<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948834</id><updated>2012-01-13T15:03:56.120-06:00</updated><title type='text'>The Quincy Pundit</title><subtitle type='html'>Citizen Journalism from The Gem City</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://quincypundit.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12948834/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://quincypundit.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Dave Victor</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09241965145018903024</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948834.post-1417154003059920381</id><published>2011-11-23T09:56:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-23T10:43:10.106-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Same turd. New, more expensive wrapper</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VRqK7tnGHzU/Ts0XjEFmmTI/AAAAAAAAC7w/G-YBCaGXIRI/s1600/whig+looks+good.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="223" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VRqK7tnGHzU/Ts0XjEFmmTI/AAAAAAAAC7w/G-YBCaGXIRI/s320/whig+looks+good.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://quincycitydesk.blogspot.com/2011/11/whig-looks-good.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;This&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/a&gt;long time critic likes it. &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://quincyfire.blogspot.com/2011/11/daily-delusional.html"&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/b&gt;one, not so much.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12948834-1417154003059920381?l=quincypundit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://quincypundit.blogspot.com/feeds/1417154003059920381/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12948834&amp;postID=1417154003059920381' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12948834/posts/default/1417154003059920381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12948834/posts/default/1417154003059920381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://quincypundit.blogspot.com/2011/11/same-turd-new-more-expensive-wrapper.html' title='Same turd. New, more expensive wrapper'/><author><name>Dave Victor</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09241965145018903024</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VRqK7tnGHzU/Ts0XjEFmmTI/AAAAAAAAC7w/G-YBCaGXIRI/s72-c/whig+looks+good.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948834.post-4352898425531849454</id><published>2011-10-09T12:25:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-10-09T12:25:32.367-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Chuck Scholz: #occupythetrough</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RFOUj13amnU/TpHKV2NzmTI/AAAAAAAAC7A/2YrCBHLQA24/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-10-09+at+10.48.18+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RFOUj13amnU/TpHKV2NzmTI/AAAAAAAAC7A/2YrCBHLQA24/s320/Screen+shot+2011-10-09+at+10.48.18+AM.png" width="229" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The lengths the QHW goes to keep this guy relevant is embarrassing. &amp;nbsp;Private practice my ass. His country club membership hinges on him leaching off taxpayer money. &amp;nbsp;From Looking for Lincoln to GREDF to his triple dip in the wasted Hydro money, he's parlayed his time in office into scamming local government entities and nonprofit boards. &amp;nbsp;I wonder if all the roundtable attendees had to pay him to talk to The Dick.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Word is he's got a plan to put the kibosh on &lt;a href="http://quincyjournal.com/team-quincy-saving-the-local-democratic-party.html"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; too.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12948834-4352898425531849454?l=quincypundit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://quincypundit.blogspot.com/feeds/4352898425531849454/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12948834&amp;postID=4352898425531849454' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12948834/posts/default/4352898425531849454'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12948834/posts/default/4352898425531849454'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://quincypundit.blogspot.com/2011/10/chuck-scholz-occupythetrough.html' title='Chuck Scholz: #occupythetrough'/><author><name>Dave Victor</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09241965145018903024</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RFOUj13amnU/TpHKV2NzmTI/AAAAAAAAC7A/2YrCBHLQA24/s72-c/Screen+shot+2011-10-09+at+10.48.18+AM.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948834.post-2495959834311446014</id><published>2011-09-28T18:23:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-09-28T18:23:44.180-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Why The Dick sneaks in and out of town</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wNTzjoeTjDQ" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12948834-2495959834311446014?l=quincypundit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://quincypundit.blogspot.com/feeds/2495959834311446014/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12948834&amp;postID=2495959834311446014' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12948834/posts/default/2495959834311446014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12948834/posts/default/2495959834311446014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://quincypundit.blogspot.com/2011/09/why-dick-sneaks-in-and-out-of-town.html' title='Why The Dick sneaks in and out of town'/><author><name>Dave Victor</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09241965145018903024</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/wNTzjoeTjDQ/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948834.post-8044478463020833880</id><published>2011-09-18T20:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-09-18T20:18:24.793-05:00</updated><title type='text'>We Will Rebuild</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 296px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HOwXjlGIiII/Sv2GJKDRMXI/AAAAAAAACOo/gbXP15-MobM/s1600-h/11-12-09_1213-1+%282%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403622619789472114" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HOwXjlGIiII/Sv2GJKDRMXI/AAAAAAAACOo/gbXP15-MobM/s400/11-12-09_1213-1+%282%29.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; More signs that the strategery going on around City Hall and propped up by the local dead tree media,  is a soup sandwich being eaten in a chicken wire canoe while it is paddled up Shit Creek by a guy swinging a football bat wearing bowling cleats.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please enjoy the above pictures and the following description of a day in the life of a city worker(s).&lt;br /&gt;(Source: A guy I know, from a guy he knows)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Subject: Fw: Quincy Tax Dollars at Work&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Friday, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1258394997_2" style="-moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;, 2009 9:24 AM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ok the time lapse from pic 1 to pic 2 is 53 minutes.  They were there&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; yesterday for a total of 3 hours.   What are they&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; doing?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Well they used that big yellow digger to plant a six foot &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1258128882_5" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; font-style: italic;"&gt;tall tree&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; yesterday.  It's in the pic but too small to make out.  They have parked&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; down the street a trailer with 3 or 4 trees in it.  They had that trailer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; yesterday too, in case you thought maybe they were waiting on more trees&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; during yesterday's stand around party.  I watched them plant the tree&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; yesterday during my lunch hour it took about 10 minutes total.  Most of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; that&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; time was pushing the dirt back in around the tree, it took about 4 swipes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; to&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; dig the hole, and two guys carried over the tree and dropped it in.  So&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; far&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; we've got two trips to the same spot with a backhoe and 2 pickups between&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; 3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; and 5 guys there for 4 hours.  When I got home today they were there,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; when&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; left 53 minutes later you can see what work had been accomplished&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Just thought I'd share what you're Quincy tax dollars were accomplishing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; today!  Have a good day!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Seems it takes two days and 3 to 5 city workers to plant one 6 ft tree in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; front yard.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; What say you Mr. Sparks?????&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; FYI  - they were still there at 12:45pm today - second day - same 6ft&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; tree.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12948834-2486662058742345739?l=quincypundit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://quincypundit.blogspot.com/feeds/2486662058742345739/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12948834&amp;postID=2486662058742345739' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12948834/posts/default/2486662058742345739'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12948834/posts/default/2486662058742345739'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://quincypundit.blogspot.com/2009/11/tree-city-usa-paid-furlough-edition.html' title='The Union Difference: Tree City USA edition'/><author><name>Dave Victor</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09241965145018903024</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HOwXjlGIiII/Sv2GNoUOO4I/AAAAAAAACOw/cgrrFFDtIIk/s72-c/11-12-09_1214+%282%29.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry></feed>
