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Over the weekend, we also learned that the Berkeley Public Library main branch has adopted a new hard line way of dealing with the public.

The street person known as "300" was reportedly ejected from the Public Library building last weekend.

Also invited to leave was a local resident (note: that means not homeless). According to hearsay evidence this local political activist was a member of the Maquis. She has some difficulty with the English language and may have had an expired library card. In our book (opinion alert!) the closest any civilian can come to having earned a Congressional Medal of Honor would be to have served in the French underground during the Nazi Occupation of Paris. Shouldn't Berkeley residents be ashamed of this example of uber-rudeness? Hint. Hint. Why isn't she getting invitations to appear on some late night talk show?

Question: Did the Nazi Occupy Paris movement get criticism or support from the mainstream media? Was there a concerted effort to make the Nazi Occupation of Paris fail? Wasn't it called "The Maquis"? (The punishment for reading the underground anti-Nazi newspaper, Combat, was death.)

The Nazis also persecuted the gypsies. The first gypsies were thought to have come from Egypt. Gypsy is a contraction formed from the word Egypt.

By midweek, the homeless were mounting an effort to acquire yellow six pointed star patches with the word "Homeless" printed on them.

We would like to write a "Je suis Charlie" column in support of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo.

The Amalgamated Conspiracy Theory Factory was alerted to a video purportedly showing one of the murdered French policemen moving around after supposedly being shot. His face didn't show in the video and there was no background scenery to establish where the shot was made. Hence a high level of skepticism was used to respond to this bit of evidence for supporting the theory that the terrorists attack didn't really happen.

We intend on writing next week's column on the implications of the work slow-down being conducted by the New York City Police Department.

[Note: Because of technical and logistical trouble we can not use the image at this url to illustrate this week's column. Click to see what we intended to use:

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We selected a file shot of an eye-catching sight seen many moons ago in Pasadena CA.]

Do the Christian Republicans read the bible? If so, they should know our end of the column quote. In the Bible we find: "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." Matthew 25:40.

The disk jockey will play: Spring Break's song "Pizza Riot," Willie Nelson's "Band of Brothers," and (irony alert!) the Warsaw Concerto. We have to see if we can take a member of the French Resistance to dinner. Have a "with two free toppings" type week.

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