It's all about ethnic pride. In the early 20th century you had this huge influx of Southern European immigrants into a country created under a Hegemony of WASPs. They wanted to express that they too had a representative in the creation of this country and settled upon good old Chris, who had no idea where he was till the day he died.

Yeah he was a racist piece of shit, and as such was a perfectly representative man of his time. Cancel culture demands to be fed....

You left out the most important one: Wessex, The Last Kingdom! Ive always wondered what name the Saxons in the north took. Never heard of Nussex, and Northumbria is a bit far. Also always wondered why there's Norfolk and Suffolk but no Ostfolk and Westfolk.

Nope. Marconi stole the radio from Nikola Tesla. Look it up, was affirmed in a US Supreme Court case. Marconi was a self promoter second only to Edison.

Yeah, cheap pandering to ethnic voting blocs aint was it used to be.

That doesn't make sense, but that would be par for the course for JCPS. It's been like 7 years since my younger was applying but I seem to recall that there was a point system assigned for the test and grades and extracurriculars etc. It wasn't all just the test.

Precisely. I believe they only accept transfers for sophomores and not juniors or seniors, but you should ask what the policy is. The problem is that you need to show them what has changed, and need some real Kick-Ass grades for the last year and this year, and probably need to take the PSAT again. You better be taking the most rigorous classes your school offers.

Try the triple pepper chicken at King Szechuan. Not stupid, inedible hot, but pretty hot.

In decades doing this I don't think I've ever rented to someone who came back for a second view. And open houses are complete mess, I don't get to give attention to everyone I'd like to or get to sniff them out. I'd much rather do a bit of pre-interviewing on the phone, and then get to actually meet them and assess them during the tour.

The problem is that apps like Zillow have created extremely low signal to noise in this arena. So many people will click on a listing because it takes no effort, and then not even respond when the the advertiser calls or emails them back. I have found this true many times advertising apartments as an owner. I try to get back to everyone, but sometimes there's so many and I know the yield is so low I just kind of give up after getting a three or four people who say they'll tour.

So you know what guarantees a call back from me? An actual written human text, hopefully with some self description, as opposed to using the canned message that you click on.

Also you can get my attention by filling out some of the info fields like income and FICO. I get a surprising number of inquiries from people who couldn't possibly afford the apartment for rent.

Peanut butter and jelly chicken, a recipe my family invented. Baked chicken parts coated in peanut butter mixed with soy sauce, duck sauce, ginger and garlic. Side of mixed brown and red rice, probably steamed broccoli or cauliflower, and of course a challah roll because it's Shabbat.

It has to be Gold's duck sauce, it bears no resemblance to the syrupy crap in the packets that come with takeout. Alternative is apricot or peach jam.

All that presupposes there's ever a time when there's no line. I don't know if anybody has experienced that. In my experience the MVC staff has absolutely not a care how long the line is. They move at the same glacial pace, chit chat, and seem to waste time no matter what.

And if they're already an hour behind by noon, then that's by design. It's not like a doctor's office where emergencies happen throwing the schedule off. But like the doctor's office, they plan a wait in so their staff is never facing an empty slot, the customers wasted time is not a factor in the plan until we rise up with pitchforks and torches the way it was starting to happen just before covid.

What's your point? No one thinks that he's a victim except him, and he's clearly an asshole. No attorney is going to take his case. ADG however, is clearly a sociopath who needs to be removed from office.

Really? I was all over that site several times and never saw it, perhaps they don't have it linked from the Real ID page.

Being organized (as I was) doesn't help when it takes an hour after your appointment time to get to the 1st station. I guess going to Lodi was my mistake. I've seen Bayonne be a shitshow too, and since appointment was required didn't think time of day mattered.

Speaking of the form, why the hell do they not have an option to populate it online and either print it out at home or bring it up online there? The clerk apparently disliked my handwriting (filled it out on my manila envelope while on line) and wasted quite a bit of time filling out a new one. There were no changes.

For what service? Registration and licensing can be very different. And Real ID different too.

I read all that on their website too. Except going through their menu of picking docs, every time I picked "write it in", it printed out "SS card"! Made me nervous enough to rummage out my actual card. Also none of my income documents have the complete number, just the last four.

While I was at the second station at the MVC there was a guy several spots down raging at them that the website had told him what he had was adequate, and the first station had also passed him, and now they were telling him that he had wasted 2 hours because it wasn't! Definitely did not want to be that guy...

Not for Real ID. You need to actually go to the website, https://www.nj.gov/mvc/realid/ They call it 2+1+6. 2 proof of address, 1 of SSN, 6 of ID.

Ok grandpa. Whatever. And I won't buy things over that 'internet thing' with a credit card.

EDIT: Since they deleted it, I was responding to happyartichoke saying not to pay anything by ACH.

I don't see how it benefits them. Either way there's a long line and they move in slow motion. The only benefit I see is so people don't drive there and spend 8 hours in line only to be told to come back tomorrow, which is what was happening a while back before Covid trashed the RealID push. My son had to get there at 7am to be sure of being seen before closing time to convert his provisional to a full license.

So I don't have to take a hard to replace passport on every domestic air trip.

What bugs me is they want to save paper, but still stuff the bills with 5 pages of unnecessary crap! Plus they don't give real access to the data past a certain date, for some banks it's just a few months and then it's a PDF not actual downloadable data.

Newsflash for banks: data storage is so cheap that Google & MS are giving away tens of gigabytes. My Quicken file of 30 years of my financial life is only 30mb. You make billions on us, giving us a fews cents of text & numbers data storage going back a decade would be nice.

If I didn't get paper utility bills I'd never look at them, and that's not good.

Hey, I just added those links to the New Resident FAQ. Thanks. Question: I can't remember from when my wife worked in NYC, I know the state income taxes get credited to NJ, but what happens to the NYC tax, is it not even collected?

Yes, he was the guy who made it possible for Fulop to be mayor by making the usual kind of deals outside Fulop's Downtown base. If you think it can be done any other way in JC you're either dreaming or very new here. Hoboken has more or less the reverse demographics to JC in terms of gentry to 'Born n Breds', and non-corrupt Dawn Zimmer only got to be mayor because her predecessor was arrested for corruption 3 weeks into office! And her opposition never stopped accusing her of corruption her entire tenure, because they'd never seen a straight politician in Hudson County.

Not saying I like it, but you have to recognized how things work here to even think about changing it. No one not part of this system has ever come close to the Mayor's office in JC.

I guess it's the 'new normal', get over it. I spotted this deer family in the ravine below Dickinson high School

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