You’re not alone, at least with respect to the current trend. New Jersey joins with it’s neighbors for having the largest negative net migration percentages.
here–>http://www.reedconstructiondata.com/news/2008/12/population-exodus-from-distressed-states-accelerate/

NJ also joins with its neighbors for having the lowest as births rates as well. Very distressed areas.

I was thinking more along the lines of this.

But then all the hirsute pears would feel excluded, and not even Homer S. would want that.

Seriously, this is just another example why I evacuated from that state 8 years ago. If Corzine is re-elected, the people of New Jersey deserve what they get.

josh bornstein: “We’re there. We’re pear [shaped]. Get used to it.”

Shouldn’t that be:
“We’re there, we’re pear, we don’t want anymore bears”?

And he said unto him, thy brother troll is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.

And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him. And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: but as soon as this thy trollish son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother troll was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

ChrisTS:
Is this our troll returning?

And the troll said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy troll.

But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:

And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:

For this my troll was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

Well there is a 3rd party candidate who is getting not trivial levels of attention.

And how much for attempting to pump your own gas?

Certainly you jest, only a trained professional would dare to pump dangerous gas.

Daggett is clearly the best candidate in the race.

I agree with you there.

Are you an Arlington fan?

I think Laura nailed this at 3:44.

While most Republicans have taken a liking to the “Conservative” candidate in NY’s 23rd congressional district, such independence is not admired among Republicans in New Jersey.

Daggett is clearly the best candidate in the race.

CJColucci: Whenever I get depressed about the clown show in New York, there’s always New Jersey to cheer me up.

Looks good from PA., too.

An arrogant banker or an arrogant, power-abusing (the traffic incidents are bad, but let us not forget the Ashcroft millions) prosecutor? I’d vote for Bruce.

Caesar: Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o’ nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene 2.

And what does it mean to be “imperially” thin anyway?

Maybe the original was “impishly thin” (i.e., the opposite of jolly fat) – and with a little typo and auto-correct, it became “imperially.”

Keep in mind, in NJ simply not having your insurance card or registration is a $500 fine each! Not being insured or registered is around $1000 and a tow to the police impound yard.

And how much for attempting to pump your own gas?

Puth Ropper: There, there, Ruth. Did that bad man hurt your feelings?

Is this our troll returning?

Ruth Popper: “If you’re going to do it, at least *man up*…Afterwards he *wusses out*…”So the way to combat fat prejudice is with misogyny?

There, there, Ruth. Did that bad man hurt your feelings?

So the way to combat fat prejudice is with misogyny?

The tickets were marked “NO DEAL,” which is traditionally used by police when they feel a driver behaved badly, and that the judge should not go easy in the case. Christie eventually paid a $250 fine, and the registration ticket was dismissed after he produced proper documentation — though again, Christie’s campaign has conceded that the car’s registration was expired at the time.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/more-details-on-christies-2005-traffic-incident.php

The second incident where he didn’t even get a ticket was for driving the wrong way down a one way street. The relevance here is that he actually hit a motorcyclist sending him to the hospital. http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/more-details-emerge-from-christie-2002-car-accident.php

Is it as bad as, say, a DWI? No but it does smack of the arrogance of power which isn’t exactly a good thing to see *before* the guy wins the election.

My peeve with Christie was the way he treated a man in Morris county who used a pen light in the back yard with his son. The light was noticed by an airplane which ended up with Christie treating the guy as a terrorist and making a name for himself by ruining the guys life.

Nah. That’s not making fat an issue.

Nick

Specifically using his influence and power as a prosecutor to avoid getting traffic tickets and avoid getting his car towed when he was driving it unregistered?

The commercial about his TRAFFIC TICKETS?! He should reply to THAT?!

NJ deserves what it gets, and has got.

Is Corzine the guy to talk about traffic tickets?

How about talking about what the commercial actually raised, not his weight but his throwing it around. Specifically using his influence and power as a prosecutor to avoid getting traffic tickets and avoid getting his car towed when he was driving it unregistered?

This whole ‘I’m a victim of anti-fat bias’ is simply a dodge of that more substantial issue. Likewise, maybe I’d have more sympathy for Christie if:

1. He wasn’t running ads attacking Corzine for not paying any state income tax last year (Corzine is not taking a salary as gov., no income no income tax).

2. He wasn’t running ads attacking the independent for proposing to ‘raise taxes’ without acknowledging that the independent’s plan is expand the sales tax in exchange for lowering property taxes.

WHENEVER Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.

Richard Cory