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Looking for a read-through-the-Bible Bible?
Each January Christians renew their commitment to read the Bible from cover-to-cover. It's an admirable goal for such a large and ancient book.
For my money, the best suited Bible for this goal is the ESV Literary Study Bible (Crossway, 2007). I appreciate this Bible because the editors–Leland and Philip Graham Ryken–have written brief notes to help the reader along at a pace of about one note per chapter of Scripture. Those little notes set the stage for what the reader is about to encounter in their reading. And a daily reading plan in the back of the book provides readers with a thoughtful annual reading plan. Readers are encouraged to read daily from four different portions of the Bible: (1) the Psalms and Wisdom Literature, (2) the Pentateuch and History of Israel, (3) Chronicles and Prophets, and (4) the Gospels and Epistles. And in the plan, four major books are read twice in the year (Psalms, Isaiah, Luke, and Romans). Added to this, the wealth of information you will learn about the literary features of the Bible is also quite stunning.
So if you are looking for the kind of a Bible you can read from cover to cover, I recommend the ESV Literary Study Bible. It is available in two editions: hardcover ($30) and TruTone ($39).
Back in 2007 I sat down with Leland Ryken in his office at Wheaton to discuss the ESVLSB. You can learn more about the Bible in my interview with Dr. Ryken here.
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Todays unboxing of a new TruTone Classic Black (in pictures)…
Other versions avaliable …
Blank Bible featured in Seattle
Stephen Smith serves as both editor of the ESV blog and Crossway's Director of Information Services. This past weekend he presented a lecture at the BibleTech08 conference in Seattle on "The ESV and Bible Usability." In his presentation he cited the Blank Bible "phenomena" started right here on The Shepherd's Scrapbook. In his presentation he says,
The typical physical features of a Bible are familiar: its type size, physical size, layout, and binding. Also important are any extra features in the Bible—from maps to notes to cross-references. But just as important are things that people do to customize their Bibles. Some people buy a cover for their Bibles; some people decide to re-cover their Bibles; and some people want so much more space for note-taking that they take a printed Bible, slice off the binding, insert empty sheets of paper between the Bible pages, and rebind their Bible more to their liking. The result is what's called a "blank Bible." A number of people have created these Bibles; I like to link to them from the ESV blog because it shows how people can get really invested in their Bibles. I get the feeling that we'd value our Bibles a lot more if we had to assemble and bind them ourselves.
You can read more of Stephen's presentation here, and download a PDF copy of his presentation slides (see slide 31).
And of course you can see our very own Blank Bible Index to find information (and motivation) to create one of these Bibles for your own use and growth.
Happy slicing, punching, and binding!
QA: ESV Literary Study Bible alternatives?
"I already own the ESV Classic Reference edition and find it difficult to also purchase this LSB edition. Does Crossway plan on carrying an 'only-the-notes' version of this study Bible?" – Hanz
Hello, Hanz! I doubt Crossway will release the notes independently. Here's why.
The ESV Literary Study Bible found its conceptual origin as a 2005 book release known as the Ryken's Bible Handbook by Leland Ryken, Philip Ryken and James Wilhoit (Tyndale: 2005). Much of the content in the LSB was taken from the Ryken's Bible Handbook. The LSB goes further in applying the structure and content of the Handbook to each section/chapter of Scripture specifically.
If you can buy the Bible, buy the Bible. But if you want to use materials from the Ryken's but cannot afford the LSB (or cannot justify buying another Bible), I would start with Ryken's Bible Handbook. You will be very impressed by the content. So that's my advice. And if you want a peek into the handbook, Tyndale offers a PDF download of the first chapter (click here for download).
Great question, Hanz. I hope this helps. Tony
Further notes on the ESV LSB
It's worth noting that Monergism Books now sells the ESV Literary Study Bible for $29.99. Also, I suppose this is a good place to let you know I today posted a transcript of the TSS interview with Dr. Leland Ryken over at Monergism and you can read it here (the original audio interview can be accessed here). Our full review of the LSB is here. And for those who have already purchased and received their ESV LSB in the mail, we want to hear from you! Give us your feedback on what you think of the LSB here.
ESV Literary Study Bible links
ESV Literary Study Bible
For those taking note at home, we have a chronology of links for readers interested in the new ESV Literary Study Bible edited by Leland and Philip Graham Ryken.
1. TSS reviewed the ESV LSB and you can read it here.
2. TSS traveled to Wheaton to interview editor Leland Ryken (listen to audio here).
3. The ESV released their official ESV LSB website here.
4. Now on the official ESV LSB website readers can browse the full text for free! Click here.
5. Finally, our friends over at Crossway transcribed the Ryken interview. Be watching for the text later this week at the official ESV LSB website.
PS – I'm told further production delays are slowing the release of the ESV LSB. They should ship in another week (first week in October).
Interview: Leland Ryken on the ESV LSB
Interview with Dr. Leland Ryken
WHEATON, IL — Last Thursday afternoon I walked across the campus of Wheaton College and up the stairs of Blanchard Hall for a rare opportunity to sit down with a favorite contemporary author, Dr. Leland Ryken.
Ryken serves as the Clyde S. Kilby Professor of English at Wheaton College. He has written many excellent books, but especially The Word of God in English: Criteria for Excellence in Bible Translation (Crossway: 2002), which carefully critiques contemporary translation philosophies and builds a strong case for literal translations like the ESV. It's an excellent, pointed book that remains on a short list of my personal favorites. Ryken also served as Literary Stylist on the ESV translation committee (more on this later).
Ryken's son, Dr. Philip Graham Ryken, is a prolific author, pastor, and preacher. Together with his son, Dr. Ryken edited the soon-to-be-released ESV Literary Study Bible (read our full review here). The LSB was the focus of our interview.
1. Thank you for your time, Dr. Ryken! … Where did the idea for The Literary Study Bible originate? Has this been a long-awaited project?
2. Explain for us the essential features that distinguish a literary study Bible?
3. There are a number of contemporary translations seeking to paraphrase the Bible and make it easier to read. You have confronted the dangers of this methodology in The Word of God in English. Is the LSB, in any way, a response to these contemporary translations in showing that a literal translation can be effectively used by general readers without a paraphrased text?
