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"A Taste of HIGH STAKES"
by Ian Tregillis.
Copyright 2016
by George R.R. Martin and the Wild Cards Trust.
Five minutes with Ffodor's webcam roulette software and the wireless connection from a coffee shop in Taos gave Mollie a new doorway site. She chose a garden terrace behind a hedge on the campus of an engineering college in Chandigarh, India. It was sixteen hundred miles from Talas—just barely enough from her point of view. But it was random, a place she'd never visited before, and somewhere she'd probably never revisit. She wasn't about to scout the casino from within one of her own bolt-holes. After all, others had probably entertained similar thoughts about the place by now. And, on the off chance the chaos surrounding her last visit hadn't culminated in a permanent change of ownership, she wasn't giving anyone a chance to track her. Baba Yaga was bad fucking news. So was her pal, the drooling vegetable in the wheelchair—the guy looked harmless, but something about him gave Mollie the screaming clownies.
She paused, chewing the last bite of a cloying lemon bar. Do I really want to rob that witch a second time?
All it took was a little bit of bad luck to turn something simple into something rotten. The residual taser ache in her chest served a useful reminder. Good. It would keep her alert.
Hell yes I do. She turned my life into shit. If not for Baba Yaga, I never would have come near that sick fight club shit in a million years. And Ffodor . . .
Mollie cleared her thoughts with an angry shake of her head. It rattled her table; other patrons glanced at her. She glared back at them until they became uncomfortable. Then she locked the real-time image on her tablet. A text banner flashed across the screen:
Be smart. Be safe. Be quick.
She gasped.
Ffodor, taking care of her even now. He had written the webcam software for her. It was yet another thing she never would have considered on her own, a simple idea that somehow made her ace that much better. She'd forgotten that he added a reminder . . . Her face turned hot, warmed by the blush of embarrassment when she remembered the misadventure in São Paulo that had prompted him to add the gentle reminder. The embarrassment turned to shame.
And then she couldn't see the screen anymore. She blew her nose on a paper napkin. It smelled like overly strong coffee and the chocolate syrup from her mocha, but for a moment she could almost smell the scent of weird Hungarian cigarettes, as though somebody had snuffed one just before she entered the room.
God damn it.
Mollie wiped her eyes, glad she hadn't bothered with makeup before getting a start on the day. She studied the image on the laptop until she could easily picture the secluded spot on the Indian campus with eyes closed. Then she scooted her chair back, stood, and went to the ladies' room. It was empty. She went into a stall. Somebody had used a black Magic Marker to draw an arrow pointing to the dispenser of tissue-paper toilet seat covers; above this they had scrawled in block letters, FREE! AUTHENTIC TAOS COWBOY HATS! Alongside this somebody had printed, in a different hand and ink, FUCK YOU, CHOLO.
Mollie opened a doorway in the back of the bathroom stall door. Its twin opened half a world away. A warm breeze and the scent of hibiscus wafted into the bathroom. She stepped from New Mexico to Punjab.
The hedge kept her in shadows. That was good, too—it meant her doorway into the casino wouldn't shine like a beacon if the place was dark. Footsteps, and a pair of voices laughing in a language she didn't understand, approached from the other side of the hedge. They passed. She waited for a moment to convince herself her arrival had gone unnoticed. Then, very carefully, she created a new doorway in the terrace. This was much smaller than the one in the bathroom, though, more porthole than portal. Its twin opened in the ceiling of a casino in Talas, Kazakhstan.
It showed her rows of overturned slot machines and stools, illuminated by the erratic flickering of damaged fluorescents. Some of the machines had been smashed until they spewed out coins. A rhythmic metallic crunching and jingling told her somebody was nearby. Mollie leaned left and right, peeking around the edges of the portal, until she glimpsed one of Baba Yaga's thugs and two of her "hostesses" scooping the loose money into pillowcases. The hookers had to keep pausing to pull up their tops lest they'd spill right out of their clothes when they bent over to scoop up more change.
Petty cash. Not worth it if Mollie could find a better score. Ffodor had taught her to appreciate the trade-off between time spent and reward gained.
She moved the Talas end of her transdimensional doorway to another corner of the casino. This time its opening favored her with the stench of rotting food. Mollie glimpsed an overturned buffet table, dented steam trays (one looked like it had stopped a bullet), and snowdrifts of slimy black caviar on the floor. She also saw plenty of smashed and battered furniture including a leather couch stippled with bullet holes.
There were bodies, too. Including—
Mollie gasped. Something sour crept up her throat. She coughed twice, trying to force it down.
—Jamal Norwood lay strewn among the wreckage, half his head caved in from a monstrous punch. One of his eyes was . . . She'd bolted the second she saw him go down. Put a continent and more between herself and Jamal's killer. Fuck. He'd been pretty nice to her for a Fed, especially given the attitude she'd shown him. He sure as hell deserved better than to rot abandoned and forgotten in this shithole at the ass-end of the world.
Mollie swallowed down sour gorge. This was a dangerous train of thought. None of this was her fault. None of it.
Her third field of view looked over the gaming floor. This had attracted most of the looters, and these guys actually knew what they were doing. Organized bands of mobsters armed with automatics and crowbars worked down the aisles between the tables. She recognized some of them as Baba Yaga's thugs. They moved in teams from one table to the next. When Franny and Jamal had started evacuating the jokers and the place erupted into pandemonium, the gamblers had abandoned everything as the bullets flew. Unfinished drinks, canapés, even their chips. Those gamblers who had run out of chips had tossed watches, rings, earrings, and other collateral into the mix. The looters took everything they could find. Some of the tables had cash boxes fastened underneath. But it seemed to be slim pickings, though, since most of the money circulating on the gambling floor did so in the form of chips. But that didn't stop the goons from emptying the pockets, purses, and billfolds of every dead gambler they found. Or making a badly wounded gambler a dead gambler. They even—Jesus—they even checked the mouths of the dead for gold fillings. Mollie only had to watch one example of postmortem dentistry (this using a claw hammer) to know she wanted to stay way the hell away from those sick fuckers. She closed her viewing portal before somebody saw her.
Her fourth peephole opened on a dark corridor closer to the hostesses' "lounge." It was quieter here. She sighed; the tension went out of her shoulders. But then something squeaked and she slammed the portal shut. Several long moments passed while she knelt alongside the terrace, panting like an asthmatic, before she realized it had probably been a mouse. A mouse, and not the squeak of a wheelchair. Of course not.
A fifth angle, chosen to show her the teller cages, greeted her with the deafening screech of a saw blade on metal and an incandescent fountain of orange sparks. It scared the shit out of her. Mollie flinched, eliminating the portals. She waited again in case the sound of power tools in Kazakhstan drew attention to her hiding spot behind the hedge in India. When nobody came running across the campus to investigate, she reopened the twinned doorways, but this time even smaller.
Four goons, more of Baba Yaga's hired muscle turned entrepreneurial spirits in the burgeoning field of abandoned casino wealth redistribution, were trying to cut their way into the abandoned teller cages. The tellers turned cash into chips and vice versa; the casino's daily gambling take hadn't been rotated into the vault when everything went to hell. So the money was just sitting there, unclaimed. Apparently the thugs couldn't get the keys, or didn't know where they were stored. Or, more likely, they didn't want to risk breaking into Baba Yaga's private rooms to look for the key in the first place. Mollie didn't blame them.
She might have waltzed through a portal inside the cage. But the thugs would see her, and they'd get royally pissed off when they saw her emptying the money drawers. Money they'd already decided was rightfully theirs. For one thing, these guys were armed up to the eyebrows. For another, and judging from the way the steel mesh rattled when they kicked it, it wouldn't be long before they made it inside. And she did not want to be inside the teller cages when those hormone cases broke through, not for a second. She needed to get rid of those assholes.
Actually, she could solve two problems at once. And it was a fucking awesome way to clear the obstacle, if she did say so herself.
Be smart. Be safe. Be quick.
Well, two out of three.
New portals. She stepped from Chandigarh to New York City. The cops at Fort Freak were too busy, and her entrance too quiet, for anybody to notice right away when she stepped into a corner of the precinct house. The casino evacuation had sent everything into chaos that hadn't subsided a day later. She gathered they were also trying to figure out where the hell their colleague Franny Black had gone. He wasn't among the casino dead, though, so he'd get in touch with them soon enough. It wasn't her problem. But she figured the cops would have Jamal's family notified and his remains treated properly. So she envisioned the spot in Talas where poor Jamal lay, and opened a doorway under his body. She gently deposited the deceased agent just outside the door to the captain's office.
The atmosphere in the precinct went from vigorous turmoil to undistilled mayhem. Which conveniently kept the cops distracted. She tried to be quick so they wouldn't notice her when she stepped from the precinct house to the teller cages in the casino. But the screech of the power saw gave up the game. The cops noticed her departure at the same moment Baba Yaga's goons saw her enter the cage.
People on two continents shouted at her simultaneously. Nobody looked happy to see her. Well, fuck 'em: she was accustomed to that. And about to get much more unhappy, all of them.
Mollie envisioned the ceiling of the police station halfway around the world, where she'd been an instant earlier. She put a portal roughly over the middle of the cops' desks. Then, as fast as she could manage, she opened a succession of portals under the thugs' feet.
Fwump, fwump, fwump, fwump.
They fell through the casino floor in rapid succession, plummeting through the ceiling in New York to crash into desks, cops, and each other. The tumbling power saw smashed a coffeemaker, sending up a black geyser. Peering down through the final hole, Mollie got an overhead view as one of the thugs tried to pull his gun only to get tackled by a big furry guy who looked like something from a children's book. The remaining goons went down under a scrum of uniformed patrol officers, including one who looked like she was half racing hound, and some ass-ugly bug-eyed motherfucker. The shouting drew the captain (Mendelberg, according to the door) from her office.
Mollie closed the transdimensional doorways. It left her conveniently alone with the cash drawers, free to empty them at her leisure. She could hear people elsewhere in the casino, now that the power saw had been silenced. But the hookers were unlikely to bother her.
The drawers were locked. So she created an opening in the wall and reached through to her parents' barn in Idaho, where she snagged a crowbar. Within moments tens of thousands of Kazakh tenge and a random assortment of other currencies fluttered onto her bed in North Dakota. It looked like mounds of Monopoly money. Less than five minutes was all she needed to empty the casino of its last day's take. She didn't know how much it was worth in real money. Maybe not as much as it looked. The exchange rate probably sucked diseased donkey balls.
What the hell, she thought. She went back to the slot machines. She left the thug and hookers to their pillowcases, but there were still dozens of machines that hadn't yet been broken open. Mollie opened another opening to her family barn and dropped the slot machines through one by one. A whiff of manure entered the casino. Turned out a fully-laden slot machine made a racket to wake the dead when it crashed onto the hard-packed dirt floor of a barn. It frightened the cows, too. They started lowing. Dad and Brent came to investigate the noise while she was working on the fourth slot machine.
Her dad took all of two seconds to examine the mess in the barn. He shouted at the hole in space. "Mollie! What in the hell are you doing? You're scaring the cows, for Christ's sake."
"Hi, Daddy. You wanna round up the boys and get to work? Those slot machines are hard to open, but they're full of cash."
Brent squinted at the Cyrillic script on the battered machines. "Uh, where did these things come from?"
Mollie said, "No place you've ever heard of, dumbass."
"Oh, yeah? Who are you trying to rob this time? Who you gonna get killed this time? I don't want to get stabbed again, you know."
"Hey! Screw you—"
"SHUT UP! Both of you," said their father. He licked his lips. "Brent, go fetch your brothers. Mollie, I see another row of machines behind you that ain't been touched yet, so keep at it."
It wasn't We love you, it wasn't We miss you, it wasn't even Why don't you come home and help out on the farm for a while. Not that she would ever go back to the farm. But it would be nice to know she was welcome. That she had a home to return to, if she wanted it. She didn't. But still.
Gazing into the barn, she glimpsed a length of coiled hose. It gave her an idea. "Hey, Daddy? Do you still have those hydraulic tools you bought at auction?" A couple of years before her card had turned, Mollie's father had scooped up a lot of machinery in an estate sale.
"Yeah, it's around. Why?"
Because slot machines were petty cash. But real wealth could be found in safes and fireboxes. And she knew where she could find a few. "I think I'll need them. I'm gonna try to snag a safe or two."


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Live performances with the Cannonball Adderley Quintet. A couple of regrets.
Not long after the Soul of the Bible recording sessions, Cannonball Adderley invited me to sing with him and his band at a couple of well-known clubs in the Los Angeles area. One of the clubs was called the Lighthouse, in Hermosa Beach right above the ocean. For one reason or another I have no recollection of that gig whatsoever.
On the other hand I'll never forget the other gig. It was at the Troubadour, in West Hollywood. The Troubadour was the premier gig for singer-songwriters like James Taylor, and Jackson Browne. It was the same for country-rock groups like the Eagles and Byrd's, and also for every other genre of music too.
Their Hoot nights were legend; you never knew who would get up on stage and knock out some tunes. All the upcoming and famous acts appeared there. The bar alone was worth the price of admission for the characters and conversations were always choice, rife with innuendo and fire.
It was now 1972 and I hadn't played the Troubadour since my ill-fated gig with Lynn Kellogg in '69. It was like visiting a building inhabited by ghosts, my own ghosts.
When I came to the Troubadour this night I had some reservations and mixed emotions about revisiting the scene of a pretty devastating moment in my life only three years earlier. After all, in how many music venues can you say you almost got your throat slit? But hanging with Cannonball and the band made it easy let go of the past and be in the now. Backstage was a non-stop party.
Added to the original Denver ensemble was Brazilian master percussionist Airto Moreira. What can you say about him, he is simply incomparable? Airto had an entire table of percussion instruments set up on the stage, from which he could choose, one minute to the next depending on the dynamic of the tune.
Still in the band was George Duke on keyboards, Roy McCurdy playing drums, Walter Booker on Bass, and Nat Adderley blowing cornet.
George was the youngster in the band then, and was the butt of endless jokes and ribbing. But he always took it well, often shaking his head and shrugging it off. He was an especially sweet cat and treated me kindly and with respect. In later years he would have a successful career as a solo artist, arranger, songwriter, and producer.
Cannon said he would call me on stage at some point in the middle of their set. He asked me to improvise vocals to a groove they would create, as we had done in the recording session. He told me, " Just go ahead and sing what you feel, sing about that spirit world". With this he joined the band onstage and started the set with the Nat Adderley composition 'Work Song'.
The band was ripping as usual, providing a musical carpet ride for everyone fortunate enough to be there. Every number sounded like it was the first time they had ever played it, both for them and for the audience. The whole effect was earthy, organic, a soulful excursion to the heart.
After they finished playing a few tunes, Julian went into a long praiseworthy introduction about a young man who was a gifted singer and musician, and then he said my name. Shit, it was time to go out on a limb once again, but this time in front of a packed house at the Troubador.
The same kind of magic that transpired in the recording studio was prevailing now; only it was a completely different groove. When Cannon queued me I just opened my mouth and started singing, making it up as I went.
