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Monday, March 31, 2014
Fertile Soil
Christie Count
Seeking Political Revival, Christie Joins '16 Contenders at G.O.P. Forum (New York Times, 3/30/2014)
Only one Chris Christie story in yesterday's New York Times. This is outrageous. Write the Times today and demand more Christie/Bridgegate stories.
(Of course still nothing on gun-running California Democrat Leland Yee....)
Melting, Collapsing, Intensifying
The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations group that periodically summarizes climate science, concluded that ice caps are melting, sea ice in the Arctic is collapsing, water supplies are coming under stress, heat waves and heavy rains are intensifying, coral reefs are dying, and fish and many other creatures are migrating toward the poles or in some cases going extinct. (New York Times, 3/31/2014)
The previously discredited IPCC issues its April Fools Day missive on global...make that climate change.
Of course you would have to dig deep to find out the real objective. It's all about foreign aid:
It cited a World Bank estimate that poor countries need as much as $100 billion a year to try to offset the effects of climate change; they are now getting, at best, a few billion dollars a year in such aid from rich countries.
The wonderful Climatedepot.com provides the real (convenient) truth:
Seventeen and a half years. Not a flicker of global warming. The RSS satellite record, the first of the five global-temperature datasets to report its February value, shows a zero trend for an impressive 210 months. (Climatedepot.com, 3/4/2014)
Horror Story for Harry Reid
Then there is Donna Morse, 61, a widowed dental hygienist and yoga buff who is long overdue for a mammogram and blood work. She lost her insurance last year because it did not meet the new law's standards. Now she has a new plan with much higher premiums, and which few doctors and hospitals will accept. (New York Times, 3/31/2014)
Not sure how this got by the censors at the Times, but it would appear that, for some, health care premiums are much higher and their doctors and hospitals are no longer available. Oh well...
A Cambridge transgender woman, outraged that convicted wife killer Michelle Kosilek could receive a free gender reassignment operation that health insurers refuse to cover for law-abiding citizens, has filed suit demanding the same right to tax-funded surgery — a move critics say could mark the beginning of a dramatic, costly shift in entitlements under the controversial federal court ruling. (Bostonherald.com, 3/31/2014)
So - to be clear - an individual wants his/her health insurance company to pay for his/her "gender reassignment" surgery based on the legal precedent that a convicted criminal has apparently won the right to have taxpayers pay for his/her surgery (the criminal's that is).
This is the world that Liberals have created. And America as we knew it is gone.
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Saturday, March 29, 2014
The Emperor's Inclination
Headlines in Today's New York Times:
Port Authority Official Is Out Amid Scandal Over Shut Lanes
Christie Ally Is Undone by Word in an Email
Potentially Explosive Detail in Bridge Scandal Is Unlikely to Be Confirmed
Today's Editorials: A Christie Appointee Quits, Finally
Collins: A Christie Life Primer
Exchange in Bridge Scandal Unlikely to Be Confirmed
A Christie Appointee Quits, Finally
America's paper of record. Meanwhile, because the New York Times is a non-partisan paper we get this single headline:
Newly Released Clinton-Era Papers Show Damage Control During Scandal
Of course, the Times gives us not a word on gun-running California Democrat Leland Yee. Look away people, no media bias here.
In This Corner
"No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation." That's the kind of sentiment you expect from a Miss America contestant asked to name her fondest wish, not from the leader of the free world explaining his foreign policy. (Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post, 3/27/2014)
Obama's words and actions matter, however, and his handling of the Ukraine crisis has been firm, steady and realistic. (Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, 3/27/2014)
Krauthammer vs. Robinson. It's just not a fair fight.
Flaky Fluke
Depending on the court's rulings, the cases' outcomes could deny millions of women coverage of any or all forms of birth control, limiting women's ability to control their reproductive health, plan their pregnancies and manage their lives. (Sandra Fluke, Washington Post, 3/24/2014)
America's oldest law student hasn't been heard from in a while, but she is back with her familiar cause: everyone should get free birth control. Never mind that it is well documented that birth control pills are available at Wal Mart pharmacies for $9.99. Less than a couple of vanilla lattes. No, "millions" of women are at risk. Even Liberals should run from this gibberish.
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Friday, March 28, 2014
Spirits to Enforce
Heavy Metal
Kennametal plant officials announced Tuesday they would close the Lyndonville plant, which employs a total of about 80 people. The last day of production will be June 30. (VTDigger.org, 3/27/2014)
Reached for comment about the latest hit to employment in Vermont while vacationing in the Caribbean, Gov. Peter Shumlin vowed to focus on job creation in the state when he returns. As soon as illegal aliens in the state are granted drivers licenses.
Actually Crummy Shummy vowed to send a "Rapid Response Team" up to Lyndonville. Not to save the jobs of Kennametal workers, it is too late for that. The RRT will help the newly unemployed to apply for unemployment benefits. So Shyster Shumster apparently has no problem helping hard-working folks like the Kennametal employees, he would just rather wait until they lose their jobs first.
Close Encounters
Self-employed people in her area — truck drivers and cosmetologists, for instance — seem eager to sign up, Ms. Walls said, but "negative press" and problems with the federal website have discouraged many consumers. At the small town educational sessions she runs, she often encounters people whose conservative political philosophy makes them uncomfortable about accepting federal subsidies to buy private coverage. (New York Times, 3/28/2014)
Ah yes, self-reliance. That is something that we conservatives are just going to have to get over if we are going to survive in Obamaworld.
In some states that have expanded Medicaid, like Kentucky — which has drawn national praise as a model for other states to follow — the biggest chunk of the newly insured are Medicaid patients. More than 300,000 Kentuckians are enrolled in new health coverage, the state says, 80 percent of them through Medicaid. (New York Times, 3/28/2014)
Eighty percent on the public dole. That is something that Liberals can truly be proud of!
Headlines in Today's New York Times
A Whitewash for Chris Christie
Motive Still Unclear in Christie-Backed Lane Closing Report
Report Details a Claim That Christie Knew of Closings
About New York: Report's Silence Is Deafening
Sexism Is Seen in Report on Former Christie Aide
About New York: Silence Is Deafening in Bridge Report
Report Details Claim by Ally: Christie Knew of Bridge Lane Closings
What is the most important story of the day according to the New York Times?
Meanwhile, MSNBC (during our short daily watching period) did another ten minutes on Christie and Bridgegate. With a host and two analysts! After there was a brief mention of something happening in the Ukraine.
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Labels: Bridgegate, Chris Christie, Governor Peter Shumlin, Kennametal plant closing, Medicaid expansion, MSNBC
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Further Reflection
The Uneducated
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tried to explain the Obama administration's latest decision to extend a key ObamaCare deadline by saying people just "are not educated on how to use the Internet." (Foxnews.com, 3/26/2014)
Liberals are now forbidden from ever - that's ever ever ever ever ever ever - saying anything derisive about Sarah Palin.
Dirty Harry
Tuesday, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reimbursed his campaign for nearly $17,000 in payments made in late 2013 to his granddaughter for "holiday gifts." But new payments are surfacing bringing the total to $31,000. (Breitbart.com, 3/24/2014)
MSNBC has just interrupted their 24 hour coverage of the New Jersey Bridgegate scandal involving Gov. Chris Christie to report on Harry Reid's illegal gifts to family members. Just kidding!
In fact, kid wunderkin journalist Ronan Farrow opened his show on MSNBC talking not about Obama's visit with Pope Francis, not the mudslide out west, not the missing jet. No, instead he talked about the findings of Christie's lawyer on Bridgegate. For the first ten minutes of the show. No kidding!
Even if Russia moves into eastern Ukraine, senior administration officials said, there should be absolutely no expectation that American troops would head to Kiev.
"The American people are not going to war with Russia over Ukraine, full stop," a senior administration official said, echoing public comments by Mr. Obama. (New York Times, 3/27/2014)
There was a time not long ago (well, the Bush administration really) when America did not tell its potential enemies its military strategy in advance. All that has been changed now that General Obama is in charge.
"If you aspire to be a gangsta rapper, by definition your lyrics need to be violent," said Charis E. Kubrin, an associate professor of criminology, law and society at the University of California, Irvine.
"What's getting really unnerving," said Erik Nielson, an assistant professor of liberal arts at the University of Richmond, "is the amount of time it appears both police and prosecutors are spending over rap lyrics and videos on social media rather than using that time to go and gather more convincing, more conventional forms of evidence."
Critics like Andrea L. Dennis, an associate professor of law at the University of Georgia, say law enforcement ignores the fact that rappers do not necessarily live the lives they sing about. (New York Times, 3/27/2014)
The New York Times writes an article about rappers in jail, perhaps in the view of the Times unfairly, because of their violent lyrics. America's elite academics weigh in. Naturally they support the thugs.
Here is an example of those lyrics - quoted in the very same article - that Liberal professors (yes, that is redundant) suggest that we not take so literally:
"But nobody saw when I [expletive] smoked him. Roped him, sharpened up the shank, then I poked him, 357 Smith & Wesson beam scoped him."
Weep for the state of higher education in America.
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Labels: American foreign policy on the Ukraine, Harry Reid, Harry Reid scandals, MSNBC, Ronan Farrow, violent rap lyrics
Monday, March 24, 2014
The Big Stink
Once again, Vermont's business climate is dismal. We rank 45th out of 50 (50 being the worst and 1 being the best.) The overall ranking is comprised of scores in five separate categories: Corporate tax (VT, 42th), Income Tax (VT, 45th), Sales Tax (VT,13th), Unemployment Insurance Tax (VT, 22nd), and Property Tax (VT, 48th). Only New York, New Jersey, California, Minnesota, and Rhode Island stink worse than we do. (Ethanallen.org, 3/20/2014)
But things are going just fine according to Vermont's progressives. This is one party rule in action. In Vermont, the most important thing is not growing business, but figuring out how to give drivers licenses to illegal aliens.
