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In a press conference on Monday introducing a new sponsor for Woods' tournament in Maryland the man of the hour was asked about whether his balky back will allow him to play in the Masters.
His response was less-than-enthusiastic.
"For Augusta, it's still a little too soon (to know), to be honest with you," he said. "That's kind of the frustrating thing about this.
"I had a couple weeks off, was getting treatment and trying to get ready for Augusta. As of right now, it's still too soon. As I said, that's very frustrating."
Well then.
As you can see in the graphic at the top, we're just 17 days from Augusta and Tiger Woods seems like he's more out of the tournament than in it.
And even if he does tee it up in 17 days, who thinks he'll be full strength?
[Nobody but these people raise their hands]
With my life on the line I still say he plays because I think if he can walk he will play (and from all reports he's still able to walk at this point).
But we're kind of coming down to it here on time and Woods still sounds pretty indecisive.
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Daily Photo – Another Late Night in Venice
I ended up sleeping pretty big chunks of the day because we were just hitting it so hard at night! It's hard not to with scenery like this all over the place. At night they bring all the gondolas in to park, and they often make mysterious shapes and nice lines in the fading light.

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The Los Angeles Kings reached agreements in principle Friday to re-sign centers Jarret Stoll and Colin Fraser, two big contributors to their Stanley Cup title run. Stoll's three-year deal is expected to be worth $9.75 million, while Fraser will get a two-year deal worth $1.65 million. The Kings have the entire core of their first championship team under contract except power forward Dustin Penner. Stoll, who turns 30 on Sunday, is the Kings' third-line center and faceoff specialist. He also plays extensively on the Kings' penalty kill while providing veteran leadership. Stoll has become a fan favorite while spending the past four seasons with Los Angeles, which acquired him in a 2008 trade with Edmonton. Although he matched his career low with 21 points in the regular season, he contributed five points in the playoffs, including the series-winning overtime goal in the first round to knock out Presidents' Trophy-winning Vancouver. Fraser is a gritty, defense-minded forward who p...
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Get an overview of this hotelFamily-friendly caravan park/campground in Telegraph Point with marina
A family-friendly stay in Telegraph Point awaits you at Stoney Park. You'll be 13.8 km (8.6 mi) from Cassegrain Winery and 17.2 km (10.7 mi) from Billabong Koala Wildlife Park. Highlights at this campsite include a marina and in-room free WiFi.
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Our unusually warm spring has produced some early blooming tulips in Holland this year. That could have spelled trouble for Tulip Time, but special preparations are ensuring that thousands of tulips will be in full bloom in Holland for Tulip Time 2012.
Tulip Time Flowers To Bloom Early, Festival Will Go On
Our warm March has thrown off our calendars causing problems for farmers, allergy sufferers, and Holland's Tulip Time Festival.
The tulips are coming early, but the Tulip Time Festival will go on as scheduled.
Tulip Time Festival Announces Winner Of Poster Competition
53 artists submitted 93 works for the 2012 Tulip Time Festival Poster Competition.
Last night, Brittany Strabbing's acrylic painting "Beautiful Dream" was announced as the winner.
Ice Sculpting Competition In Holland This Weekend
It barely feels like winter, but it's time for Holland's annual January ice competition.
Every year, Holland partners with the National Ice Carving Association (who knew there was such a thing?) to host a collegiate carving competition.
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Today is National Drug Take Back Day. The day is meant to highlight the need to properly dispose of prescription drugs. The cities of Holland and Wyoming are among those accepting the drop-off of old prescription drugs for proper disposal.
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Friday's winds brought both big waves and crazy surfers to the beach on Lake Michigan. It brought even bigger waves to the middle of the lake, including one recorded at 21-feet.
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Pierre Cardin Tablet PC: Style over substance?
Are you the type of guy who will pay an extra £50 for a shirt because it's got the correct little animal or set of initials stitched onto the breast to prove you're a dapper chap?
Well then, you could be just the audience that design house Pierre Cardin is looking for; with its move into the tech industry it's launched a 7-inch tablet.
Apparently "created to meet the needs of brand-conscious technology users, the Pierre Cardin Tablet PC embodies the legacy of one of France's foremost fashion houses." It's just a shame that it doesn't meet the needs of most Pocket-lint reader's tech requirements with some outdated software and a less than impressive spec sheet.
It runs via Froyo (Android 2.2) and is powered by a Samsung S5PV210 Cortex-A8 1.0GHz processor with 512MB of RAM. The display is 800x400 and there's only 4GB of onboard storage. There's also no built-in 3G - you'll need a separate dongle for this.
What it does have is a swanky case though - so it's not all bad.
But, at £275 (more than you'd pay for the, similar sized but slightly better spec'd, BeBook Live and just £124 less than the Android monster Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1) you're not likely to be a tech-enthusiast if you buy one.
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In this little park, they have this fantastic U.S. Borax M-100 Lecta Hual with Detroit Diesel 12V 149T motor that has 1000 Horsepower on display. It was generously donated by the Borax Company. It was used for many, many years of service in the open bit. This big Yellow Truck can carry 54 to 86 cubic yards a load or borax ore is 100 tons. This...more
One of the Worlds Largest Supply of...
This facility celebrates 131 years of business in California. Borax Vital Statistics: Operates California's largest open bit mine, one of two world class borate deposits on the planet, supplies nearly half the world's demand for industrial borates.What are borates?Borates are minerals containing boron, fifth element on Periodic Table, trace amounts...more
Twenty Mule Teams which were 7,800 pound wagons each hauling at least 12 tons of borax and bone on wheels seven feet high with eight inch steal tires with a train that measured 160 feet long with the best trained twenty mules. They then transported the Borax to the Mojave Desert Railhead 165 miles of scorching desert heat in the summer and freezing...more
You'll only see these in the Mojave...
This plant can only be found in the Mojave Desert USA in areas above the 2000 feet level in soil of coarse sand and fine silt. Many have been found to be as old as 150 years if not more. They grow very slowly about 3 inches per year for average. It is not really considered a tree but as a Yucca belonging to the Agave Family - A Lily. It does not...more
Col. Vernon P. Saxon Jr. Aerospace...
This beautifully done museum has many wonderful displays of material from our surrounding local aerospace history. From the humble beginnings of Muroc community on a dry lake bed to becoming Edwards Air Force Base, Air Force Research Laboratory, and NASA Dryden the premier of Flight Testing and Space Exploration. This museum is providing many...more
Desert Discoveries
What a great little gem! In this vintage building you'll find the propietor David Eyre busy at work putting wonderful collection of rocks he mines himself by hand at the Borax mining facility together either for sale or he is busy putting boxes together for shipments around the world. Stop by and say "Howdy" and checkout his wonderful store. He...more
Boron Twenty Mule Team Museum
Gosh, what a wonderful little museum filled with displays of a era gone by. Really neat pesentations available of videos and little seating areas that gives a lot of the imformation about the local area. Wonderful old historice portraits everywhere that are very unique to see. It's looks really small from the outside but it is extended towards the...more
Blue Star Memorial By Way~
Located in front the of Boron Chamber of Commerce/Twenty Mule Team Museum is a small, but significant Blue Star Memorial (By Way) Plaque. List of Where the Blue Star Memorials are at.Caltrans site of Blue Star Memorialsmore
Boron Hotels
Boron Motel
This little Motel is in walking distance of the Museum. It is very convenient, clean and simple.more
Boron Restaurants
Mexican Food!
We use to eat here at lunch quite often, but they were having timing issues so we stopped coming. So we gave them another try and it has improved. We got our meals fast and they food was very good.The decor is very comfortable and the food is authentic. There are some fantastic photographs that decorate the walls and reminds you of the influence...more
Great Food and Service!
We decided to try something new and discovered a wonderful little gem of a restaurant among the stark desert. The food is great, cheap, and you get more than your monies worth here. The service is excellent. It is not a fancy place, but it is clean. We enjoy coming here a lot.more
Country Home Cooking Here
This is another wonderful restaurant you'll find in Boron. Lots of food to choose from the menu. Very tasty and you'll enjoy every bit. Simple decor and friendly smiles.more
Boron Shopping
Antique Unique
Lots of character here! Some businesses do not have very large buildings, but it doesn't mean there might not be something your looking for. A very unique shop, has a little bit of everything.;-)more
More Antiques
Boron is not a big city, but one thing he does have is character. Antique stores kind of come and go, but one always pops up. This place Lots of different items here. Yet if you get here and its not open, I am sure if you drive up and down this street, there will be one or two other stores open.more
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Boron Warnings and Dangers
Gravel everywhere!
I thought this sign was very important due to the extent of all the loose gravel everywhere. So running is not advisable nor are high heel shoes. Please wear low heeled shoes or boots even.more
This is the road up to the Borax Vistor Center. It is sort of steep, has gravel put down for safety, has speed limits and markers to reflect the corners at night. Yet, please take it easy driving up and coming down on this road. They have put up dirty burms, but it would still not keep a car or truck from going off the edge. One side is a pit, so...more
What A Hoot!
You are not seeing things, I repeat not seeing things. This sign is very for real. The reason it is posted this way is to get the vistors attention, which it does. There is a lot of traffic at this plant from trucks, trains, and people walking about. So, please keep the speed down.more
Boron Off The Beaten Path
Twenty Mule Team Mural and things to...
I like to include these due to I think they are a picture of our future and past. Murals tell a story and sometimes a very important story. These are just across from Domingo's.2702 Twenty Team RoadDirections:In the midst of the Mojave Desert 30 miles West of Barstow Hwy 15 and 30 miles East of Mojave on Hwy 58.Across the street of Domingo's...more
Blue Star Memorial Higway~
After World War II, a nationwide movement was started to pay tribute to the nation's armed forces, by designating various State and national routes as "Blue Star Memorial Highways." In 1945, the National Council of State Garden Clubs, Inc. approved the Blue Star Memorial Highway Marker program. California Garden Clubs, Inc. accepted the program in...more
Erin Brockovich Filmed some in Boron
A lot of people do not realized how much these little desert communities are still desired in the movie community. I grew up watching movie sets being built, shot, and sometimes dismantle and away they go to the next movie shot. I try to included these little secrets as much as I can. This is just one more neat fact that Boron can boast about...more
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24-hour Interactive Visitor Kiosk
Favorite thing: This is a 24-hour interactive visitor kiosk. Designed and operated by the Board of Trade, the kiosk will provide around-the-clock visitor information to travelers. The unit, designed to withstand the harsh elements. It works very simply, it is a touch pad screen and it offers all kinds of information for the whole county. Very helpful I think. Located right next door to the Twenty Mule Team Museum, 26962 Twenty Mule Team Road Boron, CA 93516.
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Implementing Dynamic Languages on the JVM: java.lang.invoke.* and the invokedynamic bytecode have given us a powerful new toolbox with which to implement dynamic languages on the JVM. At Devoxx in Antwerp last November, I gave a talk about how to build dynamic languages in Java7+, using the JVM as the runtime. Devoxx now released my talk for free to the public- Link to talk...
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Game where feaces is pushed out of anus as far a possible before 'sucking' it back in. The winner is the person who can get the 'turtle's head' out the furthest without decapitating it. The losers have to find a shower quickly.
Lets have a game of Fletch.
by Louis69 December 07, 2007
One who likes to feltch another man.
Holy smokes batman he just got Fletched by another man.
by Adam Pawletzki September 06, 2007
One who disses there friends for a lifestyle of gayness and gay activities. A true butt pirate whose only reason for living is to be a complete asshole and will do whatever it takes to accomplish absolutely nothing. He will do alot of homosexual experimentation to become the ultimate faggot on the planet.
"If you were any gayer you would be Fletch."
"Fletch is so gay, the name Fletch may one day take over the word gay."
"Fletch is so gay, the name Fletch may one day take over the word gay."
by reflexion December 11, 2007
blatant homosexual
look at those two guys having bum sex, what a pair of fletch's
by Anonymous January 20, 2003
Anal sex between man/man or man/woman where after the male cums he sucks the sperm out of the others rectum and snowballs with him/her
Justin fletched me last night and my ass still hurts.
by Shannon February 06, 2005
Mr. Honomichl my computer teacher that is gay.
Wow Mr. Honomichl likes to fletch with Mr. Gronde.
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"There's a lot of ignorance, they are claiming that they're uncomfortable. I don't believe for a second that they are. I think this is pure and simple bigotry," Perry told local news station KMOV.
That's a quote from a gay fellow who has decided he's really a girl, wears a wig and dress and therefore believes he is "transgendered". In fact, he's merely a cross-dresser since he's not had any sort of treatment or surgery to change his gender.
As you might imagine, his demand that he be able to use the girls locker room (instead of a gender neutral bathroom available to him) has been met with stiff resistance by the girls of the school (and their parents).
A few back his demand:
But another 40 students expressed their support for Perry, who has identified as female since the age of 13.
Good for him … that doesn't make him a female. Biology 1o1. He may want to revisit it, speaking of "ignorance".
The above reminds me of a great rant I read this week:
The perpetually offended want to wrap themselves in metaphorical bubble wrap to ensure that no offense, no bad word, no insult – perceived or otherwise – grinds sand into their delicate vulvas. And they take it as a given that you must conform to their standards – protect them, spoil them, shield them from all possible indelicacies – or else…
That's precisely what is happening in the school cited in the first paragraph. Attention seeking narcissists and their "ignorant" backers demand others "conform to their standards" or else … bigots!
A couple of CUNY professors write approvingly of the rise in the minimum wage (they claim government must set a floor for wages – uh, no, that's what a market is for) but note a great number of disadvantages in doing so, among them:
Second, there are two reasons why minimum-wage increases do not significantly affect poverty rates. In 2010, only 12 percent of minimum wage workers lived in households with incomes below the poverty threshold ($23,000), and only one-third in households with incomes less than double the poverty threshold. Indeed, almost half of minimum-wage workers lived in households with incomes above the national median. Thus, the minimum wage is not well targeted to the poor.
In addition, among poor or near-poor households that do gain wage increases, most will lose significant government safety-net benefits. With higher incomes they qualify for less in food stamps, earned income tax credits, and housing and child-care subsidies. With increased payroll taxes, these households could easily give back at least half of their wage gains. For a significant share, it could be more than three-quarters.
They've almost convinced me that the raise would be worth it. Of course, getting all those off government benefits would never mean a tax roll-back, would it, so screw 'em.
But they do pop the bubble of the effect on poverty.
President Barack Obama locked in enough support in Congress Wednesday to ensure he can overcome bipartisan opposition and implement a landmark nuclear accord with Iran.
Yes, friends, the Democrats have again sold you down the river. This is the Executive Department equivalent of ObamaCare and as usual, the Democrats have to pass it to see what is in it.
The NY Times remarks on the problem with murders in a number of US cities, to include, New York City:
Cities across the nation are seeing a startling rise in murders after years of declines, and few places have witnessed a shift as precipitous as this city. With the summer not yet over, 104 people have been killed this year — after 86 homicides in all of 2014.
More than 30 other cities have also reported increases in violence from a year ago. In New Orleans, 120 people had been killed by late August, compared with 98 during the same period a year earlier. In Baltimore, homicides had hit 215, up from 138 at the same point in 2014. In Washington, the toll was 105, compared with 73 people a year ago. And in St. Louis, 136 people had been killed this year, a 60 percent rise from the 85 murders the city had by the same time last year.
Name two things these cities all have in common.
And finally the "blender test" as applied to Hillary Cliton's email excuses:
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough tore into Hillary Clinton defenders Wednesday morning, saying anyone who believed her email excuses was too stupid to be trusted with household appliances.
"She's Secretary of State," the Morning Joe host said. "This is her only server. You would have to be really, really stupid–"
"It's the blender test: Do I trust you with a blender in my home to not stick your hand in there and get it all gnarled up?" Scarborough continued. "If you believe that Hillary Clinton's only account did not receive and send classified material in high volumes, then you should not be allowed within five feet of a blender."
There are a whole lot of people out there who don't need to be in the same room as a blender, then.
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So many things, so little time.
-You have to laugh at this one, I don't care who your are.
In late February, the City University of New York announced that it had tapped Princeton economist and New York Times blogger Paul Krugman for a distinguished professorship at CUNY's Luxembourg Income Study Center, a research arm devoted to studying income patterns and their effect on inequality.
About that. According to a formal offer letter obtained under New York's Freedom of Information Law, CUNY intends to pay Krugman $225,000, or $25,000 per month (over two semesters), to "play a modest role in our public events" and "contribute to the build-up" of a new "inequality initiative." It is not clear, and neither CUNY nor Krugman were able to explain, what "contribute to the build-up" entails.
The left often times seems intent upon removing parody as a means of criticism by becoming parody proof. And you wonder why tuition continues to spiral out of control?
-Special Snowflakes rule academia anymore, and they're not fans of free speech. Collective tantrums apparently work. From the inaugural "Disinvitation dinner", George Will:
"Free speech has never been, in the history of our republic, more comprehensively, aggressively, and dangerously threatened than it is now," Will, who's had his fair share of protests, panics, and bans, told the audience. Today's attack isn't just about process, he noted: It's "an attack on the theory of freedom of speech," with a belief "that the First Amendment is a mistake."
All you have to do is watch how speakers who rub the dominant feminist culture on any campus the wrong way are treated:
Witness Christina Hoff Sommers, a well-known author, former philosophy professor, and, most recently, a YouTube star. Sommers, who describes her approach as "equity feminism," is a refreshing change from mainstream modern feminism, which long ago click-clacked aboard the crazy train, ripped up all return tickets, and then hit the bar in the club car hard — not in a fun way, alas, but rather to weep and mutter various bad words over low-grade apple martini knockoffs garnished with mascara smears. Partnering with the American Enterprise Institute, Sommers has made a splash with her "Factual Feminist" video series, in which she calmly challenges and debunks oft-accepted and frequently absurd feminist talking points.
Bad news for those in the cocoon. So, instead of being intellectuals and curious, they retreat to their "safe spaces" or ensure that the speaker can't be heard by themselves or others.
Sommers' approach, in other words, is straightforward, fact-based, and lucid. But this, as the zealous, easily wounded students at Oberlin College and Georgetown University demonstrated over the past week, simply will not do. Faced with a speaker who thinks outside the box, campus groups lit up in protest. Students taped their mouths shut. Others heckled and jeered Sommers as a "rape apologist." Still others advertised alternate "safe spaces" for students "traumatized" by a speech.
"The students were so carried away with the idea that I was a threat to their safety," Sommers told the website Campus Reform, that Oberlin officials "arranged for security guards to escort me to and from the lecture to protect me from the safe spacers." This sounds sane, if it's Opposite Day.
What's a good comparison of the state of places of higher eduction that have enabled such behavior? Well this seem right to me:
If you've ever been to a junior high slumber party, you might recognize the following scenario: In the midst of high jinks and general good times, suddenly one girl will drift off to a corner. Her feelings, somehow, have been hurt. Slowly, a few sympathizers, clear suckers for drama, make their way into her corner. They rub her back, ask why she's crying, and, even if the answer is absurd, spend the rest of the evening casting baleful looks at the rest of the girls, who are oblivious, living large, sucking down Mountain Dew, and gleefully watching movies their parents would never allow them to watch. (In my case, this was almost always "Dirty Dancing.")
Cowardice might not be fun, but for some, self-pity — cowardice's common companion — certainly is. This is especially true if someone else is egging you on. Sadly, huge swaths of today's college campuses, supposedly pinnacles of higher learning, have morphed into a giant preteen slumber party with an alarming population of sulking corner girls.
-The circus is back in town and the Hill/Billy act is just as tired and old as it used to be. There's a new book out pointing to how corrupt these people are … as if you needed a reminder. The "dead broke" Clintons are multi-millionaires who've raised government influence peddling to new and even more corrupt heights. And then we're treated to the spectacle of Hillary flying coach and railing against the 1% and CEOs when she makes more money than any of them and her only child is buying a 10 million dollar Manhattan apartment. Forget about questioning lack of accomplishment as SecState – look at the money the Clinton Foundation raked in while she was in office. Quite an accomplishment wouldn't you say?
"For three years in a row beginning in 2010, the Clinton Foundation reported to the IRS that it received zero in funds from foreign and U.S. governments, a dramatic fall-off from the tens of millions of dollars in foreign government contributions reported in preceding years. Those entries were errors, according to the foundation: several foreign governments continued to give tens of millions of dollars."
They just missed it … and, they'll get away with it too, hide and watch.
-And while you weren't watching, Erica Holder, er, Loretta Lynch was confirmed as AG by the Republican Senate.
