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The Summer Of Weddings
I call it that because, by my count, there are at least five weddings between now and the end of July that I am expected to be at. Three of these weddings are out of state, and combined, will represent almost 4,000 miles of car travel. I'm not a big fan of car travel.
Oh, and while I'm complaining, I forgot to mention that weddings are undoubtedly one of my least favorite things in the entire world.
Oh well, at least this wedding should involve seeing a bunch of friends and playing a lot of ultimate.
Happy Memorial Day.

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On last night's episode of The Rachel Zoe Project, Rachel delegated the task of Anne Hathaway's costume change at the Oscars to her assistant Brad, who cried tears of joy when he first learned the news.
The best part of this show is how these people talk to one another. For example, when Rachel said that she needed to have a serious conversation with Brad about his attitude, all she said was, "Brad you have a Braditude." Then she insisted that being passive aggressive is "different," thus, better.


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Looming uncertainties on Wall Street were finally eased on Wednesday, after Washington announced that it has come to a short-term agreement to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling. While these issues will once again be brought to the forefront come January, investors can once again focus on the markets and key economic data. On the earnings front, Goldman Sachs (GS) reported disappointing Q3 results, missing revenue estimates, while JP Morgan (JPM) reported a loss in the third quarter, after the company took on nearly $9.2 billion in legal expenses [see How To Invest In 2013's Breakthrough Technologies].
In ETF news, the industry saw four new launches this week, including Wednesday's IPO ETF debut from newcomer Renaissance Capital.
WisdomTree added to its popular lineup of currency-hedged ETFs:
- Germany Hedged Equity Fund (DXGE): This fund tracks the WisdomTree Germany Hedged Equity Index, which is designed to provide exposure to equity securities in Germany, while at the same time hedging exposure to fluctuations between the value of the U.S. dollar and the euro. Currently, the fund is slightly tilted towards consumer discretionary stocks, though meaningful exposure is allotted to industrials, financials, materials, and several other sectors. The fund's top three holdings include Deutsche Telekom, Daimler, and Bayerische Motoren Werke [see Single Country ETFs: Everything Investors Need To Know].
Industry veteran iShares also debuted two somewhat "familiar" looking bond funds:
- 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (SLQD): This fund tracks the Markit iBoxx USD Liquid Investment Grade 0-5 Index, essentially making it the "short-term" version of the ultra-popular iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD, A). SLQD will invest in U.S. dollar-denominated investment grade corporate bonds with at least $500 million face value and no more than five years until maturity. Like LQD, the new fund will charge just 15 basis points.
- 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (SHYG): This ETF is also a short-term version of a popular ETF: the iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (HYG, A-). SHYG tracks the Markit iBoxx USD Liquid High Yield 0-5 Index, which invests in short-term U.S. dollar-denominated high yield corporate bonds with less than five years before maturity. The fund's expense ratio comes in at 0.50% [see 101 ETF Lessons Every Financial Advisor Should Learn].
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One of a number of semi-official 'Christian Identity' logos. [Source: KingIdentity (.com)]The "Christian Identity" theology, formerly a fairly benign expression of what is known as "British-Israelism" or "Anglo-Israelism," begins to spread throughout the US and Canada, particularly on the west coasts of these nations. This belief holds that white Americans and Canadians are the real descendants of the Biblical tribes of Israel. In 2003, author Nicole Nichols, an expert on far-right racist and religious groups in America, will define the concept of "Christian Identity" as practiced by many white supremacist and separatist groups. Christian Identity is not an organization, she will write, but an ideology that many organizations have adopted in some form or fashion. Christian Identity "elevates white supremacy and separatism to a Godly ideal," she will write, calling it "the ideological fuel that fires much of the activity of the racist far right." According to Christian Identity theology, Jews are neither the "true Israelites" nor the true "chosen people" of God; instead, Christian Identity proponents claim, Jews are descended from an Asiatic people known as the Khazars, who settled near the Black Sea during the Middle Ages. [Nicole Nichols, 2003; Anti-Defamation League, 2005; Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance, 5/30/2006] In 2005, the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance will write, "Followers tend to be involved in political movements opposing gun control, equal rights to gays and lesbians, and militia movements," and quote Michael Barkun, an expert on radical-right groups, as saying, "This virulent racist and anti-Semitic theology… is prevalent among many right-wing extremist groups and has been called the 'glue' of the racist right." [Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance, 5/30/2006] Beginnings; 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' - In the 1920s, William J. Cameron, editor of the Dearborn Independent weekly newspaper, popularized the anti-Semitic hoax manuscript called "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," which purported to detail the "secret teachings" of Judaism, including the planned takeover of the world's governments, the subjugation of non-Semitic races, and the bizarre, cannibalistic rituals supposedly practiced by Jews. [Anti-Defamation League, 2005] Wesley Swift and 'Mud People' - In the 1940s, a former Methodist minister, Wesley Swift, started his own church, later known as the Church of Jesus Christ Christian. Swift had deep ties to a number of radical right-wing groups including the Ku Klux Klan; Swift and his associates set the stage for the mutation of the Christian Identity into a loosely organized set of virulently anti-Semitic, racist belief systems that will come to be grouped together under the "Christian Identity" rubric. Swift himself taught that only the white race was created in the form of God, while Asian and African races were created from the "beasts of the fields," and thusly are subhuman creations. In Swift's version of Genesis, Eve, the wife of the first "true" man Adam, was seduced by The Serpent, who masqeueraded as a white man. Eve bore a son, Cain, who is the actual father of the Jewish people. This reinterpretation, sometimes called the "two-seed" or "seedliner" theory, supports the Christian Identity propensity to demonize Jews, whom Swift and others labeled the "spawn of Satan." Today's white Europeans and their American and Canadian descendants, Swift taught, are descended from the "true son" of Adam and Eve, Abel, and are the actual "chosen people" of God. Some Christian Identity adherents go even farther, claiming that subhuman "pre-Adamic" races existed and "spawned" the non-white races of the world, which they label "mud people." [Nicole Nichols, 2003; Anti-Defamation League, 2005] Permeates Racist, Far-Right Groups - By the 1960s, a new group of Christian Identity leaders emerges to spread the Identity theology through the radical, racist right in America and Canada, popularizing the once-obscure ideology. Most prominent among them are three disciples of Swift: James K. Warner, William Potter Gale, and Richard Butler. Warner, who will move to Louisiana and play a leading role in the fight against civil rights, founds the Christian Defense League and the New Christian Crusade Church. Gale, an early leader of the Christian Defense League and its paramilitary arm, the California Rangers, goes on to found the Posse Comitatus (see 1969), the group that will help bring about the sovereign citizen movement. Gale will later found the Committee of the States and serve as the "chief of staff" of its "unorganized militia." Butler moves Swift's Church of Jesus Christ Christian to Idaho and recasts it as the neo-Nazi group Aryan Nations (see Early 1970s). Under the leadership of Butler, Gale, Warner, and others, Christian Identity soon permeates most of the major far-right movements, including the Klan and a racist "skinhead" organization known as the Hammerskins. It also penetrates many extreme anti-government activist groups. The Anti-Defamation League will write, "The resurgence of right-wing extremism in the 1990s following the Ruby Ridge (see August 31, 1992) and Waco standoffs (see April 19, 1993) further spread Identity beliefs." [Anti-Defamation League, 2005] Nichols will write: "Christian Identity enclaves provide a trail of safe havens for movement activists, stretching from Hayden Lake in northern Idaho (the Aryan Nations stronghold) to Elohim City on the Oklahoma/Arkansas border (see 1973 and After). Many white supremacists on the run from federal authorities have found shelter and support from Christian Identity followers." Some organizations such as the Montana Militia are headed by Identity adherents, but do not as a group promote the theology. [Nicole Nichols, 2003; Anti-Defamation League, 2005] Bringing Forth the Apocalypse - Many Christian Identity adherents believe that the Biblical Apocalypse—the end of the world as it is currently known and the final ascendancy of select Christians over all others—is coming soon. Unlike some Christians, Identity adherents do not generally believe in the "rapture," or the ascendancy of "saved" Christians to Heaven before the Apocalypse ensues; instead, Identity followers believe Jesus Christ will return to Earth only after the time of the "Tribulation," a great battle between good and evil, which will set the stage for the return of Christ and the final transformation of the world. Identity followers believe it is their duty to prepare for the Apocalypse, and some believe it is their duty to help bring it about. They tend to cast the Apocalypse in racial terms—whites vs. nonwhites. Identity adherents believe that worldly institutions will collapse during the "end times," and therefore tend to distrust such institutions, making Identity theology appealing to anti-government ideologies of groups such as militia, "Patriot," and sovereign citizens groups. [Anti-Defamation League, 2005] 21st Century Identity - In the 21st century, Christian Identity groups are strongest in the Pacific Northwest of America and Canada, and the US Midwest, though Identity churches can be found throughout the US and in other parts of Canada. Identity churches also exist in, among other nations, Ireland, Great Britain, Australia, and South Africa (see June 25, 2003). The Anti-Defamation League will write: "Yet while spread far it is also spread thin. Estimates of the total number of believers in North America vary from a low of 25,000 to a high of 50,000; the true number is probably closer to the low end of the scale. Given this relatively small following, its extensive penetration of the far right is all the more remarkable." [Anti-Defamation League, 2005] Identity Violence - Identity adherents commit a number of violent acts, often against government and/or financial institutions, in an outsized proportion to their small numbers. In 1983, Identity adherent Gordon Kahl kills two US Marshals who attempt to arrest him on a parole violation, and kills an Arkansas sheriff before finally being gunned down by authorities (see February 13, 1983 and After). The white supremacist terrorist group The Order (see Late September 1983) contains a number of Identity members, including David Tate, who kills a Missouri Highway Patrol officer while attempting to flee to an Identity survivalist compound (see April 15, 1985). During the 1980s, small Identity groups such as The New Order (or The Order II) and the Arizona Patriots commit bombings and armored car robberies. After the Oklahoma City bombing (see 8:35 a.m. - 9:02 a.m. April 19, 1995), Identity minister Willie Ray Lampley attempts a number of bombings (see November 9, 1995). In 1996, the Montana Freeman, led by Identity members, "stands off" federal authorities for 81 days (see March 25, 1996). Between 1996 and 1998, Eric Robert Rudolph, who has connections to Identity ministers such as Nord Davis and Dan Gayman, bombs an Atlanta gay bar (see February 21, 1997), several abortion clinics (see October 14, 1998), and the Atlanta Summer Olympics (see July 27, 1996 and After). In 1999, Identity member and former Aryan Nations security guard Buford Furrow goes on a shooting spree at a Jewish community center in Los Angeles (see August 10, 1999). [Anti-Defamation League, 2005]
