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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
FROM THE MAN WHO BROUGHT YOU SOLYNDRA: More Laughable Lies and Phony Numbers for a Failed Economy
Energy Policy: The president falsely claims that the jobs created by the pipeline from Canada would be but a "blip relative to the need," ignoring his own State Department and the unions that support him.
The newspaper's transcript of the interview showed Obama chuckling dismissively as he made his point.
Then on Tuesday, in a jobs speech in Chattanooga, the president ratcheted that number downward. "They keep on talking about this — an oil pipeline coming down from Canada that's estimated to create about 50 permanent jobs. That's not a jobs plan."
No, Mr. President, it's part of a plan to boost an economy that will create private-sector jobs, as your own State Department has told you.
After five years of review and many studies, the State Department found that "including direct, indirect and induced effects, the proposed (Keystone) project would potentially support approximately 42,100 average annual jobs across the United States over a one- to two-year construction period."
HOUSE REPORT: Holder Lied to Congress, But Please Don't Let That Stop the Amnesty and Obamacare Trains!
House Republicans released a report Wednesday and "formally accused" Attorney General Eric Holder of misleading Congress with his "deceptive" testimony back in May, Fox News reported.
After reporting their findings, lawmakers sent a letter to President Obama saying they have "grave concerns" about Holder and called for a "change in leadership" at the Department of Justice.
Holder, testifying before the Judiciary Committee on May 15 on DOJ leaks investigations, said he "knew nothing" about the "potential prosecution" of Fox News reporter James Rosen, when actually, it was reported later, Holder himself approved the warrant for Rosen's email communications.
"With regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material, that is not something that I have ever been involved, heard of, or would think would be a wise policy," Holder then testified to the Judiciary Committee.
However, a House committee investigation concluded Holder's testimony was "deceptive and misleading."
Translation: Holder lied under oath, which -- last I checked -- was a crime.
I'll believe the House is serious when they act serious. Schmucks.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
Larwyn's Linx: 6 Reasons Why De-Funding Obamacare Is A Good Strategy
Nation6 Reasons Why De-Funding Obamacare Is A Good Strategy: Lisa Mathews
Stop the Train—We Want to Get Off: William Kristol
Cruz says this is the last chance to get rid of Obamacare: Alexis Levinson
Tea Party Trio Calls for Defunding Obamacare on Senate Floor: Sterling Beard
Shutdown showdown over ObamaCare gains steam from right: Elise Viebeck
Weiner Wedge: Clintons and Huma at odds?: Shoebat
The return of GOP open-borders saboteur Spencer Abraham: Michelle Malkin
Amnesty bill: McCain says 'border surge' could be changed: Seung Min Kim
Chicago Gun Confiscation Underway: Outcast
EconomyMoonbat Math: Dave Blount
Detroit, Is That You? Chicago In Big Trouble: Walter Russell Mead
Local paper ahead of Obama's visit: "Take your jobs plan and shove it": Hot Air
McDonalds Math, Or, Latest Lib Talking Points Fail: JOM
Proof: Government Shutdown Won't Hurt Military or Vets: Dean Clancy
Georgia Insurance Rates Spike Under Obamacare: Andrew Evans
Scandal CentralState Official Waited 20 Hours on Benghazi Roof for Help: Keith Koffler
Not forgotten: #Benghazi tweetfest draws attention back to 'phony scandal': Twitchy
While Obama and Hillary Slept, Injured Benghazi Hero David Ubben Left on Rooftop for 20 Hours: Kyle Becker
Great News: Obama Hiring 'Behavioral Insights Team' to 'Nudge' You Into State-Approved Behavior : JWF
Nancy Pelosi must resign from the House over Bob Filner coverup: Moe Lane
From your Facebook passwords to Section 8 housing… why Barack Obama should be impeached: Flopping Aces
Climate & EnergyOverstuffed Private Jet Aficionado Al Gore is Training 1,500 Leaders for 'Climate Crisis' Push: AWR Hawkins
Obama Mocks Keystone Pipeline As "Not A Jobs Plan": Erika Johnsen
Infographic of the day: Sec. Kerry is killing the Earth trying to save the Middle East: Mary Katharine Ham
MediaI've way past the point of being tired of Karl Rove.: Marooned In Marin
Liberalism Makes It Easier to be Bad: Dennis Prager, RWN
Rand Paul has tough words for Chris Christie: Breitbart
Weiner Sexting Partner: "He Was A Needy Little Bitch": WZ (NSFW)
Intern reveals reasons for joining Weiner campaign: NYDN
Weiner Spokeswoman Apologizes for 'Slutbag' Tirade Against Ex-Intern: Politicker
Sarah Palin on defunding Obamacare: If you're gonna go down, go down swinging: Scoop
Urban Violence Summit Erupts in Violence: Kevin Jackson
Mark Levin on with Neil Cavuto to discuss Obama's 'phony' scandals, Chris Christie and more: Scoop
WorldHow to Lose a War: A Primer: Chicago Boyz
China's Military Preparing for 'People's War' in Cyberspace, Space: Bill Gertz, WFB
U.S. intelligence: Al Qaida plotting attacks on U.S. civilian jetliners: WorldTrib
Illegal Alien Detention Center in AZ Has Hundreds From Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan...: MagNote
The Vast Hillary Clinton Conspiracy: Lachlan Markay, WFB
Unreal: Obama Releases Five Top Taliban Detainees From Gitmo As Goodwill Gesture To The Taliban: WZ
5 Reasons Republicans Lose Elections Wrapped Up In The Amnesty Bill: John Hawkins
Playing for Islam Against Ourselves: Sultan Knish
Christians Murdered Nonstop in Nigeria: Raymond Ibrahim, Gatestone
Sci-TechHow Scientists Hacked a Normal Microscope Into a Gigapixel Superscope: Jamie Condliffe, Gizmodo
Samsung Galaxy S4 cheats on benchmark tests: Ace
Former Google Maps founder and Facebook CTO launches mobile word processor called Quip: Mike Beasley
CornucopiaThe Heroic American Life of George "Bud" Day: Matthew Hennessey
July 30, 1945: The USS Indianapolis, CA-35: Ace
The Most Important Life Lesson Older People Want Younger Ones to Know: LifeHacker
Image: Infographic of the day: Sec. Kerry is killing the Earth trying to save the Middle East
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Sign the Petition: Don't Fund It!
QOTD: "Sometimes you just have to do what is right. If we don't fight for this, then MSNBC has won, Obama and his Chicago thuggery have won, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and their dishonest cram-down-our-throats tactics have won, and who we are as a party (or as a nation) may never be the same. There is a time for compromise, and that time has passed. The President didn't compromise when he forced his will on the American people with this bloated takeover of the health care industry. We cannot compromise as we fight back." --Lisa Mathews
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
The High Price of Ignorance
It's an iron law of nature as certain as the one about an angel getting its wings every time a bell rings or a snowstorm blanketing the area every time Al Gore comes to town to remind the carbon puffing infidels about Global Warming; every time Obama gives a speech, a thousand businesses go out of business.
An Obama speech is a familiar quality that even the scribblers whose limbs once tingled at the touch of the teleprompter have developed a callous contempt for its reflexively dishonest "Let me be clears" and the infinite "I's" that roll off its assembly line speechmakers.
An economics speech, a creature that Barack Obama has been unleashing from his political zoo on the taxpayers, lawmakers and layabouts since his post-election days in 2008 of pretending to be president complete with an imaginary seal with the motto "Vero Possumus" (which can be translated very loosely as "God Help Us All"), is an entirely familiar breed.
It's an FDR-on-crack assemblage of crackpot social plans masquerading as economic plans and homey testaments to American exceptionalism wrapped around bankrupt Euro ideas about how to run a country into the ground. And in the year 2013, the whole thing smells like last year's leftovers.
The Unappreciated Genius Doug Mataconis Says Ted Cruz is "Foolish" for Trying to Stop the Obamacare Trainwreck
Cruz's advice requires anyone who follows it to ignore political reality to a significant degree. For one thing, 2013 is not 1995, and the Republican Party, especially in its Congressional incarnation, is not viewed nearly as positively today as it was nearly 20 years ago.
Gee, Doug, ya think it has anything to do with the fact that the Republican Party in its current state stands for absolutely nothing? Tell me, Doug, what does it stand for? Lower taxes? No. Secure borders? No. Investigating the Obama administration's unprecedented series of scandals? No.
Of course the Republican Party is unpopular. It spends its energy fighting the same conservative base that brought it to power in 2010 in an unprecedented beatdown of Democrats nationwide rather than the Marxist Left that is Cloward-Pivenizing the country into bankruptcy. And instead of embracing fiscal conservatism, the Tea Party, and First Principles, it repudiates them.
Its marble-mouthed "leaders" like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell have all the charisma of your average houseplant.
So, Sherlock Mataconis, if you're looking for reasons that the GOP is unpopular, perhaps you could add one (the far left Democrat kook movement) and one (the conservative base) and you'll come up with two (the answer).
More importantly, though, Cruz is making the same mistake that Republicans made in 1995, and which they have made several times already in the four years that President Obama has been President. He believes that by taking the Federal Government to the brink, they can somehow turn the tables and make the public believe that it's President Obama who's at fault for the fact that the Government has been, or is about to be shut down. They tried in in the Spring of 2011 when the government was about to run out of money, they tried it in July and August of that year with the battle over the debt ceiling, and they've tried it several times since then.
How many shutdowns did the Republicans pull off? Oh, that's right: none. So comparing a shutdown to a Boehner surrender is like comparing monkeys to cashews.
Let me get this straight: the GOP passes a CR that funds the entire government except for the wildly unpopular and destructive Obamacare cluster -- and Obama blocks it, shutting down the government.
Who do you think gets the blame? Oh, that's right: Mataconis thinks Ted Cruz will.
In reality, the GOP will be viewed as heroes by roughly 60 percent of the electorate.
Best of all, Obama will be on the hook for actually making a decision: (a) either shutting down the cancerous federal leviathan that grows in good times and bad; or (b) funding the federal government and starving Obamacare.
Either way, Republicans win.
