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  1. Billy Bubba really plays dumbed down America for all he can squeeze out of it. Why ANYONE continues to energize the P.T. Barnum act that the Clintons can only do suggests greatly that after all, humankind is just the higher monkeys...........and when one looks at George W. Bush, we become more convinced this is so............

    Here's Bubba explaining things about Moonface and her courageous sniperfire experience in Bosnia..........

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080411/ap_on_...ia_fact_check_3

    Clinton misstates wife's Bosnia tale 1 hour, 28 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - Former President Clinton has added to the falsehoods surrounding his wife's tale of her trip to Bosnia 12 years ago. In Indiana on Thursday, Bill Clinton defended his wife's mistake in claiming that she landed under sniper fire in Bosnia, accusing the media of treating her like "she'd robbed a bank" for confusing the facts.

    The New York senator had repeatedly described a harrowing scene in Tuzla, Bosnia, in which she and her daughter, Chelsea, had to run for cover as soon as they landed for a visit in 1996. Video footage of the day instead showed a peaceful reception in which an 8-year-old girl greeted the first lady.

    Hillary Clinton has acknowledged that she got the facts wrong in retelling the tale. Bill Clinton's inaccuracies don't involve long-ago memories, but misstatements about how his wife has handled the story.

    THE SPIN:

    "A lot of the way this whole campaign has been covered has amused me," Bill Clinton said in Boonville, Ind. "But there was a lot of fulminating because Hillary, one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995.

    "Did y'all see all that? Oh, they blew it up," the former president continued. "Let me just tell you. The president of Bosnia and Gen. Wesley Clark — who was there making peace where we'd lost three peacekeepers who had to ride on a dangerous mountain road because it was too dangerous to go the regular, safe way — both defended her because they pointed out that when her plane landed in Bosnia, she had to go up to the bulletproof part of the plane, in the front. Everybody else had to put their flak jackets underneath the seat in case they got shot at. And everywhere they went they were covered by Apache helicopters. So they just abbreviated the arrival ceremony.

    "Now I say that because what really has mattered is that even then she was interested in our troops," he said. "And I think she was the first first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt to go into a combat zone. And you would of thought, you know, that she'd robbed a bank the way they all carried on about this. And some of them when they're 60 they'll forget something when they're tired at 11 o'clock at night, too."

    THE FACTS:

    Bill Clinton has many of the facts wrong.

    His wife didn't make the sniper fire claim "one time late at night when she was exhausted." She actually told the story several times, including during prepared remarks on foreign policy delivered the morning of March 17.

    It's also not true that she "immediately apologized for it." Clinton has never apologized for the comments and only acknowledged that she "misspoke" a week after the March 17 speech when video of her peaceful tarmac reception emerged.

    It's also not true that she was the "first first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt to go into a combat zone" — a claim that Hillary Clinton has also made when talking about the trip. Pat Nixon traveled to Saigon during the Vietnam war and Barbara Bush went to Saudi Arabia two months before the launching of Desert Storm.

    The trip also was not in 1995, but 1996.

    Clinton campaign spokesman Phil Singer responded to the former president's remarks Friday by saying, "Senator Clinton appreciates her husband standing up for her, but this was her mistake and she takes responsibility for it."

    She's also told her husband to quit talking about it.

    "Hillary called me and said 'You don't remember this. You weren't there, let me handle it.' I said, 'Yes ma'am,'" Bill Clinton, who was in Indiana campaigning for his wife Friday, told reporters.

    What a shameless mess the Clintons are, a mess that begot us the Bush disaster in the cyclical response of such sordid affairs.

    Please do NOT regress CITIZENS OF AMERICA.................VOTE BARACK OBAMA!!

  2. Once more congratulations are due to Joe Wood for his stellar efforts to inform the citizens of Harrison beyond the smoke and mirrors of the town's government.

    Why ANYONE would continue to "hiss and spit" about an active citizen creating a much needed transparancy to how Harrison's leadership functions suggests to any reasonable person that a great something is trying to be kept out of the light of public awareness.

    KOTW has on its homepage a statement about shifting meetings/shortened meetings by the Harrison council with an urging for people to cancel Friday night's plans to attend the newly scheduled meeting. I think KOTW deserves a great round of applause for this candid statement to lead their homepage, this for the benefit of all decent people in Harrison.

  3. Moonface Hillary Clinton continues to fly by her immense ego and sense of entitlement to the White House. How her support can plod along is certainly a study in American mass denial and perhaps a pitiful, nostalgic consequence of happier American times when Bubba Bill presidented a booming economy driven by the computer/Internet revolution upon which a cocker spaniel could have lead the USA to the surplus we had...............all gone now thanks to monkey boy and his PNACs................oh well.