I've forgotten the words now, for I was lost in that timeless moment where lyrics are born, and all else forgotten. But it must have been okay, as when the song finished everybody was applauding, and the band was smiling. A friend taped the set for me on my cassette recorder, so for years after I was able to relive that moment. I only wish that tape had survived the vicissitudes of my travels.
My association with Cannonball had a few more episodes. He gave a clinic in Beverly Hills, where he talked to a group of people about music. Having a gift with words, he could explain the most difficult concept about music eloquently. Cannon invited me to join him and we played my new song 'Darleen', which he loved the chord changes to. What a treat, a duo, just Cannonball Adderley on soprano sax and I.
On another occasion Julian and the band were doing a live recording session in the big room at Capital Records recording studio, and he invited me to open their show. He and the band were making a Brazilian jazz record this time, and had Airto's wife Flora Purim singing vocals with them. Studio ace David T Walker, played guitar to round out the rhythm section.
There were at least a hundred guests at the session turned party. Fried chicken, collard greens, and grits were set out to get that down home feeling going. They had an open bar too.
I performed a fifteen-minute set of original music with some Brazilian grooves of my own, to be in synch with the evening's concept. The audience responded to my music enthusiastically, and I felt elated.
After my set I sat down with Cindy in the front row, and got totally lost in Cannonball show.
Their syncopated rhythmic forays coupled with rich melodies in various Brazilian grooves got all of us caught up in the ride. It was feeling like Carnival right there in the studio, with everyone clapping and yelling and partying to the joyous music.
A few months down the line Cannonball's manager, the highly respected and longtime artist manager John Levy, offered me a management contract. The deal was for John to manage me, and Cannonball and Nat would produce and record me. John Levy was an older, well dressed, and sophisticated black gentleman who at one time had managed Billie Holiday, and besides Cannonball, was now managing Nancy Wilson and Joe Williams, a couple of very successful jazz vocalists. This was a major opportunity for me, a young white boy amongst all these heavy African American musical heavies.
John and Cannonball offered Sire records $10,000 to buy out my contract. And Sire agreed. All that was needed was for me to go ahead and sign the contract.
I have few regrets in life, but my response to their generous offer is surely one of them. I hedged on signing the contract for nine months or so, saying I wanted to wait for my guru's approval! How lame it now seems. But that's what happened. You talk about wasted opportunities
As fate would have it, I never did hear from the liaison for my guru, and Cannon and John lost interest. No use crying over it now, but sometimes I do wonder what would have happened had I signed with them?
The other crushing regret in my career was turning down Sire Records offer to record a second album with them. After the release of my first album 'A Picture', Seymour Stein, the president of Sire, and my producer Richard Gotteherer, wanted me to record another record. But I had been convinced by my good friend and fellow songwriter Buzzy Linhart to ask Sire for a $5,000 advance before I would do the album. This was really bad advice, as I would later learn.
Just because Buzzy had gotten a $5,000 advance from his record label, he was convinced that Sire should give me one. And I naively went along with him.
As an advance on my first album, Sire Records had arranged for me to buy a custom acoustic guitar from downtown luthier Michael Gurian, ($500) this and a Sony cassette recorder was my advance. I was very happy with that arrangement. Of all the struggling songwriters in the West Village that were trying to get a record deal I had gotten one, and I should have been satisfied with that alone. But I wasn't.
Sire Records thought I was crazy for asking for that much money, and I was. Blinded by poor judgment I walked away from Sire's contract, never to be offered another recording deal again, by anybody, except Cannonball, and that deal I had fucked up too!!!
You've heard about people being their own worst enemy, and not even knowing it.
It would be eighteen years before I would record another album, and that would be on my own label. Eighteen years of writing songs and not being able to release them. Fucking dumb, and I couldn't blame anyone but me.
In 1975 Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley passed away from heart failure. He was only 47 years old, but in a jazzman's life it was a long time. He had played hard, and partied hard; he drank, smoked and did his share of powders too. In the life of a jazz musician these things come with the territory. But it caught up with him in the end. Our loss.
I was one lucky young musician; to have met, played and recorded music with him while he was still around. He had faith in me, to do things I didn't even know I could do.
He gave me that opportunity out of the goodness of his kind heart. His generosity touched me. The great man's spirit lives on in his vast catalog of recorded music, and when I want to remember him, I have only to listen up.


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Posted on 08/20/2010 4:12:52 AM PDT by Rashputin
The people of the United States have been blessed to live in a country that has experienced, over the past seventy years, the most sustained period of overwhelming prosperity in the history of mankind. However, due to the staggering growth of government, unrealistic expectations of the citizenry, and a new global economy, the current makeup of the economic engine of the country is such that it will not be able to generate sufficient wealth to finance the nation's long-term financial commitments, jobs, and desires of the populace.
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Politicians vs. the immutible laws of human economics. Place your bets.
Th long-term health of the country depends on two three things:
1) Big tax cuts far beyond those passed by Reagan and GW Bush — accompanied with an end to almost all social programs.
2) Downward pressure on wages (and lifestyle expectations) to make American workers cost-competitive, less spoiled and more hard-working.
3) The end, once and or all, of "benefits." It is a crime that employers were ever pressured into taking on responsibility for pay their employees' doctors and giving them paid time off.
Think America in 1912 — only with women's suffrage.
