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Skip to comments.TONGUE-IN-CHEEK WARNING ABOUT OVAL-OFFICE FELLATION ACTUALIZED (SPELLS TROUBLE AHEAD FOR HILLARY)
Posted on 12/12/2006 8:57:10 AM PST by Mia T
fter reading the latest version of Dowd's perimenopausal, neo-feminist claptrap, "Maladroit du Seigneur," I quickly checked the relevant sections of both The Constitution and The Federalist Papers and concluded that being a lousy lover isn't grounds for impeaching a president (although it is still an open question as to whether global knowledge of same isn't).
Interestingly though, the bimbo eruptions themselves may provide such grounds.
Federalist No. 76, in which Hamilton describes the president as someone who "will have fewer personal attachments to gratify than a body of men," tacitly rejects the notion of a phalanx of fellating females in the Oval Office.
Hamilton's rationale: The president would "be so much the less liable to be misled by the sentiments of friendship and of affection. There is nothing so apt to agitate the passions of mankind as personal considerations"
So my advice to the honest patriots of this country is this:
Forget about clinton's perjury, suborning perjury, obstruction of justice.
Forget about his witness intimidation and tampering, his evidence concealment and destruction.
Forget about those 900 FBI files, the IRS audits, the Commerce Department corruption, China, missiles, the oxymoronic Public Integrity Section, WhoDB, the Secret Police.
Forget about the abuse of power, the treason, the corpses, the HIV-tainted blood.
Forget even about Federalist No. 57, and hillary rodham's treatise on impeachable acts--written when she wanted to impeach a president. (Both do mention "bad conduct" as grounds for impeachment.)
NOTE: Because the Framers did not anticipate the demagogic efficiency of the electronic bully pulpit, constitutional provisions deal inadequately with an MTV mis-leader and power abuser like clinton.
So I say forget about all those conspicuous, standard issue impeachable offenses. Concentrate instead on the bimbos.
Cite Federalist No. 76. The endless phalanx of fellating females clearly demonstrates clinton's recklessness and utter disregard for the security of the country.
Then either invoke the 25th Amendment and eject the reprobate for unfitness. Or impeach the bum and convict.
Boris, Bill and Monica: trouble ahead for Hillary?
Dr. Jack Wheeler
Will the saga of the world's most famous fellatrice return to haunt Hillary in 2008? There's this fascinating whisper making the Washington rounds that says yes. While convoluted and circumstantial, a number of plugged-in Washingtonians believe it. The story starts with Boris Yeltsin who was President of Russia from its emergence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 to 1999. In October of 2000, part three of his autobiography was published, Midnight Diaries. In it, there was an astounding revelation:
That in "late 1996," after Bill Clinton's re-election in November, he (Yeltsin) received a highly classified report from his Foreign Intelligence Service (Russian acronym SVR, formerly a branch of the KGB). Russian intel had learned that the President of the United States was having an affair with an intern named Monica Lewinsky. This was over a full year before the world learned of the scandal via the Drudge Report internet website on January 19, 1998.
Lewinsky's first tryst with Clinton was in November 1995. Her last ones were March 28 and 29, 1997, as shown by White House Security logging her in to visit the Oval Office. In her testimony for Ken Starr's Grand Jury, she told of a curious comment of Clinton's after she performed her services: that he was worried about a "foreign power listening in" to their activities and conversations. He was especially concerned about the many phone-sex conversations he had with her, calling her from the White House and Air Force One.
Somehow, it seems, Clinton had learned of Yeltsin's SVR memo. Who told him? Suspicion has focused on a meeting in Moscow between Clinton confidante Strobe Talbot and Russian power-broker Anatoly Chubais on March 5, 1997 -- three weeks before Clinton told Monica of his "worry." Talbot was far more than just Deputy Secretary of State. A fellow Rhodes Scholar with Clinton at Oxford, he was one of Bill's most closely trusted friends. Fluent in Russian, his contacts among the Russian power elite were deep. One of his best contacts was Anatoly Chubais. Yeltsin had placed Chubais in charge of the "privatization" program selling off Soviet state enterprises. It was a multi-multi-billion dollar scam, creating "oligarch" billionaires, of whom Chubais became one himself.
The scam, however, was threatened with exposure by the IMF (International Monetary Fund). By early 1997, Chubais's looting of the Russian economy was so vast that a complete crash was imminent. A "rescue package" of billions in IMF loans was required to stave off disaster. The green eyeshades at the IMF examining Russia said no way, JosÈ. Chubais was desperate. Yeltsin told Chubais of the SVR memo. Chubais asked his buddy Talbot to come and see him in Moscow, where he explained that if the IMF loan wasn't approved, he might not be able to keep the lid on Lewinsky. The President of the United States was being blackmailed.
Thus Larry Summers, Clinton's new Treasury Secretary, who had before was aghast at even the hint of approving IMF loans to Russia, suddenly began calling Chubais and his cronies a "Dream Team" for their "superb" job of running the Russian economy. The IMF loan was approved, the lid on Lewinsky kept on, and not until Linda Tripp taped her phone talks with Monica in November 1997 and Drudge got wind of it, did the scandal break. The IMF loan did its job, temporarily staving disaster off until August, 1998, when the Russian economy collapsed into almost total meltdown.
Now -- what has all this to do with Hillary?
One of Hillary Clinton's closest friends and traveling companions is a lady named Brooke Shearer. She retains her maiden name, for she is Strobe Talbot's wife. She also just happened to be working at the White House in charge of the White House intern program. The thinking goes that it is inconceivable that Talbot would not tell his wife that one of her interns was fellating the president and being blackmailed by the Russkies for it -- and that she would not tell Hillary.
One can easily imagine how explosively Hillary would have reacted, and how she would have demanded Bill cave to the Russian IMF demands. Thus her fingerprints would be all over a blackmail payoff of billions of American taxpayer dollars, and the resultant impoverishment of millions of Russians. She'll be questioned on this during her 2008 campaign -- as she will on so much else. The Russian Blackmail story will be one of many skeletons lurking in her presidential wannabe closet. It's yet another example of why so many Dems, desperate to recapture the White House, are so busy flogging alternatives to her.
Alternatives such as Barack Obama. That the Dems would hysterically hype a guy whose total national experience has been being a Senator for 21 months (since January 2005), and whose total real world business experience was working one single year for a company while in his early 20s (an entry-level job with the Business International Corporation), shows how terrified they are that Hillary will doom their White House dreams.
The Russian Blackmail scandal will make an interesting addition to the Democrats' Hillary Nightmare.
>Concentrate instead on the bimbos.
That wasn't a tongue in Monica's cheek.
Could the clintons touch anything without turning it into corrupt filth?
I wonder if anyone in the talk radio world has gotten hold of this?
Love the Epilogue Post. I remember reading about this but hadn't saved it until now. Thank You Mia!!!
Love the Epilogue Post. I remember reading about this but hadn't saved it until now. Thank You Mia!!!
You're welcome, Pagey. :)
Indeed. How can any reasonable person trust these two with our national security? With the future of our children?
Would anyone hire these two as household help?
if hillary can't/won't stand up to a philandering husband, who's going to trust her with standing up to terrorists?
NOTHING wil ever come of this. The dims will not tarnish their saint and the repugs are too weak willed.
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Having gotten married in August to his college sweetheart Emily, David Marone understands life can change in the blink of an eye. Important as that step was, it is not the moment that is presently most affecting his life. His life in the wrestling room, that is.
Marone is in the middle of something he never believed he would be at this point in his life -- a wrestling season. His highly successful career as Virginia Tech University's heavyweight was supposed to come to a close a year ago. But a split second in an early-season dual match last season changed everything for the former Broomfield High standout who was the Eagles' first two-time state champion.
One bad move at Ohio State halted a 5-0 start to Marone's senior year and it appeared to take his career to the mat.
"I was making an escape and when I got to my feet the guy did a move where he kicked out both of his legs in to the back of my knees," Marone said. "I had to forfeit to him due to the injury, even though I tried to come back into the match. After the match we pretty much knew my ACL was torn."
For a time, the injury and subsequent surgery -- the third of his college career -- had Marone certain his wrestling days were over. He took a part-time job, got engaged and figured he was going to move on to the next stage of his life.
Even when he found out he was eligible for a medical redshirt -- the second of his career -- he had reservations about taking it. His mind changed, however, when he went to watch the Hokies at the NCAA Division-I Wrestling Championships. Marone's trip to St. Louis convinced him he had enough gas in his tank for another run.
"After seeing that, I said I had to do it one more time," he said. "I talked with Emily about it. She had come with me to the championship. She understood I didn't want to leave anything on the table when it came to wrestling."
