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Nobody to blame… 01.19.10 at 6:46 pm ET
By Curt Schilling   |  71 Comments

But yourselves. If Scott Brown finds a way to win this election tonight let’s not forget that Democrats, the same ones screaming the loudest, are the only ones to blame for any of this…

Remember this?

Keep changing the rules to make sure the game is played in the manner in which you want it played, and you’re going to get screwed. If Scott does win tonight that rule change, and the preceding 12 months are the reason the voters in Massachusetts will change the face of Government in this country in an unmistakable and vividly clear message that we want what was actually promised 12 months ago, change.

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How do people NOT get fired for this sort of incompetence? 01.18.10 at 12:30 pm ET
By Curt Schilling   |  19 Comments

Read this article, please, and tell me how the people associated with this part of it

In 1986, there was the fourth husband: Thomas Kaplan, a psychologist and son of a prominent financier and philanthropist. They filed for divorce in 1999. Their large home in the Riverdale section of the Bronx was lost in foreclosure, and Ms. King had to file for bankruptcy, both personally and for her business, King Administrators.

Some of the bankruptcy filings made note of several hundred thousand dollars in personal expenses from Ms. King’s business accounts, including tuition for her children at the Fieldston School in Riverdale and large payments to Neiman Marcus. The bankruptcy trustee, Yann Geron, passed the information in early 2000 to federal prosecutors in Manhattan, records show.

“She was using company funds to pay personal expenses,” Mr. Geron recalled in an interview. “I did see problems, and I made a referral.”

No criminal charges were brought against Ms. King, and she went on with her life. She moved to a large house on a quiet street in Irvington, and continued to operate her business under a new name, King Care.

How is it that every person involved at this juncture is not being prosecuted, fired or both? Is this not another Madoff like theft?

400 members, people who bust their asses at hard core blue collar jobs are possibly sitting on ZERO benefits and ZERO money at retirement? Who fixes this? How?

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Something I have wondered… 01.18.10 at 10:39 am ET
By Curt Schilling   |  44 Comments

And it is true, if the Government can MAKE you buy health insurance, is there anything else they CAN’T make you do? You have to laugh at the responses given by politicians when asked the question. I don’t think Senator Hatch is stupid, far from it, but how could people holding the same office disagree so vehemently on something they both feel is so simple?

(CNSNews.com) – Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, who has served in the Senate for 33 years and is a longtime member of the Judiciary Committee, told CNSNews.com that he does not believe the Democrats’ health-care reform plan is constitutionally justifiable, noting that if the federal government can force Americans to buy health insurance “then there is literally nothing the federal government can’t force us to do.”

Oh and another snippet for all you Global Warming conspiracy theorists…
How is that going to be spun? The fact checkers of the fact checkers are admitting they were wrong, their data was wrong, their reports were wrong…

Oh and here’s another great one. Ya, let’s be sure and protect the rights of those extremists hell bent on killing innocent men, women, and children to further ‘their cause’, it’s the civil thing to do right?
Here’s where that’s going to get you.

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The best quote of the day yesterday.. 01.18.10 at 9:07 am ET
By Curt Schilling   |  46 Comments

And for the life of me I can’t figure out why no one has repeated it.

Scott Brown addressing voters said

“Your tax dollars should go towards the purchase of weapons to stop these terrorists from killing American Citizens, not to pay lawyers to defend them”

Bravo Scott.

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Who do you root for now? 01.16.10 at 2:53 pm ET
By Curt Schilling   |  18 Comments

I am a lifelong Steeler fan, they had a crappy year, missed the playoffs so I ended up rooting for the Patriots.

Well that’s come and gone and I had no team to really get behind, until now.

Read this story and if you don’t have a ‘dog in the hunt’ how can you NOT want the Ravens to win it all??

GO RAVENS!

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I’ve been called a LOT of things… 01.16.10 at 1:06 am ET
By Curt Schilling   |  226 Comments

But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan. Well, check that, if you didn’t know what the hell is going on in your own state maybe you could….

This is great stuff.

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Another gem from Martha Coakley…. 01.15.10 at 12:03 pm ET
By Curt Schilling   |  52 Comments

First is this poll, which I hope has a 0% margin for error (though we know it doesn’t)

Better yet is this response, and I have to ask, is that really your answer to the question????

Read the transcript here….

And just in case you were wondering about ‘qualifications’ or resume and achievements….
Read up.

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A lie or ignorance? 01.14.10 at 1:30 pm ET
By Curt Schilling   |  41 Comments

Which one is it?

Because it is one or the other, no way around that. If it’s a lie, then I’m ok with that, business as usual right? If it’s ignorance, isn’t that far more dangerous?

Especially when you read this, published today….

Turn the page, change the game, go out and vote on the 19th for the RIGHT PERSON.

Oh and one more thing, the lambasting and BS the Coakley hacks are engaging in is absolutely, unequivocally “politics as usual” starting with this gem right here….

If we elect Coakley, or if enough people vote to get her into office, we’re going to get exactly what we deserve as a nation. A bankrupt country footing the bill for a health care plan so full of pork it oinks, that we can’t afford by the way, and MASSIVE cuts to medicare and medicaid that will seriously impede medical services for senior citizens.

Massachusetts can change it all in 5 days.

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Want ANOTHER reason to NOT vote for Martha Coakley??? 01.14.10 at 11:02 am ET
By Curt Schilling   |  97 Comments

Picked this up from here…

If she hasn’t done it yet, Martha Coakley may have just killed her campaign.

