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Fair and biased news and commentaryArt Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.comBlogger3155125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-76387022624015982962010-09-08T09:18:00.002-04:002010-09-08T09:22:22.239-04:00WE'VE MOVED!<a href="http://www.moremonmouthmusings.net">MoreMonmouthMusings</a> has moved to <a href="http://www.moremonmouthmusings.net">MoreMonmouthMusings.net</a><br /><br />We hit a snag accessing the archives so this site will remain up until the we fit that.Art Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-67550786011195088572010-09-06T17:00:00.000-04:002010-09-06T17:00:00.070-04:00Garden State Of Mind<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/T_PCQ0yTxY0?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/T_PCQ0yTxY0?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />I hope you a great Labor Day Weekend. <br /><br />Unless something extraordinary happens, this will be the last MoreMonmouthMusings post on blogspot.<br /><br />See you tomorrow at MoreMonmouthMusings.net. Don't change your bookmarks just yet. This url will forward to the new one.Art Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-32094590080100505682010-09-06T12:38:00.003-04:002010-09-06T12:50:04.076-04:00Open HouseMMM is moving to <a href="http://www.moremonmouthmusings.net">MoreMonmouthMusings.net</a> tomorrow.<br /><br />If you happen to be on your computer instead of out enjoying the fabulous weather today, feel free to stop by the new place. The movers are still bringing the furniture and the exterminator will be busy getting rid of the bugs for a few days or weeks. As time goes by we might even add a new window or two, but our new home is just about ready.<br /><br />If you stumble across any bugs, or anything that bugs you, leave a comment, here or there.<br /><br />Happy Labor Day and Happy Birthday to Governor Chris Chrisite!<br /><br />ArtArt Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-4882550997169079532010-09-05T11:45:00.003-04:002010-09-05T11:53:07.841-04:00Anna Little On Bob Grant Show At 12:35 PMNJ-6 Congressional Candidate Anna Little will appear live on the Bob Grant Radio Show this afternoon at 12:35 PM.<br /><br />The show can be heard at 770 AM radio (WABC) or by clicking <a href="http://player.streamtheworld.com/_players/citadel/?sid=826&nid=2920">here.</a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7dp-vcLdwLKYQlLdAg8Z30McJID54pAk8WktDhH1WHBbZ1Xq0vw_O8ufdhxSvyAgnDvRLNQuvrH2_Q6eZ1zTVCjN0LxDeHMQ87Ipac6IXGhEH5h4C3J32aVPZAgKgi34Bzoe4/s1600/Little+large+side+bar.bmp"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 192px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7dp-vcLdwLKYQlLdAg8Z30McJID54pAk8WktDhH1WHBbZ1Xq0vw_O8ufdhxSvyAgnDvRLNQuvrH2_Q6eZ1zTVCjN0LxDeHMQ87Ipac6IXGhEH5h4C3J32aVPZAgKgi34Bzoe4/s320/Little+large+side+bar.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513457717414752322" /></a>Art Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-316663701136597402010-09-04T14:32:00.003-04:002010-09-04T15:46:08.692-04:00James Hogan Is The Ideal County Committee PersonCounty Committee people of both parties throughout New Jersey take note: <a href="http://averagenoone.blogspot.com/2010/09/open-letter-to-republicans-of-long.html">James Hogan</a> of Long Branch is putting you to shame.<br /><br />Hogan was a Tea Party guy before there were Tea Parties. A regular guy,an <a href="http://averagenoone.blogspot.com/">Average No One</a> as he named his blog, who, distressed over the direction of his country, got off the couch (metaphorically, Jim is no couch potato) and started taking action to make a difference.<br /><br />Two years ago <a href="http://moremonmouthmusings.blogspot.com/2008/04/james-hogan-motivated-dedicated-and.html">Hogan jumped into politics</a> by running in the primary for the GOP nomination in CD-6. The GOP establishment treated him poorly, not even allowing him to speak at the nominating convention. Yet when the primary was over he offered his help to the nominee, <a href="http://moremonmouthmusings.blogspot.com/2008/06/new-beginnings.html">Judge Bob McCloud.</a><br /><br />Now Jim is a Republican county committee member from Long Branch. When he found out that there was no one running for the seat from his voting district in the June primary he knocked on his neighbors' doors and asked them to write him in. They did.<br /><br />With no organizational support, no fund raising, no one to asking him to, <a href="https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=18Mx1AoTua9qpL3jnQ6E0S-yF_gMdGMH4LL4CAuJ3psua7twWfsm_pR4PRIDm&hl=en&pli=1">Jim is working his district,</a> for GOP candidates and spending his own money doing so.<br /><br />Note to party establishment leaders who feel threatened by the emergence of so many newly engaged citizens like Jim Hogan and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1126659344#!/photo.php?pid=4563035&id=326551613995&ref=fbx_album">Anna's Army</a>: There is nothing to fear from patriotic, committed, passionate citizen volunteers who want to make a difference and want nothing in return. Not if your heart and head are in the right place.<br /><br />Note to Wayne Pominowski: Make James Hogan the <a href="http://www.monmouthcountyrepublicanparty.org/">Republican Of The Week.