The job he is doing here? Has anyone looked at the higher than average state unemployment rate in NJ and add our property taxes and "fees" that are not considered tax increases? Add that to the ripping apart of the education system in the state and backing the presidential canidate who has major experience of sending jobs overseas and ruining the middle class.Yes, I say let's look at the job he is doing in NJ. AND THEN RUN!

this guy sees more senior citizens on beaches at 2 pm than coppertone does. maybe he can give us the new republican definition on what rape is. paul ryan and that buffoon akin seem to be a little confused on the subject.

Mrs. G.: Can you explain, in rational terms, what "ripping apart of the education system" means? Can you cite some statistics? Quantify it in terms that make sense to us.

RE: Mrs. G. 9:47 pm on Monday, August 20, 2012 "...Add that to the ripping apart of the education system"

Hey Frankie Boy, the plot sickens: http://washingtonexaminer.com/democrats-spent-1.5-mil-to-help-akin-win-gop-primary/article/2505373#.UDN9H91lREM

LB -- Do you really expect an answer from people whose paycheck is dependent upon the corruption in New Jersey.

If you want to read about what TOTALLY CORRUPT DEMOCRATS in New Jersey, check out this dated, but relevant article about the long-time politically corrupt power broker George Norcross at http://newjerseyuntouchables.blogspot.com/2006/02/how-nj-corruption-works-caught-on-tape.html

This is the guy that helps fuel the DEMOCRAT corruption in this state.

Spooner -- That is INSANE! I didn't know that. Norcross is a very rich, powerful and evil man.

john jay you are beyond funny but more in a jethro clampett kind of way. you just put up a link about corruption in nj and the first thing it asks you is to pay $15 to find out more about it. did you send them cash or a check? lol .

You have no comment on Norcross' documented corruption but you engage in MORE personal attacks Rizzo? The purpose of the link was to show you the transcript -- I have nothing else to do with the web site.

I think it's time to put you on ignore since you're obviously unwilling/unable to engage in documented, intelligent dialog.

opinionated i,m still laughing at the absurdity of your link. this is how the secret plot of the op ed piece you posted goes " the democrats slyly spent $1.5 million dollars on an attack ad on akin that actually made him more appealing to the gop because michelle bachman is so popular among conservatives. " because of course months ago democrats broke out their magic crystal ball and predicted akin would land a whopper of a moronic statement in the future. opinionated this is your "shooter on the grassy knoll" theory. stick to the funnies you,ll get more out of it that makes sense. lol republicans taking the country back. only problem is theyre taking it back to the 1850s.

opinionated i think st ronnie reagan destroyed your grandkid's futures by tapping the social security fund back in the 80s for his wacky star wars program.

speaking of your grandkids futures instead of reading silly op eds perhaps you should read sunday's press . front page showing that the jersey shore is facing disaster from rising sea levels. the past ten yrs have been the hottest in history and that was broken by the summer of 2012 the hottest summer since they,ve been recording weather. west nile fever is in bayville because we dont have winters anymore to kill them off they are even catching 800 pound marlins off the jersey coast usually you have to be in the southern most tip of florida to catch them . a chunk of ice 46 miles long broke off greenland last month and still the ignorance of conservatives tell you its cycles because of course cycles run in ten yr periods not tens of thousands of yrs like those silly thousands of scientists around the world all claim. but when that silly thing called science is mentioned to a republican all you hear is the same old "church of al gore' drivel from them. your grandkids are going to be more concerned with how they are going to find freshwater and survive average summers of 125 degrees before they even have a chance to collect a social security check. but dont worry according to paul ryan by 2033 he,ll have the budget balanced. whoopee

jaybird you put up a link from some teabagger site asking me for 15 bucks for something i can find myself on the internet. do you have any more links i dont need my credit card to look at?

Thanks for letting me submit your repeated personal attacks against me and others on the board Rizzo. Consider yourself defeated.

yes proud because the reason people dont give their credit card numbers to shady teabagger sites asking them for money is because their cards are maxed out. proud shouldnt you be in the walmart parking lot dressed up as either ben franklin or daniel boone holding up a sign saying "keep your gubmint hands off my medicare"? . the only thing defeated johnny is this country under the absurdity of republicans like akin who says rape victims secrete an anti pregnancy fluid while being attacked . paul ryan co sonsored a rape bill with this mental midget saying rape victims even of incest should be charged with a crime if they get an abortion. i guess you or proud are tongue tied on the question of ryan saying on 60 minutes that he will eliminate all offshore tax shelters . will romney take his hidden millions and put them in american banks? maybe you and proud can discuss that one in the walmart parking lot with teabags stapled to your colonial hats. lol

Oh Frankie Boy, you don't want to go back in history, ESPECIALLY the 1850's. Remember, your dem heroes were the party of slavery and when they lost that, they wore the sheets and burned the crosses. We know you love Jim Crow. Or should we say, Robert Byrd. You still did not explain away anything I posted but tried to do your storytelling routine. Here's another link for you: let's see if find this humorous. http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/08/21/minn-lawmaker-in-rest-stop-scandal-still-silent/

Fun fact for the day . . . .

