THE PLANET TAKES AN EXTENSION
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY AUG. 14, 2024) — Half a league onward into our break, THE PLANET has decided to extend our leave. Why? You know the punch line: “Because we can.”
Our next post will be Wednesday Sept. 6, after Labor Day.
Can you hold out till then?
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Hoo-Ray.
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“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
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I can holdout if Mr. Melle can
I look forward to blogger Dan Valenti’s posts about Pittsfield politics’ 2023 election season! Also, Barry Clairmont’s civil trial versus Melissa Mazzeo in two months. I won’t write that I – Jon Melle – went through far worse than anybody else in the modern history of Pittsfield politics all the way to the Boston Statehouse thanks to Pittsfield’s Pot King because it would be redundant. Only Pete and Pete are allowed to repeat and repeat.
What happened?
Really? Get your fudge rounds.
Between Jonny’s blogging and repeatedly auditioning the five finger puppets he’ll be fine. You can always count on Jonny.
Peter Marchetti likes to say, “One Pittsfield”, while he would have to take a pay cut to serve as mayor
John Krol is trying to make his mid-life comeback in Pittsfield politics
Karen Kalinowsky wants to collect her would-be mayoral salary that would be on top of her city pension plus perks because it would be a bad example of budgeting by necessity
Pete White wants to be the next City Council Prez
Earl Persip likes to label blogger Dan Valenti with harsh words
Barry Clairmont wants to sue Melissa Mazzeo in two months
Blogger Dan Valenti likes to call Pittsfield “Picklefield”
Jon Melle likes to write about: Barstool, Aberration, Rolodex, Bust, Gated Community, and the next mayoral nickname will be?
enjoy
Dan,
Enjoy your summer, it never lasts long enough…..
In the meantime – “How do you launder money? U-crane it!”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/larry-johnson-stephen-gardner-how-do-you-launder/
Become a consultant
Ol’ Pete better get some yard signs up. Johnny boy targeted main streets in the neighborhoods he’s not afraid of (other than photo ops at a west side event, police were there he felt safe)
We know yard signs dont vote, but there are some questionable ones placed on what looks like city property. Corner of West Housatonic and Center.
Many of his signs illegally placed on city easements. What would you expect from a guy – when everything he touches turns to sh*t!
If you have a Johnny boy sign on your yard it says to me “ignorant Pittsfield voter.” The same voter who continually pulls the lever for people like TFB despite the fact that TFB is always looking for ways to 1) increase taxes and 2) support those who are breaking our immigration laws.
I will still be voting for Karen Kalinowsky. If she has four signs and Krol has seven hundred and twenty two, I will still vote for Karen. While Krol wants to embed his name in the minds of the shallow ones I will be deciding whom I vote for based on sound reasoning.
(plus I have had it up to my ears with this chronic Pittsfield puppet show) Enough already. Let someone who cares be mayor for a change.
Karen for mayor!
I have a Krol sign because he’s the first politician to visit my house in five years and he promised to do something about panhandling.
Panhandling is your biggest concern?! Yikes!
Hopefully he won’t darken my doorstep!
What about pot handling?
What is he doing about panhandling now? Shouldn’t he be addressing it in the upcoming council meeting?
What have you done about panhandling?
Established a plan with the DA.
Point is, if he promises to do somethiung policywise, the time to start was last month.
So let me get this straight it’s okay for politicians to pan handle but not a homeless person?
Homeless folk may panhandle. So may politicians. But businessmen are not permitted to partake.
They are all they same. They will screw you until You don’t have money to give them.
Businesmen, panhandlers, politicians.
Grow up.
Excuse me, but did YOU just tell people to grow up?
ROFL
I’ve had the pleasure of teaching science at colleges and Universities for > 20 years.
I never used a calculator in my education including , 1 year of HS calculus , and year of college calculus.
Calulators are a crutch for not learning math. Just like spell checkers/grammar /computers for not learning grammar.
I had students faced with a logarmithic plot of data.
Logs were something for the woodpile or a key on the calcultor/computer they were using.
Finish of a proof of math ….QED remember that?
I had Algebra in the 8th grade. Some brains are not wired for math and after a while I was baffled, confused and confounded. But I could tear apart the engine of a 1968 Malbou and put it back together in less than a week.
Not true. But I could identify both the bumper and steering wheel on most cars.
You missed out. You deprived yourself of the erotic arts of calculus: the ability to forever encode your girlfriend’s curves into the ideal virtues of expressed formulae. You could be sitting here now, decades later, and summon the abstractions into flesh in your own mind.
Snark, you are an unhappy man. I pray you have not yet reached 70 and thus still have time to feel the ecstacy that Platonic calculus imparts on the agile user.
I must say that the curves under the hood of a ‘68 Malibu are as lovely as I’ve seen on any catwalk runway.
You won’t find any curves on any catwalk. Totally antiseptic catwalks.
I used a slide rule in HS.
…and the spellchecker was obviously not used for your post!
His batting average is higher than yours there.
Fred Rutberg panhandles with his Eagle articles
yes at least the politician should be a local citizen paying taxes not someone from out of the area sleeping illegally in our city or running a tax free shakedown, From reports I have heard there is a ring leader who runs the sites for begging. Some say he drives a very expensive car
How is Marchetti not like TFB? You just have an axe to grind with Krol. He’s too pretty. He’s too straight. He chased skirts! No one cares.
He’s an empty suit, Dawn. Wake up.
He is Mr.Vanilla and zero passion for leadership and will go for the Mayor job ride.He has no passion to help the elderly pay real-estate taxes.Kroll and Pete are party people who thank each other for doing great work at cocktail parties
Krol is worse than an empty suit. He’s a person of low character and poor judgement. Just my opinion.
Marchetti doesn’t have as he!vy a beard as Tricia
Some dirty tricks already at play here, check out Holmes and Elm intersection. 2 houses right next to the auto parts store. 4 signs spaced out to give a bigger impression than it actually is. Shameful John.
LOL
He has one at the end of Utility drive
Meat allergies due to vaccines, food plants blown up/ destroyed by fire, supply chain disruptions, etc etc…..
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/global-elites-secret-plot-against-food
Syphillus is a meat allergy. And it does disrupt your supply chain. Ouch!!!
You’ve had too many cans full of bad meat.
VD is nothing to clap about
Two Ballot initiatives on Tuesday 8/15 City Council:
Term limits for City Council: 2 terms
Change Mayor term to 2 years.
Contact your councilors/show up the meeting and speak if you want them on the ballot. Opponents will be there.
Rich Men North of Richmond song pretty much sums up what the majority of Americans are feeling right now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqSA-SY5Hro
Well, tell us.
…. …. Oliver Anthony describes a working man’s struggles during the opening lyrics to “Rich Men North of Richmond.” Then, he targets charged social-political issues.
The viral song from Anthony arrived on Aug. 8, and within days, a YouTube video had millions — and then tens of millions — of views, plus streams on Spotify and other digital providers. He wrote the song himself, and it’s clearly resonating with conservative country music fans, even if the former factory worker says he sits in the center of the road politically.
The “rich men” described in the “Rich Men North of Richmond” lyrics are presumably politicians living in Washington, D.C. (100 miles north via I-95), but he’s yet to detail his songwriting process. Before the second verse, he speaks in vague terms about working hard for little pay, but then in a stunning twist, zooms in on child trafficking, welfare and obesity.
Find the full lyrics to “Rich Men of North Richmond” below.
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Who is Oliver Anthony?
Oliver Anthony (real name: Christopher Anthony Lunsford) is from Farmville, Va. Information about his life prior to “Rich Men …” going viral comes mostly from him directly, and people who say they know him on social media.
In a video shared to his YouTube page a day before the song was released on YouTube, he describes living the life he sings about during the first verse. That helped lead to mental health issues and an unhealthy relationship with alcohol. In July 2023, he says promised God he’d get sober for help following his dreams. About 30 days later, he was trending to have the No. 1 country song in America.
Oliver Anthony, “Rich Men of Richmond” Lyrics:
I’ve been sellin’ my soul, workin’ all day / Overtime hours for bullshit pay / So I can sit out here and waste my life away / Drag back home and drown my troubles away.
Pre-Chorus:
It’s a damn shame what the world’s gotten to / For people like me and people like you / Wish I could just wake up and it not be true / But it is, oh, it is.
Chorus:
Livin’ in the new world / With an old soul / These rich men north of Richmond / Lord knows they all just wanna have total control / Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do / And they don’t think you know, but I know that you do / ‘Cause your dollar ain’t shit and it’s taxed to no end / ‘Cause of rich men north of Richmond.
Thank you.
Trump fascist are not a political party.They are threatening terrorism on Americans every day.The fascist are very motivated to stop our democracy for Trump and Putin and FOX propaganda
Agree
Krol doing a good job getting signs out.
Why did they remove the orange barrels from west street?
Only the weak minded among us vote for someone who has a million lawn signs. Lawn signs tell us nothing about the caNdidate and makes a fool out of those dull minds who vote solely on knowledge of someone’s lawn signs. Unfortunately we have to tolerate these types and the city’s gobsigs to boot. Krol and Marchetti will garner these two types of individuals and one will get more gobsigs than the other and become mayor. To show our disgust with these two miscreants we must try something which may work. Let’s write in candidates as write ins. this will dilute the two gobsigs votes and perhaps this will benefit us with a candidate we can live with. Everyone must vote for write in candidates otherwise we will all lose with a krol or Marchetti as mayor. Both show tendencies to be even worse than tyer and that will not take much effort on their part to being even worse than her. I know that is hard to believe but things can and will become worse with a mayor krol or Marchetti. Please get out there and vote for ANYONE other than these two light weights. Try to bring others to the pols with you and vote with your brain. Someone on this board mentioned that those who have signs out for krol are the stupidest of city residents and who ever said this is absolutely correct. We have lot of ignorant people in this city who are going to vote based on endorsements in the eagle and numbers of lawn signs the gobs put out
God help us that we have so many ignorant people in this city. Trying to deal with them is a constant battle. Let’s all vote for anyone other than krol or Marchetti. We would be better off if each of them loses and we will benefit from their defeat.
I didn’t say I’m voting for him, just that his campaign did a good job.
As others have pointed out, many are illegally placed. Not a good job.
Report any illegally placed signs to the building inspector. It’s his responsibility to enforce the ordinance.
East New Lenox Road is littered with Krol crap.
Major route with Homes closed.
That is where his big fancy house is.
They were trained to be ignorant.
Don’t talk about TSC, Kindergarden and Frizzie like that, they are people like you though brainwashed lemons
Look who’s talking, Shirley.
As humans, we are affected by these ads, and, like it or not, frequency matters, whether we are weak-minded or not.
Why are there orange barrels on Williams St? Saw a bicyclist almost get clipped when 2 cars were going by at the same time as the bike. There is absolutely no need for those barrels except to create a dangerous situation
Did anyone see Krol’s post on Facebook about his signs. He says he is putting camera’s up to protect his signs. Stupidest thing I ever hear of. People will just steal the cameras instead of (or with) the sign.
What will you do with all those signs and cameras? Maybe Earl knows of a good dumptster.
KROL likes cameras. What would the punishment be in Pittsfield right now if someone stole a campaign sign? Are people donating to his campaign so he can put up cameras? Sounds like might be a pretty tough hard ass of a mayor huh? Do not cross this guy.
If you stole a $4 sign I don’t think the penalty is too harsh. The whole thing is just weird. No way I’m voting for Krol.
You’ll vote for lumpy gavel nuts
If you take someone’s sign you violate their 1st amendment rights
Point.
However, it is NOT a crime to be a totally irresponsible wannabee mayor who spends taxpayer money like Kim Kardashian on a Parisian shopping escapade. No matter who gets elected and inherits the financial debacle tyer has left the city with, they will not be able to lower taxes very much due to the already incurred massive debt.
And this debt will be the homeowners debt for at least two decades. You need to decide if you want this massive debt to be sucking large sums of money from your paycheck well into the foreseeable future. Perhaps you would rather it went to your child’s college fund or a better car or maybe a vacation some day.
This is a serious discussion you need to have with yourself now!
Krol would like the unsuspecting public to beleive that each of his lawn signs represents a household that supports him. Nothing could be more deceptive. If this is the type of smoke and mirrors campaign he is going to run, just what kind of mayor would he be?
If you burn it it’s 18 & life.
With nipples in charge it was a 2 year sentence!!
Check Persip and the dumpster for any missing sign
He’s not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Just a tool
People love increased surveillance for this purpose. Protect what’s most important.
You opps bruh
The corrupt Biden administration is doing everything they can to bring down his major political opponent. Another indictment for Trump while the Biden crime family and others on the far left get away with one crime after another.
no one is corrupter than orangehead
Traitor Joseph Stolen is.
cuckoo,,,,another peabrained brainwashed looney lefty…off to china you go
help! help!
I saw a great video of GA ballots saying they were Republican but bullet voted for Fani!! and not the republican running. Another interesting about the ballots were they were supposedly mail in but looked like they just came off a copier, No trifold bends, just flat paper…….but don’t worry there was no voting irregularities
Pete Marchetti will lose huge to Krol unless he talks about a new budget attitude in Pittsfield going forward.Cut every new position in the last 5 years.If he does not talk budget then Krol won’t have to and he wins because he and his wife are photogenic and he will be the Mayor to raise the next budget 9.5%.Example is there are two 100k principles in one elementary schools.
And if Johnny boy wins, guess who the next Finance Director will be? Marchetti!
Pete gave it away during Dan’s debate.
Don’t you need a masters in business and accounting to be a finance director?
Just reporting what was hinted at in the interview.
What are Kerwood’s qualifications?
What are Marchetti’s? I know he works for a bank.
I’m assuming Kerwood has a business degree in muni finance. I wouldn’t presume a bank VP to have that.
What we need is to separate the offices of the Finance Director and the Treasurer. Our current system violates a very obvious safeguard against abuse.
Predictable Pittsfield politics always raises municipal spending by at least 5 percent per fiscal year going back to when Larry Bird won 3 straight MVPs in the mid-1980s. The “Big 3” – not Larry Bird, Kevin McHale & Robert Parish – in Pittsfield politics are the Public School, the Police and the Fire Department Unions. Since the Larry Bird era Boston Celtics championship years in the mid-1980s, the Public School Union has received huge amounts of state and local funding only to see the Pittsfield Public School District labeled as Level 5 by the state. Of course, unlike Larry Bird, Level 5 is the worst rating from the state. The Police Union’s budget has increased by millions of dollars, but the FBI’s annual reports always cite Pittsfield in the top 10 cities by population in Massachusetts for violent crime. During my graduate school studies in public administration many years ago now, the first and second things middle-class families look for in a community is the quality of the public school system and the public safety of the streets. Of course, over the past 50 years, Pittsfield has experienced many thousands of people moving away from the distressed city, along with huge numbers of lost living wage jobs. The question I ask is: Why does Pittsfield politics spend over $200 million per fiscal year in return for “a shit sandwich”? It makes no sense, unless one is part of the state and local cabal of corrupt career politicians and the special and vested interests they serve – DISSERVICE – in government!
Good news for young homebuyers:all schools fail and colleges do not care.
Proof: advanced math is taught strictly on calculators. No need for proofs.
Charlie , I got through 5 years of AP Math , a full year of AP Calculus in HS. No caluclator. I took full year of Algebra in 8th grade….
In college I got a pass on 1st semester Calc.
For 2nd semester Calc, I took final, got an A, without a calulator.
I didn’t attend Pittsfield schools.
The quality of our educations was high. Not complex theory to teaching either – we have hundreds of years of pedagogy which appears to have been tossed out the window for gadgetry.
No, advances in tech render pedagogy obsolete.
We did have scientific calculators (that is: they calculated square roots and trig functions). Only used them for tests and after complete demonstration/practice with long form arithmetic.
I’ve had the pleasure of teaching science at colleges and Universities for > 20 years.
I never used a calculator in my education including , 1 year of HS calculus , and year of college calculus.
Caclulators are a crutch for not learning math. Just like spell checkers/grammar /computers for not learning grammar.
I had students faced with a logarmithic plot of data.
Logs were something for the woodpile or a key on the calcultor/computer they were using.
Finish of a proof….QED remember that?
I’ve had the pleasure of teaching science at colleges and Universities for > 20 years.
I never used a calculator in my education including , 1 year of HS calculus , and year of college calculus.
Calulators are a crutch for not learning math. Just like spell checkers/grammar /computers for not learning grammar.
I had students faced with a logarmithic plot of data.
Logs were something for the woodpile or a key on the calcultor/computer they were using.
Finish of a proof of math ….QED remember that?
QED: there was a great satisfaction learning the logical path to proving Pythagorean theory.
Calculators were for finishing steps mostly. As you say, they are a crutch to relieve the tedium of long division and practically good for preventing an engineer from messing up an expensive aircraft part due to misuse of a sliderule.
Students today are deprived of the pleasure that Plato descibes as the satisfaction, erotic actually, experienced by deriving abstract logic from concrete forms. The joy of forming geometric proofs to determine the distance between points is unmeasurable! It can cause one to faint from pleasure! Permanent geometric relationships applied to manufacturing a form that conforms only to the limits of your practical expertise is not replaced by any other act. That is, hanging a door in its frame is from paper (clear) to finished (leaves much to be desired. Especially if the doorknob is on the wrong side.
Albrecht Dürer – Melencolia I – Google Art Project ( AGDdr3EHmNGyA) – Melencolia I – Wikipedia
Heaven on Earth.
(at least one person cannot abide Durer.)
The scientific calculator was invented for engineers and scholars, not for middle & high school students. I believe the same applies to laptops.
As sure as the sun rises in the morn, one day, a cosmic storm will knock out key satellites in the skies. And all earthly computers will go dark. Mankind will regress back to the apes and amoebas.
It has happened before and so shall it happen once more.
It has happened many times before.
But did Avagadro give you his number?
There’s someone who did not need a calculator….
Despite earlier reports by both Greek and European scholars I find it hard to believe that the caveman actually invented the wheel. Wooden, stone or polymer based. And I say this because if it were true then there would be more documented evidence that the caveman knew the extended value of PI. And try as one may you simply cannot make a wheel without pondering, at the very least, the value, concept and crucial contributions of PI.
I hope I have cleared up that conundrum for those of you who have trouble with circles, spheres and orbs.
When men stepped out of caves -that is when they discovered wheels.
cuz they found an abandoned bicycle? I do not think so sir.
German Inventor Karl von Drais is credited with developing the first bicycle. His machine, known as the “swiftwalker,” hit the road in 1817. This early bicycle had no pedals, and its frame was a wooden beam. The device had two wooden wheels with iron rims and leather-covered tires.
The timeline does not fit. Try again.
Bicycles have two wheels. I’m talking about wheels.
There are those who believe the Vikings invented the Ferris Wheel. The original idea was to mount it on one of their Longships and put electric lights on it so that other ships would not run into them. Apparently after it was completed on the first vessel a chisel master pointed out that electricity had not been invented yet so they shitcanned that idea for the time being and never really got around to going through with it. The scuttled ship is at the bottom of the Barents Sea and is a lucrative tourist attraction.
(according to Fox News)
Democrats want a square/inclusive wheel…
I can lay out timber frame joinery, with just a divider/Compass,Pumb bob, chaluk line.
That includes 45 and 3/4/5 braces/mortices. Ì.e. 45,
30/60/90
.
No calçs needed. Learned from Dick Babcock
BASÌC PŔÀCTIÇÀL ĢEOMÈTRY
Ìf ýou ķnow a çircle..
Yes, but you can’t use that applied method to calculate the circumference of the earth. You need the theory/formula to plug numbers into.
We can tell
You can’t spell
What a cynical view.
Why?
You would consider my views on the pedagogy of art cynical as well?
In order to learn a skill, you must learn to frame your thinking that allows you to succeed.
There are no tools that are of use to that end.
I don’t know what your views on the pedagogy of art are. But in general, the tenets of pedagogy must keep up with the times – the methodology that you use to impart knowledge to students must be relevant to that knowledge, rather than being relevant to dated knowledge.
The schools have abolished established canons that provided a foundation of generational wisdom and cultural cohesion. As a result, illiteracy on a mass scale has rendered even the english language a vague mystery to otherwise well educated kids.
You really cannot speak with idioms if you have not read Shakespeare. The closing of the American mind, which began first with the elites is now the law of the land. A parent cannot escape this by moving to better districts, choosing charter or private institutions. What you can hope for are children well prepared to work in offices. Read any resume: Expertise in social media, Microsoft Office, an Photoshop, and Teambuilding. Not much else to report.
The pedagogy of art, where it is taught, is the same as taught in 900 or 1500 Europe. Classic foundations in cast drawing: the capacity to see ideal form in nature’s confusion. Design. In 19 century, it was rebuilt to focus on Drawing: composition, light/shade, proportion, contrast; Colour; and Memory. Only a few ever succeeded making anything substantial over the last 700 years, but those who did achieved immortality and brought the Spirit to Earth..
Ed reform and school choice was a stupid republican agenda idea of Reagan Bush along with Bill Bennett pushed 24/7 by Rush Limbaugh to weaken urban public schools
Provided options to unaffluent families stuck with dangerous high schools. BArT is most enrolled by Pittsfield and North Adams families. School Choice is a rare good educational policy that returns a small bit of autonomy to individuals.
Urban Schools, Pittsfield included, never weep for funds. They also don’t sigh over failing benchmarks again and again.
Wonder what schools are like in China. Is there such a thing as level five (5) that Pittsfield, Ma. has made so famous despite its 70 million dollar and ever growing budget?
Do they have politically controlled school boards put together to control where the humongous school monies are dispersed? Do they have almost as many school employees as they do students with some of them making gigantic salaries? Do they have teachers unions that exchange back rubs with the local politicians who control their salaries and perks?
Are children allowed to wear whatever clothing they want? Can they use cell phones in class? Can parents piss and moan if little Johnny does not get an award for every little achievement? Are teachers allowed to discipline a child who is disruptive in class?
Is education taken seriously in China or is it more of a money laundering operation with the facade of teaching like it might be elsewhere?
Is education set up to fail like it seems to in other areas of the world?
Would you want to trade your high school education for a CCP one?
Education: two philosphies. 1) practical – just give students what they need to survive in current economic environment. If student is in textile environment, no honors in bio – stick to fundamental math/reading and textile arts. (Was the case in Cali. before textiles vanished to China under most favored trade deal.)
2) Classical: provide fundamentals to all students, provide for creative needs to establish capacity for pursuit of happiness beyond the schooling period (age 16.)
What is the philosophy of PPS? How does PPS differ from private institutions (Miss Halls), how does it define the needs and potential of Pittsfield?
I don’t see any information in the School mission statement.
Wonder what schools are like in China. Is there such a thing as level five (5) that Pittsfield, Ma. has made so famous despite its 70 million dollar and ever growing budget?
No.
Do they have politically controlled school boards put together to control where the humongous school monies are dispersed?
Yes, it’s called the CCP.
Do they have almost as many school employees as they do students with some of them making gigantic salaries?
Generally, no, with exceptions.
Do they have teachers unions that exchange back rubs with the local politicians who control their salaries and perks?
Absolutely not.
Are children allowed to wear whatever clothing they want?
No.
Can they use cell phones in class?
No.
Can parents piss and moan if little Johnny does not get an award for every little achievement?
No.
Are teachers allowed to discipline a child who is disruptive in class?
Yes.
Is education taken seriously in China or is it more of a money laundering operation with the facade of teaching like it might be elsewhere?
It is taken very seriously.
Is education set up to fail like it seems to in other areas of the world?
Not at all.
and this perspective
Meritocracy or aristocracy?
For many, the urge to tinker with China’s spectacularly successful education system is puzzling. Its academic results are first-rate as measured by the Program for International Student Assessment (Pisa), which administers standardized tests worldwide every three years. China topped the rest of the world in reading, math and science in the latest test, in 2018.
Many countries have tried to emulate China’s model of schooling. The U.K. in 2014 began to trial an East Asian “Maths Mastery” program that is based on Chinese and Singaporean education methods.
Lenora Chu, author of “Little Soldiers: An American Boy, A Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve,” said that the Chinese system has its merits despite the lack of flexibility.
“If you look at the American system, you have high school graduates who are barely literate or numerate, in some cities these things are very difficult to fix,” said Chu. “You have a high school kid in China, maybe he has never learned to pick a topic that interests him because they don’t have electives in high school, but he’s really good at math and he can read. Some of these other things, I really firmly believe that [if] he’s got the fundamentals, he could patch some of the other stuff later.”
“Meritocracy or aristocracy?”
It’s more like Pink Floyd, The Wall.
“China topped the rest of the world in reading, math and science in the latest test, in 2018.”
Not for reading, I would bet. Also, that sample/test must not include non-city kids, as their reading scores are sub-par.
1) To address the recognized shortcomings, take your beef up with the DOE. I support dismissing the lot of them and dissolving the entity.
2) You and FH both argue for central control of education, however: that is in your ringing endoresement of the CCP. Fine. But you also therefore ought to support dissolving school committees which represent local authority (except they don’t because they are generally indoctrinated to to best bad practices. I could amuse myself with the idea of dissolving SC’s as Mark Twain too said that G-d made school committee folk first as raw material for fools.
Amusing, but Churchill has it right with: “Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others.“
‘You and FH both argue for central control of education…’
No, I don’t.
You said I argue for central control of education and endorse the CCP.
No, I don’t.
“Do they have politically controlled school boards put together to control”
100% politically controlled by the state. Even the pens likely play the Communist Party Anthem.
So why is leftist Pittsfield schools tanking?
Yes, Rush’s screwels.
Again a closed mind cuckoo bird. The MA Legislature, ie the Democratic Party, bastardized the attempt of the populace to fix the schools. This was led by the teacher’s union that did not want accountability
Pedagogies are based on trusted methods that are refined. They are the benchmark against which new ideas must compete. What you suggest is that they keep up with fads and the Captains of Consciousness. In such a race, pedagogy has not a chance.
“What you suggest is that they keep up with fads and the Captains of Consciousness.”
I suggest that they keep up with progress.
Cynics are the people who know the harm of their actions but do it anyway for self-gain.
Because Democrats like you keep voting in the GOBSIGS
What we need first is a forensic audit and if Marchetti promises to start one on his first day in office I may vote for him. But he has to put it in writing (in blood) because I really do not trust him due to his total lack of leadership while city council president.
