632,382 @ 12;07 pm
632,371 @ 11:53 am 632,335 @ 11:38 am all-time page views
632,316 @ 11:34 am all time page views
811 page views since 7 pm last night
32,046 last 30 days
These page views are pure hits from around the world
A competitor's Facebook page says that we are sitting here all day long driving up the numbers?I wouldn't even know how to begin to do that; I believe Google logs the ISP and counts one hit as a page view from that one source; additional hits are not counted after the ISP registers, to my knowledge.
They will do anything to attempt to mitigate the popularity of this site. Rachel Tanenhaus said that she had "inadvertently" driven the numbers up.
Amazing, and quite egotistical of her if Google only registers the ISP once. But, again, the kindness I've shown Rachel and politeness from the moment that I met her was greeted with hostility from her friends, people who all of a sudden popped up and started participating at the city council.
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Hey, the more the merrier, but some of us have been speaking out at the council for years, and what Rachel and her pals like Ruggiero and Jae Spalding and William Eisnehower Comcast Runner III do not realize is after the old guard died off (Pat Fiorello, Art Rogers, the late gentlemen who were some of the only ones at the council in the mid 2000s) that it was this writer who was the last man standing. The only one at the council fighting for TV 3 and getting rocks thrown at me.
_____________________________________________________ Then Jeannie M. and others started attending regularly, but after Pat and Art were gone, this writer was the lone wolf howling at the moon until a new group of people started attending repeatedly, not sporadically. It is the editor of this website who kept the free speech going to the point where we now have ten regulars a week in a city of 60,000.
___________________________________________________ So I thank Jae and Rachel and William for adding their two cents, as misguided as they sometimes are, but they want to throw stones at the person who has initiated change by sheer will and persistence. Shame on them.
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"Uncle" Bob Maicco said to a colleague "Why does he have to speak every week?"
His friend responded "It is the people's forum, isn't it?"
And to paraphrase retired detective JJ McLean "There ya have it."
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TV3 treated me cruelly and now this joke of a "disability commission," with angry, vicious, obstructionist individuals beating us up with their disabilities - not being compassionate but, rather, using their health issues to punch our free speech in the face. It is so unfair. They think because they got appointed to some commission that has proved in the past to be ineffective, they are now important? You have to earn that, and every time they lash out at people they are supposed to help, we can consider our options on how to legally have them removed from a committee for insubordination or derelictionof duty. They don't seem to understand that with power comes responsibility, to quote Spiderman.
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Mind boggling in their insincerity and lack of honesty when they are appointed to do just the opposite, Diane McLeod; they can be downright malicious, nasty and vindictive - and for calling them out, just as we call Mrs. Burke out, they will retaliate. Do you want to expose your kids and your seniors to that?
They should show respect to senior citizens, but you have witnessed how Madame Saddam and La ExCuso would throw verbal spitballs at seniors like juvenile delinquents that allegedly they were. And they still haven't grown up?
Heard that a couple of reprobates (on or now off the city council) were better than Avis and Hertz if you needed to get a car, allegedly, even if that car belonged to someone else and they didn't have the registration for that vehicle, but we digress and this is merely an allegation of some on the council, not saying which two - though one is alleged to have yellow teeth and the other a butcher knife...but, again, we digress.
"You like that car on Salem Street. Five bucks, use the screwdriver as the key, and don't mind the broken glass from us punching the window out to get to the car"
OH it's a delusional blog you said, Mr. Solicitor, we're just making it up - don't believe a word of it. It's a joke about two buffoons who have harassed and besmirched us for years now. Lighten up.
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So while the Disability Commission and City Hall and the Police and the stragglers from TV3 all gang up on this writer to attempt to mitigate our mission, our numbers go through the roof and the truth about the stolen election and the chief of staff and Gene McGillicuddy at the Housing Authority and other key issues get to your consciousness because I have taken the slings and arrows from the city solicitor ("He's Delusional" Rumley will yell from the rooftops) - a city solicitor who should know better when he's caught red-handed moonlighting at Somerville Court, and the other clowns who stole our access TV from us.
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As Robert Skerry of the School Committee said to me when I trounced his cousin, David Skerry, in a court of law "Someone's gotta do it." Yeah, Robert, but you get paid to do it and you ran like a coward from your cousin while I fought the good fight and won. David Skerry ran laughing to the bank, with egg on his face, ink on his shirt and a big rain smear on the back of his suitcoat (damn why don't they allow cameras into Somerville District Court, that was a thing of beauty! without his umbrella that day) but Robert Skerry is the one who promised me he would stop his cousin when they took my right to TV3 away - when they stole it - and Robert ran and yours truly did the heavy lifting and beat TV3 repeatedly in a court of law until we finally got them shut down because of alleged RACISM.
