Local watchdog reporter Joyce Blay this weekend published a report about former Lakewood Mayor Menashe Miller (R), indicating that he is being sued by a prominent township landowner on charges of fraud, misrepresentation, civil conspiracy, slander and several others.
The lawsuit claims Lakewood Township has sold off acres of private land, in total 104 lots that a California man says he legally and rightfully owns.
The township contends it owns the properties through a series of tax foreclosures in the 1970’s and 1980’s, according to the report.
This composite image of Earth and its moon, as seen from Mars, combines the best Earth image with the best moon image from four sets of images acquired on Nov. 20, 2016, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Each was separately processed prior to combining them so that the moon is bright enough to see. The moon is much darker than Earth and would barely be visible at the same brightness scale as Earth. The combined view retains the correct sizes and positions of the two bodies relative to each other.
HiRISE takes images in three wavelength bands: infrared, red, and blue-green. These are displayed here as red, green, and blue, respectively. This is similar to Landsat images in which vegetation appears red. The reddish feature in the middle of the Earth image is Australia. Southeast Asia appears as the reddish area (due to vegetation) near the top; Antarctica is the bright blob at bottom-left. Other bright areas are clouds.
These images were acquired for calibration of HiRISE data, since the spectral reflectance of the Moon’s near side is very well known. When the component images were taken, Mars was about 127 million miles (205 million kilometers) from Earth. A previous HiRISE image of Earth and the moon is online at PIA10244.
The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington.
New Jersey native and Hollywood liberal elitist Meryl Streep took to the podium Sunday night at the Golden Globe Awards to reminds America of two things. First, the 67 year old actress reminded America she was not a victim of 2016 with her presence on stage, then she used her celebrity status to criticize President-elect Donald Trump.
“I lost my mind sometime earlier this year,” Streep told the audience.
Streep continued the narrative that Donald Trump imitated a disabled reporter Serge F. Kovaleski and bashed him for what she thinks are his views on foreigners. She rambled off a few names of foreign born actors and actresses and said, “If you kick them all out, all you’ll be left with are football and MMA, which are not the arts.”
Despite Trump never pledging to kick anyone out of America besides those who are here illegally, the elder actress continued her diatribe against him.
“Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose,” Streep said. “We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call him on the carpet for every outrage.”
“Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn’t know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes. She is a Hillary flunky who lost big,” Trump responded. “For the 100th time, I never mocked a disabled reporter (would never do that) but simply showed him groveling when he totally changed a 16 year old story that he had written in order to make me look bad. Just more very dishonest media!”
Ocean County-Joe Rullo of Ocean County is running for the Republican nomination for Governor in New Jersey in 2017 and he’s already out of the gates with a “Drain the swamp” campaign commercial.
Rullo, who was the only person so far in the Republican race for governor to have openly supported President-Elect Donald Trump got creative and took Trump’s message one step further.
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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 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.
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.
In a barbaric incident, four black suspects now in police custody beat and tortured a mentally disabled white teenager as apparent revenge for President-Elect Donald Trump’s electoral victory. The assault was recorded and streamed live over Facebook — chants of “f*** white people” and “f*** Trump” can be heard in the background. To any objective observer,…
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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.
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“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.
JACKSON-New Jersey’s Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno, also a candidate for Governor in 2017 will grace the township of Jackson with her presence tonight at the annual reorganization meeting. The Lt. Governor’s last public appearance in Jackson was at Six Flags Great Adventure in June of 2011 to attend a redevelopment summit hosted by the theme park. Since her visit, no projects discussed at that meeting have come to fruition.
Tonight, she’ll likely be swearing in the council members who won in an uncontested election, a ceremony that has historically brought politicians from near and far. Past attendees have included Governors Chris Christie and Jon Corzine were the most recent dignitaries to swear in elected officials.
After the swearing in, the council will begin appointing professional contracts, including a controversial appointment of former New Jersey family court judge Melanie Donohue Appleby as a labor attorney.
Vin Gopal, the Monmouth County Democrat Chairman until noon on Tuesday and a candidate for the Democrat nomination for State Senate in the 11th Legislative District, portrayed himself as a struggling small business owner who goes months at a time without a paycheck so that he can pay his employees, in the announcement that he was…
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.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has insisted that the Russian government was not the source for the hacked emails that have been cited as a major influence on November’s presidential election. Both the CIA and the FBI have concluded that Russia was responsible for the email hacks in part to help Donald Trump become president. President Barack…
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.
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VERMONT-The Washington Post last week was a willing ally in President Obama’s factless assault on Russia, reporting, “Russian operation hacked a Vermont utility, showing risk to U.S. electrical grid security.”
Now, the liberal based newspaper which was under fire for its poor election coverage in 2016 has said no such event took place.
“An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electric grid. Authorities say there is no indication of that so far,” the paper said in a retraction today. “The computer at Burlington Electric that was hacked was not attached to the grid.”
No evidence made available to the public or media suggests or proves the hacking was tied to Russia either.
