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There have been many developments in the field of medical marijuana since my last blog, both here in Michigan and nationally, material enough for a half-dozen lengthy columns easily: Science news about cannabis' therapeutic effects in people with autism, a big article in a national paper about the Veteran's Administration and using marijuana to treat PTSD, the Michigan Supreme Court reversing the Court of Appeals on two medical marijuana cases, the K2 crisis, HB 5681, it goes on and on.
The single thread that makes all these stories relevant and related is the mindset of the powerful. Contain and control has become big business, and our government is in that business. The prohibition of marijuana in America, my America, is being perpetuated by a system financially predicated on the revenue and expenditures created through the war on drugs. There is a better way.
Occasionally we see a light shined on the issue by neutral observers. These quotes come courtesy of the Michigan Supreme Court, who UNANIMOUSLY held that the Court of Appeals, District and Circuit Courts across the state, have been improperly denying citizens their rights.
"Under the Court of Appeals' construction, which the prosecution urges we adopt…a defendant (must) satisfy all the requirements of Section 4 in order to establish the Section 8 affirmative defense. Principles of statutory construction do not support this conclusion… The plain language of Section 8 does not require compliance with the requirements of Section 4." Pg 17
"Thus, Sections 4 and 7(a) have no bearing on the requirements of Section 8, and the requirements of Section 4 cannot logically be imported into the requirements of Section 8 by means of Section 7(a)." Pg. 18
You don't have to understand what Sections 4, 7(a) and 8 are to understand what the Supreme Court is saying. The Court of Appeals, the Attorney General and the prosecutors have forced a judicial model upon legally registered patients that the Supreme Justices are saying is not logical, contradicts the plain language of the Act, and is not supported by standard interpretations of law. Unanimously, they said that. You can't get seven people to agree on what color red is, but these seven strong personalities made these equally strong statements.
There's more. They explain why the Appeals Judges and prosecutors have been doing this to people.
"…unregistered patients would never be eligible for the affirmative defense under Section 8. The result would be to effectively abolish the differing protections extended to registered and unregistered patients.
This interpretation is internally inconsistent, renders the affirmative defense in Section 8 a nullity, and is contrary to the electors' intent to permit both registered and unregistered patients to assert medical reasons for using marijuana as a defense…" Pgs. 18-19
Would never be eligible… contrary to the electors' intent…internally inconsistent… and yet, this is how prosecutions involving medical marijuana patients have been conducted for the last three years. By improperly denying a jury the right to know that a person is a patient, and that patients are people, prosecutors have forced plea bargains from licensed and registered patients who should have had an affirmative defense available to them. It is an expedient way to push patients through the system without the judicial inconvenience of a jury trial.
The Supreme Court even included an Appendix which lists out the 10 conclusions the Court reached when deciding the two cases before them. A 10-point cheat sheet- really? That should make the Court's message very clear-do not misunderstand what we have decided here today. And to whom is that message intended? Legislators, take note of the message contained herein. The invalid interpretations of what the Medical Marihuana Act means extends into your halls as well, Reps. Walsh, LeBlanc, Liss, Senators Jones, Marleau, Schuitmacher. Focus on these phrases- internally inconsistent… plain language…contrary to the voter's intent. Science is on my side. The people are on my side. The Supreme Court is on my side. Do not be on the other side or we will un-elect you.
Whom do we hold accountable for this wrong? Who takes the lash for this transgression against humanity? I wish I could say it was our current Attorney General, but this is a symptom of a system that was created before he achieved the top office. He perpetuates the problem, fosters unfounded fear in the citizenry and has persecuted the sick and injured; for that he will have to answer to God.
The real issue is one of the status quo, the reluctance to adapt and change because change is uncomfortable- or should I say, unprofitable. Revenues created from forfeitures, court costs and fines, governmental drug war grants to local police departments, sale of surplus military gear and the training that comes with it are all the rewards for keeping the system intact. Change means an interruption in the revenue stream and that will always be a tough sell to agents of the government.
Change is upon us, whether we want it to be or not. In times past, Michigan was the agent of change. Our innovations were reported internationally and were imitated in every industrialized nation. Under Attorney General Frank Kelly we had the best consumer protections in the nation. Now, not so much. City Councilmembers, County Commissioners, elected officials at all levels of government can look to the Supreme Court's rulings and understand that the old ways are dying and it is good to embrace the new.
Make decisions that make sense, and always allow compassion to guide your mind.
11:18 am on Wednesday, June 6, 2012
If only this were the way that our legislators thought. I believe this goes way deeper. Where are the morals of these people we elect? What happened to protecting the people ..feel as a Medical Marijuana patient here in Michigan that my very right to "BE" is at risk here lately. We ask nothing more never have and never will Just uphold the Voters will, Read the Initiated amendment as it stands...and above all else PROTECT US...Since we as registered cardholders have been told that protection of our own self is not allowed any longer since im Sick and vulnerable .
12:37 pm on Wednesday, June 6, 2012
I agree 100%! And yes I truly feel that the hate our leaders and the police have for those who use medical Cannabis ha s caused them to behave in such rediculous fashions. Much of it has to do with fear and Miseducation on medical Cannibis. Not to mention the contributions (financial) the drug companies and private prisons make so our leaders can be run for re election. And no it doesn't help that many of us are easy targets. We will show those who continue on with the persecution and prosecution of our law and those who take part in it that we are fed up when we vote this year!
10:21 pm on Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Great article Rick keep up the good fight brother!
Steven Thompson
12:29 am on Thursday, June 7, 2012
Folks, I am 64, became a Christian in 1978, a minister in 1984, and branded a criminal for 46 years because I CHOOSE to grow & use God-created Cannabis instead of doing man-made, poisonous drugs (legal or otherwise). I am not alone..we are a LARGE counter-culture of folks who CHOOSE the natural route over the synthetic one. We DO NOT manufacture a drug...we GROW a, seed-bearing, herbal PLANT! We love our families & communities, work hard, believe in shopping local & recycling, grow organic, and contribute to society. How are we hurting anyone with the choice of our lifestyle? What gives ANYONE the right to make us live a different lifestyle, or THEIR'S? We DO NOT force ANYONE to live our's! We have been jailed, our children & possessions taken away from us, and killed for OUR choice of lifestyle! So I am humbly pleading with ALL who read this to help RIGHT a WRONG that has been going on for over 70 years now in our country! Help us get the signatures that we need to qualify for the state ballot to end prohibition for ALL adults 21 & over, and then vote YES for OUR God-given rights this November. Go to www.repealtoday.org . Our signature drive started in January and we have till July 9th to collect 500,000 sigs. OUR FUTURE IS NOW IN OUR HANDS, SO WHAT WILL WE DO WITH IT?
Rev.Steven B.Thompson,Chapter Director
Benzie County NORML
(Former Executive Director of Michigan NORML
from May,2007 to November,2011)
1:21 am on Saturday, June 9, 2012
I am nowhere close to a believer in god, but it never ceases to amaze me how people of all different races and religions can turn on a person for the simple fact that they use Cannabis. Education, education, education... Thank goodness for Rick and those like him!
8:13 am on Saturday, June 9, 2012
Mr. Rick Thompson is, again, correct. The 'war on drugs' is nothing more than a jobs program. It has become a self perpetuating industry relying on revenue generated from taking valuables from citizens. Often times, without filing charges or proving the guilt of those whose valuables were taken.
