text: Red Pill News Identity Politics Dodgers announcer says he will "never watch another NFL game again" National anthem protests turn Vin Scully away from watching NFL games. Published 1 year ago on November 6, 2017 By alexrpt 0 Views Share Tweet Former Dodgers announcer and Hall of Famer, Vin Scully, was at the Pasadena Civic Center for an event called "An Evening With Vin Scully", where the baseball icon revealed that he is done watching NFL games. Scully was asked about the NFL's national anthem "take a knee" protests, and Scully replied by stating he "will never watch another NFL game" again. Here is a full transcript of Scully's comments, via Deadspin… "I have only one personal thought, really. And I am so disappointed. And I used to love, during the fall and winter, to watch the NFL on Sunday. And it's not that I'm some great patriot. I was in the Navy for a year — didn't go anywhere, didn't do anything. But I have overwhelming respect and admiration for anyone who puts on a uniform and goes to war. So the only thing I can do in my little way is not to preach. I will never watch another NFL game." Scully, who will turn 90 later this month, served in the navy before beginning his broadcasting career. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Related Topics:NFLNational AnthemVin Scullyimgx Up Next Boris Johnson reportedly linked to FBI probe into alleged Moscow collusion Don't Miss Was Trump really this honest? Advertisement You may like ARRESTED: Bill Browder detained in Spain on Interpol warrant SYRIZA hypocrisy again exposed as open borders bonanza continues U.S. technology firms eye Greece for cheap labor 7 Comments 7 Leave a Reply This comment form is under antispam protection 4 Comment threads 3 Thread replies 0 Followers Most reacted comment Hottest comment thread 5 Comment authors Recent comment authors This comment form is under antispam protection Subscribe newest oldest most voted Notify of new follow-up comments new replies to my comments GuestJulie Patchouliso? Vote Up0Vote Down ReplyNovember 6, 2017 15:32GuestXRGRSFThanks, Vin, I'll always remember you, and be grateful for your respect of veterans. Vote Up0Vote Down ReplyNovember 6, 2017 21:05GuestOldUncleDaveUsing prohibited drugs and beating up on women is just fine with old Vin, but protesting racism during the national theme song is where he draws the line? What a schmuck! Vote Up0Vote Down ReplyNovember 6, 2017 23:15GuestCumExApostolatusPlease expound. What drugs and which beatings? Vote Up0Vote Down ReplyNovember 7, 2017 21:41GuestOldUncleDaveHere's a start: https://www.usatoday.com/sports/nfl/arrests/2017/all/all/ Vote Up0Vote Down ReplyNovember 7, 2017 22:24GuestCumExApostolatusGot it. I didn't know that many of the professional players have arrest records. I don't watch football at all. Maybe Scully thinks that boycotting the sport over the actions of individuals isn't called for, but since they're carrying on with this en masse, to him that somehow makes a difference? Who knows? All I can say is there is no equal justice under the law. That's apparent. Vote Up0Vote Down ReplyNovember 8, 2017 00:57GuestColin SmithTypical military-obsessed society. Cannot grovel enough at the feet of those who go abroad to impose America's domination on an innocent world. The military he's so proud of has killed, directly or through proxies, 30 million since WW2. They have participated in 81 violent overthrows or interference in elections in that period, at least 20 of which were legal, democratically-elected governments.Sport & militarism have been long associated in the sport industry. Jets overfly football games. The entire country is repufecwith sentimental patriotism. Another manicured matinee-idol geriatric without an ounce of originality in his brain. Vote Up0Vote Down ReplyNovember 20, 2017 11:01 Latest Hell Hath No Fury Like a Liberal Scorned: The Media Turns on Facebook and Google Facebook and Google are profit-maximizing quasi-monopolies who will do anything to protect their monopolies. Published 2 days ago on November 20, 2018 By The Duran Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog: Here's the ugly truth: Facebook and Google are profit-maximizing quasi-monopolies who will do anything to protect their monopolies. Of the many remarkable trend changes of the past year, few are more striking than the fawning embrace of Facebook et al. by Big Media turning to an enraged sense of betrayal. Facebook and Google–by their own self-definitions, shining beacons of liberalism and goodness (we're not evil, we're fantabulous!)– were viewed by the famously liberal Big Media as allies in the fight against Trump, illiberalism, populism, deglobalization, etc. Now, to their horror, Big Media has discovered that not only did their Big Tech sweethearts betray their affection and trust, they're just another bunch of predatory profit-maximizing monopolies who will stab anyone and everyone in the back who gets in their way to higher profits and more power. It would be sad if it wasn't so pathetic. Poor Big Media, so anxious to be hip and with it, so anxious to impress social media while trying to exploit its reach to prop up their own dying business model. Big Media, so easily seduced by Big Tech: we're liberal, too, and together we'll lead the world out of darkness into light, blah blah blah. Then Big Media discovered its virtue-signaling liberal sweetheart, Big Tech, is just as threatened by liberals as by conservatives, and it turns its firepower on liberals with the same savage abandon as it does on independent and conservative media. The bitter rage of the previously besotted and now betrayed suitor is evident in these recent articles in The Atlantic, New York Times and Washington Post, all bastions of virtue-signaling self-righteous defense of the state-cartel Empire, a.k.a. liberalism. When the Tech Mythology Collapses (The Atlantic) Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook's Leaders Fought Through Crisis (NY Times) How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the 'Father of Android' (NY Times) It's time to start regulating Facebook (Washington Post) The high dudgeon of WaPo is especially amusing to those us blacklisted by the faux-liberal Washington Post's witch-hunting promotion of a bogus list of "Russian propaganda" sites in 2016. As I noted recently, some observers suspect Facebook is using this same baseless, fact-free libelous list in its shadow banning of independent journalists and commentators. That Facebook would stick a knife in neoliberal globalist George Soros (gasp!) to mask its calumny might have been an eye-opener for the enamored liberals who foolishly believed the facile PR of Facebook, Google et al. Nobody's more offended that the chump who falls for the obvious scam, a scam that any streetwise person would have spotted a mile away. Big Media so desperately wanted a partner in its faux-liberal virtue-signaling that it overlooked the abundant evidence that Facebook and Google are only interested in reaping billions of dollars in ever greater concentrations of wealth and power. These are corporations, after all, and just like the corporations that own Big Media, maximizing profits is their sole raison d'etre, self-congratulatory preening claims of public service wonderfulness aside. Here's the ugly truth: Facebook and Google are profit-maximizing quasi-monopolies who will do anything to protect their monopolies. Just like all the other monopolies that had to be busted up to protect the public from their predatory power. I just received this email from the Wall Street Journal: the Big media war on Facebook just opened a new front, and it looks like a take-no-prisoners conflict now: With Facebook Under Siege, Zuckerberg Adopts More Aggressive Style Mark Zuckerberg gathered roughly 50 of his top lieutenants earlier this year and told them that Facebook was at war and he planned to lead the company accordingly. Mr. Zuckerberg's new approach is causing unprecedented turmoil atop Facebook, driving several key executives from the company, according to people familiar with the matter. I've written a lot about these issues: here's a selection of recent essays: Are Facebook and Google the New Colonial Powers? September 18, 2017 The Demise of Dissent: Why the Web Is Becoming Homogenized November 17, 2017 Addictions: Social Media & Mobile Phones Fall From Grace November 24, 2017 Should Facebook, Google and Twitter Be Public Utilities? March 5, 2018 Is Profit-Maximizing Data-Mining Undermining Democracy? March 19, 2018 The Blowback Against Facebook, Google and Amazon Is Just Beginning April 27, 2018 Shadow Banning Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg: We're All Digital Ghosts Now October 27, 2018 My new mystery The Adventures of the Consulting Philosopher: The Disappearance of Drake is a ridiculously affordable $1.29 (Kindle) or $8.95 (print); read the first chapters for free (PDF) My book Money and Work Unchained is now $6.95 for the Kindle ebook and $15 for the print edition. Read the first section for free in PDF format. If you found value in this content, please join me in seeking solutions by becoming a $1/month patron of my work via patreon.com. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Politics: The Cancer that must be Eradicated once and for all In the United States two political parties have now divided the nation with the kind of violent partisan rhetoric that erupted just before the Civil War. Published 2 weeks ago on November 9, 2018 By Paul Kindlon The 2016 election of Donald Trump as president set off a tidal wave of anger and resentment that has divided America into two bitterly opposed camps. Those on the left consider Trump to be the embodiment of evil whereas many on the right see him as a "disrupter" and champion of the common man. The recent mid-term elections revealed that this conflict between pro-Trump and anti-Trump forces continues unabated. The political divide in America now is characterized by revenge-minded Democrats who are determined to remove Trump from office and those who will fight to prevent this from happening. As a result, the country will be mired in a lengthy political power struggle while important issues affecting the lives of millions will be neglected. America – sad to say – is currently a nation in crisis. If a team of scientific crisis management experts were assembled to assess the cause of this problem they would surely arrive at the conclusion that it is "politics" pure and simple. The solution, therefore, would be the abolition of all political parties. This is actually not a new idea. The French philosopher Simone Weil made this suggestion more than seventy years ago. This seemingly radical proposal has been resurrected and supported by the award-winning Canadian journalist Andrew Nikiforuk. As he pointed out this past summer: "In the United States two political parties have now divided the nation with the kind of violent partisan rhetoric that erupted just before the Civil War. Across the Western world, political parties have turned parliaments into digital circuses, provoking waves of contempt among ordinary people…by actively preventing party members from speaking for truth or justice, modern political parties cultivate mendacity the way cell phones archive selfies. Party politics demand that politicians must, on a daily basis, lie to the party, lie to the public and lie to themselves." This is a damning indictment of politics not just political parties. And it should be clear to any clear-thinking citizen that the time has come to abandon this morally bankrupt system that has mismanaged our affairs through influence peddling and legal bribery innocuously labeled "campaign contributions". Weil and Nikiforuk are not anarchists and they are not proposing some form of extreme libertarianism requiring the dismantlement of government. Governing should be left to capable administrators and professional managers who are not beholden to wealthy donors or special interest groups. Rather than being "elected" they should be hired, paid a decent salary and evaluated for performance by a non-partisan committee of informed citizens. If we fail to take this step then we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes of the past – suffering from a deeply flawed system that only produces corruption, conflict and economic woe. We must declare total independence from the tyranny of politics before we are crushed under its weight. To borrow the immortal words of Thomas Paine: "The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries: 'tis time to part". Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest The America I Once Knew Butterflies and fenceless backyards… Published 2 weeks ago on November 6, 2018 By Nicholas Sampsidis The vast majority of baby boomers believe that they grew up in a free country. Was it free? Is it free? It has been said: "America is a free country… until you read the fine print!" To be fair, freedom in every country is conditional, with the conditions stipulated in footnotes that can take up most of the page. The 1960s generation in the USSR, had little doubt that the USSR was a free country, outside of obvious restrictions like those imposed on travel abroad, restrictions that were easily explained by way of Uncle Sam's imperialism and related connivances. In America, the limits to one's freedom are defined by conditions such as whether one is rocking the economic boat of a competitor or whether one has chosen to enter the public eye as a politician, an athlete, or as an actor. It is also understood that, "Your liberty to swing your fist ends where my nose begins." Obama-Clinton's liberty to support "rainbow fascism" and terrorism, abroad, ended at the noses of millions of voters, as Clinton harshly discovered on election day. Since asterisks didn't weigh down the definition of freedom for children in the 50s, baby boomers cherish memories of an era when bicycles were left on front lawns unlocked – overnight, or longer – and back porch doors were always welcomingly ajar. A sense of community, civility, and mutual respect was palpable. Sunday was a day of rest and most stores closed. A significantly greater number of families attended church services than those that didn't. Some 65 years later, America is a different planet. A casual drive through suburban side streets will be quiet enough to hear birds chirping. Not many children, if any, will be playing kickball or chasing butterflies through fenceless backyards. Boy's won't be seen throwing dirt bomb grenades in the retaking of the empty lot named Guam and cowboys won't be roping Indians to an oak, which also nests a treehouse. Dogs won't be on the loose and no girl on a Schwinn with a dual-toned seat will be seen cruising over to a neighbor's house to dress up as mom or to play with Tiny Tears. Girls and boys won't be seen in a beehive of activity building a clubhouse for reenactments of the latest Mickey Mouse Club episode or in anticipation of grown-up life. The planet will be drained of life. It was during a stopover at the grandparents that I roused the kids on a lip-locking freeze of a January morning: "Get up! Perfect sledding conditions!" Indeed, ice had solidly, candy-coated a few inches of snow. Before anyone could ruin perfection with a footprint, I was determined to show a new generation where we used to blaze through frost and tears on Flexible Flyers. The vintage sleds, minus a little shine, were as ready to carve up the slopes as I was. Approaching a venerable golf course on foot, a closed gate glared, menacingly. It was double, chain-locked. I eventually learned that a lawsuit had been filed against the club by parents of a child who had recklessly tattooed his face riding into a shrub. All good will on the part of club owners subsequently evaporated. Forever. Not to be daunted, we trekked to another golf course. Considering the time lost and that it was almost noon, I was taken aback by the absence of revelers on the wide expanses. A few phone calls proved to be transfiguring. The white canvas of the hills became a mural with splashes of color and blurred hues conveying action. Accompanying laughter echoed throughout and squeals of fright broadcast from speakers doubling as hills. Curiously, we remained the sole pleasure seekers, until several hours later when a limousine neared a side fence, at some distance. Bird-like cautious, a woman could be spotted, exiting the vehicle, apparently, trying to make sense of the ruckus. A boy and a sled appeared near her, both waiting for her verdict. Mother hen apparently nodded the go-ahead, but playtime timed out at 20 minutes. The boy and his sled never reached the real slopes where we had pinned our flag. Just as unobtrusively as the mother-son apparition had materialized, it was gone. My mind played to comprehend the curt visit and the maternal oversight. "What was it that instigated such protective cluckery? Was it us? Were we violating some written or unwritten law? Were we trespassing? Sure, it's private property but it's not fenced in. By merely circling behind the Lutheran church on the West side you're at the best hill. A cinch. Besides, sledding has always been a tradition, here." As we parted the fun into the amber sunset, it sunk in that if I hadn't taken the initiative, despite ideal conditions, Mt. Suburbia would have remained as virginal as the peaks of Tibet. Adding two plus two, I began to suspect that in the decades of my absence a new reality had settled over these parts. And, that I had imposed the free-spirited reality of my youth on them. Might it be that in the structured play of today's youth, playing outside of the box isn't apropos? It's no longer in – not cool? I recalled how family had asked me to pick up a nephew, a high school senior, after basketball practice. "But it's a seven-minute walk to the house," I demurred. Upon giving in and making what amounted to a