CapeCodToday Blog Chowder

Candy is Dandy.
Liquor is Quicker.
Pot is Hot.

(With apologies to Ogden Nash)

2010
Cindy McCain buys Molsen Ale, divorces John, moves to Quebec
Republicans change party's name to Tory
Canada erects 3,00 mile wall at US border
Ottawa re-introduces red cranberries
US stock market sets new record high
Cranberries replace Barney Frank as America's favorite fruit
Obama appoints Gary Coleman as Homeland Security head.

Another winner, Bree. There's an old joke about two old friends meet and one starts telling the other about all the bad stuff that's happening to him - lost job, wife left, car repossessed, etc. waving his hands about when a bird squat on his outstretched hand.
He said, "See, they sing for everyone else."
You should wave your hands more.

WOW ! That's some armpit you got over there. I wish Barnstable High had that guy. You are a kewl dude, whoever you are.

Maybe they didn't know that this is Hate Month on the islander, and they sure made us hate them and their backers.

mclovin probably didn't notice that Elaine Joyce pays the taxes and pays the membership fees which created this PUBLIC golf club.
Or maybe he's simply a misogynist an also "doesn't get it."

Kenney is a nattering nihility of negativism who has failed at everything save throwing enough mud on the wall on hopes that some of it sticks. His only apparent talent is kowtowing to his masters.

Jeff, that's one (or four) funny columns. I love it.

Why couldn't Kerry bring himself to say, "I want the police to stop that"?
What a worthless, wishy-washy wimp !

What a rational, well reasoned immigration proposal.
I wish you were a Democrat running against Big John in the primary instead.

Bull-ship! You know what this is about Maverick - dumping excrement in the Sound.
You're too honest a businessman to pretend you don't know why trophy home owners are spending $18 or 20 million t0 stop a renewable energy project.
Stop literally fouling your own nest and unload you crap on shore regardless of the fact that a generation-old law allows you to dump it a couple miles off our beaches.
Don't you give a damn about the next generations who inherit this planet from you?
This is a matter of our life or death, and the live or death of the fishing you make your living by.

Is Solon the only person who "read" what Moses Calouro wrote rather than react to his charge?
No one says SSA did anything wrong "legally". He's suggesting they and everone else can do more "morally".

Ya can take a girl out of Wista, but ya cahnt take the Wista outta the girl.

"If you think ignorance is expensive, try Harvard." -Elihu Yale

L'imitazione del male supera sempre l'esempio; comme per il contrario, l'imitazione del bene e sempre inferiore.
(He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.)

And all these years you "pale faces" thought King Philip lost that war.
Casino's are the red man's revenge.
I hope they name the Casino after him ;>)

It's the oil, stupid.
They want to stop renewable energy until they've sold us the last drop of fossil fuel at whatever price we'll be paying in ten years,

"Windmilled" is a term used to describe what happens when good intentions meet reality. When private entrepreneurs wanted to put windmills around Cape Cod to generate electricity, they ran into critics — among them Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has made a career out of campaigning for renewable energy, except, apparently, where he could actually see it.

JetBlue lost me today, Paulette. They may not come back from this debacle.

Knock, Knock.
Who's there?
Chimney.
Chimney who?
Chimney cricket! Have you seen Pinocchio?

I recall the old girl well.
She was quite a scamp as a youth, but grew tiresome as an adult... always "splitting hairs' with that dreadful sword of hers.
She would never stop talking until one day I said to her, "Tace atque abi." *
To wit she carped, "Fac ut vivas, radix lecti." **

* "Shut up and go away."
** "Get a life, couch potato."

He's a sanctimonious prig - no wonder the conservatives love him.
He's Bush without the glitter.

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons (and daughters) of God"

Thank God for Ben & Sarah.

The girls must be thrilled, Crus.

Jimmy, it's all about hate - has been for 2,000 years since Mount Calvary - "Blessed are the merciful, For they shall obtain mercy."
Don't ask, don't tell, just live and let live... and love.

So, you're saying that if we replace 75% of the need for the canal power plant it will still require that same amount of fuel oil in barges passing through the sound and the bay?

One of the very few blessing of being very old like myself, is to remember Elenor Roosevelt, one of those great Americans who rose above every adversity with both grace and style.

He's actually a Libertarian, and I can't find a flaw in his reasoning.
Stop name-calling and debate his ideas.

Mav, when's the last time you had to pay a fee to comment here?
I read cctoday because it gives me news and views I can't get elsewhere, and at 2,000 years old (I was born in the year 3 BC), I don't have to shill for anyone, but might make an exception for your charterboat.

What's even funnier, don't those apes realize that the obits they used to run are THEIR OWN READERS ! Every obit means one less subscriber since no one under 40 reads a daily newspaper any more.
So these poor, deceased saps have been paying $300 a year for the newspaper for fifty years and when they die, they don't even get an obit.
How chintzy can you get?!?
In today's dollars that's about $15,000 over fifty years and they can't asfford to give you a free obit.

Goodbye Tarquin...
Hello Codder the new Komment King.

