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17th Wednesday after Pentecost
The Gospel according to Mark 7:14-24
At that time, Jesus called the people to him again, and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand: there is nothing outside a man which by going into him can defile him; but the things which come out of a man are what defile him." And when he had entered the house, and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable. And he said to them, "Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him, since it enters, not his heart but his stomach, and so passes on?" (Thus he declared all foods clean.) And he said, "What comes out of a man is what defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a man." And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. - Wellmont Health System's Marsh Regional Blood Center will conduct public blood drives at the following locations in the coming days:
• Monday, April 22, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Twin Valley High School, Pilgrim's Knob, Va.
• Monday, April 22, 10 am.-3 p.m., King University, Maclellan Hall, Bristol
• Tuesday, April 23, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Domtar, Kingsport
• Tuesday, April 23, 1-6 p.m., Valley View Freewill Baptist Church, Clintwood, Va.
• Thursday, April 25, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Surgoinsville Pharmacy, Surgoinsville
• Thursday, April 25, noon-7:30 p.m., Holston Valley Medical Center, Kingsport
• Thursday, April 25, 1-6 p.m., Food City, Pennington Gap, Va.
• Friday, April 26, 7 a.m.-noon, Kingsport Public Works Department, Kingsport
• Friday, April 26, 7:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Holston Valley Medical Center, Kingsport
• Friday, April 26, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Elizabethton High School, Elizabethton
• Saturday, April 27, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Mountain View Baptist Church, Johnson City
As many as three lives may be saved each time a person donates blood – and an individual's blood donation to Marsh Regional stays local to help people in this region. Marsh Regional supplies blood to 22 healthcare facilities in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia.
Donors with an O-negative blood type are particularly welcome, as their blood can be used for any patient.
To donate blood, individuals must be at least 17 years old, weigh 110 pounds or more and be in good health. People with a cold, sore throat, fever, flu or fever blisters or who are taking antibiotics may not donate. Donors should eat a balanced meal before giving blood.
In addition to scheduled blood drives, donors are welcome at any of Marsh Regional's collection centers: 102 E. Ravine Road, Kingsport; 1996 W. State St., Bristol; and 1 Professional Park Blvd., Suite 14, Johnson City.
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Halloween ghosts and goblins aren't the only ones who haunt cemeteries. Cemeteries are also "haunted" by genealogists and art lovers. Here's an eclectic list of titles at the Newberry which might put you in the spirit!
Brown, John Gary. Soul in the stone : cemetery art from America's heartland. Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c1994. Call No. folio GT3205.7 .B76 1994. Beautiful photographs for anyone who appreciates grave yard art.
Hucke, Matt, Ursula Bielski. Graveyards of Chicago : the people, history, art, and lore of Cook County cemeteries. Chicago : Lake Claremont Press, 1999. Call No. Chicago Browsing F547.C7 H84 1999. Descriptions of Chicago cemeteries as well as photos and stories about some of Chicago's more famous deceased.
Keister, Douglas. Stories in stone : a field guide to cemetery symbolism and iconography. Salt Lake City : Gibbs Smith, Publisher, c2004. Call No. Local History Ref NB1800 .K45 2004. A great handbook for doing cemetery research. It contains lists of society, club and organization acronyms; symbols of club and fraternal organizations; religious and ethnic symbols; and a section on mausoleum architecture.
Menachemson, Nolan. A practical guide to Jewish cemeteries. Bergenfield, NJ : Avotaynu, 2007. Call No. Local History Ref BM712 .M48 2007. Contains an explanation of the Hebrew calendar, rituals, traditions and symbols. Also provides short histories of some famous Jewish cemeteries.
Meyer, Richard E. Cemeteries and gravemarkers : voices of American culture. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, c1989. Call No. GT3203 .C46 1989. Fascinating series of essays from a diverse group of scholars.
Sloane, David Charles. The last great necessity : cemeteries in American history. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1991. Call No. GT3203.A2 S56 1991. Interesting examination of the history of American cemeteries from colonial times to the present via the examination of four representative cemeteries.
Thursby, Jacqueline S. Funeral festivals in America : rituals for the living. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2006. Call No. GT3203 .T48 2006. This work is a fascinating look at funeral rituals, frivolities surrounding death, funeral foods and feasts, post-funeral rites, personalized memorials and grave markers.
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OTTAWA – Volleyball Canada announced today its men's and women's parings for the beach volleyball competition at the Pan Am Games set for next month in Guadalajara although the beach volleyball events will take place in Puerto Vallarta.
The women's team is Heather Bansley of Watertown, Ont., and Elizabeth Maloney of Toronto and for the men it is Christian Redmann of Oro Station, Ont., and Ben Saxton of Balzac, Alta.
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FERRON- Betty Jane Luce, age 82, returned to our Heavenly Father on July 29, 2008. Betty was born Feb. 12, 1926 in Seattle, Wash. to William and Sarah Galbraith Birkett.
She married William D. Luce on June 10, 1943 in Everett, Wash., and their marriage was solemnized in the Manti LDS Temple on Feb. 14, 1986.
Betty's final days were spent where she wanted to be, in her Ferron home, surrounded by family and friends and in the company of their dog, Rosie.
Betty grew up in Seattle and Kenmore, Wash. where she met and married her husband, Bill. Betty and Bill moved to Southern California and raised their small family on Bill's father's farm.
Betty loved to dance and she and Bill spent many evenings at Lawrence Welk dances. Betty and her friend, Gracie, would dress up in petty coats large enough to let her son Steve hide under. After moving to Las Vegas in 1961 Betty worked for Clark County Juvenile Probation for 17 years. Her many years as a counselor touched untold young girls lives and certainly had a lasting effect.
After retirement Betty and Bill moved to Ferron where they became active members of the community. They volunteered together for eight years in the Manti Temple. Betty had a passion for her grandchildren and great-grandchildren as well as sewing, crocheting, drawing and owls. She was always willing to spend time talking with family and friends and will be missed very much.
