Bitching about Boston

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The Boston Globe's Failed Assassination of Willie Soon

Rowland on Soon’s views: “Polar bears? Not threatened. Sea level? Exaggerated danger. Carbon dioxide? Great for trees. Warming planet? Caused by natural fluctuation in the sun’s energy.”

If Rowland had done his homework he would have discovered that it’s just as Soon has said. Polar bears aren’t threatened. Sea level rise is wildly exaggerated. Trees adore carbon dioxide. The sun is responsible for climatic fluctuations to a great extent. All this is well known and even grudgingly admitted by scientists.

Rowland: “The work of Soon, and a handful of like-minded scientists, is seen by a [sic] critics in Congress and elsewhere as a case study in how this deadlock has been engineered by energy companies and antiregulation conservatives.”

Rot. Balderdash. Rowland, who has never been linked to child molestation, just can’t help but to cast aspersions without ever making a direct claim.​

Read the full essay at: The Boston Globe's Failed Assassination of Willie Soon (From statistician William M. Brigg's blog)

 

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^You should look in other places, for information that is more recent.

Much of the U.S. East Coast is expected to get a view of a mid-Atlantic rocket launch Tuesday night, when the Air Force and NASA will try to put 29 tiny satellites into orbit, including a smartphone and a satellite built by students.

The launch of the privately built Minotaur rocket is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. EST from NASA's Wallops Island, Va., launch site. Weather permitting, it should be possible to see it from Jacksonville to Maine and Montreal and as far west as Detroit and Dayton.

People in the Washington-Norfolk area should start to see the rocket streak through the sky 30 seconds after the launch. The farthest places to view, a swath from Savannah to Columbus to Toronto, won't see the rocket until two to three minutes after launch.

http://www.newsdaily.com/article/f8...-atlantic-rocket-launch-set-for-tuesday-night

The forecast was good, with less than a 5 percent chance of bad weather, said Barron Beneski, spokesman for Orbital Sciences Corp., which built and is launching the rocket.

The rocket is launching as an Air Force test program, carrying satellites that are smaller than many ordinary shipping boxes.

 

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Americas Hometown Thanksgiving Celebration - Parade

November 23, 2013, 10:00 AM Add To Your Calendar
Plymouth Waterfront

Plymouth, Massachusetts

44th National Day of Mourning

Nov. 28, 2013
12:00 noon
Coles Hill Plymouth, MA

On that first Day of Mourning back in 1970, The Mayflower was boarded and the Union Jack was torn from the mast and replaced
with the flag that had flown over liberated Alcatraz Island.

THE SUPPRESSED SPEECH OF

WAMSUTTA (FRANK B.) JAMES, WAMPANOAG

To have been delivered at Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1970

ABOUT THE DOCUMENT:
Three hundred fifty years after the Pilgrims began their invasion of the land of the Wampanoag, their "American" descendants planned an anniversary
celebration. Still clinging to the white schoolbook myth of friendly relations between their forefathers and the Wampanoag, the anniversary planners
thought it would be nice to have an Indian make an appreciative and complimentary speech at their state dinner. Frank James was asked to speak
at the celebration. He accepted. The planners, however , asked to see his speech in advance of the occasion, and it turned out that Frank James'
views — based on history rather than mythology — were not what the Pilgrims' descendants wanted to hear. Frank James refused to deliver a speech
written by a public relations person.

Frank James did not speak at the anniversary celebration.

If he had spoken, this is what he would have said:

It is with mixed emotion that I stand here to share my thoughts. This is a time of celebration for you - celebrating an anniversary of a beginning
for the white man in America. A time of looking back, of reflection. It is with a heavy heart that I look back upon what happened to my People.

Even before the Pilgrims landed it was common practice for explorers to capture Indians, take them to Europe and sell them as slaves for 220 shillings apiece. The Pilgrims had hardly explored the shores of Cape Cod for four days before they had robbed the graves of my ancestors and stolen their corn and beans. Mourt's Relation describes a searching party of sixteen men. Mourt goes on to say that this party took as much of the Indians' winter provisions as they were able to carry.

