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MEMORIAL DAY: TO THE ONES WHO DIDN’T COME BACK

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BY DAN VALENTI

PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY

(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MEMORIAL DAY 2023) — THE PLANET doesn’t have much to say today as we bring to a conclusion this long weekend.

It’s a day America sets aside to remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice in war. Ask those who have been through war, and they’ll not want to speak about it. They will, however, defer any notion that they were heroes. Instead, they’ll say the heroes are the ones who didn’t come back — the lives so tragically cut short.

Try to imagine what goes through a young man’s mind when he realizes he’s going to die in some hostile, foreign land, never to see family, friends, and loved ones again. A life, truncated.

And for what?

That is the question we have often pondered.

Please join THE PLANET in remembrance.

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No duty is more urgent than that of giving thanks” — James Allen.

“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”

LOVE TO ALL.

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Last of US
Last of US
1 year ago

Someone save Pittsfield from these bottom of the barrell politicians.

Chelsea Grammar
Chelsea Grammar
Reply to  Last of US
1 year ago

Yes someone please teach them how to spell.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
1 year ago

Tim Obrien The Things They Carried.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

Very, very difficult to read. I tried twice and couldn’t get through it.

fizzlehead
fizzlehead
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

I read a great deal of the Pentagon Papers. Confirmed what I thought from prior readings. Unnecessary shitshow causing immeasurable pain to those on sight and millions more counting extended families grief and sorrow.

I naively thought that once it was over and there was so much press cover of the details for everybody to see, that no leader with any brains would ever get involved in any war again.

How incredibly wrong I was and my faith in humanity has suffered a great deal as a result.

Tony Clifton
Tony Clifton
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

Dan, you have shown your hand – please come up for some air. It wasn’t the ‘deep state’ that the Papers revealed; it was the classified spending, incursion and battle success analysis that was systematically hidden from the Kapanskis, that the govt didn’t want us to see. Your deep state roots explain a lot about your beliefs: JFK offed by deep state operatives – was it Ted Cruz’s dad? Tune in at 11:00!

Last edited 1 year ago by Tony Clifton
Tony Clifton
Tony Clifton
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

“…you are either Andy Kaufman, Bob Zmuda, or Jerry Lawler! …”

But of course!

fizzlehead
fizzlehead
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

So Dan can you tell us in detail all that Mr Trump did to undo the deep state in his four years? Was he dismantling it? How was he, in real terms, addressing it. Please explain it so even an idiot could understand.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

This is a detailed response?

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

It was requested that an idiot could understand. Maybe if he puts it so someone with a lobotomy can understand then you’ll get it

The school committee
The school committee
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

You read Qanon and believe Trump was sent by God to give Tax breaks to the filthy rich…3 trillion my Qanon informed Radical right

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  fizzlehead
1 year ago

“d my faith in humanity”

That’s the problem! Don’t put even a gram of faith in humanity. It degrades very fast.

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Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Going After Cacciato – another gem. How we treated vets after WWII is tragic. Theme of that book was the many soldiers who could not ever return home.

WWII – there was a mass rehabilitation for those who lost time and self.

Jonathan A. Melle
Jonathan A. Melle
1 year ago

Happy Memorial Day

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
1 year ago

Be thankful that Trump didn’t start any wars we have to remember.

fizzlehead
fizzlehead
Reply to  12 Gauge
1 year ago

I would like to not remember the insurrection he started. But it was horrifying and I cannot seem to let it go.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  fizzlehead
1 year ago

It was horrifying, and there are many who will be unable to let it go.

The endless persecution is deepening the hurt and the loss.

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Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

We SHOULD NOT let the insurrection go, Chaz. Trying to overthrow the results of the election just because you didn’t win is undemocratic and illegal.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Who benefits by continuing to dig people out of their homes? There are a lot of insurrections that took place over the last several years, state capitols stormed, barricaded, attacked, and proceedings subverted. Does it serve the Nation’s good to pursue all those to their logical ends? I say we just let them be and get our legislative heads back in their proper places. Also, calling in the police before the mobs burn down the palaces would be a good idea.

Actually, I saw a unique opportunity to exercise vetos over electoral votes in accordance with the Constitution. A rare event that was scuttled by the riot. The substitution of a crisis of people for a crisis of process was a loss for the Nation as we would have seen how that challenge would have been handled as governed by our Constitution.

It was a terrible event, the riot (or insurrection if you wish). People died, many under foot and pistol of the Federal Government. The rioters were callous, and so were the Feds responsible for a number of deaths.

I am not trying to convince you that it was or was not an insurrection. Let’s get past that.