With the magnitude of the situation we face, I just do not see how we can stay the course.
Yeah I know we are the greatest nation blah, blah, blah... but the math is just not there.
Greatest nation or not, we are fast approaching the end of the line for our economy and the country as we know it.
Bankruptcy... if that was all we were facing, was a massive bankruptcy then we could survive. But what we face goes so far beyond that and will be so much more painful.
The libs can continue to run the country into a ditch to increase their power, to make more people dependent on .gov for money, food, shelter, etc...
But what so many fail to realize, dems and a few conservatives too, is that power will do you no good when the country is in chaos, collapsed into borderline anarchy or worse its gone. Because its broken up into small state like sectors.
We are already in for a hard few years and even a ginormous landslide come November will not stop whats already coming for us.
The magnitude of the necessary changes and the vested interests of about half of the county make the suggested solutions sound like a fantasy novel. The enemy is beyond inside the gates. We will need a crisis and collapse far greater than what we have seen to even begin to correct the path the US is on.
As long as we continue to penalize success through confiscatory taxes, and as long as we continue to reward failure through excessive entitlement programs and welfare, we will continue to see the economy falter.
Failure will be the new success as people begin to pride themselves not in how much they can produce but in how much of the fruit of other peoples' labor they can accumulate.
And success will be the new failure as people begin to realize that there is no reward for taking the risk or making the effort towards achievement. Why buy and feed the cow when you can get your milk for free?
I just do not see how we can stay the course.
The problem is that the MSM will savage anyone who proposes changes (reductions) in the entitlement state. Plus, you will have people coming out saying that they can't make it without this, that, or the other thing. Any politician who tries to fix the problem will be painted as "mean" or "heartless". Too much of the electorate thinks with their heart rather than their head (which basically means they don't think).
The result may well be anarchy or situations where people have lots of benefits on paper, but can't collect on any of 'em. Like having gold plated, public health insurance, but being unable to find a doctor to treat you at rock bottom rates.
.......accompanied with an end to almost all social programs.....
While I agree that the social programs are at the root of the problem, elimination will result in destruction of the cities by the inhabitants. It is this fear of chaos and property destruction that prevents restraint and diminution of the social programs.
We see cars being burned by the hundreds in Paris. that is trivial to the destruction that will surely happen in Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Detroit when the dole ceases. .
Obama is draining the treasury and the proceeds are going to the favored to stash in their mattresses to hold them over when the fires begin. They will sit back and watch the war when the dole stops
I am a firm believer that we are just one missed welfare check away from all out anarchy in this country
" social programs are at the root of the problem, elimination will result in destruction of the cities by the inhabitants. "
Isn't there some kind of old proverb something to the effect of "Once you start feeding the tiger, you'd better not stop.."??
(If there isn't, there should be...)
I'm gonna have to take issue with you. Tax cuts are fine but I do not want to go back to 1912 working conditions there was a time when unions served a purpose. whats up with downward pressure on wages, screw u, I work dammn hard and am already underpaid. I do not make 6 figures and I am damn sure worth more than 40 but I don't get it. I do not want to work 365 with no time off and I sure as hell earned my vacation days PAID. WE havent seen a pay raise for over two years, if you want to go back to 1912 do not drag me with you.
I've got another saying - "Tigers aren't bulletproof!"
No State is more than three meals away from revolution.
I don't know about feeding the tiger, but as a small businessman for most all of my life, I know a lot about holding a tiger by the tail.
"Th long-term health of the country depends on three things:"
All of those things can happen deliberately, or they can happen uncontrollably.
Since they are politically hard to contemplate, and there are no leaders to do deliberate things - but we have an abundance of officials, elected and otherwise who think they can profit from chaos they create, we're left with uncontrollable change.
1) Drastically overhaul or even phase out the income tax. The current system costs Americans US$304 BILLION per year in compliance costs, drives jobs out of the country and may have driven circa US$16 TRILLION in American-owned liquid assets into the underground economy or into offshore financial centers to keep these assets out of the reach of the IRS--sheer economic insanity.
2) Aggressively reign in the excesses of Wall Street. We need to require real liquid backing to trade in hedge funds, derivatives, credit default swaps and other "exotic" investments, increase the minimum margin requirements for futures and index trades to 15%, re-impose the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act to "firewall" bank assets from the ups and downs of the stock market, and revise the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
3) Aggressively audit EVERY Federal, state and local government agency. Use the audit results to look for bureaucratic overlap and agency bloat so we can cut the size of government at minimum 30% immediately and eventually cut it by as much as 60%.
4) Begin a decade-long phase out of the Federal Reserve Note fiat currency and replace it with a new US dollar backed by a combination of gold, silver, platinum, palladium, copper and nickel--the most common metals used for bullion blocks and coins used in legal monetary transactions.
Do these four steps and our economy will come roaring back and be stronger than ever over the next decade.
Point 1: Agreed.
Point 2: Societal group-think, not wages, are responsible for Spoiled Americans Syndrome. Most people come out of high school with no concept of hard work, sacrifice, or responsibility, and that worldview is continued in college. Change the educational system, and you change society. Limiting wages smacks of socialism and Obamanomics; when you disincentivize the work force, you slow economic growth.
Point 3: Benefits such as health insurance and 401(K) plans are means through which employers attract and retain quality employees. Better to fix the attitude towards health coverage; namely, that it should cost pennies while covering every stomach ache, splinter removal, and office visit. Health coverage is not a right, and it was never designed to pay for the $50 and $100 stuff, but rather to protect you against the $5K - $1M stuff.
I'll add a couple of ideas:
4) Disband all government unions. "The unions will be the death of this country." -My grandfather, back in the late 1960s
5) Remove all illegal aliens from US soil, and end the anchor baby policy;
6) Cut the number of government employees by 50% and cut all government pensions 50% excepting the military. Make them act responsibly to fund their own retirement. When you end the majority of socal programs, this should be easy.
anchor baby was changed in 1996 already.
now the left is moving/moved to have a foot in amnesty (dream act amnesty)
Any economy so dependent on a service sector and consumer spending will, in due course, begin to feed upon itself in an unsustainable manner as the manufacturing and energy sectors (which produce the real wealth of a nation) continue to decline. That deterioration is here for all Americans to see, as job creation, per capita income, and personal wealth have begun a long-term downward spiral.
Many economists proffer the argument that the move to an overwhelmingly service-based economy is the natural course of events in a highly industrialized and technologically advanced society. However, this fails to take into account the factors of world economic development and the same rapid advancement in technology that allow services, which have no intrinsic uniqueness, to be performed by fewer employees and, in many cases, in other countries with lower labor costs.
The United States, if it is to continue as a world economic and military force, must begin to restructure its economy. A program to re-industrialize the nation and to not only become energy independent, but also an energy exporter has to be a priority. The country should have as its goal to increase the manufacturing and energy sector of the economy to 30% to 35% instead of the current 21%.
Exactly what Peter Schiff has been lecturing for years. Democrats believe government taxing and spending (socialism) is the engine of the economy, but Republicans think all investments are the same and that temporarly equity bubbles promoted by low interest rates and targeted tax cuts are real economic growth. But both are wrong. We cant import (and borrow) everything forever.
Just watch what China is doing luring private companies to China while expanding their economy to other nations, all while we send troops and money we dont have. They can fund huge military growth because they have a $$$ plan.
I'm not talking about changing it, I'm talking about the elimination of the policy altogether. The context of the 14th Amendment was to protect newborn children of former slaves, not to grant citizenship to ANY child of a foreign national born here in the US.
unless you define 'forever' as TEOTWAWKI...
I have heard of a Chinese saying which is basically, "the hard part of riding a tiger is getting off the tiger".
I suspect the objective was to increase your standard of living, not reduce it. One way this would happen would be an increase in take home pay via reduced taxes; another would be reduced cost of goods, also via reduced taxes - and if the cost of your purchases is "lower enough", your standard of living could be maintained or improved even if the take home dollar number was smaller.
Imagine 10 cent a gallon gasoline, 10 cent loaf of bread, 20 cent a pound beef, fraction of a cent for a kw of electricity, etc. Not saying that's where the dollar value settles out, just meaning to point out that "dollar number" is a sliding scale against "standard of living."
they did, with the immigration reform act.
It changed from custody of parents follows the us citizen child
the custody of the us citizen child goes with the deported parents.
Immigration lawyers have been making FORTUNES taking money from stupid illegals who get deported on an non-existant hardship claim for the child. (no medical care, my child has add, we are insert religious group)
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Hotel Ercilla Lopez de Haro, Bilbao
- Free WiFi
Main amenities
- 48 guestrooms
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- Breakfast available
- Valet parking
- 24-hour business center
- In-room childcare
- 24-hour front desk
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Car rentals on site
- Front desk safe
- Laundry service
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- Babysitting or childcare
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
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- In Abando
- Plaza Moyua (0.3 mi / 0.4 km)
- Bilbao Fine Arts Museum (0.4 mi / 0.6 km)
- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (0.7 mi / 1.1 km)
- Zubizuri Bridge (0.7 mi / 1.2 km)
- Santiago Cathedral (0.8 mi / 1.3 km)
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- This hotel has 48 rooms
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- Check-in time 2 PM-midnight
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Self parking costs EUR 20 per night
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Excellent 4.1 /5 from 127 reviews
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All good. Front desk particularly friendly and informative.
wow, I have such mixed feelings. The staff was very nice, the room very clean and the location is great for seeing the city. The negatives were there was no English channel tv, they had it but there was no reception over the two days we stayed. The internet worked only occasionally, generally not at all. Great bathroom. Expensive $19 a day parking (but that was cheap compared to other city alternatives). We loved the city and enjoyed having the chance to experience it up close. Went to the ballet one evening, it was a great experience. So what is wrong with this hotel is not based on the people but a lack on investing in basic facilities.
Beautiful hotel in a convenient location. We enjoyed our stay very much!
This was simply a great hotel! From the time we checked-in (4 hours early and they were still able to accommodate us!) until the time we departed (they ensured a taxi would be waiting for us). The hotel was so elegant. The front staff were amazing and very helpful in suggesting places to eat and see. The room was very nice. It had a Victorian-era feel and was very comfortable. I would definitely stay there again!
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Aubergine And Mozzarella Sandwiches
|1 Large (Eggplant)
|Lemon juice
|1 Tablespoon
|Olive oil
|3 Tablespoon
|Grated mozzarella cheese
|4 1⁄2 Ounce, grated (125 Gram)
|Sun dried tomatoes
|2 , chopped
|Italian bread
|Salad leaves
|Tomato slices
|To Taste
|To Taste
1) In a bowl, combine the lemon juice, oil, salt and pepper to taste.
2) Thinly slice the aubergine into rounds, then brush with the lemon juice mixture and grill over medium hot coals for 2-3 minutes until they are golden beneath.
3) Turn over half of the aubergine slices , sprinkle with the cheese and tomatoes. Then top over with rest of the aubergine slices with their pale side up.
4) Grill for 1-2 minutes, then gently turn over the sandwich and grill for 1-2 minutes, basting occasionally with the oil mixture.
5) Serve immediately with the Italian bread, mixed salad leaves and sliced tomato.
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Nutrition Facts
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Calories 245 Calories from Fat 166
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 19 g29%
Saturated Fat 5.8 g29%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 25.2 mg8.4%
Sodium 354.2 mg14.8%
Total Carbohydrates 12 g4%
Dietary Fiber 4.4 g17.4%
Sugars 4.2 g
Protein 9 g18.2%
Vitamin A 9% Vitamin C 12.9%
Calcium 17.8% Iron 4.3%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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Diamond Jubilee Party Food : Creative Mondays Blog Hop ...
Hello and welcome to Creative Mondays hosted by Clairejustineoxox and Judyh-jsThoughts where you can link up all your creative post each week.... what have you all been up to this week?
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Traditional Victoria Sponge Cake...
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Corgi Biscuits for the Jubliee Celebrations...
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Diamond Jubilee Royal Shortbread Biscuits...
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 12 minutes, plus cooling
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Saturday, 19 May 2012
Fancy making some Strawberryade?
Refreshingly simple and easy to make.
Makes 1 litre (13/4 pints)
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Chilling time: overnight
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Thursday, 17 May 2012
Summer berry salad...
Summer berry salad...
Light, tangy and a great alternative to the more usual mayo dressed chicken salads.
Serves 4-5
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 25 minutes
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Monday, 30 April 2012
Very Berry Pimms ...
Celebrate in style with seasonal berry version of Pimms...Very Berry Pimms ...
Add two large handfuls of halved or sliced strawberries, depending on their size to a large jug with a large handful of fresh raspberries, a few sprigs of fresh mint and ¼ cucumber, sliced and cut into 4.
Add Pimms No1 and fizzy lemonade or tonic in proportions specified on the bottle of Pimms then top up with lots of ice cubes.
Jazz up summery drinks by adding small halved strawberries, raspberries and mint leaves or tiny viola or herb flowers to sections of an ice cube tray.
Top up with cold water, freeze until solid then press out of ice cube tray and serve in a small bowl or add straight to a glass of strawberryade, see below, bought elderflower cordial or a G and T.
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I tried to think of one artist that exemplified my life in the 90s and I couldn't do it, but I could think of a few albums that really defined that muddle bunch of memories. So here's my EPIC 90s playlist – my tastes have changed a bit, but these are still awesome:
FYI – this is a big blog – if you don't care to read my thoughts on the album/artist – no worries – the list is just awesome…I'm listening to it now as I write.
Nirvana – Nevermind (1991)
This album is a good place to start in the 90s and it never gets old listening to it. I wasn't a huge Nirvana fan, but they definitely took me to a darker side of music that I really started to like – and I think you'll see that the majority of artists on this list were probably influenced by Nirvana, at least to some degree.
Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against The Machine (1992)
Overall I'd say the 90s were their best years…well, maybe their only years…lol. Their first album, which I highlighted above was frickin amazing. Evil Empire came out in '96 and Battle for Los Angeles in '99. I would almost say they rank the highest in my 90s playlist…but there's plenty to come
Dave Matthews Band – Under The Table & Dreaming (1993)
So this is a bit…different compared to the rest of this list, but I am going in chronological order, so give me a break. Whoever doesn't like Dave's work in the 90s, well I probably wouldn't have hung out with you much – no offense. Crash and Before These Crowded Streets were fantastic 90s follow ups, and everything since from these guys hasn't really improved..
Green Day – Dookie (1994)
Probably my favorite Green Day album – and everything past the 90s sucks from them basically. Insomniac is a close second following in '95 and the ever fanatastic Nimrod in '97. Past that, I kinda stopped listening, but Warning was ok – not a fan of anything beyond – so the 90s were the best, once again…seeing a pattern here?
Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995)
This album is perhaps their finest work – and started me off on a fantastic last half of the decade. It gets darker from here on, except for the next one – the end of the 90s was rough. Adore was a great follow up for them in '98, and I think I can say pretty easily that everything they've ever done has been awesome – their '07 album Zeitgest is worth checking out if you haven't yet.
Deftones – Around the Fur (1995)
My first foray into "metal" and I think Deftones is kind of its own brand of sound. You either love them or hate them – or you love their lighter stuff and hate their extremely hard stuff – I have no complaints either way. White Pony is still maybe my favorite album, but this one is a very close second – and my mom HATED when I listened to it – bonus EXP right there.
