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Now looting. I guess “free stuff” is not enough.
Which members of the jury were racist? Is there a past history as with Paula Deen?
A White Male was beaten to death by six Black youths. Will the DOJ step in?
Any man who approaches me with a smile and a firm handshake gets my attention and respect no matter his size, skin color, clothing, bling, at least until he proves himself a moron. I still hold doors open for all women even though I know simply by her gender she’s insane.
Many young Black males lead loves of hopelessness and desperation and commit far more crimes on each other than on White’s. Yet our race profiteering leaders and race hustlers do little to address the real issue. Enablers.
Obama said he would fundamentally change out country - a weak economy, a burgeoning welfare and entitlement system, an unworkable and monstrous health care law, a failed international policy, unemployment, a soon to be unsustainable debt and now the continued political obfuscation orchestrated to keep the uninformed and naive in line.
Obama has shown that with Cambridge and Zimmerman he is just another two bit race hustler.
The Beatles were visionaries writing “Fool On The Hill” with a Nostradamus look into the future regarding Obama.
Speaking of fools step right up Lindsey Graham (R - Fantasy Island) who has suggested boycotting the Olympics over Russia’s allowing Snowden to languish overseas.
A rise in gas tax has shown me the Democrats who rule Massachusetts have zero concern for Joe & Jane Citizen in Massachusetts.
Rand Paul is stepping up as a serious Republican candidate for 2016. Another year where I vote for Blank.
Seamless transition on the BOS from Al to Steve.
Mark Belanger is giving Adam Bond bike riding lessons.
Want to save expenses of a mutual fund? Find some moderately successful funds. For an example find a large cap blended fund and you can easily find what their major investments are since it is readily available. Examine what they are invested in and selectively buy those stocks.
Looks like North Carolina Republicans are making abortion a big issue in their backwater. Just don’t get it.
Will the Patriots have more wins or arrests this season?
I use Trip Advisor all the time. The site is excellent for reviews. Best around.
Harry Reid (D- Casino Mafia) wanted to change the rules on filibusters. I wonder if they could have a filibuster on the rule to change a filibuster?
A banker recently was in court on a Ponzi scheme that supported her lavish life style. Her “marks” were friends and relatives to the tune of 2.1M. Right now she is out on personal recognizance. Amazing! I would have not mercy on crimes like this. As much restitution as possible and jail time.
Red Sox have the best record in the American League and now comes the crunch of the division schedule. Sox play just .500 the rest of the way they could make the playoffs.
Three major unions including the Teamsters have sent a letter to Obama claiming the ACA will “Destroy the 40 hour work week and eliminate hard fought for health benefits.”
Rock star cover treatment for a bomber. What next for Rolling Stone? An Eichmann cover?
Forty years of Democrat rule in Detroit has resulted in bankruptcy. Bloated pensions, lousy school system, White flight, entitlement mentality, corrupt political structure and a non diverse economic structure. But in cities such as Boston Democrat rule has been rather successful. Maybe the Dems need to examine their own litter box and cut some from the herd.
Market Basket employees rallied around to prevent the CEO from being ousted by a board change. At the heart of this was a potential 1.5B payout to stockholders on the back of employees and customers (higher prices).
How bad are the Big Dig leaks? Head of The Charles Regatta will start at the Ted Williams Tunnel.
Revenues in Massachusetts continue to rise and to exceed projects yet taxes increase. IMO this is a direct result of Democrats philosophical approach to government (feed the machine) and inherent lack of accountability.
Hernandez was nailed quite convincingly by technology - the same technology that the government claims stops terrorist in their tracks. That sound wonderful but how much do we really know about how it is used everyday regarding Jane and Joe Public?
Aaron Hernandez is certainly not MENSA material. Even Inspector Clouseau could have connected the dots on this one.
Obama is now a laughingstock on the international stage.
What is the purpose of DOMA? All I see is restricting personal choice and allowing those with different views on PERSONAL choice to inhibit others.
A Republican (who else) summarized the Patrick administration best. They have created more dead people getting EBT cards than jobs created.
There are no aliens at Area 51. None. This government allowed an army private to access and release thousands of pages of classified material. A low level contractor blew the whistle using information he easily grabbed. So some actually believe the government is capable of keeping a secret on aliens?
