Seems like I’m a day late and a dollar short yet again with a certain news story. You know, it’s no wonder why the state of New Jersey is so often ridiculed and we residents often angry. The latest idiotic bill proposal, which thankfully got withdrawn, was that New Jersey bicycle riders would have had to register their “motor vehicles”, from tricycles to mountain bikes at a cost of $10 a year with the Division of Motor Vehicles. Riders would have been required to attach a licence plate that read BICYCLE to their bikes to prove it was actually registered. The bill wasn’t meant to impose a burden or and additional cost (ahem…10 dollars?) but, according to Assemblywoman Cleopatra Tucker, who initiated the proposal, it was meant to protect elderly pedestrians who swamped her office with calls with complaints about kids on bikes. Hmm, well it seems to me, with or without a license plate, kids will still be on bikes and there will still be elderly pedestrians. Were the bill to go through, bike owners would have had to provide year, model, color, weight, serial number, owner’s address, date purchased and the amount of sales tax they paid on it. What’s next, paying for the air we breathe?
Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks have announce their Heart and Soul Tour which kicks off in March in Ft Lauderdale, Florida. They’ll be at Madison Square Garden on March 26. Guess who’s going to try like hell to get tickets? They go on sale January 21 at 10am.
Recently I’ve been getting email notifications about a website that lists some very vital information about you, from your address to your yearly income. But you can get yourself off this site. It’s called Spokeo. Spokeo.com. I heard about this a while back from The Radio Chick, who is currently on hiatus from her interactive internet radio/tv show to promote and tour with the resurrected Gong Show. Anyway, if you go to Spokeo .com and type in your name and search. A list of names will appear on the left. When you locate yourself, click on it and then click on the address bar to highlight the info–this is your URL–, right click and choose copy. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and find “privacy” in the run of options that include “about” “blog” “directory”, “privacy”. This will open a new page. In the URL line, right click and choose paste, then put your email address in the appropriate space and type in the Captcha Code and click on the REMOVE LISTING button. I don’t remember if you get a confirmation email to activate your deactivation; you might, so be prepared. They say it could take 24 hours to take effect but when I did it, it was immediate.
I think I’ll go have a runny egg. That, for those that don’t know, serving runny eggs here in the Great Garden State was against the law back in ‘92, punishable with a $25-$100 fine, before it was rescinded.
Tags: bicycle license, Cleopatra Tucker, NJ laws, Rod Stewart, Spokeo.com, Stevie Nicks, stupid laws, The Gong Show, The Radio Chick
My Life. . . And I'm Sticking To It 
January 14, 2011 at 7:56 pm |
Oh, that is quite irksome about that ridiculous I-can’t-believe-anyone-with-half-a-brain-would-even-for-a-second-think-it’s-a-good-idea proposal about the bicycle registration!!!!!!! I mean kudos to the “assemblywoman” for trying to address the problems/concerns of her constituents, but huh?!?!?! Just because you are trying to help doesn’t mean that you get to do something stupid and STOP MAKING SENSE! And that’s all I have to say about that.
Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks??? I mean, yes, that sounds cool! But … I didn’t know you would be interested in something like that. Neat! Hope you can get tickets.
You should get on your bicycle and ride over to old person walking down the street so you can throw your runny egg in their face! ‘Woah, Melissa, that was mean’ … Well!?!?!?