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By Kevin Hunsperger
Some of the Legends & Hall of Famers on Old School RawPhoto Courtesy: WWE
@kevinhunsperger & @my123cents on Twitter
Regular readers of this blog know I love it when the WWE brings back Legends for the Old School edition of Raw. The January 6, 2014 show left me wanting more. I know that I complain about the part timers coming in and taking opportunities from the men and women on the current roster, but I view that much differently from these themed Raw and SmackDown! shows.
I felt like for the first time in a while, the WWE had a little more diversity with the Legends and Hall of Famers. The usual suspects like Roddy Piper, Sgt. Slaughter, and Booker T were on hand. But it was nice seeing Bob Backlund (I know he's been around more lately), DDP, and Jake "The Snake" Roberts back on the show. I don't think Roberts has been on Raw since Randy Orton was doing the Legend Killer gimmick and preparing for the Undertaker at Wrestlemania 21, nearly a decade ago. I could be wrong about that, and if I am, I apologize.
I get up quite early in the morning, so I finish Raw on Tuesday afternoon, but I usually know what's going to happen as co-workers discuss the show or I see something on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter. That's what happened with Jake "The Snake" being a part of the main event. I saw a picture of him on social media as I was scrolling through my feeds as part of my morning ritual. Even though the cat, or in this case, snake was let out of the bag, I still got goosebumps when I heard Roberts' theme music hit and he came to the ring to save CM Punk and the New Age Outlaws from the Shield.
Jake "The Snake" ReturnsPhoto Courtesy: WWE
Jake's appearance has fueled speculation over whether he'll be in the 2014 Royal Rumble. This is an idea I've endorsed since he first started talking about it on social media last year. Jake has really turned his life around and looked great when he was on Raw. I would love for him to get that shot at the Rumble and more importantly, I want to see him inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame this year during Wrestlemania Weekend. It seems to make sense doing it now, because of his connection to Mid South Wrestling back in the day, which ran in New Orleans (site of Wrestlemania 30).
Diamond Dallas Page has done amazing work with Jake and Scott Hall for that matter. I thought it was great seeing DDP as a part of Old School Raw too, but I don't feel like I've missed him as I see him on my DDP Yoga workouts. The one thing I noticed about Raw when they called the Legends out was some of the Hall of Famers had a lower third chyron that read "WWE Legend" instead of Hall of Famer. I know that was the case for Nikolai Volkoff and Ron Simmons. Also noted, there were no lady legends (or should I say Divas?) on the show, but they did mention Mae Young is sick and I know Trish Stratus recently had a baby.
As I mentioned, I'm glad they had some of the Legends from the 80's, 90's, and now 00's. It was a nice mix. But I have a wish list of guys and gals I'd like to see used on future Old School shows, and I wonder if they'll ever include any WCW or AWA exclusives. Personally, I'd like to see the Midnight Express on a show. Also, the Ultimate Warrior, One Man Gang, and Missy Hyatt are on my list. What about you? Who would you like to see make a one night comeback?
Too Cool & RikishiPhoto Courtesy: WWE


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Sir Ian McKellan shared the following report on the first table read for Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast. Apparently Hattie Morahan is also now in this movie (via Slashfilm).
Speaking of Disney movies, here's a supercut of the best of the studio's animated features (via Live for Films):
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Arts and Crafts retailer A.C. Moore launched its inaugural campaign to benefit the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation with a program involving all its stores.
Beginning Sunday, Sept. 28 through Saturday, Oct. 4, A.C. Moore Arts and Crafts will partner with Lion Brand Yarn Company and Vanna White, a Lion Brand spokesperson for more than 20 years, to donate 10% of sales from all Vanna White yarn lines to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
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Biggest movie opening weekends
Highest-grossing debuts at the U.S. box office through February 2016, via Box Office Mojo.
25. "Spider-Man"(Credit: Columbia Pictures)
Opening weekend: May 3, 2002
Domestic weekend gross: $114,844,116
Cast: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco
24. "Minions"(Credit: AP / Illumination Entertainment)
Opening weekend: July 10, 2015
Domestic weekend gross: $115,718,405
Cast: Voices of Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton
23. "Alice in Wonderland"(Credit: Disney Enterprises)
Opening weekend: March 5, 2010
Domestic weekend gross: $116,101,023
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway
22. "Man of Steel"(Credit: Warner Bros. )
Opening weekend: June 14, 2013
Domestic weekend gross: $116,619,362
Cast: Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon
21. "Shrek the Third"(Credit: Getty Images / Gabriel Bouys)
Opening weekend: May 18, 2007
Domestic weekend gross: $121,629,270
Cast: Voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas
20. "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1"(Credit: Lionsgate, Murray Close)
Opening weekend: Nov. 21, 2014
Domestic weekend gross: $121,897,634
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson
19. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1"(Credit: AP)
Opening weekend: Nov. 19, 2010
Domestic weekend gross: $125,017,372
Cast: Warwick Davis, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson
18. "Iron Man 2"(Credit: Francois Duhamel )
Opening weekend: May 7, 2010
Domestic weekend gross: $128,122,480
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Mickey Rourke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Scarlett Johansson
17. "Deadpool"(Credit: 20th Century Fox Film / Joe Lederer)
Opening weekend: Feb. 12, 2016
Domestic weekend gross: $132,434,639
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Gina Carano, TJ Miller
16. "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"(Credit: AP )
Opening weekend: July 7, 2006
Domestic weekend gross: $135,634,554
Cast: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport
15. "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1"(Credit: Summit Entertainment)
Opening weekend: Nov. 18, 2011
Domestic weekend gross: $138,122,261
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene
14. "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2"(Credit: Summit Entertainment)
Opening weekend: Nov. 16, 2012
Domestic weekend gross: $141,067,634
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke
13. "The Twilight Saga: New Moon"(Credit: AP )
Opening weekend: Nov. 20, 2009
Domestic weekend gross: $142,839,137
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke
12. "Furious 7"(Credit: Universal Pictures)
Opening weekend: April 3, 2015
Domestic weekend gross: $147,187,040
Cast: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez
11. "Spider-Man 3"(Credit: Columbia Pictures)
Opening weekend: May 4, 2007
Domestic weekend gross: $151,116,516
Cast: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church
10. "The Hunger Games"(Credit: Lionsgate Film/Murray Close)
Opening weekend: March 23, 2012
Domestic weekend gross: $152,535,747
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks
9. "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire"(Credit: Lionsgate)
Opening weekend: Nov. 22, 2013
Domestic weekend gross: $158,074,286
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks
8. "The Dark Knight"(Credit: AP )
Opening weekend: July 18, 2008
Domestic weekend gross: $158,411,483
Cast: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman
7. "The Dark Knight Rises"(Credit: AP)
Opening weekend: July 20, 2012
Domestic weekend gross: $160,887,295
Cast: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy
6. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2"(Credit: Warner Bros.)
Opening weekend: July 15, 2011
Domestic weekend gross: $169,189,427
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter
5. "Iron Man 3"(Credit: AP)
Opening weekend: May 3, 2013
Domestic weekend gross: $174,144,585
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce
4. "Avengers: Age of Ultron"(Credit: Marvel / Jay Maidment)
Opening weekend: May 1, 2015
Domestic weekend gross: $191,271,109
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans
3. 'Marvel's The Avengers'(Credit: Handout)
Opening weekend: May 4, 2012
Domestic weekend gross: $207,438,708
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Jeremy Renner
2. "Jurassic World"(Credit: Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment)
Opening weekend: June 12, 2015
Domestic weekend gross: $208,806,270
Cast: Nick Robinson, Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jake Johnson
1. "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"(Credit: Lucasfilm / Walt Disney Pictures / David James)
Opening weekend: Dec. 18, 2015
Domestic weekend gross: $247,966,675
Cast: John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Lupita Nyong'o, Warwick Davis
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Kaka's second yellow...