Marone's comeback has not been an easy one for more reasons than tackling family life and a master's degree at the same time. Given the time he had to invest into rehab, he was out of the wrestling room until September. And not hitting the regular season in tip-top shape has the two-time NCAA tourney qualifier off to his rockiest start of his college career.
So far the heavyweight is 1-4 on the season. But recently his coach has seen sparks of the prowess that nearly earned Marone All-American honors in the 2008-2009 season.
"Typically, with a knee injury a lot of it comes down to a confidence factor," Virginia Tech coach Kevin Dresser said. "But I've seen him turn a corner the past couple of weeks. He's had a go-for-it mentality."
Marone getting back into his groove has mainly been due to the heavyweight not being as protective of his body, he said. Letting himself hang loose in matches is important for the wrestler's success, given he is one of the smallest heavyweights in the county.
"I don't wrestle like most heavyweights, get involved with their kind of chess matches on the mat," he said. "I like to shoot more and wrestle and I feel like I'm falling back into that."
Even with his heavyweight having to overcome some obstacles to come back for one last romp, Dresser is pleased to have Marone on the Hokies' roster. As one of the first wrestlers the coach recruited in his seven-year tenure at Virginia Tech, Dresser believes Marone brings something special to the wrestling room.
"He is a great wrestler and kid," the coach said. "He's come back with three other seniors to provide the team a lot of leadership."
Injury or not, Marone still has his sights set as high as always. Not making nationals would be a big disappointment, he said. With that, he would like to earn All-American honors, which means breaking into the top eight at the NCAA tourney. But with time and challenges, Marone has gained some perspective and said his life won't be completely defined by what he does on the mat.
Really, even if he doesn't end up with a championship in his comeback year, Marone believes he has more than made a championship run with the Hokies.
"I've gotten two degrees, a great athletic experience and a wife out of it," he said. "I couldn't ask for more."
Follow Elwood on Twitter: @ElwoodKShelton.

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STREATOR — Coal City experienced two things for the first time Monday — it competed in a regional baseball play-in game, and it competed in the Class 3A postseason.
Streator experienced something that plenty of teams have over the years — a lopsided playoff exit at the hands of the Coalers.
Coal City drilled the host Bulldogs 12-2 in what was a quarterfinal game in the 3A Ottawa Regional. Next up for the Coalers is a Wednesday game with top-seeded Morris, which swept them in two games by a combined score of 23-7.
"We've always had a bye," Coal City coach Jerry McDowell said, "but here in our first time in 3A, we're rated fifth of five teams. Nine of our games have been one or two run games that have gone against us. We've started to come around. We feel like we can play with Morris, and now we have our chance to do that."
The Coalers scored four times in the first inning and chased Streator starter Colton Olson before they had made an out in the second. They got another run in the third and four in the fourth, and the Bulldogs did not plate either of their runs against Coalers pitcher Nate Chapman until the bottom of the fifth.
Coal City's top two hitters, Austin McLuckie and Lane Cowherd, were a combined 8-for-8 in reaching base. They each went 3-for-3 with a walk and teamed up to score five runs. Cleanup hitter Dylan Hakey also had three hits, including a double, and three RBI.
Against a Streator team the Coalers defeated 22-11 last week, McLuckie said they knew every run could be important, even with a big lead.
"From what we saw in our last game with them, we knew we couldn't do enough," McLuckie said. "We knew they weren't going to roll over for us. ... Every game can be your last game, so you don't want to take any chances."
Morris defeated Coal City 8-3 on April 13 and again by a 15-4 final on Saturday in a game that was scheduled only the night before. The Coalers used five pitchers in the game, including Chapman.
"We had a few options in terms of who we would start in (Monday's) game, so we got a look at everybody," McDowell. "Morris is a good team. They hit the ball, they've got pitching and they play good defense. ...The kids want another shot at them."
"I want to beat (Morris) really bad," McLuckie said.


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Alaska's Dog Mushing School Brings 'White Fang' to Life [PICTURES]
Ever thought about living the wild Alaskan life or are you simply a fan of Jack London books? You might consider enrolling in a dog mushing school this winter. Winterlake Lodge, located on the famous Iditarod Trail in Alaska, offers its guests a four-day long dog mushing school.


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Marvel is riding high on the record-breaking success of "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," which rocketed to a $96.2-million opening in North America this past weekend and became the biggest April opening in movie history.
But the Cap sequel isn't the only release on Marvel's 2014 docket. On Aug. 1, the comic book movie powerhouse will introduce audiences to "Guardians of the Galaxy," a cosmic action adventure directed by James Gunn ("Super") and based on the Marvel comic of the same name.
Chris Pratt stars as the roguish antihero Peter Quill, a.k.a. Star-Lord, who steals a mysterious orb and consequently finds himself on the run from powerful villain Ronan (Lee Pace), whose evil plans threaten the universe. Quill is forced to team up with a ragtag squad of alien misfits to battle the cosmic threat.
It's a quirky concept (one of the characters is a furry creature named Rocket Raccoon, voiced by Bradley Cooper), and the film's first trailer pointed up a fair share of snark and humor in addition to explosions and space battles.
That same spirit is on display in a brief new clip that debuted on MTV Monday night in the run-up to the network's annual MTV Movie Awards, set to be hosted by Conan O'Brien this weekend.
The clip spotlights a number of the offbeat characters that make up the cast, which includes Zoe Saldana decked out in green as the assassin Gamora, Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer, "Doctor Who" star Karen Gillan as Nebula (with a bald, blue head) and the tree-like humanoid Groot, voiced by Vin Diesel.
In addition to the five guardians, the cast also features Michael Rooker as Yondu, Djimon Hounsou as Korath, Benicio del Toro as the Collector, Glenn Close as Nova Prime Rael and John C. Reilly as Rhomann Dey.
What do you make of the latest "Guardians" clip? Are you excited for more cosmic comic adventures? Let us know in the comments.
— Noelene Clark and Gina McIntyre| @LATHeroComplex
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'Captain America 2' directors promise 'edgy' sequel


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Four players who spent significant time with Charlotte in recent seasons – forwards Drayson Bowman and Riley Nash, defenseman Brett Bellemore and goalie Justin Peters – have been with the Hurricanes for most, if not all, of the season, seemingly cementing themselves as full-time NHL players. Others, like defensemen Justin Faulk, who recently made the U.S. Olympic team, and Ryan Murphy played their games with the Checkers but had the pedigree that was always going to make their stays quite short.
To date, the former group is an example of how things are supposed to work – taking players who were productive in juniors and in college and slowly molding them into those capable of playing at the highest level.
"From a young age, they made a commitment to being professional hockey players," said Checkers coach Jeff Daniels, who is in his sixth season as head coach of the Hurricanes' AHL affiliate. "They deserve all the credit because they're doing all the hard work. Some guys have taken a little longer than others to make the jump, but it starts down here. You have to prove yourself, and those guys have."
For players like Bowman, Nash, Bellemore and Peters, it's a message that required some reinforcement, which the organization's player development staff was happy to provide. Daniels ended up playing a total of 425 NHL games, but not until he had played 515 in the IHL and AHL. Assistant coach Geordie Kinnear played 461 games in those leagues before getting his first taste of the NHL in year seven.
Cory Stillman, who, along with Glen Wesley (defensemen) and Greg Stefan (goalies), spends significant time with the Checkers during the season, can also pass along lessons from personal experience.
"I was a high draft pick to the NHL (sixth overall in 1992), got sent back to junior and played two years in the minors," said Stillman, a point-per-game player on the Hurricanes' 2006 Stanley Cup team. "For being a high pick, I took the long way in order to play on the fourth line. Fifteen years later, I was on the first line."
Why do some players take longer to make it than others?
"The biggest thing is understanding that your role might change when you get up top," said Stillman, who is in his second year as the organization's director of forward development following his retirement as a player in 2011. "(In the AHL), we know what you do well. We know that you can score. We know you can slow the play down. In order to make that next jump, you've got to bring another element to your game."
In addition to the aforementioned group of players that seem to have "graduated," so to speak, Stillman referenced Zach Boychuk as an example of how players learn over time. In his fifth professional season, Boychuk, a first-round pick in 2008, has, at age 24, rebuilt his stature as an NHL prospect with strong performances in Charlotte, leading to his current stint with Carolina.
"It's about being in people's faces," said Stillman. "It's not about getting his power-play rush down the wing which he does all the time in Charlotte. It would happen every game and he's really good at that. He's not seeing a lot of power-play time (in Carolina), but he's creating havoc. He's skating, he's stopping and starting and he's getting on bodies. It doesn't mean you have to run over and kill people, but at least be seen and be noticed. Be a hard player to play against.
