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2/24/2013 (3 years ago)
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
Each of us has a cross to carry. We must all identify our crosses and carry them with patience, joy and love. Why complain about something which is our means to gain eternal life?
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
2/24/2013 (3 years ago)
Published in Year of Faith
Keywords: Year of Faith, Sunday homily, homily, homilies, Lent, Father James Farfaglia, suffering, meaning, cross, conversion, transformation
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX (Catholic Online) - A man and a woman had a little daughter that they adored. Audrey was their only child. They lived their whole lives for their little child. When she became chronically ill and her illness resisted the efforts of the best doctors, the parents became totally discouraged and inconsolable.Â
Soon Audrey did not survive the illness and the parents were completely distressed. They became bitter recluses, shutting themselves off from their family and friends. But, one night the woman had a dream. She dreamt that she was in heaven.Â
During her dream, she saw a long procession of little children processing like little angels before the throne of God. Every child was dressed in a dazzling white robe and they each held a lit candle. However, when the woman saw her Audrey, she noticed that her candle was not lit.Â
The mother ran up to Audrey, embraced her in her arms, caressed her tenderly, and then asked her how it was that her candle was the only one that was not lit. Audrey said, "Mother, they often relight it, but your tears always put it out."
Just at that moment the woman woke from her dream. The lesson was clear, and its effects were immediate. She immediately told the dream to her husband. They decided to embrace their loss with Christian hope and that they would no longer extinguish Audrey's little candle with their useless tears.Â
My dear friends, this Sunday's liturgy provides motivation and inspiration for us to continue our Lenten program. It is not easy to die to self. However, the gospel account of the transfiguration of Jesus tells us that our cross will always lead to the transformation of our lives.Â
There are three transfigurations or transformations that take place in our journey towards eternity.
The first change begins at Baptism. The immersion into the baptismal waters symbolizes death and rebirth. The Sacrament of Baptism washes away Original Sin and we are re-created. We are transformed into new creatures. The old self dies and the new person in Christ Jesus is born.
Our new life, which begins at Baptism, is carried out through our daily living of the Gospel. This of course, demands a continual dying to self. Through self-denial, the image of Christ is made visible in our lives. The more we die to self, the more sanctifying grace can transform our lives.Â
The second transformation takes place by our victory over the trials and tribulations of life. Every challenge, every difficulty, every moment of suffering, is an opportunity to grow. Transformation only takes place through suffering.
A young friend of mine was diagnosed with cancer when he was nineteen years old. He died two years later. Nevertheless, his acceptance of this challenge and the manner in which he embraced his daily suffering not only transformed his life, but it transformed the lives of those who were closest to him.
One day after he returned from a long week of treatments at the hospital, his dad suggested that before returning home, they stop by their parish and pray the Stations of the Cross together. The father told his son that contemplating how much Jesus had suffered for them would be important, particularly in their present trial. Both father and son had understood the transforming power of the Cross of Jesus.
The third transformation takes place at death. The suffering that the final moment brings upon us makes way for an amazing transformation. Eternal life in heaven, perhaps after a period of further transformation in purgatory, is granted to those who have been found worthy. The last transformation or transfiguration is completed at the Second Coming when our body is reunited with our soul. What awaits us is beyond anything that we can imagine.Â
"Sacred Scripture calls this mysterious renewal, which will transform humanity and the world, 'new heavens and a new earth.' It will be the definitive realization of God's plan to bring under a single head all things in Christ, things in heaven and things on earth. The visible universe, then, is itself destined to be transformed, so that the world itself, restored to its original state, facing no further obstacles, should be at the service of the just, sharing their glorification in the risen Jesus Christ" (Catechism of the Catholic Church # 1043, 1047).
When we consider the eschatological teachings of the Catholic Church, we can understand why the Easter liturgy cries out "O felix culpa." "O happy fault, O necessary sin of Adam, which gained for us so great a Redeemer" (ExsĂşlet - The Easter Proclamation from the Easter Vigil Liturgy).
The transfiguration of the Lord reminds us of the outcome of the cross. Suffering brings about transformation when we carry the cross like true disciples of Jesus.
Each of us has a cross to carry. We must all identify our crosses and carry them with patience, joy and love. Why complain about something which is our means to gain eternal life?
As Thomas a' Kempis reminds us, "The cross, therefore, is always ready; it awaits you everywhere. No matter where you may go, you cannot escape it, for wherever you go you take yourself with you and shall always find yourself. Turn where you will -- above, below, without, or within -- you will find a cross in everything, and everywhere you must have patience if you would have peace within and merit an eternal crown.
If you carry the cross willingly, it will carry and lead you to the desired goal where indeed there shall be no more suffering, but here there shall be. If you carry it unwillingly, you create a burden for yourself and increase the load, though still you have to bear it. If you cast away one cross, you will find another and perhaps a heavier one" (The Imitation of Christ, Book II, chapter 12).
"Jesus took Peter, John, and James and went up the mountain to pray. While he was praying his face changed in appearance and his clothing became dazzling white. And behold, two men were conversing with him, Moses and Elijah, who appeared in glory and spoke of his exodus that he was going to accomplish in Jerusalem" (Luke 9: 28 - 31).
The transfiguration of Jesus on Mount Tabor tells us that the glory of the resurrection will only take place through the sufferings of Good Friday. The transfiguration of Jesus teaches us that the experience of the cross is necessary in order for Easter to take place.
However, too many of our contemporaries are like those who stood at the foot of the Cross and cried out to Jesus that he should come down from the Cross.Â
Many would like to have a Christianity without self-denial, discipline and renunciation. However, Christianity without the Cross is not Christianity at all.Â
What is your cross? Maybe you have many crosses to carry. How do you carry your cross? Do you complain? Are you discouraged? Do you run away from the cross?
There is only one way to carry your cross. Carry your cross with generosity. Carry your cross with patience, love and joy. See in your cross your sanctification, your eternal salvation. Understand that with your cross, united to the cross of Jesus, you have a continual opportunity to save souls and make reparation for so many sins.Â
Father James Farfaglia is a contributing writer for Catholic Online and author of Get Serious! - A Survival Guide for Serious Catholics. You can visit him on the web at www.fatherjames.org. Apps for Father James' homily are now available for Android and iPhone.
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League has right to sound alarms
A recent commentary "There's fiction with fracking foes" (Nov. 30) attacking a presentation made by members of the League of Women Voters to the Portland Town Board was recently printed in the OBSERVER.
Calling the presentation "ill-advised and ill-informed science fiction" the author went on to list the benefits of fracking, and charged the League with being "local mouthpieces" for "out-of-towners" "telling us how to lead our lives."
