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Skip to comments.Glenn Becks Recommendation for Defeating Obama Gun Grab (Well show them. Fill up the Prisons??)
Posted on 01/10/2013 11:06:56 AM PST by Perseverando
Normally, I dont to the vanity thing, but I think this Glenn Beck Plan needs to be Freeper analyzed and dissected.
First let me say, Glenn Beck has done a great service to America and I really appreciate his Tea Party, patriotic events and leadership. I thought his TV program was fantastic. I enjoy listening to his serious radio discussions, but he and the gang get a little too rambunctious and off the wall at times. That said:
Did anyone else hear Beck this morning talking options for dealing with an Obama gun control and possible gun confiscation effort? What am I missing with this plan?
Frankly, Beck makes me a little nervous sometime with some of his rants, and this was one.
I was multitasking, reading FR, checking the market and halfheartedly listening to Beck in the background. At around 11:00 AM EST, Beck and crew are talking about Obama and the gun control gang and he starts talking about what to do if they begin actively confiscating guns. His planned for resistance to tyranny is to overwhelm the legal/prison the system. ??????????
As I understood Beck: If they come for your guns we should let them arrest all of us, and overwhelm the system. I guess he thinks the legal and penal system cant handle all of us if we do the MLK/Gandhi peaceful resistance technique. Kumbaya!!
Let me walk through what I think Beck was suggesting we do (as I understood him.)
The Feds come to the door and ask about your gun possession.
You admit you have them, but they cant have them. You affirm your 2nd Amendment rights and tell them to arrest you.
We all do this and grind the legal system to a rapid halt. They cant arrest everyone can they?
Beck says: To resist with force in numbers would guarantee that we lose. .
He also says: To peacefully resist in mass, we win by breaking the system. .
Will this plan somehow ensure that law and order, respect for private property and the Constitution are miraculously re-established?
Let me propose an alternative theory on how this might work out in Realville and why Becks scenario fails if firearms owners are foolish enough to try this.
The Feds realize quickly that they cant fill up all the gulags with all the peaceful gun control resisters. So they change the collection technique.
Flexible Obama Confiscation Plan
Arrive at suspected noncompliant gun owners home.
Search warrant in hand, 3 -4 LEOs question owner on possession.
Law respecting/abiding gun owner admits/denies he has undeclared/unregistered gun & asserts 2nd Amendment rights.
Arrest him, search & destroy mission in gun owners domicile. Terrorize family.
Collect firearms, ammo, etc. .
Gun owner goes to jail for day or 2 until substantial bail is met. .
Big legal bills for attorney and court date. .
Quick, simple trial for open & shut case on illegal possession. .
How about a fine of $5,000 per firearm, suspended sentence. .
Felony criminal conviction on his record. Loss of right to own/possess firearms in future. Loss of voting rights. Loss of certain employment opportunities, etc., etc. .
Finally, no guns, no freedom, no money, no job. Just Obama and his thuggorcracy making the criminals out of law abiding, patriotic American citizens..
Should I have been listening to Beck a little more closely? What am I missing? Do Obama and his thuggocracy all of a sudden begin to play by the rules and respect the rule of law?
Beck's idea makes sense if you add one component; have a group like the NRA be ready to file a lawsuit against the government for each and every arrest. Use each arrest as a way to challenge the legality of the law. Overwhelm the government with lawsuits against it.
In my opinion, they'd make an example of a few 'regular Joe's' as per your analysis (fines, felony conviction, etc.) and publicize with the Obamamedia/Dem spin machine, something they are very good at .... many folks would give up their guns after that. It won't be a mass confiscation ... they'll pick some good, decent, mainstream folks and as I said, make horrific examples of them ... "THIS could happen to YOU".
Glenn is essentially saying that there are more gun owners than the justice system can process and imprison. He is saying to overwhlem the system and in a peaceful manner knowing that we have the law on our side.
He is desperately afraid of any sort of violent conflict, because he believes such a conflict favors the side of tyranny.
He may be right on that, but I am not going to go to prison because I obeyed the constitution.
I'm not going to put my fate in the hands of John Roberts.
I'm not going to pay lawyers.
I am simply not going to give in to tyranny. Come Hell or high water, or death.
It's dangerous to only half-listen some times.
Was he doing one of his very sarcastic pieces?
Several times, I've thought, "I hope there aren't any 1st-time listeners out there!" because, as a watcher/listener, I KNOW he's taking a 180 position to show some absudity.
I'm growing weary of Beck's sanity. The man has gathered millions of dollars and followers, and he's advocating what might be best for his family given the situation. I'd like to see the ATF agents make it up his driveway past the gate after ringing at the video console. If it were me, I'd never let them past that point. End of story.
Watch the news carefully. The government thugs aren't stupid and they know that another Waco or Ruby Ridge under this administration's watch will set off a firestorm of backlash. The Internet media, blogs, etc. were non-existent back in the 1990s. Nowadays EVERYONE has cameras and microphones, and they can be used to defend a person and upload government thuggery to the Internet quicker than those agents can rifle through your belongings.
Also, Beck has plenty of money to afford exorbitant bail. And make no mistake that the government will make bail unaffordable for a majority of Americans.
I'm sorry and sad to say that the only defense against this type of tyranny is an offense against the thugs who try to enforce it. At some point the enforcer numbers will dwindle and no one is going to volunteer to become target practice for a militia of volunteer riflemen.
I heard it ....he takes the peaceful resistance thing to an extreme nonsensical level ..it's almost comical its so absurd ....
I guess Beck doesn't go for the Alex Jones/Jesse Ventura bit about the build-up of citizen confinement centers throughout the US. If those guys are right in their view, filling up facilities would be the feds' last worry.
Guess we'd need more than a few folks with a martyr complex with extra time on their hands who have great faith in their ability to reason with their cell mate, Bubba, and convince him of the importance of respecting one's personal space.</sarc>
Beck was likely being serious. He's using the Alinsky tactics against them, but sadly he doesn't realize that overwhelming the system won't stop them from going through with this. It's not a scare tactic to which they'd respond.
Interesting to me, because Beck's always said that the only language these people understand is offense. We'll need to overwhelm them in numbers to make our final stand. Yes, many of us will die in the process, but so many others will live free for our efforts.
To me, that is the greatest gift I could give my wife and children.
I didn't listen to Beck today. From what you describe it sounds like he is advocating some type of Cloward-Piven type strategy where the system is overwhelmed and implodes.