    Dig THIS current Clintonism scandal added to their long list:

    Clinton Campaign Owes UC Davis Money

    Campus May Turn Debt Over To Collection Agency

    Reporting

    Steve Large DAVIS (CBS13) ― Bill Clinton may have charmed the crowd at UC Davis in January, when 7500 people showed up to see him, but charm has not covered the Clinton campaign bill.

    The University of California in Davis is ready to take the Clinton presidential campaign to a collection agency if they do not pay back the thousands of dollars they are still owed.

    Here's a breakdown of expenses:

    - The UC Davis Marching Band cost $500.

    - Cleanup services after the rally cost $250.

    - UC Davis Police officers didn't come as cheap. The security bill is more than $5,600.

    "I'm more than willing to be held accountable for it, because that's the way life is," Hillary Clinton said to a Montana crowd on Monday. There is no word whether she'll apply that philosophy here, or if she even knows about the outstanding debt.

    Her Sacramento campaign office closed its doors after Super Tuesday, and her campaign spokespeople didn't return my calls.

    UC Davis is planning to put its final bill out this week, and if the debt has not been settled within a month, they are going to turn the matter over to a collection agency.

    (© MMVIII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

    Here be the URL to the LEGITIMATE report..............which has a video of Moonface being..................MOONFACE!

    http://cbs13.com/local/clinton.campaign.debt.2.694498.html

    Now if YOU think this Clinton reality nugget is ANY endorsement for Bulgeface John McCain, you must have REALLY thought Iraq had WMD and attacked the WTC!

    Here is Bulgeface John McCain's latest assurance to the American people..........

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/10/m...-l_n_96011.html

    McCain: I'll Cut Deficits Like Reagan (Who Tripled The Deficit)

    "When Senator John McCain was asked here this afternoon how he plans to balance the budget, he said that he hoped to do so by stimulating economic growth - and approvingly cited the example of President Ronald Reagan," the New York Times reports.

    "There was one thing he did not mention during his response: the deficit nearly tripled during the Reagan presidency, partly due to tax cuts and increases in military spending."

    WOW..........there's a confidence building presidential candidate for ya! Thanks Bulgeface! Maybe you can add Nancy Raygun's tarot card readings to your proposed system of running the nation. That would be an improvement upon monkey boy's "voices from god" manner of decision making!

    Now.........if you happen to conclude that I support Barack Obama as the only reasonable presidential candidate in the field, you get the brass ring.

    BARACK OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT

  4. That's not the point. The question is, why would God tell people to stone an ox?

    Here is an account of how people killed animals in those days, when they weren't trying to make a sport of it. It's from Homer's Odyssey, written in the eighth century B.C.E.

    "When they had done praying and sprinkling the barley meal Thrasymedes dealt his blow, and brought the heifer down with a stroke that cut through the tendons at the base of her neck, whereon the daughters and daughters-in-law of Nestor, and his venerable wife Eurydice (she was eldest daughter to Clymenus) screamed with delight. Then they lifted the heifer's head from off the ground, and Pisistratus cut her throat. When she had done bleeding and was quite dead, they cut her up."

    Why stone the ox, which only inflicts unnecessary suffering? If the ox is dangerous and must be put to death, why not just slit its throat?

    I watched the Youtube video that kicked off this thread and how appropriate to do so on Easter Sunday. It should be considered that not enough time has passed to put the holy bibicular and other absurd archaic religious dogma books in the same bin as bloodletting and drilling holes in skulls to release demons. We simply wont live to see it, so be resolute to the fact.

    It's my little theory that the violation of the separation of church and state in the USA busted wide the floodgates of legal lunatics that leverage their flavor of god to advance their ambitions resulting in the building and coddling of apartheid Israel and marching off to "inject freedom" American style in Iraq. (and now I'll be reminded that there IS no law in the USA separating church and state?)

    I'll recommend Elaine Pagel's book, "The Origins of Satan" for anyone that wants to understand a Princeton University professor of theology version of how the bible came to be written and evolve..............

    http://www.amazon.com/Origin-Satan-Elaine-...s/dp/0679401407

    You know what I like about paganism? It seems SENSIBLE to worship or honor the elements of nature. The sun that warms us and feeds our plants, gravity that keeps us from floating off, the water to cleanse and hydrate our bodies and grow the trees and crops and house the fish. I like how these elements regard everyone equally, without ANY ONE PEOPLE being "chosen" above any other. Children can understand natures aspects and lessons perfectly well, unlike the silly, muddled, translated to death holy bibicular.

