I wanna find some obscure, ridiculous, nonsensical, bullshit non-event or thing and bitch about it to the press like some whiney-ass fuckin' jerkoff. Yeah - that'll be fun...
A beach pier in Ocean Grove destroyed during Superstorm Sandy is being rebuilt by a local religious organization, but the new shape has some residents concerned it too closely resembles a cross.
Members of the small seaside town’s LGTBQ+ community and allies are saying the cross crosses a line, but many are afraid to voice their grievances with the Camp Meeting Association, said Douglas Grote, a local resident and retired Presbyterian pastor.
The cross-shaped pier feels like “Christian bullying,” said Grote, who has penned letters to local and state officials asking for intervention. “I am so deeply concerned,” he said. ”And I am so concerned from my neighbors who are scared and bullied.”
Ocean Grove, referred to as God’s Square Mile by some of its residents, is a seaside community of roughly 3,000 residents located just south of Asbury Park. It’s technically not its own town — Ocean Grove is a small section of Neptune Township, set aside with a unique charter.
It was founded more than 150 years ago as a summertime, tent-revival religious retreat. It was governed by the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, a Methodist ministry, as a religious enclave for 100 years until the New Jersey Supreme Court declared its charter unconstitutional after a series of lawsuits.
However, the Camp Meeting Association still owns all the land and has enormous influence on the community and its residents. When buying a home in Ocean Grove, residents must enter into a land-lease agreement with the camp, meaning while residents and businesses can own buildings in Ocean Grove, the Methodist group owns the land.
The camp’s authority also extends to the beach, boardwalk and all its associated staff and activities.
When asked if the pier was purposely redesigned to resemble a Christian cross, seen as a representation of the crucifixion of Jesus, Michael Badger, president of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association said the design was, “highly functional, to be in the shape that it’s been designed to be.”
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The Philadelphia Police Department has faced a critical shortage of officers for months - one that's all but certain to get worse as hundreds more cops plan to leave.
With the police force already operating about 20% below its target staffing level, more than 800 officers and civilian employees have set retirement dates within the next four years by enrolling in the city's deferred pension program.
The decades-old program helps officials prepare for the departure of longtime employees by allowing city workers to begin collecting on pension benefits four years before they retire. Fresh pension records show the number of Police Department enrollees doubled in four years.
The figures mean officers are leaving faster than the department can recruit them.
The force is virtually guaranteed to see about 200 retirements for each of the next four years. But this year, just 120 cadets will be eligible to graduate from the police academy.
The wave of impending retirements comes atop nearly 600 existing officer vacancies, soaring resignations, and hundreds of injury claims that have taken more cops off active duty. All told, the force is already some 1,300 officers short of its full complement of 6,380.
The growing officer shortage within one of the nation's largest police forces is colliding with the highest rates of gun violence Philadelphia has seen in generations. Last year, there were 562 homicides, the most in recorded history - and so far this year, the pace has not slowed.
Here's another article that slightly addresses the problem:
https://www.newsweek.com/why-are-so-many-cops-walking-away-force-opinion-1735010
https://www.newsweek.com/why-are-so-many-cops-walking-away-force-opinion-1735010
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If you've been thinking of getting something from my wife's Jewelry Collection, don't waste this opportunity.
Etsy is doing a site-wide sale promotion where
you can get 15% off if you buy two items or more.
This promotion ends tomorrow...
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Click on the picture to see the instagram post.
This guy is my new idol...
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We're kinda/half watching the ad when my wife says:
'Hey - did you notice how big her tits are?'.
What's not to love about a woman who is always looking out for your best interests? Juss' sayin'...
It's kinda sad how this thing ended up. Hurricane Irma just beat the living fuck out of it. This is where the movie 'Contact's opening scenes were. It's collapsed on to itself and totally out of business now.
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Here's a good article with an interesting perspective on their problems that was written in real time right after the hurricane:
https://www.science.org/content/article/hurricane-damage-threatens-arecibo-observatory-s-future
https://www.science.org/content/article/hurricane-damage-threatens-arecibo-observatory-s-future
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I remember when Ocean Grove was called "Ocean Grave" because it was so boring , compared to the other shore towns . They used to close off the main street with a chain on Sundays , because motor traffic was banned on the Sabbath .
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