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VOL. 115 - NO. 17 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, APRIL 29, 2011 $.30 A COPY Do You Remember ... JESSE JACKSON JR.: MONTILIO’S BAKERY? The iPad and the Illinois Ignoramus by Dan Calabrese It’s always entertaining to to other jobs associated with demand that the government hear people who don’t know paper? Sure, he acknowl- step in, pass legislation, do the slightest thing about eco- edges, it may be more conve- something, act, dammit! Be- nomics, waxing philosophic nient and efficient for Ameri- cause 13 million people are on the subject nonetheless. cans to get their information sitting around watching And rarely has such a char- this way, but there are 13 C-SPAN just waiting to see acter come forward with a million unemployed. And something happen that solves more clueless offering than that’s where he’s really going their problems. did U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson with this, because they are There, of course, is the un- Jr. (D-Illinois) this past Fri- “counting on this Congress to employed person’s first mis- day afternoon. do something.” take. If you’re waiting for nit- Congressman Jackson re- Ah, the march of progress, wits like this guy to do some- cently purchased an iPad, and the inevitable hand- thing for you, I’d suggest that which I guess he now regrets, wringing of the statist politi- you skip the niceties and because it has occurred to cian who can’t wait to step in check straight into the down- him that the iPad is singu- and yell, “Halt!” Sure, it town mission, where volun- larly responsible for destroy- makes it easier and more teers will serve you hot soup ing “thousands” (but to hear convenient to get your books and there’s probably a Bible him talk it could have been (no more driving to Barnes in the nightstand next to millions) of jobs: and Noble ... stops global your bed. “Now Borders is closing warming!), and sure, it light- And what, one wonders, stores because, why do you ens the load in those college would Jackson have Congress need to go to Borders any- students’ backpacks (no more do? Require everyone to con- more? Why do you need to go shoulder injuries ... makes tinue buying books in paper to Barnes & Noble? Buy an ObamaCare more affordable!), form, even if they don’t want iPad and download your news- and sure those who lost their to, and it’s more expensive paper, download your book, jobs at Borders can always go and inconvenient? Just to download your magazine.” get a job selling iPads at Best “preserve jobs”? Put a big It gets worse, he explains. Buy. honkin’ tax on the download Chicago State University, in But never mind any of this, of electronic material that his district, wants to go to because it’s quite beside the could be purchased in hard a textbook-free campus in point. The point is that the copy? Ban the importation of which all the students can march of progress always dis- convenient electronic de- simply download information rupts something, and any vices that, like the iPad, are on their iPads. What, he frets, time it does, it’s an oppor- made in China? will become of publishing tunity for the Jesse Jackson companies? What will happen Juniors of the world to (Continued on Page 15) Montilio’s Bakery welcomed the President of the United States of America Jimmy Carter in 1978 by baking this Mayor Menino Launches Mark It Program to Repair exquisite cake. (Post-Gazette archive photo) Over 600 Damaged Crosswalks Across the City Combined with Road Renewal Program, Mark It Will Get City Ready for Warm Weather and the Summer Season News Briefs After a harsh winter that the Mark It program will cover prioritizing crosswalk mark- by Sal Giarratani damaged many of the city’s about 25 percent of all inter- ings in these key locations,” crosswalks and other pave- sections in the city using Commissioner Tinlin said. ment markings making it new highly reflective ther- “The Mark It Program will The President’s Verbiage difficult for motorists and moplastic materials for the enable the department to Recently, President Obama said there will be pedestrians to use, Mayor new markings. Due to the replace markings at almost “spending cuts from the tax codes.” Does anyone Thomas Menino launched high volume of foot traffic on a quarter of the city’s cross- know what the phrase meant? Are there any the Mark It campaign. “After Red Sox game days, Kenmore walk locations.” liberals who can educate me on the president’s such a harsh winter, I’m Square and the Fenway Last week marked the latest political