4. How will the LSB benefit the preacher, especially in expositional preparations?
5. You state in the LSB, "The goal of literature is to prompt a reader to share or relive an experience. The truth that literature imparts is not simply ideas that are true but truthfulness to human experience." Explain further how the literature of Scripture invites us to experience Scripture.
6. Can you give us some specific, concrete examples of this?
7. What differentiates the LSB from other available study Bibles? And how will general readers benefit?
8. Quite obviously, the Psalmists, prophets, and other authors of Scripture did not write using a literary guide to genres. Much of the literary discussion in the LSB draws from a host of modern literary terms to interpret the ancient literature of Scripture. How do you defend this approach?
9. In the past, Bibles have been effectively used in home schooling education. Can the LSB be used as a textbook of sorts to learn literary genres, styles, and forms?
10. Some readers, I'm sure, are unaware of your role in the translation of the English Standard Version itself. Explain this role for us.
11. Now the ESV LSB is complete, and serves as a culmination of your translation efforts and literary commentary efforts. It must be quite fulfilling to see this Bible together and completed.
Thank you, Dr. Ryken, for your time. Congratulations to you and your son on the completion of such an incredible project. The ESV Literary Study Bible will greatly bless the Church by helping us read Scripture more competently for ourselves. Is there a more precious gift from the career of a literary scholar?
Blessings to you and your future ministry!
Related: Read our full review of the ESV Literary Study Bible here. Also, from our day-long trip to Wheaton, Illinois (Sept. 13, 2007) we photographed our way through Crossway Books and Justin Taylor's office (see here) and visited two local museums (see here).
ESV Literary Study Bible
Book review
ESV The Literary Study Bible
edited by Leland Ryken and Philip Graham Ryken
Some of the best Christian scholarship aims to unfold the beauty of Scripture for general readers. The new ESV Literary Study Bible is one excellent example.
Editor Dr. Leland Ryken is a top-notch literary scholar, noted for his many books (like a personal favorite The Word of God in English) and his work as literary stylist for the ESV. His son, Dr. Philip Graham Ryken, is a noted author and preacher known for excellent books like The Doctrines of Grace.
Together, their work has produced a masterful study Bible.
Size, price, purpose
The printed ESV LSB will be available on Sept.
14th 23rd in a hardcover format, 6×9 inches in size (slightly smaller than the reverse interlinear and slightly larger than the classic reference edition) and nearly 2,000 pages in length (700 pages longer than the reverse interlinear and classic reference edition). The LSB will retail for about $50.00.
The twofold goal of the ESV Literary Study Bible is clearly stated, "(1) to make the Bible reader friendly and (2) to show how application of literary tools of analysis helps in reading and understanding the Bible" (xvii).
We'll look at each goal individually.
Scripture as Literature
The premiere benefit of the LSB is viewing Scripture as literature, without reducing Scripture to the level of mere literature. In Leland Ryken fashion, rebuttals are given to show that viewing Scripture as literature (1) does not show a liberal bias, (2) reinforces Scripture's view of itself as literature, (3) does not reduce Scripture to fiction, (4) does not reduce Scripture to another mere piece of literature, (5) nor deny the inspiration of Scripture. In fact, the editors argue that an accurate interpretation of Scripture first requires an understanding of the many literary features of Scripture.
"To approach the Bible as literature as this literary Bible does is not like dessert — something pleasurable to add to more important aspects of the Bible. The literary approach is the first item on the agenda — the starting point for other approaches to the Bible. This has been a point of neglect among Bible readers and Bible scholars that this literary Bible aims to correct" (ix).
Because, the editors make clear, "meaning is conveyed through form, starting with language itself but moving beyond that to a whole range of literary forms and genres" and "There is no meaning without the form in which a piece of writing is expressed" (vii). Forms directly impact interpretation.
The number of identifiable biblical genres in Scripture "readily exceeds one hundred" and that does not include archetypes, motifs, styles, rhetoric, and artistry (x). Scripture is a wonderfully diverse collection of literature with great variety. None are better qualified to bring these to the surface than Leland Ryken.
But this study Bible does not require an advanced degree in literature. Every term from "antithetic parallelism" to "dramatic monologue" to "theophany" is defined in the 17-page glossary of genres and literary terms.
Perhaps, like the Self-Interpreting Bible by John Brown of Haddington in the 18th century, this ESV LSB will become a primary literature text in homeschool education? Something to consider.
The goal is not to weigh the reader down in definitions and genres, but to provide helpful guidance for the reader to comprehend large swoops of biblical text. Many features make this an excellent reader's Bible.
1. Format. The ESV text is single-column, black text set in 8.5-point Veritas font. Very clean and easy to read.
2. Introductions and overviews. Each book of Scripture receives a detailed introduction and content overviews. The overall literary genres and styles are summarized at the beginning. Ryken and Ryken bring great balance between the literary context and the content/outline of Scripture. We'll see this later.
3. Subsection prenotes. Before each subsection of Scripture (normally one chapter in OT and every half chapter in NT), the editors provide important literary notes and an overall snapshot of the upcoming content. These are like prenotes, compared to the footnotes common in study Bibles. These prenotes peak interest and drive the reader into the text. "This literary Bible is a guide to the Bible that pushes the reader into the text instead of providing mere summaries of the content that readily become substitutes for reading the Bible" (xvii). These chapter notes reinforce the literary styles mentioned in the book introductions, provide overviews of upcoming Scripture content, and function well in helping the reader chomp through large sections of Scripture in single settings.
4. New reading plan. The annual reading plan of the LSB is quite innovative. The daily readings include one section from each of the four categories: Psalms and Wisdom Literature; Pentateuch and the History of Israel; Chronicles and Prophets; and Gospels and Epistles. But four important books – the Psalms, Isaiah, Luke and Romans – are read twice annually! The readings through the OT are arranged chronologically, and the NT readings by author. For example, readers progress from the Gospel of John to 1 John, 2 John, 3 John and conclude with Revelation.
5. Designed for group study. The LSB was designed purposefully for group studies. As stated in the introduction, the editors intend to help discussion leaders formulate application questions. The reading schedule, literary notes, and outlines are very thoughtful and will foster fruitful group study.
