>Anita Dunn, White House Communications Director, Has a Favorite Politician: Mass-Murderer Mao Tse-Tung (But Fox News Is Her Enemy)
Since so many people are professing admiration for Chairman Mao we thought we could take a look at the man and his contribution.
>NEWS ON TWO ITEMS!!! HACKENSACK PRE-ELECTION TEA PARTY – OCTOBER 24th!!! OBAMA COMING TO NJ ON WEDNESDAY!!!
1. WE HAVE OUR PERMIT! Many of you have been asking about the status. It took a while to cut through the red tape, but as of yesterday, we have a permit for our Pre-Election Day Tea Party on the Green in Hackensack. (October 24 – 12 Noon ’til 2:00PM). Steve Lonegan has been confirmed as a guest speaker. More details will be sent out over the next day or two. Reserve the date ! Bring a friend!
2. President Obama will be stumping for Jon Corzine at Rothman Center (Fairleigh Dickinson University) this Wednesday. Doors open at 3:00. Patriots will be there to give “warm greetings” to the Prez/Gov. Why not stop by with your signs and shouts of “welcome”! Tim and Michele will be meeting up with Patriots at the corner of Temple and Hackensack Avenues near the Target at 2:00 PM. It is recommended that you do not park at the Target. Rather try to park on one of the side streets off of Main Street.
Once everyone gathers on the corner of Hackensack and Temple, the group will move as close to the venue as possible. Please remember – these situations are usually fluid and details can change as the event approaches. As you may recall, back in July when President Obama stumped for Corzine, the event moved from Rutgers to the PNC Bank Arts Center a day or so before the rally.
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The Best Pizza in Ridgewood 2009: A Mano
The Ridgewood blog is proud to announce the winner of the 2009 best Pizza in Ridgewood Contest ; Coming in first place with with 37% of the vote A Mano followed by long time local favorite Renato’s with 16% of the vote and Puzzo’s the 2008 winner finished 3rd with 14% of the vote .Three tied for 4th La Bella Pizza ,Brooklyn Pizza, and Sicilian Sun all with 7% of the vote.
Congratulations to all our participants
A Mano 24 Franklin Ave,Ridgewood ,NJ 201.493.2000
Renato’s Pizza 36 S Maple Ave,Ridgewood, NJ (201) 652-3554
Puzo’s (2008 Winner) 16 W Ridgewood Ave,Ridgewood, NJ (201) 445-3332
Brooklyn Pizza 15 Oak St,Ridgewood, NJ (201) 493-7600
Sicilian Sun (by popular demand) 604 N Maple Ave,Ho Ho Kus, NJ (201)444-3494
La Bella Pizza 102 N Maple Ave, Rdgewood, NJ (201) 652-0444
Lenny’s Pizza 46 Chestnut St, Ridgewood, NJ (201) 652-4111
Roma Pizza 88 Godwin Ave, Ridgewood, NJ (201) 389-6810
Pizza fusion 33 Godwin Ave,Ridgewood, NJ (201) 445-9010
Ridgewood Pizza 6 37 Godwin Ave,Ridgewood, NJ (201) 444-1055
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>Corzine tells staff to get creative. In a recent email from Corzine’s Deputy Chief of Staff Mark Matzen sent out to department heads asking them to “get creative” to show how Corzine’s economic policies were creating jobs. Gotta laugh about this with a desperate Jon Corzine trying almost anything to try to enhance his disastrous record as Governor. The only jobs created have been in the public sector but will unions continue to support the Governor,given his support for the the presidents health care plan which clearly targets union “Cadillac” health care plans? Under normal circumstances I would say he is in trouble but hey this is New Jersey so anything goes.
With nothing positive to point to Corzine seems to be penning his hopes on attacking former president Bush and the Bush record,but a high tax state like New Jersey with a large amount of high income earners benefited significantly from the Bush tax cuts .The dirty little secret as many Americans are finding out with health care is that the “tax the rich” mantra means anyone with a job is rich. The Bush tax cuts as they are repealed will have a devastating effect the states like New Jersey pushing tax rates to unsustainable levels driving even more tax payers from the state and further depressing what little is left of the once great New Jersey economy.
the Ridgewood Blog Staff
>”WANTED: For Veterans of Foreign Wars historic project by VFW Post 192 (Ridgewood–Ho-Ho-Kus)–photos, newsclippings, post cards, maps, aerial photos, and similar items of the immediate area around and/or including the Hopper-Zabriskie cemetery on First Street in Ho-Ho-Kus, from 1966 and prior. All materials will be returned after scanning/copying. Contact Stanley Kober at 201-445-1121.”
