DEALING SHAVED CARDS FROM A WOODEN DECK
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY JULY 13, 2026) — Here’s the deal (with shaved cards from a wooden deck):
Platner Flatner: THE PLANET prefers Gramham carckers, not Graham crackpot, the dude that radical left Democrats looked to as their answer to Sen. Susan Collins. Well, if the ousted Platner was the answer, they’re asking the wrong questions. Now, the phonies who not long ago wanted to marry him discovered his leprosy. “He’s my kind of man” thus spake Sen. Lizzie Warren in May. Well, what now, Lizzie?
The Con is On: The Democratic Socialists of America have pounced on electorate apathy. They leverage low turnouts in large, coastal cities to nominate and elect utterly NON-REPRESENTATIVE “representatives” — like the way Bitchfield has done in foisting fakes such as Dumpster Earl and The Two Pete’s on Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski. Those who vote for socialism reveal their ignorance of both history and economics. Socialism has flooded every time it’s been tried. It’s the old story: Elites again conning the “activists” to subdue the people.
Audit Schmaudit: On the face of it, sounds like good news that the city’s Audit Services Finance Committee (ASFC) received bids from two “independent” audit companies. Purpose: Microfy Bitchfield’s books. Then you look at the ASFC members. The panel features Porkchop Voltron Pete, Dumpster Earl, Amusing Amuso, Appalachian Kal, and Yuki Methuselah. “Independent?” Fat chance. Of course, the city won’t identify the two companies. They call it “transparency.”
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Mulling Mullett: “You’ll find in the end that everyone sees something different when reviewing proposals,” said Colleen Hunter-Mullett of the ASFC. She’s either speaking in tongues or in code. Translation: “The fix is in.” Alternate translation: “We don’t know what we’re doing.”
Tax Q: The case for lower taxes boils down to one simple question: Who can spend your money better you or the government?
BIC Bux: The Berkshire Innovation Center just received another multimillion influx of taxpayer dollars to place Myrias Optics within the walls of the “futuristic” architectural nightmare. Let’s see: $5 million from MA Tech Hub, $2 million from Gov. Healey’s slush fund, and $1 million from Bitchfield economic development bucks. Must be a reason why private capital wants nothing to do there.
Bang Bang: Myrias Optics works on simulations of materials in “harsh environments.” THE PLANET applauds the company’s decision to set up at the former GE site. “Harsh environments.” Myrias won’t have far to get to them, especially on Tyler Street right around the corner, where it can find “bang” for the bucks in the form of gunplay and drug dealing.
Endless: Glad to hear that President Trump has once again “ended” the war with Iraq. The latest “end” comes with his declaration that the ceasefire had “ended.” Big booms heard again in Tehran, putting the “fun” in the dead ayatollah’s funeral. With “endings” like that, who needs to begin?
Bumpy Lumpy: Doncha like the two new bumps in the West Street redo just past the Salvation Army intersection? We finally figures out why so many lumps (our fave? Holmes road, heading north just past Williams Street). It’s Ricky Rumpus paying homage to Mayor Lumpy for keeping him on the job.
Charmed: “We will kill Trump!” That’s what the hordes chanted at the burial of the penultimate ayatollah. No doubt many in the U.S., including the U.S. Congress, applaud the sentiment–the same ones who loved news that Lindsey Graham had died. Two Americans tried killing Trump during the 2020 campaign. Many here are hoping the third time will be charmed. That’s the state of e pluribus unum in 2026.
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“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
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Does anyone really believe that Earl and the 2-Pete’s would allow a legitimate AUDIT of Kufflink’s Cooked Books?
I see it along the lines of the hidden 6-figure, taxpayer-funded legal report on Pittsfield’s school scandals.
To the career politicians in Pittsfield politics, the common people are viewed as their ATM, doormat, and worse (a toilet to….on).
It is an insiders-only game of PAY to PLAY that leaves Pittsfield’s local tax and fee payers always paying tens of millions of local tax dollars per fiscal year MORE than Pittsfield’s peer small cities such as Westfield and Fitchburg. Did someone say: FORENSIC AUDIT?
On the other end of Massachusetts, Boston’s local taxes have been increasing by double-digits for the past 2 fiscal years.
Massachusetts state lawmakers have been under-funding local aid for close to the past 20 years, while they happily always receive 3 public pay raises every 2 years, along with the top-paid, super-greedy lobbyists in Boston’s inequitable Statehouse who report 7-figure annual earnings, while many others report 6-figure annual earnings. It seems like the state lawmakers and greedy lobbyists come first, while insufficient local aid funding to local government comes last in Massachusetts politics.
