Monday, December 22, 2008

Be Happy About Tax Increases? Go F Yourself.

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 corruptocrats on Beacon Hill are looking under every rock they can find to screw the money out of the taxpayer.

Of course, we're talking higher taxes. An increase in the income tax and to offset the gianormous debt of the Big Dig thats a result of gross mismanagement and malfeasance , toll increases.

Lets set aside for now that I believe that the FBI should be focusing their anti corruption efforts on Big Dig machinations and not chumps like Chuck Turner. That's a topic for another day.

I am actually reading opinions by some stating how happy I should be that the gas tax will be instated in Massachusetts.

Ed Moscovitch is president of Cape Ann Economics. He writes this little ditty in the Boston herald Op Ed section. I've highlighted the stupidest part of his diatribe.


Dear Gov. Patrick,
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
Big Dig and related transit projects, your predecessors dumped its debt service on the Turnpike Authority and the MBTA; both of these agencies are now on the brink of bankruptcy. We’re short-changing maintenance on the Big Dig by 90 percent.
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.

Last week I hit a deep pothole in the center lane on I-95 near Attleboro. 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 isn’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.


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.

It’s hard to believe that we’ve 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.
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.


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’ve set for state projects.

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.
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!


So, what this hole is saying is that he can't believe the price of gas made its proper adjustment without tacking a tax on it. Forget doing anything intelligent, like level funding, combining agencies, telling the unions to F themselves with mandated pay raises, just jump straight into additional taxes.

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.

I work for a company on the brink of collapse. Guess what we did?

1) Cut Executive pay & benefit programs
2) Sorry, no raises this year
3) Unprofitable part of the company? Sorry, we're closing it to save money
4) Can we sell this part of the Company off or privatize it?
5) Sorry, but this year no bonus
6) Duplicity means we're paying the different folks to do the same job. One of you needs to go

Get the point? My wallet is not an endless supply of money for your indulgence. Its time to start running this state like a business, and not a playground.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

It must hurt to be gay

Today I realized how agonizingly 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.

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.

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.

Now, I believe pleasure is a non-gender related feeling. For instance, kissing. Blindfolded, I bet if I was kissing another guy ( easy Liberace!) I might not be able to tell the difference. Or neck nibbling, or even oral sex. Remember, blindfolded.

But, get to some insertion in the hinder land, 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.

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.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

2009 begins the steep upward climb

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?

Help me out with this. When some shmoe 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 their food money on gas an oil. The sky is falling.

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?

When the Obama-Messiah 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.

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.

Monday, December 15, 2008

A Shoe? Seriously, Who Throws A Shoe?



Yes, reminiscent of Austin Powers Random Task, President Bush was assaulted with a pair of Hush Puppies in a recent visit to Iraq.


Now, I'm just going to say this: What the hell is wrong with these people? We topple thier genocidal dictator, give them the opportunity to bring Democracy to thier country, let them develop thier own government, help them get rid of a political system which is about as close to a barrom brawl as anything else and this is the thanks we get?




Look, agree with the reasons for the incursion or not, we did the right thing. Shot, when Clinton went after Slobidan Milosivitch, in Bosnia half of Congress wanted to swallow his seed. We were making a great humanitarian 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.
I have been a Bush supporter from the beginning. Yes the war has gone on too long , but a mistake? No.
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.
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.




Ummm yea... umm I forgot it?

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.

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Numbers

I've got a lot of numbers in my life, and some of them are whats making me consider taking new directions.

2 & 1 - I used to have type 2 diabetes. Now I have type 1 diabetes.

337- That's my current weight. I've added 40 pounds since I went on insulin

42- That's how old I am

80- That's the number of units I take in my ' basal dose' of insulin each morning

22-40 - that's the number of units of fast acting insulin I inject before or immediately following each meal

3- That's the number of pills I take a day- Metformin for my diabetes, simvastatin for my cholesterol and zestril for my BP.

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 that's making me think that I need to find the motivation to make some significant changes in my lifestyle

Friday, October 19, 2007

Michael Stanley All Over Again

"Gov. Deval Patrick’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.
Administration and Finance Secretary Leslie Kirwan, 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." -
Boston Herald- October 18, 2007

I seem to recall a little phrase being bandied around while all of the Devaliens were sitting in a big circle, hands firmly wrapped around their manhood chanting ' Together We Can". It was that once Governor Rodney Allen Rippey 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?

Anyone with half the sense of a golf ball 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 & bridges, of course the children and now the state budget.

