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11/20/09 @ 9:40 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: TV media fails to spark uproar over Sandwich classroom

cc2day's mission is to look for any news on any medium which comments or reports on Cape Cod.
We collect items from off Cape media and offer links to them on Xtra.
Our own reporting and stories offered to us from others appear as News.
The rest are blogs written exclusive;y for us by over 200 local writers. - The Editors

11/19/09 @ 6:31 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Sandwich teacher criticized for doing her job

The two Einstein quotes are both his and phrased both ways on different occasions.

11/18/09 @ 11:11 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Sandwich teacher criticized for doing her job

A call to the Sandwich School Board secretary Barbara Susko confirmed that it was a human embryo which was shown.

11/17/09 @ 10:48 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Octo-suer Ralph Miller; Cape hospitals reverse loss; Leonids meteor shower; Coakley wants Cape Wind; Brewster blooms; Six Regional Readiness Centers to improve Teachers; Sagamore Bridge open for Thanksgiving

Crusader knows the rules.
She has made a second and even a third comment before anyone challenged or commented on her first one, so the last two have been deleted.
Follow our rules or go away. The Editors.

11/16/09 @ 3:46 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Flu: big spikes in absenteeism; Harwich wind turbines get thumbs-up; Wellfleet Bay couple want a turbine; Bridge brouhaha; Teenager shot in back; U.S. May Wind Up Green With Envy

www.capecodtoday.com ranks 20,808 of the 1,783,482 websites that have been ranked so far on www.WebGrader.com.

11/16/09 @ 3:38 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Flu: big spikes in absenteeism; Harwich wind turbines get thumbs-up; Wellfleet Bay couple want a turbine; Bridge brouhaha; Teenager shot in back; U.S. May Wind Up Green With Envy

Try comparing sites with http://websitegrader.com
We get a 99% rating while local daily gets 85%.

11/15/09 @ 9:53 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: No Captain, My Captain!

Why didn't you pick a winner in today's Pats vs. Colts game?

11/09/09 @ 6:05 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape to Confront Hate; Ptown half lit; Oceans fall ill, bureaucrats squabble; Nauset Beach pact ready; A star is born; Something fishy this way comes; All Senate candidates but one endorse Cape Wind; Test your Cape Cod IQ

The Republicans were Scott P. Brown, a state senator from Wrentham making his first bid for statewide office, and Jack E. Robinson III, a lawyer from Duxbury who ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 2000, for Massachusetts Secretary of State in 2002, and for the U.S. House of Representatives seat for the 9th District in 2006.

The Democrats were Michael E. Capuano, U.S. Representative from Somerville; Alan A. Khazei, of Brookline, CEO of Be the Change Inc.; and Stephen G. Pagliuca, of Weston, the co-owner of the Boston Celtics and managing director of Bain Capital.

11/05/09 @ 9:01 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: A Cape Cod Life: Bill Snowden

cc2day serves as an ISP for Cape Bloggers.
We bear nor responsibility for there content.
We do know alter either the aurthor's words or the commenter's unless they do not follow our simple rules.\ as outlined above.
Mr. Snowden is a forceful and articulate writer who will, we hope, add information to the site.
Please stay on topic, address the issues, not the writer.

10/31/09 @ 5:20 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: DA's office coverup death in Cape hospital, Trooper drunk driving

Buzz, perhaps you should read it again - the death occurred almost two weeks ago and the press was not informed until yesterday, and that was because the media began making inquiries.

10/29/09 @ 5:19 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Wind energy is a must for America and for Cape Cod

The commenting rules, as Maverick knows better than most being a regular abuser, state that no one may make a second comment unless another readers has first commented on yours.
Shape up or ship out!

10/29/09 @ 2:25 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Friday Thoughts; OCHS and Vinnies Hope

Once again Maverick has commented "off topic" and with an personal attack.

The next time he does so he will be denied access to this site permanently.

- The Editors

10/07/09 @ 8:53 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: New fossil fuel power plant proposed; Gourmet dies; Testing torpedos; Sandwich cop fired; Leather Mates Weekend; Third door down in Plymouth; Cape domestic violence rates among highest;; Birds sightings

One man's leather is another man's plaid.

Whether "posse"likes it or not, the gay and lesbian community is part of the Cape Cod community, and Bay Windows is a highly reputable newspaper which covers stories not found in any other media.
When a bout in any off Cape media concerns Cape Cod, you will hopefully find it referenced with a link in our daily Xtra.

10/03/09 @ 12:33 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Ban Pink

Buzz, they could have if they were smart enough to use ink (red at 5%), but they printed the newspapers in pink newsprint rather than white for reasons which escape an old printer like myself. wb

10/01/09 @ 9:23 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Mihos campaign refutes today's Globe story about an IRS tax lien

democrant, you are in error. The Globe story you offer was published on cc2day PRIOR to this report which was written to find out further details.
This is not a Democrat or Republican issue.
It's a media issue.

09/03/09 @ 7:28 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Who is this tax-evader -- and how stupid can he be?

NOTE TO buster555.
Please do not add a second comment until someone has answered or challenged your previous one.
We combined your five separate comments into one above.The Editors.

08/30/09 @ 2:38 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: 1970: Chappaquiddick inquest convenes in Edgartown

These has turned into a "Bulletin Board" between two people so we are closing it to comments.

08/30/09 @ 11:47 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Boston Globe urges President to back Cape Wind

There are 220,000 PEOPLE, not HOMES on Cape Cod, or perhaps 85,000 occupied homes.

08/18/09 @ 8:10 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: 1941: Joseph C. Lincoln's "The New Hope" extolled. 1975: Seashore Park bans nude sunbathing.

We can't I.D. the guy in the hat, but Abe Lincoln is the one with the beard.

08/15/09 @ 3:18 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Photos-circa 1940

Lovely photos, Jon.
You're the spitting image of your great grandfather the commodore.

08/14/09 @ 9:30 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Old rods catch new fish; Nauset lifeguards win; Comcast finishes wideband for Cape; Doug Bennett bredux; Bug prices fall; So do home prices

Click on the link in the caption to see the details about this property.

08/09/09 @ 11:58 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: 1976: Woods Hole, A Kind of Purgatory. 1808: John Quincy Adams Twitters

Buy a good ($3,500) oudoor grill.
Install propane if you are not on the gas line.
Buy the highest quality frankfurters, Hebrew National, Nathan's, etc.
Fire up the grill and wait until the coals are red hot.
Put the franks in the freezer.
Turn off the outdoor grill.
Drive to "The Dog House" on Lower County Road in Dennis and order a couple of their Chili Dogs with homemade Lemonade. See:
http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php/2006/07/27/cape_cod_s_best_chili_dogs?blog=12

08/04/09 @ 11:11 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: It will re-Kindle your love for reading

Amazon also offer the larger tablet called the Amazon DX:
http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-DX-Amazons-Wireless-Generation/dp/B0015TCML0
It's the size of a magazine page as opposed to a paperback page, and is designed essentially for magazines and newspapers.
The Kindle is designed for books which seldom have either photos or color, and a full color version is being readied according to insiders.
Used Kindles are available for as low as $199 on both Amazon and eBay.

08/03/09 @ 4:29 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: It will re-Kindle your love for reading

Peter, do the math - Amazon sells books you pay $12-$30 for at $3 - $9.95, and there are thousands offered free.
The Blogfather saed the cost of his Kindle the first year, and now the price is $60 less.
No one will ever match Amazon's inventory which has grown from over 200,000 more titles in the last year alone.

07/13/09 @ 3:14 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The Big Apple for Grandkids

203 countries and counting -
A check at Wikipedia for sovereign states reveals a list of sovereign states, containing 203 entries, giving an overview of states around the world with information on the status and recognition of their sovereignty. It is arranged alphabetically. It includes both states widely recognized to be de jure sovereign and states that claim de jure sovereignty and exercise de facto control over some territory, but which are not generally recognised.

07/13/09 @ 3:09 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Otis Rotary Crash in Bourne; Small plane crashes in off Cape cranberry bog

We'll buy that.

07/10/09 @ 2:35 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Riverway: Simple, inexpensive, Cape Cod food

Jason Siscoe IS the new owner as of July, 2009.

07/02/09 @ 4:01 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: What Global Warming looks like in Chatham today

Here are a few posse;
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/03/science/earth/03climate.html?_r=1
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html

07/02/09 @ 9:14 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: JFK White House at sea; Rain helps some Cape businesses; Horror of Party Beach; Harwich baseball in 1884; Marine Center gets $750K; Mezza Luna rises from the ashes

Not if you watch the 78 minute B-Movie The Horror of Party Beach" clickable at the bottom.

06/21/09 @ 12:12 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Cod Whale Trail

Ryan, this show and "Olde Cape Cod" is simply spectacular !
Congratulations on a wonderful tribute to a place we all love so much. - The Editors

06/19/09 @ 6:25 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: SUV broken into, Mother's ashes stolen; Bourne BMW vs box truck

Perhaps you didn't have a mother ;>)

Since her mom loved to be driven any where, her daughter wanted to continuing taking her along even after her death.

06/13/09 @ 10:27 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: eCape, Inc. launches CapeCodPets.com

See Mousers in the Group section

Love to eat those mousies
Mousies what I love to eat.
Bite they little heads off
Nibble on they tiny feet.

(From Kliban Cats)

06/12/09 @ 10:40 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Arnold's curious crustacean; Bear sighted in Plymouth; Trooper was fishing, suspended; Dangerous food; Sea level on rise; CG assists Air France search; Route 6 snafu; Craig's List scam targets summer renters;

Thanks vermilion ;>)

06/11/09 @ 12:15 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The Boston Globe's Business Realities Should be Totten's Focus

Boston media has been an embarrassment on this coverage. Never has so much maudlin claptrap been written and mouthed by so few with any intelligent thoughts in their heads.

The talking heads on Boston TV claim it's New York jealousy over the Red Sox beating the Yankees, and NECN's Jim Braude thinks it's a cruel, heartless media mogul beating up on the under appreciated workers at The Globe.

Not a single fact intrudes into any of their blather.
Not one knows enough to check the NY Times Co. financials at www.sec.gov which is reason enough to replace the lot of them in today's linked media world.

06/10/09 @ 7:46 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: NY Times seeking buyer for Globe; Supreme Court appoved Chrysler deal today; Sturgis HS #27 in nation; MBL pick CCBL payer; Oyster Cult; Southeast Mulls Offshore Wind; The 3rd. time for Christy's of Cape Cod; Y BOTHER?

capewatchdog, you will have to THIMK a little bit more to "get it", but we'll give you a hint - it's sarcastic.
Y NOT?

05/28/09 @ 10:26 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Sen. Ted paints; $55k a week rent; Bones found; Fishing line; More GateHouse angst; Wychmere Property Historically Insignificant; $2 M for bad hire; Chatham Airport closed for 60 days; Swine Flu at MMA; Two Wamps sue town; Cop's missing gun found in pond

Ned, not so.
The tribe and its members routinely use that term for websites, etc. as a Google search would have shown you:
WAMP-NATION - http://wamp-nation.blogspot.com

05/26/09 @ 5:29 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Ted views Figawi from a sinkpot; Memorial Day homage

A "stinkpot" is a sailor's pejorative term for a powerboat which belches fumes as opposed to the clean wind.

05/25/09 @ 5:02 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Finally, the ultimate Photo-Journalism book about Cape Cod

He has that honor.

05/17/09 @ 11:08 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: We have met the enemy, and they are us

Mr. Brooks and his family also run several print magazines, created and ran a network of thirty vacation magazines nationwide, and a distribution company here on Cape Cod today, all of which employed his strategies and prospered during a half dozen recessions.

05/17/09 @ 10:52 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: We have met the enemy, and they are us

j.madden could not be more in error - Mr. Brooks has managed the staffs of newspapers for almost half a century, and has run a half dozen of his own companies for the last twenty-odd years.
He has always added sales staff at the start of recessions. eCape.com has four today and it's advertising sales are up 25% YTD.

05/09/09 @ 10:15 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Falmouth waste site opposition; Barnstable's 3 closed schools, Law suit dismissed; Shrimp from here to Norway; Red Tide again; Chatham-Harwich may share services; Sandwich Town Hall OKed; Between 1492 and 1620; Man to sue Cape

Thanks. Corrected.

05/09/09 @ 9:31 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Falmouth waste site opposition; Barnstable's 3 closed schools, Law suit dismissed; Shrimp from here to Norway; Red Tide again; Chatham-Harwich may share services; Sandwich Town Hall OKed; Between 1492 and 1620; Man to sue Cape

balognasamich, the story is in the Barnstable Patriot.
We assume you told them.

05/06/09 @ 6:58 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Paradise Pizza is aptly named

That's "anti-semantic".

04/27/09 @ 9:52 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The Massachusetts GOP old guard's false hope for 2010

Over 500

04/19/09 @ 10:09 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: In an emergency, don't forget your pets; Vonnegut's My Affair Lady; The Cape's ‘green' initiative

In a review in 2006, Kurt blamed his failure to receive a Nobel Literary Prize on his lackluster salemanship for Saab on the Cape in the 1960s saying, "The Swedes have long memories and short dicks."
http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php/2006/04/16/the_swedes_the_saab_and_kurt_vonnegut?blog=53&title=the_swedes_the_saab_and_kurt_vonnegut&disp=single&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

04/19/09 @ 10:00 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: It's safe to say nobody likes taxes, gray heads and suits protest here

cc2day's "circulation" as web traffic grew at 34% in '08 over '07 and continues at that pace this year.
Unlike most other media, it is also increasing its advertising revenues during the recession.

04/19/09 @ 9:56 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: In an emergency, don't forget your pets; Vonnegut's My Affair Lady; The Cape's ‘green' initiative

Buzz is more correct than he imagines. Walter and Kurt were founders of an anti-Vietnam War group on Cape Cod called Citizens for Participation in Politics back in the late 1960's along with Judy Stitson of Wellfleet, Richard Ellison of Harwich and several others.
Vonnegut is exactly ten years older than Brooks and the two don't only look alike, they think alike.

04/19/09 @ 9:44 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: It's safe to say nobody likes taxes, gray heads and suits protest here

Happy Patriot's Day to you, too, Ladyfyre.
Wishing a bankruptcy on the free press is pretty much "We The People's" agenda anyway.

04/17/09 @ 4:26 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Why newspapers can't charge for online content

From the May '09 Vanity Fair article on Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and The Times;
Algorithms as Editors
[Page 6.] American journalism is in a period of terror. The invention of the Internet has caused a fundamental shift not just in the platform for information—screen as opposed to paper—but in the way people seek information. In evolutionary terms, it’s a sudden drastic change of climate. One age passes and a new one begins. Species that survive the transition are generally not the kings of the old era. The world they fit so perfectly is no more. They are big and slow, wedded to the old ways, ripe for extinction...

[Page 7.] Those who grew up using the Internet, which now includes a full generation of Americans, are expert browsers. It’s not that they have short attention spans. If anything, many of them are more sophisticated and better informed than their parents. They are certainly more independent. Instead of absorbing the news and opinion packaged expertly by professional journalists, they search out only the information they want, and are less and less likely to devote themselves themselves to one primary site, in part because it is less efficient, and in part because not doing so is liberating. The Internet has disaggregated the news. It eliminates the middleman—that is, it eliminates editors. At a newspaper, top editors meet several times a day to review the stories and photographs gathered from their own staff and wire services. They decide which are the most important or compelling, and then they prioritize and package them. When you buy a newspaper you are buying a carefully prepared meal. Inevitably stories and artwork are left off the plate for a great variety of reasons, all of them subjective—they are deemed less significant, less credible, less tasteful, less useful. Or maybe there just isn’t enough room. The Internet replaces editors with an algorithm. Google is a search engine. It makes no value judgment about information unless you instruct it to. All of the stories and photos in the world are there, including billions of items that the reader never imagined wanting to see. It is unmediated. There is no adult supervision. And the kicker is: it’s free....

04/16/09 @ 4:04 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: It's safe to say nobody likes taxes, gray heads and suits protest here

... along with the Easter Bunny and Sanity Clause.

04/13/09 @ 4:24 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Stop the Industrialization of Nantucket Sound

Maverick, please control your vitriol and stay on the subject.
You can not add a second comment here until someone has challenged your first one.

04/08/09 @ 8:37 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: 1885: Tallest Buiding on Cape Cod dedicated; 1926: Uncool Coolidge nixes Cape Summer White House idea

Both commenters are correct. We changed the photo to a correct one.

04/05/09 @ 8:34 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Mohegan Sun pitches Palmer casino; Dismay and shock over the Globe's woes; HP letterbomb redux; Dennis church erects cross on beach

Anglophile that I am, I can do that with ease despite the fact that our junior US Senator's wifey now owns the product:
HP Sauce is a condiment; a popular brown sauce formerly produced in Aston, Birmingham, England, by HP Foods but now produced by H.J. Heinz in Elst, the Netherlands. It has a malt vinegar base blended with fruit and spices, and is usually eaten as an adjunct to hot or cold savory food, or used as an ingredient in soups or stews. It is the most well known brand of brown sauce in the United Kingdom and Canada as well as the best selling, with 71% of the UK market.
The inventor named the sauce HP because he had heard that a restaurant in the Houses of Parliament had begun serving it.
In June 2005, Teresa Heinz's company purchased the parent company of HP.

04/04/09 @ 1:33 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Boston Globe may close in 30 days, Times threatens staff, union

NY Times C.E.O. was paid $6,578,451 last year according to one report above.

04/02/09 @ 12:56 pm

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

The ONLY legal gambling in the state is through the Mass. Lottery Commission which controls the various forms of the lottery and Keno and reaps most the money with agents (stores) getting a small fee.

The phone card machines are a private company which shares the money with the store and itself - the state gets not a penny.

The machines will disappear very quickly.

04/02/09 @ 10:37 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Tsunami Alert Test today at 9am; Laborists at CC Hospital; Christy rallies the voters; Meeting here on Ocean Mining; Fisherman denies whale harassment; Nantucket foreclosures soar

The Nast artwork above is a famous 1871 Harper's magazine editorial cartoon by Thomas Nast showing bishops attacking public schools, with connivance of Irish Catholic politicians.
It was entitled, "The American River Ganges" which confused Hinduism with Catholicism. The whole size plate is here:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Ganges1876.jpg

04/01/09 @ 7:23 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Yao Ming is a dwarf; Kennedy endorses Cape Wind; China frees Tibet; Detroit admits evils

The credit belong to Carl Freeman of Orleans

03/30/09 @ 10:27 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Latest distortion of facts by Cape Cod Times on Cape Wind

That is what point 3 states in the story:

"The Cape Cod Times graphic gave Cape Wind as its source when it was not."

03/29/09 @ 10:47 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Latest distortion of facts by Cape Cod Times on Cape Wind

Voice, you would be amazed. This is a Cape Cod family-owned enterprise with less than 5% of the editorial staff in the daily, but unlike the "old media" which is owned by Wall Street, we put our profits back into this news site by hiring out of work journalists here on Cape Cod.

03/28/09 @ 9:07 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Molto dire di stupire Firenze

Tara, if you can get Netflix or such aboard, be sure to watch "A Room with a View" , the 1986 Merchant Ivory feature film, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The film was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant.

The film is based upon the novel A Room with a View by E.M. Forster and stars Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Judi Dench and Daniel Day-Lewis. It is the most romantic film ever about this city which is my favorite after visiting over 200 countries.

03/26/09 @ 5:09 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: A ray of recession relief arriving shortly

We don't.
The writer is married to one. Native-born Cape Codders seldom complain about tourism. It's usually folks who were tourists themselves a short while earlier.

03/24/09 @ 2:54 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Morals in an Immoral World?

Where are you now, Tara?
Tell us more about your adventures abroad.

03/17/09 @ 5:17 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Sailing Class Returns to Town Cove in Orleans

Nice job, Catman. What a lovely surprise on St. Paddy's day.

03/16/09 @ 5:33 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Barnstable's Improper Lawsuit

Barbara, stay on topic. A lawyer's client list is not the subject of this editorial.

03/16/09 @ 5:09 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Incongruity lost on editors but not on readers

Personal attacks are a cause for commenters to be denied access to this site.

