DON’T TELL ANYBODY, BUT …
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY OCT. 9, 2024) — Don’t tell anybody, but …
- Ski-Daddle–THE PLANET hears that this winter, the city of Bitchfield plans to open skis resorts at several spots along Nothing on North. This brilliant plan will make use of the mountains of snow that the city leaves along the downtown commercial quarter to discourage shopping. Along with enhanced marketing of the city’s main downtown attraction, The Dumpster Behind Paul Rich, it is hoped the fabulous skiing will bring gads of tourists to the deserted streets.
- Bowl You Over–Not to be outdone,The Two Petes and Ricky Rumpus will extend the downtown campaign into summer, where the unused bike lanes will become bowling alleys. As pins, the alleys will employ senior citizens who have been warehoused in nursing homes. Pinsetters will be non-warehoused elderly, who will be paid 10 cents a string as a supplement to their precarious financial states.
- Censored–It is a violation of free speech for Peter Marchetti to yell “Bitch!” in a crowded office.
- Lawn Rangers–Democrat presidential nominee Kamal Harris returns to the Colonial Theater on Nov. 6 for the premier of “I Come From a Place Where People Are Proud of Their Lawns,” the new comedy smash written by Barry Soetero. The plot concerns the misadventures of a fictitious presidential ticket known for their inabilities on the stump, especially thinking on their feet.
- Sweet Jane–The Bitchfield School Committee, led by committee member and former mayor Miss Jane Hathaway, will blah blah blah. Blah blah blah, blahblahblah blah blahblahblah, blah blah blah. Blah blah blahblahblah blah blah. Blah blahblah. Blahblah blah blahblahblah, blahblah blah blah. It was Miss Jane’s finest moment since she brought Moxie with her in a surprise visit to “The Dan Valenti Show” at the WBRK studios. The visit came shortly before Jimmy Ruberto cleaned her undercarriage.
- Clockwork Orange–THE PLANET and entourage thoroughly enjoyed the Syracuse Orange footballers defeat No. 25 UNLV in Vegas Friday in the desert. The OT win was the second time the revived team has knocked off a ranked opponent. New coach Fran Brown has his lads putting out.
- Articulation–We did cringe, however, when Emily Leiker of our former home the Syracuse Post-Standard, asked Brown at his post-game availability if he considered going for the win in regulation with a two-point conversion. Brown answered in semi-Ebonic: “Coach [Jeff] Nixon wanted to go for it … I ain’t have the heart.” Following which, THE PLANET presented Coach Brown with a copy of our new book, Taming the Terror of Talk: Becoming a Confident Speaker. Did the coach pay for it? We ain’t saying. What’s done in Vegas stays in Vegas.
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- Prop Job–Coach Brown proved that there’s another way to beat Vegas beside the one laid out by the late, great Steve Allen. Steverino said “The only way to beat Vegas is when you get off the plane, walk into the propellers.”
- Council Doubled Up–Bad News for Bitchfield. Things went from bad to TWICE as worse in September. The city council (you remember them?) resumed meeting two times a month instead of the summer’s one. Our Right Honorable Good Friends, led by Voltron the Gourmet, no doubt will take full advantage of the time, following Administration policies designed to screw taxpayers and coddle the special interests. If THE PLANET had to symbolize this council, they would appear as a breadcrumb. Figure it out.
- Speaking of Openly Gay–Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre (hyphenated, of course) has failed upward with her newest appointment. She is now senior adviser to the MIA president. The self-described “openly queer” Jean-Pierre is one of Harris-Biden’s DEI (Didn’t Earn It) poster girls, a Trifecta of checking the right boxes–black, female, and lesbian–America’s new guarantee of success!
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LOVE TO ALL.
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Reading your blog, the hate rag, NYT, Boston Herald and watching MSNBC, CNN, ABC makes me think either people didn’t pay attention in school and possibly failed or they didn’t take world and american history. The one thing that makes america great is freedom to pursue your life and goals without the constraints of an overbearing government.