Where to begin?
In the first place, if voicing a concern for the environment, or expressing a view on any other matter, is to be rejected as "telling us how to lead our lives," then we should never listen to any ideas or any presentation of facts because it might change our ideas or our conduct in some way. Think what such a view implies.
Now, what are the fictions the writer charges us with? He says that although fracking a single well does indeed require a million gallons of water, and although flowback water is indeed radioactive, wastewater treatment plants are forbidden to accept radioactive water and drillers are trying to recycle flowback water so as to reduce their water costs: one corporation now is using 100 percent non-fresh water. That's encouraging to know, and one can hope that the practice will spread, but meanwhile wells continue to use fresh water and a well in a new location will begin with fresh water, unless it's receiving recycled water from somewhere else – a whole different problem. And what, in any case, becomes of the radioactive water?
He says that while the mixture of chemicals used in fracking is indeed a trade secret, the ingredients are not, and moreover, that many of the toxic chemicals used in fracking are found in household products. Of course, the whole question here is concentration, and the percents of the chemicals – their concentrations – are not public knowledge. To take a homely example, we need salt in our diets, but an excess of salt is dangerous. The same or worse can be said of most chemicals used in fracking or released by it, including arsenic, barium, bromine, chlorine, manganese, radium, selenium, sodium, strontium, and more.
The writer says our League member "should be ashamed and embarrassed to present … as fact" that gas companies are exempt from the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Clean Air Act. Well, the details are voluminous and would try your readers' patience, but here's a brief summary. All the acts named by the writer have been amended to exempt gas exploration and production from some of the acts' requirements: from the need for permits to dump materials into waterways, from environmental impact statements, from having wastes and other materials classified as toxic, from having to report the release or transport of toxic materials, and more. Some of these exemptions, known as the Halliburtan Loophole, were enacted in the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Of course some provisions of all these acts must apply to gas extraction, but some important ones do not. Saying the acts don't apply is shorthand for detailing the lacy effect of their many loopholes.
And here we come to the major question for citizens: how safe is horizontal hydrofracking? Now, this is not the same process we have had for so many years in Chautauqua County. It is relatively new: it uses different materials and greater power to break up the rock in which gas is found and it drills horizontally underground several miles from its surface starting point. The gas industry argues that since it penetrates below the water table, the chemicals it injects to shatter the rock can't affect our water. However, its wells are lined with cement, which is porous to methane, and the methane that flows into the atmosphere from deep underground is 25 times more damaging, as a greenhouse gas, than carbon dioxide. Methane leakage occurs even if the cement isn't broken. In 2011, The New York Times reported that 65 wells drilled that year in Pennsylvania were found to have faulty cement casings: imagine what other chemicals leaked out there.
But a fracking operation isn't just wells. It uses compressor stations, chemical ponds, and temporary plastic pipelines connecting to them. The Times quotes a Range Resources employee at one site saying "we all know they leak."
On some farms, animals have died and people have fallen seriously ill from water contaminated by leaks in pond linings. Spills from trucks can also be a problem: truck drivers transporting fracking wastes and brine are exempt from the driving-time limits in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Act, making accidents more likely. Recent research in Texas has found that from 22 percent to 65 percent of areas near fracked wells have levels of toxins that exceed EPA limits – the different percents depend on which toxins we're talking about. It's hard to bring much of this damage home to the gas companies (that's a story in itself), and we're assured that the companies are developing new technologies to deal with the mostly nonexistent problems. Meanwhile people are suffering.
Some people have gotten rich from fracking, of course. But their gain may be others' loss. Typically, the gains to the community are short-lived. The companies come with their own teams of drillers, and while they spend money until the well is working, then they move on. Tax gains from the wells are also short-lived. It seems that this type of well depletes quickly – from 34 percent to 44 percent in one year, according to recent reports based on an analysis of 60,000 wells.
But natural gas burns cleaner than coal, so environmentalists should embrace it, says our writer. This is true up to a point, and I want to emphasize that the League of Women Voters is not opposing the conversion of the NRG plant in Dunkirk. However, in a recent bulletin the Union of Concerned Scientists states, "Methane leakage significantly reduces – or, at higher levels, even negates – the potential climate advantage natural gas has over coal." In other words, using natural gas will not reduce global warming or slow climate change. But, says our writer, gas will free us from dependence on foreign oil.
To the best of my knowledge, the U.S. is now exporting oil, though that doesn't mean other fuels aren't preferable. Many experts think that wind and solar power are closer to meeting our energy needs than is commonly supposed. But meanwhile, without wanting to frighten people, the League of Women Voters believes Chautauqua County would do well to keep fracking brine and wastes off our roads and out of our waterways, which is what the resolution before the town of Portland recommends. If the current state moratorium on horizontal hydrofracking is lifted, we hope we can also keep drilling far away from our dairy farms, wells, lakes, and streams.
Nothing less than the long-term future of our economy is at stake.
Minda Rae Amiran is a Fredonia resident and League of Women Voters member.


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Skip to comments.Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 31 March 2013
Posted on 03/31/2013 4:44:18 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
March 31st, 2013
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Mark Kelly, Americans for Responsible Solutions and husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords; Cardinal Donald Wuerl, archbishop of Washington, D.C.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. Chuck U. Schumer, D-N.Y., and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Dolan; Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker; Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.
Now let the heavens be joyful,
Let earth her song begin:
Let the round world keep triumph,
And all that is therein;
Invisible and visible,
Their notes let all things blend,
For Christ the Lord is risen!
-- Saint John of Damascus
Woops... Left out a line on the poem!
Now let the heavens be joyful,
Let earth her song begin:
Let the round world keep triumph,
And all that is therein;
Invisible and visible,
Their notes let all things blend,
For Christ the Lord is risen,
Our joy that hath no end!
— Saint John of Damascus
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It is for Freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. Gal 5:1
The homosexual agenda is not about marriage or so called a right to a sexual group but a method for the communist wing to promote their political ideology. Just as the womens movement was used to promote the communist agenda in the 60s, such as abortion being a right rather than a moral judgment; so too is the homosexual marriage movement becoming their latest agenda promotional tool. This is simply a tactic to break down our society to be replaced with a gummit mandate.
During the 60s and 70s when women were burning their bras to protest their oppression by the so called Patriarchal society, their leaders were heavily communist oriented. The men and women who headed their movement never cared about what was beneficial for women, they wanted to form a country that was more like Maos China or Castros Cuba so they used the uprising to accomplish their goals. Those countries made women work like slaves for the communal society rather than raise children. Once they were able to make abortion on demand a right rather than killing their babies they were able to bring in more and more government programs. Just like Maos China, women work in the factories to support the growing State while the kids are raised in the childcare centers.