A year delay in parts of the ACA. A very apparent political move.
The ACA is also causing some real rate shock especially among the young and healthy.
Job market is improving or is it? Follow the U6 which is creeping up.
I actually saw one of the paid detail mob doing their job at the construction site at Exit 4. Is that a union violation?
A camel farted somewhere in the Middle East so oil goes up $5 a barrel.
Downtown Middleboro has a parking problem. No kidding! But, hey, there is that pot hole lot that has some spaces. Probably too far for most to walk. That 100 foot stroll is a killer.
Fireworks need to be legal in this state.
Patriots have made a partial change to their logo. I do believe the new logo has a hood pulled over the face and cuffs on.
The 4th parade on Middleboro is just a great show.
I sat in Monster Seats and they are nothing but glorified bleacher seats at $165 a pop. Most ballparks an elevated seat in RF or LF is $10.
Road costs per mile in Massachusetts rank 3rd in cost per mile and administrative costs so the solution is even mire taxes.
It was 128 degrees in Death Valley and someone ran the mile in 6:36 while wearing a complete Darth Vader outfit.
The lying sacks of manure that run our public education system need to be taken to the woodshed. The latest phony PR crap is that there will be “no tuition hikes.” LMAO! How about fee hikes? Yep. Depends on the school. So right now fees at say Westfield State are $8,290 and tuition is $970.
Our state college (university) system is a known political dumping ground. Think of the famed “corrupt midget,” Billy Bulger, getting to be prez of UMASS before cashing in his big kiss.
Judy Habib is CEO of KBJ Branding - an advertising firm that just lost out on a 5M advertising contract for the lottery. Despite the highest scores of all the bidders her undoing was diversity. The winning bid - a company with no females in the upper echelon - “won” thanks to their diversity of promising awarding a $12,000 contract to a vendor who was a woman. This is another example - I believe #345,765 of why Massachusetts is a national joke.
12% of the workforce is now temp and contractual. And it is not just day laborers. Includes doctors, MIS, CPA’s and a slew of others that traditionally had a lock on job security.
Crash Davis was a real major league player who gave Kevin Costner permission to use his name for the movie “Bull Durham.”
Bill Clinton was recently named “Father of The Year” by National Fathers Day Council. As bad as this is it ain’t as ridiculous as Obama’s Nobel.
Cats live too long. Why can’t their life cycle be like a fruit fly?
According to Snowden we are hacking into China's various data bases. This is like Mad Magazine's Spy versus Spy. I can see us looking trough a peep hole and on the other side is (fill in the blank) peeking back at us.
Why is it called a driveway when I park my car in it?
When I go on a trip it always seems longer to get there than get back.
The new DTA political hack leader is Stacey Monahan a former executive director of the state Democratic Party. Another successful nation wide search.
Why do I have to pay a toll on “freeways” in Houston? I’d argue the point but they are all electronic.
I wish the Republicans would take dominant control of politics in this state just so I could witness some possibly more creative political skullduggery. Democrats have been far to predictable.
Bumpkin pointed out electronic town meeting voting. That means no evil eye when one speaks out against a popular measure or an employee handout.
Of course based on TM turnout they should just hold it at Dave’s Diner or a similar place. Have a nice meal, a bar available and maybe the turnout can reach a few hundred.
I’m at about 50/50 on the belief factor of job claims and various other government statistics being “cooked books.”
Steve Wynn is suppose to be building a 4B dollar casino in Macau.
A company I once worked for the CEO was a seven figure person who loved to gamble. The casinos would provide him with a private jet to Las Vegas. Rumor had it he won more than he lost - rare indeed.
I recently spent some time in Westfield. What a vibrant community. Unlike Middleboro it was not cluttered with tattoo parlors and nail salons.
Snowden blew the whistle on a direct violation of the 4th amendment weather approved by Congress or not. Too bad a whistle blower wasn’t around at the Wassen Conference to give some warning of the Nazi’s final solution.
To me Ed Markey is just a dirt bag.
Red Sox continue to roll.