four-minute drive to the school, I noted that my nephew wasn't the only one. In fact, most of the team was waiting to get picked up, as well. I was flabbergasted. What happened to the coolness of being independent – of being grown-up and not hanging on to mother's apron? Anything was better, in my day, even a school bus ride home. A mama's boy was a sissy who wouldn't get even an eyebrow of interest from the girls. "What's going on?" Indeed, organized events have taken over the present age. That is, children rarely take the initiative to make playtime on their own. It's precooked. The clock ticks away at the timelines of youth without a child ever knocking on a neighbor's door to ask: "Can Ted or Sally come out to play?" The question molded more than one generation. When I used to peddle off, after breakfast, on my Ross bicycle I would only return to the sound of the dinner bell. Packed between two meals were a solid four or five hundred minutes of stickball, soccer, softball, touch football, kickball and, even, golf. Whoever, showed up in the school yard, boy or girl, participated. It made no difference. A right fielder was always in demand. There was no time for getting fat or even chubby despite plates being licked clean, when no one was looking, of course! There were no cell phones yet everyone knew, when and where, the action was, even if it meant a little extra peddling around the neighborhood. Quite the relic of a memory! Children still participate in team sports but they're mostly soccer-mom-structured. Today's uniforms, which we would have loved to have had, lack home-spun creativity. Isn't necessity the mother of invention? What life lessons are there when children take everything for granted and when they're shuttled like livestock, back and forth, between venues. A metastasis of political correctness is the presentation of trophies to all participants so as to not discourage the 98 percent who are less than the best. In other words, a reward for outstanding merit and achievement has been merged into the collective, tolerant whole rendering it meaningless. I knew one fat kid in the neighborhood. He wasn't fat by today's standards, just a little on the chubby side, yet we called him "fatso" and he was none-the-worse for the honesty. In fact, truth proved to be a motivator because by the time that he entered 7 th Grade, he was as slim as the rest of us. Mothers did what they had to do – they cooked complete meals, they oversaw homework and chores, they rarely complained about housework, and, if for any reason one breadwinner wasn't earning enough, they took jobs. They sacrificed for the good of family. Do children need anything more than the demonstration of such dedication and love? Are children better off with so-called liberated mothers, indoctrinated with the propaganda line that their interests come first? How many of society's ills are spawned by the absence of love from parents? Without any doubt, baby boomers were leaps and bounds healthier than children, today. No one made sonogram wall posters of fetuses in shopping malls. We weren't injected with dozens of vaccines. The sugar cube containing the polio vaccine was about it. Food allergies were extremely rare until mothers were told that formula was healthier. Autism had yet to enter the dictionary. If a child had more than one cold per season, it was likely that the father was a physician. How many grandparents, looking at the present-day child glued to a gadget, think: "What is to become of this generation?" Is it not a bold experiment? It might be a risky prognosis but the seeds of collectivization are being sown in America with a capital "C." Followers are being reared, not leaders with initiative, creativity, and courage. Creature comforts make for soft minds to be sculpted by left-leaning professors. Actually, creativity still has a place but it's on a screen, which is not necessarily applicable to problem solving in the real world. The life lessons of fishing or camping under inspirational, starlit nights isn't part of the touch screen algorithm for success. Today's generation will learn the genetic sequence of a fish gene with the aid of the right app but will children be able to distinguish between a bluefish and a catfish without Google? Or know how to catch a fish, should doomsday hunger ever reshuffle priorities, overnight? At one point, a little before Clinton & Clinton absconded with the White House furniture, I wanted my children to witness a real Christmas Eve with carols and with all of the stops pulled out. I decided on the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, recalling warm impressions from youth. But I wasn't prepared for what was served-up. Instead of celebrating Christmas Eve, we found ourselves in something resembling a pagan Roman, Earth Day circus with overtones of a gay rights parade. When a blessing of the plants and caged animals began – including the blessing of the Devil in the spirit of tolerance, symbolized by a ten-foot-long python shouldered in by several, semi-clad lads in crepe and nylons – I stretched and tugged with haste for the exit. But we were blocked by an elephant, yes, an elephant that had just made its entrance into the cathedral. My mouth dropped as the beast swaggered up the aisle to the alter, a poop bag, at the ready! Thank God, the elephant wasn't being wed to a giraffe or we might have never squeezed our way out of the cathedral-turned-zoo. Honestly, I didn't know what to say to the children. I'm not making this up. Again, the sham of a Christmas Eve occurred in the late 90s. One dares not contemplate what takes place, today, in the Temple of God in the name of poor St. John the Divine. It begins to sink in why the heavens will sing "Hallelujah!" upon the destruction of the great city Babylon. And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever. Rev. 19:1-3. Despite the non-denominational character of my elementary school, we learned the Lord's Prayer and the Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Matt. 7-12. The rest of our introduction to Christian teachings was reserved for Sunday School. No fanaticism – it was bread and butter straighforward. In First and Second Grades we read Ted and Sally, Dick and Jane, as well as Tuffy and Boots – solid, family-oriented constructions that foster a genuine sense of security in young children. What is upbringing without structure and discipline? I had my mouth washed out by my first-grade teacher for saying, "Shut-up," after hearing someone else say it. It was the last time that I repeated words that I didn't understand. Besides, it didn't look good in the eyes of my crush to be yanked out of class in such disgrace. First Graders played the role of angels in the nativity scene of the Christmas pageant. And towns weren't sued over Nativity scene displays. Up to two hours of black and white TV were allowed, weekly, with programming consisting of The Adventures of Rin-Tin-Tin, Heidi, Lassie, and the Mickey Mouse Club. Time limits on cartoons were waived for a sick day, making it quite the holiday. TV-free household were not oddities. Divorces were for Hollywood and when they did take place they, somehow, touched children less than they do, today. Returning to NYC, for a moment, I witnessed a three-year-old-something toddler on 5 th Avenue bus strike a female passenger. His mother responded with reasoning. "How would you like it if someone did that to you?" Before she finished asking, he struck another passenger. And it went, on and on. The more that she reasoned, the more he hit people. No one batted an eyelash of admonishment. I watched Carnegie upbringing, in awe. Tempted as I was to intervene, I convinced myself that this is not only not my battle but also one that can't be won. When I witnessed a few boys, roughly seven years of age, trampling sand castles diligently constructed by several, younger girls, I ignored it until the same boys returned throwing sand. Laughing through the motions, they stomped, again, on repaired sand castles. With enough of a degree of intent for it to be understood that I meant business, I took each one by the arm and herded them off to their parents, higher up on the beach. I made it clear with an even firmer grip what I would do if they harassed small girls or threw sand, again. "Don't test me. I'll make mincemeat out of you hooligans," I exclaimed, loud enough for parents to hear. Needless to say, peace and quiet was restored to the lives of a few girls that summer day. The parents didn't thank me. In fact, their looks and open-mouthed astonishment were defensive, even threatening, as if I was in the wrong. I'm quite certain that never, before, and never, since, have their boys been publicly reprimanded. Herein, lies the problem. If you're a Clinton Snowflake, I know that you're thinking, "Stone Age Dinosaur! How dare he physically handle children that aren't even his." "Physical handing doesn't have to draw blood," I laugh, when