THANK YEW!!

Well people, first I want to thank you for reading Captain America’s fun and fact filled posts (lol).  Your Captain started his blog in June of this year and there have been 6,250 hits to the site since then.  I appreciate it.  I promise to continue the blog without having any 24 hour money-thons to get my readers to donate money to me or beg on Broadway for SPAC tickets.  I will also promise not to have you think I have cancer so that I can get money from saps who believe I do, just so I can take a vacation with my wife Joyce, did I say Joyce?  I didn’t mean her.

Well just some interesting bits on area oddities.

It seems one of our greatest Mayor’s in the history of Saratoga Spring (and that’s going back hundreds of years when the area was known as Well Water Junction, by the Indians), translated that means mucho aqua.  Anyway, Mr. Johnson took umbrage to Lucian McCarty’s blog post about him (Lucian) asking the Mayor many, many times about his appointing a Commission at this late stage after 3 years of saying he could do so.  Well in a phone call with the Mayor it seems Sir Scotty said it wasn’t funny to keep making it seem like he was ducking the issue.  To that I say REALLY?  After 4 years?  Mr. Mayor, your middle name is Duck.  I hate to pick on the Mayor all the time (he does deserve it) because I am involved with Republicans on many levels and they think he is a little batty also.  I’ll have more later.

By the way, has anyone found Tamara yet?  Wonder Woman left a spare costume.

 Thanks again.

WAIT A FEW WEEKS

There is really nothing going on in Saratoga that is not horse racing related.  I did speak with  an Arab friend of mine who thought it was super of the greeting Marcia White gave Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the Ruler of Dubai with a performance of the Arabian nights program Saturday night with the Philadelphia Orchestra.  We should  know that belly dancing is a traditional form of dance starting in Middle Eastern countries such as Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Iraq etc., and adapted in the U.S. in the Middle East both men and woman can participate.  The dance signifies importent events such as weddings, victory parties or performances at feasts,  and as my friend said, he appreciated SPAC's welcome.

Well off tonight again to the horse sales to see what is going on, it starts at 7:00 at City Hall, see you there.

JUST A FEW NEWS TIDBITS I WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT ON.

With the track opened, real information is pretty slow and well, Scott Johnson and Shauna Sutton must be in Miami getting a tan or something.

It looks like if and when the new ‘coming to your neighborhood Bonacio Theater’ happens, we will have to pay twice to see a movie.  Once for the admission and again to cover the tax break (someone has to pay for it).  Saratoga Springs just seems to get a bit crazier by the day but that’s the trade off for living in the greatest City in the world or so some people say.

Marylou Whitney and her husband John have given exclusive rights to sell the Marylou Whitney Rose, Yankee Candle to Saratoga Hospital.  Oh yes, there is joy in Mudville.  There is also a rumor that a statue of Marylou will be erected in Congress Park and that people can go there to light a candle, kneel and watch a video of her entrances from her various past galas with commentary from Michelle Riggi.  City officials are hoping that the heat and scent from the candles will heat the public restrooms and make them smell like a Marylou Whitney rose.  Her husband John will appear at the Spring Grand Opening of the public toilets (Skip Scirocco and Mayor Johnson cut the ribbon this year, no pun intended).

Saratoga also has a new fish market and brewery opening, so Broadway will now start smelling more like NYC for the benefit of those moving here that want to change Saratoga into a mini New York City.  You know the cast of characters, they are the usual suspects.

I see that a local out of town blogger, ‘he who shall not be named’ because he still thinks he lives here and is well a brazil nut, is using my (yes, your Captain’s) story lines on his blog.  Must be when they kicked him out of SPAC he doesn’t know what to write about.  We all know him; he is in bed with Mayor Scott Johnson, Esq., attorney for midgets.

I would like an answer to a question.  I ask this because I know my readers will give me a clean and honest answer and I would like you to respond.

Do you think Saratoga Springs should put a moratorium on building for a period of time on new building, including anything that is on the books for immediate expansion?  Again, I would appreciate your comments.

SARATOGA SPRINGS GREAT NON PROFITS AND IT'S 1 IDIOT

When you look at the good work non-profits do in Saratoga Springs you have to appreciate all the hard work that is done by the volunteers and the paid Director’s and support staff.

We have the unfortunate miserable luck to have in our area a blogger that is so hateful and acidic that we all should be ashamed to even say hello to this idiot.  I don’t mention his name not because I shouldn’t but because hardly anyone reads his blog and I wouldn’t want you to even bother to go and take a look at it.  He writes hate filled articles, then comments anonymously about his own article.  If you happen to be involved as an unpaid volunteer, drink a cup of coffee with your left hand, in need of a hair cut or any other of about 1,000 things, he will find a way to start to attack you (I have never been on his hit list, so this is not pay back).

This ‘blogger’ is now degrading every non profit director who makes a salary for doing their job.  He has gone after the YMCA, Saratoga Bridges, and SPAC and will be starting on the Hospital and Prevention Council next, according to his hit list.

