When Spell Check Fails....

From today's T&G:

The real Marty Lamb

I just had the misfortune of watching Marty Lamb's infomercial on Channel 3.  Here's what you might have missed if you didn't realize it was a half hour long paid commercial:

-Marty's a on again, off again Tea Partier.

-Marty's a anti-bailout candidate, except whenever he needs the bailout.

-Marty believes in a balanced budget and limiting government spending to the rate of inflation, yet if he wins, he will be a freshman Republican congressman and will vote lockstep with the same Republican party that historically violates these principles.

-Marty believes in budget busting tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.

-Marty is running as a pro-business candidate, and accuses Jim McGovern of being anti business.  But when asked to detail how McGovern is anti-business, he can't point out any specifics.

-Marty can pack debates with some hecklers, but when faced with a debate he considers biased, he has other 'commitments'.

-Marty's biggest contributor is a Nevada based PAC, Western Representation PAC.

-Western Representation PAC is also supporting Senate candidates Joe Miller (R- AK), Sharron Angle (R- NV), and Congressional candidate Sean Bielat (R- MA).

-Western's founder is Dustin Stockton, who is also a member of the Tea Party Express, which will be coming to Worcester on November 1st, 2:30 pm (location TBD).

-Dustin Stockton's fundraising appeal had this to say about Jim McGovern:

"Barney Frank isn’t the only radical Massachusetts liberal who can be defeated. Congressman Jim McGovern wrote the bill that raised the debt ceiling, selling our children and grandchildren into debt. As chairman of the House Rules Committee, he changed the rules to allow Nancy Pelosi to push Obamacare through in the middle of the night. He is friends with many socialist third-world dictators in our own hemisphere and he has been linked to narco-terrorists in Colombia. Jim McGovern has been arrested twice while serving in Congress. We are the only national group opposing Jim McGovern and you can help us defeat him by making a contribution.  With so many races across the country, this race almost slipped through the cracks. Scott Brown overwhelmingly won this district in January and it is a great opportunity to win another seat from a radical socialist liberal."   (source: http://christiangunslinger.blogspot.com/, owned by Donald Vance.)

-Western Representation PAX boasts Rusty Humphries, conservative radio host as a speaker and contributor.  For those of you who aren't familiar with Rusty's work, here's a clip:

Privatization.

Of course the market always works, and benefits everyone, while the government is evil and must be stopped.

School reading

Here's an interesting NY Times piece on Brockton High that challenges some of the trends in education reform and Race to the Top.

What an odd idea- actually letting the faculty of a high school control their own jobs.

Where in Worcester?

This picture was taken Wednesday afternoon, right around rush hour, facing west.

Operation Enduring Craters.

Nicole wanted a recent picture of the Newton Square Project.  Here it is!

Here's the inside of the bunker.  I posted about this on August 27th, and 18 days later, the bunker and crater are still there.  Anyone want to make a prediction when this gets filled in?  The over/under is before/after the first snowfall.  I'll take after.

Employee #337

I was voter #337 at roughly 5:30 this afternoon at Temple Emanuel.  That's not a bad turnout seeing the evening rush hadn't begun, but with the large number of unregistered or apathetic citizens outnumbering the voting public, it's pretty depressing.