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"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind." - H. L. Mencken. "One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them." - Thomas Sowell. - Join search for truth learn to recognize it when you encounter it. See also enoughroom.blogspot.com youtube.com/user/roybercaw [Editor: Roy Bercaw]

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US Federal Debt July 2, 2016 $19,385,011,022,974.42. The estimated population of the United States is 323,268,727 so each citizen's share of this debt is $59,965.62. The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $2.42 billion per day since September 30, 2012!

"Sarchasm: the gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the recipient who doesn't get it. (Tom Witte, Gaithersburg)" Washington Post August 2, 1998, Style.

George Washington (1732-1799) "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent -- it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." "If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor." "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

John Adams (1735-1826) Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Thomas Sowell (1930 -) "One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them."

Noam Chomsky (1928 -) “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all” Guardian (UK), Nov. 23, 1992)

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) "Chance favors the prepared mind."

Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." "Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) "To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting."

Jodie Foster (1962 - ) "Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."

Bertrand Russell(1872-1970 ) "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." "The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."

Frank Leahy (1907-1973) "Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) "A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."

James Michael Curley (1874-1958) “Never complain, never explain.”

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939 ) "The reason for so much bad science is not that talent is rare, not at all; what is rare is character."

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) “I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.” "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

Andre Gide: (1869-1951) "Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again." "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) "And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."

A woman responding to a threat from Cuban-backed terrorists in El Salvador, 1982 “You can kill me, you can kill my family, kill my neighbors, but you can’t kill us all.”

Aung San Suu Kyi (1945- ) "The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear."

Dorothy Thompson (1894-1961) "Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live."

Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) "Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable."

Lady Marguerite Gardiner (1789-1849) "There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world."

Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)"Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty." "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”

Will Rogers: (1879-1938) "When people start taking the comedian seriously and the politician as a joke, everything changes." "This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer."

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900-1965) "My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." [Under this definition, Cambridge Massacchusetts, and the state of Massachusetts are not free societies. ed.]

Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965) "We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."

Maria Bartiromo (1967 - ) "My [commencement 2011] speech at St. John's [University, New York] three themes: work hard, no shortcuts, love what you do, and always do the right thing."

Ayn Rand (1905-1982) "Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists ... it is real ... it is possible ... it's yours."

Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969) "Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well."

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) "The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone."

Dr. Seuss (1904-1991 Theodor Seuss Geisel) "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."

Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945, Hitler's Minister of Propaganda) "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."

Howie Carr (1952 - Boston Herald Columnist, WRKO Radio Talk Show Host) "The [MA] courts are more corrupt than the legislature." (November 18, 2010, 6:15 PM on his radio show.)

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) "In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."

William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008) "I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

Voltaire (François Marie Arouet, 1694-1778) "Common sense is not so common." Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one." "Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."

Martha Coakley (1953 - Democrat, MA Attorney General, 2010) "In Massachusetts, technically, it is not illegal to be illegal."

Deval Patrick (1956 - Democrat, MA Governor, 2010) "I am not a politician."

Michael Bloomberg (1942 - Democrat, Republican, Independent 3-Term Mayor of New York City and Billionaire) "Last time I checked, the pharmaceutical industry doesn't make a lot of money."

George W. Bush (1946 - ) "Intentions get overwhelmed by perceptions."

John Tudor "Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology."

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

Robert Heinlein (1907-1988) "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."

H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) "There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character." "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." "No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not." "For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." "It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull." "Democracy is the theory that people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." "Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

Michel de Montaigne: (1533-1592) "The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness."

Aldous Huxley: (1894-1963) "I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself."

T. S. Eliot: (1888-1965) "Half the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important They don’t mean to do harm But the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it Because they are absorbed in the endless struggle To think well of themselves."

Burt Prelutsky (1940- Columnist) "Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with a Jew building a house in Israel than with a Muslim building a nuclear bomb in Iran."

Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947, President Columbia University) "An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less."

