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May 11, 2014
Abuse Misuse
Once again, former Arizona representative and gun violence victim, Gabrielle Giffords, was on Capitol Hill promoting her proposed new gun control bill. Her new scheme would bar gun possession for even a temporary domestic violence restraining order, even when the order is issued prior to any actual investigation.
"Women's lives are at stake," says Gabby Giffords (should that be Grabby Giffords?).
"'It's just common sense that someone who is the subject of a temporary restraining order shouldn't be able to buy a gun,' said [Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT, not yet rated), one of Giffords' allies]."
Who can argue with taking a gun away from a man who abuses a woman? Why, it's just common sense!
Not so fast; when a liberal says We must protect [fill-in-the-blank victim], it's time you reach for your ten-gallon bottle of grains of salt. There are a lot of flaws -- or cynical hidden agendas -- in this proposed bill, as Brian Anderson points out in his column linked above on Downtrend:
"Under this law, someone who is accused, but not convicted, loses their 2nd Amendment rights."
If a vindictive partner decides to accuse her partner of domestic violence, that alone can trigger taking his guns away, whether he's guilty or innocent.
"[W]hen police confiscate firearms, they tend not to want to give them back. Even after someone has cleared their name, they run into roadblocks in trying to regain their lawfully owned guns."
Evidently, the "solution" to a temporary restraining order -- is permanent firearms confiscation!
"When cops confiscate firearms, they don't take very good care of them."
A person with a very expensive gun collection can lose thousands of dollars due to ruined guns and lost accessories; and police have no obligation to compensate the innocent victims of wanton gun seizures.
But there is a far more sinister aspect to Giffords' proposal, one that she is careful never to mention: Who exactly does Mrs. Gifford really target when grabbing guns?
She sure as shootin' doesn't want to restrict confiscations just to convicted felons, because that's already on the books. Nor does she target only violent abusers who are placed under a permanant restraining order, because that too is already the law of the land.
As we shall see, Gabby Giffords has a slightly more expansive target of who should lose gun rights...
On Giffords' own organization's website, the Orwellian sounding Americans for Responsible Solutions, we can read her deep thoughts on guns:
The majority of mass shootings in the United States involve instances of domestic violence. Women in the United States who are targets of domestic abuse and stalking are at an increased risk of gun attacks, and are more than three-and-a-half times as likely than men to be killed by an intimate partner. A gun in a household with a history of domestic violence also increases the risk that a woman will be killed there by 20 times compared to households without guns. And compared to women in other high-income countries, women in the United States are 11 times more likely to be murdered with a gun.
Where do these statistics come from? From the clear, blue sky, evidently.
But leave that aside; consider the innocuous sounding word "household": Why did she focus on a "household" with a domestic violence history, rather than hold the individual abuser responsible for his or her own actions? She could have said, "when a domestic abuser has a gun, it increases the risk that a woman will be killed by that gun more than 20 times" or something like that (if such statistics actually existed).
Clearly, if you remove all the guns from the household, that necessarily includes removing the victim's gun along with the perpetrator's. That leaves a now disarmed woman trapped with a much larger, stronger, and more violent man, who is now enraged by having his guns seized. I'm sure Giffords knows full well that a stronger perpetrator can assault or kill a victim with other weapons or even his bare hands. The former congresswoman seems content with this outcome.
Shall we make it more explicit? Here is another section from the aptly named ARS's manifesto:
Americans for Responsible Solutions supports a range of policies that would protect women from gun violence, including:
Expanding background checks to cover gun show, internet, and other private sales;
Adding misdemeanor crimes of stalking, harassment or sexual assault to the list of persons prohibited from possessing a firearm;
Prohibiting all domestic abusers from access to guns, including dating and former dating partners; and,
Prohibiting the sale of firearms to domestic violence abusers who are under restraining orders by encouraging faster record reporting into NICS, leading to better enforcement.
"Prohibiting all domestic abusers from access to guns, including dating and former dating partners?" Wouldn't that include confiscating guns from the victim's home, even if she no longer lived with the abuser, so long as he still has a key? She would then be a "former dating partner" from whom the abuser could have "access to guns."
So unless the victim calls a locksmith to put new locks on all her doors and windows, she herself can be disarmed by the state, on the pretext of saving her from herself.
Disarming women in their own homes; that'll protect women for sure!
Never be fooled by what anti-gun zealots say; loook instead to their actions. This proposed bill was never about protecting women, else they would encourage, or at least allow, women to keep their own firearms to protect against the abuser returning with a knife, baseball bat, or a garrote. It is instead just another back door for taking guns away from law abiding citizens.
Allowing criminals to roam the streets committing crimes, with or without guns, does not threaten Democrat power; they love criminals, because they can always use them to demand more, stronger, and more intrusive government (and use 'em again to cast fraudulent votes for Democrats). But armed citizens are a terrific threat... because Democrat power depends upon making ordinary people helpless; they must beg for help from big, bigger, biggest government.
That's how the State metastasizes, like a cancer, into every last nook and cranny of what used to be the Land of Liberty.
Hatched by Sachi on this day, May 11, 2014, at the time of 12:15 AM | Comments (5)
May 1, 2014
Kindling Some Hot Fun, or How to Spark a Revolution
By now, nearly everybody has played around with "e-paper," electronic paper, as in book readers like Amazon's Kindle or Barnes & Noble's Nook. Without getting into the electronic weeds, very, very, very tiny charged beads, bubbles, or flakes -- black on one side and white on the other -- can be electromagnetically flipped or moved. Using this technique, these flips or moves can create a pattern, similar to the pixels you're looking at right now. (Only it looks a lot more like a printed book or magazine and less like a back-lit computer screen.)
The resolution isn't great, and I haven't seen any good color e-paper readers; but I'm sure high-resolution, full-color versions will be available in a few years.
Bear in mind, e-paper isn't really paper; it's just a clear material used to hold the microscopic beads in place, while still allowing you to see them. The material can be flexible and durable. At the moment, existing systems cannot change pixels as rapidly as can LEDs and other back-lit displays; but that's just an engineering detail. Fairly soon, I'm sure that ultra-fast, high-res, billion-color e-paper displays will be embedded into all kinds of products.
When that happens, I predict that manufacturers will swiftly realize the staggering potential: No longer will they have to make products (phones, toothbrushes, vases) in several different colors; customers will be able to program whatever color and pattern they choose. They can take over the creative task of "skinning," or coloring the outside, of virtually any product.
The buyer will pick up a "vanilla" phone (cell or home), for example, then program it to be Shockingly Pinko. Or Hi-Ho Silver. Or Tiger-Tiger In the Night. Easily bored or wishy-washy consumers could program their phones to change at an alarming rate, like a screensaver. It's all just electromagnetic pixels anyway! (And by that time, I'm sure the colors and images will be as vivid and smooth as the best magazine-quality ink-jets.
But wait, there's more: Why not skin a whole car? Get your Porsche SUV in any external variety you desire -- from standard colors like red or blue, to Psychedelic Joplin, to Naughty Nudies dancing across the side panels.
Cars could sport adverts, and maybe even get sponsored for a small fee. (Enough to pay for gasoline?)
But oh dear... what about the future of law enforcement? Imagine the coppers trying to track a fleeing suspect who can change his entire color scheme a hundred times a second. Ouch!
