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|Reviews for Priest's Sins
| I-Love-Trunks1 chapter 1 . 2/6
I love the pairing Hidan/Itachi! They are so cute and adorable together! I love uke Itachi! I loved this story so much!
| Yano's Pen chapter 1 . 7/8/2013
Nice. I love that!
| Ghislainne chapter 1 . 8/23/2012
I absolutely loved this piece. Unfortunately I am so tired I couldn't give you a review like I normally do, but please know that I loved it. Especially the last line.
| Guest chapter 1 . 7/20/2012
c': That was fucking beautiful and so real! I could imagine it happening. And oh dear. You've got magical powers or something! That was so amazing. I loved every syllable. c': It was such good research. I'm writing one of my own or well really just a scene for a KazuHidan and I wasn't so sure on how to write it. That and I was in the mood for a good story. But a word of advice. You shouldn't be afraid to put it into your fic if it pertains to the story. Like I usually don't like it, but in a story where it's needed or helpful I do. It's not you putting your opinion on religion in it more so you applying it to the story to make it more believable so next time don't be so timid with it. I actually found it to be very interesting. And because Hidan can be qualified as a priest of his religion it's perfectly acceptable to include religion related things in the story actually it improves it overall. So never ever refrain from adding anything that could be interesting or helpful such as the religion bits. I love this story. The building of the relationship was beautiful and timeless. Like reading a romance novel. And I love romance novels! :3
| acetwolf94 chapter 1 . 6/1/2012
| Dredonis chapter 1 . 3/21/2012
whoa...*nose bleed*
| 24neor chapter 1 . 8/31/2011
I loveeee it! X3 So good~!
| Akari's Blood chapter 1 . 8/4/2011
I loved it! This is going to be the only thing in my head for a while... and it may just be me, since I have Catholic relatives, but that's the only thing I thought of when I read the last line: I never knew Itachi was Catholic. then, I felt like an idiot. but I absolutely love the story. Thank you!
| Silverstonedragon chapter 1 . 1/26/2011
That was really funny.I really liked God for sugar 're right, there ain't many HaidanXItachi .
| Shi-Toyu chapter 1 . 12/10/2010
DAMN! That was nice! I really enjoyed it! I like the blood on Hidan's cock. Very nice touch!
| Ike Reibun chapter 1 . 9/2/2010
Hot hot that was great
| Dior Crystal chapter 1 . 8/16/2010
I agree that there needs to be more HidaIta! I love this pairing~! w Thank you for writing this, I enjoyed reading it. I like how you took time to make their relationship build up before they finally did it. My favourite part was when they were feeding each other chocolates. So cute~ 3
| LominiqueAikou chapter 1 . 8/2/2010
Omg! its so dirty i fucking love it! ;)
| LifeinClover chapter 1 . 7/22/2010
*Froths at the mouth.*
| itachiswife chapter 1 . 10/31/2009
omg that was so hot o/o
and love it they were friends,the best story ive ever read of them and their my faves 3


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Boy, this sure looks cool!
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Oh man that's great, I have read about it, there were some legal issues with Bob Dylan, and Jobs financially solved it ; )
I am still unable to get uploads to work. The purchase link should work to download this. Screenshots are available here: http://www.opendylan.org/images/browsers1.png and http://www.opendylan.org/images/browsers2.png

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Runs were tough to come by in the two games.
Mark: Come on there is no proof yet it's the Russians! Hillary may be a good person but she is part of the lying, say anything group to get elected. I was a Democrat but they have done nothing for the past 8 years how can she say, her and the party that controls her will make changes. The nation is more divided than ever and it's due to the extreme left and right as well as corporations that control us. She like the other politicians take speech training, look for that fist with the thumb up that they all use. I don't know if Trump is right for the job but he is the only outsider that is willing to spend millions of his own money to compete. Excuse me I have to go pee now and I feel like a woman today so I'll use the women's restroom!!!! I'm also an illegal alien getting free medical and assistance that drives without a license and no insurance. I protest America for not catering to me while I force myself on them and wave the flag of my country. I want to marry my cousin, I'm protesting wearing only underwear! I'm an inner city thug, #$%$ if I act like an animal! There is police brutality but look to yourself as well to stop the violence and preconceived view of yourself that the few of you project. I would not want to be a cop in the inner city, it's a jungle. Oh that's my fault because I'm prejudice! Democrats and some Republicans use to represent the hard working middle class that don't have time to protest and pays for and is responsible for everything. While all these groups rip the country apart. It's time for a non career politician!!


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SAN ANTONIO -- You can call his players dirty.
You can make reaching comparisons between his team and yesteryear's Oakland Raiders because of the color schemes they share.
You can even tell Gregg Popovich that the San Antonio Spurs would not be one win away from winning a second-round series as big as the NBA Finals if the league office wasn't helping them out so much.
The Spurs' salty coach won't bother trying to stop you.
"I'd do it, too, if I had your job," Pop says, jabbing lightly at his media audience because he knows we "need stories."
Deep down, or maybe even not so deep, you suspect that all this Spurs-dissing does bother him. It has to. This organization has displayed a serial lack of interest in chasing style points over the years, but the Spurs do cherish their reputation as classy champions.
Put another way: Content as the Spurs were for so long to have virtually no image, it really will leave a wound in South Texas if they're now saddled with a tarnished image.
You don't have to go too deep into the Spurs' playbook to find the instructions about scoffing at the public discourse. Under any circumstances.
"We don't worry about things we can't control here," Bruce Bowen said on the eve of Friday's Game 6, well aware that his tangles with Amare Stoudemire and Steve Nash are what got the anti-Spurs bandwagon rolling faster than ever.
"You always want to be respected for what you do. But if we don't get that, there's nothing you can do about it. I really don't pay that much attention to it.
"As far as 'villains,' it's just so funny to me, because I never thought we could be labeled like that. But you can't control what people write or say about you."
You can complain, actually, but Popovich simply won't allow it.
During games? That's something else. The Spurs are still legendary for, uh, pleading their cases to referees.
But when the games are over? Popovich has often said that they can't protest anything else too loudly when they've had "more good fortune than any other team in the doggone league." Which is a valid point for a franchise that has made two trips to the lottery since 1989 and came away with the No. 1 pick twice, first to draft David Robinson, then to take Tim Duncan.
It would appear that fortune smiled big-time on the Spurs again this week, when Robert Horry rerouted Nash into the scorer's table late in Game 4 with the sort of body check that Nash's Canadian countrymen know well. The chaos that ensued, as you might have heard, earned Phoenix's Stoudemire and Boris Diaw one-game suspensions for leaving the bench, with Horry's two-game ban serving as the only Spurs penalty.
