Five members of a the radical Islamic "scene" in Jersey were going to attempt to shoot up Fort Dix.

The Ocean and Monmouth area is my turf. I really take personal offense to terrorists wanting to shoot up the place.

The case began to take shape in January 2006, when an employee of a store told the FBI someone had brought a "disturbing" video to be duplicated, Christie said.

The video "depicted 10 young men who appeared to be in their early 20s shooting assault weapons at a firing range in a militia-like style while calling for jihad and shouting in Arabic 'Allah Akbar,' " (Arabic for "God is Great"), according to an FBI affidavit filed with the criminal complaints.

Two paid informants infiltrated the group, one in March 2006 and the other in July. Both of them "consensually recorded" meetings and conversations, according to the affidavit, filed by Special Agent John J. Ryan.

One quote from the alleged recordings was defendant Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer saying, "My intent is to hit a heavy concentration of soldiers. ... This is exactly what we are looking for. You hit four, five or six Humvees and light the whole place [up] and retreat completely without any losses."

The men are believed to have been "inspired" by international terrorist groups, but not directly linked to a specific organization, he said.

He said defendant Shain Duka was heard on tape saying, "We can do a lot of damage with seven people. We can do big things."

A law enforcement source told CNN the group played paintball and test fired weapons as part of their training.

The men had surveyed a number of bases but settled on Fort Dix because one of the defendants said he knew the base "like the back of his hand" because he had delivered pizza there, Christie said.

The six -- three of them brothers -- were arrested Monday night "as two of the defendants were meeting a confidential government witness to purchase three AK-47 automatic machine guns, and four semi-automatic M-16s to be used in an attack they had been planning from at least January 2006," according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office.

The U.S. Attorney's Office said the three brothers involved, all with the last name Duka, were born in the former Yugoslavia and are illegally residing in the United States. It identified them as Eljvir, 23, Shain, 26, and Dritan, 28, and said the three operate businesses known as Qadr Inc., Colonial Roofing and National Roofing.

The other three men charged are Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, 22, of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, a U.S. citizen born in Jordan who is employed as a taxicab driver in Philadelphia; Serdar Tatar, 23, of Philadelphia, born in Turkey, whose last known employment was at a 7-Eleven; and Agron Abdullahu, 24, of Buena Vista Township, born in the former Yugoslavia and employed at a Shop-Rite Supermarket.

Radicals wanted to create carnage at Fort Dix

It's true. Well, stories have to come from someplace, yes? Anyway, this blind man did pay a visit and even spent the night. But there all similarities end. The rest of the story was cobbled up from this and that, naturally."

I think of past nighttime souvenirs (memories): underground swing dancing; cooking cobbled-up meals like quesadillas; breaking into Sacré-Coeur's step-lawn ...

In the old days, parents cobbled up homemade costumes for their Little ones.

Clauser's offering was a bulbous-bowed design that is the least radical of a whole series of wonderful ideas he has cobbled up on his computer.

It looks like a stretch model of the space shuttle cobbled up out of junkyard parts.

On Thursday night, a New Jersey man named David L. Smith was arrested and charged with spreading the virus. New Jersey authorities said he was definitely not "VicodinES,'' but added that investigators think he cobbled up Melissa from a witches' brew of different viruses, one of which came from VicodinES. Hence, apparently, the telltale GUIDs said everything about the original document and less about its later permutations. New Jersey authorities said "Melissa" was apparently a reference to a topless dancer from Florida.

Bush has said he looked into Russian leader Vladimir Putin's soul and found a friend in the man he nicknamed "Pootie-poot." Apparently, if this conference is any guide, Bush found in Putin a model for authoritarianism. But even the old KGB chief couldn't have cobbled up such an absolutely meaningless discussion of the serious economic problems this country faces.

"I'm concerned about how they've cobbled up history."

Certainly it is the case that elsewhere in the world, as well as elsewhere in time, mankind has been content to fashion written languages in the form of pictographs, hieroglyphs and the like; the age-old use in Western Europe of words cobbled up out of alphabets -- words that are ... [ Read More (1.4k in body) ]

Talk WKXW-FM (New Jersey 101.5)/Trenton pulled afternoon hosts Craig Carton & Ray Rossi (aka The Jersey Guys) today following an incident with a New Jersey State Police union. It seems the duo reported on comments regarding a "May ticket blitz" that appeared on a password-protected section of a state troopers' union's web site.

