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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.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Fogg Construction Downs Tree, Crew Gets Foot Massages?

During this Saturday overtime session on the Fogg Museum the favored crew gets police protection and foot massages. One more old growth tree downed by Fogg Museum. These images captured on Saturday February 26, 2011.

One more old growth tree taken down by Fogg Museum Construction on Prescott Street near Broadway.

Notice the Cambridge City police officer guarding these men from hostile state legislatures who may mistake them for government employees. This Harvard University Fogg Museum construction crew stands in their new spring finest threads waiting for their afternoon foot massage, as per their union contract. Unlike the public employee unions that are under scrutiny by media and state governments these men work hard and produce tangible benefits to society.

This Harvard University Fogg Museum construction crew stands in their new spring finest threads waiting for their afternoon foot massage, as per their union contract. Unlike the public employee unions that are under scrutiny by media and state governments these men work hard and produce tangible benefits to society.

Jet Blue All You Can Jet Boston MA To New York NY 12 Parts

Twelve segments of four trips to New York City Sept. 28, 30, Oct. 5, 6, 2010.

Part 1OF12
Views of New York Public Library, Manhattan, New York City, Grand Central Terminal, TAO, Met Life Building, Roosevelt Hotel, General Motors Building, Friar's Club, 655 Madison Avenue, Rear of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Madison Avenue, Plaza Hotel, Secret Service protecting foreign leaders shopping on Madison Avenue while attending United Nations meeting.

Part 2OF12
Views of Central Park Zoo, Manhattan, New York City, feeding sea lions, Delacorte Clock, park bench tributes.

Part 3OF12
Views of Queensborough (59th Street) Bridge, Manhattan, New York City, Bloomingdales, Fifth Avenue, East 60th Street, Second Avenue, Lexington Avenue, 53rd Street, Central Synagogue, Park Avenue, waterfall subway entrance.

Part 4OF12
New York JFK Int'l Airport, Air Train, Long Island Railroad, Brooklyn, Greeley Square, 34th Street, Manhattan, New York City, Empire State Building, Columbia University School of Law, Hot Stuff, Columbia University campus, Times Square, NYPD mounted detail.

Part 5OF12
Brooklyn, New York City, Grand Army Plaza, Soldier's and Sailor's Memorial Arch, bust of JFK, Bailey Fountain, Mt. Prospect Park, Copley Plaza, Union Temple of Brooklyn, Park Slope, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Part 6OF12
Brooklyn Museum, New York City, Statues, Classical Greek, Chinese, Biblical, Brooklyn Public Library, Soldier's and Sailor's Memorial Arch, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant.

Part 7OF12
Brooklyn, New York City, Montauk Club, 234 Lincoln Place, 7th Avenue, Park Slope, Old First Reformed Church, New York Methodist Hospital.

Part 8OF12
Greenwich Village, New York City, Manhattan, West 8th Street, Notre Dame School, Gossip Girl Production, Folk Band, Washington Square Park, Washington Square, Memorial Arch, George Washington, Standard Hotel, High Line, sanitation industry, concrete cutting.

Part 9OF12
High Line, New Jersey coast, Hoboken, Gossip Girl Production, Standard Hotel, Hudson River, Manhattan, New York City, Empire State Building, bell concert, West Side Piers, Chelsea Pier, High Line Walkway.

Part 10OF12
Chelsea Market, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, Bleecker Street, Bayard House, Alexander Hamilton, Jane Street, Jane Hotel, Our Lady of Pompeii School, Bowery, Village Voice, Cooper Union, Peter Cooper, St. Mark's Place, Father Demo Square, Gem Spa, Gossip Girl, East Village.

Part 11OF12
Alex loDico Jazz Ensemble, New York City Subway, entertainment, East 86th Street, Manhattan, New York City, Papaya King, Second Avenue Subway Construction, sidewalk vendors, Upper East Side.