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>In a Friday, September 11, 2009 article,”Flooding concerns no longer a worry in Little Ferry” ,Kenneth Gabbert presented some ideas as to flooding issues in the town of Little Ferry ,perhaps since so many Village assets and resources are currently situated in flood zone’s maybe the VC thought it was finally time to start addressing this issue?
https://www.northjersey.com/news/58812822.html
The unusually wet summer might’ve dampened many barbecues and vacations this past season, but Little Ferry officials are relieved that the high precipitation totals didn’t rain on their parade. In the past, the amount of rainfall in the area — more than 14 inches in June and July alone — would have likely resulted in major flooding, but improvements to drainage and pump stations have decreased the number of sticky, or in this case, wet situations.
“Since the addition of the three Losen Slote pump stations, the amount of flooding has been greatly reduced,” Borough Administrator Kenneth Gabbert said following last month’s mayor and council meeting, a session in which flooding issues emerged.
According to Gabbert, Little Ferry last suffered borough-wide flooding in 1992. Since then, only patches of flooding have appeared despite the fact that the entire municipality is in a 100-year flood plain.
The combination of high tide and heavy rain in a short period of time resulted in the 1992 flooding. At that time, pumps had not been installed to remove water.
“In contrast,” Gabbert said, “the 1999 Hurricane Floyd which devastated north and central New Jersey for weeks caused minor flooding in Little Ferry.”
Flooding has been limited because of the borough’s “aggressive” handling, including the addition of pump stations and maintenance of storm drains.
“On the rare occasions where basements take in water, the DPW and Fire Department are active with pumps,” Gabbert said, adding that the borough provides large garbage receptacles to collect any damaged items and debris and arranges special pickups.
>Fans of Graydon, greetings! Developments:
Save the date. Come to our meeting on Monday, October 26, at 7:15 PM (doors open at 6:30), Education Building, Old Paramus Reformed Church. Meet environmental attorney Stuart Lieberman, who now represents us (see below). Print out our flyer and give copies to your friends and neighbors!
Our new attorney. Now representing and advising the Coalition is renowned environmental attorney Stuart Lieberman, who will speak at our October 26 meeting. Mr. Lieberman’s firm, Lieberman & Blecher, located in Princeton, represents citizens’ groups throughout New Jersey. A press release with more details will be issued shortly. On Thursday, Stuart sent a letter to the Council that we’d like to share.
Council committee. Although our repeated requests to the Village Council for transparency and to axe the dreaded Request for Proposals were not granted, the Coalition wants to share our research and perspective. Therefore, co-chair Suzanne Kelly will attend the Council’s new Graydon Pool Committee.
Donations welcome. Online or by check—which to choose? Please donate now! A donation button has been posted on the website home page, too. Admire and use it often!
See you on October 26.
Swimmingly,
Suzanne Kelly and Marcia Ringel, Co-Chairs
The Preserve Graydon Coalition, Inc., a nonprofit corporation
“It’s clear—we love Graydon!”
[email protected] www.PreserveGraydon.org
>The first cross-country invitational meet for high school girls in the State of New Jersey and the only invitational held in the Village of Ridgewood.The starting gun for the 36th annual Ridgewood Invitational will sound off at Veterans Field, where the Ridgewood High School girls cross-country team has hosted every running since 1973.
RHS is one of 15 schools set to take part in tomorrow’s event, which begins with a race for pre-high school youths at 1:30 p.m. The boys varsity start time is 3:15, followed by the girls varsity at 3:35.The Maroon girls,are seeking their first Ridgewood Invitational team championship since 2002, when both the RHS boys and girls swept the team titles. Since that year, Maroon girls coach Jacob Brown’s squad has only finished lower than second once ,which was a third place finish in 2005.
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You can join a pre-holiday shopping “extravaganza” for a good cause, and meet Housewives Teresa and Jacqueline at the party. (www.thesassyshopgirlevents.com) The cost is $20 at the door, and proceeds go to the Prevent Child Abuse New Jersey Foundation.
www.thesassyshopgirlevents.com
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Did you get your flu shot? As the debate over H1N1 virus rages on this flu season, there is another virus, H3N8, that is threatening dogs this year. H3N8, or Canine Influenza (Horse Flu) is not contagious to homo sapiens (people), but for dogs it can be deadly. Fortunately, there is a new vaccine available to safeguard pooches. At the Ridgewood Vet Hospital in New Jersey a steady flow of dog owners and their barking companions braved the $20 shot, the first of a two-part inoculation process.
Canine Influenza was discovered in the United States as the cause of respiratory disease outbreaks involving thousands of greyhounds at race tracks in several states from 2003 to 2005. It has since spread to at least 30 states. Originally a disease that afflicts horses,thus the nick name “Horse flu”. The virus mutated about 40 years ago and began infecting dogs ever since.And yes According to the American Veterinary Medical Association it is contagious.