On 1950 Detroit was the wealthiest city in America. Now it is recognized as the most liberal city in America thanks It is also facing bankruptcy, is crumbling, has a huge unemployment, and welfare and crime off the charts - 50 years of “progressives” at work.
On both sides of Precinct Street by the power lines are entrances to great trail systems. I try to go there as often as possible since I’m sure the excavating equipment will soon arrive for the billion dollar casino.
My special election vote was quick. I check in, turn around and check out. The clerk said “voting is over there” pointing to the booth. I simply stated my vote is something precious and I cannot in good conscious vote for either candidate. Blanks do make a statement.
The Feds continual bond buy is like breast feeding a 14 year old. Enough and that enough was a long, long time ago.
Gomez cleaned house in our area. Markey totally dominated cities. Free stuff won out.
Caesars’ casino operations are making a play in Massachusetts. They have debt of 21B and lost 1.5B last year and were recently rejected for a license in South Korea. The way things are done in Massachusetts they should be a lock for a license.
Paula Deen is getting hammered for racial epitaphs. Funny how comments worked out for Jesse Jackson. Double racial standard?
Since I am no longer “Cooking With Paula” I will save a bundle on butter.
Imagine going to a store and asking the clerk the price and they say "Between $100 and $130." So we are getting a spiffy new police station - with a gym - and it will cost 10M or 13M or anything in between. This will be the Middleboro answer to The Big Dig.
And now the failed administration is mining data from Verizon and other companies under the questionable veil of “national security” which is now a term they use to do as they please domestically without any due process. How bad is it? Even the NYT is now blasting away.
But it gets even better. They have been mining data from various internet companies and our pals over in England have been going along for the ride. I guess the Obama flakes will claim Bush allowed us to do it.
Yet another Obama scandal that his cheerleaders will merrily rationalize with convoluted ideological logic. Who can recall how the leftists whined, howled, and ululated in agony at the notion of Bush administration proposing the Patriot act? Where are those hypocritical fools now? In fact, where have those hypocritical fools been for the past 4 plus years?
And was not the Obama administration early on the ones that wished to prosecute the previously failed administration over security overreach? When is their “transparency” beginning?
When does national security trump privacy? Seems that “national security” concerns are the erosion of rights increased from Bush to Obama and most certainly well with the next administration…..and the next…...and the next…..
War on Terror is now a War on Freedom.
Clearly, if anyone thinks that all this NSA snooping is OK if a person has nothing to hide, then they need to think again. Does anyone remember when Ted Kennedy was put on the US Government’s “no fly” list?
How is all that hope and change working out for you?
Amazingly some of the support Obama at all costs crowd continue to exist. I guess it is all the fault of the "T-Tards" or "T-Baggers" or even the ultimate trump card "Racism" when the reality is the wounds are self inflicted.
A Department of Transitional Assistance (Welfare Department) hack praised Shaunna O’Connell for dishing out $800 to get EBT records. The quote from this pathetic government weasel - Alec Loftus - was - and I paraphrase “She saves the taxpayers $800.” This is typical of that agency which is now a troth for a feeding frenzy of those least entitled. If this bottom feeder had a ounce of common sense he’d be digging deep to straighten out the mess in the agency he represents.
Why is the song “Send In The Clowns” ringing in my head? Why because of DTA John Polanowicz and Stacey Monahan who are both on top of the DTA food chain. Why these two governmental wizards are taking the food stamp challenge. They are going to try and live on food stamps for a week. This represents the clueless frauds that are in change of screwing things up. What they just don’t get and everyone else does is it is not what people get but who gets it. The system is in the paper daily thanks to abuse that these two have done virtually nothing to curb. No one complains about the needy but they certainly complain about being ripped off and providing an alternative life style.
So now the choice is Gomez or Markey. What a choice! Those two should meld together and resuscitate the Know Nothing Party.
Patriots have signed Tim Tebow. Maybe they can trade that stiff Brady for a draft pick?
Tesla Motors is being sued by the Massachusetts Auto Dealers Association for selling cars directly to consumers. They consider this a violation of state law since the manufactures cannot own dealerships in this state. In round one the MADA lost and they will continue to lose.