I see how C-P could work with our economic system, we're experiencing Obama's attempt of it now.
But applying it to our justice system seems like a very dangerous proposition. If that's what Beck is preaching, he needs to back off and think about what he's saying.
What kumbaya crap. I have a better idea.
1. Identify target.
2. Aim
3. Fire
4. Repeat as necessary.
So you understood Beck to intentionally being absurd? He wasn't actually advocating peaceful resistance?
That's not the way I took it.
and I forgot the best part of his Beck's peaceful resistance at all costs idea this morning ....
he started into it not 2 minutes after telling a story about a kid having to put his own father on a train to Auschwitz ....
Lead by example.
He'll be on air with those two assclown sidekicks of his, making fun of Alex Jones and other people he deems as "whackos".
If Beck is serious then his insanity is worse than I had imagined.
oh BS ..he was 100% serious ...I listen to him every day and I know when he is doing the absurd thing ....he goes on these MLK, Gandhi rants where peaceful resistance at all costs is the only way to win ....and this is his philosophy and has stated it 100s of times
Don't want to over do it on the Beck bashing today, but maybe he was off his meds?
How about demand a trial by jury and make damned sure the jury is aware of nullification?
I agree with your analysis of Beck's idea. The gummint doesn't have to imprison you to ruin your life, and that's really what it's all about: Ruining people who resist. High fines, lawyer costs, and paying through the nose for probation, in the end you are a felon so no good jobs for the rest of your life.
Beck can sometimes be a major league blowhard, and if he's suggesting people actually do this, he's being a dangerous-to-our-health blowhard as well. This is why I quit watching his TV show: I got tired of his constant drumbeat for a stampede of the population.
Even well known "patriot" freeper mormons have openly admitted here on FR that when Salt Lake orders them to disarm, they will do it.
The new NSA data collection center's location in Tooele Utah should be telling.
Salt Lake will play ball, mormons will disarm when their "prophet" tells them to, and then they will turn on those of us who don't.
I don't think Obama or any of his followers would say, "oh dear! We're ruining people's lives and bankrupting the country on this tyrannical path. Maybe we should follow the Constitution." My guess is that they would celebrate every ruined life, every union prison guard position created, and and every innocent patriot behind bars who got raped by Bubba.
"...the only defense against this type of tyranny is an offensive against the thugs who try to enforce it."
LEOs aren't so stupid as to be unaware of their existing rep as armed revenue collectors and their growing rep as killers of family pets & harassers of those who merely record their actions.
Are they ready to add "jackbooted door smashers" to their public image? Do they wish for the citizenry to regard all LEOs as hostile invaders, wherever they happen to appear?
i'm going to post and tell this to everyone I know or bump into.
If you are a well equipped and trained Patriot, Don't go down with the first wave. Survive to fight another day. Hide, go underground and run.
Take your family, and run to a place that know one knows where you are. You can return to your home and property later.
Nothing is more important than keeping you alive. When they come for you, make sure they get an empty house.
The first wave of grabs will have an acceptable loss of 10 to 1 Enforcement. The plan is a large loss of life to get to you, the Patriot. The second wave has you taken from the equation, and are looking at far better results for their enforcement.
The idea is that they want the first wave of Enforcement to be killed . the vacuum created will filled by TSA and other "Civilian Army, just as powerful and equipped as the regular army". These people will NOT be the LEO that we currently know. They will be jackbooted thugs.
It is so important for the equipped and trained Patriot to stay alive, to lead the country back to the Constitution, back to proper american government, and to a re-established currency that keeps global currency out of the American picture.
Thanks for the info. I had not picked up on the Mormon sheep being led to the slaughter theme. But I can see how that might be how that could happen.
Furthermore, Beck's plan won't even work. Why would the tyrant's minions even bother to "process" us through today's criminal system?
I came across this quotation from The Gulag Archipelago yesterday.
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
They won't stop until there are consequences.
Just listened to the mp3 from his morning show. He was serious about his remarks, basically do what MLK did because the constitution is on your side and it would overwhelm the system.
Are you kidding? He wouldn't even stand up to defend his wife at a movie viewing in Bryant Park when leftwingers were dumping wine on her. Sorry, but if that's happening to me, I don't want a man who will "peacefully resist". I want one with the guts to stand up for me (and mine would).
MLK had the MSM on his side.
We do not. We only have some of the New Media.
here is a page directly from Glenn's own website asking you to sign a pledge of non-violence ....
Between Freerepublic and Drudge, I feel we are under seige. Obama and his minions insult and disparage hard working, law abiding citizens every day. They refuse to give on spending, but take more and more. Now all this talk on gun control, gun confiscation, etc. Almost seems that O and his minions are pushing conservative Americans, perhaps hoping to provoke a disaster so they can take the guns and declare martial law. Perhaps this is what Glenn Beck fears. I hope no one falls for this. Although such a situation can be manufactured with a willing media.
His turn the other cheek crap leaves me cold. I rarely watch him anymore even though I have GBTV, but when I do and he starts in his that crap, I turn it off.
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Thank you!! That is intense and telling! I think we all need to memorize that and share it with friends and family. I'm saving the quote for future reference.
Result: you've wasted time, you've expended money, and you have no guns.
No doubt our enemy is provoked by our weakness.
The wolf does not believe that the sheep will fight back.
It is up to the sheep to prove the wolf wrong, or the wolf will be right.
We now live in very dangerous times
Beck is an IDIOT!
The Jews didn't fight back and went to the prisons....Then to the ovens....If the prisons get overcrowded, don't think for a minute that the NWO wouldn't do the same.
Go to prison and meanwhile your family become targets by liberals and criminals... When your 9 year old gets raped...The Obamanites will say they deserved it.. Just like the Germans said when the ovens were full...
We can learn a lot from the Russian experience. There was an excellent article in Pravda the other day urging Americans not to abandon the Second Amendment. It gave as an example the experience of Moscow during the Revolution. There were a considerable number of retired and armed military in the city, and the Communists promised they would be sparred if they did not fight. They stayed on the sidelines and after the fighting was over they were systematically liquidated.
Strange and dangerous times and more so everyday.
Will have to bail on the conversation for now. (Money to earn and bills to pay.) Guess I'm one of the fortunate few Americans who still has a job for now, in spite of Obamanomics.
Freep On!!
The problem is that once you surrender to the criminal justice system, you can't ever get out of it.
People will simply hide their guns and not give them up.
I sense an "angry backlash" is coming.