"We're quick to judge people, and with Zach playing on two different teams and coming back last season, you get a taste of it and know you can play, and now as an individual you have to look and figure out what I have to do to make that jump in order to stay in the NHL."
A look at each of the former Checkers who have spent this season in Carolina and how they got to that point over time:
A third-round pick in 2007, Bowman, now 24, scored over 40 goals in each of his last two junior hockey seasons, winning the 2008 Memorial Cup with Spokane. Though his first three AHL seasons featured plenty of NHL stints here and there, he never hit 20 goals in the AHL and is now a depth player with Carolina.
To Stillman's point about finding your role, there's nothing entirely wrong with that.
"Just because you're a big goal scorer in junior doesn't mean you're a big goal scorer at the next level," said Daniels. "He accepted what he was going to be and took a better understanding of being a good, strong, two-way forward that can kill penalties and chip in goals here and there. He's an NHL skater, he's a smart player and it just took him some time to figure that two-way game out to the point right now where Kirk (Muller) trusts him in a lot of different situations."
Bowman still holds the Checkers' franchise record for longest goal streak, having scored in eight consecutive games during last season's lockout. That alone is more than the six goals he's scored in 77 NHL games as a full-time player for Carolina ever since that work stoppage ended.
"If you get a chance you take advantage of it, and that's what he's done," said Stillman. "He's down here and scores goals, but now he's up there in a fourth-line role, checks and kills penalties. It's a matter of finding your game at the next level."
Another player with high expectations – he was Edmonton's first-round pick in 2007 – Riley Nash didn't begin to produce at a high rate offensively until last season, his third in the AHL. Despite playing a career-low 57 games with Charlotte, he set a career high with 37 points. Save for a playoff cameo with Charlotte once the Hurricanes had wrapped things up last season, he's been in the NHL for all but one game since February.
"That was the best game I've ever seen him play," said Daniels of Nash, who scored two goals in Texas on March 23. "Once you get a taste of the next level you want to stay there.
"His first year (in Charlotte) was a real learning year for him, just the grind of the schedule and the pace of the game coming in from college. He kind of took baby steps his first year and each year got better and better until last year his confidence was where it needed to be. You saw some of the skill he had that made him a first-round draft pick. He's a very smart hockey player."
Nash has 10 points in 36 games as Carolina's third-line center this season. When he suffered an injury last week, that meant a player coming up from Charlotte to replace him, instead of the other way around.
It usually takes a long time, often years, of yo-yoing back and forth between leagues before making it as a full-time player. Once Bellemore got his first chance, that was pretty much it.
Bellemore, now 25, played most of four AHL seasons before playing a single NHL game. That game came last season, and only when a number of his teammates had preceded him over the course of a string of injuries that hit Carolina's defense. Like Nash, except for returning to Charlotte when Carolina's season was all but over, he hasn't come back.
"For myself and Geordie, he's a guy that we can always use as a reference for sticking with it," said Daniels. "When we have one-on-one meetings with players, we always use Belly's name as saying, 'Listen. Never stop believing. Keep believing in your dream, because it might not happen for two, three or four years down the road, but when it does, you'll appreciate it a lot more.'"
"He just stuck to it and there was a lot of up and down, but the progression was always elevated," said Kinnear. "He learned to be mentally tough, which is paying dividends for him now at the next level. I want to teach players down here so that they're not tweeners – so that they go up and be successful right away and can read and play the game at a high level. My philosophy is that when you go up, I want you to stay up. I don't want you coming up and down."
Bellemore, a sixth-round pick in 2007, is the least-heralded prospect of the group – a longshot who got by with work and grit rather than natural skill. As it just so happened, that ended up being the kind of player Carolina needed.
"As coaches, we really appreciate him for what he did," said Daniels. "Some nights it doesn't look pretty, but the job always gets done."
Carolina's first-round pick all the way back in 2004, Peters, now 27, had sharper ups and downs than most. He spent the entire 2011-12 season in the NHL but played only 12 games as the Hurricanes handed an extremely heavy workload to Cam Ward. In the next offseason and each that followed it, Carolina signed a veteran backup – Brian Boucher, then Dan Ellis, then Anton Khudobin - to try and avoid a repeat of that situation, essentially making Peters an AHL player months before training camp even began.
This summer, it was the signing of Khudobin that tagged Peters for a return to Charlotte, where he had put together what was statistically the best-ever season by a Checkers goalie one year earlier. If he was disappointed about not getting more of a chance to prove himself – he didn't even get an NHL exhibition game last fall – it didn't show.
"He was unbelievable, right from day one," said Daniels. "When he got sent down he called me right away and let me know that he was coming and wanted to get settled right away. His focus was on the team down here and being the goalie he can be."
Peters only played one game for Charlotte – a season-opening win in Oklahoma City – before an injury to Khudobin put him back in the NHL. With both Khudobin and Ward out of the lineup at one point, Peters more than held his own as the Hurricanes' starter, raising his profile to the level that the team won't risk putting him on waivers by sending him back to Charlotte.
"He's always been a great competitor," said Daniels. "Nobody out-works Petey with the way he battles in the net, and that really rubs off on the players in front of him because they want to work so hard for him.
"From my time with him, he's so much mentally stronger. Nothing bothers him. He's just focused and he doesn't get wrapped up in the after-the-whistle stuff. His focus is on doing his job and he's obviously been great for Carolina this year."
Those four players have set the first real-life examples of players who have made it after paying their dues, valuable reinforcement to current Checkers that have either been in the AHL for years or have just turned pro and are already starting to feel the anxiety of time ticking away.
"Some guys are going to come right out of junior and come right to the NHL, some guys are going to take a year and some guys are going to take two or three years," said Stillman. "As an organization and as people, don't write them off and say they can't play. You never know. Some guys don't make it to the NHL until they're 26 or 27 and then they play another 10 years.
"Those guys are up there now and you're going to see more come through here. That's what this is. It's a development league."


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Now that all fantasy football leagues are embedded into playoff time, there are some of us left on the outside, bemoaning all of this season's could-have-beens.
Thankfully, college football has thrown together 35 games — seriously, 35 — that they append "Bowl" to their name to fool us into caring. Since I have nothing else to do, here's my pick for all of those games:
New Mexico Bowl, 2 p.m. Dec. 21
Colorado State
over Washington State
Colorado State's mascot is Cam the Ram, which is a little cutesy but makes sense. Washington State's is Butch T. Cougar, and in a fit of intense elucidation, his Wikipedia entry states: "As his name indicates, Butch is a cougar." The entry also says that Butch has not been represented by a live cougar since Butch VI died in 1978. Cutesy live ram still trumps that.
Las Vegas Bowl, 3:30 p.m. Dec. 21
USC over Fresno State
The USC Trojans derive their name from ancient Greeks. Zeus' daughter, Tyche, is the goddess of fortune and luck. The game is being played in Las Vegas.
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, 5:30 p.m. Dec. 21
San Diego State over Buffalo
I could not find any evidence that buffaloes eat potatoes. Although Googling this largely just gives one buffalo wing-flavored potato recipe, so I am not claiming expertise.
New Orleans Bowl, 9 p.m. Dec 21
Tulane over Louisiana-Lafayette
To watch all the games on this inaugural day of bowls would require at least 10 hours of your time. Tulane has a drinking song whose first two lines are:
"Drink, drink, drink, drink
Drink, drink, drink, drink"
The spirit(s) seems fitting.
Beef O'Brady's Bowl, 2 p.m. Dec. 23
Ohio over East Carolina
East Carolina isn't even a real state.
Hawaii Bowl, 8 p.m. Dec. 24
Oregon State over Boise State
Hawaii is known as the Paradise of the Pacific. I don't think Boise is even the paradise of Idaho.
Little Caesars Pizza Bowl, 6 p.m. Dec. 26
Pittsburgh over Bowling Green
To engage in the traditional post-Christmas meal, those who attend Pittsburgh have four Little Caesars within their city limits. There is only one in Bowling Green, Ohio.
Poinsettia Bowl, 9:30 p.m. Dec. 26
Northern Illinois over Utah State
The Huskies' cardinal is the closest school color to the red of the poinsettia involved in this contest.
Military Bowl, 2:30 p.m. Dec. 27
Marshall over Maryland
Only one of these schools is the last name of the first General of the Army.
Texas Bowl, 6 p.m. Dec 27
Minnesota over Syracuse
Texas has problems with pocket Gophers, some of that problem being that they eat Orange trees. This has been brought to you by stunningly appropriate mascot-based facts.
Fight Hunger Bowl, 9:30 p.m. Dec. 27
BYU over Washington
In such a humanitarian-sounding game, how could you go against the Mormons?
