CapeCodToday Blog Chowder

The operative word in their name is OLD.
Time to skip the OKHDC and go straight to the Mass Facilities Sighting Board.

Although I bought a pumpkin at the pumpkin patch, I think that it has become a commercial business and not just a church fundraiser. The church should start paying real estate taxes now, just like the nurseries and garden centers down the street that also sell pumpkins.

No choice gotta pay. The golf course IS the open space requirement for this cluster development. Popular in the 1980's, can't do golf instead of or as open space any more. If they stop subsidizing the golf course now, it will grow over. Better pay up an try to run a surplus later.

This move has more to do with sparing the Senator the indignity of watching lesser politicians climb over his body while it's still warm.The Senator wants to resign before he dies.

While he lives, Governor Patrick at the behest of President Obama, would have to appoint Kennedy's hand picked replacement. In effect, Ted gets to pick the next Senator.

The real reason Block Island waterfront home owners do not oppose wind mills is because they do not own the shoreline. Cape Cod homeowners own the shore, which allows them to think that they own the view as well.
Otherwise, Rhode Islanders would be just the selfish bastards that our local swells are.

I especially like those Save Our Sound signs in the window.

Ironic that they call it the Fresh Air Fund, when Cape Cod has the worst air quality of any region in Massachusetts. Guess they named it back in the 60's when the air was cleaner here compared to there.

Here we go again; it's about the birds, the fish and the tourists. It's never about the swells getting what they want; owning the sea even beyond the shoreline that they already own. Now a new thing on their list of demands; the airspace over the sound. Get the feeling that we're all being held hostage by greedy little bastards who already own everything else.

Give me a break. Teaching in public schools do not require a Masters. If a fraction of teachers have one, it's usually a Masters in Education form Bridgewater State College.

Quick, what's the best public high school on Cape Cod? Sorry, that was a trick question.

What we have now is a circle of mediocrity. Mediocre students graduating from mediocre high schools going to mediocre colleges getting mediocre degrees and coming back to teach in the same mediocre schools.

What's this about the first murder in Yarmouth in 20 years? Didn't they shoot and kill a Brazilian at a traffic stop in Yarmouth last year?

Imagine how generally clueless the Selectwoman from Yarmouth, Suzanne McAuliffe has to be to beleive that the Cape Wind cable is 8 feet (instead of 8 inches) wide! Of course she has those lying SOS at the Cape Cod Times to blame for that. Even Cliff Carol didn't fall for that one.

While we're on the subject, the new Airport Manager didn't aquit himself well either. His opposition to Cape Wind is in direct contradiction to the support of it by Dan Wolf, the biggest carrier of air passengers and pilots that will be flying over the wind farm. If he's not worried, what's Bud Breault worried about? The air traffic controllers comfortably seated back at the tower?

APCC donors should demand the disclosure of that information. They should also complain to the "Network for Good" of which they are a member, if they don't get it.
You can also check with Barnstable County,(FIA)because they receive substantial public funding, they would have to disclose salary information. You can also ask the members of her Business Roundtable how much she makes.
If we all knew how much Maggie Giest made, or how much John O'Brien is getting paid to lobby, the outrage would be similar to that of AIG's bonuses.

Bill, your comments are bordering on the obsurd. Why didn't you just tell us in the blog that there is a meeting of the Commissioners and the Assembly Delegates next week to discuss the County Budget.

What do you say? Are we all invited? So we can have a discussion? And reach a consensus?

Please don't forget to tell us in your next blog if you're running for re-election in 2010.
We have to start processing your positions in that context.

"At 11.5% unemployment something needs to be done". Raising the Registry tax to keep an already bloated County budget, and overpaid administrators, is not my idea of doing something.

Advising anyone that they should spend with the optimism that they can eventually afford to pay for it, may work if you have the authority to tax, but it's not a good idea for the rest of us. Let's remember that's how we got into this mess in the first place.

But I suspect these middle schoolers had no clue what you were talking about. Come to think of it, neither do I.

Sounds like Rep. Jeff Perry wants to be the next Minority Leader of the House. Followed up by a run for the State Senate, as soon as Terry Murray retires of course.

Listening tour my ass!

Can't let the homeschoolers take the MCAS. They might bring up the district's scores. And that wouldn't be fair to the other kiddies.

Amazing that this homeschooler went public. There is such antipathy* (homeschooled vocabulary word) for them by the public school districts. I'm sure there will be retribution* (that's another one.)

In my opinion, parents who homeschool should be given a stipend. After all, they're saving the taxpayers $8000 a year per student.

* Substitute hate and pay-back.

Resufacing projects are a waste of good stimulus. That's what the gas tax hikes are for.
Good thing alot of it's going to the RTA. Soon we'll all be riding the bus .... to the unemployment office.

I bet Salazar was not invited to Ted's Birthday Bash.

Let's be honest, this is a revenue generating gimmick for the County. The traffic mitigation angle is being used to prop up a tax on tourists.

Wow. Only reason BarbaraDurkin is back commenting on these blogs is to defend opponents of Cape Wind or to attack the supports of it. Precisely what she is complaining about. Hippo-crite.

The editor got it about right. The Red Cross didn't put any forethought into these awards. This one cheapens the value of all the others, and makes their outreach into the Brazilian community seem disingenuous.
In a 3 months period Van Ness rushed into a burning building, stopping a susptected DUIs at gunpoint, and shot an unarmed illegal alien. Sounds like this guy is hopped up on adrenaline all the time.
Saved one then offed one. Like Seinfeld says, he's even steven.

