4PM Red Bank Rally at TASTE sponsored by Senator Jennifer Beck and Assembly Members Caroline Casagrande and Declan O’Scanlon in support of Anna Little and Red Bank Council Candidates Joe Mizzi and Rob Lombardi.
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8PM: Dinner Party Meet and Greet with Scott Sipprelle at Gusto’s Bar and Grill,1050 State Highway 18 East Brunswick, NJ 08816 .
East Brunswick Council Candidates Camille Ferraro, Jim Wendell, and Mike Hughes,
Middlesex County candidates for Freeholder, Dick Frank, David Rosenthal, Jordan Rickards,
Sheriff candidate Keith Hackett, and County Clerk candidate Harold Kane.
"Jersey Guys" Ray Rossi and Casey Bartholomew greet fans of The Soprano State at the Clearview Middlebrook theater in Ocean Twp. Bob Ingle and Sandy McClure in the background
NJ 101.5 hosted a special showing of The Soprano State this evening in Ocean Township. The Jersey Guys, Casey Bartholomew and Ray Rossi broadcast their show from the Clearview Middlebrook theater this afternoon to promote the showing. Bob Ingle and Sandy McClure, co-authors of the book that inspired the movie where on hand.
The movie opens at Clearview theaters throughout New Jersey and New York on Friday. Click here to find the theater closest to you.
On my way out of the theater I noticed this car park in a handicapped spot:
At first I didn’t notice the handicapped permit hanging from the rear view mirror and thought the driver was thoughtless and foolish. Certainly not a Soprano State caliber law breaker.
Look what I found in the back seat of the car as I walked by:
Kind of looks like Senator Ray Lesniak, doesn’t it? Lesniak didn’t make it into the movie.
Do you think this handicapped driver is cruising in the NJ Turnpike HOV lanes?
Obamacare was supposed to help seniors. Not really. Over $500 Billion in Medicare cuts are strangling medical services for the elderly. The cuts may force a number of hospitals to close. Adding millions more onto the Medicaid rolls will further increase the costs to the taxpayers.
Obamacare was not supposed to ration healthcare services. Obama nominated Dr. Donald Berwick, an advocate of health-care rationing to run Medicare and Medicaid. Dr. Berwick’s claim that the government must ration health care is a portent of things to come. “I am romantic about the National Health Service; I love it.” said Dr. Berwick in England in 2008 on the 60th anniversary of the British National Health Service.
Based upon their support for rationing, I guess I’m lucky to have had my open heart surgery done in 2007; some government bureaucrat can now decide whether I could have that operation or not. No government bureaucrat should ever come between a patient and their doctor.
As respects controlling costs; the career politicians assured us that health care costs would go down. Oops, even the Health and Human Services department now projects costs to rise more than originally projected. Didn’t they know that adding 34 million more people to the healthcare system would increase costs for those who subsidize this (us, the taxpayers). Are they really that stupid not to understand that by increasing demand on medical services without a corresponding increase in the supply (doctors and nurses) defacto rationing would occur?
“During 2010-2019, however, these effects (cost control features) would be outweighed by the increased costs associated with the expansions of health insurance coverage,” wrote Richard S. Foster, Medicare’s chief actuary. Insurance companies are now forced to raise rates for current policyholders to cover the additional costs caused by Obamacare.
It’s obvious that the Democrat plan to save Social Security and Medicare is to cut the payouts (not just the Cost of Living Increase) by reducing the number of recipients through attrition (namely, to kill the seniors off by rationing their health care). The only business which will thrive as a result are the funeral homes.
Of course, the only other profession who will continue to prosper are the attorneys. The ambulance chasers were deliberately protected by the Democrat Congress led by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid when they refused to include any type of tort reform in Obamacare.
I urge my fellow seniors, homeowners and taxpayers to thank Obama and the Democrat career political establishment on Tuesday, November 2nd, by voting Republican for every office, even if you have to hold your nose.
The only way we will ever change Washington is if we change the people we send there. Anna Little in Congressional District 6 and Scott Sipprelle in Congressional District 12 would be a great start.
If you know anyone who still gets their news from the Asbury Park Press, tell them that the Health Care Forum sponsored by the Monmouth County Medical Society has been moved from Riverview Medical Center to the Oyster Point Hotel. And tell them that Falsetto Frankie has pulled out.
MoreMonmouthMusings called Pallone’s office this afternoon to find out what was so pressing that the Congressman could not meet the doctors of the Monmouth County Medical Society and members of the public, along with Mayor Little, to discuss his major acheivement, the ObamaPalloneCare health care reform bill. No one from the Congressman’s office has called back yet.
