Who are these people?
I think it’s important to point out that the round-up of Hillary Clintons speech tonight at the Dem Convention over at the Blue Mass Group blog lasted exactly three comments before devolving into a discussion about the color of her pants suit.
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Never mind how shrill the speech was, this complete inability to focus on anything meaningful as a party is why the Dems are likely to tank the election in November to a 9 billion year old fossil who doesn’t know what planet he’s on.
How many nails does it take to shut the T&G coffin?
Amazing numbers coming from the NYT today with advertising revenue slipping another 16.2 percent. But as seems to be the case with every financial release from the Times, it’s the New England media group, which includes the Telegram, that’s sucking hardest.
The company’s flagship The New York Times paper had 15.3 percent lower ad revenue. At its New England media group, which includes The Boston Globe, July ad revenue dropped 24.5 percent.
Media in the Worcester Mayor’s office is a shit show
Seriously, over the last few weeks I’ve been getting hammered with press releases from Mayor Konnie Lukes’ office and they just don’t make any sense. The only thing that makes less sense than the releases themselves is I can’t find any actual members of the press in the city who are receiving them. Check out this latest message received about an hour ago:
from Racicot, Mary RacicotM@ci.worcester.ma.us
date Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:45 AM
subject FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - MAYOR LUKES ANNOUNCES…
mailed-by ci.worcester.ma.usFor Immediate Release:
Worcester, MA
Wednesday, August 27th at 3pm
Mayor’s Office
City Hall – Room 305
455 Main Street
Worcester, MAMayor Lukes announces a new collaborative venture in the City of Worcester.
Mary C. Racicot
Press Secretary ~ Office of Mayor Konstantina B. Lukes
City Hall ~ Room 305 ~ 455 Main Street ~ Worcester, MA 01608
508.799.1153
racicotm@ci.worcester.ma.us
P Think GREEN before printing this e-mail
Really? That’s it? An announcement of a yet to be announced, announcement? Someone is actually getting paid to mail me this shit?
Last week I received three identical messages “For Immediate Release: Mayor Lukes helps fill backpacks for city children!” The first line of which read:
Postponing the start to her vacation, Mayor Lukes will be in Southborough on Friday morning to help fill backpacks donated by Mohan Nannapaneni, a businessman with a passion for education.
Wow. You postponed the start of your vacation, for us proles? How thoughtful, your Shrillness.
We may be doomed fellow Worcesterites, enjoy the ride and complimentary hot dogs. Last one out please hit the lights.
Radio is a sound salvation
I’ll be sitting in on air with the T&G’s Dianne Williamson at 1PM on WCRN 830 AM today. Yet another excellent opportunity to hear me make a complete mockery of my families’ good name in a public forum! And you don’t even need to dust off your old transistor radio, just tune in from the comfort of your cubicle with this handy link.
And don’t forget to tune in at 6:30PM to WTAG 580 where I join the wise and powerful Mike Messina each and every Monday with the goal of solving all the worlds problems, so you don’t have to. Also available as a handy internet stream.
Which team are you on?
The senators said the new guidelines would allow the F.B.I. to open an investigation of an American, conduct surveillance, pry into private records and take other investigative steps “without any basis for suspicion.” The plan “might permit an innocent American to be subjected to such intrusive surveillance based in part on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, or on protected First Amendment activities,” the letter said. It was signed by Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island.
Worcester Magazine Sold
The Holden Landmark Corp., publisher of the Landmark, the Millbury-Sutton Chronicle, the Leominster Champion and four other publications has bought alternative weekly Worcester Magazine from Worcester Publishing Ltd.
According to Gareth Charter, Holden Landmark Corp. publisher, Landmark initiated acquisition talks. Charter and Worcester Publishing, which is owned and published by Allen W. Fletcher, “have been actively working on this for much of this year,” Charter said. “We initiated this, and we pushed it in the final stages,” he said.
The future of urban entertainment is green
Apparently I’m not the only one seeing more smart© cars on the road each day, if your not familiar with these adorable little things imagine a shopping cart mating with a Japanese motorcycle; that’s it, but smaller.
I really do like these things and if I didn’t need to travel more than a few miles everyday would probably consider buying one. But I don’t have that luxury, I do however have a confession for current owners. I want to push your car on its side. Bad. I know it sounds terrible and you must trust that I wont act on this impulse, but every time one of these little guys zips past I get the nearly uncontrollable urge to break into a sprint and just tackle the thing. I figured I must be the only one, really how many people could have this problem? Well it seems a few, a quick google search shows the earliest report of this new urban form of cow tipping dates back to spring of 2005.
I’m going to make a prediction here, that by 2018 car tipping will be so prevalent insurance companies wont cover righting tipped cars.
Just in time for the Cheech & Chong reunion tour!
According to a Suffolk University poll, 72% of Massachusetts residents look forward to beginning the process of decriminalizing marijuana.
Of the three questions on the Massachusetts ballot this November, only one question — #2 the decriminalization of marijuana — appears all but certain to pass, according to a poll analysis released today by 7NEWS/Suffolk University. Seventy-two percent favored the proposed law, which would replace the criminal penalties for possession of up to one ounce of marijuana to a civil penalty of forfeiture of the marijuana and a fine of $100. Twenty-two percent opposed the proposed law.
“The public may be signaling that pursuing small-time marijuana users is a waste of taxpayer resources,” said David Paleologos, director of the Political Research Center at Suffolk University. “This issue suggests that there is a Libertarian streak in the thinking of Massachusetts voters.”
Tickets to see Cheech and Chong at the Orpheum in Boston
77.6%
So a good friend who happens to catch all the things I miss in the daily T&G just shot me this nugget from yesterdays NYT wire.
White minority is likely by 2042
Census projections see speedup in switch to new proportionsEthnic and racial minorities will comprise a majority of the nation’s population in a little more than a generation, according to new Census Bureau projections, a transformation that is occurring faster than was anticipated just a few years ago.
The census calculates that by 2042, Americans who identify themselves as Hispanic, black, Asian, American Indian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander will together outnumber non-Hispanic whites. Four years ago, officials had projected the shift would come in 2050.
The story itself is forgettable, scaring the ‘native’ population has been a pastime in the US since a few hundred thousand of my closest relatives piled onto a boat off the coast of Ireland and started sailing West. What is absolutely amazing yet totally predictable is the 64 (and counting) comments.
My favorite and one of the erliest in the thread:
I got news for you we don’t have to wait untill 2042. We whites are already the Minority , all you have to do is drive through downtown Worcester or any large town in America. Either that or just look at the Court records . We need to start enforcing deportation laws NOW.
-In Auburn
OK, I don’t have time to personally educate every mildly retarded, white trash buffoon who thinks the Worcester suburbs are some sort of cultural high water mark. So if any of you happen to cross paths with one of these douche bags can you please inform them that Worcester is 77.6% white according to the U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey. So if you have a problem with anything in Worcester, blame 77.6% of it on Whitey and the rest on District 2 City Councilor Phil Palmeri.
Thank You.
Who are they and what do they make?
A few people have asked me recently both here on RBDN and in the real world where they can find out things like the number of people the City of Worcester employes or what they get paid. There’s no easy answer to that with out a course on public records requests, but a quick and dirty solution has been available for awhile from the Boston Herald.
Have fun kids.
