Famous Rightwing New Jerseyans

I was a tad embarrassed to find recently that the loathsome Right-wingnut Michelle Malkin, tho born in Philly, was raised in Absecon, NJ. Yes, I know that's only SOUTH Jersey, but it's still NEW Jersey, tho North Jersey and South Jersey sometimes seem as much different states as North Carolina and South Carolina, or North Dakota and South Dakota. (I've been to NC, ND, and SD, but not yet SC, even tho I have relatives from there, transplants from NJ.)
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CNN's populist Lou Dobbs, who says he's hostile only to illegal immigration, not Latin American immigration (and is married to a Hispanic woman), "resides on a 300-acre horse farm in Sussex County, New Jersey". Keith Olbermann has reported on MSNBC's Countdown that "Debi", Dobbs's wife (née Segura) was caught trying to carry a gun into Newark Airport.
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That reminds me that I received a review copy of a book about EWR several weeks ago. I have twice since then mentioned the Airport here, for having met my brother Alan on his way thru to other places, first Maryland to see one dauter's family, then Israel to see the families of his son and other dauter, but I forgot to mention the EWR book. Let me mention it now.
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Newark Airport by Henry M. Holden is a new softcover book from Arcadia Publishing ($21.99: http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/). Arcadia has published a number of other books about Newark in its "Images of America" series. I discussed one here on May 23, 2008, Jews of Weequahic by Linda Forgosh. I gave that review copy to Jeffrey Bennett, webmaster of the Newarkology website, but he decided he couldn't be impartial because he knew the author. I am holding onto this book until I can make the time to read thru all of it.

The new EWR book is part of a different Arcadia series, "Images of Aviation". It is not generally appreciated, even within Newark, that Newark Airport has an exalted place in aviation history. I could mention some of its distinctions from my own knowledge, for instance:
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• Amelia Earhart presided at the opening of the original passenger terminal;
• An innovative employee-owned airline, People Express, operated out of the North Terminal for several years before failing (perhaps from undercapitalization, a major problem for small business) and being absorbed by Texas Air's Continental Airlines, which still operates out of Newark as its second most important hub after Houston, where it is based;
• EWR had either the first or the second (after Cleveland; depending on whom you listen to) air-traffic control tower in the Nation, and (among?) the first paved runways and nite liting.
• Etc. And there's lots of "cetera".
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In that I have not read the text of the Arcadia book, I won't attempt to give further info right now. But when I have read it, I'll show you some pix from within the book (a p.r coordinator for the publisher has offered me some pix to show you). First, however, I have to decide which pix I'd like to display here.
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Getting back to Rightwing New Jerseyans, let me say that "Left" and "Right" are terms that do not always cleave happily into entirely separate ideological spheres. I am very far Left in many matters, but I feel strongly, and believe in rigorous intellectual honesty, that abortion-on-demand is a moral outrage, and that Liberals are supposed to protect "the little guy" from abuse, and certainly murder, by the powerful. I have a second, political blog I update with fair regularity, "The Expansionist", on this same service, Google Blogger. It is VERY far Left.
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The older I get, the less patience I have with stupidity, selfishness, and greed. Do the rich think they're going to take it with them? Do they really delude themselves that their good fortune is all their own doing? Do they really think that they could have achieved ANYTHING if the infrastructure, which they did not create, wasn't already there? — the roads, electric system, airports, telephone networks and communications satellites, and on, and on?
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The rich couldn't even take a crap indoors if somebody ELSE hadn't installed a toilet that somebody else made and that connected with a water system on one end and sewer system or septic tank on the other — none of which that particular rich person created or even financed — and they'd be wiping their butts with leaves if the "little people" hadn't made toilet paper in a factory somewhere (that that rich person did not create nor even finance), then loaded it onto a truck and/or train (that that rich person did not create nor even finance), then transported it to a store (that that rich person did not create nor even finance), then offloaded it and put it on a shelf in a supermarket (that that rich person did not create nor even finance), where their housekeeper could buy it and then transport it over roads (that that rich person did not create nor even finance) to their mansion — that yet other people built! Not only wouldn't they have a working toilet if it weren't for the "little people", but they also wouldn't have a bathroom to put it in! "I did it all!" No, you a*hole, you did almost NONE of it! And the money you used to pay for it would have had absolutely no value if it didn't have OUR name on it: "United States of America". Try paying your bills with Billy Richbitch dollars and see how far you get.
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In any case, I will make time to read the EWR book and give you my evaluation of it here afterward. The author(ess) of Jews of Weequahic was a curator of the "Weequahic Memoirs" show that I saw June 18, 2008 at the MetroWest Jewish center in West Orange. That exhibition then moved on to MetroWest's Whippany facility, then the Jewish Museum of New Jersey in the North Ward, and it is now at the Main Branch of the Newark Public Library until September 4th. There was an opening reception July 9th, but I didn't get an invitation because, tho I asked Wilma Grey, the Library's Director, to put me on any email list for special events that the Library may have, I never got a notice. Perhaps the Library does not maintain any such email list. It should. I also had a lot of trouble reaching Wilma by email recently, and after several exchanges with the Library's IT department, which Wilma asked to investigate, I am not at all sure that any future email to her will get thru the spam filter that booted some, but not all, of my attempts to reach her. I have had other problems with my AOL email, and may have to shift to Gmail if delays and nondeliveries continue. (I had a "chat" session today with someone at the Bank of America about a disputed charge, and he told me that only part of their system was working at the moment. I typed, "Don't you just love computers?", and he replied, "They are the greatest." I think there was some irony there.