Good Riddance to the Hamilton Projects

From the Record:

Rebirth of an urban neighborhood in Paterson

Growing up in Paterson, Sandra Drysdale had lots of friends living in the Alexander Hamilton housing complex. But what she heard about crime and drug-dealing there made her afraid to visit.

Now, she lives with her husband and sons on the site of the old complex, in a rented town house — which she describes as “gorgeous” — at a new subsidized development called Heritage at Alexander Hamilton.

“I love this place,” Drysdale, 56, said recently. “It’s so quiet, and everybody watches out for each other. … It’s a community.”

The foreboding old brick buildings — built in the 1950s and known informally as the Alabama projects, for nearby Alabama Avenue — were torn down in 2010 and replaced by the new development, a collection of 205 town houses and semi-detached homes. The new development, which includes a community center and space for a preschool, recently won a Smart Growth award from New Jersey Future.

The development’s 180 rentals are filled, and about half a dozen of the planned 25 for-sale units are sold, with more under contract. The development is almost complete, except for the construction of the preschool and about nine homes.

Heritage at Alexander Hamilton, which is just north of Route 80 near Paterson’s Market Street exit, reflects a shift in thinking about affordable housing. After large urban public-housing complexes around the nation became magnets for drugs and crime, a number of them were demolished to make way for a less dense style of development. The idea was to dilute the concentration of poverty as a way to reduce social problems.

Those problems were rampant at the old Alexander Hamilton housing complex, which consisted of 498 units in five high-rises and nine low-rises. Because it was so close to Route 80, drug dealers could easily sell to users who drove in from the suburbs. Gunfire was common.

“With the high-rises, we had a lot of indefensible space that was not owned or monitored by anyone,” said Wilfredo “Fred” Vazquez, director of modernization and development for the Paterson Housing Authority.

In these spaces – such as stairwells, courtyards and entry halls – trouble had a way of muscling in. The goal of the new development was to have “eyes on the street,” Vazquez said.

“Every house has windows where you can see what’s going on,” he said. Jerry Speziale, Paterson’s police director, estimates that with the redevelopment, crime in the complex has dropped by as much as 90 percent. “It’s become a very quiet community,” Speziale said.

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95 Responses to Good Riddance to the Hamilton Projects

  1. GOP's broken (the good one) says:

    @Nouriel

    Trump’s policy team:
    a bunch of white men billionaires & supply side nuts who will find policies to help blue collar workers?
    Laughable joke

  2. njnw3 says:

    “about half a dozen of the planned 25 for-sale units are sold”

    Is that a fancy way of saying 6? The problem with these feel good stories is that you spread the problem instead of it being concentrated. I’ve seen it first hand.

  3. nwnj3 says:

    Hillary has the neocons, Koch brothers and open borders folks on board. She’s really going to do wonders for the working man.

  4. Grim says:

    a small part of THE MAJORITY OF HOMES HAS SOLD

  5. Libturd questioning the gender of Hillary's Cankle fluid. says:

    I bet there’s a fifty percent chance that the car driving erratically is being driven by a woman.

  6. joyce says:

    “I lied to myself too. I’m not a millionaire. I thought I would be by the time I was 30, but I wasn’t even close. And then I thought maybe by the time I was 40, but by 40, I had less money than when I was 30. Maybe by my 50s.”

    The Original NJ ExPat says:
    August 8, 2016 at 7:17 am

    At age 26 I laid out a plan to retire when I was 39. It didn’t work out.

  7. Ben says:

    I would most surely be dead 10 times over if I didn’t drink coffee while driving.

  8. Comrade Nom Deplume, the Deplumiest. says:

    [62, prior] Essex

    I have an old GF who lives on the Vineyard. Although an avowed liberal, she times her vacation on the mainland to coincide with Obama’s. She gets her full of summer nuttiness and purposefully avoids the circus you want to join.

  9. nwnj3 says:

    Wisniewski is a joke. He was king of the red light cam. What’s he getting out of writing all of these pointless tickets? Must be in some lobbies interest.

  10. Comrade Nom Deplume, the Deplumiest. says:

    [8] Ben

    I’m conflicted because I’ve see how necessary it is to be alert while driving in NJ. Any road with four or more lanes and you aren’t driving, you’re qualifying.

    But then, in no other place than NJ have I seen the sort of complete asshattery behind the wheel. I’m not talking about aggressive lane changes, speeding, tailgating, etc. That’s normal crap. I’m talking about real GTA highlight reel crap. And none of it is being done by distracted drivers.