Snowflakes get ruffled. It's enough for children to respect hierarchy and to understand who lays down the rules and that violating them could be problematic. If a car is rolling off a cliff, do you run after the car, open the door, and reach for the hand brake or do you tolerate the outcome because it's not your car, hoping for the best? On a fishing expedition, I happened to be surfcasting on an interesting beach. To my right was a lifeguard flag delineating a bustling beach with no small number of young people. Equidistant to my left was a clothing optional beach with the greater part of beachgoers being my age. Without understanding what was happening, a hubbub developed to my left. Amidst the shouts and the commotion, an armada of swimmers, floats and rafts forged though waves and currents, stretching some 100 yards into the cold ocean straight out from the point where I had been surfcasting. A passerby informed me that someone had drowned. Within 20 minutes, a limp, young man was pulled out of the surf, greyer than death. An ambulance had crossed the dunes and CPR was being administrated. Suddenly, a torrent of water poured out of the victim's mouth. He was alive. Reflecting on what I had just witnessed, the contrast between the reactions of the two groupings of beachgoers carved deep into the senses. Not one, athletic, young man from the textile beach, not even a lifeguard, had budged after word had spread that a person was drowning. I had been focused on surfcasting and, somehow, missed the opportune moment to take action. Considering how many first responders dove in on my left, both men and women, made it quite evident that enough persons from millennial grouping also had heard that someone was drowning but they didn't react. Could it be that they, simply, couldn't be bothered? With the advent of the millennium, tolerance became the buzzword in the US. Author Ted Flynn notes: "It's in the press, our grade schools, our universities, our community centers, our corporate environment, and nearly anywhere else that two or more are gathered. It surrounds us, and woe to the person who is insensitive to another's ethnic, cultural, or religious orientation. This is all well and good but it has gone too far. We have many terms for it such as politically correct, exclusivism, inclusivism, modernism, ethical theism, postmodernism, universalism, and the favorite over the last five years, multiculturalism. Everybody wants their rights and usually it is at the expense of another. Politically correct has become a synonym for lack of truth, candor, and integrity… English author, G.K. Chesterton once remarked, "Tolerance is the virtue of man without convictions." Flynn adds, "There is neither right nor wrong – only tolerance." The danger of a society that isolates itself from competing truth, says Chuck Colson, "is the inevitable descent into oppression and tyranny." Isn't it interesting that no one is more intolerant than those who advocate tolerance? Biden, for one, came out of some closet, recently, saying Bible- believing Christians violate LGBTq rights simply by existing. Even more recently, again before a LGBTq audience, he called Trump supporters, "The dregs of society!" It's getting ugly. Bimbos of the Biden type are dividing rather than uniting. And with financing from Clinton and Soros, leftist hate and intolerance are driving Antifa, which despite the name, are fascists – the radical left's variant of Hitler's brown shirts. LGBT is also dividing. The majority of Americans believe that sexual orientation should not be an in-your-face, political movement. "Do what you want behind closed doors. Don't impose your choice on others." Be queer or straight, understanding that you'll be answering for your choice before God. Americans are learning to distinguish between Christian tolerance and politically correct tolerance. The former is common sense natural, an extension of Christian love; the latter artificial and dangerous because it restricts freedom by impinging on free speech, a prerequisite for tyranny. George Soros, a sociopath and, in so many of his own words a Nazi collaborator, is seeking revenge for his losses tied to picking the wrong presidential candidate, which is one reason why he is behind Antifa. Today, Antifa is committing terrorist acts against monuments and private property. Tomorrow, it's not excluded that radical left agenda handlers will demand blood. If you happen to be a plain vanilla Deplorable or if you're an independent or a libertarian, guided in life by a love of liberty, common sense, and service to country, family, and God, you probably know and appreciate from firsthand experience what life was like in a free America. Restraints on freedom have been encroaching on Americans from the day that the Federal Reserve was established in 1913 and after a federal income tax was introduced. When Clinton & Clinton took over the White House, they accelerated the loss of individual liberties faster than any predecessor. The transformation of America into a collectivist state was supposed to be completed with Queen Hillary's coronation as president. If founding fathers, Hamilton and Jefferson, didn't trust the intellect of the people in electing a leader, with the former calling the people, "a great beast," and the latter referring to fellow Americans with disdain as "rubbish," (in his Notes on the State of Virginia), little has changed. Columnist Louis René Beres writes: "Upon even the most cursory examination, our foundational political history will reveal an utterly stark contempt for popular rule." Obama-Clinton & Clinton with their radical left agenda are the legacy of the hypocritical disdain of "ordinary" people by America's ruling elite. Clinton's Deplorables tag and Obama's supremacist exceptionalism sum up the same. The Democratic Party purports to be the Party of minorities and of the underprivileged whose rights are often violated or ignored. Socialism is, supposedly, humanistic. But it's a naïve, billboard view of the Democratic identity, starting with the fact that almost all major wars in the past 100 years were started by War Party presidents. Truman, a Democrat, is the only world leader who detonated nuclear weapons on civilian populations. Are higher taxes humanistic for those who work? The day after liberals are elected, their telephone numbers change, à la NY Senator Chuck Schumer, who is on record for making the fastest telephone number switch. How he loves to escape addressing the needs of ordinary citizens! Good luck to the downtrodden in getting through to such defenders of democracy. The sober reality of the Democratic Party's cynicism was exposed in a comment made by Bill Clinton: "We can't be fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans," (USA Today, 03/11/93). Bill Clinton said it less than two months after he was sworn in as president. Oh, how countenances change after power paints over personalities and money struts into bank accounts. Unfortunately, imperium upstart types are the rule in democracies, not the exception. What is to become of America if the agenda of the radical left becomes America's agenda? It won't happen. That is, not unless the US becomes a dictatorship and a radical left junta takes over. We have witnessed the Trump miracle and, with it, the logical end of US democracy. Trump is not responsible for its end. Instead, it's democracy that has failed because of the intolerance of Obama and Clinton for any views but their own. The notion that majority rules doesn't work when the majority exerts its will on the minority's religious tenets or on traditional family values. As already underscored, compromise, the cornerstone of US democracy, becomes unworkable when the Godless impose their views on the sacred, making US institutions, largely, irrelevant. Trump won the presidency by a hair of a few states. But demographics don't bode well for conservative and traditional values because of migrants, who vote for the welfare state of the Democrats, and because of the radical left agenda that has monopolized the minds of university-educated youth, a success consistent with Hillary's efforts to radicalize educational and cultural entities. Much talk exists about the polarization of America, increasingly hostile relations, and the risk of civil war. Despite heightened passions, youth are not willing to die for a cause called Clinton. At least, not yet. A dictatorship can be a more effective form of government for business considering that the dictator is free to enact legislation without the restraints of Congress. If the economy is good, foreign wars aren't needed. Finally, the dictator is above money, considering that, he or she, is in power for life, so it's not necessary to steal from coffers or to stash away bribes for a rainy day. 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Last Hunter, The (UK - DVD R2)
Gabe Powers goes to war Italian style, and ponders whether war really is Hell...
