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Free Money for Teens–The Illinois Commission on Diversity and Human Relations is giving students, ages 12-16 years, a $40 savings account to jump-start their future savings. It's all taking place Saturday at Fenger Academy high school, 11250 S
Free Money for Teens–The Illinois Commission on Diversity and Human Relations is giving students, ages 12-16 years, a $40 savings account to jump-start their future savings. It's all taking place Saturday, Sept. 20, at Fenger Academy high school, 11250 S. Wallace, beginning at 9 a.m. Registration closed earlier this week, but there are a few spots left. Participating banks include National City, Washington Mutual (WaMu), Harris, Charter One and TCF. A parent must accompany each student. To get on board, hurry and call Kandias Conda at (773) 495-5585. Good luck! Attn: Jazz Junkies!–The Hyde Park Jazz Society welcomes vocalist Everett Greene to the CheckerJazz stage at the Checkerboard Lounge, 5201 S. Harper (northeast corner of Harper Court) on Sunday, Sept. 21, at 7:30 p.m.– 11:30 p.m. Admission: only $10; $5 for students over 21 with college/university IDs.
A favorite of many Chicagoans, the Indianapolis resident "has a voice that sounds like it was dipped in hot fudge–a kind of cross between Joe Williams and Arthur Prysock," so say critics in the know. He has worked with such greats as Junior Mance and Gerald Wiggins, Groove Holmes, Melvin Rhyne, Houston Person, Lou Donaldson and David "Fathead" Newman. Remember, you can bring your dinner if you wish, have a great evening of jazz and still be home at a "respectable" hour. Come for one set or stay for the evening–all for one price. Anniversary Affair–Christian Fields Style Bar, 6550 S. Cottage Grove, celebrates its first year anniversary, "The Carnivale," on Saturday night, Sept. 20, at its Woodlawn facility, showing appreciation to its customers, clients and the media "who have made it all possible." "On Air"– CBS 2 Chicago will broadcast live for the very first time from its new, state-of-the-art building on Sunday, Sept. 21, at 10 p.m. Located in the heart of Chicago at 22 W. Washington (at Dearborn), the CBS 2 Broadcast Center is an all-digital, high-definition facility that faces Daley Plaza and the iconic Picasso statue in Chicago's Loop. "This is the first television station in Chicago that has been designed and built from the ground up as a high-definition facility," says Joe Ahern, president and general manager. "The new building is a centerpiece for information and community service. Our street-front presence allows us to interact with the public like never before and to provide our neighbors with breaking news, weather, sports scores and more." The facility features a street-level, glass-walled news studio, as well as an anchor desk and interview set which look out onto Daley Plaza. A 19-feet high video wall on the outside of the building serves as an information resource for the thousands of pedestrians who pass through the area each day. The video wall features CBS Outdoor 10mm video imagery, providing the highest resolution in an outdoor environment. It will be programmed with all local and national newscasts, syndicated programs like The Rachael Ray Show and Dr. Phil, sports and special events. The video wall will also be a source for breaking news, weather and for live coverage of major events on Daley Plaza. The building will also serve as the new home of the CBS Network News Chicago Bureau.
In celebration of the new CBS 2 Broadcast Center, the station will broadcast a series of special programs and news stories. A historical retrospective celebrating the past, present and future of CBS 2 will air at 6 a.m., 1 p.m. and 10:35 p.m. as the station closes its historic building on McClurg Ct. A live report from the new space during the 10 p.m. newscast will bring viewers inside the building for a behind-the-scenes look. Heart of Chicago will examine the history of Block 37, feature an interview with Mayor Daley, and highlight the Chicago Loop and the station's new location surrounded by businesses, government, theaters, parks and shopping. The program will look back at some of the most significant news stories and events of the last 50 years, including the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debate, the first televised presidential debate, which originated from the McClurg Ct. studios. Tune in! Write On!–Omar Tyree, the New York Times' best-selling author, comes this way Saturday, Sept. 20, as the special guest for the Authors and Artists' Chicago Book Fair, themed "The Last Chapter: Exploring the Endless Possibilities of Literature and Culture." Sponsored by 220 Communications, it will be held at Columbia College, 623 S. Wabash, from 1 p.m.–6 p.m. Admission: $10, which includes a raffle ticket for a trip to Las Vegas, panel discussions and prize giveaways totaling $1,000. A portion of the proceeds will benefit The Urban Literacy Project, says Glenn Murray, coordinator. Besides Tyree, some 20 other writers, artists, filmmakers will be on hand. For more details, call (886) 533-9884 or visit http://www.authorsandartistslive.com. The Grand Ballroom of Four Seasons Hotel will take on a circus atmosphere when Friends of La Rabida Children's Hospital hosts its annual fundraiser on Friday honoring Merri Dee, WGN-TV's retiring community relations director and its Children's Charities' manager. The Big Top Ball committee is co-chaired by Joli Burrell and Bob Arthur, and since the mid-80s, the group has raised millions of dollars for various clinics and service programs at La Rabida, the only hospital in the country solely dedicated to children with lifelong medical conditions or who have suffered abuse and neglect. Located on the southern shores of Lake Michigan (at 65th St.), La Rabida has been caring for children for 112 years, regardless of their ability to pay.
Proceeds from the black tie dinner will support the Joli Burrell Children's Advocacy Centers (in Chicago and Park Forest), which serve kids with traumatic experiences, such as sexual abuse, physical abuse, burns, witnessing family violence and violent crimes. Among planning committee members: Linda Johnson Rice, Diane Dinkins Carr, Lyle Logan, Heather Morris, Jacqueline N'Namdi, Regina Daniels and lots of others. ABC 7's Cheryl Burton is emcee; actor author Steve Schrirripa is host. The evening kicks off with cocktails at 7 p.m. Individual $500 tickets can be reserved by calling La-Verne Mathews, (773) 753-9602.
Newsy Names–"Highly hilarious" and "scrumptiously unscripted" is how Yvette Moyo describes Real Men Charities' second annual Roast & Toast on Dec. 13 at South Shore Cultural Center, celebrating state Senate President Emil Jones, soon to be retired.
Cong. Danny Davis (7th), Ill. Commerce Commissioner Lula Ford, Judge E. Kenneth Wright, Dr. Herbert C. Harris, Dr. Lewis Baskins, Atty. Thomas Vaughn and ShoreBank's Robert Nash receive "Distinguished Alumni" honors from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff's Chicago Chapter at its Black Gold Scholarship Dinner-Dance on Sept. 27 at Chateau Bu-Sche (location changed from Harambee House). Spear heads: Bobbie Dixon Heard, chair; Doris Odem, president. For tickets, call (312) 842- 4974.
Hosea Sanders, ABC 7's early morning (5-7 a.m.) news anchor, is MIA (missing in action), recovering for four-six weeks from hip replacement surgery. Ouch!
Happy b'day to Marcus Alston (Danielle Ashley Communications), Monique Young (Defender layout artist), Ron Childs (Flowers Communications) and Valinda Jones (Sixth Grace Presbyterian Church).
Nemi Johnson is recovering from surgery at Warren-Barr Pavilion.
Makin' History–Eartha Kitt, 81, (born Eartha Mae Keith in North, S.C.), an international show-biz legend indeed (stage, screen and recordings), will be saluted by Julieanna Richardson and The HistoryMakers on Saturday with a PBS-TV special, An Evening with Eartha Kitt, to air in February '09. The interview and performance (Kitt will sing several of her signature hits) will be videotaped before a live audience at Northwestern U's Thorne Auditorium. Washington Week's award-winning correspondent Gwen Ifill will conduct the interview and host the career retrospective; Merri Dee will emcee. The HistoryMakers, a national non-profit, is the world's largest African American archival collection.
A performer in the truest sense of the word, Kitt's career has spanned over six decades. She's an author, two-time Daytime Emmy winner who's raised over a million dollars to benefit African American schools and frequently gives benefit performances for HIV/AIDS organizations. In 1968, you remember, she encountered a professional setback when she made anti-war remarks at a White House luncheon, reportedly causing first lady Lady Bird Johnson to cry. Just last year, Kitt co-starred in an independent film, And Then Came Love, with Vanessa Williams and Ben Vereen. An Evening With Eartha Kitt is the 14th program in The HistoryMakers' PBS-TV series, which so far has raised in excess of $7 million for the development of the priceless archive. Support for Saturday's event has come from McDonalds, Discover Financial Services, Coca-Cola, Aon, Best Portion Foundation, Allstate, Verizon, Walgreens, ITW, American Airlines, Chicago Tribune, Sprint and Palmer House Hilton. Call (312) 674-1900.
