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This is an inspirational book about art's power to bring about personal catharsis and spiritual awakening. Alex Grey's reflections combine his extensive knowledge of art history and his own first-hand experiences in creating art on the boundaries of consciousness. Included are practical techniques and exercises that can be used to explore the spiritual dimension of art. Challenging and thought-provoking, The Mission of Art will be enjoyed by everyone who has ever contemplated the deeper purpose of artistic expression.
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"Alex Grey's mission is nothing less than the transformation of our 'depleted world' through art that supports the evolution of human consciousness. He discusses the lives and work of artists throughout history, and his own journey, as examples of the higher mission of art, and encourages others to break out of the prevailing mood of irony and cynicism and create work with the heart and spirit."— Yoga Journal
"An inspirational text for artists and for everyone else who has ever had a glimpse of art's power for personal catharsis and spiritual awakening."— Branches of Light
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Keep your adult Chihuahua healthy and happy when you serve him or her a delicious meal with this dog food. Specially formulated just for your Chihuahua, the food is loaded with healthy ingredients like L-carnitine, beneficial antioxidants and sodium to promote proper heart functions. The food's texture produces a brushing effect when chewed while the formula helps reduce the formation of plaque to ensure a clean, healthy mouth. Satisfy your little Chihuahua's delicate appetite with a delicious, nutritious meal designed just for him or her with this Royal Canin Breed Health Nutrition Chihuahua 28 Adult Dog Food. The formula features quality ingredients and natural flavorings, and is packaged in a controlled atmosphere to ensure your Chihuahua digs into a fresh, tasty dish. Packed with L-carnitine, a synergistic combination of powerful antioxidants and an optimal supply of sodium, the food promotes healthy heart functions to keep your miniature 4-legged friend healthy, happy and active. While your pooch enjoys a savory meal, he or she will be working towards a cleaner, healthier mouth, thanks to the plaque-reducing formula and texture that gently brushes your dog's teeth when chewed.
- For mature or adult Chihuahuas older than 8 months
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By Lloyd Gray/NEMS Daily Journal
Twenty-two years ago at another newspaper in another Mississippi city, I regularly asked a co-worker to borrow her electronic hand-held calculator. She got tired of the annoyance, and instead of simply telling me to buzz off, she went out and bought a $5.99 Radio Shack hand-held calculator and handed it to me.
She smiled cheerily, but the message was clear: Now you've got your own, so quit asking for mine.
Today that calculator sits on my desk at home and I use it all the time. It's not stylish or up-to-date, but it works just fine for my purposes. I like the feel of the keypad better than the touch-screen calculator on my smart phone. I also admire the fact that it has held up all these years without the slightest blip in service. Why get rid of it?
Why, indeed. In just the last 10 years or so, I've owned at least five different cell phones, not to mention three different desk top computers, and in just the last two years, two different tablet computers.
Can they all do something the previous one couldn't? Of course. Am I better off, or more productive, or is life easier, because of it? That's doubtful.
Yet somehow we've bought in to the idea that we can't do without the latest thing, whatever it is. The art of marketing gadgets and gizmos – which consists largely of convincing people to buy something they don't need and probably can't afford – has reached unparalleled heights of sophistication and effectiveness. And we succumb, afraid that we'll miss something or be left behind or be thought of as hopelessly out-of-touch.
Apple under Steve Jobs didn't do much market research because it was creating products that people didn't know they wanted or needed. That's why for Apple it was, and is, all about marketing: Creating a demand that never existed, not responding to a demand already there. Once you start doing that, anticipation of the next big thing becomes a built-in marketing mechanism, a self-fulfilling prophecy that doesn't depend on there being anything particularly big about that next big thing.
That's marketing genius, no doubt. Yet most of us don't stop to think about how that manipulation works, and how completely so many of us fall for it.
There's an old saying that the only difference between men and boys is the size of their toys. These days, many of the men's toys are not only likely to be as small as the boys' toys, in many cases they're one and the same.
Could it be that a fundamental difference between men and boys – or women and girls – is, or ought to be, an ability to recognize hype? Or to discern between what is truly functional, useful and valuable in a product and what is aimed chiefly at our anxieties or ego needs? In other words, shouldn't we adults be a little more mature about such things?
Unlike my up-to-date smart phone, which tells me I am with it and sophisticated, that 22-year-old Radio Shack calculator is good for nothing other than its overtly intended purpose – doing math. That's not to say the smart phone doesn't do a lot of helpful things, yet it's hard to imagine what else that phone could do that would make it any more useful to me than it already is.
Yet at this moment there are people thinking of ways to convince me otherwise when they're ready to launch the next big thing. Will I fall for it? If I can keep that old calculator in full view, maybe not.
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That's right, ladies and gents, today is Chewbacca's birthday. OK, not quite, but almost: it's Peter Mayhew's birthday and he's the man who played Chewie in the Star Wars films. Either way, it's pretty much Chewbacca's birthday and if that isn't reason enough to post Chewie-related items, then nothing is.
