tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59684370124055929652024-03-14T02:00:36.087-04:00Mineola NY Truthout!Time to face the facts everybody. Jack Martins and his die-hard fans don't want people to know the truth about the way Mineola was run under his watch. Well they can manipulate what you see on Channel 18 and what you read in certain local papers but they don't control the internet. This is where the truth will come out. So strap yourselves in 'cause it's gonna be a bumpy ride!212 Guernseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331990942090819561noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968437012405592965.post-29182027984332003272011-06-23T12:42:00.000-04:002011-06-23T12:42:17.902-04:00JACK'S BACK TIMES 5Well it's been a while but Jack is back and in your face not once, not twice, but FIVE TIMES in this week's issue of the Jackazine known as The Mineola American. Here's Jack with his pal John DaVanzo. Here's Jack at the Portuguese festival. Here's Jack . . . Jack . . . Jack.
Plenty of photo ops in this week's issue. And then of course, his weekly column where Sen.Martins 212 Guernseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331990942090819561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968437012405592965.post-48617181301926196422011-05-07T09:09:00.000-04:002011-05-07T09:09:11.172-04:00THE CIRCUS IS BACK IN TOWN!MNYT loves nothing better than a good show - especially when it's free. (Although considering the taxes the good folks of Mineola pay you can safely say that nothing in this village comes free.) And we were highly entertained Wednesday night by the latest display of arrogance provided by Mineola's Building Superintendent Dan Whalen. Like that little circus car that clown after 212 Guernseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331990942090819561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968437012405592965.post-66120550057252561332011-04-29T12:53:00.001-04:002011-04-30T14:31:14.076-04:00JACK WATCH 2011 - THE WATCH CONTINUESFOUR photos of Jack in the latest edition of the Martins fanzine, a.k.a. The Mineola American. Here's Jack sitting at a public hearing. Here's Jack talking to library advocates. Here's Jack chillin' with the students at Mineola High School. What? No picture of Jack tying his shoe?
The Mineola American never showed this much interest in the activities of the previous212 Guernseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331990942090819561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968437012405592965.post-766424889569354982011-03-24T12:16:00.000-04:002011-03-24T12:16:11.110-04:00JACK WATCH 2011AND THE LOVE-FEST BETWEEN THE MINEOLA AMERICAN & JACK MARTINS CONTINUES . . .
Yesterday's edition (3/23) contained at least SIX pictures of Jack Martins. Of course our favorites were the two shots of the back of his head. DEFINITELY his better side!
Plus there were the two big article headlines starting with "Sen. Jack Martins: (blah, blah, blah)" Then of course, 212 Guernseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331990942090819561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968437012405592965.post-90835865096318818282011-03-22T00:12:00.000-04:002011-03-22T00:12:20.522-04:00TRUE COLORSWell THAT didn't take long!
We at MNYT are reminded of that classic Cyndi Lauper song as Jack Martins' true colors come shining through. Despite his chest thumping and drum beating about his goal to reform Albany politics, the freshman senator for the 7th S.D. has apparently reneged on the Ed Koch-initiated pledge he signed to support Independent Redistricting.
To quote Gomer Pyle, USMC, "212 Guernseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331990942090819561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968437012405592965.post-519183351000137962011-02-21T13:24:00.000-05:002011-02-21T13:24:03.896-05:00STOP THE PRESSES ! ! ! !From the Mineola Scallion (a little Onion):
JACK MARTINS INVENTS FIRE !!!
&212 Guernseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331990942090819561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968437012405592965.post-55148785562623593032011-01-18T18:07:00.000-05:002011-01-18T18:07:22.350-05:00BREAKING NEWS ! ! ! ! !Headline from the Mineola Scallion (a little Onion):
JACK MARTINS WALKS,
CHEWS GUM AT SAME TIME ! ! !
&212 Guernseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331990942090819561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968437012405592965.post-82752063890565717182010-12-04T09:30:00.000-05:002010-12-04T09:30:01.372-05:00A BIGOT BY ANY OTHER NAMEOverhead at the recent Senior Appreciation Day, held at Mineola's Village Hall on Monday, November 22nd:
"No more Portuguese for Mayor!"And who was the expounder of this pearl of wisdom? You might think it was some big beefy white guy dressed in a white sheet, with a pointy white hat on his pointy white head. Maybe with swastikas tattooed on his big beefy biceps.
