Ex-Cambridge, MA Mayor Laments "Unfair" Competition

Parking, standing and stopping laws apply to Uber and Lyft as well as other vehicles on the road, contrary to comment by ex-Mayor Galluccio. Is it legal for them to wait in taxi stands? State law limiting idling to five minutes applies to ride sharing vehicles too.

[From article]
Ride-sharing drivers can roam and troll and wait anywhere.
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During peak travel hours, as many as four thousand Ubers sit idling, waiting for a Smartphone hit. Look around, they are everywhere: Burning gas, taking up precious parking spaces and blocking traffic while taxi drivers are parked in cab stands
If we don’t stand up for fairness now, we will be sorry later.

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/news/20151223/guest-column-uber-is-getting-free-ride

Guest column: Uber is getting a free ride
By Anthony D. Galluccio
Posted Dec. 23, 2015 at 2:24 PM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

NYC Mayor Favors Fairness Not Rule of Law

Misguided De Blasio got one thing right. Protesters demand fairness. The pursuit of fairness often conflicts with the rule of law. De Blasio took an oath to uphold the law. JFK reminded Americans "Life is not fair." The misguided pursuIt of fairness extends to Harvard University, Georgetown University and Columbia University Law Schools, and Oberlin College where students are so obsessed with fairness they demand time off for recuperation after anti police protests before taking exams. American citizens want equal treatment under law. Communists, terrorists, and their useful elitist idiots in the USA want fairness. In the name of fairness, two NYPD officers were executed by an extremist admirer of Islam. 

[From article]
Two hours earlier, the mayor met with the organizers of Justice League NYC, one of the groups behind the city-wide protests that have sprung up in the aftermath of the grand jury decision.
The closed-door meeting, held in the Midtown office of labor union 1199SEIU, lasted about 45 minutes.
The mayor — who was arrested last year protesting the closure of Long Island College Hospital — said he left convinced the group was “motivated from the heart” to demonstrate in the wake of Garner’s death.
“Those who are protesting are seeking fairness,” he said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-meets-protesters-nypd-cops-hours-article-1.2051583

Bill de Blasio walks fine line while meeting with both protesters, NYPD cops just hours apart from each other
The New York mayor met with organizers of Justice League NYC, the group behind city-wide protests in the aftermath of the grand jury's decision to not indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, just two hours before attending a police promotion ceremony where he addressed about 200 cops.
BY BARRY PADDOCK , JENNIFER FERMINO
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, December 19, 2014, 10:26 PM

Progressives Argue In The Name Of Good, With No Details

[From article] Progressiv When so much of progressive argument consists of scrappy anecdotes or soaring rhetoric, it isn’t cynicism to inquire where all this forward-thinking is actually going.
[. . .]
For New York City’s progressives, however, it’s the thought that counts. All sins of logic or arithmetic—whether in the realms of children’s laundry or $50 million luxury apartment sales—are covered by the appeal to reducing inequality.

http://www.city-journal.org/2014/eon1205sb.html

SETH BARRON
In the Name of Progress
New York City progressives like rhetoric, not details.
5 December
 2014

MA Public Schools Emphasize Teaching Fairness and Justice

[From article]
In Massachusetts, the John J. Duggan Middle School will open on August 25 with a new name and mission. It is now a "social justice magnet school." As a hiring advertisement for teachers explained earlier this year, the emphasis will be on "helping students develop the necessary skills to analyze and synthesize information and to generate empathy by looking at multiple sides of important issues facing the world, be that hunger, water quality, racial barriers, child labor or imbalance of power."
[. . .]
The new principal says the school's primary job is teaching "fairness."
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The ultimate goal of these social justice prep schools: creating left-wing political advocates.
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At the Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School, also in Massachusetts, students won't learn math. They'll be taught "social justice math." (Freire was a Brazilian leftist who wrote a social justice teacher's Bible called "Pedagogy of the Oppressed.")
His acolytes explain the push for radicalization of math: "Math is an instrument for detailing social justice issues and developing critical consciousness." In the hands of progressive teachers, math "becomes an analytic tool to bring awareness to important world issues."
In other words: One plus one equals "That's unfair!"

