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At the end of this month Massachusetts will have largest amount of soldiers deployed in combat theaters since World War 2. FoxNews is making jokes about Gov Patrick visiting these soldiers.

  
 
 
 

I expect this BS from Bakers Parrots on Twitter. But… a “Professional New Organization” needs to be held to higher standards. Please let FoxNews know what you think @ fox25news Click Here

 
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  2. Joe B is apparently not a journalist so what’s the big deal? A little satire and maybe even an expression of an opinion. That reminds me…

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    In other news, I thoroughly enjoyed FOX25’s Joe Battenfeld’s hilarious tweets from the GOP convention.  Specifically:

    Now it’s official. Worst. Convention. Ever. GOP you owe me one day of my life. #fox 25

    Am coining a new term for someone giving a horrible speech. “Politoed” As in, she “politoed” it. #fox25

    I retweeted those, and then got this amusing reply:

    @bluemass group be careful. This is worst convention only because Dems haven’t had theirs yet. Grace Ross will speak, remember?

    Touché, Mr. Battenfeld, touché!

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  4. politically motivated? Other than fact finding missions from Congressmen/Senators, I would say all trips to AF/Iraq are politically motivated. COme to think of it, many of the so called “fact finding ” missions are politically motivated as well.

    • Look in the mirror. It was also convenient to be far far away when the Education folks blew up the best thing we do in the Commonwealth.  

        • Not as good as this one, though:

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          Hey Chris (0.00 / 4)
          I have no damn idea what you are talking about. Get out of your Mom’s basement and get out and see the world. It’s big and exciting and there are real people with different opinions than yours. And every once and awhile you need to get off the fence and make a tough choice. If your ass were on fire you wouldn’t know whether to reach for a bucket of water or wait for someone to tell you what to do. You are pathetic.  

          by: David Whelan @ Sat Jul 24, 2010 at 17:30:48 PM EDT

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          p>Mr. Neer, meet the chickens.  Chickens, meet your new roost.

          • Can we get some of our regulars who actually want to keep this platform reality-based to be more active on the weekends?  David Whelan has managed to litter several threads posted within the last day or so with nothing but non-substantive insults.  He should be given an enforced vacation from BMG.

            • Unfortunately, BMG is about the last place I think to post or read these days.  I came back today for the first time in two weeks and immediately regretted it.

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              p>Like many of us, I’ve tried to make BMG more reality based.  All I’ve ever gotten for it is snarky mail from Mr. Neer.  Frankly, it’s the editors bed to lie in…

              • I finally gave a zero rating to one of his comments yesterday, partly on that comment’s “merits” if you will and partly because he had it coming.  As of this writing four others have followed suit and I believe it takes eight 0s to hide.  I’ve noticed the several 6s you’ve given me over the last couple days and I appreciate the affirmation.

                • Unless the admins step in and ban him, he’s just going to continue throwing insults around and dragging the level of discourse down to schoolyard taunts. If you saw his Facebook photo, coupled with his anger management issues evident on BMG, you just know he was the kid that got the sh*t kicked out of him in grade school. Judging by his behaviour on a public forum, he never got over it.

                • BMG is now more Real World-based than Reality-based.  

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                  p>It’s all sound and fury, put forth by people who won’t recognize the allusion.

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                  p>Until the editors decide this isn’t what they want, nothing will change.

                • he deserves a 3.  I don’t think that hiding garbage reduces the creation of more garbage.  I think it’s better to just point out that it’s garbage, which is why I give 3 for hateful, ugly, dopey, or otherwise worthless.

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                  p>I save “delete” for double posts or other errors of browser.  Errors of judgment get a 3 so we can all see the error, and just maybe learn from it.

  7. It’s the soldiers that are at the butt end of this joke.  I think it’s the other guy.  It’s probably politically safer for him to stay with the troops than come home to political disarray and unrest, and deal with issues like casinos, the billion dollar hole in the three-week old budget, the watering down of education standards, charter schools and the like.  This isn’t 2006.

  9. Political satire perhaps! Perhaps a fair undersatnding of the horrible week that Deval Patrick had while embracing the troops. First, on a hot humid quiet Friday afternoon the architect of the Gloucester Charter fiasco, Mitch Chester, announces his intention to advise the BOE to vote in favor of embracing the Federal Education Standards being dangled like a carrot in front of all to see in exchange for $250 million or a part thereof. By the way best estimates are that much of that $250,000,000 or whatever part we get will be used to realign curriculum, pay for text books, and retrain teachers. Then on Wednesday, a hastily called BOE meeting happens in a small room in Malden in the morning, a venue and time that are terribly inconvenient for one and all. I’ve been in the building and the specific room. Trust me it’s everything described. So yes, Deval Patrick, Paul Reville, Mitch Chester, Maura Banta et al reversed 17 years of public education progress. Progress built on the backs originally of both Democrats and Republicans. Progress that continued in spite of funding challenges. So yes, the where was Deval question is relevant and Battenfeld’s snide comment is probably a bit harsh, but damn if Deval didn’t pick a bad (or good!) week to be out of town. So the Race to the Middle (RttM) starts in earnest and here’s hoping that the cordial relationship between Deval and Obama pays off because failure as it relates to our current grant application is not an option. $250 million goes pretty quickly so imagine what we can do with less. The unfunded mandates associated with training and text books won’t go away so cross your fingers, say a prayer, and hope that the grant writer have more success than round #1. Just as a reminder, round #1 resulted in a rather swell score of 13 out of 16. Closer to the bottom than the middle. We are never going to be Mississippi. Some of us who follow this stuff now wonder if we will still be Massachusetts. So Joe B you were rotten to Deval P., but who cares. The whole thing happened way to fast and being out of town is nothing less than a metaphor for the entire process.

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  10.   –William Shakespeare.

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    p>My heart goes out to the service members.  Other than combat, the most miserable experience is the VIP visit.  Politicians of all stripe want to show ma and pa at home that they really do care about the people sent to suffer and die in purposeless war.  

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    p>So the military public relations folks set up the tour.  Some officers whole duty is to parade VIPs around.  Tell them what the military wants them to hear.  Easy job.

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    p>But, most VIPs want to “talk” and be photoed with the junior enlisted and officers.  So, some poor junior grade souls are drafted to get up at zero-dark-thirty for a briefing on how to talk to the VIP, what to say and mostly what not to say.  The threats are made as to what will happen is the VIP is told something that is not to be said.  The victims are then required to dress in the best uniform they’ve got.  Inspected.  Brought to where the VIP will be and wait.  Then be brought to the VIP and get questioned while senior people listen for a misstatement.  

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    p>This unknown soldier is the hero of those VIPed.  The crossed fingers on the left hand is the sign of something done under duress.  One can only hope his enlistment ended before the brass found out.

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    p>“When you’re left wounded on Afganistan’s plains and the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains, And go to your God like a soldier”  –Rudyard Kipling

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    • I’ve never served.  I don’t know squat about being in the military.  However, it seems to me that for the soldiers serving in hostile territory, waking up early in the day, wearing your best, and being overly polite for a day does not seem like a particularly bad day.  Or maybe IEDs are peaches and cream?

  11. but to suggest it wasn’t politically motivated is idiocy.

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    p>I am wondering with all the LGBT Activists on this site, which has suggested that
    Deval Patrick should have addressed the DADT Policy in the press on the way to Iraq?

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    p>That policy effects MA servicemen and women too and maybe we need people like Patrick and other Governors, Senators, etc who are “our friends” to speak out against this un-American policy whenever they can.

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