THE LOWLIGHTS OF TUESDAY: COUNCIL BUMBLES THROUGH BALLOT QUESTION & STUMBLES THROUGH ITS JULY ONCE-A-MONTH
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION JULY 14-6, 2023) — While THE PLANET wiles away the hours sipping the perfect martini at Wheatleigh, we have good news to report — in addition to two olives, that is.
The Picklefield City Council has improved 100%!
In July, they only meet once instead of twice. Same with August.
With the Emperor of Ice Cream, we are whipping up concupiscent curds in celebration. THE PLANET can hear now the sparkling tones of John Kiley open the Wurlitzer organ, weaving a spectacular rendition of “The Night They Invented Champagne.”
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The bad news is that the council’s July 11 meeting featured triple the amount of nonsense. Kronick excepted, there was so much fawning that city clerk Michelle Benjamin had to put in an emergency call to Joseph Cohen to manufacture more rubber stamps.
Chief among the lowlights of Tuesday had to be the bumbling over a ballot question.
A BALLOT QUESTION!!??
Oh, the humanity.
Why is it with this group that each time the possibility of a ballot question emerges, the rats head for the exits? Peter White — taking time out from his health-food diet of fried chicken, batter-coated potatoes, and Crisco-caked lard — turned on the fire extinguisher, hoping to put out the ballot flame lit by Ken Warren.
Ken Doll wants We the People to weigh in on the question of residency for the police chief: Should sheor she (ED. NOTE: It may come as a surprise to some on the dais, but with gender, those are the only two choices sanity permits) have to reside in Pittsfield?
Simple, right?
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Not according to Dumpster Earl Persip. He’s not sure what “yes” and “no” mean. THE PLANET cuts him slack, though, since Dumpster is still trying to master right and left. He knows left inside and out, but right? That has proven elusive to the council’s fashion plate.
The council moved to send the matter to crack city attorney Steve “Perry Mason” Pagnotta. Pags is famous for whispering to a client, “Don’t worry, kid. I’ll get you off with life.”
Look for Pags to come back with this: “Do you support possibly or not having the chief of police living near, in, or within 17 hours driving distance whereas in lieu of the Park Square fountain at least three days every other ontological week in odd months for the Hubbell sublimex?”
What could be cleaner?
Kudos to Ken Doll, though, for attempting to involve We The People. Ken also accounted for our favorite moment of the 1 hour and 55 minutes when he said a ballot question wouldn’t set Armageddon in motion — “Armadeedon,” as he pronounced it.
He comes from the Joe Biden School of Hazy Locution.
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The meeting’s other Lowlight came with the approval (Joe Cohen rubber stamping) of the mayor’s picks for the Charter Review Commission. The Lovely Linda stacked the commish with Inside Insiders.
Only Charles Kronick objected.
Sir Chaz, it must be noted, did not have the Groucho Marx blanket objection from Horse Feathers: “Whatever it is I’m against. / And ever since they first commenced it, I’m against it.”
No.
He had reasonable concerns of two of the seven members:
- Mike “Wildfire” McDonald, who served on the previous version of the commission and championed the four-year mayoral term, and
- Council colleague Dina “Climate Change” Lampiasi.
Sir Chaz reasonably questioned Wildfire’s ability to be unbiased and objective. THE PLANET thinks it’s reasonable because Clint Eastwood, orangutans, and every other living creature knows the commission’s main goal will be to kill or “amend” the charter-objection rule. That would serve the noble purpose of further blunting representative government in Picklefield.
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As for Climate Change, Chaz had the line of the night: “The council should not be drafting its own government.” he said Lampiasi has “a clear conflict of interest apparent to anyone with common sense.” Besides which, she’s an Administration stooge.
Patrick “Kave In” Kavey scolded Kronick, saying the council exists for that very purpose. It was a revealing remark, illustrating how Kavey and his mayor-coddling colleagues do not understand the concept of local representative government.
Kavey then “apologized” to McDonald and Lampiasi “that my colleague was unprepared.” It came in reference to Kronick unable to find McDonald’s resume on his laptop.
Low blow, which probably isn’t something knew to the Ward 5 rep.
Sir Chaz raised a point of order with council prez Peter Marchetti: “Mr. Kavey made an invidious comment. … I’m not making a motion. I’m correcting the record. I don’t think Kavey understood a word I said, and I am rebuking him.”
The worst part of the exchange wasn’t the exchange. Actually, Kavey (and earlier, Persip) raised defendable positions. No. The worst part was the silence of Karen “Kal-El” Kalinowsky as she let Kronick to be strung up, alone. Gutless.
Since THE PLANET‘s expose on how Kal’s kitchen drawer missing a few forks and spoons, she’s been shaky at best. The bulb is low wattage, folks, which perhaps accounts for some people believing she has “the common touch.”
September’s preliminary will do away with that nonsense right quick.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
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“Toady politicians make water fetchers look like lancers” — Sir Donald Turpentine, Knight of the Bath.
“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
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Looks like its time to buckle your seatbelts
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Biden Authorizes Pentagon To Send 3,000 Reservists To Europe | The Daily Wire
Thinking of re-enlisting Ronbo?
The beginning of Mission Creep. No end game in sight.
It is distressing; hopefully they’ll just mass on the borders.
I sure hope guys like Kindergarden have military aged sons ready for war. They are staunch defenders of Ukraine, time to put your (tax) money (and now your kids), where your mouths were….
I don’t want to see you white liberals K out in Park Square picketing when it happens either. Remember, YOU wanted this. Orange Man bad. Mean Tweets offended people. Those for-profit bio-labs that Hunter was VP in, need WWIII type protection.
JM any chance you’ll be trying to re-enlist in the Army? The front lines will need people to peel potatoes and/or fill body bags.
TSC-you? Dirty Barry Clairmont, aka-Mr. Worldwide, how about you? Snark certainly can’t forget about you either.
All of you can now defend democracy and show YOUR patriotism for the J6 Insurrection by enlisting or volunteering your time (and kids) for the war efforts in Ukraine.
I already served during wartime. I’ve done my full term. Honorably, I might add. And I’ve been against Ukraine from Day 1.
The US didn’t care about Russia invading Crimea or Georgia, but Ukraine. C’mon man, WAKE UP!!
Under Biden, NATO has been surrounding Russia by adding to its barrier frontiers. It was practically begging Putin to invade. Military support of Ukraine is pointless. The president’s pretext was to supply only humanitarian aid. Mission creep. … and boy, is it creepy.
Ukraine is a democracy. Russia’s unprovoked attack on her needed to be defended.
K
You can believe this. In America, we are allowed to have inaccurate views, naive views.
Believe what, that U is a democracy? Is that the inaccurate, naïve view you are talking about?
Victim of MSM
It’s called patriotism, Rule 5.
It’s a democracy, yes, but more in a technical than actual sense. The naive aspect stems from a refusal or an inability to understand the situation with a 360o view. This incorporates Russia’s motivations (the invasion didn’t just spring from the typical Western, cartoon view of Putin) as well as the history of the region, say, from Nicholas & Alenandra until today.
I knew you were a Trump fan, but I didn’t know you were a fan of Putin and Russia.
Traitor.
How little you know me. I am a fan of no one except Ted Williams and Stanley Kubrick. With everything else, including knowledge and knowing (two different things), I am a “fan” of a 360o view, not just one side. It seems like you, on the other hand, go into situations with mind made up, which is a form of ignorance. It ignores the other side. Let me also point out that the pursuit of knowledge built from outside information is not to take a position. It is neutral.
I am the analyst’s analyst, Dan.
You are about as neutral as Glen Beck and Sean Hannity. I think that pegs it just about right. The evidence is your stewardship of this site, which has a decided philosophical bent. You cannot deny this.
Oh, please analyze me! If your accurate I can get you a good paying job locally for a local firm that would love your talent to know if they should keep investing more than they have already here in Berkshire County and I’m talking millions.
They don’t need me; they’re doing fine on their own.