    Please tell all your friends about William Tyndale. Who is he? Billy Tyndale was the first individual to translate the bible from its original Hebrew and Greek versions into English. Want to know what happened to Mr. T for all his trouble?

    (he was put to death)

    Check it out:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyndale

    I will enjoy the issue I will make in court (if that day will come) when I insist to the judge that to swear on the bible before I testify would be a ridiculous exercise for me, given my conviction that the book is at best, an abject myth.

    Happy Vernal Equinox to you all!!

  5. The scary part is which of the Rev. Wright's view does Obama agree with.

    I'm a Democrat but I can't vote for someone who agrees with anything the Rev. Wright spouted.

    Obama should completely cut off connections with this radical.

    Voter

    The scary part for me is how so many Roman Catholics can STILL commit to the church after that institution's pedophilic mania is revealed and explained with the most insulting sophistry. I've concluded people simply refuse to admit when they are shown to be dupes for the lord and the holy fadda..........it's the game they play.

    If people got any courage equal to half their American gluttony, they may begin to consider what Rev. Wriight has said, themselves recalling the incessant wholesale murders of countless Southeast Asians during the Vietnam era by our country, American CIA meddling in the legally elected leaderships of South America (Iran-Contra warms your patriotic black heart, does it?) and the impetus for September 11, 2001: the dual justice of American coddling for apartheid Zionland while thoroughly exploiting the Balfour doctrined Middle East for all the oil we can waste in our pigmobiles (joyously clogging the GSP for monster work commutes, single occupancy so as to impress our friends and colleagues with pride of overt consumption)..............

    Barack Obama does well to distance himself from Rev. Wright's assertions. After all he's an intelligent political human being. Our nation is in denial, desperately embracing a bumper sticker mentality that the USA can do no wrong while everything we gleefully/foolishly take for granted goes poof. Obama does not have the luxury I have. I don't NEED to diaper your ass. I don't need your vote. But we ALL need you to get real. Our nation is falling and like when Rome was falling, few knew it.

    This is a card game. Hillary Moonface Clinton (and co-POTUS Bubba Bill) equals scandal and heavy baggage. She's an automatic spike of division upon the American landscape with a parasite's sense of entitlement to the office of POTUS. John McCain is a sacrificial lamb served up by an American political party that, after Bush, by all decency should disolve itself on grounds of vast shamefullness. Bulgeface should expand on his Baghdad shopping review and become an American travel agent outside the Iraqi "green zone"........or maybe better yet, get a job modeling caskets. Obama is at worst, the LEAST of all presidential evils and we NEED to play a card. I'm playing the Ace of Spades.

  6. Obama's strategy: Bring the troops home, get out, turn tail, raise the white flag and cut & run. BUT, if Al Quieda establishes a base in Iraq, he'd be willing to send the troops back. WHAT ??? Does anyone believe for a moment that if we cut and run, all the terrorists will go home, give up their guns and start farming ?

    This junior senator is seriously naive. He better stick to his platitudes of change, hope and new direction

    because he has nothing else. This country is in serious jeopardy if we put this man in the White House.

    It's naive to expect Obama to have every move in the epic Iraq disaster he's faced with decided upon 10 months before he begins.

    Your gratuitous "cut and run" labeling of Obama is contemptable and indicative of a SERIOUSLY NAIVE posting, one that clearly appears to ignore an audience that will surely REMIND you that the disaster we face in Iraq (AND Afghanistan)today is the perverse handicraft of arguably the WORST presidential administration in US history, surely the worst in our lifetime.

    Take all the blood, money, guns and lawyers we've spent since Bush's 9-11 and look at what we've gotten in return. Since September 11, 2001, who but a fear driving political ideologue would insist we're better off than if we did nothing but stay home and work on our borders and our leadership in all sectors of society, our economy and our social fabric?

    Look. Ask the survivors of countless Iraqis turned into jelly who the terrorists are. Asked the maimed and the displaced Iraqis who the terrorists are.

    What you embrace "patriot" is astounding failure, still to this day masked by a remarkable conceit and gluttony that hypocrites like Rish Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter et al take to a coward's end because the money is still good doing it. It's become America festering.

    Knock yourself out counting terrorists in your corn flakes. This nation, OUR nation needs help like never before and it WILL NEVER be found in people named Clinton or Bush or McCain, who are deadenders...............like you.

