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Anyway, I have been thinking about how my blog fits into the paleo blogosphere of late. I have been somewhat disheartened by the wrenching turn some blogs have made from being personal journals with scientific curiosities being discussed, to blatant agenda-pushers in the guise of pursuing further scientific knowledge. Some have always been unashamedly biased - I read Charles Washington's ZIOH blog with the expectation of one-eyed discussion of current findings/reports - but some are masked, giving the illusion of scientific objectivity whilst conveniently ignoring other possible understandings or research. Bleh. So even though I would love to include documentation of the interesting things I read about health and nutrition, and my own opinion on scientific research, I would hate to annoy readers the way other blogs do me. Thus, I will continue to share my online findings via Google reader (check the right-hand navigation bar for current shares and how to subscribe), and update my Show Me The Science page as necessity dictates.
In the meantime, I am going to continue my blog in the opposite direction - it will continue to be a personal documentation of my journey, my culinary experimentation, and other such things. So nothing will change, except perhaps the frequency of posts now that things are winding down and days are getting longer and hotter! End of meta-blogging.
With the sun peeping out for increasingly long periods during the day, I have been getting as much sun as I can, and building up a nice tan (read: blood serum D level). I'm still supplementing D on the days when I remember to supplement, and am also taking fish oil, Mark Sisson's multi (til I run out), potassium & iodine, magnesium, and a pro-biotic (since it's in the fridge anyway..). I am taking care to cover my bases there since I've been playing around with fasting quite a bit of late, and am also pushing for fat loss and muscle gain.
Fat loss: I began documenting my weight at the start of the month, after a few weeks of experimenting with alternating between high carb / low carb / zero carb / fasting. Interestingly, I didn't find much of a change in energy level during the experimental phases - no boosts after a dinner of sweet potato or a snack of fruit, no drops during 24 hour fasts... I also noted that my weight was rock steady throughout, even though I was eating now lower than my BMR required, and sometimes significantly more. This suggested to me that perhaps my physiology had finally achieved homeostasis post-hormonal imbalance & carb resistance acclimatisation (translation - my body was back to normal after DepTran screwed up my hormones and (maybe) long-term low-carbing left my body unable to deal with the intake of more than a few carbs). Before, I was highly affected whenever I would vary my food and activity choices, and my weight fluctuated wildly. It's significant to note that the weight where my body decided it was happy to stay was two kilograms more than my pre-primal weight. According to modern theory, this can be attributed to caloric restriction - although I often ate quite a bit of food, especially when I followed a meat-only diet, I suspect that overall I was eating a lot less than I did in the past. Metabolic studies would expect that any diet is going to have the long-term result of increased belly fat, so it looks like my results fit this description even if other factors drove the gain. For this reason, I'm trying to be very careful about monitoring my eating patterns.
Although I am not following a particular regime, here's a loose description of what I am doing to encourage fat loss without the rebound effect described above:
I am fasting quite regularly - at the moment, this is more a time conservation activity, since if I don't have to organise breakfast, let alone lunch, I can just get about my business. I usually have something to eat once I arrive home, and have a big dinner. Whilst the beau was overseas, this was wonderfully freeing - I would eat what I wanted, when I wanted it, rather than have to worry about making sure he ate his dinner early enough. I recently read about Martin Berkhan's 'Leangains Diet', which supports my typical work-day fasting habit.
To avoid my body adjusting to a caloric intake standard or building upon my carb resistance, I include some sweet potato or fruit at least once a week - usually on the weekend. I ensure my caloric intake varies every few days, whilst making sure my overall average is at or slightly below my BMR.
Most days I eat just meat and vegetables, favouring my preferred preparation method: heat a big pan, put fat in pan, put meat in pan, fill rest of pan with veggies, serve when everything is cooked to taste, and sprinkle with iodised salt! Even though this is leaving me with fewer and fewer opportunities to construct exciting new recipes, it's making me really happy! All I use is a knife, a chopping board, and my gigantic cast-iron frying pan, so washing up is a breeze (and I don't even bother to wash up unless I've used raw meat).
I'm eating a LOT of vegetables - most days I easily clear the 500g mark, and sometimes I hit a full kilo of veg if I've eaten two or more meals! The incredible (to me) aspect is that even with all that plant matter, I still rarely clear more than 30g net carb per day! When I think of how timid I was back in the low-carb days pre-primal, serving myself only one floret of broccoli, and running away from carrots, I want to slap myself! I love veggies, and now that my system seems to be healed, I don't notice any digestive issues whatsoever - no bloat, no farting (not even after I eat cauliflower and broccoli!), and no sluggishness. I don't regret my meat-only days - they would not have adversely affected my carb resistance any more than my more varied 20g carb days did - but it's still good to discover that I can incorporate vegetables into my diet without sacrifices the digestive benefits of being carnivorous. Whether the few sugars from plant foods are speeding up my eventual aging or not, there's no way to tell, but I still know that I'm better off than the average SAD person, and have a slightly better chance of finding suitable foods at functions and outings. I also note that consuming slightly less meat per days could have an impact on sustainability, but given the fact that I eat more veggies by weight than I would be eating meat, I'm not sure which way that impact leans. I also know I'm not saving any moolah in the process, since I buy organic veggies 80% of the time (I relax when it comes to low-pesticide varieties of veg that are grown locally and sold in supermarkets or conventional groceries). The veggies are still primarily a tasty way to transport added fats, but the volume also helps to fill me up.
As noted, I add in some fruits and maybe sweet potato and other starchier roots weekly, and if I'm feeling particularly underfed I'll enjoy some nuts. I still have a bit of a problem with nuts being hyperphagic for me - I actually noted a flash of desperate 'eat more nuts!' desire after finishing a bite of walnut last night! Not good... Plus, my gut doesn't deal with nut binges very well, so if I can't happily control my portions, it's better if I avoid them. Once I post this, I'll be heading to the kitchen to use up the current nut stash in a batch of Nola, using the subsequent leftover egg-yolks as an addition to dinner.
Since the start of October, I have lost 4kg, with my scales reporting a decrease in fat percentage. The figure on the scales does tend to bounce around, but I monitor my flab by feel - I've already been through once phase of jiggliness/shedding, and am onto phase two. Unfortunately, tomorrow is a friend's Halloween party, and I was planning to go as a gothic bellydancer with exposed midriff, but right now my gut is as wobbly as a skinny-fat person's cellulite-stricken thighs! The blubber sits away from my muscle - my stomach undulations give the impression of foam floating atop the ocean - not sexy! But anything could happen in the next 24 hours - I will be avoiding bloat, drinking lots of water, and crossing my fingers... And speaking of belly dancing:
Muscle Gain: Belly dancing is re-shaping my body dynamically! The current teacher taking my group whilst the usual teacher (and half the class) is in Egypt is an expert in upper body work and floor work, and even though we've only had two classes with her I'm seeing an improvement in my arm tone and shoulder flexibility. Belly dancing in general is whipping my abdominal muscles into shape, with my obliques refining particularly noticeably. My love handles are still present, yet my overall silhouette has become more slender in this area, meaning I can get away with wearing my airy-fairy summer dresses without worrying around hiding the bulge with stockings or granny panties! My thighs are getting stronger, but hopefully not bulkier - it's impossible to tell whilst I'm burning fat simultaneously. I'm not sure whether my 4kg weight loss has been impacted by muscle gain at the same time, but I would tend to guess not. I'm not seeking a gain in muscle bulk but muscle tone, and I think I'm well on my way! I don't really practice in between my weekly lessons, but with some more time available to me in future I might start up some sessions. In the meantime, my hula hoop still gets a spin every now and again, especially when the beau is around to be mesmerised... :)
As you can see, the proportions of my health efforts are heavily biased towards diet, of course, but with my new gym membership and hot weather coming up, I intend to be more active in my free time, given that I'll be spending more and more of my working hours stuck at my desk. Here's hoping I can get back some swimsuit confidence before the beach weather really hits!
