Got back from Boston about an hour ago.

[WilliamPitt]

Drove in on Sunday to be there for the Marathon today. I've been doing Marathon day my whole life, and I've never seen more runners or spectators. It was a 26-mile party, and while the police presence was certainly evident, it was in no way overwhelming. I walked the last four miles of the course to the finish line, and all I saw was happy people having a great time.

Took these:



Engine 33, Ladder 15 a few blocks from the finish line. These guys were among the first responders after the bombing last year, and lost two guys in a terrible Beacon Street fire a couple of weeks ago



Newbury Street, one street over from Boylston. What you're looking at is a sea of people from Mass Ave. all the way down to the Public Garden.

A million spectators six deep at the rails along the whole 26-mile course cheering on 36,000 runners, and a perfect day. The Hoyt's ran their 32nd and final Boston Marathon, there were two proposals at the finish line, and after a long year, Marathon Day is ours again.

It does not get better than that.

[spanone]

1. k&r...

[Yo_Mama]

2. Kick, thanks for posting

A good day Boston and the country.

[Warpy]

3. I miss Boston so much this time of year

but I really did get too old for those winters.

Thanks so much for those pictures. Boston's a tough city. Of course they wouldn't have let a couple of punks ruin anything the city has.

[Jack for Sanders]

4. In show of defiance, 32,000 run Boston Marathon

Some ran to honor the dead and wounded. Others were out to prove something to the world about their sport, the city or their country. And some wanted to prove something to themselves.

http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/bombs-boston-marathon-tight-security-23402914

Show of defiance? One bomber is dead and the other is in custody after the police shut down the whole city for one moron.

Just run the damn race without all the back slapping attaboys.

[WilliamPitt]

5. I used to get angry when I read dogshit posts like this.

Now I just feel really sorry for people like you.

[KamaAina]

6. Did you see this one?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024846935

Your Mom did.

[hrmjustin]

22. Wow, just wow!

[Skittles]

7. happy for the people of Boston

I think they've done a great job

[malaise]

8. Lovely

Thanks for this

Rec

[etherealtruth]

9. As it should be

Great weather and happy excited people!

Hope you enjoyed (hoping everyone that attended had a wonderful time)

[msanthrope]

10. Was the piece of shit used car salesman there? Wrong thread? nt

[sheshe2]

11. No, sadly he was not, but Our President said this the other day...

The president said the attack in Boston was very personal for him, having come to know the city as a law student at Harvard and working in a White House “full of Bostonians.”

“It’s a city that I love, that I spend a lot of time in, that’s been very kind to me,” he said. “I’ve got a lot of friends and supporters there, law professors and buddies going from way back and a lot of them go to the marathon, a lot of them run in the marathon.”

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/04/21/president-shares-thoughts-on-boston-marathon-with-wbz-tvs-lisa-hughes/

Mass loves this President, or at least most of us do. Even when they do not agree with him at all times, they respect the man and his compassion for those that suffer and those that suffered that day. He honored us as we honor him, at least most of us.

[msanthrope]

13. Our President is a class act. Boston was very kind to me, too, enabling so many Yankee rings....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Yankees

[sheshe2]

15. The President is indeed a class act.

Glad that Boston was kind to you~ LOL we are rivals. Not really, not when it comes to a tragedy, then we come together and pull for each other.

New York did for us...

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/04/yankees-play-sweet-caroline-to-honor-boston.html

I went to school with Emily DiMaggio...Dom or Joe DiMaggio's daughter.

thanks, msanthrope.

[msanthrope]

16. I was in Boston last, for this weekend....

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/03/sports/baseball-mussina-misses-yankees-4th-perfect-game-by-one-pitch.html

Saw Clemens, Hernandez, and Mussina.....walked around Boston in my #5 jersey....and got harassed by that godamn green Wall mascot.

When they came back to the Stadium the next weekend, it was another sweep of Boston, and the last time I saw the Towers, which my grandfather helped build, and the last time I had drinks with my high school prom date who died on the 95th floor of the South Tower.

And I lost four more people that day.

So I understand what it's like to lose people to terror. But I would never call Barack Obama a piece of shit because of it.

[sheshe2]

17. So sorry for your loss, msanthrope.

I wept for New York and all the lives lost. So heartbreaking.