</a>Art Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-58682838264245108432010-09-04T12:33:00.002-04:002010-09-04T14:23:46.612-04:00Sex, Drugs and the Sacred Heart<em>By Art Gallagher</em><br /><br /><em>"Any <strong>pilgrimage to the sacred heart</strong> of the Jersey Shore music scene has to include a stop at the former home of the Upstage Club on Cookman Avenue in Asbury Park. It was, after all, the venue where Bruce Springsteen, the beginnings of what was to become the E Street Band, Southside Johnny and other local luminaries jammed and honed their skills between 1968 and 1971."</em><br /><br />That is the first line of an otherwise inane editorial in the <a href="http://www.app.com/article/20100903/OPINION01/9040303/Positive-note-for-Upstage">Asbury Park Press</a> today. Emphasis added by your favorite blogger.<br /><br />What is APP Editorial page editor Randy Bergmann thinking? What is he smoking? <br /><br />Invoking profound religious imagery about an abandoned Asbury Park building that might get rehabbed, because The Boss and Southside Johnny jammed there 30 years ago, as if the rockers are divine, is highly inappropriate and insensitive to devout Catholics. Perhaps not surprising from the same editorial board that said allowing a mosque at ground zero is the right thing to do, but insensitive and offensive just the same.<br /><br />For those who are unaware, <a href="http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/heart/heart1.htm">The Sacred Heart</a> is a symbol of Jesus to devout Catholics. A pilgrimage is a long journey of great moral significance to a sacred place.<br /><br />If Bergmann had used Islamic imagery rather than Christian imagery in his inane-itorial he'd be hiding out with Salman Rushdie now.Art Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-68663032909552868302010-09-04T09:19:00.002-04:002010-09-04T09:39:52.602-04:00Don't we just love to complainHurricane Earl has come and gone with hardly an impact, leaving New Jersey with a delightful Labor Day weekend.<br /><br />Here are the hill in Highlands the view is clear and beautiful. I can see well east of Long Beach Long Island. There's still cars entering Sandy Hook but the park will probably close soon. Lot D looks to be full. It should be a great day on the shore.<br /><br />It's not a great boating day as there is a strong Northeast wind on the Sandy Hook Bay. Maybe the boats will be out tomorrow.<br /><br />I can't help but be amused by the complaints I've heard and read about the lack of destruction left by Earl.<br /><br />"I secured the patio furniture for this?!," one friend said on facebook. "There wasn't even enough rain to water the grass!," was another complaint I've heard.Art Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-77741171128775818062010-09-04T06:45:00.002-04:002010-09-04T06:56:19.147-04:00Where oh where can the jobs be Frank?<em>By Susan Christopher</em> <br /><br />New Jersey’s unemployment rate climbed to 9.7 percent last month, up 0.1 percent from July according to the Department of Labor and Workforce Development. We are headed for the same recessionary high of 10.0 percent we saw back in December, 2009. So I have one question for our congressman of CD6, Frank Pallone, where are all the jobs the Democrats promised to create? After all wasn’t it Vice President Joe Biden who promised this summer we would see an end to joblessness in our nation? Seems the democrats make promises they just don’t keep. Let’s look at Pallone’s track record. Frank said on his Facebook page today that the $3 million he secured (well, well, can this be an earmark) will work to retain Fort Monmouth jobs, the funds given to New Jersey Tech. First, how can money given to NJ Tech save jobs? Second, why didn’t good old Frank fight to save Fort Monmouth to begin with? This would certainly have saved jobs. These are questions every constituent in the sixth congressional district should be asking! <br /><br />In an article titled, <em>Is Frank Pallone misinterpreting the Constitution for Insane earmark spending</em>, by Sergeant Chris Shalaby, the statistics indicate that Pallone spent over $62,000,000 on earmarks from the years 2008 thru 2010. This year isn’t over yet and he has already spent well over $20,000,000! Where and to whom is this money going? It certainly has not created any jobs. Shalaby provides that much of the money has gone to places such as Energy and Water, Labor-HHS-Education, Commerce, Justice & Science, et al. <br /><br />Voters of Congressional District 6 must really look at Pallone’s record and you will see what an arrogant, elitist this politician truly is. I will site you an example from something I read recently. It seems Pallone held a Town Hall Extravaganza in August of 2009 in Piscataway at the Municipal Building. He obviously knew that Americans were on their way to protest Pallonecare. He was caught bringing in a Coach bus loaded with performers toting Pro-Healthcare signs which were professionally made, to offset the anti-healthcare group. This is typical of a person who lacks integrity, and who shows signs of desperation!