UNPRECEDENTED LEAK OF SUPREMES’ OPINION ON ABORTION, WOKE PROTESTERS AT JUDGE’S HOMES, BETRAY SUPREME IGNORANCE OF FOUNDATIONAL AMERICANISM
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY MAY 9, 2022) — With the Tucker Case, the Estrella shooting, abortion, scooters, and the war in Ukraine, there has no shortage of topics on THE PLANET. For whatever reason, people are amped and angry.
From April 30 to May 7, THE PLANET picked up 554 new visitors. For years our growth has been slow and steady. Of late it’s been explosive and exponential.
Our readers turn to us for any number of reasons, which only they know for sure. We’d like to think it’s because we practice true, honest, and fearless investigative journalism in the style of H.L. Mencken, Ambrose Bierce, Westbrook Pegler, and others of that stripe. Muckrakers. Pot stirrers. Provocateurs.
THE PLANET pleads guilty on all counts
“They” hate us.
They love us.
As it should be.
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So among the plethora of topics, let us go to the one that involves the taking of human life that, in general and out of context, violates every moral directive and ethical impulse of well-adjusted human beings.
All things being equal, THE PLANET is 100% pro-life.
The glitch is that all things are not equal. The culture wars, both sides, pretend there’s an easy solution to the infinitely complicated question of unwanted pregnancy. Rad Right “pro life” ignores over-population, rape, incest, and poverty. Loon Left “abortion-on-demand” fanatics ignore the moral directive that has guided every decent society: Thou shalt not kill. And never should abortion be used as retro-active birth control by lazy men and women who expect social cleanups of their poor decisions.
ABORTION
We have two unprecedented actions. First, the White House supported and encourageed protests outside the homes of justices after the suspicious leak of Sam Alito’s opinion, backed by Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and Brett Cavanaugh. Alito correctly stated the Constitution makes no provision for abortion. It’s is a state issue, not a federal one. As such, abortion isn’t anyone’s constitutional “right.”
“It is true to heed the Constitution and restrict the use of abortion to the people’s elected representatives,” Alito wrote.
THE PLANET agrees.
That didn’t stop Loon Left women from desecrating Catholic Churches, interrupting Masses, and puking up other unlawful “protests” (the five assenting Supremes are Catholics).
At one Catholic church, they spray painted “Die Republican Fags,” and “666 Fags.’
This is how zealots “debate.”
The second unprecedented action is the leak of Alito’s document. Clearly, it was authorized to distract the electorate from the stunning incompetence of the Biden-Harris White House. The leak, a tactic both shameful and shameless, marks how desperate Democrats have become in trying to prevent impending electoral disaster in November.
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THE PLANET sees in abortion’s underlying cause the cultural upheavals that have enfeebled America. Our experiment in democracy, only 246 years young, has proven humans as a collective can’t handle freedom. There is something that prevents us from governing ourselves and still preserve human liberty. Some form of authoritarianism — monarchy, theocracy, dictatorship, totalitarianism — is required. That is certainly history’s prescription.
Poet Willian Butler Yeats wrote in his masterwork “The Second Coming” that the “centre cannot hold.”
Here is the poem, which Yeats wrote in 1919:
The center did not hold because it could not hold.
Our noble experiment in democracy has failed. We are experiencing America’s death rattle. The “rough beast, its hour come round at last” has been born.
No. It was not aborted.
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“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child” — Cicero.
LOVE TO ALL.
