CapeCodToday Blog Chowder

What's wrong with cultivating tropical fish. The windmill platforms will provide aqua-structure similar to reefs. We plan a few palm trees and we can build a resort.

Iran versus Iraq and Wind Turbines versus pink whale pants! Does anyone else feel the same way I do about this ongoing battle? It's just like Henry Kissinger's comment about the Iran- Iraq war: "It's too bad there has to be a winner."

We have two groups of greedy, self interested, special interest groups trying to manipulate the system to screw the average taxpayer. The bottom line comes down to a commercial developer who found a loophole in maritime law and geological location to exploit an idea that is politically correct, economincally stupid, environmentally questionable but most assuredly profitable (because of the tax subsidies to be funded by us.) On the other side, we have a well financed, pseudo environmental special interest group who seeks to protect its property values and scenic views. The same property and scenic views that they agressively protect against sharing with the common person. To accomplish this they exploit holes in our tax laws that permit lobbyist and legal payments to be characterized as charitable tax deductions. Its a great country.

This goes under the category of not kicking someone when he is down, that is unless he really deserves it. Your little snippet about the front man for the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound made me wonder why his little performance last Winter, at state senator Rob O’Leary’s cocktail reception for supporters of the SOS initiative, went unreported. It appears that two of his public relations clients, or more perhaps more appropriately public “affairs” clients, discovered that they were both receiving “special attention” from the media consultant. The mutual discovery precipitated a rather heated debate between the young women and our navigation expert. The dispute was ugly enough that all three were asked to leave the Senator’s house. News of the debate may have escaped mention in the press but was conveyed to the media consultant’s wife who promptly threw him out of the house and filed for divorce.