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And because they have that money, they can use it to throw their political weight around disproportionate to their numbers. If they were poor, you wouldn’t be seeing these kinds of absurd measures we are assaulted with daily to ramrod their agenda down our throats.

Excellent points. Like most everything else - follow the money stream, you’ll find the answers and/or the causes.

“Week at Hedonism 69-Bahamas or buy clothes for the children?”

Makes a lot of sense.

Hard to believe at one point that it was once a solid Republican city. Some members of my family willing choose to live in the SF region. One reason SF is so radical is that it has one of the lowest percentages of two parent households with children. You can almost predict how an area will vote based on the percentage. If it is high, it’s more likely to be Republican - low and it will be Democrat. SF used to have a lot of traditional families up until the 1970s (that’s when the last Republicans were elected). Cost of living there went up, and singles and homosexuals have more disposable incomes than families do, families have to spend it on children.

It’s too bad - it’s a pretty city. Except for the population of deviants and hobos. I never saw heards of hobos until I went to SF.

SF surely blows and sucks, dats fo sho.

Maybe there are alot of harmonica players in SF. They need to know when to blow and when to suck.

That’s a good hypothesis - Tiger Jr.

I’ll PM my comment about your second comment.

Every male registered on the San Francisco Examiner has that for a name. I wonder why...

Seriously, I think there’s already one of those on the Glop/Glob.

More like one of his stable tested positive for Tiger, Jr. My concern about banging a porn star would be the same as if I were to have an affair with that lady that shot out two dozen kids in Arkansas, making love would be like tossing a hot dog down a hallway.

See, next time you should use your Jedi name on the Herald as you do on the Boston Glop, “Heywood Jablome.”

Frigging Tiger. If you're a billionaire golfing star and want to screw the entire female population DON'T GET MARRIED.

In all seriousness, I bet the wife beat the shit out of him because she tested positive for a disease she caught from him. Porno stars? That's just foul; go have sex with the the waste containment system in a water treatment plant, it's most likely cleaner than a porno “actress”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_A._Barrett

Holy sh*t - he was real! Never heard of him until you mentioned it 1 minute ago.

Oh, yeah. Cammie is one of Tiger’s mistresses.

No? Why is/was that a real person from Wyoming? Serious?Oops...

Fan of the former Senator from Wyoming ?

No sh*t - really!

No - I use “Frank Barrett” on the Herald.

Guadalupe ? More like Guadalcanal.

You’re not Cam L. Tow ?

That’s not it.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks - I just peed myself!!! :)

The real kick in the b*lls is that the GF suggested we tip ol’ Guadalupe after the torture session! That got vetoed.

Hey, I know your real name now. ;-D

Not necessarily that useless. If you knew you were gonna drown in frigid water, that extra butter knife could come in handy to off yourself with (just in case your murderous midget Mexican masseuse wasn’t available to do the job).

Scott Brown, here’s my gift to you: ‘Merry Christmas’

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/20091211scott_brown_heres_my_gift_to_you_merry_christmas/srvc=news&position=also

Sounds really sweet to me! Great idea! Tsongas is as useless as an extra butter knife on the Titanic.

It would be fantastic to have Sullivan or Scott Brown or Tim Cahill win seat(s) here in the People’s Republic. It wuld be a HUGE wakeup call to the rest of the country.

In fact, if Scott Brown was to win next month, 2010 should be a bigger blowout then 1994 was against the Rats; I would predict the GOP retakes both Houses of the Congress and a majority of the governorships.

I wrote Mayor Sullivan recently and urged him to do just that.

With Mayor Michael Sullivan having to leave office in January, maybe he can be convinced to run for Nikki Tsongas’s congressional seat. The MA-05 is arguably the least Democrat district in the state (the MA-10 being the other candidate), and Tsongas has run poorly since she was first elected in a special election a couple of years ago. With the political environment the way it is, and with Sullivan’s popularity in Lawrence (the biggest city in the district, and one of the most Democratic, I think that he’d have a good chance of becoming the first Republican elected to Congress from Massachusetts since 1994..

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They don’t have debates for Council seats... we have 40 members (only NYC and Chicago has a larger body than Nashville). Besides, I’m probably a bit too bombastic and profane for a lot of folks, I’d probably get impeached for unparliamentary language in my first week in office. ;-D

Uh huh.

So who do you think God is most angry at? The blind pagans who are doing nothing more than what they learned in public school? The Christians who know about the destruction of the innocent, and work to save lives? Or those who know about the destruction of the innocent, do nothing themselves while soliciting donations, denounce the true lifesavers, and violate their own moral "principles" whenever it suits them?

Oh, yes, he’d be more valuable in DC, but a GOP AG would have a field day with going after mass-scale rodent corruption in the commonwealth. Of course, I complain about MA having gone 40 years without a Republican as AG, my state, TN, hasn’t had one in (at least) 140 years (which may be a national record), and it is still “fixed” that we cannot get one (we have the most byzantine selection process in the country — the State Supreme Court, whose members are chosen by an elite group of liberal trial lawyers, “elect” the AG, who is always a liberal rodent hack).

Dems - of course!

Too bad you don't run - I'm sure your debates would end up on Youtube or FoxNewsChannel.

“FMDJ skins Rat Opponent Alive During Debate”

Yes, Howie did write about that scenario. I think Scott is more valuable in the Senate (US or MA) than as AG.

We’ll see...

