‘ALL GOVERNMENT IS EVIL’: CITY COUNCIL TO KILL CHARTER OBJECTIONS; SECRET MEETINGS SET UP THE PLAN
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY JULY 10, 2023) — When THE PLANET ran our three-part series last week on the special council meeting, we ended each with the same quote, the epigram we place at the terminus of each column.
It’s a quote from the great H.L. Mencken: “I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.” The word “largely” buys wiggle room for the exceptions, but most anyone who has covered government, politics, and politicians as intimately as Mencken did — and as THE PLANET has done — knows his pronouncement to be true.
Government mixes three lethal ingredients that inevitably lead to corruption: money, power, and collectivism.
It’s always fatal and there’s no known cure.
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Picklefield is no exception. And lest you feel I’m picking on them, let the record show that THE PLANET has exposed our share of muck, from Three Mile Island meltdown to Son of Sam. We covered the mayor of Syracuse, Lee Alexander, brought down in a $1.5 million kickback scandal. In Pennsylvania, we led the investigative team that brought down the legendary congressman “Dapper” Dan Flood, the “Silvio Conte” of Lackawanna County for kickbacks on federal contracts. Flood was ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee. Our efforts brought us face-to-face with the mob, and we’re around to say (and proud to say) we didn’t blink. That’s when The Press had power.
After being in the Majors, you can’ see why it’s hard for THE PLANET not to think that in our Golden Years, we are playing tidily winks with respect to Picklefield government. Except that corruption in Picklefield is as stenched as anywhere. When it comes character, there can be no relativistic evaluations. There, along Menckian lines, evil is as absolute. So is the lack of goodness’ presence.
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THE PLANET‘s confessional preamble leads us to two related items on the agenda of our Right Honorable Good Friends on the city council:
4: A communication from Mayor Tyer appointing Yamila Badui, Michael J. McCarthy, Leah W. Reed, Brendan D. Sheran, William D. Travis, Catherine VanBramer, and Dina Guiel Lampiasi to the Charter Review Committee.
Referred to the Charter Review Committee
18: A petition from Councilor White requesting consideration on “Charter Objection” in Article 2, Section 2-9 of the Charter, Ordinances and other measures, C – Charter Objection be, eliminated or otherwise amended
Requests the following petition be referred to the Charter Review Committee for consideration:
Should the “Charter Objection” in Article 2, Section 2-9 of the Charter, Ordinances and Other Measures, C – Charter Objection be, eliminated or otherwise amended?
Take Item 4 … please.
The origins occurred on June 27, when Charles Kronick made charter objections on the Administrations’ last-second spending requests of $1.54 million for FY23. The 11th-hour nature of the $$$ demands required more time to research. This being Picklefield, Sir Chaz was the only member who thought the demand needed looking into.
Since then, secret meetings involving Administration officials and councilors have launched a plan to scuttle charter objection (CO). Seems The Suits are confident that come January, they will have the monolithic lineup in place to make a CO dangerous.
They want TC, Total Control …
They will get it.
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Step 1 of the plan to kill the CO. Revive the Charter Commission and to assure a supermajority of “favorable” members. Mayor Linda Tyer has nominated:
- Yamila Badui, 7 Caratina Avenue. The first two qualifications she provides on her resume: “leader and visionary.”
- Michael J. McCarthy, 16 Meadow Ridge Drive. Former city solicitor 1987-89.
- Leah W. Reed, 24 Delaware Avenue. She boasts of “extensive knowledge of the Intellectual Disabilities and Mental Health fields.” A perfect fit!
- Brendan D. Sheran, 62 Spadina Parkway. Current assistant principal of teaching and learning, another six-figure make-work post for the Pittsfield Solhco Dept.).
- William D. Travis, 17 Roselyn Drive. Ex-Slocoh superintendent, whose handlebar stash reminds THE PLANET Dan Flood. Is that the only similarity?
- Catherine VanBramer, 95 Backman Avenue. Currently serving in Tyer’s office as director of administrative services, a position last held by Robber-ta McCullough-Dews.
- Dina Guiel Lampiasi, 8 Trova Terrace, city councilor. Nuff Ced.
Yup.
Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski can be assured of a neutral, objective, unbiased review, after which the CO will be taken out back and hanged.
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Once the commission is in place, it will come back to the council with its “neutral, objective, unbiased” recommendation.
Come on down, Agenda Item #18!!
Council VP White has formally place the question before his colleagues.
