>Three Denver Muslims lead cheers for Tebow By Valerie Richardson
The Washington Times
Thursday, December 22, 2011 DENVER — This is the story of three sports-loving Muslim brothers and how they boosted the career of the NFL’s most famous Christian.
The Suleimans – Tariq, Ali and Mohammad – are responsible for “the Sign,” the towering electronic billboard that captured national attention when it began running messages in September urging the Denver Broncos to start Tim Tebow as quarterback.
It worked. “It just goes to show you,” said Mohammad, “when Muslims and Christians get together, miracles can happen.”
>Congress To Fund Massive Expansion Of TSA Checkpoints Fears over burgeoning police state increase after passage of NDAA Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Friday, December 23, 2011
Congress is set to give the green light on funding for a massive expansion of TSA checkpoints, with the federal agency already responsible for over 9,000 such checkpoints in the last year amidst increased fears America is turning into a police state following the passage of the ‘indefinite detention’ bill.
The increase in funding has nothing to do with the TSA’s role in airports – this is about creating 12 more VIPR teams to add the federal agency’s 25 units that are already scattered across the country and responsible for manning checkpoints on highways, in bus and train terminals, at sports events and even high school prom nights.
>West Side Presbyterian Church Christmas Service Schedule 6 South Monroe Street (on the corner of West Ridgewood Avenue), Ridgewood, NJ 07450
Christmas Eve Saturday, December 24 4:00 p.m. Traditional Service of Lessons and Carols with Brass, Children’s and Youth Choirs, and Handbells. Prelude begins at 3:45 p.m. Child care for preschool children in Nursery. 10:00 p.m. Christmas Eve Communion Service with Chancel Choir, Westminster Bell Choir and String Ensemble. Prelude begins at 9:30 p.m. Please note that the times have changed from previous years and there is no 2:00 p.m. service.
Christmas Day Sunday, December 25 10:00 a.m. Worship: Carols from Around the World Note: No Child Care, Chapel Service, Sunday School or Adult Groups
Saw many piles – including some real large ones- on Glen yesterday when I went to recycling. Also several on Fairfield.
I was dropping off junk that others had put out which had migrated down the road to in front of our house, including many branches and sticks. Even a few chunks of pumpkins mixed in there. (yep, in late December…)
This time around, just 3 barrels worth, of course many more previously though – and that’s just what migrates down the road to us. We bag and also compost the stuff that drops in our yard.
It gets kinda aggravating to time and again have to pick up junk that other people put in the streets.
It’s the “gift” that keeps on giving.
Like most people, I have better things to do than picking up other people’s stuff. But if I don’t pick it up, it makes driveway hard to use and we also get water problems from street runoff that backs up.
Many neighbors along rest of the street are forced to do same thing or live with the consequences of other people’s carelessness and disregard for their neighbors- all in the interest of piling junk in the street.
I hope those that do this have happy holidays – and maybe stop and consider other people before building those piles next time.
>50 FACTS ABOUT THE U.S. ECONOMY THAT WILL SHOCK YOU Posted on December 18, 2011 at 3:55pm by
“Even though most Americans have become very frustrated with this economy, the reality is that the vast majority of them still have no idea just how bad our economic decline has been or how much trouble we are going to be in if we don’t make dramatic changes immediately,” writes The Economic Collapse (TEC).
For those unfamiliar with this site, TEC is an economic blog that regularly compiles a comprehensive list of the most startling and unsettling facts about the U.S. economy.
Why? Because Americans need to understand that U.S. economy is precariously balanced on the edge of full-blown collapse.
“If we do not educate the American people about how deathly ill the U.S. economy has become, then they will just keep falling for the same old lies that our politicians keep telling them. Just ‘tweaking’ things here and there is not going to fix this economy,” the site explains.
Indeed, America’s economic situation has become increasingly unstable. However, what’s arguably more disconcerting than the state of the U.S. economy is the fact many Americans are largely–if not completely–unaware of just how serious things have become.
“America is consuming far more wealth than it is producing and our debt is absolutely exploding,” TEC explains. “If we stay on this current path, an economic collapse is inevitable. Hopefully the crazy economic numbers from 2011 that I have included in this article will be shocking enough to wake some people up.”
It might behoove Blaze readers to share the facts listed below with family and friends.
