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For Thanksgiving Break Anna Badger, Brad Hales, and Jeana Stuart all came to visit for the holiday. It was great to have them here and I very much enjoyed their presence. It was quite the adventure. They arrived on last Friday and I took all of them back to the airport today for them to fly out. I assume they made their flights and are all safely at home now. With most of which I write, there will be photos to go along in the Thanksgiving Gallery.
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Thanksgiving was great. We enjoyed a trip to Mt. Vernon and had a great time. You can see the pictures from that adventure. Yesterday we trekked to Monticello and Montpelier, but due to circumstances and preference, we did not get into either. At one it was "too cold" and the other we were "too late" so what was to be done. However, I stumbled on another little town I would love to move to some day and spend the rest of my life. Orange, Virginia, an amazingly beautiful little town. There are a few of them in my life. Ashland, Kansas; Blair, Nebraska; Quray, Colorado; and now Orange, Virginia. It was amazingly beautiful. I hope some day I can organized a piece of property into something so magnificent so as to add to the community to which I belong. We all loved the beautiful well kept estates that lined the roads. Orange was particularly beautiful.
We all come to understand each other a little more, we come to see and understand our weaknesses and strengths a little more, and hopefully we will have learned from our close interactions. I sure enjoyed their company and the opportunity to entertain guests. More importantly, it gave a little more initiative to get out and see some of what I am surrounded by.


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After several months of slogging I've finally made it to the end of Abram Smythe Palmer's Folk-etymologies, the book originally pointed out by burred.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, a high percentage of Palmer's entries concern plant names. Most of these entries are big yawns. The plants names that he cites are either defunct or they are so narrowly regional that it's hard to care about what he has to say.
For a book that attempts to corral the wild speculations of folk etymologies, Palmer's book is surprisingly full of etymological guesses. Some of his guesses are far-fetched. Just picking an entry at random:
MUG, a vulgar word for a face or mouth (especially an ugly one), stands for murg, Scot. morgue, a solemn face, murgeon, to mock by making mouths (Jamieson), from Fr. morgue, a sour face, a solemn countenance, morguer, to look sourly.
Mug from murg? The OED will have none of this. It derives this sense of mug from the old custom of depicting ugly faces on mugs. I also note that Palmer falls for the contredanse/country danse confusion I described in .
I compared several of Palmer's wilder etymological guesses with the OED entries for the same word. I think I detect in the OED subtle references that, without mentioning Palmer's name, slight his imagination-driven attempts to find antecedents for English words. My guess would be that James Murray had little use for Palmer's guesses but for professional reasons he did not want to disparage him in print. Perhaps someone who knows more about the society of scholarship in Murray's day could enlighten us about the relationship between these two etymologists.
I would suggest that we do not use any of Palmer's derivations as authoritative without confirmation from another etymological source.
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Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
The occasionally farfetched histories and connections in Palmer are part of its charm, and can lead into more interesting territory if pursued. There are still riches to tap in there, and in Wedgwood. For example, consider the under-our-noses eggcorn that has not been mentioned yet on this forum – female. Palmer points out, correctly, that the word originates in the French femelle, which is derived from a diminutive form of the Latin word for woman, femina. As he puts it, it was changed to female by false analogy to its counterpart, male.
Looking into other versions of this story, I came across another rich vein of eggcorns and related reconstructions, nicely identified: the Folk Etymology page on alphadictionary.com (link). Below is a list of the words and phrases with their colourful histories described on that site. Someone should go through this list and identify all having previous entries on this forum, and those that are not really eggcorns, and I guess that would have to be me, but do check the site out in the meantime.
the birds and the bees
Canary Islands
chaise lounge
ducking stool
Jerusalem artichoke
kissin' kin
sparrow grass
spitting image
Welsh rarebit
white rhinoceros
witch hazel
I don't think there's anything "under our noses" about "female"—it's one of the most frequently mentioned of folk etymologies in English and probably well-known to many of the regulars on the forum. But it's standard and therefore not (or at least no longer) an eggcorn—I suspect that's the main reason it hasn't gotten specific airtime. Devoting time to folk etymology is fairly new for us— I've been wondering whether we should have a new page to accommodate posts on it.
There's definitely some good stuff on that Alphadictionary list. But be careful with anything coming from "Alphadictionary" or "Dr. Goodword" (aka "Dr. Language" aka "Robert Beard"). Sometimes he's right; sometimes he's amazingly way off. (Language Log and LanguageHat have both discussed him/them—the former multiple times, often with responses from the good doctor himself.) In the case of this particular list, I'm already on my guard. Peter's brief discussion of "poleax" some weeks ago led me to start a post on "tadpoles" and "pollywogs" that soon got monstrously out of hand as I started more hares than I could chase. So I was particularly interested when I saw those two words included on the list. It turns out Dr. Goodword stole a lot of my fire, but his account of the later steps in the evolution of "pollywog" looks like craziness to me—I worry he may have made it up out of "holey cloth" (6 hits). He thinks the final form of the word was influenced by the racist slur "wog," but both "wog" and "golliwog" (which may or may not be related) are first cited long after "pollywog." And in fact, one of the many theories about "wog" is that it's derived from "pollywog." None of this is mentioned in his discussion of the origins of the term.