There is always room to do better.
The financiers don’t need my consult.
You are lystless
I know you quite well.
As do I you!
So you know, then, that I am not myopic but rather have a point of view that is decidedly different from yours.
Our beliefs are quite different.
Does Dan want a strong NATO or a Trump weakened NATO
Dan wants to drop the AT from NATO. That leaves NO. NATO had outlived its original purpose. Today, it seems to serve the geopolitical purpose of inciting a war. Dan wants peace for all. One planet, shared by all earthlings.
Dan wants Peace on Earth.
Jesus, Dan, open your eyes. You support Putin and Russia because your hero does. It is the position of your cohort. Very bad policy to support the enemy’s position over that of your own govt.
It is not a secret who Dan follows.
You are being too theoretical, Dan. I would put me at 360-degrees and you at 270-degrees at best. Have you ever left the USA’s borders?
Book larnin’.
Ukraine’s voting record is better than Russia’s. We need to support democracies if we feel that it is philosophically the best choice.
What choice would you support if not democracy?
K
Yes, I have traveled well outside the US borders. Permit another observation, my good friend: Your furious response to our product and its commentators is (a) welcomed (b) drives traffic(!) and (c) strongly indicates we have frosted your gluteus maximus.
That’s a good post, Dan. I know I help your bottom line. You’re welcome.
I’m not furious angry but furious active.
I wish you could frost my gluteus maximus because then I wouldn’t have to ice it.
Zelensky was installed by Obama/CIA, just like a toilet. Biden was similarly.
TRAPPER
Don’t tell K that. It might spoil his world view.
Hey guys, Trap and Dan, whom do you support? I’ve got the exact same world view as you two, I just choose a different side. USA good, Russia, bad.
Now, K. Remember who supported Saddam Hussein almost right up to his demise. The US government. And Assad after two massacres at Hama. US gov. And countless hateful narco democracies of the South?
Today, who is supporting China – starting with ‘Most Favored Trading Partner” and selling them like a trillion dollars of US debt? Who brokered a sweetheart deal with the terrorists of Iran, the latest president being one of the kidnappers of US consulate staff and still not held to account? Kerry (John Swiftfoot Kerry. Earner of every military honor possible in just three days of skirmish.)
It’s hard really, to call MT a traitor just for saying that Putin may not be worse than the alternatives out there.
Except when the alternative is Biden.
We supported Kadafi in Libya, the Shah in Iran … the list goes on and on. Support of tyrannical dictators who were pawns of US interests and takers of our billions. The overthrow of Allende in Chile, installed Batista and Diem in Cuba and South Vietnam … the list goes on and on.
yep. Too bad we dumped Washington’s warning not to get entangled in foreign messes. USA never did foreign policy well. Maybe WWII & Marshall was successful for Europe. Not sure about us, looking at us today.
The people of the Ukraine painfully desired democracy and its freedoms and their response to the Russian invasion was that they have no desire to live under Putins rule.Who would care if if true the CIA helped them.Are cults really so strong now in messaging that some who did know better now don’t want to help countries gain freedom…..There was a poll that 68 % of all republican white male voters would rather live under Trump Authoritarian rule than Bidens democracy that was won by women and minorities voting Democratic
Biden was installed TSC.
You got them
But not Georgia or Crimea? Why not K?
What makes Ukraine special?
I did not and do not support neutrality on Georgia and Crimea. Crimea especially was a devastating loss.
See, guys, you’ve got to support the issue, not the tribe.
Ukraine lost Crimea fair and square, actually. They didn’t defend it, their army sold out. Maybe they figured it was NATO’s responsibility to get it back for them.
The Ukraine army also sold out Kherson and permitted the Russians to cross the Dniepr unopposed in this war too. Same corruption. Same crooks. Same soup.
I would like to see the Ukrainians prevail. But I do not romanticize the people in power there. Read the accounts of foreign volunteers sent by a crooked general to perish front line with no army support. The general got his medals for valor. They died.
I’m certain that US generals rarely, if ever, sent soldiers to perish to burnish their careers.
Ukraine has a rich history of corruption at the top. Is that why about 40% of what America sends over there in money and arms simple “disappears?”
‘arms disappear’
Isn’t that the point of sending arms? I’d be pretty pissed if at the end of this war they had a lot of arms.
Actually, Ukraine is not remarkable for its corruption. That whole slice of geography makes three things things well: wine (West of Ukraine only), bombs, and corruption.
No. That’s not the point of sending arms. The point is to equip an ally. It’s not the point to half half of those weapons disappear to the black market and end up being sold to whomever.
Biden get layoffs
It was to shut up Zelensky from spilling the beans on the Biden crime cartel and others in Congress
That may well be, Trapper, but you/we don’t know that.
And if it is true, so what? Whose side are you on? That is the most relevant question.
More revelations have came out from Hunter’s laptop from hell. He and his father’s involement Burmisa, and influence pedaling and extortion while Joe was VP. THE FIB knew about this going back to at least 2019.
There are many more crooked politicians and bureaucrats. Both liberals and conservatives. The whole country has went to hell in a few short years.
They have mostly done bad things to America, not for America.
They looted the Armed forces supplies, and US Treasury to fund the War in Ukraine, with no accountability.
The weapons have shown up scattered all over the earth, and who knows the money ended up.
Mike Pence just shot any of his chances of getting elected. He’s always been a slimy bassturd. Tucker took him to task.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/wow-tucker-carlson-just-ended-mike-pences-entire/
“You’re running for President. You are distressed that Ukrainians don’t have enough American tanks?! EVERY city in the U.S. has become much worse over the past three years…and it’s VISIBLE. Our economy has degraded…suicide rate has jumped…crime has exponentially increased and yet your concern is that the Ukrainians – country that most people can’t find on a map who’ve received tens of billions of US tax dollars don’t have enough tanks!” Tucker said.Tucker continued, “I think it’s a fair question to ask, where’s the concern for the United States?”
“That’s not my concern,” Pence said. “Tucker, I’ve heard that routine from you before but that’s not my concern!”
The gateway pundit is about as reliable as MSNBC and FOX.
Televised live. See for yourself from MSN/Newsweek.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/news/tucker-carlson-questions-mike-pence-for-being-distressed-over-ukraine/vi-AA1dUb4h?t=40
MSNBC is marketing driven media. FOX is solid, but highly biased in similar ways to WAPO. NYT is reasonably good when they don’t make stuff up, which they generally do when they need a reporter to win them a Pulizter (based on fiction written in the reporter’s apartment after work hours.) (It’s hit or miss with NYT.)
Gateway Pundit has some good reporting.
Lately, it’s mostly “miss” for the NYT.
Wow! USA better be his concern because without us in strong positions across the board many places around the world will be soaked up by China with backing of a few others.
Yes, Optimus, thank you.
He will watch FOX and get back to you
Biden family has shady dealings with China also.
This is just plain stupid from the FOX /Putin /Trump blond misinformation to old angry white elderly males who miss Rush
The brainwashing has worked for you TSC.
Are you still wearing a mask too?
Dan, the antiwar candidate.
Dan, you shouldn’t support Russia’s military moves, period. It is precisely the MAGA cohort’s position.
Gee, I wonder why MAGA supports Russia?
As Jon would say, sarcasm.
Can you MAGA folk figure out why MAGA supports Russia?
The fish rots from the head down.
I’m not surprised that posters here don’t know. But I am surprised that Dan doesn’t see it for what it is.
I have no love for Russia, but we should not be bankrupting America with support for Ukraine, especially since the funds are seemingly going down an endless black hole.
What should be happening is peace talks.
Your boy Trump was weakening NATO for the Putin invasion putting all of western Europe at the mercy of Putin and Trump.Thoughtful border countries of Russia saw the treat and asked to be included in the new energized NATO…..FOX hate Biden and love the Putin expansion.When did you turn on America?