Saint Barack
Vice President Joe Biden said Friday that President Obama should be "nominated for sainthood" for his patience during the botched rollout of Obamacare and HealthCare.gov, claiming he was as "frustrated as anyone you ever knew." (Thedailycaller.com, 3/21/2014)
So - and we think we have this right - Obama is a victim.
This is the doofus that Obama sends to assure Eastern Europe that the U.S. will protect them from Russian aggression.
Ms. Rice's comments, which set the stage for Mr. Obama's trip to Europe next week, suggested that the tensions between the United States and Russia were continuing to intensify. Asked if the Ukraine crisis was prompting a "fundamental reassessment" of America's relationship with Russia, she answered in a single word: "Yes." (New York Times, 3/22/2014)
Asked if Obama's strategy in dealing with Russia was a complete debacle, she answered in a single word: "Yes."
(OK, we made that quote up.)
The top three stories in the U.S. section of the on-line New York Times (3/23/2014)
For Gay Couples in Michigan, a Day of Joy Ends in Legal Uncertainty
News Analysis: Wave of Appeals Expected to Turn the Tide on Same-Sex Marriage Bans
Biden Notes Progress in Gay Rights, but Says There Is 'Much Left to Do'
And just for good measure....
The Scientific Quest to Prove Bisexuality Exists
France has been losing talented citizens to other countries for decades, but the current exodus of entrepreneurs and young people is happening at a moment when France can ill afford it. The nation has had low-to-stagnant economic growth for the last five years and a generally climbing unemployment rate — now about 11 percent — and analysts warn that it risks sliding into economic sclerosis.
Some wealthy businesspeople have also been packing their bags. While entrepreneurs fret about the difficulties of getting a business off the ground, those who have succeeded in doing so say that society stigmatizes financial success. The election of President François Hollande, a member of the Socialist Party who once declared, "I don't like the rich," did little to contradict that impression. (New York Times, 3/23/2014)
A nation that Liberals want the U.S. to emulate.
Oh, and this:
"It is a French cultural characteristic that goes back to almost the revolution and Robespierre, where there's a deep-rooted feeling that you don't show that you make money," Ms. Segalen, the recruiter, said. "There is this sense that 'liberté, égalité, fraternité' means that what's yours should be mine. It's more like, if someone has something I can't have, I'd rather deprive this person from having it than trying to work hard to get it myself. That's a very French state of mind. But it's a race to the bottom."
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Thursday, March 20, 2014
The Real March Madness
Promises Promises
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. met with Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland in Warsaw to assure allies in Eastern Europe that the United States would protect them against any Russian aggression. (New York Times, 3/19/2014)
Possible responses from Poland:
--Obama sends Biden, what is this, a joke?
--Five years ago Obama cancelled our missile defense treaty. Why should we believe him now?
--Thank you for your concern. By the way, we are moving Polish troops to our eastern border.
The alternative to passivity is not war but a serious foreign policy. (Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post, 3/13/2014)
Peace through superior firepower.
Sanders, a Senator with no private-sector experience and no scientific background whatsoever, declares that there is "no debate" on climate change. None. Simply by dint of him saying so, probably the least-qualified person schlumping down Senate hallways to make a pronouncement on science in any way, shape or form, says debate is over.
The core of science is debate. The core of science is to challenge accepted norms to find the flaws in the argument. It's like asking explorers to stop exploring because everything that could be explored has been explored – so stop exploring West in the Pacific, he would have argued, and North America wouldn't have been discovered by European countries. (Chris Campion, Ethanallen.org, 3/17/2014)
Well put. The core of science is debate...except for Liberals. (Also loved the smackdown of "Bernie the Science Nerdie.")
Although a poll by the Pew Research Center last October found that 67 percent of Americans believe that global warming is happening, a Pew poll in January showed that Americans ranked global warming as 19th on a list of 20 issues for Congress and the president. (New York Times, 3/20/2014)
The cost of Obama and fellow Democrats focusing on issues like global warming, legalized marijuana, assisted suicide, opening more abortion clinics and gutting the military is Russian aggression, high unemployment, higher taxes and $4 per gallon gas.
Guinness passed up a big beer moment this week when it pulled its sponsorship of the St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York City. But it also sent a message about social change and the leading role that business, in its own interest, can play.
The flap in New York started when parade organizers said gay marchers were welcome but couldn't carry gay-related signs. Guinness called that a "policy of exclusion" and pulled the plug. (Wall Street Journal, 3/19/2014)
Because for the Gay Mafia, it is not enough to be included in the parade, they HAVE to be able to tout their sexual preferences, particularly if it is a family-friendly event. How would they feel, we wonder, about a group of Irish marchers under a banner that proclaims Proud Irish Heterosexuals?
The Brig
Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair received a reprimand on Thursday from a military judge, after he pleaded guilty to charges that included mistreating his mistress, adultery and requesting explicit photographs from female Army officers. (New York Times, 3/20/2014)
The Number One story in Liberal America for several weeks now has not been Crimea or the Malaysian airliner disappearance. No, it has been a sexual misconduct case in the military. We know that Liberals are serious about harassment of female subordinates in the workplace because of the way in which they went after Bill Clinton when he was doing the barely legal interns in the Oval Office. Just kidding!
Liberals are shocked - shocked - that after forcing the integration of the sexes in the military there is now sexual abuse. The military, which throughout the entire course of history has been male and included its share of deviants.
And one more thing, isn't the position of mistress a voluntary one?
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Labels: Bernie Sanders, Charles Krauthammer, gay parade, global warming, Joe Biden, Poland, Poland missile defense
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Fell Dismay
At Home
Yesterday RedstateVT was watching MSNBC. Wait it gets worse. We were watching Ronan Farrow on MSNBC. Readers are cautioned NOT to do this. RedStateVT is a trained professional. Those who attempt to watch MSNBC (the journalistic home of Rev. Al Sharpton!) without the proper training could suffer grave injury. Anyway, the topic was "Homelessness in America." What was surprising about this is that this topic - Homelessness in America - has never previously been discussed when a Democrat occupies the White House. Homelessness in America, as all know, is the fault of Republican presidents, e.g. Ronald Reagan, George Bush, George W. Bush. Of course, no blame was laid at the feet of President Obama by MSNBC's boy journalist who asked for viewer input on homelessness in their communities and vowed to follow this story...even if it led to the White House. Just kidding about that last part!
Back to the Drawing Board
American officials made clear they would ratchet up the pressure if Mr. Putin does not back down. They went immediately back to the Situation Room after the announcement to begin work on a next round of sanctions that could come as early as this week. (New York Times, 3/19/2014)
In the next round of sanctions against Russia for annexing Crimea President Obama threatened to not return Putin's phone calls, to deny Russians the next iPhone model, and to stop drinking Russian vodka.
Mr. Obama held out hope that diplomacy may yet succeed, but he sent Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to Eastern Europe to meet with nervous NATO allies like Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia and reassure them of American resolve. (New York Times, 3/19/2014)
After stiffing Eastern Europe several years back on the issue of missile defense in order to assuage Putin, Obama now sends Vice President Punch Line to tell them not to worry, Obama has their backs. Message to the Poles, Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians: Be worried, be very worried.
And so this gets added to Obama's foreign policy highlight reel which includes among other things:
Telling a Russian diplomat on an open mic that he would have "more flexibility" after the election. Which Putin then rightly interprets as a license to have his way, whether it be in Syria or in the Ukraine. How ironic it all is, especially in light of Obama's derisive comments to Mitt Romney during the election about "the 80s wanting its foreign policy back."
And one final thought for Liberals who say: what is Obama supposed to do, go to war over Crimea? That is not the point. The point is that Obama's repeated public appeasement of Putin created the very situation that he now finds himself in. Obama is like the kid who kills his parents and then asks for mercy as an orphan.
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Labels: Joe Biden, MSNBC, Obama foreign policy, Putin, Ronan Farrow
Monday, March 17, 2014
All the Fighting Hand-to-Hand
Break a Leg
The closest the president came to getting a leg up on mounting a defense was on Friday when he told Ryan Seacrest in a radio interview that he had been unfairly maligned for his mom jeans: "Generally, I look very sharp in jeans." (Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 3/16/2014)
Even Liberals feel free to mock Obama.
One Democratic lawmaker, who asked not to be identified, said Mr. Obama was becoming "poisonous" to the party's candidates. (New York Times, 3/16/2014)
Even Democrats feel free to mock Obama.
"We're seeing the 'light footprint' run out of gas," said one of Mr. Obama's former senior national security aides, who would not speak on the record about his ex-boss.
Ms. Rice was enthusiastic about Mr. Obama's election in 2008, and talked to him frequently during the transition. But she argues now that many of his decisions — such as abandoning a plan to strike Syria for its use of chemical weapons and proposing a defense budget that shrinks the Army to its lowest levels since World War II just as the Chinese announced a 12 percent increase in their military spending — send clear signals.
Still, some senior officials who left the White House after the first term concede — when assured of anonymity — that Mr. Obama erred in failing to have a plan to back up his declaration that President Bashar al-Assad had to leave office. (New York Times, 3/17/2014)
Even former supporters and aides feel free to criticize Obama's foreign policy.
Republicans also seem to be benefiting from the argument — reinforced by advertising and by their media surrogates — that Mr. Obama has presided over an activist government that has overreached and proved incompetent. (New York Times, 3/16/2014)
The New York Times, Democrat party's leading media surrogate, calls out Republican party media surrogates. That is precious.
