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I haven't done many mods to Kermit other than putting on a new hood and fender (flop and tree casualties!). But I have a friend who just bought a 2006 TJ Rubicon and wants ME to build it up. First order of business - Hard top off and in storage. It may get sold to fund an OME lift setup.
But we put on a Bestop TrektopNX - their new soft top with sunrider/sunroof feature that doesn't use any frame hardware. It was a pain to install the first time, but after a few days of sun and stretching, looks REALLY good. If they drive it to work today, I'll throw up a pic of it.
We now have about 8 Jeeps where I work ready for offroad, so we're heading to a local OHV on the 28th to try things out. They're working on getting CB's installed, so I suspect I'll be doing a bit of antenna tuning these next few weeks. LOL
martyz Posts: 21Good to hear from you, Tom. Welcome back!0
Seriously considering letting the JK go like Hilldweller but unlike him, while the JK has after market support unlike the CRD, I am looking elsewhere. Looks the the ball joints are finally going just after buying a new tail light that wanted to be a swmming pool. But it was only one sheet metal screw and off came the light. If to really enjoy off roading it seems one rebuilds the vehicle. And yet just street use requires too much time and money. Thankfully Blue Rubi stickered at around 35k and from a fading memory paid around 28k and three years financing with no interest. Thank goodness it didn't sticker over 40K. Had sorrowful trips to Houston lately on always unfinished I-45 as opposed to the endless trips on always unfinished I35. Took Better_Half's H3.
I hate you GM.0
I'm back.
Thelma Jane is gone but I now have "Molly Jane," a "mall crawler." (I do not intend to beat the new Jeep all to pieces on the trails.)
Have you hugged your Jeep today?0
Thanks for the welcome back.
Have you hugged your Jeep today?0
Considered the options.
One loan payment remains.
Going in to dealer service tomorrow.0
For more then 4 years we regretted ever selling our 1999 Jeep Wrangler that we worked so hard on. Hand painting the camo and adding allot of simply adjustments to personalize "muffin". Spent years dreaming of when we had the doors off and just drove for days.. For some strange reason my wife wanted to get into a 2004 Jeep Commander.. this was the worse jeep we've ever had.. suffering through the issues, bad repairs and a number of misjudged upgrades.. So as of this past Monday the 30th.. we found a great deal on a used 2008 Jeep Wrangler X.. and my wife said this is be our last Jeep.. I've always said; never say never, cause you know when she sees a new jeep she'll want another one. So till then, I expect to have the doors off and replaced with soft doors, relocate the mirrors, take out the rear seat, throw all the camping gear in the back and just have fun.. again.0
Congrats on getting back into a Wrangler, ourjeeplife! Good move!
Have you hugged your Jeep today?1
Thanks Nona and Shawn.
Got my jeep back from service today. Everything is right with my world. Some vehicles need more attention than others but if you bought a factory extended warranty and have a good service advisor and a good mechanic that work for a good guy like Jamie, life is a lot less complicated.0
Been working very hard to get the word out.. and my efforts haven't gone unheard.. Just Yesterday got a few things from DayStar.. and a few days before some new Husky Liners mud guards.. I've been contacted by K&N, Krylon and Mequiar's but have yet to hear anything back..
The "Fallen Hero Project" is slow going.. I do have some exiting news.. Whitney my niece has offered to pose for me wearing the New DayStar 35th Anniversary t-shirt beside and in the jeep.. Although I'm not a professional photographer.. and I have a very limited camera.. I'll do my best to post images via my blog site soon after.0
As I wrote above, I only have a login here but also read elsewhere.
The above title is a thread elsewhere. If that was my local dealership I would be into a new ride from another manufacturer that day. Did that with the CRD. But funny, I use that dealership for my JK which is under new ownership again. It was more of the lousy CRD and lack of dealership/mechanic knowledge of a limited production vehicle. It seems initial ownership is great until a few miles go by on some vehicle lines.0
Finally completed both sets of mud guards.. Thou I've only written part I of this installation.. You get the jest of the whole post:
I am planning on purchasing a used Jeep Wrangler soft top in the next couple of months. Not for me - a 40 bday gift for my wife who has always wanted one. It will be a third vehicle - for fun - used on weekends when weather is nice. Not real tough and rough off roading. Purchased cars before - no clue about a Jeep Wrangler. Based on my price range - the Jeep Wrangler I will be looking at would be 2000 - 2005 with somewhere between 60,000 and 90,000 (based on some initial browsing I have done in the Louisville area). Want to know / learn what to look for - what to avoid - what to expect - what to be careful about. Making up the following as an example only: in the 2002 and 2003 - always or never buy a manual because the clutch was terrible. Again - that is just example only. Would some of you be willing to send some advice and/or tips? Very much appreciated!0
Some will say to stay away from 97's because they are the first year of the TJ's.
Biggest thing to look for is under the Jeep. Look for signs that it has been offroaded - scrapes, dents, leaks, excessive rust, mud on the top of the skid plate for the transmission.
For 05 and 06, there is some concern about the oil pump distribution assembly (OPDA), but it has been hit or miss. The newer TJ's will have the NV transmissions that have had positive reviews.
I know of some people in Louisville that may be able to help you look for a Wrangler.
Preference towards automatic or manual?
Personally, I'd go with a stock Jeep or one that has been LIGHTLY modified to ensure they haven't screwed anything up, but if you take a Jeep offroader with you, they can help you determine if it the mods are good or not.
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Great information. Much appreciated. My plan is to find something as stock as possible. "off roading" will probably be the occassional unpaved country road. So certainly not looking for off roading modifications. No preference with automatic or manual. I would lean to one or the other if a certain model or year had some history with a bad auto trans or bad clutch assembly, etc. Either is fine. I have see a few models in 4cyl but most in 6cyl. Understand less hp of course. Other than that - (there will be no towing) any things I should think about on engine size? I am looking and keeping my eyes open. I appreciate the guidance if you know of someone that could offer some assistance in looking for a Wrangler. Thank you, - Dan0
Having owned (still do) a 4cylinder 2.5L TJ, I'd say go for the 4.0 inline 6 if you can find one in your budget. Both are solid engines, but the day-in-day-out driving will be much easier on you with the 4.0 inline 6.
