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What is the difference in security between using part of message digest hash function or all the message digest hash function? and is there any equation can calculate the security for part or whole message digest?
There are three main characteristics which are looked for in a hash function:
For any hash function, regardless of its cryptographic strength, there is a generic attack which always works, and is called luck. To find a preimage (or a second preimage), just try random messages until a match is found. To find a collision, hash many random messages until two of them yield the same hash value. For a n-bit output, luck works with average effort 2n for preimages and second preimages, 2n/2 for collisions (thus is it substantially easier to find collisions than preimages).
What you actually need in a hash function depends on the protocol. For instance, digital signature algorithms (the true ones, like RSA or DSA) begin by a hash function invocation, and the hash value is then used in the algorithm proper. Digital signatures work on preimage and second preimage resistance -- unless you are in a setup where a potential attacker can choose the data of some messages to sign, in which case you need resistance to collisions as well.
As a general rule, stick to n-bit output such that 2n/2 invocations of the hash function is too big an effort. This means n = 160 or so. Using a hash function with only 128 bits of output means that one may find collisions with effort 264, which is quite expensive but technologically feasible (such an effort was done at least once but it took four years and thousands of contributors).
For some protocols it is safe to dismiss collisions (which would gain nothing to the attacker) and thus reduce the output to 80 bits (or so). And example is when the hash function is used as part of HMAC for integrity checks, but only as long as the underlying hash function is robust. Indeed, HMAC relies on some internal properties of the hash function which are not directly linked with resistance to preimages or collisions. If the hash function is SHA-256, things are fine; HMAC/SHA-256 truncated to 96 bits (you truncate the output of HMAC, not the internal hash function) will offer security up to 296, which is more than enough. If you hash function is MD5 or SHA-1, then... things are less clear.
It takes a trained cryptographer to tell you which usage of a hash function tolerates truncation, and which does not. This depends on the hash function itself, how it is used, and in what context. Many trained cryptographers will answer "don't do it" in most cases, anyway, because a big part of cryptography training is about realizing that a single human will never be able to think of everything. I am a trained cryptographer and thus I tell you: don't do it.
Only using part of the digest means you are reducing the size of the digest-space. What this means in practice depends on what you are using the digest for.
For web-based password hashing, I would be tempted to say that it will not have any major impact until you start using a really small subset of the digest. This is due to the fact that even 16 bits is probably larger than the password space 99% of users will reside in. It is also due to the fact that although using a subset of the digest makes collisions more likely in theory, it does not make them any easier to create in practice. If your hash function still has unbroken second-preimage resistance, such as the SHA2 family, then collisions will not be a worry - again until you get down to really small digest subsets at which point collisions become easily brute-forcable.
That said, it does not sound like a good idea. And I would certainly not advocate it in anything other than a very slow password-checking environment such as remote web authentication.
As for a formal definition of how secure it is, it really depends on your application. If we stay with password hashing, and assume you are doing everything else right - salting, using a slow hash method, defending your database server appropriately - then your only worry starts when the length of the digest you are using approaches (from above) the peak password-entropy of your user base, including salt. At that point you start hurting the strength of user passwords, which is a bad scenario.
A cryptographic hash function has two major sources of security:
By reducing the size of the output of the function
In order to guarantee a collision, you have to compute 2n+1 hashes, where n is the number of bits in the output. The expected number of hashes before a collision is found is
However, if you truncate the hash output to a lesser number of bits, you lose some of that collision resistance. For every byte you snip off, the cost of the attack drops by a factor of 256. Now, this isn't such a big deal if you just snip a couple of bytes off the end of a SHA256 hash, but if you use SHA1 and only check half the hash, you're reducing a 2160 space down to 280, the latter of which is nearing the realms of feasibility in terms of brute-force collision finding.
The biggest question is why you would want to do this. I can see only two reasons, one of which being misguided:
The short answers to your questions are "a lot" and "yes".
Very simply, a hash digest theoretically has an amount of unpredictability, or entropy, equal to its length in binary digits. Each one of those bits could be 1 or zero, independent of any other with no apparent pattern. A "128-bit hash function", for instance, produces message digests 128 bits long and thus theoretically having 128 bits of entropy. For our purposes we will label the number of bits of entropy as B.
Given the hash function H, any arbitrary message M, and the resulting digest D = H(M) that is B bits in length, the ideal secure hash (which our real-world crypto hashes attempt to be) has the following fundamental behaviors:
For instance, given a 128-bit hash function, finding a message that would produce a given hash digest would require 2128 = 3.4*1038 hash calculations. That's a lot of work; more than any currently-available coordinated computing system could produce in our lifetime. However, finding any two messages that produced the same digest, no matter what the messages or the digest were, is on the order of 264 = 1.8*1019. That, believe it or not, is well within the realm of possibility; the distributed.net cluster was able to traverse the 64-bit keyspace in about 5 years to crack a 64-bit cipher, which is equivalent in complexity to finding a 128-bit collision.
The upshot of all of this is that using a smaller hash digest, including using a portion of a larger hash digest, will reduce the number of bits of entropy, exponentially reducing the difficulty of finding a collision or a preimage. if you took, say, half of this 128-bit hash, you reduce the complexity of breaking it by an exponential amount; 2128 = 264 * 264, so by using just half of the hash value you have reduced the complexity, and thus the security of the algorithm, to about one quadrillionth of the security that the full hash has.
You're question is a little bit vague. If you're asking if it's secure to check part of the digest, then no. If the hash of message X is "abcdefg", and hash(Y) is "ppppefg", and you only verify a "part" of it (the last 3 chars, "efg"), then you'll have the same value - and your hash functionality fails.
If you mean to hash a part of the message, then you can only provide data integrity for that part, not the entire message. Could be done for performance maybe, but not a good security practice.


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Obama vows to use his authority more
President uses State of the Union to show public he still has power
|President Barack Obama delivers the State of Union address before a joint session of Congress in the House chamber Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, in Washington, as Vice President Joe Biden, and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, applaud. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool)
"America does not stand still and neither do I," Obama declared in his annual prime-time address before a joint session of Congress and millions of Americans watching on television.
Draped in presidential grandeur, Obama's address served as the opening salvo in a midterm election fight for control of Congress that will quickly consume Washington's attention. Democrats, seeking to cast Republicans as uncaring about the middle class, have urged Obama to focus on economic mobility and the gap between the wealthy and poor. His focus on executive actions was greeted with shouts of "Do it!" from many members of his party.
For Obama, the address was also aimed at convincing an increasingly skeptical public that he still wields power in Washington even if he can't crack through the divisions in Congress. Burned by a series of legislative failures in 2013, White House aides say they're now redefining success not by what Obama can jam through Congress but by what actions he can take on his own.
Indeed, Obama's proposals for action by lawmakers were slim and largely focused on old ideas that have gained little traction over the past year. He pressed Congress to revive a stalled immigration overhaul, pass an across-the-board increase in the federal minimum wage and expand access to early childhood education — all ideas that gained little traction after he proposed them last year. The president's one new legislation proposal calls for expanding an income tax credit for workers without children.
Republicans, who saw their own approval ratings fall further in 2013, have also picked up the refrain of income inequality in recent months, though they have cast the widening gap between rich and poor as a symptom of Obama's economic policies.
"Republicans have plans to close the gap, plans that focus on jobs first without more spending, government bailouts and red tape," said Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., in the Republicans' televised response to the president's speech.
The economy and other domestic issues, including health care, dominated the address. He touched only briefly on foreign policy, touting the drawdown of American troops from Afghanistan this year and reiterating his threat to veto any new sanctions Congress might levy on Iran while nuclear negotiations with the Islamic republic are underway.
Even as Washington increasingly focuses on income inequality, many parts of the economy are gaining strength, with corporate profits soaring and the financial markets hitting record highs. But with millions of Americans still out of work or struggling with stagnant wages, Obama has found himself in the sometimes awkward position of promoting a recovery that feels distant for many.
"The cold, hard fact is that even in the midst of recovery, too many Americans are working more than ever just to get by, let alone get ahead," Obama said. "And too many still aren't working at all."