So if you're relying on Doug Mataconis for political advice, I'd recommend using a Ouija Board instead. It's bound to offer more reliable counsel and it has a better chance of outwitting Ted Cruz than Doug ever had.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
TRANSCRIPT: Mark Levin on Cavuto -- Obama's Scandals are Real, It's His Rhetoric That's Phony
This President could give a damn about serious investigations regarding the scandals swirling around his administration. And then his lackeys go on TV, including Fox News Sunday, and tell us there's no evidence? Their people plead the Fifth. The Attorney General doesn't conduct investigations.
And what's necessary is for the Republicans in the House to get their act together.
We don't need five separate House committees investigating Benghazi. We need one Special Investigative Commitee -- with former U.S. assistant attorneys and other types of prosecutors, who are serious people and have the resources necessary full-time to pursue these matters -- and put the information out on the table.
Same with the Internal Revenue Service investigation. We've got committees tripping over one another, claiming jurisdiction. Once again, we need experts, we need to pursue these things with a Special Investigative Committee.
And then the pressure builds for a Special Prosecutor. Even though Holder won't want to appoint one, over time enough information will come out where it will become necessary.
The President of the United States -- it's been almost a year -- will still not tell the American people what he was doing for eight-and-a-half hours after our consulate was attacked in Benghazi...
The President uses his word phony [to describe his scandals]. It's actually a perfect word for him, because his speeches are phony, his promises are phony, his economy is phony, the whole damn thing is phony.
Let me tell you something... from my point of view, once more, the Speaker of the House, he's in charge of organizing these investigations... and he won't. They're flopping around, they're navel-gazing... because they don't think there's anything political in this. They're playing rope-a-dope, they're playing it safe, they want to push through the next election.
Boehner wants to remain Speaker, Cantor Majority Leader... the point is, the fact is, if they'd been running effective investigations, one committee -- a joint committee -- with some of the sharpest, toughest individuals we know investigating Benghazi, we'd be to the bottom of this already.
Same with the IRS scandal. The president should be served with an interrogatory. It's been done before...
What is everybody talking about? Weiner's weiner, for God's sakes... The Trayvon Martin case, that went on for a month.
Meanwhile, we have an Internal Revenue Service that was illegally attacking United States citizens because of their politics, because of their political viewpoints, because of their religion. I mean, for crying out loud, if that doesn't raise an uproar... we have four Americans dead and the President of the United States is running all over the country and refuses to tell the American people what the hell he was doing for eight-and-a-half hours. I think he was sleeping. But he won't say.
We have this NSA -- massive gathering of telephone numbers -- basically nationalizing the phone companies' records as if that's going to fight terrorism...
[On Christie's support of the NSA program and attacks on Rand Paul] ...Maybe this Chris Christie can get in front of these 9/11 families and tell us how this NSA program would have saved a single life or prevented a single terrorist attack. You know how these terrorists got into this country? The border wasn't secure and they overstayed their visas. What is Chris Christie's position on that?
Christie's weak on Amnesty. So I think it's a mistake for him to use 9/11 to attack who he believes will be his political opponents in a Republican primary...
We conservatives have been fighting against the Republican establishment for half a century, whether they take the form of Chris Christie, or Romney... or Gerald Ford or Richard Nixon.
This country needs to move in a new direction, economically, Constitutionally, when it comes to our Bill of Rights.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
Larwyn's Linx: Cruz: Only the Grassroots Can Secure Victory in Obamacare Funding Fight
NationCruz: Only Grassroots Can Help De-Fund Obamacare: Breitbart
The Obama Presidency disintegrates: Dr. John
Coburn, Boehner and the Obamacare surrender monkeys: Erick Erickson
Barack Obama has crossed the constitutional Rubicon: Bryan Preston
Ponnuru and the the capitulation experts can pound sand: DEFUND!: Kuznicki
Defunding Obamacare: questions, answers, and excuses: Russ Vought
How embarrassing: Priebus tells Latinos, "The GOP has changed.": Kuznkick
Left-wing teacher's manual mixes mathematics with "social justice": EAG
Kentucky's Ted Cruz? : Katrina Trinko
EconomyDetroit to Dig Out of Bankruptcy By Shoving Retirees into ObamaCare: JWF
Still No WH Tours, but Parade of Special Visitors Continues: Keith Koffler
70 Straight Days: Treasury Says Debt Stuck at Exactly $16.699,396T: CNS
Obamacare Insurance Exchanges Headed for Failure: Jeff Carter
Howard Dean: "Palin was right about 'death panels'": Sister Toldjah
Broke, Liberal City Spending Half Billion on Hockey Arena: James Daniels
Scandal CentralLevin: Rove is Lying, Obamacare CAN be de-funded: Scoop
Jack Lew: I Haven't Investigated the 'Phony' IRS Scandal Because I Haven't Investigated It: Bryan Preston
Obama Administration Still Stonewalling on Delphi Pension Scandal: Mark Modica, NLPC
Climate & EnergyNatural Gas Is A Gangplank To Boiling The Earth Or Something: RWN
Saudi Prince: US Shale Threatening Our Economy: Walter Russell Mead
Best Thermageddon Scare Headline Ever: Oceans To Boil Dry: Soylent Refuge (NSFW)
Global Warming: It's Happening Again: RWN
North Pole refreezes, scientist says global warming not a factor: Rare
New Climate Deniers Blame Snow On, Yup, Global Warming: RWN
MediaPigs and Apples Why the Culture wars Matter: DaTechGuy
How Communists Manipulate Racial Issues – the "National Question": Trevor Loudon
Bill O'Reilly to 'Race Hustler' Al Sharpton: You Have Failed... Your Day Is Done!: GWP
Mountains, Mole Hills, Rush, and Hannity: Erick Erickson
Of course: MSM ignores ObamaCare call center story: Dan Calabrese
Noonan: Obama is at the "point where the American people stop listening": Erika Johnsen
PolitiFact Is Fiction: Palin's Prediction Of 'Death Panels' Was Accurate: Brian Carey, DownTrend
Why the government can't social-media the young into signing up for Obamacare: Moe Lane
WorldAccording to Dallas CAIR Director "Muslims are Above the Law": Girls Just Wanna Have Guns
U.S./Mexico 'Secure Border Fence' at Penitas, Texas: American Power
Militants attack Pakistani prison, freeing 250: Fox
Sci-TechSpy agencies ban Lenovo PCs on security concerns: AFR
The Vitamin Myth: Why We Think We Need Supplements: Atlantic
F-35 Still Faces 'Considerable' Risks: Auditors: Brendan McGarry, DefTech
CornucopiaREAD THE FIRST CHAPTER FROM THE LIBERTY AMENDMENTS: Mark Levin
The 10 Best Quotes From Tony Robbins' Unleash The Power Within Event In Chicago: RWN
Obamacare Update: Lean, Green & Very, Very Mean!: MOTUS
Image: MOTUS
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Call your Congressman now - Demand Obamacare Be De-funded!
QOTD: "For several years, Republican establishment types and their allies in the press have mocked conservatives for wanting an all or nothing strategy. They've said we have to be willing to compromise. So Mike Lee proposes a plan to fund the government except for the discretionary funding for Obamacare. The reaction of GOP leaders? They only want to support a plan that fully repeals Obamacare.
Conservatives have done what the GOP establishment wants. And now they attack us for compromising instead of going all or nothing?
We inch ever closer to a third party as Republican Leaders commit suicide by lie. The leadership willing to fight the base to pass a terrible immigration reform bill won't lift a finger to fight against Obamacare.
The best chance we, as conservative activists have, is to deliver the third party from within by picking off Republican establishment leaders in primaries. From Matt Bevin to Milton Wolf to Larry Rhoden to Rob Maness to so many others, it is time to disrupt the GOP in a last ditch effort to save it from itself." --Erick Erickson
Monday, July 29, 2013
Linking Thomas Jefferson To Mass-Murderer Ho Chi Minh A New Low, Even For Obama
History: Few comparisons have been as odious as the one offered by the president linking one of the great mass murderers of history to one of America's Founding Fathers and authors of our liberty.
They renounced their former brutality, acknowledged their guilt and shame, and became our strongest allies as they genuinely embraced liberty and democracy. They did not forget their past. They repudiated it.
Vietnam has never repudiated its past while celebrating a faux victory over an American enemy that was never defeated on the battlefield but only in the halls of a Congress that abandoned an ally and snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
President Obama met with his Vietnamese counterpart, President Truong Tan Sang, last Thursday in the same Oval office where LBJ picked bombing targets in a war he micromanaged into futility. The 44th president conveniently forgot Vietnamese history and slandered ours by linking a founder of our democracy, Thomas Jefferson, to the mass murderer Ho Chi Minh.
COLOR ME SHOCKED: Karl Rove Either Lying or Ignorant About How Obamacare Can Be De-Funded
Karl Rove Gets It Wrong on ObamaCare Defunding
Karl Rove has a piece at FoxNews titled "Republicans must resist game of chicken with president over ObamaCare." In it, the establishment's favorite political guru dispenses bad advice to grassroots conservatives, based on the assumption that defunding the health care law on a spending bill "won't work."
...Rove is basically saying, Look, 98 or 99 percent of ObamaCare is auto-pilot spending; but a CR is about something completely different: annually appropriated spending. Ergo, you can't stop more than 1 or 2 percent of ObamaCare on a CR.
That would be a valid argument, if its basic premise were true. But it isn't. What the "Don't Fund It" coalition (led by Senators Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and others) is proposing is that all ObamaCare funding -- including auto-pilot spending -- be cut off by means of a legislative "rider" containing specific prohibitory language forbidding any ObamaCare funding from occurring. This rider would be attached to the CR, widely regarded as a "must-pass" measure...
...This language is clear and comprehensive. Enacting it would bring ObamaCare to a complete and permanent halt...
Karl Rove is a nitwit whose ignorance is only exceeded by the tools who continue to put funds in his chubby little fingers. His "Crony Capitalist Republicanism" wasn't popular in the Bush era and it is certainly even less popular now.
He has no earthly idea how much energy the Republican Party would garner from the grassroots by taking a stand and actually fighting on principle, win or lose.
Related Reading for Karl Rove and other RINO Establishment Dimwits from the Heritage Foundation: DEFUNDING OBAMACARE: QUESTIONS & ANSWERS, EXCUSES & RESPONSES.
