Garden State Patriot

This speaks for itself. God bless our troops for defending America.

We won. The Iraq War is over.

I declare November 22, 2008 to be “Victory in Iraq. Day.” (Hereafter known as “VI Day.”)

By every measure, The United States and coalition forces have conclusively defeated all enemies in Iraq, pacified the country, deposed the previous regime, successfully helped to establish a new functioning democratic government, and suppressed any lingering insurgencies. The war has come to an end. And we won.

Read the rest here.

PLEASE SIGN THE AFP PETITION!

EPA Moves To Regulate Our Entire Way Of Life

The EPA is asking for public comments on its intention to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act, something the Act was never designed to do.  We need your voice to be heard.

Over the past year, AFP has been warning you about global warming alarmism and the environmental political correctness that it has spawned.  One of the greatest dangers this alarmism presents is the continued rise of unelected bureaucrats and their attempts to grab power from the people.  The proposed regulation by the EPA is a clear example of the regulations this panic will produce.

After the Senate rejected a plan to regulate greenhouse gases, the EPA decided to go ahead and do it anyway.  The extent of their plan is truly terrifying.  If this proposal becomes law, 33 programs within the EPA would be empowered to, among other things:

•    Impose Grass Mileage Standards for Home Lawnmowers
•    Put Speed Limiters on the Commercial Trucking Fleet
•    List Large Single-Family Homes as Carbon-Polluters
•    Require Carbon Permits for Retail, Restaurant, Hotel and School Construction

Click here to read AFP’s Talking Points

We need your help to tell the EPA this is unacceptable.  Environmentalists will be stuffing the comment box with their opinion; we need you to make your voice heard.

I came across this post from Diane Sterner at NJ.com regarding COHA. According to the socialistic Sterner:

It is only fair that every New Jerseyan have the opportunity to live in a decent home in a decent community, reasonably close to their place of employment. The new rules from the state Council on Affordable Housing, because they more accurately estimate the amount of New Jersey residents currently being denied that opportunity, constitute a step in the right direction. Their implementation should not be delayed.

Is this sinking in? It’s only fair for those of us who work hard every day to pay for others to live in a decent home, in a decent place.

Well, I responded to Miss Sterner and so did a lot of other fellow Jerseyans. Check it out.

Americans continue to lose more liberties every day right under their nose. In particular, American business owners are gradually losing more and more of their rights to do business the way the say fit. The latest blow comes from New Jersey, where Attorney General Anne Milgram has forced eHarmony to offer dating service to gays and lesbians even though this is not the company’s forte. Milgrram apparently sees a civil right that does not exist, essentially making the case that businesses can not tailor their market to a particular demographic.

From Stan Gendlin (Conservatives with Attitude!):

Anne Milgram, New Jersey’s 57th Attorney General, has decided it is the states responsibility to dictate business models. Milgram has intervened in a lawsuit of a homosexual man suing eHarmony, an online dating site whose match making ability is based on 30 compatibility questions created from research about heterosexual couples, and is forcing eHarmony to offer same sex match making on their website.

When did the state receive the authority to regulate internal business decisions of private companies? How is this legal? Is there discrimination because eHarmony focused their years of research on heterosexual couples and made a business model off of this? I think not, heterosexual couples make up the large majority of couples in this country and thus are a more profitable market.

According to Milgram, this is a civil rights issue! Does that mean she can force restaurants to offer vegetarian meals or vice versa? Can she force Adult Communities to take in younger people? Can she force a Hollywood action studio to start making homosexual comedies? This is absurd.

If you Google homosexual dating, you get a thousand different ways to connect with other single gays. eHarmony, on the other hand is a Christian targeted and promoted dating service. Like I said previously all these lawsuits and legislative pushes are to spit in the face of Christianity, this is not about equality.

Tens of millions were spent by homosexuals over semantics in California, where they have ALL the same rights as heterosexuals through civil-unions.

New Jersey needs an immediate change in direction, I hope the GOP fields someone this year to take us there.

The Founding Fathers never had any intention, nor desire, to see our government intervene in the affairs of men in such ways. We have a court system that is out of control thanks to people like Milgram, as well as judges who ignore the Constitution and precedent and make law from the bench. It’s time we all stand up and take it back by, as Stan says, changing direction and electing people to office who actually respect the Constitution.

For more on this also check Michelle Malkin’s post.

According to economists, the Governor’s claims that $4B in infrastructure projects would create anywhere from 40,000-120,000 new jobs in New Jersey are not correct (shock!). Apparently, the Governor and state Democrats were basing their estimates on a faulty premise.