<br /><br />We in CD6 have a better choice. Her name is Anna Little. On the issue of jobs Anna believes that government does not produce free market jobs. She points out that reduction in taxes results in investment in those businesses that produce jobs. She maintains that we must support and promote a free market economy, not hinder or denigrate economic growth. <br /><br />On November 2nd vote for Anna Little for Congress. She understands Americans. Anna has what it takes to restore our economic growth and to bring prosperity back to America!Art Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-5561358439074475032010-09-03T18:13:00.002-04:002010-09-03T18:18:01.611-04:00The Phoney Palloney Special Interest Tour<em>By Joe Schilp, Cross posted from <a href="http://moremiddlesexmusings.blogspot.com/2010/09/frank-pallone-special-interest-tour.html">More Middlesex Musings</a></em><br /><br /><em><strong>Coming to your neighborhood soon, the 2010 Frank Pallone Special Interest Tour!</strong></em><br /><br />Realilzing that his career in Washington may be coming to end in 2 short months, Frank Pallone has embarked on a tour to drum-up special interest vote.<br /><br />Today he met with black ministers in Piscataway to promise cash for gang-busting.<br /><br />Yesterday afternoon he met with Orthodox Jews in Highland Park to promise cash for security.<br /><br />Yesterday morning he toured Women Aware facility in New Brunswick to promise cash for at-risk women.<br /><br />On Tuesday, he told low-income students he'd get them cash for student development.<br /><br />Notice a theme here? It's cash-for-vote time. If your group will vote for Frank , he can help you with cash!<br /><br />Never mind the fact that Pallone has had 22 years to fight gang violence, secure our nation, help women and educate the poor but failed to any of these things.<br /><br />In fact, it is liberal Frank Pallone who wants gun control, so only gang members can own firearms.<br /><br />It is liberal Frank Pallone who opposes cracking down on border security to keep terrorists (and gangs) out.<br /><br />It is liberal Frank Pallone who opposes school choice measures that could provide a decent education to the urban poor, who have been languishing in New Jersey's urban schools for generations. And education is the tool needed to keep kids out of gangs.<br /><br />It's time to retire Frank Pallone.Art Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-45352434686474927162010-09-03T16:49:00.002-04:002010-09-03T17:03:41.368-04:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Le7kej-31sB1xvBHhXPk6hozVVcKxDNdGY8sUqrMGmLKCOs0bgyiHo73vql3XwGuZ_LIdugcnLBuZlWskyiS-MWMXR1HvLvfH4Gzd47NgtKYp4qPoLHieWotxEewMvVgVYJL/s1600/njgop%2520banner(1).bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512795690800175122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 42px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Le7kej-31sB1xvBHhXPk6hozVVcKxDNdGY8sUqrMGmLKCOs0bgyiHo73vql3XwGuZ_LIdugcnLBuZlWskyiS-MWMXR1HvLvfH4Gzd47NgtKYp4qPoLHieWotxEewMvVgVYJL/s400/njgop%2520banner(1).bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><p align="center"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Rich, Bob, and Kenny Avon host<br /></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6666cc;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>GOVERNOR<br />CHRIS CHRISTIE</strong></span><br /></span><span style="color:#cc6600;"><span style="font-size:180%;">&</span><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#6666cc;"><strong>The Honorable<br />ANNA LITTLE</strong><br /></span></span><strong>~ Conservative Republican for Congress (NJ-6) ~<br /></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc6600;">BUILDING A STRONGER NJ</span><br /><br /></strong><span style="color:#cc6600;"><strong>Wednesday, September 8, 2010<br />6:00 – 8:00 PM</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="color:#cc6600;">At the Home of Kenny Avon<br />3101A River Road Pt. 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Contributions from corporations<br />and foreign nationals are prohibited. Federal law requires political committees to use their best efforts to obtain and report the name, address,<br />occupation and employer for each individual whose contributions aggregate in excess of $200 in an election cycle.</span></p>Art Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-79191495385464069962010-09-03T16:15:00.001-04:002010-09-03T16:18:39.039-04:00Anna Little Money Bomb!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPgpMAoYAg6flKHzz9rwP7Szzgn8mB5IOiVU1wHJ5FLNS1hEqgKeJdWvAX-cOAFELY9yJNBn9KRmhBjTkS7m8ROqLyMUB4thw9tnrVEegH_gJlbnsVBCVgMUFbxkkLQR-FYWxT/s1600/ACL+Money+Bomb.bmp"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPgpMAoYAg6flKHzz9rwP7Szzgn8mB5IOiVU1wHJ5FLNS1hEqgKeJdWvAX-cOAFELY9yJNBn9KRmhBjTkS7m8ROqLyMUB4thw9tnrVEegH_gJlbnsVBCVgMUFbxkkLQR-FYWxT/s400/ACL+Money+Bomb.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512783820274930402" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.annalittleforcongress.com/paypal/donation3.html">DONATE NOW</a>Art Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-311426471916431342010-09-02T14:53:00.002-04:002010-09-02T14:56:54.902-04:00Frank Pallone, Outside the Mainstream<em>By Joe Schilp, Cross posted at <a href="http://moremiddlesexmusings.blogspot.com/2010/09/frank-pallone-outside-mainstream.html">More Middlesex Musings</a></em><br /><br /><a href="http://www.politickernj.com/pallone-beck-rally-theyre-outside-mainstream">In an interview on PolitickerNJ</a>, Rep. Frank Pallone (NJ-6) claims that attendees of last weekend's rally hosted by Glenn Beck in Washington are outside the mainstream. The event was attended by hundreds of thousands of people including thousands from New Jersey.