MEET MATT BEVIN: Mitch McConnell Faces a True Conservative Republican Challenger in Kentucky
In a heated primary, the outspokenly conservative Cruz beat Texas lieutenant governor David Dewhurst, who was the GOP-establishment favorite. The Cruz team slammed Dewhurst as someone who would "go along to get along." During his relatively short tenure in the Senate so far, Cruz has shown himself more willing to operate as a conservative outsider than a team player. That's the kind of role Bevin envisions for himself if he is sent to Washington.
Another politician Bevin admires is Representative Thomas Massie (R., Ky.). "Thomas Massie is awesome — I love Thomas," Bevin gushes. "He's one of the nine guys who had the cojones to vote against John Boehner" for House speaker, he explains. Massie might not share Bevin's passion for replacing McConnell, though. Earlier this year, asked about the possibility of a tea-party challenge to McConnell, Massie told Kentucky radio station WFPL: "My advice to people who are frustrated with Washington is that there's probably a better way to spend your time, effort, money, blood, sweat, and tears than trying to have Senator McConnell unelected. I think there are a lot better chances and better use of your time in terms of changing Washington, D.C."
Bevin is a veteran and a businessman. This is his first time running, but he's been politically active for decades. His conservative background led to the Madison Project's recent endorsement.
They said Ted Cruz couldn't beat David Dewhurst. They were wrong. They said Mike Lee and Rand Paul couldn't win. They were wrong. If you have a couple of spare bucks, consider helping Bevin.
Hysterical, Hyperbolic Leftist Media Falls for the Old "North Pole is Melting" Gag Again
Al Gore's "Reality Minions" think the North Pole is melting – except that's NOT a photo of the North Pole
...It isn't very hard to catch Al Gore and his Climate Reality project followers in ridiculous claims that don't hold up. For example there was his statement on national television where he claimed the temperature of the interior of the Earth was "millions of degrees" and then there is his "Climate 101″ video that failed so they had to fake the results in post production. None of his followers call him out on such things, so it isn't a surprise to find that they think this photo proves the North Pole is melting, far worse than before...
...Only one problem: that picture wasn't take at the North Pole, it was taken over 300 miles away.
You see while they were busy lecturing the faithful, they forgot the one teensy-eeensy little detail about the source of this photo. It is from camera on top of the sea ice, and sea ice isn't static, it moves. In fact according to the University of Washington who manages and tracks these floating cameras and weather stations, while they started out near the North Pole, they aren't anywhere close to it now. See the map:
Oh, my. Well that certainly is embarrassing. But the hapless Leftists didn't just stop there.
That was enough to spur the sans-factually emotive Huffington Post into action with a before and after comparator:
...Of course, like the Gore Reality Bots, all of these "journalists" also missed the simple fact that the photo was taken hundreds of miles away where the buoy had drifted to. They could easily check this themselves with about 30 seconds of work, visiting the source for the photo here...
...And as of today the "North Pole melt crisis" seems to be over...
...And, of course, photos actually taken at the North Pole by the US navy show that such open water in a regular occurrence in the past:
If it wasn't for global warming, maybe the kooks at HuffPo would have some ice to put on that.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
Larwyn's Linx: Obama's Death and Taxes Economy
NationObama's Death and Taxes Economy: Sultan Knish
Obama on unilateral action: Lawyers? I don't need lawyers: Byron York
Yes, the RNC really DID support federal oversight of state elections: Adams
Why won't Republicans defund Obamacare?: Conn Carroll
Justice Rips Off the Blindfold: Diana West
Yet another attack in revenge of Trayvon Martin's death, this time in DC: Lott
EconomyWhat's 'Phony' Is Obama's Economy: Tom Blumer
Detroit in 1965 and the divisive rhetoric that poisoned its economic future: LI
80% Of US Adults Are Near Poverty, On Welfare, Or Unemployed: ZH
Thousands quitting public sector unions in Wisconsin: Steve Gunn, EAG
Chicago Next? City Cash Plummets To Only $33 Million As Debt Triples: ZH
Chicago Public Schools Downgraded Again: Ted Dabrowski
Bye, Bye Middle Class! Thanks, Obama!: LoneCon
ECB Expert: France Will Soon Need Help Selling Bonds: Mish
NC ends Tenure Pay Increases for Teachers: Breitbart
Scandal CentralBenghazi hero provides gripping details for first time: Michael Dorstewitz
Meet Glen Doherty, Hero, Killed In Benghazi. His Death Is Not A "Phony Scandal", It Is A Crime: WZ
In story about Obama administration going after journalism, NYT names Bush but not Obama: Instapundit
Climate & Energy99% "Environmentalists" watch fossil fuel protest on the Columbia from yachts: Victory Girls
New Climate Deniers Blame Snow On, Yup, Global Warming: RWN
Internal EPA report highlights disputes over fracking and well water: LAT
MediaWill: If Weiner and Filner Were Republicans Media Would Tie Them to GOP War on Women: Noel Sheppard
Report: Limbaugh, Hannity might not renew with Cumulus; Eric Boehlert pretty excited about it: Twitchy
Alinsky smiling up at Obama over "phony scandals" line: Shoebat
Can Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson be Sued for "Inciting Hatred?": Hideout
Al Jazeera Causes Scene at Pro-Christian Conference: RWN
Most Influential Blog Awards – Rules And Nominations: LoneCon
WorldIslam's violent present: Robert Fulford
Reports: Israel attacked another weapons convoy in Syria: Israel Hayom
The Obama's Wahhabist [PDF]: Shoebat
Sci-TechDell's Cloud-Friendly Project Ophelia Inches Closer To Release As Testers Receive Early Units: TechCrunch
First Take: Will ad giant take on tech titans?: USA Today
Working conditions at Apple manufacturing partner Pegatron come under fire: 9to5Mac
CornucopiaBarack Can't Do it Alone: It Takes a Whole Village of Morons: MOTUS
Medal of Honor winner Bud Day, McCain's cellmate, dies: USA Today
Microbrew Journalism: Fred on Everything
Image: Medal of Honor winner Bud Day, McCain's cellmate, dies
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QOTD: "Peruvia - Hidden high in sparking snow of the Bavarian Alps, this vibrant and diverse country is famed for making goose sausage, torch-skiing at night, and baffling simpletons on MSNBC.
Peruvia, you should know, is not the sort of country you want to visit; their national flag is just a cellphone picture of five drunken Peruvian thugs beating the sh** out of a lost and terrified Belgian motorist. Their national motto is "Learn to Read a Map, Pierre."
The mountain Peruvia sits atop is now called "The Peaceful Alp," because they raided the mountain that was originally called "The Peaceful Alp," murdered them all, and stole their sign." --Ace o' Spades
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Public Service for Small Businesses: Free Obamacare Pink Slip Notice
Feel free to reproduce anywhere, anytime as a reminder to the drones that they may want to think before they vote next time around. That is, if there is a next time.
The Progressive and the Pencil
The wood from which it was made came from a tree cut down in the state of Washington.
To cut down that tree, it took a saw.
To make that saw, it took steel.
To make that steel, it took iron ore.
The black center of the pencil, which we call 'lead', is actually made from compressed graphite.
It comes from mines in South America.
The eraser, made from rubber, likely comes from Malaysia.
The rubber tree wasn't native to Malaysia. It was imported from South America by businessmen with the help of the British government.
The brass fairing that holds the eraser probably came from the Midwestern United States, where computerized machine tools stamp, roll, finish and convey them.
The yellow paint, the glue that holds it together... literally thousands of people cooperated to make this pencil.
People who don't speak the same language. Who practice different religions. Who might hate one another if they ever met. When you visit a store and buy this pencil, you are -- in effect -- trading a few minutes of your time for a few seconds of time from all those thousands of people.
What brought them together and induced them to cooperate to make this pencil?
There was no "Pencil Czar" sending out orders from Washington. It was the magic of the free market. The impersonal operation of a market system that brought them together and got them to cooperate to make this pencil, so that you could have it for a few pennies.
That is why the free market system is so important to our society. It fosters harmony, cooperation and peaceful interactions between the peoples of the world.
How many of the Democrats' despised "millionaires and billionaires" were created as this pencil came into existence? Do the employees of the steel mill care? The saw manufacturer? The buyer of the pencil? Of course not.
In the formulation of the hard left Democrat party, the manufacture and distribution of pencils would be administered by a "Czar" and a centralized, federal agency. A few masterminds, like Obamacare's health advisory board, would try to manage and control thousands of voluntary, individual interactions. And we know from history that it simply can't be done.
We must call Obama and the Democrats' incessant drive for centralized government -- and their class-warfare rhetoric -- what it is: a new branding of the old Marxist philosophies, i.e., "Progressivism". It's just a different name for the same failed ideology that spreads misery and poverty where ever it is implemented.
The modern Democrat Party should be called what it is: the party of Marx. The Party of Unconstitutionality. The Party of Economic Misery and Failure. And it must be stopped -- quickly -- if this Republic is to survive.
Based upon: Milton Friedman's 'Power of the Market'. Hat tip: Mark Levin.
Apocalypse In One Picture
The form of cataclysm and its timing is indeterminable. Political decisions continue to shape both. The madmen who are responsible for the coming disaster continue to behave as if they can manage to avoid it. Violating Einstein's definition of insanity, they continue to apply the same poison that caused the problem. These fools believe they can manage complexities they do not understand. We are bigger fools for providing them the authority to indulge their hubris and wreak such damage.