I also wonder how anyone who is behind abortion can call themselves christian. When someone can just discard a new formed life and call it “choice” what is to stop them from killing grandma, grandpa or any sickly person and call it choice of society?
Unfortunately these are things I ponder in our current society. Especially when the government supports the destruction of cities and police stations, when laws aren’t followed as the police just turn a blind eye or how the government continues to take our hard earned money and give it to other countries and illegal invaders instead of our own.
As my moniker states I must surely be nuts to stay in such a pathetic society which is heading straight into marxism which has proven in history to be an unsustainable form of government
“The one thing that makes america great is freedom to pursue your life and goals without the constraints of an overbearing government.”
Yes, and a government that does not allow a citizen to control her own body is overbearing and constraining.
Did YOU support forced injections, of unknown substances 2020-present?
Wha…wha…?
You know, THE JAB!!!
The thing that was “safe and effective” AND stopped infection AND transmission, well not really kept you from getting sick but you could still infect people, well not really you still got sick but kept you from going to the hospital, well not really might need the hospital but you won’t die, well not really you still might die………..and it’s not really safe either!!!
P.S. it is My body and I’m glad I was never one of the experimental pin cushions that made Big Pharma rich.
Exactly. We all had that choice.
Unless they would kick you out of school, fire you from your job, not give you medical treatment, ………
Why was that for no GOOD REASON?
Yes, it’s about choice. Got ya.
Hey lady – if you can’t control your own body, that’s your problem. If you’re talking about abortion, the individual states have power to legislate that industry.
Right, that way it’s a local overbearing and constraining government.
How is that? Lady if you end up pregnant despite birth control being widely available – how is that the government’s problem to solve just because you don’t want to be a mom? That’s your problem lady. Put the kid up for adoption. Infanticide is not the solution by any means. Tell me where it says in the Constitution that you are entitled to kill your child?
It’s not the govt’s problem to solve – it’s the woman’s.
Ahhhh the good old choice debate. My opinion is the cognitive choice on treating your body well is before you chooses to have sex. Once you have intercourse with a partner that partner becomes part of the equation. Did you know there is new research out that when a male ejects sperm into the woman that part of his DNA incorporates itself into the womans dna for life. If a woman wants to take the chance of the natural consequence to having sex than she should accept that consequence. Now there are options for the woman who enjoys intercourse. She can take the pill, get an injection, have an IUD, make her male partner wear a condom or take a morning after pill before a life form has started. She could aldo fllow the computer apps showing her ovulation monthly progress to see when she wouldn’t get pregnant, seems like alot of choices besides abortion.
What I would like to ask where is my ability to choose not to pay for this deviant behavior? I don’t think I should pay, I feel it should be considered an elective surgery like a nose/boob job.
Talking of people being free to choose why is the government getting involved in my choice to carry weapons to keep myself safe from intruders? Or to not pay for illegals or foreign countries?
So ShirleyKnutz, you’re into legislating women’s behavior both at the onset and at the result. That’s two types of control you want government to assert over women.
Doesn’t sound like pro-freedom to me.
Simple solution is don’t have sex until you want to have children.
Where did I read about that? It was some ancient text they won’t allow in schools anymore…….
That would be YOUR choice. Neither you, nor govt, shall impose your choice on someone else.
MT’s point stands though. No gov infringes on a women’s right to play with sex. What happens as a result may not be up to her. At some point, all reasonable people with a moral sense agree strongly that abortion is murder. Maybe not in first weeks, but unanimously in final months.
You are arguing the far distant pole where the opposite mandates abortion. Both poles join on the assumption that there do not exist morals that universally dictate behavior. That is – moral relativism espouses and defends evil.