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it's standard and therefore not (or at least no longer) an eggcorn.
Eggcorns have stale dates?
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
Eggcorns have stale dates?
Well, "stale" may be too harsh. Think of cute little oak-chicks breaking out of their eggcorns and growing into stately members of our lexical forest.
Think of cute little oak-chicks breaking out of their eggcorns and growing into stately members of our lexical forest.
An image worthy of Dali. You've been pickin' those poppies along the road again, haven't you?
I suppose we could still argue that "female" was a hidden eggcorn for modern users who imagine that it has something to do with "male." That might make it worth noting in this forum.
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I always liked what Shane MacGowan of the Pogues did to "male/female" in the lyrics to "Old Main Drag" (off their best album—Rum, Sodomy & the Lash):
There the he-males and the she-males paraded in style
And the old man with the money would flash you a smile
In the dark of an alley youd work for a fiver
For a swift one off the wrist down on the old main drag
Given the lyrical context (and the pun that might be lurking in the song's title), I was never sure whether she-males were females or transvestites. But either works brilliantly. MacGowan at his best is one of rock's great lyricists.
I was reminded of MacGowan's wordplay when I was working on learning Icelandic. The word "maður" (accusative form "mann") can mean "man" in modern Icelandic, but it can also mean "a person, somebody." If you need to be absolutely clear about gender, you can use "karlmann" and "kvenmann"—which, with English cognates, would come out as "carl-man" and "quean-man" (or even "queen-man"; "quean" and "queen" make a maddening etymological tangle). It doesn't sound as weird in Icelandic.
A more famous student of Icelandic seems also to have been struck by this pairing. Here's a sentence from Chapter 25 of the novel Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair by William Morris:
But to each one of these knots as they entered, someone, carle or quean, spake a word or two, and straightway the new-comers went up to the dais and greeted Christopher pleasantly, and made obeisance to Goldilind.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/ … pter25.htm
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Raising the subject of queans is very pertinent to Palmer. I was struck by his treatment of the word "cot-quean", which was applied to either a strong woman or an effeminate man, who is quean of the kitchen. He says it is a recasting of the French word "coquine", the feminine version of coquin. "Coquine" means mischievous, even malign, or racy, or raunchy. The word coquin was apparently originally applied to pilgrims (on the the way to Compostela?) who abused the hospitality of dwellers along the route, who felt obliged to offer sustenance. In modern times, it is a seafood dish – "coquilles Saint-Jacques". Venus stands on the same half-shell.
The coquine connection seems weak to me. Be that as it may, the name cot-quean applied to an effeminate man, going all the way back to Shakespeare's plays, seemed like a possible origin for drag queen. However, The Online Etymological Dictionary indicates that the queen/homosexual link did not appear until 1924, so who knows.
Opening at 'cot-quean' my copy of Palmer (1882, 1st edition, good condition and open to offers I can't refuse) I find:
"COT-QUEAN (an effeminate man), probably for cock-quean, and that perhaps a corruption of the French coquine..."
A Victorian curate and gentleman-scholar can be forgiven for such delicacy or squeamishness or ignorance – I'm not sure which it is – and, unlike me, he wasn't able to google 'cock-quean' – here goes…
Well, it took a while and as you can imagine it hasn't been easy finding a path through the inevitable forest of bristling dicks but I did find a 'sexual dictionary' called sex-lexis.com which gave this definition:
Since the 1830s, a male homosexual , one who acts the wife .
Etymology: Derives from cotquean , a 16 th century Scottish term for a peasant housewife, later applied to: a) an emasculated male; b) a masculine or shrewish woman , especially one who dominates her husband .
Quean/queen and homosexuality may go back much further, it would seem, than the Online Etymological Dictionary at least would have us believe. I wonder, then, whether the 'cot' of cot-quean, which we know refers to 'cottage', had anything to do with the naming of the homosexual activity of cottaging? It would be nice to have a full OED at hand.
I am looking for a Diana Palmer book. All I can remember about it is the heroin is at the hero's ranch and he kicks her out. She's walking home and gets bit by a rattler. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
rustycusak—you must be thinking of Heart of Stone. It only came out in 2008 (the latest volume in the Long Tall Texan series), but it's unsurprising that you've already forgotten the title since it's supposed to be as disappointing as most of Diana Palmer's recent books. (A better bet might be one of the early books in the series—say, Calhoun or Tyler.)
But you know, rustycusak, I'm worried you're a spambot. Your posts are weirdly off-topic, and yet this latest post isn't quite typically spambottish—and at least you're asking about books, even if they're late-period DP. But please avoid any more wildly off-topic posts and don't post any gratuitous commercial links….
"Spambottish" currently gets 23 ughits, but I betcha that one will be visibly rising month to month.
Later edit: I located the source of spambot rustycusak's query; it's over at the Romantic Times book review forums:
I'm looking for a Diana Palmer book. All I can remember about it is the heroin is at the hero's ranch and he kicks her out. She's walking home and gets bit by a rattler. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
http://www.romantictimes.com/forum/view … 0b80ee518c
Of course, tricialen—who asked the question at RT—might be rustycusak. But I doubt that since the correct answer was offered almost two weeks ago over there. So the spambots are getting more sophisticated—they're able to pull a reference to a "Palmer book" from anywhere on the Web, rather than having to reformulate some other poster's text here on the Eggcorns Forum.
