Vastly contract the health insurance options available to incumbent state civil servants and retirees.
Nice Guy Huh? Real Caring Moderate Republican...
Y'know...F**k Charlie Baker and the Horse He Rode In On for the sheer amount of Mishaugas this Jackass has caused a 94 year old widow in my family that depends on the healthcare options provided by Charlie Baker's Skinflint G.I.C. !!
The AFL-CIO et al is up in arms about this decision seemingly taken in secret as well they should be, however antagonizing the Commonwealth's Civil Servants in an election year is an old GOP Gubernatorial Tactic, and Charlie Baker does love "The Classics".
He will no doubt pose as the friend of the taxpayer while tsk tsking "greedy state workers" (I can just see the Howie Carr column now)...like I said its an old trick but it works. So just for opposition's sake (and I don't give a rat's ass about "the optics") I hope someone with some muscle and numbers in Organized Labor has the common christian decency to Picket Baker's "State of the State" tonight at the State House....if for no one else then for a certain ninety four year old widow I know who doesn't need this shit at this point in her long honorable life!!
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Monday, January 22, 2018
It Requires Repeating that...
Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell could screw up a two-car funeral without ever getting out of bed! They are a matched pair of incendiary anarchists, they have no proper notions of "Governance" in the constitutional sense of the term, they see their respectful jobs as exclusively centered on destruction and or the redistribution of wealth upwards in the overclass.
That is It.
As long as they both hold positions of public trust and authority within congress we will stagger thru shutdown after shutdown after shutdown, and if they manage to escape said fiscal morass, it will literally be by accident.
That is It.
As long as they both hold positions of public trust and authority within congress we will stagger thru shutdown after shutdown after shutdown, and if they manage to escape said fiscal morass, it will literally be by accident.
Sunday, January 21, 2018
Stephen Kinzer...
has a mannered precise lawyerly column in today's Globe detailing the important differences between Genocide and mere Atrocity.
Genocide is defined as the systemic annihilation of whole layers of the human population for religious or political reasons....Atrocity is defined as...something else.
Seven hundred words to the column and Kinzer's definition of atrocity comes down to "its not as bad as genocide".
By comparison I am moved to recall an entire paragraph written by Mickey Spillane in one of his spy novels wherein the differences between "A Dame" and "A Broad" were carefully and incoherently delineated.
To me, All Atrocities are ipso facto Genocidal in Character, if you are one of the intended victims...precise categories matter most of all to logicians and lawyers, victims have to take to their heels long before the discussions conclude.
Genocide is defined as the systemic annihilation of whole layers of the human population for religious or political reasons....Atrocity is defined as...something else.
Seven hundred words to the column and Kinzer's definition of atrocity comes down to "its not as bad as genocide".
By comparison I am moved to recall an entire paragraph written by Mickey Spillane in one of his spy novels wherein the differences between "A Dame" and "A Broad" were carefully and incoherently delineated.
To me, All Atrocities are ipso facto Genocidal in Character, if you are one of the intended victims...precise categories matter most of all to logicians and lawyers, victims have to take to their heels long before the discussions conclude.
Thursday, January 18, 2018
I am gonna try and do this politely but honestly
but if Governor's Council Member Marilyn Petitto Devaney is "primaried" this year, all due attention should be paid to her challenger & their qualifications for office. Ms. Devaney is very zealous and eager and dedicated to her elected position I have heard of no scandal or corruption attending on her eighteen years in office, but she is even twitchier, more discursive and long winded than usual, its likely time for her to retire from public life. I have yet to see her go before an audience in her district where she didn't have to be shut down by the moderator for blabbing on past her alloted time she loses listeners easily and rarely recovers them.
Ms Devaney perpetuates in public life because she occupies the perfect down ballot office where incumbency, obscurity and likely a tinge of gender can still tip the scales.
Its just time for someone else, hopefully as zealous but also someone more coherent & dare I say it, dignified.
Sorry this is a polite as I can phrase, its just time for a change.
Ms Devaney perpetuates in public life because she occupies the perfect down ballot office where incumbency, obscurity and likely a tinge of gender can still tip the scales.
Its just time for someone else, hopefully as zealous but also someone more coherent & dare I say it, dignified.
Sorry this is a polite as I can phrase, its just time for a change.
Monday, January 15, 2018
Annual MLK Blogging:
From the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."
Abraham Lincoln, that thoroughly national man in outlook, could not have said it better....Doctor King is the logical final conclusion of all Lincoln's ideas about citizenship, national unity, the urgencies of Justice and our freedoms.
"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."
Abraham Lincoln, that thoroughly national man in outlook, could not have said it better....Doctor King is the logical final conclusion of all Lincoln's ideas about citizenship, national unity, the urgencies of Justice and our freedoms.