TV-OP Fest–Milana L. Walter, former NBC 5 exec, is the brains behind TV-OP 2008 International Television Festival this Friday and Saturday at Columbia College Chicago's Film Row, 1104 S. Wabash. The second annual two-day event, "Creating Program Diversity and Career Opportunities in TV and Broadband Programming," will focus on opening doors of opportunity for professionals of color and women in the powerful medium of television, Walter says. "The only one of its kind, it was created to advocate diversity in front of and behind the cameras, and connect entrepreneurial creators of viable, entertaining productions with global companies in need of quality content." Newly christened TV-OP, the fest follows the successful soft introduction in 2007 at the Black Harvest Film Festival. Nielsen Media Research and TV One have returned to join Columbia College as the presenting sponsors of this effort to expose talented producers with their multicultural stories and varied viewpoints to key industry decision-makers. In 2007, the festival awarded Joseph L. Lewis ll and Eugene Haynes, co-creators of the animated pilot, The Adventures of Teddy P. Brains, an all-expense-paid trip to TV One headquarters to meet and pitch their executives. It also honored Emmy winner, Barbara E. Allen, with the first Chicago TV Excellence Award for her work on Paper Trail: 100 Years of The Chicago Defender, and featured panel discussions and presentations by top execs such as Johnathan Rodgers, TV One's CEO; Bruce DuMont, Museum of Broadcast Communications' president; Ken Smikle, Target Market News' president; Jenny Alonzo, Lifetime Entertainment's former SVP.
Amy Hilliard, Brenda Sexton and Abe Thompson co-chair Saturday's Awards Ceremony, which will induct Nat King Cole in TV-OP's Hall of Fame for his groundbreaking television show that ran for 64 consecutive episodes, 1956-1957. His twin daughters, Timolin and Casey, co-founders of the Nat King Cole Generation of Hope Foundation Inc., will accept the award. Also honored: creators of multicultural TV productions, including vintage TV and reality shows, plus comedy, drama, animation and documentaries. For tickets to the fest and info on the extensive, jam-packed schedule, visit www.tv-opfestival.com or call (312) 588-1500.
Breakfast Bonus–ESPN columnist-commentator Scoop Jackson addresses the 111th Man-Boy Breakfast hosted by Concerned Christian Men on Saturday at Simeon Career Academy and Prof. James Wilson "unlocks the secrets to success in math." Spirited sports competition is on the agenda, and always welcome at this monthly tradition are men 18 and over ($5 donation) and young men 6-17 (free). Call George Glenn, CCM founder, (773) 401-0025; email firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.concerned christianmen.org. CCM is celebrating 13 years serving African American youngsters.
Mardi Gras Fun–Wear a colorful mask and join ComEd's Angel Perez and Citizen Group's Bill Garth on Friday at Chatham Business Association's Annual Awards Gala & Mardi Gras Celebration at the Holiday Inn Mart Plaza. Other hosts include Joseph Caldwell, Dr. Felicia Blasingame, Leonard Harris and Monica Thomas. Call (773) 994-5006.
On Air–Paul Lisnek, Comcast CN 100 anchor, has joined WVON's weekend lineup as host of his self-titled radio show that airs Sundays, 4-5 p.m., live on 1690 AM and streamed live on WVON.com, says Melody Spann-Cooper, president/GM. Lisnek also hosts Political Update on CN 100 (The Comcast Network), anchors Newsmakers on CNN Headline News, serves as a political analyst for WGN-TV and his analysis, and commentary has been heard on NBC's Today Show and CNN's Anderson Cooper 360. For some, he's been a regular guest on radio icon Cliff Kelley's show, discussing all things politics, law, entertainment and current events.
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To recognize the first 25 years of the label, Def Jam Records has released this huge coffee table style book that celebrates the artists and personalities that helped take Def Jam from a scrappy young label that focused on getting the fresh new sound of hip hop on record to a bonafide pop culture icon. With photographs from across the labels first quarter century and essays from its founders, artists, and top executives, Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label chronicles all that has made the label what it is today and walks those of us who grew into adulthood alongside Def Jam down a beautifully constructed rap music memory lane.
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ORLANDO, FL -- (Marketwire) -- 11/09/12 -- Government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continue to play a crucial role in the secondary mortgage market and remain focused on supporting the ongoing housing market recovery while laying the groundwork for a better future housing finance system.
Realtors® and attendees at the Regulatory Issues Forum - Housing Finance Today and Tomorrow session today during the 2012 Realtors® Conference and Expo gained insights into today's secondary mortgage market and the future of housing finance in the U.S.
"Fannie Mae has been a leading source of liquidity since the start of the economic crisis and we are working hard to support the ongoing housing market recovery," said Timothy J. Mayopoulos, president and chief executive officer of Fannie Mae. He said Fannie's priorities are to fund the mortgage market, help troubled borrowers, and build a strong book of business to return taxpayers' investment in the company.
Mayopoulos said Fannie is now managed in the overall interest of taxpayers and no longer for the benefit of private shareholders. He said its financial condition has improved significantly; they currently have a strong book of business and have already paid $28 billion in dividends to the Treasury Department.
Mayopoulos said Fannie remains dedicated to ensuring qualified homebuyers have access to affordable mortgage capital and helping troubled borrowers stay in their homes through loan modifications and refinancings and avoid foreclosure; this supports neighborhoods, the housing market and home prices. He said the organization seeks to have servicers intervene earlier and to offer borrowers alternatives to foreclosure that require less documentation and easier implementation. Efforts have also been made to streamline short sale transactions and speed response and approval timelines.
While Fannie and Freddie played a key role during the housing downturn and continue to provide critical market liquidity, Mayopoulos said the extent of the GSEs' participation in housing finance must decrease if the market is to function properly.
"We've taken steps to attract more private capital to the market, but private capital is opportunistic and leans in when things are good and out when things are bad," said Mayopoulos. "There remains little evidence of substantial private capital ready to meet market need, and we continue to be concerned about market capacity."
He said lenders are reluctant to extend credit because of repurchase risks, regulatory concerns and lack of underwriting capacity. The industry must address these issues and Fannie will continue to try to do their part.
Wanda DeLeo, deputy director at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which has held Fannie and Freddie in conservatorship since 2008, agreed that the GSEs must reduce their footprint in the mortgage market. She said that since being placed into conservatorship, the GSEs have twice raised guarantee fees, which they believe is helping reduce taxpayers' risk from the financial support they provide the GSEs and will move their pricing closer to what it would be if mortgage credit risk was borne solely by private capital. DeLeo said this could also incentivize private capital to increase participation in the mortgage market.
"In the four years since FHFA established conservatorship of Fannie and Freddie, we have made significant strides toward maintaining a housing market recovery, keeping individuals in their homes, and correcting the issues that led to the enterprises being placed into conservatorship," said DeLeo.
FHFA recently released a whitepaper outlining a series of strategies and initiatives that it hopes will improve mortgage processes, encourage greater private market participation, and lay the foundation for a post-conservatorship housing finance market.
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Firefighters from Enoree and surrounding areas were busy Monday fighting two separate blazes that destroyed mobile homes and injured a resident.
Firefighters from Enoree and surrounding areas were busy Monday fighting two separate blazes that destroyed mobile homes and injured a resident.
Enoree Fire Department Chief Joey Hines said his department was called to a mobile home fire at 4:08 a.m. on Kilgore Bridge Road. Woodruff and Hobbysville fire departments also responded.
Investigators say an electrical problem sparked the early morning blaze. A man was injured as he pulled his three children from the burning mobile home. One of the children is disabled, Hines said. The man's wife was not injured, but he received burns on his hands and arms.
He was first taken to Spartanburg Regional Medical Center and then flown to the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta, Ga., Hines said.
The Red Cross is assisting the family.
The second fire was reported about 3 p.m. on Railroad Street. Enoree firefighters were assisted by Hobbysville and Woodruff, and Youngs and Sandy Springs fire departments in Laurens County.
A man renovating a mobile home told firefighters that he had propped a piece of Sheetrock against a wall and gone next door to speak to a neighbor. The man said the Sheetrock might have fallen on a kerosene heater inside the mobile home and started the blaze. When firefighters arrived, flames were coming out of the windows of the home, Hines said, and smoke could be seen 1.5 to 2 miles away.
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The following people were arrested on felony charges by law enforcement agencies in Davidson County, and, unless noted otherwise, were either placed in the Davidson County Detention Center or released from custody and are scheduled to appear in Lexington District Court on the date given:
• Nate Dwayne Long, 17, of 109 N. Fisher St., Burlington, was charged with two counts of felony breaking and entering of a motor vehicle, $5,000 secured bond, April 1.
• Rodney Ford Duke, 35, of 14 College St., Thomasville, was charged with felony possession with intent to sell and deliver methamphetamine, felony possession of methamphetamine, felony maintaining a vehicle/dwelling/place for controlled substance, carrying a concealed weapon, simple possession of a schedule VI controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia, $50,000 secured bond, March 27, Thomasville.
• Jason Edward Mishoe, 27, of 284 Ashbury Drive, Thomasville, was charged with felony aid and abet breaking and entering, $2,000 secured bond, April 1.
• Alicia Marie Avila, 28, of 1498 Holly Grove Road, was charged with felony breaking and entering and felony larceny after breaking and entering, $2,000 secured bond, April 1.
The following larcenies more than $1,000 were reported to the Davidson County Sheriff's Office and the Lexington Police Department:
• Two door handles, dishwasher, dryer, washer, bedroom suite, two mirrors, medicine cabinet, three glass light covers, water heater, front porch, three floor vents and molding valued at $5,525 were reported stolen from a home on Christmas Lane between Feb. 5 and 9:54 a.m. Wednesday.
• A vacuum cleaner, metal safe, wiring and copper tubing valued at $1,000 were reported stolen from a home on Pond Street between 11 a.m. Feb. 6 and 11:37 p.m. Wednesday.