Apparently he never thought there was room to cut the mayors expenses the whole last eight years so it would be a gigantic stretch for me to now think he would be the taxpayers advocate while mayor. Too far fetched a concept.
Outsource our finance department to a firm in Albuquerque?
5 points for spelling Albuquerque correctly.
Marchetti and Krol are running on photo ops…..Audit and cutting taxes will get one of them elected.If I’m Marchetti Im saying we need a new attitude in budgeting and an audit otherwise Krols clean shirts and clean shave wins.Wake up Pete…take my advice and be Mayor and save the elderly poor people from being thrown from their home.If Krol runs on cutting taxes you can just close your office and hand it to him.Do it now Pete ,it’s your only chance.Hit him hard because he does not want to cut and make enemies.
Ink is drying
That’s like the Rotted Vagina, running the city/Mayor. knows shit except her bank account increasing
No class.
No brain
Could the city do weeds on Woodlawn Ave This is oureconomic development area and weeds are 4 feet high and who would invest in the ugliest area of town
Since you are Section 8 and have plenty of time, be a GOOD CITIZEN
But the mayor has funded for what seems like twenty five thousand dollars worth of plant and planters all over the city. Maybe more.
Love to have that lucrative little contract huh? Seniors may be taxed out their homes but the mayor will have her goddamn plants which shows a total lack of empathy. This would have been one area of the budget to trim way back but was deemed too important to someone for some reason. Can’t imagine what that could have been.
They pay double time to water them on Sunday early morning
Get the begging bums to piss the40ers on them
How much did she pay for the black flag poles that they don’t put the flags up on during tourist season?
If you clip them you can smoke em
I don’t think either were secretaries, nor trolling cumbies at 3am
in Pittsfield? If you can make toast and know the right people you can get almost any job in the city
They put the butter on, or me ?
no
And Helen Moon will be the new Roberta Dews. Go ahead ask him and when he starts to stutter. It’s another lie!
krol is a snake plain and simple.
If someone prints up a thousand lawn signs that say BELEAGUERED TAXPAYER and sells them for $5 apiece, I will buy one and put it on my lawn. It could actually be an economic engine for some enterprising young dude.
If Pete works for Krol he is the lowest form of politician
Did anyone see Karen’s interview with Mike Daly?
She referred to a multi-part question as being multi-faucet. She used the same term again later on in the interview. This is who you want to be Mayor? Imagine her in a meeting with the Governor?
Better than Tyer who speaks in cliches and repeats what you say to you. # vibrant and dynamic. Tyer the liar
So do you think Marchetti , if he were elected mayor will do all the things on his palm card? He hasn’t done them in 16 years on the council. He’s just Tyer only his backside isn’t as big.
In Gavel Man’s interview on IPT posted on FB ,just about every question on an issue he took, he responded with more round tables, more discussion’s are needed on the issues that citizens brought up. Citizens are sick of all talk and no action. These issues brought up have been around long enough to get an answer other than more talk about them some more.
And that is exactly the pass the buck lack of leadership he displayed while council president. He may be the worst qualified person to ever run for mayor of Pittsfield and there has been some real doozies. But remember that tyer was his mentor so there ya go.
And the round tables he is talking about are the ones with the special interests that will make decisions for him. Oh yah.
For over 7 years I appeared in front of Martitski and detailed a way to save the tax and rate payers over 80 million dollars at the city’s two drinking water plants that were invented designed and built by me and my two colleagues Dr’s krofta and Wang. Titski did factually throw everyone of my@250 petitions into the garbage under rule 27. I also did indeed send a letter to former mayor to be tyer asking her to come to the plants so I could show her how I could save that 80million dollars but she never responded to me. From this day on we should refer to Martinsville and tyer as the individuals who shot the ratepayers messenger costing them 80 million dollars. This is factual information and aiding these two buffoons were guiel persip kavey Conant white. These mentioned bunch always earmarked my petitions to the garbage bin also and they are as guilty of robing the ratepayers as the two aforementioned buffoons mentioned earlier. I am running in ward 6 to get rid of guiel as I see her as a brainless ditz with very little comprehension ability. Getting rid of her will be my contribution to the taxpayers of this city in riding the furthest bent link on the council. Her loss will be significant in that we will gain a person like me who only is concerned with saving tax and rate payers dollars. As for the other bent links it is up to you to insure that anyone who is running against them should be deserving of your vote as you will be strengthening the likelihood that these new people will listen to you the tax and rate payers. A clean sweep is long over due and this is the ideal time to do it as it will cleanse the council. A low voter turnout will insure that these miscreants return to the council. Knowing this we must do our part to get everyone to the pols. We have lived thru 8 of the most tumultuous years under the secretary. It’s time to carry a big broom and not be afraid to use it. God help Pittsfield
Craig you go to PPS?
Break your posts up into paragraphs, so people can follow/read them. Don’t be a Melle….
Thanks trap I will break my run on sentences into paragraphs. Even I have difficulty reading my own posts. I’ll get better soon
Why did they earmark your petitions to the garbage bin?
The articles are quite technical and difficult to read.
Multi-faucet is novel. Works too.
Multi-facet.
Thank you, but I like multi-faucet.
So that is what you got out of the whole interview? Sounds like something a special interest advocate for one of the other candidates might say. And it shows desperation.
They don’t care much about language that people use.
Can anyone tell me Barry Clairmont’s screen name on this blog??
This could be one of them
Fats?
No mystery.
President Trump isn’t corrupt at all. He is being railroaded by the DC swamp. So sad that Pittsfield is voting for attractive people to govern our city as with Krol and his wife. That should work out really well.
“President Trump isn’t corrupt at all. He is being railroaded by the DC swamp. So sad that Pittsfield is voting for attractive people to govern our city as with Krol and his wife. That should work out really well.”
Beauty is only skin deep, ugly goes right to the bone.
No way you were schooled in Pittsfield
I thank God
Nope
I got into good universty/colleges, 3 degrees , physical sciences.
My mother, who had a Master of ED in teaching and a science BS, left PPS in disgust, in the 1960s, ….YES it is that bad
Interesting that you would mention Trump and Krol in the same paragraph. Trump was quite the playboy himself fifty years ago when he was grabbing pussies. (and they were letting him)
Finally! A point we agree on.
except about the ‘playboy.’ Not a good fit.
Stormy Daniels admitted that she and President Donald Trump had an affair just four months after Melania Trump gave birth.
Allegations of an affair between Trump and Daniels recently surfaced in a Wall Street Journalarticle that reported the adult-film star was given a $130,000 payout to stay silent. In an exclusive interview with In Touch magazine on Wednesday, Daniels said the fling occurred less than four months after Melania gave birth to their son Barron.
“I actually don’t even know why I did it, but I do remember while we were having sex, I was like, ‘Please, don’t try to pay me,'” Daniels told the magazine.
Why on earth would I believe anything that someone who goes by a prostitute-name “stormy” and makes business with Avenatti has to say?
I dunno. So what is your favorite prostitutes name?
It appears the prostitute of the year is Stormy Daniels. Never heard of her until the Democrat Party adopted her for their cause. I thought she and Avenatti went down the same drain, but apparently not.
Your Moms
Saw a picture of PeePee Petie’s latest fund raiser and who is sitting front and center, larger than ever but Mayors Barry & Linda. That picture alone is enough for me to not vote for Pee Pee. Wish some reporter would ask PeePee to name one positive thing he has done for the taxpayers of Pittsfield in the past 8 years. Bet he would not have an answer, except that he kissed Mayor Barry & Linda’s over large and still growing butts. Evidently the three of them have never utilized the City Hall gym that we all paid for.
Awesomely ignorant campaign move to be pictured with outgoing abysmal failure of person you want to replace. He should fire whoevers idea that was. What is the message? I want to be just like her? DUHHHH
Other candidates gotta be loving this. High fiving all around the room!
Persip is a Buffon F- tonight
I thought he made good point.
The spell-fest continues.
Me make boo boo
Linda Tyer is a good Mayor of Pittsfield politics. Compared to the late Barstool, the Level 5 Schoolmarm Aberration, the Snake Oil Salesman Rolodex, the Montello Bust, Gated Community Linda Tyer actually knows what she is doing as a municipal manager. I don’t know if the career banker Peter Marchetti, or the mid-life comebacker John Krol, or if the would-be double dipper Karen Kalinowsky would do a good job as the next would-be Mayor of Pittsfield politics. Only time will tell, of course.
I believe that the elitist snobs in Boston make a systemic mockery of distressed postindustrial cities such as Pittsfield, as well as the low- to moderate-income people who live in these impoverished communities, such as the Have Not from Pittsfield who everyone knows and loves (except for Pittsfield’s Pot King) named “Jon Melle”. Beacon Hill lawmakers giveaway tens of billions of state tax breaks to their wealthy campaign donors every two years, while these corrupt career politicians in Boston always systemically underfund state funding to local government and public-school districts – even when they are still sitting on an over $7.22 billion surplus of state cash. On top of that, Beacon Hill lawmakers and state officials in the Governor Maura Healey administration of elitism had the nerve to brag about the state lottery’s record profits in fiscal year 2023, while the state lottery SCAM is nothing more than (voluntary) regressive taxation that goes over the heads of the mostly financially illiterate low- to moderate-income residents of Pittsfield and places like it who purchase most of the state lottery tickets.
Did you all know that some of the registered lobbyists on Beacon Hill earn 7-figure salaries for supporting the state lottery SCAM and similar regressive taxation schemes like it that really serve to enrich their wealthy big business clients? Beacon Hill’s other name is spelled FRAUD! Just ask greedy lobbyist Dan Bosley all about it if you do not believe me!
What have you done to NOT make yourself a
“Have Not” all these years? You didn’t have to stay a“Have Not”.
Money will never make something out of anyone that they are not willing to make out of themselves.
Planet posters. Last night I submitted the following petition to the CC. A petition from Craig gaetani requesting a Public forum regarding our water treatments plants and the establishment of a water and sewer commission. In the public session I made a small mistake and used the word DEBATE instead of FORUM. Because of this Marchetti threw my petition in the garbage under rule 27 . Have you ever seen such a petty act by a c ity coun IL predident? I will sub.it the same petition. At the next CC meeting I will see what this petty moron does with it. As I stated before we have no choices for mayor and we need to go the write in route or nothing will change. I will be discussing this matter on my TV show at 3pm this afternoon. Martitliwinks must be sent packing right out of city govt
This is a real time showcase of who Marchetti is. Almost any other city council president in the country would have allowed a simple correction.
Marchetti does not look like someone who wants to see citizen input and will shut it down for the simplest of reasons. Keep that in mind when you vote.
You do have a choice. Karen Kalinowsky is running for mayor.
This is the exact conduct that will not get you elected and if so make you ineffective. You make a mistake and then blame others and name call. its amazing you haven’t learned how to play the game yet!! you lost my vote and I was really hopeful
Pot hole I call it as I see it.i see extreme bias on Marchetti’s part. As a former teacher I saw my students make many small mistakes that I overlooked because I saw them as insignificant. Marchetti saw me make a miniscule mistake in real time and did not say a word until the end of the night when addressing rule 27 petitions. The Fact that he placed my petition under rule 27 tells me he was planning to ditch my petition anyhow. He is what I call a vindictive individual. You can stick with him if you like gridlock. I try to represent positive change.I respect your opinion but hope that you will still consider voting for me. I’m fighting extremely up hill battle and I need every vote I can get. Thank you for posting.
I see Matchetti and he so reminds me of lumpy Rutherford. Mean and petty
Are you able to talk with Marchetti?
I should have gone the route of Dan Bosley who is a retired North Adams State Representative who collects his state public pension plus perks and double dips as a greedy registered as a lobbyist on Beacon Hill who legally bribes the fictional Massachusetts State Representative Sellout Shakedown with special interest campaign contributions to earn a his 6-figure salary that is on top of his state pension. Then I would not be a Have Not.
I should have gone the Route of Richie Neal who is a Springfield (Massachusetts) Congressman who rakes in millions of dollars every two years from K Street corporate lobbyist firms in the Swamp. Then not only would I not be a Have Not, but also, Dan Bosley would write countless letters to the editor of Western Massachusetts newspapers saying how great I am.
I am a Have Not because I have a good conscience, which means that I need to sleep at night instead of cashing in on big government by selling out the people and shaking down all of the wealthy campaign contributors. At the end of the business day, I am NOT greed-ball Dan Bosley, and I am NOT PAC Man Richie Neal.
Try working for a living. As someone else pointed out – your father also collects a state pension.
So what? Collecting a state pension is normal and expected.
Well, tell us what route you did take to not be a “have not” then if , it wasn’t the route of a greedy politician you say you should have taken. There must be a route you’ve taking to make a living to pay the bills like most who work do.
He’s got a military disability pension. You got injured in the military but didn’t take disability. Why not?
Have you sought help for these delusions?
These schools are out of control. Virginia school will defy the Governor’s law on transgender bathroom use and pronouns.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/virginias-largest-school-district-defy-governors-guidance-bathrooms-pronouns
Fire all the administraitors
Amuso’s signs are just like her.Old, faded, wrinkled , re-cycled and well past their expiration date. Hang it up Kathy.
One more example of an embedded puppet. The bane of decent government.
Her biggest accomplishment was to move council meetings earlier to suit her own schedule.