A Coupl'a Things
So, a few things have caught my attention over the last couple of days. None of them are related. They're all just sort or random things I noticed in passing.
In response to the SJW freak-out over the owner of Memories Pizza in Indiana, Dana Loesch started a GoFundMe for the pizza shop that got over $800,000 in pledges. This made one SJW named John Furr unhappy.
So, Mr. Furr tweeted how upset he was that GoFundMe allowed this project to be accepted and completed. He's so upset that, even though he's used the site for his prog-lefty fundraising, he's going to boycott them from now on. Sure, he found the site useful to dredge up what money he could from his SJW sympathizers, but now that someone with an opposing political view has used the site, it's become too corrupted to have anything to do with.
Apparently, it's not enough for GoFundMe to be neutral in this political issue, and go about their business of allowing anyone to needs funding within their TOS to obtain it. Neutrality, is, in his view, just as evil as opposition in his quest for transcendental justice, I guess.
Think about what that implies. Either you give full-blown support to the appropriate Lefty causes or you're simply an enemy. That's the totalitarian face of the progressive Left. They aren't interested in "tolerance". They require approval. If you don't want to weigh in and stand on the sidelines…well, that's not good enough. You're either all-in or you're a class traitor. So, don't kid yourself that they won't come for you if they obtain the power to do so. You won't get to be left alone.
These SJWs are totalitarians who demand a rigid conformity, and demonize anyone who won't mouth the appropriate political line.
The Left could not be more effective at fomenting civil war in this country if they were trying to do so.
Bill O'Reilly's book, Killing Jesus, has been made into a movie, and they showed it on FOXNews over the Easter weekend. It was weird.
In the movie, Jesus kind of announces himself to the world by having Peter haul in a butt-load of fish in a single cast. Nobody had seen anything like it. Anyway, the Sanhedrin convinces Pilate to crucify Jesus, and he's put in the tomb, with the High Priest asking for Roman soldiers to guard the tomb to ensure the disciples don't steal the body and claim he came back from the dead.
A couple of days later, some folks go to the tomb, where the stone has been rolled away, and the corpse is gone, with an empty shroud just laying there. The very next scene, Peter is back in Galilee, fishing, and looking all sad and puppy-like. Then, a whole bunch of fish swim into his net. He hauls in his record catch, and yells over to one of the other disciples, "He has returned!" Except that he, you know, hadn't. So, basically, the whole Resurrection deal was just…disappeared from the movie.
Now, look, the Resurrection is kind of a Big Deal in Christianity. One might almost say that Christianity without the Resurrection is pointless. I mean, if you're gonna do a Jesus movie, and play it on Easter Frickin' Sunday, you might think that some mention would be made of the couple of hundred people or so whom the Bible asserts actually saw and spoke with Jesus for about a month after the crucifixion, or watched him fly up into heaven. But, you'd be wrong. The body just disappeared—with hints that the disciples took it—and the whole resurrection deal was symbolic thing, rather than Resurrected Jesus walking up to people and saying, "Yeah, It's me. No really, poke my spear-holes of you don't believe me!"
I found it odd that this Killing Jesus deal was hyped as some sort of authoritative look at Jesus life, and they just elided the whole Resurrection thing away. On Easter Sunday.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia made a strange statement. They are suspending their report on state-level leading and coincident indicators. Why?
The recent benchmark data revisions from the Bureau of Labor Statistics produced greater changes to the Philadelphia Fed's estimating methodology than are typical. While estimates for most states do appear to be reasonable, those for some states are not.
In other words, the BLS has "adjusted" the data so badly that they don't make any sense, and the Fed can't use them to produce the state leading and coincident indicators index. They are, in short, worthless. The BLS, of course, says they give us the real scoop, without any of that nasty political data massaging.
Apparently, the Philly Fed disagrees.
Sally Kohn is an NYU law school graduate. But, I'm going to assume it was the NYU School of Legal Things and Stuff for Kids That Don't Think Too Good, because today she wrote this:
You could also argue that the government is forcing you to drive below the speed limit or wear a seatbelt in your car. But it's not. There isn't a police officer holding a gun to your head literally forcing you to buckle up. In fact, you are 100 percent free to speed and not wear your seatbelt—and simply deal with the consequences if you're pulled over. Is the threat of the fine for breaking the law amount to "forcing" you to follow the law? No.
This definition of "force" contravenes literally everything we know about how law—and language—works. The whole point of having laws is to engage you with whatever force is necessary to stop you from, or punishing you for, disobeying them. You can't even spell "law enforcement" without "force".
So, the key takeaway: Progressives aren't just raging totalitarians…they are dumber than wet stumps.
It's a motorcycle review this week
Some of the week's big stories in photos [with update]
First up: climate protestors in Australia demonstrate their philosophy towards actual data about climate science:
Please savor the irony of them sticking their heads in the sand to demonstrate their own ignorance, while thinking they are supporting the leftist climate agenda.
Next, Hillary Clinton apparently has worn out her welcome in Iowa, and there continue to be questions about her health.
Oh, sorry, wrong picture. Let me try again.
Yeah, this whole "Hillary is inevitable" thing probably has a sell-by date of about February 1, 2016. Or sooner.
Finally, a feminist sets a world record for demonstrating her own insecurities, all because of this shirt.
Included in this spectacular effort: envy of other women's bodies, intelligence envy, sexual self-doubt, actual accomplishment envy, imaginary bad motives in her critics, pleasure at causing pain in others, and neediness for attention.
Most notable results of this harpy's bloviating: 1. The guy in question cried during an apology, making this bint look like a bully and 2. the shirt is sold out. So trying to shame one guy into not wearing it causes a whole bunch of other guys to wear it just to piss off feminists. In other words, about the same results that leftist collectivism usually obtains.
Hope you've all had a great weekend.
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And here is what happens when the gap between government and kindergarten gets too small:
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So, I got this email from a researcher who's looking for libertarians to respond to a study:
I am conducting research on ideology and public opinion. Most studies on public opinion ask subjects whether they are liberals or conservatives. Options to identify as "libertarian" (or anything else) are almost always left out. To say that libertarians are underrepresented in academic research wouldn't be enough; they aren't even given a chance to identify themselves as such. Therefore, I would like to include libertarians in one of my studies regarding opinions of candidates and their policies. To do this, I need to seek them out through blogs and websites. I was wondering if you would be interested in posting a link to my online survey on your site or in an email distribution.
Some important things to know about this survey:
-All responses are 100% anonymous. There is no way for me to link any identifying information to the survey responses.
-The survey has been cleared by an Institutional Review Board at Stony Brook University. It satisfies all the requirements for a study that uses human subjects.
-It takes approximately 15 minutes to complete
-It does not seek to promote any kind of ideological agenda
The survey can be found here: https://stonybrooksurveys.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_87ChNJu5zdzMgDP
If it's something you feel like you want to participate in, please feel free. I took it. Seems harmless.
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This week, the car review…isn't a car review. It's a review of a time machine.