This saturday September 15th from 11am to 3pm (at least officially), ScreaminLizard and AEV are hosting a Jeep Show and a complimentary lunch and drinks and more. It is being hosted at ScreaminLizard in Bedford Texas.
Additional information is out there for out of towners.0
txpackersfan Posts: 27Did you ever buy a Wrangler? I'd be interested in what you learned as you went through the process. I too am looking for a used Wrangler for my wife. Something 2005 or newer with a manual transmission.
I've typically only bought Toyotas and Hondas for their reliability. Everything I read outside of Jeep forums says don't buy one. It's the lowest rated vehicle for reliability by Consumer Reports and that's based on actual surveys from consumers. But my wife doesn't care. She's always wanted one and we all know how important it is to have a happy wife. We don't plan on taking it off-road at all. It mainly will be used to take the kids to school and do errands.
So I too would be interested in knowing what are good model years to look at and which model years to stay away from.
Also I'd be interested in knowing what problems do people typically find on their Wranglers. Major problems like engine and transmission are things I don't want to deal with.0
Read your posts in the Toyota Sequoia Forum; 4wd, Toyota, three teenagers the oldest being 6'4", gas guzzler no problem can buy because you can. Boy am I confused. Order a 2013 the way she wants it. Or find a 2009 rear drive only, if indeed they made them. Only saw the rwd reference in the Jeep brochure. Better yet test drive a new loaded wrangler if you can find one then test drive a hemi Grand Cherokee, if indeed she wants a jeep or just be seen in one. I am not trying to be smart or anything. By the way, wife has a 2006 H3 Adventure package and it sure is nice to drive from dry to rain and into lots of snow and not even grab for a transfer case stick. Yes with her H3 and my 2009 Rubicon we have bought a lot of gas. Would I buy an H3 or H4 if they still existed. Yes.0
2012 Jeep Wrangler: The Big Loop
Los Angeles, Sacramento, Reno, Virginia City, Bishop, Panamint Springs, Death Valley and back. Looks like fun.
And yeah, that's a windshield crack on Edmunds' long term Wrangler tester.1
"The 2012 Jeep Wrangler remains a one-of-a-kind vehicle that combines a simple design, extraordinary off-road abilities and an affordable price into a reliable, fun-to-drive package that does exactly what you expect of it."
2012 Jeep Wrangler Long-Term Road Test
Oh, the Jeep was sold out of the Edmunds fleet, but it's sort of staying "in house"0
marybethmcg Posts: 6Were there any particular problems or recalls with 2012 Wrangler Unlimited Sports?0
I now drive better-half's 2006 H3. Darn you GM. We would've bought another one. As such she now drives a luxury import body on frame suv. It was a stretch but glad we did. Like winter2 that was my last CJDFiat.0
@marybethmcg said:
Were there any particular problems or recalls with 2012 Wrangler Unlimited Sports?
Mary, best log the jeep site, locate the user/owner area and enter your VIN number.. If you don't have a Jeep Wrnagler and your thinking of buying one.. The Jeep Dealership should have a complete list of all recalls. Off the top of my head, I'm not aware of any.0
@ourjeeplife said:
Finally completed both sets of mud guards.. Thou I've only written part I of this installation.. You get the jest of the whole post:
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Well I've really had issues with holding onto site's I've created.. But I found a site called WikiHow and decided to post the Mud guard install there. Seeing how I couldn't take many pictures while I was doing the install.. the Admins at wikihow did the images for me.
Thou the images are sort of campie/cartoonish they explain a bit better (image wise) than I was able to post.
So here is the updated version of my article from 2 years back:
By The Way.. Just wanted to make something clear.. These mud guards are not for off road and I found out the hard way. Having to cut about 3/4 of the guards off after attempting a trail.0
Is it 2018 already?
"Speaking about the new platform being developed for 2018 Jeep Wrangler, Manley said, "There will be no compromises," he said. "It has to be its own architecture. When I think about the next-generation Wrangler at this moment in time, we are the benchmark, so I want to push the benchmark even further."
Jeep Wrangler 2018 will be lighter, more fuel efficient (motoroids.com)0
A Bloomberg reporter would like to speak to a recent buyer of a new Chrysler (preferably Town & Country or 200), Jeep (preferably Wrangler or Cherokee) or RAM. If this is you or someone you know, and you're comfortable sharing your story for publication on a site that boasts 24 million unique monthly visitors, please send your daytime contact information to me by 10 p.m. PT tonight.0


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Serves: Approx. 4
Colorful falling leaves, crisp air and the abundance of root vegetables make fall a favorite time of year. One way I like to celebrate the season is by making batches of soothing soups for friends and family, and butternut squash seems to please time and time again. In this particular recipe, you spike the dense butternut base with ginger, lime and a touch of curry to heat things up a bit. Enjoy!
1 medium butternut squash, peeled, seeded and cut into small chunks (Approx. 4 cups)
1/3 cup young Thai coconut meat
1 tbsp Raw and Organic Coconut Oil
1/4 cup sweet onion, chopped
1 garlic clove, smashed
1 1/2 cups fresh young Thai coconut water
1 cup filtered water (or enough for desired consistency)
4 tbsp lime juice
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper (or to desired heat)
1 tbsp Agave Nectar
3/4 tsp ground ginger
1 1/4 tsp sea salt
1″ piece of ginger, peeled and thinly sliced and then cut into 1/4″ strips
1 handful cilantro leaves, coarsely chopped
- Dehydrate ginger strips at 95° for 4–6 hours until crispy
- In a Vita–Mix or other powerful blender, puree squash, coconut meat, coconut butter, onion, garlic and coconut water. Slowly add the filtered water until blended smooth and blended to a soup consistency.
- Add lime juice, cayenne, agave, ground ginger and sea salt and blend until it's warm, but not hot.
- Ladle soup into warmed bowls, top with a few strips of crispy ginger and sprinkle with chopped cilantro.
