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SHOTS, PINS, POLLS, TIPS, ALL THE REST OF IT … plus … THE ANSWER TO ‘WHO GIVES A FLYING FUCK?’

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BY DAN VALENTI

PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY

(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION NOV. 22-4, 2024) — Apropos to nothing and pursuant to everything, attend, please, the following items of interest. You will become a better person.

Shots Rang Out — 61 years ago in Dallas … well, you know what happened. The dreadful event occurred on THE PLANET’s 12th birthday. We, along with the rest of America, were never the same. A CIA-led conspiracy killed JFK in a coup, and we never trusted officials again. Oswald was what he claimed, a patsy. Amazingly, only 28% of America have first-hand memories of that horrible day.

Going for the Pin — President-elect Trump’s appointment of former pro-wrestling dom Linda McMahon as education secretary bodes well for the classroom. Who better than McMahon to pin any loud-mouthed punk pupil to the mat? She’s actually proposed abolishing the department that she will be heading. It won’t happen, but the sentiment is right-on. That’s a woman of Common Sense. 

Poll This — Trump’s humiliation of Harris has the nation’s pollsters trying to figure out where they derailed. Just like they whiffed during the campaign, in the aftermath, they’re unable to see what’s in front of them. They lost because their polls were largely constructed with the thick cladding of bias. They wanted Harris to win as opposed to wanting a true reading of the electorate.

Lightweight Tipsters — Speaking of garbage, the bedraggled denizens of Bitchfield have told THE PLANET about an issue of which we were unaware. Seems that the 48-gallon bins, lightweights, tip over in the wind. A mouse sneezed on Cole Avenue, and twelve toters tipped over on Buel. But don’t trust reality. Trust instead the Two Petes. They say the toters are performing marvelously.

Thin Ice — Use to be that the city then known as Pittsfield hosted fabulous outdoor skating rinks in winter, anchored by the immense rink at the Common. There were also rinks at Clapp and Deming. Today Bitchfield officials can’t be bothered (they claim it never gets cold enough), except for a new portable “rink” with synthetic ice the size of two postage stamps. A lap consists of a spin on one skate.

Be Sure to Give It a Good Shake — Common Sense is slowly returning. House Speaker Mike Johnson has told biological males (THE PLANET never dreamed we would have to write such a phrase) now have to use the Men’s Rooms on Capitol Hill, irrespective of how they “identify.” Dudes who identify as “female” but the plumbing says otherwise will have to get sane again. We hail the progress.

Insanctuary — Before Trump takes the oath, some state cities and towns are re-committing as “sanctuary” locations “to ensure that all individuals feel values and a sense of belonging.” Yeah, well screw that. The Bay State is spending $1 billion+ a year to keep alien criminals and child rapists on the grift but spits on its citizens. When Trump takes over, expect a “border clash” here. Bring it on.

Hitting Close to Home — While we’re at it, on Nov. 15, Pittsfield police arrested Billy Erney Buitrago-Bustos, an illegal from lands to the south, on a charge of child rape, statutory rape, and aggravated rape against a minor. This scum is now in ICE custody. Also, Barrington picked up one Mynor Stiven De Paz-Munoz on a charge of child rape. Somehow, this news escaped the eunuch local media.

AirborneTHE PLANET saw it on Tyler Street. The new road humps that Ricky Rumpus installed all over the city to “calm” traffic have become the latest venue for idiots. Wednesday, we saw a young male driver speed up approaching the bump and go airborne. Thus, when you find yourself asking “Who gives a FLYING fuck?” just head to the nearest road jump. Hump, bump, and jump.

Have a great weekend, everybody.

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An optimist is a pessimist who had to declare bankruptcy” — Sir Donald Turpentine, Knight of the Bath.

“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE”

LOVE TO ALL.

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ShirleyKnutz
ShirleyKnutz
1 month ago

Why can’t the Pittsfield Marxist Committee (aka our Democrat leaders) follow JFK’s most famous line “ask not what the country can do for you, but ask what you can do for the country”! Hence don’t be leaches on the government be part of the community solution by volunteering at your church, civic groups or other organizations to make the area we live in a great place to live with little fear and little crime. Unfortunately our leaders enjoy being a banana republic!
On another note that is off topic Oxenhatter asked my opinion on Kamala awhile back and here is my reply. Yes I think she is intelligent as shown by her degree and how she played the political landscape. However I feel she is a terrible speaker and if she was a Republican you would have been having a great time making fun of her comments. I think she was attempting to be folksy like W but could not pull it off. As for her leadership abilities I never saw any but I don’t think she ever was in a leadership position nationally. Her border czar role was a catastrophe but I think Biden did that on purpose. From reports I read all her staff left before the end of her 3rd year so she had difficulty in retaining her staff which leads me to believe there were issues behind the scene that the public wasn’t told about.
Now I’ll ask you the same question about Trump. What are your thoughts?