The communist leadership of these groups learned to use these so called oppressed groups as voting blocks and generated activists to continue moving communism down the road. They sold the women on the idea that without these groups they would be tied to a stove with five kids hanging on their apron strings rather than the so called equality in the workplace they deserved. Now they have more than accomplished their goals and women are suffering from more depression, alcoholism, abuse, sickness and divorce than any time in history as a side benefit.
Women for the most part would be happy to stay at home and have kids just like the 50s if they could afford to. This of course is no longer possible thanks to the communal programs which have been installed to take care of the abandoned mothers who have been a result of the sexual revolution which came with the so called equality. You would think women would be smart enough to set their goals higher than equal to a man. The leaders simply justify all of the single parent apartments as another tool to get to the children and indoctrinate them before they have a chance to understand there was another way called independence and freedom which actually worked.
Is marriage perfect? No. Are there high divorce rates? Yes, but a part of that is the breakdown of our society by the communist inspired groups like the womens movement. Women have been lectured it is better to raise a child without a father than it is to have arguments around the child. This is as far from the truth as you can get. Of course there are going to be arguments about all sorts of issues inside a marriage including how we are going to pay all of these taxes for ever growing communal programs. It is important for the child to see how two loving people work through these arguments from opposite sides just like every issue they will see in their lives, but the communists want those kids in their indoctrination centers rather than a family so they tell the woman to become a single mother for their agenda.
Now they are going for the kill. The only thing that is semi holding this society together is the church and if they can force the church out of America they then are god. The womens movement and abortion has marginalized the church and divided the society. It has also built a solid voting block for their allies in the Democrat Party whose leaders are fully on board with their agenda. Women now believe if they cannot have access to abortion they are not equal to a man which puts the church in the position of protecting the voices inside the womb. Of course the womens movement calls that sexist and alienates the church from mainstream society since the Three Pillars of Propaganda (media, academia and the DNC) determine what is mainstream, isolating the church and Christians.
Now the communists want to destroy the Christian churches in America by making it a law you must marry homosexuals or lose your church. They want to make it a crime of discrimination for a pastor to deny the rights of poor oppressed homosexuals if you refuse to marry them. They will then punish the church and pastors both through public humiliation and ridicule as well as financial punishment such as taking away the tax exemption and finally, jail. This will effectively destroy the Christian church which has been their goal since the 1930s because the church stands in the way of the communist utopia.
They are now going to push the cliché of gay rights, just as they did womens right to make another oppressed group justifying their agenda. Is womens lives better or worse since the movement? They are pointing out how high the divorce rate is among heterosexuals which has skyrocketed since their agenda was pushed for women and women fell for it. We are already seeing higher divorce rates among homosexuals in states that have allowed marriages and civil unions than heterosexuals as would be expected. When the average male homosexual has over four hundred partners why would you expect a marriage to one person to last? But that isnt why it is being promoted.
This is not about homosexual marriage at all. It is about promoting a communist agenda and giving the government a larger role in marriage and everyones lives. This is about forcing the American culture to change forever because the communists need to expand State control and destroy the church so gummit can become your god. Everything else is smoke and mirrors when homosexual marriage is promoted, it is a wedge issue to take down the church and give their willing masses a reason to promote that agenda. Just like abortion they are fooled into thinking they are being good tolerant people by helping push gay marriage against those evil intolerant Christians/Republicans. This is now a tenant of the church of liberalism to be a good person rather than an evil one. Their cultists believe supporting this makes them a better person and will go to the ends of the earth promoting tolerance.
The Republican Party needs to stand up and fight side by side with the church. This is not about a cute issue of tolerance and protecting homosexual rights. This is about the survival of the church and the right to religious freedom, the freedom to worship the Bible and God. This is about the survival of America and One Nation Under God. We have seen them take away religious rights against contraceptive and abortion and this is their final nail in the church. They know what the final outcome will be and it has been their goal for decades. We will have a society with no moral compass and no pastors to shine the light into the darkness. This battle has been going on long before the 1930s and will go on until the Resurrection of Christ.
Pray for America
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Morning AB, All....
....thank you AB, as always, for doing this thread. If you think we don't notice, try a Sunday NOT posting it.
Oh....tried that?
I rest my case.
Anyway, Happy Easter to all...the words of "Jesus Christ Is Risen Today" are ear worms in my brain. Sang at Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil, last night.
Good Friday was excrutiating.
Two Deacons evidently wanted to serenade us. So they both sang some sort of thank you song...thanking the pope, our elected officials...that sort of thing.
Question one....we had to pray for the Jews.
Now I don't mind praying for the Jews, not at all. But why just the Jews? We didn't pray for Muslims, or Presbyterians for that matter.
The bigger issue was there were about twelve different sorts to pray for and each Deacon sang some kind of narrative with each "pray for".
The absurd thing was those thoughtless Deacons making the congregation kneel and stand with each pray for.
THAT'S 22 KNEELS AND STANDS folks, for an older congregation I might add! Whole thing took about 45 minutes, really a pain.
The in-pew "breaking bread" had instructions that said we could stand the whole time during the prayers but the selfish Deacons were on a roll.
Lookit, maybe cause I had a quadruple bypass and standing and kneeling like that is excrutiating for those of us with compromised circulation.
The Deacons could have given the congregation a choice to stand the whole time and avoid the constant kneeling and stuff.
In fact, our parish Pastor stood the whole time cause he was totally unable to do all that kneeling with his bum leg.
Yeah, I'm mad about it. It was a selfish, thoughtless thing for two show-offs to sing their solos.
Went to Baltimore last week to visit daughter, got some stories on her....my prototype low-information voter, and I say that kindly. Yeah she's LO-FO but she's a busy Mom, getting up at 5 in the am to drive husband to work, hoisting young child out of bed, taking her back home, dressing, ready for school, drive to school. Must re-pick up husband at 2 pm. In between she must do what Mom's do.
She's not stupid....but she's Lo-Fo....
I consider Low Information voters as those who have been fooled and don't have the time, nor the inclination frankly, to find out how they have been fooled.
Awaiting intelligent commentary as always...
I really don't.
The Sunday shows are just media propaganda every week, and they just keep getting worse, and their litany of perennial guests become more and more scripted, expected and strident, and it is just unwatchable.
On Easter Sunday, it's nice to have the Cardinals, but I'm sure they'll be asked about the Pope Francis washing girls' feet, and gay marriage, and basically opposed on things conservative and scripturally sound...