• A GMC Penske truck valued at $25,000 was reported stolen from a service station on North Main Street between Dec. 13, 2012, and 3:18 p.m. Monday.
• Jewelry and 10 milligrams of methadone valued at $2,410 were reported stolen from a home on Burkhart Road between Feb. 12 and 1:50 p.m. Thursday.


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Monday, April 12, 2010
Writing the Word on the Tablet of Your Heart
One of the best things that happened to me as a new believer was being told that all Christians memorize Scripture. By the time I found out that not all of them do, I was already hooked. Now, as I look back, I can truthfully say that nothing compares with the excitement of memorizing Scripture. Charles Swindoll summed up my sentiments in this regard when he wrote:
I know of no other single practice in the Christian life more rewarding, practically speaking, than memorizing Scripture. That's right. No other single discipline is more useful and rewarding than this. No other single exercise pays greater spiritual dividends! Your prayer life will be strengthened. Your witnessing will be sharper and much more effective. Your counseling will be in demand. Your attitudes and outlook will begin to change. Your mind will become alert and observant. Your confidence and assurance will be enhanced. Your faith will be solidified. (Charles R. Swindoll, Seasons of Life [Portland, OR: Multnomah Press, 1983], 53, emphasis in original)
Despite such marvelous benefits, far too few Christians have made Scripture memorization a lifestyle. For the most part, it is not because they don't want to, but because they have never been taught how to. While they may think they have bad memories, the reality is they simply have untrained memories.
I am convinced that anyone, regardless of age or acumen, can memorize Scripture. God has called us to write His Word upon the tablet of our hearts (Proverbs 7:1-3; cf. Deuteronomy 6:6), and with the call He has also provided the ability to do so. Your mind is like a muscle. If you exercise it, you will increase its capacity to remember and recall information. If you don't, it will atrophy. Here are a few practical tips to get you started:
• Set goals. He who aims at nothing invariably hits it.
• Make goals attainable. If your goals are unrealistic, you will undoubtedly become discouraged and give up.
• Memorize with a family member or friend. One of my treasured experiences was swinging back and forth on a hammock, memorizing Proverbs 2 with one of my children. Memorizing with someone else is enjoyable and will also make you accountable.
• Use normally unproductive time to review what you have memorized, such as while waiting in lines, or falling asleep. Remember, there's no time like the present to get started! A good place to begin is Psalm 119. In fact, committing verse 11 of that passage—"I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you"—to memory may well encourage you to make Scripture memorization part of your lifestyle.
While you're at it, you may also wish to consider memorizing Joshua 1:8. These wonderful words remind us that memorization facilitates meditation: "Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful." If you want the formula for genuine prosperity, there it is!
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Hank, your last paragraph is almost verbatim what Pastor Ken Hagin said at my church earlier this month. My Father-in-law called it malarkey as he was holding your book in his hands.
- April 14, 2010 at 11:32 AM
- Boris said...
Here is a short (and very incomplete) list of all the ways that science already has tested the supernatural assertions of faith:
* The earth was suddenly created, complete with all its species, 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. This was falsified by science. The falsification likewise goes for other religions' creation myths, like those of Hindus and the Inuits.
* God put the earth at the center of the solar system and the universe. Also falsified.
* God is both omnipotent and benevolent. Falsified by the data.
* All humans descend from Adam and Eve, who also lived a few thousand years ago. Falsified by genetic data.
* Praying for sick people makes them better. Falsified by the intercessory prayer study.
* People who lived in the past can be reincarnated as modern people, complete with their earlier memories. Investigation has shown no evidence for this.
* Jonah was swallowed and regurgitated by a giant fish (or whale). Probably impossible; nobody has survived such an occurrence.
* God confounded all the languages at once at the Tower of Babel. False: languages diverged gradually from common ancestors.
* Tribes colonized North America from the Tower of Babel several thousand years ago. (Book of Mormon). No evidence.
* Faith by itself can cure dire diseases and medical conditions, which result not from organic conditions but from imperfect belief. (Christian Science). No evidence for such faith healing.
* U.S. soldiers will return to South Pacific islands bearing wonderful goods for the inhabitants. False: won't happen.
- April 14, 2010 at 12:56 PM
Boris said: Jonah was swallowed and regurgitated by a giant fish (or whale). Probably impossible; nobody has survived such an occurrence.
Boris, check out James Bartley. I know what you'll say though, "He just made the story up because of his weird color of skin blah blah blah..."
- April 14, 2010 at 2:10 PM
- Boris said...
I doubt there was even a James Bartley to make up the story. The whole story is a fiction. It's a Christian urban legend. Henry Morris said the story was true so we know it isn't.
- April 15, 2010 at 2:58 AM
Boris, that list you made is silly. Some of what you have can be verified by scientific evidence. I do not see why you even bring reincarnation into the equation as Christians do not believe in such non-sense.
* God put the earth at the center of the solar system and the universe. Also falsified. TRUE, BY Nicolaus Copernicus. HE BELIEVED IN GOD BY THE WAY. RECALL WHEN I WAS SAYING SCIENCE CAME OUT OF CHRISTIANITY.
* The earth was suddenly created, complete with all its species, 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. This was falsified by science. The falsification likewise goes for other religions' creation myths, like those of Hindus and the Inuits. SCIENCE CAN PROVE THIS. THERMODYNAMICS CAN NOT ALLOW FOR AN OLD EARTH. DID YOU KNOW URANUS HAS A HOT CORE. IF THE UNIVERSE WAS THAT OLD, THE CORE WOULD BE DEAD AND MERCURY WOULD HAVE NO QUAKES. I LOVE SCIENCE.
* God is both omnipotent and benevolent. Falsified by the data. WHAT DATA? YOURS? MY BIBLE TELLS ME OTHERWISE.
* Faith by itself can cure dire diseases and medical conditions, which result not from organic conditions but from imperfect belief. (Christian Science). No evidence for such faith healing. AS A CHRISTIAN I DO NOT FOLLOW FAITH HEALERS. THEY PRACTICE COUNTERFEIT CHRISTIANITY. IT IS SAD TO SEE THIS JUNK ON TV.
* Tribes colonized North America from the Tower of Babel several thousand years ago. (Book of Mormon). No evidence. WAIT, MORMONS ARE NOT CHRISTIANS. THERE IS NO HISTORICAL EVIDENCE FOR THAT SO I TEND TO AGREE.
* God confounded all the languages at once at the Tower of Babel. False: languages diverged gradually from common ancestors. THE EVENT PROBABLY TOOK TIME. WHEN MAN SCATTERED FROM THE TOWER, THE DIVERGENCE CHANGED THE LANGUAGES AND CREATED NEW CULTURES.
* Jonah was swallowed and regurgitated by a giant fish (or whale). Probably impossible; nobody has survived such an occurrence. JUST BECAUSE THERE IS NO CURRENT EVIDENCE FOR THAT DOES NOT MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE. IN WWII A MAN FELL OUT OF A PLANE AND SURVIVED. LOOK IT UP.
* Praying for sick people makes them better. Falsified by the intercessory prayer study. GOD DOES NOT ALWAYS SAY YES TO PRAYERS. I KNOW THIS.
* All humans descend from Adam and Eve, who also lived a few thousand years ago. Falsified by genetic data. NOT REALLY. GO BACK FAR ENOUGH AND WE CAN TRACE HUMANITY TO THESE TWO. WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR DATA FROM?
* U.S. soldiers will return to South Pacific islands bearing wonderful goods for the inhabitants. False: won't happen. ??? I DON'T GET THAT ONE.
- April 17, 2010 at 6:30 AM
Amen! I love what Paul Washer says, "Sometimes God loves you too much to give you what you've been praying for."
- April 17, 2010 at 9:29 PM
- Boris said...
Boris, that list you made is silly. Some of what you have can be verified by scientific evidence. I do not see why you even bring reincarnation into the equation as Christians do not believe in such non-sense.
Boris says: Oh please, you most certainly do. You believe you'll be reincarnated in some kind of incorruptible body and live forever and ever in a magic happy land. You can change the terminology and distort the language to attempt to hide the absurdity of your beliefs but Christians do indeed believe in such nonsense as reincarnation. "To the scientific rationalist, there is no distinction between believing in leprechauns, alien abductions, ESP, reincarnation or the existence of God – each equally lacks objective evidence… separating out the latter two beliefs and labeling them as religion – thereby exempting them from critical analysis – is intellectually dishonest… [Indeed] the most widespread and sacredly guarded superstitions [are] the most important ones to oppose, for they have the greatest influence and therefore do the most harm." – David Bloomberg
TRUE, BY Nicolaus Copernicus. HE BELIEVED IN GOD BY THE WAY. RECALL WHEN I WAS SAYING SCIENCE CAME OUT OF CHRISTIANITY.
