"Marquardt [. . .] says he feels that fresh leadership and new perspectives will help move the city forward [and] the change needs to respect the different cultures that pervade Cambridge’s neighborhoods." Cambridge like Harvard is as diverse as can be, including ensuring that all different cultures think alike, and excluding persons with disabilities from full participation. "Marquardt hopes to look to the universities for better planning in city council, mimicking the academic process of making long-term plans." The City already mimicks Harvard increasing salaries of City Manager and Deputy Managers above any reasonable amount and raising taxes (like tuition) for those who pay the salaries. "He believes if the universities offered more graduate housing, the middle class families might be able to afford to live in Cambridge." Housing restricted to university affiliates is segregated housing, and eliminates potential land use for "affordable housing" whatever that is. Cambridge is no longer a city for "the Middle Class" whatever that is. Cambridge is now an elite academic enclave with low income taxpayer subsidized ghettos for poor uneducated people to keep the police busy.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/10/31/charles-marquardt-council-election/
Candidate Profile: Charles W. Marquardt
By Julia K. Dean, CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Harvard Crimson
Published: Monday, October 31, 2011
October 31, 2011
October 29, 2011
Good News! 14-year-old Stabbing Victim Lives
http://bostonherald.com/news/national/west/view/20111029teen_stabbed_in_high_school_attack_survives_after_series_of_miraculous_events/srvc=news&position=recent_bullet
Teen stabbed in high school attack survives after series of miraculous events
By Nancy Bartley /
The Seattle Times
Boston Herald
Saturday, October 29, 2011 -
Teen stabbed in high school attack survives after series of miraculous events
By Nancy Bartley /
The Seattle Times
Boston Herald
Saturday, October 29, 2011 -
October 28, 2011
New FBI List of Gangs By State
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/fbi-gang-insane-clown-posse/
FBI’s Newest Gang Threat: Insane Clown Posse Fans
By Spencer Ackerman
October 27, 2011 4:00 pm
Wired.com
FBI’s Newest Gang Threat: Insane Clown Posse Fans
By Spencer Ackerman
October 27, 2011 4:00 pm
Wired.com
University Psychologist Taking Psychiatric Drugs Kills Student, Self
[from article]
"Bustamante resigned his position effective August 19, and three days later, police said he shot Benoit nearly a dozen times outside her Moscow home.
Bustamante committed suicide in a hotel room shortly after shooting Benoit and was found with six guns and medications for bipolar disorder and severe anxiety, police said.
Bustamante, who had been known to alternately refer to himself as a 'psychopathic killer' and 'the beast,' disclosed he took medication for bipolar disorder shortly after he was hired in 2007."
Pscyho (sic) Prof who murdered student ex-girlfriend 'had pointed a gun at her three times, talked of shooting students and bullied them into sex orgies ' - and university KNEW
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:26 AM on 29th October 2011
"Bustamante resigned his position effective August 19, and three days later, police said he shot Benoit nearly a dozen times outside her Moscow home.
Bustamante committed suicide in a hotel room shortly after shooting Benoit and was found with six guns and medications for bipolar disorder and severe anxiety, police said.
Bustamante, who had been known to alternately refer to himself as a 'psychopathic killer' and 'the beast,' disclosed he took medication for bipolar disorder shortly after he was hired in 2007."
Threatening: Ernesto Bustamante, top, killed Katy Benoit after previously pointing a gun at her three times
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2054887/Killer-professor-Ernesto-Bustamante-threatened-student-Katy-Benoit-sex-orgies.htmlPscyho (sic) Prof who murdered student ex-girlfriend 'had pointed a gun at her three times, talked of shooting students and bullied them into sex orgies ' - and university KNEW
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:26 AM on 29th October 2011
Cambridge Affordable Housing Developer Charged With Illegal Campaign Contribution
[From article]
"Arthur Winn, founder of Boston-based real estate development group WinnCompanies, [. . .] 72 of Brookline, allegedly made $33,000 in illegal contributions to campaigns for federal office, including John Kerry For President, and the congressional campaigns of Massachusetts Democratic congressmen Stephen Lynch, Rep. Ed Markey, Rep. Michael Capuano and others.
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/newsnow/x1138511780/Real-estate-executive-from-Brookline-charged-with-illegal-payments-to-candidates
Real estate executive from Brookline charged with illegal payments to candidates
MetroWest Daily News
Posted Oct 28, 2011 @ 02:18 PM
"Arthur Winn, founder of Boston-based real estate development group WinnCompanies, [. . .] 72 of Brookline, allegedly made $33,000 in illegal contributions to campaigns for federal office, including John Kerry For President, and the congressional campaigns of Massachusetts Democratic congressmen Stephen Lynch, Rep. Ed Markey, Rep. Michael Capuano and others.
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/newsnow/x1138511780/Real-estate-executive-from-Brookline-charged-with-illegal-payments-to-candidates
Real estate executive from Brookline charged with illegal payments to candidates
MetroWest Daily News
Posted Oct 28, 2011 @ 02:18 PM
Six Cents of Character Assassination
In 1919, Henry Ford sued the Chicago Tribune for libeling him in an editorial headlined, 'Ford is an Anarchist'; the jury found in his favor and awarded him 6 cents plus trial costs. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
October 27, 2011
Citizens Don't Trust Government? Ya think?
Voters and taxpayers don't trust the government? Huh? Is that news? Look at the kind of people who get elected to office these days. Roger Morris in his book Partners in Power about the Clintons observed that the preferred candidate for leadership, elected and appointed are weak persons with relaxed rectitude, the kind that goes along to get along. Not all leaders are that yet. But most are and soon it will be all. How many Judge Mark Wolfs are there in the USA? Weak officials allow criminals to use government mechanisms to steal taxpayer funds. Without law enforcement mechanisms keeping the government honest the corruption gets worse. Voters remain silent about 19 homicides by an FBI informant now on trial in Boston US Court. They remain silent about a frame-up of four white men for murder by the same Boston FBI. Local police informants and FBI informants are out of control stealing from, harassing and making life miserable for government critics. Most voters fear retaliation from government agencies which is itself a violation of state and US laws. The same corrupt officials enforce those laws. Why are these concerned academics silent at the prestigious Kennedy School of Government about police and FBI corruption? How many academics at Harvard work with the corrupt officials?
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/10/27/poll-dems-republicans/
Campus Political Leaders React to Polling Showing Government Distrust
College Dems and Republicans agree low trust in government is unsettling
By Samuel Y. Weinstock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Harvard Crimson
Published: Thursday, October 27, 2011
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/10/27/poll-dems-republicans/
Campus Political Leaders React to Polling Showing Government Distrust
College Dems and Republicans agree low trust in government is unsettling
By Samuel Y. Weinstock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Harvard Crimson
Published: Thursday, October 27, 2011
Fraud of $1 billion in RR Workers Pensions
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/27/usa-railroad-fraud-idUSN1E79Q0TY20111027
U.S. railroad workers charged in $1 billion fraud
October 27, 2011
Reuters
U.S. railroad workers charged in $1 billion fraud
October 27, 2011
Reuters
Surprise! Liberal Journalists Are Biased. Duh!
David Oaks released an emergency alert (copied below) regarding a (conference dated 2010 and) report posted on the Huffington Post web pages. He asks (in his original alert) "That passes as news coverage?"
My question is, Where have you been for the last generation? Journalists, many of whom are psychiatric patients willingly taking psychiatric drugs, are incapable of skepticism regarding psychiatry. Journalists, lawyers, politicians, courts, judges and caregivers do not question any of the assumptions of a group of people who act as if their genes have been cleansed of mendacity, greed and sadism. Ever wonder how such irrational laws were created by state and US legislative bodies?
One major barrier to skepticism by journalists and public officials about psychiatry is that they believe that NAMI is an advocacy group for the rights of mental patients. They are unaware that NAMI is a front organization for the drug companies, and funded by them to promote, advocate for, more taxpayer funded drug treatment. NAMI says they are concerned about stigma, but only in so far as it inhibits more treatment, and taxpayer funding. The stigma toward those who willingly submit to the psychiatric control freak drug pushers, are omitted from their concern. NAMI ignores state and US laws that prohibit unlawful discrimination. They do not promote employment for persons accused of mental illness. They are solely focused on promoting more drug treatment. Why not educate your members, public officials, journalists and alleged professionals about that fact?
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[Notice: links to pages beginning with 3ly, are no good. They lead to a site threely.com.]
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My question is, Where have you been for the last generation? Journalists, many of whom are psychiatric patients willingly taking psychiatric drugs, are incapable of skepticism regarding psychiatry. Journalists, lawyers, politicians, courts, judges and caregivers do not question any of the assumptions of a group of people who act as if their genes have been cleansed of mendacity, greed and sadism. Ever wonder how such irrational laws were created by state and US legislative bodies?
One major barrier to skepticism by journalists and public officials about psychiatry is that they believe that NAMI is an advocacy group for the rights of mental patients. They are unaware that NAMI is a front organization for the drug companies, and funded by them to promote, advocate for, more taxpayer funded drug treatment. NAMI says they are concerned about stigma, but only in so far as it inhibits more treatment, and taxpayer funding. The stigma toward those who willingly submit to the psychiatric control freak drug pushers, are omitted from their concern. NAMI ignores state and US laws that prohibit unlawful discrimination. They do not promote employment for persons accused of mental illness. They are solely focused on promoting more drug treatment. Why not educate your members, public officials, journalists and alleged professionals about that fact?
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[Notice: links to pages beginning with 3ly, are no good. They lead to a site threely.com.]
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Below is UPDATED and CORRECTED version of yesterday's alert.
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News with photo: http://3.ly/mfijaffe
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The Huffington Post Carries Attack on "Alternatives 2010" Mental Health Conference
ACTION: Ask Editors of Huffington Post For Fair Coverage of Mental Health
by David W. Oaks, Director, MindFreedom International
ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA: Yesterday, the sound of a rare thunderstorm resounded over the hotel ballroom roof as journalist Robert Whitaker keynoted to the Alternatives 2010 conference, where more than 1,000 mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors have registered.
Whitaker delivered a message worthy of the thunder, based on his book Anatomy of an Epidemic. He provided scientific data that the psychiatric profession has grossly deceived the public for decades about the risks and benefits of psychiatric drugs.
BIAS AT THE HUFFINGTON POST
You'd think a blog like The Huffington Post would be intrigued about how a marginalized population has found its own voice and delivers peer-delivered services.
You won't find such news in The Huffington Post. Instead, as they have many times before, The Huffington Post ran another diatribe by extremist D. J. Jaffe, which you can read here:
In his Huffington Post blog, Jaffe has repeatedly called for making it easier and easier to get court orders to force us to take psychiatric drugs, and he does that again in The Huffington Post "news coverage" of Alternatives 2010. It turns out Jaffe never even made an appearance at the conference that he "covered."
You can try try adding your comment directly to the debate on Jaffe's blog entry by logging in on The Huffington Post at the above link.
However, I have submitted two comments to this Huffington Post in blog in the past two days, and neither one has been approved by their editors so far. You can read my posts, which have apparently been suppressed, on MFI's blog here:
IT'S TIME FOR EVERYONE TO CONTACT THE HUFFINGTON POST EDITORS, DIRECTLY.
Ask a simple, strong, civil question. You can do this action without registering on their web site.
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ACTION * ACTION * ACTION
A sample question to ask The Huffington Post -- though your own words are best:
"Dear Huffington Post Editors: You have bloggers covering mental health. But why don't you give prominent coverage to any representative from the mental health consumer and psychiatric survivor movement? Doesn't this constituency deserve a voice? The disability movement has a saying, 'Nothing About Us, Without Us.' If you carry Jaffe's hate speech, then what about the other side of the story?"
Because this Huffington Post contact page has no exact feedback form to Huffington editors, we imagine both the following e-mail addresses could be relevant:
Also, there's a web form there for 'corrections,' and Jaffe has a lot of errors you can mention. It figures, since apparently he did not even attend the event he's 'reporting' on.
Please forward this alert to others who care about media bias in mental health.
Coulter on Goldwater, Liberal Nonsense
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39118
How Many Times Did Goldwater Run For President Again?
by Ann Coulter
09/22/2010
Human Events
How Many Times Did Goldwater Run For President Again?
by Ann Coulter
09/22/2010
Human Events
GO GREEN - RECYCLE CONGRESS IN 2012 ! ! !
[A plea for reason, from an unknown source]
How they vote in the United Nations:
Below are the actual voting records of various Arabic/Islamic States which are recorded in both the US State Department and United Nations records:
Kuwait votes against the United States 67% of the time
Qatar votes against the United States 67% of the time
Morocco votes against the United States 70% of the time
United Arab Emirates votes against the U. S. 70% of the time.
Jordan votes against the United States 71% of the time.
Tunisia votes against the United States 71% of the time.
Saudi Arabia votes against the United States 73% of the time.
Yemen votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Algeria votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Oman votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Sudan votes against the United States 75% of the time.
Pakistan votes against the United States 75% of the time.
Libya votes against the United States 76% of the time.
Egypt votes against the United States 79% of the time.
Lebanon votes against the United States 80% of the time.
India votes against the United States 81% of the time.
Syria votes against the United States 84% of the time.
Mauritania votes against the United States 87% of the time.
U S Foreign Aid to those that hate us:
Egypt, for example, after voting 79% of the time against the United States,
still receives $2 billion annually in US Foreign Aid.
