Schools/CEO's/Bullies/Beach Boys/Ticket Monkeys

Joe Biden said “This will be a summer of recovery.” Thanks, Joe, for another worthless opinion.

Fiscal problems in Europe have magnified so it will be cheap place to go for a vacation to see the sights or riot damage.

Red Sox success is tied to starting pitching. Pitching goes deep they win. Not so deep they lose.

Forty-nine former NASA employees came out against all they “Sky is falling” mindset surrounding Global Warming. Six where astronauts from Apollo including those of two missions with moon landings. Guess they must be right wing troglodyte Republicans.

Now Mitt Romney is a bully! According to “reports” that is exactly what he was 45 years ago and it targeted a Gay! Funny how all these years and all these campaigns this all of a sudden surfaces just as Obama makes his stand on Gay rights.

Mark Herd (former CEO - HP), Brian Dunn (former CEO - Best Buy), Harry Stonecipher (former CEO - Boeing) and Bill Clinton (former president of USA) - all but ONE lost their job over an inappropriate relationship with an employee

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Now that Face Book is having an IPO some data suggests that the gloss may be off. Seems folks spend significantly less time on FB after a year. The next MySpace?

Interesting breast feeding cover on Time. That is a clear signal of a floundering readership so lets just do something - anything - to bring attention to ourselves.

Beach Boys are celebrating fifty years as a group.

So are the Rolling Stones.

According to the right leaning Young Americans Foundation liberal speakers outnumber conservatives 7-1 at commencement.

Fauxcahontis is now a confirmed liar.

How about a by-law to have folks trim the grass around the sidewalks on their property?

How about another one for having folks put away shopping carts?

And along that line how about that tiny traffic island on the intersection of North and Oak Streets. Very nice job dressing it up.

As an atheist I could care less about the Kiwanis Cross. Its presence does not offend me as it seems to have a lawyer who I assume is also an atheist. Some atheist consider every possible violation of church and state as though ignoring some will have some type of public domain situation that could exist with brand infringement. Is that the logic? Or is it just plain bad manners? The cross is important to just about everyone in town so just leave it be.

Our asparagus crop was the best in memory. Still harvesting.

I have been keeping tabs and it was 7-1 in the last seven days. What that means is I saw one cop actually directing traffic at a work site and seven doing nothing - cell phone stuff, kibitzing with workers, drinking coffee and ignoring what they are actually getting detail pay for. On Route24 I saw three just talking among themselves - all were as the others cops like to say “Ticket Monkeys” (AKA State Troopers).

Brockton High School - again - received high honors as one of 87 schools honored nationwide for performance. BHS is somewhat of an anomaly since it has a substantial minority student population and a significant ESL population yet is excellent in one important area of note - MCAS.

On the other end you have Middleboro with a population of 92% that have the complexion of Elizabeth Warren yet continue under perform. So much for educational racial profiling.