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Second Annual Studio//Shift Gallery Show for Open Studios Evanston
Eight Artists and a Performance Expand the Gallery Event
The Studio//Shift art collaborative puts passion projects on display during Open Studios Evanston on June 6th.
The passion-driven side projects of NeigerDesign staff members will be on display at Botti Studio during the Open Studios Evanston citywide art event on June 6, 2015. Initiated last year for the company's 25th anniversary, the art collaborative Studio//Shift enters its second year strong with eight participating artists, whose work includes paintings, prints, photographs, pottery, drawings, and jewelry.
- June 6: 12‑5 p.m. Open Studios Evanston citywide gallery and studio tours
- June 6: 6‑8 p.m. Studio//Shift artist reception and improv comedy show
Artists: Carol Neiger, Lisa Plefka Haskin, Denae Dietlein, Jennie Ramazinski Miller
"Studio//Shift provides a way for us to develop our creative passions through group show, critique groups, and community arts involvement. There is a flipside to our design and marketing methodology and skills which reflects more intrinsic talents like art, theater and music where we can express ourselves without boundaries," says Carol Neiger, president of NeigerDesign and an avid painter. Studio//Shift artists will be on-hand to discuss and sell their work at Botti Studio from noon to 5 p.m. for Open Studios Evanston, and a reception with the artists will follow that evening from 6 to 8 p.m., and includes a special onsite improv comedy show. All events are free and open to the public.
Artists: Jessica Jacobs, James (Cass) Whitworth, Joshua Rains, Jim Hutchison
Creativity meets collaboration with Studio//Shift, a unique way for design firm NeigerDesign to support our employees, both past and present. It is a catalyst for creative growth and a channel for idea and information sharing. The collaborative encourages and promotes each other's personal artistic passions, which ignites and fuels the creativity and problem-solving talents that are employed in the daily work here at NeigerDesign. Each artist contributes a distinctive perspective and style. The give and take of collaboration energizes the entire team and provides a wellspring of creative solutions, personally and professionally.
- Eight visual artists: Carol Neiger, Denae Dietlein, James (Cass) Whitworth, Jennie Ramazinski Miller, Jessica Jacobs, Jim Hutchison, Josh Rains, and Lisa Haskin
- Improvisation performance: Barry Lohman with The Flock of Weirdos
- Botti Studio is located at 919 Grove Street in Evanston, Illinois (MAP IT)


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When I log into the router and change some settings, once I save those settings, I have to power cycle it for it to actually get an IP address from my cable modem (meaning I can't access the Internet). Before I power cycle the router, I can still access its settings page. I'm just not able to connect to the Internet.
I'm sure there's some setting for the router that is making it not automatically get an IP from the cable modem, but I have no idea what it might be.
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France to invest €700M in battery cell production
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that his government will invest 700 million euros in the production of battery cells for electric cars over the next five years. The plan is part of a Franco-German project to establish cell production in Europe.
Macron made the announcement while giving a speech to the Paris-based International Organisation of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers. In concrete terms, the French President said that a battery cell factory each in France and Germany is planned, but did not give any details. Macron's plan also includes giving more visibility to carmakers about electric vehicle bonuses for consumers and increasing the government's EV purchasing targets, as well as facilitating the construction of electric vehicle charging points.
As reported, the governments of Germany and France agreed in December on the elaboration of a strategic approach for the future production of battery cells in Europe. The German government already pledged one billion euros in subsidies for this until 2022, the amount of France's participation was still unclear at that time.
While France has specified their intention now and more concrete plans have emerged from Germany, the statement in December included a call to other players of other EU member states. Interested consortia may submit their projects for classification as an 'Important Project of Common European Interest' (IPCEI) in the first half of 2019.
As Macron mentioned in his speech, as is already well known in the industry, European carmakers only assemble battery packs but do not yet have any significant production plants for their constituent cells. As European vehicle manufacturers are acutely aware, battery production is currently dominated by a handful of firms including China's CATL, Korean rivals LG Chem and Samsung and Japanese battery giant, Panasonic. This also means that Asian firms have strategic access to supply chains and raw materials.
The French President said, that "in terms of sovereignty and independence, I think it's not good in the long run for our industry and the European industry to be 100 per cent reliant on non-Europeans".
This was spelt out in clear terms by a French official, as Reuters reported, who said that "China has a very aggressive strategy to eventually dominate the electric vehicle universe by starting from electric batteries all the way up the value chain". Europe is becoming increasingly aware of the difficulties posed by relying on Chinese suppliers.
Additional reporting by Nora Manthey.


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Alcohol and Drug Abuse
This is one of the more common reasons for bringing a teenager in for treatment. Substance abuse includes a wide array of issues,from getting caught smoking pot in the basement to arrests and school expulsions for possession. Alcohol intoxication can lead to serious and life threatening medical problems. The most important task at this point is a thorough medical and psychosocial assessment. The severity of a teen's substance abuse problem will determine the type of treatment approaches to recommend. The least intrusive would be a series of individual and family meetings to develop healthier lifestyle choices. The more severe situations would involve intensive drug treatment programs, monitoring possible relapse with random drug screens, and regular AA/NA attendance.
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Intrepid Studios has begun construction of its new office in San Diego – 17,000 square feet dedicated to MMO development. The team will need it: they're planning to fill the floor with 100 hires, the latest round of which includes talent from nearby H1Z1 developer Daybreak Games. That's in addition to the art team in Malaysia working on in-game assets for Intrepid's first game, Ashes of Creation.
"There are actually seven new hires that we've brought on board over the past month, and then there are another 21 positions that we're going to try to fill over the next three months," creative director Steven Sharif tells us. "Our plan before the end of the year is to have a total of 200 on the project."
Could Ashes of Creation become one of the best MMOs on PC?
All of which begs the question: sorry, who are you? And how on Earth are you funding all of this?
The second part is simplest to answer – Steven Sharif. The vast majority of the project has been paid for personally by the CEO. That's thanks to his involvement with XanGo, a network marketing company that sold fruit juice and vitamins to the tune of a billion dollars in less than four years.
"When I was 24 I started getting involved in investing in real estate," he says. "By the time I was 28 years old I had pretty much retired and just put my money to work."
One Californian dream, to give up work in your 20s, has given way to another – making an MMO. But Ashes of Creation is no vanity project. In June last year, 19,576 Kickstarter backers pledged $3,271,809 to make the game happen. Not a dollar of Sharif's fortune has been spent on advertising, yet over the past year and four months 500,000 people have registered on the MMO's site, and 40,000 have bought into its alphas and betas.
Clearly, Ashes of Creation's premise has struck a chord that's gone long unplayed in the MMO community. It will balance curated quests with sandbox mechanics that leave the development of the world to its players. The cities, trade routes, and wars in its land will be catalysed by their actions, not pre-baked into the map.
"I think what excites MMORPG players that get in this early isn't the visuals but rather the systems, the ideas behind the game," Sharif says. "Generally, because MMOs tend to be such a large endeavour they are the most risky. It stifles innovation and doesn't really allow for the genre to take new directions. You typically get these studios that have publishers who say, 'Make us the next WoW'."
Intrepid's financial independence allows the studio to take a very different tack. Sharif's design depends on what he calls his node system. As you begin to move through Ashes of Creation's world, discrete areas register your actions: killing monsters, taking on local quests, harvesting and crafting. While you're gaining experience from these conventional MMO activities, the node is growing too, levelling up in stages.
The first stage turns a node into a small camp, where you might see merchants and their caravans start to spawn in real-time. Camps trigger new area quests, bringing in yet more players, who in turn add more experience to the node. The busiest areas in the game will turn from camps into towns and then grand cities, completely organically.
"There can only be five metropolises on a server at any given time," Sharif points out.
As the nodes advance they unlock organisations, religions, and governments, becoming central hubs for the game. But they're vulnerable, too.
"Players do and will attack because there's a scarcity of citizenship that's allowed across the different nodes," Sharif explains. "That creates a competitive advantage for those people who are citizens of a node in that area."
Once a node hits level three and becomes a village, bosses emerge from their dungeons to investigate, killing off NPCs and flattening buildings unless players manage to defend them. And as the game's development progresses through alpha, Intrepid will implement natural hazards… like volcanoes.
This dynamic world growth should ensure that, pretty quickly, no two servers will look the same. In one, a volcano may never erupt; in another, a terrible winter could last five cycles. And, at all times, a handful of players could step in to influence the outcome.
Much of Ashes of Creation's most exciting content will sit unseen at launch, waiting to be triggered by the players milling around in its world. To have so many systems dependent on players engaging with them feels like a risk – but the ability to take risks in the MMO genre is exactly what Sharif is paying for.
"One of the luxuries of your own development is you don't have a publisher to answer to," he says. "You're capable of trying the things that interest you. My first MMO was Neverwinter Online on AOL. I was seven years old at the time. The thing about those systems, concepts, and ideas that were implemented then – they could be considered risky."
In the many years since Neverwinter Online came out in 1991 its ideas have become the norm in a stagnant genre. It's the goal of Intrepid Studios to burn it all down, and from the ashes build something with that same pioneering spirit.


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Mistress Zephy wanted her slave to learn never to piss her off and she had to scare him to get that kind of reaction from him. So the mistress went out of her way to use her high heels to do the scaring. He was so pissed and he was so scared that by the time she was done with him, he feared her more than she expected he would.
This mistress wanted this guy to know that she was not going to allow his nonsense any longer. She gave him a last warning and promised him that if he messed with her again, he would only have himself to blame for whatever happened to him. And she told him that she would crush him and especially his nuts using her high heels. He got scared and did as instructed.
