<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713</id><updated>2012-02-02T05:08:39.570-08:00</updated><category term='Diabetes'/><category term='Massachusetts'/><category term='media'/><category term='Marriage'/><category term='Britney Spears'/><category term='WRKO'/><category term='Ouch'/><category term='Oil.Obama'/><category term='Homo'/><category term='Breakfast'/><category term='Chicken'/><category term='Gay'/><category term='broads'/><category term='Casino'/><category term='taxes'/><category term='gas tax'/><category term='I&apos;m back baby'/><category term='Starr Simpson'/><category term='Love'/><category term='Hef'/><category term='Deval Patrick screw up'/><category term='Massachusetts- How did I get where I am?'/><category term='Barack Obama'/><category term='Tom Finnerian'/><category term='Don Imus'/><category term='Deval patrick'/><category term='moron'/><title type='text'>Big Bish's Big Blog</title><subtitle type='html'>My sporadic ramblings about issues that torque me off in Massachusetts an around the world.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>51</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-2011259599743235936</id><published>2009-01-21T11:22:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-21T11:27:13.476-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Deval patrick'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barack Obama'/><title type='text'>Barack Obama- The Godzilla Sized Deval Patrick</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SXd2GFeZOHI/AAAAAAAAAC4/W6JqpYd3NJc/s1600-h/Godzilla.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293829733918259314" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 242px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SXd2GFeZOHI/AAAAAAAAAC4/W6JqpYd3NJc/s320/Godzilla.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Rodney Allen Rippey of Massachusetts Politics known as our alleged Governor Deval Patrick is a piker compared to the con man that white liberal guilt catapulted into the oval office. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;No experience- super size me&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Idiotic liberal initiatives- super size me&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes we can- super size me&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you live in Massachusetts and understand ANYTHING about what kind of idiot we elected for Governor, you should have no problem knowing that Barack Obama is just a Godzilla sized Deval Patrick and my wallet is Tokyo. I only wish I could evacuate.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-2011259599743235936?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/2011259599743235936/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=2011259599743235936' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/2011259599743235936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/2011259599743235936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/barack-obama-godzilla-sized-deval.html' title='Barack Obama- The Godzilla Sized Deval Patrick'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SXd2GFeZOHI/AAAAAAAAAC4/W6JqpYd3NJc/s72-c/Godzilla.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-8738124060733156119</id><published>2009-01-20T10:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-20T10:34:34.293-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barack Obama'/><title type='text'>What Happened? I still have a mortgage!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SXYYuBXd1dI/AAAAAAAAACw/kH2bUmCENek/s1600-h/BHO.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293445590940505554" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 222px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SXYYuBXd1dI/AAAAAAAAACw/kH2bUmCENek/s320/BHO.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Its been an hour and 22 minutes. I just called my bank and they tell me I still have a mortgage balance. WTF??!!! I thought the messiah was going to help me out.  Who can tell me when gass is going to be free? I really want to quit my job and bask in the goodness. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-8738124060733156119?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8738124060733156119/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=8738124060733156119' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/8738124060733156119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/8738124060733156119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/what-happened-i-still-have-mortgage.html' title='What Happened? I still have a mortgage!'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SXYYuBXd1dI/AAAAAAAAACw/kH2bUmCENek/s72-c/BHO.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-8298924862183680335</id><published>2009-01-06T13:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-06T13:50:52.479-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hef'/><title type='text'>How can you not love Hef?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SWPSG6TvZSI/AAAAAAAAACk/RJ5kIzw3Ckk/s1600-h/HEF.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288301403636196642" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SWPSG6TvZSI/AAAAAAAAACk/RJ5kIzw3Ckk/s320/HEF.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The older I get, the older Hef gets. He's not looking any the better for wear either. Of course neither am I. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;An yet look what Hef's hitting the sack with in his close to 80th year on the planet. What did I do wrong? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-8298924862183680335?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8298924862183680335/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=8298924862183680335' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/8298924862183680335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/8298924862183680335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-can-you-not-love-hef.html' title='How can you not love Hef?'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SWPSG6TvZSI/AAAAAAAAACk/RJ5kIzw3Ckk/s72-c/HEF.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-5383464381274563862</id><published>2009-01-06T07:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-06T07:51:20.385-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Apology NOT Accepted</title><content type='html'>When did we get to the point in our society where &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;apologizing&lt;/span&gt; and promising to do &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;better gets&lt;/span&gt; you off the hook?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just pick a problem , from Fannie &amp;amp; Freddie to Bernie Mahdoff to the Big Dig to our inept Governor, the Rodney Allen Rippey of Massachusetts politics Deval Patrick. All classic cases of closing the barn door after the horse has bolted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lets look as some prime examples from SEC testimony on oversight of Bernard Madoff's investment firm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Red flags were raised to the Securities and Exchange Commission over a decade but weren't pursued, and Republican and Democratic House members said that reflected deep, systemic problems at the market watchdog agency. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;READ- We ignored the problem until it became a bigger problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The SEC's internal watchdog, Inspector General H. David Kotz, said he is so concerned about the agency's failure to uncover Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme that he is expanding the inquiry called for last month by SEC Chairman Christopher Cox. Cox had pushed the blame squarely onto the SEC's career staff for the failure to detect what Madoff was doing. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;And why is he concerned now? Because his ass in on the line. This is a joke.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;It appears that the complaints against Madoff's operations by securities industry executive Harry Markopolos and others were "brought to the right place" within the SEC, Kotz said, and to enough people that action could have been taken. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;What am I paying taxes for if problems like this get dropped in the laps of ' experts' and get ignored?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This whole thing makes me sick.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-5383464381274563862?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5383464381274563862/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=5383464381274563862' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/5383464381274563862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/5383464381274563862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/apology-not-accepted.html' title='Apology NOT Accepted'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-2568424768857883880</id><published>2008-12-22T07:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-22T08:30:45.266-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Massachusetts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gas tax'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='taxes'/><title type='text'>Be Happy About Tax Increases? Go F Yourself.</title><content type='html'>If you live in Massachusetts, you must live under a rock if you don't know that the state is under a huge debt load and the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;corruptocrats&lt;/span&gt; on Beacon Hill are looking under every rock they can find to screw the money out of the taxpayer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, we're talking higher taxes. An increase in the income tax and to offset the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;gianormous&lt;/span&gt; debt of the Big &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Dig thats&lt;/span&gt; a result of gross mismanagement and malfeasance , toll increases.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lets set aside for now that I believe that the FBI should be focusing &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; anti corruption efforts on Big Dig machinations and not chumps like Chuck Turner. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;That's&lt;/span&gt; a topic for another day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am actually reading opinions by some stating how &lt;em&gt;happy&lt;/em&gt; I should be that the gas tax will be instated in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Massachusetts&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ed &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Moscovitch&lt;/span&gt; is president of Cape Ann Economics. He writes this little ditty in the Boston herald Op Ed section. I've &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;highlighted&lt;/span&gt; the stupidest part of his diatribe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Dear Gov. Patrick,&lt;br /&gt;The commonwealth’s transportation system is falling apart. Transportation maintenance needs exceed likely revenues by over $15 billion; we have 550 structurally deficient bridges. Instead of raising taxes to pay for the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bostonherald.com/search/?keyword=Big+Dig&amp;amp;searchSite=recent"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Big Dig&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt; and related transit projects, your predecessors dumped its debt service on the Turnpike Authority and the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;MBTA&lt;/span&gt;; both of these agencies are now on the brink of bankruptcy. We’re short-changing maintenance on the Big Dig by 90 percent.&lt;br /&gt;Sky-high gas prices last summer have led to an increase in T ridership that will serve us well when prices inevitably go back up. Absent dramatic action, a combination of higher fares and poorer service will put many of those riders back on those same roads we can’t afford to maintain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last week I hit a deep pothole in the center lane on I-95 near &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Attleboro&lt;/span&gt;. At 65 mph, there was no swerving, and out went my tire. The cost to replace it is far more than any increase in gas taxes! I was the second driver in 10 minutes to lose a tire; the AAA man told me he’d changed seven flats at that spot the previous evening and notified Mass Highway. And yet, 12 hours later, at the height of the morning rush hour, nothing had been done. If it &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;isn&lt;/span&gt;’t safe to drive at legal speeds down our interstates or over our bridges, Massachusetts - and its economy - will quite literally grind to a halt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Absent any other funding source, the Turnpike board proposes doubling tolls on the Harbor tunnels and the Boston extension. This is flagrantly unfair; why should East Boston residents pay so much to support a road through downtown that mainly benefits commuters from the South Shore and the Route 93 corridor, who pay no tolls at all? And it won’t bring in the predicted revenues; at these prices many people will avoid the Pike and the tunnels.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;It’s hard to believe that we’&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;ve&lt;/span&gt; let the price of gasoline fall from $4.25 to $1.75 and not raised the gas tax. Let’s not wait until the price begins to rise; work out an agreement with the speaker and Senate president this week, call a major press conference, lay out the dimensions of the crisis, and demand that the Legislature act by mid-January.&lt;br /&gt;Propose an increase of 25 cents; that’s still peanuts in the face of a $2.50 drop in gas prices. Relate the tax to the price of gas - when the price someday goes back up, the tax should go up with it. The anger at 25 cents will be no worse than at 5 cents, but an increase this large will give you enough money to fund half of the deferred maintenance, cover the Big Dig-related debt of the Turnpike and the T, avoid the proposed toll increases, and give cities and towns a modest increase in road funds.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Link this increase to key efficiency changes. With workers allowed to retire at age 43, T pensions are far more generous than those in the private sector. In return for increased state road money, require cities and towns to adopt the sensible (and politically courageous) guidelines for limiting police details that you’&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;ve&lt;/span&gt; set for state projects.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Of course, some people will be angry at you for proposing a tax increase. But many of us will be angry if you continue to jeopardize our safety - and our economy - by spending too little. In the long run, a decisive, well-argued case for action may well enhance your political standing.&lt;br /&gt;If you make a compelling case you’ll find legislative and business support. But you’re the governor; it can’t happen unless you step out and lead. You ran for the job and won it; now’s the time we need you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, what this hole is saying is that he can't believe the price of gas made its proper adjustment &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;without&lt;/span&gt; tacking a tax on it. Forget doing anything &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;intelligent&lt;/span&gt;, like level funding, combining agencies, telling the unions to F themselves with mandated pay raises, just jump straight into additional taxes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's the thing about a gas tax. Its a per gallon tax, so no matter how high or low the price goes, its always there. Remember when gas was 4.00 a gallon and we wanted to suspend it? Where are those folks now? What happens if gas goes back up. OPEC is trying to inflate the cost of a barrel of oil by cutting production. They've done it twice in as many months. Then where are we? Getting drilled in the can yet again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I work for a company on the brink of collapse. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;Guess&lt;/span&gt; what we did?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Cut Executive pay &amp;amp; benefit programs&lt;br /&gt;2) Sorry, no raises this year&lt;br /&gt;3) Unprofitable part of the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;company&lt;/span&gt;? Sorry, we're closing it to save money&lt;br /&gt;4) Can we sell this part of the Company off or privatize it?&lt;br /&gt;5) Sorry, but this year no &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;bonus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6) Duplicity means we're paying the different folks to do the same job. One of you needs to go&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get the point? My wallet is not an endless supply of money for your indulgence. Its time to start running this state &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;like&lt;/span&gt; a business, and not a playground.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-2568424768857883880?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/2568424768857883880/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=2568424768857883880' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/2568424768857883880'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/2568424768857883880'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/be-happy-about-tax-increases-go-f.html' title='Be Happy About Tax Increases? Go F Yourself.'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-3771561194885603290</id><published>2008-12-17T10:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-17T10:38:31.026-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gay'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Homo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ouch'/><title type='text'>It must hurt to be gay</title><content type='html'>Today I realized how &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;agonizingly&lt;/span&gt; painful it must be to be gay. Today I had my annual physical and my Dr. snapped on the glove. Remember Fletch? "Using the whole hand there Doc?". I understand that joke a lot better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, this isn't the first time I have undergone this discomfort. Annually I ask to skip it, and annually I get told no, its for your own good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But its the first time I have thought about how this is similar to the method of affirmation of love for male ' couples'. Ouch. Seriously. How is pleasure derived from this? I got none.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, I believe pleasure is a non-gender related feeling. For instance, kissing. Blindfolded, I bet if I was kissing another guy ( easy &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Liberace&lt;/span&gt;!) I might not be able to tell the difference. Or neck nibbling, or even oral sex. Remember, blindfolded.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, get to some insertion in the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;hinder land&lt;/span&gt;, and I don't CARE if its a guy or a girl... Just Stop! It Hurts!. Nerve endings are nerve endings and they send that pain message to the brain. And the brain says knock it off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It defies reasonable thought that this is pleasurable. I guess love does conquer all, but I love my wife too, and if she comes at me with a lubed up cucumber, the answer is still no.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-3771561194885603290?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3771561194885603290/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=3771561194885603290' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/3771561194885603290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/3771561194885603290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/it-must-hurt-to-be-gay.html' title='It must hurt to be gay'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-5058121737804046708</id><published>2008-12-16T09:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-16T10:09:58.027-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oil.Obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='media'/><title type='text'>2009 begins the steep upward climb</title><content type='html'>Did you know gas was 1.62 a gallon. Home heating oil is almost .99 a gallon? The price of a barrel of oil is 45 bucks?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Help me out with this. When some &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;shmoe&lt;/span&gt; who works at Goldman Sachs says around a mouthful of bologna sandwich that he thinks the price of oil can go as high as 200.00 5 months ago, the price skyrockets. Soap operas are interrupted to announce gas has gone to 4.01 a gallon. Everyone is spending &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; food money on gas an oil. The sky is falling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, now doesn't it make sense that there's more flexible income? Milk is cheaper , which is my other guideline to the economy. Its costing less to deliver product, so prices are slowly declining. How come I don't hear as much about that?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the Obama-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Messiah&lt;/span&gt; takes over in January he's going to roll out a GIANT stimulus package. Its behind the auspices of that when you'll start hearing the good news again. How low prices have dropped. How people are starting to creep back into stores. That retail sales are on the rise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The media that plopped his unprepared ass into the White House will now need to do everything they can to prove themselves right. And the age of good news and happy feelings will begin the day he takes office.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-5058121737804046708?