IT’S IN THE AIR … IT’s COMING … CAN YOU FEEL IT? THE PLANET SPELLS IT OUT … or … FACTORS OF A FEELING
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
[ED NOTE: THE PLANET is accepting nominees for out coveted Orbit Award. We shall make the announcement of our winner before Christmas. Last year, Charles Garivaltis took honors. Who will it be this time?]
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(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION DEC. 10-12, 2021) — Can you feel it?
The sea change being experienced throughout America?
If so, what will be happening in the next year shouldn’t surprise you. Check in with THE PLANET a little less than a year from now to see if we are correct.
We speak primarily but not only about the 2002 Congressional elections.
There’s a feeling in the air at present, and, like everything else today, feelings are political. LEt’s look at some of the key factors of this feeling.
JOE’s APPROVAL RATING
The better way to put this would be President Biden’s disapproval rating. He had the briefest of honeymoons, stuck with
- the slim margin of victory over Trump,
- the persistent pandemic,
- a loser VP
- failure to understand China
- and the economy
Not even a year in office, and Syracuse Joe has hit a record bottom for any president. That’s not surprising. The country has been torn in two.
THE RITTENHOUSE VERDICT
The kid was found not guilty, a boomerang effect of a country having been “Floyd-ed out” and sick of race being injected into everything, especially things that have nothing to do with race. That said, what do you think is going to happen when a dumbass 17-year-old kid (a) leaves his house, (b) drives 10 miles to a neighboring town, and (c) enters a riot brandishing an AR-15 semiautomatic assault rifle? Rittenhouse should have been found guilty of TS — Teen Stupidity, instead of being lionized by the right.
INFLATION
Since the pandemic, our “leaders” have increased the circulation of currency nearly $230 billion. Fact: Some 20% of all U.S. dollars presently circulating were created (run off on the printing press with nothing to back them except a promise) in 2020. Biden calls it “transitory inflation,” as if it’s a desert mirage that will soon go away. Fact: Inflation hasn’t been this high in 30 years.
Printing fake dollars not backed by precious metals or some other valuable commodity removes all practical restraints on monetary expansion. The result is a willful devaluation of currency. Predictably, Fed chair Jerome Powell said it’s time to drop the word “transitory.” Inflation looks like it’s making camp.
“Transitory?” Playing games with words. Of course it’s “transitory.” So is everything and everyone. The Pleistocene Era was transitory. As George Harrison put it in his brilliant album, “All Things Must Pass.”
Inflation real and it’s here to stay, at least as long as government taxes and spends at sinful levels (Hello, Pittsfield!). Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski prove it to themselves each time they buy groceries, fill up at the gas pump, or pay their utility bills. Since Biden took office, gasoline has jumped almost 67%. The average price of a vehicle is up 19%. In fact, a Wall Street Poll issued this week found that “paying everyday bills” was the country’s number one worry.
As prices rise and inflation erode the purchasing power of existing dollars, what’s the proper word ? “Inflation” doesn’t cover it. How about “stagflation.”
- Slow growth in the GDP
- Rising unemployment
- Jobs begging to be filled
- Supply-line chaos
- Soaring prices
- Currency’s loss of value
- Two new spending plans conservatively estimated to cost $3 trillion and probably double that once it’s done the damage.
The word is “stagflation,” what is to the economy and the Kapanski’s pocketbook what garlic and mirrors are to Bela Lugosi. If you want an update on stagflation, check out the economy in the 1970s, when the term was born.
GERRYMANDERING
In prep for the 2022 elections, state legislatures are redefining congressional districts, a process known as gerrymandering. The redrawn maps. That ongoing fudging will have profound implications for the country a year from now. Currently, the Dems have a precarious 50-50 Senate edge, doing not much better in the House, where they rule 221-213. Flip five seats there, and you think politics are crazy now? Right now, it appears that with gerrymandering alone, the GOP may take back both houses. Then Je’s fun will really begin, the country will become even more paralyzed by gridlock, and China will continue its deserved ascendancy.
CONCLUSION
Back to the beginning and the sea change we mentioned.
Have you figured it out yet?
Okay. Let us spell it out for you.
Less than a year from now, we shall see a massive Republican wave sweep the mid-term elections. The red will be flowing, and the GOP will have the Democrats blue.
Have a great weekend, everybody.
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“A republic, if you can keep it” – Benjamin Franklin.
“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
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Bidenomics, have to love it. There have been many more “issues” that illegitimate has created that you were kind to ignore. He will go down as one of the worse Presidents ever! Add to that what the Democrats are doing in Pittsfield and we the taxpaying citizens of Pittsfield getting hit with a tsunami!! Not sure if there is anywhere they can hide. The kicker is somehow the Democrats will win….how does that happen??
Agree, Although Obama will go down as the worst President ever elected.
Brandon Xiden is making a strong push to unseat Barry as the worst. Unfortunately, he still has time.
BRANDON v. BARRY. HAs a cool ring to it.
Biden is the Worst President ever. Barry is the Worst President ever elected.
Brandon and Barry. Now that’s a pair that would lose to a joker.
Saved America from the Republican world financial Wall Street collaspe of 2009….Where did you live when this happened
Obama rescue plan was a disgraceful waste of money, and the pending Bidenplosion, which will happen if demorats pass their spending bill, will make 2009 look like minor leagues.
TSC,
You are full of Solyndra!
