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December 5, 2015

Nature Rules. Computer Models Follow

The "science" of global warming is based upon computer model predictions. Can these computer models predict what nature will do to maintain its equilibrium? Einstein recognized the need to compensate for the differences in time between satellites and people on earth. Else GPS systems would mislead them. Where is the role of nature cooling itself, warming itself when needed that is built into the "science" of computer modeling? Geologists and astronomers observe that weather patterns and earth temperatures go through 40,000 year cycles. Are there "scientific" computer models based on these cycles? "The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind." and "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H. L. Mencken

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20151205/NEWS/151207477

EDITORIAL: Setting climate goals, promises
Posted Dec. 5, 2015 at 1:14 PM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

August 24, 2015

The Pope And The New York City Mayor

Pope Francis

One comment referred to what the (computer?) models show. Isn't that what all conclusions about "settled science" about global warming derives from? Gore's film like the Pope cites politicians, who are further removed from reality. Problem with computer models is they omit the role of nature adapting to changes in the environment. Nature always does what it needs to do in order to maintain equilibrium. Computer models cannot know what nature will do.

http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon0724oc.html

OREN CASS
Pope Francis’s Plan to Impoverish New York . . .
. . . and the Gotham mayor who embraces it
July 24, 2015

August 12, 2015

Updated(2): Jury Awarded $18 million To New York City Model Who Sued Boss For Sex Under Pressure; Wants To Change Her Identity

Posted June 17, 2015 8:18 PM ET; Last updated August 12, 2015 6:07 PM ET

Benjamin Wey and Hanna Bouveng

[From article]
A Swedish woman who was awarded $18 million in damages after being sexually harassed and coerced into sex by her former Wall Street executive boss has revealed that she is considering moving and changing her identity - and the identity of her family – because the experience has left battling an almost-constant feeling of paranoia.
In an $850 million lawsuit, Hanna Bouveng, 25, accused Benjamin Wey, 43, of using his power as the owner of New York Global Group to coerce her into four sexual encounters, before firing her after discovering that she had a boyfriend. She also claimed he controlled and manipulated her during his relentless harassment following her hiring as a marketing intern in 2013.
'My former boss took away my peace of mind,' Hanna wrote in a personal essay appearing in the August issue of Cosmopolitan. 'I wonder whether my relatives and I should get new identities and move somewhere new. I think I will forever feel paranoid.'
[. . .]
Because Hanna’s job meant she was meeting high-profile people, including Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, Princess Madeleine of Sweden, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, he told her she needed an apartment that reflected her role in the company.
Hanna said he showed her a $3,300 apartment, and when she told him she would need a raise to afford it, he told her he would 'take care of it'. She said she thought he meant a raise and moved into the new place, however, instead of giving her a better salary, Benjamin told her he could ask him for cash when he needed it.
[. . .]
After a business dinner in January, Hanna said Benjamin walked her home and pulled out a box of condoms, pressuring her to have sex.
'I felt blurry from drinks at dinner and worn down by his aggression, as if he had peeled away my identity. I had lost myself,' she said. 'This time, he got his way.
'I felt like I left my body. I felt useless and devastated, like I was not worth anything.'
Hanna said that Benjamin coerced into sex a few more times, and she became determined to release herself from his tight grasp. She no longer cared about losing her job or her visa, but she said had started to fear Benjamin.
Although Hanna said Benjamin was constantly calling and texting her and showing up at her apartment unannounced, she made an effort to reconnect with friends. She started seeing James Chauvet, a guy she had met the summer before, and their relationship began to blossom – without Benjamin’s knowledge.
[. . .]
Hanna said she returned to Sweden and filed a sexual-harassment lawsuit in federal court, but Benjamin continued to harass her, as well as her friends and family, online, posting images of her face next to pictures of pornography and drug use on Facebook. She noted that he created 11 new websites using her name to bully her.
You shouldn't feel ashamed when someone wrongs you
And while a judge warned Benjamin about his conduct in August, he wouldn't stop, and later that month he showed up in her hometown in Sweden and found her working at a café in Stockholm, prompting her to call the police.
[. . .]
Hanna joined the Swedish National Committee for UN Women and said she plans on working with them on future projects.
'I have learned that it's okay to admit that you are vulnerable. It's not okay for someone to prey on that,' she explained. 'You shouldn't feel ashamed when someone wrongs you.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3193692/Swedish-woman-25-awarded-18-million-sexually-harassed-boss-says-behavior-left-paranoid-wants-change-identity.html