But, Ukraine is not a member of NATO. Germany, the largest member, refused to contribute this war because they had business encumbrances with the Russians. Seems to me, as sanctions gradually peeled back decades of German business investment that began in 1994, their reticence also wore thin. But really, what does NATO have to do with Ukraine.Even Finland is more concerned about its Eastern border and Sweden the Baltic islands (thus wanting to join) than what is actually happening on the Black Sea.
I doubt that Ukraine will ever be allowed into NATO. Maybe….
My 3 boys are all over 35 so I don’t have that particular worry, Markus, and you don’t have that worry either, because you have no children. How do I know? Your posts give you away.
Much like your political party affiliation, you again would be wrong K.
I have three adult children who are all educated and in great careers.
When they went off to college, I warned them of liberal profs like you. Educated idiots.
Luckily, they listened and didn’t fall for liberal brainwashing.
I apologize. When I’m wrong I’m wrong.
Putin should be allowed to invade any democracy he wants.MAGAs always wanted Putin over Biden….MAGA is a Oligarchy supporting Cult
WWB
World War Biden
It’s a real possibility, making the 2024 prez election critical … if we are all still around.
It is a tough world. I’m beginning to believe you guys (Dan, Trap, Markus, Optimus….) have never left the borders of the US or learned a foreign language. Talk about myopic.
Sometimes you need to risk Brinkmanship to stay ahead of the enemy. Believe me, Russia is not cutting us any breaks.
Путин хочет победить США!
You can take it to the bank.
Gee, will this make it past Dan’s censors?
You keep racking up the losses K. Again, you are wrong. I have traveled to numerous foreign countries. What’s your point?
You speak a foreign language. That’s very cool K. I won’t diminish that. I always wish I learned how to speak Spanish. Again, what’s your point?
You seem to gloss over the fact that Obama/Xiden ILLEGALLY spied on an incoming President Trump and his people under now proved false pretenses. That doesn’t concern you or bother you?
You’ve got a doctorates degree. Based on your posts, I’m 100% positive you helped to try and indoctrinate young learners into left leaning positions when you taught.
It’s easy to do when you control their grades, huh K? Not much opposition to your ‘great white hope’ opinions and feelings when you pontificate in a classroom.
I have a graduate’s degree and sat through many classes listening to prof’s like you preach the left-leaning positions with ZERO opposition.
Here on The Planet, you get plenty of feedback and put in your place. You’re not used to it and don’t like it.
MARK
Your final two sentences say it all!
Danny, you don’t know me.
Negative feedback is my stock in trade.
Cult information is called propaganda
Correct.
I welcome the debate. I relish opposing, negative feedback, even more than Dan.
You don’t know me from squat.
I never, never waxed political with my students. What they believe is their right. I didn’t try to indoctrinate anyone, ever.
You mean, you have a graduate degree, not a graduate’s degree. I have a doctoral degree, not a doctorate’s degree.
My point in your never having learned a foreign language is that you missed out on the opportunity to take the perspective of another culture.
It’s always the a**hole that corrects simple grammar mistakes on a blog.
Gracias Prof.
And I’m sure you didn’t “wax” your students. As long they agreed with you.
Me being stationed in different countries during my military days didn’t afford me to “learn the culture?” But you sitting in a classroom learning a foreign language did. Right on, Prof!!
Is me grammer correct Prof?
Your grammar is fine but your spelling is off.
No retort to my “learning their culture,” by actually being there, versus learning in a classroom K?
I don’t let you deflect.
You asked for a debate Prof, how did you learn your foreign “culture” initially.
Not after immersion into a foreign language class, but personal experience.
It lends to the ole adage, “ those who can do, and those you can’t….right, Prof?
Yes, you learn the language by walking the streets, not sitting in a classroom.
He isn’t the first or the last that wants to defeat the USA. China is a threat also.
Indeed so. Of course we have to keep our eyes on them.
我们必须偷偷地监视他们
That say help me I trapped in fortune cookie factory
Talk about bad grammar….
Lithuanian is my second language because my grandma came from Vilnius so I learned Lithuanian growing up. Grandfather (her husband) Russian). So yeah, I learned different languages.I’ve visited both places a few times.
I was wrong; I apologize.
That is way cool, Optimus. My grandfather worked outside of Vilnius as a furniture maker till he was 19 and escaped the czar to NYC. He learned Russian, Lithuanian and Yiddish before he learned English.
Well, they are volunteers, not draftees.
A lot more fruits and nuts too.
A bag of cocaine was discovered in council chambers. Everyone is a suspect except sleepy Jim Conant who was ruled out immediately.
So at the latest parks commission meeting they have a guy on there who’s asking for this and that to use the parks for an event,he doesn’t live in Pittsfield and the last time I seen him he was at a city council meeting during open Mike commenting he called the Miguel Estrella death a murder?
Doubt there are any ordinances prohibiting outside groups from using a city park for one time events. Art fairs, etc… are common examples
I’m talking about the Source Charles. The guys a troublemaker
Michael Hitchcock?
I believe so.
Soft spoken A hole
And he will somnambulate into another term. No one wants that job.
Snow White and Dopey had a son named Pete.
and as I recall, he was on the spectrum
I had a nice time eating pizza, playing cards, and watching the Jeopardy! game show on TV tonight (Thursday, 7/13/2023) with my parents and Aunt and Uncle’s family friends from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, who visited us in Southern New Hampshire. I asked them what they thought about Mayor Linda Tyer. I said that I think that she is one of the good mayors of Pittsfield, while her predecessors were stinkers. She is intelligent and she knows what she is doing. It is sad to see Mayor Linda Tyer step down. They agreed with me, and they told me that they will be voting for Peter Marchetti for Mayor of Pittsfield later this year. I asked them about the 2018 Berkshire Museum selling its historic Norman Rockwell two paintings that the world-famous artist donated to the museum as an act of charity to the people of Berkshire County, as well as the museum’s other historical paintings. They said that it was a choice between the Berkshire Museum closing or staying open. We all agreed that it should not have happened, of course.
Pittsfield city council deliberates dropping residence requirement as search for new permanent police chief gets going | WAMC
JM by weekends end, I feel this post will come close to, or even break your Planet record of 46 thumbs down on one post.
You were just bitc*ing a few posts ago how Flat Tyer blocked you on social media. Now you are singing her praises. Make up your mind.
Have you contacted your local Army recruiter about helping out the Ukraine war efforts JM?
Mean tweets and guy talk offended you so much, YOU voted for this. You’ve been a staunch defender of Ukraine and that Putin is evil. Spare some young kid from getting called up and having to go to war and dying. You should take his/her place.
Make that discharge of yours truly Honorable.
But, it’s satire. I believe that Jon Melle is obliquely informing us of the power of the mob that runs our town.
It’s a technique that was oft used by POW’s writing home.
“They feed us very well here, and the commanding officer is so kind and smart. Last night’s dinner was worm infested, and he apologized and agreed it was very bad and I think the food will be great now.”
Please Charles,do not confirm what he spews on here as he is right sometimes but has a track RECORD of being one of the biggest flip flippers on here. You just can’t trust that kind.
Tell old Roger to use real enamel.
Tell Old Roger To Use Real Enamel.
I used that example in SERE training our aircrew members before their flights over enemy territory.
Not the latex crap
The first letters spell out a secret word.
You learn in army?
He learn in army. He numba 10 GI.
Sounds like he has two mayor blow up dolls. One being good mayor and one being bad mayor. Sounds like good mayor doll was the choice last night. When his e mails get blocked bad mayor pays dearly.
Sadly though, they both charge him for their services.
Holy shit ! My heart monitor just went crazy when I read that. Couldn’t stop laughing.
I wish I could be a Special Forces Soldier and take out Putin and then Edward Snowden in Russia. Then I would re-earn my honorable discharge and military awards as a Soldier in the U.S. Army over two decades ago, as well as my VA benefits as a 100 percent service-connected disabled Veteran.