Voters to Pols: Drop Dead.

Sue Nickerson reminds me of what the character Sydney Ellen Wade said in The American President: "Failure to acheive any of the objectives for which I was hired."

Independent Listener = Independent Loser

So Peter Myers gets twice the responsibility and work for the same salary. Gotta love Rupert Murdoch.

Tomorrow's Headline: Man Survives Traffic Stop in Yarmouth.

Just for kicks, can you imagine the next generation ever building smaller houses than the previous one?
Why does everyone insist on waxing nostalgic about "Olde Cape Cape" anyway. PSD is building what their new monied clients want and what the zoning and building codes allow. Now if you want a real page turner pick up the Cape Cod 5 Cents Savings Bank annual report. Not only does it have pictures of old houses, but old money too.

How ethical was it for Ted K. to ask a favor of a fellow Senator who he knows was on the take.

Just saw the DPW putting up new welcome signs in Yarmouth.
Warning: Here we shoot first and ask questions later. Have a nice day!

It took me a while but I got it!
Bunny's Mellons aka The Girls of the Alliance

The town mothers are the real culprits here. There is real NIMBYism on the north side as well.
Bornstein bought the porperty to develop it. The village and town has thwarted him at every turn. So now they will proceed to the inevitable town buying the land to "protect" it from development.
The Town and State (thank you Mr. O'Leary) taxpayers will now pay dearly for the NIMBYism of a few. Not only will they have to come with $3-5M to buy the land, but will forgo the $25-40K a year in property taxes.

Bill Zammer is shrewd businessman. He'd rather take #666 with the minimum bid.

I do recall that the ones speaking "truth to power" in '02,'03,'04,'05,'06, ... were the supporters of Cape Wind. How things have changed. Now that the opposition is in the minority, they're the ones speaking the truth? Give me a break! The Alliance is still selling the same old lies, but the people aren't buying.

Everytime the Allaince speaks, the Cape Cod Chamber and the Cape Cod Times jump. When they parrot the Alliance lies, support for Cape Wind goes up. We couldn't have found better villains in central casting. Keep it up.

What? The Cape Cod Chamber didn't figure out how to get another handout from this bond bill? No money to survey how many visitors eat fish & chips while here on their vacation?

Aren't dads great? They'll play with their daughters, even when their husbands won't. This woman is married ... isn't she?

Heart and Soul of the parties? Heartless is Romney, Soulness is Obama. Clever.

Are you sure Glen Santos is doing a fine job? The captain of the Titanic was doing a fine job until he hit an iceberg. $130 stickers and free compost? Who proposed the recycling program budget? The town need to take another look at the management of the transfer station.

Nice picture of Ted and Hillary sailing on Nantucket Sound. Wonder if he dissed her over her support of Cape Wind?

There once was a lecher from Nantucket,
he met a girl from Long Island.
When she spurned his advances and
and supported Cape Wind's fate,
He cried, it's time for payback now and endorsed the other candidate.

If you care more about the whales, than about housing, healthcare and education, you must be one of those IFAW supporters.

Can someone do the math please? If the RTA is falling $1.5 million short, how many rides do they provide. Certainly not 1.5 million rides, so they would require an additional $1 per ride? I suspect that they provide closer to 150 thousand rides so that the subsidy is really $10 a ride!!!!
Wouldn't it be cheaper to pay for taxicab rides for everybody who needs one????
Why does everything that government touches have to turn into a jobs program.

Let's see, the Democrats faulted the President for going to war with Iraq based on faulty intelligence. Now they're criticizing him for getting the intellengence right on Iraq. Maybe we should proceed instead as if he got the intellegence wrong again. When you're right, your're wrong, and when your wrong you're right. Let the bombing begin.

Confessions of Middle-aged Drama Queen.

Lincoln Was Wrong:
You can fool all of the people all of the time!

I never complain about the traffic and congestion. It's the only thing that will prevent over-development.

The evacuation signs are a hoot. Everyone knows in a true emergency, n-o o-n-e i-s g-o-i-n-g a-n-y-w-h-e-r-e.

BC Bill, if you are going to put a task force together to look into this, the last people you should put on it are the planners and politicians. How about just some some regular folk.

Oh my God! "I'm from the Government and I'm here to help you!" Barnstable County shouldn't even exist let alone attempt to provide human services. Whether you are a recovering Republican or a recovering Catholic, please spare the Hamlet on Hill act. See the Town Clerk and change your party affiliation. Better yet, see a priest.

Finally, someone admits to have taken a leadership role in the county government. Lance Lambros, and Mary LeClair, should be commended for making this appointment happen and not hiding behind committees and staff. Congratulations Paul. Now get to work. You have a big job ahead of you reforming the Commission.

Don't know if Wilkerson is meeting with the Binghams, or any of the other Wampanoags for that matter, on her own intiative or at the behest of someone else. The Governor's? I doubt it. The Senator President (Terry Murray), maybe. Although Wilkerson has her own tribe to consider, she's probably looking for a piece of the action for herself.

Crusader lays it out pretty well. Gryboski may be getting away with murder. The irony of our prosecutorial system however, is that the good doctor could still be indicted in the future, if additional information were to surface, or the AG wanted to look into the case, or there was a new DA.

Sounds like sour grapes. Didn't like the candidates the Commissioners were interviewing, so they quit the panel.
Maybe they should quit the Commission too. By the way, why does Truro have the same vote on the Commission as the Town of Barnstable?

Great photo of Margot. What a MILF!