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5058121737804046708/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=5058121737804046708' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/5058121737804046708'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/5058121737804046708'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/2009-begins-steep-upward-climb.html' title='2009 begins the steep upward climb'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-1440411432175216933</id><published>2008-12-15T07:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-15T08:11:40.594-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Shoe? Seriously, Who Throws A Shoe?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SUZ_r1tRyDI/AAAAAAAAACU/P12p6IFfn1Y/s1600-h/Random+task.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280048004266575922" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 184px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 138px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SUZ_r1tRyDI/AAAAAAAAACU/P12p6IFfn1Y/s320/Random+task.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yes, reminiscent of Austin Powers Random Task, President Bush was assaulted with a pair of Hush Puppies in a recent visit to Iraq.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now, I'm just going to say this: What the hell is wrong with these people? We topple &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;thier&lt;/span&gt; genocidal dictator, give them the opportunity to bring Democracy to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;thier&lt;/span&gt; country, let them develop &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;thier&lt;/span&gt; own government, help them get rid of a political system which is about as close to a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;barrom&lt;/span&gt; brawl as anything else and this is the thanks we get? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280049200997996530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SUaAxf4SF_I/AAAAAAAAACc/aprg3Mth5_Q/s320/Shoe.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Look, agree with the reasons for the incursion or not, we did the right thing. Shot, when Clinton went after &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Slobidan&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Milosivitch&lt;/span&gt;, in Bosnia half of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Congress&lt;/span&gt; wanted to swallow his seed. We were making a great &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;humanitarian&lt;/span&gt; effort. Well, didn't we do the same when Hussein was dangling from a rope? And there was no UN interference, we let Iraqi justice take it course. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I have been a Bush supporter from the beginning. Yes the war has gone on too long , but a mistake? No.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Failed economic policies. Look to Rest Area Commando Barney Frank to see where we truly failed.  And remember this: Cash in my pocket doesn't stimulate the economy. Democrats want to impose taxes on the wealthy and businesses. Well, where to you think the money to pay these taxes are coming from- job cuts or increased prices. Leave businesses alone. Big or small, keep you dirty democrat hands off of them. I miss Ronald Regan. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Back to the shoe throwing towel head. He has Bush to thank for his life. If this was Hussein, he'd have been shot on sight. Think about that you stank bastard. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-1440411432175216933?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/1440411432175216933/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=1440411432175216933' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/1440411432175216933'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/1440411432175216933'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/shoe-seriously-who-throws-shoe.html' title='A Shoe? Seriously, Who Throws A Shoe?'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SUZ_r1tRyDI/AAAAAAAAACU/P12p6IFfn1Y/s72-c/Random+task.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-4628034471166091254</id><published>2008-12-15T07:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-15T07:50:24.188-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Ummm  yea... umm I forgot it?</title><content type='html'>Yes, its been a year since I've posted anything to my blog. Thats kind of surprising since I have an opinion on everything. So, that being said, I am putting finger to keyboard again and will attempt to pick up the torch.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-4628034471166091254?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4628034471166091254/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=4628034471166091254' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/4628034471166091254'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/4628034471166091254'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/ummm-yea-umm-i-forgot-it.html' title='Ummm  yea... umm I forgot it?'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-4361122392257483629</id><published>2007-12-13T09:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-13T09:50:04.650-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Diabetes'/><title type='text'>Numbers</title><content type='html'>I've got a lot of numbers in my life, and some of them are whats making me consider taking new directions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 &amp;amp; 1 - I used to have type 2 diabetes. Now I have type 1 diabetes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;337- &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;That's&lt;/span&gt; my current weight. I've added 40 pounds since I went on insulin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;42- &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;That's&lt;/span&gt; how old I am&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;80- &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;That's&lt;/span&gt; the number of units I take in my ' basal dose' of insulin each morning&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;22-40 - &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;that's&lt;/span&gt; the number of units of fast acting insulin I inject before or &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;immediately&lt;/span&gt; following each meal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3- &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;That's &lt;/span&gt; the number of pills I take a day- &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Metformin&lt;/span&gt; for my diabetes, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;simvastatin&lt;/span&gt; for my cholesterol and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;zestril&lt;/span&gt; for my &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;BP&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taken one at a time, I never really gave them any thought though they became a part of my life every day. Looking at them all together- well &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;that's&lt;/span&gt; making me think that I need to find the motivation to make some &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;significant&lt;/span&gt; changes in my lifestyle&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-4361122392257483629?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4361122392257483629/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=4361122392257483629' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/4361122392257483629'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/4361122392257483629'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/numbers.html' title='Numbers'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-3820246101224418375</id><published>2007-10-19T12:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-19T12:14:45.833-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Deval patrick'/><title type='text'>Michael Stanley All Over Again</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Gov. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bostonherald.com/search/?keyword=Deval+Patrick&amp;amp;searchSite=pubdate"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt; Patrick&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;’s top budget aide said yesterday that the state is facing a “serious deficit” in the next budget year and that tax increases may be needed to close a shortfall expected to hit at least $500 million.&lt;br /&gt;Administration and Finance Secretary Leslie &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Kirwan&lt;/span&gt;, who will file a new state budget in January, indicated that the state’s financial condition remains dire and that deep cost cuts or new taxes will be needed to balance the books in fiscal year 2009." -&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Boston Herald- October 18, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I seem to recall a little phrase being bandied around while all of the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Devaliens&lt;/span&gt; were sitting in a big circle, hands firmly wrapped around &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; manhood chanting ' Together We Can". It was that once Governor Rodney Allen &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Rippey&lt;/span&gt; gets elected that the citizens of our fair state would be " taxed back into the stone age". Is that a brontosaurus I see lumbering on the horizon?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyone with half the sense of a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;golf ball&lt;/span&gt; knew this was on the way. But they voted for him anyway. I can't recall any time in my 4 decades on this planet a time when there was more hand wringing and hats held out needing money. The T, roads &amp;amp; bridges, of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;course&lt;/span&gt; the children and now the state budget.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's my advice to Governor do-nothing. Go with the deep cuts option.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-3820246101224418375?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3820246101224418375/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=3820246101224418375' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/3820246101224418375'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/3820246101224418375'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/michael-stanley-all-over-again.html' title='Michael Stanley All Over Again'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-442438690095510291</id><published>2007-09-24T07:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-24T08:25:06.095-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Starr Simpson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='moron'/><title type='text'>I'm tired of dumb people</title><content type='html'>I'm tired of dumb people. It seems to me that there are just more and more dumb people front and center every day. I don't need to get into the whole Star Simpson thing again. You all know what she did. If you don't, read this. &lt;a href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/brainiac/2007/09/boston_cracks_d.html"&gt;http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/brainiac/2007/09/boston_cracks_d.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, it seems dumb begets dumb. I don't think there's really any other explanation for what she did except that she's dumb. Dumb enough to be getting banged by a guy twice her age. Obviously her hippie parents ( I'm sure they struggled with other names like, Twinkle, or Light or.. oh man the colors...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But here's where I validate my point. The following are excerpts from the Boston Herald comments on Howie Carrs and Peter Gelzinis' columns. (Please note that as a rule I don't like Gelzenis and his screaming liberalism) . Now do I need to remind anyone that she walked into one of the busiest airport terminals in the nation from which planes were hijacked on 9-11? The idiocy of some is overwhelming. A common thread I see are comments like "Its just a circuit board" and " She didn't have a hoax device, just Play - Do and a circuit board", and the feeling that the cops who had drawn down on her should have somehow known that, and known that. My return question would be , How would they know that? Are they psychic? They were acting in the best interest of all, not to protect the feelings of some nappy headed ho.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;It has come to this. The government has to validate its existence by forcefully arresting kids with light-up toys and Play-Doh. What's next, I wonder.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Them join Alec Baldwin &amp;amp; Sean Penn and move to some other country where our freedom to even contemplate this question doesn't exist.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;I think the people of Boston need to stop being so paranoid... all it's done is kill 27,936 Iraqi's and 3797 US citizens. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why is this pinko putting Iraqi's first?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;The Knights that Say Nikh should be called in immediately to save the citizens of Boston from such dangerous threats!!! After all, she had play-dough and ignored an adult who may have been wearing a uniform!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strong&gt;I think this one speaks for itself. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Shame on you Peter Gelzinis! Your article would have been much more useful if you had shown what idiots they have at the Logan airport, whether the employee who panicked about this, or the state police who didn't just laugh the whole thing off. &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Aren't you glad the London Police didn't laugh off the nerve gas scare. Maybe the same ones you want to laugh it off did so on 9-11 and look what we got ass face&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/strong&gt;The "circuit board" (which your paper apparently decided to bury the picture of, since it is obviously not a bomb but a breadboard with LED's arranged in a "star" pattern -- &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;I love when nerds get technical and expect the rest of us to stay with them. That's why they're nerds.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;the woman's name was Star), looked less like a bomb than a common laptop computer (which at least has room for explosives), perfectly fit her description as "art", and the reaction of the police (stating that they nearly shot her) shows them to be a group of scared rabbits. At a minimum, they owe her an apology, if not offering up their resignations as well for their incompetence.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dolt&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;So, where am I wrong here? How can we expect to protect our population if people like these won't let us? Should we go back to our pre 9-11 lassez faire attitude? I think that's impossible, don't you? Should we put our police and Public Safety employees in harms way by mandating that they meander up to a potential threat , and blithely converse with them? I can see it now... Excuse me miss, is that an explosive device you're wearing? Oh it is? Can I have a few seconds to run away? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, should half of the terminal blown up, then what would the response be?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-442438690095510291?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/442438690095510291/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=442438690095510291' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/442438690095510291'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/442438690095510291'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/im-tired-of-dumb-people.html' title='I&apos;m tired of dumb people'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-7310466675194579483</id><published>2007-09-17T10:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-18T06:17:29.609-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Deval patrick'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Casino'/><title type='text'>Viva Las Massachusetts</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/09/under_patrick_p.html"&gt;http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/09/under_patrick_p.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deval Patrick has given the high sign to the State signifying his thumbs up to casino gambling. Much like everything he does, I expect that this will be much bluster and hot air before anything of consequence comes of it. Already DeMasi is condemning the idea and the anti-casino lobby is rolling up to shoot it down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not opposed to casinos. I think in moderation, a casino or two in Massachusetts would be a nice bump to the revenue stream. God know we need it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But its not a cure all. Its not going to improve my quality of life. We seem to be so deep in the hole, that any revenues realized will simply be keeping us afloat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20 Billion in transportation cost mismanagement is what the past quarter century have brought us. Fattened pensions, corruption and patronage are to blame. Bridges are crumbling and roads are falling apart, but toll takers still bring home 60K a year for stealing out of the cash box.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever seen a help wanted ad looking for toll takers? Ask yourself why.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Governor Gary Coleman certainly generated a lot of false hope with ' together we can' and has yet to deliver on his promises. Is this his answer? Perhaps. Is it a good one? To a point.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The problem I have is that this isn't going to improve my quality of life. The graft , corruption &amp;amp; patronage will continue. This will simply fuel it. A gaming commission? Please. Another nationwide search before the cousin of a state rep or prior state rep gets the gig?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are other answers. Consolidate Mass Highway and the Turnpike authority. Get rid of the toll takers. Convert the states pension boondoggle into 401(k) plans like the rest of us have. Increase the cost sharing of heath care like we all have to pay. Make state reps &amp;amp; senators on par with the middle class like they were intended. Then they'll understand what we have to go through before they decide they want to pry open our wallets yet again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yea its all pie in the sky. None of this will ever happen because my state rep &amp;amp; senator aren't looking out for me. They're looking out for themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I'm OK with casinos. 4 or 40 - what difference does it make? Its just going to cost me more in the end anyway, like everything else Patrick does.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-7310466675194579483?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/7310466675194579483/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=7310466675194579483' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/7310466675194579483'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/7310466675194579483'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/viva-las-massachusetts.html' title='Viva Las Massachusetts'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-6165115836521550248</id><published>2007-09-14T07:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-14T08:11:24.265-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Deval patrick'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Deval Patrick screw up'/><title type='text'>My Governor the Assh*le</title><content type='html'>This is from John Keller blog: &lt;a href="http://wbztv.com/kellerblog"&gt;http://wbztv.com/kellerblog&lt;/a&gt; regarding our impotent ,mealy mouthed, rapist loving liberal Governor Deval patrick; The Rodney Allen Rippey of Massachusetts politics and his response to his 9-11 ' tribute' remarks attributing the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington to “the failure of human beings to understand each other and to learn to love each other”. My comments are in &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt; and the morons aren't.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Refusing to offer even a cursory apology to those offended by them.From the State House News Service account of the governor’s appearance today on WTKK’s Eagan and Braude Show:“Patrick sounded exasperated with the insistence of some callers in returning to his speech (&lt;strong&gt;read: How dare they question the great &amp; powerful OZ!) &lt;/strong&gt;Tuesday, which state Republican Party Chairman Peter Torkildsen ripped Wednesday. Near the top of the hour, the show's producers played an audio version of Patrick's remarks, and Braude asked him if he wanted to apologize. Patrick declined. (&lt;strong&gt;He hasn't been wrong yet, has he? Why should he apologize? For those of you who read the last page of a mystery first, just scoot to the bottom of the article) &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He called efforts to "gin up political controversy" over his words "sad." Patrick said, "First of all, I think I was clear,&lt;strong&gt;(if it was clear, why are regular Joe's asking you to apologize you putz?)&lt;/strong&gt; and I think the condemnation of the attacks on all of us is universal. &lt;strong&gt;(No Deval- only you feel this way) &lt;/strong&gt;Certainly, I feel it. It was vicious. It was unjustified. And I think that any other interpretation of what I said is simply wrong." He added, "We are, I think, in this country historically a beacon of hope for people all over the world and for people to see us as other than that is a part, in my view, of a failure of human understanding and frankly&lt;strong&gt;( he's like Wallace Shawn in the Princess Pride- he uses that word too much.)