  11. Comrade Nom Deplume, the Deplumiest. says:

    Geez I really need to proofread these better but it’s hard to type on my iPhone while driving and trying not to spill my coffee

  12. Juice Box (busy digging his own grave) says:

    re: “GTA highlight reel crap.”

    Saw a tricked out Honda today. IT had tinted windows with a large sticker on the passenger side rear window drawing of a weaponc with the words Baby on Board.

    Here is the sticker it definitely will catch the attention of the PoPo. This kid is just asking for trouble.

    http://tinyurl.com/z6eead8

  13. Captain Nom Deplume, Besotted Rummy says:

    “Sixty-One Percent of Occupations Projected to Lose Jobs Over the Next Five Years are Middle-Wage, According to CareerBuilder and Emsi Research;
    – Study Highlights Top Occupations Gaining and Losing Jobs in High-, Middle- and Low-Wage Categories

    CHICAGO, Aug. 5, 2016
    The U.S. economy is expected to add 7,232,517 jobs over the next five years – a 5 percent increase – but a new study from CareerBuilder and Emsi shows that workers in middle-wage jobs may not find as many opportunities.

    High-wage and low-wage occupations are each projected to grow 5 percent from 2016 to 2021, but middle-wage jobs are only estimated to grow 3 percent. At the same time, 61 percent of the 173 occupations expected to lose jobs over the next five years are in the middle-wage category.

    “The U.S. is facing a sustained trend of declining middle-wage employment that has serious implications not only for workers, but for the economy overall,” said Matt Ferguson, CEO of CareerBuilder and co-author ofThe Talent Equation. “If we can’t find a way to re-skill and up-skill workers at scale, middle-wage workers will become increasingly susceptible to unemployment or will have to move into lower-paying roles that may not support them and their families. This can have a negative ripple effect on consumer spend, housing, investing and other key financial indicators.”

    For the purpose of this study, CareerBuilder and Emsi defined low-wage jobs as those that pay $13.83 per hour and below; middle-wage jobs earn $13.84 – $21.13 per hour; and high-wage occupations make $21.14 per hour and higher. . . .

    [In declining high wage industries, real estate agents, among others. In declining middle wage industries, accounting/bookkeeping clerks and carpenters, among others]

  14. Captain Nom Deplume, Besotted Rummy says:

    [13] Juice,

    In NJ, yeah, cop magnet.

    In much of Pennsy, just advertising what everyone already knows.

  15. Juice Box (busy digging his own grave) says:

    Yeesh – more proof Hillary is hiding a medical issue. Her 24 x 7 medical team is carrying around Diazepam injectors.

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-08/something-wrong-hillary-bizarre-behavior-seizure-allegations-raise-doubts-about-her-

  16. nwnj3 says:

    Trump had a little fit of insanity last week with some of his self inflicted mistakes. I’m thinking that the exposé the post was running had something to do with that. It would be unsetting at the very least.

  17. Essex says:

    3. Want a preview of how a Trump administration handle labor. Look no further than Atlantic City. Groan.

  18. Essex says:

    9. pure coincidence believe me! the air is perfect up here though…..

  19. Essex says:

    13. there is a lot to said re: not announcing your identity or lack thereof on your car, truck, or van. Welcome to the age of blend-in.

  20. I have a feeling that HRC isn’t even going to make it election day:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azUpfzDNxpw

  21. Essex says:

    Another week another opportunity for The Donald to say something really stupid. In a corporate environment he’d be deemed a loose cannon: and fired.

  22. Essex says:

    Here’s a list of the worst, and the reasons why:

    1. Florida. Floridians Google “speeding tickets” and “traffic tickets” more than any other state. They also have the second lowest number of insured drivers in the nation.

    2. Mississippi. The state had the fifth-highest number of deaths resulting from auto accidents and the 12th highest rate of DUI arrests per driver in the country. Like Florida, relatively few people are insured.

    3. Oklahoma. When it comes to states with many uninsured drivers, Oklahoma has more than its fair share: Only 74 percent of its drivers are insured. It also has one of the 15 worst scores in DUIs per thousand drivers and the number of people killed per thousand drivers in auto accidents.

    4. New Jersey. The Garden State has the second-most deaths per driver.

    5. Delaware. New Jersey’s neighbor and rival for worst drivers in the mid-Atlantic region, Delaware is the only state with more deaths per driver than New Jersey.

