Wednesday, April 26, 2006

"IS IT RONNIE THE RAT OR GEORGE THE KING?"

I watched the prez on the tube yesterday and I feel a lot safer and I am assrured that fuel for my truck will now be cheap.....YAH RIGHT! What did strike me is the fact that Georgie and his Spinners are trying to copy, almost word for word, from the Reagan play book. Remember when Ronnie the Rat came on the TV and had this big demonstration on how driving slower (55 mph ) would put us on the road to lower gas prices! Well that didn't work, but it did generate more monies from tickets and a winfall for the insurance companies (surcharges for speeding) . So again more bullshit from the prez and the Republican Party trying to protect the interest of the wealthy at the expense of the working man, without having to do anything real. Although it was a great opportunity for the prez to accomplish one of his pet projects....gutting the environmental laws. Snuck that one in nicely he did! When are we going to wake up in this country and take back our AMERICA? People get your heads out from up your asses and Impeach the bastard and his cronies, throw the whole bunch out and investigate the shit out of them and throw their butts in jail where they belong....they are traitors to the American way of life! On another note.....The Glen Story continues.....now the same stupid people are pissing about this and that. Not in my backyard, to much noise, to many people, ruin the peaceful tranquility of the Town, turn our daughters into whores and our sons into pimps, ruin the habitat of the "Brown Beak Red Breasted Northern Dung Sucker", and the stupidity goes on...... At least if their sons and daughters are pimps and whores they will have a job, more than they have now! What Do You Think?

Sunday, April 23, 2006

"OLD TIME MOVIES"

I was watching an old time movie yesterday, you know the old black and white film with poor acting and a bad worn out plot. Well maybe I wasn't actually watching the movie more like starring in the direction of the TV and letting the scenery on the screen time travel me back to those good old days. My mind was adrift in some remote long gone period when things seemed simpler and less complicated. I found myself back in North Adams around, Oh I don't know, you know those olden times! I was seeing the old automobiles and wishing I had one, watching people scurry hither and fro, slipping in and out of the many stores on main street. Wondering what they were thinking and what was important to them, wishing I could communicate. Wanting to stand on the street corner with that group of gentlemen and listen in on their conversation or go up to the Lafayette Club and have a frosty one with the boys while easedropping in on their banter. Not that life was easier back then, hell it was a lot tougher and shorter. Maybe that's what was dragging me back? The longing for a time when people were stronger because they had to be and beliefs were more sincere because sincerity was held in such high regard. An era when a persons word was his seal and badge of integrity and people prided themselves in being honest. Drifting back to busy Old North Adams I became part of the whole City. ( and back then it was a City ) A multitude of people working in the many factories that were around. All busy with the concerns of life but with one big difference from today.......there was hope in the future! They felt they were working for something and what they were doing really made a difference and there was pride in their work. I next found myself on a playground, maybe Freeman School or Johnson School, or Braton School, The French School or maybe St. Josephs, I really don't know which one it was maybe it was all of them. But I was pondering how back then you had neighborhoods and the hub was the School you went to. You learned and developed pride in belonging to something. Where as today it is just a single learning factory pumping out kids that can take a hell of a good test. I may have been feeling sorry for the youngins of today because they were missing out on a lot of stuff that isn't on a test, things that build character and backbone and tools that they will need later in life. Well the movie is over and I don't have a clue what it was about! I'm sure it will be on again.....next time do you want to join me on a trip?
It's Your Dime!