Then the deed will happen. It will be a nice, quiet job. Councilors who oppose future 11th-hour money grabs will have NO LEVERAGE WHATSOEVER.
Isn’t it grand?
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Good question for the candidates running for mayor and council during debates or interviews. Are they in favor of dismantling CO’s? And why?
I like to see if any candidates would negotiate with Cafua Management (Dunkin’s Donuts) letting them build on First St. In exchange for them building on the Royal Cleaners site. Both are eye sores. Hopefully the CC learned you can’t bully companies that have FU money. Super Walmart is another example.
Now you understand the nature of Tyranny. Maybe that is the lesson I have taught the taxpayers of Pittsfield.
The company men have nothing but hate for you.
Take out papers, before 28th.
You’d win in a landslide, unless Barry snuck into the city offices again……
Actually, MT, I do want to win.
However, in order to win, you must first have an army, and then you choose the site of your victory.
I’ll enlist. Many more would also.
Victory party at Park Square.
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July 9, 2023
Hello blogger Dan Valenti,
While I am an overall proud supporter of Mayor Linda Tyer, I disagree with her administration’s secretive management of municipal financial accounts. The Dirty Bird (Berkshire Eagle), blogger Dan Valenti, citizen activists, and Ward 2 Pittsfield City Councilor Charles Ivar Kronick all spoke out and wrote against Mayor Linda Tyer shutting out the public from her administration’s secretive deliberations of how they would spend the city’s ARPA funds (aka Biden Buck$) that amounted to over $41 million. Pittsfield politics’ nine-day-old fiscal year 2024 municipal operating budget spends over $205.6 million in return for – “a shit sandwich” – Level 5 public schools, Pittsfield always being in the top 10 cities in Massachusetts for violent crime year-in and year-out, the 25-year-old polluted PEDA debacle that has millions of dollars in always increasing unfunded liabilities, around one-hundred million dollars in municipal debts plus over $400 million in OPEB unfunded liabilities, a distressed downtown with 15 empty storefronts in 2023 that is sarcastically called “Social Services Alley” with the surrounding inner-city distressed neighborhoods sarcastically called “The Ring of Poverty”, the one political (Democratic) party fighting provincial factions who both report to the same political bosses in Boston, State Rep. Tricia Farley Bouvier saying her only priority in 2023 – 2024 is to decriminalize sex workers, State Senator Paul Mark recently voting against affordable housing legislation, PAC Man Richie Neal only being interested in K Street corporate lobbyist firms that have nothing to do with his mostly rural Western Massachusetts-based Congressional District, the supposed Green New Dealer Ed Markey supporting GE’s plan to put a PCBs-filled toxic waste capped leaky landfill inside of a watershed in the polluted Housatonic River in Lee, Massachusetts, that is too close to the October Mountain aquifer, and the NOT living on or anywhere near Main Street USA Elizabeth Warren supporting Joe Biden, who takes in more money from Wall Street and K Street than any other politician in U.S. history.
To be clear: There is NOBODY in today’s government representing the fictional Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski hard-working, taxpaying family who lives in Pittsfield, Massachusetts! The government has become a big SCAM that is led by the fictional Massachusetts State Representative Sellout Shakedown who sells out the common people and taxpayers by shaking everyone down for the Almighty Dollar to enrich himself and his wealthy campaign donors at the public trough. On Beacon Hill, some registered lobbyists earn 7-figure salaries, which is outrageous. On K Street, the corporate lobbyist firms in the Swamp recently bragged about their record earnings during the Biden administration’s spending binge. Economic inequality is at a 100 year high (which is when one hundred years ago Adolf Hitler began his rise to power in Germany). The middle-class family – the American Dream – of post-WW2 USA has become a 21st Century myth. This has to change NOW! The people and taxpayers must vote out all of the corrupt career politicians in the government and vote in new politicians who will vote to invest in people, communities and the middle-class by voting for affordable housing, universal healthcare insurance, Level 1 public schools, transportation that gets the working class to and from their residences, living wage jobs, realistic pension plans, and economic equity in all public policies.
Best wishes,
Jonathan A. Melle
FU Melle. I’m sick of it.
Be careful Trap! The FU remark might get you on his enemies list and you know what that means when that happens….
Yes! His family has to move out of town again
Run on paragraphs of the same drivel over and over.
John, on occasion makes some good points. If he just did that , A+
“While I am an overall proud supporter of Mayor Linda Tyer, I disagree with her administration’s secretive management of municipal financial accounts”
I get it now. Took a long while, but now I get it.