Union president David Jones issued a statement, saying it was irresponsible for the media to traffic in the postings and reportedly threatened retaliation against the hosts and the radio station's employees during a press conference in Trenton. And get this -- he gave out Carton's home address and other personal information.

Following the press conference, Millennium said in a statement: "New Jersey 101.5 and Millennium Radio takes threats against its employees and their families very seriously. This afternoon, Davey Jones of the State Police FOP held a very emotional press conference filled with threats against New Jersey 101.5's Craig Carton and Ray Rossi, as well as management and employees of New Jersey 101.5 FM Radio. This form of intimidation and extortion is reprehensible. During his rage, he also made offensive and embarrassing threats against his own state troopers. We are requesting a full investigation from the New Jersey State Police and the Attorney General's office."

No word on when the Jersey Guys will return to afternoons.. (05-03-07)

I'm surprised this hasn't gotten more attention.

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The US government's plan to boost energy savings by moving Daylight Saving Time forward by three weeks was apparently a waste of time and effort, as the technological foibles Americans experienced failed to give way to any measurable energy savings.

Reuters spoke with Jason Cuevas, spokesman for Southern Co. power, who said it plainly: "We haven't seen any measurable impact." New Jersey's Public Service Enterprise Group said the same thing: "no impact" on their business.

Well, so much for that...

The Daylight Saving change: no savings, no point

The incandescent light bulb, perfected for mass use by Thomas A. Edison in the late 19th century, is being supplanted by fluorescent lighting that is more efficient and longer lasting.

Last month, California Assemblyman Lloyd Levine announced he would propose a bill to ban the use of incandescent bulbs in his state.

And Thursday, New Jersey Assemblyman Larry Chatzidakis introduced a bill that calls for the state to switch to fluorescent lighting in government buildings over the next three years.

"The light bulb was invented a long time ago and a lot of things have changed since then," said Chatzidakis, a Republican from Burlington. "I obviously respect the memory of Thomas Edison, but what we're looking at here is using less energy."

Many states encourage their residents to replace their incandescent bulbs through a federal program supported by the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency.

If the bulb's demise is on the horizon, Jack Stanley isn't ready to flip the "off" switch just yet.

"It's a convenient target. It's easy to see and easy to critique," said Stanley, curator of a museum that celebrates Edison's inventions in the town that has borne his name since the 1950s. "But think about the benefits and compare them to the drawbacks and your argument is already made."

Edison perfected the process of making the long-burning filaments used inside incandescent light bulbs so they could be mass produced.

Fluorescents, which create light by heating gases inside a glass tube, were developed in the early 20th century and sold publicly by the 1940s. They are generally considered to use more than 50 percent less energy and last several times longer than incandescent bulbs.

However, the mercury vapor inside fluorescents can damage the environment if the bulbs are broken, leading some states to require businesses that use large quantities of fluorescent lights to recycle them.

"It's a 19th-century invention that was perfected in the 20th century," he said. "That's part of the evolution of all inventions."

Lights out on Edison's bulb?

Ladies and gentlemen, I have found evidence that there may in fact be a God, and he shines his mercy and love down from the Internet.

You can now buy individual packets of Taylor Pork Roll off Amazon, thanks to a grocery store in New York. They send it packed in dry ice.

If you are from the New Jersey, Philadelphia, or New York area, you may understand the significance of this miracle. Otherwise, you are among those who will be burn in fire, brimstone, and butter when my meat rages across that nation. With cheese of course. Egg sometimes as well...

Seriously, Pork Roll! Fucking Pork Roll! Hell yeah!@$%^

Amazon.com: Taylor Pork Roll, 8 Slices Pre Box, 6 oz: Gourmet Food

The Hygienic Art Gallery is at the heart and soul of the rebirth of the city of New London. The story of the Hygienic, as it was told to me, goes something like this...

Once upon a time there lived a man who ran a diner on Bank Street, in the small waterfront city of New London, CT. Back in the days when the Imperial Theater still lived and teenagers still drank malts after school, this man (for purposes of this post we shall refer to him as "the Hygienic Angel") had a certain affinity for local art and local artists.

Once a year when the wind blew cold from the north and all the summer tourists had returned to their homes in New Jersey, the Hygienic Angel would open the doors of his popular diner and allow them come in (the artists). All the artists from far and wide ”Come one come all!”...”Hear ye hear ye!”....”Bring your work and show it for free!” So all the artists would come (from far and wide) and show their work and feel very special… for one whole weekend in January.