As for Mayor Linda Tyer, I have supported her in Pittsfield politics over the past 20 years. It doesn’t mean I agree with everything that she did as Mayor from 2016 to mid-2023 so far. Overall, I believe that Mayor Linda Tyer is a good mayor because she is intelligent, and she knows what she is doing. No sarcasm or subversive techniques here. Mayor Linda Tyer has received praise from state and local officials throughout Massachusetts. She led Pittsfield through the Covid-crisis. In 2016, she inherited a mess from the Doyle debacle, the Hathaway hack, the Ruberto regime, and the Bianchi bust.
I guess I was wrong.
Leave his vet status alone or I’ll jump down your throat, Markus. You as a fellow vet owe him that.
Don’t you realize that his posts are a symptom of his 100% disability? Leave him alone.
No, I will not. I have mentioned to him that he should consult professional help for his paranoia and other disorders.
Keeping a 30+ year grudge is not healthy, nor normal.
Stay in your lane Prof. Victim mentality doesn’t fly with me. Maybe in your ivory-tower world, but not in mine.
You were a white male officer during your military days, correct Prof?
Isn’t that “white privilege” you great white hopes keep shoving down our throats?
I was enlisted. Parents didn’t have a lot of money Prof.
Why am I telling you? You had/have white privilege. You have ZERO idea what it’s like.
Can’t research life experience Prof. No matter how hard you try.
Sorry again, Markus, I was E-4 when I got out. I signed up at 17 with my parents’ signature cuz they had no $$. You are batting 0.000. I started with much less than you. I support AA and other liberal causes not because I benefited from them but because it’s the right thing to do.
This banter, K, about “starting with much less than you” reminds me of Monty Python’s classic (and best single) sketch: “Four Yorkshire Men.” If you haven’t seen it, check it out.
You were not enlisted in VN and in military intelligence K.
Hate to call you out as a bullshi**ter, but my step father lost in eye in his third term in VN.
What I told him your career field, he laughed and said you were an officer and not NEAR the front lines.
BTW-I too took a bullet to the head in the Gulf War and NEVER claimed victim after numerous surgeries and rehab.
Sure you want to head down this road Prof?
You WERE NOT an enlisted Army soldier in VN. Post your DD-214.
Back it you Prof. I’ve tossed my hand on the table.
Your next Prof. DD-214 proves it. Redact your name/any bio info. I only need your MOS, rank at discharge, and reenlist code, to verify your info.
You asked for a debate Prof, here you go. Ball’s in your court.
Correct grammar, speling, for yoye, to understand and/or comprehend Prof?
I need that 3.5 or better to achieve Summa Cum Laude honors.
Even though you pontificate to young minds which do ZERO ABOUT.
Can’t name one thing you’ve done for the black community, but will preach as the ‘great white hope.’
Blame gun violence on black youth killing each other in record numbers. Right prof?
You want to impress me, how much time have you spent in a ghetto where you are DESPISED, no matter what you are there for K?
I have.
Not researched, but have been there in person. I’ve also been physically assaulted too. Not people calling me names, like “honked,” “whitey,” you Prof? I was there TO HELP.
Personally there been there, have medical records to back up my claims, you K? Or just researched or “studied?”
I’ll email my records to Dan to back up my claims K.
Again, You, enlisted PhD Prof?
Well, that put the cards on the table. You’ve called, MARK. Now let’s see what K does.
No, I do not want to head down that road. Sorry, Mark, that I’ve made you so angry. No, I’m not going to do something so incredibly foolish as give you my redacted DD-214. Everything I’ve ever said here is true; you’ll just have to take my word for it. If you don’t believe it I certainly understand, but it’s not my problem.
You don’t have to prove anything to me; I accept everything you’ve claimed as true. I admire and respect you and your stepfather for your service and injuries. I suffered no injuries or disability during my service.
You are correct in saying I’ve never spent time in a black ghetto, and have done nothing concrete to solve the problems in the black ghetto.
I do, nonetheless, have the right to state my views on this board. I am of course aware that my views are in the minority here. I do not harbor a lot of hope that I can change any minds on this board, but I’d rather do that than preach to the choir in my own silo somewhere else.
Excellent, K.
AA is not a liberal cause it was started by an individual needing help to stop his addiction,
Depends what the first A stands for
Anyone who uses the phrase “it’s the right thing to do speaks in clichés and is of low intelligence.
I guess, then, that, according to your criteria, I am of low intelligence.
Leave his vet status alone, Markus.
Nope-you’ll read my response to your above post when it clears waivers.
At what year did you start teaching kids about victim mentality?
Instead of addressing the issue of mental health, it’s easier to place the blame on others, huh Prof?
This way it provides a “built in excuse” if said “victim” blows a gasket.
Like a tranny murdering school children.
Avoid the obvious and blame guns.
Of course while also wearing a blindfold and bag over your head to all the young black youths killing each other in record numbers, week in and week out.
These same black kids you great white hopes keep talking about, but do ZERO for.
Sound about correct Prof?
Look in the mirror, Markus.
Sorry Prof, spent many years and broke a few bones trying to help those in low-income areas, only to despised.
Not studied or researched Prof, but personally.
You Prof?
No wonder you feel the way you do.
Are you related to Moonbat?..
I would imagine the suits very much want to be able to pick their own police chief. A key position which needs to be controlled tightly as history has shown. Not looking to see an independent thinker appointed to this position.
Keep digging at Kalinowsky. Krol needs all the help he can get. If one cannot build oneself up it might be necessary to tear the opponent down theory. Shows a tad of desperation if you ask me.
Fizz-you are correct. I’m sure the DIE office, BBEC, the Cultural Competency Coach, and Denny “police hunt POC” Powell, will want to have THEIR input on it as well.
As the winners of the large tax-payer cash grab, otherwise known as Flat Tyer’s ARPA recipients have shown, qualifications mean NADA. Skin color is all that matters.
Don’t believe me, ask Alex Blumin about his “Vibe” application results from the BBEC.
Spill it, Markus.
As you would tell one of your students, do your own work Prof.
I’m not grade dependent on you.
No you aren’t, thank God.
Must be a tough pill to swallow to look at that PhD degree hanging on your “I love myself wall” and all of your other degrees and “awards,” you indoctrin….earned as a Prof, and repeatedly get your as* handed to you by myself and others on The Planet.
Correcting simple grammar is your retort. That screams LEADER, huh K?
Let the cat out of the bag. What college did you pontificate your ‘great white hope’ at K?
I’d like to research it and find out what your students truly thought about you and your teachings.
If you have nothing to hide, shouldn’t hesitate at all with the college you taught at K.
I personally know Dan is well liked and respected as a Prof. K. I might have even taken one of Dan’s classes, but that’s for another time K.
Let’s see your results….
Thanks, MARK.
No, Markus, it’s not a tough pill to swallow. I’m pretty comfortable in my own skin and confident in my own beliefs. And no, you contacting students could not possibly have a good result.
Thanks for confirming that you didn’t like push back on your ideas in class or the kid would get a poor grade
I don’t recall confirming that, and no, I didn’t do that.
BTW, I never said I was a prof. You all inferred that.
NATO is 100% behind the defense of the democratic Ukraine in order to save it from Trumps invading Oligarchy leading friend Vladimir Putin where the wealthy class leads the pitiful poor people of Russia.Putin is one of the strongman who Trump and 17 Republicans admire.Why did these men meet ?Who is now against NATO intervention in helping the Ukraine….Patriots my ass
Barry Sotero and Biden installed crooked Zelensky just like Biden was here, that started the whole problem in Ukraine.
Zelensky was killing ethnic Russians for years, in eastern UK. He’s crossdressing queer, D-DATS seem to love them, literally.
I trust Putin more than MSM here.
Whoa, folks, there you have it. Trapper, like his idol, trusts Putin more than he trusts our own mainstream media.
That is traitorous, anti-USA thinking. No wonder our republic is in trouble. When our populace believes Russia’s oligarch rather than our own news reports, our republic is truly in peril.
Questioning our media is traitorous? And anti-USA thinking?
What I suspect MT is saying is that he gives more weight to the Russian propaganda information machine than the MSN propaganda information machine.
