They draw blood right from the start:
"Elizabeth Warren’s DNA results don’t silence attacks against her" by Annie Linskey Globe Staff October 16, 2018
WASHINGTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren’s acceptance of President Trump’s DNA dare triggered an avalanche of media attention Monday for the potential Democratic presidential contender, who used the spotlight to highlight her Oklahoma roots and portray herself as the victim of racist attacks.
She chose that over truth?
Yeah, the Globe HAS seemed very high school lately.
By releasing genetic evidence of a distant Native American ancestor in her family tree, she sought to transform doubts about her claims to native heritage into an attribute. She launched a coordinated offensive by needling Trump on Twitter and in videos and by stealing the spotlight from the press-hungry White House, but Republicans found ways to keep mocking her, cherry picking from her DNA test results. The results showed Warren likely had a Native American ancestor six to 10 generations in the past. Seizing on the worst case, Republicans noted a full native ancestor 10 generations back would make her as little as 1/1024 Indian.
Before I let Maury read the DNA test, I want to comment on the subtle wordsmithing bias there.
A press-hungry White House?
Hardly. They want you to go away.
Then she says the Republicans are cherry picking the worst case scenario.
Okay.
Related:
"For Senator Elizabeth Warren, the truth may be more complicated. “The misconception here is that any single test provides a definitive answer, and that’s not accurate at all,” said Rick W. A. Smith, an anthropological geneticist at Dartmouth who researches genomics and tribal sovereignty."
That's a contradiction in terms because the truth is not complicated at all; it's people trying to obfuscate and obscure it that make it complicated.
So the Globe is already walking back their out front promotion of her presidency, and as for the new explanation, whatever its truth(!!), the Globe says here is all you need to know about Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test.
“Democrat Elizabeth Warren found someone to say she — might be — 1/1,024 Native American,” said Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican Party. “In what world does that give you the right to claim minority status?”
Trump dismissed all of it Monday morning. “Who cares? Who cares?” Trump said before heading to Florida to survey hurricane damage. “She owes the country an apology. What’s her percentage, 1/1000th?” Trump said later, in Florida.
Kellyanne Conway, a top aide to the president, shrugged off the test as “junk science” in a CNN interview, though she acknowledged that she hasn’t seen the report.
Why did she bring climate into it?
Other conservatives were sharing anti-Warren memes, including one showing a mock up of a faux presidential logo with Warren’s name in bold blue over “1/2020th.”
I'm not against her and am likely to vote for her; however, she is acting like she has the Senate race all sewn up. That's how Coakley and Clinton found themselves in trouble.
Despite the blowback, Warren’s move revealed the sophistication of her potential presidential operation and her own determination to get past the questions about her Native American heritage before she decides whether she’s going to run for president. She’s been dogged by her previously unsubstantiated claims to Native American heritage since her 2012 Senate campaign.
Look, I know the Globe is on the warpath for her as president and that's fine. No sense hiding it anymore.
The controversy arose in the campaign when GOP operatives found Harvard Crimson stories quoting a Harvard Law School spokesman referring to Warren as a Native American law professor, and holding her up as an example of diversity at the school. She was unable, during the campaign to substantiate these claims. Warren did formally identify as Native American after being hired at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard, but a Globe investigation found that she was viewed as a white woman by hiring committees at both places.
She is lucky she didn't claim Asian heritage (you know, the globalist rulers who are trained there expected the Asians to be a bunch of subdued work slaves, not challenge for control of the thing).
Warren released a roughly five-minute video so carefully choreographed it was similar to a typical presidential launch message. The video, which was played repeatedly on cable news Monday, showed Warren sitting on a porch in Oklahoma and talking with her three brothers.
One is a Republican, and it is a well-kept secret that Liz was once registered that way, too.
As part of her rollout, Warren sent out a blizzard of tweets aimed at needling the president on his favorite social media platform.
Oh, I'm so looking forward to a juvenile campaign in 2020!
Warren has used the weeks before her midterm election to try to resolve a slew of lingering questions about her background. Over the summer, she released hundreds of pages of her personnel files to the Globe showing that she was viewed as a white woman by every law school that hired her. She recently posted 10 years worth of tax documents online, and now she has taken the extraordinary step of having her DNA examined. It bolsters her family lore that O.C. Sarah Smith, her great-great-great-grandmother had at least partial Indian blood.....
So you can call her Pocahontas and now it is Trump’s turn for a DNA test.
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Already getting stuck in the mire.
With right whales at risk of extinction, regulators consider drastic action that could affect lobstermen
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Oddly enough, I'm none of those things.
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"Episcopal Church confronts past role in sexual exploitation" Associated Press October 16, 2018
NEW YORK — With striking displays of candor, the Episcopal Church is acknowledging the potency of the #MeToo movement by officially lamenting its past role in sexual exploitation and pledging steps to combat it.
I'm Catholic, but never suffered abuse (thank whoever) and excommunicated myself a long time ago. My Sunday morning space is here.
The Protestant denomination’s national convention this summer included an emotional session at which first-person accounts of abuse by clergy and other church personnel were read aloud by bishops of the same gender as the victims — six men, six women. Dioceses nationwide are now seeking to gather and share similar stories from victims in their local church communities.
That process of story sharing has been particularly dramatic in the Diocese of New York, where Bishop Andrew Dietsche released a blunt pastoral letter on Sept. 11.
Strange timing on the release.