  23. A Home Buyer says:

    24 – Essex,

    #5 is impressive. Got to give it Delaware to have multiple deaths per driver.

  24. chicagofinance says:

    #4 is misleading….NJ is the most dense state, has the second largest port in the country, and is dominated by a huge interstate system that carries transient traffic…….net result…tons of trucks driving at high speeds in close quarters on century old rights of way……..the NJTP is the death superhighway……just ask Tracy Morgan…..

    Essex says:
    August 8, 2016 at 2:33 pm
    Here’s a list of the worst, and the reasons why:

    1. Florida. Floridians Google “speeding tickets” and “traffic tickets” more than any other state. They also have the second lowest number of insured drivers in the nation.

    2. Mississippi. The state had the fifth-highest number of deaths resulting from auto accidents and the 12th highest rate of DUI arrests per driver in the country. Like Florida, relatively few people are insured.

    3. Oklahoma. When it comes to states with many uninsured drivers, Oklahoma has more than its fair share: Only 74 percent of its drivers are insured. It also has one of the 15 worst scores in DUIs per thousand drivers and the number of people killed per thousand drivers in auto accidents.

    4. New Jersey. The Garden State has the second-most deaths per driver.

    5. Delaware. New Jersey’s neighbor and rival for worst drivers in the mid-Atlantic region, Delaware is the only state with more deaths per driver than New Jersey.

  25. 26 chi – But, by the same measure, auto accident deaths in NJ are likely offset by reduced drunk driving deaths, given the number of bars and liquor stores within walking distance or short distance. NJ residents in their mid-50’s or older probably remember how the number of drunk driving deaths in NJ went down dramatically in the 1970’s when NJ lowered it’s drinking age to 18 to match New York’s drinking age. Prior to that NJ teenagers were frequently killed up around Greenwood Lake on their way back from NY bars where they could be served.

    #4 is misleading….NJ is the most dense state, has the second largest port in the country, and is dominated by a huge interstate system that carries transient traffic…….net result…tons of trucks driving at high speeds in close quarters on century old rights of way……..the NJTP is the death superhighway……just ask Tracy Morgan…..

  26. Captain Nom Deplume, Besotted Rummy says:

    [25] Essex

    I always considered Delawarians to be bad drivers, and now that I live pretty close to DE, I can attest that they are the worst in the midatlantic. Pennsy drivers are pretty bad, and NJ drivers live up to their reputation, but as I have said here before, I would rather be on the road with a bunch of NJ drivers than DE or even Pennsy drivers.

  27. Captain Nom Deplume, Besotted Rummy says:

    [26] chifi

    “tons of trucks driving at high speeds in close quarters on century old rights of way……..the NJTP is the death superhighway”

    My favorite NJTP story involves a truck. This guy was doing is Grand Theft Auto impersonation in the truck lanes, passing on the right, weaving throughout, and once, passing someone in the breakdown lane. I decided to put some distance between me and he.

    Anyway, traffic started getting heavy on the truck side while the car side seemed to be moving at speed. Traffic was overall heavy, typical of the NJTP. As I watched in the rear view, I saw him coming up and then he perfectly timed an exit from the Truck lanes, through one of the “official use only” breaks in the divider, into the car lanes and kept going.

    With a 45 foot semi trailer.

    At full highway speed. Never even slowed down.

    Don’t know what if anything happened to him but I didn’t want to be close enough to find out.

  28. I knew a cook who used to jab himself with Di@zapam pens for jollies.

  29. Same guy would also fast for 2-3 days then do a big pop of insulin.

  30. Shrillary and Slick Willie gonna need to turn the White House into assisted living.

  31. Wonder if Slick Willie can find a geriatrician to prescribe young dancing girls…

  32. Hillary froze up again today (bottom of page). Probably why she couldn’t do the last debate with Sanders.

    https://regated.com/2016/08/hillary-clinton-revealed-serious-health-issues-possible-brain-damage/

    Following the spreading of this image on social media, the hashtag #HillarysHealth began trending on Twitter before it was removed by Twitter staff.

  33. Google di@zepam clinton and get almost no results. Use Duckduckgo or bing and you get many results. Also Google trends removed results for same.

