Amazing how it got to be Friday so fast. New Haven trips always screw up my week, and this trip ended with some beers at the Indigo Bar with the other Mountain of a Man, Bobby Brown..... A huge highlight of the frantic week.
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I also took my biggest customer and his family out for some quality time on the WhaleEye, and the fantastic sights of Marblehead and Manchester Harbors didn't dissapoint.
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Plus I stayed up late to watch the Republicans rally at their convention. It's too bad that politics brings out the worst in people.... especially those who start off with a rather low base of credibility to begin with. I'm still amazed about the amount of spin that the national broadcast networks put on the output, rather than let us idiots figure it out for ourselves.
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Anyway... it's a long weekend, and time to recharge some batteries.
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Friday, August 31, 2012
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Sham of Journalism
If you want to see what biased journalism is, tune into the Republican National Convention on MSNBC.
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I actually studied journalism in college and wrote some articles for the Daily Collegian out at UMASS, Amherst. Professor Arthur Musgrave was a Libertarian who basically taught that the truth would eventually win out with a free exchange of ideas by sincere and objective reporting.
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At the time, with the Vietnam War raging and the Civil Rights Movement thrusting forward, it seemed that the only rational viewpoint was the liberal stance provided by the Democratic Party.
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Yet, from Professor Musgrave's influence , I never did vote in a Democratic Primary and maintained an unenrolled "Independent" status to this day. In those times, I was firmly aligned with the liberal viewpoint, but if these MSNBC "Journalists" are liberals, then I don't want anything to do with that stance.
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These people are neurotically obsessed in opposition to the Convention Speeches that they are supposedly "covering".
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In the convention hall, the Republicans have set up a Debt Clock, showing the current growth in the National Debt. The MSNBC Crew attacked that with a smirk and some kind of chart that sought to prove that the Republicans were responsible for our debt.
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The Freaking Debt is just that... the Debt. Why would anyone attack a clock that measured it?
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Then the "Journalists" turned their rancor on the misinterpretation of Obama's "If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else did." quote saying that it had been taken out of context. I listened to that quote over and over and posted it in this Blog.
Sorry, but these talking spinheads can't convince me that Obama didn't leak his misunderstanding of free enterprize. There was no misinterpretation on my part, and they can spin all they want.
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If you click back and forth between C-Span and MSNBC, you would think there was no convention in place as MSNBC shows no speakers, only talking heads and now Hurricane Issac Coverage, while C-Span is actually showing the speakers. Senator Kelly Ayotte of NH is speaking now while MSNBC is taking the place of the Weather Channel.... literally.
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Professor Musgrave was at the end of his career when I sat in his class in 1972, and I hope he is still with us. And I wish I could hear his take on this sham of journalism that we are witnessing tonight.
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I actually studied journalism in college and wrote some articles for the Daily Collegian out at UMASS, Amherst. Professor Arthur Musgrave was a Libertarian who basically taught that the truth would eventually win out with a free exchange of ideas by sincere and objective reporting.
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At the time, with the Vietnam War raging and the Civil Rights Movement thrusting forward, it seemed that the only rational viewpoint was the liberal stance provided by the Democratic Party.
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Yet, from Professor Musgrave's influence , I never did vote in a Democratic Primary and maintained an unenrolled "Independent" status to this day. In those times, I was firmly aligned with the liberal viewpoint, but if these MSNBC "Journalists" are liberals, then I don't want anything to do with that stance.
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These people are neurotically obsessed in opposition to the Convention Speeches that they are supposedly "covering".
~
In the convention hall, the Republicans have set up a Debt Clock, showing the current growth in the National Debt. The MSNBC Crew attacked that with a smirk and some kind of chart that sought to prove that the Republicans were responsible for our debt.
~
The Freaking Debt is just that... the Debt. Why would anyone attack a clock that measured it?
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Then the "Journalists" turned their rancor on the misinterpretation of Obama's "If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else did." quote saying that it had been taken out of context. I listened to that quote over and over and posted it in this Blog.
Sorry, but these talking spinheads can't convince me that Obama didn't leak his misunderstanding of free enterprize. There was no misinterpretation on my part, and they can spin all they want.
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If you click back and forth between C-Span and MSNBC, you would think there was no convention in place as MSNBC shows no speakers, only talking heads and now Hurricane Issac Coverage, while C-Span is actually showing the speakers. Senator Kelly Ayotte of NH is speaking now while MSNBC is taking the place of the Weather Channel.... literally.
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Professor Musgrave was at the end of his career when I sat in his class in 1972, and I hope he is still with us. And I wish I could hear his take on this sham of journalism that we are witnessing tonight.
Monday, August 27, 2012
Indonesian Race Card
As expected, the Kerry D' Orio Yoga pants are flying off of the shelves here at Nanepashemet.
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I put in a call to the Indonesian sweat shop to see if we could step up production a bit.... maybe pay the help an extra $10 bucks a month or something as an incentive... but they were testy as hell.