Boris says: Yes and you recall when I proved that claim was an outright lie. That's the problem with you armor-headed Bible thumpers. You ignore clear refutations of your claims and instead go right on making the same false claims and telling the same exact lies as if no objections to your claims had ever been raised. First you must respond to the refutations of your claims before you can go making them. Otherwise everything you say is just mindless drivel and religious yammering. I already proved what a shameless liar you are. Copernicus had concluded by 1500 A.D. that that the sun is the center of the solar system, but he kept his theories secret for 30 years, not wishing to draw the wrath of the Church. Shortly after publishing Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies, he died of old age, and was thus spared their angry response. But the Church got their revenge anyway, by burying him in a grave that marked none of his great accomplishments, but said: "I ask not the grace accorded to Paul; not that given to Peter; give me only the favour which Thou didst show to the thief on the cross." Then the Christian churchmen kept silent about his work for 70 years -- until the appearance of Galileo. So how did hiding the findings of Copernicus for 70 years advance science may I ask? ROFL! Also no Protestant denomination accepted the findings of Galileo or Copernicus until well into the 19th century. That alone refutes your outrageous lies about science coming out of Christianity. The Greeks, Egyptians and Babylonians were doing science long before Christianity existed. Once Christianity gained power however, angry Christians destroyed all the findings of ancient scientists by burning their books and the libraries that contained these books including the great library at Alexandria. They then shut down the entire enterprise of science and persecuted anyone who dared study nature for the next 1000 years. The glory years of Christianity are rightly called the Dark Ages a period when science hardly advanced an inch. Liars like you are very dangerous lest some of us forget just how damaging to advancing science your evil and false religion has been over the centuries. You're still denying major scientific explanations as the following statement proves.
- April 18, 2010 at 4:08 AM
- Boris said...
Boris says: Sure you do. ROFL! If thermodynamics could not allow for an old earth then why don't any cosmologists know that? You can't even define thermodynamics and you're definitely not qualified to make any pronouncements about science you know absolutely nothing about. You can't just make claims without giving reasons for those claims. Why does the hot core of Uranus indicate the universe could not be 13.9 billion years old? Why would Mercury have no quakes exactly? What scientifically factual information can you supply to support your contention that the universe is only a few thousand years old? How do you explain the astronomical evidence that the universe is billions of years old, without resorting to the preposterous assumption that the speed of light was millions of times faster in the past than it is now? Don't avoid these questions.
God is both omnipotent and benevolent. Falsified by the data.
Boris says: Logic tells me that omnipotence and benevolence are incompatible. I mean loving and caring makes you vulnerable, thus making you not omnipotent. Your Bible says that the earth is flat, never moves, sits on a foundation supported by pillars and is orbited by the sun every day unless someone stops it. ROFL! It's hard to believe willful ignorance such as yours still exists or ever did for that matter.
Boris says: You must be kidding! Christian faith healers exist because the Bible says that demons and sin cause diseases rather than natural causes and that Jesus and other people cast out demons and this cured diseases.
Boris says: Right. They have a Church called the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints. The Mormons are no less Christians then you are, way better educated and only about half as crazy.
Boris says: If there was only one language as described in chapter 11, how come in Genesis chapter 10 it says that there were already many nations with different languages? Perhaps you should read your Bible before you tell someone who has about what it says huh? ROFL! Let's see you reconcile this problem in the text of you book of magic and fairies.
Boris says: All the special pleading in the world won't make an ancient folktale history.
Boris says: You have no evidence that any prayers have ever been answered.
Boris says: Uh, science. Your claim is ridiculous. If we go back far enough we can trace our lineage to a common ancestor with other apes that lived about 6 million years ago called Australopithecus. Belief in the Garden of Eden story is now considered a sign of brain death in hospitals under the new health care legislation. Better not get sick.
- April 18, 2010 at 4:12 AM
You should re-read Acts 9. It is encouraging to know God chose to make the most amazing apostle out of such a man as Saul, a Pharisee of Pharisees and persecutor extraordinaire.
Maybe something similar could happen to you someday, according to God's purpose for you, of course.
I'm still praying for you, Boris. I hope others here are too.
- April 18, 2010 at 11:43 PM
Don't worry! ;-)
- April 19, 2010 at 1:42 AM
- Boris said...
Buck Fury,
Where's the secular evidence for Jesus Christ you said existed? Either produce it or admit there isn't any. One or the other. We can't continue a conversation when you keep ignoring when I point out that you are incorrect because you are either lying or badly misinformed by your cult leaders. Now which is it?
As far as studying any part of Acts or anything else in the Bible, I have and I can prove you haven't. Reconcile these internal inconsistencies for me and then we can talk:
Acts 7:2:3 And Stephen replied: "Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our ancestor Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, and said to him, "Leave your country and your relatives and go to the land that I will show you."
Gen 11:31 Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in law Sarai, his son Abrams wife, and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran they settled there.
Abraham already lived in Haran when God called him.
Acts 7:4: Then he left the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God had him move from there to this country in which you are now living.
Gen 11:26 When Terah had lived seventy years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Gen 11:32: The days of Terah were two hundred five years; and Terah died in Haran.
Gen 12:4: So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
According to Genesis Terah lived another sixty years after Abram left Haran, but Acts says that Abram left Haran after his father died.
Acts 9:6: But get up and enter the city, and you will be told what you are to do.
Acts 22:10: The Lord said to me, "Get up and go to Damascus; there you will be told everything that has been assigned to you to do.
Acts 26:16: But get up and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you to serve and testify to the things which you have seen me and to those in which I will appear to you.
Galatians 1:15: But when God, who had set me apart before I was born and called me through his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son to me, so that I might proclaim him among the Gentiles, I did not confer with any human being, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were already apostles before me, but I went away at once into Arabia, and afterwards I returned to Damascus.
In Acts 26:16 Paul received his commission directly from Jesus. In Paul's own account he did not go to Damascus to visit Ananias or anyone else. Paul was violently persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it (Gal 1:13) even though God set Paul apart before he was born to proclaim his Son to the Gentiles.
Acts 9:7: The men who were traveling with him stood speechless because they heard the voice but saw no one.
Acts 22:9: Now those who were with me saw the light but did not hear the voice of the one who was speaking to me.
Acts 26:14: When we had fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, "Saul. Saul, why are you persecuting me? It hurts you to kick against the goads."
The voice speaking in the Hebrew language was a detail not related in the first two accounts nor was the phrase about kicking against the goads. In the chapter 9 account the men with Paul heard the voice but saw no one. In the chapter 22 account: the men saw the light but did not hear the voice.
- April 19, 2010 at 2:39 AM
- Boris said...
Acts 9:10: Now there was a disciple in Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias." He answered, "Here I am, Lord,"
Acts 22:12: "A certain Ananias, who was a devout man according to the law and well spoken of by all the Jews living there.
In Acts 9:10 Ananias is a Christian and in 22:12 he is a Jew.
Acts 15:6-19 Describes Paul's attendance at the Jerusalem conference on his third trip to that city.
Gal 2:1 Paul describes this trip as his second.
1Corinthians 4:5: Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive commendation from God.
1Corinthians 5:3: For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present I have already pronounced judgment in the name of the Lord Jesus on the man who has done such a thing.
Paul often forgot what he had just written.
- April 19, 2010 at 2:39 AM
- Boris said...
One of the most condescending things a theist can do to an atheist is to make a point of announcing that they'll be praying for us. Atheists don't believe in the power of prayer, but even theists can't think that prayer will be more effective for having announced. So what's the purpose? Some say that it's to express well-wishes, but people say that they'll pray for someone when the person is sick or having trouble. One way or another, the theist appears to be expressing superiority over atheists in a passive-aggressive manner. That suggests they weren't interested in serious conversation to begin with. - By Austin Cline, originally on about.com
- April 19, 2010 at 2:58 AM
A serious conversation is fine, but I am not interested in debating with you, as I've said before. There is no point in it. Only the Holy Spirit can change hearts and minds. Not any
We pray for God to do a work in you. It is an expression of love for you and is in no way a sign of superiority. Christians know that we are saved in spite of our sins. Jesus loved us while we were still sinners. As His followers, we are called to model Jesus' life on earth. This is why we pray for you. You are a sinner as we all are. You and I are equal in that regard.
- April 19, 2010 at 11:03 AM
- Boris said...
I'll tell you what Buck Fury people like you make me want to puke. You have no ethical standards whatsoever. No one in your cult of ignorance and stupidity does. Your whole cult is bunch of delusional, poorly educated liars. There is no way I would ever associate with low life scum like you people. In an effort to get me to believe what you do you made the claim that there were secular writers who mentioned Jesus Christ. I proved this claim to be absolutely false by showing that no secular writers who were alive when Jesus supposedly was wrote a word about Jesus, anything he did, his disciples, his trial or anything else mentioned in the gospels. You have refused to acknowledge that you made a false claim. You need to act like a decent human being for the first time on this blog and very likely the first time in your life and tell the freaking truth. Otherwise don't address one more word to me. As far as I'm concerned you are scum and a perfect example of why I hate your evil and false religion. Pray all you want loser. NOTHING fails like prayer. ROFL! By the way we just cancelled the national Day of Prayer. Next we take "In God We Trust" off the money and "under God" out of the national pledge. Your lucky we don't burn scum like you at the stake.
- April 19, 2010 at 7:38 PM
- Boris said...