The president's speech drew an eclectic mix of visitors to the House chamber. Among those sitting with first lady Michelle Obama were two survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing, as well as Jason Collins, an openly gay former NBA player. Republican House Speaker John Boehner brought business owners from his home state of Ohio who say Obama's health care overhaul is hurting their companies. Willie Robertson, a star of the television show "Duck Dynasty," also scored a seat in the House gallery, courtesy of the Republicans.
Though Obama sought to emphasize his presidential powers, there are stark limits to what he can do on his own. For example, he unilaterally can raise the minimum hourly wage for new federal contractors from $7.25 to $10.10, as he announced, but he'll need Congress in order to extend that increase to all of America's workers.
The executive order for contractors, which Obama will sign in the coming weeks, is limited in its scope. It will not affect existing federal contracts, only new ones, and then only if other terms of an agreement change.
Republicans quickly panned the executive initiative as ineffective. Said Boehner: "The question is how many people, Mr. President, will this executive action actually help? I suspect the answer is somewhere close to zero."
White House officials countered by saying many more working people would benefit if Congress would go along with Obama's plan to raise the minimum wage across the board.
"Give America a raise," Obama declared.
Among the president's other executive initiatives is a plan to help workers whose employers don't offer retirement savings plans. The program would allow first-time savers to start building up savings in Treasury bonds that eventually could be converted into traditional IRAs. Obama is expected to promote the "starter" accounts during a trip to Pittsburgh on Wednesday.
The president also announced new commitments from companies to consider hiring the long-term unemployed, the creation of four "manufacturing hubs" where universities and businesses would work together to develop and train workers, new incentives to encourage truckers to switch from dirtier fuels to natural gas or other alternatives and a proposed tax credit to promote the adoption of cars that can run on cleaner fuels, such as hydrogen, natural gas or biofuels.
The president's go-it-alone strategy is in many ways an acknowledgment that he has failed to make good on two major promises to the American people: that he would change Washington's hyper-partisanship and that his re-election would break the Republican "fever" and clear the way for congressional action on major initiatives.
Some Republicans have warned that the president's focus on executive orders could backfire by angering GOP leaders who already don't trust the White House.
Obama isn't abandoning Congress completely. He made a renewed pitch for legislation to overhaul the nation's fractured immigration laws, perhaps his best opportunity for signing significant legislation this year. But the odds remain long, with many Republicans staunchly opposed to Obama's plan for creating a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million people already in the U.S. illegally.
Seeking to give the GOP some room to maneuver, Obama did not specifically call for a citizenship pathway Tuesday, saying only, "Let's get it done. It's time."
Opening a new front with Congress, the president called for an extension of the earned-income tax credit, which helps boost the wages of low-income families through tax refunds. Obama wants it broadened so that it provides more help than it does now to workers without children, a view embraced by some Republicans and conservative economists.
Obama singled out Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, who has proposed replacing the tax credit with a federal wage supplement for workers in certain low-paying jobs. Unlike Obama, however, Republicans have suggested expanding the tax credit as an alternative to increasing the minimum wage.
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told u wrote on Jan 29, 2014 3:03 AM:
FREEPRESS wrote on Jan 29, 2014 3:59 AM:
mag wrote on Jan 29, 2014 6:22 AM:
Lunacy wrote on Jan 29, 2014 7:03 AM:
JustMeInCt wrote on Jan 29, 2014 7:06 AM:
Lock and Load wrote on Jan 29, 2014 7:43 AM:
The handwriting on the this guy was on the wall and still they voted for him and his Party, and this is what they got.
He's going to do what he wants and spend our money with reckless abandon on social reengineering, redistributing the wealth, and more "free stuff". "
conservative1 wrote on Jan 29, 2014 7:57 AM:
John Annon wrote on Jan 29, 2014 9:43 AM:
but we are moving closer as time passes by.History repeats itself unfortunately most have not a clue.We are on a road to tyranny and we better wake up before it's too late. "
Stanley Castle wrote on Jan 29, 2014 10:23 AM:
BBB wrote on Jan 29, 2014 10:30 AM:
KITTY wrote on Jan 29, 2014 10:53 AM:
@CON.....yeah in your dreams.... "
Like it is wrote on Jan 29, 2014 11:42 AM:
JC wrote on Jan 29, 2014 11:59 AM:
Same ol' cr@p as the previous chief in command, and the one before him, and the one before the one before him and so on. "
KITTY wrote on Jan 29, 2014 12:27 PM:
al.cap wrote on Jan 29, 2014 1:23 PM:
i find it interesting that our ruling class, who vote themselves lavish pay and benes, and the emperor, who takes 4million dollar vacations(plural) on our dime, have the cahones to speak of 'income inequality'. effin thieves. "
JC wrote on Jan 29, 2014 1:54 PM:
Are those just mere words? All the other prophecies on the same chapter has been fulfilled so far. So, should we have any doubt that the latest would not be fulfilled as well?
Whether we believe on it or not, it will happen. Perhaps not in our lifetime, but definitely at the time chosen by God. This might very well be a prelude of future events leading to that. "
JPP wrote on Jan 29, 2014 3:23 PM:
Once again he's making Jimmy Carter look like a great president.. Can't wait until his reign of incompetence is over with once and for all "
Howard Fielding rep-am.com wrote on Jan 29, 2014 5:31 PM:
KITTY wrote on Jan 29, 2014 5:46 PM:
GAS wrote on Jan 29, 2014 7:20 PM:
rememberwhen wrote on Jan 29, 2014 10:21 PM:
GAS wrote on Jan 29, 2014 10:51 PM:
KITTY wrote on Jan 30, 2014 12:07 AM:
FREEPRESS wrote on Jan 30, 2014 8:42 AM:
Ah, Kitty, you are so blind to the fact that Democrats have not only sold CT out to the highest bidders but given them a huge payback in the process. Those highest bidders are the government unions and free handout receiving masses, who take and take from CT taxpayers and give little in return except to keep their Democrat benefactors in office. It's a well known conspiracy: Elect us Democrats and we will lavish outrageous pay and benefits upon you union members, guarantee regular raises, perpetual employment with no layoffs or reduced hours in spite of a poor economy and let you retire a decade or more earlier then your private sector counterparts with lucrative pension packages plumped up with pre-retirement overtime and unused sick/vacation pay plus medical insurance for life at little or no cost. Ditto for you lazy sloths who don't care to work for a living and you baby makers with numerous absentee fathers, to whom we'll give free housing, free food, free cell phones, free internet, free TV, free medical care and anything else your heart desires so you can have your expensive smart phones, gold jewelry, fancy SUVs, leather coats, the latest fashion clothes, shoes and boots - just keep reelecting us to office. Don't worry, if we need more money to redistribute, we'll just tax the productive people to death and drive more businesses to close or move out of CT with ever more tax surcharges. "
KITTY wrote on Jan 30, 2014 11:41 AM:
Citizen4Fairness wrote on Jan 30, 2014 12:00 PM:
todd wrote on Jan 30, 2014 1:17 PM:
Or Romney.
Or Jeb Bush next time.
I can't believe how great everything was going before Obama got in and stopped getting laws passed.
Let's just hope we get one of those great moral Republicans next time so he can unchain our natural economic power again.
Unless it's true that both parties rely on the same moneyed interests to pay for their campaigns.
Then we might be in trouble no matter what.
No worries.
The world is ending soon anyway.
Or not.
Right JC? "
al.cap wrote on Jan 30, 2014 1:20 PM:
NWO wrote on Jan 30, 2014 4:18 PM:
"If you are receiving FEDERAL AID of any kind - YOU do NOT have the right to vote" Don't like this rule? Then get off the system and start being a MAKER not a TAKER!!
PS - @ KITTY - Foley did win the last election, it wasn't till the 55 gallon sized garbage of votes appeared ALL with MALLOY on them!! The worst thing we EVER did was get rid of the Voting Machines!! "
conservative1 wrote on Jan 30, 2014 8:49 PM:
90 million able bodied American adults unemployed.
More people then ever in our history on food stamps.
Things are just peachy keen.
No Democrat will be electable in 2016. ESPECIALLY if Jeb Bush runs. He will take Florida and the hispanic vote.
The pant suit liar will NEVER be president. "
roy wrote on Jan 31, 2014 9:05 AM:
We know the Obama and Malloy elections were rigged. (don't even dispute me on this)
When the next elections come around, some people will be shocked as to the outcome......ie: Hillary wins, Biden wins, Malloy wins, Obama wins (again), democrats win everything....
Payoff's and electronic technology will make it happen.
Hey, the FEDS just made a federal judge rule Connecticut's gun laws ARE CONSTITUTIONAL Need I say more?? "
todd wrote on Jan 31, 2014 10:42 AM:
We will get continued wealth and income re-distribution from the bottom and middle (most of us) to the top (the wealthy clients and friends of the politicians).
They work for the people who get them elected.
Who chooses sides with the poor guy you barely know over the rich guy you hang out with ALL THE TIME? "
KITTY wrote on Jan 31, 2014 11:07 AM:
George Washington Total 8 unnumbered
John Adams
1 unnumbered
Thomas Jefferson Total 4 unnumbered
James Madison
1 unnumbered
James Monroe Total
John Quincy Adams
3 unnumbered
Andrew Jackson Total
Martin van Buren
10 unnumbered
William Henry Harrison Total
John Tyler
17 unnumbered
James K. Polk Total
Zachary Taylor Total 5 unnumbered
Millard Fillmore Total 12 unnumbered
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan Total 16 unnumbered
Abraham Lincoln
48 unnumbered
Andrew Johnson Total
Ulysses S. Grant
217 unnumbered
Rutherford B. Hayes Total
James Garfield Total 6 unnumbered
Chester Arthur Total 96 unnumbered
Grover Cleveland - I
113 unnumbered
Benjamin Harrison Total
Grover Cleveland - II
140 unnumbered
William McKinley Total
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft Total
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding Total
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover Total 968 5075 - 6070
Franklin D. Roosevelt
3,522 6071 - 9537
Harry S. Truman Total
9538 - 10431
Dwight D. Eisenhower
484 10432 - 10913
John F. Kennedy Total 214 10914 - 11127
Lyndon B. Johnson
11128 - 11451
Richard Nixon Total 346 11452 - 11797
Gerald R. Ford
11798 - 11966
Jimmy Carter Total 320 11967 - 12286
Ronald Reagan
12287 - 12667
George Bush Total 166 12668 - 12833
William J. Clinton
364 12834 - 13197
George W. Bush Total
13198 - 13488
Barack Obama
168 13489 - 13656...
Citizen4Fairness wrote on Jan 31, 2014 3:47 PM:
al.cap wrote on Jan 31, 2014 7:01 PM:
president obama is doing the very thing that candidate obama claimed he would not do. "
blue star wrote on Jan 31, 2014 7:07 PM:
Pretty sure most of us got past the 5th grade. Just sayin'. "
KITTY wrote on Jan 31, 2014 7:48 PM:
GAS wrote on Jan 31, 2014 8:11 PM:
al.cap wrote on Jan 31, 2014 9:23 PM:
KITTY wrote on Jan 31, 2014 11:39 PM:
@AL.....so by your own admission they were all liars and hypocrites.....what's your point..... "
todd wrote on Feb 1, 2014 6:42 AM:
And that is campaign finance reform.
Until that gets fixed, you all might as well be cheering for the Broncos or the Seahawks for all the effect you have on real politics.
Do you really think your "side" has your best interests at heart? "
conservative1 wrote on Feb 1, 2014 10:12 AM:
conservative1 wrote on Feb 1, 2014 10:21 AM:
Kitty WE don't accept ANY politicians LYING to us. ESPECIALLY when patriots die. Most transparent hahahaha
Kitty... you are a traitor by proxy.
More people on food stamps than ever in our history.
93 MILLION able bodied Americans out of work. College educated Americans working in Mc Donalds.
NO DEM will be electable in 2016 "
al.cap wrote on Feb 1, 2014 5:58 PM:
as with raising the debt ceiling, which was unpatriotic under w, there is ample video documentation of this hack telling America that using eo's to bypass congress was unconstitutional. there's one where he says, "i taught the constitution for ten years. i know, it's unconstitutional". at least until he couldn't get his agenda past a house that was elected to stop him. i guess he was against it before he was for it. "
KITTY wrote on Feb 1, 2014 10:20 PM:
@AL.....need a source on those Obama quotes........ "
al.cap wrote on Feb 2, 2014 8:40 AM:
conservative1 wrote on Feb 2, 2014 9:36 AM:
More people than ever needing assistance from the government.
93 million able bodied Americans out of work.
One Heck of a legacy.... "
KITTY wrote on Feb 2, 2014 10:54 AM:
@ Con.....the thing about executive orders is they are always reversible by the current president......we'll have to wait to see what Hillary keeps and what she gets rid of............ "
KITTY wrote on Feb 2, 2014 10:57 AM:
linda wrote on Feb 2, 2014 7:05 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Feb 3, 2014 9:04 AM:
You did make me laugh though with the lets see what Hillary changes comment. That was pretty funny. Only thing she will be changing is her depends diaper. "
al.cap wrote on Feb 3, 2014 10:33 AM:
listen closely at the 1:06 mark. sounds like he's describing his own presidency.
and this,
can't wait to read the rationalization of that whole clip.
or this,
watch 2:33 thru 3:55(that's where i stopped, alex gets on my nerves), and defend that if you can. "
KITTY wrote on Feb 3, 2014 10:33 AM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 3, 2014 10:38 AM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 3, 2014 10:49 AM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 3, 2014 10:57 AM:
al.cap wrote on Feb 3, 2014 11:36 AM:
" @kitty- like that would make a difference. " "
between the lines wrote on Feb 3, 2014 12:43 PM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 3, 2014 12:47 PM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 3, 2014 1:17 PM:
between the lines wrote on Feb 4, 2014 7:17 PM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 4, 2014 9:46 PM:
al.cap wrote on Feb 5, 2014 5:53 AM:
on the video:
q: do you promise not to use presidential signing statements to get your way?
a: yes
he then goes on to explain separation of powers, and how w tried to expand presidential powers by using ss's, and says he won't do the same.
so, because he didn't specifically rule out using eo's, and he's doing it by eo, that makes it ok?
liar.....hypocrite.....fact "
KITTY wrote on Feb 5, 2014 10:22 AM:
conservative1 wrote on Feb 5, 2014 6:28 PM:
Then used them and executive privledge to protect himself from being impeached?? "
conservative1 wrote on Feb 5, 2014 6:29 PM:
GAS wrote on Feb 5, 2014 7:46 PM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 5, 2014 7:51 PM:
GAS wrote on Feb 5, 2014 8:04 PM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 5, 2014 10:24 PM:
GAS wrote on Feb 6, 2014 4:45 AM:
conservative1 wrote on Feb 6, 2014 3:41 PM:
Now use your blind faith in your 1/2 black president and explain to me how him using Ex Orders is ANY DIFFERENT than using signing statements??
I understand signing statements are attachments to laws passed by congress. You think MAKING LAW WITHOUT CONGRESS IS LESSER of a power grab or less abuse of power?? NO WAY!
here is a comparison
Teddy Roosevelt: 3
Others Prior To FDR: NONE
FDR: 11 in 16 years
Truman: 5 in 7 years
Ike: 2 in 8 years
JFK: 4 in 3 years
LBJ: 4 in 5 years
Nixon: 1 in 6 years
Ford: 3 in 2 years
Carter: 3 in 4 years
Reagan: 5 in 8 years
Bush 1: 3 in 4 years
Clinton: 15 in 8 years
Bush 2: 62 in 8 years
Obama: 923 in 3+ years!
here are a few pretty scary E O's Obama has issued giving government power over YOU!