And she picked the paint color on the school building needs committee for the new taconic
Just read where Healy Administration is still pushing the wasteful and unneeded east -west choo choo. If they really cared about the western part of the state they would widen the pike and get rid of the tolls. Someone please tell them we do not want to support Chinese train manufacturing even if Illegitimate is making millions from them! Not sure if Neal is part of the pay off but nobody wants a dirty train system to be built through the beautiful hills of the Berkshires!!
Getting rid of the western tolls would serve Berkshire commuters (those who work in Springfield) well.
Maybe the Berk Delegation could make a deal: we’ll scrap the rail link in exchange for restoring the toll freeze.
Let’s collect tolls in the bike lanes. We could put mega brain Russo in charge
Even the Eagle admitted recently that bikes on North street are a rare sighting. They are planning on redoing the whole street over AGAIN. Anyone know who gets the contract to reinvent North street every few years at a couple million a clip?
No one ever admits to screwing it up. They keep paying consultants and contractors and then saying, “aww shucks, not really working out, guess we need a redo. Matt? Get out the checkbook.”
Timothy Leary?
Eagle shouĺd propose ALL Streets Be named,….RUTBERGS
….and please get rid of all of the corrupt career politicians….
You have yet to find one.
John voted for Sotero and Traitor Joe
If they let the Chinese come and build the whole system it will cost one quarter of what Massachusetts can build it for. Non union state of the art. They are doing this around the world.
They build for free, and they hold the debt above your head like a stone upon your feet. The Chinese CCP is a colonial power, only they are not here and there to settle, but to take.
TOO LATE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT
FROM PUBLIC CITIZEN article
NOTE: Please visit the updated version of this database.
Chinese financial interests have acquired more than $120 billion of assets in the U.S. economy since 2002. Fifteen Chinese government entities (sovereign wealth funds and state-owned enterprises) and government-connected private sectors firms account for nearly 60 percent of this activity. Major transactions have been recorded in at least 40 states and in diverse sectors. This includes more than 50 acquisitions of American assets worth at least $50 million each in 2016, a high-water mark for inbound Chinese investment.
To make publicly available information about the footprint of Chinese investment in the United States, Public Citizen built a new database of each transaction of $50 million or more backed by public records covering 2002 to 2016. With our downloadable dataset, for each deal, you can view (and sort by) the year, sector, location, investment type (greenfield or acquisition), investing entity, target (for acquisitions only) and deal value. This database also provides a link to one reference for additional information on each deal.UBLIC CITIZEN
And one day, Americans will simply have to take it all back. Like we did to the imperial British in 1775 and the Indians in 1947. And Chilieans, until aborted by the CIA in 1973.
Double their taxes!! Then they can pay off the debt we owe them!! By they way China still owes us trillions and that is before how much they owe the world for COVID!
And control.
Whole turnpike was supposed to be FREE YEARS AGO.
Democrats took all the money and contonue to pork the citizens of mASSachusetts more each day.
Criminal aliens, are getting $2200/month, Americans who paid for SS are getting $1600/month
Ask thè blivot TFB, she loves criminal aliens. How many at her house?
The rail link is worth much more than the toll cut.
What will finally bring down Biden? Glen Beck explains and it’s very easy to understand.
Rackateering charges? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLhWHdV9_20
So Beck continues to examine the Biden crime cartel & now is booted from Apple. So much for free speech! Hope he files a big lawsuit against Apple!
https://www.infowars.com/posts/apple-removes-glenn-beck-from-its-podcast-directory-offers-no-explanation/
Beck was booted from Berkshire County radio years ago by the far left elites. He is back on Apple for now anyway since so many complained about it including some on the left. There are still some on the left who value free speech even if they don’t agree with the speaker. That’s a good thing.
Sarcasm: I heard Glen Beck say that the Republican Party in the Swamp is the Grand Old Party of Moral Hypocrisy! Not Sarcasm: Donald Trump is the Republican Party’s number one Moral Hypocrite who openly cheated on all three of his wives, paid off a porn star and a Playboy model to not kiss and tell on him. Oh, and let us not forget that Donald Trump equals Adolf Hiter. Donald Trump’s presidential campaigns and presidential administration had/have neo-Nazis – aka alt-right – work for him since 2015. I think the terms “Moral Hypocrisy” and “Moral Hypocrite” are too kind because Donald Trump is EVIL! Anyone with a good conscience will never support Donald Trump in U.S. politics! I will never support Donald Trump in U.S. politics!
You are so rite Jonny. Trump is evil. He’s against gay guys like us and abortion.
Why can’t all political men be hunky love bugs like Obama and we could all live happily?
Beck 3hours,Limbaugh 3hours,Hannity 3 hours
…You mean right wing radio at WBEC
I hear that you were just inducted into the alcohol of fame.
That was 25 years ago. You are confusing WGY out of Albany with the terrible 1420 Pittsfield station
and he is still a favorite in Moscow. That is true Pat. Look it up.
Hillary is also a favorite in Moscow as is Joe Biden since they both received so much money from that country.
Far leftists will vote for Biden even knowing he is involved in racketeering. Corruption doesn’t matter if he pushes their Marxist/Communist agenda.
Again?
Tucker Carlson is, that’s for sure.
Free speech allows Beck to say anything he wants. But it does not require him to be either truthful or honest.
Nobody could be more truthful and honest than Glenn Beck. Did you know his audience is providing nearly a million dollars in relief to the Maui fire survivors? They could raise even more.
What is Glenn Beck’s Net Worth?While in 2014, Forbes estimated that Glen Beck’s net worth was $90 million, Beck’s net worth has risen significantly since then. 2022 numbers from Celebrity Net Worth suggest that his net worth is closer to $150 million. In any case, it is clear that Beck has a significant fortune.
How Much Does Glenn Beck Make Each Year?It is estimated that his salary is $20 million each year, but that figure does not include all the money he earns in a year, and other income streams like book revenues add to that yearly income estimate. It’s common for Beck to earn closer to $30-$40 million in any given year.
When he still worked for Fox before starting his own media company, he made around $2 million on air from Fox; however, his total for the year was around $32 million, which means that other income streams like public speaking, his online store, radio, and book sales earned the bulk of his income.
One million dollars is pocket change to Beck. How much is he himself giving?
Just like Lyin Biden who was just caught in another lie in Hawaii. Illegitimate just can’t tell the truth
Glen Beck is incapable of explaining anything.
Letter: “Mayor and council candidates: What are your plans to bring back PIttsfield?”
The Berkshire Eagle, August 17, 2023
To the editor: How many of you can remember North Street when General Electric was the major industry in Pittsfield?
Were there lots of empty stores on North Street or any other business venue in town? Walk with me from England Brothers north to the Textile Shop, Mike’s Army and Navy store, Jim’s House of Shoes, Besse Clarke. Now we’ll cross the street, going to Rosenfeld’s, Holden and Stone, and a couple of other clothing shops whose names escape me. There were several boutique clothing shops, one of which was Yezzie’s. There were several local jewelry stores like Comet’s. Oh, and movie theaters: the Capitol, Palace, Union Square and the Strand on North Street. There was another on Tyler Street as well. Bakeries abounded, such as the Pittsfield Rye and several others throughout the city. There were beauty shops, barber shops and other similar service businesses available.
Why couldn’t we have that again? I am asking our mayoral and city councilor candidates (especially at-large): Who of you are willing to pitch in to do this? There is help available from the federal government. President Biden wants to bring critical industries back to the United States. Why can’t Pittsfield get one of them?
A friend said we don’t have the necessary labor force. I say, if you build it, they will come. I will vote for those who will work to make this happen. Publish your plans for what you want to do here in The Berkshire Eagle and on social media. You will have my vote.
Barbara Roberts, Pittsfield
Yeah! And lets bring in an Olive Garden as well.
That’s all you need Dirty Barry to keep up your svelte physique, the endless breadsticks that OG offers with dinner.
Will you be stopping by City Hall on election night to chat with Michelle again?
You nasty.
As the illegal immigrants continue to pour into our country, the in-fighting among Democrats is increasing especially in New York where Hokul and Adams are going at it. Adams said New Yorkers shouldn’t be allowed to turn away the illegals from their communities and that is what they are doing because these far left Democrats are all for illegal immigration as long as it doesn’t upset their ritzy neighborhoods. The schools have been heavily pushing this Communist agenda and so many working in the schools own their own homes due to their high salaries from the government in exchange for their votes. The school personnel say one thing, but do another. They should be prime candidates for taking in illegals into their homes, not just one or two, but whole families because it’s racist to consider breaking up these families.
Pat continues to be cuckoo.
August 17th, 2023
Re: Does GE toady Clarence Fanto have a conscience?
Predictably, GE toady Clarence Fanto wrote and published an op-ed affirming GE’s proposed so-called cleanup of the polluted Housatonic River from Pittsfield to Great Barrington, Massachusetts. I wonder: Does GE toady Clarence Fanto have a conscience?
GE plans to dredge the polluted Housatonic River and place tons of GE’s industrial chemical waste called PCBs in a capped “leaky landfill” toxic waste dump in Lee, Massachusetts, which borders Lenoxdale, Massachusetts. The capped leaky landfill would be placed inside of a watershed in the Housatonic River, which is too close to the October Mountain aquifer. Capped landfills do not last long, and they must be monitored from day one to assess the level of pollution that may leak into the environment.
GE is a heavily indebted company that has made no financial commitment to funding the so-called cleanup project that is said to last 15 years once it begins after many years of litigation. GE spent over $500 million supposedly cleaning up parts of Pittsfield’s PCBs sites. GE said the cleanup costs – not adjusted for inflation – will cost GE $576 million, which is most likely a lowball financial number.
How anyone out there such as the banal scribe named Clarence Fanto could write an op-ed supporting GE’s unfunded and flawed cleanup project and putting a toxic waste capped landfill in Lee is beyond my comprehension, unless Clarence Fanto has no conscience!
Jonathan A. Melle
P.S. Ed Markey and PAC Man Richie Neal supports GE’s proposal, as well as Lenox State Representative Smitty Pignatelli, among many other corrupt career politicians and governmental bureaucrats.
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Clarence Fanto: “For the Rest of River PCB cleanup agreement, facts outweigh ‘alternative reality'”
By Clarence Fanto, op-ed, The Berkshire Eagle, August 17, 2023
LEE — The recent U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that green-lit the GE-Environmental Protection Agency Rest of River PCB cleanup plan from southeast Pittsfield to Great Barrington is likely to be the last word on the mediated settlement.
The July 25 decision found that the EPA did not “act arbitrarily or capriciously” when it issued the revised work permit that GE must follow, including “hybrid disposal” of PCB waste.
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Fatso is a Rutberger favorite
Biden’s son just had the charges dropped against him for not paying taxes on his millions for years. We know why now because all that money would have raised eyebrows at the IRS and old Joe and Hunter would have had their scheme investigated.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-tax-charges-dismissed-federal-judge-plea-deal-breakdown
Pat,
All of what we see and hear from Washington and beyond is corrupt as hell. And all of what we don’t see and hear is worse.
yeah I guess Weiss who is the special investigator is a Biden family friend. He and Beau were buddies, Nothing strange with that picture
August 18, 2023
I – Jon Melle – am a 48-year-old man who is a 100% totally and permanently service-connected disabled Veteran who cares about mental health care. This is what I read last week: The CDC reported that suicides reached an all-time high in the U.S.A. This is what I read this week: two age groups reached historically high levels of drug use, as well as binge drinking of alcohol. Marijuana and hallucinogen use and binge drinking reached historic highs among adults ages 35-50. The other age group are adults ages 19 to 30.
Our country is experiencing severe crises in mental health care. We need to start caring about each other again instead of only caring about the Almighty Dollar. The corrupt career politicians are failing us with their greed and power that has led to endless disservices towards the common people and taxpayers they are supposed represent in government. Please vote out all of the career politicians!
Jonathan A. Melle
Care about one another again? You start by tearing up your enemies list and apologize to them for your daily nasty writings and comments about them and others who have different opinions and views on issues than you do. Walk the talk!
Career Politicians only like people who donate big bucks to their campaign coffers. Greedy Lobbyists only like wealthy people who pay them big bucks – sometimes 7-figure salaries – to do their bidding in the Halls of Power in big government. It is called CASHING IN at the public trough, while the common people and taxpayers pound sand. But I do not live in Linda Tyer’s Gated Community neighborhood within a few feet of Hancock. I don’t earn a living as a PAC Man on K Street in the Swamp. I don’t fly on billionaire John Kerry’s private jet. I guess I could ask the career politicians and greedy lobbyists who I write and blog about if they would be my friend, but I don’t think it would work out well for me: The Have Not who is originally from Pittsfield (Mass.) who everyone knows and loves (except for Pittsfield’s Pot King) known as Jon Melle.
The illegal migrant crisis is extremely costly and will begin to eat away at so many areas of life in America especially for the poor and lower middle class. They are going to see their quality of life go downhill very quickly beginning with housing. There was a crisis in this country with housing before this invasion, but now many people will be living in the streets including Americans who have worked all their lives in this country. There is only so much money and housing to go around.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-democrats-fear-looming-political-disaster-migrant-crisis-ticking-time-bomb
This is an area I am in agreement with you Pat.
The migrant crisis shines a bright light on what is happening on our hemisphere.
These people largely are fleeing intolerable conditions. They will discover the corruption that they are fleeing has already beaten them here.
