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• Hackensack Corruption

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    I know for a fact if you dig deeper you will see all the cover ups of the physical abuse against not just the chiefs wife, but many of the other wives in the department.

    If you dont belong to the good ole boys group, you have to sway from what is right and your morals in order to stay in that department. Many of the officers have been punished or HAVE turn their heads away from what is right to do under the law in order to protect the citizens that happen to be spouses, to keep their jobs.

     

    The officers interviewed are correct in the description of the department.

    I know them both personally for over 20 yrs.

    Hackensack has had officers that have shot their girlfriends, beaten wives, taken evidence home, Taken bribes and payoffs.

    They have a very strong blue wall.  Most of the brass is corrupt.

     

    The Zisa family is known to have the City of Hackensack under their thumb.

    Nobody crosses any of them if you want to keep your job or not be demoted. Its known as "Zisa Town" and that it is not penetrable. The law does not apply to that department, and there are very few that are not turned crooked due to bullying and pressure.

     

    Please break this story wide open and save the families of the 80% BAD Officers and citizens of Hackensack. 

     

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• Hackensack Shakedown?

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    After watching our story, what's your opinion? Who is getting the "shakedown"?

     

    1. Are the officers who don't "play the game," as they say, being intimated by the chief and supervisors?

     

    OR

     

    2. Are the chief and the city victims of a bunch of unhappy cops who are trying to grab control and money from the department?

     

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• read this VERY IMPORTANT-MUS"

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    You have probably seen the landmarks.  But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world.  It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.

     

    All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighbourhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen.  And if they are, they might regret it.  This goes for the police as well.  It's the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children.  Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead.  With mosques on many street corners.  The shops have signs you and I cannot read.  You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity.  These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics.  These are Muslim neighbourhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe .  These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe , street by street, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, city by city.

     

    There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe .  With larger congregations than there are in churches.  And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region.  Clearly, the signal is: we rule.

    Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam , Marseille and Malmo in Sweden .  In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim.  Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighbourhoods.  Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.

     

    In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.

     

    Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils.  In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims.  Non-Muslim women routinely hear 'whore, whore'.  Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in the country of origin.

     

    In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin .  The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.

     

    In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighbourhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves.  Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels , because he was drinking during the Ramadan.

     

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• Let's Talk About Transit Bosse

  • From: Transit_Pixie
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    Let's demand a voice of apology from Transit officials and the MTA board to the New York City Transit and the MTA family that respect and adhere to drug and alcohol policies.  Apologize to the New York City riding public.

    Drinking and driving. Not the ethical behavior we would expect from Transit employees, especially managers, especially not driving Authority vehicles or any safety sensitive position.

    When one becomes a Transit employee in a safety sensitive position, most of us recognize that our lifestyle changes. We don't attend family gatherings or holidays at home with family, we don't have normal hours and we don't engage in illegal drug use; we definitely don't drink/use illicit drugs and drive while on duty. We definitely should not be drinking and using a Transit vehicle no matter how high up in the organization. 

    Other managers over the years have been caught drunk driving with Authority vehicles by police. One manager that was caught out-of-state drunk driving. The public rarely gets wind of these incidents. Some managers go into programs, some managers have their bad conduct swept under the table. There are those that engage in other behaviors while using , but those are not relevant now. Few are permanently terminated for alcohol/drug policy violations. Demotions, transfers, change of responsibilities, lost promotions, some have even seen their promotions delayed.
    
    
    I would love to hear from those with first hand knowledge of Transit managers that were permanently terminated for alcohol or drug use while on duty as a manager.

    All this is not to suggest that Joe Smith was drunk. His actions demonstrate his arrogance, his belief, that he is above the alcohol/drug policies in place. Policies are not for a manager's selective adherence to, they are in place for all to abide by. Transit management and union got used to negotiating, bargaining, which of those would be disciplined or disciplined harshly for policy infractions and which would have their violations purged or treated with a soft hand.

    Politics of a labor organized work culture.

    The real problem is in the reaction to Joe Smith's having the car. It is about the car, not the alcohol. Statements like, He's a great guy; The little guy's friend; Saved millions; Caught him on a bad day. If this were a comedy, you could laugh. This has undermined moral. The many managers that adhere to these policies and attempt to do their job endure close scrutiny and undue mistrust by every one. The public's general attitude is one of outrage; they are forced to use public transportation, while Smith has a car.

    Yes, the press won't mention the long hours he puts in. The large area of responsibility. The press loves to hate Transit. Most people go back and forth to the same work location every day. People in Joe Smith's position are sometimes in five boroughs in a 20 hour day.