If this thread gets to 100 posts today I'll be surprised!
Happy Easter to all,may the belief in a higher being who created us all flourish as liberalism dies.
Well it IS Easter, AB.
But here after three days of church and a visit to Baltimore, it's just me and husband and I am quite happy about that.
I alone will post 100 comments to the thread.
I got some thoughts about Bray's essay. Just let me get my thoughts together.
Yes, Pat, my parish did the same Intersessionary Prayers (but they do every year).
As to praying for the Jews as a single prayer, remember that our Saviour is a Jew... That's the way I see it.
The next prayer was for Muslims and others...
A few years back the Church got into trouble as they called for conversion of all these peoples, including the "Perfidious Jews". That language has since been scrubbed (in 1955 I think).
Happy Easter All!
It's another great sunny Sunday and temps in...THE 50S!
I'll be outside today, enjoying the nice break from the drudgery of Winter (appropriately Easter-like)
Thanks for the thread and ping AB.
Brilliant as usual buddy and Happy Easter to ya. Haven't got your new pathway to winning elections yet but I will.If you have a link for it please put it up.
What we are witnessing is how the left segregates Americans and begins the process of special rights for special people. It's all part of the vote buying process that the left is so good at.
In reality its even more complex than we know since chaos, destruction, diversion and the rest all play a huge part as well.
As important an issue as gay rights,global warming and the rest are they pale to what the commies in charge are doing to the country.
They know this. Therefore the game is always to keep us looking at what they doing with the right hand while the left hand does the incredible destruction that we don't watch or pay attention to.
In Benghazi 30 witnesses to the slaughter of now five have been silenced possibly one talked, no budget for years, endless debt haunts our children,the MB incrementally takes over the Mideast as whacked out muzzies plan to conquer the world,our economy, currency heads toward collapse,amnesty nears,we get the sequester media game designed to destroy our side instead of desperately needed budget cuts and on and on and on it goes. Meanwhile, global warming no White hut tours and other such meaningless topics occupy the minds of duped American one more time.
So, is this guy a real Catholic...or "one of Them"?
Ain't nothing wrong with asking for the malicious murderers to have a change of heart. Downright charitable if you ask me.
I agree. It was the phrase "Perfidious Jews" that caused the controversy, post Nazi Holocaust.
My understanding is Wuerl is a conservative.
Happy Easter Fish.
He Has Risen!
Well, since they were referring only to the treacherous/traitorous Jews (secular?) you'd think the real Jews would applaud the effort.
The professed goals of these fiends are never their real goals. Nevertheless, the gullible, greedy, and ignorant continue to fall for them. As P.T.Barnum once said, "there's a sucker born every minute".
Jesus came to save us from our sin and free us from it's slavery. The Commies showed up to pile more of it on us and put us in bondage and chains to it (and them). In the end it is a choice we freely make.
Happy Resurrection Day! He is risen!!
Here is the link to my campaign manual:
Mark Kelly: "40% of all purchases of guns don't have background check".
Liar! That's a bogus number that includes grandpa giving little Billy his shotgun.
Chris Wallace is a dumb MFer!
Happy Easter Rod and all. Tough way to begin Easter for Fish.
He has Risen
Mark Kelly on FNS promoting universal background check and spouting other RAT talking points.
Wallace now asking him about his recent attempt to purchase a 45. Talking about how easy it was to do the 5 min background check.
Wallace retorting the Loughner had passed a background check and purchased the gun he used to shoot Kelly's wife. Wallace also noting that the pertinent facts that would have denied him the purchase were not available.
Wallace: Doesn't the NRA have a point that the mental health records need to be available to background checks? Kally agrees.
Kelly expressing sympathy for Loughner and his parents who knew of his mental illness and dangerous tendencies and did not get him help (committed)
He would have been fine in public if he had been on his meds.
Geeeeeeez! (asinine)
HAPPY EASTER TO ALL! Just a few posts before I have to leave for church.
Watching ABC Round table on gay marriage. Everyone agrees, done deal......Kristine Vanden Huvel - SC justices are way behind society.
Senators switch on gay marriage - follow the money from the donors.
Matthew Dowd - the traditional view of marriage for the last 2000 years has been: women were property, different races couldn't marry, nonmonogaomous (sp?) marriages. (Wow, this dude has become so snotty about anything conservative and moral.)
I don't post very often but I want to wish a very Happy Easter to all.
I'm just not going to watch any of the Sunday shows, don't want to ruin the reverence of the day.
We are having dear friends over for dinner, worked on it all day yesterday. Our family is so spread out and gets together every other summer.
I want to tell Pat that she is my idol. I love reading your posts. You truly help me to keep going. And I also enjoy Bray's inciteful thoughts. Actually, this thread is most helpful in fighting the evils of our day. So thank you AB for posting and thank you to all for your comments.
ABC - Peter King - did I just hear him say he supports the president's posiion on the gun control debate?....but then he goes on to say he supports the peoples' views on gun control also.
Okay - whole panel on ABC agrees again on gun control debate. Vanden Huvel - the movement is towards more gun control.
Dowd (gun owner himself he says - whoopee!) - sense in Middle America is that elites are trying to tell them what to do. Thinks Bloomberg could do better. Thinks the NRA is not that powerful, politicians need to get over the NRA.
And now onto immigration reform - all agree it's coming. There is a deal on guest worker issue being resolved. This is a big deal. Political suicide for the Republicans if they don't pass immigration reform.
There are a bunch of idiots on this panel. So glad they know what this country wants.....or at least they think they do.
Wallace now asking the Archbishop about SCOTUS considering packer "marriage".
He says the Church welcomes everyone, but he is somewhat overly conciliatory towards the view of soddomites being "who they are", members of the church.
Equating the non-recognition of queer "marriage" to that of divorced/remarried couples.
Of course all the liberal elitists know what is good for America. They have done such a fantastic job so far.
If they are so brilliant, why haven't they matched Bush's 4% unemployment rates? They are the cause of high unemployment.
He has Risen
Now they are going for the kill. The only thing that is semi holding this society together is the church and if they can force the church out of America they then are god. The womens movement and abortion has marginalized the church and divided the society. It has also built a solid voting block for their allies in the Democrat Party whose leaders are fully on board with their agenda. Women now believe if they cannot have access to abortion they are not equal to a man which puts the church in the position of protecting the voices inside the womb. Of course the womens movement calls that sexist and alienates the church from mainstream society since the Three Pillars of Propaganda (media, academia and the DNC) determine what is mainstream, isolating the church and Christians.
