Reinke Faces Life

HEADLINE ON DRUDGE

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Laurie David on Kerry’s 2004 loss: I ‘cried for three straight days. I couldn’t stop’…

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Oh come one. Give me a break. Get a life.

Does ANYONE really believe “three days straight”?

I question why success in Hollywood or marrying right give ANYONE the right to LECTURE us on anything! Certain making over-the-top statements doesn’t incline me to listen to them seriously.

The death of a child, a loved one, a natural disaster … things to be sad about. A politician … please.

I don’t think it is possible to “cry for three days straight”. Humans aren’t build that way. We eat, we drink, we poop, we laff, we cry. Three days? Come on.

For Drudge to highlight it, is to showcase the fool.

http://darianworden.tripod.com/prop/posters.html

http://tewmonds57219.blogspot.com/2007/05/
for-new-widow-ten-tips-to-help-her.html

Dear fellow blogger,

Re: I think your excellent content was plagiarized for a splog.

Just thought you might want to know. These dirt bags steal your content, put lots of extraneous keywords in, to sell advertising. Just thought you should know.Maybe a cease and desist to their isp might be a nice response.

fjohn

FROM MY EMAIL TO 101.5 Radio Station

http://www.nj1015.com/station-info.shtm

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Eric Johnson
Program Director
New Jersey 101.5 FM Radio
PO Box 5698
Trenton, NJ 08638

Dear Mr. Johnson,

No I’m not going to nag about putting Free Talk Live on the station this time. (Although I think it would be great idea).

This email is about the recent dust up over ticket blitz, breaking news, and the reaction to it. I don’t care for the afternoon’s entertainment. I think it crass and crude, but that’s why they have a tuning dial and an off switch. However, unpopular speech was exactly what the dead old white guys had in mind when they formulated the First Amendment. The recent disclosure of information and the threat of disclosure was criminal and inexcusable! It’s a direct threat to the station’s people and their families. The gooferment, by way of its union, is way over the line. (The gooferment by “negotiating” with a union of its employees is the height of absurdity. And, by that fact, the union is its creation and its agent!) SO, in a sense, the gooferment is attacking the press. So count me in for the fight. Me, my pitchfork, my blog, and my vote are at your disposal.

I’m reminded of First they came… is a poem attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984).

Then they came for the Jersey Guys,
and I didn’t speak up because I didn’t like them.

Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up.

Let’s put the pig pen in Trenton back in order and in balance. They need to be afraid of the people.

Ferdinand J. Reinke
Kendall Park, NJ 08824

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http://www.nj1015.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=6558&z=3

State Trooper Agrees to Not Release Any More Personal Information
Saturday, May 05, 2007 – Associated Press

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After meeting with New Jersey’s State Police superintendent, the head of the troopers union has agreed to hold off on plans to reveal personal information about New Jersey One-Oh-One-Point Five radio personalities.

The union president, David Jones, denies any wrongdoing in his war of words with the station.

But he agreed to comply with a request state Police Colonel Rick Fuentes made during a meeting yesterday to discuss the matter.

Meanwhile, officials are probing whether Jones broke any rules in the squabble.

On Thursday, Jones displayed for T-V cameras the home address and license plate number of the station’s afternoon co-host Craig Carton.

Carton and his partner on Wednesday had discussed anonymous postings on the union’s password-protected Web site threatening a ticket blitz. The posters were upset about the treatment of the trooper who drove Governor Corzine’s S-U-V when it crashed.

The union leader denies there was a ticket-writing campaign.

The radio hosts have demanded an apology from Jones and want him punished. But Jones says he abused no police authority in getting Carton’s information.

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I think that this needs to be examined in great detail. It’s an abuse of power AND it’ll have a chilling effect on freedom of the press!

http://blog.nj.com/ledgerupdates/2007/05/
mcgreevey_mulling_episcopal_pr.html

http://tinyurl.com/2jd4pt

McGreevey mulling Episcopal priesthood
Posted by The Star-Ledger May 02, 2007 12:08PM

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Former Gov. James E. McGreevey has started the process to become a priest in his newly adopted Episcopal faith and hopes to begin a three-year seminary program in the fall.

McGreevey, who often described himself as a devout Catholic while in public office, was officially received into the Episcopal religion on Sunday, at St. Bartholomew’s Church in Manhattan, and is now part of the church’s “discernment” phase that usually precedes any seminary work, said the Rev. Kevin Bean, vicar at St. Bartholomew.

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Sorry, maybe I am cynical. This story breaks the day after the Oprah show. I sure hope he drops out, shuts up, and does his 3 years in the seminary in quiet seclusion. Then he moves on toe obscurity. I feel empathy for the wife and child. He has a lot of “discerning” to do. I think the taxpayers of NJ should be outraged at the fraud that was pulled on them. Where is my pitchfork?!

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3116831

N.J. Governor Pays Seat Belt Ticket
AP NewsBreak: N.J. Gov. Corzine, Injured in Crash, Pays Fine for Not Wearing Seat Belt
The Associated Press
By TOM HESTER Jr. Associated Press Writer
TRENTON, N.J. May 1, 2007 (AP)

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Gov. Jon S. Corzine has voluntarily paid a $46 fine for violating state law by not wearing a seat belt during the trip in which a car crash left him critically injured, his spokesman said Tuesday.

