Dealing from a Top Deck

This is not a heliocopter pad.  It is the present state of 2011 POTY, Tommy O' Shea's, deck that we finished planking at 1:00 PM this afternoon.
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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.


Kerry's Pants

It's taken a while for the Indonesian sweat shop to gear up for this latest item in the Nanepashemet Blogging Apparel line....
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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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All proceeds to go to the JJ Fund.

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.

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.

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.

Sound Outlook

Hopkins is a great actor and not a bad philosopher.

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.

Freaking Lapse

My apologies for the lapse in posts, Peeps.
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I know that a lot of you get panicky when you don't get a daily Nanepashemet Fix, and while the state of your clinging psyches is of little concern to me, I still have a need to ease your pain.  
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They don't call me Mountain of a Man for nothing.
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And with your panting and possibly psychotic emails and voicemails pleading for an explanation... well I could easily tell you to kiss my ass.... which I won't.
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Instead you should know that the period from Friday evening to the present Monday afternoon sitting was filled with the type of Nanepashemet activity that you have all come to yearn and hope for in your own daily drivels and strivings.
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Superpeep Nathaniel Clarke had his 30th birthday this Sat. and we kicked he and his class parents, Dave and Deb off with Dark and Stormies at the BYC Deck on Friday, then attended a spectacular clambake at the Clarke house with some of our favorite Peeps on the following Sat.
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Ben Martin, now a Running Back Coach for Princeton University, made an appearance at the clambake  and reminded me that I have to update the Official Nanepashemet NCAA Football Team endorsements.... which I will one of these times.
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Then Sunday, we worked on Tommy O's deck and would have had a great deal more done if we were not interrupted constantly by reporters from Architectural Digest, Coastal Living, and Fine Homebuilding in their quest to break the story of the latest Nanepashemet Deck to the general public.
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Not that I blame them.  The deck is shaping up in typical pristine primo fashion...  a suitable setting  for copious consumption of Coors Light and Margaritas in the coming months.
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Then today it was time to deadhead back to Connecticut in an all out assault for Nanepashemet Telecom business excellence.
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So that's the reason that the freaking lapse happened.
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Sorry.

Boston Stuff

MOAM Looking Back

Doesn't seem so long ago.

Irritating v. Despicable

The other day I was complaining to someone about how the Democrats seem to talk down and pander to people.
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Irritating.
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But Vice President Joe Biden  hit a new low when he told a mixed race audience in Virginia yesterday  that Mitt Romney’s tax policy would put “y’all back in chains,”.
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Joe, we know that you are not the sharpest knife in the draw, and we can't blame someone for being a little stupid.... but we CAN blame someone for being an Asshole.
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So let's analize this statement a little bit.
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How does cutting taxes equate to people being enslaved?   "Y'ALL" understand this? 
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Then you are a lot smarter than me because I don't see the logic at all.
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What I see happening here is a Democrat seeking to talk down to an ethic audience, because Joe isn't from the South and "Y'ALL" isn't close to being in his vocabulary, so that was a pandering, talking down remark.  This is irritating.

But the "back in Chains" part?  That goes deep into Joe's Liberal outlook, because he still looks out there and says something to cut deep into the psyche of a Black American... to scare them into seeking a false refuge with the Liberal policy of creating a dependency on government programs run by Liberals.
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This part isn't irritating.  It is pathological and despicable.
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So if you are looking for a slavery metaphor, Joe... consider this... Republican tax policy has nothing to do with slavery.... but Abraham Lincoln was a Republican... and he freed the slaves.  So maybe "Y'ALL" can weave this into your line of political bullshit.
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Pandering Asshole.

Bloviate

Word of the Day

• bloviate
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• \BLOH-vee-ayt\

• DEFINITION

adjective

: to speak or write verbosely and windily

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