Good news for the CCA…We’re so blue…and sexy…the campaign against straw holes…Doreen Costa is a hypocrite…men get stupid around women
Imagine how hard Planning Commissar Ruth Platner would have to work to block any new housing that can accommodate families with children.
Town Council Boss Tom Gentz and Council VP Deputy Dan Slattery would have to work harder to cut and slash the
Chariho School budget. But relax, guys, we dodged the family-friendly honors again.
The most conservative states are mostly in the old Confederacy and mountain West, with Mississippi ranked #1, followed by Idaho, Alabama, Wyoming and Utah.
And here’s why we rank so well. According to the wellness website
RealAge.com, Providence ranks among the Top Ten
Best Places for Sex for both men
and women.
Providence came in 5th in the ranking for men, behind San Diego, Miami, Las Vegas, and San Francisco. For women, Providence ranked #8, behind Knoxville, TN, Tampa, Miami, Los Angeles, Houston, Orlando, and Sacramento.
Not sure why New Orleans didn’t make the list. After all, where else can you get
drive-thru hard liquor drinks (daiquiris, margaritas, Hurricanes) with a straw hole in the go-cup. But one spoilsport legislator wants to ban go-cups with pre-perforated lids. Senator Dan Claitor of
Baton Rouge wants to make it harder for drivers to put a straw into their drinks while they’re driving. He’s tried to get this legislation passed before, without success.
Doreen Costa is a hypocrite. Tea Party state rep Doreen Costa (R-No Kingstown) made a big deal to
GoLocalProv.com about how much she hates legislative grants. She just doesn’t think it’s right that state legislators can draw from a budgeted pool of state funds to support local charities.
Costa told GoLocal that instead of getting a legislative grant for a worthy local organization, legislators should do what she does and give to charities from their campaign funds.
“I see it as a way to buy votes from their communities,” Costa said. Costa claimed she has done so “many times.”
Errr, not exactly. Costa is nearing the end of her first term. She has raised a boatload of money from the Tea Party and other right-wing sources. Yet she gave NOTHING – zero, nada – to charity until last July when she gave $225 to the
East-West Greenwich track team. She sent $100 to a charity in
Georgia last October. She gave another $290 in January, again to
East-West Greenwich sports, $50 to the North Kingstown Food Pantry, $50 to the Warren Animal Shelter and $25 to the Davisville Free Library. A grand total of
$740 in charitable donations.
Not exactly big bucks and certainly not a tithe, given how much she has hauled in. However, Costa did donate a lot more than that to local Republican town committees around the state, the RI Statewide Coalition and other right-wing political groups and candidates.
By contrast, our local state Representative Donna Walsh works hard to get legislative grants for groups in her district.
She just handed a $2,000 check to Deb Nigrelli at RI-CAN. In the current fiscal year, Donna has also gotten $1,000 for the Charlestown Animal Shelter, $1,000 for the
Matunuck Elementary School and $1,500 for
Charlestown’s Memorial Day Parade. That’s $5,500.
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| People's Exhibit #1 |
Shocking new scientific study. According to
Scientific American, Dutch researchers have determined that when men interact with women, men get stupid. The study determined that when men believe they are being observed and evaluated by women, their thinking becomes clouded and they show distinct signs of being “cognitively impaired.” Women showed no signs of such impairment. In a separate but similar study, the researchers found that lower income subjects also show signs of cognitive impairment when they believe they are being observed and evaluated by higher income persons.
Errr, not exactly. Costa is nearing the end of her first term. She has raised a boatload of money from the Tea Party and other right-wing sources. Yet she gave NOTHING – zero, nada – to charity until last July when she gave $225 to the 