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By footballfreak65 | 6
You should have yelled " oh look they are giving free hotdogs outside"
AwkwardPartyBear | 24
Or your hit would be a tickle to him.
imsosleepy | 9
nah, dont worry about hitting him
he will die of a heart attack someday anyways
he will die of a heart attack someday anyways
ChrisTheCalm | 9
Ok, we get it. But let's face it, you're fat too. Aren't you? Aren't you??? I have twinkies, and if you admit it... GOTCHA!!
LaughinStock | 16
WAIT A MINUTE!!! Op don't listen to them he could have ate your ass. :D
RaggleFrock | 13
Damn straight, the op could have fell down his man cleavage never to be found again!
ilikeboys31 | 7
a wild snorlax has appeared!
snorlax used "being a douche bag"
super effective!
snorlax used "being a douche bag"
super effective!
KeyboardWarrior | 10
You should have trolled him for the rest of the day by following him around and playing the tuba.
NotYourOrdinary7 | 6
No, no. Hitting is not necessary. It would only result in OP potentially losing their limb within the man's fat. The solution to this problem is a Twinkie. -pulls Twinkie out- "What's that? What's that? Yes! It's a Twinkie! Go fetch the Twinkie boy!" Throw Twinkie, fat guy dives after it and everyone is happy.
TheStoryOfWazza | 9
Hits wouldn't hurt him, you should have farted in his mouth.
nniikkaayy | 4
rofl! love this.
johnnyrogers97 | 9
He probably couldn't get up (;
touchesthelight | 8
I usually carry a pen or pencil in my pants pocket. I would have stabbed him in the kneecap, smirked and said, "Good luck with that." :P
hsRoseTyler5 | 14
If you could find his kneecap...
jojocircus19 | 16
iMuffinKat | 16
Just use his belly as a stepping stool and climb over that mountain.
Rectumended | 3
Throw a doughnut down the isle and watch him run
DrDilllonReese | 12
2- actually I think it was the morbid obesity that gave morbidly obese people the bad name.
Rectumended | 3
#54.. I agree..I think a better term is waddle anyway
ScaughtieHolden | 11
71, I believe you mean roll. Haha.
mikeymayhem_87 | 15
Run? Waddle maybe more realistic lol
CookieGirl4ever | 13
...I know this just gonna get thumbed down anyways... :( ...but sorry for my last comment... guess it was funnier in my head...
By footballfreak65 | 6
You should have yelled " oh look they are giving free hotdogs outside"
Redoxx_fml | 22
Should've smirked and said "Getting laid, good luck with that"
jjake20140 | 2
I was thinking more along the lines of doughnut on a fishing rod but that would work too.
CookieGirl4ever | 13
...I probably would've thrown skittles at him and yelled "taste the rainbow"...
TourettesGuyFTW | 25
Should have just climbed over the mountain!!
melibear89 | 7
I'm under 100 pounds and I have type 2 diabetes. My diabetes was triggered from being very sick and because I carried the gene for it I developed it. Type 2 diabetes can go away if the person loses the weight and controls their diet.
rattusrattus | 18
I love the way #19 is spouting crap like he know what diabetes is. I'm going to smack that lackwit with my underfunctioning pancreas.
heatherleeann17 | 0
Type two definitely isn't cause by weight, it plays a factor. It all had to do with your pancreas and whether or not it secrets enough insulin for your body.
smileypoop | 2
86: You would know...
DocBastard | 38
Cad6 - it's biology time.
Rattus rattus is the genus and species of the black rat. I'm assuming that's where the username came from. And type II diabetes is due to insulin resistance, not an underproduction of insulin.
Rattus rattus is the genus and species of the black rat. I'm assuming that's where the username came from. And type II diabetes is due to insulin resistance, not an underproduction of insulin.
rattusrattus | 18
Also, 'lackwit' is a word. It is a somewhat old-fashioned way of calling someone an idiot. Which is appropriate for someone who cannot tell the difference between 'r-a-t-t-u-s' and 'r-a-t a-s-s'. More t's, less s's, and you forgot a u.
And the reason I said 'underfunctioning pancreas' is that I am type 1. Production of insulin is one of the main purposes of the pancreas, although not the only one.
And the reason I said 'underfunctioning pancreas' is that I am type 1. Production of insulin is one of the main purposes of the pancreas, although not the only one.
Llama_Face89 | 33
Cad6, I have yet to see you make a decent point on this website...
coried91 | 28
If you don't have the condition you don't know what it's like. Plain and simple. Just knowing someone that has it is not the same. It can be triggered from being over weight, genetics, a fucked up pancreas, and a few other factors. Keep your mouth shut if you're just going to sound like a fool. If you're a doctor that's one thing, if not hush.
heatherleeann17 | 0
di·a·be·tes (d-bts, -tz)
Any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive discharge of urine and persistent thirst, especially one of the two types of diabetes mellitus.
Any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive discharge of urine and persistent thirst, especially one of the two types of diabetes mellitus.
siberianhamster | 17
And yet he somehow managed to get on the bus?
By Something0_o | 5
You should of brought a cookie to throw. I bet he would of followed it.
ladydarkrose | 5
Lmfao...would pay to see that. ????
By strawberrywine22 | 27
Fyl op...that sucks. Maybe you should have goren the bus drivers attention? Or maybe climbed over the seat in front of you...
Nightwing98 | 22
Or stepped on his huge gut, kicked him in the face on the way and said "Good luck with that"
looloothing | 9
I just would have climbed right over him.
By The_Hitdude | 12
Dang, what a douche. You should've said "Good luck squeezing yourself out of your seat, asshole."
By dguyuwishuwer | 5
I would have taken his paper once i finally got free and would have left with it or tore it up in his face.... maybe then he might have had some incentive to stand up.
By RoseCrystal | 17
What a load....you should have replied, "good luck finding your d*ck. I bet no one has seen in decades."
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Upon his election in 1992, Bill Clinton -- affectionately referred to as the nation's first black president -- asked Maya Angelou to compose a poem and read it at his inauguration. Angelou feels a new poem welling up inside her following Barack Obama's election, but she does not expect another command performance.
"I'm sure Mr. Obama, president-elect, will have them bring his own poet," the 80-year-old writer said from her home in Winston-Salem, N.C., where she holds a professorship at Wake Forest University. "I was somebody else's poet."
Angelou raised some eyebrows when she decided to support Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primary over a fellow African-American. But when Clinton withdrew, the writer threw her support behind Obama, "thumping the drum" on his behalf and introducing his wife, Michelle, at an event in Greensboro in September.
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She's being hailed as a success story for women in tech — doubly so since she also revealed she's seven months pregnant, which evokes pride and apprehension for her at the same time.
Much is being made of the fact that she's a technologist, not an ad specialist, though the company's revenue comes largely from media. There's the question of whether she'll be able to retain acting CEO Ross Levinsohn, whose strength is media. She's been compared to Carol Bartz, who also was a technologist, but didn't fare so well with advertising. She was booted out last year.
But an unnamed source told The New York Post:
The board recognized the biggest issue was not selling ads, it was users. They needed someone who stood for the users.
It also quotes email from Google CEO Larry Page, saying:
Since arriving at Google just over 13 years ago as employee No. 20, Marissa has been a tireless champion of our users. She contributed to the development of our Search, Geo, and Local products as well as many other product areas. We will miss her talents at Google.
GigaOm poses the issue as a battle between product vs. media. By choosing Mayer, it says, the board sided with product:
... having the best technology equals win — and it's a lot harder to bring in people on the product side than it is to hire for media.
It's particularly difficult when a company has gained a rep for wrecking products or failing to deliver on ideas or overcrowding to the point that nothing comes through the clutter. Yahoo hopes hiring Mayer will start the engineer hiring equivalent of "follow the leader" ...