Henry Kissinger: (1923 - ) "In this world it is often dangerous to be an enemy of the United States, but to be a friend is fatal."

Socrates: (469 BC-399BC) "He is richest who is content with the least."

Leo Tolstoy: (1828-1910) "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." "Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly." "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." "Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

P.J. O'Rourke (A Parliament of Whores) "Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population- we'd all be married to Mel Gibson."

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

Orson Welles (as Harry Lime in The Third Man, 1949) "In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had 500 years of democracy and peace -- and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

Tacitus: (c. 56 AD-c. 117) "The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates."

Ralph Waldo Emerson: (1803-1882) "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."

Doug Hoffman: (2009 Conservative Party Candidate for US Rep. NY 23rd District) "Congress fiddles while our economy burns. They lack common sense."

Rich Lowry: (On ObamaCare) "A shimmering mirage of wishful thinking and willful dishonesty."

President Obama (as he loses public support.) "We cannot wait any longer [. . .] There comes a time to remember the fierce urgency of right now."

Rush Limbaugh: (On first hour of his show broadcast October 23, 2009) Obama "is delusional." He's "seriously dangerous." He's "insane." Reacting to Obama's comments that the US Constitution is an obstacle to "redistribution of wealth." Obama also referred to "the so called founders."

Marek Edelman, (1919?-2009 leader of Warsaw Ghetto uprising.) "Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred."

Adis Medunjanin (24, in January 2010, Queens, NY man accused of training with al Qaeda): "We love death more than you love life."

Edward Moore Kennedy (1932-2009): "Do we operate under a system of equal justice or one for the average citizen and one for the high and mighty?"

Robert Novak: (1931-2009) “Always love your country — but never trust your government!

Calvin Coolidge: (1872-1933) “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”

Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) in Dead Pool: "Opinions are like a**holes. Everybody's got one."

Lyndon Johnson: (1908-1973) “The difference between liberals and cannibals is that cannibals don’t eat their friends and family members.”

Margaret Thatcher: (1925 -) "The problem with socialism is that eventually, you run out of others people's money."

John Adams: (1735-1826) "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

Abraham Lincoln: (1809-1865) "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

Thomas Jefferson: (1743-1826) "Merchants have no country." “In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”

James Madison: (1751-1836) “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”

Mark Twain: (1835-1910) "Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing often and for the same reason." "It's not what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you think you know for sure that just ain't so." "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." "Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Maggie Gallagher: (1960-) "Politicians can pass a bill saying a chicken is a duck and that doesn't make it true. Truth matters."

Humpty Dumpty (In Alice in Wonderland) "When I use a word, it means exactly what I want it to. No more no less."

Groucho Marx: (Julius Henry, 1890-1977) "Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read."

United States Constitution http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html FACTS ARE STUBBORN:

John Adams: Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Aldous Huxley: Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Thomas Fuller: Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

