How did we get here; how and when will it all end?
Dan Cirucci talks frankly about the George Floyd affair, the subsequent protests, the riots, racism and what it may all portend for America.
Simple, straightforward, enlightening!
Sunday, May 31, 2020
In The Days Ahead, ALWAYS Remember This . . .
From our friend Matt Rooney, the founder of and visionary behind Save Jersey:
The little shithead privileged white leftists you see on TV? Wearing masks and instigating violence in our cities? They don't care about George Floyd. They don't care about black America. They don't care about justice.
Listen to me: we're not at war with each other. We like each other! We're in conflict with an evil, oppressive ideology that destroyed our once great cities over the course of decades and continues to deny opportunity to our society's most vulnerable.
Don't let them get you down. Don't let them make you hate your neighbor. Don't let them cause you to lose faith in America. That's what they really want; not justice for George.
You Won't Believe Rittenhouse Row: HORRIFIC VIDEO!
Glass, hangers, and shoes scatter across Philadelphia’s 18th and Walnut Streets, the morning after people took to the streets to vandalize and loot stores. Almost every store on this block has been vandalized. Firemen are still putting water on the burned Dr. Marten’s store. pic.twitter.com/v5tSweUK4d— Ellie Rushing (@EllieRushing) May 31, 2020
Saturday, May 30, 2020
And ALL Of Them Were From Out Of State!
Can people see what is happening here? Who is paying these people? The rioters have ear pieces, military grade radios and repeaters on heir vehicles - who are they communicating with? Who is their command and control? https://t.co/Wa7BfzZ2dk— Lara Logan (@laralogan) May 30, 2020
Note: This has now been corrected and local officials have now admitted that it was wrong. They've apologized. Many of those arrested WERE locals!
Pulling Out Of WHO; Nailing Twitter For Bias, More!
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Looters' Destruction: Black Business Owner Weeps!
#MinneapolisRiot This isn’t even protesting anymore. Swear people go too far pic.twitter.com/gNCjWwzOmz— kreeche (@FatherKee) May 29, 2020
Crime, Pure And Simple; No Effort To Stop It!
Looting still happening with impunity in downtown Portland. They clear the businesses of goods and then someone goes in with a chemical agent to start a fire. #antifa #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/uFFT168Csa— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) May 30, 2020
Friday, May 29, 2020
Ciattarelli: Governor Murphy 'Has No Shame!'
Today, Jack Ciattarelli issued the following statement:
In a life and death crisis, we want – WE NEED – so badly to believe that our political leadership is acting in good faith in every way imaginable. Revelations disclosed in a nj.com investigative report suggest otherwise within the Murphy administration.
How could Governor Murphy’s Chief of Staff and General Counsel not care one bit about awarding a non-competitive bid contract that pays hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to a well-connected consultant that was a Murphy campaign contributor? A consultant, mind you, that is to review the crisis in New Jersey nursing homes, where thousands died and all residents were needlessly and recklessly endangered by the neglect and poor policy decisions of the Murphy Administration. If members of the Murphy Administration cannot act in good faith, perhaps they should find another line of work. Immediately.
As for the Governor, if he had prioritized nursing homes as he did hospitals; if he had secured PPE for nursing homes; if he had gotten nursing homes test kits earlier on in the pandemic; if he hadn’t forced nursing homes to readmit COVID-19 positive patients; and if his regulators had done their job inspecting nursing homes, then people would not have died, including those in state-operated nursing homes where the number of deaths were greatest. We also would not have to be spending taxpayer dollars on any conflicted consultant to whitewash New Jersey’s nursing home tragedy and failure of leadership.
The Governor has no shame.
US Senate Hopeful Rik Mehta Chats Candidly w/Dan
Rik Mehta chats with Dan about the Covid virus, the lockdown, constitutional rights, Cory Booker, race and the situation in Minneapolis. Candid interview!
Video with glitch but is complete.
Expert Called It Right In 2016; What's He Say Now?
Professor Helmut Norpoth of SUNY Stony Brook University is back.The astute professor has a model that has correctly predicted every presidential election for 100 years.
We cited Professor Norpoth several times here in 2016 and we even chatted with him then. People laughed at us in '16 because we told you about the Norpoth model predicting a Trump win at that time. Yeah, some of you who are reading this right now may be among the ones who laughed at us then.
But Norpoth was right in 2016 when for months he insisted that he was 87% sure Trump would win. He called it eight moths before the election! This time around the good professor says the chances of a Trump win are over 90%.
BTW, all those polls mean virtually nothing. Need we remind you how wrong most major polls were in 2016? Well, here goes:
First, let's look at the final vote results with Trump the winner and up by 74 in the electoral vote while Clinton was up by 2.8% in the popular vote.