    BARACK OBAMA USA! (because fear is CHOKING us)

  7. A decade or so ago, I remember that wonderful line up of shows on PBS Saturday morning. The Open Mind ... Adam Smith's Money World .. the late Louis Rukeyser and, of course, the first few notes of a Scarlati Sonata that signaled the start of William F. Buckley's 'Firing Line'.

    Firing Line, in my opinion, was the best 'discussion show' ever to grace the airwaves. I'm not just saying that because he's dead, either. I seldom agreed with him on issue but his depth of intellect and dry wit always kept me tuned in. He would have traditional 'debates' on his show that would always draw the great thinkers on both sides of an issue to spar. Buckley wasn't afraid to defend his side in a debate and sometimes even lose. You always left the show with more questions than answers. I still remember a debate between him and Ronald Reagan over pros and cons the US Panama Canal handover to Panama. It was a sight to behold watching two guys who otherwise agreed with each other arguing within the rules of debate. 'Firing Line' would also have just plain lively discussions which would include his worst political enemies of the time such as George McGovern and others. However, you knew that at the end of the show they were sharing a glass of wine and inquiring about each other's families. It was a different world than the slash and burn TV and radio politics of today.

    The commercially austere and deeply thoughtful days of William F. Buckley's broadcast conservatism has given way to the nasty personal attacks and of smirking know it alls like Limbaugh and O'Reilly. They would never dream of losing a debate. They're always right. I think it s**ks but it obviously sells or FOX wouldn't be doing so well. On the left, Olbermann is no different. It's as if we just want to be entertained by politics, we don't want to think about it. Hooray for our side.

    Too bad.

    Just to temper immotality a tad:

    >>>Buckley also had little use for the music of the counterculture, once calling the Beatles "so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of antimusic."<<<

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080228/ap_on_...obit_buckley_25

  8. "They" have an act ?? "They" meaning America ?? So apparently you don't include yourself

    among us. Maybe you're Iranian ?? (that's beside being a Loony Lefty).

    Correct partially. I don't include myself among YOU and your Bush enabling cult and I think you have a serious delusion to embrace the term "Republican" in your screen name after 8 years of an epic "Republican" trainwreck.

    I don't abide by self serving politicians passing the Patriot Act without reading the damn thing.

    You and your cult should be reminded that resolutions have been passed in 401 communities in 43 states including seven state-wide resolutions. These communities represent approximately 62 million people who oppose sections of the USA PATRIOT Act. If you have the courage to peruse the list.........note NEW YORK CITY is included.