This mistress likes to negotiate with her high heels. She knows guys come with all sorts of underhand tactics to the negotiating table and her underhand tactic is using her high heels when she fails to have her way. When she realized she was wasting time talking to this guy, she turned him into a foot slave and used her high heels to make him agree with her and do as she said.
Lady Emerald was not going to let these losers get the better of her. She had tried to reason with them but the guys were impervious to reason. She knew they were sneaky so she used her high heels to deal with them. She trampled them and got them to feel a lot of pain. That made them rethink their strategy and they agreed with her on the way forward.
Mistress Natasha used her boots to crush this loser. He was forgetful and she did not want to keep reminding him about everything. She had never punished him before and he was shocked when she did. But it was important so as to make him try to take some initiative to make him remember stuff. So she trampled his balls as well as his whole body and it worked as he started to remember stuff.
Mistress Adonia loves high heels. She has always loved them. But of late, she had been wondering what else she can do with them. She decided to try and use them as a punishment tool. She wanted to use them to crush her slave when he messed up. But first she decided to try that on a pillow. It worked great and she called her slave and did it on him.
LanQi is not your average girl. When she wants to break up with someone, she tortures them and they break up with her. She did the same to this guy and trampled him with her high heels and jumped on his stomach
LiMei wanted to make this guy stop stalking her. She invited him to her house and brutally trampled on him with her high heel boots.
Angel is a beautiful mistress. She knows it and she is happy to use her looks to entice slaves into her service. When she has slaves addicted to her, she starts to change into a nightmare. She is a woman that loves to trample her slave in high heels. When she is ready to play, she lets her slave see her beautiful ass and tits in her black leather. She enjoys watching her high heels sink into his body and listening to him moan in pain.
When Mistress Tang decides that she wants dominate her slave, she does it through humiliation. She doesn't want her slave to think that he will ever be good enough for her. She walks all over him in front her her beautiful windows while she enjoys the view. When she is tired, she sits and has her slave kiss her bare feet. She enjoys watching him work her feet with a blindfold. The only time he will ever have the opportunity to see her face is when he earns it.


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Gold Winner Strange Adventures Comic Bookstore
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Undefeated for years in the Best Comics Store category, it's no wonder one voter calls Strange Adventures "that little doorway off the street into a world of gritty make-believe." Open since 1993 and now with three Maritime locations (Halifax, Dartmouth and Fredericton), the Strange Adventures peeps pride themselves on their knowledgeable and accessible staff. Dave Howlett, comic book hawker and store manager, says that's because most of Strange Adventures' employees are in it for the love of comics. "We're really enthusiastic about the stuff we sell and hopefully that comes across. It's tough to make a living in comics if you don't truly love it, so hopefully it's contagious."


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Eochaill Óg held their annual Cúl Camp from Monday 11th to Friday 15th of August. With 126 kids, it was one of the largest camps in Ireland. The kids had a great week and learnt lots of new skills from their coaches. All the coaches came from within the club. There was a mixture of experienced coaches such as Leigh Desmond, Johnny Bulman, Bill Cooper and Alan Frahill O'Connor and new coaches Ollie Dempsey, Nigel Roche, Chris Morrisson, Jessica Swayne and Michael O'Neill. All the coaches had a helper from the underage clubs. Many of these helpers would hope to progress to coaching in future years.
The weather could not have been better, sunny most of the time but with a fresh breeze keeping the participants cool as they did their drills. Many thanks to the team of parent helpers, who gave so generously of their time helping the smaller ones with their lunches, tying laces, toilet runs, etc.
We also had a full time First Aid centre on site taking care of any bumps or bruises that occurred. Again, thanks to the First Aid team for all their help.
The highlight of the week must have been when local hurling stars Bill Cooper and Seamus Harnedy met with all the kids on a one to one basis, presented medals and signed autographs.
Well done to Joe Kirk and everyone involved.
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Pluto (minor-planet designation 134340 Pluto) is the largest object in the Kuiper belt, and the tenth-most-massive body observed directly orbiting the Sun. It is the second-most-massive known dwarf planet, after Eris. Like other Kuiper-belt objects, Pluto is composed primarily of rock and ice and is relatively small, approximately one-sixth the mass of the Moon and one-third its volume. It has an eccentric and highly inclined orbit that takes it from 30 to 49 AU (4.4–7.4 billion km) from the Sun. This causes Pluto to periodically come closer to the Sun than Neptune, but an orbital resonance with Neptune prevents the bodies from colliding. In 2014 it was 32.6 AU from the Sun.
Discovered in 1930, Pluto was originally classified as the ninth planet from the Sun. Its status as a major planet fell into question following further study of it and the outer Solar System over the ensuing 75 years. Starting in 1977 with the discovery of the minor planet 2060 Chiron, numerous icy objects similar to Pluto with eccentric orbits were found. The most notable of these was the scattered disc object Eris, discovered in 2005, which is 27% more massive than Pluto. The understanding that Pluto is only one of several large icy bodies in the outer Solar System prompted the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to define formally in 2006 what it means to be a "planet". This definition excluded Pluto and reclassified it as a member of the new "dwarf planet" category (and specifically as a plutoid). Astronomers who oppose this decision hold that Pluto should have remained classified as a planet, and that other dwarf planets and even moons should be added to the roster of planets along with Pluto.


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I received the ZenBox by Jen Subscription Box in exchange for an honest review. The opinions contained within this post are mine and may vary from the opinions of others.
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ZenBox by Jen™ is a monthly subscription box mailed right to your door, filled with various wellness items such as teas, Epsom salts, coloring pages, sage bundles, guided meditations, and more! The theme of the box will change with each new month.
You may choose to order a recurring monthly box that will automatically be charged to the credit card of your choice, or you may purchase a one-time box. You are never locked into a contract, as you may cancel your monthly subscription at any time!
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When my ZenBox by Jen arrived I was really excited. I love subscription boxes especially when they are creative and really showcase a great theme.
Look at everything that was in the box!! I just kept pulling things out and getting more and more excited.
I want to talk about some of my favorites from this box– First I want to say the Apple Pie Fruit & Nut Bar never made it anywhere near my mouth. Our 3 year old stole it right away after photos and claimed it for his snack. He ate the whole thing and informed me that it was "delicious."
Yogi Tea is one of my favorite tea brands, so I was tickled to see those included.
This box included a natural soap called "By the Lake" which smells heavenly. I am debating saving it for our vacation, but I doubt it makes it until then. I love that it is a delicate scent, but yet still smells good.
Also included is a natural insect repellent which I have tried and will say it absolutely does work. I love having something that isn't loaded with chemicals.
I also love the idea of the Throwing Stones and I have a huge plan for those.
Not only are these Throwing Stones beautiful, but the purpose really means a lot to me. A lot of people do not know the story behind why I blog so much or the things that have happened to my family over the last several years, but it is definitely time to throw it all away.
The Throwing Stones will be thrown in one of my favorite places on the planet in the coming weeks.
This is Blackwater Falls in West Virginia. My throwing stones will be tossed in, our troubles forgotten. I will be sure to get photos when it happens just to remember the moment that much more. Goodbye worries!
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NEAR Shoemaker was launched on February 17, 1996. The spacecraft entered orbit around the asteroid Eros on February 14, 2000, and began its year-long orbit of the asteroid to determine its mass, structure, geology, composition, gravity, and magnetic field. Eros is one of the largest near-Earth asteroids whose orbit will someday cross that of Earth's. These bodies are of interest because they contain clues to the origin and evolution of small bodies and the inner planets, including Earth.
Launched on February 7, 1999, Stardust is the first space mission dedicated solely to studying a comet. For the first time ever, comet dust and interstellar dust particles will be collected during a close encounter with Comet Wild 2 and returned back to Earth for analysis by scientists worldwide. STARDUST will make three loops around the sun before its closest approach to the comet in January 2004. er Stardust collects comet dust samples from Wild-2 in 2004, all the samples captured in the aerogel collector will be retracted into the sample return capsule. They will then be returned to Earth via parachute for a soft landing at the U.S. Air Force's Utah Test and Training Range in 2006.
DEEP SPACE 1 (DS1) The primary purpose of this mission is to test new technologies in space including an ion drive rocket engine, a new type of solar panel that concentrates sunlight, and an autonomous navigation system that uses the known positions of well observed asteroids to guide the spacecraft to its destinations Launched on October 25, 1998, the DS1 spacecraft flew past asteroid (9969) Braille on July 28, 1999 but camera problems limited the data received during this encounter. When the star tracker, a dev ice used to navigate the spacecraft, became inoperable, the imaging camera was programmed to carry out the necessary navigation functions. The spacecraft is scheduled to fly past comet 19P/ Borrelly on September 23, 2001.
The Comet Nucleus Tour, or CONTOUR, mission launched from Cape Canaveral on July 3, 2002. Six weeks later, on August 15, contact with th e spacecraft was lost after a planned maneuver that was intended to propel it out of Earth orbit and into its comet-chasing solar orbit. The investigation board concluded the most likely cause was structural failure of the spacecraft due to plume heating during the embedded solid-rocket motor burn.
The Deep Impact mission will send a large copper projectile crashing into the surface of a comet at more than 20,000 miles per hour, creating a huge crater and revealing never before seen materials and the internal composition and structure of a comet. his will be the first experiment to probe deep beneath the surface of a comet and will permit a variety of instruments, both onboard the spacecraft and at ground-based and space-based observatories, to study the resulting debris and pristine interior material.
The MUSES-C mission to a near-Earth asteroid is being managed by the Japanese Institute for Space and Astronautical Sciences (ISAS) with NASA providing some technical assistance. The spacecraft will rendezvous with near-Earth asteroid 25143 Itokawa in June 2005. After a stay of about five months, MUSES-C will return to Earth in June 2007 with an asteroid surface sample of a few grams. ISAS is responsible for the mission management, mission design and operations as well as the spacecraft development. The NASA participation involves spacecraft tracking by NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN), some navigation support and participation on the MUSES-C Science Team.
