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I watched the story of the 9 year old boy who "supposedly" was kidnapped from his home in Mattapan, than re-watched it over here.   Several things about the story seem fishy  and at this time we can only wait while the story is investigated by the police.  More then the story itself, what left the most questions in my mind was why were they showing video of this little boy?  Whatever happened to them  not showing the face of someone so young.  Maybe I'm wrong and it's only certain things but it didn't seem right picturing him being hustled from the police station and than having a microphone shoved in his face when in the car.  Maybe they couldn't find those wavy lines or something.

The 16 year old girl who "allegedly" suffocated her infant son with a Teddy Bear, is being held without bail at Framingham.  GOOD!  Your old enough to make a baby.  Your old enough to "allegedly" kill said baby.  Your old enough to do the time with the big girls.  She now says she was cohorsed into doing it.  Her live-in boy friend (who is not the father of the baby) with his neatly manicured eyebrows and baseball cap tilted perfectly to the side says he would have heard this event taking place.  He claims he's a light sleeper and no way she could have done this without him knowing.  Well maybe he knew?  The only crime this little baby committed was that it was sick and crying and this baby herself  couldn't handle it.  The law will take it's course and I say again, you want to play like a big girl you pay like a big girl!  BTW, Happy 17th Birthday.....

On December 12th, the new version of the Day the Earth Stood Still opens nation wide.  It looks like it will be a powerhouse of a movie and I for one am looking forward for this. 

In another time (1951), the orignal version of The Day The Stood Still was making it's run in theaters.   In real life other countries were making threats and trying to flex some muscles with the United States.  It was the time of the Korean conflict and soon the Soviet Union would try to make us blink.  Along comes this movie where a space ship from another planet lands on what was the Mall in Washington D.C.  

This little movie without it's special effects of 2008 shows what happens when people are quick to over react to something or someone that is different.   If you never have seen or even never heard of this movie how lucky for you that AMC will be showing it on 12/11 @ 8-10 PM,  and once more on 12/12 @ 3:30-5:30 PM.   This is a classic 4 star movie that coincides with the opening of the more modern and glitzier version.  Set the TIVO's or DVD's.  Get the Popcorn out, gather the kiddies around and sit and watch as a family.  This could even be turned into a valuable lesson about tolerance.  Enjoy!!!!

Some very well known and well respected journalist are comparing the events in Mumbai to the attacks in the U.S. on 9/11.   What happened in India was horrible.  I watched for 3 days as people were under siege in 2 major hotels and other spots around the city.  What India was left with after all was said and done was destruction and the death of almost 200 people and the totals may grow.   In the destruction the Taj Hotel which is over a hundred years old was a scene of the most bloodshedd.  My heart goes out to the family of the victims.  How could it not.  Now comes the duty of piecing the events and the finger pointing to who might be the blame.

With that being said I cringe at the words out of the mouths of  reporters on the scene saying this is India's 9/11.  4 Planes crashing into 4 different locations killing 3000, destroying two 110 story buildings and a large chunk of the Pentagon just doesn't compare to what happened in Mumbai.  Terrorism on any level and anywhere is terrible.  But the Magnitude of 9/11 is blazed in my brain forever.  90 countries lost citizens  in the attack.  Maybe it's because I live here and knew the Towers so well.   I may be wrong and I'm sure I'll hear about it, but this is my view.  Mumbai wasn't 9/11.

Boy I feel I am setting myself up for some controversy, and even some mean spirited remarks.  People who know me will know that I have covered a number of things,  sometimes I have the majority with me an sometimes not.  I don't no  on what side of the fence remarks will fall on this one but I feel compelled to at least discuss it.

