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04/15/09 @ 7:54 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: NIMBYs sue to stop rebirth of Christy's of Cape Cod

Suing a business for trying to do business in a business district is like suing a stripper for being naked in Zachary's. Ridiculous. These plaintiffs will lose, and they must have a LOT of time of their hands to pursue this. I have a yard that needs raking, tons of housework to do, plenty to keep them busy.

04/02/09 @ 10:09 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: East Falmouth bog remains identified; Yarmouth police nab prescription drug dealers at Route 28 motel; Falmouth PD investigates armed robbery at Subway

Oxycodone is apparently not a skin and hair revitalizer. I'll stick to my current products which are probably cheaper.

04/01/09 @ 9:38 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Slots confiscated at seven stores in Taunton and four North Shore convenience stores

It's hard to believe those convenience stores could be so stupid.

04/01/09 @ 9:35 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: A duck fight

Butterscotch is a rich widower in Lynette's eyes so she saw her chance and took it. Neither LLBean nor Butterscotch are going to hit on the plain Maine girl, so they'd rather fight over Lynette.

So I guess you're just going to have to get another pretty girl but will that cause even more fighting? If she's prettier than Lynette, Butterscotch will drop Lynette and hopefully LLBean will take Lynette back. It happens.

Thanks for this episode of As the Duck Quacks.

03/31/09 @ 10:00 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Foolish Times

Jack, normally your posts are at most mildly acerbic and usually quite cheerful.

For normally mellow you to be expressing such anger shows how disgusted most of America is with so many things right now, myself included.

03/31/09 @ 9:55 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Yarmouth Police battle 107% increase in residential burglaries in March

It's hard work not having a job.

03/30/09 @ 11:24 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Cinderella gets her dress in Mashpee

All the girls pictured picked out good dresses, and once the dresses are ironed and their hair and makeup done, they'll look beautiful. What a great idea to have this swap in a down economy or any economy, really. There are always people who can't afford new dresses at $300 a pop, or who can afford it but choose to spend their money more judiciously,like for college tuition.

These resourceful gals have good sense.

03/30/09 @ 9:36 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Christy running hard for 2010

Charlie Baker, whom I've never heard of, sounds like a suit to me. Everyone is sick of suits.

03/30/09 @ 8:16 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Taxes aren't the solution!

The private sector employee is increasingly becoming a second class citizen. If an alien were to drop down in Massachusetts and see public sector versus private sector employees--s/he would only come to one logical conclusion: That the public sector employees, with their raises every year, health and dental benefits, sick time, vacation time, personal time, big fat pensions until the day they die, commuter allowance, every perk you can think of, must be superior beings to the private sector employees, who toil away with no pension, no guaranteed benefits, and whose taxes pay for the public sector.

In fact, the private sector are harder working, smarter people who are making it on their own with no help from the government, while the public sector couldn't last in the real world past their first coffee break, which by the way they don't get.

How is it that the smarter, harder working people are slaving away to support the unproductive unionized clock watchers called the public sector?

Stop feeding the beast by paying more taxes.

03/30/09 @ 8:02 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Mr. President, There Is Absolutely Nothing Funny About Cannabis Prohibition

Let capitalism and entrepreneurialism do their magic free of ridiculous laws criminalizing pot. Envision pot boutiques where all different flavors and strengths of pot are sold, all grown free of toxic pesticides, much like exists in California today except you have to have a card from doctor saying you need it for medical reasons. (It's not too hard, you pay a doctor about $300 and say you're stressed out, you get the card no problem.)

Tax it, regulate it for safety like you would any other consumable product, save billions in arresting and jailing pot smokers, it's the only rational answer.

The only ones opposed to it are geriatric martini-sipping hypocrites and/or job security-fearing cops, who will have less work to do arresting 19 year-olds and giving them a criminal record.

03/30/09 @ 7:49 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: If it looks like a slot, and sounds like a slot, it must be a slot

Just what we need in a recession--another way for the cognitively deficient to flush their unemployment checks down the toilet.

03/27/09 @ 7:56 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Yarmouth Police Department arrests for week ending 03/23/09; Orleans PD warns of Tsunami TV/radio test next week

Don't get arrested in Yarmouth. Stephanie wins the award for best hair this week, even though it's a bit tussled.

03/26/09 @ 2:00 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Stella Part II: A Backyard Full of Furry Friends

Stella is good training for one day if you ever have kids: the bodily fluids, the late nights, the whole shmeer.

03/23/09 @ 8:08 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Governor's Office announces $280 million in federal recovery funds to assist schools with special education costs

I have such a problem with this, because kids who have legitimate learning disabilities such as dyslexia are lumped in with kids who have behavioral problems. And it's all called Special Ed.

All the behavioral problem kids in my kids' schools, with no exception, come from terrible homes and I feel sorry for them. The writing was on the wall in kindergarten for these kids. I guess putting them in special ed does decrease the chance they'll end up in jail, but I can see what's in front of me and these kids aren't headed to CCCC, they're headed for BHC (Barnstable House of Correction) I'm sorry to say. Because they have terrible parents.

So why do we allocate resources towards them instead of towards the smart kids who could grow up to cure cancer?

I'd settle for just 10% of the special ed budget going for gifted education.

Since there are laws in place mandating this, as Petercohen pointed out, guess what, the definition of "special needs" has expanded to include behavioral problems.

03/23/09 @ 7:54 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Barnstable County has spent over a quarter million to stop Cape Wind - Has town-sized legal bills

OPM = other people's money

Private sector employees go to work every day knowing that they have to be accountable. If they slack off or screw up, it will be noticed and they will be fired.

Is this true of the Cape Cod Commission? If lots of money gets wasted, does anyone notice or care and do the employees worry about keeping their jobs?

If the Cape Cod Commission evaporated overnight, would anyone notice or care?

03/22/09 @ 1:00 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Wampanoags push ahead with casino; MMA cadet faces child porn charge; Gov. gives Cape schools short shrift.

Deval is going to have a challenge in the 2010 election, because he won't automatically get the White Guilt vote any more. Back in 2006, we didn't have Barack Obama as president to fill that gaping need for white liberals to have a Person of Color in office regardless of his/her credentials. Now that Barack is president, and doing a decent job IMO, all the Volvo-driving, Whole Foods shopping white folks won't feel as compelled to vote for Deval.

03/22/09 @ 12:56 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Governor's Office announces $280 million in federal recovery funds to assist schools with special education costs

IS there a similar amount allocated for gifted or advanced education? If not, why not? Why is a disproportionate amount spent to bring the bottom 10% up to mediocrity instead of allowing the top 10% to soar?

03/22/09 @ 12:47 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Are They or Aren't They?

Wow I didn't know milking goats was such a challenge. Or knowing if they're pregnant. Why cant they invent one of those pee on a stick tests?

03/20/09 @ 1:25 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Christy comes out swinging

Mary Connaughton is like an East Coast, super-brainy version of Sarah Palin. Maybe she can't field dress a moose but she has the guts to vote against the rest of the Turnpike Authority. Nothin' wrong with that. Let's hope she doesn't have any teenage daughters....

03/20/09 @ 7:52 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Geriatric's revenge

Why the hell should a retired person get a break? What about the working people paying for these old farts who have nothing better to do than harass cops--they're the ones who need a break.

03/20/09 @ 7:49 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Pols: Just say "NO" to voters!

The cops are only trying to do this because the geriatric constituency down here by and large did not vote for decriminalization of pot. Also, they are trying to preserve their jobs--every pot arrest, no matter how minor, takes hours.

Would the old geezers approve of criminalizing martinis? No way.

03/19/09 @ 11:39 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: A pile of Angelic cats

They're all beautiful but Alexandra is a knockout, truly.

03/17/09 @ 7:57 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Dennis ZBA gives Christy's a thumbs up

Yo Homestead condos: your property abuts Route 6A, a major thoroughfare. You don't want traffic and noise? Go live in a dune shack. Glad to see the board did the right thing and approved this.

03/16/09 @ 8:19 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Mashpee coach arraigned on statutory rape charges; Woman trapped in car after Service Road crash in West Barnstable

Possee, amen. In my 44 years on this earth, I have learned a few things:

1. Where there's smoke, there's fire. This means that this girl isn't the first or only victim of this creep.

2. Sometimes, about one half of one percent of the time, an innocent man is sent to jail. The other 99.5% of the guys are guilty of not only what they were caught for, but other stuff they weren't caught for.

This creep might not look much older than his victims, but he's a creep all the same. The only difference is that he got caught at a young age. He'd still be doing this if he were 73 and hadn't been caught.

Private justice still gets carried out every day in this country by people who don't trust the system.

03/13/09 @ 2:02 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: R.I.P. White Rooster

That's nice that you're using him for fishing. Criagslist--if these are the chickens you get, what kind of dates do you get? Oy.

03/12/09 @ 9:40 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Cape Cod's own "mini-Madoff" pleads guilty

It's nice to know that the Harwich school system, in this economy, chooses to give a job to a person of Jeannine's moral character while she's living in a $1 million home.

03/09/09 @ 8:48 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Meet Stella, the new puppy on campus

She's so cute in the snow. They grow up fast, just like human kids.

03/09/09 @ 4:34 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: MCAS-Recent News & Analysis

Well said and amen, Jonathan. I remember having to learn all the state capitals and the capitals of Europe, plus memorize a poem every month, and punitive measures were taken against those who didn't learn. I think overall, schools today are way way way too lax in enforcement of behavior, respect, and good solid hard work.

I think kids should be forced to clean the classrooms and bathrooms like they do in Japan and students with severe discipline problems should be expelled if they don't shape up by 4th grade or so. I think all kids should wear school uniforms. I think there should be no vending machines or snack times. Just the school lunch and the water fountain.

We are raising a nation of wimps and criminals. Schools should have an atmosphere of positive support, discipline, and most importantly, consequences. What's scary is Massachusetts has the best schools in the USA.

03/05/09 @ 4:48 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Dennis Village Improvement Society Endorses Christy's, Yet NIMBYism and Other "Issues" Persist

The Crosbys and the Brennans, who think they deserve a break from competition because their anglo ancestors washed ashore a couple hundred years ago, and because they call the police to check on old ladies, need a reality check. If they were so concerned about competition, why didn't they buy the property themselves?

03/05/09 @ 10:46 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Dennis Village Improvement Society Endorses Christy's, Yet NIMBYism and Other "Issues" Persist

Crusader thinks everyone should only be allowed to earn an allotted amount and then anything else they earn gets turned over to the next loser with his/her hand out.

Do you have any idea how difficult in this banking crisis it is for small or first-time business owners to get credit to buy such a location? Christy has the means to make this happen and all that's standing in his way are some stuck-up Puritans having a pity party.

Please everyone, go to the DPM and ask that they start selling 5 kinds of feta cheese and fresh spanikopita and baklava daily.

03/04/09 @ 5:19 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Dennis Village Improvement Society Endorses Christy's, Yet NIMBYism and Other "Issues" Persist

Holy capitalism Batman! The Dennis Public market will have a little bit of competition. And from a wealthy businessman whose ancestors did not come over on the Mayflower!