    Resolutions Passed in 2005

    Rapid City, SD 9/19/2005

    Bristol, RI 7/20/2005

    Coos County, OR 6/15/2005

    Norwalk, CT 6/14/2005

    Lyme, CT 5/27/2005

    New Brunswick, NJ 5/18/2005

    Williamstown, MA 5/17/2005

    State of Colorado 5/9/2005

    Lenox, MA 5/5/2005

    Milton, MA 5/5/2005

    Mamaroneck, NY 5/4/2005

    Portsmouth, NH 4/4/2005

    State of Montana 4/2/2005

    Rockport, MA 4/2/2005

    State of Idaho 3/30/2005

    Farmington, NH 3/9/2005

    Exeter, NH 3/8/2005

    Paonia, CO 2/22/2005

    Butte-Silver Bow, MT 2/16/2005

    Elmira, NY 2/7/2005

    Erie, PA 2/2/2005

    Oak Creek, CO 1/27/2005

    Resolutions Passed From July to December 2004

    Pontiac, MI 12/16/2004

    Multnomah County, OR 12/9/2004

    Helena, MT 12/6/2004

    West Windsor, NJ 12/6/2004

    Troy, MI 11/29/2004

    Passaic County, NJ 11/23/2004

    Lowell, MA 11/16/2004

    Bridgewater, MA 11/8/2004

    Kansas City/Wyandotte County, KS 11/4/2004

    Coventry, CT 11/1/2004

    Westford, MA 10/18/2004

    Alhambra, CA 10/11/2004

    Englewood, NJ 9/29/2004

    Westchester County, NY 9/14/2004

    Huntington, NY 9/14/2004

    Lincoln, NE 9/13/2004

    Mercer County, NJ 9/9/2004

    Windham, CT 9/7/2004

    Tompkins County, NY 9/7/2004

    Odessa, DE 9/1/2004

    Glendale, CA 8/31/2004

    Edgartown, MA 8/31/2004

    Humbolt County, CA 8/17/2004

    Falls Church, VA 8/9/2004

    Nevada City, CA 8/9/2004

    Des Moines, IA 7/26/2004

    Tumwater, WA 7/20/2004

    Pasadena, CA 7/19/2004

    Placer County, CA 7/13/2004

    Lawrence Township, NJ 7/6/2004

    Whitefish, MT 7/6/2004

    Lexington-Fayette County, KY 7/1/2004

    Resolutions Passed From June to February 2004

    Boone, NC 6/29/2004

    Savannah, GA 6/24/2004

    Keansburg, NJ 6/24/2004

    Plainfield, NJ 6/21/2004

    Raleigh, NC 6/15/2004

    Aspen, CO 6/14/2004

    Albany County, NY 6/14/2004

    Orono, ME 6/14/2004

    Mount Vernon, ME 6/12/2004

    Paterson, NJ 6/9/2004

    Moscow, ID 6/7/2004

    Plattsburgh City, NY 6/1/2004

    Jackson, MS 5/25/2004

    St. Petersburgh, FL 5/20/2004

    Swampscott, MA 5/19/2004

    Hampton, CT 5/18/2004

    Eureka, MT 5/18/2004

    Chatham, MA 5/18/2004

    Port Orford, OR 5/18/2004

    Weston, MA 5/12/2004

    Carbondale, CO 5/11/2004

    Bangor, ME 5/10,2004

    Groton, MA 5/10/2004

    Heath, MA 5/6/2004

    Lewis and Clark County, MT 5/6/2004

    Buckland, MA 5/5/2004

    Littleton, MA 5/4/2004

    Dennis, MA 5/4/2004

    Colrain, MA 5/4/2004

    East Lansing, MI 5/4/2004

    Carlisle, MA 5/3/2004

    Charlemont, MA 5/3/2004

    Concord, MA 5/3/2004

    Marblehead, MA 5/3/2004

    Chilmark, MA 4/28/2004

    Tisbury, MA 4/27/2004

    El Paso, TX 4/27/2004

    Pittsburgh, PA 4/26/2004

    Truro, MA 4/21/2004

    Whatcom County, WA 4/20/2004

    Lawrence, KS 4/20/2004

    Wheeler, OR 4/20/2004

    Montclair Township, NJ 4/20/2004

    Tampa, FL 4/15/2004

    Bethlehem, NY 4/14/2004

    Mount Vernon, NY 4/14/2004

    West Tisbury, MA 4/14/2004

    Sudbury, MA 4/14/2004

    Oak Bluffs, MA 4/13/2004

    Eau Claire, WI 4/13/2004

    Conway, MA 4/12/2004

    Lexington, MA 4/12/2004

    Acton, MA 4/12/2004

    Berks County, PA 4/8/2004

    Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA 4/8/2004

    Calistoga, CA 4/6/2004

    Lathrup Village, MI 4/5/2004

    Grand Rapids, MI 3/30/2004

    Fairbanks North Star Borough 3/25/2004

    Ames, IA 3/23/2004

    State of Maine 3/23/2004

    Santa Clara, CA 3/23/2004

    Duxbury, MA 3/16/2004

    Phillipsburg, NJ 3/16/2004

    Alameda County, CA 3/16/2004

    Portland, ME 3/15/2004

    Arlington County, VA 3/13/2004

    St. Louis, MO 3/12/2004

    Somerville, MA 3/11/2004

    Aquinnah, MA 3/10/2004

    Franklin, NJ 3/9/2004

    Elko, NV 3/9/2004

    Richmond, VA 3/8/2004

    Milwaukee, WI 3/2/2004

    Washington, DC 3/2/2004

    Valdez, AK 3/1/2004

    Dallas, TX 2/25/2004

    Southfield, MI 2/23/2004

    Elko County, NV 2/18/2004

    Cleveland Heights, OH 2/17/2004

    Ewing, NJ 2/10/2004

    Mullica, NJ 2/10/2004

    Kansas City, MO 2/5/2004

    Valencia County, NM 2/4/2004

    New York, NY 2/4/2004

    Highland Park, NJ 2/3/2004

    North Providence, RI 2/3/2004

    Carbondale, IL 2/3/2004

    Lansing, MI 2/2/2004

    Auburn Hills, MI 2/2/2004

    Now.........I am NOT Iranian but I figure you assume I'm Iranian because you must keep SEEING Iranians under your bed daily in your political world of FEAR MONGERING.

  9. Loved the picture of Obama wearing his native dress. If elected, I wonder if it will be required dress for

    all White House staff.