On the other hand they could by executive order take you to re-education camps in the Southwest as has been recommended by bill ayers and bernedette dohrn, where 25 to 30 million will be found to be un-educatable and will have to be eliminated. I don't believe they would have a problem if it were to run 50 to 60 million, except of course the mechanics of killing and disposing on such a large scale.
One thing that bothers me about the democrats anxiety to deprive me of firearms is all the liberals I see wearing che t-shirts and those in the obama administration who go around quoting chairman mao, and those czars who have written books on or otherwise endorse population control. I believe one of the criteria for population control will be those who don't support them.
Yep, I subscribed to GBTV back at the beginning, but that was about the time he really started to make me sick.
They know this.
Wait until the first 5 or ten people use one of these "illegal" guns to pretect themselves. They will be villianized, jailed and/or bankrupted.financially ruined.
People will have to weigh using the firearm or enduring all that above.
Yes, employ the same tactics that the RIAA used against music downloaders.
This assumes facts not in evidence.
To resist with force in numbers would guarantee that we lose. .
The Founding Fathers who went up against the world's Dominant Empire of the time frown upon that conclusion.
Given the numbers, I think conflict favors law abiding gun owners. Lots of military and police like having their own personal weapons to protect themselves and family.
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Twenty four year old Harry Daghlian is working late, and alone. Both are violations of safety protocol, but Harry doesnt care. Hes good at his job, and hes careful. He doesnt have to be working this late, six days ago the Japanese surrendered, and the war is over. But, that doesnt mean his work isnt still important. The bombs he helped build won the war, and hes going to keep making them as long as he can.
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He saved the lives of everyone at the lab, but there was nothing to be done for Harry Daghlian. He died twenty one days later from accute radiation poisoning.
For many of those twenty one days, one of the old guard of Los Alamos, Louis Slotin, could be found by Harrys side. Louis was known informally as the chief armorer of the United States. He had built the test bomb that was detonated at Trinity. He wanted to get out of military work, but there wasnt anyone else with his experience or skill for building bombs.
Nine months after the accident that took the life of his friend Harry, Louis was working with the same core. Instead of using several tungsten bricks for the neutron reflector, the new construction relied on two beryllium hemispheres to encapsulate the plutonium core. The core was already placed in the bottom hemisphere as Louis moved the top into position. He was aligning the top with the use of his hand and a screwdriver, when he slipped. The top hemisphere struck the core, causing it to go critical. A burst of blue light and a wave of heat struck the scientists in the room. Instinctively, Louis pulled his hand up, his thumb still hooked into the beryllium hemisphere. The criticality was stopped, and the lives of the men in the room were saved. But, like his friend, Louis wasnt so lucky.
Louis Slotin died nine days later of acute radiation poisoning. Another victim of what came to be known as the demon core.
The assembly Louis was working on was to be the final test of the demon core. It was fitted into a bomb and used as the ABLE test during Operation Crossroads at the Bikini Atoll.
Exactly. It killed two men in a very horrible way.
I like the Coca Cola bottle in that photo
Things were rather primitive back then when building bombs.
It's a shame...
but he did to himself.
If he didn't screw up, he would be alive.
For the first nuclear reactor, the SCRAM stood for the Safety Control Rod Axeman. His job was to cut a rope to drop the nuclear control rod, dropping the rod and ending the chain reaction.
Later, the "drop the control rod" technology killed several workers. The rod was dropped too far, the reactor overheated and blew out, the reactor over heated. Workers ran in to help and were irradiated. Eventually it was shut down, and they found the first man killed by the out of control reactor. He was pinned to the ceiling by the safety control rod. The cure was to control the position of the control rod with a worm gear, which positively controlled its position.
After one radiation accident, the chief called out for everyone to hold still, and he walked around to each of them, and they drew chalk lines around their feet to mark where they were standing during the incident. That enabled the calculation of their dose, and this was matched to their eventual symptoms and time of death to better understand the effect of radiation on the human animal.
In the tradition of Lavoisier a good scientist always wants to do one last experiment.
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Picture of Daghlian's hand.
Thanks for posting this.
I had not heard of this fascinating bit of nuclear history.
That photo shows the demon core to be too close to that guy's family jewels. How many heads did his children have?
Been to Trinity... it's awesome, even though there's hardly anything there. You're standing right at the spot where that first atomic bomb blew up... It's on part of the White Sands Missile Range and is only open two days a year, for a few hours for each of those two days.
I think there's only been about 50,000 or so people in the U.S. who have visited the site since that time.
A few years later, a co-worker with my Dad, one of his crew of mechanics, boarded the chase plane that had followed the Enola Gay over Hiroshima. That plane, intending to photograph the bomb damage, accidentally flew through the edge of the cloud of fallout from the bomb. While on board, my Dad's friend got some oil on his hands and picked up a rag on the plane and wiped his hands. Around 20 years later, he started developing tumors on his hands. He reported them to his supervisor after the doctor diagnosed them, and he was medically retired with full pay by that afternoon.
This guy lived about five doors down from where my Mom still lives. He lived to a ripe old age, in fact outlived my Dad who died at 85, but his hands kept producing tumors that had to be cut off. He also had extremely sensitive skin and they were easily damaged by even the lightest touch.
Radiation is nothing to play with... or to wipe one's hands with.
The interesting thing about driving in on the military grounds there, in going to Trinity, is that you are told that you cannot take any pictures on the way driving in. But, once you are at the gravel parking lot there at the actual Trinity site, then you can take pictures...
But, there's about nothing to see on the drive there, so I don't know what kind of pictures that one would get, besides dry parched ground and some mountains... it's really out in the middle of nowhere.
New Mexico's Trinity Site: A pocket full of Trinitite
Trinitite is the green glassy substance that was formed on the ground there, at the time of the blast. You're not supposed to pick up any of it on the grounds, but it's sold in various stores in the local area. It's supposed to be slightly radioactive, I guess.
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If you're out there, right off the Trinity site, at night, on the highway going past the front entrance (going in to Trinity), you can see some strange lights moving around there at night... kinda weird... One time I was there, and stopped off and looked around on the way to Socorro, New Mexico, for the night, and some strange lights and what they were doing made me want to get out of there in a hurry and hit the road again... LOL...
Maybe those UFOs are drawn to radiation from nuclear bombs... :-)
Remember - You are crunchy and good with ketchup.
for all those that laugh at the chinese, russians, and various middle eastern countries... just remember how 'primitive' our setups were that produced hiroshima and the arsenal we have today.