The value of this LSB can be illustrated with one chapter prenote from the Psalms. First, take up a favorite Bible and read Psalm 38. Now read the prenote and see how the literary backdrop changes your interpretation of Psalm 38:
"I confess my iniquity [Psalm 38]. This is the third of the church's traditional penitential psalms. Penitential psalms are a variation on the conventional lament psalm. In them, the poet defines a dire crisis and asks for God's deliverance. But the twists on the lament form are these: the speaker's antagonist is not an external enemy but himself; the threat is not physical threat or slander but spiritual guilt; the petition is to be delivered not from a threat to life or political oppression but from peril of soul. The outline is as follows: introductory cry to God (v. 1); definition of the crisis, a highly metaphoric portrayal of the effects of guilt, including physical symptoms (vv. 2–10); as an extension of the crisis, a picture of the isolation of the speaker from others, in a manner reminiscent of the more customary lament psalms (vv. 11–14); statement of confidence in God (vv. 15–16); confession of sin (vv. 17–18); a return to the portrait of the speaker's enemies (vv. 19–20); prayer to God for deliverance (vv. 21–22)" (p. 787).
You can see that both the genre and general outline of the contents are mixed together well (as you would expect from a literary scholar/pastor team). Phrases like "My wounds stink and fester, because of my foolishness" (v. 5) take on new spiritual meaning in light of the genre. The reader is now well equipped to read the Psalm for herself and glean valuable wisdom. Without any open application questions, the LSB note has brought the reader to the brink of rich application.
If you're like me, you want more than one excerpt and a review before investing in a new Bible. Here's a suggestion: In a few weeks, find a local bookstore that carries the Bible and set aside 1-2 hours some weekend to read the book of Job, notes and all (pp. 684-743). Start at the beginning and read it through. Don't stop to understand every detail in the text, just keep reading to catch the overall flow and direction. Here in Job, the features and strengths of the LSB are on full display.
Literature as Experience
Which brings me to a final point. I am aware of my personal tendency to reduce passages Scripture to nice, indexed, systematic categories (no wonder I personally struggle through Job!). Systematizing ideas is easier for me, compared to reading narrative literature and poetry. By viewing Scripture first as literature (and secondarily as theological content to fill a systematic outline), something important surfaces. Scripture is experienced.
"The goal of literature is to prompt a reader to share or relive an experience. The truth that literature imparts is not simply ideas that are true but truthfulness to human experience. The implication for interpretation is that Bible readers, teachers, and expositors need to be active in re-creating experiences in their imagination, identifying the recognizable human experiences in a text (thereby building bridges to life in the modern world), and resisting the impulse immediately to reduce a biblical passage to a set of theological ideas" (xi).
It occurs to me that once we experience literature, literature becomes integrated into our experience. For example, Augustine's Confessions are saturated with the Psalms because the Psalms saturated Augustine's experience. The LSB encourages me to further experience Scripture by using the literary composition as a door into experiencing the text for myself. If you read Job, you'll likely experience this firsthand (as I did).
If the boom in abridged Bibles and contemporary dynamic equivalence translations tell us anything, it's this: Our church culture is noticeably uncomfortable with the literal text of Scripture. With the ESV LSB, Ryken and Ryken highlight the beautiful intricacies of Scripture and preview content to help readers navigate through the literal, unabridged text of the ESV. The product of their scholarship is both a study Bible and reading Bible, centering around a literal translation that accents the literary beauty of the Bible and invites readers to experience Scripture firsthand.
In a word, the ESV Literary Study Bible is masterful and will serve those who seek daily nourishment from the pure milk of God's Word.
ESV Journaling Bible
ESV Journaling Bible
The last time we announced a new ESV Bible it was a joke meant to be a late April fools trick (and it worked). But today's post is no joke.
Because so many readers of the Blank Bible series simply don't have the equipment or time to make their own, I've received a lot of emails about my thoughts on the ESV Journaling Bible. So I finally decided to get a copy and try it out myself (this one came safely to my home in cardboard through FedEx).
After opening the box I had three immediate thoughts: "It's a lot smaller than I expected" … "It's more portable than I expected" … and finally, "It's much more durable than I expected."
Here are more notes after further reflection (and some field-testing).
1. Size. The font size is small but (as you can see in the picture) slightly larger than the ESV Compact TruTone edition. The marginal note areas are lined for a note taker with small handwriting. The top margin can also be used for notes.
2. Paper color. Also in this comparison you can see that the Journaling Bible features an off-white paper color compared to other ESV Bibles. This may not be a big deal but it does seem to make the already small font a bit tougher to read (by decreasing the contrast of the paper/text).
3. Pen bleed. The biggest factor in determining which Bibles can or cannot be written in comes down to how likely the pages are to bleed (pencils are not my thing). We put our safety goggles on, unlocked the door to our underground TSS testing laboratory and — with my poor handwriting skills and five different pens — we put this new ESV Bible to the test.
From top-to-bottom we used the following pens: a black Pilot Vball extra fine roller, a black Pigma Micron 005, an everyday black ballpoint, a red uni-ball micro roller and one big black uni-ball Deluxe roller (an ink pouring pen I wouldn't consider for a Bible).
The results were fairly surprising because none (not even the uni-ball Delux roller) bled through the paper. No surprise, the best pen for this Bible was the Pigma Micron 005 available at scrapbook and craft stores. The regular ballpoint pen comes in second. But the bigger point is that these pages successfully absorbed all five inks without bleeding.
Join us tomorrow when we run the Journaling Bible through several more tests: The "Flame Retardant?" test, the "Ran Over By Car" test and (my personal favorite) the "Will It Float?" test. Actually, if I were serious this sturdy Bible would probably fare better than expected.
Unlike the blank Bibles I've created in the past, the Journaling Bible is compact and portable. It's a good substitute if making a Blank Bible is out of the question. If you don't mind the small font and the paper color, it is a very durable ESV with excellent margins and paper for note taking. You can get the black Journaling Bible for about $18 and the fancy calfskin version for about $41. A small price considering it enables you to carry your Bible and your reflections in one compact volume.
