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  • When they reopen? Climate change, anal sex will soon part of your N.J. student’s curriculum

    06/09/2020 8:46:38 PM PDT · 13 of 25
    grasshopper2 to Beowulf9

    Just another reminder of why I moved out of New Jersey. (I do miss the attended gas stations, though.)

    Governor Murphy is in over his pay-grade.

    I feel sorry for the good people who can’t move out.

  • PROFITING FROM PROVERBS - 5/13/2020

    05/13/2020 8:19:59 PM PDT · 3 of 4
    grasshopper2 to Pilgrim's Progress

    Hello, thank you for posting these daily proverbs. I am unable to keep up. So could you kindly remove me from this ping list.

    God Bless and Keep you.

    Grasshopper2

  • Brazil Confirms First Case of New Coronavirus in Latin America (Probably contracted in Italy)

    02/26/2020 11:23:27 AM PST · 5 of 7
    grasshopper2 to SeekAndFind

    According to a Brazilian news outlet. The infected man returned to Sao Paulo on Friday, stayed home on Saturday and then had thirty (30!) relatives over on Sunday. So far his wife is not infected and the 30 relatives are being monitored. The man is in isolation at home and doing well.

    Source: https://noticias.r7.com/saude/brasileiro-com-coronavirus-recebeu-30-parentes-antes-de-adoecer-26022020?fbclid=IwAR0kotgAyV1EWmvRq8Rw1I9JzyljM0a4t9u23qnzkXPbLcBy7HZLnuCNlkA

  • Coronavirus: Outbreak spreads in Europe from Italy

    02/26/2020 8:20:48 AM PST · 16 of 41
    grasshopper2 to C19fan
    If the Italian is in Brazil for Carnival then he probably transmitted the disease to scores of people.

    It's likely this man in Brazil came in contact with many people considering it was Carnaval time and that Sao Paulo is a huge densely populated city.

    My understanding is that this virus is less contagious in humid conditions than in dry air. It will be interesting to see if the spread in Brazil where it is hot and humid now is lower than the spread in Italy where it is winter. Although it would appear that Brazil has identified patient zero while Italy did not. It all depends on how many people this Brazilian man came in contact with while he was contagious and before he sought treatment.

  • Retiree Decides to Spend Rest of Life at Holiday Inn, Since It’s Cheaper Than a Senior Home

    01/20/2020 9:46:38 AM PST · 103 of 203
    grasshopper2 to Yo-Yo
    Since the Holiday Inn doesn't provide any living assistance whatsoever, he may as well rent an apartment. $60 per day is $1,800 per month. That would rent quite a nice Studio apartment just about anywhere in the U.S.

    The Holiday Inn provides free room cleaning, linen changing plus toiletries such as shampoo. There are also amenities such as a pool and fitness center. Moreover, when relatives visit they can just rent a room in the same hotel. Sounds like a pretty good deal.

  • The White House Annoys Doctors with Plans to Boost Competition

    01/14/2020 7:11:03 AM PST · 26 of 66
    grasshopper2 to allendale
    The public, saturated with bogus alternative remedies

    Unfortunately the mainstream medical profession, rightly or wrongly, is perceived to be mainly drug pushers for big pharma writing prescriptions instead of looking at root causes.

    Diabetes and hemochromatosis come to mind.

  • Trump Administration Blocks Iran’s Top Diplomat From Addressing the U.N. Security Council

    01/07/2020 6:48:17 AM PST · 75 of 81
    grasshopper2 to hdstmf
    Just kick out the UN creeps out of America. Turn the building into a homeless shelter.

    I say knock it down. That building blocks the light and breezes from the East River. No other building in that part of Manhattan is oriented that way.

    Knock it down and build market rate condos. They would sell for a fortune! With the proceeds pay off the UN to build a nice complex in Senegal. It would help their economy!

  • Washington Post Writer Can’t Figure Out Why Trump Supporters Won’t Talk To Her

    01/05/2020 11:29:11 AM PST · 76 of 76
    grasshopper2 to nwrep
    Casey is not smug. He is the conservative. Read again.

    Yes, you are correct. I mistakenly thought that was the author's name. Petula Dvorak is the smug one. Alas, there is no editing feature here. Thanks for the correction. My apologies.

  • Washington Post Writer Can’t Figure Out Why Trump Supporters Won’t Talk To Her

    01/03/2020 9:08:18 AM PST · 40 of 76
    grasshopper2 to rightwingcrazy
    “Vagaries” is synonymous with whim, not vagueness, Casey.