Kathleen Maher of the Ocean Township Democratic Club told MoreMonmouthMusings that Pallone’s office told her today that he is planning to attend the club’s monthly meeting tomorrow evening from 7:30-8:30, subject to an unexpected change is scheduling. The meeting is at the West Park Recreation/Senior Center on West Park Ave between Route 35 and Whale Pond Rd, about a 15 minute drive from the Oyster Point Hotel.
Pallone should do the right thing and attend both events. He can leave the Oyster Point and still get to the Ocean Township Democratic Club before that meeting ends. Or he could ask Kathleen to have the club members come to the Health Care Forum.
As for the Neptune Nudniks, they should really hire a fact checker to read MMM and NJ.com before they publish anything about politics or government in Monmouth County.
They should also publish their endorsement of Shaun Golden for Monmouth County Sheriff on their website.
Congressman Frank Pallone has pulled out of the Monmouth Medical Society’s Health Care candidates forum, siting a scheduling conflict. A call to the Congressman’s campaign office to find out what he will be doing instead has yet to be returned.
The forum will go on as scheduled Thursday evening at the Oyster Point Hotel in Red Bank at 7PM. GOP Candidate Anna Little will be there and a chair will be available for Pallone should he have a change of heart.
While we don’t know where Pallone will be tomorrow night, we know where he will be on Sunday night and where he learned about pulling out.
Planned Parenthood of Central Jersey is celebrating their 75th Anniversary on Sunday. Falsetto Frankie is being honored with the Baby Killer’s Leadership Award.
I’ve never had any first hand experience with Planned Parenthood. I always figured it was a place where people went to get cheap (subsidized) contraceptives and abortions. Little did I know that they have an education program for teens, parents and educators.
Here’s what Planned Parenthood teaches teens about pulling out:
Pulling out, or the pull-out method, refers to withdrawal, which is one of many ways to prevent pregnancy. Read on for the scoop on withdrawal: how it works, how well it works, and why it may not be the right choice for teens.
What is withdrawal?
Also known — more scientifically — as coitus interruptus, withdrawal may be the world’s oldest way to practice birth control. When a guy performs withdrawal, he removes his penis from the vagina before he ejaculates, or comes — that’s when semen spurts from his penis.
How does that prevent pregnancy?
The idea behind withdrawal is simple: If sperm is not released into the vagina, pregnancy is impossible.
Somebody should tell Phoney Palloney and Planned Parenthood about the dangers of pulling out. They should all show up tomorrow in at the Oyster Point in Red Bank where there will be some good doctors who might explain it to them.
Incumbents, beware: The major votes you’ve cast in Congress over the past couple years appear likely to come back to haunt you this Election Day.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that most Likely Voters think their representative in Congress does not deserve reelection if he or she voted for the national health care law, the auto bailouts or the $787-billion economic stimulus plan. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Those votes also appear to be driving factors in the GOP’s consistent lead over Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot. Most strong supporters of President Obama believe those who voted for the measures should be reelected. Even more of those who Strongly Oppose the president disagree.
Forty-three percent (43%) of all Likely Voters say someone who voted for the health care law deserves to be reelected. Fifty percent (50%) oppose their reelection.
Thirty-six percent (36%) say if their local representative voted for the taxpayer bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler, he or she deserves to be returned to Congress. Fifty-three percent (53%) say that person does not deserve reelection.
Similarly, 41% say their representative in Congress should be reelected if he or she voted for the stimulus plan. But 50% don’t see it that way and say the individual should not be reelected.
The partisan divide is predictable since virtually no congressional Republicans voted for any of these measures. So Democratic voters overwhelmingly think those in Congress who voted for them should be reelected, while Republicans feel just as strongly that they should not be reelected.
But, tellingly, voters not affiliated with either party also feel strongly that supporters of the health care law, the auto bailouts and the stimulus should not be returned to Congress.
In honor of the Soprano StateMoreMonmouthMusings hereby adds Falsetto Frankieto Phoney Palloney as our favorite nicknames for the congressman from New Jersey’s sixth district.
In the most telegraphed endorsement since The New York Times endorsed Barack Obama for President, the Asbury Park Press endorsed Falsetto Frankie for another term in Washington this morning. The endorsement found its way to the Nudniks’ website. Their endorsement of Shaun Golden for Monmouth County Sheriff, which appeared in yesterday’s print edition, has yet to make its way to app.com.
