CapeCodToday Blog Chowder

Buzz,
"Thats some bad hat harry......"

mmmm

Let's see.... Bush comes into office, gas prices are at about 1.50/ gal.
Bush and Cheney are members of the Big Oil profiteers.
The oil companies rape the US consumers under the watchful eyes of the whitehouse and drive the economy into the ground.
Magically, gas prices return to where they were before the raping began but just after Obama wins the presidency.....
Hmmmm. Ya think that Bush/Cheney had anything to gain?

Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad fish. Not like going down the pond chasin' bluegills and tommycods. This shark, swallow you whole. Little shakin', little tenderizin', an' down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back your tourists, put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief. I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and kill him, for ten. But you've gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's too many captains on this island. Ten thousand dollars for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.

Christy,

Question: if your business was offered a federal incentive to convert to, say, a hydrogen filling station because hydrogen powered vehicles were becoming available and efficient, would you not take advantage of that offer?

I'm sure that you will, for your point of argument, claim that you would not take advantage of that "welfare".

If that is so, that just makes you either an overpaid fool or a liar....

Just keep that childish banter going. Just more garbage from the oil sector........

BTW, who sold you those cute little rooftop turbines? Did they do a site analysis first or are you just throwing petty cash around to make some abstract point about the futility of wind energy? Were they also selling aluminum siding?

So Neil, given the low numbers of energy output, what do you suggest that CG should have done to help offset their draw of power on the dirty grid?

When you take into account the transmission losses involved in getting the electricity from the toxic plant at the canal, alone, decentralized power production such as the wind generator at CG is far superior.

Naysayers who quote research from one source and use it to impune all windpower are just another devious part of the problem. Neil Good might as well just heat his house by burning plastic barbie dolls in his coal stove.
That too is more efficient than windpower.......

Capedoggie,
haven't you learned anything from this whole thing?

Cash is king. The environment, the public's health, laws, these are abstract issues that really are just out there for show.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

Let's face it. The Parlantes have been winning at this game for years. Why should we expect it to stop?

You can't fight City Hall. Once you get connected in da Fleet, you never lose your power.

Look at Putnam. Run off his Selectman's seat for trying to make Wellfleet a garbage dump. Did he have something to gain? Naaahh. Even after he should be hiding his head in the sand, he shows up on the ZBA, grumbling away and threatening anyone who doesn't see the same twisted view as he does.

I don't know why i even waste my time fighting.

GO BOOKSTORE!
KILL KILL!!!!!!

Oh right.

Did you wear a helmet when you were a kid?

Is that sneeze what destroyed his racks and the rest of his rotted gear?

Oh no, I'm sure since he was a kid.

Like Damien in the Omen or that firestarter kid.

Michael Parlante did it.

Oh yea. That's what happened.

I guess he is just lucky.

ROCK ON, BOOKSTORE! YOU GUYS RULE!!!!

oooo. goody! a diversion.
Just what the clam ordered!

Is it a Village People free concert?

I'm not from Wellfleet?

In my dreams.

You know, when you put it like that.... he is a pretty good businessman.

Soylent green is PEOPLE!

Whatever it takes.

Sounds about right.

Wait....Don't forget the part where Godzilla urinates in his customer's fake lobster roll then falls down laughing when the guy pays top dollar for it.

That IS wicked funny!!!!

Suckers.

If I were you, I would sit back, count my money and laugh too. All the way to the bank.

You guys ROCK!

Pretty sweet.

I didn't say anything about the DEP..........


I was speaking to his control over Wellfleet's town employees who have been powerless to stop him since 1988. There is no secret there. That's public knowledge.

As for the DEP, well..... I had no idea he had friends there too.... But thanks for bringing that to our attention, Genius!

You are as transparent as a glass of water, well, not Bookstore water of course.....

How do you figure that they are complying?

The only thing that makes sense here is that my prediction has come true. Mike Parlante has continued to use his astonishing influence to keep the powerless Town Of Wellfleet from enforcing the rules that everyone but him must follow.

It blows my mind that no one can stop him.

They should rename the place "the Omnipotent Cesspool"

What a joke.

Gee, lets see, a 30 foot hinkley from Osterville runs out of gas off Monomoy and the crew decides to swim for it rather than call for help?
Did they give these guys an IQ test after they pulled them from the drink?
What ever happened to survival of the fittest?

spanking yourself.

what a sad and bitter guy.
now i am starting to feel bad for the poor clam.
the angry thrashing only makes the quicksand take you faster.....

i wouldn't get involved in a restaurant if you held a gun to my head...

i can tell you how to make a million dollars in the restaurant biz though....

start with 10 million......

doggie,
why bother?
this guy is so obviously out of his mind...
mike or not mike, the complete lack of connection with reality is one similarity that the 2 of them share.

feeling that it is OK to behave the way they do, both on this forum and at the restaurant shows that trying to have a rational discussion with mp or whoever is a complete waste of time.