Now that the lid has been lifted off the Delahunt stinkpot, maybe some enterprising reporter will look into the stange death during his undistinguished career as a DA. Rumors has circulated around Boston for years, but no one nailed nailed him.

Here's proof that a little education is a dangerous thing:

This spake the NIMBY BobScat above:
...My two children, ages 10 and 8, and my niece and nephew, ages 10 and 13, are all NOT HAPPY with the thought of an industrial wind farm in the middle of the sound that they love...

and... I am encouraging all of our kids to educate their peers, just as I do with mine. Kids often have better judgement than adults...
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Now that DOES explain the wisdom of the Oil Moguls funding the efforts to stop America's first offshore wind farm to use straws like these.

Osama Bin Osterville would be proud of you fools.

Don, you forgot that our local daily has only ONE litmus test for endorsments;
Strong opposition to the wind farm.

What the hell ever happened to fair, honest, intelligent and well-informed newspaper journalism? It left around Main St., Hyannis with the retirements of Publisher Himstead and Editor Breisky.

Sic transit gloria media

The Times always "telegraphs their punch".

During the run-up to the primary they ran 3 or 4 gratuitous plugs for Reilly to give themselves the courage to endorse a jerk.

Watch for similar puff pieces for Healey in the coming weeks to give them reasons to do what they decided to do the day Deval Patrick endorsed Cape Wind.

Welcome to the fray.

I'm as xenophobic as the rest of you.
Support Andrea because she's a local, Harwich "hairlegger" like Len and myself.

9-11 in perspective;

The unprovocated WTC attack killed 2,993 American civilians.

The unprovoked Iraq war has killed 50,000 Iraqi civilians so far.

"It's the oil, stupid."

And this is the guy Romney refused State Police protection for???

Aye, Jack, but there's the rub - my wit and breath mints saved me innumerable times from that devil breathalizer, and knowing how stewed I wuz on those soused occasions leads me to assume our Ernie was hammered this time.

Not to worry, lads, Bill Koch's money and high priced ambulance chasers will save our Irish inbiber yet.

Monpo - wrong again.
It was JOHN Kerry he was to appoint to the new Cabinet post of Waffle Maker.

Nobody cares how much "Evil Ernie" drinks, least of all an old sot like meself.

The crime is getting behind the wheel when stewed and putting other lives in danger.

AAdvice to Ernie:
Go to meetings,
ask for help and
don't take the first drink.

Great writing, Justin.
Come on back and tell us more.

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." - Samuel Johnson

They'd be crazy not to buy it. It could save 'em!
Newspapermen and Republicans need all the sex & love advice they can get.

As nobody imagined Auschwitz, nobody imagined Hiroshima either.

Yet America made that one happen. Is Iraq very different today than "Ground Zero" in Hiroshima.

Taber et al - run for cover.
Monpo is off her meds again !

Welcome Mary Zepernick, you are a "rose among thorns "after all these horribly, unhappy, hard-right harpies.

Remember the words of my old friend Aristole, "happiness belongs to the self-sufficient," or as The Mayflower Donut Shops used to admonish us of yore,
"As you wander through life sister,
let this thought be your goal;
Keep you eye upon the donut,
and not upon the hole."

Robt. Frost said that liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Thank Jupiter & Juno that you've finally arrived.

Capa Bacalao est divisa in tres partes, quarun unam incolunt Upper Capa, aliam Midi Capa, tertiam qui appellantur Yankee lingua ipsorum, et Lower Capa. Sid illegitimi non carborundum.

Methinks the laddie protests too much.

I never knew a Mainer who didn't like 'em plump.

Sounds like an artery buster to me.

I use a head of cabbage shaved thin and chopped and add Olde Cape Cod Poppyseed Dressing plus a liberal amount of Nankano Flavered Rice Vinegar... ambrosia.

The more couageous can add a spash of Frank's Hot Sauce for the ultimate Slaw.

Poor Monponsett - her mother was frieghtened by an ironic board when she was carrying her...
;>)

ForGetAboutItHeather -
As I've told others a million times, "love is the illusion that one man is different than another."

Holy Via Crucis!, Bennett, you look like Jesus on the Via Dolorosa. Watch your step!

MS Nilson, you are ruining the reputation of our local Realtors!?!?!

Are you actually suggesting that Realtors become HONEST BROKERS?

Shame on you. The next work area you'll attempt to corerect will probably be Usead Car Sales.

Chelsea Creek looks like Dresden after the fire-bombing in WW2.

"steal for nothing" - Cape Wind will sign a lease agreement (like your oil friends do on Gov. land) with the MMI.

"back door line" - are you referring to the stelth admendments by Rep. Young, Sen. Stevens & Kennedy?

"raking in state and federal tax credits" - you must be referring to the credits the Oil companies get for drilling, etc.

And unlike the Alliance and your corrupt political freinds, dear Cliffie, Cape Wind has played by the rules as legislated for five years spending private money (not taxpayer's) to develope new energy resourses.

Now go take your meds.

An unpopular rule is never long maintained. (I said that about 2,000 years ago and it's still true in Massachusetts today.)