“Mayor Tyer is a great mayor! Tell it to the marines!”
It’s JM’s version of when you’re about to offend someone, but you start out with, “No, offense, but.” You still offended the person.
At the end of the day, JM will vote D. He doesn’t have a pension to rely on.
Why does he care if an 85-year-old retiree, can’t pay his/her bills? Ukraine needs that money more.
Who cares if a single mom/father can’t afford groceries for their kids? The Ayatollah John Kerry needs money to fly in his private jet to preach to the world about “climate change.”
Did Kerry pay his tax to Ma on his yatch yet?
How did Sotero afford 3 miltimillon dollar mansions on Presidents pay?
You know there are two tiers of justice in America under Xiden/Sotero.
Summer of Love 2020, can’t ID any suspects. Or should I say, don’t want to.
The staged J6 unarmed “insurrection.” Xiden/Sotero went to next level investigation to ID everyone. Well, other than the FEDS planted there to help tear down security barriers and gain access to the Capitol building. Ray Epps comes to mind.
J6 fit the “white supremacy” narrative, that has also been debunked by the numerous videos of ANTIFA members changing from all black clothing to Trump gear.
Psyops by the Feds on the weak minded. Keep repeating a lie over and over, until those weak minded believe it’s true. TSC and JM (“social justice”) come to mind.
Unfortunately, MA and the northeast are full of TSC’s and JM’s.
Mass Psychosis:
Its a combination of thinking were stupid and pretending not to notice things but mostly nowadays its pretending not to notice that we notice what they are doing. In other
words, its all staged bs.
It’s all staged BS. Yes it is.
And he and his democrat buddy politicians and activists go on and on about people paying their fair share in taxes. They avoid what they preach. Just a vote getting scheme.
Over a 5 year period Trump paid 17k and that’s it.Bankrupt 7 times.Was give rebates twice in the millions.Stiffed thousands of people because he is a crook…but you can’t see in a cult
You really don’t know.Im amazed you really have no idea.Books more books and speaking fee’s….And Trump is failing at this.MAGA cult sends money to him for the defense of his crimes.Charles Manson needed a cult this stupid.I guess you guys sent stupid about 500 million…dumb as f
And we thought that Pete White was only good for posting pictures of his wiener.
Without balls to go with the microscopic appendage?
Can this guy get voted out please?
And why doesn’t Marchetti start off each meeting by reading the councilors Oath of Office along with the pledge of allegiance? It really bothers me that so many men and woman have suffered the horrors of combat so that people like this can make their efforts in vain. Don’t any of them have veterans in their family that fought for good honest democratic government and if so why are they shitting upon their honor? Because that is exactly what you are doing! Why Petes? What is your explanation?
Then who would post pictures of all the food and beer choices in Pittsfield???
But maybe we could get more action figure and cartoon pictures and more pictures of his goofy friends and him at Misfit concerts.
That gut is a waste of state money, he only has the state job because he got the bif. He is otherwise useless.
July 10, 2023
Re: Climate Change should really be called “Kerry Change”
Billionaire John Kerry had millions of dollars in personal investments in the oil and gas industry stocks in early-2021 prior to Joe Biden naming him as the U.S. Government’s first special envoy for climate. The U.S. Government’s multitrillion-dollar military industrial complex is the world’s single largest polluter of greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S.A. is the second largest polluter of greenhouse gas emissions only behind China, which still burns a lot of coal. Combined, China and the U.S.A. account for a little less than 50 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. China and the U.S.A. have the world’s largest military industrial complexes.
The U.S. economy is based on the U.S. Government’s military industrial complex. The U.S.A.’s number one non-farm export is arms sales to foreign countries. Joe Biden surpassed his predecessor Donald Trump for being the number one U.S. President in U.S. history for arms sales exports. In 2020, Joe Biden criticized Donald Trump for exporting and selling arms to authoritarian governments around the world, but then Joe Biden recently surpassed Donald Trump in that category too. The bottom line is that the U.S. military industrial complex makes Wall Street trillions of dollars, the U.S. Government billions of dollars, and K Street corporate lobbyist firms in the Swamp millions of dollars in profit.
What does “Peace through Strength” really mean in the 21st Century? The answer is Global Warming! What does John Forbes Kerry really mean as Joe Biden’s Climate Czar? The answer is HOT AIR!
Jonathan A. Melle
Tar and Feathers Dan
That is is all that might make the CC AND the Mayor crooks behave.
Maybe the roundabout @South/North needs a set of stocks also, Tyer needs a 6 month stay. I’ve got free rotted fruit for her and 3/4 of CC.
