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War Is The Obscenity

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Tuesday, October 5, 2010 — It took a couple of days for this news item to reach us. We thank Will Thomas, New Hampshire’s Acting Coordinator for Veterans for Peace, for alerting us to it. The story, lifted by us from the Common Dreams newswire, follows the video. Much of the video and text revolves around the deployment of an obscenity, which seems appropriate. Some things are more obscene than others. The question, “How’s that war economy working for you?” has plenty of merit, too. Banner-Drop on Pennsylvania Avenue: “Mr. Obama: End These Fucking Wars! War is the Obscenity” Veterans’ 25 x 17 Banner Tells …

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Best Clip of the General Election Already?

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Thursday, September 16, 2010 —The primary election is only 48 hours old, and already we have a contender for best clip of the general election. What is the best part? 1) Bill O’Really referring to Ovide Lamontagne as “some guy?” 2) Bill O’Really saying incorrectly that Half-Governor Palin endorsed Lamontagne? 3) Bill O’Really saying Lamontagne won the primary? 4) Palin, endorser of Kelly Ayotte, like a moose in the headlights, rendered mute by O’Really’s powerful imagination? 5) Fox “News” viewers’ inevitable shrugging off O’Really’s ignorance and Palin’s loss of the power of speech? 6) Other. Discuss in Comments, please. Thanks to Dean Barker for posting …

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Ah, the Pipes …

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Saturday, September 11, 2010 — We’re not much on the ritual issuance of boilerplate reaffirmations of official doctrine, but we are irresistably drawn towards the skirling of the pipes. So this seems as good a day as any, and a better day than most, to publish this bit of video. On Friday, August 27th we were finishing up the delivery of our Volume 254, No. 24 when we happened upon the Maine Public Safety Pipe & Drum Corps offering up a very well-received rendition of “The Rakes of Mallow” in front of the Rí Rá Irish Pub in Market Square. Based in Portland and made …

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Maine Gubernatorial Visits — Part III

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Another update from Ben Porter on the effort to educate the next Governor of Maine on the importance of our bridges: Subject: Two Final Gubernatorial Candidate Schedules Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2010 5:49 PM From: Save Our Bridges! This note provides you with the schedule for the final two gubernatorial candidate visits here in Kittery, and provides a quick summary of the positions of the candidates who have visited so far. On Wednesday, September 15th, Independent Candidate Kevin Scott will be at the Weathervane Lobster in the Rough on Badgers Island at Noon. He will be focusing on listening to all of us about the …

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Maine Gubernatorial Candidate Visits – Part II

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This just in from Ben Porter at Save Our Bridges: Another visit from a Maine Gubernatorial candidate, this coming Tuesday … Message Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010 9:04 PM From: Save Our Bridges! Subject: Gubernatorial Candidate Visits – Part II Over the past month we have had visits to Kittery by two of the Gubernatorial candidates, Elliot Cutler (Independent) and Libby Mitchell (Democrat). We have scheduled another visit next week, and are in the process of scheduling two more. In each of these meetings, our objective is to educate the candidate about the criticality of our bridges to the community, to the State of Maine, …

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Bold Talk, Chickenhawk

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Thursday, September 2, 2010 — As a boy Alan K. Simpson seems to have been fairly combative. He’s on record as having punched a cop, anyway. He’s apparently got a record for comitting arson on federal property, too. Despite these indicators of a lively sense of fun, Simpson passed up the opportunity to exercise his aggressive instincts when the Korean War started, although he was old enough to enlist. While a lot of guys his age were in boot camp, Alan “got with the program” at the Cranbrook School, in la-de-dah Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, then did four years straight at the U. of Wyoming. Once …

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