By Michael J. Smith on Friday February 2, 2007 11:29 PM
The much-ballyhoo'd new Governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, is clearly going to provide us all a rich vein of fun over the next few years:
http://www.andnetwork.com/index?service=direct/0/Home/recent.titleStory&sp=l173151
More than 10 blinking electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots in Boston threw a scare into the city in what turned out to be a publicity campaign for a late-night cable cartoon... Highways, bridges and a section of the Charles River were shut down and bomb squads were sent in ... "It's a hoax - and it's not funny," said Gov. Deval Patrick, who said he will speak to the state's attorney general "about what recourse we may have."The oddly hysterical response in Beantown had some of my mailing lists scratching their heads. The Hub is supposed to be so... liberal. Why then did they react more hysterically than Chicago... Atlanta... Philadelphia?Turner Broadcasting, a division of Time Warner Inc. and parent of Cartoon Network, said the devices were part of a promotion for the TV show "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" ... "They have been in place for two to three weeks in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Austin, San Francisco, and Philadelphia," [said Turner Broadcasting].
To which I would respond -- do you have to ask?
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The oddly hysterical response in Beantown had some of my mailing lists scratching their heads. The Hub is supposed to be so... liberal. Why then did they react more hysterically than Chicago... Atlanta... Philadelphia?
Just a gang of latte sucking Ivy League liberals who hate America and reject the Second Amendment. They're all pussies.
They're a bit like all of us in the Democratic Party's one party dictatorship here in New Jersey although they don't have the mob. Wait, they do have the mob.
So who knows? I'd guess you'd be hard pressed to identify anything in Boston different from Seattle, New York, or Chicago. When the government intentionally orchestrates a campaign of fear in order to achieve little goals like stopping an anti-war protest in NYC on February, 15th 2003 or keeping the Republicans in office in 2004, it's occasionally going to blow a gasket.
But thanks for the photo of Dukakis. It brought me back to my youth. The two defining political events of my late teens were the Iran Contra trial and the fact that the Democrats chose Dukakis over Jesse Jackson.
I've been cynical about politics ever since.
Posted by Stanley W. Rogouski | February 3, 2007 8:56 AM
Posted on February 3, 2007 08:56
take from a resident native...
you get picked off
on both
class and context here
recall the boston of r.o.a.r. circa 75
the paleface ethnicocal ignoranti
anti busocrats ??
that boston my kinda boston
now personified on it's dark moon side
by our mash potato mayor
and more specifically
its potato headed
Naz-i -cratic heat squads...
among other things this local machine industrial complex
managed not only to cage the nation pwwoggery at the demovention in 04
but kill a co ed
when firing volleys of plastic bullets
into a youthful mob of post home team victory revellers
no this one's closer to the Democracy
that gave us the anti draft riots of 1863...
now large uniformed and LOCALLY in charge
Posted by owen paine | February 3, 2007 9:48 AM
Posted on February 3, 2007 09:48
cell call from jaybro..
imagine two nerd boho guys
from Charlestown
started
A Movement
"mock the gwot...mock the gwot"
to the Clash tune of 'rock the casbah '
Posted by owen paine | February 3, 2007 11:25 AM
Posted on February 3, 2007 11:25
Mooninites > Boston!
Free the ATHF 2!
Posted by AlanSmithee | February 3, 2007 11:17 PM
Posted on February 3, 2007 23:17