It described the most famous of his predecessors, the late Paul Moore Jr., as a ‘‘serial predator’’ who engaged in ‘‘long-time patterns’’ of sexual exploitation and abuse. Moore, a bishop of the diocese from 1972 to 1989, became one of the nation’s foremost liberal Christian activists. He supported the ordination of women and gays while assailing racism, corporate avarice, and various US military policies.
How sad that an antiwar voice had to be a perv.
A #MeToo task force formed by the diocese has set up a Google Docs program through which victims can anonymously submit accounts of their experiences.
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"Government spends millions to guard Confederate cemeteries" Associated Press October 16, 2018
ALTON, Ill. — After last year’s deadly clash between white nationalists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Va., the federal government quietly spent millions of dollars to hire private security guards to stand watch over at least eight Confederate cemeteries, documents from the Department of Veterans Affairs show.
The security effort, which runs around the clock at all but one of those VA-operated cemeteries, was aimed at preventing the kind of damage that befell Confederate memorials across the United States in the aftermath of the Charlottesville violence.
I'm not a Confederate, was before my time, but I'm seeing the argument for secession in a different light.
Not on a racial basis, but a political one. The Kavanaugh hearings proved to me that the only way to save the United States is to break it up into little pieces. Then New England would become its own nation, or we could join Canada. If certain parts like Connecticut wanted to break away and join New York or something, fine. The Southeast goes its way, the Rockies, the Upper Midwest, the Left Coast, you get my point.
The important thing would be that the war machine known as Washington D.C. would no longer exist. The swamp would truly have been drained!
None of the guarded cemeteries has been vandalized since the security was put in place. Records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show that the VA has spent nearly $3 million on the cemetery security since August 2017. Another $1.6 million is budgeted for fiscal 2019 to pay for security at all Confederate monuments, which could include other sites.
Fine. The dead should be respected and allowed to rest in peace.
Most of the protected cemeteries are in the North, far removed from the Confederacy. Vast numbers of the buried soldiers were prisoners of war who were held nearby. Many succumbed to smallpox and other diseases. The cemetery monuments are typically simple and solemn, serving more to acknowledge the deceased than to celebrate the slaveholding nation they defended.
Oh, so if they were prisoners of war up here and were starved, tortured, and sickened to death, you know, honor 'em (another unexamined chapter of AmeriKan history, btw).
Btw, I haven't heard anyone complaining these last 100 years when all the good old boys were falling in the wars based on lies, either.
That doesn't mean I'm taking the side of the Confederates. It just means the received history is not as blue and gray as they make it seem.
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Btw, I'm not a terrorist, either:
"Republican Super PAC uses specter of terrorism as advertising weapon" by Jennifer Steinhauer New York Times October 16, 2018
LAKESIDE, Calif. — In this congressional district just east of San Diego, a Christian Democrat, Ammar Campa-Najjar, has been portrayed by his Republican opponent as an Islamic terrorist sympathizer.
What is he, antiwar?
The same allegation has been tossed at Democratic candidates in Ohio and New Jersey, and a challenger to an embattled Republican incumbent in the suburbs of Richmond, Va., has been attacked for her part-time teaching gig at a Muslim high school.
It has been 17 years since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but in an era when President Trump has made fear of immigrants central to his political reign, Republican ad makers have seized on terrorism as a weapon to wield against Democrats in the midterm races.
I had to do a quick look up to see the byline and (no surprise) it's NYT(ha!).
What you notice beyond that is their downplaying of 9/11 and the wars that have followed and are still going on today.
I suppose endless war based on lies and self-created, directed, and funding proxies called enemies is no longer an issue, huh?
Just the new normal and a fact of life, 'eh?
The ads — largely produced by the Congressional Leadership Fund, a Super PAC associated with House Speaker Paul Ryan — have frequently been criticized by fact checkers and national security groups as truth-stretching digital irruptions designed to rattle residents in districts where normally safe Republicans feel the hooves of disenchanted voters stomping toward them.
This is the same paper that said Hillary Clinton was a lock for president.
Btw, thank God that corrupt corporate puke Ryan is leaving.
“Republicans are using terrorism because they believe national security is a winning issue for them,” said Nathan Gonzales, editor of Inside Elections, a nonpartisan race analysis organization.
“It’s part of a broader strategy to plant doubt in the minds of voters who are looking for a change,” he said, adding, “If Republicans can discredit and destroy these Democratic challengers, then they can hold down some of their losses.”
Harsh ads that push the boundaries of accuracy have long been a staple of campaigns in both parties, but the terrorism-related ads are the most striking in a slew of negative, sometimes mean-spirited messages unleashed by Republicans this fall.
Of course, the Trump-hate coming from the left is OK.
Republicans have been only marginally successful in leveraging the usual tools available during an economic boom, like bragging about low unemployment, tax cuts, and a new trade deal, and Trump’s unpopularity in many suburban districts has some Republicans pulling out every sharp knife in their roll, hoping their cuts will redefine the Democrats as a menace.
Considering the way their side has been acting, yeah!
I mean, look at the New York Times here. They are impLYING that Republicans are some sort of Jason Voorhees character from the Friday the 13th movies!
The ad makers do not deny this, saying all is fair in love, war, and politics.
And Supreme Court nominations as well as outing CIA agents (Scooter Libby, remember?).
Super PACs supporting Democrats have produced some harsh ads of their own: A gun safety group supporting Jason Crow, who is running against Representative Mike Coffman in Colorado, put together a tough spot that evoked a school shooting in the state, but they have largely stuck to attacking the tax overhaul. Democrats insist the terrorism ads are acts of desperation.
Yeah, but the NYT is going to minimize, excuse, and defend that kind of thing.
Any wonder why I'm so, so sick of them?