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The U.S. Government’s military industrial complex has killed millions upon millions of foreign people and Peoples since the end of WW2 in 1945, which is about 77 years. The U.S. Government’s number one non-farm export to the world are military arms. The U.S. Government is the number one arms dealer in the world. The U.S. Government’s lust for war, money and power has led to more deaths and humanitarian crises than abortions. What a double standard for the Swamp to be self-righteous about abortion but spend trillions upon trillions of dollars on war to make trillions upon trillions of dollars in profit for Wall Street’s Financial Elites (billionaires), the corporate elites (defense/war contractors and arms dealers), and the Ruling Elites (Speaker Nancy Pelosi is said to be a billionaire from her Pentagon stock portfolio). Human life obviously does NOT matter to the Swamp, but rather, the Almighty Dollar to buy decades of Political Power is what really matters to the corrupt career politicians there. The 5 Catholic Supreme Court Judges who wrote that American Women don’t have a federal constitutional right to limited abortion rights and privacy rights are rewriting over 50 years of law and legal precedent. The Catholic Church is a pro-life religious institution, but most American Citizens are NOT practicing Catholics, nor do they believe in the Church’s doctrine of moral hypocrisy from Vatican City to the Swamp and beyond. Lastly, if men don’t want women to get abortions, then men should keep their genitals in their pants instead of having sex with women. What does a man think is going to happen after he has sexual intercourse with a woman? This is all unreal.
And yet you voice no objection to the Supreme Court concluding that corporations are protected by the 14th Amendment.
HLM
Correct. We voice no objection because we agree with the Supremes on the 14th, which asserts the rights of due process and equal protection under the law. This is not an “as yet.” It is an “of course.” Almost any constitutional scholar would agree, as would 99.9% of ethicists, lawyers, and other humans.
The 14th Amendment has nothing to do with corporations whatsoever.
Corporate Law is it’s own Animal. For example MGL c. 93a there’s s. 9 & s. 11, etc..
As soon as you want to apply the same standard to the RNC and DNC—both very private corporations—as you do to Citizens United, I’ll take you seriously.
You should read The Citizens United opinion again, sparky.
It is telling that the far left goes to such lengths, usually saved for the losing side in a logical argument. This shows that 1/6 most likely was created by the far left. So far the defendants and French television have captured on tape 80 questionable characters that seemed to be talking to the p9lice, even though they were supposedly the “insurrectionist” and gaining access through the side door, even pushing people through who were caught on tape yelling no this is illegal let us out. Now try to take yourself out of your political leanings and look to see as unbiased as you can which political party is associated with this type of planning and behavior? Then ask why didn’t the Speaker of the House call in the National Guard as asked by the President? I agree with JM the swamp needs to go for our democracy to regain its course. To do this we have to shrink the government! Make people be personally responsible for their own lives and not depend on the government. As JFK stated, ask not what the country can do for you but what you can do for the country!
Thanks.
Dan, have You watched 2000 Mules yet?
https://tv.gab.com/channel/nppatterson40/view/2000-mules-full-movie-627792f81dd57aa3c7ca966b
The SCOTUS leak could be running cover for the release of something so damming the MSM won’t mention it.
How odd that just when minorities are 17 years from majority rule the planet announces democracy failed.It was attacked on 1 6 2022 and many laws are being put in place in souther and Midwestern states to control the votes of the individual voter and we shall see if Trump /Putin win.I for one can also see the death of Authoritarian rule and the beginning of a new age of truth and education and knowledge where Fox new will be a funny line about innocence of ignorance.
Not sure where you get your number of 17 years before minorities rule. It must be from Obama and his calculations when he said “The racial make-up of this country is changing” as he is plotting behind the scenes to pour all of these illegals into the country. Unlike the far left, who obviously hate white people, the majority of people in this country respect all races so Obama’s plan to make white people the minority party as part of his globalist scheme to take control of this country for his globalist friends, will be a big failure. All of the races in this country will not accept the globalist vision that Obama has for this country and will work together against it.
THC you have TDS. Take your meds and your ex-lax
Dan, are you sure your computer safe guards are fully functioning?
TSC has to be a bot from Azzclown, Ukraine. No person can be that dumb, can they?
They can….a few others here are like that. But thank goodness Dan allows us to post the truth.
You live in the bluest of the blue and you ask that question?
Touché.
