Bitching about Boston

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There is no brawling in baseball! For shame, Red Sox. ( You gave as good, as you received.)

 

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Boston must have done something right.

Rockefeller Imposter pleads not guilty to murder
July 8, 2011


LOS ANGELES, July 8 (Reuters) - A German-born man who once posed as a member of the wealthy Rockefeller clan pleaded not
guilty on Friday to charges that he murdered a neighbor in1985, when authorities said he was using a different name.

Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter entered his plea at a court in the Los Angeles suburb of Alhambra.

The victim, John Sohus, went missing in 1985 but his body was not discovered until 1994, when a building crew found it
buried in the backyard of what had been his home in the Los
Angeles suburb of San Marino.

He was conclusively identified only recently with the help of new technology, sheriff's officials said earlier this year.

Sohus went missing along with his wife, Linda. Her body was never discovered, and as a result Gerhartsreiter has not been
charged in her death. Investigators have said, however, that they believe she is dead.

http://www.latimes.com/sns-rt-rockefeller-imposten1e7671b6-20110708,0,4643817.story?page=2

 

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What happens before the concert starts?

Coheed and Cambria bassist in 'drug rob' bust

news center 5
The Boston Channel talks to the taxi driver who drove him from the pharmacy where Mike Todd robbed the Attleboro Walgreens in Attleboro
by threatening the clerk with a bomb.

Mike Todd got 6 bottles of Oxycontin

And a cab ride to Comcast Center in Mansfield, Mass. where the band was opening for Soundgarden.

He Was arrested there.

The musician was charged with armed robbery and possession of a controlled substance. He was in jail while his bandmates performed without him.

 

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The musician was charged with armed robbery and possession of a controlled substance. He was in jail while his bandmates performed without him.

And, once he gets out, he'll have Boston's "finest women" waiting to suck his dick.

 

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Parking Rates
New York is 1st Most Expensive place to park
Honolulu is 2nd-
Boston is 4th-$ 32.00
Chicago is 5th- $31.00

July 11, 2011

NORTH BERWICK, MAINE (CBS/AP) – An Amtrak Downeaster train carrying 112 people barreled into a dump truck in North Berwick, Maine
just after 11 a.m. Monday, killing the driver of that truck.

WBZ TV Boston

 

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Vive la France! Bastille Day events around town

July 14 is Bastille Day, which means a slew of French and francophile spots around town are hosting events, featuring fabulous specials, and revving up their menus for the occasion. Ooh la la!

http://www.boston.com/thingstodo/gotoit/2011/07/vive_la_france.html?comments=all

 

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Manchester United and The Revolution rained on-

Gillette Stadium- Manchester United against the Revolution in an exhibition.

Manchester United, defeated the N.E. Revolution tonight.

New England
1 vs 4
Man Utd.
Played
July 13, 2011 7:45:00 PM EDT

http://www.boston.com/sports/soccer...ps_revolution_4_1_in_friendly/?p1=Upbox_links

 

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Yesterday was Kennedy Legacy reminder day. They aired the 50th Anniversary of JFK ad. They showed Uncle Ted Kennedy's sister.
Wicked old gal. (That translates into someone's great grandmother.)

They were all at the Compound in Hyannis (No, Not Rape Central. That is in Palm Beach.)
William Kennedy Smith was a Super Jerk who spoiled the legacy.
Uncle Ted redeemed himself after his spectacular scandal.


Patrick Kennedy got married on Friday to New Jersey schoolteacher Amy Petitgout.

Earlier in the day Friday, Kennedy and his brother spoke to reporters gathered outside the compound as they walked to a nearby dock.

"I'm taking the groom out for a little sail this afternoon to get him all relaxed and ready for the ceremony later," Edward Kennedy Jr. said, according to The Cape Cod Times.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/07/15/family_gathers_for_patrick_kennedy_wedding/

 

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“If this archdiocese was a business, it would be the Enron of faith.’’

Suzanne Hurley, one of the vigil participants at St. James and a spokeswoman for the parishioners.

(St. James the Great in Wellesley, Massachusetts)

The youngest of the town's Catholic parishes, St. James The Great was among those slated for closure in 2004.

Since then, a group of area Catholics, including St. James parish members, have maintained a daily vigil at the church.

http://wellesley.patch.com/listings/st-james-the-great-church

“All the lies we’ve heard - there’s no truth, no transparency,’’ Ashcraft said. “They continually lie and disappoint people.’’

Stephen Ashcraft of Brighton, a parishioner at Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley’s decree, which takes effect today, that would strip six church buildings of their religious classification and pave the way for their sale.