Last edited 1 year ago by Charles Kronick
Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

You do not need to convince me – your wanting to ‘get past it’ is quite convenient and tells us everything we need to know.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Wonder what that is. That sounds like a global condemnation. Oh well….

I suppose that is where the conversation ends.

Last edited 1 year ago by Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

To be on the same page, I am not giving you any thumbs down.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

Thank you very much.

fizzlehead
fizzlehead
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

The best way to invite the next insurrection is to let this one go without punishment. I guarantee you that if these people had been treated leniently we would have already had a second insurrection. My guess is that there are already detailed plans drawn up based on what they learned not to do at the last one. I think you know that Charles.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  fizzlehead
1 year ago

I see your logic, but also consider this: if the Fed’s keep going after the provocateurs, they will keep the provocateurs going. If that would be the case, no one will be the winner. What then becomes the relation between the Federal Government and the People? In answering: consider my assumption which is that the DOJ does not know whom they are looking for. Everyone is a suspect, therefore. Do you have receipts for where you were on 1/6/2020? Maybe we all should.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

Trump is the main and primary suspect. You can’t try to subvert the results of an election just because you lost.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Yet they also seized some guy from around here – years after the event. Was he a threat to the Republic? Will he get a trial by his peers – people from here who know his type? It is intolerable that he will not in my opinion.

K: this all reminds me post 9/11 when suddenly the FBI palled up again fresh with the CIA and local police departments and they all determined that since 9/11 had happened, it was time to start rounding up terrorists. If you recall the first bombing of the Towers, the FBI had a tail on the terrorist right up to the minute he dropped off the UHaul and blew up 6 people. Likewise with 9/11, they watched confidently as the terrorists boarded the airplanes.

After 9/11 all sorts of terrorists were discovered and charged. They grabbed some homeless guy who dreamed of doing something way out of scale for his bragging rights, something akin to levitating a building. They had arrested him for having a dirty thought regardless that he had no possible means of doing it. I say we haven’t gone far from GWB’s America. This is just more of the past continuing on. In the days of Red Scare, there were Bolsheviks. Then jihadists. Now it’s anyone.

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Flogging Molly
Flogging Molly
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

Troy Sargent was the Pittsfield insurrectionist snd is a nut job

fizzlehead
fizzlehead
Reply to  Flogging Molly
1 year ago

Was he not on video assaulting a cop?

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  fizzlehead
1 year ago

“On Jan 6, 2021, around 2:30 p.m., Sargent, while part of a crowd of rioters illegally on the Capitol grounds, stepped forward from the crowd and swung his open hand toward a U.S. Capitol Police Officer, striking the officer.” Quoted ‘I got two hits on a rookie cop!’

Yes, a real nutty-butty. Ridiculous behavior, and it is thankful no more than egos got bent in that incident. No argument there, but he is not a dire threat to the Republic. Until now, I did not even care to know his name nor the insignificance of his crime against the People of the USA.

I’m old school with riots. Following the advice of Hunter Thompson, as he advises in Fear and Loathing on Campaign Trail, I’m taking my watch off ,putting it my pocket ’cause they are the first to get broken, and I’m getting out of this one.

Last edited 1 year ago by Charles Kronick
fizzlehead
fizzlehead
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

I sense a touch of paranoia going on there. Anyone? Not seeing that. Whatcha reading?

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  fizzlehead
1 year ago

Why would you write that?

If I were paranoid, would I put my name on this conversation?

fizzlehead
fizzlehead
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

You said, “everyone is a suspect”. That is kinda far fetched. A gross exaggeration or paranoia?

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

You are confused, Chaz. You can’t keep from focusing on the rioters when the focus should be on the primary perp.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Methinks you focus on the rioters to spare the perp.

The school committee
The school committee
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

Sargent punching an officer in the head during the violent insurection that Trump invited people there to do.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

I see that Chaz and Dan are truly birds of a feather, tho Dan is a bit more over-the-top. Suffice it to say that I’m not buying what you guys are selling, but PV is certainly the appropriate marketplace!

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

Yes, I’m buying your product, but not your argument.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Add up all our writings, and it’s a lot, you won’t find a lot of similarity. We likely won’t agree on very much, come to think of it. Still, no hate!

Last edited 1 year ago by Charles Kronick
Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

Good. Excellent.

fizzlehead
fizzlehead
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

No. But I am also not on video taking a shit in the main corridor of the Capitol building. Or building a gallows to hang the vice president. Or smashing down window and doors. Or assaulting police.
Any other country and these people are shot on site. They are being handled with kidd gloves and should be thankful they were not all dumped into a mass grave and plowed over.