From the horse’s mouth:
“Interviewing Jose, a Colombian migrant staying at the newly built facility in Queens, NYC on Creedmoor Psychiatric Center grounds across the street from a school, capable of housing 1,000 people”
Elad Eliahu on X: “Interviewing Jose, a Colombian migrant staying at the newly built facility in Queens, NYC on Creedmoor Psychiatric Center grounds across the street from a school, capable of housing 1,000 people He tells me the conditions inside are very good, but not as good as when he was… https://t.co/vxgWoIrd4J” / X (twitter.com)
Well, I disagree with both of you. You need to have limits, but generally the influx of immigrants has benefits that I feel outweigh the costs. They want to come here as we and our ancestors did, and make a positive addition to the fabric of our society as we did.
The gentleman from Columbia in this video also says that we need limits. He says that he understands the protests against housing him in that neighborhood is based on ‘terrible actions by other immigrants.’
I am not judging the illegal immigrants. I wonder what made them come here, to a land of opportunity whose middle class has been destroyed by political machines that wants no competition and likes a people that fights amongst itself.
I suspect that you may be judging them though, from a positive stand point. The Federal Government has created a humanitarian catastrophe that will equally hurt natives and illegal.
The global elites are destroying nations in favor of a one-world government by invading countries with migrants, causing chaos and financial ruin. Food systems are also being destroyed, plandemics unleashed to hasten the destruction. Obama, Biden and Democrat Progressives, as well as Rinos, are full-in with this demonic plan.
More than likely getting paid off too by George Soros and family. These politicians are selling this country down the river and getting paid for it to create this worldwide global government disaster.
Absurd, Pat.
Look at the problems that Canada is beginning to have integrating the illegal migrants into their country. Trudeau is shocked that Muslims don’t want to learn about being trapped in their gender and blames American Republicans and not this globalist plan to put all these various cultures together and feed them far left craziness. Trudeau is also in tight with George Soros and paid off too.
Cuckoo.
Just heard an European country is shipping all immigrants to Uganda because they need people there. Funny thing happened it stopped the crisis. Can America learn from this?
Fred Rutberg once again has his hand out looking for donations to fund his “local journalism” which sucks by the way. He says his paper operates like a nonprofit, ha! Leftist rag like the majority of media in this country. If you donate, you are helping to support propaganda.
Where are all the massacred indiginous people buried here in Berkshire County? What’s the location?
They sure like him at city hall. Hear no evil see no evil.
His Left Winged Parrot is nauseating. That offal had sank to news jounalist lows, but Fredrick sank it farther down towards Liberal “Heaven”.
Look who is f***ing talking. Professional journalism is something you know zero about.
My shoe knows more than You
Sorry, the local rag is highly professional and does a fantastic job in JOURNALISM. It has some of what blogs lack, like excellent editing and wordsmanship, and does a good job of selecting and presenting stories.
As you call it the local rag is the most hateful misinformation creating piece of garbage. It is a looney left propaganda machine the tells no truth but the local sport scores because they can’t lie about that. If people were really concerned about censorship then the local rag would be shut down
I want to know how many minutes Jon Melle was in the military?
Funny
Marchetti on ips..I will do this or do that if elected. He fails to realize that he could have done this or that as the city council president but he DIDENT. He’s a broken record with a lot of scratches on it. Big talker but a very tiny actor. Place him on the rule 27 list. There will be many who would like to flush the t– let with him in it. Make Marchetti a rule 27 candidate permanently. He definetly will not be missed
Nor for that matter will krol be missed either. Vote Karen or a write in candidate. You couldn’t do worse than krol or Marchetti. Everyone make plans to Vote on election day.I mean EVERBODY.
….a lot more minutes than Joe “Asthma” Biden and Donald “Bone Spurs” Trump….
But Biden is tough. He beat the starch out of Corn Pop who was a bad dude.
Funny. He came up with an apocryphal story and took the first name that crossed his mind – Kellogg Corn Pops
Trator Joes mind been gone pre 2020
I’s concluding that he was shooed away from the public pool. Revised history going on there….
Joe’s mind is stronger than yours, and he knows how to spell!
He cannot even negòtiate stairs
Or words.
Councilors nixed the mosquito spraying but not a one talked about the potential disaster coming at hill 78 with pcb contamination. Bunch of buffoons
How about unvaccinated disease carrying criminal aliens? STDs, antibiotic resistant TB, malaria, typhus, diphtheria, cholera,……
They are coming to schools/American children this fall……
Kathy Amuso will fix any problems
Popeye in a dress.
Thanks, dude. But to be fair, the debate was about pesticides, and I did request a change to PCB detection methodology as repeating the same test ad nauseam appears to confirm the original conclusion.
There are 2 separate lawsuits suing GE over their use of PCBs.Allendale school is part of the suit.Allendale as I have stated so many times should be closed.Every member of the CC and School committee should plan right now to get it done.Marchetti and Krol both should come out now in favor of moving these children out of a chemical swamp.
I have heard stories about the Allendale Elementary School neighborhood and nearby areas of polluted postindustrial Pittsfield about children developing serious illnesses related to GE’s industrial chemical waste called PCBs pollution over the course of my a little over 48-year life. Pittsfield is GE’s dump! Pittsfield is an industrial chemical waste public health danger and disaster zone. My mom, who turns 77 this Fall 2023, has Stage 4 cancer for life. She was born, grew up and spent most of her life in Pittsfield. There are cancer cluster neighborhoods near the former GE plants in Pittsfield. The EPA, GE and the late Mayor Gerry Doyle sold out Pittsfield with the 2000 Consent Decree.
On top of all of this, Pittsfield charges taxpayers over $205.6 million fiscal year 2024 municipal budget in return for Level 5 public schools, the city always being in the top 10 cities by population in Massachusetts for violent crime, according to the FBI’s annual reports, the 25-year-old polluted PEDA debacle that has millions of dollars in always increasing unfunded liabilities.
Will PCBs keep mosquitoes away?
I use it on my Corn Flakes.
How many other lawsuits are currently running against the city of Pittsfield? And is this a record high mark? The mayor does not speak of such things as they can be quite embarrassing. Like so many other things, this administration likes to keep on the down low. Look for Pete to keep the razor wire security around city hall.
Thank the Democrats that bought us “the wonderful settlement”, of Judas money they have squandered, and a UNREMIDIATED FREE SUPERFUND SITE.
DOYLE, DEVILLARS and WELCH
I think you’d be better off if you blame the persons rather than the party.
The party was who pushed the individual forward getting them elected. They were also the ones that probably benefitted the most from the sleazy deal
SChool Committee is likely the prime driver for any school policy. They are likely not very concerned about the health of students and faculty at Allendale E. It is unfortunate. Removing children for 8 hours from their Allendale environment may, if exposure is present there (likely) save lives.
But if they all of a sudden one day admit there is/was a PCB problem at Allendale the floodgates would open and every past student for the last 20 years would join a class action lawsuit. So do not expect the city to do anything suggesting there is now or ever was a problem.
Can we just tear down and rebuild Waconah Park please and not talk about PCBs? Unless of course there are barrels of PCBs buried in the vicinity of Waconah park. Uh OH. Does King street drain towards Waconah Park? Nah. We already checked that.
Yes
Charles it is unconciable that these high paid stiffs at the school dept admin. would be mum about such a potential serious life or death situation that exists at the door steps at Allendale school. These weak school types can’t make a decision on important problems such as this leads us to conclude that they are incompetent to make any kind of decisions. What are we paying these high salaries for to the pps administration? Boy do we need to make some changes at the mercer school bldg. wow the incompetence is rampant over there
What a nice new tourist attraction in Pittsfield. Take a look to see what our City Administration allows. Just drive by the building on the corner of North Street and White Terrace. You will see usually 8 to 10 folks laying in the doorways, covered in their own pee and poop with others openly drinking alcohol, doing drugs. Many times there are a few of them curled up in the fetal position passed out, some slumped over in wheel chairs.
I do realize these folks are ill and need help. Yet I do have some questions. The Tyer Administration has given the owners of White Terrace money in the past. Where did this money go? Nothing has been done to repair this building. It has been dilapidated for years and the city allows it to be an unsafe building. What about the open container law, does that not exist anymore in Pittsfield? What about trespassing, no longer a law? What about openly going the bathroom in public, no longer a law? What about loitering, no longer a law? What about littering, no longer a law? Noticed on the Police Log that there seems to be a 6 a.m. “sweep” of North Street every morning, what about the rest of the day? I do realize that our police department is suffering the lack of police officers for almost 8 years now. Yet, after you pass this new tourist attraction and head down Wahconah Street you view a police cruiser parked way in the back of Wahconah Park’s flooded parking lot? Is the officer doing a detail watching over the flooded puddle? Why is this officer not patrolling the streets of Pittsfield? There is no oversight with the current Administration! Wonder what the 3 candidates for Mayor views are for the remedy for this sadly gross situation?
They already spoke on this.. Kalinowsky and Krol want more police on North Street and Marchetti does not.
Thanks for the feedback. Wasn’t going to vote for PeePeePetie anyway. He has been washed up for 8 years and basically useless in helping the taxpayers of Pittsfield.
Well said ! But we always have to have a distraction here in Palookaville to quiet the bigger problems we want swept under the rug. Our power game politicians demand it.
And to think the mayor on her first campaign ran on blight, law enforcement and other issues she was going to be heavily engaged with if elected. 8 years have gone by and those same issues still haven’t been addressed in a manner that is suffice to the citizens.
Her ASS GOT FATTER though.
There is no oversight. And Marchetti did his large part to keep it that way. If he was against oversight as city council president, even though that was his main job, do you really think he is the guy to run an open government as mayor?
I find it hilarious that one of his campaign cards says, “EXPERIENCE to run the city responsibly”. Really Pete? So why have you not done so while second in command?
Card also says, “LEADERSHIP to guide Pittsfield in a new direction.” Well this would suggest to me that he thinks it has been going in the WRONG direction. Why else would he want to change the direction? And why did he not do something about it when he knew it was going in the WRONG DIRECTION? This guy is as phony as a three dollar bill.
But if you think oversight of a 200 million dollar budget is not necessary, by all means support the guy. I am sure there are people in Pittsfield who do have the extra money to pay the high taxes and they don’t care. They also don’t care if the lower and middle income people have to scrape and claw and do without to pay their share either.
The Gavel Man is only wanting “saying“to change the direction now because the campaign winds are blowing in a change of direction is needed as the last 8 years that he was too happy to endorse are a flop with most citizens.If he wasn’t running for mayor he would be just fine with the direction he and the current mayor have put this city in. Don’t let Krol’s song and dance campaign think he is any different.
Cops used to use the property down by sewer plant that is now 4H, to have sex in the backseat.
Remember the “copsucker” and her beau who got caught?
Facts I read about Hunter Biden:
Hunter Biden wrote a book stating that he used to smoke crack cocaine every 15 minutes, drown himself in alcohol, frequent strip clubs, and paid sex workers for sex. Hunter Biden cheated on his first wife, had a love child with his mistress who used to work for his law firm that he claims he has no memory of knowing, tried to weasel out of paying child support for his mistress and their love child by lying to a Judge but a court-ordered paternity test proved he was the father of the baby girl, used his father’s name to enrich himself in adversarial foreign countries such as China and Russia, as well as in Ukraine, and he never registered as a foreign agent, he was and may face federal criminal charges for tax fraud and wire fraud, he faces federal criminal charges by lying on a form to purchase a gun by falsely stating he did not use drugs, he had a love affair with his late-brother’s widow, he married his second wife and they have a baby boy together that they named after his late-brother, he has at least 5 children by at least 3 women, he drives a Porsche, he flies in a private jet in privately chartered flights, he has a so-called sugar-brother-friend who paid off millions of dollars in delinquent tax debts, his alleged tax fraud and wire fraud overseas business dealings may or may not be connected to his father who is the sitting U.S. President Joe Biden, he had around two dozen shell companies that he shut down, he referred to his father as “the big guy” who gets a cut of the loot, he lives in the White House for weeks at a time, his father always says that he is proud of him, he, along with his father, never met their soon to be 5-year-old love daughter who lives in Arkansas, he stays in his father’s two million-dollar Delaware homes where Joe Biden allegedly illegally kept boxes of his classified documents prior to turning them over to the U.S. Government agencies, but he did not have access to Hillary Clinton’s infamous computer server that had classified documents in it, his first wife wrote a book about him stating that Hunter Biden left his first wife and three children without the financial means to care for their family because he was spending the family budget on being a drug addict, and alcoholic, on strippers, and on paying sex workers for sex, he was administratively discharged from the military over testing positive for cocaine use, Donald Trump called Hunter Biden “a crackhead”, a U.S. Senate report stated that Hunter Biden may have paid for sex from Russian sex workers who may have been sex trafficked when he was in Ukraine and Russia, it is expected that Hunter Biden will stand trial in federal court in either Washington, D.C. (the Swamp) or in California in the future, Republican Members of U.S. Congress are investigating Hunter Biden in committee hearings, and Hunter Biden’s actions may lead to the fall of his father, U.S. President Joe Biden’s over 50 years in the Swamp, including a possible impeachment of Joe Biden.
Jonathan A. Melle
But You voted for Traitor Joe John.
How many times have you told Smele he’s voted for Biden?……
Johnny is quite forgetful.
Trump and Hunter are similar .Ivanka and Jared have sum splainin to do
How are your gas and grocery bills under TRAITOR JOE, TSC?