There is NOBODY who represents “Jon Melle the have-NOT” in the government. My fictional friends, the Kapanski’s, are well conditioned to be screwed over, too.
I wish that Pittsfield, Boston, and beyond, had good government that invested in people and the communities that we live in, but the harsh reality is that they stand for RETRIBUTION with the likes of my longtime millionaire Enemy #1 who would like nothing more than to shove it up my….
Well anyway, life is short, people are good, bad and ugly, and Pittsfield Mayor Peter Marchetti has a BIG beer belly.
Excellent post up until the usual enemy # 1 nonsense.
It seems like it, but I have been living most of my adult life in Pittsfield’s edition of The Twilight Zone of half-truth rumors, small-town vendettas, hypocritical lies, conspiratorial bullying, insider information, in Pittsfield’s cult-town led by career politicians who are spending under one-quarter-of-one-BILLION-dollars from July 01, 2026 to June 30, 2027.
To illustrate, “Jon Melle the have-NOT” has better odds of winning the Massachusetts State Lottery jackpot than finding a job in Pittsfield. That is because I have NO CHANCE of finding a job in Pittsfield due to the career politicians who run Pittsfield….into the ditch.
Pittsfield is a….dystopian 21st Century nightmare….poor rust-belt city with a distressed local economy whereby its downtown’s so-called business district North Street has between 15 to 25 empty storefronts, it is called “Social Services Alley”, there are a couple hundred homeless residents (who poop on North Street’s sidewalks), and the inner-city neighborhoods that surround North Street are called “The Ring of Poverty”.
If I still lived in Pittsfield, I would wish that I had either a 6-figure public salary plus perks for life like Pittsfield’s career politicians, or I was like Andrea Francesco Nuciforo Junior who lives as a part-time resident in a $1 million mansion in Pittsfield’s elitist Gated Community west of Berkshire Community College close to the Hancock border that is only 0.3-miles from the lovely Linda and her 3rd husband Barry’s mansion. “Luciforo’s” full-time residence is in his upscale home in Boston.
But I am “Jon Melle the have-NOT” who had to eat decades of Pittsfield politics’ “Shit Sandwiches” from Pittsfield to Boston’s provincial insiders who are NO GOOD. These same Pittsfield cult members would be NOBODY special if they were to live well outside of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
I feel a sense of relief that I live 100 miles away from Pittsfield in Southern New Hampshire since the early-Spring 2004, which is over 22 years now. But I also feel badly for the fixed-income Senior Citizen homeowners and those in similar financial circumstances in my native hometown of Pittsfield who have pay excessive local property tax and fees bills because Earl and the 2-Pete’s always spend tens of millions of dollars per fiscal year MORE than Pittsfield’s peer small cities such as Westfield and Fitchburg.
Earl and the 2-Pete’s Pittsfield politics pounds, pummels, pulverizes, punishes people’s purses. Pittsfield’s Commercial Tax Rate is the 2nd highest one in Massachusetts; Holyoke is first. Pittsfield Residential Tax Rate and Fees are a lot higher than many other municipalities. They NEVER speak of LOWERING COSTS for local taxpayers because they are all NO GOOD.
Wah, wah, wah, wah…Advance to go and collect your government bag….
July 13, 2026
What am I supposed to do?
I should otherwise live on my pretend homeless sidewalk on the corner of First Street and Fenn Street in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
I could wave to all of my career politicians friends who live in their BIG houses and mansions.
I could join the ranks of the underclass residents that Mayor BIG belly has waged his CRUEL “WAR against the underclass” with his anti-panhandling, anti-homeless, anti-Morningside Elementary School, and whatever may come next to make him smell like a rose to his politically-connected BIG campaign donors.
Then you and others can write even more negative words against “Jon Melle the have-NOT” the would-be panhandler, homeless man, and advocate for the underclass residents of Pittsfield.
Thank God that I served our country honorably in the U.S. Army and I receive my VA benefits whereby I am able to live my life in Southern New Hampshire with piece of mind from being a persecuted person in “the Pitts”.
I understand that “Carm” died over 6 years ago. I understand that “Luciforo” pulls the strings in Pittsfield City Hall. I also understand that he is a millionaire resident of Boston who is politically-connected there, including his connections to billionaire John Forbes Kerry.