<br /><br />For Pallone to continually put down his opposition on the basis of religious belief and political philosophy shows that Pallone is a man intolerant of voices that disagree with his own. At the rally, Beck praised Martin Luther King, who hosted a massive rally in Washington nearly 4 decades ago that was, at the time, said to be attended by people "outside the mainstream." <br /><br />Last summer, Pallone was asked at a townhall meeting if he supports House Majority leader and uber-liberal Nancy Pelosi. I was there when Pallone answered the question and will never forget his response: "Not only do I support Nancy Pelosi, I consider her one of my favorite people in Washington."<br /><br />Frank Pallone, there is not person in the Sixth Congressional Disctrict more outside the mainstream than yourself. But Frank would not know that because he has moved full-time to Washington D.C., where his kids go to school and his wife has a full-time job. That's right, Pallone no longer lives in New Jersey and rarely visits. This year he refused to hold townhall meetings as well, so he has no idea what his constituents think or feel.<br /><br />It is time to retire Frank Pallone, an extremist and a major part of the problem.Art Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-11345196491979628572010-09-02T12:26:00.003-04:002010-09-02T12:49:22.658-04:00Happy Birthday Henry<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivse3_XAujaRp4JcbOwRRAzYiX5BXFDeVE7pXtC6Gz1bEGgpL2YRtYNZLoPOGrLiN7ylfVDt8aJnlwq9Rk7Ym_HRdEyxqOxoviJIyeP3AdmxyVdNAOkKPIdaG1I0JKObZgbdDe/s1600/Henry+V+and+Johnny+C.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 223px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivse3_XAujaRp4JcbOwRRAzYiX5BXFDeVE7pXtC6Gz1bEGgpL2YRtYNZLoPOGrLiN7ylfVDt8aJnlwq9Rk7Ym_HRdEyxqOxoviJIyeP3AdmxyVdNAOkKPIdaG1I0JKObZgbdDe/s320/Henry+V+and+Johnny+C.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512358919233996034" /></a><br />Today is my friend Henry Vaccarro Sr's birthday.<br /><br />Henry is such a class act. For his birthday he gave us a gift when he posted this video on his <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf#!/profile.php?id=100001151195848&ref=hpbday&pub=2386512837">facebook page.</a><br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/H8ZuKF3dxCY?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/H8ZuKF3dxCY?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Art Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-61254697556112384502010-09-02T11:37:00.002-04:002010-09-02T11:42:58.994-04:00Another Oil Rig Explosion In The GulfThere was an oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico at about 9am this morning, according to <a href="http://www.wdsu.com/r/24854300/detail.html">WSDU-New Orleans.</a><br /><br />The rig owned by Mariner Energy is 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay. 13 people were aboard he rig. All but one are accounted for.Art Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-20590099842207121962010-09-02T11:24:00.002-04:002010-09-02T11:36:58.459-04:00Rush Holt Stifles Free Speech...Again<a href="http://moremonmouthmusings.blogspot.com/2010/08/mmm-welcomes-abram-n-spanel.html"><em>By Abram N. Spangel</em></a><br /><br />Love him or hate him, no one can accuse Rush Holt of being an advocate of free speech. <br /><br />Just yesterday Rush Holt performed a Tony Soprano impersonation by announcing that he was going to "request" that television stations pull an ad critical of Holt's policies with respect to Israel.<br /><br />Let's look at Holt's record on free speech. <br /><blockquote>In September of 2006, Holt tried to pressure Connecticut television stations to pull commercials produced by U.S. Rep. Nancy Johnson who was running against Democrat challenger Chris Murphy to represent Connecticut's 5th District in the U.S. House of Representatives.<br /><br />Holt voted against repealing the so-called fairness doctrine which is aimed at stifling conservative voices on talk radio shows.<br /><br />When the FCC pushed to regulate broadband Internet access in May of 2010 under the decades old rules governing telecommunications, Holt was silent. One problem with this more rigorous regulation is that using land-line phone rules to govern Internet traffic will reduce capital expenditures on Internet infrastructure by billions of dollars, ultimately leading to less Internet content. <br /><br />On July 2, 2010, the Transportation Security Administration informed all of its employees that all of the TSA's computers would block out websites that provided controversial opinion. Again, Rush Holt had no issues with this level of censorship.<br /><br />In a town hall meeting on Obamacare in Marlboro, NJ, in late January 2010, Holt ripped the microphone out a female constituent's hands when he didn't like the direction of her question. Holt isn't participating in any real live town hall meetings anymore. Further, in his telephone town hall meetings, Holt's process of screening out of potential unfriendly participants is tighter than a mosquito's ass stretched over a basketball hoop.