ShirleyKnutz
ShirleyKnutz
Reply to  fizzlehead
1 year ago

Let’s view that video again of the police opening up doors and walking with the citizens peacefully, I always wondered why that happen but then the story is out that half the rioters were federal employees! So tell me who was behind this??

fizzlehead
fizzlehead
Reply to  ShirleyKnutz
1 year ago

uh, Trump?

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  fizzlehead
1 year ago

“Any other country and these people are shot on site. They are being handled with kidd gloves and should be thankful they were not all dumped into a mass grave and plowed over.”

Where does this statement just stop short of saying that in normal societies, it is desirable to fire into crowds randomly, and bury the folk in mass graves? That describes China, Syria (Hama then-and-now), and any other tyrannical state. I understand that it does not say that behavior is good, but it’s pretty close.

If they should be thankful that they were not all ground up, then maybe we don’t have anything to be thankful for except for a well policed state.

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fizzlehead
fizzlehead
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

I got nothing for ya.
However, storming a government building in an attempt to overturn an election should be done with the knowledge that there may be a reaction. And it may be lethal. Some of the Oath Keepers were wearing bullet proof vests so I assume THEY at least thought there could be heavy resistance. And it was their party and up to them to inform their idiot followers. Elsewise, they were willing to sacrifice their own people.

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  fizzlehead
1 year ago

Fake information

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

You are very smart but your logic is overly convoluted.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  fizzlehead
1 year ago

Exactly. Thank you. A federal crime was committed.

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

What crime and by who?

Outfox
Outfox
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

I’m a bleeding heart liberal and I question the results of the election.
I think Trump probably did win.

Foxbat
Foxbat
Reply to  Outfox
1 year ago

You could be right! After all, we should all question even results that appear patently obvious.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Foxbat
1 year ago

Wow, what a response. This is no place for any type of liberal.

Last edited 1 year ago by Charles Kronick
Foxbat
Foxbat
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

Yes I’ve had thoughts like that alot – I guess it’s just loyalty.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Outfox
1 year ago

My daughter stole my Phil Ochs collection. I raised a good daughter, and yet here I am feeling out of place.

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Who was charged with insurrection?

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  fizzlehead
1 year ago

Doesn’t say anything about insurrection

ShirleyKnutz
ShirleyKnutz
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Unfortunately Kindergarden you show your deep blue brainwashed colors by not understanding what and who were behind the Jan 6th debacle. One needs to bring in Ray Epps, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer for questioning to start. Why was Ray Epps allowed to tear down the fence outside the Capitol in full view of the Police while Trump was still talking? You can’t fathom that the deep state say a way to get rid of their opposition? If you really explored and studied this incident you would not be flippantly talking the way you do. It is voters like you that have sunk the city,state and now country to the low levels our woke world has brought us

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  ShirleyKnutz
1 year ago

It is voters like me, is it? Well, news flash, ShirleyKnutz, youse guys are the ones in the minority, and youse guys are the ones who view events through a distorted lens. You congregate on this website to vent and to receive solace for your distorted views. Dan does indeed provide a useful service.

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  fizzlehead
1 year ago

Tell me exactly how he started what occurred on 1/6 by saying we’ll peacefully and patriotically make our voices heard and tell me that the FBI didn’t have at least 100 plants in the crowd.

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  fizzlehead
1 year ago

I recommend a good laxative

Mr. Fritz
Mr. Fritz
Reply to  12 Gauge
1 year ago

He didn’t start any wars, didn’t provoke any wars, negotiated through troubled waters with the mantra of PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!
Thank God for #45!

Son of George Wallace
Son of George Wallace
Reply to  Mr. Fritz
1 year ago

If God existed, He would not have allowed evil slime like Trump to come to office.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Son of George Wallace
1 year ago

G-d made it clear that life after the Catastrophe was going to be neither pretty nor easy.

Son of George Wallace
Son of George Wallace
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

God has never made anything clear because – news flash – He’s not there.

Son of George Wallace
Son of George Wallace
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

Did my argument from falsifiability not convince you Dan?

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

Stop censoring my falsifiability posts.

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  Son of George Wallace
1 year ago

A post worthy of defenestration

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  12 Gauge
1 year ago

You must be a Czech.

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

Yeah, cancelled

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  12 Gauge
1 year ago

Well, serves you right. Your people owe my people reps.

Holden Caulfield
Holden Caulfield
Reply to  12 Gauge
1 year ago

unless you want to call January 6 an attempt to start a civil war

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  Holden Caulfield
1 year ago

Only a low information moron would make that statement

wannabe
wannabe
Reply to  12 Gauge
1 year ago

F. Scott was not a low-information moron.

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  wannabe
1 year ago

Be that as it may

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Holden Caulfield
1 year ago

First World crisis?