If you are Jon Melle, then “Luciforo” is your Enemy #1, but if you are John Forbes Kerry, then “Luciforo” is your #1 friend.
I disagree with the negative posts about my support for Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey over New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte and her political CRINGE cards.
Maura Healey is not backed by the Irish Mafia in Boston. She is not hurting Veterans such as myself. She stands up to Donald Trump’s “ICE age” of political violence. She advocates for the federal funds that the Republicans in the Swamp cut to Massachusetts and other Democrat-majority states.
I believe that there is NOBODY in the government representing the common people anymore. The common people are falling behind in today’s inequitable economy.
The government is supposed to be investing our limited tax dollars in people and communities instead of under-funding local aid, waging unjust “WARS against the underclass”, and spending excessive amount of tax dollars that are causing fixed-income Senior Citizens and others in similar financial situations to fear losing their biggest investment in one’s life, which is one’s home.
I want positive change in the government just as much as all of you do. I wish it would happen sooner than later, but sadly, it could be possibly never.
The government belongs to the people. The government should be serving the people, NOT the other way around.
If your answer is to pick on me, then it is more of the same “Divide and Conquer” and “Write the Narrative” tactics that keep us from having a real voice in the government.
Bullies and corrupt career politicians alike get to have their day by playing their CRINGE cards, but at what cost to the rest of us?
Pittsfield has hurt me for over 30 years (no) thanks to “Luciforo” (and “Carm”), but they have not (yet) destroyed my life completely like they did to the likes of the late Bernard Baran, who was framed by the Pittsfield Good Old Boys cult who ILLEGALLY hid exculpatory evidence for over 2 decades while he was raped 4 times in Massachusetts state prison prior to being released, but then died several years later at the age of 49 in 2014.
I write about “Luciforo” because I do NOT want to be another later version of Bernard Baran. I will turn 51 soon. They haven’t done me in yet.
Bernard Baran is to Dan Ford AS Jon Melle is to “Luciforo” (and “Carm”).
I know all too well that “Luciforo” would like nothing more than to shove it up Jon Melle’s….
There is NO WAY for me to STOP “Luciforo’s” over 30-year persecution of me. People know that he is NO GOOD. But he walks on water in Boston and Pittsfield alike.
What purpose does it serve?
I am comforted that “Luciforo” is 62 in 2026, which means that in around 2 decades, he will be with “Carm” and Lucifer in Hell, which cannot be much worse that my life in “the Pitts”.
Jon Melle
Does your pretend homeless sidewalk on the corner of First Street and Fenn
Street also include a pretend
Porta-Pottie?
How much of your government benefits did you donate last year to help the homeless JM?
Or as you call it, “war against the underclass.”
I’m betting none. Not one single freaking penny, but like a good Communist, you expect me and other working stiffs to pick up that tab.
Why not? It’s not your money. Spend it often and as freely as you wish.
You really would have been a good MA dumocRAT under the Golden Dome in Boston.
You missed your calling waging imaginary wars in your head with Andy Nuciforo instead.
The Leftist are always claiming America is a terrible place. So what they do is actively make it a terrible place.
Exactly OP.
They bitch about how horrible, racist, and any other “ist” they can plug into the situation, about the USA.
All while they have their hands in our back pockets and wallets fleecing us for “more taxes.”
Do you find it ironic the majority of POC in inner cities contribute very little into the retirement system (SS) and/or government taxes, but they statistically take the most federal benefits..aka-welfare rats.
Mark
Costs more to incarcerate, Coomiewealth built Berkshire county house of misdirection, to move getto rat baby mommas to Berkshires , as a new voter block, turned Berkshires blue/ but are losing Hampden:)
All guards used inside knowledge of influx of section 8 Demonrats, to buy every slum in Berkshires.
Registry of deeds is free….
The drugs , roid and weapons smuggling by guards, builds better stronger criminals.
Most appendicitis, cases are stabbing victims- real nasty boys dip pen/ pencil in feces, go for liver or armpits.
As long as Timmy the Fixer and Tommy pudgey Blower , get their cut, the process will continue.
Paul check Mark just funneled 2 plus million $ to Blower , for suicide prevention, rehab scheme and various other programs, to hire more voters to provide kickbacks to elitist politicians….
Seeing the pattern yet?
Poor victims of elitist pedophilic political class, are tortured by their captors. Then sent to misery mountain ( bridgewater) to be murdered….
Mici will get prosecuted….
Election clock is ticking, blanch can start early, if senate blocks his appointment:)
Shitgrew will be jailed and punished by his victims.