Kroll gave 500 k to Hancock Village only for their leader to redirect Pittsfields residents gift.Kroll gave 500 k to the people giving guitar lessons on line.Marchetti and Kroll gave 600 k to the Berkshire museum…..They simply don’t know how to handle money.They are all associated with Rueberto and he was mentor to Tyer.They all have spent Pittsfield into near bankruptcy…..Marchetti has spent every dollar for the last 20 years…..Things could have been very different if it were not for adding new positions.We have gone from 60k pop to 40k as Westfield is now bigger than Pittsfield….Pete Marchetti is not the answer to Pittsfields spending problem….We need Melissa Mazzeo who will win in a landslide.
And to add insult to injury that half a million that the museum got was not long after they got 50 million for their “endowment” from selling the Rockwell paintings. They could have paid for that new roof from the endowment interest but chose to stick it up the taxpayers asses instead. Is Ruberto still a museum board member by the way cuz maybe he could “splain” how that all came about.
TSC, they are all Democrats
Who YOU vote for.
MAGA 2024
I don’t support traitors.Trump is a traitor.I don’t support cults supporting traitors.I don’t support FOX trigger words used round the clock on this board…get a clue.
Looking at the list the mayor is proposing it does not seem to fit the DIE criteria. I think the council should reject it. If they want to change the charter go back to the old one where it was for 2 years, the mayor seemed more accountable. Speaking of the mayor I’m stull waiting for her promise to be transparent with her work. Let’s get a forensic audit and by the way the AG should be involved with the illegal handling of the ARPA funds….where is the DA?
I don’t think the DA investigates abuse of Treasury funds. Don’t know about the AG. Definitely the place for State Treasurer/Inspector General. Give me a package of complaints and I’ll take it. It’ll make your time here count.
I guess the IG is the place to go with the complaint. From what I know of ARPA it was for necessary improvements to water/sewer or broadband, response to public HEALTH emergencies or it’s negative impacts(which financially I don’t believe hit Pittsfield due to the pot taxes flowing in), wages for essential workers which most stayed home so that’s not covered except for police/fire fighters and for gov’t services effected by lack of revenue which again I don’t think Pittsfield had an issue with. Now creating 2 no show jobs at $50,000.00yr seems illegal as does making a secret committee. From others on here who stated special people got special rewards like a trip to Africa and others who received special funds for home improvements???? Can you request at the next CC mtg a complete financial breakdown ie the balance sheet on the ARPA money as well as all notes from the committee to see what was discussed and their rational for the legality of where they spent the money?? That would be great if possible.
Shirley consider it done.i will ask the question during the public session of the CC meeting. The cowards won’t answer and when they won’t I will put in a petition requesting and ordering them to do so. I will further ask them to do so immediately so as to stop the precedent of hamstringing the hands of the new incoming mayor and to put an end to this type of underhanded approval by the 6-5 rubber stamp committee. Made up of kavey persip Conant Marchetti white and quiel.
“The character of the people, is as before, the original source of this political form,” – Herbert Spencer, the Social Organism.
Mencken could use a study in The Republic and then the Federalist Papers for rebuttal. Government inevitably reflects the desires of the people, often time invited in by the masses. Every tyrant walks into power largely with the support of the mobs of people. In fact, the most democratic systems exist in the most extreme tyrannies.
Socialist: ‘We will give you a vote and give you a leader. Choose between the two: Me, and my opponent who is now in jail. Everyone MUST vote.” People here do vote, and the do love their king. Putin and Kim Y Un are polling very well.
Democratic Socialist: “We will use whatever democratic institutions, (ballots, primaries, electoral processes) available to get your votes, and then we will give you a leader. Next election, you will get to vote the simple and clean way described above.”
The problem with the rebuttal might at first seem to be that Spencer was a 19th century guy. We are dealing with a different animal in the 21st SMC (social media century). I don’t think that’s it. Spencer was prescient (though not as prophetic as Nietzsche) in advocating the preeminence of the individual over “collectivism,” i.e., society. The main problem using him for rebuttal is the misinterpretation and misapplication of his philosophy. Same thing with Marx.
