1 --- What’s wrong with our court system? An immigrant who spends six years
in high school and junior college taking courses using English is released because a proper translator cannot be located. What utter nonsense.
in high school and junior college taking courses using English is released because a proper translator cannot be located. What utter nonsense.Abe Lincoln once said: "With public opinion nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed." I think this can be applied our judicial system and our constitutional protections. Those protections were never intended to be an excuse to release an accused child rapist.
The surest way to damage the constitution is to make a joke of it as this case does.
2 --- What’s the bet on rain Saturday night in Middleboro 
when 10,000 of Middleboro’s 12,000 registered voters are expected to appear at the high school’s football field to vote on the casino proposal being railroaded through the town? A peek at the weather service long term forecasts call for rain. Oh Joy!
Lots of numbers being thrown around but how many have serious backing should things not go well for the billion dollar proposed casino.
How many cars will need to be accommodated?
The town is supposed to receive $11 million per year. Is it guaranteed money or is it a projected percentage of some of the casino’s revenue stream? If the town must assume some of the revenue risk along with the big investors who will pay for all the town’s extra services needed to maintain public safety?
Will the local towns, who will feel the effect of the casino’s impact locally such as that experienced by communities surrounding Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods? Thousands of low skill and low pay jobs are created generating housing and schooling needs which cause massive increases in education and health care costs.
70,000 daily appear at the Connecticut casinos. Has the state done due diligence on the traffic situation? Who will build the extra roads and access roads to the playpen? The Patriots have only a dozen or so 70,000 fan days and far fewer than 70,000 cars in Foxboro. It is a nightmare for people in ALL the surrounding towns. This will be equal to 365 Patriots games a year in Middleboro.
The Bridgewaters, Plymouth, Wareham (already a fiscal basket case), Carver, Kingston, and the other surrounding communities had better learn to live with huge Prop 2-1/2 votes on a regular basis. The state had better plan large increases in local aid to those communities at the expense of the rest of the Commonwealth’s cities and towns, including Boston.
For those of you with the time to read it, here’s the proposed agreement to be put before the Middleboro Town Meeting Saturday night:
http://www.middleborough.com/General/Agreement.pdf
A Middleboro casino will have a negative financial impact on the entire state.
That is a safe bet.
3 --- Here’s an item from John Fund’s Political Diary last week. It seems voters still respond to conservative values:
"A special House election in Georgia yesterday produced a stunning result. In a runoff between two Republicans because no Democrat finished among the top two candidates in last month's primary, GOP physician Paul Broun scored a shocking 50.4% victory over former state senator Jim Whitehead.
when 10,000 of Middleboro’s 12,000 registered voters are expected to appear at the high school’s football field to vote on the casino proposal being railroaded through the town? A peek at the weather service long term forecasts call for rain. Oh Joy!Lots of numbers being thrown around but how many have serious backing should things not go well for the billion dollar proposed casino.
How many cars will need to be accommodated?
The town is supposed to receive $11 million per year. Is it guaranteed money or is it a projected percentage of some of the casino’s revenue stream? If the town must assume some of the revenue risk along with the big investors who will pay for all the town’s extra services needed to maintain public safety?
Will the local towns, who will feel the effect of the casino’s impact locally such as that experienced by communities surrounding Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods? Thousands of low skill and low pay jobs are created generating housing and schooling needs which cause massive increases in education and health care costs.
70,000 daily appear at the Connecticut casinos. Has the state done due diligence on the traffic situation? Who will build the extra roads and access roads to the playpen? The Patriots have only a dozen or so 70,000 fan days and far fewer than 70,000 cars in Foxboro. It is a nightmare for people in ALL the surrounding towns. This will be equal to 365 Patriots games a year in Middleboro.
The Bridgewaters, Plymouth, Wareham (already a fiscal basket case), Carver, Kingston, and the other surrounding communities had better learn to live with huge Prop 2-1/2 votes on a regular basis. The state had better plan large increases in local aid to those communities at the expense of the rest of the Commonwealth’s cities and towns, including Boston.