Wow.

Well then, Clamsmelli, why the silence?
As usual, you dodge the question.
Who put the gag order on you?
Out with it....
I bet you are gonna get in trouble for flapping your gums now!

Why the silence then?

Regardless of who you are, you have gone from overzealous defense of obvious heinous violations of so many laws to odd silence, not online silence as you have been blogging elsewhere, but silence on an issue you claim to have such a passion for.

Explain?
or dodge the question as you are becoming famous for......

I have to assume that clamsmelli's off character silence is because of an outside influence.

Hmmm.

What gives, clamsmelly?

Oyster drills finally got thru the shell?

A new strain of QPX.....OPX?

Perhaps you have filtered too much of your own septic plume?

Does anyone here find it peculiar that Clamshelli has been silent on this article?

If you look at his other postings, it's not that he has been absent from his patented blathering on about other issues, see:
http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php?disp=comments&uid=723

I guess it's painfully obvious that he knows when he needs to keep his shell shut. Perhaps his attorney or his Mom has put the muzzle on him?

Meanwhile, back in the states......


It seems that the DEP has finally succeeded in putting a sanitary seal over the pie hole in someone's clam shell(i).
The silence is golden....

Still, the BS is still there, pumping out their fake lobster rolls and soiling their own clam grants.

Don't worry. The shenanigans will continue. I'd bet a peck of contaminated spat on it.

Robert is right.
We should not attempt to conserve, we should find more ways to reap the endless supplies of oil that will solve all of our problems.
Just lower those gas prices and all will be well again.
Those polar bears look pretty oily. Lets render their usless fat bodies into oil for our SUVs.
Why not go back to whales, they have oil in 'em..?

Smelli,
If you didn't care what anyone thinks, why are you stinkin up the blogosphere with your melodramatic effluent?

Wouldn't you just sit back and watch?

Dog,
The waders are for both. Pretty ironic how ClamSmelli is such a purveyor of sewage outflow, both from the mouth and the failing septic.......

He will get the last word here as I can't stand the smell anymore.

Hang on, I need my waders to get thru this......

What a bad acting job.

Geeze, the way Karent states it, I am starting to feel bad for that stinky old clam.

Nothing to say Clamsmelli?

Yeah, what about a straight answer?

At this point I am no longer trying to communicate with Clamsmelli, the bumbling "expert" in misdirection and distraction.

Will someone please call the DEP back?

What a joke.

Clamsmelli, Why do you bother even typing?

Thanks for confirming my suspicions!

Folks, the bookstore has succeeded once again at embarking on another season of above the law behavior that they are becoming famous for.

Awesome!
Congratulations on beating the system once again.......

In your face Captain Higgins!

Well,
at least my hours and hours of investigation into clamsmelli's tactics reveal he is hiding just one thing.

He is either hiding something he knows... or is hiding the fact that he is full of Bookstore Water and knows nothing.

Still up to his standard of making a lot of loudmouthed comments with no brains to back them up.

Sounds like ClamSmelli is the 'uniformed' one.

Also sounds like keeping quiet is the way to keep a public health threat operational.

Well, if we are so "uniformed", why don't you help us understand what is a-transpirin down at the 'ol Parlante place?

Why don't they now have to comply?

Why has the BOH NOT closed them down as threatened?

Quiet...... quite quiet.

Funny how quite Clamshelli is.

I would keep a low profile too.

Dorsal is right.
It's the day after Memorial Day, there's no new septic at the Bookstore, not even a pebble disturbed by an excavator, and the Bookstore is still serving food and drinks.
More of the same preferential treatment by the town.
Promises, promises. To no avail.

Consider the irony of the chain;
owners serve food (like oysters) and drinks (with ice).
Customer uses bathroom, flushes and washes hands.
Plates go through the dish washer.
Waste goes through the ice, oysters and wash water. Customers "wash" hands in the same water.
Mmmmmm. So HEALTHY!

Keep in mind, MP's grant is in the plume of his own customer's waste.
Oysters get their flavor and grow out their bodies from the water they filter.
Now THERE is a water filtration system we can all gag thinking about...
At least he is recycling!

The DEP is watching...............

This would more than likely be defined as a renovation.

The plans I have seen call for partially tearing the Bilboard house down and then the construction of a new large home. See:
http://wellfleetseashoreowners.org/discuss/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/blasch-overlay-5.jpg
for an elevation view of the proposed home.
As far as the proposed structure being "with the keeping of Cape Cod architect" [sic], a design incorporating turrets and having a steep roof pitch as this one does (among other 'magic kingdom' type of baubles) hardly follows a cape cod style unless you look to Oyster Harbors and the surrounding areas of Osterville when qualifying the "style".

Perhaps the archi-torture-tects should spend some time wandering the streets of small towns on the cape to get some inspiration before they turn on their CAD machines and scar the landscape more?