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months. "
conservative1 wrote on Feb 6, 2014 3:43 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Feb 6, 2014 3:44 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Feb 6, 2014 3:50 PM:
al.cap wrote on Feb 6, 2014 6:05 PM:
given the obamaphiles' penchant for parsing words, splitting hairs, and redefining 'is', it's easy to see why some people believe he really is intent on 'fundamentally changing' America. "
KITTY wrote on Feb 6, 2014 6:52 PM:
aeneas wrote on Feb 6, 2014 8:24 PM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 6, 2014 9:50 PM:
al.cap wrote on Feb 7, 2014 5:16 AM:
aeneas wrote on Feb 7, 2014 8:17 AM:
I was not making reference to you or your alleged statement. I was merely pointing out to the readers at large that a "parliamentary" system enacted a few hundred years ago no longer serves the people of this country. We bought and now sell most politicians. "
roy wrote on Feb 7, 2014 9:31 AM:
All federal and state authorities will be notified before hand, the military will be prepared to act, and the gun agencies (NRA, CC, NAFGR, etc.) will be disabled so they can not warn gun owners as to what is about to take place.
All hell will break loose.!!! "
conservative1 wrote on Feb 7, 2014 10:17 AM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 7, 2014 10:25 AM:
@AL.......you only quote fox news and alex jones and rush verbatim ....when you post something its from an extreme right wing blog.....but you ave shown yourself to be a thinking independent...lol....you have proclaimed yourself to be a tea partier many times in this forum...... "
Wolcott Fan wrote on Feb 7, 2014 11:24 AM:
blue star wrote on Feb 7, 2014 1:11 PM:
The trouble is, the liberals on this site do not see it, any more than the people in pre war Germany saw it.
"It couldn't happen here", they will say. That is what makes it work so well. Ignorance and a closed mind. "
Wolcott Fan wrote on Feb 7, 2014 2:17 PM:
blue star wrote on Feb 7, 2014 5:40 PM:
GAS wrote on Feb 7, 2014 5:47 PM:
al.cap wrote on Feb 7, 2014 6:35 PM:
far more often, i have railed against the entrenched establishment politicians. unlike kitty, who worships her superiors, and dutifully toes the line.
and btw, if those guys sound like me, then they must be pretty smart. "
KITTY wrote on Feb 7, 2014 6:50 PM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 7, 2014 7:10 PM:
blue star wrote on Feb 7, 2014 7:22 PM:
aeneas wrote on Feb 8, 2014 8:23 AM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 8, 2014 11:44 AM:
aeneas wrote on Feb 8, 2014 1:10 PM:
Your naiveté and bright outlook are both refreshing. I truly wish the world would be as you feel it to be rather than how it is. You seem to be a good person with a truckload of faith. Who am I to disparage your hopes? However , power , sex and money rule politics, not ideals. "
al.cap wrote on Feb 8, 2014 5:58 PM:
that is why reelection and career politicians need to go the way of the dinosaur. term limits are a good start, but ideally, it should be one and done. no reelection, no pension, go back to your day job. "
blue star wrote on Feb 8, 2014 6:03 PM:
One and done, what a world it would be..... "
KITTY wrote on Feb 8, 2014 6:51 PM:
blue star wrote on Feb 9, 2014 8:59 AM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 9, 2014 11:31 AM:
aeneas wrote on Feb 9, 2014 3:03 PM:
when you say "many things in our government go full circle……the pendulum swings" …well, first of all you're
mixing metaphors in that pendulums don't "go full circle" or if they did they wouldn't be pendulums. Anyway, I don't want t be insulting but you being a bookkeeper doesn't appear to have put you on top of any intellectual pyramid. And the fact that you have relatives who were lobbyist only proves that greed like mine is universal. As I said, "money,
sex and power" that's what we all want ( in politics ). "
KITTY wrote on Feb 9, 2014 8:46 PM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 9, 2014 9:13 PM:
GAS wrote on Feb 9, 2014 9:54 PM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 9, 2014 10:10 PM:
blue star wrote on Feb 10, 2014 9:42 AM:
@gas: your problem is you don't know the difference between a bean counter and a 'financial analyst'.
I do admit it is difficult to keep up with this high level debate. "
KITTY wrote on Feb 10, 2014 11:14 AM:
blue star wrote on Feb 10, 2014 1:27 PM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 10, 2014 1:49 PM:
aeneas wrote on Feb 10, 2014 2:17 PM:
Don't take offense, I'm not insulting you. in fact, people like you,i.e., "believers" are my bread and butter ( and car and boat and house in Naples, Italy ). You believe that by reading slated newspapers, blogs , etc. ( Fox, MSNBC, NYT, etc ) that you are getting the "true" picture. That's what people like me want you to believe. Have you ever read "Major Barbara" by Shaw. Please do, you are a Salvation Army dreamer, thinking the "good guys" will eventually triumph over the "bad guys". The last intelligent politician was Julius Caesar. Look how that worked out for him. Am I greedy? Yep, that's why I get along so well with politicians of very stripe. I know it's a tough pill to swallow for you, but life among the big boys isn't Crispy Creme and Kool Aid. It's "what's in it for me?" "
blue star wrote on Feb 10, 2014 2:19 PM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 10, 2014 5:06 PM:
blue star wrote on Feb 10, 2014 6:20 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Feb 11, 2014 8:19 AM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 11, 2014 9:32 AM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 11, 2014 9:54 AM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 11, 2014 11:22 AM:
al.cap wrote on Feb 11, 2014 12:48 PM:
blue star wrote on Feb 11, 2014 3:30 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Feb 11, 2014 4:49 PM:
Not fired...left for personal reasons..... As I understand it, you were fired. Calling me an EMT is like calling a MD a RN. Though I do wish I could claim to be a Firefighter. "
GAS wrote on Feb 11, 2014 4:50 PM:
aeneas wrote on Feb 11, 2014 5:17 PM:
My advice to you Kitty is to open your mind. The other person doesn't need to be "wrong" in order for you to be "valid".
Wound a little tight, aren't you? "
KITTY wrote on Feb 11, 2014 7:02 PM:
@CON.....you started the conversation about Fairfield ....I asked what was your dorm freshman year and about a very well known Waterbury professor and you completely ignored it......just like you did the last time YOU brought up Fairfield....
@AL.....I am not a legend in my own mind......just the facts about my position at the bank.....like I said just the facts
Good night all....enjoy yourselves........ "
GAS wrote on Feb 11, 2014 8:58 PM:
blue star wrote on Feb 11, 2014 11:32 PM:
citizen4fairness wrote on Feb 12, 2014 12:52 PM:
blue star wrote on Feb 12, 2014 2:45 PM:
Can you be a little more specific? I'm not sure what you are getting at. "
al.cap wrote on Feb 12, 2014 5:15 PM:
blue star wrote on Feb 13, 2014 10:17 AM:
We basically agree since I am also a citizen, and I also am for fairness. However I do not claim it to be exclusive to me. "
conservative1 wrote on Feb 13, 2014 11:04 AM:
Guests included Julia Dryfus, CNN CEO.hmmm
Al (MSNBC) (tawana brawley) RACIST Sharpton.
It was a who's who of no ones.
He is one of us...a 99%er haha Working for the middle class.
He laughs at you fools that voted him in all the way to the BANK "
blue star wrote on Feb 13, 2014 11:38 AM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 13, 2014 11:49 AM:
blue star wrote on Feb 13, 2014 12:50 PM:
Of the 10 or 12 comments, every single one referred to the inappropriate lavish nature of this 'dinner'. Hey what's a couple of hundred thousand taxpayers dollars? Chicken feed.
People are getting fed up with this abuse at our expense. This is not a partisan issue. They all have their nose in the trough. This party is just an example. "
KITTY wrote on Feb 13, 2014 12:55 PM:
blue star wrote on Feb 13, 2014 1:20 PM:
That is why I normally do not respond to your drivel. "
KITTY wrote on Feb 13, 2014 1:29 PM:
blue star wrote on Feb 13, 2014 2:07 PM:
blue star wrote on Feb 13, 2014 2:15 PM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 13, 2014 2:47 PM:
blue star wrote on Feb 13, 2014 4:02 PM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 13, 2014 5:39 PM:
blue star wrote on Feb 13, 2014 5:52 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Feb 13, 2014 5:57 PM:
Al Sharpton in the White House? Disgraceful. Obama's presidency will make GWB look like GW.