White Sands Missile Range is the gray area...
Trinity Site
[... you'll see the outline of a big circle and then inside that you'll see an oval shaped outline. Trinity is inside that oval.
The "Oval" fenced in area...
[... you'll see a rectangular light colored object, which is a low building which covers a large amount of Trinitite on the site. The small very dark object on the right side of the oval, is the shadow of the Trinity monument, which is the exact location of the nuclear bomb tower.]
By the way, I think, if my unusually retentive brain is working correctly, that I owe you a credit for the line I used in post #19.
One of your old taglines - yes?
On this...
White Sands Missile Range is the gray area...
Apparently, you have to set it to "maps" to get the gray area... so you can see it, not the satellite view...
[everybody better duck, now]
Where do the mutant cannibal people live that were in "The Hills Have Eyes"?
Oh yeah?
Klatu, Berunda, Nec...ummm...errr...mumble mumble mumble.
So there!
Klaatu barada nikto.
[you will need to perfectly memorize this should a giant robot named Gort decide to destroy the earth....or if the Evil Dead or Keanu Reeves shows up at your door]....;-D
I said that to my robot and he came back with these:
If any Freepers ever worked at West Fort Hood when it was an atomic storage facility known as as "Site Baker" or "Killeen Base," it would be great to read any of your recollections of that place that you might be willing to share. Surely your pledges of secrecy are outdated now that the purpose of the site is generally known.
So am I reading this correctly? A piece of tungsten hitting into a piece of plutonium will cause a critical nuclear reaction?! What's to keep terrorists from doing this today?
Thanks for that post, I remember the first time I read the book 'Thirty Seconds over Tokyo', it was a wartime edition with many of the names of the Chinese who helped our air crews escape from the Japs blanked out, likewise for many of the small villages where they traveled, and I remember that part about the crew chief revving the engines of the Ruptured Duck in a manner displeasing to Captain Lawson, lol (not funny at the time, but funny in retrospect now)
One of my great uncles was a welder in the Kaiser shipyards in California during WWII and as the story goes, he and other welders were approached and asked if they would volunteer for a secret welding job, they agreed, were given background checks, sworn to secrecy and then put on a bus with blacked out windows and driven for what seemed like an eternity to a place where they disembarked and told that they would be building a radio transmission tower out in the middle of nowhere (a desert), they built the tower, got triple wages for it in cash, and were driven back to California and told to never speak of it.
Years after the War ended, my uncle saw a picture of that radio tower in a copy of Life Magazine, and that's when he realized that he had actually helped build the tower from which the Trinity device was detonated.
He only acknowledged it to family members, who mostly kept it to themselves over the years, never looked to cash in on it, or get a book deal, or be 'famous' on TV, he was just proud to have been part of it, and was grateful for having been generously compensated for his skills.
Reportedly one of the lines from the critters will be that
humans have torn horrid holes in the fabric of space/time with their atomic bombs and are putting the universe at risk . . . and so
be controlled by a world government etc. etc. etc.
The film "Fat Man and Little Boy" (1989) contains a scene based on these incidents:
They could be Trinitite collectors, too... :-)
I think I even scored some Trinitite... [... I glow at night, too... ]
Hopefully you don't flash on and off at a rapid rate.
depends on how fast I blink my eyes... :-)
But, aside from all that... (... LOL ...), if anyone gets a chance, they ought to go down to Trinity at least once, sometime, on one of those two days a year, and stand on that spot where the first atomic bomb went off (and get irradiated and kill a bunch of germs in your body... :-) just kidding...).
A more traditional kind of zapping?
You asked — Where do the mutant cannibal people live that were in The Hills Have Eyes?
I don't know for sure, but I was watching out for them as I was driving across White Sands Missile Range to see Trinity... LOL... (besides watching out for any live missiles flying over my head...)...
It is very easy to build a bomb. All you need is the Uranium and Plutonium which is harder to get. You cannot walk into any Walgreens and ask for Plutonium.
I have been there. If you look very carefully you can see
green glass which contains bits of plutonium.
That is probably he grabbed the core and a sign of acute radiation sickness.I'm interested where you got the photograph because those photographs was the last time I heard to be classified. WARNING TO EVERYONE: When you are starting to get sick from acute radiation sickness, ingest salt or potassium iodide
I am very limited as to where I go. If there are special places or information I need special permission.
But I thought it was very, very tricky to "smash" the component together with the right force... just touching them is enough?
You are talking about the uranium "gun weapon". It is not tricky at all to get them together. Actually, this is rather easy method.We dropped a uranium gun weapon on Hiroshima.Many nations uses the gun weapon for artillery shells(See Shot Grabel/Operation Knothole) The North Koreans have been producing the tricky plutonium implosion bomb and recently they switched to the uranium "gun" method because it was cheaper and much easier.
The scientists did not test the "gun" design because they were confident it was going to work. But, they needed to test the implosion method because they were not sure it was going to work. Well, it worked.
Google images- 'Daghlian's hand'. There is a picture of it on wikipedia as well.
No reason for it to be classified. At the end of the day, it's just a burn. (granted, not just the 'put some ice on it' type of burn- but still a burn)
I'm well-acquainted with West Fort Hood, and Robert Gray Army Airfield, although not during the timeframe you mention. The bunker where the weapons were stored during the time the site was a nuclear weapons storage site, are of course, still there, and we used them for the storage of far less esoteric items during my time there...
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I forgetReplyCancel
My mother bitching at my father for taking me for a walk in a diaper. She thought that was trashy.
I haven't taken a walk in a diaper since.
