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"Meme" is the word that is currently being used to describe the spread of an idea or concept so that it works its way into the fabric of a culture in a way that is similar to the spread of genetic material like a virus. There is no need for a meme to be based in any way on fact, logic or reason.
In politics, the Democrats have been remarkable successful in infecting the American electorate with their preferred memes. For example, the generally accepted (among the uninformed and main stream media) that conservatives are racist, homophobic, allies of the rich and powerful on Wall Street, are pro war and are enemies of the middle class, particularly union workers, while being callously indifferent to the plight of the poor and aged.
The fact that it was a Republican that issued the Emancipation Proclamation is ignored. The fact that it was a solidly Democrat south that created and sustained Jim Crow is not acknowledged. The idea that Wall Street gives at least as much money to the Democrats as to the Republicans in an effort to buy influence is a subject to be avoided. The fact that World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam were all initiated under Democrat presidents seems to have slipped through the cracks of the Democrats' message machine.
The most common way to spread these beliefs is the current practice of the repeating over and over the idea that one wants to be implanted. Of course with today's technology, this spread of the virus is no longer limited to speech. A picture is worth a thousand words and the images being on television and the internet are able to reinforce the political talking points of the Democrats, so their distortions and lies that are set out as simply statements of fact.
The unappreciated splendor of the political meme is that its beauty that is created without having to resort to fact, logic or reason. All a political meme needs is to sound good to certain targeted audiences of voters. Or it has to sound absolutely horrible to such voters.
Witness the meme that the Democrats created to attack Representative Paul Ryan's proposal regarding the restructuring of Medicare. An elderly woman in a wheelchair gets thrown off a cliff. Now that's a vivid image! It contains no facts, logic or reason, but it scores extremely well on the "horrible" scale.
Likewise the idea that we should remove any and all tax deductions for those people who have somehow been fortunate enough, or productive enough, to afford a private jet. Yes, the old tried and true "tax the rich" meme always has appeal. The fact that a very similar revenue enhancement measure was applied to luxury boats in the 1990's, and led to the loss of about 25,000 jobs in this country is uniformly ignored. Ignoring documented history is often a help in crafting a meme aimed at attacking your opponents, but such a ploy is risky, since it is relatively easy to rebut. But it sure sounds good to folks who don't own their own jet planes or luxury yachts.
Any thinking person is aware by now that runaway entitlement spending constitutes the largest impediment to fiscal sanity that we currently face. Yet the former House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, staked out the talking point that Democrats are adamantly opposed to any change in Social Security or Medicare, thereby inferring that Republicans are willing to toss granny under the bus.
This is another skillfully crafted message, which will probably become known as the Pelosi-Sleight-of-Hand-Gambit. By saying that something is absolutely unacceptable, and that you plan to man the barricades, fight off the barbarians that are trying to institute this horrible idea, while knowing that, as the minority, there isn't a chance of affecting the outcome in any way, allows the gone-but-sadly-not-forgotten-former-Speaker to paint herself as morally superior at absolutely no political cost to her, her party or her President.
She can then use the same talking point to whine to the electorate that if her party were still in the majority, this horrible thing (whatever it might be on that particular day) would never have been allowed to happen, so everyone who agrees that this thing, whatever is the horror du jour, is truly horrible, should elect Democrats. Neat, huh?
The recurring theme which becomes apparent is the use of imagery that does its best to frighten the electorate. Long gone are the days of "two-chickens-in-every-pot" rhetoric, since even the least attentive voter is aware that we just don't have the money to support fanciful spending programs that need constant replenishment from the Treasury. So if Democrats are no longer able to offer the voters something-for-nothing, they have to claim that you are doing something to avoid the disaster that will inevitably follow if the Republicans win the election.
And this has been a recurring strategy for the Democrats since at least the election of 1964 which pitted Lyndon Johnson against Barry Goldwater. Those who are old enough might remember the ads that were run on television which superimposed the image of a nuclear detonation over the image of a little girl picking petals off a flower. It was horrible imagery, without any basis in fact, logic or reason. But the meme that Goldwater was salivating over the thought of starting a nuclear war became accepted truth for a majority.
And Lyndon Johnson won.
Republicans have a terrible weakness in the area of messaging, and this is a handicap that they must overcome to succeed in 2012. Ronald Reagan danced the messaging waltz with great effect when he asked one simple question: Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
It was short, easily understood and following the time tested pattern of promising to avoid an impending horror if the other candidate was to be elected.
The biggest advantage that the Democrats have at this juncture in the campaign is that Obama has the support of the main stream media. Obama's talking points are dutifully reported by the MSM as fact. When repeated daily, these talking points insert themselves into the collective consciousness of the nation and begin to take on the patina of truth.
Don't believe it? Ask Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister for Adolph Hitler, who said two things:
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly – it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over"
So how can a working coalition of Republicans, conservatives, libertarians and Tea Partiers counter the Democrats onslaught of repeated and unanswered claims that threaten horrors if Obama is not re-elected?
Perhaps there is a possible answer in the headquarters of the Republican National Committee.
Let the RNC develop their own talking points, and offer them freely to every Republican candidate. If every candidate, regardless of how smart he or she thinks they are, uses them, with modifications to conform to their personal style, then there would be uniformity in response to Obama's use of talking points to prevent, or at least minimize, Dr. Goebbels' techniques for creating memes that become so deeply embedded that they cannot be counted. If the dozen or so candidates all address different issues, then the response to Democrats talking points will be so diffuse as to be valueless. Unless the Republicans are willing to submerge their own egos in this one area, Obama will have all the time he needs to hammer home his version of reality (or what normal people would refer to as fantasy) completely unopposed. It is unlikely, to say the least, that the main stream media will call him on any talking point, no matter how ludicrous. They will repeat them over and over again, and there will be no uniform Republican response of sufficient gravitas to counter them. So a united front and a common message in terms of response to Democrats distortions and lies are essential.
In addition, the RNC should develop talking points of an attack mode, and put Democrats on the defensive. As the Johnson/Goldwater campaign illustrated, logic, reason and facts don't seem to outweigh fear. Obama and the Democrats are masters of fear-based campaigning. Witness if you will the rhetoric concerning any plans to modify, no matter how slightly, our current Medicare situation. It's even referred to in some areas of the media as "Medi-scare."
If this seems distasteful as a tactic, it should be remembered that John McCain ran a very "honorable" election campaign.
He lost.
And, in losing, he gave us four years of Barack Obama. Can the nation survive another four years of Barack Obama? Will Republicans allow that to happen again because they are unwilling to brawl on his level? We can only hope that they are willing to get their knuckles bruised and take the gloves off.


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NEWS: The Childress Police Department sent a letter telling the Freedom from Religion Foundation to "go fly a kite" after the organization requested the motto "In God We Trust" be removed from police vehicles.