    Another "Patriot" that knows what's best, guiding our nation farther down the road of endless broken glass. They have an "ACT" named after you, isn't it interesting?

  10. CONGRATS TO THE INDIVIDUALS THIS RULING FAVORS!

    When eminent domain became widely abused after the landmark New London, Connecticut case (a 5 to 4 split in the US supreme court supporting the government in New London and dissing the citizens that had their homes taken) it didn't take long for my own home town's government to "cash in" with an eye towards political targeting.

    This ruling is going to cost Harrison's citizens PLENTY. It's interesting how government's elected officials can bumble ANY AMOUNT of taxpayer money and later simply stand at the podium using words to describe each other like, "Honorable" when they conspire for re-election.

    Look. Since I've been on KOTW, Harrison has been a perpetual messageboard circus of everything bad that happens in politics, almost. It's actually funny if one ignores the hardship upon the decent people of the town........like some campy movie filmed in a dustbelt state where the "good ol' boys (and girls)" in government got a sweet thing going for themselves and everyone else in town saves cardboard for the broken windows.

    So for now in Harrison the "bleeding" will continue unfortunately, but with recent courageous efforts made by Joe Wood and others to face the political entrenchment for what it is, if the people get ACTIVE, perhaps the depth of the Harrison hole will stop before it hits oil.

    For sake of ALL DECENCY, I hope so. The comedy/drama is getting very old............but above all in this post.........BRAVO for the ruling, some very deserving people will now be loading up on any number of gastro anti-acids! (and THAT'S funny!)

    HEY...........TWO YEARS AGO TODAY I JOINED KOTW! I'm glad to reply to a JOYOUS ruling concerning Harrison on the anniversary of my membership! Let's KEEP THE BALL ROLLING!

  11. CONGRATS TO THE INDIVIDUALS THIS RULING FAVORS!

    When eminent domain became widely abused after the landmark New London, Connecticut case (a 5 to 4 split in the US supreme court supporting the government in New London and dissing the citizens that had their homes taken) it didn't take long for my own home town's government to "cash in" with an eye towards political targeting.

    This ruling is going to cost Harrison's citizens PLENTY. It's interesting how government's elected officials can bumble ANY AMOUNT of taxpayer money and later simply stand at the podium using words to describe each other like, "Honorable" when they conspire for re-election.

    Look. Since I've been on KOTW, Harrison has been a perpetual messageboard circus of everything bad that happens in politics, almost. It's actually funny if one ignores the hardship upon the decent people of the town........like some campy movie filmed in a dustbelt state where the "good ol' boys (and girls)" in government got a sweet thing going for themselves and everyone else in town saves cardboard for the broken windows.

    So for now in Harrison the "bleeding" will continue unfortunately, but with recent courageous efforts made by Joe Wood and others to face the political entrenchment for what it is, if the people get ACTIVE, perhaps the depth of the Harrison hole will stop before it hits oil.

    For sake of ALL DECENCY, I hope so. The comedy/drama is getting very old............but above all in this post.........BRAVO for the ruling, some very deserving people will now be loading up on any number of gastro anti-acids! (and THAT'S funny!)

  12. http://www.theobserver.com/articles/2008/0...69895987227.txt

    Editorial: Flood’s nepotism hire reeks of Hudson of old

    Hudson County was again seen as a laughing stock last week when County Register Willie Flood was inducted into Fox 5’s Arnold Diaz’s “Hall of Shame” for hiring her son to be a data-processing clerk in her office. Worse, she had also hired her son to be her aide in her position as a Jersey City councilwoman. But her son recently resigned from the aide position. He still holds the data-processing position, at an annual salary of more than $38,000.

    When Diaz approached Mrs. Flood several weeks ago, she refused to answer his questions as to how she, as an elected official, could hire her son to a position in her office. She covered her face with her fur coat, and drove away as Diaz asked tough questions on behalf of all taxpayers of Hudson County.

    Perhaps the most disturbing element of Mrs. Flood hiring her son is that he’s not the most upstanding citizen of the county. Several months ago, he was charged, in Jersey City, with selling marijuana from his mother’s car. He subsequently pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.

    Only in Hudson County.

    You know, we hear that phrase used too often.

    “Only in Hudson County” has always been a response when blatant nepotism is a factor. Yet no one shows any outrage — and the situation usually gets swept under the rug and forgotten about. Not this time.

    Taxes in parts of West Hudson are extremely high. And a portion of your taxes go to the county. And, as such, they fund the position held by Mrs. Flood’s son. We seriously doubt Mrs. Flood’s son is the most qualified candidate for this data-processing position. And we seriously question Mrs. Flood’s ethics for allowing such absurd nepotism to happen with your tax dollars.