Obama Lost the Debate on Health Care: Unable to counter widespread concerns of citizens about his health care plans, Obama supporters conduct intense vitriolic attacks on critics. Obama has no rational arguments, and hopes to discredit his critics by character assassination. They are not just racists now they are greedy racists and hate mongers. Maybe that will work. Ya think? Obama-Biden: Stupid is as stupid does. Biden: "We misread how bad the economy was." Obama: [Correcting Biden]"We had incomplete information." So the US Congress voted for and the President signed a $787 billion stimulus bill without having read it, and with incomplete information? And they say others are stupid? Hello? Then Congress voted for a 1,000+ page "cap and trade" bill that none of them read. Bloomberg: Daschle says, "Health care reform will not be pain free. Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them," while former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm says seniors have "a duty to die." If this does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember that the President, Senators and Congressmen have their own special gold plated health care plan which is guaranteed the remainder of their lives and they are not subject to this new law if they pass it. Reverse the dangerous direction of the Obama administration and its allies. Obama, The Un-Truman: David McCullough, in his biography of Harry Truman, "Truman" says on page 217, "Harry cared little more for other [than Huey Long] celebrated 'speechifiers' in the Senate. Admittedly fearful of making a speech himself, he seemed to resent particularly those who could and who made their reputations that way. They were the 'egotistical boys' whose specialty was talk." Obama admitted that he can make a speech but that he was incapable of doing anything in the Senate. Where did he gets his special powers during the campaign? Obama's Mantra: He keeps repeating, "I won the election." He expects all Americans to support what HE wants. "I won," is how Obama implements the post-partisan unification of America. What a guy! See also Rich Lowry's "Sorry, O: 'I won' Won't Cover this," New York Post, February 6, 2009, page 27. http://www.nypost.com/seven/02062009/postopinion/opedcolumnists sorry__o__i_won_wont_cover_this_153839.htm MIDDLESEX DA: We're too busy to address crimes less than murder. On Thursday June 25, 2009 Marian Ryan, who works for the Middlesex District Attorney in MA, returned my call from the previous day. She heads the unit for abuse of elders and abuse of persons with disabilities. She told me, "We've had four murders this month." That was to explain why she was unable to address 35 years of police abuses of a citizen with a disability now an elder. She said that a police officer making a threat did not rise to the level of a crime. She did not have time or resources to address abuses by the City Manager and the Police Commissioner of Cambridge, and the Harvard University campus police. It was no concern that using police to harass a person with a disability may be the reason for the four murders. MA Civil Rights statute and possession of illegal firearms are felonies, but not murder. Misallocation of resources is easily apparent. If the police focused on criminals instead of harassing elders with disabilities there might be less violent crime. But who was I to argue. Cambridge Censorship: In October 2009 City Council Candidate Kathy Podgers complained to Attorney Bill August, long term president of the Cambridgeport Neighborhood Association, that her posts to the neighborhood discussion lists were not appearing. Then Bob LaTremouille added his similar complaints. When I chimed in that my posts did n0t appear for many months Bill August accused me of libel. I said he ignored my complaints about censorship. For a lawyer he does not read very well. On one occasion in 2007 I sent a letter via Fedex from one part of Cambridge to another. I used Fedex because of frequent tampering with my mail by USPS employees. Mail was withheld by USPS employees, and some mail was intercepted and never got to where I sent it. The letter sent by Fedex never arrived either. Their tracking system ended before it was delivered. I wrote to the President of Fedex. He sent me a check for $25 to compensate me. What good is money if you can't send a letter from one part of a city to another? In June 2009 I sent a letter to a US Government agency complaining about a mobbed up police officer who was protecting criminals who harass me each day. Two days after I sent the letter the police detective appeared at a market as I shopped. He used a young woman as bait to try to have me arrested. In June 2009 someone opened a YouTube account solely to publish a comment attacking me personally. This is a frequent experience of an ongoing character assassination campaign by criminals and their police associates. A Harvard University attorney told me not to make complaints to their real estate offices but to the office of the General Counsel. The lawyer assigned was trying to deceive me. On June 6, 2009 I noticed a threat from a police officer as a comment under one of my videos posted on YouTube July 7, 2008. The video shows a Cambridge police patrol car parked in a bus stop. The officer was having dinner nearby not on an emergency call. Every day since I complained to the Attorney General about the threat Cambridge police or Harvard campus police follow me and try to provoke me. The Attorney General is married to a supervising Cambridge police officer. I learned on June 15, 2009 that the FBI was investigating me again. In May 2009, my comments on the Boston Herald web pages (a public accommodation) were removed allegedly due to violations of guidelines. When I complained one was restored. Interns referred me to a staff writer when three of my comments about the shooting death at a Harvard dorm were removed. Someone unknown to me posted a picture of a man from the city in my YouTube profile. That means that someone is tampering with my YouTube account. That is a felony under US law. On or about December 12, 2008 my name was removed from two neighborhood discussion lists--Riverside and Cambridgeport. My attempts to be put back on were ignored by the former President of the Riverside neighborhood, Larry Adkins. Cambridgeport moderators opened my new access in February 2009. In May 2009 I received messages from the list but was unable to post messages. Last year I was unable to receive or post messages to the Porter Square neighborhood discussion list. No notice there either. They began a new list this year and I now get messages. But I was the target of personal attacks on the Porter Square list, the Cambridgeport discussions and on the Cambridge Chronicle web pages. An FBI informant who maintains a web site about the City of Cambridge ridicules me and others who he believes have disabilities. My account with YouTube (more than 250 videos posted) was shut in August 2008 and my appeals of Fair Use Doctrine were ignored. On April 15, 2009 my YouTube account was re-opened. Emily Rooney, host of the PBS news show, Greater Boston threatened to have me banned from Boston. Cambridge City Councilor and Harvard lawyer, Brian Murphy, who resigned in February 2009 to take a six-figure job with the state used council rules to silence my expression. These are rules that the Council created but ignore at every meeting. An email account I used specially for discussion lists was shut down with no notice and no reason or warning given. My several emails inquiring why have been ignored. That account was re-opened on February 10, 2009. Google Video flagged and blocked four uploaded episodes of a cable access TV show I produced and hosted on CCTV. When I appealed their decision, they agreed to put it back up. But as of this date one remains blocked. In February 2009 a long term producer of documentaries at CCTV told me "There is no such thing as Free Speech." That was the second time someone in Cambridge said that to me.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Conan O'Brien Injures Head