The question remains about what Mayer will do to stem the exodus of talent from Yahoo. She needs Levinsohn's media expertise and the company needs the stability in the management layer below him. Parr believes Mayer, attractive and likeable previously as a frequent voice for Google, will draw top-flight talent back to Yahoo. Kara Swisher at All Things Digital wants to hear more about specific plans:
It's one thing to say look-world-I'm-here, and quite another to make a cogent argument to Silicon Valley's best and brightest to come join Yahoo over much more promising startups and even big companies. What is the principal selling point you'll use to get people to board what I used to refer to as the S.S. Yangtanic?
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All-rounders Ryan McLaren and Wayne Parnell have been called up to South Africa's Test squad ahead of the three-match series against Australia.
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Gratitude (not politeness training)
Some of the most authentic and important stuff of relationships, like apologies or confessions or thanks, can come deeply truly from the heart, or they can be manipulation, or forced or coerced, from a sense of decorum or obligation.
In our house it often goes like this.
Me: "Here's your toast honey."
Long pause while they walk away with the plate in one hand, nibbling pieces off the edge with the other.
Me, with high voice: "Wow! Great looking piece of toast! Thank you, Mom!"
Them, monotone: "thank you mom."
And then it's a lesson in politeness that doesn't really allow for real gratitude to emerge.
But gratitude is core to being human, which is to say, being spiritual as well, because it pulls us out of ourselves to see and recognize others, to pay attention to our lives with wonder and reverence. It connects us to the God who made us. When we give thanks we acknowledge our interdependence, and we seek to live fully in the lives we have been given.
It stills and quiets us to receive what we already have.
Gratitude is important in every religion, and at the basis of every virtue.
Our text today is the law of Moses to the people of Israel who've been slaves in Egypt for generations, now learning what life is to look like and function like in the Promised Land. And gratitude, giving Thanks to God, is central to this life, together. So essential that it needs tending. It doesn't seem to just happen spontaneously all the time. It takes some practice, some learning. It sometimes needs structure. So this part of the law sets up opportunities and structures, reminding the people that this is part of the deal, giving thanks, that it is part of life to notice and acknowledge what God has done, and to recognize how our lives are part of the story that started way before us and continues on after us.
But it's tricky. Because often our religion is like parent politeness training.
Apologize for hitting your brother.
Tell your sister you forgive her.
Say Thank you to Grandma for the present.
Give praise to God.
Tonight we are going to spend some time with gratitude. Some time in gratitude.
But I don't want to talk to you tonight about gratitude. I don't want to prompt you to say thank you or tell you why it's important or give you pressure about how thankful we should all be. We already know it's important, and we already know we should be thankful. Gratitude should not become another thing we feel guilty about not doing well enough. That defeats the purpose altogether.
The goal of our time in worship tonight is NOT to be polite to God, or have a dress rehearsal for the "What are you thankful for?" conversations around the table on Thursday.
The truth is, while we need reminders sometimes, and structure too, we don't have to work that hard at it, actually. Because we're hardwired for this.
Gratitude is a basic human need, a natural human and deeply spiritual response that arises, unprompted, when we pay attention.
So, tonight, we are simply going to pay attention.
Tonight instead of discussing gratitude, we are going to experience it.
I want you to let yourself feel, to notice what arises in you.
Let yourself be surprised. Let emotions come.
Notice what happens in your body as we proceed – a warming of the chest and an openness in the belly and heart.
Pay attention even to what happens when we pay attention.
For the next ten minutes I want you to simply be present here, be willing to notice. I am going to say a word or phrase and I invite you to write down the first things that come to mind. Don't edit or force or direct – just let whatever bubbles up spill out in words on paper.
And dear reader, if you are coming across this online, instead of gathered with us this night in the sanctuary, please find some notebook paper and a pencil or pen. Turn off your phone and find a quiet spot. This isn't something to read about, it's something to do. Read each statement and spend one minute - no more - on each of one. This won't take all day, just ten minutes, but you will be so glad you did this.
We will start with a moment of silence.
- For my faith community, I am thankful for…
- For my spouse, partner, or the person closest to me, I am thankful for…
- For my children or grandchildren, nieces or nephews, (or if you are a kid, for my parents), I am thankful for…
- For God, I am thankful for…
- For my home, I am thankful for…
- For my body, I am thankful for…
- For the last year of my life, I am thankful for…
- For experiences of challenge, struggle or growth, I am thankful for…
- For this world, I am thankful for…
- Is there a category you wished would've been mentioned? Something that you felt gratitude for during this time? Take a moment now to jot down anything else you would like to express thanks for…
Now I want to take a minute and give you a chance to read back over your list. Let yourself pay attention to the beauty, the wonder, the gratitude. Let yourself feel what you've written down.
Prayer- Gracious and loving God, we hold these gifts of life together with your Spirit. We acknowledge your presence in everything. We thank you God, that there is so much to be thankful for. Amen.
I want to invite you to take a pile of stars, and looking over what you've written, choose a few things you'd like to publicly acknowledge in gratitude, and write a word or phrase on a star to represent each of those. For our prayer time, we are going to come to the table with our thanks, and these will become part of our Advent Wondering.
As the instructions in Deuteronomy say, (paraphrased),
God has brought us through great struggles, and has blessed us with great joys, all of this is part of God's wonder. So now, in response, we bring our gratitude and thanks to you, O God.
And you shall set it down, and bow before the Lord your God.
And so, that is what we will do.
(Shared with gratitude for my colleague, Rev. Phil GebbenGreen, from whom this exercise was adopted and adapted. Thanks, Phil!)


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Since his inauguration Barack Hussein Obama has been carefully neutral on gun control or even mildly pro gun in his actions as president. While I have given him credit for this I have always been aware that he was a supporter of victim disarmament. We were waiting for him to unfurl his true flag. His signature on an order to prevent the return to the US for distribution to civilians some one million M-1 Garand rifles and M-1 carbines is a hell of an unfurling.
It is also more insidious than it appears. While effective, the weapons in question are somewhat out of date ("obsolete but not obsolescent" is the description I've read.). If the order is rescinded the weapons will most likely be distributed through Civilian Marksmanship sports shooting programs. In other words this order will do little to keep "fighting guns" off the street but will interfere with people taking up shooting for pleasure in clubs, thus weakening America's "shooting culture" and weakening people's resistance to victim disarmament.
This is a stupid order, but at least now the leopard has stopped trying to pass himself off as a kitten.
A.X. Perez
To which L. Neil Smith replied:
Ladeez and gemmulmans,
As much as it pains me to confess it, my worthiest battle rifle is a .30-06 Springfield M1903, manufactured in 1908. I even have a 16 1/8" bayonet for it.
I have weapons that today's miniwarriors think are rifles, chambered in .223 Wimpchester, .30 Carbaby, and 7.62x39 Kalashmenot, but no real rifle, shooting a real rifle cartridge. (I do have hunting rifles in real calibers, my favorite being a '98 Mauser redone in .35 Whelenka-BOOM!)
I long to have an FN-FAL, the best battle rifle, in this gunsmith's opinion, ever conceived. I'd be happy to have an M1A. I have a soft place in my head for the FN-49 (especially in .30-06). But I'd take a grand Garand in a Seoul second.
I regard what Obama and his fellow gangrenous garden slugs intend to
do with these guns as absolutely nothing short of treason, and I can
back that up legally, I believe. If he gets away with it right now, I
will see him pursued to the ends of the Earth for decades if
necessary, to be arrested, indicted, tried, and given a traitor's
sentence, as
I wouldn't mind having another M1 Carbine, either, for conversion to
5.7mm MMJ (look it up).
Your kind, friendly, and always moderate
L. Neil Smith
And Neale Osborn noted:
Re: "Obama bans nearly
1 million rifles" by Dudley Brown
Recently, I seeded Dudley Brown's article on Obama's supposed Executive
Order banning the re-importation of 1 million Garands and M1 carbines.
While the weapons HAVE BEEN banned from import, there is NO evidence
of the EO. Because I failed to verify a simple fact (no EO), I looked
like an ass. Because I seeded it from TLE, TLE looked stupid. I seed
articles from TLE to help us raise the Libertarians mindset in the
consciousness of the general populace. I request that you attempt to
get Mr. Brown to either provide the EO# or re-write the article to
reflect the facts that CAN be verified.