Apocalypse In One Picture
James Quinn provided the following graph. If a picture is worth a thousand words, this graph is worth millions. The route to economic demise is depicted below:
Larwyn's Linx: Whatever Your Problem Is, 'Vote Democrat' Is Never the Solution
NationWhatever Your Problem Is, 'Vote Democrat' Is Never the Solution: R.S. McCain
SCOTUS 9-0 Rulings Against Obama Reveal Disregard for the Constitution: LI
9 Shot in Chicago on the Same Day as Urban Violence Summit: NRO
No, the 2016 election cycle has *not* started…: Moe Lane
The POTUS's Illegal Actions: A 36 Page Compendium…: Adina Kutnicki
Arizona's Three Communist Affiliated Congressmembers: Trevor Loudon
Feeling Sorry for Jay Carney: Thomas Sowell
Ted Cruz Isn't 'House Trained': FoxNation
Meet rising Republican star Jim Bridenstine: Rare
EconomyIRS union: Please don't make us enroll in Obamacare: Patrick Howley
Obamacare Call Center Won't Offer Health Insurance: Eliana Johnson
Farm Robots to Make Migrant Worker Vegetable Pickers Obsolete?: Mish
What a Survey of 1,400 Sued Doctors Tells Us About Obamacare: The Razor
Costco backs Obama, Obama touts Costco: Timothy Carney
New York City Invests $18 Mil to Help Illegal Aliens Get Jobs: JW
Obama: "I'll Spend All My Time On The Economy": RWN
IRS employees demand not to be covered by Obamacare: Toldjah
Despite bankruptcy, Detroit's new $400 million dollar hockey rink is a "go": Hot Air
Scandal CentralIllegal Aliens Caught Voting and Stealing Elections In Florida: Dr. Richard Swier
Phony Scandal: Benghazi Hero Waited On Roof With Shredded Leg For 20 Hours For Help: Nice Deb
"POLITICAL DEPRAVITY": Dan Bongino slams Obama for abandoning heroes in Benghazi: Scoop
Climate & EnergyObama claims Keystone pipeline won't create jobs: Rare
Obama Will Evaluate Keystone XL Solely On Its "Climate Change" Effects: STACLU
MediaTo GOP Elites: You Can't Win When You Stand For Nothing and Alienate Your Base: Marooned in Marin
O'Reilly: Keep Those Right-on Commentaries Comin', White Boy: Lloyd Marcus
Stuart Varney Interviews Victims of WH Defined 'Fake' and 'Phony" Scandals: NoisyRoom
Press Dangerously Distorts Facts About Zimmerman: Rick Jensen
Michael Hastings Crash Caught On Surveillance Camera: Breitbart
Once a Weiner, Always a Weiner: Doug Patton
Does This Interview Regarding Obama's Past Indicate He Is Pushing For Social Unrest Today?: Leon Puissegur
Saturday Golf for Obama: 133rd Round: Keith Koffler
Martina Navratilova Asks the Wrong Question About Guns: Doug Powers
WorldA Bad Week for the Muslim Brotherhood: Patrick Poole
Backstory on Obama's Ho Chi Minh/Thomas Jefferson Remarks: Trevor Loudon
Italy: Muslims Defecate On Church Altar: Blazing Cat Fur
The Rape of Christopher Stevens: Raymond Ibrahim, Algemeiner
Admin Keeps Calling for Muslim Brotherhood Inclusion: Bridget Johnson
President Obama calls U.S. and Europe 'developing countries' in latest embarrassing gaffe: Nile Gardiner
Sci-TechHands-on with the Leap Motion Controller: Cool, but frustrating as hell: Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica
Moto X reportedly comes with Magic Glass, laminated aluminum structure: Mariella Moon, Engadget
This little orange box is spreading economic opportunities across Africa: Rebecca Grant, VenBeat
CornucopiaSpies, Lies, Buys and Cries: the Week in Review.: MOTUS
Guccifer generates some NSFW lulz: Ameristroika (NSFW!!!)
Funniest and Most Absurd Real Estate Promotion in Years: Mish
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QOTD: "...Democratic Partisans have grown wealthy off of exploiting the Public Sector, using taxpayer funds to finance their own lives and their corrupt political machine (* especially Union Labor which launders taxpayer money back to the Democrats). Thus like Benghazi, Obama and others simply lie about the reasons for the need to continue to rip off everyone.
Barack Obama has been exposed long ago as being as big of a fraud as the Clintons. He has lied about all, transparency, taxation, lobbyists, rendition, wiretaps, spying, drone assassinations, executive orders, signing statements, war, "no meddling", etc. On top of it all, he is a vicious partisan who is overtly divisive. This is no leader. Even the loftiest vision of 'hope and change' was exposed long ago as nothing more than a cash for clunker - shovel ready flop dedicated to build more roads. It is a tragedy." --Old Fan
Saturday, July 27, 2013
DOOMED: Top 9 Big Cities That Will Soon Be Following Detroit Down the Black Hole of Democrat-Union Bankruptcy
In April, Moody's Investors Service, a bond rating agency, issued a report identifying 29 municipalities selected for review over concerns of credit-worthiness... Their chief concern: Some municipalities are underreporting pension liabilities; the ways in which those large costs are reported can vary widely from place to place.
...Cities on the list for review aren't necessarily facing imminent downgrade, though their mere presence on that list makes it more likely... Moody's, as we speak, is re-examining these nine largest cities...
9. Chicago: ...Moody's downgraded The Windy City's credit rating by three notches last week, as a result of $19 billion in unfunded pension debt... [and] mayor Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's former chief of staff, [told] city employees they should sign up for the federal health insurance exchanges. It's almost as if he might have known the city was running out of money to fund employee health care.
Sure enough, Pew reports Chicago's retiree health benefits are exactly 0 percent funded. As in, not a single dollar against a $1 billion liability.
7. Omaha, Neb.: ...has managed to ring up more than $1.4 billion in pension liabilities, and it has only enough cash saved to pay about 43 percent of those costs...
6. Minneapolis: Minneapolis has piled up more than $700 million in unfunded pension liabilities, prompting the ratings agency to take another look at the city...
5. Cincinnati: Moody's downgraded Cincinnati just last week, after it was placed on the list of possible downgrades in April... The city's unfunded pension liability tops $700 million.
4. Providence, R.I.: With a funding ratio — the percentage of pension debt versus current assets to pay — of 42 percent, Providence's pension mess, per capita, is even worse than Chicago's... But Pew notes Providence has taken some steps in the right direction. The city suspended annual cost-of-living adjustments for retirees and now requires all former workers olden than 65 to switch to Medicare instead of receiving health benefits from the city.
3. Trenton, N.J.: Moody's is reviewing general obligation bonds issued by Trenton's public school system. A downgrade on those bonds would follow fast in the footsteps of a citywide downgrade in 2011.
2. Santa Fe, N.M.: In putting Santa Fe "on notice" a few months ago, Moody's noted the severity of the city's pension problems. Moody's ranked the city of Santa Fe as the worst in the country, saying it has net pension liabilities equal to six times its operating revenue.
1. Charleston, W.Va.: ...Charleston has the worst-funded pension system of any major city in the United States, with only 24 percent of the necessary funds to cover more than $337 million in pension debt...
What do all of these cities -- and many, many more -- have in common? The infernal alliance of the Democrat Party and public sector unions.
Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News
HHS whines: we don't have enough of your money to secure your health care records from prying eyes!
HHS Office of Inspector General officials say the agency will be significantly restricted in its ability to monitor and address Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse within the nation's health care system in the coming years, citing budget and staffing cuts and hiring freezes, according to an internal document obtained by the Center for Public Integrity.
The document states, "As OIG's budget resources decline, so do our enforcement and oversight activities," adding that it "will not be able to keep pace" with the expected jump in taxpayer-subsidized health care under the Affordable Care Act, "maintain/expand our highly successful Medicare Fraud Strike Forces, or keep pace with the expected need for growth to combat ongoing health care fraud."
...Other projects that HHS OIG planned for 2013 but have been canceled include:
• An audit of computer systems security for the ACA insurance exchanges;
• An investigation of nursing homes to determine possible overuse of controversial antipsychotic treatments;
• An analysis of efforts by state governments and Medicaid managed care groups to uncover fraud and abuse;
• A probe of pharmaceutical drugs that are being marketed under the Medicare Part D program without FDA's clearance for safety and effectiveness; and
• An investigation into fraudulent suppliers of high-cost durable medical equipment.
The chart above comes to us from the HHS itself (PDF). Its spending goes up every year and includes incredible waste and fraud. The official numbers say the HHS is spending half a billion dollars on "Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control" (up more than double), $289 million on its "headquarters" building and administrative staff (up 50 percent), and another half a billion on a separate "Center for Tobacco Products" (up more than double).
But there's not enough money to secure the private health care information of the American people.
It's never enough. Never. And don't ask how many of these billions of dollars are going into the pockets of public sector union employees who vote overwhelmingly Democrat. Put simply, the federal government is the Democrat Party. They are one and the same. And no amount of taxpayer money will ever be enough.
Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News.
Surprise: Republican White Guy Beats Hispanic Female Progressive in Mostly Latino California District
A Republican in California won a state Senate seat on Wednesday in a District in which Democrats have a 22-point advantage and that is 60% Hispanic...
Andy Vidak, the Republican farmer, won the special election runoff for the 16th District Senate seat when his opponent, Democrat Leticia Perez, a Kern County Supervisor, conceded on Wednesday ... Vidak, a working class candidate, resonated with working class Hispanics in the district who also saw how coastal California elites were not putting their bread-and-butter interests first...
Vidak ran broadly on "the bifurcation of California: the coastal liberal elites versus the Valley folks." On a more local level, Vidak's theme of "fish versus farmer" resonated with Democrats in a District where the unemployment rate is 15% and as high as 30% in some communities in the District. Vidak reminded voters that liberal environmentalists, in order to protect fish, only allowed farmers to receive 20% of their water allocation, crippling the region's economy. He also stressed that Perez supported the the state's high-speed rail project that would have razed business, farms, and homes in the District. Because she supported the agenda of coastal elites and Democrat interest groups, Perez was able to raise twice as much money as Vidak, but 16th District voters ultimately rejected her liberal policies.
It is often said that California is a harbinger of things to come for the country. For Republicans looking at California, there has not been much of hope of late, but Vidak's victory could be a sign that areas that have traditionally voted for Democrats may give the right kind of Republican a chance as they see unemployment rates increase and opportunities for upward mobility decrease in their communities.
But apparently this lesson is too difficult for Karl Rove and the rest of the K Street consultant class to grasp.
Hat tip: Mark Levin Show


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A Pakistani anti-terrorism court today granted bail to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf over the 2007 Benazir Bhutto assassination case.
Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman of the anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi granted bail to Musharraf against two surety bonds of Rs 10 lakh each.
In the morning, the judge had reserved his decision after hearing arguments by lawyers of both sides. The judge announced his decision in the afternoon.
