The Massachusetts Miracle

The miracle in Massachusetts is that people still choose to live here. I've been looking at houses recently, although why I don't know. My current town taxes just went up 200.00 a month due to 'betterment's' assessed to my house. But, because I'm one of the few people under that age of 70 who have more equity than mortgage on my house, we're thinking of downsizing.

So I ask myself, why not just use this opportunity to get out? sometimes I liken being a Massachusetts resident to being a beaten wife. Now I'm not belittling abused wives in any way shape or form. But I used to spend some time in court. And when the husband would come up to be arraigned, 8 out of 10 times the wife would stand up and say it was a mistake or a misunderstanding or she wanted to drop the charges. We've all seen the Lifetime movies. When she gets home, the beatings just start all over again.

That's what I feel like, and I see an opening here, an opportunity to get away from the beatings. The beatings I take as a middle class white 40 year old homeowner , father, husband, breadwinner, soccer coach, cub scout leader, employee citizen of the Commonwealth, none of the wealth of which I am getting.

which leads me to our new Governor, the Rodney Allen Ripney of Massachusetts politics. I know no one wins when you say I TOLD YOU SO. I've learned that from 100 years of marriage. But Jesus, God it needs to be said. problem is no one's listening. Not senator, not my Congressman, no one. No one has the common sense God gave a gnat in this state.

Rodney Allen wants to narrow CORI requirements. I am a Cub Scout Pack Leader. I've run Cub Scout Camp programs with 200 1st through 5th graders running around 100 acres of woods. I've witnessed parents that are so willing to drop their children in the care of strangers and jet to work that they spill their coffee in their own laps when the lean over to shove their kids out of the car. Now Rodney Allen wants to narrow CORI focuses. What is he thinking? And how can anyone back him on this? http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/02/12/patrick_seeks_to_limit_background_checks/?page=full

How can we protect our children and the children in our charge if this ' forward thinking' dolt is allowed to wreak havoc and let sex offenders walk our streets in the name of rehabilitation. Another R word that Rodney Allen needs to think about is RECIDIVISM. I don't want any of those freaks anywhere near my kids. Its bad enough they're back on the street to begin with, but now to not be able to know that they're predators?

According to this moron's version, only things that criminals are convicted of will show up? That's nice. based on how full the courts are and how criminals plead down, how does that help the guy who doesn't want his daughter working next to a pervert at the mall if he wasn't convicted due to a technicality?

Anyway, as the bitch in this relationship, I think I'm about to get another beating.....