“Republicans do not know how to run against this cycle’s unique crop of Democratic candidates, and they are resorting to despicable, dishonest attacks,” said Meredith Kelly, a spokeswoman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “The reality is that voters know about these Democrats’ records of service and stellar résumés.”
Yeah, we sure do!
Republican Super PACs have traditionally used generic policy messages to attack Democratic House candidates, hammering away at them on issues like their support for the health care law. The GOP’s greatest recurring hit — linking Representative Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader and one-time speaker, to every Democrat who breathes — is once again getting airtime, but this year, Republican campaign officials said, the Congressional Leadership Fund used focus groups to determine what kinds of specific attacks on opposing candidates would resonate with voters, or show up on negative local news reports.
The anti-Islamic ones strike some of their targets as particularly insidious.
In Ohio, Representative Steve Chabot is tying his challenger, Aftab Pureval, to terrorism because Pureval once worked at a law firm that settled terrorism-related lawsuits against Libya; he was not directly involved in the settlements, which were approved by Congress.
That's typical for a campaign.
In California, Representative Duncan Hunter, who is under federal indictment for misuse of campaign funds, has used the specter of terrorism to target Campa-Najjar, whose paternal grandfather, Muhammad Youssef al-Najjar, was involved with the plan to murder Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Germany. Campa-Najjar is a Christian who grew up in a Mexican-American community, and he has repeatedly distanced himself from that wing of his family.
“It’s a whisper campaign,” Campa-Najjar said in an interview in a taco restaurant here. “One guy was cleared by the FBI to work in the White House,” he said, referring to his time in the executive office under President Obama. “The other was indicted by the FBI.”
Must be why the print version cut it.
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Trump just undercut the health care issue, too, while the Globe gives you a look at the local face of Trump’s campaign against migrant children, those still suffering the stigma of child sexual abuse, as Walsh rips the proposal to make it harder for immigrants to get green cards.
More ads you will see in the next few weeks:
"Trump focus of ads — both positive and negative" by Matt Viser Globe Staff July 28, 2018
I didn't give a look-see until after the turn-in, and he now works at the Washington ComPost.
WASHINGTON — President Trump may not be on the ballot this November, but he’s dominating the airwaves as the election turn into a referendum on the incumbent president.
I don't think so.
Kavanaugh changed it to a straight party line vote.
From the deserts of Arizona to the suburbs in Pennsylvania, from the fields of Wisconsin to the land of Montana, the conversation, like just about everything in politics post-2015, is largely dominated by a singular force: Trump. Trump! TRUMP!!
Sitting presidents often play a prominent role in midterm elections, particularly the first one after their election, but what’s unusual this year is both parties citing the president as a rallying cry in their advertising.
And who make$ out?
The 2018 election will deliver a personal verdict on the polarizing commander in chief [with] issues are often taking a back seat to appeals to raw voter emotions about the outsized personality in the Oval Office.
In 2010, as Obama’s popularity sank, almost no Democratic candidates that year ran ads tying themselves to him. The same thing played out in the 2014 elections, when Obama was almost never mentioned in Democratic ads.
He destroyed the Democratic Party, all for his own narcissism, yet he is still nostalgically longed for by the Democrats!
It also makes you wonder HOW DID HE WIN in 2012?
In 2002, mentions of the president were also lopsided, but in a manner shaped by the atypical environment following a major terrorist attack on the United States. President George W. Bush had several dozen Republican candidates to the White House, where ads were cut with them walking and talking solemnly with him at a time when Bush’s personal popularity was at its zenith and Democrats were reluctant to attack a wartime president.
And they stayed quiet about Obama for eight long years.
Enter the most disruptive president in modern history, and historic patterns on the airwaves are scrambled.
“This is the perfect storm,” said Ken Goldstein, a professor at the University of San Francisco who has done extensive research on political advertising.
The issues that are bubbling up are immigration, tax reform, health insurance, Pelosi, “but Trump is clearly far and away the biggest focus.”
The only Democrat to run an ad favorable to Trump was Senator Jon Tester, who is running for reelection in a state that voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2016.
“Washington’s a mess,” Tester says in the ad. “But that’s not stopping me from getting bills to help Montana signed into law by President Trump.” He then cites a list of 13 pieces of legislation that he has gotten passed under Trump.
Looks like the Dems will be losing seats in the Senate then.
Did it ever dawn on his advertisers that the viewer might be sitting there, looking at a sitting senator, and thinking, "Yeah, and your ad just described part of the problem?"
I mean, if it's a mess down there.... ?
While Trump is all over the TV, he is increasingly showing up in the flesh. He has campaigned in Tennessee, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, and Indiana since May, with plans to be in Florida on Tuesday. His own campaign fund and the Republican National Committee are transferring $4 million each to House and Senate committee leaders in their bid to maintain control of Congress.
All that cash will contribute to a big spike in advertising spending that is already underway.....
Time to change the channel (pun intended).
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Who$e running those ads?
Meanwhile, Trump backed down on healthcare (an abrupt reversal) and is taking it out on kids, but they got even and then some.
Now they are in the unusual position of supporting a proclamation by former president Barack Obama, in direct opposition with timber interests that Trump vowed to defend.
It's total disorder over there as Trump caves on one issue after another.
He's backpedaling all over the place and it still won't be enough to keep him in power.
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"Woman is fired after video shows her blocking a black man from his condo" by Melissa Gomez New York Times October 15, 2018
A black man arrived at the entrance to the building where he lives in St. Louis late Friday night only to find himself blocked by a white neighbor who demanded proof he lived there.
