Showing posts with label New Jersey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Jersey. Show all posts

Monday, September 19, 2016

New York Bombing Suspect Rahami Captured After New Jersey Shootout



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Sunday, September 18, 2016

TERROR PRESSURE COOKER NYC 'ALLAH' MALL STABBINGS IN MINN 'THERE WILL BE MORE'










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Friday, February 6, 2015

Can you imagine what life would be like without Prop. 13? In New Jersey the average property tax bill is $8,161.

◼ Property taxes in this state are outrageous and they just went up again - MPA

Already the highest in the nation, residential property taxes in New Jersey saw the biggest growth in three years during 2014, and the continued high cost of living is starting to drive residents out.

According to data from the state’s Department of Community Affairs, residential property taxes increased 2.2% in 2014 to an average of $8,161. The disparity between New Jersey’s property taxes and the rest of America is astounding.

The Tax Policy Center, a non-partisan, joint venture of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution reported 79% of American homeowners paid less than $1,750 in property taxes annually. Only 3% paid more than $4,000 and a miniscule share of homeowners — just 0.2% — pay more than $8,000.
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Sunday, November 2, 2014

Christie's controversial Ebola quarantine now embraced by Nobel Prize-winning doctor

◼ After days of blistering criticism from the ACLU, the CDC and even the United Nations secretary general over Gov. Chris Christie’s new, 21-day mandatory quarantine policy for all healthcare workers exposed to Ebola, the New Jersey governor has gotten a much-needed vote of support from a heavyweight name in the medical community: Nobel Prize-winning doctor and medical researcher, Dr. Bruce Beutler. - NJ.com
Dr. Beutler, an American medical doctor and researcher, won the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 2011 for his work researching the cellular subsystem of the body’s overall immune system — the part of it that defends the body from infection by other organisms, like Ebola.

He is currently the Director of the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas — the first U.S. city to treat an Ebola patient and also the first to watch one die from the virus. In an exclusive interview with NJ Advance Media, Beutler reviewed Christie’s new policy of mandatory quarantine for all health care workers exposed to Ebola, and declared: “I favor it.”

Unfortunately, while the doctor’s support might provide much-needed credibility for Christie as he threatens to quarantine ever more healthcare workers returning from the Ebola fight in West Africa, it also comes with some chilling words.

“I favor it, because it’s not entirely clear that they can’t transmit the disease,” Beutler said, referring to asymptomatic healthcare workers like Kaci Hickox, a Doctors Without Borders nurse returning from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone who was quarantined in New Jersey for 65 hours before being transported to her home state of Maine on Monday afternoon.

“It may not be absolutely true that those without symptoms can’t transmit the disease, because we don’t have the numbers to back that up,” said Beutler, “It could be people develop significant viremia [where viruses enter the bloodstream and gain access to the rest of the body], and become able to transmit the disease before they have a fever, even. People may have said that without symptoms you can’t transmit Ebola. I’m not sure about that being 100 percent true. There’s a lot of variation with viruses.”
◼ Christie's Ebola quarantine policy questioned by second Nobel laureate as debate intensifies - NJ.com
Professor Peter C. Doherty, an Australian microbiologist, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1996 for his research on how the body's immune cells protect against viruses, like Ebola. Unlike his fellow Nobel Prize winner, American Dr. Bruce Beutler, Doherty doesn’t agree with Christie’s plan to automatically quarantine all returning healthcare workers exposed to Ebola in West Africa.

In an exclusive interview with NJ Advance Media, Doherty said “the evidence-based consensus among the professionals seems to be that this is not necessary” because “people are not infectious early, and anyone who has been in this situation will (as we’ve seen already in Australia) be so aware of the disease that they will report in immediately (if) there is any fever.”
◼ Ebola-Quarantine Objections Are Frivolous - Andrew C. McCarthy/National Review Online
◼ Alarmed by Ebola, Public Isn’t Calmed by ‘Experts Say’ - New York Times
◼ Obama Leaves Maine Without Meeting Defiant Quarantine Nurse - Bridget Johnson/PJ Media
◼ Maine Says Nurse Hickox’s Roommate Had Ebola
Sheila Pinette of the Maine CDC has released information that the roommate of Kaci Hickox, while in West Africa has displayed signs of ebola. Pinette says “The respondents roommate in Africa became infected without knowing how she became infected with Ebola. (Any potential risk to respondent from that incident has passed).” This is one of 35 points Pinette made while filing a verified petition for public health order yesterday with the state.
What did arrogant nurse Kaci Hickox know about her roommate’s Ebola, and when did she know it?
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Saturday, October 25, 2014

Ebola in New York: Feel O.K.?


◼ link - Nick Paumgarten/New Yorker Magazine
...But the Spencer scenario is a provocation. The germ trail, a sequence of familiar banalities, hits home. First, the apartment building: minds turn to door handles and elevator buttons. Next, the subway, including the L train, an essential interborough connector. Those of us fearless about gripping handrails might now think twice. Uber: the nifty new conveyance, abruptly associated with an alliterative plague. The High Line: the virus, like any tourist, hitting the hot spots on a tour of Bloombergian New York. Finally, the bowling: as a precaution, the parlor, called (evocatively) the Gutter, shut down, and a concert there was cancelled. You don’t have to be a germaphobe to have misgivings about the finger holes in bowling balls, but the mention of Ebola has the effect of a shark fin seen at the beach. Everybody out. The Ebowla jokes appeared early and often.