    There is a  vague line of on and off duty time. All Authority vehicles have a log. The user of the vehicle, begin location and destination, times, mileage, tolls are all logged. Every trip should be logged. Ask Special Investigations Unit. It is a favorite for them to look at when determining if a manager has been stealing time or to determine their location. If you consider that anytime you are in an Authority vehicle you are on duty. You don't get paid for all the time you are in a vehicle if you take your vehicle home. A policy needs to be in place to define on duty and off duty and behavior for managers of his caliber. I think they call it Ethics. 

    The old problem of vendor contracted services not being the most cost effective for a city agency is amplified in the hour ride to get gas for the Authority vehicle. It is probably also a testament to the miserable traffic to/from Brooklyn. Transit used to fuel cars at the depots and rail yards. Transit also had a vendor fueling location in lower Manhattan for patrol cars. If I'm not mistaken just south of Canal Street on the West Side. Bad judgment or unfamiliarity with fuel locations by the person fueling the car, may have been the issue. He may have been instructed to use that location or transit required him to use the fuel location. Your pin number can limit you to a borough.

    A waste of a high ranking manager's time is a problem. We the public would have been more outraged to be paying Joe Smith big money to take an hour to fuel his own car. Damned if you do. Damned if you don't.

    Joe Smith is more of a symbol of some of the problems facing Transit's work culture and the image it presents internal and external.

     

     

     

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• Terrorist getting Tried in US

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    Read below and be worried. Not only should this a Military trail, but it should be held outside of NY for the obvious reasons

     

    Today Barack Obama is going to announce that the terrorist mastermind of September 11th, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be sent to New York City for a criminal trial in a civilian court.

     

    In that trial, the terrorist will get all the rights afforded an American citizen in a criminal trial, including the right to a fair trial, the right to a taxpayer funded attorney, the right to review all the evidence against him, potentially including classified intelligence matters, the right to exclude evidence against him including, potentially, any confession obtained through enhanced interrogation techniques, etc.

     

    At best, this will be a show trial fit not for the American Republic, but a third world kleptocratic totalitarian regime.  At worse, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will gain access to classified material he can then leak to other terrorists while New York yet again becomes a target for terrorists.  We have already had occasions in this country where terrorists' sympathetic lawyers have conveyed information, orders, and plans to other terrorists.

     

    You can find more details here.

     

    Call your Congressman and Senator right now.  Tell them they should use every tool at their disposal to block this.  The number to call is 202-224-3121.

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• Wednesday-Morning Campaigning

  • From: DickBrennan
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    In football, they call them Monday-morning quarterbacks. On the road they are back-seat drivers. In politics, well, they are political analysts.
    
    At Mike Bloomberg's headquarters last week, while we reporters were scratching our heads as the stunning results rolled in, more than one expert did a little revisionist politics.
    
    "I told you this was going to happen," one said to me.
    
    "You did?" I responded in disbelief.
    
    "Yeah," he answered. "A while back."
    
    Oh sure, a while back. No wonder I had no recollection.
    
    It's not that nobody ever warned me that this election was closer than it looked. Somebody named Bill Thompson told me on election eve: "The numbers are now single digits and we're closing."
    
    I took his comment as bravado. It wasn't.
    
    Mike Bloomberg kept saying that he was taking nothing for granted. Now we know why.
    
    The political second-guessers are also having a field day with the Thompson campaign. "Amateurs" is the word I've heard.
    
    Really? True, there were missed opportunities. Thompson did not go as negative as he could have. He ignored a golden opportunity, when Rudy Giuliani stepped into the storm with fired up rhetoric that surely could have helped rally Thompson's base.
    
    He could have made better use of Rep. Anthony Weiner, a tough campaigner who dropped out of the race earlier this year.
    
    But let's be fair. Thompson was outspent 10 to 1. He was deserted by some New York City Democrats, some unions, and one president of the United States. Barack Obama seems to be a new force in New York politics, and he's doing a heck of a job there! The White House surely could have helped close a 5-point gap. But the fix was apparently in. The president also fixed it so Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand would have no opposition. Except from a Republican.
    
    Now our first African-American president has dissed New York's first African-American governor, and New York City's African-American candidate for mayor. Nice.
    
    So with everyone and everything lined up against him, Thompson got some 507,000 votes, about 4,000 more than Fernando Ferrer got in 2005.
    
    He did it without big money, without going too negative, without playing racial politics, without help from the White House.
    
    Maybe the voters appreciated the classy approach. Bill Thompson lost the race. But he can hold his head high.
    