We live in a police state. The activist judges who sit on the Mi. Court of Appeals, have helped to make it easier for the Attorney General and his para-military forces.
The Supreme Court gave us a breather by simply returning things to their original intent. The trend of unjust rulings in the Court of Appeals must stop. Hopefully, the Supreme Court has begun to put an end to that. We will know for sure where the SC stands if they continue to be consistent and reverse the horribly insane and hurtful decision in People v McQueen.
For now, getting a chance to realize the original intentions of the voters, is a real victory.
Ed Lambert
10:24 am on Saturday, June 9, 2012
Efficient use of the military to enforce the borders would go a long way toward drying up the drug sources and, consequently, reduce the amount of recreational drug usage.
Daffy Noodnicks
10:56 am on Saturday, June 9, 2012
Ed Lambert:
I would think quite of lot of the marijuana used in this country is grown here.
Helen Rieland
11:15 am on Saturday, June 9, 2012
I don't think the "war against drugs" will ever get the job done no matter how many resources we throw at it. The only real solution is to decrease the demand but this is not something that can be legislated or conquered. It will take a real fundamental change in how humans relate to each other to make it happen. When humanity as a whole decides that all humans are of value and worthy of love and appreciation then drugs, world hunger, violence etc will all cease simultaneously. Until then people decieve themselves into thinking power and might will solve the problems.
1:51 pm on Saturday, June 9, 2012
@Helen.. that's because the "war on people who self medicate" can never be won.. it's impossible. There are thousands of plants out there that can get us high.. what can they do outlaw wild plants growing along every road? It's just not possible to win.
Take this k2 crap for an example.. we could of made it ourselves if we wanted.. there is nothing stopping anyone from making and using this stuff now.except people willing to pay 100 x more for conveince.
Everyone now knows it's poison that the drug pushers are selling Where they made their biggest mistake was in trying to mainstream deadly products. Now we have records of who they are, what they sell, and where the money is going. It might of worked too had they not sold poison as weed. But, i'm glad it didn't.. IMO drug stores should be allowed to sell drugs not gas stations. Don't get me wrong about allowing people to grow their own weed.. i would say everyone should just grow their own now. So when it is legalized of course everyone would be allowed to use whatever drugs they could grow.. just they shouldn't sell them without a liscense. And i think that's only fair because of safety issues. At real drug stores we can regulate the potency, amount sold, and ensure it's not sold to minors. But that will never happen untill they realize we are losing trillons of dollars to the drug dealers. Trillons going to other countries and out of ours, and we've already spent trillons trying to stop marijuana use.
4:22 pm on Thursday, June 21, 2012
I see no difference in the legal use of alcohol and the legal use of marijuana. The Federal government issues licenses for people to make their own wine and regulates the amount allowed per family for personal use only. They are not allowed to sell it. Why shouldn't people be able to grow their own weed under the same rules?
5:37 pm on Sunday, December 30, 2012
The Supreme Court gave us a breather by simply returning things to their original intent. The trend of unjust rulings in the Court of Appeals must stop
An sorry but I don't agree people are still being denind the right to a medical defense
Rick Thompson
9:49 pm on Sunday, December 30, 2012
Since the Supreme Court ruled in this case there have been many other cases- Kolanek, Nicholson, Bylsma- that the Supremes have sent back to lower courts for retrial because they were denied their right to present a medical defense in Circuit or District Court. The Court of Appeals was horrible for a long time, and they are not much better now, but they know that any ruling in medical marijuana they make will go to the Supreme Court (or at least be considered) and they are being more, well, legal and logical now than they were in 2010 and 2011. Still, innocent people that cannot afford to appeal their case to higher courts are being screwed out of their rights every day.
Dale Murrish
8:05 pm on Sunday, December 30, 2012
We need everyone doing their best, not yet another vice. Pot decreases people's motivation, messes with their DNA, etc. People voted for the MM act thinking they were getting one thing (pain relief for people who need it) and got defacto legalization - a whole new cottage industry.
Interesting how we have a war on tobacco and disdain for people who use it, but a push for legalization of a mind-altering drug from some of the same people who push for banning smoking because of dubious second-hand smoke health risk reductions.
What can be legally argued for is not necessarily the same as what is morally right. We have plenty of vices already. We don't need another one. We need to reduce demand for it by educating people about its dangers, not trying to legalize it.
Daffy Noodnicks
8:55 pm on Sunday, December 30, 2012
I do not care to have your definition of morality or what constitutes vice imposed upon me.
Rick Thompson
9:46 pm on Sunday, December 30, 2012
Dale, the fact is 25% of Michigan households have a person who is being treated for chronic pain- these are the government's figures, not mine. We have approx. 10 million people in Michigan, meaning 2.5 million people are either suffering or are watching someone they love suffer. Marijuana is medicine- that is Michigan law- and that makes for a lot of medical marijuana patients out there. Their treatment options are their business, not yours, and as far as the dangers of smoking marijuana here's a statistic you cannot deny: Zero Deaths For Eternity. Never Killed Anyone. Bathtubs and bee stings kill more people in America each year than have ever been killed by marijuana.
2:32 am on Monday, December 31, 2012
How uncharacteristically un-Tea Party of you, Dale! I guess when you are not out preaching how great recalled Troy mayor Janice Daniels is, you are busy distorting history and the truth.
Dale, How could an informed person like yourself not know the Right Wing argument against Michigan's medical marihuana law? Don't tell me you don't remember Bill Schuette's Op-Eds: "Pot Shops like in California will litter Michigan if you Vote Yes..."
War on Tobacco? If by "War" you mean bending over backwards, then yes. The US Government is at "war" with cigarette companies. Smoking kills 400,000 Americans each year. Cigarettes are insanely addictive. They have ZERO medical benefit. And they are not Schedule 1 like marijuana and heroin. Cigarettes are not Schedule 2 like Crack-cocaine and crystal meth. Nor are cigarettes Schedule 3 like Prescription Painkillers. Smokes are not Schedule 4, and not Schedule 5. In fact, Cigarettes are not even on the drug schedule. Nicotine is clearly a drug and yet cigarettes are not a scheduled drug.
Every 10 years cigarettes kill FOUR MILLION Americans!!! And you're telling me the Government's measly tax on smokes is a War against tobacco? Dale, wake up.
8:15 pm on Sunday, December 30, 2012
Many people consider me to be a "right winger". I do lean to conservative in my politics and I don't use marijuana. I still don't understand how something that grows wild, just about anywhere, and is used in its natural state without further processing, can be prohibited by government.
Wise old man once told me, if something doesn't make sense, look to the money. I think that fits perfectly in this instance and the same most likely holds true with hemp.
Helen Rieland
8:34 pm on Sunday, December 30, 2012
Dale - you can legalize it and regulate it and educate people about its dangers all at the same time. Just like we teach people not to drink and drive we'll have to teach people to take precautions for themselves and others and to discourage it's use in kids just like we do with drinking and cigarettes.
Dale Murrish
6:42 am on Monday, December 31, 2012
That's what elections are for. If it comes to a vote, I'll be voting against legalization of pot and trying to persuade others to do the same. We have enough vices already. All the arguments in favor of it are persuasive, but persuading people to accept another vice is not good for society.