The Rosetta mission is being designed and managed by the European Space Agency (ESA). Launched on March 2, 2004, the Rosetta spacecraft will rendezvous and land upon the surface of comet Churymov-Gerasimenko in late 2014. The comet's nucleus will be studied remotely and with the aid of a sophisticated landed instrument package.
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Jar of perfume craft – mary anoints Jesus
There are Bible stories that tell us what happened just prior to Jesus' death and ressurection. One of these stories tells us about mary annointing Jesus' feet with expensive perfume. As the children had been learning that we are 'Wonderfully Made' we started with the familiar – we thanked God for our noses and how they help… Read More Jar of perfume craft – mary anoints Jesus


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EU ministers on the General Affairs Council formally adopted draft directives for negotiations on a Brexit transition period Monday following a discussion lasting less than two minutes.
The directives are EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier's instructions for the next part of the Brexit talks. In a tweet, his deputy Sabine Weyand summed up the guidelines as: "status quo transition without institutional representation, lasting from Brexit date to 31 December 2020."
Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva said: "EU ministers have given a clear mandate to the Commission on what is the type of transition period that we envisage: full EU acquis to be applied in the U.K. and no participation in the EU institutions and decision-making. The 27 adopted the text speedily today and we hope an agreement on this with the U.K. can also be closed swiftly."
The EU position laid out in the directives calls for:
— A time-limited transition of 21 months ending on December 31, 2020.
— The U.K. to accept the whole of the EU acquis — the body of EU law — including any changes made during the transition period.
— The U.K. to remain within the customs union and single market — including the four freedoms.
— The U.K. to remain bound by obligations stemming from EU free-trade deals and other international agreements.
— The U.K. to lose its participation in the institutions and decision-making of the EU. It may be invited to attend some meetings as an observer in exceptional cases, but without voting rights.
The general form of a status quo transition is accepted by the U.K., but there is still scope for a disagreement — payments to extend beyond December 2020 (if the U.K. wants or needs this), trade deals with third countries and citizens rights are all issues that could cause problems. Most contentious is U.K. Brexit Secretary David Davis' demand that the U.K. be able to influence new EU rules coming Britain's way during the transition period.
In a speech Friday he said: "We will have to agree a way of resolving concerns if laws are deemed to run contrary to our interests and we have not had our say and we will agree an appropriate process for this temporary period … It's very, very important. If there are new laws that affect us, we have the means to resolve any issues during that period." That is likely to prove highly contentious in Brussels.
He told MPs last week that he expects the transition period to last between 21 and 27 months. Both sides hope to come to an agreement on a transition period by the European Council summit in late March.


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Paris 'peace' talks the usual charade
This Friday's one-day "peace conference" in Paris, convened by the French government to discuss the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, has a wearisome, all-too-familiar look to it: same farce, different day.
Representatives of some 20 political entities will be sharing their "thoughts" about the conflict for several hours, sandwiched between photo opportunities and a fine meal. Thankfully, such reliably constructive actors as the Arab League, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia have been invited.
France, which in diplomatic matters famously regards itself as superior to all others, and to the US in particular, has looked a good deal like Abbott and Costello when it comes to the Mideast. Eager to curry favor with its large Muslim population in advance of upcoming elections, it recently backed a Palestinian resolution in UNESCO denying any link between Jews and Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Within days French President Francois Hollande announced that his government's vote was the result of a "misunderstanding."
The government that was unable to "understand" what the Palestinians were seeking to do by its UNESCO gambit — and so many others like it — or to "understand" the ceaseless Palestinian con job, will be chairing the peace conference. That should come as excellent news for those hoping for peace.
The French have said that their purpose is "saving the two-state solution" and "bringing the parties back to the negotiating table." This is a head-scratcher, since the Palestinians have repeatedly rejected the two-state solution and have refused to negotiate with Israel for many years now, rejecting its request for negotiations as recently as last week. It is hard to believe that anyone is fooled at this point by the Palestinians' song-and-dance, since all they have done since time immemorial is to say "no" to the very independent state they say they want — the independent state that would end the occupation that they declare with a straight face is the cause of the conflict.
"The Palestinians are not able to agree to any resolution that doesn't involve them getting 100 percent of what they want," says David Roet, Israel's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations.
The record bears him out. In 2000, 2001 and 2008 they were offered an independent state on virtually all of the West Bank, all of Gaza and a capital in East Jerusalem. All they had to do was say "yes" to peace with Israel. They said "no." Having demanded that Israel freeze settlement activity for 10 months as a condition for agreeing to negotiate with Israel, they obtained the freeze — and then refused to negotiate. Every time the Israelis have offered to negotiate with them since 2009 they have repeated the word that has come to be associated with them: "No."
In Boston last week with a group of her fellow members of the Israel Defense Forces, a young officer named Dana (full names are not used for security reasons), talked about what it feels like to have to defend her country against those who are trying to make it disappear.
"I never tell my mother what I'm doing," Dana confesses. "I don't want her not to sleep at night. We try to do our best with the fear."
In Paris this week, the charade proceeds as before. The Palestinian rejection of the very two-state solution they profess to seek will continue. Their rejectionism will be excused, the rejectionists coddled. Israel will be lambasted, as always. The end of conflict that ought to be attainable if it were actually desired will remain unattained. And Dana and the other young Israelis who do their best to defend their country and who are obliged to cope with their fear will go on knowing that, like it or not, they have precious little choice but to keep on doing what they are doing.
Jeff Robbins, a former United States delegate to the UN Human Rights Council, is an attorney in Boston. This article was published earlier in The Boston Herald.


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The TicWatch 2, TicWatch S, and TicWatch E come from a relatively unknown manufacturer called Mobvoi. However, these smartwatches piqued people's interest when they learned that Mobvoi is actually backed by Google.
Did Mobvoi create smartwatches that can beat the Apple Watch, even if it has a budget-friendly price?
Main Differences Between TicWatch 2 vs TicWatch S vs TicWatch E
The Main Differences Between TicWatch 2 vs TicWatch S vs TicWatch E are:
- TicWatch S and TicWatch E have a Polycarbonate case, whereas TicWatch 2 case is made of Stainless steel.
- TicWatch E and TicWatch 2 have changeable straps, whereas TicWatch S is stuck to the original.
- TicWatch S and TicWatch E are more affordable, whereas TicWatch 2 costs $249.00 to $299.00.
- TicWatch S and TicWatch E use Android Wear 2.0, whereas TicWatch 2 uses Ticwear OS.
The TicWatch 2
The Mobvoi TicWatch 2 (read my full review here!) was the first one to come out in the market, having been first launched in July 2016. There are three different versions of the TicWatch 2: The TicWatch 2 Oak has a stainless steel frame with a leather strap, while the Onyx has a black stainless steel frame and band, as well as a sapphire crystal screen.
However, the Onyx and the Oak are under the TicWatch 2 Classic line. You also have the TicWatch 2 Active, which has an aluminum frame. Prices for the Mobvoi TicWatch 2 range from $199 for the Active, $249 for the Oak and $299 for the Onyx.
Other than these, the specifications for the TicWatch 2 Active and Classic are mostly the same. The TicWatch 2 sports a round case that measures 44 millimeters in diameter and 12 millimeters thick. It comes with a 20-millimeter band. The 36-millimeter OLED display is clearly viewable even under the intense glare of the sun. Pixel density is rated at 287 pixels per inch.
Underneath the hood, the TicWatch 2 has a 1.2GHz dual-core MT 2601 processor. When it comes to memory, it gives you 512 megabytes of RAM and a storage capacity of 4 gigabytes. Furthermore, the TicWatch 2 connects via Bluetooth 4.1 or to your Wi-Fi network.
You also have the same array of sensors for all TicWatch 2 devices: built-in GPS, GLONASS, a dynamic heart rate monitor, a gyroscope, and an accelerometer.
The 300 mAh battery gives you up to two days of battery juice. If you run low, you can use the patented wireless fast charging technology that can bring your battery back to full.
Smart features
With the TicWatch 2 fitness tracker, you can quickly skim through your notifications, allowing you to read your messages and see your schedule. It also gives you Quick Cards, which will allow you to control your music, see the weather forecast, and check your heart rates.
You can also reply to your messages using a voice reply if you pair an Android phone with a smartwatch. Furthermore, you can receive or place calls without using your hands. To answer an incoming call while driving, you only need to flick your wrist.
Fitness features
The TicWatch 2 allows you to see your steps and monitor your heart rate on the watch itself. With the smartphone app, however, you can see more of your fitness data for better insight into your health. It also comes with a fitness app that would allow you to start a specific activity such as an outdoor run or freestyle weights.
More features
Other features you could expect from the TicWatch 2 include:
- IP65 water resistance, which means that no water could get into the device and that you can safely wear it in the rain.
- Tickle side strip, which is a patented touch navigation interface that allows you to scroll through different menus, notifications, and calendar events.
- Linear vibrating motor, which allows you to be able to distinguish one notification from another without having to look at the watch face.
- Microphones and speakers that allow for two-way communication.
- 35 included watch faces. If you need more, you can just download it.
- Tico voice control interface. This works like Google Assistant, but instead of saying "OK Google," you say "OK Tico" to activate the feature
TicWatch S and TicWatch E
The TicWatch 2 Classic has a more premium look with its stainless steel case and leather or stainless steel strap. The Active versions are slightly sporty with the aluminum case and silicone strap.