In an interview this week with George Stephanopoulos, incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer questioned the President’s motives on the sanctions and expulsion of Russian diplomats.
“I think one of the questions that we have is why the magnitude of this?” Spicer said. “I mean you look at 35 people being expelled, two sites being closed down, the question is, is that response in proportion to the actions taken? Maybe it was. Maybe it wasn’t but you have to think about that.”
Incoming President Donald Trump said he will be holding an intelligence meeting this week. In a conversation New Year’s eve with the media, the President-elect touched on the Russian hacking issue.
“I just want them to be sure, because it’s a pretty serious charge, and I want them to be sure. If you look at the weapons of mass destruction, that was a disaster, and they were wrong,” Trump said. “It could be somebody else, and I know things that other people don’t know. So they cannot be sure of the situation.”
Although Washington has raised allegations of Russian hacking, no solid proof has been provided to the American public to date. Security expert John MacAfee, said this weekend that he is confident the attacks were not originated in Russia. MacAfee said that if Russia was behind the attacks, their tracks would have been well hidden.
He said that a skilled attacker would mask his footprints to make the attacks appear as if they were coming from a third party. He aded, if all of the tracks left lead back to Russia, it was not Russia and a skilled hacker simply made it appear that way.
Turkish airstrikes in Syria killed two Islamic State group emirs this week amid ongoing international negotiations over how to end the five-year-old Syrian civil war and halt the militant group also known as ISIS. Abu Ansari and Ebu Hussein Tunusi were both killed in separate airstrikes carried out by the government in Ankara, Turkish media reported…
Gunmen dressed as Santa Claus massacred 35 people in an Istanbul nightclub terror attack in Turkey just after midnight of New Year’s Eve. Attackers stormed into the nightclub Reina, which was full of approximately 600 people, at 1:15 a.m. local time and began shooting, The New York Times reports. A police officer was also killed in…
A shooting has taken place at the popular Reina night club in Istanbul, killing an unknown number of people and injuring others, according to witnesses and local media reports. Only few details were immediately available. (more) Credit: DHA FOR LIVE UPDATES: Twitter, Facebook The incident happened just before 2 a.m. local time on Sunday when heavy…
Will NBC Blame Russia for Mariah Carey’s New Year’s Eve Disaster?
When things go wrong these days, the media tends to blame the Russians, but will ABC blame Russia for the trainwreck of a live lip-synched performance by pop diva Mariah Carey. Carey pretty much gave up trying to keep up, blaming missing vocals, before walking off the stage after a performance that had Twitter raging in the New Year.
Many joked Mariah was the last celebrity victim of 2016.
Others came to her defense, blaming technical problems and not forgetting the words or as some speculated, being drunk, for the folly.
“Just saw @MariahCarey perform. 2016 either claimed another victim OR Russians hackers undermined her campaign as lip syncher of the year,” tweeted Scott Kellen.
“[Of] all the celebrity deaths this year, the live execution of @MariahCarey ‘s career is probably the saddest,” tweeted Zach Davis.
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.
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.”
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.
NEW YORK CITY-Donald Trump has become the only President in history who has had to continue campaigning long after his Election Day victory.
Nothing that liberal losers Jill Stein or Hillary Clinton have throw at Trump has stuck. Nothing the liberal media has crafted from their recipes of leftism has made any difference in any decisions that actually matter when it comes to his presidency.
He’s become the new Teflon Don. Not only does none of it matter, he mocks all of those who try to defeat what he has already won.
First came the ill-conceived plan by Jill Stein to raise $7,000,000 to demand recounts in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. That effort failed miserably, accomplishing nothing but putting money in Stein’s coffers.
Then came the “Hamilton Electors”, an attempt by the left to pursuade electoral college electors to defy the public vote and vote for anyone other than Donald Trump.
That one failed miserably too, with 5 electors dumping Hillary and only 2 taking the Hamilton Electors bait.
Trump won the electoral college vote 306-232, handing Madame Secretary, Hillary Clinton her third defeat…well fourth if you consider the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries.
Yet the left, led by the dishonest media of America continues to try to rewrite the Trump narrative as the death of America, ignoring the hope his presidency brings to those who truly love America and are upset and embarrassed by what our country has become socially, politically and economically over the past two decade where Democrats sat in the oval office 16 out of those 24 years.
America is sick and tired of the liberal agenda telling us lies about Russian hackers, the KKK and the end of America as we know it. We are sick of the fabricated lies of the liberal news media and their clear support of one of the most corrupt and crooked candidates to ever run for President of the United States, Hillary Clinton.
Trump has won the election. The election is over, yet it will persist in the media for the next four years, unlike any presidency in the history of the United States.
America has defeated leftist socialism and liberalism and led by Trump, can start healing the wounds of 24 years of the disease.
According to our initial estimate, just tallying municipalities, we lost count after $20 million dollars. Today, Governor Christie estimated the overall total including state agencies, county agencies, utility authorities and school boards could be well over $80 million per year.
That is the system in place that requires government entities to publish paid public notices in New Jersey’s print newspapers.