Massasoit, the great Sachem of the Wampanoag, knew these facts, yet he and his People welcomed and befriended the settlers of the Plymouth Plantation. Perhaps he did this because his Tribe had been depleted by an epidemic. Or his knowledge of the harsh oncoming winter was the reason for his peaceful acceptance of these acts. This action by Massasoit was perhaps our biggest mistake. We, the Wampanoag, welcomed you, the white man, with open arms, little knowing that it was the beginning of the end; that before 50 years were to pass, the Wampanoag would no longer be a free people.

What happened in those short 50 years? What has happened in the last 300 years? History gives us facts and there were atrocities; there were broken promises - and most of these centered around land ownership. Among ourselves we understood that there were boundaries, but never before had we had to deal with fences and stone walls. But the white man had a need to prove his worth by the amount of land that he owned. Only ten years later, when the Puritans came, they treated the Wampanoag with even less kindness in converting the souls of the so-called "savages." Although the Puritans were harsh to members of their own society, the Indian was pressed between stone slabs and hanged as quickly as any other "witch."

And so down through the years there is record after record of Indian lands taken and, in token, reservations set up for him upon which to live. The Indian, having been stripped of his power, could only stand by and watch while the white man took his land and used it for his personal gain. This the Indian could not understand; for to him, land was survival, to farm, to hunt, to be enjoyed. It was not to be abused. We see incident after incident, where the white man sought to tame the "savage" and convert him to the Christian ways of life. The early Pilgrim settlers led the Indian to believe that if he did not behave, they would dig up the ground and unleash the great epidemic again.

The white man used the Indian's nautical skills and abilities. They let him be only a seaman -- but never a captain. Time and time again, in the white man's society, we Indians have been termed "low man on the totem pole."

Has the Wampanoag really disappeared? There is still an aura of mystery. We know there was an epidemic that took many Indian lives - some Wampanoags moved west and joined the Cherokee and Cheyenne. They were forced to move. Some even went north to Canada! Many Wampanoag put aside their Indian heritage and accepted the white man's way for their own survival. There are some Wampanoag who do not wish it known they are Indian for social or economic reasons.

What happened to those Wampanoags who chose to remain and live among the early settlers? What kind of existence did they live as "civilized" people? True, living was not as complex as life today, but they dealt with the confusion and the change. Honesty, trust, concern, pride, and politics wove themselves in and out of their [the Wampanoags'] daily living. Hence, he was termed crafty, cunning, rapacious, and dirty.

History wants us to believe that the Indian was a savage, illiterate, uncivilized animal. A history that was written by an organized, disciplined people, to expose us as an unorganized and undisciplined entity. Two distinctly different cultures met. One thought they must control life; the other believed life was to be enjoyed, because nature decreed it. Let us remember, the Indian is and was just as human as the white man. The Indian feels pain, gets hurt, and becomes defensive, has dreams, bears tragedy and failure, suffers from loneliness, needs to cry as well as laugh. He, too, is often misunderstood.

The white man in the presence of the Indian is still mystified by his uncanny ability to make him feel uncomfortable. This may be the image the white man has created of the Indian; his "savageness" has boomeranged and isn't a mystery; it is fear; fear of the Indian's temperament!

High on a hill, overlooking the famed Plymouth Rock, stands the statue of our great Sachem, Massasoit. Massasoit has stood there many years in silence. We the descendants of this great Sachem have been a silent people. The necessity of making a living in this materialistic society of the white man caused us to be silent. Today, I and many of my people are choosing to face the truth. We ARE Indians!

Although time has drained our culture, and our language is almost extinct, we the Wampanoags still walk the lands of Massachusetts. We may be fragmented, we may be confused. Many years have passed since we have been a people together. Our lands were invaded. We fought as hard to keep our land as you the whites did to take our land away from us. We were conquered, we became the American prisoners of war in many cases, and wards of the United States Government, until only recently.

