Author: James

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Sex, money and lies: ‘Culture of Corruption’ boomerangs on Democrats as scandals blossom nationwide

By Valerie Richardson The Washington Times

The Democratic Party is battling scandals from New York to San Diego and from city hall to Capitol Hill, as the party finds itself on the defensive over embarrassing lapses ranging from sexual misconduct to multiple scandals ensnaring the Obama administration.

President Obama on Wednesday denounced what he called “phony scandals” and “an endless parade of distractions” blocking progress on the economy and other issues, but critics say the controversies underscore the missed opportunities for the president and his party to live up to pledges to clean up politics and break traditional patterns of money, influence and privilege in government.

The scandals have spanned the spectrum from a Democratic mayor in San Diego accused of being unable to keep his hands off his female aides to charges that the administration put the Internal Revenue Service on the trail of its political enemies.

One of Congress‘ most famous Democratic names, the scion of Jesse Jackson in Mr. Obama’s home city of Chicago, was just sent to prison for converting campaign funds to personal use. In Detroit, the ex-mayor and the wife of longtime House Judiciary Committee member John Conyers Jr. have fallen to corruption scandals, while the son of former Democratic Party Chairman Ron Brown admitted last month to bribery charges as a city councilman in the nation’s capital.

Longtime political analyst John Pitney Jr. said the Democrats’ woes can be viewed as examples of history repeating itself and how the enticements of Washington’s political culture can trip up the party in power.

Read more: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/24/sex-money-and-lies-culture-of-corruption-boomerang/#ixzz2a56PoHsq

Ridgewood Public Library Dr. Who-A-Thon today at 3pm

Make Something! Dr. Who-A-Thon
Thursday, July 25@ 3:00 pm Grade 6-12
Watch selected episodes of the popular BBC series, Dr. Who and make Sonic Screwdriver Pen!

Ridgewood Library & Valley Hospital Series
This is Your Body on Stress
Tuesday, July 30, 7-8:30pm
Learn how stress affects your well-being and techniques to better manage stress. Speakers: Howard Frauwirth, M.D., Internist and Clinical Lipidologist; Susan Breithaupt, LCSW, Social Worker, Valley Hospice. To register: 1-800-VALLEY1(1-800-825-5391) or go to valleyhealth.com/events.

SAT vs. ACT
Tuesday, July 30 @ 5:00 pm Grades 10 – 12
What’s the difference and which should you take? National Board Certified teacher Tanya Lesser has info and insights to help you decide.

Photography Exhibit & Open Mic Familiar Strangers
Wednesday, July 31, 7-8:30pm Noted RW photograper Josephine Dvorken shares images from her book showing our neighbors within Ridgewood’s streets, parks, downtown. Open mic: Subjects speak about being chosen and photographed for the book.

Teen DIY: Duct Tape Flowers
Thursday, August 1@ 4:00 pm
Grades 6 – 12 Create colorful and delicate flowers using this heavy duty hardware supply!

No more mail at your door? Postal Service considers halting doorstep delivery
Wednesday, July 24, 2013    Last updated: Wednesday July 24, 2013, 11:44 PM
BY ANDREW MIGA
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Door-to-door mail delivery is about as American as apple pie. With the Postal Service facing billions of dollars in annual losses, that tradition could be virtually phased out by 2022 under a proposal in Congress.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday approved a plan to move to cluster box and curbside delivery, which includes mailboxes at the end of driveways.

The proposal is part of broader legislation by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the oversight and government reform panel, designed to cut costs at the cash-strapped agency by up to $4.5 billion a year. The Postal Service had a $16 billion loss last year.

The bill was approved on a party-line vote, with 22 Republicans supporting it and 17 Democrats opposing it.

Postal Service spokesman David Partenheimer said the agency would evaluate Issa’s bill based on whether it would enable the agency to make $20 billion in savings by 2017.

“The Postal Service looks forward to working with Chairman Issa and the committee to improve the bill as it makes its way through the legislative process,” Partenheimer said.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/Changes_eyed_in_door-to-door_mail_delivery.html#sthash.Q1gxC1ue.dpuf

photo by Boyd Loving Mayor and Wife pressed into service for the Village

Readers debate Mayors Hardship attending Christie Fund Raiser for Free

I know for a fact what a “hardship” it was for our mayor to attend the Christie fundraiser photo op, on a ticket that he didn’t pay for.

