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River Mountain Lodge is a European style lodge located in the heart of Breckenridge. It sits directly across the street from the 4 O'clock ski run so you can ski-in quickly and easily for lunch and at the end of the day. It is also a quick 8 minute walk to the Gondola to get you up to the mountain or there is the free bus stop right in front of the lodge that will take you anywhere you need to go in Breckenridge or Summit County. The condo is steps from Main Street meaning all of the restaurants, bars, and shopping that Breckenridge has to offer are at your fingertips...no driving or parking required. The lodge is located directly on the Blue River boardwalk creating a peaceful stroll right out of the door.
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Retired Marine pilot, retired commerical pilot. Love to ski and golf. Live in the foothills of Denver with my wife of 48 years. Have 2 grown daughters and 3 granddaughters and a grandson who I cannot wait to teach to ski.
David McCarty purchased this condo in 2005
Breckenridge is in the heart of the best skiing in the world. It is a true ski town with activities for the whole family. Winter or summer, Breck caters to all of our visitors and once you come here you'll see why so many make this their destination of choice.
You're close to everything. There is a ski/bike shop on the property ( guest discounts ), and the Fireside lounge. Convenience is the best word to describe my condo.
This spot is an amazing place to ski and enjoy the town itself:
- Close to the shuttles that go around Breckenridge
- Very short walk to the town
- Great little condo with nice decorations, a full kitchen, a fireplace
- Indoor parking
We were thinking of doing dog sledding, but every place was fully booked! I highly recommend staying here as it feels like a place you could stay for the whole winter. Make sure to buy your ski tickets ahead of time to save money, and if you want to go dog sledding make sure to book way ahead of time.
My wife and I completely enjoyed our stay in Breckenridge in part due our stay in your condo! Everything from check in to check out went smoothly with Dave on top of every detail. Condo is cozy and perfect for a couple seeking to get away. The location was ideal for our skiing adventure with the bus (free) stop for the gondola (to & from) just outside the main entrance, main street just a block away, affordable ski rentals available nearby (recommend bringing boots and renting skis), indoor parking directly below condo, indoor and outdoor hot tubs, etc.. Looking forward to returning!!
Great location, feels like your own home! Owner was great...kept in communication. Offers everything you could ask for. Would highly recommend.
My husband and I really enjoyed our stay at Dave's place. Felt like you were in a cabin with all the comforts of home. Bed was comfortable, and so convenient to have a washer and dryer. Close to Main St, we hardly took our car out of the garage. Dave was very friendly and easy to communicate with. Hope to be back someday!
Excellent condo in a great location! Well stocked kitchen with condiments and snacks, washer and dryer was a lifesaver! Unit is beautifully decorated, comfy bed and simply a wonderful place to stay. This condo is right in town, close to shopping, ski lifts and bus stops. Buses are free and clean. Owner is very communicative answering all our questions. Covered parking is a great benefit, knowing your vehicle is safe and secure. We will be back, it is AMAZING! Highly recommend this Condo for a mountain vacation!
We couldn't have asked for a nicer condo for our Breckenridge vacation! It is decorated perfectly to give a feeling of a true Colorado lodge. The washer and dryer as well as the fully equipped kitchen made vacationing here even easier. It's in a great location that allows for a short walk to shops, restaurants, entertainment, and the gondola. We appreciated the quick response of the owner when booking as well as his list of suggestions for the area. Great condo!
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Refund of 100% if cancelled prior to 45 days before check in. No refund if cancelled less than 45 days unless unit can be re-booked, then 100% refund. There is no damage deposit but renter agrees to pay for any damage they may cause. We manage our own unit. Please read our entire listing as we feel we offer many ammenties not found in most property management company type places.


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Our Rodney King* Moment
David Brooks:
"Yet I confess, watching all this, I feel again why I'm no longer spiritually attached to the Democratic Party. The essence of America is energy — the vibrancy of the market, the mobility of the people and the disruptive creativity of the entrepreneurs. This vibrancy grew up accidentally, out of a cocktail of religious fervor and material abundance, but it was nurtured by choice. It was nurtured by our founders, who created national capital markets to disrupt the ossifying grip of the agricultural landholders. It was nurtured by 19th-century Republicans who built the railroads and the land-grant colleges to weave free markets across great distances. It was nurtured by Progressives who broke the stultifying grip of the trusts.
"The Democratic Party, as it revealed of itself over the past year, does not seem to be up to that coming challenge (neither is the Republican Party). This country is in the position of a free-spending family careening toward bankruptcy that at the last moment announced that it was giving a gigantic new gift to charity. You admire the act of generosity, but you wish they had sold a few of the Mercedes to pay for it."
Thomas Friedman:
"My definition of broken is simple. It is a system in which Republicans will be voted out for doing the right thing (raising taxes when needed) and Democrats will be voted out for doing the right thing (cutting services when needed). When your political system punishes lawmakers for the doing the right things, it is broken. That is why we need political innovation that takes America's disempowered radical center and enables it to act in proportion to its true size, unconstrained by the two parties, interest groups and orthodoxies that have tied our politics in knots."
...worse, far worse than it looks....
The US government is nearly bankrupt. The conventional wisdom, that governments can't bankrupt themselves because they can always print new money, has been exposed as a delusional fantasy, akin to the notion that drug addiction can always be cured with more drugs.
"...the debt held by the public with current tax policies extended would soar to 90% of GDP by 2020, Mr. Elmendorf (CBO Director) said, making the U.S. public debt load one of the world's highest.
"The U.S. is entering unfamiliar territory in its level of public debt," said Mr. Elmendorf. "It will be larger over the next decade than it's been in half a century… and also unfamiliar by the standards of other developed countries." The choice is not whether to change course from current policy, he noted, but "how quickly and in what way." President Barack Obama has already declared a spending freeze on discretionary, nonessential outlays, but that only amounts to roughly 17% of total spending. Much of the rest of federal spending is for entitlement programs including Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, defense spending and interest payments on the federal debt."
"...the Fed has to handle the historically large fiscal deficit. By and large, government spending diverts money to unproductive recipients, making the economy more susceptible to inflation. And the deficit is so large that bond investors may yet choke on Treasury debt, forcing longer-term interest rates up. Confronted with that, an accommodative Fed might hold down its short-term rate, which could also stoke inflation."
"Investor Confidence
"Bernanke said the deficit might affect monetary policy if it causes investors to lose confidence in the government's ability to achieve fiscal balance.
'Interest rates might rise because of a lack of confidence by creditors in the long-term fiscal stability of the government,' and "high interest rates tend to slow the economy," he said.'
"Demand at this week's 2-year and 5-year note auctions was also lukewarm, which has raised speculation that a long-awaited boycott of U.S. debt could be near.
'The message from the bond market to Washington is loud and clear," said Mike Larson, an interest rate analyst at Weiss Research. Get your fiscal house in order or we'll force you to do so.'