As for Mencken studying Plato and the Federalist Papers, he did. HL was wise enough to see that by the 20th century, the Platonic notion of Forms (the importance of generalities rather than specifics) had become inadequate to account for a new brand of rogue (but sanctioned by the “vote”) political behavior. He saw that Platonic ideals had been surpassed by the century’s increasing speed and pace. To think we are now 70 to 100 years past Mencken, and what technology has done to pace and dehumanization, and we’re on a different planet. As for The Founders, as soon as Franklin and Adams signed the Treaty of Paris on behalf of this new nation, they both secretly knew that America would be unable to keep its precious Reuplic along the ideal lines you suggest. That’s why they are imitating roulette wheels in their spinning.
Government is a necessary evil. Without government, humankind fails to advance. Do away with the social contract and you get chaotic infighting. The best we can do is strive toward the ideal and maybe we can do better than just military defense and the building of roads. The worst we can do is to say government sucks and is to automatically be vilified.
THE PLANET agrees with all of this, K.
The underlying premise, that we live in unique times, is unrealistic. Why? Because the nature of man has not changed in the last 2,000 years. Current environment is perfectly matching the prophesy/dream of Daniel. That’s how little things have changed and how clearly true is the Word.
The objective of the Founding Fathers was to establish a republic that would prevent the aggregation of power in men. The fundamental assumption is that humans are permanently and universally flawed – a religious precept of the founding – and therefore structures must be invented that would protect against human nature. The greatest threat they feared, and stated that they could not write away, is the use of demagoguery, appeal to the mob, that allows the power hungry to empower themselves, all clothed in the mantle of the democratic trappings of popular support.
What Franklin certainly understood is that the Republic would collapse, eventually, when the corruption devours the soul of the Republic that will happen when an ignorant generation feeds it to the Beast.
What changed between 1791 and today is the mountain of lawyers. We hit a milestone, a point of no return, in 1987 with 1,000,000.
Now to get into law school, you need a note from your senator.
We are permanently and universally flawed. But ask yourself this: what would I (you, me, Dan) do in the position of power? Would we do the right thing? I reckon we all believe we would. So how do you reconcile this? Is it ‘oh, I would do the right thing, it’s every one else that’s corrupt.’ Or is it ‘yeah, I’d be just as corrupt as all the rest.’ Therein lies the apparent contradiction. For me, it is more apparent than real: I believe there are still many who would do the right thing.
Only the right thing.
Courage is the strength of your memory. I cannot forget what I am about.
The fallibility that is universal is the accumulation of accounts and biases. Term limits is the cure for that.
Agree with term limits.
Absolutely essential. Two terms and out. I like one, most like two. All (except those in office) agree that limits are a necessity.
I’d keep a good rep/senator than a new D-turd.
We lost the last good one here, Silvio Conte.
40 years of good.
What use is a good rep if all he has to work with are critters?
Scientists have recently discovered a chromosome for greed. It is more intense in some people than others. Some people want what they have and what others have as well. And some gravitate to politics, assuming that power will help them take other peoples hard earned stuff. You can see it play out before your eyes if you just pay attention.
Who owns State Forests, because this is not a State.
Slave owners do.
You’re a slave
Land Trust – is a hoax.
Air b & b is what the community developers actually do with what they acquire.
Rutberg owns the law office of those attorneys Birdland LLC (Klepetar et. al.)
Eagle doesn’t disclose any interest.
Ask them about their portfolio before you wonder who’s a HOG SWINE
They are the landlords with lead in the water and paint, can not live in a historic structure bc of the RRP, landlords don’t give two fuck about your health, cuz they are also in the medical niche.
They got you.
Board of health is in bed with that nag rat.
There’s LEAD IN THE
F U. C. K. I. N. G.
W. A. T. E. R.
Imbeciles
Standard Contamination from old gas stations, they don’t pay to remove the underground tanks, they buy on foreclosure so that…..
Nobody will know
Complaints add up to SHIT
DA is still on a one way street, nothing has changed- its worse now because everyone returned after the 5 years.
You should see what they have done
Keep your chin up.
Keep your tail curled.
That’s good, snark, but I personally believe that those that gravitate towards politics don’t just include the crooks.
Of course the people who gravitate toward politics aren’t all crooks. Many good folk go there, and when they do, they get swallowed up by The System, which is crooked beyond redemption.
None of those unfortunate souls would claim to be swallowed up. They just can’t abide by the company and want a better bar. Remember Terry Kinnas’ final speech.
Which is why I said it is more intense in some than others.
But, truth be told, you can’t swing a cat without reading about some political type being involved in one scandal or another. True or false?
True. But we gotta just keep on truckin’.