The Plague
Well-known Republican politician Randy Brock has requested dozens of public records associated with Vermont's problem-plagued online health insurance marketplace. (Burlington Free Press, 3/16/2014)
The BFP's headline sees partisanship in Brock's request. Perhaps if Brock were a Democrat investigating a Republican administration he would be seen as a crusader for the truth. In reality, Brock represents the biggest fear of Liberals: an African-American who is a Republican. Hence, like Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain, Tim Scott, JT Watts, Dr. Ben Carson and others, he must be destroyed.
Vermont police organizations said Friday they oppose increasing the number of medical marijuana dispensaries in the state or legalizing the drug and that Gov. Peter Shumlin's administration appears tolerant of marijuana. (Burlington Free Press, 3/15/2014)
Chose your favorite response:
Shummy responds: "We must recognize and address the scourge of opiate addiction in our state."
Shummy responds: "What is a 'gateway drug?'"
Shummy responds: "Legalize it!"
Vacationing at his Caribbean retreat, Shumlin could not be reached for comment.
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Labels: Governor Peter Shumlin, Legalized marijuana in Vermont, Obama foreign policy, Obama's jeans, Randy Brock
Monday, March 10, 2014
Rome Burns
On Saturday, Obama joined former NFL star receiver Ahnmad Rashad ,former NBA star center Alonzo Mourning, and Cyrus Walker, Valerie Jarrett's cousin, to go golfing in Key Largo, Florida. Obama brought the wife and kids for a weekend getaway. White House spokesman Josh Earnest explained that Obama was relishing warm-weather downtime. (Breitbart.com, 3/8/2014)
Who called it? RedStateVT called it!
At least Obama will be well rested and better able to stand up to Putin when the latter begins amassing Russian troops on the Polish border...
But the law will only make a dent in the ranks of the roughly 50 million uninsured people in the U.S. in 2014. By 2020, there will still be 30 million people without coverage, according to projections by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. (Wall Street Journal, 3/8/2014)
So six years from now, Obamacare will have succeeded in providing insurance coverage to 5% of the 15% of uninsured Americans. Or as Democrats would say: a smashing success.
What could have prevented an even greater achievement?:
"I guess all I would say is, given the tremendous obstruction that Obama has been facing on the implementation of this program, it's a miracle that it's off the ground at all," said David Obey, who retired from Congress in 2011.
Yes, it was Republican obstruction which was unable to stop the passage of Obamacare. It was Republican obstruction which led to a favorable Supreme Court ruling upholding the law. It was Republican obstruction which caused the Obamacare website to implode. It was Republican obstruction which resulted in the unilateral actions taken by Obama himself to amend, delay and rewrite the law.
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Labels: Obama golf, Obamacare
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Rare Air
The Bear Growls
Russia signaled for the first time on Friday that it was prepared to annex the Crimea region of Ukraine, significantly intensifying its confrontation with the West over the political crisis in Ukraine and threatening to undermine a system of respect for national boundaries that has helped keep the peace in Europe and elsewhere for decades. (New York Times, 3/8/2014)
And so the effects of the Obama Doctrine are made known. The Obama Doctrine states that the U.S. will not protect its strategic interests in the world, will not curb the advance of totalitarian regimes and will abandon allies if necessary. We wonder how Poland is feeling right about now. They have seen this movie before.
Meanwhile, Obama does what he does best:
He headed to Florida for a speech on education and then a weekend off with his family, but aides promised he would be monitoring the crisis.
No doubt, he will find time for a round of golf.
The Waiting
The February unemployment rate of 6.7 percent, for example, would have been 10 percent if the 5.7 million workers who are waiting on the sidelines for job openings were included in the jobless rate. (New York Times editorial, 3/8/2014)
Too late for the 2012 elections, the New York Times admits what the conservative press reported at the time. Of course, the Times goes on to explain that high unemployment is the fault of Republicans, and not of President Executive Order.
The Irritant
Ralph Nader is irritated with Bernie Sanders.
Sanders won't return his calls, won't combine forces with other progressives, and as a result, he isn't getting as much done as he could, the frequent independent presidential candidate and consumer advocate says.
Nader detailed his grievances Thursday in a blunt two-page letter to the Vermont independent senator with the heading, "Bernie, we thought we knew ye!" Then Nader called the Burlington Free Press and shared the letter, which accuses Sanders of "speechifying" but getting nowhere, because he is a "Lone Ranger." (Burlington Free Press, 3/6/2014)
In the world of conservative blogging, this is what is known as a wonderful gift: two moonbats at odds.
Of course, we would disagree with Nader in his characterization of Sanders as a "Lone Ranger." To us, Sanders is more of a "Tonto" which would make him "the village idiot."
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Labels: Crimea, New York Times editorial, Obama doctrine, Ralph Nader - Bernie Sanders feud, Ukraine, unemployment rate, Vladimir Putin
Monday, March 3, 2014
Test of Conformity
From a White House podium late Friday, Obama told the Russian government that "there will be costs" for any military foray into Ukraine, including the semiautonomous region of Crimea, a strategically important peninsula on the Black Sea.
Within hours, Putin asked the Russian parliament for approval to send forces into Ukraine. The vote endorsing his request was unanimous, Obama's warning drowned out by lawmakers' rousing rendition of Russia's national anthem at the end of the session. Russian troops now control the Crimean Peninsula. (Washington Post, 3/1/2014)
Vlad the Impaler teaches Obama something about "red lines." Namely the RED LINE he drew around Crimea.
Off Base
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) implored President Obama to stop going on television and making baseless threats against Vladimir Putin or other dictators Sunday on CNN.
"It's not your strong suit, every time the president goes on national television and threatens Putin or anyone like Putin, everybody's eyes roll, including mine," he said. (Freebeacon.com, 3/2/2014)
A pretty funny line from Graham.
Mr. Obama came to office with little foreign-policy experience and has been repeatedly tested by a new world in which the main threats are Islamic extremism and civil war. (New York Times, 3/3/2014)
We remember well the concerns that the New York Times expressed in 2008 and again in 2012 in numerous articles, essays and editorials about Obama's weak foreign policy credentials. Just kidding!
Moving Violation
A movement with confidence in its scientific theories would be able to admit there are many climate factors beyond carbon dioxide that are not yet well understood, and that some climate models have been shown to be unreliable. Such a movement would not downplay or whitewash leaked emails evincing the possibility of massaged data. When it criticizes its skeptics as hired guns of the fossil-fuel industry who are influenced by money, it would be willing to acknowledge that it thrives on government and private funding that would shrink if its research did not continue to say warming is here and getting worse. And there would be more confessions such as Al Gore's belated acknowledgment that his support for ethanol was misguided. (Pete du Pont, Wall Street Journal, 2/27/2014)
If you are a global warming skeptic, Liberals call you a denier. If you believe that voters should be required to show an I.D., Liberals call you a racist. If you do not agree with gay marriage, Liberals call you a homophobe. This is how Liberals defend their positions.
Be A Lert, We Need More Lerts
Gov. Jerry Brown (D., Calif.) said he wants to wait to see how experiments with marijuana legalization play out in Colorado and Washington before expanding access to pot in California.
"How many people can get stoned and still have a great state or a great nation?" Brown asked on NBC's Meet the Press. "The world's pretty dangerous, very competitive. I think we need to stay alert, if not 24 hours a day, more than some of the potheads might be able to put together, " Brown added. (Freebeacon.com, 3/2/2014)
The original Governor Moonbat occasionally says something sensible. And so the question posed to Liberals is this: "How does legalizing another mind altering substance make America a better nation?
From a White House podium late Friday, Obama told the Russian government that "there will be costs" for any military foray into Ukraine, including the semiautonomous region of Crimea, a strategically important peninsula on the Black Sea.
Within hours, Putin asked the Russian parliament for approval to send forces into Ukraine. The vote endorsing his request was unanimous, Obama's warning drowned out by lawmakers' rousing rendition of Russia's national anthem at the end of the session. Russian troops now control the Crimean Peninsula. (Washington Post, 3/1/2014)
Vlad the Impaler teaches Obama something about "red lines." Namely the RED LINE he drew around Crimea.
Off Base
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) implored President Obama to stop going on television and making baseless threats against Vladimir Putin or other dictators Sunday on CNN.
"It's not your strong suit, every time the president goes on national television and threatens Putin or anyone like Putin, everybody's eyes roll, including mine," he said. (Freebeacon.com, 3/2/2014)
A pretty funny line from Graham.
Mr. Obama came to office with little foreign-policy experience and has been repeatedly tested by a new world in which the main threats are Islamic extremism and civil war. (New York Times, 3/3/2014)
We remember well the concerns that the New York Times expressed in 2008 and again in 2012 in numerous articles, essays and editorials about Obama's weak foreign policy credentials. Just kidding!
Moving Violation
A movement with confidence in its scientific theories would be able to admit there are many climate factors beyond carbon dioxide that are not yet well understood, and that some climate models have been shown to be unreliable. Such a movement would not downplay or whitewash leaked emails evincing the possibility of massaged data. When it criticizes its skeptics as hired guns of the fossil-fuel industry who are influenced by money, it would be willing to acknowledge that it thrives on government and private funding that would shrink if its research did not continue to say warming is here and getting worse. And there would be more confessions such as Al Gore's belated acknowledgment that his support for ethanol was misguided. (Pete du Pont, Wall Street Journal, 2/27/2014)
If you are a global warming skeptic, Liberals call you a denier. If you believe that voters should be required to show an I.D., Liberals call you a racist. If you do not agree with gay marriage, Liberals call you a homophobe. This is how Liberals defend their positions.
Be A Lert, We Need More Lerts
Gov. Jerry Brown (D., Calif.) said he wants to wait to see how experiments with marijuana legalization play out in Colorado and Washington before expanding access to pot in California.
"How many people can get stoned and still have a great state or a great nation?" Brown asked on NBC's Meet the Press. "The world's pretty dangerous, very competitive. I think we need to stay alert, if not 24 hours a day, more than some of the potheads might be able to put together, " Brown added. (Freebeacon.com, 3/2/2014)
The original Governor Moonbat occasionally says something sensible. And so the question posed to Liberals is this: "How does legalizing another mind altering substance make America a better nation?
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Saturday, March 1, 2014
Helpful Hints for Increasing Your Carbon Footprint
(Obama) also challenged black men to do better themselves, and said they must not make excuses for their failures or blame society for the poor decisions they have already made. (New York Times, 2/28/2014)
Good comment from Obama, but it is not the message that he has been sending for the first five years of his presidency. His message has been that America is inherently unjust, that any group or individual who can claim minority status is not to blame for their situation, and that government through its "tender mercies" will administer relief.
Parsing Governor Peter Shumlin's comments on the latest round of job losses in Vermont (IBM - 100 or so jobs), as reported in the Burlington Free Press, 2/28/2014:
Later in the day Thursday, Shumlin said he had anticipated even worse news.
Shumlin: Great news! It could have been worse. (Only in Vermont is success defined as not going backwards as fast...)
He said he heard from IBM last night and early this morning. "I made clear that when they shared what they were doing with me that I had a responsibility to communicate what I know with Vermonters."
Shumlin: See how transparent my administration is. I could not - in good conscience - keep this bad news from the public.
The IBM layoffs came up Thursday morning as Shumlin addressed a gathering of Vermont grocers and retailers in the Statehouse....Shumlin told the group that Vermont's economy is on the rebound. Several in the audience said they didn't share his optimism, noting the IBM layoffs as well as the announced closing last week of Plasan Carbon Composite in Bennington and pending job losses when Vermont Yankee closes at the end of the year. Several said they were worried about the accumulative impact of legislation in the works to raise the minimum wage, require paid sick leave and adopt a government-funded health care system.
Shumlin: I don't care what anyone says, things are going just swimmingly here in the People's Republic of Vermont. And once we begin collecting taxes on legalized marijuana, just watch out. We may even be able to fund single-payer.
Everything You Need to Know About Obamacare from the New York Times (3/1/2014)
The Obama administration said Friday that it would allow some people to receive federal subsidies for health insurance purchased in the private market outside of health insurance exchanges. The sudden shift was the latest in a series of policy changes, extensions and clarifications by federal officials trying to help beneficiaries and minimize political damage to Democrats in this election year.
Even one of Obamacare's biggest cheerleaders admits that the whole thing has now been politicized.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that four-fifths of people buying insurance through exchanges will qualify for subsidies, with the government spending an average of $4,700 for each "subsidized enrollee" this year.
Obamacare is Obamacaid. Eighty percent of buyers will receive government aid.
The health law fix this week comes after the administration delayed the requirement for larger employers to offer coverage to employees; extended the deadline for people to sign up for coverage starting on Jan. 1; delayed the opening of online marketplaces for small businesses; and asked insurers to extend individual health care policies that had been canceled for not complying with the new federal law.
Harry Reid may think that there are no individual health care horror stories, but he is not looking hard enough. The whole law is a horror story.
The Deep
In unscheduled remarks at the White House Friday afternoon, President Obama said the United States is "deeply concerned" about military movements by the Russian federation inside Ukraine, and warned that "there will be costs for any military intervention." (Washington Post, 2/28/2014)
We'll know that Obama is really really serious if he says "red line." Of course Krauthammer gets it right again:
Putin fully occupies vacuums. (Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post, 2/27/2014)
...Obama being the empty space.
Behind Every Fortune a Crime
After nearly 20 months of celebrity theater and an incalculable amount of effort and courtroom expense, the misdemeanor trial of Kerry Kennedy ended on Friday in breakneck fashion, as jurors took one hour to find her not guilty of driving under the influence of a drug: a sleeping pill that she said she took by accident. (New York Times, 3/1/2014)
As they have for decades, the Kennedy clan runs roughshod over the American judicial system.
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Another great episode from your pals Chris and Colin, with Switch discussion, Oceanhorn has gone gold, and this could be the end of Fire Emblem on 3DS…
- This is where the fun begins…
- Colin has ACTUALLY bought a game!
- What are the best animated series on Netflix?
Chris' mini Apple Watch review!
- New Sims mobile game looks cool
- Yahoo Finance are reporting that NVidia are making a killing on the Nintendo Switch
- Mini Mario Kart 8 Deluxe review!
- eShop can now save your card details (thanks engadget)
- NBA Playground for Switch looks jolly
- Oceanhorn for PSVita goes gold! Check out their latest trailer here
- Hello Lady! announed for PS Vita
- Vita sales for Romancing saga are looking good! (thanks gematsu)
- It looks like Fire Emblem Echoes will be the last installment for the 3DS (thanks JapaneseNintendo)
- GameXplain have uploaded ten minutes of Hey! Pikmin gameplay
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From Deadlines to Headlines
I ripped this off of Fr. Erik Reichtsteig's website, Orthometer. Supposedly, these are the top headlines of 2007. I know that these probably aren't real; but they're real funny.
–Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says. (No, really?)
–Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers. (Now that's taking things a bit far!)
–Miners Refuse to Work after Death. (No-good-for-nothing' lazy so-and-sos!)
–Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant. (See if that works any better than a fair trial!)
–War Dims Hope for Peace. (I can see where it might have that effect!)
–If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile. (Ya think?!)
–Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures. (Who would have thought!)
— London Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide. (They may be on to something!)
–Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges. (You mean there's something stronger than duct tape?!)
–Man Struck By Lightning: Faces Battery Charge. (He probably IS the battery charge.)
–New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group. (Weren't they fat enough?!)
–Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft. (That's what he gets for eating those beans!)
–Kids Make Nutritious Snacks. (Do they taste like chicken?)
–Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half. (Chainsaw Massacre all over again!)
–Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors. (Boy, are they tall!)
–Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead
(By the way, I have a book, Anguished English, that has the same kind of stuff in it. It is SOOO funny; it actually kept me and my wife up at night laughing so hard that we had tears in our eyes. There is a digital version available at Google Books; but if you want to borrow it, let me know.)


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A number of factors can predict future obesity of a child: mother's smoking during pregnancy, a child skipping breakfast, and the amount of sleep a child gets.
"Mothers smoking in pregnancy, children skipping breakfast and not having a regular bedtime or sufficient sleep all appear to be important factors in predicting whether a . . . → Read More: Skipping breakfast and not enough sleep can make children overweight


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Tottenham midfielder Jamie O'Hara has denied he has held talks with West Ham over a possible loan move in January, but has admitted he my need to leave White Hart Lane in order to gain more first team football.
O'Hara has yet to feature for Spurs this season due to a spinal injury picked up while on loan at Portsmouth last year, but returned to light training earlier this week.
However, the 24-year-old knows he faces a fight to earn a regular place in the centre of midfield for Harry Redknapp's side, with the likes of Tom Huddlestone, Luka Modric, Jerrmaine Jenas, Wilson Palacios, Niko Kranjcar and Sandro already ahead of him in the pecking order.
O'Hara has targeted the FA Cup clash with Charlton Athletic to make his return from injury, but knows he may need to join another club on a permanent basis if Redknapp cannot promise regular time on the pitch.
"I've never wanted to leave Tottenham but there comes a point in your career if you're not playing games you've got to look at yourself and think 'well this is my career'," O'Hara told talkSPORT.
"I want to be playing football, I'm not one of these people that want to sit in the bench and play one in four.
"I want to go to a club where I can put some roots down and hopefully become a fan favourite and stay at a club for a few years.
"I don't want to be coming into clubs playing for three months, coming back.
"If I do go and things don't work out here at Tottenham then I'm going to be looking for somewhere where I'm going to stay for four or five years. That's something I want to do now, I don't want to be moving around all the time."
O'Hara played under current Hammers boss Avram Grant when the Israeli was in charge of Portsmouth last year but has denied any talk of him heading to Upton Park.
"I've heard all these rumours going around about West Ham but to be honest I haven't had any conversations with them at all so I don't know where it's coming from," he continued.
"I always had a great relationship with Avram. I see him as a philosopher of football, he wasn't the sort of guy who gets up off the bench screaming and shouting - he's not that type of person.
"He took a calmer approach to it, kind of like Arsene Wenger in a way. It just hasn't worked out for him [at West Ham]. Hopefully he'll stay in the job."


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The sea level will rise above its current level if more polar ice melts. However, compared to the heights of the ice ages, today there are very few continental ice sheets remaining to be melted. It is estimated that Antarctica, if fully melted, would contribute more than 60 meters of sea level rise, and Greenland would contribute more than 7 meters. Small glaciers and ice caps on the margins of Greenland and the Antarctic Peninsula might contribute about 0.5 meters.
On the Antarctic continent itself, the large volume of ice present stores around 70% of the world's fresh water. This ice sheet is constantly gaining ice from snowfall and losing ice through outflow to the sea. West Antarctica is currently experiencing a net outflow of glacial ice, which will increase global sea level over time. A review of the scientific studies looking at data from 1992 to 2006 suggested a net loss of around 50 Gigatonnes of ice per year.