The Crosby and Brennan families are teaching their children the wrong lesson by disseminating this ridiculous letter. They should be laughed right out of the town meeting for being too lazy to handle competition and then whining about it on taxpayer's time.

Mr. Mihos is trying to transform an eyesore into a business which CREATES JOBS and PAYS TAXES. Who else has the means to do this in 2009? And all these two families can do is whine. For shame, absolutely despicable. I'm never going to spend another dime at the Dennis Public market.

03/03/09 @ 5:29 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Tolls on the Bridges--a Tired Old Idea

Hey CC Commission: Get your hands out of my pockets and out of the pockets of the visitors who are coming here for the express purpose of spending their hard-earned money with local businesses.

Sure the cities and towns need more money, supposedly. So do a lot of local businesses. The only difference is that local businesses can't levy taxes on private citizens in order to balance their budgets. So you know what they do? They cut costs.

03/03/09 @ 8:23 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Man robbed at knifepoint in South Dennis

2 pm on Monday. They should be at work. But I have a feeling we have 3 people here who have nothing better to do at 2 pm on Monday than steal a few bucks from friends.

You want money? Come deal with my lawn and trees. I need a lot of work done. But that would entail working.

03/03/09 @ 8:19 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Limbaugh, Coulter and the new rising neocon starlet Sarah Palin

The Republican party would do well to rid itself of Ms. Palin and other religious wingnuts. I am all for fiscal conservatism, small government, and personal freedom. What does God, the Bible, and fetuses have to do with the above?

The cracker constituency who support Ms. Palin's crackpot religious politics are not the educated elite. They're the losers in the new economy--uneducated and freshly laid off. They may have a vote, but they don't have the dollars they used to, and their earning power is rapidly disintegrating.

Republicans need to radically reinvent themselves, and should try the bold experiment of rebuilding themselves without the religious right. They have nothing to lose, that's for sure.

02/11/09 @ 8:01 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Failed armed robbery at Falmouth Dunkin' Donuts; Warrants tops Yarmouth Police Department arrests this past week

Get arrested in Yarmouth = public humiliation. No lying about "yes, some other guy with the same name as mine was in the court reports."

Get arrested in all other towns, don't worry. Apparently the Yarmouth PD possesses a rare form of genius not found in the other 14 towns on the Cape.

Or maybe the other towns' PD's are just too lazy or sympathize with criminals too much.

02/09/09 @ 8:17 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Raising Taxes Will Hurt the Economy

The soda tax, like the lottery and the cigarette tax, is clearly aimed at the less-educated working class who aren't as empowered to lobby against taxes on themselves. Suppose Deval wanted to tax pinot noir, ski lift tickets, and sushi? Do you really think it would ever happen?

Pinot noir involves a big carbon load in transporting it, downhill skiing in an environmentally unfriendly and dangerous activity, and sushi has gross parasites and is mercury-laden.

So let's tell the truth and call this tax what it is: the bubba tax, for working class white people who drink a lot of soda, smoke, and buy lottery tickets.

02/06/09 @ 8:04 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: The Egg Stealer's Booty

I've never seen an orange egg yolk before.

01/23/09 @ 7:26 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Someone give Cleon a toke, quick!

Does he actually retrieve and answer his state house emails or does he have a gal doing his email for him like many relics in suits walking around these days. In the private sector, there are very few gals anymore. But there are plenty of gals in government waiting on the incumbent old farts hand and foot.

01/23/09 @ 7:10 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Yarmouth Police Department Crimes of the Week

I think it's entirely appropriate to post mugshots of people who are driving their car without a license (they know they aren't supposed to be driving), selling or in possession of illegal drugs (they know the drugs are illegal) or OUI, particularly for 2+ time offenders. And most of these people shown above are in their 20's and 30's and older. They really should know better.

01/22/09 @ 4:53 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Someone give Cleon a toke, quick!

Out with the old, in with the new. Obama's team arrived for work and found the state of technology in the White House to be in the dark ages. I'm not surprised.

The population of this peninsula is so geriatric (or blindly Democrat) that they vote for a candidate who doesn't have a website.

The new Whitehouse website is going to lead the way toward transparency in government that Barack promises, hopefully that will happen. How are we supposed to find out what Cleon's doing? Wait for a missive via the Pony Express?

Hey Cleon--join the 21st century and get a website.

01/21/09 @ 9:25 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Barnstable parents win harassment suit appeal at nation's highest court today

Kick.the.bully.kid.off.the.bus.

Bus riding is a privilege, not a right.

Have a bus policy, and kick kids off the bus.

01/18/09 @ 9:45 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: "Just Don't Drink"

I am fearful of hurting myself in any way that might make taking Percoset a temptation. I took one very mild one routinely given out at hospitals after giving birth and had the most bizarre, morbid, Stanley Kubrick-meets- Samual Taylor Coleridge dreams it seemed like all night, and now more than 8 years later I still can't get some of the phantosmagoric images out of my head sometimes. I haven't taken one since and I just hope and pray I don't ever have an injury or something where the pain is so bad I would want to take one.

What if I had to take Oxycontin? I'd probably leave behind a Helter-Skelter-like crime scene. How on earth can people function on these opiates?

01/14/09 @ 8:24 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: USCG rescues man after icy plunge into Pleasant Bay; Yarmouth PD weekly wrap up; Getting to the bottom of last week's Vineyard crash; Become a Yarmouth police officer

If I were a criminal, I'd make sure to get arrested in the media-safe neighboring towns of Dennis and Barnstable rather than Yarmouth.

01/13/09 @ 9:26 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Changes proposed for Barnstable junk dealers

Is theft of items from unlocked cars and homes logged as a B&E or as a larceny?

What about Cash4gold.com, advertised heavily on Howard Stern and no doubt many other places.

01/10/09 @ 1:13 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: BULLETIN: Body of missing Cotuit man found

Et parce que sa femme pensait que Denial etait une fleuve en Egypte. Tout meme ce'st vraiment triste.

01/08/09 @ 7:35 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: New Level Three Sex Offender living in Yarmouth; Big Cape-Vegas narcotics ring busted

I don't know the drug business, but I do know what it costs to look remotely presentable, and this chick more than made the money. But her customers don't have to look at her--just get the drugs from her.

Professional one-step color process and highlights: $150

Getting an actual haircut: $50 (these are girl's prices, not guy's prices)

Eyebrows waxed: $50

Hair extensions (there isn't much to work with) $300

Nothing to be done quickly with the face but makeup: $150

Jewelry, an actual outfit: depends.

The other ladies' mug shots from last night were much more cheerful.

01/08/09 @ 9:57 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Rotors, Resolutions, and Child Abuse

Very funny. Cars are a total PITA and necessitate keeping some guy happy so he can pay for it and maintain it. Hmmm...subway vs. picking up dirty socks. Subway vs. cooking. Subway vs. you name it. Hmmm, that's a tough one.

01/06/09 @ 4:23 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Applicants sought for upcoming citizen police academy in Yarmouth; Battery and booze top the arrest charts in Yarmouth this past week

The ladies are pretty cute.

01/04/09 @ 8:51 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Not warm or cuddly - but fun

Your fish tank looks beautiful. CapeDad and I went thru our fish phase as newlyweds, pre-cats and kids. We had 40 fish crammed into a 15 gallon tank like sardines in a can. And we wondered why they kept dying. We've taken better care of the cats and kids, thank goodness.

01/01/09 @ 10:21 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Dramatic Bourne rollover in storm; Yarmouth police nab man with 14 gram of coke; Storm driving & safety tips

Note to self: do not get arrested in Yarmouth unless my hair and makeup are done. Apparently the cops there like to share mug shots with the media.

01/01/09 @ 10:18 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Taking the plunge on New Year's Day

I wish I had the cojones to do this. Maybe next year.

12/30/08 @ 7:29 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Pro fundraisers take lion's share from local charity campaigns

Notice how these telemarketing fundraisers like to work with the police, fire, and Catholic church, soliciting old people who are afraid that if they don't give, their house will burn down and they'll go to hell.

It'll be a cold day in hell before these scammy fundraising companies agree to raise funds for the AIDS Action Committee, Planned Parenthood, or the NAACP.

12/30/08 @ 7:24 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Yarmouth PD subdues armed Harwich man; OUIs and assault & battery arrests busy YPD during Xmas week; Dennis Pond Conservation Area to re-open January 1st

If I looked like these people, I'd get drunk, too.

12/18/08 @ 4:00 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Murdered Barnstable High School student said to have drug links

This is a horrific and brutal crime which leaves behind a grieving mother. He wasn't 26, he was 16 and someone making poor choices at 16 shouldn't have to die for it. Imagine your own flesh and blood being set on fire, dead or alive it's a terrible thing.

12/18/08 @ 3:37 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Protect Your ASSets! Part III Know Your Investments!

The smart guy who had Madoff's number 8 years ago is named Harry Markopolos, who no doubt prefers moussaka to matzoh brei. The SEC didn't pay him enough heed because he was in a competing business and the country club frat boys there mistook his ardent zeal for Mediterranean pushiness.

OK, he was pushy, but he was right. The SEC failed to do its job twice over. Mr. Markoplos was the one running Madoff's numbers with a mathemetician and proving they were impossible. So why wasn't the SEC running numbers? And on top of it, after this guy does their work for them, they refuse to investigate Madoff.

It's like solving a murder for the police and then having them refuse to arrest the murderer.

Mr. Madoff has exposed his own wife and sons, supposedly innocent, to the joyous experience of being investigated by the Feds. "Happy Hannukah!"

12/11/08 @ 5:25 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Orleans Homeport 40th Birthday celebration December 13-19

I love the 'Port and so do the kids. Support local restaurants.

12/11/08 @ 10:42 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Yarmouth chase; Hyannis home invasion; New BPD hybrid vehicle

Ian honey, if God is your witness, he's going to be subpoenaed for this case.

12/09/08 @ 8:06 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: A pet's passing

Well, Ned, I hope you are ready to join the League of Cat Owners again. And if you can have one, you can have two. If everyone who had no pets whatsoever got just one cat, and if everyone who had only one cat got one more, think how many fewer homeless cats there'd be.

They're the easiest pets in the world and forget about "my cat won't have another cat in the house." They ALL snarl at first and then they learn to get along after about two weeks.

We recently adopted a gorgeous male Angora, 7 years old, from the Animal Rescue League. My crabby old female cat intimidates him with a stare. Our 2 year old female and the new guy are in love (even though they are both fixed)and wrestle with neck nipping, etc. all day and night. They seem to know the motions but are unable to go through with it for obvious reasons.

12/07/08 @ 10:32 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Pullet Eggs

Did I see you walking your baby in stroller along Setucket Road yesterday?

12/07/08 @ 10:32 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Pullet Eggs

They're cute and it seems like they'd be a novelty at the grocery store or Trader Joe's, just like miniature grapes, cucumbers, and everything else. "Bethany's Low-Cholesterol Eggs."

