Port Authority Of NY and NJ Police Catch Toll Cheats Who Owe $200,000 On George Washington Bridge

George Washington Bridge Between New York and New Jersey

[From article]

Port Authority cops cracked down on toll cheats at the George Washington Bridge on Tuesday, busting six drivers who owe more than a total $200,000 in unpaid tolls and penalties, police said.
The alleged deadbeat drivers were caught between 4 a.m. and 8:15 a.m. trying to sneak from New Jersey to Manhattan by using such tricks as defaced or missing license plates to avoid paying the toll.
The biggest alleged toll cheat was Jerome Daly, 58, of Teaneck, NJ, who owes $79,423 in unpaid tolls and penalties. That sum includes $16,423 in unpaid tolls and $63,000 in penalties for 1,260 infractions.
“Cheats put additional stress on the transportation network without providing the resources needed to maintain it,” said Port Authority Executive Director Pat Foye.
“Today’s crackdown sends a clear message that if you don’t pay your share, you will be held accountable.”
Also busted was Carlos Acosta, 34, of Ridgefield Park, NJ, who drives for Krenz Express LLC, a Garfield trucking firm.
He allegedly owes $3,672 to the Port Authority, representing $2,272 in unpaid tolls and $1,400 more in penalties for 28 past violation. He was driving a tractor trailer with a defaced license plate.

http://nypost.com/2016/06/28/george-washington-toll-cheats-owe-more-than-200k/

George Washington toll cheats owe more than $200K
By Philip Messing
New York Post
June 28, 2016 | 11:01pm

Replacing Historical Icons With PC Images

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Patrick J. Buchanan is an historian. In his piece, “Dishonoring General Jackson”, Buchanan conjures up facts. That is what historians do. Regarding the recent proposal to put new faces on our currency, and noticing a very certain attitude,
“..this is affirmative action raised to fanaticism, a celebration of President Obama’s views and values, and a recasting of our currency..”
I heard a conservative radio host dismiss the currency reconfiguration issue as a non event. His argument was that there were more important issues to concern ourselves with, the national debt, illegal immigration, etc.. I maintain that we can hold concern for many things at the same time, and that this currency remake is indeed one that should hold our attention. Pat Buchanan agrees.
Image control is no small issue, and politicians and revolutionaries know it. To reface the currency is to shuffle the deck on historical hierarchies, or should I say “load” the deck. It is a rewrite of history, a new declaration of what is and was important. That is no small matter.
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Buchanan continues:
This is affirmative action raised to fanaticism, a celebration of President Obama’s views and values, and a recasting of our currency to make Obama’s constituents happy at the expense of America’s greatest heroes and historic truth…
While King already has a holiday and monument in D.C., were the achievements of any of these six women remotely comparable to what the six men honored on our currency — Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Jackson, President Grant and Ben Franklin — achieved?



I find it curious that we get the forced and reworked American history lesson from a man who was never tutored in history in the continental United States, and received none from his schooling in Indonesia.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/04/a_recasting_of_our_currency_to_promote_a_new_history.html

April 23, 2016
A Recasting of Our Currency to Promote a ‘New’ History
By James Longstreet

Updated: Suspected Suicides of Two Women in Separate NYC Incidents; 4 From Washington Bridge in 9 Days

Posted April 19, 2015 8:09 PM ET; Last updated April 29, 2015 8:54 PM ET



[From article]
A Long Branch man was identified as one of the latest victims in a pattern of suicides that’s happened lately at the George Washington Bridge: Four in nine days, police said.
The Cliffview Pilot said a woman also jumped to her death on Thursday, the third suicide victim in five days. No additional information was provident
Authorities have identified 54-year-old Kenneth Bell of Long Branch as the man who jumped from the bridge’s upper level on Tuesday, said Joseph Pentangelo, according to The Record of Bergen County.
Witnesses said Bell drove his car onto the upper roadway from the New Jersey side, got out, climbed over the railing and jumped, according to the report.
In the Thursday incident, witnesses said they saw a woman in her 20s take off her shoes and jump from the north walkway, and into the river about 4:30 p.m, according to the report.
http://patch.com/new-jersey/fortlee/cops-four-george-washington-bridge-suicides-nine-days

Cops: Four George Washington Bridge Suicides In Nine Days
Monmouth County resident identified as one of the latest victims.
By TOM DAVIS (Patch Staff)

April 27, 2015
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[From article]
Police sources said they did not find a suicide note inside Lubanko’s apartment, which she shared with another woman in her 20s, and said it is unclear why she killed herself.
But the woman’s artwork was dark and appeared troubled.
Lubanko regularly posted disturbing videos and drawings on a personal site. She also posted her work on Scary­Pretty.org, which describes itself as “glitteringly morbid,” according to a parent of one of her friends.
One of her pieces is titled “The Toilet Book,” a series of hand-drawn images and text that likens humanity to a bleak cesspool. “Hi, I am a human and I live in this toilet bowl of s–t-made things and evil people and all we do is swim in circles all day,” one of the pages reads.
A distraught man who identified himself as the woman’s father showed up with a suitcase to clear out his daughter’s belongings, but declined to answer questions.