Jordan votes 71% against the United States
And receives $192,814,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.
Pakistan votes 75% against the United States
Receives $6,721,000,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.
India votes 81% against the United States
Receives $143,699,000 annually.
WHY?
WHO STARTED THIS AND WHY?
THEY ACTUALLY BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS THEM.
Perhaps it is time to get out of the UN and give the tax savings back to the American workers who are having to skimp and sacrifice to pay the taxes.
GO GREEN - RECYCLE CONGRESS IN 2012 ! ! !
How they vote in the United Nations:
Below are the actual voting records of various Arabic/Islamic States which are recorded in both the US State Department and United Nations records:
Kuwait votes against the United States 67% of the time
Qatar votes against the United States 67% of the time
Morocco votes against the United States 70% of the time
United Arab Emirates votes against the U. S. 70% of the time.
Jordan votes against the United States 71% of the time.
Tunisia votes against the United States 71% of the time.
Saudi Arabia votes against the United States 73% of the time.
Yemen votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Algeria votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Oman votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Sudan votes against the United States 75% of the time.
Pakistan votes against the United States 75% of the time.
Libya votes against the United States 76% of the time.
Egypt votes against the United States 79% of the time.
Lebanon votes against the United States 80% of the time.
India votes against the United States 81% of the time.
Syria votes against the United States 84% of the time.
Mauritania votes against the United States 87% of the time.
U S Foreign Aid to those that hate us:
Egypt, for example, after voting 79% of the time against the United States,
still receives $2 billion annually in US Foreign Aid.
Jordan votes 71% against the United States
And receives $192,814,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.
Pakistan votes 75% against the United States
Receives $6,721,000,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.
India votes 81% against the United States
Receives $143,699,000 annually.
WHY?
WHO STARTED THIS AND WHY?
THEY ACTUALLY BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS THEM.
Perhaps it is time to get out of the UN and give the tax savings back to the American workers who are having to skimp and sacrifice to pay the taxes.
GO GREEN - RECYCLE CONGRESS IN 2012 ! ! !
Looking At Joe Biden's Threat of Rape and Murder
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=47145
If I Were a Liberal...
by Ann Coulter
10/26/2011
Human Events
If I Were a Liberal...
by Ann Coulter
10/26/2011
Human Events
Cambridge City Councilors Clueless and Spineless
It appears that the Cambridge City Council which repeatedly demonstrates its cavalier attitude toward state and US laws has again violated the MA Open Meetings Law. The council is not only clueless about their own rules and Robert's Rules of Order (a requirement of Cambridge City Council meetings) but they are also clueless about the Open Meetings Law. Crony government rules in Cambridge due to clueless voters who elect the weak politicians with relaxed rectitude. Exceptions to the Open Meetings Law allowing executive sessions does not include legal matters that have been settled. Below are the two sections which mention litigation.
Open Meetings Law Mass General Laws Chapter 39, Section 23B
http://www.malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleVII/Chapter39/Section23B
states:
Executive sessions may be held only for the following purposes:
[. . .]
(3) To discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining or litigation if an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the bargaining or litigating position of the governmental body, to conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with nonunion personnel, to conduct collective bargaining sessions or contract negotiations with nonunion personnel.
[. . .]
(9) To meet or confer with a mediator, as defined in section twenty-three C of chapter two hundred and thirty-three, with respect to any litigation or decision on any public business within its jurisdiction involving another party, group or body, provided that: (a) any decision to participate in mediation shall be made in open meeting session and the parties, issues involved and purpose of the mediation shall be disclosed; and (b) no action shall be taken by any governmental body with respect to those issues which are the subject of the mediation without deliberation and approval for such action at an open meeting after such notice as may be required in this section.
[From article]
"At Monday’s City Council meeting, the council voted to have an executive session meeting with City Manager Bob Healy to go over the expenses incurred by the city for the Monteiro and related cases."
http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x2063881645/Civil-rights-case-settlement-details-secret-even-to-Cambridge-city-councilors#axzz1bzO2oKee
Civil rights case settlement details secret even to Cambridge city councilors
By Scott Wachtler/swachtler@wickedlocal.com
Cambridge Chronicle
Posted Oct 26, 2011 @ 09:45 AM
Last update Oct 26, 2011 @ 12:55 PM
Open Meetings Law Mass General Laws Chapter 39, Section 23B
http://www.malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleVII/Chapter39/Section23B
states:
Executive sessions may be held only for the following purposes:
[. . .]
(3) To discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining or litigation if an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the bargaining or litigating position of the governmental body, to conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with nonunion personnel, to conduct collective bargaining sessions or contract negotiations with nonunion personnel.
[. . .]
(9) To meet or confer with a mediator, as defined in section twenty-three C of chapter two hundred and thirty-three, with respect to any litigation or decision on any public business within its jurisdiction involving another party, group or body, provided that: (a) any decision to participate in mediation shall be made in open meeting session and the parties, issues involved and purpose of the mediation shall be disclosed; and (b) no action shall be taken by any governmental body with respect to those issues which are the subject of the mediation without deliberation and approval for such action at an open meeting after such notice as may be required in this section.
[From article]
"At Monday’s City Council meeting, the council voted to have an executive session meeting with City Manager Bob Healy to go over the expenses incurred by the city for the Monteiro and related cases."
http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x2063881645/Civil-rights-case-settlement-details-secret-even-to-Cambridge-city-councilors#axzz1bzO2oKee
Civil rights case settlement details secret even to Cambridge city councilors
By Scott Wachtler/swachtler@wickedlocal.com
Cambridge Chronicle
Posted Oct 26, 2011 @ 09:45 AM
Last update Oct 26, 2011 @ 12:55 PM
October 26, 2011
Wall Street Protests Exploited by ACORN Fraud
The protesters are implementing the change they demand. No laws makes for many opportunities for illegal activities. If laws are optional anarchy rules. Isn't that an option too?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/ex_acorn_operatives_playing_role_s3zSPpX4NnFRoMpEGIxUBK
Ex-ACORN operatives playing role in 'Occupy Wall Street' movement
FOX NEWS/NEWSCORE
New York Post
Last Updated: 2:06 PM, October 26, 2011
Posted: 1:39 PM, October 26, 2011
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/ex_acorn_operatives_playing_role_s3zSPpX4NnFRoMpEGIxUBK
Ex-ACORN operatives playing role in 'Occupy Wall Street' movement
FOX NEWS/NEWSCORE
New York Post
Last Updated: 2:06 PM, October 26, 2011
Posted: 1:39 PM, October 26, 2011
Obama's Perceived Talents
Pretty good analysis of Obama and his perceived talents.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/sorry_obama_just_no_good_at_politics_AFHhwMCQHWPC05SB1jtFDI
Sorry: Obama’s just no good at politics
By RAMESH PONNURU
New York Post
Last Updated: 11:11 PM, October 25, 2011
Posted: 9:59 PM, October 25, 2011
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/sorry_obama_just_no_good_at_politics_AFHhwMCQHWPC05SB1jtFDI
Sorry: Obama’s just no good at politics
By RAMESH PONNURU
New York Post
Last Updated: 11:11 PM, October 25, 2011
Posted: 9:59 PM, October 25, 2011
Humor Deserves Reward
In this dreary world with no shortage of scary economic problems John Crudele finds humor to share with his readers. He merits more prominent exposure e.g., on the front page of the Post to help raise morale.
[From article]
"If I owe someone a thousand dollars, it’s my problem. If I owe them a million dollars, it’s their problem.
[. . .]
Charmin sent me eight rolls of soft two-ply toilet paper after I complained in a recent column about the stuff we have here in the men’s bathroom at The Post.
[. . .]
I’ve learned some important lessons.
First, in some countries people aren’t lucky enough to have any toilet paper. (Presumably those are countries where people also don’t shake hands much.)"
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/what_grecian_earn_close_to_dow_points_gzaeDqZFL7qkWPeD2Tx2OJ
What’s a Grecian earn? Close to 1,100 Dow points
John Crudele
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:25 AM, October 25, 2011
Posted: 12:25 AM, October 25, 2011
[From article]
"If I owe someone a thousand dollars, it’s my problem. If I owe them a million dollars, it’s their problem.
[. . .]
Charmin sent me eight rolls of soft two-ply toilet paper after I complained in a recent column about the stuff we have here in the men’s bathroom at The Post.
[. . .]
I’ve learned some important lessons.
First, in some countries people aren’t lucky enough to have any toilet paper. (Presumably those are countries where people also don’t shake hands much.)"
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/what_grecian_earn_close_to_dow_points_gzaeDqZFL7qkWPeD2Tx2OJ
What’s a Grecian earn? Close to 1,100 Dow points
John Crudele
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:25 AM, October 25, 2011
Posted: 12:25 AM, October 25, 2011
ACT For America Action Alert OCT 26 2011
[Alert sent by ACT America]
The Hutton Hotel in Nashville has abruptly canceled an event scheduled for November 11th hosted by the Sharia Awareness Action Network and the Tennessee Freedom Coalition. One of the scheduled speakers for the event is an ACT! for America chapter leader who will be addressing issues such as grassroots organizing.
According to a news article:
This is the second hotel to take such outrageous action in the past week. It’s clear they are knuckling under to complaints and threats from organizations such as CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. What’s more, the hotels are in effect capitulating to sharia law provisions that suppress free speech.
We cannot allow this unacceptable and outrageous action to go unchallenged. We urge you to contact the hotel, and respectfully but firmly, voice your disapproval. Let the hotel know you will never stay there unless it reverses this decision, and that you will pass the word to friends and family encouraging them to do the same.
We recommend you contact the hotel by phone. The reason is that it’s easier for them to ignore you if you email. A deluge of phone calls will make it abundantly clear to them that the decision they made will be costly to them.
Please phone the hotel at 615.340.9333 and ask to speak to Steven Andre, the hotel manager or, if that person is unavailable, ask to speak to someone who handles public relations. If the phone is busy, try again later.
If you absolutely can’t place a call, send a firm, but respectful, email Mr. Andre at sandre@huttonhotel.com.
And if you haven’t yet signed the pledge of support to protect your state from sharia law, please add your name today!
| Hotel cancels anti-sharia event Please contact the hotel to express your disapproval! |
The Hutton Hotel in Nashville has abruptly canceled an event scheduled for November 11th hosted by the Sharia Awareness Action Network and the Tennessee Freedom Coalition. One of the scheduled speakers for the event is an ACT! for America chapter leader who will be addressing issues such as grassroots organizing.
According to a news article:
| A Nashville hotel has canceled its contract with an anti-Shariah conference out of fear the event could attract protests and disrupt business. |
This is the second hotel to take such outrageous action in the past week. It’s clear they are knuckling under to complaints and threats from organizations such as CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. What’s more, the hotels are in effect capitulating to sharia law provisions that suppress free speech.
We cannot allow this unacceptable and outrageous action to go unchallenged. We urge you to contact the hotel, and respectfully but firmly, voice your disapproval. Let the hotel know you will never stay there unless it reverses this decision, and that you will pass the word to friends and family encouraging them to do the same.
We recommend you contact the hotel by phone. The reason is that it’s easier for them to ignore you if you email. A deluge of phone calls will make it abundantly clear to them that the decision they made will be costly to them.
Please phone the hotel at 615.340.9333 and ask to speak to Steven Andre, the hotel manager or, if that person is unavailable, ask to speak to someone who handles public relations. If the phone is busy, try again later.
If you absolutely can’t place a call, send a firm, but respectful, email Mr. Andre at sandre@huttonhotel.com.
And if you haven’t yet signed the pledge of support to protect your state from sharia law, please add your name today!
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P.O. Box 12765
Pensacola, FL 32591
www.actforamerica.org
Woman Charged for Imprisoning Vulnerable For SSA Money
[From article]
"Police are investigating claims that Weston was the ringleader in a plot to cash benefit checks intended for those imprisoned victims -- and for as many as 50 other people.
The court papers show that Weston served only four years of her 1983 third-degree murder conviction for killing Ramos, who was the boyfriend of her sister, Venus Weston."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/philadelphia_dungeon_suspect_was_U1W1LCDNCe8j44KZo0Z3TJ
Philadelphia dungeon suspect was 'ringleader' in 1981 murder
MYFOXPHILLY/NEWSCORE
New York Post
Last Updated: 9:19 AM, October 26, 2011
Posted: 8:45 AM, October 26, 2011
"Police are investigating claims that Weston was the ringleader in a plot to cash benefit checks intended for those imprisoned victims -- and for as many as 50 other people.
The court papers show that Weston served only four years of her 1983 third-degree murder conviction for killing Ramos, who was the boyfriend of her sister, Venus Weston."
ZUMAPRESS.com
Linda Ann Weston
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/philadelphia_dungeon_suspect_was_U1W1LCDNCe8j44KZo0Z3TJ
Philadelphia dungeon suspect was 'ringleader' in 1981 murder
MYFOXPHILLY/NEWSCORE
New York Post
Last Updated: 9:19 AM, October 26, 2011
Posted: 8:45 AM, October 26, 2011
Homeless Man Accused of Four Rapes
[From article]
“You American women,” was the alleged taunt of the Ivory Coast native -- who was not a jet-setting journalist at all but a homeless man who sneaked into health clubs for showers and spent his nights sleeping on rooftops. “You know you want it,” he allegedly told her.
[. . .]
