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Marine tour from Victoria
There are 12 picnic tables, including one for
disabled visitors, near the parking lot. You may also picnic inside
the sites, under the trees on the main field, or on any of our three
beaches. Please note that there are no fires or barbeques permitted
in the sites.
Scuba Diving
Scuba diving is becoming more and more popular
in the waters around Fisgard Lighthouse, but divers are advised
that there is no vehicle access and that they will have to transport
their equipment about 500 metres (1/4 mile) from the parking lot.
(Hint: bring a wheelbarrow to move tanks and weights!)
Food Service
The Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse Preservation
Society offers light refreshments and souvenirs in the old Canteen
building inside Fort Rodd Hill during the summer months.
Fisgard Lighthouse Historical
Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC
Built November 16, 1860 Now Automated 48° 26' N 123° 27'
- a
National Historic Site - The first
lighthouse on Canada's west coast is still in operation! There hasn't
been a keeper here since the light was automated in 1929, but every
year many thousands of visitors step inside a real l9th century
light, and capture some of the feeling of ships wrecked and lives
Built by the British in 1860, when Vancouver
Island was not yet part of Canada, Fisgard's red brick house and
white tower has stood faithfully at the entrance to Esquimalt harbour.
Once a beacon for the British Royal Navy's Pacific Squadron, today
Fisgard still marks home base for the Royal Canadian Navy.
Inside the building are two floors of exhibits,
dealing with shipwrecks, storms, far- flung lights, and the everyday
working equipment of the light keeper a century ago. Right next
to the tower stirs on the second floor, a specially-made video evokes
the loneliness and isolation that was the lot of the l9th century
This year the Luminara festival will take place in the James Bay and Fairfield communities from September 18-25.
Luminara began in 2000, when the City of Victoria asked the Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria, to produce a multi cultural community celebration in Victoria. Luminara contains elements from worldwide celebrations of light. It is a celebration of light that has taken root here in Victoria, and like other traditions that have come here from around the world, it has become part of our local identity.
Please visit the Luminara site
or follow Luminara on Facebook.
The waterfront sites at Fisgard Lighthouse and
Fort Rodd Hill are extremely photogenic, especially with the scenic
backdrop of the Olympic Mountains in neighbouring Washington state.
The Strait of Juan de Fuca almost always offers
a wide variety of ships, from small sailing vessels, to enormous
cargo ships, and the proximity of the Canadian Navy base means that
military craft of several nations are often seen at close range.
Wildlife at the sites includes Columbian
black-tailed deer, river otters, mink, raccoons, harbour seals,
and sea lions.
Birders may be rewarded with a wide variety of
both pelagic and meadow birds, including bald eagles, blue herons,
harlequin and eider ducks, and many small songbirds.
Birds of a Feather Victoria accommodations


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The Redeemer's prayer
"Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world." John 17:24
Suggested Further Reading: Song of Solomon 5:1-8
When we get a glimpse of Christ, many step in to interfere. We have our hours of contemplation, when we draw near to Jesus, but alas! how the world steps in and interrupts even our most quiet moments—the shop, the field, the child, the wife, the head, perhaps the very heart, all these are interlopers between ourselves and Jesus. Christ loves quiet; he will not talk to our souls in the busy market place, but he says, "Come, my love, into the vineyard, get thee away into the villages, there will I show thee my love." But when we go to the villages, behold the Philistine is there, the Canaanite has invaded the land. When we would be free from all thought except thought of Jesus, the wandering band of Bedouin thoughts come upon us, and they take away our treasures, and spoil our tents. We are like Abraham with his sacrifice; we lay out the pieces ready for the burning, but foul birds come to feast on the sacrifice which we desire to keep for our God and for him alone. We have to do as Abraham did; "When the birds came down upon the sacrifice, Abraham drove them away." But in heaven there shall be no interruption, no weeping eyes shall make us for a moment pause in our vision; no earthly joys, no sensual delights, shall create a discord in our melody; there shall we have no fields to till, no garment to spin, no wearied limb, no dark distress, no burning thirst, no pangs of hunger, no weepings of bereavement; we shall have nothing to do or think upon, but for ever to gaze upon that Sun of righteousness, with eyes that cannot be blinded, and with a heart that can never be weary.
For meditation: We are never going to be free from outside distractions and wandering thoughts in this life, but we do need to seek to have some time each day when we can shut them out as far as possible and spend time alone with our heavenly Father (Matthew 6:6).
Sermon no. 188
18 April (1858)

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It was about a year ago that Screen Novelties, an animation firm, moved into a brick building in the Historic Filipinotown section of Echo Park. The firm's new home at Temple Street and Belmont Avenue came with high ceilings, historic character and a 14-foot high old sign featuring a giraffe and the word "DELI" at the bottom. Screen Novelties has nothing to do with giraffes or the deli business. Most new tenants would have probably slapped their own logo or name across the sign. Not Screen Novelties. "It's way cool," said Mark Caballero, one of the proprietors of the firm.
Instead, Caballero and his partners wanted to restore the sign. About two weeks ago, the firm flipped the switch on the gold neon sign that includes a X-ray-like view of the giraffe's neck and the words Hi-Fi, an abbreviation for Historic Filipinotown.
Other, old commercial signs have not been so lucky as the gold giraffe. Across the street, for example, a giant saw that once hung from the side of a hardware store was removed and stored in an adjacent lot when the building became a showroom for a flooring company. When Caballero inquired about the sign, he was told by neighbors that it has been stolen.
Caballero said the firm had intended to keep and restore the sign. In fact, he and business partner Chris Finnegan had referred to their future home as the "Giraffe Building" when driving by it on trips to downtown. Once an upcoming Sponge Bob Square Pants holiday special was out of the way, the firm focused on its sign.
The Museum of Neon Art was consulted on the restoration, which tried to keep as much of the old sign as possible. In addition to the giraffe X-ray, which was installed in a pre-existing box on the sign, the refurbished sign also includes a sparking blue eye to break up the gold neon . "We thought it would be fun to put something silly up there," Caballero said of the X-ray.
The gold giraffe is definitely an eye catcher, especially at night with its gold neon shining bright. In fact, one man who walked under it late last week gave it the ultimate compliment. He said a photo of the gold giraffe served as his phone's screen saver.
After consulting with the neighbors, Caballero said the firm decided to include "Hi-Fi" in the sign. "We wanted to give back to the neighborhood," he said.


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Welcome back! Though classes were not in session, things have been pretty busy around here. There is so much to catch up on- but let's start with some new news first-and it comes from students in each year of our three year program.
First up, one of our third year students. Jennifer Merz, MFA '14 is the first runner up in NJ
SCBWI Books for Kids' project. We are really proud of you, Jenn!
If you have been to Bryant Park these past two weeks, in and amongst the masses of people you might have seen Bruno Nadalin, MFA '15 out and about with his sketchbook, paints, brushes, charcoal and other assorted drawing materials, doing what he does so masterfully, reportage. Bruno was selected from a huge pool of applicants to be an Artist in Residence. This is a huge honor and we are so proud of you, Bruno!
Maria Carluccio, MFA '16, has arrived with a statement! As she has been working away in Digital Boot Camp, after only three nights on campus, we got word that Maria has been awarded a Bronze medal in 3 x 3 Magazine's Picture Book Annual Number 10. Hundreds of illustrators enter this contest and this is a great honor. Way to come to school, Maria!


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Vezax hard mode isn't that hard. It's mainly a matter of of finding the good balance of stamina and dps to kill him without having to change pets too often. In my video I had 2 stamina trinkets and a dps flask.
Strategy is the same as ever when the animus isn't there:
-avoid the black puddles
-avoid the shadow crashes
-Kite him for his "big mode" (blood of Yogg-Saron)
-interrupt one AoE out of two, use a pet CD for the others.
When the animus spawns:
-it will interrupt his big mode, so no need to kite him.
-Misdirect the add on your pet.
Vezax will stop casting his aoe, so use pet CDs as you like, intelligently (meaning, not during the kiting phase). If you attract aggro from the animus, better kite him a bit - anything to reduce pet incoming damage.
DBM won't warn you anymore for the shadow crashes, so open you eyes (Vezax turns toward you and launches a purple bolt: move).
Once the animus is dead, continue normally.
If you kill him before he berserks, you win.
Loatheb 25 is "yay look at me I'm topping the charts!" No strategy, just plain gear/rotation check. He has a 12-minutes berserk, so 28.1K dps is needed.
Unlike me, if you try him you should remember that stamina scrolls exist to be used in fights where your pet lacks survivability.
So: You have +50% crit chance. Since it affects everything, Chimera shot is a dps boost even during careful aim. Use an aimed shot rotation.
For your pet to survive, use a scroll of fortitude II, and use CDs as soften as possible, remembering to throw a heal when the debuff is ending.


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It seems that those who've found that they have issues with Bioware's phenomenally successful Mass Effect 2 on standard-definition TVs are out of luck, with the developer indicating that a fix is impossible.
For those who've been blissfully unaware of the trouble, it seems that anyone trying to play Mass Effect 2 on a TV that doesn't display in some flavour of high-definition (it seems that 1080p isn't a requirement, you should be fine with 720p) has been having trouble with text. The issue stems from the face that the text in Mass Effect 2 seems to have been sized with high-definition TVs in mind, meaning that it's so small that it essentially becomes unreadable on older displays.


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Author Donates 17th-Century Map of Africa to McDermott Library
July 21, 2014
Click to enlarge. Author Frank T. Kryza donated this hand-colored, engraved map created by Dutch cartographer Johannes Blaeu in the 1630s. It resides in the administration conference room of the Eugene McDermott Library.
