http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/boston/ en-us Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:10:12 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049263/posts Mayor Menino, tear down this wall. The firewall of low-level graft and back-scratching hackery for which Boston has become famous. It is the only thing protecting a chump like faux-firefighter Albert Arroyo. Everybody knows the story of Albert Arroyo. One day he claims to be “totally and permanently disabled.” Fifteen days later, he’s a top contender in a body building competition - caught on videotape. And yesterday, Mr. Mayor, the “Hardest Non-Working Man In City Government” ignored the commissioner’s order to show up for work. Arroyo may be known for his bulging biceps and six-pack abs, but right now he’s... Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049263/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:10:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2048876/posts Arch Diocese Says Women Are 'Excommunicating Themselves' BOSTON -- Three Catholic women were ordained as priests in a Back Bay neighborhood church this weekend, despite the Vatican's admonition that the trio would be excommunicated if they did so.VIDEO: Women Priests Ordained In Boston“The women being ordained today have been called and they are following God’s guidance and direction for their lives,” said Dana Reynolds, a woman from California who became a Catholic bishop in a ceremony in Germany three months ago. “They have said ‘yes’ to God.”NewsCenter 5's Rondella Richardson reported that a congregation of Catholic worshippers, both male and... Boston Channel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2048876/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:37:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047746/posts LOS ANGELES -- American Airlines Flight 725, scheduled to fly nonstop from Boston to Los Angeles on Friday, was diverted to Oklahoma City after a disruptive passenger took his clothes off and had to be subdued. KNBC4-Los Angeles http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047746/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:48:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2047539/posts Roman Catholic Womynpriests are up to their play-acting again. This time in Boston. Roman Catholic Womenpriests, who are neither Roman Catholic or Womanpriests, claim to be "ordaining" three additional women. In fact, it is actually an excommunication ceremony. [Boston] Three aspiring Catholic priests will be anointed and prayed over this weekend in an ordination liturgy that will resemble the traditional in most ways but one: The three being ordained are women. The ordination ceremony Sunday, at a historic Protestant church in the Back Bay, is the first such event to take place in Boston, one of the most Catholic cities... CMR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2047539/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:05:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041948/posts The Red Sox beat the Yankees on Friday in the Bronx, but that didn't seem to satisfy a group of rowdy young people in Falmouth who attacked a family driving home from a Fourth of July fireworks display. Their reason, police said: The car had New York plates, and their attackers presumed they were Yankee fans. As the annual beachside fireworks show was letting up about 10 p.m., traffic congestion turned side streets into parking lots as thousands tried to leave. The New York family was stuck on Worcester Court when police say a group started yelling at them, accusing... boston.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041948/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 18:08:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038098/posts An Iranian Embassy in Boston 25 Jun 2008 Hassan Dai While McCain and Obama are dueling whether they should engage or contain Iran, the world is waking up to the Iranian regime’s proxies infiltrating Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Gaza. We are out there putting out the forest fire with our tea cups, and mullahs’ men and women are digging trenches in our back yards. Iran has established an embassy in Boston! Three former Iranian deputy ministers, Abbas Maleki, M. Jaffar Mahallati and Farhad Atai, have made Boston the base for their mission to assist Iran's strategic goals. These Mullahs'... IranianLobby http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038098/posts#comment Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:41:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036082/posts Boston’s two major daily newspapers are going through another round of painful cost-cutting measures. Boston Globe unions have been asked by management to take an across-the-board 10 percent pay cut to help trim costs, while the newspaper also looks at consolidating its printing plants, according to several union members. The Globe has just completed a round of buyouts that led to the departure of several high-profile staffers, and a top union official vowed yesterday to fight the proposed pay cut. “The Boston Newspaper Guild has given enough in the name of company equity,” said Dan Totten, president of the Guild,... Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036082/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:04:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2034706/posts Before heading to work yesterday, I waslistening to the news on WRKO 680 AM out of Boston. They get news feeds from a couple of sources including Fox News. I heard a disturbing story that Jenna & Laura were at a book signing when an Obama supporter started screaming obscenities at them.A couple was there with their crippled daughter in a wheelchair. When the parents told him to shut up, the brazen boob set about punching the poor girl in the wheel chair.I have not heard any more on this. I know I wasn't imagining it. Has anyone heard more??Thanks... WRKO Radio News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2034706/posts#comment Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:22:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034374/posts The US Attorney's