&lt;/strong&gt; I was taught in my church that all violent attack is a failure of human understanding." &lt;strong&gt;( This means that he wasn't thinking for himself but he blames his church. Nice - standard democratic ploy. Jesus made me do it!) &lt;/strong&gt;Later, a caller identified as Tracy told Patrick, "I am surprised that you did not take the opportunity to apologize for your statements on 9/11." Patrick replied, "I was there, I know what I said, and I was clear as possible in condemning the attacks." Another caller, Mary Ann, told Patrick, "I wonder why you're such an ineffective communicator with your remarks on 9/11." When she followed up with a more insistent question about the impression she said Patrick had left about wanting to sing "Kumbaya," and asked him to "please explain," Patrick replied flatly, "No." &lt;strong&gt;( There's that arrogance again) &lt;/strong&gt;Later, returning to his office after the radio show, Patrick was asked whose reaction caused the other reaction. He replied, "Conservatives," &lt;strong&gt;( That means the people who don't want to free racists, get taxed up the ass because of your incompetence, want to protect children by not changing CORI laws, want illegal immigration to be illegal, and want the laws enforced) &lt;/strong&gt;before being interrupted by visitors to his office.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is from the Herald's critique of the moron's interview &lt;a href="http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/politics/view.bg?articleid=1031384"&gt;http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/politics/view.bg?articleid=1031384&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He later told another critical caller: “If you or anyone else heard me to say anything other than a total condemnation of terrorist attacks on 9/11 and since on the United States or on Americans, you are hearing something other than what I intend, and I am sorry for that &lt;strong&gt;( I thought you weren't going to apologize you dolt) &lt;/strong&gt;.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what did we learn here that we don't already know. Nothing except my puke bucket only holds a gallon and every time I listen to this disingenuous piece of flotsam, I keep thinking I need a bigger one.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-6165115836521550248?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6165115836521550248/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=6165115836521550248' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/6165115836521550248'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/6165115836521550248'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/this-is-from-john-keller-blog-httpwbztv.html' title='My Governor the Assh*le'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-5073873354004039027</id><published>2007-09-11T07:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-11T07:31:27.081-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Britney Spears'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='broads'/><title type='text'>No, seriously Britney....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/Ruamtxh3JiI/AAAAAAAAABY/CmXfEllJNtk/s1600-h/Umberella.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108954132618094114" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/Ruamtxh3JiI/AAAAAAAAABY/CmXfEllJNtk/s320/Umberella.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/RuamKRh3JhI/AAAAAAAAABQ/QwfMftFVm4c/s1600-h/Brit.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108953522732738066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/RuamKRh3JhI/AAAAAAAAABQ/QwfMftFVm4c/s320/Brit.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Are you kidding me? Here's where I just don't get it. Britney Spears is just another in a long line of vacuous hot chicks with computer enhanced voices able to gyrate me to an erection. Its that simple. There have been hundreds and hundreds more are on the way. They exist in strip clubs, the local mall, McDonalds, both cable &amp;amp; broadcast TV... you name it. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Is she so special that she deserves the scrutiny shes getting? Hello?? Paris Hilton ??? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Seriously. I Think I'm one of millions of men who would tap her even though she ' let herself go'. She's still better looking than lots of broads. I'd fire it right in there. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Do I care if she can sing? No. Do I care if she can dance? No. is she a role model for me? No , but of she is for you, you need help. Is she launching rockets or curing cancer? No. Does she have nice boobies and a decent ass and can I picture her doing things to me that are illegal in 7 states? Yea Baby!! That's all I need from her. If she's got any other outstanding qualifications to share the planet with me, I missed them. Come on guys... tell me you wouldn't hit this? Get real. And if not her, there's another one coming down the pike in a few minutes... gee I hope Giselle looses the baby weight... or Rhianna let me under her um - ba - rella, ella , ella , ella, hey hey.... Oh lord I'm slaying myself.....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-5073873354004039027?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5073873354004039027/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=5073873354004039027' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/5073873354004039027'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/5073873354004039027'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/no-seriously-britney.html' title='No, seriously Britney....'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/Ruamtxh3JiI/AAAAAAAAABY/CmXfEllJNtk/s72-c/Umberella.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-3037750284944623926</id><published>2007-09-10T07:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-10T07:49:11.267-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Coffee Shower</title><content type='html'>This morning, after a horrendous commute, I got out of the truck and put my coffee cup on top of the roof so I could reach into the passenger seat and grab my briefcase.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, it seems the slant of the roof was too much for this styrofoamic receptacle. It tipped over at the exact second my back was under it and I was the recipient of a hot coffee shower. The tragedy of this embarrassing incident is its not lawsuit worthy. I am a victim of my own stupidity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a shitty way to start my Monday.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-3037750284944623926?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3037750284944623926/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=3037750284944623926' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/3037750284944623926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/3037750284944623926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/coffee-shower.html' title='Coffee Shower'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-4200654770673042432</id><published>2007-09-06T06:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-06T07:15:51.724-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marriage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Love'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chicken'/><title type='text'>Love &amp; Chicken</title><content type='html'>I love my wife dearly. I always have. But after 15 years of marriage there are some things that should be innate in her knowledge. For instance, I know for a fact that at least 2 times a week I will find one of those little paper maxi pad strips in the bed. It will happen. I know it will happen and I have geared my reaction to it over the years as to not make it the huge issue I made it the first 600 times it happens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's what love and marriage are all about. Understanding each other and knowing what or how the other will react.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, last night I called the Mrs at home and asked what was for dinner. Chicken, I was told. Great I thought and that was that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I go home and look in the oven. What do I see? Hot wings. They're for our son, 12 years old and experiencing a cornucopia of new likes in the food category. Great. I'm very excited that my boy is moving out of the Mac &amp; Cheese and Grilled Cheese sandwich phase. Eating chicken wings - protein- not bad for him, OK.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But where was my dinner? We've been married 15 years, dated for 5 and not once in those 2 decades has she ever seen me eat anything hot or spicy as a meal. Yes, I've tried stuff, but my reaction is a sweaty miserable complaining one, so as a result, I won't eat spicy or hot food. I don't even like yellow mustard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believed I had been the victim of the Bait &amp; Switch. I was told one thing and I got another. I had been hosed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Was I wrong to be upset? No. Look, my wife's not shackled to the stove. She works &amp; brings up the kids, blah blah blah. But, when she says she's putting the meal on the table, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;that's&lt;/span&gt; what I'm expecting. Her cooking skills are the topic of another post someday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I ask the Queen, what are we having? She looks at me like I just crawled out of the primordial ooze, and then replies- Tuna Sandwiches.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, you tell me. If you're told you're getting a nice chicken dinner, then come home and get a cold Tuna Sandwich, how would you react?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, by the way - I asked for onions in the tuna and was told no &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;f'in&lt;/span&gt; way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, I was pissed. Deservedly so, I believed. Wouldn't you be?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a few barbs about my hosing I was told pretty much to F off. And &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;that's&lt;/span&gt; OK. Because I love my wife and know it was in jest and it relates to the first part of my post. And tonight I'm making myself some chicken, because my wife's going to her part time job that she took to keep us living in the style in which we've become &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;accustomed&lt;/span&gt;. So in the big picture, tuna ain't so bad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just would have liked non spicy chicken, like I was promised.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-4200654770673042432?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4200654770673042432/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=4200654770673042432' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/4200654770673042432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/4200654770673042432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/love-chicken.html' title='Love &amp; Chicken'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-240354264674337636</id><published>2007-08-10T12:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-10T12:59:33.625-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ugh. Just ugh</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/RrzDm_cQm8I/AAAAAAAAABI/Whl7rqc_FXA/s1600-h/Finneran_300x250.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097163952908966850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/RrzDm_cQm8I/AAAAAAAAABI/Whl7rqc_FXA/s320/Finneran_300x250.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Look at this no talent scumbag hack bigot perjuror. How can anyone take him seriously? I listened to him for 20 minutes the other morning and it turned my stomach. The duplicity of it all is disgraceful. I just can't take any more of whats happenning in Boston talk radio. he looks like a godamn vampire&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://oasc06015.247realmedia.com/RealMedia/ads/click_lx.ads/www.wrko.com/homepage/L12/822020930/x20/Entercom/WRKO_Promo_TomFinneran/Finneran_300x250.gif/502f423749555a785a38514144484361" target="_new"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-240354264674337636?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/240354264674337636/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=240354264674337636' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/240354264674337636'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/240354264674337636'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/ugh-just-ugh.html' title='Ugh. Just ugh'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/RrzDm_cQm8I/AAAAAAAAABI/Whl7rqc_FXA/s72-c/Finneran_300x250.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-5436873586154870946</id><published>2007-06-29T07:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-29T07:24:14.025-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Breakfast'/><title type='text'>Paris Hilton - Not!!!</title><content type='html'>I could rail on about this travesty for pages &amp; pages. I could. But I have something more important on my mind this Friday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Denny's.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My town needs one. In the town I live in, there just isn't a good breakfast place. Now let me define good breakfast place. I think &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Friendlys&lt;/span&gt; is a good breakfast place. Someplace I can get a lot of breakfast for a little money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now critics of this statement will come out with ' Yes, but you sacrifice quality!'. Lets think about that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do they make sausages out of? And forget &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;scrapple&lt;/span&gt;? How do you screw up eggs, or bacon? I don't need gourmet coffee, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;just&lt;/span&gt; acrid &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;caffeine&lt;/span&gt; laden liquid flavored with &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;those&lt;/span&gt; little cups of creamer and sugar. Toast? Please. There's no way to screw that up unless you burn it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And there you have it- your quality argument resolved&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I miss a good hearty inexpensive breakfast on a Sunday morning. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;That's&lt;/span&gt; why my town needs a Denny's&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-5436873586154870946?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5436873586154870946/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=5436873586154870946' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/5436873586154870946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/5436873586154870946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/paris-hilton-not.html' title='Paris Hilton - Not!!!'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-8423398461248826550</id><published>2007-06-22T07:13:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-22T07:26:33.372-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Massachusetts'/><title type='text'>How much is too much?</title><content type='html'>I don't think an answer for this question exists in the state of Massachusetts. But before I address that I want to ask, " How Much Do You Have?". &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's the question I think is being asked on Beacon Hill and within the Patrick Administration every day. At the MBTA, at the Turnpike Authority, I don't think that there's a Massachusetts Government agency that doesn't have their greedy eyes on my wallet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Turnpike Authority not only wants to raise tolls, but it looks like theirs no end in sight for toll collections. He wants to raise the cost of driving the pike during peak hours. The Massachusetts Turnpike. The project that was paid for 20 years ago. The second sucking wound of the state ( the Big Dig being the first).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't worry about patronage jobs, overpaid toll takers, escalating pension and health costs and the associated abuse that goes with them! Keep padding the payroll with do nothing jobs, and don't take advantage of the efficiencies that would be realized by merging with the Highway Department. Keep your Board, your stable of hacks and just let it all ride on the taxpayer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How much do you have? Because the state wants it all. There's no hiding it. Governor Rodney Allen Rippey, the naked emperor, wants to give away 6 billion in programs like free tuition ( yea, that'll pay of for the overinflated salaries of state college professors and administrators) and his radio blitz of doing business in the state would probable be better served playing OUT OF STATE. The Big Dig may not be in the paper, but the bills still due. State Highways are falling apart, and legislators kids, cousins, friends and wives still need state jobs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The tragedy here is nothing can stop this. A few years ago when I'd listen to the whackadoos call Jerry Williams and tirade 'Revolution" I laughed at them. But now I wonder. Does the switch out of one corrupt hack for another in a ' protest vote' really effect any change?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-8423398461248826550?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8423398461248826550/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=8423398461248826550' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/8423398461248826550'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/8423398461248826550'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/how-much-is-too-much.html' title='How much is too much?'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-6061831969604307694</id><published>2007-06-20T08:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-20T10:39:56.184-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='I&apos;m back baby'/><title type='text'>I'm back, baby</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/RnlPVA2APrI/AAAAAAAAABA/Qrn6hk4fW0s/s1600-h/bender.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5078177277259300530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/RnlPVA2APrI/AAAAAAAAABA/Qrn6hk4fW0s/s320/bender.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I took a small hiatus from my blog. But, as Bender says, "I'm back baby!"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9iby552TnlGblkAnB.JzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBwaTI0ZWttBHBvcwMyBHNlYwNzcgR2dGlkA0kwNzFfOTM-/SIG=1jf4kqp59/EXP=1182441462/**http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3DBender%26fr%3Dyfp-t-472%26toggle%3D1%26cop%3Dmss%26ei%3DUTF-8&amp;w=260&amp;amp;h=400&amp;imgurl=us.movies1.yimg.com%2Fmovies.yahoo.com%2Fimages%2Fhv%2Fphoto%2Fmovie_pix%2Ffox%2Ffuturama___vol__1%2Fbender.jpg&amp;amp;rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fmovies.yahoo.com%2Fshop%3Fd%3Dhv%26id%3D1808455452%26cf%3Dpg%26photoid%3D471357&amp;size=26.6kB&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;name=bender.jpg&amp;p=Bender&amp;amp;type=jpeg&amp;no=2&amp;amp;tt=222,174&amp;oid=0938e7100a366c98&amp;amp;ei=UTF-8&amp;src=p"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9iby552TnlGblkAnB.JzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBwaTI0ZWttBHBvcwMyBHNlYwNzcgR2dGlkA0kwNzFfOTM-/SIG=1jf4kqp59/EXP=1182441462/**http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3DBender%26fr%3Dyfp-t-472%26toggle%3D1%26cop%3Dmss%26ei%3DUTF-8&amp;w=260&amp;amp;h=400&amp;imgurl=us.movies1.yimg.com%2Fmovies.yahoo.com%2Fimages%2Fhv%2Fphoto%2Fmovie_pix%2Ffox%2Ffuturama___vol__1%2Fbender.jpg&amp;amp;rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fmovies.yahoo.com%2Fshop%3Fd%3Dhv%26id%3D1808455452%26cf%3Dpg%26photoid%3D471357&amp;size=26.6kB&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;name=bender.jpg&amp;p=Bender&amp;amp;type=jpeg&amp;no=2&amp;amp;tt=222,174&amp;oid=0938e7100a366c98&amp;amp;ei=UTF-8&amp;src=p"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9iby552TnlGblkAnB.JzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBwaTI0ZWttBHBvcwMyBHNlYwNzcgR2dGlkA0kwNzFfOTM-/SIG=1jf4kqp59/EXP=1182441462/**http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3DBender%26fr%3Dyfp-t-472%26toggle%3D1%26cop%3Dmss%26ei%3DUTF-8&amp;w=260&amp;amp;h=400&amp;imgurl=us.movies1.yimg.com%2Fmovies.yahoo.com%2Fimages%2Fhv%2Fphoto%2Fmovie_pix%2Ffox%2Ffuturama___vol__1%2Fbender.jpg&amp;amp;rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fmovies.yahoo.com%2Fshop%3Fd%3Dhv%26id%3D1808455452%26cf%3Dpg%26photoid%3D471357&amp;size=26.6kB&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;name=bender.jpg&amp;p=Bender&amp;amp;type=jpeg&amp;no=2&amp;amp;tt=222,174&amp;oid=0938e7100a366c98&amp;amp;ei=UTF-8&amp;amp;src=p"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;My, my what can happen in a few months. I'm going to spare you, if you're fortunate enough to find my tiny contribution to the WWW my ramblings on the gay marriage amendment, Mitt Romney, the bumblings of the Senior Murderer from my State to Washington Ted Kennedy , and a plethora of other things. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;So, I'm back. More to come, believe me. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-6061831969604307694?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6061831969604307694/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=6061831969604307694' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/6061831969604307694'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/6061831969604307694'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/im-back-baby.html' title='I&apos;m back, baby'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/RnlPVA2APrI/AAAAAAAAABA/Qrn6hk4fW0s/s72-c/bender.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-4406187162295428076</id><published>2007-04-12T09:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-12T09:43:07.679-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Don Imus'/><title type='text'>I'm the victim</title><content type='html'>I don't care for Don Imus. I've listened to him in the past and will admit that when I've changed the dial I was a bit better informed than I was when I first tuned in. Some of his bits were funny years ago ( my favorite was the Wilford &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Brimley&lt;/span&gt; Turkey Stuffing bit) but I don't see him as the radio powerhouse that I guess he is or used to be. he was good for killing about 6 minutes in traffic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the persecution of Imus kind of baffles me. In the simplest of terms, I don't see that he did anything worse than other &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;DJ's&lt;/span&gt; have done, or rappers , or comedians or TV shows.  