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July 28th, 2010 at 9:40 am
People, please, POST A NICKNAME. Do not leave it blank. We do not want “anonymous” labeled comments - it’s confusing to everyone. I already gave a warning in another thread. Now they will go back to being deleted automatically. Thanks.
July 28th, 2010 at 9:46 am
BTW, the credibility of “Owl Diner pundits” is about zero. What a fuss about nothing. Let the negotiations take place for god’s sake. We’ll know soon enough. Why speculate about, literally, *nothing*?
And we should be damned grateful that we are not Bell, CA, and our whole system is fairly transparent and open. We will know the salary and benefits before it gets agreed on, and can weigh in as citizens.
If we don’t give the CM a raise, forget keeping him beyond his next contract. I’d sure as hell leave if a better paying job (with less grief) came up. A modest raise isn’t going to ruin the budget, and will do a lot to keep Lynch here.
Imagine, we might have a city manager for, say, longer than five years! Consistency! Who would have thunk Lowell could have any??
And Mimi, LOL at the drive thru comment.
July 28th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
When ‘Mayor Bud’ continues to talk about buildings standing 1200 years as if they never had a repair made to them and rants and raves on about wear and tear updates on a concrete building set out in New England weather with 400,000 people pounding on it several weeks a year - yikes. I am always amazed that the manager responds in such measured ways. Then, last night, saying we should fix the high school steps. Good point Bud.
But you voted against spending money in a fund earmarked for stadium repairs only and BTW, it is not tax payers money. It is money individuals choose to pay by going to ballgames and paying a service charge you voted for when you ratified the new stadium contract.
The dollars to pick up your grass clippings, your sacred cow Bud, are tax payers’ dollars that go to benefit a subset of Lowellians with large enough yards to need the grass picked up! Maybe we can switch the yard waste pick up dollars to repair the Lowell High steps?
July 28th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Yeah that’s what I don’t *get* with these long time should-know-better Councilors. It’s like, they still think things happen by magic fairies who descend and fix things. There’s a budget, decide how much is going to come in (so far as you can decide this within the scope of the power of the local government) and then determine WTF you are going to pay for. It’s not rocket science. It’s basic, freaking MATH!
And also, it’s stupid stupid to put your grass out on the curb. Leave it diced up on your lawn to nourish it (most mowers have a setting for this), or else you are just throwing away nourishment your grass needs and then have to fertilize. Duh.
July 28th, 2010 at 3:44 pm
You don’t have to make sense to be a blowhard.
July 28th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Well WRT grass clippings and Bud, I suspect if he’s done it one way all these years, he ain’t changing a thing now.
Never mind that another way is better. Or the evidence is to the contrary. Or that he’s killing his grass and fertilizer is bad for the environment, or maybe even poisoning his own grandkids coming to play! Harruuuumph!
We really did (and do) need new blood in the city’s leadership.
July 28th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
Bernie’s contract is up after this season?
I’d love to re-sign him, but do we have the cap space?
I don’t want to end up paying three department heads the veteran minimum because we blew the cap on one guy.
Is Lynch represented by Scott Boras?
We’ve got John from Watertown on the line. Welcome to the Afternoon Show.
July 28th, 2010 at 6:41 pm
BTW, ‘Mr Former Mayor’ and architect I’ve heard you say on numerous occassions that you have been to Europe and seen 1400 year old buildings in terrific shape that don’t need repairs. Since I am planning an archeological dig real soon somewhere in Europe could you please let me in on where the sites are so I can dig among the magical splendor you have visited with buildings constructed 1400 years ago - sometime around 600AD give or take a century, right?. We’ve got Stonehenge and the Pyramids - right - but neither is a good place to play baseball.
I’d like to get the designer of such buildings website to see just how they managed and maybe we can beam them up somehow to do the repairs on the ballpark for us!
Signed,
Construction confused in Centralville:)
July 28th, 2010 at 8:46 pm
Bud eats at the Owl Diner (freebie), that makes him an expert on politics. Bud goes to Rome (freebie), that makes him an expert on ancient buildings. Bud goes to the senior center, that makes him…old. Time to pack it in Edward.
July 28th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
Yeah my impression of 1400 year old buildings is that, well, they’re kinda like, the Coliseum. Sorta, well, degraded as all hell.
I mean it lasted a long time, granted, as did many of the aquaducts, but…I wouldn’t want to rely on them NOW.
July 29th, 2010 at 6:41 am
Bud, you can try blaming the builders but I am pretty sure they just followed the blueprints. The city chose to cheap out when they built the ballpark and they’ll pay for it for the rest of time. I have been to plenty of ballparks in the majors and minor leagues. Lelacheur is the only one I have ever seen where the whole seating area is metal instead of concrete. I would love to know who made that call.
July 29th, 2010 at 8:58 am
The Pantheon, Rome, is still in grand shape. I suspect just a tad of maintenance on that august structure over the years.
Same with Hagia Sophia in Istanbul; accumulated maintenance costs over the ages must be in the zillions.
Of course, neither building was used as a stadium.
Bud may have a point: the steps in those ancient buildings appear to be functioning well.
If only those LHS steps had been built by ancient craftsmen!!
Still, why not count our blessings? Amazingly, an ancient architect continues to live among us! One who unwittingly supplies us with unlimited amounts of comedy relief!
July 29th, 2010 at 9:32 am
Didn’t the old builders build in like, marble? So is he saying, we shoulda built the stadium in marble?
July 29th, 2010 at 10:14 am
Pantheon dome built with concrete, damn good concrete!!
July 29th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
Ten bucks for the first photo of someone power washing the Pantheon.
July 29th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Why both Mimi & Lynne feel the need to attack a group of folks that like to get together for coffee at the Owl Diner and discuss politics, just like all of you do, is beyond me.