Thursday, April 20, 2006

"YOU GOTTA BE SHITTIN ME"

Does ADAMS really think that what they are doing at the Glen is Progress & Development? Are they outta their frikin minds? Is there something wrong with the air in Adams that effects their brains? With all the venues that have been proposed for the Glen, from a Casino (which I thought was a great idea) to condos (which I thought was a bad idea) they decided to settle on this foolish idea. The "TREE HUGGERS" and the "BIRD WATCHERS" and the "Au Natural" crowd have finely takin over. They had a world class gulf course there that just needed maintaining but they let that go in the toilet. What is wrong with those people? Now in concert with the HUGGERS, WATCHERS, and LOOK BUT DON"T TOUCH group they are going to "Develop" the Glen? I don't think so! You gotta laugh though because already those interests are demanding that before anything is done the Town has to hand over 1,000 acres to them. And what is their center piece for this wonderful project.....An Enviromental Awareness Shack! You gotta be shittin me! A word to the residents of Adams....hold on to your pocket books and life savings because your taxes are about to go through the roof. You don't think that the huggers and that group are going to foot the bill do you? Instead of adding to the Town coffers, this project is going to suck the Town dry and to top it all off you won't be able to use the land for anything but standing on a pre- determined plot and just looking...."Honey, isn't the view of the mountains just so beautiful and natural" You gotta be shittin me! Adams... get your head outta your ass and build something at the Glen that will bring in some money!..... What do you think....It's Your Dime!

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

"THE NEW NORTH ADAMS"


Yup...I finally found the real answer to our dwindling population and low tourist attraction dilemma. It has been starring us right in the face the whole time. Turn the wasted swamp land that the Hoosic River South Branch meanders through into a great lake! Let me explain... Dam up the river at the point where the existing flood control begins, behind the radio tower. then on the other end...on the Adams - North Adams border build a retaining dyke across the low lying land. (to be a nice neighbor...ask Adams if they would like to join the endeavor, which would extend the Lake even further and cut them in on the action, but knowing their dislike for anything that even sounds like progress and development, I'm sure they would refuse) Moving on...being that all this land is low lying swamp you wouldn't have to do much but add some stones around the sides. The secret is to dredge out the swamp area to maybe a depth of 40 to 60 feet deep. Now some land will have to be taken by the mayor, for the good of the many, but that isn't a problem. Existing businesses on high ground would stay because they are above the lake level. On the outflow, dam side of the lake we will install several low flow electric generators, selling the power back to the electric company and the monies going directly to the residents of North Adams via a yearly check. Next, as part of the rejuvenation process, on the hill or mountain, depending on your perspective, on the westerly side of Rt. 8 across from the radio tower we will build a large multi function lodge. A low profile log building, so as to keep in step with the environment and the look of the mountain. the main access to the lodge will be a train trolley that will wind through the wooded area to the south of the mountain starting on Rt.8. The cars will be mostly clear plexie glass so as to afford the passengers an unobstructed view of the ride and also so as to be almost invisible from any observer. the tracks will be in the ground so you won't see them and the width of the train trolley will be 8 feet. There will have to be an access road to the lodge and that will be on the northernly side of the mountain. Again the mayor will have to exercise his "take um Daniel" stamp and take the parcel for parking and pickup of passengers that don't want to ride the train trolley. A shuttle buss will be used here and deliveries will have to be made. Their will be no parking or vehicles allowed on the mountain for obvious reasons. The lodge itself will be a lowprofile log building that will be mostly under ground with guest rooms and decks allowing for a view of the lake. Built into the environment. A first class restaurant over looking the lake with outside and inside dining, a banquet hall, rooms to rent, and a visitor center. This is just a rough draft and the details will be worked out at a later date...... So what do you think? It's Your Dime!

Monday, April 17, 2006

"THE VERMONT LAND RUSH"

There is a land rush in Vermont!.....well at least you would think so going by the prices that local real estate agents are trying to get for some pieces. We're talking remote, no electric, no sewer, no gas, no nuttin...and the roads to get to these parcels are only passable with ATV's in the summer and maybe snowmobiles in winter. So what gives? More greed? Do they think that local people are stupid enough to pay their inflated prices or maybe they are only trying to get out of towners to buy that have more money than brains. We ain't talkin Massachusetts here. We already know what happened to land prices in our own City (town). Once the real estate agents get their grubby hands on property it becomes unafordable to local people, actually they prefer out of towners. So any one out there got and acreage (24 +) I prefer Vermont because they haven't been regulated to death......yet.......with permitidous, and cofferaddalotus...two of the terminal deceases we here in North Adams are effected with. Any way I will pay a fair price for land if it suites my needs....remote, doesn't have to have electric, a brook or stream is desirable and wanted, like to shoot guns without complaining neighbors, and a descent access road to the land. OK I'll be waiting for your call.