Would the police have to develop other methods of tracking a vehicle? It's likely that in the very near future, consumer products will be "tagged" by microscopic strands of DNA, making it very easy to prove who actually owns some item (and virtually impossible to crack, given the staggering number of potential DNA "codes"). Could the cops develop a method of reading such DNA tags from a distance? If so, they could track a car no matter what barrage of colors and patterns the crook uses in his getaway.
But if the police can track a criminal's car or a stolen car, what would stop them from tracking undesirables, dissidents, or critics of the government? In the technology war between tyranny and freedom, one side (aggressor or defender) is generally "up", while the other is comparatively "down." But in this case, it looks almost like a Bundy standoff.
Tim Leary once said, the only way to prevent government from discovering your secrets -- is to have no secrets. Whatever you believe, say, or do, do it upfront and unafraid, pledging your lives, your fortunes, and your sacred honor.
But be prepared to stand your ground and defend your principles; nobody rides for free.
Hatched by Dafydd on this day, May 1, 2014, at the time of 11:20 PM | Comments (3)
April 26, 2014
A Tale of Two Rants
Here is Cliven Bundy, that desert rat who proffered this allegedly "racist" screed (this is the transcript that was not luridly edited by race-baiters):
...[A]nd so what I've testified to you -- I was in the Watts riot, I seen the beginning fire and I seen that last fire. What I seen is civil disturbance. People are not happy, people are thinking they don't have their freedoms, they didn't have these things, and they didn't have them.
We've progressed quite a bit from that day until now, and we sure don't want to go back. We sure don't want the colored people to go back to that point. We sure don't want these Mexican people to go back to that point. And we can make a difference right now by taking care of some of these bureaucracies, and do it in a peaceful way....
Let me tell, talk to you about the Mexicans, and these are just things I know about the negroes. I want to tell you one more thing I know about the negro. When I go, went, go to Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, and I would see these little government houses, and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids -- and there's always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch. They didn't have nothing to do. They didn't have nothing for their kids to do. They didn't have nothing for their young girls to do.
And because they were basically on government subsidy -- so now what do they do? They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never, they never learned how to pick cotton. And I've often wondered are they were better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things? Or are they better off under government subsidy?
You know they didn't get more freedom, they got less freedom -- they got less family life, and their happiness -- you could see it in their faces -- they wasn't happy sitting on that concrete sidewalk. Down there they was probably growing their turnips -- so that's all government, that's not freedom....
Now, let me talk about the Spanish people. You know, I understand that they come over here against our Constitution and cross our borders. But they're here and they're people -- and I've worked side by side a lot of them.
Don't tell me they don't work, and don't tell me they don't pay taxes. And don't tell me they don't have better family structures than most of us white people. When you see those Mexican families, they're together, they picnic together, they're spending their time together, and I'll tell you in my way of thinking they're awful nice people. And we need to have those people join us and be with us not, not come to our party.
And here, submitted for your comparison, is the raging anger of Donald Sterling, owner of the L.A. Clippers basketball team, berating his girlfriend for embarassing him by... well, take a read:
It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people. Do you have to?...
You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that ... and not to bring them to my games....
I'm just saying, in your lousy f******* Instagrams, you don't have to have yourself with, walking with black people....
...Don't put him [Magic] on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me. And don't bring him to my games.
"One of these things is not like the other..."
Hatched by Dafydd on this day, April 26, 2014, at the time of 1:29 PM | Comments (1)
April 25, 2014
Bundy Jumpers
In this Washington Post after-action report, you must scroll all the way to the bottom of the story to uncover the original "dangerous," "extreme," "hateful," "unhinged," "appalling," "racist" remarks, which allegedly lie at the heart of Cliven Bundy's supposed racism. But I'll put them right up top, so we can read his actual words before we form an opinion based solely upon previous opinions.
In a New York Times interview (as quoted by the Post), he said:
"I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro," he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, "and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids -- and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch -- they didn't have nothing to do. They didn't have nothing for their kids to do. They didn't have nothing for their young girls to do.
"And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?" he asked. "They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I've often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn't get no more freedom. They got less freedom."
On a subsequent radio show, Bundy added:
On Peter Schiff's talk radio show, however, he stood by his remarks. "Are they happier now under this government subsidy system than they were when they were slaves, and they was able to have their family structure together, and the chickens and garden, and the people had something to do? And so, in my mind I'm wondering, are they better off being slaves, in that sense, or better off being slaves to the United States government, in the sense of the subsidies. I'm wondering. That's what. And the statement was right. I am wondering."
Cliven Bundy may be a racist; I don't know the man. But you couldn't prove it by these remarks.
Let's start with the obvious: Racism is the claim or belief that skin color is destiny. Its definition is not "rejecting affirmative action," as many on the Left clearly believe.
At the very least, racism must ascribe bad behavior primarily to a person's color. Racism is pernicious (destructive, ruinous) and perverse (wicked, contrary, the polar opposite of rightness), because -- Michael Jackson to the contrary notwithstanding -- a person cannot change his skin color; it is immutable, at least at this time. Racism thus imputes immutable characteristics to one's color: Folks with the "wrong" color skin are inferior and always will be.
Such belief by the so-called "superior" race leads to tyranny; such belief by the presumed "inferior" race leads to despair and random acts of violence.
But Cliven Bundy did not say that the problems he enumerated were caused by skin color; he ascribed the problems to social-welfare programs: "And because they were basically on government subsidy..."
But if you allow that some mutable characteristic is more important to one's destiny than skin color -- including culture, upbringing, education, religion, philosophy, entertainment, or one's own will -- then you are not a racist.
Bundy did not say color is destiny; if anything, he said a tyrannical government is to blame, with its government subsidies, government preferential treatment, government housing projects, government labor manipulation, and the destruction of an organic black culture.
Hard to disagree. I seem to remember a fellow named Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) using words of like effect.
Hard to disagree with, but easy to caricature and demagogue. Bundy is not an effective speaker, at least not on the nation's "plantation media," as I call them. He's no Phil Robertson!
Bundy garbles his terms, fails to relate his conclusions to any core principle, uses out-of-fashion words that allow the Left to seize control of his narrative, and terrifies the large portion of the country that believes guns, not people, cause murders. This doesn't mean his thoughts are wrong-headed, just that he doesn't articulate them well... like about 99% of the rest of the populace, on any side of every issue.
He likely is ill-educated in history, as when he postulates that black slaves had a stable family life, when in fact slavers could sell a husband away from his wife whenever it seemed profitable, and children could be auctioned on the block. Not every slaveholder was so callous or cruel, but the threat was omnipresent.
But instead of looking back to the nineteenth century, what if we look back to the organic black culture, black businesses, and largely intact black families of the early twentieth century, even under the Democrat leash of Jim Crow: Black culture before Lyndon Johnson's grandiose and gargantuan "Great Society" program was more robust, just, and prosperous -- and less perverse, violent, and fearful -- than today's horrors in Detroit, Chicago, Compton, Harlem, and even the nation's capital. (Score one for Moynihan.)