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Aronsohn loved rubbing shoulders with the celebrity governor. He thought with his ego when he accepted the invitation, not with his head. I guess there is no longer much room in his head for logical thinking with the huge ego squeezing everything else out.

He went, he enjoyed, he did not pay. It was not a hardship at all for him until it was pointed out that he should not have gone. Then suddenly it was an obligation and a hardship and he went only because he had to. Give us a break, we are smarter than that.

photo by Boyd Loving

Reader Says Mr Mayor  If Saraceno had not included you, gratis, you never would have “gone as a courtesy.”

To quote you, I mean, the mayor, “When the governor comes to town, we go as a courtesy” who added that he wanted to make sure that “all of [Christie’s] needs were attended to.”

The governor didn’t “come to town” on a whim. John Saraceno solicited his campaign and promised to raised tens of thousands of dollars for his re-election coffers. (Just like he and John Johansen did for you last year…but with alot less zeros).

If Saraceno had not included you, gratis, you never would have “gone as a courtesy.” You wouldn’t have been there because the governor doesn’t know you exist. Your limitless hubris & self-importance is as nauseating and it is hysterical. As far as “attending to [Christie’s needs], he’s got people for that and you’re not one of them.

This was not “official business”, the event was a PRIVATE FUNDRAISER. So, if you did “attend to” his needs then perhaps it wasn’t quite the “hardship” you claimed. I can just see it now…..one of the most powerful men in politics says to his advisors “Get me to Ridgewood boys! This Aronsohn guy….I’ve gotta see how how he does it!!”
The cost of fixing John Saraceno’s flagpole, $2200….watching Paul Aronsohn step in s**t yet again….PRICELESS!

file photo Boyd Loving

Reader says I’m shocked that they haven’t paid the $1,000 back already.

I’m shocked that they haven’t paid the $1,000 back already.

For all of the Richie bashing that the public endured over a similar sum, one would imagine that at least Aronsohn, Puciarelli and Hauck would have paid up at the first hint of protest.

For a bunch of politicians, how politically unsophisticated these people are. The longer they hold out, the longer they’re going to have to endure the wrath and ridicule of their own constituency.

I can’t believe that these neophytes get to vote on a smoking ban much less on the more critical issues this town faces.

Two Americans Added to Food Stamp Rolls for Every Job Administration Says It Created
July 23, 2013 – 1:21 PM

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said yesterday that the Obama administration has pulled the nation from the depths of the “Great Recession” with the creation of 7.2 million private sector jobs.

“And what is absolutely true is that we have come a long way since the depths of the Great Recession.  We’ve created over 7.2 million private sector jobs,” Carney told reporters at a press briefing.

Here’s what Mr. Carney didn’t say:

Since February of 2009, the first full month of Obama’s presidency, 9.5 million Americans have dropped out of the labor force.  Nearly 90 million Americans are not working today!

That means that 1.3 Americans have dropped out of the labor force for every one job the administration claims to have created.

There are 15 million more Americans on food stamps today than when Obama assumed office.

– See more at: https://www.cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/gregory-gwyn-williams-jr/two-americans-added-food-stamp-rolls-every-job-administration#sthash.cjEKHXRc.dpuf

Ridgewood debates parking meter changes
Wednesday July 24, 2013, 10:25 AM
BY  DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News

Ridgewood officials and members of the business community are still mulling over potential changes to downtown parking meters and whether or not coin-fed machines should become a thing of the past.

Village Council members recently suggested that time limits on parking meters along Central Business District (CBD) side streets as well as Franklin Avenue should be extended from two to three hours. They also recommended that meters on East Ridgewood Avenue remain at a two-hour limit.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/216754171_Ridgewood_debates_parking_meter_changes.html#sthash.9A5uqvuR.dpuf

Records of Christine O’Donnell tax snooping disappear
By Seth McLaughlin
The Washington Times

Delaware state officials have told Congress that they likely destroyed the computer records that would show when and how often they accessed Christine O’Donnell’s personal tax records and acknowledged that a newspaper article was used as the sole justification for snooping into the former GOP Senate candidate’s tax history.

The revelations to Sen. Chuck Grassley’s office came Tuesday as the Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration, the government’s chief watchdog for the Internal Revenue Service, formally reopened its investigation into the matter by re-interviewing Ms. O’Donnell.