The Eugene McDermott Library is now home to a rare piece of history.
Thanks to the generosity of author and donor Frank T. Kryza, an antique map of Africa hangs in the library administration conference room. A special unveiling ceremony was held in the library to celebrate the newest addition.
The hand-colored, engraved map was created by Dutch cartographer Johannes Blaeu in the 1630s. Kryza found it on a trip to New York 25 years ago. On the map, the continent of Africa is surrounded by galleons, sea monsters and flying fish. The borders contain nine oval vignettes of African cities and 10 vignettes of costumed figures. The Center for Art Conservation worked on the map to prepare it for framing.
"I have about 100 maps of Africa and this is in the top 10. I wanted a place where it would be taken care of. The University is the perfect place for that," Kryza said.
"The library is thrilled to accept Kryza's rare Blaeu map," said Dr. Ellen Safley, dean of libraries. "While McDermott Library continues to collect recent resources such as electronic journal articles and digital books, we are equally impressed by the quality of the 17th-century cartography and the hand painting of the map. As with our other rare materials, it is a piece we will cherish."
From left: Kryza talks with Linda Snow, head of reference services and liaison to the School of Arts and Humanities; Dr. Thomas Allen, curator in special collections and archives; and Paul Oelkrug, coordinator for special collections and archives, during a reception.
Kryza first became acquainted with McDermott Library more than two decades ago. While working at ARCO International, he was doing political research and needed a rare book on the oil and gas industry in Ecuador. He was surprised to find it at McDermott.
"I couldn't believe there was a copy of that book within site of the building in which I worked. I thought I'd have to go try to find one in Washington, D.C., New York or Chicago or Los Angeles. I was amazed."
Years later, a chance encounter with the former dean of libraries, Dr. Larry Sall, would cement a relationship with the library that has lasted for years.
"I'm a Yale graduate, but I feel a closer connection to UTD because I've had a 20-year relationship with the school. McDermott Library meets my needs."
Much like the African maps Kryza collects, his history is just as extensive. His love for Africa began when he was 13 years old. His family moved there when his father became the American consul to Nairobi, Kenya. Those four years fostered a deep respect for the continent.
Once Kryza began working at ARCO International, he lobbied to be sent back to Africa. The company agreed and Kryza spent four more years working there. Since then, he has been working on projects in Africa and is also the honorary consul to Tunisia. Books that he has written include "The Power of Light: The Epic Story of Man's Quest to Harness the Sun" and "The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold."
Kryza said he hopes to tell the story of Africa through his maps. The Blaeu map is just the beginning. He's already picked out other maps he plans to donate to the library.
"I consider McDermott Library to be a cathedral of books. It's like a church. This is a place that's sacred because it contains the history of the human race," Kryza said. "We have a responsibility to make sure that this University becomes as well-endowed with treasures as the universities on the East Coast. That's why I wanted to give this map to UTD."
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Monday, April 27, 2015
Liberals favoured in closer PEI race
The most recent poll (and if the 2011 campaign is any indication, perhaps the last poll) was commissioned by The Guardian and published on Saturday. It comes from the Corporate Research Associates, and shows Wade MacLauchlan's Liberals in a good position to be re-elected.
last polled between February 9-28, though that was before Rob Lantz was named the Tories' new leader.
The PCs were up nine points to 35%, followed by the New Democrats at 15% (+3) and the Greens at 6% (+2).
Of the total sample, 13% was undecided (another 6% refused to answer or said they would not vote).
That 44% is the lowest the PEI Liberals have managed since August 2013, and it is just the third poll since the 2011 election to put the party below 45%. They captured 51% of the vote in October 2011.
For the PCs, this is their best poll since that election, when they took 40%.
The New Democrats appear to have halted their decline, after dropping over six consecutive quarterly polls from 32% in August 2013.
Is MacLauchlan the problem? Probably not. With 38% saying he would make the best premier, that puts him better or equal to where Robert Ghiz stood between June 2012 and February 2014.
It is instead the performance of Lantz, who with 28% jumped 18 points over interim leader Steven Myers's numbers, and is the highest any leader of the PCs has managed since before the 2011 election.
By contrast, the 10% that Mike Redmond scored as leader of the NDP was his worst.
Another poll emerged out of Prince Edward Island recently, coming from Abingdon Research. A B.C.-based firm that works mostly with conservative parties (but says it has no clients in PEI), the poll was passed over by the media. The results are broadly similar to what CRA found.
One big asterisk for this poll is that it was conducted online. PEI is a small province, and building a representative panel for it has got to be tricky.
I have not developed a complete model for the PEI election, due to the province's history of having very little polling. But a generic swing model, taking into account each of the two polls' margin of error (hypothetical, in the case of Abingdon), gives us an idea of what to expect.
With CRA's poll, the Liberals would win between 14 and 24 seats, enough to secure another majority government. The Tories would win between three and 13 seats, setting them up for a slightly better performance than they had in 2011.
Abingdon gives the Liberals a more comfortable edge, with the closest seat count being 19 for the Liberals and eight for the PCs.
Neither poll shows the NDP or Greens with enough strength to win a seat, on paper at least. If the NDP does end up near 18%, I imagine Redmond could secure his seat. The same goes for Peter Bevan-Baker of the Greens, particularly if they take 12% of the vote. New Brunswickers recently showed that a Green leader can be elected even if the party finishes in fourth place, so PEI could do the same.
Barring a dramatic turn in fortunes brought on by the upcoming leaders debates, the Liberals look like they will be returned with a majority government. But there are not a lot of voters that need to be swung in PEI, so hold off on your bets.
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You have to love when a close race means a plausible result of 0 seats for the opposition.ReplyDelete
What is even more amazing is the sample size of the polls. I thought to myself: "511" is an odd sample size".ReplyDelete
Then, I realised 511 equals .5 of 1% of the population of PEI which is an enormous sample.Replies
Though the population size actually does not affect the accuracy of a sample (for things like MOE). Except in extreme cases, where you could say, sample everyone. Then you have the population and not the sample.Delete
Eric .... been a while since you posted on 308 on the Federal polls. We have had a budget, a budget by Ontario and you have added a couple of polls to your federal forecastReplyDelete
The latest of the polls is a tiny IVR poll by Forum n=977 that somehow almost has as much weight as the EKOS n=3850.??
You chose to include the Nanos poll which did not ask the clear question of who would you vote for in an election held today but rather rank the top 2 parties.
If you would have left Nanos out (Nanos is doing a rolling poll but did not previously publish the top-ranked party info that they had gathered) the CPC would have a statistical valid lead over the Liberals.
Even with the 32-31 lead of the CPC over the Liberal is note worthy when compared to the 38-30 Liberal lead you were calculating and posting 6 months ago.
an article about how the polls are indicating the Liberal party is in in free fall (as indicated by the polls) might be warranted? Has any other federal opposition party ever fallen so far and so fast oustside of an election campaign?
In 2011 election campaign Liberals and/or the Bloc Q dropped as much and the 1993 PCs as well, but that was after the election was called.Replies
PEI and Alberta are having an election next week, and take priority.Delete
I write weekly articles for the CBC about federal polls, I consider it part of my body of work.
Nanos's differing methodology strengthens the projection, rather than weakening it.Delete
The Forum poll happened over two days rather than the 6 EKOS took, so its data is significantly newer.
Interesting result in that PEI poll ??Delete
Also nanos is releasing (just recently?) the first choice ballot question/results so your statement about them not is incorrect.Delete
BCVR, perhaps the reason that Eric is not always dropping everything else to muse about this "free fall" of the Liberal party you so love to exaggerate is that he is running a polling website, not a ax-grinding business.Delete
+1 to WillDelete
One of Eric's recent articles on CBC did discuss the decline in Liberal poll numbers in quite a bit of detail.Delete
That's correct Ryan but Nanos was showing the same thing. Since then there has been a resurgence in Liberal support as displayed by Nanos weekly polling.Delete
Now the Tories are third just behind the NDP and well back of the Liberals.
So all we can say right now is that a state of flux exists !!
Nanos seems to be an outlier right now. Nanos has a very good track record, so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, but the reality is all other pollsters are showing a decline to parity or below parity with the Conservatives.Delete
It's important to keep in mind the differing methodologies, as well. Nanos uses live callers and no prompts. Letting people choose from a list sometimes produces very different results from not offering them a list at all.Delete
Half of PEI isn't online, so I wouldn't go by the polls much. It's going to be close!ReplyDelete
I missed this CROP federal poll of Quebec, published on 25 April :ReplyDelete
As of April 28 Nanos has the Liberals way ahead nationally so a win in PEI isn't unexpected.ReplyDeleteReplies
Those are not polling numbers but, Nanos' amorphous PartyPowerIndex. Nanos makes the numbers look like they come from polling but, are an aggregate compiled from a number of questions including best PM, 1st and second preference etc...
Also while the Liberals are ahead by 5.5 points-that is juxtaposed by the Tories stopping a six week slide on the index.
bede you seem to think I care ?? Anything that hurts the Tories works for me ! And Cameron is dead meat to !!Delete
Poor spelling hurts Liberals Peter!Delete
Cameron is almost assured to remain PM. Miliband is a disaster, Labour's Ignatiev, Miliband has lost Scotland! Such a result would have been inconceivable not so long ago. Nate Silver predicts the Tories will win a plurality and the way things are going for Labour a Conservative majority is not out of the question or at least a second Conservative-Lib-Dem coalition.