Sir Chaz
Sir Chaz
Reply to  ShirleyKnutz
29 days ago

Actually, on second thoughts I see no evidence that Kamala is intelligent. There is nothing there in her words, actions, strategy.

Her only accomplishment is as prosecutor, but we know from Martha Coakley and Spitzer that brains are not a given in that career.

Musket Ed
Musket Ed
Reply to  Sir Chaz
29 days ago

News 13 has turned into the old enquirer nothing but crime reporting and mayhem. Woke slowly dying.

The school committee
The school committee
Reply to  Musket Ed
29 days ago

WOKE died.Its now its all on the angry ignorance of FOX viewers.

ShirleyKnutz
ShirleyKnutz
Reply to  The school committee
27 days ago

Calling Jones….crazy person escaped again and found a computer!!

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  Sir Chaz
29 days ago

I could explain it to you but Dan doesn’t allow ven diagrams

Sir Chaz
Sir Chaz
Reply to  Gobsig
29 days ago

Give me the geometric equations with relative values for spatial relationships. I’ll give you the picture

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  ShirleyKnutz
29 days ago

So long as Wimpy White gets a free hamburger he’ll gladly do something for his country Tuesday, and he’ll wear voltron stuff

Sir Chaz
Sir Chaz
1 month ago

HAAA! The adventures of RR an lessons. As your sane numbers dwindle there, the best policy is to touch nothing. Just let it be, who knows what the crazies will do? Next gen of road calming innovation will be artificial craters, randomly placed and hard to see.

Which supernatural force is tormenting that city?

Sir Chaz
Sir Chaz
Reply to  Sir Chaz
29 days ago

*…RR and lessons to learn. If its broke, just leave it alone for haven’s sake. Don’t touch it….

outfox
outfox
Reply to  Sir Chaz
29 days ago

We already have those craters all over town in the form of potholes.
Rumpus reframing potholes as traffic calming craters in 3…2…1

Sir Chaz
Sir Chaz
Reply to  outfox
28 days ago

Road calming x.0
1.0 Weird bikelanes.
2.0 narrow streets
3.0 speed bumps (ramps?)
4.0 craters
5.0 Obstacle courses?
6.0 zero traction surface treatment?

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
Reply to  Sir Chaz
28 days ago

Don’t forget to include Linda “Flat” Tyer’s method of “traffic calming.”

7.0 Don’t fix potholes.

This achieves both traffic calming and helps with “global warming,” by not using fossil fuels to repair the roads.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
1 month ago

CRIMINAL ALIEN “SANCTUARIES”?

“From the article:

Homan made clear that the feds would not attempt to commandeer state and city officials. He acknowledged that such officials have no duty to help federal immigration agents. But they may not interfere with the agents in the execution of their duties or take affirmative steps to conceal or shield illegal immigrants from federal law enforcement.”

“Homan is right about this.

He pointed out that it is a federal felony under Section 1324(1)(a)(iii) of the immigration laws (Title 8, U.S. Code) if a person,

knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation.

The Supreme Court has explained, in United States v. Gillock (1980), for example, that “in those areas where the Constitution grants the Federal Government the power to act, the Supremacy Clause dictates that federal enactments will prevail over competing state exercises of power.” As a result, state or municipal officials who are accused of violating federal criminal law will not be heard to claim in their defense that they were carrying out official state policies — even if those policies are codified in laws, regulations, or ordinances at the state or local levels.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/los-angeles-passes-sanctuary-city-ordinance-wake-trump-election-victory

Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
Reply to  Mad Trapper
29 days ago

Cutting off federal funding should change some of these Democrat’s minds.

Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
Reply to  Mad Trapper
29 days ago

Wonder how those protecting and claiming the illegals doing these things have rights through our justice system would react to a loved one getting raped or killed?

