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Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The fabulous debate over wind power on Nantucket Sound
In response to: The fabulous debate over wind power on Nantucket Sound
Nice try....where is the list?
Do not bring a knife to a gunfight. Where is the list?
What other renewable projects do you support?....please provide evidence of your public statements and efforts.
Where is the list...you made the charge.
Do not bring a knife to a gunfight. Where is the list?
What other renewable projects do you support?....please provide evidence of your public statements and efforts.
Where is the list...you made the charge.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The fabulous debate over wind power on Nantucket Sound
In response to: The fabulous debate over wind power on Nantucket Sound
Bogman -
Where is the list? Don't hide now.
WHERE IS THE LIST?
By the way..that little project in New York is easily transferable to the Cape.
WHERE IS THAT LIST?
Where is the list? Don't hide now.
WHERE IS THE LIST?
By the way..that little project in New York is easily transferable to the Cape.
WHERE IS THAT LIST?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The fabulous debate over wind power on Nantucket Sound
In response to: The fabulous debate over wind power on Nantucket Sound
Bogman -
You are so wrong. I have supported and continue to support Blue H, Delmarva and a neat little company that has actually been operating successful tidal generators in the East River in New York + others. I have also written about the FACT that an immediate emphasis on conservation...such as banning incandescent light bulbs...would produce dramatic energy savings and NEW JOBS immediately.
Interestingly, CAPECODTODAY has done little if any research into anything other than Cape Wind and their research on that consists of being paid to carry Gordon's web ads and whatever else Gordon tells them. Those who are genuinely concerned about clean, renewable energy actually research it...and if they own a media outlet they then talk about it. Gee...what a concept.
As for you...I am still waiting for your list...not your smirky attempt to back out of it...your full list.
Of course, you choose to be cute and hide behind a pseudonym while thanks to Walter I am right up front with my actual identity. Hope you are warm in your little hidey hole...it's gonna be cold tonight.
No guts?
You are so wrong. I have supported and continue to support Blue H, Delmarva and a neat little company that has actually been operating successful tidal generators in the East River in New York + others. I have also written about the FACT that an immediate emphasis on conservation...such as banning incandescent light bulbs...would produce dramatic energy savings and NEW JOBS immediately.
Interestingly, CAPECODTODAY has done little if any research into anything other than Cape Wind and their research on that consists of being paid to carry Gordon's web ads and whatever else Gordon tells them. Those who are genuinely concerned about clean, renewable energy actually research it...and if they own a media outlet they then talk about it. Gee...what a concept.
As for you...I am still waiting for your list...not your smirky attempt to back out of it...your full list.
Of course, you choose to be cute and hide behind a pseudonym while thanks to Walter I am right up front with my actual identity. Hope you are warm in your little hidey hole...it's gonna be cold tonight.
No guts?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The fabulous debate over wind power on Nantucket Sound
In response to: The fabulous debate over wind power on Nantucket Sound
Bogman ---
C'mon now....where is that list? Do you need the phone number for 75 Arlington Street, or East Harwich?
C'mon now....where is that list? Do you need the phone number for 75 Arlington Street, or East Harwich?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The fabulous debate over wind power on Nantucket Sound
In response to: The fabulous debate over wind power on Nantucket Sound
Ex-cranberrybogman -
You say I have been "attacking alternate energy sources like Cape Wind." Please name some of the others. You said alternative energy sources....plural. Please identify some of the others I have "attacked."
Geez....I must have hit a nerve.
You say I have been "attacking alternate energy sources like Cape Wind." Please name some of the others. You said alternative energy sources....plural. Please identify some of the others I have "attacked."
Geez....I must have hit a nerve.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Natural Resources Defense Council President on Cape Wind
In response to: Natural Resources Defense Council President on Cape Wind
News hen -
Do alittle reserachg into what private entities have the new $1.1 billion contract to run the Department of energy's National Renewable Energy Labortaory...and then explain to me how such a group can be called pro-environmental. By the way, up until two months Bechtel was part of the management out there but an Inspector General's report found hundreds of thousands of dollars in overcharges for business entertainment.
I think I will go into big time fraud, but I will call it e-fraud or enviro larceny or maybe eco swiping and all you folks will say it is a great idea. How about organized purse snatching...but we'll only swipe leather purses ...plastics and cloth are safe?
Maybe we should declare a green war on somebody...kill only people but harm nothing plant or animal. We'll set up a new training depot on the banks of the Charles (River) and call it CLEANCAMP.
Do alittle reserachg into what private entities have the new $1.1 billion contract to run the Department of energy's National Renewable Energy Labortaory...and then explain to me how such a group can be called pro-environmental. By the way, up until two months Bechtel was part of the management out there but an Inspector General's report found hundreds of thousands of dollars in overcharges for business entertainment.
I think I will go into big time fraud, but I will call it e-fraud or enviro larceny or maybe eco swiping and all you folks will say it is a great idea. How about organized purse snatching...but we'll only swipe leather purses ...plastics and cloth are safe?
Maybe we should declare a green war on somebody...kill only people but harm nothing plant or animal. We'll set up a new training depot on the banks of the Charles (River) and call it CLEANCAMP.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The fabulous debate over wind power on Nantucket Sound
In response to: The fabulous debate over wind power on Nantucket Sound
Hey, Shecky:
I will set up a one hour live televised debate...just you and me...maybe even with live call-ins. It will be done at the Cape Cod Media Center on White's Path in South Yarmouth and we can up load the final product onto the web for global viewing...just you and me...smart guy.
Of course, you will have to use your real name and tour face will be visible...it isn't too horrid , is it?
Because, if your complexion matches the vileness of your personal attacks we may need special lighting.
What do you say, you nameless defamer? Want to come out and play?
Wally Windbrooks knows how to contact me.
I will set up a one hour live televised debate...just you and me...maybe even with live call-ins. It will be done at the Cape Cod Media Center on White's Path in South Yarmouth and we can up load the final product onto the web for global viewing...just you and me...smart guy.
Of course, you will have to use your real name and tour face will be visible...it isn't too horrid , is it?
Because, if your complexion matches the vileness of your personal attacks we may need special lighting.
What do you say, you nameless defamer? Want to come out and play?
Wally Windbrooks knows how to contact me.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The fabulous debate over wind power on Nantucket Sound
In response to: The fabulous debate over wind power on Nantucket Sound
Hey Shecky, you evil minded, toxic tougued twit...just so you have accurate information: I have two permanently shoulderds and a heart condition that now appears to be moire serious than was originally thought...more than one hospital stays in the past twelve months. Is there anything else you would like to say....to my face and under your own name?
You evil, narrow minded, slandering twit.
You evil, narrow minded, slandering twit.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The fabulous debate over wind power on Nantucket Sound
In response to: The fabulous debate over wind power on Nantucket Sound
In April of 2008 MMS said they would like to fast-track a license for a deep water offshore wind developer to erect a test station 32 miles south of Martha's Vineyard...out of sight, out of any avian or fish problems and with higher average and more reliable winds than Horseshoe Shoal. Now MMS seems devoted only to Cape Wind. The Windies are not actively supporting or recruiting any other offshore wind developers for Massachusetts. Why not?
Where is Cleancamp when we need him?
Maybe those of you who enjoy insulting me should look into the management contract (that's right...they are run by a private group) for the Department of Energy Renewable energy laboratory in Golden, Colorado. Can you say 'Battelle Corporation? Can you say 'Bechtel' Corporation?
The same people who are pushing MMS to broom cape Wind across the finish line are deeply embedded in energy, defense, national security and homeland defense.
Big oil wants Cape Wind built so it can (and it will) fail. Then they will demand the same concessions from MMS for off shore drilling that Gordon has received.
Nice Going!
Where is Cleancamp when we need him?
Maybe those of you who enjoy insulting me should look into the management contract (that's right...they are run by a private group) for the Department of Energy Renewable energy laboratory in Golden, Colorado. Can you say 'Battelle Corporation? Can you say 'Bechtel' Corporation?
The same people who are pushing MMS to broom cape Wind across the finish line are deeply embedded in energy, defense, national security and homeland defense.
Big oil wants Cape Wind built so it can (and it will) fail. Then they will demand the same concessions from MMS for off shore drilling that Gordon has received.
Nice Going!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Natural Resources Defense Council President on Cape Wind
In response to: Natural Resources Defense Council President on Cape Wind
News Hen ---
Feels better now? I wonder how many of the CAPECODTODAY green energy officianados have actually read the DEIS or the DEIS. Why bother when personal slams and insults are always at the ready? Nice going. Boy, you sure told me.
It is far from over, sports fans, far from over.
Feels better now? I wonder how many of the CAPECODTODAY green energy officianados have actually read the DEIS or the DEIS. Why bother when personal slams and insults are always at the ready? Nice going. Boy, you sure told me.
It is far from over, sports fans, far from over.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Natural Resources Defense Council President on Cape Wind
In response to: Natural Resources Defense Council President on Cape Wind
Yes Piggie - But ---
It is important not to let the world think that Cape Wind is in any way sacred or that CAPECODTODAY is right.
Consider, we hear all about those mean coastal property billionaires who oppose
Cape Wind with all their millions...but then we hear from NRDC who have 2.3 million memebers and an annual operating income of about $75 million.... and they have never attended any Cape Wind hearings nor have they read any of the foolishness Uncle Sam has given us (Neraly 10,000 pages now) but they hear Gordon say that one sacred word GREEN...and they are all in favor of it. It gold be green war, green famine, green pestilence, green plague..whatever, it is green so it is good. Green is also the color of money...as in subsidies.
By the way, isn't Beinecke the name of the family that gave us the yuppification of Nantucket? Hmmm...really down to earth folks, yeah?
It is important not to let the world think that Cape Wind is in any way sacred or that CAPECODTODAY is right.
Consider, we hear all about those mean coastal property billionaires who oppose
Cape Wind with all their millions...but then we hear from NRDC who have 2.3 million memebers and an annual operating income of about $75 million.... and they have never attended any Cape Wind hearings nor have they read any of the foolishness Uncle Sam has given us (Neraly 10,000 pages now) but they hear Gordon say that one sacred word GREEN...and they are all in favor of it. It gold be green war, green famine, green pestilence, green plague..whatever, it is green so it is good. Green is also the color of money...as in subsidies.
By the way, isn't Beinecke the name of the family that gave us the yuppification of Nantucket? Hmmm...really down to earth folks, yeah?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Natural Resources Defense Council President on Cape Wind
In response to: Natural Resources Defense Council President on Cape Wind
Let's see, NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL, Oh! We remember them, don't we? They are the folks who gave us the Alar scare...apples were coated with a toxic substance called Alar...remember? Beinecke was at NRDC when this happened...she said that her gang never meant to "harm apple producers," who lost an estimated $150 MILLION because NRDC was WRONG.
The there was the NRDC claim that Atlantic Swordfish were being fished to extinction...this claim was proven false by the national fisheries folks.
Yup, Jim Gordon has a strong, ethical and infallible new ally. Sign me up.
The windies just never seem to learn.
The there was the NRDC claim that Atlantic Swordfish were being fished to extinction...this claim was proven false by the national fisheries folks.
Yup, Jim Gordon has a strong, ethical and infallible new ally. Sign me up.
The windies just never seem to learn.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Natural Resources Defense Council President on Cape Wind
In response to: Natural Resources Defense Council President on Cape Wind
Oh good! We have another expert from some place on the other side of the bridge who probably has read none of the thousands of pages of review and documentation, knows nothing about electric generation of rates but does not care...because Jim Gordon is the new hero of the environmental movement...at our expense. Oh, good.
Thanks so much.
Thanks so much.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The end of the age of oil generated electricity
In response to: The end of the age of oil generated electricity
Awayfromthebay...the 'expert' was Jim Gordon. He said during his remarks to the assembled windies that we will not see any more new gas fired plants being built because we do not have adequate gas supplies or price stability for the task.
I am still trying to remember the name of that retired engineer whose group opposed conversion of Canal Electric to combined cycle gas generation. Are you sure you, or he, will enjoy the publicity? Let's see.....where did I chuck that name?
I am still trying to remember the name of that retired engineer whose group opposed conversion of Canal Electric to combined cycle gas generation. Are you sure you, or he, will enjoy the publicity? Let's see.....where did I chuck that name?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The end of the age of oil generated electricity
In response to: The end of the age of oil generated electricity
Sparky -
Now that you mention it, why haven't we heard hard numbers from Cape Wind? Gee, after seven and a half years of regulatory process, wouldn't you think they would be bragging about their actual cost of energy so they could tell us how much we will save? The deal in Delmarva figures to add about $30.00 a month per $100.00 of generation cost... that is according to public testimony before the Delaware legislature. Of course, in Delaware they do these things in public and on the record whereas Cape Wind has insisted on a confidentiality agreement when 'negotiating' with Cape Light Compact.
But, a certain guy from Sandwich has been quoted as having said he has found a fella on Martha's Vineyard who thinks Cape Wind's cost will be in the 9 cent/kwh range. But then, Maggie Downey of the Compact spoke up and said she had heard higher numbers. How does 20 cents sound?
As Appendix F said, telling the whole story might "tend to mislead." And we would not want to do that, would we?
This ain't Delaware!
Now that you mention it, why haven't we heard hard numbers from Cape Wind? Gee, after seven and a half years of regulatory process, wouldn't you think they would be bragging about their actual cost of energy so they could tell us how much we will save? The deal in Delmarva figures to add about $30.00 a month per $100.00 of generation cost... that is according to public testimony before the Delaware legislature. Of course, in Delaware they do these things in public and on the record whereas Cape Wind has insisted on a confidentiality agreement when 'negotiating' with Cape Light Compact.
But, a certain guy from Sandwich has been quoted as having said he has found a fella on Martha's Vineyard who thinks Cape Wind's cost will be in the 9 cent/kwh range. But then, Maggie Downey of the Compact spoke up and said she had heard higher numbers. How does 20 cents sound?
As Appendix F said, telling the whole story might "tend to mislead." And we would not want to do that, would we?
This ain't Delaware!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The end of the age of oil generated electricity
In response to: The end of the age of oil generated electricity
To Awayfromthe bay....don't bother me. I'm talking to Chuck...although it feels as if that name is coming into focus.
To Chuck: I was told at a barbecue in Falmouth (Portuguese American Club) on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend in 2007 that we not see any more new gas fired plants. The guy who told me is supposed to be an expert in such things. What do you suppose has changed?
To Chuck: I was told at a barbecue in Falmouth (Portuguese American Club) on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend in 2007 that we not see any more new gas fired plants. The guy who told me is supposed to be an expert in such things. What do you suppose has changed?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The end of the age of oil generated electricity
In response to: The end of the age of oil generated electricity
So Chuck, is that what our friend is building in Westfield? A gap-filler?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Someone give Cleon a toke, quick!
In response to: Someone give Cleon a toke, quick!
Hey....Capeesq. Mexican Brown was heroin, not grass.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Customers paid $350 million to run Mirant Electric as backup
In response to: Customers paid $350 million to run Mirant Electric as backup
Seems to me I recall a very vocal group who successfully opposed conversion of the Canal plant to combined cycle. Hmmmmm....what was that guy's name? I see it a lot now in support of the wind farm. I must have chucked it away.
By the way....are we hearing some of the same people say that we can shut down Canal Electric because we do not need their power and also saying we need Cape Wind because we need more than 100 MW of new power? Which is it, gang?
Mirant should be allowed to covert to combined cycle and operate an efficient plant, much like the one Jim Gordon is going to build in Westfield, Ma. under the name Westfield Land Development Company. He is in the middle of the MEPA review process as we speak/read.
By the way....are we hearing some of the same people say that we can shut down Canal Electric because we do not need their power and also saying we need Cape Wind because we need more than 100 MW of new power? Which is it, gang?
Mirant should be allowed to covert to combined cycle and operate an efficient plant, much like the one Jim Gordon is going to build in Westfield, Ma. under the name Westfield Land Development Company. He is in the middle of the MEPA review process as we speak/read.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Barnstable parents win harassment suit appeal at nation's highest court today
In response to: Barnstable parents win harassment suit appeal at nation's highest court today
Gee....all those people with degrees in education cannot figure out how to remove a nasty kid from the bus....cannot figure out how to protect a third grade girl from serious abuse and intimidation? I notice no one says these things did not happen...so why was there no direct and immediate action taken against/about the aggressor?
Nice going! So, now, instead of just looking at a scared child and a huge lawsuit we have focused the national spotlight on Barnstable and its schools...good choice, everyone.
Nice going! So, now, instead of just looking at a scared child and a huge lawsuit we have focused the national spotlight on Barnstable and its schools...good choice, everyone.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Hendricks placed on leave; widening investigation?
In response to: Hendricks placed on leave; widening investigation?
Fallout is probably a polite word for what is coming. Marshall said publicly that he would not go down alone. A leopard cannot change his spots, not a rat his tail (tale). Just ask his former drug enforcement handlers. It took a year and a half for the tribal council to reverse the shunning after the Chief said it was "not justified."
Now the Gayle Andrews and the Chef Johns of the tribe will have to look for new cover. Chuckie Green does not think "Glenn raped anyone." That is what he said to me, face-to-face.WOW! Glenn Marshall certainly raped the tribe. What about the fur coat from Strather to his council member mistress?
In the great crap shoot of life there are some folks in Mashpee who are about to lose it all.
I guess Amelia and Steve and the others were right...and they were willing to pay a high price for their principles, but they never betrayed either themselves or the tribe. They simply wanted justice and fairness.
So do we all.
HO!
Now the Gayle Andrews and the Chef Johns of the tribe will have to look for new cover. Chuckie Green does not think "Glenn raped anyone." That is what he said to me, face-to-face.WOW! Glenn Marshall certainly raped the tribe. What about the fur coat from Strather to his council member mistress?
In the great crap shoot of life there are some folks in Mashpee who are about to lose it all.
I guess Amelia and Steve and the others were right...and they were willing to pay a high price for their principles, but they never betrayed either themselves or the tribe. They simply wanted justice and fairness.
So do we all.
HO!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: FAA nixes Cape turbine plans; Wamp site nixes runway; Cardinals become Firebirds; Woods Hole Research Center director joins "Scientifc Dream Team"; Going on a gray seal count; Missing Cape man possibly spotted in NH
In response to: FAA nixes Cape turbine plans; Wamp site nixes runway; Cardinals become Firebirds; Woods Hole Research Center director joins "Scientifc Dream Team"; Going on a gray seal count; Missing Cape man possibly spotted in NH
In a letter dated December 29, 2008 Rodney Cluck, PhD (the PhD is in sociology) wrote to Suzanne McAuliffe, Chairman of the Yarmouth Board of selectmen, "Enclosed please find the Minerals management Service's (MMS's) Finding of Adverse Effect for the Cape Wind energy project.
Sociologist Cluck is the manager for the Cape Wind review by MMS. The letter goes on to state that this finding is available on th web at:
mms.gov/offshore/AlternativeEnergy/Cape Wind
Well, a sociologist would know.
Sociologist Cluck is the manager for the Cape Wind review by MMS. The letter goes on to state that this finding is available on th web at:
mms.gov/offshore/AlternativeEnergy/Cape Wind
Well, a sociologist would know.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: First in a series of Cape Cod Parables
In response to: First in a series of Cape Cod Parables
Not a few of the other patrons had seen our reception and treatment and although we appeared much the same as they did there was a curious uncertainty in their eyes as we walked past them on our way to the door. Just as we reached the door the bartender, who was actually the owner caught up to us. He shook my father's hand with both of his and then decided to go to work on me. He gave me a pat on the shoulder that nearly launched me into the street and smiled with his glistening gold teeth, telling me how honored he was that Il Professori Joe liked his pizza and his humble establishment. He told my father, both hands translating as he spoke that I should feel free to come in whenever I wanted and that I should always have some of his wine..."But not too much iffa you gonna be drivin', eh?" Then he pulled me aside and explained about my father not ever being expected to pay the bill and how he appreciated the gentleman's response he received for this gesture. But, he proceeded to advise, in a low, almost conspiratorial voice..."But, he alaways leave a biga tip. Is our little game.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: First in a series of Cape Cod Parables
In response to: First in a series of Cape Cod Parables
But the thinly sliced mushrooms were surely from heaven and along the way to earth the delivery man stopped for Pepperoni such as appears only at places such as Regina. Fresh basil, cold pressed olive oil from Sicily and a crust that is nearly magical in its quality.
Then came the matter of the bill. Our old friend with the mosutache, the pencils and black stockings returned for what I soon learned was a ritual reserved for my father and certain other favorites, such as Fr. Pius Dello Russo, the Franciscan Priest at the local school who had grown up in a tenement apartment over the family store of the man who eventually became Boston's Don, an occasional mayor, and the president of Harvard University, who loved Regina's pizza. Hovering over us once again she clutched the rumpled check to her Vesuvian bosom and begged to be assured that everything had been 'multo bene' Then, of course Regina could not charge Proffesori Joe. That would be infamnia.
Pop smiled and gave a grand nodding gesture. She disappeared to skewer the new arrivals, he threw bills on the table and we left.
Then came the matter of the bill. Our old friend with the mosutache, the pencils and black stockings returned for what I soon learned was a ritual reserved for my father and certain other favorites, such as Fr. Pius Dello Russo, the Franciscan Priest at the local school who had grown up in a tenement apartment over the family store of the man who eventually became Boston's Don, an occasional mayor, and the president of Harvard University, who loved Regina's pizza. Hovering over us once again she clutched the rumpled check to her Vesuvian bosom and begged to be assured that everything had been 'multo bene' Then, of course Regina could not charge Proffesori Joe. That would be infamnia.
Pop smiled and gave a grand nodding gesture. She disappeared to skewer the new arrivals, he threw bills on the table and we left.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: First in a series of Cape Cod Parables
In response to: First in a series of Cape Cod Parables
She stood beside our table glaring at us, pulling one of several pencils from the gray bun that clung to one side of her head. "Eh, professori, commo esta? This your youngest, yah? Nice lookin' boy. Bene'. Whaddaya wanta...da usual, eh? Va bene, gimme a couple o' minoots, K?
Pop spke not a word, just nodded and started to say things when as her train of though careened toward the kitchen.
Almost instantly the bartender, also the resident 'sports consultant' arrived with two wine glass and a huge carafe of deep red wine. Pop turned mie upside dow and shook his head but the bartender insisted, "Ey, Mr. Joe...thisa my place, you know, my citchina...eh? He'sa ina my house so he drinks my vino. Managea Madonna Mr. Joe...it's good for the boy, prego. The glass returned to its upright position and I had my fist taste of true Italian wine, made in Boston in someone's back yard and basement; velvety sweet, rich, real.
then came the pizza, an enormous affair with Regina's signature sauce on its fresh made dough and incredible cheese probably from the same precincts as the wine.
Pop spke not a word, just nodded and started to say things when as her train of though careened toward the kitchen.
Almost instantly the bartender, also the resident 'sports consultant' arrived with two wine glass and a huge carafe of deep red wine. Pop turned mie upside dow and shook his head but the bartender insisted, "Ey, Mr. Joe...thisa my place, you know, my citchina...eh? He'sa ina my house so he drinks my vino. Managea Madonna Mr. Joe...it's good for the boy, prego. The glass returned to its upright position and I had my fist taste of true Italian wine, made in Boston in someone's back yard and basement; velvety sweet, rich, real.
then came the pizza, an enormous affair with Regina's signature sauce on its fresh made dough and incredible cheese probably from the same precincts as the wine.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: First in a series of Cape Cod Parables
In response to: First in a series of Cape Cod Parables
This is not parabolic but it is worth sharing: My father taught high school in Boston for 34 years and he became well known in Boston as his 'kids' went out into the world. He schooled me in the real City of Boston on weekly expeditions downtown and elsewhere. One such trek brought me for the first time to the venerable (original) Pizzaria Regina in the North End. A gruff, round little man came from behind the bar and pushed people out of the way as he took us from the end of the usual long line outside the door to a corner table. People were not happy but he growled over the stub of his Parrodi, "Shahddupa you! Dis is my kid's professori, Mr. Kenney." My old man was incapable of stealth in Boston.
We sat for awhile in the swirl of lunatic activity that was then and remains still an ordinary afternoon at Regina. I asked if we had to order and fetch our own food or if there was table service. Pop's answer - the one with the moustache will be here soon. And so she was, all 5' of her (height and girth) with her rumpled widow's black dress and stockings rolled down to her knees.
We sat for awhile in the swirl of lunatic activity that was then and remains still an ordinary afternoon at Regina. I asked if we had to order and fetch our own food or if there was table service. Pop's answer - the one with the moustache will be here soon. And so she was, all 5' of her (height and girth) with her rumpled widow's black dress and stockings rolled down to her knees.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Retired Falmouth attorney sentenced for possessing stolen art
In response to: Retired Falmouth attorney sentenced for possessing stolen art
msw1023
You give the human race a bad name.
You give the human race a bad name.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Hundreds attend wake for Cape attorney Patrick Butler
In response to: Hundreds attend wake for Cape attorney Patrick Butler
Every now and then you meet one of them...but they are rare: they are well educated and do that education justice, they are warm and know how to laugh---more important how to smile a lot---they are honest to fault, not afraid to pull a friend aside and say what is on their mind, they keep family close and those who live with them flourish for the experience. These are quiet people whose voices are always welcome, whose advice is always sound and whose motives are always decent. We know how much they meant only when they leave us because they are always showing potential to be more, do more, accomplish more. And always, when they do leave us, no matter what their age...it is too soon and too final. They respect all whom they meet and leave everyone a little richer in spirit. So, in leaving they simply leave us to carry on as they helped us see to do.
Pax vobiscum, Patrick.
Pax vobiscum, Patrick.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Pro fundraisers take lion's share from local charity campaigns
In response to: Pro fundraisers take lion's share from local charity campaigns
Wouldn't you think that IFAW, with its depth of management and overall resources would have a full time development officer with a one or two member staff to conduct fund raising activities year-round?
This is embarrassing.
This is embarrassing.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: LNG tanker powerless 16 miles north of Provincetown
In response to: LNG tanker powerless 16 miles north of Provincetown
The headlines and the subsequently reported facts (exact time-line, etc.) do not match.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Jordan Mendes: What we value, what it means
In response to: Jordan Mendes: What we value, what it means
Bust the users/buyers of drugs and the problem will solve itself. Without demand there is no supply. That is what the 'community' can do. Talk about ignorance.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Jordan Mendes: What we value, what it means
In response to: Jordan Mendes: What we value, what it means
Jordan Mendes is dead because he was surrounded by evil and he accepted it as his own way of life. He was killed by a young man who was equally evil and equally weak in the face of the temptation of easy money and equally ignorant of the value of human life, his own included which will now last another sixty or so years behind bars.
His own half brother participated in this horrific crime and then called their father in jail asking advice on what to do. (allegedly) How stupid are these people? There is a tape of every telephone conversation Mendes senior receives or makes. The word monster comes to mind.
And, the mendes crew are not the only covens of evil among us here on cape cod. But, we must not judge, must not restrain, must not limit their freedom....we should tolerate them and just wait until the next awful outburst of their self-centered anger.
Time to drop the pretense of reasonableness and kindness and get back to the business of operating a sane and responsible society in which we can all thrive and survive.
His own half brother participated in this horrific crime and then called their father in jail asking advice on what to do. (allegedly) How stupid are these people? There is a tape of every telephone conversation Mendes senior receives or makes. The word monster comes to mind.
And, the mendes crew are not the only covens of evil among us here on cape cod. But, we must not judge, must not restrain, must not limit their freedom....we should tolerate them and just wait until the next awful outburst of their self-centered anger.
Time to drop the pretense of reasonableness and kindness and get back to the business of operating a sane and responsible society in which we can all thrive and survive.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Police Find Missing Girl; Middleborough to revisit Casino; Turtles still coming ashore
In response to: Police Find Missing Girl; Middleborough to revisit Casino; Turtles still coming ashore
Actually, I first heard about, or something like it where phones were rae, in various oppressive communist countries and Japanese prsion camps when polityical harangues were shouited at the masses all day.
Glad they found the girl....not glad Big Brother has taken another step into our lives.
By the way, Crusader, you class warfare soecialist you....helicopters are used when they are needed...have been for years...even to locate kids from broken, low-class homes. Why don't you just go somewhere and rest?
Glad they found the girl....not glad Big Brother has taken another step into our lives.
By the way, Crusader, you class warfare soecialist you....helicopters are used when they are needed...have been for years...even to locate kids from broken, low-class homes. Why don't you just go somewhere and rest?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Groups question how MMS is handling Cape Wind historic preservation issue
In response to: Groups question how MMS is handling Cape Wind historic preservation issue
Gee, just think how diiferentb things would be for Cape Wind if they had just followed the rules and procedures instead of using back-room influence on various agencies. Of course, telling the truth also helps. For example, exactly how many of whose turbines at what size are intended for use in this wind farm? That is know in the regulatory world as a "Description of the Action." The one contained in the MMS DEIS, section 2.1.1 is outdated because GE discontinued the turbines specified in 2005.
'Hindrances' my Aunt Fannie....let's get serious about following the damn rules, shall we. Anyone hear Sean Corcoran;s telling of his experiejnce at the USCG radra conference....even NPR is catching on.
If I were a major gas or oil developer I would demand the same concessions from MMS they have given Cape Wind....how is that for environmental protection?!
'Hindrances' my Aunt Fannie....let's get serious about following the damn rules, shall we. Anyone hear Sean Corcoran;s telling of his experiejnce at the USCG radra conference....even NPR is catching on.
If I were a major gas or oil developer I would demand the same concessions from MMS they have given Cape Wind....how is that for environmental protection?!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Another House chairman urges Cape Wind delay
In response to: Another House chairman urges Cape Wind delay
Whoops! Someone is really making friends and influencing people in Washington. Congressman Oberstar is not happy with the Coast Guard's ridiculous radar study (at a cost of $100,000) and Rahall is once again unhappy with MMS.
A simple phone call to the Energy Committeee last week yielded information that the committee members and staff have not read the DEIS and that their information about the Cape Wind project comes from.....Cape Wind.
How is that for research? Due diligence? Fairness? Intellectual honesty? How can these two senators from New Mexico say, as they do in their letter to MMS demanding that Cape Wind be approved immediately, that the requirements of the law have been satisfied when the USCG work is incomplete, the EPA has yet to complete its work and the FAA is still studying the project? Geez, guys, at least get your facts straight.
A simple phone call to the Energy Committeee last week yielded information that the committee members and staff have not read the DEIS and that their information about the Cape Wind project comes from.....Cape Wind.
How is that for research? Due diligence? Fairness? Intellectual honesty? How can these two senators from New Mexico say, as they do in their letter to MMS demanding that Cape Wind be approved immediately, that the requirements of the law have been satisfied when the USCG work is incomplete, the EPA has yet to complete its work and the FAA is still studying the project? Geez, guys, at least get your facts straight.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wind farm backers, opponents tussle over 'safe separation'
In response to: Wind farm backers, opponents tussle over 'safe separation'
Master Chief Jack Downey, USCG ret., is now a harbor master in Rhode Island and has thirty years experience in these waters at every Coats Guard station between Port Judith and Boston. He thinks the radar study was bogus and the wind farm is a risk. Although he was noted quoted here he said so in public at two different events.
Who is this guy Red Herring? I have never met him at any of the hearings or conferences.
Who is this guy Red Herring? I have never met him at any of the hearings or conferences.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Murder Update: Three charged in robbery, murder of Jordan Mendes
In response to: Murder Update: Three charged in robbery, murder of Jordan Mendes
Well now, so much for the DA's incompetence, police corruption, and the ever-menacing 'organized crime' from off Cape.
What we have here is home-grown (and not uncommon) viciousness, stupidity and greed. His thirteen year-old half brother! Apparently the Mendes family are strong on tradition. I wonder if 'Auntie' knew about this.
Daddy should be proud. He will be the last one standing in that family, but he will be proud.
What we have here is home-grown (and not uncommon) viciousness, stupidity and greed. His thirteen year-old half brother! Apparently the Mendes family are strong on tradition. I wonder if 'Auntie' knew about this.
Daddy should be proud. He will be the last one standing in that family, but he will be proud.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Teens attend makeshift vigil at Hyannis murder scene; Dennis Police Department issues a parking ban for Friday
In response to: Teens attend makeshift vigil at Hyannis murder scene; Dennis Police Department issues a parking ban for Friday
Why should we blame the DA or the police or the moon for that matter? Is everyone unwilling to blame families? Parents? People who buy drugs are more the source of the problem than those who sell them...no demand = no supply. How about some words of wisdom about the grandmother who told the press that her family will 'get' the murderer(s)? We are seeing ever younger kids doing heinous crimes...but there is no elephant in the room.
Grow up, you silly people. Sure, Jordan Mendes was young...but what was he doing in the weeks before his death? Just how long will we tolerate the families who tolerate the kids who are tearing up our schools and neighborhoods? Gee....where did our 'good boy' get the wad of cash many are saying he was flashing around his school? If we do not rein in these vicious kids and set them on them right path there will more funerals all around. Let's just say that Mendes is eventually proven to have been killed by someone his age or younger, will that person(s) be called a stone cold killer while Mendes himself continues to be a 'good boy'?
Grow up, you silly people. Sure, Jordan Mendes was young...but what was he doing in the weeks before his death? Just how long will we tolerate the families who tolerate the kids who are tearing up our schools and neighborhoods? Gee....where did our 'good boy' get the wad of cash many are saying he was flashing around his school? If we do not rein in these vicious kids and set them on them right path there will more funerals all around. Let's just say that Mendes is eventually proven to have been killed by someone his age or younger, will that person(s) be called a stone cold killer while Mendes himself continues to be a 'good boy'?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Senate Energy Committee: Release Cape Wind impact statement now
In response to: Senate Energy Committee: Release Cape Wind impact statement now
Gee...I was at both Coast Guard meetings: yesterday the USCG 'expert' was asked to point out the pleasure craft traveling in the wind farm at 30 knots, as per the simulation. He admitted he could not see it in his radar. He said the simulation was developed for conditions --- 7 - 10 knot winds and 3' - 5' seas...that is about average day out there in summer and fall. Also, none of the four scenarios presented (all specified by USCG) showed more than three vessels at a time. Of these, one was not apparent on several occasions. Can you say disaster?
Also, the study was pegged specifically to the famous GE model 3.6s turbine, according to specs provided by MMS to USCG by USCG for this 'study'. This turbine has been discontinued for three years! Cape Wind and MMS know this.
I guess profit at any price is the new motto of the wind business. the USCG sank its two hundred + year history of integrity in Falmouth yesterday.
Also, the study was pegged specifically to the famous GE model 3.6s turbine, according to specs provided by MMS to USCG by USCG for this 'study'. This turbine has been discontinued for three years! Cape Wind and MMS know this.
I guess profit at any price is the new motto of the wind business. the USCG sank its two hundred + year history of integrity in Falmouth yesterday.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Murdered Barnstable High School student said to have drug links
In response to: Murdered Barnstable High School student said to have drug links
Some might say that Jordan Mendes made a very poor career choice at a very young age. His late uncle Danuel and I had little confrontation in a local high school twelve or so years ago. At issues were his poor attitude and the Berreta he carried in his backpack. Danuel aggravated the wrong person(s) and became the first of dead Mendes.
Guns, drugs and money...Olde Cape Cod.
Guns, drugs and money...Olde Cape Cod.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wind farm backers, opponents tussle over 'safe separation'
In response to: Wind farm backers, opponents tussle over 'safe separation'
Yes but....many if not most of the wind farms in Europe are sited in such shallow waters that no large vessel could get close to them without first running hard aground. And, there are sections of Horseshoe Shoal with a depth of 30' - 50'. That is deep enough for tugs, ferries, oil barges and even the occasional 200' private yacht to smack into a turbine when their radars are compromised.
I just came form the USCG's so-called conference. What a joke...what a scam. Cape Wind has rigged this game beautifully. Now the Coast Guard is denying the very public comment and involvement they promise they would allow at the first conference on October 7. Hmmm....wind at all costs?
I just came form the USCG's so-called conference. What a joke...what a scam. Cape Wind has rigged this game beautifully. Now the Coast Guard is denying the very public comment and involvement they promise they would allow at the first conference on October 7. Hmmm....wind at all costs?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Cape Wind radar concern addressed
In response to: Cape Wind radar concern addressed
For anyone interested in a fascinating aspect of offshore wind farms: GOOGLE the following, walt musial september 2008.Scroll down five or six items until you see 'microsoft power point' etc. Portland, Or. Them go the final page (p28) and see what happens on a cold, clear day as a result of a wind farm's presence over salt water. The wind farm shown is Horns Rev in Denmark with only 80 turbines roughly half the size of the imaginary turbines planned for Cape Wind.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Marshall pleads guilty to campaign finance violations, fraud
In response to: Marshall pleads guilty to campaign finance violations, fraud
Now comes the fall of the mighty. Glenn Marshall is a well known coward. He himself admits to having worked undercover for various police agencies. Translation: he gave up others to avoid charges and jail for himself? Anyone who expects Marshall to go down alone is not thinking rationally.
In my opinion he will spend long hours talking to federal authorities about who else was involved in his illegal activities. According both to the charges and to his statements he has already identified others as being complicit in his activities. How has he survived without income for the time since he resigned as tribal council chairman? What does Gail Andrews know about all this? Has someone in the tribe been funneling him money? What will happen to Herb Strather and Lawyer Bill? What about the Maushop Farm scam?
The tribe deserves answers....and they deserve better from their own leaders. What did Shawn and others know?
Anyone else who was involved should wonder, how far will Marshall go to protect his own hide? The answer is scary, for them. Merry Christmas, Amelia.
In my opinion he will spend long hours talking to federal authorities about who else was involved in his illegal activities. According both to the charges and to his statements he has already identified others as being complicit in his activities. How has he survived without income for the time since he resigned as tribal council chairman? What does Gail Andrews know about all this? Has someone in the tribe been funneling him money? What will happen to Herb Strather and Lawyer Bill? What about the Maushop Farm scam?
The tribe deserves answers....and they deserve better from their own leaders. What did Shawn and others know?
Anyone else who was involved should wonder, how far will Marshall go to protect his own hide? The answer is scary, for them. Merry Christmas, Amelia.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Coast Guard gives in to Oberstar, delays report for a month; New stealth moves to block Cape Wind
In response to: Coast Guard gives in to Oberstar, delays report for a month; New stealth moves to block Cape Wind
By the way....may we please see a precise definition and proof of the "corruption" charged in the headlines of this story. Corruption is a pretty serious charge, and generally actionable under criminal law. If someone can establish that there has been corruption among the opponents of Cape Wind the whole game would change in Jim Gordon's favor. No? So....where is it?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Coast Guard gives in to Oberstar, delays report for a month; New stealth moves to block Cape Wind
In response to: Coast Guard gives in to Oberstar, delays report for a month; New stealth moves to block Cape Wind
CCTODAY attended the entire day's conference in October in Falmmouth at which the USCG assured one and all that they would allow for a period of public comment once their radar report was complete and published. The USCG Capt. Raymond Perry changed his mind and issued his verbal approval of the CW project without even making his report available for anyone to see. He is deep hot water with Coast Guard superiors because he caved in to pressure form Rodney Cluck at MMS who refused to provide Capt. Perry information he requested. Apparently the rules should be followed only when Cape Wind controls the game...not in any impartial way to ensure public safety. What about the second conference Capt. Perry promised to discuss air/sea recuse implications of the steel forest? How many lives is Cape Wind worth?
You betcha there has been some stealth amneuvering going on...and guess by whom.
You betcha there has been some stealth amneuvering going on...and guess by whom.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Environmental groups, Maritime Trade Council, demand immediate action on Cape Wind
In response to: Environmental groups, Maritime Trade Council, demand immediate action on Cape Wind
Cape Wind opponents are just asking for the public review and comment period USCG Captain Raymond Perry promised they would have but which he has now denied them. they are also asking for him to keep his promise that there would be a full conference to discuss air/sea rescue and how or if the wind farm would affect such operations. That is all they are asking. Apparently cape Wind trumps democracy. I was at the Falmouth conference in October (so was CCTODAY) at which Captain Perry made these assurances.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: CPN reveals slealth moves to stop Cape wind
In response to: CPN reveals slealth moves to stop Cape wind
Perhaps Clean Power Now would like to know that the Coast Guard was repeatedly not provided answers to questions it asked of Minerals Management Service project manager Rodney Cluck, PhD. By the way, the PHd. is in sociology from Mississippi State University. It appears that Dr. Cluck is in service to a social agenda aimed at breaking eastern and urban influence in energy siting matters, at least that is he wrote in more than one paper he presented to the Rural Sociology Society.
The fix is in for Cape Wind .... regardless of the poor economics of the project or its public safety impact. The last thing Cape Wind wants is a thorough investigation of how its powerful Washington supporters have folded, spindled and mutilated the Coast Guard.
The fix is in for Cape Wind .... regardless of the poor economics of the project or its public safety impact. The last thing Cape Wind wants is a thorough investigation of how its powerful Washington supporters have folded, spindled and mutilated the Coast Guard.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Coast Guard gives conditional approval to Cape Wind
In response to: Coast Guard gives conditional approval to Cape Wind
SMAH - We have been bamboozled by the USCG? What you really mean is that they lied to us? Or, perhaps, someone leaned on Captain Perry to ignore his own regulations.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Coast Guard gives conditional approval to Cape Wind
In response to: Coast Guard gives conditional approval to Cape Wind
Gee whizz! I was at the USCG radar and safety hearing held in Falmouth in October, as was Jim Kinsella who both covered the event for CCTODAY and wrote a compellingly objective story about the day's events. Captain Perry said that he would hold a public hearing or have a second radar and safety conference once the results of the radar study were in. What happened? Why was this not reported?