It is hard to understand why this guy is filled with so much hate.  Everyone can complain (even I, your Captain does), but this guy takes the cake.  He has been out of work because of a ‘disability’ from the City for years, collecting a fat check every month that comes from OUR money and he demands that Director’s of non profits are “overpaid leeches”.  If he only sat in the chair of a Director for 1 week he still would not be able to comprehend all the work and extra time that goes into the job.

So non profits, we want to take the time to say thank you for all of your dedication and hard work, our City is in the hands of some terrific people.

OUST NY CITY BALLET AND PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA?

The NY City Ballet season has come to a close in Saratoga hopefully for the last time, and maybe the Philadelphia Orchestra’s stay also.  We are not saying that these two fine arts be removed for ever but maybe just the players.  If you are a ballet or orchestra lover does it matter who is in residence at SPAC.  If SPAC could get two other fine groups for a longer time period for less money, would that disgust the ardent lovers of the ballet and orchestra, or are they just fighting to keep what we have so they can go on slamming SPAC management?    Think about it, (ok, times up), I vote to oust the NY City Ballet and Philadelphia Orchestra if it would extend by a few more weeks each of the ‘classical’ seasons.

SAVE THE BALLET?

Well, I listened to the City Council meeting on TV tonight.  I can always count on a good comedy when at or listening to a Council meeting.  The topic tonight was Save the Ballet.  One gentleman got up to speak during the public session and either had a fifth of Jim Beam before he spoke or there really is someone that can imitate FDR with a cigarette holder in his mouth.  Basically he went on to say that SPAC was built for the “fine arts” and anyone who dares to go to a rock concert is a simpleton.  He wants the City to financially support the ballet and orchestra and the term they are here should be extended.  Heck, the City can’t even afford to put a Memorial Day Parade or a Fourth of July celebration on and he wants us to support the fine arts?  This guy must be related to Remiga Foy as the Mayor let him drone on for at least 5 minutes.  I was flipping back and forth to a movie and I left him babbling and when I came back, someone had either shot him or he had the microphone pried from his hands.

Then there was Phil (the Thrill) Diamond who spoke about the fact that SPAC was built for ballet and the orchestra and that is why Saratoga has grown because it has drawn the educated to our ‘town’.  HEY PHIL, WE ARE A CITY.   Excuse me, back to Phil; he must be part of Save the Ballet group.  This group now has a script they use and he quoted from this script.  “The people who come to watch the Ballet and Orchestra stay in our hotels, eat in our restaurants and spend their money shopping downtown, while those who attend Phish concerts, but I have nothing against Phish, fall out of trees naked and use our resources like City Police, they take up space in our emergency room, they don’t stay in our hotels, eat in our restaurants or come downtown to shop”.  You know this came from a Council meeting as one cannot make this stuff up.

After Phil, some lady spoke about how she was from Saratoga and her family goes back generations and she is proud that her parents were in the generation that went around collecting pennies and donated money to build the outdoor venue., at this point the Mayor asked her to state her address.  She thinks that every Saratogian should donate money to keep the Ballet here.  Then came Dee, and well, who cares.

The message of all the speakers (as I said, I have a feeling they all belong to the Save group) had in common was that the fine art’s were for the educated in Saratoga and those who attend the other functions at SPAC were the drop outs.

First off, if the ballet and orchestra are such money losers why do we have to have the NYC Ballet and the Philadelphia Orchestra?  I think a few years ago we had another Ballet company perform and they were a big hit, and a lot less expensive.  The same could be said for the Orchestra, there are probably a few Orchestras that are as good for a lot less money.  Those that want to attend the Gala for the ballet could still dress up and spend the big bucks, or better yet dress down, eat hot dogs and give what they would have spent on themselves to SPAC as a donation.

Tighe Misses Another Big Story

Hi all, from Captain America:

Well once again our super sleuth detective blogger John Tighe has missed out on another big story in his beloved Saratoga Springs (he lives in Milton).  Telling the world how someone 'donated' seats to Yanni's performance at SPAC and someone 'donated' a one year patron's pass that allows him free food and open bar, he has the nerve to slam some of the patrons that actually bought and paid for their own patron pass.  John was seen stuffing his wife's pocketbook with 'pigs in a blanket' and mustard sauce to go along with them.

Now here is the story that none of his sources gave him any information about but gave every other local blogger.  The City has not received a building permit for the Woodlawn garage project.  It is a law that a permit be in plain site to be seen by all.  When Saratoga's blogger 'Citizen Nancy's, Nancy Muldoon asked the crew chief at the site if the City had to get a permit (again, a law that the City must follow for any remodeling or new building of any City owned property, he "Yes, we work for the city and the city is supposed to have a permit." I then asked him where I could get the permit and he quipped, "Ask the Mayor for one."  So she travels to City Hall and goes into the Building Dept. and asks to see a copy of the permit and is told that she would have to FOIL to look at it (there isn't one), then the office worker said she is not supposed to answer any questions from anyone.



John Tighe, Milton's Super Sleuth Being Programmed By Scott Johnson



It seems like our King, I mean Mayor who is a puppet of Remiga Foy and friends thinks he is beyond the law in performing his job duties.  This has been his method of operation for 5 years.  He is following Remiga's Law 'if it ain't done my way, hit the highway'.