Part 12OF12
Biscuits and Bath, dog heaven, Dogs, Albanian Mission to United Nations, Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York City, Second Avenue Subway Construction.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Harvard's Asbestos Cleanup, Without Notice

A memo from Harvard Real Estate Services (HRES) to tenants of 85 Prescott Street dated February 23, 2011 states HRES

"has commenced renovations to the common areas within your building and will be removing the common area floor at your unit entry on [Monday] February 28, 2011. You will not be able to enter or exit your unit for the entire working day on [Monday] February 28, 2011. You are welcome to remain within your unit during the work (8am to 5pm) or you will need to remain outside your unit during that period. Alternative accommodations can be made for you upon request to Harvard Mitigation at (617) 496-0857."

The alternative accommodations are to sit in a "lounge" which is a small apartment which Harvard took off the market contrary to an agreement with the City of Cambridge. If what they are doing is safe and legal why did they not inform the tenants that they were removing asbestos from the floors? In case of an emergency a person caught in his own apartment might be exposed to a lethal dose of asbestos fumes. Even with no emergency the cover of the door to the unit may be flawed and cause the same result. Finally why did Harvard not permit its tenants mostly students, faculty and staff to make their own decisions about remaining with a hazardous operation going on outside of their door. This is one more example of the lack of respect Harvard shows for its students and tenants. They have no shame which is a pervasive problem among the leadership of the nation, the state and the city. Harvard surely leads the way downward.
City desk editor at Boston Herald asked if it was legal. My reply was what difference does it make? Why should anyone be exposed to it even if it is legal?

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

US Judge Says Commerce Clause Covers Thought

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/02/fed_judge_now_the_commerce_cla.html

February 23, 2011
Fed Judge: Now the Commerce Clause covers 'mental activity'
Thomas Lifson
American Thinker

Black Racist Officials Caught Abusing Power

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20110223/NEWS01/102230331/Top-court-overturns-cinema-ruling?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Home

Delaware Supreme Court overturns cinema ruling
Manager of Dover theater vindicated
Delawareonline.com
3:35 AM, Feb. 23, 2011

Students Hit Student Under Teacher's Orders

http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/education/report-teacher-made-kids-beat-student

Report: Teacher made kids beat student
Teacher is still employed at the school
Updated: Wednesday, 23 Feb 2011, 8:05 AM MST
Published : Wednesday, 23 Feb 2011, 7:57 AM MST
Reporter: Alex Tomlin
KRQE.com

Thug Chicopee Couple Attack Women Patrons

"The fight started when the couple realized that they had no maple syrup for their pancakes. They asked the table over if they could have some of theirs because their pancakes wouldn't taste the same without the maple syrup and one of the two girls response was "bitch, your pancakes look fine to me!" And from there, all hell broke loose."

Because that is what really happened...

Police report adds this from The Smoking Gun
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/internet/cops-maple-syrup-not-cause-dennys-brawl

Monday, February 21, 2011

Holder and FBI Wage Racist Profiling Campaign

Some of the photos released by the FBI under racist US Attorney General as part of ongoing public relations deception. No black Americans were arrested. Does Holder expect citizens to believe that there are no Black Americans in organized crime? Has anyone else noticed how the FBI only targets Italian American criminals? Why are there no arrests in Boston where the Irish American gangsters
control the rackets, the police and the state government? Why no arrests in shoot-em-up Chicago where Black gangsta teens kill each other weekly? Why
the focus on New York City and Italian Americans? When will the alleged crime fighters in the US Government look at the suits who steal billions and call themselves lobbyists and legislators? Is this a return to the days of Robert Kennedy who abused his power targeting crime families that did not support his brother, while ignoring crime families that supported the Kennedy Cult?

Michael Savage lamented racial profiling, on his radio show during first 15 minutes on Thursday January 27, 2011; commenting that all those arrested were older Italian Americans.

Here's Howie Carr's take on the latest elder citizen abuse.

http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/20110122shanks_for_the_memories_baby/srvc=home&position=1

Shanks for the memories, Baby

By Howie Carr
Boston Herald
Saturday, January 22, 2011

See also comments under this CBS New York story for others
who share this perspective.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/01/20/feds-arrest-over-100-in-ny-nj-mob-takedown/

Arrested: Federal agents question a shackled Mafia

suspect in New York yesterday after the dramatic

raids involving up to 800 officers

Seized: Federal agents process the suspects after dawn raids were carried out today in New York City, Long Island and New Jersey.