The suave, ascot-wearing vagrant’s other accusers are an art-gallery director, an art historian for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a tax lawyer.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/turning_on_the_charm_M3T6Pq13F0nykuOcVp4IvI
Turning on the charm
'Sex fiend’ ruse
By LAURA ITALIANO
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:54 AM, October 26, 2011
Posted: 2:46 AM, October 26, 2011
“You American women,” was the alleged taunt of the Ivory Coast native -- who was not a jet-setting journalist at all but a homeless man who sneaked into health clubs for showers and spent his nights sleeping on rooftops. “You know you want it,” he allegedly told her.
[. . .]
The suave, ascot-wearing vagrant’s other accusers are an art-gallery director, an art historian for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a tax lawyer.
[Photo by] Steven Hirsch
[Defendant] Hugues Akassy
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/turning_on_the_charm_M3T6Pq13F0nykuOcVp4IvI
Turning on the charm
'Sex fiend’ ruse
By LAURA ITALIANO
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:54 AM, October 26, 2011
Posted: 2:46 AM, October 26, 2011
Eight NYPD Cops Busted For Arms, Cigarette Trafficking
[From article]
“Retired cop, active cop, ex-cop, bad guy,” Brooklyn cop William Masso boasted to an FBI informant of the crew that he could pull together for any crime.
“You want a guy who beat the s--t out of somebody who bothers him, we got that. We got cops with vests and guns,” Masso, 47, told the informant, according to a criminal complaint. 
NYPD rogues’ ‘smugglers’ cove
B’klyn cop led police detail that ran guns and cigarettes: feds
By BRUCE GOLDING, LARRY CELONA and DAN MANGAN
New York Post
Last Updated: 6:17 AM, October 26, 2011
Posted: 3:12 AM, October 26, 2011
“Retired cop, active cop, ex-cop, bad guy,” Brooklyn cop William Masso boasted to an FBI informant of the crew that he could pull together for any crime.
“You want a guy who beat the s--t out of somebody who bothers him, we got that. We got cops with vests and guns,” Masso, 47, told the informant, according to a criminal complaint.
Chad Rachman/New York Post
THE GENERAL: Officer William Masso, the accused ringleader who allegedly boasted of his mob cousin, leaves his arraignment yesterday.
“I’m setting up a good army here. A good f--kin’ army,” said Masso, who on Sept. 22 allegedly drove 20 illegal guns -- including M-16 assault rifles -- to New York with his NYPD jacket displayed in the window of his car."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/nypd_rogues_smugglers_cove_MZcYka8r7Uk7xNuUB45BDN/0NYPD rogues’ ‘smugglers’ cove
B’klyn cop led police detail that ran guns and cigarettes: feds
By BRUCE GOLDING, LARRY CELONA and DAN MANGAN
New York Post
Last Updated: 6:17 AM, October 26, 2011
Posted: 3:12 AM, October 26, 2011
Cynical, Funny Essay on Drunk Driving and MA State Courts
http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1376087
In the bag!
For years, judges and drunks have been...
By Howie Carr
Boston Herald
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
In the bag!
For years, judges and drunks have been...
By Howie Carr
Boston Herald
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
USCA 9th Circuit Permits Fraud to Continue
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 25, 2011
CONTACT
Jim Gottstein
9th Circuit Allows Fraud to Continue;
PsychRights Expects To File for Rehearing
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today affirmed the dismissal of the Medicaid Fraud Case, United States ex rel Law Project for Psychiatric Rights v. Matsutani, et al., because the Government knows of the fraud and isn't doing anything about it.
Jim Gottstein, president of the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights®) and the attorney handling the case said, "This decision essentially immunizes all similar past and future fraud from whistleblower cases in the 9th Circuit. We think the decision is wrong on the law and expect to file a petition for rehearing, but the main problem is the government is allowing this massive fraudulent scheme to continue."
Medicaid restricts coverage of outpatient drugs to those that are for a "medically accepted indication," but the drug companies induce doctors to prescribe harmful, ineffective psychiatric drugs to children and youth that are not for medically accepted indications in a fraudulent scheme that can be depicted as follows.
The Department of Justice has recovered billions of dollars from drug companies for causing false claims at Step 1 of the Fraudulent Scheme, but have declined intervention involving defendants at Steps 2 & 3. "This means that the drug companies pay their fines, cap their liability and continue to rake in the profits under the fraudulent scheme as the doctors continue to issue these uncovered prescriptions," said Mr. Gottstein.
To address this problem, in July of 2009, the PsychRights® launched its Medicaid Fraud Initiative with a model Qui Tam Complaint for people to use around the country.
Since then the government has declined to intervene in the Alaska case, an Illinois case and a Wisconsin case involving this fraudulent scheme.
In 2007-2008, there were two suspicious letters on the letterhead of the agency charged with administering the Medicaid program, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), that assert Congress did not limit outpatient drug coverage under Medicaid to those used for a medically accepted indication. This is directly contrary to the formal position of the United States Government, taken in a number of False Claims Act cases against drug companies, such as the United States Statement of Interest in Polansky v. Pfizer.
"It is hard to escape the conclusion that the Department of Justice has succumbed to the politics of holding doctors accountable for their fraudulent conduct," Mr. Gottstein said, "The result is children's' health and even lives are being sacrificed on the altar of drug company profits."
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The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights is a public interest law firm devoted to the defense of people facing the horrors of forced psychiatric drugging and electroshock. PsychRights is further dedicated to exposing the truth about psychiatric interventions and the courts being misled into ordering people subjected to these brain and body damaging drugs against their will. Due to the massive growth in psychiatric drugging of children and youth, PsychRights has made attacking this problem a priority. Extensive information about these dangers, and about the tragic damage caused by electroshock, is available on the PsychRights web site: http://psychrights.org/.
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[Previous decision]
http://psychrights.org/pr/
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 25, 2010
Trial Judge Tosses Medicaid Fraud Cases Because Government Officials Are Allowing the Fraud to Continue
On September 24, 2010 Alaska Federal District Court Judge Timothy Burgess dismissed two Medicaid Fraud cases brought by the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights®) because government officials already know about the industry-wide fraud and are allowing it to continue.
[T]he Government already "has pursued False Claims Act cases and achieved extremely large recoveries against drug companies for causing the presentment of claims to Medicaid for prescriptions of psychotropic drugs that are not for medically accepted indications, including Geodon and Seroquel for use in children and youth." Thus, . . . the Government already knows about the conduct . . . . [1]
These large settlements, amounting to billions of dollars in fines are just a cost of doing business for the drug companies, doctors still prescribe these drugs that are not reimbursable under Medicaid, and Medicaid continues to pay these fraudulent claims. In spite of this, the judge ruled PsychRights and Daniel Griffin do not have whistleblower status because the government knows about the continuing fraud.
Jim Gottstein, PsychRights' president and the attorney handling the case, said, "We believe the judge misinterpreted the law and we expect to appeal. One of the reasons Congress passed the False Claims Act allowing private parties to sue on behalf of the government to recover for fraud was to address the problem of federal officials refusing to stop fraud against the government."
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The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights is a public interest law firm devoted to the defense of people facing the horrors of forced psychiatric drugging and electroshock. PsychRights is further dedicated to exposing the truth about psychiatric interventions and the courts being misled into ordering people subjected to these brain and body damaging drugs and electroshock against their will. Due to massive growth in psychiatric drugging of children and youth and the current targeting of them for even more psychiatric drugging, PsychRights has made attacking this problem a priority. It is an unfolding national tragedy of immense proportions. Extensive information about the tragic damage caused psychiatric drugs and electroshock is available on the PsychRights web site: http://psychrights.org/
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[1] Page 21 in Docket No. 163, United States ex rel Law Project for Psychiatric Rights v. Matsutani et.al, No. 3:09-cv-80, and Docket No. 26 in U.S. ex rel Griffin v. Martino, Family Centered Services and Safeway, No. 3:09-cv-246.
[1] Page 21 in Docket No. 163, United States ex rel Law Project for Psychiatric Rights v. Matsutani et.al, No. 3:09-cv-80, and Docket No. 26 in U.S. ex rel Griffin v. Martino, Family Centered Services and Safeway, No. 3:09-cv-246.
Stressful Jobs, Non Stressful Jobs
In 2009, the top most stressful jobs were a surgeon, commercial airline pilot, photojournalist, advertising account executive, and real estate agent. The least stressful jobs were actuary, dietitian, astronomer, systems analyst, and software engineer. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
October 24, 2011
Lawyers Roles in Homicide-Suicides
Once again misguided civilians and journalists have a way to blame more victims. Divorces create opportunities for murder-suicides by unhappy litigants. Why no scrutiny of the role of lawyers causing these needless deaths? Lawyers stir up and thrive on controversies. They do not try to mitigate disputes. They exacerbate opposing claims. Just as psychiatrists cause homicides, suicides and violence with their mind destroying chemical presecriptions, lawyers use their knowledge of the laws to drive people apart and into battle. Lawyers are at war 24/7, and want your money to finance it.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/agony_at_funeral_of_slay_family_ENfUpvXlb4YMbqYYNZvLpL
Agony at funeral of slay family
By LAUREL BABCOCK and CHUCK BENNETT
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:46 PM, October 24, 2011
Posted: 7:08 AM, October 24, 2011
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/agony_at_funeral_of_slay_family_ENfUpvXlb4YMbqYYNZvLpL
Agony at funeral of slay family
By LAUREL BABCOCK and CHUCK BENNETT
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:46 PM, October 24, 2011
Posted: 7:08 AM, October 24, 2011
Skype Flaw Reveals Location to Hackers
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/nyu_poly_professor_helps_expose_wRgX2oOqtKe1bxHAsH6UHK
NYU-Poly professor helps expose Skype security flaw
By BILL SANDERSON
New York Post
Last Updated: 11:47 AM, October 24, 2011
Posted: 11:40 AM, October 24, 2011
NYU-Poly professor helps expose Skype security flaw
By BILL SANDERSON
New York Post
Last Updated: 11:47 AM, October 24, 2011
Posted: 11:40 AM, October 24, 2011
Khadafy Owned Mansion in Englewood NJ
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2051912/Gaddafis-death-Governments-hand-dead-Libyan-tyrants-frozen-assets.html#ixzz1be3PvEaD
Empty: Gaddafi's sprawling mansion in Englewood, New Jersey, which boasts a tennis court, swimming pool and even a shooting range
What will happen to Gaddafi's billions? Governments prepare to hand back the toppled tyrant's frozen assets
Tyrant owned sprawling estates in Spain, New Jersey and London
Stakes in Juventus FC, Fiat and the Financial Times
At least $1bn invested through a fund in Britain
By Leon Watson
Last updated at 1:37 PM on 22nd October 2011
Empty: Gaddafi's sprawling mansion in Englewood, New Jersey, which boasts a tennis court, swimming pool and even a shooting range
What will happen to Gaddafi's billions? Governments prepare to hand back the toppled tyrant's frozen assets
Tyrant owned sprawling estates in Spain, New Jersey and London
Stakes in Juventus FC, Fiat and the Financial Times
At least $1bn invested through a fund in Britain
By Leon Watson
Last updated at 1:37 PM on 22nd October 2011
Canadian Serial Killer?
This guy is not unique. Dateline NBC broadcast Oct 21, 2011 a feature about the killing fields between Houston and Galveston TX. More than 30 young women were missing or their remains found in that area. Police do not believe they are all the work of one man. Last year Dateline broadcast a feature about an area near Albuequerque where police found several bodies of missing women. Then there's the trucker who used to kill women along east coast highways. How many of these women were killed by human trafficking gangs?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/23/cody-legebokoff-accused-as-canadian-serial-killer-who-preyed-on-women.html
A Teen Serial Killer in Canada?
Oct 23, 2011 4:46 PM EDT
Daily Beast
Christine Pelisek
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/23/cody-legebokoff-accused-as-canadian-serial-killer-who-preyed-on-women.html
A Teen Serial Killer in Canada?
Oct 23, 2011 4:46 PM EDT
Daily Beast
Christine Pelisek
Protesters Uninterested in Voting, Political Process, Huh?
[From article]
"members of the Institute of Politics visited Dewey Square on Saturday as part of a voter registration effort to encourage civic participation both at Harvard and beyond.
“We thought it would be cool to go down to Occupy Boston to talk to people to see if they would be interested in getting involved in the political process,” said Amanda E. McGowan ’13, who chairs the IOP’s National Campaign program, which focuses on increasing voter registration on campus.
[. . .]
members of the IOP were surprised to find that many occupiers were not interested in voting,
[. . .]
“Some were already registered but did not want to vote. Others were not registered and did not want to be involved in the political system,” McGowan said.
[. . .]
IOP President Jeffrey F. Solnet ’12 [. . .] said he sees the moment as an opportunity to motivate young people to become civically engaged.
[. . .]
IOP members also organized a small Harvard contingent to attend a Sunday ‘teach-in’ in Dewey Square about creating successful social movements, led by Harvard Kennedy School Lecturer Marshall L. Ganz ’64-’92."
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/10/24/IOP-Vote-Occupy-Boston/
IOP Registers 'Occupy' Protesters to Vote
By Jose A. DelReal,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Published: Monday, October 24, 2011
"members of the Institute of Politics visited Dewey Square on Saturday as part of a voter registration effort to encourage civic participation both at Harvard and beyond.