As of yesterday Captain Perry had told interested parties that today's draft report would be available for comment until noon on Monday....three days away. What Happened?
Thank you, George W. Bush. The public is being systematically denied the hearings and comment period required by law.
As of yesterday Captain Perry had told interested parties that today's draft report would be available for comment until noon on Monday....three days away. What Happened?
Thank you, George W. Bush. The public is being systematically denied the hearings and comment period required by law.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Ted, call off the dogs
In response to: Ted, call off the dogs
Bittersweet - Are you a member of the Rural Sociology Society, along with Dr. Rodney Cluck? Sounds like it to me....you did say Virginia? What are you talking about?
For those of you who are puzzled by my reference to Rodney Cluck, PhD. who heads the MMS review of Cape Wind...the PhD. is in sociology from Mississippi State University. According to some of his scholarly writings he wants to see the decline of the influence of Eastern and Urban voices in citing decisions such Cape Wind. Bittersweet...are you involved in the Caper Wind review?
For those of you who are puzzled by my reference to Rodney Cluck, PhD. who heads the MMS review of Cape Wind...the PhD. is in sociology from Mississippi State University. According to some of his scholarly writings he wants to see the decline of the influence of Eastern and Urban voices in citing decisions such Cape Wind. Bittersweet...are you involved in the Caper Wind review?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Ted, call off the dogs
In response to: Ted, call off the dogs
SMAH -
You have redeemed yourself. Good going! there is appreciation out here for your fairness and candor.
As for Jon Keller....he is just what we need....another Bposton media type who has never interviewed any of the Cape-based Cape Wind opponents and whom I have never seen at any of the many public hearings and meetings I have attended on the subject. Apparently Keller is just sooooo smaht that he does not need facts. And to think, he has a platform from which all of New England can see and hear him. Great journalism, Jon.
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Once again, SMAH....nice going!
You have redeemed yourself. Good going! there is appreciation out here for your fairness and candor.
As for Jon Keller....he is just what we need....another Bposton media type who has never interviewed any of the Cape-based Cape Wind opponents and whom I have never seen at any of the many public hearings and meetings I have attended on the subject. Apparently Keller is just sooooo smaht that he does not need facts. And to think, he has a platform from which all of New England can see and hear him. Great journalism, Jon.
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Once again, SMAH....nice going!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Police chief, two others, club indicted for death of Christopher Bizilj
In response to: Police chief, two others, club indicted for death of Christopher Bizilj
The dead boy's father is going to be allowed to retain his license to practice medicine after this incident? Why not?....we know he has great judgment about risk to human life!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Final Cape Wind report due Friday; Alliance, CPN tempers flare; Cranberry Festival cancelled
In response to: Final Cape Wind report due Friday; Alliance, CPN tempers flare; Cranberry Festival cancelled
SMAH - I did call headquarters in Germany and they referred me to the guy the company has chosen to lead its U. S. wind efforts. Apparently Siemens management are unfamiliar with your imagined chain of command.
And, if you read the U.S. FWS Biologic Opinion, on the street since last week, you will see that they are very precise in saying that the exact specs provided by CWA are what they are relying on in their review. In fact, someone at MMS named J. Lewandowski sent a letter to FWS in October of this year confirming those specs even though MMS has known for nearly a year that they are not accurate. The same is true for the USCG and their radar/safety study as well as the FAA. But still, CWA cannot tell the truth.
Your friend from Siemens should buy you more booze or less....the current quantityy is clearly not very effective.
And, if you read the U.S. FWS Biologic Opinion, on the street since last week, you will see that they are very precise in saying that the exact specs provided by CWA are what they are relying on in their review. In fact, someone at MMS named J. Lewandowski sent a letter to FWS in October of this year confirming those specs even though MMS has known for nearly a year that they are not accurate. The same is true for the USCG and their radar/safety study as well as the FAA. But still, CWA cannot tell the truth.
Your friend from Siemens should buy you more booze or less....the current quantityy is clearly not very effective.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Final Cape Wind report due Friday; Alliance, CPN tempers flare; Cranberry Festival cancelled
In response to: Final Cape Wind report due Friday; Alliance, CPN tempers flare; Cranberry Festival cancelled
SMAK - Nice to see that your fantasy life is intact. Why don't you do what I did?.....go on the web and find the numbers for Siemens headquarters in Germany and also for their U. S. operations in Orlando. The guy you want in Orlando is Mike Rivak.
What you ask and how you ask it, of course, is left to your bottomless pit of dementia, but see if you can get a written commitment from Siemens for 3.6MW wind turbines by the end of 2011.
Better yet, why not Minerals Management Service why they are relying on a letter from Cape Wind Associates declaring what turbines they will use instead of directly asking the only two companies in the world who have ever made 3.6MW turbines if they are still making them and if they will be able to provide them to Cape Wind Associates.
Better yet...ask Jim Gordon to tell you in clear language that he has 130 3.6MW wind turbines available to him and by whom they are to be manufactured. I have asked repeatedly but Cape Wind is not answering my e-mails.
Also, ask him where his house is...the one on Cape Cod where he "lives."
What you ask and how you ask it, of course, is left to your bottomless pit of dementia, but see if you can get a written commitment from Siemens for 3.6MW wind turbines by the end of 2011.
Better yet, why not Minerals Management Service why they are relying on a letter from Cape Wind Associates declaring what turbines they will use instead of directly asking the only two companies in the world who have ever made 3.6MW turbines if they are still making them and if they will be able to provide them to Cape Wind Associates.
Better yet...ask Jim Gordon to tell you in clear language that he has 130 3.6MW wind turbines available to him and by whom they are to be manufactured. I have asked repeatedly but Cape Wind is not answering my e-mails.
Also, ask him where his house is...the one on Cape Cod where he "lives."
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Cape Codders mull promise, challenge of going green
In response to: Cape Codders mull promise, challenge of going green
Hey SMAH....do you have a connection ....any connection at all to reality?
Why should O'Brien support a project that will raise energy costs, has no known financials, no power purchase agreement and no turbines?
Why should O'Brien support a project that will raise energy costs, has no known financials, no power purchase agreement and no turbines?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Final Cape Wind report due Friday; Alliance, CPN tempers flare; Cranberry Festival cancelled
In response to: Final Cape Wind report due Friday; Alliance, CPN tempers flare; Cranberry Festival cancelled
Siemens U. S. or Siemens Canada...what is the big deal? I also spoke directly with Siemens in Germany at their headqaurters and was told that the 3.6MW turbine would not be sold in America...I believe North America would be more accurate. As for the Naikun announcement, it was made by a distributor and the start date for construction is 4 - 5 years away. Why is that? I guess the 2005 grand announcement of the joint purchase deal between Cape Wind and Naikun is dead....and why has Siemens not been contracted by Cape Wind? Because Sienmens does not have an operating 3.6MW turbine with a transmission that will not blow up...and well documented stories all over the web tell of the Siemens r&d now going into the design of such a beast...but they are far from having it perfected and marketable.
As for Vestas...their own CEO told the Boston Globe this summer that they do not know why anyone would do shallow water wind. Perhaps because the turbines fail...as did a third of the Vestas units at Kentish Flats....last month. OOPS!
DEIS, appendix F...CWA power twice the cost!
As for Vestas...their own CEO told the Boston Globe this summer that they do not know why anyone would do shallow water wind. Perhaps because the turbines fail...as did a third of the Vestas units at Kentish Flats....last month. OOPS!
DEIS, appendix F...CWA power twice the cost!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Ethics commission fines state employee for conflict of interest
In response to: Ethics commission fines state employee for conflict of interest
Nice try, SM. Unless the Ethics Commission makes a referral to the AG this will go no further. What specific wrongdoing are you implying? Weissman, by cooperating fully with the Ethics Commission's investigation, has certainly waived his rights against self - incrimination. If he did so without being told that there might be a follow-up by the AG it is unlikely it is unlikely and probably unethical for the AG to take up this matter. But. so what...the story is now very public and Weissman has been fined and held up for public scrutiny. Surely there will be more verbal abuse of him in certain quarters.
Perhaps we should be more concerned about the federal investigator(s) now looking into how a certain federal agency, well known in some quarters for corruption and ineptitude, has been handling its share of the Cape Wind scam (application).
If you know of specific actions by any of the current officers or staff of the Alliance or SOS, please let us know what these dirty deeds are. Implication is the scoundrel's veil.
Perhaps we should be more concerned about the federal investigator(s) now looking into how a certain federal agency, well known in some quarters for corruption and ineptitude, has been handling its share of the Cape Wind scam (application).
If you know of specific actions by any of the current officers or staff of the Alliance or SOS, please let us know what these dirty deeds are. Implication is the scoundrel's veil.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Final Cape Wind report due Friday; Alliance, CPN tempers flare; Cranberry Festival cancelled
In response to: Final Cape Wind report due Friday; Alliance, CPN tempers flare; Cranberry Festival cancelled
This is the kind of thing that makes my teeth itch. Weissman did tell many, many people; including staff lawyers and two superiors that he was also working for the Alliance. I am not going to argue against the Ethics Commission's decision...it is what it is.
Of course, Weissman did not falsely tell people that he lives on Cape Cod nor did he tell a federal agency that he intends to install and operate 130 wind turbines that have been discontinued for three years.
As for people attacking "the developer", presumably Jim Gordon, all one has to do is read through the vitriolic, personal and juvenile things written in these e-pages to understand how a personal attack looks and sounds.
Let's just stick to the issues: Cape Wind has no turbines, no financing, no power purchase agreements, no financial information beyond "trust me."
Of course, Weissman did not falsely tell people that he lives on Cape Cod nor did he tell a federal agency that he intends to install and operate 130 wind turbines that have been discontinued for three years.
As for people attacking "the developer", presumably Jim Gordon, all one has to do is read through the vitriolic, personal and juvenile things written in these e-pages to understand how a personal attack looks and sounds.
Let's just stick to the issues: Cape Wind has no turbines, no financing, no power purchase agreements, no financial information beyond "trust me."
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Man dies in Falmouth rollover, police officer, two residents lift car off victim; Jeep takes to the tide off Sandy Neck Beach
In response to: Man dies in Falmouth rollover, police officer, two residents lift car off victim; Jeep takes to the tide off Sandy Neck Beach
One of the worst features of four wheel drive is that it allows a person to become stranded way far away from any reasonable retreat.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Cape car dealers await Congress's bailout decision
In response to: Cape car dealers await Congress's bailout decision
Some really disturbing arithmetic:
Round off a 52 - week year into 50 weeks:
$10,000 per week = $500,000 per year.
$20,000 per week = $1,000,000 per year.
$15,000,000 per year = $300,000 per week. (Chrysler CEO)
$21,000,000 per year = $420,000 per week. (GM CEO)
Poor babies!
Round off a 52 - week year into 50 weeks:
$10,000 per week = $500,000 per year.
$20,000 per week = $1,000,000 per year.
$15,000,000 per year = $300,000 per week. (Chrysler CEO)
$21,000,000 per year = $420,000 per week. (GM CEO)
Poor babies!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Cape car dealers await Congress's bailout decision
In response to: Cape car dealers await Congress's bailout decision
Some interesting facts, kids: there are lots of UAW folks assembling cars and being paid north of $40.00 per hour plus cradle-grave benefits. Chrysler signed a UAW contract requiring them to continue paying laid-off workers the difference between their unemployment $ and 95% of their full wage...how do you save money by idling a plant if you still have to pay the non-working workers?
Chrysler's CEO was forced out as CEO of Home Depot...a move once described as the only thing he had ever done to make money for Home Depot. He received mega-million$ in $everance pay. Now Chrysler pays him $15 million per year to learn the auto business while he runs the company...into the ground. Honda showed a net income of $2 billion last year and paid their CEO $1 million per year.
What am I missing? When the CEO of GM told a congressional committee this past week that GM is doing well in its foreign operations and was asked why that money is not used to prop us U.S. operations he had no answer...and he is paid $21million per year.
What a country!
Chrysler's CEO was forced out as CEO of Home Depot...a move once described as the only thing he had ever done to make money for Home Depot. He received mega-million$ in $everance pay. Now Chrysler pays him $15 million per year to learn the auto business while he runs the company...into the ground. Honda showed a net income of $2 billion last year and paid their CEO $1 million per year.
What am I missing? When the CEO of GM told a congressional committee this past week that GM is doing well in its foreign operations and was asked why that money is not used to prop us U.S. operations he had no answer...and he is paid $21million per year.
What a country!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Budget cuts at DA's office; Turbines galore available; Economy claims Cape Cod Sports Report; Thanksgiving is No Turkey; Giving, not forgetting
In response to: Budget cuts at DA's office; Turbines galore available; Economy claims Cape Cod Sports Report; Thanksgiving is No Turkey; Giving, not forgetting
Smah - You are not too bright, cute in a demented sort of way, but not too bright. How can i be saying that Blue H's power will be less than cape Wind's when Blue H will be using a 5.0MW turbine against Cape Wind's....well....we don't waht size turbine Cape Wind will be using?
Anyway, this is not Blue H versus Cape Wind. Blue H will be developing its several wind farms in 30-300 meters of water while Cape Wind's one wind farm will be in the shallows known as Horseshoe Shoals. This is not an either or proposition, in spite of Walter's tacky crack about the red herring.
Gee....maybe you know, 'cause you are so smahhhht....what turbines will Cape Wind be using?
Anyway, this is not Blue H versus Cape Wind. Blue H will be developing its several wind farms in 30-300 meters of water while Cape Wind's one wind farm will be in the shallows known as Horseshoe Shoals. This is not an either or proposition, in spite of Walter's tacky crack about the red herring.
Gee....maybe you know, 'cause you are so smahhhht....what turbines will Cape Wind be using?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Budget cuts at DA's office; Turbines galore available; Economy claims Cape Cod Sports Report; Thanksgiving is No Turkey; Giving, not forgetting
In response to: Budget cuts at DA's office; Turbines galore available; Economy claims Cape Cod Sports Report; Thanksgiving is No Turkey; Giving, not forgetting
Nice to see you out in the light, Chuck. Instead of citing the number of offshore wind farms in Europe, you should cite their actual operating experience, their cost of energy generated. I notice you failed to mention the current failure of one third of the turbines at Kentish Flats.
As for choices, you are so wrong. If you specify the GE model 3.6s turbine to MMS (section 2.1.1) you damn well better know that they are available ....and they are not. How many people from the upper ranks of wind turbine technology who know Jim Gordon have you asked about turbine availability? the most impressive one I asked told me that he told Gordon, "You can't make money out there." Gee.
Vagueness, it turns out, is the refuge of the wind rascal. In the case of Cape Wind we are talking about the GE 3.6MW model 3.6s turbine, specified to MMS (section 2.1.1) in 2005, but discontinued by GE in 2005.
Of course, we are also talking about Jim Gordon who does not live on Cape Cod, as he has told many, many people.
We are also talking about enormously more expensive power...aren't we?
As for choices, you are so wrong. If you specify the GE model 3.6s turbine to MMS (section 2.1.1) you damn well better know that they are available ....and they are not. How many people from the upper ranks of wind turbine technology who know Jim Gordon have you asked about turbine availability? the most impressive one I asked told me that he told Gordon, "You can't make money out there." Gee.
Vagueness, it turns out, is the refuge of the wind rascal. In the case of Cape Wind we are talking about the GE 3.6MW model 3.6s turbine, specified to MMS (section 2.1.1) in 2005, but discontinued by GE in 2005.
Of course, we are also talking about Jim Gordon who does not live on Cape Cod, as he has told many, many people.
We are also talking about enormously more expensive power...aren't we?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Budget cuts at DA's office; Turbines galore available; Economy claims Cape Cod Sports Report; Thanksgiving is No Turkey; Giving, not forgetting
In response to: Budget cuts at DA's office; Turbines galore available; Economy claims Cape Cod Sports Report; Thanksgiving is No Turkey; Giving, not forgetting
Smah -
You might try getting sound information: Blue H's demonstrator is to be a 3.5MW unit installed next summer. Their actual units will be 5MW. Their half scale unit now moored at sea off the Italian coast at Puglia is operating at far better rate of generation than expected and has already weathered two severe Mediteranian hurricanes with no problem.
In addition to all this, Blue H is not intending to compete with Cape Wind. Are you saying that Cape Wind will be the only wind farm we'll need. Also, the recently retired head of reasearch and design for GE, also head of GE Global, has signed on as a board member for a U.S. wind developer/manufacturer who recently obtained some very large financing and who will be using two blade technology. Gee, should this tell us something? Two blades are better than three for several reasons. But, you knew that, didn't you? Sounds to me as if Cape Wind is a little afraid of Blue H. Why?
You folks who claim to be so green-minded should be jumping for joy at what Blue H has to offer. But, you are Cape Wind flacks, pure and simple.
You might try getting sound information: Blue H's demonstrator is to be a 3.5MW unit installed next summer. Their actual units will be 5MW. Their half scale unit now moored at sea off the Italian coast at Puglia is operating at far better rate of generation than expected and has already weathered two severe Mediteranian hurricanes with no problem.
In addition to all this, Blue H is not intending to compete with Cape Wind. Are you saying that Cape Wind will be the only wind farm we'll need. Also, the recently retired head of reasearch and design for GE, also head of GE Global, has signed on as a board member for a U.S. wind developer/manufacturer who recently obtained some very large financing and who will be using two blade technology. Gee, should this tell us something? Two blades are better than three for several reasons. But, you knew that, didn't you? Sounds to me as if Cape Wind is a little afraid of Blue H. Why?
You folks who claim to be so green-minded should be jumping for joy at what Blue H has to offer. But, you are Cape Wind flacks, pure and simple.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Budget cuts at DA's office; Turbines galore available; Economy claims Cape Cod Sports Report; Thanksgiving is No Turkey; Giving, not forgetting
In response to: Budget cuts at DA's office; Turbines galore available; Economy claims Cape Cod Sports Report; Thanksgiving is No Turkey; Giving, not forgetting
Naikun' stock is selling today for thirty cents per share. they announced a joint purchase agreement with cape Wind three years ago to buy GE 3.6MW turbines. What happened?
And, right now Siemens is involved in a major research and development project to design a new type of transmission to make their 3.6 MW turbines actually work. This is easily found on the web.
Something about this whole deal really smells. I notice that it was not the head of Siemens U.S. (Mike Revak) or anyone from the headquarters in Germany who made this announcement.
I guess this proves that GE is not making a 3.6MW wind turbine?
And, right now Siemens is involved in a major research and development project to design a new type of transmission to make their 3.6 MW turbines actually work. This is easily found on the web.
Something about this whole deal really smells. I notice that it was not the head of Siemens U.S. (Mike Revak) or anyone from the headquarters in Germany who made this announcement.
I guess this proves that GE is not making a 3.6MW wind turbine?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Farm stand bandit bagged; Officer retires after 30 years of service; Bogus bills; Wareham accident; Pick-up vs school bus in Marstons Mills; Man killed in roll over survived fall from cliff in 2007; Level 3 sex offender
In response to: Farm stand bandit bagged; Officer retires after 30 years of service; Bogus bills; Wareham accident; Pick-up vs school bus in Marstons Mills; Man killed in roll over survived fall from cliff in 2007; Level 3 sex offender
Thank you for your service, Kevin, for the way you presented Yarmouth to our visitors and for the help you provided your fellow citizens. Thank you.
Stick around for at least another thirty years.
Stick around for at least another thirty years.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Former librarian director and well-known singer/songwriter Judy Wallace remembered
In response to: Former librarian director and well-known singer/songwriter Judy Wallace remembered
Not having seen Judy for a few years I was pleasantly surprised to bump into her three years ago when i was working in Mattapoisett. Her news about the brain cancer she was fighting was a shock. Still we managed to laugh a lot about her years on the Cape and some of the folks she had brought together in performance.
This was a woman of great talent who felt compelled to share her gifts with the world. Hers is a great loss to this little corner of the world where she shed so much light. I shall miss her.
This was a woman of great talent who felt compelled to share her gifts with the world. Hers is a great loss to this little corner of the world where she shed so much light. I shall miss her.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Glenn Wattley's anti-Cape Wind mission
In response to: Glenn Wattley's anti-Cape Wind mission
Here we go again!
1. The recent vote on the South Shore was not simply for Cape Wind. It included all wind power projects. It is unfair to characterize it as a success for Cape Wind....more of a bag job.
2. Glenn Wattley's business career spans more than three decades, two years of which he spent working for a company that sold coal mining equipment. He also spent years as a vice president at Arthur D. Little for energy matters and a few years as a partner in globally influential consulting firm, Arthur Anderson...also in energy matters generally.
Virtually all of Jim Gordon's millions come from the gas-fired electric industry where he is still a player since he will soon begin construction of a $400 million + gas fired plant in Westfield, Ma. If Glenn Wattley is a coal guy Jim Gordon is a gas guy.
Mark Rogers knows all this since he was invited to speak at the annual Arthur D. Little Alumni Association meeting this past week. But, telling the whole story just does not have the same ring as telling the slanted version.
1. The recent vote on the South Shore was not simply for Cape Wind. It included all wind power projects. It is unfair to characterize it as a success for Cape Wind....more of a bag job.
2. Glenn Wattley's business career spans more than three decades, two years of which he spent working for a company that sold coal mining equipment. He also spent years as a vice president at Arthur D. Little for energy matters and a few years as a partner in globally influential consulting firm, Arthur Anderson...also in energy matters generally.
Virtually all of Jim Gordon's millions come from the gas-fired electric industry where he is still a player since he will soon begin construction of a $400 million + gas fired plant in Westfield, Ma. If Glenn Wattley is a coal guy Jim Gordon is a gas guy.
Mark Rogers knows all this since he was invited to speak at the annual Arthur D. Little Alumni Association meeting this past week. But, telling the whole story just does not have the same ring as telling the slanted version.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Kennedy's Mya heads to Florida
In response to: Kennedy's Mya heads to Florida
Hey Smah -
Maybe you joined here to "lie" and "hurt." that's too bad. I did not and probably many others did not. Now that we know you did we can give your cape Wind support the recognition it deserves...none at all. After all, your aim is to lie and hurt. I think most of us knew this already, but it is good to have your own confirmation.
Too bad. You are not stupid....just mean and dishonest.
Maybe you joined here to "lie" and "hurt." that's too bad. I did not and probably many others did not. Now that we know you did we can give your cape Wind support the recognition it deserves...none at all. After all, your aim is to lie and hurt. I think most of us knew this already, but it is good to have your own confirmation.
Too bad. You are not stupid....just mean and dishonest.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Nantucket police mount Operation Do It Again
In response to: Nantucket police mount Operation Do It Again
There have been problems with people from this same town in Mississippi selling drugs on Nantucket since 1993 and earlier.
What the hell is going on? Can't we find any decent, hardworking local folks to handle our vices?
What the hell is going on? Can't we find any decent, hardworking local folks to handle our vices?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Siting board opens hearing on Cape Wind permit request
In response to: Siting board opens hearing on Cape Wind permit request
All this may be academic anyway:
1. There are no 3.6MW turbines available for Cape Wind or any wind power developer from any supplier anywhere. My sources at both GE and Siemens, the only companies who ever did build assure me that Cape Wind knew this in 2006 and probably earlier. This means the project must be completely redesigned to use more but smaller turbines or produce less power as there are no larger turbines available yet for offshore use.
2. Earl E. Devaney, Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Interior is conducting an investigation into the way MMS has conducted its so-called review. His two issues so far are the lack of turbines in spite of what Cape Wind told MMS (Cape Wind DEIS section 2.1.1) and the removal of a key member of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from review of all wind farms in new England after he filed troublesome comments about Cape Wind's plan.
So, Dr. Rodney E. Cluck (PhD. in sociology from Mississippi State University & expert in 'environmental justice') who heads the Cape Wind review must be very busy answering questions. OOPS!
1. There are no 3.6MW turbines available for Cape Wind or any wind power developer from any supplier anywhere. My sources at both GE and Siemens, the only companies who ever did build assure me that Cape Wind knew this in 2006 and probably earlier. This means the project must be completely redesigned to use more but smaller turbines or produce less power as there are no larger turbines available yet for offshore use.
2. Earl E. Devaney, Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Interior is conducting an investigation into the way MMS has conducted its so-called review. His two issues so far are the lack of turbines in spite of what Cape Wind told MMS (Cape Wind DEIS section 2.1.1) and the removal of a key member of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from review of all wind farms in new England after he filed troublesome comments about Cape Wind's plan.
So, Dr. Rodney E. Cluck (PhD. in sociology from Mississippi State University & expert in 'environmental justice') who heads the Cape Wind review must be very busy answering questions. OOPS!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Horsing around at Maushop Stables
In response to: Horsing around at Maushop Stables
Get your facts staright, Quahog...or whoever you are when not in disguise...when you say 'WE' cannot do this or that do you mean the tribe? I hope not, because as of the last time I checked....last fall, 'WE' do not own the farm; Herb Strather does and the tribe ('WE') have been paying him $5,000 a month in rent on the farm 'WE' thought 'WE' were buying. Of course you know this, because you refer in your post to the deed and presumably have read it. If you have not, would like me to send you a copy?
As for the deed restrictions....they have been broken before and often. Grow up.
As for the deed restrictions....they have been broken before and often. Grow up.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Single vehicle rollover in Bourne; Falmouth warrant execution nets over $10k in pills and cash; YPD arrests include one OUI 4th offense among others
In response to: Single vehicle rollover in Bourne; Falmouth warrant execution nets over $10k in pills and cash; YPD arrests include one OUI 4th offense among others
Let me see if I have this straight: this guy Lennon has 56 arraignments on his record....more than one for every year he has been alive. And, with multiple drug offenses on his record he owns houses used as "sober houses" and he is not in jail. What am I missing?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Circuit City won't occupy new Hyannis store
In response to: Circuit City won't occupy new Hyannis store
New quarters for the Cape Cod Commission!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Pumpkin Man moons; Patrick may change Senate succession law; Corrupt, inept Massachusetts; Fishing in peril; Cape Cod dog days; Bay dumping delayed
In response to: Pumpkin Man moons; Patrick may change Senate succession law; Corrupt, inept Massachusetts; Fishing in peril; Cape Cod dog days; Bay dumping delayed
If Deval Patrick works to change the law about how we select a replacement for our senators he has completely lost me as a support in anything.
It is interesting that this guy who wears his Harvard Law degree like so much decoration for valor and who was a major figure in American Civil Rights at the justice department might even consider denying the people an opportunity to make their will know.
The huge voter turnout this past tuesday speaks volumes about the fact that millions of previously apathetic/silent Americans have decided to become engaged in their own government....now our governor wants to spit in their faces? Nice going, Your Excellency.
It is interesting that this guy who wears his Harvard Law degree like so much decoration for valor and who was a major figure in American Civil Rights at the justice department might even consider denying the people an opportunity to make their will know.
The huge voter turnout this past tuesday speaks volumes about the fact that millions of previously apathetic/silent Americans have decided to become engaged in their own government....now our governor wants to spit in their faces? Nice going, Your Excellency.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Burger Kings Removing Playgrounds
In response to: Burger Kings Removing Playgrounds
If keeping the playgrounds would be good for business I have to believe they would still be in service. The choice was probably between paying huge and ever increasing public liability premiums, even after they surpassed whatever benefits were felt at the cash register, or simply doing away with the problem by replacing playground with picnic tables.
Anyone who truly wants to know what happened has only to call an insurance broker and ask what has been happening to premiums for public liability.
Anyone who truly wants to know what happened has only to call an insurance broker and ask what has been happening to premiums for public liability.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: 9 of 10 Bay Staters endorse Cape Wind in a dozen towns
In response to: 9 of 10 Bay Staters endorse Cape Wind in a dozen towns
Interesting....if people on the South Shore support wind power generally but do not support Cape Wind in par6ticular, they could not vote in a way that would so indicate. Another nice job by the folks from the Fraudi Arabia of wind.
By the way, Richard Elrick last night described Dr. Eli Brukner as an "old codger." At least the "codger" never failed a drug test.
By the way, Richard Elrick last night described Dr. Eli Brukner as an "old codger." At least the "codger" never failed a drug test.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: State holds Chapter 91 hearing on Cape Wind
In response to: State holds Chapter 91 hearing on Cape Wind
Cape Wind has no turbines available to it. So, why not wait until they have a complete project specification and then decide on this permit? This is shell game being run by a profiteer at the public's expense. There are people in this game who are going to love having to talk to Earl Devaney. Thius a phantom project.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: 9 of 10 Bay Staters endorse Cape Wind in a dozen towns
In response to: 9 of 10 Bay Staters endorse Cape Wind in a dozen towns
Too bad Jim Gordon doesn't have any turbines. Obviously Earl Devaney does not vote on the South shore.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: 1929: Curley goes too far; 1979: Major reconstruction of Bourne Bridge begins; 1930: Blogfather hatched
In response to: 1929: Curley goes too far; 1979: Major reconstruction of Bourne Bridge begins; 1930: Blogfather hatched
Happy birthday, Walter. That woman in the picture is a saint!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: He loved the Cape, and he'll be with us forever
In response to: He loved the Cape, and he'll be with us forever
The last time I checked, handing a loaded firearm to anyone is classified as unsafe gun handling. Handing a loaded firearm to an eight year old, a small person who would clearly be unable to control the weapon if it discharged ....especially a high-powered automatic weapon with a silly rate of fire...is reckless endangerment. This prosecutor in Connecticut should be fired and his replacement should be compelled to pursue charges against the person or persons responsible for this tragedy. In most civilized corners of this world and certainly in every New England state there is statutory authority for the pressing of charges for endangerment of a child. This, of course would include parents as well as, oh let's say anyone who hands a loaded weapon to a child.
As for the comments being made here, the death of a child under any circumstances deserves better; the death of this child under these circumstances is not proper fuel for humor. There are people nearby I think I find more frightening than an Uzzi. At least at some point the Uzzi requires reloading...a mouth can go on forever.
As for the comments being made here, the death of a child under any circumstances deserves better; the death of this child under these circumstances is not proper fuel for humor. There are people nearby I think I find more frightening than an Uzzi. At least at some point the Uzzi requires reloading...a mouth can go on forever.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Chapter 91 hearing set for Cape Wind
In response to: Chapter 91 hearing set for Cape Wind
Hey Smah---where are you? You seem to have dropped off my radar screen...actually I think you just got lost in the clutter, side load and shadowing. This damn wind farm is screwing everything up. How can my brand new Raytheon radar miss a tin-headed target as large as you?
Where is Dennis barber when you need him?.
Smah----hey Smah----is that you? You confusing little blip you....OOPS, watch out for that huge steel tube dead ahead.
Where is Dennis barber when you need him?.
Smah----hey Smah----is that you? You confusing little blip you....OOPS, watch out for that huge steel tube dead ahead.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Chapter 91 hearing set for Cape Wind
In response to: Chapter 91 hearing set for Cape Wind
Smah....where are you, boy? Let's talk about who at MTC tried to hire the 'coal guy'. Oh My! Back then he was an expert....now he is a "coal guy"? I guess that makes Little Jimmie a "gas guy"?...
Little Jimmie is the fella who lied (misinformed) to that Harvard Business School fellow about the house he owns in South Yarmouth, "....two blocks from the Bass River." (Cape Wind case by prof. Richard H. K. Vietor, HBS 2008).
Now we have the Great Radar Scam...and you....loyal to the end. What is Little Jimmie's next scam? "Take this pill and live forever, just $2 billion plus shipping and handling. Money back guarantee...if you can find me."
By the way, where is Little Jimmie lately? He seems to be sending out his surrogate, Mark Rogers to all the public appearances. Is Little Jimmie afraid of answering questions? Hmmmmm? Hmmmm?
"Mr. Gordon, is it true you lied to MMS about the turbines you would be using?"
Little Jimmie is the fella who lied (misinformed) to that Harvard Business School fellow about the house he owns in South Yarmouth, "....two blocks from the Bass River." (Cape Wind case by prof. Richard H. K. Vietor, HBS 2008).
Now we have the Great Radar Scam...and you....loyal to the end. What is Little Jimmie's next scam? "Take this pill and live forever, just $2 billion plus shipping and handling. Money back guarantee...if you can find me."
By the way, where is Little Jimmie lately? He seems to be sending out his surrogate, Mark Rogers to all the public appearances. Is Little Jimmie afraid of answering questions? Hmmmmm? Hmmmm?
"Mr. Gordon, is it true you lied to MMS about the turbines you would be using?"
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Joe the Plumber on The Vineyard; Times lays off 6 in newsroom; Majority Leader lied about Cape house; Town legal budget skyrockets; Exxon's record profits
In response to: Joe the Plumber on The Vineyard; Times lays off 6 in newsroom; Majority Leader lied about Cape house; Town legal budget skyrockets; Exxon's record profits
By the way....the person now blogging as 'Gadfly' is not moi. Confusion reins.
As for dodo birds....they runs the CC Times.
As for dodo birds....they runs the CC Times.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Chapter 91 hearing set for Cape Wind
In response to: Chapter 91 hearing set for Cape Wind
Here is something I find very interesting: the project manger for the MMS review of the Cape Wind application is Rodney E. Cluck, PhD. His doctorate is from Mississippi State University in Sociology, and his masters was also in sociology from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Prior to being in charge of analyzing Jim Gordon's dreams he was doing work at MMS in environmental sociology. I guess this means he is mainly a facilitator ...someone whose job it is to get us all to hold hands and chant...then reach 'consensus'. To hell with laws, rules, truthful specifications or any of that real world crap that stands of the way of real energy progress and more millions for Gordon. he wants us to feel good about renewable energy.
And, for those who would care to read the papers to which he contributed in the late 1990s for the Rural Sociology Society, he rails against the urban and the wealthy. Do I hear NIMBY?
Yup, a real intellectual heavyweight is our boy Rodney...and such stunning technical expertise. Can Oprah Winnfrey be far behind?
Devaney's graduate degree is in law. Oh!
And, for those who would care to read the papers to which he contributed in the late 1990s for the Rural Sociology Society, he rails against the urban and the wealthy. Do I hear NIMBY?
Yup, a real intellectual heavyweight is our boy Rodney...and such stunning technical expertise. Can Oprah Winnfrey be far behind?
Devaney's graduate degree is in law. Oh!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Chapter 91 hearing set for Cape Wind
In response to: Chapter 91 hearing set for Cape Wind
Smah...you are so full of it. Gordon is in fact going to build a new $400million gas fired plant in Westfield....how is that for an environmental good fairy? As far as who will take an order for 3.6MW turbines...you just do not know what you are talking about. Have you spoken to any manufacturers? I have. You are wrong, just plain wrong. Do your Damn homework, Sparky. One lousy order for $500 million + against a year's production of $14 billion or more...yeah, let's shut everything down, make these 130 units, forget about the other 4,000 that are ordered and kiss Little Jimmy's balance sheet. Makes sense to me.
As for your radar expertise, the two men who attended the radar conference who were the leading figures in radar at Raytheon...you have heard of Raytheon?...both said that an exact equipment specification and array is necessary for an accurate radar study. But, of course, you know more than they do. Right?
How can such a nice guy as you be such a dope?
Did you know that Rodney Cluck's PhD is in sociology? What a joke...and environmental sociologist. Like, wow....
As for your radar expertise, the two men who attended the radar conference who were the leading figures in radar at Raytheon...you have heard of Raytheon?...both said that an exact equipment specification and array is necessary for an accurate radar study. But, of course, you know more than they do. Right?
How can such a nice guy as you be such a dope?
Did you know that Rodney Cluck's PhD is in sociology? What a joke...and environmental sociologist. Like, wow....
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Chapter 91 hearing set for Cape Wind
In response to: Chapter 91 hearing set for Cape Wind
Hey Smahkcep....have you ever heard of Earl E. Devaney? You would like him.
As far as your substitute boiler nonsense....there is only one other manyfacturer of 3.6MW turbines in the world, Siemens....and they will not sell them in the U.S. Grow up and smell the transformer oil, pal: an order for 130 wind turbines that requires a special tooling of an entire manufacturing facility when you already have orders for THOUSANDS of standard turbines just does not light happy bulb in companies who do billions of dollars annually in other sizes. You are now revealing your complete ignorance of the technical aspects of this project. According to the retired CEO of Raytheon and Dr. Eli Bruckner (designed much of Raytheon's radar fleet) the EXCAT turbine specs must be known for an adequate radar study. You do want an accurate radar study, don't you?
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM. Here come the Gordonistas again. BOOM, BOOM, BOOM.
Turbines? We don't got no turbines...we don't need no stinkin' turbines!
As far as your substitute boiler nonsense....there is only one other manyfacturer of 3.6MW turbines in the world, Siemens....and they will not sell them in the U.S. Grow up and smell the transformer oil, pal: an order for 130 wind turbines that requires a special tooling of an entire manufacturing facility when you already have orders for THOUSANDS of standard turbines just does not light happy bulb in companies who do billions of dollars annually in other sizes. You are now revealing your complete ignorance of the technical aspects of this project. According to the retired CEO of Raytheon and Dr. Eli Bruckner (designed much of Raytheon's radar fleet) the EXCAT turbine specs must be known for an adequate radar study. You do want an accurate radar study, don't you?
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM. Here come the Gordonistas again. BOOM, BOOM, BOOM.
Turbines? We don't got no turbines...we don't need no stinkin' turbines!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Home-less-ness on Cape Cod's Downtown
In response to: Home-less-ness on Cape Cod's Downtown
Spiro - I was at the meeting, the entire meeting. Three of the homeless who spoke are three of the worst problems facing main Street. They are neither calm nor dignified. I, too remember Tweety as well as Squeak and Squalk...the long-time, almost venerable homeless thgree some of the Hyannis of old. They were polite, dignified and friendly. The reasons for their situation never came my way, but they were also not addicted to any substances that I know of and were treated with respect up and down Main Street.
Perhaps a tour of the Town Hall green at 3:00 am is a better way to gauge what is going on than a daylight cup of coffee. Compassion should be accompanied by practicality: the only reason that anyone can raise an alarm and call for the banishing of human services from Hyannis is the gang of thugs who are not even acceptable to the Noah or Salvation Army shelters. These are not heroic figures. A lot of well intentioned people are not listening: these goons are harming the homeless more than they harm any other group besides themselves.
Perhaps a tour of the Town Hall green at 3:00 am is a better way to gauge what is going on than a daylight cup of coffee. Compassion should be accompanied by practicality: the only reason that anyone can raise an alarm and call for the banishing of human services from Hyannis is the gang of thugs who are not even acceptable to the Noah or Salvation Army shelters. These are not heroic figures. A lot of well intentioned people are not listening: these goons are harming the homeless more than they harm any other group besides themselves.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Barnstable may target panhandling, loitering by street people
In response to: Barnstable may target panhandling, loitering by street people
As for whether or not what I have posted here about the meeting in hyannis is factual, have no fear. The entire meeting was video recorded and i believe will be telecast on public access televison soon.
Perhaps we have a Main Street needle collection Saturday sometime or maybe a PUBLIC PLACE POOP SCOOP so the noble savages of Hyannis will be able to feel safe and clean as they wander the streets in search of mayhem.
At some point the offensiveness and menace presnted by certain people becomes unacceptable, Bogman. I find it hard to believe you would tolerate the antics and loud ravings of Arcenio and his chums in your own house or yard, so why should he be tolerated in the doorways of main Street businesses, or the approaches to the Transportation center, or the hyannis docks or the benches in front of bank North? Spen a littel time on maun Street and see what goes on, what actually happens. Better yet, open a business on main Street that relies on foot traffic...then come at me after you have met Arcenio and his folks up close, every day. His 'girl' is the half naked one.
Perhaps we have a Main Street needle collection Saturday sometime or maybe a PUBLIC PLACE POOP SCOOP so the noble savages of Hyannis will be able to feel safe and clean as they wander the streets in search of mayhem.
At some point the offensiveness and menace presnted by certain people becomes unacceptable, Bogman. I find it hard to believe you would tolerate the antics and loud ravings of Arcenio and his chums in your own house or yard, so why should he be tolerated in the doorways of main Street businesses, or the approaches to the Transportation center, or the hyannis docks or the benches in front of bank North? Spen a littel time on maun Street and see what goes on, what actually happens. Better yet, open a business on main Street that relies on foot traffic...then come at me after you have met Arcenio and his folks up close, every day. His 'girl' is the half naked one.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Barnstable may target panhandling, loitering by street people
In response to: Barnstable may target panhandling, loitering by street people
Hey, Bogman...don't take my word for the Arcenio incident...ask the Barnstable police. I will not be threatened by street people. Do you remember the expensive wood roofed gazebo that was built in front of the Hyannis post office as a place for pedestrians to sit and relax in the Hyannis downtown area? Do you remember the homeless rabble who sat in it alll day every day drinking and telling at passers by? Do you remember it was finally removed because it was more trouble than it was worth?
As for our friend Arcenio and his occasionally & publicly half naked "girlfriend" these are the pople who cause the most trouble for the peaceful homeless who need help and are routinely assisted by the social service agencies in Hyannis. These are the types of people, in fact they are some of the actual people, who terrorize Main Street businesses, customers, tourists and pedestrians. A thug is thug whether homeless or not. I personally saw the Barnstable Chief of police arrest your frind Arcenio for drinking in public (10:00 am), the chief himself...go tell him Arcenio is a beautiful guy.
