Unsurprisingly, Ballot Question 5, to require an increased minimum wage for tipped workers, is funded by a California radical group—meaning DemocRATS who are REALLY, REALLY STUPID AND INTO SELF-ABUSE. SO YEAH, IF YOU DON’T THINK YOU ARE BEING SCREWED ENOUGH ALREADY AT THE GROCERY STORE BY BIDEN-HARRISINFLATION, THEN, BY ALL MEANS, VOTE FOR BALLOT QUESTION 5 AND SCREW YOURSELVES SOME MORE AT RESTAURANTS AND FAST-FOOD OUTLETS.
In the Commie State of California restaurant and fast-food-joint workers now get a minimum wage of $20/hour, driving up meal prices for customers/patrons and payroll costs for owners. That has spurred restaurant and fast-food-joint owners to adopt automation in order to eliminate workers/payroll overhead and remain competitive—
MEMO TO DemocRATS: You can’t get $20/hour as a California fast food worker if your job is eliminated by a robot. The same principle applies to workers here in the Commie Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
SO, unless you are a REALLY, REALLY stupid DemocRAT ignorant of economic laws and into self-abuse (but I repeat myself), VOTE ‘NO’ ON BALLOT QUESTION 5.
Komrad Kommiela Harris is sinking like a stone in the 2024 Presidential Election betting pools. Thinking people have had waaaay more than enough of the press-dodging, lying, equivocating, empty-pantsuit, airhead, destructive DemocRAT Totalitarian Swamp Rat. That’s no wonder given her announced policy pronouncements compiled here:
I’m hoping for a 5 November 2024 Pro-Trump Electoral College Tidal Wave as a prelude to completely scouring out Swamp Rat-infested D.C.– the District of Corruption.
GET OUT AND VOTE. MAKE THE 2024 ELECTION TOO BIG TO RIG!
QUESTION: What’s the difference between the rancid DemocRAT-dominated Massachusetts Legislature and a DEN OF THIEVES???
ANSWER: There is none.
The Massachusetts State Auditor is elected to audit every Massachusetts state entity to facilitate efficiency and cut down on cronyism, fraud, waste, and abuse.
Tax-hungry, tax-wasting DemocRAT hyenas dominate the Massachusetts Legislature, THE ONLY Massachusetts state entity that refuses to be audited by the State Auditor.
The Massachusetts State Legislature is one (1) of ONLY four (4) Legislatures in the U.S. that exempts itself from Public Records-request laws.
If the Massachusetts Legislature were efficient, honest, above-board, and on the level, it would welcome annual outside audits BUT, OF COURSE, IT IS NONE OF THOSE THINGS.
SO, VOTE ‘YES’ ON NOVEMBER BALLOT QUESTION 1 AND AUTHORIZE THE STATE AUDITOR OPEN AND EXAMINE THE CROOKED MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE’S ACCOUNT BOOKS.
When it comes to self-abuse, and risking the safety non-dopers such as innocent drivers and their passengers using taxpayer-funded public ways, dopers, like drunks, aren’t known for self-restraint. AND, of course, their wholesale and retail suppliers/enablers are amoral, profiteering sociopath whores—and the same goes for city and town officials who encourage them in order to increase their respective ‘tax bases.’
SO NOW, VIA NOVEMBER BALLOT QUESTION 4, the dopers and their degenerate allies want to legalize the cultivation, sale, and possession of so-called ‘psychedelic/hallucinogenic mushrooms,’ as though they are harmless personal playthings. They are not. Psilocybin, referred to explicitly in Ballot Question 4, along with LSD and heroin, is on Schedule 1 of controlled substances the possession and distribution of which constitute very serious federal crimes. SEE Drug Fact Sheet: Psilocybin (dea.gov), Psilocybin Fast Facts (justice.gov)
This is what the Massachusetts Legislature’s Special Joint Committee on Initiative Petitions had to say, in pertinent part, about Ballot Question 4:
“The petition would both create a system of state-licensed and taxed [cultivation and retail] facilities on the one hand, and on the other, decriminalize the cultivation, possession, and distribution of a variety of hallucinogenic and psychedelic substances. Voters are, therefore, being asked to simultaneously establish a … costly licensure [and regulatory] system…while at the same time making the same substances widely available for individual cultivation across the Commonwealth in a non-licensed manner … [allowing] residents to carry many doses…on their person or in their home at one time. It therefore…allows an unlicensed cultivator to ‘gift’…certain doses… [T]his loophole would…subvert the safety regulations imposed on licensed [growers/sellers],,, The petition would also require municipalities to zone for and permit these licensed [growers/sellers] whilecapping their ability to levy a tax rate [determined] appropriate to manage traffic, …inspections, and any increased calls requesting the assistance of law enforcement or medical professionals… [The petition] OUGHT NOT TO BE ENACTED… “(emphasis added).