Same old story
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/crime/pittsfield-drugs-heroin-drug-bust-connecticut/article_dc838824-ce18-11ec-a919-17eb3624aa67.html
It shouldn’t be that difficult to find out who this Supreme Court leaker is and to expose their political motivations. It’s interesting too to see the control that Biden has over the protesters by telling them it’s okay to protest inside of churches and outside of the houses of the justices, but keep it peaceful. Joe and the far left could easily crank it up to violence being acceptable and the protesters would listen and do as they were told. This is the same control they had over the so-called protesters in the summer of 2020 when the violence was encouraged by the far left. Lizzie Warren’s over the top shaking fit the other day was praised by the media and shows how they will use the abortion issue to distract from Biden’s incompetence and the dangerous agenda of the far left.
word is it came from Barry Sotoro’s appointed Supreme Sotomeyer
YES, rumor is a clerk named Amir Jain from Sotomayor’s office leaked it.
I thought Bugs Bunny leaked it.
Jill was in Ukrainian
The far left agenda puts them on a collision course with religion especially Catholicism. It also explains the strange bedfellows who support the far left agenda like the terrorists in Afghanistan. They have in common that they both hate Catholics.
It is too convenient that this leak happens now since the midterms are coming up and the far left is worried. This leaker must be caught and prosecuted.
Catholicism is also on a collision course with sexual misconduct so lets not talk about strange bed fellows right now. Their high pedestal has been lowered a great deal.
I can provide links if you wish. Let me know.
I’m talking about people who attend the Catholic church. These are the ones being attacked. Most people disagreed with sexual abuse in the church, but that didn’t mean that Catholicism itself should be under attack. God and the only too human people who make up the church are very separate. Even God realized that the church itself could become corrupt, but it’s the Catholic religion that is being attacked by these pro-abortion protesters.
Even God? Even God was able to figger it out? Well good for God. Guess he is smarter than we were giving him credit for huh?
Shit going down the city and still talking about abortion? Trump can’t do anything for two or more years.
The lefties will find the leaker a well paying do nothing job as a reward. Current thoughts are “it’s” (being gender correct) a lefty underling working for the SCOTUS.
The partisan Biden/DOJ/FBI won’t even do their jobs and go after the rabid feral beasts trying to intimidate the SCOTUS justices. That’s a federal crime, just like the hordes of criminals pouring over the southern border.
They also supported the chaos the whole summer of 2020, remember the MSM’s “peaceful protests” where they they went “shopping” through broken doors and windows, and practiced making “campfires” in buildings…..Kamala even bailed out the thugs. “Woke” Soros funded DAs then turned the felons loose to wreak more carnage. Remember this when you vote next November.
Expect all sort of things this fall to support the need for mail-in ballots (have you seen 2000 Mules?) and distractions from the Biden train wreck.
Guiliani is the leaker. Did it before as well. Has a history of leaking says Tucker Carlson. Hannity agreed with him and congratulated him for calling him out on it.
I thought it was Porky Pig.
No Jon, it was not Trump, this time.
Time to change the depends Fizze, you’ve got a leaker…….
When you have a DA who doesn’t know how to go after a criminal like David Moody you have this. She could be in that job for another 12 years and never figure it out. She has never had any good mentoring and will never get it because she doesn’t listen to anyone who could teach her. Unbelievable.
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/crime/miguel-estrella-arrest-adams-charges-dropped/article_9ad53f6c-cedb-11ec-b876-3f0a7990e830.html
Harrington never ever learns. She’s virtual signaling the abortion debate on twitter so now there are pictures out there forever of her kids with people saying things like “Thank God you didn’t abort them.” WTF is wrong with her?
Is Moody back on the street now? And what other famous POC in Pittsfield is he related to?
No, DA Wrong Way’s office pled him out to 3.5 years on another gun charge. He was supposed to get a minimum of 15 years for the gun, as a 3-striker.
Crazy to think a multiple, violent, armed felon got 1.5 more years in prison that a guy who burned a few bales of hay.
David Moody, armed career criminal: 3.5 years.
Lonnie Durfee, burned political bales of hay supporting Xiden/Harris: 2 years.
Something ain’t right about that…
I would love to hear her parse this out in public so we could all understand how the law works in her world.
Question: if the DA is charging fewer criminals we should be cutting her budget, no?
SQUADRON
Good logic but it wont fly. The D.A. will argue that fewer criminals are being charged BECAUSE of the budget, and an increase in funds will lead to even fewer criminals charges. I think the D.A. skipped her logic classes (Logic and Argumentation 101 & `102) and opted instead for Demagoguery 210.