Well you would212 Guernseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331990942090819561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968437012405592965.post-47902805994075971732010-11-08T21:05:00.000-05:002010-11-08T21:05:32.291-05:00BRING OUT YOUR TRASH !!!!If you watched the most recent work session and public meeting held by Mineola's Board of Trustees (Wednesday, November 3rd) you probably caught the fireworks set off by Sal Cataldo. Mr. Cataldo was upset by the Board's over sight in not mentioning Veteran's Day and the commemorative ceremonies that take place every year in the Village.
But in case you didn't catch the broadcast, it was 212 Guernseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331990942090819561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968437012405592965.post-39332571974881194132010-10-24T09:28:00.000-04:002010-10-24T09:28:44.458-04:00LYIN' BY THE SEAT OF HIS PANTSDoes Jack Martins actually write the emails he is posting on his NYS senate campaign site or does some other hack write them? If the latter, does Jack READ and APPROVE them?
This is the guy who is going to bring INTEGRITY back to Albany. So he takes the Newsday editorial that ENDORSES CRAIG JOHNSON FOR SENATE and selectively pulls the few sentences that refer to himself, puts them in212 Guernseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331990942090819561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968437012405592965.post-55893483830621821972010-10-21T22:26:00.000-04:002010-10-21T22:26:47.010-04:00♫ ♪ ♪ J-J-J-JIVE TALKIN' ♪ ♫ ♪The latest mailer from the NYS Democratic Committee & NYS Democratic Senate Campaign Committee has plenty of people ROTF laughing their asses off. If you thought nobody could top the 7-UP spoof that was put out by the Friends of Craig Johnson - boy were you wrong!
Jack is one Jive Turkey who lies like a rug. Kinda makes you wonder what it's like to be inside his skull. That212 Guernseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331990942090819561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968437012405592965.post-20224232724372479812010-10-13T22:04:00.001-04:002010-10-13T23:08:15.595-04:00CARL PALLADINO & JACK MARTINS: TWIN SONS OF DIFFERENT MOTHERS?Say WHA-A-A-A-T-T-T-T-T?
Unlike Dan Fogleberg and Tim Weisberg, Carl & Jack don't look alike, but they sure do act alike.
Upstate, Carl Palladino, homophobic father of a love-child with a woman he's not married to, bangs the drum of "Family Values." Then today it comes to light that he has collected rent in the past from two gay bars that leased space in his properties. 212 Guernseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331990942090819561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968437012405592965.post-47137754603043612562010-09-15T00:13:00.000-04:002010-09-15T00:13:42.128-04:00SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE♪ ♪ ♫ It's a family affair ♪ ♫
♪ ♫ ♪ It's a family affair ♫ ♪♪
SLY STONE
So, Jack Martins has one Dutch Uncle in NJ who was cooling his heels in the Federal hoosgow while HIS brother - Martins' other Dutch Uncle - has been chairing Mineola's Board of Zoning Appeals. Very interesting.
And the Secretary to the Board of Zoning Appeals has been balling her boss the 212 Guernseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331990942090819561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968437012405592965.post-3528138769761984052010-03-10T22:33:00.191-05:002010-03-19T23:07:10.138-04:00So Long, Farewell and Kiss My True Grits!MNYT wonders if that's what Barbara Bellis-simo Mattina was thinking as she departed 155 Washington Avenue for the last time as a Village employee back in January.
Mrs. Mattina was raised and educated in the Incorporated Village of Mineola and started working for VOM in 1974. By all accounts, she was a dedicated employee with a very strong work ethic. You know the type:&212 Guernseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331990942090819561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968437012405592965.post-91423464398320581022010-02-21T08:57:00.002-05:002010-02-21T09:35:20.532-05:00NOTHING LIKE A BLIZZARD TO COVER YOUR TRACKSWOW !!!
W O W ! ! !
Talk about thieves in the night!
