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49% Consider Memorial Day One of the Most Important Holidays

Monday, May 28, 2012

Nearly half of Americans continue to rank Memorial Day as one of the nation’s most important holidays . A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just five percent (5%) of American Adults consider it one of the least important holidays, but 44% see it as somewhere in between.

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/holidays/may_2012/49_consider_memorial_day_one_of_the_most_important_holidays

“Remember, I am in the Army with many friends.”

— Felix Roque, mayor of West New York, N.J., in an email to a resident of the small town who had contributed information to an anonymous website advocating that Roque be recalled. Roque, 55, and son Joseph, 22, were arrested Thursday, charged with unauthorized access to computers. A co-conspirator identified only as a West New York public official was not charged. The younger Roque allegedly took down the recall website just a couple of days after it was created in February — after searching on Google for “hacking a Go Daddy site” and “html hacking tutorial” — as well as gained access to email and Facebook accounts of those involved with the site. According to the criminal complaint (PDF), the mayor then proceeded to try to intimidate the creators of recallroque.com, at one point telling one: “A friend of mine, he works in the — I can’t tell you — three letters: C.I.A. You know, that’s how I get information.” The Roques face up to 11 years in prison and $600,000 in fines. They were released on $100,000 bond each, according to the New York Times.

Real federal deficit dwarfs official tally
By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY

The typical American household would have paid nearly all of its income in taxes last year to balance the budget if the government used standard accounting rules to compute the deficit, a USA TODAY analysis finds.

Under those accounting practices, the government ran red ink last year equal to $42,054 per household — nearly four times the official number reported under unique rules set by Congress.

A U.S. household’s median income is $49,445, the Census reports.

The big difference between the official deficit and standard accounting: Congress exempts itself from including the cost of promised retirement benefits. Yet companies, states and local governments must include retirement commitments in financial statements, as required by federal law and private boards that set accounting rules.

The deficit was $5 trillion last year under those rules. The official number was $1.3 trillion. Liabilities for Social Security, Medicare and other retirement programs rose by $3.7 trillion in 2011, according to government actuaries, but the amount was not registered on the government’s books.

https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-05-18/federal-deficit-accounting/55179748/1

‘Fat Tax’ Could Curb Nation’s Obesity Problem

20 Percent Tax Would Be Placed On Unhealthy Foods

POSTED: 7:27 pm EDT May 17, 2012
UPDATED: 11:47 am EDT May 18, 2012

INDIANAPOLIS — Health experts have been trying to combat obesity in America for years and have recently suggested a new way to solve the growing problem.

A new study suggests that imposing a fat tax on unhealthy food and drinks could help slim down expanding waistlines.

https://www.theindychannel.com/health/31079697/detail.html

35 mph is dangerous but 25 mph is safe?, Readers are not buying it

Really – What are the facts FROM THE STREETS WHERE THE SPEED LIMIT IS TO BE LOWERED (not some generic “study” of reduction of speed limit changes)?

Will the “Citizens Safety Advisory Committee” recommend that the speed limit be increased in the future if there is no change in accidents (or an uptick in accidents)? Why not reduce it to 20mph or maybe 10 mph? How about banning all motor vehicles from RW? That would be safest.

The “Citizens Safety Advisory Committee” – what a bunch of useless authoritarian feel-good fools.
What data do they have to back up their reccomendation to lowere the speed limit on Monroe? EXACTLY how much less safe is it on Monroe than on other streets? I’d venture that their are other streets with lowere speed limits that are more dangerous (to pedestrians AND motor vehicles).

Totally arbitrary feel good PC bull.

23rd Annual Community Hymn Festival at West Side Presbyterian Church
Many Local Choirs Will Participate

Multiple Choirs Set for Annual Community Hymn Festival On Sunday, May 20, at 7:30 p.m., choirs from multiple Bergen County churches of all denominations will participate in the 23rd Annual Community Hymn Festival at Ridgewood’s West Side Presbyterian Church. The ecumenical event is open to the public.

Co-sponsored by the John R. Rodland Memorial Scholarship Fund and the Northern NJ Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, over $150,000 has been awarded in scholarships to future Church musicians. Rodland Scholarships are the largest such awards to Church Music majors in the nation, funded by a fall campaign and free-will offerings at the festival. This year’s winner of a $9,000 first prize is Christopher Gaza, a Masters of Music candidate at University of Oklahoma. Ganza will perform at the festival. “Songs, Hymns and Spiritual Songs through the Ages” is the theme of this year’s festival. Organists and choir directors from the various participating churches will direct or play for the over-80-voice choir, hand-bell choir, and brass ensemble. Great hymns of the Church, as well as anthems such as H. Parry’s I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me (sung at the Royal Wedding last fall), and V. Thompson’s My Shepherd Will Supply My Need will be featured. Singers are invited to join the chorus at the only rehearsal on Tuesday, May 15 at 7:30 p.m. Music will be provided. The church is at 6 S. Monroe St., corner of W. Ridgewood Ave.

A Censored Race War :The media ignore racially motivated black-on-white crime.
By Thomas Sowell

When two white newspaper reporters for the Virginian-Pilot were driving through Norfolk, and were set upon and beaten by a mob of young blacks — beaten so badly that they had to take a week off from work — that might sound like news that should have been reported, at least by their own newspaper. But it wasn’t.

The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel was the first major television program to report this incident. Yet this story is not just a Norfolk story, either in what happened or in how the media and the authorities have tried to sweep it under the rug.

Similar episodes of unprovoked violence by young black gangs against white people chosen at random on beaches, in shopping malls, or in other public places have occurred in Philadelphia, New York, Denver, Chicago, Cleveland, Washington, Los Angeles, and other places across the country. Both the authorities and the media tend to try to sweep these episodes under the rug.

https://www.nationalreview.com/articles/299918/censored-race-war-thomas-sowell#

file photo by Boyd Loving

900 American Flags to be Placed at Valleau Cemetary – May 19th

American Legion Post 53 will be placing 900 American Flags on veteran grave-sites in Valleau Cemetery on Saturday, May 19th at 9AM. The public is invited to assist in this project. Further information – 201/445-5742