Question.. who is the bigger Wh*re? Bill for all his sleeping around or Hillary for allowing it to save her shot at the presidency? Who wants those 2 back in control, representing the US? "
blue star wrote on Feb 13, 2014 6:00 PM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 13, 2014 7:46 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Feb 14, 2014 9:06 AM:
My point is they claim to be of the 99% but sure seem to live like the 1%. They vacation more than any president ever did at a higher cost. NOBODY can spend other people's money faster than a PROGRESSIVE. They are like the project people that win power ball. They spend and spend until they end up back in the project (which is where the Obamas will be in 3 yrs)
Hypocrites and liars is all I'm proving. "
conservative1 wrote on Feb 14, 2014 9:09 AM:
conservative1 wrote on Feb 14, 2014 9:12 AM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 14, 2014 11:58 AM:
of course I wouldn't vote for carson or west I have completely different political views than they do ...... "
KITTY wrote on Feb 14, 2014 12:18 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Feb 14, 2014 1:18 PM:
First, he reminded the audience that he was a constitutional scholar.
"Ya know, I taught constitutional law for 10 years. I take the constitution very seriously," he said.
Then, candidate Obama pledged to be very different from the man he hoped to replace: "The biggest problems we're facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm president of the United States of America."
President Obama has violated his promise to "reverse" the problem of executive orders 168 times, issuing 147 executive orders during his first term. That compares to 173 orders in Bush's first term.
Kitty...here are 2 videos of the Anointed One LYING.
The 1st one is quoted above. The 2nd one is him saying he WILL NOT use signing statements to get his way. Interested to hear your argument for him LYING TO US.
Then we can address Guantanamo Bay, which he promised to close in his 1st year of office. (though I'm glad he hasn't).
You will say the blaze isn't impartial and youtube isn't impartial, BUT THESE ARE VIDEOS OF HIM. "
KITTY wrote on Feb 14, 2014 2:11 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Feb 14, 2014 8:31 PM:
If obama had 1/10 the honor or integrity Beck has, this country would be ok.
He lied to get people like you to vote for him, then when he double crosses you, you still make excuses for him. "
KITTY wrote on Feb 14, 2014 9:49 PM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 14, 2014 9:52 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Feb 15, 2014 7:48 AM:
Glenn Beck is a better man than Obama could ever hope to be. A better American, a better father. You mam are a lying racist. Please never address me again and I will do the same. "
blue star wrote on Feb 15, 2014 9:31 AM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 15, 2014 10:28 AM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 15, 2014 10:31 AM:
blue star wrote on Feb 15, 2014 11:21 AM:
al.cap wrote on Feb 15, 2014 12:47 PM:
al.cap wrote on Feb 3, 2014 10:33 AM:
watch 2:33 thru 3:55. this IS the unedited version. the one that everyone is talking about. i didn't say it. neither did beck, jones, hannity, or o'rielly. b. hussein obama did. and he can't hide from it. "
ROY wrote on Feb 15, 2014 2:56 PM:
But don't expect to see Kitty in there. "
KITTY wrote on Feb 15, 2014 3:11 PM:
GAS wrote on Feb 15, 2014 8:50 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Feb 15, 2014 9:04 PM:
Sorry Al we owe BHO an apology. It was money well spent to get to the truth and expose these racist tea baggers. "
KITTY wrote on Feb 15, 2014 11:18 PM:
al.cap wrote on Feb 16, 2014 8:55 AM:
the only virus in that piece is the truth. maybe that's what scares the obamaphiles. "
KITTY wrote on Feb 16, 2014 9:24 AM:
GAS wrote on Feb 19, 2014 7:20 PM:
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As bad as Borat?
He'd been quiet for a while, but recently Ur-Diogenes over at Off the Record, the blog of Catholic World News, has gotten back on the horse. (We've discussed him before here and here.) Seemingly brought out of hibernation by the midterm elections (Ur-Diogenes is nothing if not deeply interested in how Catholicism features in U.S. politics), he's really been on a roll lately, letting fly all manner of rhetorical barbs, aimed high and low. And I mean very low. Have a look.
First, read the captions under the pictures in this post. Then click here for his enlightening response to the USCCB's recent statement on ministry to homosexuals. (Flashback: this post was pretty classy, too.)
I wonder if any U.S. bishops donate to Catholic World News.
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The blogging world is infinitely better with Uncle Di at the helm. Yes, his comments can be harsh sometimes, but they're nearly always true. At least he is faithful to the Church's teachings, unlike many writers of a certain "Catholic" magazine....
Harsh is fine. Unchristian and uncharitable are not. Since when does being Catholic mean that you shouldn't be Christian? When was charity taken out of Christianity? I guess I must have missed that encyclical.
My first reaction to this was that Diogenes's approacj was so iditic it should not evenb be graced with a thread.RH's comment however is so devoid of any pastoral insight that one wonders where the Church is headed to. There is an ugly smarminess in all this and any support of that seems quite uncharitable - not to mention the snarky remarks about one's superior Catholicism.
My friend Diogenes has been called unchristian. Are there matters on which she is in dogmatic error?Is the net effect of her column to strengthen Catholic teaching or to leave it ever so slightly weakened?It is true that she can't help herself sometimes. But there are moments of inspiring clarity. The column on Rowan Williams and priestesses, for example, was the only Catholic response that raised the primary theological question.http://www.cwnews.com/offtherecord/offtherecord.cfm?task=singledisplay&r...
The anonymous leading the anonymous. Are you saying you know who Diogenes is, and that Diogenes is a woman? HIghly unlikely, but it is at least an amusing shot at deceiving dotCommonweal's readership. Phil Lawler claims several people write under the pseudonym. This may have been made technically true (the posts that appeared in the days after we speculated about his real identity here were decidedly different), but the vast majority of posts signed "Diogenes" have a distinctive, persistent voice, tend to deploy the same vocabulary, sometimes referring to his time spent in Italy, or on Alitalia flights, and take up the same subjects, over and over again.
mlj - Domatic error is not the test. "If ... I understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing." Normative Christianity is "be compassionate as God is compassionate."
The Diogenes posts worth discussing are always from the same person. They are easily detectable.Yes, I know who Diogenes is. I had Thai food with her somewhat recently. Sorry I can't say more. I'm surprised how long the question has remained open. I only wish my knowledge of secret world affairs wasn't limited to worthless bits of RC gossip...
Perhaps, then, you can explain why he is constantly referring to himself as "Uncle Di." You can see why I have no reason to believe what you have to say about the identity of Diogenes.
>>Perhaps, then, you can explain why he is constantly referring to himself as "Uncle Di." You can see why I have no reason to believe what you have to say about the identity of Diogenes.<
Well, now it's clear why you're so reluctant to use your name: you're from the future. What else is on the horizon? Do tell.Yes, "Georgetown Catholic," "Madonna artist," "mlj an althete." Clever enough, but a dodge. Have you ever pretended to be a woman--repeatedly? In writing? Over the course of several years?
>>Have you ever pretended to be a woman...over the course of several years?"Yes. It's going on 5 decades now. No, I'm not Elton John.>>What else is on the horizon? Do tell.<
James Martin, S.J.:You wrote: " I guess I must have missed that encyclical. "You didn't miss the encyclical, you just didn't understand it. Charity also includes judgment and correction, as the encyclical clearly indicated. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that a Jesuit wouldn't understand that.
A new nadir of uncharitable comment, Janice, especially the last sentence. Does the end justify the means in your efforts to create a Puritan form of Catholicism?
Janice,You are not abiding by the rules of this site.Unflattering generalizations are to be used exclusively to depict those with agendas different from Commonweal's. With the right target your "uncharitable" comments can become "prophetic." Indeed, with practice you may ultimatley "speak truth to power."I also recommend, Janice, that you have two vodka and tonics before you read Commonweal's Dec. 1 editorial on human sexuality.
Mr. Collier,A little puritanism wouldn't be out of place in American Catholicism, especially given the last 40 years of the "spirit of Vatican II" that folks such as some of the liberal Catholic bloggers and columnists have given us.By the way, if you think my last comment was the "nadir" of uncharitableness, you should see some of my comments on other blogs.
Mr. Collier,By the way, I am in very good company in my efforts to create a Puritan form of Catholicism. Ever hear of Pope Benedict XVI?
Mr. Collier,The actual word you're looking for, I believe, is not Puritan, but purify. Pope Benedict is looking for a purified Catholicism, to replace the sorry product of 40 years of self-indulgent navel-gazing that followed the misrepretation of Vatican II. I and many others subscribe to Pope Benedict's vision completely. We want a truly counter-cultural Catholicism that does not accommodate the culture to the point where no one can tell the difference between Catholics and the secular culture.
Janice,You are bringing a harsh secular discourse into a Catholic domain, and that should not happen. It's bad enough that we are witnessing the "Coulterization" of the culture of the secular right, but do we need to mimic these tactics when it comes to the Church? For that is what this Diogenes character is doing, and you have a tendency to veer in this direction also with quips about "liberals" (a purely secular term) and Jesuits (God help us all). There's plenty of space for argument about using these tactics.
Hmm, I think I have heard of BXVI on at least one or two occasions, and on the whole I have been impressed by how he has assumed the mantle of the difficulty responsibilty he has to guide the whole Church, not to favor so-called Commonweal Catholics over First Things Catholics or vice versa. His outreach to his old friend and adversary, Hans Kung, was impressive, as was the topic he chose for his first encyclical. It's hard to quibble and in-fight about God being love. If some progressive Catholics aren't completely satisfied with BXVI, then I think it's fair to say that some orthodox Catholics aren't either. Perhaps some dissatisfaction in both camps is a good thing.My primary objections to your comment about Fr. Martin's post were the ad hominem nature of the comment, and your generalization that Jesuits are somehow less than fully Catholic. In the interest of full disclosure, I'll say that I had eight years of education in Jesuit institutions (and schooling by Dominicans and Franciscans, too), and I therefore had the opportunity to meet and be instructed by many Jesuits. Like any group, religious or secular, they can't be grouped into one mindset, whether it's about politics, religion, or even the weather. Some of my Jesuit teachers were great, and some not so great, but that was entirely a function of their respective teaching abilities. What I can say, however, is that almost without fail, every Jesuit teacher I had made me think. I was taught that faith and reason, in all of their subtleties and power, go hand in hand and are in no way mutually opposed. Both are gifts I cherish.
I often wonder how far the Janice's of the world would go to craft a "truly counter-cultural Catholicism". Are there any limits to what someone with such a rigid approach would do to "purify" other Catholics? How about non-Catholics?At what point would a Janice-type person back off and agree to pray for someone's soul while letting God work his will in them? Or is there no option for that? Clearly, respectful discourse is now deemed to be not worth the effort as it smacks of capitulation and we certainly can't make that mistake. Do the religious zealots we've witnessed in other parts of the world have the right methods, but the wrong religion? Is that considered part of Pope Benedict's vision?
The really ironic--and, at least to me, amusing--thing about the family squabbling and nose-bloodying among Catholics as to who are the elect and most righteous among us is that non-Catholics, atheists, etc. must either (1) think we're nuts, or (2) be enjoying the spectacle as they would gladiators in the arena sparring for their entertainment.
All of this stems from the uncharitable (to say the least) comments of Diogenes."If I have faith that can move mountains, but have not love (charity), I am nothing."There's a lot of nothing out there it seems; the approach of BXVI is marked with respect for those he approaches -not so here.Instead a juvenile almost childish talk down freom some who think they know better. And then they mock "Commonweal Catholics."
The squabbles may appear ugly to some, but to others they are necessary and concern fundamentals of the faith.Take the most recent Commonweal editorial. It is an attack upon Christian anthropology and, if pressed to its logical conclusion, a sacrament of the Church. Is it good that we muddy ourselves in debating this? It is certainly better than being indifferent on the matter.What if we just limited ourselves to quoting Paul's exhortations?
mlj wrote: My friend Diogenes has been called unchristian. Are there matters on which she is in dogmatic error?Is the net effect of her column to strengthen Catholic teaching or to leave it ever so slightly weakened?Jean: Of COURSE Diogenes weakens the teachings of the Church. By pretending to be a Catholic, and then turning around and attacking people personally, putting them in a false light, passing off speculation as truth, and (my favorite) dressing up in vestments with flames to show how Church leaders are in league with the Devil--all that mocks church teachings of charity, kindness, loving your neighbor, and not bearing false witness.I can only assume that Diogenes believes that sins with the aim of purifying the Church of all us Commonweal Catholics are forgiveable.I'm simply sorry for the poor soul and the dupes who think he's witty and wise.
Okay, let's take the Commonweal editorial. I read it. I disagree with some of the writer's comments, although I did understand the overall point which is the suggestion that more might be gained if the Church actually answered the questions the laity have about homosexuality and birth control rather than simply braining them over the head with the rulebook.I didn't see it as an attack on Christian anthropology and see no logical conclusion that it should be considered an attack on any of the Church's sacraments.I recognize it first and foremost for what it is - personal opinions expressed by the editors. Something to which they are entitled as you are entitled to yours. None of you is setting Church doctrine and the writers of the editorial did not present the commentary as being anything more than what it was - an opinion piece.In fact, I think the editorial highlights the fundamental conflict. If someone identifies themselves as Catholic and expresses doubts, or asks questions, or holds a personal opinion contrary to Church teaching, that is now interpreted as an opportunity for a smackdown. Any wobbling on anyone's part is seen as a definitive effort to undermine Church teaching. I don't see it that way. I see the questioning, the doubting, the contrary opinions as all part of the learning process. All part of every human's quest to understand God. And the main point of the editorial is to say that if the Church has answers to the questions, then taking the time to explain those answers again and again until people understand what's being taught is far better than answering with "because I said so".I can disagree with this editorial without calling anyone names, or denouncing them as non-Catholics, or heathens or *gasp* liberals! More importantly, I can disagree with this editorial in a way that invites further discussion because the more discussion there is, the more opportunity to teach.
mlj--I'm betting everyone who posts here has no problem with discussing and debating fundamentals of the faith. The problem comes when we (and I certainly include myself) move the focus from the issue itself to the religious bona fides of the posters involved. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm primarily here to learn. In the relatively short time this blog has been operational, I've learned a lot, from posters who represent a wide spectrum of points of view. And I'm impressed you know M. Robinson. ;)
>>And I'm impressed you know M. Robinson.<
Wait, is she Diogenes?
>>Wait, is she Diogenes?<
Well, if Diogenes is a woman - the voice is not that of a woman that's for sure - then I suppose he is less like an "Uncle Di" and more like a "Mommy Dearest" insanely screaming at her daughter for putting her expensive dresses on wire hangers. Ah, but Joan Crawford, like "Uncle Di," was just engaging in one of the traditional works of mercy - instructing the ignorant and converting the sinners, wasn't she? True "teachable moments" for the daughter's (and our) edification.In all seriousness, Diogenes' theological road-rage cannot be truly nourishing for the soul. Even, when he is correct, Diogenes' poison-pen does not correct a single abuse that he decries, does not convert one sinner, does not make one bishop more competent, but does jack up the emotions of highly strung people. If Diogenes is who I think it is, he would serve the Church - and the causes which he supports - much better by faithfully carrying out his duties where God and his superior has placed him, rather than writing late nite screeds on a blog.
Regrettable that this excellent editorial has to appear as a footnote on this thread, I agree with it completely.Especially the point that there would be no Catholics if one is saying that the 95% of Catholics who practice contraception are not.I also strongly support the point that the far right conservatives (wonder who that is?) militate for, namely, that the bishops should press the issue on contraception. Not make a 'truce" over it.It would place honesty (and a lot of money) on the table and a real church may emerge from it.
It's sad to hear that some think it's OK to be ugly in presenting the faith (ugly being a kind word for uncharitable.) I think BXVI and even JPII would disagree with that.See the coments on the bisjhops documents earlier in November -ckearly their effort was ugly (i.e. simplictic and unlistening.)But to the "pure" of the Church I guess that's meaningless.


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I was thinking of the innards - specifically the white parts inside of the main body and what looks like eggs.
You can eat even shell. Ground shell is used in French Bisque to thicken the soup and make it more flavored.
The only parts that you need to avoid are the intestinal tract - the black line that runs through the tail, and the sac right behind the eyes which includes the brain, stomach, and other organs.