It became clear that the MTA is led by a collection of Fact-Free Leftist, Racist, Propagandist Buffoons when its leaders issued their infamous “Dear White Educators” letter following the death of serial criminal offender-doper-counterfeiter George Floyd back in 2020– A message from ALANA educators (massteacher.org) By the way, George Floyd’s Hennepin County autopsy report showed that there was no damage to his airways, BUT that he had heart disease and a potentially lethal amount of fentanyl in his system. Ya, Ya, George Floyd was a paragon of virtue alright. As for the other alleged Black ‘victims’ listed in that letter, ONLY Ahmaud Arbery was a truly innocent victim and his murderers got life in prison– Ahmaud Arbery’s killers sentenced to life in prison for 25-year-old Black man’s murder | CNN
BUT NOOO. The MTA led the 2016 drive to shoot down Massachusetts Charter School expansion– Charter school expansion shot down | AP News The mediocrities inside the MTA don’t like competition and hate being shown-up.
SO NOW the MTA has gotten Question 2 on the November 2024 election ballot. If passed Question 2 would ELIMINATE MCAS testing standards as a high school graduation requirement. That’s right—the MTA is all about NOT BEING HELD TO STANDARDS while scarfing Massachusetts taxpayer funding. That’s yet more proof that it is a collection of mediocrities EAGER TO DUMB-DOWN YOUR KIDS WHILE THEY KEEP THEIR PUBLIC FEEDING TROUGH GRAVY TRAIN GOING.
This is what the Massachusetts Legislature’s Special Joint Committee on Initiative Petition[s] had to say, in pertinent part, about Ballot Question 2:
“[S]imply eliminating the uniform graduation requirement, which will allow students to graduate who do not meet basic standards, with no standardized and consistent benchmark in place to ensure those standards are met, will not improve student outcomes and runs the risk of exacerbating inconsistencies and inequities in instruction and learning across districts… [It] OUGHT NOT TO BE ENACTED….”
On 5 November 2024 VOTE ‘NO’ ON BALLOT QUESTION 2.
Bend over, Sterling Taxpayers, you’re about to get rammed yet again if the D.P.W. gets its wish! In addition to the $$$ Multi-Million Playing Fields Boondoggle Proposal—that while we are already right on the edge of a 2025 Proposition 2 ½ property tax override vote due to out-of-control WRSD budget bloat—here comes ANOTHER BOONDOGGLE. The D.P.W. wants a new building that I hereby dub the ‘Garage Mahal.’ Doubtless the ‘Garage Mahal’ proposal will be for $$$ Millions too.
Do you remember what happened when the D.P.W. built its addition years back? No? Well, at least one of that addition’s floors was poured with a three-inch (3”) pitch. That’s right—on roller skates you could just roll downhill across that floor. I guess they wanted rainwater to run off it in case the roof leaked. BRILLIANT! YEAH, your tax dollars at work—AGAIN!
As I’ve asked previously, how can we say ‘Good-bye’ to John Kilcoyne when he won’t go away? A fruit fly has more brains, more common sense, and bigger balls than that cipher.
Reminder: Kilcoyne opposed expanding the Select Board from 3 to 5 members and, in fact, had a BIG sign made up that he drove around in the bed of his pickup truck opposing that measure. That dumbass’s sign didn’t have any noticeable effect, though. Sterling voters, this year, approved, overwhelmingly, expansion of the Select Board from 3 to 5 members because they know that the 3-member Select Board has been controlled by a self-dealing, behind-the-scenes, pro-property-developer cabal for years. Kilcoyne is one of the cabal members/tools.
Reminder: Kilcoyne opposed the October 2023 Special Town Meeting Warrant Article to audit the bent, out-of-control Board of Health then in place. He was stuffed by Sterling voters then, too.