[NOTE: For our review we used the Terra Cotta/Sage edition of the Journaling Bible - ISBN: 1581348959]


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So, Hillary basically signed Stevens' death Warrant by making a British 'security" team sign a "no Bullets" clause in the contract. The Marines in another Embassy were told to use only RUBBER BULLETS. Now, all I'm doing is making an observation w/zero, zero zero, intent, an observation ONLY. Now, is Hillary going to open herself up to a "No Bullet" Tuesday for her Security? What about Obama? I could just see THAT announcement. "President Obama, in solidarity with the Middle East Embassy folks has declared a "NO Bullet Monday and a Rubber Bullet Fridays from now on" Obama stated "If it's good enough for Ambassador Stevens' to have no bullets for his security, it's good enough for me" :( Obama and Hillary. Two incompetent boobs.
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The U.S. Embassy in Libya was guarded by a Brit security team? How did that work? Does the U.S. provide security to the Brit embassy? Why wouldn't they guard their own embassies?
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Yes, and they hired local members of the populace to provide the security. This while 51 US soldiers have been killed by members of the Taliban who have infiltrated the Afghan Army and Security forces just this year. Keep in mind the area of Libya in question had been a strong supporter of Al-Qaeda and has supplied many foreign fighters to support the Taliban in Afghanistan. This was an act of pure incompetency.
On September 14 at Andrews Air Force Base just outside the Washington Beltway, President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton welcomed home the remains of four Americans killed at our consulate in Benghazi, Libya. It was a moment of national mourning. The president was presidential, Mrs. Clinton, dignified. But for some journalists, it was, quite strangely and inappropriately something to view only through the tacky lens of politics.
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Will the Belo Monte Dam project on the Amazon River cause more harm to the environment or will it be a good source of energy for Brazil?
The Amazon rainforest is an internationally recognized epicenter of biodiversity. Countless campaigns to stop the cutting and burning these rainforests have fallen on deaf ears. Now the Brazilian government plans to build what would be the world's 3rd largest dam [1] on the beautiful and ancient Amazon River. The Belo Monte project would span the Xingu River with 3 different dams: 233MW Pimental, 233MW Bela Vista, and 11,000MW Belo Monte. In addition, two artificial canals must be built to divert the river, which together will span more area than the Panama Canal.
These dams will have a myriad of negative impacts on the local environment. Construction of the dam will cause about 400-640 sq km land upstream to become flooded for a reservoir - an area equal to the size of Chicago. The town of Altamira will be flooded as well as countless acres that house the region's tribal populations. The impact on biodiversity includes 6-8 species of fish endemic to the Amazon River that will likely go extinct as well as a 2% decrease in the total forested area of the Amazon rainforest.
Organisms endangered by the construction of Belo Monte cannot verbalize their traumatic destruction of their ecosystem, but the indigenous people of the Amazon can; they are currently protesting the construction of the Belo Monte project through an "occupy" movement.
Belo Monte project is the first of many dam projects planned for the Brazilian portion of the Amazon River. Do these indigenous people have a right to decide what happens to their ancestral homeland? Or is the Brazilian government in the right by providing power for the majority of their country? Will the Belo Monte become the Belo "Muerte" dam (aka dam of death)?
Here's a 10 minute video that covers the impact the Belo Monte dam on the Amazon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-seAAIsJLQ [1]
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/03/brazil-dam-activists-war-military [2]
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May 15 2013: Brazil is in dire straits right now to compete on aninternational level with the other developed nations of the world. They need to generate revenue for their goals, and unfortunately mining appears to be a good answer to their problems. The massive amount of raw iron, copper and aluminum materials available in their country allows them to be one of the bigger competitors in these markets and supply the rest of the world. They also will provide Brazil with some of the greatest amount of renewable energy. However, this is obviously not going to be a permanent solution. We can't dam everything up and so new research into solar and air power need to be investigated. These kinds of energy sources could be a solution, but not now. They need reliable energy, and unfortunately only coal and hydro are current proven providers for what the country requires. This incident is sad to examine because of the reality of what will happen. The Belo Monte Dam is going to be built, but that doesn't mean that we have to let the dam destroy everything. The Belo Monte Dam is a large stepping-stone towards huge amount of biological diversity loss. The surrounding area's endemic species will go extinct as well as many more unless something is done to preserve them. We may not be able to save the ecosystem that they came from, but we can examine the idea of a relocation campaign. Saving as many species as we can while the "occupy" movement is delaying construction. Future solutions for renewable energy need to be researched now and designed with a logical plan. Unfortunately due to the well laid out plans for the dam, it will happen. However, a plan for using air along the coast or solar panels using these raw materials they are mining could stop future ecosystem destruction. There are solutions and they can change how we look at energy needs, but its far too under developed for implementation in areas with such massive population and energy needs.
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Hello, fellow bloggers. I know it's been a while since I've written a new post. Lately I've gotten into a new show called "The Newsroom" made by Aaron Sorkin. I sincerely hope you all have seen at least the first episode on youtube.com which can be streamed here. It's a fantastic show that highlights the medias role in American democracy, particularly on how its failed us for the last few decades.
The last few decades of media coverage has been far from informative for American people. The news media has been too obsessed with providing balance and ratings in their reporting that they have lost sight of what they should be giving to the American people, facts and truth. In their quest for balance, the media has lost the ability that has protected the U.S. middle and lower classes from the tyranny of the upper class. To be frank, because I cannot think of another phrase at the moment that would portray the same message; the media has lost its ability to "call bullshit" on a political side. Just because a party claims a reason for a political stance, the media will report it in the name of balance, true or not. In the 1960's and the 1970's, reporters would vigorously ask politicians questions on their stances to know where their true interests lie, with the people or with corporations that donate to their campaigns for office. Take for instance, tax policy: Mitt Romney and the republican party will argue that taxes are already too high for the highest income earners and they should not be raised because it would endanger job creation. Since President Obama took office in 2009, the republican party has used the rising deficit as a go-to attack on the President's plan for economic recovery and virtually anything else on his agenda that would relate to any government allocation of money. However, the republican party does not mention that taxes on the highest income earners have now been some of the lowest in recent history, and unfortunately the media does not use it as a rebuttal during interviews with any republicans. "Job creators" have been running amok in corporate profits and have had plenty of opportunities to create new jobs, but as you see in this graph, corporate investment levels for human and mechanical resources are drastically lower then their profits. My question is: why would we let corporate CEO's run home with huge bonuses for themselves (that they obviously are not using to further job creation) when the United States is facing a looming debt crisis that the republican party uses as a selling point for their candidates? Because they are the party of the rich, that's why. Why is the media not calling them out on this? Most of the current debt was accumulated under a republican president, where most members of the republican party in Congress did not worry about the debt for a second during those years. Why are anchors not hitting the republican party on their hypocrisy?
