State Senator Ronald Rice, Sex Toys and Oils with Marijuana and possibly a Reason Whoopi Goldberg went off on Jeanine Pirro

Bob and I laughed when we learned state Senator Ronald Rice told NJTV that there would be retail outlets selling “sex toys and oils with marijuana.”

Turns out Senator Rice was right, it really could happen. Glamour Magazine did a piece titled, “6 Weed Products Your Vagina Will Be Totally Cool With” a little over a year ago.

Discovering there was no longer a reason to laugh at Senator Rice’s fear of retail outlets selling sex toys and oils with marijuana lead me to learn that Whoopi Goldberg partnered with Om Edibles founder Maya Elisabeth and launched a line of marijuana products designed for relief from menstrual discomfort.

Curious, I visited the Whoopi and Maya Medical Cannabis website and learned Whoopi has a cacao product that can be “enjoyed plain with a spoon, on fruit or toast, or made into a sipping cacao with water, milk, or the milk alternative of your choice, heated to just below boiling.”

After reading all this I just can’t help wondering if the reason Whoopi Goldberg went off on Jeanine Pirro is that the coffee mug in front of Whoopi on the set of "The View" is filled with some of her special cacao product.

And, if you’re ever in California or Colorado and you want to try Whoopi’s cacao product you should know one serving has 160 calories, 150 of which are fat calories.

Robert Turkavage Should Listen To Chris Christie

Robert Turkavege Facebook Photo

Being a sometimes critic of Chris Christie I had a little bit of difficulty typing the words “Robert Turkavage should listen to Chris Christie” – but he should listen.

Yesterday, New Jersey Globe reported former GOP congressional candidate Robert Turkavage called for Seth Grossman “to drop out of the race” for congress.

Sure, Grossman has come under fire from the left for things he has said, but Turkavage lost the primary and when you compete in a primary part of the deal is you support the winner. Hirsh Singh and Sam Fiocchi understand this and both put out statements of support for Grossman after the primary.

Maybe Turkavege put out his statement to try and stay relevant, maybe he’s a sore loser, either way to paraphrase what Chis Christie said at the Morris County GOP Unity Breakfast, Turkavege, and other wishy-washy Republicans, have till Labor Day to fall in love with Seth Grossman.

Losing is never easy! I was with Fiocchi in the primary. Others were enamored with Singh. Brian Fitzherbert would have been a good candidate if someone hadn’t had him tossed off the ballot. But, the primary is over and it’s time to get behind the nominee, the candidate chosen by voters of our party. Poor choices in words, attacks from the left don’t matter because Grossman is still better for Republicans than Jeff Van Drew who will go to Washington and oppose the President’s policies.

As hard as it is for me to agree with him, Chris Christie was 100% correct when he told the folks in Morris County, “Losing in November is always worse than losing in June.”

Is Governor Murphy Helping Snooki Pee Away Taxpayer Dollars

Earlier this month Governor Murphy signed Senate Bill No. 122, the “Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act,” also known as the “Snooki Amendment.”

Snooki, of Jersey Shore fame, has infamously been peeing on dance floors since 2012 and more recently in pools.

So, the question becomes, by signing the “Snooki Amendment” is Governor Murphy helping Snooki pee away $425 million over five years?

State Senator Joe Pennacchio thinks so. On Monday, he announced “that he has sent a letter requesting that the State Auditor conduct a full evaluation of the Garden State Film Tax Credit, to determine if it is in fact a worthwhile investment of New Jersey’s scarce financial resources.”

In his letter to the State Auditor, Pennacchio writes, “$425 million. For that amount of money, New Jersey could hire more than six thousand additional special education teachers to help our must vulnerable students, and still pay them the going rate.”

Pennacchio continues, “This ‘tax incentive program’ is purely a giveaway to special interest groups who have no interest in the long-term financial wellbeing of our state. Why even call it an incentive? As designed, the program does not give these companies any reason to invest more money into our economy than they have previously spent. It is, in my view, an unconscionable waste of state resources.”

It's obvious Senator Pennacchio knows better than to join the governor in helping Snooki pee away our tax dollars. One has to wonder why other elected officials aren’t as vocal in trying to stop the waste of our money.

Considering a 2012 report from the Tax Foundation found that “aside from studies paid for by economic development authorities and the Motion Picture Association of America [MPAA], an industry trade association, almost every other study has found film tax credits generate less than 30 cents for every $1 of spending,” Senator Pennacchio is right to question the wisdom of the “Snooki Amendment.”

We should all be thanking Senator Pennacchio for standing up for the taxpayers.