8:34 am on Monday, December 31, 2012
Dale, do you still subscribe to the tenants of the Tea Party? How is criminalizing a victimless vice in any way "American"? Dale, Aren't you supposed to be spouting off on the Bill of Rights and "Don't Tread On Me" and all that Liberty stuff? Is Freedom not clearly delineated in America? What would America's Founding Fathers think about today's oppressive Government which arrests millions of people for possessing a plant--a plant which was used by Jefferson and Washington?
Dale, only a gigantic Tea Bagging hypocrite preaches freedom while rallying against anti-prohibitionists... Arresting tens of millions of citizens during a Trillion Dollar Failed Drug War is bad governance at it's worst.
Dale, you should stick to publicly defending and supporting disastrous politicians like Janice Daniels.
John David
10:00 am on Monday, December 31, 2012
Dale, the 2008 medical marijuana initiative, which you claim was de facto legalization, was approved by 63% to 37%. More than 3 million voters approved it. You have insisted that the will of the voters must be followed. You objected to the recall of Daniels for, among other reasons, she had been elected by a majority of voters, by a small margin. The voters of Michigan have spoken on medical marijuana, overwhelmingly. The state should be working to uphold the people's will. That's what elections are for.
Dale Murrish
6:45 am on Monday, December 31, 2012
Daffy/Matt, my blog articles have many references to other news articles, unlike most of your posts. We have different opinions and interpretations of the facts, that's all. Happy New Year!
Daffy Noodnicks
8:31 am on Monday, December 31, 2012
Your "references" are usually to Faux News opinion pieces, or religious stuff. You only look at things that reinforce what you want to believe. That is why you never change your mind in the face of real facts: you aren't interested in doing so and will fight tooth and nail from having to. And citing yourself does not count. Have you ever cited a peer reviewed scientific study? I can defend everything I say with citations but usually don't waste my time with you because you don't care about facts so why should I bother, you only ignore what you don't like even when it is absolutely true.
Where do you get your information on this topic? Reefer Madness? Right wing radio?
I really don't care about what you think is moral or vice. Your value system is pretty far off from mine and I don't want yours imposed on me.
8:43 am on Monday, December 31, 2012
"different interpretations of the facts" is one way to put it.
Daffy Noodnicks
9:28 am on Monday, December 31, 2012
Ignoring facts and not being truthful is another way to put it.
Dale Murrish
5:05 pm on Wednesday, January 2, 2013
A victimless crime that never hurt anybody? Possession of hemp and smoking it are two different things. If it doesn't alter your state of consciousness why do it? Never mind impaired driving, which puts others' lives at risk.
Tell me what other harmless things go along with smoking pot, like decreased motivation, chromosome damage, a gateway to other more addictive, dangerous drugs, association with drug dealers, etc. and maybe I'll be convinced.
Daffy/Matt, nearly every law has morality in it. It's called western civilization. What part of my morality DO you want? Laws against murder, rape, theft? Sounds like you really want anarchy – everyone doing what is right in their own mind. That only works in heaven, where there is no need for laws to restrain the evil in people's hearts. All I'm doing is expressing an opinion against MJ legalization. If Rick succeeds in gathering enough signatures, I'll be opposing it.
Daffy Noodnicks
6:17 pm on Wednesday, January 2, 2013
No I don't want anarchy. I don't want YOU imposing YOUR judgement of morality or vice on me, my family or society. I thought that was pretty clear. This is the 3rd time I said it.
Your speech above exposes your ignorance and antiquated thinking on this topic. Once again I will ask for your source supporting all the awful things you say (chromosome damage, gateway, association)...
11:43 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Dale, you should research "victimless crime" AKA "consensual crime". Clearly you are not familiar with the concept. A victimless crime does not threaten or violate the rights of any other individual. Get it?
Michigan courts have officially called selling pot a victimless crime because it hurts no one.
No one lives in the "Land of the Free" if victimless actions are criminalized. FACT: The majority of inmates in Federal prison are incarcerated for victimless crimes such as drug possession. It's bankrupting our country and you for some reason you can't understand this.
Dale Murrish
5:07 pm on Wednesday, January 2, 2013
I was offered "space cakes" in an Amsterdam park in 1981 (said no thanks after finding out what they were brownies made with hashhish). Also went sightseeing in the red light district in daylight (window shopped only) and was chased by an angry "sex worker" who didn't like me taking her picture through the store window. So I am not as naïve as you think, having been around the block a few times and seen a lot of things.
Legalizing vices like marijuana, other drugs and prostitution does not improve people's lives. It only encourages more drug addiction, disease and pimps.
Making a vice legal and taxing it does not work. It's been tried, and it only creates more problems. We have enough problems in our world without adding to them. Dank u wel, but no thanks!
10:07 pm on Thursday, January 3, 2013
"I was offered "space cakes" in an Amsterdam park in 1981 (said no thanks after finding out what they were brownies made with hashhish). Also went sightseeing in the red light district in daylight (window shopped only) and was chased by an angry "sex worker" who didn't like me taking her picture through the store window. So I am not as naïve as you think, having been around the block a few times and seen a lot of things."
Yea, sure thing, buddy. I swear I've heard that line a billion times on the Internet from a bunch of different people over the years. Usually found in association with "... and I saw heroin addicts laying in the gutters in a pool of their own waste while needles dangled out of their veins as .... ". Hardly a unique experience nor a creditable one.
Steven Thompson
6:28 pm on Wednesday, January 2, 2013
I'm 65 now,in good health,and STILL growin,smokin,and eating the herb...47 years now. So how does MY CHOICE to be natural, affect or hurt you Dale,or anyone else?? MY BODY...MY CHOICE!!
Dale Murrish
5:46 pm on Thursday, January 3, 2013
Good for you, Steven. I'm glad you didn't have any of the bad outcomes some others have had.
I'm a Christian too and believe in personal liberty. I love visiting Benzie County. But I also believe in everyone doing their best.
How much more good could you have done for society if you hadn't spent all that time, energy and fogged brain waves growing, smoking and eating the natural herb?
We'll obviously vote differently if it gets on the ballot. That's what elections are for. Thanks for sharing your personal experiences.
10:09 pm on Thursday, January 3, 2013
"I'm a Christian too and believe in personal liberty."
lol! You mean your version of personal liberty.
Steven Thompson
7:35 pm on Thursday, January 3, 2013
Dale,I was a successful businessman,have given countless hours volunteering and still do,and my community loves me,accept maybe some Republicans. lol Guess we will just cancel-out each other's votes.
9:34 pm on Thursday, January 3, 2013
Dale, who are you to judge Steven? Matthew 7:1-5 "Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye."
Dale Murrish
5:48 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
I'm not condemning Steven (a synonym for judging), just pointing out that there are bigger fish to fry than legalizing a recreational drug. Like defending religious liberty, the destruction of innocent human life, and protection of our written constitutional rights.
I'll bet a quarter that I've seen this passage quoted out of context more times than the "billions" of times Ardy has seen drug anecdotes on the internet. Jesus' main point in the Sermon on the Mount was that we are all sinners in need of an advocate before the Judge of the universe when we die, namely Him as God in the flesh.
Christians will be judged on how they spent their time and hear "well done, good and faithful servant" or "that was straw, not stone", and those who try to earn their own way will be denied entrance, according to the Bible.
Jesus was sent by the Father at Christmas, born of a virgin by the Holy Spirit, lived a sinless life and paid our debt of rebellion against our Creator on the cross for all who would place their trust in Him.
This section cautions listeners to be careful when judging others on a horizontal level, that the same standards they use on others will be applied to them. It doesn't prohibit them from distinguishing between right and wrong if they are sitting on a jury, between good, better or best on how to spend their time or what causes to fight for.
John David
6:06 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
You said to Steven: "How much more good could you have done for society if you hadn't spent all that time, energy and fogged brain waves growing, smoking and eating the natural herb",
Your statement to Steven was a condemnation of him. You said to him he could have done more for society if he had not grown and used marijuana. Your words are not ambiguous. You were not just pointing out that "there are bigger fish to fry" you were taking it upon yourself to point out what, in your own words, is a "wrong" and a vice, that he indulged in. Won't you be judged for objectifying women by seeking out a prostitute, a"sex worker" as you called her, and photographing her, then telling Ardy you've kept your picture of "the painted lady" after all this time? Why do you condemn Steven while possessing and touting your photo of a prostitute? I think that your photo is on the same "horizontal" level you describe. Do you not see the hypocricy, and that you deserved to be called out as Aviva did regarding judgement? Did you not fail to be "careful when judging others" when you judged Steven, yet used a prostitute in your own way? Won't the "same standards" be used for you for photographing a prostitute, one who you said chased you because she objected, and keeping the picture? Don't you think you need to stop telling others about what you see as their failings since you have failings just like theirs?
Dale Murrish
5:55 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Ardy, I have the picture I took of the painted lady in the storefront. Didn't see any heroin addicts in the gutter or get a picture of the girl who offered me the space cakes (on a 6 picture a day budget).
Would you like character references that I am known for telling the truth? I can give you plenty of those from people who know me. Steven and I will be voting differently. That's the beauty of America – one person, one vote.
America is still a free country. Steven pointed out that our votes on legalization of marijuana will cancel each other. He has the freedom to gather signatures and write comments.
If you read my blog articles, I write on a variety of issues: history, travel, politics, religion and engineering. So far I've only seen legalizing marijuana from Rick Thompson. I'm sure he does other good things, too. I'm not condemning him either, just questioning whether the cause he and others are advocating for is the best one.
Smoking pot is a vice, not a virtue, and it should be discouraged, not legalized.
Steven Thompson
10:47 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Dale says: Like defending religious liberty, the destruction of innocent human life, and protection of our written constitutional rights. You just answered why folks like myself & Rick fight so hard against cannabis prohibition,with your own words Dale! We are defending our religious liberties...we are fighting against the destruction of innocent human life...we are fighting for the protection of our written constitutional rights! Cannabis prohibition violates all three!
Daffy Noodnicks
9:18 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
I see, so people taking medicine prescribed by a physician is a vice according to Dale. I wonder where his definition of vice stops. Do you think it's ok with him if a diabetic takes insulin? Or perhaps a person with a headache taking aspirin?
How wonderful that we don't have to live by his labels and definitions, which have only to do with his personal ideology:
Dale Murrish
11:34 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
About Having a Judgmental Spirit
"Judge not, so that you will not be judged. For according to that law you pass sentence on, you will be judged, and with whichever standard you measure, so it will be meted out to you.
But why do you see the splinter in your brother's eye and not take out the genuine log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, "Stop, I want to pull out the sliver from your eye?" and look, a beam is in your eye.
You hypocrite, first pull the beam out of your eye; after that, look to how you can remove the fragment from your brother's eye.
You should not give what is holy to the dogs, and you should not throw your pearls before the wild boars, so that they do not trample them down with their feet and turn around and tear you up."
Matthew 7:1-6, new word-by-word translation from Martin Luther's Bible, German Bible Society, to be published later this year with commentary on the Troy Patch.
Maybe discussion of this would shed some more light on the subject Aviva brought up. Don't know when I'll get to the Sermon on the Mount but I plan to publish a chapter at a time with commentary a week later that people can talk about.
My goal is to publish a chapter a month starting soon. Check my blog for more details.
I'd welcome some positive discussion from people from all over the state, so I hope Steven will weigh in with this opinions!
Dale Murrish
9:27 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Wow, that's a real stretch, John David! Keeping a picture of what I saw on public display in a store window for a souvenir is on the same level as growing and smoking pot? I've taken all kinds of pictures like that over the years.
With reasoning like that, there is no evil in the world that is worth condemning.
Dale Murrish
9:31 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
I didn't say that smoking marijuana is evil. But if you carry your line of reasoning further, you can justify the evil perpetrated by Stalin, Mao and the North Korean despot who starves his own people while blackmailing the world with nuclear weapons.
If you read the rest of what I wrote, I said there was judging between good, better and best on how to spend time. We can agree to disagree on things like MJ legalization. Steven and I will find common ground on other topics.
John David
10:17 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Leave Stalin and Mao out of it. It is not a stretch that you indulged in vice in your own way. You don't see it as such, but you deliberately sought out a district of prostitution, you did so for your own personal entertainment as a tourist (you said in your January 2 post you were "sightseeing"), you photographed a prostitute, treating her like an animal in a zoo not as a fellow human, then you were chased by a prostitute, which means you must have run from her (and why run if you didn't know you had done something wrong), then you relate the story to show you "have been around the block a few times". You purposefully mistreat a fellow human being, a woman, who is engaged in a vice that you I am sure acknowledge is not victimless, and you keep a souvenir of what you did for 32 years. I don't think it's a stretch to equate your personal acts with those of anyone else who engages in a vice. But in your mind it seems that you are justified.
11:50 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Dale, I think it would be better if you said, "We can agree to disagree on things like LIBERTY." That's what this is about. Liberty.
Dale, How do you reconcile your tyrannical views of liberty with your Tea Party ethos?
Dale Murrish
5:58 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
I did not make any money from this lady, who was being exploited by her pimp. I did not run away, just kept walking. Prostitution and pornography are not a victimless crimes. Pimps and customers are overwhelmingly men, exploiting the women.
What was I to do, open the camera and give her the 35 mm film? Give me a break. There are degrees of evil. I do not consider my behavior wrong. Please at least admit that being a pimp is worse than being a prostitute, and that there would be no demand for prostitutes if men were faithful to their wives.
Sure, I indulged in vice "in my own way" by sightseeing in the red light district. What man hasn't looked at something he shouldn't? I'm a sinner saved by the grace of my King, who died in my place.
I've also been criticized in this same thread for being "too clean", and that you don't want any of my morality. So I'm judged either way by you, who tell me not to judge others with your faulty circular logic.
12:00 am on Monday, January 14, 2013
Dale said: "Please at least admit that being a pimp is worse than being a prostitute, and that there would be no demand for prostitutes if men were faithful to their wives."
Please at least admit Dale, prostitutes who dress up like children would decrease sexual predators like Jerry Sandusky from abusing innocent kids. Do you see how legalizing a consensual crime could help society?
Dale, it sounds like you have a lot of creepy photos. why is it the deeply religious ones tend to be the freakiest?
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5:37 pm on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Rereading this thread I should probably clarify what I meant by "all kinds of pictures like that" over the years. I meant interesting things in store windows, like the painting of all Republican Presidents from Lincoln to Ike to Reagan to Bush 41 & 43 playing cards I saw in Charleston last year.
Also some outrageous Democrat campaign ads. I've never made money off any of them. Maybe I'll publish some of those when the time is right on the Patch. I'm sorry some of you deliberately misread that as "creepy photos" and will be more careful next time.
Romney2012, I disagree strongly with your theory about dressing prostitutes up like children to discourage pedophilia. If you legalize or legitimize perverse behavior you will get more of it, not less. Child pornography is illegal pornography, in case you didn't know.
Increasing pedophiles' appetites for it by encouraging male or female prostitutes to dress like children sounds like a backdoor attempt to lower the age of consent – no doubt an objective of NAMBLA. Jerry Sandusky prevention and "helping society," my foot!
Pedophiles are the most despised of criminals in prison, sometimes needing protection from other inmates, and rightfully so.
There is a reason why we have statutory rape laws; we need to keep them to protect vulnerable children, not weaken the protection by encouraging such behavior.
Dale Murrish
7:52 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
You have a very active imagination and little knowledge of the law. Yes, there is such a thing as illegal pornography.
Legal pornography degrades women and hurts the men who view it and the women who love them.
Sex trafficking is a huge worldwide problem. It is not a victimless crime – women are the victims, enslaved by their pimps and abused for the pleasure of "sex tourists" – overwhelmingly men. In Thailand and other countries young girls are sold into the "sex industry."
Imagine a mannequin in a storefront. My "creepy" picture was of a fully clothed 30 year old lady and would be rated G. Maybe the Netherlands isn't so bad; in Thailand young girls are worn out and disposed of long before that age.
Liberty, not libertine. Look up the difference in the dictionary. People should be free to do the right thing, not take advantage of other people for their own pleasure.
Based on your other Patch comments, I'm assuming you opposed Romney in 2012 and didn't vote for him. Cute pseudonym.
7:19 am on Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Dale-- for you to tell me I have little knowledge of the law while trying to convince me pornography is a crime is laughable. Maybe you should send a map of the Playboy Mansion to the FBI so they can breakup the criminal porn enterprise.
Dale-- for you to lecture me about sex crimes in Thailand is creepy. Have you "visited" Thailand before? Do you have photos of the working girls?
Dale--don't take this the wrong way, but it is absolutely tragic that misinformed people like you are able to spew your lies and propaganda via blog postings. You are completely clueless and your only defense is gibberish. "Liberty vs. Libertine"? Gimme a break, Fake Freedom Lover. "The Libertine" is a Johnny Depp movie about a 18th Century aristocrat who loved Porn?!? I'm guessing you've seen that movie a few times;)
Dale, I don't collect porn (or photos of prostitutes from the Netherlands like you) but I know Freedom of Speech allows Porn to exist. Dale, would the Tea Bagger in you like to see America's Freedom of Speech burn in flames, too?
Steven Thompson
8:47 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
Wow, have we ever gotten way off of the subject at hand...our God-given right to grow & consume cannabis. Makes for interesting reading though! Dale,you crack me up man and I do mean that in a good way. Maybe someday you will see the truth and it shall set you free. Have you ever tried cannabis?
Dale Murrish
10:12 am on Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Romney2012, there is such a thing as illegal pornography. That's what I meant by you having little knowledge of the law. No doubt you are far more learned in other areas of the law that I know little about. We all have our areas of expertise.
Playboy (soft-core), Hustler (hard-core), etc. is legal pornography = writings, pictures, etc. intended primarily to arouse sexual desire. Hooters is fuzzy soft-core pornography. All pornography degrades women, treating them like objects instead of people.
libertine = a man who leads an unrestrained, sexually immoral life, a rake, morally unrestrained, licentious
liberty = freedom
I've never been to Thailand, only read about the sex trafficking that happens there. I've heard of Johnny Depp but never seen any of his movies, preferring to watch positive messages rather than negative stuff.
I believe in freedom of speech and will continue to write my opinions, which you term "lies and propaganda." You can call me all the names you want; it only reflects poorly on your character and makes you look silly.
We are free to do the right thing, not the wrong thing. Liberty, not licentiousness.
Rick Thompson
6:30 pm on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Dale, don't stop posting. Your opinion is important and this kind of dialog is what drives people to think outside the box. Agreement is not important, but the fair and uncensored sharing of ideas without ridicule is important. This is why I write these articles: to inspire debate, to inform the public, and to expose injustice.
Having said that, I disagree with almost everything I read of yours. The Thiland references and the pornography comparison diminish your argument. Steven Thompson said it best (and he is a Reverend) that we fight to liberate cannabis to protect children; to ensure access to a medicine that was forcibly removed from the doctor's arsenal for political, not medical, reasons; and to assist in the resolution of this great nation's financial crisis and rise in violent crime. You suffer from the misunderstanding that time spent using cannabis is time wasted, illustrating your lack of experience on the subject. I look forward to your reply.
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Avenue eQuestria: It Sucks to be Ponyville
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- Badwolfwho said...
Think this is it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guF34ThjPso - September 2, 2011 at 12:01 PM
- sargent212 said...
and after the break: NOTHING, YOU GET NOTHING! YOU LOSE!
- September 2, 2011 at 12:06 PM
- Allicorn said...
Y'know, I actually love the derps. They add a certain ditzy charm :-D
- September 2, 2011 at 12:10 PM
- 0ed93df8-d598-11e0-bb62-000bcdca4d7a said...
Seth, your post is missing a video!
SSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTHHH! - September 2, 2011 at 12:16 PM
- dw1482 said...
I think maybe it's some sort of metaphor for shattered expectations.
- September 2, 2011 at 12:18 PM
- GabuEx said...
Seth's all like "MOAR LIEK IT SUCKS TO BE YOU GUYS! trolololol"
:P - September 2, 2011 at 12:21 PM
- Communist_Colt said...
Arugh, I've been waiting for this since FluttershyElesa had Celstia singing Schadenfeude >:(
- September 2, 2011 at 12:31 PM
- Phoe said...
Sorry about this, folks. Seth's currently unavailable and hasn't yet learned of his Moment of Derp. I'm staring at my screen and asking it very nicely, but it still won't give me the administrative privileges to edit his posts.
Nothing we can do at the moment. :< - September 2, 2011 at 12:40 PM
- Altercation said...
Oh, Seth. Oh, Seth.
Excellent video, though. The lip-syncing is great. - September 2, 2011 at 12:40 PM
- waffle911 said...
Silly fillies. Why u no hyperlink the video? It is simple HTML.
- September 2, 2011 at 12:42 PM
- Codric said...
I found this page a few weeks (maybe two months?) ago. Since then, I visit it every day. I don't read all the posts (and I'm alway's in "Not-Fanfiction-Mode"), but most of them.
Definitly, this is the funniest so far. :D
Also, the video is blocked in Germany like Flatterscheu just said. Damn it. - September 2, 2011 at 12:50 PM
- Codric said...
@Codric: With "this" I didn't mean the video, I meant the fact that Seth had forgotten it.
Just to prevent misunderstandings. ^^ - September 2, 2011 at 12:53 PM
- Sonic Rainblast said...
Holy crap that was hilariously awesome! Fluttershy was the best in this. Hooves down.
- September 2, 2011 at 12:54 PM
- Twilight said...
Awesome vid, hope to see more Avenue eQuestria in the future :)
- September 2, 2011 at 12:57 PM
- Capitalism Ho! said...