Like I said before, the media has sacrificed truth for ratings. People in general like to hear that what they think is right, and that is why people will watch the programs that give them the information that is exactly that they want to hear. I believe that some things are just indefensible. For instance, republicans use the deficit in their arguments of why the country cannot afford the President's agenda to reform medicare and social security, but they refuse to raise taxes on the wealthiest people in the country (some of them like to call themselves patriots, but patriotism apparently does not mean helping your country when it needs some of your ridiculous sums of money to support 99% of its population), and republicans refuse to cut military spending. The military is the third biggest expenditure in the U.S. budget, and we exceed the entire continent of Europe's spending by nearly 250% and exceed China's military spending (the closest non-ally competitor) by 600%! While there is no reason to spend this amount of money on the military while we are in a recession, republicans refuse to cut the budget at all to lower the deficit they scream about every day in Congress. Back to the media, while this is mentioned, anchors and reporters do not hammer the republican party with the hypocrisies and falsehoods that they spread every day, and I wish that there was a man as brave as Will McAvory in real life (the anchor in "The Newsroom").
Now, to connect all of this to voter apathy, something that has only been mentioned once in the title. The U.S. has an enormousness voter apathy problem, something that I would like to study in close detail. In voter participation rate statistics compared to every country in the world, the United States ranks at number 120. I believe that voter apathy is the result of many factors, but the media is by far the largest. It is my opinion that the media has distorted the news in such a way, that many Americans feel as if the system will never change and their vote is powerless. Therefore, they either do not participate in the system as a form of protest or they do not bother to become informed at all. I think that a proactive media that is willing to do their best to inform the American electorate instead of competing for ratings would drastically change the opinions of Americans who cannot tell the difference between the two main political parties. Because the media will be reporting aggressively on candidates, both parties will have to refrain from nominating extremists such as Tea Party candidates, who would never survive a vote from an educated electorate. With an informed electorate, voters would eventually stop picking the candidate who is "the lesser of two evils" and start picking the candidate who they generally agree with. A concession in my argument is that the voter turnout rate has generally not been very high in recent years in the United States. To that, I would explain that the internet has given access to more voters then ever before in history. At the click of a mouse can a voter find an interview, general headlines, controversies, and candidate's records to become acquainted with politics. If voters had more faith in the U.S. political system, they can connect with any candidate instantly to see who they want to support with barely trying. 40 years ago, voters only had television and newspapers as sources (not that every source on the internet is credible) that would report what they wanted the electorate to hear. On the internet, possibilities are limitless. Records and stances on issues are everywhere and available all the time, unlike daily newspapers and television news sources that would only report on issues that they felt were relevant. With e-mail and other innovative ways to in touch with candidates via questions sent to reporters directly from the electorate, voters every way in the world to get the information they would want out of their perspective candidates. Unfortunately, this does not exist, and media is still a business competing with each other for higher ratings. Imagine if the electorate stood up and said to the media "we want a tough questioner" they might actually put one on the air for a test run. I feel as though the conservative base would not want to hear that most of their stances are either outdated, against their interests, hypocritical, unrealistic, or wrong, but its a bad tasting medicine that voters need to wake up.
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Lately I've been hearing a lot of "patriotism" arguments coming out of conservatives and its been really getting on my nerves. Are liberals not patriotic? I think we very much are, and more than conservatives. In fascist nations, patriotism is usually the excuse leaders give the people to get away with wildly stupid ideas, such as Adolf Hitler's Germany taking on all of Europe, the U.S. and the Soviet Union (I am not comparing Hitler to conservatives). I think a true patriot would want everyone to contribute to their country, they would want their country to have the best schools, they would want their country to have the cleanest environment, they would want everyone to be healthy, and most of all they would want every single one of their countrymen to vote and participate in their politics. I would say I am a patriot.
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So this is a long story. It starts before even 2011 and the beginning of the numerous Republican Presidential debates for the nomination. This story starts in 2009, when angry populists starting mailing tea bags to members of Congress to try and re-enact a poor version of the Boston Tea Party. Using the same degree of unoriginality to classify themselves, they called themselves the Tea Party. From then until this very day, they act as a small (yet very influential) sect of the Republican Party. To their credit, their movement did spur enough pointless anger in the American populous to help the Republicans reclaim a majority in the House after four years and greatly reduce the Democratic majority in the Senate. While the Republican Party did greatly benefit from their lunacy in the 2010 midterm, the Republicans will suffer in 2012 if the Tea Party retains its enormous influence (which they will). After President Obama's grassroots movement in 2008 proved to be so successful, the Republicans decided to use the Tea Party to their advantage in 2010 to have their own grassroots movement serve their cause. This is sound logic, except for one mistake; the President's grassroots movement was centered around a certain candidate, him, and not an extremist ideology like the Tea Party's.
So the story goes on that the Republicans succumbed to the Tea Party's radical agenda of attempting to balance the budget (of course by trying to cut the lower and middle class's safety nets), repeal the health care bill that now insures thousands who would be helpless in the face of illness, and securing the rich's tax cuts (although it would have greatly forwarded their goal of bringing down the national debt if they had taken those cuts away). Through these ventures, the Tea Party's popularity among the American people has decreased significantly. The current situation is that while the American people are not very fond of the far right any longer, they are still the Republican base. Of course since the Republican base decides who gets the nomination to take on Barack Obama, they want to choose someone who represents them, a candidate of the far right. I'm fairly sure the Republican National Committee knew of this, and they also know that candidates further from the center are less electable by the majority of the American people because most sway-able and undecided voters are moderates.
I think that in order to combat the inevitable unelectibility of their nominee, they decided to give their candidates more exposure time in order to desensitize the public to their rightist message. This prolonged exposure technique is known to us as the endless amount of debates the Republican Presidential hopefuls have had so far. As a bonus to the desensitization of their message, the RNC hoped to make their candidates look more open so they can relate to the public and look involved to try and solve their problems. Personally I do not know any other reason why they would have had such a multitude of debates, although I am always open to other opinions as always. However, this tactic backfired. The debates exposed the influence of the (now unpopular) Tea Party in Republican politics, and quite frankly the Republican base themselves do not know who can both live up to their values and win the election in November. Romney, the most electable candidate in my opinion and seems to attract moderates, but cannot bring the base together behind him because of his flip-flopping habit. Rick Santorum has just walked away with three more states recently, extending this already prolonged battle of Tea Party vs. moderates in the Republican party.
I think this battle will eventually tear the party apart. No matter who wins, Romney, Santorum, or Gingrich (I do not think Paul has a shot), either the base or the moderate wing of the party will be unsatisfied and may not support the nominee. This would lead to large numbers of voters staying home or even supporting President Obama in November. Every day the primary process continues, the President seems saner. Though the public was generally not satisfied with President Obama's first term in comparison with the expectations many American's had for him, but in comparison to the Republican party's far right candidates and their agenda to change the country's social and fiscal foundations, the President looks like a frustrated babysitter watching children bicker and wreck the house.
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As we all know the "super committee" has failed to find a plausible solution that satisfies both parties to reduce the United States' spending over the next decade. To be honest, I never thought the super committee would be able to find such a solution. The super committee was made up of 12 members: 3 house dems, 3 senate dems, 3 house GOP's, and 3 senate GOP's. If you take a closer look at two of the most important GOP members, you will easily be able to see how success was a near impossible feat.
I am not familiar with all of the members of the super committee, but one that I am very familiar with is Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA). I worked as a campaign intern for his rival in the 2010 Pennsylvania senate race, former Congressman and Admiral Joe Sestak, so it was part of my job know all the talking points. Toomey is a Tea Party senator, a staunch conservative. In his previous seat in the House of Representatives, he sided with the far right on every issue. Because of this, Toomey has no interest in compromising with democrats and will only push Tea Party goals forward, such as lowering taxes for the wealthy and cutting back on social services such as medicare and social security. Absolute failure will come before any sort of compromise to increase taxes on those who can afford to pay more while cutting back on lifeline services to those who are not nearly as fortunate. Since Toomey was only elected last year, the GOP played a smart move by assigning him to this committee. A failure of this committee would lead to an outrage among constituents. By using Toomey, this factor is nullified since his term does not expire until 2016, much too long for a normal constituency to hold outrage against their senator for a single issue. Therefore, Toomey can forward Tea Party ideals without any fear of failure or a sense of necessity to give in to compromise.
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), co-chair of the committee is another example of why the GOP did not intend to compromise. Rep. Hensarling is another stanch conservative, although he did not emerge from the Tea Party, Hensarling has played to the far right. He has a history of supporting the right on social issues such as hate crimes and same-sex marriage. Hensarling even supported the Tea Party's balanced budget amendment in the federal budget. He claimed that "he could find trillions of savings in his sleep, but the problem is getting the democrats to agree to it." By that I have to assume he meant raising taxes on the middle class, eliminating most of medicare and social security, and cutting funding to education since he also opposed any tax increases for the wealthy, cuts to the military (the third highest dollar drowner in the U.S. budget, after social security and medicare respectfully). As a republican from Texas who has held possession of his seat since 2003 has a very low chance of losing his seat during his next re-election bid in 2013, it was a no-brainer choice to appoint him as the co-chair of a possibly failed committee since he will face no political repercussion for his willingness to throw the American people under the bus so the far right of the republican party see its desires weakened social services realized.
Fortunately, President Obama has turned the hostage situation around on the republican party. Unless a solution is found by all of Congress, he will not allow republicans to change the automatic reductions that are set to take place in 2013, which would include cuts in both social services and defense. While it is saddening that U.S. elected officials could not find any viable solution to the debt problem, I feel that it is a better situation now that republicans face heavy cuts to the Pentagon while there will be a significant amount of social services cuts instead of social services taking the entire force of the blow.
Alright. I've read one too many articles where comments are aimed at both parties such as "both parties can't work together. I can't vote for anyone next November since nothing will get done anyway." or the classic "both political parties in the United States are unaware of the American peoples' needs." This is what I have to say about the matter:
Every American citizen has the right to vote in every election for which candidates and parties they agree with most. And unfortunately the party most Americans agree with most changes every 2-4 years, disallowing any real progress to be made on the any agenda, democratic or republican. To all Americans: if you vote for either party, odds are that they are trying to do their best to help you because if they don't, they may lose their job. There are two main parties in the American political system, the republicans and democrats. They have two completely different ideologies, and naturally, they don't believe that each other's ideology would work and create the country they wish to see. If both parties were in agreement, then the United States would have no problem passing legislation. Every politician enters the Capitol every morning to set out to do the job you gave them. Now here's whats tricky: the founding fathers purposely created this system to implement change slowly (for example: you need a 60 senator coalition to have a filibuster-proof majority in the senate or else the legislation can be easily filibustered with no end in sight). Each senator or representative will do their best to make sure you are not harmed by legislation they see as dangerous for the American people, even if it means to use the frustrating filibuster to their advantage.
Now back to the American people, if Americans see that one party isn't doing enough for them, they will go ahead and elect the other party. This is one of the greatest paradox's in the American political system. When Americans are frustrated and elect the other party, the first party has no more chance of accomplishing their agenda and therefore making the country the way they think it would work best. Now how do the American people not realize this? The rules of the political game are hard enough to play with a clear majority such as the one that President Obama had during the first two years of his term. Unfortunately, it is because people (not just Americans) are impatient and tend to look at the big picture rather than the tiny details. Before the mid-term elections, President Obama did not have a filibuster-proof majority in the senate, and with the help of some blue dogs the republicans were able to hold their ground and filibuster Obama out of a lot of his campaign promises. Of the healthcare legislation that the President was barely able to pass, the public option was removed from the bill (a crucial part of the legislation) and it is still being picked away piece by piece by republican federal judges. Because Obama was not able to do what he promised that he would do while in office, the American people contradicted their interests in 2008 and made it more difficult by reducing the democratic majority in the Senate while making the democrats the minority in the House. Now from January 2011 onward, the President's agenda is futile because it most likely cannot get passed in the House while the Senate would need seven senators to defect from the republican camp (if all democrats were even to approve of a given bill), a very difficult situation for the president.