You should care about what you write Peter, because by stating: "the Liberals way ahead nationally" you are being disingenuous as well as factually incorrect! You are actually hurting the Liberals as you give them a false sense of security. Hardly matters I agree Trudeau has already lost or rather Harper has already won the election!
and Boom there goes Nanos.ReplyDelete
In his rolling poll released April 22 with 4 week rolling poll ending April 17 and n=834 nanos publishes the First Ranked Choice
" For those parties you would consider voting for federally, could you please rank your top two current local preferences?"
A week later he decides not to publish this in his weekly poll release.
Why was this not released for this poll? What is the criteria that Nanos uses to release his poll information?Replies
Just a little fun: with polls in Great Britain showing the Liberal Democrats in big trouble, I predict another Conservative minority -- this time being propped up by the UKIP. Maybe my gut is full of it. We'll find out soon enough.Replies
The Lib Dems seem to think that's a possibility. They're actively warning voters against a "Bluekip" coalition.Delete
UKIP's votes are too dispersed. They're slated for a Kim Campbell result - lots of votes and virtually no seats. The Lib Dems should be able to hang on to 20-30.Delete
UKIP has little chance of winning enough seats to prop up the Tories; maybe with Unionists from Northern Ireland a majority could be eeked out but, looking like a hung parliament unless Cameron gets a last minute boost.Delete
On the plus side Miliband is looking more and more hopeless, at this stage of the game he is likely loosing the Labour party votes by the day. Labour will be expelled from Scotland and without those automatic 40+ M.P.s have no chance of winning a majority and a very small chance of winning a plurality.
It is beginning to look like 1974 all over again!
UKIP will do well to win three seats, I think (Clacton, East Ham, South Thanet). Anything beyond that would require unexpected local weakness from a major party.Delete
Not East Ham. Thurrock. I meant Thurrock.Delete
The problem with UKIP is their local organisation is weak. They only hold 360 councillors out of 20,000+. with a big enough swing it doesn't matter but, they've stagnated in the mid-teens in the polls.Delete
What would be interesting is if it ends up with the PC's and Libs tied and the Greens win their leaders seat (as per the Green Party poll that was released). We could have a minority situation with the Green Party holding the balance of power which would be a first. Given the poll was done pre-debate and Elizabeth May is there to help today I think his chances of winning are very good.ReplyDelete
That new Abacus poll is interesting, because it marks the first time since Mar 2013 that the Tories have lead in three consecutive published polls (across all pollsters).ReplyDelete
These three polls have been from EKOS, Forum, and Abacus, which really do run the gamut of bias. Forum consistently has the highest Liberal numbers. EKOS tends to overvalue the Greens, but undervalue both Liberals and Tories. And Abacus used to be the contracted pollster for Sun News.
Will28 April, 2015 15:04ReplyDelete
BCVR, perhaps the reason that Eric is not always dropping everything else to muse about this "free fall" of the Liberal party you so love to exaggerate is that he is running a polling website, not a ax-grinding business.
Carl Szczerski28 April, 2015 17:56
+1 to Will
To this I say 5 comments on the PEI article 6 comments on the British election and 22 and counting comments on Canadian Federal election. (On a site that is named for the Canadian Federal election)
By the way the latest Abacus poll just adds to the Liberals being in free fall.
Another 2 months following the trend they are on the Liberals might be looking for a new leader for the October election.
Maybe they can have Mr. Garneau as the Liberal representative at the debates rather than just Ms. May.
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Drew Magary's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here.
Referees suck. That's a hard law of any major American professional sport, and it will be for the rest of time because hating referees is so remarkably easy. They don't play the game, and they don't have the God's eye view of a sporting event that you, Mr. Viewer At Home, have. They're old. They're schlubby. Ed Hochuli aside, you could maybe take them in a fight. That makes them easy to pick on, and the NFL seems determined to make it easier every year.
The challenge system was introduced to the NFL in 1999, and it remains the clumsiest possible implementation of instant replay ever devised. Consider how stupid the challenge system is:
• It penalizes you just for wanting to make sure a call is correct.
• It limits the number of replays that can take place before the two-minute warning in a game, which is dumb because the number of bad calls in one game isn't set in stone (and is potentially limitless in the hands of these shitass refs).
• You can only call for a replay by throwing a piece of fabric onto the field, and many times you have to point out to the ref that you threw the flag, which makes throwing the flag pointless to begin with. We have wireless technology in this country, you know.
• It takes the onus of consulting replay out of the hands of officials—whose only job is to enforce the rules of the game—and puts in the hands of a head coach who has four million other things to do and no optimal vantage point for what just happened on the field.
• It forces head coaches—in a minuscule time frame—to ask assistants upstairs if they should challenge the call. That timeframe to sort this out is not set in stone. Sometimes you have to burn a timeout to figure out if you need to challenge (a fireable offense to fans). Sometimes you bump up against the TV timeout and have ages to sort it out.
• Fans like me still have no idea what kind of video assistants can check out while they're in the booth. Do they have access to a live feed of the all-22 film? Can they only consult the network feed? What if the network decides to skip showing the replay in favor of running an ad for dick pills? The conditions for considering the red flag are NEVER consistent, which is crazy.
• It forces refs to consult a screen outside, in shitty viewing conditions (hood or not), while the home crowd waits for a call like it's a Cobb salad they ordered forty minutes ago.
• It takes forever.
And worst of all, it never dares reverse a subjective call like pass interference or forward progress. When Eric Weddle fumbled against Kansas City last week (and he did fumble), the play was deemed unreviewable because forward progress isn't a reviewable call. Here's my question: WHY? Why isn't that reviewable? You can look at the tape and see for yourself if Weddle fumbled while still moving forward and prior to the whistle blowing. And if it's not conclusive, then so be it. But it CAN be conclusive, or you can deem your subjective judgment to be wiser than that of the on-field ref, unless you're just too scared of undermining the authority of your referees.
And that's the problem right there. The NFL has introduced a whole slew of new rules and enforcements—enough to confuse any official—but can't be seen as undermining those very same officials by overturning a shitty judgment call. And the result is the plague of officiating inconsistency that everyone hates because no one knows what a defenseless receiver or a catch is anymore.
This is a fixable problem. You can piss and moan all you like about the game being pussified and that DURRRR MEN CAN'T BE MEN OUT ON THE FIELD ANYMORE DURRRR, but none of the NFL's new preventive measures would be anywhere near as infuriating if they were just CONSISTENT. And the way to do that is with the NHL's system of centralized replay, which the Ginger Hammer is already considering and which should be implemented TODAY. Here is how it would work:
1. A ref fucks up a call.
2. Someone in the New York DUNGEON OF MONITORS sees the fuckup and is like, "Hey, they fucked that up!"
3. New York quickly buzzes the refs with the correct call.
4. Call is corrected. We all move on with our lives.
No more challenges. No more head coaches walking around completely clueless as to what to do. In the Dallas/Philly game, Dallas got a delay of game penalty because fifteen seconds magically disappeared from the play clock. Al Michaels noticed this instantly, and yet no official did, which is crazy. Someone in New York could have reversed that penalty via TEXT.
What's more, you could have Replay Central in charge of overturning poor judgment calls like pass interference and late hits, so that there is one consistent authority on these ticky tack calls that many people think are ruining football. You can train ref crews all you like for this shit, but a central authority would ensure that these things don't become individualized like strike zones. The longer that centralized replay is around, refs will pick up on what should and should not be called, and hopefully the flags would end up being more balanced.
It needs to happen now, because the refs just cost Pittsburgh a playoff spot last week. That's a big fucking deal, and yet we all like football too much to quit over this. If we won't quit over suicidal retirees, we aren't quitting over shitty refs. We just want the game to be BETTER, so that we can remain at its mercy. Centralized replay will do that. Pro sports leagues have a strange habit of never firing bad officials (Jeff Triplette gets to work a playoff game this weekend!) because they seem to think that publicly reprimanding poor officials somehow undermines the public's faith in them, when we never had such faith to begin with. We need to make this better.
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All games in the Jamboroo are evaluated for sheer watchability on a scale of 1 to 5 Throwgasms. And during the playoffs, I pick the games because that's STRONG BUSINESS.
Five Throwgasms
Eagles (-2.5) 24, Saints 23. Every quarterback in football has a "security blanket," which is always a tight end (preferably a white one) or a fullback (ditto) or a slot receiver (ditto). And every time the announcer uses the phrase, I imagine the QB as a five-year-old boy, desperately running over to Jason Witten so he can suck on his thumb and be pacified. And when the tight end gets injured? OMG NO SECURITY BLANKET OUR POOR LITTLE QB IS ALONE IN THE COLD WORLD.
Packers (+3) 35, Niners 34. If the Packers can't sell this game out, I don't ever want a hear a fucking word out of their fans again about how awesome they are. As a Minnesota fan, I can at least admit that I am a wishy-washy dipshit who can barely contain his indifference toward his own team. You assholes have a thoroughly heterosexual Aaron Rodgers back (don't show him Kaep's abs or he may turn!) and the chance to make Jim Harbaugh throw fecal matter at the refs. Fuck you if you can't sell out. And fuck your tundra. You have no excuse!*
(*Actually you have a great excuse because I'd never go to a playoff game that was below zero. That's crazy. A friend of mine went to the Pats-Titans night playoff game in the freezing cold ages ago and said they were chugging whiskey just to keep warm. He hated every minute of it.)
Four Throwgasms
Chiefs (+2.5) 31, Colts 14. I'm gonna take a moment to remind you that, once again, the NFL failed to deliver any Saturday afternoon football in December this year. Do these people not understand that I'm home for the holidays and need something to stare at? THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU, GOODELL? I don't get why they abandoned this and I never will.
Three Throwgasms
Bengals (-7) 41, Chargers 10. I'll regret picking Marvin Lewis to win a playoff game. Oh well, onto the random crap:
• One of my favorite things in football is when a guy gets injured and is visibly PISSED that he got injured and can't play for the rest of the game, and then the announcer falls all over himself to praise the player for being mad that he got hurt. WHAT A COMPETITOR.
• My parents celebrated their 50th anniversary last week, and during their party they left open their old wedding albums for people to look through. They included photos and even a handful of press clippings in the local paper, and those were fascinating. One of the press clippings included a preview of a local debutante ball—those old parties where 18-year-old girls announce their availability to the area's most handsome and rugged bachelors—and the preview included both head shots of the debutantes AND foot shots. And that's not all: They actually evaluated the fucking feet of each girl. I took a picture for posterity:
Here is a bit of sample copy, and I swear this is real: "They are VIP kitchen feet, well versed in the route from stove to sink to refrigerator. And they are, finally and forever—even tho they are only 18 years old—Republican worker feet."
WHAT IN THE LIVING FUCK?! That is so weird. Even Rex Ryan thinks this is going overboard.
• I live in the DC area and Redskins fans could not talk enough about Kirk Cousins' trade value all season long. By the time RGIII was formally deactivated, they were convinced that they could get all the picks they traded for RGIII BACK for Cousins. And then Cousins went out and played exactly the way a fourth round quarterback usually plays. His trade value is now approximately that of a bag of wet potato chips.
But I promise you that there are still Skins fans out there convinced they can get a first rounder for him, and many more who are convinced the team should trade RGIII instead. WE NEED KIRK'S STEADY LEADERSHIP, YOU GUYS! He has Republican worker feet!
• Anytime a team like the Browns is on the verge of potentially hiring a failed retread like Josh McDaniels, defenders will always point to Bill Belichick's first job in Cleveland and use it as an example of a retread turning things around. But in general, Belichick is the exception. I can't even imagine how many teams have ruined themselves just randomly hoping they got the next Belichick when no such thing exists.
• On the sidelines against Green Bay, Jay Cutler wore a shell jacket that was roughly eight times the volume of his actual body. It was even weirder than seeing Eli Manning wear a t-shirt OVER HIS PADS after the Giants won their Super Bowls. They will just keep embiggening QB outerwear until you one day see Aaron Rodgers on the sidelines wearing a fucking circus tent.
• Speaking of Cutler, I still don't understand why media people pretend like a "seven-year deal" or a supposed $100 million deal is ironclad and report it that way right at the outset. Those contracts are ALWAYS misleading, and yet they always spew out the exact same horseshit that agents want them to spew out. Just say he signed a "new contract" and see where the out clauses are. Cutler's deal is really for three years, and I bet the Bears can waive Cutler next year anyway for a buyout of three dollars.
• It's January 2nd, and I don't know if you were aware, but the start of 2014 signifies LIGHT BULB ARMAGEDDON here in the United States. As of yesterday, manufacturers can no longer produce 40- or 60-watt incandescent light bulbs. They gotta make (GUHHHHHH) compact fluorescent bulbs, which are fucking awful. I promise you that the national suicide rate will increase 10% this year because of this. Fluorescent light makes every home feel like a toothpaste factory, and it's not worth keeping the Earth healthy to bask in it. I have already begun hoarding the old school bulbs, and I suggest you do likewise.
• I was at a hotel breakfast buffet with my kids and trying to corral them, but my one-year-old was still walking around, and one surly guy in a rumpled white t-shirt said to me, "Hey pal, this isn't your living room. I've had to walk around your kid four or five times!" And oh, you should have seen me react. Just the whitest, most gentrified look of shock you'll ever see. "Well, good morning to YOU!" That was my reply. I felt like a complete tool.
Ten minutes later, my other kid walks into the buffet and the same asshole is milling around. And when he walked by, I said, "I BROUGHT YOU ANOTHER ONE!" And this time, the guy really looked like he wanted to kill me. He got an inch away from me and was like, "Listen buddy, keep it to yourself." Then he walked away and I fled the buffet and never returned. I spent the next week alternating between thinking about killing him and thinking about him tracking me down and killing me. I'm never taking my kids to a buffet again.
Two Throwgasms
One Throwgasm
None. Not enough games to fill out the ratings anymore. So very sad.
Pregame Song That Makes Me Want To Run Through A Goddamn Brick Wall
"Submission for Liberty," by 4Arm, submitted by Frank:
I saw these guys open for Slayer in Columbus a few weeks ago. They only played a handful of songs and this was one of them. Good stuff.
It is! I need my thrash metal singers to actually SING. They don't have to sing much. They just have to sing enough so that I know they aren't just doing the whole Cookie Monster horseshit. 4Arm qualifies.
Suicide Pick Of The Week
Leitch's picks of Seattle, New England, Denver went 3-0 last week, making us 40-11 on the year, which means I lost you your suicide pool 11 times over, because you never win your suicide pool. The suicide pool is always won by the single DOUCHIEST guy in the office—the one guy who would actually believe that winning a suicide pool means he's some kind of football expert. It's like clockwork.
For posterity, I'll offer one last thing that makes me want to commit suicide, and that is a rogue toilet seat. Some toilet seats stay up when you put them up, they way a toilet seat should. But farrrr too many of them flop right back down while you piss, which is a profound nightmare. These rogue toilet seats and lids always choose the most alarming time to drop, usually just as you're leaving the shitter and are not ready for an oncoming poltergeist attack. Or even worse, the hinge is rusty and the lid of the toilet seat smashes your hand when you try to be a gentleman and put the seat down for a lady to follow. UNACCEPTABLE.
Gregg Easterbrook Is A Haughty Dipshit
I was on vacation last week—drinking fine Armagnac and studying many old nautical maps in my den—and so I missed Gregg's weekly bit of fartsniffing. Thankfully, the good folks at texashsfootball.com were there to rip apart Gregggggg's numerous theses about Texas high school football. HOOVER DAMNIEL! Anyway, I am back and notably refreshed from ATTENDING HOUSES OF WORSHIP and sending letters to the aliens about Jesus. Here now is your fisking:
TMQ's Authentic Games metric ends the regular season by predicting a Super Bowl of Denver (six authentic wins) versus New Orleans (five). Cincinnati also recorded five authentic wins; Arizona, Carolina, Indianapolis, San Francisco and Seattle posted four. Though my own metric predicts Denver versus New Orleans in the swamps of Jersey, that outcome seems unlikely
Here's my Authentic Wins metric! SIDE NOTE: I find it completely useless myself.
— my bet is the Broncos fade while a Saints-Seahawks playoff contest, if one occurs, would be held in Seattle, conferring the edge on the Bluish Men Group. So maybe my Authentic Games metric is nuts.
Then why are you fucking talking about it? Hey, gang! I have devised a scientifically precious ELITE WINS stat that could change the face of football forever, except that I don't like the fact that it predicts the STATSAPALOOZA score-runner-uppers of Denver in the Super Bowl, so I'd like to publicly disown it now. I just wanted to take you through my thought exercises in football, which have great value to mankind!
But last season at this juncture, it projected Baltimore to reach the Super Bowl, and that seemed pretty unlikely.
So if my Authentic Wins stat turns out to be right, I AM LORD GENIUS FOOTBALL GOD OF THE NFL PARISH.
Nick Foles, who started the season as a backup, finished with 27 touchdown passes versus two interceptions, and a 119.2 rating. Joe Flacco, who started the season as reigning Super Bowl MVP, finished with 19 touchdown passes versus 22 interceptions, and a 73.1 rating.
The lesson? NEVER START A SUPER BOWL MVP. Backups are hungrier!
Discounting the kicking teams, here are the Pro Bowl players who were undrafted:
• Jesus
• Martin Luther
• Gandhi
• Saint Peter
• The soldiers at Thermopylae
• Taylor Hicks
The new Fox series "Almost Human" posits that in the year 2048, cyborg cops will be required because, as a voiceover intones in the pilot, "crime has increased an astounding 400 percent." Four hundred percent compared to what — to 2013, to 2047? Thirty-five years in the future, people still don't understand statistics.
So true. Are these Authentic Crimes? TMQ's crime metric may be KRAYZEE, but it's a damn sight better than whatever stat some Jew FOX TV executive will cook up!
TMQ's sixth sense tells him the Blur Offense fades in this contest and that New Orleans will advance to a monster NFC playoff confrontation at Seattle. But my sixth sense also told me Sarah Palin would help the 2008 Republican ticket.
Is it really a sixth sense if it doesn't actually do anything? WHOA HEY TMQ'S SIXTH SENSE SAYS TOASTERS ARE FAR TOO GUSSIED UP BY MANUFACTURERS NOW. But that sixth sense could mean absolutely nothing! MAYBE.
Manti Te'o quietly had a solid rookie campaign for San Diego (expect the national media this week to rediscover his imaginary dead girlfriend).
YOU are the national media. Don't try to paint yourself as some wily outsider who sees things the rest of DOUCHESTREAM MEDIA can't, Greggggg. You work for the Atlantic and ESPN. You're not operating a pirate radio ship.
September through Christmas is my favorite time of year — leaves are falling, football is being played, Christmas is coming, and everyone looks better in sweaters.
No one is sorry to see weasel coach Greg Schiano fired.
Weeeeeaselllllllll. Although, as feudal affectations dictate, I hope his players all called him "Mister."
The Football Gods Were Puzzled:
"Do we chortle here or not?"
Why was Drew Brees, and the rest of the Saints' starters, on the field in the fourth quarter with New Orleans ahead 42-17? Saints coach Sean Payton has always loved stats. But trying to run up the score isn't sportsmanlike, and can cause pointless injuries.
Oh, you can SMELL the moral high ground here, can't you? Nothing's more fun than when Greggggg asks a question as a way of passive aggressively noting his disapproval. Not an Authentic Win! The Football Gods will have their revenge.
Great Moments In Poop History
Reader Anonymous has a story I call HOUSE OF SHARTS:
A little more than 10 years ago I was doing an internship with a United States Congressman on Capitol Hill. After a long night of drinking I went into work not feeling so great. While I was at my desk answering constituent mail, I felt that horrible rumble in my stomach. As I was squirming in my seat, the staff assistant in the office asked me to go up to the storage locker and bring back a box of paper. All the offices have storage cages on the top floor of the office buildings to keep their extra supplies. As I was getting the box of paper, I felt the pressure building up like a volcano. I looked around and noticed nobody was around so I decided to try and let a little pressure out.
At that very moment, I realized I had made a very grave mistake. What felt like a fart, was nothing but liquid shit. My body went cold as soon as I noticed I was wearing khaki pants. I locked the storage locker and swiftly walked, cheeks clenched to the nearest bathroom. The devastation was massive. In a panic, I tried to clean up what I could, but there was no salvaging, the damage was done. I ditched my underwear and went back to the office walking with my back to any wall I could find. My senses dull, I was unsure how bad the smell was. W
hen I went back to the office the staff assistant could tell I had a look of horror on my face. He asked where the paper was. I told him I had suddenly felt very ill and needed to leave. With a puzzled look, he asked me if I wanted to go down to the capitol nurse to which I replied, "I need to leave right now, I'm sorry." I grabbed my bag and slung it over my shoulder and over my ass and high tailed out of there the fastest I could. I spent the next 45 minutes on the metro riding back to Ballston where I was living with my back up against the doors afraid to sit down and convinced I smelled like the homeless people everyone is always trying to avoid on the train. The next day I went in with that horrible feeling of whether anybody knew what had happened. No one ever said anything and neither did I. So my question is, in the more than 200 year history of the United States Capitol, I can't be the only one to have ever sharted themselves, right?
Emmitt Smith's Lock of the Week!
"For the Wild Car round, I like Drew Breens and the high-powdered Saints (+2.5) offense to go into Philly and DECAPACITATE the Eagles! There's a lot I like about Nick Phones and the Blurb Offense. But this is the playoffs! ONE AND DUNG! WIN OR GO HOLE! And for that reason, I have to go with Breens. He's excellenced. He's got sassy. Not to mention MAXIE! I trust him in the hostage environment of the Limp. When playoff time comes, you re-guy on your veterinarians."
Emmitt Smith 2013 record: 6-9-2
Fantasy Player Who Deserves to Die A Slow, Painful Death
Me. As always, I deserve the honor at the end of the season because I have played this game for two decades and never once won a league. Never. It's pathetic. Fantasy football is just a suicide pool with more busywork. Sitting there on a Sunday night, trolling the waiver wire hoping to pick up someone that some other asshole already picked up—what is the goddamn point? I'm done with it for good.*
(*Not a fucking chance I'm done with it. I'll play until I'm cold and dead in the grave. One day, I'll stumble backwards into a title. YOU WATCH.)
Fire This Asshole!
Is there anything more exciting than a coach losing his job? All year long, we'll keep track of which coaches will almost certainly get fired at year's end or sooner. And now, your updated 2013 chopping block:
- Gary Kubiak—FIRED!
- Mike Shanahan—FIRED!
- Leslie Frazier—FIRED!
- Jim Schwartz—FIRED!
- Greg Schiano—FIRED!
- Rob Chudzinski—OMG FIRED!
- Rex Ryan—NOT FIRED!
- Joe Philbin—NOT FIRED YET!
- Mike Munchak—NOT FIRED YET SOMEHOW!
- Dennis Allen—ALSO NOT FIRED YET SOMEHOW!
I didn't have Chud on this list at all this season because I figured, like everyone else, that he got a one-year grace period while the Browns got their house in order. He must have done something REALLY bad, like participated in a three-way with Andrew Bynum and that one assistant Cavs coach's old lady or something. When a coach gets shitcanned, you usually get a flood of anonymous player quotes ripping the fucker as he walks out the door. "He was a dictator." "He didn't know what he was doing." "He put pictures of Hitler into the game plan to motivate us." Stuff like that. Chud got none of that. His players seemed to think he was all right. Something is seriously fucked up in Cleveland.
Gametime Snack Of The Week
Sriracha popcorn! I think people, in general, like the idea of liking Sriracha more than they actually like Sriracha. Like, it's fine. I like putting it on food. And this popcorn is quite tasty. But people wax rhapsodic over this shit like it's liquefied bacon. Relax. It's hot sauce. IT IS NOT PROPERLY RATED RIGHT NOW.
Gametime Cheap Beer Of The Week
Mucho Aloha! The beer for people that think Hawaiian is Spanish! From Chris:
My wife and I were in Hawaii on vacation and I was getting tired of shelling out $14 for sugary drinks to get precious, precious alcohol. So off to the supermarket we went. I saw this gem and had to get it. The lady behind the register took one look at it and felt she needed to clarify that this was not a local beer. She looked as if this beer brought shame upon the entire state of Hawaii. I got it anyway. Upon closer examination, it turns out this beer is from Wisconsin. So it's a beer from Wisconsin, sold in Hawaii, and marketed for some reason using Spanish. La cervesa mo' bettah. Mo' bettah than what, you might ask? Not much. I toasted all six to Pele.
And what does the bird signify? I'm so confused by this beer. LUAU FIESTA! At least it doesn't come in a carton. By the way, reader Russell sent an extra bit of info on Chibuku, the carton beer from two weeks ago...
I lived in Botswana for a while, and they have a huge plant that produces the stuff. Brought back memories. What you didn't hear is that this stuff has a shelf life of minutes, and when it goes bad, they return it to the plant for disposal. I toured the plant once, and they took us to the pit that they dump the spoiled stuff in. I can't explain to you how horrid the smell was. Imagine someone drinking a bunch of booze, sour milk and burnt hair, then puking it out onto your carpet.
I think that we have now proven that Chibuku is, hands down, the single worst beer ever made. It's no contest. I defy you to find a worse beer. Mucho aloha to you if you can.
Robert Evans's MVP Watch!
Time to start thinking about who the leaders will be for the NFL's MVP award. So every week, legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans will join us to give us his assessment. Take it away, Mr. Evans.
"Baby, my favorite for NFL MVP is Peyton Manning of the Broncos! Another fine holiday season at Woodland. Naked tennis? YOU BET! A forty-eight hour bed-in? A HOLY TRADITION. Every year I give my closest friends a gold watch, and every year I wrap that watch in the anus of a 20-year-old woman. You've never seen Nicholson open his presents so quickly. Usually, he throws the watch away."
Sunday Afternoon Movie Of The Week For Texans Fans
American Hustle, which is great and features attractive actresses at their most attractive (plus Louis CK getting his ass kicked!). But this is the third David O. Russell movie I've seen in a row where people spend most of the movie screaming at one another. Everyone screams in The Fighter. Everyone REALLY screams in Silver Linings Playbook. And everyone screams here. Like Russell took his shitfit with Lily Tomlin and made seven hours of film footage out of it. I dare that guy to make All Is Lost 2.
Gratuitous Simpsons Quote
"This just in. A fistfight is in progress in downtown Springfield. Early reports indicate, and this is very preliminary, that one of the fighters is a giant lizard."
Enjoy the playoffs, everyone.
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A popular summer concert series has seemingly escaped looming federal budget cuts. Fort Monroe's Music By the Bay series will begin June 13 and with a performance by the U.S. Fleet Forces Band Wind Ensemble.
Concerts take place on Thursday evenings at the gazebo at Continental Park. The Virginia Symphony Orchestra Band will provide the finale for the series on Aug. 30.
Meanwhile, a different Thursday-night concert series is also preparing to gear up. Thursdays by the Lake at the Mariners' Museum in Newport News will begin June 6 with music from The Deloreans.
Below are news releases about both series.
U.S. Air Force Heritage of America Band, U.S. Fleet Forces Band, Gosport Brass Band and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra offer Music and Fun for the Entire Family Starting in June at Fort Monroe.
FORT MONROE, VA – The Fort Monroe Authority will launch its second annual Music by the Bay at Fort Monroe Summer Concert Series. Located at the Gazebo at Continental Park, the military band concerts are held each Thursday evening beginning at 7 p.m. except for the Virginia Symphony Orchestra concert finale which will be held on Friday, August 30th beginning at 7:30 p.m. All concerts are free and open to the public. The lineup includes:
Fort Monroe Music by the Bay
2013 Weekly Summer Concert Series
June 13–August 30, 2013
Thursdays at 7:00 pm
Continental Park, Fort Monroe
Concert Name
June 13, 2013
Music By the Bay
Continental Park
U.S. Fleet Forces Band-Wind Ensemble
June 20, 2013
Music By the Bay
Continental Park
U.S. Fleet Forces Band -Four Star Edition Rock Band
June 27, 2013
Music By the Bay
Continental Park
U.S. Fleet Forces Band – Brass Band
July 4, 2013
Music By the Bay
Continental Park
U.S. Fleet Forces Band-Wind Ensemble
July 11, 2013
Music By the Bay
Continental Park
U.S. Fleet Forces Band-Wind Ensemble
July 18, 2013
Music By the Bay
Continental Park
U.S. Fleet Forces Band -Four Star Edition Rock Band
July 25, 2013
Music By the Bay
Continental Park
Gosport Brass Band
August 1, 2013
Music By the Bay
Continental Park
U.S. Fleet Forces Band – Brass Band
August 8, 2013
Music By the Bay
Continental Park
USAF Heritage of America Band - Heritage Brass
August 15, 2013
Music By the Bay
Continental Park
USAF Heritage of America Band - Rhythm in Blue Jazz Ensemble
August 22, 2013
Music By the Bay
Continental Park
U.S. Fleet Forces Band-Wind Ensemble
August 30, 2013
Virginia Symphony Orchestra
Continental Park
*Virginia Symphony Orchestra Band
"With nearly 10,000 audience members, The Music by the Bay Summer Concert series was a huge hit last year. Military concerts are a rich tradition at Fort Monroe and the FMA is extremely proud to be able to continue that tradition for a second year by partnering with our local Navy and Air Force bands" says Glenn Oder, Executive Director of the Fort Monroe Authority. "We encourage everyone to visit Fort Monroe and enjoy this one of a kind venue on the bay." The summer concert series at Continental Park offers people amazing music, at a historic and beautiful location for free. This second annual series will attract audiences from across the region and continues a 70 plus year history of concerts held at Fort Monroe, while it was an active Army base. Mr. Oder added, "We're also extremely excited to announce the Virginia Symphony Orchestra will play the finale concert once again on August 30th. The Symphony's performance was last year's concert series grand finale and drew thousands of audience members".
About the Bands performing this summer:
The Gosport Brass Band is an American Civil War living history ensemble. The band consists of 5 saxhorns and 2 percussionists using authentic reproductions of mid 19th century instruments and an announcer/narrator, all in period uniforms and dress of the 19th century. Members of the Gosport Brass Band come from America's finest symphony orchestras and have well over 150 years experience as first tier musicians and performers.
The U.S. Fleet Forces Band is the musical representative for the Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, and is the largest of the Navy's 11 Fleet Bands. This unit provides musical support for ships, military bases, foreign dignitaries, and many community relations events. The band, under the direction of Lieutenant Commander Lieutenant Charles S. White, is fortunate to be staffed by some of the Navy's finest and most talented musicians.
The United States Air Force Heritage of America Band has a rich history of inspiring hearts and minds, building and sustaining American patriotism, and enhancing esprit de corps in the United States Air Force. It was one of the original Army Air Corps bands, created by order of the Secretary of War on October 1, 1941 and assigned to Barksdale Field, Louisiana. In June 1946, after a short stay at Brooks Field, Texas, the band arrived at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, its current home. The band's 45 men and women are assigned to two primary ensembles: the USAF Heritage of America Concert Band and the Blue Aces popular music ensemble. The concert band breaks down into five smaller touring groups: the Heritage Brass Quintet, the Langley Winds woodwind ensemble, Rhythm in Blue jazz ensemble, and are newest Dixie-style ensemble Heritage Ramblers.
The Virginia Symphony has enriched the communities of Hampton Roads for 90 years, offering more 140 classical, pops, family, educational, and outreach concerts each season, including orchestral support of the Virginia Opera and the Virginia Arts Festival. Under Grammy Award-Winning Music Director JoAnn Falletta's leadership, the orchestra has risen to new artistic heights. In August 2000, the Virginia Symphony was accepted into the International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians, officially entering the "major league" of symphony orchestras. VSO concerts are performed throughout Hampton Roads, and the Commonwealth. This year's VSO concert is being sponsored by APM Terminals.
Public program sponsorships are still available. The lineup and schedule are subject to change.
For more information, contact Phyllis Terrell, 757-251-2754 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Mariners' concert series begins in June
NEWPORT NEWS - The Mariners' Museum's popular Thursdays by the Lake summer concert series returns for 2013 in June. The concerts are weekly, Thursdays from 6 to 10 p.m.
Again this year, the expanded concert series features 12 weeks of high-energy dance music with Hampton Roads' premier party bands. This summer, the concert series will have expanded food options, featuring a wider variety of festival foods. As always, there will be a wide selection of wine and beer for sale. There will be no concert on July 4.
Concerts are held in The Mariners' Museum's private park overlooking Lake Maury, with bands performing on a hi-rise stage.
The 2013 band lineup includes:
- 6/6 The Deloreans
- 6/13 Borderline Crazy
- 6/20 Butter
- 6/27 Crazy X
- 7/11 Audio Affair
- 7/18 SpeakEasy
- 7/25 Crazy X
- 8/1 The Deloreans
- 8/8 Slapnation
- 8/15 Butter
- 8/22 Borderline Crazy
- 8/29 Heather Edwards
For more information, visit MarinersMuseum.org/thursdaysbythelake.
The Mariners' Museum, an educational, non-profit institution accredited by the American Association of Museums, preserves and interprets maritime history through an international collection of ship models, figureheads, paintings and other maritime artifacts. For the Museum's operating hours and other information, visit www.MarinersMuseum.org, call (757) 596-2222 or write to The Mariners' Museum, 100 Museum Drive, Newport News, VA 23606.


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We hear that female mantis eats male after mating.
But the truth is more horrible. It's not only after.
She sometimes eats her husband before or during mating.
If so, the wedding will be aborted.
Don't worry. Insects are tough.
The bride starts to bite food from the head.
A headless mantis can mate. And even if he loses the head and the breast, it is possible for a while.
Praying mantis of light green felt.
Wires are in the limbs.
Jul 16, 2007
We hear that female mantis eats male after mating.
Jul 11, 2007
Safe clothes
I have no kid.
I didn't know regulations about children's clothes until reading today's paper.
There are some dangerous parts, for example, a hood, strings or fasteners.
String may hang a baby.
In Japan, there is not any rule.
In Europe, the regulation seems strict.
Sometimes I make kids' clothes. All are for life-size dolls.
I posted them on my sewing site. Some of my clothes are bad for kids.
If you make clothes for your kid, you should replace strings by Velcro etc.
This is for a doll.
Making this cape.


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Most people up here that I talk to about football like the CFL out of a sense of national loyalty.....can't figure it out myself, most of the players are American anyhow.ukcanuck wrote:That's the kind of comment I'm talking about, it really seems to me like it's meant to insult more than anything else.coco_canuck wrote:Preferring the CFL is like saying the ECHL is a better product than the NHL.Blob Mckenzie wrote: I don't like the CFL. I have always thought it was an inferior product . The ocean sized endzone, the fact you can win a game by missing a field goal, the officiating, and the fact 75 % of the teams make the playoffs pretty much make it a bush league imho.
logically it can't be like the east coast league, just by the numbers alone. there are a lot less places to play pro ball than pro hockey in the world and just as many pro football players as pro hockey players to fill them.
To be honest it's like Canadian fans of American ball are trying to make up for the fact that most of us up here prefer the Canadian brand.
"NFL is real football and the CFL is a joke" is Like its the sports version of little man syndrome.
Enjoy your game but don't ridicule the rest of the country.
The NFL is more exciting. The rules in the CFL are Mickey Mouse. I think the NHL should follow suit. From now on a missed shot on a penalty shot or shootout should count for .15 of a goal so long as the puck hits above the boards or clears the glass completely. Shit. I think I would like it if the NFL adopted a wider field like the CFL, that would make for some crazy passing yardage games when dealing with the calibre of QB's down there.
The CFL IS a joke by comparisson. The rules for scoring a point by missing the target are retarded, the fact that you have an individual player award for "best Canadian born player" is completely hilarious. It's like, here you go, you weren't the best player in the league, not by a long shot, but you were the best out of (maybe) 30% of the guys out there. Now don't even get me started about how cool it is when 75% of the league makes the playoffs and a team with a losing record all year has a shot at the Grey Cup. Wow! We were the best of 8 teams!!!! We RULE!!!! Gimme a break. The CFL is fun to watch, but it doesn't hold a candle to the NFL. The best thing that could happen to the CFL would be for the NFL to move into Canada in 2 or 3 major markets and the CFL then become a legitimate farm system for the NFL. The CFL could then move back into the US with a few rule alterations and would likely be even more successful.


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Oral History Interview with Al Flocke, October 22, 2000
Description: Interview with Al Flocke, a radio operator during World War II. He discusses his flight training and being the radio operator on a B-24 bomber which did raids on Guam, Turk, Iwo Jima and other islands. He also relates anecdotes about food, rations, and living conditions on the islands.
Date: October 22, 2000
Creator: Nichols, Chuck & Flocke, Al
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation


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Cory Divorced Ninoy Aquino In 1980. Ninoy Refused To Sign The Divorce Paper
MANILA (Atras Abante Satire News Group) – CONTRARY TO HER CLAIM, CORY WAS DISGUSTED AT THE SO-CALLED ADVOCACY OF NINOY FOR DEMOCRACY CORY divorced Sen. NINOY AQUINO as early as in 1980 and particularly insisted on separation in Boston, Massachusetts. NINOY refused to sign the divorce papers over love for his children.
Due to the highly opinionated, one-track mind and unbendable thinking of CORY, a very peculiar situation existed in the AQUINO house in Boston. When the family were buying their food supplies and toiletries, et al other personal items, NINOY had a push cart of his own. CORY on the other hand, had a push cart for herself and supposedly for her children.
When NINOY ate, he either cooked or ate alone or sometimes with an infrequent guest.
NINOY was allegedly sometimes "aburido" (anguished) over the arrangement that CORY imposed upon the family that even he would even sometimes quarrel with his infrequent guest(s).
However, it was NINOY who took care of all the bills and CORY did not even have a single cent to spare. Each time the family's finances ran low, NINOY would rush to a public pay phone in any of the streets or corners of Boston and make a confidential call to the late Ferdinand MARCOS FERDIE, his fraternity brother in Upsilon Sigma Phi.
After each call, with only minutes, an hour or hours interval, a packet of One Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$100,000) would arrive at the family's place or at a designated drop point.