“Please move, ma’am,” the man, D’Arreion Toles, says in a video he recorded of the encounter, which shows the woman with her dog on a leash standing in the doorway at the condominium complex, the Elder Shirt Lofts.
“I can,” she responds. “Do you live here?”
“I’ve already answered that question,” Toles, 24, replies as he continues to try to get in. “Excuse me,” but the woman, Hilary Brooke Mueller, refused to move as she continued to ask Toles what unit he lived in and to see his key fob. When he declined to tell her, she remained in his path.
“If you want to come into my building — ” she begins to say in the video.
“It’s not your building, you’re not the owner,” Toles says, getting past her. “Excuse me.”
Toles posted videos of the episode on his Facebook page Saturday and they quickly spread on social media, where the then-unidentified woman was referred to as “Apartment Patty.”
Over the weekend, Mueller’s employer, Tribeca-STL, which manages real estate elsewhere in the city, said in a statement on its website that it had reviewed the video and fired her. Tribeca does not own the building where Toles and Mueller live.
“The Tribeca-STL family is a minority-owned company that consists of employees and residents from many racial backgrounds,” officials with the company, an apartment complex in St. Louis, said. “We are proud of this fact and do not and never will stand for racism or racial profiling at our company.”
Toles said Sunday that about 30 minutes after he got into his unit, a police officer knocked on his door and told him that Mueller felt “uncomfortable” about Toles being there. He said he told the officer that he was renting the unit and that he had shown Mueller his key fob. Mueller could not be reached to comment. The Metropolitan Police Department in St. Louis said in an e-mail Monday that it responded to a 911 call that “was made because the caller did not know if the male subject was a tenant.”
It was the latest known instance of a white person caught on video confronting — and sometimes calling the police on — a black person performing everyday activities, such as baby-sitting, eating lunch or going to the pool.
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I'm neither black nor a woman.
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Nor am I British:
"‘Shocking and abhorrent’ abuse rampant in UK Parliament, report says" by Ellen Barry New York Times October 15, 2018
LONDON — A scathing new report on Britain’s House of Commons released on Monday describes a culture of bullying, abuse, and sexual harassment “as embedded as it is shocking,” where complaints of mistreatment are typically muffled by “deference, subservience, acquiescence, and silence.”
The inquiry, led by a former high court judge, Dame Laura Cox, was commissioned in March, after a BBC report found that harassment complaints were often batted away by employees trained to protect the interests of senior staff members.
Among the legislators named in the March BBC report was Speaker John Bercow, the chair of the House of Commons commission, which oversees the administration of the House. Bercow, a flamboyant, foghorn-voiced Conservative who has occupied the post since 2009, has denied the allegations.
Though Cox did not specifically address Bercow in her report, she wrote that “the core, cultural context” must be changed, and that doing so would most likely require a generational turnover.
They mean vote Labor, right?
“I find it difficult to envisage how the necessary changes can be successfully delivered, and the confidence of the staff restored, under the current senior House administration,” she wrote.
They have a Paul Ryan, too?
Complaints about mistreatment in the British Parliament have percolated for years, in part owing to the vast power asymmetry between lawmakers and the young staff members who surround them. Employees have no independent personnel body to appeal to with complaints, and are instead told to inform party whips, in-house disciplinarians notorious for stockpiling compromising information for use in later negotiations.
Same as a Capitol Hill page, which turned out to be hidden sex rings much of the time.
Last year, following revelations about sexual misconduct by the Hollywood power broker Harvey Weinstein, women came forward with a dam-burst of allegations about the situation in the House of Commons, making allegations that ranged from unwanted touching and sexual remarks to kissing and groping.
He is already weaseling out of it, and I suspect so will these British scum.
Around a dozen members of Parliament came under investigation. The first secretary of state, Damian Green, a close ally of Prime Minister Theresa May, was found to have breached the ministerial code of conduct and was forced to resign from the Cabinet in December.
Cox’s report, which was based on information from more than 200 people, mostly current House staff members, described a clubby atmosphere in which lawmakers and senior staff members “regard themselves as a special breed and as an elite,” and think little of publicly deriding lower-ranking employees. Only six of the respondents, she writes, reported that they had never been mistreated.
It's a sickness with the ruling cla$$.
“Some of the allegations involved shocking or abhorrent behavior, which would evoke outrage in any place of work, but which has profound implications in the House of Commons,” the report says.
Female employees described “frequent sexual innuendos, lewd comments or sexual gestures, or women repeatedly being asked questions about their sex lives, or about their personal lives generally, which they found offensive and humiliating.” Others said they were repeatedly propositioned or touched inappropriately.
That is where my printed paper took its hands off you.
Complaints, the report said, were often dismissed by senior staff members, described by one respondent as “people who don’t want to rock the boat, people who want to tell you their own perspectives about being previously bullied themselves, as if it’s supposed to make you feel better.”
One respondent, who took a job in Parliament after working in other organizations, described being “shocked by the almost godlike status accorded to MPs, who must always be treated with kid gloves, and shocked by the level of deference of staff, which fell into the obsequious category more often than not.”
That means sycophantic fawning, folks.
Cox noted how frequently the phrase “master and servant” emerged in her inquiry, though it had “last appeared in the legal textbooks in the 1960s and 1970s.”
I thought they did away with slavery before us.
Transparent mechanisms for reviewing reports of abuse by members of Parliament were not introduced until 2011, a fact that Cox describes as “frankly astonishing.”
Late on Monday, a statement from the House of Commons executive board described the report as “difficult reading for us all.”