The most scary part of that crowd, walking through the hallowed halls of Congress, mostly touring the place in fact, was the potential for damage by hooligans who were completely out of control.

The real lesson is that is the cost of destroying civics. Merrick Garland wants names and addresses. The question is, for whom would you sacrifice? Your family, neighbors or the bureaucrats at the DOJ?

See – this really is about Memorial Day.

Last edited 1 year ago by Charles Kronick
Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

Sir Chaz! The hooligans were mostly touring the place! Please, it is on tape! I thought Tucker Carlson was gone!

Mr. Fritz
Mr. Fritz
Reply to  Holden Caulfield
1 year ago

You’re an idiot.

Holden Caulfield
Holden Caulfield
Reply to  Mr. Fritz
1 year ago

You’re an idiot.

just trying to keep the discussion elevated like dan said he wanted to be

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Holden Caulfield
1 year ago

No, Holden C, Jan 6 was an attempt by Trump to overturn an election that he didn’t win.

fizzlehead
fizzlehead
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

It really was and if he could do it again tomorrow he would.
(and he might)

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

How long have you had these delusions?

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  Holden Caulfield
1 year ago

The other side is one floor above you

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  12 Gauge
1 year ago

Right. He cedes the territory instead.

Son of George Wallace
Son of George Wallace
1 year ago

Dan says: ‘speech is either free or it’s not’ to defend and justify racist rants.

But then, when I post something as offensive as The Ghost of George Wallace, my post gets censored.

The moral of the story is, ‘speech is free on this blogsite when Dan says it is’, as per his disclaimers.

Pat
Pat
1 year ago

SUNY law commencement speaker goes on a fiery speech about getting rid of the fascist police and white people are the oppressors. These are the type of people graduating from our American schools. Our educational institutions have been infiltrated by these people who want to dismantle our country from within. She makes no mention of the oppressive fascist system they want to replace Capitalism with because that system would be acceptable since these type of people would be in charge of it. This student from Yemen leaves one of the most repressed countries in the world to come to the most free (so far) country in the world and she thinks this country is repressive. Unbelievable!
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cuny-law-commencement-speaker-claims-laws-white-supremacy-attacks-fascist-police-military

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AmamdaWell
AmamdaWell
Reply to  Pat
1 year ago

Had to laugh todays at Parade They were marching by the gas station and there was no gas for sale

snark shark
snark shark
Reply to  AmamdaWell
1 year ago

and the funny part is? Did they need gas? Did someone march them by the wrong gas station? Maybe the owner did not know they were coming? Huh?

Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
Reply to  Pat
1 year ago

This socialist fool is leading the idiots coming out of our institutions of “higher” learning..
socialism here we go..

Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
Reply to  Optimus Prime
1 year ago

And,
Her message does not stand up to debate, which is why liberal colleges fight so hard to
shut down debate.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Optimus Prime
1 year ago

Don’t worry Optimus, socialism is not the road we’re heading down.

Pat
Pat
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

No, it’s communism or one world fascist government that the leftists want. Both are dangerous and will bring a dictator into power.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Pat
1 year ago

One World Fascist Government – OWFG!

First dictator, Donald J. Trump.

Pat I knew you were a genius!

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Lol

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Pat
1 year ago

CUNY.

wannabe
wannabe
Reply to  Pat
1 year ago

Well it was cuny law after all.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  wannabe
1 year ago

Wondering, is ‘CUNY’ a trigger word here?

Last edited 1 year ago by Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

Let’s see…

CUNY CUNY CUNY CUNY

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  wannabe
1 year ago

Maybe there should be an age restriction for commencement speeches. Youthful impulses, hormones, and the excitement of dressing up in fancy clothes don’t mix with graduations.

The harangue has since been denounced by the Mayor of NYC who admitted a bit of embarrassment for having actually shared the stage with her and many city elected officials both D & R.

““That was the most disturbing commencement speech I have ever heard,” Jeffrey Lax, CUNY Professor of Law and Co-founder of Students and Faculty for Equality at CUNY (S.A.F.E.), told Newsmax.
“To my ears, it was a blatant call for American insurrection,” he said.

Last edited 1 year ago by Charles Kronick
Peet
Peet
1 year ago

What Is It Good For !

The City I Hate
The City I Hate
Reply to  Peet
1 year ago

Absolutely nothing! Since the end of the Vietnam War, the list of armed conflicts grew exponentially. In the last twenty years, about 120 armed hostile conflicts between states or nations have started, many of them are still ongoing.

