Update for people who came to Boston last year

[TayTay]

and saw that really depressing statue called 'The Partisans' on the walk over to Beacon Hill. (Really, really depressing. I mean you take one look at that thing and suddenly your life seems meaningless and worthless and only chocolate martinis can ever bring you back.)

You will be happy to know this, ah, memorable scuplture has found a new home outside the Convention Center. From the MA Daybook:


10 a.m. PARTISANS SCULPTURE DEDICATION _ The MBTA and local officials and
guests, celebrate the new home of the Partisans sculpture, which is being
re-located to the MBTA's World Trade Center Station on the South Boston
Waterfront from Boston Common.

Notes: The statue will arrive via flat bed truck on site around 8:30 a.m. It
will be lifted off the truck with a crane and placed into position at the World
Trade Center Station.

Location: World Trade Center Station, Silver Line, South Boston Waterfront,
Boston.






Maybe it's me, but I don't think this pic says, "Welcome to Boston -- We're not Reserved or Aloof or too Serious at all, honest! Prozac available upon request.)

[TayTay]

1. Whome, help

This story just cries out for a response. I have reached my safety limit on snide comments today (Cuz of Barfie) and can't do it.

Caption me:

9 a.m. HEALEY-SCHOOL EVENT _ Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey welcomes students for first
day of Beverly Sobriety High School. CLOSED TO MEDIA.


Jayzus, your first day of Sobriety High and you get to see Kerry Healey (Who so wants our taller Sen, I just know it, ms Kerry Kerry.) Like that's an incentive to stay off the drugs and booze.

[whometense]

2. It'd sure drive me

to drink.

God, she is hapless.

What's she polling nowadays, anyway? Over 30%? Tomorrow's the big night - I'm ready to sit and watch the debate with full attention, and hopefully it will clarify my vote. They've all been taking turns irritating me lately - but that's what you get in a close race. How's Deval holding up? He seems to be the most unflappable of the three. Can't figure out Gabrieli, though. He can't be just stupid. Or can he?

[TayTay]

3. I am still with Deval

Though the 'pure liberal' wine and cheese set that comes with him are annoying. (Seriously annoying. I went to a cookout for Deval and they emphasized how healthy the food was and how there were organic veggies and veggie burgers and everyone drove a Prius and Oh My God, kill me now!)

I think Deval can win if he can convince the voters of MAss that should he be elected, people can still drive pickup trucks. (Sigh!) Chris Gabrieli is still paying for his ground troops. (Ah, he has more money than God, so it's not a problem.) Ahm, Tom Reilly is doing a good job running against Kerry Healey. Not sure if he knows we have a primary first, sigh!

Kerry Healey goes to Sobriety High and doesn't even point out "that's an oxymoron, btw. Sobriety High." Humor-impaired all the way.

[Democrafty]

4. Sorry it annoyed you.

But clean food is a big deal for some people, though, myself included. They probably thought they were being good hosts.

[TayTay]

6. No, it's not the food

it's the people. My daughter is a vegan, she likes good food too. (I am a junk food junky, alas.)

There is something really annoying about a certain type of 'wine and cheese' set in Mass. Makes me want to go out and buy a pickup, eat beef and mispronounce my words (even more.) It's just grating. (No one can ever be that pure. One of the first things I ever wrote on DU was a sentence that said that some people are so liberally pure that they should sleep with weights on their feet at night, lest they be taken up bodily into heaven during their sleep. It's that, political correctness feeling that makes you crazy. Emphasizing the food at a political event in this state is just grating. You want to emphasize that the other side is 'out of touch' and creepy bastards.

It's a Mass lib thing. They drive me nuts. Even though I am one of them. Part time. Sort of. On a good day. I am my own evil twin.

[Blaukraut]

8. I totally know what you mean, Tay

It's the purity factor that is annoying, because it inevitably brings with it the Northeast Elitist label. Sometimes it feels as though these people are in a competition as to who is more of a pure liberal than the other. I don't think that's a Mass. phenomenon, though. DU is chock full of this type, I noticed.

And yeah, I've been eating healthful foods since June 1st, but when I go to a cookout, I'd like to cheat a little ;-)

[Democrafty]

11. Ah. I get it.

Yeah, liberal oneupmanship is a pain in the ass, and frankly, pretty bad for the causes we're supposed to be supporting.

[TayTay]

9. BTW, didn't mean to offend on this

It wasn't the food, it's sigh, the people.

[whometense]

10. Hey, I shop at Whole Foods all the time,

and that attitude annoys the crap out of me. Let he who is without sin, etc. etc. It's political poison to be holier-than-thou, esp. if you start out as a resident of MA.

[TayTay]

12. At it's heart, it's why we lose elections

People think that 'our issues' aren't 'their issues.' People want to talk about taxes, income and property, and why they aren't getting much for their dollars. That is enough of an uphill battle. We don't need the focus on the 'other issues' that nobody cares about. (Not in a State election. They care about them in federal elections. There is an iron wall in Mass., there are local and state issues and then there are federal issues. Different people for different offices.)

[Blaukraut]

13. that's pretty accurate

On the local level, we have many bread and butter Democrats who are sometimes alienated by the purists. At my old job I encountered this quite a bit; the people were true blue collar Dems who cared very little about the more abstract issues. They were swayed by tax cuts (yes, that's still ingrained in too many; 'taxes too high,wawa'), jobs, cost of living - all the issues you mentioned. Talk to them about civil liberties and they don't much care. Not that they don't understand - they do. But they have more pressing issues to worry about that hit them in the pocket book, wallet, and own backyard. That always comes first.

[whometense]

5. Oh, but she did crack that

deathless "Kerry Kerry" joke. How can you say she is humor-impaired????

:rofl: (laughing at, not with)

That crunchy Cambridge crowd is too much for me - though my town is almost as bad. Did you see this hilarious item from the Sunday Globe? You might not have - I think it was in the City Weekly section.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/09/03/bloggers_on_the_move_are_packing_up_their_keyboards/

Crunchy Cambridge
On Blah-di-blog , Emily Hill of Cambridge offers a list of ways to tell you're a Cambridge parent, including:

``At the prenatal interview with your pediatrician, you tell her that you're pretty sure you'll pick her as long as there aren't any red flags, and she jokes, `Don't worry! I'm not a Republican.'

``There is a drum circle and organic carrot cake at the 1 -year-old's birthday down the street."

Meanwhile, isn't Mittens a class act? How often do I side with Harvard on anything? http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/09/06/romney_bars_state_security_for_iranians_harvard_visit/

Governor Mitt Romney declared yesterday he would not allow any state resources to be used to protect a former Iranian president during his visit to the Boston area this weekend, and he sharply criticized Harvard University for inviting Mohammed Khatami to speak on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks...

...Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, which invited Khatami to speak on Sunday, issued a statement yesterday saying it was ``surprised and disappointed" by Romney's stance.

``We can understand and often share his disagreement with the positions of Khatami, the school nonetheless believes that active and open dialogue are a critical part of effective education and policy," the statement read.

[TayTay]

7. Of course Romney said that

this guy was the moderate reformer in Iran and if the Bush Admin had actually backed him we might not be having the nukes debate with the present crazy guy in IRan. Sigh!

[_dynamicdems]

14. This belongs on the White House lawn, for the time being at least. n/t

[ProSense]

16. LOL! n/t

[MH1]

15. Whew, I feel much better about my future visits to Boston now.

You described it perfectly - "you take one look at that thing and suddenly your life seems meaningless and worthless" - even just the photograph is dangerous to morale.

I do agree with Dynamic Dems though - it would be fitting on the White House lawn for the next couple of years.