I am talking about this retired Milford Veteran who the housing authority has told him to take down his Christmas display.  Now don't get me wrong, I think when people criticize Christmas and other holiday displays and say they shouldn't be there "I say get a life".  He says this was a tradition.  2 years is not a tradition.  His display was tired and worn and was also accompanied by 24 hour music.  During the Summer I have sat in my apartment and when the ice cream truck comes by with the music poring out of the truck.  Now this is only 5 or 10 min. of repetitive music and I want to throw something out my window.  This guy strings thousands of lights from his balcony and surround trees.  His electric bill is payed by the Milford Housing Authority.  I don't think this fits in the same category of when people protest about something in a town square.  His eye for a pretty decoration doesn't conform and that's that.  I live in a condo/rental and there are rules.  Notices are slipped under my door for several different reasons including what I can and can not display in my windows.  In the years that I live here, I have never got one complaint about the wreath on my door or the single candle in each of my windows. (I pay my own electric bill).  Others have adorned their windows with colored lights and never have I heard of complaints.  I would bet the cat on it that the problem probally started because of the music.  He played and example and said "it wasn't much louder, well maybe a tone".   These homes are close together and his connecting neighbors  probally couldn't take it anymore.  When you are in the comfort of your home and it becomes uncomfortable that's a problem.  I have a kid who practices his Saxophone in the apartment above me.  I may not like it, but the rules say as long as it is not after 10pm that's the breaks.  I live in a apartment and have for most of my years.  A certain amount of noise is expected.  If it goes beyond the expected I have been known to knock on a door.  This I think is a totally different problem and he has to go by what the people say.

The holiday season is upon us.  The economy stinks and retailers our doing everything to get us into their stores.  Gimmicks galore.  One retailer will be opening their doors at 4AM on Friday.  At 4AM on Friday I hope to be under the blankets and cozy.  I am an early riser, but it will take alot more than a $99.00 GPS or a $400.00 flat screen  TV out the door.  Will anyone be out there?  I guess they think someone will or they wouldn't bother opening their doors so early.  Even worse then that,  another major retailer is open on Thanksgiving Day.  Those poor employees who have to give up their Turkey Dinner and spend it behind a register.  I guess some people delay dinner for the football game but for a trip to that K-Store just doesn't sound right for some reason.  I'm guessing people will turn up, but I just ask why????

 I don't know what everyone is talking about.  I saw the picture and it is clear to me Chuck Turner wasn't excepting a bribe no indeed, that was a bailout......

Poor poor Tiger Woods.  GM in it's quest to cut corners dropped Tiger from their salary.   Tiger who had to sit out most of the 2008 tour due to knee surgery must be devastated.  I guess Tiger will have to rely on his earnings from Nike and Gillette.   In 2007 Tiger's earnings were about 100 million.  I for one think he is worth every penny and hope he is well enough to resume his game of golf.  He is enjoyable to watch and is one of the best sportsman there is.  The past season of golf was not nearly as fun to watch without him.  Please God oh please, let this surgery be good and get him back on the links again.  I hope his pain is gone and he is ready for Golf 2009.

NASA has helped us mere mortals on Earth with many a innovation and invention over their 50 year existence.  One of which is those shark skin swimming suits that make athletes glide through the water.  No it's not one of those things that have exactly helped someone like myself, but for those it does help they swear by it.  Weather prediction and California fires I'm told have been helped by  NASA satellite program.  How viewing a destructive weather pattern or fire has helped save lives or land I don't totally see it. I guess it's good to know it's coming.  I joke, of course it's better to know it's coming. If you choose not to get out of the way, that's your problem.   Where would we be without our cell phones? 

The latest thing NASA is working on is converting Urine and sweat into drinkable water.  To some it may sound a bit gross, and I don't exactly relish the idea.  Is this a good idea?  You bet your sweet bippy it is.  Let's say the Earths total water supply was in a 5 gal.  tank.  97.5% of that is ocean water and to salty to drink.  Then you have the glaciers and underground water that is not drinkable.  So this 5 gal tank of water only 5 drops, yes 5 drops is drinkable. 

I for one will not be taking a long trip to Mars or Ur Anus in the not to distant future, but if travel like this will ever be even considered a new drinkable water source will have to become available.  How long do you think 5 drops of water will serve the Earths population.  This thing NASA is working on may one day be able to convert our salty oceans to drinkable water.  It is for certain that we need to think about where our future water supply is going to come from.  Don't be surprised in the not to distant future we go into our nieborhood 7-11 for a nice cold refreshing bottle of PEE RRIER.  It's bottled at the source.