Finally, for your viewing pleasure, a few samples of my dining habits from the past fortnight:
|Porterhouse steak, drenched in garlic butter, with a side of sliced veg
|Chicken Caesar salad
|Bad photo of an amazing squid & veg sauté
|Roo burgers, with asparagus and button squash
|At the Valedictory dinner for the graduating class: salmon steak and steamed veg (the salad was dressed). Had to fight to get my needs met, but in the end I was very pleased!
|Rare roo steak with sautéed veg
|Chicken drumsticks with sautéed veg
|Jonathan's classic Italian sausages and sautéed veg
|How to eat well at a shopping mall: pork roast and veg from Rhumba's at Westfield Doncaster
|Bacon & veg sauté to go under some grilled chicken (two serves here - this is my big cast iron pan!)
|The finished product!
PS - You may have noticed some Amazon & Google advertising on my site or in my posts. This is a test to see whether this kind of monetising generates enough income to buy my own domain name. I'm going to try it for a couple of months to see what the interest is. Don't go out of your way to click on ads, of course, but if there's something you're genuinely interested in, then hey, that's a few cents towards my domain. I want a true impression of likely activity in future.


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Before this summer's over I thought I'd share a few little vignettes from around the house :) I didn't do much seasonal decorating this year what with our big move to Orillia, but I did add a few simple summery touches here and there.
A quick an easy DIY, this print is just a piece of wrapping paper slipped into a GW frame. The smaller calla lily sketch is actually a greeting card (from my Mom :)
Changed out the red candles from my fall vignette (we totally skipped spring in our house :) for fresh and airy white ones. I love how they feel kind of beachy, plus they smell delish. I found the mustard flower at Walmart and it just made me smile :) Paired it with some other stuff I had on hand for a pretty summery arrangement!
This great big conch shell was too cool to pass up on a recent visit to the US. I still can't figure out where to put it, so for now it sits in this stone tray on our coffee table. I tried listening for the ocean but this one sounds more like a toilet. Still, it's pretty :)
Summery vase fillers were a Homesense clearance find, mixed in with some others from Dollarama and Walmart.
Definitely my fave piece of summer in the house! Orchids make me ridiculously happy :) I have another deep purple one that I was so in love with, and when the flowers fell off I just couldn't live without orchids in my life, so I went out and got another :)
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PANTON — On Saturday, Sept. 10, Panton will join the cluster of Addison County towns commemorating their 250th birthday this calendar year, and townspeople are planning a daylong celebration with myriad activities and attractions for all ages to mark the occasion.
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NEW HAVEN — Put on your best dancing shoes, save room for the pie-eating contest and get ready to learn some history at New Haven's 250th birthday bash on Saturday July 16, 2011. Join friends, family, community members and local legislators on New Haven's town green for a wide range of activities at this year's town fair from 2 p.m. until the fire department barbecue at 5 p.m.
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The usual suspects mentioned: Prius, Leaf, Volt. But in the medium term, a possible market for the Model S. And it will potentially help with charging points, etc., not to mention awareness and acceptance.
Since car sharing networks, especially the municipal ones, have as their central mission reducing auto congestion and pollution, EVs are a no-brainer fleet offering, and nearly all are talking about adding them. Car sharers tend to be green thinkers, and already inclined to electric transportation. EVs could spread rapidly as share cars if the charging issues (always a challenge in the cities that are car sharing's natural habitat) can be worked out.
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With 5 CDs to his credit, Charles Pillow has established himself as one of the premier woodwind multi-instrumentalists of today. His orchestration of Mussorgskys Pictures at an Exhibition (2004) and Gustav Holsts (2007) The Planets, both on ArtistShare, and Van Gogh Letters 2010 on ELCM, have earned him critical acclaim:
Pillow is on the cutting edge of a trend. He ushers in a previously unexploited way to enliven and extend jazz ALLABOUTJAZZ.COM.
A fluent performer, teacher, and touring musician he has performed on over 100 recordings of jazz and pop artists, including those of Michael Brecker, Maria Schneider, David Sanborn, Joe Henderson, Joss Stone, John Scofield, Bob Mintzer, Bob Belden, Jay Z, David Liebman, Mariah Carey, Chaka Khan, Luther Vandross.
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When this '63 Chevy Impala was purchased, the new owners knew that it wasn't going to be as difficult as it once was to restore or customize the car. A few years ago, parts weren't readily available for these classic rides and it was expensive to build or restore them. Today, there are tons of parts available for first generation Impalas. A number of companies now have most everything for Impala restorations, so the job of restoring or customizing one has become a lot easier.
Sheet metal restoration is not as hard as it looks, once you get the hang of it and learn the basics. We're going to be showing you a few of the basics, so that this type of work can be done for restoration or customization. We stopped off at House of Pain in West Covina, California, where they showed us how to restore the floorboards on this '63 Impala. Now follow along as Luis cranks away on this floorboard restoration job using CARS Inc. restoration sheet metal available over the counter.


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I would think that for any photographer having your first book published is a major, major big deal – I know it is for me. With my new book starting to hit the stores I know I have been thinking a lot about the books that were a big influence on me, and also had a direct effect on the decisions I made about how I wanted my book to be created. So today and tomorrow I thought I would try something different and share with you a few of the books that have had the biggest influence on my work.
One of the first and most important photography books I ever bought was this book: Portraits by Steve McCurry. I love the dignity in which he shoots such a wide range of people and cultures. I love the intimacy and connection that you feel with his subjects. I also thought that the concept of his lifestyle (traveling around the world alone taking pictures of whoever you found interesting) was so romantic. I never dreamed when I bought this book that I would end up creating my own version of that lifestyle. To learn more about Steve McCurry check out his website and his fantastic new blog.
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This recipe is a Christmas tradition. My great-grandmother Stanton would send a batch from Michigan every Christmas with our presents. I have acquired the recipe and now I make it every Christmas. I made this last Wednesday and of course it was raining. So, it stuck to the pan. I would advise doing it on a sunny day. I hope you will enjoy my favorite Christmas tradition.
1 cup of sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 cup water
1/2 cup butter
1.5 cups finely chopped walnuts (or pecans)
12 oz. semi-sweet chocolate morsels
1 candy thermometer
Combine sugar, salt, water and butter; heat to boiling (light-crack stage (285 )). After it is at light-crack stage, take off of stove and pour onto well greased cookie sheet. Cool in fridge. Melt chocolate on stove. Once the candy has cooled, pour half of the chocolate mixture on top of candy. Sprinkle with 1/2 of walnuts. Cool again. Turn and spread remaining chocolate and walnuts. Cool once again. Break into pieces and enjoy!