We come together to heal at times like that.

So much pain that we all suffer together and individually. Each and everyone of us suffer in a different way. Yet to lash out at someone that has never harmed you is inexcusable. No I would never call Barack Obama a piece of shit because of my suffering.

He was not President when the Towers fell, yet he was there for Boston when the bombs went off. He stood for us as he would have for New York.

[msanthrope]

18. Indeed he did stand for us. In a way Bush never did. Thank you. nt

[WilliamPitt]

39. "But I would never call Barack Obama a piece of shit because of it"

Because that's why it happened.

Do you spin a wheel before barfing this crap up, or do you have another system?

[msanthrope]

40. Hey Will....did you appeal the formulary, in writing, as I advised you to?

Are you going to admit you had a formulary problem, not an ACA problem?

Are you going to address the false ACA info debunked in pwnmom's thread???

[WilliamPitt]

41. Hey msanthrope...did you just change the subject again?

Explain how I cussed out Obama over the Marathon bombing.

Spin that wheel.

[msanthrope]

42. Again...did you take my advice and appeal the formulary in writing?

Let me guess...you did exactly that. As you should.

[LanternWaste]

24. A class act indeed.

"Our President is a class act.."

Illustrative of that is he rarely (if ever) throws the same ineffectual pies into the same faces to the point of child-like petulance.

[msanthrope]

26. Are you trying to reprimand me? Why not just say what you mean? nt

[WilliamPitt]

12. Thanks for kicking my thread

again.

[msanthrope]

14. Did you take my advice and appeal the formulary decision your insurance

company gave you? In writing?

[rhett o rick]

19. What a lousy attempt at hijacking a thread. Grow up. nm

[msanthrope]

20. You can always put me on ignore! nt

[snooper2]

25. actually there are more replies in the subthread than to the OP

So at least mathematically speaking it wasn't a lousy attempt, so far fairly successful

[msanthrope]

30. I find that when an OP does not address posters to their thread, that tends to happen. nt

[rhett o rick]

38. In either case I think it's a lousy thing to do. It's an attempt at

distraction from the issues of the day that he doesnt want to address.

[badtoworse]

27. How crass - nt

[msanthrope]

29. Indeed. Calling the President a "piece of shit used car salesman" was crass. nt

[badtoworse]

31. Will apologized for that. The crass comment describes your post

[msanthrope]

33. No, actually I found Mr. Pitt's apology to be factually deficient, and I don't accept it, as I told

him:

You never had an ACA problem. You had a formulary problem. Under the ACA, however, you have new rights to appeal the formulary decision, and you *may* have rights to a temporary 30-day supply. My suggestion is that you seek legal advice--and not rely on your idiot of a friend who told you this amazingly incorrect information (which I note that you STILL haven't corrected, or apologized for):

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4686037

An ENTIRE thread was devoted to correcting this piece of incorrect information.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4687956

Note--you did not bother to participate in that thread, or otherwise admit that you were wrong.

As the mother of a disabled child who is currently taking two non-formulary medications, and having gone through the "appeal process" more than once, I found your anger to be completely misplaced. I also found the repeated threads, each upping the ante, to be divisive and unseemly. They made DU suck.

Will you admit you were simply wrong?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4768529

I think Will should admit that he had a formulary problem, and not an ACA one. And I think a proper apology would acknowledge pnwmom's excellent thread.

[badtoworse]

34. You should stop digging

[msanthrope]

35. I'll take it under advisement. nt

[LordGlenconner]

32. I'm more curious if the Lens Crafters was rebuilt

[LanternWaste]

21. I hope to visit Boston one day.

I hope to visit Boston one day. Cool people living in the midst of an historical icon.

[WilliamPitt]

36. No

Not sure if it will be, either. All boarded up. The glasses on my wife's face were purchased there.

[merrily]

37. Good idea. Many neat things to see in and around Boston.

In general,this is a good website for visitors to check out. http://www.bostonusa.com/

And you can see a lot of the historic things on line: Plimoth Plantation, Paul Revere's House and the rest of the stops on the Freedom Trail, the USS Constitution and the Constitution Museum and so on. Sure, in person is better, but, until then, a virtual visit is better than nothing maybe?

[hrmjustin]

23. K&R!

[badtoworse]

28. Nice. Thanks for posting