"Many analysts have been predicting that investors will eventually begin demanding higher yields, given the flood of Treasurys that has come to market over the last several months and the risks tied to the swelling U.S. budget deficit."
Yet we are suffering a perfect storm of delusion and denial (purposeful or pathological).
Five distinct elements of our current situation are being ignored as if they didn't exist:
We have passed the Keynesian breaking point - that juncture in the economic fabric where it is still rationally defensible to spend created or borrowed money to reverse an economic downturn.
Existing defined benefit entitlements cannot be sustained and new ones cannot be funded.
The free enterprise job-creation machine does not function under excessive loads, a condition that will soon be reached. [Private jobs will be our only effective means to restored prosperity.]
The global economy has so dramatically expanded the fiscal, financial and trade environment that the entire US domestic economy is but a single corporate player among many others, one full capable of going bust without aid or bailout.
The sheer scale of the rapidly expanding borrowing binge of the US government faces its catastrophic tipping point -- much closer than any major politician is willing to publicly recognize.
The toxicrats and the procrasticans (with their enablers, the moderati) have been manipulated (all too willingly) by predatory financial elites selling permanent prosperity through permanent borrowing. For the last 30 years, faux prosperity bubbles (most recently, the dot com and real estate securities booms) temporarily masked the severity of the festering fiscal and economic crisis.
The off-the-books indebtedness of the federal government, the so-called structural deficit has been ignored, because, in the words of one economist "we just owe it to ourselves". But the dirty little secret is that the federal government hasn't been able to function for decades without outsourcing our indebtedness to foreign investors like, say, the Chinese. Even minor foreign participation in financing US government operations is dangerous. If next week, for example, all foreign lending dried up, the federal government's operations would grind to a brutal halt. The other dirty little secret: hat there is no escape from debt repayment. Monetizing the debt means creating more money to pay for it. Two consequences immediately materialize: rampant inflation and the inability to borrow more.
As federal borrowing grew without any real attempt to repay, our leaders and their handlers kicked disaster down the road. The next bubble to shatter will be the Great American Deficit Scheme itself.
If that bubble deflates in a relatively brief period, say within only two of three fiscal years, it will be a catastrophic event. If it happens even more quickly, it is capable of bringing down the social order. We then may be forced to relive the last days of the Weimar Republic. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic#Economic_problems]
Our present circumstance has recently been described as a crisis in polity and civility as if Rodney King* had been promoted to chief political science guru.
An electoral uprising against president and congress is the predictable consequence of a policy coup by the elite left. An angry division in the electorate is a natural response.
The underlying financial crisis presents on the threat-scale of a world war. This demands a searching, honest policy dialogue aimed at prevention. But a real constructive dialogue will remain out of reach until we reach agreement on three threshold conditions:
(a) a common baseline moral framework rooted or congruent with the constitution;
(b) a common commitment to the realistic pursuit of the optimum social order instead of the holy pursuit of social Unobtainium – pursuit of that class of Utopian constructs that seeks to re-engineer human nature always ends badly;
(c) ...shared honesty and (at least minimal) candor.
Ideological true believers do not actually dialogue with opponents. They practice strategic listening, misdirection, demands and walkouts. Mr. Obama's recent treatment of the Israeli Prime Minister – the president walking out of the room during their discussions - is a good example.
The snub marked a fresh low in US-Israeli relations.... The Israeli prime minister arrived at the White House on Tuesday evening.... Over the previous two days, he had been feted by senior Republicans and greeted warmly by members of Congress.
But Mr Obama ... immediately presented Mr Netanyahu with a list of 13 demands designed both to the end the feud with his administration and to build Palestinian confidence ahead of the resumption of peace talks. Key among those demands was a previously-made call to halt all new settlement construction in east Jerusalem.
When the Israeli prime minister stalled, Mr .Obama rose from his seat declaring: "I'm going to the residential wing to have dinner with Michelle and the girls."
As he left, Mr Netanyahu was told to consider the error of his ways. "I'm still around," Mr Obama is quoted by Israel's Yediot Ahronot newspaper as having said. "Let me know if there is anything new."
The same event was described in several other accounts.
Ideology is to dialogue as deafness is to orchestra conducting.
Years ago, a political analyst named Daniel Bell proclaimed "The End of Ideology" in 1960 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Ideology), much as Francis Fukuyama declared in 1992 "The End of History." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Last_Man).
Of course, neither history nor the role of ideologues has actually ended. The irony escapes me here only because irony requires detachment. The history we are compelled to live through at the moment is painful. An outmoded ideology of the left has arisen like a vampire at midnight from its coffin, captured the presidency and both chambers of the legislative branch, utterly shattering – for the moment – any common constitutionally rooted moral framework, embracing divisive Utopian social projects financed by Madoff style accounting tricks, and selling them with an astonishing departure from former standards of honesty and candor.
I fear we will be forced to wait until the current set of leaders has been replaced and hope that the next set will be able to engage in a reasonable dialogue.
* "People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along?" Wiki Ref for those who were asleep in 1992 -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King .
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We humans are at the top of the planet's food chain because we are the world's first truly intelligent, creative-adaptive species.
There is no sharp line between creative accomplishments in the arts, the sciences, social organization or engineering. The wheel and the song have both served the goals of creating a sustainable life-affirming civilization.
In case you haven't noticed, every human creative advance has opened a scary new chapter fraught with greater challenges.
We've arrived at another precarious junction in human history, one in which a new Dark Age (always a possibility in any culture that has lost or is losing is moral tethers) would be more than a gap in human progress. We have arrived at the point of no return in the sense that turning back now would be suicide. If you doubt me, just take a few hours to track the arms race between natural plagues and pathogens and human medicine and between the morally disarmed who are acquiring 21st century mass killing technologies.
Failing to enlist our creative capabilities to go forward could well be ultimately fatal to the human enterprise. A Dark Age would be a fatal mistake.
This is why I have advanced the ideal of a specifically creative, life-affirming civilization as the next necessary development in the Great Human Experiment. Look around the world for a moment, using one simple test: Where are the most fruitful creative activities taking place? It would be hard too miss the fact that all the creative nodes operate in zones of protected freedom, and harder still to notice the USA's position, all flaws accounted for, as a creative vanguard for the world. And in passing, please note that tiny Israel has more creative activity mile-for-mile than any comparable real estate in the world except possibly for Silicon Valley, USA in the eighties and nineties. If you look even deeper, you will discover the following:
Four agendas are toxic to the human creative enterprise:
[1] Enforced uniformity, because it smothers the creative impulse;
[2] enforced equality, because it punishes creative accomplishment;
[3]intrusive bureaucracy, because it cripples creative innovation in the cradle;[4]...and the political control of the creative enterprise, especially that which separates creation from the ethos life affirmation or warps its natural role as the vital center of a healthy civilization, because it inevitably becomes a perversion*.
*I think here of the bleak and amoral artistic community that undermined the Weimar Republic in 20th century Germany, unwittingly facilitating the Nazi takeover, and I recall those chilling amoral cohorts of innovative scientists employed to do human experiments by totalitarian regimes.