The guns WERE banned, and the State Dept or the Trade Dept are the
only verifiable culprits. They WERE banned by the Obama Administration,
but by EO, not verifiable. I hate to weaken our positions by posting
false information, yet I am not good enough at research to make it
simple to verify every article. In the interests of defending our
positions, I ask that you either obtain the verification or the
correction as soon as possible. We can't damage our image this way
and expect to advance our points.
Neale Osborn
I wouldn't mind having another M1 Carbine, either, for conversion to 5.7mm MMJ (look it up).
Your kind, friendly, and always moderate
L. Neil Smith
And Neale Osborn noted:
Re: "Obama bans nearly 1 million rifles" by Dudley Brown
Recently, I seeded Dudley Brown's article on Obama's supposed Executive Order banning the re-importation of 1 million Garands and M1 carbines. While the weapons HAVE BEEN banned from import, there is NO evidence of the EO. Because I failed to verify a simple fact (no EO), I looked like an ass. Because I seeded it from TLE, TLE looked stupid. I seed articles from TLE to help us raise the Libertarians mindset in the consciousness of the general populace. I request that you attempt to get Mr. Brown to either provide the EO# or re-write the article to reflect the facts that CAN be verified.
The guns WERE banned, and the State Dept or the Trade Dept are the only verifiable culprits. They WERE banned by the Obama Administration, but by EO, not verifiable. I hate to weaken our positions by posting false information, yet I am not good enough at research to make it simple to verify every article. In the interests of defending our positions, I ask that you either obtain the verification or the correction as soon as possible. We can't damage our image this way and expect to advance our points.
Neale Osborn
Re: "Vox Radio, Vox Dei" by L. Neil Smith
In his speech before the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on 15 September 2003, the late anthropogenic global warming "denier" (and therefore heretic) Michael Crichton said:
In every subject area, so much in today's disputesonline, in the various dying "mainstream" media, over coffee in a Dunkin' Donuts (for those of us in Red State America) or Starbucks (among the cyanotically Blue State types, and the color fits, 'cause they'll hold their breaths 'till they turn blue if you say anything that contravenes their heartfelt bigotries)is predicated not on confirmed observation of factual reality and reasoned analysis relying thereupon, but on codified systems of belief that simply do not admit of refutation.
The hallmark of scientific integrity is that a theory will be readily abandoned if an objectively more robust and reliable explanation for the phenomena under examination can be developed.
It isn't how much you like that new theory. It's whether the damned thing works better than the one it supplants.
In order to be capable of handling objective reality with scientific method, the mind in question must be without crippling emotional attachment to any theory. No "belief" allowed.
When you find yourself saying or writing something like:
...you should immediately think of a flashing red light in the upper right-hand corner of your visual field, warning that you have just fucked up by the numbers.
Random numbers, of course.
Richard Bartucci
RE: Thomas DiLorenzo's recent excellent article
This article is a must read for all who want to break down the indoctrination all of us have received from government schools and from popular culture (primarily Hollywood). I have a soft spot for old John Wayne movies such as "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" where he played an Army officer sympathetic to the Indians; but the reality is that the Army was an instrument of evil, and Sherman and Sheridan were monsters, whom our ancestors have honored by naming towns and cities after (when will we get around to renaming our "Stalingrads"?).
Paul Bonneau
Dear Mr. Bell,
I just read about your coloring book about the Tea Parties on the FoxNews site ...
...and wish to congratulate you for having published it. I also want to encourage you to ignore those who hate the very idea of free speech and are willing to threaten violence over it. As the author of over 30 books on individual liberty, I've run into a couple of those, myself.
I will be running a brief piece about your coloring book in the next issue of The Libertarian Enterprise, a weekly online opinion journal now in its 15th year, and sincerely hope it helps you to sell more of your ingenious coloring book. I'll send my readers to you at:
Best regards,
L. Neil Smith
Recently there has been a spate of well publicized suicides by young people. The reason they committed suicide was because they were being bullied, several for being homosexual.
A society that permits this level of bullying, regardless of reason, is already training the SA for the next fuhrer. There is a difference between the normal "hazing" kids inflict on eachother to test courage and fitness to be part of the group or to let him know he isn't and pushing people over the edge. It is up to adults to help the intended victims of bullying learn not submit to bullying.
Our young people need to learn to stand for themselves, but they also need to know someone's got their backs.
The following is cribbed, corrected and expanded, from my Facebook wall in reaction to a video by Ellen Degeneres sent by a friend.
Every kid needs to know he is free to be who he is in his heart (unless it's in his heart to be a ritual cannibalistic murderer).
He needs to know that he has friends and kin (by blood or choice) who will back his right to be himself, even if they don't always agree with him or his actions.
And he needs to trust his courage to fight for his right to be himself. Better to get physically ass kicked than to think yourself a coward. Besides, you might win. (the bullies will kick your ass anyhow if you submit or fight back, so choose to go down fighting.)
OK so this is a guy attitude. Works good for women also. Even turning the other cheek must be an act of courage and resistance, not submission to bullies.
Every kid must learn to stand up for himself and stand alone. But he also needs to know he will be sided. And those who would be bullies, the next generation of storm troopers, have to face resistance from the get go. Might cure them afore someone has to kill them.
Teach this to the kids in your family. Be the person covering your kids' backs.
A.X. Perez
Dear Willie,
Please forgive the formality of this message. I just want to make it fit to be passed along, which I invite you to do. I've always been more inclined to solve problems than to complain about them, and an idea has just occurred to me about the increasingly practicewhich must seem especially revolting to you, since you both chose to be an American, and served your adopted country in the Navyof flag desecration.
Sometimes it's less than pleasant, standing up for the rights of people like the ones in the photo you sent me, who are thoroughly despicable. That's why, although other people are welcome to, I never do it, myself. I stand up for my own rights, and those of people like me (and you) who are concerned with returning this country to its proper state of peace, freedom, progress, and prosperity.
As repulsive as it may be, please try this experiment with me. Imagine another flag, the white globe and olive branches on a light blue field of the United Nations.
Now recall the sculpture just outside their headquarters, of a Colt Python revolver with its barrel tied in a knot. And remember that, under the guise of "small arms control", the thugs and gangsters of the UNincluding Hillary Clintonhave sworn to strip Americans of their best protection against the kind of democidal state that marched two million people to their deaths in Cambodia.
The UN wants you dead. It wants your children and grandchildren, especially the young, pretty ones, for its slaves. Read what they, themselves, say about their "Agenda 21" program, and, guided by your knowledge of history and human nature, do a little reading between the lines. It doesn't take very much.
So there is the flag of the United Nations, lying on the ground in front of you. Would it be wrong to spit on it? To burn it with a cigarette? To spray paint your opinions on it? To burn it? Hey, not until I have a chance to unzip, here, and express my opinion, first.
Now understand that as obnoxious as it may be, the legal right to do those things to the American flag actually protects our right to do it to the UN flag. Outlaw the one, and I guarantee the enemies of liberty will find a way to outlaw the other. Believe it or not, once a country has formally adopted their hideously misnamed "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" it becomes illegal to criticize the UN.
So here's what I propose, a strategy I'll call "Burn Another Flag". Whenever you see or hear of an incident like the one you've pictured here, go find another flag, that of Mexico or Venezuela, or the UN and burn it (after you do other things to it) publicly. Make sure you take plenty of pictures and get them on the Internet. I guarantee that the "guerrilla theater" of burning the only flag in the world that stands for freedom (no matter how badly these days, or how inconsistently) will gradually disappear from our culture forever.
Your old friend,
L. Neil Smith
Among libertarians it is common for discussions about religion to include the phrase "Believe what you want, Just don't try to force me to believe the same."
This is a commendable atttitude. Of course it would help if you actually knew what you believed in. According to a recent survey (see msnbc.com files for 28 September 2010.) most Americans are ignorant of what their faith teaches and what other faiths teach.