Clearly, that is what Bundy was getting at; and he's got a good point, despite his easily ridiculed analogy to slavery. Which raises the question: Those former supporters now "backing away" from Bundy's words... are they also backing down on their critique of government-wrought destruction and debasement of large swaths of American culture?
This is what Bundy decries, as do many other advocates, far more thoughtful, learned, compassionate, and articulate than he. Lovers of liberty cannot reject the well-sourced argument that the world-devouring federal hydra, and the rent-seeking state hyenas, are racing pell-mell to transform the United States of America into a jaded, debauched, decadent, liberal fascism in which "everything not compulsory is forbidden, and everything not forbidden is compulsory."
We cannot pretend that it isn't already happening, unevenly but relentlessly, in many parts of what used to be the land of the free. We cannot wish away the vanguard of this transformation, the leftist elites and their revolutionary foot soldiers, the "federally protected minorities" who have accepted a Faustian bargain, trading their souls for a scrap of power, and false power at that.
We can't back away from Bundy's exegesis, no matter how badly he managed to put it. For if we surrender that argument, we may as well summon up the Devil ourselves.
Hatched by Dafydd on this day, April 25, 2014, at the time of 1:48 AM | Comments (0)
February 20, 2014
The Big Mouth vs. the Stiff Upper Lip
Patterico has an interesting pair of responses (part 1, part deux) to a recent pair of Thomas Sowell columns. In Sowell's first column, he lambastes Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX, not yet ACU rated) recent antics: the anti-Obamacare filibuster and the pro-debt ceiling quasi-filibuster. But he subsequently drops the hammer on the GOP establishment as well.
Patterico, however, wholeheartedly supports Cruz against the leadership; and he takes Sowell to task for not doing the same.
At the end of Patterico's second post, he writes, "We need people like Ted Cruz." But I just can't hoist myself onto that particular bandwagon... and I may understand Sowell better than does Patterico, at least in this one particular.
What the Sowell Man seems to be saying is that Ted Cruz himself is not one of those people like Ted Cruz. Cruz, man and senator, is a grandstander, an oxygen hoarder who cares far less about the future of America and far more about the future of Ted Cruz.
I believe Sowell is saying that we need someone who is as gutsy as Cruz, but not so self-serving as Cruz... because, as Patterico, Sowell, and Big Lizards agree, the doddering, sclerotic GOP "establishment," like all establishments, is more afraid of changing (or even reexamining!) any policy that has become "precedent" than it is of losing elections. It would rather hang onto what power it has by catering to its familiar constituents than take a chance on positive change and have to accept accountability.
Note that this GOP addiction to changelessness applies even to Democrat policies like Obamacare, limitless borrowing, starving the military to gorge the welfare state, stifling inconvenient speech, capping energy production for fear of some ill-defined "climate change," and a fantasyland foreign policy that presupposes "Everybody thinks just like us!"
If we are ever to overcome the Republican bias in favor of changing only at "an orderly rate" -- that is, at glacial speeds and frequently lurching backwards in dismay -- we must have an avatar who is neither afraid of change nor addicted to change for change's sake; who is futuristic yet credible; who can inspire without becoming a demagogue.
Alas, Ted Cruz is not that avatar.
Thus, Thomas Sowell casts a plague on both their poles, the ossified establishmentarians and the narcissistic and fumble-footed radical Tea Partiers. He begs, can't we find a better savior? One who might actually get, not just headlines, but results.
Hatched by Dafydd on this day, February 20, 2014, at the time of 12:35 PM | Comments (0)
February 6, 2014
Let's Do the Time Warp Again...
This bizarre whopper from Newsmax.com goes far, far beyond a simple tyop or misunderstaking:
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus remain disappointed with President Barack Obama over his lack of assertiveness in promoting minority judicial candidates, The Hill reported....
There are those in the 43-member group who continue to believe the president has not pushed back hard enough against the Republican-controlled Senate where nominees must be confirmed.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., said he and like-minded CBC members would not allow Obama nominees waiting for Senate confirmation "to languish in some kind of a neo-conservative purgatory" without speaking out.
Exsqueeze me? When did we capture the Senate? Somehow I missed that.
In addition to the Senate still languishing under the micro-mismanagement of Majority Leader Harry "Pinky" Reid (
R D-NV, 90%), I thought Democrats had finally pulled the trigger last year on the so-called "nuclear option" to ban filibusters of Obama nominees, including federal judges. Or did I just dream that? No, for here's the last sentence in this piece:
Democrats in November voted to curb filibusters against Obama nominees.
Either somebody is stuck in the October past -- or else he's DeLoreaned himself back to the future of January, 2015!
What's even odder is that if you correct the party in charge of the Senate, then the entire article makes no sense at all; since the Senate Republicans have no veto whatsoever on confirming Obamic appointees, the fight is actually between Democrat senators -- and the Democrat president. So what's the point?
Were I the editor, I think I would just send the whole mess back to Mr. Jager with a curt note that friends don't let friends write drunk.
Hatched by Dafydd on this day, February 6, 2014, at the time of 1:42 PM | Comments (1)
January 5, 2014
Broken Clock
Barack "You can keep it" Obama is well along the path to utterly demolishing the American health-insurance system. He bulldozed a series of grotesque "reforms" through a supine Congress, market distortions that will swiftly kill all the old insurance plans Americans have used for years. He schemes to replace them with Obamacare exchanges and ultimately single-payer, government-controlled medical care. Far from ensuring against medical catastrophe, these monetary black holes will instead "spread the wealth around"... that is, suction it from the middle class and redistribute it to politicians, Progressivists, and rent-seekers.
Yet Obama has inadvertently done us a huge favor: The destruction of the American health "insurance" monstrosity will in fact usher in a new medical paradigm that is rational, workable, and fair, and a tremendous improvement over what we used to have.
Many have pointed out that what we call health "insurance" is anything but. Real insurance is like what you have on your house, a policy that pays for unexpected catastrophes: If your house catches fire, for example, the insurer pays a very substantial portion of the cost to repair or replace it.
But it doesn't pay the homeowner to repaint the house, exterminate termites, fix leaky faucets, or replace burnt-out lightbulbs. Those problems are not "damage" but maintenance or ordinary living expenses.
Similarly, your auto comprehensive and collison insurance pays for unexpected damage to your car due to an accident; but it won't give you a dime towards changing the oil, fixing the valves, or tanking up with gasoline. Again, those are considered maintenance or ordinary operation of the vehicle.
But so-called health insurance -- pre-Obamacare -- paid for many things that should have been considered either maintenance (the annual checkup) or ordinary health-care expenses (prescription drugs). Insurance is intended to be a gamble: The company bets that you will never have a catastrophic health problem, while you bet that you will, by gum. But expecting a payoff from the insurer every time you refill your prescription for Nexium or Lipitor is no gamble -- it's a regular expense.
When the health insurer must pay for regular expenses, "insurance" has instead become a pre-paid health-care plan. And naturally, the premium reflects that distinction, causing the rapid rise in health-care premiums and higher deductables: An insurance company that doesn't raise rates when consumers increase their service demands will quickly find itself out of business.
But now, with falsely so-called health insurance falling into a death spiral, due to Obamacare, the One has inadvertently brought some real light; Obama has swept away the dreck of our former health-care Ponzi scheme and cleared the decks for what we really need to replace both the old third-party system and the looming enormity of government monopoly: a doctor-patient private subscription plan.