Generally, these estimates are based on the premise that for every $1 billion spend by New Jersey on capital construction projects, between 11,000 and 35,000 jobs will be created.

 

“The only problem with this boast is that it is based on a distorted interpretation of a statement contained in a 2002 study by the federal Department of Transportation, which even the DOT has tried to correct,” explained Merkt.

The article goes on to point out that any jobs created by these projects would come at the expense of private sector jobs. In other words, this is a jobs transfer program, not jobs creation program.

In sum: No jobs. More debt. Sounds like a fitting slogan for the Corzine years.

More evidence that the auto industry is in trouble because of the union itself. For more check out this excellent post from redstate.com.

We agree totally with Mitt Romney. NO BAILOUT!!!

Funny how the guy couldn’t speak up during the election – long enough so the Obama voters in my last post wouldn’t know who he is apparently – but now he’s Mr. Loquacious.

Listen here as he calls for our prisons to be abolished.

And watch here as Ayers, among other incredible things, claimed his acts weren’t terrorism!

Ayers’ relationship with Obama was one thing, but now it’s time to turn our attention to Ayers himself. Just how does a man who committed such heinous acts wind up as a professor of higher education? Just what IS the Marxist teaching his students?

This is just scary stuff. Not surprising, just scary. Watch as these Obama voters display utter ignorance about key issues from the campaign. Remember, this isn’t just about Obama voters being uninformed – it’s also very much about the so-called mainstream media having not reported on these issues. To put it bluntly, the mainstream media can no longer be trusted to tell the American people the truth.

In addition, a post-election test of Obama voters was conducted by Zogby International which showed that only 2% of Obama voters got all the answers correct and only 54% got half the answers correct. Obama voters readily knew negative things about McCain/Palin but did not know negative things about Obama/Biden. (See here for the complete results.)

Link: HowObamaGotElected.com

If this isn’t enough to tell you what a terible idea COAH is, nothing will. According to State Senator “Kip” Bateman, COAH will likely cost $2 BILLION for each community. That’s 2 BILLION DOLLARS to pay for housing for sex offenders and other ex-prisoners.

Read Senator Bateman’s entire release here.

While we certainly appreciate the Senator’s efforts, amending COAH isn’t the solution. The solution is getting rid of it altogether before this program really sends this state under for good.

COAH means ex-prisoners and sex offenders in your community. Nice.

From Americans for Prosperity:

Who’s This Housing Really For?

Proponents of the Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) mandates claim this housing proposal will provide for police officers and teachers who want to live in their communities.   They claim it is for our young people who want to stay in the New Jersey.  This sounds nice–if you want your child graduating college and moving into a government housing unit, alongside those described on page 15 of the 2006 Housing Report.   A careful examination of this Report  reveals that police and teachers are never mentioned except in a paragraph that references below market mortgages available through the Police and Firefighters Retirement System (PFRS), mainly because police and teachers earn well above the median average for their communities. .  No where does this report call for the provision of such housing.  

The report does, however, outline who is eligible…

Ex-offenders leaving Northern State Prison will be “mainstreamed” into your neighborhood.  Youth aging out of juvenile detention are another targeted market.  But the most unsettling group eligible to live here are persons called “hard to house.”  What does this mean? The state places sex offenders and pedophiles in housing units.  Visit the State police Web site at http://www.state.nj.us/njsp/info/reg_sexoffend.html and find out how many of these individuals are in your community.  

Under this mandate, there are lots more to come. Toms River, for example, currently is home to 102 known sex offenders. Hoboken, the home of Governor Jon Corzine and one of New Jersey’s largest cities, is home to five.  Toms River is mandated to build 4,386 low income units.  The number of convicted sex offenders moving into Toms River and other suburban communities can be expected to rise significantly. The Trenton planners will be experimenting with our neighborhoods to find out if their social engineering schemes work. You and I will suffer the consequences, but they don’t care. We are just guinea pigs.

In 1911, when “Trenton Makes-the World Takes” was adopted as Trenton’s official slogan and the famous sign built on the approach to Trenton, 10% of America’s population lived within 75 miles of Trenton. The free market met the demands of a growing and diverse population with innovations like Sears’s homes, row housing, mansions, Cape Cod homes and more.  Now, with New Jersey experiencing increased outward migration, the Trenton planners want to step in and second guess our needs and wants, replacing the success that made New Jersey an economic powerhouse with massive entitlement housing projects.

Please call your legislator, and tell him to stop threatening our neighborhoods with Trenton’s radical experiments.

To see where COAH units are going up in your neighborhood click here.