From this week's Tri-Town Rag:

QUOTH RAGMAN - "JEERS - Chris Reagle – We always encourage all viewpoints on issues, but the editor of The Sentinel badly damaged her credibility by spouting off on the Wareham Free Library decertification issue in her column last week without doing even the most basic research."

Damn Ragman, you really hate libraries so much you'll go after anyone that defends them?  Ha ha ha, Mr. "I'll always light up candles around my picture of Bruce" is going to talk about someone ELSE having damaged credibility.  Ragman, you have ZERO credibility.  Yeah, Ragman, you encourage all viewpoints, except if someone expresses a pro-library viewpoint, you start foaming at the mouth.

QUOTH RAGMAN - "First she laid the blame on the Wareham selectmen, claiming they chopped $200,000 off the library budget after the town was faced with a $1.9 million deficit. Most first-year reporters know that selectmen don’t control a town’s budget. That is the responsibility of the town administrator and the Finance Committee."

Really, Ragman?  The fincom, not the selectmen, are the ones who propose the budget?  Good to know, because I believe that question was the focus of the fight on town meeting floor a few years ago between selectmen and fin com that led to the fin com's mass resignation in protest, and you took the BOS' side on that one.

QUOTH RAGMAN - "Then she said the $200,000 budget reduction forced the library to shut down “for all intense and purposes." Assuming that she means “intents” and purposes, the library still remains open 25 hours per week.

HA HA HA, oh Ragman!  You're going to talk about the spelling and grammar mistakes of others?  In this same issue, you titled your tri-town "In this Corner" on your tri-town website "SPOMETHING PURE IN THE SNOW" WITH A P!!!!  (Everyone go check it out now before he corrects it.)

Ragman, you going after other people for language errors is like Paris Hilton calling someone else a slut.  Or should I say SPOMEONE else a slut?

QUOTH RAGMAN - "The only reason the library isn’t open full time is because the acting library director has chosen to play politics. Several library employees belong to the union and are under contract to be paid 40 hours per week. All it would have taken is to put one of these people at the front desk, checking books in and out, to remain open long enough to satisfy one of the requirements of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners for certification. This was all one big political game by library lobbyists, and the people of Wareham are now suffering the consequences."

No, it's because the acting director did what the acting TA ordered as ordered by the BOS.

QUOTH RAGMAN - "The libraries in the Tri-Town area have chosen not to loan books to Wareham residents. There is no law mandating that decision. They have done so because they don’t want to incur the wrath of the MBLC, which is basically a non-funded state lobby group for public libraries."

Wow, there's corruption at every level of the library system, huh Ragman?  Ragman, get this through your graying fro - THE MBLC MEMBERS ARE APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS, THEY ARE A STATE AGENCY, AND THEY ARE THE STATE'S HIGHEST GOVERNING AUTHORITY OVER THE STATE LIBRARY SYSTEM, YOU MORON!!!

QUOTH RAGMAN - "If the Wareham town administrator didn’t cut the library funding, that money would have had to come out of the police, school, or Counsel on Aging budget. The issue came before Town Meeting. Voters made their decision between discretionary and non-discretionary spending. It had nothing to do with the selectmen."

But whatever they do, they wouldn't sacrifice "Failed Pizza Parlor Avenue" or any of the other legal expenses, the total which the townspeople will never find out, even though it is their right to know. 

QUOTH RAGMAN -  "The next time Reagle wants to discuss the library situation in Wareham, perhaps she should do more then just read press releases from lobby groups."

And the next time you write about anything, Ragman, perhaps you should do more than just write down verbatim and take as gospel whatever comes out of your bosom buddy Brucey's mouth.