A number of doctors, revolting against Obamacare's intent to turn doctors into government employees (as with horrific Britain's National Health Service) have already begun the transformation. Here's how it could work:
- Doctors form coalitions with other doctors and specialists, hospitals, and alternative health-care facilities such as nursing homes and outpatient care.
A consumer then buys a subscription to the coalition of his choice. He would make his choice on the basis of a particular doctor he likes, or on the facilities available, or the types of services the coalition offers. The subscription is a monthly payment the consumer makes to the coalition -- superficially resembling an insurance premium, but without the third-party middleman, the insurance company: The consumer deals directly with the coalition run by doctors.
The subscription entitles you to some treatments or consultations that require no extra fee; and for more expensive services (surgery, long-term care, access to a specialist, etc), the subscription gives the consumer substantial discounts.
Coalitions will offer many different subscriber plans, just as your cable or satellite TV over various tiers of service: The more you pay per month, the more services you get for "free" (fully covered by the subscription) and the greater the discount for services that require further payment.
- Finally, the subscriber should also buy a very low cost catastrophic care policy. This would be real, honest to goodness insurance, where the insurer only pays for serious and unexpected events, like a heart attack, cancer, or severe injury, where the medical costs are bankruptcy-threatening.
Young, healthy people would buy a minimal subscription with very low monthly payments. Older people and those with chronic problems would buy robust subscriptions with much higher monthly payments, and they would get correspondingly better discounts and more coverage. But the health-care coalitions, entirely privately run, would set the monthly payments such that they would make money either way... thus the system would be self-sustaining and require no government subsidies. The goal, of course, is to get government out of the picture to the maximum extent possible.
But what about people with pre-existing conditions?
It's bad public policy to have a batch of people who cannot get medical care because coalition subscriptions are utterly out of reach; nobody wants to see the deserving poor dying in the streets because they have medical problems. But the problem of people with pre-existing conditions could be handled by an assigned risk system randomly and evenly assigning such patients to coalitions at affordable subscription rates -- much like accident-prone drivers who get assigned to auto-insurance companies. (Though the coalition assigned-risk system is more just, since most assignees did nothing to bring on their own pre-existing conditions.)
The coalitions would be required to sell subscriptions to such patients at a loss, making it up by a small premium on everybody else's subscriptions.
Note that coalitions are not tied to employment, so changing jobs would not affect one's health care. And there would be no restriction on who could buy a subscription from whom, regardless of the state or even country in which the coalition is incorporated.
And because patients are directly paying doctors without any third-party insurer, they will have a great incentive to become prudent consumers of medical care, keeping costs down.
The more Obamacare obliterates the erstwhile health-"insurance" system, the faster will health-care providers create health-care coalitions and begin offering subscriptions. Even a broken Obamacare can have at least one good effect, however serendipitously!
Hatched by Dafydd on this day, January 5, 2014, at the time of 1:22 PM | Comments (5)
December 4, 2013
Just Checked In to See What Condition My Pre-Existing Condition Is In
I have had "pre-existing conditions" for as long as I've had my own health insurance, starting in the 1970s. They focus mainly on allergies, some serious enough to provoke anaphylaxis or an asthma attack that can, e.g., send my blood pressure plummeting or prevent me from breathing. I take expensive medicines that keep me asymptomatic, so I can hike and run and work out without worrying about dying from eating the wrong food or inhaling cat dander.
Much of the cost of those medicines is borne by my insurance companies... which they knew going in. Hence the term "pre-existing condition" (PEC).
In every instance where I have had to change insurance, whether a new group plan or buying individual coverage, I have had to go through a special process: For the first few months, my PECs aren't covered by insurance at all; then for a few months, my coverage goes through a "vesting" period, where coverage is phased in month by month. Finally, at the end of that vesting, I'm fully covered.
Note the timeframe -- from decades before Obamacare until now. Somehow, all these non-government insurers managed to cover me, PECs and all, for decades.
So it appears that, on the one issue that everyone was most worried about -- people with PECs who "couldn't get insurance>" -- we already had a model of how to handle that without utterly remaking health insurance. (What Man has done, Man can aspire to do.)
The General PEC Model is two-pronged:
- Use some kind of a vesting schedule during which insurance coverage for PECs is gradually increased until the insured has full coverage.
Now, some PECs are much more expensive for the insurance companies than others; consider somebody born with a series of medical problems that lead to many, many surgeries on the heart, liver, lungs, and so forth.
Natually, insurers would rather not cover those people; yet it would be dreadful public policy to tell everyone with a serious PEC that he should just die and reduce the surplus population. (Dickensian death panels, anyone?) Hence the second prong of the General PEC Model:
- Include an assigned risk element for the very small number of people whose PECs are serious enough that insurers are guaranteed to lose money on them that no rational premium could compensate. Each insurer must take a certain number of such assigned risks, just as they must in the realm of automobile liability insurance, for the public good.
This way, no one insurer gets hit too hard, and nobody gets to skate with only healthy people on its rolls. That's the model, and we know it works because it was already working for nearly everyone; nobody seriously disputed that the vast majority of uninsured pre-Obamacare comprised young, healthy people who could have afforded health coverage -- but rejected it. The few "uninsurables" could be absorbed by the rest without much cost; that is, after all, the basis of all insurance!
So if anyone, from Progressivist peon to President of the United States, tells you that we needed Obamacare because of the problem of pre-existing conditions... he's lying in his teeth.
Hatched by Dafydd on this day, December 4, 2013, at the time of 1:29 PM | Comments (2)
November 28, 2013
Action-Packed Replay of My Favorite Thanksgiving Annunciamento
Merry Gotdankbar to All, and to All a Gut Gotdankbar!
Eat, eat, you're skin and bones!
Hatched by Dafydd on this day, November 28, 2013, at the time of 12:00 AM | Comments (0)
November 23, 2013
Fili Mignon
So the filibuster is cooked. It's no longer rare or even medium; and since Senate Majority Leader Harry "51" Reid (D-NV, 90%) has his fingerprints all over it, it most assuredly was not well done.
But that burnt stakeholding has already been chucked into the Dempster Dumpster. The moment the cremains of the filibuster -- Supreme Court appointments, legislation -- become inconvenient for the party in power (whichever it is), it too will softly and suddenly vanish away. (Don't expect even the "stupid party" to restore the filibuster when Republicans regain the Senate; it's patently obvious what the Democrats will do when they recaptured the chamber.)
But what hasn't been discussed in all the excitement -- not even by the Democrat thuggees -- is the colossal mistake that 51 made in his rush to pack the D.C. Circuit Court (a triumph that will reverberate down the ages... or until the next few liberals retire or die). Simply put, the filibuster, in recent times, was far more potent in Democratic hands than Republicans, for several reasons:
- Democrats exercise more party discipline (not to mention Party discipline); the Left plays "follow the leader (from behind)" very well indeed: Being both unprincipled and corrupt by its very nature, the Democrat Party discourages independent, contrarian thinking; while in the GOP, it's at least tolerated, if not applauded. Thus, Democrats are better able to hold the filibuster line -- having no deeply held beliefs to get in the way of raw power.