Did Spencer take the risk of infection too lightly, or was he acting rationally? Are we?

◼ CITY OFFICIALS IN DESPERATE SEARCH FOR EBOLA DRUG - NY Daily News









Rules cause civil-liberties concern...





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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

This is a gun ban, there’s no question about that. Even worse, it has no "grandfather clause" and no amnesty period. As soon as it becomes law, everyone in possession becomes a felon and their guns are subject to seizure


◼ New Jersey bill is outright gun ban on .22-caliber rifles and leads to confiscation: Gov. Chris Christie’s state is ground zero for gun control legislation this year = Emily Miller/Washington Times

Since the legislation covers both detachable and fixed magazines, it has the effect of to banning popular, low-caliber rifles.

The Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs gave the draft legislation to top firearms experts in the country to determine what guns would fall under the expanded ban.
They discovered that the bill would affect tube-fed, semi-automatic rifles because the magazine cannot be separated from the gun.

Thus, the experts found that at least 43 common rifles would suddenly be considered a prohibited “assault firearm,” such as the .22 caliber Marlin Model 60, Remington Nylon 66 and Winchester 190.

Just having one such gun would turn a law-abiding owner into a felon overnight.
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Monday, October 14, 2013

The Booker campaign did not return a request for comment.

◼ Booker, who filed to run for the U.S. Senate from a P.O. Box in Newark, is registered to vote at 435 Hawthorne Avenue but his next door neighbors told this reporter and filmmaker Joel Gilbert on camera that they haven’t seen Booker in years and that he doesn’t live there. - Daily Caller

“Does he still live here?” Gilbert asked Booker’s neighbor, Tashay Thomas.

“He never did,” she replied. “His security guards live here.”

Why did he claim to live there while sending police to be quartered in a private home?

“Because he is a liar.” Thomas replied.

Thomas yelled out to someone across the street: “They’re looking for that fake mayor who says he live here. He does not live here!”
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Thursday, August 29, 2013

New Jersey Property Tax Problems

◼ The mayor of one New Jersey town is actually moving out because he claims he can’t afford to pay the property taxes there. - my9nj.com

Depending on which formula you use, New Jersey is either number one or number two in the country for pricey property taxes.

McCullough said, “property tax is the unfairest tax in the world. It’s not based on someone’s ability to earn money. It’s based on the property value.”

Of the property taxes, 60% come from school taxes, 30% is for the township and local taxes make up less than 10% of the property tax bill.

This seems to be a problem for many residents across New Jersey.

One Hightstown resident, who is selling their house, said that property taxes are a big factor as to why many people are moving out.

The woman said, “The property taxes are killing me and nobody is buying because of the taxes in Hightstown, this is the third time we put the house up for sale.”
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

JERSEY SHORE MAYOR TO SELL HOUSE, CAN'T AFFORD PROPERTY TAXES

◼ 60% Hike in One Year... - AP
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Hurricane Christie rolls in...


◼ Chris Christie disses Jerry Brown as 'an old retread' - LA Times via Drudge

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ripped California Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday, saying that the state’s voters should have elected Meg Whitman but instead went with a “retread” who is failing to lead.

“California made the bad choice by going with an old retread," Christie told California’s delegation to the Republican National Convention, a crowd that lapped up his message. “Let me tell you this – I cannot believe you people elected Jerry Brown over Meg Whitman. … Jerry Brown. Jerry Brown? I mean, he won the New Jersey presidential primary over Jimmy Carter when I was 14 years old.”
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

More states are realizing that the road to fiscal hell is paved with progressive intentions

◼ Jerry Brown vs. Chris Christie - William McGurn/Wall St. Journal

In his January 2011 inaugural address, California Gov. Jerry Brown declared it a "time to honestly assess our financial condition and make the tough choices." Plainly the choices weren't tough enough: Mr. Brown has just announced that he faces a state budget deficit of $16 billion—nearly twice the $9.2 billion he predicted in January. In Sacramento Monday, he coupled a new round of spending cuts with a call for some hefty new tax hikes.

In his own inaugural address back in January 2010, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie also spoke of making tough choices for the people of his state. For his first full budget, Mr. Christie faced a deficit of $10.7 billion—one-third of projected revenues. Not only did Mr. Christie close that deficit without raising taxes, he is now plumping for a 10% across-the-board tax cut.

Editorial page editor Paul Gigot on why soaking the rich isn't solving California's chronic deficit problems. Photo: Associated Press

It's not just looks that make Mr. Brown Laurel to Mr. Christie's Hardy. It's also their political choices....

Meanwhile, leaders in some struggling states have taken notice. They know the road to fiscal hell is paved with progressive intentions. The question regarding the sensible ones is whether they have the will and wherewithal to impose the reforms they know their states need on the interest groups whose political and economic clout is so closely tied with the public purse.

Mr. Brown's remarks Monday suggest the answer to this question is no.
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