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VOL. 119 - NO. 49 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, DECEMBER 4, 2015 $.35 A COPY 9th Annual North End Holiday Stroll News Briefs Friday, December 4th by Sal Giarratani Holiday season is here, it’s shoppers know where they can time to celebrate, give back, get their passports stamped. In- gather with friends, family, and dividuals that stop to shop (and Sometimes Jeff Kuhner Goes to Far most importantly SHOPPING!! get their passport stamped) at all Sometimes when Jeff Kuhner on his weekday radio Join the 9th Annual North of the participating locations will show on WRKO goes too far with his Muslim talk. End Holiday Shopping Stroll on be entered to win the grand prize I do not belief all Muslims are ISIS or even Radical Friday, December 4th from 6:00- gift basket filled with goodies Islamists. Many are not. I know sometimes he turns 11:00 pm. The Holiday Stroll is donated by the local businesses. up the volume of his rhetoric to get callers to rant more a free event designed to fête the The North End Beautification on the air. This is when he isn’t quite that entertaining. arrival of the holiday season. Committee will provide com- Stirring the pot with shameless rants of his own may Shoppers will have the chance plimentary hot chocolate and be good for his show’s ratings but it doesn’t help with to explore the narrow streets, Santa will be on his pedicab at rationale dialogue over important issues. My issue is trendy boutiques, wine stores, design studios, the corner of Hanover and Cross Street. with our president who is in seemingly complete denial galleries, and specialty shops of Boston’s Little Participating shops include: Exhale Battery about the name and face of our enemy. It is Radical Italy. Wharf, Battery Wharf Hotel, Boston Waterfront, Islamist terrorism. It is a distortion of the Islamic faith The festivities will kick-off at 6:00 pm sharp Shake the Tree, Twilight, The Wine Bottega, Lulu’s but Islamic nevertheless. Kuhner needs to be more throughout the streets of the North End. The Sweet Shoppe, Ensemble Boston, LIT Boutique, precise about who and what the threat is worldwide neighborhood stores will stay open late to serve Cocoanuts Boston,Cataldo Interiors Inc., Sedurre and not just stoke fear among listeners of Kuhner holiday refreshments and offer special promo- North End, Sol Optics Boston, in-jean-ius, Or- Nation. When he runs off at the mouth he actually tions and discounts. Don’t forget to pick up your chard Skateshop, North Bennet Street School, weakens his arguments which are often quite valid. shopping passport at any of the participating Polcari’s Coffee Shop, Salmagundi for ladies and States Have Enforcement shops. gents, Heart & Sole, and#FleetStreetGuild. Power On Immigration Law Merchants participating in the Holiday Stroll will Join the Instagram and Twitter conversation Lots of liberals love talking about how the states can’t display balloons outside of their storefronts to let with #NorthEndHolidayStroll. do anything about President Obama’s policies on im- migration, Syrian refugees or executive amnesty. They all think they know everything but not always as in this case. Constitutional scholars while acknowledging that only the federal government can set immigration policy, the power to enforce immigration policy falls to the states. Check the Constitution. There is no power granted to the federal government to policy immigra- tion policy or law. Our founding fathers were smarter than most of us today, especially the progressive left. They did not trust the federal government with all the powers that liberals think is in place today. Without the state’s participation, the federal government is pretty much impotent. This is why the president reached out to those 31 governors who are saying no to Syrian refugees without guarantees that the homeland would be safe from ISIS terrorism sneaking in with the fl ood of massive immigration from Syria. Governor Baker hasn’t said no, he just wants to be sure that these refugees get properly vetted fi rst. Defi nition of Earned Income Tax Credits When you take money from those who work and hand it over to those who don’t. Let’s Get Something Straight Most of us get it. All Muslims aren’t terrorists. We get it. Stop lecturing us, Mr. President. What we want is for our government to recognize this. But what we do want is to be protected from the terrorists who are Muslim. Get it? Bashing the 47 Democrats Forty seven Democrats on Capitol Hill joined Re- publicans to pass legislation on Syrian refugees get- ting properly vetted before accepting any here in this country. The Democratic Party establishment