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My Liberal thinking friend Linda McDonald wrote an opinion in the Patriot Ledger a short time ago regarding minority and woman owned businesses. Although the specifics of her editorial were more about the unfairness of adding disabled veterans to the list of disadvantaged businesses, I commented in disagreement with the entire premise of giving an advantage to “certain” businesses. In my mind giving an advantage to some over others is itself, discrimination. Preferential treatment, when not based on qualifications is wrong. As far as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ “documented” history of discrimination against minority and woman owned businesses, I would be very interested to see it.
click here http://www.waheyboys.com/2009/Dec/29/PreferTreat.html#prefertreat to read more of Stan's opinion
I am a novice when it comes to politics. I follow several blogs and political commentators and try to educate myself. One of my favorites is John Keller the political analyst for WBZ Radio and Television. He strikes me as fair minded, witty and doesn't appear to show any bias towards a particular party. I often comment on his blog, but rarely in disagreement.
click here http://www.waheyboys.com/2009/Dec/22/ShovelSnow.html to read more.
You only need to be a parent to recognize the need for more and better athletic fields in the Town Of Weymouth. The two soccer fields located behind Ralph Talbot School are an example. No more than a few years old, they have already been over-used to the point that they have become hazardous. Youth football and lacrosse programs have difficulty every year securing fields. The high school football program recently had to play “home games” out of town because Weymouth’s only football field could not be used. Steve Reilly, the President of Weymouth Youth Soccer, has a good idea, and that is to form a non-profit company that will raise funds for the renovation of, in his case, Riley Field. It’s a good idea because a non-profit company can help relieve the burden of field maintenance from cash strapped cities and towns.
click here http://www.waheyboys.com/2009/Dec/18/WeyAthleticField.html to read more.
Oak Street was a nice tree lined road in 1964. I lived at number 41. The house had been my grandmother’s, Ellen, before my mother and father got married and moved in. Her husband, Algot, had died a few years prior to that and she probably would have lost the house if my parents hadn’t moved there.
click here http://www.waheyboys.com/2009/Dec/13/OakSt.html to read more.
I get funny e-mails all the time from my conservative whacko friends. Some I get a chuckle out of and others are just dumb. They're meant as jokes for sure, because no one can be stupid enough to take them serious. The Obama birth certificate controversy is popular in various forms. The most recent one showed the President asking that dopey couple that snuck into the White House for their invitations and their response being "sure, if I can see your birth certificate". Kind of funny, but old news.
click here http://www.waheyboys.com/2009/Dec/9/GoVote.html to read more.
Having fond memories of the one and only time that I had eaten turnips, years past at a family dinner at my mother in law's, I decided to make them for myself. I knew that I wanted them, I arrived at the decision to make them for myself when my wife told me that she, "wasn't about to cut them up" because they were too hard.
click here http://www.waheyboys.com/2009/Dec/8/BenderSpeak.html to read more.
Some of you Wahey Boys know Jim Dorman, an old friend from down O'Sullivan way. He shares the same musical tastes we all do. It must be a North Weymouth thing. Anyway he often posts interesting music videos that he digs up from You Tube, and sometimes his own stuff, on Facebook. I've read some of his artistic reviews in the Patriot Ledger so I guess he must still go to concerts now and again. Lucky him. Anyway, anyway, he posted this old Allman Brothers video.
click here http://www.waheyboys.com/2009/Dec/5/SometimesFeel.html to watch the video.