    For far too many years, the Hudson County Democratic Party has allowed political hiring. And as such, there are a plethora of positions held by people who aren’t necessarily the most qualified — instead, they’re held by people who are, without question, the most connected.

    We believe Mrs. Flood owes the people of Hudson County an apology for this gross misuse of taxpayer funds. We believe her son should resign his position as a data processor. And we call on all those in authoritative positions in Hudson to end the ages-old practice of hiring family members. Look at the publicity this case has garnered. Look at the black eye Hudson County was smacked with over an ill-conceived hiring. This nonsense must end on the county level now. And we’ll be watching to ensure it doesn’t happen again — in any Hudson County agency. And if it does — and we hear there may already be some other nepotism hirings in the works in the county — we’ll be there to report it, so that as taxpayers struggle to make ends meet, they’ll be fully aware their hard-earned dollars are being spent to pad the pockets of politically connected and related, and not the most qualified candidates to hold jobs.

    (how nice to know my hometown Harrison is ABOVE this! ;) )

  13. Does anyone really think Mr. Joseph Wood will ever win a council seat? Let's be serious people. He is not a bright boy. He gets fed his information by Steve. Joe wouldn't know the first thing about a budget, or a contract, or anything that involves having intelligence. Steve does. Joe doesn't. Who does he think he is fooling. He critices about this $50 mil, but he wouldn't know the first thing to do with it. He can say, we need parks for kids, housing for seniors, parking lots, but he has no clue how to put his 'plans' to actions. If he did, he would offer other, detailed plan to the town council. He goes up there to insult the councilman and a get a reaction. He does not go up there to better the town. He should use his 5 minutes productively. He should learn the phrase "You catch more bees with honey than you do with vinegar.' Steve has to stop this, and stop this now. It is laughable that Joseph thinks he is a part of the politics in this town. You can count the political players that count on your fingers. Not all the councilman are even players. 1 councilman is a player, the mayor, PVSC commisioner, an ex-con, a lawyer, and one three pension player. Joseph, you are making a fool of yourself, slowly. Who are you fooling. No one. You are suppossed to get more support the more elections you run for. It is obvious you are not serious about winning, you are just looking for attention and for your name in the paper. You run your mouth and you have no room to talk. Even as you are reading this, you are probably thinking, "Wow, I can't believe there is a post this long about ME!" And then you will rationalize that since I wrote this about you, that you are a part of the political scene. You are just always going to be perennial canindate who finishes as an also ran. I hear you are running against Doran again in '10. And you will convice yourself once again that you have a chance. and you will lose 66% to 33% if you get a good voter turnout. ha. You're making life for your poor family who work in town hell. Though you may think they are untouchable, cross the wrong person enough and there will be hell to pay.The only bigger joke than you were the clarke sisters. You are causing problems that you do not need, that no one needs. You are not a councilman, get that out of your head. You are disrespectful. When I see you at the meetings, I just shake my head. Yes I do go to the meetings. So don't call me a hypocrite. I do care about the town. I do think that some thing in town are wrong. I express those feelings the right way. I pull aside a councilman and tell him my problems. You need the attention. Your website is useless and is trash, its a sinful site. If no one cares enough to go to the meetings, they won't care enough to visit your awful site. I suggest you do the right thing and take the website down.That will be your first step on the path back to respectability. I bet deep down, councilman McCormick cringes when you step to the mic. If he wants to smoke the peace pipe, the first thing he needs to do is drop you. The powers that be will come to work with him, as they did with doran. Then, he will drop you like a sack of potatoes. You are a liability to him. Every time Joe speaks, the waall builds between steve and the mayor. Joseph, You are an attention seeker. You are a disgrace to Harrison.

    Signed,

    ****** ********* (Yes, the correct number of letters)

    KOTW Note: The above post WAS NOT edited. The astericks (*) are original to the post.

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    Here's a guy that calls for Joe Wood to end his website and the Harrison council meetings' videos that it contains!

    Wow..............look at the invectives.............

    Bravo Mr. Joe Wood.........."Walking Tall".............Bravo!

    People of Harrison.........build upon this courageous effort...........

    Can you imagine an individual that calls for the END of a website that brings the function and performance of Harrison government freely to all on the Internet?

    Visit the website. It's a window to the Harrison government workings, an INFORMATIONAL ASSET free of advocacy.......and it IS free of advocacy no matter the politics of the website's owner.

    It's clearly a "let the people SEE and let the chips fall where they may" website:

    www.harrisonmeetings.com

    Ask yourself what manner of person would call to END this website. I suspect it's someone who has something to fear from it's continuation.

    It's up to YOU to build upon this foundation of information provided by Joe Wood.

    We all get the government we deserve. ;)

  14. If you are waiting for cheers for what you are doing, don't hold your breath.  Do you think most people really care.  You have created this image of yourself as someone of importance, maybe in your own mind.  Most people in town are only concerened about who is going to take care of them and make their life easier.  I don't think you qualify for that job  with what knowledge you have aquired at such a young age.  You should be more interested in getting a life for your self and stop fooling yourself that you have a cure for what's ailling this town .

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    Thanks to an active citizen of Harrison, video of the NEBULOUS Harrison council meetings is the best news this forum has revealed all year.

    As I've discovered this video here in KOTW, one of Harrison's most successful sons simultaneously sent me the same video information citing his own enthusiasm and commendation for the fact.........

    Bravo Mr. Woods. Your efforts are applauded by Harrisonians that left town to make their fortunes beyond the Passaic river and the meadowlands, you may be sure.

    Knowledge is power and this effort by Joe Woods puts it closer to the hands of the people, despite some dislodged anonymous stroonce cackling the quote above. It's ALWAYS an anonymous stroonce..........

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you Mr. Joe Woods and to all decent citizens of my home town..........May we all soon read that you've ENDED the nepotistic feeding frenzy that Harrison taxpayers are famous for dishing up to it's parasitic leadership...............

    GET ACTIVE and GET INFORMED!! YOU GET THE GOVERNMENT YOU DESERVE!!

  15. That just sounds like an excuse to hide the extent of Bush's Blunders from the American people.

    "Bush blunders"...............those two words make me keyboard tap..........I've been itching to do it with every passing article about the POTUS lately........

    I am lost for words suddenly. I must be tired...............

    I am immensely disgusted...........

    Sorry about the "non-post" posting............

    I don't have the energy now to craft those words I need to tell you how I really feel..........

    "Bush blunders" indeed............

  16. I understand your point and don't disagree with you.  My problem is how much taxpayers have to pay for that.  (He's not a violent criminal nor is he a threat to anyone) Wouldn't paying back the money and community service for that length of time hurt him more?

    Seize back the stolen cash from the criminal's estate and bust him of his pension. Put him in jail for three to five, even longer so he can write poetry about his misdeeds to those that would follow his crimes.

    Concerned about the criminal's family? The colateral harm to the criminal's family ROSE from the criminal's brazen decision to steal from the public, not the justice system that is created to address such deviates.

    I don't know what you mean about the "taxpayers have to pay for that"...........the taxpayers SHOULD NOT have to pay a pension to a thieving criminal and certainly not to such a BOLD one.

    The big picture beckons. Until these appropriate punishments take place commonly, leagues of graft/theft sucking public officials will take their fortuitous chances long after you and I are dead.

    From all I have seen in my 53 years, the justice trend is to go soft on those that violate the public trust they've been granted, so that today we have everyone trying to be the next Kenny Boy Lay fearlessly. My grandchildren and yours deserve a better future than that in our nation.

    If we did what I outline, maybe in the midnight hour of intimate marital nuzzling the potential public trust criminal's wife will say.......no darling, don't do it.....it's not worth it........

  17. I think the sentence was a little harsh. If he's never been in trouble before he should have to pay the money back and get probation.  People go away for violent crimes and don't serve that long.  And does anyone out there really think he was the only one dipping?

    A little harsh?

    YOUR punishment guidelines will guarantee GENERATIONS of parasites willing to take their criminal chances upon the public teet.

  18. Dito To That, He Is A Great Guy And Has A wonderful Family. Hang In Their Tanski Family Stay Strong ....You are  a Great bunch of People  And are one of the few Families that Knew How to treat People no matter who They were......Good Luck Mr. Tanski.......

    Theft and corruption honored.............Hudson County style!

    Are all the Hudson county stolen birth certs on your "good luck, god bless" list too?

  19. A kid's desk or locker in school is an early personal experience. It makes the school part of a kid's home to have a stash for his gear on school grounds.

    This donkey around the backpacks is easy on everyone but the kids and their parents it seems.

    Does anyone who favors the kids carrying in their backpacks all their personal learning materials and personal items of clothing and eyeglasses and such have an explanation why it's being done?

    What's with school busing in Harrison when the new homes get finished on Rodgers Stadium and the surroundings?

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