Trump Coup and white ignorance may take America down.White ignorance is pushing the lie.White ignorance creates scared white men.Scared white men go for lies that comfort them and white power turns violent ignoring what the greatest generation fought for.We are in a time and you see it right here on this blog who are silent and afraid to tell the story of Donald Trump.Never a word about Trump about what he’s done and what he is planning.I thought over time his deciet would be revealed. Not on this blog.The fear is thick.The ignorance is overwhelming.The attacks on Unions,Lawyers and Education since Reagan make anyone see that your white radio and white TV control your thoughts….you unwoke make fun of violence poverty and pain.You won’t allow minorities to vote easily and without violence and intimidation.You call yourself patriots.I can feel your ignorance and your hate and mostly your fear.Why do you love that dam confederate flag right here in Massachusetts the fear is spreading.Do not wear a mask is Code for terrorist to attack truth and intelligence.Your rights are being violated by truth…..You’re so scared
Just saw this TDS, go drink your Thorazine and take a nap. Your delusions should subside. Maybe when you wake up take a walk in the woods and breathe in the fresh air. Maybe you will find a more stable center. I will pray not only for your soul but your mind as well
Jessi Smollet was supported bigly by that raciss Kamala Harris who despicably voted for Rachel Rollins as new US Federal prosecutor for Taxachusetts. Can that dangerous, police impersonating racist , Raciss Rollins, please give Hardly Harrington a job so we can be rid of her???
Unfortunately Harrington has the wrong skin color for a appointment. Rollins is a race baiting, hack who cherry picks the laws she wants to prosecute. Also has some serious anger issues. But she does check the right box’s.
And Raciss Rollins is half white, just as Obama was. And they both pretend, like Harris, that they are “black” . They are all a bunch or race bating phony’s. If only Harrington could pretend she was half black, she could maybe get an appointment. I wonder if she has police lights on her government car like Rollins did, impersonating a police officer, which is a crime, by the way.
Dan, what are qualifications for this illustrious Orbit award? I thought it went to a distinguished Planeteer, for contributions made to your blog during calendar year. Seems like the door has been opened as wide as Kapanskis wallet, as far as eligibility is concerned.
When White and Mike were recipients anything now goes.
The qualifications to WIN the award are known only to the Committee. That said, anyone can be nominated. After that, the Committee narrows it down to who qualifies. From among that shorter list, the Committee chooses the winner. So anyone is eligible for nomination but, as we learn in the NT, many are called but few are chosen.
sounds quite childish
Thank you, THOMAS. Merry Christmas to one of our most loyal PLANETEERS. In fact, you are so valued that we are putting your name in nomination for the COA!!
Sorry Dan, but I never go back to see if anyone replies to my posts. They always give me thumbs down or post hurtful things. I’m very sensitive.
Not from me, TM. I’m one of your biggest fans!
Thanks Dan. Fair enough, it’s your blog, but what does NT mean?
Sorry, JOE. It stands for New Testament.
Oh, okay. Now I get it. Maybe someday we will actually have a mayor that sees the job as a calling, and actually transforms the city into Kapanskiville, instead of a haven for GOBSIGs.
Precisely. Someone running for the RIGHT reasons.
On Pittsfield politics, Mayor Linda Tyer is sitting on tens of millions of dollars in Biden Bucks and Matt Kerwood’s Slush Funds. Why did she raise municipal spending by the always, always, always,….predictable 5 percent margin when she is flush with more cash than any Mayor in the sad history of corrupt Pittsfield politics’ failed state and local leadership? Why is she possibly illegally shutting out the proverbial Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski out of the city’s spending of its Biden Bucks? What happened to the state’s Open Meeting Law and Ethics Laws? Why doesn’t someone write to the state Attorney General’s Office about Mayor Linda Tyer’s possibly illegal actions? To be clear, Mayor Linda Tyer’s tax and spending ways are possibly illegal and NOT even rational anymore!
On Beacon Hill politics, the state Legislature is still on its 7-week-long taxpayer-funded vacation until January 5th, 2022. They just passed their Biden Bucks and state surplus spending bill in informal legislative session, but they are still sitting on billions of additional state cash that should belong in the pockets of the proverbial Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski family. Smitty Pignatelli is still writing his lofty worded op-eds, but we all know that his real public record in Boston is anything but lofty. Chrome Dome Adam Hinds is racking up endorsements for his campaign for Lieutenant Governor, but what does that useless position actually do for the people and taxpayers of Massachusetts? To be clear, the Berkshire legislative delegation – Chrome Dome, Shitty, Trippy Country Buffet, Paul Marxism, and the career Mayor John Barrett III – are useless backbenchers in Boston, which only does DISSERVICES to the beautiful Berkshires and beyond.
On the Swamp, Donald Trump signed the single largest federal tax cut in U.S. history, and he was a big deficit spender whereby he racked up between $7 trillion to $8 trillion in four years of combined federal budget deficits. Then Joe Biden spent a whopping $6 trillion federal dollars in his first 100 days in the Oval Office, which was on top of the multitrillion-dollar federal budget, and he signed and may still sign the largest federal spending bill(s) in U.S. history.
The U.S. national debt is now over $29 trillion. Like I have explained many times before, all the Swamp does is transfer trillions of federal dollars from the Federal Reserve to Capitol Hill to Wall Street to Foreign Banks and back and forth again and again, which means that the proverbial Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski never sees any of it in terms of economic, financial and income gains for the past 50 years. To put it simply, the rich always get richer, while the rest of us either tread water and hopefully save a few dollars or we fall in our country’s ever-increasing underclass. Most of the trillions of federal dollars only exist on institutional computer screens, but it is also causing a three decade high in U.S. inflation which is worse than any federal tax increase on the masses.
