Deval's Administration Flushes $13 Million

Governor "Cadillac" Deval Patrick's administration overspent by the tune of $13million dollars when it hurriedly signed a computer software contract that has since been canceled, and is now the subject of a state ethics investigation. All this seems to have have happened at the behest of Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi, who had a keen interest in Cognos, Inc., the company in question. Stephen Kurkjian has the story from today's Boston Globe.

Ruberto Influenced By Duquette??

Looks like there is word that Dan Duquette, former GM of the Boston Red Sox, and current owner of the Pittsfield Dukes of the New England Collegiate Baseball League, is under scrutiny by the State Ethics Commission because he sold two tickets to the 2004 World Series to Pittsfield Mayor James Ruberto at less than the going rate to win his favor to move his NECBL team from the swamps of Hinsdale to the confines of Wahconah Park. My question, how did Dan score the tickets in the first place? I thought he was drummed out of Boston for failing to produce a winner during his tenure. Read the Boston Globe article by James Vaznis for his take on the investigation.

Mr. Obama Sees Ghosts, Makes Up Family History.

The Barack Obama "Run for the White House" added a couple of goofs over the holiday weekend. First, in Maria Gavrilovic's "From the Road" column on CBS News web site, Mr. Obama claims that his uncle participated in the liberation of Auschwitz during World War II. Being a history hobbiest, I remember reading that in mid-January 1945, as units of the Soviet Red Army approached Auschwitz, the SS began to evacuate Auschwitz and its surrounding camps. Close to 60,000 prisoners were force marched from Auschwitz towards the west. On January 27, 1945, the Red Army entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners. Maybe his uncle served in the Red Army? He claims his grandfather fought with General Patton. Maybe that's possible... In his second gaffe of the weekend, Mr. Obama said in a speech that "On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong." Isn't Memorial Day the day we set aside each May to honor those who have given their lives for our country? Is he seeing ghosts? Maybe the well-educated Mr. Obama doesn't know his own country's holidays. Confused with Veterans' Day, are we Mr. Obama? You can watch the video of the speech here from "TalkLeft," which bills itself as "The Online Magazine with Liberal coverage of crime-related political and injustice news," just so I show I look for news from both sides...