But none of these are meant for rugged wear. In fact, you would probably dread exercising with even the TicWatch 2 Active because it is easy to leave a chink on the aluminum casing.
What's more, with prices starting at $200, these health and fitness watches are a bit pricey. For those who are looking for a more affordable smartwatch that you can take on your exercise or rugged adventures, you can get either the TicWatch E, TicWatch S, or TicWatch E.
TicWatch S (for Sport) sells for $199.99 and comes in three flavors: Knight black, Aurora yellow, and Glacier White. It has a polycarbonate case that measures 45 millimeters in diameter and 13 millimeters thick. It weighs 45.5 grams.
Meanwhile, the TicWatch E (E for Express) sells for $159.99. It comes in three colors: Shadow Black, Ice White, and Lemon yellow. The TicWatch E also has a polycarbonate case that measures 44 millimeters in diameter and 13.55 millimeters in thickness. This smartwatch weighs 4 grams lighter than the TicWatch S.
Side-by-side comparison: Price, materials, and design
|TicWatch 2 Active
|TicWatch 2 Classic
|TicWatch S
|TicWatch E
|$249.00 to $299.00
|Case material
|Stainless steel
|Strap material
|Stainless steel or Leather
|Case diameter (mm)
|44 mm
|44 mm
|45 mm
|44 mm
|Case thickness (mm)
|12 mm
|12 mm
|13 mm
|13.55 mm
|Weight (grams)
The TicWatch S does not feature changeable watch straps, so you are pretty much stuck with your original choice. This is not the case with the TicWatch E, which has interchangeable straps. Aside from these, all other specifications for these two smartwatches are the same.
Comparing the TicWatch 2, TicWatch S, and TicWatch E: What are the similarities?
All of these smartwatches have the same screen. Measuring 36 millimeters, their round OLED display has a resolution of 400 x 400 pixels and pixel densities of 287 pixels per inch.
All three also have the same set of sensors, giving them the same fitness tracking capabilities. Furthermore, they all have the same power: using a 1.2GHz dual-core MT 2601 processor, with storage of 4 gigabytes, and RAM of 512 megabytes.
None of these smartwatches have an option to use cellular connectivity. It's either you rely on Bluetooth or Wi-Fi to connect the watch. This limitation means that you would still need your phone nearby to get the full features of these smartwatches.
That fact also severely limits the attractiveness of having a built-in GPS because you will need your phone in order to sync data after your run.
Comparing the TicWatch 2, TicWatch S, and TicWatch E: What's different
The most significant difference between the TicWatch 2 and the S and E versions is the operating system. The TicWatch 2 uses Ticwear OS, which is based on Android Wear OS but has an additional layer that allowed the manufacturer to add their own interface.
Having an Android-based operating system means that you can still download Wear OS apps to your TicWatch 2, but it would need more steps to use these apps.
The TicWatch S and E use Android Wear 2.0, and you can download ordinary Wear 2.0 apps to use with your smartwatch. The only downside is that your TicWatch S or E will look like every other Android Wear 2.0 app because Google does not allow manufacturers to come up with their own interfaces if they use their wearable operating system.
The TicWatch S and TicWatch E are also more water-resistant than the TicWatch 2. The TicWatch 2 is rated IP65, which makes it resistant to water splashes. But with IP67, the TicWatch S and TicWatch E can survive if you dip it underwater.
Because the TicWatch S and TicWatch E do not use Ticwear OS, you no longer have to issue the OK, Tico activation phrase. You would go back to using "Ok, Google" and that is a good thing because it is less confusing.
If you have loved the Tickle side strip on the TicWatch 2, you might need to know that this feature is no longer on the TicWatch S and TicWatch E.
The Tickle side strip allowed you to navigate through menus and messages without taking any space on the screen, and it is a very convenient and useful feature of the TicWatch 2. Sadly, Mobvoi did not include this on the more affordable smartwatches.
Side-by-side comparison: Other features
|Ticwatch 2
|TicWatch S
|TicWatch E
|300 mAh
|300 mAh
|300 mAh
|Maximum battery life
|2 days
|2 days
|2 days
|Wireless fast charging
|Exchangeable watch strap
|Built-in GPS
|Dynamic heart rate sensor
|Tickle side strip
|Microphone and speakers
|Operating system
|Ticwear OS
|Android Wear 2.0
|Android Wear 2.0
|Compatible with Android and iOS phones
|Round screen
|OLED display
|Display size
|36 mm
|36 mm
|36 mm
|Pixel density
|1.2GHz dual-core MT 2601 processor
|512 megabytes RAM
|4 gigabytes of storage
How these Smartwatches fare on Amazon
The TicWatch E and TicWatch S are priced from $120 to $200 and have a rating of 3.7 stars out of 5.0. Customer reviews speak of the great features offered by the TicWatch S at more budget-friendly prices. However, some people complained about screen burns, which made the smartwatch unusable after some time of use.
On the other hand, the TicWatch 2 Classic and TicWatch 2 Active have a rating of 3.5 stars out of 5.0.
FAQ's About Smartwatches
Answer: Besides telling the time, there are a lot of things that smartwatches can do including measuring steps, tracking time, record your heart rate and vital signs, they can answer calls, send messages, play music if it's connected to your phone, etc.
Answer: Most smartwatches need a phone because of the Bluetooth connections, however, there are some that can be connected directly through Wifi, so you can use all of the apps directly.
Answer: Yes. TicWatch watches allow texting with a small keypad that shows up on the screen and also the messages vibrate and you can choose to read a preview or the full one.
Answer: What's special about the TicWatch S is that this smartwatch has a Google Assistant with a pretty great built-in voice recognition system that is really accurate in completing tasks by order. You can open apps, make searches, and a lot more on this watch thanks to the assistant.
Final Say: TicWatch 2 vs. TicWatch S vs. TicWatch E
It is very evident that Mobvoi has come up with the TicWatch 2, TicWatch S, and TicWatch E to ensure that different customers can choose the perfect device for them. These are pretty similar smartwatches regarding performance, horsepower, and everything else, but they have a few differences.
If you see a smartwatch as something that would complement your style, you can choose the more exquisite TicWatch 2. The Classic version is excellent for formal, dressy, and elegant occasions, while the Active is much better for more casual use.
If you are more into fitness and rugged adventures, you can choose the TicWatch S or TicWatch E. If you are looking for something more budget-friendly, get the TicWatch E. Nevertheless, all of these smartwatches are very powerful and feature-packed.
It is not difficult to recommend any one of these models because they prove that smartwatches can be powerful and packed with useful features without having to cost an arm and a leg.


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Introduction: Welcome to Terra • Getting Started • The Terran Landscape
Basic Controls: Castle Controls • Vehicle Controls • Vehicle Movement
Equipment Library: Vehicle Overview • Weapon Overview • Radio Commands
Forts and Construction: Building Overview • Cash and Construction • Fort Defenses
Tactical Tip: Stealth mode does not make your vehicle totally invisible, and you can be killed while stealth is engaged. It is best to use stealth in hilly areas where visibility is limited by terrain.
Clans are the main strategic, tactical, social and economic structures in Terra. Only Clans, not individuals, can own assets like forts and accumulate money in Terra. When you first enter Terra, you are assigned by default to one of the two Founding Clans (DesertRats or Amok). As soon as you feel comfortable however, you should join one of the real, player-led Outland Clans and engage in the real battle for the Outlands.
Once you have decided which Clan you would like to join, you will need to "pledge" that Clan and be accepted by that Clan's Chieftain. To do this, logon to the Terra website, then click on your player name in "Logged in as" box near the upper right. Then click on the "Pledge Clan" link at the bottom of the red box on your player page. Select the Clan you wish to join from the drop-down box and press the "Submit Pledge" button. Once you have submitted your pledge, an automated email is sent to the Clan Chieftain informing them of your pledge. After the Clan Chieftain accepts your pledge, you will officially belong to that Clan.
As a member of a Clan, you should be aware of the following:
Every Terran warrior belongs to a Clan. Some Clans have many members, some have only a few (or even just one!). Once you achieve the rank of Major you can set out on your own and start a Clan. Make sure you have plenty of experience, and plenty of allies. To create your new Clan, click on the "Game Functions" tab at the top of the screen and select "Create Clan" under the "Warrior Functions" heading. Simply select a unique Clan name and click the "Create Clan" button.
By default, all privileges are bestowed by rank. The privileges include the ability to move the pylons at your Outland forts, withdraw money, build fuel and ammo dumps, build defenses at your forts, form alliances with other Clans and build new forts. As a Chieftain, you can bestow and revoke specific privileges to any member of your Clan. This is often useful when you want to accept a warrior that you don't know well enough to fully trust, or when you want to reward a particularly loyal Clan member. Privileges are bestowed and revoked on the "Game Functions" tab. A warrior who changes Clans has all privileges reset to the default values conferred by rank until the Chieftain of the new Clan chooses to change them. The default privilege rank levels are as follows:
|Net Kills
|Default Privileges
|Commander in Chief
|Clan High Commander
|FM of the Clan Army
|Field Marshall
|Lieutenant General
|Lieutenant Colonel
|form clans, transfer forts, designate home
|build forts, powerplants & mobilebases
|First Lieutenant
|form alliances
|Second Lieutenant
|build defenses
|Sergeant First Class
|build fuel & ammo dumps
|withdraw money
|Lance Corporal
Note: A Clan Chieftain can override these defaults and revoke or bestow any privilege (except Clan-forming) to any Clan Member regardless of rank. Explanation of Privileges
Form Clans: To form your own clan (once you reach the appropriate rank), go to the Game Functions section.
(Note: @ commands are available from the menu inside your vehicle)
Transfer Forts: @transfer [fort name] [clan name] transfers ownership of one of your forts to another clan.