03/07/09 @ 1:28 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: CPN Clean Power Now Once Again calls upon Senator Kerry to fulfill his promises

CRUSADER PAROLED:
We have listened to our commenters who need Crusader's psycho babble as a foil, and we are rescinding our decision and letting her back until she goes whacko again. - The Editors

03/07/09 @ 10:26 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: CPN Clean Power Now Once Again calls upon Senator Kerry to fulfill his promises

Crusader is sinking to personal attacks again, and it's time to bid her farewell, but we've decided to let her stay for a while because apparently she's the best comic relief we have today.
We will just correct her most flagrant misrepresentations:

1- Cape Wind has spent over $40 million so far on the project.
2- He is one of the best liked and most respected businessmen in New England according to The Boston Globe, The New York Times and Wall Street Journal.

The Editors

03/05/09 @ 11:08 am

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

The next time "crusader" make a personal attack like the ones we deleted today, her permission to comment will be ended forever.

03/04/09 @ 3:26 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Puritan Pontiac in Hyannis closes

Cape Cod Today was not trying to talk with employees who lost their jobs since that would not be possible by calling Puritan Pontiac since ex-employees would not be there.
We called the first several times and asked to speak with the owner (Wm. Gile) who we were told was there but not accepting calls.

02/14/09 @ 12:56 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Subaquatic Santeria Sentiment!

Thanks Ned - You are the greatest.
You must be in love again.
We heard a guy on TV yesterday say, "I never meet a married man who didn't wish he was single, and I never meet a single guy who wished he was married."

02/10/09 @ 10:44 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Fella said, "Cheer up, things could be worse." He was right.

The topic is the condition of today's daily press.
Please try to keep the focus there because we welcome your comments on the very important issue of the survival of America's printed press.
We would welcome anyone's letter to the Editor on supplementary subjects. - The Editors

02/04/09 @ 3:04 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The Devil's Dictionary

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

02/03/09 @ 7:58 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Christy Mihos does it again, big time

Snowleopard, because of the present economic conditions we felt that emphasizing a number in the lead par agraph (which we can only guess at anyway) might put the Mihos family in jeopardy.

02/02/09 @ 7:10 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Wingscorton chickens pump out the eggs

The hen sat on the railroad track.
She didn't hear the whistle.
"Toot, Toot."
Omelet.
(From Marina, age 8)

01/30/09 @ 8:21 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Yarmouth Chief of Police responds to Judge O'Neill's comments about Yarmouth police officer

What a glorious thing it is to read a department head standing up for his men.
Michael J. Almonte must be quite a guy.
wb

01/30/09 @ 1:57 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: A Comment on Our American Ideals

Our young poet's comment above is perfect - it is the basics which a great people must always fall back upon when under stress.

May we always be better than our adversaries, and never need lower ourselves to combat them. wb

01/25/09 @ 7:38 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The fabulous debate over wind power on Nantucket Sound

We don't know about the rest of you, but we tired of Peter Kenney and will put him on the shelf for a while until he calms down and stops monopolizing our website.
Good buy, Peter. See you in a month or so.
- The Editors

01/25/09 @ 3:02 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Sandwich Board of Selectmen Need a Reality Check

According to the Globe story on 1/20/09:
Hearings in Fitchburg and Lunenburg powers with power by their local utility last month will focus on Unitil. National Grid’s performance will be discussed at a hearing in Worcester; NSTAR Electric Co. at a hearing in Acton; and Western Massachusetts Electric Co. at hearings in Otis and Plainfield.\The NStar hearings are;
Monday, Feb. 9 -- Otis
Otis Town Hall, 1 North Main Road at 7 p.m.
and
Tuesday, Feb. 10 -- Plainfield
Hathaway Hall, Old Fire House, 315 Main Street at 7 p.m.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/01/hearings_to_exa.html

01/25/09 @ 2:07 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Introducing Ana Paulina

We have deleted snakedog's vulgar and off topic comments.
If he can not follow our simple commenting rules, his permission to commnent will be deleted. -The Editors

01/18/09 @ 12:42 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Three hurt in Bourne accident; Leaving vehicle to warm up results in theft and foot chase at Mall

Be nicer if you would point out what concerns you.

01/17/09 @ 4:05 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: MMS approves Cape Wind; no major environmental problems found

This post is about the MMS report released Friday.
Stay on topic or leave this site. - The Editors

01/16/09 @ 3:47 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: MMS approves Cape Wind; no major environmental problems found

The wind farm is in Federal waters. Federal Government leases land to oil and wind energy companies and receives a significant annual payment in exchange.
The oil companies have been "forgiven" their fees for most of the Bush administration.

01/15/09 @ 1:02 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: 1798: Highland lighthouse is illuminated

Bob W, you are correct, and we changed the text.
In 1979 a 45-foot wooden lighthouse, the 20th in the United States, was built 500 feet from the edge of the bluff in Truro, exhibiting its light from 160 feet above mean high water.

12/29/08 @ 10:44 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The only thing surer than death and taxes

Off topic comments are deleted.
If any of you wish to warn the world about Microsoft, please email us a Letter to the Editor and we'll gladly publish it.
- The Editors

12/26/08 @ 12:52 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Ten biggest headlines of 2009

Solon - you have finally gone too far - and too funny ;>)

12/26/08 @ 12:15 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Barnstable Police nab three suspects wanted for house and auto break-ins; Co-workers raise cash to replace Christmas gifts

Acerpo obviously is confusing the third item in the story about "Barnstable town employees raise cash for co-worker after Christmas gifts are stolen" with the first item about two past employees.
WE "group stories together" as he claims, but the reason is fair more simple - we group each day's Fire & Police stories in one post for the convenience of our readers.
We are happy to here that Saturn discharged these men after last year's run-in with the law.
- The Editors

12/26/08 @ 10:17 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Barnstable Police nab three suspects wanted for house and auto break-ins; Co-workers raise cash to replace Christmas gifts

The story does NOT state that either worked for Saturn of Hyannis.
A sidebar states that they BOTH list Saturn on their individual Facebook pages are their employer. THeir Facebooks pages still state that as of 10AM, Dec. 26, 2008, a copy of which we have in our files.
The Editors

12/25/08 @ 8:20 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Barnstable loses 600 jobs; H 'n K praised; New York resists Caroline; Wampanoag quahog chowder; Fed judge rejects GateHouse plea, trial set

Dear Georgia, it's in the sidebar on the right of the H'nK story. - The Editrix

12/20/08 @ 9:45 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Get ready: Winter's first snowstorm hits Cape on Friday

How about an update on today's wintry blast?
How much snow did you get in your yard?
At our editor's home overlooking Pleasant Bay in East Harwich he had a light dusting, a clear driveway, and then some ocean effect around 9am Saturday.

12/20/08 @ 9:39 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Snow , Accidents, Safety and Your Rights

Bruce, what a thoughtful and considerate contribution for our readers on this snowy, cold and dangerous day.
Thank you. - Walter Brooks

12/11/08 @ 1:33 pm

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

Video-Pall, since you want to rain on their parade, maybe you will share with us where else on Cape Cod you find coffee for 5 cents and dinner for under $4.

12/08/08 @ 2:28 pm

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

We fear those who don't share their lives with a pet may have a problem understanding how great and grievous is their loss to a pet owner (as if anyone ever really "owned" a cat.)
Since everyone her at cc2day has several pets we commiserate with friend Bob.
Some of us knew Allie and Elizabeth, and also mourn their passing.

12/03/08 @ 2:42 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Codders mull promise, challenge of going green

It might be because O'Brien is a registered lobbyist for the project competitors, and has a son who is a VP at a competitor of Cape Wind.

12/02/08 @ 10:29 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Final Cape Wind report due Friday; Alliance, CPN tempers flare; Cranberry Festival cancelled

Both our story on the Ethic Commission decision and the commission's public statement are clickable from the sidebar above. - The Editors

12/01/08 @ 6:00 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Dennis PD updates fleet with 25 Lamborghinis

Yes, children, Solonicus IS joking.

12/01/08 @ 1:32 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Biden is fed by Felis; Green business council formed; Orleans-connected Treasury Secretary's task

Why isn't anyone asking about the
Arrabiata Tomato Sauce Recipe?
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Ingredients:
1/4 cup packed fresh parsley
1/4 cup olive oil
4 crushed garlic cloves
4 onions, coarsley chopped
5 1/2 oz. can tomato paste
2 tsp. dried basil
1 tsp. oregano
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp. freshly ground pepper
1/2 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes
2 - 28 oz cans whole tomatoes w/ sauce

Directions:
1. Chop fresh parsley. Heat olive oil in a large saucepan. Set over medium low heat. Stir in parsley and crushed garlic. Cook parsley-garlic mixture, stirring almost constantly for about five minutes.

2. Stir chopped onions into saucepan. Continue cooking and stir often. Cook for about 10 minutes. This slow cooking process over medium low heat brings out the sweetness in the onions.

3. Add tomato paste, basic, oregano, salt, pepper and pepper flakes. Stir for two minutes. Stir in tomatoes, plus juice and break up tomatoes with fork as you stir. Simmer, uncovered and stirring often over medium low heat for 45 minutes.

11/28/08 @ 5:13 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: 1970: First National Day of Mourning by Wampanoags; 1898: The Portland Gale

NOT SO, Maverick - all is forgiven.
Come home
;>)

11/26/08 @ 7:30 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: 1970: First National Day of Mourning by Wampanoags; 1898: The Portland Gale

Nice words from an Indian Squaw...
;>)

11/25/08 @ 9:06 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Abbicci falls to recession

ccguy, thanks for the correction - you are right, the Airport restaurant came after Cipolina, but the former DID open. I ate there a couple times before its demise. That's where I had my first Beef Wellington for one, an event I am not likely to forget.
BTW, do you recall the name of Marietta's airport bistro? Walter

11/25/08 @ 6:14 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Strike Out?

Another fabulous fish tale from our Lower Cape word-painter.

11/19/08 @ 3:49 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: McCowen defense cost State $300,000; Penn Prof faces life in prison

This post has turned into a Bulletin Board so we are closing it to further comments.

11/18/08 @ 3:53 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: 1905: The first lepers arrive on Penikese Island in Buzzards Bay

Penikese is a half mile off Cuttyhunk, and she could easily swim to each Elizabeth Island to the north and then to Woods Hole.

11/18/08 @ 1:49 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Fall marks the beginning of the hard season

Hey balognasamich, it's her first blog post and you're making nasty already.
Lighten up and give her a break, or if you can't be polite and say something nice, how about commenting elsewhere.
The rest of us here think she's great and off to a good start. Blogfather et al.

11/17/08 @ 7:15 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Christy: Deval's Pike plan another sweet nothing

When one of or editors went through the Williams Tunnel last night the fare-taker said the $3.50 toll would be DOUBLED on February 9, 2009 to $7.00!

10/29/08 @ 2:46 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Political signs of the times

Because smart businesses (and they are the only ones who will be around to pay their advertising bills anyway) buy "eyeballs" and the pocketbooks attached to them.
The web is the ONLY media in history which allows every advertisers to KNOW precisely how many readers read their ad and subsequently act upon it.

10/29/08 @ 7:31 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: State's dailies lose circulation; Monitor ceases publication;

A good way to start would be to count the ads on cc2day and remember "if you build it, they will come." Last month well over a half million unique visitors came and that figure is 35,000 to 60,000 unique visitors daily depending on the weather, up 34% YTD.

10/28/08 @ 7:11 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The man who tried to block Cape Wind found guilty of lying

"What goes around, comes around."

10/27/08 @ 5:24 pm

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

We are deleting any "OFF SUBJECT" comments, and the next rude one we will delete the commenter as well.-The Editors

10/27/08 @ 9:57 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: 1908: Cape author Joe Lincoln starts to make us famous

O.K. guys & girls - clean up your act of we'll do it for you. -The Editors

10/24/08 @ 2:25 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Bail hearing for accused rapist; two OUI related arrests; Speeding car carrier

To date cc2day has received several emails and phone calls from local Police Departments demanding we remove their department's name from our copy.
We have received no emails or phones calls from local Police Departments thanking us for reporting this violation and promising to seek the culprit. - The Editors

10/24/08 @ 10:09 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Bail hearing for accused rapist; two OUI related arrests; Speeding car carrier

The carrier was speeding so fast that our reporter only caught a glimpse of the markings which appeared to be "Dennis" although that department's cruisers are no longer black, but the license plate number was MASS 10 T, so any PD interested in discovering who was driving a loaded car carrier this recklessly on "Suicide Alley" can find out pretty quickly. We have other unpublished photos to back up this claim.
It behooves our local law enforcement agencies to set the example they wish the rest of us to follow. - The Editors

10/24/08 @ 8:04 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Liberal Editor costs Obama the Election

No, it was Marx, Karl.

10/23/08 @ 5:04 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: I encourage residents to vote "NO" on ballot question two

Ned, how I feel is not the issue. I have long supported the position that all drugs should be not just legal, they should be sold like alcohol in state licensed package store so the state rather than the mob would profit.

It is Chief Mason's opinion, and it is as valid as yours or mine, Relax. You can disagree on your own blog and be featured here anytime as well.

10/23/08 @ 3:41 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: I encourage residents to vote "NO" on ballot question two

What Chief Mason was trying to point out was the dangers of any drug. He reminded this reporter that not one person is incarcerated in Massachusetts for having small amounts of marijuana.

10/21/08 @ 3:29 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Dave McKenna's signature style; Cabot's Candy caramel corn; Rodgers on Business Beat

balognasamich must be older than Rafio who is approaching 80, but he tells us the only time he saw anything was briefly from atop Shoot Flying Hill near Exit 6.

10/13/08 @ 5:28 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Christy lowers the price (again)

Just in from Ptown where regular was $3.39.

10/10/08 @ 6:32 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Christy lowers the price (again)

Gee, Rocky, you mean if we all move to Central Ohio (where the rivers catch on fire) which is a thousand miles closer to the oil refineries, we could save 10 cent a gallon.
WOW !
Or should I say WHOPPIE !

09/28/08 @ 4:32 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The Good, The bad, and The Vineyard

It was Verdura, or a vegetable pizza;
http://www.mvol.com/menu/pomodoro/

09/28/08 @ 1:03 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape chamber reports summer visitors down, spending up

We don't know which of you are correct, but Jim Kinsella will be doing a follow up report this week. -The Editors

09/27/08 @ 6:30 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Negative News: Where's the Good Stuff?

Unfortunately good news doesn't sell newspapers - or the ads wrapped around the good news which pays the bills.
We distributed a cheerful new newspaper a few years ago called The Cape Cod Optimist.
It was full of good news, all upbeat, all positive.
But nobody picked it up to read even though it was FREE !
It's simply human nature, Sam, and as Charlotte Bronte said, "It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."

09/19/08 @ 11:05 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: One good tern doen't deserves another

This comment area has become a bulletin board for four people, and we are closing it to further comments. -The Editors

09/19/08 @ 11:03 am

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

This comment area has become a bulletin board for 3 or 4 people so we are closing it to further comments. -The Editors.

09/19/08 @ 10:52 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Christy's launches its own gas discount

Where else does the owner of a chain of convenience store go online and answer his critics himself?
Cape Cod can be justly proud of Christy Mihos.
Wouldn't it be a joy if all other politicians and business-folk were this accessible? -The Editors

09/18/08 @ 11:17 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: One good tern doen't deserves another

Top 4 Things which kill birds

Glass Windows
Bird Deaths a year: 100 to 900+ million
Muhlenberg College has done studies over a period of 20 years, looking at bird collisions with windows. Conclusion: glass kills more birds than any other human related factor.

House Cats
Bird Deaths a year: 100 Million
The National Audubuon Society says 100 million birds a year fall prey to cats. Dr. Stan Temple of the University of Wisconsin estimates that in Wisconsin alone, about 7 million birds a year are killed by cats

Automobiles / Trucks
Bird Deaths a year: 50 to 100 Million
Scientists estimate the number of birds killed by cars and trucks on the nation's highways to be 50 to 100 million a year. Those statistics were cited in reports published by the National Institute for Urban Wildlife and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Electric Transmission Line Collisions
Bird Deaths a year: up to 174 million
Estimates made by the U.S. Fish and Wildife Service demonstrate millions of birds die each year as a result of colliding with transmission lines.
Source: http://www.currykerlinger.com/birds.htm

09/18/08 @ 11:05 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: One good tern doen't deserves another

Use our search element at the top of any page for the term Nysted birds, and read this one;
http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php/2006/03/30/aububon_denmark_research_dovetail?blog=59

09/16/08 @ 3:27 pm

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

Actually Solon, the Brazilians are leaving Cape Cod and Massachusetts in hordes as the Real in their home country which was trading at 3.6 to the dollar only a year ago is now trading at 1.6 to the dollar.

09/08/08 @ 8:59 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Libel lawsuit filed against Cape blogger

Crusader, that's the LAST thing in the world a blogger like yourself should wish.
Mr. Revere's and Mr. Dugas's freedom of speech is just as important as yours, mine or anyone else.
Remember it was Voltaire who said, "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

09/08/08 @ 7:51 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Libel lawsuit filed against Cape blogger

Ironically Blogger Robbins is being sued for libel by a Hyannis attorney named Paul Revere III, whose ancestor was a hero in America's fight for ideals like freedom of the speech.
Some find it curious as well that Mr. Revere sought an out-of-state attorney to file the suit.

08/29/08 @ 8:07 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Defamation suit filed against CC Today blogger, commenter

The Editors remove any comments they see which violate our rules; no personal attacks, slander, etc. The story above states that Mr. Brooks removed several phases in the original at Mr. Revere's request long before his suit was filed.

08/16/08 @ 10:26 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Cod Voice will shut down

Ned, that's another Dan Wolf who died at the age of 80 on April 12, 1996 in NYC.
When it was founded by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher and Norman Mailer in October 1955, The Village Voice introduced free-form, high-spirited and passionate journalism into the public discourse.
Our own founder, Walter Brooks, worked for The Village Voice in 1959 before he opened his coffee house on Bleeker Street, married a Cape Cod woman and moved here.

08/14/08 @ 4:18 pm

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

clamshelli, it's probably time for you to read the entire letter to the Bookstore from Wellfleet's Health Department which is a clickable link in two place on Mr. Robbins report above.
If you don't believe in the effectiveness of blogs, contact Dan Rather former CBS NEWS head honcho, Mary LeClair of the Cape Cod Commission and more recently, John Edwards former possible Vice President.
Denial is not a river in Egypt.

07/28/08 @ 10:45 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: DA, YPD, join the 21st Century

Not in this case, Solon.
Of course the media will wait until the next of kin is informed - that's not just police procedure, it's simple, human decency.
This delay comes after a series of similar missteps by our DA whose personal life sometime intrudes on justice here on Cape Cod as in the Worthington case and the Dr. Gryboski killing brouhaha.

The criticism is the apparent "cover-up" of the officer's name, and a day and a half delay before a press conference which is tentitively scheduled for noon today.

07/21/08 @ 8:50 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Batman: The Dark Knight (A Review)

NY Times rebview; "...In its grim intensity, “The Dark Knight” can feel closer to David Fincher’s “Zodiac” than Tim Burton’s playfully gothic “Batman,” which means it’s also closer to Bob Kane’s original comic and Frank Miller’s 1986 reinterpretation. That makes it heavy, at times almost pop-Wagnerian, but Mr. Ledger’s performance and the film’s visual beauty are transporting..."

07/19/08 @ 8:28 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Two boats collide in Buzzards Bay

Thanks - It's fixed.

07/08/08 @ 1:14 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Cod Times, Ottaway Newspapers, no longer for sale

A ommenter here had posted four comments in a row about his displeasure with a completely different Blog.
They have been deleted.
Our simple rules are;
No second comment is permitted until someone responds to the first.
No "off-subject" comments.
No profanity
No libel or slander.
The rest are explained at the top of the blog page;
http://www.capecodtoday.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=11

07/08/08 @ 10:46 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Get ready, America, T. Boone Pickens is coming to your living room

Anyone with $100 BILLION to invest in one project probably has sufficient credibility for most.

07/06/08 @ 2:13 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Where does one find Good Chinese Food??

Our favs are;
Double Dragon and Hunam Gourmet in Orleans.