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Sea level rise has been going on since the last ice age and most evident in the near beginning of the Holocene Epoch (our era). Two main factors contributed to observed sea level rise. The first is thermal expansion; as ocean water warms, it expands. The second is from the contribution of land-based ice due to increased melting. The major store of water on land is found in glaciers and ice sheets.
Data from multiple satellites and aircraft shows that the Earth is losing ice at an ever-increasing rate from both poles. The new data show that the ice loss from both poles has increased by a factor of three since the 1990s. Just Greenland—the largest source of fresh water ice in the Northern Hemisphere is losing ice at a rate five times what it did just in the 1990s, about 142 billion tons per year.
Together, since 1992, this ice melt has added over a centimeter (about a half inch) to sea level rise. That may not sound like much, but it doesn't take much rise in sea levels to start causing catastrophic changes in erosion, storms, and flooding. Worse, this accounts for only about one-fifth of the total amount of sea level rise. Much of the rise is due to the water in the oceans expanding due to warming and other sources.
Sea level rise is one of several lines of evidence that support the view that the climate has recently warmed. It is likely that human induced warming contributed to the sea level rise observed in the latter half of the 20th century.
Sea level rise is expected to continue for centuries.
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Helping disorganized people stay that way.
This is the craziest/coolest thing I've seen in a while.
After watching this demo I couldn't help but remember the scene from Minority Report where Tom Cruise is using fiber-optic gloves to move files around on his screen.
Not having used this software, I can't decide whether I would love it or hate it. I can't help but think I'd always feel like by virtual desktop was just as messy as my real world desktop. On the other hand, it would make me feel a little more connected to the real world – what with working on a computer all day long. I could fling files around with passion and gusto! Or is this the kind of thing that just propells me deeper into a virtual reality, blurring the lines between what is organic and what is an operating system? What do you think of this?
I had to get two really big files to a couple people today. Our FTP has been misbehaving lately, as has our FedEx man. One semi-reliable source witnessed him standing in front of our building yesterday looking for 2929 Carlisle. My witness says he pointed out the GIANT STEEL 2929 on our building, at which point the courier mumbled, "It's after six anyway – I'll just come back tomorrow." Well, I'm on a deadline today and can't risk intermittent servers or incompetent delivery persons.
Enter DropSend. I noticed this link sometime ago as it appears after each of Mr. Oxton's posts. Until today I never had a reason to give it a spin. Here's the lowdown:
1 user
250mb of online storage
Send 5 emails (up to 250mb each) per month
For right now, this is all I need, but there's plenty plenty more storage if you want to pay for it. Because I generally FTP my larger files, I don't foresee ever needing more than the free account. But if you're interested, check out the specs at http://www.dropsend.com/pricingsignup.php.
I thought about taking a whole bunch of screen shots and providing a little tour. Lucky for you (and me, I guess), they've already posted a tour of the application. I suggest you take it for a spin yourself.
Bodies In Motion And At Rest
I've been taking the bus to work lately. Mass transit has afforded me some downtime to read more. I just finished reading Bodies In Motion And At Rest: On Metaphor And Mortality, by Thomas Lynch. Margie Haack recommended the book a year or two ago in her winter edition of Notes From Toad Hall. Nothing quite takes the edge off the day like laughter and tears. To hell with the guy sitting next to you!
A funeral director/poet, Lynch puts forth a wonderously unique perspective on life. As a recovering alcoholic and a recovering catholic, his stories are dolloped with a peculiar irreverance. The following is an exceprt from a short essay with a long title, Notes on "A Note on the Rapture to his True Love." It's an essay on a little writing exercise he developed, the only publishable fruit of which was the aforementioned poem.
As for the TV – we'd only just lately gotten cable in Milford, and I was up nights channel-surfing between infomercials and religious broadcasting, especially Jim and Tammy Bakker, Before the Fall, we might say. I never sent money or touched the TV screen for healing, but to say I was transfixed by the sermons would be an understatement. A word Jim Bakker used over and over was a word I loved but did not understand. Rapture, as the concept by which (either pre-Tribulations or post-Tribulations) the saved among us would disappear, assumed into heaven like the BVM, had never been explained to Catholic children until it was too late to be appreciated. No doubt Jewish children were kept similarly in the dark. The idea that you might be sitting in some five-star eatery, sharing crème brûlée and other intimacies with a woman friend only to have her vanish in the moment and twinkling, leaving only the spoon and the bill to be paid, filled me with the sense of the Glory of God.
Little musings like these make me wonder if Lych is poking fun at himself or me. The tension therein offers one liscence to reflect and even poke fun at those things we take so seriously. Lynch puts it this way:
There is nothing like the sight of a dead human body to assist the living in separating the good days from the bad ones. Of this truth I have some experience. Many's the day I would awaken in gloom—a darkness left over from a dream or the night's drinking or a dread of the day I was awakening to. The moments spent before the mirror while tending to my toilet did nothing to lessen the lessons that Time is certainly not on our side, nor does it heal more wounds than it opens. The ever-retreating hairline, the whitening of one's beard and mustache, the bleeding gums, the basal cell carcinomas, the boils, and blisters and bags under the eyes, the belly gone soft, the withering member, the hemorrhoids and hematomas, the varicosities and local edemas, the puff, the paunch, the wrecked version of one's former self that presents itself most mornings, are enough to render most sane men suicidal…It was there, in the parlors of the funeral home—my daily stations with the local lately dead—that the darkness would often give way to light.
Color Schemer
I actually forgot what lead me to Color Schemer this morning, but the discovery of sweet, inexpensive little apps is always a nice way to start the day. While I haven't dowloaded the full version yet, I have been using the FREE ColorPix app (pictured) for several hours. It functions a lot like ColorZilla, but with some bonuses:
- It deciphers color from anywhere on your screen. So unlike CZ, you're not restricted to your web browser.
- It's magnifying tool allows you to select a color and then click on the information display to copy the RGB, HEX, HSB and/or CMYK values to your clipboard. (Note: ctrl+click on the HEX value to copy it without the # symbol.)
- You can set the preferences to launch the app when windows starts up … ooooh stinker – I just realized it's only available for Windows. Sorry MACophiles – you'll have to drop a Grant (Ulysses S., that is) and purchase the whole shabang. At the moment, I'm getting out of debt and can't afford such frivolities.
What makes this little puppy so appealing to me isn't so much it's functionality as it's community of users. Color Schemer is drawing a bit of a crowd – and a talented one at that. The forums section of their website is repleat with tips, advice and shop-talk. I'm a little gitty over the color scheme gallery. It showcases loads of fantastic schemes for untalented hacks like myself to download and apply.
A List to Leave You Wanting
Dang – I've been working like nuts on my new site. Kristin gave me some great ideas last night concerning the main navigation bar. Hopefully it will be all good to go in about a week or two. The possiblity of doing the redesign on Ransom's site is giving me a lot of motivation to finish donovanworks.com ASAP. At any rate, I apologize for the hiatus over here.
Per Jason's request, here's my most recent top five
movie must-rent list. Renting has been infrequent at best these days, so this list is a little weak … but whatever:
1. Capote – I don't know if this is out on video yet, but Kristin and I saw it in the theater (before Hoffman won the Oscar for best actor). It's really dark and you may want to kill yourself upon finishing the film. If, however, you do survive the experience – wow – what fertile material for discussion. This is just great cinema.
2. Chicken Little – That's right, I cover all the bases. Another movie I'm not entirely sure is out on video yet – this list may not be helpful for another month! Disney's first computer animated motion picture, Chicken Little didn't receive very good reviews. We took Jaimes to the dollar theater to see it – it was her first theater experience and she LOVED it. I also thought it was pretty funny. Beware – it's rated G, but should probably be PG. Some parts were a little too scary for munchkins under 3.
3. First Descent – I haven't seen it yet, but I hear it's AWESOME. Next up in my Netflix queue, I simply can't wait to see this.
4. The Office (BBC series) – We recently finished the second season. Maybe the most uncomfortable comedy I've ever watched. Shot as a mockumentary, each episode masterfully exploits the many absurdities of middle-management Amer … er … I mean Britain. If you don't like crude humor, but can stomach it in order to laugh at the inappropriateness of it in the work place, this show's for you. By the way, if you're familliar with the American version featuring Steve Carell, the BBC series is it's predecessor and (in my opinon) far superior.
5. Last but not Least is House of D, directed by Agent Mulder himself. This supposed semi-autobiography written by, directed by and starring David Duchovny was surprisingly delightful. Why Robin Williams' character required dentures is still a mystery to me, but his performance was pretty good. Anton Yelchin, a talented young actor from one of my favorite films, also stars as Duchovny's childhood persona.
We've got a couple films (Motorcycle Diaries & Walmart: The high Cost of Low Price) in the queue that I'll likely be reviewing in the coming weeks. If I don't, just get on my case again and I'll get back to it.
GEEKY QUESTION: Anyone know of a plugin to export a Netflix Queue into a blog?
Netflix, The Office, & Huffing Gasoline
While I appreciate both the culture and mission of independant movie renters like Vulcan Video, my enthusiasm over netflix is unwavering. They've taken the customer service and selection offered by the mom & pop's video store of days gone by, pumped it with steroids and speed and posted it online. Even though most people watch a lot of movies, few people have much variety in their rental hsitory. Since signing up for my 3-at-a-time account, my DVD player has seen more documentaries, foreign films, independant productions, and TV series than my blockbuster/hollwyood video excursions have ever yielded. For the uninitiated, "3 at a time" means that, though I am allotted unlimited rentals for my $19.73 per month, I'm able to rent as many as three DVDs at a time.
