New Jersey

A New Jersey state police officer was arrested and suspended from his job without pay for conducting traffic stops on young women so he could ask them out on dates.
Trooper Marquice Prather, 37,  has been charged with tampering with or falsifying public records for attempting to cover up his improper stops.
He was arrested Friday.
An internal investigation found that on several occasions Prather deactivated his microphone while asking the women out, then lied to supervisors claiming it had malfunctioned.

Loser and extremist loon, Scott Garrett (R-NJ)Aside from being the home of the Bada Bing strip club from The Sopranos, NJ-05 sits on the entire northern border of New Jersey with New York, from the Hudson River in the east to just outside of Port Jervis in the west, and the entire northwestern border with Pennsylvania from Milford through the Delaware Water Gap and beyond my old home in Stroudsburg. It's an affluent R+4 district in blue New Jersey.

A New Jersey cop seen on video last month slapping a man dressed in a bunny costume for blowing an air horn inside police headquarters was charged with assault last week.
Sussex County prosecutors charged Hopatcong police officer Nicholas J. Maresca, Jr., 44, with simple assault on December 2, two weeks after he was caught on video slapping Kevin Hemmerich, 27, inside the Hopatcong police station on November 17.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Monday signed into law a bill requiring the state’s student loan agency to forgive the loans of borrowers who die or become permanently disabled.

Before Bernie gave any indication he would run for president, Blue America started a Draft Bernie ActBlue page. The day he announced he was running, Blue America endorsed him-- our first-ever presidential endorsement-- and started collecting money for his campaign. Later we started the first ActBlue page to collect money for Berniecrat canddiates.

Thirteen people in the United States have been infected with a potentially deadly, drug-resistant fungal infection since 2009, health officials say. [1] [2]
Source: CNN
Of those infected, 4 individuals died; but it is not clear whether they died from the infection or from other underlying health problems. [1]
Dr. Tom Chiller, who is chief of the mycotic diseases branch of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), said:

“I am worried. I think this is a real threat.” [2]

Yesterday was a bad day for the Trumpist governor of New Jersey. He and his bozo buddies can screech "Lock Her Up" all they want but the chances of America getting to see the rotund Christie in an orange jump suit behind bars is now a lot closer.

Read all about the Kwik Konviktion-on-All-Kounts of KrispyKrony Konspirators Bridget Anne Kelly and Bill Baroni on WNYC's website.by KenThough the Big Rat Bastard Gummer of NJ has done his best to treat the Bridgegate scandal as an unwelcome inconvenience -- a made-up conspiracy of which he is the principal victim -- I think we can take it as demonst

Read the NYT report here. (Click to enlarge the above image.)"It was an excellent railroad and running quite well until the last seven years, and it has been in constant decline."-- Martin E.

Soda jerks, kitchen violence and a prison cookbook + this day in history w/Brighton bombing and our song of the day by Midnight Faces on your Morning Monarchy for October 12, 2016.