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Put Down That Phone and Just Drive!!

    New Jersey legislators are pushing a (very intelligent) plan to make it illegal to text message while driving.  It was only a matter of time that such a law would eventually be brought to the table considering it is illegal to talk on the phone while driving.  In fact the texting ban should have come first!  Driving while texting takes your most important and obvious sense away…your vision!  I can’t imagine much opposition to this plan, but of course there will be.  “I have a right to do what I want in my car,” I heard one idiot say.  No you don’t sir, not if what you are doing can harm others…you know, like texting someone thus taking your eyes completely off the road.  New Jersey is not alone in this potential ban.  Arizona, Connecticut and Washington are the other states smart enough to consider this plan of a ban.  Studies show that one out of five people text while driving, and that number sky-rockets to one out of every three for people in the 18-34 age group.  So to all of you offenders out there…you better kick the habit! 

Read more @ http://wcbstv.com/local/local_story_130144621.html

Fort Dix a little safer after six men are arrested

   

                As more details surface about the terror plot to attack New Jersey’s largest army base, it seems evident that hatred for America is still going strong.  A total of six men have been arrested for this horryfying plot, and what seems surprising to me is that two-thirds of the men were born in the former Yugoslavia.  This is not just a wake-up call for NewJersey residents, but for all Americans nation-wide.  It turns out that these young men had been planning this attack for months.  Dritan Duka, one of the men involved in the plot, had been training himself in the use of firearms, collecting weapons and watching terrorist training videos.  He was quoted as saying that he wanted to “light the whole place up.”  These men planned on getting their hands on rocket-propelled grenade launchers to shoot at the Hummers on base.  I don’t want to get off topic, but how are these people getting these kinds of weapons so easily??  It doesn’t even take a sane person to purchase firearms anymore, just take the Virginia Tech shootings as an example.  That kid had a history of mental illness!!  I think it is a relief that at least the government seems to be vigilent in stopping potential attacks.  Read more @ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/08/us/08cnd-dix.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5087&en=2e28586df8be2d6d&ex=1194235200&excamp=GGGNnewjerseynews

New Jersey votes for gay unions, but won’t go too far

In a decision that not only affects my neighborhood of Tenafly, but every single community in the state, New Jersey’s state Supreme Court has decided that homosexual couples have the same rights as heterosexual couples.  While a short-term victory for homosexual couples, the decision fell short of what they had truly hoped for, which is the actual marriage status that they had been seeking for a long time.  The vote, however, was a close one, a 4-3 decision that represents the extremely divided nature of this democratic state in the northeast.  Check out the details here… http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15416613/

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