Democrats have a simpler propaganda appeal, because they have simpletons as constituents. John Hindrocket never tires of posting the latest hysterical, paralogical, racist, bigoted, and antiAmerican "fund-raising" letters; they're about as nuanced and intellectually sound as "Jeremiad" Wright's falsetto shrieks of "God d**n America!" Or House Minority Leader Nancy "Poison Pill" Pelosi's (D-CA, 80%) pronunciamento that we must pass Obamacare to find out what's in it. Or President Barack "You can keep that plan" Obama smirking as he scratches his nose with his middle finger (profile in courage).
So long as the Dems can get their constituents to bleat "four legs good, two legs bad," they needn't answer any questions on any filibuster. By contrast, Republicans typically debate the underlying policy issue before deciding whether to support a GOP filibuster -- or crush it.
And most esoterically, a very large number of conservatives believe that use of the filibuster, to prevent an up or down vote in the Senate anent a judicial or cabinet nominee, is itself "extraconstitutional," by which they mean not quite unconstitutional but certainly violating the spirit of Article II, section 2.
I'm not saying I agree with the argument; I'm not a lawyer, and I only play one in Ruritania. But because a bunch of Republicans espouse that argument, they have a principled objection to any filibuster other than legislative... and they exercise that objection by voting to break the appointment filibuster, or at least abstaining from supporting it. (E.g., the "gang of fourteen.")
When partisans realize they're losing the war, they become desperate; desperation begets panic; panic begets mindless, ultra-short-term thinking. That is the state of the Left today: They clutch at any straw that might provide instantaneous relief, no matter how devastating it will be to the Left itself, even in the medium future.
So hold fast -- we are winning. The Obamunists' hysterical tactics plant the seeds of their own destruction, and it won't take long for those angry seeds to come to a boil.
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Re: Cockpit drains
Mine are not crossed. I have one two inch drain in each forward corner of the cockpit. They lead through a "T" to one through hull that is just below the waterline. (about four inches below the cockpit sole when level).
Your depth to drain will always be at the top of the water that you are floating in. This is where you have to trust the designer a bit. Your boat should float on its side. When the boat is on its side any water in the cockpit will go over the gunwales. (By this time it will probably have a little yellow in it (:-) .
When it's getting rough you should have the companionway doors shut to keep water out of the cabin. A full cockpit shouldn't sink you. A full cabin could. (Basic design again). You need to draw a little picture of things so that you can visualize it and you will probably be able to relax a little about it. Perhaps a photo of the stern and a level would help.
Re: Cockpit drains
As the boat heels and the outlet off the low side drain is under sealevel then the water
can flow back. Only ,if under heel, the outlet comes above sealevel the water cannot flow back. But on what boat comes the outlet above sealevel under heel??
If the outlet stays under sealevel, crossing is (in mine opinion) compleet useless.
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Can someone explain why crossed drains are still used.
Als long als the thruhull is under sealevel, it makes in mine opinion
no difference crossed or not crossed.
Not crossed has the advantage more room under the cockpitfloor
and shorter run so faster waterflow.
So what do you think?
Re: Cockpit drains
Can someone explain why crossed drains are still used.
Als long als the thruhull is under sealevel, it makes in mine opinion
no difference crossed or not crossed.
Not crossed has the advantage more room under the cockpitfloor
and shorter run so faster waterflow.
So what do you think?
Re: Cockpit drains
Many thanks for your reply. It seems we both feel the designer (back in 1964 or thereabouts) did not fit adequate drains. The first point I would like you to consider is why you quoted the flow through a drain point 20" underwater. In fact, ours are about 20" underwater, but I've always thought that was just because there is not a convenient point on the hull nearer the waterline to exit them. My point is that the distance underwater should not make any difference to the flow rate - it's the depth of water above the waterline which matters... and we have only 3" + depth of water in cockpit. Would you agree?
If so, and we are only concerned with shifting the top 2000 gallons of water in the cockpit, my feeling is that draining this to just ABOVE the waterline would be safer than installing large ports 20" down, so that there are no huge holes below the waterline, which would DEFINITELY sink the yacht fast if anything went wrong with the pipe connections at any time (yacht on mooring, owner absent for example).
So I am thinking that large horizontal pipes from just above the cockpit floor (currently 3" AWL, but 7" AWL if we raise the floor) would be the safest option for draining the "swamp-water", allowing the existing tiny drains to finish the job. I guess I would put non-return valves in the big drains, so water doesn't get pushed back in when sailing heeled, but these would have to open with only 1-2" head of water or else they would defeat their object. Or else I would fit them with on/off cocks that were in easy reach without having to open a locker, for example.
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Properly sized cockpit drains should be able to empty a swamped cockpit within one minute or less when the cockpit is full. Almost all production boats fail this, with the exception of open transom boats.
Having 2 drains feed four pipes is really pretty useless, the amount of water that can be moved is determined by the size of the opening, and the restrictions. In this case, the four pipes really just act to ensure the choke point is at the scuppers not the pipes, but so long as the scuppers are flow restricted, the system is as well.
And any reliance on draining the cockpit by way of the bilge pumps is really poor planning. In bad weather there is likely enough water coming into the hull from other things, that cockpit overflow very well may swamp the boat.
The real question is how large do the drains need to be. Without knowing the size of the cockpit, I can't begin to guess, but assume that a 1/2" scupper can move a max of around 6 gallons/minute assuming it is 20" underwater.
Keeping the same depth (20 inches under water the following are ideals)
1" = 25 gallons per minute
1.5"= 56 gallons per minute
2" = 100 gallons per minute
From this, just figure out the volume of the cockpit in cubic feet. One gallon is equal to .133 cubic foot, and figure out how many, and of what size drains you need to match that size.
Realistically most boats don't meet this requirement, but if you are doing the work, you might as well do it right. And normally there isn't a major problem increasing size by a good bit, once the drain ways have been identified.
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I know this topic has been cooled for 2 years or so, but there are still new guys like me who are coming fresh to the problem. I share a Nic 38 centre cockpit motorsailer with a friend and we are seriously worried about going blue-water without doing something about the cockpit drainage. We have (as designed) 2 x 0.5" dia skin fittings (one port, one starboard, linked to 4 x 0.5" pipes at floor level, not crossed. The floor is just about 3" above the waterline. When sailing with the drains open, we get a little water in the cockpit coming up the drains. I dread to think how long it would take to drain a cockpitful if we got a big wave on board...... though actually it would trickle/pour down into the engine space and thence to the bilge, where we could pump it out. But if we got swamped repeatedly, then the water going to bilge would win against he pumps, the waterline would go down and the drains would sink us.
So I want to put in some 2" dia drains maybe 2 each side. We cannot go to transom as there is not enough freeboard to do so. We are also thinking about raising the cockpit floor by about 4" and bringing the drains up to this height. Comments please! My buddy wants to sail to the Canary Isles from Portugal, where we are wintering, but I object until this problem is solved.
Interesting thread.
A boater at my marina nearly sank last year when his boat flooded. He was close enough to shore to be towed in and hauled out before the boat actually sank. Turned out it was a solid drain tube that cracked. This was on an older boat, maybe 30 yrs old or so. Hunter 27 I think.
I would tend to agree that some allowance for flex has to favor hoses.