Friday, January 12, 2018
Jay Gonzelez in Menotomy (again)
I'm starting to take a shine to Gonzalez as a deomcratic gubernatorial aspirant, mind you I still wanna hear from Warren & Massie...but Gonzalez is starting to "Wear Well" as far as this obscure blogger is concerned.
He is a reasonable affable public speaker who reminds me of the supremely affable Deval Patrick in his speech pattern. He sounds fairly realistic about the issues from a progressive perspective, he isn't blasting the "Trump-Trumpet" every other sentence (Jaysuz thats a relief!), he has a good set of beefs with Charlie Baker so he must be doing something right to rate a GOP videographer dogging his every step (a big redheaded lout I didn't catch his name, he kept quiet to his credit thru the whole appearance).
Besides I begin to like Gonzalez' core argument, which is, that if all Charlie Baker offers us is sheer stagnation and gently falling bond ratings, then all then means is we are simply retrogressing slower than the national average so to speak with an Administration in Washington seemingly hell bent on wholesale devolution into a Neanderthal State.
That to me is an elegant simple argument, whether the democratic primary or the general election cohorts buy it is another thing entirely. I do wonder if like Jimmy Tingle, Jay is trying to run a good tight one hoping for fairer winds in 2022...but then again none of us may even be here to vote come 2022.
:)
He is a reasonable affable public speaker who reminds me of the supremely affable Deval Patrick in his speech pattern. He sounds fairly realistic about the issues from a progressive perspective, he isn't blasting the "Trump-Trumpet" every other sentence (Jaysuz thats a relief!), he has a good set of beefs with Charlie Baker so he must be doing something right to rate a GOP videographer dogging his every step (a big redheaded lout I didn't catch his name, he kept quiet to his credit thru the whole appearance).
Besides I begin to like Gonzalez' core argument, which is, that if all Charlie Baker offers us is sheer stagnation and gently falling bond ratings, then all then means is we are simply retrogressing slower than the national average so to speak with an Administration in Washington seemingly hell bent on wholesale devolution into a Neanderthal State.
That to me is an elegant simple argument, whether the democratic primary or the general election cohorts buy it is another thing entirely. I do wonder if like Jimmy Tingle, Jay is trying to run a good tight one hoping for fairer winds in 2022...but then again none of us may even be here to vote come 2022.
:)
Thursday, January 11, 2018
Comedian Jimmy Tingle
who is improbably enough, the current front runner for the democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor...is collecting the endorsement of former Lt Governor Thomas P. O'Neill III in North Cambridge tonight.
O'Neill of course, is the son of the Supreme Maacher, the Late Tip O'Neill, US Speaker of the House. O'Neill The Third hasn't had a big footprint in democratic politics for a few years now, but the name carries storied weight and he is a man with many many friends within and without the corridors of power, it sends a message that Tingle is indeed "A Serious Candidate". In short, "Its a Good Get".
I remain ambivalent about Tingle's candidacy, I'm as a rule throughly disenchanted with the parade of untested amateurs that routinely parachute in the Lt Gubernatorial Primary while seasoned experienced public servants settle down quietly in their safe seats to watch the Big Show. And Tingle despite his charm and obvious brains is still out of this amateur class...however at the moment he is the only game in town, in a binary choice between Him and Palfrey on the ballot I have to go with Jimmy Tingle reservations and all.
Of some import, down the road I do have to wonder about his long term intentions, this is gonna be a tough year for the democrats to unseat Charlie Baker (although we must still make the strongest possible effort all the same)...Tingle has at best, indifferent chances of being elected Lt Governor. I'm guessing his long range plan to make suitable contacts within and without the democratic part, build up a base at the polls, develop a fundraising profile...and run for Governor in 2022....you heard it hear last folks.
:)
O'Neill of course, is the son of the Supreme Maacher, the Late Tip O'Neill, US Speaker of the House. O'Neill The Third hasn't had a big footprint in democratic politics for a few years now, but the name carries storied weight and he is a man with many many friends within and without the corridors of power, it sends a message that Tingle is indeed "A Serious Candidate". In short, "Its a Good Get".
I remain ambivalent about Tingle's candidacy, I'm as a rule throughly disenchanted with the parade of untested amateurs that routinely parachute in the Lt Gubernatorial Primary while seasoned experienced public servants settle down quietly in their safe seats to watch the Big Show. And Tingle despite his charm and obvious brains is still out of this amateur class...however at the moment he is the only game in town, in a binary choice between Him and Palfrey on the ballot I have to go with Jimmy Tingle reservations and all.
Of some import, down the road I do have to wonder about his long term intentions, this is gonna be a tough year for the democrats to unseat Charlie Baker (although we must still make the strongest possible effort all the same)...Tingle has at best, indifferent chances of being elected Lt Governor. I'm guessing his long range plan to make suitable contacts within and without the democratic part, build up a base at the polls, develop a fundraising profile...and run for Governor in 2022....you heard it hear last folks.
:)
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