One of the reasoning positions behind the MADA suit is that it protects the consumer by having cars sold via dealership. Huh?
Tesla had the highest rating ever awarded by Consumer Reports. Should have bought one, Jessie.
IRS partied hardy in Anaheim and now that they are front and center the Inspector General wants some documentation of their expenses. Alas they do not have any records! How would that excuse work out for you or me?
Town still wants money from the tribe. Good luck with that. Maybe the town could settle for a bag full of $100 chips and a few books of buffet coupons? Of course it’ll probably be the year 2314 when the thing is built. Let’s see. Massachusetts has 351 cities and towns and they have already gone to Middleboro, Fall River, Taunton and is that it? 348 more to go.
The Democrat infested legislature continues to refuse the common sense approach of using social security numbers as a verification tool. Seems many other states such as Florida and Illinois do it but not us.
The Obama administration has hit the trifecta of scandals. The perfect storm for failure. The president is still approaching this with all the arrogance he can muster while support from even his most ardent sycophants evaporates like a summer rain on a humid day. The next several months will see a bunker mentality from the administration while the press - with extreme ire of the AP affair - will dig ever deeper with various moles providing ammunition.
The way Obama is being pictured in cartoons and on talk shows show how far his administration is sinking. I remember Jimmy Carter being portrayed as a smaller and smaller man behind a bigger and bigger desk in the waning days of his administration. Even those such as Paul Szep hammered away - previously ardent supporters. Now Obama is a nightly punch line for comedians and talk show hosts. So much for the respect quotient.
Supposedly the IRS gave data on conservative groups to ProPublica (who openly stated that), partially funded by George Soros and run by Herb Sandler
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Of course I did nothing wrong but I’ll take the 5th anyway. Time for a special prosecutor.
The stench of this administration grows daily.
I imagine all this is somehow the fault of Bush.
In Massachusetts the new budget eliminated any photo ID’s for EBT cards. Another measure to insure mismanagement and fraud will continue. Thanks, Mass Senate!
And, of course, the money given to dead people. This ongoing mess hurts both taxpayers and the poor.
The Tribe has all those spiffy drawings of slot parlors they were going to build. Is there going to be a competition on which is architecturally the most aesthetic looking?
A Gun Nut success story. Three armed invaders locked a home owner in Houston in an upstairs closet - where he kept his guns. Needless to say the outcome for the perps was not very pleasant.
I can see now why some locals wished to evict some relatives from property they owned.
Axelrod claimed the recent Washington State bridge disaster was the fault of Republicans! Nor to be outdone some Democrats have managed to claim that the recent tornadoes were some how linked to conservatives. And I thought the deniers and fundamentalist factions were loony.
Work continues near the McDonald’s in Middleboro and I see far too many of our detail folks spending time on their phones rather than actually managing traffic.
The MBTA displayed their usual amount of concern over locals raising the potential of problems with the new Cape weekend run. This agency still refuses to divulge pension information.
When is enough enough with the MBTA? Now they are refusing to release documentation of their pensions. Why? This is a taxpayer bailout agency. The MBTA has also done just about everything conceivable to reduce rider ship. The fare increases are a yearly event. The parking rates continue to rise exponentially. The handouts from the taxpayers continue. The reduced service. The elimination of special fares like the family pass.
Tesla now has the highest ranking of any vehicle ever tested by Consumer Reports. The company also showed a small first time profit.
The United States Senate has clearly demonstrated that lives mean nothing. The vote to continue the madness on firearms shows that quite clearly. Forty-six cowards.
Mike gets rewarded for hard work and being an upper tier watchdog. Strange town this Middelboro.
The recent votes to reject the use of social security numbers to check on a candidate for public housings income and for EBT reform were clearly along party lines with the Democrats once again supporting a status quo that has been a dismal failure.
The latest bills to be rejected along party lines were one that one for supplied an additional 20M in targeted funds for education - specifically textbooks, lab equipment and a sundry list of other items. The second House bill - also rejected - would have made available 3M in tuition and fee benefits for students who were adopted via the state adoption program. Republicans supported both measures and out “education” Democrats rejected.
And why do the Republicans - or a sizable segment of them - continue to wish to use the government as a tool for a moral agenda.