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Full Metal McCain: The one-time maverick has transformed himself into just another liberal-bashing fearmonger
Matt Taibbi
Evening, June 3rd, in a muggy, dragonfly-beswarmed place called the Pontchartrain Center, just outside New Orleans. Half a continent away, amid yet another legacy-smashing fusillade of unsolicited invective from Bill Clinton, the excruciating Obama-Hillary mess is finally wrapping up, in a pair of anticlimactic primaries somewhere over the darkened plains of Montana and South Dakota. But here in the Big Easy, John McCain has chosen this moment to mount his first general-election attack against the Great Satanic Liberal Enemy — who, as luck would have it, turns out to be a Negro intellectual from Harvard who's never served in the military. And this is supposed to be a bad year for Republicans?
You'd never know it from listening to McCain, whose kickoff speech is the same election-year diatribe that Republicans have been giving for decades, one long broadside against those goddamned overgrown Sixties weenie liberals who hate the flag, love the bomb-tossing enemies of America and are bent on the twin goals of ending the system of free enterprise and placing every aspect of our lives under government control. McCain pegs Obama as a man who wants to take America "backward," to the failed ideas of the Sixties. "I'm surprised that a young man has bought into so many failed ideas!" he says, to furious applause. Then, spitting out a forced, ugly laugh that he must have practiced many (but not enough) times in the bathroom mirror of the Straight Talk Express, he adds, "That's not change we can believe in!"
The choice of New Orleans as a launching pad for McCain's national campaign is the kind of leadenly obvious move that people who do politics for a living are pleased to call "sound strategy": For a candidate supposedly desperate to avoid carrying the Bush label into November, this disaster-stricken city is about the only place in the country that offers a striking visual image of a Bush policy that McCain has actually criticized. So the candidate dragged himself onstage here, ostensibly to perform the dreary business of "distancing himself" from Bush by once again criticizing the president's response to Katrina. The Bush-bashing money quote — "Americans have a right to expect basic competence from their government!" — was featured prominently in media accounts.
But the idea that John McCain is kicking off his trek to the White House by fleeing at top-end speed from the faltering Republican brand is the kind of absurdly facile misperception that only the American campaign press could swallow whole. The reality is that the once independent-thinking McCain has by now completely remade himself into a prototypical, dumbed-down Republican Party stooge — one who plans to rely on the same GOP strategy that has been winning elections ever since Pat Buchanan and Dick Nixon cooked up a plan for cleaving the South back in 1968. Rather than serving up the "straight talk" he promises, McCain is enthusiastically jumping aboard with every low-rent, fearmongering, cock-sucking presidential aspirant who's ever traveled the Lee Atwater/William Safire highway.
Even the briefest of surveys of the supporters gracing McCain's events underscores the kind of red-meat appeal he's making. Immediately after his speech in New Orleans, a pair of sweet-looking old ladies put down their McCain signs long enough to fill me in on why they're here. "I tell you," says one, "if Michelle Obama really doesn't like it here in America, I'd be very pleased to raise the money to send her back to Africa."
The diminutive and smiling old lady's friend leans over. "That's going a little too far, dear."
"Too far?" says the first. "Farrakhan is saying they were brought here against their will, and their bodies are still feeding the sharks at the bottom of the sea! I mean, really!"
"OK, sharks still eating bodies," I say, writing it all down. "Could I have your name, ma'am?"
"Janice Berg," says the first old lady. "And lest you think I'm Jewish, the name comes from Norway. Berg is 'mountain' in Norwegian. I'm part German, part French myself."
A few paces away, I catch up with a man named Ron Saucier and a woman who would only identify herself as Mary. Ron says his problem with Obama is the integrity thing. "He exaggerates too much," Ron says. "He's not honest."
"OK," I say. "What does he exaggerate about?"
"Well, like that time he was saying he had a white mother and a white grandmother," he says.
I ask him how this is an exaggeration.
"Well, he was saying . . ." he begins. "As if that qualifies him to . . ."
Despite my repeated prodding, Ron seems unable or unwilling to say aloud exactly what he means. Finally, his friend Mary, a grave-looking blonde with fierce anger lines around her eyes, jumps in, points a finger and blurts out one of the all-time man-on-the-street quotes.
"Look, you either are or you aren't," she says.
"And he aren't," Ron says, nodding with relief.
Some of us who have been mesmerized by the Obama-Clinton cage match during the past six months may have developed certain delusions about the state of American politics, in two areas in particular. One is the idea, much pushed by wishful-thinking media commentators like myself, that the abject failure and unpopularity of the Bush administration somehow means the Republican revolution is over, and the mean-ass hate-radio conservatism of Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh is finally dead. The other is the even more quaint notion that the historic, groundbreakingly successful candidacies of a black man and a woman have ushered in a futuristic era of political tolerance and open-mindedness.
It's bunk, all of it, and nobody understands this better than John McCain. With his chameleonlike, whatever-gets-you-through-the-night ideology, McCain intends to use the same below-the-belt, commie-baiting, watermelon-waving smear tactics that Clinton used against Obama in the Democratic primaries, except at tenfold intensity. Once the victim of a classic racist smear job in backwoods South Carolina (where he was whipped in the 2000 primary after a Karl Rove whispering campaign suggested he had an illegitimate black daughter), McCain has now positioned himself on the business end of that same deal.
Like Hillary Clinton, an erstwhile vilified liberal who remade herself as a flag-waving, Sixties-bashing champion of "hardworking Americans, white Americans" once the remarkable candidacy of Barack Obama forced her off her old turf, the one-time "insurgent" McCain has finally decided to sail with the wind at his back by going dumb and courting the same talk-radio demographic that used to despise him. What enables him to do so is a key insight: that while George W. Bush may be unpopular as an individual, fear and hatred in this country have never gone out of style.
The remarkable metamorphoses this year of both Hillary Clinton and John McCain would be puzzling and inexplicable were it not for a basic truism of the political-hate game. The reasons McCain and Clinton were villains of the Rush Limbaugh/Sean Hannity crowd in the first place had nothing to do with their policy positions or votes in the Senate or anything like that. Their real crimes were their arrogant insistence on exercising their intellectual independence, as well as their stubborn refusal to indulge in drooling-caveman demagoguery. The instant both of them crossed into the hater column and began feverishly jacking off the toothless racists of the Deep South with broadsides against the America-hating socialist menace Obama, all was instantly forgiven.