During the arguments, Musharraf's lawyer Salman Safdar said there was no solid evidence or witness against his client.
He said Musharraf had not been blamed for the 2007 suicide attack that killed Bhutto by the family of any of the victims.
Prosecutor Chaudhry Azhar of the Federal Investigation Agency opposed Musharraf's bail petition, saying the former President could flee Pakistan if he was freed from detention.
Bhutto was killed by a suicide bomber after addressing an election rally in Rawalpindi in December 2007. Musharraf has been accused of providing inadequate security to Bhutto.
69-year-old Musharraf, who is currently being held at his farmhouse on the outskirts of Islamabad, was arrested shortly after he returned to Pakistan in March to lead his All Pakistan Muslim League party in the general election.
He was subsequently barred by a court from contesting polls for the rest of his life.
Besides the Bhutto assassination case, Musharraf has been arrested for detaining dozens of judges during the 2007 emergency and for the killing of Baloch nationalist leader Akbar Bugti in a 2006 military operation.
Speculation is rife in Islamabad that Musharraf may be allowed to leave the country under a deal worked out by the powerful military.

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Fragmentation (weaponry)
Fragmentation is the process by which the casing of an artillery shell, bomb, grenade, etc. is shattered by the detonation of the explosive filler.
The correct technical terminology of these pieces is "fragmentation" (sometimes shortened to frag) – although "shards" or "splinters" can be used for non-preformed fragments. Preformed fragments can be of various shapes (spheres, cubes, rods, etc.) and size and are normally held rigidly within some form of matrix or body until the high explosive (HE) filling is detonated. The resulting high velocity fragments produced by either method are the main lethal mechanisms of these weapons, rather than the heat or overpressure caused by detonation, although offensive grenades are often constructed without a frag matrix.
These casing pieces are often incorrectly referred to as "shrapnel" (particularly by non-military media sources), though this is the result of the original term being culturally genericized due to its uniquely memorable phonology (similar to how bazooka is sometimes still used to refer to any shoulder-fired rocket launcher).[1][2][3]
The use of fragmentation in bombs dates to the 14th century, and appears in the Ming Dynasty text Huolongjing. The fragmentation bombs were filled with iron pellets and pieces of broken porcelain. Once the bomb explodes, the resulting shrapnel is capable of piercing the skin and blinding enemy soldiers.[4]
For this bomb you take tung oil, yin hsiu, salammoniac, chin chih, scallion juice, and heat them so as to coat a lot of iron pellets and bits of broken porcelain. Then fill in (with a gunpowder core) to a case of cast iron making a fragmentation bomb. When it bursts, it breaks into pieces that wound the skin and break the bones (of enemy soldiers) and blinds their eyes.— Huolongjing, Part 1 Chapter 2[4]
The modern fragmentation grenade was developed during the 20th century. The Mills bomb, first adopted in 1915 by the British army, is an early fragmentation grenade used in World War I. The Mk 2 grenade was a fragmentation grenade adopted by the American military based on the Mills bomb, and was in use during World War II.[5]
Difference between fragmentation and shrapnel
The term shrapnel is often incorrectly used to refer to fragments produced by any explosive weapon. However, the shrapnel shell (named for Major General Henry Shrapnel of the British Royal Artillery) predates the modern high-explosive shell and operates via an entirely different process.
A shrapnel shell consists of a shell casing filled with steel or lead balls suspended in a resin matrix, with a small explosive charge at the base of the shell. When the projectile is fired, it travels a pre-set distance along a ballistic trajectory before the fuse ignites a relatively weak secondary charge (often black powder or cordite) in the base of the shell. This charge fractures the matrix holding the balls in place and expels the nose of the shell to open a path for the balls, which are then propelled out of the front of the shell without rupturing the casing (which falls to earth harmlessly and can be retrieved and reused).[6] These balls continue onward to the target, spreading out in a cone-shaped pattern to strike the earth, with most of their energy coming from the original velocity of the shell itself, rather than the lesser force of the secondary charge that freed them from the shell. Since the cone of impact is relatively small (no more than 10 to 15 times the diameter of the shell itself), shrapnel shells needed to be carefully sighted and judiciously used in order to maximize their impact on the enemy.
In contrast, a high-explosive shell contains a relatively large and energetic secondary charge of high explosive (known as a burster charge) which, when ignited by the fuse, produces a powerful supersonic shock wave that shatters the entire shell casing into many fragments that fly in all directions. The use of high explosives with a fragmenting case improves efficiency as well as propelling a larger number of fragments at a higher velocity over a much wider area (40-60 times the diameter of the shell), giving high-explosive shells a vastly superior battlefield lethality that was largely impossible before the Industrial Era. World War I was the first major conflict in which HE shells were the dominant form of artillery; the failure to adapt infantry tactics to the massive increase in lethality they produced was a major element in producing the ghastly subterranean stalemate conditions of trench warfare, in which neither side could risk movement above ground without the guarantee of instant casualties from the constant, indiscriminate hail of HE shell fragments.
One easy comparison between fragmenting HE and shrapnel shells would be to imagine a shell of each type standing stationary and base-first on the ground; a high-explosive shell would be equally lethal if detonated in this state vs. detonating on impact after being fired, whereas a shrapnel shell would ineffectually fire its contents only a few feet into the air in a cone-shaped pattern (while the casing itself remained intact).[7] However, the reduced area of effect of shrapnel shells can be exploited, such as in the creeping barrage tactics of World War I, where shrapnel shells were able to be used much closer to friendly infantry than HE shells could be.
Another artillery round very similar to (and directly predating) shrapnel is canister shot, sometimes called case shot. Canister shot is a simple sheet metal casing filled with steel or lead balls. Upon firing, the casing fractures as it exits the muzzle of the gun and dispenses the balls from the gun's muzzle much like a large shotgun.[6] The practical differences between canister and shrapnel is that canister produces projectile separation immediately on detonation, and thus is only effective at short range (less than 180 metres (200 yd)),[8] whereas a shrapnel shell can travel hundreds of meters downrange before the fuse activates the explosive charge and separates the projectiles from the case, thus making it effective at much longer ranges.
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Artillery shell fragment from the Gulf War
Grenade fragments in the soft tissue of the lower leg (along with an old fracture of the fibula)
- ↑ "..shrapnel doctors removed from his knee after the humvee he was riding in hit a land mine..", US DOD
- ↑ "...An anti-shrapnel netting could reduce the damage done by explosive blasts...", US Air force
- ↑ "...The shrapnel had penetrated his chest and lung ...", UK Ministry of Defence
- 1 2 Joseph Needham (1986). Military Technology: The Gunpowder Epic. Cambridge University Press. pp. 180–181. ISBN 978-0-521-30358-3.
- ↑ The New Weapons of the World Encyclopedia: An International Encyclopedia from 5000 B.C. to the 21st Century. St. Martin's Press. 21 August 2007. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-312-36832-6.
- 1 2 U.S. War Department Technical Manual 9-1900 ''Ammunition, General''. 18 June 1945. p. 106. Available: http://90thidpg.us/Reference/Manuals/index.html
- ↑ http://www.history.army.mil/faq/shrapnel.htm|What is the difference between artillery shrapnel and shell fragments Aemy History
- ↑ U.S. War Department Armored Force Field Manual 7-12, ''Tank Gunnery''. 22 April 1943. Available: http://www.ahco.army.mil/site/index.jsp


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A few weeks before his fifth and last journey to Jerusalem, Paul sent, as a forerunner of his intended personal visit, a letter to the Christians in the capital of the world, which was intended by Providence to become the Jerusalem of Christendom. Foreseeing its future importance, the apostle chose for his theme: The gospel the power of God unto salvation to every believer, the Jew first, and also the Gentile (Rom.1:16, 17). Writing to the philosophical Greeks, he contrasts the wisdom of God with the wisdom of man. To the world-ruling Romans he represents Christianity as the power of God which by spiritual weapons will conquer even conquering Rome. Such a bold idea must have struck a Roman statesman as the wild dream of a visionary or madman, but it was fulfilled in the ultimate conversion of the empire after three centuries of persecution, and is still in the process of ever-growing fulfilment.
In the exposition of his theme the apostle shows: (1) that all men are in need of salvation, being under the power of sin and exposed to the judgment of the righteous God, the Gentiles not only (1:18-32), but also the Jews, who are still more guilty, having sinned against the written law and extraordinary privileges (2:1-3:20); (2) that salvation is accomplished by Jesus Christ, his atoning death and triumphant resurrection, freely offered to all on the sole condition of faith, and applied in the successive acts of justification, sanctification, and glorification (3:21-8:17); (3) that salvation was offered first to the Jews, and, being rejected by them in unbelief, passed on to the Gentiles, but will return again to the Jews after the fulness of the Gentiles shall have come in (Rom.9-11); (4) that we should show our gratitude for so great a salvation by surrendering ourselves to the service of God, which is true freedom (Rom.12-16).
The salutations in Rom.16, the remarkable variations of the manuscripts in 15:33; 16:20, 24, 27, and the omission of the words "in Rome," 1:7, 15, in Codex G, are best explained by the conjecture that copies of the letter were also sent to Ephesus (where Aquila and Priscilla were at that time, 1 Cor.16:19, and again, some years afterwards, 2 Tim.4:19), and perhaps to other churches with appropriate conclusions, all of which are preserved in the present form. [1141]
This letter stands justly at the head of the Pauline Epistles. It is more comprehensive and systematic than the others, and admirably adapted to the mistress of the world, which was to become also the mistress of Western Christendom. It is the most remarkable production of the most remarkable man. It is his heart. It contains his theology, theoretical and practical, for which he lived and died. It gives the clearest and fullest exposition of the doctrines of sin and grace and the best possible solution of the universal dominion of sin and death in the universal redemption by the second Adam. Without this redemption the fall is indeed the darkest enigma and irreconcilable with the idea of divine justice and goodness. Paul reverently lifts the veil from the mysteries of eternal foreknowledge and foreordination and God's gracious designs in the winding course of history which will end at last in the triumph of his wisdom and mercy and the greatest good to mankind. Luther calls Romans "the chief book of the New Testament and the purest Gospel," Coleridge: "the profoundest book in existence." Meyer: "the greatest and richest of all the apostolic works," Godet (best of all): "the cathedral of the Christian faith."