Here's my advice to Governor do-nothing. Go with the deep cuts option.

Monday, September 24, 2007

I'm tired of dumb people

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. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/brainiac/2007/09/boston_cracks_d.html

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...)

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.

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. Them join Alec Baldwin & Sean Penn and move to some other country where our freedom to even contemplate this question doesn't exist.

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. Why is this pinko putting Iraqi's first?

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! I think this one speaks for itself.


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. 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. 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 -- I love when nerds get technical and expect the rest of us to stay with them. That's why they're nerds. 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. Dolt


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?

Of course, should half of the terminal blown up, then what would the response be?

Monday, September 17, 2007

Viva Las Massachusetts

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/09/under_patrick_p.html



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.

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.

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.

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.

Have you ever seen a help wanted ad looking for toll takers? Ask yourself why.

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.

The problem I have is that this isn't going to improve my quality of life. The graft , corruption & 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?

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 & 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.

Yea its all pie in the sky. None of this will ever happen because my state rep & senator aren't looking out for me. They're looking out for themselves.

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.

Friday, September 14, 2007

My Governor the Assh*le

This is from John Keller blog: http://wbztv.com/kellerblog 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 bold and the morons aren't.

"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 (read: How dare they question the great & powerful OZ!) 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. (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)

He called efforts to "gin up political controversy" over his words "sad." Patrick said, "First of all, I think I was clear,(if it was clear, why are regular Joe's asking you to apologize you putz?) and I think the condemnation of the attacks on all of us is universal. (No Deval- only you feel this way) 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( he's like Wallace Shawn in the Princess Pride- he uses that word too much.) I was taught in my church that all violent attack is a failure of human understanding." ( This means that he wasn't thinking for himself but he blames his church. Nice - standard democratic ploy. Jesus made me do it!) 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." ( There's that arrogance again) Later, returning to his office after the radio show, Patrick was asked whose reaction caused the other reaction. He replied, "Conservatives," ( 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) before being interrupted by visitors to his office.”

This is from the Herald's critique of the moron's interview http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/politics/view.bg?articleid=1031384

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 ( I thought you weren't going to apologize you dolt) .”

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.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

No, seriously Britney....




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 & broadcast TV... you name it.




Is she so special that she deserves the scrutiny shes getting? Hello?? Paris Hilton ???




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.




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.....












Monday, September 10, 2007

Coffee Shower

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.

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.

What a shitty way to start my Monday.

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Love & Chicken

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.

That's what love and marriage are all about. Understanding each other and knowing what or how the other will react.

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.

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 & Cheese and Grilled Cheese sandwich phase. Eating chicken wings - protein- not bad for him, OK.

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.

I believed I had been the victim of the Bait & Switch. I was told one thing and I got another. I had been hosed.

Was I wrong to be upset? No. Look, my wife's not shackled to the stove. She works & brings up the kids, blah blah blah. But, when she says she's putting the meal on the table, that's what I'm expecting. Her cooking skills are the topic of another post someday.

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.

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?

Oh, by the way - I asked for onions in the tuna and was told no f'in way.

So, I was pissed. Deservedly so, I believed. Wouldn't you be?

After a few barbs about my hosing I was told pretty much to F off. And that's 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 accustomed. So in the big picture, tuna ain't so bad.

I just would have liked non spicy chicken, like I was promised.

Friday, August 10, 2007

Ugh. Just ugh


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




Friday, June 29, 2007

Paris Hilton - Not!!!

I could rail on about this travesty for pages & pages. I could. But I have something more important on my mind this Friday.

Denny's.

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 Friendlys is a good breakfast place. Someplace I can get a lot of breakfast for a little money.

Now critics of this statement will come out with ' Yes, but you sacrifice quality!'. Lets think about that.

What do they make sausages out of? And forget scrapple? How do you screw up eggs, or bacon? I don't need gourmet coffee, just acrid caffeine laden liquid flavored with those little cups of creamer and sugar. Toast? Please. There's no way to screw that up unless you burn it.

And there you have it- your quality argument resolved

I miss a good hearty inexpensive breakfast on a Sunday morning. That's why my town needs a Denny's

Friday, June 22, 2007

How much is too much?

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?".

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.

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).

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.

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.

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?

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

I'm back, baby


I took a small hiatus from my blog. But, as Bender says, "I'm back baby!"
















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.








So, I'm back. More to come, believe me.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

I'm the victim

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 Brimley 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.