Entity Tags: Eric Robert Rudolph, David Charles Tate, Willie Ray Lampley, William Potter Gale, Committee of the States, Church of Jesus Christ Christian, Christian Defense League, California Rangers, Anti-Defamation League, William J. Cameron, Arizona Patriots, Buford Furrow, Aryan Nations, Wesley Swift, New Christian Crusade Church, The New Order, Nord Davis, Nicole Nichols, Ku Klux Klan, The Order, Michael Barkun, Montana Militia, James K. Warner, Hammerskins, Richard Girnt Butler, Posse Comitatus, Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance, Gordon Kahl, Dan Gayman, Freemen
Timeline Tags: Domestic Propaganda, US Domestic Terrorism
Arizona tax protester Marvin Cooley writes a best-selling book, The Big Bluff, documenting the struggles of his fellow anti-tax protester, W. Vaughn Ellsworth. Cooley, whose gruff tirades against the IRS and the federal government make him popular on the far-right speaking circuit—in 1971, he wrote to the IRS: "I will no longer pay for the destruction of my country, family, and self. Damn tyranny! Damn the Federal Reserve liars and thieves! Damn all pettifogging, oath-breaking US attorneys and judges.… I will see you all in Hell and shed my blood before I will be robbed of one more dollar to finance a national policy of treason, plunder, and corruption"—includes sample letters and copies of his own tax returns in his book. Among Cooley's adherents is Robert Jay Mathews, who will go on to found the violent neo-Nazi group The Order (see Late September 1983). In 1970, the 17-year-old Mathews, still living with his parents in Phoenix, becomes a sergeant-at-arms for some of Cooley's meetings. In 1973, Mathews will use Cooley's income tax theories to fraudulently list 10 dependents on his W-4 tax form, a common protest tactic that winds up with Mathews convicted of tax fraud (see 1973). Cooley, a vocal proponent of tax protester Arthur Porth (see 1951-1967)'s "Fifth Amendment Return" strategy (refusing to pay taxes on Fifth Amendment grounds) will go to jail for tax evasion in 1973 and again in 1989. [Southern Poverty Law Center, 12/2001; Anti-Defamation League, 2011]
Entity Tags: Marvin Cooley, Arthur Porth, Internal Revenue Service, W. Vaughn Ellsworth, Robert Jay Mathews, US Federal Reserve
Robert Jay Mathews, a young conservative and resistance-movement organizer living in Phoenix, Arizona, is arrested for submitting fraudulent income tax returns. Mathews, who has read a recently published book, The Big Bluff by anti-tax protester Marvin Cooley (see 1970-1972) and served as sergeant-at arms for some of Cooley's meetings in Phoenix, does not believe the US government has the right to compel him to pay taxes. Mathews uses Cooley's income-tax theories to fraudulently list ten dependents on his W-4 tax form, a common protest tactic that backfires when tax assessors realize that a 20-year old unmarried man is unlikely to have so many dependents. Mathews is convicted of misdemeanor tax fraud; he is given six months' probation and warned if he commits tax fraud again, he will be charged with felony tax evasion. [Southern Poverty Law Center, 12/2001; HistoryLink, 12/6/2006; Anti-Defamation League, 2011] Mathews will go on to found The Order, one of the most violent anti-government organizations in modern US history (see Late September 1983). He will die during a 1984 standoff with FBI agents (see December 8, 1984).
Entity Tags: Marvin Cooley, Robert Jay Mathews, The Order
Timeline Tags: US Domestic Terrorism
Tax protester Ardie McBrearty founds the United States Taxpayers Union (USTU), an organization dedicated to abolishing the 16th Amendment (see 1951-1967 and 1970-1972), and also the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), consumer protection statutes, gun control laws, and other "unconstitutional" legislation. McBrearty, an avowed Christian Identity follower (see 1960s and After), will abandon tax protest in favor of armed white supremacist militancy, joining The Order (see Late September 1983 and August 1984 and After). He will eventually earn 40 years in prison for his role in The Order's violent actions. [Southern Poverty Law Center, 12/2001] In a 1982 lawsuit, McBrearty will argue that a 1977 agreement with UTSU mandated that the group should pay "all necessary personal and family obligations of said individual [and] all costs incurred in the defense of a client member." McBrearty will be convicted for tax law violations in 1979 and will sue the UTSU shortly thereafter. The courts will dismiss the lawsuit because such an agreement "contravene[s] public policy and [i]s therefore unenforceable." [OpenJurist, 1/18/1982] It is unclear whether McBrearty's loss of the lawsuit triggers his desire to join a more actively violent organization, such as The Order.
Entity Tags: The Order, Ardie McBrearty, United States Taxpayers Union
Young anti-government organizer Robert Jay Mathews, currently living on a rural property in Metaline Falls, Washington, joins the National Alliance, a white-supremacist group founded by author and activist William Pierce (see 1970-1974). Mathews is profoundly affected by Pierce's book The Turner Diaries (see 1978) and other books, including Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West, Louis Beam's Essays of a Klansman, and William Simpson's Which Way Western Man? which tells of a plot by Jews to destroy "the White Christian race." In early 1982, Mathews joins the Church of Jesus Christ Christian, located in the Aryan Nations compound in Hayden Lake, Idaho, and also joins the Aryan Nations. Both the church and the organization advocate the necessity of creating a "white homeland" in northern Idaho. Mathews then founds the White American Bastion, a splinter group designed to bring Christian families to the Northwest. [Kushner, 2003, pp. 222; HistoryLink, 12/6/2006] Mathews will go on to found The Order, one of the most violent anti-government organizations in modern US history (see Late September 1983). He will die during a 1984 standoff with FBI agents (see December 8, 1984).
Entity Tags: White American Bastion, The Order, Aryan Nations, Church of Jesus Christ Christian, National Alliance, William Luther Pierce, Robert Jay Mathews
Richard Butler, the head of the white separatist and neo-Nazi organization Aryan Nations (see Early 1970s), hosts the first Aryan World Congress at the Nations compound in Hayden Lake, Idaho. The event attracts many of the area's racist leaders. Butler begins holding more gatherings in subsequent years and begins appointing state leaders of Aryan Nations chapters. One of the brightest young leaders in Butler's coterie is Robert Jay Mathews, who will go on to found the violent white supremacist group The Order (see Late September 1983). Other prominent Nations members at the conferences include: Tom Metzger, leader of the White Aryan Resistance; Louis Beam, a former Klansman who will promote the concept of "leaderless resistance" (see February 1992); Don Black, a former Klansman who will create Stormfront, the largest white separatist forum on the Internet; and Kirk Lyons, a well-known lawyer who will represent a number of extremists facing criminal charges. [Southern Poverty Law Center, 2010; Southern Poverty Law Center, 2010]
Entity Tags: White Aryan Resistance, Louis R. Beam, Jr, The Order, Kirk Lyons, Don Black, Aryan Nations, Tom Metzger, Richard Girnt Butler, Stormfront (.org), Robert Jay Mathews
An undated photo of LeRoy Schweitzer. [Source: WorldNews]LeRoy Schweitzer, a crop duster in Montana and Idaho, becomes increasingly frustrated and resentful at what he considers interference by the government. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Schweitzer moves toward becoming an anti-government tax resister. He becomes fascinated by the legal ideology of the Posse Comitatus (see 1969), attends numerous Posse meetings, and has some contacts with members of The Order (see Late September 1983). Schweitzer, well-liked by his neighbors and friends, begins to worry them with his increasing extremism. He helps a friend, Bernard Kuennan, mount a legal defense against charges of letting his dog roam unvaccinated, and the two hammer the judge with questions about the differences between "admiralty" and "common law" (see Fall 2010). He defies police officers who stop him for traffic violations. He moves to Montana, where he refuses to get a license to fly his Cessna crop duster, resulting in federal arrest warrants. His refusal to pay federal taxes causes the IRS to seize his plane in November 1992, his Bozeman, Montana home, and other equipment, and sell it all to pay his $389,000 delinquent tax bill, dating back to the 1970s. Thoroughly radicalized, Schweitzer meets Rodney Owen Skurdal, another legal manipulator. Skurdal is an ex-Marine and Posse Comitatus advocate who, during litigation of a worker's compensation suit in the 1980s, tells the judge that the federal government lacks the authority to print paper money and demands, fruitlessly, to be paid his compensation in gold bullion. One Wyoming newspaper claims that Skurdal's extremism begins after he suffers a fractured skull in 1983, the source of the compensation claim; Skurdal's former wife says after the injury that Skurdal refuses to use a Social Security number or driver's license. Skurdal, like many in the Posse, is an adherent to the virulently racist Christian Identity belief system (see 1960s and After), and in court filings claims non-whites are "beasts," and Jews "the children of Satan." Skurdal routinely intertwines Identity, Posse Comitatus, Biblical, and Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) tenets in his court filings (see 1994). In 1993, the IRS seizes his farm near Roundup, Montana, for back taxes; Skurdal continues to occupy the farm and no local official dares to evict him. In late 1994, Skurdal invites Schweitzer to move in with him; they are joined by Daniel Petersen in early 1995. The three become the nucleus of what will become the Montana Freemen. Skurdal's farm becomes a headquarters for the nascent organization, with computers, fax machines, laser printers, and satellite dishes going round the clock. The inhabitants post a sign on the edge of the property, reading: "Do Not Enter Private Land of the Sovereign.… The right of Personal Liberty is one of the fundamental rights guaranteed to every citizen, and any unlawful interference with it may be resisted." Local authorities want to curb the group, but do not want to risk violence and bloodshed. Musselshell County Sheriff G. Paul Smith says: "These people want to be martyrs. I don't know how far they are willing to carry that." Moreover, Smith and his small sheriff's department are outnammed and outgunned. [Mark Pitcavage, 5/6/1996]
Entity Tags: The Order, Bernard Kuennan, Daniel Petersen, Posse Comitatus, G. Paul Smith, Montana Freemen, LeRoy Schweitzer, Rodney Owen Skurdal
Robert Jay Mathews, a white supremacist and activist (see 1980-1982), gives a speech at the National Alliance convention in Arlington, Virginia, reporting on his efforts to recruit farmers and ranchers into the "white racialist" movement (see 1969). Mathews receives the only standing ovation of the convention. He also renews his acquaintance with Thomas Martinez, a former Ku Klux Klansman from Philadelphia, and becomes close friends with him. [HistoryLink, 12/6/2006] Mathews will go on to found The Order, one of the most violent anti-government organizations in modern US history (see Late September 1983). He will die during a 1984 standoff with FBI agents (see December 8, 1984).
Entity Tags: Robert Jay Mathews, National Alliance, The Order, Thomas Martinez
The logo of 'The Order.' [Source: Eye on Hate (.com)]Robert Jay Mathews, a white supremacist and activist (see 1980-1982 and September 1983), invites eight men to his property in Metaline Falls, Washington: neighbor and best friend Kenneth Loft; former Ku Klux Klansman David Edan Lane; Daniel Bauer; Denver Daw Parmenter; Randolph George Duey and Bruce Carroll Pierce of the Aryan Nations; and National Alliance recruits Richard Harold Kemp and William Soderquist. Mathews and his eight guests found a new organization called, variously, "The Order," "The Silent Brotherhood" or "Bruder Schweigen," and "The White American Bastion." The group uses the story depicted in the novel The Turner Diaries as its framework, determining to use violence and crime to destabilize the US government and establish a whites-only society. In the novel, "The Organization" finances its revolution by armed robberies, counterfeiting, and other crimes designed to disrupt the US economy. Mathews decides his group will use the same plan. Mathews is also inspired by real crimes, such as a failed 1981 armored car heist by the Black Liberation Army. [Kushner, 2003, pp. 222-223; HistoryLink, 12/6/2006]
Entity Tags: The Order, Daniel Bauer, Bruce Carroll Pierce, David Edan Lane, Denver Daw Parmenter, Kenneth Loft, Randolph George Duey, William Soderquist, Robert Jay Mathews, Richard Harold Kemp
Bruce Pierce. [Source: Eye on Hate (.com)]Four members of the newly founded white supremacist guerrilla group The Order (see Late September 1983), Robert Jay Mathews, Bruce Pierce, Randolph Duey, and Daniel Bauer, carry out the group's first armed robbery to finance their plans for armed insurrection. They rob an adult video store in Spokane, Washington, and escape with $369. Mathews, the group leader, decides to strike next at an armored car. [HistoryLink, 12/6/2006]
Entity Tags: Robert Jay Mathews, Bruce Carroll Pierce, Randolph George Duey, The Order, Daniel Bauer
Bruce Pierce, a member of the white supremacist guerrilla group The Order (see Late September 1983), is arrested in Yakima, Washington, for passing counterfeit $50 bills at a local mall. Pierce obtained his counterfeit bills from an operation coordinated with the Aryan Nations in western Idaho. Pierce is interviewed by a Secret Service agent, but refuses to give him any real information. Order leader Robert Jay Mathews (see Late September 1983), worried that Pierce might talk to police or another prisoner, tries to finance Pierce's bail by robbing a bank north of Seattle. Mathews escapes with over $26,000, but most of the money is ruined when an exploding dye pack stains the bills. Pierce eventually posts a $250 bond and is released. [HistoryLink, 12/6/2006] Pierce will later murder Denver radio host Alan Berg (see June 18, 1984 and After).
Entity Tags: Robert Jay Mathews, Alan Berg, Aryan Nations, Bruce Carroll Pierce, The Order
The white supremacist group The Order (see Late September 1983) carries out its second armed robbery (see October 28, 1983). Its members rob the guard of an armored truck and escape with over $43,000. [HistoryLink, 12/6/2006]
Entity Tags: The Order
Bruce Pierce, a member of the secretive white supremacist organization The Order (see Late September 1983), pleads guilty to passing counterfeit currency (see December 3-23, 1983). He believes he will receive a light sentence as this is his first criminal offense, but because he shows no remorse for his actions and refuses to divulge information about his connections to the Aryan Nations, he is sentenced to two years in federal prison. Instead of reporting to prison, Pierce holes up with Order leader Robert Jay Mathews and becomes a federal fugitive. [HistoryLink, 12/6/2006] Pierce will later murder Denver radio host Alan Berg (see June 18, 1984 and After).
Entity Tags: The Order, Aryan Nations, Robert Jay Mathews, Bruce Carroll Pierce
Robert Jay Mathews, the leader of the violent white supremacist group The Order (see Late September 1983), journeys to Seattle, Washington, with six of his followers to rob a second armored car (see March 16, 1984). Mathews has new recruit Gary Lee Yarborough manufacture small bombs to be used as diversions. On April 19, Yarborough sets off a bomb in an adult theater near the mall where the truck will be; on April 23, Mathews calls in another bomb threat to divert police. The same day, the group successfully robs the armored truck, securing $536,000, though over $300,000 of this money is in checks, which the group destroys. Mathews and another colleague go to Missoula, Montana, where they buy firearms, ammunition, other weapons, and a state-of-the-art computer to give The Order access to the Internet. [HistoryLink, 12/6/2006]
Entity Tags: Gary Lee Yarborough, Robert Jay Mathews, The Order
Two members of the white supremacist group The Order (see Late September 1983), Bruce Pierce and Richard Kemp, bomb the Congregation Ahavath Israel Synagogue in Boise, Idaho. They use the first bomb Pierce has assembled, and it does little damage. Order leader Robert Jay Mathews is angry over the bombing, not because he disapproves, but because he feels the bomb should have destroyed the building. [HistoryLink, 12/6/2006] Pierce will later murder Denver radio host Alan Berg (see June 18, 1984 and After).
Entity Tags: Congregation Ahavath Israel Synagogue, Alan Berg, Bruce Carroll Pierce, Robert Jay Mathews, The Order, Richard Harold Kemp
Robert Jay Mathews, the founder and leader of the secretive white-supremacist group The Order (see Late September 1983), has decided the group should murder Denver radio host Alan Berg. Berg, a Jewish liberal with a confrontational style, has frequently sparred with white supremacists and neo-Nazis on the air, and for this reason Mathews has decided he must die. Mathews sends Order member Jean Margaret Craig to Denver to observe Berg's movements and determine if he is a viable target. Mathews decides that the "hit" on Berg will take place in June. [HistoryLink, 12/6/2006] Mathews and three Order members will kill Berg a month later (see June 18, 1984 and After).
Entity Tags: Jean Margaret Craig, Robert Jay Mathews, The Order, Alan Berg
Four members of the secretive white supremacist group The Order (see Late September 1983), Randolph Duey, Richard Kemp, and new recruits David Charles Tate and James Dye, murder an Aryan Nations member, Walter Edwards West. Order founder Robert Jay Mathews ordered West's murder after learning that West had been getting drunk in bars around Hayden Lake, Idaho—the location of the Aryan Nations' compound—and bragging about The Order's recent exploits (see April 19-23, 1984 and April 29, 1984). Duey and Kemp kidnap West from his home and drive him into the woods, where the four kill him with hammer blows to the head and a rifle shot to the face. They then dump his body into a previously prepared grave. [HistoryLink, 12/6/2006]
Entity Tags: David Charles Tate, Aryan Nations, James Dye, Randolph George Duey, The Order, Richard Harold Kemp, Robert Jay Mathews, Walter Edwards West
Alan Berg. [Source: Denver Post]Alan Berg, a Jewish, progressive talk show host for Denver's KOA 850 AM Radio, is gunned down in his driveway as he is stepping out of his car. The murder is carried out by members of the violent white-supremacist group The Order (see Late September 1983), a splinter group of the Aryan Nations white nationalist movement. Berg, who was described as often harsh and abrasive, regularly confronted right-wing and militia members on his show. Federal investigators learn that The Order's "hit list" includes Berg, television producer Norman Lear, a Kansas federal judge, and Morris Dees, a civil rights lawyer and co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Radio producer Anath White later says that some of Berg's last shows were particularly rancorous, involving confrontational exchanges with anti-Semitic members of the Christian Identity movement (see 1960s and After). "That got him on the list and got him moved up the list to be assassinated," White will say. [HistoryLink, 12/6/2006; Rocky Mountain News, 5/1/2007; Denver Post, 6/18/2009] Preparing for the Murder - Order leader Robert Jay Mathews had already sent a colleague to Denver to determine if Berg was a viable target (see May 17, 1984). The four members of the assassination team—Mathews, Bruce Pierce, David Lane, and Richard Scutari—assemble at a local Motel 6 to review their plans. Pierce, the assassin, has brought a .45 caliber Ingram MAC-10 submachine gun for the job. All four men begin to surveill Berg's townhouse. Gunned Down - At 9:21 p.m., Berg drives his Volkswagen Beetle into his driveway. Lane, the driver, pulls up behind him. Mathews leaps out of the car and opens the rear door for Pierce, who jumps out and runs up the driveway. Berg exits his vehicle with a bag of groceries. Pierce immediately opens fire with his submachine gun, pumping either 12 or 13 bullets into Berg's face and body before the gun jams. (Sources claim both figures of bullet wounds in Berg as accurate.) Pierce and Mathews get back into their car, rush back to the Motel 6, gather their belongings, and leave town. Three of the four members of the "hit squad" will soon be apprehended, charged, and convicted. Pierce is sentenced to 252 years in prison, including time for non-related robberies, and will die in prison in 2010; Lane is given 150 years, and will die in prison in 2007. Neither man is prosecuted for murder, as the evidence will be determined to be inconclusive; rather, they will be charged with violating Berg's civil rights. Scutari, accused of serving as a lookout for Pierce, and Jean Craig, accused of collecting information on Berg for the murder, will both be acquitted of culpability in the case, but will be convicted of other unrelated crimes. Mathews will not be charged due to lack of evidence of his participation; months later, he will die in a confrontation with law enforcement officials (see December 8, 1984). [Rocky Mountain News, 5/1/2007; Denver Post, 6/18/2009; Denver Post, 8/17/2010] In sentencing Pierce to prison, Judge Richard Matsch will say of the murder, "The man [Berg] was killed for who he was, what he believed in, and what he said and did, and that crime strikes at the very core of the Constitution." [Denver Post, 8/17/2010] Re-Enacting a Fictional Murder? - Some will come to believe that the assassins may have attempted to re-enact the fictional murder of a Jewish talk-show host depicted in The Turner Diaries (see 1978). [Rocky Mountain News, 5/1/2007; The Moderate Voice, 11/30/2007] 'Opening Shot ... of a Truly Revolutionary Radical Right' - Mark Potok of the SPLC will characterize Berg's murder as an early event leading to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing (see 8:35 a.m. - 9:02 a.m. April 19, 1995). "In a sense, it was one of the opening shots of a truly revolutionary radical right," Potok will say, "perfectly willing to countenance the mass murder of American civilians for their cause." [Denver Post, 6/18/2009] Berg's ex-wife, Judith Berg, will travel around the country in the years after her ex-husband's murder, speaking about what she calls the "disease and anatomy of hate," a sickness that can infect people so strongly that they commit horrible crimes. In 2007, she will tell a reporter that Berg's murder was a watershed event that inspired more hate-movement violence. "What happened to Alan in the grown-up world has reached into the youth culture," she will say. "It opened the door to an acceptance of violence as a means of acting on hate.… While our backs are turned toward overseas, hate groups are having a heyday. People are very unhappy; they're out of work and jobs are scarce. They're ripe for joining extremist groups. We need to understand what happened to make sure it doesn't happen again." [Rocky Mountain News, 5/1/2007] White later says of Pierce, Lane, and their fellows: "It's left me to wonder what makes somebody like this. I think these people didn't have much opportunity in their lives and scapegoat. They blame others for not making it." [Denver Post, 8/17/2010]
Entity Tags: Norman Lear, Robert Jay Mathews, Richard Scutari, Morris Dees, Richard P. Matsch, Mark Potok, Jean Margaret Craig, Judith Berg, Alan Berg, Anath White, Aryan Nations, Bruce Carroll Pierce, David Edan Lane, KOA 850 AM Radio, The Order
David Lane, a member of the secretive white supremacist group The Order (see Late September 1983) and one of the group members responsible for murdering Denver radio host Alan Berg (see June 18, 1984 and After), gives $30,000 in counterfeit bills (see December 3-23, 1983) to Thomas Martinez in Philadelphia. Martinez is not a member of The Order, but has reluctantly agreed to pass on the bills on the group's behalf. Martinez ignores Lane's advice to pass on the bills in New Jersey and not his own neighborhood, and passes over $1,500 in neighborhood stores. On June 28, he is arrested after a liquor store owner alerts authorities about the fake bills. Martinez is questioned by the Secret Service, but though he is fully aware of The Order's array of crimes, tells his questioners nothing. He telephones Order leader Robert Jay Mathews, asking that he give him $1,600 for an attorney. Mathews tells Martinez to be patient, that the group is planning another robbery (see March 16, 1984 and April 19-23, 1984), and he will then send him the money. [HistoryLink, 12/6/2006]
Entity Tags: David Edan Lane, Alan Berg, Robert Jay Mathews, US Secret Service, Thomas Martinez, The Order
Robert Jay Mathews, the head of the secretive white supremacist group The Order (see Late September 1983), has the group pull a third armored car robbery (see March 16, 1984 and April 19-23, 1984). Mathews has a contact in San Francisco, Charles Ostrout, a supervisor at the Brink's Armored Car Service depot in that city. In 1982, Ostrout visited Mathews's White American Bastion (see 1980-1982), complaining that minorities were getting all the jobs and promotions at his company. Mathews and Ostrout decided that the Brink's run to Eureka, California, at a location north of Ukiah, is the best target. Mathews and six Order colleagues stop the Brink's armored truck on Highway 101 and rob the guards of over $3.6 million. During the robbery, Mathews loses a 9mm Smith and Wesson pistol registered to one of his fellow robbers, Andrew Barnhill; the gun will give the FBI its first solid lead in the string of robberies, and the FBI will quickly learn of the group's existence and of Mathews's identity as its leader. The seven escape and, driving several cars, go to Boise, Idaho, where they split the money between them. [HistoryLink, 12/6/2006]
Entity Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Andrew Barnhill, Charles Ostrout, Robert Jay Mathews, Brink's, The Order, White American Bastion
The members of the secretive white supremacist group The Order (see Late September 1983) discover that the FBI has learned of their group's existence and has compiled a list of many of its members, including leader Robert Jay Mathews. The FBI is investigating the group for a string of armored car robberies (see March 16, 1984, April 19-23, 1984, and July 19, 1984). The group abandons plans for a fourth robbery and splits up. Mathews and other members move from one cheap hotel and "safe house" to another, while others roam the Northwest in campers and travel trailers. The FBI observes one Order member, Gary Yarborough, moving to a remote mountain cabin near Samules, Idaho. Mathews asks an associate, Ardie McBrearty (see 1974), to establish a telephone message center where group members can leave and receive messages. [HistoryLink, 12/6/2006]
Entity Tags: Gary Lee Yarborough, Robert Jay Mathews, Ardie McBrearty, The Order, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Thomas Martinez, an associate of the secretive white supremacist group The Order (see Late September 1983) who is facing charges of passing counterfeit bills on the group's behalf (see June 24-28, 1984), decides to become an FBI informant. Martinez's lawyer has told him that the FBI knows of his links to the group, and he could face charges as a co-conspirator in any future prosecutions. To hopefully avoid any such charges, Martinez gives detailed information on The Order and his knowledge of its crimes. He also agrees to collect more information about the group's activities (see August 1984 and After). [HistoryLink, 12/6/2006]
Entity Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Thomas Martinez, The Order
Gary Lee Yarborough. [Source: Eye on Hate (.com)]Robert Jay Mathews, the leader of the white supremacist group The Order (see August 1984 and After), Order member Gary Yarborough (see October 18, 1984), and a number of their fellow members have rented five houses in small rural communities near Mount Hood, east of Portland, Oregon, in which to hide from the FBI (see August 1984 and After). George Duey and several Order members moved on to the Puget Sound region, where they rented three secluded vacation homes on Smuggler's Cove near Greenbank on Whidbey Island. On November 23, Mathews contacts Order associate Thomas Martinez and asks him to fly to Portland for a brief meeting. Mathews is unaware that Martinez is now an FBI informant (see October 1, 1984). Mathews and Yarborough meet Martinez at the Capri Hotel in Portland. The FBI had planned on following Mathews back to his new safe house after the meeting, but when they see Yarborough, the agents on site change the plan. The morning of November 24, the agents surround the hotel, waiting for the two fugitives to leave. Mathews leaves his room, spots the surveillance, shouts a warning to Yarborough, and flees across the parking lot. Mathews and an FBI agent exchange gunfire; the agent is wounded in the leg and Mathews suffers a minor wound to his right hand. Mathews manages to escape on foot. Yarborough attempts to flee through the bathroom window at the end of the building, but falls into a tangle of bushes and is captured. The agents secure Mathews's car, which contains a number of weapons (including a silenced MAC-10 submachine gun and a hand grenade), $30,000 in cash from a recent Order robbery (see July 19, 1984), and documents, including rental agreements for the Mount Hood homes and a book of encoded names and phone numbers. Mathews hitches rides to his Mount Hood hideout, telling anyone who asks that he hurt his hand while working on his car. He tells his followers to leave the Mount Hood homes and flee to Whidbey Island. It is at a Whidbey Island house that Mathews will be killed during a standoff with the FBI (see December 8, 1984). [HistoryLink, 12/6/2006]
Entity Tags: Robert Jay Mathews, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Gary Lee Yarborough, Randolph George Duey, Thomas Martinez, The Order
Robert Jay Mathews. [Source: Wikimedia]Robert Jay Mathews, the leader of the neo-Nazi, white supremacist group The Order (see Late September 1983 and June 18, 1984 and After), is killed during a standoff with federal authorities at a rented vacation home near Smugger's Cove on Whidbey Island, Washington State. Mathews has been on the run after escaping from federal custody in November 1984 and in the process wounding an FBI agent in the leg (see November 23-24, 1984). On December 3, the FBI's Seattle office received an anonymous tip that Mathews and other Order members were hiding in three hideouts on Whidbey Island, and were heavily armed. The FBI dispatched 150 agents to the island to ensure none of the members escaped. By December 7, the FBI had all three hideouts located and surrounded. Four members of the group surrender without incident, but Mathews refuses, instead firing repeatedly at agents from inside the Smuggler's Cove house. After 35 hours of fruitless negotiations, agents fire three M-79 Starburst illumination flares into the home, hoping that the house will catch fire and drive Mathews out. Instead, Mathews either chooses to remain inside the house, or is unable to leave. He dies in the flames. The FBI recovers his charred body the next morning. News reports about the siege are the first many Americans hear of The Order and its war against what it calls the "ZOG," or Zionist Occupation Government, which Mathews and others characterize as a "Jewish cabal" running the US government. [HistoryLink, 12/6/2006] In 2003, researcher Harvey Kushner will write of Mathews, "For many on the racist right, he died a martyr." [Kushner, 2003, pp. 223]
Entity Tags: Harvey Kushner, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert Jay Mathews, The Order
After the death of Robert Jay Mathews, the founder and leader of the white supremacist group The Order (see December 8, 1984), federal authorities decide to "roll up" the group. Federal prosecutors from six states meet secretly in Seattle and decide to use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) against Order members. Under RICO statutes, all defendants are considered co-conspirators and are jointly responsible for all the crimes committed by the group (see October 28, 1983, December 3-23, 1983, March 16, 1984, April 19-23, 1984, April 29, 1984, May 27, 1984, June 18, 1984 and After, June 24-28, 1984, July 19, 1984, and November 23-24, 1984). The RICO Act also allows the government to seize and forfeit all property and assets used by the criminal organization to further its goals. Between December 1984 and March 1985, the Justice Department builds a massive conspiracy case against The Order. On April 15, 1985, a grand jury in Washington State returns a 20-count indictment against 23 members of The Order with racketeering, conspiracy, and 67 separate offenses. By this time, 17 members of The Order are in custody; by the month's end, all but one member, Richard Scutari (see March 19, 1986), are in custody. [HistoryLink, 12/6/2006]
Entity Tags: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Richard Scutari, Robert Jay Mathews, US Department of Justice, The Order
William Pierce, the founder of the neo-Nazi National Alliance (see 1970-1974) and the author of the inflammatory and highly influential white supremacist novel The Turner Diaries (see 1978), purchases a large farm near Mill Point, West Virginia, for $95,000. Some will suggest that the money Pierce uses to buy the farm comes from armed robberies carried out by The Order (see Late September 1983), but those suggestions will remain unproven. Pierce and his followers will transform the farm into a large, fortified compound that serves as the Alliance's national headquarters. [Center for New Community, 8/2002 ]
Entity Tags: National Alliance, The Order, William Luther Pierce
Richard Butler, the head of the white separatist and neo-Nazi organization Aryan Nations (see Early 1970s), is subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in Seattle, as part of the federal effort to convict members of the violent white separatist group The Order (see Late December 1984 - April 1985). Butler escapes indictment, even though he has strong connections with The Order (see 1980-1982), and after the Order trial, denounces the Order members who testified against their former colleagues. [Southern Poverty Law Center, 2010]
Entity Tags: Aryan Nations, The Order, Richard Girnt Butler
David Tate, one of two members of the now-defunct white supremacist group The Order to escape the government's massive prosecution of its members (see Late December 1984 - April 1985), is stopped by two Missouri state troopers conducting random vehicle and license checks. He is trying to flee to a Christian Identity (see 1960s and After) survivalist compound called the Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSA). Tate opens fire on the two officers with a MAC-10 submachine gun, killing one and critically wounding the other. He is captured five days later hiding in a city park in Arkansas. He will be convicted of assault and murder, and sentenced to life without parole. Federal authorities will use the Tate incident to arrest the CSA leadership (see 1983); the organization will soon fold. [Anti-Defamation League, 2005; HistoryLink, 12/6/2006]
Entity Tags: David Charles Tate, The Order
The trial of 21 members of the white supremacist group The Order begins in a US district court in western Washington State (see Late December 1984 - April 1985). The trial judge is Walter T. McGovern. Eleven of the defendants decide to plead guilty and several agree to serve as government witnesses. The trial lasts into December 1985; 338 witnesses testify, and over 1,500 exhibits are presented. The defense attempts to discredit the Order members who turn state's evidence, accusing them of creating a "self-serving fabric of lies," and the prosecution of "trial by gossip." Jurors will later tell news reporters that the most compelling evidence in the trial comes from the former Order members. The jury, composed of eight white women and four white men, deliberates for two weeks before issuing its verdict on December 30. All 10 defendants are found guilty of racketeering and conspiracy. Six are found guilty of other federal crimes. Judge McGovern will hand down stern sentences, ranging from 40 to 100 years in federal detention. [HistoryLink, 12/6/2006] Many of those convicted will remain unrepentant during their prison stays, and are viewed by radical right-wing extremists as "prisoners of war" and "heroes." [Eye on Hate, 2003] Two other Order members, David Tate (see April 15, 1985) and Richard Scutari (see March 19, 1986), escape the Washington prosecution.
Entity Tags: Richard Scutari, David Charles Tate, The Order, Walter T. McGovern
Aryan Nations (see Early 1970s) security chief Elden "Bud" Cutler is arrested in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, for trying to hire a hit man to kill an FBI informant in an investigation into the organization known as The Order (see Late December 1984 - April 1985). [Southern Poverty Law Center, 2010]
Entity Tags: Aryan Nations, Elden ("Bud") Cutler, The Order
Richard Scutari. [Source: Richard Scutari / Eye on Hate (.com)]Richard Scutari, one of two members of the now-defunct white supremacist group The Order to escape the government's massive prosecution of the group's members (see Late December 1984 - April 1985), is arrested without incident at a brake shop in San Antonio, Texas, where he has worked for months; he is carrying a .45 caliber pistol but does not use it. Scutari has been on the FBI's Most Wanted List since September 1985. He will plead guilty to racketeering, conspiracy, and armed robbery charges, and will be sentenced to 60 years in federal prison. During his trial, he will tell the court, "I had no choice but to strike out against a satanic government." Scutari will become a hero of the radical right while in prison, some of whom will call him a "prisoner of war." [Eye on Hate, 2003; HistoryLink, 12/6/2006]
Entity Tags: The Order, Richard Scutari
The "Aryan Republican Army" (ARA) commits at least 22 bank robberies across America's Midwest. The ARA is modeled after the violent white supremacist organization The Order (see Late September 1983), which had funded itself primarily through robbing armored trucks. For a time, the group's headquarters is in Elohim City, Oklahoma (see 1973 and After). The ARA's leaders claim to be dedicated to the "overthrow of the US government, the extermination of American Jews, and the establishment of an Aryan Republic" on the North American continent. Members are required to read the infamous Turner Diaries (see 1978), a novel depicting the overthrow of the US government by white separatists and the genocide of minorities. The robberies in all secure between $250,000 and $500,000 for the group. Robbery Spree - During the height of their robbery spree, ARA members target a bank about once a month, hitting banks and financial institutions in Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, Ohio, Nebraska, Kansas, and Kentucky. Sometimes the robbers dress like construction workers and flee in junk cars bought specifically for the escape. Sometimes they leave fake bombs and smoke grenades to delay pursuit; sometimes they speak in foreign languages to confuse authorities. In a December 1994 heist, one robber wears a Santa Claus suit, shouts "Ho, ho, ho!" to customers, and leaves a bomb tucked in a Santa hat. During a March 1995 robbery, the robbers leave a pipe bomb in an Easter basket. On one occasion the robbers leave a copy of the Declaration of Independence in the ashtray of an abandoned getaway car. Sometimes they wear caps or bandannas bearing the logos of the FBI or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF). On another occasion the robbers buy a getaway car, a Ford Fairlane, in the name of a retired FBI agent who had worked white supremacist cases in the Northwest; on the front seat of this car they leave an article about Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh (see 8:35 a.m. - 9:02 a.m. April 19, 1995). When FBI agent Jim Nelson takes his speculations about the ARA public, group members send letters to several Midwestern newspapers mocking him and calling themselves the "Mid-Western Bank Bandits." Arrests and Convictions - By late 1995, federal and state authorities will arrest most ARA members; ARA leader Peter Kevin Langan will be convicted on multiple charges of bank robbery, and another ARA leader, Richard Guthrie, will commit suicide in prison after cooperating with authorities. Michael William Brescia and Kevin William McCarthy also cooperate with authorities in return for reduced sentences. Others convicted include Mark William Thomas and Scott Stedeford. Promotional Video Gives Principles - In a two-hour promotional video made in January 1995 and called "The Armed Struggle Underground," Langan, calling himself "Commander Pedro," appears in a ski mask alongside others in fatigues brandishing weapons and fistfuls of cash. In the video, Langan says: "Our basic goal is to set up an Aryan republic.… Don't mistake us for cultists. We, ladies and gentlemen, are your neighbors." Langan also says the ARA supports "ethnic cleansing" similar to what the Serbians are carrying out in Kosovo. Another ARA member tells viewers that ARA intends to declare war on the American government and promises a "courthouse massacre." In the video, ARA members state their principles: all racial minorities are subhuman, Jews are "Satan's spawn," whites of northern European descent are "chosen people," and a United Nations-led "New World Order" (see September 11, 1990) threatens freedom in the United States. [Philadelphia Inquirer, 2/4/1997; Anti-Defamation League, 8/9/2002; Nicole Nichols, 2003; Nicole Nichols, 2003; New American, 11/28/2005] Oklahoma City Bomber a Member - In 2001, the FBI will state that McVeigh was an ARA member. It is possible that money "laundered" by him shortly before the bombing (see November 1994) came from an ARA bank robbery. [Nicole Nichols, 2003]
Entity Tags: Michael William Brescia, Elohim City, Aryan Republican Army, Jim Nelson, Mark William Thomas, The Order, Scott Stedeford, Kevin William McCarthy, Richard Guthrie, Peter Kevin Langan, Timothy James McVeigh
"Racial Loyalty," the monthly newsletter published by the racist Church of the Creator (COTC—see 1973 and 1982-1983), reprints an essay by David Lane on "the Christian Right-wing American Patriots, C.R.A.P. (since that is what they do to [sic] the future of all White children)." Lane is a member of the far-right terrorist group The Order (see Late September 1983) and is serving a 40-year racketeering sentence, as well as a 150-year term for civil rights violation in connection with the 1984 murder of radio talk show host Alan Berg (see June 18, 1984 and After). Many far-right organizations who espouse their own versions of Christianity (see 1960s and After), including the Ku Klux Klan, oppose the COTC's rejection of Christianity. [Anti-Defamation League, 1993]
Entity Tags: World Church of the Creator, Ku Klux Klan, David Edan Lane, The Order
British National Party logo. [Source: The Huntsman (.com)]William Pierce, the founder of the neo-Nazi National Alliance (see 1970-1974) and the author of the inflammatory and highly influential white supremacist novel The Turner Diaries (see 1978), travels to London to address the white nationalist British National Party (BNP). Pierce and BNP leader John Tyndall have a long friendship and alliance. Some 150 neo-Nazis attend the meeting and begin chanting, "Free the Order!" apparently in reference to the members of the violent American white supremacist group The Order (see Late September 1983 and September 9 - December 30, 1985). After this visit, Pierce is officially banned from England. [Center for New Community, 8/2002 ]
Entity Tags: British National Party, William Luther Pierce, National Alliance, John Tyndall
Chevie Kehoe. [Source: Eye on Hate (.com)]Cheyne Kehoe surrenders to federal authorities and tells them where his fugitive brother, Chevie Kehoe, is hiding. Both men were raised as members of the white separatist, overtly racist "Christian Identity" tradition (see 1960s and After) by their parents; the brothers' father, a Vietnam veteran who hated the government, gave them their first training with weapons. Chevie Kehoe will later recall his father telling them, "If they're not white then they don't have the right to exist." Chevie Kehoe became fascinated with the story of slain white supremacist Robert Jay Mathews, the founder of The Order (see Late September 1983 and December 8, 1984); he, his brother Cheyne, and a few friends formed a small supremacist group they called the Aryan People's Republic. The Kehoe brothers became notorious in February 1997 after they had a shootout with Ohio Highway Patrol officers and escaped on foot; the videotape of the shootout became a sensation on the national news circuit. Both the Kehoes were suspected of torturing and murdering Arkansas gun dealer William Mueller, his wife Nancy, and his daughter Sarah, after Chevie Kehoe had robbed him in early 1996. The Kehoes spent some time hiding from authorities at the Oklahoma white supremacist compound of Elohim City (see 1973 and After), where at least one of them had received weapons training and the Kehoe family often lived for periods of time. Cheyne Kehoe is convicted of assault and attempted murder in the Ohio shootout, and receives 24 years in prison; Chevie Kehoe pleads guilty and receives 20 years. Chevie Kehoe and Daniel Lee, a member of the Kehoes' Aryan People's Republic, are later indicted for the Arkansas murder and a variety of charges based on their plots to attack federal officials; Kehoe will be sentenced to life in prison and Lee will be sentenced to death. [Anti-Defamation League, 8/9/2002; Nicole Nichols, 2003] Investigations later show that the Kehoe brothers had ties of some nature with Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh (see 8:35 a.m. - 9:02 a.m. April 19, 1995) and the Aryan Republican Army (ARA—see 1992 - 1995).
Entity Tags: Elohim City, Aryan Republican Army, Aryan People's Republic, Chevie Kehoe, Cheyne Kehoe, Daniel Lee, Timothy James McVeigh, Nancy Mueller, William Mueller, Sarah Mueller
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Some Happy for Yer Friday
As we enter the beginning of the most exciting time of year (baseball playoffs and football season and an election, oh my!), I think it's important that we keep in perspective that which brings us the most joy. Sure, hosting a Guinness keg party while dressed in my Yadier Molina jersey flanked by the Shannon twins is pretty much the happiest day of my life (that hasn't happened yet but might), I still know that even if all that other stuff falls through, I will always have baseball.
And sometimes, within the game of baseball, we can find something much simpler that pushes the happy button. I know a lot of folks have been wrapped up in the admirable and impressive play of Mike Trout. People are just as infatuated with his grace and dominance as I
was am infatuated with Stephen Strasburg and all things Strasmas. It's the little injections of youthful awesomesauce that often remind us why we love baseball so much. It is a kid's game after all.
But sometimes waiting for the next big thing isn't necessary. I have found that out this year by following Coco Crisp very closely. My history with Crisp has been one of hilarity, peppered with some dazzle. And while his offensive numbers may not hypnotize scouts, enough can never be said about how he plays the game.
He plays hard. He plays to win. He's in on every pitch and he goes balls-to-the-wall. In fact, I have gotten to the point where I'm watching replays of his relay throws and conducting frame-by-frame analysis on his routes to fly balls.
If I could get to Oakland, I'd rather watch Crisp long-toss than Cesepedes take BP.
Okay, so maybe I'm lyin' a little bit in that last sentence, but one thing is for certain: Coco Crisp's defensive play is worth focusing on and if you focus long enough, you're probably going to see something that puts a smile on your face. Maybe even an afro.
Happy Friday!


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Anniversary exhibition brings alumni together
Columbus's Studios on High Gallery (SOHG) is celebrating its 25th Anniversary with the help of some of our alumni. Fine Arts alumna Lisa Horkin (CCAD 1985), Illustration alumnus Marty Husted (CCAD 1979), Illustration alumnus Ryan Orewiler (CCAD 2004), and Fine Arts alumna Denise Romecki (CCAD 1976), will all exhibit during Face 2 Face, 25 Years of Art and Community, opening Friday, April 15 from 5:30–9:00 p.m.
Lisa Horkin works as a textile mixed media artist, exhibiting, lecturing, and teaching in the Columbus area. Since 2002, she has been a practicing glass artist, using glass as means of creative expression. Follow her blog here.
Marty Husted is a freelance illustrator and fine artist living in Columbus. His clients include Charlesbridge Publishing Company, Columbus Historical Society, Macmillan McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, and The Ohio State University among other. He is the recipient of PMA Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Multicultural Book of the Year (2005), USA Book News's Best Children's Picture Book (2004), OFBF Children's Literature Award Honors List (2003), Great Lakes Book Seller's Association Pick of the List (1999), and Parent's Council Award for Excellence (1998). Learn more on his website.
Since 2000, Ryan Orewiler has painted hundreds of cityscapes which have been collected and commissioned by individuals and corporations throughout the United States. His influence is the urban environment of Columbus, Ohio, where he lives, and the cities that he has traveled to around the world including Jakarta, Chicago, Paris, Florence, Berlin, Bali, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore. He received a B.F.A. from the Columbus College of Art and Design in Illustration and is a member of the Landfillart.org, Roy G Biv, Ohio Art League, German Village Art League, AbX Collective, Oil Painters of America and the Landscape Artists International. Learn more here.
Denise Romecki has been exhibiting since 1978, and her work can be found at Studios on High and the Ohio Craft Museum. She also teaches part-time at the Cultural Arts Center. Her works can be viewed here.
SOHG was opened in 1986 by four Columbus-based artists offering a glimpse of their creative processes along with the opportunity to buy unique handmade pieces. Today, the gallery is comprised of 18 exhibiting artists and hosts daily demonstrations in its Short North facility. The gallery provides an opportunity for education and interaction with painters, ceramic artists, jewelers and glass blowers.
For more information about the show, click here.
Lisa Horkin shared the news of this show with us on our Alumni Facebook page. If you are a fellow alumnus or alumna, be sure to "like" us today.


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David Kleidermacher is chief technology officer at Green Hills Software where he has been responsible for operating system and virtualization technology over the past decade. David can be contacted at davek at ghs.com.
Vrtualization was first introduced in mainframes during the 1960s and 1970s. Although it remained a largely untapped facility during the 1980s and 1990s, computer scientists have long understood many of the applications of virtualization, including the ability to run distinct and legacy operating systems on a single hardware platform.
At the start of the millennium, VMware proved the practicality of full system virtualization, hosting unmodified, general purpose, "guest" operating systems such as Windows on common Intel architecture-based hardware platforms. In 2005, Intel launched Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT), which both simplified and accelerated virtualization. Consequently, a number of virtualization software products have emerged, alternatively called "virtual machine monitors" or "hypervisors", with varying characteristics and goals.
While Intel VT may be best known for its application in data center server consolidation and provisioning, Intel VT has proliferated across desktop- and laptop-class chipsets, and has most recently found its way into Intel Atom processors, built for low power and designed for embedded and mobile applications.