Theme: Christianity the power of free and universal salvation, on condition of faith.
Leading Thoughts: They are all under sin (Rom.3:9). Through the law cometh the knowledge of sin (3:20). Man is justified by faith apart from works of the law (3:28). Being justified by faith we have (echomenor, let us have, echomen) peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (5:1). As through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned (5:12): [so through one man righteousness entered into the world, and life through righteousness, and so life passed unto all men on condition that they believe in Christ and by faith become partakers of his righteousness]. Where sin abounded, grace did abound much more exceedingly: that as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord (5:20, 21). Reckon yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus (6:11). There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus (8:1). To them that love God all things work together for good (8:28). Whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son ... and whom he foreordained them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified (8:29, 30). If God is for us, who is against us (8:31)? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ (8:35)? Hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in; and so all Israel shall be saved (11:25). God hath shut up all unto disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all (11:32). Of Him, and through Him, and unto Him are all things (11:36). Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service (12:1).
[1141] On the textual variations, see Westcott and Hort, Appendix, pp. 110-114. Reuss, Ewald, Farrar suppose that Rom. 16 (or 16:3-20) was addressed to Ephesus. Renan conjectures that an editor has combined four copies of the same encyclical letter of Paul, each addressed to a different church and having a different ending. Both these views are preferable to Baur's rejection of the last two chapters as spurious; though they are full of the Pauline spirit. Hilgenfeld (Einleit., p. 323) and Pfleiderer (Paulinismus, p. 314) maintain, against Baur, the genuineness of Rom. 15 and Rom. 16. On the names in Rom. 16 see the instructive discussion of Lightfoot in his Com. on Philippians, pp. 172-176.


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I Bought A New PC
I bought a new PC. I got it from Best Buy. I got this one. It's an HP with an AMD processor, 8GB ram, and a 1.5TB hard drive.
I used Best Buy's "buy online and pickup in store" feature. My old PC's fan was breaking. My budget was $1000-$1500, but I got a nice one for $600. Maybe I'll upgrade in 2-3 years instead of 4.
There was one slightly amusing bit. I don't have 8GB of free ram, only 7.5GB. 0.5GB is used for video memory. I have shared video card memory and CPU memory. Also, 15GB of my HD space is reserved for my image of Windows 7, in case I ever need to reinstall.
They didn't give me a Windows install DVD! It turns out that I'm supposed to make my own. If I get a USB flash drive, I can make an "emergency reinstall Windows" boot disk. I have a 4GB flash thumb drive, but the reinstall requires 10GB. (I was disappointed that my old motherboard didn't support "boot from USB drive". Maybe I'll make an ubuntu install on the 4GB flash drive.)
I also can burn myself a Windows emergency reboot DVD. Maybe I'll burn one? The flash drive sounds like a cleaner/better option.
They keyboard they ship with it is a real POS. My old Microsoft Natural keyboard won't work, because it isn't USB connectable. I'll buy a new one. They're not that expensive.


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Force 10 from Navarone
Rating: 6.4
Plot Summary:
Mallory and Miller are back. It seems that there was traitor with them at Navarone, whom they thought was executed. But it seems that not only was he not executed, and he was not a traitor but a German spy. Intelligence believes he made it to Yugoslavia and is now with the Partisans. So, Mallory and Miller being the only ones who can positively identify him are sent along with a unit called Force 10, which is led by Colonel Barnsby, who objects to their presence. It seems that Force 10 has a mission of their own which Mallory and Miller know nothing about. When their plane is shot and most of the team is killed, they mistakenly believe that some of the locals they meet are Partisans but in reality are German Allies, so they are taken prisoner, and have to convince the German commander that they are not spies or else they will be killed.
Director: Guy Hamilton
Running time: 1h 58min
Genre: Action,Drama,War
Release date: 16 December 1978 (Sweden)
Cast: Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, Barbara Bach, Edward Fox, Franco Nero, Carl Weathers


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Recently I was in one of those chain restaurants (the middle-priced, sit-down types) and shortly after we got there, we learned that their computer systems were on the fritz. Now, my IT savvy ears picked up things like "can't get an IP address" and "bootp screen" and the like so I knew they were in big trouble. Unfortunately, we had already ordered and were well into waiting for our meal to come out so we stuck it out. However, knowing it was going to be a long wait, I started to observe the wait staff and listened to what they were saying.
"Because our computer just went down, we can't get your order to the back."
This one struck me as bad, and the reason is because many restaurants work just fine on a pen and paper system. However, it was obvious that without the computer, the wait staff didn't know how to handle getting orders back to the kitchen. I couldn't see the kitchen, but I'm sure they would have struggled with getting orders from anything other than the computer system. I can tell you from the heated arguments I heard while we were there, this restaurant not only lost sales but they also lost customers, permanently. One of those customers made sure to remind the manager that something as simple as paper and pen can do wonders. His arguments back were less than satisfactory.
What all this showed was this business didn't have a business recovery plan if they lost their computer systems. It's an issue I've seen with other organizations I've tried to help out over the years. They have no plan on how to conduct their day-to-day operations without their systems. For some organizations, I can understand this. For instance, if you're a bank and you can't get to a person's financial records, you're not going to hand out money from their account without knowing they have the money in there for it. However, so many businesses CAN run without their core systems, maybe not in an ideal manner, but enough to limp along. It just requires some planning. These folks didn't have it.
"With our computers down, we can't process your credit card."
We paid in cash, because we always carry enough to cover a meal in a contingency just like this one. However, I still no plenty of small time merchants that have one of those manual imprint devices to capture the details of a customer's credit card. Combine this with knowing how to call a credit card in and get a confirmation number and you have a backup plan. Obviously, without the computer system, you can still do this. At the restaurant I was at, they couldn't. I doubt they had the ability to manually process a credit card. They should have, but again, they weren't prepared. As a result, they lost even more customers.
"I'm sorry, I don't know how much your bill is."
Once upon a time we could use pen and paper and addition plus a little multiplication to figure out what the total is. Barring that, there's this neat techincal invention called a calculator, and most modern cell phones have a calculator as part of their software. This isn't a lack of equipment issue. This is a lack of training/knowledge problem. That irate customer that blasted the manager before pointed out that when she ran a small restaurant, they added up the bills in their heads but if it was too much to do so, they knew how to use a calculator. Again, the manager didn't have an answer.
Summing All This Up:
Obviously, there was no business recovery plan. There was also a complete failure of leadership. The processes that fell apart have tried and true workarounds, ones that existed before the age of computers. However, the management over the restaurant was incapable of trying to institute any of these. I can understand about not being able to process the credit cards if they didn't have an imprint machine. But the rest of it? As we used to say at The Citadel, "Sir, no excuse, sir!"
Here's the thing: with a proper business recovery plan, the management would have had the tools it needed to keep the restaurant up and running. Well, that is if the employees were trained on it. So it's not only important to have a business recovery plan, but it's also important to test it. Figure out what works and what doesn't. You never know when you're going to need it.


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China Mobile Communication Antenna Industry Report 2011
Naperville, IL -- (SBWire) -- 11/01/2011 --Reportstack, provider of premium market research reports announces the addition of China Mobile Communication Antenna Industry Report, 2011 market report to its offering
At the end of 2010, mobile phone users amounted to 859 million and 3G subscribers totaled 47.1 million in China. In July 2011, mobile phone users jumped to 930 million, including 87.2 million 3G subscribers.
The booming of mobile subscribers and communication data traffic promote telecom operators to continually optimize and expand their networks.
In 2011, China's market capacity of outdoor base station antenna grew 26% YoY to approximately 1.78 million units; and that of indoor base station antenna approximated 16.2 million units, up 35% YoY. China outdoor base station antenna market witnesses cutting-throat competition and the product price slipped sharply as well. Domestic base station antenna manufacturers account for more than 85% of the market share in China.
In 2008, microwave communication system (MCS) was adopted in China's communication transmission. In 3G network construction, Chinese telecom operators increased the procurement of MCS. In 2010, the market capacity of microwave antenna in China hit 190,000 units and rose to over 340,000 units in 2011. Four domestic manufacturers capable of producing high-performance microwave antenna are Xi'an Putian, Shenglu Telecommunication, Mobi Development and Guangdong Tongyu.
Benefiting from the development of such mobile terminals as smart phones, tablet PCs and laptops, the market capacity of mobile communication terminal antenna reached 1.08 billion in China in 2010. In the next three years, the average growth rate of the market capacity will be likely to maintain above 15%. Major local mobile terminal antenna providers include Shenzhen Sunway Communication, Shenzhen Speed, Shanghai Jesoncom and Kunshan Auden.
Shenglu Telecommunication (002446.SZ) is committed to producing all types of antenna products for base stations and terminals, as well as microwave antenna products with frequency range from 6GHz to 40GHz, and ranks as the most competitive manufacturer of mobile communication antenna of China. In H1 2011, affected by the factors like the slow investment progress of Chinese operators, the sales growth of Shenglu Telecommunication's products slowed down. The revenue of base station antenna fell 4.4%, and that of Yagi Antenna dropped 17.4%, while the growth rate of the promising microwave antenna and indoor terminal antenna only touched 5.2% and 6.8% respectively.
More than 30% of revenue of Mobi Development (0947.HK) comes from ZTE. In H1 2011, Mobi Development achieved sales of RMB 124.5 million from antenna business, down 5.9%, of which the sales of multi-frequency/multi-system antenna business reached RMB 29.36 million, up 192.3% over the same period in 2010 which was mainly fueled by the substantial growth of overseas demand.
Xi'an Haitian Antenna (08227.HK) and Sunnada jointly established a new company in Aug. 2011 which engages in the R&D, manufacturing and sales of mobile communication antenna. In H1 2011, Haitian Antenna realized revenue of RMB 27.24 million, up 39% YoY and with loss decreasing to RMB 14.215 million.
Sunway Communication is the sole listed Chinese enterprise specializing in producing mobile terminal antenna. The company occupies about 1.3% of the global mobile terminal antenna market and around 20% of the domestic market. In H1 2011, the company's revenue grew only 10.5% to RMB 72.52 million, while its consolidated gross margin rose to 59%, which could be attributed to the spin-off of its low-gross-margin products and customers.