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- 16 plays of 20-plus yards ranked second on the team
- Second UT running back in the last decade to notch six 100-yard rushing games in the same season
- In just his second career start, rushed for a career-high 162 yards vs. Oregon, including a 140-yard first-half effort that ranks as the seventh most by a UT running back in an opening half all-time
- Became the first individual to rush for over 100 yards against Alabama in 41 games with 117 rushing yards against the Tide, including a career-long 59-yard TD run to help put UT ahead 7-0
- In first career start, rushed for 110 yards and two TDs on 17 carries in three quarters vs. UT Martin
- First career TD came on a 24-yard breakaway to give the Vols a 20-0 lead vs. the Skyhawks
- Posted 101 yards rushing, a career-high 50 receiving yards and two total TDs at Memphis
- Used a personal-best reception of 41 yards to set up first career TD catch vs. the Tigers
- Tallied 107 yards on just 12 carries (8.9 ypc) and reached the end zone multiple times for the third straight game vs. Mississippi with TD runs of 36 and 35 yards
- Carried the ball a career-high 24 times at LSU for 109 yards and added a one-yard rushing TD
- Caught a career-high four passes for 16 yards while rushing 11 times for 40 yards in Music City Bowl vs. North Carolina
- Totaled at least three receptions four times in 2010 (UO, UF, USC, UNC)
- Registered 99 rushing yards at Vanderbilt
- Notched 59 yards on the ground vs. Kentucky and found the end zone for UT's go-ahead TD to give the Vols the lead for good, 21-14
- Plunged into the end zone on third-and-goal from two yards out at Georgia for UT's lone second-half score
- Left early with a thigh injury vs. UAB
- Games/Starts: 13/0
- Though time on offense was limited, found ways to contribute via special teams
- Still managed to total 86 rushing yards on 12 carries
- Had 62 of those yards came on five attempts in season-opener
- Season-long carry of 34 yards came against Western Kentucky
- Closed strongly as well, carrying three times for nifty 15 yards in Chick-fil-A Bowl against Virginia Tech
- Games/Starts: 12/0
- Saw majority of action on special teams and as backup tailback
- Recorded four special teams tackles
- Rushed nine times for 43 yards against UAB
- Had career-highs in attempts (11) and yards (44) against Wyoming
- Also caught his first collegiate pass in that game against the Cowboys
High School
- Enrolled at UT in January 2008 and participated in spring drills
- Twice named player of the year by various media outlets, including Anderson (S.C.) Independent-Mail in 2007
- Set school career rushing (5,519) and touchdown (79) records during four-year career
- Rushed for 5,413 of those record-setting yards during final three varsity seasons
- Finished with 2,138 rushing yards during senior campaign, 1,925 yards as junior and 1,350 rushing yards sophomore season
- Helped Stephens County to three consecutive region titles
- His high school coach, Travis Noland, previously was former Vols quarterback Jonathan Crompton's high school coach in Waynesville, N.C.
- Member of Academic All-State team
- Coach at Stephens County High School - Travis Noland
Career Highs
- Rushing Attempts - 24 vs. LSU, 10/2/10; vs. Montana, 9/3/11
- Rushing Yards - 162 vs. Oregon, 9/11/10
- Rushing TDs - 2 (3x, last vs. Middle Tennessee, 11/5/11)
- Receptions - 4 vs. North Carolina (bowl), 12/30/10
- Receiving Yards - 50 vs. Memphis, 11/6/10
- Total TDs - 2 (4x, last vs. Middle Tennessee, 11/5/11)
- All-Purpose Yards - 179 vs. Oregon, 9/11/10
- 100-Yard Rushing Games - 9 (last vs. Vanderbilt, 11/19/11)
- Full Name: Tauren Chasmaine Poole
- Born on October 19, 1989 in Toccoa, Georgia


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Michael McCarron had his eyes opened wide at last week's Canadiens development camp. On Thursday, he signed a 3-year entry-level contract with the Habs.
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The Canadiens announced Thursday morning the signing of Michael McCarron to a three-year entry-level contract, clearing the way for him to suit up next season with the Ontario Hockey League's London Knights.
From the Habs release: The Canadiens' first selection at the 2013 NHL Entry Draft, No. 25 overall, McCarron had five goals, 10 points and a plus-1 differential in 19 games with the United States National Team Development Program in 2012-13. In each of his two seasons with the USNTDP, the 6-foot-5, 228-pound winger has led his team in penalty minutes per game.
The Macomb, MI, native participated in the Canadiens' development camp from July 3-7.
Canadiens and Hamilton Bulldogs GM Marc Bergevin announced Thursday the signing of free agent forward Ben Duffy to a one-year, two-way American Hockey League / ECHL contract for the 2013-2014 season. As per club policy, financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
In 2012-2013, Duffy won the Jean Beliveau Trophy as the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League's scoring champion with 110 points. The 21-year-old also led the QMJHL in assists with 71 and finished 11th in the league in goals with 39. The Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia native also registered 215 shots, posted a +17 rating and recorded four penalty minutes in 68 regular season games for the Prince Edward Island Rockets. In six post-season games, the 5-foot-10, 175-pound forward produced four points (two goals, two assists).
In five seasons with the PEI Rocket, Duffy compiled 341 points (139 goals, 202 assists) and 18 penalty minutes in 334 regular season games and eight points (five goals, three assists) in 19 post-season games.


text: The problems with his game are all mental imo. Someone mentioned he has small hands and that is why he doesn't dunk, but I don't think Stuckey is lacking for size, strength, or even skill. But putting it all together seems to be the problem. Same problem some of us think Amir had. There was one point where we were down in the 4th, and he drives right into 2 or 3 guys, while Daye is wide open spotted up, and I think to myself, "Either he can't see him, which means his court vision is atrocious, or he refuses to see him, in which case, he's not playing smart." Either way, it's not good. The whole point of scoring a lot, and eventually drawing double teams, is not to drive into them head down, but to find the open man. And it's not like Daye is a bad shooter. This is a kid with a really nice stroke, with lots of range. Maybe Joe should be administering the Wonderlic test to these guys instead of seeing if they can jump out of the gym during workouts.


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By Chris Harris
Arsène Wenger insists that Arsenal were not adversely affected by last year's experience at Old Trafford.
The Frenchman visits Manchester United on Saturday for the first time since his team were beaten 8-2 there in August 2011 - the Club's heaviest Premier League defeat.
Arsenal recorded four wins in the six games that followed their Old Trafford loss - a sign that they quickly got it out of their systems.
"Honestly, it didn't affect us," said Wenger. "It affected maybe more our environment. You feel humiliated after the game but after that, the next game when you win, you don't focus on that.
"I think it's when you lose a big game like that in the way we did it, it is to get over the hurdle in the next three weeks. Once you've got over that... well, the mood in the camp is always a consequence of the last result."
Indeed, Wenger does not consider the 8-2 defeat his worse moment in football.
"It was not the best, that is for sure, but it is not the worst for sure," he said. "The worst is when you lose the Champions League final in the last minute of a game and that has real meaning.
"There is purely an emotional aspect in the 8-2 but there is no mathematical consequence. We lost a game that is all.