Gomez does not stand a chance. None. Zip. 42% of the vote would be astounding. So we will end up with another lock step far left liberal parrot in D.C.
The administration clearly lied on Benghazi. They can’t even get their lies straight so what does that say about their abilities?
The IRS also targeted conservatives. Amazing overreach by a government that has clearly lost its moral values.
I was in Peru for an extended period of time and they have an interesting social safety net - you lose your job it is tough cookies! Everywhere I went workers busted it. Poverty is incredible. Wealthy class, small middle class, a very large segment of subsistence workers and several millions in shanty towns looking for daily work or just stealing. Teachers and police have a salary of $4,500 to $6,500 yearly and no detail pay.
Gronkowski is on surgery #4. IMO his career will be one of injury upon injury. A great talent but very fragile.
Why airlines can drive you nuts. I book an award flight for my wife - The Lovely Cynthia - and it is 25,000 miles. I then book for myself and it is 32,500 miles for the same flights. Amazing how it managed to change in ten minutes, This is Delta and their program is now just awful. They and United are two airlines that will charge you the same number of miles if it is a one way or round trip.
Special interest at its finest! Time to bury this antiquated joke and pronto. Ms. Braceras did manage to leave out Middleboro.
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/op_ed/2013/04/braceras_town_meeting_s_great_as_history
It’s April. Around here that means rain, daffodils, and that inefficient relic of our Puritan past: Town Meeting.
Ah, yes, Town Meeting. That uniquely New England institution where any registered voter can gather a few signatures (some towns require as few as 10) for any half-baked idea and — presto! — it’s on the town warrant.
Want to ban the use of leaf blowers (Arlington and Marblehead)? Put it on the warrant!
Think your town should require leashes for cats (Concord)? Put it on the warrant!
Want your town to go on record as pro-Second Amendment? Draft a law requiring a gun in every home (Byron, Maine). And put it on the warrant!
Yes, across New England this spring, minute fractions of the electorate — unelected and often uninformed — will congregate to approve budgets, pass bylaws, and debate issues of importance (and many of no importance).
Mostly, they will gather to hear themselves talk — to pontificate, bloviate, and hold court before captive audiences of voters desperate to cast their ballots on that one significant agenda item and go home.
In Concord, for the third consecutive year, residents spent an evening of their lives debating the sale of single-serving water bottles. Just over a thousand Concordians (of the town’s approximately 11,000 registered voters) attended Wednesday’s Town Meeting. The rest had lives to lead that prevented them from sitting in a crowded auditorium for hours on end listening to environmentalists and consumer advocates go at it.
And so by only 66 votes, with only 12 percent of the town’s electorate present, Town Meeting defeated an effort to lift the controversial water ban (approved by an equally narrow margin last year). Not exactly democracy in action.
In small 17th- and 18th-century agrarian communities, where only men voted and women-folk were home to mind the children, this form of participatory governance may have made sense.
After all, what else was there for Colonial farmers to do in the evenings? They weren’t rushing out after a long day in the fields to drive their kids to hockey practice, pick up the dry-cleaning, or play a round of golf. Back then, town meeting was not just a form of government, it was the social event of the season.
But in 2013, when many people commute to work, travel on business, or work the night shift, the idea of hiring a sitter in order to spend hours debating politics deters many citizens from taking part in local decision-making at all.
Put simply, Town Meeting has a discriminatory impact on working voters and voters with young children. It leaves governance to an unrepresentative minority of voters — usually single, childless, or elderly, who have time to spend long hours debating items that could be easily resolved in moments. For instance — call me crazy — at the ballot box.
The Minutemen who sacrificed their lives at the North Bridge would no doubt be appalled to see how Town Meeting has become a tyranny of the minority.
In an era of early voting, electronic voting, and other innovations intended to expand access to the ballot, it is ironic that many New England towns cling to this arcane and anti-democratic form of government. Try to move the location of a polling place or check a voter’s identification, and the ACLU screams voter suppression and disfranchisement. But allow a tiny, unelected minority of voters to make decisions for an entire town, and it is hailed it as civic engagement. Puh-leez.
Can’t we just admit that it’s time to abolish Town Meeting?
