Housing market in NJ haunted?

From the APP:

Toms River still haunted by ‘Amityville Horror’

For some Toms River residents, the filming of Amityville Horror in the late 1970s and its subsequent and less memorable sequels of the 1980s, was in fact a real life nightmare.

So much so, that the town later adopted one of the most restrictive ordinances in New Jersey when it comes to film and television production inside its municipal boundaries.

In the case of Amityville Horror, Hollywood demons and their hapless victims were prone to making a great deal of commotion in the middle of the night, when, as any horror movie fan can appreciate, the portal to hell in the basement is the most active.

After a sequel was filmed in 1982, the then-Dover Township Committee adopted a blanket prohibition on commercial filmmaking in all residential zones.

The original 1979 movie was based on the book of the same name. Actors James Brolin and Margot Kidder played George and Kathy Lutz, who move with their three children into a lovely Dutch colonial house with its iconic eye windows in the coastal town of Amityville, N.Y.

The Lutzes get the house at a bargain price because of its history, which the real estate agent discloses. It seems there was a teensy-weensy massacre there involving the previous occupants, and to make a long story short, everyone died horribly.

“Houses don’t have memories,” George Lutz tells his wife, a line that will literally come back to haunt him when he becomes possessed by an evil spirit that resides in the home.

The colonial-style house at 18 Brooks Road in Toms River stood in for the real house where the supposed haunting occurred on Long Island. A superstructure was built around portions of the home to make it look like the Amityville one, complete with those eye windows.

In 1981, the house was moved after the filming and positioned directly on Brooks Road, rather than toward the corner of Brooks and Dock Street, where a new home was built. A boathouse that the film company built for the movie is now part of that new property.

In 2011, the house was on the market for $1.35 million.

Mastronardy said there were never any problems on the set or in town associated with the production, but he noted that he can’t speak about whether the lights and crowds of onlookers upset the neighbors — which then resulted in the tough anti-filmmmaking ordinance being introduced. The film was also shot in Point Pleasant Beach, and Ocean County residents will recognize several familiar local landmarks in the film.

Among other requirements, filmmakers are required to present proof of insurance for bodily injury in the amount of $1 million and name the township as one of the insured, notify all residents within a 500-foot radius of the shooting location, and provide the full cost of police protection necessary to maintain order, according to the ordinance.

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103 Responses to Housing market in NJ haunted?

  1. Slack Demand says:

    Why isn’t anyone filming the horror movie of the necronomy about to implode?

  2. grim says:

    Starting this year at my work we now get charged a tax, of sorts, if our spouse is offered any health insurance at their job. Something like $50/month I think. We have to sign something that says we stipulate that our spouse is not eligible for any health insurance to avoid the vig. For next year the same thing applies to smoking.

    You folks are behind the times. Spousal carve out continues to make it’s way through all industries, which you’ll probably see in the next year or two. We went through the same process, first they raised the cost of adding the spouse to create a disincentive, then they finally said if spouse is eligible elsewhere, they aren’t eligible here. We have the smoking penalties as well, they are pretty sizable. More interesting is the new concept of deductible earn down (I made up this name, no idea what it’s called, but seeing it very frequently now).

    So, every plan has a deductible, say $1500 for Employee + 1. In order to bring down your deductible, you have to complete a number of tasks for which you are compensated. Annual Check Up – $200 off, Anti-smoking – $250, Regularly monitoring your BP and Cholesterol, $200, Online stress management course – $200, Reporting your exercise – $200, and so on.

    If you were joking about the BMI, you shouldn’t be, I suspect we’ll see it in the next few years. Hell, it’s probably a good thing.

  3. The Original NJ ExPat says:

    [1] It’s only money.
    It’s only paper.
    It’s only pixels.

  4. The Original NJ ExPat says:

    [2] I agree. It’s probably good in the long run to crack the whip a little. For our company-paid dental insurance if you don’t show up at the dentist at least once during the year, they cut your benefits in half for the following year. I would say that is a similar concept to your deductible earn down (be proactive or you’ll pay for not being proactive).

    If you were joking about the BMI, you shouldn’t be, I suspect we’ll see it in the next few years. Hell, it’s probably a good thing.