Blower doesn’t have balls enough to walk around the jail, he supposedly runs.
7/14/26@ 1 pm
Tom
Democrats keeping many on their welfare plantation. Pay little or no taxes and receive from those who do pay taxes. It’s a voting bloc they and intend to keep as many as possible on it.
Quit bitching. We pay for your existence. Grow a set and stop trying to blame imaginary enemies for all your problems.
Dan, lots of fruit to chew on here from your tree of truth and knowledge. Pocahontas is a fraud and phony just like Platner. The Dems deep sixed him because he was dropping in the polls, kind of like how they rigged it so Harris would get the nod. So much for democracy!
No other media in Bitchfield besides pretty much the Planet has the courage, the mental agility, or the principle to examine and challenge the going’s on
from our leaders.
Holy Smokes, I drove past a billboard in Pittsfield today and saw a photo of David Baxter on it, pushing a book on leadership called THE UNCOMMON LEADER: 10 LAWS OF LEADERSHIP: Essential Skills From The Streets To The Suites: Proven Strategies to Inspire, Motivate, and Build Exceptionally Successful Team in Any Environment
This is remarkable because Baxter, the author, and was sent up the river in 2007 for 35-45 years, after terrorizing Pittsfield for years. A major drug dealer, gang banger, and gun slinger, responsible for several shootings. Well, this being Massachusetts and all, he got out in 2022, and turned his life around, allegedly.
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/local/west-side-story/article_f5c9d142-fdbe-5adb-9d58-f3f0f979af1d.html
D-Boy, now that’s a name from the past. In 2003, D-Boy tried to shoot and kill Issac Pizarro at the new defunct Johnnie’s Soul Food on North Street.
Pittsfield man arrested in connection with North Street shooting / iBerkshires.com – The Berkshires online guide to events, news and Berkshire County community information.
It’s probably a good thing for “Gambino” that D-Boy turned his life around.
How exactly does someone sentenced to 35 years get out after 15?
He’s a black male in MA.
I actually saw one headline out of a Boston channel that said D-Boy was involved in “non-homicide gun violence,” before turning his life around in the joint.
I love the minimizing of gun violence by dumocRATS by softening the language. “Non-violent gun violence,” translates to he SHOT SOMEBODY AND IS LUCKY HE DIDN’T DIE.
It works though. JM will be on here someday talking about government not doing anything about “gun violence.”
I asked him if he were in-charge would he start his anti-gun campaign in the ghetto where most of it occurs, and also committed by POC
JM ghosted me on a reply back.
Who has more details on the East street paving hold up? Something about they dug into some PCBs along the way and the project is in undetermined shut down? Actual details will probably be hard to come by but the underbelly story is probably a juicy one.
Hear Lumpy asking around if overtime is necessary for p p d ? He doesn’t know?
Are they running a skeleton crew over there?
Dan, I thought a member beside Alfred was for lower price and similar quality. Scanlons have been given a sweetheart deal for years. Why? Who is this Procopio? Not the bozo from San Jose ? And why should Yuki be on this Committee? Didn’t she receive an allotment of money from the city? Who chose this band? Alfred has little chance as the deck is stacked. With Jokers.
Stacked with sycophants. The “controllables” if you will. The “obeyers”.
Those who march in the direction they are told and do not deviate.
this thing is losing more credibility by the minute.
to no one’s surprise.
Love the term “controllables.” It perfectly describes the city’s political roster.
President Trump is trying to fix our dying retirement system which was set up for an economy which barely exists. People used to work for one employer for 30 years, receive a pension, collect Social Security and retire. Social Security for created for people to claim it at 65 and live to about 70. That’s gone. People are lucky if they work at the same company for five years, let alone 30, and pensions are nearly gone. The savings rate in America is an abysmal 2.6%. If nothing is done by 2032, Social Security will still exist, but benefits may have to be seriously decreased. First, President Trump has created Trump Accounts giving child savings accounts for which he has been highly praised even by some Democrats. President Trump wants to overhaul our retirement system by taking some ideas from the successful Australia retirement system as well as some of his own ideas. The elderly can’t be pushed into poverty in 2032 so solving this problem is very urgent. The far left doesn’t seem overly concerned about this issue because having lots of poor people gives them more power as we are seeing in New York City with Mamdani.
The problem is that there are lots of people who do not want to work to pay their share of their share of taxes. They want Free Stuff.