The tomalley is the edible yellow-green pasty substance which serves as the liver and pancreas. However, there are advisories in place by US federal and state agencies advising against eating the tomalley of Atlantic lobsters due to the high concentration of toxins present. I've eaten it before if that matters; it's delicious.
The roe present in female lobsters is also commonly eaten.
Anything else is edible, but not frequently eaten.
Remove the Thorax shell (the saddle shaped one over the main body). Then you can take each leg off by gently wiggling and pulling. There's a nice piece of meat where the leg comes out of the body.
Then you suck the meat out of the leg.
I do like the claws and tail but the body is my big love. I adore picking it apart and finding that sweet meat as you break the body apart. It is tedious and only small amounts of meat but so good!!! I also like to take the roe and tomalie or lobster paste and put it with a bit of butter on a piece of fish and bake it, it then tastes like lobster!


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Welcome! Hidden Lake Winery and Banquet Center, located in rural Aviston, IL, is situated in "Silent Forest," a wooded parcel of land abounding in local lore. Our winemaking began in 2004 and is influenced by the German heritage of the farming families who settled this part of Illinois. At Hidden Lake Winery, our goal is to offer a variety of wines that will satisfy many different palates. Our wines are produced with locally-grown fruit and bottled here in our cellar. Guests can enjoy a glass of wine (or other beverage if desired) in a tranquil setting with old friends, or perhaps with new ones.
This par 9 course is located in Breese.
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A year-round facility for large and small boats located at the southwest end of Carlyle Lake. Suited for a complete variety of water sports.
The largest campground in the Illinois State Park system. The park covers 3,000 acres on the west shore of Carlyle Lake. Every year more than 3/4 million visitors come here to hunt, fish, picnic, camp, boat, water ski, and hike.
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This nine-hole golf course was designed by John Kueper.
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CSA has docking for 380 boats, 3 electric jib cranes, 1,300 ft. of dock and 2 launching ramps. Special events feature annual regattas.
Able to accommodate boats up to 45 ft. in covered slips and 40 ft. in open slips, Trade Winds Marina is a great place to moor your boat. The new clubhouse features showers, restrooms, and a lounging area for members.
Governors Run Golf and Country Club
This championship 18-hole course has 13 lakes scattered throughout the par 72 layout. It boasts five sets of tees to accommodate all skill levels on exquisitely manicured greens.
The largest man-made lake in Illinois (26,000 acres), is a premier location for outdoor sports. Known to sailors, it is one of the best and most challenging for sailboats. There is also boating, fishing, hunting, bird watching, sand beaches, and camping areas. Hotels, cabins and golf courses make the area a true outdoor lover's playground.
The park is open for boating and fishing year round and hosts a major drag boat racing event each year.
This public nine-hole, 32 par course also offers a driving range, rental carts and clubs. Miniature golf, camping and fishing are also available for a fee.
This public 18-hole, 72 par course offers rental clubs and carts, and a pro on site.
With 45-acres of recreation, Fairview Park features a swimming pool, baseball and softball fields, Skateboard Park, several picnic shelters, and a variety of playground equipment.
Home to the Balloon Fest, Foundation Park has many walking trails, nature areas, and gathering places.
Centralia's resident carilloneur performs on the town's 65-bell carillon, one of the few in the country. The surrounding park also features a museum and tours of the 165-foot-tall tower.
Located in downtown Centralia, this 60,000-sq.-ft. building features an Olympic-size, six-lane competition pool with spectator seating. The main gymnasium has room for two full-size basketball or three volleyball courts with seating for 400.
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Twin Oaks offers a scenic nine-hole golf course.
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This 18-hole golf course was built in 1933.
Stonebridge offers 18 holes of first-class golf.
Drost Park features a 7-acre lake, pavilions, 1-mile walking trail, boat ramp, playground, and restroom facilities. The University of Illinois' Master Gardeners keep it seasonally beautiful.
Located in Maryville, this facility has an indoor arcade, batting cages and lots more fun for kids. Alfonzo's Restaurant is right next door for pizza lovers.
This nine-hole golf course was designed by Darryl Stein.
This expansive park features picnic areas, baseball and softball fields, playgrounds, tennis courts, horseshoe pits, and sand volleyball courts. The centerpiece of the park is an old train depot, a full-size caboose, and a train car that can be reserved for groups.
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A 248-acre lake fed by two creeks is the focal point of the Washington County State Recreational Area. The area offers several barrier-free facilities, including camping, hunting, picnicking and a fishing pier.
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This nine-hole golf course opened in 1967.
Meet the wide range of animals at this real working farm. Bottle feed kids and lambs. Pet the goats, camels, chicks, rabbits, camels and even two zebras.
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Spring Valley offers a par 18 golf course.
Roland Barkau Memorial Golf Course
This 18-hole golf course was designed by Robert Garard and Gary Hoelcher.
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This public 18-hole, par 70 course is open year round, with rental clubs and carts, plus a snack bar.
The marina offers modern concrete docks, an air-conditioned lounge, private showers, dry dock, and winter storage.
This 18-hole golf course was designed by Pete Dye.
Three Springs Park is a multi-purpose facility with a lighted softball and baseball field that can be converted in to smaller fields for a total of six. Also at the park are tennis courts, soccer fields, basketball courts, and volleyball courts. a half-mile walking trail and playground equipment round out the amenities.
Tours of this family-run bison ranch include baby bison feeding, herd tours, and photos with baby bison, llamas and horses.
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I'm quite new to Lejos, and I'm positively surprised by the stdlib. However, I noticed a few things that should IMO be a library rather than a core class. I'm also sure that there is a lot of great code in posts on forums and blogs that I'll never get to see.
I think it would be great to have a maven repository for Lejos code. Would more people be interested in that?


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Short links for April 12th, 2010
Some interesting things I found recently:
# The one thing I don't like about Thomann
Good example of a company that probably hasn't heard of green packaging or cradle to cradle yet (at least it doesn't seem to care much)…
Looza @ Mindboggling writes:
Every few months I need to make a certain hifi-related purchase. My retailer of choice for this is of course thomann.de, hands down the best european retailer for audio, music and hifi-related stuff. Great selection, great prices, amazing service.
However, there is one thing about thomann that really drives me insane now that I experienced it several times.
# My Blofeld + Ableton Live + Lpk25 + AudioCube Couch Potato Setup
Mark @ Modulate This! writes:
I wanted to create a small couch-friendly setup where I could play the Waldorf Blofeld with my little Akai LPK25 Controller and an AudioCube. Here is how I set it all up.
# cl516: Electro Harmonix V256 Vocoder
Calvin got himself an Electro Harmonix V256 Vocoder:
Simple setup with a Shure 55SH and the V256 set to HI gain. Segments alternate from internal synth to Vermona Perfourmer as the carrier. I didn't play around too much with the "reflex-tune" or other features. I just like the vocoder part. The audio file has more detailed narration.
Best audio demo I've heard in a while.
Second video of Toontrack's upcoming "Tonal and Percussive, Open Surface, New Generation Virtual Instrument" now available:
Check out the sounds in Beatstation, the new expansion pack format, BTX, and how to use the core library with Audio, MIDI and REX content.
From Make: Online:
Here's a video of a nifty Exploding Piano Alarm Clock that was recently made in a graduate product design class at MIT. One of MAKE's former interns, Jake McKenzie, was part of the team who created it. They based their project on the traditional piano drop held every spring off the MIT Baker House.
The premise is simple and aggravating: the piano and its color-coded legs explode once the alarm goes off. The user's task is to gather up all the parts and put the legs in their corresponding color slots. All while the alarm annoyingly beeps at you. The rub: the color slots move around, so you have to be agile (and awake) to get the correct legs in the correct slots. A knob on the bottom allows you to adjust the difficulty by speeding up the rate of the color changes.
# Rethinkyoyo – Want to learn some new yoyo tricks? Check Rethinkyoyo for a great collection of tutorial videos.


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Dundee v Manchester City
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On Sept. 29, AIM Women's Center held its fourth-annual Walk for Life and first 5K Fun Run at Jim Wood Park in Steubenville. "Celebrating 25 Years of Love, Life and Healing" was the theme, and about 140 walkers and runners showed their support in prayer and action. Local businesses supported the event while many of the participants raised money for AIM through personal sponsorships and donations.