She is survived by her husband, William D. Luce, Ferron; children, Sharon (David) Owens, Ferron; Michele (Wilford) Hanson, Athens, Texas; Steven Luce, Ferron; Mark (Jami) Luce, Ferron; 18 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her parents, William and Sarah Birkett; infant sister; and grandson, Charles E. Owens.
Funeral services were held Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008, 11 a.m., Ferron LDS Stake Center. Viewing was held from 9:30-10:45 a.m. immediately preceding the services. Interment was in the Ferron City Cemetery. Arrangements entrusted to Mitchell Funeral Home of Price.


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Dr. Jeffrey Record is a well-known defense policy critic and teaches strategy at the Air War College in Montgomery, Alabama. He has served as a pacification advisor in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War, Rockefeller Younger Scholar on the Brookings Institution's Defense Analysis Staff, and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, the Hudson Institute, and the BDM International Corporation. Dr. Record also has extensive Capitol Hill experience, serving as Legislative Assistant for National Security Affairs to Senators Sam Nunn and Lloyd Bentsen, and later as a Professional Staff Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He is the author of eight books and over a dozen monographs, including Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win; Dark Victory: America's Second War Against Iraq; Making War, Thinking History: Munich, Vietnam, and Presidential Uses of Force from Korea to Kosovo; Hollow Victory, A Contrary View of the Gulf War; The Wrong War, Why We Lost in Vietnam; and Bounding the Global War on Terrorism. Dr. Record received his Doctorate at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
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Japan's Decision for War in 1941: Some Enduring Lessons
February 09, 2009
Authored by Dr. Jeffrey Record.
Japan's decision to attack the United States in 1941 is widely regarded as irrational to the point of suicidal. How could Japan hope to survive a war with, much less defeat, an enemy possessing an invulnerable homeland and an industrial base 10 times that of Japan? The Pacific War was a war that Japan was always going to lose, so how does one explain Tokyo's decision for war? Did the Japanese recognize the odds against them? Did they have a concept of victory, or at least of avoiding defeat? Or did the Japanese prefer a lost war to an unacceptable peace?
Appeasement Reconsidered: Investigating the Mythology of the 1930s
August 01, 2005
Authored by Dr. Jeffrey Record.
Anglo-French appeasement of Hitler in the 1930s has generated a mythology that ignores much of the actual political-military situation at the time and that continues to mislead U.S. foreign policy today.
Iraq and Vietnam: Differences, Similarities, and Insights
May 01, 2004
Authored by Dr. Jeffrey Record, Dr. W. Andrew Terrill.
The authors conclude that the two conflicts bear little comparison. They also conclude, however, that failed U.S. state-building in Vietnam and the impact of declining domestic political support for U.S. war aims in Vietnam are issues pertinent to current U.S. policy in Iraq.
Bounding the Global War on Terrorism
December 01, 2003
Authored by Dr. Jeffrey Record.
The author examines three features of the war on terrorism as currently defined and conducted: (1) the administration's postulation of the terrorist threat, (2) the scope and feasibility of U.S. war aims, and (3) the war's political, fiscal, and military sustainability. He believes that the war on terrorism--as opposed to the campaign against al-Qaeda--lacks strategic clarity, embraces unrealistic objectives, and may not be sustainable over the long haul.
The Creeping Irrelevance of U.S. Force Planning
May 01, 1998
Authored by Dr. Jeffrey Record.
Jeffrey Record examines what he believes is a half-century-old and continuing recession of large-interstate warfare and, since the World War's demise, the unexpected and often violent disintegration of established states. The author's critical analysis leads him to propose significant and controversial changes in planning standards, force structure, and defense spending.
Ready For What and Modernized Against Whom?: A Strategic Perspective on Readiness and Modernization
April 01, 1995
Authored by Dr. Jeffrey Record.
The U.S. military continues to prepare for large-scale inter-state warfare even though intra-state conflict is the primary source of violence in the post-Soviet era. Conventional "Cold War" force structures are of limited utility against irregular adversaries operating on their own territory. Accordingly, selected conventional force modernization programs should be reexamined and new force structures considered.


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How many Character Deaths are normal?
Posted 03 October 2012 - 03:09 AM
For the classes he has played: 9 clerics and 1 Bard...but he is back to a cleric for his next character again.
Mice Slain: 9
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Kill the ticks! All bow before the might of the Crypt Legion.
Posted 03 October 2012 - 03:51 AM
And then I had a paladin who screwed up 8 rolls in a row, all critical misses and fumbles, before being carried off to his doom by bugs.
It happens. So long as he doesn't think you're doing it on purpose, and you know you're not, then it's copasetic. That many cleric deaths is unusual, though - generally they tend to be the safest class. Is the group not protecting their medic? If they're not, encourage the player to not make one and don't give the group one until they learn different. You want to live, you protect the restorer. You don't protect the restorer, you don't deserve to live.
Mind you this also means the cleric shouldn't be up at the front battling like a fighter, either. They mostly can, and fairly adeptly, but their job is support. Unless it's undead, then they should probably be on point.
Buglips was a goblin cleric and very rarely fought at all. I pushed a kobold out a window, hit a beholder in the eye with a rock, and one time I fought ferociously to protect the fallen party from three drow priestesses (after I killed one with lucky rolls, the others decided that whatever I might look like, it was certain I was no goblin, so they chose discretion). I think that's actually the sum total of all of Buglips's combat experience in two years of playing and 15 levels.
Naturally, he died because a wizard exploded.
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Posted 03 October 2012 - 04:00 AM
Naturally, he died because a wizard exploded.
It's the perfect time to put on your yellow boots and go meandering around the woods looking for...well stuff. In my experience looking for stuff is the best way to find it. -Loim
Posted 03 October 2012 - 04:15 AM
Nothing but menace.
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Posted 03 October 2012 - 07:31 AM
Its not that the player is reckless in his playing style its just he makes alot of bad decisions or gets talked into these by the other players
I'd put forth that dying a lot because of bad decisions *is* reckless. Perhaps it isn't "charge into the fray, swinging the mace wildly" reckless, but not making smart choices about what you should be doing is still a form of reckless behavior.
Unlike you, I have no qualms about killing characters in my home campaign. I don't consider myself to be a "killer DM", or mean or cruel. I choose to run a challenging campaign, and with that challenge comes the risk of character death, and even the possibility of TPK. My players know that I run a hard game, but that I also apply the rules fairly and equally. There are some PCs that die more frequently than others in my game, whether by chance, poor tactics, or a combination of both. It is my goal for the players to have the opportunity to learn from their mistakes (or be doomed to repeat them).
Since this player doesn't seem to be overly upset about his character deaths, I'd say it probably isn't much of an issue. However, you might want to take him aside and have a conversation with him about what mistakes have resulted in his recent character deaths. Explain to him how it would help you to have his characters survive longer (I'm sure introducing new characters over and over again for him gets tiresome and inconvenient), and make some suggestions on what he might be able to do to prevent his frequent demise. Let him know that your goal is for everyone to have a good time, and that although the high number of deaths for his characters is somewhat humorous, the whole group would benefit from the consistency of his character surviving for more than a few sessions.
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"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein
Posted 03 October 2012 - 07:49 AM
Any time anybody, ever, in any edition of D&D, complains about something "game-breaking"? You tell them about the 2nd Edition Forgotten Realms Wild Mage.
Nothing but menace.
My 2E Wild Mage was probably the most fun I ever had as a PC. And, I killed the other PC :)
I hope never to be a giraffe named Marius in Denmark.
Posted 03 October 2012 - 08:01 AM
Posted 03 October 2012 - 08:03 AM
If the group doesn't care and neither does the player its not a big deal. Also try to find ways to bring the dead character (s) back. Add a side plot off the path. Pissed off sibling learns of the death. PC becomes NPC - you left me for dead! If the player and party don't like this maybe they all start working to keep the player alive.
Character death can also be caused by apathy. The player doesn't care enough. Or because new shiny in the latest Advanced Book. Or maybe the player just likes making PCs.
I know I always have a spare character or two in the wings. We usually try to retire PCs in my campaign if a player needs s change. Bring them back for one offs as appropriate etc.
Savage Tide also chews through melee based characters with all the grapple hell.
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Sacrificing minions: is there any problem it CAN'T solve?
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Beowulf ll. 1538-1543
... Pay no heed to proud thoughts, famous champion. Now the flowering of your strength is but for a while. After a while, the time will suddenly come that disease or the sword's edge will cut off your power. Either fire's grasp or flood's surge or blade's bite or spear's flight. Or vicious age, or the flash of your eyes will gutter and burn out! It will be all at once, great campaigner, that death will overpower you.
It's terrifying! Without enough caffeine your body undergoes these hours of partial paralysis and hallucinations! :shudder:
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"Ego probabiliter ad cras"
Posted 03 October 2012 - 08:13 AM
snagged it also
Naturally, he died because a wizard exploded.
Naturally, he died because a wizard exploded.
like i tell my employees at work who complain about working. your here to work right. yes they reply. your getting paid right. yes they reply. good now go clean the restrooms
Posted 03 October 2012 - 10:12 AM
Any time anybody, ever, in any edition of D&D, complains about something "game-breaking"? You tell them about the 2nd Edition Forgotten Realms Wild Mage.
Nothing but menace.
My 2E Wild Mage was probably the most fun I ever had as a PC. And, I killed the other PC :)
Did you explode? In the end, they all explode. Since that got introduced, I've seen somewhere around twenty, twenty-five wild mages. Every. Last. One. Exploded.
My Mystran survived three exploding wild wizards, and then decided that something had to be done about this most unnatural, reckless use of magic. Mystra approved, many heads were thusly split. Examination of the craniums revealed undernourished brains and a significant absence of residual explodium.
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Posted 03 October 2012 - 01:26 PM
I would occasionally grind up small amounts of the material and slip into... certain party members potions, with the assistance of one of the rogues. One time I tried this the party member in question mutated into this huge, hulk-like beast and started thrashing the party. That was quite entertaining hehe. Most of us survived
Posted 03 October 2012 - 06:46 PM
... he makes alot of bad decisions or gets talked into these by the other players and is usually the victim of a heck of alot of critical fumbles from heal checks. .... So my questions are what is your groups death record? How many deaths do you feel are normal in standard style module? Should my player maybe try another game insted of D&D?
Bad decisions? Kill him.
Critical Fumbles on Heal checks? House rules. There has been fairly extensive discussion about the reasons that critical fumbles of any sort are much more likely to be problematic for PCs than for NPCs. If you choose to ignore that, it's on you.
Current groups don't have many permanent deaths because we don't especially want them. They happen, but average maybe 1-2 per adventure path. When I was in my teens, the numbers were orders of magnitude higher, but that was OD&D and we were young and dumb, so not directly comparable. You can certainly tune down the number of character deaths if you want to.
Did you explode? In the end, they all explode. Since that got introduced, I've seen somewhere around twenty, twenty-five wild mages. Every. Last. One. Exploded.
The only character I ever had die to an exploding wizard was the result of a Staff of Wizardry in OD&D. 1576 points of damage when you have 23 HP is, it turns out, sufficient.
There was the character who was carrying an anti-matter-powered stereo that blew up, but he was transported to post-holocaust St. Louis rather than killed, so that doesn't really count.
Posted 03 October 2012 - 08:56 PM
En Taro Tassadar, Executor. - Artanis
In the house of upside down
Cellar's top floor, attic's ground
In the house of upside down
Laughing cries, and smiles frown
In the house of upside down
Found is lost, and lost is found
And now, of course, with your puny undecorated armor and tiny insignificant weapon, let alone crummy non-display base, what chance do you stand against me? I have a throne! I have a skull under my boot! My sword is fancy! - Dragoth the Defiler
Posted 03 October 2012 - 09:00 PM
I mean, yeah, my paladin got eaten by bugs from his fumble chain . . . but then there was also the time my Mystran was protecting the party and encountered some Xorn. All they wanted were some gems to eat, but I didn't know this. 6 nat 20's later, they decided they weren't hungry anymore.
And then there was also the time my Mace of Disruption made a hail mary attack (I had one hit point left, and threw it at a Marilith in defiance) and it went off.
The outlier results can make for the greatest stories.
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Posted 03 October 2012 - 09:02 PM
I ran all my 2e campaigns in a homebrew setting. What is a wild mage?
I can't remember if it appeared in the Tome of Magic or Forgotten Realms Adventures - but a wild mage can gamble for extra spells, and has a chance of a "wild surge".
Like mixing potions, sometimes this is good.
Also like mixing potions, in practice, though, most times it means exploding.
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Monday, September 12, 2011
Universal Studio @ Sentosa, Singapore - I
**The Casino**
**Ooo..I heart this candy tree. I wish my house can have one too...hahhahaha...We were heading towards Universal Studio,Singapore!
I think quite a number of my friends came here in conjunction with the long holiday. If not mistaken Annie-Q and family came here too,right Annie?
**Universal Studio
The crowd were huge on that day....that we need to wait for a long queue for each ride.
**Woody Woodpecker welcome us....
How about some popcorn?
Or Marilyn's Roasted Turkey.....
We decided to feed our tum tum before moving on....despite seeing the huge crowd earlier, i think we need to charge for more energy as to prepare for the long queue. So hubs decided to settle for Gloria's Snack Shack!
**Gloria tum tum manage to attract him...hahhahahha
**Drinks and set lunch we ordered. Foodie already in tum tum....burppp!
**Hubs already have the intention to go for this ride....Cylon!! **shudder**
**He came down with woobly legs and blur vision after the ride.....and I reminded him that he is no longer in 20s.
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So many ppl go Universal Studio last school hols. Got offer ka?ReplyDelete
@Cleff tarak offer...in fact i chosen the day which is non peak one...but still soooooo many ppl.ReplyDelete
See your pictures here enough.. no need to go already gua.. hahaha... show more..ok? december sure very jammed up!ReplyDelete
@ claire, can go geh.but if u wana go for all the rides and games, then you go for the express pass which will cost you a bit more. Good thing is you no nid to wait like an hour for your turn.ReplyDelete
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That time we never enter, but wil go there again...*_^ReplyDelete
Wah....u in sg......never informed me else I buy dinner....heheheh....ReplyDelete
Wahhhhh.... your lou gong so geng, can drive all the way frm Hatyai(5-6 hrs) and the next day, again drive all the way to Sentosa(4-5 hrs), hat off, salute!!!ReplyDelete
The Universal Studio is some where we me didn't visit on our last trip to Sing, we reckon the anak still too young for the rides... kiasu mode, didn't want to waste the rides and $$ mar!:p
i wish to bring the kids there one day actually.. but when i heard ppl said how pack how pack.. how long the queue.. how expensive to buy the premium pass.. etc etc.. i back off!!! :P so bad.. or maybe wait till the kids are bigger.. :)ReplyDelete
@Angeline maybe when your kids get a little older so that they can enjoy most of the rides.ReplyDelete
@Chris i am sure there will be chance in coming times..hehehhe..dont forget kaya toast!
@Alice oh..no no...i went hatyai with my parents not with him nor the kids. After I have landed, only the next day drove back to hometown. Though he can do that, but i would not allow so....it might be dangerous..hhaha. Alice, i lagi kiaus, because kid below 4 yrs old still entitl for free entrance, so before Elise reach four, we quickly went. Tell you what, actually not many rides the kids can go for...
@agnes it will be a waste if you go during peak season with huge crowd unless u opt for the expensive pass. Else you need to wait for the long queue. Make sure your kids are fully charge with energy...ahhahaha
Wow..you're in USS too? Looks like so many people going USS during the long holidays week.ReplyDelete
When you're there? We were there a day before Raya, lucky didn't go on Raya day, it is madness!!
My hub sister and two of my sil's sons went for that scary roller coaster!! *faint* By looking at it, i already want to vomit.
@Annie I was there after the raya holiday. I thought the crowd should be lesser mana tahu as u said...it's real madness!ReplyDelete
salute you. Got energy to go Haadyai the Singapore pulakReplyDelete
such a beautiful place...i've yet to visit this wonderful place.....ReplyDelete
So nice get to go Universal Studios. Wow...looks really crowded lah. My Hubby don't dare to go on any roller coaster ride..haha.ReplyDelete
Great place for the kis and this big overgrown baby, Bananaz too Would love to try out the Cylon. Should be fun!!!ReplyDelete
Sigh! Stuck with babysitting my bedridden mum. I do hope I can get to go one day - wait till my daughter comes home.ReplyDelete
I dare not go for rollar coaster anymore.....ReplyDelete
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I ? JGL but his pants look a little too short.ReplyCancel
I noticed he was rocking green socks too last night. I don't know why I noticed that but prob bc his pants were too short.ReplyCancel
Dear idina
75% of Americans don't know your name. Calm down. I have no doubt travolta was being a bitchy queen and most likely being all eye folly back stage cause u hump on taye but get over yourself.ReplyCancel
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@ItsCourtneyD – imagine when he sits! They must go up halfway to his knees.ReplyCancel
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I thought Adella Dazeem sang that sing off key. Bono would have been insuffrable if he won.ReplyCancel
Not many people know Idina Menzel's name but Travolta could have been courteous enough to learn it before he brought his Frankenstein looking face out on stage. Did He also say "I love you too" to the crowd when he walked out?
Oh my God: I openly CRINGED when John Travolta mispronunced Idina's name last night (At first I thought maybe the prompter had written a different name altogether by mistake as there is more than one version of the Frozen theme available online and also because what he said sounded NOTHING like how her name is written. Didn't he say something like "Adele"?) It only got worse when I watched Idina's inexplicably bad performance but I think it probably had a lot to do with how visibly upset she was at having someone else's name used to introduce her during what should have been a huge moment for her in her career! Poor girl…God love Ellen though for trying to make up for it by saying her name not once but twice once the song was over. F**cking Travolta. Seems like his crazy wig must have been on too tight.ReplyCancel
I thought Idina did a good job on the song. Perhaps because I've never heard her sing it or the song before?
Also sensing that the fashion theme was black and silver. Every year they seem to pick a color and everyone wears the same color. There were no bright colors out there.
Sidney..still the classiest man on the planet.ReplyCancel
I thought Poitier looked awfully frail, too. 🙁 He is a rather elderly man, so perhaps it's not surprising, but it's still sad. I had initially guessed that he might be the one to present Best Picture, but someone probably realized that sending him out on his own might not be a good idea, and Angie seemed to be taking good care of him.ReplyCancel
Mr. Poitier is looking frail 🙁ReplyCancel
Mr. Poitier did look very frail. At first, as they were walking out, I couldn't decide if Ang was propping him up or the other way around. But as they neared the mic, could see that she was steering him along. As much as she irritates me, I have to admit, she was very patient and motherly with him.ReplyCancel
Hawke is so scrubbed up I did not recognize him on TV until he spoke.ReplyCancel
I cannot stand Anna Kendrick. I don't know why, but she goes into the same category as AnnE for me.
Kevin Spacey always reminds me of my school headmaster.
Ethan Hawke looks hideous there! Man, what happened? Not quite how I remembered him in 'Great Expectations'.ReplyCancel
On that note, I wondered if, when the actresses read the nominations' names out, they were pre-recorded, as they sounded a little different to when the camera went back on them.ReplyCancel
@Sherry: Or 'Bone' – which is the new name for 'Beige' or 'Natural', apparently …ReplyCancel
If Sidney Poitier is so frail, then why parade him out? He seemed fine enough on the red carpet, but on stage he looked out of it – like he had been drinking.
I'm not belittling his condition, I just found it strange. (And something I've had to do for my father myself.)ReplyCancel


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Progress on bipartisan immigration reform and deficit reduction key to State of the Union agenda.
Cal Thomas is a conservative columnist. Bob Beckel is a liberal Democratic strategist. But as longtime friends, they can often find common ground on issues that lawmakers in Washington cannot.
CAL: The State of the Union Address as we know it was revived by Franklin Roosevelt in 1934 after a long dormant period. Many presidents simply "mailed it in" when they bothered at all. In the television age, these speeches are more political posturing than an honest assessment of the country' condition. I expect President Obama will follow in that modern "tradition" next week.
BOB: President Ford said in his 1975 State of the Union, "The state of the union is not good." That was not "mailing it in." I give Ford credit for his candor. That said, I agree that Obama will stick to the format of his last three State of the Union speeches and present an upbeat assessment of the country's well-being.
CAL: Thomas Jefferson, whom your party likes to claim as the first Democrat, discontinued the practice of delivering the speech in person. He thought it smacked of monarchy, and he was right. Look at the way the president is introduced and the posturing to shake his hand and get TV face time as he walks down the center aisle of the House. And then there's the phony applause, including by the opposition when they latch onto a word they think supports their position. News people actually count the number of times the president is "interrupted." There was the equally phony seating arrangement that mixed members of both parties to show "togetherness" and the popping up and down, which resembles the Whac-A-Mole game.
BOB: You are so cynical.
CAL: No, I'm just expressing what I think a lot of readers think. Members of both parties are too full of themselves and more intent in saving their careers than in promoting the general welfare. Proof of that is in the poll testing that takes place before these speeches. You were involved in that.
BOB: Often, lines from a State of the Union Address are tested with "focus groups," as pollsters call them, to see how the line or message will be received. I have no problem with that as long as the message is fair and accurate. For instance, Obama would be right in stating the economy is on the mend, but he also needs to be honest in recognizing that millions are still suffering and that we have a ways to go yet to regain economic prosperity.
CAL:I expect the president will restate many of his themes from the inaugural address. He'll claim the economy is rebounding and repeat his familiar themes of green jobs, gun control, same-sex marriage and "comprehensive" immigration reform. Did I leave anything out?
BOB: As I said, he has every reason to say the economy is "rebounding" from the mess he inherited. Millions of jobs have been created in the past three years, manufacturing is coming back, housing sales are up and fewer people are in foreclosure. On the other issues, progressives and conservatives have profoundly different beliefs. We believe in green jobs, controlling guns, the wealthy paying their fair share in taxes and finally resolving immigration reform. Conservative do not.
CAL: With good reason. By any objective standard, it is difficult to conclude the state of the union is good when record numbers of Americans are on food stamps and unemployment has increased to 7.9% with a net loss in jobs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 8.5 million people left the labor force during the president's first term. GDP shrank in December.
BOB: I hope in his speech Obama underscores that the active U.S. military presence in Afghanistan will end next year to make an important point. He should say the U.S. is not the world's policeman and, unless our national security is directly affected, we can no longer carry the burden in blood and treasure, unless those burdens are shared by other countries and a convincing case is made about how any such conflict adversely affects America. I think you agree on that, Cal.
CAL: I certainly do, Bob. But one side can't "end" a war unless it surrenders. As we've seen in Libya, Mali and throughout the Middle East, terrorists are not declaring an end to their war against us.
BOB: There have been signs of bipartisanship on domestic issues in Congress, especially in the Senate on immigration reform. The major roadblock to such agreements are the ultraright Tea Party members of the House, who can still block reforms even if their leadership finds common ground. I have no doubt Speaker John Boehner would support the Senate principles on immigration reform, but he can't get the "wingers" in his caucus to go along.
CAL: I would, too, if the border is made truly secure this time and the legalized immigrants are not allowed to vote for 20 years. That would expose the real game, which is votes.
BOB: Obama should lay out clearly in the State of the Union his goals for a second term. My suggestions are bringing the U.S. military home from foreign entanglements, meaningful immigration reform that recognizes we must find a fair policy to put the 11 million plus undocumented workers on the road to citizenship, and finally dealing with the nation's debt. On the first two, Obama has made great progress, on the debt he has not. What say you?
CAL: I say he has used the debt to raise more taxes, but, as an honest man, you know spending is the problem, and that means attacking the twin monsters of debt: Medicare and Social Security. As for the rest, we agree America's role in the world must be discussed, including how to fight the war against terrorists. I hope the president will mention those vital subjects in his address.
In addition to its own editorials, USA TODAY publishes diverse opinions from outside writers, including our Board of Contributors.


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1. Georgia at Clemson, Aug. 31: This season opener will impact both teams' standing in the polls and send at least one championship contender out on a low note. While the Tigers and Bulldogs could survive a loss, a setback would force one team to run the table during conference play.
2. LSU vs. TCU, Aug. 31 (at Cowboys Stadium): LSU is a bit of an enigma, though the defense remains one of the elite units in college football. Meanwhile, TCU looks to bounce back from an injury-marred debut run through the Big 12. Take note: LSU has won 40 regular season non-conference games in a row.
3. Notre Dame at Michigan, Sept. 7: A series that typically goes down to the wire moves to Ann Arbor. Michigan is young but talented, and certainly athletic enough to win the Legends Division and challenge Ohio State in the Big Ten. The Fighting Irish remain a strong championship contender even without Everett Golson at quarterback.
4. UCLA at Nebraska, Sept. 14: The Bruins took last year's meeting, but this year's date is in Lincoln – where Nebraska can be unbeatable. The Cornhuskers' young defense must be ready for Brett Hundley and the UCLA offense, but the home-field advantage might too much for the Bruins to overcome.
5. Florida at Miami (Fla.), Sept. 7: The Gators are confident in quarterback Jeff Driskel and this offense rebounding from a sour 2012 season. But this game will be won with defense, as Florida must handle Stephen Morris, Duke Johnson and the Hurricanes' prolific attack.
Paul Myerberg, a national college football writer for USA TODAY Sports, is on Twitter @PaulMyerberg.


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Skip to comments.There is no California
Posted on 08/16/2012 3:46:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
Driving across California is like going from Mississippi to Massachusetts without ever crossing a state line.
Consider the disconnects: California's combined income and sales taxes are among the nation's highest, but the state's deficit is still about $16 billion. It's estimated that more than 2,000 upper-income Californians are leaving per week to flee high taxes and costly regulations, yet California wants to raise taxes even higher; its business climate already ranks near the bottom of most surveys. Its teachers are among the highest paid on average in the nation, but its public school students consistently test near the bottom of the nation in both math and science.
The state's public employees enjoy some of the nation's most generous pensions and benefits, but California's retirement systems are underfunded by about $300 billion. The state's gas taxes -- at over 49 cents per gallon -- are among the highest in the nation, but its once unmatched freeways, like 101 and 99, for long stretches have degenerated into potholed, clogged nightmares unchanged since the early 1960s.
The state wishes to borrow billions of dollars to develop high-speed rail, beginning with a little-traveled link between Fresno and Corcoran -- a corridor already served by money-losing Amtrak. Apparently, coastal residents like the idea of European high-speed rail -- as long as noisy and dirty construction does not begin in their backyards.
As gasoline prices soar, California chooses not to develop millions of barrels of untapped oil and even more natural gas off its shores and beneath its interior. Home to bankrupt green companies like Solyndra, California has mandated that a third of all the energy provided by state utilities soon must come from renewable energy sources -- largely wind and solar, which presently provide about 11 percent of its electricity and almost none of its transportation fuel.
How to explain the seemingly inexplicable? There is no California, which is a misnomer. There is no such state. Instead there are two radically different cultures and landscapes with little in common, each equally dysfunctional in quite different ways. Apart they are unworldly, together a disaster.
A postmodern narrow coastal corridor runs from San Diego to Berkeley, where the weather is ideal, the gentrified affluent make good money, and values are green and left-wing. This Shangri-La is juxtaposed to a vast impoverished interior, from the southern desert to the northern Central Valley, where life is becoming premodern.
On the coast, blue-chip universities like Cal Tech, Berkeley, Stanford and UCLA in pastoral landscapes train the world's doctors, lawyers, engineers and businesspeople. In the hot interior of blue-collar Sacramento, Turlock, Fresno and Bakersfield, well over half the incoming freshman in the California State University system must take remedial math and science classes.
In postmodern Palo Alto or Santa Monica, a small cottage costs more than $1 million. Two hours away, in premodern and now-bankrupt Stockton, a bungalow the same size goes for less than $100,000.
In the interior, unemployment in many areas peaks at over 15 percent. The theft of copper wire is reaching epidemic proportions. Thousands of the shrinking middle class flee the interior for the coast or nearby no-income-tax states. To fathom the state's nearly unbelievable statistics -- as the state population grew by 10 million from the mid-1980s to 2005, its number of Medicaid recipients increased by 7 million during that period; one-third of the nation's welfare recipients now reside in California -- visit the state's hinterlands.
But in the Never-Never Land of Apple, Facebook, Google, Hollywood and the wine country, millions live in an idyllic paradise. Coastal Californians can afford to worry about the state's trivia -- as their legislators seek to outlaw foie gras, shut down irrigation projects to save the 3-inch delta smelt, and allow children to have legally recognized multiple parents.
But in the less feel-good interior, crippling regulations curb timber, gas and oil, and farm production. For the most part, the rules are mandated by coastal utopians who have little idea where the gas for their imported cars comes from, or how the redwood is cut for their decks, or who grows the ingredients for their Mediterranean lunches of arugula, olive oil and pasta.
On the coast, it's politically incorrect to talk of illegal immigration. In the interior, residents see first-hand the bankrupting effects on schools, courts and health care when millions arrive illegally without English-language fluency or a high school diploma -- and send back billions of dollars in remittances to Mexico and other Latin American countries.
The drive from Fresno to Palo Alto takes three hours, but you might as well be rocketing from Earth to the moon.
California needs to be fixed. They are the 8th largest World Economy. America cannot afford to let California die. We obviously can't afford to let them go down the road they are on. Something drastic has to be done....what is that? I wish I knew. But the bottom line is, We cannot allow them to fail!!!!
That man has talent for putting things into perspective...
The fiscally sane states will end up bailing the rat-run bankrupt states.
When the power grid fails or rotating power outages of significant length become the norm and when the available power is ten times more expensive than today, how long will the veneer of California civilization remain?
The fiscally sane states will end up bailing the rat-run bankrupt states.
Yep. But the reason will be because there is no other option. If we let them fail then the country will fail.
>> California needs to be fixed. They are the 8th largest World Economy. America cannot afford to let California die.
That's the right kind of attitude!
''' But the bottom line is, We cannot allow them to fail!!!!
Why not? Too big to fail? :)
Sums it up well for CA and Greece.
Yep. But the reason will be because there is no other option. If we let them fail then the country will fail.
Methinks one of the earlier Federalist papers (#6 or #8) has something to say about this. Will return to it tonight.
Unfortunately it seems that the only way for a politician to learn anything is for him to personally fail - big time.
California's problems didn't just spring from the earth overnight. It has been building for the last 20 - 30 years that I know about. If I can see it from Florida after being stationed in California for four years it must be very obvious.
Yes, California's crash will be very painful for me at many levels. But, I see no tectonic shifts in California's direction at any time without it.
Have you ever considered that as California goes so go the rest of us?
While this not the sole reason for CA's demise it is the overwhelming reason. It is also what is facing the US at large. Unless this can be addressed and rectified CA will continue to languish and deconstruct. As mentioned CA going down is no small matter it will effect us all.
-——We cannot allow them to fail!!!!-——
Though I certainly do not want to see them fail, we are the "United States of America " 50 sovereign states ....if they are failing "they" need to fix themselves ....
By bailing them out we only enable them to continue to fail....
When the libtards in CA do not have electricity or can no longer buy food, maybe their brains might actually engage ....
Never heard that Rhode Island is too small to fail....
And they blame it on conservatives.
We MUST allow them to fail.
That is the only way to fix California.
Tragic read. Especially coming from Victor, who has witnessed and accurately described the decline and dichotomy of his home state.
This is what they'll do to the rest of the country if we let them.
Why not? Seems to me that allowing california to wallow in the pig sty that it is making of itself would be the absolute best thing for the country.
A lot of liberals need to learn about the real world. And living in the third world hell hole they are making of themselves would do it I think.
The only redeeming qualities I've seen from California in a long time are the presence there of Freerepublic (which could be moved to a more sane state), The navy base in San Diego and a couple of air bases. The navy base can't be moved, but everything else could be (and should be moved to lower cost sane states)
There is little America can do for California. The saying goes this way: the first generation earns the money, the second generation manages to keep it, and the third generation spends it all. California is in the fourth generation now. The money's been spent, but the lifestyle goes on. This is happening where I live, Illinois.
All the wealth built up in a low/no-tax and low/no-regulation environment has been eaten up. The principle is gone, but America didn't do that. You and I didn't vote these policies. The Welfare State is the utopian dream of the rich and ignorant (not necessarily the same).
What can America do to reign in the policies implemented at the state and local level in California? What policy should we put in place? You're right that California is critical to America, but you have now generations of people trained not to work. They've never had to strive for anything, so they don't know how. Everything has been given to them. To run against that is to lose election after election.
Here's my proposed solution. Add ten states to the union. Take the top ten urban counties and make them their own states with the remainder of the existing counties remaining as their own state. In this way you could unburden the suburbs and countryside and allow them to thrive outside the undo influence of city liberals. What do you think?
Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves. - Andrew Carnegie
-——a small cottage costs more than $1 million-——
There is a caveat however....... My conservative friends own just such a house. Both are now retired and have stirrings of thoughts of moving away from the paradise Silicon Valley to somewhere there is not the continuous liberal whining and stupid laws and taxes.
Who will buy the house?
I drove the length of California in May...... twice.
My take is that the liberals are right. There are just to many people. To survive, people must be purged. However that policy is at cross purposes with the immigration policy. For every one that leaves, at least one slips in. One wonders if a scratched back ( back bloodied crawling under the fence) will buy the $1 million house.
Victor just doesn't recognize a utopia when he sees it. /s
Timely piece, from where I stand.
Actually, we MUST let "California" die.
Not California the land. "California" the modern liberal morass.
The "Eighth largest economy" has less to do with the geography than it does the foundations of economic freedom which sprouted there partly because of the geography. Intel does not need mountains.
We obviously cant afford to let them go down the road they are on. Something drastic has to be done....what is that?
Both true. We cannot afford "their" stupidity and recklessness. But "we" cannot cure it. Something must indeed be done, BY THEM.
But the bottom line is, We cannot allow them to fail!!!!
Unfortunately, this is completely incorrect.
"They" MUST FAIL FIRST ON THEIR OWN.
No different than a headstrong, errant child. Only one possible way to truly learn a life lesson: live it.
Anything "we" force them to do or accept will merely encourage them that they are superior and would have been successful in their utopian dream if we hadn't come in and ruined it with "austerity" or some such boogey-term.
Let them die so that they may be reborn.
"The fiscally sane states will end up bailing the rat-run bankrupt states."
How true, However once they are bailed out they will keep right doing the very things that got them there in the first place. Their whole mind set has to be changed and I don't see that happening without a lot of heartbreak and spilled blood.
-——Let them die so that they may be reborn.-——
The big'un is coming. It will provide the inertia. The old order will be wiped out by the quake
What you are suggesting is "too big to fail". Hogwash. This is the very attitude that allows the Left to recoup, rebuild their power & authority. Failure, OTOH, exposes the total incompetence of the Left to govern. They need to learn that lesson. The rest of America needs to see what insane liberalism does to people & states.