She’s apparently been trying to win the title of Worst Political Campaign Ever, and she might have just clinched it with her little dig at Scott Brown over Fenway Park.

The appearance characterizes Coakley’s approach to this truncated race. Aware that she has little time for the hand-shaking and baby-kissing of a standard political campaign, she has focused instead on rallying key political leaders, Democratic activists, and union organizers, in hope they will get people to the polls.

… Despite that, there is a subdued, almost dispassionate quality to her public appearances, which are surprisingly few. Her voice is not hoarse from late-night rallies. Even yesterday, the day after a hard-hitting debate, she had no public campaign appearances in the state.

Coakley bristles at the suggestion that, with so little time left, in an election with such high stakes, she is being too passive.

“As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold? Shaking hands?’’ she fires back, in an apparent reference to a Brown online video of him doing just that. “This is a special election. And I know that I have the support of Kim Driscoll. And I now know the members of the [Salem] School Committee, who know far more people than I could ever meet.’’

There are just so many things wrong with that statement.

It shows her elitism and arrogance unbelievably. Aside from the apparent feeling that the seat belongs to her just by virtue of her party, she just admitted that she doesn’t need to bother meeting with constituents because she’s meeting people like Kim Driscoll, and political leaders, and Democrat activists. I guess they’re the ones that matter, huh? I know it’s a “special election” and all, but that doesn’t mean that she doesn’t need to fight for this seat. Prancing around with this mindset of “Oh, I’m a Democrat, therefore Ted Kennedy’s seat just automatically belongs to me regardless of what the people think,” is idiotic. Acting as if she doesn’t need to give her constituents the time of day is ludicrous. She can make all the snide remarks about Scott Brown shaking hands with people in the cold that she wants, but that’s what you’re supposed to do when you’re trying to get elected. She seems to have forgotten that she’s trying to get elected in Massachusetts, and not in Washington D.C. — if she remembered that, maybe she’d spend more time trying to impress Massachusetts voters and less time rubbing elbows with the Democrat establishment, Big Pharmacy lobbyists, and union leaders. Most normal politicians, Republican or Democrat, do go shake hands with voters. Even if it means standing in the cold outside of Fenway Park.

Finally, has she forgotten who she’s talking to? What state she’s wanting to represent in the Senate? It’s Massachusetts. You do not make sneering insults about Fenway Park. What’s she going to do next, insult the Red Sox? That’d really just be the cherry on top of a delightful campaign. Fenway Park and the Red Sox are damned near sacred to Massachusetts residents, Bostonians in particular. Really, I’m starting to think that she just doesn’t want to get elected or something. Because anyone with half a modicum of sense knows that you do not go into Boston and mess with Fenway Park.

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Democrats… 01.13.10 at 12:07 am ET
By Curt Schilling   |  28 Comments

Will take their ball and go home if they don’t win this election…

The stakes are so high Democrats won’t rule out taking as long as a month to certify the election results—should Brown win—to prevent a Republican from assuming the seat until the Senate completes its work on Kennedy’s hallmark legislation.

From this article.

Can’t wait to see this one rationalized, the same idiotic and asinine way people are defending Harry Reid’s “Negro” comment. The only defense anyone can offer is “Ya but so and so said this in 2005″ as opposed to saying “what an idiot, he should resign”.

Scott Brown NAILED it the other night, this is NOT “The Kennedy Seat”, it NEVER has been, it’s our seat, OUR SEAT!

Don’t think Martha Coakley is more of the same? More of the crap we’ve watched unfold this past year? Really?

Pathetic, truly pathetic. There’s hope, this state can turn it all around by electing Scott Brown who IS for Health Care for everyone, but isn’t for this unpublished, unseen, and completely unaffordable “Government Option” health care plan that this already broke country doesn’t have a dime to spend in attaining. It’s going to CRUSH some companies and will have a huge impact on my company as well.

Let’s see, 38 Studios offers pretty much the gold standard in health care and benefits to its employees right? I mean as a start up how do you prove to your people you’re investing in them? You believe in them and you are committed to them? You either GROSSLY overpay them, which as a non-revenue generating start up is just stupid business, OR, you invest in their health care, you take care of their families right?

As a company that is looking to bring anywhere from 100 to 500 new jobs (at salaries north of 75k a year) into the state it does business in over the next 5 years, how can anyone on this planet say this system the Democrats want to impose on this country is smart? Ethical? Beneficial? There are TRILLIONS of other ways to fund health care rather than penalizing the current system right? How about this bloated, criminal laden Government we are saddled with? Hell in this state alone how many elected officials SHOULD have gone to jail in the past 12 months?

Are we truly NOT fed up with ’status quo’? Because that’s what we’ve gotten the past 12 months. Well that and “It’s Bushs’ fault” as an excuse to (When does the statute of limitations run out on that btw?)

Massachusetts can change it all in 2 weeks, elect Scott Brown and stop the madness, stop working for the Government and start making these people work for us, again, now.

No one to blame but ourselves, we’ve elected these buffoons, and we’re paying through the nose for it. The Government has done nothing but spend, and grow, at a time when we have no money to spend and absolutely unequivocally NO need for a larger government. If you think it’s going to change, you’re wrong. Unless we elect Scott Brown to become a legitimate check/balance into the system we’re screwed, very screwed.

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