“We thought it would be cool to go down to Occupy Boston to talk to people to see if they would be interested in getting involved in the political process,” said Amanda E. McGowan ’13, who chairs the IOP’s National Campaign program, which focuses on increasing voter registration on campus.
[. . .]
members of the IOP were surprised to find that many occupiers were not interested in voting,
[. . .]
“Some were already registered but did not want to vote. Others were not registered and did not want to be involved in the political system,” McGowan said.
[. . .]
IOP President Jeffrey F. Solnet ’12 [. . .] said he sees the moment as an opportunity to motivate young people to become civically engaged.
[. . .]
IOP members also organized a small Harvard contingent to attend a Sunday ‘teach-in’ in Dewey Square about creating successful social movements, led by Harvard Kennedy School Lecturer Marshall L. Ganz ’64-’92."
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/10/24/IOP-Vote-Occupy-Boston/
IOP Registers 'Occupy' Protesters to Vote
By Jose A. DelReal,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Published: Monday, October 24, 2011
Harvard Exploits Tax Exemption With No Jeopardy
About using Facebook and email during class, "Students and professors seem to accept this as a routine part of Harvard life.
[. . .]
Their professors are leaders in their fields and senior advisers to governments and corporations."
Has this too become a routine part of Harvard life? Using tax exempt property for for profit enterprises contrary to law? A recent article about US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren revealed she was doing consulting work too.
[From article]
"Students and professors seem to accept this as a routine part of Harvard life.
[. . .]
Their professors are leaders in their fields and senior advisers to governments and corporations."
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/10/24/facebook-class-phenomenon/
Combating the Facebook Index
By Hemi H. Gandhi,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Published: Monday, October 24, 2011
[. . .]
Their professors are leaders in their fields and senior advisers to governments and corporations."
Has this too become a routine part of Harvard life? Using tax exempt property for for profit enterprises contrary to law? A recent article about US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren revealed she was doing consulting work too.
[From article]
"Students and professors seem to accept this as a routine part of Harvard life.
[. . .]
Their professors are leaders in their fields and senior advisers to governments and corporations."
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/10/24/facebook-class-phenomenon/
Combating the Facebook Index
By Hemi H. Gandhi,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Published: Monday, October 24, 2011
New Obama Rule Would Weaken FOIA Law
http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/10/24/transparency-obama-rule-would-allow-feds-to-lie-about-existence-of-official-records/
Transparency: Obama Rule Would Allow Feds to Lie about Existence of Official Records
by Publius
BigGovernment.com
October 24 2011
Transparency: Obama Rule Would Allow Feds to Lie about Existence of Official Records
by Publius
BigGovernment.com
October 24 2011
Muslim Brotherhood Taking Control of Nations
http://bigpeace.com/clopez/2011/10/24/from-tunisia-to-the-justice-department-a-clean-sweep-for-islam/
From Tunisia To The Justice Department: A Clean Sweep For Islam
Posted by Clare M. Lopez
Oct 24th 2011 at 7:19 am
BigPeace.com
From Tunisia To The Justice Department: A Clean Sweep For Islam
Posted by Clare M. Lopez
Oct 24th 2011 at 7:19 am
BigPeace.com
Teachers Union Pension Abuses
[From article]
"His paycheck fluctuates as a union lobbyist, but pension records show his earnings in the last school year were at least $245,000. Based on his salary history so far, he could earn a pension of about $108,000 a year, more than double what the average teacher receives.
His pay for one day as a substitute was $93, according to records of the Illinois Teachers Retirement System."
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-10-22/news/ct-met-pensions-teacher-perk-20111023_1_state-teachers-pension-fund-teachers-union-public-pension
2 teachers union lobbyists teach for a day to qualify for hefty pensions
State legislature opened a small window that they climbed through in 2007
October 22, 2011
By Ray Long and Jason Grotto,
Chicago Tribune Reporters
"His paycheck fluctuates as a union lobbyist, but pension records show his earnings in the last school year were at least $245,000. Based on his salary history so far, he could earn a pension of about $108,000 a year, more than double what the average teacher receives.
His pay for one day as a substitute was $93, according to records of the Illinois Teachers Retirement System."
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-10-22/news/ct-met-pensions-teacher-perk-20111023_1_state-teachers-pension-fund-teachers-union-public-pension
2 teachers union lobbyists teach for a day to qualify for hefty pensions
State legislature opened a small window that they climbed through in 2007
October 22, 2011
By Ray Long and Jason Grotto,
Chicago Tribune Reporters
October 23, 2011
A Walking Quacking Bear
Belafonte is not unique. Liberals are so brainwashed they lack common sense and have no ability to think critically. In Cambridge MA the incubator for limousine liberals, and the Party Lines, many women deny that Sarah Palin is a woman. In Harvard's host city if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it may be a bear.
[From article]
"Calypso crooner Harry Belafonte went so far as to doubt Cain’s blackness."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/he_won_be_stereotyped_VbAJixnU69FnOmu3N57EZO/0
He won’t be stereotyped
Andrea Peyser
New York Post
Last Updated: 6:40 AM, October 21, 2011
Posted: 1:18 AM, October 20, 2011
[From article]
"Calypso crooner Harry Belafonte went so far as to doubt Cain’s blackness."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/he_won_be_stereotyped_VbAJixnU69FnOmu3N57EZO/0
He won’t be stereotyped
Andrea Peyser
New York Post
Last Updated: 6:40 AM, October 21, 2011
Posted: 1:18 AM, October 20, 2011
Who Is Kidding Who?
The conclusion or research findings do not include the potential for people who exploit helpers. Then there are those who harm people who help them. How can anyone but a fool love someone who repays kindness with abuse and exploitation? It does not make sense to me. Is this more touchy feeley Kumbaya fantasies to try to remake human nature?
[From book review]
"Be wary of the roles you play and the acts you put on, because you tend to fulfill the labels you accept. Above all, remember: The more harm you cause the more hate you feel, and the more kindness you deal into the world the more you come to love the people you help."
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/mind_of_its_own_xrMfr8PG98mEjtfkOp5EDI#ixzz1bcsPFurr
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/mind_of_its_own_xrMfr8PG98mEjtfkOp5EDI/0
Mind of its own
What you know about your brain is wrong
Kyle Smith
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:24 AM, October 23, 2011
Posted: 10:46 PM, October 22, 2011
[From book review]
"Be wary of the roles you play and the acts you put on, because you tend to fulfill the labels you accept. Above all, remember: The more harm you cause the more hate you feel, and the more kindness you deal into the world the more you come to love the people you help."
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/mind_of_its_own_xrMfr8PG98mEjtfkOp5EDI#ixzz1bcsPFurr
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/mind_of_its_own_xrMfr8PG98mEjtfkOp5EDI/0
Mind of its own
What you know about your brain is wrong
Kyle Smith
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:24 AM, October 23, 2011
Posted: 10:46 PM, October 22, 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Book Review
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/think_vs_blink_NVKlo9vgu9VUFdoPizRiyN/0
Think vs. blink
Why intuition is rarely the right choice
Kyle Smith
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:24 AM, October 23, 2011
Posted: 10:51 PM, October 22, 2011
Think vs. blink
Why intuition is rarely the right choice
Kyle Smith
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:24 AM, October 23, 2011
Posted: 10:51 PM, October 22, 2011
Khadafy Had More Money Than Harvard
Harvard has only $32 billion. All of his money could not save Khadafy. If the people (that 99-percent) ever turn on Harvard will their money save them?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/mo_had_3WYJwVzyLEs1p0Wn4ytVKP
Mo’ had $200B
Libya oil wealth hidden worldwide
By DON KAPLAN
New York Post
Last Updated: 10:15 AM, October 23, 2011
Posted: 12:33 AM, October 23, 2011
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/mo_had_3WYJwVzyLEs1p0Wn4ytVKP
Mo’ had $200B
Libya oil wealth hidden worldwide
By DON KAPLAN
New York Post
Last Updated: 10:15 AM, October 23, 2011
Posted: 12:33 AM, October 23, 2011
Occupy Wall Street Has $500 K, Allocates Funds for 55-inch TV
Now that OWS has some chump change, why not force them to pay for the special police details which protect them and the property they occupy? Or will they go the way of Wall Street and pay their top executives high salaries?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/they_want_lice_of_the_occu_pie_9xKCxcI4aectFYkafMb8UJ
They want $lice of the occu-pie
500G fight at Zuccotti
By GINGER ADAMS OTIS
New York Post
Last Updated: 10:15 AM, October 23, 2011
Posted: 12:20 AM, October 23, 2011
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/they_want_lice_of_the_occu_pie_9xKCxcI4aectFYkafMb8UJ
They want $lice of the occu-pie
500G fight at Zuccotti
By GINGER ADAMS OTIS
New York Post
Last Updated: 10:15 AM, October 23, 2011
Posted: 12:20 AM, October 23, 2011
Arms Dealer In Custody
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/dealer_of_death_on_trial_Debsd7SFsu1X0xOWtPaeLO/0
Dealer of death on trial
Shadowy saga of Viktor Bout: a lone wolf who built an empire on a mountain of bullets
By MAUREEN CALLAHAN
New York Post
Last Updated: 7:19 AM, October 23, 2011
Posted: 12:32 AM, October 23, 2011
Dealer of death on trial
Shadowy saga of Viktor Bout: a lone wolf who built an empire on a mountain of bullets
By MAUREEN CALLAHAN
New York Post
Last Updated: 7:19 AM, October 23, 2011
Posted: 12:32 AM, October 23, 2011
Mother of 12, Whose Brother and Sister Were Shot Dead, Killed
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/hero_mom_taken_from_these_kids_7GBmmrvloq33PIIJvA3EEP
Hero mom shot down in Brooklyn left 12 kids behind
By GEORGETT ROBERTS, LARRY CELONA, GARY BUISO and CATHY BURKE
New York Post
Last Updated: 9:30 AM, October 23, 2011
Posted: 11:42 PM, October 22, 2011
Hero mom shot down in Brooklyn left 12 kids behind
By GEORGETT ROBERTS, LARRY CELONA, GARY BUISO and CATHY BURKE
New York Post
Last Updated: 9:30 AM, October 23, 2011
Posted: 11:42 PM, October 22, 2011
Sarah Silverman Bashes Gov. Perry
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/10/22/nerhead-race-baiting-sarah-silverman-finishes-smear-job-washington-post-started/
N***erhead: Race-Baiting Sarah Silverman Finishes Smear-Job ‘Washington Post’ Started
by John Nolte
BigHollywood.com
October 22, 2011
N***erhead: Race-Baiting Sarah Silverman Finishes Smear-Job ‘Washington Post’ Started
by John Nolte
BigHollywood.com
October 22, 2011
Students Don't Know Much About History
[From article]
"What is so troubling, then, about growing student ignorance of history and civics is that the American way of life depends on each new generation embracing our founding ideals and committing themselves to self-government. In this regard, our freedom to pursue happiness is far more fragile than many Americans might imagine."
http://biggovernment.com/bmattox/2011/10/23/todays-students-dont-know-much-about-history/
Today’s Students ‘Don’t Know Much About History’
by William Mattox
BigGovernment.com
October 23, 2011
"What is so troubling, then, about growing student ignorance of history and civics is that the American way of life depends on each new generation embracing our founding ideals and committing themselves to self-government. In this regard, our freedom to pursue happiness is far more fragile than many Americans might imagine."
http://biggovernment.com/bmattox/2011/10/23/todays-students-dont-know-much-about-history/
Today’s Students ‘Don’t Know Much About History’
by William Mattox
BigGovernment.com
October 23, 2011
Misguided Goals
A demand missing from this protest is for the police and journalists to stop referring to suspects as "dirt bags, and "scum bags." Dehumanizing their suspects makes it OK to beat, to deny rights and to disrespect the persons being arrested. As pointed out in another article about the difference between the rule of law in the US with regard to Samson and how the charming Arab spring youth hacked Khadafy to death is a more extreme case of what Boston Police do. Omitted from their agenda is how police treat persons with disabilities. Police love to target persons accused of mental illness because no one will defend them. Taxpayer funded lawyers and taxpayer funded human services corporations, fail to protect them. Another omission is the fact that black police are as brutal as white police. It is not their race or skin color but their integrity that matters. Calling for more minority police suggests that they are morally superior to whites. That is unfortunately a fantasy. Finding integrity among public officials is a rarity these days.