Being spanked. One of only two memories of my dadReplyCancel
Pulling my dad's finver. Toot toot!ReplyCancel
18 months old. In emergency room with a high fever. My heart stopped. My memory was watching from the ceiling down to my mom crying and screaming and my body was in a tin bathtub filled with ice to cool down my body. Obviously something changed and almost 50 years later I am just fine. My mom never told the story and I thought it was just a dream that I always remembered. I must have been about 10 when I told that story and my mom was around and freaked out how I knew what happened.ReplyCancel
Sorry for commenting 3 times… Thought my computer was frozen…ReplyCancel
2 years old. Sitting on the wooden floor of the living room watching the launch of Apollo 11ReplyCancel
I have a few, but here is one: i am atanding with my mother outside, and we are talking to a lady wheeling a carriage with a baby in it. I guess i was 3 or 4. Anyway, i must have been staring at tge baby because suddenly the woman was saying " You were once a baby too! I remember you as a baby!" And my mind just exploding with the epiphany that i was once a baby! Blew my mind!ReplyCancel
True story, it is JFK being assassinated.ReplyCancel
Falling down some stairs, probably about 3…ReplyCancel
standing in my crib. my parents were going out and i had a sitter. i had grape juice in a baby bottle. i was crying and shaking the bars on the crib and somehow managed to fall out. my parents had to come right home. i confirmed that this really happened with my mother, and she said i was about 15 months old at the time.ReplyCancel
Screaming for my Daddy while my mother said he was just moving the car. They got divorced around that time so obviously I knew something was wrong. I was around 3.ReplyCancel
I remember being in a playpen and lifting up my arms to get out. My mother's husband…Long, long, story, picked me up and gave me a ride on his shoulders. I got scared because he was very tall and I felt like I was really high off the ground. I was probably 18-24 months old.ReplyCancel
I always thought this was a dream and I told my mother and she said there was no way I could remember this.
In my remembering of the incident when I was about 4, I can see my mother running into the room because the crib was moving. (I thought the house was shaking for some reason.)
BUT the story was that at the age of 6 months I somehow got all tangled in the sheets on the crib and trapped between the bars. My mother ran in to untangle me.
I also remember being potty trained at 14 months.
Can't remember now what I had for breakfast yesterday.ReplyCancel
I was maybe 15 months old and in the back seat of my aunt and uncle's car it had leather seats and they must have picked me up because my mother had gone into labour with my brother so I guess the plan was I would stay with my aunt and uncle – I had an ice cream cone, they must have stopped off somewhere, hope I hadn't been bawling quite likely and it must have been my first ice cream cone so I can see it clearly in my head. I probably made a mess and my OCD aunt and uncle freaked out but nicely.ReplyCancel
I remember sitting in the front room by the side of the couch looking out the front window at the trees. It was windy and they were waving at me. I sang a long song to them but it didn't have any words. I had my bottle in my mouth the whole time. That's just one thing I remember from before I could talk.ReplyCancel
Sadly, having my Mom take my picture while one of the guys at a party my Dad was having held me. The guy was in town working at Ft. Chaffee during the time when the Vietnamese Refugees had been sent there. The same guy a few years later murdered the greatest songwriter of the era. Yeah, I was held as a baby by Mark David Chapman. I still have the picture. I hate it and am fascinated by it at the same time.
Not a great first memory, huh?ReplyCancel
I was three. I was trying to go to sleep chewing bubble gum. My father came and and said to me "do you feel the side of your head (temple) moving when you chew that gum?"
I said "yeah".
He then told me that my head would expand to the size of a watermelon if i didn't spit my gum out. I paused then spit it into his hand. That SERIOUSLY is my earliest memory. I remember this because he died when I was four. so every memory with him in it (there are like 4) had to be before then.ReplyCancel
Three years old, going down the slide in pre-school when my mom was in grad school. It was a good pre-school. Back in the day when, y'know, they actually taught you in school. Carnivation Pre-School, down by the University Village Mall, if I remember correctly. They were quite good.
The thing about the slide that haunts me is that, years later, when I was a camp counselor in college, and I had aegis over a playground of 40+ kids…I was such a hawk about keeping the kids safe, and I just looked away for a second. Literally, a second. One of my kids got to the top of the slide and tried to run down the slide. One of the old metal slides, right? Brains himself out with a very serious concussion just as my due diligence scan comes back around to watch the slide. And then ensued interviews with the insurance carrier of the summer school and assorted shit, none of which I cared about other than that I'd looked away for just a split-second too long.
I hate slides. My earliest memory is of a very fun run down a slide, but my kids have never understood why Daddy is so virulently and militantly anal about slides.ReplyCancel
My parents were having a party and I got out of my crib to get them, after having a nightmare. I was wearing my blue footie pj's and wildly staring at all the strangers faces as they "awww'ed and tried to grab me. I remember sweating and my hair sticking to me as I dragged my blankie while sobbing about the "Bear inmy close it"
I think I was two.
The next night I was sobbing again. My mom was mad at the bear and I said "No, He gone!!" and cried my eyes out.
Earlier that day, my oldest brother told me ( under mom's orders, I found out later) that the bear in my closet was a good bear and that he was there to protect me. Funny thing? I don't remember that part, at all.
What I remember? The bear telling me Goodbye, that he had to get back to his family. I remember begging him to "Don't GO!!" but he got in his space ship and flew away…and mom coming in while I cried as my heart broke.
Well, Never trust a bear.
It's a hard lesson but I learned it early…
It's either sitting in the stroller in line at the bank with Mom or the tantrum I had as Mom dismantled my crib in an attempt to force me to sleep in the big girl bed. I had no concept of time so I don't know which came first.ReplyCancel
the friendly bear in your closet told u goodbye?
Around the same time creature from the black lagoon was in my closet. he told me no such thing.


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Skip to comments.Jay Severin suspended in WTKK limbo
Posted on 05/14/2009 5:25:41 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Station may cut ties
WTKK talker Jay Severins future at the radio station still remains in limbo two weeks after he was yanked off the air.
Station spokeswoman Heidi Raphael said yesterday that Severin remains on suspension. She declined further comment.
Severin was suspended indefinitely without pay April 30 after calling illegal Mexican immigrants leeches and the worlds lowest of primitives when talking about the swine flu on his show.
Severins drawn-out absence - and silence - has fueled speculation that the station wants to reduce his hefty salary or cut him loose altogether.
I just get the impression from the outside that they do not want him, said Tom Taylor, news editor of Radio-Info.com.
Media and political analyst Brian Maloney, author of the Radio Equalizer blog, has thought all along that the lengthy suspension is a negotiating ploy by TKK to get Severin back for less pay.
I think that what theyre looking at is a sharp reduction in salary, Maloney said.
Severin has declined to comment and his agent, George Tobia, hasnt returned calls.
Severin inked a seven-year deal with WTKK-FM (96.9) in 2006 that pays him more than a million a year in salary, but his ratings have slipped dramatically so far this year.
Curtis Sliwa has been filling in for Severin from a studio in New York City. Yesterday, ex-WRIF-FM (101.1) host Drew Lane filled in from Detroit.
Thanks for posting this...I listen to Jay every day coming home from work and I was wondering what the heck happened to him. It's bad enough WTTK got rid of Quinn & Rose in the morning and now Jay?