Someone should love and tolerate the s**t outta the GEMA.
Sucks to be in germany -.- - September 2, 2011 at 1:01 PM
- Xort said...
This was absolutely beautiful. The syncing was completely spot on, and the character choices were absolutely great. Applejack as Gary Coleman was a bit odd, but worked.
- September 2, 2011 at 1:05 PM
- Blinky said...
Impressive, the lip sync is almost perfect. The personalities matched the characters well too.
- September 2, 2011 at 1:12 PM
- Gio said...
How do I after break? lol
For the Almighty Celestia, that video was SO AWESOME /)^3^(\ - September 2, 2011 at 1:17 PM
- Octavia said...
I love Avenue Q, they're very good. And that video was simply awesome. Great song, of course too! The lip syncing indeed was well done. Characters matched well too. And it certainly works for me right now. I really liked it. :)
- September 2, 2011 at 1:29 PM
- Solar Flair said...
I absolutely love Avenue Q. Heard most if not all the songs. Sadly I've not seen the actual play.
Dunno how many have been featured on here, but I know there's at least a few of the Avenue Equestria vids by different people. - September 2, 2011 at 1:35 PM
- Psyducktales said...
It is amazing how well the musical matches up with ponies. My greatest dream has come true. Nothing could surpass this. Seppuku time now.
- September 2, 2011 at 1:35 PM
- WhiteDiamonds said...
Oh dear, I enjoyed that more than I probably should have. Also I've noticed that PMV-producing persons within this fandom seem to do a far better job (in general) with lip-syncing than many others I've seen, doesn't it seem? Anyhow, great video. ^^
- September 2, 2011 at 1:58 PM
- D4SHTH3R4INB0W said...
that was probably the best thing I have ever seen.... - September 2, 2011 at 2:01 PM
- John said...
Now I need to see Avenue Q. I've been curious before but now I NEED to see it, because ponies.
- September 2, 2011 at 2:05 PM
- Zacora said...
Oh, so now it will work?
Great, I look like a jerk!
The video was well made,
But I wonder who played
Trekkie Monster in teh ne(x)t
song about the internet? - September 2, 2011 at 2:05 PM
- D4SHTH3R4INB0W said...
Wanted to do ICT and Music Tech in college... now I'm doing Business studies and Science.
after 1 year I can do ICT but I have to stay an extra year...
Buuuuuuuut My sisters BF is going to teach me how to build computers. and I will also know how businesses work. Yeah... I think that will work... - September 2, 2011 at 2:10 PM
- Fyrestorm58355 said...
I know what's getting #1 on my list for september's video votes!
- September 2, 2011 at 2:22 PM
- Fallin' Winter said...
My goodness this was hilarious and well done. If they actually made a full video of the show with ponies then I'd watch it from start to finish.
- September 2, 2011 at 3:05 PM
- 23c4192a-8671-11e0-9064-000f20980440 said...
oh my god....this is even more hilarious if you've ever watched avenue q. The fact that rainbow dash is basically the gay republican is hilarious as shit!
- September 2, 2011 at 3:21 PM
- Risky said...
Wait! just fifteen more days until season 2! Its too soon!
...wait until the show is cancelled. Then do it.
Also, this was really, really well done. matched the show characters with what was wrong with the singers lives PERFECTLY. And if I;m not mistaken, Rarity's VA is asian, so that made this a little more entertaining somehow, if just for the novelty.
Hope more like this come around. - September 2, 2011 at 3:46 PM
- Wingbeat said...
I had a hunch Applejack would be cast as Gary... and I'm so glad I was right. Possibly the funniest thing since, well, the last video they made.
- September 2, 2011 at 3:47 PM
- Drinky Doo said...
Number three is basically amazing in every possible way.
- September 2, 2011 at 3:58 PM
- Whistle-tall said...
happiness is reaching critical levels, if someone could take my unbridled (pun not intended) pmv based joy, and turn it into a liquid, you could put it in a van's gas tank and fly it...(pause for tension)
TO THE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNAAAAAAAAAHHH!!! - September 2, 2011 at 4:49 PM
- Emperor Jewel said...
It is so true. Ponies make everything better. I can't enjoy this song unless it is ponies.
- September 3, 2011 at 7:18 AM


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If Christmas Eve is a Sunday, it is counted as the fourth Sunday of Advent.
The word Advent means "coming" or "arrival." The focus of the entire season is the celebration of the birth of Jesus.
"Each year the four weeks of Advent calls the community of faith to prepare for these comings; historically, the season was marked by fasts for repentant preparation similar to the season of Lent in preparation for Easter," said the Rev. Beth Sanders, of Rome's Second Avenue United Methodist Church.
The beginning of Advent is a time for the hanging of the greens, decoration of the church with evergreen wreaths, boughs, or trees that help to symbolize the new and everlasting life brought through Jesus.
The Advent wreath is a popular symbol of the beginning of the Church year. It is a circular evergreen wreath (real or artificial) with five candles, four around the wreath and one in the center.
"December 21 is the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, the longest night of the year," Sanders wrote. "Yet the Gospel of John speaks of Christ as the true light coming into the world. In commemoration of that coming, we light candles on the Advent wreath for the four weeks leading to Christmas."
According to Sanders, the three purple candles symbolize the coming of Christ from the royal line of David. The pink candle for the third Sunday of Advent symbolizes joy.
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Befro and after. Or. Before and Afro. Either works.
03.25.13 - from Twitter
06.21.12 - Important Reading
These 2 articles are NECESSARY to read as a music fan.
and then
would love your thoughts.
05.31.12 - TopBlip "White Flag" Cover Contest Winner
Congrats to Benjamin Hoefling for winning the TopBlip "White Flag" cover contest. Check out his rendition
Also be sure to check out more about Benjamin on his
Thanks so much to everyone who entered the contest! It was so great to hear everyone's version.
-team barnes
04.20.12 - Tennessee Mornings
Check out Dave's performance yesterday morning on Nashville's Fox 17's "Tennessee Mornings" show.
04.17.12 - Memphis Top Blip Winner
Since the Memphis show has been cancelled, we wanted to let you know about the talented
Bryce Merritt
, who won the Memphis Top Blip competition to open the show.
We're bummed we won't be seeing him live, but you should definitely check out his rendition of "Until You":
-team barnes
04.11.12 - Memphis Show Cancelled
MEMPHIS- due to unforeseen circumstances we're having to cancel the show next Thursday, 4/19. We apologize to all those who were attending! Nashville (4/20) will still be happening & you can get tickets here: http://www.davebarnes.com/tour
For all refunds please click
04.03.12 - American Songwriter Interview
Check out this recent interview Dave did with American Songwriter.
03.12.12 - New VEVO
A Monday morning playlist JUST for you!
03.01.12 - We Need You!
We're all so excited for the next few weeks for y'all to hear the new record and to see everyone on the spring tour.
We do however need your help to make it happen!
We're looking to find volunteers at the following shows to help work the merch table:
March 16 - Minneapolis, MN - Varsity Theatre
March 17 - Indianapolis, IN - Earth House
March 24 - New York, NY - Highline Ballroom
April 13 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues
April 21 - Knoxville, TN - The Bijou Theatre
April 26 - Birmingham, AL - Workplay Theatre
April 27 - Atlanta, GA - Center Stage
April 29 - Charlotte, NC - McGlohon Theatre at Spirit Square
Working merch basically means you are willing to show up about 30 minutes before the doors open, help Seth (our trusty merch expert) set up the merch table, sell merch during the show and for a bit afterwards. It definitely isn't a hard job but it does get a little hectic right after the show. Little well known fact: Working merch also gets you a free ticket in to the show and a little gift from us to you at the end of the night :)
Along with "working it" at the merch table, we're wondering if you could help us get the word out about the upcoming tour (for ALL cities). We will provide you with posters to post around your town. About two weeks prior to the actual show, it would be AWESOME if you could post these. We're talkin' school campuses, coffee shops, cool shopping places, and any other place you can think of that people will find out about the show. We'll have you send us pics of your adventures and we'll get you a free ticket into the show.
Sound good? If you're up for the challenge, email Jami at email@example.com along with the city of the show in the subject and your contact info (phone, etc.) in the body.
Thank you x100!!!
-Team Barnes
01.13.12 - NEW STUDIO ALBUM, STORIES TO TELL, ON MARCH 13th
Barnes Celebrates Recent Songwriting Grammy® Nomination for Best Country Song "God Gave Me You" (Recorded by Blake Shelton)
(New York, NY) - Razor & Tie artist Dave Barnes will release his new studio album, Stories To Tell, on March 13, 2012. The 11 track album of original material was produced by John Fields (Lifehouse, Switchfoot, Goo Goo Dolls, Jonas Brothers, P!nk). Dave Barnes will tour in 2012 in support of his new release (tour dates to soon follow). Barnes recently received his first Grammy®nomination for Best Country Song for "God Gave Me You," as performed by Blake Shelton from Shelton's 2011 album Red River Blue. Barnes' and Shelton's versions of the song have sold over one million singles to date.
Stories To Tell is Barnes' fourth studio album for Razor & Tie and a first for Barnes on many levels. The album was recorded in Los Angeles with producer John Fields, marking the first time Barnes has recorded outside of his home town Nashville, TN. Leaving everything familiar behind with his writing and recording processes forced Dave to venture outside of his creative comfort zone. Barnes' explains, "I've done all the other records in Nashville but for this one I really wanted to do something different, I wanted to get out of town and do something that wouldn't sound quite as much like the stuff I've done before."
Stories To Tell also presents a stylistic departure from his previous releases. Adding more programming and synth sounds than previous Barnes' albums, Stories To Tell, did not suffer from rules and restrictions when it comes to instrumentation. Theelectronic flourishes on this album add dynamics that are not typical when it comes to most singer-songwriters. Using orchestral accents, syncopated percussion alongside his soulful, impassioned vocals, the album introduces Barnes' fans to eleven finely tuned and honestly crafted songs with a strong pop sound.
Dave describes the music, "It's definitely poppy but everything is accounted for. There are no rogue parts or instrumentation, everything is really fleshed out and that's what I was going for thankfully. Working with John, I knew he does kind of what I wanted to do which is make a little more of a pop record and get out of the self-imposed box I've been in for a while."
The underlying theme of the new album is the Stories To Tell, most plucked from Barnes' personal life and experiences. He wrote much of the album after discovering that he and his wife were going to have their first baby this year. Two songs directly inspired by this news are the ballads "Mine to Love" and "One of Us." Another major theme of this album is enjoying the moment because life has unexpected twists. The songs "White Flag" and "Heaven Help Me" reflect this sentiment.
An artist that has never adhered to a specific genre, Barnes' music is generally inspired by an array of music influences ranging from rock, pop and country to blues, soul and R&B. "Stories To Tell, is another bookmark. For me, that's why I love making records; not because I was going for a specific sound but I was trying to encompass everything that I was listening to and enjoying at that time in my life. It is like a fun kind of musical history, like a photo album," add Barnes.
Nashville-based Dave Barnes' last album, the 2010 release What We Want, What We Get, features the Grammy nominated song"God Gave Me You." This album debuted at #59 on the Billboard top 200 album chart, #17 on the Billboard Rock Chart and #15 on the digital albums chart. Barnes has sold over 155,000 albums to date and over 510,000 individual song downloads. Dave has toured with notable acts including John Mayer, Taylor Swift, Lady Antebellum, Bonnie Raitt, and One Republic as well as festivals such as Bonnaroo. His music has been featured in television shows such as CW's "Life Unexpected," Disney's "Suite Life On Deck," ABC's" Brothers And Sisters" and WB's "Summerland," as well as the films Employee Of The Month and My Super Ex-Girlfriend. Dave Barnes songs have been covered by a bevy of other artists including, country singers Blake Shelton and Billy Currington as well as Marc Broussard, Kelly Clarkson, Bethany Dillon, to name a few. Barnes has been recognized by the industry as a rising songwriter. Billboard Magazine touted "Many of the best pop songwriters come out of Nashville, and Dave Barnes is one such singer/scribe now building momentum." Dave Barnes is signed to leading independent label Razor & Tie and is administered by Razor & Tie Music Publishing.
Stories To Tell Track List:
1. White Flag
2. How Long
3. Mine To Love
4. Heaven Help Me
5. Love Will Be Enough For Us
6. Seventeen
7. Missing You
8. Find Your Way Home
9. Stories To Tell
10. Warm Heart In A Cold World
11. One Of Us
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Fighting the Polar Ice Figure CAMPING AFTER A LONG DAYS' MARCH An Interesting, Instructive Lecture of Adventure, Exploration, and Discovery Illustrated with exceptionally good photographs (colored) acknowledged by experts to be the best arctic photographs to date, and also the only moving pictures of life in the frozen zone. BY ANTHONY FIALA Commander of the Ziegler Polar Expedition of 1903-4-5 THE moving pictures show the expedition ship steaming and bucking her way through the northern ice fields, the landing of the ponies and dogs at Teplitz Bay, and illustrate as nothing else can, the dragging of the heavily loaded sledges over the crystal fields of the north. Figure ANTHONY FIALA Photograph taken aboard the America after first Arctic night. Figure THE ICE WAS ROUGH, WORSE THAN IN 1904, AND VERY SLOW PROGRESS WAS MADE FIGHTING THE POLAR ICE THE THRILLING EXPERIENCE OF THE ZIEGLER POLAR EXPEDITION OF 1903-4-5 Figure HAULING THE CARCASS OF A POLAR BEAR ABOARD THE SHIP THE Ziegler Polar Expedition, financed by the late William Ziegler and commanded by Anthony Fiala, sailed in the America from Vardo, Norway, July 9, 1903, with 39 men, 30 ponies and 218 dogs. After nearly two months' battling with the ice floes, the America went into winter quarters off Rudolf Island, the most northern island on the European side of the globe. The ship was crushed by the ice in the beginning of the first polar night and disappeared. The party made three attempts to reach the Pole in an unprecedented season of bad ice and high temperatures. Many sledge journeys were made through the archipelago, one of 52 days duration taking place during the arctic night. A large part of the two years were spent in tents; over 4,000 miles of sledging were accomplished and new islands and waterways added to the world's chart. The first relief expedition was sent out on the Frithjof in 1904—two separate, but fruitless attempts were made to reach the explorers that season. The second relief expedition sailed on the Terra Nova, rescuing the party July 31, 1905, Mr. Fiala reaching New York, August 31. The