I can site countless instances where not only black people, but people of pretty much all races have taken it on the chin. Look at &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;SNL&lt;/span&gt; or Mad TV. Look at the atrociously racist stuff that Chris Rock spews. Look at &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;UPN&lt;/span&gt; when it was around (Homeboys in Outer Space???  )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spike Lee is perhaps one of the biggest racists I know. Why doesn't anyone come down on Carlos &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Mencia&lt;/span&gt;? George Lopez &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;consistently&lt;/span&gt; bashes white people against &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Mexicans&lt;/span&gt; and he's on a top 20 TV show. Can I sue him too?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;know&lt;/span&gt; how ridiculous this is going to sound, but I'm going to say it anyway. In this melting pot of cultures that we live in, who's offended when the white guy gets insulted? Can I be indignant every time it happens. Can I complain every time Chris Rock decides he wants to belt out  "I hate white people!"  Didn't Richard Pryor &amp; Eddie Murphy make &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; bones by joking about how the white man kept them down?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, I'm not that white man, the same way the Rutgers basketball team aren't nappy headed hoes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are there nappy headed hoes out there? You bet there are. In fact, they've obviously made more of an impression on people than the attractive well &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;coifs&lt;/span&gt; educated virgin young ladies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, now every time someone insults the white man, i should have a right to retain legal counsel. I should be able to demand they are fired. I should be able to get a group of other &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;middle&lt;/span&gt; class middle aged somewhat portly &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;follicle&lt;/span&gt; challenged white guts together and demand restitution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have to think there's a TV lawyer who would take this on a contingency basis. Imagine what I can make from Al &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;Sharpton&lt;/span&gt; or Jesse Jackson....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-4406187162295428076?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4406187162295428076/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=4406187162295428076' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/4406187162295428076'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/4406187162295428076'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/im-victim.html' title='I&apos;m the victim'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-6686861615304132144</id><published>2007-03-30T06:04:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-30T06:23:55.274-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Deval patrick'/><title type='text'>7 Days &amp; 7 Nights</title><content type='html'>I decided I would take a week off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all, how much trouble could the Rodney Allen &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Rippey&lt;/span&gt; of Massachusetts politics get into in a week? He must be pretty much petered out by now, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Man, I'm glad i didn't put any money on that one. What a week. And as someone who did not drink the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;kool&lt;/span&gt; aid what a fun week it was.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yea, I did sign up for &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;devalpatrick&lt;/span&gt;.com. Strictly for the entertainment value alone I would have paid money. Whats new and groundbreaking there? A &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;messageboard&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;that's&lt;/span&gt; abused like any other &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;messageboard&lt;/span&gt;, the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt; Patrick &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Handjob&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;that's&lt;/span&gt; on the welcome page and the gross violation of privacy that was the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;clusterfuck&lt;/span&gt; of the first few days. I laughed so hard my sides still hurt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love the disclaimer: The views expressed by users of MyIssue.DevalPatrick.com do not necessarily represent the views of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt; Patrick, the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt; Patrick Committee or anyone else other than the person responsible for posting them.Way to distance yourself Gov. How about pulling a Curt Shilling and blogging too? You've got time while you're at your &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;wifes&lt;/span&gt; bedside, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The Governor keeps track of the efforts of everyone who uses &lt;a href="http://myissue.devalpatrick.com/"&gt;MyIssue.DevalPatrick.com&lt;/a&gt; and will often comment on issues generating solid amounts of support.&lt;br /&gt;He may even take action himself, help you take action, or get others to help. " I was wondering how the Commonwealth Corps was coming along.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sure- and Santa will be coming down the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;Chimney&lt;/span&gt; on Xmas eve. If this guy's got 1/2 a brain, which I doubt, the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;back peddling&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;should&lt;/span&gt; start soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What ever &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;happened&lt;/span&gt; to that by the way? Is Diane Patrick miraculously healed? Maybe she is. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt; should post it on his website. That would make us all feel good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Civic Engagement? Please. The lesson learned about civic engagement in this state is that it doesn't happen. There's wishful thinking mind you. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;That's&lt;/span&gt; what all the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"&gt;Devaliens&lt;/span&gt; think is civic engagement as they hold hands, sing &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"&gt;kum&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"&gt;ba&lt;/span&gt;- ya and hope that the fraud they voted into office will make the sweeping changes he promised. But civic engagement went out the window in this state when scumbag Tom &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"&gt;Finnerian&lt;/span&gt; torpedoed the rollback of the 'temporary sales tax'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then there's the 'hitch up your pants' joke. Oh god I'm laughing again. I'm gonna go down to Blue Hill Ave Friday &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"&gt;nite&lt;/span&gt; and start spreading those words of wisdom. Saturday morning I'll be blogging from Mass General. Of course we all know the most &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"&gt;effective&lt;/span&gt; way to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"&gt;get&lt;/span&gt; those naughty &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"&gt;gangbangers&lt;/span&gt; to stop filling each other full of lead is to scold them. Harshly. Maybe they'll break into song and dance like the Sharks &amp;amp; Jets. What a boob.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I should take another week off. The comedy aspect of last week alone was worth it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-6686861615304132144?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6686861615304132144/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=6686861615304132144' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/6686861615304132144'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/6686861615304132144'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/7-days-7-nights_30.html' title='7 Days &amp; 7 Nights'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-7416659082060220025</id><published>2007-03-30T06:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-30T06:23:45.630-07:00</updated><title type='text'>7 Days &amp; 7 Nights</title><content type='html'>I decided I would take a week off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all, how much trouble could the Rodney Allen &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Rippey&lt;/span&gt; of Massachusetts politics get into in a week? He must be pretty much petered out by now, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Man, I'm glad i didn't put any money on that one. What a week. And as someone who did not drink the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;kool&lt;/span&gt; aid what a fun week it was.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yea, I did sign up for &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;devalpatrick&lt;/span&gt;.com. Strictly for the entertainment value alone I would have paid money. Whats new and groundbreaking there? A &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;messageboard&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;that's&lt;/span&gt; abused like any other &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;messageboard&lt;/span&gt;, the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt; Patrick &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Handjob&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;that's&lt;/span&gt; on the welcome page and the gross violation of privacy that was the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;clusterfuck&lt;/span&gt; of the first few days. I laughed so hard my sides still hurt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love the disclaimer: The views expressed by users of MyIssue.DevalPatrick.com do not necessarily represent the views of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt; Patrick, the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt; Patrick Committee or anyone else other than the person responsible for posting them.Way to distance yourself Gov. How about pulling a Curt Shilling and blogging too? You've got time while you're at your &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;wifes&lt;/span&gt; bedside, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The Governor keeps track of the efforts of everyone who uses &lt;a href="http://myissue.devalpatrick.com/"&gt;MyIssue.DevalPatrick.com&lt;/a&gt; and will often comment on issues generating solid amounts of support.&lt;br /&gt;He may even take action himself, help you take action, or get others to help. " I was wondering how the Commonwealth Corps was coming along.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sure- and Santa will be coming down the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;Chimney&lt;/span&gt; on Xmas eve. If this guy's got 1/2 a brain, which I doubt, the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;back peddling&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;should&lt;/span&gt; start soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What ever &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;happened&lt;/span&gt; to that by the way? Is Diane Patrick miraculously healed? Maybe she is. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt; should post it on his website. That would make us all feel good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Civic Engagement? Please. The lesson learned about civic engagement in this state is that it doesn't happen. There's wishful thinking mind you. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;That's&lt;/span&gt; what all the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"&gt;Devaliens&lt;/span&gt; think is civic engagement as they hold hands, sing &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"&gt;kum&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"&gt;ba&lt;/span&gt;- ya and hope that the fraud they voted into office will make the sweeping changes he promised. But civic engagement went out the window in this state when scumbag Tom &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"&gt;Finnerian&lt;/span&gt; torpedoed the rollback of the 'temporary sales tax'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then there's the 'hitch up your pants' joke. Oh god I'm laughing again. I'm gonna go down to Blue Hill Ave Friday &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"&gt;nite&lt;/span&gt; and start spreading those words of wisdom. Saturday morning I'll be blogging from Mass General. Of course we all know the most &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"&gt;effective&lt;/span&gt; way to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"&gt;get&lt;/span&gt; those naughty &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"&gt;gangbangers&lt;/span&gt; to stop filling each other full of lead is to scold them. Harshly. Maybe they'll break into song and dance like the Sharks &amp; Jets. What a boob.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I should take another week off. The comedy aspect of last week alone was worth it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-7416659082060220025?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/7416659082060220025/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=7416659082060220025' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/7416659082060220025'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/7416659082060220025'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/7-days-7-nights.html' title='7 Days &amp; 7 Nights'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-9005639867393176019</id><published>2007-03-23T08:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-23T09:05:19.142-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The True Test of My Paitience</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Contrary to&lt;/span&gt; popular belief, my career is not being an angry conservative. I have a pretty good job in a great profession and I work for a good company, so in actuality, I have a lot to be happy about. Of course keeping all these things in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Massachusetts&lt;/span&gt; is a difficult task, but because it's so beautiful out and because my desk is essentially empty, and because I've &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;deigned&lt;/span&gt; today screw around &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Friday&lt;/span&gt;, I'm not going to let my surliness get the better of me today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BUT....   Mrs Big &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Bish&lt;/span&gt; hit me last night with a beauty... she wants to move. Now my initial thought was " Away from me?". But that wasn't it. She wants a new house. A little smaller more &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;manageable&lt;/span&gt; one. In the same town, probably just down the street but a new house nonetheless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I kind of took a shine to this. My current house is pretty big but pretty old and even the simplest tasks become a project. 2 weeks ago I needed to replace a .38 &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;cent&lt;/span&gt; washer in my master bathroom sink and today I have exposed wire &amp; plumbing, a gaping hole in the wall, no &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;toilet&lt;/span&gt; and a cavernous hole in the bathroom floor. Thank God I can o it myself. Its costing me about 1200.00 but I know I'd be mauled if I needed to contract it out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, now with this and the advent of spring, its time to get going on the projects I've ignored all winter. After I finish the bathroom, its down to the basement to finish some 1/2 done rooms. Then to the dining room for new floors. Then the kitchen for the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then we wait. We watch the market, wait for buyers and then start looking for a new abode. Then I have to move. I hate moving. I have made it to the point in my life that moving no longer constitutes my ratty furniture, and can be accomplished by me , some friends and a few cases of beer. I'm gonna need to hire someone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We went to Orlando last year. Me my kids &amp; wife. Did the theme parks, planned on E&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;xpedia&lt;/span&gt;, did the car hotels everything &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;separately&lt;/span&gt;. Saved a ton of $$. But it was a test of planning. Anyone who's done it knows that its a lot of planning,then execution when you &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;get there&lt;/span&gt;. Not gonna spend a huge wad of cash for the vacation of a lifetime just to go to a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Denny's&lt;/span&gt; 15 states away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My point is that this will test my planning &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;acumen&lt;/span&gt; again. And the housing market will test my &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;patience&lt;/span&gt;. And house shopping will test my blood &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;pressure&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-9005639867393176019?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/9005639867393176019/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=9005639867393176019' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/9005639867393176019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/9005639867393176019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/true-test-of-my-paitience.html' title='The True Test of My Paitience'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-2634870612822817304</id><published>2007-03-21T08:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-21T08:43:27.524-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Are You Insane Byron Rushing???!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://news.bostonherald.com/localPolitics/view.bg?articleid=189841"&gt;http://news.bostonherald.com/localPolitics/view.bg?articleid=189841&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is an article about Byron Rushing's attempt to make Massachusetts more of an illegal immigrant free for all than it already is. Essentially, as the hand wringing of the woebegone continues on Beacon Hill in the wake of the perfectly legal New &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Bedford&lt;/span&gt; ICE raid, Rushing , who was &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;obviously&lt;/span&gt; dropped on his head as a child from a great distance has decided to get some face time by dusting off his &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;annual&lt;/span&gt; attempt to clog our &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;already&lt;/span&gt; overtaxed welfare, legal, housing and aid systems with an influx of illegals. You know, the people that don't come to Massachusetts for drivers licences ( and by extension every other freebie we offer) but for jobs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good move putz. Not only will you add to our already overtaxed system, how will you pay for it? If social services are being cut, and you plan to allow a bunch of illegals to dump themselves into the system, where's the money coming from to support them? &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Their&lt;/span&gt; anchor babies? &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Their&lt;/span&gt; houses full of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;unemployed&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;preggos&lt;/span&gt;? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't swear all that much in my blog. But you sir are truly an asshole. A big brown puckered simpering sucking off the public trough asshole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are you thinking? I need to understand. Why do you want to make me responsible for these additional burdens? Don't I pay enough? Do you have any fiscal education at all, or do you think pixies show up at the Treasury and sprinkle pixie dust that turns into currency for you to spend?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Asshole.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-2634870612822817304?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/2634870612822817304/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=2634870612822817304' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/2634870612822817304'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/2634870612822817304'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/are-you-insane-byron-rushing.html' title='Are You Insane Byron Rushing???!!!!'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-8151769072350660510</id><published>2007-03-19T12:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-19T12:46:06.449-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Deval patrick'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Honest to God I sometimes think I just don't &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;want&lt;/span&gt; to lambaste &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt; Patrick anymore. That its just too easy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There used to be a kid I grew up with. You'll know the type when I describe him. He was in your circle of friends and he was the abuse taker. For the most part it was good natured, but he was the one that everyone picked on. In my day his name was &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Lally&lt;/span&gt; ( first name &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;withheld&lt;/span&gt; to protect the innocent).