This is dangerous. Any two bit punk can get away with claiming that whatever authoritarian utter nonsense they spout is Divinely mandated, that it is God's will that people murder said punk's enemies and enslave everyone else to the service of said punk. People will not know better than to believe him. It is use of this selective quotation of religious literature that Radical Islamists use to recruit the ignorant into their Jihad, why shouid Christians or others be exempt from falling for the same trick? If you don't know what other religions call for it is real easy to be swayed into accepting the most bigoted pronouncements against them.
So if it is in your heart to follow a religion fine. But make sure what it is you believe in, make sure you at least are aware of what your neighbors of other faiths really believe in. Otheerewise you may lose your freedom, even your freedom to pray as you feel God expects from you.
A.X. Perez
Dear Editor,
I gather that some of the state supremacists who have read my recent essay on the topic of a sick economy have expressed doubt as to the substance of my complaints about a list of American citizens to be executed without trial, Americans torturing prisoners to death, and Americans and others held indefinitely with no recourse.
So it seemed like it might be useful to offer a few links on these topics. If you don't mind indulging me a little bit, what follows is the product of fifteen minutes of cursory research.
There are currently, for me, 3.1 million links to articles on "american tortured to death" on Google.
Of these, approximately 356 found are current news stories at news.google.
Let's go see!
[LINK] Here's a 2005 story about Americans torturing people to death in contravention of the 8th amendment, violating their oath to defend and uphold it.
"The documents released today include 44 autopsies and death reports as well as a summary of autopsy reports of individuals apprehended in Iraq and Afghanistan. The documents show that detainees died during or after interrogations by Navy Seals, Military Intelligence and ""OGA"" (Other Governmental Agency)a term, according to the ACLU, that is commonly used to refer to the CIA."
Since the nationality of every victim is not indicated, there is no reason to suppose that none of these people are American citizens. I suggest that Passive Profits spend some of her money to demand that the government reveal the identity and nationality of everyone that has ever been in custody, as well as their current condition and whereabouts.
[LINK] Here is a 2009 story about prisoners tortured to death.
"[An] investigation of two deaths at Bagram. Both detainees were determined to have been killed by pulmonary embolism caused as a result of standing chained in place, sleep depravation and dozens of beatings by guards and possibly interrogators. (Also reveals the use of torture at Gitmo and American-Afghani prisons in Kabul).
"[An] investigation into the homicide or involuntary manslaughter of detainee Dilar Dababa by U.S. forces in 2003 in Iraq.
"[An] investigation launched after allegations that an Iraqi prisoner was subjected to torture and abuse at 'The Disco' (located in the Special Operations Force Compound in Mosul Airfield, Mosul, Iraq). The abuse consisted of filling his jumpsuit with ice, then hosing him down and making him stand for long periods of time, sometimes in front of an air conditioner; forcing him to lay down and drink water until he gagged, vomited or choked, having his head banged against a hot steel plate while hooded and interrogated; being forced to do leg lifts with bags of ice placed on his ankles, and being kicked when he could not do more.
"[An] investigation of allegations of torture and abuse that took place in 2003 at Abu Ghraib.
"[And an] investigation that established probable cause to believe that U.S. forces committed homicide in 2003 when they participated in the binding of detainee Abed Mowhoush in a sleeping bag during an interrogation, causing him to die of asphyxiation."
[LINK] Here's another 2005 story on the topic.
"Since August 2002, nearly 100 detainees have died while in the hands of U.S. officials in the global "war on terror." According to the U.S. military's own classifications, 34 of these cases are suspected or confirmed homicides; Human Rights First has identified another 11 in which the facts suggest death as a result of physical abuse or harsh conditions of detention. In close to half the deaths Human Rights First surveyed, the cause of death remains officially undetermined or unannounced. Overall, eight people in U.S. custody were tortured to death.
Despite these numbers, four years since the first known death in U.S. custody, only 12 detainee deaths have resulted in punishment of any kind for any U.S. official. Of the 34 homicide cases so far identified by the military, investigators recommended criminal charges in fewer than two thirds, and charges were actually brought (based on decisions made by command) in less than half. While the CIA has been implicated in several deaths, not one CIA agent has faced a criminal charge. Crucially, among the worst cases in this list those of detainees tortured to deathonly half have resulted in punishment; the steepest sentence for anyone involved in a torture-related death: five months in jail."
[LINK] Glenn Greenwald writing in 2009:
"The interrogation and detention regime implemented by the U.S. resulted in the deaths of over 100 detainees in U.S. custodyat least. While some of those deaths were the result of "rogue" interrogators and agents, many were caused by the methods authorized at the highest levels of the Bush White House, including extreme stress positions, hypothermia, sleep deprivation and others. Aside from the fact that they cause immense pain, that's one reason we've always considered those tactics to be "torture" when used by others because they inflict serious harm, and can even kill people. Those arguing against investigations and prosecutionsthat we Look to the Future, not the Pastare thus literally advocating that numerous people get away with murder."
[LINK] Here is Obama on his enemies list.
"What a difference two years makes. In January, the Washington Post reported that the Joint Special Operations Command of the U.S. military maintains a list of targets for assassination (all of whom are suspected of direct involvement in terrorism) that includes American citizens. In April, The New York Times confirmed the existence of the hit list.
"Barack Obama has. In doing so, he has become the first American president to order the extrajudicial assassination of one of our own citizens.
"Last week, the Obama administration filed a brief in federal court arguing that the parents of Anwar al-Aulaqi, an American-born cleric believed to be living in Yemen and suspected of providing support for the failed Times Square bombing, cannot challenge their son's placement on the assassination list. Allowing any such challenge to go to court, they argued, would reveal state secrets."
[LINK] extraordinary rendition Whee!
[LINK] "An American who was captured by Kenyan forces in January 2007 filed suit in U.S. District Court in Washington on Tuesday, arguing that FBI agents allegedly involved in his interrogation and transfer to other countries violated his constitutional rights.
"The suit, brought on behalf of Amir Meshal by the American Civil Liberties Union, is the first by a U.S. citizen seeking damages for the practice of "rendition," the extrajudicial transfer of terrorist suspects between countries.
"Meshal, who is now back in his home state of New Jersey, has never been charged with a crime."
[LINK] "During the next four months, Meshal says, he was detained and interrogated in three different African countries without charge, denied the right to speak to a lawyer or family member, and refused the right to even appear before a judicial officer. Although a lifelong U.S. citizen with two U.S. citizen parents, Meshal was repeatedly threatened with torture, rendition to another country where he would be tortured, and forced disappearance. And he believes that U.S. officials, who interrogated him more than 30 times during this process, directed his arrest and treatment.
"Those claims are the subject of a new lawsuit being filed Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington. Although it's not the first lawsuit against U.S. officials seeking damages for torture and other mistreatment abroad, Meshal is only the second U.S. citizen to sue for U.S.-sponsored torture. That and a few other distinctive facts in this case may give him some advantages over those that have been dismissed."
Jim Davidson
Extended Childhood
Recently the founder of Facebook was described as "only a kid of 26." Admittedly to a 56 year old man, 26 is a kid. Obamacare extends to 26 the age that insurance companies must allow parents to keep their kids on their health insurance, Given the reality of modern education this appears reasonable. At 26 my daughter had barely completed med school (her graduation ceremony was on her 27th birthday, paternal brag.) for example. However, we are not talking about completing extended education and training for specialized jobs. We are talking about holding people in a state of extended childhood.
I was paying a mortgage and my wife was pregnant with our second child when I was 26 (Laurie was born a couple of months after my 27th birthday). Most people reading this were dealing with similar and/or greater responsibility at the same age or younger. In most civilian jobs a person can be an established professional before 26. While I am not a veteran, I know a person can enroll in the military and complete a hitch, to include time in the reserve, by the age of 26 or younger. Ensigns and Second Lieutenants graduate the Academies at somewhere between 21 and 23. You can run for Congress at 25, if you can hold your nose long enough.