I don't think WTKK had Quinn and Rose—they have been running Imus for years. WHJJ 920 in Prov. RI has, or had, Quinn and Rose (who are out of Pittsburgh IIRC)
Since the suspension started, it has been mostly Curtis Sliwa though Howie's former sidekick Doug "VB" Goudie did one day;
they plugged in a guy from Florida named Todd Schnitt another; Drew Lane, formerly from a Greater Media station
in Detroit yesterday...but mostly Sliwa.
Last year WTKK hired Sliwa to do a nightly show for them—
intended to be local—which he would do along with his NYC
show on WABC. Then Sliwa started to get the show syndicated
and now it's coast to coast...on in Boston, NY, LA, etc. So Sliwa
still does 10 pm-1 am ET nationally but figured he'd pull in some extra money from filling in for Jay. He had done
fill ins for Jay before (as well as filling in for
Hannity, etc.)
That's right...Quinn and Rose were on WHJJ 920. Got mixed up there. I couldn't stand to listen to Imus in The Morning so Quinn and Rose were a good alternative. Now it Wall Street Journal radio or something.
"Severin was suspended indefinitely without pay April 30 after calling illegal Mexican immigrants leeches and the worlds lowest of primitives when talking about the swine flu on his show."
Obviously someone failed to tell Jay that this kind of thing must be said by circumlocution. Only leftists like Barney Fwank and "Rev." Al Not-so-Sharpton are allowed to say what is really on their minds.
I didn't hear the show where Jay made the comments, my employers only recently supplied me with a PC that has the capability to play internet radio. I hope they get him back on air soon. I have missed him for 7 years now.
If they lose Jay, it's just a matter of time for them.
I am at the point now that I only listen to WTKK when Michael Graham is on. I switch to country music when Eagan and Braude come on. I used to listen to them but I can't take them anymore.
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Schnitt?? - if he's the guy I remember he does 2 shows under 2 names in Tampa - Glenn Beck used to abuse him (ratings-wise) regularly when he was local in Tampa (Of course Bubba owned that town in terms of ratings).
Greater Media Inc owns WTKK. The above explains a lot.
WTKK is going Lefty.
Yep. He's pretty un-listenable.
I can only listen during drive-time and ImAss is dull, dull, dull; which only leaves the afternoon drive for me and Curtis is also very dull. When ImAss was off the air, Michael Graham had the morning time slot and I thought he did a fine job there.
Oh well. If WTKK can make money with their new line-up, more power to them.
I like Graham, but one good host is simply not enough.
There's also Michelle McPhee at night and Joe "the Guy from Boston" on Saturday.
I thought Graham was better than Severin: Jay's too much of a show-off.
I gave up on Jim and Marjorie when Obama came along. Marjorie fell in love with him and Jim started to sound like the sane one (as strange as that would have been a few months before).
It is; I looked him up. He was only on one day
Michele's got some good stuff on hacks, Deval, toll increases, etc. but I can't take her squeaky voice.
They also own the country station in town (WKLB) so for the person in this thread who says they tune to country (I like
country myself) at times, Greater Media is still drawing you in. Both stations broadcast from the Greater Media Bldg at
55 Morrissey Blvd, next to the Boston Globe-Democrat.
Imho, Graham and Severin are the stars of the WTKK lineup.
Ya got Curtis Sliwa wid da Noo Yawk accent, doin' the freaky-deaky, the urge to merge the FM with the AM, talkin' bout da liars for hire...oofah wid dat! :)
"(S)He wore a raspberry beret
The kind you find in a secondhand store..."
LOL! Curtis! Is that you? :)
Thank goodness I wasn't having anything to drink when I read your response, I would have spit it out. Truly "LOL!" I think the picture puts it over the top.
Thanks for the laugh
Yeah sounds like him doesn't it! Oofah!
Mark Schnyder of Boston Radio Watch says:
"(ED. Note : As I said from the beginning when this all happened, the bottom line is the bottom line. This is not about free speech, stereotyping or offensive language as being spun in the newsprint, on non-profit media shows and other blogs. When Severin got into trouble in 2004 and actually had an official FCC complaint filed against him and WTKK, Greater Media backed him all the way. Why? Because his ratings were hot and he was making money for his employers. It was love at the cash register. This time around, his ratings are not hot, not even warm(Severin is not even in Top 10) and with the advertising market being what it is, you don't need to be an economics genius to figure out that paying $1 million a year plus bonuses just doesn't make sense in this business environment. What happens next? There are only two options to consider : an agreed buyout or one big pay cut. )"
Someone on the Boston radio-info board heard Michael Smerconish say on his Philly-based show that he would be doing aft drive in Boston today and Smerconish added that he would be doing the live show today to introduce himself to the Boston market because he had signed a deal with a station there.
I thought I heard Smerconish on WTKK last night (prob his syndie show). The post on radio-info supposed that if this were true WTKK could do Imus, then Jim and Margery 9-noon followed by Smerconish 12-2 pm and then Michael Graham 2-7 (5 hours? who knows )
Just a rumor now but who knows.
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By PAUL AND BERNADETTE RIDDLEOrangeville
We are one of the families in Orangeville that are dealing with the playhouse issue. We would like to commend our newly elected city officials. We feel that they really do care and want to help the citizens of Orangeville. We attended the land use authority committee meeting in July and were surprised to see that this newly organized committee had a real concern for the citizens and the issues at hand. They heard our concerns and wanted to resolve these issues in a timely manner. They are recommending to the city council to amend a few of our ordinances that are in question, including the issue of playhouse, treehouses, and forts.
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IUKA – The final tally of affidavit ballots in the Tishomingo County special election brought the county out from under the state's dry law and legalized the sale of liquor, beer and wine in the county.
After reviewing 69 affidavit ballots – not the 67 originally mentioned by the circuit clerk – the county election commission approved 53 ballots to be counted, while 16 were disqualified.
Tuesday's count of machine and absentee ballots gave supporters of coming out from under the dry laws a narrow victory, and Wednesday's affidavit vote count increased the margin on each of the two measures.
In the referendum on alcoholic liquors, 35 votes for approval and 12 votes against were added to previous totals of 3,232 for and 3,213 against, for final, but unofficial, totals of 3,267 for and 3,225 against, a victory of 42 votes.
The referendum on beer and light wine resulted in 40 affidavit ballots cast for and 11 against, added to previous totals of 3,219 for and 3,175 against, for final totals of 3,259 for and 3,186 against, a win by 73 votes.