12/05/08 @ 8:25 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: US Auto Makers 12 Step Program

Cru, that's a great quote from a smart man. Somehow I missed it in October's VF, I am a faithful subscriber.

12/05/08 @ 8:19 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Harwich students wrap up STAND Fast with celebration

I thin it's great, too, and it's an effective teaching tool to allow kids to see what it's like to go hungry without doing a drastic fast and endangering their health.

12/05/08 @ 8:12 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Police chief, two others, club indicted for death of Christopher Bizilj

The kid's dad, the good doctor, had a good lawyer, that's obvious. If he had been a truck driver, he'd be facing charges. Don't you think the other guys facing charges have regrets about this case even though it wasn't their own kid? Of course they do, aside from the charges they are facing. The kid died partly due to them. Don't you think they feel guilt? If so, then why doesn't the Dad face charges, too? Either charge all of them or none of them.

12/03/08 @ 2:54 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: "Quantum of Solace" is a New Age Bond for women

This was definitely different in some good ways, and some not so good ways, from the other Bonds. If you define a movie for women as one in which you get more than 5 seconds' worth of screen time of Daniel Craig without his shirt on, than this is not a film for women.

And if being a sensitive lover means not actually doing anything between the sheet that takes more than a nanosecond of screen time, than this guy is way sensitive. I thought Judi Dench was superb as always.

I miss the Bond bimbos of yore (we're talking the late 90's) such as Christmas Jones (Denise Richards), who is purportedly a nuclear physicist (now THAT's funny), who was rated the worst Bond girl of all time by Us Weekly, but who looked great in her shorts, work boots, and suspenders while she thwarted global nuclear annihilation before nailing Pierce Brosnan at the end of The World is Not Enough.

I agree with you, the chicks in Quantum are certainly more intelligent than in years past, but who says Jams Bond movies are supposed to be intelligent?

11/28/08 @ 8:36 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: The madness of "Black Friday" can kill

This mass hysteria is based on the self-delusion that one is better than nearly all other humans because one has performed a relatively simple task that neaerly all humans are capable of, but not willing, to to do.

"I'M going to get a BETTER bargain than ANYONE because I AM ONE OF THE FEW PEOPLE who are smart enough to set my alarm for an early time and drive to a store. "

I have news for you, yentas: We're all smart enough to set our alarms, get up early and drive to a store. We just choose not to. Tell me, who do you see in those lines? Millionaires? The cognitive elite?

11/10/08 @ 11:00 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Business News: Cuddle & Bubble sold; Cape economic summit; Hospitals receive awards

Good to see the old Poke 'n' Soak is under new management.

11/07/08 @ 10:44 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Burger Kings Removing Playgrounds

Hey Jonathan, great idea to Google BK playground removal. I have many memories of that one in South Dennis. Some are fond, such as the time I was 8 months pregnant and had to climb up the mesh climbing thing to the second level because my impish then-2.5 year old son wouldn't come down no matter what I said.

Let's face it, when you've got little ones riding around in the car, sometimes you just need to go to a BK playground and let them blow off some steam. And while you're there, you might as well feed them for cheap.

I never made too regular of a habit of it, but BK got a few of my bucks over the years due to that playground, that's for sure.

11/05/08 @ 7:55 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Perrino, Flynn, state rep incumbents win on Election Day

Wow, Eric Turkington ain't got no J-O-B.

11/04/08 @ 8:04 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Tomorrow is Election--Just One More Day to Work As Hard As We Can!

A vote for Anastasia is a vote for common sense, efficiency, and modernity, making the Probate Court easier and accessible through the use of the Internet.

A vote for Turkington is a vote for tax-and-spend bogus job creation, and also for more pollution--not having these forms available online creates thousands of unnecessary car trips to the Court, wasting everyone's precious money and time.

11/03/08 @ 2:23 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: He loved the Cape, and he'll be with us forever

This is a both a tragedy and a crime. Dad is a high-powered Type A CEO who doesn't readily admit wrongdoing. Mom is used to keeping her mouth shut and knows what side her bread is buttered on.

I am sure they are both paralyzed with grief, and the enormity of this hasn't yet begun to sink in.

To say they have no regrets? Denial. For Dad to say he regrets his complicity in this horror would be to admit he was wrong, and he no doubt has never played the role of apologist very well.

10/28/08 @ 8:08 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Forum set on Hyannis street people

Homeless services should not be located in the heart of the Cape's largest retail district. That's just plain crazy. Who is in charge here, honest businessmen, hardworking citizens and consumers, or the homeless? I think they should all be given a one-way bus ticket to Florida, but the bleeding hearts could be satisfied by just relocating them to Otis AFB or the old jail house.

The Salvation Army can relocate to the jail and run the food service in between preaching sessions. They homeless won't freeze to death, and this way they'll be close to court for their arraignments.

10/27/08 @ 8:08 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Teen run over by train in Wareham

That's great news. He was very lucky. I am wishing for his complete recovery.

10/27/08 @ 5:14 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Chatham Bars Inn rolls out recession respite based on daily Dow Jones

CBI is doing what businesses have to do to survive a recession--make changes and work harder for the same or less money.

Businesses which fail to adapt and change their strategy or which fail to work harder or which fail to price their goods and services according to the market will fail in a recession.

10/27/08 @ 8:18 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Are Cape Cod Men wimps?

flexone: If you take as much care to communicate well in person as you do in your comments, I'd say you were doomed to a life of loneliness.

Either you have failed to notice that everyone else, including all magazines, books, and newspapers uses lower and upper-case letters, in which case you're stupid, or, you can't be bothered and think people won't CARE THAT YOU ARE SHOUTING DIGITALLY. In which case you're delusional.

10/24/08 @ 8:03 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Former Cape state senator resigns Arkansas post

Mrs. Doane: Umm, honey, why did you have to leave your $153,000 a year job? We kinda need the money.

Mr. Doane: I was too cheap to pay my own travel expenses and by gum, I thought I would teach them a lesson.

Mrs. Doane: You're a real jerk.

10/23/08 @ 12:44 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Cape Codders Stand for Peace, Part I

Really nice video. Peaceniks are not bad-looking, I gotta say.

10/20/08 @ 8:49 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Turkington, Peake, Perry have largest war chests

"He raised $35, but spent it." LOL!!!

10/17/08 @ 4:53 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Gloves come off in probate register's race

Ummm, I just Googled for Eric's campaign website, and erm, there isn't one. Yeah, this guy is right on top of it. Like many men in his age group, he has underestimated the lil' lady Anastasia and thought she would just roll over and lose this election to him, as well as her job.

Because she can just stay home and be supported by her husband and watch Oprah all day while Eric takes a job he has no experience in, right?

Well, he guessed wrong and hopefully he will lose this election , as long as people don't blindly vote for the "D" on the ballot.

10/17/08 @ 8:43 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Why we urge you to vote for Anastasia Welsh Perrino for Barnstable County Register of Probate

Turkington, while he is an attorney like Anastasia, has never worked in a Probate Court.

He's nearing retirement age--I really can't see him being walking into this job and instantly being patient and compassionate with the widows who come in to probate their husband's wills and all the other human suffering the Court has to deal with.

10/17/08 @ 8:34 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Gloves come off in probate register's race

C'mon, Eric, that's all ya got? "Fresh eyes"? Next to Anastasia, you don't look so fresh.

10/10/08 @ 2:15 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Teammates filled player's water bottle with toilet water

This is outrageous! This person who did this could have made the victim very sick! This person who did this is a future criminal unless they are dealt serious consequences NOW.

Why didn't the principal say what the punishment was? Her salary is paid by MY TAX DOLLARS and I want to know what she is doing about this--she has NO RIGHT or REASON to hide the truth.

Unless the truth is, she let this kid off with a slap on the wrist.

10/06/08 @ 8:18 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Would you buy a used car from this man?

When he first ran for the 2000 election, W's main drawback was that he was considered to be stupid. His stupidity was (and is)manifested by his consistent inability to speak correctly.

Conservatives I knew said so what, he's not an A-plus student, most presidential decision-making is done by smart advisors anyway.

Eight years later, the situation we are in as a country is a testament to the fact that COGNITIVE ABILITY, that's IQ, that's intelligence, is major pre-requisite for the very difficult job of being president of the USA.

Both W and his drag sister, Sarah Palin, talk about "not blinking" in the face of big decisions. They are both unencumbered by the thought process, because they are incapable of it.

Sarah Palin's stupidity wouldn't matter if John MCain was 15-20 years younger.
Say what you will about Barack Obama's radical left political past, which I have a big problem with, he's a high-IQ person. His father was a Rhodes Scholar plucked from Kenya because of his intellectual abilities.

W was too stupid to be president.

10/06/08 @ 8:02 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Are you violating state gun laws?

I got an FID from the Brewster PD in 1993 in order to buy Mace. My FID said clearly "Valid until revoked." About a year after that, I washed the Mace (which was in my pants pocket) by accident so it was ruined.

Then last year, I wanted to buy some pepper spray. For the record I will say it's ridiculous to require an FID for pepper spray and almost no other states require this.

The online pepper spray store informed me that my FID was no longer valid due to changes in the law since 9/11. I never got anything in the mail informing me of this. So I had to go to the police department, do a new application ($35 instead of the $100 for a gun permit) and wait 6 weeks.

My original FID says nothing about it being for pepper spray only; I could have used it to buy a gun, and it clearly stated "valid until revoked." What if I had bought a gun in the 90's and still had it and then the cops searched my house? I never received anything in the mail informing me of the fact that it was no longer valid.

10/03/08 @ 8:21 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: A letter to the people of Plymouth UK

Thanks for sharing this, Paula.

10/03/08 @ 8:03 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Brazilian national charged with drug dealing

So he's a bad Brazilian, he'll get deported. Most of the criminals featured in the Police and Fire news are white. They're bad white people.

ALL the Brazilian guys I know wear a wedding ring and work 60 hours+ per week.

10/03/08 @ 7:49 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Manso arraigned on 12 firearms related charges

jbcape26--dead on. Neither one of these guys is going to win a beauty contest. Which makes it harder to palate why taxpayer's dollars are being wasted on this farce when it's not even good tabloid fodder because both these guys are so ugly.

A couple of runts with Napoleon complexes having a public "my d*** is longer" contest, all on the taxpayer's dime.

BTW, Pater Manso, as well as John McCain, need to FIX their Colonel Sanders old geezer white hair. It's SUCH a turnoff, for me at least, I don't even want to be in the same room with either one of them. If either one of them think they have the somewhat sexy Paul Newman salt-and-pepper look going, they're deluding themselves. It looks OLD. Dye your hair, Manso, it's easy. There are great salons in Provincetown. People don't tell you this, including your wife, because they're sucking up to you, and you're the one with the money.

10/03/08 @ 7:41 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: The Veep Debate and the Bailout

She came across sounding like a Miss America top ten finalist answering the question: "If you could change anything about the world, what would it be and why?"

She'd be good as a news anchor on a local affiliate station, or as the owner of a small business, maybe even as the mayor in a small town in a small state.