Regardless of a libertarian distaste for legal restrictions, I have to point out that statists recognize ages from about 16 (to work without special permission) to 21 to qualify as an adult for the purpose of exercising all rights and being bound by responsibilities. For example, 18 is old enough to vote or buy a long gun. Twenty one is the legal drinking age in almost all states and to buy a handgun or Title II weapons where legal.
With all this there is a push to perceive people 26 and under and actually more like 30 and under as incompetent minors and restrict them to that role in society. Again, we are not talking about people in specialized professions which require extended education and apprenticeships. We are talking about young people generally functioning as children until the age of between 25 and 30.
Maybe with people living longer and the need for more education this makes a little sense. However, consider that one quality of domestic dogs and cats is that they live in a state of extended adolescence. Are we creating the cultural circumstances that protect and encourage the genes to domesticate humans?
A.X. Perez
Space Frontier Foundation for NASA
Dear Editor,
I see where the evil nationalist socialists at the Space Frontier Foundation have lobbied for a $19 billion budget for NASA, so Boeing can at last build a big manned space system to monopolise commercial passenger space travel.
It seems there is no end to perfidy.
Jim Davidson
Sick green-psycho-stars want to kill your children
I saw this video at the blog of Jo Nova, an Australian science writer/speaker. I simply cannot imagine the mindset of someone who would think this is funny. The idea that blowing up people, or, worse yet, the children of people who disagree with your policy goals should be abhorrent to all decent people. I guess that, in some we-are-all-part-of-Gaia-and-hurting-Gaia-hurts-us-all way, these 10:10 folks justify this kind of thought in their own minds. My opinion is that this does not pass muster as a "joke" or anything resembling humor, except for those who got their jollies in elementary school by pulling the wings off of flies and pushing around the weird-looking kids.
Sick green-psycho-stars want to kill your children
What's even more sad is that I know a (very) few people who would make an attempt to defend this. I will be even more careful around such in the future.
Chris Claypoole
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It's pumpkin picking season here in Maine.
The owners of Treworgy Family Orchards in Levant are pretty excited about this year. "It's the best crop we've ever had," said Robin Pellerin, Retail Manager at Treworgy Family Orchards. The 5-acres of pick your own pumpkins has people of all ages searching for the perfect gourd.
Nathaniel Gardner and Angelica Underhill made the trip to the orchards with their son, Luke. They said "We're bringing Luke to get his first pumpkin. He was born in May, he's going to be five months old this weekend, so we're getting his first jack-o-lantern today."
There are plenty of pumpkins, just waiting to be carved, at the farm. The family, who usually plants their crop in June, even has their own irrigation system. Pellerin said, "We had the ability to draw right off the pond, so these pumpkins are nice pond-fed pumpkins."
So, what's the secret to keeping your pumpkin nice and orange throughout the fall?
"Just give it a little bleach wash when you get home and it will last a long time," the retail manager said.
The Treworgy orchards will be open until pumpkin seasons ends on October 28th.


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Many scientists and clinicians are now nearly convinced that before patients get prostate cancer at least some of
them get a condition called prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia, commonly abbreviated to PIN. In this
section of The Prostate Cancer InfoLink, we will try to explain what PIN is, and perhaps more importantly what
you and your doctor should consider doing about it.
The term "prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia" or PIN was selected at a conference in 1989 from a whole variety of
other names for the same condition. However, human nature being what it is, some of these other names continue
in use today. Therefore, any particular urologist or pathologist may use one of the following terms to mean
From the patient's point of view, it doesn't matter what it is called so long as you recognize what it is if your
doctor starts to talk about it with you. After you've read through this section, we think you should be reasonably
clear about this.
If you imagine that there is a continuous range of identifiable situations related to prostate cancer -- from the very
first biochemical event or mutation that leads to the development of the very first malignant prostate cancer cell
right through to the extensive growth of bone metastases, then at least some type or types of PIN may well be the first
of these situations that a pathologist can actually see under the microscope.
Dr David Bostwick of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, has suggested that there is a close relationship between
the age-related prevalence of PIN and the age-related prevalence of prostate cancer. Figure 1, which has been
adapted from material published by Dr Bostwick, clearly indicates that the occurrence of PIN seems to parallel the
occurrence of prostate cancer, with prostate cancer lagging about 20 to 30 years behind the appearance of PIN.
This suggests that if one carried out prostate cancer screening in younger and younger men, we might find lots of
cases of PIN. Then we'd have to decide what to do with them!
Figure 1. The relationship between prevalence of PIN and prevalence of prostate cancer.
Adapted from Bostwick DG. "Prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia: diagnostic criteria and clinical significance."
In Issues in the Diagnosis and Prognosis of Prostate Cancer: A Slide/Lecture Series.
PIN is divided into two types or grades: low grade and high grade. However, until just a few years
ago it was divided into three grades, so you might still hear your doctors talk about grade I or grade II or grade III
PIN. Just in case they do that, you may want to know that today's low grade PIN is roughly the same
as the old grades I and II whereas today's high grade PIN is roughly equivalent to the old grade
Now we don't think it would help for us to try to get into all of the detailed distinctions between low grade PIN
and high grade PIN. It is enough to say that just as pathologists tell one Gleason grade from another on the basis
of cell structures and their interrelationships, the same is true for PIN. What is interesting is that we
find comparable cellular structures in an early form of breast cancer known as "intraductal carcinoma of the
For the physician and the patient, there is only one important question. Now what do I do?
It is worth pointing out that at the moment there is no clear relationship between PSA levels and the occurrence of
PIN. Nor are there any indisputable data indicating a clear relationship between the occurrence of PIN and the
presence of prostate cancer. However, if the physician is told by the pathologist that there is high grade PIN in
the prostate, it is generally agreed at this time that the patient is at risk for prostate cancer.
However, if there is high grade PIN in the biopsy specimen then a number of further steps should be taken:
The general expectation which is being followed here is that high grade PIN found as a consequence of an elevated
PSA is a very close predictor for small foci of localized prostate cancer. Thus, multiple ultrasound-guided biopsies should
be carried out over time to ensure the identification of the cancer and appropriate treatment.
Specialists currently recommend that identification of high grade PIN should not in any way affect the treatment of
a patient, except that that patient should be regularly rechecked for signs of prostate cancer as discussed


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Best Places for a Warm Drink in SF
BY: Anjali Shah | Jan 2, 2014
When walking around San Francisco in the winter, the urge for a cozy place to sit and a warming drink are undeniable. Here are some of the more unique places to sit, relax, have that warm drink in an equally warm ambiance in SF. 1) Vesuvio Cafe: An icon in the North Beach area in SF, established in 1948. Located across the street from the famous City Lights Bookstore, Vesuvio Cafe remains a historical monument to jazz, poetry, art and the Beat Generation. Artists, chess players, cab drivers, business people, tourists, and more all frequent this unique cafe. Grab a cozy booth in the upstairs area - it's warm and shelters you from the elements while providing a view of the North Beach streets below. 2) Buena Vista Cafe: Open from the early morning to 2am every night, this cafe, located just to the left of the Powell-Hyde Cable Car's last stop in Fisherman's Wharf, has one of the most famous Irish Coffee concoction around. The ambiance inside is warm and friendly, and has the feel of a neighborhood pub - exactly the kind of place to be on a cold day. 3) Hollow: Hollow is so cozy that it almost resembles something out of a fairy tale, or a hobbit's nook from Lord of the Rings. This is not a "run-in / run-out" place for coffee. It's a "sit down, relax, and enjoy" type of place. The shop serves up cinnamon roll biscuits, freshly baked goods, tea by the pot, and of course - coffee. 4) Philz Coffee: Philz is a California institution, and the Mission location is the original. Try the Mint Mojito coffee, as well as the vegan cookies. The relaxed atmosphere and friendly baristas will make you feel at home immediately, and their ample seating guarantees that you will be able to rest your feet while being sheltered from the cold outside. 5) Le Marais Bakery: Located in the Marina, this tiny French bakery and coffee house offers delicious house made coffee, hot chocolate, and other warm drinks; along with freshly baked pastries, cakes, breads, etc. They also serve hot meals for those who want something more substantial. The atmosphere is bright and airy - with plenty of seating on cozy, corner benches that will make you want to sit there for hours. 6) The Monk's Kettle: Not exactly a coffee shop, but guaranteed to warm you up on a cold day, this gastropub is located in the Mission and open until 2am daily. Named after the world's first craft brewers, Belgian Trappist monks, who brewed beer in kettles, The Monk's Kettle is an upscale neighborhood tavern that sets the standard in pairing beer with food. It's a small space, but has a nice ambiance with a long bar and tables/booths off to one side, and a semi-open kitchen in the back. 7) Wattle Creek Winery Tasting Room: Located in Ghiradelli Square, this tasting room is the perfect place to stop when the weather is chilly outside. Their tasting room is warm and spacious and has beautiful views of the bay. Try their Reserve Sparkling Syrah, and be sure to ask about their custom tastings!
