On this day, February 15, 1804, New Jersey was the last northern state to put forth as law the gradual ending of slavery. Wikipedia states that: New Jersey banned the importation of slaves in 1788, but at the same time forbade free Negroes from elsewhere from settling in the state. In the years following the American Revolution, the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 15, 2010
New Jersey has been looking at a mammoth of a mall coming there for some time. The mall, Xanadu, if completed would be the biggest mall in America. The promise of an era of prosperity with the world’s super mall it seems has fallen through. It seems that the major investor, Lehman Brothers, pulled out and their [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 12, 2010
As if the East Coast didn’t have enough to contend with in the wake of “snowpocalypse” 2010, now here comes the mumps. All of this mump business started with just one little boy coming from Britain back to New York for camp for orthodox jewish boys. CNN reported that so far there is more than [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 2, 2009
How would you like to live in a high rise complete with pool, marble floors, private cinema, clubhouse, and marina? Well, what a New Jersey family thought would be a dream home for them in Florida, has turned into a nightmare. The Vangelakos spent $430,000 for the condo that they thought they would retire to, but so [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 24, 2009
Some Rabbi’s, three Mayors and some lawmakers were all going together to purchase some Gucci bags, when someone said, “Hey Rabbi, Craig needs a kidney, so we need to swing around and pick that up as well. Oh yeah, but let me pick up my bribe money from this FBI informant first.” This sounds like [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 16, 2009
The cops in New Jersey were not prepared for a wild, wild west type of shoot out when they were investigating a couple of robbery suspects in the wee hours of yesterday morning. One of the armed gunmen, Hassan Shakur had a shotgun on him inside his monk gown and immediately started shooting when an officer approached him. When [...]
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Monday, February 15, 2010
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