Missouri Republican congressman and US Senate candidate Todd Akin -- who infamously said a few days ago, when speaking against a raped woman's right to obtain an abortion: “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down” -- is a current member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.

These are the same people who deny the existence of climate change and global warming (in the face of near consensus by the international scientific community regarding their existence).

Fun Fact For Steve: Your statement about global warming is 100% FALSE.

There is NO "near consensus by the international scientific community".

By the way -- It's obvious you never took a logic and reasoning class. Look up argumentum ad populum if you're capable.

* Emails from the University of East Anglia show scientists were willing to manipulate the data around global warming in a scandal known as 'Climategate'. The internal emails caught the scientists lying.

* A totally damning email from November 1999 features Professor “Phil” Jones of the CRU. Jones wrote to Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley and Malcolm Hughes, (they created the infamous “hockey stick” graph that removed a significant medieval warm period): Professor Jones told them in the email to “hide the decline”.

* How about 'Glaciergate' and the UN body in charge of climate change science? This panel was FORCED to retract a claim that the Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035 because they used false and/or misleading data. The leader of the panel, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, was asked to step down by scientists around the world, -- but Pachauri refused.

Sorry to burst your bubble Steve -- unlike yourself, I have the facts that prove you are 100% dead wrong.

Your words, not mine: "These are the same people who deny the existence of climate change and global warming (in the face of near consensus by the international scientific community regarding their existence)."

steve dont worry about john jay he voted for sara palin in 2008 palin of course believes the earth is only 5,000 yrs old and man co existed with the dinosaurs much like the flintstones. the republican gov of kentucky used taxpayer money to build the creationism museum there which has cavemen side by side with dinosaurs WITH SADDLES ON THEIR BACKS. you can check that is true.now because republicans heard about a guy in england who had some e mails on his computer they now believe what scientists around the world who have proven climate change is real with ice core samples etc dont know what theyre talking about. because it was an imaginary 46 mile long hunk off ice that broke off from greenland last month, west nile virus is an imaginary deadly illness from the tropics now here in bayville, because australia being underwater, our crops dying and the west consumed by flames are all imaginary. if climate change were real sean hannity and limbaugh would have told them by now.now now republican scientists like john jay think women secrete an anti pregnancy fluid during rape. look at where this " scientific" info is coming from steve. you,ll never convince them to them much like rick perry and his prayer a thon in the houston astrodome for rain they,ll let god fix it.

actually opinionated both democrats and republicans owned slaves starting with washington. republican ulysses grant believed it was his "constitutional right " to own slaves. if he were alive today he would be sitting next to ted nugent as guests on the hannity show. saying so. its a common theme with republicans and their "constitutional rights" . years ago it was their right to own humans, it was their right to stop women from voting, it was their right to make sure blacks drank from the correct water fountain. the irony that kills all republicans is that slaves helped build the whitehouse and now a black man is president and republicans cant live with that it goes against their history.instead they have nitwits like michelle bachman and the rest of the teabaggers making comments like "our founding fathers didnt stop until they got rid of slavery" . considering that slavery was abolished in 1865 that would have made ben franklin, jefferson and others quite active for 150 year old men.

the funniest part is john jay talking about a logic class when 97% of the world's scientists according to the ipcc intergovernmental panel on climate change agree its real and its manmade. the national academy of sciences, the american meteorological society (which republicans think count meteors), the american geophysical union ( uh oh another union) and the american assoc for the advancement of science ( might as well be the advancement of socialism to reps) all agree its real. but no john jay found a guy in england with an e mail on his computer so it cant be so. i wonder if that guy's computer mentioned that the past 10 yrs have been the hottest on record and those records which were broken this year which has been the hottest since they,ve been recording weather but no fox drones will tell you its cycles. cycles occur over tens of thousands of years not a decade. the sad thing is those like opinionated and john jay wont be the ones paying for their ignorance of science its their grandkids who will be the ones cursing them long after theyre dead.