Corzine met with State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes, Attorney General Stuart Rabner and two state police investigators Tuesday at the governor’s mansion in Princeton to discuss the accident, spokesman Anthony Coley said.

As the meeting ended, Corzine asked Fuentes for a ticket, Coley said. Fuentes wrote one, and Corzine wrote a check for $46, Coley said.

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I am still steamed about the radio reporting that he supposedly was demanding, getting, and paying his 46 $ tix. And the media says it’s over.

:-(

The political komisars think they are better then us schmoes. And this is over when the schmoes say it is! Not when the fawning media that lets the politicians get away with this “barbara streisand” says so!

I also blogged about his caravan left the hospital with 6 escort cars and the reporters clocked going 70 in a 55 zone. Where’s the demand for ticket for that?

It’s about the assumption that they can use force on other people, but don’t dare hold them accountable to the SAME rules.

Argh!

Politicians. If they just be content to run out in traffic as quick as they are to run out in front of a parade, then we’d all be better off.

I hope that everyone who gets a speeding ticket or a seat belt ticket demands a trial and raises the 14th Amendment issue of equal protection. If the Guv can do it, then we all can do it. If I’m on the jury, you’re out of there.

We’d be better off picking governors and legislators by lottery. At least we’d get “real people” in power. I still think that we should not vote for anyone who campaigns.

DRUDGE: CORZINE MOTORCADE CAUGHT SPEEDING — ON ROAD TO RECOVERY!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/nyregion/30cnd-corzine.html?
ex=1178596800&en=823e9355881c338b&ei=5099&partner=TOPIXNEWS

http://tinyurl.com/2ofcmy

Corzine Leaves Hospital After Accident
The governor of New Jersey acknowledged today that he was negligent in not wearing a seatbelt.
By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI
Published: April 30, 2007

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No one in the motorcade used emergency lights, as his driver had been doing at the time of the accident. They kept to a pace of about 70 miles per hour, even though the posted limit is 55 on the stretch of Interstate 295 that leads to Drumthwacket, the governor’s official mansion in Princeton, where Mr. Corzine will spend the next stage of his recovery.

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What a joke! Hope everyone remembers this when they get their next fund-raising invitation labeled seatbelt or speeding (aka a ticket)!

http://wcbstv.com/local/local_story_117163117.html

Apr 27, 2007 5:07 pm US/Eastern
Porn Star Jameson Shows Up On N.J. School TV
Parents Furious; Private Firm Hired To Find Culprit
Andrew Kirtzman
Reporting

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(CBS) UNION CITY, N.J. Some eyebrows were raised at the Union City Board of Education recently. Officials discovered one or more employees have been watching pornography on school televisions.

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Tax money being well-spent.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/arti
cles/2007/04/26/standing_up_for_fairness_on_business_tax_ref
orm/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+–+Op-ed+columns

http://tinyurl.com/2xswdy

Standing up for fairness on business tax reform
By Joan Vennochi, Globe Columnist | April 26, 2007

HOUSE SPEAKER Salvatore DiMasi is at his best when he stands up for fairness.
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When Beacon Hill took up healthcare reform, DiMasi insisted business must share the cost of expanding coverage to the uninsured. He did it, he said, because it wasn’t fair to force taxpayers to cover for employers who refused to cover medical costs for their employees.

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Argh!

Doesn’t the author realize who is using force here? It’s the gooferment. Maybe it’s the writer’s gooferment education kicking in, but first the gooferment causes a problem and then they rush in to “fix” it. And, in the process cause more problems.

:-)

“Benefits” came about as a result of the WW2 Wage and Price controls.

Business don’t “give” benefits, they pay for them. Pay dearly.

Business never “pay for” anything. They are really artificial constructs to pass stuff along. The business passes a cost along to a buyer, a supplier, or an employee. EITHER they earn a profit based on doing this or they go out of business.

So let’s examine “benefits”.

Having had my own business, and probably will again in the future, (after all no one hire OLD people anymore), what an employee earns is only a part of their total compensation. If a business “gives” the employee “benefits”, they could pay them less in salary. Don’t forget the “employer’s share of social security”! That comes out of the employees total comp too. If I’m an employer with something that needs doing, I include the cost of the labor. That cost is loaded with what it costs me; not what they employee’s check says.

Also, since the Taxachusetts mandatory health benefit will be a tax on business, who will pay it? Not who writes the check, but who going to get less? Think of it like a balloon. Hold it tight and push on one side. It expands on the other side. Like conservation of momentum! The business just passes stuff along. So, if the business has to pay more, who is going to pay more or get less? It’s truly a zero sum game.

When business have no way to pass along a cost (i.e., the market won’t pay more for their product, suppliers won’t charge less, or employees won’t work for less), they close up shop. No margin; no mission.

I wonder how the politicians will NEXT fix the “economy” or the “unemployment problem”?