Usually when politicians use the word "clearly", things are not clear at all. They throw this adjective out there to sway people to their point of view.
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When Congressman Ed Markey says that criminal penalties are necessary because British Petroleum has "clearly violated the laws of nature".... what the hell does that mean? Does he know of some legal code that our teachers neglected to tell us about?
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He reminds me of a eighth grade debater. Lots of emotion, with big gaps of logic left out.
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Markey isn't stupid. So I wonder what his motives are when he spouts stuff like that. Too often it seems that liberal spokesmen treat us like sheep. They, as the shepards, herd us by whistling phrases that "clearly" point out the way we are to think.
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Markey seems to be frantically striving to assign blame to this recovery effort.... which has to be frustrating because President Barack Obama has wisely assumed responsibility after some of his party faithful tried to knee jerk the blame onto the Bush Administration. Obama did the right thing by nipping this strategy in the bud.
Harvey Rowe said.....
Ed Markey was a Malden Catholic Graduate.....I don't know what happened after that......
Pisc said...
Realize they drilled that far off shore because the green folks said anything closer was a hazard. Ironic, not in a smug way. a mile deep is a long way. The idea was to protect the environment.
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Sunday, June 06, 2010
Saturday, June 05, 2010
POTW Week 22
Launching the Pram on the Village Wharf ring sometime today. Before I do this, I have to dry fit the sprit sailing rig to the mast and finish the cap on the centerboard. I'm toying with the idea of leaving the mast on the boat when I leave it on the ring. Even if some nutcase stole it, it would be easy enough to replace.
Announcing....
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the 22nd Week of 2010
Bob Wojcik
Mark Ryan
Rafe Hershfield
Bianna Golodryga
Tipper Gore
Emily Engardia
Have to take a run down to West Marine for the final cleats and hardware required. Maybe I'll take Grandson Will for his first of many trips to the marine hardware store with his Grandfather JJ.
Announcing....
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the 22nd Week of 2010
Bob Wojcik
Mark Ryan
Rafe Hershfield
Bianna Golodryga
Tipper Gore
Emily Engardia
Have to take a run down to West Marine for the final cleats and hardware required. Maybe I'll take Grandson Will for his first of many trips to the marine hardware store with his Grandfather JJ.
Friday, June 04, 2010
Peruvian Prisoner
The little Dutch Boy from Aruba, Joran Van der Sloot, who killed Natalie Holloway now has murdered a 21 year old in Peru, Stephanie Flores. Unfortunately, the Aruban judicial system could not convict him, so he was free to ruin more lives.
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The self centered asshole was free to travel internationally and take a gambling holiday in Lima.
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I hope the Peruvians find a nice piece of hell on earth for him for the rest of his selfish, worthless life. May he live for many years in constant agony, then enjoy his eternal damnation.
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It's times like this when I wish I was a Peruvian Prison Guard.
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The self centered asshole was free to travel internationally and take a gambling holiday in Lima.
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I hope the Peruvians find a nice piece of hell on earth for him for the rest of his selfish, worthless life. May he live for many years in constant agony, then enjoy his eternal damnation.
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It's times like this when I wish I was a Peruvian Prison Guard.
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Beat LA
Game 1 of the Celtics - Lakers Championship series doesn't mean much. The momentum can swing widely over a seven game series.~
But I'm going to watch anyway.
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Beat LA.
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If it were anyone other than LA, I wouldn't, but I will.
LA blows. Bunch of wannabes and half assed gangsters, talking big about shooting other half assed gangsters and making movies that go straight to dvd.
Banks shot wins this one. We invented the bank shot, Cousy, Hondo, Jo Jo, etc.
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Between the Lines
There seems to be quite a bit of scrutiny lately of this Blog. Peeps doing searches to see if I let my guard down and disclosed something. That's possible... but unlikely. I'm just too old and cagey.
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You can draw your own conclusions here. Read between the lines. And if you are an offending party, and you think I'm talking precisely about you.... maybe I am, and maybe I'm not. The fact is that probably I'm not, but I'll never admit anything one way or another. I get some solace from the thought that this probably causes you Narcissists a great deal of extra angst and neurosis.
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The bottom line is that 100 years from now, we will all be dead.... and you and all the drama will be totally forgotten anyway. So it's important to live in the present, and make the best of the cards that you are dealt everyday.
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If you don't do that, you tend to seem like a pathetic loser over this brief period of existence that is your life.
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You can draw your own conclusions here. Read between the lines. And if you are an offending party, and you think I'm talking precisely about you.... maybe I am, and maybe I'm not. The fact is that probably I'm not, but I'll never admit anything one way or another. I get some solace from the thought that this probably causes you Narcissists a great deal of extra angst and neurosis.
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The bottom line is that 100 years from now, we will all be dead.... and you and all the drama will be totally forgotten anyway. So it's important to live in the present, and make the best of the cards that you are dealt everyday.