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I always liked what Shane MacGowan of the Pogues did to "male/female" in the lyrics to "Old Main Drag" (off their best album—Rum, Sodomy & the Lash)
My vote for best Pogues album (and one of the best albums by anybody) is "If I Should Fall from Grace with God", though admittedly I've only heard "Rum, Sodomy and the Lash" a couple of times, so maybe it will grow on me.
I was never sure whether she-males were females or transvestites.
Judging from the increasing appearances of "she-males" (with or without the hyphen) on porn sites, the term usually seems to refer to so-called "chicks with dicks", i.e., people who look female, often complete with large breasts, but with male genitalia. In some cases these may be hermaphrodites, but it seems to me that most of them are probably born physically male, then feminized by artifice. Many (most?) may be pre-op transsexuals, but some may have no intention of ever removing the male organ. I suppose transvestites may also be referred to as she-males in some cases. Maybe we should ask Shane what he meant—though he probably won't remember!
MacGowan at his best is one of rock's great lyricists.
I'm with you on that, and one of the great singers, too. And when I saw the Pogues, he was even sober enough to perform. Although he was unsteady on his feet, his singing was great.
A local record store here in Santa Rosa has an amusing sign on the wall: "Unfortunately, Shane MacGowan is unable to perform this evening".


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CHICAGO (AP) — Grammy Award-winning polka great Eddie Blazonczyk, who began playing the lively music in the 1950s and went on to earn the nickname "Polka King" after starting his own band and label, has died. He was 70.
His record label, Bel-Aire Recordings, and his son, Eddie Blazonczyk Jr., said Tuesday that Blazonczyk died of natural causes Monday at a hospital in the Chicago suburb of Palos Heights.
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Blazonczyk was born to Polish immigrant parents on July 12, 1941, in Chicago. His parents operated music clubs in the city and he started playing in the 1950s with "Happy Eddie and his Polka Jesters," performing at Polish festivities.
For a time, Blazonczyk performed pop music with Mercury Records as "Eddie Bell and the Bel-Aires," when he appeared on "American Bandstand." But he returned to polka in 1962, forming the Versatones and going on tour.
Blazonczyk played many instruments but preferred the bass, and he sang lyrics in both English and Polish. Some of his biggest hits include "Angeline Be Mine Polka" and "Poor Boy Polka."
Blazonczyk earned many accolades throughout his career. He was named a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellow in 1998. His son said many friends have been sending him condolence messages since learning of his father's death.
"For them this is truly the day that the music died," Blazonczyk said.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Welcome Back, Wanger
Wang arrived Taiwan earlier. This is the photo in airport station. Wang just had a press conference 2 hours ago. However, there is huge political news in Taiwan today( I don't want to talk about that. If you guys are interested, go check out news).
I don't think there will be a huge coverage of Wang today. In fact, Taiwan media just like New York media. This is so rare someone like Wang to have any coverage at all. This tells you something. The way he speak(so few words) is really not a news material(boring).
I got few quotes from some news .
*Yankees ask Wang to ride bike, not to run.
*Wang knows there are a lot of great pitchers on the free agent market this off-season. How he feel? He said let go to get champion together. No matter who Yankees get, they are the best ones. He will just do his job which try his best to win every game. However, Wang said Moose and Pettitte really help him a lot. I think we can't underestimate the impact those veterans pitchers will bring to the team, especially for young pitchers.
*Wang really want to play WBC for Taiwan, but he knows he need to rehab first. Wang actually asked Cashman before coming back to Taiwan. Cashman already told him to prepare spring training.
*He said he felt so sad and miserable for not able to help Yankees, especially he sat there and looked at what happened to the team the end of season. When he knew Yankees' chance for playoffs become lower and lower, he wanted to play so badly and apologized to team.
Come back later for more if I have more.
Updated: I am finally able to watch Wang's press conference. Sorry about being late. I was so tired because I haven't slept much for few days.
*Wang said Bowa kept sending him text messages to encourage him and want to know how he feel after he get hurt. I think Yankees really miss Larry Bowa. If they actually have a chance to sign him after 2007 season, they definitely should not miss.
*Remember the difference between Joe Torre and Joe Girardi? Wang said Torre joking around with him a lot. However, Kuo(another Taiwanese pitcher) is the relief pitcher on LA Dodgers said Torre is quiet. He doesn't say much. As for Joe Girardi, Wang said he is more serious than Torre. During practices, Girardi actually run with them. Wang said he runs harder and tried not to lose to him.
I think Torre is really a good players manager based on what I heard from Wang and Kuo. Based on players' different personality, Torre uses different ways to communicate with them. Wang is quiet guy and is very hard on himself. Joking around with him and making him loose is a good way to get most out of him. On the other hand, Kuo is a voluble guy with good sense of humor. Torre use more serious way to deal with him.
*Wang doesn't regret for running hard on bases and getting hurt. He said injury is part of athlete's life. He always does his best no matter what he is doing. However, he thinks he needs to focus more to train his legs because he has a lot of injuries related to legs recent years.