Clive, you were doing brilliantly up to the word "Rooney", at which point you presumably let your club loyalty get the better of your sensible sentiment.
Rooney and Beckham both committed blatant red card offences right in front of the referee. They were stupid to do so and can have no complaint at their red cards. And in the case of Rooney's card, how do you behave when you get a kick in the balls?
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So, how many times has Terry escaped with handballing, and other fouls in the area robert ? Now don't let club loyalties get in the way , eh ?
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rooney & beckham got sent off for being stupid.
both were clear red cards. both players should have more professional & not lose their temper.
but i agree football is emberessing to watch with all the diving, play acting & injury faking.
both calavarho & simeone(i think it was him?) made the most of it. But all i can say to beckham & rooney would be"an argy & portuguese player making the most of it & trying to get u sent off. shock horror! use your brain & il u will realise if u give them a reason to get u sent off they will cheat & do it!.
i understand your point clive but beckham & rooney have to take responsibility for being stupid & wound up by the cheats.
i actualy think kaka was stupid for getting involved with all the handbags despite being 3-1 up & game over.
we need to have a system where u can give a player a yellow card after the match for diving, faking & cheating.
i know its a bit soft to start with but it will help get the players in to the habit of not cheating or else.
for example the ivorian who held his face when he was hit in the chest would be given a yellow card to his name after the game.
these yellows will mount up & in some cases they would end up with a red after the game because they finished the game with 1 yellow.
if we go back to the eduardo diving incident which was a clear dive by the way. it was illogical to give him match bans because how can u give match bans if they spot the dive after the game but just a yellow if its during the game.
so they should have just put a yellow card to his name for diving.
its not just the yellow card he gets but also his name will be shamed by being found guilty of fouling.
so fifa/fa/uefa will have a panel who decide if it was a dive or cheat etc &then release a statement that the player was found guilty of cheating/diving etc & a yellow card is added to his name.
i dont mean every little hint of cheating will be judged. obviously just the more obvious cheating acts will be judged.
Try not to be a tit all the time. When I come out and say that "Carvalho might have maliciously kicked him in the balls but he over-reacted so Carvalho shouldn't have been sent off" then accuse me of club loyalty. But when I point out Clive's absurd defence of two blatantly guilty United players is just that - absurd - is the wrong time to jump to his defence.


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This is how dumb Hillary thinks you are
What a lame, lame, lame excuse – both as a candidate and as an explanation for why everyone should shrug off her possible criminality in the server issue:
Whether the material in her emails that has been flagged as classified is in fact classified is open to debate, Clinton told reporters in Las Vegas Tuesday. "That is not in any way agreed upon," she said. "The State Department disagrees. That happens all the time in these efforts to say what can go out and what can't go out. That is a part of the ordinary process."
Moreover, Clinton said, investigations like the one currently taking place with her emails are nothing new. "Everybody is acting like this is the first time it's ever happened," she said. "It happens all the time. And I can only tell you that the State Department has said over and over again, we disagree [that the material is classified]. So, that's what they're sorting out and that's what happens a lot of the times."
"What you're seeing now is a disagreement between agencies saying, you know what? They should have, and the other saying no, they shouldn't," Clinton concluded. "That has nothing to do with me."
Well yes it most certainly does. Because, you see, if you were following instructions to do business on a secure server within the parameters you are required to operate on, Ms. Clinton, the argument would be moot. You'd be precisely right. But because you chose to circumvent those safeguards anput an ad hoc insecure server in place outside the system, it is has everything to do with you!
Anyone who swallows this load of Hillary dung deserves to be laughed at when they try to talk about anything seriously.
Because to swallow it, you have to willingly disengage your brain.
Stray Voltage
As Venezuela slowly starves and the economy has all but shut down, guess who the richest person in the country might be?
The daughter of Hugo Chavez, the former president who once declared 'being rich is bad,' may be the wealthiest woman in Venezuela, according to evidence reportedly in the hands of Venezuelan media outlets.
Maria Gabriela Chavez, 35, the late president's second-oldest daughter, holds assets in American and Andorran banks totaling almost $4.2billion, Diario las Americas reports.
The figure would make Gabriela Chavez wealthier than media mogul Gustavo Cisneros, whom Forbes named the wealthiest Venezuelan earlier this year with $3.6billion in assets.
I know … purely a coincidence. But it does prove, if true, that socialism does pay … those in charge (I'm sure this wasn't something he saved up from his army pay). The rest? They get stores with nothing on the shelves and hyper-inflation. Brilliant.
Jazz Shaw is thinking Hillary may shrug off email flap (he's speaking purely in a political sense, not if someone grows a pair and actually arrests and indicts her):
The bottom line is that there are a significant number of Americans out there – mostly Democrats, but not all – who seem to be telling us, yes, you've made your point. Hillary is all those things you said she was. But what the heck. I'll vote for her. And one of the major reasons for this is that this email server story simply isn't resonating with people.
Well, to be fair, it's not resonating with those people. The reason it isn't resonating with other people is they really haven't heard much about it thanks to the media. But for those that have, they want the allegations investigated. Look, yellow dog Democrats are going to vote for their particular yellow dog – regardless of the cur's pedigree, problems or evidence against it. In this case I think Clinton will find a minion to take the fall, and, in effect, will shrug it off. But that doesn't change Shaw's point … even if she's in prison orange, those people will vote for her.
Megan McArdle talks about the nonsense that is going on at colleges everywhere. That is the cosseting of the student body who have become so fearful of ideas that they don't like that they invoke "safety" as their concern.
Students demanding that campus life be bowdlerized to preserve their peace of mind seem to believe that the best way to deal with trauma is to avoid any mention of it. But Lukianoff and Haidt argue that this is exactly backward; chronic avoidance breeds terror. The current climate on campus is a recipe for producing fearful adults who are going to have difficulty coping in an adult world. It's as if we were trying to prepare the next generation of American citizens by keeping them in kindergarten until the age of 23.
I'm not sure that anyone should be surprised. These are the kids who come from the era of everyone gets a trophy and we don't keep score so the other team won't feel bad. Why in the world would any one expect anything else from them. When they finally gain the halls of ivy, they're conditioned to eschew competition. So the idea of competing ideas, especially ideas they're not comfortable with, is terrifying.
They'll do great in the real world, won't they?
Meanwhile, on another planet:
If Vice President Joe Biden makes the leap into the Democratic presidential race, he could promise that he would serve just one term in the White House, journalist and author Carl Bernstein said Friday.
"And one thing that I keep hearing about Biden is that if he were to declare and say, because age is such a problem for him if he does, I want to be a one-term president. I want to serve for four years, unite Washington. I've dealt with the Republicans in Congress all my public life," Bernstein told CNN's "New Day."
"I think there's a conversation going on to that effect among his aides and friends," he said. "It could light fire to the current political environment."
It would be a back-fire, if anything. Anyway, the circus could use one more clown.
How will Hillary wiggle out of this one?
You know you're asking yourself that question:
The inspector general for the Intelligence Community notified senior members of Congress that two of four classified emails discovered on the server Clinton maintained at her New York home contained material deemed to be in one of the highest security classifications—more sensitive than previously known.
You may or may not remember this, but in March of this year, she stated flatly, "there is no classified material" on the server. How she expected anyone to believe she could conduct her job as Secretary of State with that being true is left to you to imagine. And, it seems, no one did:
The untruth revealed, [Mrs.] Clinton changed her story in July to claim that no email was specifically marked as classified. Not that it matters. Clinton wants Americans to ignore the fact that federal rules put the onus on government officials like the secretary of State to protect classified material, even when it's not marked as such.
You know, "accountability"?
So now, she's agreed to "voluntarily" turn over the server and the emails. James Taranto gives us a little insight into that:
In fairness to Mrs. Clinton, it appears her decision to turn over the server and the thumb drive was "voluntary" in the formal—dare one say Clintonian—sense that she yielded to the investigators' request rather than wait for an order.
Because, you know, for a Presidential candidate, such an order would have been politically damaging. So the "voluntary" aspect gives the campaign and the Clintons at least a little "good spin" on a very bad event. You can almost hear the klaxons sounding and the announcement of "battle stations, battle stations" within the campaign.
But back to that accountability thing:
Fournier notes further that "government officials have been convicted of mishandling unmarked classified material."
Yes. Yes they have. But that's not how the Princess of the Ozarks figures this should go. So who does she need?
Mr. Obama, of course:
And at least one critic is now speculating that the possibility that she is in legal jeopardy is influencing Mrs. Clinton's policy pronouncements.
On Monday, as the Los Angeles Times reports from Manchester, N.H., Mrs. Clinton "made her most forceful defense yet of President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran on Monday, saying that 'all bets are off' if Congress were to reject the deal and warning of the potential impact to America's standing in the world":
"The Europeans, the Russians, the Chinese, they're going to say, 'We stuck with the Americans. We agreed with the Americans. We hammered out this agreement. I guess their president can't make foreign policy,' " Clinton said at a campaign stop in Manchester. "That's a very bad signal to send in a quickly moving and oftentimes dangerous world." . . .
"I've gone into this detail because you're going to hear a lot about it in the weeks ahead," she told an audience of more than 500 at the foot of a ski slope in New Hampshire's largest city. "So please, educate yourself. . . . We have to pursue diplomacy if we expect to be able to solve difficult problems with the rest of the world supporting us."That's odd. Earlier, as we noted last month, Mrs. Clinton refused to take a position on the Trans Pacific Partnership—of which she was a forceful advocate as secretary—because, as she said, "I thought it was important for the Congress to have a full debate without thrusting presidential politics and candidates into it." She now gives precisely the opposite reason for taking a clear position, if not a particularly well-argued one, on the Iran deal.
Ah, what a surprise. It is pleasing to be politically malleable, isn't it? Principles … well, she left those at the Watergate hearings. It is raw politics and "I'll do what ever it takes" to gain power for her.
One has to wonder how ever the cult of true believers can stomach her paranoia and willful disregard for the law. This is who they want to be President of the US?
Anyway, is Obama the key to how she wiggles free? Will her attempt to provide him his much desired legacy find this all to be "much ado about nothing?" Will she actually ever be held accountable for what others have been jailed for?
Government creates a problem and then offers a solution
In a formula as old as government itself, we see a government created problem (it takes over student loans, college costs inflate, college debt burden increases) and now Hillary Clinton, in the guise of future government, offers a solution. Let's make college affordable again (or, in other words, shift $350 billion of the cost to taxpayers).
Hillary Rodham Clinton will announce a $350 billion plan Monday to make college affordable and relieve the burden of student debt for millions of Americans, drawing on popular tenets of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. …
At the heart of the plan, dubbed the New College Compact, is an incentive program that would provide money to states that guarantee "no-loan" tuition at four-year public universities and community colleges. States that enroll a high number of low- and middle-income students would receive more money, as would those that work with schools to reduce living expenses. Because Pell grants, a form of federal aid for students from families making less than $60,000, are not included in the no-debt calculation, Clinton anticipates lower income students could use that money to cover books, as well as room and board.
This is like Obamacare … just a step toward "free" college. Obviously, an estimate of $350 billion is likely to be woefully short of the real cost (they always are). And when the program crashes and burns, well, the next logical step (at least to "progressives" who have no clue about economics) will be to make college "free", like many other "progressive" countries. Because, you know, wish it to be so and it will be so!
C. Ronald Kimberling analyzes the initiative:
Hillary's plan for higher education violates so many principles of the Constitution, federal law, and economic common sense that it takes the breath away. In a nutshell, she would spend $350 billion a year to support public (i.e., governmental) colleges and universities with the proviso that a two-year associate's degree would be "free" to students and a four-year degree would cause no one to have to incur student loan costs. In exchange for direct federal subsidies to the public colleges, states would be required to appropriate more funds for such colleges, Pell Grants could be used only for student living expenses, interest rates on existing student loans would be reduced to eliminate federal "profits" on such loans, and for-profit colleges would be subjected to even stronger regulations than at present.
Her plan is significantly more expensive than the ideas put forward by self-described socialist Senator Bernie Sanders. Constitutionally, this violates the 10th Amendment, and it also violates the Department of Education Organization Act. It also runs counter to fifty years of bipartisan tradition, stemming from the Higher Education Act of 1965, which settled a 1950s-60s debate about whether federal aid to higher education should focus on direct subsidies of higher education institutions or on portable, voucher-like assistance to students in favor of the latter alternative. It places unfunded mandates on the states, and it enhances a public higher education monopoly of government-run colleges over private non-profits and for-profits, both of which are completely excluded from this federal largesse. All this takes place at a time when technology and disruptive innovation are creating more alternatives to traditional post-secondary education than we ever had before. In short, she takes President Obama's regulatory approach toward enhancing a public sector monopoly and puts it in warp drive. Even I am flabbergasted by the audacity and scope of this proposal.
Again, looking at Obamacare, we know Constitutional or legal limits are hardly an obstacle. She might have a bit of difficulty getting through a Republican Congress but that assumes a Republican Congress. Given their performance these last 2 years, you have to wonder. And you certainly have to wonder about the Supreme Court, if it ever got to that stage. They'd likely find a "right" to higher education somewhere in some mythical document (certainly not the Constitution) with John Roberts being the 5th vote for.
Sanders, of course, plans on taxing "Wall Street transactions" to pay for his plan. Clinton just plans to "close loopholes" – the catch all phrase for tax hikes. Most likely, they'd end up borrowing it.
One might wonder why, when we borrow 40% of the money the federal government spends, that we're discussing a $350 billion plan at all for anything except defense. But if the government wants to spend money on education, perhaps a better target would be primary education, and a better plan would be school choice to better prepare students for higher education down the road. Perhaps we can teach them the real definition of affordable somewhere along the way, too.
Oh … and perhaps we can get the government out of the loan business and make it a competitive sphere again?
Yeah, that's going to happen.
Hillary's renewable energy plan
As you'll see it's as unachievable and utopian as all the other "clean energy" plans we've heard. In fact, IBD calls it a "farce". And rightfully so.
Why? Well here are the basics:
Clinton says she has two big goals that she'll start working on "day one" to combat climate change. First is to expand solar energy supplies by 700% by installing half a billion solar panels by 2020. Second is to power "every home in America" with renewable energy by 2027.