07/01/08 @ 10:11 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Mihos announces (then unannounces) run against Patrick in 2010

No, but the Republicans ones do.

06/28/08 @ 7:05 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Small fire at Daniel Webster Inn; Taxi crash; Car vs house in Centerville; Two OUI arrests in Yarmouth; Scenic Hwy crash

These fools don't know that the state's driving law mandate a car is NOT allowed to stop on a highway UNLESS it is about to turn and has its blinker on.

How is the car in the rear going to know what the other car is doing? Many times these idiot "Bad Samaritans" cause a walker or biker to cross right into the path of the car behind which decides to continue pass the stopped car.

It's not being polite to stop in a highway - it's being criminal and dangerous.

06/26/08 @ 2:39 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The Silicon Sandbar just washed away

Bill, I believe we're both correct, "Mazarin (Giulio Mazarini, 1602-1661) played a role similar to that of Cardinal Richelieu, who had been the chief advisor (sometimes called l'eminent grise)..."
http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cevans/versailles/site/louisxiv.html

06/25/08 @ 7:23 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Cod Women's Soccer League

Great coverage, Sam. Is that your head whacking the ball in the lower photo?

06/22/08 @ 9:10 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Getting back to business

Your stories like a maritime Jimmy Breslin. I hope your "Troy Tale" goes on forever, and you let us archive it as a separate web novel. Walter Brooks, Editor, cc2day

06/18/08 @ 8:27 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Long-Awaited Cru Poster!

Ned, what's WKCK? on the Truro cop-car's plate mean?

06/18/08 @ 8:20 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Long-Awaited Cru Poster!

Ned is always a delight, but when he waxes local, he is a rose among thorns.

06/06/08 @ 7:56 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The last hydrant in Harwich

Sorry - they are red. wb

06/03/08 @ 11:26 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Fed meeting here to discuss economy; Hocus pocus on the Locust; 95% of state has health insurance

We don't know about the Phillips curve, but there's a curve coming into the town of Phillipston Mass. on the Templeton Road coming from Brooks Village which is a pissah.

05/29/08 @ 11:36 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: A wonderful new voice for Cape Cod

Crusader, you'll help them more if you urge readers to subscribe rather than read their copy online.

05/27/08 @ 9:19 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: 1968: Robert Kennedy Heckled in Oregon Over Gun Controls, a week later he was dead

You aren't anal - you are correct.
We've made the change, and thanks for the heads up. Editor

05/20/08 @ 7:43 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Doug Bennett is now a Boston Pol

Doug may not "fit in" despite his Kennedy-Irish face, but he's far from "wealthy".
On Nantucket he worked as a carpenter while running for office.

05/18/08 @ 8:11 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Kennedy to stay in hospital longer; Tuesday morning update

Most famous people closely guard their health conditions. We received many phone calls from parties inside the compound and the Eunice Kennedy party yesterday with reports saying the Senator appeared gravely ill.
Like all our readers we are relieved that his recovery is apace, and unlike the old media, we were able to amend the story as official reports started to be aired. Sorry, but we do not reveal our sources.

05/13/08 @ 3:19 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cannibalism, Headhunting and Human Sacrifice in North America

We got a good deal on newsprint this week ;>)
Actually, it's the first chapter of a new book published this month.

05/01/08 @ 7:06 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Crumpled Paper

Trotskyite ! Sounds like Alexander Nevsky to me, buddy.

04/29/08 @ 11:25 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Kennedy School Plays War Game over Oil

NOTICE TO COMMENTERS:
Please follow our comment rules about not adding a second comment on the same post under or unless your first one is answered or challenged.
Thanks - The Editors

04/29/08 @ 11:21 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Peace Protestors ask for trial - Won't be prosecuted

Fellas and gals, this post is approaching 100 comments, and since the last 50 or so have been pretty much the same four folks arguing positions none are ever likely to change, we are closing the comments to give others a chance to be seen on our front page comment area.
Thanks, and come back. - The Editors

04/29/08 @ 10:35 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Kennedy School Plays War Game over Oil

$140 a barrel? $4.55 a gallon? That's like here in a few more weeks.
They should have played the game further in the future, like in 2012 when prices will be double today's.

04/23/08 @ 4:56 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: US Dept. of the Interior to expand offshore energy research

Give it a rest, the photo and report is from the DANISH GOVERNMENT, not cctoday or CPN.
Read the very long and detailed document of you really want the answers, or do you simple want to throw out a few more red herring?

04/23/08 @ 4:42 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: US Dept. of the Interior to expand offshore energy research

Shoot from the lip, don't bother to read the Danish Govt. report ABOVE written after 15 years of experience with offshore wind farms.
The link to that report is right in front of you at the bottom of the story above. The facts and numbers AND PHOTO are in that report. If you didn't notice it you can read it online at
http://www.ens.dk/graphics/Publikationer/Havvindmoeller/havvindmoellebog_nov_2006_skrm.pdf

04/23/08 @ 4:34 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: US Dept. of the Interior to expand offshore energy research

The facts and numbers AND PHOTO are from the Danish Government report referenced in the story. If you didn't notice it you can see it online at
http://www.ens.dk/graphics/Publikationer/Havvindmoeller/havvindmoellebog_nov_2006_skrm.pdf

04/22/08 @ 10:59 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Why is the Barnstable County Registrar important to YOUR family

Actually her boss is retiring.
Retiring state Rep. Turkington will be her opponent if she wins the GOP primary on September 16. - The Editors

04/10/08 @ 3:46 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Summer rentals booming here, Cape gets recession bonus again

Pretty simple, ccrealty, our summer visitors are still employed or they wouldn't be here, and gas price hike can't compare to the jet fuel price hikes. The Cape is within a tankful of gas for 1/3 the nation's population.
We've been a journalist here since the 1960's, and during every gas hike and every recession our tourism sector either held steady of increased.
Read the links to the stories above and you'll see why. -The Editors

04/01/08 @ 12:24 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: A Hawk and A Dove Break Bread

The world can find hope if Troy Clarkson & Paul Rifkin find common ground. Very nice piece.

03/31/08 @ 2:38 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Why blog? Reason #92, to get a $300,000 book deal

bipr, you misinterpret me entirely - Lander is writing a witty, hip and ubane blog which may appeal to readers across America.
Our blogs are at their very best about Cape Cod, and yours is as good an example of what our readers what to read as any. You are great, so keep it local and dream about the bib book deals ;>)

03/31/08 @ 11:05 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Ted Kennedy hypocrisy exposed on FOX News Sunday night

cc2day was the feature, gave FOX the material, and have their permission to show it to our readers.

03/29/08 @ 3:51 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Cod TODAY featured on FOX News Sunday at 9 p.m.

If "CC2day becomes an 'asset' of the New World Order" we will hand you the club to beat us over the head with.
The more likely possibility is that cc2day will launch 50 similar editions in cities all over America suffering from press poison.
Comes the revolution mother...

03/29/08 @ 9:25 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Cod TODAY featured on FOX News Sunday at 9 p.m.

They "unexpected error" is probably on your PC or you are confusing this with another article because we have not removed a single comment.
Or is this just one more Alliance BIG LIE?
Cut the crap or you will be deleted.

03/29/08 @ 9:10 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Cod TODAY featured on FOX News Sunday at 9 p.m.

Don't worry Ed. All I require is free ink and that they spell my name correctly ;>)
And former detective Peter Robbins checks his facts better than any "journalist" I ever worked with... except maybe Ed Smith.

03/29/08 @ 9:04 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Cod TODAY featured on FOX News Sunday at 9 p.m.

Mav- we'll not only remember you, we buy a ticket on your "Wind Farm Watch Cruise" when you convert that old scow of yours to bring happy visitors out to the new Cape Cod attraction ;>)

03/26/08 @ 1:06 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The Kennedy-Forest-Delahunt game plan

Cape Wind's president Jim Gordon and Mark Rodgers in several published reports welcomed Blue H and any other renewable entrepreneurs saying America needs all the renewable energy sources it can get.
The harm to our country comes when opponents of Cape Wind try to give the impression that it's "either/or" - either Cape Wind or another, better plan in a better place.
The commenters above all know this, but choose to obfuscate the issue by pretending they don't and that America must choose ONLY ONE offshore wind energy site when it needs a thousand more like Cape Wind from Maine to Florida and along every coast in our beleaguered land.

03/26/08 @ 11:15 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The Kennedy-Forest-Delahunt game plan

allmediapro - aren't you the video company working for Blue H?
http://allmediapro.com/blueh.html

03/24/08 @ 6:33 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Making a case against red tape; Let's put wind at our backs; Building a business out of sand

HAMALCAR" Please read the comment rules. One can not add a second comment until someone answers your first one.
Otherwise one voice can dominate the discussion and drive everyone else away - which is usually their reason to jam a post as you are doing.
WE will delete all comments which don't follow our simple rules.

03/22/08 @ 1:15 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Wellfleet wrangle

Actuially Lezli has two although we wish she's write in them more often;
http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php/LL
and
http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php/mermaid

03/22/08 @ 8:54 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: A Quick History Lesson

We found "Strange Fruit",
http://youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs.

03/21/08 @ 4:35 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Barnstable Police arrest four peace protesters

fairandbalanced: Please read the commenting rules;
1-No one may make a second comment until another commenter has answered that person's first comment.
Other wide an individual could dominate the discussion and drive evryone else away.

03/18/08 @ 4:33 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Bourne To Run

Damned good community column, Leah.
But it's sad about that Indian Maid's distress, and such a lovely, young woman too...

03/18/08 @ 6:27 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Cod TODAY and WBUR

On Friday, March 14th, cctoday experienced an increase in traffic of 30% over the previous 5 days.
The Kennedy story was picked up by BillOReilly.com, that hypocritical creep who sexually harassed several female interns. Also by the Smith & Wesson forum, and KeepandBearArms.com, all of Walter's favorite haunts on the Internet ;) Also the Free Republic, Boortz, and Lucianne, right wingers all. These gun-toting right-wing kooks sure do hate Kennedy.

03/16/08 @ 8:17 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The A-Bomb in our midst

When we were told about this facility this month, we thought of it as something about as dangerous as every other technical advance since the start of the Industrial Age.
Sure it's dangerous. So is driving your kid to a ballgame.
This facility is necessary unless we'd all like to freeze to death come the next cold spell.

03/14/08 @ 10:44 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Kennedy dumped diesel fuel into Nantucket Sound

The top photo is grainy because it was taken from a quarter-mile away and blown up. The lower one of the diesel fuel in the water at the stern of Mya is a close-up.

03/12/08 @ 5:07 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The Bookstore Restaurant in Wellfleet May Face Closure by Town

Peter Robbins has no interests in the Higgins location restaurant or any other eatery in Wellfleet or elsewhere.
He is a professional investigator with 25 years of experience as a policeman.
cc2day believes he is simply reporting the facts, and when some people don't like the fact, they "shoot the messenger."

03/09/08 @ 12:23 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The Cape Wind "Stealth Story" cometh

Solon Economou is correct, as usual. There's even an old adage which states, "Cape Codders are a fair people - they never speak well of each other."

02/29/08 @ 9:54 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Mirant Canal electric plant owners sued for causing global warming

Not JUST his name, the first one name (MATT PAWA) we've run across which can be saved on a cellphone memory using only the FIRST letter on each of the 8 keypads (6,6,2,8 and 7,2,9,2).

02/26/08 @ 7:15 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: I'll Report, YOU Decide...

The County Commissioners only talk to the media it thinks it can control. It's the Olde Cape Cod Insider's Club in action protecting each others flanks. Maybe the new media's readers can teach them at the polls.

02/25/08 @ 10:04 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: County list confirms paintings ARE missing!

In Feb. 8, Peter Robbins began this 4-Part (so far) report on the County's missing paintings.
That's 2 weeks and 3 days ago.
Our local daily newspaper looked into this possible grand larceny of YOUR property today.
That's a new record - they managed to discover the Knowledge School's closing only 5 days after Jeff Blanchard covered it here.

02/20/08 @ 3:34 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Is there a Worthington murder connection?

Reporter Jeff Blanchard has made repeated calls to every public employee concerned in this matter and none will answer his questions. The local daily had the same experience when they tried.
This is a typical "stonewall" and cover-up.
It is shocking after WaterGate Monica et al that public employees still think that not answering the press will work.
It won't.
Retired police detective Peter Robbin (who also writes here) is having the same "stonewall" reaction from our County Commissioners.
They too will discover the error of their cover-up.

02/15/08 @ 3:02 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: 1,701 pages of fresh air for Cape Cod

For visitors from "out of town," what we have here and on most comment zones or blogs dealing with Cape Wind is an organized crew of anti-wind apparatchik types, taking orders from a faux-Green front group of rich NIMBYs and Big Oil and Big Coal industrialists with other agendas beyond (and beneath) Cape Wind.
When offered their own blog by our editor, the "gang" (Susan Nickerson, Charles Vinick, et al) said no, apparently preferring a guerrilla blog hit squad to harass reasonable conversations "on topic" rather than joining in an polite exchange.
Lately the Alliance is paying for highly deceptive radio commericals continuing it "big lie" techniques of the past seven years.
It's just a lot of "noise" to mask any "signals."

02/15/08 @ 1:36 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: A Political Animal

Our Katie attends B.U., not Brown, although we understand, "Brown is beautiful."

02/10/08 @ 12:46 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Rembrandts They Are Not

Sacreblu - it may be more than that - Last month alone 453,329 DIFFERENT people read cc2day, and about 2/3 were on Cape Cod and the rest Off-Cape, probably seasonal property owners.

02/09/08 @ 9:09 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Woods Hole: The Cape's almost-forgotten corner

Sorry Krista, most people who come to The Cape proceed down the Mid Cape Highway to Exits 6, 7, 8 and 9 where 60% of our motel rooms are located in Hyannis, Yarmouth and Dennis.
The Vineyard, with all it's beauty, is seen by a tiny fraction of the 8-10 million Cape Cod visitors annually.

02/09/08 @ 9:05 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Vinick absconds without Gordon business plan

Jack, you're too conservative (literally). Gas is $7 already in parts of Europe & the UK which intends to build enough wind farms (mostly offshore) to provide 1/3 of all electric AND transportation needs in the next dozen years.

02/08/08 @ 10:37 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Vista Stinks!

Notice to commenters;
If you register on cc2day with a phony email address we will delete ALL your comments.

We never reveal email addresses, but we must be able to contact each in case the violate of simple rules against personal attacks, slander, etc.
If you have used a fake email address to register here, please re-register with an active email address before we delete your comments.

02/08/08 @ 10:33 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: $2,500 per rescued seal; WHOI takes a drive on water; Fishing industry seeks state aid; Not the end of the (newspaper) world

Notice to ifawsupporter and others;
If you register on cc2day with a phony email address we will delete ALL your comments.

We never reveal email addresses, but we must be able to contact each in case the violate of simple rules against personal attacks, slander, etc.

ifawsupporter, please reregister with an acive email address.

02/08/08 @ 9:37 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Vista Stinks!

We assume and even hope that CapeMom is correct because we too have Vista on a new laptop and hate it to the heavens.

CapeMom is in error slightly because anyone running on Msft will be forced to use Vista as they plan to stop supporting the older systems soon.

I think I'll look into Linux.

02/07/08 @ 5:07 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Gays & Lesbians were already celebrating when Romney quit the race

It costs Mr. Romney nearly $2 million for each delegate he had won to date.
At that rate enough additional delegates to win the nimination would have cost him over a BILLION DOLLARS.

02/07/08 @ 9:51 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Today in Cape history: Steamer Thistlemore runs aground off Peaked Hill Bars

Scroll back on this blog to Jan 21 and 10, 2008, for two other Peaked Bar items;
JAN. 21 - Nine stations were built on the Outer Cape: Race Point, Highlands, Peaked Hill Bars, Pamet, Cahoon's Hollow, Nauset, Orleans, Chatham and Monomoy Point. ...
JAN 10 - 17 lives lost in coal barges off Peaked .. the tragic history of Peaked Hill Bars has received a substantial addition today, when three coal barges were driven onto its dreaded sands at the ...

02/06/08 @ 4:30 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: KB's case lawyer asks, "Where's O'Keefe?"

Stay on subject, kiddies....

01/25/08 @ 12:12 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: You might be in Falmouth if....

You remember the lumber yard fire around 1948.

01/20/08 @ 8:52 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: 7,563 foreclosures in Massachusetts; Local flack defends electric shocks; Cranberries get a boost

Old news Monpo, CW scuttled the Chelsea plant project after concerns were voiced.
Chelsea Energy LLC, a subsidiary of Energy Management Inc., which also controls Cape Wind, filed notice of its decision not to build the plant in early November 14, 2007.

01/19/08 @ 9:45 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Romney lies to AP

Ron Kaufman is the chairman of the Cape Cod National Seashore Park Advisory Committee, the first outsider to be so appointed by a US President since the park's founding in 1966.
There was much concern when President Bush made the appointment three years ago because of Mr. Kaufman's lobbying activities for the cell telephone industry and its drive to install cell towers in various National Parks.
He was also once married to the sister of President Bush's former Chief of Staff, Andy Card who was himself once a Mass. State Rep. from Holbrook, MA.

01/18/08 @ 11:16 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Richard Warren 72, Cape Cod icon laid to rest

Buzz, we always welcome your comments, but we felt that Richard Warren's funeral story was not the place for that one... however, we think we may have reacted too soon, and here is the your comment we deleted;
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(From Buzz) HEY EDITORS!!!!!! (that's a shout to get your attention)

I make a comment about a former world leader and her corruption charges and the wrath of WB comes down on me. Monpon makes an off color remark about a beloved businessman and friend of the community and she gets a pass.....how special.

01/16/08 @ 8:39 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Stupid Is As Stupid Does - Airport Rotary Part II

How about instead a "Blue Ribbon Committee" to hand out Blue Ribbons to deserving Pols.
Think of the tiny budget THAT committee would need.

01/15/08 @ 7:25 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Tailwind for Cape Wind

The Globe has endorsed the project almost from day one.
It is the cape daily which has led the opposition to it along with the Alliance.

01/14/08 @ 2:26 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Dennis crash critically injures driver; Truro man charged with rape of a child; Hyannis crash; Alleged shoplifter "roughs up" employee

Kevin, that's a great shot.

01/13/08 @ 8:45 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Judge finishes questioning McCown jurors; Decision promised soon; Retrial called likely

The Truro police dept. including the Chief and sgts, has 12 officers, 4 full time dispatchers, 1 administrator and several part time (fill-in) dispatchers check their see here.

01/12/08 @ 1:00 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Judge finishes questioning McCown jurors; Decision promised soon; Retrial called likely

FYI - according to the Truro town site, the population: 1800 Year Round, see here.

01/09/08 @ 11:04 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Music, Meeting Schedules,and Deadline To Register To Vote In The Primary

Kudos to Leah. This is an excellent "Town news column" for the newest member of our team - congratulations.
It's newsy, concise, and an "interesting read" even for a Lower Cape Codder like myself.

12/30/07 @ 9:06 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Power problems in P'town; Mashpee fire; Pedestrian struck behind mall; Falmouth shooting; Getting into Pufferbellies the hard way

A "t-bone" accident is police jargon for when one car broadsides another at a right-angle.

12/28/07 @ 11:43 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Liberal Stormtroopers

On the other hand,every successful democracy has benefited from an iconoclast and gadfly like our Aaron.
If he didn't already exist, we would have to invent him.
Put very simply - you won't find challenges like his (or several of the other blogs here) in the mainstream media, which you may find much more restful and less threatening to read ;>)

12/26/07 @ 11:47 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Main Street, Dennis, Mass

Sol- we never before realized you wrote humor.

12/26/07 @ 11:46 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Windmills for Salt, Corn, and Lightbulbs

Monpo - you get an A+ for that observation.

12/24/07 @ 11:15 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: A letter to my 16 year old daughter who is having a hard time right now.

Our hearts go out to your and your daughter. But the usually sage Monponsett is ill-advised here - you can not "force" anyone to do anything.
As our friends in AA remind us, "You can carry the message but not the alcoholic."
Substitute the word alcoholic for whatever is wrong with the sufferer.

