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WHAT IS IT WITH NEW JERSEY AND GOVERNORS?

REMEMBER 2002?

Following Governor Christine Todd Whitman’s resignation to become head of the EPA, Richard Codey was one of three different Senate Presidents along with Donald DiFrancesco and John O. Bennett, and Attorney General John Farmer to serve as Acting Governor for the one-year period between Whitman’s resignation and Jim McGreevey’s inauguration. DiFrancesco served as acting governor for all but the last week of this period, until his term as senate president ended. Farmer, Bennett and Codey then divided the last week of the term among them, with Codey serving for three days, from January 12, 2002, to January 15, 2002, leading to a situation in which the state had five different people serving as governor during a period of eight days.

Then on August 2004, Governor Jim McGreevey resigned- and, enter Richard Codey again who served as Governor until Senator Corzine was elected in 2006. In April 2007 he was severly injured in an automobile accident. Guess who stepped in as acting Governor? In accordance with the New Jersey State Constitution, New Jersey Senate President Richard Codey assumed the position of acting governor for the short period from April 12 until May 7, 2007.

http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2014/02/01/dsouza-debates-ayers/

It’s a testament to Dinesh D’Souza’s mettle that he even showed up for his scheduled debate at Dartmouth (his alma mater and mine) with Bill Ayers last Thursday. D’Souza is only recently under what is apparently selective prosecution by the federal government for campaign law violations (see “Amnesty, but Not for D’Souza” [2] by Andy McCarthy) and that was probably some of the reason the pundit/filmmaker seemed off his game.

He fared much better debating the existence of God [3] with the late Christopher Hitchens. But that was in part because Hitchens played fair, enjoying the intellectual jousting and search for truth between two exceptionally bright people. D’Souza’s Thursday adversary, Mr. Ayers — former Weatherman revolutionary and retired professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he held the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar — did everything but.

Allow me to be a bit personal. Despite being a child of the sixties and having participated in all sorts of protests back in the day, this was the first time I had ever seen Bill Ayers talk at length. It gave me nightmares — literally. I went to sleep minutes after watching a video of the debate to dream that I was cut off from my family in some distant Mediterranean village with my car missing. Stumbling on a hidden garage, I encountered a gang (Weathermen?) led by a younger Bill Ayers who had stolen the car and were disguising it unrecognizably. I tried to stop them, but I was outnumbered, kicked in the stomach and groin. I woke up before being killed or maimed.

But I wasn’t relieved. I had a dizzy, depressed feeling that awakened a disturbing, almost otherworldly, sense memory. Then I realized when I had had the same emotion. It was the time several years ago when I stood five feet away from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [4]. Yes, it was that bad.

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ The media spends almost as much time covering various debates about how to “fix the news” as it does itself and the treatment of Ezra Klein’s announcement that he is leaving the Washington Post to create a political blog for Vox Media (co-founded by the creator of Daily Kos) is a perfect example of […]

http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-premier-rejects-kerry-39-boycott-warning-112837984.html

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s warning against a growing boycott movement against the Jewish state should peace talks with the Palestinians fail, while some of his Cabinet ministers lashed out angrily, saying the stance undermined Israel’s legitimacy and the chances of reaching a peace agreement.
The brush-up comes as Israel is negotiating with the Palestinians against a backdrop of increasing international pressure to reach a deal, coupled with a growing call for boycotting Israel over its settlements in areas it captured in the 1967 Middle East war.

A small but growing number of European businesses and pension funds have begun to drop investments or limit trade with Israeli firms involved in the West Bank settlements. At a security conference in Germany this weekend, Kerry warned that a breakdown in Israeli-Palestinian talks would accelerate this trend and could threaten Israel’s economic prosperity and its safety.

“You see for Israel there’s an increasing de-legitimization campaign that has been building up. People are very sensitive to it. There are talk of boycotts and other kinds of things,” Kerry said. “Today’s status quo absolutely, to a certainty, I promise you 100 percent, cannot be maintained. It’s not sustainable. It’s illusionary. There’s a momentary prosperity, there’s a momentary peace.”

At the opening of his weekly Cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said international pressure on Israel would backfire and only cause the Palestinians to harden their positions.

Siding with Iran In business, the early bird really does catch the worm and, mindful of that, European firms are rushing with headlong alacrity to do deals with Iran – even though pro forma only some sanctions against the ayatollah regime had been lifted. Europe’s eagerness for commercial transactions with Iran might well lend the […]

www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com  http://blogs.jpost.com/users/just-look-us-now ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS    Laser heals heart aneurysms.  Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is the 13th biggest killer in the West, with over 200,000 new cases diagnosed in the US each year.  Drs. Gertz and Gavish of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered that low-level laser (LLL) reduces AAA inflammation and promotes wound […]

The new “Sisiphobia” for the U.S. administration or Why Obama is so afraid of Gen. Sisi http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/60742   CAIRO, EGYPT—Egypt’s interim President Adly Mansour made it official—which should come as nothing unexpected—presidential elections before parliamentary elections, with the presidential election within three months. As a result of this decision, Gen. Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, charismatic Egyptian […]

As Cyril Connolly paraphrased in his 1938 book “Enemies of Promise”…..
“Whom the gods wish to destroy,they first call promising.”
“Sick transit” the presidential aspirations of Governor Chris Christie….

http://www.nationalreview.com/node/370097/print How come no one’s worried about bringing Dinesh D’Souza “out of the shadows”? After all, the poor fellow didn’t do anything wrong — not really. He just wanted to participate fully in our national life, in our democratic process. He didn’t want to hide — he was forced to take cover by our draconian, […]

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ 2014.01.30 (Baghdad, Iraq) – Six al-Qaeda suicide bombers storm a government office building and murder eighteen people. 2014.01.30 (Giza, Egypt) – A policeman is murdered by Ansar Beit Al Maqdis as he leaves his house. 2014.01.30 (Pattani, Thailand) – Muslim radicals kill two people guarding a group of teachers with a homemade bomb. 2014.01.29 […]