Tragedy Strikes the Boston Fire Department

by Michael Graham August 30, 2007 @ 09:31

This morning we will bring you the very latest on the two firefighters killed fighting a four-alarm fire in West Roxbury last night.

The website for the Boston Fire Department is here. The Massachusetts Memorial to Fallen Firefighters is scheduled to be dedicated on September 11th. You can support the memorial by buying a brick here.

UPDATE: A fund for the families of the two fallen firefighters has been created:

West Roxbury Fire Fund
Boston Firefighters Credit Union

60 Hallet Street

Dorchester, MA 02124

617-288-2420

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There's A Sucker Born Every Minute...

by Michael Graham August 30, 2007 @ 06:34

..and they're all apparently registered voters in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

That's my conclusion in the Boston Herald after reading about the plan for another "short term" tax hike from the state legislature.

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Support Illegal Immigrants--Eat More Fiber!

by Michael Graham August 30, 2007 @ 05:08

The lead of the Boston Globe-Democrat's story on a recent immigration enforcement action raises disturbing medical questions:

"Advocates for immigrants accused federal officials yesterday of rounding up regular undocumented immigrants..." (emphasis added)

The "regular" illegal aliens? As opposed to the "irregular" ones?

I realize there are many problems related to being an immigration criminal in the US. As renowned social scientist Phil Collins notes, it's no fun being an illegal alien.

But I didn't realize illegal immigration was so hard on the digestive tract.

That is what the Globe-Democrat is talking about, right? What else could the phrase "regular undocumented immigrant" mean? If the paper is trying to report on their immigration status, well, by definition every illegal alien is an "irregular" immigrant. So what's the point?

Then again, we're talking about a newspaper that censors its own pages to appease irrational Islamist morons, and intentionally uses the nonsensical phrase "undocumented workers."

So it's no surprise that we don't know what the Boston Globe-Democrat is talking about. The real question is, do they?

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Sen. Craig Speaks...

by Michael Graham August 28, 2007 @ 16:41

"I am not smart, and I have never been smart."

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"Too Small For A Republic, Too Large For An Insane Asylum"

by Michael Graham August 28, 2007 @ 14:01

That's how a Civil War-era legislator described South Carolina (and he may have had this young lady in mind), but I was reminded of this motto while reading this story from here in Massachusetts:

Mr. Pierce has an outdoor fireplace that he bought at Target and uses to grill hamburgers and toast marshmallows with his grandchildren. And while the fireplace is more than 50 feet from any of his neighbors’ property lines, smoke has prompted nuisance complaints to Fire Chief Robert P. Parsons.

Chief Parsons said firefighters have investigated the complaints and have not found evidence of nuisance smoke. But, he said, that does not mean the complaints are not valid.

The chief said he sent Mr. Pierce a certified letter dated Aug. 15 stating that he has received complaints from several of his neighbors who were not identified. The letter said that while the fires were found to be small and burning clean, wood smoke is considered an air contaminant under state regulations.

“Effective immediately the Fire Department orders that you no longer burn any wood outdoors in your outdoor fireplace …” the letter said.

Huh? No wood outdoors in my outdoor fireplace? Does that mean I have to move my fireplace indoors? Or should I be burning something other than wood?

It turns out, according to the fire chief involved in this story, that all campfires are illegal in Massachusetts. Every outdoor fireplace sold by Home Depot is a crime scene in the Commonwealth.

Why? Because the state Department of Environmental Protection has declared it. Why? Because they can. Why? Stop asking questions about put out that wooden match, you criminal.

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More Free Speech Courage From The MSM

by Michael Graham August 28, 2007 @ 06:54

Remember when the Boston Globe-Democrat refused to run the infamous "Danish Cartoons" in their news pages--despite the fact that it was the biggest story in the world at the time--because (according to the Globe-Democrat) the free speech advocates who drew them were as bad as the Nazis and the KKK?

Here we go again.

More jokes! More comedy! More Muslims! Something's got to be banned!

And so the Washington Post (who also refused to run the Mohammed cartoons) dumped the lastest "Opus" comic because it made light of radical Islam. Why?

"Sources told FOX News that the strips were shown to Muslim staffers at The Washington Post to guage their reaction, and they responded 'emotionally' to the depiction of a woman dressed in traditional Muslim garb and espousing conservative Islamic views."

Now THAT'S how you run a newspaper!

I can't wait to read about the Washington Post showing a Doonesbury cartoon mocking evangelical Christians to its born-again staffers and giving them veto power over the paper. When's that going to happen? Next week? Next month? When pigs fly?