    It was Bloomberg who was deserted, perhaps by supporters who thought Mr. Moneybags had it in the bag or by some voters fed up with all the robo-calls and commercials that made every channel The Bloomberg Channel. (Don't we already have one of those? Random question: Does Bloomberg pay for commercials on Bloomberg? Answer: Of course.)
    
    The Yankees spent $200 million, but won a championship and the hearts of grateful city.
    
    Mayor Bloomberg spent $100 million and won an election. Good luck with those four more years.

    Dick Brennan is Fox 5's chief political correspondent. The Queens Courier published a version of this commentary.

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• Acess A Ride Question

  • From: Get_Reel_NYC
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    John, I am an Auxiliary Police Officer and I have met that particular Auxiliary Member and feel your story may have just scratched the surface with this guy. I cringe when I hear that an auxiliary officer abused his position, or uses his shield to get free or discounted services from the City because he is an Auxiliary Officer. We are trying to show the regular officers we are here for no other purpose but to support you and make your job more effective in a more dangerous world.

    I saw that Auxiliary Seargent at the Auxiliary Headquarters, and I think that is where he volunteers. He seems to have a screw or two loose. What he's doing in the program, let alone being an Auxiliary Seargent, is beyond me. He has a limp and seems to be a bit of a baffoon, but I doubt that is one of the check-off's for the Acess-A-Ride application. I was shocked to see him on TV, but it really looks like he is scamming the city for discounted private cab service. I doubt he even pays the fare when he's in uniform. I think he also has something to do with the Auxiliary Union.

    If I remember correctly, last year I saw a story where a 87 year old woman, who looked like my grandma, was denied services from Access-A-Ride because she was able to board a bus and enter the subway. If he can do both, it would be interesting to see if he uses it only when he's going to the Auxiliary Police events, but doesn't use if he's going to his real job.

    There is nothing wrong with using Access-A-Ride if you need it, but why deny it unless you are not using it legally. Access-A-Ride, or the city, needs to tighten it's budget and it would really suck if he's still on the bus and another 87 year old is sent on the streets. I saw this story about keeping people honest. With unemployment at 10+% and city budgets out of wack people should be more concious of waste and neglect! Shame on the Auxiliary Seargent for making the rest of us look bad!

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• Justice Dept. Asked For News S

  • From: Zcats
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    *Another "bully tactic" from the White House....

     

    In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day.

    The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based Indymedia.us Web site "not to disclose the existence of this request" unless authorized by the Justice Department, a gag order that presents an unusual quandary for any news organization.

    Kristina Clair, a 34-year old Linux administrator living in Philadelphia who provides free server space for Indymedia.us, said she was shocked to receive the Justice Department's subpoena. (The Independent Media Center is a left-of-center amalgamation of journalists and advocates that – according to their principles of unity and mission statement – work toward "promoting social and economic justice" and "social change.")

    The subpoena (PDF) from U.S. Attorney Tim Morrison in Indianapolis demanded "all IP traffic to and from http://www.indymedia.us" on June 25, 2008. It instructed Clair to "include IP addresses, times, and any other identifying information," including e-mail addresses, physical addresses, registered accounts, and Indymedia readers' Social Security Numbers, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, and so on.

    "I didn't think anything we were doing was worthy of any (federal) attention," Clair said in a telephone interview with CBSNews.com on Monday. After talking to other Indymedia volunteers, Clair ended up calling the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, which represented her at no cost.

    Under long-standing Justice Department guidelines, subpoenas to members of the news media are supposed to receive special treatment. One portion of the guidelines, for instance, says that "no subpoena may be issued to any member of the news media" without "the express authorization of the attorney general" – that would be current attorney general Eric Holder – and subpoenas should be "directed at material information regarding a limited subject matter."

    Still unclear is what criminal investigation U.S. Attorney Morrison was pursuing. Last Friday, a spokeswoman initially promised a response, but Morrison sent e-mail on Monday evening saying: "We have no comment." The Justice Department in Washington, D.C. also declined to respond.

    Kevin Bankston, a senior staff attorney at the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, replied to the Justice Department on behalf of his client in a February 2009 letter (PDF) outlining what he described as a series of problems with the subpoena, including that it was not personally served, that a judge-issued court order would be required for the full logs, and that Indymedia did not store logs in the first place.

    Morrison replied in a one-sentence letter saying the subpoena had been withdrawn. Around the same time, according to the EFF, the group had a series of discussions with assistant U.S. attorneys in Morrison's office who threatened Clair with possible prosecution for obstruction of justice if she disclosed the existence of the already-withdrawn subpoena -- claiming it "may endanger someone's health" and would have a "human cost."

    Lucy Dalglish, the executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of The Press, said a gag order to a news organization wouldn't stand up in court: "If you get a subpoena and you're a journalist, they can't gag you."