Standing at a ridiculously tall 7'3″, Mayhew was offered the roll of everyone's favorite Wookie (because we know so many others?) by George Lucas after Lucas' original choice, 6'6″ tall bodybuilder David Proust was cast to play Darth Vader instead. Lucas told Mayhew that his only requirement to play Chewie was to show up and stand up — pretty much the easiest acting job in the world, although I don't want to imagine what it must be like in that Wookie get-up.
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I can't bieleve no one has been arested in this case. I also heard on the radio the the girl that is one of the one's doing the bulling confronted the sister of the victim at homecoming and no one has doen anything. I would not want my kid going to that school. Bye Now Brian
Williamsville schools
Williamsville schools have never been serious about bullying. If your parents are prominent community figures or you are a minority, you can get away with murder, literally. The administrators try to hard to be politically correct instead of doing what's right. Fear of a lawsuit is more important than being just, and fair.
Williamsville Schools
As a teacher of 39 years, I can guarantee you that the reason the bullies are not being dealt with is that the administrators - all of them - are petrified of the parents. Not the parents of the victims - the parents of the bullies. Administrators do not want phone calls from parents who will swear their children "would never do such a thing" and who will threaten lawsuits because they don't want to hear the truth about their children. Administrators used to be respected because the spines. Today's administrators' spines are made of spaghetti, which is why there is so very little discipline in the schools.
Schumer's New Law
What a waste of time and money! We already have professionals in the schools - from teachers, to counselors, to psychologists, to social workers, to administrators. Offer further training for these professionals if need be. But the schools do NOT needto hire a "bullying specialist." What a silly idea!
New Law
We do NOT need a new law as Senator Schumer suggests. We already have professionals in the schools. Offer them additional training if you want, but the employees in the schools are extremely competent to handle the situation. What a ridiculous idea!
A Sad Story, Now Move On with Other Issues of Equal Importance
True, this was a sad story. Who is responsible? 1st - Jamie (it WAS a suicide). 2nd - The parents - They knew he had problems for years and thought just put him in a public school and all will be straightened out by the school? It was THEIR responsibility to raise THEIR son. Finally, let the news focus on another large public issue that's blatant in their face - Seniors who can long longer drive and are a menace to the general public. Two individuals were killed and several accidents later, and still no ongoing coverage of the basic problem - Seniors making mistakes which are deathly to OTHERS as they walk away. Instead, some want to put barriers up around all the businesses, but Albany wants to dismiss the eye exams for license renewals! Get real even though it's unpopular, Seniors need to be retested. They have already killed more than double the number of Jamies that couldn't handle life and decided to cash out of their own accord. The 2 parents killed had no choice.
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He committed suicide! Lets discuss his parent's responsibility - not the schools or anyone elses, or is that unpopular sentiment for news? Bullying has been around for centuries, and it's something you can't legislate as there are various "shades of gray" always involved (which the lawyers love to make $ of), especially to teenagers.
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Often described as a realist, Rackstraw Downes prefers not to use that term. He views the act of seeing and the art of representation as culturally taught, with different cultures accepting different delineations of the world as realistic. As a painter of his surroundings (he does not think of himself as a landscape painter), he attends to the perils and pleasures of perception, the dialogue between abstraction and figuration, and the dissonance between an ideal of nature and what we do to it. With minimal means and classical restraint, Robert Mangold translates the most basic of formal elements—shape, line, and color—into paintings, prints, and drawings whose simplicity of form expresses complex ideas. While his focus on formal considerations may seem paramount, he delights in thwarting those considerations—setting up problems for the viewer. Sarah Sze builds her installations and intricate sculptures from the minutiae of everyday life, imbuing mundane materials, marks, and processes with surprising significance. On the edge between life and art, her work is alive with a mutable quality—as if anything could happen, or not.done reading


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About this Site
The Dirty Energy Money tool provides an illustration of the network of funding relationships between Dirty Energy companies and politicians.
You can use the interactive network map to explore our database of campaign contribution relationships. Politicians and companies are positioned by their relationships, those that are close together tend to have similar patterns of giving and receiving.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What does this site do?
- How do I search for data?
- How does the relationship map work?
- Where did you get the data?
- How is this data Different than data available from CRP?
- How recent is this data?
- Can I look at contributions for different years?
- How can I slice and dice the data to get what I'm looking for?
- Is money raised while running for office included?
- How do you define 'coal money'?
- Are utilities included in coal money?
- Can I see how much my state representative took?
- Why don't the column in the table views add up to the representative's total?
- What do the negative values mean? Are politicians paying oil companies now?
- What do the companies 'Oil & Gas' or 'Oil & Gas Exploration' mean?
- Is this showing me the money they accepted while in office, or the money they got while running for office?
- How do I find the specific contribution I'm looking for on the FEC form?
- When I look at the image of the report filing from the FEC I see a different year entered for the campaign, why?
- Why are contributions from 'Mrs. Bigoil' included with 'Very Big Oil Company Inc.' when she doesn't work there?