Millions of unemployed Americans, who are not working, who don’t want to work which is a big problem. They are draining the U.S. Budget with Food Stamps, EBT, SNAP, Medicaid For All, Medicare.Why does American Society allow, accept millions of jobless, unemployed, able-bodied people not
working?
You ask a great question, OPIE. It is Big Government run amok. It is too Big NOT to fail.
Dan.
I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
Reagan said it years ago
Scariest words an American will ever hear
Tom
As Ronald Reagan also said; “The closest thing to eternal life on Earth is a government program”.
The government really excels at is the creation of yet more government.
Pat
Retirement system
Designed for a capitalist system, with fewer capitalists.
More parasitic illegals, celler dwellers, professional student and agitators- devouring retirement assets, earned by working stiffs. .
Demonrat vote buying scheme, with a uni party , managed decline of America.
Tom
Up in Adam’s today there was a line a mile long at the visitors center for a mobile food bank. Almost all of the people were able bodied. 1230 in the afternoon. The answer is not handouts, it’s a hand up. They should get a job.
They should put job applications in each bag and direct those to employers looking for help.
Gas will be $6 a gallon by Labor Day. Trust me.
Why Meanwhile?
Did Putin have another “Putin price hike?”
You did tell us this during Autopen’s presidency when gas actually did shoot up to $6 a gallon. Remember?
Or, are you as “sharp as a tack,” like Autopen was?
Again, something you repeated on here numerous times.
The price of local heating oil jumped three times just this week. First a 40 cent jump followed by a 30 cent jump followed yesterday by a 20 cent jump.
Meanwhile, the price of firewood usually follows the price of oil.
Heating Oil Prices – Western Massachusetts (The Berkshires)
Did the city factor this predictable increase in its budget? Oil and gas way way up?
I guess if they can afford the sky rocketing increases in construction costs for their new ballpark the heating oil and gas for their 100 plus city vehicles will not bother them. Taxpayers got it covered with a stroke of the pen.
Highly recommend taking a peak into essay published in Britain’s The Economist in 1955 by the naval historian,
C Northcote Parkinson.
Explains much on expansion of government.
The Dread of Mayor Lumpy and the Speed‑Bumps of BitchfieldIn the bleak streets of Bitchfield, under a sky the color of old bruises,
Mayor Lumpy emerged at dawn with blueprints clutched like guilty secrets.
His voice rasped through the fog: “Today… we install speed bumps.
Everywhere.”
And the silence that followed felt like a warning.The residents begged him to reconsider.
They whispered, pleaded, even prayed.
But Lumpy’s eyes had that distant, haunted glaze—
the look of a man who had seen something in the road one night
and decided no one should ever drive freely again.He ordered crews to work without pause.
They hammered through the morning gloom,
raising asphalt mounds like burial sites.
The first bump appeared outside the bakery—
a jagged, hulking thing that swallowed tires whole.
The second rose near the school,
casting a long shadow that made children walk faster.Soon the bumps multiplied.
They spread like a plague.
Each one taller, sharper, more malicious than the last.
Cars crawled through town like wounded animals,
their frames groaning, their headlights trembling.A woman tried to flee Bitchfield entirely,
but her sedan struck a bump so violent
it snapped her rearview mirror clean off—
as if the town refused to let her look back.Old Man Pickles muttered,
“These aren’t speed bumps.
They’re warnings.”
But no one asked what he meant.By dusk, the roads were a gauntlet.
Residents walked home in eerie quiet,
the air thick with dust and resignation.
And Lumpy stood atop the largest bump of all—
a monstrous ridge in the center of Main Street—
surveying his slowed, suffering city with grim satisfaction.“Now,” he whispered,
“no one will rush through Bitchfield again.”
And for a moment,
it seemed he wasn’t talking about cars.
The Black Ledger of PittsfieldIn the somber streets of Pittsfield, where the lamps flicker like dying thoughts,
Mayor Lumpy and Treasurer Bow Tie Dumbwood met in whispered corridors—
two silhouettes hunched over ledgers that never saw the sun.
The townsfolk asked for a forensic audit,
but the request fell into silence so heavy it felt rehearsed.Dumbwood clutched the city’s books
like a priest guarding forbidden scripture.
His bow tie—once bright—hung crooked,
as if weighed down by numbers that refused to add up.
He muttered, “The accounts are fine,”
but his voice trembled like a guilty page.Mayor Lumpy stood beside him,
a looming figure carved from stubborn stone.
“An audit,” he growled,
“invites questions we don’t need asked.”