The State regulates much of what you can do to your body. You can’t kill it, you cannot even contaminate it with controlled substances that are taken from illegal trade, nor can you let so much as a drop of internal fluids drip on a sidewalk. You cannot seek medical treatments that are not approved by CMS. You certainly cannot park your person on a Homeland Security location such as a train track.As others point out, there are things that the state forces you to do to your body in medical treatments, clothing, There might few things as regulated as a person.
This idea of ‘woman’s right to control her body’ is a fanciful expansion of what is considered reasonable behavior. It is also a bad metaphor in that it compares a person to a inanimate extension of their mind.
What all my points bear upon is that having a child, which is an act that begins with conception, is a responsibility that you may not simply reject freeand clear of law and regulation. The further one moves down the pregnancy timeline, the greater should be the regulation that exists to protect the common morality of this society.
Preganancy is not a medical malady. It is a choice. A woman generally chooses to get pregnant. Except for rape.
Many abortions are imposed by men who would choose to control a woman’s body and her infant.
Lady you sound crazy.
Freedom to pursue happiness is infringed by the laws moral law. The ” blessings of Liberty pertain to the collective ‘ourselves’ not to him or her. Liberty therefore must be compatible with the general welfare of the nation and a better union. Violation of moral law tends to harm both. Progressive DAS letting murderes walk is a stark example if the social cost of immoral liberty and its de tr iment to justice.
Totally agree. It was a violation to force and mandate that untested, unverified covid shot, especially as cheap, safe treatment that had evidence of efficacy were banned.
Why do you folks think that was a forced choice? No one forced me or my family to get a shot.
How naive. Just think back on what happened to people who “chose” not to get a shot. The government canceled them.
There is a reason that our society doesn’t have measles, rubella, polio and tetanus. It’s called national health policy and occurs to the great benefit of us all. Those groups who choose not to vaccinate often get those illnesses, as is their choice. The govt would be irresponsible if it did not offer that choice.
True, dat, but as a condition, COVID-19 doesn’t compare with measles, rubella, polio and tetanus. Those were conditions for which vaccines were created with due diligence, with a key ingredient of time. That was a luxury we didn’t have with COVID. A lot of heroic work was done by science in response to COVID, and we need to credit Trump for cutting govt. red tape in getting them in the pipeline. I credit Biden for continuing that work, but his handlers/advisors made the pandemic into a political rather than a medical issue.
Covid shot was made available because of Trump/Pence efforts and were rolled out months before Biden took office. Further, Biden knocked the jab in a debate calling them untrustworthy.
government workers were forced to get the shot, workers in health services were forced to get it. They were fired wholesale for resisting. Are you that disconnected that you have not even PCA’s in your circles?
Precisely.
They were forced to get the shot, and courts generally ruled that force (get the shot or be fired) violated their rights. Therefore, courts established that rights were violated.
How do you argue it’s a choice where final word of the courts is it wasnt?
This comment is for Oxenmatter
Hmmm…good point.
Look at the bright side of abortion. The democrats are self eliminating.
Good point. That way you don’t have to push for a two-state solution!
That’s why they are importing New Democrat voters with the open borders.
That may be the result but it’s not by design.
So tell us, what is the design of the Democrats, who cease to have borders enforced for the USA, and treat all those illegally crossing them better than US Citizens?
Hey, it’s not an easy problem to solve.
Sure it is. Close the border and deport the ones who came/were let in.
IKE had OPERATION WETBACK in the 1950s. Huge success, no new laws needed, just start deporting the CRIMINAL ALIENS.
An illegal alien is a ghost. A man with no identity. He is dead to rights, and he does not exist. Ship them all out and close the door.
Kamala said in an interview recently that she approves of everything that Joe Biden has done and wouldn’t change a thing. This means she will be carrying on the same failed policies of Joe Biden and especially when it concerns our open borders, this will be the end of America as we know it. She can’t think on her feet and goes into word salads, but she was very clear on this point of supporting all of Biden’s policies.