‘gas and grocery bills’ have nothing to do with the behavior of Trump and Biden’s kids.
Or,traitor Joe traitor jon
Who cares about Hunter Biden.
10% to the big guy
The 2 billion to the big guy is $200,000 000.00
10% of billions laundered in ongoing corruption with Ukraine
Our own Community Developers prolly occupy Ukraine.
10% for the big guy
And you know if that idiot was getting 10%, Obama and Big Mike must have been getting 30-40% of the cut.
A 50% cut off the top seems about par for the course for the two of the most corrupt democRATS we have ever witnessed.
You have one of the most interesting minds I’ve ever seen.
Allendale school is built on a chemical swamp.Marchetti and Krol need to speak about the cell tower off Holmes Road and the chemical swamp on the Allendale grounds
They should speak about the nut case who lives on Williams Street.
Stooge?
This guy on TikTok speaking about GE/PCB.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8FFKWuN/
Allendale school should be closed immediately as it is unsafe to operate this school in our denial of the risk that this school poses.If we can get the teachers union to stand up for the kids and get the Mayor and candidates to photo op that building and stop denying that it is a Hazzard to the health of those who are mandated to occupy it by the Mayor and Pete Marchetti.Krol also was part of this mandate for kids to occupy this site.Marchetti where do you stand?Krol,where do you stand?….You have kicked this can down the road for over 18 years……Stop it now.Close Allendale school or deny it is an issue.Pickleball and bike lanes on North nobody uses are not important….Allendale school is your problem to solve.Rueberto allowed it to survive and here we are again.
Probably your best post. Ruberto.
Tsc your assessment of Marchetti and Kroll non commitment to children living on top of a pcb dump is spot on accurate. They ignored this situation this long falsely thinking no one is going to remember their shirking their duty of protecting our children attending that powder keg situation at Allendale school. These two have some nerve asking the same people whom they have shafted to vote them in for mayor of our fair city. Just for this reason alone — no one should vote for neither of these two miscreants. We have had our share of horrible mayor’s and it is time to halt this process of putting into office individuals who have no ability to understand simple scientific principles. We need to elect the most competent individuals to steer our future or we will continue to see the steep decline we have seen in the past 8 years under another brainless poorly educated buffoon Linda m tyer AKA secretary. This is the most important election in the past four decades. We can not afford to get it wrong. Vote competence.
Since I live in the neighborhood, I decided to take a walk down to the famous Allendale School playground last night. It was nothing but a gross ghost play ground. I understand with all the front page news about cancer and PCBS why no one was there. But then again, the grounds were a train wreck. Grass not mowed, large puddles under the unkept grounds by the play ground toys. Doors are covered with graffiti, some obscene, faded painted pictures on pavement.
Are all the Pittsfield school grounds this gross? Is this mess going to be cleared up before school starts in a couple of weeks? But the biggest question is where in the hell is the taxpayers money going??? The City streets are filled with brand new City vehicles, but what are they doing all day?
Also, why is there no comment from absent Mayors Linda and Barry about Allendale? As an unfortunate homeowner in this polluted neighborhood can’t help but wonder how this Pittsfield catastrophe that they neglect to address is going to affect the value of our homes. Why is this Administration not accepting any responsibility to even attempt to remedy this mess? But then again, look how the highly paid Mayor has ignored the cell tower issue. It must be nice to sit all day, collect a large paycheck and HIDE and keep allowing the taxpayers who pay her salary to get sick.
You haven’t known the conditions? I’m Surprised
Some one get some pictures fast and post here and on facebook. The school committee should really know about this even if they do not care.
They all are all Democrats, and could care less
There. Has also been a mound of PCV toxins quite a ways in length in back of the school. And it is your current politicians and pass politicians like Kathy Amuso who was OK with it They supposedly monitored air quality
I wish Merry was on the ballot. Hands down I would vote. The two current candidates will be worse than Tyer because the low turnout voter will validate them and give them both Carte Blanche. The third candidate is the only plausible answer. Now more than ever there should be term limits. That would force the winner into the best place going forward for all Taxpayers.
Krol or Marchetti….same shit different day.
Your choice.
Three candidates. Karen Kalinowsky.
3 versions of bad or worse, Karen has less proven trecherary.
She would conduct a forensic audit.
Amuso is the greatest spender of money in Pittsfields history.She begged Jake Eberwien to sign a lifetime contract to be Superintendent. She looked into his soul and started blushing .
Democrat
Monitored the air quality from 100 yards away.
Comments to this site are public opinion. If Marchetti had his way this site would be boarded up. He feels that an embedded puppet troupe will better serve his administration.
Vote Pete for “lock box” politics.
Lumpy Marchetti didn’t get many signs out this weekend. Zanconata paving has more lawn signs then Lumpy.
People aren’t too eager to host his signs
Maybe because he was not too eager to represent them after asking them for votes the last time. You can only crap on people so many times before they figure out who you really are.
One of his puppeteers came banging loud on my door. Scared the shit out of me. Thought there must be some kind of emergency in the neighborhood.
Winston Churchill said that Democracy means when there is a knock on your door, you are certain it is the mail.
[revised quote]
Maybe you are feeling the fraying of Democracy?
Zanconato.
I’d vote for Zanconato over Marchetti
I’d vote for Satan over any running. At least you’know what to expect
You are not even a registered voter in your own town. Stop talking about things you are clueless about. In other words, stop talking.
Lumpy should just take his balls and go bowling.
From watching his political performance in the past 8 years I don’t think he has any balls. Mama Linda took them away from him. He just has his gavel to play with now.
That is it in a nutshell!
I don’t think Linda took them. More like he gave them to her freely.
Well, start planning. No one is playing.
Was the graffiti correctly spelled? Maybe Curtis thinks it’ll help his level 5 school system.
August 20, 2023
In 2025, the new presidential administration and the new U.S. Congress in the Swamp are going to debate either renewing Trump’s single largest federal tax cut in 2017 bill that will expire on December 31st, 2025, or go with the Democratic Party’s proposal to let Trump’s tax cut bill policies expire and instead place the federal tax breaks in the hands of the no- to low- to moderate-income families in the form of expanded federal tax credits.
It’s not the people that worked hard to achieve financial success that is the problem, but the weak willed envious and greedy SOCIALISTS demanding they also gain and have wealth using government force through activists to strip people of their wealth.
It’s the far left activists and Socialists who are and will always be the PARTY OF GIVE ME what they have so I don’t have to work or work as hard and achieve on my own.Always demanding others work to supply them with food, shelter, clothing, money, and all living needs while they sit around and do nothing.
Biden sent it all to Ukraine, to be laundered
This is my Mayor.
Hunter & Joe should be tried for treason!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/epic-prosecute-hunter-biden-sign-seen-flying-joe/
And hung
Boston included on list……
https://thefederalist.com/2023/08/19/these-14-american-cities-have-a-target-of-banning-meat-dairy-and-private-vehicles-by-2030/
What a bunch of loons. They are not getting my vehicle. Guess I’ll end up in one of Leticia James camps in upstate New York for political prisoners. No ovens yet in the camps, but give them time.
I wonder if they’ll be gas ovens? Oops they’re banning gas ovens in NYS. So they’ll have to use electric ovens powered by solar panels. Executions on sunny days only!
If you believe this stuff you are crazy. Do you remember the good citizens of Boston, or any other city taking this vote? Do you recall and city council or mayor announcing that they were joining this pact on behalf of their citizens? Or is this a dark hidden conspiracy where all of a sudden one day they just announce this is the way its going to be and they are going to use the National Guard to carry out this devious plot?
I can see it now, the Guard marching into local butcher shops and killing the owners and burning all the meat.
Mayor Wu is trying to bar new commercial building from having NG hookup. Which means two things to me: City Council bet correctly on SolaBlocks. Two: there will be a building boom outside of Boston. (Only if she succeeds.) Fact is, talk, even idle, may be costly.
Votes? In a city?? That happens only every couple of years. Everything else is beyond the reach of any voter.
What does that have to do with banning meat and dairy?
Mayor Wu has dairy farms in Boston? She has taken the fight and made it hers.
Green Energy zealots are definitely agitating to mass slaughter of cows. They have documented themselves in New Zealand, Netherlands, and throughout the USA.
Two large men in hazmat suits came to my house last evening and appropriated my gas grill. Had a court order they said. Would not even let my grand kid grab his ka bob off of it. Asked me if any of my neighbors had one that I knew of. I directed them three houses down to the asshat that plays all the loud music.
But the whole experience left me feeling shamed that I had been contributing to ecological community detriment so I went inside and said three Our Fathers and threw in a Hail Mary for good measure. Feel a little better today… thank you for asking.
Thanks for redirecting the fuzz!! Made my end of the block a quieter place.
Biden admin. wants more lockdowns/masks this fall…..TSA & airlines have been notified……
https://thefederalist.com/2023/08/21/nih-is-due-for-an-overhaul-after-covid-exposed-lies-power-abuses-and-conflicts-of-interest/
I believe Xiden, Obama, Soros, and other elite-rats like them, know they cannot win 2024 without some type of war.
WWIII would more than likely destroy all of their “climate change” mansions near the ocean. They don’t want that.
Mask mandates and lockdowns will more than likely push people towards a civil war. They want this. The democRATS can impose martial law and ultimately seize our weapons.
I for one will not wear a mask, period. It’s the f***ing flu.
A virus does not mutate and continually get stronger, unless it’s altered by man (bioweapon). If it did, it would kill off its host and ultimately kill off itself.
My edit didn’t make the time cutoff, so here it goes:
You older white men better be really careful about letting the government seize private citizens weapons. I know Picklefield Public Scohol’s value race baiting, race hustling, and social media influencers, over actual learning and education. Try picking up an old history book. Blow off the dust, open it up, and begin reading about how past communist regimes treated the citizens they deemed “enemies.”
Despite what you see with your own eyes at the gas station, grocery store, North Street, and everywhere else, Joe Xiden has stated many times in the past, “white supremacy is America’s greatest threat.”
“picking up an old history book”
That is the best word on this thread. However, I would recommend the new ones. Dr. Fischer (Brandeis U), Kevin Phillips. fully cited great writing.
What would happen if all arguments, just for a week, would touch on no political subject post 1812? How many here would be able to even speak?
I would be interested to see the individuals who reject the suggestion of reading our history, just to see what such a person looks like.
All one really needs to know is that history repeats itself. It is like reruns of Seinfeld. But not as funny.
For instance, Pittsfield needs a new mayor. Recent history suggests another self serving special interest puppet bum will take office and continue the pillaging of the community. History repeating…and truly not funny. It sucks that some people sell themselves so cheaply. Do they just not like themselves?
The people who have power tend to want you to forget the better moments in our history. They only talk about some undefined future.
“GE will never come back!” “We must imagine ourselves a better future!!”
REVISION/EDITING IS DISABLED!
The people who have power tend to want you to forget the better moments in our history. They only talk about some undefined future.
“The Founding Fathers were slavers!” “GE will never come back!” “We must imagine ourselves a better future!!”
The proper response is to search for inspiration in the milestones from the past and remember that history proves that cold and timid men earn no dignity.”
Right now there are two different versions of what happened on Jan 6th. And ten years from now 50 million people will believe each version.
So, maybe history is what you want it to be. If you are an optimist you believe that George Washington never told a lie and if you are a pessimist, like me, you believe that he was a pathological liar and was chopping down cherry trees up and down the Potomac while his troops were bleeding out in the tree lines.
And until time machines are invented no one will really know the truth. History is all speculation and has a negative value as a teaching tool.
“you believe that he was a pathological liar and was chopping down cherry trees up and down the Potomac”
You vacilate with that writing.
I am neither optimist nor pessimist. I do regard those who knew our oppressors’ weight and they knew what they are about and they made the regular soldiers of the World’s most powerful army to 1) shudder and 2) break and run. They are an admirable people.
You can call George Washington a liar, because all men lie. But you cannot deny his permanent contribution to our history and who we are. The story of the Cherry Tree is for children who are not ready to comprehend the scale of the War of Independence.
George Washington looked down upon those same people who broke the King’s Men at North Bridge in Concord, 4.19.1775. He came from a different world, Virginian Old Dominion, British educated soldier. His opinion about the New England soldier changed with New England’s resolve during the Boston Seige. And he secured the thorough loyalty of the Army, which hitherto was a aggregate of discreet militia unaccustomed to central control.
Washington went where he took the Army, including the difficult months at Valley Forge. And, he crossed the Delaware River, frozen, at midnight on Christmas Eve to take Trenton and Princeton and made that perilous assault that only succeeded because the British command in Trenton got word of his impending assault but mistook an earlier renegade rebel patrol for the main event.
Washington’s personal survival thus hanged on yet another miracle: first hasty ramparts at Dorchestor Height, then Benedict Arnold’s Morgan Company, a Riflemans’ 250 yard head shot, then a mysterious fog upon the Manhattan harbor, and finally a misinterpreted warning on Christmas.
Yet, Congress was impatient. The Congress was content starving the Continental Army of food and clothing. They then called in Washington to explain himself. And his words “Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country”
Call him a liar, but he does not behave like one who makes one lie after another to keep his career going. Nor did those who wept at Newburgh with his remarks. He was present from the days subsequent to Breeds Hill to the final battles in the South. He was there from North to South – an immense battlefield to command. The testimony to his sacrifice is in the loyal service of his soldiers.