And the way he said questions
made the word sound like a threat.Residents gathered in the square,
holding candles, holding hope,
holding the belief that truth might still crawl out
from beneath the city’s paperwork.
But Lumpy extinguished their pleas
with a wave of his hand—
a gesture too smooth, too practiced.Rumors spread like mold in old basements.
Some said Dumbwood had rewritten entire months.
Others claimed Lumpy kept a second ledger
locked in a drawer that creaked at night.
And every time someone asked for transparency,
the mayor’s office lights dimmed
as if the building itself recoiled.By winter, Pittsfield felt colder than the season allowed.
The books remained sealed.
The truth remained buried.
And Dumbwood’s bow tie—once a symbol of civic pride—
now looked like a noose he’d tied himself.Lumpy stood on the town hall steps,
shadow stretching long across the pavement.
“No audit,” he declared,
voice echoing like a verdict.
And the crowd understood:
whatever lived inside those books
was never meant to see daylight.
Another thoughtful Sliver of inquisitive wisdom, from the 10th Planet
Who will the Demonrat Puppet masters, Crown as Herr Flatner’s replacement?
Certainly the Elitists, know much better than the citizens….
Fingers crossed, the double-cross will offend enough voters, to propel Collins to reelection.
Comically “not a socialist” Chris Murphy’s Living Wage for All Act. tripleing minimum wage in 12 years. Murphy being an illiterate communist, forgets Commiefornia $20 minimum wage on fast-food workers in 2024. Prices soared and up to 19,000 jobs disappeared, the Cato Institute reported.The Planet hits nail perfectly on the thumb with ” Elites again conning the “activists” to subdue the people”‘ Those who fail to learn….doomed to repeat”
Show
Interest
Then
STall
Mullet is applying to MSP-as new person vetting prospective employees?
Thats CC MSP speak
Taxatwoshits fiscal plan is to drive bussiness away
Nuclea Biosystems, Electrostor…. Add your money laundering scheme!
James Baker threaten Irak they ignored, Iran is about to enter the FO of FAFO…
Turks are on the march, they will stop at the Straight… Marco spoke quietly, and then let the Lions out of their cages. Erdagan being pacified with F35, Giving
Netanyahu angina in a 2 for 1 ART OF THE DEAL.
Strike 2 for JD Vance, he may have to return to minors….
Marco is a fast study, or was remarkably underrated, he wants to move onto Hemispheric defense Cuba and Greenland…Golden Dome…
Fake News stated Trump faked Assassination Attempts,
His response to Reporters question pertaining to subject ,on Air Force 1 was epically Trump
” if i go, your coming with me”
Good riddance Lady Graham- killed more soldiers than our enemies- typical lawyer pushing up the rear… Trump Forgives MAGA don’t…
Serrano’s students couldn’t read the questions.
The National Literacy Institute found that 21 percent of American adults are functionally illiterate in a 2024 study.
The Atlantic 7/10/26 article
Increasing Number Of Ivy League Students Can’t Even Read, So Let’s Stop Calling Them ‘Elite’
Local Graduates cant make change without using Phone, when they figure out you instructed them correctly, they look at you like you just solved Nuclear Fusion
none can read a Tape measure ? 52 and 3 big lines and 1 little line….
Yet the supposed Teachers receive annual raises, and new schools are built….WHY?
7/13/26@1;15pm
Tom
Why? Because they are an essential voting block that, almost by itself, can guarantee the election of any candidate list submitted to them days before an election. One hand washing the other which is how political systems work to ensure continued control.
Exactly YS.
The bonus of being a big voting bloc and getting what they want is they get to indoctrinate the students to become the next big voting bloc.
Yogi gets the scheme
Any thoughts on how to provide, meaningful education to, next generation? ..
Tom
Without restrictive union and governmental regulation – or intrusion the better teachers and administrators will be retained, rewarded and find more job satisfaction and success in their careers, and those who should not be in the education field will be able to find the same success and satisfaction in their appropriate career fields…
And armed with this knowledge, one can better decide whether or not he or she needs to vote at all in Pittsfield. Gasoline is getting expensive after all and needless trips should be avoided.
OFF TOPIC
Moran Healey’s race to the Bottom, to purchase votes at citizens expense….
she opposes “Scholarship Granting Organizations”
The unions have published an “Open Letter to our Democratic Governors” urging them to “say no to the Trump private voucher scheme.”
Per the leaders of these two unions, the signatories of the letter, “Public education … is the foundation of a thriving democracy” and vouchers are a betrayal.