More personal attacks but no facts. Thanks Rizzo.

Hey John Jay, how do you like Franky Boys' history lessons. He must have gotten his info from Animal House (the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor)! He never commented about the last link I sent him. Maybe he'll blame that one on Bush too. I'm surprised he didn't tell us how Grant assassinated Lincoln (in the billiard room with the rope)!!

yes john jay i agree. the personal attacks on here are very sad. the editor asked us not to do that.

...yous want to equate the Democratic Party after the Civil War with the Democratic Party of Roosevelt &Truman. . .and your saying that people who share the political views of the Democratic Party of LBJ & Clinton are type cast because of all of those Dixiecrats Jay listed. Didn't those Southern Dixiecrats become Democrats because of their revulsion of Lincoln and the Republican Industrial Party of the North. And if wasn't for Vice President Andrew Johnson's actions supporting Reconstruction and having to endure the first Presidential impeachment. . .we wouldn't be a nation today. There were many in that Republican party back then wanting to extract punishment and penalties from the South, refusing to have Congressional members of those states to be seated and recognized. So there's plenty of America's dark history going around. . .even today!

PS: has the current Republican Party shed its business(industrial) clothing yet?

cathi nothing more boring than the grammar police to show up with nothing to add but commas and capital letters as the only thing they can bring to the table. as for opinionated and john jay they left out the part about the democrats in the south during the civil rights era who wanted to remain in the kk but they sickened their fellow democrats so they then joined the republican party the same party who considers all immigrants to be illegal . who consider 99 % of color to be all living on welfare. you know the party of racial tolerance. notice they wont touch the creationism issue with a ten foot pole.

opinionate blame bush? my bad there must have been a different president than bush who sat reading children's books for 7 minutes after our nation was attacked . that attack coming from bush ignoring the aug 2001 memo warning of bin laden attacking within the u.s using airliners as presented by condi rice at the 9/11 commission . a memo that contained 700 reports on al queda including foreign nationals taking flight lessons in commercial plane simulators but not asking for landing instructions. the same bush who then forgot about bin laden and went to bagdad to bring them bibles and starbucks. the same bush who left new orleans look like it was somalia because he hired a horse trainer to lead fema. the same bush who dressed up in a roger ramjet costume in 2003 and told us mission accomplished we had won one of his unfunded wars. bush who presided over the worst financial meltdown since the 30s and left office with a 19 % approval rating while 700,000 jobs a month were being lost. yeah opinionated youre right . why blame bush?

and now for some comedy relief opinionated will give their version of history from 2001 to 2009. should be a good one i love fiction. let me heat up some popcorn.

The July 30, 2012, New York Times carried an article by a former global-warming skeptic, who is an award-winning professor of physics at Berkeley and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship (popularly dubbed the "genius award"). Last year he formed a working group with a dozen other scientists to intensely study all the available data regarding climate change. Like numerous other scientific organizations and specialists, they similarly now conclude that global warming is indeed real and is largely caused by human activity.

Here is the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/the-conversion-of-a-climate-change-skeptic.html?_r=1&hp

From NASA, which just brought us the flawless landing of the Mars Science Laboratory ("MSL"), comes this statement on their Web site:

"Scientists note that there are two new and different twists to today's changing climate: (1) The globe is warming at a faster rate than it ever has before; and (2) Humans are the main reason Earth is warming. Since the industrial revolution, which began in the mid-1800s, humans have attained the magnitude of a geological force in terms of our ability to change Earth's environment and impact its climate system."

The official NASA Web page containing the statement is here: http://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/big-questions/is-the-global-earth-system-changing-and-what-are-the-consequences/

And on the same day NASA accomplished its incredible feat of science and engineering -- having no room for error to safely land the MSL on Mars, many millions of miles from earth -- the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University, and several of his colleagues, published a peer-reviewed paper in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences further reinforcing NASA's conclusion, as well as that of the overwhelming majority of the world's scientists: http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/05/us/climate-change/index.html

Indeed, there is now broad consensus in the SCIENTIFIC community that climate change and global warming are real. More from the experts:

American Meteorological Society: "Indeed, strong observational evidence and results from modeling studies indicate that, at least over the last 50 years, human activities are a major contributor to climate change." (2007)

American Physical Society: "The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth’s physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now." (2007)

American Association for the Advancement of Science: "The scientific evidence is clear: global climate change caused by human activities is occurring now, and it is a growing threat to society." (2006)

American Chemical Society: "There is now general agreement among scientific experts that the recent warming trend is real (and particularly strong within the past 20 years), that most of the observed warming is likely due to increased atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, and that climate change could have serious adverse effects by the end of this century." (2004)

U.S. National Academy of Sciences: "The scientific understanding of climate change is now sufficiently clear to justify taking steps to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere." (2005)

but steve how can that be true when rush limbaugh and hannity have already told us its not true? i.ll let john jay field that one. he's big on science.

And in the Sunday New York Times of two weeks ago, the three authors of a new study appearing in the journal "Nature-Geoscience" report on their findings in an article titled, "Hundred-Year Forecast: Drought." There they write in the opening paragraphs:

"By many measurements, this summer’s drought is one for the record books. But so was last year’s drought in the South Central states. And it has been only a decade since an extreme five-year drought hit the American West. Widespread annual droughts, once a rare calamity, have become more frequent and are set to become the 'new normal.'"

"Until recently, many scientists spoke of climate change mainly as a 'threat,' sometime in the future. But it is increasingly clear that we already live in the era of human-induced climate change, with a growing frequency of weather and climate extremes like heat waves, droughts, floods and fires."

The article by the three scientists concludes thusly:

"There is still time to prevent the worst; the risk of a multidecade megadrought in the American West can be reduced if we reduce fossil-fuel emissions. But there can be little doubt that what was once thought to be a future threat is suddenly, catastrophically upon us."

Here is the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/opinion/sunday/extreme-weather-and-drought-are-here-to-stay.html?hp

Thank you Spooner, I stand corrected, yous is a word. Taken from the same link you suggested: Youse ( you + the plural -s ending of nouns), probably of Irish-American origin, is most common in the North, especially in urban centers like Boston, New York, and Chicago. It is rare in educated speech. You guys is a common informal expression among younger speakers; it can include persons of both sexes or even a group of women only.

Thanks to you Frank for your kind words too. I mean also.

And this just in from the American Chemical Society (which recently reaffirmed its endorsement of the consensus view regarding climate change and global warming, following the issuance of the 2010 reports from the research council of the National Academies) . . . .

Extreme Weather Linked to Global Warming, Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Says
ScienceDaily (Aug. 20, 2012) — New scientific analysis strengthens the view that record-breaking summer heat, crop-withering drought and other extreme weather events in recent years do, indeed, result from human activity and global warming, Nobel Laureate Mario J. Molina, Ph.D., said at a conference in Philadelphia on August 20.

Molina, who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for helping save the world from the consequences of ozone depletion, presented the keynote address at the 244th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society.

Steve -- I really don't care about your cabal of Socialists that want to put "carbon taxes" on human activity.

The "Climategate" emails prove there was a conspiracy of among the scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) to cook the data. This is not a theory, this is a fact.

40 years ago, we were fed the BS line that "global cooling" was happening -- but when debunked people Al Gore and his banksters cooked up a financial scam involving "carbon credits" -- suddenly "global warming" was the buzz.

The bottom line is that "the people" like myself read the emails and know it's all bunk.

The bottom line is that Americans are the target -- our industrial capacity has been decimated thanks to people that backed NAFTA, "free trade" and all this other garbage (High-ranking Republicans and Democrats alike are guilty of selling Amercia out).

So post your tripe till your fingers fall off. The people don't buy it and never will. Have a nice day.

I hope Gov. Christie speaks about the FRAUD that is "climate change"/"global warming". The U.S could go the way Australia did -- tyrannical government law placed on the backs of every citizen.

Here's an interesting piece about the carbon tax fraud from the land down under: "Carbon tax exposed as a corrupt fraud." Click here: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/carbon-tax-exposed-as-a-corrupt-fraud/story-e6frezz0-1226185058528

Thanks, Gov. Christie for getting NJ out of the RGGI scam. I hope Gov. Christie speaks about the FRAUD that is "climate change"/"global warming". The U.S could go the way Australia did -- tyrannical government law placed on the backs of every citizen.

Here's an interesting piece about the carbon tax fraud from the land down under: "Carbon tax exposed as a corrupt fraud." Click here: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/carbon-tax-exposed-as-a-corrupt-fraud/story-e6frezz0-1226185058528

Steve: Climate change/global warming = Tax Americans to death and deliver a death blow to our economy.

