Archive for the 'Massachusetts' Category

Massachusetts voters should be very proud.

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Politician would like to see daughter get another shot on ‘Idol’
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (CP) – 23 hours ago
WASHINGTON — Sen.-elect Scott Brown says he’d like daughter Ayla to have another crack at “American Idol,” where judge Simon Cowell once described her performance as robotic and empty.
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I almost forgot. They have a CD to hawk.

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The real surprise is that someone found a mailbox.

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Kitten dropped, discovered in Boston city mailbox
AP

Tue Jun 16, 9:19 pm ET
BOSTON – Officials said a two-pound, eight-week-old kitten was dropped in a public mailbox in Boston and later found unharmed among envelopes and packages. According to the MSPCA Animal Care and Adoption Center, the kitten they’re calling “Postina” likely was stuffed Friday through a […]

ABC News says the mayor of Gloucester, Mass denies the existence of a pregnancy pact by 17 high school girls.

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

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Images: (Title) via shillpages.com; (Top two) Village of the Damned via reelstreets.com (third) eindiders.com (Fourth) Village of the Damned via koreanfilm.org

So, we are to feel empathy for real estate agents who may profit from others’ misery?

Monday, April 28th, 2008

If the vandalism bothers them, they should change careers.
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Owners trash, strip their foreclosed homes
Fixtures, cabinets, tubs, sinks, even stairways face wrath of dispossessed
By Jerry Kronenberg
Boston Herald
Monday, April 28, 2008 -Jack O’Leary has seen foreclosed homes where ex-owners put paint on the carpets, anti-bank graffiti on the walls or took everything but the kitchen sink - […]

Under our Morono-Fascist regime…

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

which gushes over the excesses of mega-corporations, this latest insult to the American system is a mere trifle.
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(From Dr. Pepper Contest website–with added ideas not contained in original.)
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New promo campaign angers Boston
1 hour, 7 minutes ago
BOSTON - Less than a month after highways and bridges were shut down during a bomb scare touched off by […]

I thought they didn’t look Swiss.

Friday, December 1st, 2006

“Illegal Immigration Hardliner Mitt Romney Hires Undocumented Workers To Tend His Lawn
The Boston Globe reports today that for the past decade, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) has employed a landscaping company that relies heavily on undocumented Guatemalan immigrants. The company, Community Lawn Service with a Heart, also tended to the lawn at Romney’s son’s house.”
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It’s going to double as a mega-dormitory and student center after the chemistry department discovers a way to keep it from rotting.

Monday, October 9th, 2006

“R.I. pumpkin may be largest ever
Sun Oct 8, 2:39 PM ET
WARREN, R.I. - Despite heavy rains that stunted pumpkin growth, a Rhode Island farmer has set what could be a new record for the largest pumpkin in the world.”
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(Pumpkin)-AP Photo/Victoria Arocho; (Brown U.) brown.edu
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Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

‘Huge concrete panels were removed from the tunnel after a section of the ceiling collapsed last night, killing one woman. (Globe Staff Photo / George Rizer)
State Police identify victim in tunnel collapse
By John R. Ellement and Andrew Ryan, Boston Globe Staff | July 11, 2006
Transportation officials this morning have begun removing the three-ton […]

A Boston pal told me about this. He figured it would put Updike in tight with the Nobel Committee.

Saturday, June 3rd, 2006

The Boston Globe
Honorary degrees redux: Tributes to Updike go on sale
By Michael Levenson, Globe Staff
June 1, 2006
One can picture him sitting there in flowing robes, smiling his warm, wry smile, as the words are read aloud before a sea of admiring graduates.
In 1998, Bates College, reaching for the highest of rhetoric, lauded him for his […]

Some reader responses to this article called for more orthodoxy to save the archdiocese. No one listened to my suggestion when the financial ramifications reared up four years ago. The Church has to re-ignite its indulgence marketing boiler. It worked before and it will work again. The Vatican didn’t acquire those treasures by only raffling off Buicks. Turn on the television at any hour and some non-Catholic evangelist is hustling sacred water, holy pebbles and the like. The beauty of indulgences is the profit margin. Except for minimal marketing expense, there are no manufacturing costs. Its better than Arm & Hammer telling consumers to buy their product, open the box and toss the contents down the drain. Indulgence sales are a guaranteed method of erasing the $46 million defcit and insuring an eternally positive cash-flow. If sales flag, just increase the stakes of not buying into the program. All of us sin and no one wants to hear about spending the next zillion years having their ulna bone gnawed by L’il Demons with insatiable appetites. Soon, instead of selling parishes, the Church will be a player in New York real estate and even lowly monsignors will be luxury box guests of corporate CEOs and other gangsters. The classic “…make chicken salad” aphorism works here, and for the Church hierarchy; it’ll be ‘Surf ‘n Turf’ all the way.

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Catholic World NewsBoston archdiocese opens books, showing $46 million deficitBoston, Apr. 19 (CWNews.com) - The Archdiocese of Boston has released a full audit of its financial accounts, showing a $46.3 million deficit for the fiscal years 2005-2005.
Cardinal Sean O’Malley had promised a full public accounting of archdiocesan financial affairs, as he argued against a proposed […]