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  Mad Trapper
29 days ago

Massachusetts = criminal alien magnet state

Pat
Pat
1 month ago

Our ridiculous Governor Maura Healey is saying she will protect her “residents” from being deported by the Trump administration. Massachusetts citizens are her residents and we are the ones she is supposed to protect from the danger presented by the illegal immigrants. Massachusetts kids are being raped by some illegals, but Healey wants to protect illegal immigrants not us. This exposes the priorities of Massachusetts government.

Musket Ed
Musket Ed
Reply to  Pat
1 month ago

I know the rats are puking in their beer after former Trump lawyer Pam Bondi is nominated as Secretary of State.

Mr. Fritz
Mr. Fritz
Reply to  Musket Ed
29 days ago

Hey Mr. Back Asswards – Bondi is nominated for AG. Get your facts straight.

Musket Ed
Musket Ed
Reply to  Mr. Fritz
29 days ago

Does it matter? Trump will be both anyway.

Musket Ed
Musket Ed
Reply to  Mr. Fritz
29 days ago

Come on Stich! I was watching Gutfeld and was distracted.

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  Pat
1 month ago

If I ever get in trouble all I ask is to be treated like an illegal alien

Sir Chaz
Sir Chaz
Reply to  Gobsig
29 days ago

Why not get yourself an illegal Identity.Just go down to the border and say you want asylum. Then you can be GOBSIG at your pleasure, or otherwise John Doe.

outfox
outfox
Reply to  Sir Chaz
29 days ago

Juan Doe

Sir Chaz
Sir Chaz
Reply to  outfox
28 days ago

Actually, all nationalities qualify.

The school committee
The school committee
Reply to  Gobsig
28 days ago

I would ask to be treated like Donny Trump from New York City….the fat rich dumbass

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  The school committee
27 days ago

POTUS Trump, TSC!

Jonathan A. Melle
Jonathan A. Melle
Reply to  Pat
1 month ago

I wrote an online message to Governor Maura Healey thanking her for standing up to bullies like Donald Trump.

I wrote to Governor Maura Healey that I do NOT like child abuses in any way, shape or form. The system(s) fail vulnerable children in Massachusetts and New Hampshire alike (& beyond), which was illustrated by the tragic case of a 4-year-old girl named Harmony Montgomery who was murdered by the hands of her father, Adam Montgomery, who is spending the rest of his life in NH State Prison.

As a persecuted person myself at the hands of Pittsfield/Bitchfield’s Luciforo since I unfortunately first met Pittsfield’s Pot King (of lawsuits) Andrea Francesco Nuciforo Junior when I was 20-years-old during the Spring 1996, I support Governor Maura Healey for protecting persecuted immigrants that are being used to make the Orange Jesus, 78-year-old buffoon look like an authoritarian dictator.

If Donald Trump wants to persecute people, then I request to be first in line by him cutting my 100 percent service-connection permanent and total VA benefits. I am willing to sacrifice myself, again, as a persecuted person to another corrupt and disgraced politician who practices retribution in the government that is supposed to serve the American people, including the Have-NOT named “Jon Melle”.

We live in an otherwise cruel world, but we also have GOOD people and politicians like Governor Maura Healey to make our lives on Earth a little less cruel. I hope that Governor Maura Healey will be a future U.S. President.

Tt2
Tt2
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
29 days ago

You need to find an fn bridge and jump the hell off. Your poor father. Great guy strong values what happened to you

ShirleyKnutz
ShirleyKnutz
Reply to  Tt2
27 days ago

Actually he needs to move back to Massachusetts and then he can talk about how much he loves the taxes and criminals

Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
29 days ago

JM you are like old fish. You can never get the smell out and nobody wants any of it. People are SO over over you’re bull shit Andy rants in every fuking post. 

Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
29 days ago

I sent Trump you’re “put me in line first” to cut my VA benefits post. He is taking it under consideration and reviewing how in the hell you qualified in the first place. Elon is looking to cut waste.

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
29 days ago

Did the VA cover your lobotomy or did you pay out of pocket

Musket Ed
Musket Ed
Reply to  Gobsig
29 days ago

He’s the prime example of a one track mind.

Free Bird
Free Bird
Reply to  Pat
1 month ago

She is our worst governor ever and there is no recall provision in Massachusetts. Maybe something can be done when she openly violates federal law under the new administration.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Free Bird
29 days ago

Federal Prison in an orange jumpsuit.