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Asian Superstar Karen Mok Explores New Territories With 'Belong'
Karen Mok wrestles with what's been a life-long question for her on the title of her first English album, "Somewhere I Belong."
The Hong Kong pop diva has a half-Chinese, half-Welsh father and her mother is half-Chinese, one quarter-Iranian and a quarter-German. It's easy to see why Mok cannot pinpoint one ethnic identity.
So where exactly does she feel like she belongs? Mok explains it's not a geographic location, but rather her home is on stage, wherever she performs.
"It's about what I do, when I feel comfortable, that's when I'm doing what I love most, that's singing, that's when I'm performing on stage, and just singing my heart out, sharing my emotions," she said. "So that's where I belong."
After 16 successful Mandarin/Cantonese albums, Mok is venturing into English lyrics and a mix of music styles.
The album is her first attempt to cross from pop to jazz. She sings classic jazz tunes, as well as reinterpretations of Chinese and Western pop songs.
Insisting on a jazz album with an Asian sound, Mok made the album in China with Asian musicians and added a traditional Chinese instrument, the gu zeng string instrument, to the background of some tracks.
The 42-year-old songstress has been on the Asian entertainment scene for more than 20 years. She's starred in over 40 feature films and is the first Asian female artist to star in a Broadway show, when she was cast as Mimi in the 10th anniversary Asian tour of "Rent."
Mok is currently promoting "Somewhere I Belong" in Asia. Later this year, she will appear in Keanu Reeves's directorial debut, "Man of Tai Chi."


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Thursday, January 12, 2012
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I know that my other scrappy patchwork blocks are considered improvisational quilting, but this felt SO much different. It was the most fun I have ever had sewing! I couldn't believe it was coming together just how I had hoped. And, it looked good? And YES!, I was doing it all on purpose! LOL
If I wasn't working from just my scraps, it would have been much easier, that's for sure. Finding enough white-ish colored scraps for piecing around my girl was a challenge. I used every last one! Good news, I still have a few more Bottled Rainbow Quilt Blocks to make, so I should have a few more soon.
My new (new) plan is to have this block be the bottom left corner of my Scraps Quilt. So, the quilt corner she's holding becomes the quilt itself?
Now I am wondering if I should just leave this as a mini scraps quilt and keep my other all scrappy patchwork? I am quilting as you go, so it's already quilted. I would just have to figure out how to finish off the back if I were to leave this a mini? And, I am seriously in love with improv quilting now, so this certainly won't be the last time I make something like this. What do you think? What would you do?
I wish I had better pictures to share today, but it's a dark and rainy day here, so these are all I have. I look forward to hearing your thoughts! I really appreciate all the comments on my scrappy progress post from yesterday! You guys are the best!!
p.s. I have a giveaway (here's a peek) starting tomorrow, along with a few others throughout the next couple of weeks in celebration of my two year blog-iversay on January 30th!!! Be sure to stop by for a chance at some gorgeous bundles of fabric!!
Take care, friends! ♥ Maureen
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wow ! I'm so impressed !!!ReplyDelete
You are amazing! I love that block more than any other pieced block I have ever seen! Just absolute perfection!!!ReplyDelete
i have never seen anything that made me say "okay - it is time to learn paper piecing" until i saw this. HOLY COW. it's gorgeous.ReplyDelete
No way! That is by far one of the coolest things I've seen since discovering the online quilting world! I don't know what to suggest as far as keeping it a mini or putting it into a bigger quilt, either would be perfectly awesome. You could even mount it in a frame and it would look pretty sharp hanging on your wall! Consider me in awe (and inspired!)!ReplyDelete
oh maureen i love it so much. i saw it on flickr yesterday and almost died! it is the cutest idea ever. i love the idea of her small block turning into a big quilt so if it were me i would keep going... ;) very cute idea! i am so glad you had such a fun time with it too. your sewing space seems really cozy. p.s. what kind of tea are you drinking? i have a really yummy sweet and spicy tea that i love. but i am always looking for more flavors to try.ReplyDelete
As always, so impressed by your work! She is beautiful! Can hardly wait to see what she turns into - I LOVE the idea of her holding the quilt she is part of.ReplyDelete
SOOOOO cool! Love it :)ReplyDelete
It is just fabulous. I love her.ReplyDelete
As always awesome.ReplyDelete
Absolutely WONDERFUL! Now the cogs are whirling in my head. You are a fabulous inspiration. I love your idea of making the rest of the quilt come out of that square!ReplyDelete
wow - too cute! I love the idea of a big quilt with her in the corner. Loving your scrappy quilt too xoReplyDelete
That is totally fabulous. I love what you've come up with and I think making it into the large quilt will look so neat!ReplyDelete
Not much time to spend going thru google reader today so I almost rushed by your post - but your scrappy girl block made me stop dead in my tracks! She's fabulous and it's a fabulous idea! I, too, vote for her being in the corner of the full quilt! You go, girl!!!ReplyDelete
That is so adorable!ReplyDelete
*Love* it! Grand idea to have her little quilt merge into your big scrappy one. Keep going, it'll be fabulous. xReplyDelete
I LOVE everything about that block!! How cute and clever and fun!!! That is awesome!!!ReplyDelete
Oh Maureen, it's brilliant! The girl has such character and liveliness and the little scrappy quilt leading into the other just looks amazing. You've inspired me to take my drawings off the board and try and work them out. As for what you should do, I'd just keep it out a few days until the idea hits you. Sometimes I just have to work that way.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 12, 2012 at 10:33 AM
Oh my gosh, this is 800 kinds of amazing! I like her as a mini. Gorgeous gorgeous job!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 12, 2012 at 10:43 AM
it's GORGEOUS!!! what a wonderful imagination you have :)ReplyDelete
Love it!! So adorable. I'm not a huge fan of the mini quilts, but that's totally a personal preference on my part. I would love to see it as a full quilt!ReplyDelete
Very cool! i am feeling inspired to try something like this now.ReplyDelete
this is unreal. ilke, you literally gave me goosebumps. I'm in awe.ReplyDelete
as much as i love it has a mini quilt i think the idea of her being a part of a bigger quilt is just brilliant. it's genius.
you can also create another mini down the road.
i can't wait to see this come together!!
