So in case the few people who read my site don’t know, New Jersey’s in a massive budgetary crunch. Governor Jon Corzine, who is technically my boss, has decided he needs to close nine state parks to save a whopping $4.5 million dollars out of his $38 billion state budget.
It’s a whopping 0.011% of the state budget.
In comparison, in recent years, Corzine and cronies have pushed through borrowing $270 million dollars for stem cell research, amongst the myriad things like legislators double-dipping on their jobs, double-dipping their pensions and generally screwing we rank-and-file state employees by not funding our pensions.
Why is he doing this? We, as a population, said NO to his proposed toll hikes, which were rightfully exposed as a regressive tax on the middle class of this state. In a punitive measure, he has now declared he’s cutting state parks, cutting aid to public hospitals $108 million (0.28% of the state budget), cutting aid to state universities $76 million (0.2%), and eliminating the state Department of Agriculture to save $4 million (0.1%).
In several fell swoops of his ego, Corzine proposes cutting the poor and middle class out of this state entirely, and we who live here will eventually have no other choice but to move out and leave the rich and the party bosses alone in the mess they’ve created.
Corzine. Out. Now.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Originally published 2/10/2008
By MIKE VACCARO
February 10, 2008 — THE ball was in the air for what felt like a lifetime, and David Tyree was perfectly willing to wait it out that long if that’s what it took. All around him, the Super Bowl had come to a complete standstill. All around him, every eye, thousands of them, were fastened on a football.
“I couldn’t hear a thing,” Tyree said. “I felt like I was all by myself.”
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
I have a friend named Rachel.
She’s selling a signed and unedited proof of Neil Gaiman’s second short story collection “Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions”, published in 1998 – complete with a letter from the publisher found wedged between the pages.
She needs money for her myriad medical problems and prescriptions. Help her out, if you’re interested.
I knew it’d frigging fit. Lying liarsons of Lying, Lyoming.
So for everyone who asked, yes, today was much better than yesterday.
First off, the Dish TV guy got everything hooked up perfect, and I now have MSG network and NFL network. I have 2 dishes on my house now, too.
We got our new split-queen boxspring and we now have a REAL bed again. Now we have to find out where the heck our baggies of screws went to put Mikey’s crib back together.
The dryer was delivered and it is really, really nice. It matches enough. And it dries clothes.
Oh, and the Giants are going to the Super Bowl. Who’s coming over?
Saturday, January 19, 2008
The POD is empty. All of the large items are in the house.
Just freaking done. DONE. We had a nightmare of appliance proportions today:
1. This morning while I was closing up our old place, Aimee rushed ahead with the baby just in time for Best Buy to come and deliver our new washer and dryer. Except the dryer didn’t fit down the stairs. NO, REALLY. (Continued)
Monday, December 31, 2007
We here at LydenCorp would like to extend our hearty congratulations to all employees for a fantastic year. Highlights follow…
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