    Dalglish said that a subpoena being issued and withdrawn is not unprecedented. "I have seen any number of these things withdrawn when counsel for someone who is claiming a reporter's privilege says, 'Can you tell me the date you got approval from the attorney general's office'... I'm willing to chalk this up to bad lawyering on the part of the DOJ, or just not thinking."

    Making this investigation more mysterious is that Indymedia.us is an aggregation site, meaning articles that appear on it were published somewhere else first, and there's no hint about what sparked the criminal probe. Clair, the system administrator, says that no IP (Internet Protocol) addresses are recorded for Indymedia.us, and non-IP address logs are kept for a few weeks and then discarded.

    EFF's Bankston wrote a second letter to the government saying that, if it needed to muzzle Indymedia, it should apply for a gag order under the section of federal law that clearly permits such an order to be issued. Bankston's plan: To challenge that law on First Amendment grounds.

    But the Justice Department never replied. "This is the first time we've seen them try to get the IP address of everyone who visited a particular site," Bankston said. "That it was a news organization was an additional troubling fact that implicates First Amendment rights."

    This is not, however, the first time that the Feds have focused on Indymedia -- a Web site whose authors sometimes blur the line between journalism, advocacy, and on-the-streets activism. In 2004, the Justice Department sent a grand jury subpoena asking for information about who posted lists of Republican delegates while urging they be given an unwelcome reception at the party's convention in New York City that year. A Indymedia hosting service in Texas once received a subpoena asking for server logs in relation to an investigation of an attempted murder in Italy.

    Bankston has written a longer description of the exchange of letters with the Justice Department, which he hopes will raise awareness of how others should respond to similar legal demands for Web logs, customer records, and compulsory silence. "Our fear is that this kind of bogus gag order is much more common than one would hope, considering they're legally baseless," Bankston says. "We're telling this story in hopes that more providers will press back and go public when the government demands their silence."

    http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/09/taking_liberties/entry5595506.shtml?tag=mncol;txt

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• Beware: NYC parking ticket Sc

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    Have you ever felt the sting of a parking ticket warrior's scanner for parking in front of a pedestrian ramp located mid block on the long street of a 'T' intersection? The price tag is $165, ouch! The DOF does not offer a reduction of your fine for this violation in exchange for pleading guilty.  The horrors of the NYC parking ticket wars.

    Have you ever thought to yourself in a quiet moment, or when you are screaming in the shower about this injustice, that it really makes no sense to prohibit parking in front of a pedestrian ramp in the middle of the block, with no crosswalk markings or traffic devices controlling the flow of traffic? Why would anyone cross the street at this location. It is dangerous.

    Great Decision

    In December, 2008 the pedestrian ramp parking rule was amended. The NYC driving public is now permitted to park in front of a pedestrian ramp located in the long street of a 'T' intersection. Here is the amended rule as set forth on the DOT Website:

    "Effective December 2008, the New York City Traffic rules have been modified to allow parking at some "T" intersections, those without traffic signals or all-way stop signs or crosswalk markings. These locations have caused confusion in the past, as they were not clearly delineated as spaces for pedestrians or cars. The rule change has enabled the Department to put them in the category appropriate for each location, making it clearer for motorists, pedestrians and enforcement agents. Parking is now permitted at those "T" Intersections where the adjacent (major) street is not marked with a crosswalk and not controlled by all-way stop signs or traffic signals, even if there is a curb cut at that location."

    The Scam

    The problem is that some of the parking ticket warriors are still issuing parking tickets for this "former" violation, knowing full well it is no longer a parking violation. What makes matters worse is that many members of the NYC driving public continue to pay the hefty fine. 

    Why is this scam allowed to continue?  Take a guess. Here are three choices:

    • The offending warriors were all on vacation in December, 2008 and  missed the class about the change in the pedestrian ramp law?
    • Revenue
    • Revenue

    A call to action

    Shame on these warriors, shame on the DOF and shame on the DOT for allowing this nefarious practice to continue. Stop this bad behavior immediately!

    

     

    If you have suffered the sting of a warriors scanner unjustly for this "former" violation, please let me know the details. I will send this evidence to a multitude of news outlets, the DOF and DOT, and do my best to continue to publicize this scam.

    Do not pay the parking ticket. It is no longer a violation. When you are right, FIGHT!

     

     

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• Now What?

  • From: DickBrennan
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    What is Congressman Anthony Weiner thinking right now? It has been reported that he skipped the mayoral race to avoid a shock and awe campaign against him by Mayor Michael Bloomberg. But at the end of the day it's the man who many considered the weaker candidate, Bill Thompson, who came within five points of pulling off one of the great upsets in political history.
    