BY: Anjali Shah
Anjali Shah is a food writer, certified health coach, and owner of The Picky Eater, a healthy food and lifestyle blog. She taught herself how to cook and now creates healthy, flavorful recipes made with simple, wholesome ingredients. A Bay Area native and a self-proclaimed "foodie," Anjali has become an expert on all things food & health in the SF Bay Area. Through her blog, The Picky Eater, Anjali shares her passion for local finds and tasty, healthy cooking.


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Paris France
ERS SAR image Aug 2002, Jan 2003, May 2004
Orbit 47414, Frame 2619, 05 May 2004 10:43 GMT
Also to the west of the city, just south of the second loop of the Seine after it leaves the city flowing northward, the Grand Canal of the Chateau of Versailles can be seen as a black cross shape, just west of the small airport of Velizy-Villacoublay.
The black runways of the city's major airports, Charles De Gaulle in the north and Orly International in the south, are also visible.
The colourful patches are agricultural fields, mostly wheatfields.
The image is made of three ERS-2 SAR PRI (Precision Radar Image) images acquired on different dates and assigning a colour (RGB) to each date of acquisition.
Technical Information:
NE Lat/Long: N 49.14 / E 02.54 NW Lat/Long: N 49.27 / E 01.35 SW Lat/Long: N 48.34 / E 01.18 SE Lat/Long: N 48.23 / E 02.37
Download high resolution tif here (165613 Kbytes)
Keywords: Paris, France, ERS-2 SAR Multitemporal image, eurocity
Keywords: ESA European Space Agency - Agence spatiale europeenne, observation de la terre, earth observation, satellite remote sensing, teledetection, geophysique, altimetrie, radar, chimique atmospherique, geophysics, altimetry, radar, atmospheric chemistry
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I don't think I have ever referred to an analytics dashboard as beautiful, but I can think of no more appropriate word for the free cloud-based Impact Dashboard that hosts, aggregates and visualizes data in real-time that was just demonstrated at South by Southwest Interactive.
The very visually appealing Impact Dashboard was developed through a partnership between Tomorrow Partners, a strategic design agency, and Google data visualization specialist Eric Doverberger and launched in the "Sexy Dirty Data: Making Your Metrics Matter" panel at SXSWI. Judging by the demo, the platform seems very usable. Panelist were able to construct an impressive mashup of widgets containing aggregated social metrics in a matter of minutes. According to Gaby Brink of Tomorrow Partners,
We wanted to create something that contextualized data and made it actionable for the audience."
Ingrid Kopp, editor-in-chief of Shooting People, an international organization for independent filmmakers, added,
Impact allows you to bring the audience into the data and tell a story."
I agree with this assessment after seeing the point-and-click interface yield a very slick analytics dashboard.
Impact Dashboard is targeted at organizations that want to use data to engage and interact with an audience, which is virtually every organization that does anything. The platform includes tools to track and analyze the impact of digital content, supports mobile devices, features a completely customizable interface and supports integration of multimedia such as videos to help deliver a message.
Surprisingly, it's free and dashboard is open source, according to Doverberger, "the code will be available on Github or Google code or some other popular site." The information page for Impact Dashboard alludes to a premium level option that will include developer supported customizations, but no pricing information is available.
The panelist indicated that the platform will be released for public beta in a "couple of months." You can register to be notified of the launch at http://www.bavc.org/impact .


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Keep your eyes peeled here for one heck of an 80 plates day, one of my favorites yet! I learned to roll lumpias, cook eggs without scrambling them, the rabbit is fat and happy, impressed an Italian, made a kid sick on fried dough, and made 4 dishes from one country, a new record.
Details to follow--I have A LOT of pictures to sort through.
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Educational opportunities are growing in Waxahachie with the expansion of the Life Waxahachie High School.
The school has acquired two commercial buildings to the east of the campus on Butcher Road, which will be remodeled for additional classroom space. Construction on the first phase of the project is slated to start in August.
Shawn Thomas, director of operations, stated he is thrilled about the opportunities for learning that the expansion will bring to students in the future.
"When we built the high school we had programs in mind and built the school to a certain square footage. Since then, we have expanded all the things that we have to offer students," Thomas said. "Many of our teachers are sharing space and adding these new classrooms will allow them to have their own classrooms."
Life Waxahachie High School broke ground in April 2014 and then welcomed students to campus for the 2015-2016 school year. Enrollment at the school is around 970 students, and the current building has a capacity of 1,000. The Life charter school system has been a part of Ellis County since opening in Red Oak in 2003.
"The first phase that we are starting on this summer is primarily going to be science and computer labs," Thomas said. "We also have a health program that is going to be expanding into that first building in the science portion."
Thomas stated the expansion would help to continue to grow Life's Career and Technology Education program.
"One of the things happening now is that people are interested in the health field. So we are able to do that through our health and science classes, and have expanded our programs," Thomas explained. "This year, and the last couple of years, we have taken core classrooms and tried to make them into health, but these new classrooms are going to be much bigger where they can spread out. The technology will be hirer end."
Thomas noted the first phase remodel is set to open in January 2019. The 11,200-square foot building will have three computer labs, three science classrooms, and one classroom for a core subject like math or English.
Phase two of the project is set for 2020 and the third phase in 2022. The third phase would join the two buildings together enclosing a space that is currently used as a parking lot. With the completion of the last stage, the school could have the ability to serve around 1,200 students.
Thomas stated this is an exciting time for the school.
Those who would like to a make a donation to the project can go to the Life School's district website at www.lifeschools.net


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(Psychological / emotional perspective)
Psychologically, without the ordering of information that we receive, our minds can simply become a jungle of information. We need to use logic to apply order so that we can make sense of ourselves and our environment.
To be trapped in a jungle indicates that we are trapped by negative and frightening feelings from the unconscious, perhaps from those areas which could be considered to be uncivilized.
To be conscious of having come through a jungle would indicate that we have passed through, and overcome, those aspects of our lives which we have never dared approach before.


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'Craigslist Joe' Tests the Limits of Craigslist Generosity
Does technology isolate us? Or does it actually foster its own unique kind of community? That's the big question the documentary 'Craigslist Joe' tries to answer.
Joseph Garner, the film's director and protagonist, ditches all of his money and possessions -- save a laptop, cellphone, toothbrush and the clothes on his back -- and attempts to live for 31 days through only the kindness and generosity of folks he meets through Craigslist. Check out the trailer for this Zach Galifianakis-produced film.
As the cynics will quickly point out, people are going to be much nicer to you when there is somebody filming everything you are doing. (A trick beggars would be wise to utilize) Nevertheless, it is an interesting experiment.
How long do you think you could last using only the goodwill of Craigslist for food and shelter? You can find out how long Garner did on August 3rd, when 'Craigslist Joe' hits theaters.