So loud was the ensuing national outcry that longtime San Antonio Express-News columnist/Spurs historian Buck Harvey wondered whether San Antonio's Game 5 victory would wind up with a bigger asterisk than the one Phil Jackson famously affixed to the Spurs' first championship in the 1999 lockout season.
"The Spurs are no longer the team that America hates to watch," Harvey wrote. "Now they are the team that America just hates."
Yet it's instructive to note that the Suns -- after everything that's happened through five contentious games and even though they're suddenly the closest thing in the NBA to America's Team -- don't just want to force a Game 7 on Sunday.
They want to force us to call them Spurs-like.
"They do a great job of their system and staying true to form, making big plays in big moments," Suns coach Mike D'Antoni told reporters in Phoenix on Thursday. "That's what we're trying to get. Mental toughness, being lucky, I don't know what it is."
The Spurs, D'Antoni added, just seem to "believe a little bit more."
"All the time," he said.
That includes believing that Bowen's knee to Nash's groin to clear space in Game 3 and Horry's frustration foul on Nash in Game 4 were pardonable acts in the do-anything-necessary quest to win a fourth championship in nine seasons.
Which also includes living with Spurs-are-dirty talk. Pop will brand it "ridiculous" when someone brings it up, but he also won't expend too much energy trying to fight it.
His most creative attempt so far was suggesting that we're all missing the real injustice of Round 2: The fact, namely, that no one is paying any attention to what the Jazz did to Golden State.
"Neither of us is playing any better than Utah," Popovich said of the Spurs and Suns. "But Utah is kind of like San Antonio. They're boring like us."
A boring story, he meant.
You know. How the Spurs used to be seen.
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L.C. Greenwood of Pittsburgh's NFL 'Steel Curtain' Dies at 67
L.C. Greenwood, a former Pro Bowl defensive end who won four Super Bowl titles in the 1970s as a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers' defensive line known as the "Steel Curtain," has died. He was 67.
The Steelers didn't disclose a cause of death yesterday in a statement.
Greenwood spent his entire National Football League career with the Steelers from 1969 through 1981, teaming with "Mean Joe" Greene, Ernie Holmes and Dwight White on a defensive line that won championships after the 1974, 1975, 1978 and 1979 seasons. Greenwood was voted to the NFL's All-Decade team for the 1970s.
"L.C. was one of the most beloved Steelers during the most successful period in team history and he will be missed by the entire organization," a joint statement from Steelers Chairman Dan Rooney and President Art Rooney II said yesterday. "He will be forever remembered for what he meant to the Steelers both on and off the field."
The 6-foot-6 Greenwood was selected in the 10th round of the 1969 draft out of Arkansas-Pine Bluff, 234 picks after the Steelers took Greene, a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, at No. 4 overall.
Greenwood became a powerful pass-rusher, making the Pro Bowl six times, and had four sacks of Dallas quarterback Roger Staubach in the Steelers' second Super Bowl victory, a 21-17 win over the Cowboys following the 1975 season.


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Munich Surroundings, Munich
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Check in on HOHENSCHWANGAU: This castle is built by Ludwig's father, Maximilian II & located in the vicinity of Neuschwanstein. The originial sturcture of this castle dates back to the 12th century knights of Schwangau. Maximilian II bought it in 1832 & completed the restoration in 4 years. Ludwig stayed here for the first 17 years of his life & received Richard Wagner in its chambers here.
Favorite thing: Go on a day excursion to CHIEMSEE ('Bavarian Sea') where the beautiful SCHLOSS HERRENCHIEMSEE is situated! This is Ludwig II's most ambitious palace, a replica of Versailles. However, only the central wing of the building was completed as he was dethroned shortly. Another long story...
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Photo: Panorama of the city of Miltenberg on the Main River.
The Alpine foreland with its exquisite lakes such as the Chiemsee and the Königssee, the Bavarian Forest with its National Park, the Franconian Jura, the Fichtel Hills, the Steigerwald, the Spessart and many other scenic areas of the state offer tourist incomparably enticing opportunities for rest, recreation and enjoyment of nature.
Favorite thing: Munich or, actually Munchen like it's called by locals, is a capital of Bavaria, and a very, very, very beautiful city. The surburs of Munich are just as pretty: the lake of Chiemsee, all the 4 castles of king Ludwig II. Great atmosphere: moderm, industrilized city and at the same time so close to national culture and so traditional.
Fondest memory: Lake Chiemsee with its stunning beauty peacfully dozes, surrounded by Alps. Herrenchiemsee castle by king Ludwig II is built on one of its islands. Gallery of art on the Zugspitze's summit - where art meets nature!
Fondest memory: Being from Dublin (and those visitors who have witnessed city officials scooping tons of burger joint detritus from the waters of the Floozy in the Jacuzzi in O'Connell Street will see where I'm coming from!) it was a real culture shock to visit the neatly manicured, spotlessly clean, architecturally quaint villages and towns in southern Bavaria. I'm only sorry that I was experimenting at the time with black and white film in my camera - these places are a riot of colour as well as lovely.
Favorite thing: The town's charming location on the edge of the Alps is impressive: framed in by imposing high mountain peaks and an idyllic lake district, at an altitude of 800 – 1200 meters above sea level, thus making it Bavaria's town at the highest elevation, the ideal starting point for visiting the royal castles of Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau only four kilometers away or the Wies Church (29 km).
Favorite thing: As if drawn by an artist's hand, the Füssen's medieval town center rises high above the banks of the River Lech. Different historical epochs meet here in a harmonious ensemble, whose unique flair is an invitation to go on journeys of discovery into the past or to take a look around the shops. The Hohes Schloss, the former summer residence of the prince bishops of Augsburg and one of Swabia's largest and best preserved late gothic castle complexes, is Füssen's landmark, towering over a maze of narrow lanes. The living quarters once occupied by the bishops today house a branch gallery of the Bavarian State Collections of Paintings, which focuses on late gothic and Renaissance works of art from the Allgäu-Swabian and Franconian region.
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In the castle courtyard the facades are adorned with illusionist paintings that delude the viewer into seeing oriels, window frames and molded corners. Below the Hohes Schloss is the magnificent baroque complex of the former Benedictine Monastery of St Mang, whose history goes back to the 8th century. In addition to the Basilica, the largest and most magnificent of the numerous baroque churches in Füssen's medieval center, where the oldest preserved fresco in Bavaria (about 980, Teichenau School) can be viewed in the east crypt, it is in particular the Füssen Heritage Museum that is well worth seeing. The richly decorated baroque halls give an impression of the earlier prosperity of this Benedictine collegiate church. In the Anna Chapel, accessible through the museum, the Füssen Dance of Death is on view, Bavaria's oldest Dance of Death cycle still preserved.
The museum's own collection of valuable historical lutes and violins recalls Füssen's position as the cradle of European lute-making, where in the 16th century the first European lute-makers' guild was founded. Regular tours of the town, the museum and the churches as well as special tours for groups are available throughout the year.
