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Who' still fired up this AM!

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Who' still fired up this AM!

I AM!!!!

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Morning, comrades.

I don't know if my candidate has won yet. Numbers were close last night (but we were trailing), and one precinct in Carlisle, MA was still not reported. Our campaign manager felt there would not be enough votes for us to win.

Checking the Globe this morning, it shows us trailing by 600, but no reporting in for Waltham, which I knew we won last night.

So I have no idea. Still waiting for the "official" count.

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Oh lord.... Eastwood explains the Chair story.

Clint, please don't. Just do promo for your new movie, mmmkay?

State senate candidate Michael Barrett beat Joe Kearns Goodwin Thursday to win the Democratic nomination for the Third Middlesex District seat.

Barrett, of Lexington, beat Kearns Goodwin, of Concord, by 300 votes to win the nomination, according to Kearns Goodwin’s campaign manager Cayce McCabe.

“It is truly a victory of grassroots campaigning over celebrity and money,” Barrett said of his victory late Thursday.

Kearns Goodwin's father is Richard Goodwin, who was an adviser to Democratic presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Kearns Goodwin’s mother is Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.

He raised twice as much money for his campaign than anyone else in the crowded race of five Democrats. Kearns Goodwin raised more than $235,000 for his campaign including celebrity contributions from Hollywood producer Steven Spielberg and Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig.

But Barrett, a former state senator for Cambridge, was the only candidate with experience in the state senate, and he credited hard work knocking on doors throughout the district for his win. Barrett also ran for governor in 1994 and lost.

Barrett also defeated the three other Democrats, Mara Dolan, of Concord, Joe Mullin, of Weston, and Alex Buck, of Chelmsford. The senate district represents Bedford, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Lincoln, Waltham, Weston, and parts of Lexington and Sudbury.

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Oh lord.... Eastwood explains the Chair story.

Clint, please don't. Just do promo for your new movie, mmmkay?

Or is his? This whole speech to an empty chair, the explaination of the speech. He is being really crafty in his marketing for the new flick. GENUIS!

I'd prefer he take his genius someplace else.


Especially after I read this from Bob Cesca:

You know who shouldn't be lecturing the Democrats about civility? The people who gave us swift-boating, the Southern Strategy, the outing of Valerie Plame, Birthers, Reverend Wright videos around the clock, "Obama pals around with domestic terrorists," the exploitation of 9/11, comparing a triple amputee Vietnam veteran to Saddam Hussein, the booing of a gay soldier, and the party that sported Purple Heart band-aids at the 2004 convention to mock another decorated Vietnam veteran, John Kerry, who was wounded in combat. And no one on the floor of the Democratic convention hurled peanuts at an African American camerawomen, shouting, "This is how we feed the animals."

Yes, the Democratic speakers unapologetically jabbed Romney for having a Swiss bank account and for being a shameless prevaricator. They criticized his policy proposals for being the usual Reaganomics claptrap we've heard during every election and, accurately enough, how the same policies caused the recession. There's a difference between taking fair shots at an opponent and the reprehensible tactics routinely exercised by the Republicans.

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He left early 'cause he couldn't get any guests? Awwww... I feel so sorry for Roger Hedgehog.

The documents also show some players were unconcerned about sex with adoring fans. One hockey player told the committee "you don't ask (permission for sex) when you are drunk."

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Who cares about infrastructure, anyway?

Unpatriotic subversives..why aren't you driving gas-guzzling SUVs??

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IN other local news....this should be hitting the national wire.

The documents also show some players were unconcerned about sex with adoring fans. One hockey player told the committee "you don't ask (permission for sex) when you are drunk."

If they don't pass the quiz on stopping sexual assaults, they cannot register for second semester classes.

UM is trying to fight Missoula, Montana's reputation as the so-called "rape capital" of America after more than 80 cases of rape were reported in the town over the last three years, including 11 alleged sexual assaults involving UM students over the last 18 months alone.

There's also been the alleged gang-rape by members of University of Montana's lucrative Division I football team, Jezebel reported. Jordan Johnson, the UM's quarterback, was charged this summer with raping an acquaintance, although Johnson maintains his innocence.

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Oh, And Mitt Romney is a classless Piece of crap, officially now.

HE's truly clueless.

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*picks jaw up off floor*

I am stunned and horrified to learn that the National Council (BSA) has created an entirely separate set of leader training materials "Especially for units chartered by the LDS Church"

I haven't read any of these materials, but now I may do so when I have the time.

My prejudice is showing. I'm sorry. I don't like Mormons. Because they are Mormons. Stop trying to ruin everything you don't like, dammit!

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It's been my long-held belief that we wouldn't be having any trouble with our membership rules if the BSA headquarters were based in NYC or SFO. (We were headquartered in New York for a very long time.)

"National", as we call it, is based in Irving, TX. The other thing that most folks don't know is that the Mormon Church doesn't have any indigenous youth organization...they have designated the Boy Scouts as their "Official" youth organization, and for whatever reason, BSA national leadership is top-heavy with Mormons.

I do firmly believe this is the root of all the problems we are having. And it may also explain what I reported last week; National has pretty much told us that they "don't care" about Scouting in the Northeast anymore, so we can pretty much do what we want without fear of repercussion.

While not specifically about the Mormon takeover of the BSA, I did write about government-sponsored youth organizations a while back.

I do fear that the program may become the "Young Pioneers" one day.

It's also worth noting that the LDS and some Hasidic Jews in New York have a very special privilidge within the BSA. Officially, anybody that charters a Scout unit has to allow open membership to anyone that wants to join. However, these two sects can charter "closed" units. Meaning that a specific church or temple can start a Scout unit only for members of that church This has received very little attention outside hardcore liberal Scouters (and I assure you, we are few and far between.)