10 ) President Obama gets four more years! Look at it this way, Romney supporters: if he’d won, in two weeks he’d just be trashing Americans as part of his newly launched campaign to become prime minister of Canada.
9 ) Winter Storm Athena hits the northeast. If we’re going for a god motif with storm names now, I personally cannot wait for Winter Storms Cthulhu, Tiamat, and Quetzalcoatl.
8 ) Elizabeth Warren becomes the state’s first-ever female US Senator, and it saddens me I actually had to write that sentence.
7 ) Mary Pat Flynn and Sheila Lyons are returned to the Barnstable County Board of County Commissioners, winning five towns and nine towns respectively. Couple that with wins by Julia Taylor and Suzanne McAuliffe for the Assembly of Delegates and, well, for their detractors this equals one Very Ouchie Win.
6 ) Disney buys LucasFilm and plans a new Star Wars trilogy. This one will use a lot of animatronic characters,thus guaranteeing they will emote more convincingly than Hayden Christensen.
5 ) Skyfall, the new James Bond film, opens to rave reviews. I don’t know, I don’t think anything can beat Bond skydiving with the queen, but we’ll see.
4 ) Rumors that Diane Sawyer was drunk during ABC’s election coverage swirl. Hey, if I’d been covering the presidential election all year, I’d want to get hammered too.
3 ) Donald Trump freaks out over Twitter after Obama’s win, calling the electoral process “a travesty.” Freaks out? I meant to say pulling hair off.
2 ) Mark Wahlberg agrees to star in Transformers 4, figuring that after The Happening, if he’s going to do a crap movie he might as well make a ton of money for it.
1 ) Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart remain elusive about their relationship status as they promote the last Twilight film. I wish the movie would be as elusive.
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I don’t get it, why would it have been a very ouchie win for their detractors. I am from Bourne, and Lyons came in last here as well. You are a strange bird MB. Nobody seems to understand your twisted political logic except you. The Bourne Selectmen are also sending a letter to the county commissioners that they are not going to accept their plans for a county-wide wastewater taxation authority either…so there!
I say it was painful for Ms. Flynn and Ms. Lyons’ detractors — or, more specifically, detractor, singular — because they (he) tried so hard to convince Cape voters that the incumbent commissioners were flagrantly lying about opposing a so-called authority and failed miserably. That Sheila Lyons came in last in Bourne doesn’t matter for squat considering she finished first in nine other towns, placed second in two others, and Cape-wide collected 33 percent of the vote to secure the second of the two county commissioners’ seats. To be blunt: trying to paint a decisive victory as some sort of failure just makes you look foolish…and it sure isn’t going to oust either of the commissioners-elect.
The fact of the matter, which some people simply do not want to accept for some ridiculous reason is this: Selectmen across the Cape have already said they don’t want a wastewater authority. Andy Gottlieb isn’t supporting it. Paul Niedzwiecki isn’t supporting it. The county commissioners aren’t supporting it. The Assembly of Delegates isn’t supporting it. There are no plans. They do not exist. Insisting that they do in spite of repeated public statements to the contrary does not make it so.
Anyone who is still clinging to this “wastewater authority” argument needs to get their head screwed on straight. Fighting against something that is, according to all the clear, verifiable, substantiated evidence not going to happen is wasting their breath, and is certainly doing nothing productive to address wastewater management on the Cape.
From the looks of things, there is no longer any talk of creating a region-wide wastewater authority precisely because the people who fought so loudly and hard against it were more than successful in moving the county respective county officials in question to eventually abandon the endeavor. It was apparently July 20th before they finally gave up on it, however, to this day the Cape Cod Commission web site still displays the statement that it is a potential solution, however, it was posted there last Spring, so is apparently out-of-date at this point in time. On the other hand, it only goes to show that it was a possible choice under consideration regardless how you and anyone else desires to spin the denials. I for one would like to congratulate everyone involved in this debate, both the county commissioners and their detractors as you call them for a job well done in moving the issue forward, front and center. It is the county government that has been sitting on its thumbs for 15 years without seriously doing anything about the problem, at least until now.
Sorry MB, but your somewhat wordy explanation is little more than blatant rhetoric and offers little of substance. It simply does not cut the mustard, sir. It is packed with pointless language, “semantically foggy clichés,” and thus is too vague, abstract, unclear and ambiguous to be pragmatically applied. Furthermore, your dubious statements do not appear to encourage any noteworthy enhancement of communication ethics.
This entire response is deeply ironic considering it’s nothing but a bunch of nonsensical double-talk that does not refute a single point I made.
Let me dumb it down for you, since big words and long sentences apparently trip you up so easily: Sheila Lyons placed third in Bourne…so what? She still won the election. The Bourne Board of Selectmen is writing a letter opposing a wastewater authority…so what? No one in county government supports the concept anyway.