By electing a split government, the American people have been the cause of their own outcry about how both parties cannot work together. The American people have elected politicians as their representatives, and if the president cannot work his agenda through congress, it is because he needs a bigger majority. Reducing the majority only made the president's (and the American peoples') problems worse. So next time, look at who holds power both in congress and in the White House before you declare that both parties are ineffective, because in the end it is you and every other American who made them ineffective and incapable of helping the country.
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The newest up-and-coming country star, Kacey Musgraves, stunned a celebrity-filled audience at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas with the performance of her simple yet melodic hit song, "Merry Go Round." Though her song's lyrics proclaim that "Mama's stuck on Mary Kay," Kacey herself seems to be stuck on LVX nail polish, which she wore in Fantom that night for a country-chic look. The 24-year-old musician's white nails encapsulated the purity of her voice and absolutely glowed as she strummed her guitar, bringing the glamorous crowd to a awe-inspired quiet as she played.
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The contractor for the city of Phoenix bus service is scrambling to meet its contractual obligation in the face of a bus strike that has quieted nearly 70 percent of the city's bus routes and extended into at least two adjacent communities.
Members of Veolia Transportation and Amalgamated Transit Union local 1433 are scheduled to meet at 1 p.m. Tuesday for further negotiations between the two sides. City and federal mediators will be present.
The strike that began Saturday has idled routes in Phoenix, Tempe and Glendale, affecting up to 90,000 daily bus commuters.
Mayor Greg Stanton told the union and company on Monday, "Make one-way tickets to Phoenix and don't you dare have your return flights home until this thing is resolved."
In its contract with Phoenix, Veolia Transportation is obligated to maintain its service at a minimum 60 percent.
So, even in a strike, 60 percent of the routes will keep running.
"So according to the contract as I have been briefed by our staff, they have a set period of time to gear up to 60 percent. That time has not passed," Stanton said.
He said Veolia has 15 days to get service up to the minimal operating level.
But union members say there's another catch.
"If the city of Phoenix did not change their liquidated damage provision or fix the major issues they are having with the city of Phoenix, this contract that they want us to vote on will be no good," said Mike Hennessy with the Amalgamated Transit Union.
A spokesperson with Veolia Transportation, Valerie Michael, said Veolia is waiting on a vote in City Council about an industry standard contract update over things like buses arriving on time. She said that the vote in city council will have to pass in order for the contract with the union to work. For now she said Veolia is focusing on restoring service.
On Monday morning, the first full day of the strike, the company was at about 33 percent.
Veolia was flying in drivers from other cities and unions, putting their supervisors behind the wheel and even some local union members were crossing picket lines.
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Union leaders were apologetic to a point.
"Right now, I have to apologize on behalf of every member of every operator of Local 1433, I apologize for them," said Mike Hennessey of ATU Local 1433. "But I also got to say, the timing was right. We went on strike on Saturday night to eliminate a major impact to our ridership."
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- Jan 23, 13, 09:23 AM #1
Obama ask military if they will fire on U.S. citizens.
According to Nobel Peace Prize candidate.
It has happened before.
Concerns over US troops being given orders to fire on American citizens in the event of mass gun confiscation first arose in 1995 when hundreds of Marines at 29 Palms, California were given a survey as part of an academic project by Navy Lieutenant Commander Ernest Guy Cunningham which asked the Marines if they would, Fire upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the United States government.
The survey was subsequently leaked because many of the Marines who took it were shocked by the tone of the question.
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- Jan 23, 13, 09:37 AM #2
Ready for the conspiracy theories to go the other way?
The field manual linked to in the article about the circumstances and procedures for taking action against U.S. Citizens is from the U.S. Army Military Police School at Fort McClellan and is dated for 2006.
The problem? Fort McClellan closed in 1999 and the U.S. Army MP School is at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.
- Jan 23, 13, 09:43 AM #3
Thats good, but do you still think it is being asked of our military. I am sure there si a some what kind of survey going around if this did happen. I hope it dont ever come to that, but it may in the near future.
- Jan 23, 13, 09:54 AM #4
If I had illegal guns and the military showed up to my door to take them....guess what? They can have them. I'm not gonna get blasted trying to prove a point that I obviously can't prove.
Why wouldn't the military have authorization to shoot American citizens deemed violent and unwilling to cooperate with the laws? Whether you agree with the law or not why would anyone with common sense NOT expect to get blasted by the military if they come to get your illegal guns?
- Jan 23, 13, 09:56 AM #5
If it comes to something, then yes, having the litmus test for high command be whether or not someone is perfectly fine with using military force against civilians is a problem. Still, my guess would be that none of those guys got where they are by independent thinking and going against their commanders. Don't know what any of them would ultimately do in that situation. Either way it goes, if that's what it comes to, we're in trouble.
- Jan 23, 13, 09:58 AM #6
Of course, exempt from the provisions of Posse Comitatus are those that fall under the Insurrection Act but the day they use that as a cover for unleashing the armed forces on U.S. citizens is the day this whole American experiment is probably toast.
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- Jan 23, 13, 10:10 AM #7
The slippery slope got worse with the drone actions on American citizen 'terrorist' without trials or due process. See other thread started yesterday on Senator question to John Brennan. The 'rules' for the policy for this are still secret. A very conflicted Federal judge affirmed that it will remain secret in a recent ruling. The amount of arbitrary power the executive office now has the ability to exercise should at least give pause. Of course this slippery slope started with the infamous Patriot act.
The more recent turnover in the entire military and intelligence structure seems to open the door for 'new thinking' on the limits of executive power. Secretary of Defense, CIA chief, Secretary of State, Head of US forces in Africa (Gen Ham), Admiral of Mediterranean-based carrier strike group, etc.