I don’t give any trust to Putin’s media as it is strictly driven to invigorate domestic audiences. MSN, I trust a little more, but not much. It’s not a news source, it’s all totally unverifiable.
The stuff about Zelensky is more of a conflation of character portraits.
The best thing next to first-hand knowledge is to consume a wide cross-section of media. My daily dose includes (not limited to) The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the Boston Herald, the New York Post, the LA Times, Le Monde, the BBC, as well as the official web sites of several countries.
Lots of uncensored worldwide information can be found on SW radio.
The rest of your readers should read the same sources. Unfortunately, they don’t.
And you know this how? What a buffoon.
True, it is my inference and I don’t know for sure.
But I’d bet $$.
Best to read stuff from credible reporters. Were they present? Are they producing past stories that match what is known to be true? Reading too much junk gives you a lot of junk to sift through. Might as well read the Daily Express and accept 10′ illegal green gooey eyed aliens took over the backyard of a kid in LA.
When I want real news, I find it. When I want to know about intergalactic maroons, I go to the DE.
How do you define “credible reporters?” Where do you find “real news.” Examples, please.
“What I suspect MT is saying is that he gives more weight to the Russian propaganda information machine than the MSN propaganda information machine.“
Exactly correct. Very bad choice.
Roughly the same. They are driven by similar objectives. Quality of reporters the same.
We are correct in questioning our media. But when we put our trust in the other side, that is traitorous.
No it is not. I am not obligated by faith in the American Dream to believe domestic reporters, or not doubt foreign. Really, that is over the top. What about immigrants who still read the Oslo Times and believes, correctly, that the NYT has a habit of making stuff up?
You’re smarter than that, Charles.
Putin/MSM/Democrats… toss up
I have no trust of democrats or the MSM, and the 3 letter government agencies, ie THE FIB, CDC et al.
The problem, Trapper, is that you put more trust in Putin and his machine than in your own govt’s machine.
эта машина плохая!
Track record of US government has been dismal the last 2 1/2 years. Lies censorship and deciet.
i before e except after c
Nu, mozhet biet’, no kazhetsa chto Putin i Biden odinakovoi. Raznetsa – chto nibut’?
Un ahn hahl mein bitte Vita holenzie mitt Meer.
Ia dumaya shto Putin plohai Biden horoshui.
“Man sieht nur das, was man weiß.”
Ya doomaiyooo chto Putin plokhoi malcheek Hooligan. Oi! Kashmar! no Biden tak yooomiii. Spais!
Loochshe, kazhetsa mne yadayada yada
MSM is heavily influenced by cultural Marxism. I don’t trust it or Putin or democrats.
Cultural Marxism? You obviously have no idea what that is.
Research the Frankfurt school and Marcuse you moron.
You idiot. As if I didn’t know.
Word salad
Totally support TSC’s comment here.
A salad needs a dressing
Again wrong Berkshire County, though blue as Socialism, is not 100% Democrat supporting populace, especially the younger generation that see quite well the product stinks that the Dems are selling. They question if Putin is Trumps man why did the Biden’s get millions from the Mother Land??
Trump loves Putin because he’s the world’s richest man. He wants a piece of that.
Someone said the greed gene; it not that. It’s consciousness. The consciousness gene. Think about it.
You can define greed but you can’t define consciousness.
Consciousness: In humans, a state of awareness that extends to Self awareness.The awareness of having perceptions, thoughts, and feelings.
Next?
You’d better write Dan Dennett quick and tell him!
I believe a few important local ballot questions are good and will increase voter turnout and they force the candidates into talking publicly about what their stances are. Also why not hear from the people? I truly believe when things like this get squashed it’s because the councilors don’t really want to hear or care what the people want. It’s a lower trip which I guess is why many people run for these positions. In this case my opinion is that hiring from the city is the only
Way to go. It’s like buying local and a local officer who is invested in our community may be more likely to know it better and the challenges we face and also care more about it. Just my two cents.
Well. That all goes back to the philosophy I was elected to make the tough votes.And there in lies the problem, the people voting aren’t all of the people voting it’s just their Cabal.
That’s it in a nutshell. I’d have left it alone if I saw this first.
I got that one from the Man from Mensah.
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So the Pittsfield School Committee-which owns the w t b r radio license, a formerly run students program,after moving the studio from the old Taconic High School to P C T V and building a brand radio station for it and subsequently wanted to continue that programming as a radio station? Why is that particular venue,the former school licensed show not done at the new studio? Wow?
Wasn’t that Krols show? How did he get to run that place? Connections?
I’m mystyfield at the thumbs down. It’s a political and arts show. License held by schools.
Mystified. Jesus.
Why are there big school buses running all over the city all day long in late July? Who is picking up whom and where are they going in these huge gas guzzling buses? Is there ANY effort whatsoever to save a buck in this city?
Answer to your question, FIZZ: No.
Oh cut it out. Those busses are legit. My brother’s summer job and school and camp for the kids.
Hey, my brother drives one of those. They are for summer school and summer camps.
But do we need an 80 passenger bus to deliver six kids?
Yeah, it’s overkill and a waste, but it’s what they have available.
Kind of like much of tyers total lack of operational control. How many new city vehicles were bought in the last four years? City vehicles of every color are everywhere. Does every city employee have their own city vehicle too? I see one street that has four of them parked in driveways at night. This is just one street. And these same vehicles are often there in the daytime as well. It almost seems like tyer does not give a rats ass about the taxpayers. (Marchetti either)
A fresh argument for golf cart styled muni-cars.
POT
Great point about the effect of ballot questions on voter turnout.
The arguments of White and Sherman support my claim that City Government has wandered far off from the interests and reach of the people.
The argument against referendums is that the general public does not understand the logic behind ballot question*. They therefore are prone to either ‘wing it’ or make a bad decision otherwise. The second arg. is that only a minority of voters participate, therefore a question falls to the hands of an small group.
First assumption: a bad outcome is inherently terrible; much worse than the status quo. That assumption is the one that should be debated by the Council. The Council’s task is to safeguard ballot questions that they generate from adversity based on irretrievable failure as opposed to personal bias. Bike Lanes are a good example. Bike Lanes pro con do not present catastrophic implications. Lampiasi attempted to interject Death, but that obviously has no wheels.
Secondary assumption: a minority of voters will likely choose poorly for the majority. That could be true, but you must also assume that the majority of voters who participate also make, likely, a bad choice. That contradicts the accepted assumption that voters vote their interests. The argument further suggests that elections in general are bad for the same reasons.
Therefore, the primary assumption under both arguments is that votes are incapable of making an informed and beneficial choice. Voters are biased, elites, and uninformed being the rule, elections are inherently unsatifactory. Maybe we should go back to only property owners voting, or being employed by the State, or being a member of an exclusive club? A degree from Williams College and Ivy leagues? Exclude UMass and state schools? Primary owners of Berkshire Roots, Maximillian, etc…?
*This applies to ALL ballot questions. None are ‘simple’ enough. Yes/NO answers are inherently complex. All issues are so complex that an elected body must decide the measure. Even then, they are so complex that simple questins are referred to department heads and committees to be explored. Most ideas wind up under a buried pile of council referred papers that are dumped onto hapless Directors’ desks, “Here, figure this out.”
This administration and its enablers have pretty much taken the democracy out of local government. It is actually not unlike a reverse insurrection.
What was the reason so many fled England so many years ago to start anew in a new land?? Oh, same thing there.
Get out if you can. Your children deserve better. You deserve better. Much better.
I evacuated my daughter.
You will never regret that. I am sure it makes you sad that you do not see her as often as you like but sometimes if you really love someone you have to let them go.
And it seems that the only young people moving in are the ones that come with immigrant families and homeless migrators. Sad for them but hopefully better than where they were.
But it is true that educated Pittsfield parents send their children to outside high schools and if and when they go off to college or the military very few of them return here except to visit family.
And why in the hell would they?