On 28 September 2015, the Childress [Texas] Police Department published an image on their Facebook page of a letter they had sent to the Freedom from Religion Foundation in response to that organization's request that they remove the phrase "In God We Trust" (which is the U.S. national motto) from their patrol vehicles:
While the letter was recent, debate between the Childress Police Dept. and the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) had been taking place for some weeks prior. Childress Police Chief Adrian Garcia first posted to the department's Facebook page about the FFRF's request on 2 September 2015, and a quote from Garcia appeared in a 3 September 2015 article in the
Childress Police Chief Adrian Garcia said he is adding the decals in response to increasing violence across the country.
"I think with all the assaults happening on officers across the country and the two that happened in the past few days in Harris County and Abilene, it's time we get back to where we once were," Garcia told the Red River Sun, a newspaper serving the Childress area. "This is our nation's motto … it's even on our currency. It's nothing new."
The decision was announced through a post on the police department's Facebook page. The post was shared more than 1,300 times and received more than 3,100 likes.
That initial article, however, indicated that visible support for the Childress Police Dept.'s stance may have been exaggerated. Not all locals in and around Childress opposed the FFRF's position:
Douglas Messer, 46, said he criticized the decision in a comment on the Facebook page.
"I made a very, very short comment. I simply said, 'Bad move,' and within five minutes my post had been deleted and I had been blocked," Messer said.
"They're the police for the entire community, not just the Christians," Messer said. "I happen to know that there are a fair number of atheists in that town that would feel discriminated against."
In the same article, FFRF attorney Rebecca Markert explained why the FFRF took the Childress Police Dept. (and other law enforcement agencies engaging in the practice) to task over the "In God We Trust" decals:
We haven't sent an official letter of complaint yet, but that is on our docket and we are planning to send something. It is definitely showing a government endorsement of religion over non-religion, which is a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
Childress wasn't singled out by the FFRF in a bid to eradicate the decals: the organization stated that they had sent similar letters to nearly three dozen police departments across the United States about the practice (citing expenditure of public monies and tacit intimidation of non-Christians as primary reasons they opposed the practice):
FFRF reminds the agencies that citizens trust law enforcement officers to attend to their secular duties, not spend taxpayer money placing religious messages on patrol cars to the exclusion of the 23% of Americans who are not religious.
FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor added, "Further, in a time when citizens nationwide are increasingly distrustful of police actions, it is frightening and politically dubious to announce to citizens that law enforcement officers rely on the judgment of a deity rather than on the judgment of the law."
In an earlier, lengthier exposition, the FFRF maintained that the inclusion of "In God We Trust" has never passed a legal test of constitutionality with respect to the Establishment Clause:
But "In God We Trust" has never been legally tested in trial. Its constitutionality has never had its day in court, nor has the Supreme Court issued a decision on its merits. It is premature to use it as a legal excuse to mix religion and government. This is one of the reasons why we have gone to court over the issue.
In 1955 Congress put "In God We Trust" on all currency. Before then it had appeared only sporadically, since the Civil War, on some coins. In 1956 Congress adopted the phrase as our national motto, replacing the historic and more accurate "E Pluribus Unum" ("From Many, One") chosen by Jefferson, Franklin and Adams.
The 1950s was a time of intense Cold War hysteria. "Under God" was inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954. During the McCarthy era, no congressperson wanted to be seen voting against "God." When Rep. Bennett introduced the bill to put "In God We Trust" on our money, he gave the threat of "materialistic communism" as a justification.
"In God We Trust" on money is a Cold War anachronism. If there ever were any truly "unAmerican" activities, then defacing our secular currency with religious graffiti was one of them.
In Garcia's reply (published on 28 September 2015 to Facebook), he said:
After carefully reading your letter I must deny your request in the removal of our Nations motto from our patrol units, and ask that you and the Freedom From Religion Foundation go fly a kite.
On 29 September 2015, Texas lawmakers issued a statement supporting Garcia's decision:
Senator Charles Perry and Representative Drew Springer issued a joint statement in support of Childress Police Department's right to display "In God We Trust" on their patrol cars.
"In God We Trust" was designated the national motto of the United States in 1956 after legislation passed by Congress was signed by President Dwight Eisenhower. The group behind the letter to Childress, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, has unsuccessfully fought to remove "In God We Trust" from other government fixtures such as currency and courthouses in the past.
"I stand firmly with Chief Adrian Garcia and the Childress Police Department as they protect their right to display 'In God We Trust' on patrol cars," said Perry. "We live in a country with a rich history of celebrating faith and honoring religious liberty. It is un-American to suggest a police department should not be allowed to display our national motto."
"Our law enforcement officers work hard to keep our communities safe and deserve our support, not demands like this," said Springer. "We are in the middle of a spiritual battle in America right now, with the issue of religious liberty front and center. I am proud of Childress Police Department for standing strong."
The Freedom from Religion Foundation has yet to respond to Garcia's letter.

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Leaders from the three national Indigenous organizations will skip the meeting with premiers in Edmonton this week, saying the format does not adhere to the spirit of the reconciliation.
Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Perry Bellegarde, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami President Natan Obed and Métis National Council President Clément Chartier told reporters in Toronto that the current format subjugates Indigenous issues, because they cannot participate in meetings as full members of the Council of the Federation with province-like powers to be at the table for all talks.
Bellegarde said there have been "attempts to sideline and segregate the AFN from participation in federal-provincial-territorial intergovernmental tables," and limit and "marginalize" Indigenous involvement.
"We are not just another special interest group. An effective process for intergovernmental participation must reflect our status under the Constitution and international law as peoples and nations with inherent rights, title and jurisdiction," Bellegarde said.
"First Nations will not accept an exclusionary and disrespectful approach."
Bellegarde said there have been efforts by some provincial governments to block Indigenous groups from participating fully in climate change discussions, and health-care talks, for example. He would not specify which provinces were behind the alleged push for exclusion.
Indigenous organizations met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the premiers at a first ministers' meeting in December, where the national climate change strategy was signed by nearly all provinces. But they were not invited to partake fully in the day's activities.
One leader told CBC News at the time that it felt like Indigenous leaders were put at the "kid's table."
However, all three national leaders were given seats next to the premiers at the closing press conference.
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Chartrand said if Canada is to adhere to a true nation-to-nation approach, national Indigenous organizations should be recognized as "full-fledged governments" with an invitation to all intergovernmental meetings.
"We can't accept the status quo of being excluded, or sidelined from ministerial level meetings, the Council of Federation meetings, or First Ministers' meetings.
There has to be a way forward that is in line with the UNDRIP, in line with our constitution," Obed said, adding Aboriginal and treaty rights guaranteed in Section 35 of the Constitution give them the right to fully participate.
The Council of the Federation had planned to meet with Indigenous leaders Monday to discuss progress on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) recommendations and the federal government's implementation of principles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.
Those meetings will now proceed with two other Indigenous organizations, including the Native Women's Association of Canada and the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, which represents off-reserve and non-status Indians.
'Not ethnic minorities'
Chartrand said the premiers are free to speak to these groups, but he said the three organizations that are boycotting the meeting are the "legitimate representatives" of nations and peoples.