- What's a Dirty Dollar?
- How can I spread the word?
- Where can I find more about the influence of oil companies in American politics?
- Where can I find more information about other kinds of contributions to politicians?
- Who built the site?
- What software did you use?
- Still have questions>
What does this site do?
The Dirty Energy Money website shows which companies are dumping their dirty money into politics, and which politicians are receiving it. We offer the best data available on contributions from the fossil fuel industry to decisionmakers.
The site is based on a robust database of contributions from employees and Political Action Committees (PACs) going back to 1999. We break information down by congress, politician, company and votes. We only look at the contributions that went to Members of Congress while they were in office. Users can see data presented in tables on the site, and/or download it as a CSV file. We also pull the identification numbers for the original FEC records so that it is possible to click through from the table view and see scanned version FEC filing the data came from.
We've also created relationship maps of contributions from the oil & gas and coal industries to congressional representatives. These handy graphics show the relationship between companies and politicians; the size of the node and the tie indicate the strength of the relationship. (i.e. a company giving $25,000 to a politician will appear bigger than one giving $5000). Think of it like a social networking site in which companies and politicians have become 'friends' by giving money.
How do I search for data?
You can explore our database by politician, company, vote or Congress term. You'll see all of these categories in the navigation menu. The search box on each page provides quick access to politicians, companies, and the representation for your zip code. You can also find our analysis of recent decisions on the 'votes' and the 'analysis' pages, as well as on the Oil Change International blog.
How does the relationship map work?
We add up all the contributions from each filing and run this data through network visualization software to position the companies and politicians according to their ties. The size of the node (i.e. the circle with the company or politician name) and the strength of the tie (i.e. the line between actors) corresponds to the amount of money given or received. On the Congress pages, the nodes are positioned according to the strength of their relationships.
Where did you get the data?
Anybody who runs for federal office is required to file reports with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) giving the names and addresses of everyone who donates more than $250 to the campaign. We use FEC data compiled by the non-profit Center for Responsive Politics, which we further refine using our own custom-built software to match our specific expertise in the oil, gas and coal industries. We track all contributions from known employees and Political Action Committees (or PACs) from these companies back to 1999. We only look at the contributions that went to the selected group of elected officials (House, Senate, etc.) while they were in office.
We used tools, data, and information from the following sources:
Center for Responsive Politics: categorized oil contributions and company names and provided assistance with data interpretation.
GovTrack.us: Representative photos (courtesy of the Government Printing Office) and information about who is in office when.
Sunlight Labs API: additional Representative photos and ZIP code lookup
Images of company logos were acquired from company websites without permission or authorization and may be under copyright of the respective companies. They are used here to refer to the companies and do not in any way indicate an endorsement or sponsorship of this project by any of these firms.
How is this data Different than data available from CRP?
The Center for Responsive Politics' Oil & Gas sector category closely matches our interests. However we have done additional work to both add and remove companies that appear to have slipped through CRP's screening process, and aggregate additional subsidiaries into 'parent' companies. We also include a more robust screening of electric utilities that do not normally land within the CRP's industry categorization.
Other key differences:
With the exception of past presidential candidates, our site focuses on contributions to congress members in office. This means that contributions to some groups (such as industry PACs) and candidates who did not win elections will not appear in the site totals.
We have made an extra review of the company names in the database, removing a few companies that appear to have slipped through CRP's screening process, and aggregating some additional subsidiaries into the 'parent' company.
We don't include money from Congressmember's Presidential campaigns in their totals.
We don't sum in the previous cycles into Senator's terms. (Overall totals should be similar, but non-election year totals will be lower, reflecting the dates when the contributions occurred.)
We provide links to the original filing documents for individual contributions, when available from the FEC.
CRP's database goes back to 1989. Ours goes back to 1999. This causes a discrepancy in 'lifetime' or 'career' numbers.
How recent is this data?
The date of the most recent FEC data release that we are using is shown on the bottom of each page. Most representatives are only required to file quarterly, so in some cases data may be several months old. There will be some additional delay while the FEC and the Center for Responsive Politics process the data. You can view the date of each contribution by looking in the details of the table view.
Also, as CRP notes, just because a data set is downloaded after a filing deadline, it cannot be assumed that the data being downloaded will include all the data from the filing. It takes the FEC some time to run these new records through their auditing processes and to resolve any reporting problems uncovered. Additionally, as the Senate still does not file electronically, it takes some time for the FEC to manually enter that information. How long any of this takes is not always the same from report to report.
Can I look at contributions for different years?
Yes. On a profile for an individual company or politician you can click on the list of congresses in the filter bar to go to a different year, total, or on 'pre-term' contributions involving congress members who have not yet taken office. On the Congress and Presidential views, use the the drop-down menu on the left side of the filter bar.
How can I slice and dice the data to get what I'm looking for?
Politicians: Once you're on the specific page for a Member of Congress, you can switch between different tabs to check out their connections with companies (which you can filter by year) (on the Connections tab), their relationship with certain sectors and types of givers (on the Comparisons tab), and how they voted on specific decisions (on the Votes tab).