They’re not “zeros” as indicated here. Many of them are native Lowellians. Which all of you here seem to have nothing but disdain for. They didn’t call the Lowell Sun Reporter. According to the article someone from the paper asked them a question and there was some banter and the discussion was reported in the column.
Just FYI the credibility of Left in Lowell isn’t exactly stellar. If the Owl diner crowd is a zero you’re on the celsius scale.
July 29th, 2010 at 3:41 pm
There is one more thing I failed to mention. Those pundits with zero credibility have managed to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for less fortunate families throughout this area. Many of them with terminal children who without the help of Owl Diner Charities would suffer even more. So before you go insulting some of the most generous people in our community take a look at what you raise money for. Your ridiculous PAC’s and Democratic candidates that only help you and them. Take a look in the mirror ladies.
July 29th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Mary:
I am not sure what I said that offended you. My point is that the anonymous writer of the paper chose to speak to selective people at a particular place and then put his spin on the story.
I did not call anyone a zero and you do not know what I do or do not do for charity. I applaud the work your establishment does but do not think that the rest of us who have a different view are not charitable people.
And I am not sure what you meant by disdain. I do not have to prove to YOU my love for this City; I may not see things through the same lens as you but don’t question my concern for the betterment of this entire community.
July 29th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Mary:
Lynne said the “credibility” of the political pundits. She can express her views just as you can express yours. I think for you to imply this is an attack on people who dine there is inacurrate and misses the point of my argument.
July 29th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
The company that did build the park is out of business due to poor construction standards on jobs. They got kicked off some school jobs they had started a few years back.
July 29th, 2010 at 6:49 pm
Anon:
We do not like to post comments written with the moniker “anonymous.” But I am going to make an exception for you because I am sure that those who know me are going to totally agree with you.
It is a very poor and ineffective tactic to attack the messenger when you do not like the message.
And as far as my ego is concerned, I will try to keep it in check.
July 29th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
I was just at the Owl Diner the other day for french toast and political discussion and did not feel like a zero - I love all diners and rotate around once a week to most of them to get the good beans, ham, and what have you. And, I doubt that the keepers of this blog would feel otherwise - hopefully we can disagree and still smile a bit. We are in a serious mess across the board in this country and solutions will require that we talk to each other in honest ways, smile once in a while at least, and for the most part figure that we all want what’s best for the next generation but have different road maps to get there.
If not, we can not solve the big ticket problems of jobs, access to quality health care, economic growth and shrinking the debt, underfunded school, saving the planet from meltdown, dealing with our intensifying immigration and racial divides and whether the Red Sox can catch the damn Yankees this year and cutie pie Tom Brady can help the Patriots win another Super Bowl. The Stanley Cup is sadly too much to hope for, sigh!
Maybe we need another bloggers beer and hotdog summit gang before it gets dark at 4:30PM again???
July 29th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Hey JC if you are going to rip someone for lack of intelligence you might be better off not throwing stones from the porch of that plate glass house in which you live. It’s the PARTHENON not pantheon.
July 30th, 2010 at 6:14 am
Open:
Sorry JC is right. Its PANTHEON not PARTHENON. Don’t cut yourself on the plate glass!
July 30th, 2010 at 7:58 am
Hey openyoureyes: Thanks for the shout out. Now, please…let me help you wipe that egg off your face! LOL
Both buildings you cite do begin with the letter P. So, I can cut you some slack on being befuddled. To make matters even more confusing, there are two famous buildings with the moniker “Pantheon”, the original in Rome and the other in Paris where the French enshrine their dead heroes.
This is a free lesson, openyoureyes, additional tutorials can be arranged on a fee basis.
July 30th, 2010 at 8:49 am
This is what offended me Mimi. “BTW, the credibility of “Owl Diner pundits” is about zero.” That about says it all. It was a callous, flippant, and unnecessary comment.
And it is not “my establishment”. As a lifelong Lowellian (and proud of that fact) I know some of these individuals and have donated to many of their causes. I just think they deserve a heck of a lot better than having their credibility dragged through the internet mud.
An apology to those individuals is what should happen here. But I won’t hold my breath. Lynne never thinks she’s wrong or steps over the line.
July 30th, 2010 at 9:08 am
Everyone is right. The Parthenon is in Athens and the Pantheon is in Rome.
July 30th, 2010 at 10:33 am
Sure, Jack. Let’s not hurt anyone’s feelings. I’m OK, you’re OK, Open is OK, were all just OK!
Everyone gets celebrated! Everyone gets valued! Everyone gets praised!
Everyone gets an “A”
OK?
July 30th, 2010 at 11:49 am
Prince Charming
Bud Caulfield eats for free at the Owl-NOT TRUE
Your have “zero” credibility on your posts. I have read a few going back months and not much truth in any of them. Are you just a “fibber”(nice way of stating the obvious) or are you drinking the Kool Aid? Get some help
July 30th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Gee, Mary, you think that the political rumor mill in Lowell is credible? Please.
It’s not.
That’s ALL I said. I didn’t say “people who eat at the Owl Diner are morons” - hell, I didn’t even name names. I don’t even want to hazard a guess at who the rumor monger IS.
I am just sick of the rumor mongering, and the pundits at the Owl, which was the place NAMED in the article BTW, I didn’t make it up out of nowhere, are not going to know the real truth of something, they just want to put a rumor out there. Over and over and over again, these people do this. And they are usually wrong, whoever they are.
Anyone remember the “Eileen Donoghue is dropping out of the MA-05 race” WCAP rumor? Or the dozens of others? Please.
If you are so offended by my comment, maybe you can point out to me when the Lowell rumor mill has done ANYone ANY good?