10/02/08 @ 6:08 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Palin doing her part to drag McCain down

Sarah's one of those chicks who used a Bible verse for her senior quote. I know what these chicks are like, and they are goody two-shoes hypocrites, who grew up mostly to be decent moms and wives.

Her extreme religiosity is an indicator of limited cognitive ability, and a dogged tendency to see the world as it should be, not the way it is.

10/01/08 @ 2:25 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Palin doing her part to drag McCain down

Apparently Ms. Palin never heard my mother's words of wisdom: "Only whores and children wear red shoes."

Those red pumps with the kinky buckles on them that she wore are entirely inappropriate, as were the big hoop earrings she wore last week. She's too old for them and a potential VP of the USA doesn't wear trashy big hoop earrings.

She may think those glasses make her look smart but it can't hide the fact that she's a joke, an embarassment, a laughingstock whose only apparent talent appears to be pumping out babies.

She's uneducated (general studies at North Idaho State?) and so ignorant that she doesn't even know how ignorant she is. Sounds like W.

"If you like Bush, you'll love Sarah Palin."

Wait, that sounds different than I intended...

09/30/08 @ 10:53 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Rolling the Dice on the Rescue Plan

Oops, messed that one up, maybe it was some kind of a Freudian slip. Bony Cindy McCain has the sex appeal of used vacuum cleaner bag, and rumor has it she farts dust. And that's just as well because McCain can't handle ANY whoopee at his age.

09/30/08 @ 10:07 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Rolling the Dice on the Rescue Plan

McCain/Palin is a house of cards.

He's old and cranky. His wife is a size zero (really) blonde high-maintenance heiress who hates Washington and publicity and is constantly jonesing for her next Vicodin. She eats two almonds per day and I don't see this bag of bones being a supportive rock of a wife to our President, who has the hardest job in the world and is old on top of it.

Not if, but when, he gets a hard attack from the stress, she'll be out riding horses in Arizona and might make it to DC in time for his funeral.

Then our Commander in chief will be a white trash Pentecostal beauty queen who barely graduated from college, had a shotgun wedding, can't seem to remember to take a birth a control pill, and speaks in sentence fragments due to her very limited cognitive ability.

McCain, the old coot who deliberately chose this farce, this woman who is nothing but Bush in drag, has insulted America and the American people with this buffoon.

09/30/08 @ 7:13 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Exclusive Interview: Marcus Miranda's brother at Cape Cod Hospital

If this guy was in fact unarmed, then WTF? Why was he shot? I guess he was scared, who knows maybe he had a joint in his pocket or something so he ran. Either the girl was really scared of him and his brother is downplaying the threat, or maybe his brother is right and the girl wanted to "scare him" so she called the cops. I'll bet she feels bad now.

Why would you call a cop with a loaded gun because your boyfriend is being a jerk? Just leave the house if he's being so unbearable.

09/18/08 @ 1:21 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Gas discount ends today; The view "After Ellen"; 9/11 mural on Route 6; Double fatal trial begins; Turkington flips

Ol'Turk is suddenly a probate expert. $55,000 a year for sitting on his tuchas? Where do I sign up?

09/16/08 @ 1:34 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Racism is alive in Republican circles

Yes, I agree with this woman about racism being a big factor in this election, and that portrayal of Obama is pretty offensive.

It's funny because if you want to talk racial stereotypes, we've already had a black president--Bill Clinton. He's from the south, plays the saxophone, loves fried food, and has sex with fat white chicks. Next to Bill Clinton, Obama is so white he's clear.

09/16/08 @ 1:26 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: H2B or No H2B? That is the Question

The reason businesses are allowed to hire cheap foreign labor is because overall, it benefits more people than it hurts. We like having cheap hotel rooms and restaurant food and our lawns mowed, etc.

At least on Cape Cod, the people who think it benefits them to have cheap foreign workers (business owners, people who have their houses cleaned and lawns mowed) outnumber the people who think it hurts them (low-skilled residents.)

Also, the business owners and affluent residents have more money and power than low-skilled workers. Maybe this isn't right, but it's reality.

With the dollar dropping and homeland security hassles, many Brazilians have packed up and gone home. So you see, rational people are always going to act in their own self-interest and move where the money is, and not whine about there not being any jobs.

09/16/08 @ 11:16 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: H2B or No H2B? That is the Question

murr--what people are paid depends on how many people CAN do it and how many people are WILLING to do it. Anyone can sweep floors, many are willing, and that's why it doesn't pay much.

Most young women CAN be prostitutes, but most aren't willing to, that's why they get a lot more than $6/hr.

Most people can't hit home runs in major league baseball, that's why MLB players get paid a lot. Most women CAN be mothers and most are good ones, it's fulfilling enough that they are willing to do it for free.

There's nothing fair, just or right about reality. The sooner you realize it, the better you'll feel. Embrace it: you're paid what you're worth.

09/16/08 @ 10:34 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: H2B or No H2B? That is the Question

I of course do not mean all 20-somethings. But obviously, if Americans were willing to do this work, they'd be doing it. But they're not willing. So they're not doing it. But Bulgarians are willing. So they're doing it.

When is the last time you heard an American say "I can't find a job"? There are tons of jobs, everywhere. And a "living wage"? Sure, $9/hour doesn't go far. That's why you get roommates--or the ultimate roommate--married. That's why you eat ramen noodles. That's why you say, gee this sucks, I need to get promoted, or go to school and get a degree.

That's why you say--gee Cape Cod is beautiful, people pay $200/night to stay here, maybe that's why the houses cost so much. Maybe that's why I should move to the south or someplace where it's cheaper to live.

Unskilled or lower-skilled American workers people are leaving this state in droves and have been for 10 years, ever since real estate prices went up. Is this a bad thing? People move. So what.

09/16/08 @ 8:58 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: H2B or No H2B? That is the Question

20 fewer unemployed, out of a population in Dennis of 9,000, is statistically insignificant. Where are your numbers to prove that jobs in Dennis went to citizens instead of H2B workers?

Does anyone really think that businesses WANT to hire people who barely speak English, people who draw suspicion from government agencies like the INS?

No, businesses WANT to hire people who show up on time, sober, and do the work.

Unfortunately, there aren't enough Americans willing to do the job. Maybe they'll bother to show up for $25/hour, or maybe not. How come the young Brazilians and Bulgarians, despite the fact that the dollar sucks, are willing to live cheaply (it's called roommates--I had 'em when I was young) and work long hours to save money, and Americans are not?

The harsh truth in that many American 20-somethings are lazy. They live at home with Mommy and Daddy and aren't forced to get their hands dirty and earn their own keep.

09/12/08 @ 11:18 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Route 6: "Patti Page Highway"?

Well, I guess I made the mistake of projecting Cape Cod ways onto the rest of New England, my bad. The difference is that New England chooses noble politicians and humanitarian African-American athletes of yore (That's who Major Taylor) was to re-name their streets after, rather than rock stars. Snore.

09/11/08 @ 9:59 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Route 6: "Patti Page Highway"?

Solon, that's a fantastic idea! Everyone loves the song, Patti's adorable, what's not to love? Screw that stale old piece of toast spinster Katherine Lee Bates.

capecodjon, it's people like you who make the world a duller place, because of your fixation on the illusion of "fairness" and not doing anything because if you do something, someone somewhere might not like it or might not agree! Horrors! This malady is pervasive in New England and rare in the South.

In the South, a couple of guys in the mayor's office decide to re-name Main Street Elvis Presley Boulevard or Hank Williams Jr, street and BAM! it's done. It gives their town a little flair, a little panache and makes it memorable. Most people in the town like Elvis anyway so it's a done deal.

Here in New England, 40,000 people would have to attend 300 town meetings to discuss this issue. The Cape Cod Commission would get involved. After 25 years of debate, Patti Page would be dead and they'd decide to name it Cape Cod Highway so as not to offend anyone.

09/05/08 @ 8:26 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: President Palin

According to the media, Ms. Palin had a Bible verse as her senior quote in her high school yearbook. Being from the South, I am well-acquainted with hypocritical goody-two-shoes types like her.

She's a hard worker, very focused, etc. and would probably be successful as the owner of a small-to -mid-sized company, where her bizzaro opinions on abortion, creationism, and other assorted religious confabulations would not have an impact on profitability.

To the media: I am almost 100% certain that you can dig up some moderate dirt on her college years. Sure, she met her husband in high school. Was he there the whole time she was in college? She is attractive and not a Catholic girl, I'm just telling ya, if she was even halfway normal, there's some dirt to dig up.

Don't forget, her pro-life mantra comes from her being raised in the Assembly of God church, a white-trash bastion of baloney, not from Catholicism. These Protestant chicks don't have iron pants like their Hail Mary-sayin' sisters and I'm tellin' ya, there's some dirt there for the diggin' and I say go for it.

08/23/08 @ 9:46 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Ding-Dang--the Ptown Carnival Parade Makes its Annual Pass Down Commercial

Wow!

08/14/08 @ 3:09 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Is the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District now a school for scoundrels?

murr--I absolutely did not say that I think think autism is a behavior issue. Of course it isn't.

08/14/08 @ 1:48 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Is the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District now a school for scoundrels?

Of course, most kids in SPED don't have behavior problems, and those who do, are not always from homes on public assistance. And kids know who at least some of the SPED kids are, it's obvious--the ones who are constantly acting up and the ones who have to have an aide with them all the time because they're autistic.

It's a shame to eliminate aides in the classrooms in favor of more bureaucrats.

Also, murr, you're totally wrong about the situation of blacks from 1900 to 1950. The migration of blacks to places beyond the south started in the 1920's. And there was public education for all blacks, but it was segregated and not as good. The civil rights movement was of course a major impetus for blacks improving their status. And most people on welfare are white, and just because a baby is born out of wedlock, it doesn't mean the mom is on welfare.

08/14/08 @ 12:23 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Is the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District now a school for scoundrels?

There is nothing bigoted in the facts I have stated. The high rates of out-of-wedlock births in blacks, whites, and hispanics is strongly correlated with lack of education (only 6% of OOW babies are born to mothers with a college degree) and low income.

From 1900 - 1950, only 15% of African-American babies were born out-of-wedlock. Black families were of course much poorer than whites, but they were stable households for the most part.

Then came the war on poverty in the 1960's which sought to eliminate poverty by handing out cash in exchange for having babies and not working and not being married. Guess what the result was. Decades later, 40% of babies being born to single mothers. An exponentially expanding underclass paid for by people who have made wiser choices in life.

08/14/08 @ 12:01 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Is the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District now a school for scoundrels?

Here's facts: 40% of all children born in this country are born out of wedlock. It's a national catastrophe. 80% of black children are born OOW. 60& of hispanic children, and about 25% of white children. If the parents are cohabitating at the time of the birth, only about 15% of those couples are still together five years later. The involvement of the fathers in these kids' lives is precarious and sporadic compared to the involvement of fathers in divorce situations.

This terrible state of affairs is directly attributable to the government tacitly encouraging this through its welfare policies. A woman who works in a low-paid job can marginally improve her standard of living by having a baby out of wedlock and naively believes it will keep the father in her life.