NPR = Government Funded Leftist Propaganda

Gov. Christie should be applauded for pointing out the fraud surrounding the "Global Warming/Climate Change" farce.

Global Warming Scientist Suspended and Under Investigation For Scientific Misconduct: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/07/suspended-polar-bear-researcher.html

British court case punches holes in Al Gore's fantasy climate movie: http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=50e42b47-ca21-47c1-bbb1-caf456348677

Skeptics claim global warming is fake after top scientists’ emails hacked at CRU: http://grist.org/article/2009-11-20-skeptics-claim-global-warming-fake-scientists-emails-cru/

Congress may probe faked global warming data: http://www.tgdaily.com/sustainability-features/44812-congress-may-probe-faked-global-warming-data

Al Gore Tried To Pull Off Carbon Tax Fraud: Taxpayers Don't Buy It! Global warming is a SCAM that was designed to make Al Gore a BILLIONAIRE.

Al Gore could become world's first carbon billionaire: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/6491195/Al-Gore-could-become-worlds-first-carbon-billionaire.html

RE: "Spooner 1:50 pm on Thursday, August 23, 2012 ...you've already made this point. . .now your repeating yourself. . .for what purpose?"

Answer: Do you really think you posting your band of co-conspirators behind the global warming/carbon tax fraud would go unanswered?

I believe in FREEDOM and I won't fall for any propaganda from the left or the right!

Two things I wonder about global warming: First, we keep getting fed data from 50 and 150 years ago (the earth is a lot older than that). What about the fact that cattle were raised in Greenland 1000 years ago? Things are skewed because we are coming out of a "Mini Ice Age". Second, WHY when all of these "solutions" to rectify man-made carbon making, China and India (HALF of the world's population) are ALWAYS EXEMPT? If you truly believed in your remedy then NO ONE would be off the hook, RIGHT? There many environmental organizations and scientists who believe the earth definitely has a human population limit. Four billion seems to be a popular figure. Now the question for you "concerned people" is this. We have over 6 billion people, WHAT IS YOUR PROPOSAL? My only knock with all of this pontificating is the lack of consistency and clarity. And yes, I strongly feel we have been hurting our environmnent here for many years and should have stopped building all of these new developments years ago. Now to me, we should really discuss that subject. Perhaps another time.

If global warming is some sort of "conspiracy" or "scam" -- assertions made here that are disputed by the overwhelming majority of the world's climate scientists and leading scientific organizations -- then Governor Romney is apparently now a willing participant in these schemes.

Just last week, in a written answer to science-policy questions posed by "Scientific American" and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, et al., the Governor had this to say regarding global warming (although he fails to provide any affirmative guidance on an appropriate policy response, other than clearly supporting additional research funded both by the government and private industry):

"I am not a scientist myself, but my best assessment of the data is that the world is getting warmer, that human activity contributes to that warming, and that policymakers should therefore consider the risk of negative consequences."

See, e.g.: http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2012/09/06/five_takeaways_from_the_science_debate_106365.html

opinionated usually people need to get an education before they can form an opinion. how do you get by? " the earth is a lot older than 150 yrs" yah think? i love the "if china and india dont clean up their act why should we?" . its the same arguement a 5 yr old gives you when they say why should they clean up their room if their brother didnt? . john jay who thinks that science is a scam and God can just solve it youre amazing. yes global warming was created by al gore. only thing is when global warming was first brought up in 1970 gore was in grade school. he must have been a genius to figure out in third grade that 40 yrs later he could make a billion. john jay and others who laugh at science are just the newer generation of those who years ago told the wright brothers if man were meant to fly he would have wings. with republicans we really have gone back to the 18th century to a time where science was for witches and crazies and God would solve all our problems. john jay i see you over and over again pontificating on what a great american you are and how you stand for liberty and freedom but i noticed you never bothered adding a comment to the other patch article telling of the 6 war veterans finally laid to rest in brick. maybe while youre busy patting yourself on the back you can thank them for the liberty and freedom you use as a talking point all the time.

that goes for john b taxpayer, paul di bartolo , berkely lifer, chris and all the others who spend hours praising chris christie and romney with 500 comment threads telling of how your america is being taken away and none of you have a few seconds ever to thank any vet on any patch article honoring them for providing that freedom for you or even a word of support to those running relays to raise money for cancer and so on. its sickening.

now that i think about it gov christie, romney and none of the other republican speakers at the RNC convention bothered thanking our troops either. the dems all did. it must be a common thing among republicans.

thank you enough is enough finally someone who believes in science.