Electoral Vote (270 needed to win) Popular Vote:
Trump 306 Trump 44.4%
Clinton 232 Clinton 47.2%
Now, let's look at what the major polls and prognosticators forecast in their final predictions:
Moody's Analytics: Clinton 332, Trump 206 WRONG!
Larry Sabato: Clinton 322, Trump 216 WRONG!
Five Thirty Eight: Clinton 320, Trump 235 WRONG!
Fox News: Clinton 274, Trump 215 WRONG!
Associated Press: Clinton 274, Trump 190 WRONG!
LA Times: Clinton 352, Trump 186 WRONG!
Election Projection: Clinton 279, Trump 249 WRONG!
RCP Average: Clinton, 272; Trump 266 WRONG!
And let's look at the popular vote prognostications:
Monmouth University Poll: Clinton +6 WRONG!
NBC News: Clinton +7 WRONG!
NBC News - Wall Street Journal: Clinton +5 WRONG!
Reuters/Ipsos - Clinton +5 WRONG!
And in some of the key states, polls were wildly wrong! Though the Real Clear Politics (RCP) poll averages showed Clinton winning Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, Trump ended up winning all three, outperforming projections by 3 points, 4.4 points, and a stunning 7.5 points, respectively. That was way, way, WAY off the mark. In Iowa, where poll averages showed Trump up by three points, he actually won by ten points.
Among all these, few polls seemed more off the mark than the Monmouth University poll, hawked endlessly during the campaign by its ubiquitous director Patrick Murray, aka "Pollster Patrick" (as he bills himself on Twitter). Murray was everywhere, until the polling data crashed on election night. “The polls were largely bad, including mine,” Murray later admitted. "In key states, the narrative driven by data was wrong," he told his local daily newspaper. "We were telling the wrong story, and that's bad."
But, wait a minute. Polls aren't about "narratives" or "telling stories." Polls are supposed to be more accurate than that. In the end, polls are about hard data, aren't they? Oh, we know that there are real people and real stories behind the data, but isn't that more the business of focus groups and more nuanced chroniclers of public opinion? And, for that matter, what people are thinking and feeling and living actually drives the data and not the other way around, right? So it would seem.
Well, maybe Murray got too caught up in the heady notoriety of the numbers chase and missed something along the way. After all, he seems like a nice enough guy and there would appear to be an explanation for everything, eventually.
We can't say with certainty how and why the polling was so off base. Maybe it was simply that the pollsters themselves drifted too far from the grassroots -- just like so many elites drifted too far from those "ordinary Americans" that Hillary Clinton said she didn't want to hear about. We do know this, however -- Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia (another prognosticator and well-known talking head) came right out and admitted that "we blew it." And then Sabato added this:
"Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa." Now, that's the proper way to fess up. Classy guy!
But, wait a minute. Polls aren't about "narratives" or "telling stories." Polls are supposed to be more accurate than that. In the end, polls are about hard data, aren't they? Oh, we know that there are real people and real stories behind the data, but isn't that more the business of focus groups and more nuanced chroniclers of public opinion? And, for that matter, what people are thinking and feeling and living actually drives the data and not the other way around, right? So it would seem.
Well, maybe Murray got too caught up in the heady notoriety of the numbers chase and missed something along the way. After all, he seems like a nice enough guy and there would appear to be an explanation for everything, eventually.
We can't say with certainty how and why the polling was so off base. Maybe it was simply that the pollsters themselves drifted too far from the grassroots -- just like so many elites drifted too far from those "ordinary Americans" that Hillary Clinton said she didn't want to hear about. We do know this, however -- Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia (another prognosticator and well-known talking head) came right out and admitted that "we blew it." And then Sabato added this:
We heard for months from many of you, saying that we were underestimating the size of a potential hidden Trump vote and his ability to win. We didn’t believe it, and we were wrong. The Crystal Ball is shattered. . . .You have to hand it to Sabato. He faced the facts and wisely headlined his post-election commentary
We have a lot to learn, and we must make sure the Crystal Ball never has another year like this. This team expects more of itself, and we apologize to our readers for our errors.
"Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa." Now, that's the proper way to fess up. Classy guy!
Thursday, May 28, 2020
VIDEO: Dan Cirucci Chats With EVERYBODY!
Tired of binge watching?
Need a change from your tapped-out streaming service?
Weary of the bad news on every 24/7 cable news channel?
Looking for scintillating conversation on just about everything?
Then tune into one of our Dan Cirucci interviews right here, because Dan talks to everybody!
Watch as Dan chats with Billy Prempeh, a New Jersey congressional candidate whose views may surprise you and challenge preconceived notions.