She describes these as "bold national goals." The more appropriate label is "expensive pipe dream."
Again, the latter description is more apt. Consider the goal of half a billion solar panels by 2020. That's 5 years from now, folks. We all know that solar panels are a) expensive and b) don't live up to their billing as to making us energy independent (well unless we are willing to carpet every sun touched surface on our house and property with them). So how will she accomplish this goal? Well, with your tax dollars (or borrowing) of course. Subsides, tax credits, outright grants, subsides to solar panel manufacturing and big government projects that install millions of panels in desert areas (Environmental impact? Only pipelines have that.).
My goodness, haven't we done this before? And what's that popular definition of "insanity"?
Also consider that perhaps the cleanest renewable energy, one that has contributed most to the use of renewable energy, is hydroelectric energy (46%). That source has been in decline due to pressure from environmental groups. We have less hydroelectric power now than we did in 2000. And that trend is likely to continue.
Biomass comes in second (9%) and is also in disfavor with environmental groups (greenhouse gasses).
That leaves three "renewable" sources – geothermal, solar and wind. Between the three, they currently contribute just "6.7% of the nation's electricity capacity, according to the Energy Department." In total, we have about 15% of our energy from all renewable sources. So you get an idea of how small the contribution of these three really are.
While Clinton didn't say much about the other two, wind is a favorite of the renewable energy crowd. The problem with both wind and solar is the usual – powerful environmental groups oppose both. Especially groups concerned with the negative impact on wildlife they've demonstrated. It is no secret that both wind installations and large solar instillations are abattoirs for wildlife, especially birds.
So how likely is a President Clinton to see this bit of campaign positioning come to fruition? Well thankfully not very. It's a slapdash bit of campaign nonsense. It is pure pandering with no hope of realization. It is the usual political campaign "policy" making that is all talk with no walk. It has no possibility of being realized and is just thrown out there to feed the base and keep them happy. It is the underpants gnomes in action.
It doesn't even stand up to casual scrutiny. But don't worry, her base has no reason for even casual scrutiny. If she said it, they believe it and that ends it.
Meanwhile, upon finishing her delivery of this devilish clever energy plan, she boarded her private jet and smoked off to her next destination.
The wages of emotional voting and lack of scrutiny? Obama
National Review has published an article by Victor Davis Hanson with three views of the Obama presidency. One view is that of an Obama partisan and presents his presidency in a positive light. The second is a decidedly non-partisan look that does precisely the opposite. However, there's a third view that I find most appealing and frankly the most honest:
A third view of Obama is neither so rosy as the first nor so melodramatic as the second. Obama may well have been an unapologetic progressive wolf in centrist clothing, but mostly he was a continuation of what he had been in the past: an unimpressive state legislator, a one-term partisan senator without any accomplishments, a lackadaisical executive who in his own words had to worry most about not appearing lazy and distracted. Obama as president simply pushed the right progressive buttons, all the more easily once his own party lost the Congress and he was freed to sign executive orders that enraged his enemies and moved the country leftward. He cares little about the scandals involving the IRS, VA, AP, NSA, GSA, TSA, EPA, Benghazi, and the Secret Service, other than ensuring that they stay far away from his own godhead.
Mostly, President Obama likes the ceremonial perks of his office — the public spotlight to pick sports winners, the regal access to the links in sporty golf attire, the huge plane and entourage, the video clips of his catlike descent down the stairs of Air Force One, and the captive audiences for his often ahistorical and confused ramblings about America's past and present shortcomings. Rarely has a president entered office so inexperienced and unprepared, yet with such great hopes and expectations among the public. That he squandered such good will through petty spite and inexperience should not be surprising, given his meager qualifications and thin résumé. Most of Obama's career in community organizing, academia, and the Illinois legislature was predicated on leveraging his race, name, and unique background with the pretensions of liberal America to land opportunities for which he knew in advance that he would never be held accountable.
Make sure you read the other two views, but unlike some who are sure Obama is following some sort of plan to hurt America, I don't find this man able to purposely do much of anything.
One of the warnings many of us threw out there early on is he'd never "run anything or done anything". Think about it – his sole accomplishment before essentially running unopposed for and Illinois Senate seat, had been to write an autobiography. About what? Well, himself, of course. He was all about self-promotion. He is a first class narcissist as we've all discovered. He loved the campaign but not the work. He no sooner became an IL state senator, a poor one at best, than he began running for the US Senate. In the case of both senate seats he came with an extraordinarily thin resume. But, he was the right color with the right party at a time of two wars and an unpopular US president, and it just opened up for him. Once ensconced in the US Senate he almost immediately began running for President on an even thinner resume (heck, with the US Senate run, he could at least claim "experience" at a state level).
I find Hanson's point about Obama liking the "ceremonial perks" of office over the work to be dead on. You've seen others remark about our "semi-retired" president. His lack of leadership qualities is staggering. And yet, there he is, in the Oval Office.
His domestic and foreign agendas have been a mish-mash of college dorm discussions and naive beliefs proffered by others equally as clueless (such as his former Secretary of State) combined to do enough harm that we'll need years to overcome them. His inability to work within the system, mostly because he doesn't seem to know or understand how, has left him frustrated. His manner of dealing with his frustration is spiteful childishness and unilateral action which, frankly, he doesn't care whether its legal or not.
What concerns me more than the fact that he's so incompetent and as Hanson says "inexperienced and unprepared" is that a significant portion of the population was gulled into voting for him the first time and then, apparently uncritically, re-elected the man for 4 more awful years.
We've certainly paid the price for that bit of emotional voting and lack of scrutiny.
But let's also not forget who aided and abetted this travesty and the lack of scrutiny.
All you have to know to understand what institution that was is to know that Marco Rubio and his wife have had 17 tickets in 20 years and own a "luxury speed boat" while Hillary Clinton's past is essentially ignored.
And, as you might have surmised, that institution is again cranking up its machine to give us another incompetent who has more baggage and corruption surrounding her than one can shake a stick at.
Forewarned is forearmed, not that it is likely to change much.
Someone, anyone, give Bernie Sanders an economics book
I've been reading about Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders announcing for the presidency. In reality all he's likely to do is make Hillary seem "moderate" in comparison.
I guess what I don't understand is why someone like Sanders is even taken seriously. Read Ed Driscoll at Washington Monthly's "Political Animal":
And despite Clinton's great strength, [Sanders is] also perhaps the most credible seriously lefty candidate in living memory. He's no Dennis Kucinich, doomed to become a figure of fun.
Really? When have any "lefty candidates" of his pedigree been "credible"? Socialism? It's now credible? Where?
Venezuela's bolivar is collapsing. And as night follows day, Venezuela's annual implied inflation rate is soaring. Last week, the annual inflation rate broke through the 500% level. It now stands at 510%.
That's just the latest example. And that's just the tip of the iceberg there. The Bolivar is now more valuable as toilet paper (something that is impossible to get in the Socialist paradise of Venezuela) than money.
And now this "credible" socialist wants to take us down the very same path:
In his campaign "launch" yesterday, Sen. Bernie Sanders presented one of the most succinct, easy-to-summarize policy agendas we've seen from a presidential candidate in a long time. More progressive taxes. Breaking up the big banks. A constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. A carbon tax. A single-payer health care system. Expanding Social Security. Universal pre-k. Free college tuition. A trillion-dollar infrastructure program. A $15 an hour minimum wage. And a reversal of international economic policies that promote/allow job exports.
"Free" health care, "free" tuition, "free" pre-k, $15 minimum wage, more taxes to include a carbon tax, anti-capitalist laws to cripple the producers and spending of a trillion dollars on "infrastructure" (didn't we just do that a few years ago?). This is "credible?" He is "credible?" In what universe?
Would someone please, please send Sen. Sanders a freaking book on economics?
Oh, and Ed Driscoll too.
What difference does it make!?
It's a really good question, given we were apparently purposely lied too by the President and Secretary of State as to the "why" of Benghazi:
New documents obtained by Judicial Watch and made public Monday show that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other senior officials under President Obama were given intelligence within hours of the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attack describing how it had been planned at least 10 days in advance "to kill as many Americans as possible."
A heavily redacted copy of a Sept. 12, 2012, Defense Intelligence Agency memo to Clinton, then Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, the White House National Security Council and the Joint Chiefs of Staff said "the attack was planned 10 or more days prior on approximately 01 September 2012. The intention was to attack the consulate and to kill as many Americans as possible to seek revenge for U.S. killing of Aboyahiye ((ALALIBY)) in Pakistan and in memorial of the 11 September 2001 atacks on the World Trade Center buildings."
The attack "was planned and executed by the Brigades of the Captive Omar Abdul Rahman (BCOAR). BCOAR is also responsible for past attacks on the Red Cross in Benghazi and the attack on the British Ambassador, they have approximately 120 members." Rahman is serving a life sentence in a federal prison for his role in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center which killed six people in New York.
The memo was labeled: "Information Report, Not Finally Evaluated Intelligence."
"Not finally evaluated" but certainly much more plausible than some video made by some clown in CA. And per the memo, both Obama and Clinton knew this within hours of the attack.
So, what difference does it make? Well, quite a bit to anyone with an sense of morality about them. It points to blatant dishonesty to hide their incompetence. But to partisan hacks and the left, it probably doesn't mean much that they stood by the coffins of the 4 slain in Benghazi and spun a web of lies.
Has that sunk in yet? Your former Secretary of State told you a bald-faced lie and now would like to be your President.
Tell me how she'll be truthful about everything from now on, won't you?
Oh, wait … emails …
Can Hillary weather this latest scandal?
I got a bit of a kick out of a John Fund article that asserted that Hillary's Democratic backers were getting panicky about Hillary Clinton's chances amid the current scandals.
Here's where I got a bit of a laugh:
Democrats privately believe that the Clintons can recover from the e-mail and foundation scandals because it's unlikely reporters will ever find a "smoking gun" that explicitly links foreign donations with public actions. But Democrats also know that other scandals may soon be unearthed. And if they do, not only will Hillary Clinton prove unable to establish herself as an "authentic" candidate, she also will establish herself as a pro at conducting an "authentic" cover-up.
Seriously? One more scandal? A few more scandals?
What IS the magic number? Please tell us.
Bill Clinton's speaking fees go up and his speeches just happen to be in countries where the Secretary of State – that'd be Hillary Clinton – can help them get what they want. The foundation they both are a part of spends 10 to 15% of 500 million dollars on the charities it supposedly is fundraising for. The woman's emails when she was Secretary of State are gone – well, except those she chose to have us see. And her emails about the foundation?
Private and on the same server that she willfully set up in contravention of a well known rule that required her to do her official business on her official email address.
But, you know, there's no "smoking gun".
Yeah, if you're a crack addict with the IQ of a turnip.
These are the Clinton's though, and there seems to be no end to the number of times this criminal gang is let off the hook. Laws, you see, are for the little people.
More stray voltage
Has anyone been following this "raisin taking" case before SCOTUS? It has to do with the government literally taking a portion of a producers crop because they want to keep prices artificially high:
The forced transfer is part of a 1937 program that requires farmers to turn over a large portion of their raisin crop to the government so as to artificially reduce the amount of raisins on the market, and thereby increase the price. Essentially, the scheme is a government-enforced cartel under which producers restrict production so as to inflate prices.
And, of course, you know who loses – consumers. And producers. But note the program's birthdate – yup, a New Deal bit of nonsense that should have long been trashed. Given how the oral arguments went yesterday before the SCOTUS, it may soon see the dumpster. The government first tried to argue that it really wasn't a "taking". That didn't go well. So:
[Deputy Solicitor General Edwin] Kneedler put most of his emphasis on the argument that there is no taking because the Hornes and other raisin farmers actually benefit from the program that confiscates their raisins. In the words of Justice Antonin Scalia, the government's argument here is that the Hornes are actually "ingrates" who should be grateful for the government's largesse. As several justices emphasized, even if the Hornes really do benefit from the confiscation of their property, that does not change the reality that a taking has occurred. The fact that property owners benefit in some way from the taking of their property may affect the level of compensation they are owed. But it does not change the reality that a taking has occurred in the first place. Justice Samuel Alito noted that the government's logic leads to the conclusion that there is no taking in any situation where the government seizes personal property for purposes that might potentially benefit the owners in some way.
The most important argument, and the one usually overlooked or ignored, is as follows:
If private firms tried to establish a similar program on their own, the government would bust them for a blatant violation of antitrust law.
So why is our government doing it?
The Advice Goddess (Amy Alkon) takes on "trigger warnings" and does a very credible job explaining why they and those who would impose them should be ignored:
I've thought this for a while. They are yet another way for people who have done nothing noteworthy to get attention and have unearned power over others.
In fact, she entitles her piece "Trigger Warnings: A Form of Covert Narcissism." She also quotes a Kent State professor who "gets it":
Kent University's professor of sociology Frank Furedi claims that calls for trigger warnings are a form of "narcissism," with a student's desire to assert their own importance acting as more of a factor than the content they are exposed to.
In other words, it's a form of avoidance they can lay on the person who "triggers" them.
This brings me to my favorite line in the Alkon trigger warning piece:
And as I've noted before: If you are so emotionally traumatized by the normal college curriculum, you do belong in an institution, but not one of "higher learning."
The Climate Change Nazis are just not happy with "liberal democracy" because, you know, it depends on the will of the people instead of the will of the all knowing elite. Some selected passages from a piece by Mark Triffitt (Lecturer, Public Policy at University of Melbourne), and Travers McLeod, Honorary Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at University of Melbourne:
… Specifically, the failure to tackle climate change speaks to an overall failure of our liberal democratic system…
… Successfully tackling climate change and other big policy challenges depends on making tangible the intangible crisis of liberal democracy.
It means understanding that liberal democracy's governance machinery – and the static, siloed policy responses generated by such democracies – is no longer fit for purpose.
So, solution? (I bet you can guess):
[D]emocratic powers should be transferred to unelected bureaucrats, who would still somehow be "accountable" to parliament, despite having "staying power" beyond individual political cycles.
Or in their own words:
Granting more decision-making power to institutions independent of the government of the day, but still accountable to parliaments (such as the Parliamentary Budget Office or Infrastructure Australia). This would increase the capacity of policy planning and decision processes to have staying power beyond individual political cycles.
Yes, because when the party in power is the same party that wants whatever the bureaucracy wants, oversight is so exceptional and wonderful and our freedoms are protected to the nth degree – not! There are closet despots everywhere, and especially among the climate alarmist crowd.