Sorry Fizz, I’m back after 50-year hiatus. This place needs work.
It definitely needs work. But it is such an uphill climb, against deep rooted embedded forces, that you have zero chance of making any headway in the time you have left.
Are you sure Pittsfield is the hill you want to die on? Perhaps you should analyze the depth of the problem and decide if painting or writing might be a more satisfying way to live out your years.
Fixing Pittsfield is like pushing water up a hill with a cheese grater. It does not want to be helped and it is going to fight you every inch of the way. People are going to fight like hell to keep control of that ever growing 205 million dollar budget and they do not want anyone in their way. Cut your losses.
Yes, Pittsfield is the hill I want to die on, if not Windsor where 3 generations are buried or Plainfield where 7 of my generations are buried.
Pittsfield is well worth the effort, more than Boca. Both are satisfying. Not painting or writing but golf and pickleball.
I was thinking of buying a very expensive house on the lake until I realized how much money I would be donating to the city leaders. Decided against it and am now looking outside the area.
Wise move. As any money manager with an ounce of integrity will tell you, that if you look at the trajectory of Pittsfield property taxes, owning property in Pittsfield, without special interest tax abatement s, is a bad investment.
And with the debt load the city has burdened itself with, taxpayers are in for a long rough ride. A long rough ride. Sounds like a good name for a movie. A movie about how ghost towns become ghost towns actually.
No, I am delighted that her visits to me involve crossing two state lines. She has broken free from the terrible gravitational suck of Berkshire County.
Thanks for your kind words. Berk County, Pittsfield in particular, is a horrible place to settle immigrants. It ensures their failure. Lousy schools being the primary issue. Lack of employment opps number two. Lack of investment opps number three. It’s as though Boston wants them to fail. Wonder why.
No Chaz, democracy rules. Vox populi, one vote per person, is still the best answer.
Tell it to the Council. They have doubts anyone should vote on anything.
Oh cut it out Chaz. The Menshevic view of minority rule is just as bad as the idea of the electoral college. Vox populi means all the people. The polity has the right to make its own mistakes. It is our choice, be it right or wrong.
Your non-belief in elections is shocking and appalling.
You are teetering on the edge of autocracy.
Think Chaz was pushing for the votes of the people that is the opposite of Autocracy, although with your Orwellian speech I can’t answer for you
“ a minority of voters will likely choose poorly for the majority. That could be true, but you must also assume that the majority of voters who participate also make, likely, a bad choice. That contradicts the accepted assumption that voters vote their interests. The argument further suggests that elections in general are bad for the same reasons.”
Not sure what you mean with your Orwellian comment.
That is the argument of the Council, K. Councilor White and Sherman argued that point, in so many words, to explain why ballot questions are a bad idea . Sherman said, “I get many calls from voters who don’t know how to vote on these questions.” I assume he means to say that voters don’t understand them, and therefore make bad choices.
That is not my argument.
I see.
Satire there, K. Satire.
Electoral College is a great institution. Truly, it is the work of the most inspired minds and reflects deep and perfect thinking. Designed to guard against the potential for regional groups of states wielding demagogic powers to overrule weaker states. Remember, the primary argument against ratification was the fear that cash rich states such as NY, would use their monopolistic control of capital (they owned ALL the bank charters, and they controlled who got them otherwise) to exert electoral power of the agrarian South. They were completely correct in that fear, and the only problem with the Electoral College is that it has lost its capacity to protect against populist majorities.
If anything, we should incorporate electoral college concept to issues of regional school consolidations and building. Example: DAlton wants a new school, they expect poor towns such as Hinsdale and Windsor to pay in. They hold an election, and wins with 5,000 votes for from DAlton, 500 against from DAlton. 100 votes for from poor towns. !000 votes against from poor towns. NOT FAIR!
BTW, ‘Mensheviks’ were actually the majority. The Bolsheviks were a minority, so they called themselves ‘The Majority’ because it sounded better.
Good post. I agree with most of your points, except I feel the system doesn’t need to protect against populist majorities.
Populist Majories are often democracy’s greatest weakness.
Founding Fathers never really talked a lot about democracy. Every tyrant gets elected afterall. They were focused on a government that guarded against tyranny.
There is a growing conflict between rural parts of states, comprising a large number of people and a geographic majority (acreage) versus urban concentrations. The urban, due to their great numbers, get huge representations in the State Congresses, and make the rural pay for their policies.. Further, these urban legislators attack rural interests with draconian firearm laws and other notions. So, you read about growing movements of secession with portions of Oregon wanting to secede and join Idaho. This trend will continue. In Massachusetts, half the population here is conservative, but the Congress is 99.5% progressive (and I am not even talking about parties. I’m talking about political policy and personalities.) Upstate NY and Western MA would make a logical union for a new state. Why? All of our tax dollars go to Boston. then a few pennies, using TFB’s phrase comes back to pave a few miles of roads. The rest goes to fund ESL programs that we accept in exchange for accepting immigrants that Boston does not want to educate. Same goes for Upstate NY who see most of their taxes go to NYC. (A Cuomo even tried to seize ventilators from upstate hospitals for NYC during Covid while planting patients in every motel up there.)
This is the impact of populist majorities, and it is why I believe we need electoral colleges to be replicated in local levels. Failure to address the tyranny that results from populist democracies will result in conflict and secession.
Sherman and White must be blessed by the gods. They know what’s good for us.
Problem is even if the people vote one way, if the powers to be don’t like the answer they don’t follow through. Look at the state and the income tax. Everyone in the 90’s voted for the income tax to return to 5% and we still haven’t gotten there
Mumble mouth Warren threw together a shitty ballot question petition for the agenda. It’s ok if you want to give him credit for suggesting it, but he fails miserably in doing it correctly. He wants to leave it to Duh Pagnotta to draft the question? That’s not the solicitors job, his responsibility is to make sure what Mumbles proposes is legal wording. It’s up to MarbleMouth to actually take the time to draft the ballot question to say what he wants to ask the voters to give an opinion on. This is the exact buffoonery that doomed councilor Horseface’s attempt at a bike lane ballot question, not having an actual question drafted and ready for the ballot except for the solicitors opinion that it was in legal form. I would have loved to hear ol mumbles make an argument before a judge during is so called legal career although I suspect the only court appearances he probably ever made was to defend his own stalking and harassment charges.
And enough already out of the Flamboyant Gay Councilor Bart Simpson Hair Kavey. That guy is a huge waste of oxygen. He contributes nothing of substance and makes ridiculous performances like the other night. He’s a bullshitter at best who relies on his overuse of pot to even come up with creative statements. He’s a hero in his own mind.
Come on Lampiasi you were going to abstain (because that was the legal thing to do) but changed your mind because of Crocknik. So to make a stand against looney Charles you decided to make an illegal vote instead of abstaining like you legally should have?
BTW, if you want to see the definition of boner killer and birth control go catch a view of the Shit’s Pittsfield Tonight’s poor attempt at a mayoral debate and take a look at Karen Horseface. She looks like a horse caught in the headlights. The looks that she makes in that taping are priceless and could be models for a halloween mask. She is way over her head in this campaign. But don’t expect anything of substance watching the debate. It consists of Mike Daly repeating the questions to the candidates over and over again, taking up more time than the actual answers. And I’m no fan of Horseface but she definitely got shafted, not being given equal time, with Daly obviously jerking off Krol with copious time with Peter getting some sloppy seconds.
Hopefully I get this posted before Melle goes on his usual psychedelic infused rant.
What is ‘looney’ about directly challenging Lampiasi’s conflict of interest serving on the Charter Review? I really don’t want, and I won’t accept it under any circumstances, your support, but you don’t make any sense.
1) Warren doesn’t mumble. ‘Stalking’ – those are fighting words. Was at time two men would face each other on an island over that kind of allegation. Would you?
2) Horseface is juvenile, as is your explanation that followed. Her first draft of the ballot question was fine, but she allowed the Council to amend it. That was too generous. Forcing the vote the first day, with Persip absent, would have been a better strategy.
