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NYTimes poses ugly should get affirmaction,meaning more libs must be ugly-Rush

Rush:16mph avg sustained winds in NYC.. EVID OF MEDIA HYPE to create fear

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Union CBA Concessions Create an Un-Prepared Bunch for Regular NFJ Season

NFL's CBA creating sissies? Can't hit twice 1 day? Candy asses making the union decisions aren't as tough as us PGHS Red Devils from74-78. Double sessions & hitting in the beginning of a season get you ready-concerns of long-term negatives of too much hitting aren't relevant.

Woman missing after car swept underwater in NJ

Woman missing after car swept underwater in NJ

(2/2) MISTAKE.THIS FILLED RIVERS and a girl was killed last night on 40 after being swept away,2D Mistake.He admits on camera to kathygandolfo, THIRD MISTAKE.

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Msg:Readmy facebook&blog on WillowGroveDam issue.Bobbitt today admitted to taking action to lower the lakes,1ST

Democrats stick Salem County for Willow Grove Lake Dam renovation while having no liability.

Myself as County Counsel, County Engineer Chris Rehmann, Assis. Bridge Superintendent Bill Miller & Roads Superintendent Speedy Hogate developed an approach that successfully thumbed the County's nose at dubious claims by NJDEPE and others that the County had liability according to the Safe Dam Act to repair somebody else's problem.  We saved hundreds of thousands of Salem County taxpayer dollars!Counties own bridges, not earthen embankments or water control structures which property owners attached long ago to create ponds and lakes to fuel mills or irrigate cropland. 

The Salem County Democrat Administration either can't or won't figure it out. Salem County Democrats have been browbeaten by a Cumberland County judge to help fund an engineering study in concert with Cumberland County for renovation of the Willow Grove Lake.  No dummy, Cumberland Co.'s atty. Brendan Kavanagh says Salem County will pay 70% of the dam repair costs.

According to the Safe Dam Act, if you don't own, control or maintain the water control structure you can't be liable.  Tell the fabulously wealthy property owner, The Nature Conservancy and NJDEPE to drain the water in Willow Grove Lake for good.  They'll fix the Dam and the taxpayers won't be hoodwinked into paying for anything but their due, renovation of great but old & crumbling WPA bridges throughout the county.

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Mike Mulligan f.... Senate BW.pdf

Mike Mulligan f.... Senate BW.pdf

The New Bishop Sheen for the 21st Century

Mr. Colbert's a genius. The new Bishop Sheen to be sure in this 21st Century. No admission of devotion means escape is easy.

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Spending other people’s money on other people

Spending other people’s money on other people: “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.” F.A. Hayek

Make contributions on my death to whoever is running against Pres. Obama Obituary

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Mike Mulligan signs Americans for Tax Reform "Taxpayer Protection Pledge" not to raise taxes.

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Gov Christie reported to be doing focus groups on whether to run

SJ Pros Conf, School Safety a great success

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Electricity Consumers in NJ, Understand the Cost of SRECs You're Paying!

"real costs would range between $168 million and $289 million a year".  Michael Flett, Flett Exchange, "Is the Solar Sector Headed for a Fall?", NJ Spotlight, http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/11/0803/2327/

Judicial Watch Challenges Obama Admin's 41 Alleged Unconstitutional Czar Appointments

http://www.judicialwatch.org/czar-investigations

Taranto's WSJ, Best of the Web, 08/15/11

"Bottom Stories of the Day

-  "Argentine President Overcoming Doldrums"--headline, New York Times, Aug. 14

-  "Mitt Romney Discloses Massive Personal Wealth"--headline, RollCall.com, Aug. 12

-  "Another News Outlet Publishes an Unflattering Bachmann Photo"--headline, HotAir.com, Aug. 14

-  "Obama Team Sharpens Attack on Republican Field, Defends President"--headline, FoxNews.com, Aug. 14"

Compare North Carolina taxes; 6.5 acre building lots have taxes of +/-$350.00!

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Look to Expansion of Money Supply & Devaluation of Dollar to Assess Inflation; Product Price Stability Fools Us.

Featured Article: The Definition of Inflation

Put very simply, inflation is defined by the expansion of the money supply. In the United States the money supply is controlled by the Federal Reserve Bank, therefore the Federal Reserve Bank is the source of any inflation that creeps into the system.