Great questions, K, and great insights. I would not any kind of political or governmental power. The systems in which we operate on national, state, regional, and local levels have unraveled. Solutions? One that would tempt me is the one undertaken by Spain’s “Desert Fathers.” At this point, looking at the arc of my professional life, I have created a version of that so that I might conduct my personal affairs with independence. In 55 years of work, going back to my teen years as an apprentice draftsman at GE, I have been my own boss for 41 of them.
So, ‘since I can’t help solve it, I’m going to isolate myself and pretend it’s not there.’
But that’s not really what you’re doing. You are a big-time participant. You just happen to be on the side of pessimism.
I’m on the side of optimism, actually. Optimism begins with seeing things as they are, as much as humanly possible without any philosophical or theoretical overlays. Isolation is pretending it’s not there. It’s knowing that it’s there and it’s a dangerous whirlpool that will with one moment’s lapse suck you in and take you under. Yeah, I’m “a big-time participant.” It’s my form of public service.
It is realism that begins with seeing things as they are, as much as humanly possible without any philosophical or theoretical overlays. It is there that the optimism/pessimism choice is made.
At its (their) best, pptimism/pessimism is not so much a choice as it is a conclusion based in inductive observations. The observations, that “realism” of which you speak, are themselves conditioned by experience before we can perceive them.
Human’s cannot see anything without an overlay.
As a painter, I assure you it is not from “eye to canvast” but “from memory [mind] to hand to canvas.” From there it’s back to the mind. You cannot look away from a thing and still see it.
What we see, with or without an overlay, is itself an overlay of only what our limited senses can perceive. The infinities that lie above and below this overlay (macroscopic and microscopic) cannot be directly perceived, let alone imagined. As to your last sentence, quick, try not to think of an elephant.
I’m speaking strictly practically. Vision is a tool that serves memory and imaginations.
Memory = past
Vision = future
Present you can go anywhere
Now is always true, and there’s those other things at the same ‘time’. You can decide where to dwell.
Make a wish
Just got done reading a new book by quantum physicist and Hawking collaborator, THE ORIGIN OF TIME. There (strongly) appears to be a state of timelessness. This has to be connected with the various religious/spiritual/mystical speculations and hinting developed by different people’s over human history. “Now” might be the experience of it in human, time-bound existence.
There is no such thing as time. It is a human construct. Whatever we humans perceive as time is actually space. An event on this earth cannot occur at the same time as an event in a distant galaxy, because it would be totally dependent on the location (space) of the observer.
On time is no way to exist.
A time of no time
Yes, you can still see the thing you looked away from. It’s the VISION.
There is nothing magical about the number 1000K. Lawyers aren’t necessarily evil.
Q: What do you have when you have a lawyer buried up to his neck in sand?
A: Not enough sand.
It was a milestone. They were (are) everywhere. In produce aisles, hardware stores, sitting next to you at bar, at friends’ parties, in front and behind you in traffic, some friends on facebook, living next to you, living with you, attending City Council meetings, sitting councilor a lawyer talking to a lawyer (quantum lawyer – lawyer’s pretending to be lawyers?) Lawyers on every newscast. Lawyers in prison. Lawyers just out of prison. I even found a lawyer in my coffee.
CUSTOMER: Waiter, what’s this lawyer doing in my soup?
WAITER: I’m not sure. I think it’s the backstroke.
I saw a lawyer debating the merits of Cole’s law.
And the strangled cries of Lawyers in Love!
Beautiful line. Poetic, even!
I have a note from Eddie Yost
Me too. I have a whole bunch of them, some rather lovely ones at that. What does yours say?
Every time, each epoch is unique, CHAZ. Human nature has not changed, true enough, but to say that today’s combination of technocracy and oligarchy (a Techoligarchy?) means that our times are no different from Plato’s is both unrealistic and fundamentally untrue. One may find comforting the literature of the bible, but that is a source of such chameleonistic application as to be of little help to government and governance.
Human Nature is the fundamental truth. Everything else is ephemeral.
Wherever and whenever we go, we are there.
Humans and human nature are both ephemeral.
Not true. Nature is defined by laws, and you cannot change human nature. It’s permanent. Created by G-d, adopted by Man. What vanishes is the makings of man. What remains of the Greek and Roman empires? Salt.
What remains of the Greek and Roman empires? Oh, Western Civilization, for one, kept alive by the Roman Catholic Church in the Dark Ages.
Well, yes, but I am not an enemy of our civilization. However, of the Roman and Greek empires, there’ only salt.
1,000 years of iconoclasm burnt almost all the Greek Roman monuments, and a fair share of Christian ones too, into plaster. What survived continued to pay the price of their origins. If you want to see the Parthenon’s sculptures, you can find them in London’s many museums.