And finally there is the Hill/Billy update, this one concerning a uranium deal with the Russians:
The latest installment in the ongoing saga of shady Clinton Foundation finances is a story involving a deal in which Russians took take greater control of a major U.S. uranium company, Uranium One.
The details are somewhat involved, but the gist is that because the takeover deal involved uranium, a strategic asset, it required approval from then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Around the same time the deal was going through, the Clinton Foundation took millions of dollars in donations from a foundation run by the founder of Uranium One and did not disclose the transaction, in defiance of an arrangement made with the Obama administration to identify Clinton Foundation donors. In addition, Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 by a Russian financial firm linked to the Kremlin for a speech in Moscow as the deal was happening. The New York Times has an extensive report, building on work from Peter Schweizer's book about the Clinton Foundation's foreign funding, Clinton Cash, here.
The questions raised by the story are obvious: Did the millions in donations to the Clinton Foundation, and the hundreds of thousands of dollars paid to Bill Clinton for his speech, have any influence on Clinton's decision as Secretary of State to approve the project?
Seriously? You have to ask that question?
The reaction to the story from team Clinton, meanwhile, does not exactly inspire confidence that the Clintons have been entirely transparent about what transpired.
For example, Fox News reporters, also drawing from Schweizer's book, dug into various aspects of the story, and found evidence that officials from Kazakhstan's state-owned energy company Kazatomprom visited with Bill Clinton at his home in New York to inquire about a possible deal with Westinghouse, which is also involved in the nuclear energy business. When contacted about the meeting by Fox News, a Clinton Foundation spokesperson denied that the meeting had ever happened. But when Fox News produced photos of the meeting, the Clinton spokesperson changed the story and said that it had happened.
In short, Clinton's spokesperson flatly lied about a meeting Bill Clinton had with foreign officials, and admitted the truth only when presented with evidence to the contrary.
"Flatly lied". Or as most would put it, "business as usual".


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Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney insists that he never considered joining Manchester City when he threatened to quit the Red Devils last month.
Rooney had said that he wanted to leave United because of the club's lack of clout in attracting more top players, but he changed his mind when the club offered him a five-year deal that made him the best-paid player in their history.
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—San Francisco Chronicle
"Irresistible blend of suspense, irony, and wit."
--Booklist (starred review)
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Private investigator Isabel Spellman is back on the case and back on the couch—in courtordered therapy after getting a little too close to her previous subject. As the book opens, Izzy is on hiatus from Spellman Inc. But when her boss, Milo, simultaneously cuts her bartending hours and introduces her to a/b>/i>
Private investigator Isabel Spellman is back on the case and back on the couch—in courtordered therapy after getting a little too close to her previous subject. As the book opens, Izzy is on hiatus from Spellman Inc. But when her boss, Milo, simultaneously cuts her bartending hours and introduces her to a "friend" looking for a private eye, Izzy reluctantly finds herself with a new client. She assures herself that the case—a suspicious husband who wants his wife tailed—will be short and sweet, and will involve nothing more than the most boring of PI rituals: surveillance. But with each passing hour, Izzy finds herself with more questions than hard evidence.
Meanwhile, Spellmania continues. Izzy's brother, David, the family's most upright member, has adopted an uncharacteristically unkempt appearance and attitude toward work, life, and Izzy. And their wayward youngest sister, Rae, a historic academic underachiever, aces the PSATs and subsequently offends her study partner and object of obsession, Detective Henry Stone, to the point of excommunication. The only unsurprising behavior comes from her parents, whose visits to Milo's bar amount to thinly veiled surveillance and artful attempts (read: blackmail) at getting Izzy to return to the Spellman Inc. fold.
As the case of the wayward wife continues to vex her, Izzy's personal life—and mental health— seem to be disintegrating. Facing a housing crisis, she can't sleep, she can't remember where she parked her car, and, despite her shrinks'* persistence, she can't seem to break through in her appointments. She certainly can't explain whyshe forgets dates with her lawyer's grandson, orfails to interpret the come-ons issued in an Irishbrogue by Milo's new bartender. Nor can sheexplain exactly how she feels about DetectiveHenry Stone and his plans to move in with hisnew Assistant DA girlfriend . . .
Filled with the signature side-splitting Spellmanantics, Revenge of the Spellmans is aningenious, hilarious, and disarmingly tender installment in the Spellman series.
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"Irresistible blend of suspense, irony, and wit."
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San Francisco PI Isabel "Izzy" Spellman endures court-ordered therapy sessions as well as blackmail in Lutz's wacky crime novel, the third entry (after Curse of the Spellmans) in a series that keeps getting better and better. Albert and Olivia Spellman, Izzy's parents, want her to return to work for the family PI firm; otherwise, they may have to sell it. While Izzy contemplates their offer, she secretly moves into her brother's guest apartment; helps her elderly lawyer friend, Mort Schilling, accept his upcoming move to Florida; and mourns the loss of her bartending job. Will she rediscover her yen for snooping when she takes on "the Case of Ernie Black's Not Terribly Suspicious Wife Who Probably Wasn't Cheating on Him"? Or say sayonara to snooping? Hyper spy girl Rae, Izzy's teenage sister (who may have cheated on her PSAT), provides dizzy distractions. Punctuating the rapid-fire plot are amusing therapy session transcripts and footnotes. (Mar.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Those crazy Spellmans return, in all their serendipitous glory, in this third series entry (after The Spellman Files and Curse of the Spellmans). Isabel "Izzy" Spellman is in court-ordered therapy following her obsessive behavior and stalking to prove that their law-abiding neighbor was a criminal, and Izzy's private investigator parents and junior detective sister are busy snooping into Izzy's life. She's bartending while she tries to figure out what she wants to do, but her boss, a family friend, decides to push her back into the real world by coyly suggesting that he has a friend who needs a little detective work. Nothing in the Spellman world is ever simple, and this cheating wife investigation throws Izzy's outrageous life back into full gear. Fans of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books, Kathleen Bacus's Calamity Jayne novels, Toni Causey's Bobbie Faye series, and Leslie Langtry's "Greatest Hits" romances featuring the Bombay family assassins will enjoy Lutz's Spellman books. Highly recommended for all popular fiction collectons. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 11/15/08.]
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Family Camping Trip #2
Why???? we all asked when my father broke the news. A family disappearance/corporate retreat/camping trip all rolled up into one. Surely it was a bad idea, I suggested. The sentiment was reaffirmed by Rae with her constant references to the Donner Party and repeated inquiries as to which one of the Spellmans plus guest would most likely be consumed first (should it come to that). The third time this particular line of inquiry rolled around, my mother sent Rae to her room.
If all of this is confusing you, perhaps I should give you a quick refresher course on the Spellmans. Although I highly recommend reading the first three documents[1] if you want a true understanding of what is really going on here.
My father is Albert Spellman, a onetime cop turned private investigator who really likes lunch. He is happily married to Olivia Spellman, my mother and co-owner of Spellman Investigations. Mom is an extremely attractive womanalthough lately people have been adding the disclaimer "for her age," which has started to get under her skin. Other than my mom's mild vanity, her most obscene characteristic is that she seems to think meddling in her children's lives is an Olympic event. Her training regimen is positively brutal.