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Lally&lt;/span&gt; never got it into his head not to hang around with us. He'd show up places and just take a ration of shit. About him, his clothes, his mother, his smarts... you name it and he got shit about it. It got to the point when one of us went to the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;men's&lt;/span&gt; room we would say " Gotta go take a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Lally&lt;/span&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was just too easy with &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Lally&lt;/span&gt;. He just kept coming back for more. Just like &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's his latest interview with the Washington Post: &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/17/AR2007031701005.html"&gt;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/17/AR2007031701005.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In it , the Post pretty much makes him look like a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Lally&lt;/span&gt;. They speak of his potential and the hope he held for Massachusetts voters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then they pull the rug out from under him. They quote members of his own party like Barney Frank saying about his call to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;Ameriquest&lt;/span&gt; : "That was a mistake in judgment, not just cosmetics" - nice - way to support a fellow Dem, Barney.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And yet, even through the beating he takes - and there are some nice ones landed like about the caddy: "The move might have caused minor grumbling, but critics saw it as just another decision of a series in his brief tenure that embraced the very political elitism he ran against during his campaign" his arrogance shines through. That pandering insipid habit of his to " call a flap trivial, dismiss it for a few days and then apologize after criticism escalated."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thought John Kerry &amp;amp; Ted Kennedy were doing just fine making us look like a bunch of boobs. And here comes &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-8151769072350660510?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8151769072350660510/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=8151769072350660510' title='27 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/8151769072350660510'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/8151769072350660510'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/honest-to-god-i-sometimes-think-i-just.html' title=''/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>27</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-8173625714113475506</id><published>2007-03-16T05:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-16T06:01:40.386-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Deval patrick'/><title type='text'>Oil Up the Old Revolving Door</title><content type='html'>Looks like the old Michael Stanley &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Dukakis&lt;/span&gt; days are truly back. Free Em All &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt; is gonna take control of the Parole Board :(&lt;a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/03/16/governor_to_replace_3_on_parole_board_when_terms_end/"&gt;http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/03/16/governor_to_replace_3_on_parole_board_when_terms_end/&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Screw caddy Gate, Screw the Drapes, Screw Amy &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Gorin&lt;/span&gt; ( &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;ewwwwwww&lt;/span&gt;). This is potentially the most destructive action that the Rodney Allen &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Rippey&lt;/span&gt; of Massachusetts politics can do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can see the hemp heads over in Cambridge and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Brookline&lt;/span&gt; now rubbing &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; semi employed hands together. Welcome back Willie Horton.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My disgust for the possibilities here prevent me from my standard multi paragraph rant. I will say this though - Ben &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Leguere&lt;/span&gt; gets out and I will personally lead the charge up the state house steps with &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;pitchforks&lt;/span&gt; and torches and burn it to the ground.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-8173625714113475506?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8173625714113475506/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=8173625714113475506' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/8173625714113475506'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/8173625714113475506'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/oil-up-old-revolving-door.html' title='Oil Up the Old Revolving Door'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-6054393525369108063</id><published>2007-03-14T13:25:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-14T13:46:21.451-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Deval Patrick screw up'/><title type='text'>I Told You So</title><content type='html'>Well Well Well, it looks like the Patrick administration has it tail &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;between&lt;/span&gt; its legs again. Eileen &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;MacNamara&lt;/span&gt; of the Globe is reporting that ICE &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;DID INDEED BRIEF THE PATRICK ADMINISTRATION ON THE NEW &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;BEDFORD&lt;/span&gt; RAID MONTHS AGO (&lt;a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/03/14/a_lapse_in_planning/"&gt;http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/03/14/a_lapse_in_planning/&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;In my prior post about the raid, I stated that knowing Massachusetts like I do, that the fault lies somewhere here, and not with the feds. Shocker of shockers, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;looky&lt;/span&gt; here: ( I paraphrase the important stuff)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Federal immigration agents first briefed senior members of the incoming Patrick administration about plans to raid a Massachusetts sweatshop that employed undocumented workers last December"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Patrick himself was told in February that the raid would target the defense contractor that was using a largely undocumented female workforce to make safety vests for US soldiers in Iraq. Commissioner Harry Spence of the Massachusetts Department of Social Services was told a raid was coming several days before it occurred. The night before the sweep, Bruce &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Foucart&lt;/span&gt;, the ICE agent in charge of the operation, spoke with Spence to coordinate law enforcement and child protection aspects of the raid"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;" As late as yesterday afternoon Nancy Fernandez Mills, communications director for the Patrick administration, was insisting that "the governor was not told and did not know the raid was happening until it was going on" and that "&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;DSS&lt;/span&gt; did not know about this raid until it was in progress."&lt;br /&gt;Told that, in fact, members of Patrick's Cabinet had briefed him about the operation weeks ago and that Spence had participated in a conference call with ICE the day before the raid -- a fact the commissioner himself acknowledged in yesterday's newspapers -- she reconsidered: "I'd like to retract that statement until I talk to someone who actually knows something about this &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;timeline&lt;/span&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is laughable. Harry Spence needs to be canned. Kerry, Kennedy and every other hack sucking from the public trough that started breast beating about this will do what they always do- put &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; head in the sand and ignore it. Typical Massachusetts hack reaction. No one will call them on it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't give a rats ass about Dianne Patrick. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt; needs to answer for this. Get up, get moving and roll a goddamn head you putz. Spence needs to be fired.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Governor you are a joke. You &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;obvioulsy&lt;/span&gt; can't find your ass with both hands and a map, and it looks like your administration suffers from the same problem. You had no problem getting in front of the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;cameras&lt;/span&gt; to blame ICE for your misconceptions, you should have the guts to get in front of it and apologize YET AGAIN for your lack of follow up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But you won't. You've got plenty to hide behind and since you're only working part time, where will you find a spare moment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its my hope that this continues to be in the Boston media spotlight and they don't let up. Illegals are a giant issue in this state and humanitarian issues aside, need to understand the law is the law and you have consequences for your actions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Governor, you should be ashamed of yourself yet again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please please please &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;give&lt;/span&gt; us another one of those patented apologies. Its been a long day and I need a laugh.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-6054393525369108063?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6054393525369108063/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=6054393525369108063' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/6054393525369108063'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/6054393525369108063'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/i-told-you-so.html' title='I Told You So'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-8539499546901989577</id><published>2007-03-13T06:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T07:02:50.682-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Deval patrick'/><title type='text'>Little Ditty 'bout Deval &amp; Dianne......</title><content type='html'>Its no secret I don't like &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt; Patrick.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think he's a con man and an empty suit. I think he's like the Music Man. He came into town telling everyone that there was trouble in River City and he was going to clean it up. He won his election with empty promises and sound bites and governs the same way. He conned 56 percent of the voting public ( and lets not forget &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;that's&lt;/span&gt; the VOTING public, not the general population) with his 'grassroots ' campaign ; the rank &amp; file who he has forgotten but key members get cushy jobs in quid pro &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;quo's&lt;/span&gt; (notice the use of the plural) that he &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;deigned&lt;/span&gt; would not happen. He is out of touch with the common man in Massachusetts, makes bad decisions and I don't think he really cares what anyone thinks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now his wife is 'depressed' and he's going to be a part time Governor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've listened to the people that state that this is a scam and he's using it to divert attention from his screw ups. Sure, I can see him in a Dr Smith like pose, holding his wife in front of him like young Will Robinson to hold off the citizenry expecting him to fulfill his obligations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've listened to the people supporting her. Margery &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Eagan&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;caterwauling&lt;/span&gt; about how difficult depression is and the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;bloggers&lt;/span&gt; commenting on how difficult it is to be depressed and how hard it is to function and how many pills they need to take to get through the day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the bottom line is I could care less. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Deval's&lt;/span&gt; not depressed, his wife is. Guess what? Life goes on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;Deval's&lt;/span&gt; not depressed, his wife is. How many people in society have depressed spouses and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;carry on because they have to?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; People who have mortgages to pay and kids and families to support? People who work full time at Stop &amp;amp; Shop and then go to a second job because its impossible to support themselves on that wage? People who still take &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; kids to Cub Scouts and baseball &amp; soccer? Life pauses so you can adjust then moves on at the same or a faster pace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Too bad if this sounds heartless. I don't have time to be a crybaby about some woman who's &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;wasting&lt;/span&gt; 72K a year of my money. I'm busy trying to maintain a lifestyle that residing in Massachusetts gets harder and harder to do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The people hired this numb nuts to do a job. I didn't vote for him, but he's the Gov. God bless Democracy. So far he's been doing it poorly. If I hired a contractor to come into my home and he performed as poorly as &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt; did I'd can him. No 'honeymoon period'; goodbye, I'll get someone else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I started a new job in October. If I screwed up in 9 weeks like he has, guess what? Goodbye. I didn't get a honeymoon period. No one will stand up for me and say , " Oh lets give him a chance.". Together We Can. Hell no. In fairyland, where people like &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt; have a grand vision that may happen but in the real world where people get &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; pay at the and of the week and are grateful for what they have and pray every Sunday in church that it doesn't go away, it don't happen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go to work &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt;. I know being a part of the greatest scam in the state - the state funded health care system - your wife is in good hands. I doubt that she has a shortage of sycophants fawning over her, so she probably won't miss you as you go about the job you were hired to do- Run the Commonwealth. Tell her to take her pill and get your ass back to work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enough with the ballyhooing about Diane Patrick. She's not the Governor. I don't care about Kitty &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;Dukakis&lt;/span&gt;, I don't care about Betty Ford, I care about me. My Kids. My family. My Mortgage. Find a way to stimulate the economy. Lower my property taxes like you promised you would. Don't raise taxes. Find a way to make &lt;strong&gt;26BILLION&lt;/strong&gt; dollars enough to run the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;hackarama&lt;/span&gt; and stop adding to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Together we can my ass. Get back to work and fix this.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-8539499546901989577?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8539499546901989577/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=8539499546901989577' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/8539499546901989577'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/8539499546901989577'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/little-ditty-bout-deval-dianne.html' title='Little Ditty &apos;bout Deval &amp; Dianne......'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-8080929506894545310</id><published>2007-03-09T06:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-09T07:04:53.460-08:00</updated><title type='text'>New Bedford Raid &amp; Deval's Response</title><content type='html'>As a father, I can't imagine the fear it would instill if I was taken away and not given the opportunity to make sure that my children were well cared for.  They're the most important things in my life and like any good parent, there's nothing I wouldn't do to assure &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; safety and security. Its that part of me that feels sorry for the parents &amp; children affected in the New &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Bedford&lt;/span&gt; raid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But as a citizen of the greatest country in the world, I know that these issues will be assuaged. That the ICE agents that are dealing with the crisis as well as the Federal Government will be sure that families get reunited, and in short order. As of yesterday 60 people were released after being identified as primary caregivers. They have been ordered to return to Immigration Court. I wonder how many actually will? THAT would be an interesting follow up article.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And how does the Rodney Allan &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Rippey&lt;/span&gt; of Massachusetts politics come down on this? Well he seems to be placing himself squarely in the sights of the Federal Government.  As the antagonist. Now this may perk up some of the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Devaliens&lt;/span&gt; who have been down in the dumps after &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;PhoneGate&lt;/span&gt;. Kind of like how Tom Brady diverted attentions from &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;CaddyGate&lt;/span&gt; &amp; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;DrapeGate&lt;/span&gt;. Patrick needs the diversion. Unfortunately it will be short lived, since an Ethics Commission investigation is forthcoming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Governor speaks like the Feds just flew in, swept up the illegals and flew out. I'm finding that hard to buy. And based upon the response by  Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Julie Myers each detainee was asked about &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; children and response was &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;commensurate&lt;/span&gt; to the answer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My bottom line is this: No child was left in the middle of the street crying as illegal daddy or mommy was tossed in a van and taken away. Within hours infants needs were addressed, as were the needs of other children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These people put themselves in jeopardy by breaking the law. They get what they deserve. I personally think that &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; children should be deported with them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But warm &amp; fuzzy &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt; challenges the feds illustrating them akin to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Storm&lt;/span&gt; troopers. "There were stories of humiliation, fear, anxiety, uncertainty" nice touching sound bite &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt;. But  immigration officials insist they coordinated with state social service agencies in advance. Where's the disconnect ? Based upon what I know about Massachusetts &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;bureaucracy&lt;/span&gt;, its here.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-8080929506894545310?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8080929506894545310/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=8080929506894545310' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/8080929506894545310'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/8080929506894545310'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/new-bedford-raid-devals-response.html' title='New Bedford Raid &amp; Deval&apos;s Response'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-6668221533648162411</id><published>2007-03-08T09:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-08T09:16:47.493-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Deval patrick'/><title type='text'>Inside the head of greatness</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/RfBE3u4AYCI/AAAAAAAAAAs/TwNpGvfijkQ/s1600-h/Deval.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5039603707294015522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/RfBE3u4AYCI/AAAAAAAAAAs/TwNpGvfijkQ/s400/Deval.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-6668221533648162411?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6668221533648162411/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=6668221533648162411' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/6668221533648162411'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/6668221533648162411'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/inside-head-of-greatness.html' title='Inside the head of greatness'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/RfBE3u4AYCI/AAAAAAAAAAs/TwNpGvfijkQ/s72-c/Deval.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-4396114635516051600</id><published>2007-03-08T06:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-08T08:33:20.517-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Deval patrick'/><title type='text'>Deval Betrayal?  Is It Fair 4 Me to Judge?