<br /><br />Holt is doing everything he can to avoid, or at least delay, debating the Republican challenger for his seat in Congress.<br /><br />Holt expressed no concern when President Obama claimed that there was a role for the government to play in censoring speech when he said, "information is becoming a distraction, a diversion which is putting pressure on our country and on our democracy" in his commencement address at Hampton University in Virginia on May 9, 2010. </blockquote><br />Despite all of Holt's efforts to impede free speech, there is one situation whereby Holt supports free speech. Many residents of New Jersey's 12th District have witnessed it first-hand. Holt suddenly becomes a free speech advocate when he has the opportunity to abuse his franking privileges to carpet bomb the district with his campaign material at taxpayer expense.Art Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-73650826467643805612010-09-01T21:04:00.002-04:002010-09-01T21:31:12.048-04:00Holt To Ask Cable TV Companies To Pull AD<em>By Art Gallagher</em><br /><br />Congressman Rush Holt, JR is asking NJ Cable TV companies to stop running <a href="http://moremonmouthmusings.blogspot.com/2010/08/blog-post.html">this ad</a>, <em>"What Does Rush Holt Have Against Israel"</em>, because of a <strong><em>“blatant lack of any semblance to the truth,”</em></strong> according to an article in the <a href="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/08/television_ad_by_republicans_p.html"><em>Star Ledger</em></a>.<br /><br /><em>"Blatant lack of any semblance to the truth."</em> That's an interesting choice of words. Original too, if this <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Blatant+lack+of+any+semblance+to+the+truth%22&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7GGLR&filter=0">google search</a> is any indication. While Holt's spokesman may have coined a new phrase, there is one thing the statement is not---it is not a statement in support of Israel.<br /><br />The ad was paid for by the Emergency Committee for Israel, which has produced four similar ads in other states since its founding in July. It is run by Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, evangelical Christian activist Gary Bauer and conservative writer Rachel Abrams, according to the <em>Ledger.</em><br /><br />So far the Holt campaign has not contacted <em>MMM</em> to pull the YouTube video of the ad <a href="http://moremonmouthmusings.blogspot.com/2010/08/blog-post.html">posted yesterday</a>. Just because we're <em>Fair and Biased</em>, we'll post this video of Holt instead in this story.<br /><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CAQ-ousyq7I&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CAQ-ousyq7I&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>Art Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-87733054850498968082010-09-01T08:16:00.001-04:002010-09-01T08:25:24.169-04:00Rush Holt is a gratuitously vulgar hypocrite.<em><a href="http://moremonmouthmusings.blogspot.com/2010/08/mmm-welcomes-abram-n-spanel.html">By Abram N. Spangel</a></em><br /><br />On his <a href="http://rushholt.com/content/us-rep-rush-holt-earns-democratic-nomination-congress-%E2%80%9Cmy-job-make-sure-american-dream-belon" target="_blank">website</a>, Holt points to a letter that he wrote to his then two Republican competitors for his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. In this June 7, 2010 letter, Holt calls for the Republican nominee to pledge to join him in “running a campaign that the voters will not only be proud of but excited to take part in.”<br /><br />Just over two weeks later on June 23, 2010, as soon as schedules permitted, Rush Holt or his staffers arranged to post an interview that Holt conducted with Stephanie Miller on the blog "<a href="http://fuckconservatives.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/stephanie-miller-rush-holt-on-gen-mcchrystals-comments-the-bp-oil-spill/" target="_blank">Fuck Conservatives</a>".<br /><br />Given that some 95% of the resident’s of New Jersey’s 12th congressional district hold positions to the right of Holt’s radical agenda, I suppose that Holt is sending almost all of us an indication of how much he respects his constituents’ opinions as well as a window on his character. All decent constituents will criticize Holt for his lack of judgment which was gratuitously offensive and proved Holt’s hypocrisy.<br /><br />Surely a sitting United States Congressman could have found a more respectable forum to convey his ideas. While Holt has the right to disagree with the more than 250,000 independent, undecided, and Republican voters in the district, he should do so in a manner more fitting for a representative of our district.<br /><br /><br />Postscript: It seems that the trough feeders that support Holt are too busy gorging on government spoils to show their “excitement for taking part-in” Holt’s re-election bid: Holt is resorting to paying his door-knockers $10 an hour to perform campaigning typically done by candidates and the constituents who believe in them.Art Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-81888887721273795422010-08-31T22:03:00.001-04:002010-08-31T22:03:51.351-04:00<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/d7XNr8oLcn0?