Build forts, power plants, mobilebases and radars: Build forts to establish your empire in the Outland. Power plants enable purchase of vehicles at Clan Forts. Mobilebases are used to launch attacks against other clans' forts and radars to find foe structures.
Form alliances: @friend [clan name] will ally you with another clan (they need to give the same command to activate the alliance). Allied clans freely share all their resources.
Build defenses: @rep and @thug build the repulsor pole and turret ("thug") fort defenses.
Build ammo and fuel dumps: @ammo for an ammo dump, @fuel for a fuel dump.
As Chieftain you will need to be aware of the status of opposing (and friendly) Clans. Use the "Battle Reports" tab on the website to view such information as who is currently online, what forts are under attack or recently captured, etc. The "Rankings" tab will show the current rankings of both the various Clans and individual warriors in the game using a variety of statistics. You can also use the "Live Map" tab to access a map of Terra showing all of your forts as well as any enemy forts that you have found in the Outlands.


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The CHARLOT, and her sisters SOLENE and SUSAN, are wool throws made of an extraordinarily soft quality wool from the sheep in Nepal, so silky and not at all scratchy. They all incorporate the houndstooth weaving pattern.
CHARLOT is an all over, two color, houndstooth style.
Fringes are all rolled and knotted by hand.
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Deity: deities of song and music
Granted Powers: Your voice carries the power of the god of song and music, inspiring allies and charming foes.
Song of Courage (Su): Your singing grants your allies a +1 bonus to saving throws against charm and fear effects and on attack and damage rolls. You can sing the song of courage a number of times per day equal to 1 + your Charisma bonus. This power is otherwise similar to a bard's inspire courage ability.
Song of Suggestion (Sp): At 8th level, once per day you can sing a powerful song and make a suggestion (as per the spell) to a number of creatures equal to your Charisma bonus. A Will save (DC 10 + ½ your cleric level + your Charisma modifier) negates the effects. This power is otherwise similar to a bard's suggestion ability.
Domain Spells: 1st—silver tongue, 2nd—song of rapture, 3rd—sculpt sound, 4th—song of discord, 5th—music of the spheres, 6th—sympathetic vibration, 7th—irresistible dance, 8th—holy aura, 9th—wail of the banshee.
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|Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)
Friday, December 6, 2013
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"A little, knowledge is a very dangerous thing."
"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." As always it depends on whose ox is being gored.
In the long run Nelson Mandela turned out to one of the greatest statesmen in modern history.
I doubt if any of us is pacifist enough to completely renounce violence.ReplyDelete
Life's a complicated thing, and I don't think the broad strokes used by either FT or DT have all that much to do with the reality.
I don't know much about Mandella's involvement with the armed wing of the ANC, but he probably wasn't blameless. Nevertheless, in my opinion the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is among the greatest political achievements of the late 20th centuries.
"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter."
Some acts are purely terrorist IMO.
In the practical world -- the REAL world -- "RESULTS are ALL that COUNT, Jez.ReplyDelete
He was instrumental in ending Apartheid -- a laudable achievement surely any leftist such as yourself could do nothing but applaud.
Maintaining the status quo established by the Dutch and the British would have meant that a large majority of South African natives would have continued to be subjugated, exploited and treated as inferiors with hopelessly limited prospects in their OWN land by Dutch and British invading forces.
As a self-proclaimed "Tory of the Old School," even I could see that a situation of that sort was morally untenable, and in the long run impractical.
Mandela's great achievement was in managing the NON-VIOLENT transfer of power from harsh, cruel, White-Segregationist to Native South African Rule with remarkable grace, efficiency and the absence of rancor and desire for retribution.
Mandela was, indeed, identified with Communism, and did believe early on in defeating the Apartheid Rule by main force. His cause was just. His methodology flawed. He served TWENTY-SEVEN-YEARS in JAIL,however, and came out unbowed, with his dignity intact, but also with the charismatic aura of an heroic martyred saint, because of the equanimity and good humor with which he bore his suffering and unjust punishment. He proved himself a bigger, better man than any of his captors, and won a tremendous moral and temporal victory.
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2013 at 7:55 AM
Winnie Poohmandela saidReplyDelete
No one could deny that Nelson's face was a lot better looking than Michelle Obama's arse.
I doubt that a true portrait of Nelson Mandela exists. Being lauded as the saviour of South Africa in the MSM by freeing the country from arpartheid after being released having served 27 years in prison for being a so-called radical communist seems more like window dressing hiding the real essence of what really happened. What he may have been in the early sixties would pale in comparison to the rabid frothing at the mouth bee ess that's served up on a daily basis by the likes of MSNBC, and they're worshiped by the loose screws of the left day in and day out. They head there to lean forward, grab their ankles and pick up their daily talking points to regurgitate.ReplyDelete
I happen to feel entirely uncomfortable in a mob of Mandela worshipers and why would I want to be part of a mob that features the likes of the good Reverend Al Sharpton gushing about Nelson Mandela when he's about as corrupt a human being that ever took a breath of air on this planet?
I'm thinking there's way more to the story of Nelson Mandela that lies buried in the past about his timely release from prison the be raised up as leader of a country—in other words, he had plenty of help acting behind the scenes in his rise to fame and fortune after doing hard time in prison.
"RESULTS are all that count"ReplyDelete
Not that I completely agree with this (raw pragmatism is dangerous), but surely you'd want to account for the dozens of civilians who died as a result of ANC bombings?
Look, I like Mandela too -- see third para of my last comment. You're clearly more binary about these things than I.
- SilverfiddleDecember 6, 2013 at 9:16 AM
While I understand Jez's nuanced approach, I take FreeThinke's view. I was thinking about this on the way to work this morning, and FreeThinke has expressed how I feel much more eloquently than I ever could.ReplyDelete
Today is a day to praise a great man who has died.
Waylon: That mobs of race hustlers and leftwing morons congregating around the memory and iconography of Nelson Mandela takes nothing away from the man himself and his accomplishments.
With apologies to John the Baptist, resident jackass Al Sharpton is not worthy to tie Nelson Mandela's shoelace.
- Remember Ben GaziDecember 6, 2013 at 9:18 AM
Amid the wave of Liberal/Progressive/ Communist grief over Nelson Mandela's passing, and President Obama's words of historical tribute and all the outpouring of "greatness"running amok. Let's not forget he was a communist.ReplyDelete
Yes, thers's going to be a lot of "tributes" and there already are, Bit lets not forget so easily. There's is a lot of other things to remember about Mandela, but MOST OF ALL, we should not forget that he was a Communist. Just keep remembering the facts as you hear all the praises. He wasn't sitting in a prison cell all those years for nothing.
While President Obama said very forcefully that his very first endeavor as a political activist, was that of opposing apartheid. Wow. That was just plain difficult to watch - it really was. And the final slice of the cake was when Obozo ordered flags fly at half staff until Monday at dusk for this piece of sh*t. I will fly my flag at half staff on Dec. 7th only in honor of real heroes who died at Pearl.. Was there ever ANY FOREIGN person that was given that honor before? I can think of foreign more than a few leaders worthy of this honor and it́s not Mandela, most recently Margaret Thatcher for example.
I for one have never revered this racist Mandela. for the crimes he committed no matter what his justification was.
When someone plants bombs to insure that black people go to school, was it a terrorist action? Or was it a communist action? Who cares, both or either is pathetic, not heroic! So I guess that Obama supports terrorism as long as they are Black? Nelson Mandela was a Commie and a Murderer , He went to prison for planting bombs for a attempted coop on the government of South Africa.
For Marxist terrorist scum around the world, subjugation to Apartheid or any other repressive regime was a convenient cover to seize power for their own sick ends. Mandela, Guevara, Castro, Stalin, Pol Pot - all birds of a feather. Communism murdered 100's of millions of people worldwide.
But this is the kind of person the left likes to prop up. The man was no saint, and because of him South Africa is but a shell of it's former self. I couldn't bear to listen to the fake in chief slobber over this communist-of course he had to pander to his base. Maybe Obama will take down the statue of George Washington and put a statue of Mandela in the White House.
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2013 at 9:26 AM
Ben Gazi:ReplyDelete
You are an ignorant moron. No liberty-loving person could post what you have just drooled out upon this fine blog.
So he and millions of others should have been happy sitting in servitude? Is that what you are saying? Freedom isn't for everyone?
FreeThinke: Ben Gazi is a shit-slinging baboon, posting the same boilerplate at multiple blogs.
And my feeling is closer to FreeThinke's than to DT's.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2013 at 9:42 AM
Sometimes the truth hurts!ReplyDelete
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Neither FT nor I are arguing that this is not a multi-faceted issue.
Yes he was a communist (he praised Castro!) and yes he used violence, but he was fighting for freedom against a very anti-freedom system.
Also, once in power, he provided a lesson in magnanimosity, when murder and mayhem could have been, if not justified, at least understandable.
As you know all too well, life is not pristine.
Your Hitler, Pol Pot and Mao analogies are inapt. All three of those were progressive tyrants.
A better analogy would be Ho Chi Min, a communist, but a fighter for his people's freedoms, first against China and Japan, later against the US.
As a libertarian, freedom first, not ideology or party.
The fact that Obama and other execrable leftwingers will glom onto the events surrounding Nelson Mandela's death should not becloud our clear-eyed view of the man, good and bad.
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Divine: I respect you, but we disagree.ReplyDelete
By your logic, the founding fathers should never have fired a shot.
Black South Africans were living under tyranny. They had the God-given right to fight for their God-given liberty.
Such is life.
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I'll be glad when this, ad nauseam, eulogy is put to rest and we can return the focus on the very serious issues facing [us], NOW!ReplyDelete
Children die in all wars, and we agree deliberately targeting innocent people is morally wrong.
