Just after 4:30, the Lawrence police radio sounded: ‘All right, get every civilian out of this area.’
Picked the signal up again on the front page of the B section:
Lawrence, Andover complete recounts of Third District ballots
In Lawrence, ballots were pulled into the gym of the Guilmette School on Saturday for a recount of the Third Congressional District’s Democratic primary. The deadline is Monday to finish the hand tally of 89,000 ballots across the 37 towns and communities in the Merrimack Valley-based district.
WTF?!!!
So they were doing the recount the whole time everyone was being told to evacuate the area?
What, has the thing been fixed and they were worried about riots?
What was this all about, and if you expect me not to question what is so often cover story crap in all things big and small, sorry. Those times are gone forever. You blew it on Iraq, boys. Hope it was worth it.
Most Lawrence residents can return home Sunday morning
I'm told that "so far have found no evidence that the disaster was the result of criminal conduct, and there are some signs of life getting back to normal."
I don't know what happened over there, but that stinks. Yesterday they were telling us the investigation has just begun, but they have quickly moved to absolve anyone of criminal conduct.
As for life getting back to normal (sigh, ugh, exasperated exhale, sharp inhale, huff puff, sigh).....
“There are a lot of things that we can’t do right now in Lawrence, but we can feed one another and we can worship God together and pray for one another, so I’m very happy to be able to do that.”
Why are they dragging him into this, unless the eventual cause is going to be God's will.
Either that or all these religious leaders that collaborate with government need to make sure the flock is "thinking right."
Lawrence residents meet with Columbia Gas at claims center set up in library
I'm told that “at the very least, we’re trying to get everyone a gift card for food, [but] haven’t received any assertions of when people might be able to return home safely.”
They said today at some point.
People were crying because they “don’t have stability for the kids right now [and] don’t even feel safe going back home. [The] daughter was panicking. She’s 5 and just learned about 9/11 and she thought it was a terrorist attack.”
(Blog editor is flabbergasted by the over-the-top, jump-the-shark, waving of a child who couldn't possibly understand that event in its context, what 5-year-old could and how do you really explain it, all so they can toss out that mental trigger less than a week after the anniversary. Please tell me they are not making this up)
Anyway, "she keeps thinking she smells gas, she said, but is finding strength through her faith."
Speaking of higher authorities:
Locksmiths’ skills come in handy as officials enter homes to check gas lines
Only one person complained about the unwarranted entry of property.
You can trust the state troopers, right?
It's not like they would ever steal anything, and if they did they could blame street criminals. Who is going to question that?
Old City Hall damaged in fire
Man seriously burned lighting fire pit
Town lifts boil water order
I'm going to simmer down and return to page A1:
Revere man killed in shark attack at Wellfleet beach
My ears always perk up when this is a top story since it is so reminiscent of the fateful summer in 2001, the -- (blog editor must compose himself) -- last days of a certain innocence. JFK was only the beginning.
So what something wicked this way comes? Mushroom cloud over Chicago? An Iranian bomb(!!) smuggled in by Syrians? The edge of darkness indeed with the enemy within.
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Death toll rises to 12 as Florence pours on the rain
Inside there are torrents of water in towns across the Carolinas — and a guy with a boat.
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At least 16 dead as Typhoon Mangkhut wreaks havoc in Philippines
Protesters shut Afghan election offices as political crisis brews
Such a NYT nothing. An excuse to stay, political instability (caused by us, but that's okay. Fool the people).
Britain proposes major easing of divorce procedures
At least 9 dead after pair of attacks
Police arrest Mubarak’s sons
#MeToo reaches into the monastery in China
A charismatic monk who was fast-tracked for success has been accused of lewdness toward nuns and financial misconduct.
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Secrets from basement of France’s presidential palace shared
Rwanda frees opposition leader, 2,100 others from prison
Wasn't France involved in that?
I suppose we have a wait of 50-years or so until there is official confirmation, huh?
Fraying ties with Trump put Jim Mattis’s fate in doubt
Bolton is taking over. Looks like Shelly bought himself a presidency.
United States calls UN meeting on undermining North Korea sanctions
I will give you one guess who it is.
(Answer: Russia. And China)
A new era demands new ‘isms’
Makes 'em look like Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, calls 'em the 21st-century Axis.
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Is the Dallas officer who shot an unarmed man telling a tall tale?
Experts are split as to the credibility of her story, and since when has cop credibility come into question in this country?
It's because she's a woman, isn't it?
Border Patrol agent suspected of killing 4 women
He's a Jack the Ripper type, as they are all prostitutes that gave him syphilis.
Missing girl’s body discovered
Shipwreck found in Lake Huron
Marijuana bundles wash up on beach
I don't like the sea air.
Oh, that financial aid phishing (by, you guessed it, Russia!) is a pipeline to prison (maybe they can go to work for City Hall).
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Husband and wife killed in plane crash in Woburn
Meanwhile, on the ground, an MBTA official wants changes and the Globe has some ideas on how to upgrade the subway.
I shudder at the future for Izaq while wondering why they can't even find a grandmother.
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I'm told there is an abundance of food unprecedented in human history that justify aggressive measures so let the robot do the shopping.