</title><content type='html'>I'm not a Spike Lee fan. In the late 80's I saw the movie ' Do the Right Thing' and what I took away from it was that &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Mookie&lt;/span&gt; had no right to demand that &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Dany&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Aiello&lt;/span&gt; put ANY pictures of the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;bothers&lt;/span&gt; on the walls. And that Spike Lee was perhaps the biggest reverse racist on the planet. I have never viewed a Spike Lee Joint since.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its not that I don't understand or &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;sympathize&lt;/span&gt; with issues faced by African Americans, especially in urban areas. Or the underlying torrents of hatred against them that bubble so close to the surface in some places that it instills a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;permanent&lt;/span&gt; fear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But my &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;historical&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;associations&lt;/span&gt; with African Americans has been fortunate enough to be as equals. I've never struggled in an urban area. I've never been afraid to be on the Red Line at 10:00 at night. I've never been a victim of random violence or urban unrest. I've never been forced to live somewhere I could afford versus somewhere i want to. I've never been turned down anything because of the color of my skin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The purpose of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;today's&lt;/span&gt; entry isn't to paint a lily white picture of myself in comparison to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;African&lt;/span&gt; Americans ( I paused for a full 3 minutes here debating if I should use the word Blacks). I read the following article posted by D.R. Tucker on &lt;a href="http://www.devalpatrickwatch.com/"&gt;http://www.devalpatrickwatch.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.devalpatrickwatch.com/archives/2007/03/do_the_right_th.php"&gt;http://www.devalpatrickwatch.com/archives/2007/03/do_the_right_th.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I read it I rolled my eyes into my head to say ' ugh.. another black vs white thing... like the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;Amistad&lt;/span&gt; bible...Why can't he just be the Governor, not the Black Governor?'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;disappointed&lt;/span&gt; must the community that viewed this guy as a hopeful in solidifying &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; continued social progress be? As a middle aged white mail, I'm just pissed off because 1) I voted &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;for Muffy&lt;/span&gt; , 2) I'm a flaming conservative, 3) I'm tired of getting screwed by &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;Massachusetts&lt;/span&gt; politicians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But this is far worse. This is , as D.R. Tucker states a betrayal. Would I be going too far to state its a betrayal like George Bush betrayed me? That he placed the progress of my party back 15 years. That his betrayal lends credence to wafflers and political leeches like Ted Kennedy &amp;amp; John &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;Kerry&lt;/span&gt;. Perhaps, but I think this would be a betrayal on a grander scale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Party Progress is one thing. Racial progress is another.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where are the black leaders on this guy? Who's standing up to say &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt; is a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;disappointment&lt;/span&gt;? Is the silence a commentary?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know. I'm a white, middle class, middle aged suburbanite. I would in the Financial Services field, truly white collar. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;That's&lt;/span&gt; not to say I'm ignorant. Just not exposed. I can only relate my feelings. I say I can only imagine the Black &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"&gt;Community's&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"&gt;disappointment&lt;/span&gt;, but I really can't. Only hope that &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; leaders, and the Governor of my state can stay in accord while working towards the best interests of all?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-4396114635516051600?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4396114635516051600/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=4396114635516051600' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/4396114635516051600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/4396114635516051600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/deval-betrayal-maybe-is-it-fair-4-me-to.html' title='Deval Betrayal?  Is It Fair 4 Me to Judge?'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-815544907172360939</id><published>2007-03-07T09:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-07T09:22:43.477-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Deval patrick'/><title type='text'>Deval- Ohh I'm Sorry I Screwed Up - Again</title><content type='html'>I've been married a while. It ain't easy. I screw up and I admit as much to the Mrs and next thing you know, there I am apologizing. It happens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But here's the thing. I learn my lesson. I try not to screw up twice. Let me rephrase that. I try not to get caught the second time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now here comes &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt; Patrick- Man of the People - The Rodney Allan &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Rippey&lt;/span&gt; of Massachusetts politics. And &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;guess&lt;/span&gt; what- He screwed up again. And he's sorry.  (&lt;a href="http://news.bostonherald.com/localPolitics/view.bg?articleid=186849"&gt;http://news.bostonherald.com/localPolitics/view.bg?articleid=186849&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love those big doe eyes and the tail between his legs stance that he takes each time he screws up. He's like a little puppy... who can't forgive him... &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;aww&lt;/span&gt; come on lets let this one slide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not this time. I ain't buying this &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;mea&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;culpa&lt;/span&gt; for a second. He's written his last &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;check on&lt;/span&gt; his charm- an account he's emptying out pretty quickly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The conflict of interest of this issue blazes like the sun. I keep hearing how smart this putz is then he keeps pulling boneheaded plays like this. Where are the smarts I'm hearing so much about. At this point, I truly think the guy that did my taxes at H&amp;R Block could be the Gov. since he can look at a debit &amp;amp; credit then balance a checkbook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every time i turn around, I hear about the Guv starting a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;committee&lt;/span&gt;, connecting dots, I gotta look at that , my &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;advisers&lt;/span&gt; and I poured over the budget, blah blah blah. Point is, this guy doesn't wipe his ass without appointing an advisor or commission and then he pulls this boner. No, not buying for a second that he wasn't counting on the political pull as the Governor of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Massachusetts&lt;/span&gt; to be behind him when he picked up the phone.  No way, no how, start the recall vote because this is another abuse of his power.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-815544907172360939?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/815544907172360939/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=815544907172360939' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/815544907172360939'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/815544907172360939'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/deval-ohh-im-sorry-i-screwed-up-again.html' title='Deval- Ohh I&apos;m Sorry I Screwed Up - Again'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-6926507524626852668</id><published>2007-03-06T05:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-06T07:55:02.994-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Band Plays On</title><content type='html'>This morning I read a piece in the Boston herald that continues to solidify the fact that &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt; Patrick has no clue whats politically important in these times and that whatever undereducated &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;advisers&lt;/span&gt; he has are in the same position.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Today's&lt;/span&gt; Boston Herald has reported that the Secretary of veterans Affairs has been removed from the Governors Cabinet. (&lt;a href="http://news.bostonherald.com/localPolitics/view.bg?articleid=186656"&gt;http://news.bostonherald.com/localPolitics/view.bg?articleid=186656&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So here's my point on this: What does having the veterans Secretary in the cabinet hurt? Is he making sweeping legislative change? Is he filling in for the Governor when he's travelling? No. So why disrespect veterans and soldiers in a time of national crisis in the middle of a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;care giving&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;scandal&lt;/span&gt; at military hospitals?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I fail to understand why this man continues to alienate his constituency. How many soldiers or military families voted for him because of his democratic message of change. How many of us are war-weary and want our troops home? And how long have the Democrats been espousing that message.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And as a slap in the face to all of us, he pulls this stunt. I'm still waiting for all the good stuff. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;When's&lt;/span&gt; that coming? My property tax relief. My kids &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt; having to pay 300.00 for extracurricular activities. Massachusetts becoming a more business friendly state. Extra cops on the street, better schools, more transparent management of state agencies... hows that no quid pro &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;quo&lt;/span&gt; working out? So far, no good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did I mention I don't want to get taxed back into the stone age?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-6926507524626852668?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6926507524626852668/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=6926507524626852668' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/6926507524626852668'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/6926507524626852668'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/band-plays-on.html' title='The Band Plays On'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-7603126462617922617</id><published>2007-03-05T12:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-05T13:07:14.105-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Shamrock Shake</title><content type='html'>Its hard to be angry all the time. While living in Massachusetts as a conservative helps, sometimes I need a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;WTF&lt;/span&gt; day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Todays&lt;/span&gt; one of those days. Don't get me wrong. I'm still pissed about that felonious &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;pantload&lt;/span&gt; Tom &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Finnerian&lt;/span&gt; being on my favorite talk station and not in prison, and I'm still throwing up in my mouth every time I hear &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt; Patrick doing something else to tax us back into the stone age ( I want to bring this phrase back. It never got its due during the election) .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But its Monday and my brain is a torrent of work related struggles and not fully up to speed from the weekend. Then I learned something that just knocked me on my ass....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did you know that the Shamrock Shake is not promoted nationally by &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;McDonalds&lt;/span&gt; anymore? Remember every year, the Green Grimace would come waddling out of the clover with a frosty rich thick &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;booger&lt;/span&gt; green &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Shamrock&lt;/span&gt; Shake - available for a limited time only?  Well no more. Its like a piece of my childhood has died. Just like when I found out Peter Brady was 40 and boning model Adrienne Curry. Of course the adult part of me dug it. But I was sad that the Peter Brady I remember was gone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so has gone the Shamrock Shake. Goodbye. Goodbye HR &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;Puffinstuff&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Starblazers&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;Gilligans&lt;/span&gt; Island, Major &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Mudd&lt;/span&gt; , Creature Double Feature and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;SuperFriends&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What ever &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;happened&lt;/span&gt; to the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;McRib&lt;/span&gt;?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-7603126462617922617?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/7603126462617922617/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=7603126462617922617' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/7603126462617922617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/7603126462617922617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/shamrock-shake.html' title='The Shamrock Shake'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-1295343397405642568</id><published>2007-03-01T11:55:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-01T12:00:42.380-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tom Finnerian'/><title type='text'>Scumbag Finnerians Alien Brother?</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;Seperated at Birth? Disgraced scumbag lying pantload felon Tom Finnerian and another HUGE foreheaded freak??&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/Recv5NxfAXI/AAAAAAAAAAM/fdY4VsY5oJQ/s1600-h/xxx.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5037047368233451890" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/Recv5NxfAXI/AAAAAAAAAAM/fdY4VsY5oJQ/s320/xxx.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/RecwXNxfAYI/AAAAAAAAAAU/1jZlqdMCdOE/s1600-h/YYY.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5037047883629527426" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/RecwXNxfAYI/AAAAAAAAAAU/1jZlqdMCdOE/s320/YYY.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-1295343397405642568?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/1295343397405642568/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=1295343397405642568' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/1295343397405642568'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/1295343397405642568'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/scumbag-finnerians-alien-brother.html' title='Scumbag Finnerians Alien Brother?'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/Recv5NxfAXI/AAAAAAAAAAM/fdY4VsY5oJQ/s72-c/xxx.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-8990608919828410067</id><published>2007-03-01T11:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-01T11:59:56.703-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;Seperated at Birth? Disgraced scumbag lying pantload felon Tom Finnerian and another HUGE foreheaded Star Trek Alien?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/Recv5NxfAXI/AAAAAAAAAAM/fdY4VsY5oJQ/s1600-h/xxx.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5037047368233451890" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/Recv5NxfAXI/AAAAAAAAAAM/fdY4VsY5oJQ/s320/xxx.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/RecwXNxfAYI/AAAAAAAAAAU/1jZlqdMCdOE/s1600-h/YYY.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5037047883629527426" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/RecwXNxfAYI/AAAAAAAAAAU/1jZlqdMCdOE/s320/YYY.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-8990608919828410067?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8990608919828410067/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=8990608919828410067' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/8990608919828410067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/8990608919828410067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/seperated-at-birth-disgraced-scumbag.html' title=''/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/Recv5NxfAXI/AAAAAAAAAAM/fdY4VsY5oJQ/s72-c/xxx.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-1932660757696786785</id><published>2007-03-01T08:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-01T10:49:03.423-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tom Finnerian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WRKO'/><title type='text'>Another Reason Tom Finnerian is a Scumbag</title><content type='html'>Buried deep in the Sunday Herald this week was this little blurb about hack turned felon turned radio host but &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;remains&lt;/span&gt; a felon ;scumbag Tom &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Finnerian&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;And speaking of pensions, disgraced former House Speaker-turned-morning radio jock Tom &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Finneran&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;isn&lt;/span&gt;’t going quietly without his retirement check&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;While King Tom humbly accepted much of his “punishment” for misleading a federal grand jury, he’s moved for a hearing on the state Pension Board’s denial of his $2,575-a-month check.  The board, which has pulled the pensions of convicted felons in the past, withheld &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Finneran&lt;/span&gt;’s check last month and will hold a hearing in the coming months.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I question the use of the term radio jock based upon his questionable talents or lack thereof.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;hypocrisy&lt;/span&gt; here is deafening. On the day after Gov Rodney Allen &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Ripney&lt;/span&gt; releases his proposed budget ( cutting a lot of services, breaking a lot of campaign promises yet increasing his own office budget - but &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;that's&lt;/span&gt; another blog entry) the Felon decides that hes going to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;ruminate&lt;/span&gt; on whats wrong in the budget and the state of the state in general. While I only listened for the duration of 20 minutes, I listened to the disgraced speaker with the dwindling ratings rant on I was thinking one of the most glaring &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;expenses&lt;/span&gt; we as taxpayers are burdened with is paying the bloated pensions of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;suckbags&lt;/span&gt; like Tom &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Finnerian&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That a huge contributor to the problem is making a truckload of money to tell us whats wrong in this state should be humiliating. I felt dirty listening to him as I often do. That this same abuser of my hard earned dollars had the brass balls to bow his head and cry like an infant about his crimes, then take full responsibility for his wrongdoings on the radio pretending to be a man then slink back with little or no fanfare to try to screw the citizenry again is sickening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I missed this on some of the blogs I read and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;occasionally&lt;/span&gt; participate in. I heard Howie Carr make a small mention of this last week which was what prompted my search for it in the news. Almost nothing was there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are we so desensitized to abuse that we just don't care anymore? I listen to jackasses like Jim &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;Braude&lt;/span&gt; who wave away amounts like 72,000.00 and 46,000.00 with the wave of the hand as the cost of doing business in Massachusetts. When does that cost get to be too much?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I listen to the argument that those who go into public service 9 or public abuse as the case is here) forgo the opportunity to make more money in the private sector. Tough. Go back to the private sector.  Get out of my wallet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obviously Tom &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;Finnerian&lt;/span&gt; has no shame. No decency. No sense of right or wrong as his crybaby act after his sentencing and his &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;mea&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;culpa&lt;/span&gt; on the radio were machinations of false apology. It is my hope that the state pension board continues to do the right thing and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;withhold&lt;/span&gt; all of his pension checks. He doesn't deserve a penny. I hope he ends up sleeping in a Whirlpool box once &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;RKO&lt;/span&gt; lets him go.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-1932660757696786785?