Dan, I am doing a separate look into the Bird Scooter issue due to some recent vandalism done by some scooter riders using the scooters. I can share some information with you if you have an email I can send to.
Pittsfield is the highest priced city in the nation for per minute Bird scooters. Detroit is $.35, Pittsfield is $.39.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/9/18302136/bird-electric-scooter-price-increase-cities
MATTHEW
By all means. Send to danvalenti@verizon.net. Would love to see the fruits of your investigation.
I saw a Two hundred pound young man trying to do a wheel. That don’t work brutha. And while watching some little girl almost bought the farm hitting a pothole.Sue Tyer.
How much money is Jimmy Ruberto’s Rolodex worth? Probably less than $0.39.
It was on eBay for 10 g no takers yet,13 years old.
Peel that onion as only you can Dan
See that? Now there are two thumbs down that could only have come from Barrys clique or the clock tower cuz most people on this board are Dan fans.
Hope that the Pittsfield Police and Fire Departments are keeping track of emergency calls and complaints due to Birdy Scooters? Are taxpayers paying for their assistance or is it billed back to Birdy? Our police department is already some 30+ officers down with more retiring every day, no wonder the crime is out of control in the City. Why are Tyer and Wynn not addressing this lack of police officers? The Birdy representative that picked up abandoned scooters in my neighborhood over the weekend stated that the whole program was rolled out incorrectly! Who’s fault is that? The Mayor and Morales or Birdy? Have also noticed that the lack of available ambulances is getting worse by the day. Surrounding towns are constantly being called to cover in Pittsfield. Have also wondered about the constant calls for standby by the Fire Department to Wahconah Park for Life Flights from our so called BMC “Trauma” Center that can’t seem to handle any trauma cases. Do the taxpayers also foot the bill for this or is it billed to the patient’s insurance or Berkshire Health Systems?
Re: PFD “Standing By” @ a Med Flight LZ.
This has been a thorn in my craw for a long time.
When the helos landed @ a MASH site in Korea, was there a fire engine standing by? How about ‘Nam or the sand boxes of the world?
When sight seeing helos land and take off at the Grand Canyon or on the islands of Hawai’i, are there fire engines on stand by?
This is an old military request that dates back 30 or more years when the military assisted local EMS in so-called “life flights.”
Reasoning? Military craft were known to leak AV gas, esp the early Hueys.
The Bell’s, Leonardo’s, Sikorskys, MD helos, Robinsons and Airbus ‘copters of today do not leak! They have fuel cells that minimize leakage; therefore do not need an engine company at an LZ for a leaky helo!
I know this is going to be a bone of contention when PFD members read this, but they continue to use “life flight stand bys” to keep their calls for service numbers up; nothing more! Volunteer companies copy the Pitts and do the same thing.
As I speak, there are 5 so-called “life flight” ops in my County, plus an SP air wing, Homeland Security, USAF SAR helos (UH 60s) and fire fighting helos from contractors (CH 47s, SK-64’s, Ericson Skycranes and the Bell 200 series.) The county is the size of Rhode Island. These companies do not require a FD stand by! The cops, EMS and mostly, the contractor ground crew are trained to set up an LZ and “stand by.”
I have personally had the pleasure of flying with some of these professionals and they laughed at the fact of a fire dept wasting such a valuable resource at every launch and recovery mission.
Yet, in the Pitts, “That’s the way we’ve always done it, Godammit!” (127 years of service).
GHOST
Yes. You make a valid point. “Service Calls.” The number is of great importance, even before considering: “Are these calls actually needed?
They may be keeping track but the public will never see the data. Due to the disastrous rollout Linda has put pretty much everything associated with scooters in a lock box. But some stuff will be coming out regardless and she will look even more the fool when it does. (not in the media though)
Unless you have the damage on video it did not happen. The mayor has assured us, by making no effort to stop the children from using the scooters, that they are well behaved, model citizens, and making some serious cash for her scooter friend regardless of the lives being put in jeopardy.
