Firsts
rancesco Schettino who was Captain of the Costa Concordia when it ran aground in Italy remains under house arrest. He’s charged, or potentially charged, with leaving his ship while the crew and passengers were still aboard. Is it a crime to do so? I’d be surprised if the Italian government didn’t come up with a crime of some sort after the embarrassment caused by the entire incident. That’s the way governments are. Maybe they’ll make it a crime not to go down with your ship. That would be tough to do when your ship doesn’t go down, but just lays [...]
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Carp diem
Well, we got some good news this week that should provide a much needed shot in the arm for the area’s tourist industry. The Department of Natural Resources has chosen Clare County for an experimental stocking program. The Department plans on stocking nearly 20,000 fingerling Bighead Carp in Clare’s Lake Shamrock and 30,000 Silver Carp in Harrison’s Budd Lake. Department spokesman Ferd Pectoral made the announcement at Tuesdays County Commission meeting. “This is a new and exciting experiment for the DNR and we look forward to a close working relationship with Clare County and local sportsmen,” said Pectoral. “this is [...]
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And the candidate is….who cares?
The reality show we call American politics continues unabated. On MSNBC, the propaganda organ for the Obama White House, former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough and his group of Manhattan media Kim Kardashians sneer their way through a discussion of what the Republican primaries mean. It’s as if they’re discussing Bulgarian politics or forecasting the future from chicken entrails. They have no grasp of what Americans think or feel. They can only look through the periscope of political polling and guess at what The American People west of New York are like. Clueless. Some Democratic pundits actually think that Conservatives won’t [...]
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The Open Meetings Act was not created for openness in government
Over the years of writing this column, I’ve received many letters, notes, and phone calls from folks that want me to write about some local issue that’s bugging them. As much as I appreciate their interest in Y&TL, I’ve avoided most local political stuff. 90% of it is so boring, small time, and inconsequential that I just can’t generate enough interest to write about it. If your kid got suspended from school and another kid didn’t, it doesn’t mean that the 10,000 or so people that get this paper care about it. That being said, we may have an exception [...]
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Circumstances
This scandal at Penn State involving Assistant Coach Jerry Sandusky molesting young boys is just getting started. The Media loves these cases and are more than willing to concentrate the countries revulsion into what George Orwell called a “2 minute hate.” The only rules are that nobody is to notice it involved an adult male with a boy. To recap what is alleged to have happened, back in 2002 a Graduate Assistant in the athletic department named Mike McCreary was in the Lasch Football Building at Penn State. He says he saw Assistant Coach Jerry Sandusky in the shower with [...]
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