Imagine how the victims felt living it, scum.
“We fully accept the need for change and, as a leadership team, are determined to learn lessons from the report,” said the statement, signed by Mark Jenner, the board’s communications manager. “We apologize for past failings and are committed to changing our culture for the better. As Dame Laura recognizes, this will not be achieved overnight.”
That's the same old lip service that has been doled out by Hollywood, the Catholic Church, and the private school perverts.
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That's the Big Frat House.
If only they had a den mother.
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Nor did I attend private school:
"Former Fessenden students sue school, alleging officials ignored abuse" by Maria Cramer Globe Staff October 15, 2018
Two former students of the Fessenden School in Newton said Monday they are suing the private boarding school, claiming officials failed to protect them from years of sexual abuse by staff members, including the assistant headmaster.
(Blog editor's chin slumps to chest.
Isn't that where they fed the kids oatmeal and milk laced with radioactive iron and calcium?)
William A. Greaves II and John Sweeney, who attended the school as young boys in the 1960s and 1970s, filed the lawsuit Friday, alleging that the school knew children were vulnerable to teachers and the former assistant headmaster, Arthur P. Clarridge, Jr.
They always do. Their first instinct is to cover it up.
Sweeney, who was 11 when the alleged abuse began in 1969, said he remembered Clarridge and other school officials walking by his dorm at night, winking at him and blowing kisses, part of a campaign of torment that would not end until 1972.
“I’d pull up my sheets and just hope they wouldn’t attack me,” Sweeney said during a press conference at his lawyer’s office on Federal Street.
Clarridge was in his early 90s when he died last month. He previously denied allegations by Sweeney.
In a statement, the school said it has worked “to openly, honestly, and compassionately approach claims of abuse by former students.”
“We recognize the pain caused by abuse in the past, and we continue to apologize to anyone who suffered. As always, we consider safety within our community our highest priority,” the statement read.
PFFFFT!
Greaves’s allegations were the latest against Fessenden, which serves prekindergarten through ninth grade and has an enrollment of 515.
Sweeney’s case was among many analyzed by the Globe Spotlight team in 2016 that revealed that since 1991, at least 67 private schools in New England had faced allegations of abuse or harassment by staffers. At least 200 students complained of misconduct.
The Fessenden School never disputed any specific allegations of abuse documented in the Globe series.
Must have gone down the old memory hole.
Carmen L. Durso, who is representing Sweeney and Greaves, said that Greaves wanted to come forward in 2011 but his mother begged him not to. Her death recently allowed him to step forward, Durso said.
What kind of mother was she?
Greaves was allegedly abused by a doctor at the school known as Dr. Young, who forced him to get naked in his office and abused him repeatedly.
“Dr. Young told him that the sexual abuse that he was inflicting on him was for his benefit, to help his stress,” Durso said. Greaves “would see other boys coming back . . . in tears after they had been also in to see Dr. Young.”
Sweeney said Monday that when he told the headmaster at the time, Robert P. T. Coffin , that Clarridge had drugged him then performed oral sex on him, Coffin scoffed.
He wouldn't have crossed paths with Kavanaugh, right?
Whadda ya' mean who?!!
“ ‘Come now, John,’ ” Sweeney recalled him saying. “ ‘Come now. You are making this up.’ ”
The abuse only continued, with both Coffin and Clarridge molesting him. His mother did not believe him, Sweeney said.
“I was left alone at that school,” Sweeney said, struggling not to cry. “All alone. By myself, surrounded by a ring of pedophiles.”
Coffin died in 1981.
Fessenden has said 17 victims, including Sweeney, have come forward since 2011 and complained of alleged abuse by at least five former staffers. Greaves would be the 18th student to come out publicly about abuse. The lawsuit filed by Sweeney and Greaves identifies 14 men, most of them former Fessenden employees, who abused other students or knew of the abuse and conspired to hide it from the public and alumni.
Mitchell Garabedian, a Boston lawyer who initially represented the 17 former students, said 16 of them had settled with the school. (Fessenden said the settlements were for $100,000 each.) Sweeney is the only former student who has not settled.
“The sexual abuse at The Fessenden School was and might still be as unchecked and harmful as the sexual abuse at any other private school,” he said.....
At least it isn't murder, right?
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Lawmakers pare back Baker’s funding proposal for school safety
They diverted some because of the gas explosions.
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Sears was the Amazon of its day
The irony is it may boost a major development project in Cambridge, as Sanofi Genyzme seeks up to 400,000 square feet and inner-city entrepreneurs get a boost from Steve Grossman.
Yes, "Boston continues to lose blue-collar jobs as manufacturers and wholesalers look further afield, and [although] the industrial real estate market is hot right now, [it] probably is not hot enough to prevent the city’s fading middle class from continuing to shrink."
Going to have to come up with some currency and intelligence if you want to live in the city.
GE finishes initial design for supersonic aircraft engine
The pilot still had to use the emergency landing strip.
Stocks fade and finish lower
Consumer spending barely rises in September
Well, you know who is to blame, right?
He's the one piloting this $hip.
I swear we should all become farmers again.
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NEXT DAY UPDATE:
Just a repeat of yesterday:
"Elizabeth Warren defends decision to release DNA test" by Victoria McGrane Globe Staff October 17, 2018
The results, perhaps predictably, only triggered further attacks from President Trump and other Republican critics, who quickly seized on the low end of the results as ammunition for further mockery.
That's because she is anywhere from 1/64th to 1/1,024th Native American, according to her experts and the Globe. No independent verification yet.