Children are expendable and there will always be more where they came from, she exclaimed. But scooter cash needs to be raked in while the sun shines..
“ Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors has admitted to throwing two parties at the organization’s swanky $6 million Los Angeles mansion — despite previously suggesting she’d never used the property for personal gain.
The 38-year-old told the Associated Press on Monday that she hosted her son’s birthday party and a gathering to celebrate President Biden’s inauguration at the six-bedroom property early last year.”
Did she know about Joe Biden’s 50 years of racism in the Swamp? About Hunter Biden’s long list of sordid scandals? About Kamala Harris calling Joe Biden a racist on national TV? If I was a black adult person, I would not be celebrating Joe Biden being in the White House. Perhaps she was happy the Biden ousted Donald Trump.
Trump got a birthday card from Putin and Biden did not. Ha ha Shows you who the popular guy is huh?
The Biden crime family was well rewarded by the Russians with the “Big Guy” getting his cut.
The Biden crime cartel are back in business, in Ukraine again. How many billions of US taxpayer dollars have been given away so far and is there an accounting of where it’s going? Is “big guys” cut still 10%?
Pelousey just made a trip there too, her family was in on the past crooked energy deals when Hunter was “working” for Burisma, along with Kerry’s and Romney’s relatives.
I’m not saying the war with Russia is good, just that Americans are getting fleeced again.
Maybe Mr Potato head should have took/kept the weapons he left for the Taliban, when he ran away from Afghanistan. They would have come in handy for the Ukrainians now, and saved Americans 4 billion dollars.
I have a theory as to why there are so many new people signing onto the Planet. Some of it is heightened interest in this board, but I think a lot of them are also on the board to give thumbs down to anything that goes against the far left agenda. I’ve seen this happen on other boards too. 12 gauge, Fritz, and Mad Trapper have always gotten lots of thumbs up, but now hover around 0. I also don’t see many new people positing so I think a lot of them are on here to just thumbs down without offering anything to the conversation to make it look like anything that goes against their agenda is unpopular.
PAT
Interesting theory, and I’m sure that’s part of it. That’s how insecure “They” are. A few thumbs up on points of view to which they don’t agree, and panic sets in! That’s when you know you’re getting to “Them.”
Someone on a previous day pointed out that state funds are siphoned to pay for low income riders. Could this be Bird’s business model? Target qualifying communities in sucker States? Sucking the government teat? What a scam.
Seriously Dan. I think the political forces have grouped together to thumb bomb any post they see that is anti mayor. You can see on Facebook how they will crowd a mayoral deed with idiotically positive posts. And they will shut down comments if they get more than one negative post if they control the site. Tyer is running a Putin like regime in Pittsfield where she is trying to totally control what gets out to the public.
PP
The thumbs down campaign is a sign that THE PLANETis alive, well, kicking, and getting into the right bad-hair.
You are 100% right on that Pat. They are freaking out and in serious damage control mode. This is possibly their most serious blunder (putting children’s lives at risk for profit) and they are pulling out all the stops to shut down the negative exposure.
Domestic terrorists are threatening the Supreme Court.
Untrue, I read CNN and their is no mention of any problems in DC….where do you get your information?
According to DHS and DOJ liberals can’t be domestic terrorists.
Protestors at Sotomayor’s house would be promptly sent to the gulag.
Been 17 months now, Americans have been locked up without charges nor a trial.
https://americangulag.org/
Some of them are on the court itself.