has gone ballistic with what these 47 Democrats did and many are calling for them to quit the Democratic Party for voting Republican. I guess it is okay for Republicans to be at odds with each other, but Democrats must toe the line like lemmings in the water? As a Reagan Democrat, I commend those Democrats who voted with their conscience rather than spout political talking points. (Continued on Page 14) THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE HAS MOVED TO 343 CHELSEA ST., DAY SQUARE, EAST BOSTON This offi ce is open on Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM, for the convenience of our East Boston and North Shore clients and contributors Call 617-227-8929 for more information PAGE 2 POST-GAZETTE, DECEMBER 4, 2015 Pasta, Popes and Passion by Bennett Molinari and Richard Molinari Vilma’s deep love for all things Italian derives from her family, pri- marily her grandmoth- er and mom, members of a family that has THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CATACOMBS been part of the North End community for well Christianity was born in this would bring them over 100 years. Judea and carried to Rome by below the volcanic Pasta, Popes and Pas- St. Peter, St. Paul and others. crust and into the hu- sion is a travel through Their religion grew out of the mid clay. The stratum time, treasures and teachings of Jesus Christ and chosen for these un- tastes of more than his twelve Apostles. The short- derground labyrinths 50 years offering a est and most simple explana- was sufficiently hard glimpse into Italian tion of these teachings is that to support the weight life seen through the they are composed of three from above, yet soft eyes of an American parts: 1. Rules of Christian enough to excavate woman. Her itinerary conduct; 2. Duties of Chris- the seemingly endless was meant to be brief tian leaders; and 3. Baptism. tunnels. The secrecy and yet lasted over During the height of power of their location was 50 years. in ancient Rome, Christian maximized by taking Through her vivid bands started forming. They the excavated material and descriptive refused to serve in the Roman from the newly-formed We have never written a book writing, she offers her readers Army, and because they wor- tunnels and packing it review for this column, but the chance to share in shipped a God of their own, into the old and fully recently a book has been pub- her lifelong joys and loves they refused to honor the occupied ones. The lished that has special sig- through first-hand, unusual emperor as one. They were Catacombs of San Sebastiano entrance. diffi cult chore of rais- nifi cance to us that we believe experiences, or anecdotes that also accused of starting a fi re ing the debris to the might also be of interest to our the usual tourist and lover which burned for about 6 days, the walls would expose them surface and undoubtedly re- readers. of Italy rarely experience. left more than a 100,000 people to arrest and persecution. The vealing their location was thus Pasta, Popes and Passion Cooking, food, tastes are mere homeless, and destroyed more excavation work for the cata- eliminated. Stairs, air shafts, written by our cousin, Vilma steps en route; recipes convey than half of the city. Emperor combs was a necessary function and some light shafts were built Sozio Gallo, is diffi cult to char- culture, color and meaning to Nero consequently banned brought about by the geology of as the advantages of the terrain acterize for it is both a memoir Vilma’s extended stay in her Christianity and started the the area, their religious beliefs, presented themselves. and a very fi ne cookbook. magical adopted country. persecutions which lasted for and the social attitudes of the The countryside around pa- Is it just the fact the author is Does she succeed in sharing 250 years. party in power at that time. gan Rome was literally under- a relative that we have interest her hidden Italian treasures? The hills of Rome are mainly Outside the walls of ancient mined by these tunnels. During in the book? Absolutely not!! Is this a memoir of an expatri- composed of a soft rock of volca- Rome, there were about 15 the height of the Christian per- Our primary interest lies in ate or a cookbook of authentic, nic origin which is called “tufa.” main roads radiating out from secutions, the catacombs which the fact that it is a book heav- sometimes unknown dishes The pre-Christian Romans had the city. About 25 great cata- were not backfi lled, housed as ily infl uenced by the author’s that have yet to travel the very adequately developed the combs were constructed at many of the living (in hiding) early roots that were set in the ocean? You decide.