I've been around women for a tad over two millenia, and it takes a lot to impress my old bag of bones, by Monponsett manages to do it day-in and day-out.

MS Monpo, you should start another blog - this one as advise to the lovelorn.
Seriously, you have advise which Cape Cod women need to hear for the very survival of our race.

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundral." - Sam Johnson

Remember all you young whippersnappers, it is typical of the human condition to try to laugh at tragedy.

As my old friend Plato said, "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

Wonderful column, Viv, but always remember, love is the illusion that one man is different than another.

Let's see how serious the MMS is;
The water depth shown on their own map (click image for larger version) is 107 fathoms, and a fathom is 6 feet, ergo the technology is twenty years away from building turbines in over 600 feet of ocean.
The Monomoy Shoal are smack dab in the middle of the US Dept. of Interior (that's the MMS' own boss)designated flyway between that island and Nantucket as well as a major shipping lane to enter the sound, ergo forgetabout it.
The Tuckernuck and Nantucket Shoal sites are in the direct path of shipping entering and leaving New York, remember the Andrea Doria.
These new suggested sites only make Horseshoe Shoal more logical than ever.

'Tis at times like these that only the immortal words of poet Friedrich von Schiller can give solace, "Against stupidity, even the Gods struggle in vain."

Alas, the poor wench doesn't know when to "cut bait" and shut up.

No one said "all newspapers", only the regional dailies which offer "some" of yesterday's news any way.

The national and weekly press is growing and vital.

Grand to see another Latin aboard, and I agree with my old buddy Cicero, "but every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature."

Just remember as your scribe, "Amor est vitae essentia."

There once was a cowpoke named Bush,
Who un-luckily got the right push,
First from mom, then from pop -
A free ride to the top,
Where he said we could all kiss his tush.

Didn't any of you Luddites notice the caucus results Saturday?

Deval Patrick won on Cape Cod 8 to 1 primarily because because he had the guts to see "the vision, not the view" on Nantucket Farm.

The Democrats on the cape have spoken loud and clear: THE PEOPLE endorse Cape Wind.
The Plutocrats want their waterview kept clear.

I stand (or in this case, sit) for your correction.

But, gee whiz, remember CCTimes when Breisky was the Editor and they gave him all the staff an editor needs to cover Cape Cod. But then, who would need us midgets?

No, but your Photo-shopped photo doesn't advance the discussion much either.

You forgot Bush père et fils, not law, but still Yale.

"The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity." - Andre Gide

Ardeo's is on Station Ave., Yarmouth near Exit 8 in the shopping center facing the White's Path side.

The writer above should try The Double Dragon on Rt. 28 & 6-A in Orleans and have the Hunan Fish or go to Ying's in Dennis and try a half dozen different Asian menus as the commenter above suggests.
It's not open until March but my favorite Asian eatery is Than Loi on Rt. 28 in South Yarmouth next to Riverway Lobster House. It's our only Vietnamese restaurant.

"Shredded Gull" !!!
What a grand idea.
Too bad these "flying rats" don't go near wind turbines. It would have been the best reason of all for installing ten thousand more on Nantucket Sound.

Quote from his site;
“I’m in my physical prime. I’m in marathon-shape. I will out-stamina my opponents and I’m as shrewd as the hawk…”

I guess I'll vote for him instead of O'Leery too - better a hawk than a chicken.

Florida is God's waiting room.
Actually I like Florida.
Everything is in the 80's... the temperatures, the resident's ages and their IQ's.

Barabara, remind Alliance founder and supporter Wayne Kurker whose Hyannis Marine dumps more engine and motor oil into Nantucket Sound in one summer than Cape Wind will in a century !
http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php?p=351

Then it is you, Gayflea, who is not reading. The story even had a direct link to Mr. Patrick's proposals written last February, plus he tried to get the legislature to consider a bill to give you and I a direct vote, which of course they ignored.

To Anonymous: it's a Wall Street Journal EDITORIAL, not an article. That means OPINION, not a NEWS story.

"It's the First Amendment, stupid."

Finally a voice from da Vin-yahd.
Welcome, Bella, what's happenin' on your side of the pond?

Actually Democrant, it's simple physics. Electricity enters the grid like a small stream's water entering a river and is first felt, and in our case used, by the nearest receptors.

That's Yarmouth where the cable comes ashore, followed by Barnstable and Dennis, followed by Mashpee and Brewster, etc., etc. like a pebble dropped into still waters, it ripples out from the point of entry.

Actually our State Senator is simply kow-towing to the one man who can make him the Democratic candidate for Guv-Kite next Fall, Ted Kennedy.

If Andrea Silbert decides to display the kind of courage Deval Patrick showed last week in becoming the first state-wide candidate to endorse the wind farm, she could cut O'Leary off before he changes his mind.

He not only are his students at Mass Maritimes wondering about his ethics in this matter, but even he has probably figured out that the Allinace is a very smelly group and not helpful at all for his future.

Are you all lucky you won't live to see it... of course your children will.

Hey Anon, do you mean MORON?

You're a hoot!