The churches slated to lose their status are St. Frances in Scituate; St. James the Great in Wellesley; St. Jeanne D’Arc in Lowell; Star of the Sea in Quincy,

Our Lady of Lourdes in Revere; and Our Lady of Mount Carmel in East Boston.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...hurches_told_to_close_look_to_vatican/?page=1

 

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Nov 18, 2010

Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley,visiting Dublin to begin a church investigation of the Dublin Archdiocese.

“These were men named in a report that unveiled the most dreadful abuse and corruption in the Irish church;
it’s amazing that a man charged with investigating this is concelebrating Mass with them,” Marie Collins said.

Abuse victim Marie Collins

7/13/11

DUBLIN -- The Irish government is publishing a new report Wednesday into the Catholic Church's concealment of child abuse by priests,
a long-running scandal that has ravaged the church's once-exalted position in Ireland.

The report being unveiled by Justice Minister Alan Shatter details how church leaders in the rural County Cork diocese of Cloyne
suppressed evidence of complaints against 19 priests from 1996 to 2009

This will be the fourth government-ordered report into Catholic abuse cover-ups in a country that has suffered waves of public uproar against the church since 1994.

Catholic leaders responded to the third report by introducing child-protection guidelines that went into force in January 1996.
These included instructions for bishops to tell police or other civil authorities about all suspected cases.

 

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2011
Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, visiting Dublin -
"Just as the Irish people persevered and preserved the faith when it was endangered, and carried it to many other countries, the commitment to sustain the faith provides the opportunity for the hard lessons of the crisis to benefit the Church, in our quest to do penance for the sins of the past and to do everything possible to protect children in the present and in the future."

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2011/02/cardinal_omalle_8.html

20 July 2011

Cloyne Report

Report by Commission of Investigation into Catholic Diocese of Cloyne

http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/Cloyne_Rpt

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said the historic relationship between church and state in Ireland could not be the same again.

He said the report exposed the elitism, dysfunction, disconnection, and narcissism that dominated the Vatican.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-14136923

Vatican official rejects criticism in wake of Irish judicial report

Father Lombardi said that, as the Irish bishops stated at the time, their document was "far from being the last word on how to address the issues." In that context, he said, the Vatican's critical observations were legitimate and reflected concern that Irish policies and sanctions against abusers would be in vain if they were ultimately found to be in contradiction with church law.

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1102863.htm

 

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The Boston Globe newspaper was beaten about the head and shoulders for exposing the dirty laundry of the Vatican-

Bizarre behavior?

Father John Geoghan was transferred from parish to parish until 1998, when he was finally defrocked.

200 victims and $10 million to settle lawsuits brought by victims and their families.

Cardinal Law writes to Father John Geoghan-
"On behalf of those you have served well, in my own name, I would like to thank you. I understand yours is a painful situation."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126160853

Middlesex Superior Court Judge Sandra Hamlin sentenced Geoghan to 9 to 10 years in a maximum-security prison.

Geoghan, 68, was murdered Saturday in his cell at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, allegedly by Joseph L. Druce,
a fellow inmate who told investigators he had plotted the killing for at least a month.

http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories5/082703_conviction.htm

 

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I really really hope that this is not a preview of August-

Tonight-
Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Heat index values up to 100 early this evening.
National Weather Service forecast for Boston and Suffolk County. Last updated at 7:25 PM

Temperatures in Boston reached 103 degrees at 3:52 p.m. today, matching the record set for this date in 1926,
said Alan Dunham, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Taunton.

Dunham does not expect the temperature to rise any more today, meaning the all-time record of 104 degrees set on July 4, 1911 will remain intact.

http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrod...IjpCV3mjda5FVsiIa27N/index.html?p1=News_links

 

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1882

"The Magnetic Storm", Storm extended from Boston and as far west as Ogden. Auora very brilliant in Omaha. At St. Paul, the sky was blood red.
Cheyenne reported a brilliace as bright as daylight. In Denver, the northern heavens were filled. It was also seen as far south as San Diego, California.
[The Philadelphia Enquirer, November 20, 1882, p. 1]

http://www.solarstorms.org/SS1882.html

 

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This morning they said Boston had nothing to worry about- Vermont and NH might get tossed about, but not the city.

Update? Severe storms- North of Boston and West of Boston- Until 8

The NWS Has Issued Severe Thunderstorm Watch 687 In Effect Until 10 Pm Edt
This Evening For The Following, Areas
In Connecticut This Watch Includes 3 Counties
In Northern Connecticut
Hartford, Tolland, Windham
In Massachusetts This Watch Includes 8 Counties
In Central Massachusetts
Worcester
In Eastern Massachusetts
Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk
In Northeastern Massachusetts
Essex
In Western Massachusetts
Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire

northern belknap county in central New Hampshire, northwestern strafford county in central New Hampshire,
southern carroll county in northern New Hampshire,
Until 315 pm edt.

North Berkshire County
South Berkshire County

Camping Canoe trip? Yikes!

 

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Severe Thunderstorm watch-

This Includes The Cities Of, Boston, Fitchburg, Foxboro,, Framingham, Gloucester, Greenfield, Hartford, Keene,,
Lawrence, Lowell, Manchester, Nashua, Northampton,, Providence, Putnam, Quincy, Springfield, Union, Vernon,, Warwick, Willimantic And Worcester.

Why did'nt they say this first?

Warnings for Maine to New York?

It looks perfectly wonderful outside my window.

Should be hitting the Western edge of Worcester by now....

 

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Micro-burst for Western MA? Where North Hampton borders Worcester- Athol, Gardener.

 

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Here we go again-Springfield/ Worcester area Munsen, Palmer, Ludlow--- Tornado signature
Wilbraham you have less than a half hour!

 

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Sturbridge, Southbridge, you are next. Funnel clouds and baseball and ping pong sized hail. High winds, uprooted trees,downed trees.
West Springfield hit at 4:30 Don't make the mistake of not taking it seriously. Northern Connecticut/ MA border next on the list.

 

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Severe and vivid lightning Woodstock area- North East Conn.
Rained heavily and areas are flooded-

Second weather center From Manchester to Laconia in New Hampshire-
Strong cells North of Concord- Moving toward Vermont-

t 448 pm edt, national weather service doppler radar indicated a severe thunderstorm capable of producing quarter size hail,
and damaging winds in excess of 60 mph. This storm was located near danbury, or 8 miles northeast of new london, and moving east at 25 mph.
Some locations in the warning include but are not limited to franklin, tilton-northfield, tilton, canterbury, loudon and laconia.
Precautionary/preparedness actions!

http://www.wmur.com/weather/severe.html

Nice vacation on the lakes?

 

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Over the other side of the hill is very noisy. Firetrucks, ambulances, some police cars. I suppose that is the result of the heavy duty thunder.
Nothing on my side of the fence but cloud cover and rain, so far.

 

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Scaring people who have already lived through something terrible.
Now the East Coast knows how it feels.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...07/27/one_dead_as_thunderstorms_pound_w_mass/

"In Springfield, the deafening storm raged for nearly 20 minutes, shattering windows with golf ball-sized hail and littering the streets with debris.
With the devastation of early June fresh in their minds, many residents feared it was happening again."

 

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Now, that New York and Connecticut have decided to share their weather with MA-

August 1, 2011

Baseball-Sized Hail Damages Cars in Queens and Long Island

A violent summer storm slammed hailstones the size of baseballs down onto eastern Queens and western Nassau County Monday afternoon,
shattering windshields in New Hyde Park, Long Island, and damaging cars in Douglaston, Queens, the National Weather Service said.

June 25, 2010

"We would classify it as a micro-burst, not a tornado," said NWS meteorologist Ross Dickman. "The winds were straight line winds, they weren't rotating.
Douglaston and Whitestone sections of Queens got socked. Hardest hit in Nassau were Great Neck and East Hills.

September 17, 2010

Two tornadoes — one that reached up to 80 miles an hour in Park Slope, and a second near Flushing that reached 100 miles an hour — as well as a macro-burst in Middle Village and Forest Hills, Queens, that generated winds up to 125 miles an hour.

Micro-burst or macro burst? Do you want hail with that?
Tornado Alley II ?

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/images/hgx/swa/baseballhail.jpg

 

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Singing Tesla Coil at the Boston Museum of Science

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdEh09c9lZQ

 

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Happy Birthday. Union Oyster House!
185 years old today!
Is it the oldest tavern in MA?

(General Washington did not sleep there?)

Daniel Webster dined there.
(Daniel Webster, statesman, born in Salisbury (now Franklin), New Hampshire, Born 18 January, 1782; died in Marshfield, Massachusetts, 24 October, 1852.)

John F. Kennedy dined there.

"Even before the building, originally a dry-goods store, became a restaurant, wives of the Founding Fathers met here to sew,
and exiled Frenchman (and future king) Louis Philippe held court with fashionable young ladies in the 1790s."

http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma.../?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Today's+paper+A+to+Z

http://www.nhd.uscourts.gov/ci/history/notables.asp?print=true