The Federal Reserve Bank has many ways in which it can increase the money supply but one of the most well known ways in which it does this is simply by reducing interest rates. By reducing rates, the cost of borrowing from the Fed becomes cheaper, and therefore more borrowing is triggered.

When the Fed does increase the money supply, they use many terms to try to disguise what they are doing. Some of the terms used include: monetary easing, increasing liquidity, quantitative easing, increasing the monetary base, among others. However, when the Fed uses any of these terms what the Fed is saying, in essence, is that they are increasing the money supply and therefore creating inflation.

One of the misconceptions of inflation is that inflation is an upward price movement of goods and services in an economy. However this definition is wrong, and demonstrates the lack of understanding about what inflation really is. Upward price movements of goods and services are a symptom of inflation but not inflation itself.

In fact, when the Federal Reserve Bank increases the money supply and therefore creates inflation it doesn't always result in an immediate increase in the price of goods and services. The money printing by the Fed can result in asset bubbles in other sectors of the economy well before an upward movement of prices is seen in goods and services.

This was demonstrated in the past decade by the numerous asset bubbles that were created as a result of loose monetary policy of the fed over the past decade or so. These asset bubbles included the NASDAQ bubble, the real estate bubble, and most recently the bond bubble.

However there are a finite number of asset classes that can be inflated before inflation ultimately reeks havoc on the prices of goods and services within an inflationary economy. This is the most dangerous consequence of inflation, and if inflation is not kept under control, spiraling costs of food and energy and the hyper-devaluation of a currency can be the most disruptive consequences of inflationary policies.

InflationNationWebsite, Featured Article (author not identified).  08/14/11

Link to the 11th Cir. Negation of Obamacare Central Tenet

http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/courts/ca11/201111021.pdf

End Part-Time Elected Officials Pensions Funded by Taxpayers to Rid Government of Selfish Career Politicians

http://westdeptford.patch.com/articles/state-should-join-west-deptford-in-ending-free-benefits?ncid=M255

Come out to the Salem County Fair this evening

No Free HealthCare for West Deptford Elected Officials is a Good Start

 

Months ago I called on Sen. Sweeney to join me in advocating no pension benefits for part-time elected officials. This action to take away free medical insurance is part of a package that is necessary to rid the system of career politicians. You don't need term limits if you take away pensions and free medical care for part-time elected public officials.

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Meet me at the Salem County Fair.

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See You at the Salem County Fair & the Bridgeton Semi-Pro Baseball Tourney

The Salem County Fair is every night this week at the County Fairgrounds on Rte 40.  See you at the Salem County Republican Party venue.

Wednesday evening is the Bridgeton Semi-Pro Baseball Tournament at Alden Field in the City of Bridgeton Park area.

Hope to see you in attendance.

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End Part-Time Elected Officials Pensions Funded by Taxpayers

PRESS RELEASE
FROM: Michael M. Mulligan, Esq., Candidate for N.J. State Senate, District 3
DATE: Wednesday, June 29, 2011
PLACE: 317 Shell Road, Carneys Point, N.J.
Today is a perfect opportunity to confirm a promise I made months ago when I first entered the Senate race to the Greenwich Patriots Tea Party.
I am committed to support, and personally introduce legislation if elected to the State Senate, ending taxpayer funded pensions to part-time elected public officials at all levels of government. New Jersey State Senate and Assembly members included.
Ending pensions for part-timers will help safeguard the public treasury.
Another beneficial effect will be to increase the turnover of members of governing bodies of local and state government entities. The same goal supports a policy of advocating term limits for elected public officials.
The professionalization of politicians causes a loss of ability to personalize the interests of the electorate. Professional politicians strive to maximize personal political power and privilege.
/s/mike mulligan
　
　

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Read "But the President & Congress meant well". Great stuff on negative unintended consequences of "progressive" legislation

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Power just went out. Solar generation plant coming on line. Pray for a sunny day!

Mr. Sweeney Loses Union Endorsement(s) Link

http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/11/0805/0245/

Romney Indicts Mr. Obama: 48% unemployment in Chicago?