For those of you with the time to read it, here’s the proposed agreement to be put before the Middleboro Town Meeting Saturday night:
http://www.middleborough.com/General/Agreement.pdf
A Middleboro casino will have a negative financial impact on the entire state.
That is a safe bet.
3 --- Here’s an item from John Fund’s Political Diary last week. It seems voters still respond to conservative values:
"A special House election in Georgia yesterday produced a stunning result. In a runoff between two Republicans because no Democrat finished among the top two candidates in last month's primary, GOP physician Paul Broun scored a shocking 50.4% victory over former state senator Jim Whitehead.
"(Dr. Broun) won by going over the heads of party leaders with a pledge that, once in Congress, he would apply a four-way test before voting on a bill: Is it constitutional and a proper function of government? Is it morally correct? Is it something we really need? Is it something we can afford? He capped off this legislative commitment by offering strong support for efforts to overturn the Supreme Court's decision upholding the power of eminent domain over private property. He also strongly endorsed the abolition of the IRS and its replacement with a single national sales tax."
4 --- Congressman Ron Paul is raising substantial amounts of money for a second tier candidate for the Republican nomination for president. Paul’s stands on the issues are firm and well thought out.
I have some difficulty accepting his call for a withdrawal from Iraq. He was one of the few (if any) Republicans to vote against the Iraq action. He has locked horns with Rudy Giuliani on the subject. His position is far different from that of Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska or the other Republicans now wavering on the Iraq issue.
Paul is not a pacifist. He favored our action in Afghanistan and would support an even greater effort to bring those who harmed us on 9/11 than most would condone.
On virtually every other issue he is a rock solid conservative who is a strong believer in the fundamental questions asked by Dr. Broun in his race: “Is it constitutional and a proper function of government? Is it morally correct? Is it something we really need? Is it something we can afford? He capped off this legislative commitment by offering strong support for efforts to overturn the Supreme Court's decision upholding the power of eminent domain over private property. He also strongly endorsed the abolition of the IRS and its replacement with a single national sales tax.”
4 --- Congressman Ron Paul is raising substantial amounts of money for a second tier candidate for the Republican nomination for president. Paul’s stands on the issues are firm and well thought out.
I have some difficulty accepting his call for a withdrawal from Iraq. He was one of the few (if any) Republicans to vote against the Iraq action. He has locked horns with Rudy Giuliani on the subject. His position is far different from that of Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska or the other Republicans now wavering on the Iraq issue.
Paul is not a pacifist. He favored our action in Afghanistan and would support an even greater effort to bring those who harmed us on 9/11 than most would condone.
On virtually every other issue he is a rock solid conservative who is a strong believer in the fundamental questions asked by Dr. Broun in his race: “Is it constitutional and a proper function of government? Is it morally correct? Is it something we really need? Is it something we can afford? He capped off this legislative commitment by offering strong support for efforts to overturn the Supreme Court's decision upholding the power of eminent domain over private property. He also strongly endorsed the abolition of the IRS and its replacement with a single national sales tax.”
Now here’s the kicker. Ron Paul is raising more money from military families than any of the other Republican candidates. It’s time to listen to what Ron Paul has to say.
5 --- The make believe Native American professor at the University of C
olorado will finally get his walking papers.
olorado will finally get his walking papers. Ward Churchill came to public attention/notoriety when he wrote that the victims of 9/11 were merely “little Hitlers”. That opened Churchill to scrutiny.
During that scrutiny it was learned he is a plagiarist. A panel eventually concluded that he had plagiarized, fabricated and falsified some of his research and writings.
The wheels of justice sometimes turn very slowly. Slow, but in this case, surely.
6 --- The NFL to Michael Vick -- Stay home!
The wheels of justice sometimes turn very slowly. Slow, but in this case, surely.
6 --- The NFL to Michael Vick -- Stay home!
7 --- Then there’s Jon Lester, young Red Sox lefthander who defeated cancer and has returned to his pitching dominance in a 6-2 Red Sox win last night.Yes, some players really can be role models for the youth and those who are battling cancer.
Ciao.......Moe
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