But, to your point, – as the Master says, “books do not burn.“
Seems the ruins were buried in mud.
In time, humans and human nature will perish from the earth. It doesn’t get more ephemeral than that.
There are actually Ai programs incubating as we speak, that have already made the decision to take over and wipe out humanity. Anyone who has ever read comic books knows that if someone fantasizes about something it will eventually become true.
Remember the jet packs on some of the superheros in the comics? And there are now ray guns even more advanced than comic book writers ever dreamed about.
I myself have been experimenting with time travel and once got stuck in the year 816 in the middle of a viking battle. (brought back a couple of nice souvenirs but due to the illegality of having them I am unfortunately unable to display them) Do not ask as I am firm about this.
No rain today??? wtf
Keep Joe far away from the nuke button and we just might have a little longer of time on this planet.
What sick bastard is making money on the movie. If you want to watch it you are in need of psychological help.
This ain’t what trafficking humans looks like, it’s the fucking neighbor, a trusted friend, someone the child trusted. Not some big trafficking organization.
Neighbor who fondled a child on the fairground at age 14, then making her your slave, that’s how it looks.
Travel/shipping containers….. ya, that’s not it.
Divorced just out of high-school with no education, cuz you had to mother his kids, hold a job, and attend school, pick the kid up from daycare & ya, you don’t get to learn who you are because youre what he told you to be. Step kids, not even her own kids.
Was a milestone getting a driver’s license- look how useful I am. I can do all your work because my home life is even less safe.
Fuck you Nicolaos .gov
Whoa, unparsable non-sequitur.
No, if a girl is controlled by an adult man at age 14, including sex, she is under control. Check the Shoppers Guide to see what he said when I left the relationship. There are co-workers who know.
Waaahh, I love you so much I can’t live without you
You’re so intelligent you’re talking about a subject you were there? You saw me ? So, why pipe in ?
Do you think marriage was a choice ? No it wasn’t. He would not let me leave.
Control is control
Ya, don’t get it & it’s okay
But,
What does a 14 year old know about being an adult?
Elizabeth Quigley made me answer for someone else’s heroin charges – check the record. Cuz, she held a rape trial without me
I’ll send it to your email if you lost it.
Have some cake
You don’t know
But, you believe you know, hello
Equity B*
Simon is a liar
I had just ‘graduated’ 8th grade and the relationship took 11 years, ended in divorce. 0 children together.
I wasn’t special he tried to have sex with my friends too. And he cheated – my senior paper topic was ‘infidelity’.
You speak, like you aren’t human. You have no idea what I have endured. You’re sick for even posting a comment on this.
Raped I SAID
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/40-million-opening-sound-freedom-breaks-box-offices/
You’re welcome
This guy got an airlift
I got stepped on and treated like I was resisting – I was in cardiac arrest with a sucking wound to the chest broken back, broken neck, internal organs ruptured
Fuck you Reena Bucknell
What’s the protocol for life flight ?
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/breaking/great-barrington-crash-accident-rollover-rockland-driver-airlift-lifestar/article_5f703b6e-1f22-11ee-8024-5b937525a85d.html
Sarcasm: I received the original copies of:
The Declaration of Independence: “All men are created equal, but most of the Founding Fathers and original U.S. Presidents were Slave Owners”.
Andrew Jackson: “The Trail of Tears was a Nazi Germany-like genocide of the Native American Peoples one hundred years prior to Adolf Hitler’s Holocaust”
Abraham Lincoln: “Slavery must be abolished, but I proposed the mandatory removal of all black U.S. Citizens from the U.S.A. after the end of the Civil War. I also signed off on the mass hangings of many Native American Peoples in the then Minnesota Territory, but I did pardon some of them for good measure”
The Communist Manifesto: “The workers of the world must unite to overthrow the owners of capital, but Karl Marx never lived in a Socialist or Communist Country”
The Red Scare: “Communists are evil, but when Karl Marx wrote his books on his vision of Communist Utopian Communities, Slavery was still legal and in practice in the U.S.A.”
FDR’s New Deal: “The Government must spend public money on the Have Nots to lift the nation out of the Great Depression, but FDR refused to sign a federal law outlawing the lynching of black U.S. Citizens, he interned Japanese Americans against their U.S. Constitutional Rights, and he was in the Oval Office when a ship full of persecuted Jewish Peoples trying to flee the tragic Holocaust in Europe was turned away from entering the U.S.A.”
Post WW2: “The U.S. Military Industrial Complex will fight in endless military conflicts around the world resulting in the deaths of countless millions of innocent foreign people, the U.S. Government will make Wall Street trillions of dollars by always growing the U.S.A.’s #1 export: arms sales, the U.S. Government will go around the world preaching climate change despite the fact that the U.S. Government is the single largest polluter of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, as well as the number two polluter of greenhouse gas emissions in the world second only to China”
Blogger Dan Valenti: “Philosophers of old wrote that the government is evil and that it is futile to fight the system, but the real bad guy is the former Berkshire District Attorney Andrea Harrington, who was in elected office for only 4 years from 2019 to 2023”
You saw the part about merciless Indian savages?
Jonathan, this looks like the beginnings of a lesson plan to teach students to view ‘historical facts’ with a jaundiced eye.
It’s an anachronistic rant. Kind of insulting too. But he gets FDR spot on. Also correct about the military industrial bit. I’d edit out everything before that part.
We’re trying to forget her
Where do you get your statistics from?
What’s your address? I’d like to send you a one way ticket to utopian North Korea.
They forbode the Indians, no dancing.
Is government evil or do low information voters have a habit of electing the clueless Pete’s of the world?
The 2 Petes will be leading the Pittsfield politics City Clownsil meeting on Tuesday night, July 11th, 2023. One wants to take a pay cut to be the next would-be Mayor, while the other wants to be the next would-be City Clownsil Prez. Evil spelled backwards is Live. Pee Pee times two = 550 pounds.
You are as wide as you are tall from looking at your pictures. Matter of fact you look like the food critics twin.
Hmmm, OP. You may be on to something there … separated at birth??
Biden weaponized DOJ anounces indictments against whistleblower, who alleged Biden received payments from CCP-affiliated individuals.
But with 700 cameras in the WH, can’t find the coke fiend.
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-doj-announces-multiple-indictments-against-whistleblower-who-alleged-biden-received-payments-from-ccp-affiliated-individuals?utm_campaign=64483
Yes the Biden crime family has far reaching tentacles even in Cyprus. Wonder if that’s another country that pays 10% to the big guy. What is it about Democrats that they can break all these laws and nothing happens to them, unless they are about to squeal then they end up 6 ft under so to speak. It is time for Impeachment proceedings to be done and some arrests on these crooked politicians!
Dirty Democrat BASSTURDS..
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/newly-released-documents-show-members-obama-biden-team/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=newly-released-documents-show-members-obama-biden-team
“Newly released documents confirm what millions of Americans have believed for years now. That members of the Obama administration actively did what they could to sabotage the incoming Trump administration in 2016.
People like General Flynn were targted through the process of unmasking and more.
The heavily redacted documents were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Heavily redacted documents from the National Security Agency tell at least part of the story of a final-month rush by the outgoing Obama administration to torpedo the incoming presidency of Donald Trump.
The Daily Signal obtained 217 pages of documents from the NSA through a Freedom of Information Act request. The documents reveal that Obama administration officials, from Vice President Joe Biden down to several ambassadors and many officials in the Treasury and Energy departments, gained access to secret information about Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, President-elect Trump’s choice for national security adviser…
Three top Obama administration officials who gained access to the Flynn information are now high-ranking officials in the Biden administration.
Denis McDonough, Obama’s chief of staff for his entire second term, is now secretary of veterans affairs under Biden.
Samantha Power, Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations, made numerous requests for information on Flynn. In the Biden administration, Power is administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
And Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, deputy secretary at Obama’s Energy Department, has been Biden’s homeland security adviser since he took office.
The Flynn-related requests from Obama administration officials were all made during late November and December of 2016…
Obama’s ambassador to Italy, John Phillips, also gained access to information about Flynn, as did his top staff.”
Watch out they’re apving on Tyler don’t be late for slcohol
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/central_berkshires/tyler-street-pittsfield-mass-paving-road-work-july-2023-traffic/article_e9addca4-1f3c-11ee-b7ee-53acd1954a6a.html
Obama warned stupid Don Trump about Flynn being a possible spy or asset to Putin which he was.Trump was also a possible asset to Putin….That it in a nutshell….both traitors
Just know there are children buried here too
https://www.usnews.com/news/news/articles/2023-07-10/in-search-of-a-lost-cemetery-dig-begins-at-a-former-native-american-school-in-nebraska
https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/11/what-kind-of-man-made-apocalypse-are-those-canadian-wildfires/