Because these four agendas are strongly linked to the modern left, it is no exaggeration to point out that the 20th and 21st century left* has a natural tendency to punish, smother, cripple and pervert human creativity.
*The "left', as the term is used here, excludes the freedom-respecting liberals, the subset whose members are easy-going about natural human inequalities, who understand the moral and practical value of free markets and share with their conservative brothers and sisters a core life affirming ethos, and an equal respect for human dignity and the US constitution.
Whenever the totalitarian left achieves effective dominance somewhere, the creative ones are among the first to seek to escape.
This is no accident.
When the left's agenda is in slow-implementation mode (as in Marxism Lite, currently being sold under the Progressive label), the deterioration in authentic creative accomplishment in any given society is less noticeable on a day-to-day basis. The cumulative damage is also masked by the late implementation of the fruits of earlier innovation. But, like any metastasis, inevitably, signs appear. Look for these:
- Creative perversions move to the cultural foreground.
- Authentic creative developments devolve into stale imitation.
- The really bright sparks of genius begin to die in the dank tangle of restrictions, disincentives, soft censorship and political exploitation.
- The best innovators retire, or slip away from the country into safe havens elsewhere.
It is no accident that left-dominated regimes tend to punish expatriation.
This is why the next development in conservatism must contain an explicit affirmation of the human creative process, a deep understanding of its taproots in the very civil freedoms that conservatism is dedicated to preserve, and of the necessary links between creative activities and a moral ethos rooted in life affirmation and human dignity.
I have coined a term for these new, creative conservatives. They are the Renaissance Conservatives, or "Re-Cons".
Together with the Constructive, Creative Liberals, or "Con-Libs" we will make a contagious 21st Century American Renaissance.
Stay tuned.
Jay B Gaskill
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This week's votes don't end our health-care debates. By making medical care a subsidiary of Washington, they guarantee such debates will never end. And by ramming the vote through Congress on a narrow partisan majority, and against so much popular opposition, Democrats have taken responsibility for what comes next—to insurance premiums, government spending, doctor shortages and the quality of care. They are now the rulers of American medicine.
Mr. Obama and the Democrats have sold this takeover by promising that multiple benefits will follow: huge new subsidies for the middle class; lower insurance premiums for consumers, especially those in the individual market; vast reductions in the federal budget deficit and in overall health-care spending; a more competitive U.S. economy as business health-care costs decline; no reductions in Medicare benefits; and above all, in Mr. Obama's words, that "if you like your health-care plan, you keep your health-care plan."
We think all of this except the subsidies will turn out to be illusory, as most of the American public seems intuitively to understand. As recently as Friday, Caterpillar Inc. announced that ObamaCare will increase its health-care costs by $100 million in the first year alone, due to a stray provision about the tax treatment of retiree benefits. This will not be the only such unhappy surprise.
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The rosy CBO's projections about the benign fiscal impact of the president's health care package are exactly as reliable as the rosy spin about the real estate market taken ninety days before the Great Crash.
Most people are not fooled.
Any massive entitlement program - here measured in the trillions – inevitably overruns its cost projections. Think of an overloaded train aiming down a mountain with a sharp turn at the bottom and defective brakes. The health care plan is tantamount to doubling the load just before the train hits the point of no return.
A fiscal derailment with massive casualties is the next big Crash.
Delusional denial on the left continues apace. In today's New York Times, Charles M Blow gushes about the president's amazing resiliency and – a certain weakness in the polls acknowledged – talks about the emergence of 'bullet proof Harry' when the present contretemps subsides. "Could Obama Be Invincible?"
It is hard to make up a more implausible story.
Scott Rasmussen is – for my money – the most reliable pollster out there, the one that is secretly credited and corroborated by the smart democrats' internal polls.
Try this on for size:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 23% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President.
For today, the total approval for this president's performance is 43% against a disapproval of 56%. Disapproval has been measured as over 50% by Rasmussen since February 10. Moreover, republicans lead democrats in a generic ballot poll by 10%. In a three way match, Tea Party plus republicans are 58% against 34% for democrats. Of course, local races vary, but this is – or should be - sobering information for that dwindling number of authentic Blue Dog Democrats.
Check out the Rasmussen data for yourself:
If you are still an Obama fan and want his presidency to succeed then root for his defeat on health care and for the toxic left wing of the Democratic Party to be wiped out this November. Recall that Bill Clinton did his very best work when the voters gave him a republican congress.
Some of my friends – libertarian, centrist, moderately conservative – who voted for Obama based on the enchantment of his biography and an intuition that he is – at core – a moderate, reasonably pragmatic politician are beginning to worry that they have participated in the election of a hard core leftist ideologue.
We now have a clue.
What Hath Obama Wrought?
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"Israel has to prove it is committed to peace."
Hillary Clinton
Now let me get this straight. When Americans decide to build housing In Washington, other countries do not get involved. Ditto for London, Ottawa, Tehran. These are considered internal matters and not the occasion for responses from other nations. However, when Jews in Israel plan to construct housing in their own capitol, the Obami have a very public temper tantrum.
A disproportionate response?
As we all know, during VP Joe Biden's recent visit, a poorly timed announcement was made regarding housing construction in East Jerusalem. Biden objected, Netanyahu apologized, and that should have been the end of it. Except that it was followed by harsh and inflammatory words that have no precedent in US-Israel relations. Indeed, no other nation has been the recipient of such language from the Obama administration.
What might be the goals of the US administration that would prompt such unusual tactics?
One goal might be to satisfy Arab entreaties.. Obama fails to understand the reality that Arab demands will only be satisfied if Israel disappears.
Might this event be used to intimidate the Prime Minister of Israel, who will fear loss of American support, and so go along with the Obama program for moving the "peace process" along? Not likely, given the consequent further erosion that has occurred in Obama's reputation in Israel..
Another possible goal has been suggested by Jeffrey Goldberg in an article in today's "Atlantic". Goldberg makes the point that Obama is trying to push the Israelis toward a more leftist government, in the belief that such Israeli leadership will be more amenable to American pressure. He seems to think that Kadima and Tsipi Livni will be more likely to do his bidding. But a united Jerusalem is a position that comes as close as any to being unanimous in Israel. To expect that Obama's anger would make Israelis give up their rights in Jerusalem, to revolt against Netanyahu, and install a more left-leaning government, is simply mistaken. Pushing on this particular issue will, in fact, solidify Netanyahu's standing.
In his article, Goldberg refers to the Knesset members of Netanyahu's coalition as "gangsters, messianists and medievalists". Ami Isseroff has pointed out that in using this unfortunate language, he is parroting the views of David Axelrod and other Obama advisors, showing where his ideas are coming from. This exposes a major miscalculation by the Obama administration, but one which is continually put forth by J Street and other enemies of Israel.