On January 13, 2009 the Board of Trustees held a hearing about an application by the current owners of Heart of Portugal to open another restaurant at 68/70 Old Country Road between Geranium and Juniper Avenues. There have been a number of eateries at this location over the years such as the Courtyard Latenite Cafe, 212 Guernseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331990942090819561noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968437012405592965.post-37822606490313701252010-02-09T00:21:00.013-05:002010-02-09T16:16:07.022-05:00With Friends Like These . . . .
Have you been following the 13th Avenue Saga? That's the story of an entire block of residents who can't get any sleep at night due to the noise being generated by their immediate neighbor, Verizon. Doubly vexing is the fact that the building in question is actually located on a little triangular piece of land on the north side of Old Country Road
that is part of the Incorporated 212 Guernseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331990942090819561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968437012405592965.post-61439434719232567812010-01-31T13:48:00.003-05:002010-02-01T08:37:13.043-05:00What's A Story, Morning Glory?Following is a direct quote from the Municipal Code of the Village of Mineola :
70. "Story" shall mean the portion of a building which is between one floor level and the next higher floor level or the roof. If a mezzanine floor area exceeds one third (1/3) of the floor immediately below, it shall be deemed to be a story. A basement shall be deemed to be a story when its ceiling is six (6) 212 Guernseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331990942090819561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968437012405592965.post-88482590446927129502010-01-11T01:49:00.049-05:002010-01-11T13:00:19.153-05:00SILENCE OF THE LAMBSIt is said that "silence is golden." In the case of the January 6, 2010 public meeting, the silence emanating from Mineola's Board of Trustees was deafening. Not one of these elected officials had anything to say as Village resident Jesse Smith questioned Mayor Jack Martins yet again about the architectural albatross that now exists at 217 Horton Highway. Even Deputy 212 Guernseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331990942090819561noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968437012405592965.post-61363140027315857412009-12-29T12:16:00.007-05:002009-12-29T23:27:48.938-05:00Brain Power + Ambition = Good Customer ServiceBut if you've been keeping up with the times in Mineola you know that both Brain Power and Ambition are in very short supply at the Building Department. Ergo, customer service is virtually non-existent. People have been complaining about the personality issues there for years but the Mayor takes no notice.
If you attended the December 16th public meeting or watched it on Channel212 Guernseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331990942090819561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968437012405592965.post-63979239125136747112009-11-27T10:55:00.032-05:002009-12-05T12:36:25.030-05:00A HORSE IS A HORSE OF COURSE ~ But What is a Building Superintendent?Interesting question, that.
The Village of Mineola's job description for the position of Superintendent of Buildings calls for:
"(1) a High School graduate and eight years of experience in planning and construction of buildings, including five years of progressively more responsible experience in all phases of building inspection work, at least three years of which must have been in a 212 Guernseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331990942090819561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968437012405592965.post-68420109118641558852009-11-05T23:00:00.000-05:002009-11-05T23:00:27.248-05:00KNOCKING BOOTS AT THE WORKPLACEUnless you've been living on a Tibetan mountaintop for the past two weeks, you've probably heard at least something about the work-place sex scandal surrounding ESPN broadcaster/former Mets manager Steve Phillips and his apparently consensual partner, Brooke Hundley. Both have recently received their walking papers from their employer.
In a statement to the NY Post, an ESPN executive 212 Guernseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331990942090819561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968437012405592965.post-46323788648530850722009-10-28T21:10:00.001-04:002009-10-28T22:49:32.465-04:00THE MANY USES OF FOIL FOIL - it's not just for wrapping leftovers. Why, everybody knows a foil hat is the best way to protect yourself from alien mind control. If you don't believe me, just ask Mr. Whiskers and his owner.
FOIL also allows people like us the Freedom to Obtain Information by Law. It's an important tool we can use to keep our governments and big corporations honest. When you utilize the212 Guernseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331990942090819561noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968437012405592965.post-2895846314249755432009-10-24T14:12:00.005-04:002009-10-24T14:24:41.094-04:00WHAT'S IN AN ADDRESS ?Well if you live at 340 Beebe Road at the corner of Florence Road, a $2000 fine is in it when you do what lots of other people in this village have done and you put up a fence in violation of the village code. If, on the other hand, you own the property at 323 1st Street, you'll only have to pay a $300 fine for putting up an illegal fence.
Now if you live at 223 Wellington Road212 Guernseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331990942090819561noreply@blogger.com3