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History That Doesn't Suck
"massachusetts bay" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"Battles, the royal governor of Virginia trying to start a slave rebellion. Rumors that British agents want to enlist Native Americans in the fight to come, and of course, word of the king's proclamation of rebellion and subsequent speech, colonials are ripe for ditching their British identity. And in that context, Tom's forceful clear riding and common sense is a wrecking ball. He goes viral. In sparsely populated colonies alone, Tom sells over 150,000 copies to say nothing of the copying and sharing, and finds an audience across the Atlantic. The young Prince of Wales reads it. His mom catches him in the act. Perhaps most impressive though, Tom impacts George Washington, who first acknowledges in writing the possibility of independence on January 31st, 1776. In doing so, he mentions quote the sound doctrine and unanswerable reasoning contained in the pamphlet, common sense. So maybe this isn't just a Civil War. Maybe this is a war for independence. But wait, what is going on with George Washington and that American army has been commanding since shortly after the battle of bunker hill. Are the American forces holding their own outside redco occupied Boston? Or have things turned for the worse? As intriguing as it is to see patriot leaders finally giving serious thought to independence in early 1776, we can't tackle the rest of that story in this episode, not while Civil War is consuming Massachusetts bay. Let's go back half a year and catch up with the war itself. Rewind. Just before Thanksgiving, I strained my back quite badly. I knew it would pass in a few days, but it left me struggling to write without being in agony. After fumbling at my desk for a bit though, I found the answer. I wrote for my sleep number bed. Laptop in hand, I retreated to my room, and with a few swipes on the app, had the bed set to zero G a firmed up the mattress, changing my sleep number to 65, and oh, that was the relief I needed. Writing was tolerable again, and my sleep didn't have to suffer. I sleep score IQ is actually gone up from 74 to 75. Why choose proven quality sleep from sleep number? Because to be your best every day, you need proven quality sleep every night. And now, during sleep number's lowest price of the season, the sleep number 360 C two smart bed is only $899. Save $200, only at sleep number stores or sleep number dot com slash HTTPS.
History That Doesn't Suck
"massachusetts bay" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"Battles, the royal governor of Virginia trying to start a slave rebellion. Rumors that British agents want to enlist Native Americans in the fight to come, and of course, word of the king's proclamation of rebellion and subsequent speech, colonials are ripe for ditching their British identity. And in that context, Tom's forceful clear riding and common sense is a wrecking ball. He goes viral. In sparsely populated colonies alone, Tom sells over 150,000 copies to say nothing of the copying and sharing, and finds an audience across the Atlantic. The young Prince of Wales reads it. His mom catches him in the act. Perhaps most impressive though, Tom impacts George Washington, who first acknowledges in writing the possibility of independence on January 31st, 1776. In doing so, he mentions quote the sound doctrine and unanswerable reasoning contained in the pamphlet, common sense. So maybe this isn't just a Civil War. Maybe this is a war for independence. But wait, what is going on with George Washington and that American army has been commanding since shortly after the battle of bunker hill. Are the American forces holding their own outside redco occupied Boston? Or have things turned for the worse? As intriguing as it is to see patriot leaders finally giving serious thought to independence in early 1776, we can't tackle the rest of that story in this episode, not while Civil War is consuming Massachusetts bay. Let's go back half a year and catch up with the war itself. Rewind. Just before Thanksgiving, I strained my back quite badly. I knew it would pass in a few days, but it left me struggling to write without being in agony. After fumbling at my desk for a bit though, I found the answer. I wrote for my sleep number bed. Laptop in hand, I retreated to my room, and with a few swipes on the app, had the bed set to zero G a firmed up the mattress, changing my sleep number to 65, and oh, that was the relief I needed. Writing was tolerable again, and my sleep didn't have to suffer. I sleep score IQ is actually gone up from 74 to 75. Why choose proven quality sleep from sleep number? Because to be your best every day, you need proven quality sleep every night. And now, during sleep number's lowest price of the season, the sleep number 360 C two smart bed is only $899. Save $200, only at sleep number stores or sleep number dot com slash HTTPS.
History Unplugged Podcast
"massachusetts bay" Discussed on History Unplugged Podcast
"It could mean that you go to a church where a pastor or a learned member of the congregation leads you through the catechism, teaches you the alphabet and how to at least slowly decipher the scripture. And it might not be anything more than that. Maybe it could, but there was no standardization. But it was the Lutheran Church, not the German state that ran the schools. With this approach to education going on in Europe, it shouldn't be a surprise that a similar approach happened in America in the colonies. This is the same time period as the calvinist Puritans are setting up the puritan colonies of Massachusetts bay. Outside of New England, the rule of the day was mostly voluntary parental education and private education, but the Puritans who founded the Massachusetts bay colony wanted to adopt the calvinist plan for compulsory education in order to solidify calvinism. In 1642, the colony enacted a compulsory literacy law for all children. 5 years later, the colony followed up this law with the establishment of a system of public schools. In 1690, beginning in 1690, children in Massachusetts learned to read from the New England primer, known as the little Bible of New England and included a set of short rhymes to help children learn the alphabet with things like in Adam's fall for a, we sent all and ending with zakia C did climb the tree his lord to see. The primer included the ten commandments, awards prayer, the apostles creed, and other lessons designed to instill in children, basic puritan theology. As we can see, major change was sweeping through Europe and the United States when it came to education. One thing that did not change from the Middle Ages up until the 16 and 1700s was the extreme level of punishment for students. The sadistic behavior of schoolmasters continued onward after the late Middle Ages. One master in Germany kept records of the punishments he gave out in his 51 years of teaching. His list included 911,527 blows with a rod, a 124,000 ten blows with a cane in 20,989 taps with a ruler, a 136,715 blows with the hand, 10,235 blows to the mouth, 7905 boxes on the ear, and over 1 million blows on the head. So this is the type of thing that horseman had in mind when he wanted to get rid of Corporal punishment. John Bernard, an 18th century Massachusetts minister, wrote in his autobiography, approvingly of how he as a child was beaten by a schoolmaster because of his desire to play, he was beaten because of this when he failed to learn, and even when his classmates failed to learn. He was a talented student and put in charge of helping others learn, and when they failed to recite a lesson properly, he was beaten for that. His only complaint was that one classmate deliberately messed up in order to see him beaten. And he resolved that problem by giving his classmate in turn a good drubbing when the school day was over.