Companies: Once you're on a company page, you can check out their giving to Members of Congress (on the Connections tab), and their giving according to party and term (on the Comparisons tab).
Congress: You can manipulate the relationship maps in the 'Congress view by using the filter at the top of the window. The filter allows you to select which congress, chamber, industry, politician, companies and contributions you want to view. Adjusting these settings to lower values will include more of the corresponding elements in the relationship and table views. For example, setting the 'CONTRIBUTIONS' slider to 'Top 75%' means that all the contributions except the smallest values will be included in the views. (The actual dollar values used for filtering are displayed under the title for the map)
The CONGRESS option selections which two-year batch politicians and contributions to show.
CHAMBER, not surprisingly, selects which politicians will appear based on the chamber of the U.S. Congress they serve in.
The INDUSTRY option can be set so that the maps will show only contributions from Oil & Gas, Coal, or All (both together).
The POLITICIANS slider filters out politicians based on total amount of money that they accepted from the selected industries in the given time period. By decreasing the minimum total, more representatives will appear in the relationship map or table.
The COMPANIES slider filters out companies based on the total amount of money that each company gave to congress people in the given time period. If a company gave less than the stated minimum, they will not appear on the relationship map or table. By decreasing the minimum total, more companies will appear.
The CONTRIBUTIONS slider refers to each individual contribution received by a representative, By decreasing the minimum contribution amount, you will expand the number of listed contributions, showing more links on the network.
Is money raised while running for office included?Yes. We show the contributions Members of Congress received during each term they were in office. We added the category 'pre-term contributions' to ensure that money they received during their initial campaign is available as well. Both sets of data are included in the total contributions to that decisionmaker.
How do you define 'coal money'?The term 'coal money' refers to contributions from either coal mining, trading or coal burning companies (i.e., electric utilities that operate coal-fired power plants), as well as trade associations and political action committees representing those industries. Because electric utilities can use a variety of fuels or renewable resources to generate electricity, it was necessary to determine which companies rely predominantly on coal in order to include them in the 'coal money' database.
Are utilities included in coal money?
In order to determine how much electricity a utility produced using which fuel source we used data from the Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration (EIA) for 2011, found here. We used data from EIA 923 Forms to gain a breakdown of megawatt hours of electricity generated by each utility company by fuel source. Utility companies that relied on fossil fuels for at least 50% of their power generation in 2011 are added to our database. If they used more coal than gas they are categorized as coal. If power generation is just one of many things a company or public utility does we did not include them.
Can I see how much my state representative took?
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Why don't the column in the table views add up to the representative's total?
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What do the negative values mean? Are politicians paying oil companies now?Well, not directly. Negative values usually indicate repayment of a debt, or the return of a contribution from an earlier year.
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Is this showing me the money they accepted while in office, or the money they got while running for office?For each congressional session we show the members of congress who were in office and the contributions they received during that session. Since Senators have six-year terms, we are only showing two years of their term at a time.
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When I look at the image of the report filing from the FEC I see a different year entered for the campaign, why?Sometimes politicians use contributions to pay off debts from old campaigns, or have already begun collecting for future campaigns.
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Skip to comments.Don't Believe the Doomsayers. Ohio's Economy Is Doing Fine.
Posted on 09/06/2008 5:47:03 PM PDT by Forgiven_Sinner
Ohio is going to be a hard fought-over state in this presidential election. And consequently, the economy of this bellwether state has become highly scrutinized.
. . .
By 2010, Ohio will be one of only two states without a general tax on corporation profits or a property tax on business machinery, equipment and inventories. This year is the last for Ohio's business property tax; next year is the last for the corporation profits tax. And Ohio's personal income tax rates are falling by 21% across the board.
Between 2005 and 2007, Ohio's per capita state tax burden has already fallen to 38th in the nation, from 27th, according to the Federation for Tax Administrators. When the new tax cuts are phased in, Ohio's business taxes will be the lowest in the Midwest.
Exports, meanwhile, are booming. In 2007, Buckeye State exports totaled more than $42 billion, up 11.1% from 2006, making Ohio the only state in which exports have increased each year since 1998.
. . .
Ohio recently passed a bipartisan $1.57 billion jobs stimulus plan that will invest strategically in our infrastructure, future work force and growth industries such as biosciences and renewable energy. Our new Advanced Energy Portfolio Standard requires at least 25% of electricity sold in Ohio to be generated from new and advanced technologies by 2025. This will create vast new opportunities for green energy businesses in Ohio.
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Ohio now leads the Midwest in the growth of venture capital investments in the biosciences; we rank first nationally in per capita clinical trials and operate the largest center for stem cell and regenerative medicine between the coasts. . . .
Mr. Strickland, a Democrat, is governor of Ohio. Mr. Fisher, a Democrat, is lieutenant governor of Ohio.