On the issue of abortion, the united states of ameriKa is not any more humane when it comes to the grim fate of unwanted babies/children than the horrors suffered by the innocent babies/children of Romanian orphanages. May I suggest you and your followers read up on it. You can start with what happens when the government, any government, including the government of ameriKa outlaws abortion, limited or denies birth control, and forces women to give birth to babies they don’t want, they’re not going to love, nurture, feed, diaper or protect. But they are going to exploit their babies for all the FREE government handouts while others are exploiting the unwanted innocent babies for the Adoption Bonuses. Adoption and Legal Guardianship Incentives AWARD Given to States / States receive; $5,000 per child for improving the number of foster child adoption; $4,000 per child for improving the number of foster child guardianships. $10,000 per child for improving the number of older child adoption and older foster child guardianships. States, DSS/DCF/CPS /18 Degrees RECEIVE bonuses $$$$$$$$$$$ for separating mothers from their babies, and babies from their mothers. Adoption Bonuses: The Money Behind the Madness / For every child DSS can gets adopted, there is a bonus of $4,000 to $6,000, and that’s just the beginning of it. There are NO INSENTIVES to keep birth mothers and their babies together. Baby Kristoff wasn’t any safer than the unwanted abandoned babies in Romanian Orphanages. 30 Years Ago Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Human Contact. In February 18, 2020, in the united states of ameriKa, in Adams Massachusetts, 10 mouth old Baby Kristoff was denied care, compassion and human contact as he suffered to death, alone. There were several sets of DCF eyes on Baby Kristoff, but none of them cared about him enough to take care of him, because there’s always going to be more Baby Kristoffs’ where he came from.
CIH this all happened with abortion being available. As is the media’s typical way the are not accurate in their reporting. The Supreme Court is looking at if abortion laws are federal or state control according to the Constitution. States will still be able to allow it if they so choose. Any time government gets involved in anything it’s usually a mess. Let us go to the polls and vote out the big government candidates.
May 9, 2022
Re: Mayor Linda Tyer’s public testimony in Boston belies her actions in Pittsfield politics
Mayor Linda Tyer’s highlighted testimony at the Boston State House today (Monday, May 9th, 2022, as reported by Matthew Medsger in the Boston Herald): Pittsfield Mayor Linda Tyer said her city [Pittsfield] has shovel ready projects just waiting for the money to move along. [Please tell us what the shovel ready projects are, Mayor Linda Tyer]. “The FORWARD act has the potential to transform my city and all of your communities, please pass the FORWARD act,” she said. [Please tell us how the FORWARD act will transform distressed Pittsfield into anything other than the nightmare Pittsfield has become in 2022, Mayor Linda Tyer]. The bill sets aside $750 million for clean energy projects, $970 million downtown revitalization, sends $300 million to the unemployment fund, and $270 million in affordable housing affiliated programs and grants.
My thoughts on Mayor Linda Tyer’s testimony to state lawmakers are that she herself is not allowing any public input and oversight from Pittsfield residents with her municipal administration’s secretive spending of her administration’s over $41 million in “Biden Bucks”, yet she is providing her own testimony to the corrupt career state lawmakers in Boston to spend $2.3 billion from the American Rescue Plan Act. What a double standard!
Why doesn’t Mayor Linda Tyer ever practice what she preaches in Pittsfield politics and beyond? Her failed public record includes Pittsfield’s Level 5 public school district, Pittsfield always being in the top 10 cities by population in Massachusetts for violent crime each and every year, municipal budgets with the second highest commercial tax rate in the state, recurring record high municipal taxes, fees, debts and other liabilities, the mostly vacant and totally polluted almost 24-year-old PEDA debacle with millions of dollars in always growing financial debts and other liabilities, her administration sitting on tens of millions of dollars in “Biden Bucks” plus Matt Kerwood’s excessive multimillion dollar slush funds, her reputation as being inaccessible to the people who live in Pittsfield, her and her multimillionaire CPA third husband Barry Clairmont living in a mansion in an elitist Gated Community within a few feet of the Hancock border in a distressed city with severe economic inequality, and so on.
Also, Beacon Hill should NOT still be sitting on billions of dollars in state surplus cash plus billions of dollars in “Biden Bucks”. Both Mayor Linda Tyer and state lawmakers should have had their respective 5-year “Biden Bucks” spending plans in place nearly one year ago. But instead of using the huge sums of public dollars in an open and transparent way, both Pittsfield politics and Boston politics allows all of the public dollars to still sit around do little to nothing so that they can promise to put wings on pigs so that they can fly instead of using the public dollars to invest in the people, families and communities who need the public dollars the most.
Jonathan A. Melle
Very good points Jonathon. Smart people are not just leaving Pittsfield but actually fleeing. It is that bad right now and only trending further down.