Like Mayor Linda Tyer’s tax and spending in Pittsfield politics, and Beacon Hill’s vacationing Salons still sitting on billions in additional state cash, the Swamp’s running of the printing presses like Napoleon did over two Centuries ago is NOT rational.
The 2022 midterm election will see Democratic Party losses and Republican Party gains in the Swamp. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are tanking in the polls, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi being worth over $500 million as a career politician does not go over well with voters.
MAGA Trumpism (or MAGA Hitler Nazism) and the Utopian Green New Deal are both downright scary. Whatever happened to the President and U.S. Congress standing for the rule of law while managing scarce public resources for the efficient and equitable economic and financial benefit of the American People – Invest in People – who have the equal opportunity to live the American Dream of a middle-class life for themselves and their family?
In closing, I wish that extremist politicians on the right and left would stop their nonsense about “Making America Great Again” or selling us Hot Air with their Utopian Green New Deal propaganda and start governing again with real leadership whereby the Government serves We the People.
Jonathan Alan Melle
If you win the coveted Orbit, I will drive to NH and pick you up for a ride back to The Pitts, where you can hang around social service alley and give some of your money to the bums on the corner, and have an 8 dollar “sudsidized” beer, and buy some weed . Then you can visit Shitty Hall, and in the rare event you corner Tired in her corner orfice, you can ask her where the Tax and Spend lions, that I nominated for the Orbit, are hiding.
Let me know Tax…..I’ll provide security…..JAM is gonna need it!
Like everyone else, I would need security guards walking around inner-city Pittsfield, especially after hours. During and after my dad was a Berkshire County Commissioner (1997 – mid-2000), most of my enemies were from Pittsfield politics to Beacon Hill, especially one four-foot-tall illegal double dipper in Pittsfield/Boston who was in bed with the big banks and insurance companies from 1999 to 2006, and who is now heavily invested in the marijuana market since March of 2017 that stinks up abutting neighborhoods behind his Dalton Avenue pot growing operation with dead-skunk odor air. Pittsfield is not vibrant and dynamic for many of the people and neighborhoods that the Lovely Linda neglects. But what does Mayor Linda Tyer care – after all she lives in a mansion in a millionaires-only gated community west of Berkshire Community College within a few feet of the Hancock border where she and her wealthy CPA husband Barry Clairmont both park their luxury Lexus cars at night. In fact, Linda Tyer perfectly symbolizes everything that is unfair and wrong with Pittsfield politics in the 21st Century, along with Jimmy Ruberto’s rusted-out Rolodex that rightfully sits at the rock bottom of Silver Lake. The ruling elites making out like bandits happens everywhere, but Pittsfield politics’ Queen Linda Tyer has done it in SPADES! I predict she will continue to keep her spending of the tens of millions of Biden Bucks a secret from the taxpayers, direct Matt Kerwood to add additional millions of dollars to his excessive multimillion-dollar Slush Funds, raise municipal spending by the always predictable 5 percent per fiscal year (along with fee hikes, and financially unsustainable increases in the city’s public debts and other liabilities), oversee the indefensible Level 5 inner city public schools, oversee the failed 23-year-old mostly vacant and very polluted PEDA park with millions of dollars in unfunded liabilities, call North Street “a work in progress” while the homeless shit on the street of “Social Services Alley” and small business owners complain in futility, and dish out retribution against her detractors so she her administration won’t be questioned by the taxpaying public. What a frickin’ nightmare Pittsfield has become in 2021 going into 2022! When I was a young man decades ago, I hoped and prayed I wouldn’t end up in inner-city Pittsfield, and now that I am in my mid-40s I am grateful that I was able to move far away from my nightmarish existence in Pittsfield to a nice community in Southern New Hampshire. In closing, if the Lovely Linda is the head-side of the coin, then Jon Melle is the tail-side of the coin in Pittsfield Massachusetts – and heads always wins for the Elites even when the coin is called tails! Jon Melle will NOT be walking the streets of Pittsfield by Jon Melle’s choice ever again in Jon Melle’s limited time on Earth.
JON MELLE
So, is that a yes, or a no, to my invitation?
Lord Farquaad
Where did you live in Pittsfield?
Okay. Dan can join us with his Generalissimo uniform, and bring his troops. We can parade Mr. Melle around like the GOBSIGS do when following a politician’s coat heels. I myself will have to wear a disguise because I am sure the GOBSIGS have a bounty on my real identity, like they no doubt do for several us us no holds barred poster here.
I shall relay this request to The Generalissimo’s people.
Blah blah blah, Melle give it a break
If our country is serious about having an election that truly represents the citizens than creating a secure voting system is the most important thing our government should be focusing on. Make voting day a holiday so there is no excuse for not showing up in person to perform your civic duty. Vet the voter rolls so dead people aren’t voting and out of staters can’t vote either. If it is electronic they should have a running tally posted on the city’s website so people can keep track in real time what is going on. Observers from all parties should be at all polling sites to ensure no “water break” voting happens I observed, though if you limit mail in balloting that issue should be mute. It is time for the regular Kapanski’s to step up and fight for fair, legal voting to be done.
An outright lie from the Boston Globe article today. They say that for the first time in history low income wage earners are earning more than ever. Just not true unless they are talking about earning more by not working. During the Trump administration is when low wage earners really increased our wages and our money went further because we didn’t have “stagflation”. The media lies like this on a regular basis. The one change that I think should be made for all workers is a shorter work week. There is no reason why Republicans can’t get behind a push for a 30 hour work week. I think some of the people voting for the far left are burned out workers who will jump to vote for any party promising them easier working conditions even if that party happens to have a totalitarian agenda for this country.