As far as Cape Wind selling their electricity at a higher or lower price;

Cape Wind will not be selling you power, NStar will.

Cape Wind is a wholesaler and NStar can resell it at any price they can get approved by the MDPU.

Sounds like the Big Wigs at NStar would LOVE to get Cape Wind on line so they can sell sell sell!

You may believe that Global warming is a scam.... but petroleum going thru the roof?

Is that a made up trick?

Crusader,
Do your homework.
Ben Zender is simply protecting the Blache's rights, not defending their designs.
There is little in common with Kline's situation anyhow.
Wellfleet needs to realize that you cant stop the march of progress. It has never stopped. You can, though, help guide it in "good" directions.
Why does our town not simply have a Design Review board to assist the off cape architects with a little dose of Cape Cod design sense?
I bet that the Blaschs are not married to the design that they currently have.
Perhaps their architect would be willing to alter the plans to create an authentic looking "Cape Type" of structure? Isn't that what all the arcket is about?
Our town fathers are just so corrupt that they cant seem to see the simple and legal way sort this type of thing out.
Wake up and smell the mudflats; Boards!!

You meant to say "ahead"
Thanks,
Bye

Clamsmelli,

Your parade quote lingers out there.

Shame on you.

Too bad you fell for the shallow attempt to expose your motives. It was pretty easy to trick you into that one.

I've never seen someone stammer and stutter on the keyboard before. It's pretty funny.

Good try at making it look like a joke.

Keep it up.

Oh, I'm real sorry, thats an understatement.
I'm sorry I'm wasting my wasting my time on this.
I am late for the tide.
The truck is all warmed up.
See you out there.
Nice day for it.

BTW, Are you getting those oyster drills bad?
I hate those little buggers......

Clamsmelli,
I guess that you can't even read your own posts. Perhaps you have no memory of yesterday. I'll quote for you again:

"Codpiece, Ill let your post stand for itself. It just shows who is the jerk here."

You have no memory. Must be the booze.

Speaking of "lynch mobs". Remember when you said this:
""If you consider the Pearl to be part of a chain, and IF we all agree that we dont want a restaurant chain in Wellfleet, then will all of you people who blame MP for shutting down the Pearl hold a PARADE for him for keeping a chain from slipping into Wellfleet?"????

Sounds like the smelly Clam has a bit of a Lynch Mob of his own.......

You can run from your own words but you can't hide.

Now, my prediction: Clamshelli will either lay quiet, hoping no one will notice that damning quote or he will attempt to distract with blather about something else.....

Lets see what happens.....

Wait, I know....
I'm a Jerk, right?

Did you use a thesaurus for that term?

Clam,
Do you ever have anything intelligent to say?
You really come across as being a bit paranoid and desperate.

Try harder to convince us you are not Mike Parlante. Just claiming it isn't sounding very convincing next to your constant paranoid blathering and hate-speak.

Remember..... it's -Think, then speak.

Mom,
You are a little off base here.

Paul Murphy is NOT a 'Fleetian.
He lives in Falmouth.
Getting a local from this town into the Inspector's job would just be more conflicting.
How would he make his decisions?
His mind would be too clouded with conflicts like the ones that currently are causing such issues here, now.

The problems that are currently plaguing this town are the ones caused by it's citizens, not the employees from out of town.
The light of the media is on the town now. That's what seems to be causing the biggest problems. These kind of hi jinx have been going on for ever they just haven't gotten the exposure that they have of late.

What we need here is a design review board. It's simple. Some of these home owners just need some direction.

Did anyone call the Wequassett Inn a trophy home?

Big homes are not bad, they are just (frequently) drawn that way.........

What else ya got?

Quoth clamshelli:
"If you consider the Pearl to be part of a chain, and IF we all agree that we dont want a restaurant chain in Wellfleet, then will all of you people who blame MP for shutting down the Pearl hold a PARADE for him for keeping a chain from slipping into Wellfleet?"

Is that a pitchfork and a torch in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

Ah yes, a small town like Wellfleet.
YOUR small town, aint that right Mike?

I have better things to do with my day than banging my head against this wall.

Later

"especially in a small town like Wellfleet"
Oh Clamshelli, you tell it just like it IS!

"Try to add a deck to your house without going to a number of meetings!"
Is THAT in the bylaws? "a number of meetings"? You sound like a real pro.

Good stuff Mike.

So Dilli,
What's your theory then?

I know you are, but what am I?

Clamsmelli,

I have an obsession?

I guess that the only way you don't have an unhealthy obsession, by your own definition, is because you are obviously the son of the owner of the BookStore.

.....or you have an obsession with defending people who make their own rules and put their own greed before the publics health or the health of the environment.

Pick one, which is it?

dilligaf,
What do you mean?
You are of course referring to Mr. Parlante who singlehandedly killed at least 50-75 jobs in Wellfleet by killing the Capt. Higgings place, regardless of what the new name would be.
Me, me, me.

