owners of the Lobster Shanty, Escondido, Moore’s Tavern, Baker’s Water Street and many other successful shore area restaurants for $75,000 per year. The town unveiled renderings for the restaurant last spring.
But, last month, the township awarded a liquor license to a potential competitor right across the street. Ducey was ok with that.
The town awarded a $611,000 plenary liquor license to Barnegat Bayside Services, LLC, of Branchburg, also the same owner of the Barnegat Bay Marina south of Trader’s Cove, Barnegat Bay Marina.
“This is exciting news, there’s been a lot of questions about what’s going on at the old Winters’ property, has there been any plans submitted, but the answer is still no,” Ducey said. “There’s been plans for the Marina and for the gas station and boat slips.”
“Before they went further with anything they would need a liquor license in order to serve liquor there,” Ducey said. “If they want to do some type of restaurant, bar, banquet center, whatever it is they eventually do.”
Ducey hinted that the license was made available in the hopes that the Marina would get the winning bid.
Resident Vic Fanelli questioned the sale of the liquor license.
“Isn’t that going to be in competition with Trader’s Cove and vice versa?” Fanelli asked.
“Before they bought the property they came down and did a tour,” Ducey said. “We let them know right away, we’re going to build a restaurant here, it’s been in the plans since the beginning, they were like, ‘no, that’d be great, it’s going to bring more people to the area’.”
Ducey said the two businesses would be an enhancement and improve the Mantoloking Road gateway area. Ducey did not say whether or not the Chefs International had been consulted prior to the sale or how the new restaurant could affect the township’s project.
BRICK-Brick Township resident Vic Fanelli questioned the Brick Township Council’s $1.7 million in budget transfers over two months. The council transferred another $805,000 worth of budget items in December.
“$805,000, that was this month, do you remember what it was last month was?” Fanelli asked the council.
“Do I remember what last month was?” Council President Paul Mummolo responded. “Not off the top of my head.”
“$874,000,” Fanelli responded. “So, in two months, it’s $1.7 million dollars in budget transfers. That’s just two months. Remember past discussions, we asked why do you have to move so much money around? We’re still moving it.”
“I won’t get into the nitty gritties except for the top item in there, which is $500,000 for health benefits,” Fanelli told the council. “Is there a reason why we have to move that much money?”
“At the end of the year, we want to have enough money in our claims account,” said Business Administrator Joanne Bergin. “We have to be prepared that we have enough. Any amount that is not used is carried into the new year.”
The township transferred $545,000 in additional funds from buildings and grounds, data processing, landfill, street lighting and communications to salary and wages and health benefits.
Location of the brick (osbornville) airport circa 1945.
Christine Schiess, chairwoman of the Brick Township Historic Preservation Commission presented the 2016 Historic Preservation award at the December 20th township council meeting.
Each year, the commission honors a structure in the township that has remained true to its original construction. The award was presented to Glen Campbell owners of a Kingfisher Cove log cabin.
Campbell calls his home ‘Serendipity’. The home was built in 1942 out of logs that were cleared from the construction of the Ocean County Airport (sometimes called the Osbornville airport) which was once located in Osbornville. An addition was built on the home in 1947, also using airport logs. Many log cabins in the area were built from logs of trees cut down for the airfield, but according to Schiess, most have been remodeled or demolished.
TOMS RIVER-On Wednesday, Joe Vicari became the 2017 Ocean County Board of Chosen Freeholders Director while Jack Kelly and Virginia Haines were sworn in again after winning their November election.
“I have said it many times, Ocean County is the premiere County,” said Haines who was sworn into her first three-year term on the Board. “We have the best county park system, library system, educational opportunities at Ocean County College and the list goes on and on.
Vicari noted there is a number of priorities for 2017 that will be addressed include providing the best programs possible for the county’s growing senior population, lobbying for important transportation projects and improvements and promoting more business development and tourism for Ocean County.
“I look forward to working with my colleagues on the Board to provide quality services and programs to our residents, in keeping the County affordable and to make certain Ocean County continues to be the great place it is to live, work, visit, raise a family and retire,” Vicari said.
Gerry Little was named Deputy Director of the 5 member board.
As President Barack Obama’s staff beings to clear out to make way for President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, a moving truck arrived at the White House grounds today. This photo taken by Michelle Kosinski from CNN shows a truck arriving at the Eisenhower Executive building, which is just next door the White House’s West Wing. The building is used to house the offices of the immediate staffs of President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
Do you recognize this man? A sketch, drawn with no shirt on to depict accuracy was released by the Evesham Police Department today. Police are seeking this man who allegedly chase a couple of teenage girls wearing nothing but his sneakers. This hairy, plump beast who harassed these girls is on the loose and police want to find him.
On Friday December 30, 2016, at 1:07pm, Patrol Units responded to the area of Ravens Row and Fox Chase Road for the report of a Lewdness Complaint/Attempted Luring. Upon arrival the caller, reported his 15 year old daughter and her 14 year old friend ran into his home after reporting that a naked man got out of his vehicle and ran toward them.
It was reported that the young girls were walking in the area of Westerly Drive to the basketball courts when they a noticed a black Jeep (Cherokee Style) drive by them. They noticed the white male driver did not have a shirt on, which struck their attention. Minutes later they observed the Jeep again, this time it stopped and the white male got out of the vehicle who was fully naked. The girls reported the naked male ran toward their direction at which time they ran home. The subject was last seen getting back into his vehicle and driving toward Ravens Row. Both girls reported the subject did not say anything to them during the incident.
Suspect Description: a “chubby” white male late 30’s to early 40’s age range “clean shaven” with a faded style haircut.
Vehicle Description: black Jeep “Cherokee style” with no tire and white decal on right side of window. Unknown registration.
If anyone witnessed this incident or has information on the identity of this suspect you are asked to contact the Evesham Police Department at 856-983-1116, the Confidential Tip Line at 856-983-4699 or email at Facebook@Eveshampd.org. Anonymous tips text ETPDTIP to 847411
Where does American beef come from? Most of us think we get those steaks on the kitchen table from the pristine American outback ranges in states like Texas, Nebraska and Kansas. On Tuesday, conservative voice Tomi Lahren told us a tale of American cattle ranchers being pushed out by beef supplies from overseas in her feature entitled, “Make the American Table Great Again”.
In her final thought, she spoke out for the American cattle rancher, who have been slammed by a 2015 bill pushed down the throats of the American public by the World Trade Organization.
“Cowboys and cattlemen have never had it easy, these last two years have been brutal” Lahren said. “The cost to operate has gone up, but the cost of cattle has gone down, alot.”
She noted this was due to Congress repealing the COOL (Country of Origin Labeling) on meat products, allowing other nations to import and sell their products alongside homegrown beef, and without letting the consumer know where it was coming from.
For a few years, manufacturers were required to stamp the country of origin on packages of meat and pork products, but the World Trade Organization complained, saying the U.S. law unfairly targeted international beef suppliers. In 2015, President Obama signed the $1.5 trillion omnibus bill, which effectively also repealed the COOL laws.
Lahren said beef today comes from South America, Canada, Japan and others, no longer just from the American rancher.
To learn more about cattle ships, visit the esdaw, the european society of dog and animal welfare’s page. Click on this image to visit or go to http://www. Esdaw. Eu/animal-ocean-transportation. Html.
“That means your beef is transported in crates for God only knows how long,” she said. “Animal lovers, live cattle are smashed into shipping containers and shipped to this country to be slaughtered for a discount.”
“Would you have a family eat out of a dumpster, not knowing what’s on your table?” she asked. “Then why in the hell would you put foreign sketchy beef on your table?”
“Every American has the right to know where their beef is coming from,” She added. “If you want to eat that foreign crap, go for it.”
But, is she right? Are cattle jam packed into ships on long voyages enroute to the United States? It’s something many people don’t think about, but that’s exactly how it happens…and it isn’t a pleasant sight.
In October of 2015, a cattle ship in Brazil sunk in port, sending 5,000 cows into the water to die. The scene was caught on video and gives you a glimpse into how cattle are shipped from overseas.
A year before, one of the world’s largest cattle carrying ships burned in Australia, also while docked, but was luckily empty of cattle.
In conclusion, Lahren is right. For over a year, Americans have been in the dark about where their beef and pork comes from as the USDA and even your local grocery store is not allowed by law, to report your meat’s country of origin.
TOMS RIVER-In the early half of the 1980’s when most high school kids were jamming to the likes of Motley Crue, Judas Priest and Ratt, a small group of them were laying the groundwork at the Jersey Shore that would redefine the local music scene for future generations.
Lethal aggression. Photo by the official lethal aggression facebook page.
One of those early shore area hardcore punk pioneers was John “Saltz” Saltarelli, lead singer for the local hardcore band Lethal Aggression. After graduating from Brick High School in 1984, Saltarelli and a few mates formed Lethal Aggression, an in-your-face thrash band that defied everything around it, including the burgeoning underground punk scene that was about to explode around the Jersey Shore.
The scene, which still lives on 30 years later, is without a local legend.
The band formed in 1985 and a year later had a small cult-like following. Nobody else played as hard and as fast as Lethal Aggression did in 1985. Influenced by bands such as DRI, The Bad Brains, Corrosion of Conformity, Slayer and Metallica, all mostly undiscovered bands at the time, they blended thrash metal with New York style hardcore.
Back then there were only a handful of hardcore bands playing the local scene in Ocean County, including Social Decay and Hogan’s Heroes.
“I can’t tell how upset I feel about this happening. I admired that guy. A true original. An instigator. An agitator,” said Tommy Southard longtime friend and lead guitarist of another shore hardcore pioneer band Social Decay. “A guy that many people loved and looked up to. He was at the ground floor of metal and hardcore and defined NJ crossover.”
In the mid 80’s, there wasn’t much opportunity for those bands to perform, so Southard and others would regularly invite them to play out of his Island Heights basement. Bigger venues were City Gardens in Trenton and CBGB’s in New York City. But for Lethal Aggression and many of the new bands coming out, Southard’s basement was one step below, or maybe even above those two iconic clubs. At times, hundreds would come from around Ocean County to watch 4 or 5 bands play live and have fun watching, hanging with friends or skating the full sized skateboarding half-pipe in the backyard. Other times, the police would show and shut the basement shows down because of complaints from neighbors. Saltz rarely missed a basement show.
Southard and Saltz were the driving mechanism of a uniting force that for years brought many splinter factions of the Jersey Shore hardcore scene together. It didn’t matter if you were a metalhead, punk, skin or straight-edge, everyone was welcome although not everything always went according to plan.
“Our history is filled with basements and bad decisions,” Saltz once said in an interview with Metalcore fanzine.
Lethal Aggression sometimes played out at local impromptu hardcore shows including infamous nights like the Howell VFW and playing once on the boardwalk in Seaside Park, ironically enough. They also had a bad reputation that followed the band around around wherever they went. Some real and some just stuff of local urban legend. It was a group of disenfranchised and fed up kids who really didn’t care about anything in the world around them and bragged about their drug use, partying and wild lifestyle in the mid 80’s. Saltz and the band were beyond the epitome of rock and roll.
In 1989, the band was horribly paired together like Felix and Oscar of the television show ‘The Odd Couple’ with New York City “nice guy” “straight-edgers” Youth of Today on European tour. This twisted science experiment… a clash of cultures toured Europe…together. Youth of Today guitarist John Porcelly, who later joined the Krishna movement wasn’t all happy about their tourmates after a few gigs.
Saltz, performing with longtime friend, guitarist tommy southard. Photo by tommy southard.
“I don’t know where they found that band, they were just like alcoholics and users,” Porcelly said of Lethal Aggression. “You know, crazy friggin’ punks. They ended up getting drunk and beating up the tour manager, so they got kicked off the tour.”
There was also no love lost for Youth of Today from Saltz who called out the iconic New York hardcore do-gooders.
“As far as worst shows, as much as I have to say I loved mostly every show we did in Europe…and it was the best band experience of my life we had to share the stage with those f[expletive] c[male genitalia] lovin’ hypocrites, Youth of Today, so the experience was bittersweet,” he said in that Metalcore interview. “You know it’s funny I really like YOT’s music, but after spending so much time with them, they were so far from their pseudo-posi message that I just felt like holding a pillow over their faces every night.”
That was how Lethal Aggression rolled until 1991 when the band broke up. Saltz later dabbled with other bands, teaming up with longtime friend Southard at one point.
