Blog Chowder Archives
January 2013

A simple twist stretches the shoulders and neck, energizes the spine, stimulates your digestion and relieves fatigue, and backache. Therapeutic for asthma too.

Sit on the floor with your legs crossed or straight out in front of you, or if you prefer sit in a chair.

On this edition of Barnstable Today: Cape Cod Commission Director of Technical Services Glenn Cannon leads us through the planned changes to the Airport Rotary.

By Jack Sheedy

Centuries turn, casting humanity headlong toward an uncertain future upon a planet tilted some 23 ½ degrees off its axis, basking one astronomical unit from the warming rays of mighty Sol.

Time parades by upon the crust of Terra, crusades are fought, children are born, and elderly folk die. How does God count the march of mankind’s toiling? In years? Decades? Generations? Or does His calendar operate on a larger scale? Centuries? Millennia? Geologic ages? Epochs? Periods? Eons?

Sometimes I write this blog because nobody else writes anything on a certain subjects, especially when it's about the economy. All during the campaign last year we were told by both candidates that there would be no middle class tax increases. Well that was a lie, taxes went up for all middle class tax payers, 2%. Of course, when the tax rate was reduced it was hailed as a tax cut for middle class families, when it went back up it was mostly ignored by the press any every liberal blogger in the world.

Storm Warning And More!

I hope you enjoyed the warm weather, because we're paying for it tonight as a big, megalopolis-sized storm, uhm, storms into the Cape Cod region.

The Governor made his temporary appointment of William Cowan to the US Senate seat that current Senator John Kerry is vacating, thereby ending the stand off with former Senator Scott Brown. 

To be fair, the Governor had to make the appointment as soon as the Senate approved John Kerry as Secretary of State, otherwise Massachusetts would be without representation in Washington. Scott Brown knew that, so he waited to see what the Governor would do before jumping in.

Willie Mo Cowan Is Your New Senator

Well, at least it wasn't Barney or Brownie. Governor Deval Patrick appointed his long-time aide and legal counsel William Cowan as our interim Senator.

The job opened up when former Senator John Kerry accepted the Secretary of State job. Patrick made the appointment after Kerry resigned his Senate seat.

Democrats want to create a pathway to citizenship for immigrants who are in this country illegally. Republicans don't want to reward illegal behavior. Democrats see a windfall of new voters. Republicans see an avalanche of public siphons. They prefer cheap labor instead.

There is a way to get to common ground, but it will elude both parties because they would each have to give up the thing they want most to get here; voters. Democrats want new voters. Republicans want to keep the old ones.

 By Alberta Sequeira

        (Excerpt taken from What is and isn’t Working for the Alcoholic and Addict: In Their Own Words, due to be published by Ms. Sequeira in the late spring or early summer of 2013. This Narrative Non-Fiction is written by thirty-four alcoholics and drug addicts from all walks of life).