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July 29, 2010
10:29
Stu Bornstein once again stung by Ann Canedy, and her gang of anti-Semitic Anglo-Saxon WASP thugs….
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Posted: July 29th, 2010, 10:29am EDT
I've got to hand it to Stu Bornstein. Despite the fact the Barnstable town council and bureaucrats continually spit in his face and knock him down, he always gets up, wipes himself off and stands his ground. Sure Stu buys...
10:29
Stu Bornstein once again stung by Ann Canedy, and her gang of anti-Semitic WASP thugs….
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Posted: July 29th, 2010, 10:29am EDT
I've got to hand it to Stu Bornstein. Despite the fact the Barnstable town council and bureaucrats continually spit in his face and knock him down, he always gets up, wipes himself off and stands his ground. Sure Stu buys...
July 28, 2010
11:07
Greg Milne cons Stewarts Creek voters into trading their orchard for an apple…
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Posted: July 28th, 2010, 11:07am EDT
Milne's actions toward his constituents in Stewarts Creek means they can look forward to receiving the first of twenty annual betterment bills in the mail after Christmas. That bill will be for their first annual payment toward a $12,000 to...
July 27, 2010
7:29
Martha’s Vineyard…Urine as much trouble as Stewarts Creek.
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Posted: July 27th, 2010, 7:29am EDT
Rep. Matt Patrick’s bill barring septic engineering firms leading the charge for massive sewer expansion from doing work in those communities must be log jammed behind the House’s arm-twisting for slots in empty buildings that were once race tracks, like...
July 26, 2010
13:08
Excessive Barnstable’s Five Fire Departments costs are peanuts to Bell, CA salaries, and only $2 million less than last year's D/Y school budget...
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Posted: July 26th, 2010, 1:08pm EDT
So why aren't taxpayers rioting in the streets, or the story front page news? In Bell, CA, the citizens are fuming, rioting, marching, and protesting over the City Manager’s $757,000 salary; the Police Chief’s $475,000 salary, the Assistant City Manager’s...
July 25, 2010
15:13
Timothy Treadwell and the Barnstable town council; separated at birth…
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Posted: July 25th, 2010, 3:13pm EDT
While Treadwell’s mistake was placing anthropomorphic values on bears, the council’s gaffe was accusing the death of eel grass on callous anthropogenic acts. The truth is real human beings don’t take everything from folks who have very little, i.e. Stewarts...
July 24, 2010
12:26
A word from the wiser to Yarmouth voters…
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Posted: July 24th, 2010, 12:26pm EDT
DUMP DEMETRIUS ATSALIS ON NOVEMBER 2, 2010. Who am I to talk? In 1997 I co-founded Residents for Government Equity (RAGE) that lobbied Beacon Hill relentlessly for more Chapter 70 school aid to 7 Cape Cod communities including Dennis and...
July 23, 2010
15:56
Extravagant spending in Bell, CA, is chump change in Barnstable….
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Posted: July 23rd, 2010, 3:56pm EDT
The recent resignations of the City of Bell’s Chief Administrative Officer, Robert Rizzo, who earned $787,637 a year — nearly twice the pay of President Barack Obama, Police Chief Randy Adams, whose annual salary of $457,000 double that of Los...
July 22, 2010
13:01
You do not define the First Amendment. It defines you,..... because it is bigger than you. That's how freedom works. (Charlton Heston, 09/14/97)
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Posted: July 22nd, 2010, 1:01pm EDT
Before you get into today's post I'd like to report that Lake Wequaquet is open for swimming… The Wequaquet Lake Yacht Club called all its members yesterday noon to report the e-coli colony levels fell below the “no swim” beach...
July 21, 2010
16:01
I bought a new Ford F250 Tri-Flex ...
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Posted: July 21st, 2010, 4:01pm EDT
I bought a new Ford F250 Tri-Flex Fuel Truck Go figure it runs on either hydrogen, gasoline, or E85. I returned to the dealer yesterday Because I couldn't get the radio to work… The service technician explained that the radio...
16:01
I just bought the greatest new truck....
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Posted: July 21st, 2010, 4:01pm EDT
I bought a new Ford F250 Tri-Flex Fuel Truck Go figure it runs on either hydrogen, gasoline, or E85. I returned to the dealer yesterday Because I couldn't get the radio to work… The service technician explained that the radio...
July 20, 2010
22:41
Mommas don’t let your babies go up to Lake Wequaquet today,
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Posted: July 20th, 2010, 10:41pm EDT
Is Swimming Safe? YES Is the Beach Open? NO A dip in Lake Wequaquet after four days of 90 degree heat is typically a refreshing and safe activity. However, today the beach is closed because of waterborne pathogens, which are...