Awesome. I love the idea of the woman holding the quilt that is the quilt. Very cool. Nice work.ReplyDelete
I was just about to write "I'm in awe" when I read the comment above. I'm not surprised - your work really is marvellous. It's so charming - what about a book with patchwork illustrations?! Find an agent!ReplyDelete
That is just amazing Maureen! I kind of like the idea of this on the corner of your quilt, but I would really choose to make this just a mini. It's a piece of art for sure! If it's already quilted, just add a back and bind. WOW!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 12, 2012 at 11:26 AM
How did you even make this??ReplyDelete
Maureen, what an amazing block! I LOVE, LOVE , LOVE!!!! it sooooo much. It's fabulous! and I love your idea of the girl holding the real quilt, fantastic.ReplyDelete
Maureen, this is so amazing. Wow, I just love it!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait for the next chapter tomorrow!ReplyDelete
This rocks my socks! Seriously. I would love to see this as part of a larger quilt myself, but it is awesome either way. Gorgeous!ReplyDelete
LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!! You are so talented!!!!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful piece - I love it! It's very inspirational. I vote to keep her as the lower corner in the larger quilt. The idea of her little corner turning into the whole quilt is just too perfect. Congratulations on such a great piece!ReplyDelete
WOW. Just, WOW.ReplyDelete
Yes, WOW, WOW, WOW!!!!!! This is truly inspiration!ReplyDelete
Such a brilliant idea! Amazing! LOVE IT!!!ReplyDelete
This is probably the most awesome thing I have ever seen in my whole entire life.ReplyDelete
I shared this on my face book. It is so awesome! also, I agree what other people where saying about making it a full quilt with your idea of putting her in the corner.ReplyDelete
oh my this is gorgeous!! I love it to bits!ReplyDelete
Thank you guys so much!!! You all are so kind!ReplyDelete
Maureen, I love it! The girl is so fun, and you executed your idea perfectly! So fun. Keep going, keep going!ReplyDelete
I love this block. I wish I had that kind of creativity. You are very blessed. Keep up the good work. I really enjoy seeing your creations.ReplyDelete
That is so cool! Is is paper peiced? Or appliqued? Do you not have to paper peice if you quilt as you go? Anyway, I think you should do as you originally intended with this one - make it part of a larger quilt! THe great feeling you have with it coming together so nicely will only increase as you put into into the big picture of what you had in your mind.ReplyDelete
let's see..what would I do....other than completely copy your idea of this brilliant block? seriously, the best thing i have seen in a long time!!! amazing! i dont think you need any advice, you have found your groove! just keep moving!ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh! This is the sort of thing that shows up in my google reader and literally makes me say OH MY GOSH! Literally. I feel like I NEED to make something like this right now (such a silly time to have to go to work right?). This is so cool and I love your idea of adding it to your scrap quilt so that she's holding the corner of the quilt. Ridiculously awesome. Who knew. Amazing. I'm pinning this to give it a try soon!ReplyDelete
Awesome! I love it. Are you sure you haven't been quilting long?ReplyDelete
Ummm, this is pretty much the most amazing piece of quilting I've seen in a long time! WOW! I absolutely love that she is holding a quilt. I think it would look wonderful as part of a bigger quilt or a mini. Thanks for sharing...really, really fantastic!ReplyDelete
I love it...no matter what you do it will be lovely...is it hard to do?ReplyDelete
Wow, incredibly gorgeous!ReplyDelete
She's wonderful, what an inspirational idea to have her handling the quilt blocks ahead of her like that! Now you could sell that foundation 'lassie' block pattern and we could each applique her face and hair, to suit ourselves!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 12, 2012 at 2:30 PM
A weekend sewing with you is now on my bucket list talented lady!ReplyDelete
I love this piece and it will be so nice on your scrap piece. It is a great challenge to use what you have and sometimes they become out greatest creations.ReplyDelete
Wow! I am so impressed with that block - it is absolutely beautiful! Such a lovely idea aswell! I could just imagine a whole quilt made in the same way/style!!!ReplyDelete
I LOVE that! I don't really get into that much quilting, but THIS type of quilting I could get into. Nice work! :)ReplyDelete
AMAZING! So neat to see it come together! I have a tonne of scraps,but when I start putting them together, they never lay flat... yours are adorable and so professional.. great job!ReplyDelete
- Angela C.January 12, 2012 at 3:25 PM
You have to explain this for us! It's awesome!!ReplyDelete
Nice job,
again, awesome! i love this block so very very much. you're a rock star!!ReplyDelete
I think it is perfect just as it is. Maybe mount it to something for an art quilt/wall hanging. It is really just fantastic!ReplyDelete
Hi Maureen! Your scrappy quilt is going to be amazing! I love all the busy clourful patchworks! This new lady of yours ... hmmmm ... she is so gorgeus that I can't find right words! Your idea to have her to hold the quilt is really good but I see her also as a painting on your wall! She would be so special and unique in frames! You are so talented and I'm happy to hear how you get ideas and you have to try them at once! Often I 'see' also and idea - sometimes it becomes as I saw it and sometimes not - still always I enjoy to create something!ReplyDelete
x Teje
Darn it woman! That is the most awesome piece of sewing!! If I could lay my mitts on it, it would go straight into a frame and up on a focus wall. How about getting that picture put onto some cards? Keep on having fun :)ReplyDelete
this is amazing. i would keep it as a mini, just because it deserves its own focus. your talent at improv is mind blowing. really. her holding the scraps is a stroke of genius! i am gushing. but i can't help it!ReplyDelete
That's freakin' awesome! I wish I knew how to do that. Was it paper pieced or something? I love love love it. I've never heard of improv quilting before, but then again, I'm a newbie wannabe who's trying to learn, so the things I DON'T know isn't surprising! :) Anyway, really great work and thanks for sharing it with us.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 12, 2012 at 5:52 PM
So amazing!!!ReplyDelete
This is gorgeous!!!! And super impressive! I love the idea of having her corner of the quilt turn into the rest of your scrappy quilt, but can see wanting to frame her too. Whatever you end up doing with her, she's going to make you smile whenever you see her. Would love more details on how you made her...ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness.....that is just the most adorable, cute, beautiful thing I have ever seen. Very well done!ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh, what a brilliant idea!!! She's marvelous and will be the perfect addition to the corner of your scrap quilt.ReplyDelete
Oh that looks absolutely fab! Love the combination of techniques you've used :o)ReplyDelete
How cute is that! love your idea and your sweet girl.ReplyDelete
This is so incredibly awesome. I absolutely love it and your idea! As for what to do, I'd lay it out with the others and see how it looks/feels. I can't wait to see more.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 12, 2012 at 7:44 PM
Inovative, fresh and exciting! This post is why I read thru blog after blog to get a gem like this.Keep on sewing, I will be reading!ReplyDelete
Oh my, this is so AWESOME! I think either way, it is super adorable. But I do think the idea of having it be the corner of the larger quilt is really neat! I love your original ideas!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 12, 2012 at 8:31 PM
Totoally impressive work there Maureen. You really let yourself out and made something amazing! Great work...way to go....!!!!ReplyDelete
your talent is staggering. which of course means you are a jewel!!ReplyDelete
OMG Maureen, you just stole my heart. That is just so darn stinkin' cute. Are you going to put the pattern out there for us to buy? Doing more of these cuties to make a set? Love it!!!ReplyDelete
Phenomenal! Simply Phenomenal!!ReplyDelete
Love it. I'd like to see it as a big quilt because I think it would be absolutely amazing.ReplyDelete
That is just GREAT!ReplyDelete
Wow! That is amazingly beautiful! Oh, pretty please, do a tutorial! I would love to learn how you did this. My vote is for the mini - that way you could put it up on a wall or prop it up on a desk and look at it throughout the day and remember how amazingly creative you are! Just in case you ever forgot...ReplyDelete
Oh it is incredible and so sweet! I'd go with framing it as art.ReplyDelete
You are so talented.