Six minutes of Conan O'Brien on Tonight Show discussing falling and hitting his head on the studio floor. It shows how his memory is affected. Is this anything like what Electro Shock does to humans in the name of healing?

NC Public School Praising Obama

Here is brief (less than one minute) video of a group of public school children in North Carolina praising Obama at a Parent-Teacher meeting.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Four Sidewalk Hazards Cambridge MA

Four sidewalk hazards. The first two are from tree roots. The third is from a broken sidewalk. The fourth appears to be concrete falling from a cornice.

Three Outdoor Sculptures Cambridge MA

Three outdoor sculptures asking to be viewed.

Christian Science Church Cambridge MA

The Christian Science Church in Cambridge MA is at the intersection of Waterhouse Street, Mass Avenue and Follen Street.

Cambridge School Committee Forum SEP 23 2009

The candidates for Cambridge MA School Committee assembled on Wednesday September 23, 2009 at the Cambridge Multi Cultural Arts Center. Nancy Steining was the moderator. This forum was sponsored by the Multi Cultural Arts Center, Shelley Neill, Executive Director, and the East Cambridge Planning Team. Five of six incumbents run for re-election: Fred Fantini, Joseph Grassi, Marc McGovern, Patti Nolan, and Nancy Tauber. Four challengers -- Richard Harding, Charles Stead Sr., Alan Steinert, and Alice Turkel -- oppose them. Harding and Turkel were school committee members previously. This video has no audio. Watch for video with audio.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Cambridge Common Cambridge MA September 2009

Cambridge Common main park for Cambridge MA is surrounded by Harvard University. One young tree broken by tree abusers lies near a statue of John Bridge, an associate of Rev. Gen. John Hooker. In the playground which a signs says is closed, dozens of parents, children and lovers of children frolic.

Two Die After The-rapist Gives Them Drugs

German Psycho-the-rapist arrested after two patients died after he gave them drugs. Police did not reveal if the drugs were legal or not.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Obama, Carter and Racism

Obama, Carter and Racism

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33606

Race and Stupidity
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Human Events
September 18, 2009

Obama's Rosh Hashanah Wish

In this official White House video President Obama wishes Jews "a sweet new year." Does he believe that all Jews are gay? Keeping this President in context here is a link to a recent essay about efforts of the UN regarding Israel.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/drive_to_create_israeli_war_crimes_0zejYboX0R6I9BiKlD0m2I

A drive to create 'Israeli war crimes'
By JAY SEKULOW & BRETT JOSHPE
New York Post
Last Updated: 3:55 AM, September 21, 2009
Posted: 2:01 AM, September 21, 2009

Call of the Loon

Call of the Loon.

