The Pagan Pride Project is a non-profit organization. The primary purposes of this corporation shall be the advancement of religion and elimination of prejudice and discrimination based on religious beliefs.
The mission of the Pagan Pride Project is to foster pride in Pagan identity through education, activism, charity and community.
Defining the Mission Statement:
We try to keep our purpose balanced through the inspirations of Air, Fire, Water, and Earth:
Air: Education
We’re never going to be able to practice our spiritual paths openly if we don’t give the public accurate information about what we do and do not do.
Fire: Activism
People aren’t necessarily going to go out of their way to find out what Pagans really do. We have to have the courage to act on our convictions and do what we need to do.
Water: Charity
We know that what we do returns to us. We need to demonstrate this by offering compassion to our communities where it is needed. When we share our own abundance, we show that we trust the Gods to share abundance with us in return.
Earth: Community
We’re never going to be able to practice openly if we don’t know anyone else in our local Pagan communities. We need to weave networking webs in our cities, in our towns, in our rural areas. We need these webs to support one another. That support will also show those who would restrict our practice that we are not just a few isolated wackos, but are a growing congregation of people who adhere to a faith that, while different, is as valid as their own.
Why Support the Pagan Pride Project?
Through education, activism, charity and community, the project promotes tolerance and understanding between people with different belief systems. If you are a Pagan, the project can help you find pride and confidence in your path. If you are not a Pagan, the project can help you understand your Pagan friends, coworkers, and family members.
Poll: New low for government trust
By JAMES ARKIN | 9/13/13 1:28 PM EDT Updated: 9/13/13 2:08 PM EDT
Less than half of Americans trust the government to handle problems, a all-time low, according to a new poll.
Just 49 percent of Americans said they had a great deal or fair amount of confidence in the federal government to handle international problems, according to a Gallup poll released Friday. The previous low was 51 percent in 2007.
The public’s trust is even lower when it comes to domestic issues. Just 42 percent of Americans answered with a great deal or fair amount of confidence in the government to handle issues at home, one point below the previous low from 2011.
Jazz Feast Today in Ridgewood to feature food, music
Friday September 13, 2013, 2:21 PM
BY JODI WEINBERGER
CORRESPONDENT
The Ridgewood News
The Ridgewood Guild is jazzed up for its next event.
Following a soulful plea by self-described jazz enthusiast Kathy Oliger, the Guild has planned a Jazz and Blues Feast for the public, running from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 15 at Van Neste Square Park, rain or shine.
“It’s so perfect for Ridgewood,” Oliger said. “I want to put Ridgewood on the jazz map and we’re going to do it.”
Ridgewood High School Rolls to a 53-7 Victory
September 15, 2013
the Staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Scoring on its first eight possessions, Ridgewood got its football season off to a fast start, rolling over Kennedy High School , 53-7.
Tim Bonnano ran for three touchdowns, Jack Sabatini ran for two, and Quarterback Jamal Locke tossed two scoring passes in the 53-7 effort.
Sophomore fullback Cooper Telesco’s varsity debut included 94 yards rushing and a touchdown.
Maroon quarterback Jamal Locke completed 4-of-6 passes for a total 96 yards Connor VanCaugherty had two catches for 61 yards and Doug Barnes had one for 25 yards ,both pulled in touchdown receptions. Brice Joyner had two interceptions and Oliver Sippel had one. Eric Lewis had a team leading six tackles and one sack.
Ridgewood’s first team defense only allowed Kennedy’s offense 15 total yards. with Kennedy avoiding a shutout with 2:02 left in the fourth quarter when Nazier Wright caught a 25-yard touchdown pass from Khalil McCaskill.