Now the communists want to destroy the Christian churches in America by making it a law you must marry homosexuals or lose your church. They want to make it a crime of discrimination for a pastor to deny the rights of poor oppressed homosexuals if you refuse to marry them. They will then punish the church and pastors both through public humiliation and ridicule as well as financial punishment such as taking away the tax exemption and finally, jail. This will effectively destroy the Christian church which has been their goal since the 1930s because the church stands in the way of the communist utopia.
Andropov learned the hard lesson that followed from Stalin and Khruschev who both wanted to destroy the church. It was something the people would never abide. So...
Andropov's KGB began infiltrating the church, even at the ecclesiastical school level, and infiltrating it so completely that the Orthodox representative to the west at Canterbury was eventually a KGB plant with decades spent inside the church, using it to the State's purposes at every juncture of his "career."
Likewise is "gay marriage" a matter of infiltration, or influence, seeking not to destroy the family system but to redefine it as an appendage of the State—as you say.
"Marriage" will be whatever the State says it is. I'm guessing the Bush Family's chief collaborator, John Roberts, will move this matter forward at least an increment in whatever "decision" is arrived at by the Court.
If I'm correct about this, Roberts is taking his marching orders from Comrade Rove, who has clearly signalled that even the Menshevik party wants full government control over "marriage."
Kelly shows his ignorance or his stupidity again. Internet sales, he says, are not subject to background checks. All internet sales which are made by licensed FFL dealers must be shipped to another FFL dealer where background checks must be made before delivery to the purchaser. Mental health risks CANNOT, by law, be entered into NICS unless the person has been adjucated by a judge to be mentally deficient. Kelly also said that Laughner being expelled from school should have put his name on NICS for no-buy! Again, Kelly shows his ignorance or stupidity. Kelly is a media whore, that is all!
When the average male homosexual has over four hundred partners why would you expect a marriage to one person to last? But that isnt why it is being promoted.
These are really sick people, really sick.
When the average male homosexual has over four hundred partners why would you expect a marriage to one person to last? But that isnt why it is being promoted.
These are really sick people, really sick.
I alone will post 100 comments to the thread.
Actually the whole SSM thing is fraught with propaganda and disinformation.
The only group actually interested in a durable legal bond are munchers. It should actually be called "lesbian marriage".
Just like Maos China, women work in the factories to support the growing State while the kids are raised in the childcare centers.
(And if you don't think so we've set a Potemkin Village sure to convince you otherwise.)
There's all kinds of sin in the world we're all guilty of. All we can do is hope and pray for forgiveness...
The kind that asks us to accept as NORMAL behavior what is sin, though, whether it be homosexual love or serial divorce, is the biggest problem, and a way to lead the clergy and laity to perdition.
There are a lot of people in this country now who do NOT consider homosexual love, or consumation of sex outside of marriage to be a sin at all. In fact, many think it is worthy of adoration or respect as it shows "love". I think we're also reaching a point where people who are OK with the gay lifestyle are the majority.
For my sake, gay sex and expression are private matters I want nothing to know about. Why should I know about a person's sexual preference??? I do NOT want to know!
From a Christian perspective, I do believe a homo should not be beaten or arrested for expressing gay love--no more than an adulterer or a person in an extramarital affair, but just don't ask me to condone sin. I'll pray for them all, rather. And of course, my very imperfect self...
As Jesus said, "Go, and sin no more."
The only group actually interested in a durable legal bond are munchers. It should actually be called lesbian marriage.
Vanden Huvel
Exactly right. We will see more of the Repub gay parade in the next few months as we are told we can't be intolerant. This is a formula for disaster.
Church attendance will drop as we see a vilification of churches and Christians. You will see an open season on churches and Christians from these attacks.
Of course the homosexuals want the young boys. It is what they crave.
He has Risen
For my sake, gay sex and expression are private matters I want nothing to know about. Why should I know about a person's sexual preference??? I do NOT want to know!
The "telling" is the sex.
He has Risen
Thanks bud,I'll get to it later.Lots to post about in the blogosphere right now.
Well, except for the part where they refuse to stop being packers and seeking validation for their perverted deathstyle.
I would think the Archbishop would have had the fortitude to make the distinction (especially in light of the pederast "priests" issue) that the sodomites are welcome if they repent, stop whore-dogging and get their minds right.
As Jesus said, "Go, and sin no more."
What you said.
If that was all it was it would be one thing but it isn't. It is a method to destroy the church. We can be apathetic and let it happen just as every other so called victim group or stop it before they reach their goals.
This has nothing to do with acceptance or tolerance, it is about the destruction of the church in America.
He has Risen
I'm for building a bigger closet myself. Those faggy guys were just fine hiding in the nearest broom closet.
Oh my goodness AB....
"perfidious Jews"?
Talk about politically incorrect.
We do the Intersessionary Prayers too but this is the first time they had us kneel and stand 22 times and it's the first time two Deacons sang the narrative as we knelt in pain.
Why did EACH Deacon have to do the SAME Intersessionary narrative? That doubled the kneeling/standing for the SAME prayers.
It's no matter, I am over it. I know in my heart the complaints will be many. People all around me were suffering.
Easter Vigil was wonderful but while we have time I will complain before my rant about Mark Kelly and gun control.
I thought the choir was a bit full of themselves and I exclude myself from the lot.
First, I am NOT a Cantor, never mind that I don't sing all that well but also I have no desire to stand up before the congregation and sing. It's not my strong suit if you get my drift.
The Choir Director had all the Cantors...which is MOST of the choir, share in the Easter Vigil cantoring and this sucked.
They too were full of themselves, climbing in and out of the pews, demanding the end row....like about twelve of them, one sang this verse the other sang that verse....
Yada, yada.
It was like a talent show these holy masses!
Anyway, Mark Kelly.....
....there's a pic floating around of this hypocrite buying some kind of rifle.
I despise these politicos who think they were elected to somehow do what THEY think is right, not what we elected them to do.
Kelly...heh, he's perfect, just perfect...look at how the Dems see him:
An astronaut, husband of a Dem congress critter shot and brain damaged by a gun, a man who must care for his wife....dear Lord he is PERFECT!
Prop him up, make him a sympathetic icon of the gun victims.
He's a hypocrite and hey, where's the elected guys pushing back against this guy?
We got big things going on here in Delaware re gun control....I despise them all.
They are our masters, they know what's best for us.
Thank you, sir.
I'll see if I can make some waves with that thing over here in Montana.
...sure sick and tired of the crap we're getting out of the "experts" as attempts at campaigning around here.