To go to Mr. Romney's compelling YouTube video:  http://bit.ly/qLK3zQ

Rep. Kelly's Right. Watch Please

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The Answer to Paul Krugman's Side of the Debate

Bloody Keynesians

by Don Boudreaux on August 1, 2011

in State of Macro, Stimulus

Reading Russ’s latest post, in which he quotes Paul Krugman, reinforces the impression that I’ve always had of Keynesian economics and continue to have to this day: it mistakes a symptom for an underlying problem and then proposes to treat the symptom.
It’s as if a person who is bleeding to death because of a gunshot wound in his stomach is brought to a physician.  The physician correctly realizes that the patient is losing massive amounts of blood and, also, correctly understands that such blood loss is dangerous to the patient’s health.
So the physician prescribes massive infusions of blood, period.  If the patient doesn’t recover, the physician orders that the volume of blood-infusions be increased.  If the patient dies, the physician will forever blame himself for not increasing the volume of blood-infusions even further.
If the patient does recover, the blood-infusions will be praised for saving the patient.
The big hole in the patient’s stomach is called a “micromedical” problem.  It might well be a significant problem, the physician concedes, but our physician is  trained to diagnose and cure one specific “macromedical” problem only, which is the problem of bleeding.  Micromedical problems are fundamentally distinct from the macromedical problem, which is insufficient blood coursing through the patient’s body.  (Blood, after all, is vital to a person’s vitality and vigor.)  When a patient who had until recently been quite healthy begins losing blood, the consensus of many physicians is that by far the most important treatment – certainly a necessary one, and, generally, a sufficient one – is to keep pumping more and more new blood into the patient until his health is restored.
Questions of precisely why, where, and how the patient is losing blood aren’t as important as is the realization that the patient is losing blood.  “A bite by a spirited animal” is the famous phrase that is typically used to explain the mysterious bleeding.
It’s very simple, really.
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Like any analogy, this one isn’t perfect.  For example, in economies repairing the microeconomic wounds goes a long way by itself toward restoring demand for goods and services, while in wounded human beings (to whom mortality come much more quickly than it does to economies) blood transfusions often are necessary, even though they are seldom a successful treatment for the underlying problem that caused the loss of blood to begin with.

WSJ-Best of the Web today. Mr. Taranto's right on the mark, as usual.

Fine! Call My Bluff!

Obama maximizes his losses by going all in on a weak hand.

By JAMES TARANTO


Remember a few weeks ago when President Obama reportedly said to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor: "Eric, don't call my bluff"? Lots of commentators said that this was a "tell"--that by referring to "my bluff," Obama was admitting he was bluffing.

Actually, his play was even worse than that. A bluff is a pretense. The bluffer knows he has a weak hand but bets as if he has a strong one in order to induce his opponents to fold. Obama had a weak hand but thought he had a strong one. His next words to Cantor, according to Politico, were a vow to "take his case 'to the American people.' " He actually believed--for all we know, he still believes--all that World's Greatest Orator nonsense.

Thus he ended up maximizing his losses. Last weekend congressional leaders appeared to be on the verge of striking a deal, but Obama scuttled their efforts and commandeered the airwaves for a prime-time address. As we predicted, the American people were unmoved.

Obama had looked at his cards and seen that he was holding a 2, a 3, a 4 and a 5. He was sure he had an ace to complete the straight, but in reality he was looking in the mirror. By the time he realized how weak his hand was, there was no time left to improve it or to bluff. Faced with an imminent liquidity crisis--which would have been a political disaster for him as well as an economic one for the country--he was forced to agree to a deal more or less along Republican lines.

From the standpoint of a small-government conservative, the agreement is far from perfect, but it's probably the best possible outcome as long as a left-wing Democrat is in the White House and his party has a Senate majority. One measure of that is the rage it has provoked on the liberal left.

A New York Times editorial calls the deal "a nearly complete capitulation to the hostage-taking demands of Republican extremists. . . . This episode demonstrates the effectiveness of extortion. Reasonable people are forced to give in to those willing to endanger the national interest." Haha, remember "civility"?

Former Enron adviser Paul Krugman is even huffier: "By demonstrating that raw extortion works and carries no political cost, [the deal] will take America a long way down the road to banana-republic status. . . . What Republicans have just gotten away with calls our whole system of government into question."