  34. Ben says:

    I used to love when I got caught in the traffic trying to get to the Holland tunnel. All these assholes would fly by you on the shoulder like it was nothing while we all sat in the jam. I would just lower my passenger side window and toss things out the window as they drove by. It was too easy.

  35. Essex says:

    31. Sounds legit.

  36. [34] After further research, that senior moment that I referenced above was not from today, actually from back in April.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohnVx88IIdU

    Hillary froze up again today (bottom of page).

    https://regated.com/2016/08/hillary-clinton-revealed-serious-health-issues-possible-brain-damage/

  37. Pete says:

    “Google di@zepam clinton and get almost no results. Use Duckduckgo or bing and you get many results. Also Google trends removed results for same.”

    I just did that and the whole first page on google has results. Also google trends is like the 4th result. Are you sure you know how to use google?

  38. [39] Click on News. You don’t even get stories about di@zepam unless you remove the clinton keyword. Now try the same on any other search engine.

    I just did that and the whole first page on google has results. Also google trends is like the 4th result. Are you sure you know how to use google?

  39. Earlier this evening it was two relevant hits and the third hit is about a “Disabled Navy Vet and Service Dog Asked to Leave Restaraurant”, the fourth hit is a foreign language Trump article, the fifth is an article on cold and flu tablets, and the sixth is an article on Prince’s overdose. Now its down to 1 hit followed by the same.

  40. Check out Googlecom/trends . You can search for diazepam or seizures or clinton individually and it will give you the trends. Add just clinton to either of the first two and you get bubkus.

  41. Essex says:

    Vineyard>Montauk>Cape May

  42. Essex says:

    It offered a broad view of what the economic agenda of a President Trump would look like: Tax policies that track closely with what Republicans in Congress have long advocated, including deep tax cuts for the wealthy and a light touch in regulation, but much more willingness to disrupt longstanding trade agreements and international economic relationships in hopes of reducing the trade deficit.

    He embraced a tax plan issued by House Republicans this year that would reduce taxes on all Americans but would especially benefit the affluent: It would lower the tax rate for the highest earners to 33 percent, from the current 39.6 percent.

    He also called for ending what Republicans label the “death tax.” He did not mention that the estate tax currently exempts the first $5.45 million for an individual and $10.9 million for a married couple — meaning that only the very wealthy pay anything.

    If Mr. Trump’s net worth is as large as he has said, his heirs would have a great deal to gain from eliminating the estate tax; the typical displaced steelworker or coal miner, or even a relatively prosperous retiree, would have nothing to gain.

    Mr. Trump also advocated “allowing parents to fully deduct the average cost of child care spending from their taxes.” That might sound like a gain for average workers, but the way the tax code works, it would confer the greatest advantage to upper middle-class and wealthier families, and little to no benefit for vast numbers of low-income families.

    Interactive Feature | 2016 Election Polls Get the latest national and state polls on the presidential election between Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump.
    For a family making $500,000 that spends $10,000 a year on child care, the tax deduction would be worth about $3,960. For a family that earns $50,000, because it faces a lower tax rate, it would be worth only $1,500. And many lower- and lower-middle-income families pay little or no federal income tax, so a tax deduction would not help them.

    In the speech and written materials distributed by his campaign, Mr. Trump mentioned only a tax deduction. But an emailed statement from his campaign Monday afternoon said the policy would also have elements to provide child care benefits to lower-income people. The statement said it would provide “credit to stay-at-home caregivers” and that “to provide benefits to lower-income taxpayers who may not benefit from the deduction, the plan also allows parents to exclude childcare expenses from half of their payroll taxes — increasing their paycheck income each week.”

    Mr. Trump also advocated reducing the corporate income tax rate to 15 percent from its current 35 percent. That proposal comes after a decade in which after-tax corporate profits have risen sharply as a share of national income and compensation for workers has fallen.

    The House Republicans’ tax overhaul would reduce the number of federal income tax brackets to three (from seven) and eliminate many deductions. Mr. Trump’s embrace of it on Monday signaled that on tax policy at least, he is aiming to align himself more closely with the Republican Party. It appeared to be a change from a proposal by Mr. Trump in September, when he said he would cut the top tax rate to 25 percent from 39.6 percent. That plan has been removed from his campaign website.

    “We will work with House Republicans on this plan, using the same brackets they have proposed: 12, 25 and 33 percent,” he said. “For many American workers, their tax rate will be zero.”