Loon calling. St Germain, Wisconsin

Tent City Cambridge MA

Cambridge campers live in a new Tent City surrounded by Harvard University. It is just steps from Harvard's Littauer Center of Public Administration where students learn to be public administrators? This high profile tent city is also steps from Harvard Law School's Gannett House, occupied by the Harvard Law Review. When President Obama was a student at Harvard Law School his colleagues elected him President of the Law Review. High profile public administrators, high profile lawyers and a tent city nearby. Harvard suffered a big loss to their endowment in 2009, losing about $11 billion. Harvard remains the richest university in the United States. Residents at Cambridge Tent City were not available for comment on Harvard's lost billions.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=528945

Minus $11 Billion
HMC should reflect on how we manage our money
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 10:31 PM
By THE HARVARD CRIMSON STAFF

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[The Boston Globe published an editorial about this setting on October 9, 2009. The Cambridge Chronicle complained that the Globe "stole" one of their stories. I have no evidence that anyone saw my video before they published their editorial.]

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2009/10/09/cambridge_a_tent_city_is_a_policy_problem/

Cambridge: A tent city is a policy problem
Editorial
Boston Globe
October 9, 2009

[These still images are followed by a two-minute movie.]

Fogg Museum Before Renovations SEP 2009

Harvard University's Fogg Museum is undergoing a complete renovation. Shown in this brief clip is a small pocket park which is enjoyed daily by neighbors, employees and visitors to Cambridge MA. Four young trees were removed to prepare for the extensive work on the museum.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Barney Frank Insults Persons with Disabilities

In this 8 minute clip from MSNBC US Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) expresses his hate speech toward persons with disabilities. He says, (at 5:20) "if anybody needs a health care plan in America it's those people who are in severe need of mental health services. This lunacy about [death panels] . . . " Here Rep. Frank who called US Supreme Court Justice Scalia a "homophobe" indicates his belief that persons accused of mental illness should be ignored because what they say is nonsense because of their alleged disability. This is what permits institutional abuses of persons with disabilities. Caregivers, police, politicians and lawyers ignore their complaints about abuse because? Because they think they are mentally ill. Later (at 7:00) he says, "arguments against the Obama plan are being dominated by the crazies." One more example of Franks's bigotry toward persons with disabilities. Barney Frank's doctrine: If they are crazy they should be ignored.

ACORN No. Five: Tijuana is Best

In this fifth episode of ACORN assisting promoting prostitution, Tijuana is suggested as best place to cross the border bringing under-aged girls.

Rush Limbaugh: President Carter National Hemorrhoid

Rush Limbaugh: President Carter National Hemorrhoid

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Cambridge MA Elections 2009 James Williamson

Cambridge MA City Council candidate James Williamson speaks at the candidate forum sponsored by the East Cambridge Planning Team and the League of Women Voters at the Marlowe Hotel September 9, 2009.

Cambridge MA Elections 2009 James Wiliamson from Mencken on Vimeo.

ACORN No. Four: San Bernadino, CA

ACORN San Bernadino, CA enters the contest for worst non profit chapter.

Bush and Obama and the Marines

http://therealrevo.com Update, 3/12/09

This video has received a lot of attention. As of right now, it is showing well over a half a million hits since it was posted on March 1. It is also controversial. Many Obama supporters have claimed to debunk the video by pointing out that the events were not comparable. They argue that the event in Anbar province that President Bush attended in September 2007 was informal. The Camp Lejune event that President Obama attended, on the other hand, was more formal. They point out that it is not fair to compare two events in which the Marines are subject to different rules of behavior.