When you sit down to your Thanksgiving dinner and your passing the squash and the green bean casserole, I hope thoughts of Sarah Palin don't remind you of that 20 pound bird that graces your table.  First the vision of hundreds of turkeys packed into a space that would make the best of us a little claustrophobic.  Standing in their own waste and that of other's.  As the Gov. spoke to reporters what was going on behind her was to put it mildly discusting.  When told by a reporter she said that was all right and continued the interview.  Now don't get me wrong, we know our food doesn't always have happy endings from production to table, but we don't need to see animals slaughtered  in front of  us.  I see the campaign trail has not left her any wiser.  With a multi million dollar book deal just signed and wearing a $300.00 scarf I find she has the class of a dumb hick Alaskan.  So at the table this year I hope you sit down to Grace and bow your head and thank God she won't be sworn in as our next Vice President.  Meatloaf anyone?

Like a house of cards one by one Boston politicians are falling.  This time Chuck Turner with his hand in the cookie jar.  No it wasn't being stuffed into his bra, but the $1000.00 changed hands in a swift handshake.  How many more will come tumbling down?  Mr. Turners remarks...."The FBI is corrupt".  That may be so, but now they are joined by the company of Dianne Wilkerson and Chuck Turner. UT OH, Who's next?

I was reading Joe Battenfeld's blog on Dianne Wilkerson (Bye, Bye Wilkerson).  As I read the responses, I decided I would write one also.  I found I was going on and on and decided it needed a blog of it's own.  Don't get me wrong, I don't want this to sound that I condone what she did in any way.  As a matter of fact, I wrote a piece when the story first broke saying how discusting what she did was. One of the responses In Joe's piece started  "JUST ANOTHER TYPICAL LIBERAL".   Like in the history of the world there has never been a crooked Conservative Republican.  Anyone remember the lines "I AM NOT A CROOK"?   I am sure if I Google crooked Republicans I would get hundreds of pages to go through.

Again what Dianne Wilkerson did was terrible and may even deserve a prison sentence, but now is not the time to gloat.  Those people in her district put their trust in her.  For many years she has done good for them.  What makes a person go bad?  Who knows...Everyone thinks they are going to be the one that gets away with a crime. But to pin this on ALL LIBERALS, is certainly not right either.  God knows how many other's out there will fall from this and other crimes against government.

In a strange way, this reminds me of the Priest Scandal.  One day it was only one Priest who was diddling with boys, the next the whole Church fell.   It's a sad day, when we vote for someone and they let us down.  It has happened before and you can be sure it will happen again.  This crime and other's are  equal opportunity,  Democrat and Republican, Liberal and Conservative. 

One other observation if I may.  Joe you throw these things out here and people fight back and forth.  I find that rarely if ever do you come back to respond to any of the chatter going on.  It's almost like you are sitting back laughing at us.  I hope that is not true.

Who's more at fault?  Tom Brady or Fox?  Sitting at a window seat in a North End Restaurant with latest flame Giselle is not the smartest move for him or anyone with the notoriety he has.  Sucking face and chomping down dinner like a silent movie just makes it a perfect combination for a good barf.  Please Tom the next time ask for a sit in the back.  Dummy!

In these days of hard times and lay offs, why would anyone want to jeopardize their job.   It seems that's just what a cemetery worker has done.  He was caught on camera pumping  gas into his van at work.  Cameras also caught him drinking down 2 beers while at lunch.  As a foreman his job was pretty easy.  He'd delegate to other workers what to do.  Part of his job was to protect those very tanks from thievery from other employees.  I guess his 80 thousand  dollar a year job was not enough.  Now Paul Hamm finds himself  out of a job.  That's what happens when you are a PIG!

November 22, 1963, I just turned 10.  Mrs. Beck my 4th grade teacher walked into the room with tears in her eyes telling us we'd be going home the President was shot.  For 3 days I  listened and watched with my family Walter Cronkite taking us from that moment in Dallas till JFK was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.  Our Country was in mourning.  In that same span right before our very eyes Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald.  I think that was  a tragedy in a sense that we would never really no the truth.   We might have still never known the real truth but now it was for certain.  Who could forget the blood stained dress of Mrs. Kennedy as Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as our President aboard Air Force One.   A young widow and 2 children without a father.  Last year when I wrote a similar piece on this subject, people felt compelled to tell how he got what he deserved.  All political beliefs aside,  no one deserves to have their brains blown into their wife's lap.   If it were to happen to any other President whether I liked them or not it would be no less of a tragedy.  On this day I will remember John Jr. also, and how he played in the Oval Office who's life was also  tragically cut short.  Like it or not, the Kennedy's have left their mark and have also done alot of good for the USA.