SCATALOGICS AT THS and TFB … WHATCHA PACKING FOR PLUMBING? … plus … PLANET CATCHES SCHOOL COMMITTEE TRYING TO PULL A FAST ONE … THE COMMENT LINE IS OPEN
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION, APRIL 1-3, 2016) — No, it’s no an April Fool‘s joke. After construction crews broke ground for the new THS, they caused a backup of the sewers in the present building. Supt. JIV McCandless and Associate Supt. Kristen “Grease Queen” Behnke rushed from Mercer to the scene to view the handiwork. They weren’t phased. They’re used to standing knee-deep in bullshit.
Now to a couple of other items you may have missed.
Of course you missed them. The Mainstream Media is too busy telling you how great everything is. THE PLANET is the only site that’s doing any investigative journalism on a consistent basis.
Plumbing Rules
Speaking of bathrooms, Connecticut has joined four other states, including Cuomoland, and a bunch of cities, including Boston, banning state employees from official travel to North Carolina. Seem that the First in Flight principality has decided — correctly, as it turns out — to keep its men’s and women’s rooms off limits to the opposite sex.
The issue would never be one, of course, had not the latest flavor of the Far Left day not been “those who identify themselves as transgendered.” Need to hit the head? North Carolina goes by your personal plumbing. Regarding No. 1, if you have to stand and whip it out, you’re a man. You use the Men’s Room. If you have to sit and hover, you’re a woman. You go to the ladies toilet. Period.
THE PLANET doesn’t care how you “identify.” You could identify as a frog dressed in latex for all we care. It’s what you’re packing underneath that determines where you have to go when you have to go. You can see the problems inherent in allowing men to use women’s bathrooms. We won’t draw you a map.
You can sleep easy tonight, however, to know that Pittsfield stalwart state rep., Tricia Farley-Bouvier, is right on top of this vital issue. While the city she represents takes giant steps closer to financial chaos, she’s supporting the bathroom issue for the transgendered. Isn’t it a comfort, dear friends, that TFB has her priorities straight? TFB, after all, has gone all-out for another vital issue to Pittsfield. She’s all for giving illegal aliens drivers’ licenses. They broke the law, which makes them criminals, but she’s all for it.
What are the odds, ladies and gentlemen, that The Boston Bosses made up TFB’s mind for her on these two issues?
You, on the other hand, work hard, pay your taxes or at least try to pay, and are working two or three jobs to try and keep your head above water — and she’s pissing all over you.
Michael Bloomberg, the city turns its lonely eyes to you.
It Couldn’t Be Deliberate, Now, Could It?
THE PLANET has been talking up the 6 p.m. April 13 meeting of The Ship of Fools, a.k.a., The Pittsfield School Committee led by the sagging, though not sagacious, Kathy “Lady Boots” Yon. We told you that the meeting would take place in the PHS library (sounds like we’re playing Clue, eh? “Grandpa Munster Jr., with the rope, in the library”). THE PLANET got the location directly off the PSC web site. How naive of us, trusting an official city document.
It turns out that at its March 9 meeting, the minutes of which were posted March 23, the Fools changed the location from the school library to city hall council chambers. The venue change came on agenda item VIII (that’s “8” for all you non-Romans). That was to ensure that few if anyone from the general public (read “citizens, taxpayers”) would be left watching. In other words, they tried to pull a fast one.
THE PLANET, fortunately for We The People, monitors such things directly and through our vast network of Z-Agents in The Secret Squadron. We can confirm that the PSC 4-13 meeting will take place in council chambers at city hall.
Folks, if you are fed up with the school budget’s rapacious plundering of the general fund, make your feelings known. Sacrifice one evening for the good of the team, and let The Ship of Fools know that there must be cuts, not the millions more in funding that the Pittsfield School Department is demanding.
Wake up, folks. It’s time to take back the government.
With that, THE PLANET opens The Comment Line. Bring your A Game, please.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
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Ask Adams/Cheshire Regional Schools how that usual reasoning of ” it’s for the children ” has worked out for them. One year after a prop 2 1/2 override based on that argument they are forced to consider closing a school.
Budget, budget you talkin budget. That is not a word in Pittsfield, it is called a spending plan.
Nice article in the business paper (I think it’s called Berkshire Trader). In it the prognosis for the county is a population drop to the high 80’s, basically another 30% drop. Shouldn’t the leaders be “planning” for this so the children don’t get left holding the bag, I mean debt.
In economics, the number one asset to a community or region such as Berkshire County is the people who live there. When thousands of people move away from Pittsfield/B.C., that means real economic loss.
I understand that South Berkshire County through the Pittsfield area has thousands of 2nd home owners who pay property taxes. But there children do not attend local schools and grow up to live in more prosperous areas of the nation.
The G.O.B. has spun Pittsfield into a downward spiral!
Their children, Jon.
Off and on over the weekend I have spent several hours researching cancer clusters, trying to find anything about high incidence of cancer in Pittsfield or any/all towns along the Housatonic. I have found nothing. The CDC, which would be a logical place to start, links you out to each state’s department of Health for statistics, and the Mass. Link is broken. I have found several sources for reportage from Berkshire county, none of which paint the county as overly cancer ridden. Quite the opposite in fact, with Berkshire County seeming to have the lowest cancer rate in the state. There is a VERY long whitewash paper by a government agency specifically about Hill 78 in Pittsfield, done in the late 90’s which includes a table demonstrating that Pittsfield has no outstanding, unexpectedly high cancer rates of any type of cancer. BHS issued a report a few years ago, 2012 I believe, claiming cancer as the #2 cause of death in the county…but again, with no demonstrably higher rate than elsewhere in the state, in fact mostly lower.
I have heard SO much anecdotal evidence of SO many cases of cancer. I have to wonder, as someone somewhere said, if it doesn’t count as a cancer death someone dies of pneumonia or an infection after their immune system gets wiped out by chemo. It’s time to start a real census. I will establish an email account and try to gather as much info as possible on the subject anecdotally. Details to come.
Or is the chemical contamination linked to the chronic underdevelopment of brainpower in Pittsfield?
There are published cancer cluster maps on the web. Disease clusters as well. Berkshire County hasn’t been identified as either.
Yes Romen, there are actually several maps, but all that I have found aggregate date for the entire county. There seems to be nothing more…precise, and it would be easy for Pittsfield’s high numbers (IF they were disproportionalely high…not saying they are yet) to be offset by lower numbers from the rest of the county, especially when North Adams leads the state in lung cancer deaths due to disproportionately high smoking rates. The other thing that does bother me is that most of the maps I’ve seen report data based on cancer deaths, not cancer diagnoses. This would allow a fair amount of fudging and underreporting to skew the numbers as often people with cancer end up dying from other complications. I just find it an interesting and potentially worthwhile project.
Venture on down to the river a have a glass of water.
W H E T S
Woman helping empower the schools.