Only a few months ago, I was constantly running into Republicans at McCain events who had profound concerns about the Arizona senator's "liberal" record. But these days I'm hard-pressed to find anyone on the trail who even remembers that McCain once supported Roe v. Wade, and opposed the Bush tax cuts, and compared the tortures at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo to the techniques of the Spanish Inquisition, and even heretically claimed that Mexican immigrants were "God's children too." When I ask Mary Morvant, a pro-life Christian, why she's supporting McCain given his record on abortion, she gives a typical answer: "I'm much more concerned about Obama."
McCain enters the general election in the form of a man who has jettisoned the last traces of his dangerous unorthodoxy just in time to be plausible in the role of the torchbearing leader of the anti-Obama mob, waving the flag and chanting, "One of us! One of us!" all the way through to November. He now favors making the Bush tax cuts permanent, he's unblinkingly pro-life every time he remembers to mention abortion, and he's given up bitching about torture. With his newfound opposition to his own attempts to reform immigration policy and campaign finance, McCain is perhaps the first candidate in history to stump against two bills bearing his own name.
McCain's transformation is so complete that at a recent town-hall meeting in Nashville, when asked to name an author who inspired him, the candidate — who once described televangelists of the Jerry Falwell genus as "agents of intolerance" — put none other than Joel Osteen at the top of his list. "He's inspirational," McCain said.
Standing at the meeting, I didn't write Osteen's name down in my notebook — apparently because my brain refused on some level to accept that McCain had actually said it. Of all the vile, fake, lying-ass, money-grubbing shyster scumbags on the face of this planet, there is perhaps none more loathsome than Osteen, a human haircut with plastic baseball-size teeth who has made a fortune selling the appalling only-in-America idea that terrestrial greed is actually a form of Christian devotion. "God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us," Osteen once wrote. This is the revolting, snake-oil-selling dickhead that John McCain actually chose to pimp as number one on his list of inspirational authors. So much for "go, sell everything you have and give to the poor," and all that other hippie crap from the New Testament.
This dumbed-down, hypersimplified incarnation of McCain offers the vehicle for his new platform, which is just the same old ring-around-the-collar fear-mongering horseshit used by a generation of conservatives, warmed over to fit 2008. In fact, in his stump speeches these days, McCain never veers off a strikingly Bushian binary version of reality, in which the world is divided into clear-cut camps of God-fearing American good and un-Christian, bomb-tossing foreign (and foreign-enabling) evil. McCain talks about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his evil plans for world domination, Hamas and its rockets that rained on poor Israeli children in their Purim (he pronounces it pyoor-eem) costumes. Also in the "bad" column are Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, the "far-left radical outfit" MoveOn.org, the wealthy liberals in Georgetown who opposed the gas-tax holiday for ordinary, decent folk because "they can probably walk to work," and the Democrats eager to impose socialism because "they have little faith in the wisdom, decency and common sense of free people."
Break it down and this is basically the same old label game, with McCain trying to rally his crowds against all the major isms: terrorism, socialism, elitism, anti-Americanism. His crude attempts to paint Obama with these brushes are more or less the whole of his argument for the presidency. Obama is terrorist-coddler because he is "ready to talk in person with tyrants" like Ahmadinejad, he hates soldiers because he refused to condemn MoveOn's "General Betray Us" ad, and he's a socialist because he favors health-care reform — despite the fact that the Obama plan isn't "socialized" medicine any more than the universal requirement to buy private auto insurance is socialism.
And when it comes to Obama's and his wife's America-hating, well . . . McCain really doesn't need to say anything about that. All he needs to do to remind audiences of Reverend Wright and Michelle "I'm proud of America for the first time" Obama is to offer a few bons mots in the opposite direction. "I seek the office with the humility of a man who cannot forget that my country saved me," McCain likes to say. And while he doesn't believe he was anointed by God to lead the great nation of America, he insists, "I am her servant, first, last and always."
That's it — that's the entire argument. McCain is a canny enough old goat to know that the public's insatiable appetite for traitorous enemies will do the rest. He'll wave as many flags and stand in front of as many fucking fighter jets as you like, while the other guy lectures us about why he doesn't always need to wear a flag pin in his lapel and calls a bomb-throwing Sixties terrorist "a guy who lives in my neighborhood" instead of calling for his immediate beheading.
Cindy Oestriecher, a McCain supporter who turned out for his speech in New Orleans, is stumped when I ask her for an example of Obama's lack of patriotism. "What was that thing about anti-American?" she asks a friend. "What were they referring to?"
"What thing?" asks the friend.
"People were talking about that thing, that anti-American thing," Cindy says, frowning.
"You mean about the flag, the thing on the Internet?" the friend replies.
"Yeah, I guess," says Cindy. "The anti-American thing." "That bothers you?" I ask.
"Of course it does!"
"But you don't even know what it is," I say. "You just know that someone else said he was anti-American. You don't even know who it was that said it!"
She shrugs. What's my point? We all know what the deal is. When it comes to presidential politics, you either are or you aren't. And Barack Obama aren't. If you can't grasp the simple math of that statement, you don't know much about elections in this country. It's not about the war, or the economy, or the faltering Republican brand, or any of that: This is about hate and fear, and a dark instinct in our blood going all the way back to Salem, and whether or not a desperately ambitious ex-heretic named John McCain can whip up a big enough mob in time to drown the latest witch.
Which means that despite all the talk about "change," we're once again stuck in the same dumb flashback that has been prodigiously wasting our time for the last four or five decades — the seemingly endless quest to crush the mythical leftist revolution, which for some reason has spent most of the last half-century cleverly disguised as a bunch of ineffectual bourgeois New Yorkers sitting around watching Stanley Kubrick movies and eating whole foods while conservatives took over the world. What's especially creepy about this flashback this time around is that it seems to mirror the tragic loop in McCain's own psyche. For all his frantic recanting of the many embarrassingly bipartisan episodes from his Senate past, McCain has never betrayed even a nanosecond's worth of memories from the central catastrophe of his life: his capture and torture in a Vietnamese prison. But now that he is finally pitted, in the great battle of his life, against a smooth-talking peacenik nearly half his age who wants American troops to withdraw instead of pressing on for "victory" in an unpopular war, McCain can keep reliving all those old hurts and all those old battles over and over again, in front of sympathetic crowd after sympathetic crowd.
