Strife767
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Kearny certainly relies on TAXES thats why we have the highest property taxes in Hudson County.
According to this, Weehawken's taxes are higher.
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7PM_9PM WOULD BE A GOOD TIME FOR THE TOWN RESIDENTS.
Hint: All caps makes you come off like a raving lunatic. Is that what you want?
So now, since you feel that way, have you tried contacting Santos and telling him this directly? Or do you feel it's a better idea to just complain about it to yourself, and that doing that will help more?
How is it possible for one person to butcher the word "families" in so many ways?
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Allow me to show you that closing a quote tag prevents you from looking like an idiot when you're trying to quote someone. a "]" was all you needed. Viola:
I get people like this Guest coming to me with cases all the time. The conversation goes something like this:
Client: "I want to sue my doctor."
Me: "Let's see if we can. Tell me what happened."
Client: "Well, I was diagnosed with lung cancer five years ago, and the doctors removed part of my left lung and now the cancer is back. The doctors say it metastasized, and that I have maybe a year to live"
Me (knowing that with metastatic lung cancer the client will die): "I"m very sorry to hear that. I'll need to look at the medical records."
Client: "Why? I just told you I'm going to die."
Me: "Because as hard as this may be for you to accept right now, that's not enough to make a case. To make a case we have to prove that the doctor did something wrong to cause your cancer to metastasize."
Client: "Why should that matter? If we get in front of a jury, they'll feel sorry for me and give me money."
Me: "It doesn't work like that. If we get into trial and can't prove that the doctor did something wrong, the judge will dismiss the case, and the jury will never decide it. Look, maybe if we review your records, we'll see that the doctor missed something. Maybe there was evidence of cancer in another part of the lung, which should also have been removed, but honestly, if that's true, your prognosis was probably going to be the same anyway because by definition that's already metastatic. Or maybe there was a delay in the original diagnosis. I don't know until I see the records."
Until someone can present solid evidence of something the mayor and council have done wrong, there's no "case" here. Now this isn't a trial. People get to vote for whomever they like, no matter how good or bad their reasons are. But I think reasonable people understand that it makes no sense to blame a mayor and council for things that aren't their fault. Just because your taxes went up doesn't mean they did anything wrong, and if you put someone else in, it's just going to be the same thing --- if you're lucky. It can get a whole lot worse.
Me: "By the way do you smoke?"
Client: "Yeah, I've been trying to quit, but I just can't." In other words, the client is still smoking, even after a diagnosis of lung cancer and removal of part of a lung.
Guys, if you want to help yourselves, take some responsibility. Complaining just because your taxes went up isn't going to help you, no matter how strapped you may be financially.
What's this a courtroom. Its Apples and Oranges and has nothing to do with the issue.
You know, you're not very good at understanding analogies.
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And you served exactly WHEN??????
I suppose it's impossible to know if food tastes like crap unless one is a master chef? Your implication is laughable.
It takes no courage to shoot and kill unarmed civilians. In fact, it takes quite a bit of cowardice.
Since you DIDNT Serve you have ZERO idea of what you are talking about..Okay, you tell me why it takes courage to shoot at and kill unarmed civilians, since you obviously disagree with what I said. You can use the following space:
I'm waiting.
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Yes, Bush and the adminstration did lie their asses off. And those who were in the military when the war started had no choice.
But at this point, anyone signing up should know better.
Sadly, "at this point," many of those people you just described in that second sentence are already dead.
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Not to take the attention away from Paul and John for too long, but getting back to the topic: does anyone else think it's strange that the mayor and council would schedule the open forum on taxes from 5 to 7 on a Tuesday night, right in the middle of the holiday season? Who gets home from work in time to take care of dinner and the kids or whatever else needs to be done to do this? Then the mayor and council will say -- smugly no less -- that no one bothered to show up so all people do is complain anonymously but don't provide any real direction for the town (which is the job of mayor and council but that's another story...). Isn't this the same strategy the board of education used to pass that bond referendum last year?
Bet you anything one could make a similar complaint about practically any other time.
When do you think would be the best time to have it?
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If you want me to answer that I will. There has not been a honest one, especially on this post since the inception of time,
What a ridiculous generalization. Talk about sweeping--not even now, but there never was, according to you. Get real.
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writes a post you don't have any answer to. Typical cowardly evasion.
http://forums.kearnyontheweb.com/index.php...dpost&pid=76250
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Ironically, it's actually short for "ah (probably) God," though its current use is that of a generic exclamation.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search...searchmode=none
Of course, someone as proudly ignorant as you wouldn't know that, would you 2dim?
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Aren't you patronizing toward the troops? They are in harm;s way, because they volunteered. We could not have a war if they did not.
If they don't like the war or their situation there, they are quite capable of getting out by themselves: voting with their boots. Don't sign up or re-up.
They don't need you or me or any other civilian to pontificate on their wants or needs. They are grown people who are capable of making their own decisions.
Your point would be more valid if Bush hasn't been lying his ass off constantly, making signing up sound like a better idea than it actually was/is. In an environment where the justifications for military action are completely honest, your argument makes perfect sense, however.