"I just thank the people of Tishomingo County who did vote to take the county wet and help us move our economy forward," said Charles "Tubby" Aldridge, who almost singlehandedly pushed for petition signatures to force the election. "I also want to tell all the kids that just because you have a little handicap – I can't read or write – don't let that stand in your way. I want everybody to get a good education, but even if you don't you can do anything you put your mind to."
County attorney Philip Whitehead will be asked to review state law and guidelines to determine what the next steps will be in implementing necessary ordinances and any deadlines that must be met, said Board of Supervisors President Nicky McRae.
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CL by Laundry Glinda Linen Flat
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Color your world with this adorable detailed flat from CL by Laundry. The snakeskin cap toe and sunny yellow trim of the Glinda ballet flat will take your look from drab to fab.
- Linen fabric upper
- Snakeskin-print round cap toe
- Contrast elastic topline
- Synthetic sole
- Imported
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By: PaulaFR
Location: Ft lauderdale
July 12, 2013
"Shoe runs really small and the leather tag on the back bothers the heal"
By: erininsydney
Location: Palo Alto
April 15, 2013
warm weather flat
"bought 8.5 (i am between 8.5 - 9) and it was snug when i first put it on my feet, snug but not uncomfortable. they quickly molded and stretched to fit my feet very nicely. SO: don't be alarmed if at first it fits really snug because they stretch! i have only worn them 3 times (got them a week ago) but they're already "worn-in" and i've received compliments. wish they made more colors."
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Shares of American International Group, Inc. (NYSE:AIG) declined -0.63% and ended at $58.67 smaller than previous closing price of $59.04. The total 6.94 million shares were bought and sold throughout the most recent trading session more than average volume of 5.79 million shares.
Currently American International Group, Inc. (AIG) captured an average recommendation of " Overweight " from analysts, according to FactSet data. The stock has been suggested as "Buy" from "12″ Analysts". "0" rated "Sell" for the company. "9" said the company as a "Hold". Overweight rating was given by "2" and Underweight rating was given by "0".
Analysts are expecting that the company to achieve $64.59 Price Target in next 52-weeks, average price is come up through the consensus of analysts. High potential price target is set at $74.00 however minimum price target advised by analysts is $57.00. The Median price target for the stock is measured at $65.00.
Presently, Analysts decided consensus EPS estimate of $1.18 for present quarter and one month ago projected EPS estimate was at $1.17. If we take a look at back 3 month ago, consensus EPS estimate was $1.16.
A current consensus EPS estimate for next quarter is at $1.25 and 3 month ago EPS forecast was $1.23. Have a look at back 1 month ago, consensus EPS forecast was seen at $1.25.
For current fiscal year, most recent EPS estimate is set at $4.02 based on Analyst consensus and three month ago consensus EPS opinions was at $4.05. During period one month ago, consensus EPS forecast was decided at $4.01.
A current consensus EPS projection for next fiscal year is observed at $5.55 and one month ago consensus EPS forecast was at $5.60. Take a look at back three month ago, consensus EPS estimate opinions was decided at $5.60 by analysts.
One Month ago, the stock has gained consensus mean rating of Overweight based on the analysis of brokerage analyst firms polled. 12 presented the recommendations about the stock as a "Buy" signal and "Overweight" signal was reported by 2. 9 advised the "Hold" rating about this stock. 0 revealed "Sell" signal and "Underweight" rating was declared by 0.
Three Months Ago, Analysts recommended an average brokerage rating of Overweight derived from brokerage firms, according to FactSet. 13 said a "Buy Rating" and 2 announced "Overweight Rating". 9 advised "Hold Rating" regarding the stock. 0 announced "Sell Rating" and 0 disclosed "Underweight Rating".


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Irregular Choice Love Bug Platform Sandal
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Fall in love with the Love Bug platform sandal from Irregular Choice.Pretty prints, a statement bow and flirty details will show the world your passion for fashion.
- Gingham-print patent leather upper
- Ankle strap with ruffled floral trim
- Round peep toe with bow accent
- Leather lining
- 1" metallic platform, 4½" suede covered heel
- Printed synthetic sole
- Imported
By: bhoney
Location: Maryland
July 11, 2013
Cute as a Button
"This was a great buy. I read the other reviews before selecting the shoe and wasn't disappointed. I love how it fits and the comfort of the shoe."
By: Thedukeofshoes
Location: East Lansing, MI
July 06, 2013
cute.. yet not comfortable
"Very cute- slightly narrow. The material was plastic, I thought it would be fabric. The closure is a snap... so when I put them on andwalked, ththeyould snap right off again! Had to return them."
By: Shanka
Location: Tampa
May 19, 2013
Broke with first wear
"These shoes are super cute but the snap broke after my first wear. Was not a happy camper. They will be going back!"
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Location: United States
May 12, 2013
"Ya just gotta love the ART of these shoes, VERY PRETTY and FUNKY. I am not sure about the higly shiney, very plasticky bow and my biggest gripe is that the ankle strap, although a cool feature, is very hard to snap closed even when not worn on the foot. I am hoping to work the snaps open and closed some afternoon to see if I can get them to work better. I am thinking wouldn't magnetic snaps ROCK?? Really the strap is mostly for looks anyway. They are still cool."
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Antonio Maurizi Cap Toe Oxford
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With a rich leather upper and quality craftsmanship, this Italian made cap toe oxford from Antonio Maurizi shows off an understated elegance that you've been looking for in a lace-up!
- Leather upper
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By Ginna Parsons/NEMS Daily Journal
TUPELO – Susan McGukin began hearing the term "recycle" when she was in college, but she didn't really practice the act until she started teaching in Carrollton, Ga.
"We started a recycling program at the public school where I taught in the late '70s, before recycling was really cool," she said. "Primarily, we recycled paper – notebook paper, old tests, newspapers that came into the library, magazines. You had to haul it to the city dump where there was a recycling bin, so I drove it there on a weekly basis."
Fast forward to 2013. McGukin is the program associate for volunteer management at Mississippi State University's Extension Service for Lee County.
And she's still hauling recyclables.
"What I do at the office is give everybody a box to put by their desks," she said. The eight employees fill them with paper, plastic bottles and aluminum cans.
"The city doesn't offer a recycling bin for businesses, so I take the recycling home every other week for curbside pickup at my house," she said. "If we generate more than that, I take it to one of the fire stations in town where there's an overflow bin."