I'll tell you what Buck Fury people like you make me want to puke. You have no ethical standards whatsoever. No one in your cult of ignorance and stupidity does. Your whole cult is bunch of delusional, poorly educated liars. There is no way I would ever associate with low life scum like you people. In an effort to get me to believe what you do you made the claim that there were secular writers who mentioned Jesus Christ. I proved this claim to be absolutely false by showing that no secular writers who were alive when Jesus supposedly was wrote a word about Jesus, anything he did, his disciples, his trial or anything else mentioned in the gospels. You have refused to acknowledge that you made a false claim. You need to act like a decent human being for the first time on this blog and very likely the first time in your life and tell the freaking truth. Otherwise don't address one more word to me. As far as I'm concerned you are scum and a perfect example of why I hate your evil and false religion. Pray all you want loser. NOTHING fails like prayer. ROFL! By the way we just cancelled the national Day of Prayer. Next we take "In God We Trust" off the money and "under God" out of the national pledge. Your lucky we don't burn scum like you at the stake.
- April 19, 2010 at 9:05 PM
So, I guess coffee is out of the question?
For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Pure truth. Praise God for His life-giving word!
- April 19, 2010 at 11:06 PM
Boris said:
There is no way I would ever associate with low life scum like you people.
Dude. You spend a lot of time here.
- April 19, 2010 at 11:20 PM
- Boris said...
You need to remember that the Bible is a book of fantasy solely believed in by superstitious idiots, it hardly can be used for argue a point. You may have well as quoted me a couple of lines from the Lord of the Rings, another book of fantasy except way better written.
"The American brand of Christianity is unraveling while its hypocrisy is being weighed by the minds of our younger folks and discovering that questioning religious doctrine is a trait of human nature, not the voice of Satan." -Jesse Ventura
- April 20, 2010 at 4:07 AM
- Boris said...
Pure truth. Praise God for His life-giving word!
Boris says: What do you know about the truth Buck Fury? I proved you are a pathological and compulsive liar who after he gets caught in several lies refuses to admit it. I wish you knew just how stupid you Bible thumping liars appear to those of us who have actually studied your Wholly Babble. Every word you write proves just what religiously brainwashed liar and idiot you truly are. Now THAT'S the truth and I hope you choke on it scum ball.
- April 20, 2010 at 5:03 AM
Besides mocking and taunting Christian's here, is there any thing or any person that you can claim to love?
It's not a trick question or a trap. Just wondering if and how you, from an atheistic worldview, understand it, own it, and prove it.
- April 20, 2010 at 12:07 PM
- Boris said...
Buck Fury,
Atheism is not a worldview. That term only describes a lack of belief in any God. Any first year philosophy student could tell you that a worldview consists of six parts or elements: Ideology (beliefs in God cosmology), narrative (sacred writings and myths), norms (ethics and morality, rituals, activities designed to renew bonds), experience (emotional and spiritual elements), and a social element (educating future generations). Atheism has none of these elements. You could say that my worldview is a form of humanism I suppose. Also I like to be different and atheism is getting very popular. I like to call myself an anti-theist. "Atheism can be the naked pursuit of truth, but anti-theism is more often the adolescent joy of upsetting and mocking religious people." –Jim Rigby, pastor of St. Andrews's Presbyterian Church in Austin Texas. That's a pretty good description of me right?
I love the same people most people do. I love my wife, my kids and my father, brother other relatives. My mother is dead. I've loved major league baseball and professional wrestling since I was a small child. Then I have a different kind of love for things like my 2002 Thunderbird, one of my guitars that I've had for a long time. I love certain books, movies and plays like most people do their favorites of these things. I used to love the Orioles before Peter Angelos bought them and the Redskins before Dan Snyder bought them. You know not obsessively but like most real sports fans love their teams. Oh and of course I absolutely love my life long hobby of mocking and making fun of religion and religious people.
How do I understand love? Love isn't a thing it's an abstract concept that describes particular feelings and actions. We say that love exists, but it's not the same thing as a dog existing or sunlight existing. I own it and prove it by my actions.
In fundamentalist Christianity however, love means something totally different than it does to most of the rest of us. Just as truth is torn away from the realm of fact in Christianity, love is removed from the realm of human affections. Human love is disparaged as frail and fickle, while agape - unselfish, altruistic love that is from God love - is held up as ideal. This can appeal greatly to converts disappointed with human relationships. Yet, it has little to do with what we usually think of love: affection, sharing thoughts and feelings, caring accepting, forgiving, empathizing touching listening, giving, respecting, helping, appreciating, supporting, and so on. It is a mental activity of adhering to a code. A Christian "loves" a sinner because God "loves" the sinner and one must follow suit. Love to the Evangelist is simply a willingness to put up with a sinner in order to obey the commission to preach the gospel. Thus the Christian can say, without noticing the inconsistency, "I love the sinner, but not the sin." To the uninitiated, this is a strange kind of love that tries to divorce persons from their activities and then judges those activities with amazing ferocity. In this type of love, there is no desire to know or be known, which in our everyday understanding, underlies the condition of love. Normally the development of intimacy in human relations involves increasing levels of self-disclosure and mutual acceptance based on equal standing. In contrast, the Christian preaching the gospel is by no means acting vulnerable, while working hard to find a vulnerable spot in the potential proselyte.
- April 20, 2010 at 9:50 PM
- Boris said...
What were you thinking? That atheists don't know what love is? What's it like to find out that I do know and that I know that you don't know what love is? Your biblical worldview has distorted your sense of reality so much that you don't even know what love is anymore. As I've pointed out one potent tool your cult uses to distort reality is the distortion of language. So you see, it's pointless to pray for me. I know all the tricks your cult uses to turn people into mindless obedient mental slaves. If you could just recognize these things you wouldn't be one.
So what have we learned here lately Buck Fury? We learned that your cult leaders are lying when they claim there is secular evidence for the existence of Jesus Christ didn't we? DIDN'T WE? Now we've demonstrated how your cult distorts the meanings of words like "love" and "truth" in order to distort reality haven't we? HAVEN'T WE? So whom do you trust to tell you the truth Bucko? Me, the atheist, or your religious cult leaders who we've already proved CANNOT be trusted? What is love Buck? You can call what you're getting from me tough love. The truth hurts. Oh it's true.
- April 20, 2010 at 9:52 PM
Thanks for your thoughtful response on love. I think it's the most pleasant post I've read from you. But then again I've only been here a couple o'weeks.
I think when we say we love a baseball team, a guitar, or a hobby, that really is just a shorthand way of saying we have a strong attachment, affinity etc. As you stated, it's really very different from the love of a wife, child, or mother.
What IS the difference between love (wife, child) and a dog or sunlight? Is it the ability to quantify and measure it?
You said, "We say love exists...", but does it really? When a person whom you love dies, does your love then cease to exist? When you die, will the people who love you no longer love you? We would agree not, right? RIGHT? (subtle Borisism (R) injected here for levity)
I don't have the answers. But I do know that love exists. I can't prove it to you by my actions, I can only suggest and strongly hint at its existence through my actions. The scientific method fails utterly here because it has no way to measure love or even definitively validate its existence at all. Yet from birth most of humankind knows that love exists because we experience it.
So, I know there are truths which exist beyond our ability to test and measure them, or even fully understand them. Obviously. There could be others.
- April 21, 2010 at 11:34 PM
It is my understanding that the "scientific beliefs" of the Roman church during the middle ages were based more on the teachings of Aristotle than teachings found in the Bible. Perhaps the political power of the Roman church during those times is another example of an omnipotent and loving God, allowing mankind's self deception (I am the center of the universe) while promoting a greater Truth(Jesus Christ). If the God of the universe had come to Abraham or Moses and insisted that they teach modern science to all their followers, would this religion ever have gotten off the ground.
- April 22, 2010 at 5:36 AM
- Boris said...
Buck Fury says: So, I know there are truths which exist beyond our ability to test and measure them, or even fully understand them. Obviously. There could be others.
Boris says: Normally, there are a variety of sources of knowledge or "truths" in life. People look to the evidence of their own senses, the results of scientific study, life experience, their own intuitions and thought processes. Secular people assume that new information can be discovered through systematic investigation. In the Christian mindset, however, the only respected source of knowledge is authority. The ultimate authority of God, and the Bible is the inerrant Word of God, absolute and unchanging. This view of knowledge serves to further institute and control the believer. Truth is not found; it is revealed (cf. James 1:21). Facts are irrelevant in this system. If a belief is in place, based on interpretation of supposed revealed truth, it doesn't matter what worldly discoveries take place. In the Christian system, the idea of being a "child of God" has a charm that many relate to. You remain a child, dependent and cared for by your heavenly father. You never have to learn self-reliance or turn to yourself for strength and wisdom. And you have no source of knowledge but outside authority.
You have a chance to free your mind of the religious superstitions other people have indoctrinated you with. I'm pointing out all the tricks your cult uses to indoctrinate people just like you. I've already proved, right here on this blog that Jesus Christ never even existed. I mean what more do you want?
- April 23, 2010 at 12:31 PM
- Boris said...
I see they're moderating the posts now. Nothing like shutting the barn door after the horse is already gone. I've already frightened away all the Christians off this blog except maybe two or three. I bet Hank finally read what was going on here on this blog. Hey Hank, any time you want to debate Boris the Atheist I'm right here. You haven't got the guts Hank, because if you've been reading my posts you know that Boris is the real Bible Answer Man and you're a big phony. I'll match my knowledge of the text of the Bible with yours anytime Hankster. Any time you're ready. I'm calling you out and I'm calling you a liar Hank. Come to Papa you big chicken. First tell us who killed King Jabin of Hazor.
