WHAT A JERSEY JOKE: FEDS LUMP GARDEN STATE WITH NYC FOR TERROR MONEY

NY Post ^ | January 6, 2007 | IAN BISHOP

[presidio9]

Firetrucks? Do you know, NYC spent its money on...trash trucks?

Wrong, that was Newark New Jersey.

[patton]

Es tut mir leid. I knew it was one of those crime-ridden, rat-infested, northeastern hell-holes. Really, who can tell them apart, anymore?

[presidio9]

You've got a lot of anger in you. I know that Newark and New York sound sort of alike, but New York City has one of the lowest crime rates of ANY major city in the US. I don't know much about the rats, but I can tell you that there are rats in ANY major city. Aside from the rats, New York City also has the Metropolitan Museum of art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Whitney, the Frick, the American Museum of Natural History, 100 other museums, Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera, Radio City Music Hall, Broadway, off Broadway, the Apollo Theater, SOHO, too many world class restaurants to name, Columbia University, New York University, Fordham University, 100 other schools of higher learning, the Bronx Zoo, the Coney Island Cyclone, Battery Park, Central Park, Prospect Park, Van Cortlandt Park, Riverside park, 100 other great parks, Times Square, Wall Street, the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the Flatiron Building, the Woolworth Building, hundreds of other impressive skyscrapers, Federal Hall, Saint Patrick's Cathedral, the Cathedral of Saint John the Devine, Trinity Church, the grave of Alexander Hamilton, Grant's Tomb, the graves of 100 other giants, Grand Central Terminal, 57th street, Fifth Avenue, Park Avenue, nine major league professional sports teams, and 9 million other reasons why it is the greatest city in the world. Plus, Jennifer Connelley lives in New York City. Bonus.

Did I mention that New York City was this nation's first capital? George Washington was sworn in a few feet from the the present site of the New York Stock Exchange.

Some hellhole. Please go on with your boring life in Virgina. You're not welcome here.

[patton]

LOL. I own a couple hundred acres upstate, and grew up at 560 Riverside Drive, you ass.

[presidio9]

"Upstate" has about as much relavance as Alaska when we are talking about New York City, and forgive me for finding it extremely difficult to believe that a native New Yorker would confuse Newark New Jersey with New York City. In any case, if did grow up on the Upper West Side, you may be thinking about New York City of the 1970's, which, I can assure you bears no resemblance to the current state of affairs.

[patton]

Seems pretty much the same to me - folks in NYC screaming, "We are the center of the universe - upstate doesn't matter any more than Alaska! Protect us, first, you hicks!"

Sorry I called you a name - that was rude of me.

I have tried to train myself out of that, since I left NYC. Still a daily struggle.

And you are correct - I left 560 Riverside in the 70's, never been in the city since. You might want to google that particular address.

BTW, I had my tenth birthday party at Grant's Tomb. Fun. My dad was taken hostage, in the grad library at Columbia, etc, etc, etc.

We moved to a civilized country after that - Japan. Nippondenso. Then on to Choson. Korea. Then back to the world - Virginia. Fullbright scholarships only go so far, you know.

My kids have never been to NYC. I won't let them go there.

[nopardons]

Since you claim to have lived in Manhattan, YOU should be able to tell Newark and Manhattan apart, but then, you can't remember where Grant's Tomb is located and have lied about building a treehouse/fort between two buildings (and/or lept between these same two building; depending upon how the mood strikes you ), in a place that it would have been physically impossible to build what you claimed.

In some posts, you state that you grew-up in Manhattan and in others, that you moved away, when you were seven.

And as far as rats are concerned, yes, Manhattan has rats; every major city, especially those situated on water, have rat populations. So?

[nopardons]

Until you were all of seven? :^)

[nopardons]

He doesn't even know where Grant's Tomb is. Some ex New Yorker! LOL

[patton]

let me respond to your post, in each particular:

Since you claim to have lived in Manhattan, YOU should be able to tell Newark and Manhattan apart

Can, and do, know the difference.

but then, you can't remember where Grant's Tomb is located

Riverside Park, right where it splits. Accross from Riverside church. What ever made you think I could forget?

and have lied about building a treehouse/fort between two buildings (and/or lept between these same two building; depending upon how the mood strikes you ), in a place that it would have been physically impossible to build what you claimed.

