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December 25th, 2012
8:45 am
Merry Christmas!
December 25th, 2012
8:59 am
Merry Christmas to all.
December 25th, 2012
9:02 am
Christmas Rappin.,…
December 25th, 2012
9:05 am
some old school Xmas soul, free download, digging it now at chez sfd…
December 25th, 2012
9:10 am
Merry Christmas, Everybody!
December 25th, 2012
9:22 am
December 25th, 2012
9:24 am
Merry Christmas, all!!!
And especially to happy little Savannah and Grampa Jay!
(The young-uns are still zonked in this house but I'm ready to get started with our traditional Christmas breakfast: tamales!!!)
December 25th, 2012
9:34 am
Tamales in the a.m.?
Hangover food.
December 25th, 2012
9:50 am
Merry Christmas one and all!… Looking like I'm going to have to make a battery run here momentarily… The house is still full of the sounds of excited children, all is well…
December 25th, 2012
10:00 am
Oh, Savannah…!!
December 25th, 2012
10:06 am
Best wishes to everyone!
December 25th, 2012
10:11 am
Merry Christmas to all… Here's a site that Savannah might like that is sure to cause grandpa to have fits.
December 25th, 2012
10:17 am
Merry Christmas !
December 25th, 2012
10:21 am
I almost cut my hair, it was happened just the other day.
It was gettin' kinda long, I could've said it was in my way.
But I didn't and I wonder why, I feel like letting my freak flag fly,
And I feel like I owe it to someone.
Well, must be because I had the flu for Christmas and I'm not feeling up to par.
You know, it increases my paranoia, like looking in my mirror and seeing a police car.
But I'm not givin' in an inch to fear. I promised myself this year.
I feel like I owe it to someone.
When I finally get myself together, I'm going to get down in that sunny southern weather.
And going to find a space inside to laugh, separate the wheat from the chaff.
'Cause I feel like I owe it to someone.
December 25th, 2012
10:23 am
Flu meds are worse than the flu. anyway,
Merry Mithra…hell, somebody had to say it!
December 25th, 2012
10:28 am
An all-time Christmas classic–"Christmas in Hollis" by Run DMC. 1987.
Share it with the younger generation. Enjoy!
December 25th, 2012
10:30 am
Merry Christmas cousin Corbin, and everyone else as well.
December 25th, 2012
10:39 am
Merry Christmas everyone! My hope for all of you is that you come to know your savior and develop a growing relationship with him. He is the reason for this season!!
December 25th, 2012
10:40 am
RB, today I will not counter your claim. Merry Christmas.
December 25th, 2012
10:54 am
Merry Christmas. Let's all celebrate the birthday of Zoroaster on this date, as humans have been doing for more than 2500 years.
December 25th, 2012
10:56 am
RB from Gwinnett, You claim is right, and if we would do that,this would be a much better world. Merry Christmas to all!
December 25th, 2012
11:01 am
If by "He", you mean the Great American God of Business, then I agree he is the reason for the season. Anyone else, not so much, but meh, that's just me.
To me today, is ALL CHILDREN'S DAY. They ARE the reason for the season.
December 25th, 2012
11:02 am
…and Cousin Gale, may you and yours have all of your wishes granted in the year to come.
December 25th, 2012
11:04 am
December 25th, 2012
11:05 am
BTW, looking at Jay's picture, you reckon he might have been up late building stuff for Santa?
December 25th, 2012
11:30 am
Loved Bro's jazzed up and funky 8:12 from downstairs.
For the naughty kids out there…
December 25th, 2012
11:31 am
Corbin "If by "He", you mean the Great American God of Business"
No, by "He", I mean Christ.
December 25th, 2012
11:41 am
Like I said…Meh…
December 25th, 2012
11:42 am
I think you actually mean Mithra.
December 25th, 2012
11:43 am
Corbin, the cool thing is He loves you even if you don't love Him back.
Merry CHRISTmas!!
December 25th, 2012
11:51 am
Many people suffer from the misconception that Christmas is a Christian holiday. The earliest history of Christmas is composed of "pagan" (non-Christian) fertility rites and practices which predate Jesus by centuries. The truth is, in short, the real history of Christmas has nothing to do with Christianity. Many of the traditions which we hold dear, such as decorating Christmas trees, singing Christmas carols, and giving Christmas gifts, are rooted in the traditions of non-Christian religions.
We do not observe Christmas on December 25th because it was the date in history when Jesus was born. Nobody knows exactly what that date was, but references in the Bible show it most likely did not take place in winter. Rather it is because this was the date that the Romans historically celebrated the winter solstice. This celebration was about dies natalis solis invicti: the day of the birth of the unconquerable sun, which took place on December 22nd. The winter solstice held the promise of the return of springtime and earthly renewal. In Roman history, this was the time of Saturnalia, honoring the God of Agriculture, for the week before the solstice, and Juvenalia, a feast in honor of the children of Rome, around the same time.
On the 25th of the month they celebrated the birth of the sun-god Mithra. Masters and servants traded places temporarily, and everybody had a rollicking good time. It was during Saturnalia that the tradition of exchanging gifts was established. They gave one another Stenae or fruits which were intended to bring good luck. The Romans placed an enormous amount of pressure on the early Christians to rejoice along with them, and around the time of the fourth century, they began to celebrate Christmas around the same time. It was inevitable that Christians should make a connection between the rebirth of the sun and the birth of the Son.
In the Middle Ages, Christmas was a raucous, drunken celebration which resembled a carnival. Poor people would go on a Christmas"trick or treat" around the richer neighborhoods, causing them misery if they didn't get what they wanted.
December 25th, 2012
11:55 am
December 25th, 2012
11:55 am
To me, that is what Christmas is all about.
Joy on the faces of the children.
December 25th, 2012
11:56 am
I like that, Corbin, All Children's Day.
Some of my neighbors decided to do firecrackers most of last evening. I cannot figure out if they were trying to lure Santa or scare him away. I mean to ask my Indian coworkers tomorrow if firecrackers are a traditional accessory to any special holiday. At least, I think they came from that part of my neighborhood.
December 25th, 2012
12:02 pm
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
December 25th, 2012
12:37 pm
Honestly I never figured you for a Christian. I mean, you are always projecting anger on this blog and I thought the followers of The Prince of Peace would be more mellow than that. I really don't get you Christians. You always push your dogma into others faces, but you don't do as your Christ had done in his time. He walked the walk, led by example. I don't see that happening much here. You want people to believe in what you believe, then shut up about it and just quietly show us how. You believe what you want and I will believe what I want. I figure there are more than one stairways to Heaven. But Happy Saturnalia anyway…
December 25th, 2012
12:39 pm
"Many people suffer from the misconception that Christmas is a Christian holiday."
Can you not hold your hatred of Christians for just this one day, Jammie?
December 25th, 2012
12:41 pm
@ 11:56
Depends on what kind of Indians they are…Cherokee?
u-li-he-li-s-di da-ni-s-da-yo-hi-hv-i
Merry Christmas.
Literally translates to "Happy when they go shooting (fireworks.)"
And why that? Well, when the Cherokee ran into the Spanish with their tradition of shooting off fireworks at Christmas, they took a shine to the idea, adopted the custom and, well, were happy to welcome the Christ Child in said fashion.
December 25th, 2012
12:42 pm
JamVet @ 11:51- That's a pretty accurate description of the origins of Christmas, which certainly is rooted in Pagan beliefs and took place long before the supposed birth of Jesus. However, your article assumes that Jesus was a real person. If he was, then no one on earth knew of him at the time. There are no written records of Jesus during the time he supposedly lived. No accounts of his "life" were documented until 70 years after he supposedly lived, and when those records appeared they were purely allegorical- metaphorical stories meant to reinforce a belief system rather than a historical, biographical account of real events. And almost all the godly events of Jesus' life had been borrowed from the myths of previous cultures- the virgin birth, healing the sick, his execution and resurrection, etc. These stories existed long before Jesus supposedly lived. If he had lived and had been executed by Romans as it tells in the Bible there surely would have been a written record of it sometime around year one. But there's not. Jesus was created around 67 AD when a new cult, an offshoot of Judaism, cobbled together fables from more ancient religions. Jesus almost certainly never existed. With that said, this atheist is enjoying the Pagan holiday, complete with Christmas trees, presents, children eating cookies, and hot tamales. Yes, it's wonderful time.
December 25th, 2012
12:54 pm
And for some of y'all…I'm with RB on this one…
Take your non Christian attitudes and stuff them or go out for Chinese and a movie. It's Baby Jesus' Birthday, plain and simple. Quit trying to two-step your own taking the day off, getting together to share food and presents with some citation of whatever else has become attached to the RELIGIOUS holiday (Holy Day…got it?)