Our spirit refuses to die. Yesterday we walked the woodland paths and sandy trails. Today we must walk the macadam highways and roads. We are uniting We're standing not in our wigwams but in your concrete tent. We stand tall and proud, and before too many moons pass we'll right the wrongs we have allowed to happen to us.

We forfeited our country. Our lands have fallen into the hands of the aggressor. We have allowed the white man to keep us on our knees. What has happened cannot be changed, but today we must work towards a more humane America, a more Indian America, where men and nature once again are important; where the Indian values of honor, truth, and brotherhood prevail.

You the white man are celebrating an anniversary. We the Wampanoags will help you celebrate in the concept of a beginning. It was the beginning of a new life for the Pilgrims. Now, 350 years later it is a beginning of a new determination for the original American: the American Indian.

There are some factors concerning the Wampanoags and other Indians across this vast nation. We now have 350 years of experience living amongst the white man. We can now speak his language. We can now think as a white man thinks. We can now compete with him for the top jobs. We're being heard; we are now being listened to. The important point is that along with these necessities of everyday living, we still have the spirit, we still have the unique culture, we still have the will and, most important of all, the determination to remain as Indians. We are determined, and our presence here this evening is living testimony that this is only the beginning of the American Indian, particularly the Wampanoag, to regain the position in this country that is rightfully ours.

Wamsutta

September 10, 1970

 

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1-31-07

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNEZJqVjoDg#t=65

blurb-

A video tribute to the events which occurred on 1-31-07 in Boston, MA involving an Aqua Teen Hunger Force marketing campaign and the chaos that followed.

{gsgs comment- I was guessing that they were student art experiments. They were up for a very long time, before someone freaked out and called the police.}

 

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There aren’t all that many pumpkin (pompion ) pie recipes in English cookbooks in the 17th century. This is one of the earliest AND easiest.
It is also an English translation of a French recipe and it will be another 2 years before there is an English recipe. The first English recipe for
pumpkin pie is from the cook of the Queen, Henrietta Maria, who is….French. -

Tourte of pumpkin.
Boile it with good milk, pass it through a straining pan very thick, and mix it with sugar, butter, a little salt and if you will, a few stamped almonds;
let all be very thin. Put it in your sheet of [pie crust] paste; bake it. After it is baked, besprinkle it with sugar and serve.”

- Francois Pierre La Varenne. The French Cook [1653], Translated into English in 1653 by I.D.G.,
Introduced by Philip and Mary Hyman [East Sussex: Southover Press} 2001 (p. 199-200)

To say that Plymouth [Massachuseetts] will be pulling out all the stops for Thanksgiving would be implying (in an epically insulting way) that
the community hasn’t been doing so for the past 392 years.

Thanksgiving is rooted in New England tradition — more specifically, the Pilgrims and Wampanoag living in Plymouth Colony. Ask any local
resident, historian, or tourism agent, and they will say Plymouth is Thanksgiving.

But with this being the 150th anniversary of Thanksgiving having been declared a national holiday, and coinciding with the first day of
Hanukkah for the first time in 125 years, Plymouth will be gilding the lily with gusto.

In a time when more families are rushing through the Thanksgiving meal to catch football games or doorbuster deals at retail stores, local
organizers say they hope the unique milestones attached to Thanksgiving this year will help people reflect on the holiday’s traditional meaning.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/re...liday-turns/Nq9dn2VdlqeVrGKJNSn4RN/story.html

 

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Frickin' cold around New England. Wind advisory and wind chill warnings. Nod of the hatted and earmuffed head,
to Western Massachusetts. Wind chill makes it feel like 0F. Boston feels like 10F. Brrrrr!

Bundle up, shoppers. 16F at night. This is our second alert. Winter will be setting in. Got road salt ? Got shovels ?

Got generator ? Wild and windy day. Watch where you park the car.

 

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Tornado Alley East experiences some of the other unpleasant side effects that it shares with the Western part of the United States-

65 car pile up

Dozens injured, two seriously, in I-290 pileup in Worcester

December 1, 2013

Black ice began to cover the highway about 6:30 a.m., causing drivers to lose control while heading down the declining section of I-290 westbound.