Who is Lt. Gov? Could be worse than Healey, after all it’s mASSachusetts!

Last edited 29 days ago by Mad Trapper
Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
Reply to  Mad Trapper
29 days ago

Good point Trap! We are probably screwed no matter what with either.

Musket Ed
Musket Ed
Reply to  Mad Trapper
29 days ago

Her intent is purely self patronizing. Do you really believe she’s that stupid to defy a federal order?

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Musket Ed
29 days ago

Yes, she’s a lawless lesbian Democrat.

She has been aiding and abetting CRIMINAL ALIENS several years now, so the point is moot. The laws are on the books now, don’t need new ones

She, and her minions, are FEDERAL FELONS.

They could send US Marshall’s to cuff and stuff her today.

Musket Ed
Musket Ed
Reply to  Mad Trapper
29 days ago

facade. Last of the woke here with power

Musket Ed
Musket Ed
Reply to  Free Bird
29 days ago

She does have the power to tie it up in the courts. But that’s it.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Musket Ed
29 days ago

No. That is interfering with Federal law. Supreme court ruled that and State courts can’t do a thing about it.

Musket Ed
Musket Ed
Reply to  Mad Trapper
28 days ago

I’ll have to re-research that. But I’m usually right.

Mr. Fritz
Mr. Fritz
Reply to  Musket Ed
28 days ago

No actually you don’t have a clue

Zippy the Pinhead
Zippy the Pinhead
Reply to  Free Bird
29 days ago

Govenors Council – it’s an elected body that approves the governor’s candidates for state court. It is a small body and currently infested by morons and lunatics. That’s another opportunity for people to take back their government.

Thomas Betit
Thomas Betit
1 month ago

Dan

You missed our commiefornia forestry practices, have resulted in a 500%increase in berkshire forest fires.

It’s the understory stupid!
Mature trees , not harvested, resulting in understory of dry tinder.
Lots of local foresters ( one in dalton, ) endanger communities for political capital- seeing the pattern yet?

I Berkshire pushing him , harder than fox news pushing mike Roger’s.
Remember how they covered up gail caradi involvement in motorcyclist alan keefes ( hit and run murder) fyi
She owned the truck!
Much like cover up of joe thompson vehiclur homicide ( mass MOCA director- and owner of northern Berkshire District court building)
Managed by Shagrue- in cade you forgot. Seeing the pattern yet?

A prior epidemic the government created, beaver fever , that due to love of beavers ( because the jumbo rats dont infest boston) passed all the anti trapping bans. Leading to giardiasis, flooding and over population.

Liberalism is contagious, preventable even with the propaganda support, and normaly fatal.

Simon s rock could of adjusted its credentialised insanity, after the Wayne low shooting ( which led to today’s epidemic of school shootings)
Seeing the pattern yet?
We can stop the spread.
But instead led by andrea Harrington, white supremacist hoax ( and Jusse Smollett immunization) fuels and fertilized the insanity.

Now let’s explore the media’s
Contributions to the problem,
Rupert Murdoch ( fox news) cant spew his propaganda in England- and Tucker Carlson was last , true newsman.
It Was over when megan Kelly left, fox is next MSNBC, to go out of business.
Sky News is now Australias news supply.

Average 14 year old , with a smart phone , is better informed , than their parents.
The covid kids, understand government tyranny of lockdown- vaccination mandate , and predatory teachers unions ( who benefited ) . Older siblings many of which ( got phoney vax cards to attend commonwealth colleges – who wont develop heart issues ( my oldest has lost 2 – early 20s classmates, to heart attacks. Both healthy athletes, like buffalo Bill’s star.

The media ( yes you dan contribute) , via censorship, of opinions , which implicate their friends , relatives and colleagues.

New FCC director, be pushing for reinstatement of smith / muntz act, to hold media ( of all types- being the growing podcast, websites and social media, who control information.

11/21/24 @10;52

Sir Chaz
Sir Chaz
Reply to  danvalenti
29 days ago

The motorcyclist was soaked and overshot the corner , hit the car on the passenger side. The prosecutors argued it was a head on collision. The entire front end of his car was completely unscathed. Liars.

Betit, it is the most common behavior to talk behind a man’s back.

Sir Chaz
Sir Chaz
Reply to  Thomas Betit
29 days ago

Joe Thompson was 100% innocent. Juror #1 heard the entire trial, saw all the evidence, and heard all the arguments. It was a Harrington slam.