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Seems a couple of them are a little pissed at me when they found out that I believed Obama was born in Hawaii rather than being the first Indonesian who became President of the United States.
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Obviously the Indonesians never watch MSNBC, or they would know that this type of statement is a major league play of the race card..... as despicably racist as you can get. Romney will certainly roast in Republican Hell for his reference to it in Michigan the other day.
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Peeps.... here's the deal.... It's hard enough for me to get the Indonesians to meet minimum production standards of the Nanepashemet Clothing line at rock bottom third world labor rates.
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Don't be putting it on me to get them to be politically correct at the same time!!!
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I may be a Mountain of a Man, but you are pressing the limit.
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I put in a call to the Indonesian sweat shop to see if we could step up production a bit.... maybe pay the help an extra $10 bucks a month or something as an incentive... but they were testy as hell.
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Seems a couple of them are a little pissed at me when they found out that I believed Obama was born in Hawaii rather than being the first Indonesian who became President of the United States.
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Obviously the Indonesians never watch MSNBC, or they would know that this type of statement is a major league play of the race card..... as despicably racist as you can get. Romney will certainly roast in Republican Hell for his reference to it in Michigan the other day.
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Peeps.... here's the deal.... It's hard enough for me to get the Indonesians to meet minimum production standards of the Nanepashemet Clothing line at rock bottom third world labor rates.
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Don't be putting it on me to get them to be politically correct at the same time!!!
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I may be a Mountain of a Man, but you are pressing the limit.
Amazing POTUS
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Some say he is a radical communist looking to dismantly America.
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I just think that is an amazing story that this guy, who was shuffled back and forth from Indonesia to Hawaii in his youth, gained an Ivy League education but nobody knows his coursework or grades, then spent his poltical formative years among radicals in Chicago.... ended up being elected President of the United States of America.
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It's true that I get aggravated by his narcissism, and seeming lack of depth and experience, but I continue to be genuinely amazed that this guy is the POTUS.
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Family Photo
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Hopefully the first of many get togethers.
Dealing from a Top Deck
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We'll be putting up the railings, adding the stairs and the pool safety gate... and this project will be taking its rightful place as an authentic Nanepashemet Deck.... the pinnacled pedigree of contemporary outdoor deck technology.
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Course if Tommy and Linda wanted to use it as a heliocopter pad, that would be no problem. It is that freaking solid.
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Tommy is thrilled and who can blame him??? His legendary Coors Light stocked cooler will be up there in no time.
Friday, August 24, 2012
Kerry's Pants
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the Kerry D'Orio Yoga Pants.
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Inspired by 2012 Reigning Peep of the Year, Kerry D' Orio, these pants should only be worn if you are serious about getting your Nanepashmet Mojo on.
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These are already flying off of the counters in Suite 1-A, so don't take your time in making an order or you could be left out of the most important fashion statement made at the end of this summer.
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
Abortion Issue
If the political ads by Obama and Warren are designed to make me support them, they are hugely ineffective. They are so condescending and insulting to our intelligence that they make me yearn for Romney and Scott to emerge victorious.
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Especially the abortion ads.
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I think that abortion is the taking of a human life. Roe v. Wade says that this is legal.... and a woman who has become pregnant has the choice to end the life of the human fetus growing in her... without legal consequence.
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But this doesn't mean that abortion is moral or right.... it only means that it is legal. Killing a fetus is just that. You may rationalize that a woman has a right to kill the fetus that has taken life in her body.... that you are "Pro-Choice".
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And I really don't want to hear what the Catholic Church has to say about this. That is an institution that regularly tortured heretics and Jews and burned people at the stake for hundreds of years in the not too distant past. So they can shut the phuck up.
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I'll be working this thing out for myself without Papist Pontification.
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Our society condones the taking of human life. We celebated the killing of Osama Bin Laden, and rightly so. Certain heinous crimes are subject to capital punishment in a majority of the States. Is being impregnated by a forced rape a heinous crime that means that the resulting fetus should be killed????
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It is a decision that I don't wish on anybody.... but is the cornerstone of the "Pro-Choice" advocates.
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I guess where I end up on this issue is that Abortion should not be a convenient choice. You shouldn't be able to kill a fetus because you don't think you can afford a baby or you'd rather be doing something else. Plus there's a ton of tried and true ways to avoid getting pregnant in the first place. So a convenient abortion is a wrong choice culmination of a series of wrong choices.
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Abortion for your own simple convenience is murder and deserves to be defined as such, whether legal or not.
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God created a life for you to nourish... it is a part of His Plan..... you shouldn't rationalize it away.
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But the final decision... to kill or not to kill should be yours. You are your own judge in a case involving Capital Punishment of your fetus.
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You will have to deal with God though.... and the phoney business called "Planned Parenthood" can rot in Hell. I'm with Romney on this all the way. There is no way that my government should pay for your abortion.
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Especially the abortion ads.
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I think that abortion is the taking of a human life. Roe v. Wade says that this is legal.... and a woman who has become pregnant has the choice to end the life of the human fetus growing in her... without legal consequence.