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Burglaries steal spotlight
By SAMANTHA MCDONNELL
OBSERVER Staff Writer
Within recent weeks, both the Fredonia and Dunkirk Police departments have made arrests for burglaries and the Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office has issued a warning about recent break-ins. While there seems to be a trend currently, it is unable to predict when a burglar will strike.
"The trends even in the past few years, for burglaries, house entries and vehicle entries have seen to increase immensely," David Ortolano, Dunkirk Police chief, said.
According to Fredonia Police Chief Bradley Meyers, the amount of burglaries in recent years have also increased in the village. In 2010, the department responded to 27 incidents, which decreased in 2011 to 25 incidents. In 2012, however, that number jumped to 39 incidents. Senior Investigator with the New York State Police Greg Holt said the State Police has also been investigating several burglaries in recent weeks.
Chautauqua County Sheriff Joseph Gerace said the Sheriff's Office has been investigating burglaries in the northern part of the county in Sheridan, Pomfret and Portland. Burglary is one of the biggest crimes in the county, he said.
"It's a crime that really upsets me. They're entering into people's kingdoms, their homes. It really changes their lives, their sense of well being and security," Gerace said.
Gerace said many burglaries are "a crime of opportunity." Many burglars will stake out residences and ensure no one is home. Some may even be familiar with the neighborhood.
"It's a crime of opportunity for these burglars," Gerace said. "They will knock on the door or call on the phone. We even had one (burglar) that would throw rocks through the windows to see if he would get a response or an alarm."
Since most residents work, burglars take advantage of work schedules. Holt said many burglars take advantage of empty houses to avoid conflict.
"Obviously people know a lot of people aren't home during the day and are at work," Holt said. "(Burglars) rather go in an unoccupied house, commit the crime and leave. They're usually in and out in a fairly quick amount of time."
Many burglary suspects may be trying to support a habit or looking to pick up some extra cash through a pawn shop.
"A lot of this activity is related to drugs. They're stealing merchandise to support drug habits," Gerace said.
While there is no particular times of year that burglaries are most common, state police and the sheriff's office often responds to hunting cabins and campsite burglaries more during the spring. Hunting cabins are often secure but since they are more secluded, they tend to be easier targets.
"If you're in the country and you're on a street with hills and twist and turns in the roads, you can't see your neighbors or your neighbors are a distance away, that plays a role in it," Holt said.
The recent burglaries have been widespread throughout the city of Dunkirk. Ortolano said some burglaries have occurred in the First Ward but others were spread out. The recent string of burglaries around the area have happened all hours of the day. Ortolano said normally residents associate nighttime with the crime.
"When you think of burglars, you think of after dark someone sneaking around breaking into a house. The trend within the last year or so we've seen more of the daytime entries," he said.
Anytime the Dunkirk Police go to a burglary, they take fingerprints, photographs and DNA from the scene hoping to get a match. Sometimes when the crimes are widespread it is harder for police to "pin down" who the suspect may be, Ortolano said.
"It has to take a combination of police work and residents getting involved and helping us out. If (burglaries) are happening sporadically and randomly, it's very hard for us to pin them down," he said.
Ortolano also said his department works closely with Fredonia Police. Recently, both Fredonia and Dunkirk Police worked collaboratively to arrest a burglary suspect in mid-February who had committed burglary crimes in the Fredonia-Dunkirk area.
While the crime may not be easy to predict, there are ways to protect your home and belongings. Both Ortolano, Gerace and Holt strongly urge residents to lock their doors and windows. Gerace said, according to national statistics burglars will give up if it takes longer than three minutes to gain entry. The Sheriff's Office does promotes security systems.
"We do promote people to have alarm systems in their home. They are very helpful. That can be eyes and ears when we're not able to patrol that area," Gerace said.
Holt suggests lighting, both exterior and interior. Motion lights on a timer from dusk to dawn, is a crime deterrent.
"One thing I always tell people is to have some sort of security light on the interior and exterior that comes on at night. An area that is well lit tends to be an area that people who are to commit a crime do not want to be in," Holt said.
Ortolano said cash, jewelry and small electronics are easy to grab and can easily be concealed under clothing. Keeping these items secure can deter criminals since burglary is a "crime of opportunity," Ortolano said. Most of the campsite burglaries scene involve secured buildings. When a burglar wants to get in locks can be jimmied or windows broken, Holt said. He suggests not leaving anything of value in cabins if unoccupied for a period of time.
"Don't leave your weapons or anything of value, like TVs, that could be easily removed. If they're going to be left unoccupied for a period of time, you're just protecting your investments," Holt said.
If residents see anything out of the ordinary or suspicious, they are urged to call police right away.
"Pay attention to who doesn't belong or if they see somebody hanging out or something suspicious even during the daytime," Ortolano said. "(Callers) can remain anonymous .. but sometimes we need people to step up and give a statement. It has to take a combination of police work and residents getting involved."
If residents see a suspicious vehicle, describe the car and the direction or travel to police; same for persons. Holt said along with vehicle descriptions, plate numbers are crucial.
"The more information that people can give to us, the better we're able to do our job. We really rely on concerned citizens giving us a call and giving us the best description and information," Holt said.
Gerace said many times these tips lead to closing active cases as well as preventing new crimes. Residents often know their own neighborhoods the best, he added.
All four police agencies conduct property checks if a resident is going away for a long weekend or vacation. Dunkirk residents can find the house watch form on www.dunkirkpolice.com under 'Forms.' They can be dropped off at the police station or residents can come in and speak with an officer.
"I'd like to see more people take advantage of the program," Ortolano said.
The Fredonia Police Department, State Police and Sheriff's Office all require residents to call the department and will take the information by phone. The State Police also offers a program for residents who will be gone for an extended period of time. The Post It Property program allows police to warn others the property is being watched.
"We'll actually put up signs (on the property) that it is being watched by the State Police," Holt said.
To contact the police departments, call 679-1531 for the Fredonia Police Department; call 366-2266 for the Dunkirk Police Department; call 679-1521 for the State Police; and call 753-4231 for the Sheriff's Office.
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Driver obesity and the risk of fatal injury during traffic collisions
- 1Division of Environmental Health Sciences, Safe Transportation Research and Education Center, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
- 2Department of Epidemiology & Injury Control Research Center, University of West Virginia, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
- Correspondence to Dr Thomas M Rice, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, Safe Transportation Education and Research Center, University of California, 2614 Dwight Way, #7374, Berkeley, CA 94720-7374, USA; tomrice{at}berkeley.edu
- Received 10 August 2012
- Revised 27 November 2012
- Accepted 4 December 2012
- Published Online First 21 January 2013
Background Few studies have looked at how obesity affects injury outcomes among vehicle occupants involved in traffic collisions.