Some Democrats have also criticized Senator Elizabeth Warren’s timing on releasing the report — just weeks before the midterm elections on Nov. 6, when the party hopes to capitalize on a backlash against Trump to make inroads into the GOP’s majorities in Congress.
When asked whether, based on the results, she made a mistake identifying herself as Native American as a law professor, Warren expressed regret but stopped short of admitting error. Pressed again on whether she made a mistake decades ago in listing herself in directories of minorities in academia, Warren emphasized she was thinking about her Native American ancestry, not any sort of claims to tribal citizenship, when she made those decisions.
She wishes she had been “clearer — or more mindful, is the word,” and if we are going to get into parsing words she is sunk.
Leadership of the Cherokee Nation have nonetheless criticized Warren for her move.
Uh-oh.
“Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong,” Chuck Hoskin Jr., the secretary of state for the Cherokee Nation, said in a statement after Warren’s results went public. Another of the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes offered more support for Warren, telling Business Insider they did not take issue with her decision.
She only did it so she could get in to Harvard.
Warren’s Republican challenger on Nov. 6, Geoff Diehl, has largely avoided mentioning the controversy surrounding Warren’s claims of Native American ancestry, though he has referenced it in some recent TV interviews, including during a Tuesday appearance on Fox News.
He said she has been “consistently misleading the people of Massachusetts, and now we know there’s no real conclusive proof that she has Native American identity,” while the third candidate on the ballot, an independent, was much more aggressive saying “only a real Indian can defeat a fake Indian.”
Warren’s decision to share the DNA results is an unprecedented move by an American politician, and sets her apart from both Hillary Clinton — who resisted releasing personal information — and Trump, who continues to refuse to release his tax returns.....
Globe hopes so, anyway.
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So it turns out she is just a white woman?
Then identity politics has become a disease.
I must confess I thought this was a big nothing, but after talking to some Democrats it looks like a big oops.
She's no longer a serious contender for the presidency!
SAD!
She needs to go back to school:
Boston plans to build or renovate a dozen schools
It's a chance to get things right with someone new.
Spotlight
Aaron Hernandez
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New technology could radically reshape MBTA fare policies
In another time, and in a different context currently, it would be known as extortion, price-gouging, and robbery, but it's government (well quasi-government) so it's okay.
A dog dies
You will need to read the fine print.
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President Trump calls Stormy Daniels ‘horseface’
Yes, believe it or not, that is my page A2 National lead, and she responded by saying he has a small dick (the Globe is fine with the double standard, btw).
"As Democrats get organized for the 2020 election, one major obstacle is becoming starkly clear: President Trump’s $100 million head start. Trump, who began raising money for his reelection campaign shortly after winning the presidency, disclosed Monday that his campaign and affiliated committees have raised at least $106 million — an enormous sum that exceeds what any of his predecessors amassed so early in their presidencies. More than half of the money the committees raised in the most recent fund-raising quarter came from individual supporters, who are giving in amounts of $200 or less. These supporters also are turning up at Trump-headlined rallies, where their information is being pulled into the Republican National Committee’s expanding voter database."
"President Trump on Tuesday offered a fresh threat to cut off aid to Honduras if a large caravan of migrants continues heading toward the United States. The group has swollen in size since leaving San Pedro Sula, one of the world’s most dangerous cities, on Friday. Its travels were prominently covered Tuesday morning on ‘‘Fox & Friends,’’ a program that Trump regularly views....."
Yeah, well, they did report the U.S. airstrike in Somalia that killed 60 people and at least had an on the ground report from Gaza last night (updated for this morning).
Those stories are nowhere to be found in my Globe today.
I get this instead.
Yeah, how can you say no to them?
Timing stinks on it, too.
The $oro$ $ponsored left thinks that is going to help them win the midterms?
A border crisis as we vote?
Related:
Hurricane death toll climbs in Florida as officials get into most devastated areas
"In the three years that Donald Trump rocketed from candidate to president, the PEN American Center has criticized him as a bully, an autocrat, a user of hate speech, and an enemy of free expression. It has published studies, organized petitions, and established a Press Freedom Incentive Fund. Now the literary and human rights organization, which includes thousands of authors and journalists, is taking a more direct step: PEN is suing the president. In a suit filed Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan, the center, also known as PEN America, alleges that ‘‘official acts’’ by Trump have ‘‘violated the First Amendment and his oath to uphold the Constitution.’’ PEN cites such examples as reports that Trump was meddling in the proposed merger of AT&T and CNN. The suit also notes Trump’s comments on Washington Post owner and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. Trump, unhappy with the Post’s coverage, has threatened antitrust action against Amazon and suggested raising its shipping costs....."
They are like a hydra.
One lawsuit is dismissed, two more take its place.
"A New York woman became the subject of ridicule and hatred on social media after she falsely accused a boy of groping her while she was shopping inside a deli. Teresa Klein, who is white, created a commotion earlier last week outside the Sahara Deli Market in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood as she appeared to tell a 911 dispatcher that the boy, who is black, assaulted her. The spectacle was captured in a now-viral video, and Klein, a 53-year-old Brooklyn resident, has been nicknamed #CornerstoreCaroline. The boy, wearing a tucked-in green shirt and carrying a backpack, began to cry as the woman in aviator glasses and knee-high boots accused him of grabbing her. The video showed Klein standing at the register as the boy walked past behind her with his blue backpack and a plastic bag in his right hand. As the boy’s bag appeared to brush against Klein, she looked behind her, startled. ‘‘The child accidentally brushed against me,’’ she acknowledged later....."