    Weiner decided to wait four years and take a pass on the mayor. Now it seems he coulda been a contenda.
    
    So who dares to predict politics? Mike Bloomberg walks away winning by the skin of his teeth. Imagine if he only spent $80 million? Would he have lost?
    
    Bloomberg challenged critics on the term limits issue. He said that the voters should decide who stays or goes. And, despite pouring tens of millions into negative ads against Thompson, the voters almost sent HIM packing.
    
    The mayor says you can't buy an election. He proved himself right. The electorate spoke. Elsewhere the mentality was "throw the bums out." Across the Hudson River, Jon Corzine got bounced.
    
    President Barack Obama put an awful lot of prestige on the line. And he flopped in a state that he himself won easily just last year.
    
    But imagine if Mr. Obama had really campaigned for Bill Thompson? The president's impact would have been far greater in a city dominated by Democrats and with a large African-American base. There are reports that the mayor's office pressured the White House to stay out of the race. Obama's press secretary eventually gave Thompson only a half-hearted endorsement on a Friday afternoon, and the president never even campaigned once for Thompson. If the back-room story is true, it was a brilliant job of lobbying by City Hall. And it's a sad commentary on the White House, giving up on the leading Democratic candidate in the nation's biggest city.
    
    And now it seems Bloomberg joins a growing list of New York pols using the White House to do their political work.
    
    Thompson is certainly a big winner despite losing. Some had thought he might take a crack at the state comptroller's office next. But maybe he can set his sights on City Hall once again four years from now.
    
    The mayor paid a lot of money for all his political consultants -- the "best and the brightest." But for all the money and brainpower, he only gets a five-point win? Maybe he should ask for a refund.
    
    The end of this campaign season reminds me of the closing scene of the best political movie ever made, "The Candidate." Robert Redford plays the idealistic candidate who gradually morphs into a typical pol, making all the standard moves to get elected. When the cheering stops and he's all alone in his hotel room, he suddenly realizes what's happened, and asks himself the question he never considered during the campaign: "Now what?"

    Dick Brennan is Fox 5's chief political correspondent. The Queens Courier published a version of this commentary.

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• NEW YORK-BASED RADICAL MUSLIM

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    NEW YORK — A New York City bicycle cabbie who mocked the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl and posted a prayer on the Web calling for the murder of Jews is now sending a "Get Well Soon" message to the suspected Fort Hood gunman, the New York Post reported.

    Yousef al-Khattab, 41, a radical Muslim in the borough of Queens who runs RevolutionMuslim.com, claims on the site that the soldiers massacred at the Texas base deserved to be massacred, and he insists the victims are in "eternal hellfire." As for the suspected gunman — Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan — Al-Khattab hails him as a hero.

    "An officer and a gentleman was injured while partaking in a pre-emptive attack," al-Khattab wrote on the site. "Get well soon Major Nidal. We love you."

    Al-Khattab, a Jewish-born New Jersey native formerly named Joseph Cohen, converted to Islam in 2004. Known by the FBI for posting radical messages online, al-Khattab claims that the 13 murdered and 38 wounded soldiers at Fort Hood were "terrorists" who deserved to die.

    "These people are soldiers in a volunteer army," al-Khattab told the Post. "They expect to see combat. They know the danger."

    "Rest assured the slain terrorists at Ft. Hood are in the eternal hellfire," al-Khattab writes online.

    On Oct. 7, al-Khattab posted a message on the Web calling on Allah to carry out "wrath on the Jewish occupiers of Palestine & their supporters."

    "Please throw liquid drain cleaner in their faces," he wrote. " … burn their flammable sukkos while they sleep … Ya Allah (Oh God) answer my duaa (prayer)." ("Sukkos" refers to the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, during which Jews build and eat their meals in outdoor huts known as "sukkahs," which represent the huts the Jews lived in during their exodus from Egypt.)

    Al Khattab insists that his hatred is protected by the First Amendment. "If it was a threat, I'd be in jail," the 41-year-old al-Khattab told FoxNews.com in October.
    Hasan — a radical Muslim — reportedly shouted "Allahu akbar," or "God is great" in Arabic, before unloading more than 100 rounds at soldiers preparing to ship off to Iraq and Afghanistan.