“Get out if you can”, is a common refrain sung by financial managers across the city. Pittsfield is no place to try to nuture a nest egg. Taxes and fees will devour that nest egg like a case of parasitic intestinal worms
JM I agree with you that the current mayor of Pittsfield is no friend to the taxpaying citizens of Pittsfield. She pays her special interests so she gets re-elected and invited to all these important events/parties. The city should put the ARPA money into the $70 million sewer/water project. Economics tells people during inflationary times with product shortages spending on new projects should stop and paying down debt should be the goal. Why doesn’t our government follow this simple economic theory? BTW on a side note I just came back from grocery shopping and filling up my gas tank so I want to thank Brandon for making me lighter by taking all my money out of my pocket.
As Biden said during the Correspondents Dinner, “They keep calling me this guy named Brandon. Who is he? I don’t get it.” Biden keeps playing stupid, and in many ways we know he is cognitively challenged, but he knows enough that the public is very unhappy with him, but he does nothing to change his extreme policies on everything. Linda Tyer is, of course, part of this far left agenda and never pushes back against it.
I went to fill up and the pump had three stickers on it, I only encountered the first prior to this:
-Brandon “I did that!”
-Pelousey “I helped!”
-Kamala “I just suck!”
That is impressive MT. You are now reading at a second grade level and we are all very proud of you. Keep up the good work man!
Let’s go Brandon!!!
Jesus man what are you paying with… silver dollars or suntin? Try using a credit card. Some come with a guaranteed “no weight change” feature.
Support the Berkshire economy and use the paper…keep it local!
https://youtu.be/tB7FdvN3Gu4
Amazing video of less lethal and lethal force being used.
“Across all four western Massachusetts counties, 2,836 people faced homelessness one night in February. That’s an increase from last year. The number of chronically homeless people more than doubled.
The reasons are known. The solutions remain elusive.“
This bs from the eagle. They forget to mention that in Pittsfield over 400 people were brought here from the metro Boston and Worcester areas to live in underused hotels. A majority of those people stayed. Thanks Tyer, Hinds, and TFB.
Boston sees Pittsfield as its dumpster
Next time you see Flat Tyer, Hinds End, and Tricia Farley-Country Buffet (D), remember they told you how great this grant money from Boston was. It is making Pittsfield vibrant, dynamic, and inclusive, to eastern MA and beyond.
What none of them told you was, the “inclusive clause,” added drug addicts in recovery/half-way houses from Boston/Worcester, POC fam’s of relatives locked up at BC jail, and of course, the “houseless.”
When are you unveiling your “houseless plan,” Pete White? Or is that only a campaign “promise?”
I think the Eagle needs a proof reader. Two glaring errors on the front page alone.
by the way, do you happen to know the name of the person who did that count that one cold dark night in February, and exactly what was the methodology? Was there like a guy walking through all the forests in Western Massachusetts counting people? I mean that sounds like tough work especially in the Pioneer Valley area where the mountains are fairly steep. Even Santa does not have to truck through the woods. And so he counted 2836 people but given the challenges I am guessing he missed a few. Might want to bump that number up to an even 3000.
True. No begging bums at every other traffic light, until the D-Rats exported them to the Berkshires under the guise of their scamdemic.
New word.
Transpublican- Identifies as a Republican but is really a Democrat (RINO). e.g. Mitt Romney Lindsey Graham Mitch McConnel
Elegant! I like it.
I remember downtown, upstreet, North Street, the Kameo, and the Strand, Lidos, and the Rosa, to name a few. From World War 2 to the present day, I have supported our so-called downtown area. No more! I’m done. A few days ago I did a very quick transaction at a West Street bank. I parked in an area off West Street. There were 3 autos in a line that were legally parked. I went to a space in front of them. No interference with the walkway and no interference with a cutoff for a parking lot. There is no parking sign there. Half of my car was in the approved parking area. The other half did extend into the no parking area. I was just another car in a line. And I got nailed for a $30.00 fine. A month ago I was having brunch with 6 people at a Park Square restaurant. It was crowded and there was a short delay. I came out to find a warning sign on my car. And we’re trying to rejuvenate a dying former business district. Well, the area got the last breath from me. I’ll take my business to Coltsville or Lenox.