This arrangement with NINOY was brought by CORY to her relationship with the siblings of husband. That if she and husband were separated, even if technically, and they were living together in a hellish artificial arrangement for the sake of image, the children and other factors, ergo, all the relatives of NINOY were of no more consequence to her since she was no longer related to them as well under law. Kawawa naman si Ninoy, kaya pala nagpakamatay!!! Dios Mio!!!
Since it is a verified fact that CORY's own cousin, and four (4) others ordered the execution of NINOY, it was suspected that since CORY and the berdugo cousin are blood relatives, she knew of the plan to eliminate her technically divorced husband, but she simply did not care. It is probably even possible that she warned him not to go to RP but more in spite than as a show of her love and concern for NINOY's well being.
Contrary to her claim, CORY was disgusted at the so-called advocacy of NINOY for democracy. All she supposedly wanted was to live like the daughter of a rich couple, spend money around and engage in her love: gambling. CORY was allegedly addicted to gambling even at an early age that when NINOY was a neophyte Senator, he was always humiliated when he entertained visitors in their house at Times Street.
When not travelling out of the house, CORY would always stay in her sleeping wear (dusters / negligees) and play mah jong or other games with her amigas and amigos in the guest room of the Times Street house.
If CORY went out of the room to fetch an item outside of the game room or use the comfort room away from the gamblers, and she passes by the Guests of her Senator husband, she just passes by them. She would not even offer water, tea, coffee nor juice to any of the Guests.
NINOY would do the chore himself with the help of the maids or house boys. CORY would also hardly make any decent greetings to Guests she had no relations to, like "Hi!", "Hello!" or shake hands with the Guests. She just whizzes past them as if they were made of stone or did not exist and as if she was trying to show them that she never cared but that it was her house and the Guests were complete strangers and/or their presence was unwanted.
CORY did not love NINOY nor God. When Raul MANGLAPUS and NINOY quarreled sometimes in their Boston home, CORY is said to have sided always with MANGLAPUS. MANGLAPUS on the other hand, during his stay in the US, was active in recruiting for the religion of Satanism. It is suspected that since CORY embraced the political party of MANGLAPUS (National Union of Christian Democrats — NUCD) as her party also, she might have been recruited to Satanism.
Kristina Bernadette Aquino YAP KRIS and all her siblings all knew that NINOY loved CORY up to the extent that he could but that CORY fully came to reject him since the late 1970s and in 1980. Her statement that CORY loved only NINOY and was CORY's one and only was not totally accurate.
In Malacañang, after EDSA I, the late CORY and a prominent politician, Cabinet turned senator, would enter the Malacañang president's bedroom. The purpose was for an alleged Closed Door Meeting. The couple would not re-emerge from the bedroom for more than half a day and when they did, they appeared to be a silently loving couple.
The practice lasted until the cabinet member turned senator died. The wife of the senator might have suspected and supposedly hated CORY for that. CORY also had other flings and standing sexual relationships with other men. It was bandied around in Malacañang at the time that CORY's choice of the senator was that he had a really very long sexual organ and he could still manage to have intercourse. The gossip in Malacañang was that if the man who was invited to have a closed door with CORY had a long penis then the meeting was not a real one but an act of knowing in the bible's sense.This practice of CORY got too well known that when CORY caught her daughter KRIS naked in her own bedroom lying on the stomach of then Executive Secretary Oscar ORBOS OCA who was also naked, KRIS after getting a mouthful from her mother mumbled to the effect that she was not to understand where else will she inherit her "Makati Puke" but from her mom. There and then ORBOS and his entire "bitbit" staff were kicked out unceremoniously out of Malacañang, never to return. Only a lawyer director of ORBOS was reappointed, but during or immediately before the time of ex-Pres. Fidel V. RAMOS (FVR) at an attached agency of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) based at Balara, Quezon City. Of course, ORBOS can always deny he slept with Kris. And vice versa. Ms. Kris would cry if you ask her, how is it like to have sex and keep shouting "Dad! Pa!" all the time. It's oedipal complex, to some psychologists.
The CPP/NPA/NDFP, AQUINO family, civil society, political opposition et al said to have been imported paid mourners from Tarlac, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija, from Hacienda Luisita and other parts, to attend the funeral of CORY. The Three Hundred Thousand odd purported crowd that attended the funeral, was fake. The only real CORY lovers in that crowd were the family and CPP whose original leaders were helped and propelled by CORY and family in the beginning to form their underground organization.
There is no way that the much ballyhooed massive turn out can suffice to form a new People Power at EDSA (or elsewhere) and overthrow the regime under ARROYO that will not be full of for-hire participants from the squatter areas. Even the squatter area residents have already wizened to the temptations of attending mass protests since a lot of the programs of government have penetrated into their communities already.
That the massive sympathy crowd can determine the course of the 2010 elections, or a coup d' etat, or any other anti-government purpose is a fallacy.
Even in Tarlac itself, particularly in the place where there are NINOY relatives, CORY will not even be considered a VIP or worse, she might even be looked down upon not as a human being for the way she treated NINOY.
The saintly attributes of CORY appears to be overshadowed by the real and actual testimonies of those that shared space with her, as follows:
Before CORY became President, in Malacañang Palace every Thursday, there was a so-called "Sunshine Day!"
Contractors secretly offered gifts to the First Family contained in single boxes each per contractor or supplier. In each box were highest denomination bills at the time of One Hundred Philippine Pesos (Php100.00) amounting to either Five Hundred Thousand, One Million, One Pesos Five Hundred Thousand Pesos in most of the time.
Come "Sunshine Day!", all employees and many times even residents of Brgy. Malacañang would be required to form a line at the Finance Division then headed by Presidential official in charge with the MARCOS administration's finance Jacobo C. CLAVE JAKE. Each employee was given a pay envelope with token cash coming the gift boxes of contractors and suppliers.
When CORY came to the Palace, the single box were replaced with big trendy suitcases. The Php100 denominations were replaced with Five Hundred bills. The amounts of Php500,000, Php1,000,000 and Php1,500,000 were replaced with a very low of Ten, Fifteen and a normal level of Twenty Million Philippine Pesos (Php10,000,000, Php15,000,000 and Php20,000,000).
Mrs. "DDD", senior staff of CLAVE informed Ma. Elena Aquino CRUZ BALLSY, then chief aide of CORY about the tradition of "Sunshine Day!" and requested that it be continued. BALLSY was infuriated about the information and pointed at some suitcases full of cash from contractors whose papers were being expedited by the new group of CORY in Malacañang and said, "Ano'ng sunshine-sunshine? Eh, barya nga lang yang nasa maleta!!! Ano pa ba ang gusto nila, eh di naman sa kanila yan!!!" Effectively, the Thursday "Sunshine Day!" tradition was scrapped and replaced with Thursday "Lungkot Day!"
A security aide of NINOY in the US, revealed that after the forming of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG), the cousin of CORY immediately made a transfer of funds in Australia from his account to a confidential account in favor of CORY, through her brother Jose S. COJUANGCO, Jr. PEPING in the amount of Two Hundred Million United States Dollars (USD200,000,000). The transaction was kept very hidden and was bruited to be the first of the set of enormous amounts to come into the CORY family for making PCGG soft on those that have the capacity to pay.
The second set of payments was arranged by the then Exec. Sec. who demanded from Lucio TAN a tremendous amount of cash to ensure that PCGG will not turn the TAN group of companies upside down. TAN was forced to shell out initially Four Hundred Million Philippine Pesos (Php400,000,000) followed by another payment of a similarly huge amount.
A large number of MARCOS favored personalities were forced to pay out very large amounts to the CORY family.
Former Judge now senator, was summoned by CORY and told to head the Immigration Bureau. The ex-Judge accepted the offer and now became Immigration Commissioner. CORY was in firm agreement with some Filipino Chinese to launch a secret record destruction operation at the bureau. In exchange for more or less Five Hundred Thousand Philippine Pesos (Php500,000), CORY ordered the papers of a single illegal Chinese alien to be burned, shredded or purged in any other fitting manner. Salvaje!!! Nationalist? Not likely!!!
At the time of CORY's ascendancy in the Palace, there were about six million (6,000,000) Chinese in the Philippines. The figure can be contested but it was the only estimate at the time closest to the true situation. Only two million (2,000,000) were either legal Chinese or else were paying Alien Registration Fees regularly for staying in the country. About four million (4,000,000) or the figure could be higher, were illegals. A good number of the illegals were even criminals that were fugitives of their native land.
CORY had an account in Switzerland and other offshore banks where she ordered Immigration Commissioner to forward the payments from the Chinese whose papers were erased from the record section of the immigration bureau. To make the situation fully covered, a small operation was conducted to make the fourth floor of the bureau building look extremely topsy turvy. All the systematically organized files at the records room were turned upside down, thrown here and there and the room was made to appear very messy and dirty. As a result, no one learned about CORY's destruction of untold files of illegal Chinese in the country.
If the maximum number of illegals and with a large number of additionals (newly human smuggled chinese) will be accounted for, the amount that could have been placed in CORY's Switzerland or other offshore bank(s) will have come to a rough total of Two Trillion Philippine Pesos (Php2,000,000,000,000) that could have converted at a rate of Php21 : US$1.00 to Nine Five Billion Two Hundred Thirty Eight Million and Ninety Five Thousand Two Hundred Thirty Eight United States Dollars (USD95,238,095,238). At the time, that would have been one-tenth of the entire Swiss Deposits (one-third of the worldwide total) of the MARCOS wealth. A staggering amount of money that Immigration Commissioner could have also partaken of and could be one of the more likely entrusted managers aside from some Chinese individual or group that CORY used to filch the Sino community in the country.