“War, I despise
Cause it means destruction of innocent lives
War means tears to thousands of mother’s eyes
When their sons go off to fight
And lose their lives

It ain’t nothing but a heart-breaker
(War) Friend only to The Undertaker
Oh, war it’s an enemy to all mankind
The thought of war blows my mind
war has caused unrest
Within the youngest generation
Induction then destruction
Who wants to die? Oh”

snark shark
snark shark
Reply to  The City I Hate
1 year ago

Very nice

The City I Hate
The City I Hate
Reply to  snark shark
1 year ago

The credit goes to Edwin Starr. The song had nothing to do with the Vietnam War. The song was about neighborhood wars and racial wars going on inside American. Those wars can be counted among the still ongoing hostile conflicts in ameriKa.

http://www.ojp.gov Black-on-Black Homicide – A Psychological-Political Perspective / Today homicide is the leading cause of death among young Black men and contributes significantly to the shortened life-span of the Black male.

wirepoints.org Unwed births, illiterate children and black-on-black crime – Feb 14,2023

“The numbers are eye-popping: 8 of every 10 black babies born in Chicago are born to an unmarried mother. Only 1 in 10 black students in Chicago Public Schools can read at grade level. Four of every five Chicago murder victims is black. And seven out of every ten known murder perpetrators in Chicago is black.”

Last edited 1 year ago by The City I Hate
Tony Clifton
Tony Clifton
Reply to  The City I Hate
1 year ago

Yeah well Cisco Kid was a friend of mine.

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  Tony Clifton
1 year ago

Jeremiah was a bullfrog, he was good friend of mine

Last edited 1 year ago by 12 Gauge
ShirleyKnutz
ShirleyKnutz
Reply to  The City I Hate
1 year ago

Betcha Pittsfield can match those numbers!!

The City I Hate
The City I Hate
1 year ago

“Grass” by Carl Sandburg

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.

Shovel them under and let me work –

I am the grass; I cover all.

And pile them high at Gettysburg.

And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.

Shovel them under and let me work.

Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:

What place is this?

Where are we now?

I am grass.

Let me work.

Mental Cases by Wilfred Owen

Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight?

Wherefore rock they, purgatorial shadows,

Drooping tongues from jaws that slob their relish,

Baring teeth that leer like skulls’ tongues wicked?

Stroke on stroke of pain, – but what slow panic,

Gouged these chasms round their fretted sockets?

Ever from their hair and through their hand palms

Misery swelters. Surely we have perished

Sleeping, and walk hell; but who these hellish?

-These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished.

Memory fingers in their hair of murders,

Multitudinous murders they once witnessed.

Wading sloughs of flesh these helpless wander,

Treading blood from lungs that had loved laughter.

Always they must see these things and hear them,

Batter of guns and shatter of flying muscles,

Carnage incomparable and human squander

Rucked too think for these men’s extrication.

Therefore still their eyeballs shrink tormented

Back into their brains, because on their sense

Sunlight seems a bloodsmear; nigh comes blood-black;

Dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh

-Thus their heads wear this hilarious, hideous,

Awful falseness of set-smiling corpses.

-Thus their hands are plucking at each other;

Picking at the rope-knouts of their scourging;

Snatching after us who smote them, brother,

Pawing us who dealt them war and madness.

Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen

Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared

With piteous recognition in fixed eyes,

Lifting distressful hands, as if to bless.

And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall,-

By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell …

AmamdaWell
AmamdaWell
1 year ago

Council Grades:
Sir Charles A
Valley Girl F
Sloth D
Pee Wee F
Special K A
Ben Jerry D-
FUDD C +
Alley Dumpster D
AWOL Tony D
Kenny the Jet A
Gavel D

The City I Hate
The City I Hate
1 year ago

Excerpts from the biography of Wilfred Owen “In April, after being blown into the air by a shell, Owen spent several days sheltering in a hole near the corpse of his fellow officer, and was shortly after diagnosed with shell shock. In June 1917 he was sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital, near Edinburgh, where he spent four months under the care of renowned doctor, Captain Arthur Brock. Here Owen wrote many poems and became editor of the Hospital magazine, Hydra.”

“In September 1918, Owen returned to the front during the final stages of the war. He fought a fierce battle and was awarded the Military Cross for his bravery. He was killed, at the age of 25, while leading his men across the Sambre and Oise Canal near Ors, on 4 November – just one week before the Armistice was declared. Virtually unknown as a poet in his lifetime, most of Owen’s poems were published after his death. Aware that his work could do nothing to help his own generation, he succeeded in warning the next, his poetic legacy having a major impact on attitudes to war.”

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
1 year ago

Happy Memorial Day. I thank those who gave all to make this the greatest country in the world.

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
1 year ago

For all you foo….people who believe in “climate change,” I say enjoy your Bud Lights and grasshoppers, flies, and cockroaches, smothered in carmel sauce. You don’t want to pi$$ off the Ayatollah John Kerry, while he flies in his private jet.

I’m going to fill up my gas guzzling truck and drive, just to drive. I might even let it idle for a half hour and listen to music. I’ll then gas up all my lawn equipment and crank it up, just because I can. I’ll enjoy a juicy steak cooked on my gas grill and enjoy it with a cold Coors Light beer. All with a big smile on my face and my middle finger extended to all you “climate changers.”

Oh, I’ll be responsible with my trash. I’ll toss it onto the streets, so it gives that “Vibed Up” look. I’m inclusive. I wouldn’t want the “houseless” crowd to feel left out of this party.

K you never answered me about my BBEC “Vibed Up” Loan. What are my chances?

Slashing farm emissions critical to fighting climate change, John Kerry says | Reuters

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Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
1 year ago

This Yuengling’s for you 🙂

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Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

Well, Coors did sell out to Molson.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

(someone doesn’t like yuengling. 🙁

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

Not possible.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

See? Three people hate yuengling.

Mr. Fritz
Mr. Fritz
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
1 year ago

Bravo Markus!
I’m with ya!

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Jonathan A. Melle
Jonathan A. Melle
Reply to  Mr. Fritz
1 year ago

Billionaire John Forbes Kerry will save us all so that we will live in his 57-degree average utopia. When John Kerry flies over us in his private jet, we wave to him like he is Zeus. Like Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Joe Biden voted for George W. Bush’s Iraq conflict over 2 decades ago. When John Kerry ran against George W. Bush in 2004, he was sarcastically called “Bush Lite”. When one asks John Kerry what he accomplished during his time in the U.S. Senate, he said very little. When the news media files Freedom of Information requests, John Kerry makes Beacon Hill lawmakers look like they enjoy the Sunshine. Joe Biden took in more campaign donations from Wall Street billionaires and K Street lobbyist firms in 2020 than any other candidate for U.S. President in U.S. history. No wonder why billionaire John Kerry and Joe Biden are so close to each other: MONEY and POWER. In early-2021, John Kerry had millions of dollars in personal investments in the oil and gas industry, but then the White House made him sell his investments so he could be the Climate Czar. John Kerry owns many homes: Nantucket, Beacon Hill, Georgetown (Swamp), Pennsylvania, Idaho. During the warm weather months, John Kerry lives in his home on Nantucket, which means that he is rarely on mainland Massachusetts with the common people of the Commonwealth. Lastly, when one adds up Joe Biden’s over 50 years in the Swamp plush John Kerry’s decades in the Swamp, it equals a lot of HOT AIR!

Craig C Gaetani
Craig C Gaetani
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
1 year ago

To all the servicemen and civilian nurses who served with me and were captured or killed in Vietnam Nam my heart still bleeds for you. I fly my pow-Mia flag every day. I will carry you in my heart till the day I die. Your families paid the ultimate price also and for those remaining I hope you know that your loved ones served their country admirably and they will be in your heart until the day you meet up with them in heaven. Thank you American veterans for your ultimate sacrifice. Your country will not forget you
Good job my fallen comrades.i will never forget you

Craig C Gaetani
Craig C Gaetani
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
1 year ago

Marcus I will heat my pool with gas and take a dip. After that I’ll fill up my yacht and cruise onota lake
after that I’ll fire up the gas grill and top it off with listening to some electric music
After that I’ll come visit you to watch TV and then go home in my gas guzzling BMW. Tomorrow I’ll start all over again. What a horrible life.if I had to give it all up life would be even more horrible
I’ll go green but in between I’ll just do things less than I have to .I hope my sacrifice will save the planet.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Craig C Gaetani
1 year ago

Craig, nice schpiel – I’m with you. You may even get my vote as a fellow VN vet.

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Were you a VC?

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  12 Gauge
1 year ago

No I wasn’t NVA but I kept pretty close tabs on them.

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Communism must have rubbed of on you

The Ghost of George Wallace
The Ghost of George Wallace
Reply to  12 Gauge
1 year ago

Something rubbed off on that peckerwood. He was neither VC nor NVA, but that didn’t stop that peckerwood from dipping his limp dick into every whorehole in Nam. He’s definitely a veteran of VD. He proudly displays his syphilis dementia, mania, psychosis, depression and delirium badges in every one of his viral posts. Rape was Rampant During the Vietnam War. So, it wouldn’t surprise me if he was also involved in the My Lai massacre. He fits the profile.

Son of George Wallace
Son of George Wallace
Reply to  The Ghost of George Wallace
1 year ago

Daddy please come back. Oh wait, on second thought…please stay where you are. Satan must be better company than Jesus, no? At least with JC you can be just as evil as you wish and God will forgive you.