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin080814.php3

Readin', Writin' and Social Justice Agitatin'

By Michelle Malkin
Published August 8, 2014

How Left Confuses Arguments Using Appeals To Justice and Fairness

Without defining either fairness or justice, liberals argue in support of whatever they favor. 

[From article]
“The Left recognizes the power of justice,” says Dinesh, “and they recognize the vulnerability of America, because capitalism is a counterintuitive system that has never been in tune with our instincts about justice.
[. . .]
Obama was debating Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primaries. A moderator, Charlie Gibson, brought up the capital-gains tax, pointing out its history: When the rate had gone down, revenue had gone up; and when the rate had gone up, revenue had gone down. “So why raise it at all, especially given the fact that 100 million people in this country own stock and would be affected?”
Obama answered, “Well, Charlie, what I’ve said is that I would look at raising the capital-gains tax for purposes of fairness.” Yes. Economics is out the window. Cause and effect is out the window. Real, practical consequences are out the window. All that matters is something psychological: someone’s notion of “fairness.”
[. . .]
He likes to quote a remark from Jeane Kirkpatrick: “Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/383389/dsouza-nation-part-iii-jay-nordlinger

JULY 23, 2014 12:00 AM
D’Souza Nation, Part III
By Jay Nordlinger

Affirmative Action is Government Discrimination

[From article]
"If you're a black, Harvard educated business owner with 10 million dollars in the bank, you may think it's perfectly fair that your son gets into a college over a more qualified son of a white garbage collector because of Affirmative Action, but it's pretty easy to see how the person being discriminated against because of his race wouldn't feel the same way.
In other words, one person's "fair" is another's person's "unfair" which can become a huge problem when the government starts defining what's "fair" and putting the force of law behind it."

http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2012/02/28/five_things_children_know_that_liberals_have_forgotten

Five Things Children Know That Liberals Have Forgotten
John Hawkins
TownHall.com
February 28, 2012

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http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/2/23/supreme-court-affirmative-action/

Harvard Likely To Support Affirmative Action in Supreme Court Case
By JUSTIN C. WORLAND,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Published: Thursday, February 23, 2012

Golf Rule Changes


Obama's Golf Czar has announced there is a possibility of MAJOR rule
changes to the game of golf, this may occur sometime after March 1, 2010.
This is only a preview as the complete rule book is being rewritten now.
Here are a few basic changes:

Golfers with handicaps:
- below 10 will have their green fees increased by 35%.
- between 11 and 18 will see no increase in green fees.
- above 18 will get a check each time they play.

The dollar amount placed in bets will be as follows-for handicaps below 10, an additional $10.
-between 11 and 18, no additional amount.-above 18, you will receive the total amount in the pot even if you
do not play.

The term "gimme" will be changed to "entitlement" and will be used as follows:
-handicaps below 10, no entitlements.-handicaps from 11 to 17, entitlements for putter length putts.
-handicaps above 18, if your ball is on green, no need to putt, just pick it up.

These entitlements are intended to bring about fairness and, most importantly, equality in scoring.
In addition, a Player will be limited to a maximum of one birdie or six
pars in any given round. Any excess must be given to those fellow players
who have not yet scored a birdie or par. Only after all players have
received a birdie or par from the player actually making the birdie or par,
can that player begin to count his pars and birdies again.

The current USGA handicap system will be used for the above purposes
but the term 'net score' will be available only for scoring those players with
handicaps of 18 and above.

This is intended to 'redistribute' the success of winning by making
sure that in every competition, the above 18 handicap players will
post only 'net score' against every other player's gross score.
These new Rules are intended to CHANGE the game of golf..


Golf must be about Fairness. It should have nothing to do with Ability.