*Wang said doctors told him he is 100% healthy right. This foot injury won't have any impact on his pitching. However, there are always few cracks over there. I am kind of understanding this. Just like our normal persons. Every time we hurt ourselves, there are always some concerns over the places we get hurt and there are always chances to hurt the same place again.
*There is one period of time in 2008 season he didn't pitch well. Wang said he think too much. He wants to get every batter and want to pitch better. I think Wang actually really wants to prove himself after what happened in 2007 playoffs.
*It will be a huge honor for Wang to be able to pitch in opening day in New Yankees stadium, but he doesn't think he will get it.
That's all I get. This week we can't do anything until we get past November 14 which all players become free agents. This is good. I actually can focus more on the stuffs I need to get it done in my real life.
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Do you think Wang will still be ace of staff in '09? Wang really seems laid back, and reserved. I didn't feel much national pride for the American team in the last WBC. Sports is so commercialized nowadays, that I just consider it entertainment. They are no longer role-models, and heroes. But from what I've heard, Wang is a pretty big deal in Taiwan.. But would he be the ace of the Taiwanese staff? He hasn't been lights out in the playoffs for the Yanks. I wonder if he's a big game pitcher. When that sinker-ball isn't working, he is beyond ineffective. Contrition is rare among pro-athletes today, Wang is a humble, and rare breed.. I feel bad along with him. Blame Bobby Meacham, Wanger.. How important was that run now? I don't think we can read much into managers and their relationships with their players. This is stuff that goes on behind closed doors, between men. Its not meant for our dissertations really.. I think its a waste of time, you get so much contradictory information anyway.. Well.. good luck with getting sleep, and focusing on your real life. You provide a product (your opinions and time)to the world here, I appreciate it. Beats my espn subscription, lol
- November 12, 2008 at 3:50 AM
- Jessica Lee said...
Dear Daniel,
I don't think Wang will and should be the ACE of staff in '09. I think most Yankees fans, people in the front office and players on Yankees or other teams don't think Wang is the man. How many times we heard from Yankees players talk about we need an ACE? The one comes to my mind are Hank, Posada, etc.
If Wang is not the the ACE of staff, it will make his life easier. He doesn't care anyway. Let someone else to be the man. As a Taiwanese, I always support Wang more than other players on the Yankees. I actually don't care he is the ACE or not. I just hope he can stay healthy and pitch in front of rotation for 10 more years in the big league. The best scenario is to retire as a Yankees.
I know ACE in American baseball is always the one can strike out tons of batters. Wang never will be that guy under this definition. Someone feel ACE is the one who is big game pitcher can pitch light out in the playoff, such as Beckett. Does anyone change their mind after Beckett's 2008 playoff performance? I don't think so. Even though Beckett pitch badly this playoffs, people still think he is the man. I think the reason is Wang is not a strikeout pitcher.
In my mind, If Joba can stay healthy as a starter, Joba will be the ACE Yankees need. And then Wang, Hughes(No.3). If we can get CC this off-season, we will have Joba, CC, Wang and Hughes as No.1-4 for many years. Of course, it's not going to happen next season when Joba still have inning limitation and Hughes still need to work on pitches.
There are two reasons I think Wang should not be ACE of staff in '09. First of all, Wang can keep working and improving other pitches if he isn't the ace of staff in '09. Secondly, Wang is a guy throw about 90-93mph(sinker) most of time during a ball game. If he needs to, He can throw four-seam fastball about 94-96 once a while. Not to mention he still need to work on his sliders, changeup and splitters. It's not good enough as ACE.
- November 12, 2008 at 2:47 PM
- Jessica Lee said...
I know most Americans treat sports as an entertainment. It's not this case around the world. Most people around the world treat athletes from their countries and win international tournament as heroes. We don't treat every Taiwanese who has huge accomplishment in any area like the way we treat Wang. The reason is his personality. The way he present himself. We feel he present the image of Taiwanese: work hard, quiet, don't do things to get credit. He did a lot of charity during off-season, but no one knows. He told his agent and the place he went not to let media know. We only knows few things he does. If company want to get Wang to be spokesman of their brands, they need to do some charity events to go along with. Every now and then, some media will find out what Wang does. But we can't get any details on the things he does because he doesn't talk about it. He also asks his agents not to talk about it. That's why he is such a big deal in Taiwan.
As for his laid back and reserved personality, this is Taiwanese culture. We believe actions speak louder. We don't express our opinion too much. I am not a typical Taiwanese. I have changed a lot. I stayed in the LA for few years and now I am in Sydney.
I know Wang hasn't pitched well in the playoffs. I believe Wang and A-Rod eventually will be able to do it in the playoffs if given enough chances. Wang actually remind me Eli Manning. Is Eli Manning laid back? Does he perform not go well before last year superbowl? Once Wang and A-Rod are able to do it once, people will change their mind. It just like Jeter and Mo. Jeter and Mo didn't perform well every playoff game, but they get that big game players reputation. Why? They have already done it at least once.
- November 12, 2008 at 3:11 PM
- Jessica Lee said...
We still have pretty good pitchers who plays in Taiwanese and Japanese pro league. Wang will be the ACE of Taiwanese staff now.