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I'm Back!

by Michael Graham August 27, 2007 @ 17:34

And I'm ready to rock. We've got:

--Angry Islamists, and the wonderful defenders of press freedom who are censoring themselves yet again to avoid offending them.

--Michael Vick, yet another black man unjustly punished for doing nothing more than committing a heinous, disgusting crime.

--Alberto Gonzales, one of George W. Bush's dumbest friends (and that's quite an achievement) finally gets justice at the Justice Department.

--That same US Justice Department is spending thousands of dollars to attend an event hosted by an Islamic group that's also an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism case.

And that's just the first HOUR of Tuesday's edition of the Natural Truth.

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Rounding Up The Usual Suspects

by Michael Graham August 21, 2007 @ 08:14

This Thursday night, August 23rd, at Theatre 99 in Charleston, SC. Yours truly, live on stage, telling the stories that, due to FCC guidelines, I am unable to tell on the air.

It's going to be a great show, and you will hear from some surprise guests that you'd NEVER expect at any event involving me.

It's been a few years since I've done stand-up, so I may be a little rusty. But that just means you won't be laughing with me--you'll be laughing at me!

Which is fine, as long as you're laughing. Please come join the fun and hang out with me this Thursday night.

Call 843-853-6687 to reserve your tickets. Click here for more details.

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"Why Didn't I Just Shoot Someone?"

by Michael Graham August 16, 2007 @ 13:09

That's what Michael Vick has to be thinking right about now, given what husband-killer Mary Winkler got 67 days. That's my take, anyway, in the Boston Herald today.

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NASA And Its Hang Ups

by Michael Graham August 14, 2007 @ 21:26

Imagine if Toyota tried to sell a line of cars that had a failure rate of 1 in 60. One of every 60 blew up when you turned the key or hit the brake pedal. How long would Toyota stay in business?

Imagine an airline that cancelled 10 flights for every five it got into the air?

Imagine a job where 1 out of every 50 employees was killed at work.

In other words, imagine…the space shuttle.

I was astonished when shuttle cheerleader Keith Cowing hung up on me in the middle of an on-air interview today. He now claims in his blog that he was "ambushed" by my questions about the disastrous space shuttle program, an odd claim given that NASA was literally debating what to do about yet another mid-flight problem with the space shuttle as we spoke.

Is it really a surprise to even the most devoted NASA brown-noser that the shuttle has problems? That this $500 million per flight death machine is considered by many to be NASA's greatest fiasco (which is saying a lot about an organization that accidentally slammed a vehicle into the surface of Mars because they forgot to convert miles to kilometers).

Cowing's performance was an embarrassment to himself and his cause, mostly because he could offer no facts. When asked to simply offer counter-arguments, all he could do was stammer "You've already made up your mind."

He objected when I argued that the shuttle was the most deadly transportation system as yet devised. So I asked him to help me with that math (7 passengers per flight, 118 flights, 14 deaths... ) That's when he hung up on me.

Here's the Natural Truth about the shuttle program:

It was supposed to cost $5-10 million per flight, and average a flight a month. It's $500 million per, and they can't get the thing in the air. Since 2003, there have been twice as many cancelled flights as actual lift-offs. When it does fly, pieces keep falling off.

No airplane, helicopter, automobile or bungee cord would be allowed on the market with a kill-ratio that matched the space shuttle. Out of every 60 trips, one blows up. Out of every 100 shuttle passengers, about 2 die. For comparison, there were 1.8 billion airline passengers in 2004, and just 428 died. That's .000000428 per 100 airplane passengers.

Cowing tried to argue that this death rate is actually pretty good given how complex the space shuttle is. That doesn't answer the question of why we're putting people in such an unnecessarily complex machine to begin with. It's the idea of the shuttle that's so dumb, and people much smarter than myself have been calling for this flying NASA jobs program to be grounded.

We don't need it. Space flight can be more simply, less expensive and with far fewer dead people. The Apollo program never lost a single astronaut in flight (three did die tragically on the ground). Even NASCAR has a lower fatality rate, and the drivers are intentionally engaged in risky behavior at 180 mph.

Anyone defending NASA even as pieces of the shuttle continue to flake off during flight should expect a question or two about the wisdom of continuing the deadly disaster that is the shuttle program.

If Mr. Cowing finds my questions difficult to answer, he should hope not to face any from the families of the 14 dead astronauts.

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Sen. Craig Speaks...

"Too Small For A Republic, Too Large For An Insane Asylum"

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Rounding Up The Usual Suspects

"Why Didn't I Just Shoot Someone?"

NASA And Its Hang Ups

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