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Antonio Margheriti was one of the true unsung heroes of Italian exploitation cinema. He was a true director for hire, but always managed to squeeze out some solid craftsmanship even when confronted with entirely asinine Italian brand cash-in scripts. Although not as visually vibrant as say, Bava or Argento, Margheriti (usually billed as Anthony M. Dawson) knew how to use a camera to tell a story. Best known among cineastes for his work on The Virgin of Nuremberg and Castle of Blood, Margheriti's most famous work ended up tied in controversy, insuring he never received any credit. I am referring to his work on the Andy Warhol produced, Paul Morrissey 'directed' Blood for Dracula and Flesh for Frankenstein, both of which may or may not have been ghost directed by Margheriti due to inexperience on Morrissey's part.
Italy, if you didn't know already, used to have a thriving film market, most of which was flooded with knock offs of popular American films, though sometimes the Italians were content to rip each other off. In the late '70s and early '80s, the hottest commodities in the grindhouse were zombies, cannibals, and Vietnam vets. American films The Deer Hunter, First Blood, and Apocalypse Now were two especially popular films in the region. In 1980 Margheriti would direct three films, and two of them would be Vietnam War themed, Cannibal Apocalypse and The Last Hunter.
Cannibal Apocalypse is easily my personal favourite film of the Italian cannibal cycle, but I admit the film shares little in common with the sub-genre's usual narrative, which sees 'civilized' Americans somehow loosing themselves in the 'savage' land of cannibals, only to be eaten alive. Cannibal Apocalypse has much more in common with First Blood(which didn't come out in movie form until 1982, though the novel had already been for ten years), and basically about the post-traumatic stress of soldiers returning from Vietnam, the only twist being that these particular soldiers have also been infected with a rabies like disease that causes them to crave human flesh. The original Italian title was Apocalypse domani, which literally translates to Apocalypse Tomorrow, making the title an obvious play on that of Francis Ford Coppola's film.
The Last Hunter is a play on the title of Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter, but the film itself ends up foreshadowing the continued adventures of John Rambo in Rambo: First Blood Part 2 (the one written by James Cameron, not the one where Stallone fights alongside the Taliban). Fulci favourite David Warbeck (a man who sadly missed out on the American B-career of contemporary John Saxon, who he shared a lot in common) plays Captain Henry Morris, a man filed down by the horrors of war who's sent to destroy a Viet-Cong radio tower broadcasting discouraging words to already discouraged American soldiers. Morris is dropped in enemy territory and meets up with his special squad of tough-guys, who are joined by American photojournalist Jane Foster, played by Italian grindhouse fav and sister of Mia, Tisa Farrow.
Foster at first seems only to fulfil two of the basic tenements of Italian exploitation, the need for a recognizable American actress in what well should be an all male story, and the unexplained need for some kind of reporter or photojournalist, which is a sort of unexplained Italian screenwriter's obsession of the era. Between Warbeck and a slew of surprisingly entertaining character actors, I didn't expect much from Farrow in the role, especially considering her normally flat acting. Somehow Margheriti manages to both make her an important character to the story, and pull a decent performance out of the usually sub-par performer. But this wasn't the only surprise The Last Hunter had in store for me.
Any fan of Italian exploitation can usually expect two things out of the best of these films, decent cinematography and some juicy, if not crude gore effects. My exposure to Italian action cinema is sorely lacking, and considering the film's notorious reputation for graphic violence I was game for the viewing. The first thing I noticed was the lack of truly graphic violence. Sure there's some guts, squibs, and missing limbs here and there, but nothing as graphic as say Saving Private Ryan or Black Hawk Down. Despite the films cash-in roots and small budget, Margheriti actually managed to make a dramatic and surprisingly realistic account of what life in the jungles of Vietnam may've been like. As the film progressed I found myself more interested in the plot than the promise of icky gore effects.
The film is unmistakably crude to be sure, but the director's grasp of how to shoot an action sequence actually rivals that of some the big-budget American releases of the era. The action isn't non-sequential either; it furthers the plot in most cases. Around the middle point Morris and his motley crew take refuge in a cave outpost run by an old fashion Major played by Argento alumni John Steiner. Steiner's crew is full of wartime stereotypes, and are hard to distinguish from one another, but manage to feel real enough to accept, and even root for. This second act offers Margheriti and screenwriter Dardano Sachetti a chance to relax on the action and deal with some of the social and psychological issues facing soldiers during a lost war, and adds some actual weight to Morris' quest to destroy the radio tower, as some of Steiner's men are listening to the propaganda station. Whether such stations were actually a problem during the war is inconsequential.
Of course everything is oversimplified to a degree, and the allegories are heavy handed as all hell, but when you go into a film expecting little the stuff you come away with can much more rewarding. The Last Hunter isn't what any realistic critic would call a classy film, but there's enough action (including some breathtaking helicopter stunts), wacky, sideways camera angles, and actual plot here to keep most of us interested for the entire ninety-two minute runtime. My best advice is to watch it back to back with Cannibal Apocalypse, as it could be seen as a thematic prequel.
According to the best darn collection of DVD comparisons on the internet, DVDCompare.net, this is the only official English language release of The Last Hunter (I've found some cover scans of what appear to be 'budget' releases). Unfortunately, only the Germans get anamorphic versions of the film. If you speak German, seek out either of their German language only releases. If you're like me, you're stuck with this Vipco release.
The video quality isn't awful, but it's definitely not anything to write home about ('Dear Mom, you've got to see this DVD transfer. It's the bomb. Love, Your Son'). First off, it's not anamorphic, which is an automatic bummer. The print itself is damaged, housing a variable cornucopia of artefacts. The overall image quality is acceptable as detail levels are high enough to tell what's going on, though sometimes action still disappears into blackness. Some care was put into this transfer, obviously, or else it'd look like a VHS tape, but there is a definite lack of quality, and a lot of room for improvement.
The real problem with this disc isn't the video transfer, but the soundtrack. As the film begins the soundtrack kicks in with such a distorted and poppy thud that it almost sounds like a needle being dropped on a three decade old record. Things get better after that, but only just. A surround track would've been unnecessary, but this mono track is shockingly flat and muddled. Voices reverberate and sound as if they've been pitched up a half octave (perhaps due to PAL speed-up). Things never get so bad that one can't understand the dialogue, but the popping rarely lets up.