BTW,
Clamshelli posting at 3:57 am?
Staying up late or getting up early?
Check the tide charts.
Looks like someone coming in off the tide.
Hmmm.

Clamshelli,
You are so transparent.
You are happy that the Bookstore "resolved" their septic issues?
But the system is not in yet.
Had you, Mr Parlante, not taken the divisive tack you took to stop the owners of the CH and their fancy new septic system, the eyes of the town, the general public and now the dreaded DEP would not be upon you.
You have opened a can of worms that will not soon be closed.
"Happily ever after"? "THE END"?
Dream on.
One can only guess what you have up your sleeve with the new chunk of land you have purchased. You can be sure of one thing. Your audience will still be here, watching your every move.
That's the sad part. For years before all of this recent activity and it's exposure here, on this forum, you have been able to do as you wish, under the radar. No one to call you out.
That is now over.
Welcome to the world that exists outside the fantasy realm of Old Wellfleet.
Playing by the rules is easy for the folks on the up-and-up.
Let's see how you do.

Kudos to Peter.
BUT, they would never have come to Peter's light if Mr. Parlante had not shot himself in the foot by using his connections to block the further use of the Cap'n Higgins restaurant.
Whoops!

Corner of what you ask?

Ill be more clear:
(thanks for helping clarify)

Just trying to help people find what you are trying to deny-distract-bury.
You remember; when you spilled your guts about running the competition out of town?
I'm reminding people to read your post with time and date stamp in the upper right hand 'corner':

"03/28/08 @ 9:32 pm"

(must have been cocktail hour, whoops)

I'll post it again to save the scrolling.

To quote Clamshelli (aka Mr P, ex selectman, "treasurer" of the Bookstore restaurant)
"If you consider the Pearl to be part of a chain, and IF we all agree that we dont want a restaurant chain in Wellfleet, then will all of you people who blame Mike Parlante for shutting down the Pearl hold a PARADE for him for keeping a chain from slipping into Wellfleet?"

Thank you for ending this debate with such a definitive admission of guilt!

Again, well done Mr. P!

for you reader's reference it was, in the right hand upper corner, "03/28/08 @ 9:32 pm"

End of argument.

Nicely played, Mr. P!

I'm done here!

Can't get the sting of that hook out of your mouth?

It does not matter if YOU pretend to understand it or not.

The people that may or may not be reading this understand. Just go back a few posts and read it.

Pitchforks, torches and then a little parade.

Small town corruption at it's best!

Oh Mr. Clamshellante,

Shame on you!

How can you argue day in and day out that you didn't appeal the CH Special
Permit to snuff out the competition???

I quote:
"If you consider the Pearl to be part of a chain, and IF we all agree that we dont want a restaurant chain in Wellfleet, then will all of you people who blame MP for shutting down the Pearl hold a PARADE for him for keeping a chain from slipping into Wellfleet?"

Talk about a Lynch Mob......

We all just watched you try to pull together a gang to run Pearl out of town!!!

Why make the effort. You have already won! They are GONE!

I'm sure you wish you could make that incriminating statement go away, don't you?

You may try to brush white-out on your screen but we can still read it!

Thanks for showing us your true colors!

Spare us the future denials.

WOW!

OK, but;
How do we determine if it is part of the roobar chain?

Where is Amesbury?

Hold the bus!
I just did some lookin and found out that Roobar is NOT a chain afterall.

They DO have a number of locations on the Cape but, what makes them a chain?

I agree with you for once.
Roobar, the chain restaurant, would be unwelcome in Wellfleet just as Starbucks or Long John Silvers.
Chain stores are the root of all evil.

Get this straight (and I won't stoop to your childish name calling.)

The bylaw is a guideline for the board to use when it calls for a vote by the members of the board.

The VOTE determines the ruling, not the bylaw.

How could an ex-selectman not understand this?

The VOTE was tainted. Perhaps the ethics committee SHOULD get involved and make the call.

Read the rules. You won't like what you see.

That's the big issue. THE VOTE!

After you tell yourself the same lie over and over, you start to believe it to be true.

You are alone in believing that words on a page could have the same effect as tainted votes on a board.

I'm done with this.

You GOT me!
I AM ALL OF THE BLOGGERS ON THIS SUBJECT!
Perhaps I am not even Codpeace?
Perhaps I am Clamshelli and codpeace? That would be quite the conspiracy.....or none at all.
Hmmmmm.
You haven't seen me and capedoggie in the same room together, have you.
Uh HUH!
I'm so busted!
I'm gonna go make up a new name now.
CU

(continued) While the ZBA rules on these issues, shouldn't someone keep them focused on their original intent? They are supposed to be looking out for the best interest of the town. How could they be so short sighted not to see that by killing the restaurant use there they would be forcing the owner's hand to do the next most lucrative thing?

Congratulations ZBA and Mr. P!

Looks like Wellfleet is on it's way to being just another soiled have for the wealthy condo owner.