As for our friend Arcenio and his occasionally & publicly half naked "girlfriend" these are the pople who cause the most trouble for the peaceful homeless who need help and are routinely assisted by the social service agencies in Hyannis. These are the types of people, in fact they are some of the actual people, who terrorize Main Street businesses, customers, tourists and pedestrians. A thug is thug whether homeless or not. I personally saw the Barnstable Chief of police arrest your frind Arcenio for drinking in public (10:00 am), the chief himself...go tell him Arcenio is a beautiful guy.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Barnstable may target panhandling, loitering by street people
In response to: Barnstable may target panhandling, loitering by street people
Kapekodda et al -
The issue is very simple...those who disrupt should be banished from the county. The ancient law is still on the books and was actually used in 1979 against a man from Dennis (Gary Nickerson was the prosecutor who recommended this case).
Whenever the social service folks are raising money they go to the Main Street merchants for support and they get it....then when the main street merchants need help with the vagrants and the vandals these same service providers call them cruel and insensitive.
To use Walter's words...talk about pissing people off. The next time one of these unfortunates threatens me i think I'll introduce him to Uncle Fist....or maybe Bobby boot. If the Salvation Army won't deal with these criminals why should the Main Street business community and their visitors? Why should the police be made into a social service organization? Why should the fire department become a pooper-scooper for human piles? The truly needy suffer because of the truly malicious.
Say hello to Phil, the kilted menace.
The issue is very simple...those who disrupt should be banished from the county. The ancient law is still on the books and was actually used in 1979 against a man from Dennis (Gary Nickerson was the prosecutor who recommended this case).
Whenever the social service folks are raising money they go to the Main Street merchants for support and they get it....then when the main street merchants need help with the vagrants and the vandals these same service providers call them cruel and insensitive.
To use Walter's words...talk about pissing people off. The next time one of these unfortunates threatens me i think I'll introduce him to Uncle Fist....or maybe Bobby boot. If the Salvation Army won't deal with these criminals why should the Main Street business community and their visitors? Why should the police be made into a social service organization? Why should the fire department become a pooper-scooper for human piles? The truly needy suffer because of the truly malicious.
Say hello to Phil, the kilted menace.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: State's dailies lose circulation; Monitor ceases publication;
In response to: State's dailies lose circulation; Monitor ceases publication;
If the Monitor is not safe....no one is.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Chapter 91 hearing set for Cape Wind
In response to: Chapter 91 hearing set for Cape Wind
Gee....imgaine this: Cape Wind has somehow convinced the Commonwealth to classify its project as "water dependent."
Of course there is a problem with this....wind farms are not dependent on water but on wind AND....no one will sell Cape Wind the turbines they have specified. Two companies only have manufactured the 3.6MW turbine Cape Wind specified to Minerals Management Service (section 2.1.1)---GE and Siemens. GE discontinued their model 3.6s in 2006....2006! And Siemens will not sell theirs in the U.S.
Oh GEE! It looks like Jim Gordon has misinformed us, again. When will the bull stop? Then there is the radar issue...two retired pros from Raytheon telling Cape Wind's English radar "expert" that he is full of...well... clutter.
Does anyone out there recognize this name....Earl E. Devaney? If you do not, ask J. Steven Griles or Julie McDonald.
I think Griles is out of jail now and McDonald is back on the farm in California. They know Devaney (or he knows them) very well. Could Gordon be next?
Of course there is a problem with this....wind farms are not dependent on water but on wind AND....no one will sell Cape Wind the turbines they have specified. Two companies only have manufactured the 3.6MW turbine Cape Wind specified to Minerals Management Service (section 2.1.1)---GE and Siemens. GE discontinued their model 3.6s in 2006....2006! And Siemens will not sell theirs in the U.S.
Oh GEE! It looks like Jim Gordon has misinformed us, again. When will the bull stop? Then there is the radar issue...two retired pros from Raytheon telling Cape Wind's English radar "expert" that he is full of...well... clutter.
Does anyone out there recognize this name....Earl E. Devaney? If you do not, ask J. Steven Griles or Julie McDonald.
I think Griles is out of jail now and McDonald is back on the farm in California. They know Devaney (or he knows them) very well. Could Gordon be next?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Barnstable may target panhandling, loitering by street people
In response to: Barnstable may target panhandling, loitering by street people
I notice no mention of the used hypodermic needles on Main Street or the groups of 'homeless' who terrorize patrons of sidewalk restaurant seating, or the unfortunates who defecate in various places in and around the town green or the misunderstood who fling trash all over the town green and both public and private spaces or the drunks who sit on the benches at the approaches to the bus station growling at the tourists or the woman who walked down Ocean Street on July 4 toward the concert wearing a t-shirt and sneakers (only) through the crowds of families or the early morning Bud Society who sit in front of Bank North and pass around their GIQs or the jerk in the kilt who chased Cong. Delahunt down main Street screaming obscenities at him on a July Sunday afternoon or the goons who inhabit Main Street doorways in the late afternoon and drive customers away from Cafe Dolce or the junkies who buy and sell in the Ocean street parking lot across from the CCT building (oops) and sometimes smash car windows. Maybe one meeting is not enough to know what really happens? Ask the cops.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Barnstable may target panhandling, loitering by street people
In response to: Barnstable may target panhandling, loitering by street people
Some facts (sorry to spoil the fun): the guy pictured on the front page of the Cape Cod Times --- I first saw him in late June in the middle of the day in the middle of Ocean Street fighting with his 'girlfriend' whose pants were down at her ankles. These same two and three friends have twice caused disturbances in the middle of the night on the Hyannis green that caused an adjacent motel owner to refund nearly a dozen room nights for people who were awakened, plus those who simply left.
Two things left out here,both revealed last night: 80% of the homeless in Hyannis are from off-Cape: 10% of all the homeless cause 95%+ of the problems. These are the drunks, junkies and criminals whom the shelters will not allow in for the night, including the CC Times poster boy. Hyannis Fire District made ambulance runs costing $130K last year for homeless...many were "frequent fliers."
The criminals make all homeless look bad. Last night's forum was NOT supposed to be an open meeting about homelessness but a forum about problems in Hyannis with disruptive people. And they came.
Two things left out here,both revealed last night: 80% of the homeless in Hyannis are from off-Cape: 10% of all the homeless cause 95%+ of the problems. These are the drunks, junkies and criminals whom the shelters will not allow in for the night, including the CC Times poster boy. Hyannis Fire District made ambulance runs costing $130K last year for homeless...many were "frequent fliers."
The criminals make all homeless look bad. Last night's forum was NOT supposed to be an open meeting about homelessness but a forum about problems in Hyannis with disruptive people. And they came.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Hyannis Circuit City to remain empty for an undetermined period of time
In response to: Hyannis Circuit City to remain empty for an undetermined period of time
HEY!!!!! I think we just found a new home for the *%^)##@)^&X Cape Cod Commission.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Political signs of the times
In response to: Political signs of the times
Hey Wally...
It's called freedom of expression. Is this editorial going to cost you business? I think not. Freedom of expression...hmmmm....what a novel idea.
It's called freedom of expression. Is this editorial going to cost you business? I think not. Freedom of expression...hmmmm....what a novel idea.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Yarmouth Police Issue Level 3 Sex Offender Community Notice
In response to: Yarmouth Police Issue Level 3 Sex Offender Community Notice
Someone...ANYONE...explain to me why a man convicted of rape of a child is back on the streets after four years. How long will the victim(s) be imprisoned by the experience?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Lawyer is unlikely Tribe force; Murder on Halloween? Cape father of slain baby dismayed by ruling
In response to: Lawyer is unlikely Tribe force; Murder on Halloween? Cape father of slain baby dismayed by ruling
The Globe missed one of McDrmott's more interesting deals: he represented both the seller and the buyer when the tribe thought they were buying the Maushop farm and stables in Mashpee. The seller also thought she was selling to the tribe. As it turns out McDermott was more helpful to the actual buyer....Herb Strather. After Strather bought the farm the tribe paid him a very 'generous' rent so it could claim to operate the Maushop riding whatever.
Disclosure is a helpful word in such circumstances. Of course, being in Strather's pocket meant that McDermott was merely advancing the aims of the Marshall Plan. (That's Glenn Marshall, rapist and hero extraordinaire) the guy who has no visible means of support but who still lives very well.
Disclosure is a helpful word in such circumstances. Of course, being in Strather's pocket meant that McDermott was merely advancing the aims of the Marshall Plan. (That's Glenn Marshall, rapist and hero extraordinaire) the guy who has no visible means of support but who still lives very well.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Can Cape Wind save your ocean view?
In response to: Can Cape Wind save your ocean view?
Two things to consider about the picture that leads this piece:
1. The house shown is threatened by erosion, yes. But caused by global warming? NO! Cape Cod and both islands have seen their coastlines come and go for centuries...long before there were toxic emissions other than wood smoke from our chimneys. In fact, if it were not for global warming we would still be locked in the Ice Age. Remember the Ice Age, people? Blaming all erosion on global warming is just plain stupid and wrong.
2. One would think that CCTODAY would applaud whatever destroys any seaside 'mcmansions'. After all, rich people are evil...unless they want to build offshore wind farms. What do you suppose is the carbon footprint of five story 200 year old brick row house on beacon Hill?
Gee, I wonder if that's the house Jim Gordon rents when he vacations on Nantucket. The rental house he prefers to the fictitious he owns in South Yarmouth, "...two blocks from the Bass River."*
*Verbatim excerpt from the Harvard Business School case, Cape Wind, written by Professor Richard H. K. Vietor, 2008.
1. The house shown is threatened by erosion, yes. But caused by global warming? NO! Cape Cod and both islands have seen their coastlines come and go for centuries...long before there were toxic emissions other than wood smoke from our chimneys. In fact, if it were not for global warming we would still be locked in the Ice Age. Remember the Ice Age, people? Blaming all erosion on global warming is just plain stupid and wrong.
2. One would think that CCTODAY would applaud whatever destroys any seaside 'mcmansions'. After all, rich people are evil...unless they want to build offshore wind farms. What do you suppose is the carbon footprint of five story 200 year old brick row house on beacon Hill?
Gee, I wonder if that's the house Jim Gordon rents when he vacations on Nantucket. The rental house he prefers to the fictitious he owns in South Yarmouth, "...two blocks from the Bass River."*
*Verbatim excerpt from the Harvard Business School case, Cape Wind, written by Professor Richard H. K. Vietor, 2008.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Can GateHouse Media stop our local newspaper shrinkage?
In response to: Can GateHouse Media stop our local newspaper shrinkage?
Perhaps they can find a way to do what they admit theor papers have not been doing... cover the towns they serve... they will find a way for these papers to survive. One way to succeed in the newspaper business is to deserve the success... to do the damn job!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Obama for President, Beatty for the Senate
In response to: Obama for President, Beatty for the Senate
Hey Wally ... It may be is wrong about Cape Wind: No turbines = no project.
Now to business:
This is a thoughtful endorsement and a marvelous observation about what has happened to the Republican party. I grew up r by Republicans...one of my two siblings became and remains nearly a Marxist and the other thinks John Burch was too liberal. Go figure. I am a political agnostic but I knew all four of your GOP fellas....and they were (Brooke remains) grand old people. Each had his own unique flair with Elliot Richardson still viewed as one of the most honorable men ever to practice in American politics. All but Brooke were men of inherited wealth and social status. All were well educated, articulate and reasonable....that is neither liberal nor conservative but devoted to the notion that those who hold office must serve...not self but the citizens who elected them.
God, how I miss such men in public office.
By the way, Fr. Corleone is saying a mass of begging and pleading tonight at St. Turbinicus. Where, oh where, can we find 3.6MW turbines?
Now to business:
This is a thoughtful endorsement and a marvelous observation about what has happened to the Republican party. I grew up r by Republicans...one of my two siblings became and remains nearly a Marxist and the other thinks John Burch was too liberal. Go figure. I am a political agnostic but I knew all four of your GOP fellas....and they were (Brooke remains) grand old people. Each had his own unique flair with Elliot Richardson still viewed as one of the most honorable men ever to practice in American politics. All but Brooke were men of inherited wealth and social status. All were well educated, articulate and reasonable....that is neither liberal nor conservative but devoted to the notion that those who hold office must serve...not self but the citizens who elected them.
God, how I miss such men in public office.
By the way, Fr. Corleone is saying a mass of begging and pleading tonight at St. Turbinicus. Where, oh where, can we find 3.6MW turbines?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Gloves come off in probate register's race
In response to: Gloves come off in probate register's race
I'll give Turkinton one thing...he has a really novel sense of humor. In all his years in the State House can he point to one time when he complained publicly about the screwing our courts down here take at budget time compared with other courts in parts of the sate where there is more power on Beacon Hill...just one time? Has he ever introduced legislation to level the budgetary playing field?
Does he really care?
As for his claim that he has practiced real estate and probate law for thirty years...when? Gee, he must not have been that active as legislator. Perhaps his state pension should reflect that fact. Why not go back in to private law practice, Eric? Too much like work?
Does he really care?
As for his claim that he has practiced real estate and probate law for thirty years...when? Gee, he must not have been that active as legislator. Perhaps his state pension should reflect that fact. Why not go back in to private law practice, Eric? Too much like work?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Why we urge you to vote for Anastasia Welsh Perrino for Barnstable County Register of Probate
In response to: Why we urge you to vote for Anastasia Welsh Perrino for Barnstable County Register of Probate
Nicely done, Walter. For once a Democrat has made a rational decision in the interests of better public service. She gets my vote.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Christy lowers the price (again)
In response to: Christy lowers the price (again)
Good going Christie...good going.
And thank you.
And thank you.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Yarmouth Police Capture Armed Robber; Seaside Festival Parade Rte 28 Traffic Detour Notice
In response to: Yarmouth Police Capture Armed Robber; Seaside Festival Parade Rte 28 Traffic Detour Notice
Nice job, Yarmouth PD. This is how it should be done. Good guys to the rescue!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Cape manatee headed for SeaWorld in Orlando
In response to: Cape manatee headed for SeaWorld in Orlando
How much did this failed rescue cost? When will we spend the same resources on the helpless human wreckage of our like wow human society?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Teammates filled player's water bottle with toilet water
In response to: Teammates filled player's water bottle with toilet water
If you think toilet water episode is bad, how about this: a student at the Wixon assaulted a teacher during the week before memorial day of 2008.... school officials refused to call the police. So, the teacher/victim called the Dennis police and now the case is winding its way through the juvenile court system. I have confirmed that this incident happened with the authorities. And, that teacher had to face this violent criminal for the rest of the year and presumably this year as well.
If the D-Y district follows the rules of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association there should be some very severe consequences for the idiot who risked serious disease in her team mate.
Someone should ask Superintendent Woodbury about that. Welcome to Woodbury, RFD where the schools know better than anyone else. After all....we have several very expensive deans who decide these matters.
If the D-Y district follows the rules of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association there should be some very severe consequences for the idiot who risked serious disease in her team mate.
Someone should ask Superintendent Woodbury about that. Welcome to Woodbury, RFD where the schools know better than anyone else. After all....we have several very expensive deans who decide these matters.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Coast Guard plans wind farm radar study
In response to: Coast Guard plans wind farm radar study
It was interesting, people who actually work the area where the wind farm is proposed...captains of commercial vessels that carry passengers, etc....contrary to what Cape Wind has been saying...there actually is commercial use of the waters Cape Wind wants to seize for private use. In heavy weather when the winds are right and the seas high, those times when screwed up radar will be most dangerous...the ferries in particular tack into and out of the wind farm area to keep the wind from hitting them broadside.
In other words, what we have been hearing from Ahab Gordon and his crew simply is not true. As one ferry captain said two high speed ferries head at each other bow-on will have a closing speed of 70 mph. They will collide in less than one minute if they each detect the other when they are more than one mile apart.
And, according to Master Chief Jack Downey (U.S.C.G. ret.) radar problems and turbine density will cancel any advantage air/sea search & rescue normally have. "They (chopper pilots) will not go in there." Calling Capt. Barber......MAYDAY, MAYDAY!
In other words, what we have been hearing from Ahab Gordon and his crew simply is not true. As one ferry captain said two high speed ferries head at each other bow-on will have a closing speed of 70 mph. They will collide in less than one minute if they each detect the other when they are more than one mile apart.
And, according to Master Chief Jack Downey (U.S.C.G. ret.) radar problems and turbine density will cancel any advantage air/sea search & rescue normally have. "They (chopper pilots) will not go in there." Calling Capt. Barber......MAYDAY, MAYDAY!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Coast Guard plans wind farm radar study
In response to: Coast Guard plans wind farm radar study
Mav....
As far as I know barber was the only consultant hired by Cape Wind for surface radar.
Of course, I am not counting that Gypsy sooth sayer and the mysterious angel they have in Washington at the Department of Energy.
As far as I know barber was the only consultant hired by Cape Wind for surface radar.
Of course, I am not counting that Gypsy sooth sayer and the mysterious angel they have in Washington at the Department of Energy.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Coast Guard plans wind farm radar study
In response to: Coast Guard plans wind farm radar study
Hey Mav....where the hell have you...well, never mind.
Poor Elrick. He just doesn't get it. In Britain (are you listening, Captain Barber?) there would be a required minimum distance of 5 miles separating the nearest navigable channel from the wind turbines. here we are just now getting to the fact that a three mile separation will likely be required. Of course, if Cape Wind had not found a way (in my opinion)to keep the Coast Guard from formulating and issuing complete rules and procedures for this project until now, YEARS after it was first proposed, this might not be such a problem. But, the coast guard is very late and Gordon is chomping at the bit. If they issue a ruling to require a three-mile separation, the wind farm will shrink considerably. Of course, Cape Wind has no turbines anyway, so it's no big deal.
TOUGH TURBINES!
ALAS, POOR ELRICK....I KNEW HIM WELL.
By the way, Mav.....do you know where I can find 130 3.6MW wind turbines? Cape Wind seems to be, well....swingin' in the breeze on this one.
Poor Elrick. He just doesn't get it. In Britain (are you listening, Captain Barber?) there would be a required minimum distance of 5 miles separating the nearest navigable channel from the wind turbines. here we are just now getting to the fact that a three mile separation will likely be required. Of course, if Cape Wind had not found a way (in my opinion)to keep the Coast Guard from formulating and issuing complete rules and procedures for this project until now, YEARS after it was first proposed, this might not be such a problem. But, the coast guard is very late and Gordon is chomping at the bit. If they issue a ruling to require a three-mile separation, the wind farm will shrink considerably. Of course, Cape Wind has no turbines anyway, so it's no big deal.
TOUGH TURBINES!
ALAS, POOR ELRICK....I KNEW HIM WELL.
By the way, Mav.....do you know where I can find 130 3.6MW wind turbines? Cape Wind seems to be, well....swingin' in the breeze on this one.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Coast Guard plans wind farm radar study
In response to: Coast Guard plans wind farm radar study
Hey Mav....where the hell have you...well, never mind.
Poor Elrick. He just doesn't get it. In Britain (are you listening, Captain Barber?) there would be a required minimum distance of 5 miles separating the nearest navigable channel from the wind turbines. here we are just now getting to the fact that a three mile separation will likely be required. Of course, if Cape Wind had not found a way (in my opinion)to keep the Coast Guard from formulating and issuing complete rules and procedures for this project until now, YEARS after it was first proposed, this might not be such a problem. But, the coast guard is very late and Gordon is chomping at the bit. If they issue a ruling to require a three-mile separation, the wind farm will shrink considerably. Of course, Cape Wind has no turbines anyway, so it's no big deal.
TOUGH TURBINES!
ALAS, POOR ELRICK....I KNEW HIM WELL.
By the way, Mav.....do you know where I can find 130 3.6MW wind turbines? Cape Wind seems to be, well....swingin' in the breeze on this one.
Poor Elrick. He just doesn't get it. In Britain (are you listening, Captain Barber?) there would be a required minimum distance of 5 miles separating the nearest navigable channel from the wind turbines. here we are just now getting to the fact that a three mile separation will likely be required. Of course, if Cape Wind had not found a way (in my opinion)to keep the Coast Guard from formulating and issuing complete rules and procedures for this project until now, YEARS after it was first proposed, this might not be such a problem. But, the coast guard is very late and Gordon is chomping at the bit. If they issue a ruling to require a three-mile separation, the wind farm will shrink considerably. Of course, Cape Wind has no turbines anyway, so it's no big deal.
TOUGH TURBINES!
ALAS, POOR ELRICK....I KNEW HIM WELL.
By the way, Mav.....do you know where I can find 130 3.6MW wind turbines? Cape Wind seems to be, well....swingin' in the breeze on this one.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Coast Guard plans wind farm radar study
In response to: Coast Guard plans wind farm radar study
You are welcome, excaper. Jim Kinsella did a very good job reporting on the day's events. It was a long day and dense with information and comment. there were eighteen conference participants; two rows of nine each facing each other plus Captain Perry Ed LeBlanc (also Coast Guard - civilian). Writing the whole day's doings would require several pages. But, Kinsella captured the essence of the day objectively.
Of course, there will be Great Gadfly television presentation soon with some additional comment.
Anyone know where I can find 130 3.6MW wind turbines?
Of course, there will be Great Gadfly television presentation soon with some additional comment.
Anyone know where I can find 130 3.6MW wind turbines?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Coast Guard plans wind farm radar study
In response to: Coast Guard plans wind farm radar study
4. U.S. Coast Guard Captain Raymond Perry: He is Captain of the Port for Boston. He has served in the Coast Guard for more than 30 years.
For me the most significant moment came in the afternoon when Picard challenged Barber's findings. Picard said that certain things will always appear in a radar field, such as side lobes, but these do not show in Barber's presentation. Picard was very clear that these features will "always be seen." Barber made no response, none, zero, zip, nada, niente....rien....nothing. The silence from this pompous sea captain was deafening. He had just been spanked by one of the world's leading and acknowledged experts in radar. Of course, during the morning session he had become testy with Brookner when Brookner expressed disbelief at the BWEA report's findings.
Both Picard and Brookner said clearly that the way to eliminate radar interference caused by the steel forest is to 'turn down the gain' on the radar itself...in other words to weaken its signal so as to avoid telling the truth...and so as to become dangerously blind at sea. Stay tuned.
For me the most significant moment came in the afternoon when Picard challenged Barber's findings. Picard said that certain things will always appear in a radar field, such as side lobes, but these do not show in Barber's presentation. Picard was very clear that these features will "always be seen." Barber made no response, none, zero, zip, nada, niente....rien....nothing. The silence from this pompous sea captain was deafening. He had just been spanked by one of the world's leading and acknowledged experts in radar. Of course, during the morning session he had become testy with Brookner when Brookner expressed disbelief at the BWEA report's findings.
Both Picard and Brookner said clearly that the way to eliminate radar interference caused by the steel forest is to 'turn down the gain' on the radar itself...in other words to weaken its signal so as to avoid telling the truth...and so as to become dangerously blind at sea. Stay tuned.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Coast Guard plans wind farm radar study
In response to: Coast Guard plans wind farm radar study
Here is a partial listing yesterday's teams at the U.S.C.G. Cape Wind radar conference:
1. Dr. Eli Brookner: Brookner spent 55 years working at the Raytheon Corporation and is recognized globally as a giant in the field of radar. Brookner was the first recipient of IEEE's annual Dennis J. Picard award for radar technology and applications. He conducted a review, on a volunteer basis, of the Kentish Flats and North Hoyle radar reports for the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound.
2. Dennis J. Picard: Picard spent 44 years at Raytheon Corporation. After serving as president of Raytheon he became its chairman and he retired from that post. He succeeded the legendary Charles Frances Adams as both president and chairman. Raytheon is to radar as Vestas is to wind turbines...the biggest and best.
3. Captain Dennis Barber: Barber is a British master mariner who conducted a study of radar effects at the Kentish Flats and North Hoyle wind farms in Britain. Barber was paid for that work by the British Wind Energy Association and now works for Cape Wind.
1. Dr. Eli Brookner: Brookner spent 55 years working at the Raytheon Corporation and is recognized globally as a giant in the field of radar. Brookner was the first recipient of IEEE's annual Dennis J. Picard award for radar technology and applications. He conducted a review, on a volunteer basis, of the Kentish Flats and North Hoyle radar reports for the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound.
2. Dennis J. Picard: Picard spent 44 years at Raytheon Corporation. After serving as president of Raytheon he became its chairman and he retired from that post. He succeeded the legendary Charles Frances Adams as both president and chairman. Raytheon is to radar as Vestas is to wind turbines...the biggest and best.
3. Captain Dennis Barber: Barber is a British master mariner who conducted a study of radar effects at the Kentish Flats and North Hoyle wind farms in Britain. Barber was paid for that work by the British Wind Energy Association and now works for Cape Wind.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: October 4, 1995: Leo Damore commits suicide
In response to: October 4, 1995: Leo Damore commits suicide
I do not konw why Leo was known as Damore the Marrier. I never heard this expression. He married only twice. Leo was a brilliant man and a brilliant writer.
Leo had issues with life and himself, as we all do. The more we think, the more issues we are likely to have.
I was his best man when he Married June in West Falmouth so long ago and I went with him through his journey in two previous books as well as the one that made his name....the one about the Chappaquidick tragedy.
So....now....let's hear from all the Leo Damore experts out there. He was no Peter Manso.
Leo had issues with life and himself, as we all do. The more we think, the more issues we are likely to have.
I was his best man when he Married June in West Falmouth so long ago and I went with him through his journey in two previous books as well as the one that made his name....the one about the Chappaquidick tragedy.
So....now....let's hear from all the Leo Damore experts out there. He was no Peter Manso.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Peter Manso's paper trial
In response to: Peter Manso's paper trial
Stupidity is alive and well on Cape Cod....as is woeful ignorance of the judicial process. Nickerson has recused himself, and properly so, because he wants to avoid the appearance of conflict arising from the previous murder trial of that poor, retarded black man. The one who either butchered or watched someone else butcher a woman in Truro. That's the trial in which Manso became the supreme expert on criminal justice in America.
Now we have a fairly simple process: charges in district court that have been dismissed (standard procedure) so that new charges can be heard by a grand jury. This is happens all the time, despite what we have NOT been told.
Manso had a carry permit REVOKED...but of course he knew nothing of that. This little peacock is about to be rendered flightless and he deserves nothing less.
He told the New York Times that he had an assault weapon as a "literary affectation." Really? An illegal high-capacity assault weapon capable of firing rounds that pass through standard police body armor A literary affectation? And, unlocked and loaded in plain view? WOW!
Judy?
Now we have a fairly simple process: charges in district court that have been dismissed (standard procedure) so that new charges can be heard by a grand jury. This is happens all the time, despite what we have NOT been told.
Manso had a carry permit REVOKED...but of course he knew nothing of that. This little peacock is about to be rendered flightless and he deserves nothing less.
He told the New York Times that he had an assault weapon as a "literary affectation." Really? An illegal high-capacity assault weapon capable of firing rounds that pass through standard police body armor A literary affectation? And, unlocked and loaded in plain view? WOW!
Judy?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Brazilian national charged with drug dealing
In response to: Brazilian national charged with drug dealing
Try this crap in Brazil, as a Brazilian, and see how the cops handle it....then try it as an illegal...if you have not already been run down or thrown out...and see how they handle it. Take the tough out of tough love and see what you get.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Brazilian national charged with drug dealing
In response to: Brazilian national charged with drug dealing
It really is this simple:
1. The cops caught on to a guy who was dealing drugs.
2 Having established probable cause to place him under surveillance they did so.
3. They established that he had no driver's license and they got a search warrant...no small feat these days.
4. They stopped him, busted him, searched and then really busted him.
5. It is his bad luck to be here illegally as well as being caught for several major felonies.
This has nothing to do with any shooting (just one...there is no 's' on shooting) of another illegal Brazilian or anyone else.
[deleted - slanderous]
Let's keep this to the facts of THIS case and leave out the plagues of medievil Europe, global warming and the ravings of one small mind.
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1. The cops caught on to a guy who was dealing drugs.
2 Having established probable cause to place him under surveillance they did so.
3. They established that he had no driver's license and they got a search warrant...no small feat these days.
4. They stopped him, busted him, searched and then really busted him.
5. It is his bad luck to be here illegally as well as being caught for several major felonies.
This has nothing to do with any shooting (just one...there is no 's' on shooting) of another illegal Brazilian or anyone else.
[deleted - slanderous]
Let's keep this to the facts of THIS case and leave out the plagues of medievil Europe, global warming and the ravings of one small mind.
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Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Cape Wind seeks single, composite permit for remaining state requirements
In response to: Cape Wind seeks single, composite permit for remaining state requirements
Perhaps by the time of the hearing Cape Wind will have located someone who can provide them with the 130 3.6MW turbines they told MMS they would be using. So far the only two manufacturers of 3.6MW turbines in the world, GE and SIEMENS are out of the running because GE has discontinued this unit (2006 or earlier) and Siemens simply will not sell them in the U.S. I asked.
So now, we have a phantom project with no equipment, no power purchase agreements and no financing. Sounds like a plan to me.
Then, of course, there is the general feeling I heard expressed this morning in Boston by folks attending the New England Renewable Energy bash...."90% of the total offshore wind energy for New England is in deep water."
Time for some talk.
So now, we have a phantom project with no equipment, no power purchase agreements and no financing. Sounds like a plan to me.
Then, of course, there is the general feeling I heard expressed this morning in Boston by folks attending the New England Renewable Energy bash...."90% of the total offshore wind energy for New England is in deep water."
Time for some talk.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Dennis two-car crash on Route 134; Imprisoned pornographer dies of natural causes; Flag Day observation
In response to: Dennis two-car crash on Route 134; Imprisoned pornographer dies of natural causes; Flag Day observation
Hey....wait just a minute....! That is a very familiar looking Land Rover skidded up on the grass in this picture of the Dennis accident. Hmmmmm.....?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The truth about wind turbines: Size matters
In response to: The truth about wind turbines: Size matters
Solon...so, size matters? Glad to hear it. Cape Wind specified the GE 3.6s (3.6MW0 wind turbine) to MMS. This information is clearly stated in the Cape Wind DEIS, see section 2.1.1; read it and weep. Funny thing is that GE decided four years ago to discontinue this turbine, although it still appears on their web site. The U. of Delaware and KPMG " Wind Farms in Europe" a report from 2007) and others have openly described the GE 3.6s as "discontinued".
So, what the heck is Jim Gordon going to use, times 130? Well, the only other manufacturer of a 3.6MW wind turbine in the world is Siemens and according to what I was told last Friday when I called their office they will not sell their units in the U.S. the exact answer was, "Oh, I don't think so."
Gee....no turbines available at that size....maybe the whole DEIS has to be redone to account for vastly changed specifications? OUCH. Maybe that is why that investigator for Department of Interior Inspector General has been asking questions.
Mark Rogers won't answer my e-mails. I think he better answer the next guy who calls.
OOPS!
So, what the heck is Jim Gordon going to use, times 130? Well, the only other manufacturer of a 3.6MW wind turbine in the world is Siemens and according to what I was told last Friday when I called their office they will not sell their units in the U.S. the exact answer was, "Oh, I don't think so."
Gee....no turbines available at that size....maybe the whole DEIS has to be redone to account for vastly changed specifications? OUCH. Maybe that is why that investigator for Department of Interior Inspector General has been asking questions.
Mark Rogers won't answer my e-mails. I think he better answer the next guy who calls.
OOPS!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Martins Shooting Press Conference
In response to: Martins Shooting Press Conference
Thank you, Peter Robbins. What most readers probably do not know is that you were for a period of time the head of the Barnstable County Police Academy (that's right, we had one and it was the best under Robbins). You know whereof you speak.
Mr. Martins' death was a tragedy, but it was not invented or arranged by the Yarmouth police. Martins made it clear that he was more concerned for his own avoidance of legal difficulties than for the lives and safety of anyone else. That is not a Brazilian trait...it is a human failing. He attempted to run down a police officer and he paid the price. Think if an unarmed civilian had gotten i his way.
It is easy and popular to throw mud at cops and prosecutors, not because they deserve it but because it somehow feels good. I am proud to call Yarmouth my town and I am proud of our police department and the clear vision they have of how best to serve those they are asked to protect. Gunshots in the night are never a good thing. Sometimes, rarely, they are the only response.
Finally, the whole story is out. The thin blue line still stands. Good.
Mr. Martins' death was a tragedy, but it was not invented or arranged by the Yarmouth police. Martins made it clear that he was more concerned for his own avoidance of legal difficulties than for the lives and safety of anyone else. That is not a Brazilian trait...it is a human failing. He attempted to run down a police officer and he paid the price. Think if an unarmed civilian had gotten i his way.
It is easy and popular to throw mud at cops and prosecutors, not because they deserve it but because it somehow feels good. I am proud to call Yarmouth my town and I am proud of our police department and the clear vision they have of how best to serve those they are asked to protect. Gunshots in the night are never a good thing. Sometimes, rarely, they are the only response.
Finally, the whole story is out. The thin blue line still stands. Good.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: One 3-megawatt wind turbine replaces 12,000 barrels of oil a year
In response to: One 3-megawatt wind turbine replaces 12,000 barrels of oil a year
Interesting that you use a 3.0MW turbine and not the 3.6MW units that have been specified to MMS....the ones GE discontinued more than two years ago...the ones that only one other company, Siemens makes but will not sell in the U.S., according to what their U. S. director's office told me today....yup....very interesting, Jim. And thank you for the slip-up. By the way...I still have REAL (ie: actual) transformer oil for you to drink at some future public show. Of course, it is covered with labels....toxic, etc.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Joakim recall election set for Oct. 30
In response to: Joakim recall election set for Oct. 30
I was at the council meeting for the discussion and vote on this election. Once again the Barnstable town Council came across as rank amateurs, complete with one member who forgot to raise his hand when the vote was called so, "....can we do that again?" What a show! Now, although the town clerk has told the council clearly that the chosen polling place will not be available on the date selected, that is the date (out of three possible dates) that they chose. Oh my.
These are the people who set policy and make appointments for the largest town on the Cape? And then they push their weight around, reminding one and all that Barnstable is the shire town and the largest town. It is also the town most likely to tumble into absolute chaos and it is certainly the most fun to watch when the Gong Show is in session, the council that is.
Councilor Tom Rugo gets my vote as the most ill-mannered, surly, disagreeable and stupid member....and that is saying something. Guys like Farnham and Crocker and Toby and a couple of others must have to bathe after each meeting.
These are the people who set policy and make appointments for the largest town on the Cape? And then they push their weight around, reminding one and all that Barnstable is the shire town and the largest town. It is also the town most likely to tumble into absolute chaos and it is certainly the most fun to watch when the Gong Show is in session, the council that is.
Councilor Tom Rugo gets my vote as the most ill-mannered, surly, disagreeable and stupid member....and that is saying something. Guys like Farnham and Crocker and Toby and a couple of others must have to bathe after each meeting.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Gas discount ends today; The view "After Ellen"; 9/11 mural on Route 6; Double fatal trial begins; Turkington flips
In response to: Gas discount ends today; The view "After Ellen"; 9/11 mural on Route 6; Double fatal trial begins; Turkington flips
$110,000? On top of a $55,000 pension? That pension is based on the legislature giving itself a raise that the voters said they did not want but then the legislature found a way to keep the voters from expressing their will....what a guy, this Turkington. What a guy! And how about the health insurance....how much do you pay out of your own pocket for yours. What a guy...that Turkington! It is time to dismantle county government and let the state run the registry of deeds. Take over the jail, fire the three useless commissioners and the off-Cape administrator, send the Cape Cod Commission out to find real jobs, let the state install someone to serve as registrar of probate...and save us all a lot of money.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Perrino, Flynn, Lyons win in Tuesday's primaries
In response to: Perrino, Flynn, Lyons win in Tuesday's primaries
So much for the school supporters coming out to help the town.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Barnstable seeks consultant for new youth center
In response to: Barnstable seeks consultant for new youth center
The "opening of the responses" is what will not be public. This is probably because there could be proprietary information in the response to the bid request...information about media contacts, etc. held by the responding party that he/she/they do not wish to make public. The final contract will be, must be public. For certain types of 'professional service' contracts this is standard operating procedure.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Barnstable seeks consultant for new youth center
In response to: Barnstable seeks consultant for new youth center
Good idea! Since the town is spending virtually no money of ts own to build this $25 million facility....and it is way past time for a town to spend money on healthy things for the young....the idea of hiring a professional to get the thing off the ground properly and thereby hopefully ensure its long term success is brilliant. $20,000 as a percentage of $25 million is minute...
but it is money well spent.
but it is money well spent.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Patty Daley Is Having A Moving Experience
In response to: Patty Daley Is Having A Moving Experience
The gradual improvement of Main Street in Hyannis appears to have blossomed this year, finally. And, the waterfront foot traffic, general activity and flinging around of cash has been gratifying to watch....finally. Now if only we can convince the town to keep those seven artists' shanties....oh well. More on this in future BCRs.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Patty Daley Is Having A Moving Experience
In response to: Patty Daley Is Having A Moving Experience
Apparently the new idea of economic development for cape Cod at the Commission is to hire people for astronomical salaries. Soon we will have two classes on Cape Cod - those who starve and those who control our lives. Someone should read the first two pages of the cape Cod Commission Act to the bonzoes in Barnstable Village and point out that after eighteen years most of the things they were supposed to do have yet to be done.
Trained apes would be preferable. Of course, they are not a native species so there could be a problem getting permits. the there would be the issue of disposing of those banana peels.
Trained apes would be preferable. Of course, they are not a native species so there could be a problem getting permits. the there would be the issue of disposing of those banana peels.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: SouthCoast Media Group added to Cape Cod Media Group
In response to: SouthCoast Media Group added to Cape Cod Media Group
Now Spyro...are you saying that Cape Wind buy$ it$ media $upport?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: 1985; Cape Cod is getting crowded
In response to: 1985; Cape Cod is getting crowded
Cape Cod's population hit a high of just over 220,000 a few years ago and is now reckoned at approximately 210,000. New England states are losing population aged between 20 and 30 at a rate faster than any other region of the country...Massachusetts is losing this same age group faster than any other New England state and Cape Cod faster than any other part of Massachusetts. OUCH!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: DA's Stolen Handgun Not Entered in Database
In response to: DA's Stolen Handgun Not Entered in Database
So....this should all be very simple: where did the man buy the gun? Has no one asked? This is serious stuff.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: DA's Stolen Handgun Not Entered in Database
In response to: DA's Stolen Handgun Not Entered in Database
So....this should all be very simple: where did the man buy the gun? Has no one asked? This is serious stuff.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Whom Do You Throw Overboard?
In response to: Whom Do You Throw Overboard?
How many "millions of dollars" has the D-Y School District received from the state because it is a regional school district? In fact, all Cape towns are penalized by the state's bizarre educational funding formula.
Also, it was the "tyranny of the majority" that caved in this year to the school superintendent who then promptly announced that her presented budget for 2009 is as much as $800,000 short of actual needs.
Last year the school committee denied her the money she had included in her budget for three new deans. The superintendent then 'found' the $400,000 needed and hired them anyway.
Dennis is not thinking of returning to an independent one-town school system. They are considering forming a district with at least one other town. Brewster has an empty elementary school. GOOD! Then Dennis can deal with the chaos at the Wixon Middle School where authorities refused to call the police after a student-on-teacher assault last May. The teacher reported the incident and the kid is now being prosecuted. Good going, Wixon!
Also, it was the "tyranny of the majority" that caved in this year to the school superintendent who then promptly announced that her presented budget for 2009 is as much as $800,000 short of actual needs.
Last year the school committee denied her the money she had included in her budget for three new deans. The superintendent then 'found' the $400,000 needed and hired them anyway.
Dennis is not thinking of returning to an independent one-town school system. They are considering forming a district with at least one other town. Brewster has an empty elementary school. GOOD! Then Dennis can deal with the chaos at the Wixon Middle School where authorities refused to call the police after a student-on-teacher assault last May. The teacher reported the incident and the kid is now being prosecuted. Good going, Wixon!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: An Urgent Call to Energy Efficiency
In response to: An Urgent Call to Energy Efficiency
Oh Lord!...We agree....we need to clean house at CLC. BUT, we need to get rid of the people who want to negotiate ONLY with cape Wind. I hear that Cape Wind has put a number on the table that is about double everyone else's power cost. True?
Why is CLC NOT issuing an RFP so that every clean/renewable energy producer who wants can bid on their power Purchase Agreement. I smell a rat...a rich Beacon Hill rat.It looks to me as if CLC might be in violation of a bunch of statutes and regulations. They do not care how much extra Cape Cod and the Islands pay for clean power as long as we pay it Jim Gordon. Nice going CLC.
I smell a rat.
Why is CLC NOT issuing an RFP so that every clean/renewable energy producer who wants can bid on their power Purchase Agreement. I smell a rat...a rich Beacon Hill rat.It looks to me as if CLC might be in violation of a bunch of statutes and regulations. They do not care how much extra Cape Cod and the Islands pay for clean power as long as we pay it Jim Gordon. Nice going CLC.
I smell a rat.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Is the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District now a school for scoundrels?
In response to: Is the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District now a school for scoundrels?
This story was not intended to be the starting point for a discussion of our welfare system or for the spreading of bogus social theories. It was and remains a story about a school district which is experiencing significant difficulties both financially and professionally.