Shore news network editor, phil stilton with john salarelli circa 1989 at tommy southard’s island heights basement. Photographer unknown.
To this day the band’s first demo tape, remains one of the most sought after New Jersey punk music collectibles.
On Friday December 23rd, Saltz died at his home. A funeral was held for him on Monday.
BRICK-Despite a drastic cost savings for the township after hiring former contractor Antonio Santos to a full time job with an $80,000 salary plus benefits, Brick resident George Scott said something didn’t sound right about the township’s recent announcement of a cargo van purchase.
“We paid $48,000 for a cargo van, that seems like a lot of money for a cargo van,” Scott said to the council. “So, what are the cost savings? I saw the purchasing agent’s comments, she did the calculation of cost savings, what are the cost savings? 48 grand for a cargo van is just mind boggling.”
“That’s what they go for,” responded Council President Paul Mummolo. “That’s not that outrageous of a price.”
However, a search for Ford vans on the Larsen Ford website, a local Ford dealer show otherwise. Their highest end 2017 Ford Transit Vanwagon had an adjusted sticker price of $42,600. The next lower models were being sold for around $37,000, before haggling.
Over at the local Pine Belt Chevrolet dealer, a fully equipped commercial grade Express 3500 service utility vehicle listed for $46,700.
“Who picked out this $48,000 vehicle?” Scott asked. “Who designated that it had to be this expensive vehicle over another cargo vehicle that would also carry the same amount of material?”
Mummolo said the Santos, the new electrician picked out the vehicle.
“Who did the cost savings on this?” Scott asked.
“This is in our capital budget,” Mummolo responded.
Things got heated as Mummolo dodged the question a second time.
“I don’t care about that, I’m asking you the calculations of cost savings, where are they?” Scott asked again.
Mayor John Ducey then interrupted the exchange, saying that the contractor Bahr & Associates was previously used to outsource electrical work for the township. The mayor chose a new vendor upon the expiration of Bahr’s contract, Antonio Santos.
Ducey said his town’s former electrician would sometimes bill as much as $600-700,000 per year for services.
“We then went out to bid, we awarded it to Santos Electricians, our bills were substantial, they were cut more than in half, to two hundred thousand something for a full year whole year” Ducey said. “Santos decided he wanted to become a township employee, um, and salary with benefits, pension and everything is much less than what his company billed in that year prior.”
Ducey said after the town’s electrical contractor wanted to become a full time employee with benefits and a pension, the township offered him a job with a salary in the $75,000 to $80,000 range. Ducey said the township also had to purchase tools and equipment for Santos, but then backtracked a bit, adding that Santos did bring some of his tools from his now defunct business with him.
TOMS RIVER-The Toms River Regional School District will welcome and swear in newly elected board members Janet Bell, Russell Corby (Pine Beach delegate) and Daniel Leonard (Beachwood delegate) at the Wednesday reorganization meeting.
The meeting will take place at Toms River High School North at 6pm.
After the swearing in, politics will immediately come into play as the board chooses a new president and vice president to oversee the board which has become ground zero in partisan Ocean County politics between Democrats and Republicans.
In December, the board bid farewell to outgoing members James Sigurdson and Gloria McCormack.
According to a CNN report on the Russian hacking of the DNC in 2016, it appears a mid-twentieth century Robco terminal was used for the intrusion. In a video report for CNN’s story ‘White House announces retaliation against Russia: Sanctions, ejecting diplomats‘, the network shows a hacker on a laptop hacking into a Robco Industries Termlink, most likely from somewhere within the commonwealth.
Just go to about the one minute mark in the video the see it first hand.
Apparently, after locating the DNC’s terminal on their Pip Boy, the Russian hackers utilized their master lock picking skills to gain access to the DNC’s hardware and retrieve John Podesta’s email before being spotted by a nearby raiders before quickly sending Preston with the stolen data over to Wikileaks.
There’s just one problem. Since CNN is just as in the dark as the rest of America on how the DNC servers were hacked and by who…and if they actually were hacked, they used in-game screen video from the popular role playing game Fallout 4 to sensationalize the hacking attempt.
“If you want to talk about hacking on a major news network, your choices are either that or a scene from The Matrix,” wrote dlollolb. But that was a few seconds earlier in the video.