Sunday, April 16, 2006

"HAPPY EASTER"

I hope everyone out there in Blog Land has a very Happy EASTER.

Friday, April 14, 2006

"THE SIGNS, THEY ARE A CHANGING" (opus 1 in D minor)

I love the key of D minor. It conjures up a since of foreboding, tugs at the nerve endings of doom and gloom. Puts you in a state of depression. Ah.... music, the outward visible form of sharing personal inner emotions with others. A conduit to ones inner self that can be transmitted to the rest of humanity. Ever just sit around slurpin on a bruski and doing a joint ( called pissin in the wind) and listening to some Pink Floyd? Ya right you say....and the check is in the mail,... ya, but I didn't inhale!..... Anyway what does this have to do with anything? Well probably everything. Look around at the situation that the world is in today. Not very humanistic in a humanintarian sort of way. We seem to be on the negative side of life, the black side, the underside, the reverse side, the evil parallel universe,... you get the meaning. Let me pose a question to you? Why is it easier to kick our neighbor when he is down, than it is to offer him a hand up? Why does the nature of the beast always take the side opposite the side that will benefit and enhance our short stay here on earth? Why is it easier to do evil than to do good? Why is it so difficult for those intrusted with our well being to look after our interest instead of the interest of those that really don't need looking after? Somewhere along the way humanity got on the wrong path. Maybe we as a people are inherently evil? Maybe it is a lingering trait from our pre history days when we were in a strictly survival mode against the forces around us. The era when it was either him or me that would survive. Actually that is a pretty lame excuse today. We have evolved to a point where we realize that in order for us to survive everyone has to survive. So..... what the hell has all this gibberish got to do with anything? I think the point I am trying to bring to the forefront in this blog is that there has to be some drastic changes made in our perception of what is important and what is merely survival mode thinking. Stop for a moment (take another toke and a sip) and look at where we are. The laws of the land seem to favor the few, at the expense of the many (Spock... Star Trek ) Just a little side trip here... a great number of cultures and religions, in their teachings, forecast in the year 2012 ( only 6 years away) the "World as we know it will no longer exist" I would surmise that they are talking about the demise of a wampom based system of existence. Wouldn't that be great! But knowing the forces that are dictating our lives and influencing our elected officials it would take a global disaster to bring us from a D minor existence to a C Sharp existence. What do you think?

Thursday, April 13, 2006

"WHAT HAS HAPPEN TO BLOGIN?"

I always thought that BLOGIN was a means where one could spew out their thoughts and engage in conversation with others. What some of our local blogs have turned into are "HOME PAGES" dedicated to some sort of self gratification numbers game. The authors just seems to want to put themselves on a pedestal and seem more interested in advertising themselves than engaging in true blogin. Hell, on some of these self gratifying "HOME PAGES" (not to be confused with true blogs) You can't even submit a comment! Lets stay focused on Blogin and the purity of the blog. I am more interested in what YOUR thoughts are, not the thoughts of someone else....if I want that sort of article I can read the newspaper!
What Do You Think? It's Your Dime!

