Sunday, December 12, 2004
The people in the next apartment started with the Christmas music before Thanksgiving; with two weeks to go their kids are already worked up into a frenzy. The mom over there has played music so ear-splittingly loud both I & this building's owner have had to bang on the door.
Good time to check out apartment buildings from the outside. It's a plus if they have Christmas decorations, means the owner or super takes some extra interest in the outside appearance, chances are it's also kept up on the inside. For lawns & landscaping buildings fall into categories of Indifferent, Minimal, Professional, & Someone on premises planting flowers.
Acting Jersey governor Dick Codey missed an opportunity during a brief drive time interview on WCBS news radio the other day. He either had bad staff prep or more likely didn't bother to study what they offered him. Codey couldn't swat the easy questions the WCBS newsreaders lobbed at him. Homeland Security cut our funding, of course we're all indignant, but Codey should have explained in slightly better detail what we need that money for & how we use it beyond "Wyoming has to protect sheep & cattle, we got harbors & airports." We also heard current fantasies about a "new stadium for the Giants" & "minor league ballpark" & "keeping the Jets" & a zillion dollar trans-Hudson railroad tunnel in ten years, but he couldn't say why there's any great need for subsidizing New York Waterways ferries now that the WTC PATH is back on line. I should think the people who own Waterways knew that they were mainly filling a need in response to 9/11. & can the ferries hauling the monied classes from expensive condos on the Jersey bayshore that used those ferries as a selling point really be profitable? Codey had a chance to speak briefly & clearly to each of these matters without tough followup questions, & he didn't, & I imagined several of his assistants sighing, crumpling up & tossing their memos into the nearest trash can. He's a good man who needs a new suit for his new job. Add YOUR comments here
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Good time to check out apartment buildings from the outside. It's a plus if they have Christmas decorations, means the owner or super takes some extra interest in the outside appearance, chances are it's also kept up on the inside. For lawns & landscaping buildings fall into categories of Indifferent, Minimal, Professional, & Someone on premises planting flowers.
Acting Jersey governor Dick Codey missed an opportunity during a brief drive time interview on WCBS news radio the other day. He either had bad staff prep or more likely didn't bother to study what they offered him. Codey couldn't swat the easy questions the WCBS newsreaders lobbed at him. Homeland Security cut our funding, of course we're all indignant, but Codey should have explained in slightly better detail what we need that money for & how we use it beyond "Wyoming has to protect sheep & cattle, we got harbors & airports." We also heard current fantasies about a "new stadium for the Giants" & "minor league ballpark" & "keeping the Jets" & a zillion dollar trans-Hudson railroad tunnel in ten years, but he couldn't say why there's any great need for subsidizing New York Waterways ferries now that the WTC PATH is back on line. I should think the people who own Waterways knew that they were mainly filling a need in response to 9/11. & can the ferries hauling the monied classes from expensive condos on the Jersey bayshore that used those ferries as a selling point really be profitable? Codey had a chance to speak briefly & clearly to each of these matters without tough followup questions, & he didn't, & I imagined several of his assistants sighing, crumpling up & tossing their memos into the nearest trash can. He's a good man who needs a new suit for his new job. Add YOUR comments here