Join Dan and noted columnist and radio host Christine Flowers for the most unusual conversation they've ever had -- a session that discusses everything except politics!
Get the inside scoop on what's happening in the Old Dominion (aka Virginia) from Adam Perry who fills Dan in on Covid restrictions, drive-in church services and the latest on a governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general who have all been beset by messy charges of improper conduct.
Watch Dan's exclusive interview with New Jersey State Senator Michael Testa as he expresses concerns over Governor Murphy's delay in reopening the state and addresses the unique experience of South Jersey and its residents. THIS is a real eye-opener!
Gain a keener understanding of those ever-changing Covid numbers and what they really mean as Dan chats with Jon Pearce, a top finance and data expert. Lively and very informative!
Need a change from your tapped-out streaming service?
Weary of the bad news on every 24/7 cable news channel?
Looking for scintillating conversation on just about everything?
Then tune into one of our Dan Cirucci interviews right here, because Dan talks to everybody!
Watch as Dan chats with Billy Prempeh, a New Jersey congressional candidate whose views may surprise you and challenge preconceived notions. 
Join Dan and noted columnist and radio host Christine Flowers for the most unusual conversation they've ever had -- a session that discusses everything except politics!
Watch Dan's exclusive interview with New Jersey State Senator Michael Testa as he expresses concerns over Governor Murphy's delay in reopening the state and addresses the unique experience of South Jersey and its residents. THIS is a real eye-opener!
Gain a keener understanding of those ever-changing Covid numbers and what they really mean as Dan chats with Jon Pearce, a top finance and data expert. Lively and very informative!
Trump Moves Against Social Media Censorship
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How Biden Wound Up Looking Ridiculous - AGAIN!
The contrast between President Trump and Joe Biden could not be more stark.
President Trump looks like a president. But Joe Biden? Well, in his most recent public appearance on Memorial Day he looked somewhat like an aging gangster.
You may brush this off but optics are important. And the images here were all bad!
We don't know who's been advising Biden but whoever told him to appear in that dark suit, dark tie, black mask and dark frameless glasses got it all wrong.
And the contrast between the all that black and the white wreath he laid at a war memorial only accentuated the starkness. Sad to say, it made him look sort of like an old mob boss laying a wreath on the grave of one of his former partners in crime.
It also brought to mind the famous photo of the hapless former Democrat presidential candidate Michael Dukakis when Dukakis donned a helmet and perched himself atop a tank, He wound up looking like a lost turtle. It doomed his campaign!
I guess you now know why they've basically been hiding Biden.
What A Shame That It Came To This. . .
South Minneapolis Target has been DESTROYED by looters! Filmed last evening at 2500 E Lake St. Minneapolis.
It's sad that the protests over the death of George Floyd degenerated into what you see above. The police officers involved have rightly been fired. They should be brought to justice as quickly as possible. By all accounts and appearances their actions were nothing less than horrifying.
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
And Now, Delivering For America's Seniors!
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Lockdown Phantom Toll Hike Deemed Unconsionable
New Jersey State Senator Declan O’Scanlon, Assemblywoman Serena DiMaso, and Assemblyman Gerry Scharfenberger (R-Monmouth) today condemned New Jersey Turnpike Authority’s vote to approve a toll hike along the Turnpike and Parkway.
O’Scanlon, DiMaso & Scharfenberger condemned the NJ Turnpike Authority’s vote to approve a toll hike along the Turnpike and Parkway. (SenateNJ.com)
“It is completely astounding that the Turnpike Authority believed they should move forward with this toll hike process. We are in the midst of a pandemic. Loved ones have been lost. People have been confined to their homes for more than two months. Hundreds of thousands are currently worrying about whether their businesses will be able to reopen in time for their livelihood to be saved.
“It does not matter whether or not someone believes that a toll increase is necessary. Because the ultimate issue is that proceeding with a policy that requires public hearings during a pandemic is ridiculous and offensive.
“Currently, people are completely occupied worrying about their health, lives, and livelihoods. Over a million residents have applied for unemployment. To move forward with a proposed toll hike is truly unconscionable.”
NJ Investigative Panel Must Have Subpoena Power
New Jersey State Senator Joe Pennacchio once again commended news that the Senate will establish a special committee to investigate the state’s COVID-19 response and asserted that the panel must be empowered to subpoena witnesses.
Senator Pennacchio said a thorough Senate investigation of the state’s COVID response requires the right to subpoena witnesses and documents, and should be held at the State House complex in Trenton. (SenateNJ.com)
“According to a report from NJ Advance Media, the Administration is anything but forthcoming with information and details, and without subpoena powers it will be very difficult for the investigation to accomplish its mission,” said Pennacchio (R-26). “A thorough examination of the life-changing edicts, executive orders and mandates that have been unleashed on New Jersey residents warrants a comprehensive, real-time, evaluation. That will not be possible if the committee cannot require testimony and documents.”