  5. grim says:

    Just one clarification, you still pay the deductible, the payouts are paid into an HSA that you can use to pay yourself back. Maybe Nom can weigh in here, but I think this is a little bit of a tax scheme. The cost of the plan did actually go down when this new scheme was put in place.

  6. The Original NJ ExPat says:

    [5] grim – A friend of mine just switched jobs and it sounds like his new company (a mature startup) is doing something in same vein. This is from an email he sent in the last couple weeks:

    “They have a creative way around the high healthcare plans. They have a $2,000 individual and $4,000 family deductible on their HMO or PPO, but then they have a program from another company that reimburses you 100% for everything you pay. So you still submit receipts like you did with the FSA and they direct deposit within a week what you paid out of pocket! It works out to low cost premiums, low copays and nothing else out of pocket! I’ve never seen it done like that but it will save me quite a bit of money throughout the year as well. “

  7. The Original NJ ExPat says:

    [6] Kind of like gap insurance, right?

  8. Comrade Nom Deplume, at Peace With The Trolls says:

    [5] grim

    There is a tax aspect but that’s coincident. Plan design isn’t driven by tax considerations. They may inform a choice or two but that’s it.

  9. Comrade Nom Deplume, at Peace With The Trolls says:

    Chilly here in ChesCo this morning. Needed gloves to walk the dogs but hadn’t unpacked them yet.

  10. The Original NJ ExPat says:

    I miss the old days (before 2012) when we were HQ’d in Sweden and had Cadillac benefits 100% employer paid, except for a $5 office visit copay. Our health plan was so outstanding that the company would pay you $5K per year to waive coverage (and that still saved them $13-$15K). I think now they pay you $500 to waive coverage.

  11. Comrade Nom Deplume, at Peace With The Trolls says:

    BTW, bought 9 of the dimmable LEDs at Costco a few months back and they SUCK. One third kept overheating and cutting out. The company says don’t return to the store, go thru us. No reply to email so I call. CSR takes info, suggests somehow I installed them improperly, then says they will replace them “as a good faith gesture” (her words).

    Got the three replacements and so far one has already shown the overheating issue.

    Maker of these POS LEDs is Feit. Bulbs were dirt cheap due to a promo with PECO but the old adage still holds; you get what you pay for.

  12. grim says:

    Nom – Don’t follow, it seems like a shell game to me, by lowering the premium, increasing to a high deductible, and then allowing the employee to offset that high deductible with HSA contributions as well adding in the non-tax “task” bonuses, doesn’t this move a larger portion of the annual health care vig into the pre-tax/non-taxed/above-the-line deductible category? In addition, some can leverage their HSA to shield additional income from tax as a sort of quasi-retirement vehicle.

    Seems that someone who is savvy can play this to their advantage with much more flexibility than a traditional plan.

  13. The free market will stop Ebola says:

    “People who had this idea that Obama was going to bring a transformation of America, I thought were being naïve,” Krugman said in the interview. “But, by God, we got health reform, and we got a significant financial reform. We are getting the environmental action … it’s not everything you would have wanted, but it’s more than anyone else has done for decades.”

    @MotherJones: Krugman: Obama one of the most “consequential” presidents we’ve had http://t.co/0Y3hQ66AW9 http://t.co/Rnkkql2sMM

  14. Comrade Nom Deplume, at Peace With The Trolls says:

    [13] free

    The only part I agree with is that he did pass what he passed and that he will be seen as “consequential”. Very consequential.

    I will leave it to history to decide. Aside from that, and not withstanding the liberal slant that most historians in academia will try to apply, I still don’t see history itself being especially kind to this president. Even after the historical record strips away the bilious and adoring fog.

  15. Comrade Nom Deplume, at Peace With The Trolls says:

    [12] grim

    You are correct, and that is a criticism of HSA and HDHPs in general. The Obamunists wanted to kill them. But it isn’t really possible to move enough pretax into These plans to move the needle appreciably.

  16. jj says:

    I like the concept of working moms paying aworking mom tax, lets work on that more.