The truth is that the so-called peace camp within Israel no longer has much influence, thanks to the recalcitrance of the Palestinians, and the gradual sinking in by Israeli citizens that additional concessions have not brought them closer to peace. Israel's citizens have now been fully exposed to the dangers of the peace process. They realize that since Oslo, the process itself has paradoxically led to more, not less, violence, and made peace even more remote.
It should be clear to all, including Hillary Clinton, that Israel has repeatedly taken risks for peace For example, the government of Israel showed restraint despite months of rocket attacks by Hamas. And when she finally needed to act against Hamas to protect her citizens, she found that one consequence was that her leaders would be arrested as "war criminals" if they disembarked in London. These facts are not lost on Israelis, and given this history, it is unlikely that the left will be able to promise a greater hope of success.
Obama has never come close to using the crude language of the last few days in his dealings with the thugs in Iran, Syria, or Libya, or with the two factions of Palestinians, who conduct real acts of violence. With these, he claims to believe in diplomacy and engagement. Only in the case of Israel, does he use undiplomatic and incendiary language. This will not win him any points with Israelis or with her American friends.
Who is advising Obama? It is difficult to know how much his views on the Middle East preceded his election, and how much is the result of advice that he has received more recently. At present, he seems to be listening to persons who know little about the long conflict, persons such as David Axelrod, State Department Arabists, the wise men who believe that Israel-Palestinian peace is a key to solving all other problems in the Middle East, and of course the J Street crowd who promise Obama that "tough love" with Israel will be supported by a major part of the Jewish community
The events of recent days has had immediate results.
Within hours of the public denunciations of Israel, Palestinians were rioting in the streets of Jerusalem. Since this dressing down, Palestinian leaders have started the rumor that the Hurva Synagogue in the old city is infringing on the grounds of the Al Aqsa Mosque, and that the Jews are planning to destroy the Mosque There have been calls for Palestinians to come to Jerusalem to protect the Mosque. The rioting and violence will likely get worse. A third intifada has been hinted at.
With Obama being tough on Israel, any incentive the Palestinians may have had to negotiate in good faith has collapsed. In fact, the outburst by the Obami has encouraged the impossible and irrational demands of the Palestinians.Now they expect that Obama will act as their advocate, and do their negotiations for them. All Abbas needs to do is pound on the table, make demands, refuse to negotiate directly with Israel, and Obama reacts with anger. Anger against the source of the frustration? No, against Israel.
Secondly, Israelis will not feel comfortable taking risks for peace if they know that Obama is forcing them to accept something that has been proven not to work. They believe that they are being pushed to make "concessions" by people who do not accept any Jewish rights in Jerusalem. Many of those doing the leaning do not even accept the wisdom of the existence of a Jewish state. And they surely do not understand that Israelis are the ones who will need to live with the consequences of any decisions, not the members of J Street who think that they know better.
To hector Israel, as Hillary Clinton and David Axelrod have done over the past week, is to achieve the exact opposite of their goals. These are smart people. Yet they know little about the history of the Middle East conflict, and even less about the nature of Israeli society.
One can only wonder; what are they thinking? One can only conclude that they have bought into the nonsense of the J Street crowd and of the anti-Israel left. Secretary Clinton's comment (see quote above) is right from the playbook of those folks who mindlessly put forth the idea that Israel is not committed to peace. The same nonsense has been picked up by Palestinian propagandists. It seems that Hillary should know better. That she does not is particularly worrisome.
Further, it is not lost on Israelis that while Obama has used crude tactics in his attempts to get his version of a peace agreement, he has continued to "engage" Iran, all during a critical period in which the Iranian nuclear capability is coming dangerously closer. Israelis are beginning to suspect that Obama is prepared to live with a nuclear Iran, something which Israel cannot do.
By his recent actions, Obama has achieved the worst possible result; a worsening of relations between Israel and the US, and at the same time, a worsening of the chances of achieving any kind of useful agreement with the Palestinians. Both have happened.
What to do now? There is much support for Israel among the American people and in Congress. It is important to get word to Obama that he is making things worse and that the prudent course is to lower the volume and stop directing his frustration at the party that has been most responsive. Hillary Clinton also needs to understand that her political future is tied less to approbation from Obama and more to acting in America's best interest. Achieving an unwise deal solely in order to help Obama's political future is not a substitute for rational policy making. And hectoring Israel not only undermines this but makes her appear to be a hypocrite vis a vis her prior statements of support for Israel.
It is useful to examine the statement from Prime Minister Netanyahu regarding this matter.
"The State of Israel appreciates and esteems US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's warm remarks regarding the deep bond between the United States and Israel and the US commitment to Israel's security.
"Regarding the commitment to peace - In the past year, the Government of Israel has proven its commitment to peace in both word and deed, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's June 14, 2009 Bar-Ilan University speech, the dismantling of hundreds of checkpoints and roadblocks in Judea and Samaria, and the decision to suspend new construction starts in Judea and Samaria for ten months, which Secy. of State Clinton defined as "unprecedented."
"By contrast, the Palestinians have raised preconditions for the resumption of the diplomatic process, such as they have not done in the past 16 years. They are waging an assault to delegitimize Israel in international institutions via the Goldstone report. They are also continuing to incite towards hatred and violence; included in this is the decision to dedicate a square in Ramallah after the woman terrorist responsible for murdering 38 Israelis.
"Prime Minister Netanyahu again calls on the Palestinians to enter into the tent of peace without preconditions because this is the only way to reach an agreement that will ensure peace, security and prosperity for both peoples."
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Christian Social Justice?
Reflections on Glenn Beck's Kerfuffle
If you're in the loop, you already know that conservative Radio-TV commentator Glenn Beck is being savaged by liberal Christians across the country for having said,
"I beg you: look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words. Now, am I advising people to leave their church? Yes!"
In a more temperate moment, in full context, I heard Mr. Beck say something different:
Now, I wasn't aware that God had politics. I would like to again join all of the liberals in suggesting we have a separation of church and state, that maybe there's a problem when your preacher stands up and starts telling you who to vote for, how to vote, and what the government should look like.
Now, I know there are churches that do that. I don't attend them. I don't like them. You can do that if you want, but if you want to make sure that God's politics aren't America's politics, you know, that would probably be a good thing to check into those words of those churches. Because I don't think God has politics. I think he has the truth.
As an unavoidable side effect of the info-blizzard, that modern hyper-acceleration of information inflow and our diminished time for reflection and consolidation, we are experiencing the corruption of language - word pollution. This has facilitated the political and ideological corruption of religious terms and the religious appropriation of politics and public policy. In earlier eras, when church and state were inseparable, this wouldn't have seemed remarkable. In the American context, it can only appear as backsliding.
The proper use of the term social justice as a specifically Christian agenda (or a Jewish agenda, or a Judeo-Christian agenda) depends on shifting patterns of language and semantics. The various meanings that the term "social justice" is intended to convey remain subject to the political agendas of competing ideologies. Social justice, as it is used in contemporary religious circles, has become a very slippery notion. In a different era it would refer to the release of slaves, the restoration of kidnapped children or the return of stolen tools of one's trade. In the current era, it is all too often a stand-in phrase for a large scale, long term political agenda with deep taproots in Marxism.