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When thinking about a RV cover youre going to have to choose between a custom cover and a universal fit RV cover. If youve determined to keep your travel trailer, RV or toy hauler for a many years, youve made a high end purchase, if youre dealing with an odd shaped trailer, or if you live in an extreme climate, you should seriously consider a customer cover.
When you make that decision, youve made a commitment of your finances and time. You want to enjoy this investment for a long time. Maintaining it in top condition is a must do not a want to. Great way to do this is to use travel trailer RV covers when storing your unit.
Having the cover will reflect the invisible rays of the sun to keep the temperature inside lower than it would be if you allowed the unit to sit and bake. Your interior of unit will last longer and avoid sun fade of the finish. Covers that are made of material that is breathable will protect your travel trailer, RV or toy box from the issues of rain and snow, while at the same time allowing moisture to escape, eliminating the build-up of mold and mildew. You dont need extreme weather to realize the benefits of a cover. High winds, rain and blowing dust can all take their toll on your unit.
What should you look for in travel trailer RV covers?
A breathable and long-term material is significant. The cover should be properly contoured. Corners should be reinforced to avoid snagging and tearing. In addition, corners should be snug enough to provide a great fit, but loose enough to make sure its an easy to take on and off. Seams and hems should be evenly stitched and adequate for heavy duty use. The travel trailer RV cover you invest in should have zipper entry doors. Theres nothing worse than getting your RV parked and stored, then to cover it only to discover youve left your keys inside. Easy access means youll be able to go in and out easily.
So, for utmost protection of your investment in a travel trailer, RV cover or toy hauler cover. It will hold your rig looking new. Quite frankly, the greatest return on this investment is when you no longer have to clean bird droppings off before your first road trip of the year.
How do you take care of travel trailer RV covers?
The cover you select should have its own storage bag. That way you keep the cover secure, safe and clean while youre using your unit. But dont put that cover away dirty or in need of repair. Before you put the cover into storage, drape the cover carefully over a clothes line, hose it off and let it dry. If you notice that youve gotten a snag or a rip in the cover, repair kits are available to make the necessary patches.


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Ex-Soap Opera Star -- Scott Evans Pleads Guilty to Coke Charge
Ex-Soap Opera Star Scott Evans Pleads Guilty to Coke Charge
Former "One Life to Live" star Scott Evans has pled GUILTY to attempted cocaine possession following his arrest last month -- but TMZ has learned, he won't spend a day in the slammer.
We broke the story ... Scott -- brother of "Captain America" Chris Evans -- was busted last month and charged with one count of attempted possession of a controlled substance after trying to buy coke from an undercover cop.
He originally pled not guilty to the charge ... but changed his plea in exchange for no jail time.
Scott agreed to attend 60 Narcotics Anonymous meetings -- and if he goes to all the meetings in the next six months (and stays out of trouble) the judge will throw out the case .. almost like it never happened.
Scott's lawyer Shepard Kopp tells us the actor isn't wasting any time -- he's already knocked out a few classes.


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Holoholo Bicycles offers bike rentals in Chinatown
Bike's Place
Quick, what has 60 wheels and likes to roam the streets of Honolulu?
If you said a team of rollerblading dogs, well… you'd be wrong (but, kudos for creativity). The real answer: Holoholo Bicycles, a new bike rental shop that officially opened today in Chinatown.
You might remember the space as Lotus Downtown bar on Hotel St. That's gone now. Manifest owner Brandon Reid has taken over, and, with the help of his wife, Nicole, and business partner, Adam Showers, filled it with 30 brand-new Allant Trek bicycles just begging to be taken for a joyride around town.
The process is simple. Just walk in, flash your Hawaii ID, pay a $35 all-day rental fee, grab a bike and go. Each one comes with a lock, removable basket and helmet, perfect for the occasional pit stop, errand and – perish the thought – fall. If you don't already have a route mapped out, they'll be more than happy to suggest one for you, along with hidden neighborhood gems to explore along the way – think small mom-and-pop shops, eateries and sights. (Seriously, no one knows the area better than they do.)
Coming soon, they'll also offer pre-packed baskets filled with bottled water and grab-and-go snacks made fresh in Manifest's new back kitchen.
No cocktails, though. It's never a good idea to drink and ride.
Holoholo Bicycles is open daily from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. at 34 N. Hotel St. Kamaaina discount: $35 per day. Regular rates: $35 for two hours, $55 for three hours, and $75 all day. For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call (808) 221-3899. Top photo courtesy: Holoholo Bicycles.


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My best lawn tip is to use no chemicals on our lawn. It is just too risky for our children, pets and the environment. I've recently started a plan to use compost as fertilizer and to aerate the yard. Great Giveaway
Our best garden and yard advice. What's yours?
Free Food In Your Yard: Edible Weeds - Weeds are a pain, but Andrea has given us the best advice for those who have been officially defeated. If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em!
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Gardening in a Group: 6 Tips – Who knew that getting dirty with your friends could be so healthy and productive? Thursday's simple ground rules can keep things civil, and they can help guarantee a "fruitful" partnership.
Vegetable Gardening: Four Cheap Hacks – Myscha presents four of the most clever horticulture hacks to our readers. When you combine frugality with farming, I'm in!
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My best lawn tip is to use no chemicals on our lawn. It is just too risky for our children, pets and the environment. I've recently started a plan to use compost as fertilizer and to aerate the yard. Great Giveaway
My best green tip is to use vinegar to kills weeds that crop up in your driveway or sidewalks.
Simply this - stick with plants that are native to your area. For example, native plants of Florida will survive the heat and the droughts, whereas other plants will need constant care just to keep them alive.
And, know your plants needs and plant accordingly. Does the plant thrive in sun or shade? Is the plant always thirsty for water?
Go with the flow, or the harmony, of the characteristics of the land, the climate, and the plant, and nature will run it's course in your favor.
We recently started using a self-mulching lawn mower and WOW! I would highly recommend this to anyone who's kinda lazy but wants to have a nice looking, environmentally friendly lawn.
When we designed our garden, we made sure to minimize the need to water the lawn - or more specifically rotate the sprinkler around to get it all. We simply put a sprinkler out and turned it on. If the ground got wet, that's where the grass went. Everything else has to rely on the sky for its moisture.
Great giveaway. Thanks!
I just got a house this weekend, so I'm still learning, but I'm most excited about composting.
Just a little experience from somebody who has a Black & Decker Grasshog with some of my pros (+) and cons (-) for you:
(+) no bumping is nice! (the $6 spools last me about a season, trimming every 2 or 4 weeks depending whether I remember to charge on batteries...see below)
(+) with both batteries fully charged, I can usually do the whole yard
(+) the "flip-around head" is nice for edging vs. trimming
(+) it's much quieter than my neighbors' gas weed-eaters
(+) it doesn't spew gas-fumes
(+) fairly light to carry around
(-) the neck/balance is a little short for us taller people
(-) the batteries don't seem to hold a charge for any length of time. If I charge them one weekend to use them the next weekend, they're already dead. I need to remember 18hr ahead to put one in the charger, then 9hr ahead put the other one in the charger to ensure they both are fully charged when I plan to trim.
(-) the batteries slide in in two-stages: you slide it in, and it feels fairly secure, but it needs to get an extra push until you hear the lock "click" into place. If you don't click it in, they'll fall out. Not a big (-), but just a note to the winner to make sure you click it.
(-) no shoulder-strap to rebalance the (albeit light) weight
All said, it was a decent value, but a few points get knocked off for usability & technical problems.
My best tip for a nice green lawn is...
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spray paint!
Nonononononono. Just kidding!!
My best tip for a pretty lawn is to choose the right kind of grass to plant for your environment. Here in NC we've been in drought for quite a few years and most lawns get brown, crunchy, and ugly during the summer when it's illegal to water - so here when we plant new grass, we have to pick high-sun, drought-tolerant, but also a variety that won't fall flat when the rains come!
While this is not a new idea, it's one I use all the time. I don't bag the grass clippings when mowing, but allow them to stay in the lawn.
This is nothing new, but COMPOST!!!
Plan companion plants as well as beneficial plants (bugs love radish tops, so I plant them amongst my veggies so that the pests will eat THEM instead of my other veggies that I prize more!). I also plant carnations amongst my veggies since pests don't like the smell, and generally stay away from that area.
If a plant doesn't work in your yard after trying it once or twice, just stay away from it - it's not worth the effort and resources to make it live. I tried lavender in my garden a few times, which is silly since I live in Maryland. I gave up when I realized I couldn't defy the odds and just moved on to other plants that are much happier in my zone.
My best advice, and something I don't see a lot of people in my town do, is to leave the grass clippings on the lawn. If you don't like the look of them, at least use the clippings in your compost pile. There's no need to send them to a landfill.
Everyone gets pests in their yards. Get rid of them and distract them with natural methods, not poison. I use diatomaceous earth on those huge ant hills and the earwigs that hide under yard furniture. Japanese beetles can be picked or shaken off shrubs and garden plants into a bucket of soapy water. Many garden pests can be avoided by companion planting - google it, it really works. You, your yard and your pets will be healthier and you'll save money too!
We've left a corner of our yard go wild. It doesn't bother anyone, cuts down on mowing, and is an excellent place to throw leaves, twigs, and other material to let it slowly compost.
if you live in an area like i do, drop seed on your lawn in february or so, when there is 8 inches of snow on the ground.
there arent any birds around to eat the seed before it sinks into the snow (less seed), you wont need straw or peat moss to protect from the birds (less materials) and it automatically soaks into the ground and sprouts as the snow melts (less watering!)
I heard recently that using a spray bottle with some soapy water in it helps to keep plants disease free.
Last year we bought a Push Reel Mower. Cheap, Easy, and Quiet. I can mow before it gets hot and without bothering the neighbors.
This is my third year having a vegetable garden and here are some of my tips:
Consider intensive use of your land: square foot gardening will maximize production while minimizing land used. Also staggering crops/planting while do wonders too. Once you are done with broccoli replace the green beans.
Native plants - for a lot of the same reasons as eating locally. The plants that are native are much more adapted for the climate and are usually grown at local nurseries, cutting down on freight.