Never mind that Iraq isn't exactly Vietnam, or that Barack Obama isn't Jane Fonda — what matters is that the Republicans nominated a wounded old soldier who now gets to spend the next five months trying to exorcise his personal demons, and this serendipitous circumstance fits nicely with the party's national strategy, despite the fact that pinning these old hurts on the likes of Obama makes no sense at all. Still, it's not hard to hear, in McCain's quasi-coherent rants, his bitterness at being abandoned to years of savage tortures while millions of little Hillarys and Bills and Obamas-in-training were getting high and balling each other during the Country Joe and the Fish set at Woodstock, instead of standing up and saluting the "winnable" war effort that got McCain sent to Vietnam in the first place.
Then as now, the crime of the Obama class in the eyes of a wronged veteran like McCain wasn't that they caused these wartime sufferings; it was that they didn't cheer them as righteous and necessary, and unhesitatingly support the sending of more soldiers to the same fate. In the present day, it is George Bush who got us into this new Vietnam-like mess and revived the specter of tortured prisoners, but McCain's anger isn't focused in that direction. He's not mad that it's happening again, not looking to blame the people who actually started the fire. Instead he seems re-energized by the fact that we are all back in that same hell, back to living the PTSD-inducing nightmare that McCain himself never got to leave — and if it takes dumbing down his act and playing to the Rush and Hannity crowd to give his story a happy ending this time around, he won't hesitate. So if you thought Hillary was bad, buckle your seat belts: The really dumb stuff is just beginning.


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So here goes (and you can decide the worse thing):
- 1) This morning I made a call oversees at 6:40 a.m. I was still in bed, but something had to be settled early (for me). It was but a two minute call.
I went back to bed and woke up an hour and a half later by my cell ringing and someone shouting on the other side that I forgot to hang up the land-line phone.
So granted, oversees call charges aren't what they used to be and an 80 minute call won't bankrupt me, but it is just that it is so unlike me.
- 2) Last night I finally went to see V for Vendetta. I'll leave my opinion about the movie for some other time. However, at one of the most riveting moments in the movie, my cell rang. Yes, it's true. I was the culprit, guilty party, that evildoer, the one who forgot to turn off her cell despite never forgetting to do that.
I cringed in my seat, waiting for the movie-cell-police to hunt me down and shoot me right there and I accepted my punishment calmly because I knew this is exactly what I would have done. But no police came and no laser guns and no pool of my blood left there for all to learn and fear...
- 3) Yesterday I was asked to submit a certain part of my writing after a rewrite. This morning, when checking my email I found, to my horror, that I resent the old file. Okay, I rectified the matter immediately, but the embarrassment was unparalleled.
You're probably saying - well, get some sleep, duh!
But it's a different kind of tired. A kind unrelated to sleep.
I guess this is also in way of apology for my lack of regular posting lately.
I hope for a new Melly after the weekend, because quite frankly, I find it hard to live with her.
In the meantime, I'm going to exclude my tired self from society (or until I feel less tired).
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Catching up with last week's Paul Jones Radio 2 Blue programme on Listen Again & he's just played a cover of OV Wright's 'Nickel & a Nail' by a soul veteran called Sterling Harrison (a new name to me).
It's a perfectly good version, but all I keep thinking is 'It's not OV'. As far as I'm concerned, OV's version is the definattive one & no-one else could ever do this song justice, nor should they try.
James Carr's 'Dark End of the Street' is another example of a reading of a tune that (in my opinion, could never be bettered.
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No doubt Facebook use can be an enemy to marriage — see, for example, this recent article about how Facebook was named in a third of divorce filings in 2011. A recent case from the military courts shows how using Facebook can put a spouse's very life in peril.
Defendant wife became angry when she accessed her husband's Facebook account. An argument ensued between defendant and her husband about the content of husband's Facebook page, which escalated and turned violent. The two struggled, with defendant yanking the modem out of the wall and striking husband. She continued to hit him, causing him to back into the kitchen, where defendant grabbed a knife and stabbed husband in the abdomen, saying, "that's what you get, mother fucker."
Husband survived, and wife was tried and convicted of attempted manslaughter. She sought review with the Navy–Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals. On appeal the court affirmed the conviction and five year sentence. It held the evidence at trial was sufficient to support the verdict, and that defendant's Fifth Amendment rights had not been violated.
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The Alotian Club has been ranked as one of the top courses in the U.S. by Golf Magazine's panel of experts.
Arkansas's answer to Augusta National features many similarities to the real thing, including a rolling, wooded tract studded with azaleas in springtime, the design hand of Tom Fazio, and an ambience of relaxed exclusivity. It's no wonder, given that Alotian founder Warren Stephens's dad, Jack, was the former Augusta chairman. Overlooking Lake Maumelle, the course embraces strategic bunkering, angled greens and excellent direction changes throughout the round. Flawless conditioning, risk/reward par 5s and forests dotted with dogwoods do make it sound a lot like a certain Georgia.
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Blogito ergo sum! Actually, as N.T. Wright averred, "'Amor, ergo sum:' I am loved, therefore I am." Among other things, I am a Roman Catholic deacon. This is a public cyberspace in which I seek to foster Christian discipleship in the late modern milieu in the diakonia of koinonia and in the recognition that "the Eucharist is the only place of resistance to annihilation of the human subject."
Friday, February 1, 2013
Addressing the pastoral failure in L.A.
But in light of the revelations out of Los Angeles this week, chronicled by the Los Angeles Times and other sources, that Cardinal Roger Mahony, along with his then-Vicar for Clergy, Bishop Thomas Curry, back in the mid-to-late 1980s (several years before the first round of the child sexual abuse scandals in the Church- which would mark the beginning of what the late Fr. Richard John Neuhaus referred to as the Church's long lent), together conspired, in the words of the Times, "to conceal the molestation of children from law enforcement," it is in the service of communion that I reluctantly weigh in.
The two bishops' conspiring was done with an eye towards protecting several abusive priests. In one memo Bishop Curry even suggested to Mahony, who was the fairly new archbishop of Los Angeles at the time, "strategies to prevent police from investigating three priests who had admitted to church officials that they had abused young boys."
