What's also quite sad and disgusting is the fact that our present administration in Washington has been throwing untold amounts of good money after bad for our disastrous debacle in Iraq for the past several years, and sending our own soldiers (men and women) who're clearly needed here...at home. That money and man (and woman) power that we've invested in our Iraq debacle could well be spend fighting a war right here on our homefront---inotherwords...making the effort to fix
the problems right here in our own backyard.
The fact that some Boston neighborhoods (and neighborhoods throughout the United States, for that matter, are under such seige with shootings, drive-by shootings, and other forms of murder are the results of decades of neglect by our politicians, which has undoubtedly been compounded by the policies of the G. W. Bush Administration.
To quote from Jules Wittcover's book The Year the Dream Died: Revisiting 1968 in America
"These kids don't understand that when they're killing each other, it is because that
nobody did anything 30 years ago to alleviate the problems in their neighborhoods"
Although the above-mentioned book came out almost ten years ago (1998), it's still very relevant, even now.
Another book that gives an excellent insight into what has resulted from decades of neglect on the part of prominent politicians on the local and national level(s) is Official Negligence by Lou Cannon. Although this book is about the South Central L. A. riots that took place back in the early 1990's, that, too, is still relevant today.
wow. i know there are some lefty loonies on this site, and i have no love for W, but to blame him for the murder of a women at 3AM in Roxbury is bizzarre.
at 3. a. m. in Dorchester, nor am I saying that he was the sole cause of the problems that've erupted in many neighborhoods across the United States as a consequence of decades of neglect. However, there are two things I have to say: (A). I can't and won't defend G. W. Bush's policies, either domestic or foreign, and (B) G. W. Bush has made already-horrific situations both here and abroad much, much worse.
Within hours there were loony lefties blaming Bush for the bridge collapse in Minnesota. You know, that bridge that was rated as deficient back in 1990. As a private citizen and mid-level manager of a major league baseball team in Texas, he should have been all over that shit, man!
So, why not blame it on Bush?
Heck, the loony lefties in Massachusetts have spent the last twelve years blaming every societal woe of the Commonwealth on the Republican governors, and the overwhelming and veto-proof majority in the MGC the GOP has held for all these...
A woman shot to death early yesterday morning in Roxbury witnessed a murder that was nearing trial and was gunned down in order to guarantee her silence, sources said. ...
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Sad, sad, sad.
What's also quite sad and disgusting is the fact that our present administration in Washington has been throwing untold amounts of good money after bad for our disastrous debacle in Iraq for the past several years, and sending our own soldiers (men and women) who're clearly needed here...at home. That money and man (and woman) power that we've invested in our Iraq debacle could well be spend fighting a war right here on our homefront---inotherwords...making the effort to fix
the problems right here in our own backyard.
The fact that some Boston neighborhoods (and neighborhoods throughout the United States, for that matter, are under such seige with shootings, drive-by shootings, and other forms of murder are the results of decades of neglect by our politicians, which has undoubtedly been compounded by the policies of the G. W. Bush Administration.
To quote from Jules Wittcover's book The Year the Dream Died: Revisiting 1968 in America
Although the above-mentioned book came out almost ten years ago (1998), it's still very relevant, even now.
Another book that gives an excellent insight into what has resulted from decades of neglect on the part of prominent politicians on the local and national level(s) is Official Negligence by Lou Cannon. Although this book is about the South Central L. A. riots that took place back in the early 1990's, that, too, is still relevant today.
wow. i know there are some
wow. i know there are some lefty loonies on this site, and i have no love for W, but to blame him for the murder of a women at 3AM in Roxbury is bizzarre.
I'm not saying that G. W. Bush caused the murder of a woman
at 3. a. m. in Dorchester, nor am I saying that he was the sole cause of the problems that've erupted in many neighborhoods across the United States as a consequence of decades of neglect. However, there are two things I have to say: (A). I can't and won't defend G. W. Bush's policies, either domestic or foreign, and (B) G. W. Bush has made already-horrific situations both here and abroad much, much worse.
Why not?
Within hours there were loony lefties blaming Bush for the bridge collapse in Minnesota. You know, that bridge that was rated as deficient back in 1990. As a private citizen and mid-level manager of a major league baseball team in Texas, he should have been all over that shit, man!
So, why not blame it on Bush?
Heck, the loony lefties in Massachusetts have spent the last twelve years blaming every societal woe of the Commonwealth on the Republican governors, and the overwhelming and veto-proof majority in the MGC the GOP has held for all these...
Oh, wait.
Never mind.
Extreme witness intimidation
The Herald scoops the Globe: Police say victim witnessed an earlier murder: