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You don't have to look any further than Wrigley Field to find one of the biggest fantasy surprises of the young season so far in Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Jason Hammel.
Hammel is coming off another strong outing in which he tossed seven strong innings giving up only two runs and seven hits in a no decision outing against the Braves.
On the season Hammel sports a 4-1 record with a 2.45 ERA and an outstanding 0.86 WHIP.
The only question to ask is if Hammel can keep this pace up?
The easy answer here is no and if you own him you should look to sell-high on him now as his value will never likely be any higher.
Look closely and there are many signs that would suggest that he can't maintain this level of excellence.
His xFIP stands at .362 and an 82.4 percent LOB are both numbers that should be prime for regression.
In addition, he is thriving on a .203 BABIP which will likely come back to career norms and will certainly push all of his current outstanding numbers in a negative direction.
There's also his swinging strike rate which has been a very nice 10.2 percent, but look more closely and Hammel only boasts average strike out numbers throughout his career.
One good sign is that Hammel's walk rate sits at 1.99/9 and his career number is over three.
If that bumps up to his career norm and we could have a problem.
I do like the story and a return to the NL is certainly good for Hammel in the long run, but at the end of the day the numbers say not to trust that this hot start can continue.
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How many of you are durian lover? I love durian. And I love Mao Shan Wang durian! I saved some MSW durian during the durian season and made them into the famous Hokkaido chiffon cupcakes.
The Hokkaido chiffon cupcakes were so tall when just out of the oven. But they shrank so much within seconds after out of the oven.
I went a bit over and piped in so much durian, haha! But this made in soooo good! I hardly compliment myself. :)
Hokkaido chiffon cupcakes are so popular that I can find so many different recipes online. But you may not know, one of the earliest Hokkaido cupcakes recipe was posted by 周老师 who called it 史上最软的蛋糕, which means the softest cake in history. And I found that this is really the best Hokkaido cupcake! Just look at the amount of flour, so little. That's why the cake just melts in your mouth!
Durian Hokkaido Chiffon Cupcakes
Ingredients (15 square cups)
5 egg yolks
1/4 tsp salt
40g vegetable oil
40g milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
50g cake flour
1/4 tsp baking powder (I omitted)
5 egg whites
1/4 tsp cream of tartar (I omitted)
105g sugar
Durian Filling: (can adjust ratio to your own liking)
100g durian
100g non-dairy whipping cream
Custard Filling:
120g dairy whipping cream
25g instant custard powder
75g cold milk
1. Whisk egg yolks and salt well.
2. Gradually add in vegetable oil, followed by milk and vanilla extract.
3. Sift cake flour and baking powder into egg yolk mixture. Mix until just combined. Set aside.
4. In another bowl, whisk egg whites and cream of tartar until foamy. Add in sugar gradually in 3 batches and continue whisking until stiff peak form.
5. Gently fold in the egg white into the egg yolk batter (in step 3) in 3 batches.
6. Fill the batter into paper cups until 90% full.
7. Bake in preheated oven at 175 deg C for 15 minutes. Leave the cakes to cool.
Durian Filling:
1. Remove the flesh from the durian.
2. Whisk whipping cream to stiff peak. Add in durian flesh and whisk until well combined.
3. Put the filling into a piping bag. Pipe filling into the cooled cupcakes.
4. Sift icing sugar on top of the cakes, chill and serve.
Custard Filling:
1. Whisk whipping cream to stiff peak.
2. Mix instant custard powder and cold milk well, and quickly add into the whipped cream. Whisk until just combined.
3. Put the filling into a piping bag. Pipe filling into the cooled cupcakes.
4. Sift icing sugar on top of the cakes, chill and serve.
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013
MSW Durian Hokkaido Chiffon Cupcakes
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SSB, I've tried hokkaido chiffon cupcakes many times but I believe you when you say that this is very very good!! The next time I try, I'll use this recipe. A tip - if you leave the cupcakes in the oven after baking for about 15 minutes or longer to cool with the oven door slightly ajar, you might find that the cupcakes will not shrink so much.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Grace, thanks for your tips! I hope you like this recipe. :)Delete
Can see that these are really spongy and oozing with goodnessReplyDeleteReplies
Yes, taste really good when chilled. :)Delete
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I missed the last couple of Stamping Saturdays because…..well, because sh*t happens…and that is all. What counts is that I'm back today! This manicure that I'm sharing with you today was done a few weeks ago, so it's not like I wasn't prepared or anything
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Stamp Color: Konad Silver
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The only thoughts I'm going to bother collecting on the whole Mark Millar business are thus:
1. I enjoyed Millar's work when I was into superhero stuff. I'm not going to act like I think it's suddenly bad or anything. My favorite Millar book is the Unfunnies which is a book that is one offensive thing after the next in the same sort of vein Johnny Ryan comics are(which I also enjoy)
2. I think that within the world of Millar comics it is correct to say that rape is used just as a tool to show "hey this guy is evil" in the same way that murder or decapitation is.
3. This is not something that Millar invented. Rape as a plot device is damn near a trope of the superhero genre. And while I have a problem with THAT. I don't have a problem with Millar saying what he said, because it is fundamentally true about both his approach and the approach of maaaany writers in the genre, male and female.
4. People have the right to be offended at what they are offended at.
5. In a medium where there is very little coverage given to the best books of the medium, and most of the coverage is already heavily stilted toward books that DC/Marvel and Mark Millar—I do not believe in the utility of articles going after Mark Millar as a kind of witch hunt. Even if I were to agree with your positioning of him as a kind of modern De Sade(which I don't). The end result of your outrage is more money in the bank for the companies you are decrying.
6. This is so because the primary demographic of people pumping money into these kind of movies and comics is straight, white, male and conservative with a huge persecution complex. So you going at them all crazy where you are trying to convince them that Mark Millar of all people is writing work that is beyond the pale—you're not converting anyone to anything. The end result of that discussion is that everyone who already agreed with you, still agree with you, and the people who don't rushed out to Chick-Fil-A to pour money into the thing they think you want to take from them. It didn't work when Tipper Gore went after Hiphop. It won't work for you to go after Mark Millar. Not on these grounds.
7. We live in a culture that WANTS to be offended. Not truly offended mind you. But this safe sanitized kind of offended, where you have to jump through three hoops to understand the actual offense. There is nothing in Mark Millar's work that is truly transgressively beyond the pale offensive. If there were, he would not be banking so much money in hollywood. His work is offensive enough that you are talking about it, and giving him publicity—but it is not so bad that it would actually cost him box office, or readers. You are participating in a marketing scheme.
8. Comics needs real critical evaluation and discussion. Not hysterical bullshit that is more about stroking egos than it is about what is actually happening. That new republic article was a joke critically. Its analysis of Millar's work could not have been more half-assed, or more decontextualized—and that's the bullshit you want to rally around? But whatever. People can do what they do. React how they want to react. My reaction is just meh.
9. I feel broken. I don't respond to these type of stories like ever. The "oh shit did you hear this terrible thing this entertainer said? oh shit did you see this terrible thing in that movie, song, game?" It's all so mundane to me. Everyday I wake up to horrors that are so beyond my abilty to deal with them, that to even entertain that bullshit like an off-panel remark in the middle of a campy Mark Millar superhero comic actually truly disturbs me…man. I've been almost in tears all week because of the bullshit that Putin and those nazi assholes are putting Russian LGBT people through. I feel powerless and revolted. And you come at me with this shit? I've read that Nemesis comic, and know exactly the scene the article references—and holy shit, I could not care less. Kanye West wrote a sex rap over a Nina Simone song about lynchings this year. Stop bothering me with mindless bullshit.
10. Why are you people reading these comics? Why are you writing about them? Why are you talking about them? I don't care about them. I care that you care though. It is a waste of everyone's time and energy. People WANT what Mark Millar is making. People WANT shitty avengers and Thor movies. There is absolutely 100 percent, nothing you can do about it. People are for the most part, shitty, dumb, evil, non-caring assholes, who literally could not give a fuck. We want what we want. And in a country where politics has become the shadow puppet game played by the unnaccountable. A country where a dude can drop the info that "hey government is listening and monitoring and collecting everything you do". In a country where the president can assassinate an american citizen without any kind of trial or due process. A country where half the country doesn't believe in reading people their rights. Where if you are not white, you have a disproportionate chance of going to jail. A country where no one has any real political voice, and nothing you say or do changes anything, or means anything—yeah, y'know…I don't think you're going to really sell the majority on this Kick-Ass is a threat to society shit. Would that it were an actual threat to this society. You know they used to riot after seeing Bunuel films back in the day? You know Burroughs had to go to the supreme court to defend Naked Lunch? Do you understand what a threat would look like?
11. You're not going to sell me on this Mark Millar is a horrible human being thing. That dude has shown me nothing but support even when I was just making shitty collage comics and couldn't draw for shit. He used his message board constantly to try and find new talent and help them into comics. He has gotten his collaborators PAID. Against the industry standard for how to treat artists when money comes around, he is one of the guys most on top of his game ethically. I mean he is splitting out 50/50 of his producer money in movies out to his artists. In a time when a lot of artist are only getting paltry page rates while writers and publishers are banking millions.
Dude hasn't had to work for DC or Marvel for what…4 or 5 years now? He owns his shit. Which is something that is rare in comics when it comes to successful properties. He has been open about calling for better more equal treatment of artists, and local comic book shops. He was one of the first people to openly question how DC and Marvel were splitting digital money out to artists and writers. He has worked, sometimes clumsily, but always in earnest to try and increase the space for women as creators in comics, and as decision makers. And when he fucks up what he says, I've never known him not to be open to engagement, and I've seen him change opinions through discussion.
What I'm saying is, just talking about the man, when I see him getting blasted for things which are right now in plenty of DC and Marvel books—and are not exceptional to the genre or industry—when I see him gettting blasted on that shit, and then I know that whatever you think about the content, he has been a positive force in the things I do actually care about in comics—it's just tough for me to get on this pitchfork and torches shit.
Again. You are totally fine being offended at what you're offended with. I agree with some of the sentiment even. So it's not like I'm sitting here trying to be an apologist for the pervading rape culture that exists across the superhero genre in mainstream comics. BUT—what you are talking about is a systemic thing, and I do not agree with Millar as an appropriate choice as vector. I do not think it is useful on any level, beyond getting webhits to your site, or putting more dollars in Millar, DC, and Marvel's pockets at the box office.
12. I was reading HIroaki Samura's Brute Love and at the back there is a section where he's trying to explain his mindset and how he made this horrifying book of just truly mind wrenchingly terrible things to women—like you want to talk about beyond the pale. This is some beyond the pale, I'll never forget this stuff from my brain, shit. Anyways, he's talking about how he's not a monster or something, and he gets into this thing where he talks about this time where he had one of his models cut herself, and then he immedietely is backing off saying it was such a horrible thing to him, and he'll never allow it to happen again—but THAT is actual realness right there. That is an artist whose art is LITERALLY harming women in its production. That's not some off-color cartoony joke. That is some real "uh oh" kind of things. And I'm not saying "well if you think Millar is bad, there's some really horrible things that are worse out there—so stop complaining"—I'm more just like, for me that is a more interesting conversation—because I do think that Samura's Brute Love is much more morally complex to discuss and engage as a piece of art, than something like Nemesis or Kick-Ass, which I view as more sort of standard issue pop culture stuff. And I will probably find a way to write about that soon once I figure out what I think about all of that. Plus I just wrote a thing on Samura, so I'm not overly excited to do another one so soon. But maybe I will. I don't know. It's something I've been thinking about a lot the last few weeks since reading it. There are craft things that are interesting to me about Brute Love as well.
This was more words than I intended to write on this. Bleaugh. Plus I think I'm mostly alone on all of these thoughts amongst my friends in comics. But I also am uncomfortable with the type of people who might read this and agree with me. Because I mean…what's your damage?
If you agree with me because you don't think that talking about rape in pop culture is important, or because you don't like feminists, or are overly concerned with politically correctness and that it's going to ruin the world—-that's really not where I'm at intellectually, and we're really not sharing the same headspace, so much as a strange bedfellows kind of thing.
13. I hope you disagreed with most of what I wrote. You're probably a safer human for me to be around for it.


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This portrait of "The Brown Lady" ghost is arguably the most famous and well-regarded ghost photograph ever taken. The ghost is thought to be that of Lady Dorothy Townshend, wife of Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount of Raynham, residents of Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England in the early 1700s. It was rumored that Dorothy, before her marriage to Charles, had been the mistress of Lord Wharton. Charles suspected Dorothy of infidelity. Although according to legal records she died and was buried in 1726, it was suspected that the funeral was a sham and that Charles had locked his wife away in a remote corner of the house until her death many years later.
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Saturday, October 4, 2014
Written and directed by James Ward Byrkit.
Starring Emily Foxler, Hugo Armstrong, Nicholas Brendon, Elizabeth Gracen, Lauren Maher, Alex Manugian, Lorene Scafaria, and Maury Sterling.
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What really got my interest in the film (aside from being asked very nicely to see it) was that The Patron compared it to Shane Carruth's Primer, one of the best no-budget sci-fi movies ever made. I can definitely see the comparison: both are decidedly low-budget films with small casts and a science-fictiony premise. I feel like seeing the film fairly blind is probably the best, so I won't summarize the plot beyond the premise of eight friends having a dinner party when a comet passes over and Strange Things Happen, but I don't think I'm quite as enthusiastic as The Patron.
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Despite some genuinely terrifically creepy or suspenseful moments in the film, a handful of contrived plot points hold it back from being much more than a fun genre flick for me, but I found myself wondering what would happen next — almost up to the very end. A late turn in the film got more of an eye-roll from me than the shock that I think it was supposed register. As always, your mileage may vary, but the film's merits make it well worth a viewing, particularly for science fiction fans suffering from blockbuster fatigue.
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Grand Sable Dunes temporary closure to all public entry for visitor safety
Grand Sable Dunes are rapidly eroding into Sable Creek and Lake Superior. The area from the Ghost Forest Trail north to Lake Superior then along the shoreline to the west side of Sable Creek is temporarily closed. Follow closure signs for your safety. More »
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Contact: Gregg Bruff, 906-387-2607, ext. 208
(Munising and Grand Marais, Michigan) The lack of early season snow and unseasonably warm temperatures are creating unique opportunities for visitors to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in the central Upper Peninsula according to Gregg Bruff, the park's Chief of Interpretation and Visitor Services.
"For the first time in many years, Alger County Road H-58 currently remains passable from one end of the lakeshore to the other," Bruff said, and people are coming out to enjoy the park at this very special time of the year.
"This is a wonderful time of year to hike in the park. With the leaves off the trees, you can get a much better feel for the character of the land, and enjoy vistas that you could not see in the summer months," Bruff said. "The waterfalls are pretty special too," he added.
It also is a wonderful time to walk out to the Au Sable Light Station (accessible from the Hurricane River Campground), or to simply walk along a beach.
"While all of our water systems are shut down for the winter, our drive-in campgrounds remain open for campers, and there is no charge for their use in the winter months," Bruff added. "A number of people have also been taking advantage of the situation for overnight backcountry trips," Bruff said. "We don't know how long this might last, so we encourage people to come enjoy the park under these unusual circumstances."
"It will certainly start to snow soon, and the traditional winter activities of snowshoeing, cross country skiing and snowmobiling will return to the area," Bruff said. In the meantime, Bruff encourages visitors to come visit at this very special time of year.
Visitors are encouraged to check with the Interagency Visitor Center in Munising for current road and trail conditions. Permits required for overnight backcountry camping are also available at this location.
For more information, visit www.nps.gov/piro or contact the Interagency Visitor Center at 400 East Munising Avenue in Munising, 906-387-3700.
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"My Papa's Waltz"
by Theodore Roethke
The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.
We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother's countenance
Could not unfrown itself.
The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.
You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.
My Papa's Waltz - Theodore Roethke (1948)
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This is in response to the editorial "Responsible Bidder Law Must be Repealed" (Feb. 12). The editorial calls the "Responsible Bidder Ordinance" anti-competitive. There are plenty of contractors that meet the requirements to bid the sewer project. This is a complicated project. It should not be awarded to a contractor that does not have a […]
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Relying on benevolence of owners isn't enough
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Regarding the minimum wage debate in your Sunday Forum section: While we in Cincinnati should be thankful that there are small-business owners like Dixie Chili's Spiros Sarakatsannis who pay their employees a living wage and complete benefits, these business owners are the exception, not the rule. The state of Ohio should continue to raise the […]
Ask small business owners about impact of minimum wage
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Contrary to Julie Heath's assertions that "minimum wage has little, if any, effect on employment" ("Effect of wage on employment" Jan. 26), the negative effects that increases in minimum wage have on employment are very real. She chooses to believe and rely on two recent studies, while ignoring common sense, as well as more numerous […]
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I am convinced that the politicians in the White House and the United States Senate really don't want to create jobs. If they did, we would see legislation passed that actually encouraged the creation of jobs as it did in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. At that time the tax code was used to stimulate […]
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CHARLES TOWN – We heard some interesting feedback after last week's story by Christine Miller Ford on flu season.
The article included quotes from physicians on why they recommend flu shots for most people age 6 months and older. The story also included some local residents who shy away from flu shots, believing they're better served by pursuing a healthy lifestyle, i.e. eating lots of vegetables and fruits, staying fit, getting a good night's rest and so on.
Reader Bonnie Fridley grew up in West Virginia but now lives in Aberdeen, S.D., where her husband, Dr. Larry Sidaway, is a cardiologist. "He has always gotten a flu shot as do I," Fridley wrote to us.
I too got the first flu shot of my adult life. In years past, I assumed I could weather any bug and never bothered to get a flu shot. I elected to do get one this year with the addition of Laura-Elyse to the family in June.
But what to say to those who believe their healthy choices will let them sidestep the flu? "His comment after I told him about this was that one need only go to an old cemetery and notice all the deaths that occurred in 1918," Fridley said. "The great influenza wiped out entire families, killing 50 million people worldwide, and history will repeat itself with another deadly outbreak at some point in time.
"Having the flu shot, even if not the exact flu strain, will help mitigate the severity of flu symptoms and result in decreased mortality. The people of 1918 drank plenty of water, ate whole foods, and got plenty of exercise and that did not save them from the flu."
It's awfully hard to argue with that.
In the days after Fridley wrote, I found myself thinking about her warning often – and delving into the history of that fast-moving pandemic.
The West Virginia Encyclopedia says that on Oct. 5, 1918, the state superintendent of health ordered "all affected persons be quarantined, and all public places be closed. Many people wore face masks when they went out in public and while caring for the sick."
Nonetheless, more than 71,000 West Virginians are known to have contracted influenza between Oct. 15 and Nov. 15, and 2,818 were reported as having died of it. In 1918, the flu and its complications were reported as the cause of death in a full quarter of all deaths recorded in the state.
No one is sure just how many people in West Virginia – or worldwide – got the flu or died from it. With physicians and other caregivers overwhelmed, accurate record-keeping couldn't be the priority.
So many were dying in Jefferson County and elsewhere across the state, coroners could not afford to spend much time on death certificates. They began to skip over details such as the deceased's birthdate and parents' names and to include just the essentials – name, town of residence, the date of death and the word "influenza" as the cause of death.
Some 500 flu victims are said to be buried in unmarked graves in Martinsburg's Green Hill Cemetery, according to Don Silvius of the Berkeley County Historical Society. "They could not keep up with the burials," he said. "They were building part of the Interwoven complex at the time and the survivors of the crew buried these dead."
The 1918 epidemic fundamentally altered the life of one of the state's most revered leaders.
Robert C. Byrd, the nation's longest-serving U.S. Senator when he died in 2010, was born in North Carolina. Nine days before his first birthday, the 31-year-old mother of Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr. died of the flu.
Calvin Sr. followed his wife's wishes and sent their five children out to be raised by relatives. Titus and Vlurma Byrd adopted the baby and raised him in the coalfields of southern West Virginia.
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ST. JOHN | A group hoping to keep a statue of the Virgin Mary in place on U.S. 41 has hired an attorney and plans to seek a restraining order to keep it from being moved.
Brad Wachter, a spokesman for Save Our Lady, said his group is prepared to file a lawsuit and go to Catholic Church officials in Rome to block the move.
"Our attorneys are seeking a meeting with the foundation board to explain the laws they are about to violate and urging them to stop the moving cranes," Wachter said.
The Legion of Mary Wayside Shrine was placed along U.S. 41 in 1954 so it could be seen by those of all faiths as they traveled the highway, Wachter said. If moved about a half mile to the St. John the Evangelist Parish grounds, the statue's audience would be reduced to mainly church parishioners, he said.
The articles of incorporation for the Marian Wayside Shrine Foundation and a description of the location where the statue would be placed comprise the basis for the potential lawsuit. Moving the statue would violate those articles, the group says.
Plans by the parish, 10701 Olcott Ave., are to move the 15-foot marble statue, also called the Great Lady, to the east side of the parish, the Rev. Sammie Maletta said.
Another Virgin Mary statue, Our Lady of the New Millennium, has been outside the church for the last two years.
That 33-foot-tall metal statue will be swapped with the Great Lady near the visitors center at the nearby Shrine of Christ's Passion, 10630 Wicker Ave.
Those plans will not be altered even though a legal fight is being planned by the Save Our Lady Campaign, Maletta said.
"They can give it their best shot," Maletta said.
The Save Our Lady group also has received assistance from the Rev. Michael Maginot, of St. Stephen the Martyr in Merrillville.
Maginot, a practicing lawyer in church law, said he's prepared to take the case to Rome.
"The church and Father Maletta are in violation of canon law, and their actions will be challenged," Maginot said.
The statue is only being moved a few hundred yards, so it will face the church and be in a beautiful setting, Maletta said.
"She's getting a great place of honor. ... We feel this is the best way to serve the greatest number of people," Maletta said.
Maletta said he's not surprised that there is controversy.
"It's sad, but in the U.S. everyone has the right to express their feelings," Maletta said.
Relocating the Great Lady "right outside our door is a dream come true to me," he said.
Maletta said nearly 4,000 people visit the church every week and many of those people haven't walked up to the statue.
The move will provide parishioners with better access to the statue, he said.
Wachter, who launched the campaign to keep the statue in place, is the grandson of Frank Wachter, who had the statue erected.
The statue was later donated to the Catholic Church.


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"Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound." L. Neil Smith
The problem with being stupid is you cannot simply decide to stop doing dumb things...
Years ago watching the History Channel I saw a program about secret government aircraft experiments is the 1950's.
I don't remember what they called it but the shape sitting on that trailer looks a lot like the Air Force hover craft test shown in that episode. If I'm correct, then this technology pre dates stealth by 15 years.
Like this thing? -- http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/local_news/water_cooler/ufo-spotted-on-truck-in-washington-dc-area
Looks like a lot of posts from other cities show things like this or similar to this. Many are saying its a Military Drone of some kind
Looks like the Military's statement was that it was an X47-B being transported across the nation from a manufacturing plant. They're testing it for Aircraft Carrier applications
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Several years ago, when I was 29 years old, I was seated on a Redline train headed to my mother's after a job interview. I am an attorney so I was dressed very conservatively in a navy blue suit and pumps. I noticed a scrubby man about my age sitting directly across from me trying to get my attention. When I looked at him he rolled his tongue around against the inside of his cheek, which had been common among juvenile males at my high school for indicating a desire for oral sex, and he mouthed the words to that effect. I was so disgusted I just looked him straight in the eye and said very loudly and meanly "Fuck you." He looked shocked so I repeated "Fuck you and don't look at me again." He mumbled "I'm sorry" but as he was still looking at me I again repeated "Stop looking at me," which he did. I then stared at him to make sure he didn't look at me again until we arrived at the next stop where he made a hasty exit.
I felt bad because there were some young children on the train with their dad and I knew they heard me but probably didn't see the loser pervert so on my way off a few stops later I apologized to the dad for swearing in front of the kids but said that a guy was making rude gestures at me.
What I concluded from the experience is that scrubby stranger stalkers in public places (as opposed to acquaintance stalkers or stalkers when no one else is around) are big cowardly, losers and that they are more afraid of you than you are of them and confronting their disgusting behavior head on will send them scampering away. This really shouldn't be much of a surprise since if these guys weren't losers they would have girlfriends or wives to satisfy their sexual needs and wouldn't have to attempt to get their thrills skeeving out strangers in public.
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If you're like me, you wouldn't be able to find Missouri Western University on a map, nor would you have known about Michael Hill, that school's running back, until it was reported today that he's one of a handful of prospective draft candidates who visited the facilities at Green Bay this week.
The 5-11, 205-pound back from St. Joseph, Mo., rushed for 4,969 yards, 35 touchdowns over the course of his four-year career at the Division II school, which included 2,168 in 14 games this past season – a school record.
Based on those numbers, Hill was invited to the first Raycom College Football All-Star Classic, a game where he outshined many Division I teammates by rushing for 148 yards and two touchdowns on 12 carries. He helped lead the Stripes to a 31-3 victory over the Stars. He had two long runs in that game, one for 44 and the other for 49 yards.
"You never know what to expect coming from Division II," Hill said after the game. "You hear about the SEC and all that speed. I thought I could come compete and play with speed, too. I didn't know what to expect. I guess I fit in."
Hill started 14 games for the Griffons in 2012 and according to his school's website, he was named First Team AP Little-America Team, First Team Daktronic All-American, first Team Beyond Sport College Network All-American, First Team All-Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association, and was voted Offensive Player of the Year in the MIAA.
Even more impressive, Hill caught 93 passes for 882 yards and six touchdowns during his college career. At his pro day, Hill ran the 40-yard dash in 4.58 seconds – certainly not burning speed, but respectable.
According to nfldraftscout.com, Hill was rated thirty-seventh out of the 186 running backs rated by the site.
If the Packers are looking for hidden gem, could Hill be that guy. At least they've seen him with the visit. Whether Ted Thompson pulls the trigger on Hill, of course, remains to be seen.
Here's a video of the Division II star …


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Amy is Health Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald. Before working at the Herald she worked as a freelance journalist and radio presenter, as well as writing for a number of publications for doctors. She also keeps a health blog at www.dailylife.com.au.
Alarm over child drinking, multiple liquor outlets
Amy Corderoy Children as young as 12 who live in areas saturated with liquor outlets are more likely to drink than their peers, researchers say.
Young people who get drunk aware of risk of sex attack
Amy Corderoy Unwanted sexual encounters and unsafe sex are rife among drinkers and drug users, a survey has found.
Weight gain after 40 hits healthy eaters
Amy Corderoy Being a healthy eater will not stop you gaining weight once you hit middle age, Australian researchers have found.
Study highlights fathers' depression
Amy Corderoy Postnatal depression in men could cause emotional and behavioural problems in their children, according to an Australian study that experts say shows fathers need to be checked for the condition.
Fathers dear to boys, study shows
Amy Corderoy Teenage boys with a father figure in their lives are seemingly less likely to engage in delinquent behaviour, a US study has found. But having a father figure does not have a similar effect on girls.
Painkiller linked to stroke
Amy Corderoy One of Australia's best-selling painkillers should be banned, according to the co-author of a study that linked it to an increased chance of stroke in healthy people.


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LEE COUNTY, Fla. - Florida's new governor has long been a well known businessman. But until last year, Rick Scott's name wasn't one associated with state politics.
Scott came from humble beginnings. Born in Illinois and raised in Kansas City, Scott's father was a truck driver and his mother, a clerk at JC Penney.
After two years in the Navy, Scott's first foray into business came when he bought and turned around two doughnut shops in the Kansas City area.
At 35, he was part of a team to found Columbia Hospital Corporation, buying several hospitals in El Paso, Texas. The business would grow into a multi-billion dollar company with hospitals all across the country. For his efforts, Scott was named one of Time Magazine's 25 most influential people in 1996.
Only a year later, that reputation would be tarnished by a massive medicare fraud scandal, costing Scott his job as CEO of Columbia. The fallout would follow him years later in his run for public office.
Scott continued as a venture capitalist and entrepreneur, keeping close ties to the health care industry.
In 2009, Scott founded "Conservatives for Patients' Rights," directly opposing President Obama's health care overhaul.
In 2010, Scott announced his intent to become Florida's next governor. He campaigned largely on the message his business background could help better position the state for economic growth and more jobs.
With the help of the Tea Party and more than $70-million of his own personal wealth, Scott beat Attorney General Bill McCollum in the Republican primary election, and Democrat Alex Sink in the general election.
McCollum and Sink both decried Scott's checkered past with Columbia Hospital Corporation. Sink also picked up most of the major endorsements, including the support of Scott's hometown newspaper, the Naples Daily News.
The race was Florida's closest in decades. Scott won by less than 70,000 votes - or 1 percentage point. In her concession speech, Sink said she was out-financed and unable compete with the changing mood of the nation. She called Scott to congratulate him.
In his victory speech the following day, Scott told struggling Floridians: "Don't give up. I give you my word, better days are coming."
At his inauguration Tuesday, Scott said he expects to be held accountable in office. He'll be working along with many fellow Republicans in one of the most conservative legislatures in Florida history.


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In 1997, Huerta was named one of the three most important women of the year by Ms. Magazine.[9] Huerta was an inaugural recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights from President Bill Clinton in 1998. That same year, Ladies' Home Journal recognized her as one of the 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century, along with such women leaders as Mother Teresa, Margaret Thatcher, Rosa Parks, and Indira Gandhi.[10] In 2002, Huerta was awarded the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship.[11]
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I have a quick question . Name one thing that makes the President a communist ? One thing he has done .. now go back and play in your sand box
The United States of 'Amercia?' Romney campaign makes spelling ... www.myfoxdc.com/.../the-united-states-of-amercia-romney-campaig... 7 hours ago – Romney campaign makes spelling mistake in iPhone app ... was discovered that the Romney campaign had misspelled the word "America" on ... Rock on Runny ! Nov can't come soon enough !
Romney contradicts past comments on abortion - Political Hotsheet ... www.cbsnews.com/.../romney-contradicts-past-comments-on-abortio... Jan 16, 2012 – Mitt Romney suggests during debate that he always personally opposed abortion rights, but in 1994 he adamantly supported them Read m
Also 80% plus say abortion should be legal either always or sometimes LOL
Gallup Poll. May 3-6, 2012. N=1,024 adults nationwide. Margin of error ± 4. "Do you think abortions should be legal under any circumstances, legal only under certain circumstances, or illegal in all circumstances?" Always legal Sometimes legal Always illegal Unsure % % % % 5/3-6/12 25 52 20 3 so sometimes and always legal = 87% of the respondents LOL
SO IF IT NOT FOR MEN , WOMEN COULD NOT THRIVE .. NICE 18TH CENTURY THINKING lol
And does the Federal Government [pay for abortions ? Thats an easy one , even for you !
Old man take it easy will you , if you think that the only way Women can be happy si by being Married , hey more power to you .
You are Christians , don't want an abortion don't have one My G-d is a kind g_d ..


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At a 40th birthday bash last night, Mark and I ran into an acquaintance from our early days of parenting.
She asked about JustOneMoreBook! and I told her we'd replaced it with a breast cancer blog.
"When did you have that?!" was her shocked response.
That beautiful, knee-jerk, past-tense reaction swelled me with glee. And it's been echoing in my head ever since.
Cancer in the past tense.
The distant past tense.
Like a bad cold
or a fall
or a notch on my belt.
Thank you, Ashley. For being the first.
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It is the intent of the Professional Staff Association to develop and promote the professional skills and standards of its employees within their professional capacities. To this end, an annual summer conference will be scheduled at which seminars and workshops will be presented for all eligible Professional Staff employees who wish to participate.
— PSA Policy Manual Appendix D-A.
2013 PSA Summer Conference
Friday June 14, 2013
Cruisin' Maricopa!
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This is the 31st Anniversary of the PSA Summer Conference and we are encouraging our conference attendees and invited guests to dress in relaxed attire and enjoy the day and evening, 50's style!
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As we come to Nehemiah 4, good progress has been made rebuilding the wall and Sanballat and Tobiah are not at all happy about it. In fact, they are downright angry. So much so that they make plans to attack Nehemiah and all those involved in the rebuilding project.
As I read this passage, the spiritual warfare going on was so evident. It was a good reminder for me that Satan doesn't like it when we are accomplishing things for the Lord, and as we're working for Him, we should expect opposition and be prepared for it.
What did you learn from Nehemiah (the man) about responding to, and coping with, opposition? What did he show you about being a leader in difficult circumstances? Tami W.
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It's no big secret that Larry Fedora is a mostly offensive-minded coach — his career track tells us so. Every one of his teams has averaged over 30 points per game and half of them have finished in the top 20 nationally in total offense.
In just one season, Fedora took a program that, in Butch Davis' final year, averaged only 25 ppg to averaging over 40 ppg while under NCAA sanctions. Even without his own recruits, the man knows how to score points.
After all, this is why Fedora was hired at UNC. And he's performed phenomenally in that department, setting 35 offensive records for the school in his first season at Chapel Hill. As far as an exciting offense goes, the head coach has no doubt held up his end of the bargain.
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The Ravens signed former Kansas City Chiefs running back and kick returner Shaun Draughn on Wednesday. They didn't immediately announce a corresponding roster move.
Draughn, a former undrafted free agent from North Carolina, also spent time with the Washington Redskins. He was released by the Chiefs during the final major roster cutdown this year.
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When in Any Church Savagery Erupts
From Ray Ortlund's talk at the 2011 Gospel Coalition Conference (which is well worth reading in its entireity):
The Galatian churches were unstable to begin with, because the reassuring finality of "It is finished" had been eroded away by the acids of self-justification. Insecurity, anxiety, fear and anger had entered in. How could it be otherwise? Self-justification cannot create anything but an unsatisfiable demandingness, for Christ is not its satisfying provision. No matter how well a person has been raised to be courteous, self-justification must generate finger- pointing and accusing and slandering and dividing. Whatever the outcome, no one wins.
When in any church savagery erupts, the problem is not personal, a lack of niceness. The problem is theological, a lack of gospel. But where Jesus reigns by his gospel, love reigns as "a mutual protection and kindness" (Calvin). Paul was a man of courage, forthrightness and apolitical independence. He was also a man of love, humility and warmth: "You were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself'" (Galatians 5:13-14). Strong principles and humane relationships, together simultaneously, mark a church as faithful to the gospel.
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Samsung's new year gift to the ebook community: The gatefold screen?
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The reporting around CES 2014 included plenty of rumors and hints from a supposedly closed-doors presentation of Samsung's latest contribution to smartphone technology: A workable folding screen. Solid details are sparse, with no official Samsung announcement, but Korean and other industry sources indicated that this was am AMOLED screen, 5.68" in size, based on a plastic-style substrate. This follows earlier statements from Samsung that it would have a foldable touchscreen ready for market by 2015, but the screen displayed at CES has been described as market-ready.
A two-leaf or even three-leaf gatefold screen obviously would be a pretty friendly format for ebook reading. Not only does it put things closer to the original print experience, but the move away from the screen paradigm towards more and different varieties of presentation is a welcome step towards greater user choice. AMOLED also offers the kind of high-quality visual experience that would work well for ereaders, though of course, far from epaper.
Folding screens also offer potential for greater varieties of form factor in ereading devices. With wearable or wrist devices still handicapped somewhat by screen size, a foldout option could be quite a game changer. And with the phablet format growing ever more popular, Samsung and its peers may line up many new and interesting ways to fit bigger screens into smaller devices. Samsung already has its Galaxy Gear out there, and who knows what might be in the works to build out from that first effort.
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I know it's corny as hell, but I love that old joke about how Canada had so much potential, about how we could have had English government, French culture and American know-how but instead ended up with English know-how, French government and American culture.
I've been researching this since about 3am last night. The results may surprise you.
I don't understand why people invest so much of their emotions and self-worth in hockey, or sports for that matter.
That being said — and I know this is blasphemy — but it seems to me that American football is way more interesting than hockey. Admittedly this is based on a very superficial knowledge of either sport, but football seems to have a lot more strategy going for it. In football, you always hear about how important coaches' playbooks are or whatever. Whereas strategy in hockey revolves around skating in front of the goalie so he can't see, and discussion of the sport is all about whether or not teams should be allowed to employ specialists whose job is to come up from behind and hit opposing players in the head hard enough to knock them out of the game.
Honestly, every time I hear some hack comedian make a joke about how Canadians are intellectually superior (or whatever) I cringe because I know they have the smarter sport.
Also motorcycle Batman vs. helicopter criminals in front of an oncoming train was my favourite comic of 2011.
I'm partway through Spider-Man: Spider Island and it's a lot better than I expected. It might be the best Marvel comic I've read this year. Certainly it's better than Wolverine and the X-Men, which had so much potential but so far seems to have squandered most of it.
Spider Island is one of the few event comics that's actually fun, as opposed to the "world changing event with consequences" event comic that usually forgets about fun.
Also if I was a Spider-Man I'd want to be Scarlet Spider because he is cool and got a bad rap and he wears a mask and a hoody so that's kind of cool.
is that he wrote a book called How to Troll the Internet before there even was an Internet. Or trolling.
You can read the whole thing here if you're so inclined.
Here's hoping that a giant meteor destroys the Earth next year, or that 2012 is in some other way marginally better than 2011.
and I'm getting into an argument on the Internet about the existence (or lack thereof) of Yeti.
My Brain: Are you sure we want to do this? I mean, it's a Saturday afternoon and it's New Year's Eve and there are so many better things we could be doing.
Me: NO. SOMEONE WAS BEING WRONG ON THE INTERNET AND IT'S OUR JOB TO SET THEM STRAIGHT.
My brain: *sigh* Here we go again…
At least I'm learning. Maybe.
"Do you want to go bowling sometime?"
"No bowling is the dumbest, gayest thing there is."
Help I'm regressing into a sullen 13-year-old.
You know, there's a not-that-farfetched alternate universe where Space Jam was real except instead of aliens it was Kim Jong-il trying to kidnap Michael Jordan and getting him to play slave basketball for eternity.
Dude had a well-documented mad dictator boner for Jordan.
Why didn't anyone tell me there was a North Korean giant living in my country?
My friend Ben taught me that there's only one true way to play Risk: with a dodgy accent, full of jingoistic fervor for countries you don't really care about and with patriotic anthems blasting from a nearby laptop at strategic moments. Here are my top picks for anthems to play while playing Risk:
But if ever there's a time to use it, it's right now in this liminal week between Christmas and New Years. I mean, you can't wish someone a merry Christmas because it's too late for that now, but it's also kind of early for a happy new year. Right?
Rest in peace my beloved sea brethren. Your sacrifice will never be forgotten.
We just played from 8pm til 2am. No stopping, no breaks. AND WE DIDN'T EVEN FINISH THE GAME. We took an iphone photo of the board and wrote down our positions and stuff so we can pick up tomorrow. The good news is I have South America and a decent chunk of North America plus a strong foothold in Africa. Brother has Australia and enough of Asia to be a threat. Dad was kicking ass with Europe and a bunch of Africa but the Ukraine is weak and he will fall by my sword. Mom's pretty much finished and I might even snag her cards.
Dad said he hasn't been awake this late since he was my age.
I love my family and all that but I AM ABOUT TO CRUSH THEM BENEATH MY BOOT HEEL.
Just had the annual yuletide game of Risk with the family and maybe I took it a bit too seriously BUT IT'S KIND OF UPSETTING WHEN YOUR FATHER IS A GODDAMN COWARD NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN WHO WON'T ATTACK YOUR HITLER OF A BROTHER IN GODDAMN ICELAND WHEN HE HAS THE CHANCE. DID YOU HONESTLY THINK HITLER WAS GOING TO KEEP HIS WORD ON CZECHOSLOVAKIA, DAD? JESUS CHRIST. THIS IS WHY GENERAL TOJO HAD TO GO ALL PEARL HARBOR ON YOUR PATHETIC ASS.
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My little brother is singing Christmas carols with the wrong lyrics and seeing how many people he can get to sing the wrong lyrics with him. Example:
"Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, you make me feel so warm inside."
Mom is so confused it's LOLs.
Also I have a story about Helena the Unwanted Christmas guest that I'm going to post if I ever have time to write it.
Peace on Earth, good will toward all.
Until the Internet runs out of cats.
This will be the title of my first self-help book and seminar.
If it makes money I will turn it into a franchise:
I am going to turn my anger into cash.
by Matt Taibbi
[Note: below is my favourite piece of writing about Christmas. More than Dickens Christmas Carol, more than Seuss' Grinch. It's kind of long for Tumblr and I'm sorry for taking up your dashboard feed but it really captures how I feel about this holiday.]
Dear Editor,
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, 'If you see it in the Sun, it's so.' Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O'Hanlon, 115 West 95th Street
NO ONE NOTICED, of course, but last year, I did not file a column on Christmas week. This was not because I was too busy with a long schedule of holiday merry-making.
On the contrary: As editor Jeff Koyen can attest, I actually tried to write a column on Christmas last year. I spent three long days reading and rereading the old New York Sun's hideous "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" column, and tried to come up with a satisfying counter-argument. The opening was easy enough:
Dear Virginia,
Your little friends are right. There is no Santa Claus. And not only that, but within about five years, you'll be on your knees in a Port Authority rest room, sucking a stranger's cock for a dollar…
The column degenerated into a string of obscenities. If I remember correctly, the ending was something like, "Oh, and incidentally, Francis P. Church died in the arms of another man, broke and scorned by his family." It was a really angry piece of writing. Too angry to be coherent. At the end of the three days, I gave up and asked Koyen for a mulligan. A week later my fangs had retracted, and I was back cheerfully offering my worthless opinions on the political issues of the day.