In response to all of this coming to light, the current archbishop of Los Angeles, José Gómez (a priest of Opus Dei), published an open letter (the entire text can be found at the L.A. Times link above). In his letter Archbishop Gómez wrote- "Effective immediately, I have informed Cardinal Mahony that he will no longer have any administrative or public duties. Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Curry has also publicly apologized for his decisions while serving as Vicar for Clergy. I have accepted his request to be relieved of his responsibility as the Regional Bishop of Santa Barbara."
On his blog today, Cardinal Mahony posted a letter he wrote to Archbishop Gómez in response. I found this letter to be both disingenuous and disheartening. Cardinal Mahony took no responsibility for his deliberate decision to conceal the molestation of children from law enforcement, thus protecting priests who committed these horrifying offenses, which is the immediate cause of this whole dust-up.
At least for me, this prompts several questions: Does Cardinal Mahony seriously believe he should still have public duties in the archdiocese? Does he think he should be entrusted with administrative, or other responsible ecclesiastical duties? In light of what Archbishop Gómez correctly called "the failings of the past," does His Eminence believe himself to be above public chastisement?
This represents but ONE instance in this whole sickening mess where a bishop has held another bishop to account. So, to Archbishop Gómez, Thank you! In my estimation, Cardinal Mahony could've retained a modicum of dignity had he simply and humbly acknowledged his failings, said he was sorry, and lived in quiet retirement instead of trying to justify his failures and to indict his successor as both unfair and uncharitable. As Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin discovered, if you take on the club you'll pay a price.
Let's not forget that Fridays are days of penance. Perhaps this Lent we should also undertake acts of reparation for sins committed against children by the Church's ministers. Above all we should pray for and, if you know someone who was abused, help those who were the victims of abusive priests. I would also ask for prayers for Cardinal Mahony and Bishop Curry as they are confronted with the consequences of their failure to take steps to safeguard the young people entrusted to their pastoral care.
It was our blessed Lord who said, "For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light" (Luke 8:17-ESV). This is good for each of us to keep in mind. It also serves to remind us of our need to confess our own sins and failings, not only in the Sacrament of Penance, but directly to those we have sinned against. As Dietrich Bonhoeffer sagely observed, "It is not the sins of weakness, but the sins of strength that matter."
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I have no words overall, but thank you for posting this. Off to pray.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2013 at 12:34 PM
I feel like crying just looking at it. Remeber Our Lady of Akita? "Bishop against Bishop." I wonder if such as this is what she meant. I love the Priesthood so much. I wish none of this would have ever happened to our beloved Church. I wasn't alive through the whole abuse scandal, well back in the early 70s and 80s. I'm glad I wasn't. I wouldn't have been able to take it. But, my generation will have very holy Priests. I know many of them. Priests are the greatest men in the world. I love them because of their sacerdotal dignity no matter what they do. And without them, we would have no Sacraments. Even those who were unfortunate to have a Priest in horrible sin. Without Him, No Eucharist. Think about it for a moment. The worthiness of the minister doesn't matter when he administers the Sacraments. Although he should be holy, very holy. He holds the place of God. I pray for mercy for all those priests who haven't been holy, so they would understand how much they're hurt the Church. I do pray for Priests every day because they are under attack. I can see that they are. If the Devil wants to make anyone fall, it's the priests. I want to save my priests from hell. I don't want them to be lost. Cardinal Mahoney, I know your not reading this, but I love and I'm praying for you. Jesus, have mercy on your Priests. Amen.ReplyDelete
"One ought to pray earnestly before God that he would give us holy Priests. If they are Saints what good they are able to do. But, whatever, they are never speak against them." -St. John Vianney
"When you honor the Priest you honor Christ and when you insult the Priest you insult Christ." -St. John Chrysostom
"After God, the Priest is everything." -St. John Vianney
Thank you Hannah. I, too, feel like crying. You do a lovely job of writing about how our Blessed Mother and the saints would have us respond to this. With Fran, it's difficult to know what to say in the face of such disclosures. Understandably people are more upset by this kind of cover up and malfeasance than by the abuse itself.ReplyDelete
As we were reminded in 2010, all of this serves to remind us and bring us to "the true heart of the question, the forgotten focus, lies elsewhere."
"Alongside all the limitations and within the Church's wounded humanity, is there or is there not something greater than sin, something radically greater than sin? Is there something that can shatter the inexorable weight of our evil? Something that, as the Pope writes, 'has the power to forgive even the greatest of sins, and to bring forth good even from the most terrible evil'?" Our answer must be "Yes. It is Christ Jesus the Lord."
I have the privilege of frequently working closely with my bishop. In his former diocese, while he served as auxiliary bishop, he had the pastoral task of dealing with clergy abuse victims and their families. I pray for him daily as he exercises his ministry.
Let's commit to fulfill our sacred obligation to pray daily for those who were abused, to pray for our priests, our bishops. As Roman Catholics we also have an obligation to pray daily for the Holy Father.
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2013 at 3:57 PM
Thank you, Deacon! I try my best to be a faithful Catholic and I love the Church more than anything. And I know that because of this the Priests are hated in the world. The world strongly dislikes Priests because of what a small percentage did. My goal is to love them...I have cried before over it all. I couldn't help it. I can't bear to see the clergy offend Our Lord in such terrible ways and I can't bear to see them soil their sacred calling in such horrible sin. It hurts. I don't know how else to put it. This pierces my heart and only makes me pray all the more for Priests and all the clergy. I see why St. John Bosco is such a great Saint. He helped his boys become Saints and look at the priests 100 years later. And, yes, it is a sacred obligation to pray for the Priests, Bishops, Cardinals, and of course our Holy Father! (And Deacons too! Don't think I'm diminishing the greatness of Deacons!) I see it just as you do. May Catholics see this as a way to help Cardinal Mahony by praying for him, and not to respond with hate or bitterness. That is what we should do. God bless, Deacon! :)ReplyDelete
Amen. Thanks for your prayers.ReplyDelete
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Computer Science ColloquiumIm Rahmen des Informatik-Kolloquiums, das von den Instituten des Fachbereichs Informatik, der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Informatik (ÖGI), der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Datenverarbeitung (ADV) sowie der Österreichischen Computergesellschaft (OCG) abgehalten wird, spricht
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Designing Augmented Reality ExperiencesZeit: Mon 21.6.2010, 16:00, 60 Minuten
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ZusammenfassungAugmented Reality (AR) is a technology that allows the virtual overlay of images on the real world. Although the underlying technology is not new, it is only recently that compelling augmented reality experiences can be developed. This presentation discusses how to design effective augmented reality applications. The fundamental technologies needed are briefly discussed and then research on authoring tools, interaction techniques and evaluation methods presented. A set of design guidelines are given for researchers and developers in the field, and finally topics for future research. The presentation will draw on research at the HIT Lab NZ and other leading Augmented Reality research groups and companies. Examples will be discussed from desktop, mobile and wearable AR systems.