verbiage? dedicated to ensuring all were the first neighborhoods start of Mayor Menino’s Road Keeping Kids in School Bostonians have a safe com- to receive treatment through Renewal campaign in which Until 18 Years Old mute through our city,” the Mark It program. nearly 33 miles of roadway Mayor Menino said. “The Mayor Menino reviewed will be resurfaced through- New Hampshire does it and says the state has Mark It and Road Renewal crosswalk installations at out the city and over three been very successful in cutting down on the drop- programs will make sure that Walker Park and the Mildred miles will be completely out rate. Massachusetts is thinking about doing our roads and sidewalks are Avenue Community Center reconstructed. Already, Pub- the same thing. Is forcing kids to stay in school back to 100% so we can in Mattapan with Trans- lic Works crews have begun the answer? Most kids if forced to stay in the all enjoy the exciting warm portation Commissioner to completely rebuild Walnut classroom until they are old enough to leave will weather that summer has to Thomas Tinlin. Work crews Avenue from Seaver Street be wasting space in the classroom and the en- offer.” from the Boston Transporta- to Warren Avenue in Rox- ergy of the teachers. I would like to see the high The Mark It program will tion Department installed bury, and work to recon- school dropout rate at zero percent but forcing place a heavy emphasis on new highly reflective ther- struct various streets in the the unwilling to stay just because of a law just crosswalk reinstallation in moplastic crosswalks at this Frederick Douglas neighbor- hurts those students who want to learn. Let the areas close to parks, senior heavily travelled location. hood in the South End and nitwits go and waste away their lives. A high centers, schools and com- “Boston Transportation Roxbury neighborhoods will (Continued on Page 15) munity centers and will crews are currently review- start in September. address over 600 crosswalks ing areas across the city to throughout Boston. In total, improve pedestrian safety by (Continued on Page 12) THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTON This office is open on Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PMPM, for the convenience of our East Boston and North Shore clients and contributors Call 617-227-8929 for more information Page 2 POST-GAZETTE, APRIL 29, 2011 Res Publica by David Trumbull Axis of Imports “States like these, and their terrorist allies, CLAUDIUS’ PATRONAGE constitute an axis of evil” — President George W. Bush, January 29, 2002 Claudius annulled a rule to pass themselves off dence because of deadly in- enacted by Tiberius which as Roman knights was ternal feuds and he restored In his “Axis of Evil” speech, shops. If the Committee, af- prevented men 60 years of confiscated. independence to the island then President Bush singled ter “review,” okays it, goods age or more from having chil- Some men were in the of Rhodes because they had out North Korea (along with from North Korea’s zones dren (Claudius was over 50 habit of taking their sick given up all of their former the Islamofascist state of could be shipped to South at the time). He passed a law or worn-out slaves and ex- faults. The people of Ilium Iran and Sadam Hussein’s Korea and then exported to stating that anyone who was posing them to die rather (ancient Troy) were granted Iraq) as sponsors of terror- the U.S. as “Products of banished from one of Rome’s than pay the expense of their perpetual exemption from ism and threats to global South Korea” and enter the distant provinces was con- convalescence. Claudius de- any kind of tribute to Rome security. President Obama, U.S. duty-free, thus evading th sidered to be banished from creed that any slave who or its emperors on the as recently as April 18 , in the U.S. embargo on imports all of Italy, and also decreed recovered would be freed and grounds that they were the Executive Order 13570, re- from North Korea. that only fourth generation he further decreed that any- founders of the Roman race. iterated that we are in a Now, over the past decade- Roman citizens could hold one who killed a worn-out He also expelled all Jews state of national emergency and-a-half of reading trade the office of senator. slave rather than to aban- from Rome because of their with regard to North Korea agreements, I’ve seen quite Claudius instituted many don him was liable to a constant disturbances. and extended, once again, a few of these “committee changes in the military charge of murder. It was said of Claudius that the U.S.