Your exactly spot on Pat. Inflation inflation inflation. And that is what happens here locally it’s always more taxes because of the cost of living rising,,that’s where the problem lies. This time however we were taxed another five percent and weren’t aware of slush funds or Covid monies come on?
We will be in Armageddon mode here with spending crime,schools failure,north st,Covid,water rates,taxes,housing and businesses. Taxpayers will revolt with these beer giveaways and businesses existing for years getting no relief and for years have paid taxes.
All of these so called economic engines are directly related to keeping these n y types taking advantage of our plight and this administration caters with your wallets to pay for it.
There is no benefit in creating beer and restaurant jobs because in the end taxes pay for. Unsecured investment and many many times these venues go bell up with no return on taxpayer investment.
Pat,
Not sure if you read this interesting article? Of course media and those who just can’t give credit where and when do still lie.
An Inconvenient Truth: IRS Data Prove Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Was Boon for Middle- and Working Classes, Not So Much for the Wealthy.
https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2021/12/08/an-inconvenient-truth-irs-data-prove-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-was-boon-for-middle-and-working-classes-not-so-much-for-
the-wealthy-n488368
It’s totally your choice how many hours you work. If you think that a person only willing to work 30 out of 168 hours per week should have prosperity, you’re either smokin some of that week Nucifero is growing, or your OTL.
People should be able to work more than 30 hours if they want to, but not everybody wants to give themselves 100% to the job throughout their entire lives. People should have the option to work fewer hours in my opinion to devote time to other areas of their lives…family, hobbies, leisure time. Most job currently do not offer that flexibility. People should work and need to work and that is a very good option as opposed to not working at all and living off the government.
And that is called freedom and personal choice, and the answer is no government handouts, rather a hand up, as in very limited assistance. For example
Let’s say a gal gets KUOPED, as in Knocked Up On Purpose, which is the preferred way round these parts- well her free apartment, etc should be for one year only, and only if she shows prof of sterilization! Unfair you may say? No way. Again, her choice
Democrats are there to help.Republicans are there to keep you poor.Simple
We are at full employment.The IHOP pancake house is shortening hours because they will not pay more than poverty wages…..American labor is blessed living at its best time ever.People will no longer bust ass to live in poverty.Capitalism is working.Thanks to Don Trump ignorance.Biden is getting the credit.Ihop will pay or they will dissolve….supply and demand.What does the market tolerate.Its never going back.If you want to be rich its hard to do by yourself.Ihop does not get it…..YET
So you live in Florida? Way to live in a freer state TDS
Yea, I can feel it. Inflation at a 41 year high according to Bureau of Labor Stats, and 6.8 percent over 12 months, so unless you get 6.8 plus raise, your sorry ass lost money.
Not exactly pal. That 6.8 figure is actually a big lie. The formula that determines that number, which is the Consumer Price Index (CPI) number, is flawed. For example, gas prices only account for 4 percent of that number, but in reality gas is up way more than that, over a buck a gallon, as are groceries (15 dollars today for a cooked rotissierre chicken), oil and gas up 55 percent, and used cars are up 32 percent, all year over year. Furthermore, 41 years ago, the CPI formula was more realistic, although still tainted. But, using the same formula from 41 year ago, the rate of inflation year over year is 15 percent. The bottom line is the average joe got screwed out of thousands of dollars in spending power this year, thanks to sleepy joe and his ilk.
Got muself a rotisserie chicken at BJs for $4.99.. Somebody must have mispriced it.
Nope. granted it was at Guidos, but still. And they had a sign apologizing for the price increase. And I almost bought one at Big Y a few days before, but that one was 12 bucks! Instead I bought a single chicken breast. I don’t get an EBT card, or a food stamp card, or any other government handouts, and inflation is killing me.
Homicides at 30 year high out of control .
They’re down in Boston, which Road Rage Rollins is actually claiming credit for even though everyone in law enforcement knows BPD and her DA predecessor put away all the gangbangers. Harrington’s mentor.
Maybe DA Rollins can help us located the case file for when Handgun was arrested at a traffic stop, at gunpoint, handcuffed, booked, and jailed. That IS the story Handgun told, right?
that would help us
TM
Well, similar to the papacy when the College of Cardinals convenes to elect a new pope, THE PLANET cannot divulge the details of the Commission’s incredible work in determining the COA. By the way, wondering out loud, does the College of Cardinals still include Stan Musial, Enos Slaughter, Harry Brecheen, Lindy and Von McDaniel, Dizzy and Daffy Dean, Pepper Martin, Rip Repulski, and Karl Sawatski? I know you know the names of these ballplayers.
You amaze us with how much you know about sports, especially local sports. When someone — be it THE PLANET, Charlie Garivaltis, or anyone else brings up historical moments from Pittsfield sports, you have valuable information.
It reminds me of when The Oxygen Man used to call my radio show. He knew everything about local playground sports. To test me one day, he called up and asked what I hit in my first year of Babe Ruth baseball. I knew the correct answer: I hit nothing. As in .000. When I truthfully answered, I won his respect, for, like a good barrister, he had the information already. How he got it, I never found out. I went 0-for-9 on the 17-game season (I had a number of walks, some stolen bases, and some runs scored.
I got in a lot of games mostly for late-inning outfield defense. I had a great glove, had a lot of speed, could catch almost anything, and could play left, center, and right. We had 15 regular season games, 2 playoffs which led to my team, Union Federal Savings, to win the 1965 city championship; in that game, manager John Goswell put me in the game in the top of the 9th as a defensive substitute. The move paid off. With two outs, the batter hit a scorching liner in the gap. I had been playing him shaded to center, which helped. I made a fine, one-hand, running grab in deep rc to end the game!