VortragenderProfessor Mark Billinghurst is a researcher developing innovative computer interfaces that explore how virtual and real worlds can be merged. Director of the HIT Lab New Zealand (HIT Lab NZ) at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, he has produced over 200 conference and journal technical publications and presented demonstrations and courses at a wide variety of academic and industry conferences. He has a PhD from the University of Washington and conducts research in Augmented and Virtual Reality, Human Computer Interaction and mobile interfaces. He has previously worked at ATR Research Labs, British Telecom and the MIT Media Laboratory and has been actively involved in developing and commercializing AR technology, such as the popular ARToolKit tracking library.
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The headline on a recent Reuters story caught my attention:
Banks foreclosing on churches in record numbers
The lede — in classic inverted-pyramid fashion — got straight to the point:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Banks are foreclosing on America's churches in record numbers as lenders increasingly lose patience with religious facilities that have defaulted on their mortgages, according to new data.
The surge in church foreclosures represents a new wave of distressed property seizures triggered by the 2008 financial crash, analysts say, with many banks no longer willing to grant struggling religious organizations forbearance.
Since 2010, 270 churches have been sold after defaulting on their loans, with 90 percent of those sales coming after a lender-triggered foreclosure, according to the real estate information company CoStar Group.
In 2011, 138 churches were sold by banks, an annual record, with no sign that these religious foreclosures are abating, according to CoStar. That compares to just 24 sales in 2008 and only a handful in the decade before.
The church foreclosures have hit all denominations across America, black and white, but with small to medium size houses of worship the worst. Most of these institutions have ended up being purchased by other churches.
After reading the entire story — roughly 1,000 words — I have two main reactions. The first is a general journalistic reaction. The second relates more specifically to the actual religion content (that's our purpose at GetReligion, after all).
-- Reaction No. 1: The piece lacks perspective.
By that, I mean that Reuters fails to put the numbers reported up high into context. Yes, I understand that a record 138 churches were sold by banks in 2011. But how many churches paid their mortgages on time and were not sold? Is 138 really a lot? The story fails to provide enough background for readers to answer that question.
Instead, the report makes broad statements such as claiming that the crisis has hit "all denominations, black and white, but with small to medium size houses of worship the worst." The racial note is a bit strange given that many denominations are quite diverse. The reference to small to medium size houses of worship seems to require additional clarification. How big, for example, is a "medium size" house of worship?
There is this brief note at the end:
There are more than 300,000 churches in the United States.
"The church foreclosure market isn't anything extraordinary," said Rolfs. "It's simply another byproduct of the credit bubble."
-- Reaction No. 2: The piece lacks theological content.
The story approaches the issue from a purely financial standpoint. Reuters makes no attempt to delve into any intriguing religious questions, such as what it means that churches — who presumably hold theological beliefs on debt and finances — are defaulting on loans.
What would Jesus do when faced with a church foreclosure? Or would he have gone into debt in the first place? Maybe it's just me, but I'd love to see such questions explored.
Surely some (or most?) of these churches have faced not just foreclosures but crises of faith, right?
Vague reference is made to an evangelical credit union:
During the property boom, many churches took out additional loans to refurbish or enlarge, often with major lenders or with the Evangelical Christian Credit Union, which was particularly aggressive in lending to religious institutions.
I'd love to know more about exactly what the Evangelical Christian Credit Union is.
All in all, I can't help but think there's an important story behind these church foreclosure numbers. I just don't think this Reuters report is the one.
Now, it's your turn, gentle GetReligion readers: Read the story and weigh in. Am I being too critical? What questions would you ask? What would make the piece better? Did Reuters nail the story or not?
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WASHINGTON — D.C. United played well against the Houston Dynamo on Saturday night, controlling possession, combining crisply, creating chances and defending in organized numbers.
The problem was, they only did so for 66 minutes and only had one goal to show for it.
Houston erased all that with an inspired five-minute stretch that began with Devon McTavish's own-goal in the 66th and included Geoff Cameron's headed game-winner four minutes later.
Perhaps recalling last weekend's gut-wrenching comeback loss to LA, many DC players dropped their heads and, by the time they regained their composure, there was no way back into a match that seemed theirs to win.
The Dynamo ultimately left RFK Stadium as 3-1 winners.
WATCH: Full match highlights
"It's aggravating," DC defender Jed Zayner said. "Going up first, having the game in your hands the whole first half, and then [in the] second half just letting it slip away.
"Two mental lapses by our team and that's what soccer is. If you're not detailed every minute of the game, it's going to bite you right in the butt. That's what just keeps on happening."
It marks the second straight match, and the third this month, in which United have started well only to fumble away victory down the stretch. With Dominic Oduro's injury-time strike for Houston, the Black-and-Red have now allowed a whopping 18 goals in the final 15 minutes this season.
The pattern of late collapses has now become all too familiar for interim head coach Ben Olsen and his men.
"It's getting old — it's getting really old," Olsen said. "We let each other down again."
In a bizarre footnote, Olsen and Houston coach Dominic Kinnear were both ejected late in the game after Olsen walked over to his Dynamo counterpart to apologize for a hard United foul. The duo shook hands amiably, but the refereeing crew took exception, sending them off for what referee Alex Prus later described as "irresponsible behavior for leaving the technical area."
The final result eclipsed the impact of one of the prettiest goals of United's season. Teenage winger Andy Najar tormented the Dynamo defense all night, and his slaloming run and finish in the 29th minute gave the home fans another tantalizing reminder of his massive potential.
WATCH: Najar scores his fifth of 2010
"It's unfortunate because I thought we played well, we worked hard, we fought hard and we were playing really well," Najar said. "But there were moments of lack of concentration towards the end. When they scored the second goal, that really let the whole team down. I can't really explain why those things happen."