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Mommas don’t let your babies grow up to Lake Wequaquet today,
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Posted: July 20th, 2010, 10:41pm EDT
Is Swimming Safe? YES Is the Beach Open? NO A dip in Lake Wequaquet after four days of 90 degree heat is typically a refreshing and safe activity. However, today the beach is closed because tests from water samples indicate...
11:49
Barnstable voters should be ashamed of themselves because ALL roads in town should be paved in virtual gold and property taxes slashed 33%..
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Posted: July 20th, 2010, 11:49am EDT
On Sunday I wrote a post about Hull voters nixing a measly $1.9 million override to keep the school program on a par with last year’s level. For Hull homeowners the small override would have increased the average annual property...
July 19, 2010
7:08
Automobile excise tax; a hateful inequitable tax levied annually on automobiles, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches like Klimmboobs to whom the excise is paid.
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Posted: July 19th, 2010, 7:08am EDT
The automobile excise tax is really an ad valorem tax (Latin for according to value) because it is based on the value of the automobile. The Massachusetts automobile excise tax was imposed in the early 19th Century to generate revenue...
July 18, 2010
7:49
Klimmboobs; obdurate, intractable, and sub-human animalistic ding-dongs…
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Posted: July 18th, 2010, 7:49am EDT
Comparative psychology is the study of animal behavior in hopes it can lead to a deeper and broader understanding of human psychology. Research on animal behavior has led to numerous discoveries about human behavior, such as Ivan Pavlov's research on...
July 17, 2010
10:49
Joakim's mouth is still writing checks, her ass can’t cash…
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Posted: July 17th, 2010, 10:49am EDT
In response to John Julius’s public comment a successful Conservation Law Foundation legal action against the United States over Congress’s failure to exempt “non-point sources” from the Clean Water Act would be a net benefit to Barnstable because it would...
10:49
Joakim's mouth is still writing checks her ass can’t cash…
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Posted: July 17th, 2010, 10:49am EDT
In response to John Julius’s public comment a successful Conservation Law Foundation legal action against the United States over Congress’s failure to exempt “non-point sources” from the Clean Water Act would be a net benefit to Barnstable because it would...
July 16, 2010
14:50
Klimmboobs separate sewer/road paving override into two separate overrides…
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Posted: July 16th, 2010, 2:50pm EDT
In November Barnstable voters will have a menu of override choices; .. a $0.28 cent increase in the tax rate to seed the $162 million sewer expansion (stabilization) fund, a $0.22 cent increase in the tax rate to pay for...
July 15, 2010
8:51
Klimmboobs; totally disconnected from reality….
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Posted: July 15th, 2010, 8:51am EDT
On the evening after it was announced the Senate will not extend extended unemployment aid to the jobless until those benefits are balanced with cuts in other areas of government, Barnstable’s morally bankrupt political leaders will hold a public hearing...
July 14, 2010
11:08
Sewer expansion in Barnstable; derelict voodoo science by the MADEP (Barnstable's George Zoto) and Klimmboob witch doctors…
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Posted: July 14th, 2010, 11:08am EDT
A few weeks plus a year ago at the same building where Thursday’s town council hearing is to be held the panel’s clarion call for town-wide sewer expansion was to avoid a law suit to be filed by the Conservation...
July 13, 2010
9:16
MAC (Massachusetts Aeronautic Commission) may be dead, but the agency isn't buried…
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Posted: July 13th, 2010, 9:16am EDT
Without an iota of a scent of state money Klimmboobs signed a contract to build the new $20 million airport terminal. During the last year Barnstable Airport passenger enplanements are down 40%, and counting commensurate with the flailing economy, but...
July 12, 2010
9:15
It’s tough to be God….
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Posted: July 12th, 2010, 9:15am EDT
I know John Klimm flourishes on being God, making life and death decisions, who stays, who goes broke, for hundreds in Stewarts Creek most of whom he doesn't know. I know I couldn’t do it. I lived in Tracy, CA...
July 11, 2010
8:03
Say good night Bud, and turn out the airport lights, the party’s just about over.
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Posted: July 11th, 2010, 8:03am EDT
Colgan Airline’s disappearance from Barnstable Airport is another step closer to the end for the facility simply because no one wants spend the money to fly to Klimmboob-burgh as long Greyhound is in business. Colgan is still flying from LaGuardia...
July 09, 2010
11:13
The Barnstable Patriot finally prints the facts about the impending sewer override….
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Posted: July 9th, 2010, 11:13am EDT
As it stands today voters will be asked to approve a $0.28 cent override ($750,000 X 20 years = $15 million), Voters approving the override will simultaneously agree to cede their Proposition 2 1/2 levy limit rights to nine KLIMMBOOBS...
July 07, 2010
19:39
Be careful of what your councilor will wish for you on July 15th....
