The mass exodus of Christians from the Muslim world
By Raymond Ibrahim
Published May 07, 2013
FoxNews.com
A mass exodus of Christians is currently underway. Millions of Christians are being displaced from one end of the Islamic world to the other.
We are reliving the true history of how the Islamic world, much of which prior to the Islamic conquests was almost entirely Christian, came into being.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom recently said: “The flight of Christians out of the region is unprecedented and it’s increasing year by year.” In our lifetime alone “Christians might disappear altogether from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Egypt.”
Ongoing reports from the Islamic world certainly support this conclusion: Iraq was the earliest indicator of the fate awaiting Christians once Islamic forces are liberated from the grip of dictators.
American Legion Post 53, Ridgewood will conduct a Memorial Day service on Monday, May 27th at Veterans Memorial Park in downtown Ridgewood opposite the bus station.
The service begins at 11 am. and everyone is invited, please bring a chair or blanket for your convenience. It is a day of remembrance to honor the men and women who gave their lives in order to preserve our freedom. The least we can do is attend and pay homage to them.
Amnesty Would Cost Taxpayers $6.3 Trillion
Amy Payne
May 7, 2013 at 7:34 am
What is the goal of immigration reform?
As Heritage President Jim DeMint put it yesterday, “Any immigration reform should improve the lives, the incomes, and the opportunities” of those who are lawfully in America.
The Gang of Eight’s amnesty proposal does the opposite by burdening taxpayers with supporting unlawful immigrants. The Heritage Foundation’s new report estimates that an amnesty like the Gang of Eight’s bill would cost U.S. taxpayers $6.3 trillion.
“We’re advocating on behalf of those who have come here lawfully and all American taxpayers—this is going to be a huge cost to them, and it will diminish opportunities in the future,” DeMint said on “Your World with Neil Cavuto” yesterday.
The $6.3 trillion number is the cost to taxpayers of supporting unlawful immigrants under amnesty, including any taxes those immigrants would pay into the system versus the amount of government benefits and services they would take out.
On an individual level, the number is just as stunning. As Heritage experts and study authors Robert Rector and Jason Richwine write, “the average adult unlawful immigrant would receive $592,000 more in government benefits over the course of his remaining lifetime than he would pay in taxes.”
Many conservatives believe that if an individual has a job and works hard, he will inevitably be a net tax contributor (paying more in taxes than he takes in benefits). In our society, this has not been true for a very long time.
With amnesty, unlawful immigrants would become lawful—and become eligible for Obamacare benefits, Social Security, welfare, and Medicare. Rector and Richwine’s study addresses the costs as they would accrue after the Gang of Eight’s waiting period for benefits:
After 13 years, unlawful immigrants would become eligible for means-tested welfare and Obamacare. At that point or shortly thereafter, former unlawful immigrant households would likely begin to receive government benefits at the same rate as lawful immigrant households of the same education level. As a result, government spending and fiscal deficits would increase dramatically.
This isn’t the only way to reform immigration. As DeMint and Rector write in The Washington Post, “A properly structured lawful immigration system holds the potential to drive positive economic growth and job creation. But amnesty for those here unlawfully is not necessary to capture those benefits.”
It is a “false choice,” DeMint said, for people to say that amnesty is necessary to immigration reform.
The American people deserve to hear all sides of this debate—they don’t deserve a gang of Senators pushing through an Obamacare-style bill in the back rooms of Washington.
“Let’s unite the American people by doing this in public, one piece at a time,” DeMint said. “You don’t have to do the amnesty to get all the benefits of reform.”
Hertz flees Bergen , 550 from Park Ridge to Florida
TUESDAY MAY 7, 2013, 11:51 AM
BY HUGH R. MORLEY
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
Hertz will move 550 jobs to Florida from its corporate headquarters in Park Ridge where it has been for 25 years and sell the building, leaving about 150 jobs in the area as it cuts costs following its buyout of one-time rival Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group.
AP FILE PHOTO
Hertz is leaving New Jersey and moving to Florida.
The company said it will shift the jobs to a new headquarters in Estero, Fla., on the Gulf Coast, over the next two years, with the help of $85 million in incentives from state and county government.
“Florida is the center of the U.S. travel and tourism industry,” Hertz chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mark P. Frissora said. “This move enables us to be closer to leisure and business customers, as well as many travel and association partners.”
Special ops halted from responding to Benghazi attacks, U.S. diplomat says
By Ernesto Londoño, Published: May 6
As the weakly protected U.S. diplomatic compound in eastern Libya came under attack the night of Sept. 11, 2012, the deputy head of the embassy in Tripoli 600 miles away sought in vain to get the Pentagon to scramble fighter jets over Benghazi in a show of force that he said might have averted a second attack on a nearby CIA complex.