A response to Amazon's editors: my own suggestions for a well-read life
A few months ago, the "Amazon Book Editors" put up a list with the description "100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: A bucket list of books to create a well-read life".
It contains some good (1984, Pride and Prejudice, The Right Stuff), some decent-but-thought-provoking (Man's Search for Meaning), some leftist cant (Silent Spring), and a disproportionate amount of lightweight fiction, books for children, and books for young adults. I'm guessing this is a consequence of Amazon editors skewing rather young.
I think the list lacks broad perspective. It is weak on science, with only the often-purchased-but-seldom-read Brief History of Time plus an obscure book on nutrition. There's nothing on technology, nothing on business unless you count Moneyball, nothing military (though it does have two books about the victims of WWII), and weak on history.
Fittingly for a Seattle-based company, the list leans left. I mentioned that Silent Spring is there, which is disturbing given the damage and death caused by its inaccuracies and environmental hysteria. It also contains Fahrenheit 451, which is the soft lefty's go-to entry when they think they just have to cite a science fiction book. I could name a hundred better science fiction books off the top of my head, but most are from authors who have a nasty habit of not leaning left.
While the list is worth browsing through, I thought the largest bookseller in the world should have done better. That started me thinking about the list I would recommend. My list would contain books that gave me some of the greatest return on investment in reading them. That might be by changing or refining my worldview. It might be simply great entertainment. Some of the very best combine both.
It would be the best books I could name from a wide variety of fields. Being easily bored, I'm more of a generalist than a specialist, and I like to read lots of different kinds of books. So I began composing a list, and extended and refined it several times over a few months.
Creating such a list involves some tough choices between certain books that cover the same territory. I have dodged that by having some of my entries be categories, in which I think a well-read person should be exposed to the category, but not necessary any single work in the category.
For some works and authors, I also included some follow-on suggestions.
I ended up with about 50 books and categories. Here, then, are the books I think ought to be a bucket list for a well-read person, in alphabetic order except that I separated out the science fiction and placed it at the bottom.
The ones that are also on Amazon's list have an asterisk. No doubt I've left off some obvious works, and no doubt our sharp and excellent commenters will remind me.
A long time fan of the book reviews the "Ender's Game" movie
Movies made from books seem to have the odds stacked against them, especially science fiction books. My favorite author, Robert Heinlein, wrote two books that were made into movies after his death, and both sucked toxic waste: Puppet Masters and Starship Troopers.
There have been a few excellent movie adaptations, mostly in other genres. Hopscotch and Being There come to mind. In both cases, even the book author liked the result.
More recently, the last Harry Potter movie did quite a good job of adapting the book. I started reading that series to my then-young children when it came out. Most of the movie adaptations in the series were fair, but the last one was worthy of several repeated viewings. Many Tolkien fans swear by the Lord of the Rings trilogy. They'll sit through twelve hour marathons to watch all three movies again.
I wish I could say Ender's Game is in the same league, but I can't.
I'm assuming most readers have read the book at some point, so I'm not worried about spoilers. For those of you who have not read the book, I suggest that you don't bother with this movie. It will probably feel like another generic "kid saves the universe" story, with special effects trying to carry a sketchy plot. If you plan to see it despite this advice, then you might want to stop reading now.
For those who have read the book, let me explain my mixed feelings about this movie.
If you already understand the story, this movie isn't awful. It's nowhere near as bad as the Heinlein adaptations I mentioned earlier. It has generally good casting and good special effects. If you are a really big fan of the book, as I am, it's worth a viewing. It really works to stay faithful to the book.
In fact, the movie's biggest problem is that it tries too hard to stay faithful to the book.
I cited Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 because it is an excellent example of adapting the story to the needs of a movie. There are many things that depart from the book. For example, in the book, Voldemort can't feel when a Horcrux is destroyed, and Harry can't just sense their presence. But the movie needed those shortcuts for dramatic effect, and they work very, very well in the film.
Ender's Game feels like a Cliff's Notes version of the book. Or perhaps a Cliff's Notes version with every other page missing.
Every major theme and turning point is included, but most of them are in matchstick drawings instead of fleshed out drama. For example, the battle room scenes are well done from a production standpoint. But there are not many of those scenes. The development of Ender's skills and leadership is compressed to a mishmash, with one battle against other teams mashing together several battles in the book, simply extracting key scenes from each one. The result feels disconnected and contrived.
When the script does depart from the book, it's done badly. They obviously wanted the character of Petra in that major battle room scene, so they contrived a sprained ankle by a team member and a dispensation from Graff to get her there. But just before that, it's explained that Ender's team is a bunch of misfits anyway. At that point, Petra doesn't have her own army, so why not just put her in Ender's and skip the contrivance? That's the kind of spackling over a problem that makes a movie adaptation smooth.
The final battle is fairly well done. The set for it was perfect, and the use of holographic technology and gestures was as good as any movie I've ever seen.
Then that was spoiled with a heavy handed resolution about the battle being real instead of a simulation. That entire part of the movie bends over backwards to slap people in the face with the supposed peaceful nature of the buggers, and how terribly awful it was to kill all of them. As the book made clear, they started the conflict and killed many millions of people. When the survival of one's species is on the line, giving the benefit of the doubt to an enemy who attacked first is mushy, politically correct sillyness.
Casting is reasonably good. They apparently wanted the gruff version of Harrison Ford here, so that's what they got the entire movie. They could have done lots worse for the role of Graff. Ben Kingsley was fine as Mazer Rackham.
Most of the kids are good enough to get by. The actress in the role of Petra turned in a good performance, but she looked too soft for my vision of Petra. Plus, she resembled the actress playing Valentine enough that I got confused at least once about which one Ender was talking to.
I have no idea if the kid playing Bean is any good, because they didn't give him enough of a part to find out. I realize the story had to focus on Ender, and Bean was pushed to the background to allow that. It still grated on me to see one of my favorite characters reduced to wallpaper.
Bottom line: this movie isn't awful, but it isn't great either. As I said, if you really liked the book, you'll probably want to see the movie at some point. You probably won't be shouting at the screen in rage the way I did at Starship Troopers. But unless you liked it better than I did, you won't be watching it twice.


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Einhorn story.
From: <CloudRider@...>
To: <sarfatti@...>
Cc: <snipped>
Subject: Stargate, "The Nine," $, Einhorn, Sarfatti, Jones, Esalen; CIA etc.
Date: Saturday, February 02, 2002 8:43 AM
(If duplicate, disregard. This is to Sarfatti's "slander" list. Take a
'moment.' ;-)
"By their fruits..."
http://www.themastersgroup.org/schedule.html (Truth is what is believed?)
See where they ran? Good people having little idea "which gods they serve?"
"Nine" to Earth! (References to Sarfatti, Jones, Hoagland, et al., in this
Cross-references bibliography, for other researchers:
"The Stargate Conspiracy: Revealing the Truth Behind Extraterrestrial
Contact, Military Intelligence and the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt," by Lynn
Picknett and Clive Prince. Little, Brown & Co., London. 1999. Published in
the US by Berkley Books, paperback, released 4 September 2001, with a
slightly (but strategically) redacted title, and lost in the rubble of
September 11th. Make of that what you will. Order it:
"The Stargate Conspiracy: the Truth About Extraterrestrial Life and the
Mysteries of Ancient Egypt." (Omitting "Military Intelligence" ;-) ISBN
0-425-17658-4. $15.00.
(Paperback version has no index, but pages match hardback version, which
Other references (their own outlets), "Council of Nine" re stimuli &
"Uri," by Andrija Puharich. 1974. Available in libraries.
"The Mythic Imagination," by Stephen Larsen, Ph.D. Bantam New Age Books, New
York. 1990. Paperback. ISBN 0-553-34877-9. Web search him via a search
"Overture.com," to find his Center for Symbolic Living @ <www.mythmind.org>
and his Stone Mountain Counseling Center @ <www.mythmind.com>. NOTE: That is
Larsen, with an "e." Primary source for "Nine" cult programming as developed
with funding from Laurance Rockefeller, et al., at a "wholesale ET
transformation" level.
"Cyberbiological Studies of the Imaginal Component in the UFO Contact
Experience," Dennis Stillings, editor. Archaeus, vol. 5, 1989. Archaeus
Project. The editor describes: "Is the UFO phenomenon 'real' or 'unreal,' or
somewhere in between? Are aliens 'good' or 'evil'? When a subject breaks
opposed points of view, it indicates that something archetypal has been
touched upon. (DF note: Or is being STIMULATED!) Such a strong evocation
"clouds men's minds," and should signal to the investigator that all may not
be as it seems, and that none of it is as it is told." (Essayists included:
Hilary Evans; Carl Raschke; Dennis Stillings; Martin S. Kottmeyer; Peter M.
Rojcewica; Michael Grosso; Tony Nugent; Alvin H. Lawson; Michael A.
Persinger.) Editorial Board: George P. Hansen; Jack Houck; Roger S.
Jones,Ph.D.; Karen P. Olness, MD, FAAP; Otto H. Schmitt, Ph.D.; Berthold
Schwarz, MD; Walter H. Uphoff, Ph.M; Reah H. White (producer of PsiLine
database and founder of Parapsychology Sources of Information, PSI). See her
in next ref.*
"Proceedings: Symposium on Applications of Anomalous Phenomena," C. B. Scott
Jones, editor. Papers from a symposium held Nov. 30 - Dec. 1, 1983,
VA. Published by Kaman Tempo (division of Kaman Sciences Corp, Alexandria,
& Santa Barbara, CA). Presenters: Jones; Jahn, Dunne & Nelson of Princeton;
H. E. Puthoff; Ed May; Robert L. Morris; Z. V. Harvalik; S. A. Schwartz;
Willis Harmon; K. Osis; W. G. Roll & E. A. Montagno; E. F. Kelly; Russell
Targ & Keith Harary.
Maybe a "cure" for the mind-virus/soul parasites these guys have let loose?
"UFOs and Mental Health," by Bob Teets. Headline Books, Inc., Terra Alta,
1997. Includes original "Matrix of UFO Beliefs" prepared for Clinton UFO
"CE-VI: Close Encounters of the Possession Kind (a different kind of
interference by Otherworldly beings)," by William Baldwin, Ph.D. 1999.
for Human Relations, published by Headline Books, Inc. BOTH AVAILABLE. See
first chapters and other information at:
NINE CULT, etc.:
See "The Stargate Conspiracy," US edition, for context of Nine ET cult
penetration of New Science, meditation and a New Age reliance on
material and the dissociation of mediums to bring in "higher vibratory"
programming to Earth politics, including "est," UFO
abductions/contact/"hybrid" psychological stimuli (5th Column), and related
components of "Global Mind Scenario" developed at SRI International in the
1970s and underpinning most contemporary "transformational UFOlogy" now.
Examples, quoting from the US Edition of "The Stargate Conspiracy."
pp. 231-237: selected excerpts (in the author's discussion of imprisoned UFO
guru Ira Einhorn, convicted murderer and fugitive now in federal jail in
Pennsylvania as he waits for another trial; this is partly why Nine cultists
remain "hiding in plain sight.")
"Significantly, just three weeks before his arrest, Ira Einhorn gave a
lecture in Philadelphia in which, according to Steven Levy (author of "The
Unicorn's Secret," a 1989 book about Ira and his alleged murder of former
girlfriend, Holly Maddux):
' He said that for years he had been primarily interested in the relation of
nonphysical entities to the physical world. This led him to revelations, he
explained, that had startling consequences for our civilization.' (115)
"Levy also said of Einhorn's strange quest:
'As he delved deeper into the world of the paranormal, he became
convinced that recent psychic revelations [presumably a reference to the
Nine's communications] could have significant global impact. In some
scenarios, these could have alarming consequences.' (116... references to
Picknett/Prince notes.)
"He (Levy) goes on to stress Einhorn's role in bringing about major changes
through acceptance of the unexplained:
'Through his relationship with Andrija Puharich and others, (i.e., Bearden,
Sarfatti, et al.) in what he jokingly called a "psychic mafia," the Unicorn
(Einhorn's name for himself, punning on his name) assumed a key role in the
task of alerting our people about the implications of the revolution ... in
Einhorn's universe, those factors included the undeniability of UFOs, the
startling discoveries in quantum physics, and the inevitability of the new
world order -- shaken loose by the Aquarian Transformation.' (117)
(Picknett & Prince, again): "Such apocalyptic beliefs were shared by others
on the Puharich-Einhorn scene. Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Bearden, Einhorn's
close friend and former "war games" analyst at the Pentagon, appeared --
along with Puharich -- at a conference organised by Einhorn on "Mind Over
Matter" at Penn State University in 1977. (Bearden wrote the obituary for
Puharich in the Newsletter of PACE, the Planetary Association for Clean
Energy, in 1995.) Since retiring from the Army, Bearden has dedicated
to researching alternative energy sources. He has written:
(Bearden): 'I believe that the accelerated time schedule for the 'New World
Order' -- now set for the year 2000 -- is as the result of the imminent
advent of (1) superluminal [faster-than-light] communication ... and (2)
overunity electrical energy systems. (118)
(Picknett & Prince): "Bearden was on the board of the Astron Corporation, a
communications research and development contracted to the Defense Department
and NASA. (119) The vice president (and president at the time of Bearden's
involvement) is Dr. Joseph Jahoda, who has been involved in the ARE/Schor
Foundation excavations at Giza (Great Pyramid, Egypt) since 1978.
(Farley note: This is a point-of-linkage with Dr. C. B. Scott Jones, et al.,
via the ARE, the Association for Research and Enlightenment, in Virginia
Beach, VA. ARE was the organization established by psychic freemason Edgar
Cayce, also known as "The Sleeping Prophet," who channelled primarily
purported "Egyptian" knowledge from the 1920s until his death in 1945. The
ARE has been "taken over" by 9-Cult.)
(Stargate/Picknett & Prince, pp. 232-233): "Einhorn's strange career puts
events surrounding the Nine in the 1970s into a much wider context,
against the emergence of radical new developments in the fields of
psychology, parapsychology and quantum physics. A new generation of
scientists was beginning to explore subjects previously considered as
smacking too much of the lunatic fringe even to be worthy of consideration.
At the heart of this new wave was an impulse to understand more about the
nature -- and limits -- of human consciousness and its relationship to the
physical universe. This work encompassed research into such areas as the
subconscious mind and altered states of consciousness, including the effects
of hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD, exploring new discoveries in the weird
realms of quantum physics, potential new sources of energy, and
parapsychology. From this family of brave new ideas came such classic and
influential studies as Fritjof Capra's "The Tao of Physics," which explored
the relationship between quantum physics and Eastern mysticism; David Bohm's
"Wholeness and the Implicate Order;" Joseph Campbell's "The Masks of God,"
the psychology of myth; Stanislav Grof's "Realms of the Human Unconscious,"
on LSD research; and many others.
(Stargate) "Muchyy of this ground-breaking work took place in California
a loosely knit network of research institutes and foundations among which
a great sharing of ideas and much overlapping membership. Among these
establishments was, of course, SRI at Menlo Parkk, where Targ and Puthoff's
pioneering work into remote viewing was conducted, at the same time that SRI
(investigators) were also active at Giza.
"The Esalen Institute, at Big Sur, which had another establishment in San
Francisco, was a prime mover into this scene. Dubbed the California capital
of the self-realization movement (120), it was founded in 1964 by Michael
Murphy and Richard Price on land formerly inhabited by the Esselen Indians,
with the aim of holding seminars on psychology, religion, parapsychology,
quantum physics and related subjects. In the late 1960s and early 1970s it
regularly sparked controversy, not always for the intended reasons. Naked
students often claimed the lion's share of local headlines, rather than the
pioneering seminars of the great thinkers of the day. Also a centre for
research into psychedelic drugs, it became a focus for the counterculture of
the day. More surprisingly, it has been enormously influential beyond its
time and place.
(Stargate, p.234): "Ira Einhorn led seminars at Esalen, and it was there
the Nine, channelled by Jenny O'Connor, were listed as members of the staff.
According to Einhorn, 'she took over running Esalen through the Nine,' (121)
and such as the influence of the Nine that they ordered the sacking of its
chief financial officer and reorganized the entire management structure.
(122) IN the late 1970s the Esalen Soviet Exchange programme was developed,
initially to share parapsychology research, in which the rising Soviet stars
of academia and politics were invited to the United States. this was to have
enormous, far-reaching influence on world politics, as many of the Soviets
who went to Esalen in the 1980s were to become instrumental in the shakeups
that would end the Cold War and bring about the fall of communism. It is
reasonable to assume that an organisation whose members made regular trips
Moscow in the days of the Cold War must (italics in the text) have been made
use of by US intelligence, or at least have been monitored. Almost
incredibly, several Soviet officials who would later rise to high office in
the Gorbachev regime attended Jenny O'Connor's Nine seminars, together with
psi enthusiasts Congressman Charlie Rose and Ira Einhorn.
(Stargate, p. 234): "The Esalen Institute now runs the Gorbachev
Foundation/USA, created by the former Soviet President in 1992 to facilitate
a smooth transition from the Cold War days to a better future for all the
world. One of its objectives is to work with the development of emerging
political and religious paradigms. The Institute sponsored and funded (DF's
note: Rockefeller money and other similar grants) by Boris Yeltsin before he
became Russian President, and members of the Esalen Soviet Exchange
were the go-betweens for Richard Hoagland and Soviet Mars researchers in the
"The story moves in one quantum leap from a tale of dubious channelling and
its disciples to another level. The Nine, through their channellers and
hangers-on, have a more or less direct line to some of the world's most
important men, whose decisions affect millions of lives. This is an
astonishing scenario.
"Another 'sister' school in this movement was, if anything, more
controversial than the Esalen Institute. This was est (Erhard Sensitivity
Training), the organization founded in 1971 by Werner Erhard, a former
Scientologist -- and used car salesman -- who decided to exploit and adopt
some of Scientology's concepts and techniques for his own self-improvement
system. The now notorious est held seminars that attracted such celebrities
as Buzz Aldrin (former astronaut), Yoko Ono, John Denver and the future UFO
abduction researcher, John Mack (DF note: Mack as also on the board of
but it wasn't long before est became a dirty word. Attendees were disturbed
by the fascistic regime and zombielike demeanour of members, as well as
Erhard's own dictatorial control of the organisation. Media disapproval was
intense, and soon est was relegated to the scrapheap of dangerous cults.
Erhard himself fled from the United States after press revelations about his
private life and financial affairs. He is now believed to be living
in Russia. (DF note: Erhard's wife and daughter accused him of physical
abuse, etc., according to published reports.)
(Stargate, p. 235): "Tellingly, Erhard's real name was John Rosenberg, but
it is said that he changed his name 'to replace Jewish weakness with German
strength.' (123) (His father was Jewish, but had converted to Episcopal
Christianity.) Erhard had close links with the Esalen Institute and gave
funds to SRI's remote viewing project. (124) More disturbingly, Jenny
O'Connor (the Nine channeller at Esalen) had been introduced to est in 1977,
by Sir John Whitmore, before she moved on to Esalen. (DF note: Sir John
Whitmore, of the UK, was a primary "impresario" for the Nine, and more is
chronicled about this in the Nine's own manifesto: "The Only Planet of
Choice," (first edition) edited by Palden Jenkins, as channelled by Phyllis
Schlemmer, an Israeli mystic who has residences in Israel and Florida, with
links in Atlanta and Washington, of course. ;-)
"A further integral part of this movement was the Institute of Noetic
Sciences at Palo Alto, which was founded by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar
Mitchell in March 1973, and is 'dedicated to research and education in the
processes of human consciousness to help achieve a new understanding and
expanded awareness among all people.(125) ('Noetics' comes from the Greek
'mind'.) They were heavily involved in the psi testing of the 1970s, partly
funding the (Uri) Geller experiments at SRI and, until the CIA came clean
about their involvement in t he remote-viewing experiment in the mid-1990s,
it was the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) that claimed to have funded
the initial programme. (126) At the very least, this shows that the
allowed itself to be used as a cover for the CIA, and perhaps even as a
conduit for the funding of the agency's more controversial experiments. (DF
note: the Board of IONS is revealing.)
(Stargate, p. 236): "Arthur M. Young's highly influential Institute for the
Study of Consciousness at Berkeley, founded in 1972, also provided a forum
for some of the most daring thinkers of the day. It was here that Richard
Hoagland had his meeting with Paul Shay of SRI, and also where he gave his
first lecture about Cydonia (the "Face on Mars," and proto-civilization
allegedly on Mars), in 1984. Later he was to acknowledge Arthur Young's
personal influence. (127) (Young, present at the Nine's debut at the Round
Table Foundation in 1953, was in fact more heavily involved in the running
the Foundation than he wanted to be known, as Puharich's 'second-in-command'
there. (128) Young also kept secret his presence at the meeting of Puharich,
Hurkos (Peter Hurkos, a psychic of some notoriety at the time) and the
Laughheads in Mexico in 1956, although shortly before his death in 1995, he
admitted to researcher Terry Milner that he had been present. (129)
"Institutes and foundations only succeeded because of the individuals who
breathed life into them. One of the key figures on this scene was
physicist Jack Sarfatti, the first director of the Physics/Consciousness
Research Group at the Esalen Institute, which was funded by Werner Erhard
money covertly channelled through from the Pentagon. (130) His seminars were
attended by Stanislav Grof, Russell Targ, Timothy Leary, physicist Saul-Paul
Sirag (who became director after Sarfatti), Robert Anton Wilson, Fritjof
Capra and Ira Einhorn, who was Sarfatti's literary agent.
"The work carried out by this interlinked network of organisations was
imaginative and innovative, presenting a serious challenge to the previous
arrogant certainties of the scientific world. It was undertaken in genuine
pioneering spirit, largely born of the idealism of the youth culture of the
1960s and a desire to change the world for the better. However, a dark
was cast over this early idyllic promise by the involvement of the Pentagon,
CIA and other security and intelligence agencies, who soon realised that the
breakthroughs of these idealists had great potential for their own spheres,
such as remote viewing. And they did not fail to note that research into
altered states of consciousness, including the use of LSD and other drugs,
also had darker applications in the various techniques of mind control. So
often this research was encouraged and funded -- although often covertly,
through other channels -- by organisations such as the CIA and the Pentagon.
One of the pioneers of LSD and consciousness research, John C. Lilly, worked
at the Esalen Institute for several years, as well as for the CIA (DF note:
and for the Navy, and the National Institute of Mental Health, for whom
Lilly's dolphin work with LSD was conducted in the 1950s.), but only on the
condition that his research remained unclassified. This made things
for him professionally, because nearly all other researchers in the field
were also working on classified projects, so he was unable to share data
them or vice-versa. (131)
(Stargate, p. 237): "Another case of behind-the-scenes agendas in this
involved Dr. Brendan O'Regan, research director of Edgar Mitchell's
of Noetic Sciences and a consultant for SRI, as well as research director
the scientist-philosopher R. Buckminster Fuller. O'Regan arranged the
experiments into the strange talents of Uri Geller at Birkbeck College,
London, in 1975 and was also closely involved with the Puharich - Whitmore
circle, surrounding the Nine. And, since O'Regan's death in 1992, Jack
Sarfatti has claimed that he was also working with the CIA at this time,
(Citing a Sarfatti posting on his web site, 1996): "I was then [1973] simply
a young inexperienced 'naive idiot' in a very very sophisticated and
successful covert psychological warfare operation run by the late Brendan
O'Regan of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the late Harold Chipman who
was the CIA station chief responsible for all mind-control research in the
Bay Area in the 1970s. (132)
(Stargate, p. 237): "As with the Nine's communication -- which were
intimately connected with the extraordinary cutting-edge research taking
place primarily in California -- the shadow of the intelligence agencies
looms large."
The issue:
And "Stargate's" authors pose a question, on page 239: "Was it Puharich's
idea to try and contact the space gods, or did it come from his superiors in
the intelligence community? Senior CIA (and other) operatives may wall have
taken the possibility of extraterrestrial contact seriously enough to
ways of opening a stargate. Certainly, intelligence agencies around the
were aware of the potential of psychic abilities and were in possession of
abundant data that suggested strongly that shamanic-style skills
invite contactee-type experiences."
(End quote, "The Stargate Conspiracy.")
CloudRider (Dick Farley) closing comment: By its nature and by design of
those on Earth who have been and still are involved in these murky areas of
"almost science," the applications of "Anomalous Phenomena" for political,
psychosexual and biowar non-lethal spacewarfare paranoia seeding
counterintelligence for global fascism, a battle for the minds (some say the
"souls") of humanity and our future on our home planet (if it really IS our
home planet ;-) is underway. Billy Graham, a friend of Mr. Rockefeller's,
has funded much of what is described in the foregoing narrative, is "in the
loop." Likewise some former presidents, world leaders and "who knows who"
now. What is going on is a battle for "control of the bridge of Spaceship
Earth." At the level where this stuff may be or may not be "real," as we
objectively may define reality, it's all just an academic exercise. But
beliefs kill, as events of September 11 have shown us. Reliance on yet
another set of "revealed truths" from "hidden sky gods" is unlikely to
advance humanity's collective intelligence sufficiently or in time for us to
avoid, or resist, the planned depopulation and global takeover the oligarchs
who have funded this clearly have planned for "the rest of us." Mr.
Rockefeller is said to believe, because one of the channellers of the Nine
told him so, that he has been born again on Earth, (reincarnated), into his
position of wealth and global influence, because he was once a Pharaoh, and
before that a ruler of Atlantis. The "search" underway for artifacts of
ancient Egypt, which these people believe is descended from the Lost
Continent of Atlantis, which reputedly had contacts with ETs and in some
fashion may have been caught up in a "War in the Heavens," as Billy Graham
and others have called it (in print, variously), is the oligarchs quest for
They believe they were sent "back down here" to help Earth correct and avoid
the mistakes of the long distant past, revealed to us now only in the fogs
myth and legends. Shamanically, using hallucinogens secreted from Nazi
Germany before the end of the Second World War, these men (mostly men, at
beginning) believed that Hitler was on the right path, but his own
megalomania corrupted and sunk him in his efforts to impose a Teutonic
resurgence to world rule. This is what THEY believe!
To them, having stumbled into their "nest" and subsequently researched their
own listerature, doctrine and in literally thousands of hours of research
conversation with them, I have said. "Your plan will not work. You will have
to 'show your talons' in order to impose your rule over humanity, because of
core traits in human character. We love freedom; without it we die. But not
all of us. You will never conquer us all."
And to them, and to you, I add this: "The degree of tyranny necessary to
govern Earth in the future is inversely proportional to how effective we
"They) can be as teachers."
By their fruits, shall ye know them.
Let's be careful "Out There."
Dick Farley <cloudrider@...>
Washington, DC USA
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Who pays an amnestied player: The team that waived the player under the amnesty provision must continue to pay the player's salary unless a team assumed the full contract of the waived player. If another team is awarded the player via a partial waiver bid, the new team will pay that amount of the original contract while the waving team pays the rest.
What else: The waving team is not permitted to re-sign or re-acquire the waived player prior to the end of the term of the player's terminated contract.
Which teams have used the provision: Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Golden State, Houston, Indiana, Los Angeles Clippers, Minnesota, New York, Brooklyn, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland and Washington.
Source: NBA.com


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