Reminder: As a Select Board member serving two 3-year terms NOT ONCE did Kilcoyne EVER voice opposition to out-of-control Wachusett Regional School District budget bloat that has pushed the Town of Sterling to the edge of a 2025 Proposition 2 ½ property tax override vote.
Reminder: As a Select Board member Kilcoyne voted repeatedly to maintain Maureen ‘Our Lady of Perpetual Bullshit’ Cranson as Select Board Chair, thereby subverting Sterling tradition and historical practice by which, previously, the Chair rotated each year.
Kilcoyne-The-Braying-Jackass now wants to be on the Sterling Finance Committee—
The fix is in. The current Select Board, and former Select Board member and self-proclaimed pro-development HACK, the new Town Moderator, Richard Lane, will vote to approve Kilcoyne’s appointment to the Finance Committee.
As noted previously on this Blog site the WRSD’s peak enrollment occurred back in 2010 at 7493 students. By FY 2024 WRSD total student enrollment had fallen to 6676, a loss of 817 students—the equivalent of 54.5 empty classrooms using the WRSD’s own, claimed student-teacher ratio. It took 60 years—from its establishment in 1955 to FY 2015—for the WRSD to reach a total budget of $81.3 million. BUT in just the last 10 years, despite that massive enrollment drop-off, the WRSD’s total budget skyrocketed $60.6 million to a total of $121.9 million for FY 2025.
The WRSD Committee and the WRSD Superintendent are outright, blatant cowards. Despite the massive enrollment drop-off they have refused to implement ANY personnel reductions in force (RIFs) authorized by statute—
BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT– THE STERLING SELECT BOARD, IGNORANT COWARDS ALL, HAVE PLAYED ALONG WITH THE WRSD COMMITTEE AND WRSD SUPERINTENTENDENTS. SINCE 2012, AT SUCCESSIVE STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETINGS, THEY HAVE FAILED TO UTTER A SINGLE OBJECTION TO THE OBSCENE WRSD ONGOING, RATCHETED BUDGET BLOAT. THE STERLING SELECT BOARD ARE GUTLESS BUMPS-ON-A-LOG. DUE TO THEIR INCOMPETENCE STERLING TAXPAYERS FACE A LIKELY 2025 PROPOSITION 2 ½ PROPERTY TAX OVERRIDE VOTE.
Oh, so with that threat looming what else can those outright clowns tack on to the Sterling property tax burden??? Gee, how about $$$ MILLIONS for playing fields and associated parking additions???
Well folks, here is what those dopes are up to in that regard:
I repeat the old Sterling joke about the notorious Developer Simpsons, father and son: “The Simpsons never bought a wetland that didn’t perc.”
James Simpson, the son following in the footsteps of his notorious father, proposes to build two homes on land off James Patten Drive. BUT a Coldwater Fisheries Headwaters Tributary Stream flows right through that property as shown by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Wetlands Map/Aerial Survey. Here it is:
That branch of the stream actually forks off the stream that flows under Ashton Lane. The stream that flows under Ashton Lane begins in a wetland located on Kendall Hill near the ‘Malvern Hill’ development.
That tributary stream on Simpson’s parcel flows downhill to join two other tributary streams forming Wekepeke Brook, South Branch, a Massachusetts Coldwater Fisheries Resource. Here is the Massachusetts Coldwater Fisheries Regulation—
SO OF COURSE THE TOWN OF STERLING HIRED HIM TO BE ITS CONSERVATION COMMISSION AGENT!!! You just can’t make up this shit!
Back to that notorious snake, Simpson. He wants to push a driveway over that stream running through his property off James Patten Drive, to be shared by the two homes he wants to build. BUT THAT’S NOT ALL. The only decent soil for septic systems on that parcel is near that stream. Uphill from that stream is the bedrock of Kendall Hill’s north spur.
So where do you think the required soil testing for Simpson’s two planned septic systems was done? Do you trust in the veracity and accuracy of the soil testing reports that Simpson had done? Me neither.
Simpson will be re-appearing before the Sterling Planning Board on 12 September 2024 concerning his proposed “access” to that parcel—
GEE, could the Sterling Planning Board, for once, actually be concerned about protecting a sensitive Sterling natural resource and step into the vacuum left by the Sterling Conservation Commission?
STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS, OVERWATCH 