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/1932660757696786785/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=1932660757696786785' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/1932660757696786785'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/1932660757696786785'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/another-reason-tom-finnerian-is-scumbag.html' title='Another Reason Tom Finnerian is a Scumbag'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-5037360620903667456</id><published>2007-02-26T08:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-26T08:43:20.470-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WRKO'/><title type='text'>The Continued Decline of WRKO</title><content type='html'>This morning I read the disturbing news that the potential exists for Marjorie &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Claprood&lt;/span&gt; (D-Hell) to return to the airwaves. &lt;em&gt;Save &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;WRKO&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.savewrko.com/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.savewrko.com/&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;)  &lt;/em&gt;is reporting that its no secret that Ruth &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Buzzi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Claprood&lt;/span&gt; was in extended meetings there. I'm sure she and Jason Wolfe, Julie &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Kahn's&lt;/span&gt; personal version of the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Travelocity&lt;/span&gt; Roving Gnome, weren't discussing their favorite shoe styles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The return of this screechy harridan to talk radio would further contribute to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;WRKO's&lt;/span&gt; dreadful slide past mediocrity into ... well I can't quite find the  word. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Appaling&lt;/span&gt;, disgusting, grotesque...you pick.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This washed up retread of liberal trash would be the second biggest mistake &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;WRKO&lt;/span&gt; could make. The first being the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;unlistenable&lt;/span&gt; Felon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had the displeasure of listening to her when she dirtied the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;Claprood&lt;/span&gt; &amp; Whitley Show. Then she did a weekend stint once in a while. Then she subbed for Scott Allen Miller recently during the Gay Union Constitutional Convention. During that time she made the idiotic distinction that anyone opposed to gay unions was a bigot. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;That's&lt;/span&gt; right, a bigot. No wiggle room. You're right up there with the KKK if you don't &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;believe&lt;/span&gt; in gay unions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A woman called her on it stating that her stance on gay unions was her opinion and that in no way was she a bigot. Cancer Throat &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;Claprood&lt;/span&gt; then spent 5 minutes berating her telling her she needs to wake up, she is a bigot and then hung up on her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is this what Boston Radio needs? A political retread, who we all thought and hoped had ridden off into the sunset &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;resurrected&lt;/span&gt; to make &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;WRKO&lt;/span&gt; even more &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;unlistenable&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Save &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;WRKO&lt;/span&gt; brought up the point of "Why are we bringing these retreads back? " and its a good one. Conservative listeners hold &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; stations accountable, even if they're spewing liberal &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"&gt;diarrhea. Callers will offer thier opinions if they disagree, but someone needs to be listening to the host to begin with. As Todd Fienburg waffles to whichever way the wind is blowing, people care less and less about what his opinion means as he's pbraceted by hosts that tow the company line. Someday someone will realize that Soylent Green is people. But as long as you pepper the lineup with hosts that spew the check signers liberal political agenda, I have no desire to even listen much less call. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;Hows Finnerian's show doing? From the blogosphere it seems that his listenership isn't what was expected. And his show itself is unlistenable. The uhhhs and dead air and boring subjects it seems aren't attracting the listeners WRKO thought they would get. No surprise there. Weak co-hosts and just bad programming are not a formula for success. Carry this over to potentially hiring another washed up hack, and how long can this boat float before they realize that's water rising around thier ankles? Claprood would be the second iceberg floating towards the Titanic thet is WRKO now. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-5037360620903667456?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5037360620903667456/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=5037360620903667456' title='41 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/5037360620903667456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/5037360620903667456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/continued-decline-of-wrko.html' title='The Continued Decline of WRKO'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>41</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-6806632718801614297</id><published>2007-02-23T08:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-23T08:46:38.329-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Deval patrick'/><title type='text'>Stop your begging Deval- Its unbecoming</title><content type='html'>Stop it &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt;. Just stop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just had the displeasure of reading your podcast. My suggestion for your new one is to include more substance and less begging. Stop begging the media to get off your back. Stop begging the citizens to embrace your new tax plan. Stop begging the legislature to follow you into the black hole that you're about to make my state by taxing businesses enough that they'll want to pack up and leave.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You talk about stabilizing our economy in your podcast, and obviously the way you think you can accomplish that is on everyone &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;else's&lt;/span&gt; back. You're wrong. You talk about the property tax relief rider you have attached to your municipal options bill. It only helps a small population and comes &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;at the&lt;/span&gt; cost or raising taxes for businesses in my town. You talk about towns cutting costs by utilizing services used by the state for pensions &amp; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;healthcare&lt;/span&gt;. You could at least give credit to Kerry &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Healy&lt;/span&gt; for stealing her idea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can't help but notice that your ugly habit of throwing others under the bus to distract readers &amp; listeners continues in your podcast. This is a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;nice&lt;/span&gt; way to distance yourself from the problems that you need to deal with, and more importantly &lt;strong&gt;promised to deal with.&lt;/strong&gt;  North &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Andover&lt;/span&gt; can't afford teachers because of fat &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;bloated&lt;/span&gt; pension and fixed costs and the diversion of state funds that they deserved going to pork, fat, patronage and the lack of a stimulated economy. You're going to work on that, right. lets reach for that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't personalize everyone &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;elses&lt;/span&gt; pain by pulling that trick of using peoples names and problems. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;That's&lt;/span&gt; cheap and shallow and a transparent way to manipulate people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I make a good living. I don't have anything new or flashy but I'm not house, car , credit card , &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;HELOC&lt;/span&gt; poor. I have a house and 2 respectable cars. But not a lot of disposable income. And guess what Governor Rodney Allen &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Ripney&lt;/span&gt;. My property taxes go up too. It hurts in my wallet. A 200.00 a month increase that got assessed to me this year hurts. And you're ignoring me in your relief bill. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;That's&lt;/span&gt; wrong. And &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;it torques&lt;/span&gt; me off. How many people in the 35K a year range are actually going to benefit from your idiotic relief plan? THEY COULD NEVER AFFORD A HOUSE TO BEGIN WITH. And do you think its easy to do it at 70K? No its not. But I don't have a mansion in Milton, a vacation home in the Berkshires and a mansion in  Atlanta. I don't have an interior decorator. My wife makes due at &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;Wal&lt;/span&gt;-mart and when somethings on sale. I got my furniture at Bobs Discount Furniture. And I make what would be a good wage anywhere else but a living wage in this state.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm bringing back a phrase. I can already see the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;resurrection&lt;/span&gt; of '&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;Taxachusetts&lt;/span&gt;'. I remember this one from your campaign and how much you detested it: Taxed back to the Stone Age. Its coming back &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;DeVille&lt;/span&gt;. Keep it up.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-6806632718801614297?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6806632718801614297/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=6806632718801614297' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/6806632718801614297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/6806632718801614297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/stop-your-begging-deval-its-unbecoming.html' title='Stop your begging Deval- Its unbecoming'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-4133166514298475831</id><published>2007-02-22T09:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-22T09:29:47.575-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Deval Patrick screw up'/><title type='text'>Devalpatrick - I Really Screwed Up</title><content type='html'>Really &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;DeVille&lt;/span&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;magnanimous&lt;/span&gt; of you to admit that. Do you think its going to get you any slack cut? Maybe by your &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;kool&lt;/span&gt; aid drinking minions who are frothing at the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;mouth&lt;/span&gt; for patronage jobs like Momma &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Devals&lt;/span&gt; private secretary ; those same people you conned into voting for you and vaulting you to the Governorship?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You make me laugh. You think that in one breath you can apologize for your embarrassing screw ups (please note the s indicating that your screwing up occurs on multiple &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;occasions&lt;/span&gt;) and in the same breath convince the watchdogs of Boston media to become your lapdogs in delivering your message of screwing over both the citizenry and businesses of an &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;already&lt;/span&gt; floundering state. Sure, I'm &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;sure&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; they'll jump aboard your bandwagon to deliver the message of belt tightening and program cutting and outright screwing you plan to offer us all in your tax packages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What else do you have waiting in the wings next week &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt;? maybe you can announce the pension amount for your wife's new &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;Secretary&lt;/span&gt;. You know she'll be ponying up to suck off of the public teat just like the rest of them. Thanks to you, YES SHE CAN.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Unfortunately&lt;/span&gt;, the picture you paint of yourself does not fill my confidence cup to the brim. I know the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;Acolytes&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt; have moistened &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; pants in your apology. What a humble man. What a good man. See, he's not &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;afraid&lt;/span&gt; to admit when he's wrong. But they're blinded to your arrogance in defending yourself each time you screw up. They don't see your angry eyes, or when you try to deflect the question by saying how many more important things you're &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;working&lt;/span&gt; on or when you want to throw someone under the bus like the State Police or when you just outright lie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why don't t hey see that? You know what dots should be connected? The ones from where you're an outright liar, to no one being sorely mistaken by your quid pro &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;qou's&lt;/span&gt; you've handed out, to how you ARE going to tax us back to the stone age, to how you're eventually going to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;decimate&lt;/span&gt; this state.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You've already left your &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;footprint&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;DeVille&lt;/span&gt;. Just &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"&gt;because&lt;/span&gt; you apologize, doesn't mean we shouldn't be expected to be &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"&gt;disappointed&lt;/span&gt; in you again. I don't think you learned your lesson. Not at all. I think that you think you're better than the people who &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"&gt;put you&lt;/span&gt; where you are. I think you don't want to give anyone a straight answer . I think all your critics were right and that now your true colors - oh please forgive me &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"&gt;that's&lt;/span&gt; not a racial slur- are coming out. At my expense.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-4133166514298475831?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4133166514298475831/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=4133166514298475831' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/4133166514298475831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/4133166514298475831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/devalpatrick-i-really-screwed-up.html' title='Devalpatrick - I Really Screwed Up'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-5356896054358154639</id><published>2007-02-21T12:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-21T12:46:05.357-08:00</updated><title type='text'>How Deval Patrick Destroyed Massachusetts</title><content type='html'>In looking at the Rodney Allen &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Ripney&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Massachusetts&lt;/span&gt; politics plans to ' close tax loopholes' to decrease the budget deficit in Massachusetts, I can't help but be reminded of the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Taxachusetts&lt;/span&gt; stereotype that we never quite lived down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember Gov Gary Coleman &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;ruminating&lt;/span&gt; on and on about how we need to make &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Massachusetts&lt;/span&gt; a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;friendlier&lt;/span&gt; place to do business so we can stimulate economic growth and keep businesses here as well as the right employees to do the jobs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clutching crayon in hand, Patrick has panicked. And the knee jerk reactions have been taxes. Taxes at the local level with the options taxes and taxes ) regardless of what you call them) by 'closing loopholes' on businesses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Has this dolt learned nothing from the Fidelity issues that are occurring. Maybe if you're secure in your job or part of a union that protects your ability to earn a living wage, whats going on with Fidelity isn't a blip on your radar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now me, I use Fidelity as a vendor for my job and I actually still work in one of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; biggest money making and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;thus&lt;/span&gt; revenue generating ventures. So I watch them. And I've read about Fidelity's exodus from Massachusetts. Its &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;happened&lt;/span&gt; already, jobs left the state to Kentucky, Rhode island ( how insulting is that) New &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Hampshire&lt;/span&gt; and now Texas. The operative phrases in these announcements? That these states have offered Fidelity &lt;strong&gt;'generous tax incentives'&lt;/strong&gt;  to bring Fido's  business to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; states.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can't blame Fidelity for taking the hook. Wouldn't you? If you were offered the option of driving to RI to buy a car for 7000.00 or stay in MA and pay 12,000.00 where would you go? Its that simple.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet our ignoramus governor &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;seem&lt;/span&gt;s to be blind to these simple truths. He's not trying to make &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;Massachusetts&lt;/span&gt; more friendly to business from the biggest to the smallest. The local options taxes will drive business down. If I can eat in a 99 one town over and not have to pay the tax that my town has opted to impose, how will the 99 in my town fare? Small business screwed. The greenhouse &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;emissions&lt;/span&gt; fees he signed into law week 3? Would I pay to retrofit my factory or pull up stakes? Depends on the cost, but I ain't happy about writing a check to the state. And how do those &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;penalties&lt;/span&gt; get funded? Passed on to the consumer. The citizen just got screwed. And finally this ludicrous &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;crap load&lt;/span&gt; about 'closing loopholes'. Way to go moron. How hard is it going to be for a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;company&lt;/span&gt; who does business in multiple states to just &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;relocate&lt;/span&gt; to one of them? In my professional career I've changed offices dozens of times. If the business doesn't actually &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;manufacture&lt;/span&gt; something in this state and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; offices are &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"&gt;administrative&lt;/span&gt;, its simple to pull up stakes &amp; take off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone expected you to take the hard stances on making my home state a better place to live. Don't tell me that you're taking a hard stance by &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"&gt;taking the&lt;/span&gt; cowards way out and raising taxes. With a 25 billion dollar budget, you can't tell me you can't make it work.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-5356896054358154639?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5356896054358154639/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=5356896054358154639' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/5356896054358154639'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/5356896054358154639'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/how-deval-patrick-destroyed.html' title='How Deval Patrick Destroyed Massachusetts'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-344594535662465505</id><published>2007-02-18T07:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-18T07:32:03.820-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Deval Patrick &amp; My Penny jar</title><content type='html'>I have a pickle jar on my bureau and at the end of every day, I put the change from my pocket in it. I started this practice when I got my first real job 20 + years ago. I've gone through different &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;vessels&lt;/span&gt;, but the point remains the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The jar started out empty. The ringing of the change on the bottom every evening was pretty loud since the coins had nothing to absorb &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; impact except the glass of the jar. Then in a few weeks the level inside grew and I hear a satisfying clink of coin on coin. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;That's&lt;/span&gt; when I know I'm starting top make some headway in my fun money. Then a few weeks later I get to the point where the change slips off of the overflow back onto my bureau and I know its time to cash in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's my point. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Devals&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;frivolous&lt;/span&gt; spending started out like the empty pickle jar. He's at the change on change level now as far as I'm concerned. Overflow is not far behind.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lets recap for those of you like Jackass Jim &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Braude&lt;/span&gt; who dismiss his &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Majesty's&lt;/span&gt; spending away with the wave of a hand:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2,000(estimate) helicopter ride&lt;br /&gt;46,000.00 &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;PimpMobile&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;72,000.00 private secretary for Momma Patrick&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That gets me up to 120,000.00 in 6 weeks. Lets call it 2 months. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;That's&lt;/span&gt; 60,000.00 a month. Multiply that by 12 and you're up to 720,000 a year. Multiply that by 4 and I want to puke.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the guy that wants his departments to cut spending and help cut a deficit?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And he defends each one of his bonehead moves. Angrily. He has no clue. God help us all I can't help but get sick when I think of the damage that this jackass can do.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-344594535662465505?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/344594535662465505/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=344594535662465505' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/344594535662465505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/344594535662465505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/deval-patrick-my-penny-jar.html' title='Deval Patrick &amp; My Penny jar'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-8474224214686141481</id><published>2007-02-16T07:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-16T07:31:50.605-08:00</updated><title type='text'>WRKO or Root Canal</title><content type='html'>Yesterday I took the day off from work to have a root canal done. As I was sitting in the chair thinking obscene thoughts about the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;hygienist&lt;/span&gt; my dentist interrupted mt pornographic reverie by asking me if I was in any pain. In retrospect, probably a good thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, as I &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;enjoyed&lt;/span&gt; the sound of the drill and the feeling of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;decayed&lt;/span&gt; tooth ricocheting around in my mouth, I thought to myself how many times have people jokingly said ' I'd rather have a root canal' as an option to something unpleasant?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday I had that option. At 8:00 AM I was on my way to the dentist for a root canal and figuring I was punishing myself enough, I flipped on Felons Forum on &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;WRKO&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was like getting that really sharp hook the dentist uses to probe where it hurts even though you've already told him. I know I literally winced while I was driving.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lets review and we'll tally up at the end:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pinch of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Novocaine&lt;/span&gt; needle in my gums or listen to Felon &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Finnerian&lt;/span&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'll take the needle&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unyielding whine of the drill chipping away the decay on my tooth or Felon &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Finnerian&lt;/span&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'll take the drill&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jerking mouth wrenching feeling of the tool that pulls out the pulp of my dead nerve of Felon &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Finnerian&lt;/span&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'll take the nerve extraction without &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;Novocaine&lt;/span&gt; please&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Throbbing pain of the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Novocaine&lt;/span&gt; wearing off and the evidence of the abuse my oral cavity has taken shown by the swelling of my gums or Felon &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;Finnerian&lt;/span&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bring on the pain&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soothing drowsiness and finally sleep of 2 &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;vicadin&lt;/span&gt; or Felon &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;Finnerian&lt;/span&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I think without the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;vicadin&lt;/span&gt; I'd have been asleep listening to the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;colossal&lt;/span&gt; bore that is &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;Finnerian&lt;/span&gt; anyway.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK, so lets sum up- Root canal or &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;Finnerian&lt;/span&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Root canal by a landslide!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And here's the tragedy of all this folks: Its true. All kidding aside, I actually had a better experience than the survey delivers. My dentist is great, the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;hygienist&lt;/span&gt; is a knockout and the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;vicadin&lt;/span&gt; part is true. I had a great root canal &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"&gt;experience&lt;/span&gt;. But when the pain is gone and my tooth is fixed, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"&gt;Finnerian&lt;/span&gt; will still be &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"&gt;un&lt;/span&gt;- listenable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So there you go. I &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"&gt;would actually&lt;/span&gt; rather have a root canal than listen to that &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"&gt;sanctimonious&lt;/span&gt; monotone &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"&gt;pantload&lt;/span&gt; Tom &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"&gt;Finnerian&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-8474224214686141481?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8474224214686141481/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=8474224214686141481' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/8474224214686141481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/8474224214686141481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/wrko-or-root-canal.html' title='WRKO or Root Canal'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-7874557913867737961</id><published>2007-02-14T06:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-14T06:50:26.565-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Air Deval</title><content type='html'>Yesterday and this morning I read and listened to the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Rodney&lt;/span&gt; Allen &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Ripney&lt;/span&gt; of Massachusetts politics' stance on the use of the state Police helicopter to attend a funeral and the swearing in of Joe &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Denucci&lt;/span&gt;. In all honesty after the original disgust and comparison to figurehead &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Governor&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Jane&lt;/span&gt; Swift passed, I guess in the gran scheme of things its not such a big deal. Don't get me wrong, I was initially &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;PO'd&lt;/span&gt; and in the heat of the moment posted a nasty &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;response&lt;/span&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.devalpatrickwatch.com/"&gt;www.DevalPatrickWatch.com&lt;/a&gt;.  In retrospect I guess if i want the leader of the State to do an important job, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;maybe&lt;/span&gt; its not such a big deal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then I started listening to the audio clips of his explanation. Now I've heard a lot of the puff pieces ( his &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;podcasts&lt;/span&gt; are as fluffy as a roll of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Cottennelle&lt;/span&gt; toilet tissue) and the arrogance came through loud and clear. It was there. The "How dare you" tone. The "I know better than you and don't think to question me" tone. The tone that gave away the true measure of the man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I didn't like it. It reminded me of those movies where the sweet little girl is &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;possessed&lt;/span&gt; and for just a second her eyes turned green and you saw the demon within. I saw it when he interviewed with John &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Keller&lt;/span&gt; too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;also&lt;/span&gt; says " I won't forget this" it says " I'm as big a politico as there is " And &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;unfortunately&lt;/span&gt; it also says" business as usual".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Am I reading too  much into this? I don't think so. Taken in context with everything &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;Duval&lt;/span&gt; has done, or hasn't done for that matter, I think this episode just served to expand the chasm between the doe eyed hopefuls that latched themselves to his wagon hoping for more inclusion, hoping for more &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;transparency&lt;/span&gt;, hoping that he wasn't an empty suit when they walked into the ballot booth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where are his followers, his supporters, the 'WE' in Yes We Can? I don't hear as much from them anymore. Not even the 'lets give him a chance' folks. Is there a level of dissapointment growing at the grass roots? I can't believe that all of these people are satisfied with the product Duval is delivering?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And taxes. I'm hearing more and more about them. In my hometown, they're floating a prop 2 1/2 override out again. Already threatening to cut  policemen  firemen &amp; schoolteachers. I guess I have a problem with this since if we had enough moneylast year and we budget for growth, why don't we have enough money this year? What are my property taxes going to? betterments and easements and so on all moving to the town coffers and they keep asking for more. I don't have it to give.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 more weeks until Rodney Allen Ripney floats his budget. I can't wait to see where he cuts. Do you really think he got good imput from the departments asked to trim budgets? Of course not. If your livleyhood is based upon how much you allegedly produce, how are you going to tell your boss you're not at bare bones. I'll take action on the fact that the reason these cuts were not released to CLT is because they were laughable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God help us all, I could type till my fingers fall off.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-7874557913867737961?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/7874557913867737961/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=7874557913867737961' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/7874557913867737961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/7874557913867737961'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/air-deval.html' title='Air Deval'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-6744088267217953988</id><published>2007-02-13T09:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-13T09:22:41.578-08:00</updated><title type='text'>WRKO God help them all</title><content type='html'>I've been a pretty loyal RKO listener for about 20 years. My college job was  as a security guard from 3-11 pm and it was Jerry Williams all afternoon. I'd probably be right in saying it helped me form my conservative views I have today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Things are changing in Massachussetts and not for the better. Our new democratic Governer has pretty much flipped thepopulace the bird and is already running rampant in terms of changing CORI laws, not allowing State Police the power to stop illegal immigrants, reversing funding cuts to pork programs and preparing the public for tax increases because of a looming budget deficit. He's populated his cabinet with union hacks as well as sychophants and yes men. And with the houses controlled by the Democrats, the Republican voice has been dangerously quelled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, in what can only be described as a disgracefuls slap in the face to loyal RKO listeners, Julie Kahn has plopped Tom Finnerian, legendary hack and disgraced convicted felon in the morning drive time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I commute for a while and I can't deal with the mind numbing chatter of FM radio. I like to think I'm smarter than the average bear and need to feed my mind and keep up with current events.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Finnerians show is just a mutual masturbation session. He jerks off the Governor, and we're left with our dicks in our hands.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-6744088267217953988?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6744088267217953988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=6744088267217953988' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/6744088267217953988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/6744088267217953988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/wrko-god-help-them-all.html' title='WRKO God help them all'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-4164446462544787802</id><published>2007-02-12T12:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-08T06:39:02.637-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Massachusetts Miracle</title><content type='html'>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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;which leads me to our new Governor, the Rodney Allen &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Ripney&lt;/span&gt; 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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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 5&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; 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? &lt;a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/02/12/patrick_seeks_to_limit_background_checks/?page=full"&gt;http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/02/12/patrick_seeks_to_limit_background_checks/?page=full&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to this moron's version, only things that criminals are convicted of will show up? &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;That's&lt;/span&gt; nice. based on how full the courts are and how &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;criminals&lt;/span&gt; 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 &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;technicality&lt;/span&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, as the bitch in this relationship, I think I'm about to get another beating.....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-4164446462544787802?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4164446462544787802/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=4164446462544787802' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/4164446462544787802'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/4164446462544787802'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/massachusetts-miracle.html' title='The Massachusetts Miracle'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-8344238319826877514</id><published>2007-01-08T06:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-08T06:39:02.311-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Massachusetts- How did I get where I am?'/><title type='text'>How did I end up on the right?</title><content type='html'>I admit that while a registered independent I staunchly vote Republican. I was raised in the suburbs south of Boston in a pro union home where my father was the primary breadwinner and worked for the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)"&gt;IUEC&lt;/span&gt; all of his life. Admittedly they took very good care of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)"&gt;thier&lt;/span&gt; members and while we never had a lot of money, we had everything we needed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I grew up and got a better perspective of the world- (read : started earning my own money)&lt;br /&gt;I seemed to move further &amp; further to the right. Not because of spite or hatefulness or avarice. I don't really have a lot of greed in my soul. I &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)"&gt;simpy&lt;/span&gt; got tired of learning about all the things people were doing with my money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Excise tax, state tax, federal tax, Railroad tax, FICA, Social Security. Even young and living at home, I started to realize what a bite these thighs were taking out of my small paychecks while I worked part time and went to high school &amp; college.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My problem was that I started paying attention. I read the papers and asked questions. I got involved in and followed politics. And every time I took a step that gained me more knowledge, I learned something more &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)"&gt;distateful&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welfare cheats, Social Security Disability, Food Stamp Fraud, unemployment scams, and as I get older its even ore distasteful. Immigration cheats, housing scams, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)"&gt;SSN&lt;/span&gt; &amp; identity theft.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of it on my dime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It needs to stop. I don't know how nor do I delude myself that it can be stopped. But something... &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;anything&lt;/span&gt; is better than nothing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the words of the famous Dr Marvin Monroe- baby steps.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, for those of you who follow the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Massachusetts&lt;/span&gt; miracle- stand by. I feel someone pushing me forward into a bent over position. His name is &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)"&gt;Deval&lt;/span&gt;. And there's not going to be any love in whats next.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-8344238319826877514?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8344238319826877514/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=8344238319826877514' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/8344238319826877514'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/8344238319826877514'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-did-i-end-up-on-right.html' title='How did I end up on the right?'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-5981488875282066008</id><published>2007-01-05T13:54:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-05T13:54:55.860-08:00</updated><title type='text'>All about me</title><content type='html'>Well, its always all about me isn't it?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-5981488875282066008?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5981488875282066008/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=5981488875282066008' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/5981488875282066008'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/5981488875282066008'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/all-about-me.html' title='All about me'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2204534261599758713.post-3551987320991977101</id><published>2007-01-05T13:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-05T13:49:31.130-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Big Bish's 1st Blog</title><content type='html'>Well well well well well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who'd have thought that i &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;thought&lt;/span&gt; enough of myself to decide that my ramblings, thoughts, positions on the world, politics, women and wisdom in general merited a blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I obviously never though quite enough of myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those times have changed cupcakes of the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Internet&lt;/span&gt;. Be afraid. Be very afraid.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2204534261599758713-3551987320991977101?l=bigbishblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3551987320991977101/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2204534261599758713&amp;postID=3551987320991977101' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/3551987320991977101'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2204534261599758713/posts/default/3551987320991977101'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bigbishblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/big-bishs-1st-blog.html' title='Big Bish&apos;s 1st Blog'/><author><name>Big Bish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04133493940876117481</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LW-U9Sf0V9U/SLbUkUp8OAI/AAAAAAAAABk/0qhrm0y1sTI/S220/lisrobot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