WTOP
"massachusetts bay" Discussed on WTOP
"At the top of suspension and expulsion rates at the bottom of test scores, not because they're stupid, not because they can't but says Maryland state board of education member for Mel green. Our black boys need teachers who understand them, teachers who can change not the boys, but change their method of instruction to meet the needs of the boys. 13 pilot schools across the state have been focused on research, curriculum, and teacher training, one Howard county school has seen a 10% decline in student referrals for discipline issues. Kate Ryan, WTO pnews. Metro's new general manager Randy Clark is filling out his team, the agency is hired Brian dwyer to be the new chief operating officer. Dwyer will be responsible for managing daily operations of metro rail metro bus and metro transit police. Some of his first projects will be wrapping up the silver line extension to dulles airport and beyond and returning the troubled 7000 series railcars to service. Dwyer previously worked at the Massachusetts bay transportation authority and as a transportation consultant. The Senate is set to ratify NATO membership for Finland and Sweden, a crucial step towards swiftly expanding the western military alliance. And it's a show of U.S. support in response to Russia's war with Ukraine. Senators have invited the ambassadors of the countries to witness today's historic debate and vote, which would open a new era for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. President Biden has sought quick entry for the two previously non militarily aligned northern European allies and approval of the ratification resolution that has bipartisan support in Congress. Still ahead of federal grand jury wants to hear from pat's cipollone, The White House counsel during the Trump administration. It's 5 44. Millions of people use Zoom phone. The innovative and feature rich cloud phone system for businesses of any size. Zoom phone
The Eric Metaxas Show
Rabbi Jonathan Cahn Is in Studio to Detail Some Amazing Revelations
"Back talking to Jonathan Khan, the movie is the harbingers of things to come. You can see it sell them now, dot com. So Jonathan, you were just revealing what you talk about in the film, you call it the mystery of the island and you were referring to the great John winthrop. The governor of the Massachusetts bay colony, how he would have this kind of retreat on governor's island, which is in Massachusetts, which is in Boston bay. He would face Boston and pray for Boston. Okay, now the punchline. In doing so, he's praying for the whole civilization that became America. That's right. That's right. And so but he also the one for those who didn't hear who warned America do not turn for God if you follow God, you're going to be the most blessed nation people. If you turn away, then judgments come. So what happened to John winthrop? What happened to the island of winthrop John with him? The island of John winthrop was subsumed in the 20th century became an airport. The airport is Logan airport, the very place where the planes took off on 9 11 and headed to New York City on the island of the man who warned America. It all started there. This is getting really eerie now. No, it is amazing. These things are absolutely amazing. And it's amazing to me that God has chosen you to reveal these things because you're not making them up. You're just discovering what already exists. It's there. Eric, it's interesting because this is the only interview pretty much. That's in Lower Manhattan where all these things, this all centers here. I mean, the harbingers are here. We're here. I was standing at the ground of ground zero, and that's where it all started. Something said, the spirit said, look, I was looking at this tree that I said, there's something you have to find. You have to seek it, and that's how it all began. I could never reproduce any of it. Even the process, I don't know how to have it. What
Native Opinion Podcast an American Indian Perspective
"massachusetts bay" Discussed on Native Opinion Podcast an American Indian Perspective
"To feel the pain and I want to look her in the eyes. YouTube is also full of broadcasts, which say santilli is really a government informant. A charge he denies. Since his arrests, until he has been declared a danger to the community and a flight risk. In this declaration for the U.S. district court in Oregon, until he says he can understand why the judge expressed concern about some of his statements, he says that while he turned over his firearms as requested by authorities, he said on the air, I buried my guns because I wanted people to think that they could not simply file a false restraining order against me as a means to take away my firearms. He goes on to say he didn't want people to think he was defenseless. He also explained why he said he'd shoot anyone who comes busting through my door at 4 o'clock in the morning, saying he wasn't talking about law enforcement. Pete santilli and his girlfriend live in this tiny mount Washington apartment building on the second floor. In his negotiations with federal authorities, he says in these documents that he's willing to let the FBI come in and search his apartment anytime they want. And if the federal judge releases him, he's also willing to let the FBI install surveillance cameras in his apartment. In my Washington, rich jaffe, local 12 news. No word at this point. Mainly question there is, why is anybody negotiating with this guy? You know, I mean, this is part of the problem, in my view. Now, we've only been featuring focusing on one guy. And that isn't the intent of this piece. But you have to look at his additional influences. You've got guys like Alex Jones. Right? The late Rush Limbaugh. I already mentioned Tucker Carlson. There's a bunch of these people. Dave rubinstein, who's that whiny guy, we talk about John Frank Nancy. Ben Shapiro. Hi, I'm Ben Shapiro. And this is reality check. Another guy who wants to rewrite basically tells indigenous people that Thanksgiving is our version of Thanksgiving is BS. Thanksgiving is almost upon us, and once again, we'll be treated to the usual dumbed down version of the Thanksgiving story. What Europeans landed in America fleeing religious persecution were too dumb to farm and relied on the wise Native Americans to help them. Then they had a meal together and learned to share. After which, the white Europeans genocide at the Native Americans, let's watch some football. The whole story is much more interesting. It's also not particularly friendly to leftists. The Puritans who came to Massachusetts on the Mayflower were not emissaries of religious tolerance. They actually left liberal Holland to push for, quote, the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith as it says right in the Mayflower compact. Turns out, Christianity was much more important than multiculturalism to the heroes of Plymouth rock. And Christianity, not multiculturalism, saved the Puritans. The first winter, half the new settlers died. That was because of drought and plague and failure to understand the crops. Then, squanto showed up. Now squanto wasn't just a Native American refugee from the Disney movie, Pocahontas, jabbering about the colors of the wind. He was a Christian. Apparently, squanto was just a boy when he met the English for the first time. He was promptly captured and sent back to England for training as a guide. In 1614, he came back to America with John Smith, and then he was kidnapped again by one of smith's men, sent back to Spain and sold into slavery. Spanish monks bought him, taught him Christianity. He somehow ended up in England, earned the respect of an English man who paid for his passage back to the new world. In 1619, squanto finally went home. But by the time he got back, his entire village had been killed by disease. One year later, the pilgrims showed up and happened to settle right there in squanto's devastated village. Governor William Bradford wrote that squanto quote became a special instrument sent of God for our good. He never left us till he died. It was Christian squanto, not Native Americans generally who taught the pilgrims how to farm. I think not so here's the truth, and from the indigenous perspective. Hey guys, this is Vincent chilling. I am agusta named Mohawk. The European settlers really appreciated the help of squanto. Squanto was a native man who supposedly helped the settlers of the time and talk to them how to harvest. But the fact batteries he was actually kidnapped brought to Spain when he got back. He discovered upon arriving back to the states that his entire community his entire tribal community was gone dead from disease or scuffles with settlers killed, it was a very sad tale very sad. And this is the biggest atrocity of them all. This is why we celebrate Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving Day proper is actually a commemoration of the pequot massacre, the pequot Indians were killed in the Massachusetts bay colony. The colony members discovered a man who was dead in a boat. The colony members automatically blamed piqua Indians. And decided to burn down the villages and this includes hundreds, probably approximately 400 men, women and children were burned to death. Stat killed slashed. After the discovery of the body, English major John mason rallied his troops to further burn pequot wigwams and attacked and killed hundreds of men, women and children. So, governor of Plymouth, William Bradford at the time, he wrote, those that escaped the fire were slain with the sword. Some huge to pieces, others run through with their rap years so that they were quickly dispatched and very few escaped. It was conceived. They thus destroyed about 400 at this time. It was a fearful sight to see then thus frying in the fire, horrible was the stink and sent thereof, but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice. The day after the massacre, William Bradford, who was also the governor of Massachusetts bay. Colony wrote from that day forth shall be a day of celebration and Thanksgiving for subduing the pequots and for the next 100 years every Thanksgiving Day ordained by a governor. Was an honor of the bloody victory, taking God that the battle had been won. This is the biggest atrocity of the mall, and this is why we celebrate Thanksgiving as a culture here in the United States. Ben Shapiro. More on our point though. So we told you about numerous platforms that this gentleman has been on. And it's still on in some of these other personalities we've mentioned not talking about the government side, but broadcast personalities per se. Independent media, which we're included in that as well here on their show. But basically, though, we have two questions for you. We may even do a poll on this. I don't know, but if you pick up this show and you feel the desire to email us back, we'd love to hear about what you think about these two questions. Again, you can reach us at hosts with an S, host at native opinion dot com. But should there be an amendment? Or an adjustment, rather, should I say to the First Amendment, which gives the United States citizens the right to free speech? Some kind of a modification. And also, in addition to holding people like Sam santilli or gates or anyone else who is out there promoting inflamed speech, shall we say? Or even promoting violence..