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"The biggest shift is in taxes. Ohio business leaders told us that our tax structure was outdated and made the state uncompetitive. So, in a bipartisan manner, we restructured our tax laws to lower the burden for business."
I had heard that Ohio was dying due to high taxes and stifling union rules, supported by the Democrat politicians. If what these politicians say is true, it sounds like they're doing the right things.
Ohio Freepers: What do you say? I'm a former Buckeye, but I've been out of the state for 20 years.
What do those in Ohio itself have to say about this?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Becky and I are having the best year we ever had,if you have some skills and are willing to work-no problem.
Says an awful lot that the RAT Governor Strickland is better than RINO Taft. Taft did his best to single-handedly destroy the GOP in Ohio.
It doesn't take much for a tax and spend Democrat to beat a tax and spend Republican.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I noticed some of those "qualifier" (read: weasel) words like reduced "general" corporate taxes rather than a more definitive statement. Happy to be proven wrong, though, as I am hopeful for the Buckeye State.
It is curious that Dem governors like Stickland and David Patterson are turning up. It shows that the Dems are not totally suicidal.
But how can you account for Granholm?
At least some (maybe all?) of these tax cuts started phasing in before Strickland got in.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Politics of Fear!
Worst economy in ____ years.
Unemployment, Home foreclosures, Polar Bears are drowning.
The problem is that when there is non-stop hammering on these fabricated fears that the dem's have. Folks start to believe it. Self full filling prophecy.
It seems that I recall something about them complaining about Bush / Cheney mentioning the down turn in the economy back in 2000.
They must have forgotten.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I lived in NE Ohio my whole life (I'm 62)and moved to SC last October because I could not make a decent living and I couldn't stand the weather. Needless to say, I don't think Ohio is on the path to greatness.....it is a depressing economy and a depressing grey state
The inner cities in Ohio are in ruins. The rest of us are doing just fine. Obama isn't going to win by pulling the inner cities in Ohio.
>>But how can you account for Granholm?<<
She is the Tin Man.
To be added to the Ohio Ping List, please freepmail (works best) both TonyRo76 and LasVegasDave.
Ooops missed the rest
"and the Scarecrow rolled into one. No heart, no brains."
John Kasich is running for governor in 2010 and he recently suggested that the income tax be repealed.
I've lived here for as long as you did. I don't find the state depressing. The winters, November through mid-March, have a lot less sun than summer. This is true of all the cities and states around the Great Lakes. I don't find winter depressing. In fact, I love cold and snow. The summers are usually nice. Often humid, but not beastly hot as the south. I think the high this summer in Cleveland has been 91 a couple times and a couple other days at 90. And, we don't get too many hurricanes.
So, maybe it's partly in the eye of the beholder.
This seems to be kind of a slap at Obama. I mean, he's probably going to Ohio and preaching on the failed policies of Bush and how only he can fix things up there in Ohio. Now a couple of dems there say it ain't so.
I left NE Ohio a year ago. The winters were getting longer and longer. Maybe it's global cooling.
Just moved back to the midwest (Indiana) from California. Winter was great, I love the grey skies. Much easier on the eyes than all that sunshine.
Seriously, I got tired of the unending blue skies. It was oppressive having to constantly cover my eyes from the sun.
In answer to the question, yes, Strickland tries hard. He was a good congressman, much constituent service, is pro gun and down to earth. He's the bloke who carried Kerry's Canada goose out of the wild in the famous huntin' photo. He is much better than Taft who was a moron and a disgrace to the office and his party.
But Lt Gov Fisher who also serves as Director of Development is just a smoke and mirrors guy who has taken funds for economic development and job creation and larded up the state jobs with political hacks. He has bamboozled Strickland into thinking he is a genius, when Ted should just follow his own good instincts.
Back in '06, to keep Blackwell's tax reduction off the ballot as an issue, the legislature voted in these tax caps and reductions. We don't have Ted Strickland or Lee Fisher to thank for them, it was Ken Blackwell's baby, as passed by the legislature and signed by Bob Taft.
I just moved from Ohio back to Tennessee. I will save about $5000 in state and local taxes. I'm glad that Strickland is trying to deal with this issue, but Ohio's taxes are way out of control. They have a state income tax - Tennessee does not. They have local income taxes - Tennessee does not. My property tax in Ohio was 2.5 times what I pay in Tennessee.
I think that he's not telling the whole tax story. Perhaps he's excluding county and municipality taxes and fees. And gasoline taxes (which are about 10 cents/gallon higher in Ohio than in Tennessee). At any rate, I'm doing much better in tax terms in Tennessee than I was in Ohio.
The only tax that's higher in Tennessee is the sales tax, but the difference isn't all that big.
Welcome back! Need to change the CA flag on your 'about' page.
Apparently the RINOs took over, and then were replaced by Democrats. That's rather like what happened in Illinois.
Yeah, well, for the first time EVER, I know three people who have lost their jobs in completely different lines of work in the last year.
Second, it's absolutely true that Strickland has governed far more like a Republican than Taft ever did. He signed the concealed carry law, he torpedoed the recent "sick leave" initiative---saying he wouldn't support it. Aside from killing some charter schools, it's really hard to complain about him.
It depends entirely upon the region or city.
Sounds like Rendell could learn a thing or two from Ohio.
Workers looking for reasons for Ohios anemic job market need look no further than the State House where our legislators have been perpetuating the high tax, high regulation policies that have made the state a very bad place to do business.
Well some seem to see the figures differently than our illustrious Governor.
We need another Jim Rhodes whose motto was, "Profit is not a dirty word in Ohio." A different era.
That's Cleveland's problem. Those businesses that want to make a profit are not welcome.
Rhodes was governor when my family left Ohio. He was a good guy.
Tony: yeah, pretty amazing isn't it? I can't imagine that Ken Blackwell could have done much differently. And Strickland knew not to sign on to the S.S. Obama, because he didn't want to end up in the water.
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Skip to comments.Translation of Mexican Invasion Handbook
Posted on 01/07/2005 10:58:33 AM PST by VU4G10
If some bleeding heart group had written the book --- some misguided rights group --- it would not seem as bad --- but this is actually being done by a corrupt foreign government --- advising it's citizens how best to break American laws and avoid the consequences in doing so. What other foreign government is writing comic books like this for it's citizens it wants to rid itself of?
That link at the top of this thread should take you to the web site of the Mexican government --- and you'll see it there. The pictures of the tiny narrow Rio Grande --- the guy crawling through it --- water only up to his elbow. Page 2 is interesting --- it's a picture and explanation how the Mexican government has many of it's government offices set up to further assist them after they arrive here --- and will help them avoid consequences of any crimes they commit. The message is clearly --- if you get in trouble for breaking USA laws --- call us immediately --- we can intervene and get you off the hook.
No. Your statement was ridiculous. As was your deflection.
It's not quite as bad as I had anticipated.
Still, it comes awfully close to being an act of war.
Monger on, thoughtohater.
Meanwhile, the Mexodus continues...
What do you call that?
At least TRY to be honest.
btw, I've read DU. They all sound like your quote, they just cuss more.
Publishing a "how-to" manual for violating our border and invading our country? That is an act of war by any traditional definition; it is not in the least exaggerating to say so.
Regime Change
Did anyone catch that detail about wife-beating? The one that said 'as in Mexico' it's illegal to beat your wife? To me, that sounds like something the corrupt Mexican government wants to tell us. There's no need for that detail to Mexicans. it sounds like they were writing to us, wanted to tell us that all these wife-beating Mexicans we are seeing constantly aren't their fault and they are just as disgusted as we are. Baloney. The fact is, laws aren't enforced in any capacity at all in Mexico and therefore, wife-beating, like every other crime is legal in Mexico. But somehow they wanted to get it across to us that they are somehow civilized and don't condone wife-beating. Cripes, they do it all the time.
Your constant support of the corrupt oligarch government of Mexico is getting more and more absurd.
No other government is writing comic books instructing it's citizens to break American laws.
Mexico is a non-aligned country which really means they are not our friend but won't openly ally with one of our enemies for fear of pissing us off.
Mexico is friends with Cuba.
Mexico is friends with Communist China and is building port facilities with the PRC that can also be used to support PRC warships.
Was friends with the USSR.
Was friendly with Nazi Germany in WW2.
Was friendly with Imperial Germany in WW1.
Was friendly with the CSA during the US Civil War.
Why the Bush Administration cozies up to these criminals in Mexico City eludes me.
Frankly, what we really need to see in Mexico City is US troops. That or an ArcLight raid and a subsequent militarization of the border.
As is your support of the PRI and BP Union.
False. As are most of your other talking points.
I think some people have also forgotten when V. Fox visited France prior to the UN vote on Iraq. Mexico slapped the Sh!t out of Bush with that one.
Hutchison Port Holdings is one of the commercial faces of the Peoples Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) and they are building a facility at Veracruz that Jane's has noted could readily support military operations. No secret here.
Your previous post was false/lie. I don't care what you have to say now.
Then you won't care when I tell you to bite me.
Don't lie, Newbie Finn. You'll bite less.
"Don't lie, Newbie Finn. You'll bite less."
I can substantiate my points but you have stated that you don't care. I'm not disputing your citation of facts but you're not even interested in my presentation of matters.
And you're not supposed to care what I have to say, remember?
Not PRI --- maybe it's time for a real change --- PAN turned out to be no better than PRI. In many ways far worse.
I'm sure President Bush will speak out against this very soon.
Yeah, right.
Many of their phrasing is just too cute --- there are legal ways to get to the USA --- however here's how to do it illegally. Pictures showing Mexicans crossing the border like they're out for an evening stroll. A guy crawling on his hands and knees --- water up to his elbows only ---- crossing the Rio Grande. A very beaming happy family in the last pages who obviously had a pretty easy time getting over.
Something like a book on how to rob banks starting with "you could get a job and earn your money, but in the event you don't choose to get your money that way...... here's how you rob a bank..... don't forget the nylon socks to put over your face, where clothes that don't make you stand out.... don't forget the get-away care..... all get-away drivers are not trustworthy, keep your eyes on them at all times but they can save you and your new found money...."
Your posting history shows you're full of BS.
You're going to get your Socialists back...enjoy.
Would you have cursed them with the ambitious Mrs. Fox? She was the PAN candidate to replace her husband of 3 years after all --- but if that's the best they can do, PAN deserves to lose.
PAN deserves to lose when it's president has but one goal --- rid Mexico of as many people as he can. He's a fool. He had a chance to actually do something but he blew it.
And that is up to the Mexican voters obviously. But immigration, NAFTA, and Vicente Fox have made things pretty bad for those choosing to stay in their own homeland. Do you honestly believe every Mexican just has as his goal to become some cheap leaf blower or toilet cleaner in the USA?
Leave Pat out of this.
No, why would they with all those American applicants.
Yeah, its about the technical translation service that is very important in our daily life. Most laws and regulations are issued these days to properly manage our society. Knowledge anout the law affairs is necessay, rules must to be known in some cases.
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I don't have any revelations about vegetarian pizza, really. I haven't found some new, hitherto undiscovered topping that requires me to shout from the rooftops. I've just been reminded that sometimes the simple things are really, really good.
The pizza above has those most classic of vegetarian pizza toppings: artichoke hearts, roasted red peppers, good black olives, and cheese (in this case, a nice Monterey Jack), and a slightly spicy, garlicky tomato sauce. I refrained from adding more and more and more toppings, which used to be my pizza downfall, and let the combined flavours hum along in harmony.
The pizza below, is a very, very simple pie based on my memories of post-nightclubbing slices devoured at a long-departed establishment that stayed open until 3:00am downtown. The deceptively simple pesto pizza. Really, all you need is a good, home-made crust, and a good, home-made pesto, and the cheese of your choice. No tomatoes. No chunky bits. Just you and the pesto and the crust. For cheese, I opted to use some of the Jack (as above), and some parmesan, which is simply a component of the pesto. You don't need a lot of cheese - and you will need to shore up the edges of your crust a little to avoid spill-age if your crusts get any oven-spring lift to them. Just smear the pesto on, sprinkle the cheese, and ignore the pang of sadness that you feel when the beautifully bright pesto turns dark, olivey green from the heat of the oven.
I've learned a thing or three about pizza crust, in the years that I've been, ahem, studying.
1) Don't add too much flour. A looser dough has better texture
2) It doesn't matter if you forget to add salt to the crust, just sprinkle a little on the dough before you add the toppings (or use salty toppings, like feta).
3) The longer and slower the rise, the better the crust - airy, chewy, complex and delicious.
The two pizzas above were made with a batch of dough that was stirred up just before heading out to meet some friends for drinks. I only used a small amount of yeast (1 teaspoon for a double batch of dough, whereas many recipes - including my master recipe - use up to a tablespoon per pie). Three hours, on the counter, later, the dough was well-risen, soft, pliable, and ready to be stretched into shape. I can actually toss pizza crust, but generally I just pat it back and forth in my hands, like a chapatti, until it is big and round, and then flop it on a cornmeal-lined pizza pan and finish pressing it out to the edge.
I'm definitely going to try the low-yeast, slow rise thing again - it has wonderful schedule flexibility potential, and I feel the urge to experiment a little. Next time, maybe some other classics: pepperoni mushroom, perhaps (always a favourite), spinach and feta, or my personal guilty-pleasure - the cheeseburger pizza.
September 27, 2008
Vegetarian Pizzas
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4 comments:
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
They look perfect! Both pizzas are beautiful and extremely tempting! Yummy!
- 28 September 2008 at 00:57
- Dawna said...
Thanks, Rosa. They were pretty tasty. Nice to hear from you again!
- 28 September 2008 at 10:38
- Megan said...
Hey there! I just stumbled upon your blog and those pizzas are making my mouth water. There is nothing like homemade pizza. I like to make enough for a few batches of dough and freeze it just in case I have a pizza craving.
Thanks for your delicious recipes and pictures!
- 21 December 2008 at 20:29
- Dawna said...
Thanks, Megan. I've never had a lot of luck freezing pizza dough for some reason, but since I can make a whole pizza from scratch in an hour it doesn't slow me down, much (although, the slow-rise crust is lovely).
- 23 December 2008 at 12:38
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The battle for upstate New York confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy Obama. The movement's undisputed leaders, Palin and Beck, neither of whom has what Palin once called the "actual responsibilities" of public office, would gladly see the Republican Party die on the cross of right-wing ideological purity. Over the short term, at least, their wish could come true.