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• MTA CARS

  • From: longtimebusguy
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    John,you got the wrong guy.There surely is waste in this city,but it's not from NYCT BUSES,especially Joe Smith.Take this from a Union Rep who is at odds with management daily (including Joe),mostly because they are always trying to cut something,or make do with less.I've lived in this city all my 49 years,28 of them with Transit,and the bottom line is - have you seen how far we've come since the 1980's? Most people who complain about the MTA either have short memory's or weren't around then.People like Joe Smith have had a heavy hand in that transformation.You've got to give the man his due.His area encompasses Long Island to Staten Island,Van Cortland Park to Coney Island.We can't possibly expect a hands on guy like Joe to get to an emergency that might arrise without a car.As far as going to affairs,I can attest that Joe attends most,including the "little guys",and more importantly,the Wakes and Funerals.I've always felt that he always showed respect for all,while trying to do a tough job,especially in these trying times.You might've caught him a little off guard that day,but you got the wrong guy.

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• MTA Boss

  • From: streetglide09
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    You report on Joe Smith may have a few facts that are real but anyone who knows him and has been around him also knows that Joe is the hardest working NYCT employee and the most loyal employee that this city could ever ask for. You should have done a story on what Joe has done for the NYCT in all his years of service. Maybe the fact that he drove to Hurracaine Katrina and stayed in his car and moved over 50 NYCT buses across the country without one incident might have show you what type of person he really is. Maybe the weeks during 911 that he stayed in the city to see that all who needed help got what ever he could offer.Maybe the fact that Joe starts his day around 5am and sometime ends it around 7pm would have been a bit better story to show on the news.If you would have taken the time to ask him Joe would have been happy to show you all the things that really makes our city transit the best system in the world. Other countries come to us to see what we do and copy us.All due to a person like Joe Smith who you tried to paint as a person doing wrong with a company car.Joe should be given an award for all the good he has done in his years with the NYCT. This was as wrong as it could ever be and SHAME ON YOU.

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• MTA Bus Boss

  • From: NYCPat
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    John,

            Your so called investagation, was a cheap shot at one of the hardest working people in the MTA.  Your "investigation", forgot to mention a couple of things;  Joe Smith worked his way up the ladder from a Bus Operator to where he is now,  he is also in a famous 9/11 picture running from the falling Twin Towers  trying to provide transportation to evacuate Manhattan.  The trains where down and the city relied on the bus system.  Joe Smith stayed in a bus garage for 4 days.  Or did you forget when he was asked to go and assist with the after math of Hurricane Catrina and slept in his company car for 7 days.  Company cars have no showers or toliets.  Your "story", was a cheap shot at one of the best people working for the MTA.  Shame on you!

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• Cannot Read !!

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    The majority of the traffic  Agents cannot speak english , nor read . I guess thats why it's best to work for the city . They all seem to be slow in some sort .I'm not even gonna play the race card because they all & i mean all are slow .

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• Corzine Allies Steal the Elect

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    Corzine Allies Steal the Election in New Jersey? ACORN, Dirty Tricks and Absentee Ballot Fraud
    Big Government ^ | 11/02/09 | Capitol Confidential

    Monday, November 02, 2009

    New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine is locked in the political fight of his life. With just hours left before voting, polls show a neck-and-neck race between Corzine and GOP candidate Chris Christie, with Independent candidate Chris Daggett pulling significant support. Obama and VP Biden are making last ditch pitches for the embattled governor. But evidence is building that Corzine’s campaign may see its only salvation is in rigging the election.

    The first sign is a straight-up dirty trick. Daggett’s run for office is certainly convenient for Corzine, as he will help split any anti-Corzine vote. And, as a Corzine political appointee, one wonders if his candidacy wasn’t a set up to begin with. Now, in the final days of the campaign, it appears state democrats are paying for robo calls supporting Independent Chris Daggett. First reported here, the robo calls attack Christie (but not Corzine) and promote Daggett. At the end of the call, it is mentioned that the calls are paid for by a “project of the NJSDC.” No idea what that acronym stands for, but New Jersey State Democratic Committee, isn’t too big of a stretch. More interesting is the fact that the return number on the calls is the same number that was used to promote Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley’s election in closing days of the 2006 race.

    More telling that the fix is in, however, is the sudden appearance of ACORN on the scene. Not by name, mind you, as their reputation is so tarnished that even New Jersey Democrats don’t want to be associated with them. No, in New Jersey ACORN sought cover behind its big brother, SEIU, specifically SEIU Local 32BJ.

    The political director for the SEIU local is Peter Colavito. Just last year, he was ACORN’s political director in New York, working directly under Bertha Lewis, ACORN’s CEO and co-chair of ACORN-backed Working Families Party. He was, and remains, a top official and board member of the Working Families Party in New York. In fact, his wife is currently an employee of the Working Families Party. Corzine has made much of his endorsement by the SEIU local, failing to mention the union’s deep ties to both ACORN and its Working Families Party in New York.

    These ties are starting to appear, however. GOP officials recently received a phone tip from a hospital in Newark, reporting that people in ACORN t-shirts were in the facility signing up and collecting absentee ballots. New Jersey law allows anyone to take up to 10 absentee ballots at a time. The tipster reported seeing individuals in the ACORN shirts entering the hospital with blank absentee ballots and leaving with completed ballots.

    There are reports out of Camden, New Jersey that voters are discovering that absentee ballots have already been submitted under their name. They did not authorize these ballots. Early reports suggested that the number of absentee ballots ‘requested’ in Camden city is higher than in any previous election. This will no doubt spark confusion on election day.

    Possibly anticipating this confusion, the state Democratic Committee recently sent a letter to the Secretary of State, arguing that any absentee ballot that is rejected should still be counted as a “provisional” vote. The letter complained that almost 3,000 absentee ballots had already been rejected “solely on the basis of a comparison of their signature to the signature on record.” Solely? If the signature of the voter doesn’t match the signature on the ballot, is there really a reason to look at anything else? The letter from the state Democrats suggests that election officials should simply verify that the address on the absentee ballot matches the address on record. Right, and my bank should go ahead and cash any suspicious check as long as the address on the check matches my home address.

    The best hope here is that Christie wins by enough of a margin that these dirty tricks are moot. As they say in sports, put enough points on the board and the refs can’t steal it from you.

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• The Democrat Rackeeteering Fix

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    The Democrat Rackeeteering Fix is in: NJ-GOV: Jon Corzine’s Absentee Ballot Slush Fund

    Is there one, (one?!) honest Democrat? C'mon, New Jersey!

    NJ-GOV: Jon Corzine’s Absentee Ballot Slush Fund NRO via Redstate

    National Review’s Jim Geraghty has a tremendously important story. Jon Corzine is trying to build an absentee ballot slush fund to win a recount in the New Jersey Governor’s race. Basically, the Democratic Party has asked the Secretary of State to send provisional absentee ballots out to people whose signatures on their absentee ballot requests don’t match:

    In a development that is depressingly predictable, the New Jersey Democratic party is asking the state to provide provisional ballots for all these voters. Those ballots could, presumably, be used to overcome any narrow lead by Republican Chris Christie over Democrat Jon Corzine on Election Day.

    Now, let’s be clear how the absentee process works in New Jersey. Third parties can pick up and return absentee ballots. A couple of weeks ago, a Democratic operative in Atlantic City plead guilty to a lesser charge of tampering with ballots. One practice mentioned in the indictment was the person picking up ballots from people and throwing them out if they weren’t for his candidate. Another example was:

    They allegedly solicited applications for messenger absentee ballots from individuals not qualified to receive them and had the voters not fill in the name of the messenger, so they could fraudulently designate themselves as the authorized messengers or bearers.

    And:

    They allegedly obtained messenger ballots from the county clerk and submitted them to the board of elections as vote s on behalf of voters who, in fact, never received or voted the ballots or, in some cases, were given only the security envelope for the ballot and were told to sign it. Those voters were not given the opportunity to vote in most instances.

    So when ballots are getting into the hands of people who didn’t even ask fro them, you have to wonder what is going on.

    And lest we not forget the dead vote: Thanks to the increasing popularity of absentee voting, a rising number of the recently deceased are casting ballots -- legally.

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• Howloween Pet Costume Party Fu

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    The biggest newsmakers of the year were out in full force! Host Lucky Diamond "floated" in as the infamous "Balloon Boy," <em>Fox News' </em>Lauren Sivan and Rick Leventhal earned their wings as hero Captain "Sully" Sullenberger and his flight attendant, with their little dog, Spanx, as the pesky bird that caused the plane to go down. Even Eli the Chihuahua, dressed as the Pope, "blessed" us with his presence!

     

    Everyone from Scooby Doo to Princess Fiona to Elvis had a tail-wagging good time at <em>Animal Fair's </em>9th Annual Howloween Costume Party, which benefited the Humane Society of New York. What could be better than having a dog-gone fun party while helping a good cause? Chasing cats and digging in the yard comes close, but no cigar.

     

    The celebrity judges who gave paws up or paws down were the <em>Rescue Ink</em> crew, Ramona Singer of The Real Housewives of New York City as a pirate alongside her dog, Coco, Lauren Sivan, Rick Leventhal, Ainsley Earhardt as a cat (better be careful dressed like that at a dog party!) and Courtney Friel and her Stoli, of <em>Fox News</em>, who marched in as a proud soldier, Z100's Skeery Jones and Miss Teen U.S.A. Stormi Bree Henley.