Pinstripe Bowl, noon Dec. 28
Notre Dame over Rutgers
Somehow, the classy image of pinstripes seems to mesh with Fighting Irish to me. It at least meshes better than when combined with New Jersey.
Belk Bowl, 3:20 p.m. Dec. 28
Cincinnati over North Carolina
Belk is apparently "a leading retail department store offering the latest in women's, juniors' and kids' apparel." I was not aware of this, but the answer was available. No one has yet been able to make available a definite answer as to what a Tar Heel is, so I'm holding a grudge.
Russell Athletic Bowl, 6:45 p.m. Dec. 28
Louisville over Miami
It is impossible to read the name of this bowl and not think of athletic supporters. The NCAA seems to determine rather often that Miami has issues with its athletic supporters.
Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl, 10:15 p.m. Dec. 28
Michigan over Kansas State
Wolverines coach Brady Hoke could put away multiple times more wings than Wildcats coach Bill Snyder. Exhibit A: Inputting Hoke's name into Google images returns the top two categories of "Brady Hoke eating" and "Chris Christie."
Armed Forces Bowl, 11:45 a.m. Dec. 30
Navy over Middle Tennessee
They call it the Armed Forces Bowl and then make players awake for a morning kickoff time. Middle Tennessee doesn't even expect Middle Tennessee to win.
Music City Bowl, 3:15 p.m. Dec. 30
Ole Miss over Georgia Tech
You cannot top a team representing Robert Johnson in the Music City Bowl without making your own deal with the devil.
Alamo Bowl, 6:45 p.m. Dec. 30
Oregon over Texas
Visitors win at The Alamo — it's historical fact.
Holiday Bowl, 10:15 p.m. Dec. 30
Texas Tech over Arizona State
The Holiday Bowl takes place on the day before the day that is a fake holiday? That makes no sense, just like a two-touchdown underdog winning.
AdvoCare V100 Bowl, 12:30 p.m. Dec. 31
Boston College over Arizona
This used to be the Independence Bowl, and Boston and independence go together like Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.
Sun Bowl, 2 p.m. Dec. 31
UCLA over Virginia Tech
Virginia and sun, however, go together like Virginia and winning the Civil War…
Liberty Bowl, 4 p.m. Dec. 31
Rice over Mississippi State
…or is it like Mississippi and liberty?
Chick-fil-a Bowl, 8 p.m. Dec. 31
Texas A&M over Duke
It is fitting that two southern teams are playing in a bowl sponsored by a company doing what it can to advance the deepest of Deep South values. The deeper team thus comes out on top here.
Gator Bowl, noon Jan. 1
Nebraska over Georgia
Heart of Dallas Bowl, noon Jan. 1
UNLV over North Texas
Capitol One Bowl, 1 p.m. Jan 1
South Carolina over Wisconsin
Outback Bowl, 1 p.m. Jan 1
LSU over Iowa
Early on New Year's Day? Iowa is No. 1, Wisconsin ranks eighth and Georgia 11th on the Princeton Review's list of party schools for 2013, so they might not be ready for that game time.
Those from Las Vegas, though? It's not even their bedtime yet.
Rose Bowl, 5 p.m. Jan. 1
Stanford over Michigan State
The game name, stadium name, and Tournament of Roses parade are sometimes enough to convince women to care. Tiger Woods went to Stanford and is the king of making women care.
Fiesta Bowl, 8:30 p.m. Jan 1
Baylor over UCF
The fact that Jimmy Kimmel has started a contest in which viewers can send him a single chip that he will then put into a bowl and eat while watching the game stands to be the most entertaining part of this contest.
Sugar Bowl, 8:30 p.m. Jan. 2
Alabama over Oklahoma
Isn't it nice to get down to these bowl names that feel like something? Or at least make some sort of sense? It would also make sense that a team that is a no-time-left, 109-yard, missed-field-goal return away from playing for a third straight national championship wins its bowl game.
Cotton Bowl, 8 p.m. Jan 3
Oklahoma State over Missouri
But not every team that was a steppingstone on the Auburn express can turn it into motivation.
Orange Bowl, 8:30 p.m. Jan. 3
Ohio State over Clemson
Speaking of playing with a chip on one's shoulder pads, how about returning to a bowl game one season after NCAA sanctions kept you from playing in one after a perfect 2012 season?
BBVA Compass Bowl, 1 p.m. Jan 4
Houston over Vanderbilt
GoDaddy Bowl, 9 p.m. Jan 5
Ball State over Arkansas State
These are the two fill-in games, the insignificant contests someone thought people could care about ahead of the season's final contest. In honor of the mindset, I have picked the schools that feel more insignificant to me. I feel no need to apologize for this, since that status gains them the advantage in this dynamic.
BCS Title Game, 8:30 p.m. Jan. 6
Florida State over Auburn
Jameis Winston has proven rather adept at avoiding pesky nuisances that appear to have chances to bring him down.
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The MMO-FPS was first announced in 2009. The PlayStation 3 version of Dust 514 will feature support for Move and a dedicated Home space, along with unnamed support for Sony's upcoming NGP device.
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Posted on 08/26/2013 6:06:47 AM PDT by John W
(Reuters) - Orders for long-lasting U.S. manufactured goods recorded their biggest drop in nearly a year in July and a gauge of planned business spending on capital goods tumbled, casting a shadow over the economy early in the third quarter.
The Commerce Department said on Monday durable goods orders dropped 7.3 percent as demand for goods ranging from aircraft to computers and defense equipment fell. That was the biggest decline since last August and snapped three consecutive months of gains
Orders for these goods, which range from toasters to aircraft, had increased 3.9 percent in June.
Economists polled by Reuters had expected durable goods orders to fall 4.0 percent.
Non-defense capital goods orders excluding aircraft, a closely watched proxy for business spending plans, fell 3.3 percent, breaking four straight months of gains. It was the biggest fall since February.
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Recovery Summer 4.0. Happy Days are here again! lol
Yes. Love this Obama covering paragraph-—
"The decline in orders for both durable and capital goods suggested manufacturing will probably not bounce back as quickly as many economists had expected after hitting a speed bump early in the year."
How many "speed bumps" have there been in the last four and a half years?
Reporting By Lucia Mutikani, Editing by Andrea Ricci
When will the ObamaBots at CNBC admit that for eaach of the last three years their phony Obama "recovery" has turned into a "summer swoon"?
Meanwhile, the US national debt marches inexorably upward toward $17 Trillion. We should "arrive" at that number sometime next month. Unfrotunately there are no speed bumps on this road.
Someone recently described the US economy as being in a "stealth depression". Pretty good description.
Who can buy big ticket items on part time pay?
This should come as no surprise with the ACA Monstrosity staring us in the face.
I'm still trying to figure out how many dips we've had. At one point economists were worried about a double dip. That came and went. I think we're up to a sextuple dip or beyond now.
We need a cheer leading alert for the admin sycophants to tell us it isn't as bad, still, as we think.
Recovery Autumn!
Who can buy big ticket items on part time pay?
LOL! Champagne tastes on a beer budget. :)
Seriously, you're absolutely right. Even if you have a full time job there's the worry that the ACA monstrosity could reduce your hours and increase your medical expenses.
Obama has destroyed the American Dream.
They planned that.
During the 2008 campaign they railed against "middle-classism", the idea that everyone should work hard to become middle class. Yes, they rejected this. They said people should work in non-profit orgs and stuff.
Remember what Pelosi said about being on welfare so you can be an artist or whatever.
The middle class is also always one of the first things socialists and communists destroy.
Mr. & Mrs. America....you best wake up and realize that Obamacare, etc. is going to kill not only good medical care in the USA....but, worse, it will destroy millions of jobs. If you have not figured it out yet...Obama has no love for the USA....he is working to destory our economy...and, with it, our nation.
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The middle class is also always one of the first things socialists and communists destroy.
True that. Make it so that both the poor and rich are beholden to the government. Eliminate that pesky, independence that the middle class represents.
Impoverished peasants on the dole are much easier to control, so are a few large corporations without all the small businesses mucking things up.
I remember shortly after Dear Leader was elected, Rush was mentioning how his plans had a ZERO percent chance of pulling America out of the recession. Obamanomics simply couldn't and wouldn't work, no matter how hard the libs tried. It's a simple matter of math and economics, kind of like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. We're now almost five years into Dear Leader's economic recovery and, as Rush predicted, it's just not working. And it won't.
very true
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Junior forward Haywood Wright, who has missed the Bulldogs' last three games with a knee injury suffered in the Feb. 13 win at Princeton, will sit out the final four games of the 2008-09 season. The injury, which has recently been diagnosed as a torn anterior cruciate ligament, leaves Yale without its second-leading scorer and top rebounder. Wright averaged 9.5 points and 7.5 rebounds through the Bulldogs' first 21 games this season and led the Ivy League at the time of her injury with 1.6 blocked shots per game.