The funny thing about Wang is people never think he can be this good. I don't know do you know Kuo and Tsuo? more people think more good things from them than Wang. Every Wang's coach before going to America all said Wang is the player who is quiet and work hard. That's all. They never think he can be this good.
When Yankees promote Wang to AAA and big league in 2005, I don't think Yankees expect Wang to be this good. They just need him before Jaret Wright came back from injury and then they can use him as a trade chips.
When Wang pitches better than people expect, they still think he is a no.3 pitcher at best. Guess what? I think it's safe to say, Wang is a great no.2 pitcher now. I don't think he is an ACE now. He may surprise everyone again. If he can command his other pitches, such as sliders, changeup and splitters, he will be one day.
By the way, I did have ESPN subscription befroe. I canceled it before leaving America.
- November 12, 2008 at 3:26 PM
Beckett was injured much of this past season. Wang doesn't have 'ace make-up' imo. I saw Kuo in the playoffs this season, and I can't remember how he pitched. Its hard for me to follow everyone. The NL, i don't follow except for the Mets, and I'm on the east coast of the U.S. I feel a sense of pride when I see an African American or Black ballplayer do well. I would love to see C.C. in new york, and succeed for that reason. In my pride for my race, not so much my country. For instance, I did not derive much pride from the U.S Olypmic baseball team, instead, I enjoyed the U.S men's basketball team, since they are predominantly black. However you share heritage, and nationality with some MLB stars right..? If for instance a caucasian was born and raised in Taiwan, and then found success in the US, how would you embrace him? I root for Wang because he's quiet like I am, and is a team first guy.
- November 13, 2008 at 3:19 AM
- Jessica Lee said...
As I said before, I actually don't care Wang is ACE or not. As long as he stay healthy and pitch well for another 10 years.
For Taiwanese, What Wang learn over there and come back to teach young ball players is much more important than anything else. Just like what Wang said, He is going to teach children to play baseball after retirement.
As for race question. After moving around different countries and meeting many different people around the world for many years, I actually doesn't feel the national pride as much as I did before leaving Taiwan. Right now, I treat everyone the same and try to learn different culture in order to get along friends from different countries.
Just like why you root for Wang, the main reason I root for Wang because of his humble, quiet and work hard personality, not because he is a Taiwanese.
- November 13, 2008 at 6:03 AM
Hi Jessica,
I Think There are some mistakes:
(1) quite --> quiet:
"...Kuo(another Taiwanese pitcher) is the relief pitcher on LA Dodgers said Torre is quite."
"Wang is quite guy."
(2) lose --> loose:
"Joking around with him and making him lose is a good way to get most out of him."
Jeff / Taiwan
- November 17, 2008 at 11:34 AM
- Jessica Lee said...
Thanks Jeff,
I should double check my posts before posting. My spelling is terrible. I don't know how people can stand this.
Thanks a lot. I am very appreciated.
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Through the patriotic and nationalistic bluster of our politicians and the media the Pentagon report was mostly forgotten. It took the presidential campaign of Ron Paul in 2008 to bring the issue of blowback back to the forefront. In a Republican presidential candidates' debate, Congressman Paul was asked about 9-11. He talked about how U.S. foreign policy was a "major contributing factor". In particular he cited our bombing of Iraq for 10 years through the 1990s. Then he stated:
"I believe very sincerely that the CIA is correct when they teach and talk about blowback. When we went into Iran in 1953 and installed the shah, yes, there was blowback. A reaction to that was the taking of our hostages and that persists. And if we ignore that, we ignore that at our own risk. If we think that we can do what we want around the world and not incite hatred, then we have a problem. They don't come here to attack us because we're rich and we're free. They come and they attack us because we're over there. I mean, what would we think if we were –if other foreign countries were doing that to us?"
And that is the deep question that all Americans must ask themselves: what would we think and do if other countries were doing the same things to us? What would we do if another country occupied our territory, supported through financial and military aid a tyrannical government in the United States, or used drones to kill their enemies on U.S. soil consequently killing innocent American citizens in the process? We wouldn't tolerate it in the least bit, so why do we think it is justified to do it to others and label those that take umbrage with our actions terrorists?
And so once again, Americans have experienced a "terrorist" attack on our soil. This time it was perpetrated in Boston by two ethnically Chechen Muslims. Once again, we are supposed to believe it was done because they hate our freedoms and prosperity. We are supposed to believe this even though one of the suspects was a naturalized American citizen who enjoyed the freedoms and prosperity he allegedly was accused of hating. We are supposed to believe this even though the seriously injured Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lying in his hospital bed before he was Mirandized admitted that he and his brother were motivated to carry out the Marathon Bombings by American aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan and the thousands of Muslims who had been killed by American forces.
We can continue to delude ourselves that we can do whatever we want to whomever we want and there won't be consequences. Or we can learn that the CIA was on to something in 1954 – that blowback is real.
Article first published as When Will Americans Learn that Blowback is Real? on Blogcritics.
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Does anyone know any of the pub landlords or owners from the local pubs/cafes around Upton Park?
I imagine many of them relied on the Boleyn ground (whether it was match days, staff, guests in the hotel etc.).
Just wondering what's going to happen to them? Many have been there for decades. Close shop or try and adapt?