Woo Woo Woodbury appears to be losing the confidence of the paying public as well as the trust of her staff and faculty. It may be a cruel joke but I cannot pass it up....is Carol Woodbury losing her faculties? Was the D-Y system such a disaster for the ten or so years prior to her being hired that she has made wise decisions in her complete reshuffling of school management?
Lots of good kids come out of troubled homes and we even have some kids serving life for recent a murder who came from lily white and upper middle class homes.
The point is that education now seems to be about everything but education: social agendae, finances, political correctness, racial and social engineering, etc. If we cannot trust or believe our school superintendent she must be replaced. Now!
Woo Woo Woodbury appears to be losing the confidence of the paying public as well as the trust of her staff and faculty. It may be a cruel joke but I cannot pass it up....is Carol Woodbury losing her faculties? Was the D-Y system such a disaster for the ten or so years prior to her being hired that she has made wise decisions in her complete reshuffling of school management?
Lots of good kids come out of troubled homes and we even have some kids serving life for recent a murder who came from lily white and upper middle class homes.
The point is that education now seems to be about everything but education: social agendae, finances, political correctness, racial and social engineering, etc. If we cannot trust or believe our school superintendent she must be replaced. Now!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Younger Kennedys protest "Tropic Thunder" at Mall cinemas
In response to: Younger Kennedys protest "Tropic Thunder" at Mall cinemas
Am I getting this right?....A Kennedy family member is assuming the roles of arbiter for what is in good or bad taste? Is that what is happening here?
Now that's funny. With all the stereotyped, beleaguered, maligned, insulted and abused folks who have suffered at the hands of the tasteless money-grubbers in Hollywood and elsewhere and NOW the Kennedy family are upset?
Oh my.......
Now that's funny. With all the stereotyped, beleaguered, maligned, insulted and abused folks who have suffered at the hands of the tasteless money-grubbers in Hollywood and elsewhere and NOW the Kennedy family are upset?
Oh my.......
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Is the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District now a school for scoundrels?
In response to: Is the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District now a school for scoundrels?
WOW! Apparently the D-Y school situation and the district generally are heartfelt concerns for a number of people. Here is one example of Superintendent Carol Woodbury's odd notions of sound management: Of the cuts in personnel she made to hold down this year's budget expansion she has laid off 14 special needs aids...while retaining her three new deans at a total cost of $400,000. because Massachusetts requires "inclusion" most special needs kids, kids with all manner of issues including behavioral problems, are in the regular classroom where often all that stands between a smoothly functioning class where teachers can teach and students can learn (remember?...we are discussing SCHOOLS) are these aids. It appears that the deans will have a lot of things to deal with that used to be handled by the now fired aids.
WAY TO GO MS.WOODBURY!
Yarmouth town departments all cut their budgets by 3% for fiscal 2009...the school budget rose by around 2%...with
declining enrollment but three shiny new deans and a telephone system that allows Woodbury to lobby parents for votes and money.
WAY TO GO MS.WOODBURY!
Yarmouth town departments all cut their budgets by 3% for fiscal 2009...the school budget rose by around 2%...with
declining enrollment but three shiny new deans and a telephone system that allows Woodbury to lobby parents for votes and money.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Has DY School Superintendent Carol Woodbury been truthful?
In response to: Has DY School Superintendent Carol Woodbury been truthful?
Why bother? She is not be believed anyway.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wampanoag Member of Massachusetts Commission on Indian Affairs dies at age 60
In response to: Wampanoag Member of Massachusetts Commission on Indian Affairs dies at age 60
Funny thing, the last time I saw Maurice we had coffee together and talked for an hour. One thing that particularly bothered him was the loss of mature tribe members before their time.
All I did was report his death and repeat some facts that might help place him in people's minds.
All I did was report his death and repeat some facts that might help place him in people's minds.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wampanoag Member of Massachusetts Commission on Indian Affairs dies at age 60
In response to: Wampanoag Member of Massachusetts Commission on Indian Affairs dies at age 60
Be careful what you wish for.
Your remarks are tasteless given the subject of the story printed above.
Your remarks are tasteless given the subject of the story printed above.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Massachusetts Legislature makes right call on gun fee
In response to: Massachusetts Legislature makes right call on gun fee
This cannot be the same Walter Brooks who routinely skewers Cape Wind opponents such as Ted Kennedy with similar comments...it must be a different Walter Brooks....one who believe that the same rules should apply to everyone. LOL
GEEZ, Walter...comparing anyone of us to Bull O'Reilly...give a break!
GEEZ, Walter...comparing anyone of us to Bull O'Reilly...give a break!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Press Conference on Yarmouth Shooting
In response to: Press Conference on Yarmouth Shooting
And if Officer VanNess had just stood aside and let Martins speed off into the night and then crush someone with his car and get bail and then just hop on a plane and disappear back home in Brazil...what would we say then? And it happens this way...it has...right here on the Cape. Wake up!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Police shooting challenged; Brazilian Press reacts to shooting; Nat'l pundit Bob Novak stricken here
In response to: Police shooting challenged; Brazilian Press reacts to shooting; Nat'l pundit Bob Novak stricken here
Here is something to think about...and I do not want anyone to think that i spent a night milling around the DY football field with a couple of thousand people some of whom might have additional information about this angel from Brazil:
Chris Van Ness was OUT OF HIS cruiser when he fired at at this upstanding - has used his car as a weapon before - citizen. Is it possible that somewhere down the road (so to speak) we will hear that Martins actually caused his Lincoln to make contact with the the officer's body? If any of us found ourselves in the position of being on foot in the dark and being rammed by a full sized car...is it likely that we should to live?
Also, early reports were that Ms. Campos was being very cooperative with state police investigators. Hmmm....now she is saying that VanNess just plain killed her boyfriend...the non-violent angel who had once rammed her car with his and against whom she has a permanent restraining order...now she is going to sue. Doe$ the want the world to hear her interview tape$? She want$ a payday...poor Mr. Martin$.
Chris Van Ness was OUT OF HIS cruiser when he fired at at this upstanding - has used his car as a weapon before - citizen. Is it possible that somewhere down the road (so to speak) we will hear that Martins actually caused his Lincoln to make contact with the the officer's body? If any of us found ourselves in the position of being on foot in the dark and being rammed by a full sized car...is it likely that we should to live?
Also, early reports were that Ms. Campos was being very cooperative with state police investigators. Hmmm....now she is saying that VanNess just plain killed her boyfriend...the non-violent angel who had once rammed her car with his and against whom she has a permanent restraining order...now she is going to sue. Doe$ the want the world to hear her interview tape$? She want$ a payday...poor Mr. Martin$.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Few details after DA's press conference; Lightning safety rules
In response to: Few details after DA's press conference; Lightning safety rules
Let's see:
Cop sees someone who should be pulled over, then has to chase the guy who drives onto a lawn (we now now under the influence of weed)and then hits the cruiser. This is frequently called fleeing a police officer + assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (a car) + assorted additional charges. But, hitting the cruiser is an antisocial statement that deserves response...such as "STOP OR I WILL SHOOT YOU." It happened after 1:00 am and once the exact & actual cause of death + the victim's identity were firmly established and after notifications had been made the YPD chief and the DA held a press conference and mad e a statement about the who is who and what happened.
YUP...sounds like a conspiracy to me. Oh, and let's not forget that the officer involved is such a poor shot that he completely missed the innocent passenger. What incompetence!
Cop sees someone who should be pulled over, then has to chase the guy who drives onto a lawn (we now now under the influence of weed)and then hits the cruiser. This is frequently called fleeing a police officer + assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (a car) + assorted additional charges. But, hitting the cruiser is an antisocial statement that deserves response...such as "STOP OR I WILL SHOOT YOU." It happened after 1:00 am and once the exact & actual cause of death + the victim's identity were firmly established and after notifications had been made the YPD chief and the DA held a press conference and mad e a statement about the who is who and what happened.
YUP...sounds like a conspiracy to me. Oh, and let's not forget that the officer involved is such a poor shot that he completely missed the innocent passenger. What incompetence!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: DA, YPD, join the 21st Century
In response to: DA, YPD, join the 21st Century
1. Has anyone called the YPD?
2. What was their response to a direct question about identities of those involved?
3. Are we certain that there is no possibility that keeping the victim's identity out of the public square is wise? that there are no other or further investigations that could be compromised by revealing his identity?
4. Have we contacted the Ma. State Police?
5. What was their response and who spoke for them?
While publishing the fact that police have killed four individuals on Cape Cod since 1981 serves some purpose, there is no parallel publishing of the number of incidents of armed assault on police officers over the same period of time or the number of officers who have been hospitalized or placed on disability because of injuries sustained on the job or even of the number of murders committed on Cape Cod since 1981.
Example: a State Trooper had his foot nearly shot off intentionally by the dope who had the shoot out with cops on Rte. 28 years ago. He lay on the pavement and fired at the trooper's boot under a car. Print that.
2. What was their response to a direct question about identities of those involved?
3. Are we certain that there is no possibility that keeping the victim's identity out of the public square is wise? that there are no other or further investigations that could be compromised by revealing his identity?
4. Have we contacted the Ma. State Police?
5. What was their response and who spoke for them?
While publishing the fact that police have killed four individuals on Cape Cod since 1981 serves some purpose, there is no parallel publishing of the number of incidents of armed assault on police officers over the same period of time or the number of officers who have been hospitalized or placed on disability because of injuries sustained on the job or even of the number of murders committed on Cape Cod since 1981.
Example: a State Trooper had his foot nearly shot off intentionally by the dope who had the shoot out with cops on Rte. 28 years ago. He lay on the pavement and fired at the trooper's boot under a car. Print that.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Former Cape priest convicted of serial child rapes
In response to: Former Cape priest convicted of serial child rapes
The Roman Catholic Church should hang its head in shame. I was born into the Church and raised in its catechism. I even know personally one man who became a priest and eventually the Vicar General of the Boston Archdiocese where he sat while the Church orchestrated its cover up of the violent crimes against children committed by priests. I am horrified by what continues to occur. There is a major difference between offering salvation in the next life and preventing criminal conduct in this.
God save us from those who would save us. For anyone who doubts my credentials to speak on this matter I had a nephew who became involved with the infamous Fr. Shanley and Shanley's "street mission" in Boston. At age 19 my nephew died after falling twelve stories from the balcony of his apartment in Miami. I do not believe in certain kinds of "accidents."
Genvieve should not have been harbored by his fellow Franciscans, he should have been in jail. The courts are as bad as the Church.
God save us from those who would save us. For anyone who doubts my credentials to speak on this matter I had a nephew who became involved with the infamous Fr. Shanley and Shanley's "street mission" in Boston. At age 19 my nephew died after falling twelve stories from the balcony of his apartment in Miami. I do not believe in certain kinds of "accidents."
Genvieve should not have been harbored by his fellow Franciscans, he should have been in jail. The courts are as bad as the Church.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: O'Keefe making Malpractice a Crime; Osathanondh to plead not guilty
In response to: O'Keefe making Malpractice a Crime; Osathanondh to plead not guilty
Perhaps it is unusual for such a case to be treated as a criminal matter. Perhaps it should not be. If a doctor did not do what is required by law and if his actions/inactions result in a death...that sounds like a crime to me. Doctors are held to a higher standard than. say, plumbers...and so they should be. What we now see is that because O'Keefe was a major player in a case whose outcome is unpopular with certain bloggers - everything he says or does is wrong or at least suspect.
It is interesting to me that there is more blather here about Michael O'Keefe than about the fact that someone died and that the incident was originally covered HERE in a way most critical of the doctor...the guy who has been indicted. Someone died!
But your honor, I have been driving for 40 years...why punish me for the one death I have caused? You would be doing this if Michael O'Keefe were not the DA.
It is interesting to me that there is more blather here about Michael O'Keefe than about the fact that someone died and that the incident was originally covered HERE in a way most critical of the doctor...the guy who has been indicted. Someone died!
But your honor, I have been driving for 40 years...why punish me for the one death I have caused? You would be doing this if Michael O'Keefe were not the DA.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Barnstable Becomes Unstable...Again
In response to: Barnstable Becomes Unstable...Again
Comment made by Councilor Munafo at last night's meeting of the Gong Show...the Barnstable Town Council..."Though the actions were wrong the process worked."
This remark was made in the context of the still boiling ZBA controversy. What do you suppose councilor Milne was thinking? Can he think?
By the way, the entire town council last night apologized for the way in which John Norman had been treated by the council and by the appointments committee. Norman was an alternate member of the ZBA who resigned last week with all his fellow ZBA members. THE ENTIRE COUNCIL APLOGISED! And Milne in his stupifying dullness said that the process had worked even though the actions were wrong.
There is a large banner on Main Mtreet in Hyannis proclaiming that Hyannis is the downtown of Cape Cod. Really? I personally have had my limit of Barnstable's arrogance, mainly that of the town council. Hyannis may well be the actual location of original tower of Babble.
The town council simply must leave the town's boards alone...stop meddling. As Mr. Barry said, ".....GROW UP."
This remark was made in the context of the still boiling ZBA controversy. What do you suppose councilor Milne was thinking? Can he think?
By the way, the entire town council last night apologized for the way in which John Norman had been treated by the council and by the appointments committee. Norman was an alternate member of the ZBA who resigned last week with all his fellow ZBA members. THE ENTIRE COUNCIL APLOGISED! And Milne in his stupifying dullness said that the process had worked even though the actions were wrong.
There is a large banner on Main Mtreet in Hyannis proclaiming that Hyannis is the downtown of Cape Cod. Really? I personally have had my limit of Barnstable's arrogance, mainly that of the town council. Hyannis may well be the actual location of original tower of Babble.
The town council simply must leave the town's boards alone...stop meddling. As Mr. Barry said, ".....GROW UP."
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Barnstable Becomes Unstable...Again
In response to: Barnstable Becomes Unstable...Again
Could not disagree more. Barry also said, "Let's all just grow up."... a reference to the way the council screws around with its own business & meddles in the affairs of town boards. There are nights when Milne speaks longer than the rest of the council put together. And, Barry was not the only councilor who objected to last night's lengthy agenda...Munafo did also.
Let's face it, the Barnstable town Council is a disaster that has found a place to happen...at the center of the Cape's largest town.
Trivia question for you: Are the rumors true that a current member of the council slapped his/her mother around? that the Barnstable Police Department responded and that the elder abuser was arrested and now has sealed record at the courthouse?
Here are another question: How is the appointments committee supposed to do their job when at the two meeting recently when ZBA appointments were discussed the committee chairperson was not in attendance? This week that same councillor said at a committee meeting that new ZBA candidates should pass and environmental awareness test. I was there.
Let's face it, the Barnstable town Council is a disaster that has found a place to happen...at the center of the Cape's largest town.
Trivia question for you: Are the rumors true that a current member of the council slapped his/her mother around? that the Barnstable Police Department responded and that the elder abuser was arrested and now has sealed record at the courthouse?
Here are another question: How is the appointments committee supposed to do their job when at the two meeting recently when ZBA appointments were discussed the committee chairperson was not in attendance? This week that same councillor said at a committee meeting that new ZBA candidates should pass and environmental awareness test. I was there.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: It Took A Rocket Scientist...
In response to: It Took A Rocket Scientist...
Having just had a whirlwind tour of my entire body courtesy of Cape Cod Hospital and Cardiovascular Associates of Cape Cod, about whom I cannot say enough good things (both CCH and the cardio MDs) caused by atrial fibrillation I can honestly say that to avoid this test for a lousy $200 is just plain stupid. Why does the fact that insurance might not pay for a crucially important and potentially life saving tets stop people from getting it? I just don't get it. In my case I had a serious virus in December which apparently damaged some cardiac nerves and in my near future is a procedure to repair the damage (micro stuff involving microwaves into the heart). Part of the archaeological dig done on me established that my carotids are fine, but I remember a delightful fellow from Osterville for whom I used to do a lot of carpentry who dies from blockage in his carotid. This little test would have saved his life.
Not a bad deal for $200. Geez...Walter spends that on candy in a month.
Not a bad deal for $200. Geez...Walter spends that on candy in a month.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Major victory for Cape Wind against Alliance, others
In response to: Major victory for Cape Wind against Alliance, others
Once again Shecky raises the debate to new heights of dignity and politeness. As the newly proclaimed "high priest of perfidy" I have one thing and only one to say to Shecky; Bless you my child.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Reap the Wind to Fight the Energy Crises
In response to: Reap the Wind to Fight the Energy Crises
Even the Harvard Business School (Cape Wind case written by prof. Richard H.K. Vietor) now admits that Cape Wind's power will be twice as expensive as other power.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Eulogy to Virginia Brown O’Brien: A life of Giving
In response to: Eulogy to Virginia Brown O’Brien: A life of Giving
Well said, Greg...Nicely done, Ginnie.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wind will power our future
In response to: Wind will power our future
Sparky
Following this whole wind energy issue can be difficult because often people, on all sides of it are not clear in their words. Ie: some people talk about wind generally and do not differentiate between on and offshore. So too with shallow and deep...floating and fixed. Most of what I see/hear says that floating technology will yield a huge cost savings in construction and perhaps in materials. The principle reason deep water is projected to be more productive is the greater size & height of large turbines and more consistent winds. As for Smahkep's comments...even Cape Wind admits their costs have more than doubled. If their yield is not very high relative to their face plate ratings they are screwed. An industry gray beard said to me last month, "Jim (Gordon) thinks this is profitable...it is not."
BTW...who is building these new vessels, where and who is buying them?
Following this whole wind energy issue can be difficult because often people, on all sides of it are not clear in their words. Ie: some people talk about wind generally and do not differentiate between on and offshore. So too with shallow and deep...floating and fixed. Most of what I see/hear says that floating technology will yield a huge cost savings in construction and perhaps in materials. The principle reason deep water is projected to be more productive is the greater size & height of large turbines and more consistent winds. As for Smahkep's comments...even Cape Wind admits their costs have more than doubled. If their yield is not very high relative to their face plate ratings they are screwed. An industry gray beard said to me last month, "Jim (Gordon) thinks this is profitable...it is not."
BTW...who is building these new vessels, where and who is buying them?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wind will power our future
In response to: Wind will power our future
Sparky
Page 152 (Appendix A)
"Figure A-5. 20% Wind Scenario electricity generation mix 2000-2030."
Look for the black strip at the top of the chart.
Remember, the total wind contribution (land + offshore) is 20%.
Also, remember that operating efficiency plays a signifiacnt role in overall yield. I don't know how to predict how much power will be generated by any particular unit, regardless of what the face plate rating is. A 3.6mw unit, for example, operating at 25% efficiency will produce only .9mw.
Seven GE 3.6mw non-operating turbines at Arklow Bank produce o.omw...but they are still listed by the British Wind Energy Association as if the Arklow Bank project is operating.Very tough to figure all this out.
Page 152 (Appendix A)
"Figure A-5. 20% Wind Scenario electricity generation mix 2000-2030."
Look for the black strip at the top of the chart.
Remember, the total wind contribution (land + offshore) is 20%.
Also, remember that operating efficiency plays a signifiacnt role in overall yield. I don't know how to predict how much power will be generated by any particular unit, regardless of what the face plate rating is. A 3.6mw unit, for example, operating at 25% efficiency will produce only .9mw.
Seven GE 3.6mw non-operating turbines at Arklow Bank produce o.omw...but they are still listed by the British Wind Energy Association as if the Arklow Bank project is operating.Very tough to figure all this out.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wind will power our future
In response to: Wind will power our future
Chuck, I think I figured out that both of these companies are substantial enterprises, but thank you for relieving me of my ignorance. Actually, your modesty in behalf of Siemens is touching: next to Vestas they are the world's largest manufacturer of wind turbines. I knew that. And by the way, word out of the recently concluded annual conference of the American Wind energy Association is that they are not going to be active in offshore wind in the U.S. at this time.
As for cheering them on, give me a break. Neither CPN or Cape Wind has done anything in the way of greeting the news of deepwater with any enthusiasm. If CPN were serious about welcoming any news of progress in developing deepwater wind power you would have already begun to feed this information and your enthusiasm to the press...encouraging a loosening of government purse strings for research and development funds, etc.
Who knows, maybe pack a group of wind supporters into a stretch limousine and go to Boston for a joint press conference with engineering pioneers from U Mass & MIT plus union folks and Deval?
As for cheering them on, give me a break. Neither CPN or Cape Wind has done anything in the way of greeting the news of deepwater with any enthusiasm. If CPN were serious about welcoming any news of progress in developing deepwater wind power you would have already begun to feed this information and your enthusiasm to the press...encouraging a loosening of government purse strings for research and development funds, etc.
Who knows, maybe pack a group of wind supporters into a stretch limousine and go to Boston for a joint press conference with engineering pioneers from U Mass & MIT plus union folks and Deval?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wind will power our future
In response to: Wind will power our future
Gee...Imagine that! Norway must be in a 20 year time warp. According to Reuters a little outfit named StatoilHydro in 2009 will build a project called Hywind. It will be a Siemens 2.3mw wind turbine mounted on a floating mast in deep water off the Norwegian coast. StatoilHdro is an agency of the Norwegian government. This looks to me like a floating wind turbine...but that can't be...they are at least ten years way...more like 20. just ask Walt Musial, who now has two or three different estimates floating around...did I say floating?
this beats is only half the planned eventual production size. It rise from water-to-nacelle 65 meters and sports an 80 meter blade diameter.My goodness, if this 2.3mw turbine is about half scale that means Siemens and StatoilHydro are planning to use 5.0mw turbines in the full size project. Where have I heard that before?
So, Blue H has a trial unit in the water now off the Italian coast and the Norwegians will have one in a year or less...sounds to me as if deep water wind is real. The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.
this beats is only half the planned eventual production size. It rise from water-to-nacelle 65 meters and sports an 80 meter blade diameter.My goodness, if this 2.3mw turbine is about half scale that means Siemens and StatoilHydro are planning to use 5.0mw turbines in the full size project. Where have I heard that before?
So, Blue H has a trial unit in the water now off the Italian coast and the Norwegians will have one in a year or less...sounds to me as if deep water wind is real. The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wind will power our future
In response to: Wind will power our future
Sparky - all I can do is read the page number as it shows. The graph shows clearly that all offshore wind will yield 1% of out total energy. As for the Vestas comments you seem to have missed their remark about the "tiny minority" as well as their comment about the press.
Chuck - Musial said in writing in his NREL report of 2005 that deep water was then 10 - 15 away. He said earlier this year, and this was echoed by an NREL staffer with whom I spoke three months ago that his new estimate is 7 - 10 years. His graph of depth/production still shows clearly that shallow stinks and deep produces. Musial is now drinking the Gordon Cool Aid. Why?
The Bitish Wind Energy Association lists Arklow Bank as an operating project, but only 7 of the planned 200 turbines are in place and the production figures I have seen in print from the BWEA seem to be based on what Arklow was projected to yield at completion with all 200 turbines on line. the more I look at the offshore wind industry the more I realize how much hot air there is in it.
Chuck - Musial said in writing in his NREL report of 2005 that deep water was then 10 - 15 away. He said earlier this year, and this was echoed by an NREL staffer with whom I spoke three months ago that his new estimate is 7 - 10 years. His graph of depth/production still shows clearly that shallow stinks and deep produces. Musial is now drinking the Gordon Cool Aid. Why?
The Bitish Wind Energy Association lists Arklow Bank as an operating project, but only 7 of the planned 200 turbines are in place and the production figures I have seen in print from the BWEA seem to be based on what Arklow was projected to yield at completion with all 200 turbines on line. the more I look at the offshore wind industry the more I realize how much hot air there is in it.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wind will power our future
In response to: Wind will power our future
Page 154 of the DOE report mark rogers references in his op-ed piece shows all offshore wind in the U.S. producing 1% of out total electricity in 2030.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wind will power our future
In response to: Wind will power our future
Peter knows well that there is wind on the water. He also knows that there is more wind and more reliable wind in some places than others. This is true both on land and on water.
Now I am a sick man. WOW! So either I swallow everything the Gordonistas say or I am sick. Interesting. Right now I am printing out the DOE report Mark
Rogers referenced in his editorial. So far in skimming through it I find only some of what he claims it says.
As for the rest of the News hen comment, i hear she is starting an energy company to be called ad Hominem Gas. Why does so much of the Cape Wind debate have to be so nasty and silly?
Now I am a sick man. WOW! So either I swallow everything the Gordonistas say or I am sick. Interesting. Right now I am printing out the DOE report Mark
Rogers referenced in his editorial. So far in skimming through it I find only some of what he claims it says.
As for the rest of the News hen comment, i hear she is starting an energy company to be called ad Hominem Gas. Why does so much of the Cape Wind debate have to be so nasty and silly?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wind will power our future
In response to: Wind will power our future
So, I guess this new DOE report negates what Walt Musial of the National Renewable energy laboratory said in his 2005 report...that deeper is better. The American Wind Power Association's annual conference ends today in Houston and word is that no one is talking about offshore wind. The consensus in Europe is that offshore costs at least twice as much as on shore and the U.S. is headed for the third straight year of building more onshore wind power than any other country in the world.
The Arklow Bank project has only 7 out of the proposed 200 turbines installed and Royal Dutch Shell backed out of the 200 turbine London Array. But Cape Wind knows better than anyone else what works. Right? Vestas, the largest maker of turbines in the world said last week that the emphasis should be toward land based wind power. But Jim Gordon knows better than they. Really? Check out businessgreen.com for Vestas' comments last week.
Vestas talks about a "tiny minority" controlling the debate and about press complicity. Hmmmm....and they have built over 35,000 wind turbines.
The Arklow Bank project has only 7 out of the proposed 200 turbines installed and Royal Dutch Shell backed out of the 200 turbine London Array. But Cape Wind knows better than anyone else what works. Right? Vestas, the largest maker of turbines in the world said last week that the emphasis should be toward land based wind power. But Jim Gordon knows better than they. Really? Check out businessgreen.com for Vestas' comments last week.
Vestas talks about a "tiny minority" controlling the debate and about press complicity. Hmmmm....and they have built over 35,000 wind turbines.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Don't Ruin It for Everybody!
In response to: Don't Ruin It for Everybody!
Her lawyer wants to hit a big payday.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Don't Ruin It for Everybody!
In response to: Don't Ruin It for Everybody!
Her lawyer wants to hit a big payday.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wellfleet: You've got a tiger by the tail this time
In response to: Wellfleet: You've got a tiger by the tail this time
What ever happened to the thirty-year limit if use? I thought that all property owners at the time of the seashore being formed were allowed to remain in their house for thirty years....just thirty years....and then had to vacate. Weren't property owners paid by the U.S. Government when the seashore was formed? HELP!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: 7 bid to build Rhode Island's offshore wind farms; Kerry demurs on Cabinet post
In response to: 7 bid to build Rhode Island's offshore wind farms; Kerry demurs on Cabinet post
There is interesting reading available by logging on to businessgreen.com and reading the article featuring comments by Vestas, the world's largest wind turbine manufacturer. Vestas has over 335,000 wind turbines in service now and they are erecting hundreds of new units every month. The tide has turned for offshore wind, according to Vestas.
By the way, GE is no longer going to manufacture the 3.6mw wind turbine Cape Wind still claims it will be using...nor will Siemens, the only other manufacturer of a 3.6 unit in the world.
OOPS!
By the way, GE is no longer going to manufacture the 3.6mw wind turbine Cape Wind still claims it will be using...nor will Siemens, the only other manufacturer of a 3.6 unit in the world.
OOPS!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wind energy expected to grow dramatically
In response to: Wind energy expected to grow dramatically
Let's see...9 meters...that's 10 feet of water. Well, what do we do when the water is less than 10" deep?
TAKE THE PLEDGE...WE WILL NOT DREDGE!
TAKE THE PLEDGE...WE WILL NOT DREDGE!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Alliance and oil companies fund anti-wind farm efforts here; Wind: Kerry challenger endorses Cape Wind; The Powerful Anti-Commodity
In response to: Alliance and oil companies fund anti-wind farm efforts here; Wind: Kerry challenger endorses Cape Wind; The Powerful Anti-Commodity
Of course they are in lockstep: Bill Koch owns Oxbow and Oxbow pays BKSH to perform lobbying work for it. As I recall all this nasty covert stuff is described in detail in public documents.
How much will Cape Wind save the ordinary electric rate payer? $20.00, $40.00? How much?
How much will Cape Wind save the ordinary electric rate payer? $20.00, $40.00? How much?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Forget the "quick fix" of incarcerating drug offenders
In response to: Forget the "quick fix" of incarcerating drug offenders
Nobody kicks in a door in the middle of the night to make an arrest for possession. Period. What exactly was this poor 'victim' selling? Was he dealing in a school or in a school-aged crowd?
Judge Riordan's drug court was very successful...but he held people accountable and those who played by his rules succeeded nearly all the time. Those who did not...well maybe someone came through their windows at night with arrest warrants.
How many dear, sweet little brothers who were horribly treated and traumatized by the process of arrest for their first offense spread damage and harm through our communities before their "first offense?" Those who don't want to be treated as drug dealers should not become drug dealers. The math is fairly simple.
Judge Riordan's drug court was very successful...but he held people accountable and those who played by his rules succeeded nearly all the time. Those who did not...well maybe someone came through their windows at night with arrest warrants.
How many dear, sweet little brothers who were horribly treated and traumatized by the process of arrest for their first offense spread damage and harm through our communities before their "first offense?" Those who don't want to be treated as drug dealers should not become drug dealers. The math is fairly simple.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wind energy expected to grow dramatically
In response to: Wind energy expected to grow dramatically
Imco
I notice the one important fact you have left out...again. How much does this magic vessel draw? How much does it draw when fully loaded with all the gear it needs to operate? If "much of" the area in question is 9' or more what about the portions of the wind farm work area and the access paths to them that are less than 9'?
All your talk about how many legs and how many hydraulic lifts and how high and how stable and how this and how that...how does this large work vessel get to each of the 130 monopile locations without dredging? How much water does your specified work vessel draw? How m much do the tugs and other craft that will participate in this adventure draw? Simple question. Please do not bore us with descriptions of the colors they will be painted or where they were built or how nice a guy the skipper is or their horsepower or where their engines were made...how m uch do they draw? Simple question!
I notice the one important fact you have left out...again. How much does this magic vessel draw? How much does it draw when fully loaded with all the gear it needs to operate? If "much of" the area in question is 9' or more what about the portions of the wind farm work area and the access paths to them that are less than 9'?
All your talk about how many legs and how many hydraulic lifts and how high and how stable and how this and how that...how does this large work vessel get to each of the 130 monopile locations without dredging? How much water does your specified work vessel draw? How m much do the tugs and other craft that will participate in this adventure draw? Simple question. Please do not bore us with descriptions of the colors they will be painted or where they were built or how nice a guy the skipper is or their horsepower or where their engines were made...how m uch do they draw? Simple question!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wind energy expected to grow dramatically
In response to: Wind energy expected to grow dramatically
Imco
You are kidding, right? Jack-up rigs? What are you smoking?
A jack-up rig, as you call it, is an old standard technology and it has nothing to do with how much dredging is required...NOTHING! There usually 4 legs, not 6. A barge or lighter (you do know what a lighter is?) that draws 10' of water will still need 10' of water. In places the Nantucket Shoal is 1' deep. When a barge carrying a crane reaches its installation point it lifts up out of the water on the jack poles so that it remains a fixed (steady) platform for the crane...not rocking back and forth on the water. To my knowledge there is no such thing as a work barge or any other vessel that walks on stiff legs over the water, except perhaps in the mind of a certain Boston wind developer.
Then there is the matter of 'preparing' the bottom at each tower location...a little more scraping and excavating.
Imco, Imco...get it right, will ya? The small barge working on the Hyannis Harbor bulkhead draws 4' and it is a very small barge with three jack poles and one tiny crane...4'.
You are kidding, right? Jack-up rigs? What are you smoking?
A jack-up rig, as you call it, is an old standard technology and it has nothing to do with how much dredging is required...NOTHING! There usually 4 legs, not 6. A barge or lighter (you do know what a lighter is?) that draws 10' of water will still need 10' of water. In places the Nantucket Shoal is 1' deep. When a barge carrying a crane reaches its installation point it lifts up out of the water on the jack poles so that it remains a fixed (steady) platform for the crane...not rocking back and forth on the water. To my knowledge there is no such thing as a work barge or any other vessel that walks on stiff legs over the water, except perhaps in the mind of a certain Boston wind developer.
Then there is the matter of 'preparing' the bottom at each tower location...a little more scraping and excavating.
Imco, Imco...get it right, will ya? The small barge working on the Hyannis Harbor bulkhead draws 4' and it is a very small barge with three jack poles and one tiny crane...4'.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wind energy expected to grow dramatically
In response to: Wind energy expected to grow dramatically
Yes but,why do people persist in talking about wind power as if there is no differenec between land based and offshore wind? The differences are huge and the costs asociated with them is often the death knell for an otherwise good wind project. G.E. is probably not going to manufacture the 3.6 mg units touted by Cape Wind and it is not yet clear that Siemens will sell their 3.6 units in the U.S. Two other major offshore wind initiatives are dead and a third, Delmarva is awaiting far-from-certain legislative action by states. The U.S. is actually leading the world in construction of new wind farms...China close behind...but it is all land based.
The world's largest wind turbine manufacurers are Siemens in Germany and Vestas in Denmark. Siemens is building a plant in the northern Great Plains and G.E, has built a factory in China...they did $6 billion last year in turbines @ $1 billion profit...mostly in China and India and all land based.
What happened to G.E. at Arklow Bank? What about the cancelled London Park?
Land based is not offshore!
The world's largest wind turbine manufacurers are Siemens in Germany and Vestas in Denmark. Siemens is building a plant in the northern Great Plains and G.E, has built a factory in China...they did $6 billion last year in turbines @ $1 billion profit...mostly in China and India and all land based.
What happened to G.E. at Arklow Bank? What about the cancelled London Park?
Land based is not offshore!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Ocean Edge's new $8.5M golf course redesign; Belated honors for Harwich Vet; NJ to beat MA in offshore energy race; US wind power status
In response to: Ocean Edge's new $8.5M golf course redesign; Belated honors for Harwich Vet; NJ to beat MA in offshore energy race; US wind power status
Who is this guy Dopp?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Googleable: A Tale of Two Houses
In response to: Googleable: A Tale of Two Houses
This guy is actually an immigrant from Outer Bedlam. He changed his name by dropping the 'S' that originally preceeded it.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: VOTE YES ON QUESTION 5 IN YARMOUTH
In response to: VOTE YES ON QUESTION 5 IN YARMOUTH
tell all your Yarmouth friends to read this and then tell them to vote.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: VOTE YES ON QUESTION 5 IN YARMOUTH
In response to: VOTE YES ON QUESTION 5 IN YARMOUTH
Saying that the Cape Cod Commission is flawed is a bit of an understatement. It has never done what it was set up to do. The only people who CAN survive the Commission proces are the big, rich, outside firms and the big box stores. the local business that needs a fifteen thousand foot building (or a ten thousand and one hundred foot building) or an acre of new driveway with off-street truck parking simply cannot afford to go through the nightmare of the Commission with no guarantee of success.
Now they are even soliciting referrals for single family residential structures. Eighteen years ago when they wanted our support they said that would never happen. Liars and frauds.
Now they are even soliciting referrals for single family residential structures. Eighteen years ago when they wanted our support they said that would never happen. Liars and frauds.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: It's Wellfleet AGAIN !
In response to: It's Wellfleet AGAIN !
Some towns have dumber selectmen than others: The appeal period following a ZBA decision is 21 days...not one month. And, a municipal building inspector/commissioner is the town's chief zoning enforcement officer. PERIOD
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Protection Money
In response to: Protection Money
The citizens of Yarmouth voted to put the cape Cod Commission question on the ballot.
Then the selectmen actually tried to undo the will of the people but were soundly defeated in this effort. Now the Yarmouth selectmen want us to give the commission another chance, give them some time to make changes. Eighteen years is not enough time? The commission is talking about making changes...talking. We must keep the pressure on because if we give them more time by not voting YES on question 5 they will go back to business as usual...that means no business for Yarmouth. Paul Niedzwiecki, the new commission head, is a good man and he wants to do the right thing. BUT...he is only one man and he can be over ruled by the Assembly of Delegates. They have NEVER done anything to make changes at the commission although the commission is a department of county government.
Vote YES on question 5. Then we can prepare the petition we have to send to the legislature, then we can get other towns to join in and then we can make the commission do the will of the people, not the puppets.
Then the selectmen actually tried to undo the will of the people but were soundly defeated in this effort. Now the Yarmouth selectmen want us to give the commission another chance, give them some time to make changes. Eighteen years is not enough time? The commission is talking about making changes...talking. We must keep the pressure on because if we give them more time by not voting YES on question 5 they will go back to business as usual...that means no business for Yarmouth. Paul Niedzwiecki, the new commission head, is a good man and he wants to do the right thing. BUT...he is only one man and he can be over ruled by the Assembly of Delegates. They have NEVER done anything to make changes at the commission although the commission is a department of county government.
Vote YES on question 5. Then we can prepare the petition we have to send to the legislature, then we can get other towns to join in and then we can make the commission do the will of the people, not the puppets.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Son of Yarmouth
In response to: Son of Yarmouth
Tracy
There are more issues than Cape Wind, which has a long way to go for approval and construction.
I stand by what I said and would like see both of you on the board. Perhaps knowing Curt better than I know you is a point in his favor with me and I do recognize your contributions to the town. I like Bud also, but it is time for a new face in his seat. The goal should be to place a new person on the board. My choice for this year is Curt. I am not asking you to jump, simply expressing my opinion. Adding both you and Curt to the board, of course, would mean Dr. Marasco retired also and that is long overdue.
Respect and good luck to both you and Curt. But, my choice is clear.
There are more issues than Cape Wind, which has a long way to go for approval and construction.
I stand by what I said and would like see both of you on the board. Perhaps knowing Curt better than I know you is a point in his favor with me and I do recognize your contributions to the town. I like Bud also, but it is time for a new face in his seat. The goal should be to place a new person on the board. My choice for this year is Curt. I am not asking you to jump, simply expressing my opinion. Adding both you and Curt to the board, of course, would mean Dr. Marasco retired also and that is long overdue.
Respect and good luck to both you and Curt. But, my choice is clear.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Son of Yarmouth
In response to: Son of Yarmouth
I would like to see both Curt Sears and Tracy post on the board. I wish Tracy had waited until next year to run again because she risks splitting the vote and allowing Bud to snooze his way back in. So, I support Curt...and I will support Tracy if she runs next year. He has served long and well on many town committees and on the planning board. He has been at the center of the GIZ and other zoning improvements. Curt is very bright guy...very bright. And, he knows the town like no other candidate. There are some things only a true native knows. He would represent on the board the presence of the Cape Cod we wash-a-shores claim to love and want to save.
Since 1639 the name Sears has been prominent in Yarmouth and we have a chance too recognize it again. Given the choice between a used-to-be from CBS and a really smart pragmatic local tradesman who has demonstrated his willingness to serve and (stay awake) and tells you what he thinks when you ask...I'll take Curt Sears.
Since 1639 the name Sears has been prominent in Yarmouth and we have a chance too recognize it again. Given the choice between a used-to-be from CBS and a really smart pragmatic local tradesman who has demonstrated his willingness to serve and (stay awake) and tells you what he thinks when you ask...I'll take Curt Sears.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Mashpee: A Question of Fact vs. Fiction
In response to: Mashpee: A Question of Fact vs. Fiction
The thrust of Lynch's work is bogus. If these people are not Indian, what are they? And if they are Indian, it is for them to declare their tribal organization, not the non-Indian.White colonists crushed their native culture, denied their customary and historic ability to travel freely over the land they had occupied for thousands of years, outlawed their religion and language, and in Massachusetts made it a crime to teach an Indian to read and write.
The chaos within the tribal government of the Mashpee Wampanoags is a product of combined forces; the greed and darkness that can stain any soul, white or red, the greed and corruption that is being injected into their tribe by outsiders with a proven record of not dealing fairly with their Indian "partners" and simple human nature. The fact that a convicted felon headed the tribal council after he carefully orchestrated a subversion of tribal law and the fact that neither the Mass. AG or the U.S. Dept. of Justice has laid a glove on him does not help.
Let's all grow up!
The chaos within the tribal government of the Mashpee Wampanoags is a product of combined forces; the greed and darkness that can stain any soul, white or red, the greed and corruption that is being injected into their tribe by outsiders with a proven record of not dealing fairly with their Indian "partners" and simple human nature. The fact that a convicted felon headed the tribal council after he carefully orchestrated a subversion of tribal law and the fact that neither the Mass. AG or the U.S. Dept. of Justice has laid a glove on him does not help.
Let's all grow up!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: That Blue H "red herring" floats away; North Beach to the max
In response to: That Blue H "red herring" floats away; North Beach to the max
Don't blame CCTODAY. Blame the Globe. And, of course, the CCTIMES published a rehash of their story today.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: That Blue H "red herring" floats away; North Beach to the max
In response to: That Blue H "red herring" floats away; North Beach to the max
The Globe story on Friday was wrong. They published a correction today...not a big splashy one but a tiny one tucked into a lower corner of page two.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Yarmouth Town Hall goes solar!
In response to: Yarmouth Town Hall goes solar!