12/24/07 @ 10:47 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: "Entering Bourne" Is Born!

Thanks for the help, Troy. Send Leah any scoops or tips you run into on your side of the ditch. The Editors

12/23/07 @ 9:02 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: What Is a Tribe To Do?

The Editors fail to find any mention of Cape Verde either in this blog or anywhere else on thee site.
To what bis the commenter referring?

12/21/07 @ 2:31 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Our one-party state

Opie, I think the editorial suggests that GOP party leaders, as well as many rank & file, are offended that an public elected figure wrote nicey-nicey under her own name and far more acerbically under PP.

12/17/07 @ 10:47 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: My "Democratic Politics"

Commenters must wait until their first comment is replied to before adding another.

12/16/07 @ 5:34 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Hyannis crash; Harwich fire; C-ville fire; Harwich CO in home; Continuing coverage during the storm

If any of you commenters are photographers living in Eastham, Wellfleet, Olreans area and would like to be paid to take photos of accidents and fires, get in touch with our editors and/or Tim for the rules of conduct and rates. Call 508 385-0003 ext. 106 and speak with Julie.

12/13/07 @ 5:16 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Glitchy, Glitchy, Goo

We routinely delete comments with urls (web addresses) because they interfere with our page formats and stretch articles too wide.
The next time anyone posts a comment with a url (web address) which is over thirty (30) characters long their commenting privileges will be withdrawn.

12/11/07 @ 1:21 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: State Unmoved by Dr. Gryboski's Clean Bill

At the risk of encouraging Crusader, we must report following a red pick 'em-up truck in Harwich yesterday with a bumper sticker which read;
"I can't go to work today.
The voices told me to stay home and clean the guns."

12/08/07 @ 8:22 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Surprise write-in candidate: guess who

The attack on "the messenger" continues unabated in Mashpee...

12/07/07 @ 3:49 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: What We Never Talk About When We Complain About Medical Costs

SYNTAX: actually there was no charge for the splinter.

12/07/07 @ 8:17 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: New movie about a Cape church shut down; Kennedy on Romney's "Faith"; Vineyard passes on Cape candidates

Susan, the link to the movie site is already in the first paragraph of the story above.

12/06/07 @ 7:01 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: 1963: Theodore White eulogy for JFK links Kennedys and Camelot

Congratulations again, Jack. We always thought that description of JFK's presidency was used during his whole term.
It's fascinating to think it was created right here instead.

12/02/07 @ 4:31 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: 1620: Ominous initial contact between Indians and Pilgrims

The plaque is from a teacher's guide to the Pilgrims by Duane Cline, see here.

12/02/07 @ 11:08 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Mills stabbing; Crashes

For all the over-sexed males out there, you can check out both damsels in the blog bios see Katie here
and see Monponsett here.

11/30/07 @ 8:19 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Foursome: Fire, Brimstone, Neighbors & Homeless Bank Robbers

We bet Jeff meant debut, so we'll correct it for the lad.

11/26/07 @ 10:49 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: God Intervenes in Liberal Genocide.....Again.

bubslola, Aaron is in Asia where it's almost exactly 12 hours ahead of our time, so he's writing at 2 or 3 in the afternoon, not at night.

11/25/07 @ 5:54 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Movie-Going: From Single-Screens to Cinema Pubs

When the Nickelodeon opened in North Falmouth, lo those many moons ago, (maybe 30 years ago?) we would scurry there from all over The Cape (we drove from Orleans) to see foreign flicks and they served free coffee in the lobby for us aesthetes.

It was an "occasion". Today movie-going is routine by comparison.

11/25/07 @ 5:48 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Looks Like the Wind is Picking Up

Q.) How can you tell when politicians are lying?

A.) Their lips move.

11/21/07 @ 9:17 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Christy goes renewable today

Christy Mihos is Vice Chairman of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, a group whose purpose is to stop Cape Wind.
He is arguably also The Cape's most popular person and businessman.

11/20/07 @ 8:47 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Interior Department dawdles while gas burns

Mav, if you ever saw what a cutie-pie Monpo is, you'd understand why we bend the rules a bit for her.
But you're also correct, so you can have the next three comments all to yourself without rebuttal from the peanut gallery.
Hang in there, Captain, you'll learn to love those turbines, e specially when all those lobsters start returning to The Sound and fish you haven't seen in decades cluster aroiund the pilings.
;>)

11/20/07 @ 4:18 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Interior Department dawdles while gas burns

Commenters must wait until their comment is answered before adding a second comment here.

10/26/07 @ 7:57 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Monpo hits a homer; New charges in child porn case; Nantucket officer probed; Cape Wind hurting Romney

Actually, that's an old photo. She looks far better today and everything about our writers is real.

10/23/07 @ 12:40 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Chicago-style Election for the Mashpee Wampanoags?

Apologies to commenters:
A Cyber-Gremlin or such blocked comments here until now.

10/23/07 @ 5:51 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Falmouth Field Hockey Remains Undefeated with 3-2 win over Barnstable

WOW ! Great sports photos Dan.

10/21/07 @ 5:38 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Landmark restaurant blaze in Bourne; Brewster fire; Squalls bring trees, wires down; Hyannis man arrested after break-in

Congrats to R. Copley, AAP, on a magnificent slide show of the fire

10/16/07 @ 7:54 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Tribe elects new vice chair; How Gore's Nobel helps 4Cs; Aging baby boomer women; Commission ready to deny Cape Wind... again

Lil Red Feather,if you will take the time to read the WampaGate blogs here you will see the crises the tribe faces, and the very tough choices it must make to win what is rightfully theirs.
With power comes responsibility. Any Cape Codder with a heart knows that your people deserve what has long been denied them.

10/15/07 @ 7:40 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Tribe elects new vice chair; How Gore's Nobel helps 4Cs; Aging baby boomer women; Commission ready to deny Cape Wind... again

" A people get the government they deserve."

10/15/07 @ 7:26 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Tribe elects new vice chair; How Gore's Nobel helps 4Cs; Aging baby boomer women; Commission ready to deny Cape Wind... again

About 1,800.

10/10/07 @ 2:37 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Fed letter demands 8 pages of tribe's letters to Abramoff, others

washiki, perhaps you will be kind enough tom point out SPECIFICALLY the hearsay.
We assume you know his commentary is on his other blog, Gadfly.

10/09/07 @ 4:02 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Tribe's investors picked a town with two contaminated Super Fund sites for Wampanoag casino

The Herald Tribune story does NOT say the tribe's land purchases in Middleorough are contaminated.
It says there are two contaminated Super Fund" sites in the same, small town.
The point seems to be that this fact might easily discourage visitors to a casino in that area, and indicates once again how remiss the tribe's leadership has been up until now.

10/09/07 @ 10:31 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: I Hear Your Mother Likes It, Like This...

It is with a queasy feeling of history in retreat that poetry lovers discover that WBAI (http://WBAI.org) long the radio flagship of cocky resistance to government excess, decided last week that it couldn't risk a 50th anniversary broadcast of the late poet's recording of "Howl." The station retreated out of fear that the Federal Communications Commission would levy large obscenity fines that might bankrupt the small-budget station.

10/09/07 @ 8:19 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Turner wows 'em in Brewster

Apologies to Andy Kamarck.
Our correspondent listened rather than inquired.

10/07/07 @ 7:21 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Tribe's investors picked a town with two contaminated Super Fund sites for Wampanoag casino

MUDDLE-boro

They should change the name of the town from Middleboro to Muddleboro. They have really teed off the other South Shore towns. In their grab for the gold they have:

1. Sold out far short of what they could have gotten and what they actually need to survive.

2. Completely ignored the regional aspects of the casino project and, in so doing, have kept their municipal neighbors out of the loop for both money and planning. The casino will, after all, fill the quiet little roads of other towns with thousands of additional vehicles per year and cause a surge in both commercial and residential real-estate development.

And now they sell our Mashpee tribe two contaminated Super Fund sites which could be lethal to these innocent citizens.

10/06/07 @ 1:57 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Have you ever wondered...

You are both in error.
Guzunda is a standard math ter, especially applicable in long division, as in;
Question - How many times does 2 guzunda 10?
Answer - 5 times.

10/06/07 @ 9:20 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Mashpee: A Question of Fact vs. Fiction

EDITOR's NOTE: To help defuse the "quibbles", here is Dr. Lynch's C.V.:
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JAMES PATRICK LYNCH

Historical Consulting and Research Services LLC.
45 Dellwood Drive, Waterbury, Connecticut 06708, 203.573.0012 jajpl@aol.com

I. TITLE.

Ethnohistoric Consultant/ Researcher (Anthropology & History).
Genealogical Researcher.
Historic Title Researcher/Consultant.

II. EDUCATION.

Ph.D, Anthropology/History (abd.) (Ethnohistory, Sociocultural Change).
History of New York and New England Indians, University of Connecticut 1984-1991.

Master of Arts, Anthropology/History (Ethnohistory), Indians of the Northeast, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut 1983.

Bachelors of Arts, Sociology/Anthropology, Religious Studies, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut 1980.

Associates in Arts, Mattatuck Community, Waterbury, Connecticut, 1978.

Title Searching, University of Connecticut, West Hartford, 2001

Advanced Title Searching, University of Connecticut, West Hartford%

10/05/07 @ 2:14 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Curious Bill asks about connectivity

Huron, you are dead wrong. As one of this site's administrators I know every commenter's ID and/or email, and those are three, separate people.
Even you might have figured out the "chuckkleeklamp" was, in fact Charles Kleeklamp of the blog "Footnotes" and . and Jeff is writer Jeff Blanchard of "Blanchard's Blog".
"Coloredguy" is an anonymous commenter who writes in street "jive".

10/05/07 @ 1:02 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Funeral home B&E; Route 6 crash; Brewster fall from roof; Yarmouth Police investigate suspicious activity at school bus stops

Pat's a pro and didn't slow down a bit to get those shots our her window.

10/02/07 @ 10:56 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Members of Wampanoag Tribe refiling Land Claims suit against Mashpee

EDITOR's NOTE: It seems that Mr. Marshall's supporters are now attempting to "shoot the messenger" rather than comment on the issue about which he reports.
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Commenters are reminded to refrain from personal attacks and/or comments against the blogger or other commenters. Should such attacks/comments continue, commenting for this post will be closed.

09/29/07 @ 3:31 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Wampanoags need casino rip-off protections

Poor Quahog should learn to count. Peter has written over fifty (50) new posts in the past two (2) months, far more than any of our 150 bloggers. - The Editors

09/19/07 @ 11:50 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Meet John Kerry, soon to be former senator

Jeff Beatty, an Air Force combat helicopter pilot from Harwich, is running against Kerry for the US Senate from Massachusetts in November of 2008.

09/18/07 @ 9:02 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: In broad daylight

Peter Kenney's email is peter@capecodtoday.com

09/18/07 @ 7:53 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: In broad daylight

You misspeak, TWG. When you called my office yesterday I told you three times that I was on a long distance call and to please call back in five minutes.
You didn't.
Since you know my number call anytime for the information you requested but I'm unable to talk on two phones at the same time.

09/17/07 @ 1:04 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Poor Mitt

DemocRant, when was this flyer distributed?
BTW, please don't add art more than 550pixals wide, and this one was (before we redid it) 1.4 megs !!!

09/17/07 @ 12:57 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Guv: 3 casinos & Wamps must bid; Casino news wrap-up

Wamp-Pride, cut out the personal attack. This one is also slander and thus actionable.
Our Editors see nothing racist about her comment above yours and suggest you reply to comments with your opinion instead of "shooting the messenger."

09/16/07 @ 5:00 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Bill Richardson & The Red Sox; $80 a barrel oil

Jeff just liked Brewster Selectman Larry Doyle because he was a Black Irishman like most good newspapermen ;>)

09/16/07 @ 10:55 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Speaking with Forked Tongue

Peter Kenney is reporting "news" in Barnstable County Report (BCR).
He is offering "opinion" in Great Gadfly (Gadfly).

He seems to clearly favor both the casino and the tribe in the latter.
-The Editors

09/16/07 @ 6:49 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Guv: 3 casinos & Wamps must bid; Casino news wrap-up

The governor will not recommend allowing slot machines at the state's financially struggling horse and dog tracks (according to this Globe story), a decision which is sure to set off protests and a major lobbying push in the Legislature from the politically powerful track operators.

09/13/07 @ 11:35 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Phoenix does Peter - House Pest

Please save Peter from "Journalism".

09/12/07 @ 1:22 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Sources: Patrick to let Legislature decide on Casinos

Discretion is still the better half of Devalor

Informed State House sources tell Cape Cod TODAY that the Governor's staff realized that approving a casino today would not bring the state any annual revenues (estimated at $100M a year) for as long as five years because the rest of the federal process has to wind down and a casino has to be built first.

But giving slots to the state's present four racetracks would mean new money coming into the state's budget for Patrick's ambitious plans as soon as the first of the year.

Patrick's staff and local advisers on The Cape have warned him that the tribe's mood right now threatens to undo the deals the Glenn Marshall dominated Tribal Council made with Middleborough and the outside investors, and he should wait until the dust settles in Mashpee since he will probably have to deal with a new set of players if the old Tribal Council is thrown out next month.

08/28/07 @ 11:13 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Wampanoag tribal council ousts Glenn Marshall as chairman

In other words, Peter is right, but you don't like the way he writes about it.
So why don't you get your non-news from whatever non-newspaper you usually don't get the full story from... oops, dangling preposition, better ignore what I wrote !!!

08/28/07 @ 8:22 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Paddelboat capsizes in Dennis; Mashpee head-on crash; Centerville break; Hyannis fires, Harwich crash

The commenter forgets that he (or his ancestors) were once tourists themselves. Only the local Native American tribes were here ahead of the tourists like us.

08/24/07 @ 2:03 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Long Island offshore wind farm scuttled; Cape Wind predicted this outcome 4 years ago

"Against stupidity even the Gods struggle in vain." -Friedrich Schiller

08/22/07 @ 7:18 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape due for Category 3 hurricane; Dean misses tourism areas

The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration and AccuWeather Inc. of State College, Pa., are all predicting a busier than normal hurricane season. Predictions were similar last year, but an unexpectedly strong El Niño, which is an increase in the surface height of warm tropical water in the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean caused by a change in the direction of the trade winds from a normal wind flow toward the west to a wind flow toward the east making the water in the eastern Pacific warmer then usual, cut down on the number of storms. Mr. Gray said El Niños usually prohibit hurricane development because they cause wind shear in the upper levels of the atmosphere that tears apart hurricanes.

08/16/07 @ 3:35 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Captured: Richard Fite; B&E, Assault & Battery, Attempted Kidnapping & Intimidation of a Witness; Neighbor shot with pellet gun on Vineyard; West Dennis Fender-bender sends one to hospital

We've asked the Barnstable Police Department for a photo to add above and will post it the minute it is received.

08/07/07 @ 12:02 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: A Ghost Story

Fellas and Girls, the journalist you are dissing was trained by Jimmy Breslin at New York Daily News, segued to The Cape Codder where he rose to Managing Editor during that newspaper's glory days and is a frequent paid columnist today in Rhode Island's largest daily the Providence Journal.

08/04/07 @ 6:28 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Sea Breeze & Sailing

Susan, cut out the personal attacks.
These are recipes, not political screeds.
Please.

08/03/07 @ 7:11 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Beware the Greenhead fly

Steve admonished us that Tanqueray is best for mosquitos as well, and claims that Beautiful Downtown Centerville doesn't has Greenheads.

07/30/07 @ 2:58 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The Red Man is getting ripped off by the White Man again

From quahog- This thing is so full of lies and disinformation I don't know where to start.

Lie 1
Glenn never bullied her kids. They weren't even here most of the time. They were army brats. Glenn was a skinny kid.

Lie 2
"...a lot of money..."
Me-me has a GD nerve accusing people of financial misdeeds. Ask her about her dismissal from the Museum, and how she only avoided criminal charges to spare her police chief husband the shame of having to arrest her. Ask her how the widow of a low-level retired army officer can afford "Fish House Hill" and a house in Vegas.

Maybe before you go spouting off you should check your facts. You have just been manipulated by a narcissistic cadre of ne'er-do-wells who are intent on pissing in the well if they can't own it.

The Truth Squad
---------------
To Quahog: It does us no good to get into a debate over the merits of this article. There are clearly three sides to every opinion. The real "Truth" being one of those sides.
W

07/26/07 @ 2:08 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: If they stopped attacking the messenger they might have have to discuss the "issue"

Opie, we tried, but The Times doesn't have their "book reviews" online. Please try yourself, but we spent a half hour searching their risible search engine, and of course they charge for articles more than a week old.

07/23/07 @ 5:13 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Another 4 car MVA on Shoot Flying Hill; pedestrian struck at mall; Driver charged after hitting cruiser

Are you sure it's not simply that you now reading a "locally-owned" online newspaper which covers "Cape Cod 24/7" and does NOT subscribe to a single wire service?

07/23/07 @ 11:12 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: 12 year-old hit on scooter in Harwich; 15 year-old steals a car in Dennis

... and we thank you for them ;>)

07/22/07 @ 2:47 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: 12 year-old hit on scooter in Harwich; 15 year-old steals a car in Dennis

Native wit and genius ;>)
I personally have been a newspaperman here working for others since 1965, so I have more sources and media friends than a sane person should. wb

07/22/07 @ 2:21 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: 12 year-old hit on scooter in Harwich; 15 year-old steals a car in Dennis

Negative, Rap.
CapeCodToday is a locally owned internet newspaper owned and operated by eCape.com and the Best Read Guide.
It's principals has lived here all their lives, one's family goes back to the first 8 settlers.
capecodonline.com is owned by the Dow Jones Co., soon to be owned by Rupert Murdoch.

07/22/07 @ 2:07 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: 12 year-old hit on scooter in Harwich; 15 year-old steals a car in Dennis

Rap, you mean like Cain and Abel? Back then 25% of the world's population were murderers.
For the real Cape Cod Scoop on murder since 1620 see here.

07/22/07 @ 1:42 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: 12 year-old hit on scooter in Harwich; 15 year-old steals a car in Dennis

"Tain't so, rapunzal.
It's the same as are there more gays, lesbians,naughty pols or child abuse? There isn't, but there is a lot more reporting of those and of accidents on Cape Cod where there is no more tourism for example than a decade ago.
We've got five photographers with Police scanners out trying to cover the Cape "24/7" for loyal and valued readers like yourself.

07/16/07 @ 11:37 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Double fatal Falmouth crash; Hyannis OUI crashes; Yarmouth MC crash; Bourne Jet-Ski accident, Dennis diving accident

I feel sorry for the poor girl in the jet ski accident. Again, stupid parents trying their damndest to remove their progeny from the gene pool. Are these thing too dangerous for kids to ride on? Probably. Too dangerous when there are other jet skis around? Absolutely.

These things are the water equivalent of those redneck ATV things, which injure 1000's of kids per year (the highest rate is in West Virginia, big surprise.)

Social darwinism is cruel when it comes to children being killed or hurt due to stupid parenting.

07/16/07 @ 11:30 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: No job losses? Try Again, Pinocchio

bitter: there is no question that in the game of life, a white middle class kid from a nice home is dealt a better hand at birth than a black kid in the ghetto.

The middle class kid has a better shot at becoming wealthy.

But both have a very good shot at living a decent middle class life, through the choices they make. A life that is miles better than the life most people on the planet could ever hope for.

Neither, especially not the white kid, have any reason to whine about the lack of opportunity in this country.

07/14/07 @ 12:19 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Rocks for North Chatham; Selectmen OK Sewer flow; Harwich gets Orleans Assistant Administrator; Dirt bike, ATV ban sought

Touchy, touchy - according to Google maps the area shown is Minster's Point i North Chatham.

07/11/07 @ 4:05 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: No job losses? Try Again, Pinocchio

I think the reaction is due to the previous owner's phoney statement when the sold to Bed, Bath & Beyonce. Read Blogfather above this blog on the front page.

07/11/07 @ 4:01 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Rear-ender in front of Cape Playhouse; Great Western at Highbank accident

Thong-Person, we have a lot of young people and kids reading this newspaper.
Please find words which you would use in front of your mom or kid sister.