Objective To estimate the association of obesity with death risk among drivers of passenger vehicles aged ≥16 and to examine effect modification by driver sex, driver seat belt use, vehicle type and collision type.
Methods We conducted a matched-pair cohort study using data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System. WHO body mass index (BMI) categories were calculated. Data were analysed using conditional Poisson regression.
Results Estimated risk ratios (RRs) were slightly raised for underweight drivers (RR=1.19, 95% CI 0.86 to 1.63). RR increased with higher BMI categories and were 1.21 (0.98 to 1.49) for BMI 30–34.9, 1.51 (1.10 to 2.08) for BMI 35–39.9 and 1.80 (1.15 to 2.84) for BMI ≥40. Estimated BMI effects varied by gender. We found no meaningful variation across levels of vehicle type, collision type or seat belt use.
Conclusions Findings from this study suggest that obese vehicle drivers are more likely to die from traffic collision-related injuries than non-obese occupants involved in the same collision. Education is needed to improve seat belt use among obese people, as is research to understand the potential role of comorbidities in injury outcomes.


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Fletcher: Investment always comes from savings
Let's start with basic economics. The U.S. is over-spending its income to the tune of $1 trillion every year. The federal deficit equals our gross domestic product, putting us in the same economic position as PIIGSUS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain, United States).
The thing that differentiates us from the others is that for the time being, the U.S. dollar is the trading medium for almost the whole world. As I wrote recently, that soon will change as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) just decided to use a market basket of their own currencies when trading among themselves.
The BRICS were tired of seeing that every time we printed more currency, we devalued the dollar. As the fastest growing economies in the world, they embraced a stable currency, namely, their own. This means the dollar is no longer the only game in town for trading.
Who's to blame? Ask your favorite politician and you'll quickly learn it's "the other party's fault."
There's an unchallenged rule in economics that states "Savings = Investment." The rule is a basic tenet of all economies including capitalism, socialism, communism, and all other "isms." As a country, a very large part of our aggregate savings is in the form of retirement funds in 401(k)s, IRAs, and pension plans. These savings are all tax advantaged. This means the income earned by these funds is not taxed until it's paid out.
Some of it isn't taxed at all as it's paid in like Social Security. The big advantage is that the growth of the funds is untaxed and that allows the money invested to accumulate about 30-40 percent faster than if it were taxable. This was viewed as a good thing in the past because the Feds thought the tax paying jobs created by this investment was worth the price of the loss of taxes on the annual increase in those retirement accounts. Savings = Investment, but Investment means jobs.
Our economy by some governmental measures has run at 14 percent unemployment, so investment for job creation is critical. President Obama wants to start taxing the investment accumulated by American workers at any time their accumulated retirement savings, including IRAs, 401(k)s, and pension plans are $3 million or more. Initially the proposed arrangement would save the government $9 billion annually on the deficit of $1 trillion or 9/1000s of the annual problem.
The real problem is it's a direct tax on investment funds. It is the equivalent of taxing your savings account rather than taxing the interest earned on your savings account. It's a tax on your hard earned wealth and it's a job killer because it takes the investment capital and spends it for day-to-day operations of the government. In economics, government expenditures are all just expenses. The president can't get enough cash to run his programs by just taxing income.
He has proposed taxing capital just like Mrs. Kirchner in Argentina. She just took all of the retirement funds and said "Trust me, I'm going to pay you at retirement." That line sounds like the Social Security Trust Fund that was used for day-to-day operations of the government and now exists only as a promise.
I know the government is made up of folks elected by us. It looks like Pogo was right when he said "We have met the enemy and he is us." Either the deficit gets under control or we are the real losers as individuals.
In order to get the deficit back in line we must address Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid because they are the majority of the government's spending. There are only three ways to do it: 1) Increase contributions through new taxes. 2) Decrease benefits. 3) Raise the eligibility standards by raising the age or the entry requirements for the programs.
At stake is our already eroding privileged trade status in the world and therefore eroding jobs. That part can be changed but "Savings = Investment" is forever.


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Awesome......break up with girlfriend: build a Boba Fett Suit.
What did you use for the armour, sintra? Ive been curious to know if Perspex and a heat gun would achieve the same effect as sintra seems to be harder to come by here.
Hey Chris, I used pieces of a old back plate of a phone booth to make the body armour actually! Worked pretty well but was a paint to have to cut it out, had to use tin snips and a lot of sanding but its pretty sturdy!
Gday bassplayer. Hmm, I guess that would work too lol. Cheers.
Looking good, but as a fellow ESB guy, I cannot approve of your taste in blasters :P
Keep it up!


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Regional Economic Development Council giving loans for cinema upgrades
State economic development money is being set aside to create a short-term loan fund that North Country movie theaters can use to pay for digital upgrades.
Meanwhile, major sewer projects in Bloomingdale and Saranac Lake have also been targeted for state funding.
Digital movie loan fund
The North Country Regional Economic Development Council announced in a Tuesday press release that it has reassigned some of its 2012 funds to help small, independent movie theaters convert from film to digital projection.
The Adirondack Economic Development Corporation will administer a short-term loan fund for those theaters. The effort will be coordinated with the Adirondack North Country Association and Adirondack Film Society, which have been raising private funds for 10 North Country theaters to convert to digital as part of the Go Digital or Go Dark Campaign.
The theaters – including the Palace in Lake Placid, the State in Tupper Lake and the Hollywood in AuSable Forks – have said they could be forced out of business after this year, when movies will no longer be released on film. The cost of the conversion ranges from $50,000 to $100,000 per screen.
The council's press release didn't say how much money has been set aside for the short-term loan fund and what previously approved project or projects the funds were reassigned from. When the program is completed, however, the council said it would re-lend the funds to businesses across the region for start-up or expansion projects.
Sewer projects
The council also announced Tuesday it has approved infrastructure funds for nine projects.
The town of St. Armand would receive $422,000 for a series of major upgrades to its sewer system in and around Bloomingdale. The money will help to close a sizable funding gap on the project. The state has offered the town a $2 million grant and a 30-year, interest-free loan, but with the cost of the upgrades near $5 million, town officials have said they need more funding or else the annual payments on the loan will be more than their sewer district customers can afford.
The council said St. Armand's sewer problems have prevented existing businesses from expanding and hindered the development of new businesses.
The village of Saranac Lake would see $190,000 for its LaPan Highway sewer main replacement project. The village has sought multiple sources of funding to reduce the project's cost to its water and sewer customers, who have seen their rates jump 39 percent over the last two years due to costs associated with the village's state-mandated, $12.5 million water system upgrade.