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2011_1023police_brutality_protested_group_says_poor_minority_areas_treated_as_occupied_territory/
Police brutality protested
Group says poor, minority areas treated as ‘occupied territory’
By Christine McConville
Boston Herald
Sunday, October 23, 2011
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2011_1023police_brutality_protested_group_says_poor_minority_areas_treated_as_occupied_territory/
Police brutality protested
Group says poor, minority areas treated as ‘occupied territory’
By Christine McConville
Boston Herald
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Giving The FBI Another Pass
How easily we forget. This is the second article about the sentencing of Samson to death. Neither article mentioned the role of the delightful Boston FBI, those charming lawmen dedicated to the rule of law. When Samson called to turn himself in before the murders, that know-it-all agent hung up on Samson. He said it was inadvertent. But what if it was because the agent did not believe what Samson said. The FBI has a long history of arrogance and of ignoring reliable reports about crime. During the Bulger reign of terror Connolly was there to intercept complaints about Bulger's crimes. The civilians were killed by Bulger with help of the FBI. As far back as 1963 there were several reports (See, e.g., John Davis, Mafia Kingfish) from different men from different parts of the USA about a plan to kill the President. The FBI ignored all of those reports because they believed the callers were mentally ill. So what has changed? Only ordinary citizens are getting killed due to FBI negligence. Why hasn't any FBI agents been indicted for these murders too? Unlike the FBI Samson does not have a taxpayer funded PR flack to help plead his case before the journalists. The FBI uses character assassination broadcast by their army of criminal informants to discredit any and every critic. How many journalists have the courage to question the statements of the FBI who have been repeated proven in courts to lie not only to the public but also to the courts.
http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/2011_1023judge_rules_wisely_in_justice_vs_vengeance/
Judge rules wisely in justice vs. vengeance
By Peter Gelzinis
Boston Herald
Sunday, October 23, 2011
http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/2011_1023judge_rules_wisely_in_justice_vs_vengeance/
Judge rules wisely in justice vs. vengeance
By Peter Gelzinis
Boston Herald
Sunday, October 23, 2011
October 21, 2011
This Is What Democracy Looks Like in Libya
[From article]
"His body, subsequently driven to Misrata and publicly paraded, was barefoot and stripped to the waist."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/21/muammar-gaddafi-body-misrata-meat-store
Muammar Gaddafi's 'trophy' body on show in Misrata meat store
Libyans queue to see dictator's body as wounds appear to confirm he was killed in cold blood
Andrei Netto in Misrata, Ian Black in Tripoli and Luke Harding
guardian.co.uk,
Friday 21 October 2011 15.13 EDT
"His body, subsequently driven to Misrata and publicly paraded, was barefoot and stripped to the waist."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/21/muammar-gaddafi-body-misrata-meat-store
Muammar Gaddafi's 'trophy' body on show in Misrata meat store
Libyans queue to see dictator's body as wounds appear to confirm he was killed in cold blood
Andrei Netto in Misrata, Ian Black in Tripoli and Luke Harding
guardian.co.uk,
Friday 21 October 2011 15.13 EDT
Hopelessly Corrupt US Government
[From article]
"Since purposely ignoring death threats made against Dobyns, deliberately trafficking thousands of weapons into Mexico and repeatedly lying under oath, William Newell has been promoted to a position within ATF in Washington D.C. William McMahon is no different. He too was promoted and now oversees the ATF’s Office of Professional Responsibility and Security Operations or in other words, ATF’s Internal Affairs Division. George Gillett, who orchestrated the frame job against Dobyns was moved out of the ATF Phoenix office following his heavy involvement in Operation Fast and Furious and is now assigned as ATF’s liason to the U.S. Marshall’s Service in Washington D.C.
[. . .]
Throughout the years it has become clear that ATF is more interested in protecting and promoting the corrupt practices of the men who have made careers profiting off of corruption, obstruction of justice and lies, like Newell, rather than rewarding field agents taking out dangerous criminals like ATF Special Agent Jay Dobyns, ATF Operation Fast and Furious Whistleblowers John Dodson, Pete Forcelli, Vince Cefalu and others for their bravery and sacrifice to fight violent crime and for exposing corruption within the agency.
[. . .]
the cover-up where they are denying the evidence and hiding the evidence of what they did wrong and then you go into the lies under oath that they’re denying and raising their right hand, swearing to tell the truth and willingly and intentionally not telling the truth," Dobyns says.
http://townhall.com/columnists/katiepavlich/2011/10/21/atf_ignored_death_threats,_tried_to_frame_whistleblower_agent_to_cover_corruption
ATF Ignored Death Threats, Tried to Frame Whistleblower Agent to Cover Corruption
Townhall.com
Katie Pavlich
October 21, 2011
"Since purposely ignoring death threats made against Dobyns, deliberately trafficking thousands of weapons into Mexico and repeatedly lying under oath, William Newell has been promoted to a position within ATF in Washington D.C. William McMahon is no different. He too was promoted and now oversees the ATF’s Office of Professional Responsibility and Security Operations or in other words, ATF’s Internal Affairs Division. George Gillett, who orchestrated the frame job against Dobyns was moved out of the ATF Phoenix office following his heavy involvement in Operation Fast and Furious and is now assigned as ATF’s liason to the U.S. Marshall’s Service in Washington D.C.
[. . .]
Throughout the years it has become clear that ATF is more interested in protecting and promoting the corrupt practices of the men who have made careers profiting off of corruption, obstruction of justice and lies, like Newell, rather than rewarding field agents taking out dangerous criminals like ATF Special Agent Jay Dobyns, ATF Operation Fast and Furious Whistleblowers John Dodson, Pete Forcelli, Vince Cefalu and others for their bravery and sacrifice to fight violent crime and for exposing corruption within the agency.
[. . .]
the cover-up where they are denying the evidence and hiding the evidence of what they did wrong and then you go into the lies under oath that they’re denying and raising their right hand, swearing to tell the truth and willingly and intentionally not telling the truth," Dobyns says.
http://townhall.com/columnists/katiepavlich/2011/10/21/atf_ignored_death_threats,_tried_to_frame_whistleblower_agent_to_cover_corruption
ATF Ignored Death Threats, Tried to Frame Whistleblower Agent to Cover Corruption
Townhall.com
Katie Pavlich
October 21, 2011
USA Falling Apart at The Seams
[From article]
"Where out-of-wedlock births in the 1950s were rare, today, 41 percent of all American children are born out of wedlock. Among Hispanics, it is 51 percent; among blacks, 71 percent. And the correlation between the illegitimacy rate, the drug rate, the dropout rate, the crime rate and the incarceration rate is absolute."
http://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2011/10/21/is_america_disenigrating
Is America Disenigrating?
Pat Buchanan
Townhall.com
October 21, 2011
"Where out-of-wedlock births in the 1950s were rare, today, 41 percent of all American children are born out of wedlock. Among Hispanics, it is 51 percent; among blacks, 71 percent. And the correlation between the illegitimacy rate, the drug rate, the dropout rate, the crime rate and the incarceration rate is absolute."
http://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2011/10/21/is_america_disenigrating
Is America Disenigrating?
Pat Buchanan
Townhall.com
October 21, 2011
Journalists Ignore FBI Crimes and Negligence
No mention in this story of the failure of an FBI agent, who was disciplined (Ahem!), to respond to Samson's call to surrender. Why wasn't the agent indicted for contributory negligence, or as an accessory to the murders? The FBI is extremely competent in covering up their crimes and abuses and in framing innocent civilians. They do a credible job allowing their informants to murder citizens who report crimes. Then there is the role of the prosecutors ignoring the role of the FBI in these murders. The national criminals running the department of justice operate with immunity and focus on one FBI agent to explain 20 years of police corruption.
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1374903
Judge blasted for killer flip
Death penalty overturned in Sampson case
By O’Ryan Johnson and John Zaremba
Boston Herald
Friday, October 21, 2011
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1374903
Judge blasted for killer flip
Death penalty overturned in Sampson case
By O’Ryan Johnson and John Zaremba
Boston Herald
Friday, October 21, 2011
US Taxpayer Funds Used for Business in Finland
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/car-company-us-loan-builds-cars-finland/story?id=14770875
[video embedded]
Car Company Gets U.S. Loan, Builds Cars In Finland
By MATTHEW MOSK, BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) and RONNIE GREENE
ABC NEWS and iWATCH NEWS
Oct. 20, 2011
[video embedded]
Car Company Gets U.S. Loan, Builds Cars In Finland
By MATTHEW MOSK, BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) and RONNIE GREENE
ABC NEWS and iWATCH NEWS
Oct. 20, 2011
Hospital Hill in Passaic
Hospital Hill in Passaic
By Francis Gurtowski
October 2011
This December 17th will be the 120th anniversary of the founding of
the first hospital in Passaic. The homegrown charitable institution
outgrew one hand-me-down accommodation after another until it finally
homed in on the ten heavenly acres of Passaic's Little Switzerland known
thereafter as Hospital Hill.
Bounded by Crescent Place, Boulevard, Oak Street, and Lafayette
Avenue, the singular second-ward tract stubbornly held out as late as
1891. It remained first-growth forest despite one real estate boom
after another. A quarter of a century after municipal incorporation,
the largest profits were still being made here by flipping farmland.
The structure of the economy of Passaic would soon change due to one
Julius Forstmann, however. The future Dundee drumbeater was as gifted
as Steve Jobs, but he was too headstrong to wait his turn to run his
family's German woolens empire. Forstmann had already scouted Passaic
as possibly the most promising place to roll his own dice, but it would
be four more years before he took the plunge, settled here, and
ultimately precipitated 18,000 manufacturing jobs.
A putative grid of paths and plats already tattooed the domesticated
foothills of Little Switzerland, while its summit nevertheless stayed
unblemished, positively raw and intact. The wilderness had been spared
subdivision by resolutely resisting grading. Prescribed to level off
bumpy land to a smooth, flat or gently sloping, surface, grading was the
absolutely indispensable ingredient in the foolproof formula for
transforming "third-class" acreage in its natural state into
"first-class" building lots.
The first peek at the massive underlying ledge was obtained when an
outcrop was exposed by the workmen, dynamite, horses, and plows
heroically punching Lafayette Avenue through to Oak Street. The bedrock
prominence would have been an ideal site for a citadel had there been a
consensus for a fortress commanding the city. The high timberland was a
white elephant until a high-concept proposal for a regional hospital did
receive universal support and struck pay dirt.
The Aycrigg family donated the land for next new thing in Passaic.
By sheer serendipity, the plateau crowning the bluffs - as is -
satisfied the prerequisites for a site for the sort of "convalescing
hospital" which its boosters had in mind. In theory, its patients would
be cured by "walking it off." The regimen was trice-daily
constitutionals in fresh air on the grounds of the sanatorium.
There was an ample supply of pro bono MDs. Attending physicians
donated their services on a rotating basis. Doctors "only" billed for
follow-ups: office visits and house calls. On the other hand, from the
get-go, a nurse shortage shaped the development of Hospital Hill. Stays
were typically long and drawn out, and the nurses throughout New Jersey
were organized. A nurse's pricey hourly fees could add up to a
considerable bill for services rendered to the patient. Anyone
fortunate enough to latch onto a compatible nurse was wise to just pay
the piper, however.
The demand side of the nurse shortage was mitigated by having family
members provide hands-on bedside care for their loved one, around the
clock, right there in the hospital. Kith and kin were drafted to pitch
in. The supply side was assuaged too. The hospital's boosters lured an
esteemed senior nurse from Boston General to train and certify new
nurses; beat the bushes to recruit superior trainees; and spared no
expense to retain them.
A college-like campus was constructed within the walls of the
hospital and elsewhere on the hospital grounds. The most visible
embellishments were a lavish dormitory and a clay tennis court. One of
the two cuts in the Hospital Hill curb along Boulevard was for a
dedicated entrance to the student nurses' home. A long driveway veered
left, passed right by the tennis court, and led to their dormitory. The
drive in and out was facilitated by a landscaped circle right at the
door. The front of the student nurses' home was brightly lit from dusk
to dawn.
A student nurse could go on a casual date without even leaving the
campus. A couple could eat a light, leisurely meal in the hospital tea
room and then hit the tennis court, or vice versa. The doctors ate in
the five-star lunch counter too, on a regular basis, while the families
from the neighborhood ate there only on special occasions. The hospital
tea room featured Welch Farms ice cream. The super-premium treat was
available for eat-in and take-out. Swollen tonsils were a scourge back
then. The same ice cream was also prolifically prescribed on the
children's ward.
One of the two most glamorous spots in Passaic was the Central
Theater where I and many others luxuriated in its expansive art-deco
lounge. The other was the student nurses' home. On duty, they wore
starched whites but, off duty, the immaculate Florence Nightingales-in
training metamorphosed into fur-draped glamour girls on Friday and
Saturday nights. On formal dates the student nurses left their campus
in fairy-tale style. Gussied-up boys in gussied-up cars queued up right
outside the door and called in turn for their respective gussied-up
girls. The entire rigmarole reminded me of the red-carpet treatment
that Hollywood starlets receive at Academy Awards.
The student nurses flaunted fur stoles from Broadway establishments
such as Phil's Rent-A-Fur. Through my high school years, I worked at
Phil's Furs where I cleaned and glazed all kinds of fur and fake-fur
garments. The business had a roomy, high-tech, climate-controlled,
two-level fur vault upstairs just for the garments belonging to storage
clients. During the Cuban missile crisis, I stayed close to that Fort
Knox-like "bunker." The rental enterprise had its own vault in the
basement, right there where I operated the various forms of special
equipment indigenous to the fur trade. The grotto extended seemingly
for miles and miles all the way across Broadway and beyond. Phillip
Cohen had a knack for matching up a rental client with precisely the
right fur garment for the occasion. At the conclusion of his theatrical
matchmaking, I would "spritz" the "piece de resistance" and after that
it would be "good to go." During the Cuban missile crisis, I avoided the
"cave" for fear that it would collapse and bury me.
The only cut in the Hospital Hill curb along Lafayette Avenue was
for the laundry/incinerator which satisfied the demand for starched
whiles. The incinerator was on the street level of the works, but it
had a tall chimney. The incinerator generated the heat that boiled the
water that washed the soiled linens. The laundry had a separate
entrance facing in the direction of Boulevard. The laundry was reached
via a long concrete ramp to the second floor of the works. Workers
rolled huge canvas-sided bins up and down, to and from an assembly line
where the Hospital Hill's laundering was done. The only exception was
whatever items required sterilization with super-heated steam in the
autoclave (which was located elsewhere).