Perhaps someone should open a accessory dog shop and a fur sales store.

Why can't the ZBA see the big picture?

Move the focus off of nit picking the definition of bylaws and use some common sense!
Perhaps ex-attorneys from NYNY are not concerned about the town's best interests? Perhaps they just like to keep their aging claws sharp no matter who gets cut.

I'm not concerned about weather or not they get a business in that "abandoned shack".
I am concerned about the environment and the leveling of the playing field for everyone involved now or in the future.
My concern, after reading the paper today is,what will become of the old Cap'n Higgins building if Parlante gets his appeal?
As far as they now say, it will be residential. As the lot can support it, it will probably be a nice big McCondo. That will be GREAT for the town. No, wait, it will be HORRIBLE for the town. That old oyster shack on the street will need to be torn down, the last standing unadulterated piece of old wellfleet's history. Who cares? Not the Town apparently.
Why can't the town see the big picture as it struggles to try to appease it's most privileged few?

I'm sorry to hear you are having family squabbles.

I apologize if I have made things more difficult for you and your family.

I am just an outsider trying to make sense of the whole thing.

Check page A3.
It helps us understand how beneficial more business would be to the town.
I'm sure that Mr. P. will be at the meeting, attempting to block MORE business from improving Wellfleet.

Or perhaps he will send his Mom again.

I really don't have the time to take apart the article Mr. Clamshelante is clinging to as a panacea for his own ills.
I'll just take a moment;
The first paragraph is rife with misinformation. "Roobar?" "denied an application to lease the property." ? the town issues permits to lease properties?
Then the article goes on to state the obvious and avoid all the conflict of interest issues.
The fact that Mr. Clamshelante thinks that this is some kind of vindication is somewhat of a stretch. Perhaps he fancies himself as a "selectwoman"? I don't get it.
Talk about clinging to a thread....

BTW, anyone who just does a search of Mr. Clamshelante's blogging habit can see the humor and irony in his derisive statements about blogging and bloggers. More irony. Apparently, what he does is not blogging. What do you call it, Mr. ClamP?
Let me remind you how alone you are on this.
Even the Cape Cod Times smells the rat in Wellfleet. Check out page A12 of todays paper. Is that a thumbs DOWN?

saw the article in the Banner.
Looks like Clamshelli, uh, I mean Mike Parlante sent his mom when the heat was turned up.
Nice.
Throw your momma under the train.......

Once again, when the going gets tough......

BTW, Clamsmelli, have you noticed that you seem to be the only one defending the bad behavior of the Parlantes?

Your only defense for your inexcusable behavior is that you are actually fixing your septic issues. BUT the fixes you describe are the same ones that you have been instituting for the past many years, empty promises and elaborate stall tactics.

All of these are to what end?

To keep the failing system operating for another tourist season. Delay, delay, and keep the bucks rolling in. Place your own greed before concern for the health of the public or the environment.

You, clamsmelli, actually believe that there is some kind a conspiracy against you and your restaurant being brought by people who have been wronged by your bad behavior and lost their restaurant project.

Actually, you are being called out by citizens like myself who have seen the lies exposed by your own greedy behavior and have discovered a public forum that enables us to say "enough!".

Enjoy the food Clamsmelli, thanks for showing us; you are what you eat!

Harumph!

BTW, the 6 mo extention was 7 months BEFORE they even hired their engineers.

How about this deal,
You admit that the stall tactics of the BS and their holier-than-thou behavior are not only wrong but driven by sheer greed, and I will go drink a gallon of the BS water.

The BS hiring engineers and starting a process they were supposed to be doing from the time they were issued a 6 month extention is hardly a fix. It just shows the audacity of an ex-selectman who thinks he can get away with anything that suits him.

You know so much about the BS and yet all you can do is quote someone who you continue to call a liar.

I'm done with this. It's like pis*ing into the wind (or harbor if I maymake a pun)

What post is that?
Cut and paste, you are good at that.

I'm not asking my buddy, whoever that is. I'm asking you.
You seem to know all there is to know about your buddy's place and situation.

How are they fixing the septic issues?

If you dont know, I can tell you.

Fixed HOW?

It's being "fixed"?

How do you figure?

That's the issue.

It's NOT being fixed unless you see getting unfair extensions and being overlooked by the town as fixed.

What have your fiends done to sort this out in the past 19 years?

I can tell you.

NOTHING!

Dunedog,
You are just asking the same questions that the Clam always sidesteps with shouts of "Lynchmob!" and "WAH!"

Don't waste your time.

I have nothing to do with Pearl.

As far as your charges of "childish lynching";

a desire to see the special folks at the Bookstore play by the rules is hardly a lynch mob.

Give 'em enough rope, and they will hang themselves.

Perhaps Clam has just spent too much time filtering the plume.

Lets see, a building permit is a permit to work.

It's not a bylaw. The decision of abandonment, so states the bylay, is at the discretion of the building inspector.
That was overturned by the ZBA. Why?