Exposure to H3N8 is highest in kennels, shelters, pet stores, dog shows and other communal settings. Although dogs of any age, breed and health status are susceptible,like humans the young old and in firmed are most susceptible puppies. Veterinarians say that virtually all dogs that are exposed to the virus become infected. About 80 percent of them can show symptoms such as cough, sneezing, nasal discharge, and some ocular discharge.
It takes about 7-14 days for dogs to mount the initial antibody response to the H3N8 vaccine. About 2-4 weeks after the first $20 inoculation, a booster shot is given. The vaccine protects dogs for a year. Vets say that the shots may not prevent infection altogether, but efficacy trials have shown that the vaccine significantly reduces the severity and length of illness.
A letter send out to clients this week from Dr. Dean Cerf at the Ridgewood Vet Hospital about Canine Influenza recommended that they bring in their dogs into his clinic for shots. “The virus can persist for 2-4 days in the environment,” he says, which means that contact with balls, clothes — even our hands — spreads the disease.
the Ridgewood blog staff
>Congressional tax experts say Senate health care legislation would impose a whopping $29 billion more in additional taxes on health care industries than originally thought. Additional taxes would be passed down to the consumers through higher health insurance premiums.
The Joint Committee on Taxation says drug companies, medical device manufacturers and insurers would pay $121 billion over 10 years as a result of taxes in the Senate Finance Committee bill.
Originally the tax bill for the Senate “Health care Reform” was $92 billion in additional taxes.
The tax experts said the reason for the change is that the companies won’t be able to deduct the fees from their corporate income taxes.
The new numbers come Tuesday as the Finance Committee is preparing to vote on the bill and could bolster GOP arguments that it contains too many new taxes.
the Ridgewood Blog Staff
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>Christopher Columbus
https://www.history.com/content/columbusday/about-columbus
In Spanish he is called Cristobal Colon, in Portuguese Cristovio Colombo and in Italian Cristoforo Colombo. Italian mariner and navigator Christopher Columbus was widely believed to be the first European to sail across the Atlantic Ocean and successfully land on the American continent. Born between August and October 1451, in Genoa, Italy, Columbus was the eldest son of Domenico Colombo, a wool-worker and small-scale merchant, and his wife, Susanna Fontanarossa; he had two younger brothers, Bartholomew and Diego. He received little formal education and was a largely self-taught man, later learning to read Latin and write Castilian.
Columbus began working at sea early on, and made his first considerable voyage, to the Aegean island of Chios, in 1475. A year later, he survived a shipwreck off Cape St. Vincent and swam ashore, after which he moved to Lisbon, Portugal, where his brother Bartholomew, an expert chart maker, was living. Both brothers worked as chartmakers, but Columbus already nurtured dreams of making his fortune at sea. In 1477, he sailed to England and Ireland, and possibly Iceland, with the Portuguese marine, and he was engaged as a sugar buyer in the Portuguese islands off Africa (the Azores, Cape Verde, and Madeira) by a Genoese mercantile firm. He met pilots and navigators who believed in the existence of islands farther west. It was at this time that he made his last visit to his native city, but he always remained a Genoese, never becoming a naturalized citizen of any other country.
Returning to Lisbon, he married the well-born Dona Filipa Perestrello e Moniz in 1479. Their son, Diego, was born in 1480. Felipa died in 1485, and Columbus later began a relationship with Beatriz Enríquez de Harana of Cordoba, with whom he had a second son, Ferdinand. (Columbus and Beatriz never married, but he provided for her in his will and legitimatized Ferdinand, in accordance with Castilian law.)
By the time he was 31 or 32, Columbus had become a master mariner in the Portuguese merchant service. It is thought by some that he was greatly influenced by his brother, Bartholomew, who may have accompanied Bartholomew Diaz on his voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, and by Martin Alonso Pinzon, the pilot who commanded the Pinta on the first voyage. Columbus was but one among many who believed one could reach land by sailing west.
By the mid-1480s, Columbus had become focused on his plans of discovery, chief among them the desire to discover a westward route to Asia. In 1484, he had asked King John II of Portugal to back his voyage west, but had been refused. The next year, he went to Spain with his young son, Diego, to seek the aid of Queen Isabella of Castile and her husband, King Ferdinand of Aragon. Though the Spanish monarchs at first rejected Columbus, they gave him a small annuity to live on, and he remained hopeful of convincing them. In January of 1492, after being twice rebuffed, Columbus obtained the support of Ferdinand and Isabella. The favorable response came directly after the fall of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, which led Spanish Christians to believe they were close to eliminating the spread of Islam in southern Europe and beyond. Christian missionary zeal, as well as the desire to increase Spanish prominence in Europe over that of Portugal and the desire for gold and conquest, were the primary driving forces behind Columbus’ historic voyage.