Joetaxpayer
Joetaxpayer
1 month ago

Pittsfield calming of major arteries through out the City, is going to push traffic onto the side streets. Eventually traffic will be slowed to a crawl and drivers will seek alternate routes. Not good news for neighborhoods. As for as illegals go, if Massachusetts refuses to help, Federal funds for police should be pulled.

Musket Ed
Musket Ed
Reply to  Joetaxpayer
29 days ago

Anyone currently traveling down Oak hill to lanesboro can use Partridge off of Crane. No bump outs or should I say wipe~~\¥ outs yet. But they’ll get them,count on that.

Jon Melle
Jon Melle
29 days ago

I didn’t write that FALSE post!

Musket Ed
Musket Ed
Reply to  Jon Melle
29 days ago

Then go to bed.

ShirleyKnutz
ShirleyKnutz
Reply to  Jon Melle
27 days ago

Which One? I wouldn’t claim any of your posts as one I wrote

Joetaxpayer
Joetaxpayer
29 days ago

Your replies remind of the Movie, Ground Hogs Day. Hated that Movie. Up your meds.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
29 days ago

Give it break on Healey, Melle.

She has been a bigger disaster for mASSachsetts than Biden /Harris was for the USA. She emulates that disastrous duo, by treating CRIMINAL ALIENS better than citizens, and also promoting destructive “woke” and DIE agendas

Jonathan A. Melle
Jonathan A. Melle
Reply to  Mad Trapper
29 days ago

My favorite politicians are: Andrea Harrington, (the lovely) Linda Tyer, and Maura Healey.

My NON-favorite politicians are: Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and Andrea “Luciforo”.

The U.S. National Debt went over $36 trillion today (Friday, November 22nd, 2024).

https://usdebtclock.org/

I wonder who will pay off the U.S. National Debt? Will it be Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, or Kufflinks and his secretive Slush Funds?

Jon Melle

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
28 days ago

“I wonder who will pay off the U.S. National Debt?” -J Melle

Not the 20+ Million CRIMINAL ALIENS, Biden/Harris imported the last 4 years. They are currently draining the treasury for Billions a year.

Maybe Zelensky will pay back the, unaccounted for, 61 Billion USA gave him?

The school committee
The school committee
Reply to  Mad Trapper
28 days ago

Social Security and Medicare will pay for MAGA/TRUMP debt to Vladimir

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  The school committee
27 days ago

Biden/Harris already gave all those funds to Zelensky’s laundrymat.

Half got kicked back to leftists and RINOs in DC. Nobody knows where the rest went to?

ShirleyKnutz
ShirleyKnutz
Reply to  The school committee
27 days ago

Goof ball your elected/selected couple Biden/Harris are the ones increasing the debt due to the fact they are running the country supposedly. Go get some meds and sleep so you can stay focused and keep track.

Pothole
Pothole
29 days ago

I’m headed to Aruba mid December, I wonder what would happen if I lost my passport coming back. Illegals have been just walking in and getting cash and health care plus Bennies. I’d like a year or two without working. Maybe I’ll fly to Mexico and then just come back that way. I hear I can get a bus back to Mass too.

Musket Ed
Musket Ed
Reply to  Pothole
29 days ago

Let me talk to Homan.

Sir Chaz
Sir Chaz
Reply to  Pothole
29 days ago

Yoi should be able to swing both. Identity politics.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Pothole
28 days ago

Pothole,

Biden/Harris will fly you, no need to take a bus.

Musket Ed
Musket Ed
29 days ago

Going for the pin could apply to Bondi as A G. The Rats did Matt Gaet zzzz in. And that headline belongs to be careful what you wish for. She Trumps lawyer.

If Trump and Gaetz knew he wouldn’t be nominated this was a masterpiece set up. Call it a Vince McMahon wrestling set up. Ha ha ha. Poor Rats.

Sir Chaz
Sir Chaz
Reply to  Musket Ed
29 days ago

Blew their cover?

Musket Ed
Musket Ed
Reply to  Sir Chaz
29 days ago

first Thing gaetz said he was a distraction. It was a set up to get bondi in. Makes trump look good.

Sir Chaz
Sir Chaz
Reply to  Musket Ed
28 days ago

A gambit to smoke out the traitors. Lesson learnt from the Sessions mistake.