"This is a tremendous loss for our team," said Chris Gobrecht, the Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954 Head Coach of Women's Basketball at Yale. "Haywood is one of our premiere players on both ends of the floor."
In the Bulldogs' most recent outing, a 77-61 loss at Columbia on Saturday, freshman forward Michelle Cashen played a career-high 34 minutes and posted her first career double-double with 22 points and 11 rebounds. Additionally, sophomore forward Victoria Perez, also setting a personal best with nine minutes played, scored the first four points of her collegiate career.
"Our younger post players have stepped up in the last few games, but there is no quick fix to replace Haywood's talent and experience," said Gobrecht.
The Bulldogs have also played the entire 2008-09 season without sophomore forward Lindsey Williams, a unanimous selection to the All-Ivy Rookie Team in 2007-08. Williams, who averaged 8.6 points and a team-best 6.6 rebounds in her freshman season, underwent surgery this off-season to repair a knee injury.
"Lindsey made a choice that hopefully benefits the team and, more importantly, her overall health in the long run," said Gobrecht. "With Lindsey and Haywood rejoining Mady [Gobrecht, 7.1 ppg, 7.3 rpg] in the post and the addition of an extremely talented incoming class, we will be a greatly improved team next season."
The 2008-09 Bulldogs wrap up their home schedule with Ivy League contests against Penn and Princeton on Feb. 27 and 28. Tip-off from the John J. Lee Amphitheater in New Haven on both Friday and Saturday is scheduled for 7 p.m. The following weekend, Yale closes out the regular season with games at Dartmouth and Harvard.
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Ok I'll say a big holy crap to finding this out about Ace. I mean Gold Roger's son!? I mean how the heck do you just drop that kind of thing on people. I thought the whole thing about Dragon was incredible enough and now we find this out? Talk about a brotherly bond between the son's of some of the most amazing people on the planet. Not to mention that Ace came to see Whitebeard as a Father adding another incredible person into the mix. I really didn't see this coming at all.
Still this is going to be one insane battle. Honestly Whitebeard has to be beyond the level we've seen in the series so far to stand up to this kind of situation. I hate to completely discount 10,000 marines, but really they are small fry in this.
Hopefully Luffy can get that gate open fast since the extra help will probably be needed before the end.
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I'm more curious about what FUNimation is going to be doing after this movie is released in Japan on DVD. They are releasing the anime on their website. I'm hoping they will put a rush on this movie and officially release it to the US. Rather than waiting till they release the other movies. I would much rather wait patiently for the US release than go to a fansub version, but I'd like a time line of what to expect.
I'm loving what FUNimation is doing with the series. It feels great to support an official release of the anime and get good and pretty accurate translations. Since they started airing One Piece. I have not been to a fansub site in six months. I've sworn off One Piece fansubs. It's a hell of a lot better than what VIZ does to the mangas.
I'm even writing reviews of the latest episodes on another anime news/community site. I can't say the name since I know outside links aren't really allowed, or is it only not allowed to post links for scanltion and fansub sites?
I have to say that I thought Episode 458 felt utterly pointless after Episode 459. 459 pretty much repeated everything that happened in 458. They introduced the Shichibukai then the Admirals.
I at least hope they give the people on the Whitebeard side the same level of treatment.
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Doflamingo cracks me up every time he gets excited. The sadistic bastard is thirsting for battle .
Roger be-questing that Garp look after Ace was handled very nicely. Nice musical choices throughout this episode as well.
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Buggy's parody of Moses' parting of the waves was amusing.~
Like the detail put into the time Rouge was carrying Ace as well. Anime seems to expand on a lot of things the manga only glances over.~
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Whitebeard knows how to make an entrance. The ships coming in with the mist. The Moby Dick rising from the water.
I hope the animators have fun and give us an epic battle of epic proportions. They've been building this up for weeks. They really want to stretch out their episodes before they dive into this story arc.
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For starters, we'll see more attempts to draw a direct line from the Bible to a political agenda. The Rev. Jim Wallis, a popular adviser to leading Democrats and an organizer of the Berkeley meeting, routinely engages in this kind of Bible-thumping. In his book "God's Politics," Mr. Wallis insists that his faith-based platform transcends partisan categories.Do religious ideas undermine democratic discourse? Some would say that all religion should be purged from political debate, but that excludes or burdens a lot of people whose natural way of thinking and speaking combines religion with ideas about the good.
"We affirm God's vision of a good society offered to us by the prophet Isaiah," he writes. Yet Isaiah, an agent of divine judgment living in a theocratic state, conveniently affirms every spending scheme of the Democratic Party. This is no different than the fundamentalist impulse to cite the book of Leviticus to justify laws against homosexuality.
When Christians - liberal or conservative - invoke a biblical theocracy as a handy guide to contemporary politics, they threaten our democratic discourse. Numerous "policy papers" from liberal churches and activist groups employ the same approach: they're awash in scriptural references to justice, poverty and peace, stacked alongside claims about global warming, debt relief and the United Nations Security Council....
A completely secular public square is neither possible nor desirable; democracy needs the moral ballast of religion. But a partisan campaign to enlist the sacred is equally wrongheaded. When people of faith join political debates, they must welcome those democratic virtues that promote the common good: prudence, reason, compromise - and a realization that politics can't usher in the kingdom of heaven.
The problems really arise when speakers in the political debate start citing texts that some people hold sacred and others don't. The polical discourse goes awry if they use these texts as dictates that must be followed, not because they make intrinsic sense, but because they come from God. How is someone who disagrees supposed to argue? The text is not sacred? Well, they could argue for a different interpretation of the text. But do people who believe in a religious text want to hear a nonbeliever reshape its meaning? And does the nonbeliever want to have to deal with that text? It's not the most fruitful way to have a discussion about politics, but I don't think it should be delegitimated as undemocratic. I think it's more undemocratic to try to constrain the speech of the many people who think in terms of religion.
As for the politicians who covet their votes and frame their pitches in religious terms for their own advantage, they won't escape our judgment. I think it's good for democracy to give us a big juicy chance to hone our critical skills. I tend to agree with Loconte that the use of religion will go badly, but it's understandable that liberals should want to provide a religious version of their arguments, as long as some conservatives are using and doing well with religious arguments.


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Great and award-winning works of art have been made from the most outlandish of materials from Chris Ofili's depiction of the Holy Virgin Mary encrusted with elephant dung and Damien Hirst's pickled tiger shark representing life and death to the unmade bed of Tracey Emin and the unspeakable bodily fluids of avant garde duo Gilbert & George. But all of these works will pale into insignificance if a plan to dispose of solid domestic and even toxic industrial waste by building solid monuments to waste is undertaken.
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Moreover, if this solidifying material were shaped into slabs, these might be stacked to form a pyramid surrounded by a lined ditch. "Such a system is sustainable, easy to control, and does away with the need for an extensive and 'eternal' monitoring system," Schuiling explains. He points out that a water-repellent coating would keep any leaching of materials from the pyramids to an absolute minimum, while periodic monitoring of the runoff could be used to control any potential hazardous leakage.
"These pyramids, erected in prominent places, could serve as a tourist attraction and become a source of income rather than a continuing financial burden," Schuiling adds. He even suggests that these large-scale structures might be used as the foundation for building dwellings, office buildings, and leisure facilities, particularly in flood-prone regions. Either way, they would be monument to the vast amounts of waste generated by the throwaway society in which we live.
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Affordable Housing Trust Fund's Board of Trustees on Wednesday evening heard an update on the status of cleaning up soil contamination at the former site of the town garage.
The chairman of the Affordable Housing Committee, who also serves as a trustee for the trust, told her colleagues that the committee has received an estimate of $15,000 for additional cleanup at 59 Water St., a parcel that is being eyed for developing subsidized housing.
"This is work that has been ongoing since last summer that the Affordable Housing Committee has paid for," Catherine Yamamoto said. "Tests were done on the site that determined it had contamination from underground storage tanks."
Yamamoto said her committee has a proposal in hand from environmental engineering firm O'Reilly, Talbot and Okun of Springfield. The proposal, which will be taken up at the AHC's Feb. 12 meeting, says the contaminated earth could be removed and the surrounding areas tested within six weeks of the committee's decision to approve the expenditure.
The trustees decided to let the Affordable Housing Committee continue to deal with the issue, but trust Chairman Stanley Parese noted that if for some reason the committee decides not to authorize the expenditure, the trustees would revisit the issue.