Apartheid was also a morally reprehensible regime that killed innocent people, including children.
Blow them up or slowly kill them through starvation and disease-ridden squalor, they are all equally dead.
You are still very young, terribly idealistic, decidedly headstrong, and tend to see things in too simplistic a fashion.
NOTHING in this world is strictly black and white, or cut and dried. There ARE no absolutes.
Absolutism is akin to fanaticism -- a dangerous mental condition that has led to the tragic, unnecessary deaths of many millions over the millennia.
You are, of course, entitled to your feelings, but please don't start to act like the "Progressives" who mistake THEIR raw emotions for Absolute Immutable, Unchallengeable, Unquestionable Truth. The corollary to the typical Progressive Fanatic is utter intolerance of and disrespect for disagreement or deviation from THEIR ideas of right and wrong.
This kind of narrow mindedness and intransigence is EXACTLY what is KILLING our society today.
If you realized how peremptory, how insulting and how potentially dictatorial you sound, I'm sure you would reconsider the manner in which you allow yourself to respond to stimuli.
I am, as you must know, very fond of you, and have high regard for your manifest abilities and glorious ambitions on the domestic front, but I not appreciate you -- or anyone else -- coming here and suggesting that I must be out of my mind to harbor views that don't happen to set well with you at first glance.
A beloved, world renowned leader has just died at the age of 95. It's not only disrespectful to speak ill of the dead, but also in poor taste.
I, myself, would reserve such a tone only for the sudden demise of someone as thoroughly rotten as Her Heinous or George Soros, or myriad others who work night and day to make OUR lives poorer, more miserable and less free. Nelson Mandela never belonged in that category.
Mandela was a master statesman. He transcended mere politics, and achieved something as close to secular sainthood as one might hope to get.
"What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."ReplyDelete
~ Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
I hope the meaning of this famous quotation will not be lost on anyone as it applies to the context of the subject we've been considering today.
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- AnonymousDecember 6, 2013 at 1:26 PM
I'm with Ben Gazi and Divine Theatre, I remember the day he was released from prison. The first words out of his mouth were to thank the communist party of South Africa.ReplyDelete
Too bad Winny didn't Croak also.
Can we stop praizing this Commies death please?Replies
Wondering how many children died when the USA dropped the Atomic Bomb on two Major Japanese cities in the name of freedom.Delete
Study Mandela with clarity and only purpose being to understand.
- The GallantwarriorDecember 6, 2013 at 1:32 PM
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- AnonymousDecember 6, 2013 at 1:37 PM
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Here is the real question you should ask:
What did Mandela do when the system was overturned and he sat on top of it all? Impose communism on South Africa? Kill all the white people?
No, he didn't. Despite earlier historical events we've discussed here, that too says much about his character.
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2013 at 1:39 PM
You didn't offend anyone, but you are sorry.
Why don't you suck it and move on?
- The GallantwarriorDecember 6, 2013 at 2:32 PM
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- Heroes Are Ordinary Men Who Do Extraordinary Things in Extraordinary TimesDecember 6, 2013 at 2:47 PM
It's pretty simple, you have to consider the total package not just pick out what you want to believe or have been told to believe. Mandela had a lot to atone for .. and many died because of his terrorist activities. You can be pro-terrorist to your hearts content. You have your opinions, and I have mine.ReplyDelete
Now whata ya say we go get some free stuff and go party!
Now let's all hold hands, get a few candles and sing Kumbaya!
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2013 at 2:54 PM
@ "It's pretty simple, you have to consider the total package not just pick out what you want to believe or have been told to believe."ReplyDelete
Indeed, we should take the totality of Mandela's action into account.
And you are free to be anti-liberty and pro-apartheid to your heart's content.
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2013 at 2:55 PM
@ Gallistwarrior "So suck it up, stick it, or shove it, who cares? I don't "ReplyDelete
Obviously, you do, or you wouldn't have answered back
- Heroes Are Ordinary Men Who Do Extraordinary Things in Extraordinary TimesDecember 6, 2013 at 3:18 PM
Found on The Wicked Witches Blog today.ReplyDelete
"Nelson Mandela a Terrorist?
If he can be labeled a "terrorist" because he fought injustice and tyranny, then all of our founding fathers were terrorists as well."
Well really? Nelson Mandela the hero of the anti-apartheid was not the saint some people want him to be..maybe in his old age he became a kindly old man, but in most of his life he WAS a Communist and a terrorist, like it or not.
Does anyone even bother to research anymore or do these moronic Progressives just accept the praised heaped upon a person because the is Black, or because he was ALSO a COMMUNIST!
Nelson Mandela was the head of UmKhonto we Sizwe, the terrorist wing of the ANC and South African Communist Party. At his trial, he had pleaded guilty to 156 acts of public violence including mobilizing terrorist bombing campaigns, where he planted bombs in public places, including the Johannesburg railway station. There were many innocent people including women and children, who were killed by Nelson Mandela's MK terrorist organization. One of the ANC's biggest donors, was Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, another TERRORIST,
It just do happens that Nelson Mandela Was On The U.S. Terrorist Watch List Until 2008. Perhaps he was taken off that list when Barack Obama another Black Commie became the president ! Coincidence? Maybe?
Ghandi, Mother Theresa, Reagan, .....they did great things, NO, they were not saints. They were human. One nations terrorist is another nations freedom fighter. I would put Mandela on the terrorist list, period.
Funny how Liberals, /Progressives can say all kinds of politically incorrect things when it pleases them. The misconceptions about Mandela are vast, and typical of the left.
And by the way, He was jailed up for a good reason, don't believe it? Just ask the families of people he murdered
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2013 at 4:13 PM
I don't think anyone here denied he did violence or that he was a terrorist, so perhaps you should go scream at those blogs where people are denying those facts.ReplyDelete
As stated earlier, when Aparheid was overturned, Mandela was magnanimous in victory.
We can quibble over what constitutes terrorism, but he and his fellow communists were fighting a tyrannical regime. We all have a God-given right to fight for our God-given liberties.
@Andie --- The Founding Fathers fought military targets, not children and innocent civilians.ReplyDelete
Let's just disagree.
Have you studied the virtual civil war in the south? Britain felt the southern royalists would keep the south under control.
Or maybe you got your history form that Mel Gibson film.
I am really shocked at the level of almost hatred for a man that kept South Africa from degenerating into massive bloodshed.ReplyDelete
Maybe he should have just been silent like a good little pickaninny?
It was a great moment for the Republican party when they defied Reagan and his moll Thatcher to join the Dems instituting sanctions. Those were the days when we had a soul.
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Thanks to those who made polite, reasoned responses.ReplyDelete
We live in an age madly in love with the unfettered expression of self-righteous rage, disapproval, insolence and contempt both thoughtless and calculated.
Anyone who makes an earnest attempt to avoid giving hair trigger reactions with raw, unfiltered, unthinking emotion is to be commended.
Divine Theater,ReplyDelete
I tire of your caustic, hateful tone. We are all deserving of civility.
Am I the only one who sees the hilarity in you accusing Ducky of ad hominemen immediately after calling him a childish elderly man??
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You must hate the USA then, to be consistent. Think about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Think about Dresden.Delete
And think about what Ducky said.
My sweet Grandpa was a die-hard Reagan republican and he despised Mandela. I was sad that he seemed incapable of recognizing the good Mandela had done, but focused only on the bad.ReplyDelete
It's an interesting theme: to do good sometimes necessitates going harm.
I can't say it any better than SF, jez, and yourself.
Have a good night, Andie.ReplyDelete
FT, my 6:06 pm comment was addressed to you. :-)ReplyDelete
And I regret engaging in the mud-slinging, even for a minute.
Life is too short to waste even a minute on futile activities.
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Let us consider Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, William Tecumseh Sherman, Woodrow Wilson, FDR and Harry Truman, among many others we could name. In light of much of the misguided reasoning and false equivalency used in a vain attempt to dishonor, discredit and condemn Nelson Mandela, every one of those prominent American leaders would qualify as terrorists, mass murderers and war criminals worthy of repudiation, condemnation and eternal vilification.ReplyDelete
If you don't know why, please study history.
Several years ago I wrote this satiric poem:
_____ To Robert Mugabe, et al._____
When'er the Brits are driven away
Black tyrants often come to prey.
When White Men let their burden down
Savages will take the crown
Place it on their nappy heads
Throw themselves in with the Reds
Rule their folk with iron hand
Wreaking havoc o'er the land.
When blacks rule blacks, no one is free
Their nature turns to tyranny.
How much blood might have been saved
If they'd stayed happily enslaved!
~ FreeThinke
While that has been sadly true in most cases after British Colonial Rule ended, it was most emphatically NOT true in the case of Nelson Mandela, and that is why we laud him here today.
Naturally, the Red Diaper Babies, Parlor Pinks, Massachusetts Marxicrats and other Leftist Dodos among us will worship Mandela NOT because of his superior statesmanship and enlightened handling of Power once achieved, but simply because he WAS a COMMUNIST.
That deranged element still prefers to take its nourishment directly from Karl Marx's mummified posterior.
Fanatics of ANY stripe who FEEL their way through life, instead of taking time to THINK beyond the obvious, very often miss the deeper significance in events -- as we are permitted to see them.
There is always much to know beyond what may seem obvious.
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Thoughtless formulaic commentary born of adamant prejudice that takes no notice of and makes not attempt to learn from the contributions others make is not welcome here.ReplyDelete
Once again, as Wal Whitman said:
"We can never be sure that the opinion we wish to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still."