I hate Christmas. I hate it more than anyone in the world. Put me in a room with the man you think is the world's biggest Christmas-hater, and within 10 minutes he'll be shining my shoes. Christmas is the world's most compelling argument for immediate nuclear attack against the territory of the United States. American Christmas makes heroes of Osama bin Laden, Jim Jones, the Shining Path, the Baader-Meinhofs, Jack the Ripper and the virus that causes AIDS.
It is true that American Christmas has not yet reached the point where it excuses the crimes of the Nazi Party. Still, even the regime of Adolf Hitler was probably too burdened by humanity to dream up an endless loop of I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, blared over the speakers in the escalator entrance to Bed Bath and Beyond. We are the first explorers to set foot on this region of hell.
Commercialism is one thing, but it isn't the commercialism that really defines Christmas in this country. After all, we expect businesses to feverishly hump the leg of every available sentiment in an attempt to sell us their products. That's their job.
Warner Bros. and Houghton-Mifflin would really be remiss in their responsibilities to their shareholders if, in making their vile, saccharine Tom Hanks adaptation of the totalitarian Christmas tale The Polar Express, they did not invite every marketing rapist on both coasts to take their turn at the body politic. It would be morally wrong for these companies to pass up the chance to give humanity special Polar Express Brio train sets and figurines, or Polar tees by Evy and Thunder Creek, or special sleepwear by Wormser (Polar PJs for Polar toddlers!), or an exciting array ofPolar Hallmark products (stationery, plush giftware, albums, gift wrap, paper party goods!), or die-cut Polar book sets, or THQ Polar interactive games, or Hasbro Polarpuzzles, or special Kraft and Pepsi Polar tie-ins and Polar Fritos and train-shaped cardboard Polar books (suggested age range for the All Aboard the Polar Expressboard book: "Birth to three years") for kids too young to move or speak or do anything but recognize primitive shapes.
Yes, shove these and more, along with a special Polar Express train set by Lionel, into every orifice of every child customer. Then, so that he can spend the holiday season enjoying the wonders of unspoiled wilderness, give him and his family a batch of tickets to a special Polar Express promotion on the Grand Canyon railroad, so that everyone can experience the Christmas magic while they stare at the rocks and the river and the sand and whatever the fuck else is out there, in the wilds of Idaho or New Jersey or whatever goddamn state the Grand Canyon is in. Is it too late to bring in a snow machine and a bunch of billboard towers? Who owns the rights to these cliffs?
I have no problem with this kind of thinking, none at all. Believe me, if I worked for Warner Bros., I'd be spinning off a Polar Confessions tv show about arctic wife-swapping and a Polar porn mag called Polar Inches for the yuletide homosexual. No stone would be left unturned.
It would be madness to get upset. Only a lunatic hates a company for selling things. Hate is an emotion that should be reserved for purely emotional transgressions—traitorous passivity, for instance. What I don't get is why there's no backlash from the population. Why aren't more mall Santas beaten to death? Why weren't there theater shootings when Jim Carrey's Lemony Snicket movie opened? How is it that year after year passes without a single Abercrombie & Fitch set on fire?
Every year, like clockwork, nativity scenes in dozens of ass-end small American towns are vandalized. I search for these stories every year, because they are the only things that cheer me up in the last week leading up to Christmas. To date, this year's best came last Monday, at a Catholic church in Knoxville, TN. According to a wire news service:
"Someone cut off the baby's head and arms and doused the stumps in red paint. The vandal or vandals also threw the baby's head through a glass door, scrawled an upside-down cross on Mary's robe and covered her face with paint."
Reading this, it was hard for me not to feel a tremendous kinship with the culprit, and even a hint of professional envy. I'm pretty sure I could have thought up most of those moves, including the upside-down cross, but why cover Mary's face with paint? Why her face? I have no idea what that means, but I love it.
Most of these nativity desecrations are directed not specifically at Christmas, but at God and religion in general. While this is a noble urge in itself, it really has nothing to do with hating Christmas, an utterly irreligious phenomenon. Jesus has been dead for almost 2000 years—why not throw Kathie Lee Gifford's head through a glass door?
Besides, the mere fact that we leave the only significant acts of anti-Christmas violence in this country in the hands of a few scattered bands of spiritually confused drunken teenagers says everything you need to know about the adult population in this country. America produces hundreds of thousands of college graduates every year, and not one of them ever does anything to stop Christmas. They just keep entering the workforce, keep dumping giant steel canisters of Holiday Spirit into our reservoirs in the middle of the night on the orders of their bosses, keeping the secret to themselves, never telling their spouses or their children the awful truth about What They Have Done.
So die, Virginia, you little bitch. Die a painful death this Christmas. Die waiting for Santa Claus to come down that chimney. He is not coming. But I am—to eat your corpse.
I just can't enjoy Christmas parades after realizing how much better North Koreans are at marching and parades and shit. I'm not even talking about those stupid "let's put the People's Army to pop music" videos. They're Monday morning marches are better than the best we've got.
Honestly all of our high school marching bands should be ashamed of themselves.
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Viewership for the 69th Golden Globe Awards ceremony declined slightly to 16.8 million vs. last year's 17 million, according to time zone-adjusted, preliminary Nielsen figures.
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Overnight Nielsen data also showed that the overrun into prime time of the NFC playoff between the New York Giants and Green Bay Packers gave Fox's Animation Domination block a huge boost — particularly, giving Napoleon Dynamite an audience of 9.51 million and a 4.6 demo rating — about double what Allen Gregory opened to (4.74 million, 2.4).
Season 3 of CBS' Undercover Boss opened solidly.
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8 p.m.CBS: Undercover Boss 11.56 million viewers (3.0)ABC: Once Upon a Time 9.84 million (3.3)Fox: The Simpsons 15.70 million (6.8); Napoleon Dynamite 9.51 million (4.6) {8:30 p.m.}NBC: Golden Globe Awards 14.01 million (4.1) {8-11 p.m.}
9 p.m.CBS: The Good Wife 9.31 million (1.9)ABC: Desperate Housewives 7.83 million viewers (2.7)Fox: Family Guy 8.50 million (4.4); Napoleon Dynamite 7.15 million (3.6) {9:30 p.m.}
10 p.m.CBS: CSI: Miami [rerun] 7.07 million viewers (1.5)ABC: Pan Am 3.93 million (1.3)
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