Seized: Federal agents process the suspects in at the

army base after the raids in New York City and

New Jersey.

Shackled: A suspected member of one of the New York

crime families is led away by a female FBI agent.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Obama Opposes Change, Supports the Past in WI

Fox News analyst Charles Krauthammer points out that by leading the charge in Wisconsin, President Obama is now aligning himself with the same failed policies that have put so many states in a state of near bankruptcy. Meanwhile, GOP Governors Walker, Christie and Kasich are proposing real, courageous change, despite political consequences. Quite a turn around for the man who marketed himself as something different than "politics as usual".

Friday, February 4, 2011

Between The Storms FEB 4 2011

These images captured on Friday February 4, 2011 at about 4:00 PM in and around Harvard University in Cambridge MA. It was the day before the seventh or eighth storm of the winter.

Harvard's Snow-Covered Sun Dial

Harvard Square Sign Supporting Regime Change in Egypt

Snow Sculpture in The Pit, Harvard Square, Cambridge MA.

Snow Pile at Cambridge MA Fire Headquarters.

Snow Capped Cambridge Visitor's Center, Harvard Square, Cambridge MA.

Cleared Street, Broadway at Quincy Street, Cambridge MA.

Construction Mirror at Broadway and Prescott Street.

Memorial Church Spire at Harvard University.

Harvard University PhD. (Piled High and Deep)

Holyoke Center Harvard Univesrity PhD. (Piled High and deep)

Another Harvard University PhD. (Piled High and Deep)

Construction Crane Fogg Museum Harvard University.

Construction Crane, Fogg Museum Harvard University.

Rear View Mirror of Buried Car, Prescott Street, Cambridge MA.

Patio Cambridge Public Library remains unplowed.

William James Hall Pale Background Building.

Carpenter Center at Harvard University

84 Prescott Street right red brick building, Bromley Court. 85 Prescott Street left red brick building. Notice cap above 85 the top of Memorial Hall.

Snow Covers Rodent Nests Overpass Harvard Science Center in background.

Snow Piled Along Broadway. Harvard's Memorial Hall in background.

Snow Piled Along Broadway Near Harvard Yard, Science Center left background; Memorial Hall right background.

Snow Piled Along Broadway Near Harvard Yard

Snow Piled Near Harvard Yard

Path going round the bend toward Harvard Square near Phillips Brooks House.

Snow piled on Overpass. Harvard's Littauer Hall in background.

Snow on Overpass Harvard Memorial Hall in background.

Snow piled in front of Harvard's Science Center.

Paths through snow piles Overpass Near Harvard Yard

Snow Prayers

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Jet Blue Boston MA to Las Vegas NV OCT 2010 Five Parts