     

    The big winner of the night was a little dog dressed as an army recruiter, fully loaded with his own little army base, aviator sunglasses and a "don't ask, don't tell" sign! This little G.I. Pup was one of the most talked about canines of the "pawty!"

     

    Even Michael Jackson made an appearance just in time for the release of <em>This Is It!</em>

     

    Some of the other big winners this year included a doggie duo dressed as Snoopy and Woodstock, who made a big entrance in a little airplane, a 70's Guido dog who took the "honor" of "Most Tasteless," Jane Pontarelli's little Maltese was a "diva dog" dressed in a $1000 bright red Kleinfeld's dog wedding dress that could rival Mariah Carey, a "baby" being carried in a pouch by his "daddy," a flashy showgirl - I should say showdog and Luigi, a tiny punk rocker, complete with a little pink Mohawk, who arrived with his parent, Mary of <em>Rescue Ink</em>.

     

    We were also treated to an appearance by Marie Antoinette and her yummy doggie "cakes," as well as Stephanie and Ira Churnick with their pup as a Native American family, going the whole nine yards with headdresses and moccasins. Also getting cultural was Caroline Lieberman and her furry friend, Maharajah Mumbai as an Indian prince and princess. The fashionable dog arrived decked out in a traditional Indian tunic, pants, jewelry and even a turban!

     

    The winner of this year's raffle was a pint-sized pooch named Porsche and her human parent, Grace Foster, both decked out as Shrek's bride, Princess Fiona. They both seemed to have an "ogre"-whelmingly good time!

     

    Lucky Diamond was not qualified to win the costume contest, as her mom, Wendy Diamond was the "arresting officer" and chairperson of the event. However, the charismatic Maltese did win Honorable Mention as the high-flying Balloon Boy (or dog in this case)!

     

    Wendy Diamond's Howloween Pet Costume Tip - On a budget? Grab some old hangers, Reynolds wrap, tape, and you have Balloon Boy! Total cost is only $5.oo, top that Martha Stewart! For more fun ideas, check www.animalfair.com.

     

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• Bloomberg's Dimes

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    So Mike Bloomberg has now spent more of his own money on political job-seeking than any other person in American history.
    
    He says he's running on his record, but we presume it's not THAT one.
    
    We should be happy he never ran for president. A lot of that money would have been spent somewhere else.
    
    The mayor and his many flacks correctly point out that you really can't buy an election, or re-election. If you're not doing your job, the voters won't put up with you.
    
    But will voters think the spending is unseemly? So far, it seems the answer is no.
    
    The latest campaign records show Bloomberg is on a pace to spend upwards of $110 million for a job that he is paid, by his choice, a dollar a year. Good thing he's running for mayor, and not for the CEO of New York. Otherwise President Obama would tax him at 90 percent and he'd be left with a dime!
    
    The mayor can spare a dime or two or three. His campaign has spent more than $300,000 on food. But his campaign staff still appears lean and mean.
    
    Not that they haven't spent wisely. Nearly $9,000 was spent at Goodfellas Brick Oven Pizza on Staten Island. Since I feel like I've eaten in every pizza joint in the city, I can testify that Goodfellas is top-notch. But do they deliver to City Hall in a half hour? I doubt it.
    
    (The best pizza in the city is of course in Queens: Centre Pizza in Little Neck, where I've been devouring slices for some 40 years).
    
    The Bloomberg campaign has spent nearly $300,000 on transportation. Doesn't anybody over there have a MetroCard?
    
    They've dropped $175,000 on furniture. I don think that was money well spent. In fact, the most comfortable couch I've sat on recently is at Thompson campaign headquarters. But I bet they got it out of some campaign staffer's dorm.
    
    Some things money can't buy. Somebody told the mayor he should make his way into the Yankees locker room after they won the pennant, go up to the stage, and hope somebody from Fox Sports would put a mike in his face. The mayor stood, while Hal Steinbrenner accepted the trophy, Joe Girardi was interviewed, then MVP CC Sabathia, then Andy Pettitte, then A-Rod. But suddenly Mike Bloomberg, hoping for a Chuck Schumer moment, was edged out. Don't they know who he is? Maybe they should ask the White House, those experts on "real news organizations" if Fox is a "real sports organization."
    
    If the Yanks win four straight, maybe the mayor, who likely doesn't know an infield fly rule from an appeal play, will call for a ticker-tape parade on Election Day.
    
    Right now the polls show Bloomberg up by 16 points. The electorate that was so furious with him over term limits seems ready to vote him a third term. And nobody seems to be too upset about all that spending.
    
    As long as you spend it all here.

    Dick Brennan is WNYW's chief political correspondent. The Queens Courier published a version of this commentary.

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