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Lets face it, we all know what will happen to them.
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Quite a few have gone already
Green st cafe the lease was up and he wanted to do one more year, landlord wanted 4 yrs
Small sweet shop in Barking Rd near the Dr Who shop run by a WHU STH had the same offer gone and now empty.
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That's what I suspected, and clearly they won't be able to afford to relocate near Olympic stadium.
It's a shame but inevitable I suppose.
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The Boleyn is offering fans discount drinks and coach ride to and from the OS on match days for £120 per season.
Hopefully it's enough to keep it afloat.
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Cafes and pubs which see a surge in customers on match days fear they will not be able to stay open without their boost from football fans.
They include Nathan's pie and mash shop in Barking Road, a family business that has spanned four generations and counts former West Ham players and managers including Rio Ferdinand and Harry Redknapp among its regulars.
The Boleyn pub, which had served beers to hundreds of thousands of fans over the years, will also be hit. A barmaid said: "On match days we have 25 extra staff on and serve hundreds upon hundreds of pints every hour.
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KFC Introduces New Big Mac Copycat in Canada
Burger King isn't the only fast food chain to roll out a Big Mac clone. In Canada, there's also a new copycat at KFC. The "Big Boss Burger" features two crispy chicken fillets with special sauce, lettuce, cheddar, pickles, and onions on a toasted sesame seed bun with a bonus middle section, just like a Big Mac.
According to The Hamilton Spectator, Robert Carter, executive director, food service at NPD Group Canada (a market research group), these copy-cat items that lie outside of fast food brands' core offerings are a response to the current fast food market, which is flat. "You literally need to be stealing customers from your competitors to grow in Canada. There's no two ways about it," he says.
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Paywall, paywall, paywall!!!
I love living life on the edge.
You completely missed the point...
They show others the way. You just have to ease up on the righteous indignation long enough to realize you need to adapt. --Clipped from Jedidiah's post.
Pirates are showing these people who bear the burden of development cost exactly what the market wants and the ways to get things out into the market, they developed these technologies as open markets. (That's that phrase that means that the pirates actually bore the development costs)
This actually reminds me of a poster I saw back in highschool. "When one door closes another opens... But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us."
The problem with this thinking is both sides of the argument work in terms of black and white. Each case of the issue is an individual case, we can spin hypothetical situations all day and night long.
There may be a case where piracy does indeed harm an individual company, but there are also cases where it helps it. The point is, none of us here can really say yes or no for all cases.
Though I am not a lawyer, it would seem that the intent of the law is that, everyone can have access to anything, with ultimately it being the CREATOR's burden to deal with the repercussions of of other people's actions. It basically comes down to if a creator creates something and distributes it, if others come along see it and share it with others, they injure him in the sense that they have violated his right of control over copying something, but it is HIS responsibility to stop the people who are violating this right not anyone else's (hint this is why its civil not criminal law, the person who holds the copyright has to prove injury, and not even beyond a reasonable doubt).
Also interestingly enough I do think that it doesn't hurt them nearly as much as they claim, I mean, I constantly see the mantra of "Do not consume media that you didn't pay for" and wonder to myself if those people saying that realize what they're saying is: "Pay me, or ignore me." I am not a creator of material that I've attempted to sell but will also add that, I have always got the impression that most people who are actually interested in making art, or generally creating things are the kind of people that obscurity is the worst kind of hell for them. Maybe that's why we only see the inflammatory style AC's spouting that and not cool/kick-ass seeming folks (I'ma name drop Suja here) that make stuff spewing that.
"Carry the line, only when it fits our narrative."
I just had an epiphany on that matter.
Perhaps it's like those farming subsidies where they can make more money for not growing crops/losing crops.
The +1 makes sense over the like/dislike feature (which isn't really relevant to any other current services).
Just because Facebook doesn't encourage people to downrate people's posts... Doen't mean a thumbs up/down button system is irrelevant. Personally I hate only being able to like things because Id like to tell face book I dislike things.. So that things I don't like wont be shoved in my face anymore.
I would imagine that's probably where a large portion of the disdain for this idea comes from.
Suja, I liked your story! And I liked Deckard Cain's infamous quote too.
I sure can, I just suggested it.
"infringement" or "infringement of rights"
Copyright implies that one has quite literally the right to copy something, when someone else creates a copy they are infringing upon the person who has the copyrights for the item in question.
There are no similarities in those things other than joining a wifi network without authorization or joining a cable network without authorization sound very similar to going onto someone's land without authorization. But the only real similarity between infringing on copyright would be that you're doing it without authorization, so I suppose if one wants to stretch really really really hard, we could say anything that one does without authorization is...unauthorized...
But no I do not think that infringing upon a copyright is theft of any kind. Its more akin to counterfeiting, even in its consequences, after all every dollar printed or every song given out, makes every other one of these things slightly less valuable, but that is still not theft no matter how one tries to spin it.
Ill add in, what about other things that are valuable due to an imposed scarcity, like diamonds, what if I suddenly find a new huge source of diamonds that aren't controlled by the diamond cartels and flood the market with these diamonds am I wrong then? Lots of various ways one can make this argument and bend it one way or another I suppose.
So you're of the mindset then that if we duplicate *ANYTHING* it's wrong and should have legal repercussions?
