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Saturday, June 27, 2009
The political blog, Wonkette, yesterday, while jumping with both feet onto the Desecration of Holy Child Special Needs Trig bandwagon, casually called him Bristol Palin's son.
Yes, that's right. "See that photoshop up there of Governor Palin with Bristol Palin's child, Trig? "
Not one of the comments (and there are many) have yet called them on it. They've not bothered to "correct" it. Not even, an "Oops, our bad. It was just a typo. LOL."
58 comments:
- wayofpeace said...
SARAH PALIN just stepped into a nest of the toughest, political-savvy bloggers in the internet.
they got CRED to spare and they love nothing more than bringing hypocrites down.
and now that PD--and perhaps TT--is on their radar: watch out; WONKETTE might just be the way this lie is taken to the MSM.
as an aside, i've noticed that posting and log-in traffic has gone untypically down at the sister site. i wonder if it has to do with the problem i've been having posting. it's been on and off for me since last night; mostly off. i type my post and when i hit the 'reply' button, it just erases the post and tells me i'm not logged in, which is not so.
i thought i would pass this along. maybe we've been hacked?
- June 27, 2009 at 6:04 AM
- B said...
Some Wonkette comments were amusing, like calling Palin a "special needs governor" (she does demand more attention than most)or calling the photo "i-comic."
Perhaps this is the way Babygate will end. More and more sites will refer to TriG as Bristol's son, and people who are not in Sarah's base will just assume they've always known that.
- June 27, 2009 at 6:15 AM
- Virginia Voter said...
Wonkette has always been doubtful that Trig is Bristol's child...they have often referred to Andrew's posts about Trig in the past. That blog shows no mercy to anyone, as it should be. I wonder if Stapletongue will unleash some venom on them...if she does, she better be prepared. The images readers have photoshopped onto Trig's body are hilarious.
Wonkette is widely read, and brought a record number of readers to Celtic Diva's blog, and as a result has opened up a whole can of worms for Sarah.
- June 27, 2009 at 6:46 AM
- Patrick said...
Haha! I wonder what Megaphone Stapletongue will say to that.
(rhethoric question...)
She will say nothing, because Wonkette got it right.
We are approaching the "end-times" - the Godzilla from Wasilla will go down soon...
The rapture is coming! :-)
- June 27, 2009 at 7:42 AM
- mlewis said...
Sarah Palin is having a hard time getting into the Main Stream Media. Her outrageous comments about David letterman made it, and she played it as long as she could. But look at her competition today-- Sanford, Farah, Michael, Iran. Can't a girl get a break? I'm afraid that it's an open invitation to the internet photoshop people to produce more just to provoke a response. There reaches a point where she might have to be a grownup and just let it go. Nope, not a chance!
- June 27, 2009 at 8:07 AM
- midnightcajun said...
Audrey, did you miss the second wonkette posting that linked to you?
And yes, wayofpeace, I've had trouble with comments on TeamTruth disappearing, too. Obviously something is up. Patrick?
- June 27, 2009 at 9:01 AM
- Sarah in SC said...
I think someone should send a link to Wonkette's column directly to the Guvner & Megolamaniac and ask for comment.
Then when they are outraged, we can ask why they don't just put it to rest with documented proof.
- June 27, 2009 at 9:09 AM
- Aspiecelia said...
Well, I guess someone has done some research. The truth will set you free.
- June 27, 2009 at 9:37 AM
- Truthseeker2 said...
I think wonkette is on to something. Let's all simply speak what we now know to be true -- that Trig is Sarah's grandson. No more maybe. The more we and others do this, the more likely it will be that the truth will be publicly acknowledged. The fact is that there is no longer any reasonable doubt, so the language we use should no longer be conveying the "benefit of the doubt." Repeat after me: Trig is Sarah's grandson. Sarah is Trig's grandmother.
- June 27, 2009 at 10:14 AM
- Betsy S said...
I think B has just about got it right. Time will pass, and more and more "slip-ups" will occur, until not even the tabloids will think it such a big deal that
SP adopted her first illegitimate grandchild. She can
even play it to gain nobility points--Bristol couldn't
manage a Down syndrome baby and needed to complete her education....
- June 27, 2009 at 10:49 AM
- the problem child said...
I wouldn't read too much into Wonkette's characterization of the mother of the icon. It is a satire/ political comedy site, and while widely read by Washington insiders, taken seriously as a news source by none. Sort of the like the onion, but inside the beltway.
Nonetheless, they are helping to keep the question on the table, and boy, Sarah & Meg better not try to mess with them!
- June 27, 2009 at 11:14 AM
- MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel said...
wayofpeace, you just described Wonkette to a T: "a nest of the toughest, political-savvy bloggers in the internet." That's the folks at Wonkette. They've seen it ALL: they can be tasteless, they can be rude, but I do not recall a single instance of them being factually wrong. In one of their most famous scoops, Wonkette broke the story of the young woman staffer on the Hill who was blogging about her sexual exploits, some of them for money.
"Surely not!" brayed the so-called Mainstream Media (MSM).
Surely, said Wonkette, and they were right.
I have long thought that except for Andrew Sullivan, the MSM has left the TriG issue alone because they are squeamish about amniotic fluid, trying to be high-minded, and believing that in the end, SP's other baggage will sink her. Bringing down GINO is not how some of the most aggressive specimens of the MSM (believe me, Mr. B and I know them personally) want to make their name. It's not what they want in the headline of their obituaries, the way "Watergate" will be teamed with the deaths of either Bob Woodward or Carl Bernstein.
In addition, the unspeakable questions of changing levels of social class are badly handled in Washington in instances in which women are involved. The beaming, incompetent Alberto Gonzales was a show horse for the Bush administration as a "credit to Hispanics." Yet many of the same people who thought Gonzo was so swell currently are insisting that Sonia Sotomayor graduated second in her class at Princeton solely because of "affirmative action."
Would SP ever have attracted so much attention if she hadn't convinced tools like Rick Lowry of National Review Online that she was "winking right at him" during the VP debate?
After all this time, after all these years, Washington still does not know how to handle women of talent and intellect. Hillary Clinton grew a thick skin for the sake of survival. And during their tenures as Secretary of State, both Janet Reno and Madeline Albright were totally trashed by the MSM because of their utilitarian looks and dress.
Then take a woman like SP, devoid of genuine intellectual ability but possessing an uncannily lizard-level sense of personal space and survival. Criticize her, and she (or Meg, or Cee4Pea, or Eddie) will scream "Desecration! Sexism! How dare you!"
Since before her fancy-pageant-walkin' days, SP has had a voracious appetite for attention. This appetite has reached a pathological proportion. Not a week can go by without poking her painted face into the news, by whatever means are necessary--Letterman a week ago, trashin' Biden and Kerry in Kosovo this week. Surely I'm not the only one whose gran advised, "Pride goeth before a fall"?
- June 27, 2009 at 12:01 PM
- wayofpeace said...
mrs TBB and PROBLEM CHILD,
another thing to consider is that the original WONKETTE, a woman named ANN MARIE COX, has moved up the media ladder after she sold her blog.
perhaps you've seen her. she is a regular visitor in the RACHEL MADDOW show. i am sure she still cares for her blog-child, so i would be surprised if she does not keep up with its content.
what i am saying is she overlaps the 2 worlds: hip-but-obscure blogs and the MSM.
but MRS TBB, as you say, our girl SARAH has so many targets on her back, they'd rather go for the more political than the more icky personal one: who is triggy-bear;s mom.
here's hoping: from our mouths to ANN MARIE's ear!
- June 27, 2009 at 12:58 PM
- wayofpeace said...
ANN MARIE'S wiki page:
- June 27, 2009 at 3:49 PM
- allison said...
a thought came to me today when i was driving from florida to chicago. what do you think? palin is going to lose weight until she looks very sick. then she is going to say she is sick. then she is going to say she can't care for trig. then she is going to say that she is giving him to bristol to raise. there. problem solved. it's just that she can't keep up this charade forever. in the pix on her twitter special olympics video, bristol is holding trig every time. bristol can't possibly want her mom to raise her son. oh well. it's just a theory. we'll have to wait and see how it works out.
- June 27, 2009 at 7:29 PM
- B said...
A Wonkeete comment:
Piper Indy Grace Palin . . . Only the cruelest of parents would name their kid with the initials P.I.G. Palin. . . . Willow Bianca Faye Palin. Hmmm. W.B.F.P.?
- June 27, 2009 at 8:07 PM
- Joe Christmas said...
Wayofpeace, I totally agree...Those comments are hilarious. clearly the 80 % of people who see thru spalin's antics are out there.
We need to merge these two websites, facts and humor go a long way.
- June 27, 2009 at 8:48 PM
- The Editor said...
Mark (Don't Cry With Me, Argentina) Sanford's e-mails to his Latina lover were outed by her former boyfriend months ago. They were forwarded to the MSM and authorities, yet neither presumably did anything about them until Sanford went for his hike along the Appalachian Trail. Same with the John Edwards scandal. It took a so-called sleazy tabloid, the National Enquirer, to break the story. The NE has already reported on Palin's affair with her husband's business partner and Trigate, and they haven't been sued or called out by Palin in the national media, so one could make the assumption that they've got the goods on her. Between bloggers and some tabloids, the MSM is becoming irrelevant.
- June 27, 2009 at 9:37 PM
- Tootsie said...
Another thing about Ann Marie - she covered McCain-Palin during the election and was there the morning after, around the pool in AZ before Palin went back to Alaska with her tail between her legs. I heard Ann Marie discuss it on Rachel's show that night.
Love Ann Marie. I'm sure she observed a lot of Palin family antics during the campaign - that she might share - some day. One can only hope.
- June 27, 2009 at 11:07 PM
- Amy1 said...
Take a look:
- June 28, 2009 at 4:56 AM
- wayofpeace said...
a GREAT point, EDITOR.
several MSM's outlets may have the goods but for some reason do not want to risk it... OR maybe they need a first person account/confirmation. someone who was there and has evidence.
which is perhaps what VANITY FAIR has been able to do in their month-long stay in AK.
TOOTSIE, you're right, ANN MARIE covered the JM/SP campaign. so she may know more than she lets on, may be passing it along to her former blog.
- June 28, 2009 at 5:59 AM
- NY tabloid chick said...
I watched last night's SNL, which was a rerun (James Franco; Kings of Leon) from last fall... there was a lengthy SP skit in which one of the lines was "And what about Todd? You know her husband is doing those daughters!" I know this was discussed in the Letterman days of rage thread, but I was very amused to see it again last night!
- June 28, 2009 at 6:53 AM
- mel said...
B said: "Perhaps this is the way Babygate will end. More and more sites will refer to TriG as Bristol's son, and people who are not in Sarah's base will just assume they've always known that."
I dread this sort of ending. That the truth of Trig's parentage just sort of dribbles out and becomes accepted, without anyone calling SP on her lies. But I do think that there's more than enough on record now that any politician can bury her with it if and when he/she chooses. If SP never runs for office again, she might well survive by continuing to alternately stonewall and lash out. I could live with that, but not with her in office with the lie still denied.
- June 28, 2009 at 11:07 AM
- Alex said...
I had a different reaction to Wonkette's line stating Trig is Palin's grandson. It is redolent of the way educated Easterners think of her: dismissively.
Like: She's an idiot. Done. Move on.
In history, the scariest folks, in my opinion, are the ones who don't give up. And before you know it, what??!! Richard Nixon is president?! How did that happen??!. George Bush got reelected??! How did that happen?!
Stating Trig's Bristol parentage as fact is as dangerous as not proving it in the first place.
- June 28, 2009 at 11:17 AM
- Alex said...
Yes, well, I almost have to retract my previous statement above. The World may indeed stop SP by driving her mad. . .
A Jillion Photo-Shopped Babies with Smug Sarah Looking On
- June 28, 2009 at 11:45 AM
- mel said...
Alex, I find those photoshops so profoundly funny I really wonder about myself. I've been visting them every day. God bless the internets for striking at the heart of SP's inanity, and insanity!, with creativity of the basest order.
- June 28, 2009 at 12:41 PM
- Truthseeker2 said...
It was great to see that Maureen Dowd included our Sarah in her list of the Republican's "sanctimonious pantheon":
"The Republican Party will never revive itself until its sanctimonious pantheon — Sanford, Gingrich, Limbaugh, Palin, Ensign, Vitter and hypocrites yet to be exposed — stop being two-faced."
- June 28, 2009 at 1:07 PM
- mlewis said...
Here's the thing about Wonkette's quote. If it is repeated, the public can either begin to accept it as fact or just as easily reject it. If no one is buying it, the statement won't resonate, no matter what.
OJ was found not guilty after four hours of "deliberation." Given how long the trial lasted, and how much evidence there was, we can pretty well accept that that was not an in depth deliberation. Jokes were made about OJ for the last 12 years; the jokes stuck-- no one laughed them off saying, "You don't know what you're talking about." You'll notice that OJ never sued anyone for those outrageous comments.
Another example: The recent elections in Iran. Millions of paper ballots requiring hand counting were cast, and the results were known within 3 hours. Some of the polls hadn't even closed. No wonder that the world rejects those results. Count or no count, it's public perception.
So, if comments like Wonkette's are repeated, it's the public's choice to accept the comment or reject it. Time will tell.
Meanwhile, it is interesting to see what Sarah and her spokespeople respond to. Nasty jokes were made during the campaign, but McCain kept her on a short leash, and she probably wasn't allowed to answer people back. Today, with so little attention being paid to her, she responds to trivial comments for the publicity, yet neglects some of the really strong material. No law suits either. Hmmm.
- June 28, 2009 at 3:03 PM
- KaJo said...
B said June 27, 2009 8:07 PM..."A Wonkeete comment: Piper Indy Grace Palin . . . Only the cruelest of parents would name their kid with the initials P.I.G. Palin. . . . Willow Bianca Faye Palin. Hmmm. W.B.F.P.?
That was me, B.
I tend to get around... :)
You left out the best part! About my observation that Tripp's initials (if he were a Palin) would be T.E.M.P.!!
- June 28, 2009 at 8:51 PM
- regina said...
Your footage "Sarah Palin an American Woman" was scrubbed. There will be lots of people looking for the Elan Frank bits coming from Palin Hoax.
I found the same videos, still working, on youtube:
- June 29, 2009 at 5:52 AM
- midnightcajun said...
I suspect the recent spate of faux outrage directed at anyone and everyone who can possibly be construed as "going after the poor, innocent children" is a very calculated move dreamed up by one of the brains in Sarah's corner (not sarah's little self-obsessed brain). What we are witnessing is advance damage control for the day the truth about Sarah's nonpregnancy comes out. There will be a concerted effort by the Pee Team to construe the story as an attack on the children and on sarah's sexuality and therefore off limits. The palinists will continue to worship her as a wonderful mother who adopted her daughter's DS child and completely overlook the fact that she could have done that without lying to everyone. The MSM is populated by such lazy idiots that they will in all likelihood follow along like the silly little puppets they are. That is the danger.
What we need to do is somehow get them to frame the story from the get-go so that it is all about Sarah's lies, Sarah's deceit, Sarah's incredible lack of judgement, the ugly vindictiveness directed at anyone and everyone who expressed doubt about her veracity. Because in reality, that's what's important here. This isn't about Bristol or Trig or anyone except a self-absorbed mentally deranged woman whose political future MUST be destroyed for all time.
Do we have anyone out there skilled at putting together a video montage? Now is the time to draw together all the lies she has uttered--The video where she's pretending to be pregnant and talks about people who think a woman can't be pregnant and govern; the Ziegler interview where she sneers at the Truthers, where she says "Do they want to see my stretch marks?" Maybe interspersed with stills like the Gusty photos and quotes of some of her nastier anti-truther statements such as the ones she wrote to the ADN. If we could get something like that posted on YouTube, it would have the potential to go viral.
- June 29, 2009 at 8:58 AM
- midnightcajun said...
Sorry for posting twice, but I had to share this gem with you! It comes from the blog of a palinist who left a string of angry comments here a few months ago (I won't link because I don't see any reason to send her traffic). Anyway, she has finally figured out what drives us: we are all suffering from Post-Abortion Syndrome!
That's right. Says Lisa, "I believe that many women attacking Sarah Palin do so because they had an abortion themselves, or multiple abortions, and Palin's story which touches many so deeply in a positive way actually brings them personal shame. With shame comes pain. [This is the] reason so many hate Sarah Palin with the most vicious disdain imaginable, and it's the reason they laugh and sign checks when they see a photoshopped Trig Palin.
"The impact of abortion on women would naturally lead to disdain toward any woman who has managed to become a successful person while rearing several children, particularly if one of the children has a very challenging disability like Down Syndrome."
So there you have it: we're all losers who never got over our abortions and hate Sarah because she is a mother who has a successful career AND her very own DS arm candy.
In monitoring the palinist sites these last few months, I have been struck by the way these people seize upon a crazy assumption and then extrapolate from there a long string of deductions that have absolutely no relation to reality. The above astonishing conclusion makes so many assumptions, where do you start? 1) women who have abortions never go on to have other children; 2) women who have abortions all suffer lifelong guilt; 3) any woman who hates sarah is an unsuccessful childless loser; 4) all women want children; 5) it is impossible to dislike Sarah simply because one dislikes her politics and ethics, therefore one must have an ulterior motive. This is why you can't argue with these people: they are arguing from so many false assumptions that they practically need to be sent to a re-education camp before they can even begin to have a logical conversation with anyone.
I also find it funny the way they go on and on about Palin Derangement Syndrome, when they are seriously suffering from ODS--Obama Derangement Syndrome. Or, more accurately, BPOS--Black President Derangement Syndrome.
And now this loser needs to get back to work!
- June 29, 2009 at 9:16 AM
- Morgan said...
That comment of yours was one of the best I've ever read here.
I've grown used to rolling my eyes at the other "I-Know-Why-You-Hate-Sarah" explanations. We're all jealous because she's hot. We're all jealous because she's a successful working mother. We're all threatened by her because she's a hot working mother.
But this abortion thing? This just left me temporarily gobsmacked.
I mean, seriously. Of all the asinine speculations this has to take the cake.
So we've all had abortions now? That's a lot of abortions, if I do say so myself.
I guess when the truth comes out that she didn't even give birth to Trig the new thing they'll say we hate her for is her bravery. After all, none of us have the kind of balls that would lead us to believe that we could fake a pregnancy and pass off somebody else's kid as our own.
If Trig happens to be Bristol's we'll be double jealous, since it takes even more balls to steal your daughter's kid and pass it off as your own.
Yea. We hate her because she's hot. We hate her because we've all had abortions. And we hate her because we all have ball envy.
Good grief.
- June 29, 2009 at 11:28 AM
- Ennealogic said...
Regina, thank you so very much for the link to the "American Woman" Fox videos.
A lot of that footage was taken between April 6-8 -- just 10 days before the "wild ride" -- by Elan Frank who sold his interview footage to Fox.
There are two outfits Sarah wears during the Elan Frank filming: One, a long black jacket with a orangey-reddish-white floral scarf. Two, a light turquoise blue jacket with a black form-fitting top underneath. This footage is crucial because it was shot so close to the date Trig was supposedly born, and because it does NOT show a woman who is 33 weeks pregnant.
I've saved the 5-part video, and will try to get some frames from them.
- June 29, 2009 at 1:14 PM
- MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel said...
midnightcajun and morgan, wooooo! Cheers and applause!!! Two of the greatest posts EVER! I remember Lisa, and yes, that would be quite a passel of hypothetical abortions. I don't want SP serving even as dogcatcher why? Because she's utterly unfit AND a liar? And it would be unfair to the dogs?
It is not possible to argue with these people, but heaven knows, they want to argue with us.
I also find the "hot" concept rather funny about SP because I don't know a single man who's said, "Hell yeah, I'd hypothetically do her." Glued-on doodads on the toenails are not very Washington, D.C. power-brokerish.
- June 29, 2009 at 2:31 PM
- Jen said...
Hmmm... So we hate Sarah because we've all had abortions and she didnt? So that must also explain why we roll our eyes at the Octomom and Kate (of J&K +8). We don't like them because they had a lot of kids, not because of their poor judgment or anything... So the more kids a woman has, the more we dislike them, I guess.
- June 29, 2009 at 2:36 PM
- NakedTruth said...
Those SP followers over at C4P detest TT's. I wonder why they did not address Wonkette for pointing out that Bristol was holding her baby, Trig.
It's really strange why Sarah and her groupies never attack anyone for mis-identifying Trig as Bristol's baby. Think about it. Trig has been shown as Bristol's baby on The Tyra Banks Show, LKL (During the Johnston interviews) and in various other news outlets when referencing Bristol the unwed teenage mother. Why is there never an outrage by Sarah? You would think there would be considering that there was and still is a very wide spread rumor that Bristol is Trig's birth mother. Where the hell is the outrage? To me this is a million dollar question. We now know just how petty Sarah is. If there was absolutely no truth to babygate, I think that these mis-identifications would have been addressed a long time ago.
- June 29, 2009 at 6:39 PM
- Dangerous said...
Um. That's Willow holding Trig on Wonkette.
- June 29, 2009 at 9:02 PM
- LisanTX said...
Here is a wonderful comment from the recent Progressive Alaskan blog about the Wild Ride. I highly recommend reading the entire post and comments:
Hmmm.... Living in this community also - and knowing CBJ and Sarah personally - I am starting to see this through a different prism. Anon at 7:38 is right - CBJ is a healer - and Anon at 6:17 is right - she is totally professional ---- but, if she won't speak honestly and openly about Sarah's choice to fly across the country with ruptured membranes, then Lee Tompkins at 6:30 is also right - Cathy should not be pitied.
CBJ - where are you? Your good name and the reputation you have in this Valley as caring for those who are voiceless is unmatched. Don't allow the silence to answer for you any longer. Who cares about gas lines or any other lines.
Sarah was in charge of her unborn son's life line - and if indeed her account of having started leaking fluid in Texas - but waiting some twenty hours later to deliver him in AK is correct - then she put him at serious risk.
Please speak up and tell the truth. Sadly, Sarah is not someone we can expect to hear the truth from in this matter. And no, it's not a private matter. Sarah desperately wants to be the "example" - iconic or otherwise, of mothering a special needs child. The example of her birth account deserves the truth. For Alaskans - and now, after 8/29/08, for Americans.
There are several comments from people who are patients of Dr. CBJ. Very interesting.....
- June 29, 2009 at 9:29 PM
- wayofpeace said...
precisely, NAKED TRUTH! excellent point.
any normal person with nothing to hide would have requested an apology. the fact that nary a word from DOPEY MOTOR-MOUTH speaks volumes.
- June 29, 2009 at 11:33 PM
- Truthseeker2 said...
The Vanity Fair article is on-line at http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/sarah-palin200908. It is relatively effective in revealing Sarah Palin's character (or lack thereof) and weaknesses, but it does not cast any doubt whatsoever on the circumstances of Trig's birth.
- June 30, 2009 at 2:54 AM
- B said...
Truthseeker2, not only does VF not cast doubts on TriG's parentage, I'd say it goes out of its way to present Sarah's account as true (e.g., TriPP as "only grandchild").
Perhaps this was strategic, lest that topic distract from the compelling political narrative. (When the MSM eventually admits to Babygate's deception, the article will document some of Palin's continuing lies about the situation.) It is a good read.
Maybe Palin should have someone proof her Tweets for Twitter, though confusing "affects" and "effects" is not uncommon.
- June 30, 2009 at 6:55 AM
- midnightcajun said...
Well, the VF article might not expose Babygate, but it has to be one of the most devastating destructions of a political figure I've seen. And it does mention the claim that she was leaking amniotic fluid all the way back to Alaska.
For some reason, as I read it, I flashed on the horror with which most women would have reacted to that situation. How can any woman who has ever been pregnant believe that an eight-months pregnant woman who discovers she's leaking amniotic fluid would not immediately seek medical care? You're in love with your baby, nourishing it carefully within you, and suddenly see a sign that indicates something is going wrong. Yet you just shrug, give a speech, and put yourself beyond medical help for hours at a time on a plane? You're either crazy or a liar. Which is worse? I think crazy is worse. And I think that's the point the VF article was making--she's crazy.
- June 30, 2009 at 8:17 AM
- MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel said...
Although I was disappointed that Todd Purdum kept to the high road regarding TriG's parentage, I wasn't surprised. He did point out that after the alleged "wild ride," SP drove another "45 minutes" from Anchorage so that TriG could allegedly be born in Wasilla.
Two big oopsies there: One, TriG reportedly was born on April 18, 2008, at Mat-Su Hospital, the 40-something-bed facility in Palmer, not Wasilla. And two, if it was so dad-gummed important that TriG be born in Alaska, why did the "wild ride" bypass the NICU in Anchorage? That's still Alaska.
Purdum is in the innermost circle of MSM Washington journalists. His wife is Dee Dee Myers, and one of his neighbors is Karl Rove. In fact, when Purdum interviewed Rove a couple years ago, the chat took place at Rove's home, and Purdum was served sausage made from a deer that Rove's son Andrew shot. Purdum did a pretty good job demonstrating SP's unfitness for office. And believe me, he doesn't want to have TriG-Gate attached to his obituary.
- June 30, 2009 at 8:34 AM
- Shelby said...
Two things in the VF article that make one go hmmm... Why the 'Desperate Housewives' reference? The Palin saga is really not Wisteria Lane except for Bree's fake pregnancy.
Also, why the blow-by-blow description of the Wild Ride?
My guess is these are both not-so-veiled messages to Palin and Company that no one is buying her story.
I think the VF article made one thing very, very, very clear. This woman has some serious mental problems.
But here is the question as I see it. Either Palin birthed Trig or she didn't. It is that simple. If she did, great, no worries, show a birth certificate or some hospital pics or let Dr. KB give a real interview and move on.... Really very simple... Wonder why that hasn't happened?
Now if she didn't.... Well that is a little trickier. Because no matter where Palin goes or how high she elevates herself through pure unadultered chutzpah through the elite ranks of the Republican party - that lie will always be there right smack in the middle of the room - bigger than any elephant the Republican party could ever dream up.
IMO, Palin is on borrowed time. The Republicans may try to squeeze every cent out of her or use her as a place-holder until a legitimate candiate emerges, but in the end she is more radioactive than an A-Bomb and she will be dumped quicker than yesterday's garbage when her limited usefulness finally wears out.
No one is being fooled by Sarah Palin anymore, except of course, Sarah Palin.
- June 30, 2009 at 12:09 PM
- Kathleen said...
Dangerous -
Wonkette's point is that Sarah Palin dressed her son in an elephant suit and used him as a prop for the GOP party and that she was quite comfortable in doing so. There are NO photos of Trig with Bristol in that costume that is why they used the one of Willow. They were not implying that Willow is the mother of Trig, rather they did say this
"See that photoshop up there of Governor Palin with Bristol Palin's child, Trig?"
Bristol's child - Not Willow's child.
- June 30, 2009 at 2:06 PM
- JJ said...
Oh wow!
check out andrew sullivan's response to the vanity fair article:
- June 30, 2009 at 2:37 PM
- Alex said...
Thanks, JJ. But when you read Andrew Sullivan's mordant response to material in the new Vanity Fair Palin story, make sure you read all four posts. I almost didn't see them.
He's on a tear! Hooray!
- June 30, 2009 at 4:07 PM
- mlewis said...
I think that long time fans of PD were disappointed when Vanity Fair named Tripp as Sarah Palin's first grandchild, when we suspect that someone else beat him to that honor.
I think that there is a good way to followup the Vanity Fair article, namely, the Letters to the Editor that are published next month. (A question for our publishing-smart posters, I don't think that the magazine cares all that much about the on-line comments. If I'm wrong, and you think that's another good avenue, please weight in).
Also, I'd like to suggest sending both Todd S. Purdum, the author, and also the Editors of Vanity Fair a CD of everything on the PD site-- photos, timeline, lay out the proof. (My favorites are the "pregnancy" photos with flat stomach, then with the cushion in Elan Frank video). Who knows, maybe this is the beginning of MSM recognition?? Hope so.
- June 30, 2009 at 4:25 PM
- Doubting Thomas said...
This is a MUST read....
Sarah Palin, a "Little Shop of Horrors"
Since her sudden arrival on the national political stage last August, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has seldom missed an opportunity to make herself the center of attention. Even now, with the 2008 presidential campaign in the rearview mirror, Palin has kept herself in the spotlight -- though arguably not for the right reasons. She's feuded with David Letterman, befuddled some Republican fundraisers with her behavior, and refused stimulus cash only to later accept it. These incidents, coupled with her family's continued tabloid dramas, seem more like the actions of a celebrity desperate for attention than a 2012 presidential hopeful.
There may be a reason for this. In a devastatingly critical piece in Vanity Fair's August issue, Todd Purdum paints Palin as a narcissistic egomaniac unable to take the advice of others. Purdum writes:
More than once in my travels in Alaska, people brought up, without prompting, the question of Palin's extravagant self-regard. Several told me, independently of one another, that they had consulted the definition of "narcissistic personality disorder" in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders -- "a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy" -- and thought it fit her perfectly. When Trig was born, Palin wrote an e-mail letter to friends and relatives, describing the belated news of her pregnancy and detailing Trig's condition; she wrote the e-mail not in her own name but in God's, and signed it "Trig's Creator, Your Heavenly Father."
Purdum, a national editor for Vanity Fair who's also the husband of former Clinton White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers, connects Palin's ambitious personality to the perception held by McCain staffers that she was constantly selfish during the campaign.
Purdum spoke to numerous people who have worked with Palin, both in Alaska and during the presidential campaign. The former McCain staffers, who all spoke anonymously, seem to have a special loathing for Palin. A longtime McCain friend describes Palin as a "Little Shop of Horrors," and Purdum says that many of those who served on McCain's team are now experiencing what he terms "survivor's guilt." Purdum writes of the former members of McCain's campaign:
[T]hey can't quite believe that for two frantic months last fall, caught in a Bermuda Triangle of a campaign, they worked their tails off to try to elect as vice president of the United States someone who, by mid-October, they believed for certain was nowhere near ready for the job, and might never be. They quietly ponder the nightmare they lived through. Do they ever ask, What were we thinking? "Oh, yeah, oh, yeah," one longtime McCain friend told me with a rueful chuckle. "You nailed it." Another key McCain aide summed up his attitude this way: "I guess it's sort of shifted," he said. "I always wanted to tell myself the best-case story about her." Even now, he said, "I don't want to get too negative." Then he added, "I think, as I've evaluated it, I think some of my worst fears … the after-election events have confirmed that her more negative aspects may have been there … " His voice trailed off. "I saw her as a raw talent. Raw, but a talent. I hoped she could become better."
~More on the URL listed, as it would not let me post the whole article here~ Go and read it!!~
- June 30, 2009 at 6:03 PM
- LisaG said...
WOW!!! All I can say is Wow! Andrew Sullivan is on a roll, he has several posts about SP. Hopefully this is picking up steam!
- June 30, 2009 at 6:42 PM
- wayofpeace said...
THE list of SP's attributes BY ANDREW SULLIVAN:
HER narcissism,
HER pathological and incessant lying,
HER viciousness,
HER delusions of grandeur,
HER vindictiveness,
HER fathomless and proud ignorance,
HER opportunism,
HER vanity,
HER white trash concupiscence
HER fraudulence in almost every respect
i do believe he left nothing out!
- June 30, 2009 at 7:07 PM
- Jen said...
Andrew Sullivan is ABOUT TO BREAK THIS WIDE OPEN!!!!! I can't wait to see what he has been holding back...
What a genius way to write it: lies were told and here's a picture of what she looks like pregnant. Hmmmm.....
I hope you guys get the credit you deserve when he takes this mainstream.
wv: flato (like SP is gonna fall flato on her face-o)
- June 30, 2009 at 7:33 PM
- Ohio mom said...
Wow - Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has a post up quoting from Purdum's Vanity Fair article.
But the surprising part is Marshall's own comment in which he says, "I have little doubt and some direct knowledge that we'll be hearing new shocking details of who this women is for months, perhaps years, to come."
What do all these inside bloggers know that we don't?
- June 30, 2009 at 8:49 PM
- Kevin said...
Thanks for passing the word explaining that I despise SP because I feel guilty for having had an abortion. I had entirely repressed all memory of having had an abortion, repressed it so deeply that I even had no recollection of ever having had a uterus.
I do remember learning during my wife's first pregnancy that when a woman's water breaks, she can go into labor at any time, and I also remember the harrowing twenty-minute car trip after my wife's water broke, when we weren't sure we were going to make it to the hospital -- and that was her first pregnancy, not her fifth.
So when I heard SP's story, I had to choose. Was she (a) so insane, and her husband so insane, as to accept the risk of giving birth on an airline flight, endangering her baby's life and her own, or (b) was she lying with a straight face, thinking the public would believe whatever she said? Giving her the benefit of the doubt, I chose (b).
But now I understand, it was really my long-repressed shame over that abortion I somehow had that made it impossible for me to empathize with her deranged, failed attempt to induce the late-term abortion of a viable fetus at 30,000 feet, which is apparently how her "pro-life" supporters prefer to see it. Right?
- June 30, 2009 at 11:57 PM
- ProChoiceGrandma said...
I previously posted this on TT but meant to post it here as well:
The timing has changed my opinion of CBJ:
We all used to believe that CBJ was complicit in the conspiracy to fake the pregnancy. But that was when we were confused about the smokescreen "birth" date of 4-18-08. From more information that has come to light in the past couple of months, we now have even stronger reason to believe that Trig was born to Bristol sometime in January 2008. I don't think CBJ had any idea that Sarah would fake a pregnancy and was probably stunned when Sarah announced she was pregnant (3-5-08) the day after McCain won the Republican nomination (3-4-08).
CBJ's silence was deafening, as well as bringing an attorney with her when she was to be interviewed. Wish I could find that info right now, but do not have it handy. Anyone remember where that was? Now realizing that Trig was born much earlier than Sarah's announcement, the CBJ letter is even more suspicious, if in fact it was written by CBJ. I do believe that CBJ's good reputation was thrown under the bus by Sarah, but CBJ can't say anything to defend herself because of HIPPA.
- July 1, 2009 at 3:38 AM
- Truthseeker2 said...
Check out this story from Politico on the in-fighting among the Republicans over our dear Sarah. She certainly does inspire behavior just like her own -- cut-throat and vindictive.
- July 1, 2009 at 4:25 AM
- B said...
Kevin said...
I had entirely repressed all memory of having had an abortion, repressed it so deeply that I even had no recollection of ever having had a uterus. ***
My first laugh of the day. Thanks!
- July 1, 2009 at 5:34 AM


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A Pair of Cats
The cats are sitting targets for photos at the moment. They are not usually far away in this wet weather. I have used them this week to join in with Helena's Pairs
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A beautiful pair!ReplyDelete
This had got to be one of the most gorgeous and cuddliest pair of pairs yet. The colour of your cats is wonderful - I love the little white patch on the son's chin. Mum looks like she could be plotting something xReplyDelete
Those are really beautiful cats!ReplyDelete
Cats - almost nothing more perfect than a Pair of cats, unless it's cats with horses ...Mother could give Grumpy Cat a chase on being the model of indifferent cats - the tongue out is so classic kitty. I see THIS photo on a birthday card ...ReplyDelete
A fabulous Pair! Mother is beautiful but her son is even more so. (a bit like mine) :) Hoping you all survived Barney last night?ReplyDelete
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
1) the frustration you feel might come off as extreme selfishness
2) it would do nothing to solve the problem
3) it would just add fuel to a fire that shouldn't be burning
4) you know everyone would try to figure out who you are talking about and they may just figure it out making all run-in situations slightly, if not intensely awkward
-choosing to remain silent may be the best thing,
-choosing to love no matter what the circumstance or "feeling" may be the right thing,
-choosing silence over verbal diarrhea probably truly best......
So tell me then, why is doing the right thing sometimes so hard?! ah yes isn't there that saying somewhere that goes something like this "Speak in anger and it'll be the best speech you'll ever regret!!" So then it is DONE...I choose silence!!
DISCLAIMER: for all of you trying to figure this out don't bother you are all on the wrong track....remember I chose not to post about it ;)
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- Nadine said...
Wise words. Excellent post.
Love the fall look.
- 12:18 am
- andrea said...
ahhhh! good on you for your self-control! lately, i could have used this advice you have written about! sorry that you are hurt, frustrated and other emotions and feelings...go gracefully and take the high road...easy for me to say cuz i'm not in your shoes...prayers that this will work out in a way you can feel His peace!
take care. hugs!
- 8:53 am
- ValleyGirl said...
But we're all so dang curious now, Louise!
- 9:38 am
- PamJ said...
sorry to hear about the frustration levels!! i tend to take it out on my blog or even my FB status some days... so hopefully whatever was bothering you will work itself out sooner than later!
- 9:53 am
brilliant post. thank you.
just what i needed to read. i HAVE ALWAYS made the choice to be tactfully silent. i MAKE a compassionate decision NOT to have verbal diarrhea and possibly hurt others with my tongue. i think it; i feel it; i have been taught and make the choice to be a lady; to be fiercely loyal to my self worth.
(i do roll my eyes when i think no one is looking but i need at least ONE OUTLET)
constantly misunderstood while taking my silent position, i sit back and listen, knowing it is 98% untrue, but knowing that it is not up to ME to point out the truths.
it is tough. it is hard.
i am sure i may be off base from where/what you are posting about but MAN THIS FELT GOOD!!
ahhhhh. bet you didn't know it would be therapeutic for others.
- 11:13 am
- candypb said...
mmmmmm... Verbal Diarrhea...
Nice words. Good-on-ya for holding back. You would only sit there in regret.
You rock chick...
I have to say that I am in the same place, but I have kept my mouth shut and I guess I'll have to keep it shut forever. It would only cause harm to others.
- 11:33 am
- Erin said...
I'm sorry you are feeling so frustrated. I hope everything works. Good for you choosing to remain silent even though it would probably feel better to vent. I feel like venting about stuff today and I too am choosing silence : ) (((hugs)))
- 5:16 pm
- svea said...
grace grace grace, grace to you and peace that passes understanding. Starving that nasty flesh and searching for the Spirit will bring life, praying for more life for you today (((hugs))) friend!
- 7:32 pm
- Louise said...
Thanks everyone for your kind comments!
I appreciate you all! HUGS!
- 8:25 pm
- Louise said...
Oh yeah one other things....Solve the mystery for me...who is the anonymous commentor????
- 8:27 pm
Way to go Louise, showing grace that's not always easy to do and you are choosing to...that's very admirable I'm proud to call you my Sister! Love you and miss you!
- 8:36 pm
- Roo said...
mmmmm such a good post. the thing that i intensely dislike about WORDS is that people will always misinterpret what you are actually saying. everyone filters it through their own filter and no filter is the same.
hope your your heart is filled with peace today. xoxo thinking about you....
- 3:05 pm
- Roo said...
ps your blog title goes perfectly with this post. ;)
- 3:07 pm
- Louise said...
Thanks Roo - so true, very wise words!
Rose-love you too chicka, see you tomorrow
- 3:10 pm
- Andrea said...
You are an amazing woman, Louise. Wise choice. Wish I could say I would for sure do the same thing.
- 9:02 pm
- Breanne said...
Very good post - you have a really cute blog!
- 11:48 am


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Sanchez would have compounded a mistake with another mistake. There's a REASON why he was ranked lower than 32nd amongst QBs.
You are completely ignoring the difference in the style and complexity of the offense. EVERYTHING the Pats do is based on Option routes. Brady and the WRs have to see things the same way and be on the same page for their offense to work. Sparano's suck assed offense last year, and even MM's offense this year are different in that the routes are predetermined.
Sanchez sucks because even when he knows where the receiver is going, and even if/when the receiver runs the correct route, Sanchez can't hit them with any regularity. Then we can look at the fact that Sanchez cant even throw a freaking check down or screen pass without it being intercepted half the time.
Sanchez's problems run a hell of a lot deeper than just having no one to throw to. And no, he wouldn't have won that game last night. He would have found someone else's ass to run into. Or would have been strip sacked for another TD. Or would have thrown the same interceptions.
Sanchez would have compounded a mistake with another mistake. There's a REASON why he was ranked lower than 32nd amongst QBs.
After that play it didn't matter what he did the fans were "so embarrased" that they needed to get rid of him like a case of teen acne or a wart on a supermodel.
****, it would take too long to relive all the mistakes he made last year. The Buttfumble was basically icing on the cake.


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By: News 8 Austin Staff
Crime isn't as prevalent at the NorthChase Apartments in North Austin because manager Jaime Ochoa does his best to encourage neighbors to put safety first and to report suspicious activity.
In light of the multiple home invasion robberies where immigrant men are the targets, Ochoa is concerned.
"That type of predator is preying on these people because he knows what their weaknesses are and more or less he knows how they're going to react," Ochoa said.
Which is to do nothing out of fear. So Tuesday night, Austin police focused their regular forum on the robberies, though the target audience which is the Spanish speaking men were not in attendance.
"It's a very different culture here between the community and the police department than it is in Mexico which they're accustomed to," Cmdr. Phil Crochet of the Austin Police Department said.
Ochoa said the Spanish speaking people do not attend the meetings because Spanish is not spoken.
"If you want the people and the community to attend and be a part of the effort to make it a safer place, they have to be spoken to in Spanish," Ochoa said.
Officers have gone door-to-door to inform people about the slew of robberies of late. They said outreach to Spanish speaking people take many forms.
Austin police say reaching immigrants is a challenge. APD said the best defense against being a victim is to keep your doors locked.
If you see suspicious activity, you should call 911 immediately.
August 13, 2008
Reaching out to immigrant victims of crime
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I love celebrating our anniversary. Its always fun to look back on our wedding day and the past year and look forward to our future ahead of us. My hubby (also known as the BHE, or Best Husband Ever!) had some beautiful flowers delivered to work today, which just made the day feel extra, extra special :)
second anniversary at second date (Radio Maria) and now this year a McAllisters picnic at Lake of the Woods. This was the date that was the most "different" than the original- plus one baby, minus one bottle of wine, on the road out of the park around 6pm instead of closing it down after 9 when the park rangers started clearing it out. Still a great memory of the original date and a wonderful and fun memory recreating it tonight!
Mike, I love you so much! Its amazing to see you transform into a wonderful daddy this past year and I am so glad to be your wife of THREE years...wow!!!
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
our third anniversary
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master chef
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Sunday, August 28, 2011
paint decision!
Thanks to all who voted for your favorite paint colors :) It looks like the majority of you favored the blue colors!
We decided to go with this combination of paint for our first floor. Garnet rose will be our accent wall spanning the living room and dining room and we'll be using Pineapple Upside Down Cake for the rest of the dining room, kitchen and living room. It will be SO much brighter and cheerier than the current choco-brown on the walls :) Wish us luck!
We decided to go with this combination of paint for our first floor. Garnet rose will be our accent wall spanning the living room and dining room and we'll be using Pineapple Upside Down Cake for the rest of the dining room, kitchen and living room. It will be SO much brighter and cheerier than the current choco-brown on the walls :) Wish us luck!
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August date night
Mike and I love running out to this winery nearby just outside of Champaign, Alto Vineyards. And when we mentioned their annual summer concerts, Music Among the Vines, to our friends we thought we should plan a night over there to check it out! Despite the cover charge and required purchase of wine glasses, we couldn't have asked for a better night to sit outside and enjoy some music and conversation. Thanks for joining us Melbys and Nukus, we'll have plan another date night to Alto next summer!
(Looks like I'll be adding some more photos of the rest of the group when Holly posts hers up. Holly, you're so great at getting pictures of everyone whenever you're out, I totally fall short!)
|Me and my hubby of nearly three years :)
|Jeff and Holly
|You can't see much, just what you'd expect sitting at a winery at 9pm. Just tables, white lights and a little wooden stage!
Troy's first "big boy" toy
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9 month portraits
With Gramma Mary in town for a visit and babysitting while we went on a date, I thought it'd be a good time to cash in this great coupon I earned from FotoNet for a free portrait session and $50 of free prints at Sears (which is a lot of photos!) I think if you just sign up with your email you get the coupon online too. They may not be just like the photos you take when you get a one on one session with a pro photographer anywhere you want, but they definitely turned out great! Troy was a great smiler, as usual, and my mom and I worked it up big time with some of his favorite toys.
|This one was my fav and I got the most prints of this one. Grandparents and Great Gramma can expect one of these coming soon :)
|I didn't get any in this pose but looking at them online I thought it was awfully cute
|I also got a few in this pose. I was amazed he sat still with how much he's crawling these days!
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a playdate with liam
Troy and I were excited to have our neighbors down to play on Friday! Liam recently turned 1 year old and he's walking all over the place. Troy and I always enjoy visiting with these two on our days off (which I am so thankful to have more frequently with my recent drop of a few hours taking me from full time to part time status at work...Mondays through Thursdays still look the same for me, but now my Fridays are free! So wonderful!)
Thanks for coming to play, Su and Liam! (Click here for some photos of the first time these two "played"!)
Thanks for coming to play, Su and Liam! (Click here for some photos of the first time these two "played"!)
|this is the closest i could get of both boys smiling
|Pretty soon they'll be climbing over furniture themselves!
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
one happy baby
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
wake up from nap
I'm on a bit of a video kick these days!
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
casting a wide net
So as I mentioned in the previous post, we're planning to redo our main floor a bit this fall. This chocolate brown has been here since before we got here and it covers our living room and kitchen walls. Then our front entryway and dining room are just plain white. Our initial thoughts are to paint an accent wall on the back wall (the one with the TV and fireplace) through the living room and dining room, then use either one or two more neutral colors to cover the rest of the main floor (other living room walls, kitchen, other dining room walls, entryway). We're casting a wide, wide net since we're early in the brainstorming process so share your thoughts with us! What color selection do you like best (or none of them)? Poll is to the right :) Thanks in advance!
viking yellow with meadow mist
nile green with ylang ylang
vintage wine with gray horse
surf blue with eternity
viking yellow with meadow mist
nile green with ylang ylang
vintage wine with gray horse
surf blue with eternity
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make way...
Now Troy can cruise through the living room with no obstacles to dodge. Can't wait to see you go fast, Troy!
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peas and carrots
Troy really, really, REALLY likes to feed himself. He eats breakfast, lunch and dinner these days, which until this point, have all consisted of something mushy I spoon into his mouth. But as he gets more adept at swatting the spoon away, I've taken my cues from him and moved to giving him more things he can feed himself. (Though we haven't taken this route since we started with purees, I've been doing some reading about baby led weaning. Check out this approach to weaning by clicking here.)
Giving Troy cut up finger food is way, way cheaper than going through jars and jars of baby food too (he eats 1/2 to 1 full jar at meals, plus finger food, these days). I bought this bag of frozen peas and carrots in the perfect Troy-sized pieces for less than $2 and I am sure we'll get dozens of Troy-sized servings out of it. And he is able to eat more and more of what we're eating, too!
All of this food means Troy is drinking less milk and eating more solids... these final months of his first year are flying by!
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Saturday, August 20, 2011
hotel pool
We made two separate trips to the hotel pool during our visit to Cincy. I have lots of great memories of playing in hotel pools as a kid and I hope Troy grows up with that same excitement every time we visit a hotel!
|its hard to get a baby's attention in the pool :)
|practicing his kicks
|wild pool hair!
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Friday, August 19, 2011
shopping, food and fun!
Another great day of vacation here in Cincinnati! We did a lot of walking around different malls/stores today and both Troy and I got some new clothes :) We finished with a great dinner at the Olive Garden (thanks for Mike's birthday gift, Mom and Dad!)
|sleepy baby in the car when we arrived at Ikea
|Crawling around the hotel! I got over the potential gross-ness of letting my child crawl on a hotel room floor when I saw how clean this place is! Cleaner than my house, for sure :)
|I always like to pile Troy's purchases in his stroller on the way out of the Carter's outlet. 18 month clothes, ready to go!
|Yay for a great dinner! Past Troy's bedtime, with no meltdowns, too :)
Thursday, August 18, 2011
cincinatti zoo
Today we visited the Cincinatti Zoo! Check out a few photos below.
|Yes, we let Troy touch the snake.
|Strangely I was more hesitant to let him touch the cow than the snake. So we just got close.
|Eye to eye giraffe exhibit. For $1 you can feed them a cracker. That's an expensive cracker but fun thing to do when Troy's older!
|passed out at the zoo
|Just chilling at the hotel. I need to buy him some bigger pajamas, his shirt keeps riding up and showing off his belly!
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
snapshots from childcare
I have done an admittedly weak job at documenting our first days with the new childcare arrangement. Between figuring out what I need to take when I walk out the door, what stays in the room with Troy, what goes to my office, etc. I just haven't had my camera on my at convenient times.
But I will say its been a great week! Everyone is just getting used to what this new arrangement looks like and is settling in :) It has been a HUGE blessing to just be able to walk down and nurse Troy and skip the whole bottle/pumping system I've been used to for the last six months. He does fine so far with me popping in and feeding him and leaving right after. And its so, so nice to be driving to one place each day instead of two! We know how blessed we are to have such a great childcare arrangement worked out :) Troy has been doing really well aside from not taking the best naps. I'm praying that his afternoon naps return to 2+ hours next week and that he won't need a third nap in the evenings any more (he gave that up several months ago when his afternoon nap got longer; its returned this week, along with some evening meltdowns).
Here are a few photos from lunch today, the only photos I've taken so far. I hope to do better next week!
But I will say its been a great week! Everyone is just getting used to what this new arrangement looks like and is settling in :) It has been a HUGE blessing to just be able to walk down and nurse Troy and skip the whole bottle/pumping system I've been used to for the last six months. He does fine so far with me popping in and feeding him and leaving right after. And its so, so nice to be driving to one place each day instead of two! We know how blessed we are to have such a great childcare arrangement worked out :) Troy has been doing really well aside from not taking the best naps. I'm praying that his afternoon naps return to 2+ hours next week and that he won't need a third nap in the evenings any more (he gave that up several months ago when his afternoon nap got longer; its returned this week, along with some evening meltdowns).
Here are a few photos from lunch today, the only photos I've taken so far. I hope to do better next week!
|Lunchtime! We're all bringing our own food for our kids so there's abundant tupperware/gladware during lunch.
|Another lunch shot. The woman smiling at the camera is Samantha, our childcare director. She's great!
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
We've officially got a crawler! Go Troy, go!
*This video is not the best. We didn't grab the camera until after he was already slowing down. I'll get some more tomorrow
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Monday, August 15, 2011
Troy and the tail
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water fun
Troy and I joined Sarah at the pool tonight for some end-of-summer fun! We made the rounds through all the different pool areas, letting Troy bob around and practice his kicks while we chatted. After a spill in the lazy river (thanks again for the "rescue" Sarah!) we headed to the baby pool so Troy could play with his favorite part of the pool- the water shooting fountains. Tonight he learned how to cover them up himself and then take his hand away so they began squirting everywhere! Needless to say, this child really doesn't any fear of the water...
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Happy National Breastfeeding Month!
I just realized that August is National Breastfeeding Month (thanks, amazon.com) and thought I'd share a post on the many reasons breastfeeding has been a great experience for me these last 8 months. And I'll preface it with, I certainly know, understand and respect that its not the right choice for everyone, but for me, its been a great fit and I'm grateful for this experience as a mom :)
Have a great night!
- Bonding. Right from the beginning, feeding Troy has been a great bonding activity. I love all the sweet little moments we've shared during our many, many nursing sessions (I just did a quick estimate...over 2000 nursing sessions in the last 8 months...whoa, that's crazy!)
- Night feedings made easy. Stumbling out of bed to feed Troy most nights for the first 7ish months was easier than it would have been if I had to pay attention to measuring a bottle.
- Evening "nurse and naps" for the first several months after returning to work. When I came home from work, Troy would just want to snuggle and nurse, and I happily obliged. I loved the downtime too.
- Many health benefits for Troy. I'm convinced that Troy has been healthy, despite being exposed to many kids at daycare and the nursery at church, largely due to breastfeeding. The AAP says: breastfeeding decreases the possibility that your baby will get a variety of infectious diseases, ear infections, diarrhea, etc.
- Many health benefits for me. Despite gaining 50ish (ugh) pounds during pregnancy, I have managed to shed it all with minimal effort. There are also long-term benefits. The AAP says: breastfeeding mothers return to their pre-pregnancy weight faster and have a reduced risk of breast and ovarian cancer. They also experience less postpartum bleeding, as the hormones that help with breastfeeding also make the uterus contract.
- Did I mention bonding? :)
- Budget friendly. Babycenter.com has a budget calculator to help you determine how much baby's first year will cost. Formula is estimated at $105 a month. Breastfeeding? $0. Four bottles and a pump, and we've been good to go.
- Its cool to share a parenting method that moms have used since the beginning of time, around the world. Moms 2000 years ago when Jesus was born fed their babies this way, and moms today on the other side of the world do too. Pretty powerful!
Have a great night!
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Friday, August 12, 2011
family date night on campus: sushi ichiban
We initially planned to go to this brand new campus restaurant on Saturday for lunch, but tonight ended up being an even better time to head over there to try it out. The weather was beautiful, Troy took a nice late nap and so off we went. We heard about this place in Central Illinois Business Magazine, which reviews and spotlights new places around town each month/quarter/however often it comes out. It is all you can eat sushi, but you have to pay $1 for each leftover piece you have at the end, making it a fun challenge to order just the right amount!
Before we got there, we walked past the Alma Mater and of course I had to snap a few photos.
Seeing as how the students aren't back yet (which was our primary motivation to checking this place out this weekend before they return) there weren't many people in this restaurant. So Troy had all the staff smiling and waving at him the whole meal. The staff were REALLY friendly, all coming by our table to say hello and ask how our meal was.
Before we got there, we walked past the Alma Mater and of course I had to snap a few photos.
|The engraved words read: To thy happy children of the future, those of the past send greetings.
|my orange and blue boys
|all of this was included in the all you can eat special, including edamame, soup and salad!
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last week at Gwynne's
We absolutely adore Troy's sitter, Gwynne. I've known her through church pretty much since I started going there four (!) years ago and she has taken care of Troy since the first day I went back to work. As difficult as it has been these last several months to drop him off and go to work (yep, still hard after six months!) knowing that Troy was in such great care by Gwynne and her family made it as stress-free as possible. We found out a couple weeks ago that Gwynne was going to be retiring this year, so we've known our time was coming to an end.
This week was mixed with a little sadness, but some excitement too, as several of us at church have actually come together to hire a woman to watch our little ones in the building! Yep, Troy will be taken care right at the other end of the building while I'm at work beginning next week! We are so, so blessed to go straight from one wonderful childcare situation to another and can't wait to see how the new arrangements work out!
|"So I'm not coming back to this awesome house any more? No way..."
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The meaning of life?
Bukowski was right
We are in the wrong place
Brief lapses of time and space
We forgot who we are
Following order
Exploring others
I reached the border
I am full.
With guilt
With madness
With anger
With pity
I feel the disaster coming
Like in the movies
Coming soon on your screen
Or god damn you tube
And we'll watch sitting still,
eatin' popcorn and drinkin' soda
What a hell is going on?
This game is no funny
Blowing my time to make them money
All this hysteria doesn't thrill me
Dicks, money, lust aren't my priority
Art, art, I need some in every day life
Fight club is a kind of flag I would rise
If you know what I mean
If you know what they mean
Alex DeLarge
Jack Torrance
Tyler Durden
Sal Paradise
Why can I only spit this in English?
Se eu não sei nem cozinhar arroz
Maybe this only proves how messed up I'm
Maybe this only proves how sold I was


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United States District Court, District of Columbia
January 27, 2017
DANIEL B. CARROLL, Plaintiff,v.OFFICE OF FEDERAL CONTRACT COMPLIANCE PROGRAMS, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, Defendant.
B. Carroll ("plaintiff or "Carroll") brings
this action pro se against the U.S. Department of
Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
("defendant" or "OFCCP"), seeking a
declaratory judgment ordering the agency to initiate
enforcement proceedings against his former employer, Vinnell
Arabia LLC, for alleged employment discrimination. Before the
Court is Defendant's Motion to Dismiss Plaintiffs
Complaint ("Motion") [Dkt. #3].[1] Upon
consideration of The pleadings, relevant law, and the record
herein, defendant's Motion is GRANTED.
seeks enforcement of Executive Order 11246. Compl.
¶¶ 2-3 [Dkt. #1]. The Order charges the Secretary
of Labor with ensuring that federal contractors "will
not discriminate against any employee or applicant for
employment because of race, creed, color, sex, sexual
orientation, gender identity, or national origin." 30
Fed. Reg. 12319, 12320 (Sept. 24, 1965), as amended
by Exec. Order No. 13672, 79 Fed. Reg. 42971 (July 21,
2014). The Secretary in turn has promulgated regulations
tasking OFCCP with carrying out the responsibilities assigned
to him by the Executive Order. 41 C.F.R. § 60-1.2. These
regulations provide that when OFCCP has reasonable cause to
believe that a federal contractor has violated the Executive
Order, OFCCP "may issue a notice requiring the
contractor to show cause" why enforcement proceedings
are not warranted. Id. § 60-1.28. If the
contractor's response is unsatisfactory, OFCCP may refer
the matter "to the Solicitor of Labor with a
recommendation for the institution of administrative
enforcement proceedings, which may be brought to enjoin
violations, to seek appropriate relief, and to impose
appropriate sanctions." Id. §
On May
15, 2013, Carroll filed a charge of discrimination with
another federal agency, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission ("EEOC"), asserting that his former
employer, Vinnell Arabia LLC, a subsidiary of Northrop
Grumman Corporation, denied him a promotion to senior
accountant because he is white and Jewish. Vinnell Arabia
denied the allegations on the merits, but declined to provide
documentation for its position on the ground that the EEOC
lacked jurisdiction because Vinnell Arabia is a foreign
company and the alleged discrimination occurred in a foreign
country. On February 12, 2015, the EEOC's Jackson Area
Office issued a Determination. That order did not address
Vinnell Arabia's jurisdictional argument, but
nevertheless found that the "absence of evidence"
resulting from the company's lack of production entitled
Carroll "to the presumption that documents would have
shown that he was discriminated against." Carroll v.
Vinnell Arabia LLC, Charge No. 423-2013-01326 (EEOC JAO
2015) [Dkt. #1, at 25]. Shortly thereafter, the agency issued
Carroll a Notice of Right to Sue under Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act. Compl. ¶¶ 40, 43-44.
did not bring suit in federal court. Instead, he forwarded
EEOC's Determination to OFCCP and requested that OFCCP
sanction Vinnell Arabia for "exhibit[ing] appallingly
bad faith with the EEOC." Id. ¶ 5. In a
letter dated July 16, 2015, the agency notified Carroll that
"OFCCP cannot intervene in a matter that has been
investigated by EEOC." Letter from Marika Litras, Dir.,
Div. of Program Operations, OFCCP, to Daniel B. Carroll (July
16, 2015) [Dkt. #1, at 20]. In response to further
correspondence from Carroll, OFCCP issued a second letter
reiterating its decision not to intervene, explaining that it
had "reviewed the charge you filed with EEOC and the
findings of the investigation and determined that there is no
basis for OFCCP to seek sanctions against your former
employer for discrimination." Letter from Marika Litras,
Dir., Div. of Program Operations, OFCCP, to Daniel B. Carroll
(Mar. 1, 2016) [Dkt #1, at 21]. The letter advised Carroll
that the Notice of Right to Sue issued by the EEOC provided
him with an opportunity for a hearing before a court pursuant
to Title VII.
than pursue a Title VII claim, Carroll filed this lawsuit to
compel OFCCP to enforce Executive Order 11246 against Vinnell
Arabia. The gravamen of the complaint is that Carroll is
entitled to a declaratory judgment under the Administrative
Procedure Act ("APA"), 5 U.S.C. §§
551-706, directing OFCCP to issue a notice to Vinnell Arabia
requiring it to show cause why enforcement proceedings are
not warranted, and directing OFCCP to "devote good
faith" to considering sanctions against the company.
Compl. ¶ 66. The complaint also seeks to compel the
production of OFCCP communications pertaining to Vinnell
Arabia, and the award of costs. Id. The agency moves
to dismiss pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b).
moves to dismiss the complaint on the ground that enforcement
decisions are committed to agency discretion by law and are
therefore immune from judicial review. See 5 U.S.C.
§ 701(a)(2). OFCCP styles this defense as a motion to
dismiss for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction pursuant to
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1). However, because
the Court is mindful of this Circuit's teaching that
dismissal based on commitment to agency discretion must occur
"under Rule 12(b)(6), not under the jurisdictional
provision of Rule 12(b)(1), " Sierra Club v.
Jackson, 648 F.3d 848, 854 (D.C. Cir. 2011), the Court
will evaluate whether dismissal is "proper based on
failure to state a claim under Federal Rule of Civil
Procedure 12(b)(6)." EEOC v. St. Francis Xavier
Parochial Sck, 117 F.3d 621, 624 (D.C. Cir. 1997).
Rule 12(b)(6) the Court must ascertain whether the complaint
contains "sufficient factual matter, accepted as true,
to 'state a claim to relief that is plausible on its
face.'" Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662,
678 (2009) (quoting Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly,
550 U.S. 544, 570 (2007)). Because this action is brought by
apro se plaintiff, the Court has an obligation to
construe his "filings liberally, and to consider his
filings as a whole before dismissing [the] complaint."
Schnitzler v. United States, 761 F.3d 33, 38 (D.C.
Cir. 2014). Nevertheless, the case must be dismissed "if
as a matter of law 'it is clear that no relief could be
granted under any set of facts that could be proved
consistent with the allegations.'" Neitzke v.
Williams, 490 U.S. 319, 327 (1989).
Carroll's Enforcement Claim
Order 11246, as amended, does not provide for judicial review
of agency decisions. If review is available, then, it is only
through the APA. Although the APA generally "favor[s]
judicial review of administrative action, " Mach
Mining, LLC v. EEOC, 135 S.Ct. 1645, 1651 (2015), it
excludes from review action that is "committed to agency
discretion by law, " 5 U.S.C. § 701(a)(2). In
Heckler v. Chaney, 470 U.S. 821, 831 (1985), the Supreme
Court held that "[r]efusals to take enforcement
steps" are discretionary and therefore presumptively
unreviewable. That presumption is not absolute, however, and
"may be rebutted where the substantive [law] has
provided guidelines for the agency to follow in exercising
its enforcement powers." Id. at 832-33. To
determine whether an action is reviewable, a court must
'"consider both the nature of the administrative
action at issue and the language and structure of the [law]
that supplies the applicable legal standards for reviewing
that action.'" Sierra Club, 648 F.3d at 855
(quoting Sec'y of Labor v. Twentymile Coal Co.,
456 F.3d 151, 156 (D.C. Cir. 2006)).
invokes Chaney to argue that its decision not to
sanction, or to issue a show cause notice to Vinnell Arabia,
is discretionary and therefore unreviewable. Carroll concedes
that enforcement discretion is generally unreviewable, but
contends that the sanctions process is not an enforcement
action and thus does not fall within the Chaney
presumption. According to Carroll, "[s]anctions - and
the decision whether to begin the sanctions process with a
show cause notice - are not quite the same as enforcement
proceedings" and do not involve "enforcement action
per se." Pl.'s Mem. of P. & A. Addressing
Def's Mot. to Dismiss Pl.'s Compl. 20
("Pl.'s Mem.") [Dkt. #9]. Unfortunately,
Carroll is mistaken. Department of Labor regulations provide
that OFCCP may only "impose ... sanctions" for
violations of the Executive Order through "institution
of administrative enforcement proceedings." 41 C.F.R.
§ 60-1.26(b). In other words, a sanctions proceeding
is an enforcement proceeding. Thus, when OFCCP
declines to initiate a sanctions proceeding, it declines to
take "enforcement steps." Chaney, 470 U.S.
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- 1 boneless beef chuck roast (3/4 pound), cut into 1-inch cubes
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- Dash pepper
- Dash ground nutmeg
- 1 small onion, sliced
- 2 teaspoons minced fresh parsley
- 1 bay leaf
- 3 tablespoons raisins
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons half-and-half cream
- Hot cooked egg noodles
- In a small saucepan, combine the water, vinegar and sugar. Cook and stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved; cool. Sprinkle beef with salt, pepper and nutmeg; place in a large resealable plastic bag. Add onion, parsley, bay leaf and cooled marinade. Seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate overnight.
- Drain, reserving 1/2 cup marinade. Discard bay leaf. Place the beef and reserved marinade in a saucepan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 2 hours or until meat is tender.
- Stir in raisins. Combine cornstarch and cream; stir into beef mixture. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until slightly thickened. Serve over noodles. Yield: 2 servings.
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Information versus Data Lifecycle Management
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The terms "information" and "data" are often used interchangeably in regular usage, but for the storageindustry, there are significant differences between the two, as different as "fact" from "meaning".
For example, if you are walking down the street, and see a pole with red and white stripes, the data of red and white stripes may not have much meaning, unless you recognize the information is that you are in front of a barber shop.I thought of this when someone pointed me to theStrip Generator Tool website, which can helpyou generate various stripes for use on the tiled background of web pages. (Or if you aredesigning neckties for your Second Life avatar).
Many national flags are based on simple stripes of different colors.For example, look at the national flags of France, Russia, and the Netherlands. These consist of a red, white, and blue stripe, justin different sequence and orientation.Again, the data of these colors, the width of their lines, and the way they are placed on the flag are all data, but the information they convey is significantly more than that.One person might walk right by the flag, not knowing which country it belongs to, while anotherperson might get emotional memories of their homeland.
For those of us in the storage industry, data is just binary 1's and 0's on disk and tape media, and canbe treated like packages at the post office in brown wrapping paper. Just as post office employees don't have to know the contents to ship them to the final destination, servers and storage devices don't need to knowthe informational content of the data that they process and store.
Converting information to data is easy. Let's take an example of taking a digital photo. The photo could be a picture of you and your spouseon your last vacation trip, but you would never know that from just looking at a series of 1's and 0's. For this reason, you create photo albums, you write captions below indicating where and when the photowas taken. This additional "context" is often called "metadata" or just simply "indexing".