Wasn’t there an article recently (I’m presuming Howie Carr, but it might’ve been somebody else) pointing out if Coakley gets elected to the Senate, it’s going to cause a real headache of the rodent whores trying to get appointed to the seat (possibly giving the GOP an opening for next year) ? If Brown loses to Coakley, he might try to run for it. The last Republican to win the AG position in MA was Elliott Richardson in 1966 (he actually gave up the Lt Governorship, figuring AG was a better place to go for higher office — his predecessor as AG was Ed Brooke who made the leap to the Senate from that office the same year).

Well, my former Councilwoman and current State Rep. held both, although I think she exited the Council at roughly the same time, perhaps some overlap. Yes, these were Dems. My current Councilmember is a Republican (but there are no partisan races for Council and he tends to downplay his affiliation since there is no real GOP in Nashville, and certainly the ones that are don’t think the party should exist outside the Country Club, and I live in one of the most infamous sections of the city, ain’t no tea and crumpets types here) and he is giving strong consideration to running for State Rep. in an adjacent district to mine. If he managed to pull off such a miracle and opted to exit the council and prompt a special election, I wish I could try to run for it (I could probably get his endorsement), but my health sucks, and I loathe the parochial crap that goes on downtown...

It doesn’t take a prophet to know that God will not leave the callous destruction of the innocent unpunished forever. It simply takes someone who has read their Bible and believes it.

Cardinal O'Malley--who was also bishop for Kerry, Kennedy and Kirk.

Coakley--and also two of her primary opponents--promised in a televised debate to ignore the Cardinal if he excommunicated her. The other Dem, an Episcopalian, placed fourth.

Maybe not Brown then. Cahill could do something with it perhaps.

Coakley ain’t touching it with a twenty foot pole...

As far as my recent (past 3 decades) research indicated, and a cursory glance at some yearbooks prior to that, Mayor-elect Kennedy may be the first Republican Mayor in perhaps more than a half-century (although possible there was one prior to 1979, but I could spot no “R”). The last Republican Mayor of Lynn I could definitively identify was Ralph Bauer, who served from 1926-1930. The Mayors from that point on appear to be Democrat.

What’s funny is that this wasn’t for an open seat. The 8-year incumbent (Dem) Chip Clancy was running for another term (like Lantigua in Lawrence, also formerly served in both the House and Senate), but the Republican Kennedy managed to defeat Clancy. I looked at some articles on election night in November, and they had no idea how long it had been since a Republican had last won the post.

The Democrats were wailing elsewhere that she used her name to confuse Dem voters (her last name is not only Kennedy, her initials are JFK), but she wasn’t an unknown quantity, she had won office in Lynn before (supposedly is also a former Democrat).

If Coakley refuses to look into the matter, Brown could have an issue. But I don’t think it would be hugely effective.

Are the folks in TN that tried that Rats by any chance?

It sucks, but in MA, the only word that matters is “PENSION”. Unfortunatley, I think Lantigua isn’t going anywhere. Who’s going to push him out? Coakley? Patrick? Yeah, right?

You know, I wonder if Scott Brown or Tim Cahill could use this as an example of the 1 party system of abuse in MA???

He can do both. The only thing the MA legislators have to do is pocket their cash. Oh, and their paychecks.

Don't tell me you support saving some mythical percentage of the children when in your actions you have no principle that will save any of them

Your philosophy is, if you can't save all of them, it's not worth saving any of them. It is certainly an asinine and goonish philosophy, but worst of all for you it is hypocritical.

You won't support Republicans in their efforts to save babies, unless the effort saves all babies everywhere. But you have no trouble bringing your own relatives--or yourself--into the emergency room for treatment when they or you get gravely sick.

You'll let millions of unborn American babies be pawns in your grandiose and improbable fantasies of future revolutionary power, but when it comes to your own flesh and blood you blanche. Why is that?

It's people like you who assure that the slaughter will continue until God's judgment falls on our nation.

And by what authority do you dare prophesy?

Scott Brown has an A+ rating from GOAL (Gun Owners Action League) Coakley a D. Scott Brown will vote against Cap & Trade, Coakley will vote for it. Last I checked, Ronald Reagan is not going to be on this MA ballot. Maybe it is a long shot, but he could win. 59 is better than 60.

Yeah, forgot to add, here in Nashville (TN), we’ve had some attempt to serve both as a State Rep and Metro Councilmember concurrently.

Yeah. I wouldn’t like it, though serving both as a State Rep and City Councilman I don’t think presents as big a problem as being a legislator and Mayor, that’s why so many have a serious beef with this, and the pension thing, too...

I don’t know how much Sullivan’s hands were tied in dealing with the problem, especially in a horrendous economic climate. Lawrence is not a very well-regarded city in MA, and has an enormous concentration of illegals and high crime. Lantigua is both Black and Hispanic (and tries to play up the latter). It’s amazing Sullivan was able to get elected as it was.

As for the second question, the double-dipping is up in the air. Some believe he cannot hold both a municipal and a state job at the same time and have called on AG Coakley (who is now busy with her Senate race) to investigate, which is doubtful she will. I don’t know myself if it is legal, but he should decide whether he wants to devote himself to one job or the other. As Lawrence has many problems, he really should resign his House seat and devote his full attention to being Mayor. Apparently some on the City Council are none too happy with his arrogance in trying to hold onto both jobs, and this guy isn’t even due to be sworn-in until January. Unfortunately, he’s got a 4-year term here, so short of expulsion, they won’t be able to challenge him until 2013.

This guy is double-dipping, holding two elective offices simultaneously. Would this be a Libertarian issue?