And you're right I did choose gold over money for a simple reason, I am fully aware of the legal status of producing counterfeit money. However my point was more that if one can suddenly produce more of *something* that is valuable and begins to do that, is that action necessarily wrong?
Let's do this the right way, say I discover a way to duplicate bars of gold. Now I go about on my merry way touching people's gold items and duplicating them. Is it amoral for me to make everyone everywhere's gold less valuable by duplicating it more and more? Is it wrong to then duplicate this gold more and more to give out to everyone around me that asks?
Quite an interesting thought experiment for the copying question.
So if everyone who didn't pay for a that you created chose instead to completely ignore your media's existence and went to someone else who gave things away for free, you'd really be fine with that and not be crying about these lost sales?
Would you also be fine with the fact that all the people who could have interacted with your were also now no longer talking about it?
Quite the interesting prospect "copyright infringement is hurting our business, because we cant make money off what we're making. But you should just not acknowledge what we make exists if you wont PAY PAY PAY!" Sounds like a good plan.
Infringement: a breach or infraction, as of a law, right, or obligation; violation; transgression.
Copyright: the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 50 years after his or her death.
I believe when we combine these two words through a magical function of language that is called a phrase.
(a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence.)
We find ourselves with "copyright infringement" which certainly sounds like what happens when one duplicates something which is protected by copyright. Doesn't sound like stealing to me!


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Apple's Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer has said that the company is working hard to improve the iOS 6 Maps app that was blasted by critics when it launched in September.
During Apple's fourth fiscal quarter earnings report on Thursday, Oppenheimer said: "We've made a number of improvements to Maps over the past month and will work non-stop until Maps lives up to our incredibly high standards."
Apple's Maps app replaced Google as the native mapping service on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch when the company released iOS 6 alongside the iPhone 5.
Upon its launch, however, users found that landmarks had been relocated, buildings were obscured by cloud and some areas are in black and white, as well as many other inaccuracies in new app.
The complaints became so wide spread that Apple's CEO Tim Cook issued a public apology about its mapping service, and suggested that iOS users turn to competing apps "while we're improving."
Some improvements have since been spotted, and Oppenheimer's comment suggests that we will see further changes to the Maps service in the near future.
[Via The Mac Observer]
See also:
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I recently bought back my late dads XK120 and whilst looking lovely and fully restored on the outside shes had very little rust protection and paint under the wings.
My my plan is to strip each wheel arch back (there all very clean with little to no corrosion) and paint the undersides of all the body panels. When Ive done this before Ive prepped, painted, applied stone chip and then repainted again. This gives the most durable finish to the wheel arches which obviously take a pounding from stones and road debris.........
However, the car wont be driven in the winter and will be unlucky to be driven in the wet (but lets face it I live in the UK so some summer rain is inevitable)........ am I detracting from the cars bodywork by applying stone chip? The car is not concourse (but isnt too far off) and I want to drive it but dont want to do anything that would be regarded as sacriligous in XK circles?
Sorry for the late reply Nabbott, just seen this.
Visit this site: http://www.rust.co.uk/
Nothing to do with me, but good products which I've used on my Jensens.
In your case, your idea of stripping back and then painting is sound, but look at the Rustbuster products which clean and neutralise existing surface rust before you paint. There are a number of their products that you could then use to paint the underside.
Stonechip (as you are aware) is an excellent product to protect against road debris. Why do you think it will detract from the car's bodywork? If it's the standard "stonechip finish" (is anyone going to look underneath?), then use a spraygun to apply it, rather than a schutz or stonechip gun. It will be nice and smooth and no one will know that it's stonechip after you have applied the top coat.
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The heart of the black conservative
Raynard Jackson, NNPA Columnist | 9/24/2013, 6 a.m.
Within the Republican Party, there is what I call this mystery of the black conservative. Let me explain:
Over the years, I have had this conversation with people from the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Ollie North, Mike Huckabee and Haley Barbour, etc. They would argue that there was this growing trend of "conservatism" within the black community. I told them all categorically that this was bull.
Blacks have always been conservative or, more accurately, traditionalists. This DNA was embedded in us from the depths of our African ancestry. The spirit of our forefathers has been planted into us to cherish the values that allowed us to withstand the invasions of varied enemy forces from without and many similar forces from within.
The basis of this African culture was strict adherence to tradition, thus the word traditionalists. These traditions recognized the man as the head of the household that was his birthright. But in exchange for that birthright, he was responsible for the upkeep of that family— the wife, children and when needed, the extended family.
Children were not given choices they were given direction. The daughters would sit at their mother's feet and learn of her ways and the sons would stand with the tribal elders to hear their wisdom in all things.
Children were not told they could decide their own sexuality. Their sexuality was determined at birth. Children were not allowed to disrespect their parents without serious consequences. Those who violated the established values and morals were swiftly punished and when necessary, removed from the community. There was no 20 years of litigation and appeals.
In other words, the traditions demanded and expected strict adherence to certain behavior because the elders knew that without rules of conduct, the family would disintegrate and their nation would soon follow.