The relatively bare-bones disc includes a full filmography of the three top American actors and Margheriti, some trailers for other Vipco releases ( Cannibal Holocaust, Mountain of the Cannibal God, Psychic Killer, and Shogun Assassin), and a image gallery.
I watched The Last Hunter expecting enjoyable garbage, but underestimated exploitation king Margheriti, who crafted an effective Vietnam action adventure. There's some decent acting, some clever dialogue, more explosions than the average Italian cash-in, and best of all, an intriguing plot. This is B-grade filmmaking, and money was the sole motivation, but fans of exploitation flicks will eat it up. Hopefully Anchor Bay or Blue Underground will get the rights for a region one release sometime in the near future.
You can purchase this, and other Margheriti films from my friends at Xploitedcinema.com
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No way!!! I remember watching this on TV as one of those "????day Night Movies". It was actually pretty good. I'd buy it if it came to R1.
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Reminds me of that fantastic film - "Treasures of the 4 Crowns".....
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Disc Details
Release Date: 17th June 2002
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, single layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono English
Subtitles: None
Extras: Trailers, Filmographies, Still Gallery
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Antonio Margheriti
Cast: David Warbeck, Tisa Farrow, Tony King, Bobby Rhodes, John Steiner, Margit Evelyn Newton
Genre: War
Length: 92 minutes
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On March 3, 1945, Pfc. Alfred Campbell scribbled a quick note to his new bride. From the intimate and affectionate tone, there's no doubt this is a love letter — but one written from a howling abyss.
"After eleven days of unmitigated hell, by the grace of God you still have a husband," the Marine wrote from Iwo Jima, combat still raging about him. "You've no doubt read all about this battle so I won't tell you anything because frankly Sweetstuff there are a lot of things I wouldn't want to remember."
In war or peace, love notes never go out of style; expect a blizzard of them Thursday, Valentine's Day. But World War II may have marked the high tide for a certain genre, the letter that was SWAK (Sealed With A Kiss). In the absence of cell or satellite phones, text messaging or Skype, Facebook or Twitter, lovers relied on passionate prose.
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"We packed so much into our time together," she said.
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"My dearest love, remember the telephone serenade with 'All the Things You Are?' " Alfred asked. "Well God has granted me them and now ALL the LOVELY things you are, are MINE!"
This letter is dated Nov. 21, 1944. Nine days earlier, Alfred and Dora had married in San Bernardino. They had a magical three-day honeymoon — "heaven on earth," Alfred described it — in Los Angeles. Then, Alfred resumed combat training at Camp Pendleton.
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War has a way of altering plans. Today, Lorna and Jack Ross are an old married couple — 96 and 97, respectively — sharing a room in a La Jolla assisted living home. But 70 years ago, Jack Ross and Lorna Baikie were singles in Honolulu. Jack, a sailor whose destroyer was being repaired in Pearl Harbor, proposed marriage to Lorna late in 1941.
Lorna, then a clerk at Pearl's exchange, declined. "It wasn't him," she said. "I just wasn't ready."
Then came Dec. 7. While they had escaped uninjured from Japan's sneak attack, Jack and Lorna were reminded that life is unpredictable. "After Pearl Harbor," she said, "we jumped to it."
Following a hasty Honolulu honeymoon, Jack went to submarine school and then on patrols beneath the Pacific. Parted for 18 months, the newlyweds wrote often. The mail, though, delivers bad news as well as good. Jack recalled a friend who dumped a stateside girlfriend by letter, writing that he had fallen for a local woman in port.
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Such exchanges could consume weeks, even months. Mail service on the front lines was sporadic, and days of silence could be followed by a flood of envelopes. On Iwo Jima one day, Pfc. Campbell received 16 letters — six from Dora, four from his mother and the rest from relatives and friends. For the embattled Marine, this was a tonic.
"Darling," Alfred wrote back, "every time I get one of your sweet letters something surges within me, and I seem to be lifted up into the stratospheric heights."
Conversely, a day without mail could plunge troops into a funk. La Jolla's Rita and Tim O'Neil are both World War II veterans — he trained Navy fliers while she was an Army nurse who tended wounded GIs in Europe. Their tree-shaded house is filled with paintings, family portraits and souvenirs from active, fulfilling lives.
"We've been so lucky," Rita said.
But her letters to Tim from a hospital train are drenched in melancholy.
"I feel very, very lonesome tonight. I know I'd be about the happiest girl in the world if I could spend this one last night with you," she wrote on Army Nurse Corps stationery. "Everyone's quite blue — singing sad songs like 'I'll Be Seeing You — in the Far Future' etc. and I feel so much like I did that last night I saw you. Remember! Please keep loving me, and write — it means so much."
This letter is dated Dec. 16, 1944. It's the first day of the Battle of the Bulge, a 40-day ordeal that would test the U.S. Army, including Rita's 78th Hospital Train Unit. The Germans finally were hurled back, then pursued across the Rhine by allied forces — including nurses. Three months later, inside Germany, Lt. Rita Tefft sounded exhausted.
"I'm so dirty, none of us (4 nurses on train) have had a bath, shower or enough hot water and time to wash for a good 2 1/2 weeks," she wrote. "Then too — mail — we haven't been back to headquarters for quite a while so no mail — that has a lot to do with this lonely mood I'm in."
Alfred Campbell and Dora Andrade met at a party, when he was 14 and she was nine. The Campbells and Andrades had mutual friends and the children found they had mutual interests. Both were of Mexican descent, children of divorced parents whose mothers had found happiness in their respective second marriages. Both loved dancing and languages — besides English and Spanish, Alfred was fluent in French and spoke a smattering of Italian and Portuguese.
And Alfred, even as a teen, loved girls.
"Well, look at him!" Dora said, pointing to a black-and-white photo of Alfred in his 20s. "He was gorgeous."
Alfred often visited Dora's family in Lake Arrowhead, always teasing the younger girl. But when she turned 17, his tone changed.
"I'm serious!" he told Dora over the phone one night. "You are not taking me seriously!"
He asked her out; she accepted. They jived to recordings of Glenn Miller and tangoed to Xavier Cugat — "a mean tango," Dora recalled. He shared his dreams of joining the U.S. foreign service. By the time Alfred left Southern California to study at McGill University in Montreal, Dora was head over heels — and not just on the dance floor.
Then the war came and Alfred enlisted in the Marines. After basic training, he was sent to Hawaii and then the Solomon Islands, arriving at that archipelago soon after the fighting had ended on Guadalcanal. By 1944, he had returned to Camp Pendleton. Off duty, he courted Dora in person. When in his barracks, he courted her by mail.
One of those notes, jotted in midsummer 1944, described Alfred's plans for his next leave: "I may even propose to you. WOW!"
He did. But their plans for a six-month engagement were shattered in October when Alfred received orders to deploy. Less than a month later, on Nov. 12, 1944, the couple were wed during a Mass in St. Bernardine's Catholic Church in San Bernardino. Alfred wore his dress uniform, Dora a white gown with a long train.