Believe me, if uncle sam weren't there with a host of goodies rewarding her behavior, she'd remember to take a little pill every day.

Children from welfare homes are 2-3 times more likely to have behavioral problems and host of other health and well-being issues.

08/14/08 @ 11:04 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Is the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District now a school for scoundrels?

I did not know that kids on IEP's were SPED kids. So you're saying that SPED encompasses the dyslexic kid who needs extra reading help along with kids who have behavioral problems. That's unfortunate.

I know from my kids who in their classes gets SPED services and I can tell you that half of them, usually boys, have behavioral problems. They're ADD or whatever. I have also seen some of them with their parents, who do NOTHING when the kids misbehave.

Yes, the measure of a society is how it treats its children. But is handing out cash for section 8 housing, food stamps, WIC, free school lunches and breakfast,and ADC to people who have deliberately gotten pregnant out of wedlock good for kids? It is not, IMHO.

What does welfare have to do with SPED? Kids with behavioral problems, labeled SPED, are often from out-of-wedlock situations. No father around to set a role model, boys acting out, mom too lazy or overwhelmed by the situation she has brought on herself to deal with it--far easier to let your kid be labeled SPED than fix your own problems.

08/14/08 @ 10:53 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: The lies of Hiroshima

Solon, LOL. I agree with j. madden, well put.

08/14/08 @ 10:11 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Bookstore Ordered to Reduce Seating to 95 Seats

Peter, what does the town "not allowing" look like? I'm just trying to understand this, I don't know. Does the town bar the doors shut? Does someone get arrested?

08/14/08 @ 9:12 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Bookstore Ordered to Reduce Seating to 95 Seats

Peter: a question--what happens if the Bookstore ignores this request,what are the consequences?

Has the town learned its lesson regarding appeasing violaters? Appeasement never works, it only prolongs the process. I applaud Ms. Greenberg's actions, but this cease and esist should have been served months ago.

The Parlantes have been playing the board of health like a fiddle and making the town look like a chump with their flagrant violations.

08/14/08 @ 8:55 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Star Speakers for Obama Fundraiser in Truro

The thing about Obama is this: you shouldn't judge him by his fans. Just because I feel most people who support him are supporting him for the wrong reasons, it doesn't mean he's not a good candidate.

In other words, just because the Oprah-watching, guilt-ridden, irrational middle-class whities are voting for him because they think his skin color entitles him to be the Commander in Chief of the USA, and just because the unproductive underclass of America is voting for him to expand the welfare state, doesn't mean he's not a good candidate.

Or maybe it does. Hmmm.....

08/14/08 @ 8:48 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Is the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District now a school for scoundrels?

1 out of 6 kids with special needs? I think the average is 1 out of 8 or 10. D-Y is rapidly becoming the welfare school of Cape Cod.

It's obvious that the school's priorities have become helping the special needs kids at the expense of the normal, and especially at the expense of the gifted. A disastrous way to run a school, or a society.

My advice to parents there is: Move. Put your house on the market, and move. Don't blow your child's education waiting for this mess of school system to get its act together. Move to Brewster or Harwich, which have comparable real estate prices, you'll be glad you did.

08/14/08 @ 8:42 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Younger Kennedys protest "Tropic Thunder" at Mall cinemas

Insensitivity is funny, that's why Ben Stiller put it in this movie, and that's why I'm going to see it. But not at the mall. I don't have a gun. Yet.

07/29/08 @ 2:09 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Press Conference on Yarmouth Shooting

Read the Globe report on his past history of high-speed crazy driving. Very dangerous. Someone like this has impulse control issues and problems with authority and he would have ended up in a detention center for god knows how long before he got deported back to Brazil.

Now his girlfriend and kids get to spend god knows how long in a detention center, those places are not fun.

07/29/08 @ 1:00 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Few details after DA's press conference; Lightning safety rules

The fact that this man was Brazilian, a father, a house painter, left-handed, etc. have nothing to do with this case and why the officer shot him.

His past criminal record is relevant only insofar as it establishes that this individual had a history of confrontations with cops, high-speed, erratic driving, and anger management issues. Which means that it is more likely than if he were a little old lady that he was doing something to make the cop believe his own life was in danger.

07/29/08 @ 10:45 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Few details after DA's press conference; Lightning safety rules

I heard a Brazilian woman in a convenience store last night say to the cashier, "in Brazil, if this happened, people would have killed the cop for shooting this guy."

That's what makes Brazil so fabulous that its people will move 3000 miles away to live in the New England winter and scrub toilets for a living.

As I said on the other post, this is not a Brazilian issue at all. This is a criminal issue. The Brazilians should not take it personally, and frankly, are flattering themselves if they think the cops have time to single out Brazilians versus Yankees fans versus tourists versus whatever.

07/29/08 @ 10:38 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Police shooting challenged; Brazilian Press reacts to shooting; Nat'l pundit Bob Novak stricken here

A sad story about Andre Martins. Like many criminals, he had goodness in him--a worker, a decent father, a mostly nice guy, but he clearly struggled with his temper and drugs.

Just look at his record of past arrests and harassment of his girlfriend. He lived quite recklessly for someone here illegally who was supposed to be on the up-and-up . At the rate he was going, he would have been deported soon anyway.

The cop didn't know this guy was Brazilian and this is not a Brazilian issue. The cop was scared and while some cops might not have pulled the trigger, some would and this guy chose to. Andre's erratic behavior that night is consistent with someone who would have a gun and use it.

All I'm saying is, based on his behavior that night, the chances that this guy could have been a whack job who would try to kill a cop far outweigh the chances that officer Van Ness is a crazy cop who likes to kill civilians for no reason.

07/11/08 @ 3:57 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: How "big box" stores are squeezing you

You get what you pay for. You want cheap, you get cheap.

07/07/08 @ 8:35 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Centerville break-in thwarted by residents; Wellfleet fire; Trooper reassigned after son gets ahold of gun; Baby delivered is gas station restroom; Charges in Truro crash; Wellfleet BB gun incident

Did not mean to sound insensitive, forgot the baby was in critical condition. This whole thing must have been beyond horrible for the mother. Hooray for Mrs. Hall, I hope the baby is okay and sorry I laughed at Mon's joke which would have been funny if the baby was okay.

07/07/08 @ 8:31 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Thoughts on flag day and a yes for the Peace Rock

Beautifully written, Matt.

07/07/08 @ 6:30 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Centerville break-in thwarted by residents; Wellfleet fire; Trooper reassigned after son gets ahold of gun; Baby delivered is gas station restroom; Charges in Truro crash; Wellfleet BB gun incident

Mon, LOL.

07/01/08 @ 9:11 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Wellfleet's legal budget about to skyrocket

cru, you're a commie in PC clothing.

1. People have the right to do what they want with their property within local zoning laws. You don't like the laws, work to change them. You don't like the house, don't look at it.

2. People who have a lot of money have the right to build a huge house and not use it.

3. Imagine the property taxes they have to pay on this large house. That's a mini-windfall for the town.

4. If you want to control everything in your vision and purview, then earn a pile of money and buy your own private island somewhere. There are thousands of them for sale.

06/30/08 @ 8:10 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Hyannis stabbing; Woman gets arm caught in machine; Dennis motorcyclist lucky; Dramatic crash in Hyannis; Four car crash in Hyannis; Dennis car vs bike; Falmouth lights malfunctioning

uh-oh,the politically correct church lady police are here. Making fun of Russkies is not racist, because Russians are not a race. Also, they may have been "visitors" which implies tourist, but they are probably "gastarbeiten" and good for them. I am glad she wasn't seriously hurt. I feel sorry for people who have to ride bicycles in the road for the good reason that they can't afford a car.

The people who have cars who insist on clogging up the roads with their spandexed blubber on two wheels make my blood boil.

06/24/08 @ 2:04 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Barack Obama, Mystery Man

I don't care if you're black, white, or plaid, racism is not one of the top 5 problems in this country right now. The top five problems in this country are: the recession, the Iraq war, our health care system, Congress' refusal to curtail spending in the form of entitlements, drugs (and the bogus war on drugs.) Ans also, the Republican's party's failure to run a decent candidate who's moderate, not old, and can beat this otherwise easily beatable quasi-charlatan.

Sure, there are a lot of racist people in the USA. But electing Barack isn't going to solve this problem.

He, along with a Democratically controlled congress, is going to drop a tax bomb so big that every gainfully employed person will be lucky to pay their bills after Uncle Sam's huge bite to expand the welfare state.

If you are a law-abiding, hard-working middle class person not currently on any form of dole, don't think Obama's going to help you one bit.

If you're too lazy to pull yourself up by the bootstraps, Obama has lots of treats for you.

06/24/08 @ 10:58 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Cape Cod Museum of Natural History Announces KidSummer 2008 Schedule

Hey, my son is in Extreme Science this week. Gives us a break from Rock Band. I totally approve of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, not that anyone cares. My son is really listening to REAL music from the 70's - 90's and not the usual bang bang booty crapola on 96.3.

06/19/08 @ 9:13 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Route 6 oil spill; Lawsuit filed in Worthington DNA testing; Chatham seeks shoplifter; Yarmouth recognition awards

She's what's known as a SILF. Remember on Seinfeld when George was dating a woman in prison?

06/18/08 @ 9:24 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Rape suspect a fraud; Level three sex offender working for Wamps; CCBL players face further sanctions

Many nonprofit orgs on the Cape have executive directors who make executive-level salaries. Why can't the Wamps, who supposedly have all this money advanced from the casino developers, budget for an executive staff that they recruit from Wamps of the diaspora (i,.e., Wamps who maybe are n't living in Mashpee and/or are working at executive-level positions out there in the "real" world?

There are plenty of qualified Wamps who could do a good turn for their people while making a decent living doing the hard work of running this tribe the way it should be.

They shouldn't just hire someone because a person "needs" a job. The tribe is who needs qualified, decent, smart Wamps to run the tribe. It's a complicated job and requires professional smarts and experience.

06/18/08 @ 7:59 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: W.W.W.F.D.? Wellfleet The Politics Continue

John Stossel is a well-known libertarian/property rights guy and is not going to appreciate any unnecessary meddling from town petits bureaucrats.

06/17/08 @ 8:28 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Bookstore Restaurant Plan Denied by DEP

It's an E. coli extravanganza.

Well water plus a failed septic? At a restaurant polluting the marsh within the same ecosystem from which some of its shellfish that it serves comes?

Peter, what is the result of this? Is the Bookstore going to be shut down or what? All these committees and departments and reviews and deadlines, etc. it's so labyrinthine I just get confused. I applaud your efforts to unravel them.

06/13/08 @ 8:10 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: 12-year old bicyclist allegedly attacked in Brewster; Truck fire threatens house; Nantucket stabbing; Massage therapist charged with sexual assault in Dennis; Hyannis crash, fire

Not a great week for Dennis. First, a brutal rapist who lives on Route 6A is arrested. Then, an unlicensed massage therapist on Route 134 is arrested for sexual assault. Then, perhaps most bizarrely, a Dennis man is charged with throwing rocks at a 12-year-old boy.

