GB....are you suggesting that BM may have been mislead, misdirected or just not told about the 1/1/10 'plan'? If that is true....who could have been responsible for that?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
BM doesn't go to the debate (and rightfully so) but he does go to Mallozzi's after the election. And whoever else went with him that night to Mallozzi's also knew and is probably waiting for his seat somewhere maybe another committee maybe needs support to be town justice-- something.
I heard BM went to Mallo's that night with Mertzie. Yes?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
BM has had three days to come out and say otherwise. Again I refer you to my earlier post. He didn't attend the debate (and he was right not to go) he DID go to Mallozzi's election night to be with the winners. He wasn't sitting in that night with BL.
I would say BM set his political ideology aside, and chose the path of least resistance as he feels his way around the Rotterdam political landscape. We'll see if his passionate conservative values become more reserved as he enters the Rotterdam political meat grinder. Successful politics in Rotterdam is to make sure you're not the person left with the knife in your back.
I just made a quick phone call....and yes bm was there with mertzie.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Actually everyone in Rotterdam politics ends up with a knife in their back from both parties and often those who work for the Town become collateral damage. BTW more so in Rotterdam than anywhere else in the Capital District.
Actually everyone in Rotterdam politics ends up with a knife in their back from both parties and often those who work for the Town become collateral damage. BTW more so in Rotterdam than anywhere else in the Capital District.
Ya got that right. Rotterdam politics is the laughing stock of the capital district!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Actually everyone in Rotterdam politics ends up with a knife in their back from both parties and often those who work for the Town become collateral damage. BTW more so in Rotterdam than anywhere else in the Capital District.
only because there is a puppeteer of sorts in the background......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Not sure if there is a "grand" puppeteer but it is sad that this is what these folks have learned and continue to pass on. Yes Bumble we are the laughing stock. Rotterdam will never rise to the level of surrounding Towns. We will continue to look like hicks. It's like growning up in an abusive home. The kids go out get married and do the same thing to their kids and that's the cycle. Each election each party vows to make the change but it never happens.
Mammals, most other animals, and higher plants as well, have evolved mechanisms to avoid inbreeding of any sort. Some, like sweet cherries, have even evolved elaborate biochemical mechanism to ensure that their flowers can not be fertilized by themselves or by very genetically similar individuals. Most pack animals (like lions, primates, and dogs),kick young males out of the pack so as to prevent them from mating with female relatives. Humans have very strong taboos against mating with relatives. Even fruit-flies apparently have a sensing mechanism to avoid too close of inbreeding, even in a closed population they maintain more genetic diversity than they ought to by random mating.
Why do living things avoid inbreeding? Because in general, it is quite bad for a population or an organism to be very inbred. There is a well studied, although only partially understood phenomenon called inbreeding depression.
Inbreeding depression is thought to be caused primarily by the collection of a multitude of deleterious mutations, few in themselves fatal, but all diminishing fitness. Normally, in an outbreeding population these alleles would be selected against, hidden, or corrected by the presence of good alleles (versions of genes) in the population.
We generally think that mutations arise only once in a great while. That is certainly true for individual genes and specific kinds of mutations. However scientists have measured mutation rates in humans, chimpanzees and gorillas and discovered that there are roughly 4.2 mutations/individual/generation that affect the actual final proteins encoded by the genes. (A, Eyre-Walker, P. D. Keightly, Nature 397:344-347. 1999). Of these mutations about 1.5 are deleterious, in other words would cause harm to the animal if they were homozygous. The scientists who performed this analysis suspect that their numbers are actually artificially low for a variety of valid reasons, and estimate that the actual number may be closer to 3 deleterious mutations per individual per generation.
So how come we don't all have tons of genetic diseases? The answer to that is fairly simple, sexual reproduction, and the shuffling of alleles of genes that occurs when two unrelated individuals mate.
When that shuffling can't happen because both parents already have mostly the same alleles, the result will be inbreeding depression, if not in a given litter, then in a few more generations of such breedings.
Inbreeding depression encompasses a wide variety of physical and health defects. Any given inbred animal generally has several, but not all, of these defects. These defects include:
Elevated incidence of recessive genetic diseases
Reduced fertility both in litter size and in sperm viability
Increased congenital defects such as cryptorchidism, heart defects, cleft palates.
Fluctuating assymetry (such as crooked faces, or uneven eye placement and size).
Lower birthweight
Higher neonatal mortality
Slower growth rate
Smaller adult size, and
Loss of immune system function.
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
So then people are concluding that BM has sold out. I would like to know from him where he stands. Is his accepting a role in the New Years Day Massacre part of the plan to be in the Dem administration? Or is he idealistically taking the job on the IDA as a way to get his conservative views into action by participating in the economic development efforts of the IDA which may include grants, PILOT programs, incentives to some businesses, and maybe even some good ol' fashioned central planning ala' the Metroplex who will now be dictating efforts on behalf of their point man Mallozzii. He should clarify and if he doesn't feel that government should be doing this stuff then he should not accept the appointment. he ran as a conservative and he needs to stay as one. By being part of the Dem administration he is in direct alliance with the county dems, Tonko, Metroplex and the state liberal machine and to keep "pure" I think he would be wise to reject it and try hard not to be seduced by those in power who want to make him their "friend."
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
For what it is worth, "BL" was attending a monthly meeting of the Burtonsville Volunteer Fire Department, of which he is a member, on election night. He didn't attend either the Democrat or the Republican election events. The NNTP team was, on this night only, divided by other commitments.
As for Brian, his intentions, and his interest in any of the positions discussed in this thread, it is best that he speak for himself.
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