Anyways, when I said you were valuable at this address, I meant every word of it, kinda in the same way The Oxygen Man, who loved debating me on the air, became one of my favorite callers.
Can’t you read? I told you above that I never go back and read replies to my posts. and besides, you forgot Red Schoendienst and Marty Marion and Benedict XVI.
Yes, Red. But you know, I associate him with the Milwaukee Braves, circa 1957 (when he was traded by the Cards) and ’58, the Braves Series and pennant winning years, respectively.
Mr. More, for a man that professes he never goes back to his posts, you’re two for two here in this edition. Just sayin.
duh
Yeah Tom But all that went out the door when Lou Brock stole third.
Jim Whitfield hit a grand slam in the bottom of the 5th
Jimmy was our best player, our Josh Gibson (built like JG and was a catcher like him). What game are you referring to where Jimmy hit a slammer? Love the comment!!
The playoff that got you to the championship game.
Yes. Jimmy carried us into the finals. You keep amazing us with this stuff!!
Believe there was a Pittsfielder right here in Pittsfield named Whitfield? And by the way Dan, I hit 565 in little league , led league and poked a home run off of Detroit’s Billy Madden in Babe Ruth one game.
Jimmy Whitfield, running back for the Generals 1965-66. T. Gibson was his running mate.
And remember your your catch phrase well. Without oxygen….you finish it Dan?
That is correct Dan.
She posted (originally) that she was taken out at gunpoint by two white, male, Boston Police, for a simple traffic violation.
In the course of this encounter, she was ultimately arrested, tossed in a city jail for a day or two, then released with no charges.
When she was called out for being a female version of Jussie Smollett, she deleted the post. I guess she was shocked nobody believed her?
Not to mention, you know if that happened to that race-baiting, piece of sh**, she’d have played the “ghetto lottery,” and sued anything and anybody she could.
MARK
And correct me if I’m wrong. After repeatedly being asked to provide proof of her story, Handgun claimed words to the effect of, “Oops, I meant to say ‘New Hampshire.’ This happened to me in New Hampshire, not Boston.” Right. She wouldn’t or couldn’t specify where in NH. And to date, no data or evidence of this incident taking place in NH or anywhere else on earth has been provided. Is that because IT DOESN’T EXIST? All we can say is that for whatever microscopic role THE PLANET had in driving Handgun off the city council, we shall daily give thanks.
I did not see the NH post. I only read about it on here. I did see her original post, but foolishly didn’t screenshot it.
Feeling generous this holiday season, I’ll kick in $500 more into the pot, for Helen “Handgun” Moon to produce this report.
It might have been a dream Dan?
One can see why someone of her character was valued so highly by the mayor, who will someday have her own stories to tell her grand children.
“I remember the day in 2021 when I raised taxes 5% on all doddering old low income octogenarians. As I recall, it was the 5th year in a row of high taxes and many of them wound up losing their homes. Think I’m in the record book for treating older people like shit. Good old days.”
That’s a good one! Call it the year of the Windfall.
Dan, if Handgun Moon, Hardly Harrington, Tired Tyer, Raciss Rollins, or any of your spies, gumshoes, or secret agents, produce a bonafide arrest report, that also documents Handguns’ arrest at gunpoint, and you post it here, I will pay all my summer vacation rental savings, 2,000, as long as it’s posted by my 15 Feb beach house rental payment.
Hard to do when it just isn’t there.Will you take a fabrication? How about an embellishment?
Nope, it’s gotta be the real,deal.
Sounds good, TELL.
Police won’t police
Your liberal prosecutors like Rollins and Harrington won’t enforce the law, and they won’t back the blue and neither will the mayors, and so any cop with half a brain, seeing how they would be thrown under a bus and backed over by these DAs and mayors, for doing their job, said “screw it”.
Why risk getting punched in the face by a drunk driver on a traffic stop. The DA lets the defendant go.
Why would you want to disturb the Beauty of Springside Park and the Plungered Maze at North St. Why? Anybody?
Some places outside of this area have been accused of doing such things to launder money. When common sense seems to have been totally left out of a project the alternative reasoning for such a project is often money and where the money goes. And a question often asked is, “Does this community shun audits, oversight or general community input?”
Since Republicans are now the party of the working class, they need to step up and implement a 30 hour work week for all Americans.
Why?
Because I think burned out employees, and I see them everyday, in so many companies, including my own, are driving the push toward the crazy promises of the far left like you can sit home and not work. That is crazy and will destroy our country, but a 30 hour work week would solve a lot of problems. Don’t think I’m doing this for myself. I’m nearly at retirement age so I’ve worked my whole life at 37 to 40 hour per week jobs and it’s tough. It’s even tougher once you pass into your late 50’s so I think a lot of people would get behind Republicans if they promoted that idea. It wouldn’t crash our economy like the the ideas of the far left. I think it would be very positive for our country.
Go back and read my second reply and reread my first reply, to your very similar post earlier up on the blog. By the way, how many times does 30 go into 168? And by the way, the average office worker in America is effing the duck on the internet half the day.
They are probably on the internet because the day is too long, they finish their work, and so they have lots of free time. With limited hours, you will spend the whole time working or you won’t finish your work and you will get fired.
I give up!
Your source for info is a ignorant about employees wages and benefits…SS is 1500 average
I would like to nominate Ricardo Morales for the coveted Orbit award.
