Posted on 08/12/2008 9:51:26 AM PDT by djsherin
When one lives in New Jersey, one sets one's expectations accordingly. We are a people, after all, whose two pro football teams still call themselves "New York." Whose governor responded to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by appointing a man he later said was his lover to be the state's adviser for homeland security. Whose most famous mayor -- Jersey City's Frank Hague -- left office more than 60 years ago but is still remembered for having a special desk drawer he could push out like a bank teller, the easier for those sitting before him to deposit their cash. Whose . . . well, you get the point.
The point is that these aren't aberrations. These more or less represent business as usual in our beloved Garden State. So when the good guys actually win one, it's big news.
That's just what happened last Thursday. In the latest of man-bites-dog rulings from the state courts, a three-judge panel of the New Jersey Appellate Division actually sided with ordinary homeowners over a greedy local government and developer.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Flying Swine alert!
Oink, Oink dittos!
GRIP! Get Rid of Incumbent Politicians!
There was a famous case a while back of an elderly woman who successfully fought off an attempt by the Atlantic City Casino Authority to seize her property so that Donald Trump could build a parking garage for one of his casinos.
I just finished reading Government Pirates by Don Corace.....book ticked me off to no end. I’m very very happy for the NJ home owners!
The book was a real eye opener, it’s hard to believe these things can happen here.
This is a good start. But government abuse of the eminent domain laws does and will have disastrous and long-lasting affects as long as local governments are willing to play “Property Tax Pool” with OUR property.
This is one of the mosr serious abuses of the law by the political elites and it must stop NOW!! We can’t be content to sit idly by and let the government steal our neighbor’s property just because they didn’t steal ours!! Our property could be next and, by then, it’s to late to go backwards in time and protest against them stealing our neighbor’s property.
If the property tax political elites won’t take a polite request to cease and desist, many of us have more persuasive ways of getting them to change their minds.
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Oooooooh!! I LIKE THAT!!
C'n I use it!!??
Oh, and it’s New Joisey, where “er” and “ur” are pronounced “oi”, and “oi” is pronounced “er”.
earn = oin
frankfurt = franfoit
hurt = hoit
oil = erl
toilet = terlet
coin = kern
You get the idea.
:)
Yes, the homeowners did win. Now, take a look at New London's Fort Trumbull neighborhood!! What a shame!!
Sure, I stole it from Jim Gearhart the morning talk guy on NJ 101.5.
http://www.nj1015.com/personalities/jim-gearhart.shtm
“Jersey City’s Frank Hague — left office more than 60 years ago but is still remembered for having a special desk drawer he could push out like a bank teller, the easier for those sitting before him to deposit their cash”
I’ve had the personal pleasure of actually seeing this desk..this desk still survives in Jersey City’s City Hall.
The accent you describe is from New York, either Brooklyn or the Bronx, that’s where my grandfather grew up and in over 50 years in NJ he is the only person I know who ever said earl or terlet.
Sounds like the basis for another tax hike to me.
I take it you haven’t been around too many Jersey people. We do not speak “Brooklyn-ese”, nor do we sound like The Sopranos. NJ gets a bad rap as it is, don’t make it worse.
You’re the same people who think NJ is one big toxic landfill. I find it insulting.
MMJ (NJ and proud of it.)
I’m a NJ transplant...October will mark 10 years. Sure, NJ has its problems but I can honestly say that I like living here. Maybe it’s because we’ve established our adult lives here: my husband has a good job, we live in a nice area, we’re active in our community and our children are Jersey-born. To be truthful we won’t be retiring here. But we’re doing fine and happy as we live our lives.
People that think of NJ as a big toxic landfill haven’t seen it’s mountains, beaches, gorgeous communities, great parks, etc. And there are certainly a lot of good people here.
Ohhhh, do not encourage this. When I was in college in western Pennsylvania (Grove City College) I could hardly go a week without being asked where my accent was or whether I was related to Tony Soprano.
Meanwhile I had to listen to people saying the “car needs washed” or the “toaster needs fixed.”
Take it easy!
When my Dad and his sister immigrated from Italy in the 1930s, he lived in Newark with his uncle and half a dozen or more cousins. Then he moved to the City to work for Lionel.
I still have dozens, if not hundreds, of relatives in the Newark area.
For my Dad’s relatives who remained in the Newark area, I remember the accent on top of their Italian accent being as I described.
> it’s mountains, beaches, gorgeous communities, great parks, etc.
I have seen these, and they are as gorgeous in New Jersey as they are anywhere else I’ve seen.
> And there are certainly a lot of good people here.
Of course!
As I pointed out in a previous post, I have dozens of relatives still there.
We saw some of them last week, one of whom is a retired Newark detective.
And he has that accent!
They laugh at my Bahstan accent and ask me to say, “Park the car in Harvard yard.”
Of course, it alwasy comes out “Pahk the cah in Hahvid yahd,” which brings gales of laughter.
But to me, it sounds like my Jersey relatives are saying, “Poo-wuk the coo-ur in hoovud you-wud.”
And they pronounce dog as “doo-wug”.
I think regional accents are WONDERFUL things, and add color and humor to life.
In Italy, regional accents are dialects, and in some places, like Sicily, standalone languages..
Mussolini wanted to do away with the regional dialects.
My mother was born in Sicily, when Mussolini was in power. On her first day of school, the teacher told the chidlren that when they went home, they had to tell their parents that they speak Italian now, instead of the regional dialect.
When my mother went home, she repeated that to her grandparents. My grandfather smiled at my mother and said, “We speak whatever language we want in this house.”
Ok, ok, you’re forgiven.
My dad was raised in Newark during the Depression along with his 9 other siblings. Newark was a beautiful city at one time. I myself, grew up there was it was still a thriving metropolis.
Tourists who fly into Newark airport only see oil fields and Port Newark. Outsiders don’t know the true beauty of NJ. And hey, I don’t have to pump my own gas!!
I’m glad you’re seeing it more clearly now, Westbrook...or else we’d have to get Uncle Vito and Cousin Vinnie on the phone to uh... “persuade” you to see it our way! ;) LOL
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