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Posted: July 7th, 2010, 7:39pm EDT
The override your councilor will put on the November ballot, if approved by voters, will in essence increase the tax bill of the median value home from 50% - 100%, and that doesn't include the $14,000 homeowners will have to...
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Be careful of your councilor's wish for you on July 15th, because it could be your ticket out of town in a boxcar...
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Posted: July 7th, 2010, 7:39pm EDT
The override your councilor will put on the November ballot, if approved by voters, will in essence increase the tax bill of the median value home anywhere from 50% to 100%, not including the cost of the override, the $14,000...
July 05, 2010
17:16
Would you loan money to your filthy-rich uncle, John Klimm, and his boobs?
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Posted: July 5th, 2010, 5:16pm EDT
Thousands of city and town librarians, police, teachers, and other workers are being laid off across Massachusetts due to the local aid cut backs in the recently signed F/Y2011 state budget. Thousands more municipal employees saw their jobs saved because...
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Would you loan money to your filthy-rich uncle, John Klimm?
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Posted: July 5th, 2010, 5:16pm EDT
There are lots of legislators on Beacon Hill who feel Barnstable is so wealthy it should loan the state money. In most parts of the state thousands of city and town librarians, police, teachers, and other workers are being laid...
July 03, 2010
8:39
Chopped liver is always served as a side dish, never as a main dish;
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Posted: July 3rd, 2010, 8:39am EDT
For the past year the Klimmboobs, who manage the town of Barnstable, have treated Stewarts Creek homeowners like chopped liver; unimportant. and dispensable. The Klimmboobs override idea will also define those who count, and those who don’t, beyond Stewarts Creek....
July 01, 2010
8:49
There's more than a strong probability thay a "YES" vote on Barnstable's sewer override will make your home uninhabitable, ergo of little value...
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Posted: July 1st, 2010, 8:49am EDT
You "YES" vote to expand the sewer system into your neighborhood means you'll have to "pancake" and bury your Title V septic system before you "hook up" to the sewer line. According to the town’s Final Environmental Impact Report the...
8:49
There's more than a strong probability that a "YES" vote on Barnstable's sewer override will make your home UNINHABITABLE, and of little value...
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Posted: July 1st, 2010, 8:49am EDT
Your "YES" vote to expand the sewer system into your neighborhood means you'll have to "pancake" and bury your Title V septic system before you "hook up" to the sewer line. According to the town’s Final Environmental Impact Report the...
June 29, 2010
10:07
Barnstable Town Council’s override plan needs a whole lot of “Muntzing.”
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Posted: June 29th, 2010, 10:07am EDT
Angie Dickenson, Phylis Diller, and others talk about Earl (Madman) Muntz on YouTube “Muntzing” was ascribed to Earl “Madman” Muntz who stripped televisions, stereos, VCR’s, and automobiles down to their barest "no frills" essentials, repackaged them, and sold them under...
June 27, 2010
14:40
After a review of Barnstable and Yarmouth's state aid, sane, rational, and fiscally responsible people will say; MUNAFO; SI; ATSALIS; NO!
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Posted: June 27th, 2010, 2:40pm EDT
What separates an effective, versus a totally useless, state representative is his or her ability to “bring home the bacon”. When folks ask me who is the boss in MY house, I answer; My wife, because she makes the little...
June 24, 2010
14:08
November 2, 2010 to be MAKMENDE time in Barnstable
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Posted: June 24th, 2010, 2:08pm EDT
Makmende is Swahli for a mispronunciation of Clint Eastwood's phrase "Go ahead, make my day" (Mek ma nday) in the movie Sudden Impact. Street bad guy wannabes in Kenya are asked "Who do you think you are? Makmende?". Harry Callahan...
June 23, 2010
9:56
Eric Schwaab and Commander-In-Chief Obama; separated at birth
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Posted: June 23rd, 2010, 9:56am EDT
As his predicted policy failures pile up, Obama will go through the motions of a fair and unbiased hearing, before he fires General McChrystal for exposing Obama's characterization of his deployment of even more troops to Afghanistan as "painful." McChrystal...
June 22, 2010
9:35
When Simon says jump, the Cape Cod Times says, "How high"?….
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Posted: June 22nd, 2010, 9:35am EDT
The Times praised the Patrick administration for awarding Barnstable for what amounts to be an apple in exchange for the orchard's yield. Past Times editors lauded RAGE for beating up Beacon Hill for the picayune level of school aid, while...
June 21, 2010
8:19
What is a neighborhood?
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Posted: June 21st, 2010, 8:19am EDT
Eric Schwaab wants the Noah Shelter closed because it is in his “neighborhood”. He said it’s easy for “us” to defend the shelter because the homeless shelter isn’t in “our” neighborhood. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE Most of us define...
June 20, 2010
12:58
If the current economy is the standard, it’s the wrong time to close the Noah Shelter...