Musket Ed
Musket Ed
Reply to  Musket Ed
29 days ago

New York is now a nuthouse of criminals and woke rebellious.Where the hell is Sliwa.

Jonathan A. Melle
Jonathan A. Melle
29 days ago

November 22, 2024

Hello blogger Dan Valenti,

I wonder what Costa & Catalano will have to say about Pittsfield’s property assessments and tax rates – see the news article below.

Why does Pittsfield’s yearly operating budgets cost tens of millions of dollars more per fiscal year than similar small postindustrial cities, such as Westfield?

Pittsfield is charging the average residential property and fees taxpayer over $6,000.00 per fiscal year. The median income in Pittsfield is less than $70,000 per fiscal year. That means that 12-percent of Pittsfield’s average residential property and fees taxpayer’s gross income goes to City Hall – NOT their net income that factors in state and federal taxes and fees.

Pittsfield has hundreds of millions of dollars in municipal debts, OPEB unfunded liabilities, the polluted PEDA’s millions of dollars in unfunded liabilities, and an infrastructure with millions of dollars in deferred maintenance costs.

The 2-Pete’s Pittsfield politics has not changed the city’s financial management always predictable methods. It has been the same budgeting in Pittsfield every year for over 40-years now with city tax, fees and municipal spending increases always around 5-percent or higher per fiscal year.

I believe that Pittsfield’s budget is really about the city playing financial shell games with the state bureaucrats in Boston instead of being about the taxpayers’ well-being so that the special and vested interests always get their greedy hands on the loot. Ideally, the people and small businesses should be getting ahead in Pittsfield instead of the city government, but this is NOT the case when it comes to Pittsfield politics.

Jon Melle

Pittsfield: “City councilor, assessor hosting tax rate talk”
By Jeannie Maschino, The Berkshire Eagle, November 21, 2024

At-large City Council member Alisa Costa will host a constituent meeting with City Assessor Laura Catalano to talk about property assessments and tax rates at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 25, in the Community Room at Lee Bank, 180 South St.

All are welcome to bring questions or ideas about the city. Email acosta@cityofpittsfield.org for more information.

Eric Swansin
Eric Swansin
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
28 days ago

Word around the campfire is that you and CC President Pete had a falling out. Did you two guys breakup or something? You had a falling out with your cuz Mayor Pete to. What’s going on Jonny?

The school committee
The school committee
29 days ago

Billionaire wealthy rapist will rape our country for the drug of money.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  The school committee
28 days ago

Biden already did that.

Jonathan A. Melle
Jonathan A. Melle
Reply to  The school committee
28 days ago

The Orange Jesus was never convicted of being an alleged rapist. As much is I oppose the 78-year-old buffoon, I believe it is unfair to call Donald Trump a “Billionaire wealthy rapist”. Rather, please call him the ultimate MORAL HYPOCRITE!

Pat
Pat
29 days ago

Kamala Harris won in all of the states that didn’t require voter ID. It seems that being able to vote multiple times because you don’t identify who you are is a surefire way to win in those states. It also allows illegal immigrants to vote. Kamala received more votes than Obama and there is no way she is more popular than Obama was when he was running.

I agree with Bill Clinton that the first woman president will have to be a conservative because that woman will have to prove that she is logical and sensible. We are not seeing those qualities from far left women politicians.

Festus Feeney
Festus Feeney
29 days ago

Being part of the 28%, of the “ 61 years ago in Dallas” crowd, the memories of that fateful day still resound strongly in my memory, as if ( as the proverbial saying goes) it were yesterday. 7th grade, South Junior High, walking down the hallway pushing a 16mm projector, when the news came across the loud speaker( around 12:45pm) that Kennedy had been shot. Around 1:00-1:30 It was announced that Kennedy had died and we were dismissed from school to return home to grieve with the rest of the nation. As a Berkshire Eagle paperboy, papers were normally arrived by around 3:30. On this day it was closer to 6:00pm. Big bold headlines read, ‘Kennedy Shot Dead”. An eerie quiet descended upon our neighborhoods as everyone grieved the loss of a President, one who previously had saturated the populace with a great optimistic message of hope for the future in our great Republic. The entire weekend was spent in mourning, while everyone stayed glued to their television sets. If ever there was an opportune time for our country to be attacked by our enemies, this was the time, during this most vulnerable state of affairs throughout our nation. The emotional undoing of our psyche that day, is difficult to adequately describe with mere words and our magical childhood of innocence was tragically snuffed out from under our feet, extinguishing that secured footing we all felt we possessed, in our lives at that time.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
28 days ago

Biden, Britain, and Zelenskey just poked the Russian bear in the eye.