    I doubt smug Casey knows the difference between "vagaries" and "vagueries," but would probably jump on a Trump supporter's usage error.

  • Two Possibilities in Trump Wiretapping, and Neither Is Good

    12/27/2019 6:05:54 AM PST · 52 of 71
    grasshopper2 to ClearCase_guy
    They write fast. That’s their primary skill.

    And in the Internet age that primary skill is more and more valuable. Old-fashioned investigative journalism isn't cost effective anymore, sadly.

  • Jersey City Board of Education Member Unloads on Jews Following Anti-Semitic Shooting

    12/24/2019 8:46:06 AM PST · 82 of 83
    grasshopper2 to rmlew
    The one good thing to possibly come out of the Jersey City tragedy is that it may expose some of the illegal behaviors committed on a daily basis by the colonizers. There, the African American host community, as a victim group themselves with potentially higher victim status and their own voting block and bully pulpit have immunity from the fake charges of anti-Semitism, and power with their formidable voting block to stand up more effectively than the tax paying, hard-working but non-organized(and non-welfare taking) middle class hosts in Rockland and Ocean Counties who can and do vote with their feet.

    This is America where all men are created EQUAL.

    No ethnic group can claim victim status as entitlement to break the law with impunity.

  • Jersey City Board of Education Member Unloads on Jews Following Anti-Semitic Shooting

    12/19/2019 10:49:42 PM PST · 79 of 83
    grasshopper2 to Eleutheria5
    so they need a whole block

    They NEED the whole block??? So I have to move ? ... for THEM????? Seriously? My father, uncle, and great-uncles fought for this country and were wounded and I, who played by the rules and worked my whole life, have to move because YOU want my house??????? even thought I am happy in my house where I have lived? I have to move for you???

    WHY??????

    Seriously, why do you think I should have to move? I don't want to move.

  • Jersey City Board of Education Member Unloads on Jews Following Anti-Semitic Shooting

    12/19/2019 10:19:11 PM PST · 77 of 83
    grasshopper2 to rmlew
    But that’s not the argument she was making. She was saying that Jews were stealing organs and forcing Blacks out of neighborhood, and bring in drugs, gangs, and prostitutes.

    Yes, she is not eloquent. Obviously. But she is aware of what is happening. It is the same ethic cleaning that is going on in Ocean County. The Haredim does not want to live among us. They want to push us out while at the same time mooching off us.

    A reader may think "oh well, the Haredim are improving a neighborhood from crime and squalor. "

    But they are wrong. The Haredim are using their power to push through with impunity developments that will ONLY sell to other Heredi people in conflict with fair housing laws. Somehow their VERY powerful regional advocacy group have paved the way for them to build and sell to ONLY members of their bloodline. It's very CORRUPT.

    Our corrupt governor Murphy and his side-kick Gurbir Singh Grewal attorney general (so-called) pave the way for more illegal Heredi-ONLY housing, in total VIOLATION of fair housing laws and ALL on OUR DIME.

    It's such a disgrace. I and my family did EVERYTHING right. We never asked the government for ANYTHING. My father and uncle fought in WW2 and were wounded. My great uncles fought in WW1, one of them coughed for the rest of his life because he was gassed.

    And now I have to move because the Haredim want my town. Why should I have to move? Why? Who are they to say I have to move? Don't I have a right to stay where I live and like living? Why should I have to move because they want to have my house? I realize I will have to move but I think my government has failed me.

  • Jersey City Board of Education Member Unloads on Jews Following Anti-Semitic Shooting

    12/19/2019 9:20:36 PM PST · 74 of 83
    grasshopper2 to kearnyirish2
    I really don’t know what the answer is, and am thankful this isn’t happening in my area.

    They are a scourge! And they are powerful and act with IMPUNITY because they have the governor and the attorney general in their pockets while they pick our pockets.

    It is a DISGRACE.

    There are some Haredi apologists on this forum.

    They are a disgrace!

    The Haredim want to take from the taxpayers. They thumb their noses at us. Truly they see themselves as entitled to our largess. It's a bizarre interpretation of the Old Testament.

  • Jersey City Board of Education Member Unloads on Jews Following Anti-Semitic Shooting

    12/19/2019 8:57:16 PM PST · 73 of 83
    grasshopper2 to Eleutheria5
    Current residents feel put upon. Hasidim feel shut out, and they have an undeniable need for housing somewhere. And both are right and both are wrong in various ways.

    The Hasidim and other Haredi sects can buy a house just like the rest of us do: look on Zillow, find a house in a location you like and make a bid. Nobody will discriminate against a Haredi offer. Nobody will discriminate against an African American offer.