~ John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
here is no wisdom whatsoever in absolutism.ReplyDelete
Justice Holmes may have been a liberal, but I've always liked this quotation:
"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought – not free thought for those that agree with us, but freedom for the thought that we hate."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)
I hasten to add that mindless spamming of BOILERPLATE does not qualify as "thought" at least at this blog.
"The Founding Fathers fought military targets, not children and innocent civilians."ReplyDelete
You need to dig a little deeper there, atrocities were committed on both sides in the American Revolution.
Kings Mountain, in which Patriots slaughtered American Loyalist forces after surrender.
Charles Lynch, who hanged suspected loyalist civilians in Bedford County Virginia.
As thge saying goes "He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."
"WAR IS HELL."ReplyDelete
There's nothing else that needs to be said.
If you are subjected to the whims of a tyrant and you don't rebel, and do your best to topple him from his high and mighty position, you will remain his SLAVE and his VICTIM forever, and so will your children and all future generations of your people who failed to stand up and fight for FREEDOM.
There is no NICE, TIDY, PRIMLY MORAL way to rid yourself of a menace.
Like it or not, we live in a KILL or BE KILLED world.
If you want to be so God-damned MORAL, by all means lay down, let yourself be trampled and DIE. You richly deserve your fate.
The world is not a cricket match, a friendly game of croquet, or a hand or two of bridge. Neither is it run by Roberts Rules of Order. Underneath the wafer-thin crust of Civilization we are all still savages.
From MANDELA's point of view his people were in the thrall of the moral equivalent of VlAD the IMPALER. If I had been cursed with such a fate, you may be sure I would gladly lie, cheat, steal, kill, torture, maim, rape and loot if THAT is what it would take to end the reign of VLAD.
Sorry, dear people, but there really ARE times when the ends do, INDEED, justify the means.
The same thing goes if called upon to defend my property or my person from attack. My first objective when beset by an attacker would be to do my best to KILL the God-damned son-of-a-bitch.
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Divine, Do you REALLY want to know, and would it change your position.Delete
" Please refrain from doing so.ReplyDelete
If you have something to add, perhaps you can do so without the [ad hominem]?"
Hey, that's all THEY have left!
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"My sweet Grandpa was a die-hard Reagan republican and he despised Mandela"
Your sweet Grandpa was a VERY SMART MAN AND SO WAS RONNIE REAGAN!
- AnonymousDecember 7, 2013 at 7:52 AM
A perfect example of the sick minds that make comments in the PROGRESSIVE'S blogsphere:ReplyDelete
As a group, they want Nelson Mandela to be looked upon as a great man., a SO CALLED "Last pure hero." They revered as a saint, and a symbol of freedom.
NO! The SO CALLED hero of the anti-apartheid struggle was not the saint that they want him to be. Not in the least. The fact is that even Amnesty International refused to take on Nelson Mandela's case because they asserted that he was no political prisoner but had committed numerous violent crimes and had had a fair trial and a reasonable sentence. He was a bloody terrorist! People forget so quickly. He was involved in premeditated bombings and murders. So what if he changed his mind when in prison and denounced his previous beliefs? Once a terrorist, always a terrorist. South Africans were desperate to have someone to worship and since this dude made headlines they clutched onto him. He figured, and quite rightly, that terrorist turned politician is the way to go (like those born again Christians in prison sham) simple as that. Then, he was just riding the gravy train enjoying life of luxury (legally this time) allowing others to write his speeches and do all the other stuff politicians do. Try to find out more about this asshole before glorifying him. - See more at: http://perezhilton.com/2013-12-05-nelson-mandela-dies-95/#sthash.7uCHvcrn.dpuf
Nelson Mandela was the head of UmKhonto we Sizwe, the terrorist wing of The African National Congress and South African Communist Party. At his trial, he had pleaded guilty to 156 acts of public violence including mobilizing terrorist bombing campaigns, which planted bombs in public places, including the Johannesburg railway station. Many innocent people, including women and children, were killed by Nelson Mandela's MK terrorists.
And his former wife Winnie Mandela was a murderous whore! She was despicable.
For these people to worship this man is to be be pro-terrorist.
And these are the same people that call Ronald Reagan those disgusting names. Go figure.
I believe that Mandela actually "repented" his former terrorist ways. And for his later acts of redemption, I, personally, am willing to forgive him (but not to the extent of hiding his former acts through expressions of ideological purity). Overcoming his former convictions is what led to his "great"-ness.ReplyDelete
- The GallantwarriorDecember 7, 2013 at 9:09 AM
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...and yes, I am being highly "judgemental" in saying that I "forgive" him, not that he ever wronged "me", personally.ReplyDelete
- The GallantwarriorDecember 7, 2013 at 9:11 AM
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"I believe that Mandela actually "repented" his former terrorist ways. And for his later acts of redemption, I, personally, am willing to forgive him"
With all due respect to you FJ, are you also willing to forgive Bill Ayers,George Metesky, the "Mad Bomber",who placed over 30 bombs in New York City, The IRA, Fatah (PLO), The members of the Black Liberation Army, Joanne Chesimard,Angela Davis,Shakur,Timothy McVeigh, or Terry Nichols, the Times Square bomber, Richard Reid the airplane sock bomber or any other of these Skumbags that committed Terrorist attacks and attempted attacks if they "Repented"?
Maybe you would, but I wouldn't, and i wouldn't forgive a Nelson Mandela or a Osama bin Laden either!
...and I do NOT forgive the others, for they NEVER demonstrated "repentance", as Mandela DID.ReplyDelete
...and yes, if Bill Ayers and his wife were to stand up tomorrow and repent their formers ways, and QUIT trying to indoctrinate the children of Chicago and students at Northwestern in the merits of radical (vice peaceful) "activism", I would forgive them. But I see no evidence of it.ReplyDelete
Bill Ayers has all his father's vast resources at his disposal. Let him put it to better use.
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...and when he finally attained political power, did he take vengeance upon all his former enemies, divest them of their property, and/or banish them?ReplyDelete
No, he attempted to reconcile with them, and instill a system of equal justice before the law.
Mandela's former acts of violence did NOT make him great. What made him great was that when placed in a position of power when he could have done REAL and LASTING damage, he renounced his former "vengeful" ways and initiated a program of reconciliation with his former "masters".ReplyDelete
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Yes, he was a repentant former-terrorist, who prevented the deaths and anguish of many whites, had he not held a sincere belief in universal "justice" (as opposed to "social justice" for his own "tribe").ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 7, 2013 at 10:06 AM
Mandela had a lot to "repent" for .. and many innocent people died because of his terrorist activities man, women and children alike..ReplyDelete
We cannot promote conservative principles by embracing Marxist heroes.
...but we can leave the lenses of conservative ideology off and acknowledge certain more "universal" and less "partisan", principles.ReplyDelete
For "conservative" principals ARE different from those who espouse universal humanism.
Apparently there can be no redemption for prior bad acts, no matter how sincere, for some in this thread. I wonder we would all stand with Christ if he held us to that standard.ReplyDelete
Nelson Mandela was a terrorist... it was a past and lifestyle he renounced and worked the remainder of his life to change. When presented with his moment to continue his decision, as many have noted here, was not more death and destruction, but life.
As Free has pointed out, war is hell. Whether people choose to believe it or not, our soldiers have contributed some horrible atrocities over the years in the name of freedom. They have killed women, children and ripped infants from wombs. We're they terrorists? You tell me?
In other words, ideologies "conceal" certain facts/truths. So long as we don't "conceal" Mandela's shortcomings, we've nothing to fear from promoting Mandela.ReplyDelete
It's when a hagiography of Mandela gets broadcast that leaves out any mention of Mandela's former terrorist activities, that we should object... but perhaps at the precise moment of his death, we can temporarily suspend that rule out of respect for the "good" he did accomplish.
- AnonymousDecember 7, 2013 at 10:25 AM
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I believe it, too. He WAS a terrorist. A sharky one! And once the funeral's over, I'll go back to pointing out that "Mackies" back in town!ReplyDelete
You're right FJ - time for some perspective:- tell that to the 100's of families who lost their loved ones.
I will, once they bury the man. I'm sure that no one praised Mandela at their funerals.ReplyDelete
Ecclesiastes 3
Anyone notice that Radical Redneck in his list of terrorists fails to list the pinnacle of southern manhood responsible for turning Birmingham into "Bombingham".ReplyDelete
Ideologies conceal, ducky. But please, don't try and tell me that the Left doesn't "conceal".ReplyDelete
Like how Barrack Obama's chief political sponsor and his wife are BOTH terrorists.ReplyDelete
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think about the rape of Nanking... and Auswitz... not just Hiroshima and dresden.ReplyDelete
there are two sides to a scale of balance.ReplyDelete
its okay to be judgemental of THAT result.ReplyDelete
Ducky... My Lai... Sand Creek... actions of true patriots I assume...ReplyDelete
A question for the naysayers...
If a government, or military kills innocents in the case of it's actions, is that terrorism, or is that justified?
Is there ever justification for a person to kill another person when they are fighting against an unjust government, or system?
Is there ever justification for a person to kill another person when they are fighting against an unjust government, or system.ReplyDelete
Every "system" has a seamy and/or uncanny under-side. For those who defended Communism, it was the gulag. For those who defend Democracy, there was racism/ tribalism (or today's "reverse racism" of affirmative action).
Now I'm not ready to kill anybody over affirmative action, yet. But if my future is one day completely eclipsed because of it and I see no prospect for my being able to advance myself in the future, you can BET that I will kill someone. Socialists, take note.
Either your system "works" for ALL its' citizens sans "scapegoats", or it's "ripe" for a justified revolution.ReplyDelete
And killing "innocents" is only justifiable if your own innocents are similarly taking losses. Killing those directly responsible, (ie government officials directly responsible for repression) is, hjowever, perfectly acceptable, in my limited view.