From my point of view, Marxism falls into one of those sub-categories of "cool ideas" that have a superficial facial appeal but a truly dreadful – and innate – tendency to spawn authoritarian abuses. The core assumption of Marxist thinking is that all economic inequalities are also inequities, that is, that they are inherently unjust without any inquiry into individual circumstances or recognition of the primacy of transactional justice (think of the restoration of stolen property after a trial vs. the razing of a village that harbors a few thieves).
Marxist theory does not recognize earning as conferring any right to retain the fruits of one's own efforts. The driving force of Marxism in all its forms is envy, often masquerading as love. The goal of Marxism is the elimination of "economic injustice" by which is meant the elimination, by force if necessary, of all economic inequalities, through collective power acts based on Marxist economic theory, rather than by individual justice acts of restoration, based on applied moral transaction theory (the latter essentially is the operating model of the 'just tribunal').
[Permit me, relevant aside: Political correctness, the notion that all our social, ethnic and racial differences need either to be pretended out of existence or somehow leveled amounts to social Marxism. But that is a topic for another day.]
There is a distinct boundary between well crafted government social programs that operate as a temporary safety net (think of time-limited unemployment assistance here) and those that are blatantly or covertly aimed at "closing the income gap" between rich and poor via the Robin Hood solution, taking from one group of targeted citizens in order to give it to benefited constituencies. That side of the boundary has taproots in Marxism. The gradualist, covert form of the Grand Economic Leveling Programme is Marxism Lite.
Once nakedly exposed, Marxism becomes a repellant caricature of Christian ethics – representing the brutal substitution of an engineered, faux-equality (materialist / economic) for equality before God, and substitution of the bureaucratic administration of collective political justice for fairly individuated moral justice.
For Christians – and many outside observers - Jesus was the living spiritual and ethical force who was called to reform the human condition. As an iterant rabbi in first century Palestine, Jesus healed and admonished, taught and inspired. But not once did he advocate a forcible taking of someone's property – whether by an individual, the Roman Imperium or the local authorities. All the acts of kindness, generosity and forbearance that Jesus modeled, praised or taught were individual ones - as individual as are our all-too-human sins. Early in the First Century the resulting religion was a variation of Judaism; it was called "the Way", a personal path of grace, redemption and renewal, following the universal messianic example.
I think of the social engineers of Marxism as having staged a Frankenstein's monster ballet, a parodic morality play where crude, unfeeling mechanical movements, devoid of all grace, beauty, kindness and spirit are offered for the real thing. And I think of the ultimate end-state of Marxism, a fully leveled social and economic order, as the ultimate triumph of entropy, the final extinguishment of all creative variation. In this deeper sense, I see Marxism as containing a full-on evil poison pill.
But that's just one opinion.
When examining questions of secular public policy, no practicing Christian or Jew I have ever met would even attempt a principled religious argument against making various public resources widely available both to those able and those unable to pay taxes. It is difficult to locate any biblical injunction against a policy of providing roads, police protection, basic education, for example, equally to poor and rich.
But a policy to eliminate all differences between rich and poor through the forcible redistribution of resources, whether earned or unearned, is another matter entirely. If that is what is meant by social justice then a significant number of practicing Christians and Jews can reasonably dissent whether teaching that brand of social justice is appropriate in their churches or synagogues.
Another slippery term that has become subject to rampant political and ideological appropriation is progressive. Humanitarians of every stripe can hope and actively work for a world wherein more and more individuals act towards their fellow human beings with greater kindness, honesty and forbearance. That we can readily agree that would represent social progress.
[Please allow me another aside: Is it really progressive to achieve moral indifference, say, to the involuntary euthanasia of the elderly and disabled or the termination of a beating heart in utero? Reasonable minds can differ on this, no?]
Marxists aim for a world without economic (and even social) differences, irrespective of kindness, honesty and forbearance, one that must be called into being by the power of the state. For them, progress means adopting public policies that accomplish this reorientation over time. Marxism Lite is progressive social justice in this very sense. And it is all too often what is meant by the pursuit of social justice in a religious setting.
Of course, I am not unaware of the Gospel passages often cited by those social progressives who seek to enlist government in the service of making a "better world", by which – in their heart of hearts - they mean some version of the Great Marxian Utopia.
On one reported occasion when a wealthy outsider asked to join Jesus' group of apostles, the man was admonished to sell everything first and give it away.[1] Like the later monks, Jesus' immediate entourage of apostles had agreed to a communal arrangement of shared belongings during his ministry, unburdened by retained wealth. But Jesus bestowed blessings, grace and forgiveness on an entire range of ordinary people, tax collectors, farmers, artisans, widows and prostitutes without that injunction. A fair reading of the Gospels reveals a sprit of profound generosity and reconciliation as part of one's right relationship with God, an injunction to repair from within, not to engineer a forcible remaking of all society from without.
The temptation to use the levers of political power to accomplish that which we are called as individual moral agents to do in our personal relationships represents the ultimate Faustian bargain, as the hell-on-earth in Lenin's Russia has appallingly demonstrated.
[Another aside: The National Socialists of Hitler's Germany represented the dark mirror reflection of the bleak communist vision, a differently organized order, to be sure, but one characterized by universal sacrifice to the goal: both were equally militaristic, equally brutal and equally evil.]
Christians and Jews can reasonably differ among themselves and with their secular counterparts about a whole range of political, economic and social policies, but any claim that one's religion obligates one to advocate "social justice" demands a careful examination and searching dialogue. Social justice in the Marxist-Lite sense is not the accepted doctrine of "official Christianity", nor should it be taught as doctrine from pulpit or lectern any more than one political party, candidate or set of "approved" candidates should be endorsed.
Or so it appears to at least one reasonable mind.

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Discussion in 'Off-topic Zone' started by muck4doo, Apr 12, 2013.
He passed away today. Just Sid Caesar and Mickey Rooney left from "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World".
That stinks.
Always loved his bits. He was the robin williams before the robin williams and when those two teamed up for a brief time in the tail end of the Mork show it was greatness.
Grew up loving Jonathan Winters and Red Skelton.
Very sad.
He was terrific.
Great in "Mad, Mad... World".
Also in one of the more memorable Twilight Zone episodes with Jack Klugman where he wasn't playing a comedy role.
They were both on one of Johnny Carsons last shows. Johnny gave up on trying to control them. lol
RIP to a very funny man
That is my all time favorite Twilight Zone.
Lost a good/funny one.
Good bye Mearth
And the thing is he didn't have to cuss or be insulting in order to make people laugh.
Yep - they really don't make 'em like Jonathan any longer. At least there are very few. Very sad.


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Nice machine. Most people go about 2-2-1 for baby back ribs. How were your results? Just adjust from there until you get what you like.
Around here baby back ribs are just too expensive. I can buy spares cheaper and I like them better but either way ribs are always a treat.
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Medium is 300 ish? What is high- 450??
Not smoker temps IMnHO. (n- newbieish)
And how are you going to make pastrami? Recipe??
Thanks, we gotta keep at it.
When I seasoned the grill/smoker it went up to 500 (on the dial)degrees. I just found out the have a Digital Thermostat that can be added. Found a lot or recipes for pastrami on the web(this site also). I will start with a cured corn beef. I am 77 1/2 and retired so I have lot of time to experiment (always keeping in mine food safety).
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Fernando Wood was considered an intriguing figure in the politic scene in New York City during the mid-part of the 19th century. Considered a self-made success in the business world, Wood used the independence he found thanks to wealth to pursue a role in politics. This was something Wood pursued for approximately three decades.
Originally born on June 14th in 1812 in the city of Philadelphia, Wood had a rather unimpressive beginning. He failed at two business ventures prior to eventually succeeding with a shipping venture. During the California gold rush of 1849, Wood earned quite a bit of money that he decided to invest in real estate in New York and San Francisco. This is what gave him the funds necessary to engage in various political roles and ventures for the remainder of his life.
In 1836, Wood became a member of Tammany Hall and quickly gained a rather important role. He entered into Congress in 1841, but only for a single term. After he ran, but was unsuccessful for the mayor's seat in 1850, he was finally elected in 1854 and then reelected in 1856. The administration that served under Wood had a rather mixed and diverse record with the protection offered by Central Park from issues with commercialism as a positive, but widespread inefficiency and corruption, too. Finally defeated in 1857, Wood was expelled from Tammany; however, he responded by creating Mozart Hall. This came with support from a range of different interests, from the labor and business realm. Later, in 1859 he had returned to the office of the mayor and resumed his position.
With the Civil War looming, Wood worked to represent the businessmen in New York City with a number of investments in the South. He wanted to accommodate the demands of the Southern states and even took an active role in the Democratic National Convention in 1860 with a pro-Southern stance. In 1861, on January 6th, during the interregnum of Lincoln's election and his inauguration, Wood decided to make the proposition that NYC should secede from the state and become established as a "free port."
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A recent trip to a local brick-and-mortar bookstore helped me realize that even the best algorithms and email campaigns can't replace in-person product discovery. On this trip, I noticed a book called The Content Trap sitting face-out on the shelf and couldn't resist picking it up.
Great title. Intriguing outline. Normally I'd make a note to grab the ebook sample and consider buying it later. What I saw during my in-store flip test, however, convinced me I shouldn't wait. So I made the unusual decision (for me) to buy the print copy, not the ebook.
As I walked out of the store, it dawned on me: despite all the daily book recommendation emails I get from Amazon and elsewhere, this one never hit my radar until I walked through that store. Actually, maybe one of those emails did mention it, but I never noticed because I receive so many book promo messages that they've turned into nothing more than inbox white noise. This seems to indicate the email marketing model could benefit dramatically from an overhaul.
If so, the vision shared in The Content Trap likely provides at least a portion of the new formula. It's been a while since I broke out a highlighter and started marking up a physical book. I'm only a few chapters into The Content Trap and I've already highlighted dozens of important passages. In fact, it ran my old highlighter dry and I had to buy a new one.
This is one of those books that really makes you stop and think, so don't assume you'll be able to tear through it in an afternoon. Here are a few of the more fascinating segments I've read so far:
The language for success in media, as in technology, is less and less about content and more and more about connections.
It's striking how many digital media managers still think in terms of product appeal to individual customers rather than in terms of managing and exploiting connections. This is even more surprising in view of the fact that media consumption has always been inherently social.
Through its Marketplace, Amazon had shifted strategy from selling products to owning a platform. A similar "content versus platform" choice confronts many organizations today.
Superior products are great, but strategies that exploit connections are better.
Can we help readers to help each other? [That last question helped one publisher shift] from being important to being relevant, as one editor put it.
By the way, those quotes are all packed into the first 30+ pages. I can't wait to read the rest of this book. I also just started following the author, Bharat Anand, on Twitter and encourage you to do the same. This guy is brilliant.
Do yourself a favor and buy this book immediately. You won't regret it and you'll be well armed with an entirely new way of thinking as 2017 begins.
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A Bill aimed for Justice to womanhood, but devoid of injustice to Juveniles: The amended Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill, 2014, replaces the existing Juvenile Justice Act, 2000.
Though Justice JS Verma Committee report had ruled out lowering of juvenile age from 18 to 16 years despite demands from various quarters, the parliamentary committee on empowerment of women has asked the government in 2013 to lower the age of male juvenile from 18 to 16 years so that the offenders involved in heinous crimes against women could be tried under the criminal laws.
The committee was of opinion that in spite of the fact that the Juvenile Justice Act, 1986 was amended in the year 2000 and the age of juvenile males and females was brought at par as below the age of 18 years, it has not produced the desired results. It did claim that crimes against women committed by juvenile males have shown an upward trend on observing a total of 22,740 IPC crimes which were committed during 2010 resulting increased level of 25,125 crimes during 2011. The committee could further analyse the profile of juveniles and reveal that most of the crimes have been committed by male juveniles in the age group of 16-18 years!
In 2010, juveniles were involved in 858 cases of rape, 391 cases of kidnapping and abduction of women and 536 cases of molestation which rose to 1,149 cases of rape, 600 cases of kidnapping and abduction of women and 573 cases of molestation in 2011. Of course the reasons for juveniles getting entangled with serious crimes vary from impulsive disorder, peer pressure, disturbed environment to broken family, aggression, lavish lifestyles and uncontrolled freedom from parents.
We have read about many incidences of savage rapes from various states one after another right from the day the unprecedented crowd crusading against atrocities and rapes were going on at New Delhi after the DEC- 16 Nirbhaya incident.
The delinquent who was just short of few months to reach the attained age- 18, could get the advantage of the same despite becoming the prime accused and was responsible for causing heinous attack of the victim with an iron rod. It was really a disgrace to the Juvenile Justice Board to convict him just with a peanut punishment of three years despite he was convicted previously for committing a robbery on the carpenter from the same bus on the fateful night. He did get a credit of eight months already spent in the jail during these days; thus he was in the custody at the juvenile home only for two years and four months. This evidently proved the flawed justice system which can never act as a deterrent to sexual assaults happening in our country.
There is no guarantee that rapes will not happen as long as we have men with perverted thoughts who get sexually aroused and will see a prey in any female under any vulnerable situations. I am not exaggerating; actually majority of culprits are expected to be aware of the intensity of an offence on rape, but they still dare to take risk as they are aware of host of ample loopholes to escape from the prosecution with the connivance of the corrupt local police or politicians. Ironically the judgement in respect of the punishment to the minor who was the main culprit in the Nirbaya case had not considered as a major!
It is very regrettable that India could not get pace with the world in amending the Juvenile Justice Act while the whole world from U.S to China had rightly amended when crimes committed by Juvenile delinquents have registered an increasing trend. Our international legal obligations never prohibit us from amending the Juvenile Justice Act. It is high time that all persons from age 16 – 18 be tried in the adult criminal justice system for their involvement in heinous crimes of rape, kidnapping etc. They should not get any protection of law as Juveniles. The changed rules should have to be made applicable to all cases pending in any court of law.
If the masculine act of rape or a brutal attack on women are committed by boys below the age of 18, I would say even if 15 or 14 in case the physical power and the 'oversexed' state of mind of a minor will be no way inferior to that a matured adult culprit. In reality the basic mindset of Juveniles and young adults varies from society to society.
Youngsters including juveniles in slums wherein savage culture prevails are prone to encounter sex or violence even at age -14. They are wooed not only into petty crimes but for organized burglary, abductions or the so called 'Quotations' (Contract Killings). Similarly Juveniles in highly elite societies with less parental care fall prey to alcoholism, pornography, and fanatical sexual interests etc. which prompt them to indulge in rape or molestation. It was not only unfortunate but deplorable that the Verma Committee ignored to take note of these ground realities prior to proclaim for showing sympathy to all Juveniles under age-18.
I am was very much contented when the Mumbai Sessions Court's gave the verdict of death penalty in April,2014 to three repeat offenders in the Sakthi Mills gang-rape cases which made the delinquents first in the nation to get the maximum punishment stipulated under the newly enacted Section – 376E of IPC. It was incredible that the new section of IPC incorporated under the amended Criminal Law facilitated the judiciary to intrepidly order the death sentence to repeat offenders of sexual assaults. The Sessions court deserved full praise for awarding the punishment for the crime that was not only against the victim and family but also against our law abiding society.
The Principal Judge Shalini Phansalkar had rightly affirmed that the common man will lose faith in the system if any leniency is shown and there should be zero-tolerance of such crimes. I have strongly advocated the remarks and suggestions of Justice Usha Mehra, who had submitted a report on the Nirbaya case. She had put forth an outcry against attempts to dilute the definitions of juvenile and advocated stringent punishment at par with adults for juvenile delinquents as well for heinous crimes. Her report enlightened the nation to initiate for a consensus approach and suitably incorporate fresh clauses in the anti-rape law to provide death sentence to perpetrators of brutal crimes. According to her the intensity of the punishment must be nothing less than capital punishment especially when rapists commit heinous sexual crimes with perversity and sadism.
How can our national government, governments in states wherever rapes were happened and particularly the local administration in our cities like New Delhi and Mumbai will erase the blemished scar on the image of India while UNICEF had already recorded on crimes to the extent of 30,000 happened during 2011 in India wherein one out of three victims are children! More than 7200 children including infants are raped every year and of course many more cases are not reported! Can we boast as the second largest democracy the world with these statistics that denounces our nation?
I quote the saying by Joseph Hall, the famous satirist and moralist and an English Bishop -. ''A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was''. Still we have no option than to repair the broken reputation. We have been boasting our glorious culture and heritage whenever something untoward occurs elsewhere; we should know that we have lost our righteous legacies and we have diminished our entity of our nation to a very low level. Incensed and disenchanted cries of reaction by people of this country should not fall into deaf ears.
There is every reason for us to believe that 'death penalty' is not to be abolished in India while I strongly feel that, it will be the only pertinent deterrent against future crimes that entail death sentences.
The definition of a Juvenile delinquent has to be necessarily brought down to the age limit of 16 while drafting fresh laws to overhaul the obsolete provisions of all laws that are ostensibly to safe guard women's safety. We should know that when Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill,2014 was in the Lok Sabha in the last year and referred to the standing committee which recommended keeping the legally defined age of juvenile at 18 years, the government did take a bold decision to bypass the recommendations of the committee and opted to go ahead with reduction of age of juvenile offender to 16 years when found involved in a heinous crime.
Halfheartedly the government decided to delete a clause which mentioned that "any person, who is apprehended after completing the age of 21 years, for committing any serious or heinous offence when such person was between the age of 16 to 18 years, then he shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be tried as an adult". Then the Bill was passed in Lok Sabha on Thursady 7th May, 2015 and referred to Rajya Sabha.
During the the debate on the bill in Lok Sabha, Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi confirmed that she had never neglected the pro-child efforts but wanted to strike a balance between justice to victims and rights of children. While citing the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)'s data, "around 28,000 juveniles committed various crimes in 2013 and of them, 3,887 had allegedly been committed heinous crimes", She reiterated that the new law was intended to be a deterrent to ensure that juveniles refrain from crimes and avoid spoiling their lives.
Finally a Tuesday – 22nd December, 2015 became a historical day for our womanhood. Though belated, Rajya Sabha passed the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill making Juvenile aged between 16 and 18 at par with adults in respect of heinous crimes committed by them due to pressure from whole nation's compassion to the parents of the 'Nirbhaya' victim who campaigned for justice upon the release of the one of the delinquents upon getting immunity due to the age factor. Still this is not to be seen as a denial of justice to any juvenile. Because the Juvenile Justice Board has to carefully review all cases and give their consent whenever juvenile delinquents get involved in heinous crimes and entail to be treated not as a minor but adult prior to the trial in any court.
Juvenile Justice Boards will comprise psychologists, social workers and experts, according to the women and child development ministry. All cases have to be brought before these boards, which will then assess the mental and physical capability of the juvenile and decide whether the perpetrator, a boy or girl is to be tried as an adult or not.
Probably CPI (M) was not convinced with this advantage to juvenile delinquents below age-18, but above age-16, that may be the reason for its accusation of passing the bill 'just on sentiments' and the subsequent walk-out by Sitaram Yechury together with his team demanding the said bill is to be sent to a Select Committee.
Women and Child Development (WCD) Minister Maneka Gandhi had rightly said that the legislation was a "nuanced" one and was much needed to act as a "deterrent". Since the statistics did prove that sexual assaults committed by boys aged above 16 and below 18 are on the rise, there is nothing wrong in lowering the Juvenile age limit to 16 only in the case of boys. Still all 16+ juveniles, both boys as well as girls committing heinous crimes can be booked under criminal laws. The amended Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill, 2014, thus replaces the existing Juvenile Justice Act, 2000.
I am hopeful that President will instantly bestow his assent on the legislation and enable the new law come to being with immediate effect. I wish that the whole nation celebrate the Bill that is aimed for Justice to womanhood, but devoid of injustice to Juveniles.
Let the critics to this historical legislation make hue and cry for the deviation from the basic doctrine of "care, protection, maintenance, welfare, training, education and rehabilitation of neglected or delinquent children …." As stipulated in the first 'Children Act of 1960' which had been amended later on as a crime and punishment mechanism. This was reflected in the reluctant Supreme Court's (Bench of Justices A.K. Goel and U.U. Lalit) in questioning the Delhi Commission for Women – "why did you not do it in the past three years?" while countering it's demand to further detain the juvenile deliquent of Nirbhaya case till he reforms himself.