  17. Comrade Nom Deplume, at Peace With The Trolls says:

    [17] JJ

    That’s a staple discussion in every tax policy class because it opens up a host of policy considerations, both tax and non-tax. And that idea has influenced parts of the Code, even if the wonks have, and always will, regard it as nothing more than an academic exercise.

    Long day for me so enjoy the brisk autumn air.

  18. jj says:

    Happy 27th anniversery of the Ocober 1987 stock market crash.

  19. Comrade Nom Deplume, at Peace With The Trolls says:

    [19] JJ,

    Remember it all too well. I was at Fidelity in Boston at the time. Joked with boss about having a job on Tuesday. His visage as as grim as mine.

  20. Comrade Nom Deplume, at Peace With The Trolls says:

    I seem to recall this very effect was discussed here months ago in the context of min wage hikes. Though I seem to recall that Five Guys and Chipotle would be the putative beneficiaries.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-20/mcdonald-s-costly-burgers-send-diners-to-fancier-rivals.html

  21. Anon E. Moose says:

    Nom [14];

    The people have spoken. This tidbit from Government-teat-sucking Maryland (across all income strata, I might add: from the barely functional federal workforce foot soldiers in PeeGee county, to the cognoscenti liberals in Silver Spring, to the government contractors in Potomac):

    Obama comes out of campaign-season hiding because MD’s democratic gubernatorial candidate is actually willing to be seen on stage with him (vice the numerous democratic Senate candidates who can’t even admit VOTING for him — hell everyone makes mistakes, right? — Alison Grimes, KY; Michelle Nunn, GA; Natalie Tennant, WV). What did the greatest orator to grace our earth get, you know the guy who said he’s “a better speechwriter than my speechwriters,”?

    A steady stream of people walked out of the auditorium while he spoke

  22. jj says:

    I was a supervisor in Sec Lending Operatons at EF Hutton pre-Loan Net and me and my staff of four had to mark to market every security as everything moved more than 2%, the back and forth the next few weeks ment I worked 7 days a week for next three months.

    contra parties who had unapplied mark and NSCC free delivery certs in transist one by one started going under. By the time we were just about to close down the old broker dealer number 487 and merge it with Shearson Lehman broker 418 we had one billion in misapplied money and did a mash up to end all mash ups.

    Back then you filled out a manual journal entey signed by the supervisor and gave ti to data entry who kept a copy, stock record kept a copy and you kept a copy. Folks last day you beg them to sign off on wild moves. Broker 30 credit vs broker 164 debit heck I saw folks hitting T&E creidt and Escheatment credits vs debits in their “box” In the end we mashed up one billion dollars in “credit”money vs one billion in “debit”money. All on paper journals, most key punched and most when we cleared out building the paper journals were thrown in garbage and key punch operators fired.

    Shearson paid one billion for us and thought they got us for free as one billion in cash sitting on books “technically” one billion were phony credits with another one billion in debits lurking

    I also wonder if Lehman when they were part of Shearson Lehman Hutton learned some good accounting tips that eventually blew them up to.

    BTW Shearson was even worse than Hutton and Lehman in Accounting. They even raided dead employees unclaimed 401Ks accounts to pair off debits. That was one step to far.
    Comrade Nom Deplume, at Peace With The Trolls says:

    October 20, 2014 at 8:51 am

    [19] JJ,

    Remember it all too well. I was at Fidelity in Boston at the time. Joked with boss about having a job on Tuesday. His visage as as grim as mine.

  23. grim says:

    From the Record:

    Look out for computers on your restaurant tables

    Remember when fiddling with electronic devices at restaurant tables was considered rude? Now computers are about to become as much a fixture on the tables of our local chain restaurants as the ketchup bottles and over-the-top chocolate desserts.

    By the time I finally swiped my credit card at my tabletop tablet at Chili’s in Little Falls, I had racked up $625,000 in my retirement account in The Game of Life and had spent most of my lunch creaming “Bob,” my computer-generated opponent.

    I sat down thinking that tabletop tablet computers could be a great way to speed up your meal, and walked out thinking they could also do exactly the opposite. After all, I lingered there because I couldn’t tear myself away from the game. And the coffee I ordered via the device took almost 10 minutes to arrive.