"We are not ethnic minorities. We are Indigenous peoples with the right to self-determination," Bellegarde said.
The premiers will meet Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss other pressing matters, such as NAFTA and the legalization of marijuana.
A spokesperson for Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said Friday the province had been trying to "persuade" Indigenous leaders to attend the meeting.
"Monday's meeting has been set for months now and the intent of the meeting is largely to address relationships and interactions with the Indigenous leaders and organizations and the provinces and territories," Cheryl Oates said in a statement to CBC News.
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Eatings Sloppy Joe's with Grandma
hmmmm....I'm pretty sure he liked them, his face doesn't make you think that though.
Mesmerized by the football players
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Watching the game with Grandma Hunni
Grandpa H. gave him popcorn....he ate so much!
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Cheering with mommy
Our family at the game
With Howie the Huskie! Lincoln wasn't so sure about him....
My cousin Riley LOVES Howie!
Sorry it's blurry but this one really shows how uneasy Lincoln was about Howie! I was surprised he even let Howie hold him!
It was cool that Lincoln's first football game that he went to was Tyler and I's high school team. The Huskies won by the way! :)


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Family Friday
21 comments:
A post just bursting with beaWOOtiful furiends and furamily!ReplyDelete
Thanks fur sharing!
PeeEssWoo: and so furry tasty too ;-)
Those are just great pictures! What a pawesome furry family.ReplyDelete
We love the picture of Tom head to head with his sister Sophie - quite mirror image markings on their heads! Suzie has very pretty furs on her head and neck.ReplyDelete
What a regal looking lady your Mummy cat is Genji and she has some lovely rosettes on her winner's cup.
Tommy, we enjoy seeing you with your siblings further family and don't mind more photos at all. It's good to know that you are back with the Chans now.ReplyDelete
Genji, your mom is truly beautiful!
Those are GREAT family pictures.... you are all very loverly!!ReplyDelete
Love those family pics! xxReplyDelete
Look at all that fur!!!ReplyDelete
How do you get much sleep with all that family stuff going on?
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Welcome home, Tommy and #1!ReplyDelete
We love all the family photos so please continue to share them.
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Lovely pictures of your adventures in Normandy! Naturally we are partial to little Sophie :) But there is no place like home...n'est-ce pas ?!ReplyDelete
the critters in The Cottage xo
Gorgeous pictures there all snuggly and warm. Just lovely.. It is nice to get home though as travels good but home is best.. HUgs GJ xxReplyDelete
Genji, your mom is gorgeous! My parents are pretty awesome too. In fact, my dad was a cover model for Cat Fancy!ReplyDelete
mind photos of you? BRING THEM ON! we adore them and you... Love Helen, Darcy and Bingley xxxReplyDelete
that is so wonderful you get to hang out with your real real familyReplyDelete
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I can think of nothing better than to be surrounded by the warmth and love of family!!!ReplyDelete
Those are great family pictures! Thanks for sharing them with us!!ReplyDelete
Family Friday! Wes LOVES it! Tommy, you sure have a handsome family and Genji! WOW! yous looks like a chip off the old block! No wonder yous is so beauteous!ReplyDelete
Tommy, you have such a beautiful family - it's hard to believe there could be so many more like you, but it is true, must be in those genes.ReplyDelete
And Genji, your Mom is incredibly gorgeous!!!
We are thinking you are all in for a wonderful weekend with #1 and Tommy home.
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We love Tommy's family's resemblance! Its seems everybody there is from a beautiful family!ReplyDelete
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Sunday, 2 October 2005
William Shatner School of Acting
If only I'd been there. I mean seriously, how cool would it be to have trained there? I think I'm gonna' write to the man and get him to start an acting school up, where he can pass all his talk-singing techniques on to the next generation.
Back in the real world I am home once again for two nights before off to Stafford and Christ, Goole was depressing. The shows were pretty crummy too. The first night there was spoilt by some youth workers bringing in 15 eleven year olds who did well to control their utter boredom as the play escaped the feeble grasp of their young minds. The second night was vandalised by some pissed up degenerates who were out on a fancy dress booze up and who sat on the front row heckling and twatting about through the entire thing. We couldn't get out of Goole quick enough...
Next week also brings Derby (where bizarrely we've sold out all three shows there), Gainsborough and Wisbech before a three night run in Cambridge.
If anyone out there wants to help me sell some pottery please make a bid on this item I have for sale on ebay. BUMP ME UP BITCHES!
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I....can'tbelieve...that YOU...want to act....like...ReplyDelete
The Shat is a god amongst men. I'll never forget the impact that hearing "The Transformed Man" had upon my life. People mock, but who else can lay claim to starring in a film that was scripted entirely in Esperanto? The Shat, that's who!ReplyDelete
As for the pigs, a complete set are worth about £100. I saw them on "Cash in the Attic" whilst channel-hopping one night.
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Shatner...is the...greatest...a modern interpreter of the...English language.ReplyDelete
Transformed Man is awesome as is his album Has Been.
Thanks for the Cosby shit, I found it distressing and exploitative.
I met him on Sunday in Milton Keynes where the man was signing autographs at the Collectamania film fayre....what a man! Did you hear Lucy in the sky with diamonds...absolute gem.ReplyDelete
You met him?ReplyDelete
Can I kiss you?
William Shatner. He came from the same acting school that MY old drama teacher came from... At least, I'd be willing to bet on it.ReplyDelete
I DID have a better drama teacher than that one, BTW. I don't suck at acting like that...ReplyDelete
Saur: can I kiss you?ReplyDelete
Anyone connected to Shatner needs kissing.
Daniel, I'll have you know that BP and I spent a great deal of our collegiate years together walking around the campus at 2am after too much coffee and studying, or writing comedy, or just avoiding work most likely, and doing star trek jokes ad nauseum until we wore out all the lawns on the campus, yet laughed ourselves into near hysteria every night. And all in the bizarre love/hate of Shatner and his own impossible genre of acting/gran mal epilepsy seizure - performance technique. As to the pottery, it's almost as painful to look at as the abu ghirab photos. Will have to take a pass on that one.ReplyDelete
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This is a great offer in my opinion, but I wanted to point out the two different ways to apply for this card and a slight variation on the offer. Keep in mind that this increased limited time offer is available through September 2, 2014.
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- Offer #2: Earn 50,000 points after spending $2,000 on the card within the fist three months. This offer also comes with a $50 statement credit after your first purchase. Definitely the better offer, however, it is a non-public offer which has worked for some, but not everyone. The offer is supposed to appear when booking a United flight. Application link.
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Cato Craft over at RadioFreeLiberty.com, has a pretty good podcast posted about the purpose of recognizing your own, personal, "Tax Freedom Day." It makes you note at what point in the year a typical person's earned enough income to pay their taxes and so are finally working for their own benefit and not to pay the feds, the state, the city, the school board, the county, and the rest.
I agree with everything Cato says about the immoral and illegal nature of taxes; that arguing and acting on the view that taxes can be challenged in court on constitutional principles, as some of us do, is a wholly futile enterprise. So says Cato anyhow, and I agree. While a few people do manage to wiggle free of the long arm of the IRS, in nearly every case I am aware of, if you play this hand, you'll lose your shirt, as well as your reputation, money, property, liberty, and even life in some cases. Impeccable logical and sound and informed legal argumentation is futile. Expecting the government-run courts to seriously entertain arguments to the contrary is like expecting a cat not to chase a dangling piece of string. Of course Leviathan will act against you; its the nature of that particular beast, no? Just like a cat and dangling string.
Like the words of wisdom Cato winds up the podcast with, "the constitution is irrelevant"in American courts. Cato says "pay your taxes, and stay free". That is to say, free to act against the state, and able to live your life. Taxes, for now, are just a cost of doing "business" with the state. A price we pay to stay at liberty.
You're a good man Cato Craft: clear-eyed and pragmatic to a fault. And that's a problem I'd like to have.
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I am the Diva - Certified Zentangle Teacher. This is strictly zentangle, no quilting, but I'm enjoying understanding the process before trying to figure how it applies to quilting.
HERE in this youtube video she shot at the Houston show in 2010. It's worth a look to see how doodling transfers to not just quilting, but quilt design.
Sue Reich, and her lecture will be Quiltmaking That Saw Us through WWII. This coincides with a wonderful quilt exhibit at our local Huntsville Museum of Art, Blood, Thread & Tears: World War II Quilts. I hope I get an opportunity to see it! One of the benefits of having Sue come in is that she's also speaking at the Museum of Art. Because the guild's paid for her travel and the shipping of her quilts for the museum exhibit, the museum has discounted entrance fees for all Huntsville guild members -- for the year! Pretty cool stuff; they get some pretty decent exhibits.
I'll leave you with this last glimpse into my visit with SGP . . . I was finally able to capture his Roll Tide, which is quite darling . . .
And today is a pumpkin day, part two, with my Jocelyn!


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For all of those who were wondering why I (Jason) haven't been posting recently (which would be a weird thing to wonder given that I hardly ever post), it's because I relapsed this last week. If you'll recall, I was all mega-sick last week, even missing a day and a half of work.
Then, Monday I was back at work. I was tired, but that was to be expected given that I had dropped Leah off at the airport that morning (at 4 am!). Then the next day I was really tired too, but maybe that was just because I wasn't caught up on my sleep yet. But then Wednesday came and I started out tired and ended up feverish. Yep, time to leave work early again. Gah! This flu is so annoying. I took Thursday off work again and today, Saturday, I am probably feeling the best I have in awhile.
The point of all this is that I've been too tired to post recently. I've really only had the energy to watch stupid TV and lay around. It's very boring and I've very sick of it and it's very much time for Leah to come home and entertain me.
Still, there is hope. Tomorrow is supposed to be a brief respite with a high of 49. I can't wait.
...and then it's back to 30's and snow. Spring? Hello? Spring?
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On January 24th, the Larry Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison for sexual assault of gymnasts 15 years or younger. Now, the Board of Directors of USA Gymnastics is experiencing the repercussions of allowing that abuse to go on for decades.
The U.S. Olympic Committee has called on the entire board of USA Gymnastics to resign before January 31st. If they fail to resign, the U.S. Olympic Committee "Will move to terminate its status as the sport's national governing body," reported Yahoo.
Nassar served as national medical coordinator for USA Gymnastics from 1996 to 2014. He continued to treat gymnasts through 2016. He pleaded guilty to seven counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving girls who were 15 years old or younger. Afterwards, nearly 160 women came forward with abuse allegations against him.
USOC Chief Executive Officer Scott Blackmun demanded the resignation in a letter addressed to the USA Gymnastics Board of Directors on Thursday. The letter acknowledged that there have been recent resignations from the board, but they asked for more drastic measures.
"We are also aware of the recent resignations of USAG board chair Paul Parilla and three other board members," the letter states. "Now that these steps have been completed, USAG must build on them with a categorically fresh start at the board level."
The letter lays out six steps USA Gymnastics must complete in order to avoid losing their status as the sport's governing body. The first step is the resignation of the entire board.
"The other steps include naming an interim board by Jan. 31, a new permanent board within the next year, increased USOC oversight, including a designated liaison, and mandated SafeSport and ethics training," reported Yahoo.
SafeSport is an organization partnered with the USOC. According to their website, they are dedicating to protecting athletes because "all athletes deserve to participate in sports [that] are free from bullying, hazing, sexual misconduct, or any form of emotional or physical abuse."
The letter does not implicate the board in covering up the Nassar allegations. However, it does call for change because gymnastics "culture needs fundamental rebuilding."
"We do not base these requirements on any knowledge that any individual USAG staff or board members had a role in fostering or obscuring Nassar's actions," the letter reads. "Our position comes from a clear sense that USAG culture needs fundamental rebuilding."
While USOC doesn't implicate the board in covering up Nassar, many of the women who came forward were critical of the way the board handled the scandal. McKayla Maroney, who won a gold medal as part of the women's gymnastics team in 2012, has filed a lawsuit against USA Gymnastics saying they "failed to properly investigate, disciple or remove" Nassar.
"In 2015 when USA Gymnastics admits that they became aware that he had molested girls, they didn't call Child Protective Services," Maroney's lawyer John Manly told ABC News in December. "Instead they hired a private investigator and they waited five weeks. ... He was allowed to stay in the treatment room and treated dozens and dozens of little girls over the next year. ... They allowed him to put out a cover story that he was retiring from USA Gymnastics when it wasn't true. They were getting rid of him."
In other news, President Trump is asking the nation to pray for a little girl battling a horrible disease.


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The "Vie Ferrate" were initially built in the Dolomites in order to facilitate the movement of military troops through otherwise dangerous terrain in World War I and to assist in controlling lines of defense.
On this itinerary, you'll travel with us through the Great War network of via ferratas used by soldiers to access the summits that were controlled by Austrian and Italian troops.
A different via ferrata each day and ascents to places that have been written in the annals of this conflict, climbing through the old battlefront from the Fanes Natural Park all the way to the Marmolada.
Length 7 nights
Level °°°°°+
Arrival in Alta Badia: meet and greet at the hotel for dinner and general briefing and orientation with your guide. Overnight stay in a hotel.
1st day: approx. 9 km (5.6 miles); with +660 m (2,165 feet) elevation gain (e.g.); -595 m (1,952 feet) elevation loss (e.l.)
Transfer by chairlift from Badia to Santa Croce. Ascent along the fully equipped route to "Ju dla Crusc" and descent to Fanes. Dinner and overnight stay in hut.
2nd day: approx. 16 km (9.9 miles); with +1.040 m (3,412 feet) e.g.;
-1,040 m (3,412 feet) e.l.
Via Della Pace in the Fanes Natural Park. The via ferrata that follows the footsteps of the Italian and Austrian troops during the WW I. Dinner and overnight stay in hut.
3rd day: approx. 12.5 km (7.8 miles); with +1,115 m (3,658 feet) e.g.;
-525 m (1,722 feet) e.l.
From Fanes Natural Park through the "Cengia Martini" to Lagazuoi. Dinner and overnight stay in hut.
4th day: approx. 10 km (6.2 miles); with +712 m (2,336 feet) e.g.;
-1,570 m (5,151 feet) e.l.
From Lagazuoi descent thought the tunnels dug in 1917 by the Italian Gebirgsjäger.
Transfer to Corvara and ascent by lift to Valon, starting point for the via ferrata Piz da Lech and Vallon. Dinner and overnight stay in hotel on Passo Pordoi.
5th day: approx. 11 km (6.8 miles); with +971 m (3,186 feet) e.g.;
-1,160 m (3,806 feet) e.l.
From Passo Pordoi on the Via Ferrata delle Trincee to the Passo Fedaia at the foot of the Marmolada Glacier. Dinner and overnight stay in hut.
6th day: approx. 5 km (3 miles); with +1,005 m (3,297 feet) e.g.;
-1,005 m (3,297 feet) e.l.
From Passo Fedaia to Pian dei Fiacconi by lift. Via Ferrata Punta Penia along the west ridge of the Marmolada to the glacier's summit. Transfer to Badia, dinner and overnight stay in a hotel.
7th day: Departure.
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Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
I have never climbed a Via Ferrata. Can I join this program?
This program is suitable for those who already have good trekking experience. The first day starts with an easy fixed rope route and your mountain guide will evaluate whether you are capable of facing the following stages. If your guide decides some stages are too challenging, participants can switch to the Best Of Alta Via 1&2 trekking program held the same week.
Do I need my own via ferrata setup?
Holimites will provide the mountaineering equipment required to climb the via ferrate.
What happens in the case of bad weather?
Sir Alan Flemming once stated: "There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing". But, it is possible that bad weather conditions may hinder our program. If this occurs, we'll reorganize the upcoming stages of the tour so that the group meets its final destination as planned, even if this means taking a one-day break to wait for the weather to clear up.
Are there minimum skills requested?
Participants must be footsure mountain walkers free from vertigo and have experience in exposed environments.
Is training necessary before participating in this tour?
Yes, it is highly recommended. The Via Ferrata package is suited for people that are already strong walkers, that can manage treks with fully packed backpacks at elevations above 2,000 m.
Participating in a group Via Ferrata requires having to keep up a certain pace in order to finish the scheduled stages. If your legs and arms are shutting down or your physical preparedness is constraining the rest of the group to slow down and making group compatibility problematic, your Guide may decide you need to tone down, leaving the pack. Your alternatives in this case are:
a) to shuttle throughout the day on the service van, each day, to the next hut or
b) to take a shuttle 'bump up' to the last hotel, where you can finish your vacation doing some great day excursions.
I have some issues with elevation, is that a problem?
The climbs each day are between 1,500 and 2,300 meters altitude (between 4,900 and 7,500 feet).
In addition, the huts for the overnight stays are above 2,100 meters (6,900 feet). If you have trouble with high elevations, please consult a doctor or medical professional for their expert opinion before booking this trip.
Note: In some huts, bags are transported via a cableway and thus there are some weight restrictions: 10kg --> 50x40x20cm


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HENRY COUNTY, GA- February 5, 2018-- County Manager Cheri Hobson-Matthews swore in newly promoted Police Chief, Mark Amerman on February 2 in a ceremony held at the County Administration Building in McDonough.
Amerman, Henry County's ninth police chief shared his remarks on becoming Chief of Police, after the presentation of a ceremonial pinning.
"It's an honor and a privilege to be the next Henry County Police Chief. I am truly humbled," said Amerman. "My vision for the county is to continue to develop the employees that we have and have them strive for excellence. To help me make that happen is my next deputy police chief, Mike Ireland."
Amerman administered an oath to Ireland, who was promoted from his role as a Major working in the Internal Affairs Unit as Division Commander. Then Ireland expressed his gratitude to the county managers and also thanked fellow officers for their support in helping him reach his new appointment.
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A perfect hail storm came our way today and in the process we had all the neighborhood kids out learning about how they are formed, as well as learning to measure circumference and diameter.
Compared to many places our hail stones are very small, but for our area it's the biggest we have ever seen.
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Unlike ice pellets, hail stones are layered and can be irregular and clumped together. Hail is composed of transparent ice or alternating layers of transparent and translucent ice at least 1 millimetre (0.039 in) thick, which are deposited upon the hail stone as it cycles through the cloud multiple times, suspended aloft by air with strong upward motion until its weight overcomes the updraft and falls to the ground. There are methods available to detect hail-producing thunderstorms using weather satellites and radar imagery. Hail stones generally fall at faster rates as they grow in size, though complicating factors such as melting, friction with air, wind, and interaction with rain and other hail stones can slow down their descent through Earth's atmosphere. Severe weather warnings are issued for hail when the stones reach a damaging size, as it can cause serious damage to man-made structures, and most commonly, farmers' crops. In the United States, the National Weather Service issues severe thunderstorm warnings for hail 1" or greater in diameter. This threshold, effective January 2010, marked an increase over the previous threshold of 3/4" hail. The change was made for two main reasons: a) public complacency and, b) recent research suggesting that damage does not occur until a hailstone reaches 1" in diameter.
Everyone knows that it doesn't take a large hailstone to cause much damage. But out of curiosity, how big can hailstones get?
While most hailstones are the size of peas (about 0.25 in [0.63 cm] in diameter), they sometimes grow larger than softballs. Large hailstones have been responsible for destroying crops, breaking windows, and denting cars, and have caused the deaths of many people and animals.
Hail causes nearly one billion dollars (U.S.) in damage to property and crops annually. The costliest United States hailstorm: Denver, Colorado, July 11, 1990. Total damage was 625 million dollars (U.S.). Hail falls when it becomes heavy enough to overcome the strength of the updraft and is pulled by gravity towards the earth. How it falls is dependent on what is going on inside the thunderstorm. Hailstones bump into other raindrops and other hailstones inside the thunderstorm, and this bumping slows down their fall.
Drag and friction also slow their fall, so it is a complicated question! If the winds are strong enough, they can even blow hail so that it falls at an angle. This would explain why the screens on one side of a house can be shredded by hail and the rest are unharmed! Hail is a form of precipitation that occurs when updrafts in thunderstorms carry raindrops upward into extremely cold areas of the atmosphere where they freeze into ice.
The National Climate Extremes Committee, which is responsible for validating national records, formally accepted the measurements for the largest hailstone ever to fall in the U.S.: seven inches in diameter (17.8 centimeters) and a circumference of 18.75 inches (47.6 centimeters). The old record for the largest hailstone had a diameter of 5.7 (14.5 centimeters) inches, a circumference of 17.5 inches (44.5 centimeters), and was found in Coffeyville, Kansas, on September 3, 1970. The previous longstanding record was believed to be a hailstone which fell at Potter, Nebraska on July 6, 1928. It measured around 7 inches (17.8 centimeters) in diameter and weighed about 1.5 pounds (680 grams).
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I refer to this as a tragedy because I was finding the references to massacre by the media to sound canned, almost as though it were a show. "NBC will be right back to Massacre at Virginia Tech." It made it sound like a bad made-for television movie.
In terms of the horror of it, there is not too much to say. It was pretty much every parent's nightmare and was the type of daily occurrence that takes place in much of the world that we are so fortunate not to experience very often in North America and Europe.
I am distressed that the assignation of blame is already beginning before parents and friends have even had a chance to say good-bye and I am afraid that much of the discussion will not be fair to the Virginia Tech administration.
I lived in Virginia for ten years before moving north partially due to its right-wing political climate. If the so-called Commonwealth wants to start examining things, it might start with its own system of law and justice, before trying to throw blame on the administration of Virginia Tech.
Part of the problem here is that the shooter had the good sense to kill himself. Unfortunately, the "Commonwealth" now will be unable to do one of the show murder trials that it is so good at and now has to find some other place to foist blame. Hmm, the guns appear to be sold legally and we can't admit that the "Commonwealth's" permissive gun laws might have had something to do with this tragedy, so why don't we blame it on Virginia Tech.
Murders happen all over the country and blocks of cities are seldom shut down in the interim unless the accused is directly cornered. The President of George Washington made this point today, saying that GW occupies 25 city blocks. Virginia Tech is a large sprawling campus. As sad and tragic as this is, Virginia Tech made the best choice they could given the information that they had. Obviously in retrospect they would have acted differently, although it is not entirely clear whether that would have changed the outcome or not.
Let's not let the politicians' desire to shift blame, shift our focus from remembering the entire Virginia Tech community and communities and states around the South and the country, including North Carolina, Georgia, New York and others, who have lost sons and daughters.
I have at times written on a site called DaveSez which has a focus on the ACC and Virginia Tech is one of the newer members of this conference, but I think that we can all agree with what he posted on his site this week--this week, we are all Hokies in spirt.
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Virginia Tech Tragedy
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Multiple check writers in a business can access simple, powerful check writing features over network - avoid duplicate check numbers and overlapping data by accessing the same database. New free offer available for single-user version.
Online PR News – 21-February-2011 – – Halfpricesoft.com has recently released a new version of its popular small business check writing software that allows multiple users to access the same check printing database. This new feature eliminates the worry of duplicate check numbers and other banking errors that can be caused by overlapping data if checks are printed from separate installations.
"We found most software on the market were too complex and too expensive for small business owners," said Halfpricesoft.com founder Dr. Ge. "We believe small business owners should focus their time and energy on running their businesses, not trying to figure out how to run the software. We wanted to build something that was user friendly, super simple, affordable & totally risk free."
ezCheckPrinting is popular with small businesses because it is easy to use, is affordable, and saves time compared to writing checks by hand or using complicated software - especially when paying bills or writing payroll checks.
Also new to ezCheckPrinting are check and paystub formats for QuickBooks. Selecting the QuickBooks format option on the Print Blank Check page will automatically format checks for use with QuickBooks, saving users time and money.
Still affordable, still FREE to try
ezCheckPrinting is still the most affordable check printing software for small businesses that still has all the robust features a business needs. The single-user stand-alone is just $29. ezCheckPrinting with network compatibility is just $99 for up to five users, or $159 for an unlimited number of users.
And the best of all, user can even get the single-user version for free through TrialPay offer.
As always, trying ezCheckPrinting or any software from Halfpricesoft.com is free. Customers can download the software for free at http://www.halfpricesoft.com/product_ezCheck.asp and test its features as long as they like. The trial version contains all the features of the full version, but prints DEMO on checks. Purchasing a license key unlocks the full printing function for unlimited use.
No complete check printing software for small businesses is as easy to use as ezCheckPrinting. Its intuitive interface was designed to be used by non-accountants and leads users step by step through the check printing process. Users just point and click with their computer mouse, making check printing fast and easy.
Although simple to use, ezCheckPrinting is loaded with features and customization options that result in impressive, professional-looking checks.
ezCheckPrinting Features:
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- Print 3 popular formats: check on top, check in middle and check on bottom
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DEATH ANNOUNCEMENT NORTHWICH GUARDIAN Leon Paul EVANS Passed away peacefully on 2nd November 2009, Leon Paul Evans aged 63 years. A much loved dad, grandad and brother. Will be missed by all who loved him. Family flowers only please. Donations if wished for St David's Cancer Fund. Donations and enquiries regarding funeral arrangements to George Bell Funeral Service, 49 Birches Lane, Lostock Green, Northwich, CW9 7SN. Tel: 01606 42534.


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Ongoing, this is ongoing.
The composite process, the sedimentary strengthening, the rejection hauled through at the last hour.
And while rites and labours are dawned upon, it is the conditioning that is at the heart.
The city functions upon itself, its roads are drawn by architects, in loops.
Shuddered home in great pillows of sleet, these are only words, words is all they are.
You write them too, I am without compassion.
Awkwardly inverse, the jar at the end of the line, the flow in the centre. Sea walls, heather meadows, chalk inlet, limestone gorge, lighthouse, bricked terrace.
I find our interaction an irritant. Go.
Games of detection, selection and bereavement, concealment and defection. Point at the one most valuable, indicate the book that is most like you.
Because, above and below, I talk of poems and nothing else. I am no good.


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And we thought winter was over.............
Luckily Ryan had plans to work inside this weekend. Before and after pics of the basement ceiling.
"Chickfila" Grilled Chicken Marinade
1 week ago
Exactly why we moved!!! haahahahah! P.S.- wearing shorts today!
The basement looks great! Way to go Ryan! Send him down here!!
maybe you guys need a 'last minute before baby arrives' trip to Seattle :-)
2 months to go!!! so very exciting!


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Status: In Progress
Genre: Romance
As she speeds through the streets... Mad and confused; Can't believe what she seen... Did... Or what to do, In such a mood who does she turn to; Doesn't want anyone to know... Where can she go?, Not to she sisters house cause she will make a scene; Not to her brother's or parent's cause thats the last thing she needs, Picks up the phone to make Tracy aware; But after 4 rings it goes straight to voicemail, Feeling so crushed and empty... Doesn't what to be alone; She goes over to see if maybe Chris is home, She sees his car parked in the drive way; a few lights on figuring its safe to say, Chris is there but she does not call; Gets out the car and starts to banging on the door..
Chris and Tracy hear banging on the front door; Stop what they are doing to see what's going on, Tells Tracy stay put... Don't come out; Let me see who this is and what its all about, Checks the peephole... Expecting flashing lights and sirens; But then he sees its Nicole standing there crying, Scared about what's going on he lets her in; Not even thinking about the position he's in, Opens up and before he can say a word; Nicole comes in screaming and into his arms, He asks whats going on... Telling Nicole to talk; It becomes oblivious she is more than distrait...
