CapeCodToday Blog Chowder

Since my last blog posting about the Yarmouth police department and a bitter feud that has been raging for over two years regarding the departments posting of local crimes on their Facebook page, the page has been very community friendly.

Almost exclusively they posted information about community events, I counted four arrests. So either they toned it down as requested by local businesses, they toned it down for some other reason or this is all a bunch of complaining about nothing. As a long time follower of their Facebook page, I think it's clearly been toned down.

Every budget proposal and new legislation of the GOP seems to be yet another opportunity to show their lack of compassion for the American people.

In the farm bill they proposed to cut billions of dollars from the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) or informally, food stamps, while increasing farm subsidies to the corporate agriculture industry.

Many of us are familiar with the Chinese proverb “women hold up half the sky” that Mao Tse-tung gave new life to in order to raise the status of women in the new China. Perhaps fewer people have heard “Let a hundred flowers bloom,” a slogan from the same period that encourages people to come forward with lots of ways of doing things as well as being creative!