I think this is my favorite block you've made to date! I think I'll go make some tea and see if I'm hit with incredible inspiration!ReplyDelete
I didn't think that scrap quilt situation could get any more beautiful and then you go and make this incredibly beautiful and creative (oh my goodness so creative) block. I am in awe.ReplyDelete
Genius!! I LOVE that block!ReplyDelete
This is so AWESOME-on so many levels. You are so seriously talented, just don't stop surprising us like this :)ReplyDelete
OMG!!!! this is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
If I were you I'd go run outside and start yelling to everyone about how AMAZING I am!!! That is utterly, unbelievable the prettiest improv I've ever seen. SERIOUSLY TALENTED you are :)ReplyDelete
I am absolutely speechless. Just ditto all the above comments for me. I would love to see it as the basis for a large quilt but wonder if it wouldn't be more eye catching as a mini. I think I would be afraid her awsomeness would get lost in a a large quilt. Absolutely love her. HopeReplyDelete
No you didn't! That is sew awesome. Reminds me of Rupunzel but a quilt!ReplyDelete
Hi - I saw this on Flickr and came over for a better look! This is really great! So fun. She'd be great either as a mini or a full size quilt, but I really ike the mini idea.ReplyDelete
You are so artistic! I really want a quilt like this one! I think it would show up better as a small quilt--easier to see the new square, but what a surprise it would be in a larger one! That was no help at all, was it? LOLReplyDelete
Gorgeous! I would want to make this into a mini quilt to hang on the wall where I could enjoy seeing it every day.ReplyDelete
Oh I really really like this!! I am not a traditional -piecy- basic pattern quilt kinda gal. I like pretty and non traditional. And I absolutely love this! Thanks for sharing!!ReplyDelete
This looks *awesome*! That's so cool how she is making the quilt around her. It's so creative!! I think it will look great with the scraps quilt!!ReplyDelete
That is the coolest quilt block I have ever seen!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
Really cute block!ReplyDelete
This is fantastic! I love that she's holding the quilt and that the whole quilt will be what she's holding. Did i word that right? :) I would include it in the bigger quilt.ReplyDelete
I would like to make some tote bags.ReplyDelete
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I love either idea! I like the idea of her holding the whole scrappy quilt but don't like the idea of her getting lost in a big quilt. I don't think think I can stress that enough. She is simply too amazing to get lost in the bottom corner of a quilt. Seriously amazing!!! Don't let her get lost.ReplyDelete
OMG, I'm so glad I visited your blog and saw this! I saw the completed piece on Flickr and thought the girl was an appliqued fussy cut from a piece of printed fabric. Geez, was that ever wrong. Seeing your sketch and the steps of the sewing was incredible.ReplyDelete
Since I haven't learned to improv piece or even paper piece, I have no idea how you managed to sew this, but it's brilliant!
Stunning block! Love your attention to detail.ReplyDelete
I love this! I have always wanted to try improv quilting, but don't have the confidence. Your block is so beautiful it is inspiring me to try. I love she is holding the edge of the quilt.ReplyDelete
Wow, this block is AMAZING!!ReplyDelete
I'm late but this is just amazing. So gorgeous! You have a gift, m'dear!ReplyDelete
O my...you've done a lot of meticulous projects! I'm definitely awed :).....you make me want to quilt :) though I most probably would never finish it :)ReplyDelete
Hi Maureen, I stumbled across your blog today and your little quilt is adorable. Turning your drawing into a pp project can be very complicated and you have a winner. I think you should finish your small piece and have it framed in a shadowbox frame like art for your wall. Be proud and hang it out where everyone can see it. Then make your next one into a quilt because I'm sure there will be more.ReplyDelete
WOW! I just saw this on Pinterest...it is amazing.ReplyDelete
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MESQUITE — A Garland police officer is on restricted duty after authorities say he fired as many as 41 shots at an apparently unarmed man last month, killing him.
Garland police also said Tuesday that dash-cam video revealed that Officer Patrick Tuter crashed his squad car into a truck driven by the suspect, Michael Vincent Allen, before the shooting started. Initial reports had said Allen had hit Tuter's car, prompting the officer to open fire.
"It's still under investigation," said Garland police spokesman Officer Joe Harn. "We're trying to find out exactly why he started shooting."
Tuter's attorney, John Snider, said the answer is simple.
"At some point, while trying to prevent the suspect from making an escape, Officer Tuter did feel in fear for his life and was justified in firing his weapon," Snider said.
According to authorities, Snider and witnesses, the events leading to the shooting began just after midnight on Aug. 31 when Tuter noticed a white GMC pickup that had been involved in a previous chase with Sachse police.
Officers tried to stop the truck at First Street and Avenue B, but the 25-year-old Allen fled. Dallas County sheriff's deputies joined the chase when the truck crossed into Mesquite. After a 30-minute pursuit with speeds reaching up to 100 mph, Allen turned into a cul-de-sac in the 3000 block of Monarch Court.
That's where police initially said Allen made a U-turn and hit a squad car as officers tried to box him in. But Tuesday's updated account by police, confirmed by Snider, indicates that the police hit Allen's car and then fatally shot him. A 20-year-old woman in the pickup with him was uninjured and is considered a witness.
It is unclear whether any officers ordered Allen to exit his vehicle before the shooting began. Investigators have not discovered a weapon on either Allen or the passenger, but Snider said his client, a seven-year veteran of the force, felt threatened.
"He believed the suspect had a gun," Snider said. "He believed he had a gun based on the situation and the suspect's actions."
Snider did not dispute Garland police's contention that Tuter fired up to 41 rounds from his department-issued semiautomatic weapon. Harn said the officer — who was the only officer to fire a weapon during the incident — "did have to reload" to get off that many shots.
Monica Zabrano, Allen's 22-year-old girlfriend, said Tuesday that he had left her house just hours before the shooting, but had planned to return. She said that she never believed the initial police account of what happened.
"I know Michael," Zabrano said. "He would not try to hit a police car. Violence was not in his nature."
Allen has had numerous previous run-ins with the law, including arrests for evading police, drug possession and assault. Zabrano said she believes those encounters with police may have played a role in his death.
"I believe they shot him because he's gotten away from them before," she said. "When Michael feels threatened, he gets out of there. He gets to where he doesn't feel threatened. He was trying to get to where he felt safe."
Mitchell Wallace and his family live next door to where the chase ended, and Wallace had no trouble believing the report that up to 41 shots were fired.
"There was a pause in between the firing that made me believe he was reloading," Wallace said.
After Allen pulled into a driveway at the end of a cul-de-sac in an attempt to make a U-turn, his truck was pinned between two police cars with one of the police cars striking Allen's truck from the front, said Wallace's 17-year-old son, Cameron.
"From the time they yelled, 'Get out, get out,' they didn't give him three seconds to get out," Mitchell Wallace said, adding that he counted about 20 bullet holes in Allen's truck.
Wallace and his wife were asleep when the gunshots began, but they quickly made it to the porch to see Allen's passenger being pulled from the truck and a police dog jumping into the cab. The German shepherd bit Allen in the neck and jaw area and dragged him out of the truck and onto the pavement, Wallace said.
Police officers pulled the dog off, flipped Allen on his stomach and handcuffed him before checking his pulse. Autopsy results are pending on the cause of Allen's death.