The most revealing insight into the character of Nelson Mandela that I've seen in the blanket coverage from the media of the world doesn't erect a cardboard cut-out of the man and fill a page with common perceptions that all genuflect before, but show rather than tell something of a personal perception about Mr. Mandela. This is from a former journalist whose experience with him dates to before his imprisonment.ReplyDelete
"Possibly because he was only able to spend quality time with his own children when they were adults, Mandela was obsessed with children. If they were present, he would focus on them, not the adults. He told tween Jess Heard that she would live to realize her dream of taking the stage, and she has. He assured young Tyler Pike he would overcome a birth defect to his arm to become a cartoonist, and he has. Then we all joined in singing Happy Christmas."
That's not the only reference to his attention to young people that I've seen. But this seems to indicate something like a common touch and a genuine interest in those young people to advance to a better life. That could be an indication that he's reformed his evil ways. Does it mean that those slugs hanging onto his coat tails as he's buried (the likes of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and other assorted "progressive" slugs worshiping him with a clenched fist salute belong in an adoring throng of the so-called common people?) There's something wrong with that last picture and the one painted by most of the MSM.
_________ THIS BEARS REPETITION __________ReplyDelete
Let us consider Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, William Tecumseh Sherman, Woodrow Wilson, FDR and Harry Truman, among many others we could name.
In light of much of the misguided reasoning and false equivalency used in a vain attempt to dishonor, discredit and condemn Nelson Mandela, every one of those prominent American leaders would qualify as terrorists, mass murderers and war criminals worthy of repudiation, condemnation and eternal vilification.
If you don't know why, please study history.
Several years ago I wrote this satiric poem:
_______ To Robert Mugabe, et al._______
When'er the Brits are driven away
Black tyrants often come to prey.
When White Men let their burden down
Savages will take the crown
Place it on their nappy heads
Throw themselves in with the Reds
Rule their folk with iron hand
Wreaking havoc o'er the land.
When blacks rule blacks, no one is free
Their nature turns to tyranny.
How much blood might have been saved
If they'd stayed happily enslaved!
~ FreeThinke
While that very sadly has been true in most cases after British Colonial Rule ended, it was most emphatically NOT true in the case of Nelson Mandela, and that is why we laud him here today.
Naturally, the Red Diaper Babies, Parlor Pinks, Massachusetts Marxicrats and other Leftist Dodos among us will worship Mandela NOT because of his superior statesmanship and enlightened handling of Power once achieved, but simply because he WAS a COMMUNIST.
That deranged element still prefers to take its nourishment directly from Karl Marx's mummified posterior.
Fanatics of ANY stripe who FEEL their way through life, instead of taking time to THINK beyond the obvious, very often miss the deeper significance in events -- as we are permitted to see them.
There is always much to know beyond what may seem obvious.
I doubt that it's simply "because the Brits were driven away" that the Dark Continent has sunken deeper into an enslavement quagmire. The Brits most responsible were the likes of Cecil Rhodes. He has bequeathed to the world a band of Rhodesians (the Rhodes scholars and Bill Clinton is a good example today)a rapacious band of greed driven swine out to rule the world through a central government whilst driving the greater part of the population to extinction or outright slavery to the rule of the committee of the elect.ReplyDelete
The apparatus of this all encompassing enslavement has been built piece by piece over the better part of the past century. I think it should be apparent that we are almost at the arrival at the terminal "of their hearts desire".
"How many children did they blow up?"ReplyDelete
Come now, you're being disingenuous.
I could be obnoxious and retort by asking you "white, black, or native?" Or point you towards Colonial atrocities against the French, or Puritan atrocities against the Accadians, but the point is, you're lying to yourself if you think atrocities did not occur or were one sided.
The question is why?
Good question Finn and a good point Free...ReplyDelete
I'd like to hear a well reasoned response...
- AnonymousDecember 7, 2013 at 5:11 PM
From what Divine Theater has herself said on other blogs, she suffered greatly during her childhood. It looks like she is haunted by the evils that she experienced, and projects her (justified) hatred onto anyone who hurts children. Although understandable, this projection is in active denial of much of history, and I can't imagine that fostering such an active, bitter resentment in her heart is good for her physical or spiritual health.ReplyDelete
Just a guess......
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Nelson Mandela Quotes You Probably Won't See In The U.S. Media:ReplyDelete
"If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care for human beings."
"All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil."
"From its earliest days, the Cuban Revolution has also been a source of
inspiration to all freedom-loving people. We admire the sacrifices of the Cuban people in maintaining their independence and sovereignty in the face of the vicious imperialist-orquestrated campaign to destroy the impressive gain made in the Cuban Revolution. … Long live the Cuban Revolution. Long live comrade Fidel Castro."
"It is our duty to give support to our brother Moammar Gadhafi, our longtime supporter: … especially in regards to the sanctions which are not hitting just him, they are hitting the ordinary masses of the people … our African brothers and sisters."
"If you look at those matters, you will come to the conclusion that the attitude of the United States of America is a threat to world peace."
"we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians."
Think about those, when you think about defending this Terrorist!
Don't believe them? Google them.
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- AnonymousDecember 7, 2013 at 7:16 PM
Beatrice Fowler saidReplyDelete
It's always very sad to see a person ... or groups of people ... who are incapable of seeing or listening to anything outside the dinning contents of their own tiny minds.
Nothing is more dangerous than the little man or woman who knows he or she is right no matter what others think, or what evidence comes to light that indicates otherwise.
Such a person sets a perfect example of bigotry at its worst.
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package."
______________ CONSIDER THIS ______________ReplyDelete
Countless hundreds of thousands MAIMED
Countless hundreds of thousands WOUNDED
Countless hundreds of thousands made ILL
Countless hundreds of thousands driven INSANE
Countless hundreds of thousands WIDOWED
Countless hundreds of thousands ORPHANED
Countless hundreds of thousands IMPOVERISHED
Countless MILLIONS of DOLLARS worth of PROPERTY DESTROYED.
I'd advise each and every one to THINK a little -- and consider carefully what OTHERS have said -- before delivering a hair-trigger response next time.
I apologized if my observation hurt you. I also said that I hope you will find healing for your trauma. I was being totally sincere. I said that I was anonymous because your vitriol is hurtful.ReplyDelete
I was right.
Please don't direct anymore comments at me, or about me. And do not mention my children again.
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Thank you for the deletions, FT.ReplyDelete
Eye-opening, and sad.
Jen, I do my best to discourage personal feuds and antagonistic remarks. I believe we are all entitled to our feelings and opinions, but not to express them inisistently and repeatedly in ways that disrupt the primary purpose of the discussion.ReplyDelete
It's discouraging, because even though I have made my views abundantly clear, most disregard them when their feelings are running high. The atmosphere then becomes toxic, and having a serious discussion becomes more and more difficult as discourse degenerates into little more than a repetitious exchange of preconceived notions and bigoted opinions that take no differing perspective or new information into consideration.
There is enough pain, injustice, anger and contempt in the world. I don't believe we have any inherent right to add to it.
I'm sorry if I did wrong in making this post. I thought it a courteous, thoughtful, appropriate gesture. It seemed completely uncontroversial to me. It never occurred to me that it might start a conflagration.
One just never knows what could happen no matter where you step.
There is enough pain, injustice, anger and contempt in the world. I don't believe we have any inherent right to add to it.ReplyDelete
I agree. I probably added to it today. :(
As for the post, you have inspired me to do more research. So, thank you. :-)
The older I get, the more interested I become in history. I have a LOT of reading to do!
- AnonymousDecember 8, 2013 at 6:19 AM
FreeThinke said...ReplyDelete
Jen, I do my best to discourage personal feuds and antagonistic remarks.
Gingrich on Mandela:ReplyDelete
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Our first stop was at Cocacobana Beach which looked much different from yesterday. No one was there! Also, people got tired of following the paths onto the beach and the whole beach was footprints! While we waited for other group members to show up, I visited the fruit and vegetable market and did the veggies ever look fresh-
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At Pao de Azucar, or Sugarloaf Mountain-
Parque da Tijuca is home to Cristo Redentor. The statue was built to hide an antennae and today is one of the main tourist attractions of the city. It was started in 1922 and finished in 1931. It's 38 meters high and weighs 1145 tons. It's a 29 meter spread from hand to hand-
Views are amazing-
They hold 65 people and take 3 minutes to go 795 meters, travelling at 36 km/h.
The views are awesome: Flamengo Beach-
No one was on Bogofota Beach but there were a lot of boats in the bay-
I think they were all on Cocacobana which is 4 km long with white sand and Red Beach with reddish sand-
From here we went to see the Catedral Metropolitana but it's closed during Carnival. There are 4 stained glass windows that stretch 60 meters to the ceiling. It took 12 years to build and was inaugurated in 1976-
Of course there are drink and food stands nearby. I had a Caipirinha for $2 and it must have had 3 ounces of cachaça in it-
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Unfortunately, I lost my wife of 54 years, Mary Lee, last September 1. I miss her a lot. She was a talented artist and wonderful wife. I'm here in Essex Meadows, a CCRC, and there are a number of Deerfield men here. Had dinner last night with Harris Parsons, '44 and Chick Williams '37. Malcolm MacGruer's sister is here at Essex Meadows, and he stops by often. I see Tip Atkeson '53 and Mike Ryland '53 frequently, and had lunch with Dick Miller '48 not so long ago. Also run into Dave Preston '51 from time to time. Classmate Steve Percy '48 recently stepped down as chairman of the Southeastern Connecticut Committee on Foreign Relations, having served six years with distinction (a committee on which I serve as a director).
Alec Robertson 1948