The battlefield was too big for the Imperial Brits, and almost too big for him, but what defeated the British was not the army, the land, but the Patriots, and that defeat was evident on an April morning.
As politician, skeptics still prowled. Having been persuaded to endure running for a second term as President, he endured further insults comparing him to King George. His Farewell Address* was a lesson to all of us and a real gift. His final retirement was neither long nor profitable.
*Farewell Address
FRIENDS AND FELLOW-CITIZENS:
The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not far distant, and the time actually arrived, when your thoughts must be employed designating the person, who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprize you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those out of whom a choice is to be made.
I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured that this resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country; and that in withdrawing the tender of service, which silence in my situation might imply, I am influenced by no diminution of zeal for your future interest, no deficiency of grateful respect for your past kindness, but am supported by a full conviction that the step is compatible with both.
The acceptance of, and continuance hitherto in, the office to which your suffrages have twice called me, have been a uniform sacrifice of inclination to the opinion of duty, and to a deference for what appeared to be your desire. I constantly hoped, that it would have been much earlier in my power, consistently with motives, which I was not at liberty to disregard, to return to that retirement, from which I had been reluctantly drawn. The strength of my inclination to do this, previous to the last election, had even led to the preparation of an address to declare it to you; but mature reflection on the then perplexed and critical posture of our affairs with foreign nations, and the unanimous advice of persons entitled to my confidence impelled me to abandon the idea.
I rejoice, that the state of your concerns, external as well as internal, no longer renders the pursuit of inclination incompatible with the sentiment of duty, or propriety; and am persuaded, whatever partiality may be retained for my services, that, in the present circumstances of our country, you will not disapprove my determination to retire.
The impressions, with which I first undertook the arduous trust, were explained on the proper occasion. In the discharge of this trust, I will only say, that I have, with good intentions, contributed towards the organization and administration of the government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable. Not unconscious, in the outset, of the inferiority of my qualifications, experience in my own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself; and every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied, that, if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
In looking forward to the moment, which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgment of that debt of gratitude, which I owe to my beloved country for the many honors it has conferred upon me; still more for the steadfast confidence with which it has supported me; and for the opportunities I have thence enjoyed of manifesting my inviolable attachment, by services faithful and persevering, though in usefulness unequal to my zeal. If benefits have resulted to our country from these services, let it always be remembered to your praise, and as an instructive example in our annals, that under circumstances in which the passions, agitated in every direction, were liable to mislead, amidst appearances sometimes dubious, vicissitudes of fortune often discouraging, in situations in which not unfrequently want of success has countenanced the spirit of criticism, the constancy of your support was the essential prop of the efforts, and a guarantee of the plans by which they were effected. Profoundly penetrated with this idea, I shall carry it with me to my grave, as a strong incitement to unceasing vows that Heaven may continue to you the choicest tokens of its beneficence; that your union and brotherly affection may be perpetual; that the free constitution, which is the work of your hands, may be sacredly maintained; that its administration in every department may be stamped with wisdom and virtue; than, in fine, the happiness of the people of these States, under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete, by so careful a preservation and so prudent a use of this blessing, as will acquire to them the glory of recommending it to the applause, the affection, and adoption of every nation, which is yet a stranger to it.
Here, perhaps I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation, and to recommend to your frequent review, some sentiments which are the result of much reflection, of no inconsiderable observation, and which appear to me all-important to the permanency of your felicity as a people. These will be offered to you with the more freedom, as you can only see in them the disinterested warnings of a parting friend, who can possibly have no personal motive to bias his counsel. Nor can I forget, as an encouragement to it, your indulgent reception of my sentiments on a former and not dissimilar occasion.
Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
The unity of Government, which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you. It is justly so; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very Liberty, which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee, that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion, that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
For this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest. Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of american, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles. You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together; the Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint counsels, and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings, and successes.
But these considerations, however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility, are greatly outweighed by those, which apply more immediately to your interest. Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the Union of the whole.’
The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal laws of a common government, finds, in the productions of the latter, great additional resources of maritime and commercial enterprise and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The South, in the same intercourse, benefiting by the agency of the North, sees its agriculture grow and its commerce expand. Turning partly into its own channels the seamen of the North, it finds its particular navigation invigorated; and, while it contributes, in different ways, to nourish and increase the general mass of the national navigation, it looks forward to the protection of a maritime strength, to which itself is unequally adapted. The East, in a like intercourse with the West, already finds, and in the progressive improvement of interior communications by land and water, will more and more find, a valuable vent for the commodities which it brings from abroad, or manufactures at home. The West derives from the East supplies requisite to its growth and comfort, and, what is perhaps of still greater consequence, it must of necessity owe the secure enjoyment of indispensable outlets for its own productions to the weight, influence, and the future maritime strength of the Atlantic side of the Union, directed by an indissoluble community of interest as one nation. Any other tenure by which the West can hold this essential advantage, whether derived from its own separate strength, or from an apostate and unnatural connexion with any foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious.
While, then, every part of our country thus feels an immediate and particular interest in Union, all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts greater strength, greater resource, proportionably greater security from external danger, a less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations; and, what is of inestimable value, they must derive from Union an exemption from those broils and wars between themselves, which so frequently afflict neighbouring countries not tied together by the same governments, which their own rivalships alone would be sufficient to produce, but which opposite foreign alliances, attachments, and intrigues would stimulate and embitter. Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty. In this sense it is, that your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.
These considerations speak a persuasive language to every reflecting and virtuous mind, and exhibit the continuance of the union as a primary object of Patriotic desire. Is there a doubt, whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere? Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. We are authorized to hope, that a proper organization of the whole, with the auxiliary agency of governments for the respective subdivisions, will afford a happy issue to the experiment. It is well worth a fair and full experiment. With such powerful and obvious motives to Union, affecting all parts of our country, while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those, who in any quarter may endeavour to weaken its bands.
In contemplating the causes, which may disturb our Union, it occurs as matter of serious concern, that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by Geographical discriminations, Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavour to excite a belief, that there is a real difference of local interests and views. One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart-burnings, which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those, who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection. The inhabitants of our western country have lately had a useful lesson on this head; they have seen, in the negotiation by the Executive, and in the unanimous ratification by the Senate, of the treaty with Spain, and in the universal satisfaction at that event, throughout the United States, a decisive proof how unfounded were the suspicions propagated among them of a policy in the General Government and in the Atlantic States unfriendly to their interests in regard to the mississippi; they have been witnesses to the formation of two treaties, that with Great Britain, and that with Spain, which secure to them every thing they could desire, in respect to our foreign relations, towards confirming their prosperity. Will it not be their wisdom to rely for the preservation of these advantages on the union by which they were procured? Will they not henceforth be deaf to those advisers, if such there are, who would sever them from their brethren, and connect them with aliens?
To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a Government for the whole is indispensable. No alliances, however strict, between the parts can be an adequate substitute; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions, which all alliances in all times have experienced. Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay, by the adoption of a Constitution of Government better calculated than your former for an intimate Union, and for the efficacious management of your common concerns. This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true Liberty. The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.
All obstructions to the execution of the Laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels, and modified by mutual interests.
However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government; destroying afterwards the very engines, which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the constitution, alterations, which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments, as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard, by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country; that facility in changes, upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion, exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion; and remember, especially, that, for the efficient management of our common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty is indispensable. Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.
I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.
This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.
Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind, (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight,) the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
There is an opinion, that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the Government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of Liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in Governments of a Monarchical cast, Patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And, there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.
It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution, in those intrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the Guardian of the Public Weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern; some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way, which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for, though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which the use can at any time yield.
Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens. The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric ?
Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is, to use it as sparingly as possible; avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear. The execution of these maxims belongs to your representatives, but it is necessary that public opinion should cooperate. To facilitate to them the performance of their duty, it is essential that you should practically bear in mind, that towards the payment of debts there must be Revenue; that to have Revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised, which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant; that the intrinsic embarrassment, inseparable from the selection of the proper objects (which is always a choice of difficulties), ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of the government in making it, and for a spirit of acquiescence in the measures for obtaining revenue, which the public exigencies may at any time dictate.
Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and Morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be, that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great Nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt, that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages, which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its Virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices ?
In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable, when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The Nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the Government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
So likewise, a passionate attachment of one Nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite Nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite Nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the Nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained; and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.
As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent Patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practise the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the Public Councils! Such an attachment of a small or weak, towards a great and powerful nation, dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter.
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove, that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government. But that jealousy, to be useful, must be impartial; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defence against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation, and excessive dislike of another, cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots, who may resist the intrigues of the favorite, are liable to become suspected and odious; while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connexion as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.
Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality, we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.
Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?
It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them.
Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.
Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing, with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights of our merchants, and to enable the government to support them, conventional rules of intercourse, the best that present circumstances and mutual opinion will permit, but temporary, and liable to be from time to time abandoned or varied, as experience and circumstances shall dictate; constantly keeping in view, that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that, by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion, which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course, which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. But, if I may even flatter myself, that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good; that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.
How far in the discharge of my official duties, I have been guided by the principles which have been delineated, the public records and other evidences of my conduct must witness to you and to the world. To myself, the assurance of my own conscience is, that I have at least believed myself to be guided by them.
In relation to the still subsisting war in Europe, my Proclamation of the 22d of April 1793, is the index to my Plan. Sanctioned by your approving voice, and by that of your Representatives in both Houses of Congress, the spirit of that measure has continually governed me, uninfluenced by any attempts to deter or divert me from it.
After deliberate examination, with the aid of the best lights I could obtain, I was well satisfied that our country, under all the circumstances of the case, had a right to take, and was bound in duty and interest to take, a neutral position. Having taken it, I determined, as far as should depend upon me, to maintain it, with moderation, perseverance, and firmness.
The considerations, which respect the right to hold this conduct, it is not necessary on this occasion to detail. I will only observe, that, according to my understanding of the matter, that right, so far from being denied by any of the Belligerent Powers, has been virtually admitted by all.
The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of peace and amity towards other nations.
The inducements of interest for observing that conduct will best be referred to your own reflections and experience. With me, a predominant motive has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress without interruption to that degree of strength and consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes.
Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope, that my Country will never cease to view them with indulgence; and that, after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest.
Relying on its kindness in this as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it, which is so natural to a man, who views it in the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations; I anticipate with pleasing expectation that retreat, in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow-citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.
-George Washington
TMI.
I have a response in float. But if we cannot agree on basic aspects of our heritage, namely that we have one even, then there is no point even discussing PCB’s in Allendale, 2020, or who should be the next Mayor.
I believed that pseudonyms were wanted to protect from employers, political forces, etc… I think, now, that they are to protect you all from each other.
“The name of american, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles. You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together; the Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint counsels, and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings, and successes.”
President George Washington. Newburgh Address.
When those words land on deaf ears, what’s the point of arguing?
There is only one version of what happened. This is a fundamental truth of history. “Other version” never happened.
Speaking of a better future…seem to recall Wayfair was gonna hit town and rejuvenate the economy. Outside of the folk collecting the rent is anyone else still working there?
Did the taxpayers get the shaft again on another TIFF? how long will they continue to get the TIFF while missing almost every goal in the agreement like most of the others?
Update me if I am uninformed as to any success. Real, not imagined please.
Why care? As you say, nothing changes.
These words by Markus and Pat etc. is the most foolish collection of verbiage I have seen in some time. Your paranoia has you believing that democrats are evil and that they want to implement ridiculous measures.
This when Donald Trump wants to destroy our democracy and rule of law.
What is it with you people? Are you so jealous and angry that you want to subvert the foundations of our democracy?
I’m a 80’s kid. “Question Authority”
I certainly question the authority of jack-booted tactical thugs and prosecutors. I questioned them in the ’80’s, and continue to question them. Green New Deal measures are ridiculous, and they are real. Best example is the idea of banning conventional water heaters and making us eskimos use hybrids that do not work well in the frigid north. Green energy in fact is Blood Energy based on the supply chain fed by Chinese and Russian murder and theft of Africans, their resources, and their wildlife (that I suspect you, like me, are sensitive too.)
“The trouble with all conspiracies is that half of them are real.” Those are words that are now almost 100 years old.
K-is a former college Prof, Sir Chaz. In other words, he’s not used to challenging authority. He never had to. He worked in a nice, ivory tower, pontificating to his students, of the horrible things Republicans do to oppressed people.
From the tones of his posts on here, he seems like one of those rigid a***ole Prof’s most avoided, unless it was a required class needed for your degree.
When I asked him what he did to help the cause for “oppressed people,” that wasn’t college funded, he had no answer, because he’s done NOTHING to help them.
The Prof is a typical, older, white, liberal. He talks a huge game, but when you ask him for receipts of all his talk, the Prof comes empty.
Typical hypocrite.
Markus, your fantasies are rivaling trapper’s.
But yet your verbiage of “white power literature in the suburbs” that I’ve asked you to produce with links and you NEVER have, is not a “foolish collection” of horsesh!t, huh Prof?
As long as the PhD sits on your wall, you know better than the rest of us.
Donald Trump is not trying to “destroy our democracy.” He’s trying to stop your (D’s) bureaucracy.
Care to comment on Obama and Xiden ILLEGALLY spying on an incoming President and American citizens? Or does that too, “destroy our democracy?”