    North Jersey chain restaurant customers will soon see this kind of device far beyond Chili’s. Similar ones are already at the Buffalo Wild Wings in Secaucus, where you can play trivia and games such as poker and, sometime next year, you’ll be able to order food, too.

    Tablets will also start appearing in our local Applebee’s restaurants around December or early next year, according to Ed Choe, president of Doherty Enterprises, which owns the restaurants in Bergen and Passaic counties.

    At first, you’ll be able to order appetizers and desserts, re-order alcoholic drinks once a server has verified your age, and play games for a small fee, Choe said. Later, the restaurants will consider offering additional options.

    “We don’t want to do away with human interaction,” Choe said. “We don’t look at it as tablets replacing servers. I think if done right, it’s a better experience for both servers as well as the guests. Certain guests may not want to use it at all. Some people feel uncomfortable with the technology.”

  24. grim says:

    I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that tablets cost significantly less than employees.

  25. homeboken says:

    26 – Until AI becomes so advanced…Tablet never shows up late, never walks out on a shift, doesn’t require any salary, not even minimum wage, and the only healthcare it needs is a nightly re-charge.

  26. jj says:

    Sizzler 40 years ago had the Applebee concept, Iiked it.

    But remember at Sizzler folks tipped 10% as waitress did less work. You took care of ordering and paying bill your self. The waitress just brought you food

  27. Ottoman says:

    And your proof that the walk out wasn’t an orchestrated stunt by idiotic teabillies such as yourself is what? BTW, so interesting that Obama is unpopular in right wing stronghold Sh!tholes with massively long documented histories of racism, unemployment, and economic decline. Right wingers love to keep people stupid and afraid so they can stay in power. Dems have no chance unless they play to the same ignorance and bigotry. Don’t like it? Socialize everything and the poor white folk in the south and Midwest will stop voting against their best interests.

    Obama comes out of campaign-season hiding because MD’s democratic gubernatorial candidate is actually willing to be seen on stage with him (vice the numerous democratic Senate candidates who can’t even admit VOTING for him — hell everyone makes mistakes, right? — Alison Grimes, KY; Michelle Nunn, GA; Natalie Tennant, WV). What did the greatest orator to grace our earth get, you know the guy who said he’s “a better speechwriter than my speechwriters,”?

    A steady stream of people walked out of the auditorium while he spoke

  28. Fast Eddie says:

    Right Left wingers love to keep people stupid and afraid so they can stay in power.

  29. grim says:

    I would imagine tips would decline for waiters and waitresses in these kinds of establishments. Especially since a waiter/waitress would be able to handle more tables as a result. Productivity.

  30. Fast Eddie says:

    And your proof that the walk out wasn’t an orchestrated stunt by idiotic teabillies such as yourself is what?

    LMAO!!! Sure.

  31. Juice Box says:

    re: “People depart the gymnasium”

    Pics of the event don’t show any teabillies.

    “A campaign worker, center, attempts to encourage people to stop leaving while President Obama was speaking on Sunday”

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2799603/crowds-walk-obama-speech-rare-campaign-trail-appearance.html

  32. Fast Eddie says:

    Ottoman,

    Conservatives are too busy working and paying taxes in order to support your people than to attend a useless blather gathering. They don’t have the time or inclination to endure endless nothing words from an endless nothing president.

  33. Juice Box says:

    Tipping for food and beverage services? That is mostly an American tradition, nobody tips in Asia and it is not expected in most of Europe. For example if you attempted to tip a bar man in Ireland he will be embarrassed and will return your tip, unless you are in a real touristy place.

    Supposedly it was adopted by restaurants in the USA during prohibition due to lost alcohol revenues.

  34. Toxic Crayons says:

    It’s probably a strong factor but nothing really new. I’ve seen computer screen trivia kiosks at bars and restaurant tables for near 10 years. They’re just now catching on to this?

    grim says:
    October 20, 2014 at 9:22 am
    I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that tablets cost significantly less than employees.

  35. Ragnar says:

    Obama: shared sacrifice, blah blah, we all pull together, blah blah, fair share, blah blah, invest in our teachers, blah blah. Obama’s speeches are just a string of leftist collectivist platitudes that inspire people inspired by that stuff, and disgust people rational enough to see their implications.