- April 23, 2010 at 12:39 PM
A few years back I got your video Getting Back To Basics, and I was so impressed watching you recite entire chapters of God's Word-The Bible by memory that, I started memorizing Paul's Letter to the Romans. It took me a while but, I know chapters 1-8 of Romans by memory and a few chapters in Hebrews (out of the NIV) I really need too start memorizing the Gospels and I just Love it...
- May 17, 2010 at 4:49 AM
You are filled with hate. Your behavior is childish and immature. You seek strife, not harmony or co-existence. Attitudes like these are what is wrong with this world. Do not contribute to the problem, be a part of the solution.
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Thread: Rolling across the border
Rolling across the border
Mexican trucks roll on despite opposition
Congress unified on bill to halt Bush administration program
Posted: December 13, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Michael Howe
The Bush administration continues to push forward with its controversial project allowing Mexican trucks to move freely on U.S. roads despite strong protests from both chambers of Congress, where legislation is pending.
"Congress has stated clearly that it believes going forward with such a program, without the information needed to assure safety on American roads, is not safe," said Barry Piatt, spokesman for Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.
Dorgan successfully amended the Senate Transportation Appropriations Bill to include language to stop the Mexican Truck Demonstration Program, hoping the Bush administration would respond.
However, even though the House and Senate agreed to retain the language, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, or FMCSA, is continuing with the program.
According to the conference report on the House bill, HR 3074, issued Nov. 13, "None of the funds made available under this Act may be used to establish a cross-border motor carrier demonstration program to allow Mexico-domiciled motor carriers to operate beyond the commercial zones along the international border between the United States and Mexico."
The bill, however, awaits approval by both the full House and the full Senate.
Jenny Tallheimer, spokeswoman for the Senate Appropriations Committee, told WND, "At this point the transportation appropriations bill is being lumped with the other appropriations bill into a larger omnibus bill.
"Both the House and the Senate are currently negotiating the details of the larger appropriations bill, and once that is complete the legislation will be introduced in the House and the Senate," she said. "No time table has been set at this point however."
There also is no guarantee that the language in the conference report designed to defund the Mexican Truck program will remain in a new omnibus bill.
Without an appropriation bill containing such language, the program can continue.
FMCSA's website lists 10 Mexican carriers with a total of 55 trucks that are approved to transport goods throughout the U.S.
The FMCSA was asked to comment but did not reply to phone calls or e-mails.
About 40 more Mexican carriers will soon join the 10 already approved. The agency, according to its website, said it "has notified an additional 37 Mexico-domiciled motor carriers that they have successfully passed a Pre-Authorization Safety Audit."
The FMCSA says there are four U.S. carriers participating in the cross-border program.
Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., continues to show frustration with the Bush administration.
His spokesman, Joe Kasper, told WND, "Rather than working with Congress to ensure the program is implemented in a manner that is safe and efficient, the department has instead decided to continue its plan of opening our roadways to an increasing number of Mexican trucking companies."
Kasper called it "a dangerous program that threatens our security and the safety of vehicle motorists."
"It now appears the only way Congress can make the department listen is by ensuring it does not have the funds to move the program forward as currently planned," he said.
Just how far will this go.
I and many others are boiling under the surface but some have the balls to say it.
Please President Bush you can stop this now.
Totally jacked the hell up. A huge arzed mistake, kissing the arze of the illegal lobby for sure.
Those in favor are trying to say the trucks are safe, and U.S drivers won't loose loads. Total B.S. I have hauled many loads to El Paso, and Laredo TX. Those trucks are far from being safe by the standards we have to abide by.
If the Mexican truck pulls the load from Mexico to N.Y, what does the U.S driver do that used to haul that load from the border? When that Mexican hauls a load back, what will the U.S driver haul to the border now that his load has been given to the Mexican? The wages will sufer when a broker can pay a Mexican carrier 55% of the load as opposed to a U.S company 75% or more.
This is more NAFTA, free trade B.S.
I GOT IT!! Congress pushed the fuel prices high in an effort to stop this. Our fearless leaders screwed the pooch so bad that fuel prices went throw the roof. Now the Mexicans can't afford to drive up here. ........ Ah, only one problem.............. we can't either.
Got it,,,, Mex drivers can bring a load up,,, I will help with desel if they take a load of illegals back.
Bush Administartion Ignoring Legislation President Signed By Allowing Mexican Trucks on U.S. Roads
By Tom DeWeese
The Bush Administration has directly defied, not only the will and intent of Congress, but it is now openly ignoring legislation that the President himself signed into law. As a result a Constitutional crisis is rapidly developing over a project to let Mexican trucks on U.S. roads. As a result, many are now calling for the firing of U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters.
In September 2007, the Bush Administration began a pilot project to allow Mexican trucks to drive on U.S. highways. The project is, frankly, necessary if goals for the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) are to be achieved. The SPP openly calls for "harmonizing" the borders between the U.S. Mexico and Canada. In fact, the Bush Administration sites the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as its authority to push the project.
Congress was not happy with the program. Several members immediately sighted problems with safety of the Mexican trucks, including the inability of Mexican drivers to read English road signs in the US. Within weeks of the beginning of the project, both houses of congress began to draft legislation to put a stop to it.
Quickly, Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) introduced an amendment to the Department of Transportation (DOT) appropriations bill to remove funding for the project. The amendment was passed by a bi-partisan majority of 74-24 and subsequently became part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, signed into law by President Bush on December 26, 2007.
To make it perfectly clear that the legislation was a demand for the Administration to stop the Mexican truck project, Senator Dorgan received a letter from the Senate Legislative Council to confirm the law's intent. The letter said, "No funds made available under the Consolidation Appropriations Act, 2008, were to be used in fiscal year 2008 to establish or implement a cross-border motor carrier demonstration program to allow Mexican-domiciled motor carriers to operate beyond the commercial zones along the international border between the United States and Mexico."
Can it be more clear? Further, it is the Constitutional duty of the Congress to fund or not to fund programs. Yet, in defiance of this clear intention of Congress, Secretary Peters continues to move forward, spending funds for the truck project unabated and against federal law.
Melissa Delaney, spokeswoman for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Association (FMCSA), indicated the administration will simply ignore the congressional funding issue. In an all-too-familiar display of contempt for the concerns of the American people and in defiance of Congress, Delaney said, "We are committed to incremental steps in demonstrating the safety of the cross-border program, but there is no requirement to have a demonstration project."
Apparently hoping to convince Congress to back off its plan to kill the program, on October 17th Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters called a press conference. She then instructed a Maryland state trooper to inspect a Mexican truck in front of DOT headquarters, claiming this action would "prove" that Mexican trucks are as safe as U.S. trucks.
This childish charade prompted Teamster President James Hoffa to ask, "Does the Bush administration think we're stupid? It's insulting to the intelligence of the American people to suggest that a staged truck inspection before the news media proves anything."
In fact, actual inspections of the Mexican trucks prove that they are not safe to be on U.S. highways. A law firm (Cullen Law Firm of Washington, D.C.) has been compiling safety inspection reports on Mexican trucks in preparation for a lawsuit to stop the trucks from crossing the border. Their findings on Mexican truck safety are frightening and very telling about the agenda of the Bush Administration.
According to the Cullen documentation, in the span of one year, September 2006 to September 2007, four of the Mexican companies participating in the Bush administration's test trucking program collected more that 1,700 safety violations. One company was Trinity Industries de Mexico, which was cited more than 1,100 times, averaging 112 violations per truck.
Another major concern about the safety of the Mexican trucks crossing our border is the ability of the drivers to read and understand highway signs. The Bush Administration has falsely assured that the drivers are required to be proficient in English before crossing the border. A brochure aimed at Mexican drivers on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's website says, "Did you know? You MUST be able to read and speak English to drive truck in the United States."
Yet, under heavy questioning during a Senate hearing in March, 2008, Transportation Secretary Peters and DOT Inspector General Calvin Scovel reluctantly admitted that Mexican drivers were being approved at the border as "proficient in English" even though they could only explain U.S. traffic signs in Spanish.
Here is the verbatim exchange between Senator Dorgan, Peters and Scovel. Dorgan asked, "Does the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration test for English proficiency at the border include questions about U.S. highway signs?"
"Do you show a driver an octagonal STOP sign at the border and qualify him if he explains the sign means 'ALTO," Dorgan asked with obvious agitation, "ALTO is the Spanish Word for STOP," he said.
"Yes," Scovel answered, hesitatingly. "If the stop sign is identified as 'alto' the driver is considered English proficient."
"In other words," said Dorgan, "the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is allowing Mexican drivers in the demonstration project to prove their proficiency in English by responding to the examiner's questions in Spanish?"
Mary Peters responded, "U.S. highway signs comply with international standards. I drive frequently in Mexico and I always recognize the octagonal 'ALTO' signs as 'STOP' signs."
"Excuse me, Madame Secretary," said Dorgan, "the question is not whether you understand Mexican highway signs when driving in Mexico but whether Mexican drivers entering the U.S. in your demonstration project can pass an English proficiency test by answering the questions totally in Spanish."