The Stuttering John Podcast
"massachusetts bay" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"So, you know, and it's, to me, it's like, it's like the Proud Boys guy. Enrique tarrio. You know, he's pissed off and he's scared because it's not going too well for him in jail. Well, you know, here you are a Hispanic and you're the leader of a frigging white nationalist frigging game Ganga dumbass. And now you're in freaking jail and you have to understand that the white people don't want to hang out with you because that's not how jail works. And the Latino Hispanic people don't want you in their corner. So now nobody likes you freaking S and that's how come he's crying like a school girl with his skin knee. And he wants to go home. Roar the Tiger, thanks for the ten bucks. Pilgrims with no saints, but it was the Puritans under John winthrop with the Massachusetts bay company who murdered the natives wholesale, including king Philip, son of the man who saved the pilgrims. I didn't know any of that. Did you want me major? No, I didn't have that, you know. I mean, at the end of the day, all we know is as soon as we started building up population, we started moving west and slaughtering along the way. Yep. And don't forget to travel the tears. And Jackson, right? I mean, I mean, just and I don't know if this is true, somebody wrote and I've heard this big, it has been contested, but that the. Americans gave the Native Americans blankets laced with smallpox smallpox. Yeah. Now, is that true or not? That is true. That is absolutely true. They gave them blankets a smallpox, and that wiped a bunch of them out. I mean, they did everything. And here's the thing. You know, how did we how did we how are we treating the Native Americans now? Understand that right now the most impoverished areas on this in this country are reservations. That's a fact. The Navajo water supply has been poisoned, you know? We constantly get into these pissing contests because big energy and big oil want to drill on Native American reservation lands because they just want to get what they can and the Native Americans just say, no, and we always end up siding with these frigging companies and that's how come you have Native Americans on their knees standing in the way and you got police officers walking back and forth, spraying them in the face with frigging mason shit like that. It's a bunch of bullshit..
Harvard Classics
"massachusetts bay" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"Are watch. Went below at four o'clock but could not sleep for the watch on deck. Were banging away at the guns every few minutes and indeed we cared very little about it for we were in boston. Bay and a fortune favoured us we could all sleep in the next night with nobody to call the watch every four hours we turned out of our own will daybreak to get a sight of land in the gray of the morning. One or two small fishing smacks peered out of the mist. And when the broad day broke upon us there lay the low sandhills of cape cod over our large third quarter and before us the wide waters of massachusetts bay with here and there a sale gliding over it smooth surface as we drew in towards the mouth of the harbor as towards a focus. The vessels begin to multiply until the bay seemed alive with sales gliding about in all directions. Someone the wind and others before it as they were bound to or from the emporium of trade and center of the bay it was a strange site for us who had been months on the ocean out seen anything but to solitary sales and over two years without seeing more than three or four traders on an almost desolate coast. There were the little coasters bound to and from the various towns along the south shore down in the bite of the bay and to the eastward here and there a square rigged vessels standing out to seaward and far in the distance beyond cape in was smoke of steamer stretching along in a narrow black cloud upon the water every site was full of beauty and interest coming back to our homes in the signs of civilization and prosperity and happiness from which we had been so long banished were multiplying about us. The high land of cape and the rocks and shore of cohasset were full insight the lighthouses standing like centuries in white before the harbors and even the smoke from chimneys on the planes of hingham was seen rising slowly in the morning air. One of our boys was a son of a bucket maker in his face. Light it up as he saw the tops of the well-known hills which surrounded his native place about ten o'clock. A little boat came bobbing over the water and put a pilot on board insured off in pursuit of other vessels bound in be now within the scope of the telegraph stations are signals run up the four and in half an hour afterwards. The owner on change or in his counting room knew that his ship was below and the landlords runners and sharks end street. Learned that there was a rich prize for them down in the bay..
KTOK
"massachusetts bay" Discussed on KTOK
"I'm Julie Smith. And this week in 1963, the U. S and Russia formally opened a direct line of communication between the White House and the Kremlin. Contrary to popular belief, the so called hotline was not a red telephone. In fact, it wasn't a phone at all. It started off as a teletype and then shifted to facts in the mid eighties, and now it's a secure email links. So isn't that about right? A slice of life there, Right. Okay, so I got a fun story. To relate with. Yes. Okay, So I was an intern with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority Vita and they ran all the subways and everything. And I was in the Treasury Department working As a finance intern, and I was in charge of locating all the copiers throughout the whole system and then renegotiating the contract. And so it was a really fun project to do as an intern. But one of the companies that offered the copiers to us that worth was bidding on this project also said you should get a fax machine. Now this is 1982 and facts is nobody knows what they are. And and so they bring with them. They brought the copiers, but they brought this fax machine and they, they said, so it might have been telling call the teletype. But he said facts in fact, similar fact examine lately I can't similar Michigan It's a facsimile, so he brings this machine and he says, so we've got one in our office. You tell me what to write down and we'll write it and then we'll fax it or will calm and having facts back to us. Okay, so I said, Well, if this works the way you think it'll work, it'll change the mail system. And so that's what they wrote back at the office and they fax it to us, and there it was, You know, in my hands and I I I looked at. I thought this is amazing, because when people have this, they're going to stop mail because they won't mail anything anymore because they could do it electronically. Well, ultimately, we didn't get a fax machines because I said Who else has bought these and I said, nobody, You know, it's just it's brand new. Yeah, and I said, Well, we're not going to buy any either because there's nobody facts too. You know, we got to have people of facts to in order to make this worthwhile, so I didn't recommend that we get a fax machines, but that was my first experience with the fax machine and thinking back. It's so interesting because now that's an antiquated Technology really? And emails have taken over. But think about the U. S. Postal Service. How much volume has been eliminated as a result of faxes and emails, and we can email PDS with hundreds of pages. Yeah, if we didn't like to, and Well, I guess that's why our postal rates keep.
Tracing The Path
How the Post Office Grew America
"Story starts with the crown post post office of the british crown. The thirteen colonies were quite isolated and independent of each other. Few people had relatives or friends at the other colonies thus neither male nor good roads connecting them were important. Thirteen drivers freedom in how this letter was too many places to send it now. It's a different story in the beginning. The only real mail that was sent or received was to the uk but without a post office sending things and receiving them was problematic. The first colony to request to remedy for this problem was massachusetts bay on november fifth. Sixteen thirty nine. The general court of that colony directed that richard fairbanks has tavern would be where letters were delivered and picked up giving richard one cent for each letter. Managed in the new netherland. Coney the dutch west indies company. Who ran the colony made a similar determination. They constructed a box at the port for letters to be picked up and mailed but there was no general consensus or common interest among the colonies to take it any further and the only times. The problem came to a head as when the colonies faced a common emmy but had no roads or male to aid in their communication. It wasn't until the reign of william the third new england in sixteen ninety that any sort of postal system was established williams. Third had assessed. His call is which had now grown to two hundred thousand people and decided he wanted to have postal communication between massachusetts pennsylvania and new york. He had some roads built but didn't send money to do much more than that. But in seventeen fifty three all would change. Benjamin franklin became the postmaster for the crown post and philadelphia.