3) ‘Pot use’ – that could be projection.
Charles maybe mumbles is too generous a description. Stalking? Ask Ken about the time a court complaint was brought against Kenny by a woman accusing him of stalking, harassment or something along those lines. It will be interesting to see if Ken would admit it to you. He is a creeper with women from way back.
Horseface is juvenile? That’s what all her fellow officers referred to her as so I just borrowed it from them. And did you watch the debate? If you did you would see she was clueless the entire time. She has no clue what being mayor entails. And she did not have confidence in the question she drafted and allowed herself to be pushed around by other councilors. While I don’t believe it should be on the ballot I believe she has the right to propose putting it on the ballot.
Pot use- projection??? I have over heard Bart Simpson hairdo himself say how in love with pot he is when he is describing how in love he is with himself.
1. True.
2. She got snookered and didn’t realize what people were screaming through the TV about what was unfolding.
3. Possibly. Probably.
2: yes.
We cleared the page.
Apparently Kavey is on record endorsing self-medication, but it also is a prime interest to FM. A leak.
She comes across as honest and genuinely concerned for the city and its people. I will take my chances with her over the known puppets who will be totally controlled from the shadows. Let us not lose track of the history here.
It matters not to me any bullshit Marchetti may offer now. He has a track record of years of abandoning his constituency. You know it and everyone else knows it. Are we seriously to believe that after all his failings he is suddenly management material?? I think not. Don’t fall for the last minute lipstick applications. The time for him to show he was mayor material was when he was city council president. And he failed that big time.
Let Marchetti and Krol become game show hosts as that is where their true talents lie.
Lumpy Marchetti is a fraud
Daly had Marchetti’s podium constructed from bullet proff glass in case Marchetti popped a button Daly didn’t want to loose an eye.
Right on, Chaz.
You’re a total buffoon.
Definitely not the Man from Mensah.
Mensa.
Thank you , K, but I prefer mensah.
Where’s the h come from?
next to the g
There’s no reason for the gratuitous insults.
Hello blogger Dan Valenti,
“Millions in funding proposed for North Adams, Clarksburg, Adams, and Colrain to recover from storm-related damages and flooding were scrapped. Torrential downpours….” – Boston Herald news article.
How do you feel about Beacon Hill lawmakers sitting on a historically huge amount of Slush Fund money that totals over $7.22 billion, but yesterday (Thursday, July 13th, 2023), State House lawmakers in Boston scrapped millions of dollars in funding proposed for North Adams, Clarksburg, Adams, and Colrain to recover from millions of dollars in storm-related damages were scrapped?
The same goes for the state’s affordable housing crisis, proposed tax relief legislation, the proposed $20 million agricultural disaster relief fund designed to provide direct assistance to farmers, the 2 week late fiscal year 2024 state budget, and so on.
Best wishes,
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Essentially bans hunting on private property
Bans anyone under 15 from training or shooting sports
Mandatory serialization and registration of all feeding devices not just magazines
Massive training requirements that include things like active shooter training
Any changes or repairs to a gun must be approved by the state
A semi-auto turkey gun with a pistol grip will be an Assault Weapon
No one under 21 can purchase any semi-auto gun of any kind or caliber
The definition of “Firearm” would mean any gun, frame, receiver or barrel
In order to carry or transport any gun, property owners must post that they
consent to allow guns on their property
No one who owns any type of gun in Massachusetts is spared
from this new proposed legislation!
AND MUCH MORE!!
The Massachusetts Speaker of the House has launched new
legislation we are calling:
“The Lawful Citizens imprisonment Act”
HD.4420 “An Act Modernizing Firearm Laws” represents an all out
assault on the entire Second Amendment community. Virtually
everyone of any age, regardless of specific interests in firearms,
will likely become felons should this bill become law!
House Speaker Ron Mariano: 617-722-2500
Senate President Karen Spilka: 617-722-1500
Contact the House Speaker, Senate President’s, Local
State Represntative and Senator offices immediately!
Tell them to kill this historic anti-civil rights bill!!
For more information on this historic attack
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You confirm that you do indeed hate democrats, Trap.
and one of these days his democrat dentist is going to let that drill slip.
Assuming MT still has any teeth left. Can you spell…… Appalachia?
Appalachia does seem right. But they are us and we love them.
Have you finished with your “transition” yet?
I was registered as an Independent voter when I was 18, and still am.
It has been many years since I voted for a Democrat. The RINOs are just as bad. Your choices are often limited voting for a crap or a turd. Looks like that is the case in Pittsfield.
Your problem, Trap, is that you define RINO not as a fiscal or social liberal, but rather as a Republican who does not support Trump.
Jackasses who pretend to be conservative, might as well switch parties.
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The Ware Police Department would like to bring an important matter to your attention: the proposed anti-gun Bill currently under consideration (HD 4420, An Act Modernizing Firearms Laws). We understand that this state-level legislation has raised concerns among law-abiding citizens who value their Second Amendment rights.
We recognize that the right to bear arms is a fundamental aspect of our nation’s history and an essential component of personal and collective security. As members of the police force, we are committed to upholding the law and defending the rights of our community members.
A plethora of blatantly unconstitutional proposals litter this travesty of a Bill, too many to mention here; however, of particular egregiousness is the criminalization of carrying firearms in certain so-called “prohibited locations”, including businesses and private properties, EVEN WHILE HOLDING A VALID LICENSE TO CARRY. Not even off-duty police officers will be exempted from this appalling mandate.
Gun Free zones have been proven to have no effect on stopping crime, in fact they embolden criminals to seek out these areas as soft targets of opportunity, where their chances of meeting resistance will be minimal.
This Bill does not address criminals. Rather it focuses on making criminals out of law-abiding citizens and further hampers police agencies from combating true crime.
We believe that public input and engagement are crucial in shaping legislation that reflects the diverse perspectives and concerns of our citizens. Therefore, we encourage you, the citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who have a long and storied history of throwing off the chains of our oppressors (let not this tradition die in the hands of our generation), to actively participate in the democratic process by voicing your opinions and taking appropriate actions to safeguard your rights.
Here are a few ways you can make a difference:
1. Educate yourself: Familiarize yourself with the details of the proposed anti-gun Bill. Read the legislation, study its potential impact, and understand its implications for your rights as a responsible gun owner.
2. Communicate with your elected representatives: Reach out to your local, state, and federal representatives to express your concerns about the Bill. Write letters, and make phone calls to ensure your voice is heard.
3. Encourage open dialogue: Foster constructive conversations about gun ownership, emphasizing responsible practices and the importance of preserving individual liberties. Engage in respectful discussions with friends, family, and neighbors to promote understanding and awareness.
4. Stay informed and mobilize: Keep yourself updated on the progress of the bill and its potential impact on your rights. Stay connected with local gun rights organizations and be prepared to mobilize if necessary.
Remember, your involvement in shaping legislation that impacts your rights is vital. By actively participating and voicing your concerns, you contribute to the democratic process and help ensure that legislation is fair, balanced, and respects the rights of responsible citizens.
The Ware Police Department encourages respectful and law-abiding civic engagement on this matter. We are committed to maintaining the safety and security of our community while upholding the rights enshrined in our Constitution.
Thank you for your attention and active participation.
-Ware PD
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I’m pretty sure I heard Biden mention the word constitution for the first time while in office when calling up the troops.
Do we have to use horse face and mumbled marbel mouth? I think Karen is a clean cut woman who happens to be in shape, by the way. Kenny maybe you could call him Slurpee but Marble Mouth, come on. Are you sure he was a stalker? That’s quite a charge. Should be in the BErkshire Eagle archives if true. What year was it?
I’ve never used horse face to describe Karen.
Never said Ken was a stalker.
Apology.My bad. It was flocking Molly
(who probably was served a summons just today)
Thanks Sum, summa cum laude.
We essentially have the equivalent of LBJ with dementia.