Wallace took cellphone pictures and video after the shooting stopped, but he said Mesquite police confiscated the phone and deleted the video and pictures. The phone was returned four days later, he said.
Snider said that Tuter, who married recently, is cooperating fully with both the criminal investigation by Mesquite as well as the internal affairs investigation being conducted by Garland police to determine whether the officer violated departmental rules.
Mesquite will present its findings to the Dallas County district attorney's office, which will decide whether to take the case to a grand jury.
At least one Garland official is hoping for a thorough review of the situation.
"Some of the allegations regarding this incident do raise questions that need to be carefully examined," said City Council member Rick Williams. "I have complete faith that Police Chief Mitch Bates and his staff will do a thorough investigation and provide an impartial and complete determination once the investigation is finished."
Staff writers Tanya Eiserer, Ray Leszcynski and Scott Goldstein contributed to this story.


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The View From 1776
§ American Traditions
§ People and Ideas
§ Decline of Western Civilization: a Snapshot
§ Books to Read
Welfare-State Socialism
Monday, May 04, 2015
Baltimore And The Great Society
Baltimore's riots, looting, burning, and attacks on police and innocent civilians are not unprecedented. Nor are liberal-progressive prescriptions for dealing with the phenomenon. It didn't work then and it won't work today.
As I wrote in The Liberal Jihad: The Hundred Year War Against the Constitution:
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 had expressly disavowed any ideas of preferential treatment for classes of citizens, aiming for a color-blind society with equal opportunity for all. Yet, only a year later, President Johnson declared to students at Howard University's graduation ceremony that the "next and most profound stage of the battle for civil rights" will be "not just equality as a right and theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result."
Delivering literal equality, as an entitlement, regardless of whether individuals in the covered social classes had ever worked or even tried to find jobs, would require the government to contravene the equal-treatment provisions of the just-passed Civil Rights Act as well as the 14th Amendment, which mandates due process of law and equal protection under the laws. The Federal judiciary, by then largely staffed with liberal-progressive-socialists, were prepared to ignore this legal conflict and to sanction President Johnson's new salient toward egalitarian social justice.
Going on welfare, in effect, became a career choice. Welfare "clients" were entitled to welfare benefits and they owed nothing to society. Since in socialist theory it was society's fault that they were needy, they had no obligation to seek work or to limit the number of their illegitimate children. Nor was there any reason, moral or legal, that they and their progeny should not collect these benefits forever. Liberal-progressives, harking back to FDR's "second bill of rights" declaration in 1944, called this a Constitutional right.
However much traditionalists deplore this ethos, their revulsion does not mean that society should ignore the plight of the less fortunate, that social welfare measures are inherently bad. It means simply that it doesn't work to deal with human misery by telling the unfortunate that they have a Constitutional right to a large part of the fruit of other people's labor, and that they owe nothing in return to society.
Michael Harrington's 1968 Toward a Democratic Left: A Radical Program for a New Majority expressed the sense of the Great Society paradigm.
Even in a society based on private economic power, the Government can be an agency of social, rather than corporate, purpose… This does not require a fundamental transformation of the system. It does, however, mean that the society will democratically plan "uneconomic" allocations of significant resources… Under such conditions it would be possible to realize full— and meaningful— employment for all those ready and able to work. Going beyond the quantities of the New Deal, the economy could be stimulated by promoting the affluence of the public sector rather than by tax cuts, and in the process millions of creative jobs can be designed to better the nation's education, health, leisure, and the like. Within twenty years such a policy of social investments should end all poverty, eradicate the slums and erode the economic basis of racism. And those people who are unable to work could be provided with a guaranteed annual income instead of shoddy, uncoordinated and inadequate welfare payments… The very character of modern technology, [Harvard economist John] Galbraith says, renders the old market mechanisms obsolete. In these circumstances planning is obligatory. The state must manage the economy in order to guarantee sufficient purchasing power to buy the products of the industrial system.
Now, more than forty years later, it is possible to review the actual results of the Great Society and of Mr. Harrington's prescription. "Promoting the affluence of the public sector" as a means of stimulating the economy meant simply putting more people on the public payrolls. There is no evidence that this produced "millions of creative jobs" or did anything to eradicate poverty (or racism, if one is to believe black spokesmen like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton) within the twenty years of Mr. Harrington's expectations.
Far from eliminating poverty, Mr. Harrington's prescription, applied in the Great Society entitlements programs, produced the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Bureau of Labor reported unemployment at 5.2% of the labor force in 1965; ten years later in 1975 the unemployment rate was 9.0%, accompanied by the worst inflation in our peacetime history.
That, of course, is much the same prescription followed by the Obama administration, with much the same negative result.
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Saturday, April 18, 2015
Ben Bernanke Defends The Indefensible
Keynesian economics has never, so far as I am able to discover, worked as predicted by theory. It's no more than an excuse for liberal-progressives who want an all-powerful government that will, in the name of security, override individuals' rights to make their own decisions.
Ben Bernanke's Latest Defense of the Fed's Failures
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Sunday, February 01, 2015
Conflict With Obamacare?
Hold the Applause For Obama's Demarche On Personalized Medicine
By Betsy McCaughey, in a New York Sun op-ed piece.
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Thursday, January 29, 2015
All Distortion, All The Time
Read Conrad Black's assessment in The New York Sun of the president's state-of-the-union address.
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Sunday, January 25, 2015
What Hath The Fed Wrought?
City Journal columnist Nicole Gelinas gives us a brief overview of the Fed's failure to deal with the economy's real problem: too much debt, in 2008, and still today. The implicit assumption underlying Obama administration policies and those of the Fed is that the way to deal with people who have more debt than they can repay is to encourage them to borrow still more money.
Of Interest at the Fed
No one knows what will happen if the central bank raises rates.
The "wealth effect" created by the Keynesian economic policies of former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke succeeded only in booming the stock market, enriching wealthy bankers, hedge fund operators, and speculators. Retirees and lower-income ranks of workers have been trashed by near-zero interest rate returns on their savings.
The productive economy has labored for nearly eight years under increasing governmental regulatory strangulation and deficit spending financed largely by the Fed's quantitative easement, government-bond-buying policy. Recent slow gains in economic activity have been made, despite Obama's administrative regulatory policies and constant threats of more regulation and higher taxes. In fact, the biggest engine of economic recovery has been hydrofracking to produce more petroleum and natural gas, which the Obama administration has sought to kill off and replace with government-subsidized efforts to force use of "green" energy.
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Tuesday, December 02, 2014
What's The Real Deal In Ferguson?
We are confronted with a fundamental Constitutional issue: protecting the rights of individuals against mindless mobs in the streets.
Only liberal-progressives could feel justified in mobilizing a media campaign to incite further rioting, believing that "caring" in the abstract for "victims of oppression" trumps maintenance of law and order for the benefit of all citizens, black and white.
Only liberal-progressives could ignore the rights of innocent residents whose property was vandalized in Ferguson and elsewhere; after all, in socialist ideology, capitalism and property ownership are evils that must be controlled or eliminated by collectivized government in the name of social justice.
Only liberal-progressives could attribute to racism the anger of the majority of Americans when they see gangs of people in the nighttime streets looting and burning businesses of people who had nothing whatever to do with the Ferguson incident.