They spent their three-day honeymoon at Los Angeles' ritzy Biltmore Hotel, venturing out to dance to Cugat's band at Ciro's, a nightclub in West Hollywood.
"That was Alfred's surprise for me," Dora said. "We danced — it was just a wonderful night."
In February 1945, Alfred landed on a volcanic island 750 miles south of Tokyo. In the chaos of fighting on Iwo Jima, he was separated from friends in his unit. Weeks later, he found one in a field hospital. But, he wrote Dora on April 1, "so many of my 'buddies' lie beneath a cross on Iwo Jima.
"God's goodness in sparing me, I am sure, was an answer to your many prayers. I want you to know I appreciate your storming of heaven in my behalf."
Alfred was spared on Iwo Jima — "this Godforsaken island," he called it, where 6,800 Americans died — and survived the war. But pains in his back plagued him when he was discharged from the Marines in April 1946. He took a job in Arizona, helping the U.S. Department of Agriculture run an early "guest worker" program. But his ailments eventually led him to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, where doctors found cancer.
He died in March 1947.
"Once he was diagnosed," Dora said, "he went quickly.
"That was the love of my life. Our life together was cut so short, but we had so many plans."
All those plans — careers, children, travel — had they been in vain? After burying Alfred, Dora retreated to her room, wishing only for sleep: "I thought I might see him in my dreams." But family and friends pulled her from this depression, and later Dora thrived as an office manager and a human resources specialist.
In 1966, she adopted an infant girl. As a single mother, she raised Celia Campbell.
She never married again. "I was no saint," Dora said. "I had plenty of boyfriends, but it just never happened."
At 88, she is trim and healthy. She seems in good spirits, but Alfred's birthday or their anniversary can bring on waves of sadness. On those occasions, she opens that overstuffed binder.
The first page sets the tone. It is a note Dora wrote to her departed husband, embracing "your enduring words that are so like you — the loving, vital man who was mine, all mine.
"These will comfort me until that happy event when we will be reunited in eternity."
This is a love letter, written from a place of sadness and enduring devotion.


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3740 Random LaneSacramento, CA 95864
4Full Baths
2Half Baths
Extraordinary New Price. A classic 2-story signature home on park-like setting. Main floor living boasts parquet & travertine floors, soaring ceilings & master suite w/fireplace, expansive bath with 2 walk-in closets. Upstairs are 3 en suite bedrooms plus bonus room w/spacious walk-in attic. Majestic French doors open to gazebo w/built-in gas grill, pool & exercise room w/sauna. Lush grounds w/detailed, yet natural landscaping.
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- Subtype
- 1 House on Lot
- Approx Lot Size
- 0.870
- Year Built
- 1985
- Stories
- 2
- Fireplaces
- 3
- Garage Spaces
- 3
- Pool
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- 18000598
- Tudor
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- 3 Car Attached
- Area
- Sacto Arden Arcade Creek Vicinit
- Area ID
- 10864
- County
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- Cross Street
- La Playa Way
- Elementary District
- San Juan Unified
- Junior High District
- San Juan Unified
- Senior High District
- San Juan Unified
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Energy Features
- Dual Pane Partial
Miscellaneous Features
- BBQ Built-In
- Courtyard Covered
- Sauna
Existing FinancingTreat as Clear
TermsCash, Conventional
- Central
- Central
- Meter Required
- Public District
- 220 Volts
- All Public
- Natural Gas
- In and Connected
Master Baths
- Closet Walk-In 2+
- Double Sinks
- Multiple Shwr Heads
- Outside Access
- Shower Stall(s)
Additional Bath Options
- Double Sinks
- Outside Access
- Shower Stall(s)
- Tub w/Shower Over
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- 220 Volt Hook-Up
- Cabinets
- Gas Hook-Up
- Inside Room
- Sink
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- Living Room
- Master Suite
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- Formal Area
- Formal Room
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- Carpet
- Wood
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- Downstairs Bedroom
- Home Office Room
- Separate Family Room
- Wine Storage Area
Pool LocationOn Lot
- Raised
- Frame
- Brick
- Sprinkler Auto F&R
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The streets are spacious and tree-lined with palatial homes and manicured lawns. Residents have taken such pride in their community that the homeowners' association puts on their own Fourth of July parade, where neighbors come on bikes, skateboards, carts, and Model Ts adorned in red, white and blue streamers, balloons, and flags. They make their way through the neighborhood, stopping midway for homemade root beer, and culminating at Windmere Park, where the festivities continue with a watermelon feed, pie-eating contest, and a three-legged race.
Comprised mainly of larger, aesthetically appealing ranch houses and cottages, the neighborhood is in a world of its own amidst the city's premier shopping areas. A Whole Foods is just around the corner, and the Pavilions Shopping Center and Loehman's Plaza are situated just blocks, yet seemingly worlds, away – convenient yet unobtrusive. For dining, there's an eclectic row of restaurants on Fair Oaks Boulevard between Morse and Howe.
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Before & After: Nicole's Painted Cabinet Interiors
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- About my kitchen reveal:
- Stripped the contact paper and linoleum (really) from inside the kitchen cabinets, painted EVERYTHING. That includes the hardware that couldn't be replaced because nothing is standardized in our 1941 kitchen.
Knocked out the useless backsplash in favor of white subway tile with black grout, glued galvanized sheet metal behind the stove. This is a small kitchen, so I added a stainless prep table next to the stove. It's our first home, so we couldn't afford much, especially as both the dying refrigerator and range hood had to be replaced immediately, but the small upgrades with an eye toward function and aesthetics make for a big impact.
- My best tip for a successful kitchen makeover::
- Never underestimate a prior tenant's abilities to do poor work. If someone can paint over multiple layers of contact paper, they will. Be prepared for a simple paint stripping job to take much longer.
But the good news is that poor finishing details will result in the "backsplash" being back-buttered with a minimum of mastic, so not so much patching to do after removal. Yes, this was my first time tiling and I loved it. Grout, on the other hand...
- My favorite meal to cook in my kitchen::
- Now that I have a functional and clean space, I love to cook Spanish food--I'm no longer cleaning splattered olive oil off of paint!


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Friday, 08 March 2013 05:11 AM
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya's drawn-out race for president was coming down to the wire on Friday, with the leading candidate hovering right at the 50 percent mark needed to avoid a runoff with his top challenger. Security forces eager to maintain peace began appearing in the street.
As the last ballots came in, the percentage held by Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta flipped and flopped over the 50 percent line. His opponent, Prime Minister Raila Odinga, needed a strong performance in the remaining ballots to force a second round runoff.
Kenya's capital, Nairobi, has been sleepy since Monday's vote for president, the country's first election since its 2007 vote sparked tribe-on-tribe violence that killed more than 1,000 people. But groups of security forces in riot gear took to the streets Friday in regions of the city that could turn tumultuous after results are announced.
At the national tallying center, agents for Odinga began getting rowdy, interrupting officials who were reading out election results. They accused the commission of making up some figures, echoing allegations by Odinga's camp on Thursday that some figures had been doctored. The election commission denied the allegations.