In fairness, they are correct. The events were different in many ways and the Marines present were subject to different behavioral expectations. There is, however, more to this video than that. If the content of this video were that easily debunked it would not still be drawing tens of thousands of hits per day. The different degrees of formality aside, this video is quite revealing.

In the video, the Marines exhibit obvious love and respect for President Bush. His visit was not an event that followed closely on the heels of 9/11. This video was taken after the worst days of the war and after the surge created major progress in the region. The president is visiting the troops in Anbar Province, the home of the infamous Falluja and Ar Ramadi killing grounds. This visit took place after the province had been pacified. In other words, the Marines showed their love of Mr. Bush even after the darkest days of the war.

The Lejune video, on the other hand, shows Obama entering with all the pomp and circumstance of a royal visit to the peasants. Hail to the Chief plays in the background; something that President Bush didnt allow during his military visits. Obama knows that keeping the Marines locked at the position of attention means that no comparison can ever be made to the loving reception President Bush regularly received from the troops. Obama knows how the Marines feel and will always treat them exactly like the rabble he sees.

This is the real truth of the video and why it is so popular. It warms the heart of Bush supporters to see President Bush receive the love, gratitude and respect of these warriors. It angers Obama supporters because they also see the love President Bush receives and they know their man will never see anything similar from the troops. They know that these warriors loved the last president and will never give similar respect to this one.

A good YouTube video stirs the emotions and this one does that. It elicits different emotions in different people but the underlying truth that is the catalyst for the emotional response is the same for everyone. The Marines loved President Bush in a way they will never love President Obama.

Cambridge MA Elections 2009 Minka vanBeuzekom

Cambridge MA City Council candidate Minka vanBeuzekom http://www.minkaforcambridge.org speaks at the candidate forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the East Cambridge Planning Team at the Marlowe Hotel on September 9, 2009.

Cambridge MA Elections 2009 Minka vanBeuzekom from Mencken on Vimeo.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Cambridge MA Elections 2009 Edward J. Sullivan

Cambridge MA City Council candidate Edward J. Sullivan http://www.sullivanforcambridge.com speaks at the candidate forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the East Cambridge Planning Team at the Marlowe Hotel on September 9, 2009.

US House Rules, Liar Prohibited

Video clip of US Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) calling Obama a liar, which is prohibited by House Rules.
http://www.rules.house.gov/archives/house_comm_dec.htm
Politicians using rules to silence speech? I am shocked.

Cambridge MA Elections 2009 Tom Stohlman

Cambridge MA City Council candidate Tom Stohlman http://www.tomstohlman.org speaks at the candidate forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the East Cambridge Planning Team at the Marlowe hotel on September 9, 2009.

Monday, September 14, 2009

Cambridge MA Elections 2009 Kathy Podgers

Cambridge City Council candidate Kathy Podgers http://votekathy.blogspot.com/
http://fromtheport.blogspot.com/ speaks at the candidates forum sponsored by the East Cambridge Planning Team and the League of Women Voters at the Marlowe Hotel September 9, 2009.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Cambridge MA Elections 2009 Gregg Moree

Cambridge City Council candidate Gregg Moree speaks at the candidate forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the East Cambridge Planning Team at the Marlowe Hotel on September 9, 2009.

Cambridge MA Elections 2009 Moree from Mencken on Vimeo.

Cambridge MA Elections 2009 Charles Marquardt

Cambridge MA City Council candidate Charles Marquardt, https://charlesmarquardt.org speaks to the candidates forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the East Cambridge Planning Team at the Marlowe Hotel September 9, 2009.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Cambridge MA Elections 2009 Neal Leavitt

Cambridge City Council candidate Neal Leavitt
nealcambridge.org
speaks to the candidate forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the East Cambridge Planning Team at the Marlowe Hotel September 9, 2009.

Capitol Protest

CNN anchor talks and talks but finally relinquished the air to the on site reporter at a demonstration at the US Capitol. The crowd chants "Tell the truth." When asked what they think of US Rep. (R-SC) Joe Wilson who called Obama a liar, they cheered. One person held a sign saying, "Wilson for Truth Czar."