That is like the St. Louis thing from yesterday, and once again it is a Jew stirring up the trouble.
"Complaints from visitors about being pushed onto a mattress where actors simulated raping them at an ‘‘edgy’’ haunted house in northeast Ohio has led to the suspension of the actors involved. The Akron Beacon Journal reported that Akron Fright Fest owner Jeremy Caudill said he was ‘‘shocked and appalled’’ when he learned Monday what had happened over the weekend at his haunted house in Summit County’s Springfield Township. Caudill said he’s still determining what happened and promises additional security and monitoring going forward. Fright Fest is advertised as a hands-on experience with actors getting physical and swearing amid ‘‘risque scenes.’’
Hey, it is the season of evil right now.
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And speaking of haunted houses:
Study: Widespread sexual harassment in European parliaments
That's why Macron is shuffling his government, at least according to Aly Raisman.
"Ban Ki-moon, a former United Nations secretary general, along with Microsoft Corp. cofounder Bill Gates and World Bank chief executive Kristalina Georgieva, announced the formation of the Global Commission on Climate Adaptation. Sponsored by 17 countries, Ban said the move follows setbacks at the UN’s chief vehicle for pushing global adaptation, called the Green Climate Fund. Trump’s harm to the climate agenda went beyond the fund, Ban said. “Since the beginning of President Trump’s administration, since my retirement from the United Nations, I am feeling very much concern,” he said....."
He must not care about peace breaking out, huh?
Related:
"Members of the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty, an ideas-oriented task force that The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said it will spend $158 million combating American poverty over the next four years, have issued proposals as broad as ‘‘confront racism’’ in neighborhood planning and as specific as urging an expansion of the child tax credit and eligibility for housing assistance vouchers to help families with children under 6. In addressing the income gap, they advocate for better jobs and more workers’ rights through wage subsidies, community college access, and a gig-economy benefits system, among other concepts....."
The ninth photograph updates you on Morocco.
So what is going on in Venezuela anyway?
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"Democratic candidates in competitive races see late infusion of cash" by Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Anu Narayanswamy Washington Post October 16, 2018
Democratic candidates in some of the most heated Senate and House contests saw a surge of hard money donations to their campaigns in the final stretch of the midterm election — a sign of heightened energy on the left eager to boost candidates over the finish line in their hopes of regaining the majority in both chambers.
If only it were one dollar, one vote, 'eh, WaComPo?
The donations to Senate Democrats offer a glimmer of hope in their largely defensive fight in the upper chamber. Democratic Senate candidates in the nine most competitive races, including incumbents running for reelection in deep-red states that voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in 2016, outraised the Republicans so far in the cycle, with the majority of them outperforming their GOP opponents in the third quarter, from July through September, records show.
And it is looking now like Republicans hold Tennessee and will flip North Dakota.
House Democratic candidates also received a surge of cash in the third quarter. In many of the most competitive House races across the country, the Democratic challenger outraised the Republican incumbent in the three-month period — some raising more than twice the amount the GOP incumbent raked in. The surge in direct contributions to the House campaigns show that the enthusiasm for Democratic challengers in 2018 is gaining steam.
OMG, what if..... Republicans remain in control of both the House and Senate in a couple of weeks?
I mean, these are the same agenda-pushing people who told you Clinton was a shoo-in!
Somehow, I don't think Nancy Pelosi barnstorming through Massachusetts to tout Democrats’ chances is going to help matters (are you even registered?).
Wealthy donors gave dozens of millions in September alone to outside groups to support GOP candidates, particularly to help Republicans hold on to the House. Notably, mega-donors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson spent $32 million in September to help Republicans, bringing their total contributions to GOP super PACs this cycle to at least $87 million.
Big money is helping the left as well. Senate Majority PAC, a super PAC that works to elect Democrats to the Senate, has outraised its GOP counterpart so far in the cycle.
On the Senate side, the top fund-raiser in the third quarter was Representative Beto O’Rourke, a Texas Democrat, who shattered previous Senate fund-raising records with $38.1 million raised in the third quarter, compared to $11.6 million for GOP incumbent Senator Ted Cruz.
While Cruz is leading in public polling, O’Rourke has amassed a major following in and out of Texas in recent months. O’Rourke’s rally featuring country music star Willie Nelson in September drew a crowd of roughly 50,000, according to his campaign.
It only helps him in-state!
Looks like the Republicans will hold on to Texas, too -- barely.
President Trump announced Monday that he will hold a ‘‘Make America Great Again’’ rally in Houston Oct. 22 to support Cruz. Trump had promised to hold a ‘‘major rally’’ for Cruz in ‘‘the biggest stadium in Texas we can find.’’ The rally venue announced Monday has a maximum capacity of about 10,000.
O’Rourke’s campaign raised about 45 percent of its money from donors giving $200 or less — a sign of grass-roots energy, but as much as 46 percent of its contributions bigger than $200 came from outside Texas — a sign that he is gaining national popularity. Cruz has raised 30 percent in low-dollar contributions.
Democrats running for the Senate collected a large percentage of campaign cash from low-dollar donations — a huge trend for Democratic campaigns this fall, fueled by anti-Trump ‘‘resistance’’ energy.
That, in turn, has scared off a lot of moderates.
That is where my print copy cut short the campaign.
That difference was stark in the Senate race in Florida, where Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson raised about 22 percent of its campaign cash this cycle in small donations.
In comparison, under 3 percent of the campaign donations of his opponent, Governor Rick Scott, came from such donations, and Scott gave $39 million to his campaign — which makes up the majority of his campaign funds.
Even still, Scott should win.