Can a ward councilor be that dumb?……..
dumb times 7 by the looks
He’s a pedophile just like his son Hunter.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/shock-video-finnish-child-terrified-as-joe-biden/
“SHOCK VIDEO: Finnish Child Terrified As Joe Biden Nibbles Her Arm and Sniffs Her Hair!”
“Whole country of America watches in horror as Donald Trump stages insurrection in attempt to take over country!”
This is true, snark; it was a very scary several hours.
It is beyond me why Dan and his cabal underestimate that threat to our system.
It is advanced mind control, nothing less. Trump learned it from the religious right who use it to bilk their parishioners. Putin took that and put the fine touches on it that he himself learned while working psyops in the KGB.
Only plausible answer when usually intelligent people start saying things that defy logic. Freud would have a field day with it.
Snark shark thanks. It’s also rooted in a deep, deep dislike of Hillary Clinton and what she represented. In the final analysis, truth meant absolutely nothing so long as it countered the Hillary cabal.
Nope
I suspect kindergarden has penis envy
Well of course you would.
Good one!
There are none so blind as those who will not see
and the first step towards recovery is admitting it. Good luck going forward and we hope to have you back soon.
Fake news.
Where is Ray Epps these days?
No, Trapper, it’s not fake news. Check out the sources Dan recommends to get a handle on it.
How many retractions has NYT had to publish recently?
CBS will tell you where Ray Epps is these days.
Get off the lie. It is coming out if you read the official reports that are coming out the government was involved with J6. From Biden, Pelosi and the FBI/CIA?DOJ were all involved, When you continue to say Trump did it you only show your brainwashed idiocy
Trap’s favorite subject.
Did you shower with your young Daughters like Biden did?
Trapper needs to argue in this direction, because that’s what he does.
Biden did shower with his young daughter. Did you see what pedo Joe did to the little finish girl?
You will have a much more intelligent conversation if you go to Aldis and have a conversation with a ripe turnip.
I don’t know, some of those turnips are pretty dumb.
You are the one who bought up the Democrat dentist.
LBJ’s heart was in the right place.
And if we’re going to talk about dementia: at least Biden knows the difference between truth and a lie, and the difference between reality and a completely constructed confabulation. We all know that Trump cannot differentiate these. That is the mark of insanity moreso than dementia.
The surprise is that Dan’s followers and the Republican congress know the difference but still go along with the cabal leader’s view.
Biden doesn’t know the difference between a stumble and a trip.
Mika from morning Joe: It is the damn staff around Joe who is at fault for Joe tripping, falling and gaffes etc.. they need to do a better Job. Joe Scarborough: Joe Biden is sharp and world leaders told him so. That’s like paid Mob protection right there.
How dare they not see that sandbag.
Ah, but he does. Your hero literally – and I do mean literally – does not know the difference between reality and that which is not real. This is one of the classical symptoms of mental illness.
Biden called his sister, his wife. More recently …..
“President Joe Biden has been under intense scrutiny for his recent blunders —like mistaking India for China and Ukraine for Iraq — so it was undeniably cringey when he mistook the Declaration of Independence for the Constitution while talking with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on Thursday.”
He gets lost when Jill is not there to lead him around. Sometimes talking to non-existent people on stage with while giving speeches (multiple times).
He enjoyed his trip. He’ll talk about it next fall
and yet he was able to handily beat donald trump in the last election. How could a demented guy do that? That’s embarrassing.
Unless of course you believe the election was stolen like marjorie taylor greene does. Or rudy juliani or the pillow guy or tucker carlson, all fine exhibits of intellectual humanity and the reason cousins are discouraged from boinking each other.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. But on the bright side it has no bike lanes, bump outs or roundabouts .
Stop watching fake news MSLSD.
LBJ’s mistress didn’t think his heart was in the right place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79lOKs0Kr_Y
It is too bad that Mickey Mouse, Daffy Duck, Clark Kent, Bugs Bunny, Perry Mason, George Bailey, Bruce Wayne, Diana Prince…. are not on the ballot…
Pittsfield Sees Another Certified Mayoral Candidate, Ward and School Committee Interest / iBerkshires.com – The Berkshires online guide to events, news and Berkshire County community information.
Well, while they are NOT on the ballot, Mr Magoo IS.
“Legislators also decided against including $4 million in funding for storm-related emergency repairs for North Adams, Clarksburg, and Adams. Rep. John Barrett of North Adams filed the amendment to the spending bill.” – The Boston Herald, July 14, 2023.
Beacon Hill lawmakers in Boston are still sitting on a record setting over $7.22 billion Slush Fund. In Northern Berkshire County, North Adams, Clarksburg and Adams are dealing with millions of dollars in damages from an extreme weather event described as torrential rainstorms. Instead of using $4 million in state funds to provide emergency aid during this time of need, Beacon Hill lawmakers did nothing to help these communities on the other side of the state.
The government is supposed to serve the people and communities they live in. The government is not supposed to be still sitting on an over $7.22 billion Slush Fund. Beacon Hill lawmakers give away many billions of dollars every fiscal year in state tax breaks to their wealthy campaign donors that do not exist in regions such as mostly rural Western Massachusetts. This should be a story in “The Twilight Zone”!
Jonathan A. Melle
The left is coming for your kids. Home school them.
“The state of California is adopting a new framework for teaching math that revolves around the progressive concepts of equity and social justice.
This sort of thing is happening in various parts of education. Basically, the left is embedding their political agenda in subjects that should have nothing to do with politics.
It’s yet another attempt to use education as a form of indoctrination……...”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/california-implementing-new-k-12-mathematics-framework-based/
The left couldn’t care less about your kids, Trap. If you want to home school your kids, fine. Some of my best students are the ones that were home schooled.
What in the name of heaven is wrong with equity and social justice?
You are paranoid – leave the educating to the educators.
“What in the name of heaven is wrong with equity and social justice?”
How about this.
2 + 2 = 3
Gman came to my door collecting signatures he also stated that he was interviewed by a local media person about time
Marchetti came to my door so I put on some Kevlar in case he popped a button on his shirt. I guess Walmart doesn’t carry clothes for portly men
When buttons start flying, hearing protection is always first. Ears WILL be damaged. Eyes are number two being small and our instinct to protect them. Surgeons can fix just about anything else, though you may suffer from chronic pain after the visit.
Trap, you haven’t explained yourself.
You just didn’t understand, that math needs to be taught in math classes. Went right over your head. Public schools are raising a generation of idiots who have difficulty with simple math even in high schools.
Kids need to learn math reading and writing first of all. Later on they can take a civics class to learn about equity social justice and all other things “progressive”. And 6-year olds should not be forced to watch ugly men dressed up as women in schools either.
Trap-K is a former Prof at a college.
I’m other words, he made a living out of teaching liberalism and left leaning views, with zero pushback.
On The Planet, he’s upset because he’s getting the redass from people, and he’s not used to it.
He was also an officer in the military. I was enlisted. Again, zero pushback on his orders or having to listen to him talk about how much smarter he is than you. The typical jerk.
For the most part, K has lived the “white privileged” life. It’s a clean view from the ivory tower, huh Prof?
His real name is Professor Wagstaff from Huxley
He was in sgt. pepper’s lonely hearts club or maybe Arnie’s army.
Readin’, writin’, & ‘rithmatic. Works every time.
Bad enough when Tricia goes into a school
Are you talking about the “social justice” in Chicago every weekend?
White supremacy is our country’s greatest threat Prof?
Pontificate about “social justice” and “equity,” but do ZERO about it, but place blame on others.
Sound about right, Prof?
Are you that dumb? You must be if you have to ask that question. And you claim to be educated? # level 5
I must be.
https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-nibbles-young-girl-just-225055659.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=ma
Like father like Son!
TORNADO WATCH JUST SOUTH OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY AT 6AM
I’m surprised you didn’t blame this on Trump, good job!
I dunno, there were sightings of him in northern Connecticut…
Grabbed my keys and went to the safest place I could think of. Patricks Pub.
I agree.