Swedish woman, 25, who was awarded $18 million after being sexually harassed by her boss says his behavior left her so 'paranoid' she wants to change her identity
Hanna Bouveng accused Benjamin Wey, the 43-year-old owner of New York Global Group of coercing her into four sexual encounters
In her $850 million lawsuit, she claimed he relentlessly harassed her after hiring her as a marketing intern in 2013
Benjamin fired her after discovering that she had a boyfriend, and continued to harass her friends and family
Hanna has opened up about her experience in personal essay that appears in the August issue of Cosmopolitan
By Erica Tempesta For Dailymail.com
Published: 10:43 EST, 11 August 2015 | Updated: 21:03 EST, 11 August 2015

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Updated June 30, 2015 9:03 PM ET

[From article]
Bouveng landed $500,000 for sexual harassment that ranged from Wey openly panting over her at the office to pressuring her to sleep with him. When she finally fell into bed with him, he lasted just 2 minutes, she said.
Jurors handed Bouveng another $1.5 million for defamation, which included Wey smearing her on his Webzine after their break-up and e-mailing her father a vicious note when he found another man in her bed.
“I saw a 6-foot-tall homeless black man named James lying on her bed. The man was totally naked, dirty, totally drunk and perhaps on illegal drugs,” Wey wrote to Bouveng’s father, Nils Sundqvist, in one e-mail entered into evidence.
The jury awarded Bouveng $1 for the retaliation she suffered after she called it quits with Wey and he fired her. And then they deliberated several more hours over punitive damages before awarding another $1 6 million.

http://nypost.com/2015/06/29/underling-awarded-at-least-2m-as-horndog-ceo-loses-suit/

Wall Street CEO will have to pay up for slut-shaming intern
By Josh Saul
New York Post
June 29, 2015 | 12:34pm

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[From article]
A Wall Street financier who's on trial for sexually harassing a Swedish former model lasted just two minutes the first time they slept together, the woman's lawyer said on Monday.
Hanna Bouveng, 25, is suing the CEO of New York Global Group Benjamin Wey, 43, for $850million, claiming he sexually harassed her, pressured her to dress provocatively and forced her to have sex in December 2013.
Bouveng said she was hired by Wey in July 2013 - despite a lack of experience - as the company's marketing chief.
[. . .]
She was fired in April 2014, Wey's reason being that her love of nightclubs was becoming an issue, Wey's attorney Glen Colton said.
Bouveng didn't report the sexual attacks until after Wey fired her, Colton said, adding that Wey called her complaints 'extortion'.
'She said she would go to law-enforcement and report the rape if he didn't settle the case,' said Colton.
Wey, a Columbia University graduate who holds two Master's degrees, then continued to spread lies about Bouveng on a website he runs called The Blot Magazine, according to the model.
'He puts on the blog that she's a prostitute, that she hangs out with cocaine dealers. Every day after the complaint was filed there were articles about Hanna Bouveng and what a terrible person she is,' Ratner said in court.
[. . .]
Bouveng said in December that Wey contacted her family members after she was fired and accused her of cheating on him.
'He contacted my father, brother, aunt, all my closest friends, business acquaintances, former employers, possible employers,' Bouveng said in December, according to the Daily News.
Ratner said his client got scared after receiving a voicemail in which Wey allegedly said 'you cheated on me!' and said detectives were investigating her.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3125923/Wall-Street-financier-Benjamin-Wey-sued-850m-sexually-harassing-underling-pressured-bed.html

Wall Street financier, 43, is sued for $850m for sexually harassing model, 25, who he hired, 'pressured into bed' and then branded a prostitute on his blog
Hanna Bouveng, 25, is suing the CEO of New York Global Group Benjamin Wey, 43, for $850million
Wey had hired her as his company's marketing chief in July 2013 and paid for the rent on her $3,600 Tribeca apartment
The Swedish former model claims he sexually harassed her, pressured her to dress provocatively and forced her to have sex in December 2013
The pair had sex 'several' times, and the first time only lasted two minutes
Wey fired Bouveng in April 2014, after which Bouveng reported the sexual attacks
He then spread lies about his former employee online, claiming she was a 'prostitute' that 'hangs out with cocaine dealers', her attorney said
By KELLY MCLAUGHLIN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 01:00 EST, 16 June 2015 | UPDATED: 02:52 EST, 16 June 2015
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[From article]
Wey took Bouveng on business trips, always talking up the professional aspect of the trip. But when the naive brunette got to their hotel, she was surprised to find that Wey had booked them both into the same room, Ratner said.
“Her dream was to work on Wall Street,” Ratner told the jury at the end of his openings.
“Now she’s working in a cafe.”
Defense attorney Glen Colton said Bouveng — who speaks five languages — didn’t tell anybody about the sexual incidents until after she was fired, and called her initial complaint to Wey “extortion.”
“She said she would go to law enforcement and report the rape if he didn’t settle the case,” Colton said.