http://nypost.com/2015/04/19/woman-hung-herself-from-brooklyn-fire-escape-cops/

Female artist left dangling after she hung herself on fire escape
By C.J. Sullivan, Dana Sauchelli and Daniel Prendergast
New York Post
April 19, 2015 | 1:01pm

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[From article]
A woman hung herself from a Brooklyn fire escape Sunday morning, and her body was left dangling for more than an hour, police and witnesses said.
The woman’s body was discovered around 8:20 a.m. hanging outside the third-floor window of her apartment on Utica Avenue and Prospect Place in Crown Heights, cop said.
“This is something you don’t want to wake up to on a Sunday morning. I thought it was fake, like a Halloween prank, and then I could see it was a [woman] hanging. I just screamed,” said passer-by Violet Acuna, 42.[. . .]
“She seemed like a nice girl. She was very social. Her parents were always around visiting,” said neighbor Stella Wiley, 66. “I saw her walking her dog at 7 a.m. She seemed OK.”

http://nypost.com/2015/04/19/woman-hung-herself-from-brooklyn-fire-escape-cops/

Woman ‘hung herself’ on fire escape, left dangling for over an hour
By C.J. Sullivan and Dana Sauchelli
New York Post
April 19, 2015 | 1:01pm

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[From article]
The 44-year-old woman, who was from Westchester, leaped from the north walkway of the bridge around 7:30 a.m., according to Port Authority Police.
Her body was recovered by NYC Harbor Unit and taken to the 125th Street pier, authorities said.
Her car was recovered in Fort Lee Historic Park in New Jersey, officials said.

http://nypost.com/2015/04/19/woman-jumps-to-her-death-from-gw-bridge/

Woman jumps to her death from GW Bridge
By Dana Sauchelli
New York Post
April 19, 2015 | 12:33pm

Swastikas Appear in George Washington University Dorm

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In February, several swastikas were painted on the walls inside a GWU dorm which houses a group of sororities and fraternities.
A few weeks later, another swastika ended up on a bulletin board belonging to a Jewish fraternity. That incident, though, proved to be a hoax.
Regardless, the incidents surprised and dismayed many, prompting the Student Association Senate to act.
“Moving forward, this resolution would encourage the university to take a more active approach not only to prevent instances, but also make sure we can increase the safety of our students that live in residence halls,” Sen. Thomas Falcigno, CCAS-U, said.
After the first incident, the school added a security camera in the lobby of International House, but the Student Senate wants more.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/04/01/george-washington-university-students-request-more-cameras-after-swastika-incident/

GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY STUDENTS REQUEST MORE CAMERAS AFTER SWASTIKA INCIDENT
by WARNER TODD HUSTON

1 Apr 2015

Washington D.C.

Two-Thirds Of George Washington University Students Signed Petition to Deport American Citizens In Exchange For Illegal Aliens

[From article]
Students at George Washington University signed a petition to deport one American citizen in exchange for one illegal immigrant.
More than two-thirds of the students approached by Campus Reform agreed to sign the petition.

http://campusreform.org/?ID=6151

VIDEO: Students agree to deport Americans in exchange for illegal immigrants
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George Washington's Birthday

My Timid Eternity

 

I am thinking how lonesome it will be in Heaven

with only George Washington and me there. 

I suppose we will recite the Beatitudes

and wonder when they are coming---

the meek, the merciful, the peacemakers,

those who are pure in heart. 

Roasting marshmallows in the evening

I will broach the subject of lies. 

He will hand me a wig

and some leeches, which I will decline,

still thinking about the others---

if they went to the Babies Camp by mistake

we could maybe get a letter out.

Heaven should not be full of worry

but if anyone knows more about it than this, 

if you have your own version---

leafy, airy, full, fountainous---

bless you, you are more lonesome 

than either the General or I. 

 

Mary Ruefle

Selected Poems

Wave Books, 2011

New Cosa Jersey?

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Fort Lee is the George Washington Bridge and the George Washington Bridge is one of only three access points from New Jersey into Manhattan. And let’s be frank: Manhattan is really the only reason anyone pays attention to New Jersey in the first place.
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The image of Chris Christie as Tony Soprano seems destined to persist—the loyal and aggressive underlings; the hard-nose for politics; the ambition to find a place for himself in the sun. In Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s book on the 2012 election, Double Down, they reported that Christie took the unusual step of telling Mitt Romney that he wasn’t allowed to fundraise in New Jersey without the governor’s say-so:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/thing-ours_774095.html#

This Thing of Ours
JAN 20, 2014, VOL. 19, NO. 18

BY THE SCRAPBOOK

Washington's Warts

[From article]
"As a general rule, if people won’t shut up except at gunpoint, they tend to be serious about their beliefs.
[. . .]
Throughout the chaos of the war, he knew that his personal reputation depended on the historical record, so “he had aides cart his personal annals from campsite to campsite, conserving them like sacred relics,” Chernow writes."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/books/washington_life_fjym9PADHnesaKjPDRuiKL

Washington: a life
Founding Father was more complicated than most know — but he was still every inch a legend
By KYLE SMITH
New York Post
Last Updated: 1:41 AM, October 3, 2010
Posted: 9:20 PM, October 2, 2010