Substance abuse specialist tells Ridgewood parents: ‘Be real with teenagers’
FRIDAY DECEMBER 23, 2011, 9:10 AM BY KIMBERLY JONES CORRESPONDENT THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
High school students should have science-based facts that help them understand the role alcohol can play in either having fun or ruining it, according to a psychologist and substance abuse specialist who spoke with parents at Ridgewood High School (RHS)
About 40 parents attended a program at RHS on Dec. 15 featuring Dr. Tim Silvestri, who presented “Straight Shots,” a program aimed at helping parents understand and deal with the issue of student substance abuse. Presented by the Ridgewood Municipal Alliance, this program, which was presented to sophomores earlier in the day, was a follow-up to a Parent 2 Parent meeting where parents discussed teenage drinking.
If Newt Gingrich were being nominated for sainthood, many of us would vote very differently from the way we would vote if he were being nominated for a political office.
What the media call Gingrich’s “baggage” concerns largely his personal life and the fact that he made a lot of money running a consulting firm after he left Congress. This kind of stuff makes lots of talking points that we will no doubt hear, again and again, over the next weeks and months.
But how much weight should we give to this stuff when we are talking about the future of a nation?
This is not just another election and Barack Obama is not just another president whose policies we may not like. With all of President Obama’s broken promises, glib demagoguery and cynical political moves, one promise he has kept all too well. That was his boast on the eve of the 2008 election: “We are going to change the United States of America.”
Many Americans are already saying that they can hardly recognize the country they grew up in. We have already started down the path that has led Western European nations to the brink of financial disaster.
Isn’t Harding Pharmacy a victim? Someone stole from them, they did not donate the drugs
This is just plain wrong in so many ways. If it was Harding, then I feel so sorry for them. I hope that they had a liability insurance policy that covered them. They have always gone above and beyond for our family over the years, especially Myron.
I don’t see how they should get a settlement from the pharmacy in this case. I can see how the other kids present at the party could be liable, but the pharmacy from which the drugs were stolen? Does that mean that if someone steals booze from my liquor cabinet, gets in an accident as a drunk driver and dies, that I am liable?
That Harding Pharmacy has to pay 50% of this judgement is just plain wrong. The employee who stole the drugs is fully at fault, as is the kid who took the drugs, as are the “friends” who did not bother to call 911. I’ve been using Harding for the past 25 years and Myron is always in the pharmaceutical area. It’s not as if there is easy access to that area. The employee probably stole the xanex right out of the prescription bag.
Harding was found liable of not safeguarding prescription drugs. This is absurd. Anyone who as ever been in Harding knows this is absurd. Myron, I am so sorry that this happened to you. You are the only pharmacist I trust. That you were included in this is a disgrace.
So much for common sense and personal responsibility. There are natural repercussions for stupid actions and that’s part of how people learn NOT to be stupid!!!!!! Touch fire, you never do it again…. between THIS and the stupid Graydon decision, it really depresses me for the future of mankind in general.
I guess we can say goodbye to Harding Pharmacy. What a shame.
> Defending Liberty and Security in Wartime Ericka AndersenDecember 22, 2011 at 9:28 am(7)
The official end of U.S. operations in Iraq last week calls to mind controversial issues from the past decade. One of the most important intellectual and policy battles, which remains relevant today, is over how to defend both civil liberties and security in time of war. In other words, how should America defend itself from enemies at home and abroad while also preserving the freedoms that we enjoy and that make our country great?
People often say that we need to balance liberty and security. This implies that the two are opposed and that the more we have of one, the less we will have of the other. That’s an understandable way of talking, but it’s wrong. The truth is that neither liberty nor security can exist without the other. They are equally important to the United States and, indeed, are the twin reasons why this nation was founded.
Protecting individual liberty does not invariably hobble the nation’s defenses. Rather, as the Constitution recognizes, security and liberty are reinforcing: We “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” Thus, we do not want, or need, to trade off freedom to achieve security. Nor should we assume that security, the first duty of government, is the enemy of liberty. As Cully Stimson and Andrew Grossman write in the latest installment of Heritage’s Understanding America series, “A threat to America’s security is also a threat to Americans’ liberties.”
SADDLE RIVER — A man who overdosed on stolen drugs he ingested at a party in 2007 has settled his lawsuit with a pharmacy, several guests, the party’s host and the host’s mother for $4.1 million.
Scott Simon, then 17, said he took Xanax that was given to him by a former employee of a Ridgewood drug store and suffered permanent nerve damage as a result.
Simon’s attorney John Schepisi told The Record of Bergen County (https://bit.ly/vSM3gH) that one party guest was a former pharmacy employee who stole Xanax from the drugstore and gave it to Simon. Simon took the drugs at the party and fell into a coma.