Both the information captured (the photo in this case) and its metadata (the caption), can be storedas 1's and 0's on storage media. These bits can be compressed, encrypted, or represented in a variety of formats.
Information is copied from one data file to another. In the traditional sense, one piece of informationcould exist in the primary production copy, as well as multiple archive or backup copies. One piece ofinformation, stored on multiple copies of data. In a sense, this is similar to genetic information storedon each human being (data copy). Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene, reminds us that genes outlive individual humans. In storage, we remind people that data outlivesthe media it is initally written to, and the information outlives the initial data copy stored.
Converting data back to information is not always as simple.Not all sequences of 1's and 0's are obvious what they represent. To display a digital photo, you need to know the format the photo is in, and have an appropriate application that can display it back to something a human person can recognize. If the bits were compressed, the application needs to handlethat, or you need to de-compress the data before handing it to the application. For encrypted data,you need to have the decryption key. The process of converting a single file of data back to information is called "rendering".
One of the big problems with keeping information for long periods of time, isthat you may not have the equipment, decryption key, or applications needed to render the data back to usable information. You've kept the data, but you can't make any sense of it, as if it went through an episode of Will it Blend?
A good example is how the current version of Microsoft Office application is unable to interpret andrender data documents that were stored in WORD 1.0 format. IBM and others have developed "rendering tools" that can help decipher the bits, and bring back the information. To help address this challenge, the new Microsoft Office 2007 haschosen the OOXML format, but will continue to support some of the older legacy formats. IBM and the rest of the world are focused instead on Open Document Format (ODF) open standard. Those of usstill using older versions of Microsoft Office might need the Office 2007 Compatibility Pack.
Another way to get information from data is "data mining", an important part of "business intelligence". Here you are gleaning information notfrom individual details, but from patterns in the data, averages, statistics, totals, that havebroader meaning than individual transactions or events.
The distinction between "information" and "data" can be important when comparing solutions for Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) to those forData Lifecycle Management (DLM).
For many applications, DLM is just fine. Let's consider e-mail, for example. For most employees,deleting e-mails larger than 1 MB, after 90 days, regardless of content, is probably a reasonable DLM policy. All data is treated the same, based purely on the size and date markings on the outer brown wrapper.
For more sensitive content, DLM is not enough. The e-mails that are to or from the president of thecompany, or between top executives, or that contain certain pieces of information relevant for lawsuitsor other investigations, may not be treatedthe same as other e-mails. In this case, you need ILM technologies, managing based on the informational content of the data, and not just the size and date last referenced.
Of course, IBM supports both, and can help you decide the right solution for each workload.
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Apple, EMI and DRM free downloads
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Today,Apple and EMI announced that EMI's entire music and video catalog will be available in May without any digital rights management (DRM) protection.Not only with the music be higher quality, but can be played on any player, presumably using MP3 format instead ofApple's proprietary AAC format. Being locked into any single vendor solution is undesirable. Similar issues abound for Microsoft Office 2007 file formats.
On my iPod, I ripped all my CDs into MP3 format, not AAC. I love my iPod, but if I ever decided to chose a different MP3 player, I did not want to go through the time-consuming process or re-ripping them again.
A blog by Seth Godin feels this Apple-EMI announcement means thatDRM is dead.
Back when music labels added value by producing and distributing music in physical form, it made sense for them to take a cut. Mass-producing CDs and distributing them out to music stores across the country costs lots of money. However, for online music, music labels don't have these same overhead costs, but continue the process of paying the artists only a few pennies per dollar. Some artists have file lawsuits to get their fair share.
This process applies to any published work. For example, you can purchase Kevin Kelly's book in various formats, at different prices, from different distributors. For example:
It's good to have choices again.
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New Category: Super High End?
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The "corporate bloggers" from the various storage vendors often mention their opinions about IBM products. Sometimes, they say something nice, and other times they poke fun. It's good to read the various opinions. Most are well-thought and well-written.
EMC blogger Chuck Hollis has a post about the various categories that industry analyst IDC used for external controller-based disk in their most recentQ4 Storage Scorecard.I agree with Chuck that it is good to have independent analysts that take an objective look across all storage vendors to provide the facts on various makes and models. Both IBM and EMC took marketshare in 4Q, so we cancongratulate ourselves and each other for the efforts needed to make this happen.
Chuck mentions that while EMC and HDS high-end boxes are similar, perhaps IBM's "DS" series is different enough to question putting it in the same "high-end" category. It's not clear if Chuck is poking fun at the fact that theIBM DS family spans multiple categories; or an admission thatthe IBM DS8300 Turbo is faster than the EMC DMX-3 and HDS USP offerings. Perhaps we need a new categorycalled "super high-end"?
IDC doesn't publish their data by price band, but we can infer from the products in each how they decidedwhich products were grouped into which categories. Let's examine the entire IBM DS family in the various categories.
Storage is a competitive marketplace.Both EMC and HDS are reputable companies that make quality products that attach to IBM System z mainframe servers. Not all workloads are mission-critical or perf But if performance is important to you, you should consider IBM on your list of vendors for your next purchase decision. Let IBM help you prove it to yourself, running your specific workloads side by side with your existing equipment. technorati tags: IBM, EMC, Chuck Hollis, IDC, Q4, storage, disk,scorecard, z/OS, AIX, Linux, Java, DB2, HDS, USP, DMX, SPC, benchmarks, mainframe, System Storage, DS3000, DS4000, DS6000, DS8000, DS8300, Turbo
But if performance is important to you, you should consider IBM on your list of vendors for your next purchase decision. Let IBM help you prove it to yourself, running your specific workloads side by side with your existing equipment.
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More IBMers join the Blogosphere
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It is perhaps coincidence that I learned that two people have blogs today.
For that matter, I too plan to be at the SNW conference, so if you see me, stop and say Hello also.
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How many storage administrators per TB?
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Today I'm sitting in an airport, delayed due to weather.
Dick Benton of Glasshouse Technologies has an article on SearchStorage.com titled Justifying your storage staffing.
The concept that there should be a linear "Storage Administrators per TB" rule-of-thumb has been around for a while.Back in 1992, I went to visit a customer in Germany who had FIVE storage admins for 90 GB (yes, GB, not TB) disk array.I told them they only needed 3 admins, but they cited German laws that prohibited "overtime" work on evenings and weekends.
Later, in 1996, I visited an insurance company in Ohio to talk about IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. They had TWO admins to manage 7TB on their mainframe, and another 45 people managing the 7TB across their distributed systems running Linux, UNIX, and Windows. My first question, why TWO? Only one would be needed for the mainframe, but they responded that they back each other up when one takes a 2-week vacation. My second question to the rest of the audience was... "When was the last time you guys took a 2-week vacation?"
Today, admins manage many TBs of storage. But TBs are turning out not to be a fair ruler to estimate the number of admins you need. It's a moving target, and other factors have more influence that sheer quantity of data.Let's take a look at some of those factors, which we call "the three V's":
So, the key is that there is no simple rule-of-thumb. Fewer admins are need per TB on mainframe than distributed systems data. Fewer admins per TB are needed when you deploy productivity software, like IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center. Fewer admins per TB are needed when you deploy storage virtualization, like IBM SAN Volume Controller or IBM virtual tape libraries.
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Nooooo, it's not what you think!!!
Me n' the ever fabby Kitty went over to Sn@tch, so she could introduce me to their lovely clothes. I sorta splurged and bought a *few* outfits, because their stuff is oh so lovely, really well made and looks fabby :D Kitty stood there patiently whilst I ran around making "Oooh" and "Ahhhh" noises and buying lots of things. Later last night, she stopped by at Parkade and was dancing away until the wee small hours of the morning (UK time), chatting away merrily to DJNoNo Ulysses, whilst I listened in on the conversation and snuck tracks in that they were talking about... :D T'was fun! Tonight, I'll be at Republik again for another in the Bikini Beach Babes nights that we've started doing there... I say 'we' as Mist (aka Mistress Beresford) and myself have taken it upon ourselves to run my set out on the beach and to do it in skimpy beachware, hence the title. I'll be spinning, she'll be hosting. 5-7pm PST @ Republik.
I'm a bit miffed with the Cubic Effect hoodie I bought. It's fantastically made, it's really nice BUT, it doesn't fit. The clothing layer lets it down, because the hoodie layer doesn't come up my arms far enough to meet the sculptie prim sleeves, so I have bare patches, which looks unsightly. I've sent the designer an IM, but I'll probably have to drop her a notecard. It's a shame, because something so simple has let this design down, which is a pity... ***Update*** I spoke to the lovely Mirai who made the awesome clothing and she's taken my body stats and made me a custom set!! Now, that is what I call customer service. The new modified prims look amazing and I'm in love with the set. She's a seriously talented girl.
In other news, I'm off to the swanky Linden Labs party this weekend as the guest of Patty Streeter, who owns the Motorability Island sim complex... I need to sort out a posh frock to wear ;) I have something *pretty* eyecatching in mind :D
Friday, March 14, 2008
Kitty + Amanda = Sn@tch fun!!!
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Free the Queen!
Last time I kept bees, the queen came with a candy cap on the queen cage, the bees would eat their way to her in a few days and done.
This year's bees came from a supplier who uses cork and no matter how much the bees might want the queen out, they can't eat through cork so you have to spring her.
The girls were pretty docile as we staged our home invasion. They're ignoring the sugar water outside their front door, too, which is a good sign. They're bringing back loads of pollen from the flowering fruit trees and such that are just a few feet past that jar. All good signs.
Posted by Chixulub at 8:21 PM
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