06/10/07 @ 5:04 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Judge Nickerson to hear race bias claims in McCowen-Worthington murder trial

Mav, I fear she may mean "Susan" Nickerson, not Judge Gary ;>)

06/06/07 @ 12:22 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Toolan Trial; the Killer Stare

Hate to spoil your fun, fellas and girls, but this story is about the Toolan trial NOT the McCowen trial.
If you wish to comment of THIS trial, be our guests, but from now on we will delete OFF TOPIC COMMENTS. - The Editors

06/05/07 @ 4:24 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Brennan's Grille: A great new spot for "comfort food" at low prices

Come home, Dan, all is forgiven !
The sheriff isn't looking for you any longer.

06/04/07 @ 3:45 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: We Are All Screwed

We pay 75% of the of the health insurance costs of our employees, and we have from the day we began. Of couse it's a heavy expense, and most of our competitors do NOT pay any or as much.
But we never lose our people to others, and it's probably been one reason we have prospered.
If EVERY busines had to pay the same cost, the business playing field would be equal, and every business would be forced to raise prices or sell more stuff to make the same profit margin.
Everyone - employers and employees - would benefit.
Since there is "no free lunch", the consumer is paying dearly right now for whatever health care is provided to those without insurance by our hospitals which only raise the cost of services to the insured or go out of business themselves, and since preventive care is cheaper than medical care AFTER the desease, etc., we would all benefit from universal health care.

06/03/07 @ 8:34 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Boston Phoenix jumps on "Cape Wind - the book" boycott

Don't hold your breath.

06/02/07 @ 5:44 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty

It was OFF TOPIC in this blog.
We attempted to email you to suggest putting it in the news story "Lawyer disses judge" [Xtra] where it is welcome, but your email address would not go through.
The Editors

05/30/07 @ 3:33 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The Nitrogen Tax

Jack's taken a second job. Like most good husbands and fathers he's striving to give his family the best of everything.
Hopefully we'll see him back in the future because we mss him too.

05/30/07 @ 3:11 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Wind and Tabloid Journalism

We just received this from Cape Wind -
the book authors;
Great column!
Congrats to the author

05/29/07 @ 5:36 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Tourism: We Can Do Better

Everyone who lives here (except the Wampanoags) was once a tourist.

Where were YOU born, flargh?
Almost everyone here was born somewhere off cape, and most display this hypocritical anti-touist bias.
Have you ever considered that OVER 50% of all the money earned by Cape Codders in twelve months comes from visitors who are here for mostly a ten week season.
Yet you don't have to build schools for their kids, or staff fire and police for them for most of the year.
Your taxes and mine would be double what they are now without the blessings of tourism.

05/29/07 @ 10:23 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Stellwagen Bank is a sanctuary in name only; Cape's hurricane escape routes explained

Thanks Capemom - it's changed.

05/29/07 @ 8:08 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Pollution + Dilution = Solution

Like "real Cape Codders" (my wife's ancestor was Edw. Bangs, one of the first eight men to arrive on this sandspit in the 1600's) we don't have ANY lawn, trophy or otherwise, don't own a lawnmower and never cut a blade of grass or anything else.

Stop shooting the messenger and listen - Calouro wasn't saying the SSA or even a raggedy-arse charterboat captain like you were breaking the laws - he was stating that the laws are grossly inadequate for today's huge, population near the water and must be changed or there won't be ANY fish left for you to catch and us to eat.

05/19/07 @ 5:13 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Letters protest media boycott of book events

You must be coming to the debate pretty late, bittersweet. It's been raging for six years with over 600 stories and column archived here alone. You can educate yourslf on the subject by using our free archives in the search element at the top of every page.

05/17/07 @ 3:48 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: School threat; Rumble at Melpet Farm; 2 crashes on Route 6 in Eastham; Brewster gasline ruptures

No, they are Mass. plates

05/17/07 @ 2:57 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: School threat; Rumble at Melpet Farm; 2 crashes on Route 6 in Eastham; Brewster gasline ruptures

And the poor dears don't notice what that brand name spells backward...

U R A Bus

05/15/07 @ 1:19 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: On Marriage And Divorce: Living For The Moment!

Raunchy divorce billboard gets axed in Chicago

A controversial billboard that recently went up in Chicago that almost seemed to be advertising divorce has been pulled after numerous complaints from residents and other lawyers, who say that the ad for a divorce firm sullies their profession. The billboard featured the torsos of a scantily clad man and woman on either side of the saying "Life is short. Get a divorce." The ad for the divorce attorney Corri Fetman seemed to be promoting divorce as a way to meet scantily clad, sexy people and local residents were furious. Almost immediately, complaints started to pour in, the story was picked up nationally, and now the billboard is gone, although before you start yelling "free speech", the ad wasn't removed for its content. They never got the right permit.

Alderman Burton Natarus of the 42nd Ward pulled the billboard for Corri Fetman down a week after it went up, but it wasn't because of the complaints. The controversy led Natarus and his office into looking into the issue and they discovered that the Corri F

05/14/07 @ 3:53 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Jamestown is jealous; GB praises BG; Canadians want "cheap eats"; Shooting justified

There are plenty of inexpensive restaurants reviews in our "CHEAP EATS" blog, see here.

05/14/07 @ 10:00 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: America-Think Big Or Perish

That's an exceptional piece of writing, Robert.
Thanks from cctoday.

05/13/07 @ 10:29 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Bourne man sued for Pops; brawl CG suspends search for four sailors into 6th day

Click on the links offered above if you aren't sure which guy is from Bourne.

05/12/07 @ 7:11 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Ptown PD seek public's help; Yarmouth crash

Nice scoop Tim - You are a whiz bang !

05/11/07 @ 10:35 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: I ate the lobster, and then I ate his tail

The Urban Dictionary defines it thus;

New England slang that adds emphasis. Synonymous with really, very and hella.

To describe how great something is: "This car is wicked cool!"
To show aggravation: "This f*cking guy is a wicked @sshole!"
To show frustration: "That guy is wicked slow!"
To show amazement: "Wow, that game is wicked awesome!"
To describe a person: "She's a wicked b1tch!"
To describe the weather: "Man, it's wicked hot out here!"
To emphasize feelings: "That story made me wicked sad!"
To exaggerate your point: "That took a wicked long time!"

"That wicked cool car is wicked fast is owned by that wicked old guy, who drives it wicked slow when it's wicked hot out, which makes me wicked sad cause I'm wicked broke and I got to walk a wicked long way."
See the link here.

05/07/07 @ 5:27 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Snappy review in Weekly Standard by Alex Beam

Facts on Nantucket Wind

(Courtesy of Chuck Kleekamp) Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but not to make up facts. When substantiated, facts speak for themselves.

On averages. If wind produces 100 MWh for on hour and 200 MWh the next, the average for those two hours are 150 MWh. Everyone (almost) understands that.

As documented by the Dept. of Energy, the total wind production on Horseshoe Shoal for the year Apr. 03 to Mar. 04, according to wind measured by the data tower (every ten minutes), would have been 1,691,261 MWh or an average of 193 MW. And that’s a capacity factor of 42%. Not too bad.

Every MWh from wind dispatched on the grid means one less MWh from a fossil generation plant. You can’t store energy on the grid.

Fossil plants do no run at full load or burn more fuel than necessary to produced the power they are allowed to dispatch by ISO NE. Right now all generators in NE are putting out about 15,000 MW from a total installed capacity of about 33,000 MW.

05/02/07 @ 11:53 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Murdoch offers to buy WST, CC Times; Cape pollution worse than Boston; Wareham TM brouhaha

Murdoch will be greeted as other families have at similar situations; "For people in the newspaper business, it is a wonderful gift that the family is so willing to stand behind The Wall Street Journal, even as its economics deteriorate. But when families that own one key asset become divided, the solution is usually to sell the asset. Just ask the Binghams of Louisville (Courier). Or the Chandlers of Los Angeles (Times)..." NY Times today.

05/02/07 @ 10:15 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Dan Kennedy on Murdoch, WST and CC Times

The two stories on this in today's New York Times suggest that Murdoch's bid has forever driven away any others, and that family members will see their fortunes tumble when the stock market thinks they have "really" said no.
Then Murdoch will be greeted as other families have at similar situations; "For people in the newspaper business, it is a wonderful gift that the family is so willing to stand behind The Wall Street Journal, even as its economics deteriorate. But when families that own one key asset become divided, the solution is usually to sell the asset. Just ask the Binghams of Louisville (Courier). Or the Chandlers of Los Angeles (Times)..." NY Times today.

04/30/07 @ 7:26 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Part One of a series of short stories - with no titles.

Monponsett is alive and well and writing her "East of Boston" column regularly.
Viv is the former admin. asst. at The Dennis Chamber of Commerce who is now living and writing from The Alps.
She decided the weather was too warm around here ;>)

04/26/07 @ 9:58 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Buried, Residual Oil is Still Affecting Wildlife Decades After a Spill in Falmouth

Comments which are off-topic will be deleted.

04/25/07 @ 7:06 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Buried, Residual Oil is Still Affecting Wildlife Decades After a Spill in Falmouth

Monponsett is a veteran AOL blogger and knows full well that we only delete comments which are "off subject".

04/23/07 @ 1:26 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Sure, It's Just Up The Road A Ways...

Nice going, Monpo. Your friends and neighbors around here are feed by tourism and you detour the first one of the season.
Worse, you inflict them on the town you once lived in.

04/22/07 @ 5:52 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Car slips in water, gas station powdered; Mashpee restaurant fire

Frank Paparo always takes good, professional photos, but today's car and rower shot is also "art".

04/21/07 @ 8:17 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Wind farms for Rhode Island Bay; CG seeks buoys, examines breakthrough

We blush.

04/19/07 @ 3:27 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Harwich crash; Home invasion reported in Brewster; alert citizen helps nab car B&E suspect

Jake, that's a great photo.

04/19/07 @ 11:01 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Another Breakthrough on Outer Beach; Ross Gelbspan here to talk;

Ross Gelbspan retired several years ago after a 31-year career in journalism as a reporter. As special projects editor of The Boston Globe, he conceived, directed and edited a series of articles that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984. The information is on the book's website under "About the author" here.

04/17/07 @ 2:58 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Valid criticism - from the opposition

The developer has answered every question raised here in it's published FEIR and to the MMS - there will be NO dredging, period.
This continuing "insider" chit chat and repetition is annoying to the vast majority of our readers at best and a deliberate obfuscation of the issue at worst.
The Editors politely request that these commenters go elsewhere - after 181 comments, enough is enough.

04/12/07 @ 9:51 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Valid criticism - from the opposition

Cape Cod TODAY regrets to inform our readers that Jack Coleman failed to contact the developer for their response before publishing this post.

Cape Wind categorically denies that any dredging will take place in constructing the wind farm.

They state that having reduced the proposed footprint from 170 to 130 turbines two years ago they have amble space to rearrange the placement should any specific sites prove difficult and that there is 12 feet of high water around each proposed turbine site.

More importantly, any dredging would require many additional permits which would be nearly impossible to acquire according to the developer.

04/02/07 @ 11:34 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Bay Staters lead region in gambling. We spent $1.1 billion last year

"The taste for gambling, like that for sports, is a kind of feeble-mindedness—maybe even an insanity. It can be justified only by a resort to the most preposterous sophistry. Whenever it has seized a man of any visible talent—for example, Dostoevsky and C. C. Colton— he has ended crazy. It is the silliest of all the vices." H. L. Mencken

03/26/07 @ 12:15 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Dr. Phil & the Cape Cod Mall Food Court

Gone Fred's Turkey House, Pocari's and many more.

03/25/07 @ 12:04 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Coffee

Alas, as a Helenic scribe Spyro missed the best donuts on Cape Cod.
They're at Old Harbor Bakery in Chatham on Rt. 28 opp. the Masonic Hall where the donuts still taste like those your grandma made.

03/23/07 @ 7:36 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: A jarring report on JFK's autopsy

We will delete any comments which include web addresses.

03/21/07 @ 8:56 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Lady Luck found; Murray to get nod today; Flatley to sell Cape properties; Teen bikes for a cure; We're #2

Mattmesi - Texas offshore waters differ from all others in that the state was granted a far further "ownership" offshore than others states at its admission to the Union.
Called "The Texas Territorial Sea" it is that portion of the Gulf of Mexico extending seaward from Texas’ Gulf shoreline out to nine nautical miles rather than the three miles as is the case in Massachusetts.

03/19/07 @ 2:36 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Study now available online

It's rather amusing to read Mr. Good criticiising our coverage of renewable energy while ignoring the fact that CCTimes has yet to report on the release of this report four days after the fact.

Keep it up, Neil. Everytime you write you make us (and Cape Wind) look better.

BTW, why do you imagine the daily hasn't covered this story? Your answer should be a joy for us all to read. Afterall, they have 200 employees and we have a two creating this newspaper.

03/16/07 @ 3:00 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Times reports Cape Wind a big win for area; CG rescues another seaman

WE have asked you all to stop putting web addresses in the comments.
It is against the rules.
It takes us too long to judiciously delete the web addresses alone so we are simply deleting ANY comment with a web address shown.
We have explained the reasosn this is necessary and won't repeat ourslves.

03/15/07 @ 1:35 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Fighting the lost cause

MAY, 2005 - Two Japanese Soldiers on Mindanao
A report in early May 2005 talked about two former Japanese Army soldiers found on Mindanao
Reportedly, their names were Yoshio Yamakawa, 87, from Osaka, and Tsuzuki Nakauchi, 85.
See the the last item here. .

03/14/07 @ 7:55 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Booklist raves about new "Cape Wind" book debut

For readers who don't read the Tabloids, there are at least four OTHER Wendy Williams-
* Wendy O. Williams, former Plasmatics singer and erotic entertainer
* Wendy Williams (radio host), an American radio and television personality
* Wendy Williams (porn star), an transsexual porn star.
* Wendy Williams (diver), an American Olympic diver.

The MS Williams referenced above is a lifelong reporter who worked at CC Times and lives in Mashpee.

03/12/07 @ 12:24 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: As false confessions go, not a very good one

Be careful with that LOL stuff, Jack.
Remember Crusader and Ted's spouse might go nutso.

03/12/07 @ 11:07 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cynthia Stead's RAMPAGE

"Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the gallon." - Mark Twain

03/11/07 @ 5:06 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: What Does it Mean to be a Democrat?

EDITOR's NOTE:
This commenter X has used a fake email address to register.
If he or she does not correct that violation of our commenting rules, all his/her comment will disappear from this site.
The rule is so we can privately contact commenters when the misspeak or break the rules for commenting and to give them a chance to change.
Please go to your registration and add an actual address, not x@gmail.com

03/11/07 @ 3:48 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Media Hitman knocked off by Finneran "Hit Job"

The fun and games in Beacon Hill continue. The NY Times and The Worcester Telegram today report that MITT is buying conservative endorsements with his personal wealth.
See this link.

03/11/07 @ 3:45 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: What Does it Mean to be a Democrat?

What's most encouaging about this blog is Ray's willingness to speak his heart about both major parties without hidng behind some silly, anonymous nom be blog.
Regardless of how you feel about them politically, Aaron Malloy, Andy Buckley, Bill Doherty, Doug Bennett and Matt Patrick share that same brave and open quality, and we should all be grateful to them for it.

03/11/07 @ 3:34 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: What Does it Mean to be a Democrat?

The NY Times and The Worcester Telegram today report that MITT is buying conservative endorsements with his personal wealth.
See this link.

03/07/07 @ 12:26 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Tourism up; Cape couple wins against subprime lender; Cape Wind confident in MMS

Yes, if Mr. Vinick or Ms Nickerson write it.

03/07/07 @ 9:07 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Tourism up; Cape couple wins against subprime lender; Cape Wind confident in MMS

If MattMesi read more carefully he would know that Mr. Vinick, and the Alliance, have appeared innumerable times here and that their website has a fee link in our front page Links Directory.
Mr. Vinick and Susan Nickerson of the Alliance have been asked repeatedly by our editors to write an Alliance Blog here as well, but they apparently are not willing to subject their statements to the scrutiny and rebuttal the way those in favor of Cape Wind do daily here.

03/05/07 @ 10:04 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: When Jackie put Ted back in his box; Wampanoag open off cape office

Thanks Opie. We made the correction.

03/03/07 @ 2:10 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Gambling Offshore

As our Washington Correspondent commented in this blog;

For visitors from "out of town," what we have here and on most comment zones or blogs dealing with Cape Wind is an organized crew of anti-wind apparatchik types, taking orders from a faux-Green front group of rich NIMBYs and Big Oil and Big Coal industrialists with other agendas beyond (and beneath) Cape Wind.

When offered their own blog site by a Cape Cod Today editor, the "gang" said their leaders (back on the Mother Ship?)said "No go," apparently preferring a guerilla blog hit squad to reasonable conversations "on topic." It's just a lot of "noise" to mask any "signals."

Their tactic is to insert lengthy off-topic anti-wind snippets out of context and lace their posts with vituperative irrelevance to drive away opinions, pro or con, legitimizing these discussions.

If you wish to post, simply ignore them and "write through." They are harmless visitors from another planet wishing to raise Earth's CO2 levels to habituate our world to their species. Let 'em all "come on down." Welcome to Earth!

03/03/07 @ 12:57 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Tribal tribute from far and wide, Dog Track Casino? Mayflower support; Lost productivity

The Link to the Gambling Cost story is fixed

03/03/07 @ 8:24 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Cod Chamber ad scares away visitors

Because the supply tower is far shorter than the surrounding wind turbines, it will literally be invisible as a 1/8 inch peck on the horizon.
The structure would be one of 130 structures in the middle of the wind farm. The only reason the Alliance uses the image in their ad is because at some point they figured out that a lot of people LIKE the way wind turbines look and their visuals of offshore wind turbines were not effective in scaring people so now all their visual attention is devoted to a structure that most people will never actually see.
And of course, the NIMBYs all know that hurricanes will spill a thousand times more "stuff" from the thousands of pleasure boats in the same waters.

03/03/07 @ 7:40 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Cod Chamber ad scares away visitors

whatthe, read the story before you write;

...An interesting sidebar on this event is that for years Cape Wind opponents faulted Cape Wind's visual simulations showing what the wind farm would look like from various points on shore in clear conditions for not including the ESP (supply platform), that Cape Wind was "hiding it", when in fact - it was there all along, it's just that it was barely discernible, just really hard to notice it if you didn't know where exactly to look. The structure would be one of 130 structures in the middle of the wind farm. The only reason the Alliance uses the image in their ad is because at some point they figured out that a lot of people LIKE the way wind turbines look and their visuals of offshore wind turbines were not effective in scaring people so now all their visual attention is devoted to a structure that most people will never actually see.

03/01/07 @ 2:09 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Cod Chamber ad scares away visitors

Both Capri and Neil Good know exactly what they are doing, and what they are doing is being trolls on our online newspaper.
This is the one warning you both and Durkin will get;
STOP BEING TROLLS AND STAY ON TARGET or go away.
The topic of this story is an negative ad in the chamber's guide book.

03/01/07 @ 8:16 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Cod Chamber ad scares away visitors

Capri, the story states that it is the Alliance photo of an oil rig which will never be seen by a visitors (unless they hire a boat and go out to view it) is fear mongering.
Palm Springs, a much more upper scale destination than our bucolic mecca, is using their wind farm to draw visitors, not scare them away.

02/28/07 @ 6:08 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Semi-Annual Stiff Neck

Mini, the comments are mostly aimed at other comments, not your delightful post.
We're afraid it's the price we all should be willing to pay for the First Amendment which is alive and well here on Cape Cod Today.
And you, as a blogger, get the first "say".

02/28/07 @ 12:14 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Real Estate rise; CCBL to New Bedford; Hurricane threat

You can, but Emanuel Kant.