The New York fracas was ignited by the routine decision of 11 local Republican county chairmen to anoint an assemblywoman, Dede Scozzafava, as their party's nominee for the vacant seat. The 23rd is in safe Republican territory that hasn't sent a Democrat to Congress in decades. And Scozzafava is a mainstream conservative by New York standards; one statistical measure found her voting record slightly to the right of her fellow Republicans in the Assembly. But she has occasionally strayed from orthodoxy on social issues (abortion, same-sex marriage) and endorsed the Obama stimulus package. To the right's Jacobins, that's cause to send her to the guillotine.
("The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York" New York Times, Oct 31, 09)
But how did the GOP become a "paranoid cult"?
The Republicans are arsonists who burned down our national home. They combined the failed ideologies of the Religious Right, so-called free market deregulation and the Neoconservative love of war to light a fire that has consumed America.
I used to be one of them. As recently as 2000 I worked to get Senator McCain elected in that year's primary. I have a file of handwritten thank you notes from Presidents Ford, Reagan, Bush I and II. In the 1970s and early 80s I hung out with Jack Kemp and bought into his "supply side" myth and even wrote a book he endorsed pushing his ideas.) There's more, but take it from me; my parents and I were about as tight with -- and useful to -- the Republican Party as anyone. We played a big part creating the Religious Right.
In the mid 1980s I left the Religious Right, after I realized just how very anti-American they are, (the theme I explore in my book Patience With God--Faith For People Who Don't Like Religion Or Atheism). They wanted America to fail in order to prove they were right about America's "moral decline."
They're still at it. Why are the ultra-conservatives, the loony "deather", "birther", "Obama-is-the-Antichrist" right killing their own party? Because they are into purity.
Problem is life is full of paradox!
Since the right won't accept colors other than black and white on their palette they are condemned to live in an alternative universe of absolutes in a world that demands nuance.
How can anyone who loves our country support the Republicans now? Barry church-and-state-must-be-separate Goldwater, William F. civility-is-next-to-godliness Buckley defined the modern conservatism that used to be what the Republican Party I belonged to was about. No longer! Today no actual conservative can be a Republican.
Reagan would despise today's wholly negative Republican Party. And can you picture the gentlemanly and always polite Ronald I-legalized-abortion-in-California Reagan, endorsing a radio hate-jock slob who crudely mocked a man with Parkinson's and who now says he wants an American president to fail?!
With people like Palin, Limbaugh and Beck as the loudmouth image of the Republican Party -- Republicans need no enemies. But something far more serious has happened than an image problem: the Republican Party has become the party of obstruction at just the time when all Americans should be pulling together for the good of our country. Instead, Republicans are today's fifth column sabotaging American renewal.
These are not just the "Party Of No", these are the traitors who would rather legalize torture than medical care for all.
For the party that created our crises of misbegotten war, mismanaged economy, the lack of regulation of our banking industry, handing our country to rich crooks... to obstruct the one person who is trying to repair the damage is obscene. And now they are eating their own, since once you embrace purity no one is ever pure enough. This is the result of replacing planet earth with planet ideology, politics with religion.
Unless you haven't been paying attention to the recent history of the Republican Party you will know that today Republican ideology and energy is derived from three sources: the Religious Right, the Neoconservative Movement and corporate business interests.
The Republican problem was and is a systemic disparagement of government, community, faith in our institutions, family, God's creation and the mitigating institutions that put a check on something any party aligned with a religious movement should know all about: sin. Greed is not the only problem. The genius of the American system is supposedly that we have a system of checks and balances. The Republicans destroyed those checks and balances by deregulation and by trying to turn America into a defacto theocracy.
Bush felt no guilt about promoting completely unqualified people to high posts merely on the basis of social, ideological or political connections. I'll take that a step further: I don't think Bush ever wanted the government to work.
The Republicans have been trying to deconstruct our government for 40 years.
Now the national Republican leadership -- yes, that's Beck, Limbaugh, Palin -- would rather have a completely unqualified goof run than a qualified person, in other words "do" governance the way Bush did, as long as ideology is served.
As Rich writes:
Who exactly is the third-party maverick arousing such ardor? Doug Hoffman doesn't even live in the district. When he appeared before the editorial board of The Watertown Daily Times 10 days ago, he "showed no grasp" of local issues, as the subsequent editorial put it. Hoffman complained that he should have received the questions in advance -- blissfully unaware that they had been asked by the paper in an editorial on the morning of his visit.
If Republicans could feel shame there would have been a series of contrite public apologies by now for the fiasco of non-governing that typified the Bush administration. My pension, other people's pensions, our homes, jobs and economy are in chaos because of Republicans. Young Americans are dying in Iraq because of Republicans. They blew our chance in Afghanistan too. The world is a more dangerous place because of Republicans. Until President Obama was sworn in America was hated because of Republicans.
Far from saying they are sorry for the state our country is in the Republicans are now indulging in belligerent anti-Obama posturing on the one hand and a Stalinist purge of their own ranks on the other hand and a Church Lady-style sniffing out of anyone not purely crazy enough for them and sending them off to face the Palin/Beck/Limbaugh firing squad.
Why? Because the Republicans have become the party of perpetual fear of facts, fear of paradoxical dilemma and fear of truth. Fear eats her young.
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