Nicole: Where have you been?... I've been looking for you?; I needed to get away... I need a place to stay, Something so unexpected happened... So hard to describe; Still can't believe what I saw with my own two eyes, Heard noises downstairs... So went to see; To my surprise Dana was being fucked by Steve, As I tried to leave... They tried to explain; I stabbed Steve in his arm just to get away, This is crazy... But starting to make sense; I thought it was me... But that wasn't it, I thought I wasn't sexy or attractive anymore; Maybe we were too comfortable... Maybe we were bored, Either way it was much more... Now I know; It was nothing about me... It was all about Steve, How he prefers the comfort of another man; Yet now I know... I still don't understand, I thought I was wrong for so much in my life; Thought I was a bad person... Thought I was a bad wife, Thought I was really wrong for falling for you; But this is Steve's karma for keeping secrets too, What happens with my marriage... Where do we go; What about poor Tracy... How do I let her know...
Standing in the bedroom door naked but wrapped in a sheet; Tracy stands there shaking... Wiping away tears, Can't stay quiet... She let's out a scream; Nicole looks up and sees Tracy, Nicole in shock looking at Tracy crying on the floor; Looks back at Chris and asks... "What the fuck is going on?"....
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Oh man this is so messed up on so many levels, lol. Chris is quite busy : )
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Priest unrepentant after crucifying of nun...Or, the patriarchy still rules
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"Tanacu, Romania - A Romanian Orthodox priest who ordered the crucifixion of a young nun because she was "possessed by the devil" and now faces murder charges was unrepentant on Saturday as he celebrated a funeral mass for his alleged victim.
"God has performed a miracle for her, finally Irina is delivered from evil," Father Daniel, 29, the superior of the Holy Trinity monastery in north-eastern Romania, said before celebrating a short mass "for the soul of the deceased", in the presence of 13 nuns who showed no visible emotion.He insisted that from the religious point of view, the crucifixion of Maricica Irina Cornici, 23, was "entirely justified", but admitted that he faced excommunication as well as prosecution, and was seeking a "good lawyer.................................................................................. .........................a 34-year-old parishioner who had come to defend Daniel and gave her name as Dora, said Sister Irina " had to be punished, she had an argument with the Father during a Sunday mass and insulted him in front of the congregation.
"Sociologist Alred Bulai said that corporal punishment was still commonly used in certain Romanian monasteries."
In the summer of 2001, I marched in NYC, from a square near 4th St., to the Vatican's NYC residence. I marched with nuns, against Nun Abuse committed by priests. The stories that I heard that day, were almost unbeliveable. Almost. Unless of course, you had already been a victim of the catholic church and it's sexual and financial excesses.
I was still amazed and incredibly saddened, though, to hear the stories told by the nuns, that summer day in 2001. Stories that the catholic church knew about, and did nothing about. In fact, the method employed by the cc, of solving the problem of priests who had raped nuns all over the world, was the same one that was/is used with the child victims of sexual abuse by the catholic church's priests. They simply moved them to a different missionary location, or brought them back to their native country and installed them in a parish there.
I listened to the story's of nuns who were sent all over the world on the catholic church's Missionaries, only to find when they arrived in a remote corner of the world, a lecherous priest who not only made them "bend down" to his higher authority, but who had already twisted his patriarchal religious authority into ensuring a supply of nubile young local parishioners be gathered into the fold he resided over, as "noviates".
Once in, the young prenuns were often raped, and if a pregnancy occurred due to the rape, then the ever obliging head of his flock would demand of the local hospital staff, that an abortion be performed on the flock leaders progeny...
If the young, pregnant woman died during the abortion, the leader of the flock was the one who also presided over her funeral. These types of horrendous abuse stories abounded that day.
That summer day in 2001 that I walked in solidarity with the nuns, I walked with so many women who were so advanced in age, that they could not stand up straight while they marched. The dowagers hump on their back precluded that.
But still they came that day, bused in from all over the US and Canada. And they marched, in the NYC summer heat, in memory of their friends, their fellow sisters. Women who went to a remote corner of the world to help the victims of poverty and social injustice, only to become victims of a two thousand year old patriarchy, themselves.
Some of the scars were more than fifty years old, some were too, too, fresh. At the end of the march, the large crowd stood in front of the Vatican residence, and respectfully requested that a representative come out and answer their requests for a review of the sexual abuse committed against nuns by priests.
THE VATICAN REFUSED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THESE WOMEN. They never came out of their very expensive brownstone hole. They would not answer the women who had spent their lives in devotion to the cc's god. Women who had financially, verbally, and through the giving of their professional lives, supported the cc.
That is an example of the extreme arrogance of the patriarchy of the moneyed catholic church.
When I saw the recent picture of John Conyers, a member of Congress, holding petitions signed by 540,000 Americans, standing at the locked gates of the White House, the flashback to that day in 2001 was immediate. The supremacy of the moneyed patriarchy was absolute both times.
Abuses are not answered to, questions about it's processes are deemed insignificant, and if you persist in coming to it's door, you will be ignored. It's power is absolute.
The cc has since spent over a billion dollars in settlements of sexual abuse of children by it's priests. I have yet to hear of any settlements of, or recognition of, the abuse of it's nuns.
I have written off and on in this blog about the reasons why I refuse to join a religion that holds a male god as it's only god. It is the very essence of prejudice. It assumes a reigning sex. It holds one of the only two genders in this world in a superior state over the remaining one. It allows society at large to then hold and justify god given dominion over others. It allows, due to the fact that GOD, the SUPREME BEING, is imaged as one of the male sex, to deem the humanity of the "other, non god imaged" sex, less.
And when you are deemed, in reality or by implication, less of a human, then you do not enjoy all of the same rights as the god imaged one. Your suffering is not as valid, your pain is of less consequence, your voice means less, your rights are less meaningful, less substantial. You can then be abused, and your cries of abuse be ignored, much as a dog in the street's cries are ignored. They simply do not mean as much as the god imaged ones. How could they?
Recently, there has been some controversy in the blogosphere due to a prominent male liberal blogger making the statement at the end of this post, in response to queries as to why he would have an ad on his much viewed site, that was denigrating.
I saw the ad, and it is out of place on a "liberal" blog. But, it wasnt the ad that offended me. I would go insane if I let every sexist ad, movie, and statement in this world offend me.
No, it wasn't the ad. It was the male bloggers arrogant, dismissive, demeaning, and patriarchal response to criticisms of it, on a prominent liberal blog. In addition, his response to that criticism showed his immaturity, and extreme lack of insight into, as he called it, "the important shit."
From the DailyKos "Pie fight ad by kos
Sun Jun 5th, 2005 at 22:01:25 PDT
So over the weekend, certain segments of the community have erupted in anger over the TBS ad for their reality show, the Real Gilligan's Island. Apparently, having two women throw pies at each other, wrestle each other in a sexy, lesbianic manner, then having water splashed on their ample, fake bosoms is degrading to women. Or something like that.
Whatever. Feel free to be offended. I find such humorless, knee-jerk reactions, to be tedious at best, sanctimonious and arrogant at worst. I don't care for such sanctimony from Joe Lieberman, I don't care for it from anyone else. Some people find such content offensive. Some people find it arousing. Some people find it funny. To each his or her own.
But I am not Lieberman. I won't sit there and judge pop culture and act as gatekeeper to what I think is "appropriate", and what isn't.
And I certainly won't let the sanctimonious women's studies set play that role on this site.
Feel free to be offended.
Feel free to claim that I'm somehow abandoning "progressive principles" by running the ad. It's a free country.
Feel free to storm off in a huff. Other deserving bloggers could use the patronage.
Me, I'll focus on the important shit.
For the rest of his post, go here
The above link includes his 'apology'? if you can call it that. I think it only makes his original post even more offensive. The end of it states "Sorry about that, but not sorry about my broader point -- that being sanctimonious about this ad is no different than the sanctimony we decry from people like Lieberman, Dobson, and the Family Values Coalition.
It is a far stretch from asking why a major liberal blog would put offensive ads on it's site, to the Lieberman, Dobson, et al reference that DKos uses as his defense. Is that the best defense that you can come up with? Another offense?
---Abuses are not answered to, questions about it's processes are deemed insignificant, and if you persist in coming to it's door, you will be ignored. It's power is absolute.---
For what it's worth, this is my take on the DailyKos' statement, and why it is tied in here to this Sunday post.


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Son & Salvation Series
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Feb 25, 2013 (message contributor)
Summary: 1) The Problem of unbelief (John 3:11-12) , provided the 2) Answer for unbelief (John 3:13–17), and warned of the 3) Results of unbelief (John 3:18-21).
It was dark and 15 degrees below zero — nearly twice that with the wind chill — when a 20-year-old woman who "wasn't feeling well" stumbled the few blocks with her mother toward Humber River Regional Hospital's Finch campus early last Sunday morning. Not quite making it down the streets of Toronto's most notoriously dangerous neighbourhood, the young woman dropped down on the cold hard sidewalk and gave birth to a child at 6 a.m.
Upon their arrival, paramedics tried to get the newborn baby's heart beating — to hear that telling cry. Once they made it to the hospital, the baby was declared dead, shrouded with a cloth and guarded by two police officers for about 90 minutes as they waited for the coroner to arrive. But then, out of the corner of his eye, one of the officers saw a slight movement under that blanket. He whipped it off and found the little girl's once absent pulse.
Now, as the baby recovers and the Humber River Hospital launches a review of its procedures followed early Sunday, the public is trying to make sense of how a newborn baby can appear to be dead and come back to life. (http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/02/18/did-deep-hypothermia-help-bring-a-toronto-newborn-back-from-the-brink-90-minutes-after-she-was-declared-dead)
Last Sunday we heard the account of Nicodemus in John 3:1–10, trying to make sense of the concept of being born again. He was told that religious rituals, good works, and self-reformation cannot solve the problem of spiritual death (Eph. 2:8–9; 2 Tim. 1:9; Titus 3:5). Only the radical transformation (2 Cor. 5:17) wrought by God in regeneration can impart spiritual life to the spiritually dead. Although the Lord's teaching on the new birth was solidly grounded in the Old Testament, Nicodemus was unconvinced. He struggled to accept that his religious efforts were useless and needed to be abandoned altogether as a means to gain God's kingdom.
You may have left last week scratching your head to discover or being reminded that human effort cannot bring to life the spiritually dead. Being born again, the God-wrought work of regeneration is God generating the spiritually dead. Yet I presented Jesus' message of repentance and faith. I did so to tie into what we are going to see this morning, in the doctrine of conversion: What is the human response to the call of repentance and faith.
Because Nicodemus responded in unbelief, he apparently walked away from his conversation with Jesus unconverted. (He did become a believer later, however.) His initial response typifies those who reject the gospel. Unrepentant unbelief is the sin that ultimately condemns all lost sinners (cf. Matt. 12:31–32), for unless they confess Christ's lordship, and repent of all sin, including the sin of trying to earn heaven, they cannot be saved. In this discourse on the meaning of salvation, Jesus addressed 1) The Problem of unbelief (John 3:11-12) , provided the 2) Answer for unbelief (John 3:13–17), and warned of the 3) Results of unbelief (John 3:18-21).
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Transcarpathians are building fortifications in Donetsk region
According to the head of the Transcarpathian Regional State Administration Vasyl Hubal, who today, May 1, returned from a working trip to the Donbass, the construction of fortifications continues.
As previously reported, all regions of Ukraine received tasks to ensure the construction of defenses in the East.
The head of the region told about the Transcarpathian area of responsibility (which is eight fortifications in Donetsk region), the press service of the RSA inform. "The agreement with the contractor has been signed. Funding from the state budget is provided for this purpose, part of the funds has already been received. The works have commenced, we are monitoring the progress. We have reached full mutual understanding with local authorities, the military and police, who protect construction workers and facilities. the process continues. I can say that the order of the President on these matters is fulfilled, we are coping with the task, stick to the schedule. Soon, I will go to the Donbass again to coordinate this work", - Vasyl Hubal said.
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The North Carolina volleyball team earned second place in each of its home tournaments this season after losing a Friday night match and improving to end the weekend with two players named to the all-tournament teams.
But the similarities end there.
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Hello there, welcome to my 1st entry to the world of blogs. I don't know what will end up here, since I plan on using it as my journal. Hell, most of the time...I'm not even sure what's going on in my head, let alone how to explain it to the world.
So that brings us to this. I've been wanting to put down my thoughts for a long time now. I've tried using pen and paper, but that never satisfied me....I've always been a kinda electronic gizmo kinda guy. To be honest, I don't really think many people will ever see this blog, and it doesn't really matter to me... I'm just trying to sort out my thoughts....kinda like that game kids play (or at least I played) "pick up sticks". In that game, you're supposed to toss the sticks or just hold them in a bunch vertically, then just let them fall into a pattern.
That's what this blog is...my sticks as I let them fall. Some of it is boring, some of it exciting, hopefully always interesting.
My boyfriend, Efi, (oh by the way, names used here may or maynot be changed, so don't assume it's real) has always said that he doesn't understand how my mind works. I have no idea what he's talking about. It always made sense to me, but I can never explain it to him where he's satisfied. Oh well, maybe he'll understand a lil bit more about me by seeing this blog.
That's another thing. I don't plan on advertising this blog or tell anyone about it. I'm just going to let people find it on their own, through word or mouth or by someone linking to it (if someone ever likes it that much).
Sunday, August 17, 2003
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David M. Rocci sells 2218 Pembridge Lane, Joliet
The amount paid for property taxes on this property in 2016 was $3,982.38, 2.57% of the sale price of the home.
This home last sold on June 26, 2006 for $187,000.
This property is one of 27 sales in Joliet in September 2017.
This story was found on BlockShopper.com.
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