You know, humans do have a sense of when things happened and in which order and scientists think they know why:
"Can new faces change Washington’s bad habits?" by Stephen Kinzer September 16, 2018
A PRIDE OF POLITICAL LIONS is approaching Washington. Beginning in January, the House of Representatives will count four young women of color among its members. All have crashed through daunting barriers and see themselves as representing the downtrodden. They are likely to emerge as a political force in Congress. All four of them support causes that are stigmatized as radical, from single-payer health insurance to a guaranteed minimum wage to abolition of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Their willingness to break with established consensus on domestic issues raises the exciting possibility that they will be just as iconoclastic when it comes to foreign policy. None of these women made her name by working on global issues. In Congress, however, they are poised to challenge deep orthodoxies that shape Washington’s bipartisan militarist consensus.
The biggest celebrity in this “Pride of Four” is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old community activist of Puerto Rican descent who in July defeated a veteran Democrat to win a congressional nomination in New York. Then in August, two Muslim women who were serving as state legislators followed with almost equally surprising primary victories: Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, a daughter of Palestinian immigrants, and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, who was born in Somalia and spent four years in a refugee camp before emigrating to the United States at the age of 12. This month Ayanna Pressley, an African-American city councilor, upset a 20-year House veteran to win a congressional nomination in Boston. One of the four, Omar, faces token opposition in November and the other three face none. They will be part of an entering class like few that Congress has ever seen.
Three of these four congresswomen-to-be have already flouted the unwritten but longstanding rules that are supposed to shape debate about Israel and Palestine. One of them, Tlaib, delivered her victory speech while draped in a Palestinian flag, drew cheers when she proclaimed that “a lot of my strength comes from being Palestinian,” and promised to “fight back against every racist and oppressive structure that needs to be dismantled.” Omar, who wears a colorful headscarf, calls Israel “an apartheid regime” that has “hypnotized the world,” and supports the Palestinian “right to return” — a position that may never before have had open support in Congress. Ocasio-Cortez tweeted “This is a massacre” after Israeli soldiers killed dozens of Palestinian protesters in Gaza this summer, and then added pointedly: “Democrats can’t be silent about this anymore.”
Unlike the other three women of color who are about to enter Congress, Pressley has given her new constituents little indication of her views on foreign policy. She declined to be interviewed on the subject last week. During her campaign she shied away from criticism of Israel and refused to commit herself to supporting a withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, or to opposing deployment of troops in Syria. Yet she has pledged to support a bill that would end American support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, and another that would end aid to Israel that pays for “violent military detention and abuse of Palestinian children.”
That bill, the first of its kind in Congress, was proposed by a female member, Representative Betty McCollum of Michigan. Another woman, Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, has become a consistent voice opposing American involvement in foreign wars. Representative Barbara Lee of California, who cast the only vote against the 2001 resolution authorizing our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, is still serving and remains a fierce critic of American intervention abroad. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois and Zoe Lofgren of California have repeatedly called for less interventionist foreign policies. These women will greet the four lionesses who are due to arrive on Capitol Hill in January. Together they could form a potent group that presents foreign policy as a feminist issue.
These legislators are committed to health care, education and housing programs that would be hugely expensive. The United States has more than enough money to pay for them — but only if it stops devoting so much of its wealth to weaponry and war. Decisions that Congress makes about foreign policy also directly affect society in areas ranging from climate change to domestic abuse. At home, spending tax money on the military increases social inequality, which has especially pernicious effects on women. In countries where we fight or support wars, women and girls always suffer most.
More female voices on foreign policy hardly guarantee more voices for peace. The list of American women who have promoted foreign wars, including Hillary Clinton, Madeline Albright, Condoleezza Rice, Samantha Power, Susan Rice, and Nikki Haley, makes that clear. Yet the four who are now about to enter Congress may prove to be peacemongers. If they recognize that the United States cannot be transformed until we change our approach to the world, they should demand that change. In the jungle, lionesses do the hunting. Let’s hope that when Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, Omar, and Pressley get to Washington, they’ll set their sights on our war-fixated foreign policy.
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Looks like they have a date with history, and speaking of pirates:
On this day, "in 1982, the massacre of between 1,200 and 1,400 Palestinian men, women, and children at the hands of Israeli-allied Christian Phalange militiamen began in west Beirut’s Sabra and Shatila refugee camps."
Related:
Mass. delegation must step up for Palestinians
Perhaps that is the answer, although I have my reservations about the opportunity.
Also see:
"Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians, one of them an 11-year-old boy, and wounded at least 248 others taking part on Friday in weekly protests at the fortified Gaza Strip border, Palestinian medical officials said....."
Yeah, "the Israeli military said it used force necessary to repel 13,000 Palestinians who massed at several points at the fence."
The Globe stopped covering those protests months ago, and gets back to arguing over race and gender. I guess the sniping assassins and military aggression were looking bad in the face of the flaming kites and balloons air defense offered by the Palestinians protesting the deplorable conditions under which they suffer. They have protested every Friday since March. The AmeriKan pre$$ simply cut off the coverage.
Oh, yeah, enjoy the game. Wouldn't want those gas leaks to ruin kickoff for you.