Readers debate downtown menorah display for Ridgewood
A creche would obviously be allowed given this decision. The Supreme Court has clearly said that you can display religious symbols on public property provided you allow all groups that want to display a symbol to do so.…
Personally, I would prefer none on public property but obviously if there are any then all have to be welcomed. And in this case there is a 50 foot spruce tree that no one wants to give up so I don’t see any other realistic course of action.…
If you watched the meeting DEPUTY MAYOR ALBERT PUCCIARELL AKA BIG AL THE DEVELOPERS FRIEND referred to these thing as “pagan symbols ” I guess his is the only true religion…
The Christmas Tree is just a part of the celebration of a tradition that we have here in America. It is a lot of fun, unfortunately the secular tradition uses the name of a Christian event. Santa is not a part of the story of birth of Jesus.…
The creche would be a religious celebration of Christmas. I am Catholic but I never like to see the two merged together.We should keep all the religious traditions of the season off public property. I enjoy the decorations at Mt Carmel. I do not want to see it placed next to the tree.…
We need a Festivus pole for the rest of us! (Any word from Tracey, the unofficial witch of Ridgewood on what wiccan symbol may be used for the Winter solstice?)…
How about a statue of Budda or Vishnu or what ever else there is? All this pc crap is nonsense….
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Interview: Gene Simmons Defends Tim Tebow, If he was wearing a burqa, they wouldn’t dare say anything
September 13, 2013 11:59 AM
Has polarizing football player Tim Tebow gotten a raw deal in the press because of his religious beliefs? And would he be treated more respectfully if he were not Christian, and specifically, Muslim? Gene Simmons thinks so.
“He’s got a religious passion, as well he should, we’re in America,” the KISS frontman told Radio.com earlier this week. ”He’s proud to be a Christian, what’s wrong with that? And yet, with sports media and pop culture media, they make fun of his religion. Really? In America? If he was wearing a burqa, they wouldn’t dare say anything [editor’s note: only Muslim women wear burqas]. But if you’re a Christian, you get to be picked on? What the hell? The guy’s got family values. I never saw the media picking on Michael Vick for torturing dogs. Or this other football player, who’s alleged to have killed, committed murder. That’s ‘cool.’ But a guy who’s religious and has got family values isn’t ‘cool?’ He’s cool to me.”
As has been widely reported, Simmons and his KISS bandmate Paul Stanley are now co-owners of a new Arena Football League team, to be called LA KISS. And Simmons wasted no time drawing attention to the expansion team (which will begin playing in 2014), extending a very public offer to quarterback Tim Tebow, who after a brief up-and-down career in the NFL, was released by the New England Patriots a few weeks ago.
CFPB’s data-mining on consumer credit cards challenged in heated House hearing
By RICHARD POLLOCK | SEPTEMBER 13, 2013 AT 10:51 AM
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau officials are seeking to monitor four out of every five U.S. consumer credit card transactions this year — up to 42 billion transactions – through a controversial data-mining program, according to documents obtained by the Washington Examiner.
A CFPB strategic planning document for fiscal years 2013-17 describes the “markets monitoring” program through which officials aim to monitor 80 percent of all credit card transactions in 2013.
The U.S. Census Bureau reports that 1.16 billion consumer credit cards were in use in 2012 for an estimated 52.6 billion transactions. If CFPB officials reach their stated “performance goal,” they would collect data on 42 billion transactions made with 933 million credit cards used by American consumers.
In addition, CFPB officials hope to monitor up to 95 percent of all mortgage transactions, according to the planning document.
Arson suspected in Jersey Shore boardwalk fire
By Natalie O’Neill and Lia Eustachewich
September 13, 2013 | 8:44am
An inferno that gutted more than 30 Jersey Shore boardwalk businesses and took all night to put out appears “suspicious” — and is being investigated by prosecutors, sources said on Friday.
Investigators are eyeing arson because the blaze erupted midday with no obvious cause — and it just happened to come at the end of the summer season, the sources told ABC News.
The fire is believed to have started under the boardwalk near Kohr’s Custard Stand on Thursday, wiping out six blocks of the boardwalk in Seaside Park.