http://nypost.com/2
015/06/15/financier-lasted-two-minutes-with-underling-he-pressured-into-sex-lawyer/

Financier bedded sexy staffer after ‘relentless’ pursuit: lawyer
By Josh Saul
New York Post
June 15, 2015 | 7:26pm

July 5, 2015

Climate Change, The New Religion

Lotter says, "Pope Francis reminds us that climate justice is at its core a social justice issue." Does that mean that 97 percent of scientists who support the computer model theory of science are wrong? It is not a scientific certainty, not settled science? Does it mean that global warming is a religion, that changed it name? Does Lotter suggest there was no climate change before humans appeared on the earth? Before there were fossil fuels? Was the earth's climate unchanging then?

[From article]
In a global economy driven by profits and exploitation, Pope Francis urges each and every one of us to reinvest in our future, our shared wellbeing, and our ethical integrity by turning away from fossil fuels.
Pope Francis reminds us that climate justice is at its core a social justice issue.
[. . .]
The Pope’s take-home message is that we have a moral obligation to address the main cause of climate change, which is the burning of fossil fuel.
[. . .]
Sarah Lotter, a Somerville resident, is a member of 350Massachusetts, a grassroots organization that advocates for radical action to address climate change.

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20150704/NEWS/150709261

Guest column: Pope's encyclical brings urgency of climate movement to new level
By Sarah Lotter
Posted Jul. 4, 2015 at 8:31 AM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

March 8, 2015

White House Dreamer Suspected of Murder Of Fashion Model

Mirjana Puhar, 19

[From article]
Police arrested 19-year-old Emmanuel Jesus Rangel-Hernandez for the crime. There are reports that Rangel, who was a known gang member, may also be a "DREAMer" who was allowed to stay in the U.S. under the Obama administration's immigration policies.
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a letter to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, requesting information about Rangel's immigration status and whether he was allowed to stay in the country under the President's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
DHS has not responded to the request.
Judge Napolitano said that the DREAMer program was not legislated by Congress. It was an executive order by President Obama, which is "inconsistent with federal law."
[. . .]
Judge Nap also weighed in on the case in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, where an 18-year-old is charged with involuntary manslaughter for sending her friend emails, text messages and tweets that encouraged him to kill himself.
Judge Nap said this is a "novel case" and he's never seen one quite like it before.
He explained that cops believe they have evidence that Conrad Roy was a "simpleton" and Michelle Carter knew that when she pushed him to commit suicide.
"The law usually requires some very evil motivation - they may have it here - and something more than words," Judge Nap said, explaining that usually entails something such as handing the victim a weapon.
"It's a head-scratcher as to why she would do this. If they convict her on that basis, it will be novel and dangerous, because it brings pure speech into an area of crime."
He added that it's also very unusual that Carter is being tried as an adult in juvenile court and faces up to 20 years in prison.

http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/03/03/judge-napolitano-weighs-models-murder-teen-being-charged-friends-suicide

Report: Gang Member Suspected in Reality Star's Murder May Have Been Here Illegally
As seen on The Kelly File
March 3, 2015 7:40 AM

Fox News

September 11, 2014

Settled Science Useful Idiots Censor Scrutiny of Science

AlGore's movie quoted numerous scientists, friends, but none of them appeared. No astronomer is quoted. In his book The Life of Super-Earths, Harvard University astronomer, Dimitar Sasselov explains that weather patterns go in 40,000 year cycles. Geologists show periods of heating and cooling weather changes to the environment of the planet over billions of years. With minimal ranges using computer models, useful idiot, elitist, moralist, scientists demand they know what others fear to assert.

See Sasselov's 22 minute video here
http://youtu.be/F8bM8K7W_R8

[From article]
According to their dogma, it’s blasphemous to oppose giving unaccountable bureaucrats (in the EPA or internationally) unprecedented power to centrally plan and control economic life without even a vote of Congress.
That’s because the faithful overlook the stunning failure of their doomsday-predicting models to forecast warming’s nearly 18-year pause (confirmed by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) or Al Gore’s 2007 prediction that polar bears’ Arctic habitat would be ice-free by 2013.

[. . .]