    Mr. Trump said, accurately, that the proposal he has now adopted would reduce federal taxes across the board. But he failed to mention that the wealthy would disproportionally benefit. An analysis by the Tax Foundation found that it would increase after-tax income for middle-income families (those in the 40th to 60th percentile) by 0.2 percent. It would increase after-tax income for the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans by 5.3 percent.

    The conservative-leaning foundation found that the plan would reduce revenue by $2.4 trillion over the coming decade using “static analysis,” but that it would result in a comparatively modest revenue reduction of about $200 billion if you assume that lower taxes will result in much stronger economic growth.

    Other elements of Mr. Trump’s economic agenda lack details that would make similar analysis possible. He proposed a moratorium on new regulations that would certainly warm the hearts of business interests that have complained of excessive regulation in the Obama era. But it is hard to know how much of a factor regulation has been in the sluggish economic growth of the last several years.

    And on energy policy, Mr. Trump reiterated his pledge to tear up the Paris climate agreement and halt the United States’ payments to the United Nations for programs to reduce global warming. He said energy regulations were killing manufacturing jobs.

    While Mr. Trump is aligned with much of the business sector on regulatory and energy issues, he is more hostile on trade, where he departs from Republican economic orthodoxy. By pledging a much tougher line on trade policy, including abandoning the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, he put himself directly at odds with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other major business groups.

    At a rally in St. Petersburg, Fla., Mrs. Clinton mocked Mr. Trump’s plans as being conceived by affluent advisers and “six guys named Steve.” (Mr. Trump’s list of economic advisers, released Friday, included a dozen men, six of them named Steve, Steven or Stephen.)

    “They tried to make these old tired ideas sound new,” Mrs. Clinton said of Mr. Trump’s remarks. “His tax plans will give super-big tax breaks to large corporations and the really wealthy.”

    Mr. Trump said his daughter Ivanka had advised him on the child care tax break, saying “she feels so strongly about this.”

    The address represented an opportunity for Mr. Trump to change the subject after a week in which he was embroiled in controversy over his critical remarks about the Muslim family of a fallen American soldier and several other miscues. As a result, Mr. Trump’s poll numbers have taken a dive, and some Republicans have started to desert him.

    With protesters forcing him to halt his address roughly a dozen times, Mr. Trump restrained himself during the interruptions, although at one point he offered a glancing retort.

    “Bernie Sanders’s people had far more energy and spirit,” Mr. Trump said as one person was being escorted out of the venue by security.

    By laying out a broader framework of his plans for the economy, he used the speech at the Detroit Economic Club to try to refocus his campaign on the issues that could resonate with the Republican base, like spurring economic growth by cutting taxes. But he also sought to draw in working-class voters in swing states by proposing to penalize companies that move their operations to other countries and to renegotiate trade deals that do not favor American workers.

    With Michigan being a crucial state for both parties in November, Mrs. Clinton will try not to let her rival get the last word. Her campaign issued a lengthy critique of his economic ideas along with a “Trumponomics” video about how they would create more debt, more outsourcing and more tax breaks for the wealthiest.

  43. GOP's broken (the good one) says:

    “Among the most prominent signatories are Michael V. Hayden, a former director of both the C.I.A. and the National Security Agency;

    John D. Negroponte, who served as the first director of national intelligence and then deputy secretary of state;

    and Robert B. Zoellick, another former deputy secretary of state, United States trade representive and, until 2012, president of the World Bank.

    Two former secretaries of Homeland Security,
    Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff, also signed,

    as did Eric S. Edelman, who was Vice President Dick Cheney’s national security adviser

    and as a top aide to Robert M. Gates when he was secretary of defense.”

  44. GOP's broken (the good one) says:

    Mr. Trump,
    the officials warn,

    “would be the most reckless president in American history.”

  45. nwnj3 says:

    Yup, Hillary is the neocon candidate. Hardly newsworthy.

  46. GOP's broken (the good one) says:

    @SopanDeb

    Trump responding this morning on FBN to nat’s security experts’ letter:

    “…I wasn’t using any of them…”

  47. GOP's broken (the good one) says:

    @danmericaCNN

    Former Republican EPA Administrators under
    Nixon,
    Reagan and
    Bush 41
    endorse Hillary Clinton today, citing environmental policy.

  48. Ben says:

    “about half a dozen of the planned 25 for-sale units are sold”

    Is that a fancy way of saying 6? The problem with these feel good stories is that you spread the problem instead of it being concentrated. I’ve seen it first hand.