Illustrations of scenes along the route pursued by Mr. Fiala, in the journey of exploration upon which the lecture is based, are all reproduced from the explorers' original photographic negatives and include the only series of MOVING PICTURES of real polar scenes in existence. They are intensely and thrillingly realistic. A faint idea of the wealth of pictorial embellishment with which his subject is presented may be gained from the very limited number of views here shown. Paper and ink are inadequate, however to illustrate the atmospheric brilliancy and realistic effect of the pictures upon the screen. Many of them are projected in colors in the full gorgeousness of polar splendor, and all are shown under the added charm of intelligent description by the explorer whose efforts have made it possible to place them before the eyes of the public. BROOKLYN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION Mr. F. R. Roberson, Walden, N. Y. Dear Mr. Roberson: — I want to express the great pleasure I have had in listening to the lecture that Mr. Anthony Fiala gave is Association Hall on his Arctic Expedition. The lecture was delivered with the modesty characteristic of the man, and full of thrilling interest from beginning to end. The pictures are superb; the best pictures I judge of arctic conditions and experiences that have been presented to the public. I have had so many inquiries from Young Men's Christian Associations concerning Mr. Fiala's lecture that I take this means of saying to all through you that this lecture would prove a worthy addition to their entertainment courses. Yours sincerely, EDWIN F. SEE, General Secretary. Figure ( Brooklyn Daily Eagle ) ANTHONY FIALA'S LECTURE THE AMERICA FAST IN POLAR ICE The America was crushed in the ice and lost in Teplitz Bay, November, 1903 The Brooklyn Explorer Tells of His Arctic Work and Shows Some Wonderful Pictures Beyond a doubt Mr. Fiala has brought home with him the finest photographs ever taken in the polar regions, and the only moving pictures ever taken within the arctic circle. As a record of the work done by arctic travelers in their attempts to reach the pole, they are invaluable. Many explorers have told of the ice bucking adventures of their ships, of the hardships and difficulties of sledge work and of the countless incidents which have made work in the frozen North one of peril and daring, but it has remained for Mr. Fiala to show to the eye, with the aid of the kinetoscope, exactly how these things happen. The difficulties of this achievement were great. . . . ( Springfield, Mass., Republican ) TRIALS OF ARCTIC EXPLORING Anthony Fiala, commander of the Fiala-Ziegler Polar expedition, which battled over two years in the arctic regions to reach the north pole, gave a lecture to a crowded hall at the high school last evening. The address was realistically illustrated with a large number of views taken at first hand by Mr. Fiala and included the only series of moving pictures of real polar scenes in existence. The subject was treated with a view to bringing out the greater details by aid of personal experiences, and the presentation was as varied as it was interesting—enlightened with now some delicate touches of humor, and again some graphic sketches of real, heroic hardship which thrilled the audience. Mr. Fiala had his work well in hand from every point of view, for as former head of the art department of the Brooklyn Eagle, and later as a correspondent in Porto Rico during the Spanish war, he had gained such insight into what the American people wish as to keep him from going astray at any time in the lecture. As briefly as was consistent with clearness, he went over the trip from May 12, 1903, when the expedition started out from Norway on the America until the return of the second relief expedition on the Terra Nova in July of 1905. . . . ( Washington Post ) WONDERS OF THE ARCTIC ANTHONY FIALA DESCRIBES EFFORTS TO REACH NORTH POLE Leader of Expedition in 1903 Tells Geographic Society of the Phenomena and Recounts Experiences of His Party Mr. Fiala gave an interesting account of the expedition, describing the several attempts to make a dash into the unknown North, and the discovery of new islands, which form part of Franz Josef archipelago; but that part of his lecture of greatest interest to the audience was his vivid description of the conditions and phenomena of the arctic. . . . Figure THE ICE FIELD IN BARENTZ SEA The view is looking south from the America's crow's nest and shows the water through which the steamer forced her way Brooklyn Daily Eagle FIALA TELLS OF EFFORT TO REACH NORTH POLE New Incidents of His Arctic Trip During Summer of 1903-04. MANY THRILLING ADVENTURES Explorer Fell into Treacherous Ice Crevasse and Comrade, in attempted rescue, Followed Anthony Fiala told a good sized audience of Brooklynites at Association Hall last night a part of the story of the gallant, but unsuccessful, effort which he and his fellow explorers made during the short arctic summers of 1904 and 1905, to reach the north pole. Most of the story has been told in the Eagle before, but there was a vividness and a dramatic power in the simple, straightforward recital of Fiala which far surpassed in intensity any possible description in cold printers' ink of the thrilling adventures and experiences undergone by the heroic men who made the effort with Fiala. Like the scores of other heroes who have made the trial before, and one is almost forced to believe, the scores who are destined to try in the future, Fiala and his men did their level best and failed in the prime object of their expedition. But Fiala added to the accomplishments of those who had gone before, his bit of the slowly accumulating fund of knowledge concerning things which exist within the charmed arctic circle. He went equipped beyond all previous men with the knowledge and the implements of an expert photographer and he brought back pictures so strange and wonderful as to hold spellbound those who saw them projected on the screen at the lecture hall last night. The photographs taken by Fiala are remarkable and admirable beyond description. They must be seen to be believed. Plain photographs in black and white of things which the vast majority of men and women may never hope to see in reality are interesting enough. But when such pictures are enforced and supplemented by color pictures of the gorgeous effects of the midnight sun and the aurora borealis, and by moving pictures prepared with the best modern appliances in the hands of a master craftsman; pictures which transport to the room within which the spectators are listening to the words of the leading actor in the events they portray the very acts and movements of the men, the horses, the dogs, the ship, the ice and all the elemental forces which surge upward from the very inward life of Nature herself, the effect is marvelous and soul stirring. Besides all this there is the knowledge that Fiala, the man who all this work and pitted his feeble strength against these titanic forces, is a Brooklyn boy, and the effect on an audience is remarkable. It can only be described as soul-stirring. . . . . . . . ANTHONY FIALA, 60 Liberty Street, New York City Figure IN OTHER PLACES WE TRAVERSED MONSTER PRESSURE RIDGES THAT SPLINTERED AND THUNDERED UNDER OUR FEET Fighting the Polar Ice By ANTHONY FIALA A thrilling story of human interest that every one who loves outdoor life should read. The chapter on details of equipment and advice to explorers might well be called a Guide to the Pole. The book is elaborately illustrated. In this respect it has no superior, and the narrative is told modestly and yet with power. . . The book is full of scientific and geographical information; contains some fine maps, and is on the whole an important contribution to science, as well as a story of daring and suffering that will commend itself to everyone.— Philadelphia Inquirer. One can almost feel the stinging snow and shiver from imaginary blasts.— Springfield Republican. 326 PAGES; 105 PICTURES, MANY IN COLOR. $4.15 POSTPAID. Figure THE ARRIVAL AT CAPE FLORA, MAY 16, 1904—PUTTING UP THE TENTS AND UNHARNESSING PONIES AND DOGS Figure ANTHONY FIALA Doubleday, Page & Co., 133 East 16th St., New York City: Please send at once a copy of Fighting the Polar Ice, by Anthony Fiala, for which I enclose $4.15 in full payment. Name Address
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Title | Fighting the Polar Ice |
Date Original | 1904/1932 |
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