"Of course you want your fans to be proud and happy and you know that they will be hurt deeply [by a heavy defeat]. But the football aspect was easy to explain. We gave everything in Udinese three days before in 35 degrees at night and I knew that we would be dead.
"We lost vital defensive players in that game. We went out very exposed but the most important game of the week was at Udinese."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Water vapour: feedback or forcing?
Whenever three or more contrarians are gathered together, one will inevitably claim that water vapour is being unjustly neglected by 'IPCC' scientists. "Why isn't water vapour acknowledged as a greenhouse gas?", "Why does anyone even care about the other greenhouse gases since water vapour is 98% of the effect?", "Why isn't water vapour included in climate models?", "Why isn't included on the forcings bar charts?" etc. Any mainstream scientist present will trot out the standard response that water vapour is indeed an important greenhouse gas, it is included in all climate models, but it is a feedback and not a forcing. From personal experience, I am aware that these distinctions are not clear to many, and so here is a more in-depth response (see also this other attempt).
First some basics. Long-wave (or thermal) radiation is emitted from the surface of the planet and is largely absorbed in the atmosphere. Water vapour is the principle absorber of this radiation (and acknowledged as such by everybody). But exactly how important is it? In terms of mass, water vapour is much more prevalent (about 0.3% of atmospheric mass, compared to about 0.06% for CO2), and so is ~80% of all greenhouse gases by mass (~90% by volume). However, the radiative importance is less (since all molecules are not created equal). One way to quantify this is to take a radiation model and remove each long-wave absorber (principally the greenhouse gases, but also clouds and aerosols) and see what difference it makes to the amount of long-wave absorbed. This gives the minimum effect from each component. The complementary calculation, using only each particular absorber in turn, gives the maximum effect. Generally these will not be equal because of overlaps in the absorbing spectra (i.e. radiation at a particular frequency can either be absorbed by water vapour or CO2).
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SO, i won a contest at aionsource just before christmas that got me a retail EU aion key.
I am totally fine with just giving it away, however there are just 2 simple conditions.
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Lyon 0-0 ArsenalUEFA Women's Cup QF 1st Leg Stade Gerland Wed, Nov 14, 2007, 7pm CET
On Wednesday night, Arsenal Ladies came back from Lyon with a 0-0 draw in the Uefa Women's Cup Quarter-Final first leg. Not long after the full time whistle defender Alex Scott spoke to Arsenal.com about the game, the second leg and the 'World Cup effect'
What did you think of your performance against Lyon?
"We definitely had more chances in the first half. We went on to hit the woodwork and their keeper came out and missed a few chances. In the second half they were more attacking, they came at us. But we should have won it."
How strong were Lyon?
"All their front line were internationals, either for France or Brazil, so we feel we defended well because there was no doubt that we had to be on top of our game tonight. But perhaps that is the best they could play tonight."
You played at the Stade de Gerland in front of 5,000, that must have been an experience?
"Yes, they play all their European games there. It was quite a hostile crowd. There was definitely a feeling of being away from home in that atmosphere. Certain things did not go our way but we know we can regroup now for the home leg and try to be more of an attacking threat. We know we have more options up front."
Were Lyon perhaps wary of you because you won the trophy last season?
"Last year we were a bit of an unknown quantity. This year teams have raised their game quite a bit when they have played against us. Looking at it that way perhaps this was not a bad result because we can finish the job at home."
It will be a tight second leg but you have experience of that now
"We are happy to play at Boreham Wood. We were happy to play the Final there last year because we know that with our fans we can create quite a hostile environment ourselves. We have a lot of people who always come down but ever since the World Cup we have been getting really good crowds."
Is that right? Has there been a "World Cup effect". Are you being recognised?
"Yeah sometimes when we've been out with family and friends and things like that. I think that showcased our success and I think people just want to see live games in person. And there is the opportunity to come down and support the team as well of course.
"But there was no time to reflect on the World Cup though. We landed on the Sunday and on the Thursday we were playing Club football. We were straight back into it."
* The second leg will be at Boreham Wood FC next Wednesday.
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Organic Linux at the Farmers Market
Among the strawberries, nectarines, kettle corn and other fresh fruits and vegetables — and since when is kettle corn NOT a fresh vegetable? — the Felton Linux Users Group has set up a table offering Organic Software each Tuesday afternoon at the Felton Farmers Market; Linux, GNU/Linux and other Free/Open Source Software programs and information about FOSS, all with no artificial colors or preservatives, and software that's healthy for the well-being of your computer.
In the first installment of this endeavor last Tuesday, we introduced Fedora, Ubuntu and OpenSUSE to a number of people who ranged from unenlightened to Linux-curious to the most experienced. We also had on hand the OpenCD from last year's Software Freedom Day, which has Windows versions of FOSS programs on it.
Something significant occurred during the first tabling event last week: Most everyone curious enough to stop at the table knew what Linux is (one woman, an engineer for Google just over the hill in Mountain View, said that she had better know what it is. "Google . . . interesting name. What do they do?" I asked in mock curiosity). Those who were just curious — "How can software be organic?" — went away with a little more knowledge, at the very least, and some with a live CD to try out at home.
This was done a couple of times in 2008 and in 2009; in 2008 it was a lead-up to Lindependence 2008 that year in July. It seems the seeds sown in Lindependence 2008 are beginning to bear fruit.
Special thanks go to Bob Lewis for the table and for the time he spent; Frank Turner for the excellent signs, the Linux Journals and time he put in at the table; and Karsten Wade, who brought a significant amount of OpenSource.com items to help explain what it is we're all about.
If you're in Felton on Tuesday, come over to the Farmers Market at St. John's Church, which is about a mile south of the light on Highway 9 (which is all the directions you need in Felton).
(Fedora ambassador Larry Cafiero runs Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, and is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)


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German Shepherd Dog Forums (http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/)
- Training Our Puppy (basic) (http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/training-our-puppy-basic/)
- - new yound shep scared of me (http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/training-our-puppy-basic/406010-new-yound-shep-scared-me.html)
new yound shep scared of me
Hi I just adopted a Shep 3 days ago and she is scared to death. she shows no signs of aggression but wants to hide anywhere she can fit and even places she cant fit. We have her a crate and her own room and have been bringing her out for one on one time with my husband and I separate. She has started really liking my husband but is scared of me. I don't know if she was abused by a female before or not. She is a young dog approx. 5 to 6 months max. If anyone can help me on getting her to like and trust me I would appreciate it. We spoil our dogs and I want her to have the same experience our other dogs have had. I have never had a dog not like me and its breaking my heart. I don't want to scare her by pulling her to me to love on her. and Ive tried ignoring her to see if she will come out on her own. She eats and drinks fine and has good bathroom habits. please help me with ideas. I am heart broken and I don't want her to be heart broken also...:confused:
Dont force it. Let the pup learn that you are not going to hurt her. It may take some time but don't give up. Just sit on the floor in the same room with her and let her react at her own pace. Don't try to engage her, just her work herself around you. Also, you may try being the one that feeds her. Don't expect any fast response when you do feed. Just be consistent and let the bond develop between you and her on her schedule.
let the dog approach you , let the dog decide when to leave.
repeating this from another one of my posts because it shows READING the dog's comfort and discomfort signals.