Columbus would make four voyages to the West Indies, but by the end of his final voyage, Columbus’ health had deteriorated; he was suffering from arthritis as well as the aftereffects of a bout with malaria. With a small portion of the gold brought from Hispaniola, Columbus was able to live relatively comfortably in Seville for the last year of his life. He was emotionally diminished, however, and felt that the Spanish monarchs had failed to live up to their side of the agreement and provide him with New World property and gold, especially after Isabella’s death. Columbus followed the court of King Ferdinand from Segovia to Salamanca to Vallodid seeking redress, but was rejected. He died in Vallodid on May 20, 1506. His remains were later moved to the Cathedral of Santo Domingo in Hispaniola, where they were laid with those of his son Diego. They were returned to Spain in 1899 and interred in Seville Cathedral.
https://www.history.com/content/columbusday/about-columbus
>A recently adopted policy at Ridgewood High School (RHS) looks to be pitting parents against the Ridgewood School System .Ridgewood High School’s (RHS) new “Extracurricular Code” is requires students, as “school representatives,” to act in a responsible manner year-round. The code states that students who create a negative image will be subject to disciplinary consequences in the form of a strict predetermined category of offenses.
Ridgewood High School (RHS) and the Ridgewood Police Department are permitted, by state law, to work collectively to share information. According to NJSA 2A:4A-60, school principals may request information as deemed appropriate “for maintaining order, safety or discipline in the school or to planning programs relevant to the juveniles educational and social development.” In addition, on the state level, local authorities and public schools sign a “Memorandum of Agreement” annually, allowing for the sharing of information on underage drinking, drug use and illegal behavior of students.
Under the new “Extracurricular Code” regulations, Principal Lorenz said first-time offenders are subject to up to eight hours of awareness programming, and second offenders will miss up to 40 percent of their athletic seasons, as opposed to the previous two-game suspension. It took RHS administrators and coaches about two years to come to a consensus on the new policy, Lorenz said.
Parents have clearly lost out in there right to impose there own values and control and discipline their children as they see fit. While we are not advocating nor encouraging “underage drinking parties ” ,I are quite concerned with vagueness of the phrase, “create a negative image” ,what exactly does that mean ?
The presentation delivered via the Ridgewood News would have us believe that the focus is merely on athletics and players behavior on and off the field. Anyone who has been on any kind of a team before understands that if you want to be on a team you have to play by the team rules ,hey just ask former Yankee Joe Pepitone.
What really concerns me and lot of people is again the vagueness of the phrase ,””create a negative image” and who exactly defines and determines what a “negative image ” is. Does this “Extracurricular Code” mean we will enforce more singing the praises of Barack Hussein Obama hummm hummm hummm ? Or children will now be compelled to attend after school reeducation programs ? Will free speech also be controlled? How about the way or children dress? And what about non school extra curricular activities ,will some of those be perceived as to ,”create a negative image” ,like going to jobs,concerts,clubs,church,synagogue ,Sunday school,boyscout’s ? Where does this all stop and where do parents draw the line?
Its is bad enough that Gov. Jon Corzine recently signed legislation “designed to increase the safety of teen residents and their families.” Known affectionately as the “I am my brothers keeper, law” or the NARC law.The “9-1-1 lifeline legislation,” sponsored by state Senate Assistant Majority Leader John A. Girgenti (D-Passaic and Bergen), would grant immunity to certain underage drinkers who notify police about peers who are in potentially dangerous situations due to their use of alcohol. Gee are we the only ones who notice the possible inherent abuse of this?
Folks this is a very dangerous slippery slope we are embracing and something to think about with the NJEA and the Ridgewood Schools asking for and additional $48 million . Before you start attacking me and this blog instead of defining and explaining the policy remember that it has become all to obvious that the inability to defend a position in a sound and sensible manner implies a disingenuous policy.
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>Joe Ferriero was forced to resign that post of Bergen County Democratic Chairman following his 2008 indictment on corruption charges. Although Many party leaders expect that Joseph Ferriero will run once again for Bergen County Democratic Chairman, if his federal corruption trial ends in his acquittal. The fly has learned that our own Councilmen Paul Aronsohn has expressed interest in running for the position. It seems the Ridgewood Councilman views himself as the reform candidate. Given that federal prosecutors have so far been undefeated in political corruption cases for the last eight years it certainly looks like Councilmen Aronsohn is a force to be reckoned with.