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STUART, FL — He's a movie star and a television heartthrob. Depending on your age, you remember him as a teenage heartthrob, the stylish rogue in "It Takes a Thief," the romantic leading man in "Hart to Hart" or the evil No. 2 in the Austin Powers movies.
Robert Wagner's career spans more than 60 years.
"Natalie Wood and I came to Stuart for our honeymoon," he told a crowd of more than 400 women and a sprinkling of men gathered at a luncheon at the Harbour Ridge Yacht and Country Club in Palm City to raise money for the Blake Library. "We didn't stay too long. It was before Stuart was what it is today. Natalie wanted something a little more romantic."
Wagner, 79, oozes romance. Dressed in khaki slacks, cashmere sports coat, yellow shirt and dark tie, he held the crowd's attention for almost two hours. Interviewed by the co-author Scott Eyman of their best-selling book "Pieces of My Heart: A Life," Wagner talked about his road to fame. Seated at his side was Jill St. John, who looks so much like the Jill St. John of 20 years ago it's a bit surprising.
With her trademark red hair tousled in a poodle cut, a white suit with peplum jacket and black suede heels to match a silk flower at her throat, she enthusiastically carried on conversations at her lunch table and watched her husband intently as he told stories of the good old days.
Wagner's desire to act was ignited when he was only 10 years old and working as a caddy at the Bel-Air Country Club.
"The only thing I wanted to do was be in the movies," he said. "I caddied for Clark Gable. I used to wait for him in the parking lot, run around and get his clubs and be ready for him. He helped me out at MGM."
Wagner started out working the test stage at MGM, which is where he met Marilyn Monroe.
"She was a very unusual lady," he said. "She had a great sense of humor. It is amazing how her legacy has gone on."
Working with legends James Cagney and Spencer Tracy were pivotal to Wagner's career. Both men looked out for him, set him straight when needed, and helped him get roles.
"I was doing 'What Price Glory,'" he said. "I was 20 years old and dying on screen in Jim Cagney's arms. I couldn't get over it. He was a wonderful man and I admired him so much. John Ford was the director and he picked me out to be the boy he picked on. Cagney held my hand a lot."
Barbara Stanwyck held his hand, too, in a secret relationship that lasted four years.
"I was working on 'Titanic' with her and Clifton Webb. I don't know if it was timing. We just looked at each other and things started. I fell in love with her. She was 44 and I was 22. That wasn't accepted in those days."
Although that night off Catalina Island aboard the Splendour when Natalie Wood mysteriously fell to her death must have been on the audience's mind, Wagner only talked about working in "All the Fine Young Cannibals" with the woman he married twice.
"She was a tremendous professional," he said. "She started in the business when she was 4 years old with Orson Welles and Claudette Colbert. Working with her was a wonderful experience."
Anecdotes about Peter Sellers and the making of "The Pink Panther," his friend David Niven and a recent experience on the set of "Two and A Half Men" involving lipstick and a hoo hoo kept the audience laughing.
Wagner said he was surprised at his book's success; It's been on the New York Times bestseller list for a month. "It's extraordinary going around the world and people know about your life and career," he said. "And they are glad to see you."


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Welcome to Volunteering at Rice Lake!
Whether you can give one hour one time this year or one hour or more a week, we need you! You are a very important part of our yearly plans, and we appreciate all our awesome volunteers so much!!
In order to volunteer at our school, every person must complete a new Volunteer Application form for each school year. This link to this form can be found below or in our main office.
My hours are 9:00am-3:30pm Monday–Friday. (I have the same days off as students). Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.
Thank you for making a difference in the lives of our RL student and staff!!
Mary Bodensteiner, Volunteer Coordinator
Rice Lake Volunteer Application Forms/Handbook
Current Volunteer Opportunities
Popcorn Poppers (Wednesday mornings)
Watch for Upcoming Opportunities/Events
Junior Achievement (Spring)
Book Fair (March 11-15, 2018)
Dance/Raffle (April 12, 2018)
RL APEX Fun Run (May 16, 2018)
BOGO Book Fair (May 30, 2018)


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From Sacramento — Maybe it's time -- time to junk all the political campaign contribution limits with their jumbo loopholes. Just give it up.
In many ways, the restrictions are useless and counterproductive, driving contributions underground and often through the laundry room.
Perhaps we should allow each candidate free rein to raise -- in bright sunlight -- whatever amount is possible from any source, but require that the money be immediately reported to the public. Faster, fuller disclosure -- maybe that's the only feasible way to confront the corrupting influence of political money.
If Exxon donates $1 million to a candidate for governor who then advocates offshore oil drilling, let the voters be the judge of whether that smacks of corruption.
Actually, I wince when re-reading these words. They read as though I'm headed for the dark side.
They're parroting the mantra of the political-industrial complex. The more special interest money in the election system, the more that complex prospers.


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Saturday, September 20, 2014
Another Bright Idea: Post It Notes!
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The 9 Most Wearable Fall Beauty Trends
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In the midst of this heat wave, we have to admit: We're dreaming of crisp fall days. In anticipation, we've rounded up the biggest and most wearable fall trends straight from the runways, including classics like oxblood nails and burgundy lips as well as newer, edgier trends like matte nude manicures and grungy waves. See the photos to decide your favorites and then hit the stores to stock up on the essentials.
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- Iraq PM asks for U.N. inquiry into Baghdad bombings
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has formally asked the U.N. Security Council to launch an inquiry into a series of explosions that killed 95 people in Baghdad last month.
- Swine flu deaths climb past 2,800: WHO
GENEVA – The World Health Organisation said Friday that at least 2,837 people had died from swine flu virus infections.
- Four suicide bombers detained in Chechnya
MOSCOW – Authorities in Chechnya said Friday they had averted several major attacks as they announced the detention of four youths trained as suicide bombers in the increasingly volatile region.
- Afghan anger after scores die in NATO air strike
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A U.S. warplane summoned by German troops fired on hijacked fuel trucks in Afghanistan before dawn Friday, killing as many as 90 people in an incident that could trigger a backlash against NATO.
- Somali fighting kills 6, injures 11 civilians
At least 6 civilians have lost their lives and eleven others injured during fierce fighting between African Union soldiers and Somali rebels.
- Afghanistan claims more UK troops' lives
Roadside bombs and gun battles have left two more UK soldiers killed in Afghanistan, bringing to 212 the overall British fatalities in the war-ravaged country.
- HRW slams Riyadh over discrimination against Shias
A Human Rights Watch's report has strongly lashed out at Saudi Arabia over its" systemic state discrimination" against Shia Muslims across the kingdom.
- Israeli FM tours Africa to lobby against Iran
The hawkish Israeli foreign minister has embarked on a tour of Africa with the hope of arousing hostility toward Tehran among the continent's officials.
- Bomb attacks claim 13, injure 150 in Iraq
At least thirteen people have been killed and more than one hundred fifty others injured following a series of bomb attacks across war-torn Iraq on Thursday.
- NATO air raid kills '90 people' in Afghanistan
At least ninty people, mostly civilian, have been killed and scores others injured after US-led warplanes targeted fuel tankers in an area of northern Afghanistan.
News: 04-Sep-09
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The city of Rome has made it
abundantly clear:
Don't even think about parking here (and if
you do, don't expect to find your vehicle
still here when you return).
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Thursday, August 3, 2017
signs, signs
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Labels: no parking, Rome, signs signs, traffic signs, via della Scrofa
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Hello all,
I am looking to get back to Los Angeles. When I moved out here and joined the Post Office the original plan was for my wife and child to follow when I got established. However plans have now change and I want to get back there. I'm an ET and would really need to transfer back as one. Rapid City PDF is small but the hub and busy for our area. There are 6 ET positions here. OT is around and frequent. I am the Jr ET but there is going to be some movement in the next few years.
Rapid is a busy town and has plenty to offer. Deadwood is 45 mins away, and Sturgis, home of the largest motorcycle rally is even closer. Anyone who rides will love it here. Even for anyone who doesn't it is a great City and if I had my way, we would be raising a family here.