06/13/08 @ 8:04 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: I'm yelling uncle! Uncle Sam, that is...

Amen, Peter and possee. Just give a re-listen to the song "Tax Man" by the Beatles. Why do people continue to vote for pols who do nothing to reduce taxes or make government more efficient? Fear and irrationality. Hello, President Obama. I'm readying myself for your tax bomb, which is going to hit working people like myself the hardest.

06/12/08 @ 9:06 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: McCowen stabbed; Man pinned by car in Bourne; Mashpee grill explosion and fire; Stabbings in Falmouth; Ped struck in Mashpee; Ptown car vs bike; Crash slows Sagamore Bridge traffic

Peter--re: "did O'Keeffe tap Flook": I am fairly certain, from a source I know, that O'Keeffe and Flook had some kind of affair. He's single and though she was married at the time, being an ambitious author, she used her p power to get an inside scoop on the story, pun intended.

This is not surprising. What is surprising is that O'Keeffe was stupid enough to talk so freely for the sake of some 40+ year old tail, and I also think it's surprising that he's remained single for so many years.

He's a big fan of strip clubs, I hear, and generally it's just strange that a heterosexual white guy who makes decent $$ remains impervious to the shackles of matrimony. I mean, he's divorced, but most guys jump right back into the fire eventually, especially those who make decent $$.

Hmmm.........

06/10/08 @ 8:23 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: McCowen stabbed; Man pinned by car in Bourne; Mashpee grill explosion and fire; Stabbings in Falmouth; Ped struck in Mashpee; Ptown car vs bike; Crash slows Sagamore Bridge traffic

clamshelli, you're the relative newcomer here, not bubslola. She's an infrequent but always welcome commenter.

bubs--bittersweet and cru suffer from chronic cases of white guilt and the prognosis is not good.

The Cape Cod Voice printed a handwritten letter by McCowan he wrote to someone from prison. It does not read like the work of someone of below average intelligence, but average. A few misspellings, but coherent. He mentions how he feels better now he's off drugs and I always suspected he (and OJ for that matter) must have been wacked out on something when they committed these crimes of incredible strength and rage.

So, Chris may have been "gentle" and "sweet" to some people but Chris doing whatever drugs he was doing that night was no lambie-kins. It was one night of his life that he must pay for with his freedom, for the sake of justice.

bubs is right, bad s*** happens in max. security prisons and always will. I hear there are a lot of violent criminals in them, that would explain it.

06/10/08 @ 8:07 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Arrest in Dennis bedroom kidnapping; Pickup vs bike in Hyannisport; Gas leak near CCH

Mav, I am talking about Mr. Pereira. Assuming the DNA evidence is correct, and that he is guilty,that would make him a pretty bad guy, IMO. Kidnapping and raping a 15-year-old.

06/10/08 @ 5:04 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Arrest in Dennis bedroom kidnapping; Pickup vs bike in Hyannisport; Gas leak near CCH

Bravo to LE for nabbing this guy, he is truly, truly dangerous.

06/10/08 @ 8:13 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: McCowen stabbed; Man pinned by car in Bourne; Mashpee grill explosion and fire; Stabbings in Falmouth; Ped struck in Mashpee; Ptown car vs bike; Crash slows Sagamore Bridge traffic

Christopher is getting a taste of his own medicine...

06/06/08 @ 8:00 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Buyer Beware: Entering Osterville

The rich are different. I was once riding in a rented car (long story--the car was a Toyota, nothing fancy) driven by a very wealthy woman (a friend's mom).

We stopped to get gas and she puts premium gas into the rental car! She also drinks only the top 1/3 of a can of soda and then throws it away and gets a new one because she only likes the fizziest part at the top.

05/12/08 @ 9:46 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Where does the spin stop at the Barnstable Town Hall?

Mav--it's like that Seinfeld episode in which Jerry and his girlfriend go around smooching and calling each other "shmoopie" and all his friends are sick of it.

Many of the people commenting on CapeCodToday are no doubt married men, but they don't talk about kissing their "brides" constantly.

I would think it was cute if some old geezer in a nursing home married some old bag of bones and referred to her as his "bride", that would be ironically funny.

05/12/08 @ 8:24 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Citizens help nab armed man; Brewster crash; Pedestrian struck in Bourne; Street blocked after strange odor; Fingers severly lacerated

What does Foursquare Church mean? I see "quadrangular" in the window sign. Weird.

05/12/08 @ 8:15 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Top Ten Reasons to Vote to Finish Falmouth High School

Good post, Troy.

It is a fact that Massachusetts is one of the wealthiest states in the country. And the Northeast is the wealthiest area of the country (per capita income). And the schools in Mass. are the best in the country.

But this whole deal sounds like some ridiculous squabble which would happen in a broke-assed part of the country like Louisiana or Alabama where the people are so poor, the tax base is useless, and they're such bumpkins, they get taken for a ride by carpet-bagging construction swindlers, and they're so ignorant, they don't think education is worth investing in.

Falmouth, get your act together; you're better than this. I'm picturing the mascot of Falmouth as one of my favorite Simpsons charaters: Cletus, the Slack-jawed Yokel.

05/12/08 @ 8:04 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Where does the spin stop at the Barnstable Town Hall?

Good work, Peter. The town government of Barnstable needs to be concerned with its image, like any other entity which survives on money forcibly appropriated from private citizens via taxes.

In a sucky job market like Cape Cod's, in an age of expensive health insurance and in an age where pensions are a relic of the past, any job which guarantees year-round employment and a bloated bennies package (like working for the town), which is paid for by John Q Public, had better go to choir boys or saints, not convicted felons.

I suspect that the coin-stealing wife-beater had a friend in town hall.

And now for something completely different: Mav, I have officially had it with the references to kissing "the bride." Either you're doing a lot more than kissing, in which case, ew, why tell everyone, or you're telling us every time you kiss your wife, in which case, ew, why are you telling us.

Brides wear white and are youngish. Maybe your wife is youngish, but is she still wearing a wedding dress?

05/09/08 @ 8:33 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Daily Bread

I lived in France a long time ago, and still miss the heavenly cheap bread. It was all I could afford some days. It was cheap because the government subsidized it heavily.

There are worse uses for the taxpayer's dollar. Bread and circuses is a good way to placate the masses, especially when it's French bread and not Wonder bread.

Spend $125 on Amazon and get a Cuisinart bread machine (like I have). Or get one from a friend--most people got these as Christmas gifts in the 90's and never use them . I suspect the electricity used by these is less than the oven and it's soo much easier.

05/09/08 @ 8:20 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Leave it alone, why don'tcha?

Clam: I was addressing Roger, the blogger, whom I suspect of not living in Wellfleet. But I agree with you that the transplanted New Jerseyites are a major annoyance. If my next door neighbor got roosters and bleating, smelly goats, I might not like it (although I would) but darn it, it's legal here in Brewster on our minimum 1 acre zoning because it's a rural community, which is just how I like it.

It's rural--that means people don't have fancy corporate jobs and have to have trucks and lobster traps and chickens and tools and other messy things in their yards in order to make a living.

05/09/08 @ 8:13 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: A Nation at Risk: 25 Years Later

Solon: I couldn't agree more. But how do you legislate family?

Warning: I am about to say something so politically incorrect that I may get struck by lightning: Blame the never-married mothers for bringing children into the world in the least auspicious circumstances possible. Blame society for rewarding this behavior with welfare checks.

In a country with easily available birth control and abortion, being a partnerless mother with no means of support is a supremely stupid choice for both mother and child.

There used to be a stigma against unmarried motherhood and there is no longer, to the detriment of society. Maybe these women of, frankly, not superior cognitive ability are looking around and not seeing many eligible husbands willing to work and support a family, and are betting that the welfare check will be a solution for next week and next year.

How come Brazilian (and Greek) immigrants on the Cape find jobs and manage to work, save, and raise families and others have lived for generations on welfare?

05/09/08 @ 7:52 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Leave it alone, why don'tcha?

What town are you in? My guess is, you should have picked one further east.

05/07/08 @ 8:14 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Sippin' Lime Bacardi, Got Me Toxy

All I'm saying is, hmmmm.

05/07/08 @ 7:59 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Sippin' Lime Bacardi, Got Me Toxy

Mav. You're on the boat all summer, the bride, as you say, works full-time in Boston, and you're wondering why she "puts up" with you. There isn't a lot of "putting up", that's why. Hmmmm.

05/02/08 @ 5:01 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: A Nation at Risk: 25 Years Later

Bad schools or good schools, there are still those who are in the ten 10%, the bottom 10% and the middle 80% of cognitive ability. I do think that the bar has been raised so that the bottom 10% are better than they were 25 years ago or certainly 50 years ago.

But so what? There are very few low-skill jobs left in this country for the bottom 25%, who in previous decades could at least make some sort of decent living.

The goal of education should not to be to make everyone a PhD or even a college graduate.

04/30/08 @ 8:06 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Vineyard house fire; Hyannis hotel fire; Man crushes finger; Car seat safety

Good point about seat belts on buses. For gosh sakes, just get it done. We can wage war in Iraq, we can put 2 DVD players in a minivan, and no one seems to be able to get a handheld screwdriver and install some freaking seatbelts on school buses, like it would cost 3.5 million per bus or something.

04/30/08 @ 8:00 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: The voters of Wellfleet have spoken!

" Hey I like the board. I'm not sure what the issue is. I'm just going to sit back and watch the show!"

We are talking about the concept of property rights, the very basis of capitalism here, not entertainment for some underemployed Wellfleetian with WAY too much time in his hands who should be watching American Idol for entertainment, not watching yokel board members needlessly harassing property owners.

What is a billboard house? What does that term mean?

The existing house is beyond hideous, IMHO. Not that my opinion, or anyone else's matters as long as the house conforms to environmental regs. Any new house would most likely be an improvement. Wellfleet and Truro, like the Hamptons, attract a very rich urban demographic that doesn't have traditional taste, so we are not going to end up with some quaint thing from an Edward Hopper painting, but at least it will be an improvement on what is there now.

These yokels are laughable. They want to have a say in what gets built on the property? Then get a real job, make some money, and buy the property.

04/25/08 @ 8:47 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Bitter on Cape Cod

John Galt on the evils of selflessness in Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"

"Your acceptance of the code of selflessness has made you fear the man who has a dollar less than you because it makes you feel that that dollar is rightfully his. You hate the man with a dollar more than you because the dollar he's keeping is rightfully yours. Your code has made it impossible to know when to give and when to grab."

04/17/08 @ 2:51 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: A call to arms in Barnstable

Kids of all ages need to do "boot camp" style exercising for 30 minutes at the beginning of each school day, including jogging around the field. This will help them stay calm and concentrate in class.

They need to clean the school themselves, like kids in Japan do.

Kids can drink milk at school and water out of the fountain like I did.

There don't need to be any vending machines at all in schools and there should not be any dessert served in school except on very special occasions.