Counting Crows – Recovering The Satellites (1996)
Honestly I haven't cared too much for another album from Counting Crows since. This album is one of the most nostalgic pieces of music I own. It brings back memories way way back and I can't say they are all good. If you don't like their later stuff this album may be perfect for you – its both hard and soft, and definitely not a sellout album like I feel their others have been.
Foo Fighters – The Colour And The Shape (1997)
I don't know if I need to explain why this album is on the list, given a prior blog, but this might be my favorite on the list. I hate to say it, but I didn't care for another album from them until the 90s were over – but this was probably good enough to hold me over for a decade.
Godsmack – Godsmack (1997)
Another artist where I haven't listened to anything they've made since their debut. This is very hard, but it's obvious they were placing their hearts and souls into the music – everything since has been a copy of their more popular songs that were hits on this album, which is very sad…
Korn – Follow The Leader (1998)
I didn't care for Life is Peachy, but I liked a few songs. Their first album may be better than this one, but this is the first Korn album I bought. I picked up Issues but felt it wasn't half the album this one is – and nothing since Issues has been worth anything – it just feels like they peaked in their originality in Follow the Leader – fantastic album.
The Offspring – Americana (1998)
My parents didn't approve this album in the least. It has gen X written all over it and in some ways it proves itself time and time again as I listen to it and think back to where all the people I've known when growing up have come and gone. It truly exemplifies how annoying and repetitive life can be, but it makes fun of it – which is the best means for handling – not to mention its just an amazing bit of music – can never go wrong with The Offspring
Powerman 5000 – Tonight the Stars Revolt! (1999)
An odd choice? I could see how it might be, but I loved this album. I can't say the same necessarily for what the artist made after, but there are some great songs here – oh and an awesome cover of Good Times Roll btw.
Incubus – Make Yourself (1999)
Incubus is a good place to round out the decade. There's actually several other albums I mentioned from 1999 that could be considered here – and I think if anything, I believe the 90s to be some of the best years for Rock the world has ever seen.
I'm sure I missed a few, but that's my 90s playlist – thanks for reading guys
Jake (aka NLWJ)


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The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) is investigating the death of a Marine at Camp Pendleton on Monday morning as a possible suicide, according to the North County Times:
[T]here was no immediate indication that it was not a suicide. The Marine Corps does not routinely report where its suicides occur, but 11 of the suicides last year were Camp Pendleton Marines, according to statistics provided to the North County Times.
Camp Pendleton officials told the North County Times the Marine, a young adult male, died at 9:40 Monday morning. No other information about the deceased has been released.
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Under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, colleges receiving federal funding must afford equal participation opportunities in varsity sports to male and female athletes. One way schools demonstrate their compliance is by showing that the number of varsity opportunities for men and women are "substantially proportionate to their respective enrollments." For example, if a student body population is 60% male and 40% female, the total number of student-athlete positions at the school should mirror these percentages. The Department of Education has clarified that for an athletic participation opportunity to be counted for Title IX, it must be in the context of a "sport."
Earlier this year, Quinnipiac University (in Connecticut) argued to the Second Circuit that a district court had erred in finding that the university violated Title IX by eliminating its women's volleyball team. Quinnipiac had two main arguments: (1) that the district court should have considered the 30 roster positions on its competitive cheerleading team when calculating the school's total percentage of female athletic opportunities, and (2) that the district court should have counted all positions on the women's cross-country, indoor track, and outdoor track teams, even though some of the same athletes filled positions on all three teams.
The Second Circuit disagreed regarding the competitive cheerleading team. Although competitive cheerleading is an athletic endeavor, Quinnipiac cheerleading could not be considered a varsity sport. Several factors supported this conclusion: (1) Quinnipiac had not conducted any off-campus recruitment for the cheerleading team; (2) no uniform set of rules applied to competitive cheerleading throughout the regular season; (3) the cheerleading team's opponents consisted of "a motley assortment of competitors," including collegiate club teams and all-star teams unaffiliated with any academic institution; (4) the competitive cheerleading "post-season" was not based on any ranking, seeding, or playoff system leading to a championship, but rather consisted of a single open invitational; and (5) the competitive cheerleading championship tournament incorporated a new rule that had not been applied in any of the regular season competitions. Thus, the appellate court agreed with the district court that "Quinnipiac's competitive cheerleading team did not compete in circumstances indicative of varsity sports" and should therefore not be counted for Title IX purposes.
With respect to the women's cross-country athletes participating on multiple teams, the court agreed that "an athlete who participates in more than one sport [may] be counted as a participant in each sport in which he or she participates." However, Qunnipiac's practice of requiring its women's cross-country athletes to join the indoor and outdoor track teams, for purposes of allowing the cross-country athletes to train year-round, was a unique situation. The court concluded that the athletes who participated in at least half of the track competitions could be counted, whereas those who simply practiced with the team or participated in only one competition could not be counted as legitimate participants. Thus, five positions on the women's indoor track team and six positions on the women's outdoor track team could not be counted, because they were filled by noncompeting athletes who had been injured or red-shirted.
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