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
"massachusetts bay" Discussed on Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
"The books that make the news really do so because of their pros or even how. Well they sell usually. It's because they stir controversy to kill a mockingbird by harper lee has been on countless reading lists and middle schools and high schools across the united states set in nineteen thirty six. It follows the story of a small town lawyer. Defending the innocence of a black man. Falsely accused of heinous crime and since its publication in nineteen sixty. It's found itself on another kind of list in some schools namely the banned book lists books are banned for a variety of reasons. It might be due to their subject matter or the author's personal beliefs regardless of the reason those titles not only become prohibited. They also become coveted because who doesn't want to read a book that's been deemed forbidden right. Well the puritans. Apparently thomas morton was a lawyer from devon england who had endured a fairly conservative upbringing is family were members of the landed gentry and enjoyed a comfortable lifestyle paid for by the people renting their lands yet. Despite his traditionalist childhood morton grew up more progressive over time during his years. Studying law in the fifteen ninety s. He fell in with the libertine crowd shunning the trends of the time by enjoying a life of fun and partying he set sail for massachusetts in sixteen. Twenty two where he was taken aback by the puritans and they're well puritanical. Beliefs has a result. He returned to england in sixteen twenty three to prepare for a more productive. Visit the following year when morton came back to massachusetts in sixteen twenty four. It was as part owner of the wallace and company. He founded a new settlements called marymount on land. Given to him by the native algonquin. 's and unlike the puritans who saw them as savages to be controlled or killed morten got along well with his indigenous neighbors even regarded them as more civilized and humanitarian than those of his countrymen. In plymouth who had shunned the more freethinking ways that morton held in fact. The colony didn't just dislike morton. They went to war with him. Puritan militias broke his pagan festivals and spread rumors about the debaucherous things going on in his town. In reality much of the backlash was due to how quickly marymount was growing many of their business. Ventures like further trading and farming. Were taking off and plymouth. Just couldn't compete. Morton was also trading guns with the algonquin 's who had already been marked as enemies by the puritans. Soon enough plymouth's commander a guy named miles. Standish used his armed militia to take control of mary. Mounts and then arrested morton and the blasphemous act. That had done him in. The marymount may day celebration may day had started as an ancient festival celebrated on the first of may with singing dancing and delicious food but the puritans of the plymouth colony only sought as a heathens paradise for his indiscretion morton was tried and exiled to the isle of shoals a small cluster of deserted islands between maine and new hampshire. But don't worry. Morton survived with the help of the native peoples who brought him food from the mainland when he eventually made it back to marymount the puritans had reduced it to a shadow of its former self this time. He was banished to england but once there he found a new way to get revenge that he craved he sued the colony and because england had already been at odds with the puritans king. Charles used morton's case as the perfect excuse to formerly revoke plymouth's charter. Next morton decided to parlay his success with the lawsuit into a brand new endeavor. He wrote a series of books about his experiences in massachusetts called new english canaan and the books took aim at the men behind the plymouth colony. Their real names were replaced with unflattering nicknames. Of course miles. Standish was referred to as captain shrimp while massachusetts bay. Governor john endicott was called captain little worth within the pages of morton's new english canaan he insulted their beliefs and policies and suggested the best approach to the new world was integrating the colonies with the native tribes. The way marymount had done unsurprisingly. Plymouth governor william bradford hated the books he went to great lengths to keep anyone else from reading them which is why new english canaan is widely considered to be the first book banned in america although the english government destroyed the first edition of the book soon after its publication. A few copies did survive. And so did morton's legacy his exploits were immortalized in. Works by nathaniel. Hawthorne stephen vincent bennett and philip roth. All those headaches and all that trouble only resulted in a legacy that has lived on for four hundred years and all they had to do to keep it from happening was to let the man do the one thing. He wanted the fight for his right to party. This episode was made possible by norton. Three sixty with lifelock seems like every day everywhere practically every one is connected to their devices. In fact the average person was connected almost seven hours a day last year and sixty four percent of adults admit to taking online risks for convenience. Sure all that browsing sharing banking and shopping nick's life easy but it can also expose personal information making you vulnerable to cybercriminals there's a lot of your digital life that can put you at risk. That's why norton three sixty with lifelock makes it easy to help. Keep it safe with device. 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Whores Talk Horror
"massachusetts bay" Discussed on Whores Talk Horror
"A profession of christ and rejoiced to go here. The word of god had drawn the attention of the prosecutors. Just by offering the opinion that the accusers were just quote poor distracted children end quote while so even religion couldn't save you. If you went against the the accusers and just you know. Try to throw a rational explanation at them other than witchcraft. Nope your use of which two yup parade much ultimately between one hundred fifty and two hundred people were charged with practicing witchcraft. The grand juries and trials for the charges of witchcraft were conducted by a court of oil and interpreter which literally means to hear and to determine on june second especially convene court sat for the first time and was presided. Over by william stoughton. The newly appointed lieutenant governor of the province of massachusetts bay as chief justice stoughton believed that spectral evidence presented to the court that is evidence gathered from dreams and visions would be the main source of evidence for the prosecution's. I'll say that again. Dreams and visions would be the main evidence used in court to determine if someone was guilty of practising witchcraft. A crime punishable by death what. The duck test was like two scientific for the prosecution with the fuck. Anyway if there's any money python fans listening that's for you meet what's more. The accused would be denied any legal representation which should be shocking. But given everything we've covered so far that tracks and you thought our current judicial system was fucked up though really to be fair. The bars set pretty damn low so in the for the first case brought before the grand jury. Was that a bridget. Bishop a woman around the age of sixty who faced a plethora of accusations. She pass through doors and windows without opening them. This sinead made holes in the road. Suddenly open up which carts would fall into before the holes with instantly disappears swelling backup and that she had summoned a black pig with the body of a monkey and the feet of a cockerel which is a young rooster cool..
The Garden Rebel
2 Boston Trains Collide, Sending 23 to the Hospital, Authorities Say
"In Boston into the cause of a collision between two trolleys Friday evening, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority general manager Steve Puff Tak told reporters. Two trains headed West found on the B branch of the Green Line and the trailing train collided with the train in front of it. It happened around six o'clock last night near Boston University. 23 people were taken to hospitals, but none of the injuries were reported to be life threatening. This is
Everything Everywhere Daily
Timothy Dexter: Was He Brilliant, Lucky, or Bonkers?
"Timothy. Dexter started his life with very humble beginnings he was born into the town of maldon in the massachusetts bay colony. In seventeen forty seven. He didn't receive much of an education growing up when he was eight years old. He dropped out of school to work on a farm at the age of sixteen. He became an apprentice to a. Tanner was a fine trade to be in back in the day. But nothing that would make you significantly wealthy when he finished his apprenticeship. He was given a set of clothes. By the tanner who he worked for. It was called a freedom suit. He sold his freedom suit for eight dollars and twenty cents and use that money to relocate to newburyport massachusetts. This was where his good luck started. While in newburyport he met the woman he would marry. Elizabeth frosting ham. Elizabeth was a widow ten years older than dexter. She had four children in a very nice house in He set up shop aching gloves and selling other leather goods. As well as reselling blubber from whalers by the end of the revolutionary war. He had saved up several thousand dollars which was quite a bit of money back then so far. His story is nothing special. You as a middle aged man living in newburyport who had to find business but it was at this point that he began he string of insanely successful yet at face. Incredibly stupid investments. The first investment was in continental dollars during the revolutionary war. The continental congress issued the first american currency and it quickly became worthless. The phrase not worth a continental came from this currency almost. No one accepted the currency by the end of the war. Yet many people especially poor people were paid in this currency and could do nothing with it. After the war many of the wealthy citizens in newburyport began buying continentals mostly as a charity gesture. Dexter however wanted to earn the respect of the local elite who never quite respected him and went all in he purchased the worthless currency just to give people something in return any purchase the currency for less than a penny to the dollar later when the federal government was formed they agreed to purchase all of the outstanding continental dollars at one percent of face value. Dexter made a
Vote-Voiced Podcast
"massachusetts bay" Discussed on Vote-Voiced Podcast