This clip shows a view from the air. The on site reporter gives estimates (ten thousand or more) of how many protesters are present, but the anchor was not listening and asks again one minute later. He explains that there are more than just "right-wing Republicans."

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Friday, September 11, 2009

Cambridge MA Elections 2009 Leland Cheung

Cambridge City Council candidate Leland Cheung
http://www.lelandcheung.org
speaks at candidate forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the East Cambridge Planning Team at the Marlowe Hotel on September 9, 2009.

Cambridge MA Elections 2009 Leland Cheung from Mencken on Vimeo.

Obama Mentor Contradicts Objectives on Health Care

David Axelrod fumbles on CNN promoting competition for the government against insurance companies, while refusing to promote competition between insurance companies across state lines.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Cambridge MA Elections 2009 Lawrence Adkins

Cambridge City Council candidate Lawrence Adkins speaks at candidates forum sponsored by League of Women's Voters, and East Cambridge Planning Team September 9, 2009 at Marlowe Hotel.

Cambridge MA Elections 2009 Silvia Glick

Cambridge City Council candidate Silvia Glick,
http://www.silviaglick.org
speaks at a candidates forum sponsored by the East Cambridge Planning Team, and the League of Women's Voters at the Marlowe Hotel on Wednesday September 9, 2009.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

City Council Candidates Forum SEP 9 2009

Still images from the Cambridge MA City Council candidates forum sponsored by the League of Women's Voters and the East Cambridge Planning Team held at the Marlowe Hotel on Land Boulevard in Cambridge on Wednesday September 9, 2009. Better quality video footage of the non incumbents is being posted on this blog, YouTube, Blip.tv, Vimeo and Break.com. Search by name of candidate, or Cambridge elections. [As of Tuesday September 15, 2009 at 6:00 AM ET Lawrence Adkins, Leland Cheung, Silvia Glick, Neal Leavitt, Charles Marquardt, Gregg Moree, Kathy Podgers, and Tom Stohlman are posted.] Patti Muldoon of LWV is the moderator. Mark Flanagan did not show.

Patti Muldoon, Moderator

L to R
Tom Stohlman
Larry Ward (I)
James Williamson
Sam Seidel (I) (standing)
Kathy Podgers (in straw hat)

L to R
Larry Ward (I)
James Williamson
Sam Seidel (I) (standing)
Kathy Podgers (in straw hat)

Audience

L to R
Denise Simmons (I)
Marjory Decker (I) (standing)

L to R
Silvia Glick
Tim Toomey (I)
Minka vanBeuzekom
Charles Marquardt

L to R
Kathy Podgers
Ken Reeves (I)
David Maher (I)
Edward Sullivan

L to R
Tom Stohlman
Larry Ward (I)
James Williamson
Sam Seidel (I)
Leland Cheung

L to R
Henrietta Davis (I)
Craig Kelley (I)
Gregg Moree
Neal Leavitt
Patti Muldoon (standing)

L to R
Silvia Glick
Tim Toomey (I)

L to R
Minka vanBeuzekom
Charles Marquardt

L to R
Denise Simmons (I)
Marjory Decker (I)

L to R
Gregg Moree
Neal Leavitt

L to R
Craig Kelley (I)
Larry Adkins

L to R
David Maher (I)
Edward Sullivan
Henrietta Davis (I)

L to R
James Williamson
Sam Seidel (I)
Leland Cheung

L to R
Kathy Podgers
Ken Reeves (I)

L to R
Tom Stohlman
Larry Ward (I)

Spire at EDS Cambridge MA

Spire at the Episcopal Divinity School Cambridge MA at dusk.

Dentist Ad

Large, medium or small? Dentist advertises on his office building on Upland Road, Cambridge MA.