An outlier to the small-dollar trend was in Arizona, with Representative Martha McSally, the Republican congresswoman vying for the open Senate seat in Arizona to be vacated after Republican Senator Jeff Flake retires. About one-quarter of McSally’s donations were raised in small-dollar donations compared to about one-fifth for her opponent, Kyrsten Sinema. Sinema raised more money overall so far in the election, with $16 million compared to McSally’s $12.6 million.
I think McSally might have clinched the $eat the other night.
Another notable money trend in the Senate battles was in Missouri, where Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill is locked in a tight race against her opponent, Josh Hawley. McCaskill spent a large chunk of the $30 million she raised this cycle, leaving her with just $3.1 million in the bank for the final month of the campaign. Her opponent raised $13.9 million but had slightly more cash on hand, with $3.5 million.
Hawley has the momentum.
Among Democratic challengers in competitive races who raked in massive amounts of cash over the GOP incumbents were candidates who raised upward of $6 million to $7 million in just three months — such as Katie Hill in California’s 25th Congressional District and Antonio Delgado in New York’s 19th Congressional District.
Another stand-out fund-raiser among the House Democrats is Amy McGrath, running in the Sixth Congressional District in Kentucky, the area covering the cities of Lexington and Frankfort. After burning through her cash during a tough primary, McGrath raised money at a faster clip than GOP incumbent Andy Barr for her general election run in one of the most competitive House races in the country.
McGrath raised $3.6 million compared to Barr’s $1.2 million this quarter. For the total cycle, they both raised $6.7 million each. Some $1.6 million of McGrath’s total haul — about one-quarter — came from small-dollar donations.
The WaComPo makes you think money is more important than votes, doesn't it?
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Related: GOP goes silent on deficit
The same way the Dems were silent during the Obama era when the debt -- not deficit -- doubled.
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Fall River city councilors debate ousting embattled mayor
Remember him?
Woman, 24, is shot to death while sitting in car in Dorchester
Looks to me like the roving hit teams have been reactivated after laying low.
"New state program will seed $50 for college savings accounts" by Milton J. Valencia Globe Staff October 16, 2018
State Treasurer Deborah B. Goldberg on Tuesday announced SeedMA Baby, the first statewide savings account program that aims to put children on the pathway to saving for college.
Which will also give Wall Street a lot of money to play with.
Goldberg said the program will guide parents through the process of opening what is known as a 529 account, which provides tax advantages for future education costs. “We are empowering the next generation of Massachusetts residents,” Goldberg said during a State House news conference that included Mayor Martin J. Walsh. Private donations, rather than taxpayer money, will be used to fund the program, Goldberg said.
What if all your money is tied up in, you know, staying alive?
I don't want to beggar the crumbs from the ruling cla$$, but, you know.
Or do ya'?
Walsh, who created a similar program in Boston in 2014, said, “It’s going to show young kids that college is possible, and the community believes in you.”
Goldberg’s challenger in the Nov. 6 election, state Representative Keiko Orrall, said in a statement Tuesday that a pilot program Goldberg established two years ago “flopped,” with only 100 families of kindergartners signing up, saving only a fraction of the costs to run the program. She called Goldberg’s announcement Tuesday a publicity ploy.
YUP, and what I don't understand about the dogmatic Democratic robots in this state as to why you wouldn't want to have a Republican governor, treasurer, and auditor when the rest of the bureaucracy and Beacon Hill is corrupt Democrats.
Goldberg downplayed the accusation, however, saying the pilot program was established to test what components of the program work best, and why. The new program will target families of newborns and children who were just adopted.....
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She is very competitive, and you need not worry about any fraud.
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I'm tired of this workout.
Conn. company is accused of overcharging more than 100k Mass. residents for electricity
Healey trying to get a kickback after government allows the abu$e (cui bono?).
This company, led by veteran athenahealth execs, just raised $300m
There is money out there if you know where to find it, and to celebrate they all went out for pizza (I was taught to not talk with my mouth full).
"Surge recovers some market losses" by Marley Jay Associated Press October 16, 2018
NEW YORK — US stocks rocketed to their biggest gain in six months Tuesday following strong earnings from major financial and health care companies as well as encouraging reports on the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 547 points.
Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and UnitedHealth led a parade of companies that reported profits for the third quarter that surpassed analysts’ expectations. Technology companies also jumped after taking steep losses during the market’s rout last week.
And they were already making 20% returns the last two quarters.
Investors were encouraged by some good news on the economy. The Federal Reserve said output by US factories, mines, and utilities climbed in September despite the effects of Hurricane Florence, and the Labor Department said US employers posted the most jobs in two decades in August while hiring continued to increase.
Scott Wren, senior global equity strategist for the Wells Fargo Investment Institute, said stocks jumped because the industrial production report suggests inflation isn’t speeding up, and that investors took that as a sign the Fed won’t accelerate the pace of its interest rate increases.
That will make a lot of people happy, and most of all Trump.
Netflix soared 12 percent to $387 in aftermarket trading after reporting surprisingly strong subscriber growth during the summer. That was a welcome change from the big losses it took after its second-quarter report, when it posted disappointing subscriber totals and gave a weak forecast.
What if they are all lying like Enron, GE, etc.
What if all this is based on unproductive stock buybacks?
Morgan Stanley rose 5.7 percent to $45.94 and Goldman Sachs added 3 percent to $221.70 after the two investment banks did better than expected in the third quarter......
I gue$$ I ju$t get $tock prices, no hard numbers, no profit announcements, nothing to $ee here.
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I'm outta here at warp drive today.