Today, skepticism is synonymous with greed and immorality to church adherents who bask in the influence and profits they derive from sermonizing and policy advocacy. Yet, they ignore the “inconvenient truth” that their policies adversely impact the lifestyles of the budget conscience.
So, who are the heretics?
Are they alarmists intent on circumventing scientific inquiry and the free and open debate on which national consensus in a pluralistic democracy depends, or skeptics “not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead,” as Thomas Jefferson encouraged?
“It is error alone which needs the support of government,” Jefferson believed, because “truth can stand by itself.”
In his farewell address, noteworthy for military-industrial-complex warnings, President Dwight Eisenhower articulated the modern version of Jefferson’s concern. “A government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity,” he said, and “the prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present — and is gravely to be regarded.”

http://www.aspentimes.com/opinion/12965067-113/climate-policies-sturm-think

Sturm: Inconvenient truths denied by climate faithful
Melanie Sturm
Think Again
September 11, 2014

August 27, 2012

Injured Model Works In Fashion Promotion

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2194319/Quadriplegic-model-37-paralysed-waist-following-horrific-car-accident-lands-major-fashion-campaign.html

Quadriplegic model, 37, paralysed from the waist down following horrific car accident lands major fashion campaign
Angela Rockwood, star of Push Girls, set to star in upcoming campaign for retail giant Nordstrom
'It’s so important that there are companies out there that see the value in using models with disabilities,' she said
By SADIE WHITELOCKS
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 14:57 EST, 27 August 2012 | UPDATED: 15:05 EST, 27 August 2012

May 21, 2012

Bikini Model, Film Star Pleads Guilty To Murder

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2147839/Porn-star-Amanda-Logue-pleads-guilty-killing-tattoo-shop-owner-beaten-stabbed-death-sex-party.html

Victim: Dennis Abrahamsen was found stabbed and bludgeoned to death after he hosted a sex party at his home

Logue

Fatal attraction: Amanda Logue, who did bikini modelling as well as porn, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of second-degree murder

Porn star pleads guilty to killing tattoo shop owner found bludgeoned and stabbed to death after sex party Amanda Logue, 30, to serve about 40 years in prison in plea deal
Accused of killing 41-year-old Dennis Abrahamsen with her boyfriend Jason Andrews in 2010
Logue was hired to attend sex party at Abrahamsen's Florida home
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 18:04 EST, 21 May 2012 | UPDATED: 18:04 EST, 21 May 2012

October 2, 2011

Egyptian Model Killed, Cooked Husband, Wants Parole

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/weird/Ex-Model-Who-Killed-and-Ate-Huby-Seeks-Parole-130862888.html

Ex-Model Who Killed and Ate Hubby Seeks Parole
Egypt native says husband raped her
By Greg Wilson
NBC News Miami
Sunday, Oct 2, 2011 | Updated 11:31 AM EDT

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US Federal Debt July 2, 2016 $19,385,011,022,974.42.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dorothy Thompson (1894-1961) "Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) "Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Margaret Thatcher: (1925 - 2013) "The problem with socialism is that eventually, you run out of others people's money."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FACTS ARE STUBBORN:

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

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

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

Obama Lost the Debate on Health Care:Unable to counter widespread concerns of citizens about his health care plans, Obama supporters conduct intense vitriolic attacks on critics. Obama has no rational arguments, and hopes to discredit his critics by character assassination. They are not just racists now they are greedy racists and hate mongers. Maybe that will work. Ya think? Obama-Biden: Stupid is as stupid does. Biden: "We misread how bad the economy was."

Obama: [Correcting Biden]"We had incomplete information." So the US Congress voted for and the President signed a $787 billion stimulus bill without having read it, and with incomplete information? And they say others are stupid? Hello? Then Congress voted for a 1,000+ page "cap and trade" bill that none of them read.

Bloomberg: Daschle says, "Health care reform will not be pain free. Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them," while former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm says seniors have "a duty to die." If this does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember that the President, Senators and Congressmen have their own special gold plated health care plan which is guaranteed the remainder of their lives and they are not subject to this new law if they pass it. Reverse the dangerous direction of the Obama administration and its allies.

Obama, The Un-Truman: David McCullough, in his biography of Harry Truman, "Truman" says on page 217, "Harry cared little more for other [than Huey Long] celebrated 'speechifiers' in the Senate. Admittedly fearful of making a speech himself, he seemed to resent particularly those who could and who made their reputations that way. They were the 'egotistical boys' whose specialty was talk." Obama admitted that he can make a speech but that he was incapable of doing anything in the Senate. Where did he gets his special powers during the campaign?