Will Cesar cross the Rubicon? It is hard to say where the Rubicon is right now.
- Jan 25, 13, 03:53 PM #8
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- Jan 25, 13, 07:46 PM #10
Whether a real question that is currently being posed, or whether it's simply a hypothical one, I'd like to look at the situation from another angle. Should all these guns that the military is sent out to confiscate now be deemed "illegal"...how many in the military do you think not only have these types of guns themselves, but would willingly turn them in as well?
- Jan 25, 13, 09:30 PM #11
Willing to fire on citizens.... and they can not ask about his background....
- Jan 25, 13, 09:33 PM #12
Some practice down in Miami....
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- Jan 26, 13, 10:31 PM #14
When they do fire on citizens it will be the ones on welfare and with Obamaphones anyways. Win/win ain't it?
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For many Blueshirts, tonight will be a homecoming when the Rangers (47-21-7, 101 pts) face off with the Minnesota Wild (31-34-10, 72 pts) at the Xcel Energy Center. Defenseman Ryan McDonagh grew up in St. Paul, the city where the Wild play. Center Derek Stepan is from nearby Hastings. Defenseman Stu Bickel is from Chanhassen and also played at the University of Minnesota. And both Marian Gaborik and John Scott began their NHL careers by playing for the Wild. Needless to say the Rangers will be well-represented by friends and family members in Minnesota tonight, the middle game of a three-game road trip for the Blueshirts. But all that said, it's about hockey this evening for the Rangers and trying to secure another two points while keeping their grip on first place in the Eastern Conference. With seven games remaining on the regular-season schedule, the Rangers own a one-point lead over the Penguins for the top spot. The Rangers, coming off Saturday's 4-3 shootout win over Toronto, have won three of their last four games, and have done so by displaying many of the positive traits that helped them shoot to the top of the standings throughout the first six months of the season. Gaborik and Brad Richards are both coming off strong two-point outings on Saturday---with Gaborik netting his 36th and 37th goals and Richards picking up a pair of assists---as their chemistry as linemates continues to build heading towards the post-season. The top two scorers on the team, Gaborik now has 68 points while Richards has 59. While the Rangers are battling for first place in the East, the Wild have already been eliminated from playoff contention in the West, currently 15 games out of eighth place with seven games to play. Minnesota has dropped two straight after winning two in a row, and is just 3-8-1 in the month of March.
This is the one and only meeting this season between the Rangers and the Wild. Last season the two clubs met twice, with each team winning in the other's building. The Rangers defeated Minnesota 5-2 back on November 20, 2010 at the Xcel Energy Center with Martin Biron stopping 26 shots in Marian Gaborik's first game back as a Ranger. Then on March 3, 2011 at The Garden the Wild exacted revenge with a 3-1 victory, one in which the winning goal was scored by Casey Wellman, who now is a member of the Rangers organization.
"It will always be special for me to go back and play (in Minnesota). I have a lot of great memories there. I don't think it will be as emotional for me as last year, but it's still big. And these are big games (in Minnesota and Winnipeg) for us this week. We have a lot to play for."-Marian Gaborik
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Marian Gaborik is the Wild's all-time franchise leader in goals (219), assists (218), points (437), power play goals (59), game-winning goals (43), and 30-goal seasons (5). He was the first player ever selected by the Wild in the NHL Entry Draft---3rd overall in 2000.
After appearing in 20 games for the Rangers earlier this season---and recording one goal and five points---Erik Christensen has played in 22 games for Minnesota following a trade from New York. Christensen was scoreless his first 13 games with the Wild before scoring four goals in a four-game stretch. He has been held without a point the last three games.
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They both sat in the empty bath; Ryan cradled in Brendon's arms, not talking and Brendon crying silently. He could feel Ryan warming up but still held on tightly, not wanting to let go of his best friend just yet.
"Don't leave me please" Ryan croaked his pitiful voice barely loud enough to hear.
"I'll never leave, Ryan. I love you. I just… I just don't understand why you did it. Why did you hurt yourself Ry?"
"I thought you hated me. You told me to go." He sobbed, though no tears fell – he was all cried-out.
"Ry, I wanted you to go so I could go and get you a birthday present, because you gave me my birthday present early. I wanted to go on my own so it would be a surprise." He said, hugging his friend tightly before trying to get up.
"No, don't go, please. I don't want to be on my own."
"It's ok. I'm staying" Brendon soothed, stroking Ryan's hair.
As Ryan was exhausted, he soon fell asleep in Brendon's arms.
He woke to find himself alone, though covered in his duvet. "Brendon? Brendon? Where are you? Please come back." He pleaded, a fresh wave of tears rolling down his face. Brendon came running in.
"Don't worry. I'm here. I haven't gone anywhere."
"Where are your casts? You had them on yesterday, I'm sure."
"Yeah, I went to the hospital this morning, to have them taken off. I figured you'd still be asleep when I got back so I didn't want to wake you. Here, I made you some breakfast" he left and came back in carrying a tray, with fruit, yoghurt, orange juice and a small gift-wrapped box on.
"Come and eat out here. You don't want to eat in the bathroom."
Ryan lifted himself up and clambered out the bath. Brendon saw him start to sway, his eyes closed, holding onto the bath and leapt to his aid, holding him up.
"Come on, Ry. You need to eat. I bet you haven't had anything in days." Brendon commanded, leading Ryan out, to sit him on the bed. Ryan hadn't and soon found he was ravenous, even after the breakfast, so Brendon handed him a large bar of chocolate as well, which he wolfed down. Then Brendon handed over the present.
Ryan unwrapped it to find a small silver box. He opened it and inside was a silver cygnet ring, engraved with the letter R and B, entwined together and a key. Brendon picked up the ring and slid it onto Ryan's littlest finger. "I have one too." He said, smiling. Next, he picked up the key and handed it to Ryan.
"Whats this for, Bren?" Ryan asked, suspiciously.
"It's a key, dumbass! I want you to move in with me, only if you want to, of course. You don't have to."
"Move in with you?" Ryan stammered. " I'd love to. I… I love you."
"I know and I love you too" replied Brendon as he brought Ryan's head towards him and kissed him.
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I will carry on!