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If you don't do that, you tend to seem like a pathetic loser over this brief period of existence that is your life.
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Master at Masts
The mast for the pram sailing rig is almost done.
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Three 3/4" thick, 2 1/4" wide 8' long boards were cut from a single piece of 1x8x14 clear spruce stock that was lying on the lumber rack for a couple of years. The boards were then laminated with thickened West System, fast set epoxy, clamped, and left to dry overnight.
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Then I cut the corners into an octogon with my bandsaw and sanded the corners to a rough curve with a spar sanding jig that I rigged up a while ago to use inverted sanding belts with a tensioning jig that is turned by my 25 year old, 1/2" Milwaukee drill.
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I manually planed down the high spots with my Lie Neilsen Block Plane, which is easily the classiest tool that I own. The final spar sanding was done with the heavy duty flap sander that I bought mail order from Grizzley when I used to be prone to irrational late night Internet tool ordering. It's a damn nice flap sander though, and who knew that I'd be needing it for spar and oar fabrication at the time????
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So with a little epoxy and varnish, the mast will be ready for line cleat hardware, and this Pram will be tested under sail.
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Three 3/4" thick, 2 1/4" wide 8' long boards were cut from a single piece of 1x8x14 clear spruce stock that was lying on the lumber rack for a couple of years. The boards were then laminated with thickened West System, fast set epoxy, clamped, and left to dry overnight.
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Then I cut the corners into an octogon with my bandsaw and sanded the corners to a rough curve with a spar sanding jig that I rigged up a while ago to use inverted sanding belts with a tensioning jig that is turned by my 25 year old, 1/2" Milwaukee drill.
~
I manually planed down the high spots with my Lie Neilsen Block Plane, which is easily the classiest tool that I own. The final spar sanding was done with the heavy duty flap sander that I bought mail order from Grizzley when I used to be prone to irrational late night Internet tool ordering. It's a damn nice flap sander though, and who knew that I'd be needing it for spar and oar fabrication at the time????
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So with a little epoxy and varnish, the mast will be ready for line cleat hardware, and this Pram will be tested under sail.
Spilled Oil
I haven't told you how I feel about the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico yet.
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That's because it's so hard to figure out what's going on after the Media rings the "Crisis" Bell.
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And whatever you think of the Obama administration, you have to admit that they are a bit prone to exaggeration
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Witness the recent Swine Flu pandemic, now that the government is dumping unused vaccine.
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So when they say that this is an environmental disaster of epic proportions and that the crisis rivals the carnage of Hurricane Katrina..... I'm just not on board yet..... especially with news film of BO walking the beach and saying " These are the tar balls they are talking about." Tar balls are not Katrina.
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My favorite journalists on ABC News are all over this story.... Speaking with Passion. The Governor's kid, Andrew Cuomo, pointed to some oil on some marsh grass tonight and said dramatically, "And when this is gone.... it's gone forever." Ecologically and scientifically speaking, Andrew is dead wrong. Nature has huge recuperative powers with this type of thing.
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And Congressman Ed Markey, with his finger pointing and name calling..... all the while offering no solutions or alternatives.... well I guess that is Ed Markey for you. He hasn't helped me to make up my mind either. Plus I don't know why we are sitting back and asking British Petroleum to solve this. Just because they have financial liability, it's the American Homeland that is supposedly under siege.
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I'm pretty sure that there will be some ecological and economic damage out of this. And my heart goes out to the people who live and work on that shore and are so frightened by the uncertainty. But, just as we avoided the massive pandemic of the swine flu, maybe this too shall pass.
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That's because it's so hard to figure out what's going on after the Media rings the "Crisis" Bell.
~
And whatever you think of the Obama administration, you have to admit that they are a bit prone to exaggeration
~
Witness the recent Swine Flu pandemic, now that the government is dumping unused vaccine.
~
So when they say that this is an environmental disaster of epic proportions and that the crisis rivals the carnage of Hurricane Katrina..... I'm just not on board yet..... especially with news film of BO walking the beach and saying " These are the tar balls they are talking about." Tar balls are not Katrina.
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My favorite journalists on ABC News are all over this story.... Speaking with Passion. The Governor's kid, Andrew Cuomo, pointed to some oil on some marsh grass tonight and said dramatically, "And when this is gone.... it's gone forever." Ecologically and scientifically speaking, Andrew is dead wrong. Nature has huge recuperative powers with this type of thing.
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And Congressman Ed Markey, with his finger pointing and name calling..... all the while offering no solutions or alternatives.... well I guess that is Ed Markey for you. He hasn't helped me to make up my mind either. Plus I don't know why we are sitting back and asking British Petroleum to solve this. Just because they have financial liability, it's the American Homeland that is supposedly under siege.
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I'm pretty sure that there will be some ecological and economic damage out of this. And my heart goes out to the people who live and work on that shore and are so frightened by the uncertainty. But, just as we avoided the massive pandemic of the swine flu, maybe this too shall pass.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Memorial Musings
Happy Memorial Day.