"Have to go to vote. Let's see. Okay, so back in 2013, does Give an example, Republicans passed a law requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote, which was eventually struck down in federal court, but at created a chilling effect on registration drives since few voters, carried the passport or seminar down around day-to-day and led to the suspension of 1 and 7 new registrations. While it wasn't effect, they don't want you to vote because I thought, oh my God, you have to think about it. Don't you think about something right now? Go grab your passport right now. Someone comes to your door and they say we like to register. You two? Are you registered to vote? Let's say, you have to go and register to vote grab your passport. This is America. You don't have to have a passport, unless you're traveling out of the country, we don't have passports to from state-to-state, okay? Mom comes to your door, are you have to go register to vote? You're going to carry around your birth certificate. Where's your birth certificate? Grab it. Grab it right now. Where is think about it. Where's your birth certificate? They know what they're doing. Let's talk about Louisiana, Democrat. The Democratic governor has vetoed a bill passed by Republicans, with some democratic support that would require voters to include the driver's license or state ID, card number with their absentee ballot and application or include part of their social security number. If they lack of state ID, Republicans are just shy of the seats needed, to override a veto along alone in the state house but they may be able to win over a few Democrats or Independents necessary for an override, okay. How many people are suspicious of putting their, how are you? You're going to put your social security number on the document. Not a lot of people are going to do that, but they know this fact, they're trying to frighten you into not voting. Don't let them frighten you into not voting. You make sure you vote in Massachusetts Bay State, Republicans have announced. They will attempt to place. An initiative on the ballot next year, that would adopt a voter ID requirement, which would require roughly 80,000 signatures to qualify for the ballot. We have ID wage, but they're trying to make the ID requirements. So, odious, that it is difficult to, for you to vote, like, counting bubble, gonna so far, how many Jellybeans are in the jar? Nebraska, Nebraska, Nebraska state, senator Julie, Salma off by said that, right. And other GOP officials have announced. They are undertaking an effort to put a vote a folder photo ID Constitutional Amendment on the ballot as an initiative. Next year off Republicans, who need to obtain signatures will need to obtain signatures equivalent to 10% of registered voters. Meaning the exact number depends on when the C ROM. shows are submitted, but that proportion equates to roughly a hundred and twenty four thousand voters, according to the states, most recent, Registration statistics. Nebraska is the only state remaining where Republicans control, both the legislator legislature and the governor's office, but have not yet passed a voter ID. Law passed legislative attempts, have repeatedly failed to obtain the two-thirds support necessary off to overcome Democratic filibusters and Republicans have shown little signs. So far of a willingness to eliminate the Nebraska's, unusually strong, filibuster rule by majority vote, Everywhere we go, they want to voter ID law but these voter ID laws do not make sense. If when you read them, listen find if you're in a state where the where they're putting these voter ID laws and all these voter suppression laws on the books, go find this written laws. Find them, they are somewhere on a website in your state read, it it doesn't make sense. New Hampshire, dealing a blow to Republican voter suppression efforts, New Hampshire, Supreme Court unanimously. Struck down a 2015 law, that imposed new voter residency requirements, and made it more difficult for young voters and college students, in particular, to cast their ballots. The 460 ruling that the law. Violated the states, the state constitutions right? To vote guarantee comes despite GOP. Governor. Chris sununu down in flipped the Court's previous Democratic appointed majority. Two, three, two, three, two, two Republican. Okay. Let me see. Let me see with the law. In question requires voters, who registered to vote within 30 days of an election to Show additional documentation that they live day-to-day. At the residence. They claimed as their domicile and attend to do so long term. Now, how are you going to tell something about? How are you going to prove that you intend to live there? How are you going to prove that? You don't know how long you going to be in a place? Are you what? Yes, I'm going to live there. So, oh my God. What, what more do they want voters? Who lack suitable, documentation. She could only pass provisional ballots, which would only count if they could provide documents. Proving their residency met the Law's requirements at a later date. If they didn't break the law and power state election officials to visit their homes and refer them to the Secretary of State's office for potential investigation, which they may which may have intimidated voters off. Why is it? Why is it? Some people are always trying to use you know who that's for that. Yeah that law. Okay that's what people of color. Come on. Now let's just say it. We going to call the cops on you. If we don't think you should.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"massachusetts bay" Discussed on WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"Off on vacation. I'll be filling in much of this week. I'm Jordan Rich. Great to be with you here. Till midnight. And if you'd like to join us, The number, of course, is 617254 10 30 or triple 8929? 10 30. We're going to school here with a great historian Peter drumming from the Mass Historical Society. And we're talking about the revolution in Boston's impact, and so many people are familiar with the freedom trail. Unfortunately, it's more of the tourist crowd than it is. Sometimes the people who live here every once in a while, I think I think it's important to revisit that because it's so cool. Yes, I think it is. I think the other thing is, it's a wonderful walk in a really great introduction to Boston because of things don't follow. And you know their geographical. They're not in logical chronological order. So, um, you You. You get bits of this along the way, I think, but I think it's it's striking that you can that very few structures still stand from Colonial revolutionary or a Boston But many of those that do are along the Freedom Trail. Oh, yeah, the old State house. And then there's the scene of the Boston massacre, which is what 17 70. In front of on the on the towards the harbor side of the Old State house. Right there, There was, there was a large mansion that's been taken over by the customs officers. Um, the of the royal government that was sort of just diagonally across the street from the ocean facing side of the State house, and it's a guard in front of the customs house who, um, got into a scuffle with teenage boys in Boston who are out on a dark Monday late winter night. And that one thing led to another. But But if you're standing in front of the state house, you're in the one of most strikingly historical places, not just in Boston, but really in America. That is the the Boston Massacre takes place right there. The Declaration of Independence has read from the balcony of the State house and then at the end of the Revolution and 17 83 with the formal peace that's announced from that same location. There's a lot of talk these days, obviously about American history, how it's being taught and so forth. But let's just focus on one in individual Christmas addicts. Of course, who was a black man. Who was killed? Go ahead. No, I was just going to eat. That was going to say Wait, I'm stepping on you. I was going to ask you about the issue of slavery where the boundary lines were what role blacks had in the north at that time. Sure now slavery existed everywhere in the North American colonies and 17 70 there had there was this sort of just the beginnings of, um, a very rapid change here in Massachusetts. But Christmas addicts is a really good example of this a person Probably. Whip mixed race ancestry with black ancestors in Native American ancestors from most people think from framing him who escaped from slavery there and went to see, uh, had a life as a sailor but remained a fugitive was when he was back here in Boston. In 17 70 when he was killed at the Boston massacre. Um, people he was had a pseudonym. People didn't know right away who he was. And so you have someone who is? Um, um, Someone who Has some personal experience. What it's what it's like to be free after being enslaved, So he was in a very tenuous position of you're saying there was slavery indeed. Oh, yeah throughout throughout the colonies, including up here in the north and the North, now anonymous scale, not not plantation slaves. There were some people here in Massachusetts who held many slaves, meaning tens or Slaves. Some, um, but not anything like the scale and the American south or elsewhere in the Americas. But nevertheless a slavery and not in more people enslaved hundreds of black people living in a Population of, say, 15,000 here in Boston at the time of the Boston massacre in 17 70. Of those hundreds of people, the majority of them enslaved. And almost nowhere in Massachusetts, which then included Maine, where you wouldn't find, um, some small number of, um African American slaves there had been, um, uh, slavery of Native Americans early in Massachusetts Bay largely had, um, no longer existed at the time in the American Revolution. But a long history. Um, slavery went back practically the founding of Massachusetts at first Enslaved. Um Native Americans and then later imported. Um, um black people from the West Indies and directly from Africa. Not one of our proudest moments. No question about that. However, I want to move on to your and also important to remember that the first place the first state That ended slavery that is slavery substantially ended during the American Revolution in Massachusetts. Slavery never existed legally in Vermont, but Massachusetts is the first state where slavery existed. That by not by act of the Legislature, but under the Massachusetts Constitution that we live under today, um, has a charter of rights and people are born free and equal. And with that state constitution, enslaved people sued for their own freedom. And once many had been successful in these freedom suits, play rule is no longer sustainable here. And, of course, Massachusetts was leading the way in terms of the abolitionist movement. Later in the later Yes, that's correct. Now I want to shift gears before we take our second brick of the hour and then we'll get to some phone calls for you, Peter and There's a lot of interest out there and that is to the everybody knows the term. The tea Party. Uh 17 73 and I'm involved currently in my daytime work in in doing an audio version of the actual trial. Audio play of the actual threats fascinating and two questions one. Let's talk about who defended the British soldiers and to the the I'm sorry. I'm Jum backing up. I'm getting my stories mixed up. Let's talk about the the The Raiders on the The tea party ships. And did they actually think that the British would fall for the fact that they were disguised as Indians? Or is that just a scam all the way? No, I think I think that one thing to remember as although they're very famous and celebrated. Sums of liberty, the kind of resistance movement here in Massachusetts and there were also were daughters of liberty. Um, uh, you know, resistance to Royal Authority, especially and, um, Customs regulations to which a lot of smuggling in colonial America and, um, the sons of liberty. Um, they were They were in the skies partly to disguise who they were. But they were taking part in, um and dumping the tea into the harbor in December of 17 73. This is illegal activity, its resistance. To the The essentially the British government is favoring the the East India company, the company bringing tea all the way from China. By way of India to America. They're getting favorable treatment. But there's going to be a tax on it. So there's resistance to the landing of this tea, and there's a sort of stand off and then it's kind of, um Organized, disciplined, direct action. It's kind of hard to explain where they the the the the disguise. It's not really a disguise, but it's a pretense of a disguise, and it's sort of it's also where there's as I understand it. There's Considerable care not to damage property other than the tea itself, Like the, uh, cargo ship would have different things on it and, um to to break open the chest and dumped them into the harbor, but not to sort of vandalized them not to steal any of the T, which must have been Hard under those circumstances, but a kind of organized resistance movement and then, um, refusal to back down. That is after the tea was destroyed or withdrawn. Um The the understanding was that the port would be closed until the local government through its taxing the people paid for the damage. And there was a refusal to pay for the damage. So there's another level of resistance on top of the resistance of the T. And then the resistance to paying for the loss of the T. Um, that brings The full force of the, um um Royal government and the British army back to Boston. And I understand before we break away for a second, I understand that the amount of Movement. Today's dollars. It was well over a million dollars worth of merchandise. I mean, it was a big hole, right? It's the harbor was described the next day Boston Harbor. It's looking like a moan field that is, it was covered with a kind of layer of T. And a T washed up across the bay and door faster and fact the Massachusetts Historical Society has a little glass bottle that contains.