While not every rental experience is a good one, the diamonds are worth the rough. On her brother's recommendation, Kristin added the British mockumentary series The Office to our queue. For some reason we recieved the christmas special first. It was hysterical.
"If you're leading your troops into certain death, you can't lead them with jokes – can you. They're not going to say 'oi – this bloke's funny, let's follow him to our certain death.' No, you tell them 'Follow me. Why? Because I said so.' They'll look at you and say to one another, 'look at this fella – he's got good leadership skills – let's follow him to our certain death.'"
I've probably overlooked these discs a thousand times at the store in favor of a new realease or a "sure to entertain" box office hit.
Ok, Ok The Office won two golden globes in 2004 – Best Television series and Best Actor in a leading role. So it's not some obscure little unknown sitcom. But had we never put it on our queue, we never would have rented it. When I'm renting DVDs at $4 a pop, I want there to be little to no chance of it being a bad experience.
Take Love Liza for instance. We rented it from Blockbuster last night. I know, I know – why rent if we have netflix? We were waiting on two movies and the one at home was some Baby Einstein thing for Jaimes. Yes – we're that compulsive. We couldn't wait a day.
Philip Seymour Hoffman is one of my favorite actors. I marvel at his ability as an actor, but his characters are very often desperate, broken, losers destined to fail (e.g. Boogie Nights, Happiness, Owning Mahowney). Love Liza is no different. Watch the trailer and tell me it doesn't look like a light-hearted story about a mentally handicapped man who has lost his wife. Well, I'll tell you right now – Wilson Joel (Hoffman) isn't mentally handicapped. But he does huff gasoline and he does lose everything. I went to bed depressed. It was a scary look at a really ugly addiction and a severly hopeless man. The difficult thing about this story is that we're only told half of it. We don't know who Wilson was before his wife killed herself. Why she did it, though intriguing, is not necessary information. Not knowing from whence came his downward spiral makes it really difficult to identify with him.
I'd be interested to hear other's takes on this film.
The Book of Questions
In the spirit of this blog's subhead (Questions and answers, but mainly questions.) I thought I would post a passage from a favorite poet, Pablo Neruda. The following is from the inside sleeve:
"In The Book of Questions, Pablo Neruda refuses to be corralled by the rational mind. Composed entirely of unanswerable couplets, the poems integrate the wonder of a child with the experiences of an adult. Whether comic, surreal, or Orphic, Neruda's poignant questions lead the reader beyond reason into realms of sudden intuition and pure imagination."
There are some fascinatiing elements to this book. For one, on a corporate scale, the questions(only 3-6 couplets per page) play off one another over a span of many pages. Page 10 rings a bit with page 9, and page 17 reminds us of something … what was it (::flipping back::), ah yes – here it is on page 10 – but not so much on 9. Get it?
As a Christian – I also find myself becoming a little unsettled as a I read. Neruda seems to be blasting away some foundations. In other words, I find myself losing my footing a little bit as I contemplate these quetions. Though unanswerable, I am drawn to ponder them. Thinking on this stuff is like drinking that second glass of wine. My heart warms up, converstation starts flowing, but I'm not sure if I'm speaking wisdom or sticking my foot in my mouth. Anyway, I'll start you off with a tame one and follow it up with a not-so-tame one.
"Tell me, is the rose naked
or is that her only dress?
Why do trees conceal
the splendor of their roots?
Who hears the regrets
of the thieving automobile?
Is there anything in the world sadder
than a train standing in the rain?"
pgs. 70-71
"What forced labor
does Hitler do in hell?
Does he paint walls or cadavers?
Does he sniff the fumes of the dead?
Do they feed him the ashes
of so many burnt children?
Or, since his death, have they given him
blood to drink from a funnel?
Or do they hammer into his mouth
the pulled gold teeth?
Or do they lay him down to sleep
on his barbed wire?
Or are they tattooing his skin
for the lamps in hell?
Or do black mastiffs of flame
bite him without mercy?
Or must he travel without rest,
night and day with his prisoners?
Or must he die without dying
eternally under the gas?"


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Hi guys, I'm lying here feeling sorry for myself and thinking like I do at least once a day that my diet is pants and I need to do better. This got me thinking, has anybody read any research on foods and Lupus? I was wondering if there is a link between what we eat and how we react to said foods. I know I've put on a lot of weight in the last five months and it's still going up. I need to take control of my body and not let it control me.
I'm taking Hydroxychloroquine, Prednisolone, Amitriptyline, Omeprazole and Calceos.


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Last night's sleep was a little restless to say the least, a little too much thinking going on, to make matters worse I woke up at 3am this morning, but at least I managed to fall back asleep by 4am for another 3 & ½ hours... 7:30 not too bad! Day by day it will only get better and better. This morning I had a small breakfast because I am now starting to cut back on how much I eat, my weight was 77kg this morning, so not too bad, only 4kgs to go before the morning of the 11th!! You might think that is a lot, 8.8lbs!! But really it is not very much at all.
After breakfast it's back to a little bit of friendly ping pong, after a couple games Sasha comes up with this great idea to change things up. "How about we play polka dot ping pong" he says. Now if you're asking yourself what is polka dot ping pong, don't worry we didn't know either. The game is not much different it's just normal ping pong, with a little twist. You play without your shirt and after each point scored the person on the losing end of the point has to turn around with their back facing the other player, the other player in turn gets a free shot – meaning he tries to hit the ball with his paddle as hard as he can and hopefully the shot lands somewhere on his bare back. Don't worry we won't get injured before we fight it just leaves a small welt, which stings a little but is a lot of fun to watch and even more fun to play. Even though Sasha thought up the idea of playing this game, he defiantly got the worst of it and we named him "polka dot" king – you can use your imagination as to why. As you can see once again by our choice of pastimes there is not a lot of things to keep us busy threw out the day, but it's a lot of fun and we are using it as a team bonding method! :P
12:00pm PRACTICE time. We have been training everyday at 12 noon because that is what time the tournament at the Olympics will start. We are trying to get our bodies used to fighting at that time so that we are that much more ready for our competition days. Today's practice was the best one yet, still only about 60% of what I know I can be in terms of my strength, power, speed and endurance, but better then the last two days! During practice today we had our first little bit of media exposure, as everyone knows Judo is HUGE in Japan so when one of the local TV stations heard that the Canadian Olympic team was training here before heading over to China, they jumped at the chance to get some coverage. The media was fairly basic stuff - taking pictures and videos for night's news. They also had the chance to interview Keith and Mike in Japanese. Both Keith and Mike have studied for a Year in Japan, Keith when he was in high school and Mike just a couple years ago here at Budo University, so they know enough Japanese to do these interviews. After practice they followed us around a bit to see what we actually do in our spare time, basically just to get a few extra shots. After we were done with the reporters it was off to lunch, and then back to rest a bit before nights practice.
Tonight's practice was a circuit in the weight room. 6mins of work, 3 sets! Doesn't sound like much does it? Well this circuit is defiantly a test of man hood, so if anyone wants a good work out here it is, and if you don't feel like puking afterwards – you didn't work hard enough. The same goes with any work out, it's only hard when you push yourself to your limit, and I'll tell you, if you push yourself on this one, it's gonna hurt!!
30sec intervals – As fast as you can possibly go with a 10sec rest to get to the next station (exercise)
Bench 40kg
Clean 40kg
Squat 50kg
Shoulder press 25lbs dumbbell
You go through the set 2 times in a row, making it about 6min long... Rest 5min and repeat. Remember as fast as you can, to build up the lactic acid!!..
After tonight's practice we again watched a couple of movies and went to bed.!
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Day 3, Japan – Wednesday July 30th... Olympics on my mind! 13 days!
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1 comment:
- Karissa said...
Oh yeah, I could do that workout.... NOT!! Holy crap....
- August 2, 2008 at 11:05 PM
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Since the beginning of the year, I have been looking forward to so many books that are coming out in 2016. Narrowing it down to my Top 5 might just kill me, so this topic will be split into a few different posts, so that it won't be too long.
The Crown is the fifth and final book in The Selection series, which is a bit sad but really exciting, because I really want to find out what happens. The Selection series is known especially for its beautiful covers, and The Crown was no disappointment. The classic Princess Eadlyn purple really tops it off. In The Heir, Princess Eadlyn is having a selection of her own. 35 suitors are competing for her heart, and she is making it very difficult for them. Waiting to find out what happens in this selection is so hard for me, because I am so in love with this series, and I want Eadlyn to make the right decision.
2. Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard
Glass Sword is the second book in the Red Queen series. I read Red Queen in March, and I was so shocked by the ending, the plot twists, the story line, and the romance! I am so excited to read Glass Sword, especially since the cover is so gorgeous. In Red Queen, Mare, the main character is a Red. Reds are people in the country with red blood. They have no powers, and they are considered unworthy, to the Silvers. Silvers are people with silver blood. They have powers, such as controlling lightning, fire and water. But when Mare finds out that someone who she loves dearly needs to be saved, she must go into Silver territory, and try to save him. Little does she know, that going into the Silver's land, will mean so much more than just saving someone.
3. Heartless by Marissa Meyer
Heartless is a stand-alone novel about the Queen of Hearts.
"Long before she was the terror of Wonderland — the infamous Queen of Hearts — she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love." – Marissa Meyer (website)
I'm so excited for this novel, as I am in love with the Lunar Chronicles, which is also by Marissa Meyer. Marissa Meyer writes the best spin-offs of fairytales. I don't think I will ever be tired of fairytales, but if I ever do, I will just read The Lunar Chronicles, and I will fall back in love with them. (Cover yet to be revealed)
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Let them show you what they can, then judge them!
Friday, 10 February 2012
Another Tattoo!!!