Do they know what they are doing? And want WWIII? They may get it. And FJB!!!

A very sobering video concerning Putin’s response.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1674&v=YkRdhgeBXAE&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.arboristsite.com%2F&source_ve_path=MzY4NDIsMjg2NjY

Zippy the Pinhead
Zippy the Pinhead
Reply to  danvalenti
28 days ago

Soviets are preparing for a weapons market war. The Ukraine war was a time of military industrial growth that puts them in a good position to supply our world’s enemies.

Jonathan A. Melle
Jonathan A. Melle
Reply to  Mad Trapper
28 days ago

Do you remember when Putin’s Russia bombed a hospital nursery in Ukraine and many innocent new babies were killed? I do. Putin is EVIL – even on a scale larger than Luciforo, who is also EVIL, of course.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
27 days ago

How many MILLION, “innocent babies” has planned parenthood murdered , John?

Jonathan A. Melle
Jonathan A. Melle
28 days ago

Donald Trump’s new administration will include Sebastian Gorka, who has hard-right views on Islam, but is soft of White Nationalism in the U.S.A. Gorka describes Islam as not a religion but a violent ideology.

Then there is Steve Bannon, who is another far-right political activist who worked in Donald Trump’s old administration, along with Gorka, before the two Neo-Nazi’s were dismissed from The White House during the first Trump administration.

Why does Donald Trump admire Adolf Hitler, far-right politics, and appoint far-right political activists to his presidential administration(s)?

The U.S.A. is supposed to be a democracy whereby we are ruled by laws instead of authoritarian men and women. Ronald Reagan said that the U.S.A. was founded on human rights.

Donald Trump is the leader of the White Nationalist political movement in the U.S.A. He is also revered by the White Nationalist political movements in Europe.

We live in the 21st Century. One hundred years ago, pseudo-science supported white supremacy, but in 2024, we understand that all races are equal in today’s real, evidenced-based science.

Kamala Harris is right that Donald Trump will takes us back in time when “the others” Peoples were persecuted by EVIL regimes less than 100 years ago.

I feel badly for all of the immigrant families who live in the U.S.A. who live in fear because they understand that they will soon be persecuted by the far-right Trump administration.

I also feel badly for myself that “Luciforo” chose to persecute me for the past 28.5-years of my adult life ever since I was 20-years-old many years ago now – I am now 49 – when I unfortunately first met Pittsfield’s Pot King (of lawsuits) way back in the Spring 1996 because in Nuciforo’s delusional, warped mind, the only real crime in my life is that I am Bob Melle’s son, and the long disgraced double dipper Andrea Francesco Nuciforo Junior didn’t like my father, who he also hurt many years ago, in Pittsfield politics.

Stool Samples: Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, Sebastian Gorka; and also, “Luciforo”, among all of the many other corrupt career politicians, greedy lobbyists, predatory marijuana drug dealers, and so on.

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
28 days ago

Lexapro Commercial. Finance

JM, take a look at this commercial for Lexapro. It’s an antidepressant, that as the commercial states, it helps get rid of “the demons in your head.”

Especially a demon in your head for over “28.5 years” and counting.

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
27 days ago

What he needs is industrial strength x-lax. He’s full of it.

Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
27 days ago

A little while ago, someone posted that that trying to reason with a committed liberal with TDS was like trying to reason with an extremely drunk person. It’s proven to be true with JM, TSC and a few others.

Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
28 days ago

The Party of Slavery continues to have its Slaves, democrat voters. They are the same people who always whine that “we’re going to lose our democracy”.

Joetaxpayer
Joetaxpayer
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
27 days ago

Shave your head and stop having sex. That might help you Johnny. Isn’t anything annoying you in New Hampshire? Start your own blog Melle’s Moonbat Madness!!

Who gives a flying experience
Who gives a flying experience
28 days ago

…grounded enough to care deeply about the things that truly matter.

Fuck itttt

Musket Ed
Musket Ed
Reply to  Who gives a flying experience
27 days ago

Chuck Wollery of the Love Connection. Dies. He was 83. Lovely man.

Monopoly
Monopoly
28 days ago

The housing authority.