Putnam recused himself as Manny Hylinger should have also. Why if one, not both?

More to the point, WHY DO YOU FEEL THEY SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE IN THEIR CURRENT CONFIGURATION?

Just address that one question we all seem to have.......

TALK CLAM, WE ARE ALL WAITING.

-Enter the Bookstore- Michael Parlante files an appeal, insisting that he is worried about the effect the reopening of the restaurant across the street will have on his Bookstore employee housing. This is enough of a concern for him to cause him to expend time and money, lots of both, to fight this. He claims that it has nothing to do with the effect the new place will have on the bookstore's business.
-the town then holds a second hearing to rule on the same basic issue of a special permit, worded differently. The same guys vote. One vote changes from a yea to a nay. That Man's family works for Parlante.
How could you say that's not connected?

All I am advocating is that everyone play by the rules! Pearl left town....

It seems like YOU are the one with the agenda.
You, Clam, are the only one who is arguing FOR the continuation of this BAD BEHAVIOR.
My guess is that YOU must be related to the Parlantes also.
Why else would you:
-know so much about a secret filtration system
-continue to advocate illegal, environmentally evil, public health risky, behaviors?

Tell us.

TELL US!!!!!

Clam,
Capedoggie's questions are right on the money.
If you are suggesting that I am one of the investors in the Pearl, you are pretty far off.
I am just a citizen who has watched things from the back of the room and is sick of the good'ole-boy network dealings of Wellfleet.
I am smart enough and unbiased enough to see, and if you read ALL of the backstory you SHOULD see this:
-Pearl goes to the town to open a restaurant.
-Town gives them the necessary approvals and a building permit (demo) to start working.
-someone on the inside then brings the building inspector's decision re: no abandonment/ discontinuance of use to the attention of the ZBA.
- the ZBA then rules in a public meeting to grant the necessary special permit for pearl to open, regardless of MP's best bud/shellfishing partner/ ex selectman, Roger Putnam's vehement dissaproval.

Continued next post............

You had to look that up?

True to form.
Thanks for weighing in though.
Enjoy that water alone then.
Bring some Cipro (see cipro.com for more details)
Nitey Nite......

Clamshelli,

I'm sure that, despite all the facts, you are probably correct.

In fact, let me buy you a nice tall glass of water.

E.coli, pharmaceuticals, Giardia, Viruses..... not to worry. That reverse osmosis system is probably properly torn down, backflushed and the membranes replaced every couple of days, like the manual says....

Come-on, drink up!! I'm buying. Me, I'll just watch.

Yum.

From the agenda at the Wellfleet site, if anyone is reading this, the bookstore comes in front of the Board of health on Thursday the 20th at 7 pm at the senior center. Should be a good show.........

Goodnite Mrs/Mr P.

Let me translate for the Clam, "I cannot post anymore as my complete lack of facts have forced me to run and hide again."

Anyone who has seen your post times recently knows that you don't sleep. I'm sure that there are re-runs of Facts of Life you need to focus on now.

Nitey nite clam.

Come on Clami,
I have an environmental engineering firm to unlock in the morning.

Einstein,

The hearing and subsequent vote was forced by MP's appeal. Without his appeal there would have been no new hearing.

The swing vote was made by a guy who voted in favor of the special permit at the first hearing, then, after MP appealed and made it a personal issue, the ZBA member who is tied through his family CHANGED HIS VOTE!

I'm not advocating punishing his family for killing the Pearl project.

The facts that have become public BECAUSE of his appeal would have warranted the enforcement of the town and state laws that apply to the situation.

Enforcement is not punishment. It's called accountability.

I just think that there should be a level playing field for everyone, not just the privileged few who have local connections.

You can make all the accusations and childish remarks you want, and I encourage it. It gives me and everyone reading this something to be entertained by.

Look, Mike Parlante won. He killed the Pearl project.

Disprove that.

Then, tell us why.

Why did he need to appeal that special permit if it wasn't to remove the competition?

You seem to have all the answers.

Enlighten us.

Clam,
I thought you were taking your ball and going home.

Thanks for informing everyone how much you DON'T know.
I think that has been obvious to anyone who actually understands what is going on here.
Go back and read some of my previous postings directly addressing your concerns and ideas.
The most basic one I want to reiterate is, THE BYLAW DIDN'T KILL THE C.H., IT WAS THE TAINTED VOTE THAT DID.
There I yelled it so maybe you'd remember and I won't have to say it again.

Speaking of facts, tell me more about this water filtration system.
Have you seen it? How do you know it is there and actively filtering water.
You say it as if it were a fact.

Remember readers, when the going gets tough, the tough get going......

Gee, I was working on the same speech.
I'll save time and say, Ditto from me except the last sentence and the seeya part.

I'll still be here.

Bye Clammy, your wit and wisdom will be missed.

The "other contaminants" don't list out as e. coli (for starters) and e.c is not removed with the help of a reverse osmosis water filter.