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/d7XNr8oLcn0?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>Art Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-15720512970389898692010-08-31T06:41:00.005-04:002010-08-31T08:56:47.517-04:00A Wave That Started On The Jersey Shore<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgieHZJn_60LAj_PL12Pj902G__vewtfOhRKSvf48ebLMYyS6KpVDNNHv2c5AulSXBvafbhHw0i0igjRa3T_ufSPymBQqZ_we4ncgmoFk1B-H1NsB4tdB3ExDbxYW_nK2BbMa6Q/s1600/anna_ocean_grove_cnn_019.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgieHZJn_60LAj_PL12Pj902G__vewtfOhRKSvf48ebLMYyS6KpVDNNHv2c5AulSXBvafbhHw0i0igjRa3T_ufSPymBQqZ_we4ncgmoFk1B-H1NsB4tdB3ExDbxYW_nK2BbMa6Q/s320/anna_ocean_grove_cnn_019.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511538079038206818" /></a><br />Over 100 volunteers in Anna's Army descended upon Ocean Grove on short notice yesterday for a rally, door to door literature drop and show of force for Anna Little's interview with CNN.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Photo credits: </span><a href="http://www.bayshoreteaparty.org/Anna_Little_Events.php"><span style="font-size:78%;">Bayshore Tea Party Group</span></a> <br /><br />I don't remember the national media ever paying attention to a New Jersey congressional race. Something is happening. <br /><br />CNN's Soledad O'Brien interviewed Little and Congressman Frank Pallone yesterday. Little told <em>MoreMonmouthMusings </em> that she was very happy with how the interview went. Little understands that the segment will be the first part of a series on the mid-term election campaign. It is expected to air during the second week of September. No matter how CNN spins it, advantage Little. Something is happening.<br /><br />Something has been happening for months. Its gaining traction. Those who subscribe to the conventional wisdom are starting to notice. They can see the wave coming.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHB-9aKUakpKdXDtxm4O7WLa6ap0dpvum5L0MDaamkamc5LCwNgTQgnLHgqZItuSZAKzM4TaVK9cxvGT5pym8DaUhv4KpGPyK8qEZ_xJ4W3cIznJ5k7v97qH3Wj7BaAHvQdOqx/s1600/anna_ocean_grove_cnn_034.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 234px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHB-9aKUakpKdXDtxm4O7WLa6ap0dpvum5L0MDaamkamc5LCwNgTQgnLHgqZItuSZAKzM4TaVK9cxvGT5pym8DaUhv4KpGPyK8qEZ_xJ4W3cIznJ5k7v97qH3Wj7BaAHvQdOqx/s320/anna_ocean_grove_cnn_034.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511539761787343106" /></a><br /><br />Those who were resigned to Frank Pallone staying in congress are waking up. They are starting to <a href="http://annalittleforcongress.com/paypal/donation3.html">invest</a> in Anna Little's campaign. Little, who had only $16K on hand in June has raised over $200K and has over $100K on hand. That's still paltry compared to Pallone's $4 million +, but the cash is coming with the wave and Little won't need a million to beat Pallone. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxbgmzasHTbqSrbx2d63de69rHJcFviL-L0MpdUi0xR1ZBBgE19QYF8x10qPKR4E_TM_-u5LozBrzqvl3ZG2XcuxYLFcTlNXcus-IC1xFxCYJ-y51_LQt-PmLH4UUs4VdI9i2c/s1600/anna_ocean_grove_cnn_010.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxbgmzasHTbqSrbx2d63de69rHJcFviL-L0MpdUi0xR1ZBBgE19QYF8x10qPKR4E_TM_-u5LozBrzqvl3ZG2XcuxYLFcTlNXcus-IC1xFxCYJ-y51_LQt-PmLH4UUs4VdI9i2c/s320/anna_ocean_grove_cnn_010.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511548994083042834" /></a><br /><br />As my friends as InTheLobbly said yesterday, <a href="http://www.inthelobby.net/modules.php?name=News&file=categories&op=newindex&catid=1">"make no mistake -- if Pallone is defeated, that Republican wave began right off the Jersey Shore."</a><br /><br />It's not a <em>Republican</em> wave. It's an <em>American</em> wave that rejects the Obama/Pelosi/Pallone/Holt extremism.Art Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-57430955992875528572010-08-31T04:54:00.002-04:002010-08-31T05:34:51.583-04:00Schundler Admits $400 Million Goof<em><strong>Denies Lying About It</strong></em><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/08/fired_nj_education_chief_bret.html">Bret Schundler</a> admits that he is responsible for the clerical error that cost New Jersey $400 million in federal "Race To The Top" education funding. <br /><br />He doesn't remember making the error, but he accepts that he did because he has learned that the consultants the state paid $179K to assist with the application found the missing page with Schundler's handwriting on it. He knows he did it, but he doesn't remember doing it. That is plausible, but why does it matter what he remembers? <br /><br />Schundler also doesn't remember misleading Governor Christie about attempting to correct the error with the U.S Department of Education. <br /><br />Schundler said he didn't lie. He probably didn't outright lie. Yet, he was in a meeting with Christie reporting on the rejected application and discussing how the Governor would handle the situation with the press. When the Governor said he was going on the offensive and blaming Obama and the Education Department bureaucrats for not allowing the error to be corrected, Schundler should have warned against doing so in a way that was unforgettable. That's what a good team member would do.