It is obvious to me that Jerry Brown & Co. are forging ahead with fiscal insanity in the sure knowledge that Obama or Romney or Santa Claus will eventually come to their rescue with billions of free money - my money. Mommy's very presence emboldens the child. Well, if I have a say, CA will get NOTHING for a bailout. Nada! The state can rot in the hell they made.
The Big One needs to hit the coast of CA hard, giving the government cover to send a newly-printed trillion to that bankrupt state in "emergency aid." The Meany States couldn't say anything about that very caring bail-out and the self-inflicted problems of CA would be solved...for a little while.
Barring that scenario, there isn't a solution.
As someone that lives in California I beg the rest of the country do NOT bail us out. The only way out of this mess is to fail, and fail big time.
What I would like to see is the state divided up. One half the California central valley down to the border and then across to San Diego.
The other half the coastal cities from LA up the coast to Oregon.
Abandoned Sacramento as a capitol let the coastal state use San Francisco at it's capitol
At this point, I think some states NEED to fail. That's the point of the federal system, or it should be. Wise policies bring prosperity to wisely-run states. Foolish policies bring utter failure to foolishly led states.
I think the idea stinks. The 10 new senators representing the new "city-states" would be automatically bluer than blue, big government gun-grabbing demoncrats. The states from which these "city-states" were carved would very likely thereby be more conservative, but not sufficiently so to guarantee that all senators elected from those states would be conservative. Your fanciful suggestion would likely swing the balance of the Senate substantially to the left.
Now, if the ten largest cities could be carved out of their states and composed into a single state, this proposal might have some merit. A sufficient number of the senators elected from the new sans-city states would probably be reliably conservative enought to more than counterbalance the two new automatically deep blue senators from the State of Megalopolis. Illinois, for example, might actually elect conservative senators if the entirety of the Chicago metropolitan area were carved away from the remainder of the state.
If the feds don't bail out California, expect to see the mayor of Los Angeles inviting the People's Liberation Army in to keep order in the streets.
"Flex alert" is code for: Shortages.
A bad quake would be just the excuse Obama needs to bailout CA. Ten minutes of CNN video of the damage will have McCain, McConnell, & Boehner weeping uncontrollably, promising TRILLIONS in aid. Billions in FEMA money would be a great stimulus to the CA economy. The construction trade unions would be flush with fresh cash. Thousands more bureaucrats will be hired to "manage" the recovery. The resulting recovery & reconstruction would postpone CA bankruptcy for years, if not completely.
All paid for by the other 49 states - you & me.
I live in an area frequented by hurricanes. I can tell you from decades of storms that the rebuild after the storm is a BIG, BIG boost to the local economy that lasts months or years. People have a wad of insurance/FEMA/welfare cash, & are in a mood to spend some money to relieve their stress, further boosting the economy. The more severe the storm damage, the bigger/longer the economic boost.
So, if you are secretly hoping for a CA quake that wipes out the Liberals - don't. You're actually hoping for the only thing that will SAVE the CA Liberals - Free Money.
I disagree with this statement:
"A postmodern narrow coastal corridor runs from San Diego to Berkeley, where the weather is ideal, the gentrified affluent make good money, and values are green and left-wing."
The large majority of people living in that narrow corridor are poor but indoctrinated. They are demanding government give them money, and in a short time that coast will look like the Central Valley. The only difference is that it started with more money, so it is taking longer to use it all up. That, and it has long had the votes to take money from the rest of the state and spend it on themselves...
Mississippi to Massachusetts?
More like Mexico City to Massachusetts
Perhaps California needs to die. Or at least the California Welfare State. Once the welfare system collapses under its own weight, perhaps only then would change be possible.
I agree.
This is just another example of Liberals preference for equality of outcomes over equality of opportunity.
Much can be learned from failure, as I can attest to in my own life. The best lessons are usually the hard ones. Watching a fool can often help us avoid being a fool.
Mexico will eventually take the American southwest without firing a shot...
We (in California) used to have a part-time Legislature, 'corrected' if I am not mistaken, by Governor MoonBeam (first round). If legislators came for a vote and LEFT Sacramento to work real jobs, a whole lot could be changed. And the state would be flush.
Gorbachev once said this about Russia. What emerged, however flawed, was better.
Let CA crash and burn.
California deserves to eat its lunch. The LIBs are fools. There is nothing like a beaten-down fool. They must learn from their mistakes. Can you believe these Cali fools reelected Governor Moonbeam??????
You CANNOT petition the Lord Satan with prayer!
California needs to be fixed. They are the 8th largest World Economy. America cannot afford to let California die. We obviously cant afford to let them go down the road they are on. Something drastic has to be done....what is that? I wish I knew. But the bottom line is, We cannot allow them to fail!!!!
Are you kidding? That's the beauty of federalism...allow the states to experiment. Some will fail in their efforts and others will prosper in theirs. If CA continues on the same path, there will be an even further exodus of the "producing class" and the state will go bankrupt.
The 40 year decline of Detroit should serve as an stark example to the voters of CA.
Yeah, we can ... gleefully.
ex-socal dweller
My wife and I took a trip through parts of California two years ago. We drove out of the Sierras after visiting Yosemite through Fresno, Bakersfield, and other desert towns. (Actually, we were on the interstate, so we didn't really see a lot of those towns.) I still remember driving into Barstow on old Rte. 66 coming back from Victorville. Southwest Barstow looked like it had been hit by a tornado. Junky houses and trash everywhere. I wonder what it looked like when the song first came out back in the forties.
We cannot allow them to fail!!!!
We cannot allow California to extort the rest of the states, most of whom try to live within their means and balance their budgets.
Are you saying that there should be no expectation of responsibility from California. Why should California even worry about spending and their deficit if they are rewarded with "we cannot allow them to fail" speech? We sure as heck can allow them to fail. That's the only thing that will save the state. California legislature needs a massive failure on their hands before anything will improve.
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