You would be amazed at what I built - at the time, I knew every cow tunnel under columbia university, every water tower on top, all of the ways a kid navigates a city. Why is that so hard to believe?

In some posts, you state that you grew-up in Manhattan and in others, that you moved away, when you were seven.

Moved away in 1973 or 1974, I forget. I was 11 or twelve. The seven thing, I never said, that I recall.

And as far as rats are concerned, yes, Manhattan has rats; every major city, especially those situated on water, have rat populations. So?

do you let the rats hold your wallet? NYC does.

[patton]

How astute of you. Travel much?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"...because that's where the media is, and that's were you are guaranteed of killing the most people."

Why, in your opinion, do you think the Islamofascists will only target the East Coast? Our ports are vulnerable, as are shopping malls across the land, sports stadiums, etc. Plenty-o-people to kill there, and no one can tell me that there aren't "sleeper cells" all over this nation. I still think that the Oklahoma City bombing WAS terrorism; they just had the brainwashed "Redheaded Stepchild" leading the way for ease of passage...and of course this happened on Clinton's watch, so "nothing to see here, move along!"

Do you think that they continued to plan to attack the East Coast because they got a total PASS in 1993 with the Twin Towers?

They're backwards but they don't appear to be totally stupid. I mean, anyone that could pull off 9/11 while we were asleep at the wheel has to have some overall game plan.

[nopardons]

You have a severely bad memory!

We have crossed swords, in the past, over that ludicrous story you keep posting to FR in NEWS, which is nothing more than your wild ravings about your supposed childhood in N.Y.C.! In said story, you have stated, quite clearly, the erroneous STREET NUMBER, of the site of Grant's Toms. That's HOW I know that you don't know where it is and has been situated for well over 100 years and NEVER moved.If your don't want your posts questioned and continually laughed at and refuted, I do heartily suggest that you GOOGLE Grant's Tomb and write down where it is, so that you stop erring on its postion.

Go read your post, re Newark and Manhattan, on this thread. Nobody who knows the difference between Newark and Manhattan would write such stuff.

First you claimed that you were in your late teens, when you moved away from N.Y.C., then you were seven, now you were 11 or 12? Good liars have GREAT memories; bad liars don't! Come on.....three or more different ages and now, today, you don't know if you were 11 or 12? And you expect people here to take you seriously? LOL

No, I wouldn't be "amazed" at all, since all of the things you write are FICTION! What I'd be "amazed" by, is if you ever tell the truth.

Back to the water towers, are you? The same WATER TOWERS whose function you not only wrote all kinds of silly things about, but which you also had NO idea whatsoever, why they were on top of those buildings, nor how they work, until several of us here TOLD you all about them? Those water towers? :-)

Did you eat paint chips, when you were a child living on Riverside Dr.?

[nopardons]

Probably more than you have and I know the neighborhood, which you keep trying to claim that you "know so well", far better than you.

You've been caught lying, yet again. Now, slink away.

[patton]

560 riverside drive is not the address of grant's tomb, genius. It is Columbia University Faculty housing, down the hill from Grant's tomb.

But keep talking, you are amusing, in a idiotic sort of way.

[nopardons]

Sweetums, we've been over this and over this, for years now. In your wee little story, you had Grant's Tomb situated at Riverside Drive and 110th Street! It is NOT there, except in your dreams. LOL

[presidio9]

Why, in your opinion, do you think the Islamofascists will only target the East Coast?

Population density. New York has the added bonus of disrupting global financial markets.

[presidio9]

Did you eat paint chips, when you were a child living on Riverside Dr.?

LOL, I'm starting to come around on you in spite of myself.

[presidio9]

He doesn't even know where Grant's Tomb is. Some ex New Yorker! LOL

I wonder if he knows who is buried there.

[nopardons]

:-)