<br /><br />Schundler said he told Christie in the prior to the press conference meeting that he did not give the USDOE the missing information. Deputy Chief of Staff Maria Comella said she was in the meeting at Schundler did not say that.<br /><br />Someone has a memory problem.Art Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-89204275842654625932010-08-30T19:14:00.013-04:002010-08-31T06:34:04.331-04:00POWER OUTAGE UPDATE<em><strong>The Power Is Back On In Belford, Not In Highlands</strong></em><br /><br />Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden just reported from the Emergency Management Center in Freehold that JCPL is restoring the power to Monmouth County in stages, from Belmar north.<br /><br />Golden said that power throughout the county is expected to be restored within 1.5<br />hours, or by 9PM.<br /><br />In an earlier report to the <a href="http://www.app.com/article/20100830/NEWS/100830086/Thousands-lose-power-in-Monmouth-County">Asbury Park Press</a>, the Sheriff's Department said a Tinton Falls power substation near the Earle Navy base experienced a malfunction and is believed to be the source of the power outage that has hit most of Monmouth County and parts of Ocean County.<br /><br />There are less significant outages in Middlesex, Hunterton, Somerset and Morris counties, according to <a href="http://www.firstenergycorp.com/outages/outages.do?state_code=NJ">First Energy's map.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.firstenergycorp.com/outages/messages.do?state_code=NJ">First Energy's website has no restoration information</a>.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">UPDATE: 7:55PM</span></strong> First Energy now says that the majority of customers will have their power restored by 9PM, with the rest by midnight.<br /><br /><a href="http://averagenoone.blogspot.com/2010/08/monmouth-county-power-outage-again.html">James Hogan</a> reported at 5:20:<br /><br /><blockquote><p><span style="font-size:85%;">Update 5:20pm<br />Still no word from APP but a source (wink wink) indicates that Frank Pallone found out that Anna's Army was with CNN today working the streets of Neptune and he is now falling behind in polls. After learning that he'd be heading to an early retirement, he utilized his position on the House Energy and Commerce to turn off the power to NJ until November 3rd. </span></p></blockquote><br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>8:10</strong></span> The power is on in Highlands.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">UPDATE 12:13 AM, August 31</span></strong><br /><br />A reader from Shrewsbury says:<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-size:85%;">"Non-story my tuchus. Going on 9 hours and for no good reason other than JCPL pinching pennies on equipment. Never had outages like this when I was in PSGE territory. Listening to my neighbor's industrial generator all night and sweating my ass off because I can't open the windows or it will be even louder.<br /><br />Its like we live in a third world country."</span></blockquote>Art Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-12920909663625049462010-08-30T09:22:00.002-04:002010-08-30T09:27:56.090-04:00CNN IN NJ-6 TODAYCNN's <a href="http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/obrien.soledad.html">Soledad O'Brien</a> will interview GOP congressional candidate Anna Little this morning in Ocean Grove as she goes door to door with a contingent of volunteers.<br /><br />O'Brien will interview Congressman Frank Pallone this afternoon, according to <a href="http://www.politickernj.com/cnn-headed-6th"><em>Politickernj.</em></a>Art Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-21632184536256582802010-08-29T14:29:00.002-04:002010-08-29T14:34:17.129-04:00190 $1 million + Homes For Sale In Rumson AreaSo says <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/town_is_down_on_its_luxe_h2KfL1RTRUF68NNBtb04IL">this article</a> in today's NY Post.<br /><br />If Obama, Pelosi, Pallone and Co let the "Bush tax cuts" on the rich expire, how many "rich" will be left to pay the increase?Art Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-41815486141926630182010-08-29T08:18:00.003-04:002010-08-29T12:24:48.718-04:00We Are A Nanny State<em>By Art Gallagher</em><br /><br />Forget trying to save America from socialism. We've already lost that war. We can and should fight to reverse how we've lost our freedom and personal responsibility, but not before we realize that we've lost it. <br /><br />Bret Schundler is proof that we've become a nanny state.<br /><br />The situation with Schunlder's termination as Education Commissioner and New Jersey's rejected application for $400 million in federal "Race to the Top" funding is a serious mess for the Christie administration and for the State of New Jersey.<br /><br />Trenton Democrats and the mainstream media can be counted on to exploit the situation throughout the fall, slowing Governor Christie's reform agenda and "tool kit" legislation. Previously demoralised Democrats now have an issue to play throughout the election campaign. The tit for tat between Christie and Schunlder over whether or not Schundler "mislead" the Governor can weaken both men's' credibility and standing. All of the above is a matter of great concern. If anyone can turn it around in a hurry and prevent the damage, Chris Christie can. I hope he does.