7/13/26@1;30pm
Tom
Clearly as predicted Trump is yo yong the price of oil per barrell with his on again off again broken deals with Iran. As stated on here several times. He has picked the perfect Country for doing this.
Again. This is a Religious War now. Which Trump started. Israel facilitates the process by dinging a few missiles here and there. This War is beyond fixable.
The narrative by Trump was the people of Iran wanted a regime change. No they don’t,never have. The media tries to portray this also but it’s simply not true.
Trump has completely miscalculated and doesn’t care anyway as long as he profits billions from his Presidential insider knowledge.
The media will now talk about murders, flooding,fires kidnapping, sexual assaults,even buffalo stomping old men between the currently new deal in Iran which makes Trump look sane. The media and politicians are loving Trump. They benefit the most. The rich are getting the crème off the top. Even Dannis benefitting with Trump in office financially assuming he’s a millionaire.
And don’t get me wrong Trump is correct on illegals getting free stuff and I agree with the adios amigos illegal entry which he has succeeded. But it’s the Kapanski that are getting screwed.
Tillithurts
How does your response, Have to do with miseducation of county students? ..
Thanks for reminding readers, of pubic school education system.
Obviously your a teacher… .
Tom
About as many times you have brought up the hay burning incident during alternate discussions.At Least we can understand the post. Tom.
See the pattern.
Trainy
Relax next western Taxatwoshits race hoax , will be unveiled September/ October.
It’s an election year tactic,
I’ll help you out with seeing the pattern!
You’re a wonderful example of public education failure to educate, but successfully indoctrinate.
Thanks for helping me prove, my point.
7/14/26@1 pm
Tom
Tillithurts
Unions are vote gathering schemes.
Local Muscular Italians ( masonry contractor)
Got present office in Lenox , from Nuetron Jack Welch, as a handoff to latest child sex traffickers.
You seem to miss the millions, of grants and funds, they like Epstein received , to purchase victims.
Or your a teacher, who funnels kids to your keepers.
You too stupid to read a tape measure, so your not a Mason….
Tom
Josh landes wmac propaganda
.
Wamc infamous, Ethnomusicology major ,
Is now spewing Marks propaganda, to hire more Mental health pretenders, to discredit victims of elitists abuse.
His latest screed , commits Jonathan Dewket, Jimmy Lazinski, Sheryl Hayes,,,,, Berkshire harassment killings by Timmy the fixers, colleagues and Friends.
Andrew McKeever , Nipples mouthpiece and sex trafficker, got nothing on Josh jewel polisher.
Josh
Dan check tonight’s questioning on Ricardo’s salary switch. No debate or discussion. Kudos to Kabey.Wow. Anyone hear the guy at open Mike at Clowncil meeting.. What a genius. He called the bump outs humps and bumps. Add lumps and he’s got it.
They actually resemble lumpy.
For every hump-bump there are three sinking manholes, several of which are shock absorber busters. 30 million for the prioritized corporate welfare “ballpark”, but apparently no incentive to fix these deep depressions or even, for the safety of the children, paint the crosswalks on Tyler Street.
So, what is the name of this negligent city councilor responsible for this glaring lack of safety? Can he address why they are not getting painted like they used to?
They erect huge hump bumps in the name of safety but cannot paint crosswalks for children? Are hump bumps replacing painted crosswalks?
Peter, I was completely floored while listening to that money switcharoo. Who taught Ricardo to do these shenigans? It made absolutely no sense to the point of being scary even illegal. Was it another “Kerwood’s Accountng 101”, and did you notice Lumpy squirming in his chair? Where was Kerwood to explain this maneuver? Strange that all these switcheroos took place at the water treatment plant, the plant that taxpayers are being overcharged in taxes. Although what alarmed me more is Cam Cunningham said he understood what he was doing! Cam Cunningham who is the chair of the newly created Auditing Services Evaulation Committee. Wow!!! Speaking of that committee, what a farce. The only hope for taxpayers is possibly Kalinowsky, Backer and Procopio, the rest White, Persip, Amuso and Yuki Cohen are nothing but ass kissers and they have taught Cunningham well. Not one of them has any accounting experience. If they pick the company that Lumpy doesn’t want, then Colleen Hunter Mulett will open the contracts and will announce that CliftonLarsonAllen bid is too high and were right back to Scanlon, the same ole same ole!
Further more, if this ill run City doesn’t have the $20,000 for fireworks how the hell will they afford an audit???
What a complete mess the City is in.