McGukin estimates she puts 50 to 60 pounds of recyclables on the curb on her designated Wednesday pickup days.
"They kind of laugh at me around here," she said. "They say, 'Gosh, you sure put a lot of effort into this.' I've been known as the 'recycle queen' for years, but I don't mind. It's something I feel so strongly about."
McGukin said she and her husband, Don, don't limit their recycling to items that can be hauled to the curb. During renovation projects on their older home in Tupelo, they'll hang onto half a piece of lumber or old Sheetrock.
"We have what I call a lumber store in our attic," she said. "We reuse that stuff and it saves us a lot of money as we renovate."
As we recognize Earth Day today, McGukin is keenly aware that not everyone shares her passion for recycling and reusing old things. But she is hopeful.
"I hope someday Tupelo will do weekly curbside for those of us who are serious about recycling," she said. "Then we'd have very little actual garbage going to our landfills."


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Canada wins the bronze medal at NORCECA men's volleyball championships
MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico – Gavin Schmitt of Saskatoon produced 21 points as Canada defeated Puerto Rico 25-20, 25-23, 25-14 on Saturday to win the bronze medal at the eight-country NORCECA (North and Central America and Caribbean) men's volleyball championships.
It is Canada's first medal at the bi-annual tournament since placing third in 2005. The Canadians, ranked 22nd in the world, also finish the tournament with a 4-1 record overall and have beaten number-15 Puerto Rico in all four meeting over the past month.
''It feels good to be on the podium even though the goal was to be in the final,'' said Canada's head coach Glenn Hoag. The top-two in the tournament advanced to the World Cup final in November.
''Our team really matured in the past year and it augurs well for the future.''
Canada's other top scorers on Saturday were Toon Van Lankvelt of River, Man., with 14 points and Fred Winters of Victoria with 13.
''I was worried the players would be a little tired after yesterday's disappointment, (a close semifinal loss to Cuba), but they answered the call,'' said Hoag.
The championship final between the U.S., and Cuba was held later Saturday.
Canadian roster for the NORCECA men's volleyball championships August 29 to September 3, 2011 in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Players: Steve Brinkman, Bowmanville, Ont.; Nicholas Cundy, Edmonton; Josh Howatson, Victoria; Dan Lewis, Oakville, Ont.; Gord Perrin, Creston, B.C.; Gavin Schmitt, Saskatoon; Dustin Schneider, Brandon, Man.; Adam Simac, Ottawa; Alexandre Gaumont-Casias, Marieville, Que.; Toon Van Lankvelt, River, Man.; Fred Winters, Victoria; Justin Duff, Winnipeg.
Head coach: Glenn Hoag, Gatineau, Que.
Assistant coach: Vincent Pichette, Gatineau
Team manager; Julien Boucher, Quebec City.
For more information: www.volleyball.ca and www.norceca.org


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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Mileage: 28.4 and 22.1
November mileage: 713.4
The bike training has been going well lately. Really, too well. I've been implementing planned levels of exertion and trying to push myself, but I usually emerge feeling like I'm lacking something. I need to dig deeper. I need rides in which I go to bed feeling absolutely exhausted and wake up pumped for the new day. I need the pain and triumph of a good, long ride. I need the time for a good, long ride.
Right now I have a little time to kill while I wait to pick up my friends at the airport (another delayed flight. Sigh.)We have a pretty low-key Thanksgiving planned, and I'm excited about that. I am sad that I'm missing out on the Homer family extravaganza for which my mother baked nine pies and my sister committed to wearing a special shirt. The day after Thanksgiving, my sister and cousins celebrate Black Friday by standing in line outside a Fred Meyer or Target at some horrific hour of the pre-morning. Then they rush into the store with a stampede of people, trying not to get trampled as they elbow their way into aisles full of what assume are still half-price socks and some sort of $10 DVD players. I've never quite understood the draw, and never participated in the consumer madness, but the images still drum up nostalgia, and I wish I was there just the same.
But if you are like me, and will be spending your Black Friday in the quiet company of friends and hopefully going for a nice long bike ride, you can still get your Christmas shopping done away from the crowds by purchasing the new version of my book! That's right, I fixed some (hopefully most) of the typos, tweaked the fonts, and scoured paypal for a way to sell books directly through my blog. That way, if you would like a signed and personalized copy, you can click on the gold "Buy" button and purchase direct without having to contact me first. (The e-mails stacked up quite a bit, and certainly revealed holes in my organizational skills. If you e-mailed me and I never got back to you, I apologize.) By clicking on this button, you can indicate in a message how you would like your books personalized, and paypal will calculate shipping and total price. You can pay either with your paypal account, or with a credit card. Keep in mind that buying books through this blog means they still have to go through a "middle man" (me) so turnover time will be about 10-14 days. I'm working on generating a specific Web site to better describe the book, including excerpts and reviews, which will hopefully give potential buyers a better idea of what they're getting.
I want to thank everyone who purchased my book so far. Thanks to you, I will definitely be getting that mountaineering coat I've had my eye on. I've also gotten some good and helpful feedback and am continuing to learn a lot.
If you'd like to purchase signed copies of the book, here's the button. I'm going to move it to my sidebar soon. But now, to the airport.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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I plan to go over to my in-laws and watch them argue among themselves....ReplyDelete
Since I was an only child, I missed out on all that stuff growing up:-)
Oh, I finished your book.
Good stuff!
Hey Jill -- your KM went rigid ... you dropped the reba shock?ReplyDelete
I switched out the shock before a road bike tour in the Yukon in September. I also wanted rigid for the icy and salty conditions of winter (to preserve the Reba, which will go back on in the spring.)
It's funny, because the weather lately has allowed me to continue doing a lot of trail riding. It doesn't feel too strange. I actually miss front suspension less than I miss the rear suspension of my Sugar. If I had to pick one or the other, I would probably choose to have rear suspension. (But love the KM frame, so will continue to adapt to the saddle sores.)


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Historical Societey: Emery County Historical Society invites you to join in discovering some Secrets of Robber's Roost. Our guest speaker, Tom McCourt, will speak about his latest book, The Last of The Robber's Roost Outlaws. He is the author of many books and has a weekly column in the Sun Advocate - "The Wasatch Behind". February 24, at the Museum of the San Rafael 7 p.m.. This meeting is open to the public. If you wish to join the Historical Society, annual dues are $5 person.
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