Two tractor-trailers slid sideways at the front and rear of the accident scene. Two large commercial trucks were also struck. State police estimated
65 vehicles were involved. The crash scene was 1,500 feet long.

Twenty-five cars were involved in the Route 9 crash in Northboro, including the Northboro Fire Department ambulance, which was responding to the
crash at the time.

Alan Dunham, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Taunton, said a light drizzle landing on an already cold road coupled with below-
freezing temperatures Sunday morning caused the icy conditions.

http://www.telegram.com/article/20131201/NEWS/131209998/1116

http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...ter-due-ice/MO0cfg329GiZdnQFxtY7GO/video.html

 

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Why would anyone who lives in California care the fuck about Boston?

We had to learn about Boston in History class.

It has no application to real life.

 

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Some people shot some people...

There was a war...

And the stupid British got what was coming to them.

I'm not sure Boston is relevant to anything anymore.

 

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Tornado Alley East experiences some of the other unpleasant side effects that it shares with the Western part of the United States-

65 car pile up

Dozens injured, two seriously, in I-290 pileup in Worcester

December 1, 2013

Black ice began to cover the highway about 6:30 a.m., causing drivers to lose control while heading down the declining section of I-290 westbound.

Two tractor-trailers slid sideways at the front and rear of the accident scene. Two large commercial trucks were also struck. State police estimated
65 vehicles were involved. The crash scene was 1,500 feet long.

Twenty-five cars were involved in the Route 9 crash in Northboro, including the Northboro Fire Department ambulance, which was responding to the
crash at the time.

Alan Dunham, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Taunton, said a light drizzle landing on an already cold road coupled with below-
freezing temperatures Sunday morning caused the icy conditions.

http://www.telegram.com/article/20131201/NEWS/131209998/1116

http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...ter-due-ice/MO0cfg329GiZdnQFxtY7GO/video.html

We have our own concerns.

They have "England" in their name.

Let them fucking sort it.

 

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December 4, 2013

If turning to the traditional stocking stuffers for Christmas doesn’t sound ideal, people can show up to the Hilltop Steakhouse on Route 1
on Saturday, December 14, and make bids on items like small ceramic cows, buffalo heads that mount on the wall, Western décor, kitchen
and butcher shop equipment, and Native American-themed carvings and statues.

Included in the lot of items up for sale at the auction is one of the ceramic cows that was reported stolen—and later recovered—when the Saugus
family restaurant announced it was closing down back in October.

The larger ceramic cows seen outside of the restaurant, and the iconic neon-glowing cactus that welcomed customers to the eatery, will not
be part of the sale.

There will be a free public preview on Friday, December 13, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and starting at 8 a.m. on the day of the sale.

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/12/04/hilltop-steakhouse-auction/

 

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Thank you, wcvb, (The Boston Channel) for covering the tree lighting on the Common. Hiz On- Nah, May-ah Menino looked just fine.

 

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We said goodbye to Winter Storm Nemo 2013

We watched as Winter Storm Dion 2013 arrived.

The East Coast watched as Winter Storm Dion took its leave.

The storm that iced over Dallas, buried Philadelphia in snow and stranded drivers and air travelers everywhere
in between at last plodded out of New England, exiting in muted fashion after days of foul weather.

http://www.boston.com/news/weather/...es-out-last/z50vwgwT9rYCkuSPBSc4SO/story.html

 

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The local TV channels must have taken pity on the parents, coping with cooped up kids. The Borrowers film is on- version 2011 with Stephen Fry.

 

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He pinpointed it for me-

Because of vicious and disrespectful, I turned my face away. That was thirty years ago.

 

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Some prank at the freshman dorm, has gone awry ? Taking finals are a bitch.

Harvard Alert: Unconfirmed reports of explosives at four sites on campus: Science Center, Thayer, Sever, and Emerson. All have been evacuated.