    The problem with the Hasidim and other Haredi sects is that they don't want to buy a house. They want the whole block. And it's wrong.

    It's a separatist movement

    The Haredim do not want to live anywhere near Americans. They avoid Gentiles, they also avoid "normal" Jews.

    The Haredi culture is anathema to American culture. We believe that God created all humans as equal. The Haredim believe that God created them as superior. They (the Haredim) teach their children that their souls are superior to Gentile souls. It's all very unAmerican what goes on in that culture.

    We need to understand what's going on so we can advocate for a repeal of the RLUIPA to stop this "nation within a nation" scourge.

    People reading this may think: "But Jews are hard-working, intelligent people who value education and do good works."

    They would be right to think that about "normal" American Jewish people who are a light unto the nations. Normal American Jewish people have given much to our nation. Many Nobel prizes, the best doctors, excellent public school teachers, great humanitarians, not to mention the awesome creative geniuses!

    However the Haredim are not any of the above. They are a clannish, separatist, racist, cult.

    They do not educate their children thus keeping them ignorant. They don't even teach them English. While the girls get a decent education including English, the boys barely get a 5th grade education. Many of the boys despite being born in America can not speak English. They speak Yiddish and read ancient Hebrew, spending their days pouring over ancient texts, learning no profession or trade.

    The taxpayers are on the hook for providing for these able bodied men's large families.

    The young men do not provide for their families and their leaders ensure that they have access to EVERY WELFARE PROGRAM available. The leaders have an organized place where the dead beat dads can sign up for every welfare program, and they do it without any shame. There is no shame in the Haredi world to mooch off the host state.

    The young men do not work. The women are expected to do some work to bring in extra cash to the household (in cash or gift cards, of course to hide it from the IRS) How do the women bring in extra cash with 6 or 12 children? Playgroups. What are "playgroups." Playgroups are illegal daycare that accept CASH or giftcard payments to take care of children. They are un-licensed, un-inspected, and they pay no taxes.

    Where do the women work? They work in various places within the insular community: teaching at the private school in exchange for a tuition discount, working in a Heredi store for a store credit, basically working in the underground economy to hide their earnings from the government so they can continue to mooch off the taxpayers.

    The Haredim are a scourge and should be infiltrated and broken just like the mob.

  • Jersey City Board of Education Member Unloads on Jews Following Anti-Semitic Shooting

    12/18/2019 7:29:29 AM PST · 53 of 83
    grasshopper2 to heartwood
    The ultra orthodox have enough political influence that they won’t be investigated for discriminatory renting and selling and advertising

    What we have is tyranny of the majority (and the litigious) in some New Jersey towns. This board of education member sees the writing on the wall.

    People are mistaken if they group the Haredim (ultra-orthodox) in with all American Jewish people. American Jewish people are a light unto the nations. The Haredim are a scourge.

    The only difference between the Haredim and fundamentalist Muslims is the means they use to ethnically clease. The Jihadis use the sword; the Haredim use the courts. They both abuse welfare programs and out-reproduce the host community thus controlling the local politicians to their own benefit at the expense and on the dime of the hosts.

    At least the Haredim won't kill you. They are smart enough to know not to kill the host. They want the taxpayers to keep funding their lifestyle (but move out of the areas they are colonizing.)

    What's needed is to : (1) Repeal the federal RLUIPA (the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act) which gives the Haredim the power to bypass local zoning. (2) on the state level, repeal the law requiring towns to pay for private school busing. and (3) Remove the accredidation of "schools" like Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood that receives millions in federal funding but only teaches Torah or Talmud studies and nothing else. (4) Require primary and secondary schools to meet state educational standards in order to get any funds.

    And lastly, people being subjected to Haredim ethnic cleansing should install video cameras on their property to record any tresspassing and aggressive behavior. They should record any bad behavior they see to publicize and get the word out to the the rest of the country that the Haredim are very bad neighbors. People need to shame them for their bad behavior and shine a very bright light on their abuses of our very generous welfare programs and their tax evasion.

  • Reports: Women for Trump Group Attacked at DC’s Willard Hotel–By Democrat Wedding Party

    12/16/2019 9:51:04 AM PST · 134 of 140
    grasshopper2 to bitt

    Seems like much of the conflict was by female wedding guests name calling Trump supporting women in the Ladies room. I think the weapon of choice, in this case, would be a full glass of red wine “accidentally” spilled on the abuser’s dress. Opps!