You tried to teach me how bad people of color are but I just couldn’t listen.

Kindergarten enlisted and went. Where were you? Oh right, God protected you from the draft.

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Son of George Wallace
Son of George Wallace
Reply to  The Ghost of George Wallace
1 year ago

Gee, Dan, I wish you had posted my response to Ghost. But then, it was pretty inflammatory, wasn’t it? Surely your exception to the free speech clause.

Son of George Wallace
Son of George Wallace
Reply to  Son of George Wallace
1 year ago

Thanks for posting it Dan.

Son of George Wallace
Son of George Wallace
Reply to  The Ghost of George Wallace
1 year ago

It must persuade you of the worth of black folk, Mr Ghost, that Jesus was a man of color.

Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
Reply to  Craig C Gaetani
1 year ago

Craig,
Do you have a campaign website like the other 2 candidates that outlines your platform and an event schedule citizen’s can go to?

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
1 year ago

As you suggested before you bailed, let’s agree to disagree. I believe you (and Trap, Dan, Pat, and Ghost of George Wallace) are wholly unredeemable.

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

If you mean believing what the left (you) has been pushing, you are correct K, I am “wholly unredeemable.”

I believe hard work has gotten me through life K.

I have never had a government handout and/or gift (ARPA), and damn proud of that fact.

Can you say the same?

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
1 year ago

Ha ha ha, if you only knew.

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

K-I’m pretty sure I have you pegged to a T.

I have a fairly benign question for you. It has to do with integrity and ethics. Here you go:

Should Warren Dews have been awarded any ARPA (taxpayer) money, considering his wife, Roberta was the mayor’s executive secretary?

Small fire shuts down BiggDaddy’s Philly Steak House weeks after it opened at Mass MoCA. It hopes to reopen Wednesday | Crime | berkshireeagle.com

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Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
1 year ago

MA,
I would like to know how they determined who, how and why $$ were given to any of the recipients.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

For some reason you think I’m Barry.

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

No, I made that clear a few posts ago.

Now, no more world salad or attempting to twist my words. Answer the question:

Yes or No?

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
1 year ago

Answer: Warren Dews should not have been awarded the ARPA grant, because his wife was the mayor’s secretary.

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Thank you K-I appreciate your honesty.

Have a good rest of your day.

Quick Take
Quick Take
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

File an ethics complaint.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
1 year ago

Markus is vying for Trapper’s august slot! You’ll have to do better than that, Markus. Try misspelling a few words!

snark shark
snark shark
1 year ago

Marchetti would like everyone to know that he was in the Memorial Day parade and allowed every speaker to say what they needed without gaveling anyone down.

Vote Pete! He allows veterans to speak on Veterans Day!

AmamdaWell
AmamdaWell
Reply to  snark shark
1 year ago

Pete has zero couth.

AmamdaWell
AmamdaWell
Reply to  AmamdaWell
1 year ago

Approximately twenty people brawling in ward of Columbus Ave area. Who’s ward is that?

AmamdaWell
AmamdaWell
Reply to  AmamdaWell
1 year ago

What is Krol doing at certain venues like schools? He’s not an employee nor is he a city employee? I would suggest the veterans would support the G man as a candidate not Marchetti. G Man is responsible for the Viet Vets start up here? Not Marchetti.

Lenny
Lenny
Reply to  AmamdaWell
1 year ago

I thought you were supposed to post under your real name since you are a mayoral candidate and this is campaign related.

Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
Reply to  AmamdaWell
1 year ago

Certain school venues are open to all and if your a candidate for office attending them is is a wise choice for exposure to promote yourself. It’s called campaigning.

Chelsea Grammer
Chelsea Grammer
Reply to  Optimus Prime
1 year ago

your a candidate for office > you’re a candidate for office

It’s called ‘spelling’

Chelsea Grammer
Chelsea Grammer
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

It’s been awhile since you outed me. The number of nomes de plume is approved by you.

Quick Take
Quick Take
Reply to  Chelsea Grammer
1 year ago

It’s called GRAMMAR. Dumb ass.

Improper use of a word is a grammar issue not a spelling issue.

https://www.kaplaninternational.com/blog/learning-languages/eng/your-vs-youre-grammar-differences

Chelsea Grammer
Chelsea Grammer
Reply to  Quick Take
1 year ago

They are spelled differently, genius.

Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
Reply to  Chelsea Grammer
1 year ago

Thanks for the correction.

Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
Reply to  AmamdaWell
1 year ago

Start of the summer kickoff event?

fizzlehead
fizzlehead
Reply to  Optimus Prime
1 year ago

And speaking of summer kickoffs. The city has so far had two (2) fireworks events so far in 2023. Last year seemed like about ten or more. I am assuming the Waconah Park baseball team is not paying for those fireworks so who is? Are the taxpayers paying for all the fireworks? And if so what line item is it? How much did the city pay for fireworks last year and how much do they expect to pay this year? How much does the usual blow off cost? Who is the vendor that supplies and does the fireworks?
Who can dig out this information and is Pittsfield so wealthy that it can blow taxpayer money up in the air? Dan, would love it if you might poke this subject at some point.

Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
Reply to  fizzlehead
1 year ago

Great questions Fizz. Fireworks displays aren’t cheap to put on. It would be interesting to know the answers to your questions.

AmamdaWell
AmamdaWell
Reply to  Optimus Prime
1 year ago

I believe Hate City wrote songs for The Bee Gees.

AmamdaWell
AmamdaWell
Reply to  AmamdaWell
1 year ago

Staying alive wasn’t one of them.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  AmamdaWell
1 year ago

How deep is his love?

The school committee
The school committee
1 year ago

Dan,Trump tried to overthrow an election and it made him a traitor.Trump was the deep state.Trump wanted to control the press.The other two warned that we needed to be agitated by the press.They also warned about the corporations and their power as Trump gave those corporations 3 trillion on his arrival at the White House.You believe Trump is still President Dan and that is America’s downfall.Qanon has overtaken many minds here on the planet.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  The school committee
1 year ago

TSC, 90% of readers of this blog WILL NOT BELIEVE what you have posted. They are ripe for the picking. Let’s see, what might they buy….I know! MySlippers 2.0! Dan can deliver there eyeballs !

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

The 10% have Trump derangement syndrome

AmamdaWe
AmamdaWe
Reply to  The school committee
1 year ago

You can count on many things reduction in the school budget,increase pay for police fire and DPW workers with step raises, and bonuses for outstanding production. Vote G not M or K. And Dump Disco Dina,Finger twirler Kavey,the Sloth,Dumpster, Pee Wee,and Gavel,. ……

Lenny
Lenny
Reply to  AmamdaWe
1 year ago

Why are you using an alias Craig?

Total Truth 2
Total Truth 2
Reply to  The school committee
1 year ago

How could you and every one else watch all that decet, of moving votes around, being counted after shut down, videos catching these acts and clearly understanding what happen you and everyone else that said move on nothing to see here. You clearly are stupid or living in a daze. Glad you like high prices on everything, and a senile president and laughing joke of the vp. Dummy

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Total Truth 2
1 year ago

Ya, those stupid people are just filled with decet.

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  The school committee
1 year ago

Cuckoo

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  The school committee
1 year ago

TSC=TDS

Lenny
Lenny
1 year ago

You’ll want to tune into the city council/ school committee meeting tonight. Not only school budget discussion, but according to Facebook a huge lawsuit may occur over contract violations with the PSD. Pop your popcorn!

Lenny
Lenny
Reply to  Lenny
1 year ago

TFB is so full of herself! Patting herself on the back for fighting for money for the schools during her speech to the council. Give me a break!
Where’s the 3 minute limit FOR HER?

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AmamdaWe
AmamdaWe
Reply to  Lenny
1 year ago

If she knows costs are rising why hasn’t she done something about it instead of complaining.

AmamdaWe
AmamdaWe
Reply to  Lenny
1 year ago

Kronick and Spexial K stellar tonight at Clowncil Meeting. K said put your momey where your mouth is to Superintendent Curtis. Concerning paras

AmamdaWe
AmamdaWe
Reply to  Lenny
1 year ago

Maffuccio told Curtis he’s not happy with the under performance level 5. Yet Curtis says small class sizes are working? Most of the councilors need to address cuts. Tonight. Serious cuts. I’m done.

AmamdaWe
AmamdaWe
Reply to  Lenny
1 year ago

They receive enough money,to much.

AmamdaWe
AmamdaWe
Reply to  Lenny
1 year ago

My escrow went up 164 dollars a month and with the water rates I’m up over 364 a month. F U Tired.

Total Truth 2
Total Truth 2
1 year ago

What do people think of the remake of the Little Mermaid. I think it was only done this way to pan handle to the african american community and promote more divide. Why you ask because they can not be happy for a movie that was made 1989 that every kid of color watched. Now give in and make just one for them and the bk lovers. What is next Peter Pan in a tu tu, Zero dressed in pink or the colors of the rainbow. Give it up let thinks alone.

Chelsea Grammer
Chelsea Grammer
Reply to  Total Truth 2
1 year ago

I think you mean pander.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Total Truth 2
1 year ago

I think the first Ariel had a better voice, but I think this second, non-animated one wasn’t too bad. I disagree that it’s just for bk and bk lovers – it’s for all of us.