Tuesday's meeting of the housing committee promises to be eventful. Yamamoto also told the trustees that the Feb. 12 session will include a face-to-face meeting with John Ryan, the consultant hired jointly by the trust and committee to assess the town's affordable housing needs.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Donte Whitner may start his own clothing line if he continues to get flagged for unnecessary roughness.
The San Francisco strong safety learned Tuesday he was being fined $21,000 for his hit on St. Louis Rams' wide receiver Chris Givens in the end zone with just under six minutes to play in Thursday's 35-11 49ers victory.
Whitner said he would appeal the penalty and has made up T-shirts with (hashtag)LegalHitner on the front that he will sell to drum up support. He's even suggested he might remove the 'W' from his last name.
"In my mind that hit was legal," Whitner said. "I lowered my shoulder and went for the midsection, where the ball was."
Whitner appeared to turn his shoulder into Givens in a successful attempt to knock the ball loose. He was called for unnecessary roughness when he appeared to make contact with Givens' helmet.
"I'm not happy with it," Whitner said. "The intent is not there. Maybe we should all put flags on and pull them off. Maybe the fans will like that."
The Rams scored on the next play.
"The game is changing," Whitner said. "If the coaching staff thinks it was a legal hit, there's nothing I can do except appeal it. The guy who was hit said it was a legal hit. I don't know what else I can do."
Whitner faced a similar situation against the Indianapolis Colts. He was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct after hitting Colts running back Ahmad Bradshaw with what seemed to be the crown of his helmet.
Replays showed that Whitner hit Bradshaw with his shoulder, so the penalty was rescinded and no further action was taken.
It's a different story this time around.
"It seems like on any big hit, they make the call on what the hit looks like," Whitner said. "I don't duck my helmet. I could have ran through the guy. Let's get Instant Replay, and get these things reversed on the field."
Whitner, who said he was fined during his rookie season with the Buffalo Bills in 2006, wants to get the word out regarding what he considers improper assessment of the new rule protecting "defenseless wide receivers." He said he's produced about 125 T-shirts and will soon open for business.
The former first-round draft pick intercepted a Sam Bradford pass in the end zone late in the second quarter and finished with three tackles, one for a loss, and two passes defended.
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The authors, no doubt to avoid legal troubles, never actually go through with any transactions. But I would be very curious to know how many scammers are on these sites (not like you could report them to the cops if they didn't deliver). I imagine the feedback/rating system helps, but plenty of scammers found a way to game ebay's system.
It's where I do my grocery shopping.
But these aren't organic farmed tomatoes! Damn you, shadyPeasant67!!
I was following the whole "Silk Road" site for a while. I even ordered a grey market (not illegal but not really legal to "sell for human consumption") drug off it, just to test the waters, and.... it didn't show up. So I sent the guy a message and... he appologized and sent another one, which did.
I would even call that "good customer service". That said, scams must be a problem and I may have gotten lucky. Last I saw (I lost interest shortly thereafter....I also never tried the "research chemical" so I can't say whether it was real... I want to say it was AMT but, I honestly don't remember) they were talking about makeing "seller accounts" pay to join.
That at least decreases the incentive to scam, if they implemented it. I looked at some other sites, and some of them had a more in depth verification process before you could start selling. Not sure what that amounts to, as I never went through it.
Though I can't find much past year 2010 - in 2010, "they" were becoming concerned because the number of residential households relying solely on mobile phone service was up to
I'd also expect that the cops are using some of these as sting operations.
I know a number of people who have successfully ordered LSD (for ornamental purposes only) from a guy on Silk Road. It has a feedback system which works pretty well.
Scammers can only get away with it a few times before changing user names, and few are willing to support a guy with 0 feedback when there are sellers with the same goods with tons of positive feedback.
Although it's possible, I think that would require too much cooperation between different law enforcement agencies. Remember you don't need a recipient's consent to send them an illegal substance. What they tell you to do when ordering their merchandise is to have it sent to a friends house. When the package arrives, take a marker and write "return to sender." Act like you don't know what's in it and then take it to a different location for consumption.
Pay Pal seems to work quite well for ebay purchases. I must have made 100 purchases at Ebay and have never had much of a problem with anything at all. I did have one trivial misrepresentation of the completeness of an older musical instrument. I love shopping on Ebay.
Paypal and eBay are complimentary businesses. eBay lets random Joes hawk stuff online that other random Joes may want. Paypal lets them do it the Internet way - by using credit cards. Because otherwise, the only way to pay for the sale is cash,
But I would be very curious to know how many scammers are on these sites (not like you could report them to the cops if they didn't deliver).
At this point you'd be buying fantasy product and paying for it with fantasy money, so it's an open question who is scamming who exactly in this case.
Ok, so I jest. A little bit.
Time to switch. Remember the switch.
Sounds like a reason to blow a grand on stuff you shouldn't,
in the name of writing an article.
Until you read the article and see it's a talk thru.
Then you read the entire article and realize, it's not even a
talk-thru, it's a talk-about. And not even a good one at that.
There is really no info, except, get bitcoins, use Tor, find
Wow. In depth reporting at its finest.
What's worse, the one notable statement of what he could find:
M9 Tactical handgun with an illegal silencer, unregistered of course.
Is not an illegal weapon. Most states in the US, you can purchase
an unregistered weapon from person to person. Further here in AZ,
that is NOT an illegal silencer (unless you don't purchase the very
cheap $200 license to own a silencer).
So, basically, he told us about a http://www.gunbroker.com/ [gunbroker.com] that
takes bitcoins. Lol.
Btw, $2000, your own Stargate PS90
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=284429588 [gunbroker.com]
for those that shall troll me, yes... Stargate used P90's but unless
you are a LEO... THOSE are illegal for commoners.
Man I wish I had a spare 2 grand.
On the contrary, a short barreled rifle is just a tax stamp away (very similar to the silencer scenario). There is no LEO-only restriction, and BATF still issues the tax stamps for newly manufactured SBR's to regular people (unlike the situation with newly manufactured select-fire weapons).
Looking at that particular auction, that's the carbine version of the P90, semiauto and with an extended barrel to meet the barrel-length requirement, not the select-fire PDW used on the show. That variant was made so that it could be sold to civilians.
Short barrel rifles are legal for civilians to own, they just again need a $200 tax stamp upon transfer, like silencers. No issues at all, so long as you jump through the hoops properly.
Only fully automatic weapons are banned, and then only if they weren't already registered prior to the ban in 1986. Now that means all P90s, of course since they weren't made until after that. However you can get the short barrel variety. FNH doesn't seem to want to sell them to civilians, but licensed dealers will modify th
a weapon designed to be fired by the use of a single hand and with an overall length less than 26 inches, or having a barrel or barrels of a length less than 18 inches in the case of a shotgun or having a barrel of a length less than 16 inches in the case of a rifle (1) from which may be fired or ejected one or more solid projectiles by means of a cartridge or shell or by the action of an explosive or the igniting of flammable or explosive substances; or (2) for which the propelling force is a spring, elastic band, carbon dioxide, air or other gas, or vapor.
"Short barrel rifles are legal for civilians to own, they just again need a $200 tax stamp upon transfer, like silencers."
With one important caveat: your state may have additional restrictions on SBRs or silencers that make them illegal (in that state) even if you've got a tax stamp.
Further here in AZ, that is NOT an illegal silencer (unless you don't purchase the very
cheap $200 license to own a silencer).
Going off at a tangent here but what possible reason does anyone have to own a silencer?
Genuine question BTW.
Same reason for owning a corvette, it makes your dick bigger.
The article mentions:
Bulk credit cards 6.5BTC
Credit card reader/writer 76.60350 BTC
M9 Tactical handgun with an illegal silencer for 225.00000 BTC
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Gregg started with $1000 and a took journey into the darker side of the Internet using two tools: Bitcoin and the Tor Bundle."
No..., he didn't.
It makes it seem like he did. But I doubt the veracity after reading the entire article.
Considering the article description, there would be no point to have converted the
money, unless he's never done it before and likes OMG ponies. Because in order
for it to be a black market purchase, you must purchase something, that doesn't
exist on the regular market. ie, He needed to commit a crime.
And then write about it.
Tits or GTFO.
Because in order for it to be a black market purchase, you must purchase something, that doesn't exist on the regular market.
That's not true at all. Black market != market for illegal goods.
Black market means that the trade is being conducted outside the legally operating market, not that the item(s) are illegal.
Cigarettes are legal. Buying cigarettes, cash-only, tax-free off the back of a truck is a black market transaction.