M&B
You are so right about the audit committee. Another wasted effort.
Dan
Performance art.
Pretty soon it will be in cartoon form, with language selection….
Tom
M&B
The whole business of the upcoming “audit” needs to be exposed.
Dam
To who?
Timmy the fixer?
Tom
“To whom …” Objective case.
Dative case.
Dative case generally (in use, only) with indirect objects. Objective case determines how nouns and pronouns behave when used as objects.Looks like you’ve been working in your Think & Do book!
You are correct.
Problem with this city is all insideers, and Retreads.I can remember when investments were made and they were giving t I f ‘s like they were giving candy on Halloween. And they always seem to be represented by the same lawyers.
Remember the Beacon owner who got major ( tif) money just like and save the historic dump on North Street Which became a theater of course with a little class and everybody was Shangri-La over it be- cause we got a lipstick on a pig and nice Theater on North Street.
The killer was when the owner bought new seats and I can remember the former mayor and your buddy The deposed Mayoral,candidate in the seats for a photo shoot Dan. Somewhere Flats and Kitty litter had a falling out. Or was carved out.
Remember one Night at city Council it was revealed that the owner of the Beacon Richard, Roberto’s friend and Angeblow whatever his name, had purchased the new seats from his own warehouse???? No council pushback at all. Imagine if Peter Arlos was there?Talk about Canonfodder.
But I really guess it wasn’t. So bad. So Dianna really controlled the Mayors Agenda for years and she certainly had many favorites. Audit that Office alone and you’ll find plenty os crap. Aside
The Bump Out Engineer should shave his beard to reveal his face I want see what he looks like. Just sayin…….
This audit may have already been done in the Land of Oz. The Scarecrow got the brains to do it, the Tin Man signed off on it and the Cowardly Lion took a dump on it.
Then the mayor held it up for the taxpayers and told them to go fuck themselves.
Wicked, MEAN!!
Wheee have you gone Tony Maffuccio or City turns it’s lonely eyes to you. Ooh ooh ooh.
Joltin’ Tony has left and gone away, hey hey hey.
Mayor. I mean M EAR…how bout Mullett saying quality first money not an option?….in other words non organic or organic…butter or margarine. To me it’s a feel safe comment and gets the fixers their choice either way. I doubt beyond Kalinowsky,Alfred, I doubt the newbies will make a difference either way.
Spot on, TT.
How many votes to select? The Accountant…..just sayin….do you really think the two on the bench are against anything lumpy?
Can wait until there’s a real psychotic confrontation with these Brien Type negoiators. Police not talk. Arrest not walk. If they got a screw loose put them in a padded cell and get some burgers for them.
… with cheese and onion.
Is Kung Fool plumber fired yet?
Kristi may be making a comeback…
Bring back Bovino – turn him loose- honor MAGA campaign promises.
Who vetted this idiot?
Massachusetts state police?
Sissie and Karoline need to do some house cleaning, Trump being stabbed by his own people….
Send Kung Fool back to unplugging toilets, and fire whoever recommended him too.
Tom
Important off topic
Will the Planet, delve into Lamestream media, prebunking of stolen 2020 election?
MSLSB wow is racing to pass New York Slimes, as biggest propaganda pedaller, of America.
Is Trump leaking fake news, tidbits, too further expose their propaganda?
The Planets silence on the subject, may be speaking volumes. .
As the Viral Viking, has left TBR, should I begin broadcasting, an alternative news show.
The grant is a slam dunk:)
I’m stuck on a name,
Any suggestions?
The Planet, refuses debate and open dialogue, so a show with thirty second delay, and youtube uncensored would be my preference.
Really like to take Timmy the fixer apart, for his lack of integrity, results and candor.
COME GET SOME…
Like Charlie Kirk “Prove Me Wrong”
But less polite, and faster moving…
7/15/26@4 pm
Tom
Gov healy is proposing a 100 million dollar increase in school funding.
Coincidently, she has an election coming up in just a few months.
Some would call this soft power election tampering.
The fact that these current and past local,politicians do want an audit is because they can. Plain and simple. Kenny Warren (Alfred e has used out his usefulness. Rumor there is someone not political and for the citizens waiting in the wings. Great candidate Dan. To early to mention.
How do you think local politicians save Arlos Butler were elected for the last sixty years. This isn’t rocket science Buffoon. Aside…Smoke gone tomorrow get out and enjoy.
If you have a police scanner check out this dispatcher currently on second shift. Sounds like a real whacko