The Marburg virus is currently spreading across Africa and has an 88% fatality rate. With our open borders we are at great risk for letting this virus into the country. The CDC said yesterday they will be checking people arriving from this area for the disease, but that’s people arriving in planes not those crossing our open borders.
CBS edited her answer to Bill Whitaker’s question about Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu. In a clip CBS released prior to the full interview, Kamala’s response was a classic word salad. In the edited version, she gets a second chance. Disgraceful. Back in the day of honest journalism, that would have cost jobs at the network. Here’s her actual words:
“Well, Bill … the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.”
This clip was published by X, shared by “60 Minutes.” X is the social medium that Harris-Walz want to censor. Now we know why.
Speaking of editing and censorship, I find it interesting to see which of my posts are disallowed on this site.
You just have to be patient, OXY. Dan’s robots are a little slow, I think they might be Liberals/Democrats?
Dan should look into this……
The robots aren’t political. They are pragmatic. They work hard to protect the technical integrity of this site. This involves numerous security assignments in addition to managing editorially related work involving the volume of comments. Not all comments make it to print. Our robots ruthlessly weed out the chaff, of which there is a surprising amount, this being the internet and all. We have invested significantly in these platforms while noting that we have not gone to a subscription mode. THE PLANET remains free of charge–literally, priceless as a public service.
I agree.
Not just slow, Trapper, but inefficient…maybe filters set too tight. This cycle I had about 3 cut. They were politically pretty incisive and blunt, though, so maybe it’s just as well. I wouldn’t want to damage my steller reputation. : ) Easy to believe the bots might be Dems though – they are terrible at administration.
I invite any critics of my site to fund the expensive of starting up then investing in the ongoing maintenance of the high-tech that the ever-changing world of data streaming requires. Oh, plus dreaming up then producing 99% of the content. Regularly, and not just once every two months. It’s lots o’ phun!!
I agree it’s time consuming and expensive. Thank you. But, we shall criticize: it makes for a better blogsite.
Criticism always welcome at this address. We respect and often learn from the reasonable critiques. The unreasonable ones we file. The ones driven by irrational hate, the robots handle based upon the algorithms.
You help your bots a lot.
Actually, the bots are “independent” in the sense that once I pay my techies to supply the proper platforms, the bot do their work untouched by human hands.
Dan, I was not being critical of The Planet.
Just some political satire, that the robots my be a little slow, like Democrats.
Pat, Dan, etc., you can claim that Harris is not a superb orator, but all you need to do is compare her to Trump. There is literally no comparison.
That last sentence is correct. At Butler, PA, when Trump visited the site where he took a bullet, he enthralled a crowd of 60,000 for an hour and 40 minutes. Almost no one left early. This week, then Harris’ Teleprompter quit mid-speech, she froze, choked, and was completely frazzled. Watch the tapes. Harris is not a “superb orator.” She’s not even a dismal orator. She’s no orator at all, because she has nothing original to say.
And how do you feel about Obama as an orator?
First rate, alternately street slick and polished, depending on audience. He is like the Three-Card Monty hucksters I regularly used to see in Manhattan in the 1980s. I’d stop sometimes to watch, just to see them riff.
Obama did afterall legitimately win two elections. With financial help from the underworld, but mostly the balloting was legit. Unlike his sidekick money launderer who boasted live and recorded, “we have the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”
yes, we know what that means.
Harris is a superb, oral ate er, ask Willie Brown.
The latest Harris word salad was worse than what was actually broadcast on CBS 60 Minutes. Add CBS to the MSM “fake news” pushing the Harris/Walz Selection:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/election-interference-fake-news-60-minutes-caught-editing/
“Here is the original 60 Minutes exchange:
Bill Whitaker: But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening?
Kamala Harris: Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.
And here is ’60 Minutes” edited exchange:
Bill Whitaker: But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening?
Kamala Harris: We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.
Well, that confirms it.
You can NEVER trust 60 minutes again to give you not only unbiased news but unedited clips from an interview.