Obama's Mantra: He keeps repeating, "I won the election." He expects all Americans to support what HE wants. "I won," is how Obama implements the post-partisan unification of America. What a guy! See also Rich Lowry's "Sorry, O: 'I won' Won't Cover this," New York Post, February 6, 2009, page 27. http://www.nypost.com/seven/02062009/postopinion/opedcolumnists sorry__o__i_won_wont_cover_this_153839.htm

MIDDLESEX DA: We're too busy to address crimes less than murder. On Thursday June 25, 2009 Marian Ryan, who works for the Middlesex District Attorney in MA, returned my call from the previous day. She heads the unit for abuse of elders and abuse of persons with disabilities. She told me, "We've had four murders this month." That was to explain why she was unable to address 35 years of police abuses of a citizen with a disability now an elder. She said that a police officer making a threat did not rise to the level of a crime. She did not have time or resources to address abuses by the City Manager and the Police Commissioner of Cambridge, and the Harvard University campus police. It was no concern that using police to harass a person with a disability may be the reason for the four murders. MA Civil Rights statute and possession of illegal firearms are felonies, but not murder. Misallocation of resources is easily apparent. If the police focused on criminals instead of harassing elders with disabilities there might be less violent crime. But who was I to argue.

Cambridge Censorship: In October 2009 City Council Candidate Kathy Podgers complained to Attorney Bill August, long term president of the Cambridgeport Neighborhood Association, that her posts to the neighborhood discussion lists were not appearing. Then Bob LaTremouille added his similar complaints. When I chimed in that my posts did n0t appear for many months Bill August accused me of libel. I said he ignored my complaints about censorship. For a lawyer he does not read very well. On one occasion in 2007 I sent a letter via Fedex from one part of Cambridge to another. I used Fedex because of frequent tampering with my mail by USPS employees. Mail was withheld by USPS employees, and some mail was intercepted and never got to where I sent it. The letter sent by Fedex never arrived either. Their tracking system ended before it was delivered. I wrote to the President of Fedex. He sent me a check for $25 to compensate me. What good is money if you can't send a letter from one part of a city to another? In June 2009 I sent a letter to a US Government agency complaining about a mobbed up police officer who was protecting criminals who harass me each day. Two days after I sent the letter the police detective appeared at a market as I shopped. He used a young woman as bait to try to have me arrested. In June 2009 someone opened a YouTube account solely to publish a comment attacking me personally. This is a frequent experience of an ongoing character assassination campaign by criminals and their police associates. A Harvard University attorney told me not to make complaints to their real estate offices but to the office of the General Counsel. The lawyer assigned was trying to deceive me. On June 6, 2009 I noticed a threat from a police officer as a comment under one of my videos posted on YouTube July 7, 2008. The video shows a Cambridge police patrol car parked in a bus stop. The officer was having dinner nearby not on an emergency call. Every day since I complained to the Attorney General about the threat Cambridge police or Harvard campus police follow me and try to provoke me. The Attorney General is married to a supervising Cambridge police officer. I learned on June 15, 2009 that the FBI was investigating me again. In May 2009, my comments on the Boston Herald web pages (a public accommodation) were removed allegedly due to violations of guidelines. When I complained one was restored. Interns referred me to a staff writer when three of my comments about the shooting death at a Harvard dorm were removed. Someone unknown to me posted a picture of a man from the city in my YouTube profile. That means that someone is tampering with my YouTube account. That is a felony under US law. On or about December 12, 2008 my name was removed from two neighborhood discussion lists--Riverside and Cambridgeport. My attempts to be put back on were ignored by the former President of the Riverside neighborhood, Larry Adkins. Cambridgeport moderators opened my new access in February 2009. In May 2009 I received messages from the list but was unable to post messages. Last year I was unable to receive or post messages to the Porter Square neighborhood discussion list. No notice there either. They began a new list this year and I now get messages. But I was the target of personal attacks on the Porter Square list, the Cambridgeport discussions and on the Cambridge Chronicle web pages. An FBI informant who maintains a web site about the City of Cambridge ridicules me and others who he believes have disabilities. My account with YouTube (more than 250 videos posted) was shut in August 2008 and my appeals of Fair Use Doctrine were ignored. On April 15, 2009 my YouTube account was re-opened. Emily Rooney, host of the PBS news show, Greater Boston threatened to have me banned from Boston. Cambridge City Councilor and Harvard lawyer, Brian Murphy, who resigned in February 2009 to take a six-figure job with the state used council rules to silence my expression. These are rules that the Council created but ignore at every meeting. An email account I used specially for discussion lists was shut down with no notice and no reason or warning given. My several emails inquiring why have been ignored. That account was re-opened on February 10, 2009. Google Video flagged and blocked four uploaded episodes of a cable access TV show I produced and hosted on CCTV. When I appealed their decision, they agreed to put it back up. But as of this date one remains blocked. In February 2009 a long term producer of documentaries at CCTV told me "There is no such thing as Free Speech." That was the second time someone in Cambridge said that to me.