There was a superficial similarity between my work dry-cleaning fur
garments and the far more onerous, industrial-strength, garment
laundering going on up there on Hospital Hill. I operated a small
boiler which produced the steam required to remove wrinkles from garment
linings, while the hospital laundry was a veritable steam room
especially during the summer. The hospital laundry lacked a certain
creature-comfort to which I had access, moreover. The
thirty-something-degree fur vaults were my favorite summer retreats.
I was raised right below Hospital Hill, so I naturally took the
hospital grounds for granted. I grew up automatically thinking of
Hospital Hill as just yet-another awesome park in Passaic. I lived
halfway between the hospital grounds and Second Ward Park. The former
just happened to have a hospital on it and the latter a school. It was
the same thing as far as I was concerned. I was a very independent
eight-year-old kid, by the end of 1953, with a tough choice to make each
day. Where should I play?
That year is my chosen benchmark because I remember vividly the
aftermath of a 1954 hurricane. It knocked over a dozen first-growth
trees on the Lafayette Avenue side of the hospital grounds. The
respective canopies of those fallen specimens landed practically in my
front yard. The downed trees looked for all the world like expired
parachutes. I was surprised by the diminutive root balls of what were
without a doubt the best playground equipment ever. The individual
victims stood apart where the hospital grounds had been thinned. Only
the more sociable trees everywhere else withstood the stiff winds. I
figured the survivors must have held hands with what meager roots they
did have.
Snow meant extreme sledding on the hospital grounds.
Alyse (Korzeniowski) Kalas wrote:
"Our house was directly across from the emergency room entrance so
we heard sirens all the time. In 1962 Passaic General Hospital was one
building at the top of the property. There was a nurses' home and a
doctors' home on the property as well. We played major, major games of
hide and seek on the hospital hill during the summer, going home only
when it got dark. During the winter that hill was called Suicide Hill
because the slope was pretty steep for sleigh riding and lots of kids
got creamed on the way down. The hospital now occupies every square
inch of the what seemed like endless space back then."
Bernie Heyman wrote:
"Before I was of school age (1925-27) we lived in a four-family
apartment house on Paulison that backed up to the Memorial School Park,
then we moved to 418 Howe Avenue where we and the kids from Linden
Street played on the slopes of Passaic General Hospital."
Dave Lewis wrote:
"My dad worked at Passaic General Hospital. The hospital was
surrounded by a very steep hill. As soon as it snowed we all headed for
the hill with our Flexible Flyers. It's probably good that we were so
close to the emergency room as the hillsides were extremely steep and
you finished your sled run out on a busy street. I don't remember
anybody getting killed or even seriously hurt and the minor wounds were
just part of being a kid."
So-called Suicide Hill faced the Lafayette Avenue end of Crescent
Place. It resembled a ski jump more than a ski slope. There was no
traversing the narrow channel because it was pinched by imposing trees.
The chute was one-way, straight down. We could not climb snow-covered
Suicide Hill, especially lugging a sled. It was too steep and had too
much downhill traffic. Instead, we had to take the stairs intended for
hospital employees and visitors. A series of connected steps and
landings ascended from the corner of Crescent and Lafayette all the way
up to the parking lot at the summit of the hill. In practice, we might
have used those stairs more than anyone else but the phenomenon was
certainly not by design. The draftsman of the plans for that particular
pedestrian convenience surely did not have us sledders in mind.
The hilltop lot served the hospital itself (as opposed to the
dormitory or the laundry/incinerator). Drivers reached it via the
second cut in the Hospital Hill curb along Boulevard bearing right. The
summit lot was rimmed with a low wooden barrier. The obstacle was just
high enough to catch the bumper of any errant vehicle before it took a
dive. Sledders congregated behind the barricade where we drank the
"Kool-Aid" and hatched yet another mass descent. There was no need for
a warming hut because our feverish adrenaline took care of that. The
epinephrine was a natural response to Russian roulette. Chalk up the
madness to group dynamics. I do not recall anyone sledding Suicide Hill
solo. Mass-Suicide Hill was more like it.
You could not change your mind. It was physically impossible. Once
over the wall and on your sled, that was it. There was no bailing out.
There was no turning back. 3-2-1, there we went. Whoosh! Moreover,
staying on your sled all the way down to the bottom of the hill was only
the first half of the thrill ride. The best was yet to come. There was
barely ten feet of flat ground from the base of the drop to the curb,
and the abrupt transition was enough to jar the fillings out of your
teeth. The desperate gradient was nowhere near what would have been
required to gently undo the acceleration of a body in "free fall" under
the influence of the earth's gravity.
By Francis Gurtowski
October 2011
This December 17th will be the 120th anniversary of the founding of
the first hospital in Passaic. The homegrown charitable institution
outgrew one hand-me-down accommodation after another until it finally
homed in on the ten heavenly acres of Passaic's Little Switzerland known
thereafter as Hospital Hill.
Bounded by Crescent Place, Boulevard, Oak Street, and Lafayette
Avenue, the singular second-ward tract stubbornly held out as late as
1891. It remained first-growth forest despite one real estate boom
after another. A quarter of a century after municipal incorporation,
the largest profits were still being made here by flipping farmland.
The structure of the economy of Passaic would soon change due to one
Julius Forstmann, however. The future Dundee drumbeater was as gifted
as Steve Jobs, but he was too headstrong to wait his turn to run his
family's German woolens empire. Forstmann had already scouted Passaic
as possibly the most promising place to roll his own dice, but it would
be four more years before he took the plunge, settled here, and
ultimately precipitated 18,000 manufacturing jobs.
A putative grid of paths and plats already tattooed the domesticated
foothills of Little Switzerland, while its summit nevertheless stayed
unblemished, positively raw and intact. The wilderness had been spared
subdivision by resolutely resisting grading. Prescribed to level off
bumpy land to a smooth, flat or gently sloping, surface, grading was the
absolutely indispensable ingredient in the foolproof formula for
transforming "third-class" acreage in its natural state into
"first-class" building lots.
The first peek at the massive underlying ledge was obtained when an
outcrop was exposed by the workmen, dynamite, horses, and plows
heroically punching Lafayette Avenue through to Oak Street. The bedrock
prominence would have been an ideal site for a citadel had there been a
consensus for a fortress commanding the city. The high timberland was a
white elephant until a high-concept proposal for a regional hospital did
receive universal support and struck pay dirt.
The Aycrigg family donated the land for next new thing in Passaic.
By sheer serendipity, the plateau crowning the bluffs - as is -
satisfied the prerequisites for a site for the sort of "convalescing
hospital" which its boosters had in mind. In theory, its patients would
be cured by "walking it off." The regimen was trice-daily
constitutionals in fresh air on the grounds of the sanatorium.
There was an ample supply of pro bono MDs. Attending physicians
donated their services on a rotating basis. Doctors "only" billed for
follow-ups: office visits and house calls. On the other hand, from the
get-go, a nurse shortage shaped the development of Hospital Hill. Stays
were typically long and drawn out, and the nurses throughout New Jersey
were organized. A nurse's pricey hourly fees could add up to a
considerable bill for services rendered to the patient. Anyone
fortunate enough to latch onto a compatible nurse was wise to just pay
the piper, however.
The demand side of the nurse shortage was mitigated by having family
members provide hands-on bedside care for their loved one, around the
clock, right there in the hospital. Kith and kin were drafted to pitch
in. The supply side was assuaged too. The hospital's boosters lured an
esteemed senior nurse from Boston General to train and certify new
nurses; beat the bushes to recruit superior trainees; and spared no
expense to retain them.
A college-like campus was constructed within the walls of the
hospital and elsewhere on the hospital grounds. The most visible
embellishments were a lavish dormitory and a clay tennis court. One of
the two cuts in the Hospital Hill curb along Boulevard was for a
dedicated entrance to the student nurses' home. A long driveway veered
left, passed right by the tennis court, and led to their dormitory. The
drive in and out was facilitated by a landscaped circle right at the
door. The front of the student nurses' home was brightly lit from dusk
to dawn.
A student nurse could go on a casual date without even leaving the
campus. A couple could eat a light, leisurely meal in the hospital tea
room and then hit the tennis court, or vice versa. The doctors ate in
the five-star lunch counter too, on a regular basis, while the families
from the neighborhood ate there only on special occasions. The hospital
tea room featured Welch Farms ice cream. The super-premium treat was
available for eat-in and take-out. Swollen tonsils were a scourge back
then. The same ice cream was also prolifically prescribed on the
children's ward.
One of the two most glamorous spots in Passaic was the Central
Theater where I and many others luxuriated in its expansive art-deco
lounge. The other was the student nurses' home. On duty, they wore
starched whites but, off duty, the immaculate Florence Nightingales-in
training metamorphosed into fur-draped glamour girls on Friday and
Saturday nights. On formal dates the student nurses left their campus
in fairy-tale style. Gussied-up boys in gussied-up cars queued up right
outside the door and called in turn for their respective gussied-up
girls. The entire rigmarole reminded me of the red-carpet treatment
that Hollywood starlets receive at Academy Awards.
The student nurses flaunted fur stoles from Broadway establishments
such as Phil's Rent-A-Fur. Through my high school years, I worked at
Phil's Furs where I cleaned and glazed all kinds of fur and fake-fur
garments. The business had a roomy, high-tech, climate-controlled,
two-level fur vault upstairs just for the garments belonging to storage
clients. During the Cuban missile crisis, I stayed close to that Fort
Knox-like "bunker." The rental enterprise had its own vault in the
basement, right there where I operated the various forms of special
equipment indigenous to the fur trade. The grotto extended seemingly
for miles and miles all the way across Broadway and beyond. Phillip
Cohen had a knack for matching up a rental client with precisely the
right fur garment for the occasion. At the conclusion of his theatrical
matchmaking, I would "spritz" the "piece de resistance" and after that
it would be "good to go." During the Cuban missile crisis, I avoided the
"cave" for fear that it would collapse and bury me.
The only cut in the Hospital Hill curb along Lafayette Avenue was
for the laundry/incinerator which satisfied the demand for starched
whiles. The incinerator was on the street level of the works, but it
had a tall chimney. The incinerator generated the heat that boiled the
water that washed the soiled linens. The laundry had a separate
entrance facing in the direction of Boulevard. The laundry was reached
via a long concrete ramp to the second floor of the works. Workers
rolled huge canvas-sided bins up and down, to and from an assembly line
where the Hospital Hill's laundering was done. The only exception was
whatever items required sterilization with super-heated steam in the
autoclave (which was located elsewhere).
There was a superficial similarity between my work dry-cleaning fur
garments and the far more onerous, industrial-strength, garment
laundering going on up there on Hospital Hill. I operated a small
boiler which produced the steam required to remove wrinkles from garment
linings, while the hospital laundry was a veritable steam room
especially during the summer. The hospital laundry lacked a certain
creature-comfort to which I had access, moreover. The
thirty-something-degree fur vaults were my favorite summer retreats.
I was raised right below Hospital Hill, so I naturally took the
hospital grounds for granted. I grew up automatically thinking of
Hospital Hill as just yet-another awesome park in Passaic. I lived
halfway between the hospital grounds and Second Ward Park. The former
just happened to have a hospital on it and the latter a school. It was
the same thing as far as I was concerned. I was a very independent
eight-year-old kid, by the end of 1953, with a tough choice to make each
day. Where should I play?
That year is my chosen benchmark because I remember vividly the
aftermath of a 1954 hurricane. It knocked over a dozen first-growth
trees on the Lafayette Avenue side of the hospital grounds. The
respective canopies of those fallen specimens landed practically in my
front yard. The downed trees looked for all the world like expired
parachutes. I was surprised by the diminutive root balls of what were
without a doubt the best playground equipment ever. The individual
victims stood apart where the hospital grounds had been thinned. Only
the more sociable trees everywhere else withstood the stiff winds. I
figured the survivors must have held hands with what meager roots they
did have.
Snow meant extreme sledding on the hospital grounds.
Alyse (Korzeniowski) Kalas wrote:
"Our house was directly across from the emergency room entrance so
we heard sirens all the time. In 1962 Passaic General Hospital was one
building at the top of the property. There was a nurses' home and a
doctors' home on the property as well. We played major, major games of
hide and seek on the hospital hill during the summer, going home only
when it got dark. During the winter that hill was called Suicide Hill
because the slope was pretty steep for sleigh riding and lots of kids
got creamed on the way down. The hospital now occupies every square
inch of the what seemed like endless space back then."
Bernie Heyman wrote:
"Before I was of school age (1925-27) we lived in a four-family
apartment house on Paulison that backed up to the Memorial School Park,
then we moved to 418 Howe Avenue where we and the kids from Linden
Street played on the slopes of Passaic General Hospital."
Dave Lewis wrote:
"My dad worked at Passaic General Hospital. The hospital was
surrounded by a very steep hill. As soon as it snowed we all headed for
the hill with our Flexible Flyers. It's probably good that we were so
close to the emergency room as the hillsides were extremely steep and
you finished your sled run out on a busy street. I don't remember
anybody getting killed or even seriously hurt and the minor wounds were
just part of being a kid."
So-called Suicide Hill faced the Lafayette Avenue end of Crescent
Place. It resembled a ski jump more than a ski slope. There was no
traversing the narrow channel because it was pinched by imposing trees.