    Actually, I think it would be a fancy way of saying 5 since it’s only “about” half a dozen.

  49. Ben says:

    “would be the most reckless president in American history.”

    The officials warn? Tell me, what good have the “officials” done for us?

  50. Anon E. Moose, Second Coming of JJ says:

    Ass Troll [1];

    GOP’s broken (the good one) says:
    August 8, 2016 at 8:06 am
    @Nouriel

    Trump’s policy team:
    a bunch of white men billionaires & supply side nuts who will find policies to help blue collar workers?
    Laughable joke

    Still not as white as a Hillary Clinton/Bernie Sanders/Barack Obama/DNC campaign staffer photo. But you don’t care about that racial balance. I wonder why. O_o

  51. Comrade Nom Deplume, the Deplumiest. says:

    The twitiot should be stabbed in his bathtub

  52. Anon E. Moose, Second Coming of JJ says:

    nwnj3 [10];

    Wisniewski is a joke. He was king of the red light cam. What’s he getting out of writing all of these pointless tickets? Must be in some lobbies interest.

    Standard deal with the camera’s manufacturer (division of Northrup Grumman, I believe) is no cost to the municipality to install, company gets 40-50% of ticket revenue. In addition to the hardware gratis, the “service” provided by the company for that amount includes their people (i.e., company employees, not cops or judicial officers) reviewing the tapes from hits and making the first determination of whether a violation is warranted or if it was a false alarm. You can imagine how often those reviews went in favor of the driver — and not because the hardware was anything near infallible.

    Back when I lived on Long Island there was one high-traffic intersection where most local traffic from the north half of town merged onto Peninsula Blvd. northbound. There was a protected right turn arrow for the merging traffic AND on a sign permitting right turn on red arrow. If you wanted were fishing for drivers not making a “full and complete stop” before proceeding, you could hardly pick a better location in the state. Yep, that’s where they put the red light camera. Over 90% of the violations were never touched by any municipal employee — Notifications never advised the car owner (that’s who got the moving violation, not the driver — for that they’d have to make a cop stop the car) of any rights to appeal; just where to send the check, nach.

  53. Juice Box (busy digging his own grave) says:

    re: Wisniewski –

    Here he is picketing with the Taj Mahal workers, great job costing those thousands of people their jobs!

    https://www.facebook.com/wisniewskiforNJ/photos/pcb.1045474642206408/1045473388873200/?type=3&theater

  54. Juice Box (busy digging his own grave) says:

    More closings in AC will force Wisniewski and his cohorts in Trenton to vote for opening ones up north, in the Meadowlands or Newark perhaps. Tax revenues from AC have declined from about 380 million a year a decade ago to 190 million today and is still dropping.

    WSJ article today.

    http://tinyurl.com/jub4dzk

  55. chicagofinance says:

    You really can’t argue that this would prove to be a fact…….the first week of August was really toxic….

    GOP’s broken (the good one) says:
    August 9, 2016 at 7:48 am
    Mr. Trump,
    the officials warn,

    “would be the most reckless president in American history.”

  56. D-FENS says:

    Thanks for another good reason to vote for him. I’d love it if he’d wreck the political machine in Washington.

    GOP’s broken (the good one) says:
    August 9, 2016 at 7:48 am
    Mr. Trump,
    the officials warn,

    “would be the most reckless president in American history.”

  57. D-FENS says:

    WTF?

    Orlando shooter’s father attends Hillary Clinton rally in Kissimmee
    (Seddique Mateen seen sitting right behind Clinton)

    http://www.wptv.com/news/state/orlando-shooters-father-attends-hillary-clinton-rally-in-kissimmee

  58. nwnj3 says:

    The heights of absurdity this election have reached already are staggering.

  59. Bystander says:

    Essex,

    #44 – Funny, I heard Trump say that his economic plan would include more spending and reinvestment on t!tties. Finally a platform item we agree on.

  60. [38]I saved Matt Drudge’s bacon last night. He had this video as his big center of the page story very late last night(Complete with larges screenshot, something like “Hillary Freezes Again”:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlxWckQbpug

    I sent him a “tip” not to take the bait and he took it down, otherwise they would have had a field day with him today. I think this is disinformation spread by Clinton operatives so they can take down bloggers and news people who propagate it by making them look stupid for publishing it. The above youtube account is a shill as is the probable disinformation twitter account (@_AltRight_Anew get it?) as “BREAKING” happening at a Florida event yesterday. In reality, this was from months ago in April, as I pointed out here yesterday.