How to Be More Fun, Less Annoying, and Avoid Dog Bites | Ahimsa Dog Blog
earning that love and trust -
We adopted our GSD Maddie when she was a year old. She was super shy, withdrawn and fearful. She bonded with me immediately and stuck to me like glue whenever I was home. But it took my wife months to bond with her--Maddie would shrink away, hide and avoid my wife. It took a lot of kind patience before she finally came around. But she did so eventually.
IMHO laying the proper groundwork is important. Here are a couple articles on that subject. Please note that I am just a noob who thinks he might know a few things about dogs but also recognizes his limitations and readily listens to those with more knowledge and experience.
Leerburg Dog Training | The Groundwork to Establishing Pack Structure with Adult Dogs
Leerburg | The Ground Work to becoming Your Puppy's Pack Leader
Best of luck to you and your dog,
I have bad suspicions that your pup was trained to be non-agressive by a woman trainer. She could have been adopted by family with children, and I have heard about cruelty to puppies trained either by breeders, or those who bought them to train in order to resell already trained. I have no idea, what they can do to puppies, but young dogs are scared to walk not any stairs, but stairs of the house, not afraid to ride elevators, but scared to go into the car boot, not scared of big bulky and loud men, but scared of seemingly gentle, short and slim...It cannot possibly be genetic.
I'd advice you to pay attention to the sound of your voice first of all, whether you are talking to your pup, or to your husband. Make it sweet. It can help, if you, together with your husband, take your puppy into your bed with you for 30 minutes before you crate her, let your husband to lift her. Play a game with her normally played with kittens - a feather on a thick woolen thread in sitting position. Smell for her nicely, rub your ankles and forearms with Essential oils for dogs | Essential Animals. I don't want to give you the same advices as other members of this Forum already gave you. It will take time for her to gain courage.
Lots of reasonable advice so far......patience is the key.
I'm sure you have tried getting down on the floor with her and seeing her at her level....if not that might help. But no need to push what can't be forced, in this particular situation.
Perhaps as a previous poster mentioned about a "women trainer....." .....could be... and as the old saying goes " H.e.l.l. hath no fury like a woman scorned."....There is nothing as unpleasant as a woman who has been offended or whose love has not been returned. Might be something similar in a dog's world.
I'm willing to bet you however, even though you state it's breaking your heart...when ( not if ) you do win her confidence and attention....your heart will be many times happier than you can imagine.
Hang in there, she'll figure out you mean no harm and a human worth liking.
All good responses. Nothing I can really add other than we rescued a Husky and her reaction to me and men in general was very similar to what your describing. On top of that she would not walk through a doorway, any doorway. What made it even worse is my wife is disabled and couldn't pick up a 65 lb husky.
My only interaction with the poor dog for the first month or more was to pick her up to carry through something she was already afraid of.... I tried to just ignore her and let her come to me. When my wife wasn't looking (just kidding) I would toss her some treats. A piece cheese, a little meatball of raw hamburger, etc. when we were in the kitchen preparing food.
My voice can be a little deep and I really had to be conscious of my tone. Over time she learned to trust me and eventually I could do almost anything with her. It took a lot of time but she ended up overcoming a lot of her fears. We had her nearly 16 years, she was a sweat and loving dog.
In short, hang in there, don't try so hard and she will come around.
It took about 2 days for Penny to take to me. My first reaction when I brought her home was, "oh god she hates me" haha
I agree with those saying not to push it, let her come to you. I would maybe try just quietly being around her, but kind of ignore her for a bit (unless she seeks you out).
I think the idea to be the one to feed her is good, and as soon as she will permit (without scaring her) maybe you can be the one to walk her, train her etc at least for the first bit, so that all the good things come from you. Also if/when she does let you pet her, don't pet her from over top of her head, but keep your hand lower and maybe start at her cheek or shoulder or something, so you aren't reaching over her, if that makes sense? I would keep a more neutral body position, turn your body to the side and don't stare her in the eyes, or loom over her.
She might have been mishandled by a female, but she's young, so she will hopefully come around before too long.
Don't lose heart :)
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Green Bay Women's Tennis Falls to Cleveland State 6-1
CLEVELAND, Ohio (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - The Green Bay women's tennis team opened its four-match Horizon League road trip on Friday with a 6-1 loss to Cleveland State at the Malaga Tennis Center. The Phoenix dropped to 2-10 (1-3 Horizon League) with the loss, while the Vikings improved to 11-7 (3-0 Horizon League) and extended its win streak to four straight.
Cleveland State opened the match by sweeping the doubles point before earning wins in five of the six singles contests to remain unbeaten in conference play.
Junior Maria Anderson (Marshfield, Wis.) earned the lone victory for the Phoenix on Friday, coming from behind to beat Cleveland State's Alexandra Bush at the No. 4 singles spot. After dropping the opening set to Bush by a score of 6-1, Anderson rallied to pick up 7-5 and 10-5 wins in sets two and three to complete the comeback.
Green Bay is back in action on Saturday with a 5 p.m. contest at Youngstown State.
Cleveland State 6, Green Bay
No. 1 - Catrine Bjerrehus/Maria Lazaris (CSU) def. Rebecca Nelson/Jennifer Bradfield (GB) 8-4
No. 2 - Alexandra Bush/Alex Power (CSU) def. Morgan Weuve/Amanda Timm (GB) 8-1
No. 3 - Nicole Janek/Kara Sherwood (CSU) def. Maria Anderson/Samantha Iwen (GB) 8-0
No. 1. - Catrine Bjerrehus (CSU) def. Jennifer Bradfield (GB) 6-1, 6-0
No. 2 - Maria Lazaris (CSU) def. Morgan Weuve (GB) 6-2, 6-2
No. 3 - Kara Sherwood (CSU) def. Amanda Timm (GB) 6-1, 6-2
No. 4 - Maria Anderson (GB) def. Alexandra Bush (CSU) 1-6, 7-5, 10-5
No. 5 - Nicole Janek (CSU) def. Rebecca Nelson (GB) 6-3, 6-2
No. 6 - Alex Power (CSU) def. Samantha Iwen (GB) 6-1, 6-0
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My waders are shot, no idea how they get a leak in the crotch but they are done. To this point I wave always used neoprene boot waders. The problem is I'm kind of between sizes, the larger size the boots pull off my foot in thick mud, the smaller size is tight so I have problems getting them on and off. I've never used the sock fit waders and some guys I see do. Are they as warm as the boot foot ones? I do some free roam hunting so my feet are in water all day, they have never been cold in the boot fit waders. Thanks for any advice


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Hi, just got a job teaching at a middle school in Xinjiang, this will be my first ESL job. The contract I signed does not include health insurance, though Im told the school will cover treatment for low-level accidental injuries, (broken bones, etc). Can anyone recommend an affordable (I'm thinking under US$ 800 annual premium) plan or provider?
I just need a basic, bare-bones plan with emergency hospitalization, evac, and that kind of thing - so far the cheapest instant quotes I found online were about USD 900 -1000 with a USD 500 -1000 deductible, and I'm running short of cash with the outlay for airfare etc. Alternatively, what are the opinions about just going without insurance altogether? I'm sure it's fine - as long as one doesn't get seriously ill. (!)