Typical uses are for removing heavy particulate matter and minerals like salt. Boats commonly use them to desalinate water.

Given it's proximity to the ocean, the water table in that area would have a high salt content......

"tied in where they are not supposed to be" ? Thats the biggest possibility for someone who can get hush hush favors. It would be grand larceny at this point as stealing anything is what the rest of society calls "a crime".

Crime, poopy water.....Don't worry, the tourists will never figure it out. The $$ will still roll in. Thats what is truly important. $$ always trumps responsibility.

"before it becomes completely out of hand"?

Uh, too late!

Correction:
If their water is not from their well, where is it coming from?

Clam,
Read the Board of Health meeting mins. "He" represents the BS at the meetings. "He" may not "own" the place on paper but you know as well as everyone else in town that he is connected to the BS and has brought the actions against the owners of the Capn Higgins restaurant to try to stop the redevelopment of a competing business there. Coincidence? NOT!

CH was about to install a new septic that is identical to the one the BS has been required to install for years.
How would the BS have looked if the new neighbors went and did what they have been avoiding forever?

BTW, the BYLAWS did not kill CH, the corrupted VOTE of a relation to the BS did.

I'm not an "angry, hateful bully", I am an onlooker who is appauled at the corruption in Wellfleet.

"Working with the town" ? Using influence to buy more time more like....

If theor water is not from their well, where is it coming from?

Yeah, why not?
He's been dodging a new system since the 80s. 20+ years of avoiding a big problem...
There must be a good reason.
Perhaps it's the $$$.

You know, I believe that you ARE related.

You seem as confused as the Town officials of Wellfleet itself.

The Pearl guys were granted a special permit, you got that right.
The special permit is granted by the ZBA (zoning board of appeals) and is heard and voted on in a PUBLIC FORUM.

Perhaps there is a "very special permit" handed out behind closed doors that no one on the outside knows about. Parlante seems to have a big brown bag of those.

Thanks for showing how easy it is to make backdoor politics (and special treatment of the good'ole boy network) seem like just-another-day-at-the-beach.
I didn't realize how cool it really is to be corrupt. You devil...

We are all learning a lot about Wellfleet Town politics and the status quo today.

Thanks!

barley,
"The beauty of a corrupt town is the residents hardly ever have any trouble. All the tickets got to you guys. Thanks for paying our bills."

Hey wait, aren't you on the ZBA?

Barley,

Did you really ask your lawyer?
Let me get my hip waders on.
The unaccountability of these forums sure does generate lots of Bulls**t.
Is he from Dewey Cheatem and Howe?

There is only one way to legally do things in any town, unless you count the "gimmie-gimmie I'm connected" wellfleet way.

The system relies on honesty and character of it's officials to remain fair. That seems to be the root of all these issues.

Can't anyone just tell the truth anymore?

barley,

Enlighten the class and explain what "way" you refer to when you say: "he said that getting the permits the way the pearl did is the worst way"

I think it would help the discussion to have everyone understand how these guys screwed up.

"""""""""more crickets"""""""""
the silence IS golden..........

Clam,
I didn't think you were capable of actually answering questions or backing up your previous accusations with any useful facts.

The reason I stopped posting comments on the last article was; I realized that I was wasting my time banging my head against the wall by trying to engage you in a fact based debate.

Yes, anyone can write a blog. You are sure proof of that.

Why do you waste people's time with your pointless blather?

Perhaps emailing comments to the National Enquirer or People Magazine about Brad and Angilenea's babies would be more constructive for you.

Sure, Mrs Parlante is probably a good person at face value but if she really is, she, her husband and her kids would stop all this nonsense and comply with the same rules everyone else is forced to. How could anyone argue against that?

If you are all that they have to help them out, good luck to the Bookstore. They will need it.

Perhaps you should follow ifaw's lead and log in as someone else...........

""""sound of chirping crickets""""""
We are all waiting for your answers, Clam.

Oh Clam,
Where to start.
I don't see anywhere where he says that MP "owns" the Bookstore.

Are you gloating about "researching the facts" when you were goaded into actually going to the Wellfleet website and looking up some info, cutting and pasting it and calling it research?

You never did actually relate to anyone how the abandonment/discontinuance bylaw applied to the CH owners."Dont ask me to decipher or translate this, I am not a lawyer." hardly seems like you have drawn any conclusions there.

Let me ask you:

Do you feel that the owners of the Bookstore are entitled to put the health of their customers at risk by serving their food on plates washed in water contaminated with human fecal matter?

Do you think that it is OK for the owners of the Bookstore to ignore the health department's demands of a septic upgrade over and over again?

Is it possible for you to answer these questions without going off on a senseless tangent to avoid the questions?

Let's see.

Clam,

Let me get this straight; you are going to get the by-laws, read them and quote from them, really?

Something tells me that we will never see that.