  36. Toxic Crayons says:

    http://www.buzztime.com/

    in recent years, you could also participate using an app on your phone.

    The old school pre-computerized way of doing it was for them to stack old trivial pursuit cards on the table. It’s something for a group of friends to do while enjoying a meal and a brew together. I think Krogh’s still does this.

  37. Toxic Crayons says:

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    Today, Buzztime is the preeminent partner to best-of-breed hospitality chains and enterprising, on-premise, emergent bar and restaurant brands for entertainment, events and marketing solutions.

    In addition to thousands of independent bars and restaurants, leading brands such as Buffalo Wild Wings, Applebee’s, and Hooters have incorporated Buzztime into their brand experience.

  38. jj says:

    Mainly cheapskates in Europe.

    Juice Box says:
    October 20, 2014 at 10:19 am
    Tipping for food and beverage services? That is mostly an American tradition, nobody tips in Asia and it is not expected in most of Europe. For example if you attempted to tip a bar man in Ireland he will be embarrassed and will return your tip, unless you are in a real touristy place.

    Supposedly it was adopted by restaurants in the USA during prohibition due to lost alcohol revenues.

  39. Toxic Crayons says:

    At the bar near me, couples or groups of friends play against each other at the bar. It’s kind of a cool social “ice breaker”….People use screen names anonymously but then you realize that you’re playing against the table next to you after you see their reactions to a lost or won question….

  40. The Original NJ ExPat says:

    I go to BK or McDonald’s about once every other month or so, I always order off the value menu and I think the offerings on BK’s value menu are pretty good. About three months ago I decided to try a Whopper with cheese, just to see what the difference was between the full price sandwich and the loss leaders. OMG, what a rip-off! $4.60 for just the burger itself and there was almost no meat whatsoever. It pissed me off so much I haven’t been back. I’d rather spend $9 at the Real Deal Deli and get 4 times as much burger.

    I seem to recall this very effect was discussed here months ago in the context of min wage hikes. Though I seem to recall that Five Guys and Chipotle would be the putative beneficiaries.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-20/mcdonald-s-costly-burgers-send-diners-to-fancier-rivals.html

  41. The Original NJ ExPat says:

    BTW, Real Deal Deli burgers are very 5 guys like, but only 3 locations, all in Boston:

    http://www.realdealdeli.net/locations

  42. Toxic Crayons says:

    43 –

    Whopper Jr. with cheese all the way baby. Just get two of them next time.

    McDonald’s Angus burgers are pretty good too. It’s one of the few burgers that when ordered actually looks the same on your plate as it does in the picture at the order counter…..

  43. The Original NJ ExPat says:

    [44] Here’s what I find the most decadent about Real Deal Deli burgers: Pulled pork as a topping on the Goblin burger!

  44. phoenix says:

    #6 from yesterday, CND
    I know it was not the focus of the article. I believe the tax on cigarettes is a good one in theory, if you could get 50% or more of the money to hit it’s intended target (sick people) instead of being stolen as usual…

    My point, let’s look at the ones who really smoked over the years, have all of the lung, heart, and vascular issues, and are EXEMPT from paying any tax for their “right” to smoke…..

    http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/tables/trends/cig_smoking/

  45. jj says:

    Actually I read tax on cigs does not accomplish much as if smokers live longer they suck up SS and Pensions. Better to knock them off by 67 even if we get hit with a big one time medical bill.

    Remember, they could end up living to 97 and then die some long horrible desease anyhow that costs us money.
    phoenix says:

    October 20, 2014 at 10:55 am

    #6 from yesterday, CND
    I know it was not the focus of the article. I believe the tax on cigarettes is a good one in theory, if you could get 50% or more of the money to hit it’s intended target (sick people) instead of being stolen as usual…

    My point, let’s look at the ones who really smoked over the years, have all of the lung, heart, and vascular issues, and are EXEMPT from paying any tax for their “right” to smoke…..

    http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/tables/trends/cig_smoking/

  46. NJT says:

    The weeks when I have to work at the office my wife makes my lunch, except on Fridays. Then I visit one of the ‘fast food’ joints in town (unless the ‘boss’ is paying, then…). The only FF place not present there is KFC.