Roars Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect: "The United States has been rendered ungovernable except on the extortionate terms of the far-right. For the first time in modern history, one of the two major parties is in the hands of a faction so extreme that it is willing to destroy the economy if it doesn't get its way. And the Tea Party Republicans have a perfect foil in President Barack Obama."

And, as Roll Call reports, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, the Kansas City, Mo., Democrat, said early reports of the new deal appeared to be 'a sugar-coated Satan sandwich.' " Hey, it's better than peas!

It was left to the cynically detached Maureen Dowd, of all people, to say something with a grain of truth:


***** QUOTE *****
Consider what the towel-snapping Tea Party crazies have already accomplished. They've changed the entire discussion. They've neutralized the White House. They've whipped their leadership into submission. They've taken taxes and revenues off the table. They've withered the stock and bond markets. They've made journalists speak to them as though they're John Calhoun and Alexander Hamilton.

Obama and [Speaker] John Boehner have been completely outplayed by the "hobbits," as The Wall Street Journal and John McCain called them.

What if this is all a cruel joke on us? What if the people who hate government are good at it and the people who love government are bad at it?
***** END QUOTE *****

Dowd is right about the Tea Party's achievement. She is wrong (and thinking wishfully) to suggest that the Tea Partiers and Boehner have a fundamentally adversarial relationship. True, last Thursday they were at cross-purposes over tactics, and it was quite possible that the impasse would end up wrecking the GOP's negotiating position. That it did not is testimony to the effectiveness of Boehner's leadership.

But let's ponder Dowd's interesting speculation that "the people who hate government are good at it and the people who love government are bad at it." Surely this is not a timeless truth. It was not the case in the 1930s or the 1960s. Or even in the 1990s: Bill Clinton's early setbacks notwithstanding, he proved a much more effective political leader than Newt Gingrich.

Times have changed. In the 1930s, government was small. Expanding it massively in order to solve problems might or might not have been a good idea, but there's no denying it was innovative. Today government is sclerotic. Those who believe more government is the solution to America's problems are at best unthinking reactionaries. The Tea Partiers, having clearly identified this problem, are today's true progressives (to employ the term in its literal rather than ideological sense).

They are not, however, "good at government"--or, more precisely, at politics. Their purism cost the GOP as many as three Senate seats last year, and if a competent Democrat were in the White House, it probably would be helping him to re-election right now. The experience of 1995-96 is instructive here. Gingrich had the Tea Party's worst qualities: grandiosity and impatience. He was no match for a president who knew how to play the game.

Today's Republican House has two great strengths that Gingrich's lacked. One is the Tea Party's clarity of purpose. But the other is experienced leadership. Gingrich was highly effective in the minority--an Alinskyite community organizer, if you will, taking on entrenched power by exposing its weakness and corruption. Neither he nor any member of his caucus had ever served in the majority. Between them, Boehner and Cantor alone have 18 years in the majority.

Contrast that to Barack Obama. In addition to a left-liberal ideology that is decades out of date and a Gingrich-size ego, he came to the presidency with virtually no relevant experience. True, he has the "mainstream" media on his side, but that almost certainly hurts him more than it helps. Their flattering but false narratives--he was the "adult in the room," polls clearly showed the American people were on his side--likely encouraged him to mistake his weaknesses for strengths.

There is a danger now that Republicans will fall into the trap of overconfidence. Sarah Palin posted a Facebook note a week and a half ago declaring Obama a "lame duck president." But in the 15 months and five days before he can actually earn that designation, there will be other battles. It is not inconceivable that Obama will fight them more effectively, having learned some lessons from his failure in this one.

Speaking on the House floor Saturday, Politico reports, silly Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi invoked "Star Wars," declaring that Boehner "chose to go to the dark side." The Tea Partiers could do worse than to follow a bit of counsel from that classic movie: "Great, kid. Don't get cocky."

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Mike Mulligan (10): "'Fairness' in public policy approaches should focus on identical % obligations for taxes and equality of opportunity-alone. That's it."

Time to Regionalize Public Sector Services, Not Study Sharing Them as Mr. Sweeney Says

My opponent Mr. Sweeney was recently praised for legislative work to authorize studies concerning municipalities sharing services.  It's time to regionalize public sector services, jumping right over sharing them between towns.  Legislation to authorize county-wide police, fire, trash and land use regulation should be drawn and debated in the Legislature.  I would do as much if elected to the State Senate.