Albert and Olivia have three children. The oldest, my brother David, 34: Formerly a poster-boy for the all-American corporate male, currently an out-of-work human being. I'm the middle child. Isabel, 32, if you didn't catch it already. My M.O. from fifth grade until my mid-twenties was that of the problem child. The "student" who the principal knew by name, the neighbors feared and the pot dealers counted on to stay afloat. Also, in the interest of honesty, there were a few arrests thrown into the mixtwo (or four depending on how you're counting) as recently as two years ago, which I guess means that I can't argue that my problem years were confined to my youth or even my twenties. But it's important to note that I've come a long way. Therapy helped, and I'm big enough to admit it was court-ordered.
About six months ago, after years of doubt about my future with Spellman Investigations, I committed to the job completely and agreed to slowly begin taking over the business from my parents so they can retire and learn to macramé[2] or something. My father likes to say the seeds of adulthood have been planted. He's just waiting for them to take.
There's only one other Spellman to speak of—Rae—and I'll mostly let her speak for herself because you might not believe me otherwise.
I suppose the most defining characteristic of my family is that we take our work home with us. If your job is investigating other people, you inevitably investigate each other. This single trait has been our primary point of conflict for most of my life.
Finally, to round out the players on this unfortunate camping trip, I should mention Maggie. Maggie Mason, girlfriend to brother David. Maggie is a defense attorney who used to date Henry Stone (that's a whole other story I don't really want to get into right now, okay?) who happens to be the "best friend"[3] of my now seventeen-year-old sister, the briefly aforementioned Rae. Henry is a forty-five-year-old police inspector and Rae is a senior in high school. They're an unlikely duo. Rae met Henry when she was fourteen and I guess she decided that they were kindred spirits. However, on the surface (and beneath the surface) they have nothing in common. At the start, Henry endured Rae. Then he got used to her. Then, when Henry was dating Maggie and Rae went to supernatural lengths to sabotage their relationship, Henry cut Rae off completely. Now they have found peace. At least that's what I've heard. I don't get involved anymore.
After Maggie and Henry broke up, over half of the Spellman clan vetted Maggie and determined that she was a quality human, the kind of person that the Spellman circle sorely needed. After an appropriate amount of time passed, the matchmaking plans for Maggie and David were successfully enacted. The couple had only been together about two months at the point of this camping trip, but since Maggie is the only person we know who can make fire from a flint, pitch a tent, use a compass and actually owns bear spray, we thought it wise for our own personal safety to bring her along. That and David refused to come unless she accompanied him.
Now picture me in the pre-dawn hours, in the middle of the woods, in the middle of the Russian River, in the middle of nowhere, sharing a tent with my much younger sister, Rae, who had spent the past two days either trying to get cell phone reception, complaining about the mosquitoes, or "sleeping", during which time she carried on lengthy conversations about. . . well, honestly I couldn't tell you. I caught phrases like: "I've been sworn to secrecy," "Not in this lifetime," and "you'll find the treasure at the bottom of the gorge." I might have been able to sleep through her babbling if she weren't a nighttime thrasher and kicker. And so, once again, there I was, sleep-deprived, trapped with family, waiting for the nightmare to come to an end. My life in a nutshell.
I gave up on sleep, knowing that this was my last full day in the wild. When I exited my tent, my father was trying to make coffee and failing miserably. He appeared glad for company since my mother was still slumbering in their tent.
"What am I doing wrong?" he asked.
"Strong-arming your family into a cruel and unnecessary nature excursion," I suggested.
"No," Dad replied. "What am I doing wrong with the coffee?"
"You don't stick the coffee in the pot and boil it with the water, Dad. Are you brain-dead? You just boil the water first and use the French press Maggie brought. Weren't you watching her yesterday?" I replied with too much hostility.
My father tried to lighten the mood with the only joke he had in his arsenal this weekend.
"Why don't you take a hike?" he said for about the thirtieth time.
"I'm going to dig a grave for that line and you're going to bury it, Dad. I swear to you if you say it one more time—"
"Maggie!" Dad shouted, with way too much enthusiasm for waking hours. "Thank God you're awake."
Maggie smiled, approached the campfire, and took over the coffee-making. Already the morning had improved. But the purpose of the trip had not yet been realized and, eventually, we had to accept that this wasn't simply a bonding experience for the Spellmans and friend, but something even more bizarre.
I should mention that no Spellman child had gone AWOL (or refused to participate in the excursion since "business" was not to take place until the final day and, frankly, we all wanted our voice to be heard, even if it was heard above the buzz of mosquitoes. Also, I should mention that my parents refused to give raises to anyone who didn't participate in this bonding exercise. As for David, he was only there because he thought Maggie needed more quality time with the family, as a kind of cautionary lesson.
I suppose it's time we get to business.
[1] The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans – all available in paperback!
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Just an absolutely hysterical, witty, entertaining read. Each new release of this series just keeps getting better and makes me want the next one in line!
Izzy only grows and gets better with each installment of Spellmans. A very easy & enjoyable read!
Fun, fun series. I do a lot of snickering and sudden laugh out louds.
In San Francisco the court orders out of control private investigator Isabel "Izzy" Spellman to attend therapy sessions; she spends her meetings tap dancing around the psychologist. Meanwhile her parents plead with their middle daughter to return to the family private investigative firm; they warn her that without her they will probably have to sell their company. Izzy considers their blackmail while hiding from them and others in her older brother David¿s apartment at a time he has simply vanished form the planet. Although she has found recently sleuthing to have been very depressing (see THE SPELLMAN FILES and CURSE OF THE SPELLMANS ¿ to see why), she considers searching for sibling.
Meanwhile she loses her bartending job because of moonlighting as a detective looking into the easy case of client Ernie Black to prove his wife is cheating or not; of course this being Izzy easy means dangerous. She also helps her octogenarian friend relocate to Florida and elude her teenage sister Rae the alleged PSAT cheater who wants her sibling back with Henry.
The third Spellman dysfunctional investigative family thriller is another out of control zany San Francisco treat as Izzy dodges her parents, her sister and her shrink to work a couple of fog-bound cases. The story line is overwhelmed with sidebars and no plot takes full control; but fans of the series will not care as the eccentric cast especially Izzy¿s family and friends make for a wild time by the bay.
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Quirky Gumshoe family. A light read that doesn't keep me awake at night, but doeskeep me reading. I will continue to follow the series, if only to make sure the little sister doesn't get into too much trouble!
I absolutely loved this series. Lutz brings a whole new meaning to a family business.
CD/Unabridged/Mystery: Izzy is in a crossroads in her life. She is seeing a court-ordered psychiatrist, working for Milo, and her best friend is 82 years-old. Izzy's sleep derivation is hysterical. She begins to get all of her sleep on public transportation. Along with that, she is being black-mailed, bribed, followed, and on a career deadline. I saw where some reviewers were hating on Ari Graynor's narrative. I love it. She is the voice of Izzy and the bored 30 year old. Izzy is still growing up and finding herself. A definite recommendation. The best part of the book was the computer nerd giving/berating Izzy directions on computer file stealing.


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Investigators on Tuesday boarded a half-submerged boat that collided with a ferry a night earlier, killing at least 38 people who had been on their way to a holiday fireworks show. It was Hong Kong's worst accident in well over a decade.
There was no immediate word about how Monday night's collision occurred on the tightly regulated waterways of one of Asia's safest places. The evening was clear and both vessels should have been illuminated by running lights when they crashed near Lamma Island.
The ferry collided with a boat owned by utility company Power Assets Holdings, parent of Hongkong Electric, which was taking its workers and their families to famed Victoria Harbour to watch a fireworks display in celebration of National Day and the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Survivors told local television stations that the power company boat started sinking rapidly after the 8.23pm collision.