"They are adding figures to Uhuru and subtracting from Raila, and we will show the proof. I have completely lost faith in this thing," said Frederick Odhiambo, one of the Odinga agents.
Eight candidates ran for president, so if any of the bottom six captures a significant portion of the outstanding ballots, that could also push Kenyatta below 50 percent.
A Kenyatta win could have far-reaching consequences with Western relations. The son of Kenya's founding father, Kenyatta faces charges at the International Criminal Court for his role in directing some of the 2007 postelection violence.
The U.S. has warned of "consequences" if Kenyatta is to win, as have several European countries. Britain, which ruled Kenya up until the early 1960s, has said they would only have essential contact with a President Kenyatta.
The U.S. Embassy in Kenya is larger than any American mission in Africa, underscoring Kenya's strong role in U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. also has military forces stationed here near the border with Somalia. Kenya, the lynchpin of East Africa's economy, plays a vital security role in the fight against Somali militants.
Kenyatta's ICC trial is set to begin in July and could take years, meaning that if he wins he may have to rule Kenya from The Hague for the first half of his presidency. Another option is, as president, to decide not to go. But that decision would trigger an international arrest warrant and spark even more damaging effects for Kenya's standing with the West.
Kenyatta has promised to report to The Hague even if he wins the presidency.
Whether or not Kenyatta finishes with over half of the votes, most observers expected legal challenges to be launched after a myriad of failures in the systems Kenya's electoral commission set up.
The first problems were evident right as the voting began early Monday. An electronic voter ID system intended to prevent fraud failed across the country for lack of electricity in some cases and overheating computers in others. Vote officials instead used manual voter rolls.
After the polls closed, results were to be sent electronically to Nairobi, where officials would quickly tabulate a preliminary vote count in order to maximize transparency after rigging accusations following the 2007 vote.
But that system failed too. Election officials have indicated that computer servers overloaded but have yet to fully explain the problem.
On Tuesday, as the early count system was still being used, election results showed more than 330,000 rejected ballots, an unusually high number.
But after the count resumed with the arrival in Nairobi of manual tallies, the number of rejected ballots had dropped to almost nothing, and the election commission on Thursday gave the head-scratching explanation that the computer was mistakenly multiplying the number of rejected ballots by a factor of eight.
Odinga's camp on Thursday said some votes had been doctored and called for a halt to the tallying process. It said the tallying process "lacked integrity." A day earlier, Kenyatta's camp accused the British high commissioner of meddling in the election and asked aloud why there were an unusually high number of British troops in the country.
The election commission said it expected to have final results by the end of Friday, though observers said it was still possible the count would go into the weekend.
There were fears going into the election that the violence that rocked Kenya five years ago would return. A separatist group on the coast launched attacks on Monday that ended in the deaths of 19 people, but the vote and its aftermath has otherwise been largely peaceful.
However, it's the announcement of results that could stir protests, especially if the supporters of either Odinga or Kenyatta feel robbed. Diplomats say that the public reaction to an election loss by the losing candidate will set the tone for whether violence breaks out.
The political battle between the families of Kenyatta and Odinga goes back to the 1960s and to the two candidates' fathers. Jomo Kenyatta was Kenya's first president after the end of British colonial rule. Jaramogi Oginga Odinga served as the country's first vice president then. The two later had a falling out.
If a runoff is declared, it would be most likely held in late April, depending on how long legal challenges take.
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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly Look Back at 2012 - The annual look back at the top religion stories of the past year, including religion's role in the presidential election, faith-based divisions over economic policy, the rising number of people with no religious affiliation, and ongoing turmoil in the Middle East. Host Bob Abernethy, R&E Managing Editor Kim Lawton, Washington Post columnist EJ Dionne and Religion News Service Editor-in-Chief Kevin Eckstrom analyze the trends and events that made news in 2012. D
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Poet W.D. Snodgrass Dies
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, William DeWitt (W.D.) Snodgrass died Tuesday after a 4-month battle with inoperable lung cancer. January 5 was his 83rd birthday. In 1960, Snodgrass won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his first book, Heart's Needle. The poetry of Heart's Needle expressed the angst he felt after losing custody of his daughter in […]Read more


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Posted 18 November 2012 - 08:15 PM
Just wanted to share with the community the arrival of our son, Joshua Masuo Thorpe was born here in Bali by way of a Water Birth ceremony held at a specialized clinic in the Renon area of Denpasar. Hitting the scalles at 3.2Kg and standing 51cm tall he entered stage right on November 14th 2012 at 18.25pm. I would have posted before but have spent the past four days running around with the paperwork issues during the working hours and covered in a complete selection of projectile launched body fluids during the evenings! Did anyone say sleepless? But fun...
Mum and baby doing fine. Hoping to get a video camera in his mitts as soon as possible....
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Posted 19 November 2012 - 01:00 AM
Haha yeah Dave, working on that. Cheers.
Congratulations Mark!
Soon you'll have a Mini Mark Thorpe DP for shoots
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CONGRATULATIONS MARK!!! Good things happen to good people!
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I buy my own photographic kit. Diving equipment manufacturers and diving services suppliers get even-handed treatment from me whether they choose to advertise in the publications I write for or not. All the equipment I get on loan is returned as soon as it is finished with. Did you know you can now get Diver Mag as an iPad/Android app?
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Cheers Adam, appereciated fella.
Congratulations to you both!
Thanks Alex, we're getting there, hope all is well with you.
Congratulations Mark! Great to hear the family is doing well. Alex
Haha, right on John, would love to get the nipper in the water asap, housed or other!
You'll be needing housing for that! Well done! It seems like only yesterday my teenagers were like that!
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Toasted Panzanella Salad with Tomatoes and Fennel
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Source: Hotel Valley Ho
Salads are a satisfying way to get those necessary servings of fruits, vegetables and grains. This recipe—also know as "bread salad"—is also thrifty, as it uses up leftover, day-old bread. Tossed with aromatic vegetables and herbs and just enough dressing to moisten, it makes for a healthy menu item.
4 to 6 oz. sourdough bread with crust, preferably day old, cut into ¾-in. cubes
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil, divided
2 tbsp. pine nuts, toasted
3 to 4 tomatoes, cores removed, cut into 3/4-in. cubes
1 small fennel bulb, very thinly sliced (about 10 oz. minus the top)
1/2 small red onion, very thinly sliced
1/4 cup black olives (kalamata or Gaeta) pitted and cut in slivers
1/4 cup basil leaves, loosely packed, torn
1 tbsp. white balsamic vinegar
1 clove garlic, chopped
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- Preheat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, toss bread with 2 tbsp. of the olive oil. Spread bread on baking sheet; bake10 to 12 min. or until nicely toasted.
- Return toasted bread cubes to bowl. Add pine nuts, tomatoes, fennel, onion, olives and basil.
- In small bowl, whisk vinegar with remaining 2 tbsp. olive oil. Add garlic; season dressing with salt and pepper. Pour dressing over salad. Toss and let stand for 5 min.; check seasoning and serve.