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 DJ's 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 SNL or Mad TV. Look at the atrociously racist stuff that Chris Rock spews. Look at UPN when it was around (Homeboys in Outer Space??? )

Spike Lee is perhaps one of the biggest racists I know. Why doesn't anyone come down on Carlos Mencia? George Lopez consistently bashes white people against Mexicans and he's on a top 20 TV show. Can I sue him too?

I know 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 & Eddie Murphy make their bones by joking about how the white man kept them down?

Well, I'm not that white man, the same way the Rutgers basketball team aren't nappy headed hoes.

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 coifs educated virgin young ladies.

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 middle class middle aged somewhat portly follicle challenged white guts together and demand restitution.

I have to think there's a TV lawyer who would take this on a contingency basis. Imagine what I can make from Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson....

Friday, March 30, 2007

7 Days & 7 Nights

I decided I would take a week off.

After all, how much trouble could the Rodney Allen Rippey of Massachusetts politics get into in a week? He must be pretty much petered out by now, right?

Man, I'm glad i didn't put any money on that one. What a week. And as someone who did not drink the kool aid what a fun week it was.

Yea, I did sign up for devalpatrick.com. Strictly for the entertainment value alone I would have paid money. Whats new and groundbreaking there? A messageboard that's abused like any other messageboard, the Deval Patrick Handjob that's on the welcome page and the gross violation of privacy that was the clusterfuck of the first few days. I laughed so hard my sides still hurt.

I love the disclaimer: The views expressed by users of MyIssue.DevalPatrick.com do not necessarily represent the views of Deval Patrick, the Deval 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 wifes bedside, right?

"The Governor keeps track of the efforts of everyone who uses MyIssue.DevalPatrick.com and will often comment on issues generating solid amounts of support.
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.

Sure- and Santa will be coming down the Chimney on Xmas eve. If this guy's got 1/2 a brain, which I doubt, the back peddling should start soon.


What ever happened to that by the way? Is Diane Patrick miraculously healed? Maybe she is. Deval should post it on his website. That would make us all feel good.

Civic Engagement? Please. The lesson learned about civic engagement in this state is that it doesn't happen. There's wishful thinking mind you. That's what all the Devaliens think is civic engagement as they hold hands, sing kum-ba- 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 Finnerian torpedoed the rollback of the 'temporary sales tax'.

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 nite and start spreading those words of wisdom. Saturday morning I'll be blogging from Mass General. Of course we all know the most effective way to get those naughty gangbangers to stop filling each other full of lead is to scold them. Harshly. Maybe they'll break into song and dance like the Sharks & Jets. What a boob.

I should take another week off. The comedy aspect of last week alone was worth it.

7 Days & 7 Nights

I decided I would take a week off.

After all, how much trouble could the Rodney Allen Rippey of Massachusetts politics get into in a week? He must be pretty much petered out by now, right?

Man, I'm glad i didn't put any money on that one. What a week. And as someone who did not drink the kool aid what a fun week it was.

Yea, I did sign up for devalpatrick.com. Strictly for the entertainment value alone I would have paid money. Whats new and groundbreaking there? A messageboard that's abused like any other messageboard, the Deval Patrick Handjob that's on the welcome page and the gross violation of privacy that was the clusterfuck of the first few days. I laughed so hard my sides still hurt.

I love the disclaimer: The views expressed by users of MyIssue.DevalPatrick.com do not necessarily represent the views of Deval Patrick, the Deval 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 wifes bedside, right?

"The Governor keeps track of the efforts of everyone who uses MyIssue.DevalPatrick.com and will often comment on issues generating solid amounts of support.
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.

Sure- and Santa will be coming down the Chimney on Xmas eve. If this guy's got 1/2 a brain, which I doubt, the back peddling should start soon.


What ever happened to that by the way? Is Diane Patrick miraculously healed? Maybe she is. Deval should post it on his website. That would make us all feel good.

Civic Engagement? Please. The lesson learned about civic engagement in this state is that it doesn't happen. There's wishful thinking mind you. That's what all the Devaliens think is civic engagement as they hold hands, sing kum-ba- 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 Finnerian torpedoed the rollback of the 'temporary sales tax'.

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 nite and start spreading those words of wisdom. Saturday morning I'll be blogging from Mass General. Of course we all know the most effective way to get those naughty gangbangers to stop filling each other full of lead is to scold them. Harshly. Maybe they'll break into song and dance like the Sharks & Jets. What a boob.

I should take another week off. The comedy aspect of last week alone was worth it.