Mitt Romney handily won all the states he has a big history with; Massachusetts, Michigan, & Utah; his competition can stop saying Mitt has a bad record there.

Mitt needs to focus on his history with these states & with his private sector business rather than to use vague criticism that McCain or Huckabee aren’t conservative enough. We need to hear the specifics.

Mass – Mitt turned a $3 BILLION deficit into a $700 MILLION surplus w/out raising taxes, brought 60,000 new jobs after the mass exodus preceeding him, the TOP 25% of students get to go to state colleges or universities for free, he got us healthcare using the conservative approach. In Utah- Winter Olympics. Also focus on his private sector life.

Mitt needs to be specific & focus on the economy. We’re in a recession! Jobs are getting scarce especially in certain areas, business are leaving the U.S., forclosures are astronomical. Mitt has a great record to run on, but people need specifics.
McCain admits he knows nothing about economics. He has been in charge of a border state for 25 years, but doesn’t have a completed border. McCain called us ****** for not supporting his amnesty plan. McCain called Christians agents of intolerance.

Huckabee raised taxes and commuted the sentence of murderers. Huckabee wants to make the Constitution more God friendly.

The statement “not conservative enough” is too vague. People don’t get what you mean by that. People however, do understand when you list a litany of differences and your own good record.
Now that Mitt can prove that he has overwhelming support of his constituents; his critics can stop saying negative things about his record.
I’m voting my conscience. I will not suport a candidate that does not jive with my core values or calls me names just because he’s the nomination. I’m stick with Romney as long as he’s in it. I may even write his name on my ballot if he’s not on it in November.

A textbook case of piracy
By Alex Beam
Globe Columnist / September 9, 2008
I was heartened to learn that college kids are wielding the same Internet piracy tools they used to bring down the recording industry to download textbooks. Although the textbook oligopolists are fighting back mightily – the Association of American Publishers uses Covington & Burling, a take-no-prisoners law firm in Washington, D.C., to hunt down malefactors – there are at least two sites still around offering books: Textbook Torrents tends to be shut down, and moves around the Web, but the last time I checked, thepiratebay.org was offering such books as – well, you’ll see.

As a writer, how can I support this? I should be an absolutist on copyright protection for all books, magazines, and newspapers. But I’m not. The publishers have disgraced themselves, and they are paying the price. Three-hundred-dollar textbooks in the hard sciences are not unusual, and the companies are selling to a captive audience. Hundred-dollar add-ons, masquerading as digital workbooks, or problem-solving sets, are not uncommon.

Publishers love to put out bogus “new” editions to drive a stake though the heart of the used textbook market, which was gaining its second wind at online auction sites. It’s not as if calculus changed since Newton invented it, is the rallying cry you hear from student activists.

How do I know textbook publishers are nothing but pirates in pin-striped suits? Because when the fast-buck artists take over a company like Houghton Mifflin, they never talk about how proud they are to be publishing Philip Roth and J.R.R. Tolkien. They know they are going to make a killing in the profit-choked textbook division, which gorges on the goodwill of parents who want their children to be properly equipped for college courses.

Now most textbook publishers are going digital, and Amazon is promising a larger-format Kindle reader for the student market. The publishers say that iTexts, which often cost less than $100, save students money. But their opponents, led by a coalition of Student Public Interest Research Groups, point out that the password-protected digi-texts put the sword to the used-book market so despised by the publishers.

Congress has gotten into the act, legislating more “transparency” in textbook pricing in the just-passed Higher Education Opportunity Act. It looks like a jumble of half-measures to me. If it had any teeth, the publishers would be squawking madly.

A young Northeastern University student named Shawn Fanning wrung billions of dollars of excess profits from the record companies when he invented Napster. Yes, it’s true that recording “artists” now gouge young people 10 times more aggressively at the concert turnstiles than they ever did at Tower Records stores, which no longer exist around here. But Steve Jobs found the right price point for music at iTunes. Between the pirates and the publishers, we’ll find our way to the right price point for textbooks, too.

Now it’s time to arbitrage . . . tuition.

Don’t steal this book
Inevitably, a reviewer will call John Hanson Mitchell, author of “The Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston,” a latter-day Henry David Thoreau, not necessarily a compliment. Call him what you will – in real life, he edits the Massachusetts Audubon Society magazine Sanctuary – he is a smart guy, walking around, paying attention. I’d name his genre nostalgic realism; Mitchell certainly knows where this city and its many peculiar institutions come from, and he understands modernity as well.

I love that his brother owns a boat named after Richard Henry Dana, and that it doesn’t have an engine – there’s Boston in a nutshell. I think this book will take its place next to Walter Muir Whitehill’s “Boston,” with engravings by Rudolph Ruzicka, as one of the treasured Hub tomes of our time.

Able was I . . .
Ere I saw Alaska? Send in your Sarah Palin-dromes! A palindrome is a phrase that makes sense read forward and backward – e.g., “Madam, I’m Adam.” I think there’s a lot to work with here: Is Levi vile? Close, but no cigar. I’ll buy the winner a used copy of the kind of book that Governor Palin wanted to keep out of her local library – “Huckleberry Finn,” perhaps.

Alex Beam is a Globe columnist. His e-dress is beam@globe.com.
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2008/09/09/a_textbook_case_of_piracy/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+–+Living+%2F+Arts+News

ok i was caught shoplifting at target and i payed the fine and they said the incident was only between everyone in the room and the store i want to know if it would come up in a backround check for a job application because the item was under 30$ and i payed the fine and i live in MA Massachusetts’s and i dont know what would happen like if it would appear in the check or not i really need to know.

Can someone please tell me, under Massachusetts Law, does the finance company have to inform me that my car will be repossessed before they can actually take it? Will they give me some notice?

I know that marijuana will soon be decriminalized in Massachusetts. But what about California, was it already decriminalized there? Is there any other states where it is decriminalized?

Oh and by the way how jealous are you of Massachusetts

If someone is scheduled to work 12 days straight, 8hours a day in retail in the State of Massachusetts without volunteering for those extra days is that legal?

I am doing a backround check on a possible Tennant and his record came back with a Class F Felony in the State of Massachusetts. I cannot find any refernce as to what crimes fall under a Class F Felony? Can anyone help? Thanks!

Can a musician under 21 (but over 18) perform in bars in Massachusetts? What is the law on this?

I am extremely interested in politics, and changing the way things are done. In the Massachusetts Constitution, I can’t find anything that says you have to be a certain age to run. Can anyone give me any information on this?

I live in Massachusetts, i recently took out a personal loan with a contract. It includes an interest rate. If i pay it off early with i still have to pay the entire amount or will i not be obligated to pay all the interest? example: I buy a business for $90,000 with a 4% interest rate for 4 years. The total i would pay back is like $98,000. What if i pay the loan off in say 3 years?? Then would i only pay back say roughly $93,000??