“Sorry pulling images of a video game and airing them as part of your hacking story is the definition of journalism fail,” responded Will_Nicely_Disagree. “It’s sensationalist (ooh look how those dastardly hackers operated) and completely unnecessary to report the actual story. An image of a stock computer could just as easily have accompanied this story, but that was obviously not flashy enough for CNN.”
The CNN hackergate terminal mystery was quickly solved.
“Doing a Google Image Search for ‘hack computer’ gets more than one Fallout screenshot,” wrote corey_m_snow. “Some intern probably just picked something that looked technical enough and ran with it.”
So it appears some video jockey intern at a major liberal news network Googled “hacking” and after scrolling through a few Matrix pictures, decided it was a good idea to use the first two things he or she found to sensationalize the story.
Bethesda Softworks, published of Fallout 4, further mocked CNN by using a screenshot of their in-game terminal, saying, “Sneak Peek at Season 3 of @whoismrrobot.”
Mr. Robot is a show about a cybersecurity expert by day who becomes a vigilante hacker by night.
Source of story: reddit. Image shows comparison of cnn video and fallout 4.
An Atlantic City man has been charged with the murder of a man whose body was discovered this morning in Atlantic City, Acting Atlantic County Prosecutor Diane Ruberton announced.
Atlantic City Police responded on Saturday, December 31, 2016 at 8:43 a.m., to the 1200 block of Adriatic Avenue, Atlantic City, for a report that a dead man’s body had been discovered in a trashcan. The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit responded to the scene.
The victim, identified as Ricky L. Ward, 52, of the 400 block of Delta Avenue, Atlantic City, was pronounced dead by medical personnel at the scene. Investigation by the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit and the Atlantic City Police Department led to the location and detention at approximately 5:15 p.m. of Thomas Green, 64, of the 1300 block of Atlantic Avenue, Atlantic City, who was subsequently charged with Murder, for purposely and knowingly causing the death of the victim “by hitting him in the head multiple times with stones,” and with Possession of a Weapon For an Unlawful Purpose (stones), and Unlawful Possession of a Weapon (stones). Green was processed for the arrest and lodged in the Atlantic County Justice Facility on 1,000,000 full cash bail set by Superior Court Judge John C. Porto.
A conviction for murder carries a potential sentence of incarceration in New Jersey State Prison for a period of 30 years to life.
The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit and the Atlantic City Police Department continue the investigation.
Breaking/AC was on scene and posted the above video to YouTube. For more on Breaking/AC, visit their website.
MOSCOW-Russian President Vladimir Putin shrugged off President Barack Obama’s ‘kitchen diplomacy’ attack against his country and welcome his recently expelled diplomats back home for the holidays.
On Thursday, Obama expelled Russian diplomats in light of what his administration perceived as ‘election hacking’ by the country, which few, even in the United States fully believes happened.
“We regard the recent unfriendly steps taken by the outgoing US administration as provocative and aimed at further weakening the Russia-US relationship. This runs contrary to the fundamental interests of both the Russian and American people,” Putin said. “Considering the global security responsibilities of Russia and the United States, this is also damaging to international relations as a whole.”
Putin would normally take such threats seriously, but instead mocked Obama’s lame duck, last minute move of aggression, confident that relations will improve once the American president is out of office in just a few weeks.
“As it proceeds from international practice, Russia has reasons to respond in kind,” Putin said. “Although we have the right to retaliate, we will not resort to irresponsible ‘kitchen’ diplomacy but will plan our further steps to restore Russian-US relations based on the policies of the Trump Administration.”
Liberals in America, more than one month after suffering near fatal blows in the polls in America are still reeling from their 2016 defeat. Unable to comprehend the American desire to rewind and fix the damage that has been done over a 24 year period where the country has been led mostly by Democrat administrations, those still grasping to what little power they have left have blamed Russia for their losses at home.
It doesn’t matter to Putin, who said his diplomats will enjoy a vacation at home with their families. He also said he will not punish U.S. diplomats for the actions of a reckless U.S. President who will soon be a private citizen.
“The diplomats who are returning to Russia will spend the New Year’s holidays with their families and friends,” Putin said. “We will not create any problems for US diplomats. We will not expel anyone. We will not prevent their families and children from using their traditional leisure sites during the New Year’s holidays. Moreover, I invite all children of US diplomats accredited in Russia to the New Year and Christmas children’s parties in the Kremlin.”