Bill's new tatto and he already has a plan about the next one. Wow!!! I love this one. It's full of feelings and things taht happened in his life. The skeleton shows the ugly part oif the life and the flower is the beautiful one which grows up from the ugly one. Isn't that sweet?? And tehre's also a bird, but I guess ya can't see it..... anyway, it's a bird which shows the freedom! AMAZING! just like everything he does.
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A previous week. I search for information on the Little Cottage Company Victorian Cottage Kennel Dog House, so i would like to describe here.
LCC1026 Features -Victorian cottage kennel panelized kit. -Wood wall framing - wood trusses. -High quality siding and trim refastened onto wall panels (insures panels are square). -Panelized wall section (not just precut) saves time in assembly. -Gingerbread trim refastened to panels. -2 working 14' x 21' windows with safety glass - grids and screens. -Shutters and flower boxes. .... Check Price


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Attention Mercenaries,
We all know how much you like ribbons, and with that in mind we created the ultimate ribbons event for you.
Starting July 7th, 3 limited edition ribbons will be up for grabs if you complete the missions for each ribbon. Not only that, we are releasing 3 new ribbons based on concepts that were suggested by the community in the Official Suggest New Ribbons Thread
New Ribbons: Will start distribution next week
|Ribbon Image
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|CrossFire is My Reason To Be
|You have played in 50,000 Games
|You have achieved 500,000 Kills
|Sneaky Warrior
|You completed 5,000 Ghost Mode Games
Returning Limited Edition Ribbons: Track your progress here
|Shotgun Week
|July 7 to July 14
|July 7
|Play 30 Minutes on Egypt TDM Shotgun Only Mode
|July 8
|Get 100 Kills on all Shotgun Only maps (All Modes)
|July 9
|Play 120 Minutes on Orbital Station TDM Shotgun Only Mode
|July 10
|Get 100 Kills on all Shotgun Only maps (All Modes)
|July 11
|Play 120 Minutes on Ship 1.0 TDM Shotgun Only Mode
|July 12
|Get 100 Kills on all Shotgun Only maps (All Modes)
|July 13
|Play 120 Minutes on Coin/Sheep Modes Shotgun Only
|July 14
|Complete 30 Shotgun Only Games (All Modes)
|July 15 to July 22
|Requirement 1
|Own the OPES Character
|Requirement 2
|Win 50 Games on Spain/Salvador/Mexico S&D
|Requirement 3
|Get 500 Kills on Spain/Salvador/Mexico S&D
|Operation Triton
|July 23 to July 31
|Requirement 1
|Complete 100 S&D Games
|Requirement 2
|Win 20 Games on Compound S&D
|Requirement 3
|Get 500 S&D Kills
|Requirement 4
|Setup C4 25 Times on S&D Maps (C4 doesn't need to explode)
|Requirement 5
|Defuse C4 25 Times on S&D Maps
In order for the returning ribbons games/kills/time to count:
- Games need to be completed
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text: I've run across a good blog post that really explains what a seller needs to do before putting their home on the market, and this is especially true in our Seattle Real Estate Market. Seattle area buyers are savvy and they too know the market here, so sellers have to up their game to make their home standout and shine for the best-price sale in a timely fashion. All of these are good tips; take note and call me when you need me! http://bit.ly/sKrEuA


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The Men's League for Women's Suffrage was founded by Herbert
Jacobs in 1907 with the aim of using men's political power to
support the women's suffrage movement.
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Men's League for Women's Suffrage
Although the cause of Women's Suffrage has made rapid advance,
yet it has been felt that the work of promoting this cause should
not be left to women alone, but that men should show their sympathy
with the movement by supplementing the efforts of women to obtain
their undoubted rights.
A League under the above title has, therefore, been formed,
irrespective of the interests of any party, with the subject of
promoting the political enfranchisement of women by the use of the
vote and by active propaganda.
The special means which the League will adopt for promoting the
Enfranchisement of Women are:-
(i) Meetings both for men only and for the general public, for
the discussion of the various social bearings of the Political
Enfranchisement of Women
(2) Delegations of the League to wait upon persons of
(3) The publication and dissemination of suitable literature
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In our League there are associates without voting power.
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In our League there are full members.


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I once also worried about
things beyond my scope
I thought my calling valid
my vocation correct
but all I did was tailor
some design that didn't quite mesh
with the larger patterns weaved and unraveled
by processes that shape our endeavors...
the pattern sets the limit beyond which one
would care to try grasping beyond one's reach
and what I once entertained as worry
is now put to better use in my extended reach...
calling and vocation beside the point
now that done is done...
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West Ham Should Start the Seaon on Fire
West Ham captain Lucas Neill believes that West Ham have been given a fixture list that should ensure West Ham get off to a flyer.
"It is good to be starting at home (against Wigan on August 16) as it should mean we get off to a positive start and state our intentions for the season.
There are obviously two newly-promoted teams who will also be finding their feet and Fulham, Bolton and Wigan all finished at the wrong end of the table last season so, on paper, it does look like we could start very well, but there are no easy games in the Premier League as we all know."
His thoughts have been echoed by George McCartney,
"If we have a good pre-season and get up to standard quickly then there's no reason why we can't get plenty of points on the board from our first eight or nine games," the left-back said confidently. We're certainly capable of winning the majority of those opening games. If we can do that then that will take the pressure off when we face the top teams."


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Sanur Beach | Bali does offer many attractions, one of Sanur beach. This beach is located in the city of Denpasar Bali. This place can be reached from the Ngurah Rai airport with a distance of 10 km. or in other words, the trip takes 30 minutes. But when you come here for the first time and you do not know the route then you can avail the services of the existing driver.
Since the first Sanur beach has been known to many people, even since the first hotels built in Bali. This place has been used as an option for domestic and foreign tourists as one of their tourist destination. Sanur beach is not only alone, but there are also other beaches such as Jimbaran, Kuta, and Seminyak. But this time I will discuss about the Sanur beach.
you have to visit sanur beach..... Why ?
In sanur complete self-contained facilities, so many hotels that offer relatively affordable prices and even the same as the other five-star hotel. Sanur beach offers beautiful scenery as well as when we were there around 05:30 am, then you will see a lot of local and foreign tourists who witnessed the sunrise, this is also happens when the afternoon ahead of a stout man who came to see the beauty of the atmosphere which is so indulgent afternoon eye. Not only the Sanur beach has white sand, of course this can spoil the tourists coupled with sea water which is shallow, so child can play out on the beach without worry.
|Sanur Beach - Bali
|Beautifil Scenery of Sanur Beach
|Sanur Resort
Many of the traditional fishing boats lining the shore that add to the beach "elokan" this one. very beautiful beach is often used as a place for family photos, pre-wedding and so the moment of sunset as background harness. many entertainment facilities that can be encountered in the vicinity of this beach. So it can make the tourists feel at home for a vacation in this beach.
|Sunset view
Read also : Dewata island (the island of God) | Bali
From the information above, now you know about the popular tourist spot is very beautiful, the resorts that offer a variety of holiday facilities make this place always visited by tourists.
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
Our little man
What I know so far...
**He HATES getting his diaper changed (I cannot stress enough how much he hates it)
**He will pretty much eat anything we give him. So far he's had rice, a french fry from Chick-fil-a, cereal, cheerios and sweet potato puffs (Gerber).
**He will not let us put him down when he is sleeping. I held him from 8:30 to 12:30 and Patrick relieved me and still has him.
**His foster mother and family LOVED him a lot; tons of pictures and an awesome diary that she kept for him. It's in Korean so we will have to get it translated some day!
**He is just the most amazing baby I have ever seen in my entire life. I still can't believe I get to be his momma, I am the luckiest woman in the world!
Here is a video from last night:
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- Stephanie said...
Take that journal to the folks at the Korean Presbyterian Church in Lincoln. They do a Korean cultural festival for families built through adoption, and I'm SURE someone will help you translate it. The clerk of session around when I was still there was a neat lady, but I have no idea if she's still the clerk. Someone can help you though!
- July 11, 2009 at 3:00 PM
- Proud Parents of Halainah Grace said...
I just want to say Congrats! Your son is absolutely precious. I am so excited for you and your family.
Many Blessings,
- July 11, 2009 at 3:39 PM
- Rhea Anne said...
Yeah!!! Brandon is home!!! I know it must be so hard to watch him be sad. Praying for you and by the way he is a cutie pie!!! Rhea Anne
- July 11, 2009 at 8:27 PM
- Amy said...
oh man he is so cute! I can't even handle it. I've been showing him off to everyone here. Everyone in India loves your baby too!!
- July 11, 2009 at 11:44 PM
- mdaisyq said...
I was on the TIES trip and on the same flight home to Chicago with your son. He is just the cutest, sweetest little boy. He stole the hearts of all the families on the flight from Korea.
He was very, very attached to his yellow blanket.
I have a picture of him, with Jenna, waiting at the airport in Korea. Is it possible to send me a private message and then I can send you the picture?
Melissa N.
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There are any number of reasons why you might want to stash some cookie dough in the freezer. Maybe you like having treats on hand in case company stops by. Maybe the first day of fall kickstarted your holiday baking gene. Maybe you want a special treat to give your son or daughter at college, or a friend who just had a baby. (Side note: Give new parents frozen cookie dough and you win. Forever.) But we're friends here, so let's be honest: Frozen cookie dough in our freezer means warm, gooey, fresh-baked cookies any time we want one. Or three. (No judgement.) Here are the best ways to freeze your favorite cookies for later.
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Nevaeh Hope Jared Brewer went home to be with the Lord on the day of her birth, January 28, 2017.