I know it goes against the grain, but between all of the confusion, toilet plungers, and complete waste of taxpayer money, on NON, Tyler Street, and Elm Street, how can he not be nominated?
And he’s even spawned a new game: Ricky’s Rumpus.
Respectfully disagree, but would like to send Ricardo in Orbit.
And let’s hope he doesn’t come back like insignificant Shatner.By the way. Whomever came up with N O N I believe it was Dan, and should be the O R B I T winner.
I vote for the stooge. Think about it he’s already Orbited the earth a several hundred times. Why not make it official it’s a no brainer.
He spent 50 years in space enforcement and his ego expanded with the universe
Build back better is in orbit so Sleepy can’t win it ( Orbit) as he is already there.
Why does sleepy walk like hes taking a DUI test?
Because he’s an old man who should be put out to pasture. He’s long past his sell by date. Sounds harsh but it’s true. Nobody should be president or on Supreme Court or any bench except a park one, after 75. Period, Period, Period
With his record of farting at so many public events, he probably needs a diaper change.
Another pathetic performance by DA Harrington who already lost a murder case against the same guy. She dragged her incompetent high heels long enough to lose all the witwitnesses and failed to put together a case. Now he’s gotten off again. Another drug dealer shooter is let go. No justice. The biggest threat to safety in Berkshire County is Andrea Harrington.
Pittsfield man sentenced to probation in connection with 2020 shooting incident
By Amanda Burke, The Berkshire Eagle 1 hr ago 1 min to read
PITTSFIELD — A local man will serve three years probation after pleading guilty in Berkshire Superior Court this month to illegally possessing ammunition, according to court documents.
Laquan Johnson, 26, of Pittsfield, was sentenced Dec. 1. He was arrested by Pittsfield police after midnight on April 30, 2020 in connection with a drive-by shooting on Glenwood Avenue, according to court documents. No injuries were reported.
Johnson was in the driver’s seat of a vehicle police saw speeding about one mile away on Seymour Street shortly after the shooting incident.
The car matched the description of the vehicle that a witness saw fleeing the scene, court files show. Police said officers found a gun in the center console of the car.
Johnson was sentenced to serve three years probation after pleading guilty to the ammunition possession charge, which was a lesser included offense, according to court documents. He was ordered to pay a monthly probation fee or perform community service.
DA Harrington is only good at prosecuting, crimes against hay bales . 1 year per bale.
And this dude is one of the most violent shitbags in the city who is responsible for several shootings. I wonder if he will be shot and killed.
Does the DA have a boilerplate tribute she can use if he does get shot?
Is removing the plungers part of DPW job description?
Sure does. Dan can tell it better than me, but it woud be along the lines of hard working family man who was putting his troubled past (not his fault) behind him, and was just turning a corner, when he was gunned down for no good reason, and she extends her sympathies to his family.
And don’t forget, she will “work in collaboration with law enforcement officials.”
Forgetting that she IS the chief law enforcement official in Berkshire County.
She has zero powers of arrest, but she gets to decide what cases to prosecute.
A “Star Chamber” is the solution. A half dozen hits and the problem is solved.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086356/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
It seems like less and less people want to work in law enforcement these days. uh oh. It seems like less and less people want to go into the medical field these days. uh oh It seem like less and less people want to work in the airline industry these days. uh oh. It seems like less and less people want to work in emergency services these days.
And a large part of the reason is because humanity is showing its nasty disgusting dark side. All the ingrates and holier than thou types have been stirred to act out and behave like immature morons. I guess it does not matter who is doing the stirring but it is afffecting everyone and is getting exponentially worse by the week.
One day perhaps not so long from now, no one may show up when you call the police. There may not be anyone to drive that ambulance to your heart attack. And there may not be enough people in the ICU to take care of you if you do get there. Even pharmacies cannot find enough people. Think of the ramifications of that.
There was just ANOTHER case of some rowdy asshole on a plane 3000 feet in the air putting everyone else’s life in danger. They should have a special door for these fools and if you start shit on a plane they immediately throw you the fuck out the door at the current altitude without your baggage.
WILLOW
I love your solution, so adeptly spelled out in the final paragraph. It gets my vote.
All fine points sir, and already, 911 calls are going unanswered in places, and pharmacies are closing permanently due to shitbags stealing and not being prosecuted. I could go on and on….The bottom line is there is one root cause to all this nonsense – PROGRESSIVE DEMORATS
The Star Chamber is the ultimate answer.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086356/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
Just wondering why our state government is so enamored with a train running East and west? Are the Chinese needing to sell more trains because they are losing money on their system? Our government can’t even make the T break even so why funnel money into a losing proposition? The East West travelers would like them to widen the Pike so the flow will be safer for all drivers, they are the ones paying for the privilege to ride on the Pike. The state got rid of all the toll takers so there has to be money somewhere. Please someone run against Chinese choo choo Neal he has been the worse representative for Berkshire County that was ever voted in.
SHIRL
Not only does the T lose money, it’s also a haven for make-work jobs … plus, they can’t even get it to run the way it should. The Chinese Choo-Choo. You just created a name for it!!
America has needed a comprehensive infrastructure plan for decades. Intelligent society’s, who somehow are able to keep political posturing out of the mix, treat infrastructure as an ongoing necessity and do not wait till everything needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. (why does America keep punching itself in the face)?
So now we have some kind of plan. We will someday be entering the design phase for many roads and bridges. I would surmise that in America an average bridge design takes two years and a huge chunk of the allotted money for the project. After the politicians play around with a phony bidding process and fight over built in kickbacks, inflation has added another ten percent to the project.
