BY DAN VALENTI

PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY

(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY FEB. 21, 2022) — While the greed mongers who have ruined the wonderful sport formerly known as baseball argue over how to split the billions they milk from suckered fans, THE PLANET has far more important things to mention. Allow us to mention three, two of them local, one global:

WITHER, PUBLIC EDUCATION? WITHERED.

In Pittsfield, what passes for public education stands as an insult to every cash-soaked taxpayers. The school committee is a joke. The teacher’s union wields too much power over Spongebob politicians. The classrooms are unruly daycare centers for a few little monsters who are spoiling it for the majority of good kids. It should come as no surprise, then, to learn Berkshire County ranks 3rd among 14 counties for “least educated.” That’s 86th place out of 100.

But wait. It gets better. When you factor out all other county school districts and calculate only Pittsfield, guess what? The city rises to #1.

Congratulations, Pittsfield. You know pay well north of $100 million each year to produce the dregs, yes, the worst in the entire state.

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#3. Berkshire County (#1. if only Pittsfield is considered)

– 33.6% of population 25 years and over with Bachelor’s degree or higher

– Less than high school diploma: 8.6% ($22,591 median earnings)
– High school graduate: 29.4% ($33,259)

– Some college or Associate’s degree: 28.4% ($36,410)
– Bachelor’s degree: 18.7% ($46,304)
– Graduate or professional degree: 14.9% ($60,634)

The information is taken from the U.S. Census.

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STOP US IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE

Do you believe what the Brandon Administration is telling us about the Ukraine?

• Kennedy was shot by a loner acting on his own (Nov. 22, 1963)
• Jack Ruby killed Oswald because as a patriotic American, JFK’s assassination left him heartbroken (Warren Commission, 1964)
• Gulf of Tonkin incident (1964)

• LBJ: “We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves” (1965)
• Richard Nixon: “I am not a crook” (1973)
• George H.W. Bush: “Read My Lips” (1988)

• George W. Bush, Colin Powell: “Weapons of Mass Destruction” (2003)
• Joe Biden: “The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!”

THE PLANET has lost track of how many times, with specific dates, the Brandons have been telling us “with certainty” that Russia — you know, the Evil Empire — will invade Ukraine.

We asked ourselves: What does Brandon know that we don’t? Then it hit us: Of course they’re certain Putin will launch an invasion. They are trying to goad him into doing it. The only reason it has not YET occurred is that Vlad is keeping his powder dry, open to a diplomatic solution. You might not want to hear that, but that’s our reading of it.

We’re here to tell you all to relax. Brandon sent the VP to Germany to issue a “stark warning” to Russia. Harris — the female, of-color Veep who got second spot on the ticket on her own merits after she called Joe Biden a racist in a Democratic primary where she couldn’t snag one, count em one delegate — showed a lot of concern for the Ukraine’s eastern border. Too bad she doesn’t give a shit about what’s happening on America’s southwest border.

In any case, do you have the sinking feeling that the hysteria over Russia and Ukraine has little to do with Vladimir Putin’s intentions and everything to do with the Administration’s desperate attempt to start a shooting war? That’s how desperate Biden, Harris, and the Democrats are over their plummeted “popularity.” They figure their only shot in November is for Biden to say: “I’m a wartime president.”

The Ukraine’s eastern provinces speak Russian, not Ukrainian, and, like Belarus and Moldova, they want to align with Russia, not Ukraine. Moreover, how is this not a Russian matter? Rather, what business does the U.S. have other than an outdated agreement with NATO? We threaten Putin with “severe” sanctions if Russia invades, ignoring Russia’s hands on the spigot that controls almost 30% of Western Europe’s natural gas. Some 80% of the pipelines run through Ukraine. Connect the dots. Do the math.

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PPS CONSULTANT$$

Earlier this week, THE PLANET reported, exclusively, on the latest brainwashing undertaken by Pittsfield school supt. Jumpin’ Joe Curtis. It takes the form of a series of meetings and sessions on — brace yourself — Diversion, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE). As you know, THE PLANET prefers the DIE acronym over the the official DEI.

DEI is Latin for “God.” DIE much better describes the effect this idiotic policy is having on the education of Pittsfield students.

Our spies and Z-Agents have dug out information the city has not publicized and that no other media outlet has reported.

• There will be six DIE meetings in all
• Three have already been conducted
• Each meeting is “led” by two outside “consultants, Schmitz and Adams (sort of like Schultz and Dooley in the old Utica Club commercials)
• The consultants receive $2,500 per session
• This totals $15,000

Granted, 15Gs won’t break the bank, but it does exemplify the staggering level of waste and fat in the PPS budget. Don’t worry, though. Everything is not only DIE but “vibrant and dynamic.” We still have a suck-up council that doesn’t care whatsoever about Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski.

THE PLANET thanks our spies for their good work.

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“Although your mind’s opaque, try thinking more if just for your own sake” — George Harrison, The Beatles, from “Don’t Bother Me.”

LOVE TO ALL.

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