Blue Jersey - Recent Comments

Whatever happened?

huntsu — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:11:12 GMT

Whatever happened to "All we want is an up or down vote"?

This should be a lesson for all parties in power -- any power you try to accumulate to yourself while in power continues after you get out! That means that your enemies will have the expanded powers after they take control.

Bottle Deposit gains support

TerryMalloy-OnTheWaterfront — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:05:51 GMT

At a hearing of the Assembly Environment committee this week, the bottle deposit law picked up strong endorsements from NJ Sierra, NJ Environmental Federation, the NJ League of Women Voters, the Director of the Clifton Recycling Program, the Container Recycling Institute and Governor Jon Corzine who commented on his support of bottle deposit legislation to the press after the hearing.

I think it is clear that a bottle deposit is an environmentally sound method of helping to clear up the enormous amount of discarded beverage containers all over the state in our rivers, parks, beaches, streets and highways.

I've spoken with some seniors who happily recall their youth when 2 cent and 5 cent deposits were very popular among neighborhood children in the 1930s and 1940s.

This law could even help non-profit charities, little leagues, scout troops and the rest to dig up some extra money for their causes.

This is a very cool idea and it's about time we returned to it. Everything old is new again.

Did Jack lose weight?

ken bank — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:39:53 GMT

He looks like he's shed a few pounds since the last time I saw him.

Andrews Won't Be A Governor....

Nick Lento — Tue, 13 May 2008 03:27:23 GMT

.....not if the voters of NJ care about character.

The guy is just not trustworthy.

If he's capable of stabbing Frank Lautenberg and the whole NJ Democratic delegation in the back, while he makes secret back room deals with the three regional party bosses, and then files at the last minute to preclude any competition.....where is there any basis of trust?

tips?

Hopeful — Tue, 13 May 2008 03:20:10 GMT

I learned about the latest disruption tactic by following a link from mcjoan. I congratulate my own Frank LoBiondo for staying away from this nonsense.

Let's Go Back To The Bottles...

Nick Lento — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:48:50 GMT

Glass also doesn't leach chemicals into the contents.

I like the idea of the deposit as it would force a more complete recycling.

For those who don't have the time to go to the store/center to redeem the deposit I bet there will be neighborhood kids (or poor folk trying to put a gallon or two into their gas tanks) who would be more than pleased to stop by and pick take them off your hands.

I remember scrounging coke bottles to get the 2 cent deposit as a child. Walking away from the store with a couple of bucks was a big deal for a poor kid.

I'm sorry to say that it seems that we're going have lots of poor people in America for the forseeable future.....thanks to the cleptocratic practices of the Bush's and the Ferriero's.

It wouldn't surprise me if it turned out that the over all corruption tax was 30% of every dollar spent.......but that's another kind of waste.

The "extreme opposition"

Thurman Hart — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:10:13 GMT

is to wasting our time on useless banalities. If we continue to use the same materials to make bottles, then it matters little whether they are thrown in the garbage stream by an individual or by a municipality or by a store.

Or, to be blunt, so that people like yourself can understand - it would be better to mandate that sodas are sold in bottles that can be re-used immediately rather than trying second-hand efforts at trying to fix a problem after the fact.

Sure. My metric has been satisfied >wink<

FogerRox — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:40:08 GMT

My 2 convictions say the 2004 Ohio Presidential recount was rigged.

That does stack up quite nicely against 5 convictions, that result in um..... likely 5 votes... no?

What kind of metric did you think I was using.. LOL.. :-) I choose the metric that allows me to make the point that those 2 convictions put Bush back in the White House..

You see I know there are as many as a 200 or more convictions of voters for voter fraud in the US each year.

SO I want someone to cite "any" voter fraud convictions, so I can cite 2 election fraud convictions, that may have put Bush back in the White House.

Do you think I would ask a question, if I didn't already know what the answer is ? Not on this issue, not this question.