Entertaining festivals against an historical backdrop, open-air culture on the market squares or in the courtyards and the Christkindles Städtle, or Christmas Market, in the pre-Christmas season invest Füssen's medieval center with a magic of a very special kind. The town's high-caliber program of events has had a new cultural highlight to offer since April 2000: the premiere of the musical "Ludwig II – Longing for Paradise" in the newly-built Neuschwanstein Musical Theater carries the spectators off into the dream world of the Bavarian fairy-tale king and is Bavaria's first major musical.
Favorite thing: I had been told that you could see the Alps from Sabine and Sascha's apartment, but morning after morning we woke up to cloudy skies. Then it happened.
Fondest memory: This castle feels more homely than that of Neuschwanstein with its warm colors & has a nice panoramic view of the lake too!
Fondest memory: Neuschwanstein Castle, and beautiful Alps range, including Alpspitze and Zugspitze, and another beautiful lake right next to those mountains - Eibsee.
Fondest memory: This guy makes the most beautiful sculptures in Oberammergau, the shape of the finished piece being dictated by the original shape of the dead wood. His house is quite nice too.
Fondest memory: A view in the Black Forest (even blacker with my camera and its monochrome film!). I never saw such a neat and tidy forest in all my life :o)
Fondest memory: Another view of Oberammergau, it's a pity the weather was so dire, I would have loved to have seen the colours more vibrant. Such craftsmanship in the carpentry and fine decoration!
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I really like truecrypt, but the only thing that I don't like about it is that there is no option (that I can see anyhow) that lets me encrypt individual files.
What I want to do is use the SkyDrive application so I can drop files in a certain folder and have them automatically sync to the cloud, but I certainly don't want to let them sync unencrypted. But if I use TrueCrypt to do it, I'm forced to make a large container to store stuff in, and that's cumbersome at best.
Is there a program out there, preferably free, that will let me encrypt stuff sorta like EFS does for NTFS, but doesn't break the encryption when I move it off an NTFS volume?


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I'm a newbie, and I've installed the restricted extras package but I still cant play a dvd. Is there a way to trouble shoot the problem or is there any important codecs that I've missed?


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Seth Rogen Made a House of Cards Joke at a Senate Hearing (Also, Weed)
His actual testimony was more serious, about Alzheimer's.
Seth Rogen was both in and out of character today on Capitol Hill. The actor appeared at a Senate hearing on Alzheimer's to speak about the struggles of his mother-in-law, but he opened with some levity. "Thank you for the opportunity to testify today and for the opportunity to be called an expert in something, because that's cool," said Rogen. "I don't know if you know who I am, chairman. I know you never saw Knocked Up, which is a little insulting."
"I will wager, this is the first time in any congressional hearing in history that the words 'knocked up' have ever been spoken," said Senator Tom Harkin. (Nope.)
"Yes, I'm aware that this has nothing to do with the legalization of marijuana," Rogen continued.
"I came here today for few reasons," he said. "One, I'm a huge House of Cards fan. Had to be here." Then he got to the serious stuff and it was legitimately touching. "Americans whisper the words Alzehimer's," Rogen said. "It's needs to be yelled and screamed."
Alas, the actor ended up disenchanted with the bureaucratic process, but not afraid to say so:
Not sure why only two senators were at the hearing. Very symbolic of how the Government views Alzheimer's. Seems to be a low priority.— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) February 26, 2014
.@SenatorKirk pleasure meeting you. Why did you leave before my speech? Just curious.— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) February 26, 2014


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Rick McCrank Vegetarian Ad
Rick McCrank is well known and well envied. His skating skills should not—and would not—ever be questioned. Rick, once voted "Best Street Skater" by TransWorld Skateboarding magazine, co-created and co-owns Anti-Social Skate Shop in Vancouver and co-owns Momentum Wheels. He is quite the busy guy, but he still made time to team up with peta2 to let the world know that eating meat just "feels unnatural" to him.
In the ad, Rick declares, "I am a professional skateboarder, entrepreneur, and father. For me, eating meat feels unnatural." Now you can't wait to see more, so check out the full ad!
Now take a page right out of Rick McCrank's animal-friendly playbook and take our Veg Pledge today! I know you don't want to contribute to the abuses of animals killed for food, such as scalding chickens to death in feather-removal tanks, clipping pigs' ears without the use of painkillers, and ripping calves away from their mothers when they're only days old, leaving the moms to cry out for their babies for days.


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Running Time: 120
Director: Ryan Michaels
Company: Offset Entertainment
Cast: Arcadia, Victoria Lan, Joey Ray, Holly Wellin, Mark Davis, Lacie Heart, Hailey Paige, Trent Tesoro, Sandra Romain, Ariana Jollee, Mr. Marcus
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: Gonzo
Joey Ray plays director Ryan Michaels in this reality sex show spoof. Couples show up at Ray's "house" as contest winners, eager to fuck for "big time director" Michaels? porno camera with the expectation that they get to keep the tape at the end. Of course, they don?t, and that footage – along with plenty of "confessional" footage – becomes Lies, Sex & Videotape.
Ariana Jollee and Sandra Romain hop on Mr. Marcus for an energetic anal scene. Haley Paige takes Trent Tesoro in her butt. And Joey Ray gets lucky with hot blonde duo Holly Wellin and Lacie Heart.
Retailing: This is a well done production for couples.


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By DON SHILLING
LORDSTOWN — The Chevrolet Cruze is creating optimism that jobs can be created at the local car plant even though new sales numbers for the Chevrolet Cobalt made at the auto complex look bad.
U.S. sales of the Cobalt were down 32 percent last month, which ended a dismal year for the small car. General Motors sold 104,700 Cobalts last year, which was down 44 percent from 2008.
Union officials at the car complex are not discouraged by the news GM released Tuesday, however. They expect a third shift will be added after the Cruze is launched next summer, which could mean that GM will hire more local workers.
"I'm confident that once the Cruze is launched, you're going to see an uptick in our production," said Dave Green, president of United Auto Workers Local 1714 at the fabricating plant in the complex.
He said he has spoken with some small-car buyers who are holding off making a purchase because the Cruze is coming.
Local 1714 has only 31 workers laid off, so the creation of a third shift would require the hiring of hundreds of workers unless they are brought in from another GM plant, Green said. The local has 940 members working.
Jim Graham, president of UAW Local 1112 at the assembly plant, said he thinks the nation's economy will be picking up just in time for the Cruze launch this summer, which will spur sales.
He said the assembly plant would need about 1,000 more workers for a third shift. Local 1112 has about 400 members laid off, and Graham said he hopes that most of the rest would be people hired from the area.
Local 1112 has 2,400 members who are working on two shifts.