Now here's where it gets really ugly. Diane McLeod and Mark Rumley were informed of RACISM AT TV3 when a Brazilian asked me to quietly go and report them to City Hall, which I did 13 years ago on or around this month. 13 years later, they got shut down for racism against an African American woman (there were actually two that they defamed,) and City Hall is aiming its vulgar, vicious claws at me for doing the right thing.
THAT is your ugly city of Medford.
I believe the page views on Stephen Lebert (our #1 post) are actually national, not local, as we have already heard that story. This site has information that national and international readers are looking at.
But that individual using the Charter Review issue to try to get himself elected has repeatedly smeared this site and this editor. Shame on Mr. Ruggiero for being so "divisive." At least he admits it. But he's admitting that he, a carpetbagger, would be just more of the same. They say he is now kissing the ass of Stephanie Muccini-Burke. A jackass kissing the ass of a horse's ass. Now that is something to behold, if true.
So that's a little editorial on our numbers and why this site is so popular.
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CURRENT ADMINISTRATION NOT TREATING US FAIRLY
By Joe Viglione
A great Medford politician said that we must hold Muccini-Burke to her campaign promises. He is right. What Mrs. Burke has installed is a polarization tactic that is continuing the McGlynn Doctrine of breaking down our already frazzled infrastructure with lip service and back-door deals.
Polarization (politics), the process by which the public opinion divides and goes to the extremes
Mrs. Burke put together a transition team of 28 people that we know nothing about, and Council President Dello Russo refused to let us discuss who these people are and their qualifications. That is censorship.
Dragging a speaker at the council into a court of law after he was slugged by the city clerk is double censorship. These unethical individuals play hard ball and try to set an example of what they will do to you if you dare attempt to fight to uncover the alleged malfeasance swirling around them.
They are required to be public servants, but already some of broken their oath of office and refuse to be held accountable.
Who are these young ladies working for Burke and what qualifies them? Is Burke giving his son's girlfriend an opportunity over more qualified candidates? Did they actually post the job or does Burke just walk into office with a dark cloud over her head of possibly over 50 percent of the population believing their vote was stolen, that they were cheated, so that this unbelievable secrecy and lunacy that we have suffered 28 years of can continue for another cold, insensitive, vicious individual with a mean streak that is matched only by her predecessor.
It takes courage to speak up and tell the truth. There are those fearing repercussions of their loved ones if they speak out. One night at the old Applebees in Malden some friend of the mayor showed up while I was out with a friend. I said to the person "do not take a photo of us or I will contact my lawyer." It is clear that people follow me around so I've had to change my routine. Interesting that out of thin air a couple would keep sitting at my table in Woburn, a couple connected to McGlynn, so I changed restaurants. Then I go to a local restaurant on the river and a different couple sits down and starts pumping me for information. Of course when they end up on my blog they stop the stalking routine, but that I had to take an order of protection out against another TV3 crony (there's already another one on someone else in place - both individuals are not allowed near my home AND across the street from Tony's Gas. Don't you find it interesting that BOTH individuals demanded the court let them go to Tony's Gas and both were NOT ALLOWED TO) - so when you have hard documents of a long pattern of stalking and harassment designed to shut down my free speech, my blog (and Walpole/Sharon resident George Chip Hines is on Mike Ruggiero's page saying that my writings are stifling his free speech? How is that? He's still yapping, I'm just pointing out that he was on a cable TV commission and his presence hurt our free speech chances because of his connection to City Hall)
Who are the four women in Muccini-Burke's office and what are their qualifications?
Just because I point out that his "the election wasn't stolen" mantra isn't backed up by any facts while I provide some facts to prove the contrary: that it was. Then Hines says that I am "fixated" on him. Medford City Hall uses the word "targeted" while Chief Sacco just blames multiple people who come forward to help the police as "A constant complainer" (Marjorie McMillan,) "Has issues" (a female victim punched in the face by a cop,) while coddling bad behavior from Roy Belson, Officer Shawn Norton, Sgt. Jimmy Lee, Miguel Lopez, former detective Stephen Lebert, Alan Doherty's perpetual siesta, this is so alarming and that they will "pile on" to destroy critics is why we must band together stronger than ever before and hold city hall accountable.