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http://forums.kearnyontheweb.com/index.php...indpost&p=76093
Too bad you don't have the guts to actually answer anything I say.
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This post is hilariously ironic.
All of the above mistakes are clearly simple typos (in all three cases, the extra/wrong letter is adjacent to the correct one on the keyboard), not to mention that someone who doesn't know that there's not supposed to be a space between the end of the sentence and its punctuation shouldn't be criticizing anyone else's grammar. From the day I learned how to write, I never, ever made that mistake. So what's your excuse, "teacher"?
IF indeed you are a teacher, then all the more reason you shouldn't be making such elementary mistakes in your own writing. Two question marks? That extra space? If that's what you teach your students in English, you ought to be let go for incompetence.
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It took a military operation to establish the United States Of America !
The Constitution was not written on the battlefield. Fighting to establish our independence was but the FIRST step, not the only one. In the same way, we're DONE with the military part of this 'plan' (as ill-conceived as it is to begin with). Even if we had enough troops to quell ALL sectarian violence in Iraq, guess what? Democracy will not magically establish itself following that. The Iraqis have to come together (NOT on a battlefield) and cooperate in a way completely unrelated to military prowess or conflict for that to happen. And they're clearly not cooperating.
What's the point? It's their country, not ours. If THEY will not do their part, no amount of action on ours is going to have any ultimate or lasting effect.
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Good Grief, Strife. Quit mastering your own scrollbar and get a job!
(having read what comes next)
I don't think you know what a scrollbar is.I keep up with the forum and I don't reply to every single post made on KOTW--it comes out to less than six posts a day on average. Big deal; also, it only takes me a couple of minutes to write the average post. So what does that come out to, half hour of posting a day, if that? OH NOES!
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Excuse me? Solution: Bring the troops home.
Our occupation of Iraq has not done anything but make terrorism worse and more widespread. Iraq never attacked us. We deposed Saddam Hussein, a known ENEMY OF AL QAEDA, WHICH IS THE GROUP THAT ACTUALLY ATTACKED US. And to add insult to injury, we have stopped hunting the man who orchestrated the 9/11 attacks! The cherry on top is that we have lost most, if not all, of the respect of pretty much all of our allies.
It's time to cut our losses. The Iraq invasion was clearly a blunder, and asking our MILITARY to establish a democracy in a country too wrapped up in its own sectarian violence to be concerned with any kind of real lasting peace is absurd! That is not our troops' job! If the Iraqis are unwilling or unable to come together as a whole, then we're stymied. Can't you people understand that?
Forget the partisan bullshit. This is about removing our precious troops (don't forget that there are PEOPLE behind those guns of ours) from harm's way when there is no good reason for them to be there.
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You're right there is more terrorism in Iraq. That's because all of the wonderful terrorists from all over the middle east are going there where they can be terminated by US Forces.
You mean like Osama Bin Laden? Oh wait, your idea of terminating terrorists is to completely ignore those that actually attack us, apparently.
Moron.
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"the remaining solutions aren't military, they're cultural" ???
Yes, idiot. Establishing a democracy is not a military operation.
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Wrong, pinhead. Saddam was an ally of al Qaeda, he gave them safe haven in
Iraq.
Liar. Here's what the Senate Intelligence Committee had to say on the matter in September of 2006:
[bin] Ladin generally opposed collaboration [with Baghdad]. (p. 65)According to debriefs of multiple detainees — including Saddam Hussein and former Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz — and capture documents, Saddam did not trust al-Qa’ida or any other radical Islamist group and did not want to cooperate with them. (p. 67)
Aziz underscored Saddam’s distrust of Islamic extremists like bin Ladin, stating that when the Iraqi regime started to see evidence that Wahabists had come to Iraq, “the Iraqi regime issued a decree aggressively outlawing Wahabism in Iraq and threatening offenders with execution.” (p. 67)
Another senior Iraqi official stated that Saddam did not like bin Ladin because he called Saddam an “unbeliever.” (p.73)
Conclusion 1: … Postwar findings indicate that Saddam Hussein was distrustful of al-Qa’ida and viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime, refusing all requests from al Qa’ida to provide material or operational support. Debriefings of key leaders of the former Iraqi regime indicate that Saddam distrusted Islamic radicals in general, and al Qa’ida in particular… Debriefings also indicate that Saddam issued a general order that Iraq should not deal with al Qa’ida. No postwar information suggests that the Iraqi regime attempted to facilitate a relationship with bin Ladin. (p. 105)
Conclusion 5:… Postwar information indicates that Saddam Hussein attempted, unsuccessfully, to locate and capture al-Zarqawi and that the regime did not have a relationship with, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi. (p. 109)
Well?
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No kidding numbnuts. Do you get it that the terrorists that we are fighting in Iraq are mostly from countries outside of Iraq?
Do you get it that there is more terrorism in Iraq now than there was before we showed up, "numbnuts?"
You're out of your mind.
I don't think you know what a scrollbar is.
the perpetual excuse
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Doesn't look like he actually did anything other than training, though.
The quoted link above contains further links embedded in this chunk, so you can go to the URL for more information.