Most people (esp. those with automatic sprinklers) like to turn on their sprinklers for a couple of minutes every day. All this does is encourage shallow root growth, making them far less likely to survive the heat (and also guarantees that you'll have to keep watering every single day!).
Instead, water less often (1-2 times/week, max.) but give it a good soaking (~1" or so per week plus/minus, depending on your soil type... more for clay, less for sand)
And quit watering the lawn in the middle of the day, people! During the summer, half of the water's probably not even reaching the lawn!
My tip is to be careful when you are weeding, so you don't lose interesting/useful plants! We just moved into a new house, and the entire side garden looked like weeds to me - but when my dad came over to take a look around, he noticed that some of them were cabbage heads. Awesome!
Mulch is a must in the garden, to keep down weeds and keep moisture in the soil. You can even recycle your old newspapers as mulch.
got slugs but don't want to use nasty chemical poisons?
dig a little hole in your yard and place an empty tuna fish can in it so the top is level with the ground, then fill it with beer. you can put these anywhere slugs are a problem.
The slugs will smell it and be attracted to it, they'll crawl in but won't crawl back out.
This year are lawn had a lot of bare spots so we tried out some of the Scotts lawn patch. It worked great and we had new lawn in a few weeks.
One of the best things I've done is research and then use square foot gardening. It's a perfect way to provide just enough for my family, not too much waste!
Raised-bed gardening is almost foolproof because you create your garden bed with new compost and topsoil, instead of relying on your original dirt. It's also easier on your back since you don't have to stoop down as much.
Dig up your lawn and plant whatever vegetation is native to your area instead. It's a lot of work up-front, but once it's established you'll never have to do anything with your yard again--no chemicals, no watering, no nothing!
Some people call them weeds, I call them native ground cover. In Wyoming Yarrow grows in anything, with very little water. Find what grows in your without your contributing toxic chemicals and unnecessary water. My tortoise also loves to eat the yarrow.
I always recommend using a mower that will mulch your clippings instead of bagging. It saves money on Fertilizer and is much easier on the mower operator!
My best garden tip is to cover your garden with plastic and leave holes in it for the plants. This keeps the weeds from growing. Also, cover your garden walkways with grass to keep weeds from growing there.
As a new homeowner, I am actively SEEKING lawn tips. We have a townhouse with a small yard that would be perfect for a trimmer, so I think that B&D trimmer has my name on it! However, if I had to provide a tip of my own, it would be to buy a condo or townhouse instead of a free-standing, that way the HOA will cover the bulk of the maintenance and with a group of mowers who all come out at once to do everything, surely they're saving on gas and resources! :)
A green and Wisebread-worthy tip is to talk to the local tree crew(s) and let them know you're interested in wood chips, and many will drop off a load of chipped wood the next time they do work in your area. This is decent free mulch, which will cut down on your watering needs and slowly build organic matter in the soil. Not quite as attractive as bark mulch, but still better than patches of weeds growing up around your trees and planting beds!
Not only does this save you money and improve your soil, but it's greener than buying bagged mulch or having mulch delivered because it uses zero packaging and extremely minimal transport distance.
My best tip? The Fiance bought a push mower, instead of a gas-powered mower. It takes him just as much time to do the yard with the push mower, gives him a good workout, and doesn't burn gas!
My Green Tip? Don't buzz your grass so short. Keeping it trimmed longer actually makes it stronger and makes it start growing not so fast (as it begins developing root structure rather than leaf structure). This means less time spent mowing, more time for life, a healthier yard and less pollutants in the atmosphere.
Oh, and I don't need one I've got the this and the hedge trimmer and blower... like them all.
PS - Gumhos is pretty dead one with the pros and cons. However, I'm shortish so don't have the neck / reach problems so the lack of strap really doesn't matter to me.
Ground up chrysanthemums make a natural insecticide that makes all the little buggies run to your neighbor's yard! Try it -- you'll be glad you did!
My Best tip for beautiful yards is to invest in an edger. An edger makes the sidewalk edges really stand out and make your yard look absolutely beautiful!
~ Joy
This is kind of a strange tip, but we have a big gopher problem on our property, and I was just reading last night that building barn owl nesting boxes was the best "green" way to deal with the problem. Barn owls, obviously, will prey on the gophers and hopefully scare them off. I like this idea much better than poisoning or gassing their burrows, so we'll see how it goes!
Don't cut the grass too short - slightly longer has deeper roots, is healthier and able to stand droughts better.
I don't yet have a yard, so I don't have any tips, but I do have some pet peeves. Don't throw away your green waste, compost it. Don't water in the middle of the day, water early morning or in the evening to make sure you don't waste water. Also, watch where your sprinklers are aimed, make sure they are watering what you want watered and not the sidewalk.
I fill in patchy spots on my lawn in the Spring with organic manure with humus and water in. The grass will spread and grow to green up evenly.
Plant native plants. They will require less water, pesticides, and have a less negative impact on the environment.
Plant your beds and gardens a little more densely than the seed packets or plant containers suggest. Stagger them into triangular arrangements, closely enough that their leaves will just barely overlap when they're at their full size. The leaves will shade the soil, meaning less watering, and you'll get a few more plants in. Compost well so that every plant gets enough nutrients.
Also, in addition to vinegar and boiling water to kill weeds in patio/sidewalk/driveway cracks, a generous dose of salt in those cracks will keep them from coming back.
Our backyard was a disaster when we moved in. We took the buckled cement walkway that went around the perimeter of the yard and smashed it up. We used the broken pieces of cement to build a series of trellaces/ retaining walls that are beautiful! Not only did we save money by not buying materials, we didn't have to haul away all that heavy waste.
I have a big outside dog and often her water in her water bowl gets dirty. So instead of wasting it, as I live in a desert, I put it in a bucket and water my plants in the front yard with it.
This is a very simple way to use that extra water to keep your greens green without increasing the water bill and without wasting a valuable resource.
Try to always buy seeds that are NOT genetically modified, such as all natural, nonhybrid. This is better for your yard, plants, and animals attracted to the plants.
We make many pots of coffee throughout the day at my office. I save the grounds, filter and all and add it to my compost or even straight to the soil.
I also like to keep a container with lettuce growing in it throughout the season for fresh salad anytime. I just head out to the deck before dinner and pull a few leaves. Its super easy to grow and doesn't have to have full sun to grow like most veggies.
We make many pots of coffee throughout the day at my office. I save the grounds, filter and all and add it to my compost or even straight to the soil.
I also like to keep a container with lettuce growing in it throughout the season for fresh salad anytime. I just head out to the deck before dinner and pull a few leaves. Its super easy to grow and doesn't have to have full sun to grow like most veggies.
I don't exactly compost, but I do toss vegetable bits (apple cores, carrot tops, spinach stalks (I only like the leaves for my sandwiches) in the back yard. Before they decompose, they attract the bunnies which makes for free entertainment for my cats. And, once they decompose they're doing nothing bad to my lawn. I have found that this doesn't work very well with banana and orange peels though.
Take a quick trip around your lawn before mowing. You will be amazed at how much debris has fallen from the trees or blown into your lawn. Its much easier to pick it up than replace the mower after you cut it up and messed up the mower. Also very good exercise.
Catch rain water by directing gutters into water barrels and use the water from the barrels to water your garden.
Many cities use their collected yard waste as mulch... Our utility company will drop off a truckload for free if you call them. Good if you are planning a big project.
There are so many great tips listed already I dont think I can come up with a new one!
What we are planning is to install raised planter boxes filled with vegetables, not only will it be healthier for my family but help out with our budget. And one of the boxes we will have flowers and plant that are native to central calif and drought resistant, so we can save on precious water. My husband also wants to install a drip irrigation system so we can stop over watering before it starts.
And of course we will have a compost box set up too! Im looking forward to our new yard!
Used Fish tank water has lots of nitrogen in it which can be poured into the garden/lawn and makes for a great natural fertilizer.
My washer is outside on a concrete pad. The drain hose goes into a tub. 22 gallons of soapy wash water is collected from wash cycle and put on tree and ornamental areas. 22 gallons of rinse water is collected from rinse cycle and put on the front yard. I use buckets carried in my little red wagon. I do not use wash water on my garden in the back. It's a little labor intensive but I only do a wash once or twice a month.
My best green tip for lawn is to obtain one of the old manual lawnmowers. You'll have no emissions from a motorized mower and you'll be getting healthy in process. Of course, if you have a large lawn, you'll just get fit quicker!
In the Spring, after the has thawed, roll up a magazine and tap the trunk of your tree starting at the bottom and working your way up the trunk. This gets the sap flowing and aids in leaf and flower growth! It really works! I did this to my sister's pink dogwood that she thought was failing. That year, this tree was the most beautiful, fullest it had ever been in 17 years! I have done this to my pecan trees also and have gotten bumper crops of pecans since I started!
great giveaway. now, if we can educate my personal weedeater(my husband) that all things that border the lawn are not to be wacked!
With young kids, I'm not comfortable with toxic sprays and such in the yard, but we have to keep the bugs at bay to stay safe (lyme disease, west nile, etc). We bought and used a garlic spray last year to spray on the yard to combat the mosquitos and ticks, and I really think it helped. And it's totally safe for the kids! :-)
First off, they are very affordable. I bought mine on Amazon.com for a mere $60.
Second, use your reel mower for one "cutting season" and your lawn is gaining the equivalent of a free fertilizer application (And saving you MORE money, and contributing to saving the planet.)
Third, it's decent exercise! You actually push the darn thing, and you'll get so much satisfaction out of hearing those blades slice through your grass rather than hearing and smelling a gasoline-powered engine.
My best tip is to plant Zoysia!!! We live in a pretty "hot summer" area and Zoysia grass is so resistant and takes way less water!!!
Let your lawn get a little longer between mowings and/or set your mower level higher and it will help your grass beat the heat. Longer lawns get less stressed than short because its own length helps shade the roots.
I have a ryobi 18V trimmer, I LOVE it. i love there is no 'starting' session where I spend anywhere from 10-15minutes angry at the weedeater. It's light easy to use. The battery life could go longer but I don't really want to weed eat for more than 30-45min @ a time anyways, it's a cue to take a break and do something else! If you need to get it all in one day have plenty of batteries charging :)


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