Disrespect toward teachers should be punished severely by having them in an isolated class for a day or two, and parents should be made to come in for a meeting with the principal at the very first sign of disrespect.

Parents whose children misbehave repeatedly should have their names printed in the newspaper and have social workers come to their house to teach the kids and parents how to behave respectfully.

04/17/08 @ 1:06 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: The Beautiful Blogettes of capecodtoday.com

dilligaf--amen.

04/17/08 @ 9:34 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: The Beautiful Blogettes of capecodtoday.com

Ned, your obsession with size only passes as PC because you are talking about fat women, which abound in America. What if you were obsessed with really thin women, as some men are?

The reality is that most women, myself include, could never fit into either category. I couldn't be super thin or super fat, no matter how hard I tried.

I just think it's objectifying women when you continually refer to women only in terms of their size and nothing else.

04/17/08 @ 9:28 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Savior or Demagogue

Amen, David, amen. You have put my own unease about Obama into words beautifully.

I am a sucker for good salespeople and I'm still not sold on Obama. Why are so many other people? It's white guilt, pure and simple.

04/17/08 @ 8:31 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: It's springtime in Hyannis and the homeless are visible

Mav, admit it. You're addicted to CapeCodToday. You say that the only reason you're here is your opposition to the siting of the wind farm, but the truth is, even if the wind farm in Nantucket Sound project were killed forever tomorrow, you'd be right back here.

To paraphrase a line from "Brokeback Mountain": "CapeCodtoday, I wish I could quit you."

04/17/08 @ 8:24 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: The Beautiful Blogettes of capecodtoday.com

It could be argued that the capecodonline.com ladies are cerebral journalists as opposed to cctoday's lightweight blogger chicks.

But, to be a cerebral journalist isn't that difficult. There are millions, literally, of overeducated people in this USA who can write a decent sentence. That's why they don't get paid much.

Are there millions of ladies who look as good as the 6 blogettes featured here? And we're talking Cape Cod, where mostly the only good-looking chicks are tourists.

Cute chicks get paid better on their journey through life. Hey, I don't make the rules, I'm just telling it like it is. Simple economics, supply and demand.

04/17/08 @ 8:11 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: A call to arms in Barnstable

Wow Peckham, your keyboard must be ON VIAGRA with all the capital letters.

Mav, I live on Cape Cod and will continue my "Cape way of life" even if the wind farm is built. Granted, our boat is moored in Ryder's Cove, Chatham, and not your sainted Nantucket Sound, but even if the wind farm were built off Monomoy Island, I wouldn't care.

If anything is "pristine" as you say, it sure as hell ain't Nantucket Sound as opposed to where we do our boating.

04/16/08 @ 2:08 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: The Beautiful Blogettes of capecodtoday.com

Where are the women of capecodonline.com?

04/16/08 @ 8:13 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: It's springtime in Hyannis and the homeless are visible

Peter M: interesting about the bus tickets to Hyannis. Also, many of the homeless are arriving on the Cape from their winter sojourns in Florida. Not bad. I too would love to spend winters in Florida and summers on Cape, except that I'm, um, working.

04/16/08 @ 8:10 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: It's springtime in Hyannis and the homeless are visible

Cru, I am not dilligaf or ding a ling or whoever you think I am, I am just capemom.

bitter, your characterization of Ms. Clinton as a "beast"--typical of voters' irrational criteria for choosing a president.

Does the job of President of the most powerful country on earth require a person to be "sweet and caring" as you say? Should we evaluate the candidates on who is "nice?" Or whether we "like" him/her? How childish. We are not voting for Mommy or Daddy or BFF here, we are voting for who is the best leader.

Is the biggest problem the USA has right now racism? Or a lack of "unity"?

Or might it be an economy in the toilet, involvement in an expensive war with no end in sight, a huge budget deficit, and widespread drug addiction which is filling up prisons?

Save the MLK speeches for another day, Obama, the real work is much harder than creating a multicultural lovefest in Peoria.

04/15/08 @ 10:29 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: It's springtime in Hyannis and the homeless are visible

Cru--what does anyone's wealth on Cape Cod have to do with Cape Cod's homeless population? There are homeless people everywhere, rich and poor areas.

If they were working and couldn't afford housing here, they'd move, as many have done. If they're not working, it's because they are lazy, or more likely, have mental health and addiction problems.

So now what? Is institutionalizing the mentally ill against their will a good thing? Is providing shelter and food for people who drink and drug too much to work helping them?

Very difficult questions. There are homeless all over the world, always have been, it's a human tragedy.

There are shelters to help them but they must be sober to stay in them.

04/15/08 @ 12:01 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Message to Voters - STAY HOME

dilligaf--I'm just using quahoggers as an example, I love quahoggers. I could use myself as an example. Why should I be allowed to vote on whether or not the town needs a new fire engine? Or any of the other 45 items on the town warrant? What the hell do I know about fire engines or municipal finance? Nothing.

So you have the village idiots, myself included, voting on things they are not qualified to vote for. Instead of just voting in a professional mayor to make the decisions for them.

04/15/08 @ 11:57 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Message to Voters - STAY HOME

Buzz--I'm surprised to hear TN is up to 30th in education, usually it's down around 45th. In Tennessee, as in much of the country, the schools are run by the county, not the town. Which means they get their money from the state, and TN has no state income tax.

If they were run by the towns, they would probably be even worse than they are already.

What I'm talking about is the fact that aside from the schools, the towns are run just as well, if not better, on lower taxes, with no need for people to participate in micromanaging things they know nothing about.

They vote the mayor and/or the city council, in or out. What you end up with in our system is that only the people whose livelihood depends on town tax dollars (police, fire, etc.) show up at town meetings and vote themselves into being the Brahmins of town.

In other parts of the country, policemen and firemen don't get paid like the upper middle class. They get paid like carpenters. And the rest of the country is not burning to the ground.

04/15/08 @ 8:43 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Shopper injured at Kmart; Hyannis stabbing

"Becoming the inner city"? It has been for years. Don't forget, the Cape's year round population is now over 200,000. The dregs of humanity are therefore more numerous than when the year round population was 75,000.

Hyannis is the bad neighborhood that every medium-sized city has. The police do a good job, I think, trying to keep at least the innocent and powerless (children) from being shot.

Section 8 housing was allowed to take root and proliferate in Hyannis and this is the result.

04/15/08 @ 8:35 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: IFAW, state, fishermen partner to protect whales; Mortgage insurers put Cape on watch list; Abortion doc may face criminal charges; Lead bullets back at Camp Edwards

Catholicism: where 3-day-old blastulae deserve "justice", but 8-year-old boys who have been raped by priests are apparently not deserving of the same.

Where unplanned and unwanted pregnancies cannot be terminated, but loved and wanted children can be molested and no one is prosecuted in a court of law.

The entire institution of the Catholic church is so perverted and sick, it's a testament to the stupidity of humanity that it has so many followers.

04/15/08 @ 8:27 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Message to Voters - STAY HOME

I recently went on a trip to my hometown in Tennessee. The town has a mayor and there are no town meetings. The fire and police station are 30 years old and well-maintained, but about 1/5 the size of the fire and police stations in Brewster. And guess what, no one's houses are burning down and no one is getting raped or pillaged.

The town has garbage pickup and town-run tennis courts galore. The property taxes for my parent's house, which is worth about $200,000, are $1500/yr. There is no state income tax but there is a sales tax of 7%.

All I'm saying is, you New Englanders are delusional in that you think that town meetings make you superior to other parts of the country. The reality is that the majority of the country have no town meetings which allow quahoggers who have never had a checking account to participate in decisions about town finances. And those towns get by just fine, with lower taxes and better services.

04/11/08 @ 9:57 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Race in America, and Chatham

I was a summer worker in Chatham. By your definition, Andy, we lived in squalor: 28 girls, 4 bathrooms (It was above the Epicure Liquor store.) We didn't think of it as squalor, it was like a college dorm. We were chamber maids, dishwashers, you name it.

Even though we were white, people asked if we worked at a motel or restaurant because we did not look like townies, which I always took as a compliment. We were waaay cuter than townies!

I cleaned houses all through college, mostly for Jewish people in Brookline. Now I pay Brazilian women to clean my house. Maybe they live in squalor, maybe they don't, but whatever they're doing, it's their choice. I cleaned houses and I'm not stupid, so I don't think they are, either.

I can tell in 3 seconds if someone is from off-Cape, and it usually has very little to do with race. And it's usually becuase they look way better than us townies. (Notable exeception: New Yorkers wearing socks with sandals. ) So Chandra, you should take it as a compliment.

04/10/08 @ 10:18 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Race in America, and Chatham

That's because a dozen years ago, there weren't many Jamaican summer workers; many of the summer workers were from Ireland instead. So people see a black woman and think she's a Jamaican worker. Is there something wrong with being Jamaican or a summer worker?

Summer workers aren't "servents."

People don't think Chandra lives here because there are very few year round black people who live in Chatham. And she doesn't live here. It's more ignorance than racism. Although I am not denying that there is racism in Chatham.

Chatham is just so white that it's actually even too white for me sometimes ;)

04/09/08 @ 8:30 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Woman dies, YPD news conference on Tuesday morning fire; Hyannis crash, hotel evacuated; Fire; Attempted murder charge in Harwich domestic

Harwich: where aunts, boyfriends, and 10 year old girls with murderous fathers can all be in the same house at 7:40 am. WTF??

04/09/08 @ 8:26 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Barnstable County Commissioners Announce Restructuring of the Cape Cod Commission

Bingo, Peter . The party is over.

04/09/08 @ 8:24 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: A Sliver of Hope

Is it a sign of progress when human effort is expended on finding the commonalities between a virgin birth and 77 virgins? I'll tell you what they have in common. They're both total hogwash.

I used to think that religion among mankind was inevitible. However, recent studies have shown that the more educated and affluent (affluent meaning free from widespread abject poverty)that societies are, the less religious people are.

There has been a marked decline in religiosity even in the USA in the last 20 years.

So rather than focusing on how two major religions can co-exist, why not focus on how to make both religions , or all of them, less pervasive?

04/08/08 @ 8:47 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: $100 Million Spent, but the Best is Yet to Come!

The will of the people is heard every time a mayor is elected.

Again I ask you, why do you New Englanders think your antiquated town meetings are superior to the forms of government in 44 other states?

With town meeting, the problem is, your voice is not heard unless you go to some interminable meeting. Why not just vote for a mayor?

04/08/08 @ 12:12 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: $100 Million Spent, but the Best is Yet to Come!

Troy: what's so bad about Nevada or Ohio? Is everyone starving and miserable there because they don't have town meetings?

Sorry to give you a hard time. I think that people who like town meetings, like town meetings.

04/08/08 @ 8:19 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Barack's Commie Mentor!

Of course they're going to say Obama was a Commie, not that that means anything to anyone under 40.

I have a feeling that they are not going to be able to dig up enough goods on Obama to stop him from winning the nomination or the election for that matter.

Grandpa McCain has no mojo and the Republicans are going to lose this one fair and square just like the Dems lost it fair and square in 2000 and 2004 by running Wooden Al in 2000 and Constipated Kerry in 2004.