Cambridge Cafe Blocks Sidewalk, Bike Lane

These images captured on Tuesday September 8, 2009 at about 5:00 PM shows a delightful European style Cambridge MA cafe taking up most of the sidewalk near Porter Square on Mass Avenue. Pedestrians are limited to one person at a time to pass by this enormous structure on the sidewalk. Two images show foliage hanging into the street blocking part of the bicycle lane forcing cyclists to ride nearer to traffic at this very dangerous intersection. On my way home a young man approached me asking "Did you get your picture?" Later that night a suspected employee of this cafe was at my building residence harassing me because of "business reasons." Are Cambridge restaurants out of control or what? This was a clear violation of the MA Civil Rights statute MGL Ch. 265 Sec. 37, and if he was as suspected working also for the police a First Amendment violation. To discourage more revealing photos a suspected associate of the man made threats saying "You will be hit." Are these members of organized crime making threats or police acting like criminals? But in Cambridge and Massachusetts where laws are optional what does that matter? Cambridge won an award for the most walkable city.

This image looks toward Harvard Square at Porter Square.

This image looks toward North Cambridge from Porter Square.

Van Jones Self Smear

More Van Jones quotes which he calls a smear, by his own voice.

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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/van_jones_unfit_for_print_4fliXu4hcB1lqAqQmWV8NO

Van Jones — unfit for print
The green czar affair should put the final lie to The Times’ ‘objectivity’
By KYLE SMITH
New York Post
Last Updated: 3:51 AM, September 13, 2009
Posted: 1:10 AM, September 13, 2009

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Obama and The Arts

Obama and Art

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/politicizing_the_arts_VdwafgkeKv3ag9x15KpNZJ

Politicizing the arts
By ABBY WISSE SCHACHTER
New York Post
Last Updated: 3:40 AM, September 5, 2009
Posted: 12:48 AM, September 4, 2009

Roy Bercaw Speaks to City Council February 12 2007

Speaking as the Chief Ethical Advisor and Ultimate Moral Authority for the Mid Cambridge Chapter of the American Council on Mendacity, Roy Bercaw presents an award to the City as the Most Mendacious City. He comments on the City Manager taking land on Gore Street by eminent domain without and notice to taxpayers. Bercaw asks about Be Curious Day in the city schools.He suggests the only way to rid the city of rodents is by banning people and food. Limiting the city to Biotech Companies and alcohol would work. He reports that the District Attorney issued an opinion that the Green Room where the City Councilors (but no poor citizens) dine on taxpayer dimes, is not part of the Council Chambers for voting. Regarding bicycle racks in Central Square Bercaw suggests removing sidewalks to make room for more racks. He asks why the City Manager asks for over time appropriations for the Water Department for medical expenses. How can he know the future? Bercaw asks what benefits the viewers get for the $850,000 that CCTV gets from the City each year plus private donations.

Monday, September 7, 2009

Roy Bercaw Speaks to City Council June 19 2006

Roy Bercaw speaks to the Cambridge City Council regarding how to remove homeless people from city business districts, MBTA bus shelters, and the Open Meetings Law on June 19, 2006.

ObamaCare Basics

Let me get this straight . . .

We're going to pass a Health Care Plan written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it, signed by a president that also hasn't read it, and who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke.

What possibly could go wrong?

Sunflowers on Sacramento Street

Sunflowers in Sacramento Garden on Sacramento Street.

Harvard University's CGIS, Knafel Center

At hearings in 2007 before the Cambridge, Massachusetts City government Harvard University's contractors, architects, landscapers, etc., made 4 (among many) questionable statements before city boards and commissions. This is a regular occurrence. City officials participate in these glorified charades and try to silence any criticism of the abuses of the process. Below the video are some still images from 2009 of what replaced the buildings that were destroyed.

Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), Harvard University's Knafel Center North Building.

CGIS North and South Buildings, looking north on Prescott Street.

Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), Harvard University's Knafel Center South Building.

Rear CGIS South.