In America right now, could you find anywhere near enough laborers to build a thousand bridges all at once? Could you get your hands on enough needed materials? Would there be enough accountants to keep track of the cost overruns?
Based on my observations of political fuckery over many years, I predict that just in Pittsfield alone, half the existing bridges will be at least partially shut down, half the manholes will be six inches below grade and that there will be more potholes than actual road surface at the end of the current mayors term.
There is an old saying, “the more things change the more they stay the same”. In Pittsfield it has been modified to “the more things change the worse they get.”
Inlation up over 20 percent for A Christmas Story leg lamp. $100 more than last year. Over $500 large.
Dam,m not getting the leg lamp this year.
Sometimes inflation is a good thing.
That is almost as much as one of those blow up snowmen I see on all those section 8 lawns.
Wicked! Blow-up snowmen on Section 8 lawns. PERFECT.
I nomiate a Section 8 Snowman for The Orbit. We can give him an $8 “sudsidized” beer for a celebratory drink, courtesy of your tax dollars.
And you can put an OBama phone in one hand and the 8 dollar beer in the other.
And then you call call him the Obaminable Snowman!
Yes! Great one, J-99.
and the blowup snowman is a bit synonymous with the reality of Pittsfield which has its own cultural department devoted to constantly pumping air into a huge plastic facade. But sadly, at night, while the moon looks down sorrowfully, the snowman slowly sags until it slumps into a pathetic pile of wishful thinking.
It’s all we got, c’mon man!
I had a dong once who loved to hump that thing.
And I have a grandson who loves to hug that thing
Make that “dog”
Scammers are some of the lowest forms of life. Apparently our DA disagrees.
“As part of a plea deal with prosecutors, Chaudhari’s bail, which was posted by his uncle, will be converted to restitution next week, after which point his criminal sentencing is expected to be finalized.”
Monoclonal antibodies continuing to save lives across the country, now even the world. Dr. Fauci is still trying to limit the antibodies to patients who are not hospitalized even though many doctors are now fighting against that and seeking to help save hospitalized patients with the antibody treatment. Fauci’s rule makes zero sense like so many other of his previous health decisions for fighting COVID. Now giving shots of the antibodies instead of infusions is becoming popular in some states. Wonder if that is happening here in Pittsfield? Somehow I doubt it since Berkshire County hasn’t been up-to-date with the treatments for this virus with so many doctors and nurses not even knowing about the monoclonal antibodies in 2020.
https://kutv.com/news/coronavirus/utah-study-finds-monoclonal-antibodies-save-lives-among-aging-covid-19-patients
Monoclonal antibodies continuing to save lives of those infected with COVID. Many states are now giving the treatment in shots rather than as an infusion as this allows more patients to be treated quickly. Is Berkshire County this up-to-date with the latest ways to fight COVID?
Can someone please provide a list of what the following politicians have accomplished for Berkshire County: Adam Hinds, Smitty Pignatelli and Tricia Farley-Bouvier. I have been googling, scanning past Berkshire Eagles and there seems to be very little.
If I’d had known I had a shot at some free kool aid last summer I would have hung out at Springside for a few days.
For law abiding citizens, not a single thing among them. For grifters, illegals, druggies, eteffingcetera, they have tried to do plenty.
They are the Berkshire Muppets. Strings are be pulled from afar. I give the sheep credit, they know how to play the game. Also they know there’s a reward at the end of the tunnel. Look at all the prior Berkshire politicians, all seemed to land on there feet nicely.
You can even add the other representatives and you still will hear crickets for an answer
Really, Kempthorne this place is a joke
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/ap/national/wrongfully-convicted-massachusetts-man-freed-after-27-years/article_37cd9eda-3d53-5144-b42d-0267a53452fc.html
BREAKING: Instead of staying home to preside over investigations and trials and look after victims at home, Andrea Harrington flew to Los Angeles this week to meet with the other hard left DAs. The city of Angeles is home of the most progressive of the progressive prosecutors. LA crime is so out of control the DA is under a second recall.Twitter photos picture Harrington alongside Chicago DA Kim Foxx who dropped charges against Jesse Smollet because he is black.
BREAKING BREAKING The Berkshire District Attorneys office will not attend the 28th Annual Prosecutors Conference in 2022. For the first time in nearly three decades no staff or DA from the Berkshire ofice will attend this education and training event.
The new cadre of progressive prosecutors are creating their own justice system.
I believe DA Fox dropped charges against Juicy because MooChell Obamasss called in a favor.
Way to go Big Mike!!
Now that the federal Prosecutors rested their case against Ghislaine Maxwell for her alleged role in the alleged sex trafficking ring ran by the now deceased billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, I will be interested in reading about what Maxwell’s defense Attorneys will say to the Judge and Jury in NYC in the next couple of weeks. In particular, I would like to know who the men were who allegedly sexually abused and sexually exploited the then 14-year-old girls who were allegedly purchased for sex by Jeffrey Epstein. Bill Clinton had 26 flight log entries on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet. Melinda Gates divorced billionaire Bill Gates over his history of sexual misconduct with women and possibly the aforementioned then 14-year-old girls. The UK’s Prince Andrew has a sordid reputation with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Once again, I believe it is sexist and unfair that only the woman – Ghislaine Maxwell – to stand trial while the rich and powerful men go uncharged. Furthermore, I believe that Epstein and Maxwell alleged sex trafficking ring is part of a much bigger global sex trafficking ring that the general public is not being told about. A lot of things about Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal case stinks of much larger serious sex crimes both in the USA and abroad.
