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Comment on: Dorchester%20residents%20voice%20strong%20opinions%20about%20St.%20Kevin%26%23146%3Bs%20development
"an influx of new residents in the small neighborhood,"
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Comment on: 'House of Seven Gables museum now offers multilingual tours'
If there's no word for gable in another language, then you don't translate it - you describe it. So at the start, you say in Italian "A 'gable' is a..." There, now they know. Anything else I can do fo more »
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Comment on: 'Massachusetts pools often stay open after failed tests'
Illegal immigrants need a place to swim, and the relatives of State Reps need jobs. Nuff said. more »
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Comment on: Pat Summittâs smart decision to keep coaching with Alzheimerâs from Daily Dose
Smart decision? It's a disgrace. This woman has demanded that her players give up their individual interests for 'the team' for decades. Now, when she knows that she'll be gradually losing her mental more »
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Comment on: DiMasi: From the State House to the Big House - The Boston Globe
Three Democrat Speakers of the House supported by the Globe, three down. The Globe supports corrupt Democrats right up until the time they get convicted. more »
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Comment on: City%20retests%20Hennigan%20school%20after%20teacher%20union%20raises%20health%20concerns
Trace levels of a toxin was ALREADY REMOVED, but those union criminals get headaches in the time they're in the building? These thugs are draining the city's budget with their whining. And no one has more »
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Comment on: 'Suspended R.I. chief, stripper cross paths again for court dates'
That cop gives cops a bad name. And that stripper gives strippers a bad name. At least she didn't pull her scam in the club. more »
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Comment on: 'Emotions run high in Milford over death blamed on immigrant'
Deval Patrick thinks that a few dead Americans is the price we pay for the pleasure of having illegal immigrants in this country. So you whiners can just suck it up and get used to it. Anyone who comp more »
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Comment on: 'GPS devices help in stolen kayaks case'
They should just shove a bottle of oxy down his throat and be done with it. more »
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Comment on: Mother pushes nose job, daughter gets revenge on film from Daily Dose
It's 'home in,' not 'hone in.' Past Globe editors are rolling over in their graves. more »
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Comment on: 'Why misunderstanding the term 'risk' can be a problem'
There's a point to be made here, but it's not made well. The writer is saying that when you start with a low probability, a change that lessens that probability even as much as say 37% will produce a more »
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Comment on: 'The ink generation'
hooksie2 wrote: "Can't wait to see what these body-painted individuals will look like when they are in their 60s and 70s with aged,. flabby skin. Go for it, fools." Whereas I'm sure you'll be lookin' more »
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Comment on: Judging the judges - The Boston Globe
So next time there's no money to fund programs "for the children," don't come running to us to pay for them. If the Globe has no problem draining our money down a sewer of technicalities, then they ca more »
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Comment on: 3rd Grade Reading and Social Promotion - Rock The Schoolhouse's blog - Boston.com
So Cuban children do well because of cultural reasons. Can we admit, then, that other ethnic groups do poorly because of cultural reasons, and not because of discrimination? more »
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Comment on: The limits of farming - The Boston Globe
Anyone who thinks 'the problem is population numbers' is welcome to contribute their own personal solution. But they never do, do they? They always think that someone else is the 'too many.' more »
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Comment on: 'Tattoo remorse fuels reverse trend: tattoo removal'
I'm still waiting for the first newspaper article featuring people who are happy with their tattoos. All I get is this rehashing every year. more »
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Comment on: 'Uproar over proposal for Boston Latin Academy move'
Wake up, people - this is all about putting a 'safe' school in Menino's Hyde Park. The old Hyde Park High was a pit. Putting an exam school in the building means attracting fewer troublemakers to the more »
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Comment on: 'New kind of contender'
"She is like Ralph Nader..."
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Comment on: Streets, not truck shortcuts - The Boston Globe
So why should these trucks be allowed to drive through my town to make deliveries to Boston? It's not just gasoline, folks. It's propane, welding tanks and many others as well. So now Boston is going more »
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Comment on: Obamaâs immigration policy points in the right direction - The Boston Globe
Notice the Globe puts the words law and order in quotation marks - as if law and order don't mean law and order. Or are law and order bad things? If you say the wrong word around a gay person, it's a more »
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Comment on: 'Massachusetts civil rights board finds judge’
He wasn't discriminating against women - he was discriminating in favor of some connected hack. So now the rest of us - not 'the state,' - will have to pay the fine. more »
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Comment on: '2 city councilors want Boston stores to be licensed to sell knives'
Make knives illegal to sell, but keep illegal immigrant criminals on the streets. more »
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Comment on: 'Alligator scooped from Rhode Island river'
Tastes like chicken. more »
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Comment on: Construction will begin soon on big Westford solar installation from Business Updates
Here we go again. A state bond pays for it, and the taxpayers will pay to subsidize it. Solar energy is inefficient, intermittent and expensive. Otherwise, it's a great idea. It's inefficient because more »
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