Only liberal-progressives could dismiss legitimate grievances of citizens alarmed by rampant crime among young black males and the readiness of their elders to blame the white community for conduct that raises fear for the survival of our political society.
Only liberal-progressives could sneeringly dismiss people with those concerns as racists who "cling to their Bibles and guns."
In Class Prejudice Resurgent (New York Times, December 1, 2014), columnist David Brooks correctly observes that the Ferguson fulminations are different from civil rights issues. He doesn't, however, note that more fundamentally Ferguson represents refusal of liberal-progressives and their black political supporters to accept responsibility for their own actions. Liberal-progressive hippies and flower children were fond of spiritual concepts such as karma, but failed to understand its substance: you reap what you sow.
Responding to one of liberal-progressives' gauzy platitudes, Mr. Brooks writes:
It's often said after events like Ferguson that we need a national conversation on race. That's a bit true. We all need to improve our capacity for sympathetic understanding, our capacity to imaginatively place ourselves in the minds of other people with experiences different from our own. Conversation can help, though I suspect novels, works of art and books like Claude Brown's "Manchild in the Promised Land" work better.
But, ultimately, we don't need a common conversation; we need a common project. If the nation works together to improve social mobility for the poor of all races, through projects like President Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative, then social distance will decline, classism will decline and racial prejudice will obliquely decline as well.
In a friendship, people don't sit around talking about their friendship. They do things together. Through common endeavor people overcome difference to become friends.
Mr. Brooks's "common endeavor" is a pipe dream.
As I noted in Ferguson Again, the root cause is President Lyndon Johnson's 1960s Great Society welfare state, which destroyed the cohesion of so many black families and spawned large numbers of black young men raised in single-parent, welfare-addicted households. Liberal icon Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan predicted at the time that the result was going to be black neighborhoods terrorized by remorseless, conscienceless young black men. One of those was Ferguson's Michael Brown.
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Sunday, November 30, 2014
Liberal-Progressives Attempt To Shred NYC's Social Fabric
After successive law-and-order administrations, New York City has a class-warfare mayor. Mayor de Blasio turns his Sandinista-trained, communist revolutionary tactics toward reversing NYC's hard won, major reductions in its crime rate. But he may not have the political skill needed to destroy public order entirely.
Identity Politics Crashes at City Hall
Rachel Noerdlinger's exit highlights the de Blasio team's intellectual emptiness.
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Thursday, November 27, 2014
Ferguson Again
If one listens only to black "leaders" such as Al Sharpton, it's easy to believe that minorities that feel affronted have a Constitutional right to riot, burn, and loot other people's property.
The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution because English experience under sometimes misrule by kings had made them acutely sensitive to the need to protect individuals' traditional legal and political rights from the abuse of monarchs, mob rule, or majority vote.
Liberal-progressive sociological theory as the guiding light for political decision has been a disaster. Turning 180 degrees from individual Constitutional rights, it has embraced collectivization of government's dictatorial power and fractured society into economic, racial, ethnic, and sexual constituencies. Absorbing Karl Marx's doctrine, liberal-progressives have actively fomented class warfare.
President Johnson's 1960s Great Society produced riots, burning of whole sections of major cities, soaring crime rates, disintegration of education, the highest rates of illegitimacy in world history and the accompanying disintegration of the family unit as the primary educational factor in civilized society. Along with this, we endured rampant inflation caused by government deficit spending and the Federal Reserve's excessive creation of fiat money. Between the mid-1960s and 1982, more than half the value of people's lifetime savings was wiped out by inflation, while we suffered some of the highest sustained rates of unemployment in our history.
In contrast, before the 1930s, the respect for Judeo-Christian principles and long-established tradition that characterized our unwritten constitution gave us the greatest degree of political liberty and the highest living standards in world history.
Even with the travails of the Depression and the advent of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal in 1933, the liberal jihad made few inroads with the general public against the Judeo-Christian morality of the unwritten constitution.
All of that changed decisively in the great social and political turmoil of the late 1960s and early 1970s. A reversion to the 1890s-1920s bombings that killed hundreds of people, an openly confrontational, often violent, phase of the liberal jihad had commenced. Timeless natural law principles of the Constitution were to be replaced by evolving, evanescent public opinion, manipulated by liberal-progressive social engineers through the compliant mainstream liberal-progressive media.
Propaganda from the liberal-progressive-socialist media fostered the opinion that the United States was engaged in anti-humanitarian atrocities in the Vietnam War. "Know nothing" students intimidated college and university administrations and seized control of college offices, classrooms, and computer centers. President Johnson's Great Society welfare-entitlements programs produced an unprecedented increase in violent crime, riots, and burnings of whole sections of major cities.
Public opinion became radicalized. What would have been unacceptable conduct even a few years earlier became commonplace and worked to augment the breakdown of decorum and public order.
Media organs – movies, TV, magazines, and major city newspapers – began to abandon traditional editorial self-restraint that prevented publication of foul language and public discussion of certain subjects. By the late-1970s, editorial standards reflected the hedonistic and iconoclastic attitudes of the younger generation and their mentors, the liberal-progressive intellectuals. The founding generation's Judeo-Christian moral principles and the constitutional doctrine of natural law were ridiculed by the media and violently rejected by our youth.
Increasingly law came to be, not statutes enacted by elected legislative bodies, but arbitrary judicial rulings conforming to current public opinion projected in the liberal-mainstream media. Activist court rulings gave the strong impression that liberal judges cared little about insuring people's safety. Their principal concern appeared to be protecting those who rebelled against established law and custom of civilized society. Victims' rights were reduced to secondary importance.
See David P. Goldman's How Far Down Do You Define Deviancy in Ferguson?
This attitude was one of the underlying elements in liberal-progressive-socialist doctrine that had originated with French Revolutionary propagandist Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In his mythology of human reason as the all-powerful regulator of human society, criminals were the victims of a society that protected private property rights. Under a government driven by the "general will," Rousseau's code for totalitarian rule, property would be redistributed, and once again there would be plenty for everyone. Poverty and crime would cease to exist, because human nature would be transformed to its original benevolent state. This myth was re-packaged by Lenin after the 1917 Russian Revolution, when he proclaimed future creation of selfless New Soviet Man, shaped by the political state to produce according to ability and take only according to need.
Viewing MSNBC's line-up of evening commentators this week would lead one to believe that the only newsworthy events were taking place in Ferguson, MO. And predictably the liberal-progressive overwhelming emphasis on "caring," as opposed to respect for legal rights and social order, dominated the "news." Lost in these commentators' opinion was any acknowledgement that the real cause of the entire series of Ferguson disasters was the destruction of black families by Lyndon Johnson's "caring" Great Society.
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Burke Beu describes himself as someone who grew up in a Democratic family, has been a registered Democrat since age 18 and a Democratic candidate for statewide office in Colorado. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece he explains why he is denouncing ObamaCare.
"We say that we are the party of the people, but "the people" too often become a singular, monolithic concept for us. We speak for the people, don't you know, because we can decide what is best for them so they really don't need to speak for themselves."
