1. Swan Report.
2. In Context.
1. Swan Report.
Cher reported at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/cher-charles-river-white-geese-seeking.html, that four swan friends of hers were missing, ALONG WITH THE PROTECTION SHE HAD LEFT FOR THEM.
We had a positive report that two pair of new swans were seen on the Charles River in Watertown, but that did not sound right to her.
A few days ago, Cher sighted the male of the parent couple of the swans. He recognized her and responded to her call. He was decidedly bedraggled. She did not see his mate nor their children.
2. In Context.
Well, let’s see.
Cambridge and the Department of Conservation and Recreation are deliberately starving the Charles River White Geese along with dumping poisons on the Magazine Beach playing fields to keep alive sickly grass they introduced there after destroying healthy, responsible grass which survived without poisons for the better part of a century. They decreased the size of the playing fields to drain off the poisons which should not be dumped on the banks of the Charles.
They promised a “lawn” to the Charles River and have walled off access between the Magazine Beach playing fields and the Charles River. The key manager, R. Corsi, does not understand the concept of regularly chopping down bushes, but the DCR regularly chops down bushes all over the place. R. Corsi has publicly bragged that the wall starves the Charles River White Geese.
The DCR has blocked off a boat dock which gave access to the Charles River for the better part of a century with more bizarre bushes and a silly bridge over a fake pond which they have since destroyed.
The opening remaining is apparently intended for access to a new highway in the Charles to go under the BU Bridge and do further damage to the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese. That planned highway could explain the lack of vegetation next to the BU Bridge in the Destroyed Nesting Area. Half of the Destroyed Nesting Area has had planted more of the DCR’s introduced bushes which the DCR will not understand how to chop down regularly and serve as more abuse.
The new highway, of course, is slated to destroy hundreds of excellent trees between the BU Bridge and the second Bridge to the east, the Longfellow Bridge.
The DCR tried to get Obama money for that destruction lying that all the targeted trees were diseased. They proved that a lie with their filings with Cambridge.
R. Corsi has proposed to extend the outrage at the Magazine Beach playing fields east ward. He wants to start by destroying grass on the top of that hill which is environmentally responsible and which makes his sickly introduced grass look bad. He want the bizarre small vehicle highway built in this area as well.
A key governor appointee has taken steps to assist destruction under the next three bridges to the west comparable to the destruction planned under the BU Bridge.
The hilltop plans would destroy a beautiful, little, environmentally responsible parking lot at the top of the hill west of the playing fields. That little parking lot is needed by little guys who use the picnic area there.
But those are little guys, and we are dealing with people who take pride, as with the Charles River White Geese and the Revere swans, in destroying the little guy as much as they can get away with.
R. Corsi used the words “not negotiable,” and the Machine falls all over itself in favor of “improvements” no matter how irresponsible or destructive. The more useless the work, the more the welfare for the contractors.
And then there is the Cambridge Common and Flagstaff park, and Danehy fields, and Alewife, and Fresh Pond, and prior destruction I am familiar with, and planned destruction I am not aware of.
The Cambridge Machine says to look at Kendall and Central. The Machine brags about air quality “improvements” at Alewife while mentioning key properties which would prevent their intended massive destruction of the Alewife reservation, its trees and its centuries resident animals. But the Machine, somehow, just cannot notice responsible alternatives to irresponsible destruction. And they have spent 14 years lying that they were concerned about the irreplaceable forest of the Alewife reservation.
When the Cambridge Machine sounds the most pious, my immediate question is always what are they trying to hide, what are they trying destroy as part of their latest “initiative”?
On the latest attack to the Charles River, the Machine started off with an attempt to bless the extension of the Magazine Beach outrage, then made noises about objecting to the destruction of the little guys’ parking lot. Then, after responsible comments from people there, the Machine delayed action, perhaps to bring out unthinking troops who will rubber stamp the extension of the Magazine Beach outrage? While they continue to deny the existence of the last 13 years?
In Chelsea and Revere, MA, the environmental problems are hidden through fairly justifiable lack of knowledge. In Cambridge, MA, the environmental problems are kept hidden through a well established and corrupt tradition of controlled, fake groups. At least, in Chelsea and Revere, the outrages and the guilty are not falsely praised as “holier” than thou.