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But this doesn't mean that abortion is moral or right.... it only means that it is legal. Killing a fetus is just that. You may rationalize that a woman has a right to kill the fetus that has taken life in her body.... that you are "Pro-Choice".
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And I really don't want to hear what the Catholic Church has to say about this. That is an institution that regularly tortured heretics and Jews and burned people at the stake for hundreds of years in the not too distant past. So they can shut the phuck up.
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I'll be working this thing out for myself without Papist Pontification.
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Our society condones the taking of human life. We celebated the killing of Osama Bin Laden, and rightly so. Certain heinous crimes are subject to capital punishment in a majority of the States. Is being impregnated by a forced rape a heinous crime that means that the resulting fetus should be killed????
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It is a decision that I don't wish on anybody.... but is the cornerstone of the "Pro-Choice" advocates.
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I guess where I end up on this issue is that Abortion should not be a convenient choice. You shouldn't be able to kill a fetus because you don't think you can afford a baby or you'd rather be doing something else. Plus there's a ton of tried and true ways to avoid getting pregnant in the first place. So a convenient abortion is a wrong choice culmination of a series of wrong choices.
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Abortion for your own simple convenience is murder and deserves to be defined as such, whether legal or not.
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God created a life for you to nourish... it is a part of His Plan..... you shouldn't rationalize it away.
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But the final decision... to kill or not to kill should be yours. You are your own judge in a case involving Capital Punishment of your fetus.
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You will have to deal with God though.... and the phoney business called "Planned Parenthood" can rot in Hell. I'm with Romney on this all the way. There is no way that my government should pay for your abortion.
Ending the WorkWeek
You hate to make the 3 1/2 hour drive to New Haven County and come up empty handed.
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Which didn't happen today as we tended to business in three separate localities with complete adherence to Nanepashemet Standards of successful business results.
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I know we're good, but even I get impressed when we hit for the cycle once in a while.
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One more big push, and this week is a wrap.
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Tomorrow, we will be testing our considerable permitting skill at a particularly challenging city on the North Shore, putting the finishing touches on some critical reporting, then maybe get some planks laid at Tommy O's deck before calling it quits with Dale and Gail at the Dolphin.
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Please don't make a big deal out of this. Even though the pace would fell the best of you, it is pretty routine for a Mountain of a Man.
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Which didn't happen today as we tended to business in three separate localities with complete adherence to Nanepashemet Standards of successful business results.
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I know we're good, but even I get impressed when we hit for the cycle once in a while.
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One more big push, and this week is a wrap.
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Tomorrow, we will be testing our considerable permitting skill at a particularly challenging city on the North Shore, putting the finishing touches on some critical reporting, then maybe get some planks laid at Tommy O's deck before calling it quits with Dale and Gail at the Dolphin.
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Please don't make a big deal out of this. Even though the pace would fell the best of you, it is pretty routine for a Mountain of a Man.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Great Ones Passing
As many of you know, being of an Irish Catholic cultural background, I have been disheartened by the state of the Catholic Church and feel that it has lost it's relevancy for me.
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But I wish that I had met this guy.
Father Beiting established a mission in Kentucky, and lived a life of service and accomplishment.
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My friend, Harvey Rowe, no stranger to the concept of service to others and love for his fellow man, was an admirer of Father Beiting and was with a team swimming the English Channel when Father passed away earlier this month.
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Harvey had been to Father Beiting's mission and had nothing but admiration and praise for the work that was being done on a very practical, economic scale. Harvey's loss is all of ours when a person of this calibre passes.
People like Father Beiting and Johnny Pesky make you stand back and wonder if you are doing everything you should be doing with your time of earth. They will be missed.
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But I wish that I had met this guy.
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My friend, Harvey Rowe, no stranger to the concept of service to others and love for his fellow man, was an admirer of Father Beiting and was with a team swimming the English Channel when Father passed away earlier this month.
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Harvey had been to Father Beiting's mission and had nothing but admiration and praise for the work that was being done on a very practical, economic scale. Harvey's loss is all of ours when a person of this calibre passes.
People like Father Beiting and Johnny Pesky make you stand back and wonder if you are doing everything you should be doing with your time of earth. They will be missed.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Red Sox Redemption
Red Sox are dissapointing this season.
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It's hard to have more than a passing interest in them.
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Although yesterday, in Wolcott, CT, the Building Inspector noticed that I was from Boston, announced that he was a Yankees fan and proceeded to quiz me about the Sox.
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I knew enough to fake the conversation, and bitched about Beckett. He gave me the permit over the counter when normally it takes a day or so.
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So maybe the Sox season has been redeemed for me at least.
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It's hard to have more than a passing interest in them.
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Although yesterday, in Wolcott, CT, the Building Inspector noticed that I was from Boston, announced that he was a Yankees fan and proceeded to quiz me about the Sox.
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I knew enough to fake the conversation, and bitched about Beckett. He gave me the permit over the counter when normally it takes a day or so.
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So maybe the Sox season has been redeemed for me at least.
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