The complex briefly had three shifts operating in 2008, but the number of employees who are laid off has been reduced through a buyout and early-retirement offer and normal attrition.
December wrapped up a slow month for the car industry as consumers decided to hold on to their current vehicles and financing was difficult for many.
GM said that its U.S. sales were down 9 percent last month and 33 percent for 2009.
It sold 8,672 Cobalts last month, down 32 percent from the 12,786 that were sold in December 2008.
Despite the decline from year-ago numbers, last month's totals showed improvement from the previous three months. Sales in September through November didn't reach above 7,400.
Speculation about next years ecomony, optimism, confidence, not discouraged, thinking, hope, and all the other verbage being generated by the union leaders are nice words, to a bad situation. The sales numbers of the Cobalt and the other GM products tell the real story. The Cruze will initially be only built in a four door version, for the US and Canadian markets. Also, it has more plastic in it than the Cobalt, and less American made parts.
There is no way there will be a third shift added.
USA1 got it right, a Government/Union owned company will not survive. Review the car and driver magazines initial review of the Cruze vehicles being built in Korea and China. Just another car.
Running a union local does not qualify someone to make predictions about auto sales, especially when the potential customers you are talking to are on your bowling team.
With the exception of northeast Ohio, you'd be hard pressed to find a Cobalt, except on an Avis or Hertz rental lot. The same will be true with the Cruze.
The reason for lackluster GM sales is simple -- consumer anger. We just don't like the idea of tax money being used to bail out GM and give the UAW a big chunk of the company. The plain fact is that a lot of car buyers will never again set foot on a GM dealer lot.
Yesterday's auto sales figures confirm this trend. In a bad economy, sales at Ford and Toyota were up, while at GM and Chrysler sales were down again.
Mr. Green, good luck with the Cruze. I'm sure you'll sell a lot of them in Mahoning and Trumbull counties.
Yet another in a long line of mediocre (at best) cars produced in Lordstown. Tying the future of a company to this and the Volt is like tying an anchor to a swimmer. GM sales were down even with massive rebates and Pontiac and Saturn liquidation. Ford and Toyotas up over 20%.
Of course this moron will stay upbeat , he wants to keep his position as a union president. UNIONS are responsible for the death of auto manufacturing in America, and are slowly killing the rest of business in America too. Labor costs are strangling the market for American made products. If another country can make the same product, pay to ship it here, and pay to market it here, while still keeping the cost under something made in our own backyard, shouldn't that raise a few red flags? I look down on people who call themselves American and belong to a union. It just shows me that they are lazy and probably couldn't hold a job that requires them to work hard for their pay. They are just as bad as the "life on welfare" hood rats that have babies for money.
Lordstown is very mismanaged. Green has no time with the business ,the plant Will never go anywhere and all the bond holders and employees pushed out the door won't forget the union gave up nothing .
The Cobalt line has, once again continued the stigmatism of Lordstown built automobiles. In order for Lordstown to survive, GM needs to begin the process of building GOOD CARS, not cheap junk.
You cannot force the public to buy cheap junk cars, when there are so many other good cars to choose from.
If you want people to come, you have to give them something good to come to. Give them value. Give them quality. Plain and simple. Get rid of the junk!
Interesting how some people claim that a government run car company can't compete yet when it come to health care those same people claim that its unfair competition for there to be a government run public option.
As for the bailout itself I will state again that the US automakers will always be bailed out in times of trouble since in times of war there production can be converted to war materials production. If the Department of Defense (War Department) feels it needs something it will always be saved no matter how ineptly its run.
Now if we could just find another Lee Iacocca to take of GM and Chrysler we would get our money paid back early.
As for the Cruze and all of the other silly cars coming out of Detroit they need to be building cars that run on BioDiesel, preferably plugin Hybrid BioDiesels. With that as a powertrain small cars should average 100-120mpg large cars, small trucks & SUV's would avg 50-80mpg and Large SUV's and trucks would avg 25-40mpg. This would reduce our need for foreign oil and improve our airquality while reducing CO2 output, a win, win, win situation.
It appears that the Cruze is just another "run-of-the-mill" automobile in its production and sales overseas, so don't get your hopes up Mr. Union President that it will be anything better here. GM management and Lordstown will not be able to overcome their hazy view from whatever it is they are smoking to think their latest line will be a savior. This is all just marketing double talk to instill product confidence from the public.
I'm getting tired of buying GM and getting hosed to the tune of thousands of dollars, just for the sake of thinking I am buying American. I'm getting tired of hassling with GM or Ford dealers who speak down to you and tell you what you should buy. I seach on the internet now and do not go to the dealer until I know what deal I have. What a waste of my money and time these past deals were and why I have suffered with these poor investments is beyond me anymore.
If more Americans took up this position, we would hep GM climb out of their haze and either begin making and selling cars the way we want, or they will disappear and make our lives more enjoyable.
In 2001 A very high ranking General motors official told me that Lordstown was going to be rocked to sleep and General Motors was getting out of the car business. I seen clearly why, the third shift elected officials were given the Labor Conference room to sleep all night. The current Management was congratulated for harrassing and pushing supervisors out on the street for opposing the union when an employee was disiplined. IT is also clear to me why my retirement check now says installement.G.M. is setting the stage to dump retirement obligations on the tax payer.
The bad news is Tata will be selling cheap cheap cars in the USA next year...get 2 or 3 for the price of 1 GM.
You people are all morans... When all said and done the goverment or poeple in charge of it has little affect on your lives. Start supporting the community and the United States and you will start to see improvement.
morans, huh? goverment?poeple?affect?
That post just made my day.
thancks 4 the beeing my editoar
No thank you for showing us why we need unions. To keep people like you working.
and thank u for being such a tool.... now i dont feel so bad when i spend time with your wife
I gave up on GM products back in the 60's. The stuff out of Lordstown were all POS's. I tried Ford in the early 70's .... only marginally better. Been a Toyota owner since 1974 and am working on only my third Toyota product .... a 2000 Lexus. (the other Toyotas are still running) Got 150000 miles and all that I do is change tires, oil and and filters when needed. I am certain that the Cobalts, Cruzes, etc. will follow the Lordstown Unions quality and exceed all expectations as a new POS's. BTW I left Youngstown in the late 60's and continue to marvel at the union mentality that totally ruined the area.
GM could produce a better car if its labor costs were lower and they could put that money into the cars.
Get rid of Howie Long. How much is added to the price of a car to pay his salary? :If you don't make a car that is dependable, you won't sell it. The American car buyer is still upset that GM took a bail out. Look at Chryslers sales figures. If things don't turn around soon, Chrysler will be gone. The Big Three is all but gone.
Own a Colbalt,bought in April. Yes it is a POS. Nothing more than a paperweight. It never got warm the other night. 35 minutes and no heat. So uncomfortable to get in and out of. Poorly engineered too,your foot hits the door getting in,and the door opens so wide you have to step out to close it. And the kicker...the batteries are all defective! They like to go dead for no reason after a few hours. When that happens all systems shut down. You are screwed as your keys are stuck in the ignition. I was told to turn to page 22 in the owners manual and disassemble the steering colum myself...on a twomonth old car! What junk.
Mr union pres surely doesw not want to give up all the free trips. Vegas Niagra Falls NYC all comped do you really think he is at a conference? Yeah right and IF he has a cobalt you can bet its a freebie. One hand up his puppets butt the other is streched out grabbing. When hes not sleeping in his office.
Cruiz is a pathetic joke.
Get outta town while you can people
The ignition tumblers in the Cobalt are made from plastic. Fragments of it cause the ignition key to get stuck, and the ignition switch cannot be turned. This has been a major warranty issue due to the engineering design. In the old days, the ignition tumblers were made of a type of die cast metal. The batteries are not the problem, there is an electrical system problem, draining your battery. These cars have multiple computer modules, sensors, etc., all made overseas. Heaters not getting warm enough has also been a long time warranty issue. Once again, due to the design.
Those Howie Long commercials frost me, too! Especially the one for the Traverse. Does he really think we common folk have $30,000 lying around in our dusty bank accounts to buy one of those things??? Granted, a comparable Honda or Toyota costs the same.... but which one do you think will still be on the road in ten years? Not the Chevy!
It is so sad to hear others share the same feelings that I have over the demise of GM products. We GM loyalists have given up and can no longer justify buying from GM. Over the years, I have supported GM despite their record, in the hope that they would soon turn things around. This turn around has not developed, they went into bankruptcy and are now owned by the government, who we all know cannot run anything effectively.
When people visit us and walk through our garage, they show more interest in the Toyota parked on the left, than the Chevrolet parked on the right. They are both 2008 models. This should tell everyone what has happened to our automotive industry...GM has lost the consumer and it is a result of years of neglect over consumer demands.
One of my biggest fears about GM is that the government will bail out and sell it to Toyota. This will be an insult to Toyota and could lead to Toyota's downfall as well.
I am all for supporting American manufacturing, but not when they make an inferior product. I agree it IS sad what GM has become. In the last 15 years I have owned several GM and Chrysler products -- nothing but one thing after another going wrong. Chryslers were the worst -- I had to replace the transmissions three times between the two vans I owned. My youngest son joked that Chrysler should give you a spare transmission in the trunk instead of a spare tire.I finally got smart and bought a used Toyota, have had it for 3 years now and other than changing the oil and filters it has given me no problems whatsoever. Why can't GM build a quality product?
I've had a dozen GM cars in my lifetime and never had a bad car. My only lemon was Japanese. These Valley naysayers are so old news. They need to get a life.
Hey tookie, I said nothing about the quality of the automobile, I simply stated the price is too high because of dumb crackers like you who support the unions
In response to my earlier post
"Interesting how some people claim that a government run car company can't compete yet when it come to health care those same people claim that its unfair competition for there to be a government run public option.
As for the bailout itself I will state again that the US automakers will always be bailed out in times of trouble since in times of war there production can be converted to war materials production. If the Department of Defense (War Department) feels it needs something it will always be saved no matter how ineptly its run.
Now if we could just find another Lee Iacocca to take of GM and Chrysler we would get our money paid back early.
As for the Cruze and all of the other silly cars coming out of Detroit they need to be building cars that run on BioDiesel, preferably plugin Hybrid BioDiesels. With that as a powertrain small cars should average 100-120mpg large cars, small trucks & SUV's would avg 50-80mpg and Large SUV's and trucks would avg 25-40mpg. This would reduce our need for foreign oil and improve our airquality while reducing CO2 output, a win, win, win situation"
USA1 said
"Private insurance companies can't compete against national health insurance because it has unlimited money. From the taxpayers. Result, inferior health care and higer taxes.
Government Motors has to compete against Ford, Toyota, Nissan, Kia, Honda, Mecedes, etc. Again taxes will be raised for an inferior product and it's competitors will destroy Government Motors."
If multiple multi-billion dollar bailouts don't equal unlimited taxpayer money I'm not sure what would.
And as for those squeamish little insurance companies if someone started a new insurance company and undercut their prices by 20% or 30% they would simply adapt either by lowering their prices or increasing the quality of their customer service to compete; unless thy chose to rollover and just give up (not likely).
How do you think companies like Nordstrom & Saks Fifth Avenue compete with Walmart & JC Penney.
Hey VINDYAK .... I doubt if Toyota would take GM/Chevie if it was given to them for free.
If Toyota did take over
1. It would not be a union shop ... Toyota would not allow it
2. They would scrap everything and start over and design the products to be reliable..
USA1 and Hope, please verify where your (49%) claim comes from. Not doubting you but the only info I find states that in 1983, GM gave Toyota a unused plant in California for 18% of Toyota's stock. That agreement ended in 2009.
Looking at the Toyota stock summary I do not see any mention of GM being a major stock holder.
My info came from Wikipedia and I can not vouch for the validity of it.
i will be happy to see the day lordstown closes. give you whiners something else to talk about.
many talk about us makers quality. what about toyota's 4 million recall for a defect that killed people? if one would bother to check, toyota has the highest number of recalls according to the nhtsa.
you want to talk about government subsidies, have any of you read the article about chinese pipe makers? don't you think that happens with other products? the tax dollars that go to transplants built here.
you should get your facts straight. in japan there are unions. run by the companies. and they don't allow too many forgein cars in the country.
Ron ... no toyota unions in US as far as I know
uas1-pro-conservaterican lambasting the UAW, GM and it`s quality is funny seeing as how he worked on the assembly for 24 yrs assembling the very same vehicles he now proclaims are inferior.I guess this means he never did his job correctly.He also greatly benefited from his union negotiated wages and benefits including the buyout he took in 2006.When GM pays off it`s government loan,rest assured he will be whining about something else.Typical conservative hypocrisy.Also his comment about GM owning 49% of Toyota is bogus.
chuckcchert.....Nummi Motors in Fremont California is a joint venture between GM and Toyota since 1984. About 4,500 UAW workers.
USEless1....It's amazing how you have such a problem with with the government saving the American auto industry with investments that someday may be paid back.
You also have problems with your neighbor being a member of the same union you were a member of for more than twenty years.
All the while you cheer on Japanese auto companies that are subsidized by the Japanese government put outrageous tariffs on American auto imports and employ union auto workers in Japan.
It takes more than being a teabagger and having some BS patriotic "username" to be a real American. You don't qualify.
wrong again
for all of you wanting gm to fail, and lordstown to close. i hope it happens. you deserve to get what you want. then the population will drop by half again, like when the steel mills closed.
and if you think a forgein auto company could buy the plant. what company would want to locate in an area where the locals won't support an american company?
oh, i forgot. they will take any and all tax incentives from the government. guess that's ok with some of you.
cambridge, you might want to read your local newspaper, Nummi motors is history!!!
did any of you read the article about chinese pipe makers? the chinese government subsidizes them so they sell their product here below cost. how's that sound to you?
redvert....I'm aware that Nummi is closing. chuckschert said that he wasn't aware of any Toyota/union relationship in the US. I just pointed one out. I believe Toyota will be moving that production to Canada and Mexico. Why wouldn't they abandon 25 years of a loyal workforce since there are so many "Americans" cheering them on to do so?
Can we get back to the misspellings and allusions to adultery please?
In case some of you don't understand, most of the assembly line workers do their best assembling quality into the vehicles they assemble. It is the design and the process, and equipment the company provides that really determines the final quality of the product. If you provide a poor design, poor quality parts, and a difficult assembly process, timed very tight, how do you expect the line assembler to always do their job in station. Bottom line is that the company and union both are to blame for the situation GM is in. Hope for the best, expect the worse.
The reason GM is ending their relationship with NUMMI in California is due to the elimination of the Pontiac brand. The Vibe is/was built alongside a Toyota version of the same platform vehicle. Many GM management people spent months in that plant to learn the Toyota manufacturing processes in an effort to bring that learning back to their plant for implementation. Union practices/contracts basically prevented most of these processes from being implemented. Nice idea. Fact is that the products assembled at NUMMI are good vehicles. Ask anyone who owns a Chevy Prizm or Pontiac Vibe.
cambridge, I think if you had been aware that the agreement had ended a few months back you would of tried to play it to your advantage up front (which of course you did after the fact). No problem !!!
Yes, Toyota may move it to Mexico or Canada. Why would they want to stay involved with Government Motors?
boardmanneedschange-I think about people like you and laugh every time I clock in at GM. Go ahead, vent your frustration on this forum, if that makes you feel better. No one gives a rat's ass about you or your comments. Greed? Laziness? Corruption? Nepotism? etc. It's been the way of the world since the dawn of man. Funny how almost all the people at the top of the food chain, from Bank CEO's to Congress to the President possess those traits. But go ahead condemn middle class, working men for it...idiot.
i agree with you. i am surprised gm has keep lordstown open.
i read bertram de souza column the other day. i seldom agree with him; but on that one i do.
if for no other reason we should hope for, and do what we can to make gm profitable; we, the taxpayers own 60%. sure, many don't like that, but it's done. get over it. if so many want to thow their money away, i think it kind of stupid.
usa1-pro-conservaterican,why are you calling me a liar? I`m not the one that changed my username on here from Pro-American either to disguise yourself or you were rightly banned by the Vindy because you can`t handle being challenged on the garbage you post on here. In typical conservative fashion,you never actually answer any questions I posed to you but instead try to talk around them.That may work with some people but unfortunately for you,it won`t work with me. Like it was pointed out in another post,you were a member of the UAW for 24 years and all the benefits that people in the past fought and died for since 1937 you received but now all you can do to defend your ignorance is write that the union protected losers.There is no doubt that your definition of a loser would be anybody that doesn`t believe everything that you do which would encompass almost everyone.And what do illegal aliens have to do with anything? Typical teabagger.Always try to disguise your lack of coherency with a hot button issue.The UAW doesn`t support anything to do with illegal immigration.I wonder when you shop at Wal-Mart if you`re worried about all the illegals that they employ? What model of car do you drive usa1? So you paid 42% of your UAW negotiated buyout in taxes.So what? You didn`t have to leave,that was your choice and taxes are a part of life.Maybe you should return to GM and conduct a poll of the workers.Ask them if they would rather work for a union or non-union company.I guess time will tell whether GM survives or not,but Vindy posters can rest assured if they do,you won`t be on here admitting you were wrong.I think you owe all the UAW members of this Valley an apology for calling them socialists.Many fought for our nation in WWII,Korea,Vietnam and the Mid-East.Many have children serving in the armed forces right now.Many have had children killed in the line of duty.And the rest love their country.Maybe you should pay a visit to a union meeting and call them your derogatory names to their faces.I`m sure you would receive a warm welcome.
1. GM, Ford and Chrysler cars have been and are historically inferior, I see plenty of 1980's japanese cars & trucks in San Diego .... no fords, gm or chrysler.
2. The unions have been complicit with FORD, GM & Chrysler in driving up costs and driving down quality.
3. Toyota "says" that the NUMMI plant is not feasible for them. I wonder why that is. You can bet that the union benefits are a big part of it.
When I was going to college, I spent some time working at a manufacturing plant making parts for Corvettes. I thought the job was boring, but it was an income. Two things stick out from that job that I have never forgotten. 1). The union rep. kept telling me to slow down as I was killing the job. 2). We had Japanese business visitors on several occasions who took a keen interest in how we were manufacturing products.
How the world has changed.
chuckscheri....You know what else is a big reason companies like Toyota make the moves they make? It because of "Americans" who raise their hand and say, "we don't deserve company paid health care and benefits, we make too much money." LOL, why wouldn't any company take you up on that?
boardmanneedschange....You are a prime example of who I'm talking about. In your earlier post you point out how our wages don't compete with companies that import junk. I can tell you why that is. I worked in the engineering department of a construction company with a woman that immigrated from China with her husband. Her husband is a software engineer in Silicon Valley. They have raised a family and done very well for themselves and are worth well into seven figures. She told me they were thinking of moving back to China. When I asked her why she said because of the six to one exchange rate. The minute your foot hits dry land in China your one million is worth six. Their wages also reflect that. So instead of volunteering the American work force to compete on their level just volunteer yourself. When you go into work on Monday tell your employer you have no interest in company health care or pension and your willing to work for 1/6 of your current salary. If you own a business cut your compensation down to 1/6 and send the rest to China because that's where it's going to end up anyway. But do the the rest of us that still have a pair a favor, just volunteer (surrender) yourself.
USEless1....Your real good at calling other people socialist while you cash that government check every month. I get nothing from the government and doubt that many of the people you are so quick to call socialist do either.Can you say the same? Seems to me your the one with their hand out and constantly crying about what other people have. Keep cashing those government checks hypocrite.
for those of you who think socialism is a bad thing.
i hope you aren't planning on collecting all of your entitled social security benefits. while it's true that you pay into the fund, as well as your employer. only about a third of what you get from social security is what you pay into it. the rest comes from everyone else.