Supreme Court cannot be blamed while construing the claim that the juvenile convict has been radicalized, as a proof of poor implementation of the existing law. The court did even caution that it will become a violation of section 16 of the amended Act of 2006 if it heeds the request for shifting him to another place and kept under protective custody!
The Supreme Court expressed its subjection on 21st December,2015 to detain the accused under the Juvenile Justice Act stating that maximum period of incarceration in the Juvenile Justice Act, 2000 was not more than three years, the disappointed Chairperson of the Delhi Commission for Women- Swati Maliwal declared – "it's dark day in history of the country" and gave an ultimatum to Parliamentarians to immediately pass the Juvenile Justice Amendment Bill that is pending in Rajya Sabha. She had tweeted – "Appeal to Shri Hamid Ansari ji to present Juvenile Justice Amendment in Rajya Sabha today. Rajya Sabha, please pass dis Bill. Don't further let down Nirbhaya " as a request to Vice-president for presenting the Bill in Rajya Sabha, the upper House.
At this time let me brief on the status of the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2013. It was passed by Lok Sabha ( on 19.03.2013) and Rajya Sabha ( on 21.03.2013), received Presidential assent on 2nd April 2013 and had come into force from 3 April 2013.
The said Bill had been strongly criticized by several human rights and womens' rights organisations for not including certain suggestions recommended by the Verma Committee Report like reduction of 'age of consent', which was the minimum age at which a person is considered to be legally competent to consent to sexual acts. Of course it should not be confused with the age of majority or criminal responsibility etc. Fortunately the then central cabinet took note of the disadvantage to sexual victims if the age limit for 'consent for sex' is not maintained at age-18 and reduced to age-16. The then GoM rightly took note of the disaster in the offing if the age limit for 'Consent For Sex' is reduced back to age-16.
I did write against the illusion of advantage to minors in the age group of 16 to 18 by reducing the 'consent for sex' to age-16 during their transition into adulthood which is more vulnerable to sexual instinct and also prone to sexual molestation or assaults. It was fantastic that the government could know that it would be truly disastrous. In fact it was raised from 16 to 18 years based on the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2012 approved by Union Cabinet in April, 2012, factually terminating the 'age of consent' for minors who are above 16, but below 18 wherein any sexual relations with a girl or even a boy below age- 18 is considered as RAPE, regardless of whether it is consensual or not. Our young girls will get protection of law as the age limit is maintained at age-18 itself. This prevented perpetrators getting relief under law if girls sexually assaulted by them are minors at the time of the incident.
Very unfortunate that this protection of law could not be extended to the Suryanelli victim as she had suffered the rapes prior to the amendment in 2012 and had crossed age-16 then as elucidated in his decree by the ustice in the Kerala High Court- R.Basant. I would say that very cleverly R.Basant had used the then minor victim's detrimental 'age factor' to the beneficial acquittal of 35 perpetrators who raped her; but still he did shed tears for her!!!!!!
Women and Child Welfare Ministry had truly wanted to maintain the age limit for 'consent for sex' at age-18 itself. If the limit is lowered to 16, then there are chances for perpetrators of rapes get exonerated from punishment from many rapes while they can cunningly prevail on courts proving that rape victims who are aged above 16 have consented for sexual intercourse, despite being minors! Many culprits will get shelter under law and will get relieved from rape charges as in the case of the verdict on 'Suryanelli' trial at the Kerala High Court. Thus the reduction of the Juvenile (boys) age limit to 16 should not affect the Juvenile (both boys and Girls) age limit in respect of 'consent for Sex.
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Video – A UFO Destroys Israeli Weaponised Satellite On The Launch Pad
…this time the "smoking gun" is a foo fighter and energy weapon…it seems not everyone "out there" believes Greater Israel is a galaxy-wide proposition…
[Editor's note: The event depicted in the photographs below is not our conspiracy theory. The UFO destruction theory of the "facebook" satellite, now that's a conspiracy theory if I ever heard one, comes from NASA. From their notes:
B. Airborne Laser weapons test on third stage booster?
C. Small nuclear explosion caused by lithium ion batteries shorting out. Or other nuclear source in the third stage guidance unit.
D. Not a kerosene or hydrogen fuel fire as initial cause.
The satellite and its geosynchronous booster were intact until it is seen collapsing and producing a secondary explosion. Everything else is a kerosene fuel fire.
Either we have 3 UFO's in the photos or they are aircraft landing lights???(referring to last set at the bottom)
This is what they believe and, being who we are, they couldn't simply let it go without pulling the tail as it were. We agreed, as we are inclined to do, to aid them in this task. g]
Launchpad explosions of rockets is a fairly common thing, after all, a rocket is really a bomb waiting to go off and even with very careful handling, they do sometimes blow up due to technical issues.
This explosion however is something altogether different. This was no mere explosion of a rocket while being fueled, this was a deliberate act of destruction.
Now for the really shocking bit – the craft responsible for this destruction was caught in the video – a small spherical object that flies from right to left on the screen and appears to have fired some kind of laser or beam weapon at the rocket.
So now the big question is this: Just what had the Israelis built into that satellite that someone decided had to be destroyed before it could be placed in orbit? Our working theory is that it was some kind of weapon, quite possibly a laser as we received intelligence some time ago that aspace based laser had been used to cause several mysterious explosions in Iran.
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Yannick Verdier Monsegur
Yannick Verdier Monsegur
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- Category Arts & Photography
Small Square, 7×7 in, 18×18 cm
140 Pages
- Softcover: 9781320066426
- Publish Date Dec 22, 2013
- Language English
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Yannick Verdier Monsegur Art & Fashion photographer based in Paris, for more info http://www.y-vm.com http://y-vm.blogspot.fr Biographie Born in 1973 in Mont-de-Marsan, France After training in photography, Yannick Verdier Monsegur conducts training in photo services, including Hachette Filipacchi, then worked as an assistant photo studio. In 1998, he moved to Tokyo to be photographer in photopress agency. His many field experiments allow today to work actively with France and Asia. After a career in the world of media and illustration, he turned to fashion photography. He discovers a world particularly conducive to the expression of his creativity. Meanwhile, he continues to develop an artistic mingling various photographic approaches: black and white and color
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Hello all,
I am travelling to Malawi in October and to get there am changing planes in Ethiopia (transit only).
After a couple of weeks in Malawi I am heading overland to South Africa.
I have recently read that S.A. have changed their yellow fever vax requirements since the world cup. Apparently anyone travelling to S.A. via a yellow fever zone (even in transit) need to have a YF vax certificate.
As Ehtiopia is a Yellow Fever zone, I am wondering whether this means I will need to get the jab. I am reluctant to do so as it costs £100 and I've heard nasty things about it!
Does anyone have any experience of travelling to S.A. since the world cup? Do you know how strict they are? How much do they check to see which countries you have travelled through?
Any help/ advice much appreciated!