In October 2010 I visited Las Vegas NV for the second time in my life. The first time was in 1966 or 1967. During that first visit, which lasted only for a few hours, I felt as if I were in heaven. I immediately lost all the cash money I had with me. There were not as many hotels and casinos then. I think I went to the Sands then. I sat in the casino staring at the lights and the gambling tables. I wondered how I could get more money to win back what I lost. I called the airline to see if I could cash in my plane ticket. They asked how I paid and since it was by credit cards they told me I could not cash it in. Lucky me! Hertz had an offer for their credit card holders to advance $20 in cash. I drove back to the airport and got the $20 and went back to the casino. I lost that too. Again I sat and stared. Mesmerized is an appropriate word. In 1966 waitresses offered free drinks. Today they no longer give away free drinks to all players. Maybe to the whales but not to people like me. I no longer gamble anyway. Today the hotels in Las Vegas do not even have coffee makers in the rooms. They place bottles of water in the rooms, explaining that it was part of the hotel's effort to make the guest's visit perfect. They reveal that they will replace the bottles if used and that they cost $4 each. Nickle and diming visitors in Las Vegas? Or was it just how they treated me? When I arrived at the Las Vegas Hilton a man appeared next to me while I waited to check in. The front desk had places for about 25 clerks. About 15 were working, mostly women. The man next to me pointed out a VIP line for important people to use to check in. He told me, "I think I'm a VIP but no one else does." I smiled and didn't speak. I thought he was being friendly. Then he pointed out that some men were using the VIP line. I thought they would be directed to the ordinary person line but instead they did get served faster. Then the man next to me suggested, "Why don't you go into that line?" I realized he was patronizing me trying to get me to do something. Did he think he knew me? Was he trying to provoke an incident? I just stood there. He again suggested I use the VIP line. The man said to me, "I'm not so important now as I used to be." I suspected he thought he knew what I thought and was making fun of me. My thoughts were, "This guy is telling me that I am unimportant today. And I was so important to him, that he came to stand next to me to tell me how unimportant I was." I found the incident humorous. Then a man named Wes came out from a door and waved the man next to me to the front desk. He spoke for a few seconds and left. The man did not check in to the Hilton. Then Wes waved me to his line. He told me that he was giving me a "renovated room." I wondered what that meant. Wes gave me a sheet of discount coupons for the hotel's restaurants. I heard the other desk clerks asking the guests if they wanted to upgrade their stay. I noticed that there were options to upgrade on the Las Vegas Hilton web pages. Wes did not ask me if I wanted to upgrade. When I got to the room the button to open the curtains did not work. One lamp did not work, and did not have bulb in it. When I put a bulb from another lamp the lamp still did not work. There was no coffee maker and two 1 liter bottles of water for sale for $4 each. The chair for the desk was broken and the color did not match the room. A renovated room? I've been staying at Hiltons for three years. They usually treat me well and gave me great rooms. But in Las Vegas I was "unimportant?" The city was starved for visitors and the Hilton employees insulted me? What were these people thinking?

Jet Blue Boston MA To Las Vegas NV. Part 1 OF 5. Views of McCarran Int'l Airport, local bus, Las Vegas Hilton, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Riviera, tributes to Elvis Presley.

Jet Blue Boston MA To Las Vegas NV. Part 2 OF 5. Views of Fountainbleau (unfinished), Mono Rail, Bottled Water Peddlers, Motorcycles, Sahara, rainstorm,Circus Circus,Crazy Leroy's, tattoo parlor, Wedding Chapel of the Bells, Aztec Hotel, Bonanza Gift Shop.

Jet Blue All You Can Jet visit to Las Vegas. Part 3 of 5. Views of Las Vegas Strip, Deuce luxury local bus, Steve Wynn's Wynn and Encore, retail shops, restaurants, Clarion, Marriott, Hilton, Echelon (unfinished), Trump, Palazzo, Treasure Island, Mirage, Royal Resort, Somerset Gardens, Convention Center, Mono Rail, Riviera.

Jet Blue All You Can Jet visit to Las Vegas. Part 4 of 5. Views of Las Vegas Strip, MGM Grand, Las Vegas Hilton, Sahara, Excalibur, Luxor, Mandalay Bay, Tropicana, New York, New York, Monte Carlo, Aria, retail shops, M&M Dancer, Elvis, Marilyn, Hard Rock Cafe, Cosmopolitan, Paris, Caesar's Palace, Bally's, Bellagio Fountain Light Show, Jockey Club.

Jet Blue All You Can Jet visit to Las Vegas. Part 5 of 5. Views of Las Vegas Strip, Flamingo Hotel, Tropicana, Bill's Gambling Hall, Retail shops, Exotic Dancer, Treasure Island Pirate Show, Harrah's, Imperial Palace, Mirage, Casino Royale, Venetian.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Viagra's Head Office

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Snow Storm Images FEB 1 2011

Images from Broadway and Prescott Street, Cambridge MA at about 5:00 PM during snow storm on February 1, 2011.

Snow covered cars on Prescott Street.

Broadway and Prescott Street.

Looking toward Quincy Street with Harvard Yard on left side of image.

Looking east on Broadway, 472 and 474 Broadway in right side of image.

In background Harvard University's Center for Government and Internati0nal Studies.

In background shell of Harvard University's Fogg Museum, under construction.