office in Boston yesterday brought a raft of criminal charges against the Big Dig's largest contractor, saying it knew that bolts were coming loose in the ceiling of the Interstate 90 tunnel but glossed over the problem until panels came crashing down in 2006, killing motorist Milena Del Valle. The government also accused the company, Modern Continental Corp., of systematically cheating on the bills for labor and materials it submitted. And it said a water-gushing wall breach in 2004 was a result of shoddy concrete workmanship, which it said Modern Continental knew about but ignored. Prosecutors said... The Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034374/posts#comment Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:06:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2030409/posts LOS ANGELES – After 72 hours of having the game’s showcase event consumed by talk of conspiracy, the Lakers brought another ugly word to the NBA Finals. Collapse. As Kobe Bryant and his LA teammates watched helplessly, the Celtics came from 20 points down in the third quarter to take an improbable, amazing 97-91 win in Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Thursday night at the Staples Center. Boston leads 3-1 in the best-of-seven series. Game 5 is Sunday night as the Celtics will have a chance to win the 17th championship in franchise history. For the Lakers, the... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2030409/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:21:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2030362/posts One month after Pope Benedict XVI made his historic visit to the United States, Sean Cardinal O’Malley ordered the closure of Boston’s oldest German parish, Holy Trinity, and declared all its assets — including $ 242,000 in its bank account — be transferred to Holy Cross Cathedral. The priests and parishioners of Holy Trinity Church, established by German immigrants in 1844, opened the first parochial school in New England and introduced the Christmas tree and Christmas cards to Puritan Boston, among many other traditions. Since 1990, the parish has been home for the Traditional Latin Mass community from 1990 to... The Wanderer Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2030362/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:54:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030022/posts POST-GAZETTE Res Publica Flag Day by David Trumbull June 13, 2008 Saturday, June 14th, is Flag Day, which commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States by resolution of the Second Continental Congress, June 14, 1777. Since 1966 the week that includes June 14th has been designated National Flag Week. In issuing this year’s Flag Day and National Flag Week proclamation President George W. Bush said: The American flag has been our national symbol for 231 years, and it remains a beacon of freedom wherever it is flown. Since the Second Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes... Post-Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030022/posts#comment Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:41:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026381/posts “Whaddaya gotta do to get fired in this town?” It’s a great question, asked by a co-worker of mine (emphasis on “worker”) shaking his head over the latest Department of Public Works story in the Herald. This time it was five city workers hanging out at the Northern Avenue Bridge, watching satellite TV and throwing steaks on the hibachi. After opening the swing bridge once a day, they’ve got nothing to do, all day to do it and the taxpayer’s dime to do it on. My buddy, like every taxpayer reading that Herald story, knows that despite the obvious waste... Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026381/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:22:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2025933/posts Having been occupied since 2005 by protesting parishioners, a closed suburban Boston parish is going bi-ritual, with a Syro-Malybar priest to offer one Sunday liturgy in the India-born rite (which celebrates its Eucharist ad orientem), and another in the Roman rite: The archdiocese is hailing the plan as a testament to improved relations between church officials and the protesters; the protesters are denouncing what they say was a lack of consultation with them about the plan, but say they are happy to share space with a group of Catholics in need and optimistic after an initial conversation with Vadana... WITL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2025933/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 17:35:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023696/posts BOSTON - More than 80 years ago, the Hook brothers started trucking their catch of lobsters from Maine and Canada to Boston's fish piers, selling them directly to the city's top restaurants. Ever since, four generations of Hooks have kept their seafood wholesale business in a squat wooden building with a corrugated steel roof, resisting multiple offers from developers as luxury hotels, gleaming office towers and the Big Dig highway project dwarfed and surrounded them. On Friday, a seven-alarm fire gutted their landmark waterfront location, causing $5 million in damage that included the loss of 60,000 pounds of lobster, but... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023696/posts#comment Fri, 30 May 2008 20:45:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2020785/posts The following letter was read at the meeting of the Parish Council of Holy Trinity Church, Boston, on 21 May 2008. The letter announced Sean Cardinal O'Malley's intent to close Holy Trinity Church effective 30 June 2008. His Eminence repeatedly speaks of "Holy Trinity German National Parish" and the German heritage but makes NO MENTION of the hundred or so souls who attend the extraordinary form every Sunday at 0900. (Note: On 22 April 2007, what was then the Indult Mass for the Archdiocese of Boston was moved from Holy Trinity to a suburban territorial parish 10 miles west of... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2020785/posts#comment Sat, 24 May 2008 18:47:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017096/posts Roberto "Kiko'' Pulido, the rogue Boston police officer who enlisted two fellow patrolman in a brazen scheme to escort trucks bringing cocaine into the city, was sentenced today to 26 years in federal prison by a judge who said the defendant had disgraced his badge. "The people who wear that badge have a sense of honor,'' US District Judge William G. Young said, staring at Pulido, the ringleader of one of the most notorious police corruption scandals in recent Boston history. "You are ... dead to that sense of honor.'' The Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017096/posts#comment Fri, 16 May 2008 22:50:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2015518/posts “Legal Dramedy”, is how Wikipedia defines the format of the TV series Boston Legal. Living TV describes the show as a “… critically acclaimed and Emmy Award-winning quirky legal drama …” That is a good summary of why I first became enamored with this brilliantly entertaining program. Unfortunately, it has become increasingly common to hear the production characterized as “shamelessly liberal”. With that, Boston Legal’s brilliance and entertainment value has continued to decline and its charm is rapidly fading for me. Ironically, in a recent episode, entitled “Tabloid Nation”, Boston Legal, itself, addresses my very concern. In that episode, during... http://afewdayswithfiggins.blogspot.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2015518/posts#comment Tue, 13 May 2008 23:20:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007996/posts Artist's flair makes names of victims hard to forget Email|Print|Single Page| Text size – + Globe Staff / The book has no title, no author, no explanatory words - just a few quotes from The Bible, and page after page of first names. Keith Robert Jeffrey Michael Michael Kim Curtis Richard Scott John Steven Peter Michael Jackie Robert Wayne Stephen Paul Linda Much ink has been spilled over the clergy sexual abuse crisis in the last six years, but this work is different: a hand-painted list of 1,476 men and women who have reported being sexually abused by a Catholic... Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007996/posts#comment Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:40:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006576/posts BOSTON (WBZ) ― WHDH Channel 7 announced Thursday that general manager Randi Goldklank is now undergoing medical treatment after an allegedly drunken tirade Sunday night that ended with her arrest at Logan Airport. "The unfortunate events of last Sunday night were unanticipated and Ms. Goldklank is deeply regretful," said Ed Ansin, president of Sunbeam Television Corp. in a prepared statement. Mike Carson, the station's previous general manager will take over on a temporary basis while Goldklank remains on administrative leave. According to a State Police report, Goldklank, 40, of Boston, threatened to put a trooper on TV and ruin his... WBZ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006576/posts#comment Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:08:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2005548/posts Anybody watching Boston Legal right now? First time i have seen this show. This lawyer is at the Supreme Court and is bashing the Conservatives. Not once doe's he point out a lib. This show always like this? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2005548/posts#comment Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:52:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004265/posts A doctor at the renowned Children's Hospital Boston has launched a new program to drug children to delay puberty so they can decide whether they want a male or a female body, according to a report today in the Boston Globe. Pediatric endocrinologist Norman Spack, 64, says he started the Gender Management Service Clinic because he found himself encountering 20-somethings who were "transgendered" and in good shape socially, "but they were having trouble getting their physique to conform to their identity. "I knew the 20-somethings could have better chances of passing if they were treated earlier," he said. "We don't... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004265/posts#comment Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:38:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2003503/posts Secular progressives, especially those in the Boston media, are having a field day dredging up the whole pedophile priest controversy here at its epicenter. While the mainstream media’s been giving us wall-to-wall all-Pope, all-the-time coverage, many here in the Boston area are well into their sixteenth minute of fame, and bashing the Pope for avoiding our city on his America tour. While he has publicly acknowledged the scandal, and now met with some of the victims, enough is not enough for these professional victims. "I acknowledge the pain of the Church in America is experiencing as a result of sexual... Outside The Wire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2003503/posts#comment Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:38:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2003129/posts WASHINGTON -- Pope Benedict XVI, in a dramatic move likely to alter forever the image of his pontificate, met this afternoon with five victims of clergy sexual abuse from Boston. The private meeting, which was first reported by the Globe this afternoon and has since been confirmed by the Vatican, was brokered by Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston. Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2003129/posts#comment Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:22:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002916/posts Federal authorities issued a flurry of subpoenas across the city yesterday as they launched a grand jury investigation of disability abuse in the Boston Fire Department, including whether dozens of firefighters faked on-the-job injuries to significantly enhance their pensions, according to several officials briefed on the probe. Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002916/posts#comment Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:15:28 GMT