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Thomas M. Menino, Boston’s longest serving mayor, has died at 71
bostonglobe.com ^ | 10/30/2014 | Bryan Marquard and Jim O’Sullivan

Posted on 10/30/2014 12:16:22 PM PDT by massmike

Thomas Michael Menino, who insisted a mayor doesn’t need a grand vision to lead, then went on to shepherd Boston’s economy and shape the skyline and the very identity of the city he loved through an unprecedented five consecutive terms in City Hall, died Thursday. He was 71 and was diagnosed with advanced cancer not long after leaving office at the beginning of this year.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: boston; catholic; hell; liberal; menino; obituary
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To: Elsie

I disagree. Christ starts with False prophets but then goes into good trees and bad ones, secondarily. Thats why Christ mentioned it twice. Once for the false prophets and then again for people in general. Its a universal rule.


81 posted on 11/01/2014 2:40:02 AM PDT by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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To: ColdSteelTalon
I stand corrected.

Thanks for the extra data.

I see only one problem, and that's when folks will point to 'fruits' as being the defining data to prove the 'correctness' of their beliefs.

82 posted on 11/01/2014 5:22:02 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
No worries. And as far a fruits are concerned, it is I agree with you not an validator of beliefs. If that were true then a moral atheist could use his good deeds as justification for his beliefs.

In fact I get that kind of argument all the time from atheists.

- Warm regards to you -

83 posted on 11/01/2014 12:10:41 PM PDT by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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To: GOPsterinMA; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj

Article on MA state leg elections.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/11/01/massachusetts-republicans-poised-gain-legislative-seats/feyypeVEr7P2Hao3TGp4CN/story.html


84 posted on 11/02/2014 10:35:34 PM PST by Impy (Voting democrat out of spite? Then you are America's enemy, like every other rat voter.)
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To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj

DJSeamus is gonna feel the pain!


85 posted on 11/03/2014 6:07:18 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: Impy; GOPsterinMA; AuH2ORepublican

Even if the GOP gets to 10 seats in the Senate, that is STILL only 25% of the body. They’d need over 50 in the House to be remotely effective as a minority bloc. I also expect, as with the 4 RINO predecessors (and throw in the 2 other RINOs from the ‘60s/’70s, Sargent & Volpe) that any gains made will be swiftly wiped away in 2016 under Charlie “Willard Jr” Baker.


86 posted on 11/03/2014 9:23:02 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Impy

You will learn tomorrow, DJSeamus.


87 posted on 11/03/2014 1:00:16 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
JOHN VOLPE WAS A GOOD ITALIAN MAN, DO NOT SLANDER HIM.
88 posted on 11/03/2014 1:06:00 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: GOPsterinMA; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj

Well, he did institute a sales tax to pay for his spending increases. Was almost Nixon’s running mate in ‘68.

Who was the last conservative Republican Governor of MA? The last conservative Governor period was the DINO Edward King, who endorsed Reagan and switched to R after leaving office.


89 posted on 11/03/2014 4:23:21 PM PST by Impy (Voting democrat out of spite? Then you are America's enemy, like every other rat voter.)
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To: Impy; GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj

Was there anyone after Coolidge?


90 posted on 11/03/2014 4:26:33 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: AuH2ORepublican; GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj

Well wikipedia doesn’t provide much info but let me look there

Cal’s successor was Channing Cox “Mr. Cox was noted for advancing progressive labor legislation “

Then Alvan Fuller, “As governor, Fuller faced a significant budget deficit that required initiatives to reduce expenditures and downsize government operations.” That’s a maybe.

Frank Allen, no idea.

How was Saltonstall?


91 posted on 11/03/2014 4:33:46 PM PST by Impy (Voting democrat out of spite? Then you are America's enemy, like every other rat voter.)
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To: Impy; GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj

Salty was very liberal, wasn’t he?


92 posted on 11/03/2014 4:55:12 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: AuH2ORepublican; Impy; NFHale; fieldmarshaldj

There’s going to be a lot of blood letting tomorrow.


93 posted on 11/03/2014 5:02:39 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: AuH2ORepublican; Impy

I’ve not definitively found a particular Governor that could fit that pattern, but I don’t have enough info on some. Even in the 1946 election, a “pushback” ostensibly against the liberal Dems, the one-term GOPer who won, Robert Bradford, was a left-winger. So perhaps going back to the ‘20s would be required to find a non-liberal or non-”moderate” GOPer Governor.


94 posted on 11/03/2014 7:32:44 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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