The ferry did not sink, and apparently did not stop to help the doomed vessel. Local television later showed images of the ferry, with its bow chewed up and chunks missing.
The government said 38 bodies had been recovered as of Tuesday morning, and at least one person appeared to be missing. Details about the victims were not given, though RTHK reported some of the dead were children.
The accident is the deadliest to strike the territory since a 1996 high-rise fire that killed 41, and the deadliest ferry accident since 88 people died during a typhoon in 1971.
Power Assets' director of operations, Yuen Sui-see, said the company's boat was carrying 121 passengers and three crew members, well below its capacity of more than 200.
"There was a boat that came in close and crashed," he said. "After the crash, the other boat continued away. It didn't stop."
Local news reports said the boat was hit by a ferry operated by the Hong Kong and Kowloon Ferry company on a regularly scheduled service. RTHK said the ferry captain was afraid to stop in case it sank, too, and returned to port safely.
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Collection Agency says it CANNOT delete?
Hi! So we recently reviewed our credit report and found a $56 collection account for a medical debt. It is reported under the name of the collection agency and is the only negative on either of our files. Had absolutely no knowledge of this bill before.
So we contacted the OC and they were very supportive in our request to pay immediately, contingent on the entry being completely deleted. They even went as far as contacting the collection agency to request that this be done.
The next call we received was from the collection agency. They claim they are a 3rd party servicer of the debt for the OC and are unable to delete any entries they have made and that all they can do is update the status to "Paid".
I was a CA collector in a former life (before college) and handled hospital/physician collections exclusively. I was FDCPA certified and witnessed firsthand, and with regularity, negative entries being updated and/or deleted for all kinds of reasons.
However, that was 15+ years ago so I just don't know if anything has changed.
Is there any substance to the claim of this CA that they are not allowed to delete credit report entries unless they are found to be inaccurate? Is there anything in the current law that I can reference in dealing with them to at least establish that they can in fact do it. I understand if that's just the policy of the CA but they are telling us that they cannot do it even if they wanted to.
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Seems like Kris Humphries' plan to further prolong his marriage to Kim Kardashian is starting to unravel.
TMZ reported Friday that a judge set a court hearing for divorce proceedings for May 6.
This does not fare well for Humphries, who has made every effort to fight the proceedings, requesting that the marriage be annulled on the grounds of fraud. Humphries also lost one of his lawyers last week. Court documents show that attorney Marshall Waller submitted a request to be removed from the case citing an "irremediable breakdown of the attorney-client relationship."
Kardashian, on the other hand, is hoping this can finally get rid of any remnants of the whirlwind romance, televised lavish wedding, and subsequent 72-day marriage to the hoops star. Given that she's pregnant with her first child with rapper and new beau, Kanye West, the reality show star is all too ready to put an end to any involvement with Humphries before she gives birth later this year.
In the midst of this, there is actually still time to settle the case before it goes to trial. The judge also ordered both parties to appear April 12 in a final attempt to resolve any differences.
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Marie writes: the great Ray Harryhausen, the monster innovator and Visual Effects legend, passed away Tuesday May 7, 2013 in London at the age of 92. As accolades come pouring in from fans young and old, and obituaries honor his achievements, I thought club members would enjoy remembering what Harry did best.
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Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses to leave. He has no real business being there -- hosting a late-night network talk show, that is -- and may even know in his dark little heart that he's out of his depth, but he's gotten away with it for ten years, so why pull out now? Since he's probably making $25 million a year or so, and ABC has agreed to underwrite the subterfuge, it's hard to imagine Kimmel voluntarily getting the hell out of Dodge.
Marie writes: Intrepid club member Sandy Kahn has found another auction, and this time it's all about Hollywood! Note: the spaceship on the cover is a screen used miniature from "Aliens" (1986). Estimate: $80,000 - $120,000
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Marie writes: Intrepid club member Sandy Kahn discovered the following Danish designers "Monstrum" who make extraordinary playgrounds for children. I think they're the stuff of dreams, whatever your age. Indeed; behold the Rahbek kindergarten in Frederiksberg, Denmark, and Monstrum's first playground...
The Rocket and The Princess Tower! "Just like a set design, a playground must have an inspiring front that attracts children, and a functional backside with climbing, sliding and relaxing options. The idea of the playground is to combine a girl's mind with a boy's approach into one big common playground. The princess tower consists of three floors, and the rocket has two floors. From the top floor of the Rocket, you can slide down the 6 m long double slide together with an astronaut friend." (click to enlarge.)
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Golfing World: Alejandro Canizares – My Hero
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have worked for them or their pupils when needing to produce their best golf under pressure. Today we hear from Alejandro Canizares , a two time winner on the European Tour, who thinks that your pre-shot routine is crucial in helping you play
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Alejandro Canizares speaks to the media after the final round of the Trophee Hassan ll tournament.
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Twenty fourteen was the year that Alejandro Canizares finally notched up his second European tour win. Eight years after his first, at the Russian Open. A wire to wire victory by
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Nippon N.S. Pro WV 125 shaft) • PUTTER: TaylorMade Ghost Tour Monte Carlo 12 • BALL: Titleist Pro V1 Alejandro Canizares Hassan II Trophy, European Tour • DRIVER: Ping G15 (8.5 degrees) • FAIRWAY WOODS: Ping G25 (15 degrees
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Fritz here. To wrap up the final round of the Trophee Hassan II in Morocco. The European tour. Today started at Alejandro Canizares with a six stroke lead. And he was in cruise control. He built his lead and held on to it thanks to the ballthe Trophee Hassan II in Morocco. The European tour. Today started at Alejandro Canizares with a six stroke lead. And he was in cruise control. He built his lead and held on to it thanks to
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Russian Open. With the world's best golfers competing nine time zones away at the PGA Championship, Spain's Alejandro Canizares earned his first career win and set multiple records Sunday at this obscure European Tour stop. The son of four
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Spain's Alejandro Canizares takes a commanding 6-shot lead into the final round after firing his 3rd consecutive round in the 60s.
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Alejandro Canizares is two shots back of Bernd Wiesberger at the 2015 Maybank Malaysian Open.
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Golfing World chats with the 2014 Trophee Hassan II Champion Alejandro Canizares about his battles with injury and his desire to win more European Tour events. Watch Golfing World every Wednesday on Golf Channel.
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Canizares closes strong to tie for Malaysian lead
Alejandro Canizares' second round 65 moved him into a tie for the lead with Lee Westwood at the 2015 Maybank Malaysian Open.
Canizares leads in Morocco, 'very excited' for weekend
Alejandro Canizares is looking forward to the weekend as he stands 14 under par after 36 holes at the Trophée Hassan II in Morocco.
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School Library JournalGr 3-6-An entertaining series that's full of colorful photos and fascinating snippets of animal factoids. While it may be delightfully "icky" to learn that a sea cucumber can expel its digestive tract under stress, it would be nice to be told just what a sea cucumber is. And on being told that "Eels live as adults in the rivers of Europe, but they reproduce in the Sargasso Sea," the curious of mind might wonder about eastern American freshwater eels as well. Full of such insubstantial (but beguiling) tidbits, these slim books will serve best in a classroom library, where the questions they should engender might lead to personal or class research, and a delightfully informative trip to the library.-Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY
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A collection of facts about how many different animals behave in relation to courtship, mating, and caring for offspring.
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