Lisa Ledyard, event coordinator, led prayer and introduced AIM Director Sharon Maedke; nurses Ginna Dombrowski and Helen Kempton; Sherry Conrad, financial secretary; and me. Music, balloons, prizes and spectators cheered about 30 runners at the 5K finish line.
Approximately 110 walkers then took a two-mile trek around the park, some with strollers or babies snuggled in slings.
AIM has offered free limited ultrasounds since 2010 and during the last 12 months has provided more than 150 ultrasounds for expectant mothers at its downtown Steubenville location, 248 N. Fifth St.
On behalf of our clients, volunteers, staff and board of directors, our deepest thanks go out to our participants who, in one of the most challenging economic environments of the past 20 years, reached out to family and friends to support a ministry they believe is vital to the Ohio Valley.
We also want to thank the following businesses that sponsored the event: Anytime Fitness; Dr. Tom and Suzanne Brown; Catholics United for the Faith; Center of Music and Art; the Diocese of Steubenville; Franciscan University of Steubenville; Holy Family Respect Life Group; HyperDo Media; Dr. Joe Lewis; Dr. Thomas Matanzo; McBane Insurance; the Rev. Clint Quillen Jr. of Wintersville United Methodist Church; Ridgefield Group; Dr. Atul Shetty; State Park Motors; Target Sport Shop; Jefferson County Commissioner Tom Gentile; Valley Converting; and World Radio Telecommunications. The following businesses donated prizes, refreshments and services: DiGregory's Greenhouse, Federico's, Iannetti's, M&M Hardware, Riesbeck's, the UPS Store, Valley Wine Center, Wintersville United Methodist Church and the YMCA.
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Here's a nice bit, about David Brat's views regarding religion, virtue and the market. Apparently the guy's never read Mandeville, for whom, famously, the market is a hive of activity that depends on vice (not virtue) to flourish at peak efficiency and productivity. Remember the Fable of the Bees (1723)?: "Thus every Part was full of Vice, Yet the whole Mass a Paradise."
Brat doesn't understand the history of his own enterprise -- the ideological enterprise of supporting the values of commercial society -- very well. But then neither do many or perhaps most of his fellow Tea Partiers.
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To the contrary, Appelbaum's "bit" is not so nice according to Jordan Ballor of the Acton Institute. See http://www.realclearreligion.org/2014/07/09/what039s_wrong_with_david_brat_261599.html
Ballor recommends Michelle Boorstein's 6/13/14 article in the Washington Post as serious reporting and a good place to start:
OK. I'm going to come right out and say it: Dave Brat is a looney tune.
In his curriculum vitae (public information) he lists His affiliation; associations on economics, several homeowners associations, tennis associations and, oh yes, an affiliation with St. Michael's Catholic Church as well as Christ Church Episcopal Church, Third Presbyterian Church, Shady Grove Methodist Church. Hello, anyone else see that his claim to be "Catholic" is compromised?
Mark my words, as my grandmother used to say, he never went through RCIA and has never been received into the Catholic Church. He "attends" St. Michael's Catholic Church with his Catholic wife and children.
I'll eat my hat if I am wrong!
Helen - I don't doubt you're right about the Catholic part. Anyone can pop into a parish office and join a Catholic parish - even a non-Catholic.
Applebaum's comment about Nobel Prizes being unlikely in Brat's department was nasty. Nobel Prizes are unlikely a lot of places, and in some cases that says more about the Nobel judges than the places. But Applebaum's larger point is well taken.
It was odd finding the Acton Institute taking offense at it since the Institute seems to want desperately to be taken seriously in Nobel and other circles. As described by John Baller, Brat's economic indebtedness seems to be more to Charles Dickens than to any recognizable economist. As Orwell pointed out, Dickens' economics consisted of the hope that education would make everyone be nicer to everyone else.
Economic theories based on Charles Dickens aren't going to win any prizes.
Tom - is Orwell's views on Dickens and economics available on the Internet somewhere? I'd love to read it.
I don't think it rises to the level of an economic theory, but I do think the world would be a better place if more employers were like the Cheeryble brothers.
"Apparently the guy's never read Mandeville..." He probably hasn't, but how is that apparent? Obviously he disagrees with Mandeville about the relationship between vice and good market outcomes, but then, so have many other proponents of small government—and not all of them were Christians. Jefferson comes to mind. Even Adam Smith, who agreed with Mandeville that self-interest and even the appetite for luxury could be forces of progress, thought that Mandeville's too scrupulous account made it sound as if "there is vice even in the use of a clean shirt."
Brat is a blip on the political junkie's radar. Even if he wins the congressional seat, he'll do nothing to distinguish himself in congress, and we'll probably never hear from him again after the first 6 months, when the novelty wears off. If Cantor hadn't been the whip, he'd be equally dispensible.
Jim P.
What provoke my comment was the post on NCR titled "Meet the 'evangelical' Catholics remaking the GOP" in which Dave Brat, Jeb Bush, and Paul Ryan are showcased. In my opinion the only one who could be cosidered "evangelical" (and I am not too sure what that means exactly) is Brat and I don't think he can legitiamatly be called "Catholic."
Funny how some cradle Catholics who are liberal Democrats have been labelled "Catholic in name only."
Jim P. My reference was to Orwell's essay On Dickens, which appeared in the Anchor paperback Eight Essays by George Orwell (or was it Nine?) that was on everybody's bookshelf at one point in my lifetime. This seems to be it:
Has Congressman Brat read Mandeville? Soon he will have a chance to weigh in on a contemporary Fable of the Bees, courtesy of the Obama administration.
"Within 180 days of the date of this memorandum, the Task Force shall develop a National Pollinator Health Strategy (Strategy), which shall include explicit goals, milestones, and metrics to measure progress."
(Not a parody)
Patrick: Colony collapse disorder is anything but a big joke.
Applebaum's comment about Nobel Prizes being unlikely in Brat's department was nasty.
As well as some other points that were, at best nasty, but bordering on bullying. We have an obligation to elevate political discourse. This has to be more than a slogan during egregious events. All of this contributes to the toxicity pervading the existing political order. So, I am glad you pointed this out.
Vigrous debate by all means but we need to establish orderly and civil ground rules. Obviously the Times has not so it is left to the public.


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Women's Hoops Game Notes Released for Lenoir-RhyneJanuary 17, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – The game notes for the Anderson University women's basketball team's home matchup with South Atlantic Conference opponent Lenoir-Rhyne have been released.
The Trojans snapped a four-game losing skid with a 78-71 road win over Mars Hill on Wednesday night. With the win, AU moves to 8-7 overall and 4-5 in league play, slotting the Trojans in a three-way tie for seventh-place in the SAC standings
Lenoir-Rhyne enters the weekend with an 11-3 overall record and on a six-game winning streak. The Bears look to avenge an early season loss to AU as redshirt junior Emily Willoughby connected on a turnaround 3-pointer with under a second remaining to hand Anderson a 71-70 win in Hickory on Nov. 23.
The game will be broadcast on FOX SPORTS Radio 1280 AM, WANS and will also be available on the internet at www.wrixfm.com and the Anderson web site at www.autrojans.com, along with video and live stats. Tip-off is set for 2 p.m.
Game 1&2: Nov. 8 USC Aiken & Nov. 9 Lander
Game 3&4: Nov. 12 Erskine & Nov. 14 Winston-Salem State
Game 5&6: Nov. 18 USC Aiken & Nov. 20 Brevard
Game 7: Nov. 23 Lenoir-Rhyne
Game 8: Nov. 25 Lincoln Memorial
Game 9: Nov. 30 Furman
Game 10: Dec. 4 Wingate
Game 11: Dec. 7 Newberry
Game 12: Dec. 12 Liberty
Game 13: Dec. 16 Georgia College
Game 14: Jan. 4 Catawba
Game 15: Jan. 8 Lincoln Memorial
Game 16: Jan. 11 Coker
Game 17: Jan. 14 Mars Hill
Game 18: Jan. 18 Lenoir-Rhyne