02/27/07 @ 10:32 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Snow closes Rt 134, Falmouth drug bust; cops use bean bag gun to disarm man; alleged gas station robber nabbed

Tim, your reporting and photography is better than ever.
If there's a prize for local police and fire reporting you should get it.
The Editors

02/22/07 @ 2:26 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Hugging the Middle of the Road

Good Luck, Opinionator. Here are a few of the actual questions on the Mass DMV Test;

#4. You should drive on the shoulder to pass a car only:
a) if the vehicle ahead of you is turning left
b) under no circumstance
c) when the shoulder is wide enough

#12. When is it legal to cross a double solid yellow line?
a) never
b) always
c) Only when you are making a left turn into a business or home driveway

#15. When you want to change lanes, you can see if another vehicle is in your blind spot:
a) only if you check your sideview mirror
b) only if you check both mirrors
c) only if you check your rearview mirror
d) only if you turn and glance over your shoulder

and this one's for your wife;
#8. The safest way to stop your vehicle is to:
a) pump the brake pedal
b) slam on the brake pedal
c) apply hard steady pressure to the brake pedal
d) pull up on the emergency brake

To take the Mass. DMV test, click here .

02/20/07 @ 5:31 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: It all adds up for Chris, but you may need a calculator

Our simple rules request that commenters do not use personal attacks.
We will delete them when they occur.
If commenters came not deal with the ISSUE rather than the personalities, we will remove their permission to comment here.
The Editors

02/19/07 @ 10:48 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Gong Xi Fa Chai

Read her latest "East of Boston" for the answer.

02/18/07 @ 10:16 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Teen injured in Mills crash; Bourne, Onset fires; Brewster fatal crash

Please read the Commenting Rules.

We remove all HTML from comments to preserve formatting consistency, and we do not allow a second comment by the same commenter unless or until their first comment is answered. This is to prevent one voice from dominating a post.

02/17/07 @ 1:20 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Take these words home and think it through

You know someone in "Deluxebury'?

02/17/07 @ 6:19 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Barbies for Cape Cod

To bipr, you might start by reading the first paragraph;
"We can't swear to the authenticity of the report, but if it's NOT true, it should be. Here are the dolls."
It's been all over the web and blogoshere.

02/16/07 @ 1:47 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Barbies for Cape Cod

Thanks Lola.
Not for long.

02/12/07 @ 1:38 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: An example well worth emulating

Abe the businessman;
The credit reporter was a new profession created by Dunn & Bradstreet in the 1850's, and D&B began hiring full-time employees who became experienced, skilled reporters and interpreters of credit information. Working as a credit reporter was a respected position that provided strong training in sound business practices.
Among the reporters who went on to establish names for themselves were four U.S. presidents: Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland and William McKinley.

02/11/07 @ 8:30 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Beautiful Berlin

If Jack Coleman says he remembers it, it happened.
If every man's memory is his private literature, Coleman has the largest library in seven states!

02/08/07 @ 7:55 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The Noble House rocks!

devadasi, let's make sure we have you straight:
1- you haven't eaten there yourself.
2- you agree with the daily's review despite it's errors in fact.

And yes, Cape Cod journalists do resent people from other regions saying bad things about our little sand spit, especially when you have their facts wrong and are mean spirited about their criticism.

02/06/07 @ 7:41 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Sorry Boston - you're the joke, and worldwide at that

"...in other news, a nervous Boston raised it's terror alert status from Scooby-Doo Brown to SpongeBob Yellow... (Detroit News cartoon)

02/03/07 @ 1:10 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: That allegedly one-sided conversation

Now THAT, would be a kewl scoop for CCToday !!!

But please, Monponsett, do NOT call anyone a liar or accuse them of lying.
It is defamatory and libelous.
Personal attacks are against our policy and simple rules:
We never censor comments based on political or ideological of view. We only delete those comments that are abusive, off-topic, use excessive foul language, or include personal attacks, i.e., making negative personal comments about a blogger or fellow commenter, instead of just criticizing his/her posting, opinion, or comments.

02/03/07 @ 12:51 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Any port in a storm

Mariners in distress may tie unto any structure, and turbines would also be visible to a lost boat before land would.
One commenter last year wondered whether Capoe Wind could have saved John Kennedy Jr. who was lost in fog as well.

02/03/07 @ 8:33 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Wind's president too nice of a guy?

Jim Gordon was featured several times last night on CNN's Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.
Today he is being interviewed on CNN International as well.

02/01/07 @ 12:09 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Super Bowl !

It's amusing that "The Old Grey Lady" ran the Super Bowl 1 as one column story on their front page.
Oh my, how the world has changed.

01/30/07 @ 11:13 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The Noble House rocks!

Note to readers;
Solon Economou is a superannuated Greek whose taste buds were destroyed eons ago by U.S. Army cooking.

01/30/07 @ 7:37 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The Noble House rocks!

Monponsett is jealous - she's French, and she's aware of how much better Japanese cooking is to her Gallic glob.

01/25/07 @ 10:18 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Polar plunge heading our way today; More Cape insurance policies pulled; Next hurricane may cost Bay State $5B; Homes sales prices dip sharply

Solon, 4 times more Cape Codders read this website (264,200), so why don't you tell us.

01/22/07 @ 11:10 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Failure Incorporated V

umassjsp, you must have seen her jump, hit your refresh button and look again.

01/20/07 @ 7:02 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Teen charged with assaulting officer; Eastham crash causes spectacle, driver charged with 4th OUI

Moo, Caper, Yank,
since you apparently have nothing better to do than to violate the simple rules for this site, it's only fair to tell you that while it takes you 15 minutes to re-gegister again and again with a fake email address and then make repeated comments on the same blog post (both violations of our rules), it only takes The Editors 5 seconds to delete all your comments and fake registration.

But as we said, you have nothing better to do with your time.

01/19/07 @ 2:22 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Sandwich crash; Fatal Falmouth crash; Serious crash on Route 130 in Mashpee

This is a deleted comment from: donovanatee99

Blog posts and comments are entirely the thoughts and ideas of the people who write them and in no way represent the views of CapeCodToday.com, eCape, Inc., or its employees or owners.

THAT BEING SAID, WHY ARE YOU CENSORING YOUR BLOGGERS & WHAT APPEARS TO BE A REPORTER?
------------------
Note from CCToday; Because the commentors in question gave fake (as in phony) email addresses when they registered, which makes it impossible for us to contact them when they break our simple rules. They also used uncivil language to make personal attacks on a blogger.

We have not censured a blogger, nor would we unless they committed slander or libel and we saw it. This is a family site, and we offer blogs and comments at our expense for the common good.

YOU obviously don't like these simple rules since you registered with a fake email address too, so now it's goodbye for you as well.

01/19/07 @ 7:49 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Teen charged with assaulting officer; Eastham crash causes spectacle, driver charged with 4th OUI

Max, if you see this, your comments have been removed by the Editors because you registered with a fake email address which as you know violates our simple rules.
If you had played fair, we could have emailed you our objections and given you another chance.
Our bloggers write for you and us on their own dime, and they deserve civil comments either in favior or opposed, but civil.

01/17/07 @ 7:57 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Trifle with me and you'll get minutia

Ah, the prescience of loving editors is indeed a thing of great beauty and charm.

01/16/07 @ 12:52 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Coleman's coverage in NY Post and other post trial reports

We don't kmow what dem "dems" will do, but the "pubs" seem to be celebrating.

01/16/07 @ 9:02 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Contestant #2... c'mon down!

Hey - THEY WON - remember ?!?
The Chargers' coach lost the game when he called that worthless challenge in the 4th period which cost his team a time-out.
With one more time-out they might have moved the ball 5 yards closer and made that field goal.

01/15/07 @ 7:09 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Contestant #2... c'mon down!

Great prediction on the score Monpo - how much closer could you get !

01/14/07 @ 4:15 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Proposed Cultural Centers in Harwich

Do you have any old photos of the West Harwich School?

01/14/07 @ 12:57 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Contestant #2... c'mon down!

Snow?? What are you smokin' Monpo?
It will be 44 degrees today in San Diego with a 5 mph wind from the south.

01/14/07 @ 8:59 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Jim Rice-Still a Bridesmaid

It's great to read another facet of your excellent writing.

01/12/07 @ 11:33 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The New Democrats: Male Hot Flashes And Hormones

Opinionator, I believe you mean "Yellow dog Democrat".
In the late 19th century and throughout the 20th century, Yellow Dog Democrats were voters in the U.S. Southern states who consistently voted for Democratic candidates — simply because of lingering resentment against Republicans during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods. The term arose from an apocryphal remark that a Southerner would vote for a yellow dog before he'd vote for a Republican.

01/11/07 @ 4:34 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: You're ugly, you're ugly, your momma says you're ugly YEAH!

Hey, CapeMom, where's your peninsular parochialism?
Cherie is from Wareham;
http://aol.nba.com/celtics/dancers/bios/cherie.html

01/03/07 @ 7:38 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: 10 Things I WON'T do in 2007

We never had occasion to thank a large, wet, plant-eating aquatic mammal of the genus Trichechus before, but thank you oh huge one for explaining the rules to KMA for us.

As the new husband said to his bride, KMA, "That's ONE!"

12/28/06 @ 6:53 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: A Knack for Knitting: Evenings with My Stitch'n Bitch

"...I don't call her my old lady for nothing..."

Boy ! Are you in Deep Do-Do over that crack - you'll thank your Mama for that TP Cozy !

12/21/06 @ 12:15 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Daisuke Matsuzaka, Bourne Braves?

Monpo knows baseball AND babies

12/18/06 @ 3:05 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Who would have thought that in the 21st century we would be debating voting rights.

We take our orders from The General, not a dead Tory, but we tookmit down to save a fight with our prickly friend.
;>)

12/08/06 @ 4:49 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Wake up and smell the taxes, Cape Codders

Or, as Voltaire opined,
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

12/07/06 @ 8:09 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Dennis village eyed for cultural arts district, Yarmouth Selectmen blast draft report of task force, Groups work together to ease hunger, Cape Wind touts Danish wind farm study

The photo is from the PDF of the report.
See link in this story;
http://www.capecodtoday.com/news550.htm

12/07/06 @ 1:52 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Report: Little harm from offshore wind farms in Denmark

O.K. The blog is open again, Jake Coleman wants everyone to have their say no matter how long it takes or how many comments there are here.

12/07/06 @ 10:25 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Brewster for the Holidays...A Sea of Lights

Naw, he's a bore, you wanna rock ask Maggie to spring for lunch. She's loaded and will take you to a snazy spot like the Red Cottage.

12/06/06 @ 4:26 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Report: Little harm from offshore wind farms in Denmark

Mav, you forgot to take your meds again.
Most "normal" folks don't spend their lives commenting all day even on a wonderful site like this one.
Perhaps your nemesis has something more imprtant to do this afternoon, like take a walk, smell the snow flakes, soak your head in a bucket of cold water.
And accusing people of being frauds or selling themsleves for a glass of wine and free shrimp is unworthy of you and bordering on slander.
Use your God-given logic and reason, which you have in abundance, rather than mindless ire to defeat your opponents.
But first, take two aspirin and go to bed for a nice nap ;>)
Dream about fish.

12/05/06 @ 3:30 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Report: Little harm from offshore wind farms in Denmark

Ms. Durkin, you are misinformed, and thus misinforming others. In fact, you just made the umpteenth comment today on this story, but there is an up-dated version now featured on our front page.

12/04/06 @ 2:49 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: New Congress will help Cape, Romney will arrest Illegals, Oatrick won't,, but he mulls gamblings, Wanted: A new way to manage fisheries, We'll get wired funding

Thanks for the "heads up", Porkie

12/02/06 @ 2:18 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Comedy Central's Colbert bedazzles undergrads

PP, Libby Hughes is on assignment as a reporter covering a meeting of interest to young readers. You are shooting the messenger. She did not make Mr. Colbert popular, our generation did by screwing up the world so badly. You've got Fox News + Bill O'Reilly, our children have Comedy Central + Colbert. They're the same. and...

Maverick, watch your tongue. You are capable of better criticism than that. Remember SF '59. Remember Haight Asbury. Remember your youth. The fishing season is only 3 months away.

12/02/06 @ 11:08 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Comedy Central's Colbert bedazzles undergrads

Porky-Pine, pay attention, she was quoting Colbert;
...said Colbert. “I do a right wing character because the conservatives speak with a monolithic tongue. The Liberals aren’t unified like the right. The right wing is consistent in their behavior—megalomania, maniacal, and monolithic. It’s easier to do."

12/02/06 @ 8:53 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Death of a formula

Sorry to disappoint you, Mav, but we examine every registration and delete ONLY those which do not follow the simple rules for commenting here.

12/01/06 @ 12:40 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Don't wait till next summer to follow the CCBL

Wolfram, if you think THAT game was kewl, you should have been attending back in the 1970's when Carlton Fiske was catching for the Orleans team and Thurman Munson nwas catching for Chatham before either was pulled up to the Majors.
Cowabunnga Baseball!!!

11/30/06 @ 7:52 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Cod weeklies' parent buys seven more Off Cape newspapers

Just hope they don't consolidate a few mastheads and lay off more journalists.

11/29/06 @ 6:21 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Insomnia

LIAR, LIAR ! SLACKS ON FIRE !
You ARE still funny. It's just that it occurs when you're trying to be serious.
;>)

11/26/06 @ 3:09 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: If Only We Could Let People Know...

We have deleted registered commenters who have used a fake email address to register.

Since there is no way for our webmasters to communicate with people who do that, we can not warn them when they break the rules.

Sorry.

You all know who you are.

11/26/06 @ 1:39 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: If Only We Could Let People Know...

We just deleted all the comments which were off topic.
The next step will be to delete the commenter's right to post comments.

11/26/06 @ 11:31 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Join the Rachael Ray Sucks Community

This is pretty amusing. We usually don't get many comments on "news stories", but we assume it means people either love her or hate her.

My own family is split down the middle on Ms Ray.

11/24/06 @ 3:44 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Higgledy-piggledy Dalmatia on The Adriatic

Ditto on that Sammy, this guy rocks, and he's funny too.

11/23/06 @ 8:10 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Thanksgiving Myths debunked

Truthseeker - Agreed, that's why we spelt (sp) it that way, see http://www.plimoth.org, but you may have read the story before we put it through spellcheck.

11/18/06 @ 2:55 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The second or third life of Rafio the Mad Monk

Barbara, I'd set up a Café Capri blog in a heart beat.
I also agree there is great logic to the idea - hell, Cape Cod is chock full of frutrated poets and writers and balladeers. It is perfect for this market, and anywhere from Hyannis to Ptown would work.
Aren't the hundred mostly wortrhwhile and articulate bloggers on this site proof of that?

11/18/06 @ 10:15 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The second or third life of Rafio the Mad Monk

Capri - GREAT IDEA!
Start a "Cafe Capri" as a blog right here with poetry, writing, songs, whatever, and who knoWs, it might morph into a brick & mortar cafe as well SINCE A BLOG WOULD UNCOVER KINFRED SPIRITS WHO MIGHT WISH TO FINANCE OR HELP-FININCE SUCH A VENTURE, and there are always locations which are not working for more mainstream ventures.
Off the bat, I think of locations like the old Oracle offices on Rt. 6-A in Orleans next to Emacks & Bolios which failed as several restaurant sites, put a wired 21st century Beat Cafe might fly there.

11/18/06 @ 9:42 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The second or third life of Rafio the Mad Monk

Mav et al, we have 100 bloggers now. When people, myself included, write, we expose ourselves, even bae our souls, to criticism and should be prepared to accept it without anger or reposte.
I wrote this specific column in hopes of finding others who shared that period of my life in Greenwich Village, and who might comment here to tell me AND YOU, and anyone else more about this subject.

The rules are simple;
No vulgarity, slander or libel.
No personal attacks.
STAY ON SUBJECT.

If Steve Peckham or anyone else wants to do otherwise, it's a free country, but this is my dime, we do not charge for our blogs and even archive them for easy cross reference.
Steve or anyone can go to blogger.com or elsewhere and start their own blogs, but we can not afford to spend the time necessary to wet nurse those who will not abide by those 3, simple rules..

11/18/06 @ 9:18 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The second or third life of Rafio the Mad Monk

O.K. Steve, you have managed to destroy what we are building here for reasons only you know.
You are no longer allowed to post comments.

11/17/06 @ 7:18 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The second or third life of Rafio the Mad Monk

Sorry Mav & Peck et al. We will delete comments which use other posts to add comments to a blog which doesn't take comments or has shut them off after too many.

If you have a complaint, write a letter to the Editor and we'll publish it without changes, or start your own blog here.

Stay on subject or be deleted.

11/16/06 @ 6:32 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The second or third life of Rafio the Mad Monk

Peck and the rest - These later comments are about Tarquin.
Stop commenting "off subject" !!!!
Go bother him and leave Rafio alone.

11/07/06 @ 6:44 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: That which does not kill me...

WELCOME BACK. We all missed you, but your photos ARE too large.
Make 'em max 550px wide.

10/31/06 @ 8:05 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Will you let Sarah Peake sell you to off-Cape interests?

Will someone please get Peckham to take his meds and then he might stay "on subject" for five minutes.

10/31/06 @ 8:03 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Why we support Aaron Maloy

This OP Ed was requested by cctoday.
As such we add whatever "art" we want to and we showed the campaign button to Gen. Dishner first (Shirley Gomes is out of the country).

Some of you may not agree, we we feel the main reasons Lower cape voters may vote for Aaron Maloy is precisely because he is NOT Sarah Peake.

10/29/06 @ 7:36 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Last week's accident on the Sagamore bridge may not,

Reporter Jack Coleman was about to write a column on this same problem, but you beat him to it Jimmy.

Way to go!
Our bloggers are great reporters too!

The Editors

10/20/06 @ 5:53 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Smoke in mall; Kitten killed in Yarmouth fight; Falmouth head-on; Fire Marshal seeks help in Nantucket car arsons

Cranberrydog, the reason is that we live in a democracy where even YOU will be presumed innocent until a jury of your peers convicts you.
The picture is of the accused and the victim. They are both an intregal part of this tragedy. Readers have the right to see both.
If you were following the case every day as our reporters are, you might even feel this may be another "To Kill a Mockingbird", but Northern style.
Read our extensive coverage on the front page, and don't judge lest you be judged. The defence has yet to even present its case and conviction look iffy at best. -The Editors

10/19/06 @ 6:48 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The Christa Worthington Murder Watch

To specialk, thanks for your input, but will you please collect your thoughts and offer them as ONE comment rather than a series. That way others wiill be able to respond better and one voice won't dominate the post, plus it's our policy.
Thanks again for commenting. -The editors

10/05/06 @ 11:05 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Most expensive house in state is here

FYI, The Richest Towns in America;
http://www.directionsmag.com/features.php?feature_id=52

09/28/06 @ 4:00 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Props to Nauset Regional High School

What is truly staggering to The Editors is the wonderful, and informed wisdom of our readers.

You commenters should be giving lessons to the "professional" journalists who write "puff pieces" about the cape school's miserable performances for the most part, see;
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/capeschools28.htm

09/26/06 @ 4:57 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: $2.39 a gallon at Cumberland Farms just off--cape

$2.41 at Speedway in Harwich Center on Rt. 39.

09/26/06 @ 9:31 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Not a good night to be Healey

Vote in the FOX-TV poll:
http://www.myfoxboston.com
At this time viewers rated the winners;

Patrick 56%
Mihos 25%
Healey 16%
Rose 3%

09/25/06 @ 2:30 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Oil man, one of America's 400 richest , stopping renewable energy for his view

95 comments is all I can srtand.
Why don't you three set up a bulletin board somewhere else and stop boring the rest of us by tieing up the discussion.

Go to work.
Take a walk.
Take a shower.

09/21/06 @ 12:35 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Patrick, Murray, Barros. Peake, Maloy win

To answer Wolfram's question above;

There are hundreds of contests this Fall in Massachusetts, and thousands across the nation, but only one where two avowed and proud gays are competing against each other with the exceptions perhaps of a local race in San Francisco.

Far from being gratutious, we are very pleased that;

1- We live in a state and a county where Republican and Democratic voters are gender-blind and color-blind.
2- When something happens for the first time, it IS news, and we're especially proud that it happened on Cape Cod.

We wish both candidates Godspeed and if any of you are friend of MS Peake, please try to persuade her to write a "Cape Blog" as her opponent does so YOU THE VOTER can make a better informed decision on November 7.

09/21/06 @ 12:06 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Alliance co-chairman's oil leak on Nantucket Sound leads to nasty spill

In case you think Christy is running wall-to-wall commercials on all the Boston TV channels, you're correct.