Black markets capture economic activity that is "priced out" of the official market due to constraints on trade (like manufacturing quotas, taxes, legal price floors or caps, etc).
As the market he delved into was not an official market, and operated out of the purview of LE, taxing authorities, etc, it was the black market.
We are splitting hairs, but generally speaking activities which are legal but are done illegally (to dodge taxes, regulations, and the such) is considered to be Grey Market activity.
Cash under the table is considered more of a economic crime, and is generally considered a lesser moral offence.
Black markets deal with illegal actives done illegally or within a criminal organization.
i.e. bootlegging untaxed cigarettes that you picked up at the reservation is one thing. Running a organization (multiple people,
You may want to read the article a bit deeper. It's not as narrow as you think.
Yes, it does refer Grey market cars and textbooks.
However, the article also refers to the underground economy in legitimate goods to avoid taxes. The article refers to bootlegging alcohol to avoid taxes - which is very darn close to your example of cigarettes. And to paying workers under the table.
In a free market, the government provides protection from force and fraud. Black markets are closer to feudalism than capitalism.
Free market's don't involve the government at all. Fraud is always possible.
If taxes and governments are involved it's not really 'free' as in 'free beer' or as in 'freedom'. It's a regulated market.
Fraud is possible but charges can be laid and you can sue. With black markets you enforce your own contracts, if you can. I know there was a marijuana dealer in my home town whose wife was paid a visit by bikers who were taking over their business. They didn't offer a superior product or service at a lower price, they convinced their competition that if they didn't shut down their wife would die a horrible death.
Adam Smith did not promote the dissolution of government as far as I know. If you think that's w
Your post is woefully underrated and a good example of the civilisation we all buy when we pay our taxes (to paraphrase another user's sig).
So you don't believe people would trade at all without a government? I've been the victim of fraud a few times on Ebay and I don't recall the government reimbursing me for my losses. Nor do I recall a government agent following me around to protect me from being mugged.
So I think you are wrong on all counts. The government doesn't protect me from force or fraud and there would certainly be a free market without a government.
Rather than protecting me at all, the government is what I need protection from. The
Glad it was not just me. Can someone break the link to this article? It's not an article worth reading!
Best I can figure is they are trying to get reader counts somehow and sent the link to
Well it would have been a bit more in-depth, but after the first few deliveries of premium 'shrooms and acid drops, he kinda lost focus...
Well it would have been a bit more in-depth, but after the first few deliveries of premium 'shrooms and acid drops, he kinda lost focus...
Lol, well played.
I propose we call these "Attractive and Successful Markets of Alternative Economy"
I propose we call these "Attractive and Successful Markets of Alternative Economy"
What's wrong with calling it a black market? Or are you a racist?
Jesus, how's the air traffic up there?
-Go to shady parts of a Big City.
-ask around for [illegal stuff]
-Use anonymous Cash (-- mention this is *BAD*, Um-Kay)
-Conclude "Big Cities" are bad and should be controlled/blocked off. Should have check points. (IOW: Nazis had the right idea: "Papers Please")
When will these fuddy-duddies/ idiots die-off so that this constant fear-mongering can stop?
When will these fuddy-duddies/ idiots die-off so that this constant fear-mongering can stop?
Die off won't help. You need a fundamental societal shift where fear doesn't sell. Damn unlikely to happen anytime soon. I'm sure right about where scarey movies stop selling, roller coasters go away... Or you need something "real" to be scared about instead of fearmongering on TV. Maybe a nice civil war, or ethnic cleansing, or utter economic collapse, or famine, or all 4 at the same time. They're extremely likely in our future; how far in future, who can say.
What MIGHT happen in the short term is the fuddy duddies die off so we no longer have to hear about how Elvis's hips, err, Dungeons and Dragons, err, video games, err, the gangster rap is corrupting the youth and there's this scarey internet thing, but in replacement we'll have to sit thru endless "Gen Y idiots gave away all their privacy on the internet; now they're screwed" and "all big business are always bogey man all the time" and stuff like that.
Or you need something "real" to be scared about instead of fearmongering on TV.
What about the ever expanding authoritarian state we find ourselves in?
When will these fuddy-duddies/ idiots die-off so that this constant fear-mongering can stop?
As an exterminator might say: you can't eradicate, only control. If you shot every idiot today, more would be born tomorrow, grow up and fill your nostrils with the fragrance of stupid.
Perfect analogy. Because, of course, there are no laws, law enforcement agencies, regulations or rules that attempt to shut down "offline" black markets, so the internet should work exactly the same way. Also, for the love of god, don't actually follow this plan. It is much more like to get you [shot] than to get you [illegal stuff].
If I have a stick, and I call one end of it "geniuses" and the other "idiots", then I cut off the end labeled "idiots" I do not get a stick with no "Idiots" end. Instead my stick still has an "idiots" end and it's even closer to the "geniuses" end. Continuing to apply that "solution" will only ensure I destroy the stick piece by piece.
When will these fuddy-duddies/ idiots die-off so that this constant fear-mongering can stop?
When they stop getting paid to do it. In other words when the alarmist media can stop selling advertising for it. Which all translates to: when the general public can no longer be fooled by the reactionaries.
Which will around the time that Joe Public finally realizes that "Reality TV" is anything but real, and that when anybody advertises themselves as "Fair and Balanced" the reality is probably something else.
In other words, don't hold your breath, the marching morons are coming... knee-deep in the water
Sorry, no string! *points to sign
Family Guy....
by the way, there are a number of fairly simple ways of avoiding all taxes by running an online business.
Its all the fault of this Internet thing. We've got to take steps to stamp it out. Fast.
Apparently one of the key factors in getting elected to representative government is knowing fuck-all about anything except having good hair.
Fixed for the sad truth.
having good hair.
That one is debatable as well...
Well, at least having better hair than your opponent.
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Roma have rejected an approach from Manchester City for their highly-rated defender Marquinhos, reports the Daily Mail.
The 18-year-old Brazilian is widely regarded as a Serie A star of the future, and has also courted attention from Spanish giants Real Madrid.
Capped at U17 international level, Marquinhos has been identified by Citizens boss Roberto Mancini as a player that he wants to bring to the Etihad Stadium.
The centre-back moved to Italy last season after impressing in his first few outings for Corinthians back in his homeland, and has quickly established himself alongside former Timao team-mate Leandro Castan as first choice for the Giallorossi.
His impressive performances for Zdenek Zeman's side have now attracted interest from a host of top European clubs, with Manchester City reportedly the first to make a tentative enquiry about Marquinhos's availability.
A transfer to the Premier League for Marquinhos would be the latest in a growing list of South American stars moving to England, with Carlos Tevez, Sergio Aguero and Pablo Zabaleta amongst the contingent currently playing at the Etihad Stadium.
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Top 5 with Lisa Foiles: Top 5 Sexiest Glasses
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Didn't enjoy this at all, there are hundreds of top 5 lists on YouTube, I didn't smile once while watching this.
Would there still be all the love for this if it was a guy doing it? I'm guessing not.
That's not a cat.
Good video.
I'd say she has a slightly french accent when speaking swedish. Quite fun that she included it at all. :D
Aslo, "fan" is closer to "shit" than "fuck".
Enjoyed the show, but isn't having a Top 5 instead of a Top 10 gonna instill more nerdrage because a character doesn't make the list? Good job, hope that future shows go great, and the skirt made me do a double-take.
Just sayin'.
It was ok for a first episode, except that the audio could use some work, also, opening and closing with a 4th wall breaker is not the best thing to do imho..and of course, it can't help the first impression that I very recently discovered the awesomeness of PressHearttoContinue aka Dodger on youtube :)
(Shameless plugin for a favorite youtuber notwithstanding, I'd argue that Gordon's glasses, the way they were presented are not sexy so much as character-defining, but who am I to talk >.<)
More fun than I thought it was going to be. Will continue to watch.
Lisa Foils from Angry Joe? Wha?
Here on the Escapist! NO WAY! COOL!
I enjoyed the show.
Well done Lisa. Welcome to the Escapist.
Still a little that needs to be done with delivery it felt a bit forced but that could just be me. Overall it was a good performance and it will make another great addition to the site.
hey I rember her from the angry joe show she is cool
Anamanaguchi on the intro = pro
In short, you've come to a conclusion, and no amount of lack of evidence on your part will sway it. And then people wonder why women are so hard to find in our hobby.
All I saw is: she knows she is attractive and wore something that she felt she looked good in. Is it impossible that she did so to pander to the "horny nerd" demographic? I'm not quite cynical enough yet not to give people the benefit of the doubt. Her outfit isn't even that provocative.
And finally, she can't control whether people drool over her or not. This being the internet, those posts (along with obligatory round of "tits or gtfo" "lol good one dude") would have cropped up even if she wore a raincoat or burqa.