The newspapers have been viciously firing back at the Governor and threatening legislators in editorials to not pass the bill to take away the taxpayer money that keeps their industry afloat.
“On Thursday, the Legislature advanced a commonsense piece of legislation that was first proposed in 2004 and will reform the archaic practice of requiring taxpayers and private businesses to pay for costly legal notices in print newspapers,” Christie said. “The legislation provides the option of posting notices online and citizens will be allowed to take advantage of modern technologies that are already in use by the vast majority of the people in our State.”
“The current unfunded mandate that is being addressed by this legislation costs New Jersey taxpayers and private citizens more than $80 million per year,” Christie said. “That is $80 million annually from property taxpayers, including those facing the nightmare of foreclosure.”
According to Christie, the taxpayers and citizens of New Jersey can no longer afford this arrangement and thanks to technology, they don’t have to.
Christie said the law right now adds an additional $910 on families facing foreclosures by the requirement to post multiple notices.
“The New Jersey Press Association proposes increasing those charges,” he pointed out. “As a result, required legal notices earned newspapers approximately $14 million for the 12-month period ending in October 2016. And these costs were borne by the 15,764 financially distressed people who had just suffered a foreclosure of their home in that time period. This is simply unacceptable.”
“Today, there are more than 65,000 foreclosures currently pending in New Jersey,” Christie said. “That’s $59 million in potential revenue going to private media outlets that can instead be saved by citizens experiencing a foreclosure. Giving them a choice to post online at no cost helps them prevent losing what little equity they may have left or sinking them further into debt.”
Christie continued:
For government entities, hundreds of millions of dollars of future resources to be spent on required legal notices could now be made available for public schools and other municipal and county services rather than on an outmoded method which has been supplanted for the majority of New Jerseyans by the Internet.
The NJ Press Association has acknowledged the inescapable truth — newspapers have a vested interest in seeing this reform movement fail, and it is why they are making baseless charges to support taxing homeowners and bilking those subject to foreclosure unnecessarily.
For years newspapers have enjoyed a statutorily-protected monopoly on the publication of a vast array of legal notices. Monopolies are always bad for our economy and, in this case, awfully expensive for our citizens.
The facts are clear: nearly 90 percent of New Jersey households have an internet connection and 100 percent of the state’s public libraries provide free internet access to their more than 43 million annual visitors. Only 22 percent of New Jerseyans buy a print newspaper. This reform will bring New Jersey government directly to the people, who primarily spend their time online accessing information — for free. According to a Pew Research Center study from this summer, 81 percent of adults get their news from online sources or through mobile devices.
Contrary to the flailing assertions of the NJ Press Association, there will be no lack of transparency and no harm to the public as a result of this reform. These are merely scare tactics by their paid Trenton lobbyists designed to protect the interests of newspaper companies who argue for a free press, but are really arguing for a taxpayer funded subsidy in disguise. This bill, and their fight over it, unmasks their greed. In fact, their true disinterest in transparency and the public’s access to information through a free press — not to mention their undeniable hypocrisy — are fully displayed by the fact that this op-ed was refused publication. I was therefore left with no choice but to disseminate this opinion myself, which will no doubt be read by a vast majority of the population online.
The truth is this reform legislation maintains the requirement for local governments to provide advance public notice for matters such as meetings, agendas, bid requests and contract awards, while also establishing the requirements for public websites to ensure ease of access for the public. Government entities and individuals would still be able to fulfill notice obligations, but what would no longer be mandatory is the requirement of publishing an exorbitantly expensive notice in a newspaper.
Although the NJ Press Association insists that this reform bill will result in an overwhelming burden for municipal staff, they intentionally ignore the basic facts. Most importantly, they ignore the fact that this legislation is optional. If municipal clerks can’t manage to transfer the text of a legal notice and post it on their website, they are not required to change their process. However, 532 of the 565 municipalities in New Jersey already maintain websites that provide public notices and information — adding the legal notices that are currently published in newspapers will not be a major leap.
The New Jersey Association of Counties, the New Jersey State League of Municipalities, the New Jersey Conference of Mayors and the New Jersey School Boards Association all support this bill. The only group raising alarms on behalf of municipalities is the NJ Press Association.
In 2004, when a nearly identical bill was proposed, Assemblyman Wisniewski, then-Assemblyman (now Senator) Gordon, and then-Assemblywoman (now Senator) Weinberg voted for it. Yet now they have the chutzpah to turn their backs on the taxpayers they serve in order to further their misguided political agenda.
We must update and modernize the public notification responsibilities of local government so that residents are fully informed and we eliminate the outrageous cost for the taxpayers of New Jersey. It will permit a greater number of citizens access to government. The NJ Press Association’s attempts to hang on to an antiquated, self-serving, money making statutory scheme is shameful. The Constitution guarantees a free press, not a government-subsidized one.
That is why I support this bill, and all taxpayers who don’t have Trenton lobbyists arguing for government-ordered profit for them, should as well.
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.”