<br /><br />But what concerns me more than the immediate fallout of the RTT/Schundler mess is how far we've crept towards a nanny state, as demonstrated by Schundler's grab for the government tit in the form of unemployment benefits.<br /><br />When the first instinct of a guy with the talent, skill, intellect, and <em>conservative philosophy </em>of Bret Schunlder upon a career set back is to secure unemployment benefits, regardless of if he is <em>entitled</em> to them, you know we're in trouble. Actually, maybe you don't know, given how deeply the entitlement mentality has taken over our culture. "Well I've paid into the system, why shouldn't I take advantage of it?," is the thought that many rely on to justify applying for <em>benefits</em> that they don't <em>need</em> but think they are <em>entitled</em> to.<br /><br />Because you don't need it and that kind of thinking has lead us to the brink of financial ruin is the right answer to that justification.<br /><br />Just yesterday a young woman entering her senior year in college asked me how I got into my business. She was looking towards the future and inquiring of me and others about how we ended up where we did.<br /><br />My answer was that I fought for a job I was vastly overqualified for rather than accept unemployment benefits. <br /><br />That job as a car leasing salesman was a huge departure from my experience as a young banker working on billion dollar gas pipeline deals and nuclear power plant sale/lease backs and the job I had as Vice President of Sales for a Princeton area power supply manufacturer. But I couldn't stand accepting the handout and answering to the unemployment office about what I did to find a job every week. When the first check showed up in the mail with the questionnaire to be sent in, I sent the form back saying on I got a job. Then I went and got a job.<br /><br />Now a days, people wait for their unemployment benefits to run out before they accept a job that is beneath their experience or start a business.<br /><br />Bret Schundler doesn't need unemployment benefits. Many people, maybe even most, who apply for them don't <em>need</em> them. <br /><br />Schundler can come to work for one of my businesses. Doing so would be beneath his experience, but would be a huge opportunity for me. He could earn more than the max that unemployment offers, but he would have to earn it. I wouldn't mind if he left in a month or so to become a university president or another big job. I'm sure there are many other small business owners in New Jersey who have long admired Bret who feel the same way.<br /><br />The same goes for all the other talent sitting on the sidelines in New Jersey waiting for their benefits to run out before they do what they have to do to pay the mortgage and put food on the table.<br /><br /><em>We</em> need to shift our safety net to a system based on <em>need</em> rather than the system based on <em>entitlement</em> that it has become. Until we do so and until individuals stand for their own freedom and responsibility before demanding that which they are <em>entitled</em> to, we have no hope of turning back the socialist creep.Art Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-1393158203004196512010-08-29T06:32:00.002-04:002010-08-29T07:14:15.255-04:00Ingle: Law Enforcement Demoralized By Fishman<em>By Art Gallagher</em><br /><br />Bob Ingle, <a href="http://www.app.com/article/20100829/OPINION05/8290339/1093/Jersey-not-corrupt-What-planet-is-Fishman-from-">the Gannet columnist and blogger</a>, the 3rd NJ101.5 Jersey Guy and the co-author of <a href="http://www.thesopranostate.com">The Soprano State</a> says that U.S Attorney Paul Fishman's declaration that New Jersey does not have a culture of corruption has demoralized law enforcement personnel who have been fighting corruption.<br /><br /><a href="http://moremonmouthmusings.blogspot.com/2010/08/fishman-nj-not-most-corrupt.html">Fishman said</a> that characterising New Jersey as corrupt was demoralizing to its citizenry.<br /><br />From <a href="http://moremonmouthmusings.blogspot.com/2010/08/fishman-nj-not-most-corrupt.html">Ingle's</a> column this morning:<br /><br /><blockquote><em>You don't write a book like "The Soprano State" without getting to know a lot of people, many of whom we came to respect as dedicated law enforcement personnel. They have kept in touch and one of the sad things is that demoralization is happening, but it isn't due to the stories about New Jersey corruption; it's due to Fishman's seemingly downplaying his office's role in finding political corruption and prosecuting it.</em></blockquote><br />When I wrote about Fishman's statements <a href="http://moremonmouthmusings.blogspot.com/2010/08/fishman-nj-not-most-corrupt.html">last week</a>, I implied that the directive to downplay corruption was coming from U.S. Senator Robert Menendez and the Obama administration.<br /><br />Ingle does me one better, saying that another candidate for the U.S. Attorney job was specifically asked if political corruption would be downplayed.Art Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.com0