Hours later, according to excerpts of the account by the U.S. diplomat, Gregory Hicks, American officials in the Libyan capital sought permission to deploy four U.S. Special Operations troops to Benghazi aboard a Libyan military aircraft early the next morning. The troops were told to stand down.
Defense Department officials have said they had no units that could have responded in time to counter the attack in Benghazi, but Republicans on Capitol Hill have questioned whether the Obama administration could have saved lives with a nimbler, more assertive response. They say that the reluctance to send the Special Operations troops may have, at the very least, deprived wounded Americans in Benghazi of first aid.
Congressional investigators released a partial transcript of Hicks’s testimony Monday ahead of a hearing Wednesday at which he is scheduled to appear. His remarks are the first public account from a U.S. official who was in Libya at the time of the attacks about the options that were weighed as militants mobbed the American diplomatic outpost and CIA station in Benghazi, killing U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other government employees.
The new details are certain to reignite a debate over whether the Obama administration has been sufficiently forthcoming in its public accounting of the events and missteps that resulted in the first death of a U.S. ambassador in the line of duty in a generation. If Republicans in Congress succeed in portraying the administration’s response as feckless, the episode could dog any future political aspirations of Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was secretary of state when the attacks happened.
The vehicle identification numbers of a 1951 Rolls-Royce, a 2012 Jaguar, and eight Ferraris are among the 30,000 that appear on an official New Jersey website to warn consumers about vehicles damaged by the monster storm that hit the coast last fall. Inquirer
Drones could soon be entering the airspace above you — and privacy-minded state lawmakers, banding together in an unusual left-right political alliance, are in a dogfight with law enforcement groups across the country as they move to put protections in place for those on the ground. Politico
Alex Morgan, Olympic Soccer Gold Medalist at Bookends Today
Tuesday, May 7th @ 3:30
Olympic Soccer Gold Medalist, Alex Morgan will be signing her new book, The Kicks
Stephen Pearcy , Lead Singer of RATT
Tuesday, May 7th @ 6:00pm
Lead Singer of RATT, Stephen Pearcy, will sign his new book:Sex,Drugs, Ratt & Roll
Books available May 7th.
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Really good article. There isn’t much more to add. It’s interesting how weed and coke are not even the gateway drugs anymore. The gateway drugs are available at your local pharmacy as long as you can convince a doctor to prescribe them.
These articles just scare the shit out of me.
Me too. I have a small child, and shudder to think this is a possible future.
I also have a close family member who checked out during the late 90′s and didn’t kick the habit until around 2005. It sucked years out of the person’s life, and now the person can’t believe that heroin was such a big part of life. Not everyone is that strong / determined. If you know someone who’s addicted, the most important thing to do is let them know you’re there and will help in any way that doesn’t involve getting them high. Eventually they will come around, or die, sad to say. There is too much variance in potency out on the street…most people who OD just didn’t understand what they were cooking, or, quit for a while and reduced their tolerance and didn’t adjust their dosage accordingly.
Bad stuff on it’s own; add the fact that it’s illegal and sold in bad neighborhoods by bad people and it’s a recipe for a lot of heartbreak.
It is a grim life. All of the people in the photos should get help.
I am a step parent of one of the arrestees, I’ve done 30+ years in law enforcement. The story is on point and extremely accurate the sad part is the people arrested brought this on themsel’ves. The damage they do to their bodies and their minds is miniscule compared to the damage they do to their loved ones. The family begins a “silent or unspoken if you will” countdown until that dreaded phone call or knock on the door your child is dead they suffered cardiac arrest due to an “overingestion of a narcotic substance.” I’ve had to make that notification more than once in my career make no mistake this is a real problem that is not going away.
Ridgewood officials addressing traffic concerns at Ridge School
MONDAY MAY 6, 2013, 1:16 PM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
The Ridgewood Council is attempting to address various traffic concerns around Ridge School that have been mounting since the start of the 2012-13 academic year.
Council members are mulling over potential changes to restrictions currently in place for Clinton Avenue, a wide residential roadway that intersects with West Ridgewood Avenue directly in front of the school. Specifically, village officials hope to modify existing rules that prevent all vehicle traffic from using Clinton Avenue during school hours.
An ordinance with those changes is expected to be introduced at the May 8 council meeting. At the same session, the village’s governing body will conduct a public hearing and vote on another ordinance that would prohibit left turns into the Ridge driveway from eastbound West Ridgewood Avenue.
Andrew Cuomo Launches Ad Campaign to Lure Businesses to N.Y. with federal disaster aid
By Eliana Johnson
May 6, 2013 11:00 AM
New York governor Andrew Cuomo is launching a $140 million ad campaign to lure businesses to the Empire State. The campaign, “New York State Open for Business,” is being funded with money drawn from federal disaster aid received in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and from the Power Authority and Energy Research and Development Authority, according to the New York Times.