Ront is not correct. You pay into SS and the money you take out is your contribution plus interest. The guaranteed rate is around 2% and certainly you could get a better rate practically anywhere. You do not get more in benefits than you paid in. Also, you need to factor in that dollars contributed in 1970 are worth MORE than dollars extracted in 2010. Don't believe people like Ront who haven't a clue.
my point is that we have all kinds of socialism. some pay taxes, some don't. the taxes benefit all.
we have clean water, roads, schools, the military, police, fire service, agencies that to some extent anyway help keep our food safe. all paid by taxes.
haydenthomas, you are wrong; social security monenies aren't invested. it's based on more money going into the fund than going out. the race to lower our wages to equal third world countries just accelerates the decline of revenue. at the same time, our population is aging. unemployment is higher.
was reading the article about chinese pipe makers. given the volumn of comments about gm; i'm surprised there aren't more comments about that article. why is that?
i agree with you about social security. but you can't knock one form of socialism without knocking all socialism. in a democratic society such as ours we have all types of socialism.
Where do you think all the parts come from in USA cars China ,Japan and Mexico ,so don't blame the US workers on the bad parts. What about toyota recall? People are dying from the crap they shipped here but of course you foreign car People can't admit that their cars break down and have problems just like the American cars . Where 's the out-cry about this? You are all Blinded by all the hype about Foreign cars. I wouldn't be surpise if we find out that they brided Consumer Report . It's part of their culture to not fail and to do everything to look good and that includes paying off people.
ront....The reason you don't see many comments about Chinese pie makers is because so many "Americans" are in favor of them. Their non union for one thing. It's that Wal-Mart mentality.
When Obama took office he proposed that all infrastructure be done with American made steel and any other products. Fox New and the Republican congress went into a 24 hour a day rant over the American taxpayer buying the cheapest products. The vindy comments were overwhelmingly for backing the Fox/Republican view.
Right now the eastern span of the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge is being replaced. Caltrans in their ultimate wisdom chose to use Chinese prefabricated steel rather than domestic because it was cheaper. Well it definitely turned out to be cheaper. The sections show up and after inspection weld after weld has to be ground out and re welded and fabrication pieces have to be reworked, rebuilt or modified to pass inspection.
The result so far is a one year delay in the replacing of a span the carries 270,000 cars a day. Instead of unemployed domestic steel workers coming off of unemployment that disposable income and the taxes they would pay go to China. Well at least the Chinese are non union. And the inconvenience and lost production of the people in those 270,000 cars every day, well at least the American taxpayer got the cheapest deal. Right?
i agree with what you say. it does anger me that toyota get's by selling products that kill people, but american cars are junk. last year toyota recalled 4 million vehicles. sold only about 1.5 million in usa. makes no sense to me. i value my family's and my own life more than that.
i would think, especially in the mahoning valley people would care about jobs lost due to unfair forgein competition. guess i was wrong. one reason why i'm happy not living there anymore.
Paulb, burning dollars would not get you the heat btu's needed to keep your home heated. Wood is the better commodity and if we continue at the rate we are going, wood could become our next primary method of exchange.
If I had to use resent history as a guide and my only two choices for president were from Kenya and Texas I'd have to go with Kenya.
Oh your computer was on the fritz,so you had to change your from Pro-American,usa1? Hmm,that`s interesting because shortly before you tried to disguise yourself a few of your posts were removed.Fortunately you write the same conservative hypocritical drivel over and over again so it didn`t take a rocket scientist to ID you.And what`s with you cashing a SOCIAL security check? That`s a socialistic program.If you were a real conservative teabagger you would be donating them to the murderer Scott Roeder for his defense.Not that he has a defense,after all he shot an unarmed man sitting in a church lobby in the forehead.I don`t have a Kenyan God usa1-Pro-Conservaterican but does your conservative God support cold blooded murder in the lobby of a church? I know that you do. I chuckle how you conservatives forward the emails about illegal immigrants all day long while you love shopping at Wal-Mart.Wally World has been busted employing illegals over and over again.haha.Priceless dude.You keep that computer running smooth now ya hear? I don`t want you to have to get ANOTHER username.Or maybe it`s just something in that Canfield air.lol
AXLE, you were doing pretty good until you threw in the Wally World part. You have no idea who makes up the majority of the Wally World customer base, do you. Guess what, it ain't Republicans!!! That is all I can say!
usa1 pro-conservaterican,it`s ok buddy.You don`t need to keep explaining the reason for your username change.If the Vindy banned Pro-American or you were just trying to hide from your critics on here,you don`t have to be ashamed.It`s all good.Your buddy Roeder murdered an innocent man according to the laws of the United States.Just because you are an anti-abortionist that believes it`s acceptable to murder a doctor by shooting him in the forehead in his church doesn`t justify it.That`s why you ultra far right conservatives never achieve respectability not just on the blog of the Vindy but life in general.The fact you keep referring to our President Obama as a Kenyan God is proof of that.lol. And why do you keep calling me a socialist? Oh I forgot,the main rule of the far right is to label people in order to look like you are superior because you don`t deal in facts but fantasy and when confronted with facts,you cant handle it and change things like usernames and label people.You`re not unique usa1 pro-conservaterican.I`ve been dealing with your ilk for years.It `s a good hobby,especially in the long,cold winter months.Don`t forget to donate to your favorite charity for the victims in Haiti.
redvert,you are correct.I guess I wasn`t clear.I didn`t mean to imply only Republicans shop at Wal-Mart.I was trying to point out that folks like usa1 are always complaining about illegal immigrants but he is also pro Wal-Mart and they have been busted numerous times employing illegals.Thanks for pointing this out.


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Greek Pepper Salad
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Prep 20 mins
Cook 1 hr
My DBF made this for me the night of our first date. I know, I know... awwww. OK, moving on... He served it with baked brie and chardonnay. It was so good I kept coming back! We now eat it on special occassions. Sometimes I will make it, but I still contend that it isn't as good as when he makes it. It can be served immediately after preparation, but letting it sit an hour or so allows the flavors to blend. Hope this brings happy memories for you too!
Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 large red bell peppers, cubed
- 2 large green bell peppers, cubed
- 2 large yellow bell peppers, cubed
- 1 medium red onion, diced
- 12 cherry tomatoes, quartered
- 1 cucumber, cut in spears
- 2⁄3 cup feta cheese, crumbled
- 1⁄2 cup kalamata olive, pitted and sliced
- 1⁄4 cup fresh parsley, snipped
- 1 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1⁄3 cup red wine vinegar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon thyme
- 1⁄2 teaspoon basil
- 1⁄2 teaspoon rosemary
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- Combine peppers, onion, cucumber, and tomatoes in a large bowl.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together oil, vinegar, thyme, basil, rosemary, garlic, salt, and cayenne. Add mustard and whisk to combine. Pour over vegetables.
- If desired, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for up to two hours.
- Sprinkle with cheese, olives, and parsley. Toss and serve.