The availability of Intel VT across such a wide range of computing platforms provides developers and technologists with the ultimate open platform: the ability to run any flavor of operating system in any combination, creating an unprecedented flexibility for deployment and usage. This article introduces some of these emerging uses, with an emphasis on the latest platforms enabled with Intel VT: embedded and mobile. Because embedded and mobile platforms often have resource and security constraints that differ drastically from enterprise computing platforms, we focus in this article on the impact of hypervisor architecture upon these constraints.
Applications of System Virtualization
Mainframe virtualization was driven by some of the same applications found in today's enterprise systems. Initially, virtualization was used for time sharing, similar to the improved hardware utilization driving modern data center server consolidation. Another important usage involved testing and exploring new operating system architectures. Virtualization was also used to maintain backward compatibility of legacy versions of operating systems.
Environment Sandboxing
Implicit in the concept of consolidation is the premise that independent virtual machines are kept securely separated from each other. The ability to guarantee separation is highly dependent upon the robustness of the underlying hypervisor software. Researchers have found flaws in commercial hypervisors that violate this separation assumption. Nevertheless, an important theoretical application of virtual machine compartmentalization is to "sandbox" software that is not trusted. For example, a web browser connected to the Internet can be sandboxed in a virtual machine so that Internet-borne malware or browser vulnerabilities are unable to infiltrate or otherwise adversely impact the user's primary operating system environment.
Virtual Security Appliances
Another example, the virtual security appliance, does the opposite: sandbox trusted software away from the user's operating system environment. Consider anti-virus software that runs on a Mobile Internet Device (MID). A few years ago, the "Metal Gear" Symbian Trojan was able to propagate itself by disabling the mobile device's anti-malware software. [1] Virtualization can solve this problem by placing the anti-malware software into a separate virtual machine, as in Figure 1. The virtual appliance can analyze data going into and out of the user's environment or hook into the user's operating system for demand-driven processing.


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Conservation and Environment in Mexico: Monthly Updates
Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update September 2007
We have had a lot of recent turtle activity here as a result of the high season, including the nightly escapades of hatchlings to the building instead of the sea. In one night 100 nests were collected. These nests are set to hatch by the end of this month or the beginning of the next, so we will have our hands full with baby turtles!
During one of our two week specials, we were lucky enough to have a turtle lay her eggs outside the classroom in the middle of the afternoon, allowing everyone the magical moment of watching a turtle dig a nest, lay her eggs, rebury them and then make her way back to the sea. Of course those of you who have witnessed this know that it isn't really a moment, more like half an hour!
And all this doesn't include the rescue of a turtle that decided to take a swim in our well! One night as our little escape artists ran from the corral, some got confused by the pretty lights of the building and headed there, with one hatchling deciding to go over the edge of the well.
Thankfully Rene and I saw this happen, so with a cup attached to some string, we lowered it into the well and scooped the baby turtle out and set him on his way back to the sea.
Unfortunately we also have some bad news as well. Some of our turtles that we keep for educational purposes have passed away. In our pools we have 3 adult Olive Ridleys that we are unable to release as they would not survive. We also have 4 adult Black turtles, and 4 baby Olive Ridley turtles. The two turtles that died were the smallest Black turtle and one of the large Black turtles.
Our crocodile repopulation project is carried out at a local crocodile farm, where we have a lagoon inhabited by two species of crocodiles Crocodylus acutus and Crocodylus moreletti and a small breeding population. The crocodile farm is doing very well at the moment with the government improving the infrastructure. This includes proper toilets, new walkways, and changes to the pens for our breeding population making them more secure and providing more pens for our newest hatchlings.
We are proud to announce that all our collection of eggs has paid off as we now have 5 other groups of young hatchlings. Some of the groups are fairly feisty, but the rest are very docile. They are all growing very well, and we have had very few die.
Our lagoon has changed drastically recently as the local group of fisherman who manage the lagoon have opened up the lagoon to the sea to drain the lagoon as the water levels were very high. This has resulted in a lot of new species arriving to the area, taking our species list to over 80 now. With the lagoon now open, the area of beach near the bar has been totally removed, meaning that the patrols start from the other side of the river after a trip on the boat.
Oliver Garcia
Conservation Director
September, 2007
Projects Abroad


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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Lucia Topolansky is a first lady like no other. An outspoken senator, former Tupamaro guerrilla and key member of her country's ruling coalition, she is more than qualified to follow her husband Jose Mujica into the presidency.
But would she?
"No way," she told The Associated Press in an interview in her Senate office. "Now that I've seen the presidency up close, I wouldn't wish it on anybody. Look, I remember well how in your country Barack Obama didn't have a single gray hair in his first term, and now he's totally gray!"
Topolansky is, however, being talked about as a potential vice president for Tabare Vazquez, who preceded Mujica in office and is a likely front-runner to retake the presidency in 2014.
Now 69 and gray herself, Topolansky still speaks with the intensity of the young, blond militant who tried to change her country through armed revolution starting in 1966, organizing jailbreaks and even crawling through sewers to escape from prison.
Recaptured just before Uruguay's 1973 military coup, she suffered torture during her nearly 14 years in prison. With democracy's return in 1985, she and Mujica were among the former guerrillas granted amnesties. They eventually got married and kept working for change, achieving through the ballot box what bullets couldn't.
Mujica won the presidency through his charisma and common touch, but credits his wife for his political backbone — missing her birthday while visiting the United Nations last week, he called her his "hard drive."
Topolansky has focused on lawmaking, and shows little patience for ceremonial roles. Her small Senate office lacks any national symbols or signs of political power. She sits among piles of documents, books and several framed pictures — iconic images of tango singer Carlos Gardel and Argentine revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, and a faded black-and-white photo of her husband with Tupamaro leader Raul Sendic during their revolutionary days.
She spoke with the AP as the Senate was preparing to give final approval to an unprecedented plan to create a legal marijuana market with the government at its center, licensing growers, sellers and users in an effort to fight organized crime. Uruguay also legalized abortion and gay marriage recently, putting the country and its first couple on the map.
"We have been granted the luxury of setting this agenda of individual rights" because Uruguay already took care of more basic problems like increasing education funding and creating jobs, she said. "The country is ready now for this rights agenda."
But as Mujica nears the end of his term and the Broad Front coalition of leftist parties, unions and social organizations aims to put Vazquez back in the presidency, unemployment among Uruguay's 3.3 million people is 7.1 percent and nearly 800,000 workers take home less than $650 a month, according to the country's PIT-CNT union coalition.
Some other former leftist revolutionaries think the current government's policies are a luxury Uruguay still can't afford.
"This is an agenda they pursue in the U.S. and in Europe's social democracies, which invented women's lib and the gays and this and that so they don't have to talk about what's really important," Defense Minister Eleuterio Fernandez Huidobro told the magazine Caras y Carateras. "This agenda doesn't bother anybody and we're so naive that we don't see it ... They've forgotten about class war. To the war between classes and nothing less!"
Topolansky's brother Carlos, one year older, recalled the family's shock when police showed up in 1969 looking for Lucia the guerrilla.
"It was as if they told you there was a Martian at the door," he said. She was seen as timid girl and her father never accepted her choice. "They tricked her," he always said.
But Topolansky makes it clear that she has made her own choices, accepted the consequences, and has no regrets or bitterness — not even for being tortured, or not having children.
"I had certain ideas about freedom. And when I made certain political decisions, I didn't want any attachments," she said. "Later, I was jailed for a thousand years, and then the kids didn't come, so it doesn't bother me now, because I have a lifelong project."
Asked whether the Tupamaros were justified in killing unarmed prisoners, she said: "History is what it is. We're not going to change it by trying to go back and analyze it."
Now Topolansky is so popular that she may be called on to run for vice president. "I'll do what my party asks of me," she said, but insisted that working as a community organizer or union activist would be just as important.
As a young woman, a revolutionary, a prisoner and a politician, she's always sought "public happiness," Topolansky said.
As for personal happiness, she said she's already found it, on the ramshackle flower farm that she shares with "Pepe" Mujica, known internationally as "the poorest president in the world."
"We don't consider ourselves so poor, like they say," she said. "We're austere because it suits us. We're happier. We have fewer worries, fewer problems. We have this lifelong project; we like it and we feel good."


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Monday, November 8, 2010
Elusive indulgences wanted! (And maybe a little sympathy)
Because of that point—one point!—my doctor banished me to the Mulletville diabetes center last week for a consultation. I entered the center in the foulest mood possible. I may have been dubbed a gestational diabetic, but I wasn't going to go quietly.
First I saw a chipper, lumpy nurse who called me "honey," "hun" and "sugar." She smiled past my snarky looks. She was impervious to my Death Stares.
Like gasoline on a fire, baby.
She gave me a 50-page health questionnaire to fill out. She checked my thyroid. She waxed my legs. By that point I'd been at the center for an hour. I started to get even pissier—sighing heavily and looking at my watch. Scratching the walls. Urinating in the corner. You know the drill. Nurse Lump-a-Lot finally noticed.
"I don't belong here," I moaned. "One point…"
"It's probably genetics. Just one of those things." She handed me this:
The OneTouch UltraMini. It may sound like a vibrator and look like a crack pipe, but it's not nearly as exciting.
She told me I have to check my blood sugar levels four times a day and record them in my own special blood sugar diary.
(Sorry, Heidi Klum, this will have to replace your special notebook for now.)
We test drove the UltraMini. I passed. Hoohah! I waited for her to tell me I could skip the whole gestational diabetes thing but no, it was time to see the dietician.
Fuckity fuck no.