CHUCK
Wow! When the city screws up the downtown so bad that one of its heroes says “Enough!”, that’s when you know the downtown is no longer dying. It’s DEAD. Thanks for sharing! Breakfast soon at RLI, maybe?
Sarcasm: I thought Pittsfield’s distressed downtown rivaled Paris, France, London, U.K., NYC, and L.A. I didn’t know that downtown Pittsfield’s former business district of the long ago 1950s & 1960s post-WW2 era is really part of Gregory Crewdson’s large photos in his art exhibits in London, NYC & L.A. called: “Pittsfield: A City in Decay”. Postindustrial Pittsfield’s politicians have been and are still full of more HOT AIR than the corrupt career politicians in the Swamp touting their MAGA crap and Green New Deal nonsense. If it possible for Matt Kerwood to harness all of the HOT AIR, he would be able to more efficiently burn a hole in the fictional/proverbial Mary Jane & Joe Kapanski’s purse strings. How about that Rolodex, Jimmy Ruberto? How about that Vibrant and Dynamic tagline, Linda Tyer? If Pittsfield politics is a metaphor of our country’s future, then we are all screwed. In closing, Beacon Hill lawmakers should commission a Pittsfield scratch ticket to symbolize the plight of state and local politics in Massachusetts.
I’ll settle for an egg McMuffin at McDonald’s.
Chuck, you admit 1/2 of your car was in a no parking zone and yet you are surprised you got a ticket? Why? Did you leave a note on the windshield for the parking attendant saying I’m here supporting downtown, so therefore don’t ticket me? I’ll never come back if you do your job and ticket me for illegal parking? Or did you let them know you are Dan Valenti’s idol and therefore get an exemption?
MR. W
The point, which obviously eludes you, is that ANY city interested in promoting its downtown will cut citizens a break under these circumstances. It’s actions like this that have made Pittsfield the scum bucket that it’s become. That and the brilliant leadership from the corner office, aided by a boot-licking council and an inept school committee. Tell us. With which of these offices do you align? You got one thing right, though. CHUCK is one of our HEROES!
Flat Tyer Fan!!!!!
How much did you take on the PPP loan again?
Funny CPA’s and the like, couldn’t continue to work at home during the scamdemic.
But then again, most CPA’s probably aren’t part of a neighborhood vigilante group. Patrolling the Cumby’s p-lot at 3AM, on a cold, snowy, Sunday night. Making sure the “houseless” were behaving.
Terry K’s Community Pickpocket Act.
Rosa brings up memories,after winning the Mercer city elementary basketball championship in the sixties the team had a spaghetti and meatball dinner,there.Great Italian food Chuck.
The main cause of death for people ages 18 – 45 in the United States is Fentanyl. This is so disgusting and could have been avoided if we didn’t have open borders thanks to Joe Biden.
https://www.gbhoh.com/fentanyl-becomes-leading-cause-of-death-for-ages-18-45/
Andrea “Is there a book I can read on how to be a DA” Harrington did not want to send any staff to this week’s annual Massachusetts prosecutors conference. The progressive DA’s have their own ideas about training and do not want their prosecutors or victim witness advocates learning how to best put away bad guys or support victims. In their world, the criminal is the victim. However, there was a protest and Berkshire district attorney’s office staff are now attending. Make what you will of this. Harrington can’t even enforce her own policies among people who serve her completely at her will. Relations with other law enforcement county wide are completely broken down. Not one pol has spoken out in her defense regarding her many public misteps and mismanagements. Harrington is in real political trouble.
Imagine you’re going to the Pittsfield municipal Airport from another state or country looking to do business with the city of Pittsfield and then run into Tamarac Road wow.
Let’s hope so.
Dan,Charles. Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio?
He’s carrying Ted Williams’ bat. That’s where Joe D. is.
And……..she’s a DEMOCRAT!!!!!! Eeewwwwww……