Now & Then
"massachusetts bay" Discussed on Now & Then
"One by pressing to death which is just truly astonishing and the the logic behind that is worth noting right depressing to death is that you're you're literally pressed to death with rocks but the theory is that will drive you to confess the truth and of course in this particular case. The person being crushed told his truth which was he didn't have anything to tell it. Crushed him to death. Mind boggling and again the important thing to me here is that you have this idea that the children at risk in a disordered society. It's everything's kind of no one knows if they have deeds and what's going on with the indigenous people and what's happening religiously with this new guy coming in. They start to listen to the idea that they need to protect these girls. And the state gets involved the government gets involved and they start to kill people and at the end of the day they try about two hundred people they execute twenty of them and one of the things that really jumped out at me is about five years later. One of the guys who've been involved in the trials by this time he was the governor of the massachusetts bay colony publicly apologized for the witch hunt and declared a day of fasting as he said so that all god's people may put away that which have stirred god's holy jealousy against his land that he would help us wherein we have done amiss to do so no more and especially that whatever mistakes on either hand a fallen into referring to the late tragedy raised among us by satan and his instruments through the awful judgement of god he would humble us therefore and pardon all the errors and people that desire to love his name. And what's interesting about that. To me is that it's not really an apology. It's kind of saying whoever did something wrong. We are apologizing for having done that saying but even at this moment even as extreme as the witch trials were still there's an inability to totally step back and say we're sorry. We did something wrong. By accusing these people of witchcraft. They're still a degree to which they're maintaining a sort of middle ground both sides they are definitely both sides. It's an apology. But it's a mighty slim apology of apologizing for death but not apologizing for the cause of it or looking at the cost of it right. Support for this episode comes from.
News-Talk 1400 The Patriot
"massachusetts bay" Discussed on News-Talk 1400 The Patriot
"William Federer, author of many, many books and a dear friend of this program Bill. The book we're talking about now is called Socialism. The real history from Plato to the present. You've written many books. I want people to go to American minute dot com. Um, So you're giving us this history and I love it. Tell us more another would you just described Plato and how he explains what happens when you drift from democracy to? It's really an oligarchy, philosopher King top down rule. So you're effectively saying that is what socialism is. Right, So it's a structured society Now, if we skip forward 2000 years from 3 80 bc to around 15 16 80 You have Sir Thomas more, and he writes a book called Island of Utopia, and He's modeling it after Plato's Atlantis. And so this is only 20 years after Columbus discovered America it's a fictitious island off the coast of South America. The word utopia means nowhere. And it's written as a Greek dialogue with a traveler who's named high flow dais, which means peddler of nonsense. So here we have the island of Utopia told by the peddler of Nonsense, and it is a structured society with the ruling class and a commoner class and the commoners own no property. They have no privacy. It's free health care. Three identical clothing, free food and communal monastic style dining halls. Everyone know where is that, you know, identical clothes of everyone lives in three story houses that are identical with no locks on any doors. There's no privacy. There's no ale houses or coffee houses. The government tracks everyone. Everywhere you go and the government decides who gets to have Children and then take the Children away from the family and indoctrinates them with noble lies. And so this is utopia. This is this perfectly structured society. Not not perfectly structured for the people in the lower classes. Obviously, yes, definitely s O a century later. You have Sir Francis Bacon, and he writes the new Atlantis. So he's directly calling it a new Atlantis, referring to Plato's Atlantis and this new Atlantis is an island in the Pacific. Again Structured with the ruling class and commoners little more scientific careers Because the scientific revolution someone wrote a satire on it. Johnson, Swiss Gulliver's travels. No, wait is over. Francis. Did you say Francis Bacon? Yeah. I always get Francis Bacon confused with Roger Bacon. Roger Bacon is about 200 years before that, I guess. Right, Um Francis Bacon writes a book and what is it called again? It's called the new Atlantis, Okay, because I'm not familiar with that. But you're telling me that Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is a take off on that. Right. It's a satire. So here's a guy washed up on an island and it's highly structured. And there's the ruling class that rules with this minutia ridiculousness and then the commoners that just have to do their job all their life. And why is this important? The pilgrims? So the pilgrims were originally a company colony with bylaws written by investors that have looked back to Plato's Sir Thomas Port, Sir Francis Bacon and the Pilgrim Bylaws say this All goods gotten by trucking traffic trading fishing shall go into the common stock and everyone's livelihood shall come out of the common stock. And so they were attempting. Todos this County. There's some type of thing, and William Bradford, the governor of the Pilgrim says it failed, He says This proves the emptiness of the theory of Plato applauded recently by scholars in Europe. Here's the governor. The pilgrims knowing that they were attempting to live out, Plato said. The emptiness of the theory of Plato, he says that the taking away of private property and owning in a community would somehow make men happy as if they were wiser than God. He says the young man objected to doing twice as much work as the old guy, but got paid the same. The old guy considered it a dishonor to be classed in labor with the young guy, And he says the women objected to having to wash other men's clothes. Now now, Bill just to be clear. This really happened. We did we rarely hear about this, but the pilgrims, originally this the Massachusetts Bay Colony or in Plymouth This was their Massachusetts Bay Plymouth colony. Well, but so you're you're saying that they really tried this, and Bradford realized it's not working. How long did they try it for? Before they realized we've got to do something else. Well, William Bradford said over two years and he said that they nearly starved to death, and so we, he said. We had to come up with a way to we wouldn't have to suffer want like another winter of starvation. So after much discussion, it was decided that every man should plant corn for his own household. Wow, What a novel idea. It's almost funny. Isn't it funny like it's it's so basic. And yet they really experienced this. This is not some theory. They lived out a socialist type. Government society, and they said this isn't working. What if we let everyone take some care of himself and suddenly you get a type of capitalism? Yeah, And so they said, so every family was assigned a parcel of land. This made all hands more industrious. The women now went willingly into the field and took their little ones with them to plant corn, while before they would allege weakness and to have forced them would have been considered great oppression. Right is this Pilgrim switched from a Communistic socialist form of government to what's called a covenant form of government where you're taking care of your neighbor? Not because the bylaws say so. But because you're doing it as unto God. It's just as I say to me, it's almost funny because they try it. They see it doesn't work. And then they change it. Um, most people when they're talking about the history of socialism, they wouldn't necessarily go back to plate or or even to the pilgrims. And you know most of us if even if we learned that we forgot that the pilgrims tried this for two years, why did the pilgrims try this? It's kind of a funny thing that they thought Uh, you know, we're going to invent a new way of community and they really thought this might be it. What will be investors are the ones that came up with the model hands. They were looking back to Plato's Sir Thomas Moore, Sir Francis Bacon. People say Well, isn't the church Socialists didn't the early church on everything in common? Two big differences Voluntary versus involuntary and church versus government, So the early believers voluntarily sold their land and late the money at the feet of who the apostles for the church to distribute. They weren't forced to sell their land and put it at the feet of a pilot for the Roman government to distribute. Your pilot. Here's a little more money for you know on so we see the Bible is filled full of People owning private property. You wonder the promised land. God divides up the property amongst the 12 tribes and all the families. Now, if you own property, you can accumulate stuff. That's called being blessed. Karl Marx called it being a capitalist. Right. So Karl Marx said Communism could be summed up in one sentence, abolition of private property, and Lenin said socialism is a transition face to communism. And then if you own stuff you could be moved a pawn in your heart to give some of it away that is called charity. Right, So it's a little nights when it's when it's voluntary. As you say It's completely different cause if you look at human nature, uh it really is entirely different. If if a Communist government forces me, um, t to do anything, I will naturally feel oppressed. I might even do the same thing. If I do it freely. I won't feel oppressed. S so that's kind of at the heart of this. Right. If you think of it, I mean, here's God. He made everything. He exists Fraternity and everything will base him and it follows laws. Laws of planetary motion laws of gravity was the physical laws of science, and it's almost like he said, You know, been there done that I could make things that obeyed me at some time and eternity past. God said, You know, I would really like someone in my image that could love me. And so he creates this thing we call reality and you hide himself behind creation Because if you ever revealed himself he is so totally awesome every molecule in our being with false latte in front of them, and he would know if we loved him because he's so totally awesome or because the voluntary free will loving choice..