Custard shop owner Bruce Kohr said his workers spotted the flames coming from under the planks — not inside the shop.
Driver responsible for accidents caused by texting
A recent ruling by a New Jersey appellate court rightly upheld a Superior Court’s finding that a young woman who texted a driver moments before his pickup truck crashed into a couple on a motorcycle cannot be held liable for the couple’s grievous injuries.Trenton Times
A New Jersey appeals court created a stir last month when two judges on a three-judge panel said someone who sends a text to a driver and has “special reason” to know the motorist will read the text while driving can be held liable in civil court for any resulting accident.Atlantic City Press
NJ Transit making policy changes on advice of Attorney General
NJ Transit’s executive director said Thursday that the agency’s board, which for years has been voting in secret to approve millions of dollars in personal injury claims and other litigation, has changed its procedures on the advice of the state Attorney General’s Office.Record
Senator Paul meeting supporters in New Jersey — at Gran Centurions Clubhouse.
Rand Paul mocks Cory Booker
by ALEXANDER BURNS | 9/11/13 11:16 PM EDT
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul took a dim view of Newark Mayor Cory Booker on the eve of a planned trip to New Jersey to stump against the Democratic Senate candidate.
Explaining his decision to campaign for Republican nominee Steve Lonegan on Friday, Paul jabbed at Booker as a politician with “an imaginary friend with imaginary problems” — an allusion to stories Booker has told about a Newark drug lord named “T-Bone,” whom he has said he befriended.
Booker has described “T-Bone” as an “archetype” of Newark, and according to the conservative National Review the Democrat has told at least one associate that “T-Bone” is a composite figure.
“If Cory will introduce me to T-Bone when I get there, I’d love to meet T-Bone. If T-Bone’s not real, maybe we need to get Mr. Booker to talk about real problems,” Paul told POLITICO in an interview.
The senator described Lonegan, who is far behind Booker in the polls for next month’s special election, as a solid conservative and “defender of the Fourth Amendment” who impressed Paul during a visit to Washington over the summer.
Booker spokesman Kevin Griffis responded to Paul’s comments with a broadside at Lonegan, saying that the former Bogota mayor would “raise taxes on the working and middle classes and privatize Social Security, and he even opposed Hurricane Sandy aid.
“As mayor and as a leader of the Tea Party in New Jersey, Mr. Lonegan has only proven that he cares about the plight of the ultra-wealthy and big corporations,” Griffis said.
Some 500,000 New Jersey residents expected to be eligible to buy health coverage on the marketplace created by President Obama’s health law will have one fewer company to choose from when enrollment starts on Oct. 1, but prices are unlikely to be affected. Record
Update : Graydon Pool – ADA Sloped Entry Ramp – Update – 9/13/13
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9/13/13 Update Below –
For two years the Village Council, Community, and Village Staff have discussed options to increase accessibility into Graydon Pool.
A ramp allowing direct access into the pool has been designed and was approved by the Council. Based on recent discussions with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), that plan was revised accordingly. We are now waiting for DEP approval.
9/13/13 The revised design for the sloped entry to Graydon Pool has subtle changes which include –
• Horizontally, things did not change except for the lengthening of the initial approach ramp from the existing patio to provide a better vertical envelope to create the necessary slopes.
• Vertically, the changes are also minor, but primarily involved lowering the designed ramp to satisfy the NJDEP criteria that there is no impediment to flood flows in the flood hazard area. The first landing once in the pool is now at 78.04 and under the water, whereas before it had been set at 78.40 and above the water surface elevation. Water surface elevation of the pool is at 78.29. The ramp is cut more into the grade around the pool, again to satisfy NJDEP.
• The ramp lowering was accomplished without the need for railings on either side of the accessible path to the pool.
• There will be decorative stonework placed on the areas of the ramp that are above the pool’s water surface elevation matching the existing stonework around the pool.