Democrats are running a buffoon who can’t even complete a sentence. Think about that for a minute! You really can’t trust a single thing they tell you.”
Speaking of buffoons who can’t complete sentences…
Who is Harris for $500, Alex.
I find Sir Donald’s “quote” highly offensive.
”The fool says in his heart, there is no God” – Psalm 14:1
October 09, 2024
Hello blogger Dan Valenti,
For all of Sara Hathaway’s many flaws in Pittsfield politics, she was right when she warned the city in the early-2000’s-decade that Jimmy Ruberto is a snake oil salesman who was part of Pittsfield’s Good Old Boys network of incestuous-like, inter-related failed state and local leaders who ran the city into the ditch for generations. NOTE: I know, even a broken clock is right twice per day, but I still wished that I had listened to her over 2 decades ago.
It is interesting to me that Sara Hathaway wrote a letter to the Dirty Bird (Eagle) last Autumn 2023 endorsing Peter Marchetti for Mayor, who is named in a federal sex discrimination lawsuit versus a local bank whereby Victoria May alleges that Peter Marchetti, who was one of her bank managers, called his employee Victoria May “a BITCH”. NOTE: I know, Governor (misguided) Maura Healey and Tricia Farley Bouvier Country Buffet also endorsed the now Mayor of BITCH-field, Massachusetts.
How did Sara Hathaway go from being a so-called “breath of fresh air” to lining up behind the 2 Pete’s Pittsfield politics? Answer, even a broken clock is wrong other than the aforementioned twice a day time-keeping.
The bedraggled taxpayers have always been the fictional Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski working-class family who resides in a corrupt city that charges them up to $40 million per fiscal year more than similar small postindustrial cities, such as Westfield, for the luxury of life in the PITTS.
The Kapanski’s are the ruling elites’ financial fools who City Hall treats like a doormat on a good day, but a toilet for them to shit on the bad days, but it all goes over most of their heads that they are used for their state and local government’s inequitable financial shell games. I wish I could teach the underclass, working-class, and everyone else out there that the state government in Boston systemically mocks them, and the corrupt career politicians in Boston only does DISSERVICES against them instead of investing in people and communities because it is all a game called PAY to PLAY.
Jon Melle
P.S. Pittsfield politics’ mayoral nicknames are the late-bar-stool, aberration the litigious schoolmarm who a little less than one decade ago received an undisclosed settlement from the City of Pittsfield in her discrimination lawsuit for her loss, the (useless) Rolodex with his weak ethics, the part-time Mayor Montello, the former school secretary Mayor who lives in Pittsfield’s elitist Gated Community along with her litigious nearby Pot King neighbor Luciforo who donated $1,000 in 2023 to Peter Marchetti’s mayoral campaign and earlier in 2024, Nuciforo received a $341,000 pot settlement from the City, and the openly gay, 90-day grace period from free speech sitting Mayor (of a would-be City in Russia, or China, or Iran, or North Korea, or Saudi Arabia….) – with Voltron the Pork-chop next in line to the throne.
Baseball has been very, very, good to me. This post is very, very, long and very, very, boring to me. Put down computer, grab your balls, choke up on your bat, and baseball be very, very, good to you too.
Pragmatic robots caught that filth! – Right Dan?
Pssssttt….Johnny, they are ALL Democrats/Liberals!!! ROFL!!!
In Pittsfield politics, they are all so-called Democrats because it is the only way for the career politicians to get elected and/or stay in the favor of the corrupt Boston political bosses.
I see it as totally disingenuous that someone such as Nuciforo was/is a Democrat because he was described as a fiscal conservative, he filed a lawsuit in Suffolk (Boston) Superior Court to try to take away Unions from workers in the marijuana industry in Massachusetts, and he is a corporate Attorney for Boston’s big banks and insurance companies.
Peter Larkin is a GE lobbyist in Boston and beyond. He was/is a social conservative who sponsored and passed a law for abstinence only in public education Massachusetts many years ago now.