With his goal, Najar draws level with Santino Quaranta and Freddy Adu for most goals scored by a United rookie, which further builds his case for MLS Rookie of the Year consideration.
Such concerns offer scant consolation for DC at the moment, however.
"We've had a rough season so any stat that anybody gets, you can throw that down the toilet, really, to be honest with you," a frustrated Quaranta said. "I want to win games.
"It hurts to lose, simple as that," he added. "I don't care about any records or anything."


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Three South Africans shared the early lead at the Africa Open at East London Golf Club when the opening round got under way.
Jake Roos, Darren Fichardt and Richard Sterne all reached five under par to hold a share of the lead on home soil.
English Qualifying School graduate Sam Hutsby had made a storming start to reach six under after eight holes, but a double bogey at the ninth pegged him back as he reached the turn four under.
The Hampshire player was joined on that mark by another South African, George Coetzee, as the home challenge made a promising start.
World Number 94 Sterne started on the back nine and enjoyed a hat trick of birdies from the 15th, while Fichardt had two eagles on the way out – at the par five 11th and 15th.
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The Century 21 Exposition, better known as the Seattle World's Fair, took place in Seattle from April 21 to October 21, 1962. The first American world's fair after World War II, it presented an optimistic vision of a future improved through science and technology and promoted Seattle to the world as a space-age city. Exhibits focused on industry, commerce, science, and the future, but also included fine arts, food, and entertainment. Ten million people attended the fair, and it left Seattle with many lasting legacies, including the Space Needle, the Monorail, and Seattle Center.
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Books, brochures, reports, and other textual documents; nearly 1500 photographs of the fair; and links to other useful electronic resources, such as articles and websites.
Scanned original documents related to the City of Seattle's involvement with the World's Fair, including Fair preparations and controversy surrounding housing for the Fair. Also includes bibliography of materials available at the Seattle Municipal Archives.
Lesson plans for studying the Century 21 Exposition. Includes links to a small number of scanned documents and images.
Bibliography and guide to the University of Washington Libraries' extensive holdings of archival, print, and photographic materials relating to the Seattle World's Fair in 1962. Includes links to item descriptions and finding aids in the University of Washington Library catalog, and digital items if available.
The University of Washington Libraries' digital collections, which include hundreds of scanned images and publications related to the World's Fair, including items from both the University of Washington and Museum of History and Industry collections.
Free online encyclopedia of Washington State history. Includes dozens of articles related to the Century 21 Exposition, as well as a World's Fair curriculum for educators.
Digitized photographs, postcards, and posters of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair from the Larson World's Fair Collection at the Special Collections Research Center at the Henry Madden Library of California State University, Fresno.
Seattle Times newspapers 1900–1984, digitized, searchable, printable, and downloadable, including thousands of articles about the World's Fair. This resource requires a Seattle Public Library card for remote access.
Interactive site that collects and displays personal stories from the Seattle World's Fair. View others' stories of the fair or contribute your own.
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Most of the Seattle Municipal Archives' collection has not been digitized and is available only in person at the archives. The physical collection includes textual records, maps and drawings, photographs and moving images, and publications, primarily related to city involvement in the Fair. An online bibliography of sources details the available records.
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Located on the 10th floor of the Central Library, the Seattle Room includes primary and secondary sources related to the Century 21 Exposition, and also provides research assistance. The majority of these materials are included in the Library's digital collection, but some materials are only available in person.
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The following materials are widely available at local libraries and historical organizations. Links in this document are to item descriptions in The Seattle Public Library catalog.
Becker, Paula, and Alan J. Stein. The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World's Fair and Its Legacy. Seattle, Wash.: Seattle Center Foundation, 2011.
Duncan, Don. Meet Me at the Center: The Story of Seattle Center from the Beginnings to the 1962 Seattle World's Fair to the 21st Century. Seattle, Wash.?: Seattle Center Foundation, 1992
Findlay, John M. Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992
Morgan, Murray. Century 21: The Story of the Seattle World's Fair, 1962. Seattle: Acme Press; distributed by University of Washington Press, 1963.


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ENTREPRENEUR: Leslie Haywood, Charleston, SC.
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ASKING FOR: $50K in return for a 25% stake.
BEST PART OF HIS PITCH: These charms are labeled so you can tell which foods are rare, medium, well-done or spicy once the grilling is done. Leslie has her product in over 100 retail stores in the U.S., Canada and Sweden and made $60,000 in her first year.
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ENTREPRENEUR: Todd Robbins and David Adamovich of New York City
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ASKING FOR: $300k for a 20% stake.
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DO THE SHARKS BITE? It's a huge risk and not knowing if the business model works or not, the men are all out. Barbara, who pointed out the huge annual expense, is also worried about the branding. She's out and the magic is gone.
ENTREPRENEUR: Dedelle Parra and Kathy Lamm of Ladera Ranch, CA
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WHAT WENT DOWN DURING THE PITCH: The women demonstrate their moves and even bring Kevin O. up to do some exercises, which is odd because the man's already an Adonis. The ladies introduce a woman who lost 100 pounds in six months doing Boogie Box.
DO THE SHARKS BITE? Daymond can't invest such a huge sum of money in a business he knows nothing about. Robert says he has no way of knowing if the investment will pay off until the money is gone. Kevin O. and Kevin H. pretty much feel the same. Barbara is impressed with how genuine the women are. She also likes the brand name "Boogie Box," but she feels they asked for too much money and she's out. Undeterred, the ladies promise "Boogie Box Fitness will not die here today."
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ENTREPRENEUR: Sawyer Sparks, Bloomfield, IN.
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DO THE SHARKS BITE? Kevin O. wants to jump in to help Sawyer negotiate with Play-Doh. He'll give him the $125k for 51% so that Play-Doh will know he has the power to close the deal. He even offers Sawyer an "out." If he doesn't like the deal Kevin negotiates with Play-Doh, Sawyer can still just walk away. Kevin H., Daymond and Barbara believe Kevin O. is the best partner for Sawyer, so they bow out. Robert offers $125k for a 40% stake.
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WANT TO KNOW MORE: Visit www.Soy-Yer.com.