Putin and most of America remains baffled by Obama’s reckless foreign policy over eight years which has become even more reckless since the November election in which the President openly mocked President-Elect Donald Trump, saying he would never be President of the United States.
“It is regrettable that the Obama Administration is ending its term in this manner. Nevertheless, I offer my New Year greetings to President Obama and his family,” Putin added.
“My season’s greetings also to President-elect Donald Trump and the American people,” Putin said. “I wish all of you happiness and prosperity.”
Ned price, an obama staffer penned a message defending obama’s reckless foreign policy move.
Vladimir Putin today, effectively rendered Obama’s “punitive actions” against Russia for the “tampering” of the election, null and void. Obama has just three weeks left to administer whatever reckless foreign policy initiatives he plans against those he perceives as America’s enemies, including Russia and Israel.
On the White House news and propaganda page, staffer Ned Price outlined a justification for Obama’s actions, but like the President, will also be out of a job on January 21st.
LAKEWOOD-The Ocean County law firm of Bathgate, Wegener & Wolf, P.C. has joined forces with with national class action specialist Kozyak, Tropin & Throckmorton, P.A., of Coral Gables, Florida, to file the first federal class action lawsuit in the United States against FieldTurf USA and its affiliates.
FieldTurf USA has come under fire across New Jersey after fields it promised would last 10 years began breaking down much sooner than the company guaranteed. In the company’s advertising, they claimed, “Making the wrong turf decision can cost you a million dollars.”, but instead, their customers such as Carteret claim the fields will end up costing more to repair and replace.
The lawsuit claims Early on, however, FieldTurf internally knew that its marketing campaign was grossly exaggerated.
“Rather than adjust its campaign strategy to reflect this reality or simply warn existing and new customers about the defective nature of the Synthetic Grass Fields, FieldTurf chose to maximize profits and maintain its leading market share,” the suit claims.
Lawyers said a leaked internal email from FieldTurf executive Kenny Gilman revealed that in 2007, FieldTurf knew its marketing campaign for the affected Synthetic Grass Fields was “ridiculous” and opened up the company “to tons of exposure from a legal standpoint.”
The class action suit seeks over $5,000,000 in damages at the hands of FieldTurf and claims to have over 100 affected customers.
One of the earliest complaints about premature disintegration came in October 2006 after FieldTurf installed the new Synthetic Grass Field in a South American country. Laura Braga, FieldTurf’s operation director for FieldTurf Latin America, emailed Gilman, explaining that an artificial turf field using the old slim-fit fiber that was installed in 2003 was in better condition than the Synthetic Grass Field that was installed within the year. The new Synthetic Grass Field was displaying significant “premature wear.”
FieldTurf executives discussed the failures, but continued to keep the information from their customers according to the legal filing.
“Like other municipalities, school districts and public and private entities throughout the United States, Carteret purchased six synthetic grass fields from FieldTurf, which were marketed under brand names “FieldTurf,” “Duraspine” and “Prestige,” in reliance on FieldTurf’s representations,” the firm said. “Carteret contends in the class action lawsuit that the fields are defective because the fibers that make up the fields deteriorate prematurely, sometimes in as little as two years, in stark contrast to the 10 year life expectancy represented by FieldTurf. Carteret asserts that FieldTurf knew through field inspections and independent testing that the fields would deteriorate much sooner than FieldTurf had represented to potential customers. Instead of advising their customers of these problems, FieldTurf chose to maximize profits by increasing the intensity of its marketing campaign designed around the false information.”
Carteret seeks immediate relief requiring FieldTurf to repair and replace the synthetic grass fields and to pay damages. Immediate relief is necessary and appropriate because of the risk of injury to those using the deteriorating fields.
The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court, New Jersey on December 14th.
TRENTON-Those running family day care centers out of their homes in New Jersey may soon be subjected to federal background checks if a law moving through the state assembly reaches the desk of Governor Christie and he signs it.
The New Jersey Assembly wrote today:
All family day care providers would be required to undergo state and federal background checks under bipartisan legislation sponsored by Senators Joe Pennacchio and Shirley Turner and approved by the New Jersey Senate.