The closer to the SFValley the better but I'm pretty much open to anywhere in the LA area.
And I realize now that I should have included a contact email... firstname.lastname@example.com
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When all of a sudden, I hear a voice screaming from the intercom in Japanese. I have no idea what is being said other than I feel the fear in her voice. Just then someone comes running by me, so close our shoulders touch,before he jumps onto the tracks and lays himself flat down parallel with the tracks. Everything happened so fast. I couldn't register what I was seeing. The sounds were so loud.,The screeching from the train as it was approaching, the lady screaming into the loud speaker. It was as if I was out of my body just watching what was happening.
The train couldn't stop in time,. It runs right over the man. I see his head go down. Lights flash from him being electrocuted... It felt like everything got completely quite for a second. Then the doors of the train open and everyone starts jumping off yelling and looking under the train...
I couldn`t get home that night. The track was shut down. I was able to stay at another models apartment that wasn't too far away. I walked there as the ambulance and police zoom by me, sirens a blare... I couldn't get over thinking about this poor man.What could have been so bad that he had to take his own life? I was the last person he touched before he left this life. And I didn't even know him. My agents at the time, said that this sort of thing is common in Japan, the pressure to succeed, school, family, it`s too much for some.
I just want to say to whoever may be reading this. No matter how hard life can be at times. Never give up HOPE. Hope is the LIGHT that can melt away all your dark days. We all go through hard times, some harder than others. But we can take those things that have hurt us and learn from them. Gain wisdom from them, and maybe help someone else that might be going through the same thing. It's important that you grieve when you need to. Get angry if you have to, or just plain out cry when you feel like it. But at some point you need to let it all go. Have HOPE that things will get better. And little by little they will. I promise.... Sending you love today and always,Elisabeth


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Do people perceive you completely different to how you perceive yourself?
Are you more capable than you give yourself credit for?
Currently I work for Probation in an admin support role. It's a job that I'm more than grateful for, as I fell into it, the pay is decent and I enjoy admin to a certain extent. It isn't however, the role I intend on doing forever.
The role I sort of set my sights on within this organisation, is as a Probation Service Officer (PSO), which is pretty much the same as a Probation officer (PO), you're just exposed to less risks. I applied for the role a few months back, but wasn't successful.
The role has come up again and I was considering it, but part of me was thinking perhaps I'm not good enough… Maybe my experiences and knowledge isn't quite good enough to provide that level of support to someone, or to help them change their lives in such a way.
I'm doubting myself because I've never done it before and not sure if I'd be any good.
I had an appointment with my bank the other week and the lady I was speaking to asked me where I worked. I told her and she looked at me agasp! Apparently she didn't expect me to work in that sort of area, and she didn't expect me to be a probation officer. I didnt correct her assumption, perhaps I should've, but I didn't. I liked her assumption. Although she obviously didn't think I was capable, I liked it.
A few other people I've said this too, assume I'm a PO. Some I've corrected, others I have neglected to.
I'm not sure I understand why everyone thinks the Probation service is just full of POs and no other staff!
One of my colleagues, who's the same age as me, fantastic at the job (PO), and who I have a lot of respect for, told me I should apply for the PSO role. One of the police officers I work with, on hearing I was moving to a different team (I'm yet to blog about this), asked if it was to become a PSO. I alerted him to the fact that it wasn't.
Again, both of these comments made me feel really good about myself and the way others perceive my capabilities, especially people I have a lot of respect for.
Being a PSO/PO isn't for everyone. Dealing with offenders requires a fair bit of skill. It's not an easy job! Being responsible for someone's welfare and wellbeing in the community is a tough task, or at least, I perceive it to be. If you get it wrong, on your head be it, there's a lot of criticism, especially from the public! However, there are people who think im capable of doing this even though I have no first hand experience.
So, depending on the requirements, I better get an application in! This has given me the confidence I was lacking. I can bloody do this!


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A high-ranking Justice Department official was "stunned" when he learned in 2010 that agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) allowed weapons to "walk" across the Mexican border during the Bush administration, according to recently disclosed documents.
Documents show that Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein, a career federal prosecutor in a leadership position within the Obama DOJ's Criminal Division, and other officials worked to keep the attention of the press away from the Bush-era "gun walking" tactics long before the problems with Operation Fast and Furious went public.
"Been thinking more about 'Wide Receiver I'," Weinstein wrote in an email on April 12, 2010. "ATF HQ [headquarters] should/will be embarrassed that they let this many guys walk — I'm stunned, based on what we've had to do to make sure not even a single operable weapon walked in [undercover] operations I've been involved in planning — and there will be press about that."Weinstein later planned a meeting with ATF officials and public relations officials in the Justice Department's Office of Public Affairs to discuss the impending indictment in the Wide Receiver case that "has some rather significant (and I hope unique) press challenges."
Following the meeting, Weinstein related in an April 28, 2010 email that they thought it would be better to announce the Operation Wide Receiver indictments as part of a larger announcement so as to focus on "aggregate seizures and not on particulars of any one indictment."
The emails were included in 652 pages of documents that DOJ officials sent to Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and other officials on Monday in response to his Oct. 11 subpoena. Senior Justice Department officials provided TPM and other media outlets with selections from the documents they sent to Capitol Hill and briefed reporters on their contents.
Documents show that Weinstein followed up in an email to Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, the top official in DOJ's Criminal Division, on April 30. In a statement handed out by the Justice Department, Breuer apologized for not telling his colleagues at the Justice Department about the issues with Operation Wide Receiver once the allegations about similar tactics in Fast and Furious came out in the press.
"ATF let a bunch of guns walk in an effort to get upstream conspirators but only got straws, and didn't recover many guns," Weinstein wrote to Breuer of Operation Wide Receiver. "Some were recovered in MX (Mexico) after being used in crimes."
Following the discovery of the "gun walking" tactic in Operation Wide Receiver, Breuer met with ATF officials to discuss their concerns. ATF evidently didn't do much to stop the tactics from being used in Fast and Furious (one ATF official, William McMahon, wrote in an email that the April 2010 meeting with DOJ "went ok" and that there were some "surprises but nothing terrible.")
The meeting between ATF and DOJ officials over the controversial "gun walking" tactic came shortly before ATF officials met with members of Congress, including Rep. Issa, to discuss their anti-gun trafficking efforts.
Weapons from Fast and Furious later showed up at the scene of a December 2010 shootout in Arizona in which U.S. border patrol agent Brian Terry was killed. Additional weapons have turned up at crime scenes in Mexico.
In a later email, Weinstein explained why DOJ didn't issue a press release about the Operation Wide Receiver indictments, cases which sat dormant for two years until prosecutors gave them another look under the Obama administration.
"Lots of guns allowed to go south and came out on same day as IG Report on Gunrunner so Laura, Jim and I agreed the case would be weaved into anti-ATF story," Weinstein wrote on Nov. 20, 2010 email.
Capitol Hill Reaction
Up on Capitol Hill, where some Republicans have called for the resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder over Fast and Furious, the reaction to the latest revelations was swift.
"At first glance, though, the documents indicate that contrary to previous denials by the Justice Department, the criminal division has a great deal of culpability in sweeping the previous Wide Receiver strategy under the rug and then allowing the subsequent Operation Fast and Furious to continue without asking key questions," Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said in a statement.
"Most importantly, officials raised very appropriate questions related to Operation Wide Receiver at the same time that many of these same officials were receiving briefings on Operation Fast and Furious," Grassley said. "It begs the question why they didn't ask the same important policy questions about an ongoing case being run out of the same field division."
Grassley also that that the impression left to Senate Judiciary Committee staff in a February briefing was false. "Despite their denials of gun walking, it appears that senior Justice Department officials clearly knew that it had happened in Operation Wide Receiver and ignored the red flags that it was happening in Fast and Furious," Grassley said.
Breuer is testifying on the Hill on Tuesday while Holder will be testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Nov. 8 and the House Judiciary Committee in December.