Here's my prediction:
IF you actually find and read them, and IF you can actually understand them
A- you will either mis-interpret them and mis-quote them to suit your own argument,
or
B- you will find another lame excuse to skirt the whole idea of quoting from them when you see how wrong you are.

Ready,.... set,... GO!

We are all anxiously awaiting your posting (that will never appear)

PS, how much time should we expect to wait for this?
Anyone care to wager?

Clam smelly,

I think Earthpal is right.

If you would stop viewing life through the bottom of your glass of Caldwells Vodka and check your facts; it was Mudflat who was reading by-laws.

If anyone needs to answer questions asked of them it would be YOU.

Read back and see how many questions you have ignored about idiotic uninformed comments you have made that you then refuse to back up.

You obviously know just enough to carry on a basic conversation and no more.

I can only guess that you must clean toilets at the bombshelter and are then just as biased as Mr. Heyilinger and willing to act just as childish to further YOUR own personal agendas.

Good luck.

You and the rest of them will surely need it.

Get a life. Or as you are fond of saying, DEAL!

The author of this article seems to have a few facts jumbled.
The fact that a version of oil is prone to gel (freeze) is true but the confusion is being made between Veggie Oil, waste or straight (WVO or SVO) and biodiesel.
Biodiesel is created through a process called trans-esterification that removes the glycerins (byproduct soap) but also removes the thickening properties.
Any unmodified diesel engine can run on biodiesel with no noticable differences above temps in the teens where the same anti-gelling additives that are put in regular diesel can be added.
The confusion between WVO/SVO and biodiesel is a very common one at this stage of the game.
BTW, Rudolph Diesel designed the diesel engine to work for farmers who had lots of oils around as byproducts of their work so they could run machines on that oil.
The petro companies got ahold of the technology and would love everyone to believe that you need "dino-diesel" when all you need is the no added carbon of mother nature to get you moving......

I'm with Peter.
The learning seems to be over here.
Congratulations ifaw.
Bye

uh.... ifawsupporter, could you stick to the subject at hand?

Crusader,
There is a small truth to your friend's info. When a property changes hands, i.e. is sold, an inspection is performed and the system must meet Title 5 requirements.
If a system is judged to have failed by the town's Health Board, usually set off by excessive pumping records or overflowing of the effluent or other criteria, the owners of the system must show good faith efforts to fix the situation. The board rules on a case-by-case basis. In the Bookstore's case, they have had ample time to come up with a plan and have failed to adequately do so. They most recently proposed a temporary fix that the board denied therefore buying them more time. More time to pollute. They will likely now get a "hardship" excuse and be allowed to dump in the marsh for the summer as the board would look mean by causing them to close for a part of the summer to install the system.
The system that they will ultimately be required to install will likely cost them upwards of 200k or more. A heavy burden to bear for sure but one that the owners of Cap'n Higgins are ready to move ahead with.

They are not rumors.

It's in the light already.

If you google "bookstore wellfleet septic" you can read the min.s of the 08/08/07 Bd of Health meeting where it is clearly outlined, numbers etc.

It's out there but only if you look closely.

The puzzling thing is WHY do they get to keep carrying on raking in the dough while polluting the adjacent wetlands?

The irony: these polluters are blocking a green project next door. Adds new definition to the word Greed!

Come-on shelli, don't just clam up.
Answer the questions.

Nice cop-out clamshelli.

Typical babble, throw out some bogus "facts" then run and hide when someone with some actual knowledge calls you out.

Just when I thought I could have an intelligent dialog. Oh well....

Back in your mud covered shell, clami.

I guess she's gone potty at the Bookstore.

Clamshelli,
Put your money where your mouth is and answer some questions.
If need be, I will cut and paste them into a message and be more direct.

One more for Clamshelli:


"One of which is that the town fails to provide enough public rest rooms necessary for the Pier and Mayo Beach area. I wonder if those numbers were considered when they calculated use for the Pearl's septic system. The numbers are much higher than the seating."

What numbers?

The folks at the Bookstore could easily tell people looking for a restroom that he is on notice with the town of Wellfleet for a failing septic system and currently seats almost THREE TIMES his legal limit therefore giving him ample reason to turn away non-patrons looking for a potty.
That excuse is a thinly veiled crutch designed to make the Town of Wellfleet responsible for his septic issues.
His system is over 27 years old and not designed to handle the loads he is placing on it with his bloated seating alone.
Perhaps they just need to play by the rules. Oh yea, those rules are just for "wash-ashores"

Clamshelli,

A few questions for you:

When you say "Seems to me something made it very easy to get permission for all of the additions and improvements"

How exactly did they have it "easy"?

"The Bookstore Restaurant TURNS AWAY more people in the summer than the Pearl could even seat."

Really? Do you know how many seats are permitted for Capt Higgins?

An hour wait is NOT good for business in Wellfleet. People will only make that wait ONCE then next time go somewhere else, perhaps to a different AREA to eat.