The pandemic is slowing, but it is still exacting a heavy toll in lives, jobs and Constitutional rights, Pennacchio noted.
“This investigation is highly time-sensitive. The state seems to be operating in crisis mode, and the end may be months into the future,” the Senator said. “Timely answers to the panel’s questions may save lives help in responsibly lifting restrictions and return the state to normalcy.”
Additionally, Senator Pennacchio seeks committee meetings at the State House in Trenton.
“The Governor holds daily press conferences so the media and the public can participate in real time. There’s no reason the Senate cannot follow the same parameters to ensure transparency for the people of our state. In-person hearings are more dynamic and compelling, and offer more transparency,” Pennacchio added.
The Senator referenced press coverage in major news outlets as evidence subpoena power is essential:
- “After Murphy laws, watchdogs warn gov’t transparency might be next coronavirus victim” – NJ Advance Media
- “Want to know what NJ is doing to fight coronavirus? State refuses to release records,” – The Record
- “What has NJ coronavirus task force done the past few months? Nobody will say,” The Record
Massive NJ Toll Hikes Termed 'Absolutely Shameful!'
New Jersey State Senator Kip Bateman slammed the approval of multiple toll hikes on the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway while New Jerseyans remain stuck at home under the Governor’s lockdown orders.
Sen. Kip Bateman slammed the approval of multiple toll hikes while New Jerseyans remain stuck at home under the Governor’s lockdown orders. (SenateNJ.com)
“Bureaucrats who control our highways are quietly fast-tracking massive toll hikes on New Jersey drivers when nobody is looking,” said Bateman (R-16). “While our daily commutes may look different today, these toll increases will slam drivers with higher costs as our state reopens, making the New Jersey an even more expensive place to live, work, and raise a family. There has been nothing transparent about the process. It’s absolutely shameful.”
On May 27, board members of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority voted to increase tolls by 27% on the Garden State Parkway, and 36% on the Turnpike.
Yes, We're Going Back To The Moon And Beyond!
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Tuesday, May 26, 2020
A Black Congressional Candidate Reacts To Biden's 'You Ain't Black' Decree
Billy Prempeh who's seeking to unseat an incumbent congressman in New Jersey's ninth congressional district (including Passaic, Bergen and Hudson counties) talks about his background, his platform and his views on Trump, Biden, the Covid quarantine, AND that controversial Biden comment.
VIDEO: Joe Biden Says 'I'll Beat Joe Biden!'
This happened this past Friday.
Since the Memorial Day weekend had basically already started, it didn't get much attention.
But now, people are focusing on it. Just another day in the life of hapless Uncle Joe!
Monday, May 25, 2020
Big NJ Rally Protests Lockdown Orders - VIDEO!
Our friend John Edmunds IV of Eyes On New Jersey News covered a large, loud anti-lockdown protest in Point Pleasant today. The event featured NJ State Senators Joe Pennacchio and Michael Testa along with US Senate candidate Rik Mehta.
Click here for our interview with John Edmunds IV.
Click here for our interview with Senator Pennacchio.
Click here for our interview with Senator Testa.
Yes, folks -- we chat with all of the state's genuine movers and shakers!
The VERY Personal Side Of Memorial Day . . .
Don't trample on Memorial Day.
Don't treat like just another three-day weekend.
Don't herald it as the beginning of summer because, well -- because it's not!
And don't ever, ever ignore what it means or stands for or who it honors.
I'm saying all this because for me, this day is personal. On this day, I remember Frank Bushey, Victor Gross and John Halladay. They all died while serving our nation in Vietnam. And they were all high school classmates of mine. Yes, I remember them and I think about them often.
THIS is what Memorial Day is all about.
It's about those who served and made the ultimate sacrifice.
I hated the Vietnam War. Hated it!
And I hated it even more after it took these three young men.
There's nothing glamorous or adventurous about war. That's the movie version. What you see above is what happens in the real life version -- all to real, painfully real, heart-breakingly real.
Honoring those who gave their all is our way -- a very small way -- of trying to show how indebted we are to those who went to war and never came home. It's our way of remembering them and their families and friends who were left with incalculable loss. It's our way of trying to extend a measure of comfort to those who still grieve, who still miss their loved ones. These were young lives cut short in their prime -- never to blossom and reach their full potential.
Memorial Day is a personal thing -- something multiplied hundreds and thousands of times over and beyond the few faces that you see above.
Remember them. Honor them. Show gratitude for their service. Keep them in your hearts. Never, ever, ever forget!
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