Under current law, prospective and current providers only have to undergo a child abuse registry check administered by the Department of Children and Families (DCF.) They are not, however, required to undergo standard state and federal criminal history record background checks.
“It is impossible to know how many child abusers are slipping through the cracks in the system without subjecting every day care employee to a criminal background check,” Senator Pennacchio (R-26) said. “Clearly, a child abuse record check is not sufficient enough to prevent predators from accessing our children. An innocent child who is cared for by a handful of people in a private residence is no less deserving of the State’s protection.”
A “family day care” is defined as a private residence in which child care services are provided for a fee to between three and five children at a time, for no less than 15 hours per week.
S-651 would mandate that all current and prospective family day care providers, as well as anyone who works at the day care, also submit to criminal background checks. 11 states currently have this law in place.
Under the bill, the New Jersey State Police would be required to notify DCF in the event that a current or prospective family day care provider is convicted of a crime or offense in this state after the background check has been performed. Additionally, anyone who refuses to submit to a background check would be denied an issuance or renewal certificate of registration as a family day care provider. Senator Pennacchio’s legislation is currently awaiting action in the Assembly.
“We cannot guarantee our children’s safety until we correct this unequitable, dangerous oversight in state law,” Senator Pennacchio added. “I thank Senator Turner for her leadership on this bill and I urge my colleagues in the Assembly to take up our cause as soon as possible.”
TRENTON-After Superstorm Sandy, allegations over price gouging on items ranging from food to emergency essentials was prevalent around the county by unscrupulous business owners trying to cash in on the disaster.
If a bill passed by the assembly is signed into law by Governor Chris Christie, it was place a prohibition on post-disaster price gouging.
“The protections we put in place will deter businesses from taking advantage of consumers during a natural disaster by spiking prices for necessities, such as gasoline and groceries,” Senator Oroho (R-Sussex, Warren, Morris) said. “This bill will ensure business won’t be put at a disadvantage because of the inflexibility of the current protocol, and still protect consumers from price gouging tactics that threaten their welfare and safety.”
The legislation, S-2321, amends existing law to provide that it would be unlawful for any person to sell any product at an excessive price for a 30-day period following the declaration of a state of emergency. It also allows for the Governor to extend the period during which the price gouging prohibition remains in force.
Under current law, excessive price increases are prohibited for a period that extends to 30 days after the termination of a state of emergency. An “excessive price” is defined as more than 10 percent above the price of the item or service as offered immediately before the state of emergency.
“Every disaster is different, and a rigid, 30-day period might not work for every one of them,” Senator Oroho said. “We need to tailor these protections to fit each unique situation that arises. I think this will help us strike a balance between protecting consumers during a natural disaster and supporting businesses once the emergency is over.”
FROM WITHIN BERNIE SANDERS’ NEW LAKEFRONT CABIN- “Clinton received almost 3 million more votes, but Trump will be the next president. It’s clear the electoral college needs to be changed,” That’s what Bernie Sanders just Tweeted.
Like Donald Trump said in his victory tour campaign stops, had the maps on television read ‘Road to the popular vote’, he would have campaigned to win the popular vote. Despite the left’s narrative of an unfair system, the maps on MSNBC, CNN and Fox News read ‘Road to 270’.
To complain about the process, which both he and Hillary Clinton have never questioned prior to it working against them is disingenuous.
Now that it’s all over, maybe Hillary, Bernie and Jill Stein can relax and enjoy a weekend at Bernie’s new $600,000 lakefront cottage. Jill can buy dinner and they can all share a nice bottle wine and lament together about how America has shown them each to the curb.
Where does American beef come from? Most of us think we get those steaks on the kitchen table from the pristine American outback ranges in states like Texas, Nebraska and Kansas. On Tuesday, conservative voice Tomi Lahren told us a tale of American cattle ranchers being pushed out by beef supplies from overseas in her feature entitled, “Make the American Table Great Again”.
“Sorry pulling images of a video game and airing them as part of your hacking story is the definition of journalism fail,” responded Will_Nicely_Disagree. “It’s sensationalist (ooh look how those dastardly hackers operated) and completely unnecessary to report the actual story. An image of a stock computer could just as easily have accompanied this story, but that was obviously not flashy enough for CNN.”