The dietician was even cheerier than Nurse Lump-a-Lot. Worse, she was skinny. I've been around long enough to know that skinny people who think a lot about food are never happy people. They use food scales and talk about bulgar wheat.
They are the Anti-Christ.
Before I'd even sat down, the dietician busted out her rubber fruits and vegetables and started playing kitchen.
"Two servings of broccoli equal one serving of potatoes. Now, what happens when we add a piece of toast?"
She drew smiley faces on my food chart. She referred to her camaraderie of dieticians as "we," as in "we strongly encourage you to try Quinoa."
I wanted to tell her where she could put her Quinoa, but she wouldn't shut it. I kept trying to tell her that I knew enough about nutrition—one point!—to fast forward through the elementary-school schpeel, but she was going to cover it.
I even busted out the big guns—I told her how I was one of the first reporters to cover trans fats, a nasty bi-product of the hydrogenation process, for a gourmet food magazine back in 1997, so I knew about bad fats—but she wouldn't put down her damn rubber vegetables.
She pummeled me with fake food. I was beaten.
So here I am, just me and my UltraMini. And a whole buttload of Halloween candy. Thoughts of Thanksgiving pies. Of fat, gooey chocolate Santa Clauses with jolly bellies full of marshmallow. Brownies dripping in caramel. Puff pastries. Cheesecakes paired with red wine.
Nothing I can touch.
I need a vice, people, and I need it now. What's left to do that's naughty?
(Don't say sex. Please. We all know that sex when you're eight months pregnant is about as appealing as moose going at it on the National Geographic channel.)
20 comments:
- Joanie said...
I have that glucose monitor. Use the adapter for taking samples from your arm. You barely feel it. Really.
- November 8, 2010 at 10:50 PM
- Elizabeth said...
Well, on indulgences, I'm coming up blank, I'm afraid. The good news is that I'm diabetic--Type I, aka the "real"kind, for 20 years. What I have learned over the years (largely by being bad), is that the doctors and the nurses and the dietitians and the "diabetes educators" may have all kinds of "book learning" (ok, I have a doctorate myself, I'm not knocking it in theory), but they may or may not have a frigging clue what works in real life for YOU. And YOU are the only one who's going to be able to figure that out. Your body may or may not treat a slice of bread the same as a small serving of potato. And a small baked potato may have different effects than a serving of mashed potatoes, even if they WEIGH the same. Since you've only got a month to go, the easiest way to handle it may just be to try to come up with a few basic meals you can stand and figure out by trial and error how your body reacts to them. And try shooting the smarmy holier/smarter than thou clinic types the finger behind their backs. Lots of luck.
- November 8, 2010 at 10:50 PM
- Keely said...
Bad TV and trashy romance novels?
Crap, I got nothin'. That blows. Sorry.
- November 8, 2010 at 11:46 PM
- Frogs in my formula said...
Thanks, Elizabeth. So far my diet is working with a few tweaks. I must say, I'm already sick of nuts and plain yogurt though.
Bad TV might work. Really, really bad.
- November 9, 2010 at 6:34 AM
- SmartBear said...
I just have to send you some virtual sympathy. Because crap...I can't think of a worse time of year to go without treats! I agree, trashy t.v. and trashy books. Go with it...
- November 9, 2010 at 7:42 AM
- The Mother said...
It keeps your hands busy so you don't snack. Got through med school that way.
- November 9, 2010 at 8:47 AM
- Mama Badger said...
I had the same thing, and was diagnosed at the same time. My levels were find at an hour, high after two, and only 1 pt high at the end. Sigh. A word of advice, keep a "food" diary for two weeks. Write down everything you eat, and then write down your sugar levels when you test after that. After your two weeks, try to spot a pattern. I found that I could eat almost anything, but soda and juice shot my numbers through the roof (imagine why I failed, when the test is orange soda!) It's not so bad, I promise.
- November 9, 2010 at 9:17 AM
- Lindy said...
I'm sorry but if I am 8 months pregnant then I expect to be able to have a damn Quarter Pounder and Cheese and a large frie when I want one. End of freakin story.
- November 9, 2010 at 9:24 AM
Yoplait Light Cherry Cobbler Yogurt.
And beer. You can have a beer. Just don't do tequila shots and dance on the table.
- November 9, 2010 at 11:38 AM
Yoplait Light Cherry Cobbler Yogurt.
And beer. You can have a beer. Just don't do tequila shots and dance on the table.
- November 9, 2010 at 11:38 AM
- Nanc Twop said...
But remember beer mixed with yogurt will cause you to double-post... ;-)
Stick with red wine & cheese.
- November 9, 2010 at 12:21 PM
- Unknown said...
I failed by 3 points, and am due around the same time as you (based on ivillage vegetable similarities of our diabetes inducing little dears). I failed by a few points with my 2 1/2 year old daughter, too - so I truly understand your pain of the "assistance" from the instructors - and I was livid when I had to sit through the instruction AGAIN with this pregnancy. Any how - I have an awesome layout (from my doctor - NOT my diabetes class) of how to break up your meals and snacks into servings of carbs/protein. It's made it really easy for both pregnancies. The best part is you can eat anything - yes anything - you want, as long as you portion it out by the number of carbs. I'm not stuck eating the same thing all the time, and I have the freedom to eat at restaurants or crappy fast food if I want - as long as I look up the nutrition info before I order. Let me know if you want me to email the diet plan to you (not sure how much info you already have).
- November 9, 2010 at 12:27 PM
- JoAnna said...
Blogging. It's like crack. Or even better, stumble. You can't stop stumbling once you start, and before you know it, you'll be giving birth and saying, just one more stumble, then I'll push!!
- November 9, 2010 at 1:10 PM
- Jennifer Liv said...
I am 31 weeks prego and going through the same thing as you!! failed my test by one point and I have to go on a diabetic diet and do blood sugars 4 times a day for 9 more weeks so you know with only 4 or so weeks left to go you are lucky really because you don't have to do this for as long as i do!!!.....on the plus side this will slow my wt gain in the home stretch of pregnancy!! on the negative side I have the hardest time saying no to the chocolate!!
- November 9, 2010 at 1:25 PM
- Jenni said...
You could always take up smoking. No weed though, cause then you'd just get the munchies.
- November 9, 2010 at 4:31 PM
- Grand Pooba said...
Holy crap woman! That sucks. I'd hate to be you. Is that considered sympathy?
- November 9, 2010 at 6:14 PM
Isn't it "meese"? Just kidding. That glucose thing SUCKS. Switch to a midwife. Doctors are so worried about litigation that it impinges upon their ability to let you drink wine and eat brownies. Seriously, midwives rule! (And that's not to say they're negligent--they just seem to act out of women's bodily and psychological interests rather than litigious ones. Oh, I'm into the big words tonight, ay?)
- November 9, 2010 at 9:34 PM
- Stephanie said...
That sucks :( Facebook is a good vice... Especially those time sink games from what I hear!
- November 10, 2010 at 1:16 AM
- Frogs in my formula said...
So bad TV, knitting, smoking, beer and yogurt. Just don't mix yogurt with with beer.
You guys are the best.
- November 10, 2010 at 6:28 AM
- Marinka said...
I had no idea, I'm so sorry! My recommendation is "Flowers in the Attic." The book!
- November 10, 2010 at 4:10 PM
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Thank you for your desire to join us in our efforts to fight hunger. The Atlanta Community Food Bank relies on more than 15,000 volunteers every year in various capacities. Individual volunteers and volunteer groups lend support to our day-to-day operations as well as helping to staff special events and other opportunities.
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Kids in Need
Kids In Need provides school supplies free of charge to teachers in low-income schools by inviting them to "shop" after school hours in our Kids in Need warehouse.
Individuals assist teachers with the shopping process and also help to restock the store. This project is not appropriate for those who cannot do moderate lifting (20-40 lbs.) or stand for prolonged periods. Kids in Need volunteers are asked to make an ongoing commitment to a 3-hour shift either weekly or bi-weekly for August - December and/or January - May. Restocking shifts are held each Tuesday – Friday from 9 a.m. to Noon. Teacher Assistant shifts run Mondays thru Thursdays, 3 – 5:30 p.m., Tuesday or Wednesday evenings from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. and one Saturday per month from 8:45 to noon or 1 – 4 p.m.
Volunteer groups (5 minimum to 12 maximum) are needed to help with sorting and restocking inventory. Group volunteer projects can be scheduled on Mondays or Fridays from 9:00 a.m. to Noon.
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Community gardening brings neighbors together and empowers people to supplement their food supply by growing it themselves. The Food Bank provides gardening expertise, volunteer help, tools, seeds and more to area community gardens. Learn more about Community Gardens.
No prior garden experience is needed – a Food Bank gardening professional will be there to direct the group. Projects may include gardening, clean-up, plant rescue, plant shows or produce collection. Most projects last about three hours. This project is not appropriate for those who cannot do moderate lifting (20-40 lbs.) or stand for prolonged periods.
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Volunteering for the grocery floor is a fun, hands-on experience for individuals who enjoy interacting with the Food Bank's partner agencies. Volunteers are needed Monday-Friday from 9-12 to help agencies select grocery items, keep the shelves restocked, and load groceries into agency vehicles. Think of yourself as a personal shopper! This project is perfect for individuals at least 18 years of age who can lift 25 - 50 lbs. We are seeking volunteers who are interested in a recurring volunteer opportunity, maybe once or twice a week or a few times per month.
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Our special event volunteers have the opportunity to help at a wide spectrum of events benefiting the Food Bank – everything from greeting guests at events to collecting donations at a Major League Baseball game, or helping at our annual Hunger Walk Run! With some exceptions, most special event volunteer opportunities are offered on weeknights or weekends.
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