    *Note – Stopped by the Colonel’s recently on the way home one night (Pburg), the coleslaw is the same as I remembered, the chicken and biscuits….

    Wendy’s value menu is the best deal (if you want taste – what a difference compared to MCD, BK ect – .99 chicken sandwich blows all others away and the burgers while smaller are fresher with more flavor). BK does though offer a .69 cent burger if you want to be a cheapskate and don’t mind losing time in the bathroom then being hungry again in a few hours.

  47. joyce says:

    You really think that was public resources well spent (not to mention the pig was wrong)?

    Juice Box says:
    October 20, 2014 at 8:14 am
    Get a job you dirty hipster!

    http://m.nydailynews.com/news/crime/cops-bust-legal-busker-article-1.1980155

  48. McDullard says:

    It is $100 per month here at MaBell if spouse has insurance option, and same stuff with physical checkup, non-smoking, etc. I also think it is a nicer way to convince us to have an annual physical.

    One thing I noticed with insurance companies (having had three of them this year — Cobra till it expired, then Obamacare stuff, then job based insurance)… They seem to be very aggressive in requests for coordination of benefits (received them from both former insurance companies, and one actually clawed back the payments to doctor because I didn’t respond within a month).

  49. Comrade Nom Deplume, Guardian of the Realm says:

    Otto is off base on the walkout. A stop like that is staffed ahead of time with supporters and gov workers. Good luck getting a bunch of teabillies in there.

  50. Comrade Nom Deplume, Guardian of the Realm says:

    Just read the story. Did Otto mean all those BLACK teabillies?

  51. All Hype says:

    Here’s your Michael Brown shooting update for reading pleasure. Federal officials leaked officer Wilson’s grand jury testimony. Looks like there are a few law enforcement officials who are sick and tired of the stupidity going on in Missouri.

    http://news.yahoo.com/darren-wilsons-account-michael-brown-shooting-made-public-174702173.html

  52. Pete says:

    Funny how people who I’m sure have used terms like “lamestream media” and “sheep” latch on to one vague comment with no context in a mainstream media outlet, unquestionably gobble it up and regurgitate it like its fact.

  53. FKA 2010 Buyer says:

    [54] All Hype

    I doubt Wilson will be tried but this sentence says it all…….”Given US laws that give wide latitude to police officers to use deadly force against potential threats”. Unless its witnessed by a judge or Mother Teresa, you can always apply this an get away with it.

    ———————
    Our govt is so inept at everything they do.

    http://news.yahoo.com/photos/expelled-nazis-got-millions-in-social-security-slideshow/

    In this July 28, 2014, photo, Jakob Denzinger looks from his apartment window in Osijek, eastern Croatia. Denzinger is among dozens of death camp guards and suspected Nazi war criminals who collected millions of dollars in Social Security payments despite being forced out of the U.S. An Associated Press investigation found dozens of suspected Nazi war criminals and SS guards collected millions of dollars in Social Security payments after being forced out of the United States.

  54. Ragnar says:

    57, Gator,
    I guess I’m not elite enough for that party. I don’t particularly care for horses or booze. Could the event have been as bad as that article portrayed? Anyone ever attend?

  55. 1987 Condo says:

    #58…so kid’s in my daughter’s school are given tickets to go by their parents and sent on their merry way to the event (HS-juniors)…

  56. Anon E. Moose says:

    Re: Wilson;

    Does anyone believe after the way the process was manipulated in Sanford, FL that Wilson does NOT face a trial?

    And as for this, particularly as it regards the ‘leak’ of grand jury testimony… I wonder if the administration is agitating the ‘Black Vote’ by leaking a story that suggests Wilson will NOT be tried?

    Ahem… NYTimes — Black Vote Seen as Last Hope for Democrats to Hold Senate

    The confidential memo from a former pollster for President Obama contained a blunt warning for Democrats. Written this month with an eye toward Election Day, it predicted “crushing Democratic losses across the country” if the party did not do more to get black voters to the polls.

    The phrase embedded in the URL is “in-black-vote-democrats-see-lifeline-for-midterms”.