The chute was one-way, straight down. We could not climb snow-covered
Suicide Hill, especially lugging a sled. It was too steep and had too
much downhill traffic. Instead, we had to take the stairs intended for
hospital employees and visitors. A series of connected steps and
landings ascended from the corner of Crescent and Lafayette all the way
up to the parking lot at the summit of the hill. In practice, we might
have used those stairs more than anyone else but the phenomenon was
certainly not by design. The draftsman of the plans for that particular
pedestrian convenience surely did not have us sledders in mind.
The hilltop lot served the hospital itself (as opposed to the
dormitory or the laundry/incinerator). Drivers reached it via the
second cut in the Hospital Hill curb along Boulevard bearing right. The
summit lot was rimmed with a low wooden barrier. The obstacle was just
high enough to catch the bumper of any errant vehicle before it took a
dive. Sledders congregated behind the barricade where we drank the
"Kool-Aid" and hatched yet another mass descent. There was no need for
a warming hut because our feverish adrenaline took care of that. The
epinephrine was a natural response to Russian roulette. Chalk up the
madness to group dynamics. I do not recall anyone sledding Suicide Hill
solo. Mass-Suicide Hill was more like it.
You could not change your mind. It was physically impossible. Once
over the wall and on your sled, that was it. There was no bailing out.
There was no turning back. 3-2-1, there we went. Whoosh! Moreover,
staying on your sled all the way down to the bottom of the hill was only
the first half of the thrill ride. The best was yet to come. There was
barely ten feet of flat ground from the base of the drop to the curb,
and the abrupt transition was enough to jar the fillings out of your
teeth. The desperate gradient was nowhere near what would have been
required to gently undo the acceleration of a body in "free fall" under
the influence of the earth's gravity.
October 20, 2011
Oakland Protesters Attack Female Teacher
http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/10/20/teacher-choked-women-attacked-at-occupyoakland-its-lord-of-the-flies-among-anarchists-sex-offenders/
Teacher Choked, Women Attacked at #OccupyOakland: It’s ‘Lord of the Flies’ Among Anarchists, Drug Dealers
by Publius
BogGovernment.com
October 20, 2011
Teacher Choked, Women Attacked at #OccupyOakland: It’s ‘Lord of the Flies’ Among Anarchists, Drug Dealers
by Publius
BogGovernment.com
October 20, 2011
Black Oakland CA Protesters Allegedly Threaten White Female Reporter
http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2011/10/20/source-abc-reporters-life-allegedly-threatened-at-occupy-oakland-we-shoot-white-bitches-like-you-around-here/
[five videos embedded]
Source: ABC Reporter’s Life Allegedly Threatened at Occupy Oakland; ‘We Shoot White Bitches Like You Around Here’
Posted by Andrew Breitbart
Oct 20th 2011 at 12:01 am
[five videos embedded]
Source: ABC Reporter’s Life Allegedly Threatened at Occupy Oakland; ‘We Shoot White Bitches Like You Around Here’
Posted by Andrew Breitbart
Oct 20th 2011 at 12:01 am
Black Teens Attack 84-year-old Man in Daylight
It is a game that black youth play in NJ also. They run a long way just to knock you down. Beating this man is an extreme form, perhaps one of the initiation requirements for gangs.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20111020__Geezer__won_t_let_thugs_ruin_his_walks.html
Posted on Thu, Oct. 20, 2011
'Geezer' won't let thugs ruin his walks
BY STEPHANIE FARR
Philadelphia Daily News
farrs (at) phillynews.com
215-854-4225
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20111020__Geezer__won_t_let_thugs_ruin_his_walks.html
Posted on Thu, Oct. 20, 2011
'Geezer' won't let thugs ruin his walks
BY STEPHANIE FARR
Philadelphia Daily News
farrs (at) phillynews.com
215-854-4225
Biden Denied He Used Rape to Scare People
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=46983
[video embedded]
All Huffy, Joe Biden Stands By Rape Reference to GOP
by Jason Mattera
Human Events
10/19/2011
[video embedded]
All Huffy, Joe Biden Stands By Rape Reference to GOP
by Jason Mattera
Human Events
10/19/2011
Anti Depressant Use Increasing With Violence
Does this explain the increasing violence in the country?
[From article]
Elaine Ducharme, a psychologist and public educator in Connecticut for the American Psychological Association says "These drugs can be dangerous, and there needs to be follow-up care."
http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/story/2011-10-19/CDC-Antidepressant-use-skyrocketed-in-past-20-years/50826442/1?loc=interstitialskip
CDC: Antidepressant use skyrockets 400% in past 20 years
By Janice Lloyd,
USA TODAY
October 20, 2011
[From article]
Elaine Ducharme, a psychologist and public educator in Connecticut for the American Psychological Association says "These drugs can be dangerous, and there needs to be follow-up care."
http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/story/2011-10-19/CDC-Antidepressant-use-skyrocketed-in-past-20-years/50826442/1?loc=interstitialskip
CDC: Antidepressant use skyrockets 400% in past 20 years
By Janice Lloyd,
USA TODAY
October 20, 2011
October 19, 2011
Federal Employees Salaries Average More Than $126,000
[From article]
“There’s a gap that’s isolating Washington from the reality of the rest of the country,” Zeese said. “They just get more and more out of touch.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-19/beltway-earnings-make-u-s-capital-richer-than-silicon-valley.html
Top Income in U.S. Is...Gasp!...Wash. D.C. Area
By Frank Bass and Timothy R. Homan -
Oct 19, 2011 12:00 AM ET
Bloomberg.com
“There’s a gap that’s isolating Washington from the reality of the rest of the country,” Zeese said. “They just get more and more out of touch.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-19/beltway-earnings-make-u-s-capital-richer-than-silicon-valley.html
Top Income in U.S. Is...Gasp!...Wash. D.C. Area
By Frank Bass and Timothy R. Homan -
Oct 19, 2011 12:00 AM ET
Bloomberg.com
American Laws for American Courts
October 19, 2011
American Laws for American Courts
Please sign the petition!
By Brigitte Gabriel, President
ACT! for America
This is unlike any petition we’ve ever done. We’re not sending it to Congress or the administration.
We’re “sending” it to us. And it’s extremely important.
You see, we need to hear from you. We need to know if you’ll sign our petition of support for our 2012 effort to get “American Laws for American Courts” (ALAC) legislation passed in as many states as possible.
We need to know which states have the greatest grassroots support for ALAC. I’ll explain why in a moment.
Earlier this year we were successful in getting ALAC passed in Tennessee and Arizona.
The bill prohibits state courts from using foreign law in areas such as family law. “Foreign law” includes sharia law.
This is a powerful firewall against the intrusion of sharia law into our court system. A Center for Security Policy report released earlier this year documented over 50 instances in 23 states where American courts have used sharia law over the past several years.
Our opponents have literally “gone ballistic” over our efforts to get “American Laws for American Courts” passed. One Michigan state representative made the absurd and dishonest claim that support for this bill is “racism at its core”!!
As we prepare for the 2012 state legislative sessions, we must build on the momentum we have gained this year. To do so, we need to make good, strategic decisions about where to introduce “American Laws for American Courts” and where to focus our energies and efforts.
Our ultimate objective is to get ALAC passed in every state in the Union, but we’re not ready yet to fight for passage of this law in every state—so we must choose where to do so in 2012.
This is where you come in.
One element in our decision-making is the amount of grassroots support we can muster in a state. Should our opponents try to make the preposterous case that the law is “racist,” we have to have a loud and strong grassroots presence to persuade state legislators to do the right thing and pass the bill.
For this reason, we are launching a petition to gauge the strength of our grassroots support for the bill in every state—except the states of Tennessee, Arizona, Louisiana and Oklahoma, where a bill or initiative in some form has already passed.
So let your voice be heard. Please sign the petition. Forward it to others in your state and encourage them to sign. Every person who signs will be put on the list for that state, so we can track the response to this state by state.
It’s not just the total number of names from each state we’ll be looking at. We know that larger states will likely have a lot more people sign the petition than smaller states.
This is why we’ll look at the number of names from each state as a percentage of the population of that state.
So help us in our strategic decision making. Let us know how much grassroots support there is in your state by signing our petition and forwarding it to everyone you know today!
Always devoted,
Brigitte Gabriel
ACT for America
P.O. Box 12765
Pensacola, FL 32591
www.actforamerica.org
ACT for America is an issues advocacy organization dedicated to effectively organizing and mobilizing the most powerful grassroots citizen action network in America, a grassroots network committed to informed and coordinated civic action that will lead to public policies that promote America’s national security and the defense of American democratic values against the assault of radical Islam. We are only as strong as our supporters, and your volunteer and financial support is essential to our success. Thank you for helping us make America safer and more secure.
American Laws for American Courts
By Brigitte Gabriel, President
ACT! for America
This is unlike any petition we’ve ever done. We’re not sending it to Congress or the administration.
We’re “sending” it to us. And it’s extremely important.
You see, we need to hear from you. We need to know if you’ll sign our petition of support for our 2012 effort to get “American Laws for American Courts” (ALAC) legislation passed in as many states as possible.
We need to know which states have the greatest grassroots support for ALAC. I’ll explain why in a moment.
Earlier this year we were successful in getting ALAC passed in Tennessee and Arizona.
The bill prohibits state courts from using foreign law in areas such as family law. “Foreign law” includes sharia law.
This is a powerful firewall against the intrusion of sharia law into our court system. A Center for Security Policy report released earlier this year documented over 50 instances in 23 states where American courts have used sharia law over the past several years.
Our opponents have literally “gone ballistic” over our efforts to get “American Laws for American Courts” passed. One Michigan state representative made the absurd and dishonest claim that support for this bill is “racism at its core”!!
As we prepare for the 2012 state legislative sessions, we must build on the momentum we have gained this year. To do so, we need to make good, strategic decisions about where to introduce “American Laws for American Courts” and where to focus our energies and efforts.
Our ultimate objective is to get ALAC passed in every state in the Union, but we’re not ready yet to fight for passage of this law in every state—so we must choose where to do so in 2012.
This is where you come in.
One element in our decision-making is the amount of grassroots support we can muster in a state. Should our opponents try to make the preposterous case that the law is “racist,” we have to have a loud and strong grassroots presence to persuade state legislators to do the right thing and pass the bill.
For this reason, we are launching a petition to gauge the strength of our grassroots support for the bill in every state—except the states of Tennessee, Arizona, Louisiana and Oklahoma, where a bill or initiative in some form has already passed.
So let your voice be heard. Please sign the petition. Forward it to others in your state and encourage them to sign. Every person who signs will be put on the list for that state, so we can track the response to this state by state.
It’s not just the total number of names from each state we’ll be looking at. We know that larger states will likely have a lot more people sign the petition than smaller states.
This is why we’ll look at the number of names from each state as a percentage of the population of that state.
So help us in our strategic decision making. Let us know how much grassroots support there is in your state by signing our petition and forwarding it to everyone you know today!
Always devoted,
Brigitte Gabriel
ACT for America
P.O. Box 12765
Pensacola, FL 32591
www.actforamerica.org
ACT for America is an issues advocacy organization dedicated to effectively organizing and mobilizing the most powerful grassroots citizen action network in America, a grassroots network committed to informed and coordinated civic action that will lead to public policies that promote America’s national security and the defense of American democratic values against the assault of radical Islam. We are only as strong as our supporters, and your volunteer and financial support is essential to our success. Thank you for helping us make America safer and more secure.
Pam Geller's Speech at Hyatt in TX Shut Down By Threats
We need to watch Texas as Pam Geller (Atlas Shrugs) just got shut down from one venue because of threats.CRITICISM OF RADICAL ISLAM IS NOT ALLOWED IN A HYATT HOTEL IN TEXAS.
A Hyatt hotel in Sugar Land, Texas, has abruptly canceled a previously scheduled tea-party event at which author and Atlas Shrugs founder Pamela Geller was scheduled to speak on the dangers of Islam.
Geller said the decision came about because the hotel was "intimidated" into censoring her planned speech by "CAIR thugs," referring to the controversial Islamic advocacy group Council on American-Islamic Relations.
She accused the Hyatt Place of enforcing Islamic law, or Shariah, under which no criticism of Islam is allowed. In Muslim nations, it can be a death penalty offense, Geller noted.
Read Geller's newest column about Shariah.
She said pressure from Islamic interests ultimately pressed the hotel to cancel her address to tea party members who had set up the event.
Tea-party backers, then, were forced to find another location, the Sugar Land Community Center, on virtually no notice, Geller said.
"Free speech, the cornerstone of our constitutional republic, is in serious jeopardy," Geller reported today after being informed of the sudden change. "Under the Shariah, criticism of Islam is blasphemy (punishable by death in Muslim countries). This is the death of free speech in the continuing Islamization of America."
Get your autographed copy of Pamela Geller's "Stop the Islamization of America" directly from WND.
A Hyatt employee in Sugar Land, who identified himself only as Brandon, told WND the abrupt change was a "business" decision. But when asked about the links between CAIR and terror, he slammed the phone down
Read more: Speak out against Islamic terror? Not at this U.S. hotel http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=357653#ixzz1bEixrPfQ
And now this.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/19/terror-alert-bomb-scare-after-san-antonio-courthouse-break-in/
--
A Hyatt hotel in Sugar Land, Texas, has abruptly canceled a previously scheduled tea-party event at which author and Atlas Shrugs founder Pamela Geller was scheduled to speak on the dangers of Islam.
Geller said the decision came about because the hotel was "intimidated" into censoring her planned speech by "CAIR thugs," referring to the controversial Islamic advocacy group Council on American-Islamic Relations.
She accused the Hyatt Place of enforcing Islamic law, or Shariah, under which no criticism of Islam is allowed. In Muslim nations, it can be a death penalty offense, Geller noted.
Read Geller's newest column about Shariah.
She said pressure from Islamic interests ultimately pressed the hotel to cancel her address to tea party members who had set up the event.
Tea-party backers, then, were forced to find another location, the Sugar Land Community Center, on virtually no notice, Geller said.
"Free speech, the cornerstone of our constitutional republic, is in serious jeopardy," Geller reported today after being informed of the sudden change. "Under the Shariah, criticism of Islam is blasphemy (punishable by death in Muslim countries). This is the death of free speech in the continuing Islamization of America."
Get your autographed copy of Pamela Geller's "Stop the Islamization of America" directly from WND.
A Hyatt employee in Sugar Land, who identified himself only as Brandon, told WND the abrupt change was a "business" decision. But when asked about the links between CAIR and terror, he slammed the phone down
Read more: Speak out against Islamic terror? Not at this U.S. hotel http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=357653#ixzz1bEixrPfQ
And now this.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/19/terror-alert-bomb-scare-after-san-antonio-courthouse-break-in/
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Reconciliation Can be Used to Repeal Obamacare
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/280274/reconciliation-option-james-c-capretta?pg=1
James C. Capretta
October 18, 2011 4:00 A.M.
The Reconciliation Option
The way forward for repealing and replacing Obamacare becomes clearer.
National Review
James C. Capretta
October 18, 2011 4:00 A.M.
The Reconciliation Option
The way forward for repealing and replacing Obamacare becomes clearer.
National Review
NBC Newsmen Writing Demands for Protesters Then Report On It
http://bigjournalism.com/driehl/2011/10/18/taibbis-defense-doesnt-wash-nbcs-ratigan-crossed-the-line/
Taibbi’s Defense Doesn’t Wash, NBC’s Ratigan Crossed The Line
Posted by Dan Riehl
Oct 18th 2011 at 4:58 am
BigJournalism.com
Taibbi’s Defense Doesn’t Wash, NBC’s Ratigan Crossed The Line
Posted by Dan Riehl
Oct 18th 2011 at 4:58 am
BigJournalism.com
Protesters One Step From Riot
[From article]
"According to [US Army Field manual (Link embedded)] FM 3-19.15, there are three key social crowd developments. Sometimes, these developments occur in order as the below listed, yet, at times, there is no specific order of the growing threat. Occupy started with phase one, “Public Disorder,” and quickly moved into phase two “Public Disturbance.” The only remaining phase is “Riot.”
http://bigpeace.com/kpatton/2011/10/18/the-three-phases-of-civil-unrest-and-the-first-two-reached-by-occupywallstreet/
The Three Phases Of Civil Unrest And The First Two Reached by #OccupyWallStreet
Posted by Kerry Patton
Oct 18th 2011 at 1:01 pm
BigPeace.com
"According to [US Army Field manual (Link embedded)] FM 3-19.15, there are three key social crowd developments. Sometimes, these developments occur in order as the below listed, yet, at times, there is no specific order of the growing threat. Occupy started with phase one, “Public Disorder,” and quickly moved into phase two “Public Disturbance.” The only remaining phase is “Riot.”
http://bigpeace.com/kpatton/2011/10/18/the-three-phases-of-civil-unrest-and-the-first-two-reached-by-occupywallstreet/
The Three Phases Of Civil Unrest And The First Two Reached by #OccupyWallStreet
Posted by Kerry Patton
Oct 18th 2011 at 1:01 pm
BigPeace.com
Obama, Maybe Was Not Elected
Here's the howler!!! Yes, Eric Holder who is himself under investigation for lying to Congress is the one to investigate Obama. Hahaha. Lots of luck with that. Hahahahaha.
[from article]
"Holcomb, who has called on the Department of Justice to investigate the Clinton and Obama petitions, also responded to a report that the suspected fake Obama petition pages passed through the county voter registration office on days when the Republican member of the office was out."
http://www.southbendtribune.com/sbt-fake-signatures-may-mean-obama-didnt-actually-qualify-in-indiana-20111013,0,181597.story
Fake signatures may mean Obama didn't actually qualify in Indiana
Would '08 May ballot have been different?
By ERIN BLASKO Tribune Staff Writer
9:19 p.m. EDT, October 13, 2011
[from article]
"Holcomb, who has called on the Department of Justice to investigate the Clinton and Obama petitions, also responded to a report that the suspected fake Obama petition pages passed through the county voter registration office on days when the Republican member of the office was out."
http://www.southbendtribune.com/sbt-fake-signatures-may-mean-obama-didnt-actually-qualify-in-indiana-20111013,0,181597.story
Fake signatures may mean Obama didn't actually qualify in Indiana
Would '08 May ballot have been different?
By ERIN BLASKO Tribune Staff Writer
9:19 p.m. EDT, October 13, 2011
Philadelphia Hostages Not Unique Abuse of Disabled
This case is not unique. Police, not just crime families, abuse persons with disabilities and have no interest or incentive to protect vulnerable persons. Police are more concerned with catering police services to wealthy and politically connected "victims," e.g., Black Americans, Homosexuals, women, Muslims and illegal aliens. Persons with disabilities have no protection from predators especially from police employees who target them. In MA for many years prisoners were bused to mental hospitals to provide "care" to mental patients. They regularly robbed and raped the patients. When the patients complained they were ignored because they were mentally ill. Convenient, no? The same pattern is used at Harvard University by their campus cops who abuse persons with disabilities along with Harvard administrators, researchers, local city police and FBI informants. This same pattern continues in society. Police, politicians, taxpayer funded human services corporations abuse their clients. Persons with disabilities are used for increased budgets for the caregiver organizations. Seldom do they actually provide any protection. It is only for business purposes that they become an issue. MA appropriates $2 billion each year for human services. Yet this kind of abuse and others thrive due to the unlawful bias among lawyers, judges, courts and police officials.
[From article]
"Weston had been convicted in the starvation death of a man nearly 30 years ago, though it's unclear how much prison time she served.
The Social Security Protection Act of 2004 generally bars people who have been imprisoned for more than a year from becoming representative payees, those who cash someone else's check. Yet a 2010 report by Social Security's watchdog found that staff members do not perform background checks to determine if payees have criminal records."
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9QFBT302&show_article=1
10 young people in custody in Philly basement case
Oct 19 08:12 AM US/Eastern
By MARYCLAIRE DALE and PATRICK WALTERS
Associated Press
Breitbart.com
[From article]
"Weston had been convicted in the starvation death of a man nearly 30 years ago, though it's unclear how much prison time she served.
The Social Security Protection Act of 2004 generally bars people who have been imprisoned for more than a year from becoming representative payees, those who cash someone else's check. Yet a 2010 report by Social Security's watchdog found that staff members do not perform background checks to determine if payees have criminal records."
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9QFBT302&show_article=1
10 young people in custody in Philly basement case
Oct 19 08:12 AM US/Eastern
By MARYCLAIRE DALE and PATRICK WALTERS
Associated Press
Breitbart.com
How To Solve Problems
Some say Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best
quotes about the debt ceiling:
"I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just pass a law
that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all
sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election. The 26th
amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months
& 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in
1971...before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc. Of the 27 amendments to
the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the
land...all because of public pressure.
*Congressional Reform Act of 2011*
1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office
and receives no pay when they are out of office.
2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All
funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security
system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system,
and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for
any other purpose.
3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans
do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay
will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the
same health care system as the American people.
6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American
people.
7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective
1/1/12.
The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen
made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor,
not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours
should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.
quotes about the debt ceiling:
"I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just pass a law
that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all
sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election. The 26th
amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months
& 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in
1971...before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc. Of the 27 amendments to
the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the
land...all because of public pressure.
*Congressional Reform Act of 2011*
1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office
and receives no pay when they are out of office.
2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All
funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security
system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system,
and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for
any other purpose.
3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans
do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay
will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the
same health care system as the American people.
6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American
people.
7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective
1/1/12.
The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen
made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor,
not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours
should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.
October 18, 2011
Tax Breaks for Felons
Tax breaks may be an incentive to hire felons under a proposed San Francisco ordinance. Why haven't tax breaks been used to hire persons with disabilities, whose unemployment and under employment rate is 70 percent for many years. Is there concern that ex-convicts may reoffend, while disabled persons remain passive and accept being shut out of society?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/17/BAT31LISSG.DTL#ixzz1bAFZo2s4
SF plan would offer tax break for hiring felons
Rachel Gordon, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco Chronicle
October 18, 2011 04:00 AM
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/17/BAT31LISSG.DTL#ixzz1bAFZo2s4
SF plan would offer tax break for hiring felons
Rachel Gordon, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco Chronicle
October 18, 2011 04:00 AM
Kennedys, Book by John Davis
Here's an excerpt from Davis' book about Joseph Kennedy the founder of the Kennedy cult. His report conflicts with apologists for the Kennedy cult.
http://books.google.com/books?id=ngbia3tOBQIC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&dq=joseph+p.+kennedy+meyer+lansky&source=bl&ots=ou1PhHUugx&sig=49tKSrHJlqVDaOYRgwoWFh_m2bM&hl=en&ei=xFCdTqr2BYnv0gHQ2LWACQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFoQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=joseph%20p.%20kennedy%20meyer%20lansky&f=false
The Kennedys: Dynasty and Disaster
By John H. Davis
http://books.google.com/books?id=ngbia3tOBQIC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&dq=joseph+p.+kennedy+meyer+lansky&source=bl&ots=ou1PhHUugx&sig=49tKSrHJlqVDaOYRgwoWFh_m2bM&hl=en&ei=xFCdTqr2BYnv0gHQ2LWACQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFoQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=joseph%20p.%20kennedy%20meyer%20lansky&f=false
The Kennedys: Dynasty and Disaster
By John H. Davis
Crowds Do As Well As Experts Predicting The Future
If this article and practice is true why is it that US and state courts allow psychologists and psychiatrists to make predictions about the future regarding the behavior of defendants? If such predictions are valid why not allow these same prognosticators to predict stocks and bond behavior and race track outcomes and even the lottery numbers? Under what rational system are these charlatans allowed to take a person's freedom based on personal opinion?
[From article]
"Statistics have long shown that large crowds of average people frequently make better predictions about unknown events, when their disparate guesses are averaged out, than any individual scholar — a phenomenon known as the wisdom of crowds.
[. . .]
Military and intelligence researchers have long studied ways to improve the ability to predict the future.
[. . .]
Another team, led by psychologists at the University of California and the University of Pennsylvania who are focused on asking questions in ways that minimize experts' overconfidence and misjudgment, said Don Moore, a professor at Cal-Berkeley.
[. . .]
"At some level, you cannot predict the future," Twardy said. "But you can do a lot better than just asking an expert."
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111018/ap_on_re_us/us_crowdsourcing_study
University studies crowdsourcing for intelligence
By MATTHEW BARAKAT,
Associated Press
October 18, 2011
[From article]
"Statistics have long shown that large crowds of average people frequently make better predictions about unknown events, when their disparate guesses are averaged out, than any individual scholar — a phenomenon known as the wisdom of crowds.
[. . .]
Military and intelligence researchers have long studied ways to improve the ability to predict the future.
[. . .]
Another team, led by psychologists at the University of California and the University of Pennsylvania who are focused on asking questions in ways that minimize experts' overconfidence and misjudgment, said Don Moore, a professor at Cal-Berkeley.
[. . .]
"At some level, you cannot predict the future," Twardy said. "But you can do a lot better than just asking an expert."
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111018/ap_on_re_us/us_crowdsourcing_study
University studies crowdsourcing for intelligence
By MATTHEW BARAKAT,
Associated Press
October 18, 2011
Uganda: Invisible Children
http://www.invisiblechildren.com/history-of-the-war
Recent history of conflict in Central African Republic, Uganda, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of The Congo.
In October 2011 Obama sent US military advisors to Uganda. In 2001 under the USA Patriot Act, the Lord's Resistance Army was declared a terrorist organization in 2001. "In 2004, Congress passed the Northern Uganda Crisis Response Act, the first piece of American legislation to address this disaster."
Recent history of conflict in Central African Republic, Uganda, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of The Congo.
In October 2011 Obama sent US military advisors to Uganda. In 2001 under the USA Patriot Act, the Lord's Resistance Army was declared a terrorist organization in 2001. "In 2004, Congress passed the Northern Uganda Crisis Response Act, the first piece of American legislation to address this disaster."
Eliminating Canada, Mexico, US Borders
Does this explain why there is little interest in enforcing US immigration laws? The elite of the two political parties decided to open the borders without any input from the people of the country. They expect there to be enough illegal aliens so that it will be a fait accompli. So much for representative democracy.
http://www.cfr.org/canada/creating-north-american-community/p7912
Creating a North American Community
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http://www.cfr.org/canada/creating-north-american-community/p7912
Creating a North American Community
Chairmen’s Statement
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| Vice Chairs: | Thomas P. D'Aquino Andres Rozental Robert A. Pastor |
| Director: | Chappell Lawson |
| Publisher: | Council on Foreign Relations Press |
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Release Date: March 2005
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