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Posted: June 20th, 2010, 12:58pm EDT
The U.S. government system, and the American culture promote opportunity for people to succeed, or fail, on their own. Have Police Chief, MacDonald, Debbie Converse, Rob O'Leary, and scores of Hyannis businessmen forgotten the last few sentences from the New...
June 18, 2010
11:18
If it's not good enough for the 44 Massachusetts communities in the MWRA (3.2 million people), the same should be true for folks in Falmouth and Hyannis..
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Posted: June 18th, 2010, 11:18am EDT
Falmouth’s public water supply comes from Long and Jonathon Ponds which are surface waters, or open toilets and cemeteries for fish, fowl, and animals. The remaining 14 Cape communities get their drinking water from the deepest sections of 40 –...
June 17, 2010
6:43
Klimmboobs’ $200 a month new sewer bills + Obamaination’s B.P. deal to create a $20 billion escrow account for Gulf Coast businesses = Armageddon for Stewarts Creek….
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Posted: June 17th, 2010, 6:43am EDT
Is there anyone out there that doubts Obama’s $20 billion escrow heist, and the final tab for the Gulf oil leak will result in $5-a-gallon gasoline, and heating oil prices this winter? CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE B.P. doesn't print...
June 15, 2010
10:53
Barnstable/Dukes/Nantucket Counties Senate Race; You definitely need a program to tell the players…
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Posted: June 15th, 2010, 10:53am EDT
Dan Wolf, entrepreneur extraordinaire, who twenty years ago founded Cape Air as a one-pilot (himself) and one-route (Boston to Provincetown) airline. Since then Wolf parlayed his investment into the largest independent regional airline in the country, with 850 employees working...
June 13, 2010
12:36
Barnstable’s million dollar-plus Growth Management Department budget to get even BIGGER!!!!….
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Posted: June 13th, 2010, 12:36pm EDT
I’ve researched all 351 Massachusetts communities, and have yet to find one municipality, other than Barnstable, that has a Growth Management Department. Amazingly Barnstable taxpayers spend more than a million dollars each year to fund county government, including the Cape...
June 11, 2010
15:45
Thank God for his gift of non-fecundity to Barnstable’s biggest, and most vile two-legged rats….
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Posted: June 11th, 2010, 3:45pm EDT
Has anyone seen a John Klimm, Junior? How about a Gregg Milne, Junior? Barnstable Patriot columnist, Paul Gauvin, reported today that Barnstable councilor, Greg Milne, reprised his 14-month-old Brutus routine on Stewarts Creek homeowners. Who can forget the April 16,...
June 10, 2010
12:44
Another example of Klimmboob's right hand knoweth not what the left hand is doing policy...
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Posted: June 10th, 2010, 12:44pm EDT
John Julius, a local real estate salesman, is in the midst of closing the property at 43 Rainbow Drive, Centerville, MA. The four-bedroom-three-bath-home has a failed septic leach field. John received approval from the owner (a bank) to repair the...
12:44
Another example of Klimmboob's "right hand knoweth not what the left hand doeth" policy...
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Posted: June 10th, 2010, 12:44pm EDT
John Julius, a local real estate salesman, is in the midst of closing the property at 43 Rainbow Drive, Centerville, MA. The four-bedroom-three-bath-home has a failed septic leach field. John received approval from the owner (a bank) to repair the...
June 08, 2010
9:25
While Klimmboobs sit around tooting their horns, future Barnstable state local aid will plummet even further….
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Posted: June 8th, 2010, 9:25am EDT
Today (within thirty minutes from the time this post went up) the Bureau of Local Assessment will hold a Formal Public Hearing on the proposed Equalized Valuation (EQV) in the Bureau of Local Assessment offices in Boston at 100 Cambridge...
June 06, 2010
14:22
Chief Klimmboob Speaks With Forked Tongue….
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Posted: June 6th, 2010, 2:22pm EDT
At this week’s Barnstable Town Council hearing, John Klimm took a shot at Capecog/COGsolidation Central (see two-minute YouTube video) when he said his 2009 Town Report was misrepresented. The Chief said the Town Attorney’s report that 292 "Cases Opened in...
June 04, 2010
10:36
Klimmboobs and Stewarts Creeker’s; Adam Smith followers, NOT
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Posted: June 4th, 2010, 10:36am EDT
Laissez-faire philosophies, such as minimizing the role of government in the free countries, and the idea that an "invisible hand" guides supply and demand are among the key ideas Adam Smith promoted. Each person, by looking out for him or...
June 03, 2010
9:02
Cape Cod Times is relentless with its fairy tales....
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Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 9:02am EDT
Shortly after Memorial Day, 2005 the following letter to the editor was printed in a Yuma, Arizona newspaper. 'Question of the day for Luke Air Force Base: Whom do we thank for the morning air show? Last Wednesday, at precisely...

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