We understand from media gurus in Beantown that Milhos is spending $50,000 A DAY on the commercials, and he plans to run them through the election seven weeks from now.

That's $2,500,000 for TV alone.

09/20/06 @ 3:28 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Post mortems

You can click on DemocRant's map above to see the 11 towns out of 300+ which Reilly won.
They don't even include his hometown of Springfield.

09/20/06 @ 3:16 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cue Kate Smith ...

Reilly didn't even win in his hometown of Springfield where Patrick got 7,772 votes to Reilly got 4,632.

09/20/06 @ 11:01 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Bohman endorses Andy Buckley

MS Buckley - you criticize the commenter but fail to answer the charge.

Is it true or not?

09/20/06 @ 10:44 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Patrick, Murray, Barros. Peake, Maloy win

Don is correct. We amended the story to reflect the sequence of his enetering the fray.

But on another issue, Don, are you going to ask for a recount due to the very slim margin and the fact that paper ballots are used in a couple Lower Cape towns?

09/19/06 @ 4:30 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: September 19th--Primary Day on Cape Cod

Campaign signs stolen just before primary vote -

Police are investigating the theft of $750 worth of campaign signs a candidate for state Senate said were stolen from outside his Centerville home overnight.

Ricardo Barros, Republican candidate for the Cape and Islands state Senate, told police the signs were snatched from outside his apartment on Route 132 near Old Strawberry Hill Road, according to Barnstable Police Sgt. Sean Sweeney.

According to the police report, this morning, sometime between 2:30 and 4 a.m., a neighbor, a relative of Barros who lives in the same housing complex, saw a white commercial van idling outside the building. The woman saw two white men outside and heard one say something like, "Did you get them all?" The other apparently replied "Yeah, let's go."

The woman told police she thought it was a newspaper delivery van, and went back to bed. In the morning, however, 150 campaign signs that had been resting against the south side of the house outside had disappeared.

09/18/06 @ 3:08 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Today's cheapest is $2.58 in Harwich

$2.43 a gallon on Mass. Av. Mobil in Cambridge.

09/18/06 @ 10:11 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Let's do better for the candidates this primary

Jimmy Dishner is right - it's vital that we do our civic duty tomorrow and vote in the primary of your choice.

The Lower Cape was blessed this year with six citizens willing to put up with the barbs and scrutiny of their peers, and they deserve to have you spend the necessary time to vote for one of them.

Yes, it's a quandry - you could vote for any of the six and feel you were doing the right thing. They are all good citizens and hopefully the four who lose tomorrow will give it another try.

Aaron Maloy is a sincere, dedicated 25-year-old who would bring a fresh, young voice to the GOP. Don Howell is a quality guy from the get-go with plenty of experience in government, and Buckley has put up with more than any candidate should have to, and still kept his cool.

The Democrats fieled a slate of equal worth; Sarah Peake is running for the second time and ahead in the polls. Ray Gottwald may be the nicest man in Cape Politics and Ron Bergstrom is "the bluest Democrat" accoding to State Rep Matt Patrick.

We wish we could vote for all six ;>)

09/17/06 @ 5:35 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Biting the hand that feeds me

Actually D-rant, the board was divided on this office, 2 for Silbert and one for Murray. The latter strongly believes that Patrick will need the "outside Route 195" vote to win in November, while the other two thought Andrea would help against Healy. Rather than not tell you how we planned to vote, we offered the two choices in this one case.

09/17/06 @ 9:12 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Channel 2 Auctions

Will somebody please sneak some saltpeter into Peckham's Ovaltine.

09/13/06 @ 3:59 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Bohman endorses Andy Buckley

While you are all getting so excited about nada, perhaps you'll have time to read today endorsement of Mr. Buckley in The Chronicle;
http://www.capecodchronicle.com/editorial/opinion_091406.htm

Congratulations, Andy, and thanks for putting up with our "vigrous" commenters who I hope have noticed all the candidate who are UNWILLING to subject themselves to our readers scrutiny.
They include;
Senator O'Leary
Senator Murray
Senate candidate Ric Barros
Rep candidate Cleon Turner
Rep candidate Sarah Peake
Rep candidate Ron Bergstrom
Rep candidate Will Crocker
Representitive Atsalis
Represntitive Perry
Representitive Turkington

09/13/06 @ 1:27 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Bohman endorses Andy Buckley

Dear msmith, I'll attempt to explain it again to relieve your paranoia;
1-Each time we set up a new blog there are a number of "permissions" which
we either grant a new blogger or deny.
2-Deleting a "post" or "comment" is supposed to be denied.
3-In setting up Buckley's Blog we inadvertantly failed to deny those two options.
4-We have since changed it and neither he nor the others have permission in those two areas any longer. If you se it happen in any other blogs here, please alert us.
We have over 70 Cape Blogs set up and we still occasionally make a mistake. Thank God. It means we may be human after all ;>)

09/13/06 @ 11:22 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Bohman endorses Andy Buckley

Removing posts after they have been submitted is against our Cape Blogger rules, and it was a admin error on our part to have allowed it to happen.

It was especially awkward because we had featured that "post" on our front page, and Andy's removing it made us look dim as well.

We hope this does not occur again, but if it does, please call it to our atention at maggie@eCape.com.

The Editors

09/13/06 @ 7:52 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Don't get me started on gas prices/ Long time no rant....

The two stations in Harwich Center are now;
Getty - $2.79
Speedway - $2.78

09/11/06 @ 11:07 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Tilting at Windmills

If cctoday didn't believe in that, Magical, you wouldn't be allowed to comment.

09/08/06 @ 2:17 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Freedom from Fear

"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - Winston Churchill, from a House of Commons speech on Nov. 11, 1947.

09/04/06 @ 7:35 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Wellfleet's Chief makes Top 100 Police writers list

The irony of capecodtoalk's comment above is that the author of "Midnights: A Year With the Wellfleet Police", Alec Wilkinson, was once a summer intern at The Cape Codder and wrote a weekly series in the 1970's entitled "Blue Lights Flashing" wherein he rode with the Wellfleet Police one whole summer. His parents owned the Kendall Art Gallery there for years. wb

09/03/06 @ 10:51 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Wakes...

Attention commenters; Please stay ON-SUBJECT.

09/02/06 @ 4:13 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Dear Lt. Governor, is lying to us worse than not knowing?

Game called due to starkness

09/02/06 @ 8:30 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Danes buying 1/3 of former electric price

111 comments is enough for any story.
This area is now closed for comments.

08/28/06 @ 11:50 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: From Hyannis To Honolulu: Fear Of Flying Grounding Many Travelers

I guess the 1967 classic spoof "Coffee, Tea or Me" has truly become "Coffee, Tea or Catastrophe" in just under 40 years.

08/15/06 @ 12:45 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Our Guest Blogger today is the President of Iran

Just as long as he doesn't take you from us, Monpo.
;>)

08/14/06 @ 2:13 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Aaron Maloy steals the show

Capecod_mom, you are absolutely correct. I just changed Aaron's photo on his blog.
Let me know what you think, and why ain't YOU a Cape Blogger on cctoday?

08/14/06 @ 12:14 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Aaron Maloy steals the show

Aaron and CC_Mom, we create similar cartoons of all candidates from time to time, most recently Tom Reilly and before that Christy Mihos. The usual "art" in on this blog is back now, but Aaron should have felt flattered instead of fretting.

08/10/06 @ 5:27 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Harwich Viet Nam Vet gives his land to Coast Guard

Solon, there are more men like that on Cape Cod.

You see one every time you look in a mirror.

08/08/06 @ 5:55 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Chris Gabrieli announces his supports Cape wind farm

At the risk of contradicting Chuck Kleekamp, the National Press has completely ignored Gabrieli's endorsement.
In fact, a search using his name on http://news.google.com (sorted by date) will reveal that only this newspaper and the Cape Cod Times has reported the fact as of 5:55pm today, August 8.

08/07/06 @ 3:10 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Otis give up power for Cape yesterday

The picture is on her "East of Boston" blog today.

08/06/06 @ 2:02 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Otis give up power for Cape yesterday

Sorry Capri, your statements about the Federal Law on Libel are way off pace.

A generation ago the US Supreme Court ruled in a landmark case, "Sullivan vs. The New York Times", involving the NY Times being sued by an advocate for an issue from the south, I believe Georgia.

The court's decision was that a "public figure" (which they defined as anyone who took a public position on an issue) could NOT be libeled or defamed unless the plaintiff could prove that the libel was uttered "with the prior knowledge that it was untrue."

MS Durkin, and you yourself, have long since lost any protection you might have had by making untold "public opinions" on this online newspaper or others. You have both passed the legal definition of a "public figure" on this matter at least.

To successfully sue for libel you would have to prove that the person who made the statement about you did so when they knew is was false.

08/06/06 @ 1:12 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Otis give up power for Cape yesterday

Now, now children. Stop bickering and behave or daddy will have to close this blog for further comments.

08/06/06 @ 10:33 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Wind generates other coastal wind projects here

Go back and look for your comments with "http" in them and you will see the ones I changed by splitting the url into more than one line.
And thanks.

P.S. A trick to find a word of phase in ANY digitized piece is to hold down the CONTROL (Ctrl) key while depressing the F key.
A little pop-box appears in which you type the word or term you are seeking, then click the "FIND" button on the pop-box.
It can save you hours of frustration.

08/06/06 @ 10:13 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Wind generates other coastal wind projects here

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Barbara & Cari (and others)
please don't type in urls longer than 60 characters. They should be broken into pieces that long or they will mess up our page widths.
Thank you.)
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08/05/06 @ 10:39 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Ice cream, you scream ...

Monpo, read her column; Sherry Nelson is "joyfully married" and mother of two little girls.

08/04/06 @ 4:11 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Otis give up power for Cape yesterday

Stay on subject, children, or we'll close the comments for this one down as well.

Last warning.

08/04/06 @ 3:38 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Audubon leader corrects Barbara Durkin

Sorry, boys and girls, 130 comments by the same half-dozen people on one letter is enough for today. You're turning our site into a "bulletin bored" (sic).
Comments are closed on this "post".

07/31/06 @ 11:04 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Wake up America!

Except on Martha's Vineyard where it is already OVER $4 a gallon.

07/23/06 @ 12:20 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Cod: Where White People Come to Die

RIDDLE:

What do you call a beautiful woman on Cape Cod?

ANSWER: A tourist.

07/18/06 @ 4:47 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: New Lone Star Tick here for "the season"

There is a boom in the fox population.
Have you seen any in your neighborhood?

07/16/06 @ 4:25 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: A Cape engineer says Big Dig design flawed

Author: BarbaraDurkin (BarbaraDurkin)
Comment:
Clearly, the catastrophic failures, design flaws, a human casualty, and cost overruns, are all harbingers of the myriad of problems that we can anticipate if the Big Dig of Nantucket Sound, Cape Wind, is permitted. The parallels of the $15 billion dollar Central Artery Tunnel Project, a world’s largest and first; and the experimental offshore industrial facility proposed by Cape Wind are impossible to ignore. The Boston Big Dig’s negative impact on the Cape and islands’ tourism industry portents the decimation of the same by the Big Dig of Nantucket Sound proposed by Cape Wind. This company has no experience in building an offshore wind tower, let alone an industrial scale wind facility. The Big Dig of Boston has hurt the tourism industry of the Cape and islands. The Big Dig of Nantucket Sound would destroy tourism, and decimate the fishing industry. As the Big Dig whistle blower, Christy Mihos, has said, “If you like the Big Dig, you’ll love Cape Wind.”

07/12/06 @ 2:34 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Tolerance For Diversity

ATTENTION Ptown Voter, Your mailbox is either full or you gave our admin. a phony email address when you registered.

We have attempted to email you to request you not use persoanl attacks, or in this case, slander about this or any other blogger. You lose you argument in the first place and demean the discourse in the second.

The term you used was insulting, demeaning, bigoted and untrue. You do harm to your candidate by connecting her with it. The term has been deleted.

Please send your correct email to our editor maggie@ecape.com a.s.a.p. or we will be forced to remove your permission to comment on this site.
Thank you. The Editors

07/09/06 @ 10:30 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: A Pollinator's Paradise

If you want your hydrangeas to turn blue. water them with a mixure of Miracle Gro's MirAcid (www.miraclegro.com). I simply throw small handfills at their base each Spring and get the same effect. Old Cape Codders used to toss anything iron, like nails, scrap iron, etc. at the base and get the same effect for zilch.

07/02/06 @ 2:51 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Murder suspect charged, Harwich crash, jellyfish sting on Cape; kayakers rescued; B&E ring broken up

The winds in the Chatham area had been steady at 20 and gusting to 45.

07/02/06 @ 5:37 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: ARMs Threatening American Dream

Thanks. wb

06/30/06 @ 8:12 am

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

Crusader, please follow the rules for all commenters; 1,000 characters.

Adding a second, or in your case even a third comment immediately after your first, is more than verbose, it is impolite.

What until someone anwers YOUR comment before posting a new comment.

06/29/06 @ 10:31 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Delahunt, others, get free trips to Wequassett

Dear StopCapeWind, it's "news" for CCToday because Mr. Delahunt is our United States Representitive, and the questionable practices occured at a Cape Cod resort. Almost anything Delahunt does is "news" for this newspaper, and his actions, both questionable and laudable, have been and will continue to be reported here.

06/27/06 @ 10:22 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: ?Come Fly With Me? to Brewster this Sunday

It's gremlin, Monpo. We deleted it for thee.

06/27/06 @ 7:45 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: ?Come Fly With Me? to Brewster this Sunday

Yes she is, and a gifted author and playwright to boot.

In 1999, Libby won a Capewide contest for her play, "Sin in the Attic," performed at the Chatham Drama Guild over First Night. She was a contest winner of Boston's New Opera and Musical Theatre Initiative (NOMTI) in 2000 for her book and lyrics for "Pasta and Curry." In 2001 her lyrics to a song from "Pasta" claimed first prize in the musical theatre category of the Eventide Arts Festival songwriting contest. Her books have been published by Simon and Schuster, Genesis Press, and iUniverse.com. Hughes won the Life Achievement Award from Emma Willard School in June of 2005.

She is listed in the "Who's Who of American Women" and the "World Who's Who of Women." Hughes lives between Cambridge and Cape Cod writing books, plays, and musicals and reviewing music, theatre, and dance online for CapeCodToday.
For many years Libby was co:publisher of The Oracle, and founded two weekly newspapers here, the Yarmouth Sun and the Dennis Bulletin which were absorbed into today's Register.

06/26/06 @ 5:42 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The Patriot Ledger on Romney, Kennedy and politics

Achilles, we have deleted the inappropriate charge you made above. Please try to NOT accuse our commenters since it exposes us both to legal actions.
Please keep commenting, but let's deabte the issues and not the personalities.

06/23/06 @ 5:02 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: You really you can?t get there from here

The Cape Codder today echos your lament;
A bus doesn't stop where the sign says it should. A woman is left standing in the rain when the bus she's waiting for breaks down a few miles away. A man finds his bus carries no connection schedule that would enable him to plan his trip onward to Hyannis.
Call them FlexRoute growing pains...
"I talked with one woman who was very upset. She had traveled from Provincetown to use the Laundromat near the Orleans post office, but it was closed. So she was left [holding her clothes bag]. She thought she could get on and off the bus wherever she wanted. We explained that there's another Laundromat [near the bowling alley on Route 6A], which would have been within three-quarters of a mile from a scheduled stop at Star Market. But she would have had to call ahead for that stop," Hinkle explained. The passenger, she believed, left Orleans in a huff that day, her clothes unwashed...
http://www.townonline.com/brewster

06/20/06 @ 11:27 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cartoon caption contest at Boston Globe

... and the winner is -- "It's MIT students trying to get the governor's hair to move" - Glenn Shane, Quincy.

Follow this link to the Globe's cartoon site, which lists 13 other submissions deemed honorable mentions --
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/cityweekly/toons/?refresh=true

06/14/06 @ 7:52 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: What do YOU think of our new Whales?

We asked the Rockland ME Chamber about their recent "LOBSTER STATURES", and got this reply;

"The lobster sculptures were a hit locally and garnered quite a bit of attention. The visitors seemed to enjoy the program. The program was in place before I came to Maine and was already scheduled for the year I arrived. We ended the program after two years. The sculptures had become yesterday's news.

"My biggest problem with the way many communities do the program (including Rockland) is that all the artists work from the same mold. That's not all that creative. Belfast, ME used bear targets for the base of their sculptures and due to the fact that the targets were made in a number of different positions - standing, sitting, rearing, etc. - it made for a more interesting street display. If we were going to do the program again, I would rather announce the subject matter, ask artists to submit a proposal on their works, give qualifying artists $3 or $400 for materials and let them have at it. No molds. You would end up with a much more interesting streetscape and the artists would prefer to allow their creativity to be seen in full blossom.

"Using the same mold is sort of like asking kids to color within the lines."

Bob Hastings, Rockland-Thomaston Area Chamber of Commerce

06/05/06 @ 1:07 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: A closer look at lobbying

The 16 pages which Cape Cod Voice devotes to the Nantucket Wind Farm prososal, and it's attendant lobbying, is a classy and complete contribution to our understanding of the issue.

05/24/06 @ 1:11 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: New Innovative Search Engine: Just Click Your Mouse For the Wizard Of Edgar

The link at top has been fixed as well. wb

05/15/06 @ 12:25 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The art of Yogi-ing

Jordan, swing by the CCToday office when you get back - I have the huge, 2,000+ page, two-volume out of print edition of "The Appalacian Trail" which I've been saving to give the right person for thirty years.
You're the right person.
- Walter

05/13/06 @ 4:37 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Enterprise Newspapers compares Wind Farm shenanigans with sausage making

The vulgar, sophomoric childrem are back, so we are closing the comments until we see a return to something approaching civilized discourse.

05/13/06 @ 9:14 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Mihos tries to shut down local political blog

You're right - this site is terrible.
I'd stop reading it if I were you.

05/13/06 @ 8:49 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Mihos tries to shut down local political blog

Bugsy et al, if you are correct, why is your comment allowed here?
Could it be that it's because you are playing by the rules?
We not only removed ATW for the reasons stated, our attorneys have all copies of all emails concerning the author's refusal to stop slandering in her comment and blog. This is a private enterprise, not a charity or publicly owned entity and we are subject to the nation's laws on these matters.
You may even find it in your heart and mind to recall that CCToday asked the ATW author to write the anti-wind farm blog in the first place, even suggested the title for her, and ran it for months unedited until she began putting herself and our site in legal jeopardy.
Freedom of speech does not include yelling "FIRE !" in a crowded theater.

05/11/06 @ 12:27 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Aaron's 24th Birthday Fundraiser & Dinner tomorrow

For $25 we get DINNER too???

05/09/06 @ 11:28 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The Immorality of Marketing Baby Formula

The World Health Organization's Code for the Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes prohibits marketing of these products in these ways;

NO advertising of any of these products to the public
NO free samples to mothers
NO promotion of products in health care facilities, including the distribution of free or low- cost supplies
NO company sales representatives to advise mothers
NO gifts or personal samples to health workers
NO words or pictures idealising artificial feeding, or pictures of infants on labels of infant milk containers
Information to health workers should be scientific and factual
ALL information on artificial infant feeding, including that on labels, should explain the benefits of breastfeeding and the costs and hazards associated with artificial feeding
Unsuitable products, such as sweetened condensed milk, should not be promoted for babies
Manufacturers and distributors should * comply with the Code's provisions even if countries have not adopted laws or other measures.

The Code was endorsed by the United States in May, 1994. The U.S. has not acted on it so far

05/09/06 @ 10:19 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Well, here I am

Chuck, ignore Smurf, a.k.a. Mopo, ak.a.a. the "Wicked (?)itch of the West".
She's simply off her meds
;>)

05/09/06 @ 10:08 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Community Newspapers sold... again

On t'other hand, Otis my lad, if you deign blog with the rest of us cyber-scribes, you could made a small remedy to that problem.

I should add that The Cape Codder, that hoary veteran of a hundred Lower Cape battles, manages to reinvent itself each time it is swallowed my another media mogul.