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I made this salad tonight as a side to dinner. I loved it! I used fresh cukes and tomatoes from my garden. I easily halved all of the ingredients to serve DH and myself. I assumed that the recipe wanted 12 oz of cherry tomatoes, so when I halved the recipe, I used 6 oz. I subbed shallots for red onion as I realized I didn't have any red onions after I started making the dish. I let the salad marinate for 2 hours prior to serving. DH commented that he does not usually like raw bell peppers, but this recipe was an exception. The dressing flavor was fantastic! I would definitely make this again. Thanks!
We really enjoyed this tasty salad. It was a nice change from the usual lettuce type Greek salad. I didn't have any cayenne pepper so I just used regular black pepper. Thanks
I made this for my Greek/ Italian birthday party!! It was a hit! I say prepare all the veggies, refrigerate and then add lettuce or spinach to make it last longer... After my party I still had leftovers! Thank goodness. This is soooooooooooooo delicious!


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Took about 15 hours to get here (all inclusive of trains, planes, automobiles, layovers, etc.) The rum down there is fantastic! So much better than what we usually drink in the states. Also had some nice Chilean cabernets and port. Had dinner at a restaurant called Guayoyo which is said to be the best seafood restaurant on the island with a view of the Caribbean. The food was excellent and the Sangria was out of this world! For dinner, we had seafood ceviche, local fish (grouper) with mango chutney and whole baby potatoes soaked in garlic and baked with salt. Awesome! The food at the resort has been good too. Overall, the landscape reminds me a lot of Mexico or Southern Spain.
Hung out by the pool a lot. Did some shopping at a nearby mall. Clothing is very expensive. Twice what we pay in the states for poorer quality. I traveled with men, but had I traveled alone or just with women, I would have been concerned for my safety. For this reason, I stayed close to the resort.
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Kathy, Good tips about a beautiful but questionable place. Venezuela's government rule is corrupt and not exactly friendly to Americans. Nice photos and commentary, tho. Doug
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Imaginary Party People
The sheer variety of soirées to be found in literature testifies to the power of writers—antisocial types by nature—to conjure up lively images of the decadent life.
Why do literary heroes and heroines have so much time to spend going to parties? Suzette Field suggests that it's because "very few of them have anything resembling a job." The guests brought together in "A Curious Invitation: The Forty Greatest Parties in Literature" include hobbits, aristocrats, philosophers, wandering bachelors, deceased warriors and assorted denizens of Hollywood. All of them have time on their hands for dancing, dressing up, flirting, drinking, feasting, networking and fighting—or some combination of the above.
The rationale behind Ms. Field's book seems to be that we, by contrast, are all such busy people that we couldn't possibly want to sit down and read "The Fellowship of the Ring," "The Leopard," "The Symposium," "The Pickwick Papers," "The Prose Edda," or even Jackie Collins's "Hollywood Wives" for ourselves. Instead, we are invited to use "A Curious Invitation" as a crib, so that we can organize our own literary parties, as the author does. Or at least so that we can talk "knowledgably" about literature at parties.
Why are these imagined (or re-imagined) parties the ones to vicariously crash? Poetry and drama have been ruled out. Women writers are largely ignored—no Virginia Woolf, so no Clarissa Dalloway. Novels of the past century account for the largest share of the fun.
Yet Ms. Field says she has aimed for eclecticism in terms of "genre, country, period and style." No stuffy survey of 19th-century society balls for her: "I preferred to have Plato rubbing shoulders with Pooter and Proust with Pooh." And so her book begins with Petronius' "Satyricon" and follows up with "The Great Gatsby." These are accompanied by "Through the Looking Glass," "The Brothers Karamazov," "Roxana" and the rest.
A Curious Invitation
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Depictions and expressions of decadence vary according to time and place, but certain types emerge again and again: the ne'er-do-well who turns up anyway, the parvenu, the nouveau riche man of business, the spoiled aristocrat, as well as motifs of false hopes raised and points of contention finally settled. On this last score, think of the writing on the wall at Belshazzar's feast, or the outcome of Dmitri Karamazov's final wild night at Plastunov's inn in Mokroye. "A social gathering is a useful dramatic tool, providing a location where characters can interact," Ms. Field writes, putting it mildly.
In brief sections, "A Curious Invitation" assesses each book for its coverage of the basics of partying. Who's the host? Where's it all happening? What form does the invitation take? Who are the guests? What's the dress code, the food and drink, the entertainment, the conversation, the outcome? And in a misleading final category, what's the party's "legacy"? This can refer to anything from trivia about the author's financial or critical fate, to how Saddam Hussein imitated King Nebuchadnezzar.
Authors vary significantly in the extent to which they fulfill these requirements. English authors, we are told, seldom take much interest in the menu. Edgar Allan Poe doesn't tell us much about what the guests said to one another in "The Masque of the Red Death," perhaps because "people who'd been cooped up with one another for six months" during the time of the eponymous plague "had totally run out of small talk." In Ann Patchett's "Bel Canto," by contrast, being cooped up in an embassy seized by terrorists leads to much fraternizing with the enemy and a new understanding, for the high-ranking hostages, of the "shallowness of their old corporate lifestyles."
"A Curious Invitation" does a fine job of surveying it all, as it trips from scene to scene, dropping in literary trivia as it goes to keep things light, gossiping about authorial successes and failures—Proust's coffee habit, Stephen King's debt to his wife for rescuing "Carrie" from the bin. It is only a little odd that Ms. Field regards fictional works as a potential source of "valuable insight into what form contemporary celebrations would have taken," whereas diarists such as Samuel Pepys are dismissed as useless because they "didn't have much of a social life."
On the contrary. "A Curious Invitation" is testimony to the power of antisocial types—writers sitting at home and scribbling—to generate satirical, celebratory or ideologically loaded images of the decadence, ostentation, snobbery and folly of parties—long after the last guest has staggered off to bed.
Mr. Caines is fiction co-editor of the Times Literary Supplement.


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Books Poetry and Pomegranates
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The Seattle PI had a poetry contest and picked this poem as the best:
"Bloodspell" by Marie-Caroline Moir:
Now just ho there, splayed peacock,
and spare the poor girl but a ruby
from your pomegranate heart.
She's far goner than long and
nosing that notch in your seashell ear
(the mere thought of it!)
just sends her —
wakes her daily with a tickle/thump
before the shuffling on of sun,
and the augur of hair patties from the
mystic drain.
Should you not want her,
she may end up in rubber sandals
and very loose pants,
at some artists' commune
stuffed up in the Ozarks.
Making origami jockstraps
and other gestures of homage.
This is what the judges had to say about "Bloodspell":
The poem demonstrates a wonderful mixture of sincerity and surprising humor, alloying its various tones and moods into something completely its own. The language leaps energetically from one verbal register to another (we go from the arcane and serious 'augur' to the gross and everyday 'hair patties,' from the antiquated greeting 'ho' to unmistakably contemporary language), and the imagery — pomegranate heart, hair patties, origami jockstrap — is as original as it is vivid.
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