So, when Africans were exported to the U.S. as slaves, whites were amazed at the devotion Africans had to family, God and discipline, despite the newly found oppression as slaves. What whites failed to understand then, as well as now, is that these traditions are still part of our DNA. Admittedly, some in the black community have allowed this DNA to become dormant, but it is definitely still there.
Part of the reason for this dormancy is psychological. I have attempted to educate white and black conservatives about this issue, but to no avail. When you go into the black community and use the word conservative, what blacks hear is Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms.
Thurmond and Helms were both U.S. senators (both deceased). Thurmond was from South Carolina and Helms from North Carolina. They both represented the worst of America and the Republican Party at the height of their power. They both were the embodiment of America's racist past. In fairness, in his later years as senator, Thurmond was moving towards a path of redemption that was born out in some of the legislation he sponsored in the Senate, including increased funding for black universities.
So, when Republicans and black conservatives specifically, go into the black community and start talking about conservatism, blacks hear racism. So, the conversation goes like this: "My name is Raynard and I want to talk with you about why I am a black conservative." What is heard is: "My name is Raynard and I want to talk with you about why I am a black racist and a sellout to my community?"


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Follow the Civil War trail & trials of James Allison "Cap" Colehour through his three year enlistment.
The Prospect House, a Georgian-style "mansion", is a treasure in its own right. Cap Colehour built the first house in 1882, based on architectural drawings from his home in Chicago. In 1886 Cap built an addition onto his house and began to offer his home, which he then called "The Prospect Inn", as a seasonal resort. He operated the resort until 1924 when his wife made him retire at age 82. The Prospect Inn was perhaps the first and largest resort in the lakes area, operating for 38 years. Cap's daughter, Kathrina, and her husband, Ernest Wilkins, remodeled the interior five years later, in 1929. The house's furnishings and décor have not been changed since that time.
Continually inhabited by descendants of Cap Colehour since 1882, the Prospect House features the Civil War Museum in the lower level. Century old trees define the grounds where the Prospect House was originally built and remains today as a historical site in Battle Lake, Minnesota. Historical markers around the yard tell the story of the Prospect House.
Civil War Museum
James A. Colehour enlisted for Civil War service in 1862, along with his brother, with Company I, 92nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry and served until the end of the war. You can view his uniform sleeves with the visible holes where he was shot twice. You will be able to follow the map of his unit during the war including the Battle of Chickamauga, where he was wounded, and Sherman's March to the Sea. Cap's collection of Lincoln memorabilia shows his patriotism to our 16th President. You will be able to view Cap's collection of Civil War items and many pictures and articles. This Museum is the highlight of the tour!
|Watch the amazing family story of a Civil War veteran at the Prospect House Museum in Battle Lake.
|Jason Davis of KSTP Channel 5 On The Road series comments: "One of Minnesota's latest museums is an unusual collection in Battle Lake. It's really an opportunity to visit a house that built by a civil war veteran that has been lived in continuously since 1882. And everything the family owned or collected, including an amazing display of rare civil war souvenirs and mementos is still there!It's current owner Jay Johnson, the great grandson of the builder "Cap" Colehour, shows us around the home that became a hotel that is now the "Prospect House & Civil War Museum."
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This old dark Machine
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I have a new favourite brand when it comes to jewellery. This Old Dark Machine. I already have the "Knot" rings, but I think I´m gonna buy like the whole collection... Really like every single piece! What do you think about them?


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Leyton Orient extended their unbeaten home run to nine matches with a 2-2 draw against MK Dons in League One on Tuesday night.
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Leyton Orient extended their unbeaten home run to nine matches with a 2-2 draw against MK Dons in League One on Tuesday night.
A three-goal salvo inside seven first-half minutes saw the hosts recover from going behind to a 30-yard drive from Stephen Gleeson which left keeper Jamie Jones stranded.
In the ninth minute the home side were back on level terms when Scott McGleish netted his 13th goal of the season.
The veteran striker collected a pass from Andrew Whing and drove his shot from the edge of the penalty area into the bottom left corner past David Martin.
Orient midfielder Dean Cox then saw his 20-yard drive strike an upright, but they took a deserved lead after 14 minutes when Cox delivered an inch-perfect cross into the penalty area for central defender Terrell Forbes to nod home.
The loss of influential midfielder Stephen Dawson just before half-time knocked the O's out of their rhythm and their opponents dictated matters in the second-half and gained a deserved equaliser through Sean O'Hanlon. The defender met a free-kick from Peter Leven 11 minutes into the second-half to head home from close range.


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Adam Savage spent a little time telling us some rather compelling stories about his early personal failures. We watched a great panel, hosted by DJ Grothe, featuring Penn, Teller, Ray Hyman and Jamy Ian Swiss. They discussed some ethical issues involved in the conjuring arts and the impact of psychic entertainers.
After lunch, there was a talk about the late Jerry Andrus, along with a few segments from a documentary about his life, followed by a panel on skepticism and broadcasting, featuring Penn & Teller, Adam Savage, Jennifer Oullete and Bill Prady.
Phil Plait spoke about the 2012 doomsday predictions.
They discussed the more than $8000 raised to provide vaccinations to children in southern Nevada.
And now…they're doing the live auction.
I'm still feeling a little under the weather so I'm going to grab a nap after the auction, so I can party tonight.


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