Poor Blue Jersey. They are stuck defending Corzine, at least until the Dems replace him on the ballot, and taking shots at Chris Christie and Republicans.
The other day I was at the hairdresser’s and started reading TIME Magazine. The content was awful enough I dropped it and picked up a bridal magazine instead, which considering I have no one involved in wedding preparations and find the subject insipid, is a lot to say. Since I [...]
Number of comments: 0 Tomorrow we celebrate that most American of holidays. It was 233-years ago that forward-thinking men threw off the shackles of tyranny and declared themselves and our new nation free. A few more years of war would settle the deal but this was a shot in the arm for the colonial [...]
Larry Wallace | July 3, 2009 gloucovoices@gmail.com
Guess there's not much going on with the 3th district Legislative Candidates? That would be Lee Lucas of Gibbstown and Dr. Robert Villare of West Deptford (or is it Delaware?). They've been so quiet you probably didn't know who was [...]
It's even better to be a Republican turned Democrat!
Larry Wallace | July 3, 2009
Today, the Gloucester County Times reported that Logan Township Mayor Frank Minor was given a job at the Delaware River and Port Authority (DRPA). Minor orginally started his political career as a Republican but switched parties in 2007. Minor [...]
Demonstrators clashed with police and the army in Honduras (link in Spanish), and the country (as I posted yesterday) has suspended Constitutional protections on freedom of assembly during the curfew. Noticias 24 (see prior link for photos) also reports that Congress authorized detaining people [...]
This is the third Southern leader killed in cold blood this year. Thousands of demonstrators were arrested and dozens killed since the movement began in 2007. On June 28, in Abyan , security opened fired on the protesters again. Yesterday, security authorities of Aden province arrested (kidnapped?) leaders,[...]
So if Iranian ships are docking in Yemen and all is honky dory with Gaddafi, then the slew of accusations and allegations of Iranian and Libyan support of the Houthi rebels likely was just more bizarre spin and propaganda.
Just shutting down all forms of communications with the outside world.
Yemen Times SANA’A, June 24 - In an attempt to safeguard the morality of Yemen’s youth, the Ministry of Culture will step up its campaign to search internet cafes and CD sellers without warning.
The rebels deny kidnapping the foreigners, say security’s announcement of “hunting” for the victims is a sham.
The government’s massive campaign to blame the rebels lacks authenticity, considering the chrages were made with no investigation or proof. The three day delay in expanding the search beyond Sa’ada is bizarre.
Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney revealed in a phone call posted online that she is in an Israeli prison with others who attempted to run a blockade to deliver supplies to Gaza. McKinney and about 18 other activists in Israeli custody for the past [...]
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station [...]
I'm going to be hanging out with my family today, so no blogging (or even tweeting or facebook). Real conversation, not electronic :-) I'll leave you with this. The real reason famous people die in threes :-)...
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Number of comments: 0 4,000 Marines are taking it to the Taliban in Helmand Province and are expected to have a tough go. Obama--and by extension the media--haven't talked at all about the war against the Taliban and the fight to wrest control of areas causing problems because they have more important issues to [...]
All they do is lie. Its really a very Stalinistic regime- they lie big lies. From the ruling party’s website- no one was hurt in Dhalie:
Almotamar.net - Yemeni official information source has on Thursday (6/25) denied Al-Jazeera TV channel and other media instruments reports on occurrence of killed [...]
AQAP are insisting robustly that they knew the route of the Korean investigators though intensive surveillance. Otay AQAP! Discounting of course the logical and widespread assumption that the terrorists were tipped off, ie- elements in the Yemeni security knew in advance of the plot and provided the route of the [...]
This could actually be good news. With GM’s bankruptcy, it’s pretty clear that they want Hyatt Hills off of their books (especially the environmental liability of it all). And they’d probably forget that we owe them money.
(Note: The reason why it’s a golf course and not something else is that [...]
If you allow "In God We Trust" on a license plate, then you really have to let an atheist put a "No GODS" license plate on his car. Just seems like the fair thing to do in a society that...
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Number of comments: 0 From Nj.com:The Environmental Protection Agency today gave the go-ahead for 14 states, including New Jersey, to adopt stricter auto emission standards to curb green house gases.Our Governor wants to continue to make his mark in destroying the state New Jersey. You probably remember his insistence on government funded stem cell [...]
The criminalization of the state leads to incompetence and lack of oversight in all areas. I think the Yemeni “government” gave up trying to provide basic services a while ago and now its just wack-a-mole (reactive decision making).
Dead shrimp are one thing, but theres whole villages that have been [...]
Munir Mawari reviews the possible meanings of the divergence between Yemen and Saudi Arabia on the capture of “major financier” Saudi Hassan Alwan. Yemen says they captured him; the Saudis haven’t heard anything yet.
Its quite a similiar situation to the seven Saudis that Yemen breathlessly reported captured in February. [...]
Whoa, last time we checked, it was 2 million abroad. What did they do- give out six million bogus passports in the last two years? (The statistical anomaly is not unusual- during the 2006 elections, there were more registered male voters than men. The official unemployment statistics are pretty funny [...]
A good report entitled Social discrimination still dominates Yemeni culture from the Yemen Times. As I’ve noted since 2005, the Sa’ada War, to a degree, has its roots in the social inversion between the Hashemite class and the tribal class following the 1962 Republican revolution. But back to [...]
Number of comments: 0 After Republicans went on the record calling the Pelosi/Waxman Cap and Trade Bill an energy tax, the Democrats went on every television show they could declaring the energy bill a "JOBS BILL". And they, including President Obama touted the big job gains in this bill(from Whitehouse.gov):Make no mistake: this is [...]
No news on the six missing westerners. Fighting reduced, army moving. US denies claims of mapping project. 1200 remain in jail despite Saleh’s order to the contrary and the truce agreement.
Must adhere to the party line or else… The French maintain the plane was banned; Yemeni authorities insist it never happened. The military aircraft have similar problems with upkeep on their fleet. The maintenance budget(s) are subject to embezzlement, there’s no oversight and the press is barred from reporting on [...]
Our friends at InTheLobby have raised the question, What is Corzine's Plan B if the nation's unemployment rate keeps raising, maybe to 10% by the fall, and President Obama's popularity declines?
Corzine knows he can't win on his own merits. That is why he is feebly trying to [...]
Thats hysterical. Cloning is a time honored tactic of the Yemeni government in all areas- political parties, NGO, protesters etc.
Terrorist attacks mostly organized by al-Qaeda, Yemeni official SANA’A, July 02 (Saba) - Interior Minister Mutahr al-Masri has said that terrorist attacks carried out in Yemen during [...]
SANAA, Yeman (AFP)–Unknown attackers blew up an oil pipeline in southeast Yemen operated by a South Korean firm, causing a leak, police and industry officials said Thursday.
The attack took place Wednesday night in a region of [...]
How sleazy is this?
They trumpet the hell out of the fact that Lottery winnings in NJ aren’t taxed, and then they go make them taxable….retroactively.
Wow. So if you got about $25,000 earlier this year, paid off all your debts, took the missus to Bermuda for a week and spent a [...]
Wait, you may say, Independence Day isn’t until July 4th.
If you think that’s true, think again. For while the Continental Congress adopted our Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, it was on July 2 that that body officially declared independence from Great Britain by voting in favor [...]
Number of comments: 0 It was a disastrous day for the economy; the nation lost 467,000 jobs in June and the signs going forward are not promising despite what the Obama administration says or the rosy picture they are trying to paint:The payroll decline was more than forecast and followed a 322,000 drop in [...]