It is suspected that many of the criminals freed by CORY from illegal status are among those that are leading in the syndicated drug trafficking activities in RP and beyond our shores, making RP a notorious nation on the drugs watch list. It has also corrupted RP's system into a narco-politic state.
It is expected that if any AQUINO will run for high public office, BID Commisioner as a finance / fund manager will not be far behind. Or given her innate intelligence and intellect, Immigration chief could use a go-between to serve as the fund manager for the AQUINO candidate, possibly Sen. Benigno C. AQUINO III NOYNOY or Kristina Bernadette Aquino YAP KRIS.
Mr. KOC (code name), a former deep cover consultant of the National Security Council (NSC) director who reported the operation under a report codename "YELLOW FEVER", was entrapped in a sting operation where KOC was secretly charged with illegal financial dealings concerning the release of a certain detainee Col. ACOSTA and a Lt. Roque LIWAG of the rebel military organization RAM and KOC was endorsed as a consultant to the Presidential Security Group (PSG) to be banished from NSC forever as long the pro-CORY people worked there.
Another charge against KOC was that he was reported to have spread the news that the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the old National Intelligence Security Agency (NISA) budgets were cut by seventy percent (70%) on the advice of leftists inside and outside the government providing "advise" to CORY. The charge was baseless because O'CHAVEZ was only shown and only saw a box containing orders of the President (CORY that the NSC Director said cut down the AFP-NISA money by 70%, but did not actually see the orders in print. Also the consultant never told anyone about the unseen papers or the box.
When brought up with the NICA during the time of ex-pres. Jose Marcelo EJERCITO ERAP, KOC who was asked to consult discreetly with the subject Agency, the NICA still considered it preposterous that the NSC Director was ordered to pare down the AFP and intelligence community budget by 70%. In reality that was what happened. Morale in the AFP went down. The defenders of democracy and the very people that put CORY in power were victims of CORY's paranoia.
CORY placed her relatives in the NSC-NICA payroll among other relatives since their fat salaries need not be accounted for under the law. Further, they acted as her eyes and ears inside that intelligence Agency.
Among the elites in the country during the MARCOS era, it is almost impossible to identify any one elite family that did not kowtow and kiss the ass of then First Lady Imelda Romualdez MARCOS MELDY (FL) and her husband, the late Pres. MARCOS just to borrow money from the couple. FL was gracious and generous to the AYALAs, LOPEZes, ORTIGASes, EJERCITOs, COJUANGCOs et al. She considered herself a friend to all of them when in fact they talked harshly against her at her back.
Multi-millions up to billions of Pesos were given in loans in exchange for land titles of worthless real estate; shares of stocks of dying companies – Ortigas Group, Ayala companies; future receivables from companies in dire straits and heavy indebtedness like Meralco, etc. Many of these companies were sequestered during Martial Law for their refusal to pay loans and for other reasons, aside from the fact that military administration required sequestration and nationalization of foreign interests.
After MARCOS was gone, CORY gave back Meralco and other related companies like ABS-CBN, Chronicle, etc. to the LOPEZes despite the heavy debts to the MARCOS family and the Philippine Government being the guarantor of its enormous foreign debts.
CORY did the same to the LOPA empire, since BABY LOPA was married to her sister, Gina COJUANGCO, whose son, RAPA LOPA is the owner on record of survey company Pulse Asia that is giving GMA a bad name every time it does a survey.
During CORY's regime, she ordered selected members of the Supreme Court to transfer the shares of stock of Hans MENZI and Ferdinand MARCOS, Jr. to her dummy, a man purporting to call himself DON EMILIO YAP. Effectively, government and MARCOS shares came under the ownership of "DON EMILIO YAP" in Bulletin Today, Manila Hotel and a long string of other companies.
When the agreements between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and Switzerland were firmed up, the Swiss Minister of Finance Peter MULLER was corrupted by CORY, Francisco CHAVEZ (then Solicitor General), government secretaries and relatives of CORY. MULLER agreed to be part of the "commissioners" and secret riders to the GRP-Swiss agreements on the transfer of the Swiss deposits were made where CORY and her subalterns, blood relations were to receive a huge part of the MARCOS wealth in the form of commissions.
Growing greedy, CORY thereafter demanded that principal amount including the sums indicated in the rider agreements be placed in a conduit account. She gave the account coordinates to MULLER. When the final deciding entity, the Swiss superior court traced the account, it belonged to CORY. The commission of MULLER became stone. Kawawang Pedro!!!
The deal to transfer the MARCOS wealth as the late president willed to the Filipino People and the survivors of the MARCOS family became null and void, still, even with FVR, ERAP, GMA becoming presidents, it was still CORY's signature on the agreements and the riders that were binding. Now that CORY is dead, even the commissions of PEPING, KRIS, BALLSY, Maria Victoria Eliza Dee VIEL, Maria Aurora Corazon Abellada PINKY and Benigno Cojuangco AQUINO, III NOYNOY, and the rest of the relatives and former Cabinet, friends, cronies, are gone. Naku! Sayang!!!
The decision of The Honorable, The Supreme Court of the Philippines to make FL the executor of the will is long due, however it could not be done with CORY still alive. Or nearly all the money will go to CORY and her own very close people. So Namatay na, wala nang sagabal na sakim.
CORY is far from being a saint. Which is the reason why, FL who is terrified of even the idea of the existence of CORY as if she were Satan personified, prefers to just call her "pangit" and lashes at her at every occasion.
When one of CORY's daughters was about to marry, it was gossiped in the family that the husband-to-be of daughter was a member of a family that were notorious … disguised as decent "businessmen." CORY allegedly said in confidence to one of her amigas, "Aba! Eh ano kung … ? Masama ba'ng gumawa ng pera ang tao? Hanap buhay lang yaaan!" The marriage happened and so one of her daughters is now the infamous missus to a big time.
During CORY's regime, she ordered a former central Luzon governor using diplomatic and other perks to hand carry for her multi-millions of United States Dollars to foreign banks, for purposes undeclared. A then Manila International Airport (MIA) contingent of the Intelligence Group, Armed Forces of the Philippines (IS AFP) intercepted the voluminous amount of money and placed the former governor on hold.
After learning about the plight of the ex-governor and panicking about the condition of her money, CORY went super ballistic, called the airport officials thereat and berated them as well as gave a mouthful of dirty, harsh words against the ISAFP personnel. Mother of God!!!
During the time of then Sec. FVR as Secretary of National Defense (SND), one operative in ISAFP was required to submit a project proposal to negate and neutralize at least one economic threat to the country, as were several other operatives. The operative submitted the target Antonio KHO, most notorious overlord of the smuggling syndicates operating in the Bureau of Customs since the time of MARCOS. The plan to raid the premises of KHO's offices and residence was elevated to the Chief of Staff AFP (CS AFP). After several weeks, it was again elevated, this time to SND. After another several weeks, it was elevated to CORY. The late ex-president said not to touch KHO because he was her relative. The qualifying statement said to be from SND was also that: "Malaki masyado iyang isda na yan. Kaya tayo habulin kahit saan tayo magpunta kung hulihin natin iyan!"
Among the worst that CORY did in her life was place her factotums like Constabulary agent Jesus Jose Maria Cabauatan BINAY as mayor of Makati and as her so-called confidanté in the so-called Cause Oriented Group (COG). Muy negrito!!! Matón y animales de primero!!! Carajo!!! Que barbaridad!!! Ms. Corazon Juliano SOLIMAN et al into the government to learn to steal from the public treasury after mastering the act of stealing from NGO coffers. (SOLIMAN is the daughter of her family's capataz at Hacienda Luisita.) So is her sponsorship of the CPP/NPA/NDFP, although she cannot be faulted for not really understanding NINOY's creation of KUMANDER DANTE in behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), using the late Bren GUIAO and his (NINOY's) so-called Twelve (12) Apostles as runners between himself and DANTE.
After NINOY died, thinking that the CPP/NPA/NDFP were friends of NINOY, she released all the captured communists into private cognizance. Madre de Dios!!!
Furthermore, having a brain the size of a moon bean, during a mah jong session, DOLLY NAZARENO, wife of Gen. Cesar NAZARENO said if she wins the game, Cesar will become Chief, PC/INP later PNP. DOLLY won, so Cesar became Chief. MONCHIE BIAZON also did the same with CORY. During a session reaching up to midmorning, CORY lost and MONCHIE found herself as the wife of the new Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. One late member of 12 Apostles when he was alive confided after BIAZON and NAZARENO became chiefs, "No other pea-brained housewife ever achieved such an accomplishment in the entire history of the country. So Tita Cory must really deserve all the credit for having a moon bean for a brain!"
In the time of CORY, the NISA was renamed into NICA. It was during this time when all the derogatory records of many allies of Chairman Jose Ma. SISON of the CPP/NPA/NDFP, other kinds of leftists with crimes against society and the people, were whitewashed by the subalterns of CORY.
There will be more to suffer from the acts and notoriety of CORY in the years and generations to come. And those of her kampons. There will be untold stories that will come out of the woodwork.
The sad memory of a maniac and adorer of things material will be eased out of the public mind only through a painful process. And over a long, long time.
If the supporters of CORY all around the world will mount a people power, let them fuck themselves! No one likes a dirty ex-president who idolized money, long penises, was addicted to gambling, and had no heart at all.
If the fans and lovers of CORY want to rave and rant let them be!!!
And if they will be able to make VATICAN turn her into Saint Corazon, let them be! And may the satanistas rejoice with them!!!
To all of them riling up our peace, we say, fuck all of them and may they get what they deserve in due time… in due time…


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