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Funeral services will be held at 12 noon Tuesday, February 7, 2017 in Pollock-Randall Funeral Home with visitation from 11:00 am until the time of service. The Reverend William Brewer will officiate. Burial will follow in Woodland Cemetery.
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A proxy or proxy server is basically another computer which serves as a hub through which internet requests are processed. By connecting through one of these servers, your computer sends your requests to the proxy server which then processes your request and returns what you were wanting. In this way it serves as an intermediary between your home machine and the rest of the computers on the internet. Proxies are used for a number of reasons such as to filter web content, to go around restrictions such as parental blocks, to screen downloads and uploads and to provide anonymity when surfing the internet.
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I hear Immigrant Song every time i look at this one, haha
My first commission, for a crazy good artist who really shouldn't have paid me for this! Anyway i was trying to test out new things, and get out of my comfort zone, so i did the BG entirely in photoshop. I had a lot of fun with this, and i learned a lot, which is always good. It took forever and a day, but i'm happy with the outcome! I'm channeling my inner Frank Frazetta here.
There's a second part of this commission, and (dare i say) I'll have to draw a dude! let's see how i handle it...
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Frostgrave in winter: establishing the campaign
So after a small local gaming event (Alleycon 2016) folks I played with were keen to get a short campaign running. Nothing major, just 5 or so games to see how a longer, continuous game with wizard advancement would work for us. So much of the game is geared to having out-of-game spells, which have a role more in maintaining and supporting your warband over raw power on the table. I am eager to see how these type of spells impact the larger game, if you will.
As much as I enjoy Frostgrave and appreciate the approach of a fast and loose wargame, I felt we needed some better ground rules. There is some stuff open to abuse and I've got a crafty gaming group. If they see an advantage that they can game, they'll pounce on it. So I thought it better to try and lay a groundwork for the campaign that we'd all agree with.
Modified campaign rules – Frostgrave seems to have a Mordheim problem with warband advancement. After a few losses, you are likely going to fall behind and never catch up as the rich just get richer. So I worked with some community stuff out there and whipped up a version we'll be using for our game. One particular thing I like about the rules people have thrown together is that the campaign management actions are limited. You can't buy just anything and you have to choose carefully how you spend your time preparing for the next battle. I dig that.
There are a couple of changes I made to my older version of the campaign rules, one was the game length. Now instead of likely 5 turns there is a 50% chance of having a turn 6. After that there is a 10% chance of the game getting further turns. I like this as there is certainly a time limit and you have to push to get things done, but if you need to squeeze out another turn of movement, you have a decent chance of getting one.
Rules for placing treasure – Some campaign changes revolve around rules for placing treasure. First off placing treasure can be abused. Models carrying treasure can exit any board edge and the official rules state you can place treasure at least 9″ from your table edge. To curb any abuse plopping treasure a couple of inches from the side edge, treasure also must be at least 6″ from a neutral table edge. This means that players are going to need at least 2 turns to get treasure off the table. Another change is that at least one treasure out of the three must be 12″ from the player's table edge.
Choosing sides for deployment – A last change to ensure a more fair game is that players both set up the terrain and treasure first, then roll to determine deployment zones. Both roll off and the player that rolled the highest can decide to either go first, or decide which table edge they want to deploy from. So this makes for a fun choice. They can choose to get the initiative on the first turn, or instead opt for the side that they think gives them the best terrain layout. And since no one knows if what option is available, they will try to set up terrain and treasure so that no one has a distinct advantage (unless they want to gamble they can win the first roll and select where to deploy).
Winning the campaign – This likely isn't a perfect system but we are working along keeping a running advancement total. This is determined by the sell value of treasure, gold crowns, and XP of the wizard, with base improvements (as per listed costs) also being added in. The player with the most advancement points wins. So it's all about cash and XP basically. The tough choice was to include improving the warband, but I decided against it. Folks can hoard their cash if they want to, as spending crowns to get soldiers won't help their advancement total. But having more bodies means you can likely get treasure off the board, so in a roundabout way, the advancement points lost (as spend gold) buying a thief likely pays in spades if you get more treasure during a game because of the follower. We'll see how that works out.
Select scenarios – Mostly this is due to available terrain, but I also wanted us to have the same number and types of scenarios we would all play. The first and last games would be regular battles without any special rules or terrain. The three games in the middle of the campaign would be three specific scenarios that could be played in any order. The Living Museum, the Well of Dreams and Sorrows, and the Complex Temple were selected as they don't require much of a special table layout (like the Library or Silent Tower) and something we could work with given our available models.
I'm looking forward to our winter campaign. I am hoping to get some battle reports written up but likely they will be simple recaps. I usually get so wrapped up while gaming I forget to take pictures. However I hope this will end up being a fun little series of posts to put up and document how my warband fares through the campaign.


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... not pictures from vacation (they're coming soon), but an updated Salmonella outbreak map (from 7-11-08). As you can see, the number of MN cases has grown to 19! And now Mississippi and West Virginia are reporting confirmed cases. Apparently, not much salsa and such is eaten in the Great Plains states free of salmonella. Maybe the Dakotas should make that part of their summer tourism campaign..."vacation in a state free of salmonella..."
Beware of fresh tomatoes, jalapeno peppers, and fresh cilantro...all suspected culprits!


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Birth: Aug. 27, 1919
Death: Jun. 29, 1997
Dancer, singer, actress. Former Dandridge Sister. She worked with Jimmie Lunceford and Count Basie at the Cotton Club and after she retired from show business to raise a family, she taught dance for the L.A. Department of Parks and Recreation.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Lace Spanish Choco Chocolate Lace Front Wig
This unit was sent to me to review from HairHoneys.com.
This unit is a lace front wig, in the color #1b. The length is about 18-20" long with a loose body curl/wave.
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Hello All,
If you've been around these parts for a while you know that I had a Sophomore Year Goal to have one of my friends from back home come visit me at college. Well this weekend I accomplished this goals because one of my very best friends in the whole world came and visited me. This very good friend is Tori!
The morning that Tori came didn't start out that great though because you see I was cleaning my room and I grabbed my shower cady where my razor head was facing blade up and sliced my finger on it. It hurt like a mother well you now. I was actually worried that Tori would have to bring me to the ER so I could get stitches. Luckily it eventually stopped bleeding and I was ready to enjoy my time. And if Mama J is reading this, sorry I forgot to tell you about my finger and that this how your finding out.
Finally Tori got here and we spent Friday night being extremely lazy. We laid in my bed and talked for the first part of the afternoon, which is exactly what I needed! Mandi also came over for a little while and two of my best friends got to meet which was cool.
A little while later I took Tori to a fancy dinner at the dinning hall. Can you sense the sarcasm that line or did that not come across?
After dinner we went back to my dorm and watched a couple episodes of MTV's new reality show, which I will probably write a post about because I'm obsessed with the show and I like to write about what I'm obsessed with here on this old bloggy here. We also watched When Harry Met Sally, God I love that movie and another movie I never heard but was really good, Mystic Pizza.
I didn't take any picture from this day because I needed time with my best friend that wasn't being documented or anything, we just relaxed.
The next morning we got up and got ready for our day. We then headed out to spend sometime in New Haven! Yale to be more exact. Our first stop though was Chiplote, it was Tori's first experience there and she said she liked it. I have been obsessed with Mexican food recently so I was happy to go there as well.
We then started exploring Yale! God I love Yale, I think its so beautiful and such an amazing campus. While we were exploring we noticed all these guys walking around wearing bunny ears! So, after about 5-10 minutes of wondering why we finally stopped one of them and asked why? He told us he was doing a sociology project. Then he started talking to us about Yale and he actually thought I went there! It was so cool and I totally wish I had gone there! He was so sweet and super cute, so if some strange reason this guy his reading this, thanks for answer our questions and your awesome!
After talking to him I had a total fan girl moment because I saw a sign for the building that Rory Gilmore lived in in one of the season of Gilmore Girls!
We eventually made our way to the Yale bookstore/campus clothing store I did some shopping. Some thing you may not know about me is that but I am obsessed with the Ivy League schools, especially Yale. So, I went on a mini shopping spree where I bought a shirt for myself, for my little cousin and a cute pink binder.
|LtoR: My cousin shirt, my binder and my shirt
At the store we met the shop owner and he was so sweet. He talked to us for a while and he told us that his favorite part of his job is that he gets to meet people from all over the world. He was totally amazing and I would effeminately stop back in there on another day that I'm exploring Yale.
After the shop we did a little bit more exploring of Yale, we did search for another Bunny Ear guy so we could take a picture with them but alas we never saw one. We did however take a couple selfies to prove that yes we both were at Yale.
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|LtoR: Tori and Me
We eventually drove back to my campus and talked for a little bit longer and then it was time for her to go home. I was sad to see her go but we talked about maybe having her come visit me later in the spring.
I have been missing Tori so much lately and really need some good friend time with her which is exactly what this weekend was!
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IT'S FRIDAY!!!!! YEAH! And I get a 3 day weekend which includes a birthday party on Sunday for my nephew; Dougie is turning 8. They are growing up so fast.
Next week is going to be interesting to say the least as I am working overnight Thanksgiving night and Friday night. It means we will have to stick close to home so that I can get some sleep. Ah the life of Retail... could be worse I could be Law Enforcement and working all day both days trying to keep people from killing each other for a TV. I'll be making the store pretty and filling it up with goodies for people to buy the following days and I won't have to work "IN" the crowds. So it's all good.... Remind me I said that on Saturday morning when I get off from the roller coaster.
I'll post again later today... right now it's time to get ready for work.
Friday, November 16, 2012
I'm so glad...
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