Most of the money is being spent on television ads, many of which are being broadcast outside of New York and are intended to draw businesses into the state. One features a voiceover by Robert DeNiro set to Jay Z’s “Empire State of Mind.” DeNiro concedes the troubles that have plagued the state’s economy but argues that it’s on the rebound. “Some said we lost our edge,” he tells viewers. ”Well today, there’s a new New York State, one that’s working to attract businesses and create jobs.”
CHRISTIE ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES ENHANCEMENTS TO 7TH AVENUE CONCOURSE AT NEW YORK PENN STATION
New upgrades to enhance customer experience
May 6, 2013
NJT-13-029
NEWARK, NJ — As part of the agency’s ongoing efforts to improve the customer experience, NJ TRANSIT today announced that new technology upgrades have been implemented in the 7th Avenue Concourse at New York Penn Station, featuring an improved sound system, larger monitors and a multi-color destination display that will enable customers to see at a glance the next train destined for their particular station.
“As the busiest rail station in our public transportation network, we understand the challenges that navigating New York Penn Station can present to our customers,” said NJ TRANSIT Executive Director James Weinstein. “Led by our Scorecard initiative to enhance the overall customer experience, we are committed to making the necessary investments to modernize our customer communication systems and enable customers to more easily determine when and where their train is departing.”
To make it easier for customers to identify their train, the 7th Avenue Concourse ticketing area now features a new destination display—eight monitors installed side-by-side that show an alphabetical list of destinations by station, along with the departure time for the next train headed to that station, track number, rail line and transfer station, where required.
In addition to the new destination displays, NJ TRANSIT added two large customer information displays at the 31st Street entrance and the 32nd Street entrance to the ticketing area.
As part of this project, NJ TRANSIT also replaced all of the existing 40-inch monitors in the 7th Avenue Concourse with new 55-inch monitors to improve visibility for customers, showing color-coding by train line. NJ TRANSIT relocated the monitors throughout the 7th Avenue Concourse to allow better flow of customer traffic during peak periods.
The project also included:
Improved adaptive audio system in the 7th Avenue Concourse that adjusts the volume level of announcements based on the ambient noise in the station.
Wireless microphones for Customer Service representatives to make announcements from the concourse floor when needed.
Located in Midtown Manhattan, New York Penn Station is the largest-volume passenger terminal in the NJ TRANSIT rail system, serving more than 150,000 customer trips on a typical weekday
BOE TO APPROVE CHANGES TO THE 2013-14 SCHOOL CALENDAR, SALARIES:
Ridgewood NJ, The BOE will hold a Regular Public Meeting on Monday, May 6 at 7:30 p.m. The agenda link is pasted below. The public is invited to attend the meeting at the Ed Center, 49 Cottage Place, Floor 3. The meeting will be aired live on FiOS channel 33 and Optimum channel 77. Or it may be viewed live via the district website atwww.ridgewood.k12.nj.us using the “Link in Live” tab.
PLANNING BOARD PUBLIC MEETING AND WORK SESSION – MAY 13
PLANNING BOARD
AMENDMENT TO MEETING SCHEDULE
Work Session & Public Meeting: Monday, May 13, 2013
In accordance with the provisions of the “Open Public Meetings Act,” please be advised that the Planning Board has scheduled a special public meeting and work session for MONDAY, MAY 13, 2013, in the VILLAGE HALL COURT ROOM, 4th Floor, 131 NORTH MAPLE AVENUE, RIDGEWOOD, NJ beginning at 7:30 p.m.
The Board may take official action during this Work and Public Meeting at which time the Board will:
? have discussion regarding multifamily housing and mixed use development in and near the CBD.
? discuss Ordinance #3368 amending the regulations in the Land Use and Development chapter of the Village Code for Houses of Worship, Schools and Public Utility Facilities.
All meetings of the Ridgewood Planning Board (i.e., official public meetings, work session meetings, pre-meeting assemblies and special meetings) are public meetings which are always open to members of the general public.
Sandy recovery officials ask: Where’s the Red Cross?
MONDAY, MAY 6, 2013
By HARVY LIPMAN
RECORD COLUMNIST
In the six months following superstorm Sandy, Bergen County’s United Way spent more than $300,000 from its Compassion Fund to help 260 victims of the storm repair their homes — exhausting every penny the non-profit had raised and set aside for storm relief and even dipping into its reserves.
Another local relief group, the Bergen CountyLong Term Recovery Committee, has identified some 500 Little Ferry andMoonachie residents in need of help, hiring a project director and several caseworkers to help storm victims get the assistance they need. It has also coordinated the work of hundreds of volunteers from groups like Rebuilding Together Bergen County and Habitat for Humanity.
The committee is well on its way to spending the $600,000 in grants it’s received from the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund to pay mainly for removing mold from storm victims’ homes.
But leaders of the local relief effort say one major player has been conspicuously absent from the long-term recovery program:
