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Sopranos Final Episode Shot Down in Bloomfield

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If you haven’t heard by now, the Bloomfield Town Council is rejecting permits allowing The Sopranos to film the final scene of the series in a local ice cream parlor. The genius Mayor of the town had this to say:

The mayor, whose wife is Italian, said: “I don’t think ‘The Sopranos’ depicts the life of a typical Italian-American in a positive way and I still don’t like the way people see New Jersey based upon ‘The Sopranos’ series.”

He added that he plans to oppose filming again on Monday. “What the rest of the council does, that’s their choice. I stand by my convictions.”

How completely ridiculous? Where in the Councilman job description does it say, “If you disagree with a television show’s portrayal of a certain ethnic group, you have the ability to deny this group their right to film in your town, even though they meet all necessary regulations.”

In a country where the Klu Klux Klan is still allowed to march and where Nazis and Communists are allowed to run for public office, are we really at a point where we need to start going after television shows? I mean come on, idiots!

And the really sad part about this situation is that the ice cream parlor, Holsten’s Brookdale Confectionary, and its owners are the ones being hurt the most from this arrogant Mayor and his “personal convictions.” Quite frankly, I don’t see why in our lawsuit-happy state, these folks wouldn’t file every lawsuit in the book against the Mayor. By virtue of this parlor being the location of the final scene of the show, their sales would go through the roof just as they would become a statewide legend.

The amount of lost profits that the store would be suffering through is monumental!

And all of this because the Mayor of the town doesn’t like the show?

Come on…this state’s local politicians CAN’T be that stupid!

Hey New Jersey – Let’s Keep Voting for these Guys!

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From the Asbury Park Press Online:

NEWARK (AP) — The former chairman of the Sussex County Democratic Party was sentenced Wednesday to six months in federal prison for helping bankrupt the health fund of the labor union he had founded.

Charles W. Cart, who pleaded guilty in May to two conspiracy charges, must also serve six months under house arrest and repay $144,077 to the bankruptcy trustee for Local 16 of the United Service Workers of America in Newton.

Cart, 57, of Newton, was the fourth and final person to admit a role in victimizing the union, which represents factory workers, auto mechanics, salespersons and others.

Hey, let’s make sure that the Democrats get another sweeping victory in New Jersey the next time we have our elections, ok? There are low-income folks in this state who are so brainwashed into voting for whoever has the “D” after their name that they don’t even care about stories like this one.

But what’s the point of complaining in New Jersey? The Democrats are just going to win the next election (and the one after that) and the low-income areas of New Jersey will rejoice…

…as New Jersey politicians continue to pick their pockets.

More Progress in Neptune Township, NJ

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Congratulations are in order for the outgoing Township Committee in Neptune Township, NJ. Over the last few years this committee has enacted one of the broadest redevelopment campaigns in the state. Focusing on a “Gateways to Neptune” approach, they are hitting areas of the town that have been neglected by both political parties over the last few decades.

That’s decades, folks. Not years or months – decades.

This all began with their West Lake Avenue Revitalization Project. Since then, they’ve begun planning a Municipal Marina in the Shark River Hills section of town and a community-based housing development in the Midtown area on Ridge Avenue.

For someone like me who works in the community-based field and who studies community-based development projects, this is truly amazing. For a small suburban town like Neptune to enact so many projects that are rooted in the community’s wants and (more importantly) their needs is unheard of in New Jersey redevelopment, let alone in redevelopment anywhere.

Kudos to the Neptune Township Committee for making real strides towards helping the people of Neptune Township move forward.

“Those Damn College Kids!”

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I’m sure that the quote above has been screamed day after day inside the homes of delusional residents since the completely rude, completely asshole-ish summer tenants left a few weeks ago and alleviated our local towns of their inherent arrogance. How crazy are things in Ocean Township now, you ask?

Well, remember the stories that we had over the summer months coming out of Ocean Township:

Yes folks, that was just the crap that took place in this town over the summer months! Now I ask you – with all of this garbage going on in Ocean Township, New Jersey, do they REALLY have room to complain about college students? I think not. As a matter of fact, I think it’s obvious that they put the blame for all of their ills on the backs of college students from September through May. It’s disgusting and it’s blatantly obvious to anyone who actually looks at this stuff to see that this town has got a serious “good old boy” problem that needs to be fixed.

What prompted this post were the following stories:

  • Underage Drinking on the Rise
  • Peeping Tom Gets Caught

Are you serious? These assholes have the audacity to say that underage drinking is on the rise because of the college? Read your own stories and you’ll see that that’s not true!!!

And the second story – there was a peeping-fucking-Tom staring at people through their windows! Isn’t that a little more serious than some high school kids having a beer (I say high school because the drinking problem is NOT college-related, that’s just the media taking an easy shot at the university)?

Oh, but it gets better. Another local paper publishes the following:

That’s right, folks. Not only is there that gigantic list above of completely ridiculous problems from the summer months, but now we also have prostitution and 14-year-olds setting fires in town!

But hey…gotta go after those college students, right?

Ridiculous.

Here We Go! First Story Against College Students

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The school year has just begun for Monmouth University students and we have our first, “college kids are bad” report for the year!

Let’s review this article, shall we? First, the event took place in Ocean Township – a town renowned for its destruction of collegiate civil rights. Right off the bat I take everything that may or may not have happened at this particular event with a grain of salt.

Oooo, it’s the third time this month that police have had to respond to an underage drinking party. Funny – they respond to three underage drinking parties on the drop of a dime, but it took them months to figure out that a pervert was living amongst them.

They go on to say that the police have broken up a number of high school parties, too. Okay, that’s fair reporting. No complaints there.

The rest of the article details what happened when the police went to the party, who got tickets, where the kids were from, etc. From the story, it seems like this was a situation that needed to be “broken up” for the sake of the neighbors…but given the history of Ocean Township and their EXTREMELY nosy neighbors, I wouldn’t be surprised if the locals had all been staying up late to wait for a party to take place.

Then again, I wasn’t there so I won’t offer such comments…I’ll just think them to myself and now that given previous experiences, I’m probably right. 😉