  • NY county’s Republican ad warns of a hasidic ‘takeover’

    09/10/2019 12:16:21 PM PDT · 37 of 38
    grasshopper2 to Eleutheria5
    "But there is nothing shameful about having children." It *is* shameful to get married and have children with the deliberate intent of being a burden on society.

    They have no shame about sucking off the government's teat as a lifestyle choice.

    The Hasidic town you mention, Kiryas Joel, has the distinction of being the poorest place in America. According to the New York Times, 50% of the residents receive food stamps, and one-third are on Medicaid and get federal vouchers to help pay their housing costs.

    "Most residents, raised as Yiddish speakers, do not speak much English. And most men devote themselves to Torah and Talmud studies rather than academic training — only 39 percent of the residents are high school graduates, and less than 5 percent have a bachelor’s degree. Several hundred adults study full time at religious institutions."

    https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/nyregion/kiryas-joel-a-village-with-the-numbers-not-the-image-of-the-poorest-place.html

    The Hasidic communities are parasites. It's not sustainable. If they paid their own way and kept to themselves like the Amish no one would have a problem. Instead, they take over towns and behave very badly. Corruption is rampant.

    You mention that some Hasids are successful. Even the successful ones try to get on the government teat. Two years ago, 26 people were convicted of lying to the government about their income in order to fraudulently receive welfare. Two of the couples had income over 1 million dollars. Source: https://www.nj.com/ocean/2017/07/meet_the_26_charged_in_lakewood_fraud_probe_who_th.html

    Americans need to learn about how these Hasidic communities are taking advantage of our generosity and put pressure on the federal, state and local governments to stamp out the abuse.

    We need systemic change to stop this abuse of our welfare programs.

    And,the leaders of these communities need to stop encouraging their young men to be dead-beat dads.

  • NY county’s Republican ad warns of a hasidic ‘takeover’

    09/09/2019 7:17:05 PM PDT · 35 of 38
    grasshopper2 to Eleutheria5

    The Hasidic (ultra-Orthodox Jewish people) are engaging in ethnic cleansing as they colonize municipalities with the goal of pushing out Gentiles except for a small number of Hispanic residents who they allow (as their servants.) The Hasidic are engaging in shameful behavior. What is the shameful behavior?

    (1) Aggressively soliciting people to sell their homes to them by using scare tactics. (You will be the only gentile left)

    Being bad neighbors - littering their own lawns with toys left astray, failing to upkeep the property, failing to show common courtesy to non-Hasidic people (would it kill them to say please and thank you? - God forbid, hold the door for a person entering the store right behind them instead of letting it slam in people’s faces?), teaching their children to stay away from non-Hasidic children (actually saying, in Yiddish, “get away from that “goy” or even worse, that “schvartzer”.) Goy is a derogatory term for gentile and schvartzer is a derogatory term for African-American. As a group, they are bigoted and racist.

    Once they own some property on a block they deliberately rent to bad tenants with the intent of lowering property values so they scoop up the rest of the houses on the block after the original homeowners panic and sell out. Once they own all the houses on the block they kick out the bad tenants and move themselves in.

    (2)Shamefully filing religious discrimination lawsuits (RLUIPA) to bypass local zoning laws so they can build high-density housing which, once occupied, will later have illegal basement apartments that will not be inspected and no code will be enforced

    (3) Shamefully packing the public school board and with the clear intention of diverting funds from the public schools to their own private schools. Also packing the council, planning, zoning, etc.

    (4) Shamefully getting married at a very young age and having large families without any means of support and without any intention of looking for a job. The healthy, able-bodied young fathers will spend their days leisurely studying ancient religious texts while their wives struggle with baby after baby collecting welfare - section 8, food stamps, medicaid, every benefit available - all thanks to the American taxpayer.

    (5) Shamefully keeping their young males ignorant by failing to teach them any useful trade or providing any academic preparation for a profession.

    (6) Shamefully failing to properly teach their young males the English language.

    (7) Shamefully buying corrupt politicians with their block vote.

    (8) Shamefully taking over neighboring municipality’s parks (that they don’t pay taxes to maintain) then leaving their garbage strewn about making no effort to clean up after themselves.

    The Hasidic are very bad neighbors and the residents of Rockland County are correct in pushing back.

  • Patriots Mascot Hospitalized After Jets Safety Jamal Adams Tackles Him

    01/24/2019 12:51:16 PM PST · 11 of 42
    grasshopper2 to C19fan

    It’s as if Jamal Adams didn’t know there is a human being in that costume. He should apologize.