On a practical note: if you own anything subject to capital gains tax, run, don't walk, to sell it before January 2009: the days of the 15% tax are over, baby, once People's Choice Obama takes over.

04/08/08 @ 8:04 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: $100 Million Spent, but the Best is Yet to Come!

Thanks for this report, Troy. Just a thought: if Falmouth were in Ohio, or Nevada, people would not be required to sit in a meeting until 11 pm micromanaging to see that their tax dollars were sensibly spent. They have something called mayors there. You elect the mayor to give you the best deal for the your tax dollars. You don't like him/her, you vote them out. Simple.

Why should there be retirement costs for town employees? Why is it a taxpayer's problem that some lady who is 92 years old worked for the town 25 years ago?

What if she had worked for Macy's 25 years ago instead?

If the town said "Okay, starting now, there is no more pension. You work for us full-time, we'll pay all or part of your health insurance." You know what would happen? Nothing. People wouldn't quit. They'd stay. Because the private sector doesn't offer a better deal.

The private sector offers even a worse deal, because they demand accountability.

04/07/08 @ 2:56 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Phone Bugging?--The Worthington Conspiracy

Does anyone really think that the Keystone Kops in Truro in cahoots with Michael "Guns 'n' Strippers" O'Keeffe would be capable of pulling off a cover-up of this magnitude?

Cru et. al. think I'm an LE worshipper and an O'Keeffe groupie. I'm not.

They're not exactly the CIA. I don't think they would be willing, or capable, of pulling this off.

If you think this was some kind of "frame the black guy" conspiracy a la Mark Furman, the LAPD and O.J., than you're as dumb as O.J.'s jury.

Or, you care more about the life of a violent black man than the life of a law-abiding white woman.

I have personally witnessed a current Barnstable County prosecuter behaving in a drunken and very lewd fashion at a party. Doesn't mean he's not a good prosecutor. Just means he's really not up to staging elaborate, well-orchestrated frame-ups.

"Okay, here's what we're going to do...we'll frame this black guy to protect our drug narc...what? it's 3 pm on Thursday? See you Monday."

04/07/08 @ 7:53 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Phone Bugging?--The Worthington Conspiracy

bitter, a drug hit on the ski slope? Not even in any Bond movie have I ever seen anything as ridiculous as this. (Enlighten me, Bond fans--I may have missed one.)

I don't know many drug hit men personally, but my guess is that they didn't grow up owning their own skis.

04/05/08 @ 10:27 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Does off Cape mean off base?

Well, Cru, you got me. I am not the sole breadwinner. My husband draws a paycheck, too. So I guess that makes him a sugar daddy, who "pays the bills" in your book. I have news for you, without both our paychecks, there would be no bills to pay, since we wouldn't have a house.

I suppose the Cape would have a lot more jobs like yours, working at a university in Cambridge, if a world-class university with an endowment of 26 billion dollars decided to open right here on the Cape, in say, Eastham, which has been a magnet for intellectuals for decades.

I have worked in academia. The pay is okay, the bennies are great, and the stress is minimal. No layoffs. No downsizing. No outsourcing. Not the real world.

Comparing the availability of jobs on the Cape with Boston is like comparing the Chinese food in Chinatown, Manhattan, with the Chinese food in Fargo, North Dakota.

We who live on the Cape didn't move here for the jobs. We moved here for the natural beauty and way of life. Those of us that can survive here tend to be scrappy, interesting people.

04/05/08 @ 10:09 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: The Bookstore Finally Gets the Message

All I'm saying is that Ms. Parlante may be the nicest woman on earth, but that doesn't change the fact that her restaurant is in violation of health and environmental regulations and has been for years.

That she should have done something about it long ago. That she isn't exempt from the law. That stalling and hand-wringing until she is practically shut down is just a tactic to make her look like the victim. All the while she's raking in the cash running, as someone referred to it, a tourist trap.

Nothing wrong at all with tourist traps, and she has every right to profit as much as insanely possible from owning one.

But not while befouling the wetlands around it, which belong to the citizens, when all she had to do was write a check to fix the problem.

I don't think you know the length that some people will go to to avoid writing checks beyond what's necessary for daily operations.

04/05/08 @ 10:00 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: How to quell those Chinese cravings

Also the Singapore rice noodles are good there. I like the fact that you can walk right up to the counter and see the entire kitchen and it's clean enough.

04/05/08 @ 8:33 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: The Bookstore Finally Gets the Message

Caroline is one of the people who has raised denial to the level of an art form.

She's one of those people who stand in a burning building, see everyone leave, hear them yell, "Fire!", see the fire trucks, yet will only take action when the flames start burning her shoes.

Yes, Caroline, you are going to have to....write....a....check.

Yes, that's it. Write...a...check.

Business owners do it every day.

She also may not have gotten the memo that no matter how much money she has, she's still going to die like the rest of us.

04/05/08 @ 8:24 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Does off Cape mean off base?

Crusader is right, there aren't as many jobs as the city. That's why nearly everyone I know here either works off-Cape, works here in the medical profession (including several I know who left other jobs and got trained in the med. profession), real estate, or owns their own business or is self-employed.

Cru's favorite thing is to accuse me of having a sugar daddy when the fact is I own my own business in a competitive industry in which we have to hustle for every dollar that comes in the door

The minute I or my staff gets lazy, we lose business and our Cape Cod jobs that we created for ourselves go bye-bye.

I'm a typical sleep-deprived working mom with a messy house, but at least it's in a beautiful place like Cape Cod.

Cru ("The world owes me a living")'s idea of a job is something that has massive bennies and vacations in an industry which doesn't have to show a profit (government or universities.)

Aaah, Slummerville in the summertime--cool & breezy, clean & tidy.

04/04/08 @ 8:00 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Does off Cape mean off base?

People like Crusader and others have left the killing fields of Eastham behind and are courageous enough to speak out against the oppressive regime of O'Keeffe and his murderous regime: who here among you dare to judge her?

I'm not sure how many of you appreciate the plight of the thousands of Cape Cod refugees like Crusader who manage to escape with their lives and little else intact.

Reviled, shunned, beaten and tortured routinely, many can be seen hitchhiking on Route 6 trying to escape, waiting for a compassionate soul give them a ride over the bridge, maybe even all the way to Plymouth, where there are safe houses for them, many run by former refugees willing to lend a helping hand.

Once off-Cape, they can slowly begin to heal from the trauma of their hellish lives on Cape Cod, and start a new life in a place where they are not persecuted.

04/03/08 @ 8:22 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Suspicious Hyannis fire; Osterville hoarding incident; Falmouth crash; Cape man arrested after Wareham chase

busbabe312: of course I agree with you, but will take it a step further: is the fact that three innocent kids were almost killed due to a Molotov cocktail being thrown through the window due to the fact that the mom, or dad(s) of these kids, have made intelligent or sensible choices in their lives?

Is it because the parents of the kids put the kid's safety and security at a high priority? Is it because the adults living in the household make an effort not to associate with criminals, so as not to jeopardize the safety of the kids?

Whatever moocher bum adult who was living in that household who was the target of this weapon needs to be kicked out pronto. What a shame this is.

04/02/08 @ 8:51 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: More About the Historic Harwich Center Initiative

dilligaf: LOL

04/02/08 @ 8:46 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Zeus Strikes the Penurious

The junkie couple's ploy is classic, they are semi-professional bums. Instead of just asking for change, they name a particular reason (getting to Springfield) and ask for a particular amount ($4.80).

04/01/08 @ 6:13 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Nothing short about these circuits

Well, I don't know the story behind Mitchell's, or the now-gone Mildred's, etc. Are these properties on the market or not? If not, why not? If so, why hasn't someone bought them and developed them? It may or may not have something to do with elected officials or the Commission.

It's just that there are so many in a relatively small area that it makes a bad impression.

04/01/08 @ 11:48 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Nothing short about these circuits

The Chile's open space project has nothing to do with the price of tea in China as far as Circuit City goes.

There is no difference in this "mitigation" claptrap than the baksheesh and bribes which grease the wheels of commerce in third-world countries with endemic, entrenched corruption.

No difference at all.

04/01/08 @ 8:39 am

capemom [Member]
In response to: Nothing short about these circuits

When BJ's opened a few years ago, the Yarmouth or Hyannis cops got a lot of detail work for the first few weeks out of it due to the supposedly hazardous parking lot situation.

Hazardous? You drive in, park, and drive out. Like any other parking lot.

Anyway, the first time I went to BJ's I thought there was a bomb threat or hostage situation--there were cop cars everywhere around the store.

They were there the next time, too. The cop details costs the developer, Moe Tarkinow, an extra $100,000 at least.

Just shameful. No one has the right to demand money from anyone else, not even a beggar from Bill Gates.

Just because a guy is building a large building does not mean he's Daddy Warbucks. He's just in the business of building big commercial buildings instead of houses.

If anything, the cops have more spare change than he does.

That whole area is an unsightly sand pit and should be the main retail area for the Cape, with a Target, etc. All nicely contained and accessible.

03/31/08 @ 9:06 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Nothing short about these circuits

"Mitigation"? For what? Bringing jobs and commerce to an ugly half-derelict part of Hyannis?

It's called a shakedown. I was driving in Hyannis the other day and saw empty building after empty building. I'm not blaming it on the Cape Cod Commission because I don't know what the story is behind each of these buildings.

But how is it possible that these buildings, all with decent parking, in a very high-traffic area do not house successful retail businesses of some sort? Star City Grill, Chile's, Mildred's (RIP), Mitchell's, a closed gas station, on and on. All closed. The view from the Radisson looks like downtown Baghdad.

It really looks like crap in this area, like an abandoned factory town. It makes a terrible first impression to visitors. Sure, Circuit City may be a chain store, but the "local character" can be preserved by enforcing design and signage standards so we don't look like Weymouth.

03/31/08 @ 7:53 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Cape Cod foreclosures predicted at a 50% rise in next year; Homeowners taken for a ride; Casino lives

Fiscal responsibility? Where is it? Obama and Clinton propose yet more spending of money we don't have. McCain wants to continue this war we can't afford.

The Dems say soak the rich. Soaking the rich never has and never will work. Obama wants to raise capital gains taxes to the point where it creates a disincentive to invest.

If every cent of the top 2% of wealthiest Americans were confiscated overnight, do you know how long the government could run itself on that money? About a day.

And guess what, hard-working people and families of all races and classes: None of these three candidates will give you any goodies as a reward. Because there are too many of you.

Our country can't afford to reward the 80% of the population who are decent working people. Obama & Clinton will just hand out more goodies for the lazy and McCain will hand out more goodies for Halliburton.

03/30/08 @ 3:41 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: Cape Cod Voice's staggering self-absorption

At the very least it's masturbatory. Seth's keyboard must be covered in hair after this issue.

03/27/08 @ 11:22 pm

capemom [Member]
In response to: It may be too early for the fish, but not too early to talk about them!

Ted...LOL.

03/27/08 @ 8:40 am