Nightside with Dan Rea
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority GM 'Commits' To No Layoffs Or Furloughs For T Or Commuter Rail
"Or layoffs the Carmen's union for its part, it's still skeptical as we hear from WBC's Karen Regal. That letter indicates the team may bring back services faster than expected and that the commuter rail would see a significant increase in service next month with its new schedules. The letter also promised no layoffs or furloughs about 40 commuter rail employees were about to disembark thanks to layoffs, and now they will not Boston. Carmen Union President Jim ever says he's still worried then we have no covert numbers out tonight from DPH, the state now reporting 1887 newly confirmed cases on the seven day average positivity rate 2.1% and for context here that is the first time it's been above 2% since last month, officials say 43 more people have died of covert 19. I'm Nicole Davis. You're on
Weird AF News
"massachusetts bay" Discussed on Weird AF News
"Get started and good luck with your podcast. Good luck with your creation. Good luck with your life. Man say in is trying to get a date on the boston. Subway system I just relish the moments. When i get a weird news piece out of boston the accent and all that stuff okay here. We go fun times. The prince of darkness is yeah. I love it. Oh it's almost as though the author of the attacl knew. I was going to read this in a boston. Accent put darkness right in the first sentence. The prince of darkness is apparently looking for a date on the boston subway system. I'm gonna tell you about the boss. The subway system is very small and very slow. I can't believe how slow the trains up. That's that's my impression of the boston. Subway system so twenty year old lady was approached. No it says a twenty year old lady approached the transit police at the massachusetts bay transportation authorities forest hills station the forest hills station. I think that's on the orange line. So then you guys know where it is on the subway system orange line. I believe that is the orange line right. Can anyone at the orange line with my bostonian accent. Haven't taken it in a while. But i'm pretty sure it's the orange line. We'll use colors in boston. We got the green lime. Got the red line. got the orange line. Got the blue line. that's what we're working with. It's not like in new york city when we got the numbers in the lettuce although they always they also use colors in the new york one but no no. No one really likes to say the colors. No one's like take the grain like take the four five six. Anyways i digress per us so lady comes up to the police. She complains about an encounter with a man dressed all in black including a mask covering his entire face. Not only that. He's got a hood drawn very tight. The woman tells the police that the man type something onto his cell phone and then extended his am across to her displaying a message on his smartphone. that says i am satan and then he just standard her. That's what she says he just stand at me. He shows me on a smartphone. It says i am satan. The woman said the key the encounter frightened her so she pointed out satan to the police. She pointed him up the twenty two year old man. he's twenty two years old. This guy the saint saint would be a lot older than that. He told the police he was only flirting. Trying to be funny. Said i was going try and get her number. You're trying to get a number. That's how you get a number you stupid. You scare the crap out of people. What's wrong with you. I am satan. You think ladies going to respond. I am satan a young girl at twenty. She's going to respond. I am satan you out of your mind bro seriously. He was told that his actions would not funny of course and he was expected from the station. Yeah inject saint from the station you out of here satan. We objected you from this ballgame. Go back to the fiery pit wherever you came from buddy your woman lewis fiery bezel bellevue abode. The lady was escorted by the police tour destination. Lovely of the boston police. There's such sweet people in boston. Hey boston people a nice man. You know we're a little rough around the edges but real sweet people well. Let's scored a lady. That was just frightened by the devil. Destination will jek the devil as well. We ojected him. He's lucky that was all all we did was was it. Price said something like you like them apples satan. hi friends. it's your trustworthy host here. Hope you enjoy the episode. Thanks for the articles. Those of us. Who sent me articles. I appreciate that very much. You can send me stuff at funny jones gmail.com as always or go to the website weird af dot com and you can submit articles that way as well. Follow me on the social media's at funny jones that's typically where you can find me also if you have a moment to leave a review on amazon or apple podcasts. That would be tremendous on. I mean to ask you to do stuff. You don't have to do a damn thing you know you. You're the ruler of yourself. So you don't have to do anything i ask. Actually you do what you wanna do. You live life the way you wanna live it you listen to your impulses. I mean unless they're criminal thoughts and then try to try to push them down. Try to keep it to keep it. Legal right What upset i want to say. Oh i would love it if you would consider supporting the show by joining the patriot. You don't even have to join it just consider. That's fine with me Patriotic dot com slash. Weird if you get extra stuff in there. That's a pretty weird and it's fun and you can join the discussion. Which is nice. It's just if you're into weird avenues. You'll love it absolutely love it. We have a nice little group of supporters in there that are very near and dear to my heart so yeah join. The club patriot dot com slash. Weird news and remember.
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"I know in western Massachusetts Bay State system has done a phenomenal job and getting their staff Immunized as well as the ancillary staff that surrounds them. If you think about, you know, visiting nurses empties People who work in the health clinics. They've done a great job in getting that covered. So you know that's phase one. Uh, look, if you have health insurance, and the thing I love about Massachusetts is just about everybody does. If you are over the age of 75, you are now eligible in Phase two. We're starting to crack open the eligibility for individual 65 over as well as those with two or more medical conditions on then we will move on to essential workers such as K through 12 teachers transit grocery utility. Anyone in the food supply chain, sanitation and public works another public health workers. So think about who you are, as relates to the mass health phasing and you could just go 12. You know, mass dot go and look for covert information. It'll tell you right there, And then there are tons of outlets. Regarding where you can get vaccinated. We have the mass vaccination sites across Massachusetts in western Massachusetts. We have the East field more. We have U mass Amherst in central Massachusetts. We have Wister State University. We have on our health, New England website areas on the website that connect you to lots of information about Cove it you know, there's the Greater Springfield senior services. They're helping Hampton County Sheriff's Office. Uh there's a support services line there. The state has a lot of new resource is out there, including a toll free number as well as the Web site information, and I will tell you that we are making a concerted effort in the Springfield area. Make sure the underserved population and those who are vulnerable are getting their immunizations. I was just on the phone last night with some of my wonderful colleagues at our be healthy, a CEO product. And they are literally calling people and saying, Hey, can you come in? Do you need transportation? I think that's an amazing public service because, Jim, like you said, we want to get everybody immunized, and it shouldn't be just because I'm not living near the East Field ball or I don't have a car that works. But I get the night that vaccine so We're working really hard, and we're using a lot of different channels to get the vaccine deployed because if you think about it, you know we don't necessarily have a very certain supply chain. It's not like three covert. Remember when everybody Yeah, you know, think about pre covert times when you wanted to go to the grocery store and buy toilet paper. You were worried about what? You're gonna be toilet paper boy, you know, think about Jane, you know, and you know there's also logistical challenges. And, you know, we talked about that people space. Information technology and you know, it's hard to scale up logistics. No, we understand, Doctor. This has been very helpful. And I think of one takeaway we can get from this is the information is out there, folks, no matter where you are Any website you go to it will say covert information. Click here. And if whether that be your health insurer, your health care provider. The information is there Doctor. I recline Chief medical Officer and Vice President and Health. New England. Dr Klein. Thanks so much. This has been very helpful. My pleasure, Jim. Thank you for your service that somewhere in.