Jonathan A. Melle
Heros know when to die, and so did Jeffrey Epstein!
Or was Jeffrey Epstein murdered?
Johathan, 2 things don’t hang them self’s, Sheetrock and Jeffrey Epstein.
Oddly, once again, you have omitted Donald Trumps association with Jeffery Epstein. That is very curious. Please tell us why you feel he is to be held totally harmless in this sordid mess.
Annul, if there was even a chance President Trump did anything wrong, it would have been dug up years ago. Surprise the Dems haven’t made up some sorted story. They like fake made up stories.
It is posts like this that assure YOU will never win an Orbit. But you can buy some in the gum aisle at BJs.
It’s impossible to talk about China and worst American president without also talking about Richard M. Nixon and his role in restoring relations with China. Don’t believe for a minute that China would be where it is today, and the United States where it is today in relation to China, had it not been for those seven days in 1972.
About the only good thing that came out of his visit was that it made ping pong cool for a little while (until the Japanese invented Atari and came out with Pong and then it wasn’t. They did make duck hunting fun though.)
Just read, yes you guessed it, the far, far loonie limousine left hate rag just to find another writer complaining of the right redrawing voting districts. He then stated he hated how the Democrats are doing it as well but just to keep pace with the Republicans. He really needs a history lesson. Gerrymandering was created in the good old Commonwealth of Democrats. This is their creation but with the new history that is being taught everything is changing. I can not believe how right 1984 is, it is like a playbook.
BREAKING: The event for progressive prosecutors in LA that Andrea Harrington attended this week was hosted by “Fair and Just Prosecution,” the same group that funded Harrington’s trip to Portugal to study drug legalization. The FJP is a project of the Tides Foundation, an “infrastructure service for progressive nonprofit work.” Its largest donor is George Soros. Soros gave 3 million last year to a group called the Community Resource Hub for Safety and Accountability. It provides materials on abolishing and defunding the police. $2 million went to creating a program to “train community safety advocates on how to advocate around their local municipal budgets.
Then you have events like an overdose this morning at cvs on west and a dog bite on west st. Won’t be long before you have controlled drug injection sites,that ought be great?
As far as dogs or any animals why don’t take them to the dog parks for walks? That would eliminate attacks and pet feces from these owners who refuse to pick up after the poor critters.
anybody remember this – two years ago today
“The whole clown show will end in November 2020, when Donald John Trump wins re-election.” Dec 12, 2019
Who posted that?
You can always tell how big a nerve you touched by the size of the little red number beneath your posts. I think I got like 19 once and it felt euphoric.
Annul your a legend in your own mind. Congratulations, you could probably turn around a 18 wheeler up there. Merry Christmas.
The Lovely Linda’s “Robust Planning” to secretly spend her millions of Biden Bucks in Pittsfield.
Massachusetts communities were given millions in ARPA funds, but actually distributing it has become a slow, deliberate process for local officials – masslive.com
Don’t know why the thumbs down. Maybe an auto-bot.
Maybe because “folks” are not buying what Johnny is selling.
I am selling Level 5 public schools in Pittsfield. I am selling a failed 23-year-old PEDA so-called business park that is mostly vacant and still very polluted with GE’s industrial chemicals called PCBs. I am selling North Street’s main attraction: Social Services Alley. I am selling the proverbial Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski on recurringly funding Matt Kerwood’s multimillion-dollar excessive Slush Funds. I am selling “Vibrant and Dynamic” Pittsfield always being in the top 10 cities in Massachusetts for Violent Crime year in and year out, according to the FBI. I am selling Pittsfield being exhibited in Gregory Crewdson’s large photos as “A City in Decay” at upscale art galleries and museums in London England, NYC and L.A. I am selling a China-like one political (Democratic) Party Oligarchy in state and local government that has ran Pittsfield’s long distressed economy into the proverbial ditch. I am selling an out-of-touch Mayor called the Lovely Linda who lives in a mansion in a millionaire’s-only elitist Gated Community within a few feet of the Hancock border. I am selling Nuciforo’s pot complex emitting dead skunk-like odors into neighborhoods abutting his Dalton Avenue marijuana growing operation. I am selling record high municipal taxes, fees, public debts and other liabilities with always predictable municipal spending increases of 5 percent year in and year out while Mayor Linda Tyer sits on tens of millions of dollars in Biden Bucks that she ordered the public shut out of. I am selling Pittsfield’s State Senator called Chrome Dome Adam Hinds living in his $690,000 home in Amherst Massachusetts, which is well outside of his state legislative district. I am selling Trippy County Buffet fighting Boston’s Social Justice fights, while Pittsfield is in a decades-long downward spiral. I am selling Jimmy Ruberto’s Rolodex that sits at the bottom of Silver Lake. I am selling PAC Man Richie Neal (D-Insurance Companies) only representing K Street Lobbyist Firms in Washington, D.C. What else can I sell on Dan Valenti’s awesome blog named “Planet Valenti”?
Relax Johnny. Watch SNL , CNN, MSNBC and FU!
This may be your finest post ever. Love it!!!!!!!!!
Lucky for you, your family moved to an upper class Republican town. Things up there are running very well yet you still try to destroy it by voting Democrat…why? You can view what that does here in the Pitts so why would you want it to spread?
I would like to take time out this holiday season to say F Mr. Fauchi. His propaganda program has gone on way to long. The jab is not working, masks are at 10%. Yes , these facts can be backed up by science. Time to enjoy life, and Christmas. If you and a loved one is sick, take all precautions necessary. If your young and healthy live the F out of your life. You only get one, no one gets out alive.