Our town hall actually abuts a bank and the Masonic temple and the State Police barracks. And yes...Yarmouth is conservation and energy conscious. We also prefer our views of Nantucket Sound unblemished by a private proft making venture and our electric rates undamaged by horrendously expensive shallow water wind power. In the coming year or two we will se more wind mills in Yarmouth to serve specific needs and save both fuel and money.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Race in America, and Chatham
In response to: Race in America, and Chatham
A good friend tells the story of being stopped on a snowy Sunday night in Chatham...by the Chatham Police. This happened more than fifteen years ago. The man was driving safely with a valid inspection sticker and valid plates. Nothing about his Mercedes or his driving gave the officer any cause to pull him over...except that he had commercial plates on the car. The reason for this is a little complicated, but the plates were valid and gave no cause for the stop. The cop said he simply had never seen commercial plates on such an expensive car and wanted to know why. WHY? Eventually my friend chuckled and realized that he been stopped, as he now says, for driving off season in Chatham while being Jewish.
I grew up in Boston and spent many years immersed in a fairly varied culture. Still, racism was common...it is among humans everywhere, unfortunately. What truly fascinated me about Cape Cod is the toxic attitude held by many against anyone who is different from themselves. The 'N' word is still in common usage in many parts of many towns. When will folks just grow up?
I grew up in Boston and spent many years immersed in a fairly varied culture. Still, racism was common...it is among humans everywhere, unfortunately. What truly fascinated me about Cape Cod is the toxic attitude held by many against anyone who is different from themselves. The 'N' word is still in common usage in many parts of many towns. When will folks just grow up?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wind, out of the Blue
In response to: Wind, out of the Blue
Gee...I am glad that someone has finally mentioned "Fortune 500 Companies"...they also seem to be absent from Nantucket Sound. In fact, will GE still be manufacturing the 3.6 MW units Gordon is proposing to use?
Funny think Smahkep...you come back and suddenly the discourse becomes coarse. is that really necessary?
Funny think Smahkep...you come back and suddenly the discourse becomes coarse. is that really necessary?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: It's America's Choice: Turbines or Turbans
In response to: It's America's Choice: Turbines or Turbans
Smahkep
Why don't you 'leak' the agreement in which Jim Gordon says he will build a 400 MW gas fired plant in Westfield, Ma? This plan is currently under review by MEPA. AND...oh the good news...in the winter the plant will burn oil, not gas.
So much for the Mother Therese of 'clean' energy.
I heard Gordon say, in person (Falmouth...Potuguese American Club, Labor day, 2007) that there will not be any new natural gas plants built because there will not be sufficient supplies of fuel.
I'll have to call SGI on Monday and ask how a document between a private person and a private company got leaked. We all know how careful Jim Gordon is about keeping private things private...and you do not have press protection against disclosure. When is Gordon going to let us see his consultants' agreements or his cost estimates or his wind numbers. Thank you for opening Pandora's box.
Be careful what you wish for. You may have just volunteered SGI for something they never wanted to part of. Nice going!
Why don't you 'leak' the agreement in which Jim Gordon says he will build a 400 MW gas fired plant in Westfield, Ma? This plan is currently under review by MEPA. AND...oh the good news...in the winter the plant will burn oil, not gas.
So much for the Mother Therese of 'clean' energy.
I heard Gordon say, in person (Falmouth...Potuguese American Club, Labor day, 2007) that there will not be any new natural gas plants built because there will not be sufficient supplies of fuel.
I'll have to call SGI on Monday and ask how a document between a private person and a private company got leaked. We all know how careful Jim Gordon is about keeping private things private...and you do not have press protection against disclosure. When is Gordon going to let us see his consultants' agreements or his cost estimates or his wind numbers. Thank you for opening Pandora's box.
Be careful what you wish for. You may have just volunteered SGI for something they never wanted to part of. Nice going!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Three Blind Mice or Moe, Larry and Surly
In response to: Three Blind Mice or Moe, Larry and Surly
I know Jim Gordon likes him...he went to the recent McCain breakfast and he gave him $2300 as a campaign contribution. Last time Jim was a Kerry guy.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Truth, Religion, Obama and Politics
In response to: Truth, Religion, Obama and Politics
Last time I checked it was not Christ who was doing the bombing. Blather....pure blather.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Truth, Religion, Obama and Politics
In response to: Truth, Religion, Obama and Politics
When a person of faith who feels he/she has a fair understanding of what Christ's core message was and is still today hears heresy and worse form the pulp[it of his church, getting up and leaving, or at the very least waiting until then end of that particular service then leaving not to return to that church is the only appropriate response for any who would claim to have their own conscience and sound ethics. To stay and listen to that same hateful message for twenty years is not a good sign. Is it rational to believe that a man who wants to lead this nation never had the courage to tell his 'pastor' to go to hell? No!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wind Turbines on Galapagos; Fossil fuel protesters take to the streets April 1
In response to: Wind Turbines on Galapagos; Fossil fuel protesters take to the streets April 1
Hamalcar
The folks from Clean power ow drove to the MMS hearing in Boston in a white stretch limousine. Gas mileage?...Who cares?
By the way, check out the environmental damage done to the land around the plant in Sudbury, Ontario that smelts the nickel used to make the batteries for hybrids. the nickel is them shipped to china where those well known environmental fanatics process it further and make the batteries.
Nasa actually tests vehicles intended for use on other planets in the barren terrain around the Sudbury plant. Someone at Toyota has some explaining to do.
The folks from Clean power ow drove to the MMS hearing in Boston in a white stretch limousine. Gas mileage?...Who cares?
By the way, check out the environmental damage done to the land around the plant in Sudbury, Ontario that smelts the nickel used to make the batteries for hybrids. the nickel is them shipped to china where those well known environmental fanatics process it further and make the batteries.
Nasa actually tests vehicles intended for use on other planets in the barren terrain around the Sudbury plant. Someone at Toyota has some explaining to do.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wind Turbines on Galapagos; Fossil fuel protesters take to the streets April 1
In response to: Wind Turbines on Galapagos; Fossil fuel protesters take to the streets April 1
Hey, Solon
Who is the guy who is planning to build a $400 million 400MW gas fired power plant in Westfield? The plant that will burn oil in winter months to save gas for residential users? Jim Gordon?....Say it isn't so! PLEASE!!!
And the best part is that the project manager for this unbelievable bit of twisted logic is the former head of Clean power Now....Matthew Palmer.
there is so little left in this world for us to believe in; first there was Santa Claus, then the Tooth Fairy and Tinkerbelle, then Hillary and those rude Baltic snipers...now even Jim Gordon has fallen to the forces of reality. Take me now, God.
Who is the guy who is planning to build a $400 million 400MW gas fired power plant in Westfield? The plant that will burn oil in winter months to save gas for residential users? Jim Gordon?....Say it isn't so! PLEASE!!!
And the best part is that the project manager for this unbelievable bit of twisted logic is the former head of Clean power Now....Matthew Palmer.
there is so little left in this world for us to believe in; first there was Santa Claus, then the Tooth Fairy and Tinkerbelle, then Hillary and those rude Baltic snipers...now even Jim Gordon has fallen to the forces of reality. Take me now, God.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Ted Kennedy hypocrisy exposed on FOX News Sunday night
In response to: Ted Kennedy hypocrisy exposed on FOX News Sunday night
I am not a fisherman...ex or otherwise. What's this about dragging a thousand feet of gear?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Nothing short about these circuits
In response to: Nothing short about these circuits
Endemic, entrenched corruption...hmmmmm...sounds like the Commission to me. Of course, the corruption there is of the intellectual variety.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Nothing short about these circuits
In response to: Nothing short about these circuits
Buzz...the town of Barnstable is buying Chili's. It will be razed and the site will be landscaped and left as open space to avoid further traffic problems at the airport rotary. Good idea? yes...but why does one private developer have to bear the burden? If we look back at what was done to the Christmas tree Shops years ago and add that little number to Circuit City's tab two developers out of all the properties that affect Route 132 and the rotary will have paid more than $2 million in 'mitigation.' Adjusting the money paid by the Christmas Tree Shops for inflation the real value in today's dollars is closer to $3 million.
Instead of welcoming them and cooperating with we challenge new project developers to do business with us. Then we send them a huge tax bill.
Instead of welcoming them and cooperating with we challenge new project developers to do business with us. Then we send them a huge tax bill.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Ted Kennedy hypocrisy exposed on FOX News Sunday night
In response to: Ted Kennedy hypocrisy exposed on FOX News Sunday night
Imco - What is the question?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Cape Cod foreclosures predicted at a 50% rise in next year; Homeowners taken for a ride; Casino lives
In response to: Cape Cod foreclosures predicted at a 50% rise in next year; Homeowners taken for a ride; Casino lives
hamalcar
You are on to something. remember this...all three of the remaining presidential candidates are current members of the U.S. Spendit.
You are on to something. remember this...all three of the remaining presidential candidates are current members of the U.S. Spendit.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Ted Kennedy hypocrisy exposed on FOX News Sunday night
In response to: Ted Kennedy hypocrisy exposed on FOX News Sunday night
Did anyone notice the nice free ride Cape Wind received from Hannity? Gee....I wonder where Fox got all that beautiful wind farm footage.
That aside...nice job Walter and Peter. Next time tell Walter to smile. What do you want to bet Fox has been given a few stories like this one but went nowhere with them? It takes the kind of crazies who live on this side of the bridge and know the value of blogging to get it done.
That aside...nice job Walter and Peter. Next time tell Walter to smile. What do you want to bet Fox has been given a few stories like this one but went nowhere with them? It takes the kind of crazies who live on this side of the bridge and know the value of blogging to get it done.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: No Cape Wind yet; but a lot of gas and hot air
In response to: No Cape Wind yet; but a lot of gas and hot air
Crusader
If Cape Wind bids in at zero and another producer sets the price at a level below Cape Wind's cost....then what? If the Cape Wind claim that it will save us money still holds water, why was it not proven in big bold type in the DEIS? Why, when I asked Jim Gordon for his price did he answer, "I don't think I want to give you that number now, Peter."? (Telephone conversation w/Gordon on February 20, 2008)The only way for Cape Wind to bid in at zero and survive is for them to be cheaper than everyone else. The wind may be free...but their other costs are soaring with no end in sight.
Why has virtually every veteran energy company that has looked into offshore wind, including FP&L backed away from it?
If Cape Wind bids in at zero and another producer sets the price at a level below Cape Wind's cost....then what? If the Cape Wind claim that it will save us money still holds water, why was it not proven in big bold type in the DEIS? Why, when I asked Jim Gordon for his price did he answer, "I don't think I want to give you that number now, Peter."? (Telephone conversation w/Gordon on February 20, 2008)The only way for Cape Wind to bid in at zero and survive is for them to be cheaper than everyone else. The wind may be free...but their other costs are soaring with no end in sight.
Why has virtually every veteran energy company that has looked into offshore wind, including FP&L backed away from it?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: More troubles for newspapers; Devastating article in New Yorker; Local media gurus stumble
In response to: More troubles for newspapers; Devastating article in New Yorker; Local media gurus stumble
If ignorance truly is bliss there must a ,lot of absolutely joyous people on Main Street in Hyannis.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: No Cape Wind yet; but a lot of gas and hot air
In response to: No Cape Wind yet; but a lot of gas and hot air
Solon...Cape Wind does not have to be competitive. If theirs is the highest price quoted to the grid they become a 'price giver' and everyone else (coal, oil, gas, nuclear, etc.) will be paid the highest rate quoted...Cape Wind's. All the other producers of electricity will benefit from cape wind's highest price.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: No Cape Wind yet; but a lot of gas and hot air
In response to: No Cape Wind yet; but a lot of gas and hot air
So, I guess this all means that you are also a strong supporter of Blue H. After all, the deep water production is four-to-five times higher than what Cape Wind will achieve in shallow water (according to research results published by USNREL). The more offshore wind the better, right?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Above the Law or Living on the Edge
In response to: Above the Law or Living on the Edge
Then there is Joe (Citizens Oil) Jr. who has been seen in recent years and often horsing around on a jet ski endangering everyone around him, screaming at offended boaters that he is "Joe Kennedy, Goddamnit!" These folks are either very good or real idiots...there is a split personality to the the Kennedy family. Too bad. Some are well mannered and others are just...inconsiderate oafs.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The Kennedy-Forest-Delahunt game plan
In response to: The Kennedy-Forest-Delahunt game plan
So, I guess the web pictures of the Blue H prototype being towed out to placement off the Spanish coast is a fake? And Walt Musial's graphs showing power yield at various depths of water are a mirage?
Isn't it interesting that in its early years Cape Wind and its supporters deluged us with happy talk from Europe about offshore wind in shallow waters but now they can't seem to find any news they want to share about deep-water wind power.
Clearly Cape Wind and its supporters see Blue H as a competitive threat...not the next generation of offshore wind which Cape Wind said it would pioneer as the first, not the only wind farm in our waters.
Maybe Windy Williams should have answered one of the several calls she received from Blue H some time ago. As for CLF, they oppose Rhode Island's moratorium designed to allow the promulgation of uniform rules and policies for offshore wind. Do they want coastal pandemonium? How can anyone who supports Cape Wind not be a strong supporter of another offshore wind facility?
Isn't it interesting that in its early years Cape Wind and its supporters deluged us with happy talk from Europe about offshore wind in shallow waters but now they can't seem to find any news they want to share about deep-water wind power.
Clearly Cape Wind and its supporters see Blue H as a competitive threat...not the next generation of offshore wind which Cape Wind said it would pioneer as the first, not the only wind farm in our waters.
Maybe Windy Williams should have answered one of the several calls she received from Blue H some time ago. As for CLF, they oppose Rhode Island's moratorium designed to allow the promulgation of uniform rules and policies for offshore wind. Do they want coastal pandemonium? How can anyone who supports Cape Wind not be a strong supporter of another offshore wind facility?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: A Quick History Lesson
In response to: A Quick History Lesson
I am actually American. I was born here as were both of my parents and all but one of my grandparents. It happens that my ancestors were Irish and Portuguese plus a soem Scotch. I am American. My home has never been burned nor have my friends or family been lynched. Now, how exactly do you want me to deal with that? Hatred is hatred and it has never produced any good results. I notice the lack of venom for the black Africans who captured and delivered their fellow Africans to Arab and black and European slavers for money. I notice the lack of venom for the many Eurpoean countries who developed and operated the slave trade long before there were distinct people known as Americans. I notice the lack of venom for the slavers who still ply btheir vicious trade today in Black Africa. No, it's just us fat, dumb and happy twenty-first century American white folks who have to bear the guilt for all that has happened before most of us were even born. There is a lot more than color or heritage separating me from the Lawrence Watsons of this world...there is his racism.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Child abuse horror in Middleboro: Where was DSS?
In response to: Child abuse horror in Middleboro: Where was DSS?
Every so often we hear another of these horror stories and it's always the same pattern: lot's of people knew little ones were suffering; no one quite knew what to do; the head of DSS makes a sincere public statement of apology and the beating goes on. A child is often buried as a result of these travesties but maybe only one or two are fired or resign, and the beating goes on. Candidates run on platforms of better care for abused and neglected children but the legislature cuts budgets for these services so their pork barrels remain full...and the beating goes on.
The first time this most recent monster hesitated to provide proof of his identity should have been the trigger for an immediate and effective response by DSS...but that did not happen. So, the beating went on.
No amount of conciliatory speechmaking will change this one simple fact: we need a governor/legislature/attorney general who will dismantle DSS from the top down and build an agency that gives a damn. A properly funded and supervised agency. Otherwise the beating goes on.
The first time this most recent monster hesitated to provide proof of his identity should have been the trigger for an immediate and effective response by DSS...but that did not happen. So, the beating went on.
No amount of conciliatory speechmaking will change this one simple fact: we need a governor/legislature/attorney general who will dismantle DSS from the top down and build an agency that gives a damn. A properly funded and supervised agency. Otherwise the beating goes on.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: "The Good Graces of the Board of Health have Expired" for Bookstore Restaurant
In response to: "The Good Graces of the Board of Health have Expired" for Bookstore Restaurant
I say again: how did so many violations run unchallenged for so many years? Does Wellfleet actually have a town government?
Is someone paid to inspect commercial premises once a year? How about the required inspections of restaurant septic systems...required more frequently than every nineteen years.
Let's cut the crap.
Is someone paid to inspect commercial premises once a year? How about the required inspections of restaurant septic systems...required more frequently than every nineteen years.
Let's cut the crap.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Know thy ...friends and enemies.
In response to: Know thy ...friends and enemies.
Jack
You are correct, Gordon responded to the LIPA RFP for the project in Long island Sound. And no, I am not on the Alliance payroll. I have answered this question before and nothing has changed. In fact, there are a few folks on the Alliance board with whom I do not get along.
By the way, my anti-wind spin, as you call it, is also an inaccuracy. I support all types of wind power including offshore. This is the wrong project and Nantucket Shoal is the wrong location. I have also been saying this for several years, Jack, many years. I find the deafening silence coming from the so-called wind power supporters interesting when we consider the Blue H proposal. You guys should be jumping for joy that a mature company with substantial global experience in offshore structures is betting on the New England coast to be a wind winner. But, of course, we have to root for the native son first...and perhaps only. Once you have read Walt Musial's work you might take a different view of Blue H...and even of Cape Wind.
Have you ever even Glenn Wattely?
You are correct, Gordon responded to the LIPA RFP for the project in Long island Sound. And no, I am not on the Alliance payroll. I have answered this question before and nothing has changed. In fact, there are a few folks on the Alliance board with whom I do not get along.
By the way, my anti-wind spin, as you call it, is also an inaccuracy. I support all types of wind power including offshore. This is the wrong project and Nantucket Shoal is the wrong location. I have also been saying this for several years, Jack, many years. I find the deafening silence coming from the so-called wind power supporters interesting when we consider the Blue H proposal. You guys should be jumping for joy that a mature company with substantial global experience in offshore structures is betting on the New England coast to be a wind winner. But, of course, we have to root for the native son first...and perhaps only. Once you have read Walt Musial's work you might take a different view of Blue H...and even of Cape Wind.
Have you ever even Glenn Wattely?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: "The Good Graces of the Board of Health have Expired" for Bookstore Restaurant
In response to: "The Good Graces of the Board of Health have Expired" for Bookstore Restaurant
This is a great study in abnormal psychology. Aren't the issues really very simple?
1. Has someone's septic system failed and isn't that system sitting IN the water table?
2. Has someone exceeded their licensed seating capacity by A LOT?
3. Where the hell have the various town inspectors and boards in Wellfleet been? Who is kissing whose fanny?
Let's get real. Peter Robbins blew the whistle on an ugly situation but now somehow he is the villain. Right. The next time I hear some fool berate others at a public meeting on some environmental issue and use his/her residency in Wellfleet as proof of superiority, I will have that warm feeling that comes from knowing this clown is a clown. Wellfleet really is a
political sewer, isn't it?
1. Has someone's septic system failed and isn't that system sitting IN the water table?
2. Has someone exceeded their licensed seating capacity by A LOT?
3. Where the hell have the various town inspectors and boards in Wellfleet been? Who is kissing whose fanny?
Let's get real. Peter Robbins blew the whistle on an ugly situation but now somehow he is the villain. Right. The next time I hear some fool berate others at a public meeting on some environmental issue and use his/her residency in Wellfleet as proof of superiority, I will have that warm feeling that comes from knowing this clown is a clown. Wellfleet really is a
political sewer, isn't it?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: A Quick History Lesson
In response to: A Quick History Lesson
Well, at least we can all take comfort from the notion tat only whites can be racist. that is, of course until one contemplates the black-on-black genocides in Africa. or the words of Lawrence Watson.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Everyone Should Be Angry
In response to: Everyone Should Be Angry
For all those who want irrefutable proof of how and where MMS failed to follow federal law the Energy Policy Act of 2005 is available on line. Section 388 lays out clearly how MMS was to have promulgated rules and procedures for project reviews and how they were supposed to related to and work with other federal agencies.
Too often people on both sides of the Cape Wind issue know absolutely nothing about the reality of this mess...but that does not stop them from yapping away.
Also, the entire MMS DEIS is available on line and Appendix F is a devastating, if sloppy economic analysis. Appendix F says very clearly that Cape Wind electricity will be more expensive than other power. Of course, the same DEIS also parrots the nonsense claim by Cape Wind's so-called energy consultant that Cape Wind will save New England $25 million per year. Up is Down and Right is Left.
Even people in the renewable energy business laugh at the MMS Cape Wind DEIS and they WANT this project to happen. MMS did no one any favors, not Gordon, not anyone.
Too often people on both sides of the Cape Wind issue know absolutely nothing about the reality of this mess...but that does not stop them from yapping away.
Also, the entire MMS DEIS is available on line and Appendix F is a devastating, if sloppy economic analysis. Appendix F says very clearly that Cape Wind electricity will be more expensive than other power. Of course, the same DEIS also parrots the nonsense claim by Cape Wind's so-called energy consultant that Cape Wind will save New England $25 million per year. Up is Down and Right is Left.
Even people in the renewable energy business laugh at the MMS Cape Wind DEIS and they WANT this project to happen. MMS did no one any favors, not Gordon, not anyone.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Know thy ...friends and enemies.
In response to: Know thy ...friends and enemies.
Wavemaker,
You are correct, I am referring the Energy policy Act of 2005. Epact 05 in section 388 (right again) says clearly that MMS was to have worked with other federal agencies whose missions relate directly to such things as offshore wind farms. This would include EPA (endangered Species) Coast Guard (terms and procedures) FAA, etc. MMS apparently does not agree that this is necessary. EPACT05 also directs MMS to promulgate complete rules and standards for review by May of 2006...there are no such rules yet. Apparently law does not apply to Jim Gordon. is this any better than what 'bridge-to-nowhere' Sen. Ted Stevens did? Also, only two projects already in the pipeline at the time EPACT05 was passed were exempted from competitive bidding for sites...Gordon was the proponent of both projects, Horseshoe Shoal and LIPA.
It must be nice to be special. Cape Wind is going to raise our electric rates, some in the energy business say by a lot, and will help coal plants stay in business.
No amount of 'Cape Wind' can prove otherwise.
You are correct, I am referring the Energy policy Act of 2005. Epact 05 in section 388 (right again) says clearly that MMS was to have worked with other federal agencies whose missions relate directly to such things as offshore wind farms. This would include EPA (endangered Species) Coast Guard (terms and procedures) FAA, etc. MMS apparently does not agree that this is necessary. EPACT05 also directs MMS to promulgate complete rules and standards for review by May of 2006...there are no such rules yet. Apparently law does not apply to Jim Gordon. is this any better than what 'bridge-to-nowhere' Sen. Ted Stevens did? Also, only two projects already in the pipeline at the time EPACT05 was passed were exempted from competitive bidding for sites...Gordon was the proponent of both projects, Horseshoe Shoal and LIPA.
It must be nice to be special. Cape Wind is going to raise our electric rates, some in the energy business say by a lot, and will help coal plants stay in business.
No amount of 'Cape Wind' can prove otherwise.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Saying what Obama can not say about race
In response to: Saying what Obama can not say about race
Lawrence, you are a hateful and bitter man. I am neither a "Joe Smo" nor a "Blanche" but you are no Martin Luther King. True equality among all races would allow any or us...all of us...without fear of petty reprisal from small minds such as yours, to say without fear or favor that someone is a jerk, a racist, an angry, hateful and destructive person. And, we could even say that about even a black man. That would be in a fair world...without racists such as you panting at the though of being able to chastise whites for calling it as they see it. Reverend Wright is so wrong. So are you.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Know thy ...friends and enemies.
In response to: Know thy ...friends and enemies.
Thanks for asking Cat. Actually I have been having some fun with a damaged heart lately...nerve damage of some sort to the cardiac muscle's nerves and the tests I have been having sort of interfered with the MMS hearings...also the second hospital stay made it impossible to attend the first two hearings, But, thanks for asking. Yours is exactly the kind of pleasant banter that seems typical of a large number of the environmentally enlightened who support Cape Wind. Why do you hide behind that silly name? Had I finished with the doctor in time perhaps I could have gotten a ride to Boston in the Clean Power Now limousine?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Are Arizonians smarter than Cape Codders?
In response to: Are Arizonians smarter than Cape Codders?
Solon
Speaking of consistency and environmental awareness....how many Clean Power Now folks actually did ride to Boston for the hearing in that white stretch Limo that gets 6-8 mph? You have to admit...that is funny.
Speaking of consistency and environmental awareness....how many Clean Power Now folks actually did ride to Boston for the hearing in that white stretch Limo that gets 6-8 mph? You have to admit...that is funny.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Are Arizonians smarter than Cape Codders?
In response to: Are Arizonians smarter than Cape Codders?
Solon
You may think me pit bull...but when was the last time I attacked a Cape Wind supporter based on anything personal, such as wealth, place of residence, domestic legal history, body weight, ethnicity, past employment, etc.?
The claim is still out there that Cape Wind will save New England electric customers $25 per year. It is published in the MMS Cape Wind DEIS, even though their own peer review trashes their analysis and data. read my blog today. the tell me all is well in Herndon, Virginia.
You may think me pit bull...but when was the last time I attacked a Cape Wind supporter based on anything personal, such as wealth, place of residence, domestic legal history, body weight, ethnicity, past employment, etc.?
The claim is still out there that Cape Wind will save New England electric customers $25 per year. It is published in the MMS Cape Wind DEIS, even though their own peer review trashes their analysis and data. read my blog today. the tell me all is well in Herndon, Virginia.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Are Arizonians smarter than Cape Codders?
In response to: Are Arizonians smarter than Cape Codders?
For those of you who were involved in this matter from day one...I have never supported this project in this location. For those of you who have taken the time to read the MMS Cape Wind DEIS and, for that matter, the earlier Cape Wind propaganda in four volumes by the USACE, which serves as the basis for the MMS report, you might have noticed some of the problems that Cape Wind has yet to address. And, if any of you who are so concerned about the slovenly federal process have take the time to read the Environmetal Policy Act of 2005 (s. 338 in particular) you would probably join me in calling for wholesale firings in Herndon, Virginia. A thousand bucks to the first person who finds me on the Alliance books. Another thousand bucks to the first person who can explain to me how Cape Wind will NOT raise our electric rates. And another thousand to the first person who can get Jim Gordon to answer the questions I have been asking.
I notice even Jack Coleman is now resorting to personal insults. Too bad.
I notice even Jack Coleman is now resorting to personal insults. Too bad.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The game is over . . . for now, at least
In response to: The game is over . . . for now, at least
Who says the governor's defeat was a surprise...check out the press covereage from even before he released his plan in September. DiMassi has never been a supporter of gambling and probably never will be.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Cape School Fends off Bully Complaints
In response to: Cape School Fends off Bully Complaints
How about those in authority fire the principal and then demand action by the PD? This is all very simple...one student has assaulted several others...end of discussion. the school has been told of these incidents and has decided to leave innocent victims at risk....end of discussion. Now that the whole thing is public certain folks in various agencies with clear legal responsibilities must either act or be included as accessories to these crimes....end of discussion.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Know thy ...friends and enemies.
In response to: Know thy ...friends and enemies.
Hey --- Spyro
At least try to be accurate, at least try: Being opposed to wind power is very different from being opposed to this project in this location. I'll give you credit for at least not referring to Wattley as a coal industry insider.
As for this overwhelming support nonsense...I have read the questions asked in the most OPR poll...the results of that poll can only be seen in the same light as those of an old fashioned rigged election.My clarification of those poll results: an overwhelming majority of the people polled have no idea what is going on.
I support wind power, including offshore wind power. But, I do not support the Cape Wind proposal for Horseshoe Shoal. I have actually read and understand the MMS Cape Wind DEIS. Have you? Have you read section 338 of the Environmental Policy Act of 2005? No? Well, that puts you right in sync with that "overwhelming" majority who support this project.
At least try to be accurate, at least try: Being opposed to wind power is very different from being opposed to this project in this location. I'll give you credit for at least not referring to Wattley as a coal industry insider.
As for this overwhelming support nonsense...I have read the questions asked in the most OPR poll...the results of that poll can only be seen in the same light as those of an old fashioned rigged election.My clarification of those poll results: an overwhelming majority of the people polled have no idea what is going on.
I support wind power, including offshore wind power. But, I do not support the Cape Wind proposal for Horseshoe Shoal. I have actually read and understand the MMS Cape Wind DEIS. Have you? Have you read section 338 of the Environmental Policy Act of 2005? No? Well, that puts you right in sync with that "overwhelming" majority who support this project.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Are Arizonians smarter than Cape Codders?
In response to: Are Arizonians smarter than Cape Codders?
Well, Solon, try this: How much would Cape Wind's power cost if it were online now? how much if the price of the other fuels averaged rises by 5%, 10%. 15%, etc.? These are fairly simple calculations for Jim Gordon to make but he refuses. In fact Cape Wind still claims, and this appears in the MMS Cape Wind DEIS that Cape Wind will SAVE New Englanders $25 million per year.
I am glad to be poor and not the owner of property with a view of Nantucket Sound...because then I would be eligible for membership in the Cape wind opposition and would become the object of the often tasteless comments made against them. You disappoint Solon.Not exactly high-road methods of argument.
I am glad to be poor and not the owner of property with a view of Nantucket Sound...because then I would be eligible for membership in the Cape wind opposition and would become the object of the often tasteless comments made against them. You disappoint Solon.Not exactly high-road methods of argument.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Times Pulling Punches
In response to: Times Pulling Punches
The Cape Cod Times once again proves the truth of the old saying: "No guts, no glory."
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Over 300 attend Martha's Vineyard Cape Wind hearing last night
In response to: Over 300 attend Martha's Vineyard Cape Wind hearing last night
Imco
The point I am making is that it is impossible to say that the wind farm will have no effect on boating in Nantucket Sound AND that it will cause shoaling and reefs. Either changes will occur because of the wind farm or they will not. Why is this such a difficult concept to grasp? Why has this aspect of the project not been properly addressed by MMS?
The point I am making is that it is impossible to say that the wind farm will have no effect on boating in Nantucket Sound AND that it will cause shoaling and reefs. Either changes will occur because of the wind farm or they will not. Why is this such a difficult concept to grasp? Why has this aspect of the project not been properly addressed by MMS?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Over 300 attend Martha's Vineyard Cape Wind hearing last night
In response to: Over 300 attend Martha's Vineyard Cape Wind hearing last night
Solon...thank you, thank you and thank you again. Because of your comment (above) we now have an answer to at least one question: YES, there will be changes in the topography of the sea floor in Nantucket Sound caused by the wind farm. Reefs, I think you said. We must be sure that the Coast Guard knows this before they issue their long overdue terms and conditions. Thank you again, Solon.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Cape Wind project heads to crucial round of public hearings
In response to: Cape Wind project heads to crucial round of public hearings
And someone should look into the staff and funding of the Civil Society group in Newton, especially the asst. law professor at Boston College Law school who is suing some conventional power plants. This is the group that paid the Hastings Group to do the survey that shows this alleged overwhelming support for Cape Wind. Even more interesting might be a certain list of donors/contributors.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Latest ploy to stop Cape Wind
In response to: Latest ploy to stop Cape Wind
The Energy Policy Act of 2005, passed by Congress and signed into law by W. in August of 2005 requires that the MMS develop and publish complete rules and regulations for such coastal projects as Cape Wind. These rules were to have been completed withing nine months from signing of the bill, but MMS STILL does not have them. On this one point a lone the Cape Wind DEIS is a violation of federal law.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Crowded Field for Mary LeClair's Seat
In response to: Crowded Field for Mary LeClair's Seat
Let's just eliminate county government altogether and save everyone lot's of time and money.
For old time's sake we can commission a painting of the last bunch of county officials and then lose the painting.
For old time's sake we can commission a painting of the last bunch of county officials and then lose the painting.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Comments to MMS at Cape Wind Hearing 3/10/08
In response to: Comments to MMS at Cape Wind Hearing 3/10/08
Excuse the break...fat thumbs. Why does it take so long for things to be uncovered and then fixed?
I guess that if Canal Electric is currently running at 17% capacity the claims about how many oil laden barges headed for the plant will be eliminated from Buzzards Bay should be revised downward? Was Clean Power Now incorrect?
ZUT, ALORS!
I guess that if Canal Electric is currently running at 17% capacity the claims about how many oil laden barges headed for the plant will be eliminated from Buzzards Bay should be revised downward? Was Clean Power Now incorrect?
ZUT, ALORS!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Comments to MMS at Cape Wind Hearing 3/10/08
In response to: Comments to MMS at Cape Wind Hearing 3/10/08
Matt
Since you are a member of a committee with direct access to information about our state's energy industry and since you claim that there is a technicality preventing the shutting down of the Canal Electric Plant,...why do you not propose and drive legislation to change the way things work?
Since you are a member of a committee with direct access to information about our state's energy industry and since you claim that there is a technicality preventing the shutting down of the Canal Electric Plant,...why do you not propose and drive legislation to change the way things work?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wind and the Cost of Electricity
In response to: Wind and the Cost of Electricity
Right... a carbon tax. And then the RECs that Cape Wind earns will be sold to wholesalers at a hugely inflated price to offset the carbon tax. This will still assure continued operation of the dirtiest of the plants...the coal plants
The wind is not so free after all and no matter how you slice these damn RECs are a problem for all of us.
The wind is not so free after all and no matter how you slice these damn RECs are a problem for all of us.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wind and the Cost of Electricity
In response to: Wind and the Cost of Electricity
Chuck
There are 25 states plus the District of Columbia with Portfolios.
And, when fossil fuel powered plants are powered down they tend to display less efficient combustion;they emit much more toxic gases at the stack head than when combustion occurs at full operation and therefore higher temperature.
AND...why do you constantly refer to a reduction in oil consumption for electric generation? Why not try to shut down some of the worst polluters...coal plants...oh, I know, because they provide the cheapest power and everyone knows that if Cape Wind made this claim they would be indisputably cooking the books.
We still have not identified which plants would be shut down, or would reduce generation. Geez...these are simple questions.
Finally...when you talk about the "wisdom of Ma elected officials," you are obviously being facetious. Somehow our legislature and the idea of wisdom do not strike me as being connected. The notion that RECs can be 'sold forward' (sold before the energy they represent is even produced) is just a high voltage Ponzi scheme a scam.
There are 25 states plus the District of Columbia with Portfolios.
And, when fossil fuel powered plants are powered down they tend to display less efficient combustion;they emit much more toxic gases at the stack head than when combustion occurs at full operation and therefore higher temperature.
AND...why do you constantly refer to a reduction in oil consumption for electric generation? Why not try to shut down some of the worst polluters...coal plants...oh, I know, because they provide the cheapest power and everyone knows that if Cape Wind made this claim they would be indisputably cooking the books.
We still have not identified which plants would be shut down, or would reduce generation. Geez...these are simple questions.
Finally...when you talk about the "wisdom of Ma elected officials," you are obviously being facetious. Somehow our legislature and the idea of wisdom do not strike me as being connected. The notion that RECs can be 'sold forward' (sold before the energy they represent is even produced) is just a high voltage Ponzi scheme a scam.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wind and the Cost of Electricity
In response to: Wind and the Cost of Electricity
Chuck
If no conventional plants shut down as a result of Cape Wind's contribution to New England's energy supply, how will Cape Wind displace 880,000 tons of CO2? That's 880,000TONS of CO2 without any conventional plants shutting down? And if no plants shut down how will we see a reduction in the fuel barge traffic in Buzzards or any other Bay? Actually, if energy demand continues to rise, Cape Wind may only reduce increased CO2 emissions.
A number of folks I have spoken to recently who are in the business of researching and help development of renewable/alternative/green energy feel that RECs are a problem. It has become increasingly common for entities who are subject to RPS to buy RECs instead of actually generating green energy. Not a good thing. Jim Gordon intends to sell his RECs to offset costs at Cape Wind, or so he told me two weeks ago.
As for LaCapra, they are a smallish consulting company specializing in energy. They are nowhere near the expertise or prominence of...oh say an Arthur D. Little or an Anderson Associates.
If no conventional plants shut down as a result of Cape Wind's contribution to New England's energy supply, how will Cape Wind displace 880,000 tons of CO2? That's 880,000TONS of CO2 without any conventional plants shutting down? And if no plants shut down how will we see a reduction in the fuel barge traffic in Buzzards or any other Bay? Actually, if energy demand continues to rise, Cape Wind may only reduce increased CO2 emissions.
A number of folks I have spoken to recently who are in the business of researching and help development of renewable/alternative/green energy feel that RECs are a problem. It has become increasingly common for entities who are subject to RPS to buy RECs instead of actually generating green energy. Not a good thing. Jim Gordon intends to sell his RECs to offset costs at Cape Wind, or so he told me two weeks ago.
As for LaCapra, they are a smallish consulting company specializing in energy. They are nowhere near the expertise or prominence of...oh say an Arthur D. Little or an Anderson Associates.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wind and the Cost of Electricity
In response to: Wind and the Cost of Electricity
Chuck --- You are so wrong. For starters, the Siting Board got their $25 million in savings from the LaCapra report. Parrots are beautiful birds. Second, no one from CPN or CW has EVER told us which conventional plants will be shut down to to save these 880,000tons of CO2. Third...what about the uses of the RECs?
I though Peck was arranging for you and me to meet. What happened?
I though Peck was arranging for you and me to meet. What happened?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: County Art Caper - "It's a witch hunt" she mumbled
In response to: County Art Caper - "It's a witch hunt" she mumbled
Hey Jack
Mary was the one who sat in on the Robbins Lynching, as a voting member of the retirement association board. That is why she was the one singled out for mention here. Ask a simple question...get a simple answer.
Mary was the one who sat in on the Robbins Lynching, as a voting member of the retirement association board. That is why she was the one singled out for mention here. Ask a simple question...get a simple answer.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: County Art Caper - "It's a witch hunt" she mumbled
In response to: County Art Caper - "It's a witch hunt" she mumbled
Jack
You are almost correct: Peter Robbins appealed his dismissal to the state and when folks on the other side of the table saw what was coming their way they decided to clear his sheet and the sheriff reinstated him.
It was not until he was fully reinstated to his job that peter Robbins retired...and I believe he did so without quotation marks around the word. the fact is, for those interested in facts, that PR could have remained in the sheriff's department, but for obvious reasons chose not to. Did he sue? No. Did he launch a public campaign to discredit those who treated him so poorly? No. He simply sucked it up like the mature person he was (and remains) and took his retirement...at a much lower level than if he had been allowed to complete his career without the political back-shooting.
When he retired his dismissal had been rescinded. The one charge that had been "saved" was gone. It was nonsense to begin with. I believe I made this clear in the original comment, but for those of you who insist...there it is again. He was cleared and reinstated. Period.
You are almost correct: Peter Robbins appealed his dismissal to the state and when folks on the other side of the table saw what was coming their way they decided to clear his sheet and the sheriff reinstated him.
It was not until he was fully reinstated to his job that peter Robbins retired...and I believe he did so without quotation marks around the word. the fact is, for those interested in facts, that PR could have remained in the sheriff's department, but for obvious reasons chose not to. Did he sue? No. Did he launch a public campaign to discredit those who treated him so poorly? No. He simply sucked it up like the mature person he was (and remains) and took his retirement...at a much lower level than if he had been allowed to complete his career without the political back-shooting.
When he retired his dismissal had been rescinded. The one charge that had been "saved" was gone. It was nonsense to begin with. I believe I made this clear in the original comment, but for those of you who insist...there it is again. He was cleared and reinstated. Period.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Today in Cape history: Town of Barnstable incorporated
In response to: Today in Cape history: Town of Barnstable incorporated
Yeah...but Standish had a summer house in Duxbury. And Boston beats you both...
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: County Art Caper - "It's a witch hunt" she mumbled
In response to: County Art Caper - "It's a witch hunt" she mumbled
What "axe" do we suppose George Bryant is grinding?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Tilting
In response to: Tilting
Carl
Ask Walter for my e-mail..consider this my permission for him to give it to you.
One point...if CW's data gathering tower actually proves Gordon's projections of available wind...why were THEY not the data sent to MMS? Why did MMS instead refer in the DEIS to a "Wind Map which is available to the public?"
I asked Jim Gordon this very question the last time he called me with a CW sales pitch. Unlike the Jim Gordon who ALWAYS has the right answer on even detailed matters and whose quick answers always either bolster his argument or steer the questioner away from the issue at hand...this Jim Gordon seemed unsure, hesitant. Then he said he would "...have to ask our engineers."
Interesting...an unsure, hesitant Jim Gordon.....HMMMMMM.
I am getting very tired of hearing glowing comments about the competitive cost advantage of wind power. What CW supporters leave out is that the lower costs quoted for wind are for land-based wind facilities.Offshore is whole different swamp. Why didn't mark Rogers just write CW's projected cost for energy in today's propaganda? Misleading?
Ask Walter for my e-mail..consider this my permission for him to give it to you.
One point...if CW's data gathering tower actually proves Gordon's projections of available wind...why were THEY not the data sent to MMS? Why did MMS instead refer in the DEIS to a "Wind Map which is available to the public?"
I asked Jim Gordon this very question the last time he called me with a CW sales pitch. Unlike the Jim Gordon who ALWAYS has the right answer on even detailed matters and whose quick answers always either bolster his argument or steer the questioner away from the issue at hand...this Jim Gordon seemed unsure, hesitant. Then he said he would "...have to ask our engineers."
Interesting...an unsure, hesitant Jim Gordon.....HMMMMMM.
I am getting very tired of hearing glowing comments about the competitive cost advantage of wind power. What CW supporters leave out is that the lower costs quoted for wind are for land-based wind facilities.Offshore is whole different swamp. Why didn't mark Rogers just write CW's projected cost for energy in today's propaganda? Misleading?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: County Art Caper - "It's a witch hunt" she mumbled
In response to: County Art Caper - "It's a witch hunt" she mumbled
And by the way...if Peter Robbins is conducting a witch hunt, I think he has found his prey...what does that make Mary?
Thousands of dollars, perhaps tens of thousands of dollars of county owned property missing with no satisfactory accounting and all Mary can do is --- NOTHING.
I am going to search to see if I can find the episode of The Great Gadfly I did on Peter Robbins' situation. If I find it I will post on GOOGLE VIDEO with an explanatory trailer...Mary can then be a global dunce.
In October of 1994 I attended the annual symposium of the International Homicide Investigators Association in Reno, Nevada. Peter Robbins was on the board of directors along with the likes of Dr. henry lee, Terry Green of the FBI behavioral science unit and a few notables in the world of super cops. I watched as he was greeted with warmth and respect by national homicide unit directors from Europe, homicide and major crimes cops and officers from all over the U. S. and Canad and Mexico. then I watched Mary LeClair try to destroy him and his reputation back home. Something ain't right.
Thousands of dollars, perhaps tens of thousands of dollars of county owned property missing with no satisfactory accounting and all Mary can do is --- NOTHING.
I am going to search to see if I can find the episode of The Great Gadfly I did on Peter Robbins' situation. If I find it I will post on GOOGLE VIDEO with an explanatory trailer...Mary can then be a global dunce.
In October of 1994 I attended the annual symposium of the International Homicide Investigators Association in Reno, Nevada. Peter Robbins was on the board of directors along with the likes of Dr. henry lee, Terry Green of the FBI behavioral science unit and a few notables in the world of super cops. I watched as he was greeted with warmth and respect by national homicide unit directors from Europe, homicide and major crimes cops and officers from all over the U. S. and Canad and Mexico. then I watched Mary LeClair try to destroy him and his reputation back home. Something ain't right.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: County Art Caper - "It's a witch hunt" she mumbled
In response to: County Art Caper - "It's a witch hunt" she mumbled
To one and all
You are damn right PR challenged his dismissal...what seems to have been left out here is that he won! I was a witness to that entire process, including attending the final hearing of the county retirement board when all of the charges against PR were dismissed save one...just enough to hang him. As is typical of our county government they did not use a strong enough rope. Are we supposed to say that PR does not have the right to investigate this unbelievable breach of the public trust?
As for Mary...she volunteered for office, ran hard to get into office and can fairly be said to have volunteered. Boo Hoo does not do it, Mary...straight answers and competent management would be far better.
Throughout the entire fraudulent lynching he experienced at Mary's hands Peter Robbins remained a gentleman and a professional. He and his family paid a high price in many ways for what Mary and others did to him...he was the scapegoat for the very nonsense that we see continues today "On the Hill."
I admire his dignity and his good nature.So should we all. To hell with Mary.
You are damn right PR challenged his dismissal...what seems to have been left out here is that he won! I was a witness to that entire process, including attending the final hearing of the county retirement board when all of the charges against PR were dismissed save one...just enough to hang him. As is typical of our county government they did not use a strong enough rope. Are we supposed to say that PR does not have the right to investigate this unbelievable breach of the public trust?
As for Mary...she volunteered for office, ran hard to get into office and can fairly be said to have volunteered. Boo Hoo does not do it, Mary...straight answers and competent management would be far better.
Throughout the entire fraudulent lynching he experienced at Mary's hands Peter Robbins remained a gentleman and a professional. He and his family paid a high price in many ways for what Mary and others did to him...he was the scapegoat for the very nonsense that we see continues today "On the Hill."
I admire his dignity and his good nature.So should we all. To hell with Mary.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Let's Have a Treasure Hunt!
In response to: Let's Have a Treasure Hunt!
We should have had a "Treasurer's Hunt" long ago.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Cape environmentalists to protest Kerry, Markey's lack of support for Cape Wind
In response to: Cape environmentalists to protest Kerry, Markey's lack of support for Cape Wind
I wonder if the union members who attend these things are paid...by whom?
Careful, I know the answer for at least one such "rally." And I was a union member once, in Boston. the rules and procedures have not changed.
Careful, I know the answer for at least one such "rally." And I was a union member once, in Boston. the rules and procedures have not changed.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Tilting
In response to: Tilting
Blessed be those with short memories for one can lecture to them once more...
I wrote a piece here MONTHS AGO saying that we need an energy "moon shot"...a reference to JFK's absurd declaration that we would put a man on the moon in ten years; we did in less than nine.
While we all have our jollies arguing about one wind farm that is in actuality a grain of sand on the energy beach there are simple things we could and should do immediately.
1. Ban incandescent light bulbs. Energy saving fluorescent bulbs would save an average household 10% - 15% of their annual electric bill. Savings more than overcome their extra cost.
2. Ask the Mass Technology Council what they are doing with the money WE pay THEM every month on our electric bills. Where is the sweeping legislation for conservation?
3. Covert public vehicle fleets such as the Postal Service to electric power. How about UPS? Taxis? Buses? Aw, gee...
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory says that energy conservation is the single largest producer of new jobs in the entire energy field. DUH!
I wrote a piece here MONTHS AGO saying that we need an energy "moon shot"...a reference to JFK's absurd declaration that we would put a man on the moon in ten years; we did in less than nine.
While we all have our jollies arguing about one wind farm that is in actuality a grain of sand on the energy beach there are simple things we could and should do immediately.
1. Ban incandescent light bulbs. Energy saving fluorescent bulbs would save an average household 10% - 15% of their annual electric bill. Savings more than overcome their extra cost.
2. Ask the Mass Technology Council what they are doing with the money WE pay THEM every month on our electric bills. Where is the sweeping legislation for conservation?
3. Covert public vehicle fleets such as the Postal Service to electric power. How about UPS? Taxis? Buses? Aw, gee...
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory says that energy conservation is the single largest producer of new jobs in the entire energy field. DUH!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Let's Have a Treasure Hunt!
In response to: Let's Have a Treasure Hunt!
I suspect that Peter Morin's reaction is the most commonly found in this matter. He is absolutely correct when he says that this should have been dealt with.
Suggested script for Mary LeClair:
"Peter Robbins and I have known each other for many years and I want to commend him on the thorough investigation he has done and for bringing this matter to my attention. The safe keeping of all county property is an absolute requirement; the people of Barnstable County are entitled to no less. I assure every citizen whom I represent in my position as county commissioner that a full and complete accounting will be made for all the artwork the county should have in its possession and should any be missing the county will refer the matter to the Massachusetts State Police and to District Attorney O'Keefe for further investigation. We shall, of course, immediately review county inventory and accounting practices to make sure this does not happen again, ever. Once again, thanks to Peter Robbins for his personal efforts on behalf of all Barnstable County citizens."
NICE! thank you, Mary?
Suggested script for Mary LeClair:
"Peter Robbins and I have known each other for many years and I want to commend him on the thorough investigation he has done and for bringing this matter to my attention. The safe keeping of all county property is an absolute requirement; the people of Barnstable County are entitled to no less. I assure every citizen whom I represent in my position as county commissioner that a full and complete accounting will be made for all the artwork the county should have in its possession and should any be missing the county will refer the matter to the Massachusetts State Police and to District Attorney O'Keefe for further investigation. We shall, of course, immediately review county inventory and accounting practices to make sure this does not happen again, ever. Once again, thanks to Peter Robbins for his personal efforts on behalf of all Barnstable County citizens."
NICE! thank you, Mary?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Boston airport installs its own wind farm
In response to: Boston airport installs its own wind farm
Let's see...adding what appears to be about six additional feet to existing buildings versus placing 130 entirely new vertical obstructions in Nantucket Sound that rise 440 above sea level...yup...that is a fair comparison. FAA regulations state very clearly that the maximum allowable vertical structure on Cape Cod NOT requiring complete FAA review may be no taller than 283 feet. (see FAA regs. available on the web)
In fact, the FAA has issued a LETTER OF PRESUMED HAZARD pending the completion of the review it should have done of Cape Wind's project before they made their foolish announcement of no hazard in 2002. Even the FAA admits this. The dummies at MMS say they were unaware of the FAA presumed hazard declaration even though it was published as required in the Federal Register.This is not Cape Wind's fault...it is the FAA's, but it is an issue.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The commenter KNOWS, but chooses to ignore, the fact that all letters from FAA at the start of these survey is entitled "Letter of Presumed Hazard". The commenter also knows that the FAA has TWICE surveyed the location and TWICE determined that the location some ten miles south of the Hyannis Airport is NOT a hazard to anyone but drunken sailors.
In fact, the FAA has issued a LETTER OF PRESUMED HAZARD pending the completion of the review it should have done of Cape Wind's project before they made their foolish announcement of no hazard in 2002. Even the FAA admits this. The dummies at MMS say they were unaware of the FAA presumed hazard declaration even though it was published as required in the Federal Register.This is not Cape Wind's fault...it is the FAA's, but it is an issue.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The commenter KNOWS, but chooses to ignore, the fact that all letters from FAA at the start of these survey is entitled "Letter of Presumed Hazard". The commenter also knows that the FAA has TWICE surveyed the location and TWICE determined that the location some ten miles south of the Hyannis Airport is NOT a hazard to anyone but drunken sailors.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Tilting
In response to: Tilting
Hey kids---for public consumption I have no problem with Walter or any other publisher running his outfit the way he sees fit. Privately I am sure Walter and I could have a sopirited discussion about 'things'.
It does interest me that the great Cape Wind dragon seems to have developed a thin skin of late. The numbers tell the story. As you can see I am still allowed to comment. That's a start.
By the way, CCTODAY is a mature venture and it would take a lot more than me to take it down.
It does interest me that the great Cape Wind dragon seems to have developed a thin skin of late. The numbers tell the story. As you can see I am still allowed to comment. That's a start.
By the way, CCTODAY is a mature venture and it would take a lot more than me to take it down.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Cape Wind: A critical part of the solution
In response to: Cape Wind: A critical part of the solution
So many questions, so few answers.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: An award well-earned
In response to: An award well-earned
Accusing Mary of anything such as theft is dicey at best and just plain wrong at worst. BUT...she has not responded to a legitimate and detailed inquiry about a matter of some value to all of us. I say again: does anyone remember the Carmen Elio scandal and who was treasurer when it happened?
Is it true that she gave Andy Card a painting for his White House office? KIDDING, just KIDDING, but it was too good to pass up. (Republicans don't have much of a sense of humor, do they?)
Is it true that she gave Andy Card a painting for his White House office? KIDDING, just KIDDING, but it was too good to pass up. (Republicans don't have much of a sense of humor, do they?)
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Cape Wind: A critical part of the solution
In response to: Cape Wind: A critical part of the solution
Hired gun. Oh, boy...pass the ammunition. By the way, brilliance has nothing to do with it...being right is usually enough.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Cape Wind: A critical part of the solution
In response to: Cape Wind: A critical part of the solution
Gee...I must have missed the part where I said electric rates will go through the roof. On the other hand, perhaps you are just misquoting because you like to. My simple statement is that Gordon's claim, from his LaCapra report, that Cape Wind will "exert downward pressure" on New England electric rates is untrue. His claim that Cape Wind will save anyone any money is not true. Your attempt to say that I said Cape Wind will cause our electric rates to go "through the roof" is unfounded and unfair.
Who is this masked man?
Who is this masked man?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Cape Wind: A critical part of the solution
In response to: Cape Wind: A critical part of the solution
Charles Kleekamp writes in his opinion piece in today's CC Times, "All this means wind power will compete with conventional sources on a wholesale level and will always lower market cost of generated electricity to the customer." He goes on the say that the Mass. Utilities Siting Board says New England customers will save $25 million.
Lats point first: The siting board simply repeated what Cape Wind's consultant, LaCapra Associates told them. Call them Chuck...ask them if they still make that outrageous claim. Then make sure the Times prints your correction.
As for the claim that wind power is cheaqper...it is if we are talking about on-shore wind. Energy experts now know and most say publicly that off-shore wind is more exepensive than conventional source of electricity. MMS may have been wrong or stupid (I believe both) in their work, but no one will ever, using honest numbers and costs, make Cape Wind a money saver for the consumer. Jim Gordon knows this and it has him very worried. It should. And it should worry all of us. Hell, he even calls me with a sales pitch.
Lats point first: The siting board simply repeated what Cape Wind's consultant, LaCapra Associates told them. Call them Chuck...ask them if they still make that outrageous claim. Then make sure the Times prints your correction.
As for the claim that wind power is cheaqper...it is if we are talking about on-shore wind. Energy experts now know and most say publicly that off-shore wind is more exepensive than conventional source of electricity. MMS may have been wrong or stupid (I believe both) in their work, but no one will ever, using honest numbers and costs, make Cape Wind a money saver for the consumer. Jim Gordon knows this and it has him very worried. It should. And it should worry all of us. Hell, he even calls me with a sales pitch.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Cape Wind: A critical part of the solution
In response to: Cape Wind: A critical part of the solution
Sparky
So you are saying that I am right about the possible application of RECs...that they could be used to continue the operation of really foul coal plants. that means that Gordon's claim to the contrary is wrong and that his boast about saving 880,000tons of CO2 from going into the atmosphere is whole cloth. Right?
As for you smahkcep...you fit right in with CCTODAY's brand of argument...ad hominem. I'll be in Boston. You sound like Jim Gordon when he calls to see if I have had my epiphany. Are you Jim Gordon, or are you just another messenger? And btw...NSTAR is largely unregulated now as to their repair costs.
So you are saying that I am right about the possible application of RECs...that they could be used to continue the operation of really foul coal plants. that means that Gordon's claim to the contrary is wrong and that his boast about saving 880,000tons of CO2 from going into the atmosphere is whole cloth. Right?
As for you smahkcep...you fit right in with CCTODAY's brand of argument...ad hominem. I'll be in Boston. You sound like Jim Gordon when he calls to see if I have had my epiphany. Are you Jim Gordon, or are you just another messenger? And btw...NSTAR is largely unregulated now as to their repair costs.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Your art is gone
In response to: Your art is gone
Isn't it interesting that only the really good stuff is missing. And now Mary is doing her old shuck and jive....do we remember Carmen Elio and the county investment scandal from the early nineties when Mary was the elected county treasurer? Elio went to jail for doing things right under her nose. I gues the good thing about electing certain people to county office is that it keeps them from screwing more important things.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Cape Wind: A critical part of the solution
In response to: Cape Wind: A critical part of the solution
Cape Wind will sell its Renewable Energy credits to electric wholesalers and that will help keep coal plants in operation.
Cape Wind may end up displacing ZERO CO2 emissions. But, of course, we are not sure because so much of Caper Wind's information is "proprietary", just like their financial information. Hell, it is not even certain that the 3.6 MW units they say they will use are going to be available.
Cape Wind may end up displacing ZERO CO2 emissions. But, of course, we are not sure because so much of Caper Wind's information is "proprietary", just like their financial information. Hell, it is not even certain that the 3.6 MW units they say they will use are going to be available.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The fourth Federal or State agency comprehensive review of Cape Wind
In response to: The fourth Federal or State agency comprehensive review of Cape Wind
Nice try smahkcep. I guess the next time the Alliance books are reviewed by the fourth estate my name will show up. I'm still poor and the wind farm is still a terrible idea in the proposed location.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The fourth Federal or State agency comprehensive review of Cape Wind
In response to: The fourth Federal or State agency comprehensive review of Cape Wind
Maverick
I wrote a blog today that tells exactly how Cape Wind will actually protect the continued operation of the dirtiest power plants we have through the sale of their Renewable energy credits. It should be up sometime soon. After that information appears it will be interesting to hear the Cape Wind response.
I wrote a blog today that tells exactly how Cape Wind will actually protect the continued operation of the dirtiest power plants we have through the sale of their Renewable energy credits. It should be up sometime soon. After that information appears it will be interesting to hear the Cape Wind response.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The fourth Federal or State agency comprehensive review of Cape Wind
In response to: The fourth Federal or State agency comprehensive review of Cape Wind
Still waiting to hear about those RECs, Mark....and waiting to hear which conventional plants will shut down because of Cape Wind. Also curious about Cape Wind financing/investment. Even the dummies at MMS saw how difficult that will be.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Small town politics destroys a "Pearl"
In response to: Small town politics destroys a "Pearl"
Nice job, Peter. Are you sure you were never a cop? Good investigation will always yield a good report. There are some questions in my little brain:
1. Why didn't someone wait the full twenty one days after the ZBA decision to start construction?
2. Why didn't the people who now oppose the Pearl appear at the ZBA meeting? Why did they wait?
3. Was there anything unusual or irregular about the ZBA process? It sounds to me as if they followed the correct procedures.
4. Doesn't the permit for a new septic, taken out a month before the second year expired, keep the use open for continuation?
5. Even if the second year is held to expired, a new ZBA process, which is what happened, can still result in a permit being issued.
Why should we believe that both the town licensing board and the ZBA screwed up?
Welfleet does not want another pouring establishment, but issued a license for one and is now wallowing in sour grapes.
1. Why didn't someone wait the full twenty one days after the ZBA decision to start construction?
2. Why didn't the people who now oppose the Pearl appear at the ZBA meeting? Why did they wait?
3. Was there anything unusual or irregular about the ZBA process? It sounds to me as if they followed the correct procedures.
4. Doesn't the permit for a new septic, taken out a month before the second year expired, keep the use open for continuation?
5. Even if the second year is held to expired, a new ZBA process, which is what happened, can still result in a permit being issued.
Why should we believe that both the town licensing board and the ZBA screwed up?
Welfleet does not want another pouring establishment, but issued a license for one and is now wallowing in sour grapes.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Hating Hillary, loving Barack
In response to: Hating Hillary, loving Barack
Watson
I am so tired of being the cause of every wrong in the world - past present and future. People who look at everything in terms of the race and gender of those involved are themselves either racist, sexist (or both) or just nuts. Give it a break. And yes, I am a white male.
I am so tired of being the cause of every wrong in the world - past present and future. People who look at everything in terms of the race and gender of those involved are themselves either racist, sexist (or both) or just nuts. Give it a break. And yes, I am a white male.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Cape Wind: A critical part of the solution
In response to: Cape Wind: A critical part of the solution
Mark
Is it not true that Cape Wind's power will cost substantially more than everyone else's? even with the renewable Energy Credits and the huge federal subsidies?
Is it not true that Cape Wind's power will cost substantially more than everyone else's? even with the renewable Energy Credits and the huge federal subsidies?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The fourth Federal or State agency comprehensive review of Cape Wind
In response to: The fourth Federal or State agency comprehensive review of Cape Wind
Mark
Tell us more about Renewable Energy Credits.
Tell us more about Renewable Energy Credits.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Cape Wind: A critical part of the solution
In response to: Cape Wind: A critical part of the solution
Hey Barbara
As you recall I asked if I could see the questions used for this poll that shows huge support for Cape Wind and you asked the powers behind the poll and then told me "no."
There is just too much 'private', 'proprietary', information being withheld by Cape Wind. I seem to hear those same two scary words over and over: "Trust me."
As you recall I asked if I could see the questions used for this poll that shows huge support for Cape Wind and you asked the powers behind the poll and then told me "no."
There is just too much 'private', 'proprietary', information being withheld by Cape Wind. I seem to hear those same two scary words over and over: "Trust me."
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: It helps with those mortgages -- but it stinks of conflict
In response to: It helps with those mortgages -- but it stinks of conflict
What...no overtiem?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Lindsay loves Cape Cod; 4Cs gets $2.4M turbine grant; Coast Guard helps tangled boat
In response to: Lindsay loves Cape Cod; 4Cs gets $2.4M turbine grant; Coast Guard helps tangled boat
The college can further reduce its costs by selling its Renewable Energy Credits to Cape Wind.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Provincetown Banner acquired by Gatehouse Media
In response to: Provincetown Banner acquired by Gatehouse Media
Oh GOODY! Now Peter Manso can take time out from cleaning his guns and write some more dreadful stuff about Alix Ritchie.
The Gateway to hell is paved with good intentions.
The Gateway to hell is paved with good intentions.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: It helps with those mortgages -- but it stinks of conflict
In response to: It helps with those mortgages -- but it stinks of conflict
Hang on a couple of more years....he might get fired here, too.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The fourth Federal or State agency comprehensive review of Cape Wind
In response to: The fourth Federal or State agency comprehensive review of Cape Wind
Nice try, Mark. See you at the hearings. Maybe you can ride along on the buses with all those concerned union guys.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Glowing grades don't lie, Cape Wind is not the villain
In response to: Glowing grades don't lie, Cape Wind is not the villain
Hey, kids...listen to me very carefully: Little Jimmie Gordon will sell his Renewable Energy Credits to lower his costs but the guys who buy them will use them continue running goal exhaust up their stacks. Little Jimmie is not only not going to reduce any emissions, he is going to help preserve te crap we already breath.This is a shell game.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Glowing grades don't lie, Cape Wind is not the villain
In response to: Glowing grades don't lie, Cape Wind is not the villain
hamalcar
Cape Wind is not going to save anyone any money. PERIOD. Their capital costs are too high when compared to their production. Estimates now are that on average nationally offshore wind costs twice what terestrial wind costs to generate electricity. AND, Texas and the plains of the mid west are the country's best souirce of sustained wind. One energy expert I spoke with recently called these two areas the Saudi Arabia of Wind...an expression Jim Gordon has decided to use when describing Natucket Sound. Nice try, Jim.
Cape Wind is not going to save anyone any money. PERIOD. Their capital costs are too high when compared to their production. Estimates now are that on average nationally offshore wind costs twice what terestrial wind costs to generate electricity. AND, Texas and the plains of the mid west are the country's best souirce of sustained wind. One energy expert I spoke with recently called these two areas the Saudi Arabia of Wind...an expression Jim Gordon has decided to use when describing Natucket Sound. Nice try, Jim.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Glowing grades don't lie, Cape Wind is not the villain
In response to: Glowing grades don't lie, Cape Wind is not the villain
Cape Wind projects displacing 880,000 TONS of CO2 emissions annually when it is in full operation. This is simply not true. In fact, Cape Wind may actually guarantee that 880,000 tons of CO2 emissions will continue, perhaps even more.
Jim Gordon is upset that MMS did not discuss how he will use Renewable Energy Credits to offset his production costs. He might want to hope that they do not discuss how he sell his RECs to electric wholesalers and in so doing actually subsidize and make possible the continued operation of polluting plants, such as both the Canal plant and the coal-fired plant upwing of Cape Cod on the harbor in Salem.
When, oh when is Jim Gordon going to identify the conventional plants that will shut down when his wind farm goes online?
Cape Wind's economics stink...they will not reduce anyone's elctric bills and as they play the subsidy game they will negate their claimed emission reductions. People in places such as federal energy research labs are beginning to understand this and so should we all.
Jim Gordon is upset that MMS did not discuss how he will use Renewable Energy Credits to offset his production costs. He might want to hope that they do not discuss how he sell his RECs to electric wholesalers and in so doing actually subsidize and make possible the continued operation of polluting plants, such as both the Canal plant and the coal-fired plant upwing of Cape Cod on the harbor in Salem.
When, oh when is Jim Gordon going to identify the conventional plants that will shut down when his wind farm goes online?
Cape Wind's economics stink...they will not reduce anyone's elctric bills and as they play the subsidy game they will negate their claimed emission reductions. People in places such as federal energy research labs are beginning to understand this and so should we all.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: State adds 900 jobs; Cape non-profit shares $1M; Globe lays off 80
In response to: State adds 900 jobs; Cape non-profit shares $1M; Globe lays off 80
The rocket scientists at the Times Corp. simply paid way too much for the Globe...and now they are wondering how to make it profitable again during a recesssion and against the increasingly powerful and very competitive fifth e-state. The simple fact is that web based press is beating the bananas out of the ink and paper guys. OOPS! The Globe made hundreds of millions of dollars for each of two families when it sold for around $1 billion to the Times.
Now what? Maybe they could follow the lead of our local daily rag-of-record and charge people to print death notices and print the obituaries in the first section of the NEWSpaper where they used to print NEWS.
Gee, what a concept...I think I'll call it journalism.
Now what? Maybe they could follow the lead of our local daily rag-of-record and charge people to print death notices and print the obituaries in the first section of the NEWSpaper where they used to print NEWS.
Gee, what a concept...I think I'll call it journalism.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The 2008 Nader: Unsafe at any election
In response to: The 2008 Nader: Unsafe at any election
PS Walter.....
As my mother said of the election debacle in her district in Florida, "Those people wouldn't tolerate this crap if it happened at a BINGO game."
And, let's not forget the Clinton/Gore efforts to disallow every absentee ballot executed by more than 50,000 American service men and women stationed oversees.
As I said....CRIMINAL CONSPIRACIES.
As my mother said of the election debacle in her district in Florida, "Those people wouldn't tolerate this crap if it happened at a BINGO game."
And, let's not forget the Clinton/Gore efforts to disallow every absentee ballot executed by more than 50,000 American service men and women stationed oversees.
As I said....CRIMINAL CONSPIRACIES.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The 2008 Nader: Unsafe at any election
In response to: The 2008 Nader: Unsafe at any election
Wally - nice piece, very nice. And, sit down for this...you and I had the same thoughts about Nader. While I am a devout political agnostic and think both parties are criminal conspiracies, I do find Nader's jumping into the fray a bizarre and troubling exercise in egocentricity. If one believes that a hard fought campaign between two candidates who present to voters clear differences Nader's entry can only be seen as harmful to the process itself.
As for all the rest of it...if McCain would have attacked anyone he would have attacked Afghanistan where the Taliban and Bin Laden himself were actually massed and based. U.S. failures vis-a-vis the Axis of Evil are nearly institutionalized in our government and blame covers everyone from Bush senior through W. Clinton was no bargain: more troops died under his presidency than under W's. We still don't have enough intelligence types who so much as speak the languages of folks on whom we are trying to spy.
Against all this, what is Nader thinking?
As for all the rest of it...if McCain would have attacked anyone he would have attacked Afghanistan where the Taliban and Bin Laden himself were actually massed and based. U.S. failures vis-a-vis the Axis of Evil are nearly institutionalized in our government and blame covers everyone from Bush senior through W. Clinton was no bargain: more troops died under his presidency than under W's. We still don't have enough intelligence types who so much as speak the languages of folks on whom we are trying to spy.
Against all this, what is Nader thinking?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: I'll Report, YOU Decide...
In response to: I'll Report, YOU Decide...
Fine fella...maybe some of the county swells were just trying to save us money and made some "dumps runs" themselves...brought some of the paintings back to their own dumps.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: I'll Report, YOU Decide...
In response to: I'll Report, YOU Decide...
Geez...why don't you tell us who the special deputy was....and, might I be able to guess with what shady person that painting went to Florida?
When you think about it, Mary LeClair might well be telling the truth for the first part of her statement; she knows nothing.
When you think about it, Mary LeClair might well be telling the truth for the first part of her statement; she knows nothing.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: County list confirms paintings ARE missing!
In response to: County list confirms paintings ARE missing!
If we look at the "list" we can see some disturbing omissions:
AFTER DESCRIPTION OF PAINTING AND ARTIST'S ATTRIBUTION ---
1. Dimensions of the work (overall incl. frame or just the painting).
2. Framed or unframed.
3. Description of frame.
4. Location of painting at time of inventory.
5. Year of acquisition.
6. Appraised value.
So, for example:
Oil painting on canvas by Elmer Fudd. Title: Mary LeClair in beam of flashlight at Skunk Neck, dated 1843.
Signed in lower left corner.
Hanging in closet behind County Commissioner's coats. In county collection since 1949. Most recent appraisal by Righteous & Scam (Boston and Leningrad), 1999. Value as of most recent appraisal $675,000 based on recent auction sales of similar works by Mr. E. Fudd.
Oh Mary --- hey, Mary?!
NOTE: Painting in good condition.
Canvas measures 24" x 20". Mounted in 4" wide gilded frame, ogee molding.
AFTER DESCRIPTION OF PAINTING AND ARTIST'S ATTRIBUTION ---
1. Dimensions of the work (overall incl. frame or just the painting).
2. Framed or unframed.
3. Description of frame.
4. Location of painting at time of inventory.
5. Year of acquisition.
6. Appraised value.
So, for example:
Oil painting on canvas by Elmer Fudd. Title: Mary LeClair in beam of flashlight at Skunk Neck, dated 1843.
Signed in lower left corner.
Hanging in closet behind County Commissioner's coats. In county collection since 1949. Most recent appraisal by Righteous & Scam (Boston and Leningrad), 1999. Value as of most recent appraisal $675,000 based on recent auction sales of similar works by Mr. E. Fudd.
Oh Mary --- hey, Mary?!
NOTE: Painting in good condition.
Canvas measures 24" x 20". Mounted in 4" wide gilded frame, ogee molding.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: County list confirms paintings ARE missing!
In response to: County list confirms paintings ARE missing!
Mary LeClair was probably right...no one profited. People simply grabbed and ran. If the missing paintings are simply hanging in private homes and offices and have never been sold by the absconders, she is quite right in saying no one has profited, Of course, "no one" includes the citizens of Barnstable County, who have actually shown a loss...the loss of heritage and value represented by these several paintings.
Every inventory of physical property for a public agncy or subdivision of government should include the itemized listing of ALL itmes and their value. We could be talking about several hundred thousand dollars-to-millions of dollars and we do not know how many, where and how much? Now that is what I call good government.
Bravo, Peter!
Every inventory of physical property for a public agncy or subdivision of government should include the itemized listing of ALL itmes and their value. We could be talking about several hundred thousand dollars-to-millions of dollars and we do not know how many, where and how much? Now that is what I call good government.
Bravo, Peter!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Dennis Denies Merits of Lady Golfer's Suit, but...
In response to: Dennis Denies Merits of Lady Golfer's Suit, but...
I hear from golfers in Yarmouth who know and respect this woman that the likely reason for the male reaction in Dennis is that she can easily play with all the men and beat most. Beware of women who can use clubs? When will people learn that PUBLIC golf courses are not PRIVATE clubs?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: What Do the Gardner Museum Heist & The Barnstable County Art Have In Common?
In response to: What Do the Gardner Museum Heist & The Barnstable County Art Have In Common?
Hey Mary...oh, Mary. MARY? Somebody wake Mary up and tell her to answer.
How about this, Mary...forget about current inventories and valuations....just show us the ones from your tenure as county treasurer. Maybe Carmen Elio could help you find them. You do remember Carmen, don't you?
How about this, Mary...forget about current inventories and valuations....just show us the ones from your tenure as county treasurer. Maybe Carmen Elio could help you find them. You do remember Carmen, don't you?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: MMS DEIS DOA – Disaster on Arrival
In response to: MMS DEIS DOA – Disaster on Arrival
News Hen
here are some shreds for you: Jim Gordon himself told me that he will sell his Renewable Energy Credits to offset his costs. This means he is virtually subsidizing the continued operation of our dirtiest conventional power plants.
Gee, Jim must have forgotten that when he was telling us how many hundreds of tones of CO2 and other nasties his wind power would prevent from being spewed into the atmosphere. Go on-line and look for info on renewable energy credits (RECs). Then ask yourself who's is telling us the straight skinny on this deal.
Talk about not having a shred of information...how about not having a clue how the real world of big time energy production works?
here are some shreds for you: Jim Gordon himself told me that he will sell his Renewable Energy Credits to offset his costs. This means he is virtually subsidizing the continued operation of our dirtiest conventional power plants.
Gee, Jim must have forgotten that when he was telling us how many hundreds of tones of CO2 and other nasties his wind power would prevent from being spewed into the atmosphere. Go on-line and look for info on renewable energy credits (RECs). Then ask yourself who's is telling us the straight skinny on this deal.
Talk about not having a shred of information...how about not having a clue how the real world of big time energy production works?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Building Commish Keeps File Under Wraps
In response to: Building Commish Keeps File Under Wraps
Actually, Yarmouth is as we speak in the process of making building department matters available on line. And, sorry about the Falmouth jokes. Actually, the drug situation in Falmouth is no joking matter. It is a complicated town with a number of political enclaves, sort a New England coastal version of the Balkans.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: 1,701 pages of fresh air for Cape Cod
In response to: 1,701 pages of fresh air for Cape Cod
Even the experts hired by MMS cut the economic analysis to ribbons in their peer reviews and the MMS admits to errors which they say will be correceted in the final EIS. That means the public will not have the chance to read, review and comment upon the real facts as seem by MMS in a draft form. Nice touch.
By the way, if Jim Gordon were correct about the economic viability of his project, Bill Koch would have been in the offshore wind business ten years ago. If that meant spoiling his own view, he would simply have moved somewhere else. Gordon's is the only offshore wind project going right now...other than that curious proposal by Jay Cashman for Buzzards Bay...now probably DOA in the state senate. Why have three other major offshore wind projects been canceled? Could it be that the numbers do not work? APPENDIX F!
By the way, if Jim Gordon were correct about the economic viability of his project, Bill Koch would have been in the offshore wind business ten years ago. If that meant spoiling his own view, he would simply have moved somewhere else. Gordon's is the only offshore wind project going right now...other than that curious proposal by Jay Cashman for Buzzards Bay...now probably DOA in the state senate. Why have three other major offshore wind projects been canceled? Could it be that the numbers do not work? APPENDIX F!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: 1,701 pages of fresh air for Cape Cod
In response to: 1,701 pages of fresh air for Cape Cod
We must have read different reports.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Rembrandts They Are Not, Part II
In response to: Rembrandts They Are Not, Part II
Troy -
The principle regulation is known as The Nixon Doctrine: don't get caught.
Then again, if no one has EVER done either an inventory or appraisal, how do we know what is worth more than $5,000?
The principle regulation is known as The Nixon Doctrine: don't get caught.
Then again, if no one has EVER done either an inventory or appraisal, how do we know what is worth more than $5,000?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: If Glenn Marshall is the Wampanoag Judas, what do we call the governor?
In response to: If Glenn Marshall is the Wampanoag Judas, what do we call the governor?
Nope....just woke up, opened my eyes and saw what is coming toward us. Actually, Judas is a great source of material. In a sense it is free inspiration, in a sense.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Glenn Marshall…the New Judas?
In response to: Glenn Marshall…the New Judas?
With all his medals for valor and injuries Glenn could not make through the jail's metal detectors, they'd have to send him home....again.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Today in Cape and islands history: Deer hunt halted on Nantucket
In response to: Today in Cape and islands history: Deer hunt halted on Nantucket
Wait just a minute....deer were not native to Nantucket? They were brought to the island "more than twelve years ago."?
These deer were ill advised aliens.
There once was a doe from Nantucket....
These deer were ill advised aliens.
There once was a doe from Nantucket....
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Tallahassee Lassie
In response to: Tallahassee Lassie
PROUDTOBEAWAMP23
If you think Gayle Andrews' known hsitory helps the tribe's image, think again. As for why I am interested in her history; if we neighbors of the Mahpee are expected to respect your tribal laws and heritage, we also have a right to be curious about someoen who has apparently been given a position of power within the tirbe whose perosnal history of loyalty to her own heritage is so checkered. In Florida Andrews was black. Back here she actuall disavowed gher Mashpee heritage and somehow was admitted as an Aquinnah, only to be ousted by that tribe when the material and claims she submitted with her application were shown to be false...not
just wrong but false.
Don't wory about what I think....worrry about how thses things look to the BIA and the governor and town officials in places like Midleboro. The tribe has finally gained recognition...now a few at the top are tarnishing the tribe's image. That is what counts.
If you think Gayle Andrews' known hsitory helps the tribe's image, think again. As for why I am interested in her history; if we neighbors of the Mahpee are expected to respect your tribal laws and heritage, we also have a right to be curious about someoen who has apparently been given a position of power within the tirbe whose perosnal history of loyalty to her own heritage is so checkered. In Florida Andrews was black. Back here she actuall disavowed gher Mashpee heritage and somehow was admitted as an Aquinnah, only to be ousted by that tribe when the material and claims she submitted with her application were shown to be false...not
just wrong but false.
Don't wory about what I think....worrry about how thses things look to the BIA and the governor and town officials in places like Midleboro. The tribe has finally gained recognition...now a few at the top are tarnishing the tribe's image. That is what counts.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Tallahassee Lassie
In response to: Tallahassee Lassie
Hey, STILLAWAMP...hold on a minute. I am NOT anti-casiono, never have been. I have written here on several occasions that I hope the tribe gets everything it is entitled to and if that means they want a casino...so be it. I repeat, I am not opposed to a tribe - owned casino. It is the least they should expect after nearly 400 years of abuse and persecution by non-Indian invaders.
If you actually believe I am anti-casino...you have not been reading what I have been wrinting for nearly a year. Actually, I think a smaler casino in Mashpee, catering to the uppercrust of the gambling world would be great. And I bet that many of its regular patrons would be the Mashpee swells who now say they want the tribe to guarantee that there will be no casino in town.
If you actually believe I am anti-casino...you have not been reading what I have been wrinting for nearly a year. Actually, I think a smaler casino in Mashpee, catering to the uppercrust of the gambling world would be great. And I bet that many of its regular patrons would be the Mashpee swells who now say they want the tribe to guarantee that there will be no casino in town.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Tallahassee Lassie
In response to: Tallahassee Lassie
Hey, STILLAWAMP...hold on a minute. I am NOT anti-casiono, never have been. I have written here on several occasions that I hope the tribe gets everything it is entitled to and if that means they want a casino...so be it. I repeat, I am not opposed to a tribe - owned casino. It is the least they should expect after nearly 400 years of abuse and persecution by non-Indian invaders.
If you actually believe I am anti-casino...you have not been reading what I have been wrinting for nearly a year. Actually, I think a smaler casino in Mashpee, catering to the uppercrust of the gambling world would be great. And I bet that many of its regular patrons would be the Mashpee swells who now say they want the tribe to guarantee that there will be no casino in town.
If you actually believe I am anti-casino...you have not been reading what I have been wrinting for nearly a year. Actually, I think a smaler casino in Mashpee, catering to the uppercrust of the gambling world would be great. And I bet that many of its regular patrons would be the Mashpee swells who now say they want the tribe to guarantee that there will be no casino in town.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: LNG tanker disabled and adrift is towed north and now is near Gloucester
In response to: LNG tanker disabled and adrift is towed north and now is near Gloucester
WXTK --- isn't the local non English speaking talk radio station? When was the last time a deep-draft oceanpgoing bluk carfrier or tanker transitted Horseshoe Shoals?
C'mon, guys!
C'mon, guys!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Rembrandts They Are Not, Part II
In response to: Rembrandts They Are Not, Part II
What's the problem? After all, Mary LeClair was the county's elceted treasuruer for several years and we know what a stickler Mary is for anything that requires endless hours of paperwork. Surely she kept an accurate and annually updated inventory of every stick of furniture and scarp of art owned by the county...as well as full appraisals of same. Isn't this oen of the responsibilities of a treasurer?
It is really very simple: where are the pieces of art known to have been given to and held by the county?....Mary....oh, Mary....hey, Mary?
County government is such a farce. Anmd we pay for it.
It is really very simple: where are the pieces of art known to have been given to and held by the county?....Mary....oh, Mary....hey, Mary?
County government is such a farce. Anmd we pay for it.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Rembrandts They Are Not
In response to: Rembrandts They Are Not
By the way -
Who is the dummy doing the county's insurance coverage (county employee and insurance broker)? Works of art and other items of value beyond every day stuff must be covered under a rider for art, fine art, antiques, etc.
GEEZ! I am surprised the benches haven't been taken from the courtrooms and set up at the Noah shelter. Someone need not worry about losing amateur status. is it any wonder i call the county commissioners Mo, Larry and Curley?
Probably an insult to the Stooges.
You cannot build a house that will alter some imagined historic view...a county agency says no...but you can walk off with three centuries of art heritage and no one says diddly. Inventory, what's that? Due diligence, what's that? Record of county art possessions, what's that? Accountability, what's that? Financial controls, why? Fiscal responsibility? Come on...this the county...don't you trust us? I mean, after all, who would steal from a courthouse? The defendants wouldn't dare and everyone else is so...honest?
Who is the dummy doing the county's insurance coverage (county employee and insurance broker)? Works of art and other items of value beyond every day stuff must be covered under a rider for art, fine art, antiques, etc.
GEEZ! I am surprised the benches haven't been taken from the courtrooms and set up at the Noah shelter. Someone need not worry about losing amateur status. is it any wonder i call the county commissioners Mo, Larry and Curley?
Probably an insult to the Stooges.
You cannot build a house that will alter some imagined historic view...a county agency says no...but you can walk off with three centuries of art heritage and no one says diddly. Inventory, what's that? Due diligence, what's that? Record of county art possessions, what's that? Accountability, what's that? Financial controls, why? Fiscal responsibility? Come on...this the county...don't you trust us? I mean, after all, who would steal from a courthouse? The defendants wouldn't dare and everyone else is so...honest?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: BMW loses wheel; Sandwich, Hyannis crashes; End of an era at Orleans District Court
In response to: BMW loses wheel; Sandwich, Hyannis crashes; End of an era at Orleans District Court
I just want everyone to know...including the Braginton-Smith family and that foul mouthed CRUSADER that I had nothing to do with that BMW. That's my story and I'm sticking with it.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Rembrandts They Are Not
In response to: Rembrandts They Are Not
TO MARY LECLAIR:
If nothing is missing....tell us where we can see it. May we look at your walls? What did happen to those stacks of paintings?....Mary...time to wake up now, Mary.
Mary....Mary....wake up, Mary.
Of course, after the screwing you gave Peter Robbins, the last thing in the world you would do is admit he is right about how miserably you have husbanded the county's assets. Mary?....Mary?
Let's see...a rectangular light spot on an empty wall and an empty picture hook. Holmes....Holmes...what shall we call this?....A clue, Watson, a clue. A Goddamn clue.
Silly Watson. Over 350 years of history and only a dozen or so paintings to show for it. Mary?....Mary....someone wake her up, please. Oh, I know, the Cape Cod Commission is reviewing them for their regional impact. Mary?..............
If nothing is missing....tell us where we can see it. May we look at your walls? What did happen to those stacks of paintings?....Mary...time to wake up now, Mary.
Mary....Mary....wake up, Mary.
Of course, after the screwing you gave Peter Robbins, the last thing in the world you would do is admit he is right about how miserably you have husbanded the county's assets. Mary?....Mary?
Let's see...a rectangular light spot on an empty wall and an empty picture hook. Holmes....Holmes...what shall we call this?....A clue, Watson, a clue. A Goddamn clue.
Silly Watson. Over 350 years of history and only a dozen or so paintings to show for it. Mary?....Mary....someone wake her up, please. Oh, I know, the Cape Cod Commission is reviewing them for their regional impact. Mary?..............
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Rembrandts They Are Not
In response to: Rembrandts They Are Not
One simple solution....maybe:have sheriff's deputies show up in the evening and on weekends at certain houses and ask if they could make a quick walk-through looking for missing art. OOPS!
Of course, there will always be art thieves who claim they were framed.
Of course, there will always be art thieves who claim they were framed.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Vinick absconds without Gordon business plan
In response to: Vinick absconds without Gordon business plan
Cape Wind business plan:
"Give me the damn permit and we''ll figure out the details as we go. Trust me....."
Found in appendix 'b' of the plan, "Cost and savings figures are now eight years old and they were not even accurate when they were first published."
Comment found in preface to financials (all redacted), "Just kidding."
Summary of text and financial projections, "Okay, so there are only two active proposals for offshore wind projects in the entire U.S. and both of those are in shallow waters off the Cape Cod Coast, so what? And...those three other large projects were canceled because those guys did not have the strangle hold on the permit process that we do; tough rotors, guys. We know better than everyone else."
There is an editor's note appearing at the end of the appendixes. It says, "Senator John Kerry is a neighbor of Jim Gordon on beacon Hill. If this is not an proof of Jim's claims what is?"
"Give me the damn permit and we''ll figure out the details as we go. Trust me....."
Found in appendix 'b' of the plan, "Cost and savings figures are now eight years old and they were not even accurate when they were first published."
Comment found in preface to financials (all redacted), "Just kidding."
Summary of text and financial projections, "Okay, so there are only two active proposals for offshore wind projects in the entire U.S. and both of those are in shallow waters off the Cape Cod Coast, so what? And...those three other large projects were canceled because those guys did not have the strangle hold on the permit process that we do; tough rotors, guys. We know better than everyone else."
There is an editor's note appearing at the end of the appendixes. It says, "Senator John Kerry is a neighbor of Jim Gordon on beacon Hill. If this is not an proof of Jim's claims what is?"
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: KB's case lawyer asks, "Where's O'Keefe?"
In response to: KB's case lawyer asks, "Where's O'Keefe?"
If a bar or restaurant does not pay for liquor in a timely fashion their liquor license will be suspended automatically of the vendor notifies the state. Even discounting all the penalties and interest Finlay is in the hole nearly $1 million for taxes. Add to that collected group insurance premiums, etc....where is the equity in this whole thing?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: If gambling is the new buffalo, what does that make the Guv?
In response to: If gambling is the new buffalo, what does that make the Guv?
GOVERNOR DEVAL CUSTER. It has a certain ring to it, don't you think?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: KB's case lawyer asks, "Where's O'Keefe?"
In response to: KB's case lawyer asks, "Where's O'Keefe?"
I could be wrong about this but it seems to me that both the DA and the AG need to have a complaint brought to them before they can act. In this case there are multiple state agencies and the IRS and Social Security Administration who could and should move ahead with criminal referrals. The Knowledge Barn situation has gone on for ten years and only now do we have state action. Why? What took so long? Who was protecting Finlay? Why? Maybe O'Keefe has caused global warming and global poverty, perhaps even the Blizzard of '78...but he sure as hell had nothing to do with this disaster. And, think about it, have any of those who are asking why O'Keefe is not involved filed a formal request or complaint with his office?
Gee...what a good idea. I want someone to ask Deval Custer what he intends to do about this situation, since he is the chief executive officer of the Commonwealth and since there have clearly been so many failures of oversight by departments over which he has ultimate authority. Once again we see a total failure of government to govern but I bet no one will be fired.
Gee...what a good idea. I want someone to ask Deval Custer what he intends to do about this situation, since he is the chief executive officer of the Commonwealth and since there have clearly been so many failures of oversight by departments over which he has ultimate authority. Once again we see a total failure of government to govern but I bet no one will be fired.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: If gambling is the new buffalo, what does that make the Guv?
In response to: If gambling is the new buffalo, what does that make the Guv?
Seashelly
The Mashpee did not cause the state's budget crisis and they should not be expected to solve it. What is this governor smoking? He should applaud the tribe's drive to put land in trust and he should actively work with the tribe to get them, oh....say part of Otis...where they could engage in economic development that would benefit the tribe, the Cape and the state....everyone wins. But, sensible thought and creative solutions to thorny issues seems to elude this guy. So, the tribe gets screwed, again, and the state receives no benefit.
What a shame. In my opinion Deval Patrick has just insulted every Indian everywhere and has set the state on a collision course with reality. Imagine, this guy was actually a major federal civil rights official.
I'll answer my own question: if gambling is the new buffalo Deval Patrick is the new Custer. He will ride roughshod over native rights and sovereignty but eventually a superior force will destroy his plans. The difference is that Deval will face Indians joined with non-Indians as his opponents. I hope.
The Mashpee did not cause the state's budget crisis and they should not be expected to solve it. What is this governor smoking? He should applaud the tribe's drive to put land in trust and he should actively work with the tribe to get them, oh....say part of Otis...where they could engage in economic development that would benefit the tribe, the Cape and the state....everyone wins. But, sensible thought and creative solutions to thorny issues seems to elude this guy. So, the tribe gets screwed, again, and the state receives no benefit.
What a shame. In my opinion Deval Patrick has just insulted every Indian everywhere and has set the state on a collision course with reality. Imagine, this guy was actually a major federal civil rights official.
I'll answer my own question: if gambling is the new buffalo Deval Patrick is the new Custer. He will ride roughshod over native rights and sovereignty but eventually a superior force will destroy his plans. The difference is that Deval will face Indians joined with non-Indians as his opponents. I hope.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: If gambling is the new buffalo, what does that make the Guv?
In response to: If gambling is the new buffalo, what does that make the Guv?
Q -
Many thanks for answering the quizz...interesting answers and a valuable perspective. Thanks again.
Many thanks for answering the quizz...interesting answers and a valuable perspective. Thanks again.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: If gambling is the new buffalo, what does that make the Guv?
In response to: If gambling is the new buffalo, what does that make the Guv?
More for Quahog -
There is a row brewing in California right now about various regulatory issues. Indian gaming operators (existing) want to shed the layer of internal supervision of their casinos now conducted by U.S. authorities. They claim that the Indian Gaming Commission (their own group) and the casinos themselves already spend more than $300 million a year on in-house supervision and therefore do not need the federal effort. California says that Indian gaming advocates and tribes assured voters when urging passage of favorable Indian gaming legislation that they would gladly cooperate with supervision by federal, state and local authorities.
If a casino in Monte Carlo, a sovereign nation, does not have to report winnings of U.S. citizens to the IRS...why should the Mashpee casino? this is the type of question that will pop up and which must be answered.
There is a row brewing in California right now about various regulatory issues. Indian gaming operators (existing) want to shed the layer of internal supervision of their casinos now conducted by U.S. authorities. They claim that the Indian Gaming Commission (their own group) and the casinos themselves already spend more than $300 million a year on in-house supervision and therefore do not need the federal effort. California says that Indian gaming advocates and tribes assured voters when urging passage of favorable Indian gaming legislation that they would gladly cooperate with supervision by federal, state and local authorities.
If a casino in Monte Carlo, a sovereign nation, does not have to report winnings of U.S. citizens to the IRS...why should the Mashpee casino? this is the type of question that will pop up and which must be answered.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: If gambling is the new buffalo, what does that make the Guv?
In response to: If gambling is the new buffalo, what does that make the Guv?
Quahog -
RE: question #7: Keep in mind that I know I could be completely wrong about some or all of this, BUT...it seems to me that since the governor and the tribe are so far apart on so many of the issues arising from the Indian gaming situation this could become a very nasty affair politically. Question #7 is based on my wondering--- if the tribe's application to place the Middleboro land in trust succeeds and if the tribe then builds its casino resort and dodges the state tax bullet, could the state charge a sort of state export tax or fee for companies delivering supplies onto the tribe's sovereign soil? This will get out of hand unless someone starts answering some very basic questions. Even a quick look at the tangle of federal, state and local laws as they pertain to Indian rights and Indian gaming shows clearly that we are nowhere near a clear body of mutually acceptable standards and rules.
Patrick wants his ton of flesh and neither he nor the legislature will back down from inventing ways to profit from the tribe's casino development.
RE: question #7: Keep in mind that I know I could be completely wrong about some or all of this, BUT...it seems to me that since the governor and the tribe are so far apart on so many of the issues arising from the Indian gaming situation this could become a very nasty affair politically. Question #7 is based on my wondering--- if the tribe's application to place the Middleboro land in trust succeeds and if the tribe then builds its casino resort and dodges the state tax bullet, could the state charge a sort of state export tax or fee for companies delivering supplies onto the tribe's sovereign soil? This will get out of hand unless someone starts answering some very basic questions. Even a quick look at the tangle of federal, state and local laws as they pertain to Indian rights and Indian gaming shows clearly that we are nowhere near a clear body of mutually acceptable standards and rules.
Patrick wants his ton of flesh and neither he nor the legislature will back down from inventing ways to profit from the tribe's casino development.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: KB's case lawyer asks, "Where's O'Keefe?"
In response to: KB's case lawyer asks, "Where's O'Keefe?"
Taking pot shots at a new owner based on what happened under the disgraced previous owner is silly and not at all helpful.
What is more impportant, it seems to me, since there are 66 day care facilities operating on the Caoe, and probably hundreds of 'unofficial ones'...shouldn't we all be banging on the state's door to conduct a full and competent inspection of all of them? Is it likely that only the Knowledge Barn had these issues?
What is more impportant, it seems to me, since there are 66 day care facilities operating on the Caoe, and probably hundreds of 'unofficial ones'...shouldn't we all be banging on the state's door to conduct a full and competent inspection of all of them? Is it likely that only the Knowledge Barn had these issues?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Were the Indians Noble Savages? Election fever runs through state
In response to: Were the Indians Noble Savages? Election fever runs through state
This character, Mr. Boys, must have been beaten up by Indian kids in the school yard. He certainly sounds as if he should have been. It is time for another session. Perhaps he would contrast what he presents of Indian violence with nuclear weapons, which only the United states has ever used and then on civilian populations. Or he could talk about the Iranian army marching twelve year old boys ahead of their infantry through mine fields in the Iran/Iraq war of the late 1970's - early 1980's. What is this man's point? That the Spaniards who slaughtered virtually entire cultures were driven to their genocide by the violence they saw among the Indians?
Sour grapes make bitter wine indeed.
Sour grapes make bitter wine indeed.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The Final Four
In response to: The Final Four
If Hillary Clinton is a moderate Walter Brooks has John Birch Society membership card in his wallet.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Judge in Mashpee Land Case Admits Making Mistakes
In response to: Judge in Mashpee Land Case Admits Making Mistakes
Okay, 1976...now they have federal recognition,in spite of the toxic and bizarre rulings by Skinner, what? He had a history of judicial bias in major cases. Later this week I'll take a look at what he did in the W.R. Grace case...and the fact that much of what he said when gutting the plaintiff's case was later repudiated by state and federal findings that he said had never occurred and were not likely to occur.
It is undeniable that the United States government has decreed that the Mashpee Wampanoags' existence as a tribe is unbroken and inviolate. Hmmmm......that's not what Skinner said...and that is not what he led/forced the jury to conclude. Well, now that Uncle Sam has finally spoken....seems to me justice would demand....................
Perhaps only because he was
self-important, opinionated little man or perhaps due to darker factors, Walter J. Skinner imposed his own will on what is supposed to be an open and fair legal process....and time has shown that he was absolutely wrong. He was wrong about the Wamps and many other things. May he rot.
It is undeniable that the United States government has decreed that the Mashpee Wampanoags' existence as a tribe is unbroken and inviolate. Hmmmm......that's not what Skinner said...and that is not what he led/forced the jury to conclude. Well, now that Uncle Sam has finally spoken....seems to me justice would demand....................
Perhaps only because he was
self-important, opinionated little man or perhaps due to darker factors, Walter J. Skinner imposed his own will on what is supposed to be an open and fair legal process....and time has shown that he was absolutely wrong. He was wrong about the Wamps and many other things. May he rot.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: "Knowledge Barn Emergency Response Center"
In response to: "Knowledge Barn Emergency Response Center"
Patience, everyone. There may be a solution in the near future. Hope to be able to say more soon. Just remember the phoenix rising from the ashes.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Does Recycling pay?
In response to: Does Recycling pay?
As usual the logical mind of Peter Robbins has sorted through the rubble of political correctness and found the goodies: the fact is that recycling has never saved the consumer money, and maybe it never will. The issue is should we recycle because it is the right thing to do? The answer is...of course we should.
Having made that decision all we have to do is to get smart about how we recycle and therefore perhaps reduce the cost of this worthwhile activity. We have been encouraged to use consumables such as plastics, etc. mainly because they are more profitable than other materials and because generally the disposable is cheaper to the consumer than the recyclable.
One thing we do need is more and better research into how we can re-use what we recycle. That is where we realize huge savings. Example: plastic milk bottles as recyclables were virtually useless and therefore not recycled until some genius figured a way to grind them into little bits and convert the bits into the cellular PVC trim material we see being used on houses today. (AZEK)
Bravo, Peter.
Having made that decision all we have to do is to get smart about how we recycle and therefore perhaps reduce the cost of this worthwhile activity. We have been encouraged to use consumables such as plastics, etc. mainly because they are more profitable than other materials and because generally the disposable is cheaper to the consumer than the recyclable.
One thing we do need is more and better research into how we can re-use what we recycle. That is where we realize huge savings. Example: plastic milk bottles as recyclables were virtually useless and therefore not recycled until some genius figured a way to grind them into little bits and convert the bits into the cellular PVC trim material we see being used on houses today. (AZEK)
Bravo, Peter.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Greed of the opposition to Cape Wind is sickening
In response to: Greed of the opposition to Cape Wind is sickening
Let's see: you live in Wakefield but look out your window in Jamaica Plain---curious geography. As for the elitists and the whole recurring class warfare crap...give it a break. And, I am unaware that the Cape Wind opposition is denying the existence of global warming. Finally...what was that remark about the Gloucester view? Huh? Maybe your field of vision has been affected by looking out of your Jamaica Plain window from Wakefield where you live?
HELP!
HELP!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Pursuing the Paranormal: Good Ghost, bad ghost?!
In response to: Pursuing the Paranormal: Good Ghost, bad ghost?!
Maybe you should read Leo Damore's book instead of talking to people in truro...at the time of Costa's rampage no one in Truro seemed to know anything about costs or his activities. The fact is that your folks made claims about spooky things at a site where Costa had never even set foot, much less killed, raped or dismembered anyone.
Of course, I knew Damore personally, went through his long process of writing the book, I spoke at length with the state police investigators who worked the case, even with Costa's attorney. Somehow I missed that cemetary
The demonic is in the details. Rather than telling us how you see it...try telling us what is real. So far, the way you see it is both bizarre and not credible.
Of course, I knew Damore personally, went through his long process of writing the book, I spoke at length with the state police investigators who worked the case, even with Costa's attorney. Somehow I missed that cemetary
The demonic is in the details. Rather than telling us how you see it...try telling us what is real. So far, the way you see it is both bizarre and not credible.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Pursuing the Paranormal: Good Ghost, bad ghost?!
In response to: Pursuing the Paranormal: Good Ghost, bad ghost?!
Hey Dave...How could I have built ("or something") a structure that was erected in 1714-16? You are a real piece of work. I notice you have never explained the crap you wrote about Costa's crypt in Truro. It fascinates me to see how many people blindly follow charletains such as you. If you ever encountered anything truly demonic you would be a changed man...as are those who actually do perform exorcisms.
In terms of establishing credibility, after that nonsense in Truro you do not have a ghost of a chance.
In terms of establishing credibility, after that nonsense in Truro you do not have a ghost of a chance.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Pursuing the Paranormal: Good Ghost, bad ghost?!
In response to: Pursuing the Paranormal: Good Ghost, bad ghost?!
Is this the same gang of rocket scientists who had Anton Costa dismembering people in a graveyard crypt in Truro where he never did anything at all? Imagination is a wonderful thing.
the, of course, there was the woman in filmy gown on the third floor of the Barnstable House. Another blow for foolishness.
the, of course, there was the woman in filmy gown on the third floor of the Barnstable House. Another blow for foolishness.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Welcome to an Accidental Mom's world
In response to: Welcome to an Accidental Mom's world
Looks as if the Cape Cod Times has run out of "low hanging Fruit" on their own treesy would they be sniffing around in our orchard?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Deval Patrick meets with 10 local chamber heads
In response to: Deval Patrick meets with 10 local chamber heads
That is the first group mugshot I have ever seen.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Manso-so
In response to: Manso-so
Jeff
Some more thoughts/questions:
In these circumstances (alarm in an unoccupied house) a walk-through by police is not only prudent but usually required by department policy. If the cops arrive, see a locked house with no visible signs of forced entry and simply go away there is no assurance that there was not someone in the house who proceeded to rob it. They have to satisfy themselves that there are no unauthorized people in the house.
I want to know how the TPD entered the house. Did they have a key? Did a neighbor have a key? Did they break and enter? (most unlikely without the owner's permission.)
When they spoke with Manso in California by phone (they DID) what did he tell them about guns? It could be that it was both their own observation and HIS admissions that cooked his goose. How did they know where to reach Manso? Did he leave a number with a neighbor? or did someone else call Manso and then he called Truro PD?
Is everything the Truro PD do wrong, inept, stupid, corrupt, evil or is it just cute and funny to make it appear that way? Manso screwed up!
Some more thoughts/questions:
In these circumstances (alarm in an unoccupied house) a walk-through by police is not only prudent but usually required by department policy. If the cops arrive, see a locked house with no visible signs of forced entry and simply go away there is no assurance that there was not someone in the house who proceeded to rob it. They have to satisfy themselves that there are no unauthorized people in the house.
I want to know how the TPD entered the house. Did they have a key? Did a neighbor have a key? Did they break and enter? (most unlikely without the owner's permission.)
When they spoke with Manso in California by phone (they DID) what did he tell them about guns? It could be that it was both their own observation and HIS admissions that cooked his goose. How did they know where to reach Manso? Did he leave a number with a neighbor? or did someone else call Manso and then he called Truro PD?
Is everything the Truro PD do wrong, inept, stupid, corrupt, evil or is it just cute and funny to make it appear that way? Manso screwed up!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Manso-so
In response to: Manso-so
VERY interesting
Now let's return to real life. Some simple questions...answers are often found in questions:
1. Are we saying that Costa did anything wrong? If so, what?
2. During the hunting incident, did any of the hunters fire a shot within 500 feet of a residence (criminal offense in Ma.)? If so, who and was there a complaint filed or a prosecution?
3. If Manso fired his weapon but was not charged or prosecuted, he was given a huge break, wasn't he?
4. Are we claiming/hinting/suggesting that the Truro PD in any way planted the guns Manso is now accused of holding illegally and in an unsafe condition?
5. Are we saying/hinting/suggesting that soon-to-retire Judge Welsh (why not just print his name?) is part of a conspiracy/plot to frame or persecute Manso, said conspiracy/plot also involving his son, now a judge himself, and the DA and the Truro PD?
Yes, it is a small world and the Cape is just a bunch of small towns. But, is it not just possible that Manso is an idiot? A little man with a small mind...and until recently three guns?
Now let's return to real life. Some simple questions...answers are often found in questions:
1. Are we saying that Costa did anything wrong? If so, what?
2. During the hunting incident, did any of the hunters fire a shot within 500 feet of a residence (criminal offense in Ma.)? If so, who and was there a complaint filed or a prosecution?
3. If Manso fired his weapon but was not charged or prosecuted, he was given a huge break, wasn't he?
4. Are we claiming/hinting/suggesting that the Truro PD in any way planted the guns Manso is now accused of holding illegally and in an unsafe condition?
5. Are we saying/hinting/suggesting that soon-to-retire Judge Welsh (why not just print his name?) is part of a conspiracy/plot to frame or persecute Manso, said conspiracy/plot also involving his son, now a judge himself, and the DA and the Truro PD?
Yes, it is a small world and the Cape is just a bunch of small towns. But, is it not just possible that Manso is an idiot? A little man with a small mind...and until recently three guns?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Around and Around We Go! Airport Rotary Part I
In response to: Around and Around We Go! Airport Rotary Part I
You are correct...all three. As for Solon's comment, in fact a rotary is on paper the most effective way of dealing with the intersection of four or more roadways. Some feel that one of the first three proposed options presented last week, with considerable tweeking, will solve the problem (to the extent that it can be solved). A larger rotary with more lanes and better markings and signage would probably do just fine...but the roads leading into and especially out of the rotary must be improved so that those in the rotary can get out of it and not remain stuck there.
GEE...and I am not even an engineer.
GEE...and I am not even an engineer.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Favorable federal statement should silence doubts about Cape Wind
In response to: Favorable federal statement should silence doubts about Cape Wind
Ian,
You are wrong: the Cape Cod Commission review of the proposed development in Bourne known as Canal Side Commons took more than eight years and it is not over yet. Last time I checked Bourne is in New England. It is interesting that you cite the overwhelming support Cape Wind claims to have both generally and here on Cape Cod. I have been asking to see the questions asked in their poll...for some reason they refuse to share them. I said long ago and say again, the further away from the Cape one is the better this project looks. Hell, from Cambridge the Sahara probably looks like a romantic paradise.
As for this crap about Cape Wind opponents being wealthy...that is rubbish. I have not met a wealthy commercial fisherman yet. And I recall attending many meetings here on the Cape and on both islands and being surrounded by ordinary folks who both work for a living and oppose this project. Get your facts straight. I personally am just a country carpenter.
You are wrong: the Cape Cod Commission review of the proposed development in Bourne known as Canal Side Commons took more than eight years and it is not over yet. Last time I checked Bourne is in New England. It is interesting that you cite the overwhelming support Cape Wind claims to have both generally and here on Cape Cod. I have been asking to see the questions asked in their poll...for some reason they refuse to share them. I said long ago and say again, the further away from the Cape one is the better this project looks. Hell, from Cambridge the Sahara probably looks like a romantic paradise.
As for this crap about Cape Wind opponents being wealthy...that is rubbish. I have not met a wealthy commercial fisherman yet. And I recall attending many meetings here on the Cape and on both islands and being surrounded by ordinary folks who both work for a living and oppose this project. Get your facts straight. I personally am just a country carpenter.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Pistol-packin’ Peter hoisted by his own petard
In response to: Pistol-packin’ Peter hoisted by his own petard
Magician
I enjoyed much of the book too. Manso did a good job describing the incredible and largely unfortunate chnages that have overwhelmed Provincetown in the last few years. Clearly he is capable both of sound research and good expository writing...but then he veers off into the Land of Jerk.
I enjoyed much of the book too. Manso did a good job describing the incredible and largely unfortunate chnages that have overwhelmed Provincetown in the last few years. Clearly he is capable both of sound research and good expository writing...but then he veers off into the Land of Jerk.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Charades played while McCowen fate weighed
In response to: Charades played while McCowen fate weighed
One of the best features of our jury system is that a jury deliberates in private and without any surpervision.
One of the weakest aspects of our jury system is that a jury deliberates in private and without any supervision.
Hats off to Judge Nickerson for being so open and thourough...shame on the jury first for their outrageous conduct and second for thei silence and third for the clear fact that osmeo of them are lying even now. McCowen should have company in jail...some of his own jury.
One of the weakest aspects of our jury system is that a jury deliberates in private and without any supervision.
Hats off to Judge Nickerson for being so open and thourough...shame on the jury first for their outrageous conduct and second for thei silence and third for the clear fact that osmeo of them are lying even now. McCowen should have company in jail...some of his own jury.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Time for the Cape to hop on the Reality TV bandwagon
In response to: Time for the Cape to hop on the Reality TV bandwagon
Monpo
Remember, JIHAD does not mean holy war...it means MAXIMUM EFFORT. So, an effort to civilize WB would be called a WALTER JIHAD. The Cape Cod Commission is a NONSENSE JIHAD, capecodtoday is an ADVERTISING JIHAD and Christmas is a SANTA JIHAD etc.
Remember, JIHAD does not mean holy war...it means MAXIMUM EFFORT. So, an effort to civilize WB would be called a WALTER JIHAD. The Cape Cod Commission is a NONSENSE JIHAD, capecodtoday is an ADVERTISING JIHAD and Christmas is a SANTA JIHAD etc.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Time for the Cape to hop on the Reality TV bandwagon
In response to: Time for the Cape to hop on the Reality TV bandwagon
Codder - Brilliant!
Actually, I have an idea for a Cape Cod Survivor series: we follow a number of applicants through the local and county permitting process to build something, anything.
Actually, I have an idea for a Cape Cod Survivor series: we follow a number of applicants through the local and county permitting process to build something, anything.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Pistol-packin’ Peter hoisted by his own petard
In response to: Pistol-packin’ Peter hoisted by his own petard
Producer
Good stuff and thanks. My understanding is that it is still legal to possess a magazine with greater than ten round capacity if it was produced prior to the new law. Also, it used to be allowed in Masscahusetts that an FID permitted ownership (not the carrying of) of a handgun. Then Mass law changed so that may well be different now. But, all this is academic because Manso apparently had no valid permit for any type of firearm.
As for whether he will be charged and if charged convicted and if convicted jailed and/or fined...we shall see. Enforcement of the Bartley - Fox Act has been horrible.
The whole point here, for me, is this: Manso is so hypercritical of everyone for various weaknesses and failings and here he is doing something that could literally prove fatal to many innocents.
He is nothing if not a solid gold jerk.
By the way: you can contact me privately...peter@capecodtoday.com
Good stuff and thanks. My understanding is that it is still legal to possess a magazine with greater than ten round capacity if it was produced prior to the new law. Also, it used to be allowed in Masscahusetts that an FID permitted ownership (not the carrying of) of a handgun. Then Mass law changed so that may well be different now. But, all this is academic because Manso apparently had no valid permit for any type of firearm.
As for whether he will be charged and if charged convicted and if convicted jailed and/or fined...we shall see. Enforcement of the Bartley - Fox Act has been horrible.
The whole point here, for me, is this: Manso is so hypercritical of everyone for various weaknesses and failings and here he is doing something that could literally prove fatal to many innocents.
He is nothing if not a solid gold jerk.
By the way: you can contact me privately...peter@capecodtoday.com
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Pistol-packin’ Peter hoisted by his own petard
In response to: Pistol-packin’ Peter hoisted by his own petard
Producer
Gun charges in Massachusetts tend not to be fully prosecuted because (from what I understand) they usually accompany other charges. As a way of getting a plea to other charges prosecutors frequently "swallow the gun" (that is the term of art) and let it drop, even though Bartley - Fox' original intent was that the gun charge be served "on and after" other prison terms.
As for the relative danger of Manso's weapons, they are all deadly. The revolver is very easy to conceal, was designed for that purpose, and fires a slug larger than the vaunted 9mm. One fatal bullet is as deadly as another. I just find this level of recklessness from a man who is so determined to villify everyone in the courts and law enforcement stupefying.
Manso's FID expired in 2000, so we cannot say he was allowed to keep it. It would appear that Manso did or said something that made the chief feel he was not an appropriate person to have a license to carry. What was it? Since Manso so enjoys gossip and inuendo, what was it?
Gun charges in Massachusetts tend not to be fully prosecuted because (from what I understand) they usually accompany other charges. As a way of getting a plea to other charges prosecutors frequently "swallow the gun" (that is the term of art) and let it drop, even though Bartley - Fox' original intent was that the gun charge be served "on and after" other prison terms.
As for the relative danger of Manso's weapons, they are all deadly. The revolver is very easy to conceal, was designed for that purpose, and fires a slug larger than the vaunted 9mm. One fatal bullet is as deadly as another. I just find this level of recklessness from a man who is so determined to villify everyone in the courts and law enforcement stupefying.
Manso's FID expired in 2000, so we cannot say he was allowed to keep it. It would appear that Manso did or said something that made the chief feel he was not an appropriate person to have a license to carry. What was it? Since Manso so enjoys gossip and inuendo, what was it?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Pistol-packin’ Peter hoisted by his own petard
In response to: Pistol-packin’ Peter hoisted by his own petard
Producer
Assuming can be very dangerous. The issuance of a restraining order requires the immediate surrender of all weapons and all permits and licenses to own and/or carry weapons. It does not trigger an automatic revocation. If revocation resulted from the process of issuing a restraining order it would be as a result of a hearing procedure or a determiantion by the permit issuing authority (local chief of police) that the permit holder was in some way not a suitable individual to be so licensed.
The point is...why was Manso's conceal/carry permit revoked?
As for those who feel that what Manso is alleged to have done is not serious...get a life. There is a reason we have the Bartlet - Fox Act: public safety in an era of rampant abuse of firearms.
Assuming can be very dangerous. The issuance of a restraining order requires the immediate surrender of all weapons and all permits and licenses to own and/or carry weapons. It does not trigger an automatic revocation. If revocation resulted from the process of issuing a restraining order it would be as a result of a hearing procedure or a determiantion by the permit issuing authority (local chief of police) that the permit holder was in some way not a suitable individual to be so licensed.
The point is...why was Manso's conceal/carry permit revoked?
As for those who feel that what Manso is alleged to have done is not serious...get a life. There is a reason we have the Bartlet - Fox Act: public safety in an era of rampant abuse of firearms.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Falmouth Selectmen Reject Four Years of Volunteer Work
In response to: Falmouth Selectmen Reject Four Years of Volunteer Work
Noggin
What is wrong with the idea that a true village center can host every segment of society? Or do you just prefer the swells?
The working poor and the civil servant and the young worker just starting out in life do not need you to tell them where it is appropriate for them to live. There are plenty of places where your kind of thinking is quite acceptable...why don't you choose one and move there? You would have loved living under Stalin or Mao.
What is wrong with the idea that a true village center can host every segment of society? Or do you just prefer the swells?
The working poor and the civil servant and the young worker just starting out in life do not need you to tell them where it is appropriate for them to live. There are plenty of places where your kind of thinking is quite acceptable...why don't you choose one and move there? You would have loved living under Stalin or Mao.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Yarmouth Town Hall goes green
In response to: Yarmouth Town Hall goes green
Troy -
True for you. Of course, you've also had some interesting local goings on to make up for the forward thinking.
Something else Yarmouth did recently...installed new lighting throughout town hall which is expected to save as much as half the electricity used by the old lights. Every town should be doing this. Falmouth actually was probably the first Cape town to install energy saving devices on a serious level.
Someone has to lead the way; why not the towns? How about a Massachusetts ban on incandescent lighting?
True for you. Of course, you've also had some interesting local goings on to make up for the forward thinking.
Something else Yarmouth did recently...installed new lighting throughout town hall which is expected to save as much as half the electricity used by the old lights. Every town should be doing this. Falmouth actually was probably the first Cape town to install energy saving devices on a serious level.
Someone has to lead the way; why not the towns? How about a Massachusetts ban on incandescent lighting?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Pistol-packin’ Peter hoisted by his own petard
In response to: Pistol-packin’ Peter hoisted by his own petard
By the way: Manso is so venomous in his criticism of the Truro police, telling the world how incompetent and lawless they are, but he elected to have his home burglar alarm connected to their department. Is there something strange in this picture? Is Manso just too cheap to use a private security company? Was he only kidding in his analysis of the Truro Police?
If Mano's dirty little .38 had been stolen and then used in a murder by, oh say a drug dealer or a gang member or a burglar, and if some dumb cop got lucky and traced the gun back to Manso, what would Manso's defense be..."See, I told you...I told the world...that Goddamned Truro Police Department is just no Goddamned good! I never liked them, never trusted them. That kid would be alive today if it weren't for those incompetent hayseeds. Jesus!"
If Mano's dirty little .38 had been stolen and then used in a murder by, oh say a drug dealer or a gang member or a burglar, and if some dumb cop got lucky and traced the gun back to Manso, what would Manso's defense be..."See, I told you...I told the world...that Goddamned Truro Police Department is just no Goddamned good! I never liked them, never trusted them. That kid would be alive today if it weren't for those incompetent hayseeds. Jesus!"
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Pistol-packin’ Peter hoisted by his own petard
In response to: Pistol-packin’ Peter hoisted by his own petard
Producer -
The published claim is that Manso did not renew his FID card (firearms Identification Card). However, it is also widely reported now that Manso's permit to carry a concealed weapon was revoked, not suspended or not renewed, revoked. Revocation is an action by an authority in response to a violation...what happened?
According to people such as Crusader, having a home burglar alarm that is connected to the Truro Police is either a useless precaution or an invitation to be robbed...by the police.
And, an alarm would still allow quick witted robbers time to break, enter, grab and flee. There is a reason Massachusetts has strict laws regarding the storing and securing of firearms... to save lives. Of course Manso, the Truro Town Dope, is above such trivial concerns. As for getting away with it...would such an outcome in this case move Manso to write a scathing commentary on the incompetence of the police and courts? I can see it now, "The wrong man is in jail for the Worthington murder but I got away with serious crime." by Peter Manso.
The published claim is that Manso did not renew his FID card (firearms Identification Card). However, it is also widely reported now that Manso's permit to carry a concealed weapon was revoked, not suspended or not renewed, revoked. Revocation is an action by an authority in response to a violation...what happened?
According to people such as Crusader, having a home burglar alarm that is connected to the Truro Police is either a useless precaution or an invitation to be robbed...by the police.
And, an alarm would still allow quick witted robbers time to break, enter, grab and flee. There is a reason Massachusetts has strict laws regarding the storing and securing of firearms... to save lives. Of course Manso, the Truro Town Dope, is above such trivial concerns. As for getting away with it...would such an outcome in this case move Manso to write a scathing commentary on the incompetence of the police and courts? I can see it now, "The wrong man is in jail for the Worthington murder but I got away with serious crime." by Peter Manso.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Pistol-packin’ Peter hoisted by his own petard
In response to: Pistol-packin’ Peter hoisted by his own petard
I sure hope some enterprising reporter asks Manso why his permit to carry a concealed weapon was "revoked" in 2000. Could it be that Manso has had other gun-related issues or that some past gun-related incident has left him with his current unreasoning, foaming-at-the mouth hatred for all law enforcement?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Pistol-packin’ Peter hoisted by his own petard
In response to: Pistol-packin’ Peter hoisted by his own petard
To one and all:
1. I am not a "close friend" of the DA. Either he or I should probably be offended, I just don't know which. We know each other on a first name basis and have for over twenty years. Period.
2. Crusader --- you are just plain vulgar; know what I mean?
3. Producer - What he did was wrong, very wrong. How do you think so many once-legal firearms find their way into criminal hands?
Bittersweet - Technically you are correct. BUT, every one who owns a firearm in Massachusetts must be licensed for either long guns or to carry a concealed weapon. Since gun purchases here require a firearms permit each gun purchase is recorded, and the gun is therefore essentially registered.
Leaving weapons near ammunition much less loaded, unlocked and in clear view while being away from a residence is absolutely irresponsible, and in Massachusetts illegal.
1. I am not a "close friend" of the DA. Either he or I should probably be offended, I just don't know which. We know each other on a first name basis and have for over twenty years. Period.
2. Crusader --- you are just plain vulgar; know what I mean?
3. Producer - What he did was wrong, very wrong. How do you think so many once-legal firearms find their way into criminal hands?
Bittersweet - Technically you are correct. BUT, every one who owns a firearm in Massachusetts must be licensed for either long guns or to carry a concealed weapon. Since gun purchases here require a firearms permit each gun purchase is recorded, and the gun is therefore essentially registered.
Leaving weapons near ammunition much less loaded, unlocked and in clear view while being away from a residence is absolutely irresponsible, and in Massachusetts illegal.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Yarmouth Town Hall goes green
In response to: Yarmouth Town Hall goes green
Does it surprise anyone that this is happening in Yarmouth? ...still the best run town on the Cape. If we can do it...well, you get the drift.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Give me your tired, your poor, and the damn lottery money!
In response to: Give me your tired, your poor, and the damn lottery money!
Holy Hemlock, Batman!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Ringy Dingy Rag:Telemarketing th' Times Tripe
In response to: Ringy Dingy Rag:Telemarketing th' Times Tripe
Then, of course...there is the matter of the Cape Cod Times claiming that it was they who broke the Glenn Marshall - Wampanoag story. Apparently they believe that Friday precedes Monday in the week.
As a certain old (and I do mean old) friend is fond of saying, the Cape Cod Times has trouble hanging on to good reporters but seems to have no difficulty retaining lousy editors and poor management.
They are so inept at finding news to report that they now take paid obituaries, written by the berieved, and use space in section A to print them. Then, of course, there is the matter of consuming huge amounts of section A space to print novels written by their staff.
Oh my!
As a certain old (and I do mean old) friend is fond of saying, the Cape Cod Times has trouble hanging on to good reporters but seems to have no difficulty retaining lousy editors and poor management.
They are so inept at finding news to report that they now take paid obituaries, written by the berieved, and use space in section A to print them. Then, of course, there is the matter of consuming huge amounts of section A space to print novels written by their staff.
Oh my!
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The Roger Clemens Story
In response to: The Roger Clemens Story
Clemens claims now that he has not sued his former trainer, the man who has claimed that he injected steroids into Clemens because of the cost of such an action. Does Clemens have any idea how stupid he sounds when he says such things? I would be surprised if Clemens' net worth is less than $100 million...his last full year's salary was reportedly $28 million.
Or, maybe he is just too cheap to sue...or maybe he knows that if he sues everyone involved will be forced to testify and a lot of previously private and/or secret records will become courtroom displays.
Hmmmm....
Or, maybe he is just too cheap to sue...or maybe he knows that if he sues everyone involved will be forced to testify and a lot of previously private and/or secret records will become courtroom displays.
Hmmmm....
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Our one-party state
In response to: Our one-party state
You forgot Buck Dumain, John Volpe, Leveret Saltonstall, Henry Cabot Lodge and many more.
These days it seems that in order to be welcomed by the Republican party one must be nuts, a war monger, christian (in name only) and it would help to be at least upper middle class.
These days it seems that in order to be welcomed by the Republican party one must be nuts, a war monger, christian (in name only) and it would help to be at least upper middle class.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Helping vs. Saving
In response to: Helping vs. Saving
Trusting neat people has its own risks. Sometimes they are neat because they hide things. Sometimes they only appear to be neat because they hire people to clean up after them. Sometimes they are neat because their lives are empty...and sometimes they are neat because they are suspicious of everyone so they let no one see their "stuff." One man's clutter is another man's inventory. I don't trust neat people.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wampanoag Princess barred from voting
In response to: Wampanoag Princess barred from voting
As I understand the original land suit, there was a motion made jointly by both sides, and accepted by the judge, that the suit would not seek title to privately owned land. This means private residential property, for the most part would be safe.
If Amelia and Steven do re-open the suit, it will be intersting to see who and how many others might join them. Remember, there were several others involved in the original suit. I wonder how much she cares about the opinion of a tribal council who shun her but still welcome Glenn Marshall. From the outside looking in there seems to me to be something screwy here. Shawn Hendricks thinks state government is "a gas"...what a statesman.
Wamps have to pay how much to bury their dead in the ancient Indian cemetary? And folks think the town of Mashpee has actually cleaned up its act as far as how it treats its native neighbors. There are days when I am embarrassed to be white.
If Amelia and Steven do re-open the suit, it will be intersting to see who and how many others might join them. Remember, there were several others involved in the original suit. I wonder how much she cares about the opinion of a tribal council who shun her but still welcome Glenn Marshall. From the outside looking in there seems to me to be something screwy here. Shawn Hendricks thinks state government is "a gas"...what a statesman.
Wamps have to pay how much to bury their dead in the ancient Indian cemetary? And folks think the town of Mashpee has actually cleaned up its act as far as how it treats its native neighbors. There are days when I am embarrassed to be white.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: It's time to lobby for renewable energy
In response to: It's time to lobby for renewable energy
Mark
You do the cause of Cape Wind a great disservice, and I am not even a Cape Wind supporter: Senator Kennedy did not prevent anything from being uilt. In fact, the Minerals and Managaement Service, the federal agency reviewing the Cape Wind application, have not yet issue their draft findings.