Answered Peters, "But answering in Spanish, the drivers explain they understand the English-language highway signs." Countered Dorgan, "If you answer in Spanish, you're not English proficient."
Continued Dorgan, "My main concern is safety. We've established (in the Senate hearing) that there are no equivalencies between Mexican trucks and U.S. trucks. There are no equivalent safety standards. Mexico has no reliable database for vehicle inspections, no accident reports or driver's records. Now you tell us Mexican drivers can pass their English proficiency tests in Spanish. The Department of Transportation is telling Congress – 'We're doing this and we don't care'--" Senator Dorgan concluded.
In a news release issued just prior to the March 10, 2008 Senate hearing, Peters tried to take the offensive against Senate efforts to stop the Mexican truck project. In the release she said, "Our drivers and our workers don't deserve a timeout for success and prosperity. So my message to Congress is clear. If you want to help American businesses thrive, support American agricultural success, and champion American highway safety, then keep on trucking with cross border shipping."
Obviously Secretary Peters is pandering to American workers. None of what she said is true. American workers are being destroyed by agreements like NAAFTA and the SPP. Wages are down. American jobs are disappearing and America's trade deficit is out of control because of these agreements.
Moreover, American trucking companies are not seeking "markets" in Mexico. They don't want to drive their trucks into that country. As James Hoffa said, "It's ridiculous when the State Department issues regular warnings to alert U.S. citizens to the dangers of kidnapping and murder if they travel Mexico's roads…No trucker wants to drive a load of automobiles into Mexico to park them somewhere."
Hoffa went on to say, "It's a disgrace that Mary Peters is still in office. She has broken the law and defied the will of the American people by exposing them to dangerous trucks from Mexico." The Teamsters Union has filed suit to stop the Mexican trucks from crossing the border and has called for Mary Peters to be fired.
The fact is, the Bush Administration, represented by Mary Peters, is determined to force the Mexican truck project on the American people because of agreements it has made with Mexico to open our borders. Further, it has made agreements with international corporations, through Public/Private Partnerships, to use the power of government to allow them to plunder the U.S. economy with little regard as to the impact on the American people.
As Senator Dorgan said, the Bush Administration doesn't care what Americans think about these policies. Mary Peters should be fired as a way to send a very strong message to the Bush Administration that the American people are fed up with its arrogance. Her firing would be a major blow to efforts to impose the North American Union, which of course President Bush denies exists. Fire Mary Peters first, and we'll get the rest of the gang later.
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Agitation is an unpleasant state of extreme arousal. An agitated person may feel stirred up, excited, tense, confused, or irritable.
Agitation can come on suddenly or over time. It can last for a few minutes, for weeks, or even months. Pain, stress, and fever can all increase agitation.
Agitation by itself may not be a sign of a health problem. But if other symptoms occur, it can be a sign of disease.
Agitation with a change in alertness (altered consciousness) can be a sign of delirium. Delirium has a medical cause and should be checked by a health care provider right away.
Causes of Agitation
There are many causes of agitation, some of which include:
- Alcohol intoxication or withdrawal
- Allergic reaction
- Caffeine intoxication
- Certain forms of heart, lung, liver, or kidney disease
- Intoxication or withdrawal from drugs of abuse (such as cocaine, marijuana, hallucinogens, PCP, or opiates)
- Hospitalization (older adults often have delirium while in the hospital)
- Hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid gland)
- Infection (especially in elderly people)
- Nicotine withdrawal
- Poisoning (for example, carbon monoxide poisoning)
- Theophylline, amphetamines, steroids, and certain other medicines
- Trauma
- Vitamin B6 deficiency
Agitation can occur with brain and mental health disorders, such as:
- Anxiety
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After treating the cause, the following measures can reduce agitation:
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Do not physically hold back an agitated person, if possible. This usually makes the problem worse. Only use restraints if the person is at risk of harming themselves or others, and there is no other way to control the behavior.
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Clint: Clint Ritchie, Jerry verDorn
Viki: Erika Slezak
Upon learning he was dying, Viki's husband, Joe Riley, hired Clint to become editor of their newspaper, The Banner. Viki and Clint clashed following Joe's death but as time went on the two began to warm up to each other. Eventually they fell in love and were finally married in 1982. They would divorce and re-marry again in the '80s as a string of complications continued to cause conflict as they faced interference from people like Mitch Laurence (as well as Viki's other personalities), not to mention Viki going to heaven, time traveling, the Old West and so much more. By the end of the series on ABC in 2012, verDorn was playing Clint, who proposed to Viki on the final episode.
Clint was the first Buchanan to join ONE LIFE TO LIVE and that family as well as the one he built with Viki would impact storylines for the rest of the show's run. Their relationship shifted in tone many times over the years but no matter how much conflict they faced (or how "out there" some of the stories may have been) they always entertained.
Clint and Viki were nominated as Favorite Super Couple: Daytime at the 1989 Soap Opera Digest Awards. Erika Slezak was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award nine times in ONE LIFE's final three decades winning six trophies (the most of any actress in daytime history).
Ritchie passed away in 2009 at age 70.
From Patrick Erwin (A THOUSAND OTHER WORLDS): Both characters have had more lives to live, on their own and with other spouses, than most soap couples. But Viki and Clint were always home base for each other. Clint supported Viki through all of the horrifying revelations about her alters; Viki believed in the good in Clint even when he himself thought it was gone for good.
- Clint met Viki on ONE LIFE TO LIVE when he brought her drunk husband, Joe, home in 1979
- Clint & Viki's second wedding
- Clint and Viki reunite in the Old West
- Clint proposes to Viki in ONE LIFE TO LIVE's final episode
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Don Draper encounters what may be his most frightening moment in six years of Mad Men episodes halfway through the show's season debut tonight while facing a photographer taking his picture in the office.
Camera poised to snap an image, the photographer makes a request that sends chills down Draper's spine: "I want you to be yourself."
Within minutes, you sense Draper is no closer to answering that question — "Who am I?" — than he was when fans first found him back in 2007.
Mad Men begins its sixth season with a two-hour film, "The Doorway," which at times feels less like an open passageway than a darkly uncertain destination, especially for Jon Hamm's Draper — an Americanized James Bond working Madison Avenue instead of the French Riviera. It has loads of subtext and table-setting for longtime fans, and is a surprising, compelling journey for those who know the show well.
A suave impostor who took the identity of his commanding officer when that man was killed in Korea, the restless, driven Draper always seems on the verge of vanishing inside his own lies and bottomless need.
He's no different this year (we first see him on a beach in Hawaii, next to a beautiful woman, ignoring her to read Dante's Inferno), picking up after a season in which one partner in his advertising firm committed suicide and his wife decided to leave the business for an acting career.
"The characters are always looking over their shoulders at themselves (and asking) 'Is the problem that it's me?' " said Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner, trying to explain the melancholy vision which, once again, seems to motivate every character here.
"I hate to say it like this, but a lot of the story is, 'No matter where you go, there you are,' " Weiner added, speaking specifically about Draper's quest. "Some of it is concrete things; he's a deserter. But really what it has to do with is, 'How do you feel about yourself?' It's the anxiety of being a fraud."
Co-star John Slattery, who plays Draper's work pal and partner Roger Sterling, explains the show's perspective by quoting the character himself. "What does Draper say: 'What is happiness? The moment before you want more happiness,' " Slattery said. "Roger's looking for something, how to string together moments of happiness and call it a life. At least he's still optimistic enough to keep looking."
Slattery and Weiner were typically closed-mouthed about plot details during a recent conference call, refusing to discuss anything that hasn't already aired on AMC, despite the fact that many journalists had already seen "The Doorway."
To say that Weiner displays a somewhat, um, controlling attitude about this stuff is like saying notorious philanderer Draper has a few commitment issues.
This time around the executive producer even has asked journalists not to divulge in what year the new episode occurs, always a buzzed-about question among fans. (A clue arrives when Draper picks up a newspaper on New Year's Day; the headline is from a New York Times story immortalized much later in a book by award-winning author Mark Kurlansky on this landmark time.)
Weiner will allow another nugget: This season's theme is wrapped up in a line from a new character (whom we also are asked not to describe): "People will do anything to alleviate their anxiety."
"I really try to step away from it and say, 'What is the next step in these people's lives?' " he said, describing how he finds a theme to wrap each season around. "I wasn't born until 1965. I have no memory of this period. But I feel there is a general sense of anxiety about the loss of self-esteem that we've had as a country. There was a lot of chaos (then), and I feel we're a little bit in that now."
Fans have just two more seasons of Mad Men to savor. The show ends its run after the seventh cycle, presumably next year.
And after an afternoon talking with Weiner and Slattery, here are a few things that stand out about the start of a legendary series' penultimate season.
Death is once again a major theme, but Weiner isn't bothered by it.
"I don't find it any bleaker than normal,'' the executive producer says cheerfully about an episode where Draper focuses on death so much, he unwittingly pitches an advertising campaign evoking a suicide. "I think it's cathartic. We've had a show since the pilot that starts with a guy jumping out a window."