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"At Katie Jr dot com. And in time with Katie our timeline with Steve Zinsmeister brought to you by the husband, Wife Law team of Briar law protecting the rights of the seriously injured in Arizona since 1996 It's January 18th. And on this day in 16 44. The Pilgrim saw UFO. John Winthrop was the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and kept a diary. Back in the day, he wrote about several odd encounters with mysterious flying objects. Including an entry that recalls three men arriving by boat, who saw two lights rise out of the water in the shape of a man. It traveled into town where it disappeared. A week later, Winthrop wrote about another similar light, appearing on a hill shooting out flames and sparks. The governor actually had an idea as to what this might be because of boat had exploded near that location. A few months earlier, they found all of the bodies except for the person who they deemed responsible. That tragedy that man before his passing just so happened to profess his ability to communicate with the dead. So was the Boston Harbor Haunted was an aliens. Or was everyone just enjoying too much wine? Back then? We'll never know. But it's the first known UFO sighting in American history. And it happened on this day in 16 44. Well, while you ponder that, So let's check out your drive began detour Dan in the Valley Chevy dealers Traffic Center. All right, Well, I don't have any UFO's out there on the one on one at the moment, but we certainly have some my brake lights, brake lights identified here on the westbound I can from the 51 into the neck Park tunnel. I'm still seeing some light flowing there. An extra mentor to two minutes total. But, you know, I mean, it's heavier coming the other way. Thanks to that wreck that was eastbound 10 of the tunnel. It did get moved off, right. But now brake lights across the General eastbound from 19th Avenue into seventh Street again wreck off right the I 17 You're still working a few extra minutes this afternoon as well. 16 minute ride from the split north bound of to Peoria. I do have a rectory on the westbound to 02 Santan Freeway at power rode off to the right. 67th Avenue and McDonnell New Vehicle Fire and R. H. Johnson Boulevard north of Bell Road. A crash there. This traffic report brought to you by Western Vascular Institute, Western Vascular Institute's team of vascular. Urgent can help get your life back on track, providing care for peripheral artery disease, varicose veins and more. Visit western vascular dot com Deter Nam Ki Charon is it is a very cloudy afternoon is going to be that way into the evening and a good chance of rain Tuesday through Sunday. We sure could use it..
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The Years (plural) Without A Christmas
"Of christmas it is indulgence. Christmas has long been time to break out the good booze and gorge yourself on sweet desserts made with expensive imported spices. To say nothing of the gift giving you know who didn't like all of those things oliver cromwell when he and his puritan forces took over england in sixteen forty five. They vowed to do away with decadence and went full. Alan rickman sheriff of nottingham and cancelled. Christmas shops were ordered to stay open on december. Twenty fifth and soldiers patrolled the streets with orders to seize any and all food. They found being prepared for a feast. It would take no less than restoring a king to the throne in this case. Charles the second to get christmas back. Puritans weren't exclusive to their native england and a bunch of them thought the spoiled beauty of the new world could really use some severe self-denial the puritans we refer to as pilgrims and about whom many myths were dispelled in. Our recent thanksgiving episode were even more orthodox in their puritanism than cromwell bonus fact that parallels the split between the amish and the mennonites. The amish broke off because the mennonites weren't strict enough since the puritans were among the first europeans to establish themselves in what would become america celebrating. Christmas was not a thing. It wasn't simply that they didn't celebrate it themselves. They didn't want anyone to celebrate the holiday. They had dubbed fools tied as an england shops and schools were expected to be open though. Interestingly churches were ordered to be closed on christmas one of the two days a year when even the laziest christian can be bothered to turn up. It was more than the frivolity and gluttony that they minded they viewed it as not properly christian. Puritans followed the bible very strictly. If something wasn't in the bible like taking any day for rest other than a sunday it might as well have come straight from the devil that would include the idea of resting on the day that jesus was born but since the bible also doesn't specify what day that is no big loss s historian stephen this inbound explains puritans were fond of saying that if god had intended for the anniversary of the city to be observed he would surely have given some indication as to when that anniversary occurred. The date of december twenty fifth wasn't officially the mass of christ until the fourth century. When pope julius the first subsumed the roman festival of saturnalia into a christian celebration. Which gave us some of our most enduring traditions like holly in candles. Puritans were also not keen on the papacy so they didn't care if it was official for twenty two years from sixteen fifty nine to sixteen eighty one. The celebration of christmas was actually outlawed. In the massachusetts bay colony the law went into effect one year after the brits had gotten their christmas restored by well the restoration the laws stated that in order to prevent disorders to the great dishonour of god and offensive others. Anyone found celebrating the holiday. Either by forbearing of labor feasting or any other way would be find a hefty five shillings on one christmas day. Plymouth governor william bradford noticed some people playing an old equivalent of baseball and ordered them all to get back to work. Now would be an appropriate time. If i make an aside and i may because it's my show to remind people that religious freedom is when you say that's against my religion. I can't do it but religious freedom does not mean that's against my religion. You can't do it. Even after the ban on christmas was repealed in sixteen. Eighty one staunch puritans still fought against christmas celebrations for decades in sixteen eighty six. The newly appointed governor of the dominion of new england closed shops on christmas day and sponsored a holiday service. This idea was unpopular enough with enough people. That soldiers had to accompany the governor to church. Those sorts of protests of christmas would continue but their focus would shift from celebrating at all to the way in which it was celebrated and what a way it was. We aren't talking about a family sing. Song and three helpings of pie or even old timey whistling colonial celebrations of christmas looked more like mardi gras mashed with halloween. If it took place during spring break drunken revellers take to the streets wearing scary masks or dressed like animals singing boisterously and demanding food drink and money under threat of violence ad in the ancient pagan roots of those practices. And we see that. The puritans had quite a lot to get their noses out of joint about boston minister. Cotton mather preached to his congregation more than thirty years. After the law's repeal the feast of christ's nativity is spent in reveling dicing carding masking. And in all licentious liberty by mad mirth by long eating by hard-drinking i- lewd gaming await. Those are meant to be bad things. After the american revolution or the kerfuffle of ungrateful colonials as the british call at surreal thing. You don't have to google it. Just trust me. English customs fell out of favor and since celebrating. Christmas had come over from england. It began to peter out to. It wasn't even declared a federal holiday until after the civil war in eighteen seventy. It was around that time that americans. Reinvented christmas and it changed from a raucous pagan carnival. Holiday into a family centered. Day of nostalgia nostalgia used to be considered a mental illness by the way. But that's a story for another day. So why the shift. The early nineteenth century was a period of class conflict high employment and of rioting by the lower classes that tended to come to a head around christmastime one such christmas riot in eighteen twenty eight moved the newark city council to institute. The city's first police force in response. This motivated certain members of the upper class to change the way. People viewed christmas literary figures like washington irving the man who helped co defy the until recently launched view of christopher columbus in eighteen nineteen. Urban wrote the sketch book of geoffrey crayon gent a series of stories about the celebration of christmas in an english manor house wherein the rich person invites pour into his home and the two classes of people get along swimmingly and celebrate with quote ancient customs. As nice as that is it's worth noting that the details of the books revelry don't parallel any celebration. We know of irving actually attending and seems to have been completely imagined. It's the season of giving and you