I'm not sure what to make of this report that a White House press award ceremony naming the President as "Newsmaker of the Year" by the The National Newspaper Publishers Association will be closed to the media and public. The NNPA is also … [Read more...]
Archives for March 21, 2009
The Massachusetts Chainsaw Massacre
Hello all, I am writing regarding the clearcutting and aggressive logging that has been recently occurring on Massachusetts public lands due to taxpayer subsidized policies and proposals enacted and promoted by Governor Patrick's office of … [Read more...]
Terry Murray on Top! WITH POLL
Terry Murray seems to be one of the very few on Beacon Hill who is not of full of crap. Like Joan Crawford to the PepsiCo board she has made it clear, "Don't fuck with me fellas!" And my goodness, have you read the Globe lately? Does Terry … [Read more...]
Why are Massachusetts politicians like sponges?
Ten years ago there was a chance that all of this could change. In 1999 Massachusetts voters staged a citizens revolt to unseat the incumbent aristocracy that had controlled Massachusetts politics for years. The binding … [Read more...]
Clueless or Screwing Us Again
Governor Patrick is shoring up those Western Mass bona fides again. From The North Adams Transcript:Local officials are seething about Thursday's announcement of $168 million in federal stimulus funds for education -- the bulk of which they … [Read more...]
The Big Takeover
He says the beginning of it all was a change in strategy on the part of the Democratic Party:But in the late Nineties, a few years before Cassano took over AIGFP, all that changed. The Democrats, tired of getting slaughtered in the … [Read more...]
We Hear You
There has been a lot of discussion on BMG and elsewhere about some of the issues of the past few weeks and rightfully so. As a Commonwealth, everyone is feeling the impact of the national economic downturn, and we are all anxious … [Read more...]
Do You care enough about Government Reform to
read Carmen's just disappeared diary on pending ethics reform and get on the record with your Rep and Senator and tell them it's time to legislate tighter and clearer restrictions on persons who are compensated by a for-profit or … [Read more...]
Gentry is alive and well and AIG is the poster child
I have slammed AIG and the government more specifically Tim Geitner for continuing this class warfare as I see it, the lack of understanding by them and these executives who just because of where they are and where they came from assures … [Read more...]
“Socialism for the rich, capitalism for everyone else”
Title cite here. Rolling Stone lays out the roots of the mess we are in, and discusses the awesome power possessed by the unelected Federal Reserve -- greater than that of the executive, legislative, and judiciary (except that they can … [Read more...]