Then one day the Hygienic Angel died, and darkness fell upon the land. The Hygienic Diner was condemned and all that once was, was no longer. The artists began to roam the streets and along came the prostitutes and drug addicts....

Let’s face it. Artists are "stability challenged". One of the reasons I have always loved, and ventured back to, New London is for the energy. In a world where we are consumed with moving too fast, making too much, sleeping too little and creating not enough...New London has always inspired me. It has flavor. Energy. A raw passion that ignites anyone willing to catch fire.

Confession: I peruse the coffee shops on Bank Street when I am lacking inspiration hoping to find them filled with granola-artist types and musicians. I could sit at Monica's State Street Diner for hours on a Sunday morning and sketch the patrons sitting at the counter. The regulars. The characters.

Oh The happy ending! I apologize. It goes like this…
One day somebody came along and decided to reconstruct the Hygienic. “If you build it, they will come”...or something like that. They recreated the original design of the diner and turned the rest into gallery space (currently highly coveted gallery space mind you). The upstairs portion of the building was turned into Co-op apartment space for local artists meeting certain criteria (basically they must be earning a living and producing art regularly) ….And so they came.

As for the rest of the story, well that you’ll have to read about in the papers.

So here it is. I have lived in New York, I have lived in New Orleans, I have traveled through Europe, I have...well....I’ve been around. And I realized during my travels how quickly one becomes a teeny tiny fish in that big huge pond. So I love this city. I believe in it. It’s real. It’s raw. It’s honest. It’s even a bit cosmopolitan. And it’s just sheltered enough to protect us sensitive artists from the harsh realities of those big bad cities. It is a town located in a region, located in a state, located in a country, that has too much and consumes too much. We allow too much, we ignore too much, and we help too little. The artists flock here. They have always flocked here. And everybody knows....the artists know. After all, how many places are there in the world where you can be a medium sized fish? Not too big. Not too small. Just right.

A history lesson (sort of)

Found this on Instapundit (don't shoot me in the face!).

"[Justice Scalia] has frequently taken an expansive view of the Bill of Rights, thus supporting defendants in criminal cases. Scalia is one of the intellectual godfathers of a strand of Supreme Court decisions, crystallized by Apprendi v. New Jersey, that revolutionized sentencing laws. Following a strict interpretation of the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee of due process of law and the Sixth Amendment’s right to trial by jury, Scalia has insisted that any fact used to extend punishment beyond normal statutory limits must be specified and proved to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. Despite his fevered support for capital punishment, Scalia also joined a court majority in holding that the Constitution requires a death sentence to be decided by a jury, rather than by a judge, effectively setting aside every capital sentence still on direct appeal in five states." - NY Times

Scalia the Civil Libertarian?

Get together with fellow Freethinkers at this seasonal bash sponsored by American Atheists!

The Venue: The Winter Solstice Gala venue is the luxurious Crowne Plaza Hotel (Grand Ballroom, 2nd floor), Clark NJ just off exit 135 of the Garden State Parkway, and two miles from the Rahway Train Station for convenient access to New York City. There is also the Metro Park Station for New Jersey Transit and AMTRAK. You may make shuttle arrangements with the Crowne Plaza. The hotel is located at 36 Valley Road, Clark, NJ 07066, phone 732-574-0100.

Atheists throwing a pagan-esque party. Interesting...

American Atheists - Winter Solstice Celebration 2006

I couldn't help but wonder if this comes so fast on the heels of the AOL database search release. There was one person who just kept searching on Jon Benet related terms....or could be...just a mere coincindence....

This one:
AOL user 59920:
cats skinned in fort lupton co
cats killed in fort lupton co
jonbenets autopsy photos
crime scene photos of the crawl space and duffle bag in ramseys house
sexy bathing suits
what a neck looks like after its been strangled
pictures what a neck looks like after it was strangled
pictures of murder victims that have been strangled
pictures of murder by strangulation
knitting stitches
what jonbenet would look like today
new jersey park police
jonbenet in her casket
ransom note in the movie obsession what did it read
movie ransom notes
scouting knots
manila rope and its uses
brown paper bags cops use for evidence
rope to use to hog tie someone
body transport boulder colorado

Arrest Made in the Jon Benet Ramsey Case - AOL search?