From 1960 until he sold it to Greg O'Brien and the Fidelity newspapers group in 1990, the weekly was almost a private journal of long-time publisher Malcolm Hobbs (1916-1994).

When O'Brien cashed out (or was squeezed out) by Fidelity a few years later, The Cape Codder languished under a series of inadequite managers until Glenn Ritt brought it back only to decamp himself after it was sold to Herald Media five years ago.

Now quite against all odds, Carol Dumas and her crew of hard-working journalists have managed to build it into a superior, local weekly, even at the expense of seeing all the profits squandered on the its faltering master in Boston.

05/09/06 @ 7:26 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: New Poll: Cape Wind favored 70% statewide

There were 400 Mass. residents polled - read the whole story and chgeck the methodoogy in the ink.

This is about the same at a recent UMass poll, and although this was a statewide poll, it was heavily weighted for our region with 20% of the respondants were from the Cape and Islands, Plymouth and Bristol Counties.

05/04/06 @ 4:43 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: "States' Rights" rears its ugly head

Fish 'o mine, you dissemble.
The ONLY rules are no:
libel
slander
vulgarity
personal attacks.

If you can't make your points without using those, who cares where you go.

I've deleted or edited out many of the above from the proponents, who never compain, but sometimes pull my chain.

05/04/06 @ 10:34 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Always room for more

Hey Jordan, keep on truckin' and tell us what we looking at.

05/02/06 @ 7:35 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Brush fires, Horse hit in Eastham, Hyannis OUI

Sad to relate that one horse was killed in the accident. The two had escaped from a nearby corral, and the highway was closed for two hours.

The second horse was unharmed.

05/01/06 @ 2:56 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: A partisan shows how it's done

I'd like to remind all commenters that we will delete any comments which include personal attacks, vulgarity, slander or especially sophomoric babbling.

If you have an opinion, a thought, a suggestion or even a criticism, please stay and write it here.

If you don't like the rules, go play somewhere else.

05/01/06 @ 2:52 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: GOP Rep candidate Dick Neitz has kick-off party

I am "Everyman".
I also write about and even advertise a miserable, old Tory like you.

Have you considered moving back to Great Britain?

05/01/06 @ 2:33 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: GOP Rep candidate Dick Neitz has kick-off party

What you refer to as an "Editorial" is neither that nor a "News" story.
It is an opinion piece in a political "blog".

It also gives you a chance to respond which other Cape media do not.
We offer the same opportunity to all candidates.

DEFINITION:
Main Entry:blog
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: an online diary; a personal chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page; also called Weblog, Web log
Example: Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality of the author.
Etymology: shortened form of Weblog

04/29/06 @ 7:47 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Why Wind Farms don't work

Hey guys & gals, try to remember Jack Ingram is 14 and is new to the blogosphere, so let's lighten up on him a little.

04/29/06 @ 11:33 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Why Wind Farms don't work

NOTICE:
After repeatedly requesting that a blogger/commenter tone down her rhetoric and cease & desist using defamatory lanuage in her comments, I have been forced both for her protection and this site's, to remove her ability to comment or blog until she agrees to our terms which are this simple:

No defamation of anyone's character (words like liar are actionable) or personal attacks.

04/29/06 @ 11:27 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Wind corrects The Vineyard Gazette

NOTICE:
After repeatedly requesting that a blogger/commenter tone down her rhetoric and cease & desist using defamatory lanuage in her comments, I have been forced both for her protection and this site's, to remove her ability to comment or blog until she agrees to our terms which are this simple:

No defamation of anyone's character (words like liar are actionable) or personal attacks.

04/29/06 @ 9:22 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: John McCain vows to fight anti-Cape Wind amendment

EDITOR'S NOTE: The writer is wrong again: Coleman is a paid, media consultant for Clean Power Now, and this online newspaper.

The CAPE WIND project was examined by 17 state and federal agencies by the USACE and is presently being vetted by the US Interior Dept. which will demand a lease wherein the US and MA get royalties similar to that demanded of oil companies drilling on federal land.

I am distressed at this level of misinformation and insult, and I am about to stop ALL comments on these blogs and make them like all the others where the writer writes and the reader only reads.

If that is what you and the other zealots wish, I'm about to give it to you.

Control you anger and arguments or go away. This is my last warning!

04/29/06 @ 9:21 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Wind corrects The Vineyard Gazette

EDITOR'S NOTE: The writer is wrong again: Coleman is a paid, media consultant for Clean Power Now, and this online newspaper.

The CAPE WIND project was examined by 17 state and federal agencies by the USACE and is presently being vetted by the US Interior Dept. which will demand a lease wherein the US and MA get royalties similar to that demanded of oil companies drilling on federal land.

I am distressed at this level of misinformation and insult, and I am about to stop ALL comments on these blogs and make them like all the others where the writer writes and the reader only reads.

If that is what you and the other zealots wish, I'm about to give it to you.

Control you anger and arguments or go away. This is my last warning!

04/29/06 @ 9:19 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Wrong twice over, Senator

EDITOR'S NOTE: The writer is wrong again: Coleman is a paid, media consultant for Clean Power Now, and this online newspaper.

The CAPE WIND project was examined by 17 state and federal agencies by the USACE and is presently being vetted by the US Interior Dept. which will demand a lease wherein the US and MA get royalties similar to that demanded of oil companies drilling on federal land.

I am distressed at this level of misinformation and insult, and I am about to stop ALL comments on these blogs and make them like all the others where the writer writes and the reader only reads.

If that is what you and the other zealots wish, I'm about to give it to you.

Control you anger and arguments or go away. This is my last warning!

04/26/06 @ 4:54 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: "Not in his Sound"

Don't forget the tour buses returning to the cape in winter. That's what the group from here noticed in Denmark in December.

04/26/06 @ 4:34 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: "Not in his Sound"

FYI - The Chamber of Commerce in Palm Springs AZ uses photos of the enormous wind farm outside their vacation area on the brochures to lure vacationers to that very ritzy resort.

The wind farm there, built just after the oil embargo of 1973, is the second biggest tourist attraction in the area.

04/23/06 @ 3:36 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Gabrieli supports Cape Wind

WARNING:
The Editors read every comment, and we will not tolerate personal attacks or pejorative words and phases about individuals.

We will delete and edit them out as we deem prudent. Those unable to follow these simple and civil rules should go somewhere else.

04/23/06 @ 10:32 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Gabrieli supports Cape Wind

The story also appeared in the Fitchburg Sentinel yestreday, and our reporter called the Gabrileli press office's Dan Cence and got a confirmation before we ran the story which every other newspaper, TV and radio station in the state missed.

The exchange occured AFTER the debate during a reporters' Q & A.

Gabrieli's reasons and qualifacations are in the story above.

Editor

04/17/06 @ 5:08 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Blogs explained on local NPR stations

Whoever said "nice guys finish last" was nuts.

Comments like Little Fish's make it all worthwhile. I live by the principle that the First Amendment is more important that my personal views, and it's really rewarding when anyone (especially acritic) notices.

Thank you, Walter

04/14/06 @ 11:20 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: A Letter to Congress

Yes. They might be toppled, but if so, they won't spew crude oil on beaches like the oil rigs in the Gulf did.

Who cleans up your car when it gets scratched? You do, as Cape Wind or any other private company will.

04/11/06 @ 12:53 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Wall Street Journal tells Delahunt to apologize

It's an Editorial in today's Wall Street Journal, Bugsy, now a "post".

04/10/06 @ 6:04 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Nuclear sub sank off Cape Cod 33 years ago today

Read the links at the bottom of the story for your answers

04/10/06 @ 5:54 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Do as I say, not...

Jim Beatty of Harwich is collecting signatures to run as a Republican against Delahunt. His website is http://beattyforcongress.com

04/05/06 @ 2:42 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: My Kick-Off

Don Howell of Harwich is running for the GOP nomination for the Lower Cape State Rep seat being vacated by Shirley Gomes.

He has served 6 years on the Harwich Board of Selectmen (two as Chair), and also represents Plymouth and the Cape & Islands on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Municipal Association.
Don can be emailed at dhowell@cape.com

04/05/06 @ 12:28 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: You don't need an opponent to need campaign money

Don is correct. But the headline states "major challengers". Most readers could not name either Delahunt of Kennedy's opponent this year, and the headline is from another medium.

04/01/06 @ 12:26 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The spirit of Cliff Schechtman returns to haunt us

Hate to disagree, QP, but that article is in The Phoenix (not cctoday) and written by New England's most respected media writer (not yours truly).

Stop shooting the messenger. Our local daily, Dow Jones owned, newspaper is a magnitude bigger and richer than this little online newspaper, so the "other side's" view gets a wide coverage. We are trying to address the imbalance in coverage about Cape Wind et al.

03/29/06 @ 5:00 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Audubon review supports Cape Wind farm

CLOSING TIME !

You have all gotten too personal. This is NOT a a Bulletin Board for a half dozen zealots (on both sides) yapping away while the rest of us pore through your diatribes to see if anyone is saying anything new.

They're not, and you're scaring away the decent folks who know how to carry on a polite discussion.

I'll turn the comments back on if you all start behaving. Until then, please go somemwhere else.

03/24/06 @ 4:27 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Now is the time for all good politicians...

I'm appalled either of you ask such an obvious question : CCLiving a.k.a. Bugsy has as much right to "comment" as either of you.

Bugsy left (if memory serves) because I insisted he not change or delete YOUR comments. He also threatened to expose one of our anonymous bloggers despite my pleas not to.

He believes, as is his right, that comments are "content" belonging to the blogger.

I have no problem with that either - ON ANYONE ELSE'S SITE.

But on cctoday only The Editors (myself, the webmaster, Maggie & Julie) are permitted to change or delete any part of any blog or comment, and we only do that to eliminate personal attacks and remove vulgarity.

I too tie of the endless "bulletin board" rantings on ATW's blog, but I also assume that no one is "required" to read them.

03/24/06 @ 7:56 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Barros draws a crowd for his fund-raiser

Dick Nixon's dog's name was "Checkers" which he used as a prop in his famous career-saving "Checkers speech" in 1952 on TV.

It was reported in 1997 that the faithful cocker spaniel who helped keep Richard Nixon's political career from going to the dogs, may be exhumed from his New York resting place and reburied near the former president.

Plans were afoot to exhume the dog, who died in 1964, and rebury him on the grounds of the Nixon presidential library in California, according to a story in U.S. News and World Report. The former president and his wife, Pat, are also buried on the grounds of the Yorba Linda library.

As Dwight Eisenhower's beleaguered running mate in 1952, Nixon invoked Checkers' name in a famous comeback speech. While denying charges that he maintained a private slush fund, Nixon "admitted" accepting the dog as a gift from a Texan who heard that Nixon's daughters wanted a puppy.

The speech is often credited with saving Nixon's place on the Republican ticket and keeping alive his political career, which eventually led to the White House.

03/23/06 @ 10:08 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Barros draws a crowd for his fund-raiser

1- The skinny kid is Chris Sherman who previously was a project manager for Cape Wind, and
2- Given the number of "Old Guard" Republicans on Cape Cod, fifty is indeed droves. wb

03/20/06 @ 12:58 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: You can't keep a good Bug(sy) down

Now, now boys, stop fighting.

03/20/06 @ 10:18 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Deep Water Wind

Dona Tracy (Magical-ATW) knows better than most that we never reference CC Times stories for these reasons;

1. They are the 800-pound gorilla here, a $25 million a year enterprise, and they have specifically told us not to link to them. They have 50,000 daily subscribers to their print edition, a huge website themselves, and are the most profitable newspaper in the Dow Jones/Ottaway Newspaper chain. They need no help from up-starts like CC Today.

2. As the cape's alternative newspaper, we attempt to offer all the news NOT offered by CC Times.

3. We have yet to see CC Times run one of our stories, although they have lately been "covering" them, albeit several days later.

I assume MS Tracy was desperate to find something to criticize while the rest of humanity admonishes the NIMBY's for their dishonesty and selfishness.

Even her cry of impatience" is phoney since the story appeared only yesterday in the Times. I'm really amazed at her pretense. -The Editor

03/18/06 @ 3:45 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Air Force wants wind power at Otis

Try again. It worked for me:
http://bluemassgroup.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1699
If that fails, go to
http://bluemassgroup.com
and scroll down to the box named "SEARCH", pull down the top part and select "POST", and then type in
Cape Cod Today
in the bottom part.
That's a search engine and it will look for every place on the site where those words occur.

03/16/06 @ 4:36 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: The Lt. Guv presumptive rallies the Lower Cape GOP

That's not very nice, Porky. We routinely clean-up your spelling errors and don't even tell you.

The GOP is so NOT used to being written about fairly (or at all) that they've forgotten it's bad manners to "look a gift horse in the mouth."

They're probably more used to the other end of that animal ;>)

03/12/06 @ 1:04 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Congressman Don Young's gift to Alaska

Oh, probably nothing - except both the Cape Cod Times and the Boston Globe led with it today, so I assumed our readers might also like to know about it.

Oh, and it might give our anti-wind farm folks a reason to consider renewable (non-fossil) energy.

03/05/06 @ 2:58 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Meet The Opinionator

It means "Love is the essence of life."

03/05/06 @ 10:00 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Take my wife, or Kerry can't control Christy

Type in the term Deval Patrick (or anything else else) in the search element at the top of all our pages.

Everything written, mentioned (stories, column, blog and letters) is archived and free.

03/05/06 @ 9:15 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Take my wife, or Kerry can't control Christy

I have a Greek friend, not Mr. Mihos although he lives in Christy's 'hood, who like the Independent candidate for governor is a Republican of long standing with "loose cannon" repute as well.

This middle-aged Hellenic GOP (name withheld to protect the guilty) inadvertently heard Deval Patrick speak in the late Fall. He was so blown away by Mr. Patrick's intelligent and self-deprecating wit that he called me to urge me to hear Patrick when he spoke in Eastham last October (see this story).

Mr GOP Greek friend was correct about Mr. Patrick, and I felt I hadn't see or heard a politican this eloquant and honest since Jack Kennedy strode these sandy climes.

So, I guess I'll wait and see if Deval Patrick is elected, and if not, maybe I'll run in 2010. WB

03/04/06 @ 2:11 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Alliance's new view of Nantucket Sound: this pristine jewel of a highway off our shores

The editors agree, but this is a reasonable price to pay for a free and unfiltered press.

The story which begins most comment threads is the focus, and we aggregate stories from every where, the only criteria must be "Cape Cod 24/7". We even search for opinions which differ from our own.

This online newspaper began five years ago when the "old media" was either ignoring issues like the proposed wind farm or reporting on them in a constantly negative manner, as some stil ldo to this day.

03/04/06 @ 11:33 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Alliance's new view of Nantucket Sound: this pristine jewel of a highway off our shores

Step-in-it Peck-in-it, maybe I shouldn't of deleted that diss earlier.

You are a scamp !

But the answer is yes.

03/04/06 @ 11:15 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Alliance's new view of Nantucket Sound: this pristine jewel of a highway off our shores

Mr. Electricity/Green Energy keeps trying to sneak commercial plugs for his business in these comment areas which are for READERS, not ADVERTISERS or ANY COMMERCIAL ENTITIES.

Our Editors read every comment, and we will continue to delete the cheaters.

If Green Energy, Maverick or any others wish to advertise (like 84 other local businesses including Cape Wind do) click on the word "ADVERTISING" at the top of the front page and contact our sale department. The rates are dirt cheap, as little as $25 a month, that's 84¢ a day.

03/04/06 @ 11:15 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape's Cashman to build two more wind farms

Mr. Electricity/Green Energy keeps trying to sneak commercial plugs for his business in these comment areas which are for READERS, not ADVERTISERS or ANY COMMERCIAL ENTITIES.

Our Editors read every comment, and we will continue to delete the cheaters.

If Green Energy, Maverick or any others wish to advertise (like 84 other local businesses including Cape Wind do) click on the word "ADVERTISING" at the top of the front page and contact our sale department. The rates are dirt cheap, as little as $25 a month, that's 84¢ a day.

03/04/06 @ 11:13 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Get ready to move your house to high ground

Mr. Electricity/Green Energy keeps trying to sneak commercial plugs for his business in these comment areas which are for READERS, not ADVERTISERS or ANY COMMERCIAL ENTITIES.

Our Editors read every comment, and we will continue to delete the cheaters.

If Green Energy, Maverick or any others wish to advertise (like 84 other local businesses including Cape Wind do) click on the word "ADVERTISING" at the top of the front page and contact our sale department. The rates are dirt cheap, as little as $25 a month, that's 84¢ a day.

03/04/06 @ 8:02 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Alliance's new view of Nantucket Sound: this pristine jewel of a highway off our shores

Personal attacks, vulgar or salacious suggestions, rude behavior and "naughty word" are deleted by The Editors.

Be nice, or be gone.

03/02/06 @ 5:35 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Wind vs. Stop Wind on NECN last night

Maverick, perhaps if you read something besides your own words you would have read Capt. Elrick's words both here and on a dozen other mainstream newspapers last week.
Please see them halfway down in the left sidebar in this story.

03/02/06 @ 5:08 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Wind vs. Stop Wind on NECN last night

Elrick was a Captain in the Hyline:

DonYoung's Bill is "Filled with exageration and misinformation"

These are the words of a veteran Nantucket Sound ferry boat captain and Clean Power Now board member Richard Elrick to describe Congressman Don Young's proposed amendment on offshore wind farms."The recommendation to restrict offshore wind farms from within 1.5 nautical miles is excessive,” said Elrick, who has two decades of experience as a ferry boat captain on Nantucket Sound.

A letter sent by Young to his congressional colleagues states that ships routinely pass through the shoal where the Cape Wind project would be built, which is untrue, Elrick said. “Deep draft vessels generally avoid Horshoe Shoals because it is very shallow," Elrick said.

"Even if a deep draft vessel finds itself amid the turbine array, the vessel is more likely to run aground than to collide with a turbine since the turbines take up only 200 square feet of surface area", Elrick said.

In all his years on Nantucket Sound, “not a single large draft freighter nor oil barge has ever run aground on the shallow area of Horseshoe Shoals," Elrick said.“The possibility of a vessel colliding with a turbine in Nantucket Sound is very unlikely. If a vessel cannot safely navigate the Shoal area, then they shouldn’t be there in the first place.”

03/01/06 @ 7:44 pm

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Wind vs. Stop Wind on NECN last night

Maverick has been warned not to repeat or duplicate the same comment over and over on different blogs.

We will delete every duplicate comment, so Maverick, save your time and tell us ONCE. It takes a nano-second to delete duplicates.

02/17/06 @ 7:47 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape home sales drop 14.5%

We're sorry the above commenter doesn't like the story, but please keep in mind; we aggregate news about Cape Cod from as many sources as we can find. This story is in the Boston Globe. Your argument is with them, however we are more than happy to accept your comments here since the "old media" won't let you do it.

Keep those cards and letters coming ;>)

02/17/06 @ 7:36 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Cape Wind farm is no debate

NOTICE to commenters:
Maverick and others persist in spamming blogs which have nothing to do with this argument.

We will delete such spams as fast as Maverick or anyone else writes them. It takes but one second.

If Maverick and his ilk continue to attempt to manipulate and jam the comment area, we will simply turn off the ability of ANYONE TO COMMENT for all bloggers like our local daily did months ago.

If the rest of the bloggers wish to continue our open format YOU ARE THE ONES WHO MUST CONTROL those spoiling it for everyone else.

As MagicEye/Against The Wind knows, we accept advertising from ANYONE - that means Cape Wind, The Alliance, Clean Power Now and Magic Eye.

02/17/06 @ 7:35 am

CCToday [Member]
In response to: Answers to some of Cape Wind's Pesky and Misleading Promises

NOTICE to commenters:
Maverick and others persist in spamming blogs which have nothing to do with this argument.

We will delete such spams as fast as Maverick or anyone else writes them. It takes but one second.

If Maverick and his ilk continue to attempt to manipulate and jam the comment area, we will simply turn off the ability of ANYONE TO COMMENT for all bloggers like our local daily did months ago.

If the rest of the bloggers wish to continue our open format YOU ARE THE ONES WHO MUST CONTROL those spoiling it for everyone else.