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Last night while watching Sixty Minutes , Andy Rooney, who is a WWII vet, pointed out that our forefathers didn't "give" their lives for their country. Their lives were "taken" from them. They were the victims of circumstance, but rose to the occasion, with the result being the preservation of our way of life.
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Without their response and courage, we could be speaking German, and busy purifying the races. We could be in a cultural Dark Age shackled by totalitarian repression. Who knows what our lives would be like.
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In my own case, my grandfather was gassed in the trenches of WWI France, my father spent a year in the hospital after his Coast Guard Ship was sunk in WWII and my father in law survived wounds and prison camp in the Korean War.
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To this day, I always have some guilt for not going to Vietnam, although my father claimed that he would shoot me in the foot to avoid being drafted. Luckily, my draft number was high enough to preclude either alternative.
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I believe that we had a need to intervene in Iraq and Afghanistan, although the inability to reach closure in these conflicts is very disturbing. At this point, it is overbearing to hear of the deaths of young Americans over there.
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Last night while watching Sixty Minutes , Andy Rooney, who is a WWII vet, pointed out that our forefathers didn't "give" their lives for their country. Their lives were "taken" from them. They were the victims of circumstance, but rose to the occasion, with the result being the preservation of our way of life.
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Without their response and courage, we could be speaking German, and busy purifying the races. We could be in a cultural Dark Age shackled by totalitarian repression. Who knows what our lives would be like.
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In my own case, my grandfather was gassed in the trenches of WWI France, my father spent a year in the hospital after his Coast Guard Ship was sunk in WWII and my father in law survived wounds and prison camp in the Korean War.
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To this day, I always have some guilt for not going to Vietnam, although my father claimed that he would shoot me in the foot to avoid being drafted. Luckily, my draft number was high enough to preclude either alternative.
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I believe that we had a need to intervene in Iraq and Afghanistan, although the inability to reach closure in these conflicts is very disturbing. At this point, it is overbearing to hear of the deaths of young Americans over there.
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On the other foot, solgerin" gets all the prine hoors, most often at
a rebate price. Shoo worked that angle, shameless as he were.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Official State Bird of Maine
A few Peeps mentioned that they were heading to Northern New England this weekend. And I was really tempted to head to North Conway, New Hampshire, but Joanne had an open house for the Sundance School Program.
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It's probably for the best, because this is really the peak of Black Fly Season on our pristine northern states of Maine and New Hampshire.
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These swarming, blood sucking, bastards can really put a damper on your fun in May and June.
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As bad as Black flies are, the worst are the Greenheads on Crane's Beach in Ipswich. They don't just sting or bite, they tear out a chunk of your flesh.
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So I'm going to hang around the driveway and work on the boats.
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Have a nice day.
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It's probably for the best, because this is really the peak of Black Fly Season on our pristine northern states of Maine and New Hampshire.
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These swarming, blood sucking, bastards can really put a damper on your fun in May and June.
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As bad as Black flies are, the worst are the Greenheads on Crane's Beach in Ipswich. They don't just sting or bite, they tear out a chunk of your flesh.
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So I'm going to hang around the driveway and work on the boats.
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Have a nice day.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
POTW Week 21
Last night, Tommy O set us up with some sort of shooters with creme and liquer at the BYC Bar.
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I'm sure that the Sam Adams had a lot to do with it too, but I am really heavy headed today.
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Announcing....
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the 21st week of 2010.
Scott McBurney
Nancy Bruett
Aquinino Orichi
Maria Rowen
Rajon Rondo
Mark Vona
I'm sure that the Sam Adams had a lot to do with it too, but I am really heavy headed today.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Ready to Defer Maintenance
I was thinking that it would be a great weekend to head up to North Conway, but Joanne has an open house at Sundance Pre-School on Saturday.
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So this long Memorial Day weekend will be a big push to get all of the rowing boat stuff done for the season including construction of the sail mast for the Pram, and the Tender epoxy and varnishing.
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In the meantime, there is some trim paint and random shingling that still has to be done.
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Because.... after this weekend.... all maintenance will be deferred until October.
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So this long Memorial Day weekend will be a big push to get all of the rowing boat stuff done for the season including construction of the sail mast for the Pram, and the Tender epoxy and varnishing.
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In the meantime, there is some trim paint and random shingling that still has to be done.
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Because.... after this weekend.... all maintenance will be deferred until October.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Thick Skin
We'll be conducting a Balloon Test in Sturbridge this evening in order to ascertain the visual impact of a cell tower that we proposing. The weather will be warm and summery and there is a lot of interest from residents of a condominium complex that is relatively close by.~
Should be controversial, and I'll have to put my thick skin on.
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Then again.... I've had it on anyway for the last couple of days.... and have decided to keep it on for as long as it takes.
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