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Keynesian Statistics
From one aspect, Keynesian economics is about aggregating many very different kinds of economic data into single indexes. It is this which animates the Federal Reserve's monetary policies, Congress's stimulus spending packages, and New York Times propagandist Paul Krugman's never-ending calls for increasing governmental deficit spending.
Robert Stapler brought to my attention David Stockman's essay The Fed's Paint-By-The-Numbers Delusions About The Labor Market.
Mr. Stockman documents the greatly differing kinds of jobs - too many of them part-time - and widely varying incomes associated with those jobs that are rolled into one statistic for new jobs created each month. Obama administration spokesmen and the main stream media treat all reported new jobs as if they were parts of a homogenous statistic called employment.
Going back to the 1930s, when Keynes's ideas first gained a foothold in the United States, we can understand why this simplistic view of employment pervades today's discussions. Keynes notoriously promoted the idea that the only economic variable that counted was government spending to employ people. What those so employed did was, in Keynes's view, immaterial. Hire men to dig holes one day, then fill them back up the next day, re-dig them the third day, and so on ad infinitum. At another time, in the same vein, he suggested burying money in bottles by one crew, then unburying them by the next crew.
In short, the vast complexity of an economy, ranging from mining and lumbering, to producing steel, cooper, and aluminum, to drilling for petroleum and natural gas, to production of manufacturing machinery, to railroads and trucking, to wholesale distribution, to retail stores, to software coding, to restaurants and schools, is looked upon by the Federal Reserve and by Congress and the administration as a single thing that can be controlled simply by the amount of deficit spending by the government and the amount of fiat money created by the Fed to fund deficit spending.
The record, as Mr. Stockman lays it out, shows that meddling by Congress and the Fed during recent decades has failed Keynesian expectations and, instead, made the employment picture steadily worse.
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Saturday, November 7, 2009
too easy chocolate cake
nothing much to say about this cake other than go make it, now. it is quick, easy, moist, chocolatey and nary an egg involved. enjoy.
too easy chocolate cake!
1 1/2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
4 tablespoons cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons oil
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 cup cold water
Mix flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt with a whisk until well blended. Pour the oil, vinegar, vanilla, and cold water (all at once) on top of the dry ingredients. Stir until all the ingredients are thoroughly blended together but do not over-mix. Mix and pour in ungreased 8" pan, bake for about 25 minutes at 350 degrees.
i also whipped a cup of whipping cream with about a two tsp of powdered sugar and a half tsp of real almond extract to plop on top.
sorry, for such a short post. i am sick. i was hoping this cake was cure for the common cold, but alas it is not.
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- noble pig said...
Well I hope this beautiful cake makes you feel better, no eggs, how cool.
- November 8, 2009 at 10:53 AM
- Patty said...
This sounds yummy, It has been a long long time since I made a cake that didnt require opening a package that said add eggs oil and water ha ha
- November 8, 2009 at 11:22 AM
- Tracey said...
That cake looks fabulous! Thanks for sharing :)
- November 8, 2009 at 11:51 AM
- Memória said...
Oh! That chocolate cake looks so moist. I want some now! :)
- November 8, 2009 at 10:30 PM
It's so easy but delicious looking chocolate cake!!
- November 9, 2009 at 3:00 AM
- Cheryl said...
OK as you know I use cake mixes, but this I could do, easy peasy. Feel betta soon sista!
- November 9, 2009 at 1:32 PM
- Jamie said...
Looks delicious, hope you are feeling better!
- November 9, 2009 at 7:11 PM
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looks very yummy.
- November 9, 2009 at 11:10 PM
I like quick and easy. It sounds delicious!
- November 10, 2009 at 2:06 PM
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Mmm. This looks moist and delicious. Hope you feel better soon.
- November 11, 2009 at 1:01 AM
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This cake looks simplistically scrumptious!
- November 14, 2009 at 5:10 PM
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You had me at moist!
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DES MOINES, Iowa - Top-seeded Baylor rolled through the Des Moines regional with such ease that the only stress the Bears had to endure was a late-game scuffle with Tennessee that saw Brittney Griner ejected.
Baylor can breathe easy knowing Griner won't be suspended for the Final Four.
The Lady Vols have much more to worry about in the weeks ahead.
Brittney Griner had 23 points, 15 rebounds and nine blocks before being bounced with less than a minute left for leaving the bench and Baylor pounded Tennessee 77-58 Monday night to advance to the Final Four.
The Lady Bears (38-0) are back in the national semifinals for the second time in three years and will face Stanford on Sunday night in Denver.
"Definitely happy that we got past this game. It's not over," Griner said. "It gets tougher as you go."
Should Baylor win it all, it'll become the first men's or women's team in NCAA history to finish a year with 40 wins. The powerhouse Bears are the heavy favorites to do just that, having dispatched of Georgia Tech and Tennessee by an average of 17 points.
Neither of those games ever seemed that close, either.
"We're so happy, but you can't relax," Baylor's Destiny Williams said. "We have two more games left."
Jubilation was the last thing on the minds of Tennessee (27-9), whose seniors became its first four-year Lady Vols class not to reach a Final Four.
But that was just a side note considering that their legendary coach Pat Summitt has yet to say if she'll return for a 39th season. She announced in August she'd been diagnosed with early onset dementia, Alzheimer's type.
"This team is about Pat Summitt. This team has battled all year," said Tennessee associate head coach Holly Warlick as she fought back tears. "I'm proud of them. I thought our team and coaching staff obviously was in a difficult situation. But I thought this team was responsive. I wouldn't trade anything that we did this year."
Baylor held Tennessee to just 30.3 percent shooting from the floor. Much of that was because of the inside presence of the 6-foot-8 Griner, who was just one block shy of her fifth career triple-double.
"Defense wins ballgames for you," Baylor coach Kim Mulkey said. "I guess learned from two of the best. I learned from (Summitt) and (former Louisiana Tech coach) Leon Barmore, you better guard people. And these kids are going to guard you."
A rather ugly game for a purist's perspective got even uglier in the final 46.8 seconds.
Baylor's Odyssey Sims, who led the Bears with 27 points, tumbled to the floor, and she and Tennessee's Shekinna Stricklen had to be separated and were each assessed a technical foul for unsportsmanlike conduct.
No punches were thrown, but Griner and teammates Terran Condrey and Jordan Madden were ejected for leaving the bench. The NCAA says none of the players will be suspended for the Final Four.
As for Summitt, she was given a standing ovation from Tennessee and Baylor fans alike when she came out roughly 15 minutes before tipoff. But as defeat became apparent, she sat silently on the bench with her legs crossed.
Summitt has 1,098 wins, more than any basketball coach in NCAA history, but these Lady Bears were too much for her Lady Vols.
"It's not fun for me to coach against Pat," Mulkey said. "I don't take great pleasure in that. But I have a job to do."
Like most of Baylor's games this season, the Bears regional semifinal was more about dominance than drama.
The Lady Vols hung close with Baylor in late November before losing 76-67. The rematch wasn't nearly as close, sending the Bears onto Denver and Tennessee grappling with the possibility that Summitt's career is over after 38 seasons and eight national titles.
''Obviously I would want Pat's health to be better. I think like Pat, this team never gave up and they never used it as a crutch for how they were playing and what they did this year," Warlick said.