I am not of the Christian faith, but I am ever so happy to be invited to Baby Jesus' Birthday party. If you don't want to be here, then go away for the day and let those for whom it IS celebrate without being Crazy Aunt Bette down from the attic to be the t*rd in the Yuletide Wassail bowl
December 25th, 2012
1:13 pm
Merry Christmas peeps….even you Taxpayer >^..^<
December 25th, 2012
1:14 pm
Ah, I should have known that Josef, the living contradiction, would chime in with hypocritical nonsense.
I'll celebrate Christmas as I wish, which is actually much closer to its origin than the Christian version.
December 25th, 2012
1:17 pm
Jezz, talk about the liberal agenda.
We get a lesson on the lack of merit concerning the existence of Jesus himself–ON CHRISTMAS DAY.
By the way folks its is completely human like to take a day in which you as a people are forced to celebrate secular or Pagan gods and turn it into a day of your religious celebration upon being freed or liberated. So while the facts of the origin are true it's not like the Jews or any other people under Roman rule were free to express any other religious celebration.
As for the exsistence of Jesus. Scholars debate as we speak wheather or not the Dead Sea Schrolls were written by Jesus himself and it certainly follows logic that the church would wipe the record clean of any Jesus references since they offered him to the Romans in an effort to get rid of him.
Considering the story is that the high priest and other religious leaders were concerned with his infulence and were not happy about being called out I would think they could have wiped him from the record books. Considering most were illiterate during that time it was the powerful who would tend to follow the law, that were doing the historical recordings.
But as you say it means nothing
December 25th, 2012
1:39 pm
Jesus took on the establishment and lost.
The original OWS.
The Italians organized a mafia and took over the world.
I would of hung out with Caligula.
Anyhoo, I got a half gallon of Crown and a box of my favorite cigars.
December 25th, 2012
1:46 pm
On a better note of Christmas giving and kindness, Occupy groups through strikeforce.org bought millions of dollars of bad debt for pennies on the dollars relating to medical bills, housing and education. And then they sent a note to those borrowers who were in default and would have been hounded by debt collectors, that they wiped out the debt.
December 25th, 2012
1:55 pm
I said nothing hateful about Xmas or Christians.
I'm just having a good laugh at the angry RB's lying about me in the name of his savior!
I'm with a getalife, eat, drink, smoke and be merry!
December 25th, 2012
1:58 pm
Best present ever.
"I'm with a getalife, eat, drink, smoke and be merry!"
December 25th, 2012
2:04 pm
Well, the smell of roasting turkey is all thru the trailer and me and little Nathan Zell George are about wore out from playing with all the things he got. He also got a suitcase of PBR but since he's a little young for that me and my buddy Jim Earl and my other buddy Joe Bill and maybe the Rev. Jim Bob Buice will help him play with that. We'll try to leave the Rev. Jim Bob a couple, seeing as how he don't show up till darkness comes. He can't afford to have the cops see him around a kid and get arrested for parole violation and all that stuff.
Have a Merry Christmas everybody. I'll try and not think about the wreckage you left at all the stores I service. I'll worry about that Wednesday.
December 25th, 2012
2:19 pm
I didn't find JamVet's history lesson to be hateful or anti-Christian at all. It's just history. Why do some people need to take offense at something in order to feel validated? Your Christmas is what YOU make it in any given year. Nobody is trying to stop you from doing what feels real to you.
December 25th, 2012
2:22 pm
WHEW!! Six hours in the kitchen a' cookin' and I'm worn out!!! But we did eat like kings, and my boys were blessed with their favorite holiday foods. Whatever your reason for celebrating this day, hug your precious ones a little tighter and sit back and appreciate just being alive and well on this day!!
Merry Christmas one and all!!!
December 25th, 2012
2:26 pm
If the food and lights and decorations and treats and presents and cards and carols and silly movies with the ones you love are not enough, then add a little Southern Comfort to the Egg Nog and slurp a cup or three! Merry Christmas!
December 25th, 2012
2:43 pm
Corbin, "Honestly I never figured you for a Christian. I mean, you are always projecting anger on this blog and I thought the followers of The Prince of Peace would be more mellow than that."
I think it's funny to see people who don't believe a word of the Bible try to use it to silence Christians by taking cherry picked verses, mostly out of context.
Sorry, Corbin, I'm not playing your childish game. Go sell your hate somewhere else.
December 25th, 2012
2:52 pm
Yea, Jammie, and many people also "suffer" from the misconception we celebrate veterans on Veterans Day and remember those who served and died on Memorial Day too, right?!!
You're pathetic.
December 25th, 2012
2:59 pm
December 25th, 2012
12:54 pm
And for some of y'all…I'm with RB on this one…
Take your non Christian attitudes and stuff them or go out for Chinese and a movie. It's Baby Jesus' Birthday, plain and simple. Quit trying to two-step your own taking the day off, getting together to share food and presents with some citation of whatever else has become attached to the RELIGIOUS holiday (Holy Day…got it?)
I am not of the Christian faith, but I am ever so happy to be invited to Baby Jesus' Birthday party. If you don't want to be here, then go away for the day and let those for whom it IS celebrate without being Crazy Aunt Bette down from the attic to be the t*rd in the Yuletide Wassail bowl
You are a mensch. You have my deepest thanks and respect. Merry Christmas to you.
December 25th, 2012
4:02 pm
Merry Christmas All !!
Getalife,,, Really? Booze and Tobacco? Not very PC!
Actually I am going out to the back porch in a few minutes and smoke a "Cuba Libre" remedlos and socialize with the back porch cat before it gets too cold.
Hang out with Caligula? (Gaius Augustus actually, Caligula was a pet name given to his as a child by the army) A crazy guy with a death wish who slept with his sister? bizarre
Enjoy your Cigar!
I came to a truce years ago with my grown Daughters about Christmas presents. No more shopping and wringing hands about what I might like. Each year they give me a US Mint proof set of US coins in standard and silver coins. I collect coins and I love the proof sets (I keep them on display in my living room) and one day they will inherit something worth more that they paid for them. My Canadian Daughter has even continued the tradition by sending me a Canadian Coin proof set each year.
Have a healthy New Year Getalife (and all!).
December 25th, 2012
4:09 pm
you missed it Redneck Convert ,,
To be truly converted to redneckhood ALL names must begin with Billy
Billy Bob, Billy Jo, Billy Jean Etc.
Sorry, you still have a way to go!..:)
December 25th, 2012
4:17 pm
you missed it Redneck Convert ,,
Well, it's plain this guy don't know nothing about being a redneck. It's OK. Merry Christmas anyway. Even to josef.
December 25th, 2012
4:30 pm
Even on this happiest of days, his religion brings the man from Loganville no peace or joy.
But I do admire his consistency.
Why just practice blogging malevolence 364 days out of the year?!
December 25th, 2012
4:31 pm
josef – From the continent of Idia Indians. I don't think we have any native American indians in the neighborhood. Thanks for the interesting history tidbit.
December 25th, 2012
4:47 pm
India, josef, not Idia.
I get such interesting discussion here sometimes. The rewriting of mythology to support a new religion takes a long view. I wonder if it could even be done today. We've seen what enough money can do to a political campaign. 2000 years ago, give or take a few decades, most history was word of mouth. An educated man would be able to twist the stories to his own purposes pretty easily.
December 25th, 2012
4:51 pm
old guy,
I am not very pc so you got me there.
Your coin gift is a good idea.
December 25th, 2012
4:53 pm
Just because Christians coopted the pagan trappings of Christmas does not mean that Jesus was not real, didn't die and was not resurrected.
Merry Christmas to Libs, Cons, Progs, Indies, Libertarians, Atheists and everyone else Jesus died for.
December 25th, 2012
5:07 pm
Liberal – 4:53
It's very simple.
Just give us testable evidence that Jesus lived, was the Messiah and actually died for us.
Once we get this hard evidence, we'll all be glad to be a true Christian like you.
December 25th, 2012
6:15 pm
I didn't figure what I had to say would go over real well in certain quarters! So be it, Our day in our own little multi-cultural corner of Western civilization? No t*rds in the wassail bowl, just peace on earth and good will toward our fellow human beings. So far this Season we've had our time with the Pagan (Halloween), the national feast of Thanksgiving, the historical celebration of Hannukah, the religious Holy Day of Christmas, and now on to the secular New Year…something in the season for everyone…if that's okay…
December 25th, 2012
6:17 pm
Being the season of goodwill…a Merry Christmas to you and yours, too!
December 25th, 2012
6:25 pm
So, you're a student of Zoroastrianism? Are you Parsi?
December 25th, 2012
6:30 pm
I am not very pc so you got me there.
I'm sure the guy from Jeff Shultz's blog wouldn't mind if you borrow his greeting.
"Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress,non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2013, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wish."
December 25th, 2012
6:33 pm
"Once we get this hard evidence, we'll all be glad to be a true Christian like you"
But we don't need to. The information is freely available. Only God can call you to faith, not us. If you don't feel that call, we can't create it for you. It's between you and God.
December 25th, 2012
7:01 pm
Doggone/GA – 6:33
I'm not talking about your pure blind faith.
I'm talking about the testable evidence you have to support that faith.
From the book of Genesis to the book of Revelation, you have a large body of religious belief whose authorship is totally unknown. And yet, a large part of your life rests on absolute belief in the validity of these religious instructions.
It just seems logical to ask for some solid evidence to support this kind of belief.
But then, your religious beliefs are about as logical as Santa Claus, Batman and the Tooth Fariy.
December 25th, 2012
7:02 pm
Saw django. C+. Three hours of the n word. Tarantino has lost it. Some great moments, but he tries too hard, and dialogue is cliche-riddled. Example: final line of dialogue is, "let's get out of here.".
December 25th, 2012
7:08 pm
"I'm not talking about your pure blind faith"
When you say "blind faith" you're talking to the wrong person. But to someone who doubts, there IS no proof that is acceptable. I wouldn't even try, because there's nothing I could say that would satisfy you. And that is not my issue. As I said, it's between you and God. If you don't feel the call to faith…you don't feel it. No one can "prove" it to you.
"But then, your religious beliefs are about as logical as Santa Claus, Batman and the Tooth Fariy"
And you have NO IDEA what My religious beliefs even are. So you criticism falls on deaf ears.
December 25th, 2012
7:20 pm
Just got back from the Corbin Sharpe family fest. WOW is all I can say. Gotta love the kids.
RB from Gwinnett
December 25th, 2012
2:43 pm
…and RB, I don't hate anyone. I don't have to…I'm not a Christian. Love is the answer…Merry Mithra.
December 25th, 2012
7:26 pm
"I don't hate anyone. I don't have to…I'm not a Christian"
Neither do Christians
December 25th, 2012
7:48 pm
"Neither do Christians"
Absolutely correct Doggone, but most do. They hate anyone not like them. It's like they never heard of live and let live….
But that conundrum won't be solved here. I gotta get up at 0400 and back to work tomorrow. No matter how you do it, enjoy the rest of the day….
Happy Santa Claus Day!
December 25th, 2012
7:52 pm
Jay: I think she has a future as a drag queen. Except that she is already genetically female and that is against the rules.
December 25th, 2012
7:54 pm
"Absolutely correct Doggone, but most do"
I wouldn't say most…but I would say too many do. I took the operative words in what you said to be "have to" Christians don't HAVE TO hate anyone, but too many find someone or some group to hate anyway. I"ve long taken Jesus words that his way is "hard" not to mean that his tenets are difficult to follow, because they aren't, but what IS hard is to let go of old attitudes and hatreds. And some people just can't do that, and don't even try.
December 25th, 2012
8:00 pm
Christians do not hate anyone not like them. Sure there are the nutjobs like those from Westboro but they certainly do not represent the vast majority of those who call themselves Christians. Just because we don't accept and approve of those things the Bible call sin does not make us haters. Most of the genuine hate I see on Jay's and other blogs is that towards those who identify as Christians and have the temerity to defend their faith. Because I have a Biblical worldview, I abhor the social policies of this President but I do not hate him. I pray for him and hope that one day he too will turn away from the Secular Humanistic, Morally Relativistic worldview that drives his social policy. I, like Doggone, believe that the evidence is out there sufficient for someone to make a reasoned decision for Jesus Christ. I respect your right to reject that evidence and make a different decision. Merry Christmas…truly
December 25th, 2012
8:07 pm
"of the genuine hate I see on Jay's and other blogs is that towards those who identify as Christians and have the temerity to defend their faith"
You have obviously not been paying REAL attention. First, I've seldom seen TRUE hatred here…and most of the criticism *I* see is saved for those who profess to be Christians, but whose words belie that faith.
December 25th, 2012
8:19 pm
Much of the vitriol that has been directed towards several identifying as Christians here strikes me as genuine and heartfelt. The secular humanists are quick to misquote Jesus's words on judging but judge Christians as to whether or not those words belie that faith in this medium which I believe is a serious challenge. I know you have frequented this blog a great deal since I have been visiting and maybe you don't see it as I do…and that's ok too I just know that the haters come out quickly upon identification before they even engage those who claim the name.
December 25th, 2012
8:27 pm
There are no written records of Jesus during the time he supposedly lived. No accounts of his "life" were documented until 70 years after he supposedly lived, and when those records appeared they were purely allegorical- metaphorical stories meant to reinforce a belief system rather than a historical, biographical account of real events. And almost all the godly events of Jesus' life had been borrowed from the myths of previous cultures- the virgin birth, healing the sick, his execution and resurrection, etc. These stories existed long before Jesus supposedly lived.
Yes and NO. Both the Koran and the writings of Buddha mention Jesus.
In Islam, Jesus (commonly transliterated as Isa) is considered one of God's important prophets.[34][35] In Islam, Jesus is a bringer of scripture, and the product of a virgin birth, but not the victim of crucifixion. Judaism rejects the belief that Jesus was the awaited Messiah, arguing that he did not fulfill the Messianic prophecies in the Tanakh.[36] Bahá'í scripture almost never refers to Jesus as the Messiah, but calls him a Manifestation of God.
Separate non-Christian sources used to establish the historical existence of Jesus include the works of 1st century Roman historians Josephus and Tacitus.[288][295] Josephus scholar Louis H. Feldman has stated that "few have doubted the genuineness" of Josephus' reference to Jesus in Antiquities 20, 9, 1 and it is only disputed by a small number of scholars.[289][296][297][298] Bart D. Ehrman states that the existence of Jesus and his crucifixion by the Romans is attested to by a wide range of sources, including Josephus and Tacitus.[299]
The historical existence of Jesus as a person is a separate issue from any religious discussions about his divinity, or the theological issues relating to his nature as man or God.
In essence, Jesus DID exist. Whether he was divine or not is up to the faith of the reader.
Now for some Music, about Jesus, just for today!
December 25th, 2012
8:27 pm
"I just know that the haters come out quickly upon identification before they even engage those who claim the name"
Hang around. You'll find that the true haters don't stay very long. But there ARE too many who call criticism "hatred" They're wrong. And there's nothing wrong with quoting the do not judge injuction to people who can't seem to understand it.
December 25th, 2012
8:30 pm
"In essence, Jesus DID exist. Whether he was divine or not is up to the faith of the reader"
and I see it just a little differently. to me, it doesn't matter if he existed or not…his teaching resonate and by that he has never "died"
December 25th, 2012
8:34 pm
Merry Christmas DogGone!!
Did your "puppies" have a great Christmas too? I bought mine all sorts of toys, (that they really don't need); and a couple of those dried up bones you get at PetCo.
What did yours gets this year?
December 25th, 2012
8:36 pm
December 25th, 2012
8:37 pm
Well put…Merry Christmas to All and to All A Good Night!
December 25th, 2012
8:37 pm
"What did yours gets this year?"
they got the treat they love the most: leftovers from Christmas dinner! We had a nice, quiet Christmas this year. My sister had to work all day, and it was too darn wet and foggy to even think of getting out. So we all just lazed around and watched TV all day.
December 25th, 2012
8:43 pm
they got the treat they love the most: leftovers from Christmas dinner!
We had a nice, quiet Christmas this year. My sister had to work all day, and it was too darn wet and foggy to even think of getting out. So we all just lazed around and watched TV all day.
Yeah it was AWFUL most of the day — I went to the hospital to see my sister and the twins. Those boys are FAT! They were crying because they were hungry, (again), and those little carrier thingies that the nurses put them in were just shaking and rocking. My sister couldn't feed them fast enough!
She comes home tomorrow and still hasn't named them yet — I'm still pushing for her to name at least ONE Deacon — I think she hates that name though!
This has been a really great Christmas this year — I got two new HEALTHY nephews and my sister is healthy and doing fine. I am blessed and happy as a bug in a rug!
OH and mIami just won the game tonight over OKC!
Today is good day!!
December 25th, 2012
8:47 pm
DDR – glad to hear your sister and the babies are doing well. That's the best Christmas present of all!
December 25th, 2012
8:48 pm
Hiya josef!!
josef — why did Fred call you a mensch? What does that mean? Was he insulting you? Want me to go after him for calling you out of your name? It'll be my gift to you — you won't have to be banned for 2 weeks, I'll take the hit for you!
Georgia: Saw django. C+. Three hours of the n word. Tarantino has lost it. Some great moments, but he tries too hard, and dialogue is cliche-riddled. Example: final line of dialogue is, "let's get out of here.".
IMO Tarantino, after Pulp Fiction, has been going steadily downhill. Without the "n" word, what basically are his movies ABOUT? Shooting, cursing, and dying. The End. What's the point?
December 25th, 2012
8:49 pm
Anyone noticed that Jay's grand looks JUST LIKE her great grand?!? Man genetics don't lie!
Since she's such a cutie — I wonder if his dad looked like a girl when he was little…..Just speculating! No disrespect.
December 25th, 2012
8:54 pm
DDR – glad to hear your sister and the babies are doing well. That's the best Christmas present of all!
Amen to that. I was really worried for my sister; her first pregnancy was a breeze, but this one was hell! I was scared i was going to loose her; but like i said, she's fine and she's just GLOWING with happiness. Her family is now complete. I've been begging her to PLEASE get her tubes tied! She's a practicing catholic so she doesn't believe in birth control, but she's really a bit too "old" to be having anymore children.
I'm hoping our mother can talk sense into her. My mom, the super-catholic, had her tubes tied after she had child number 9. My mother was like, "Hey god knows my heart and he KNOWS i'm sick of being pregnant!"
December 25th, 2012
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Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanza to all what hang out here on Jay's blog. Over here @ the Barackisha household we gathering round the 12 inch b&w TV to watch National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation for about the fiftieth time @ 9pm.
December 25th, 2012
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True Christians do not hate individuals personally but they deplore the acts that individuals take that is against the teachings of God. Some people can not separate the act from the person and there is where some Christians get into trouble because they should never judge the person just rebuke the act. The other issues is non believers do not like to be called out for their immoral acts. They know they are acting wrong but instead of accepting the facts they lash out against the ones bringing their immoral acts out.
December 25th, 2012
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"My mom, the super-catholic, had her tubes tied after she had child number 9. My mother was like, "Hey god knows my heart and he KNOWS i'm sick of being pregnant!"
I love it! God said "Be fruitful and multiply" and I think it's safe to say we HAVE. We were talking the other day about animals multiplying to the point where they eat themselves out of survivable habitat. I've never seen anything in that injunction that says WE should do the same thing!
December 25th, 2012
8:58 pm
Barackisha – For you. Merry Christmas.
December 25th, 2012
9:00 pm
"The other issues is non believers do not like to be called out for their immoral acts. They know they are acting wrong but instead of accepting the facts they lash out against the ones bringing their immoral acts out."
there is some truth in that, but I think the main problem is the people don't like to be called immoral for things that AREN'T
December 25th, 2012
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Word. Women who have multiple pregnancies, especially multiple pregnancies close together, have lots of problems later in life.
My mother had to get a "bladder mesh"(?) or something like that because pregnancies result in pressure on your bladder and it stretches or something……..at any rate, as she aged she had problems with it.
She also had back problems, and vericose veins. The muscle tone in her stomach never returned to what it was, pre-child #4, no matter how many situps and crunches she did; so she had her stomach "tucked"(?) — her waist is now a stunning 20″ (mine is 21 — I HATE her ).
So she is one to quickly point out the fallacy of a bunch of MEN, (priests/pope), telling WOMEN about NOT taking birth control; when they have no idea, nor do they care, about the consequences of multiple pregnancies on some women's bodies.
December 25th, 2012
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December 25th, 2012
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And there is the major rub. A persons belief system as to what is and is not moral and proper behavior.
December 25th, 2012
9:07 pm
No…no insult at all and quite the opposite. It's Yiddish and really means "person, human being." it's used whenever somebody does or says something honorable and worthy of respect. It's about the most complimentary term in Yiddish. It's not used lightly.
December 25th, 2012
9:07 pm
"when they have no idea, nor do they care, about the consequences of multiple pregnancies on some women's bodies."
It's always a problem when doctrine is more important then people


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VIDEO | Dana White's World Tour Media Scrum In New York
Yesterday the UFC hit New York as part of the UFC World Tour.
Immediately following the event, UFC President, Dana White took time out for the media for the above media scrum.
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Drawing on a case study of two Hmong refugee populations from Laos that were resettled in a major Texas city and a German village, this article explores the different approaches to immigrant integration found in the United States and Germany as well as the outcomes for the Hmong and their sense of belonging in their new communities.
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As Central American child migrant flows have returned to their precrisis level, challenges remain concerning the fate of tens of thousands of newly arrived children and families now residing in the United States pending immigration court hearings. Meanwhile, Congress has declined to authorize new funding to address the situation.
Between 1960 and 2012 the share of Canadians in the U.S. foreign-born population declined from 10 to 2 percent, while the actual number of Canadian immigrants has remained remarkably steady. Using the most up-to-date statistics, this profile examines the Canadian immigrant population by size, age, location, college education, and more.
Central American migrants have long hopped freight trains known as "La Bestia," or the beast, to get through Mexico en route to the United States. While Mexico has been accused of turning a blind eye to this traffic, U.S. outcry over the surge of unaccompanied child migrants has drawn new attention to the use of the trains. This article highlights the journey aboard the trains, the dangers faced by migrants, and responses by the Mexican government and others.
The once-tiny population of Vietnamese immigrants in the United States has grown to become the country's sixth largest foreign-born group in the span of several decades, with the first wave beginning at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. This data profile examines the Vietnamese immigrant population by size, recency of arrival, top states and cities of settlement, college education, sending of remittances, and much more.
When Congress returns from recess in September, lawmakers will need to pick up where they left off on approving an emergency spending bill to address unaccompanied migrant children at the border. This article previews upcoming battles in Congress and analyzes how the recent border crisis is changing the broader immigration debate in the United States.
Whether as migrant-sending or migrant-receiving locations—or both—many countries have rich, complex international and internal migration histories. MPI's online journal, the Migration Information Source, offers profiles of more than 70 nations. Written by leading scholars, these profiles delve into countries' migration histories, demographics, policymaking, and more.
Use this data tool—referred to as "one addictive interactive map"—to examine immigrant populations by country of origin and destination. Find out how many Americans live in Mexico, how many Ukrainians in Russia, or Filipinos in Saudi Arabia, for example.
United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees T. Alexander Aleinikoff talks to MPI about the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis and the role of UNHCR in assisting countries that have taken in large numbers of Syrian refugees. One looming concern: how will UNHCR and other actors change their refugee crisis-response models and mechanisms to adapt to this and future emergencies?
About 757,000 immigrants took U.S. citizenship in 2012, a 9 percent increase from the year before. As of 2012, 46 percent of the nation's 40.8 million immigrants were naturalized Americans. This article examines the latest naturalization data available for the United States, including historical trends, data by country of origin and state of residence, as well as socioeconomic characteristics of the 18.7 million naturalized U.S. citizens residing in the United States in 2012.
While budget issues and the debt ceiling dominated the congressional agenda and public attention last week, thousands of activists in Washington were stepping up civil disobedience and mobilization tactics to pressure lawmakers into voting to overhaul the nation's immigration system. This article explores this growing trend and its possible implications for immigration reform in the 113th Congress. It also provides an update on other national, state, and local developments in immigration policy.
The recent special session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, labeled the High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development (HLD), was the UN's second-ever discussion devoted solely to international migration. This article examines the implications and outcomes of the HLD, identifies some of the issues that garnered widespread support, and assesses whether the international community is inching toward greater multilateral engagement on migration.
Land is the basis of nearly all economic activities from farming to financial speculation on cotton production — in and along the periphery of an internationally protected park that spans parts of Benin, Burkina Faso, and Niger. Recognized as the "W" Transboundary Biosphere Reserve in 2002, this vast territory and surrounding areas are experiencing a land-management crisis in which seasonal and long-term migration has played a major role. This article examines these challenges through the use of reflexive maps, which capture data relating not only to migrants' paths and motivations, but also the social values and knowledge that they carry with them.
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Immigrant legalizations in the United States and Europe ("regularizations" in the EU context) have been used repeatedly for broad and discrete groups of immigrants. A look at how these programs have been implemented historically and the political and policy implications they face today.
An estimated 7 percent of people in Mexico were not registered with the government at birth and thus lack official record of their name, age, parentage, and citizenship. Without a birth certificate, unregistered Mexican children lack access to education, health care, and basic social services, while unregistered adults face significant economic and civic-integration challenges. Both groups are more vulnerable to being trafficked, exploited, or recruited into criminal groups. This article provides a primer on this important issue, with insight into the experiences of unregistered, unauthorized Mexican immigrants in the United States.
Documentary filmmakers Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini, the team behind the acclaimed How Democracy Works Now series that explores the battle over comprehensive immigration reform in the 2000s, discuss what it was like to experience Washington, DC and the policymaking process from an insider's perspective.
In 2001, filmmakers Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini embarked on a journey that took them across the country and into the offices of the U.S. Capitol, local town halls, high-level negotiations, election races, and activist rallies, all to tell one large and complex story: how the U.S. policy process — particularly in immigration reform — really works. Joyce Matthews, editor of the Migration Information Source, recently caught up with Michael and Shari for a candid conversation about their ambitious project and what they took away from their six years filming the U.S. immigration debate. Foreword by Demetrios G. Papademetriou, President of the Migration Policy Institute.
Rarely is migration among the Chinese from Hong Kong, the People's Republic of China, and Taiwan to the countries of the Pacific Rim as cut and dry as the labels "immigrant," "emigrant," and "returnee" suggest. In fact, Chinese migrants from each of these areas of origin share a tendency for traversing between their homeland; country of work, study, or residence; and even a third country as the needs of the family dictate. This article examines these contemporary migration patterns using Chinese migrants in New Zealand as a case study.
Immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa are more likely than the overall foreign-born population to be proficient in English, to have a college degree, and to be naturalized U.S. citizens. MPI's Aaron Terrazas uses the latest federal data to explore the population's size, geographic distribution, and socioeconomic characteristics.
Over the past two decades, the settlement patterns of immigrants in the United States have changed as an increasing number of the foreign born are choosing to make states in the southern and middle regions of the country their home. MPI's Aaron Terrazas profiles the immigrants in these "new-destination" states and compares them to the rest of the foreign-born population.
Los Estados Unidos es hogar para aproximadamente 2.9 millones de inmigrantes provenientes de los países centroamericanos Belice, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, y Panamá. La migración de Centroamérica ha crecido rápidamente en las recientes décadas, pero más de dos de cada cinco inmigrantes centroamericanos carecen de estatus migratorio legal mientras que alrededor de uno en diez residen en los Estados Unidos bajo la protección temporal humanitaria.
The 2.9 million Central American immigrants living in the United States were more likely than both the native born and the foreign-born population overall to be of working age and to be participating in the U.S. labor force. MPI's Aaron Terrazas examines the population's size, geographic distribution, and demographic characteristics.
Interested in information on annual naturalization trends, illegal immigration, the geographical distribution of immigrants in the United States, current and historical shares, and a host of other topics?
MPI's Jeanne Batalova and Aaron Terrazas have assembled the latest, most interesting data on immigrants and immigration into one easy-to-use resource.
Historically a diverse country, Singapore since the 1980s has become a top destination for Asian and Western professionals as well as low-skilled migrants from across the region. Brenda S.A. Yeoh of the National University of Singapore reports.
Social and economic factors are pushing Japan toward a more open immigration policy, while other concerns are prompting the country to adopt stricter immigration controls. Chikako Kashiwazaki of Keio University and Tsuneo Akaha of the Monterey Institute of International Studies provide an overview of Japan's migration issues.
As Ulf Hedetoft of Aalborg University and the Academy for Migration Studies in Denmark explains, the question of how to handle cultural and religious differences has come to dominate the Danish political agenda.
Iran has long connected the great civilizations of Asia, the Near East and the Mediterranean. But since the Islamic Revolution, hundreds of thousands of highly skilled Iranians have emigrated while millions of refugees from Afghanistan and Iraq have entered the country. Shirin Hakimzadeh takes a detailed look at Iran's past and present migration issues.
One of the poorest countries in Central Asia and a former Soviet Republic, Tajikistan has dealt with Afghan refugees, experienced outward flows of ethnic Russians since its independence, and seen thousands of ethnic Tajiks leave for temporary employment in Russia. MPI's Aaron Erlich investigates the migration issues facing this understudied country.
In this month's policy beat, MPI's Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron report on the termination of the Secure Border Initiative Network, the status of the USCIS Transformation project, and more.
MPI's Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron report on the rise in state-level action on immigration enforcement, the resuming deportations of Haitians, Mexico's inclusion in the Global Entry trusted traveler program, and more.
MPI's Muzaffar Chishti, Claire Bergeron, and Kristen McCabe report on the passage of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act in the House, Supreme Court oral arguments on the Legal Arizona Workers Act, the record number of diversity visa applicants, and more.
The results of the 2010 elections seem likely to ensure a standoff on any immigration legislation and more immigration enforcement measures at the state level, as
MPI's Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron report. Also in this edition: Boeing no longer working on virtual fence, temporary protected status extended for Somalis, ban on unauthorized immigrant students at certain Georgia state universities, and more.
MPI's Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron examine why the Senate recently considered the DREAM Act and two other immigration bills, as well as whether local governments can opt out of Secure Communities, immigration cases before the Supreme Court, and more.


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Jimmy Cliff's 'Rebirth' a call for change
Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff performs during the first weekend of the 2012 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., on April 13, 2012. Jimmy Cliff has been a reggae icon for half a century, but that doesn't mean he plans to become complacent. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP - Chris Pizzello
TORONTO - Jimmy Cliff has been a reggae icon for half a century, but that doesn't mean he plans to become complacent.
His new album, "Rebirth," is all about re-inventing his career and taking it to new heights, while also delivering the message that society is due for a rebirth too.
"I've always been an artist who highlights what is going on, whether locally or globally," Cliff, 64, said while sitting on the edge of a floral armchair in a sunny boardroom at a downtown Toronto hotel.
"So this is just a continuation, an expansion of those things."
Despite his lofty ambitions and the demands of his music career (he has gigs in Toronto and Montreal this weekend), Cliff radiates an air of tranquility. Known for his classic protest song "Vietnam," the singer has been advocating for social change for nearly 50 years, and continues to do so on "Rebirth."
His 2010 induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cliff said, offered a springboard to take him to "higher places."
To get to those places, Cliff wanted to go back to the origins of his music on "Rebirth," his first studio album in seven years.
"When one is reborn, one has to go back to point zero, so that's where I went back," said Cliff, wearing a classic fedora and a textured camel jacket.
"I have the same sound that we used back then, we have the same instruments to get the sound, and we recorded the same way, which is live."
He said a lot of the inspiration for returning to that sound came from producer Tim Armstrong of Rancid, who created an "easy and fun" mood in the studio.
But the album is about more than just a musical rebirth, it's also a call for change.
Cliff says the need for social, economic and ecological change is greater than ever. And his new album has echoes of the mood driving the Occupy movements and the Arab spring.
"What's wrong with humanity/have they lost their sanity/for the sake of vanity?" he says, quoting from the track "World Upside Down."
Despite Cliff's status in the music industry, he says he's always setting new goals for himself.
"One of those goals was to conquer the world. I've done that to a degree, but to the highest degree is not finalized yet."
He says he still wants to win an Academy Award, and have a new string of number one hits for this generation, eventually becoming a "stadium act."
"There's so much that I have to say and share with this generation," said the singer. "This is like Act Two of Jimmy Cliff."
Cliff will perform at the Phoenix in Toronto on Saturday, and will appear at the Montreal International Reggae Festival on Sunday.


text: More 3G, More 3G!! Hot on the heels of this mornings 3G news comes in via a trusted tipster who sent us a very believable looking list showing off 3G launch dates for the rest of the year. Unfortunately its broken down by quarter but we expect as the days count down, actual release dates will leak as well. Nobody wants to read any more from me, so here we go with the list, Q3 and Q4 will follow after the jump: Q2: Mesa, AZ Peoria, AZ Scottsdale, AZ Tucson, AZ Colorado Springs, CO Pueblo, CO Daytona Beach, FL Des Moines, ID Rockford, IL Springfield, IL Shreveport, LA Springfield, MA Portland, ME Manchester, NH Henderson, NV Columbus, OH Eugene, OR Salem, OR Beaumont, TX Brownsville, TX Bryan, TX College Station, TX Corpus Christi, TX Laredo, TX, Lubbock, TX McAllen, TX Wichita Falls, TX Q3: Montgomery, AL Little Rock, AR Bakersfield, CA Corona, CA Escondido, CA Fairfield, CA Fontana, CA Fresno, CA Oxnard, CA Merced, CA Moreno Valley, CA Oceanside, CA Redding, CA Riverside, CA San Bernardino, CA San Buenaventura (Ventura), CA Salinas, CA Santa Rosa, CA Simi Valley, CA Fort Collins, CO Bridgeport, CT Hartford, CT New Haven, CT Stamford, CT Waterbury, CT Cape Coral, FL Albany, GA Athens-Clarke County, GA Augusta-Richmond County, GA Columbus City, GA Peoria, IL Bloomington, IN Evansville, IN Fort Wayne, IN Lafayette, IN Indianapolis, IN South Bend, IN Topeka, KS Wichita, KS Ann Arbor, MI Lansing, MI St. Louis, MO Rochester, MN St. Cloud, MN Omaha, NE Cary, NC Charlotte, NC Durham, NC Greensboro, NC Raleigh, NC Winston-Salem, NC Albuquerque, NM Buffalo, NY Rochester, NY Syracuse, NY Akron, OH Cincinnati, OH Cleveland, OH Dayton, OH Toledo, OH Medford, OR Allentown, PA Lancaster, PA Charleston, SC Columbia, SC Knoxville, TN Nashville, TN Abilene, TX Amarillo, TX El Paso, TX Lake Charles, TX Longview TX Tyler, TX Provo, UT Salt Lake City, UT West Valley City, UT Chesapeake, VA Hampton, VA Norfolk, VA Portsmouth, VA Richmond, VA Virginia Beach, VA Spokane, WA Tacoma, WA Milwaukee, WI Q4: Palmdale, CA Lancaster, CA Santa Clarita, CA Thousand Oaks, CA Honolulu, HA Lexington, KY Louisville, KY Grand Rapids, MI Fayetteville, NC Greenville, NC Wilmington, NC Springfield, OH Oklahoma City, OK Erie, PA Reading, PA Pittsburgh, PA Vineland, PA Victoria, TX Waco, TX Clarksville, TN Bellingham, WA Tags: 3G


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Colville High (4-2) pulled off something the boyŌĆÖs soccer program hasnŌĆÖt been able to accomplish in recent memoryŌĆöor ever. Beat Pullman on the pitch.
The Indians forged a 3-0 first half lead in the home match against the Greyhounds on goals by Filipp Susin (first minute), on an assist from Carl Johnston; Chris Benson at the 34-minute mark and Susin again three-minutes later (on an assist from Kris Griessmann).
A busy week on tap
Colville High (1-1) split a pair of high school soccer matches last week to get the 2013 boyŌĆÖs soccer season underway.
Back on March 12, Colville downed new Northeast A League member Medical Lake 4-2. On Thursday, another very good Cheney High team dispatched the Indians 6-0 on the Colville pitch. That match was the Great Northern League opener for both schools.
Colville will travel to Deer Park on Tuesday to face the Stags in a GNL match-up (4 p.m. start).
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A Colville High track and field team that includes more than a few new faces this spring got the 2013 high school season underway last Saturday at the 16-team West Valley Invitational.
CHS head coach Ty Brown said that going into the mid-March shakedown cruise the goal was to get a feel for what the Indians have this spring as they embark on a new two-year adventure back in the Great Northern League.
Colville High hosted Chewelah and Northport in an impromptu three-team baseball Jamboree last Friday afternoon. The Jamboree, with each team playing three-inning ŌĆ£games,ŌĆØ served as a warm-up for this weekŌĆÖs schedule.
Colville opens the season on Tuesday at home when they host Great Northern League pre-season favorite East Valley in a single game (4 p.m. start) at Hofstetter Park. The Indians of head coach Boo Morrison travel to Deer Park for a GNL twin-bill with the Stags on Saturday (noon start). On Tuesday, March 26, CHS is at West Valley (4 p.m. start).
Indians still have plenty of weapons
Colville HighŌĆÖs high-flying softball program will look a little different this spring for a couple of reasons.
First, the Indians are back in the familiar confines of the 2A Great Northern League for at least a two-year WIAA enrollment cycle. And second, assistant coach Jim Ebel has been elevated to head coach after Mandy Sumner, who guided the Indians to the cusp of a State 1A championship the past two seasons, resigned. Gone with Sumner is her husband, assistant coach Rob Sumner.
Indians also return to 2A GNL
By Colville High track and field coach Ty BrownŌĆÖs recollection, itŌĆÖs been several years since the Indians have been outside for pre-season practice sessions for day one.
Well, welcome to the relatively balmy spring of 2013 (so far).
Brown and the Indians will take it. It fact, CHS had glorious upper 50ŌĆÖs, bright sunny conditions for their annual Black and White inter-squad Jamboree last Saturday with Kettle Falls.
Like most Colville High School athletic teams, the move up from the Northeast A League to the rigors of the 2A Great Northern League likely didnŌĆÖt do the IndiansŌĆÖ baseball team any favors this spring.
But you control what you can control. And the vagaries of student enrollment counts arenŌĆÖt among things in the control of a coach.
You play who has been scheduled.
ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs a new challenge,ŌĆØ CHS head coach Boo Morrison said of the move to 2A. ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs a tough league.ŌĆØ
Registration is open for girlŌĆÖs ages two through 12 who want to play Kiwanis Softball this spring.
Minor League is for players who have entered second grade this school year or were eight, nine or 10-years-old on Jan. 1, 2013.
Players are eligible for Major League if they were 10, 11 or 12-years-old Jan. 1, 2013.
Registration forms are available at ClarkŌĆÖs All-Sports or from Hofstetter School, Fort Colville Elementary School, Colville Junior High School, Kettle Falls Elementary School or Kettle Falls Middle School secretaries.
Registration deadline is March 22.
Pullman wins
first 2A title
Several eastern Washington high school basketball teams came up big at their respective state basketball tournaments last weekend.
Great Northern League 2A champion Pullman (27-1), winners of 27 straight games, captured its first state championship basketball trophy Saturday night in the Yakima SunDome, downing Anacortes, 44-39.
PullmanŌĆÖs previous two top finishes were second twice.
Othello wins 2A, DP comes up short
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Colville HighŌĆÖs Chandler Knight (182) finished third at Friday and SaturdayŌĆÖs XXV Mat Classic at the Tacoma Dome to help lead the Indians to a ninth place finish (52.5 points).
Teammate Trenton Welton finished fifth at 138 pounds and ColvilleŌĆÖs 152-pound standout, Tanner Smith, capped a stellar high school career with a sixth place finish.
The IndiansŌĆÖ Grady Nelson (132), Ian Cox (138) and Ryley Smith (152) did not place.


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My son who is 11 and myself found this to be an excellent excursion for the money. The bus trip was comfortable, the driver was awesome! Clearwater Beach was beautiful , the lunch was unbelievable we got so much food ! And the best part was the Screamer Boat Ride, the crew was fantastic, there knowledge of the area and the dolphin sightings were amazing. We were on vacation in Orlando and chose not to rent a car so this was perfect for us for a day trip. Would use this site and local tour company every time we visit.


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Authorities in Fulton County say a dog attacked and killed a child on Wednesday.According to police the 2-year-old was killed on Sierra Trail in south Fulton County. Police said that the mother was home with the child. "The mother did go to the restroom. She advised it happened fast. When she came out, her son was clearly deceased," said Melissa Parker of the Fulton County Police Department.Neighbors said that they heard the mother's screams as she ran out of the house."She was rolling around on the ground. 'The dog killed my baby, the dog killed my baby,'" said Joseph Messam.Authorities said that the dog was a pit bull and had been the family pet for eight years.The dog was taken to Fulton County Animal Control, where it will be observed for several days. In a statement released Thursday, animal control officials say "no determination has been made regarding the disposition of the animal."
The child's mother was so distraught that she was taken to the hospital for observation. Police said that they don't expect any charges to be filed in the tragic incident.
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Worms Wii Lacks Promised Online PlayThe upcoming Wii edition of Team17's long-running turn-based invertebrate-battling series, Worms: A Space Oddity, will not include the previously announced online multiplayer.
"There will not be an online component in Worms: A Space Oddity," publisher THQ confirmed with Shacknews following an initial report from IGN.
The presence of online play was one of the many features touted when the game was first announced, and seemed a natural inclusion given that the recently released Worms: Open Warfare 2 (NDS, PSP) supported online multiplayer.
"Worms: A Space Oddity is a social gaming experience that is best enjoyed locally, in a party-game atmosphere with other players," explained THQ. "Team 17 has proven it can deliver a world class online gaming experience through the popular Worms: Open Warfare 2.
"We've chosen to focus on making the best possible local multiplayer experience through fast-paced gameplay and entertaining party-games," the company continued. "Players will get even more fun and satisfaction from being able to see the reaction of their friends and taunting them with attacks face-to-face."
Worms: A Space Oddity is slated to blast its way into stores this March.
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Wakefeild may see 2 to 4 inches of snow over the weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
NWS has issued a Hazardous Weather Outlook for the area with snow showers expected Friday night and steady snow on Saturday. The steady snow should taper off by 5 p.m. Saturday and then snow showers are expected Saturday night.
The snowy conditions will be joined by fog and winds that may exceed 20 mph.
NWS said there is a "moderate to high probability that winter weather advisorires will be needed for a portion of southern New England."
The heaviest snowfall should hit southeastern Massachusetts, but NWS warned that a shift in the storm track could result in changes in the type of precipitation and amount.


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Our Mission and Vision
IWHC promotes and protects the sexual and reproductive rights and health of women and young people—particularly adolescent girls—in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. We advance this agenda by supporting and strengthening local leaders and organizations working within their communities and at the national and regional levels; by advocating for international policies, programs, and funding; and by seeking to influence U.S. policy on these matters.
We envision a world in which women and girls:
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Big Nose Kate
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|Mary Katherine Horony Cummings
Big Nose Kate at about age 40, photo about 1890
November 7, 1850
Pest, Hungary
|November 2, 1940
(aged 89)
Prescott, Arizona, United States
Dance hall girl
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|Doc Holliday (common-law), George Cummings
Mary Katherine Horony Cummings (November 7, 1850 – November 2, 1940), known as Big Nose Kate, was a Hungarian-born prostitute and later longtime companion and common-law wife of Doc Holliday in the American Old West.
- 1 Early life
- 2 Joins Doc Holliday
- 3 After the O.K. Corral and later life
- 4 Death and discrepancies in records
- 5 In other media
- 6 References
- 7 Additional reading
- 8 External links
Early life[edit]
Mary Katherine Horony (also spelled Harony, Haroney, and Horoney)[1] was born on November 7, 1850 in Pest, Hungary, the second-oldest daughter of Hungarian physician Michael Horony.
Immigration to the United States of America[edit]
In 1860, Dr. Horony, his second wife Katharina, and his children left Hungary for the United States, ultimately reaching New York on the German ship Bremen in September 1860. Glenn G. Boyer was the first to claim that Kate was royalty and after her father received appointment as personal physician to Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico the family accompanied the emperor to Mexico. However, in none of his published works did Boyer ever cite a source for these assertions. Furthermore, Gary L. Roberts, in his book, Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend, the definitive work on the subject, commented: "Patrick A. Bowmaster, "A Fresh Look at 'Big Nose Kate,'" NOLA Quarterly 22 (July –September 1998): 12-24, exposes the fallacy of this tale."[2]
The Horony family settled in a predominantly German area of Davenport, Iowa, in 1862. Horony and his wife died in 1865 within a month of one another. Mary Katherine and her younger siblings were placed in the home of her brother-in-law, Gustav Susemihl, and in 1870 they were left in the care of attorney Otto Smith.[3] The 1870 United States Census records for Davenport, Iowa, show Kate's younger sister, 15-year-old Wilhelmina (Wilma), living with and working as a domestic for Austrian-born David Palter and his Hungarian wife Betty.
St. Louis and Dodge City[edit]
At age 16, Kate ran away from her foster home and is reported to have stowed away on a riverboat bound for St. Louis, Missouri.[4] While in St. Louis, Kate claimed to have married a dentist named "Silas Melvin" and that the two had a son. Subsequently, husband and son were said[by whom?] to have died of yellow fever. No record currently proves the marriage, birth of a child, or the death of either Melvin or the child.[original research?] United States Census records report that a Silas Melvin lived in St. Louis in the mid 1860s but that he was married to a steamship captain's daughter named Mary Bust. The census also shows that another Melvin was employed by a St. Louis asylum. Since Kate met Doc Holliday in the early 1870s, there is speculation[by whom?] that she may have confused the two and their occupations when recalling the facts later in her life.[5]
By 1874, Kate left St. Louis and moved to Dodge City, Kansas. She was fined for working as a "sporting woman" in a sporting house run by Nellie "Bessie" (Ketchum) Earp,[6] James Earp's wife. Historians and biographers generally agree that Kate was a prostitute.[7][8][9]
Joins Doc Holliday[edit]
In 1876, Kate moved to Fort Griffin, Texas, where she met Wyatt Earp and began her longtime involvement with Doc Holliday. Doc said at one point that he considered Kate his intellectual equal. There are unproven reports that Kate owned and operated a bordello in Tombstone. (Amongst amateur historians, Big Nose Kate has often been confused with a Tombstone sporting woman who went by the name "Rowdy Kate".) She did own a miner's boarding house in Globe, Arizona, along Broad Street.[citation needed]
By her own account, Kate and Doc went to Trinidad, Colorado, and then to Las Vegas, New Mexico, where Holliday was briefly a barkeeper at a saloon on Center Street. Doc and Kate met up again with Wyatt Earp and his brothers on their way to the Arizona Territory. Virgil Earp had already been in Prescott before Wyatt persuaded his brothers to move to Tombstone. Holliday was making money at the gambling tables in Prescott, and he and Kate parted ways when Kate left for Globe, Arizona, but she rejoined Holliday soon after he arrived in Tombstone.
Move to Tombstone[edit]
Holliday, like his friend Wyatt, was always looking for an opportunity to make money and joined the Earps in Tombstone during the fall of 1880.[3] On March 15, 1881, at 10:00 pm, three cowboys attempted to rob a Kinnear & Company stagecoach carrying US$26,000 in silver bullion (by the inflation adjustment algorithm: $635,386 in today's dollars) near Benson, Arizona, during which the popular driver Eli "Budd" Philpot and passenger Peter Roerig were killed.[10] Cowboy Bill Leonard, a former watchmaker from New York, was one of three men implicated in the robbery, and he and Holliday had become good friends.[11]:181 When Kate and Holliday had a fight, County Sheriff Johnny Behan and Milt Joyce, a county supervisor and owner of the Oriental Saloon, decided to exploit the situation.
Behan and Joyce plied Big Nose Kate with alcohol and suggested to her a way to get even with Holliday. She signed an affidavit implicating Holliday in the murders and attempted robbery. Judge Wells Spicer issued an arrest warrant for Holliday. The Earps found witnesses who could attest to Holliday's whereabouts elsewhere at the time of the murders. Kate said that Behan and Joyce had influenced her to sign a document she didn't understand. With the Cowboy plot revealed, Judge Spicer freed Holliday. The district attorney threw out the charges, labeling them "ridiculous".[12] After Holliday was released, he gave Kate money and put her on the stage. Kate returned to Globe for a time, but she returned to Tombstone in October of that year.[12]
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral[edit]
In a 1939 letter to her niece Lillian Rafferty, Kate claimed that she was in the Tombstone area with Holliday during the days before the shootout. Kate reminisced about her stay with Holliday at Fly's Boarding House, above the photography studio and alongside the alley where the gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place. Kate is precise regarding minor details and states that she was with Holliday in Tucson. She recalled attending a fiesta, which was the San Augustin Feast and Fair in Levin Park on October 1881. On October 20, 1881, Morgan Earp rode to Tucson to alert Holliday of the impending trouble. According to Kate, Holliday asked her to remain in Tucson for her safety, but she refused, instead going with Holliday and Earp.[citation needed]
Kate wrote that on the day of the gunfight, a man entered Fly's Boarding House with a "bandaged head" and a rifle. He was looking for Holliday, who was still in bed after a night of gambling. Kate recalled that the man who was turned away by Mrs. Fly was later identified as Ike Clanton, whom city marshal Virgil Earp had buffaloed earlier that day when he found Clanton carrying a rifle and pistol in violation of city ordinances.[13] Clanton's head was bandaged afterward.
However, it's unlikely that Clanton could have been both bandaged and carrying a rifle. Virgil Earp had disarmed him earlier that day and told Ike he would leave Ike's confiscated rifle and revolver at the Grand Hotel, which was favored by cowboys when they were in town. Ike testified afterward that he had tried to buy a new revolver at Spangenberger's gun and hardware store on 4th Street but the owner saw Ike's bandaged head and refused to sell him one.[14] Clanton was unarmed at the time of the shootout later that afternoon.[3][5] Ike testified that he picked up the weapons from William Soule, the jailer, a couple of days later.[14]
Author Glenn Boyer disputes that Kate saw the gunfight through the window of the boarding house. Boyer's work, however, has been rejected by serious scholars.
Kate stated that after Doc Holliday returned to his room, he sat on the edge of his bed and wept from the shock of what had happened during the close-range gunfight. "That was awful," Kate claims he said. "Just awful."[3][5] Other researchers dispute her account of events.
After the O.K. Corral and later life[edit]
Kate is reported to have made trips to Tombstone to see Holliday until he left for Colorado in April 1882. In 1887, Kate traveled to Redstone, Colorado, close to Glenwood Springs, Colorado, to visit with her brother Alexander. Some historians have tried to connect Kate and Doc to possible reconciliation attempts between the two. After Holliday died in 1887, Kate married Irish blacksmith George Cummings in Aspen, on March 2, 1890. After working several mining camps throughout Colorado, they moved to Bisbee, Arizona, where she briefly ran a bakery. After returning to Willcox, Arizona, in Cochise County, Cummings became an abusive alcoholic and they separated. In 1900, Kate moved to Dos Cabezas or Cochise (which is now a ghost town) and worked for John and Lulu Rath, owners of the Cochise Hotel. Cummings committed suicide in Courtland, Arizona, in 1915.
Kate is enumerated in the 1910 U.S. Census in Dos Cabezas, Arizona, as a member of the home of miner John J. Howard. When Howard died in 1930, Kate was the executrix of his estate. She contacted his only daughter, who lived in Tempe, Arizona, and settled the inheritance.[15]
In 1931, now 80, Kate contacted her longtime friend, Arizona Governor George Hunt, and applied for admittance to the Arizona Pioneers' Home in Prescott, Arizona. The home had been established in 1910 by the State of Arizona for destitute and ailing miners and male pioneers of the Arizona Territory. It took Kate six months to be admitted, since the home had a requirement that residents must be United States citizens. According to the 1935 Bork interview, Kate was owed money by the Howard estate, but the amount owed was not enough to buy firewood through the winter, as Kate had complained in her letters to the governor.[16]
She was admitted as one of the first female residents of the home. She lived there and became an outspoken resident, assisting other residents with living comforts. Kate wrote many letters to the Arizona state legislature, often contacting the governor when she was not satisfied with their response.[17]
Death and discrepancies in records[edit]
Kate died on November 2, 1940, just five days before her 90th birthday, of acute myocardial insufficiency, a condition she started showing symptoms of the day before her death. Her death certificate states that she also suffered from coronary artery disease and advanced arteriosclerosis. Kate's death certificate contained significant discrepancies regarding her parents' names and her birthplace. Although she was born in Hungary, her death certificate states she was born in Davenport, Iowa, to father Marchal H. Michael and mother Catherine Baldwin. The birthplace of both her parents is shown on the certificate as "unknown".[18] However, it is unknown who provided the information for the death certificate.
Near the end of her life, several reporters tried to record Kate's life story, her relationship with Doc Holliday and her time in Tombstone. She only talked to Anton Mazzonovich and Prescott historian A.W. Bork.[citation needed]
Kate was buried on November 6, 1940,[18] under the name "Mary K. Cummings" below a modest marker in the Arizona Pioneer Home Cemetery in Prescott, Arizona.[19]
In other media[edit]
Big Nose Kate was depicted by Joanna Pacuła in Tombstone (1993 film) and by Isabella Rossellini in Wyatt Earp (1994 film).
Carol Montgomery Stone played Big Nose Kate, usually referred to as "Kate Holliday", in ten episodes in the 1957-1958 season of the ABC/Desilu western television series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, with Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp and Douglas Fowley as Doc Holliday.[20]
- ^ MacKell, Jan (2009). Red Light Women of the Rocky Mountains. UNM Press. p. 458.
- ^ Gary L. Roberts, Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2011), 498; Patrick A. Bowmaster, "A Fresh Look at 'Big Nose Kate,'" NOLA Quarterly 22 (July –September 1998): 12-24, available from http://www.tombstonehistoryarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/freshlook_kate.pdf
- ^ a b c d 1935 Bork interview, Arizona Historical Society, Boyer Collection, Tucson, AZ
- ^ Horony Family Group Record; Beckwith to Boyer, January 22, 1977
- ^ a b c Glenn Boyer, Who Is Big Nose Kate?
- ^ Thrapp, Dan L. (1991). The Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography Volume 1: A-F (Paperback ed.). Lincoln, Nebraska: Universit of Nebraska Press. p. 445. ISBN 978-0803294189.
- ^ "Big Nose Kate - Doc Holliday's Sidekick". Old West Legends. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
- ^ Lackmann, Ron (1997). Women of the Western Frontier in Fact, Fiction, and Film. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. p. 57. ISBN 978-0786404001.
- ^ Pryor, Alton (2006). The Lawmen. Roseville, CA: Stagecoach Pub. p. 107. ISBN 978-0974755168.
- ^ "Tombstone, AZ". Retrieved 17 May 2011.
- ^ Weir, William (2009). History's Greatest Lies: the Startling Truths Behind World Events our History Books Got Wrong. Beverly, MA: Fair Winds Press. p. 288. ISBN 1-59233-336-2.
- ^ a b "Wyatt Earp Trial: 1881 - A Mysterious Stage Coach Robbery - Clanton, Holliday, Told, Leonard, Doc, and Ike". Retrieved 2011-02-08.
- ^ Douglas Linder (2005). "Testimony of Wyatt S. Earp in the Preliminary Hearing in the Earp-Holliday Case". Famous Trials: The O.K. Corral Trial. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
- ^ a b Douglas Linder (2005). "Testimony of Ike Clanton in the Preliminary Hearing in the Earp-Holliday Case". Famous Trials: The O. K. Corral Trial. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
- ^ Ancestry.com.[clarification needed]
- ^ Letters to Governor Hunt, Arizona State Legislature[clarification needed]
- ^ Letters to A.N. Kelly, State Legislature[clarification needed]
- ^ a b ADHS Arizona Genealogy Birth and Death Certificates online. Retrieved 2010-03-11.
- ^ Big Nose Kate at Find a Grave
- ^ "Fred Stone's Daughter, Carol, Now on ABC-TV". The Chicago Tribune. May 12, 1957. Retrieved 2009-06-30. "Fred Stone's Daughter, Carol, Now on ABC-TV. Carol Stone, plays Big Kate on ABC-TV's Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, is a daughter of musical comedy star ..."
Additional reading[edit]
- On the Paper Trail of Big Nose Kate, Angel M. Brant, Self-published September 2008. This book contains pictorial info never published by past Cummings' authors.
- Arizona State Archives and Genealogy Division, Phoenix, Arizona.
- Old West Researcher, A. M. Brant.
- DeArment, Karen Holliday Tanner; foreword by Robert K. (1998). Doc Holliday : a family portrait. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-3036-9. Contains a great deal about Kate and debunks many older claims about her.
- Scott County Recorder's Office (Holly), Davenport, Iowa
- Davenport City Library, Davenport, Iowa
- DeArment, Karen (1998). Doc Holliday: a Family Portrait. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-3036-9. Contains carefully researched material about Kate and Doc Holliday, avoiding mythology in favor of accounts with newspaper, legal, or other independent historical documentation.
- Wyatt Earp, Family Friends and Foes, Volume I, Who Was Big Nose Kate, Glenn G. Boyer, Arizona University Press, 1997 (ISBN 1-890670-06-5). Boyer is the only known author to have met with members of the Horony Family. Pictures from the family are included. This work, like all of Boyer's texts on Kate, contains many assertions about Kate which have been rejected by scholars.
- Russell, Mary Doria. Doc: a Novel (First ed.). New York: Random House. ISBN 1400068045.
- Roberts, Gary L. (2011). Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons.
- Bowmaster, Patrick A. "A Fresh Look at 'Big Nose Kate,'" NOLA Quarterly 22 (July –September 1998): 12-24; available from http://www.tombstonehistoryarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/freshlook_kate.pdf
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SAN DIEGO -- A proposal to rename a two-block street in Hillcrest in honor of slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk is scheduled to go before the San Diego City Council today.
City officials believe Blaine Avenue, which contains a handful of houses and apartment complexes, would become the first Harvey Milk Street in the country. While Milk mainly is associated with San Francisco, where he was a county supervisor, he was stationed in San Diego when he was in the Navy.
"I believe this is an appropriate way to honor Harvey Milk's tremendous contributions,'' said Councilman Todd Gloria, who represents Hillcrest and is one of the council's two openly gay members. "This is the culmination of years of work by many San Diegans and will ensure the civil rights leader is never forgotten in our city.''
Gloria said that if the proposal passes, street signs would be changed in time for Milk's birthday, May 22. Milk would have been 82 years old this year.
Milk was one of the first openly gay politicians to hold public office when elected to the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco in 1977. He pushed through a gay rights law before he and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were shot to death in late November 1978 by former supervisor Dan White.