Markus, what a poor memory you have. I keep addressing it, and you keep forgetting.
True. All of those horrible politicians you mentioned want even more power and money and will stop at nothing to get it. I don’t think a world war is off the table for these people especially if they are cornered.
Well if there is a war I sure hope the Trumps can get deferments. Like Donald says, soldiering is for suckers. And those Trumps are much too valuable to risk losing. He has golf course to run and rallies to sell merch at.
By the way, no thumbs down will be accepted for this comment. Don’t even try it.
You are aware Obama and Xiden ILLEGALLY spied on an incoming US President and US citizens, correct?
Why are you posting and not in the Army or Marine recruiters office looking to sign up and join the war in Ukraine?
Ukraine needs soldiers and billions of more US tax dollars.
The US president, thank God, was being observed by elements of our government who knew he was up to no damn good.
We know where your thumb is
General Millie and the rainbow reject military
Good words, snark. Thank you.
Pat you are describing Donald Trump.
Krol can barely hold a job. He championed Wrong Way and has never been willing to admit what a giant mistake it was. His character as a serial cheater has been widely questioned. Why would anyone employ much less put up a sign or vote for this guy?
Marchetti was was holding Harrington’s sign in various locations on Election Day , so cut the shit. Lumpy and Linduh were big Harrington supporters.
Lumpy Matchetti = 4 more years of Tyer
A Krol yard sign signifies an ignorant voter. Krol was a big supporter of both Tyer and Harrington, not to mention unvetted Syrian refugees! I completely agree with Al’s comments.
Republicans are threatening to kill Democrats
Buffoon, have another drink and toke.
Well, that is what Putin is programming them to do. He has their heads spinning. He is almost ready to give them the command to tear up the country so that he does not have to. He is a mastermind of mind-control having tapped into the Scientology method which is so successful that they can turn children against their parents within a few days. Scary stuff.
Ukraine is losing the war badly.
Stop the Biden/Democrat/RINO money laundering.
Secure Americas borders, not a puppet state.
Poke the bear some more, and Europe/NATO/America will have a war it cannot handle.
Sorry, Trap, you’ve got it all backwards. Thank God you lunatics are in the minority.
Another member of the alcohol of fame
How much money have you sent to the Donald Trump sucker fund? He has bilked million of dollars from his followers by preying on their pliable minds. He has already paid 40 million dollars in lawyer fees but not out of his own pocket but rather people like you.
And what has he given you back??? Please list what he has actually done for you and list it right here now. Make sure everything can be verified by authentic sources and not the right wing wacko channels that have your eyes glazed over every night.
HUH?? Having a little trouble coming up with anything? I thought so.
Exactly, snark.
Fake news from Hilary
Leftists have done that to POTUS Trump since 2016.
Where is their DC Gitmo, and SWAT raids, on 75 year old men?
This is true – they are threatening to kill judges if Trump doesn’t win or gets convicted.
The guy who showed up with weapons at kavanaugh’s house doesn’t count
A 75 year old crippled guy makes stupid , probably drinking social media threats and feds show up at his house and kill him. Sad.
Kind of like what Ashley Babbit did. Just got herself involved in a violent insurrection and had no idea someone might try to defend themself.
Here is some advice. If you threaten someone else’s life do not be surprised if they defend themself. It has happened before and if a person get ballsy it might happen again. It is kind of like not walking in front of a train or into oncoming traffic. It could turn out badly. Think twice.
Through abortion democrats are self eliminating
Traveled Ward 4 today counting signs. Krol has 47 with 35 on Holmes, Williams, or East New Lenox. Marchetti has 121 mostly in neighborhoods!
And yet, despite that powerful, yet desperate, campaign methodology I will be voting for Karen Kalinowsky so that I have not wasted my vote and humiliated myself in the process.
I cannot handle any more of the Puppets R Us crew whose agenda seems to be everything except looking out for the taxpayers.
Are you Krol’s wife or campaign manager?
No and if I was I wouldn’t be happy with these numbers!
Well Lenny it’s someone who is really angry at John Krol. Can’t imagine who that might be.
Probably one of his former bosses.
North End of Boston has a billboard “I Hate Boston”!! Well I think Pittsfield needs one that has the middle finger with the letters WTF!! Then maybe a snicker ha,ha,ha with the initials LT. As I drive through the city and listen to the meetings that’s all I can say, who elected these people or put these people on boards??? Only someone with diabolical intentions because they have destroyed a once proud and great city! Now it’s a wasteland filled with derelicts! I hope the voters wake up and vote for better people, get involved and work at restoring the city by getting rid of all the stupid programs that are now in place. If not then follow my lead because I will be walking and not looking back!
How about enterting HELL.?
Geez where to start? stupid decisions have plagued This city for years.
Just the optics alone will take years to right the ship. If you look at the current boat of misfits running for Mayor that should tell you everything you need to know.
The goofy do-nothing Senators and state reps have done NADA!!! for this area ZERO. i don’t blame it all on the Mayor there is enough ineptness.to go around.
Zombie land needs critical thinkers and planners. Not just who is a family member or friend they can put in a cushy job. People that actually care about the city.
JD current boat of misfits running for mayor does tell us all we need to know. Marchetti or krol will be worse than the secretary. This is factual. Krol a part time worker and a bank teller is all we can expect to run our city?There is nothing in the resumes that would entice an intelligent savy voter to vote for such weak candidates. To boot they have no shame in asking voters to vote for them even though they are confirmed failures. What can we do to head off this coming disaster. Well it is a very serious problem that may have to be remediated by return to an old way of voting. This way, of course is to run someone as a write in candidate. You may think that this can’t work but look at the alternatives. Two bumbling nincompoops who have shown us that they shouldn’t even be running for dog catcher. Let’s look at how this scene will play out. The gobsigs will be out in force to vote for one or the other buffoons. the votes will be close but the Berkshire eagle will win the day with their misinformed marchetti endorsement. The secretary will endorse Marchetti and walla the bank teller will rise to the mayorship this is what is going to happen . The gobsigs will be happy and the people who voted them in will celebrate the coronation. The belly of the beast will rejoice and skyrocketing taxes and W/S rates will rise thru the stratosphere
Soon people will be leaving pittsfield never to return and the only people left here will be the rich ND those thT work for them. Another Lenox will be born.the this is what is comming. Think about who we could run as a write in candidate. don’t wait too long. The wolves are circling the farm. Soon even they will have to move on. Let’s try to save our city. God help pittsfield
So your choice is Karen? Just curious. And could you explain her qualifications to
Manage a budget of this size ? Or are you endorsing no one and you would like no mayor. Or write in candidate who we both know can’t win.
You voted in a secretary to manage the city’s budget.
Kalinowsky is way smarter than Mrs. Clairmont.
Shoe in actually
I am definitely open to voting for Karen, I would like to hear an answer from Mr Gaetani about who he thinks should be mayor. And… how do you know who I voted for? or is “you” just based on your expert mastery of mind reading?
“You” refers generally to the Pittsfield voters.
Don’t know if tyer had any qualifications but even with a big banker Council president and cpa husband she managed to deliver a crippling gut punch to the taxpayers again and again over 8 years. So, so much for experience managing budgets.
What the city needs is someone with a level head that is not umbilically attached to special interests that will respond to the needs of its citizens as the job was intended.
Craig, focus on your Ward 6 race. What are you doing to drum up support? You need to beat Dingbat Dina.
A write-in candidate has NO chance of winning the mayor’s race.
Karen is not a write in.
Duh
For all you “climate change” fools, besides the great beach front property I have for sale in Hinsdale, you better realize YOU are the carbon they want to eliminate.
Killing off our food sources (farmland/cattle, etc), under the guise of “climate change,” is actually starving the serfs.
The WEF wants the world population to 500,000 by 2030. They have stated this in many video’s currently circulating on non-government sponsored media (ABC, CBS, NBC). How do you think they plan to depopulate the planet?
The Ayatollah John Kerry is so concerned about “climate change,” he flies everywhere in a private jet. Do you?
THEY WANT TO ELIMINATE 7,000,000,000 PEOPLE IN SIX YEARS? GET REAL.
Dirty Barry, when you’re not in City Hall on election night “speaking” to Michelle or patrolling the parking lot of Cumby’s on a cold, snowy, Sunday night, please reread my third paragraph and then do an internet search.
I guess you’re too busy reading over the legal briefs of your foolish lawsuit.
I can’t wait to see you, the aggrieved, on the witness stand, answering why an email, phone call, another person, text message, couldn’t accomplish what you needed a trip to CH do.
People in Maui Hawaii received $700. Ukraine received billions. Are you better off in Maui Hawaii or in Ukraine when it comes to Biden Buck$?
I’m not saying Marchetti wasn’t dumb to hold a sign for Harrington. But be serious you can’t equate the two on this issue. On the one hand we have Marchetti, employed at the Pittsfield Cooperative Bank for 35 years as Senior Vice President of Retail Banking. On the other we have Krol the guy who showed Harrington how to get elected. He wrote editorials, promoted her on social media introduced her at campaign events etc as the next big thing for law enforcement. Fast forward and we have the fallout from Harrington’s pro-criminal anti-victim policies: Retailers across the Berkshires are still picking up the pieces from shoplifting. Brazen acts of organized theft from out of state criminals. Store workers couldn’t do anything to these people who just screamed “You can’t touch me” and waltzed out with a cart full of meat. To this day you can’t even buy top cuts in the grocery anymore without asking someone to go get it. Andrea Harrington and her pro criminal policies trashed law and order in Berkshire County for four long years. Krol was Harrington’s clueless party leader. Prove me wrong.
My first choice is a Kalinowsky, then Krol. Marchetti has been on the city council for 16 years. He has done nothing for the city. Kal v Krol.
My first choice is Kalinowsky. My second choice is STAY HOME!
Good choice
I wouldn’t spend the day holding someone’s sign if I wasn’t really a very solid supporter. Notice that they both bailed out the second time around. So much for loyalty.
Staying in the same company for 35 years isn’t the selling point you seem to think it is. Are you really expecting change from a guy like that?
At the very least it shows a guy who works hard and can hold a job. He understands finance.
Krol is unemployed with a sketchy resume. While on the council he showed a lack of financial knowledge. All talk no action.
Both are progressive Democrats.
I am willing to vote for Karen who has experience in the Police Dept. and city schools. She has questioned dept. budgets. She works on behalf of the taxpayer. She has my vote!
All 3 are atrocious.
Spot on Al!
Clown shoes Shagrue has been awful so far.. That’s when he is in the office,. 4-13 superior court record, Bums on every street corner, drug addicts everywhere where is the help that was supposed come? I am in the court often and the talk is he is a total joke all talk. Just like the rest of the dips that have been running this city into the ground. Psst shoplifting is worse than ever bud.
The data through the years hmmm
Crime in Pittsfield, Massachusetts (MA): murders, rapes, robberies, assaults, burglaries, thefts, auto thefts, arson, law enforcement employees, police officers, crime map (city-data.com)
Shop lifting needs to be elevated to a felony. It has become much more than just lost merchandise.
This destructive situation was created by Andrea Harrington and the progressives.
Hello Mayor Linda Tyer,
I read and watched a news story about the City of Manchester, New Hampshire, partnering with the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH) to find solutions to the community’s homelessness crisis. I lived in inner-city Manchester, NH, for 4 years of my adult life from early-2005 to early-2009. When I lived in Manchester, NH, I was at risk of homelessness. In early-2009, I took out a 15-year VA backed mortgage for my condo unit in Amherst, NH, and I only have three more monthly mortgage payments left. After my November 1st, 2023, mortgage payment, I will live rent free and mortgage free for the first time in my adult life of a little over 48 years. Thank goodness. I told my dad, Bob, that if my young women nieces were ever at risk of being homeless, I would sell them my condo unit for $1 because I do not want their adult lives to turn into a nightmare. I would go back to being a renter, but I would look into living in a 55-year-old plus condo unit 7 or more years from now. I support your mayoral leadership in my native hometown of Pittsfield (Massachusetts) because you care about the poor people, and you invest in people. I also support your commitment to Human Rights and that you have a compassionate side to you. If I ever read about a leader who matched my vision in government, it is you, Linda Tyer. I have been a Linda Tyer supporter for 20 years now back when I lived in Pittsfield two decades ago.
Manchester announces partnership to help address homelessness (wmur.com)
https://www.wmur.com/article/manchester-homelessness-partnership-naeh/44882139
Best regards,
Jonathan A. Melle
Hello, Mayor Linda Tyer here.
I’m kinda busy right now in my gated mansion. Hope you like our new mural to distract from the hobos wandering near it.
GFY,
Linda
What size are those clown shoes you are wearing?
She creates poor people and lumpy Matchetti will continue the tradition
.India is attempting to land a spaceship on the moon today. Seriously. Hopefully, they are not using the same engineers as the bridge builders.
New Delhi CNN —
More than a dozen workers have been killed after a bridge under construction collapsed in northeast India Wednesday, the latest in a string of infrastructure failures that have resulted in multiple deaths in the country.
The collapse of the bridge in the town of Sairang, Mizoram state, killed at least 17 people and injured several others, according to its chief minister, Zoramthanga, who goes by one name.
Video and photos posted by Zoramthanga to Twitter, now known as X, show the broken structure laying on the ground, with a thick plume of dust and smoke billowing in the air.