Weiner, who wrote for HBO's classic meditation on mortality, The Sopranos, is known for salting his own creation with similar themes. Still, Draper and the other characters sometimes fixate on the issue like you'd expect people twice their age to do.
Draper and Elizabeth Moss' Peggy Olson are the show's two lead characters in Weiner's mind.
Fans wondered what might happen to ace copywriter Peggy once she left her mentor's firm last season, but the new episode finds her working clients and co-workers like a chip off the old Draper, manipulating them all to let her achieve the kind of work we all knew she was capable of creating.
"It's a tough call to make when you have an ensemble like this," Weiner said about highlighting those two characters as the show's linchpin. "But what happens to both of them is always in relation to each other."
The '70s are approaching, and some characters adapt better than others.
The first episode finds our characters steeped in the times: Vietnam, the emergence of hippie culture, more relaxed roles for women and men. The most obvious difference is the way some characters adopt the new fashions — somehow, Peggy's boyfriend winds up looking like Frank Zappa — but Weiner cautions against seeing that as an allegory for success in adapting to the changing times.
"What is more interesting is that people have some expectation that Don is going to be left behind," Weiner said when I mention that Draper seemed to have trouble understanding the appeal of the Beatles in an earlier episode. "I feel like the society is more like Don … a societal sense of insecurity. I just feel a vibe right now, which is, 'What is my relationship to the group? Do I have any control over the future?' That powerlessness creates a lot of anxiety."
This was the toughest season to write since the series' second cycle.
"Season two, I was dealing with the fact that we had completed season one and how am I ever going to do it again," Weiner said, laughing. "(This season) all the low-hanging fruit has been picked. It's getting harder and harder (to find new material). It felt really high stakes … that we treat it like it was the last season of the show."
Slattery isn't quite sure that Roger and Don are friends, but he hopes so.
"They are very different people with a deep understanding of each other," said the actor, who puts on his director's hat to helm two more episodes this season. "(Roger) really got the s--- beat out of him in many ways (last season). I think people underestimate him as someone who is being a good time Charlie. But he knows what he's doing."
Weiner sees the Don/Roger dynamic a little differently. "I always feel like Roger is kinda like Don's id," he says, describing the instinctual, impulsive part of the human psyche. "He is a pleasure seeker. 'Will Roger Sterling ever grow up?' is a more interesting question, and I think that stands apart from the times. If he were around right now, I think Roger Sterling would be going to a lot of spas and having sugar rubbed in his face."
DON'S Ex-wife Betty Francis does show up this season, and she unveils a major change in the first episode.
If I wrote anything more, Weiner would kill me.
The insecurity on Mad Men isn't reserved just for its characters.
Despite a raft of Emmys, praise for ushering in a new era of high-quality TV and credit for changing American culture (Forbes magazine recently said that more young people are gravitating toward the advertising world, thanks to Mad Men), Weiner still worries that viewers won't show up for new seasons.
"I never take the audience for granted," he said. "I love their loyalty, but I always want to earn their attention. Anyone who says they're only interested in pleasing themselves is an idiot."
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My 93 year old aunt who travels all over England by herself on the bus for the fun of it, had a nasty case of the flu.
She told my sister this morning "I really thought I was going to die so decided if I was, it was going to be in my own bed so I went to bed at 7:30pm. I woke up the next morning at 10:30am and figured if I hadn't died, I might as well get up.
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FT. MEADE, Md. – Army Pfc. Bradley Manning pleaded guilty Thursday to 10 charges that he illegally acquired and transferred highly classified U.S. materials later published by WikiLeaks, saying he was motivated by a U.S foreign policy that "became obsessed with killing and capturing people rather than cooperating" with other governments.
"I felt we were risking so much for people who seemed unwilling to cooperate with us due to the mistrust and hatred on both sides," Manning said, reading a 35-page, hand-written statement describing his angst over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"I began to become depressed with the situation we had become mired in year after year," he added.
In a plea arrangement with military prosecutors, Manning agreed to serve a 20-year prison sentence in exchange for pleading guilty to 10 lesser charges. But he also pleaded not guilty to 12 more serious criminal charges, including espionage, and will face a court-martial in June. If convicted, he could face a life sentence.
Manning, now 25, was posted as a low-level intelligence analyst at a base outside of Baghdad until his arrest three years ago.


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"David Kreizman, who started with #WWE months ago is now a WWE head writer," Bauer wrote. "He is a Daytime Emmy award winning soap opera writer."
Kreizman has been nominated for nine Daytime Emmy Awards for writing, winning in 2007 as part of the GUIDING LIGHT team. He also won a WGA Award in 2005 for GUIDING LIGHT.


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SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Despite dropping the doubles point for just the second time this spring, the third-ranked Duke women's tennis team swept all six singles matches to claim a 6-1 victory at 17th-ranked Notre Dame Saturday afternoon. With the win, head coach Jamie Ashworth picked up career victory No. 348 and is now just three shy of Kitty Harrison's ACC wins record.
In doubles, freshman Beatrice Capra and sophomore Rachel Kahan, ranked 21st in the country as a duo, lost an 8-4 decision to the Fighting Irish's second-ranked tandem of Kristy Frilling and Shannon Mathews. The loss for the Blue Devil unit was just their first of 2012, dropping their record to 10-1 in dual doubles.
Sophomore Hanna Mar and freshman Annie Mulholland picked up an 8-6 victory from the No. 3 spot over Chrissie McGaffigan and Jennifer Kellner, but the 54th-ranked duo of junior Mary Clayton and freshman Ester Goldfeld could not capitalize in the deciding doubles match, as Notre Dame's Britney Sanders and Julie Sabacinski clinched the doubles point with an 8-5 win.
In singles action, freshman and 65th-ranked Monica Turewicz notched a quick, 6-1, 6-2 win over Sabacinski in the No. 6 spot. The win improved Turewicz's record to 15-1 overall.
Ranked 68th in the country, Clayton followed up with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over McGaffigan in the No. 5 spot. Clayton leads the Blue Devils with 20 singles wins this season.
Goldfeld, ranked 108th, picked up a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Kellner in the No. 3 spot, despite trailing 4-1 in the second set, to put the Blue Devils ahead 3-1. With the win, the Brooklyn, N.Y. native extended her undefeated record to 8-0 in dual singles matches.
Mar, ranked 45th, clinched the match just a few moments later with a convincing 6-4, 6-2 victory over the 73rd-ranked Frilling in the No. 2 spot. The win was the Burr Ridge, Ill. native's 19th this season and improved her dual singles record to 6-2.
Ranked No. 2 in the nation, Capra rallied back from a 5-4 deficit to win the first set 7-6 (7-4), before surging to a 6-2 advantage in the second set to defeat the 52nd-ranked Mathews in the No. 1 spot. Capra is now 14-3 overall, 8-1 in dual singles play and has an 8-3 mark against ranked opponents.
After losing the first set, 6-3, Kahan fought back to take the second set 7-5 and win a third set tie-break, 10-7, to seal Duke's sweep of singles with an upset victory over the 102nd-ranked Sanders at the No. 4 spot.
The Blue Devils will remain on the road, traveling to Orlando, Fla. for a matchup with Central Florida next Friday, Mar. 9, at 2 p.m.


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Friday Nights @ OMCA
The Bay Area's most talked-about food truck party is in Oakland! Join OMCA and Off the Grid on 10th Street every Friday for a family-friendly take on a festive night market. Savor California beer and wine around the Koi Pond while enjoying live music, art activities, and more! The galleries are open late featuring activities in the new Gallery of California Natural Sciences. Don't miss OMCA's Pub Trivia with Senior Curator of Natural Sciences, Douglas Long. Bring the whole family to OMCA for a sampling of the best in Bay Area curbside cuisine—and all that OMCA has to offer!
What to expect on July 19:
- Local beer and wine specials in the Blue Oak beer garden
- DJ Spensaur Cooper from Amoeba Music spinning hits from 5 to 6:30 pm
- Family-friendly drop-in workshop doing animal printing on bandannas from 5 to 8 pm
- Makers & Tasters Series: herbal tea tasting with Homestead Apothecary and Honey Underground with a honey tasting and an observation hive from 6 to 8 pm
- Magic show with Timothy James in the amphitheater from 6:30 to 7 pm
- OMCA Pub Trivia all about California Art, History, and Natural Sciences, with great prizes from 7 to 8:30 pm
- Indie rock band Caldecott performing live from 7 to 9 pm
- Extended hours in the galleries and special exhibitions
- The swanky East Bay Express lounge where you can kick back and take it all in
- Gourmet food trucks from Off the Grid featuring the best in local cuisine: Arki Truck, Cupkates, Go Streatery, Kasa Indian, Little Green Cyclo, Mayo & Mustard, Sanguchon, Señor Sisig, Seoul on Wheels, Twister Truck, Whip Out
Cost: Half-price gallery admission for adults, ages 18 and under are free. Admission for Members is always free. Cash bar. Prices vary for Off the Grid food trucks.
Transportation: OMCA is conveniently located one block from the Lake Merritt BART Station. Event parking is available at the Museum garage for a $5 flat fee after 5 pm.
Presented in partnership with Off the Grid: Lake Merritt @ OMCA.
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Friday Nights @ OMCA art programs are made possible by generous support from the Walter and Elise Haas Fund.