Read more: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/23/records-of-christine-odonnell-tax-snooping-disappe/#ixzz2ZxxMpJ7C

Climate Change Hoax : Do Booker, Pallone, Oliver Agree “Millions Will Die” If “Nothing Is Done” about Climate Change?

July 23,2013

“Does Mayor Booker really think that millions will die if nothing is done [about climate change]? How about Congressman Pallone, who has championed cap-and-trade in Congress? What about Speaker Oliver, who has fought to preserve cap-and-trade in New Jersey over Governor Christie’s veto?” Lonegan asked.”

METUCHEN, NJ – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Steve Lonegan today called on candidates Cory Booker, Frank Pallone and Sheila Oliver to explain whether they agree with Democratic Rep. Rush Holt’s (NJ-12) controversial comments on climate change.

Lonegan’s comments came after Rep. Rush Holt put out a web video on climate change where he declared: “If nothing is done, millions will die.”

“The silly hysterical left-wing view that Congressman Holt expresses in his video is simply bizarre,” Lonegan said. “And I want to hear whether the other three Democrats share his extremist and over-the-top belief that millions will die if nothing is done.”

“Does Mayor Booker really think that millions will die if nothing is done? How about Congressman Pallone, who has championed cap-and-trade in Congress? What about Speaker Oliver, who has fought to preserve cap-and-trade in New Jersey over Governor Christie’s veto?” Lonegan asked.

“Do these three agree with Congressman Holt’s bizarre and hysterical threats? I believe they do, but I’d like to hear it straight from their own mouths.

“I would like to believe that since Mayor Booker, Congressman Pallone and Speaker Oliver all want to be members of the United States Senate, that they are capable of answering media questions without having to have staff tell them what to think by preparing written answers to very simple questions,” Lonegan noted.

Bergen County Provides In Home Caregiver Education and Support

IN-HOME CAREGIVER EDUCATION & SUPPORT PROGRAM

This Program is a free service designed for people currently caring for family members, & loved ones.

A Registered Nurse first meets with the caregiver in the home to conduct an initial assessment. Based on the assessment, a teaching plan is prepared. The plan identifies the needs of the caregiver and will enable caregivers to identify and develop goals for learning skills necessary to provide care.

The caregiver may receive a limited number of home visits from the following disciplines:

? Physical Therapist

? Speech Therapist

? Occupational Therapist

? Registered Dietician

*A Licensed Clinical Social Worker is also available to offer short-term counseling to the caregiver for stress management

The caregiver must be:

? Unpaid & eighteen years of age or older.

? He/she must be actively engaged in the recipient’s care.

The care-recipient must be:

? A Bergen County resident eighteen years of age or older.

? Diagnosed with a chronic disease or disability that requires the assistance of a primary caregiver to adequately perform activities of daily living.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Daniel S. Kotkin, Program Manager
Phone: 201-336-6504 ? TTY: 201-336-6505 ? Fax: 201-336-6510
E-mail: [email protected]

file photo at The Office Bar & Grill Hosts 7th Annual Bike Show to benefit the Tomorrow’s Childrens Fund

Ridgewood Police offer Motorcyclist Safety Tips:

A motorcycle riders’ best defense against injury is to obey laws and wear protective clothing and equipment:

Helmet – In New Jersey, motorcyclists are required by law to wear a DOT (FMVSS 218) approved helmet.
Eye Protection – Glasses, Goggles or a Shield
Jacket – Sturdy, Long Sleeved and Abrasion-Resistant
Pants – Well-Fitting and Abrasion-Resistant
Footwear – Sturdy, Over-the-Ankle Boots
Hand Wear – Well-Fitting, Full-Fingered Gloves

Drive Defensively – Assume motorists do not see you and plan escape routes.
Make Yourself Visible – Wear bright colored and reflective clothing. Do not linger in “blind spots”. Adjust your lane position.
Give Yourself Time and Space to React – Do not tailgate. Use the “Two Second Rule” or the “Four Second Rule” to create space between you and vehicles ahead of you.
Avoid Sudden Braking or Turning When Driving on Wet Roads or Gravel – With only two tires, motorcycles have less tire traction than other vehicles.
Enhance Your Skills with Education – New Jersey offers various safety and skill courses, for riders new and old. For further information regarding motorcycle safety programs, please call NJ MVC (609) 633-9308, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Never drink alcohol or take medications while riding.
Never ride if you are tired.