Myriad RBM, a biotech company that relocated from Lake Placid to the former village offices at 3 Main St. last year, wants to expand but can't until the sewer project is done, the release states. Part of the sewer line that needs to be replaced runs under the parking lot the Myriad staff uses.
The council is hosting a series of workshops where applicants can learn more about the Consolidated Funding Application process and how to tap into the $760 million in state economic development funding being offered in the third round of the process.
The next workshop will be held at 9 a.m. June 26 at Clinton Community College in Plattsburgh, followed by a session at 9 a.m. June 28 at the Dulles State Office Building in Watertown.
Registration information for the workshops, along with more information about the application process, is available at regionalcouncils.ny.gov/content/north-country.
The deadline for applications is Aug. 12.


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Delaware State University's Make Your Mark Speaker Series featured "The Three Doctors" – Dr. Sampson Davis, Dr. Rameck Hunt and Dr. George Jenkins on Thursday, Jan. 30 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Center on campus.
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"The Three Doctors" has become a nationally-known story of three men from low-income areas of Newark, N.J., who became friends in high school and made a pact with each other to get through high school, college and medical school successfully.
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Hi ledo, We would need to see you're recipe and method of formulation in order to better diagnose you're crust problem. A rolling pin usually will make for a tougher crust, i would try to hand stretch if possible. When you have a soild recipe and dough procedure, hand forming should not be a problem. You may be using a recipe intended to produce a more cracker crust. You should searched around here at the forum for some different recipe's to try. Chiguy
I've had very good luck with the bread machine for thin crust--not cardboard at all (but then I usually let the dough rise for at least 4 hours). I made a thin crust for a friend the other night and she said, "How did you do this? I've got to have this recipe." I just used the ratio of 1 cup AP: 1 TBS canola oil and let the machine do all the work!This ratio of oil to flour does not make the dough oily--but if you increase the oil level to 1.5, for example, the resulting crust is softer and more pliable, but still not oily.


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BAE Systems Remains RAAF Support Provider
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) signed a new five-year $435 million contract to keep BAE Systems as its in-service provider on its fleet of Hawk 127 lead-in jet fighter fleet.
(RAAF Hawk 127. Photo, courtesy of BAE Systems.)
Under the contract, BAE Systems will provide maintenance, engineering, full logistics and training systems for a total of 33 Hawk fighters. BAE Systems Australia Aerospace Director Steve Drury said the contract would benefit RAAF with significant cost reduction on maintenance operations.
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Can Lance Berkman possibly be a Phillies target for a one-year deal. Can he still play outfield and how well has he recovered from injuries that limited him to only about 30 games in 2012.
Is it GM Ruben Amaro Jr.'s grand scheme to acquire both Upton brothers. - BJ for Centerfield this offseason via Free Agancy and to trade for Justin to fill a corner outfield spot in the near future (probably before the start of the 2014 season). The Phils are probably one of the only teams that could pay the Upton Brothers' salaries simultaneously and still meet the rest of the team's payroll..


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Girl, I'm with you! I love classic blue and white - just picked up a blue and white graphic print slipper chair a couple weeks ago! Can't go wrong with that color combo - so versatile too!ReplyDelete
I love blue and white. Neiman Marcus has B& W dinnerware that is inexpensive and beautiful, and I bought a set last year--I get so many compliments on it! And my mom has tons of Chinese blue and white pieces, and I've been hinting I'd like them.ReplyDelete
I wish I could love it. I grew up in an ALL BLUE house, even the shag carpet was blue. I have blue overload. WIsh I could embrace it.ReplyDelete
I just realized that I have a small collection of blue and white pieces in my garage. Love it paired with pink... OMG!!!! My house is going to be a rainbow I tell ya, lol!ReplyDelete
Loving the entry way. The black mosaic floor tile is lovely! Thanks for an inspiring post!ReplyDelete
Hi Kristen -
Have always LOVED blue and white and am happy I have collected and KEPT my pieces over the years. It is so classic - I even have a Pinterest board devoted to my love of blue and white {jilhinsoninteriors} and just added some of your images to it. Pairing blue and white with pink or kelly green really updates it and makes it more playful. LOVE!
I agree...these are my favorite for decorating modern, traditional, contemporary...basically any space. You can search for "blue willow" china or vases instead of blue and white. If you watch "Scandal", the Oval Office is decorated with blue willow vases as well. If it's good enough for the White House, then it's good enough for my house lol
I'm all over those like a dog on a three legged cat :D I was given a few of my grandmothers and recently picked up another piece for $3 at Goodwill. I just love the arrangement you have going on with yours. The blue and white looks so great with your gold wishbone.ReplyDelete
I went to the inspiration house and this was was even more gorgeous in person!ReplyDelete
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Clinch monday sept 9th 2013
OK, talked about fishing rules, regulations and updates yesterday on here so decided actually to fish last night after work. I did allright on Friday evening with a 10 inch brook and 7 inch or so rainbow, but went out in the heat of high noon on Sunday to try some soft hackles I have been tying so did not expect much and got just that, skunked!
I got in the water about 5:30 straight from work last night and started throwing, first fly, no go, so switched out after about 10 casts or so. Third cast with the new fly and bam, hooked up and knew right off it had some size to it. Started reeling him in and as the rod bent I knew to get him up and back thru the seam was gonna be tough without breaking off. I normally have 8 to 9 ft of leader with 2-3 ft of tippet on the Clinch so as I cranked and walked backwards I was close to all tippet from the rod tip out and just knew he was gonna be lost, but managed to net him, as I noticed the fly was on the inside wall of the net and he was already clear of it in the net!
After a quick photo session, he went back to swimming and I kept casting, got one more hookup with a horizontial shake off about a foot off the water from a 10-12 incher but felt no remorse after that first slot eligible fish.
"It starts with a raindrop, don't let it end with a teardrop!"
"Nothing straightens out my mind like a twisting mountain stream!"
Pretty fish! Bet folks at work were impressed! Did you catch that on a Winston?
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It's funny you mentioned work the first five times I showed everyone the pictures it was cool, but about the ninth time some said I should put that picture. ........uhhh you know the rest! As far as the Winston, naah man I was smokin a Lucky non fikter, ohh you mean a Winston rod. Man I don't know no fat cats with Winston s or Sages!. I sling Martins, Cortlands, and anyone that knows me has seen me in fishing shirts from Hammer's. I am pretty sure I have never heard a fish, say let it pass the other guy's wearing Orvis!
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