    [34] After further research, that senior moment that I referenced above was not from today, actually from back in April.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohnVx88IIdU

  61. Tywin says:

    Oh, her brain “short circuit” was from April, not August. Nothing to worry about then.

    :)

  62. Pete says:

    “[34] After further research, that senior moment that I referenced above was not from today, actually from back in April.”

    I laugh that you say “further research” when all it requires is internet 101 skills and a minimal dose of skepticism. Did your sleuthing skills also turn up the fact that they Hilary being helped up the stairs photo that you also linked from Drudge was from February? I just can’t even begin with the whole Diazepam nonsense. Did any of these “news” sites happen to consult a physician prior to publishing their hard hitting journalism.

    Are these Hilary seizure truthers earnestly pushing this insanity because they believe it to be true or are you just bored/having some fun?

  63. GOP's broken (the good one) says:

    @sahilkapur
    Top Trump financier (and former Jeb donor) says estate tax repeal is
    “the linchpin of the conservative movement.”

    @paulkrugman
    Truer words were never spoken.
    It’s all about upward redistribution.

  64. GOP's broken (the good one) says:

    @theStalwart
    Trump to propose a moratorium on all new financial regulations,
    @kevcirilli and @JenniferJJacobs report.

    @bwreed
    Between this & his plan to eliminate the inheritance tax,
    Bernie voters will be clamoring to pull the lever for him

  65. [64]Pete – I knew that days ago, Drug treatment center in NC, IIRC? I posted the relevant news on that photo that it became a Reuters image just yesterday. What happens the same day is considered news by some people, but I’m sure you are so cyber superior that you live in the nanosecond. BTW, I sought out Hillary’s full speech from Florida yesterday and watched it in its entirety to see the episode in context. That’s when I figured out that it was the wrong speech (she wore orange yesterday instead of red). Apparently very few people have the skills to find the original video as it is sitting at 5,000 hits since April and the doctored video is at nearly 500,000 since yesterday.

    I laugh that you say “further research” when all it requires is internet 101 skills and a minimal dose of skepticism. Did your sleuthing skills also turn up the fact that they Hilary being helped up the stairs photo that you also linked from Drudge was from February?

  66. Fast Eddie says:

    GOP’s broken (the good one),

    Those who learn to adapt, survive. That is why you and those you root for will always be losers.

  67. John McCain had to submit hundreds of pages of medical history for a melanoma he had 10 years before he ran for president. There are certain jobs you cannot do with certain afflictions, such as aircraft pilot or, in this case ordering aircraft pilots into battle. BTW, the White House Doctor received only a “summary” of Bill Clinton’s medical history when he was elected. He said he needed the complete medical records. He was fired within 4 hours. BTW, Hillary probably has Parkinson’s and the Levodopa she is on causes levodopa induced dyskinesia, which others are calling a seizure, but seizures usually last longer than 10 seconds. BTW, diazepam is generic injectable Valium which is highly addictive and patients build up a tolerance very quickly such that higher and higher doses are needed. This all needs to be disclosed.

  68. Pete says:

    “Hillary probably has Parkinson’s”

    Sure ok doctor.

  69. BTW, in the full speech from Saint Petersburg yesterday there is a minute and 15 second gap that has a blue “Video Lost” (or some such thing) and then an ABC live stream logo Fixed screen until the speech resumes. I was sure they covered up the episode until I noticed that the outfits were similar, but different.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwC7NsPDEec

  70. Pete says:

    So I Binged (didnt want to get the biased Google results) ‘Hillary Clinton Parkinsons’,
    Top result is infowars. OK so I already know this is conspiracy theory nonsense but I’ll keep going. Title is “Pharmaceutical excec: Hilary Clinton Has Parkinson’s Disease” So this is already weakening moreseo as they are quoting a non clinician but let me just click the link anyway. “According to pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli…..” Bwahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!

  71. Anon E. Moose, Second Coming of JJ says:

    Broken (read as “Missing”) Brain [65];

    @paulkrugman
    Truer words were never spoken.
    It’s all about upward redistribution.

    Here’s all you need to know about Krugman.

    But you don’t care because like Krugman and all but a handful of leftists, intellectual consistency is not a desirable trait. Quite the opposite, “flexibility” (like Obama’s flexibility towards Putin after his re-election) is prized.

