- Deval Patrick posts sign language - yes, in these days of tightening belts, layoffs, and furlough programs for city workers, the powers-that-be in Massachusetts have spent nearly $100K on new road signs. What's that, you say? Jay, aren't you being a little tough on Cadillac Deval? The state needs these signs, right?
Yeah. We needed to drop a hundred large on signs exhorting MA drivers to "drive carefully"... - Bunker Hill Day Parade goes on, amid battle over holiday - this was a story on the news this morning. Bunker Hill Day (today) and Evacuation Day (March 17th, go figure) are holidays celebrated exclusively by state and city workers in Suffolk County (Boston and surrounding suburbs). The two extra vacation days cost the state $5 MILLION a year. A GOP State Senator has introduced a bill to abolish these holidays, but it's about as likely as Mumbles joining the NRA...
- NFL's Stallworth gets 30 days behind bars in pedestrian's death - (Stallworth is a former NE Patriot). Apparently the lax sentencing for crimes committed via automobile follows MA residents even after they've left the Commonwealth. 30 days for killing someone. Unreal. And Michael Vick got, what, two years for killing dogs...
Okay, that's enough depressing/infuriating news for now...
That is all.
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And Martha Stewart got 5 months followed by 5 months of house arrest. As in couldn't leave her property house arrest. For what was, if anything, a technical violation of federal law.
And people think Plaxico Burris will serve 3-5 years. Right.
Gotta go, the Flying Monkeys are getting ready to fly out of my butt.
1) If you need to tell people to "drive carefully" there are other problems.
2) 3 names and titles are on the sign and should any one of them leave or change office then the sign would obsolete and those vain enough to put it up wouldn't blink about spending taxpayer money to update it.
3) Encouraging people to drive carefully and then giving them a sign to read while driving seems to be at cross purposes - especially considering that most of the words on the sign do not pertain to the message that the sign is claimed to be about (2 words about driving carefully and 17 words not about driving carefully)
Driving across Illinois on a Thursday I noticed 2 areas of road with Recovery & Reinvestment Act signs. Neither area had anyone working on the roads.
I hope there are more people out there with your way of thinking. Stay alive
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