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  60. Libturd in Union says:

    Ugh…the back and forth between the cheerleaders of the two major parties here grows tiring. Just go and spend your $1,000 to cheer on the criminal of your choice at their sh1tty fundraising event where they’ll tell you that they’re putting your family first while accepting $10,000 per corporate sponsor in the event program book.

    Idiots…all of you. Baa.

  61. anon (the good one) says:

    @SenSanders: The Republican idea of democracy is voter suppression, gerrymandering and allowing billionaires to buy elections.

  62. 1987 Condo says:

    Far Hills..I guess no one picks up after themselves either…..

  63. jj says:

    Looks more like Fart Hills to me

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  65. nwnj says:

    The SL seems to obsess over that Far Hills race every year.

    I don’t recall any shootings, stabbings or robberies so someone over there must have a case of envy that they weren’t invited.

  66. FKA 2010 Buyer says:

    [57] NJGator

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  68. Grim says:

    More debauchery, drinking, drugs, and trustifarians in the parking lot of a Dead concert. Maybe a bit more stuck up in Far Hills but it’s nothing like the paper makes it out to be. Martha Stewart and $45 a pound lobster salad would be more at home there.

  69. Juice Box says:

    Passion Flute has been MIA…..

  70. Juice Box says:

    Michael if you are lurking, drinking heavily is the only cure for cognitive dissonance.

  71. Juice Box says:

    Since I am pretty loaded I will toss up a question for the peanut gallery.

    The question is, what will be the composition of the next batch of so-called toxic assets that the FED will have to purchase?

    My answer…

    How about a few trillion in Corporate Bonds? You know the ones that funded all of the buybacks?

    http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/16e71bdc-4f16-11e4-9c88-00144feab7de.html#slide0

  72. Juice Box says:

    re # 73 – The boring Hunt…….Few times I have been there were many parents hanging with their sons or daughter perhaps wondering if their 25 year old was still closeted or something, since all the boys wanted to do was horse around and the girls well there was no chance unless you waited till the train got back to Hoboken.

    If you are offended good. I will start telling Dice jokes next.

  73. Juice Box says:

    re # 50 Joyce – the poor hipster will be on Obamacare and WIC soon enough. The cop was wrong for sure, he should have smashed the guitar.

    You can buy their musice here…..

    http://lawrenceandleigh.com/

  74. Libturd at home says:

    “@SenSanders: The Republican idea of democracy is voter suppression, gerrymandering and allowing billionaires to buy elections.”

    Says the guy who has taken in over 1 million dollars of PAC money in his career. Anon…your epidermis is showing.

  75. Fabius Maximus says:

    Quote of the day.
    “The only person that will miss Percy Harvin will be Geno Smith!”

  76. Slack Demand says:

    ragnar (58)-

    It’s pretty damn fun, Ellerys and Graydons aside. However, I used to attend back in my days as a reputable member of the community, so I was sober and hitting up people for donations to Somerset Medical Center.

    “I guess I’m not elite enough for that party. I don’t particularly care for horses or booze. Could the event have been as bad as that article portrayed? Anyone ever attend?”

  77. Libturd at home says:

    Hypocrite Sanders campaign finances

    Small Individual Contributions $4,793,690 (60%)
    Large Individual Contributions $2,583,356 (33%)

    Send in your hard earned money Anon. Sander’s needs some new sheers.

  78. Fabius Maximus says:

    #79 Lib

    Only 1Million?

    Here are the highest recipients of PAC money for the past six years.
    McConnell, Mitch (R)*
    (Kentucky Senate) $5,457,788
    Gillibrand, Kirsten (D)
    (New York Senate) $5,051,690
    Hatch, Orrin G (R)
    (Utah Senate) $4,803,623
    Reid, Harry (D)
    (Nevada Senate) $4,780,264
    Lincoln, Blanche (D)
    (Arkansas Senate) $4,373,535
    Blunt, Roy (R)
    (Missouri Senate) $4,179,443
    Schumer, Charles E (D)
    (New York Senate) $3,888,119
    Stabenow, Debbie (D)
    (Michigan Senate) $3,803,880
    Warner, Mark (D)*
    (Virginia Senate) $3,702,488
    Landrieu, Mary L (D)*
    (Louisiana Senate) $3,701,191

  79. Libturd at home says:

    Fab…hilarious.