  72. The most common types of levodopa-induced dyskinesia are chorea and dystonia, which often coexist.

    chorea – a neurological disorder characterized by jerky involuntary movements affecting especially the shoulders, hips, and face.

    dystonia – a neurological movement disorder syndrome in which sustained or repetitive muscle contractions result in twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal fixed postures.

  73. dyskenisia miskenisia says:

    Look people let’s be honest. These boomer locust candidates both are irredeemable waste of air.

    There is only one reason to vote for one of the other. In my calculation is Trump. And it is because he needs to be rewarded for destroying the “beautiful political fundraising behind the scene machine” the GOP became. If he wins Trump would also destroy the present Dem machine and vanish the Clintons to the hell that the Bushes now reside.

    By the way I highly recommend the HBO documentary “Meet the donors, does money talk?

  74. D-FENS says:

    So…how long until Julian Assange gets whacked? Any guesses?

  75. Maybe he has something big that will only be releases on his, let’s say, disappearance. Maybe that’s what keeps him alive?

    So…how long until Julian Assange gets whacked? Any guesses?

  76. No One says:

    I still cannot believe that each of the major parties nominated people that are both 1) bigger liars than Nixon and 2) are insane or have massive personality disorders.
    DT is basically parading it around, daring people to call him out on it, while HC is trying to cloak it by staying out of the camera eye when possible, and camouflaging it via hyena laughs and delicious tea.

  77. Juice Box (busy digging his own grave) says:

    90 Days from the election and we have the candidates we deserve!

    “Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says, “They suck”. But where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. No, they come from American homes, American families, American schools, American churches, American businesses, and they’re elected by American voters. This is the best we can do, folks. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out.” – George Carlin

  78. Jack M says:

    Jet.com sale going to push up Hoboken condo prices to new record highs? Walmart aren’t moving these high-pay high-skill jobs jobs to Bentonville.

  79. So who thinks Hillary’s campaign orchestrated this to bait The Donald into some more tweets they can spin as anti-Muslim?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z3LrOj3IL0

  80. Jack M says:

    Simon Property Group and Westfield studied the busted East Rutherford mall project. Both firms have the financial resources to complete the project and retailer relationships to lease it.

    The cost in tenant improvement allowances alone will top $500 million and could approach $1 billion. Simon and Westfield chose to pass, partly because a successful project would steal market share from their existing successful properties nearby.

    Question is do these companies – who will fight ruthlessly to preserve values of their assets – go to war with Triple Five and government officials to block the project?

  81. Libturd the bourgeois drone, feeling the Berning Cankles says:

    Pete,

    You need to do no research. It’s as stupid as Kenyan’s birth certificate krap. I treat such posts as the same I treat every one of Anon’s. I skip over them.

  82. diskenisia miskenisia says:

    If want to hear a kick @ss show (57 mins)-explains a lot. Can’t link you tube.

    search in you tube – “Thomas Frank on Citizens Band Radio | May 2016 – The Center for Media and Citizenship at Univ of VA”.

    Great quote ” We have what Hamilton wanted, a debt based country”

    Both sides will love it.

  83. [86] Very good listen. I concur that both sides would probably enjoy it. Here’s the link:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhHCayfHORA

    Frank (the guest) is the author of this book:
    https://www.amazon.com/Listen-Liberal-Happened-Party-People/dp/1627795391/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

  84. Essex says:

    Trumps veeeeeers off the rails….,once more.

  85. [88] Clinton mentioned assassination explicitly in reference to her opponent. And that was when her brain kind of worked.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0QAewVrR28

  86. Juice Box says:

    Trump gets more free press. 89 more days to go….

  87. D-FENS says:

    Damn. Dude was whacked over the wiki leaks.

    WOW! VIDEO=> Julian Assange Suggests Seth Rich – Who Was MURDERED in DC – Was @Wikileaks #DNC Source shar.es/1ZIi7G @gatewaypundit

  88. Watching Paul Ryan on TV right now. Anyone else thinking Eddie Munster?

  89. The Great Pumpkin says:

    Phelps!! Amazing!!

  90. Tastes great, less filling?

    Phelps!! Amazing!!

  91. Libturd the bourgeois drone, feeling the Berning Cankles says:

    If kids were being abducted in the Olympic Village, I would look for evidence at Phelps’ hotel room first.

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