First find out what actually has happened...then comment.
You do the cause of Cape Wind a great disservice, and I am not even a Cape Wind supporter: Senator Kennedy did not prevent anything from being uilt. In fact, the Minerals and Managaement Service, the federal agency reviewing the Cape Wind application, have not yet issue their draft findings.
First find out what actually has happened...then comment.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Wampanoag Princess barred from voting
In response to: Wampanoag Princess barred from voting
Siooma
the tribe does not have to explain how they conduct their affairs to outsiders. But they should explain themselves to their own people. The sovereign nation of the Mashpee Wampanoags has some curious ways of implementing its constitution. Most of us out here in the non Indian world would like to be able to take the tribe and its leadership seriously...we are still waiting. This ancient and honorable people are not well served by the antics we see at the council headquarters. Guys like Kirzner love all this stuff...while the tribe wrestles with internal affairs he and his folks will take you to the cleaners.
How much is the tribe's future worth to you, not me...to you and your children and grandchildren? And if I dried and blew away today do you seriously think there would be no one else watching from outside the fence?
Whatever happened to tribal unity and openness in tribal government? A rapist is welcome but an elder remains shunned.
It was your chief who said you and we are neighbors. Neighbors care.
the tribe does not have to explain how they conduct their affairs to outsiders. But they should explain themselves to their own people. The sovereign nation of the Mashpee Wampanoags has some curious ways of implementing its constitution. Most of us out here in the non Indian world would like to be able to take the tribe and its leadership seriously...we are still waiting. This ancient and honorable people are not well served by the antics we see at the council headquarters. Guys like Kirzner love all this stuff...while the tribe wrestles with internal affairs he and his folks will take you to the cleaners.
How much is the tribe's future worth to you, not me...to you and your children and grandchildren? And if I dried and blew away today do you seriously think there would be no one else watching from outside the fence?
Whatever happened to tribal unity and openness in tribal government? A rapist is welcome but an elder remains shunned.
It was your chief who said you and we are neighbors. Neighbors care.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The battle for the soul of the tribe
In response to: The battle for the soul of the tribe
BRAVO
In a sense we are the foreigners. But, rather than play with these sophomoric arguments, we should put our energies, Wamp and non-Wamp alike, into building a strong and healthy relatonship between the two worlds. There is no romm for the nonsense now happening at the tribal council in such a healthy relationship. The U.S. has done its long overdue part...now it is up to the tribe. We cannot do their housecleaning for them. I wish them well.
In a sense we are the foreigners. But, rather than play with these sophomoric arguments, we should put our energies, Wamp and non-Wamp alike, into building a strong and healthy relatonship between the two worlds. There is no romm for the nonsense now happening at the tribal council in such a healthy relationship. The U.S. has done its long overdue part...now it is up to the tribe. We cannot do their housecleaning for them. I wish them well.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Surprise write-in candidate: guess who
In response to: Surprise write-in candidate: guess who
Oh,gee...I forgot about the tribal council renting office space for the New Bedford office of the tribe...renting from whom? Glenn sure knows how to make recognition pay...for him.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Surprise write-in candidate: guess who
In response to: Surprise write-in candidate: guess who
Washiki
Rape, lies to congress and others, fake medals in a basket on his desk, many tribe members know Glenn has been campaigning for a write-in, the Fisherman's fund, the Glock in the drawer, the temper with women, the secret deals with secret partners, the grand jury investigation, the emergency run from Cotuit to CCH, the beating in Brockton, the work as an informant, the motorcycle crash that caused the 'war wounds', the missing grant money, the swindle at Maushop, the vanishing records, the 'unjustified' shunning, the bullying, the Portuguese activist, the missing money at St. Anthony's, the lies in the Library of Congress archives (fought in Columbia and Cuba)...where do you want to start?
Rape, lies to congress and others, fake medals in a basket on his desk, many tribe members know Glenn has been campaigning for a write-in, the Fisherman's fund, the Glock in the drawer, the temper with women, the secret deals with secret partners, the grand jury investigation, the emergency run from Cotuit to CCH, the beating in Brockton, the work as an informant, the motorcycle crash that caused the 'war wounds', the missing grant money, the swindle at Maushop, the vanishing records, the 'unjustified' shunning, the bullying, the Portuguese activist, the missing money at St. Anthony's, the lies in the Library of Congress archives (fought in Columbia and Cuba)...where do you want to start?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Ted Kennedy is writing his memoirs - and needs a title
In response to: Ted Kennedy is writing his memoirs - and needs a title
We'll drive off that bridge when we get to it.
Take a deep breathe, honey.
Great night for a swim.
Hop in back...take a nap.
Tell them I was driving.
Mary Joe who? Oh, I forgot.
Some bridge
I need a nip, er nap.
Anybody got a dime for the phone?
Take a deep breathe, honey.
Great night for a swim.
Hop in back...take a nap.
Tell them I was driving.
Mary Joe who? Oh, I forgot.
Some bridge
I need a nip, er nap.
Anybody got a dime for the phone?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Gayle Andrews: A "Woodwork Cousin"
In response to: Gayle Andrews: A "Woodwork Cousin"
Quahog
SURPRISE! There are no e-mails between me and Paula Peters. You want full disclosure but you do not use your real name in these posts. Nice touch. The last time I had ANY contact with Paula Peters was at leats ten years ago whenh we said hello to each other in passing. Try again, Clamshell.
SURPRISE! There are no e-mails between me and Paula Peters. You want full disclosure but you do not use your real name in these posts. Nice touch. The last time I had ANY contact with Paula Peters was at leats ten years ago whenh we said hello to each other in passing. Try again, Clamshell.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Running From Their Own People
In response to: Running From Their Own People
Wamp-pride - Thanks for the info..still somewhat confusing. And, maybe someone on the council needs a DNA test? Your tribe, your rules. But if greedy co-conspirators are admitted while born Wamps are shut out I demand admission. Or, maybe being an Indian is not the special honorable thing I once thought it should be. How do I sign up for the adantages, How did McDermott?
Quahog - You just don't get it. I have been a vocal supporter of Wamp recognition for years and I remain so...hope they get casinos and gold mines galore. But, we are still your neighbors and you guys are being governed by a bunch of thugs ande thieves, in my opinion. Why are you wasting wind on me when members of your tribe who were proud to be Wamps before it was fashinable are shunned, taken off the rolls and abused? They were Wamps, not Portuguese or Cape Verde... proud Indians.There are people in your tribe who only for their own greed and gain may be able to complete your cultural destruction far more efectivley than white folks could.
Quahog - You just don't get it. I have been a vocal supporter of Wamp recognition for years and I remain so...hope they get casinos and gold mines galore. But, we are still your neighbors and you guys are being governed by a bunch of thugs ande thieves, in my opinion. Why are you wasting wind on me when members of your tribe who were proud to be Wamps before it was fashinable are shunned, taken off the rolls and abused? They were Wamps, not Portuguese or Cape Verde... proud Indians.There are people in your tribe who only for their own greed and gain may be able to complete your cultural destruction far more efectivley than white folks could.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Running From Their Own People
In response to: Running From Their Own People
Wamp-pride - Thanks for the info..still somewhat confusing. And, maybe someone on the council needs a DNA test? Your tribe, your rules. But if greedy co-conspirators are admitted while born Wamps are shut out I demand admission. Or, maybe being an Indian is not the special honorable thing I once thought it should be. How do I sign up for the adantages, How did McDermott?
Quahog - You just don't get it. I have been a vocal supporter of Wamp recognition for years and I remain so...hope they get casinos and gold mines galore. But, we are still your neighbors and you guys are being governed by a bunch of thugs ande thieves, in my opinion. Why are you wasting wind on me when members of your tribe who were proud to be Wamps before it was fashinable are shunned, taken off the rolls and abused? They were Wamps, not Portuguese or Cape Verde... proud Indians.There are people in your tribe who only for their own greed and gain may be able to complete your cultural destruction far more efectivley than white folks could.
Quahog - You just don't get it. I have been a vocal supporter of Wamp recognition for years and I remain so...hope they get casinos and gold mines galore. But, we are still your neighbors and you guys are being governed by a bunch of thugs ande thieves, in my opinion. Why are you wasting wind on me when members of your tribe who were proud to be Wamps before it was fashinable are shunned, taken off the rolls and abused? They were Wamps, not Portuguese or Cape Verde... proud Indians.There are people in your tribe who only for their own greed and gain may be able to complete your cultural destruction far more efectivley than white folks could.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Gayle Andrews: A "Woodwork Cousin"
In response to: Gayle Andrews: A "Woodwork Cousin"
Which books are open? The tribal council's or the Fisherman's Fund and Cornerstone? How about the farm? What about the grants that were made to the tribe for one purpose but apparently used for other things? How about all the money Glenn Marshall used to throw around? How much do Ostrich Boots cost? What about custom bikes and exotic cars?
When Nuey complained that there were no education funds left Marshall and Hendricks fired her for using a council postage stamp. Where did those pesky tuition funds go? Who paid for all those vacations certain people took? Where did all the thousands of $ come from for the campaign contributions? Since Strather claims to have "injected" $15 million into to the tribe and only half of that can be found...what the....?
Has anyone asked Desi for a DNA test? How did Neslon Avant, dead, lock himself into the museum tool shed...from the outside? Clvere guy, too bad he's dead. Who had the keys? Maybe Gayle should try for membership in the Mohegans or Pequots. Why not?
Does Glenn hate women or just like yelling at them?
When Nuey complained that there were no education funds left Marshall and Hendricks fired her for using a council postage stamp. Where did those pesky tuition funds go? Who paid for all those vacations certain people took? Where did all the thousands of $ come from for the campaign contributions? Since Strather claims to have "injected" $15 million into to the tribe and only half of that can be found...what the....?
Has anyone asked Desi for a DNA test? How did Neslon Avant, dead, lock himself into the museum tool shed...from the outside? Clvere guy, too bad he's dead. Who had the keys? Maybe Gayle should try for membership in the Mohegans or Pequots. Why not?
Does Glenn hate women or just like yelling at them?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Running From Their Own People
In response to: Running From Their Own People
I am not sure about the blood requirment for tribal membership. I know what happened to Gayle Andrews and her mother on the Vineyard when their fraud was discovered...the Aquinnah gave them one way tickets back to the Cape. But, there is language in the Mashpee constitution that seems to say the tribe can admit anyone it wishes, if cretain criteria are met.
Example: twenty years of proven activities in behalf of the tribe. I would ask the tribe's genealogist but she won't return my calls. I would ask Shawn but he is too dumb to know. He thinks big biceps are a qualification. I wouldn't ask anyone else on the council...would you believe them? About anything? Then there's that wonderful white lawyer from Boston, McDermott...or maybe Scott Ferson. Maybe we should ask Kirzner because he is the one really running the tribe. He is a member of the famous lost tribe of South Africa, the Gelt Wampanoags, originally from the Isle of Gelt, before it sank into natucket Sound. Look it up.
Example: twenty years of proven activities in behalf of the tribe. I would ask the tribe's genealogist but she won't return my calls. I would ask Shawn but he is too dumb to know. He thinks big biceps are a qualification. I wouldn't ask anyone else on the council...would you believe them? About anything? Then there's that wonderful white lawyer from Boston, McDermott...or maybe Scott Ferson. Maybe we should ask Kirzner because he is the one really running the tribe. He is a member of the famous lost tribe of South Africa, the Gelt Wampanoags, originally from the Isle of Gelt, before it sank into natucket Sound. Look it up.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Christy goes renewable today
In response to: Christy goes renewable today
Christy -
I thought you were a bright guy...this will NEVER work. You have some nerve telling us that you can generate electricity using clean and renewable fuel without some sort of public subsidy...and on private property?
Let's see: equipment purchased with after-tax private dollars, installed by a non-union company on private property by a non-democrat, an avowed capitalist.
I can know a train wreck when I see one.
I thought you were a bright guy...this will NEVER work. You have some nerve telling us that you can generate electricity using clean and renewable fuel without some sort of public subsidy...and on private property?
Let's see: equipment purchased with after-tax private dollars, installed by a non-union company on private property by a non-democrat, an avowed capitalist.
I can know a train wreck when I see one.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Hypocrats: Part 2
In response to: Hypocrats: Part 2
By the way, Demorant, I can't seem to find any where in what i wrote that wealthy folks should not be wealthy. But, wealthy candidates and office holders should be careful how much sacrifice they demand of those less well-off than they. Do you not agree that leaders should set an example?
Do you realize that Ted Kennedy has NEVER released a tax return/ That he is now the family head of a series of "spillover" trusts established by his stock-manipulating, bootlegging, election-buying father, who left an estimated $350 million in these trusts?
I detest George W. Bush, but he and his wife, on the tax returns they release voluntarily show tens of thousands of dollars in charitable contributions. How does Sen. John Kerry stack up? Poorly. But he is so noble when he calls on others to "sacrifice."
Do you realize that Ted Kennedy has NEVER released a tax return/ That he is now the family head of a series of "spillover" trusts established by his stock-manipulating, bootlegging, election-buying father, who left an estimated $350 million in these trusts?
I detest George W. Bush, but he and his wife, on the tax returns they release voluntarily show tens of thousands of dollars in charitable contributions. How does Sen. John Kerry stack up? Poorly. But he is so noble when he calls on others to "sacrifice."
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Hypocrats: Part 2
In response to: Hypocrats: Part 2
Not necessarily a tax for everyone. I do NOT favor a tax on SUV's...period. But it rots my socks when this or any poseur tells us we must all sacrifice and change our mode of living in order to improve our energy future while he sets an example that any Arabian knight would admire.
As for Egan and my other so-called Osterville friends, I would not know him if I feel over him and have never been invited for tea. Something interesting is afoot right now involving what was to have been a television interview for me for tomorrow. this could a fun little piece. Stay tuned...and calm down. You are wasting precious energy.
As for Egan and my other so-called Osterville friends, I would not know him if I feel over him and have never been invited for tea. Something interesting is afoot right now involving what was to have been a television interview for me for tomorrow. this could a fun little piece. Stay tuned...and calm down. You are wasting precious energy.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The next moon shot--we need it now
In response to: The next moon shot--we need it now
News Hen -
I feel henpecked. Is there a little anger management issue here?
I feel henpecked. Is there a little anger management issue here?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: P'town's Fisherman's Wharf sold; Tom Bernardo auditions for Island Manager job; Give Puritans some credit
In response to: P'town's Fisherman's Wharf sold; Tom Bernardo auditions for Island Manager job; Give Puritans some credit
This is a joke, isn't it?
Tom Bernardo is a nice enough guy in his everyday Joe role, but County manager? Give me a break.
Tom's total experience running any government agency, let alone an entire county with different departments is nil. Is he trying out for Rookie of the Year? I give him credit for Chutzpah, but that's about it. Tom was unable/unwilling to halt to spending of the Barnstable County surplus so that we are now in a nosedive toward budget disaster. Does the Vineyard need to hire one of the four horsemen?
Besides, if he thinks Cape politics are rugged...those folks on the Vineyard would eat him alive. Theirs is a long and often dreary winter, lots of time to skewer their public officials.
The good news is, if he gets the job...
Cape Cod will be reasonably safe for awhile. Tom would feel at home with the Martha's Vineyard Commission, the model for the Cape Cod Commission, over which he declared the Assembly of Delegates had no authority, "Well, they're... they're different." So are you, Tom. So are you.
Tom Bernardo is a nice enough guy in his everyday Joe role, but County manager? Give me a break.
Tom's total experience running any government agency, let alone an entire county with different departments is nil. Is he trying out for Rookie of the Year? I give him credit for Chutzpah, but that's about it. Tom was unable/unwilling to halt to spending of the Barnstable County surplus so that we are now in a nosedive toward budget disaster. Does the Vineyard need to hire one of the four horsemen?
Besides, if he thinks Cape politics are rugged...those folks on the Vineyard would eat him alive. Theirs is a long and often dreary winter, lots of time to skewer their public officials.
The good news is, if he gets the job...
Cape Cod will be reasonably safe for awhile. Tom would feel at home with the Martha's Vineyard Commission, the model for the Cape Cod Commission, over which he declared the Assembly of Delegates had no authority, "Well, they're... they're different." So are you, Tom. So are you.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Hunting the Elusive Bugaboo
In response to: Hunting the Elusive Bugaboo
It seems to me that the language by which the CCC "may propose......" etc means that the members of the CCC may propose standards that would require passage by the Assembly of Delegates thence to become County Ordinance(s). This is, of course, the kiss of death because the Assembly is made up of people who are largely as incompetent, power-hungry and Stalinist as the members of the CCC and most of the CCC staff. The Klines are being held to a lawless standard because their proposed house has absolutely NO regional impact and because the state (MEPA) has already said there is no cause to deny them their permit. This is about wanting to have power over others for the sake of that power and for no other reason. AND, remember, it was a sitting member of the CCC, Susan Kadar, who coincidentally is the Truro town representative on the CCC who was publicly identified as the leader of the petition drive that gathered 400 signatures and that is now cited by the new head of the CCC as a compelling reason to make this lawless referral.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Today in history: The Blogfather's birthday
In response to: Today in history: The Blogfather's birthday
Happy birthday, Walter. But geekers...that picture. That musty have been the last time you cast your gaze to the right.
Funny how a song will just pop into one's head and get stuck there...Billy Joel..only the good die young?
Celebrate, you old goat!
PAK
Funny how a song will just pop into one's head and get stuck there...Billy Joel..only the good die young?
Celebrate, you old goat!
PAK
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The Mashpee tribe is on the outside looking in
In response to: The Mashpee tribe is on the outside looking in
Steve-b et al -
I have said and still say that the Mashpee should do whatever they want to do. If they want to build a casino they should. Anyone who says I oppose a Mashpee casino is wrong. But, anyone who thinks that the tribe is being fairly managed by the Kirzener/Hendricks/Ferson mob is wrong. A federal grand jury was in the works long before I started writing about this.
As for the Aquinnah example, my understanding is that their draft compact has expired and that frees them to pursue a gambling development, something they appear to be doing in partnership with the Oneida and the Mohegans. As I see it this three-way partnership means a well-managed operation funded entirely by Indian money...no outsiders, no Fersons, etc. This could very well mean that as a solid all-Indian organization moves forward the Mashpee will be left with canceled tribal meetings, incompetent leadership, greedy outsiders running the tribe and a host of federal court actions to worry about.When I read about the Aquinnah or the Oneida or the Mohegans I read an Indian quoted as spokesman. Hmm...
I have said and still say that the Mashpee should do whatever they want to do. If they want to build a casino they should. Anyone who says I oppose a Mashpee casino is wrong. But, anyone who thinks that the tribe is being fairly managed by the Kirzener/Hendricks/Ferson mob is wrong. A federal grand jury was in the works long before I started writing about this.
As for the Aquinnah example, my understanding is that their draft compact has expired and that frees them to pursue a gambling development, something they appear to be doing in partnership with the Oneida and the Mohegans. As I see it this three-way partnership means a well-managed operation funded entirely by Indian money...no outsiders, no Fersons, etc. This could very well mean that as a solid all-Indian organization moves forward the Mashpee will be left with canceled tribal meetings, incompetent leadership, greedy outsiders running the tribe and a host of federal court actions to worry about.When I read about the Aquinnah or the Oneida or the Mohegans I read an Indian quoted as spokesman. Hmm...
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The Mashpee tribe is on the outside looking in
In response to: The Mashpee tribe is on the outside looking in
Steve-b
You should read the federal law ... AGAIN...that is, if you have read the Indian Gaming Control Act at all. After you have read this law you might want to read the draft compact the Aquinnah signed with the Commonwealth when Bill Weld was governor. It gives a good tutorial of how these things work. Then we'll talk. No state gaming law = no Indian casino. Trump that.
Thanks for your help.
You should read the federal law ... AGAIN...that is, if you have read the Indian Gaming Control Act at all. After you have read this law you might want to read the draft compact the Aquinnah signed with the Commonwealth when Bill Weld was governor. It gives a good tutorial of how these things work. Then we'll talk. No state gaming law = no Indian casino. Trump that.
Thanks for your help.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The Mashpee tribe is on the outside looking in
In response to: The Mashpee tribe is on the outside looking in
Hal Brown -
I guess you are saying that several of the tribal council's meetimgs have NOT been cancelled. Perhaps you might quote your source?
I guess you are saying that several of the tribal council's meetimgs have NOT been cancelled. Perhaps you might quote your source?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: CapeCodToday's Peter Kenney nominated for a Best of the Blogs award
In response to: CapeCodToday's Peter Kenney nominated for a Best of the Blogs award
Capecrusader
Swing away, Just be sure you have all the facts. It is obvious you have never seen the court record or spoken with me or my attorney. Let me guess the source of your information. If this is really important for you to know, ask Walter how to reach me; I would be glad to share the whole story with you, but I will not do it here. There are innocents involved...four children who did not ask to be thrown into the mess of their extended family. Obviously you have no problem embarrassing them globally.
Keep up the good work and as soon as you cross the line into defamation I will back-check to your IP location and then we will both get a chance to talk about this in court. I hope you have assets and a good income; do you have a conscience? I cannot speak of this publicly because of a court order from 1997...the same one that commands everyone else not to speak. Clearly someone has not seen fit to follow this order. If you are a member of a certain family you are subject to the order and any violation of it could land you in a contempt-of-court situation.
Swing away, Just be sure you have all the facts. It is obvious you have never seen the court record or spoken with me or my attorney. Let me guess the source of your information. If this is really important for you to know, ask Walter how to reach me; I would be glad to share the whole story with you, but I will not do it here. There are innocents involved...four children who did not ask to be thrown into the mess of their extended family. Obviously you have no problem embarrassing them globally.
Keep up the good work and as soon as you cross the line into defamation I will back-check to your IP location and then we will both get a chance to talk about this in court. I hope you have assets and a good income; do you have a conscience? I cannot speak of this publicly because of a court order from 1997...the same one that commands everyone else not to speak. Clearly someone has not seen fit to follow this order. If you are a member of a certain family you are subject to the order and any violation of it could land you in a contempt-of-court situation.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Can you hear us now, Verizon?
In response to: Can you hear us now, Verizon?
Monpo -
Obviously your offer of tribute was not sufficient. Perhaps a couple of more cases of the booty would have loosened their heart strings.
Obviously your offer of tribute was not sufficient. Perhaps a couple of more cases of the booty would have loosened their heart strings.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Pursuing the Paranormal: "In His Garden"
In response to: Pursuing the Paranormal: "In His Garden"
WOW!
I knew Leo Damore very well...was his best man when he married my wife's college room mate and spent considerable time with him while he was researching and writing this book. I saw the MSP pictures of the open graves before the bodies were removed, the bodies before and during autopsy, etc. The missing hearts part is a give away. Most of what you have written is simply not historically accurate. Leo never mentioned the crypt as the scene of any of these crimes and he spent man weeks talking with the men who were actually on-scene when the bodies were discovered and who had finally gotten Costa to talk. In fact. Costa dismembered two bodies close to where he killed and raped them...then buried the parts with great difficulty in among tree roots. The third he killed and dismembered, probably elsewhere (perhaps his own bathtub in Provincetown), and then brought her to his 'garden' for burial. Her crushed head he placed in a plastic bag. The photo of this discovery is horrifying.
MSP Lt. Flynn believed Costa killed at least 3 dozen women.
I knew Leo Damore very well...was his best man when he married my wife's college room mate and spent considerable time with him while he was researching and writing this book. I saw the MSP pictures of the open graves before the bodies were removed, the bodies before and during autopsy, etc. The missing hearts part is a give away. Most of what you have written is simply not historically accurate. Leo never mentioned the crypt as the scene of any of these crimes and he spent man weeks talking with the men who were actually on-scene when the bodies were discovered and who had finally gotten Costa to talk. In fact. Costa dismembered two bodies close to where he killed and raped them...then buried the parts with great difficulty in among tree roots. The third he killed and dismembered, probably elsewhere (perhaps his own bathtub in Provincetown), and then brought her to his 'garden' for burial. Her crushed head he placed in a plastic bag. The photo of this discovery is horrifying.
MSP Lt. Flynn believed Costa killed at least 3 dozen women.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Two Wamps vie for same casino licence; Mashpees get $667K Fed funds for housing, staff
In response to: Two Wamps vie for same casino licence; Mashpees get $667K Fed funds for housing, staff
Siooma -
In fact, CC TODAY does provide a link to a longer story from another publication which quotes the Mashpee town manager. We must have found it blowing down a back alley.
In fact, CC TODAY does provide a link to a longer story from another publication which quotes the Mashpee town manager. We must have found it blowing down a back alley.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Peter Kenney in running for a slice of Finneran's WRKO airtime
In response to: Peter Kenney in running for a slice of Finneran's WRKO airtime
Let's just say this is all way overstated. Have I spoken with someone at WRKO? yes. Is that all there is to report? yes.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Cape Cod Commission voting today on Cape Wind
In response to: Cape Cod Commission voting today on Cape Wind
The bit about implying bribery is not pretty...and not helpful. Other than that I was thrilled with the Commission vote...it proves my long-held belief that ritual suicide is not to be found only in Japan. We now have a glowing example of regulatory hypocrisy...one which will show even the staunchest environmentalists that the Cape Cop Commission must go. This vote follows a toxic staff review process, a spastic sub-committee process and the obscene decision by the Commission to review what has become known as the Hopper Hooplah.
Does any rational persona still actually believe that the Cape Cod Commission can be saved?
Let us not get too carried away with the old saw, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." this enemy might just be everybody's eneny.
Does any rational persona still actually believe that the Cape Cod Commission can be saved?
Let us not get too carried away with the old saw, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." this enemy might just be everybody's eneny.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The airports to nowhere
In response to: The airports to nowhere
I know why the three airports included in these earmarks need so much extra money: All of them need new devices to indicate wind direction. Currently they use the old fashioned wind socks...these will be replaced with digital windbags.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Press 2 for Deval-speak
In response to: Press 2 for Deval-speak
Fritgard...appropriately named?
You are so very wrong.
First: I "weave" the Mashpe into what I write about the current gaming debate because I choose to do so. If you think there is need for a discussion of the gaming situation without mentioning the Mahpee...feel free to write it yourself.
Second: I have in fact written about the precise nature of the relationship betwen the tribe and Abramoff and I have no quarrel with the idea that either his unseen influence or the known influence of two people who worked directly for him had an effect on the recognition effort.
Offer some quotes from my pieces and then offer proof that I was wrong. It is really that simple. I can take a punch.
As for including Glenn Marshall in many pieces about the tribe...he volunteered. I notice that eleven the vote by the council to force him out of office was 10 - 1. I guess you'll be writing ugly things about those folks, too. Maybe you want to argue about his lies (before congress, no less) or his drug possession/use or his rape conviction.
You are so very wrong.
First: I "weave" the Mashpe into what I write about the current gaming debate because I choose to do so. If you think there is need for a discussion of the gaming situation without mentioning the Mahpee...feel free to write it yourself.
Second: I have in fact written about the precise nature of the relationship betwen the tribe and Abramoff and I have no quarrel with the idea that either his unseen influence or the known influence of two people who worked directly for him had an effect on the recognition effort.
Offer some quotes from my pieces and then offer proof that I was wrong. It is really that simple. I can take a punch.
As for including Glenn Marshall in many pieces about the tribe...he volunteered. I notice that eleven the vote by the council to force him out of office was 10 - 1. I guess you'll be writing ugly things about those folks, too. Maybe you want to argue about his lies (before congress, no less) or his drug possession/use or his rape conviction.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Press 2 for Deval-speak
In response to: Press 2 for Deval-speak
frigtard
What are you talking about? I have never said that the Mashpee are planning to apply for a license under the governor's plan. What I have said is that if they decide to do so, or of the Aquinnah decide to dos so they will be made to surrender their federal gaming rights. I said this because the governor's bill said so in very clear language which no one in the "real world media" has yet seen fit to publish.
What makes you so grumpy? Let me guess...
What are you talking about? I have never said that the Mashpee are planning to apply for a license under the governor's plan. What I have said is that if they decide to do so, or of the Aquinnah decide to dos so they will be made to surrender their federal gaming rights. I said this because the governor's bill said so in very clear language which no one in the "real world media" has yet seen fit to publish.
What makes you so grumpy? Let me guess...
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: “Can You Hear Me Now?”
In response to: “Can You Hear Me Now?”
Commonsense
This blog of regional impact is going to tell seventeen years of arbitrary and capricious actions by the Cape Cod Commission. It is this blog's goal to show Cape Codders what they have have paid to lose their future. Then they will be able to decide for themselves how much more of the commission's waste, fraud and abuse they can afford.
This is not necessarily breaking news...but it is critically important. Those who do not learn from history etc., etc. By the way, you will notice that our still state senator, Rob O'Leary plays a part in Waivemakers story.
My advice to people such as Rob: LEAD, FOLLOW OR GET OUT OF THE WAY.
This blog of regional impact is going to tell seventeen years of arbitrary and capricious actions by the Cape Cod Commission. It is this blog's goal to show Cape Codders what they have have paid to lose their future. Then they will be able to decide for themselves how much more of the commission's waste, fraud and abuse they can afford.
This is not necessarily breaking news...but it is critically important. Those who do not learn from history etc., etc. By the way, you will notice that our still state senator, Rob O'Leary plays a part in Waivemakers story.
My advice to people such as Rob: LEAD, FOLLOW OR GET OUT OF THE WAY.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: A Blog of Regional Impact
In response to: A Blog of Regional Impact
Nice having you aboard, wavemaker...little did you know!
And for weary --- oh yes; this will be good. An old fashioned, bare knuckles political brawl.
And for weary --- oh yes; this will be good. An old fashioned, bare knuckles political brawl.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Stuck Hard
In response to: Stuck Hard
There is little I can do about how China treats the world. But, I can take part in productive debate here on Cape Cod and perhaps in Massachusetts.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Tribe must choose: casino OR sovereignty
In response to: Tribe must choose: casino OR sovereignty
Scott Ferson claims to speak for the tribe but he also admits that he is paid by the investors...has been since 2000. It is interesting to me that he has not said anything about page 45. I am not drawing conclusions...I am showing what the governor wants to happen by re-printing his own words...that tribes applying for a Massachusetts gaming license will be required to "waive any and all rights" granted to them under the federal ACT. It seems pretty simple to me.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Tribe must choose: casino OR sovereignty
In response to: Tribe must choose: casino OR sovereignty
Frank
I have read the ACT. I have also read the governor's legislative proposal...several times. No matter what class of gaming the state eventually authorizes, ther is no way around the fact that the bill says what it says on page 45 and I have printed the entire paragrah here for all to see. While one may argue about whether what the governor proposes will pass or is legal there can be no argument that he wants the tribes to forfeit their rights under the federal ACT. BUT...for some reason, no one else is reporting this FACT.
The governor's bill says clearly that he is demanding the tribes and/or their partners to waive their native rights under the federal ACT. Have you read the entire bill as submitted by the governor? The ONLY mention I can find of native gaming rights is the paragraph I have posted from page 45. He and his press folks say that there will be a preference shown to tribal applicants, but the bill says the opposite and the governor has not specified the edge he will give the tribes.
I have read the ACT. I have also read the governor's legislative proposal...several times. No matter what class of gaming the state eventually authorizes, ther is no way around the fact that the bill says what it says on page 45 and I have printed the entire paragrah here for all to see. While one may argue about whether what the governor proposes will pass or is legal there can be no argument that he wants the tribes to forfeit their rights under the federal ACT. BUT...for some reason, no one else is reporting this FACT.
The governor's bill says clearly that he is demanding the tribes and/or their partners to waive their native rights under the federal ACT. Have you read the entire bill as submitted by the governor? The ONLY mention I can find of native gaming rights is the paragraph I have posted from page 45. He and his press folks say that there will be a preference shown to tribal applicants, but the bill says the opposite and the governor has not specified the edge he will give the tribes.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Yesterday's heroes
In response to: Yesterday's heroes
TWG
Geeze...even the Cape Cod Times has caught on to this little event...and wrote about last week. Strather wrote to Marshall and told him Paula Peters should not be on the council, etc., etc.
Then, of course, there is the lawyer McDermott who "helped" re-write the tribe's constitution but who is paid by the investors who are not tribe members, same is true of the tribe's spokesman, Scott Ferson and his whole company, Liberty Square Group... speaking for the tribe but paid by outsiders.
I am not accusing Strather of anything he has not actually admitted. And, how do you or anyone else know that he is not on the menu up at the U.S. Attorney's office in Boston? If the IRS is investigating Glenn Marshall, and Ferson has said they are...where do you think he might have gotten the money they are looking at?
Geeze...even the Cape Cod Times has caught on to this little event...and wrote about last week. Strather wrote to Marshall and told him Paula Peters should not be on the council, etc., etc.
Then, of course, there is the lawyer McDermott who "helped" re-write the tribe's constitution but who is paid by the investors who are not tribe members, same is true of the tribe's spokesman, Scott Ferson and his whole company, Liberty Square Group... speaking for the tribe but paid by outsiders.
I am not accusing Strather of anything he has not actually admitted. And, how do you or anyone else know that he is not on the menu up at the U.S. Attorney's office in Boston? If the IRS is investigating Glenn Marshall, and Ferson has said they are...where do you think he might have gotten the money they are looking at?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Bipolar Cleveland shooter asked for help and got none
In response to: Bipolar Cleveland shooter asked for help and got none
This case cries out for a common sense response. Several federal agencies are fighting a turf war because each wants its own funded program to trace gun ownership. The FBI program is (or was) called DRUG FIRE. Simple idea: when a gun is used in a crime the weapon is traced from the crime backward to the day it left the factory and thence throughout the chain of legal ownership. When the legal ownership sequence stops a criminal investigation begins. The idea is that all (most) guns first enter the market legally and at some point fall into the wrong hands through an illegal act...theft, unrecorded sale, improper storage, etc. In cases where the FBI program has followed its course individual guns have been tracked from legal manufacture to dealer purchase to a legitimate gun owner to subsequent sales/transfers and ultimately to the hands of a criminal or perhaps a deranged person with homicide/suicide on his mind. Even total gun control does not address this black market aspect. Let's get smart.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: Tribe must choose: casino OR sovereignty
In response to: Tribe must choose: casino OR sovereignty
Wavemaker
Good question. Is it legitimate for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to demand that a federally recognized sovereign tribe must forfeit rights granted to them under a specific federal statute in order to qualify for a gaming license?
Remember, our governor was at one time the chief civil rights lawyer at the United States Justice department. The Wamps do not seem to do well against Harvard-educated lawyers: Judge Skinner, James St.Clair and now Deval Patrick.
Good question. Is it legitimate for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to demand that a federally recognized sovereign tribe must forfeit rights granted to them under a specific federal statute in order to qualify for a gaming license?
Remember, our governor was at one time the chief civil rights lawyer at the United States Justice department. The Wamps do not seem to do well against Harvard-educated lawyers: Judge Skinner, James St.Clair and now Deval Patrick.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: And you thought Big City politics were brutal...
In response to: And you thought Big City politics were brutal...
Muwin
It is Peter K. Your explanation is wonderful...and it is very important to point as you did that the Mashpee took the high road (and the toughest road) to recognition. As for the requirements for membership, you are, of course, correct. But, whether by federal or tribal constitution these requirements are largely unknown to non-Indians. Blood is usually assumed to be the sole qualification, but...true to the Indian way there is more. Loyalty to the Indian identity is a must as is participation in powwow.
Still, it is some ways odd that the non-
Indian world gets to dictate what makes an Indian...Indian.
It is Peter K. Your explanation is wonderful...and it is very important to point as you did that the Mashpee took the high road (and the toughest road) to recognition. As for the requirements for membership, you are, of course, correct. But, whether by federal or tribal constitution these requirements are largely unknown to non-Indians. Blood is usually assumed to be the sole qualification, but...true to the Indian way there is more. Loyalty to the Indian identity is a must as is participation in powwow.
Still, it is some ways odd that the non-
Indian world gets to dictate what makes an Indian...Indian.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: And you thought Big City politics were brutal...
In response to: And you thought Big City politics were brutal...
Fillet -
The qualifications for membership in the tribe are contained in the constitution. If you like we could reprint the relevant sections here. My reading is that the qualifications for membership break down into three categories: blood, loyalty and participation. For example, membership will be denied to anyone who has ever acted against this or any tribe or denied his/her Indian heritage. That should include, for example, should exclude...oh, say sopmeone who as a boy picked on Indian kids in school and/or who as an adult living in Brockton or Falmouth claimed to Portuguese and denied any Wampanoag blood.
As for the rights attaching to sovereignty, that is a huge question and one for which the answers seem to change frequently as new federal court decisions are made. As usual, Uncle Sam seems confuse and unwilling to state what those rights are and then stand by the rules of sovereignty.
The qualifications for membership in the tribe are contained in the constitution. If you like we could reprint the relevant sections here. My reading is that the qualifications for membership break down into three categories: blood, loyalty and participation. For example, membership will be denied to anyone who has ever acted against this or any tribe or denied his/her Indian heritage. That should include, for example, should exclude...oh, say sopmeone who as a boy picked on Indian kids in school and/or who as an adult living in Brockton or Falmouth claimed to Portuguese and denied any Wampanoag blood.
As for the rights attaching to sovereignty, that is a huge question and one for which the answers seem to change frequently as new federal court decisions are made. As usual, Uncle Sam seems confuse and unwilling to state what those rights are and then stand by the rules of sovereignty.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The Monster we have created
In response to: The Monster we have created
And, now that you mention it...this is a perfect example of how the CCC can get away with being arbitrary and capricious. From what I can see the only time it is assured that the full commission will follow the vote of the subcommittee is when the subcommittee has voted to hammer somebody. Plus, I believe that CCC members allow their friends to whisper in their ears off the record.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The Monster we have created
In response to: The Monster we have created
The application was for demolition and then building a new structure which closely resembled the old...or that is how I read it. There was quite a bit of debate about how historic the house actually was, how irreplaceable or unique its features, etc.
It appears to me as if Mannheim made it through the subcommittee in tact but got blindsided by the full commission. The nutties in town hall had made it clear that they would not approve a demolition permit under the town's general demolition/delay historic bylaw (any building more than 75 or 80 yrs). But, that would have allowed them to hold up the project for only six months or so...so a referral to the CCC was drafted and submitted. It has been a while since I read the decision, but that is what I recall.
Next time you are in the neighborhood drive by the site...it is fascinating to see all that money spent to "preserve" nothing of note.
It appears to me as if Mannheim made it through the subcommittee in tact but got blindsided by the full commission. The nutties in town hall had made it clear that they would not approve a demolition permit under the town's general demolition/delay historic bylaw (any building more than 75 or 80 yrs). But, that would have allowed them to hold up the project for only six months or so...so a referral to the CCC was drafted and submitted. It has been a while since I read the decision, but that is what I recall.
Next time you are in the neighborhood drive by the site...it is fascinating to see all that money spent to "preserve" nothing of note.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The Monster we have created
In response to: The Monster we have created
And by the way...the leader of the petition drive in Truro favoring CCC referral of the Kline project was non other than the town's representative to the CCC, Susan Kadar. How's that for fair and square?
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The Monster we have created
In response to: The Monster we have created
Mannheim proceeded within the CCC limits. He gutted the house completely while building a frame to support the exterior shell, removed all the rotted areas of the original exterior structure, then built an addition to one side (how's that for keeping its historic and architectural purity?). What choice did he have? He had already bought the house and spent a considerable amount of money on an architect, lawyers and experts. Simply putting the house on the market would have been difficult due to the CCC now being publicly involved in any work intended for the property.
CCC's historic planner actually spoke during this case of our having to honor the craftsmanship of the past...BULLCOOKIES! There was nothing unusual about the craft of this house. She does not know what she is talking about when she makes claims about the things we cannot find craftsmen to produce today. I guess that makes her ideal for the commission.
CCC's historic planner actually spoke during this case of our having to honor the craftsmanship of the past...BULLCOOKIES! There was nothing unusual about the craft of this house. She does not know what she is talking about when she makes claims about the things we cannot find craftsmen to produce today. I guess that makes her ideal for the commission.
Peter Kenney [Member]
In response to: The Monster we have created
In response to: The Monster we have created
Actually, the house in Hyannisport I referenced was neither. It was a fairly typical beach house of about 100 years with flat-board trim...and it was outside the Hyannisport Federal Register. One neighbor in particular got the town planner to make the referral, as any town planner or planning board can. Anyway, the CCC can make its own referral to itself.
In this case the house has neither architectural nor historic significance. It had an owner with enough money to weather the storm and who wanted to have the incredible view at any price.
As to the notion of what constitutes a structure of historical, architectural or cultural importance, there are no set standards for the CCC...and their experts usually disagree with those of an applicant. "Significant" means what the Stalinists in Barnstable Village want it to mean...and it varies from case-to-case.
In this case the house has neither architectural nor historic significance. It had an owner with enough money to weather the storm and who wanted to have the incredible view at any price.
As to the notion of what constitutes a structure of historical, architectural or cultural importance, there are no set standards for the CCC...and their experts usually disagree with those of an applicant. "Significant" means what the Stalinists in Barnstable Village want it to mean...and it varies from case-to-case.
In response to: The fabulous debate over wind power on Nantucket Sound
Gee whizz! All I did was ask Bogman for a list of the thingS he said I opposed.
Gee whizz!