Dan Bosley is a greedy lobbyist in Boston and beyond who represents big business interests. In fiscal years 2023 & 2024, the Massachusetts State Lottery reported record net profits of over $1 billion per fiscal year, but it is really regressive taxation.
PAC Man Richie Neal fills his coffers with millions of dollars per year from K Street corporate lobbyist firms in the Swamp, especially insurance companies.
Ed Markey supports GE’s proposed capped leaky landfill in Lee, Massachusetts, despite all of his HOT AIR about the so-called Green New Deal championed by the billionaire climate buffoon John Forbes Kerry.
Governor (misguided) Maura Healey cut around $400 million in state funding for social services and related programs in 2024, but those gambling profits for the state government more than triples her aforementioned cuts..
If the above career politicians, greedy lobbyists, and marijuana businessmen are Democrats, then I do NOT recognize the Democratic Party anymore.
Is Barry partners with cannabis Andy ?
All the ex mayor’ are on BR parent company’s board.
“If the above career politicians, greedy lobbyists, and marijuana businessmen are Democrats, then I do NOT recognize the Democratic Party anymore.” -JM
BINGO! John. Neither does RFK JR
I wouldn’t vote for either of them. Hathaway is the joke of the school committee.
I’m pretty sure Marchetti swallowed a bowling ball , or maybe he’s about to give birth. He’ll be all set for bowling on north if he births a bowling ball.
you forgot to mention the plunger slalom on north.
He is a mess! Unshaven, poorly dressed, just messy just like the city he oversees. Can somebody get a gay guy with some fashion sense to help him out?
I’m pretty sure he could get Liberace’s old wardrobe on eBay.
Now that was funny!
At least he doesn’t wear moo moos like Tyer did.
Given that I made moo moos acceptable and made hugely important contributions to their stylistic advancement, I take great offense from your remark.
He can name it Brunswick
Or Beach Ball
If Milton damages Homosasa most on the city council will be upset.
Dan, ya gotta do something about this vendor. They’re giving us no respect. They’re relegating us to the status of freeloader. They are mighty stingy with their bandwidth. Maybe just insert one or two MyPillow ads before the comments section. Their gumshoes are way too sticky.
Geoengineering.org for great info on weather manipulation.
Correction, can’t type – http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org
Global warmng? Not! Rather, weather manipulation by the government.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/10/10/climate-alarmists-wild-weather-is-now-the-global-norm/
Fritzy, you can’t mean you believe the govt (Dems I’m sure) controls the weather. Do you really think so?
Absolutely. Ever heard of HARP?
Democrat’s tears will cause massive flooding early next month.
Al Gore can control the weather
And, you if you believe that Dems do that, do you believe that Republicans would do that if they were in charge?
It’s been used in foreign conflicts.
With Dems it’s being used against Americans.
Too lazy to do your own research, lady?
So Fritzy believes that democrats create weather storms/hurricanes and use them against their political rival groups.
I would not bet money on that theory.
A State Senator candidate that advocates for the Kapanski’s!
https://fallriverreporter.com/massachusetts-state-senate-candidate-massgop-call-for-ebt-audit-after-672483-new-ebt-cards-were-added-to-the-welfare-rolls-in-14-months/
JM, the Criminal Aliens got to eat too.
How many has Gov D-Healey welcomed and resettled here so far?
Except for Martha’s Vineyard, then she calls out the National Guard.
She even kicked out homeless Veterans to make more room and they get catered meals.
You can vote against Paul Marxism next month.
https://thereminder.com/local-news/hampden-county/southwick/gop-state-senate-challenger-faults-corrupt-1-party-system/
Wow,Kuckoo Kenny Warren has stage four TDS. He needs massive doses of a strong laxative or he may need to be hospitalized.
He could take a drive on Partridge Rd with the bumpouts and hit his head on his car ceiling. That might help.
What did he do now?