  80. Libturd at home says:

    Well isn’t Sanders from a state that has more cows than sheep (disciples like Otto and Anon).

  81. Juice Box says:

    re # 81 – so you were a suck up once?

  82. Fabius Maximus says:

    My friends go to Far Hills. One girls parents rented the square every year and they would bring the Whiskey and Martini friends. The rest was her Ski House / Shore house college friends. Then it morphed into the Hoboken crowd over a few squares.
    Now as they are all married and hitting late thirties with kids it has calmed down. In a few years she will take over from her parents as the Cosmo and Bourbon set.

  83. Fabius Maximus says:

    #84 Lib

    Knock yourself out with the data.

    https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/topraise.php

  84. Liquor Luge says:

    Far Hills races are pretty tame, as events hosting 40,000 superdrunk people go.

  85. Liquor Luge says:

    juice (86)-

    I sucked up to fleece drunk rich people for money to buy a plasmapharesis machine for the cancer center. They created this place to do all kinds of crazy ass treatments, yet when it opened, the hospital had a blood bank out of the Middle Ages, and they routinely had to buy platelets and plasma (which are products a modern cancer treatment center has to have on hand in quantity).

  86. Liquor Luge says:

    During my last year of fundraising, the goddam SMC people wouldn’t let me and my group work the tent. Evidently, our strongarm fundraising tactics became quite repellent to the rich drunks we’d rolled in previous years.

  87. Essex says:

    Try as we might NJ just cannot throw a normal party.

  88. Liquor Luge says:

    If I ran the Far Hills races, Gluteus and anon wouldn’t make it onto the property.

  89. Fabius Maximus says:

    Grim,

    back to the BC mayors. I think it is a sensible move. It is not from a job killing perspective, it is more a case if this train explodes in Hakcensak, are the resources and skills in place to cope with a disaster of that magnitude.

    The thing to rememeber here is that we are not talking light sweet crude. This stuff is toix corrosive sludge. The companies are forcing is through an infrastructure it was not designed for.

    I personally don’t have a problem with drilling offshore NJ or offshore wind farms. I do have an issue with drilling where there is a high ecological risk such as ANWR or where the technology is unproven, untested or has a high risk of failure. Why do things like Deep Water Horizon happen. Does this seem to be an industry that can regulate itself.
    The cost of your cheap gas does not pay for the ecological burden paid by others when the companies poison the well. You call hypocrisy on one side, how about you. Would you put a client into a house in Pompton Lakes knowing what Du Pont did to the groundwater?

  90. Liquor Luge says:

    The only normal parties end in gunfire, sx.

  91. Juice Box says:

    re: #90 – “strongarm fundraising tactics”

    Did that for many years myself for Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. Turned a few bent nose to cough up some money….

    What amazes me now is what cannot be corrupted. Apparently those Catholics wan’t they gays or they don’t. I am still digesting that one.

  92. Fabius Maximus says:

    Grim

    As for turning rail lines into bike paths. I think that is a great idea. We have a disused one up here that we could put all the weekend Tour D’A-holes on. Not content with turning 9W into the Darwin Highway, they are spilling out into the side roads. If they kept to single file, it wouldn’t be as big a problem. I came round a corner on Saturday to face a 50 rider peloton spilling over onto my side of the two lane road. Having swerved into the ditch to stop Lance Armstrong becoming a hood ornament. I see that behind the pack they have a Lexus SUV with the flashers on holding up 25 cars.

  93. Liquor Luge says:

    toxic (97)-

    Somehow, the idea of a guy running for a NJ congressional seat committing voter fraud fails to shock.

    I’d almost feel worse about a guy running for clowngress from this state who isn’t actually some sort of small-time grifter.

  94. Liquor Luge says:

    Better a Vinnie the Mook than a d-bag like Rush Holt. At least you know where you stand with Vinnie, and he doesn’t look at normal folks as patsies who will cough up stupid amounts of money to advance a social agenda meant as a sop to the entitlement class.

  95. Liquor Luge says:

    If we tried to turn rail right-of-ways into bike paths in NJ, some tree-hugger would kabosh the whole thing, since most of those railways have creosote-contaminated soil.

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