 

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It's December 16 and trouble is brewing in Boston! Travel back in time and relive one of the most iconic public protests in American history-- the Boston Tea Party! Gather at Old South Meeting House, the actual historic landmark where the colonists met in 1773, with Boston's infamous rabblerousers like Samuel Adams, Paul Revere-- and even some crown-loving Loyalists-- to debate the tea tax and demand liberty from the British crown! Join the procession to Griffin's Wharf accompanied by fife and drum and scores of colonists! Then, line the shores of Boston Harbor to witness the daring destruction of the tea firsthand as the Sons of Liberty storm the Brig Beaver, tossing the troublesome tea into the sea!

This event is presented by Old South Meeting House and the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum.

On-line tickets are no longer available. Limited tickets are available while supplies last for purchase IN PERSON ONLY at the Old South Meeting House Museum Shop.

This program begins at Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street, Boston, MA, and ends at the Harborwalk behind the InterContinental Boston hotel, Congress Street Bridge, Boston, MA. Transportation is not provided between venues.

NO TICKET? You can still join in this historic event! Gather outside Old South Meeting House where town criers will relay news of the meeting inside, then at 7:30 prepare to walk to the harbor and witness the destruction of the tea from viewing areas along Fort Point Channel that are open to the general public.

 

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Forget about using the Callahan Tunnel. Out of commission until March 2014. (There will much cursing, and gnashing of teeth.)

 

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After New Years, Boston will share the ice cold misery that the rest of the country is enjoying. Minus seven F by Saturday, with snow.

Tornado Alley East will be hit by two weather fronts. Flooding and snow, or you know- what New England weather does best- changing its mind....

50F on Monday? *shrug* It could happen. Bonus for Bostonians! Because of the cold, First Night tickets cost less. Cannot have visitors
and celebrators with frostbite.

 

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Thank goodness for being a little college city. The younglings demand new and fresh. Young blood with enough energy and stamina
to dance the night away. Our fireworks may not have been as fabulous as London's. Or, as overwhelming as the Aussie fireworks.
But, Boston had something new this year. A sky full of dancing, flickering blue-tinged stars that blossomed into flowers. A weeping
willow that sheltered the city sky line with falling glitter. A Cousin It (Addams Family reference) the size of Cthhulhu, made of golden
falling streams. They did not spare the sound effects. It sounded like bombs bursting in air. I cannot help but think of the bombs that
went off during the Boston Marathon. It would not be Boston without a barrage of reports. What came first of all, was fights at sea
and on land, in the cause of independence and freedom. That proud history cannot be taken away from Boston. Happy New Year!

 

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Dear May-ah Menino
We will miss your mumbles. I hope to the stars and the heavens that you passed your connections and network on to the new mayor.
You have outdone yourself with this storm. People respect you enough to listen to you. And you were kind enough to provide services
for the self centered dumbasses, as well as the people who are needed.

I hope that the new guy can fill your shoes. *respectful tip of the hat to hiz on-nah*

 

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Big Sister, New York, took notice of Boston. We have an article in the Times.
In the National section, they reminded us of the time that G.W. Bush called
Boston harbor"an open sewer." 1988 The attention brought help and money.

Boston's population is only 636,000 ? (I have to wonder who they are counting.)

Yes, New York. Boston has come along way in twenty years. Thank you for noticing (no harsh punctuation)

 

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At a certain point I will forget that Jordan Marsh was there. And I will forget the blueberry muffins. (Macy's is a vampire.)

The ugly pit that was Filenes, now has some windows. I hope I live long enough to forget that Filene's was there.

The Cosmic Muffin and the Big Mattress ? WBCN, WFNX did not take long to join you. *sigh*

 

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The storm is upsetting the anthill. No speech about the State of the State. Whiteout and freezeout. -10F ? -20F ? (caused by windchill) Not just for Alaska, anymore....

 

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Comcast has stopped sucking, as much as it used to. The new Comcast Time-Warner merger is going to make Comcast suck, again.

arrrggghhh