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

"TO DO LIST"

Good morning citizens... Well what is on the "TO DO LIST" for today, lets see? Wow! There are a lot of things that have to be done. I had better shorten my morning wake-up coffee break and get to it. Lets see,....... number one....... Impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney and put them on a buss headed to a Federal Penitentiary. That should be easy enough to do. I better make sure there are enough seats on the buss though because they are going to have lots of Republican Party Members going with them.
OK, number two..........Round up all the illegal immigrants,... will start with the homes of Republican Party Big Shots and Corporate Mucky Mucks,... Because that is where most of them are slaving, and ship their asses back to the Mother Land, the employers will be put on the buss with George. Also have to finish the Fence between Mexico and the U.S. I'll have to buy more land mines.
number three on the list.......... Nuke Iran, North Korea, The Palestinians, South America, The Gay Liberation Front, and if I have any left over maybe I'll lob one into France just for some chuckles!
Wow time flies when you are having fun. It's almost dinner time. I'll take in some fast food and get back to work.
OK, number four is to go and unlock all the so called SECRET documents and have "The People" reclassify them so that what is really Secret remains Secret and the rest of the dribble is open to the public.
The rest of the afternoon will be spent sucking down some bruskies and reorganizing the TAX SYSTEM, and our POLITICAL SYSTEM.
Stop up and pound a few with me, it will be fun!

Monday, April 10, 2006

"LETS START OUR OWN, BUT THIS TIME LETS DO IT RIGHT!"

Good mornin! I have decided to throw our current people out of power, National and local, and fix the current broken system. Our first problem is to make the wording in our new Constitution very concise, so that it isn't twisted every which way by sleazy lawyers looking to subvert its meaning to the benefit of some corporation looking to enhance their bottom line. We have to keep it simple because the people of this country seem to be simple minded and can't understand the complexities of a representative form of government, which is evident by their choice of the current administrations. OK, lets begin.....

Revision #1... No person can serve more than two consecutive terms in any office or position.

Revision #2... The TAX System will change to a Flat Tax System with the starting amount set at a percentage amount above the poverty level. Deletion of all deductions in all categories and removable of all tax sheltering systems. Corporations and or any enity which has income from any source, will be considered as an individual. The percentage amount of taxaction will be a single fixed rate covering all amounts of income. The percentage rate will be visited once a year by congress ( APRIL 15th ) and adjusted as needed.

Revision #3... All judges will be elected to office by popular vote and their term limited to two consecutive terms. The number of positions available will be dictated by the Court System Case Load.

Revision #4... All elections will be by popular vote.

Revision #5... The House and Senate will present to the public once a year on April 15th, ALL measures and bills in their final form to be voted on by the people by popular vote. No amendment will be attached to any form of legislation that does not relate specifically to that legislation.

Revision #6... Congress will stay in session for eleven months.

Revision #7... No person or organizing shall transfer by any means any gratuity in any form to government employees or their families. All lobbying can only be done in the Front Halls of the Capital Buildings and lobbyist are forbidden access to locker rooms, shower rooms, dressing rooms, exercise rooms, or any room where they may come in contact with government employees.

Revision #8... Revisions can be revised by popular vote.

This is just the highlights of the revised Revisions. Like any good government it 's purpose is to serve the publics best interest by letting the people control the process directly.
So what would you include?

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

"INSURANCE INDUSTRY WINS AGAIN!"

Well congrarts to all you CEO's of the "Conglomerate Insurance Party of Taxachusetts". Again you have succeeded in cramming down the throats of the people of Taxachusetts your desire to dictate your bottom line at the expense of the working people. And thank you to all the WIENERS we elected to watch out for our pocket books. Once again the peoples representatives have shown that they don't want to do anything to jepodize there standing with BIG MONEY Insurance Companies. Maybe you missed the message? So here it is again, you min't want to make a copy of it this time....."We The People of Massachusetts want You to Control the COST of MEDICAL services and Medicine by DICTATING the PRICES that can be charged, not allowing the INSURANCE INDUSTRY to dictate the system!"..... Is that plain enough to you? You have shown your indignation once again to the working people of Massachusetts by putting the burden of Health Care squarely on their backs. THANKS AGAIN!