FYI I'm gay, so I'm certainly not in the "drooling" demographic, I just find it irritating that women are typecast no matter how they dress. She dresses the way she is, she's enticing the droolers; if she dressed more conservatively, you'd have people complaining that she was deliberately avoiding the droolers. Nobody would even consider that she chose that outfit for her and not us. Women can't win.
This is a bandwagon I have jumped onto.
Oh my goodness, does this show need some better topics.
I can understand lists. They're fun, easy to do and hell, they offer some good opportunities for humour. Just look at Cracked or GamesRadar. But websites like them use better topics than "Top X Clothing". If you're struggling, take an old idea and give it a twist. For example, GamesRadar recently did a "Top 7 Fighting Games You've Never Played", and the "you've never played" keeps it from becoming the same stale subjects brought up.
There's hope for this series yet. I like the host and the tone and the attempts at humour were admirable.
My thoughts, in order:
1. Why am I watching this on The Escapist? This silly "Oh look at me I'm a hot girl doing this video with almost no content but you should watch anyway because I'm hot and I reach down my shirt into my breasts for stuff and I have a short skirt on LOOK AT ME I'M A HOT GIRL" kind of stuff belongs on YouTube. I mean really that's all it is, there isn't all that much content here. Top 5 glasses in gaming? Really? That's not exactly deep stuff here, I'd rather stick with stuff like the magazine style-articles and Extra Credits. Thought provoking content beats "I'm a hot girl watch me do stuff" any day.
2. They need to make a Burn Notice video game, because Michael Westen would own all of these fools.
3. I wonder how many people in the comments page are going to be on probation/suspension for violating that new rule that was added after people went nuts after that one ENN episode. (a few I see)
But in short, now that my mind has stopped drifting, I don't think I'll be coming back to watch the next update unless the tag for what's being listed seems like something that might have a bit of depth. Good luck on the series though.
I'll put my money down on "Hell no" as well.
I liked I Hit It With My Axe, so I'm sorry to see it go, but I'll give anything a fair chance to impress me. And I do appreciate how many things she is capable of hiding on her person.
One good gimmick and the outfit do not save the poor writing and the slapdash editing.
It's not a completely dead idea, but it decidedly needs work.
There was a cat? I didn't notice it from my retinas being seared by your whiteness.
I like how you put glasses on your pussy at the end. Maybe next time you can try without the cat? :D
How about a show where you do the sexiest finishing moves from Japanese fighting games?
While it was fun watching a sexy girl talk about crap that has no relevance at all, it really doesn't offer much substance. I honestly skipped forward several times, just to see if you'd be doing something redeeming.... but no.
Holy crap, that cat was huge!
I dunno.... nothing for me but I'll give it a few chanses before not giving a crap but I must say this but in a more civil form from the rest.
What a stunning woman she is.
Btw. why all the fuzz about the cat... I yust thinked it was unessesary and misplaced specally whith the glasses...
lol nice That 70s Show referance.
how many things does she keep between her tits?
I'm...ummm...wow, yeah this is exactly the type of girl I'd love to meet. God damnit, I wish I saw more girls like her around here...or any at all -_-
Good show though, made me smile more than enough times to warrant my continued viewing. The guy at the end talking about your outro was awesome. Definitely make that your exit!
I was hoping to see a pair of goggles. Were's my Raz?!
Oh well, this was pretty entertaining, and I'm looking forward to next week.
I'm gay, and I thought Lisa Foiles did this incredibly well. Maybe it's just because I remember her from that one episode of Malcolm in the Middle, but I think she's naturally charismatic.
i think she writes for Kotaku, and she frequently appears on the Angry Joe Show on Blistered Thumbs.
I hope the cat will be a recurring theme. You really can't go wrong with cats...
Welcome to The Escapist, it's great to see you here as well.
Sex sells then, eh.
So count me in the camp of wtf is this doing on the escapist. This is Youtube material.
And stop playing with that cat.
Yeah...I went there.
Ok, in all honesty it's not terrible. It's certainly better than Game Dogs or anything involving MovieBob. But this is hardly what I'd call an original idea, there's thousands of people out there who make lists like these on youtube. Also I take issue with lack of Quistis Trepe on this list, as well as anyone calling Gordon Freeman sexy. If he's a sexy beast, I'm a sexy vermicious knid.
She does get points for humor, and parodying that "hold the sexy girl" crap with a faceplant. And a big bonus for the Galaga bonus round jingle.
That's why I didn't complain that the escapist made her do it :P I doubt the escapist makes their film producers dress in certain ways, it just screams "Look at me, i'm a hot girl in a skirt".
But can you actually take her seriously in that outfit? Because I can't. I was watching the video thinking the entire time "This definitely isn't aimed at my mindset and has next to no humorous content"
Ya know I think the reason we are being volatile towards her(aside from the skimpy outfit, seriously I'd want you to wear something like that if we were about to have intercourse and not talk about a topic) is that we don't know her or really see any character. Seriously a Top 5 list which has had articles written by the escapist staff acknowledge while cheap are still popular with people. However the character suffers because she is really forced to pander towards the list instead of the audience and actually get into the deep reasons to understand who she is as a character and why we should like or dislike her.
Personally I thought this episode was weak, and probably for the first time I was turned off by a woman with really long hair(it was probably the bangs, not really doing anything for ya my darling. They just hang there flat covering your forehead).
Upon knowing that Lisa here actually worked with Angry Joe acknowledges that she has been to E3 and she wouldn't be doing all the crazy stuff with Joe without a passion for video games. by doing some indecisive intro of "what should I do guys?" I actually got more character out of the bumbling buffoons on the couch than Lisa. The guy with glasses is uncreative and lazy and the guy without glasses has an insane imagination that could take me to the next frontier. Lisa gave me pandering and while I will say she is physically an attractive person I'd like my characters with depth as to why they wear what they wear and do what they do.
Now Lisa doesn't have to go all business woman or plain jane on us but she has to create a character that she can be comfortable with. It's like that Gamer Girl topic Daniel Floyd of Extra Credits did on Youtube. Sure it's nice to know that you are a gamer girl but flaunting that with looks doesn't exactly help make a good first impression and if anything create volatile responses by the community. I don't know if I want to take you to bed with me or sit down and share a bit of passion about games.
Remember character matters because that's what strikes us to understand who you are. Daniel Floyd is the podium speaker with a squirrel voice, Yahtzee is a british man who to my knowledge audio edits his reviews together to be fast talking, Moviebob is a fat and jolly but critical critic who isn't afraid to ruffle some feathers being an American. What is Lisa however? Is she going to be a woman that I want to have a one night stand as she dresses like the girls from Jersey shore that is just cashing in on the whole video games are mainstream? Or is she going to be a woman that I want to get to know that can put on the great appearance and know that when I talk to her she is going to be smarter than I and that I can show my friends(and in private...well you know).
If anything you have a history already Lisa and using that will help us to understand and get to know you.
EDIT: I would like to make a proposal to Lisa and the Escapist Staff. I'd like her to write an article on who she is or something she wishes to discuss about that involves her character or past history.
The reason I ask for this is because while I realized that while I've been quite lucky to be introduced to a good deal of the video makers of the Escapist(Daniel floyd, Mr.Moviebob chipman, and of course Mr.Crowshaw) I've always had an experience to get to know their work beforehand. Other characters and sadly the women like Ms.Mayes and now Ms.Foiles I know nothing about of their work and their introductions were if anything foreign and not to my tasters.
So I want to get to know Ms.Foiles and her character Lisa and her past work and her style. Please realize that I am not asking for her biography or personal information but if anything more about her character's experience with the video game industry and who she has worked with and why she is taking on such a challenge(seriously turning any Top 5 list to be entertaining is really hard).
If anything it would be the skirt. Her bangs just hang there while that anime character has the fixed slight to the right.
The Escapist got its own gaming girl!
Is it chauvinistic to point that out? Yes, but I blame the cultural tendency to sexually objectify anything remotely titillating.
Good first vid though. I want that cat.
You know I would have watched the video anyway, without there being a girl in a short shirt and a tank-top.
It's the Escapist I watch everything here no matter what. :p
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Have apply
or have applied
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what are the differences ?
the car
a car
the villages
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Differences ?
Thank you
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Have apply Have should be preceded by past participle of the main verb
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Had apply Had should be preceded by past participle of the main verb
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A car = Any car which is not specified.
The car = A specific car which both, the person decribing and the person hearing are aware of.
The first time you speak of something use "a or an", the next time you repeat that object use "the".
I live in a house. The house is quite old and has four bedrooms.
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