Monterey Bay Forum

Water supply for Boston

BELCHERTOWN (CBS) – Shortly after midnight Tuesday, seven people were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir.

State Police say the five men and two women are from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore, and “cited their education and career interests” for being in the area. The men told police they were chemical engineers and recent college graduates.

The Quabbin, in Belchertown, is one of the country’s largest man-made public water supplies. Boston’s drinking water comes from the Quabbin and the Wachusett Reservoirs.

State Police say there were no warrants or advisories on any of the individuals and “there was no evidence that the seven were committing any crime beyond the trespassing.”

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Firneze Sage:  Their career interest is poisoning water supplies, me thinks.

book by Firenze Sage aka  attorney James A. Jackson,  Shoveling Smoke: Laws and Regulations Smother Jobs and Economy

Internet access more important

What do affluent Americans look for when picking a hotel for vacation?

It’s not beach access, fitness centers or privacy but something far more practical: Internet access, according to the Resonance Report on Affluent Travel and Leisure released Thursday.   

book by Firenze Sage aka  attorney James A. Jackson,  Shoveling Smoke: Laws and Regulations Smother Jobs and Economy

Pass the bugs please.

An insect a day keeps the doctor away.

The latest weapon in the U.N.’s fight against hunger, global warming and pollution might be flying by you right now.

Edible insects are being promoted as a low-fat, high-protein food for people, pets and livestock.

According to the U.N., they come with appetizing side benefits: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and livestock pollution, creating jobs in developing countries and feeding the millions of hungry people in the world.

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Firenze Sage: Are greenhouse gas emissions really reduced by eating cock roaches?      

book by Firenze Sage aka James A. Jackson,  Shoveling Smoke: Laws and Regulations Smother Jobs and Economy 

Rice lies for Obama

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice was honored Tuesday night with the 2013 Louis E. Martin Great American Award.

Specifically, the organization is honoring Rice for ”her work in advancing U.S. interests, strengthening the world’s common security and prosperity, and promoting respect for human rights,” another press release states.

Rice has “the absolute, total, complete confidence of the president,” Biden said at a gala for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, according to press reports. “When she speaks… no one wonders whether or not she is speaking for the president.”

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Firenze Sage:  It’s always encouraging to hear that the liars have control of the awards.     Four More Obama Years

No Purple Hearts for Fort Hood victims

The U.S. Army on Friday formally declined to award Purple Heart medals to the victims of Major Nidal Hasan’s shooting rampage at Fort Hood, saying the move would damage his ability to receive a fair trial.

The Army in a position paper said that awarding the medal to those wounded and posthumously to those killed in the November 2009 attack would ‘set the stage for a formal declaration that Major Hasan is a terrorist’ because the medal is presented to military members who are ‘wounded or killed in any action against an enemy of the United States.’

Islamic political ideology killed these soldiers?

Firenze Sage:  If the military court cannot be fair because some dead heroes received medals, then they should resign.

      Four More Obama Years