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So the Hugin project team released 0.8.0 three weeks ago. What are the expectations, and what does release actually mean?
Some users, particularly in the Windows world, expect the release of a shrink-wrapped product. They expect to click, download, install, use. And of course everything for free.
Easy? Not so quick. What was actually released is nothing more than a tarball, an archive of the source code in a state known to build and work on the major supported platforms. So it could be used to produce executable binaries.
How are those binaries produced? What do they depend upon? What is to be produced? Who does it? How are they distributed? What is missing?
The user community has prepared platform-specific instructions. They may not be perfect but do the job.
There are some dependencies that need to be fulfilled for the recipes to work. Besides the obvious ones of enough disk space; a supported operating system; and installation of the building tools, Hugin 0.8.0 depends on other software packages, both at build time and at run time.
On the Ubuntu package description the dependencies are clearly listed. They are roughly the same for all platforms. They include enblend, enfuse, libpano.
On most Linux based systems a package manager takes care of the dependencies. This means that the packager only has to build Hugin-0.8.0 itself. The package manager will download and install the appropriate dependencies.
On OSX and Windows there is no package manager. The Hugin-0.8.0 binaries alone are useless. The packager has to do extra work.
Anybody with access to a computer can act as a packager, use the instructions and the tarball to produce executable binaries and do whatever they want with it. It's free.
Anybody can put up the binaries for download anywhere on the internet. In the download section of this blog there are links. On top of that there are two distribution channels with special meaning: the package manager and the official Hugin download page.
The package manager is responsibility of the Linux distributors. They carefully test and approve each package that goes into their distribution. And they don't backport often. For example, Ubuntu still supports its 8.04LTS distribution until April 2011 for desktops and April 2013 for servers, as well as 8.10, 9.04 and the upcoming 9.10. As of today, the binary of Hugin distributed by the package manager for Ubuntu 8.04LTS is Hugin-0.7.0_beta4. Users of Ubuntu 8.10 are still served with Hugin-0.7.0_beta5. Users of the most recent Ubuntu 9.04 have access to Hugin-0.7.0 binaries. And for the upcoming 9.10, Ubuntu's plan seems to be to still ship Hugin-0.7.0. We hope that this will change but it is not up to us to change this.
Dependencies Revisited
Specifically, there are three dependencies that currently cause pain. In order of importance:
- Enblend and enfuse are mandatory. Without them, Hugin-0.8.0 does not work. The current enblend and enfuse packages have serious problems, causing them to crash. They are a regression compared to previous CVS snapshots, in particular to those versions delivered with the old Windows SDK and with the Hugin-0.7.0 installer for Windows. There are fixes in the staging branch of enblend-enfuse. And Harry has been using that branch to build the OSX Hugin-0.8.0 bundle until his Mac died.
Unfortunately the staging branch does not build in Windows yet. I researched the problem and fixed part of it (accepted as revision 347 by Christoph Spiel on August 3). Thomas Modes had a look at it before going to holiday and added some more pieces to the solution. But it does not build yet because of Microsoft's Visual C++ quirks.
- Libpano is mandatory. Until recently libpano had a minor but annoying problem: it reverted the language of the user interface to English. Daniel M. German and Thomas Modes solved it in the repository.
- A control point generator is a critical. Until recently the autopano-SIFT-C package had serious problems, causing memory leaks and crashes; failing where the previous version bundled with the 0.7.0 OSX bundle and Windows installer succeeded.
On systems with package managers (i.e. Linux) the packager can simply publish Hugin-0.8.0 and rely on the package manager to solve the above listed issues. For systems without package manager the packager must add them to the bundle/installer or to the SDK used to build it.
Distribution Revisited
Distributing a binary that is known to have a regression over previous versions as official release is bad practice. It not only affects the project reputation, it ruins a working system for those users who overwrite the working version with the newer one.
The OSX Hugin users community fixed the problem and an official OSX binary is available from the Hugin site. There is no solution yet in sight for Windows, so currently Windows users are directed to the 0.7.0 installer. Maybe we should direct them to the tarball instead?
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. This works with most of our users ond most supported platforms.
Unfortunately for some Windows users it does not seem to work. Give them free fish and they will come for more. Give them the freedom to feed themselves and they will ignore it.
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From The ELPALLSKY Chatbox:
Jul 30 2011, 10:20 PM Ken Scheffler... Hamilton,
Slow moving meteor or debris moving west to east and to my south.
Only caught a bit of it between a tree and my neighbour' s house. I' ve watched dozens of meteor showers and seen many hundreds of meteors. This was a little different although not a fireball. Occurred c. 11: 50 pm EST on July 30, 2011.
***We need additional reports to confirm! If you saw this event, please leave a report of what you saw at email@example.com Please include the date and time, the direction you were facing/driving, the direction in which the object moved (upper left to lower right etc.) approximate size and brightness compared to a full moon, color, any flashes, streaks, fragmentation and any sounds or delayed sounds such as sonic booms, hisses, sizzles etc. Thank you! Your information is vital to research/recovery efforts so please take time to report.***

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Development team has made a new release of official Bitcoin client, the new build got 0.3.24 version number. This update contains some bug fixes and improvements which fixes a block download problem, a crash that would occur if there was a loss/lack of network connectivity. Improvements consists of UPnP option enabled by default because the percentage of Bitcoin clients that accept incoming connections is quite small, also DNS seeding option is enabled by default.
Some code added for the wallet encryption feature to be released with v0.4 version.


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Organization of records: clients, animals, suppliers, employees, products. Consultations, Vaccinations, and more.
Organization of records of clients, suppliers, employees, and products. Comprehensive financial management that includes all types of business documents, cash register and a transaction book. Allows you to complete your tasks from anywhere, with or without Internet. Ideal for house calls. Works also on a network and in local and remote communications. Management of consultations.


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As soon as bluebonnets begin to pop their lovely deep periwinkle heads up from the Texas Hill Country country roadside, we've been naturally notified:
Spring has sprung in the Hill Country!
We have former first lady, Texas' own bell of the wildflower ball, and perhaps its most influential environmentalist to date, Lady Bird Johnson, to thank for that. Though her efforts were often derided in her day as 'cosmetic', Mrs. Johnson was instrumental in the passing of The $320 million Highway Beautification Bill of 1965, and brought public awareness to the forefront for environmental causes, as well garnering support for the National Parks system. The Johnson City ranch she shared with former President Johnson is one of those parks, now. The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, in South Austin, is also a testament to her environmental commitment.
"Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites."
For thirty years, The Burnet Bluebonnet Festival has been celebrating the legacy of Lady Bird. This year's festival takes place April 12th-14th, and all are welcome!
|from BluebonnetFestival.org
Of course, not everyone celebrates the emergence of Spring on foot, in dirty sneakers and lily-white ankles, although you're certainly welcomed to do so. Cowboy boots and bedazzled flip flops are the standard. They'll take you as you come, though, even in your city-slickin' finery. The wildflowers won't mind a bit.


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Greetings friends! I'm not going to bombard you all with another dissertation today. Instead, just a simple offering of some good old art modeling and a reminder that I have been officially back at work for the past few weeks. The muse has returned to the platforms of New York City! Get those pencils sharpened 🙂
The sketches of Bob Palevitz have been longtime favorites here on Museworthy, so who better to contribute the first drawing creations of the new season? From my modeling session at Spring Studio last week, a page of quick gesture poses and a longer sitting pose. Bob has a real gift for capturing the model's movements and posture:
We begin a three-day weekend for the Columbus Day holiday. Have a great one everybody! See you very soon 🙂


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Tuesday, November 29, 2005
From The Land Of The Free
After Four Days of Landing In the US I have so far found the following strange features of USA-
1) There are more cars than People here in America.
2) There are way too many good roads, more than what these cars will ever need.
3) I saw more cargo planes than passenger jets.
4) All the TV Channels here are American Only - no BBC, no DW, no Nothing.
5) All the cab drivers here in Bay Area around SF are Punjabis, or subcontinental.
6) No Stray Animals (they probably eat everything), no street hawkers, nothing free actually.
More From America Coming soon...
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Shhhhhh... everyone's asleep... except me, but this is when I do some of my best work. I'm almost ready to show you what I've been creating for the upcoming Christmas season. Here's a hint... Très Jolie.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
No school today. Went to Target. Came home with two things. Teacup Fur Real puppy - cute. Raspberry Beret - cuter still.
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Monday, November 9, 2009
Over the last couple of weeks, I feel as if I have been doing nothing but baking red velvet cupcakes. Between all the recent school functions - Brownies, tag sale, Halloween party, Halloween dance and finally ending with the annual Election Day bake sale, it's been nothing but, bake, bake, bake around here! Okay, I do this every year, but this year was different - somehow (and I don't even know how it happened) I was elected co-chair (with another mother) to be in charge of the Election Day bake sale at school. It was a lot of work, but worth it. All of the money goes to the children for special events. We did very well. Frannie was a real trooper - she made all the table tents and worked the bake sale just as long as I did (it ran from 8:30 AM to 8:00 PM) - we did have a break in the afternoon - but Frannie is a great sales person! All the baked goods were pre-wrapped because we wanted everything to look appetizing and sanitary. I even placed each cupcake into a clear plastic tumbler and covered the top with plastic wrap - this not only keeps the food safe from germs, but it also makes it easier to transport the cupcakes home. I did bake other items for the sale as well (some chocolate chip muffins and also fresh banana muffins with a cream cheese filling and a drizzle of chocolate ganache on top), but for some reason, people keep coming back for those RV's! One gentleman came over to us about 6:30 in the evening. He said that his wife had sent him back to purchase some more red velvet cupcakes - she purchased some earlier in the day - and she wanted more - but he was too late - they were all gone (I think I had baked about 60 of them for this event). And, yes, they did have cream cheese frosting. :)~
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Saturday, November 7, 2009
Frannie stuck in her thumb and pulled out a plum and said, "it's Sharon - Sharon won!" Good guesses from all and thank you for entering.
Very Sparkly!
Getting Ready To Take Flight!
Oodles and oodles of glitter - 3 different shades of pink. Not to mention all the pink sequins that outlined the wings on both sides.
Getting Ready To Take Flight!
The wings were made out of black foam core - they actually had movement. I made hinges out of paper and tape. Frannie has worn them four times and they are still in one piece. I also made shoulder straps out of very wide black elastic and attached them to the foam core with long pearlized pins.
I started with a styrofoam ball and a dowel painted green. Hot glued on some of my crepe paper roses along with other floral petals and leaves, attached some butterflies and then tied on some pink glittered ribbon streamers. Voila!
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Monday, February 7, 2011
Billions in Canadian Shipbuilding Contracts - Arctic Sovereignty at Stake
You cannot claim it if you cannot patrol it... Arctic means new ice breakers
According to a report from The Globe and Mail, Stephen Harper is poised to kick off the greatest round of government shipbuilding in Canada since the Second World War. Pegged at $35b, the sums involved easily dwarf the funds committed for the Conservatives' controversial plan to buy $9b worth of F-35 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin. The report said this will ultimately pit three regions of Canada against each other and force a difficult choice upon Harper. He'll have to decide which region to leave out in an election year: the East, the West or Quebec.
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Lady Gaga Gets New Tattoo, Possibly Reveals Title Of New Album
Lady Gaga previously stated that she would reveal the name of her new album, the follow-up to 2011's Born This Way, in September. But the pop star may have already done just that via her new tattoo. "New ink new album," tweeted the singer, posting the above photo of her brand new tattoo, reading "ARTPOP." She followed with another photo, this one with just words, reading, "We could / We could belong together / ARTPOP."
Could this be the name of Gaga's new album, as well as some new song lyrics? It certainly looks that way, especially if we look back at her past behavior before releasing a new record — the singer inked herself with a unicorn "Born This Way" tattoo several months before the release of her album of the same name.
So what does "ARTPOP" mean? It could be a tribute to one of Gaga's favorite artists, Andy Warhol, who was famous for pop-culture-influenced paintings. "Warhol said art should be meaningful in the most shallow way," Gaga once said of the man who inspired her music and style. "He was able to make commercial art that was taken seriously as fine art … [and] that's what I'm doing, too."
The pop star hasn't just been offering hints at her next LP — she's also been sharing some never-before-seen pics on her social networking site Littlemonsters.com, including herself costumed up like a chic designer unicorn. Check out photos of Gaga looking pretty horny — oh, you know what we mean.


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Wednesday, February 22, 2017
A few changes, a few goals...
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- Stacy said...
Didn't Caden suggest bringing in your Christmas treats to Church and hand them out - a way to get rid of them! LOL
As long as you are healthy, whatever. I am extremely lazy and I get upset and mad when I don't fit into pants, and because everyone assumes that I am "small" because I have been all my life, when I try to button up those dress pants and it doesn't work, it upsets me. However...I don't do anything about it. I sit at my desk all day and if I do get up, it's usually to walk to the store to get chocolate or chips. Ouff! One good thing...my floor at work is under construction which means that we have to go upstairs to the 3rd floor to use the washroom so I am doing the stairs like 8 times a day! Baby steps, baby steps!
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- Nicole said...
People who LIKE to work out I think are crazy :). I'm trying to keep on the bandwagon myself. I have found a few websites that have weight watchers approved meals... and while you may not be doing that... it might help. If you want me to share, I'd be more than happy to! I dropped 20 lbs and now I'm stuck. I'm kind of like you... love to eat. I have moments where I crave cookies and I'm not really a desserts type person. In fact I don't really care for desserts, but cookies... oh boy cookies. You can do this! And once you figure out how, share with me :) haha. I also downloaded an app on my phone called Fit30. It is a 30 day workout challenge that starts out at 6 minutes a day and progressively builds on itself. It's fairly easy. Maybe look into something like that?
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On Ubuntu Gnome 14.10 and Sabayon with Gnome Shell I encountered the following situation when launching Google Chrome or Chromium after computer boot - the browsers would say:
"Google Chrome didn't shut down correctly"
"Chromium didn't shut down correctly"
and would offer to restore the previous tabs. Of course, the browsers had been shut down correctly before powering off the system.
Well, the cause of the error turned out to be simpler than I thought:
To stop getting the error uncheck "Continue running background apps when Chromim (Chrome) is closed".
In case you need to allow running background apps in the browsers, well, browse their respective bug-trackers for a relevant bug report and see if there are other solutions, workarounds, etc.


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Why Poles don't get Conrad
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Partly, it's translation. Almayer and Lord Jim contain some of the most beautiful passages of English prose ever written (I am thinking of the cruise of Patna, or the view of Georgetown harbor from Strawberry Hill in Lord Jim, or the river covered with red fallen flowers in the elopement scene in Almayer); and though I have not checked whether these passages read well in translation, I suspect they do not because I do remember clearly having great difficulty working my way through Conrad in Polish many years ago, and switching, in frustration, to reading him in my then very poor English, because that went better (however slow). Certain important passages in Personal Record for instance — such as the bit about letting the cat out of the bag — were actually incomprehensible in Polish translation — yet proved perfectly legible in English.
I do not mean that Conrad is somehow untranslatable, but merely that the current translations are quite bad; as there seems to be afoot a kind of universal movement to re-translate, sooner or later these will be re-translated; perhaps then Conrad will fare better.
Another problem could be Conrad's Englishness. Most of Conrad's sea books are about man's men who talk the way English man's men do: sarcasm, understatement, elision, brevity, black and acerbic humor, and standoffish refusal to engage in touchy-feelies are all laconically elevated to the status of virtues. Conrad's heroes do not explain anything, ever: in court, Jim testifies about the moment of horror on a sinking ship — the horror which made him lose his mind and act foolishly — in two word: he says "I jumped". He refuses to explain precisely when he absolutely should.
This is emphatically not the Polish way: I have lost Polish friends because I have become too English, too Conradian. My sense of humor is too biting, my interpretation of human character too uncharitable. I tend to wish people to "break a leg" instead of "good luck".
But mainly, perhaps, it is his topics. Lord Jim is a novel about shame, for chrissake; who ever feels ashamed of anything? In The Island of Day Before the (aristocratic, i.e. exceptional, i.e. old-fashioned) pater makes a speech to his (ordinary, with-it, your average bloke) peons, whom he is ordering to go out and fight (I paraphrase): "We have always been loyal to our lord and we will be loyal now because to be loyal in good times and disloyal in hard times is to be a pig. Now, if any of you scum don't like it, better tell me now while I have this convenient tree to hand on which to hang you". In other words, the connoisseur of men that he is, he does not expect his peons to be moved by feelings of loyalty. Perhaps it is equally unreasonable to expect people to be moved by a novel of shame.
Finally, what to make of a novel like The Shadow Line? It has no romantic interest. They haven't killed him and he hasn't run away. There are no screeching tires or ticking time-bombs. It is a novel about a man's first independent command at sea — and one which goes horribly wrong.
In the author's note Conrad explains that he meant it to be, more broadly, a novel about one's passage into manhood. Perhaps even he felt his readers were liable not to get it; so he went out and did something no man's man should: he explained.
It didn't work because, like Jim, he explained badly: it is not a novel about passage into adulthood; it is a novel about a man's love for the sea:
A sudden passion of anxious impatience rushed
through my veins, gave me such a sense of the in-
tensity of existence as I have never felt before or
since. I discovered how much of a seaman I was,
in heart, in mind, and, as it were, physically–a
man exclusively of sea and ships; the sea the only
world that counted, and the ships, the test of man-
liness, of temperament, of courage and fidelity–
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Hydroacoustic separation of rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) age groups in Lake Champlain
Fisheries Research
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- Stetter S.L. Parker , L. G. Rudstam , Thomson J.L. Stritzel , and D.L. Parrish
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AbstractSeparate assessment of young-of-year (YOY) and yearling-and-older (YAO) fish is desirable from both ecological and management perspectives. Acoustic assessments provide information on fish population size structure in the target strength (TS) distribution, but interpretation of TS distributions must be done carefully, as single age groups can produce multiple TS modes. We assessed the ability of in situ TS distributions to identify Lake Champlain rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) age groups in June, July, and September of 2001 using mobile and stationary surveys, knowledge of vertical distribution preferences, and predicted TS from trawl catches. YAO rainbow smelt (93-179 mm total length) had wide TS distributions between -60 and -35 dB in all 3 months with two modes at approximately -50 and -40 dB. Most stationary survey single-fish tracks attributed to YAO had targets in both TS modes and a wide TS range often over 15 dB. Between June and September, YOY rainbow smelt TS increased, but single-fish tracks were unimodal, and the TS range was smaller (6 dB). Overlap in TS attributed to YOY and YAO increased from no overlap in June (YOY TS -76 to -61 dB, 15-25 mm) to moderate overlap in July (-76 to -50 dB, 25-63 mm) to considerable overlap in September (-68 to -45 dB, 33-80 mm). In June and July, the TS distribution changed abruptly at the thermocline, indicating almost complete separation of the two groups. A more gradual TS transition was evident in September, indicating substantial overlap between YOY and YAO. Separate estimates can be obtained in September by decomposing TS overlap into components attributed to YOY and YAO rainbow smelt. However, this decomposition introduces additional uncertainty and an assessment in July or possibly August is preferable to obtain separate abundance estimates of YOY and YAO. ?? 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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- Hydroacoustic separation of rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) age groups in Lake Champlain
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- Fisheries Research
- 10.1016/j.fishres.2006.06.014
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- 82
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- 1-3
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- 2006
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Winging along at an altitude somewhere between the Bluebird of Happiness and the Chicken of Depression... random esoterica from writer Chad Love celebrating the joys of fishing, hunting, books, guns, gundogs, music, literature, travel, lonely places, wildness, history, art, misanthropy, scotch and the never-ending absurdity of life.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
I'm back. Yet again. With news, even...
I did, in point of fact, wake up, but only long enough to wash my clothes, re-pack them and then catch a plane to Utah, where I spent last week engaged in various and sundry activities involving shotguns and birds, activities that would normally - were it not for the kindly largess of others - be way, way above my tiny and impoverished rung on the socio-economic ladder.
More on that, and my trip to South Dakota, later. My schedule has been a bit hectic the past couple weeks, to say the least. It's something that I, as a crabby, short-tempered and generally reclusive (my wife would say hermit-like) misanthrope, am not used to. I've obviously got a lot of catching up to do, blog-wise, so I'll start with some work blog changes that may or may not affect the personal blog.
A few of you may have noticed (or not, if the chirping crickets and lack of comments are any indication) that last week I started co-writing Field & Stream's gundogs blog (Here's a link to my introductory blog. Please tell the world how great I am and much you love me). I'm also still co-writing the Field Notes blog, but David Maccar, who is the newest addition to the online editorial staff, is now doing much of the Field Notes material (and doing a helluva good job, I might add).
I am extremely honored and very excited to get the opportunity to write for the F&S gundogs blog, as the late Bill Tarrant, who was Field & Stream's gundogs editor from 1973 until he died in 1998, was one of my all-time favorite writers of any genre and a huge influence growing up. He was inarguably one of the best writers to ever grace that magazine's pages, and for a publication whose sporting literary tradition can't be touched, that's saying a lot. Now obviously Bill Tarrant never knew what the hell a blog was, and I have no idea what he might have thought of them if he had, but to be able to write about dogs and hunting with dogs in the same publication (even if it is now digital) is a professional and personal milestone for me. I just hope I don't screw it up...
It does, however, pose something of a quandary: I've grown quite fond of writing about my dogs on this obscure little personal blog, and I don't know how much - if any - of what I do here will, or even can, transfer to the F&S blog. I'm still taking baby steps over there, but I'm hoping to eventually be able to get a little more experimental and a little more literary with some of the material (Mouthful of Feathers, Wingshot and Eight More Miles dudes, I'm lookin' at you...).
If that happens, and at this point I honestly don't know if it will, then I might be cutting back some on the dog and upland/waterfowl-related items I write here. But not much, because I can't abandon writing for my own amusement altogether, and of course I've got everything and anything else to write about, too. It's a strange and inchoate beat I march to, and I don't see the blog deviating much from that course regardless of what I write for others.
And whatever I write, next time I'll try to keep from going almost two weeks between writing it...
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Glad you're back at it and look forward to continued reading here and over at F&S. Congratulations.ReplyDelete
Congrats on the new job !ReplyDelete
Thanks Steve, Double D.ReplyDelete
Double D, you're sort of in the same boat, blog-wise, aren't you?
I will follow your column faithfully (Even though Charlie, my ever useless but loveable mutt, will never be a gundog.)on the condition that you continue your excellent narrative their as you have done here. I for one will gladly applaud any attempt at a literary renaissance in outdoor writing!
I know you will do well!
Best Regards,
Albert "Afghanus" Rasch
In Afghanistan: It's Been a Long Road


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E and Pam had the traditional oyster shooter and I had salad in a glass, so to speak. We had appetizers and then moved on.
Updates to follow when I can. Taking my tablet only and am still learning the ins and outs of it. Have a wonderful weekend yourself and Happy Feb.


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The thing about transitting via Bangkok on your way somewhere is that you usually have to transit Bangkok on your way back. In ordinary times, this is not an inconvenience but a delight. But when your flight is coming in as armoured personnel carriers are grinding their way towards flame-throwing Red Shirts, you know these aren't ordinary times.
It would not have been a problem if I were merely changing planes. But you don't change planes in Bangkok. You take time off to partake of tom yam soup and other quintessentially Thai delicacies. And so I had planned to stay a few nights before resuming my journey back home.
In ordinary times, such a plan would be the envy of your friends. In these times, however, your friends are sending you text messages asking "Are you alright?"
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Watching the situation from afar and seeing it steadily worsen over the last few days, I had made the decision Tuesday to divert myself away from the capital city as soon as I arrived. I felt like a refugee. I would still stay in Thailand rather than scramble around trying to change flights, but scoot off to Pattaya from the airport instead of checking into a Bangkok hotel. There's a good highway from Suvarnabhumi Airport to the seaside town 2 hours away, and there's not been any report of trouble there.
Once landed in Bangkok Wednesday afternoon, I rushed to the basement to get a seat on an express coach to Pattaya. The bus company did not take online bookings; one has to show up and purchase a seat in person. This refugee was lucky, I got the second last of 36 seats. About ten others after me had to wait two hours for the next bus.
As the coach left the airport, which is about 25 km (as the crow flies) from the Ratchaprasong epicentre, I took this picture. Despite the distance, you can see a dark haze blanketting the entire city.
Never mind the risk of getting shot or burnt, even if you stayed safe hiding somewhere in Bangkok, you'd still have to breathe that air!
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On reaching Pattaya, the hotel manager was terribly apologetic. His hotel was overbooked; many guests who were scheduled to check out did not. Understandably so.
However, he made a quick decision, organising a room for me at another similar-class hotel a short distance away. He had tried to reach me on my mobile phone to let me know, but it had been switched off for the flight, he said. But now that I had showed up at his hotel, he personally drove me over to the other place.
He had paid the first night in advance for me, and I didn't need to pay him back, he assured me. It was his way of making things right for me under the circumstances.
Singaporeans can learn a thing or two about service quality.
After settling in, and watching the news for an hour, it was time for dinner. On reaching the front lobby and looking out at the street, it seemed darker than I expected.
Just then, the manager of this hotel came up to me. "Do you know that a curfew has been imposed?"
"No, I didn't. When was it announced?"
"Just now," he said.
Apparently, the authorities announced an 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew only at 8 p.m., giving people no time to get home. It was also announced only on Thai television, that's why I missed it even though my set was on.
It's a bad sign when the authorities are clamping curfews here and there without giving notice. There's an air of poor planning and panic.
Naturally, enforcement was patchy. This is Thailand, after all. Due to the lack of advance planning, there were no police deployed on the streets. I don't think they have enough manpower anyway. Instead, the officers were driving around in their cars telling one business after another to close and send their staff home. So instead of deserted streets as one would expect in a curfew situation, there seemed even more traffic on the roads. But this is just for a while, I'm sure.
"There's nowhere to go tonight," the manager said. "Everything's been told to close. Don't bother trying to get to any bar."
"Hang on," I thought about my stomach. "Where am I going to get dinner?"
I was pointed to a restaurant just around the corner. Stay within the small lanes, I was advised; don't go out onto the main road.
So I did, and as I walked there I thought, a curfew would be impossible to police. This is a culture where people live a great part of their lives on the street. They eat at street stalls, for instance. Even restaurants, because airconditioning is expensive, are open to the street.
Particularly in a tourist town like Pattaya, with few families rooted here, and populated mostly by migrants from elsewhere, many live in dormitories or rented rooms. On warm humid nights like tonight, people don't want to stay in their cramped cubbyholes. The street is their living room and socialising space.
What does "stay indoors" mean when there is no clear division between indoors and outdoors?
* * * * *
Despite my fears, the restaurant I was pointed to was open and still serving. Like so many other restaurants, it was cooler sitting out on the sidewalk than inside, so curfew or no curfew, I chose a table outside.
When I'm in Thailand, I'm in this Thai groove. You're skeptical about authority; you make your own decision whether to obey or not to obey. You rely on your own common sense what's safe and what's not.
I wonder how Singaporeans, ever respectful, fearful even, of authority, would behave should a curfew be called in our own city.
This restaurant was not the only one still open. Along the same lane, a convenience store, a laundromat and some other shops were also open. The bars however were closing, and I wondered if the police were also using common sense, insisting on closure for those places serving alcohol, and closing one eye to those more essential businesses that didn't.
Even so, I noticed a few bars discretly staying open, with only their exterior signboards switched off. It's the Thai groove. Make do. Mai pen rai. An approximation of a curfew will do. Strict obedience is more a Singapore thing.
When the waiter brought my lime juice, I asked him: "Do you know there is a curfew?"
"Yes, I know," he said.
When he brought me my green curry and stir-fried vegetables, he asked me: "Is your hotel far from here? How are you going to get back?"
"Not far. It's just around the corner," I replied, pointing in its general direction. "What about you? How are you going to get home after work tonight if the police set up roadblocks?"
"I don't know. Maybe I have to sleep here," he said. "Maybe I can sleep with you?"
Oh bless me, another quick decision is called for.


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Auto-correct can be a very helpful feature of any word-processing program. But when conservatives use it, they run the risk of embarrassing themselves.
Some far-right sites that subscribe to the Associated Press feed, for example, will use auto-correct to change "Democratic Party" to "Democrat Party." This, of course, is because they have the temperament of children.
But the American Family Association's OneNewsNow website takes the phenomenon one step further with its AP articles. The far-right fundamentalist group replaces the word "gay" in the articles with the word "homosexual." I'm not entirely sure why, but it seems to make the AFA happy. The group is, after all, pretty far out there.
The problem, of course, is that "gay" does not always mean what the AFA wants it to mean. My friend Kyle reported this morning that sprinter Tyson Gay won the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials over the weekend. The AFA ran the story, but only after the auto-correct had "fixed" the article.
That means — you guessed it — the track star was renamed "Tyson Homosexual." The headline on the piece read, "Homosexual eases into 100 final at Olympic trials." Readers learned:Tyson Homosexual easily won his semifinal for the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials and seemed to save something for the final later Sunday.
His wind-aided 9.85 seconds was a fairly cut-and-dry performance compared to what happened a day earlier. On Saturday, Homosexual misjudged the finish in his opening heat and had to scramble to finish fourth, then in his quarterfinal a couple of hours later, ran 9.77 to break the American record that had stood since 1999. […]
Homosexual didn't get off to a particularly strong start in the first semifinal, but by the halfway mark he had established a comfortable lead. He slowed somewhat over the final 10 meters-nothing like the way-too-soon complete shutdown that almost cost him Saturday. Asked how he felt, Homosexual said: "A little fatigued."
Now, the AFA has since changed the article back to the way it was originally written by the AP reporter, but don't worry, Kyle got the screen-grab before the AFA edited the piece back.
Homophobes turning an Olympic athlete homosexual! Heavens! Perhaps that Ted Haggard program will work for them.
Washington Post blogger Mary Ann Akers picked up the story as well.
Besides providing a good laugh, this story made me think of two things. One, this is basically the reverse technique of right-wing hate site Little Green Footballs, where proprietor Charles Johnson implemented a filter to clean up some comments – "raghead" was changed to "Arab," for instance. Both sites cater to bigots, but one is trying to hide it a little bit. Two, I had a student who liked to pepper his papers with what he thought were impressive words, using Microsoft Word's synonym function to help him (a George Will in training, perhaps). The thing was, he chose these words without concern for syntax, precision or eloquence, and often didn't know what they really meant. My favorite was the essay where, in mentioning one of the plagues of Egypt from Exodus, the frogs didn't ravage the land; he wrote that they ravished it.
But then, those frogs were probably filthy homosexuals, too.
(Cross-posted at The Blue Herald)


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Hunter. A beautiful and strong name given to a beautiful and strong child.
Hunter is being victimized by a SCHOOL. Not bullied by children – bullied by adults. This child is deaf and supposedly when he signs his name 'Hunter' it looks "too much like he is making guns." The school has advised the 3 year old and his parents to change the way he signs his name. I say ridiculous.
One commenter said, "if someone came up to me and signed guns to me, I would be afraid and think that they would come back later with a real gun. I agree with the school." Seriously?
I have dwindling faith in human-kind. This country desperately needs Jesus.


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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Welcome to Washington R.F.D.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Released Gitmo Detainees linked to Detroit Jet Attack
Some of the Jihadikaze's released from Gitmo would beg to differ.....
Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November, 2007, according to American officials and Department of Defense documents. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the Northwest bombing in a Monday statement that vowed more attacks on Americans.
American officials agreed to send the two terrorists from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia where they entered into an "art therapy rehabilitation program" and were set free, according to U.S. and Saudi officials.
Guantanamo prisoner #333, Muhamad Attik al-Harbi, and prisoner #372, Said Ali Shari, were sent to Saudi Arabia on Nov. 9, 2007, according to the Defense Department log of detainees who were released from American custody. Al-Harbi has since changed his name to Muhamad al-Awfi. (National Terror Alert)
(NOTE: Totalitano only believes flag-waving Tea Party, 9.12 members and serviceman returning home from duty are extremists.)
Sunday, December 27, 2009
The Red Shed on the Hill Celebrates a Commie & Transvestite Loving Christmas
It appears the Ruler of the Red Shed on the Hill has done the same...
From Big Government --
Why let a holiday season come between the White House and making some political statements? The White House pegged controversial designer Simon Doonan to oversee the Christmas decorations for the White House. Mr. Doonan, who is creative director of Barney's New York has often caused a stir with his design choices.
Like his naughty yuletide window display of Margaret Thatcher as a dowdy dominatrix and Dan Quayle as a ventriloquist's dummy. For this year's White House, he didn't disappoint.These photos of ornaments on the White House Christmas tree in the Blue Room were taken just days ago. Of course, Mao has his place in the White House.
And, of course, it wouldn't be Christmas without an ornament of legendary transvestite Hedda Lettuce.
He/She even signed it:
And, so soon after collecting the Nobel Peace Prize, why wouldn't the White House have an ornament super-imposing President Obama onto Mt. Rushmore:All around, a very Barry Christmas!
Monday, December 21, 2009
Girlieman of the Week Award: Sen. Lieberman's Gatekeeper Gorilla
Girlieman of the Week
Date Awarded: December 18, 2009
Girlieman: Lieberman's Gatekeeper Gorilla
Girlie Antics: Being a complete and utter dick.
On Tuesday, December 15, 2009, members of the Tea Party Patriots gathered in Washington DC to exercise their First Amendment Rights. They did so, by visiting the offices of numerous United States Senators who might play a key role in the defeat of Messiah Barry's DeathCare debacle.
While exercising their right to peaceably assemble in one such office, the one belonging to one of the key DeathCare Bill players, Senator Joe Lieberman, Mark Meckler (a National Tea Party Patriot Coordinator), Sally Oljar (another National Coordinator) and Michael Greer (a Mexifornia Patriot) attempted to petition their government, directly, by exercising their free speech with the Senator.
Although the trio were, at all times respectful, the same can't be said for Senator Lieberman's gatekeeper gorilla, whom we will call Kong. Mark Meckler explains the confrontation in a posting on the Tea Party Patriots Internet site:The day turned far more interesting when we heard that Senator Joe Lieberman was on the fence. Three of us decided to head up to the seventh floor to see if the Senator would spare a few minutes and speak with us about his position on the pending bill. Accompanied by fellow Tea Party Patriot National Coordinator Sally Oljar, and California Patriot Michael Greer, I entered Lieberman's office and we asked to speak with him. We were advised that he wasn't there, but as we had done in all the previous offices we had visited, we indicated that we'd be happy to wait for him.
Unfortunately, Sen. Lieberman's staff reacted quite differently than all the other staff we had encountered. The gentleman who appeared to be in charge told us that we had to leave the Senator's office. He kept repeating that the Senator would not be meeting with us, and that he wanted us to leave. As we sat peacefully in the small waiting room, I simply responded to him by telling him that we were happy to wait. When he again insisted we leave, we engaged in a civil discussion where we advised him that as citizens, we felt we had a right to be there, in a building which we pay for. Finally, he threatened to call the Capitol Police and have us arrested for "loitering.;" We advised him to do whatever he needed to do, but that we weren't leaving.
Eventually, six armed Capitol Police arrived. One officer entered the waiting room and advised us that the staffer was asking us to leave, and that if we didn't leave, we'd be arrested. I asked the officer if it was a police request that we leave, and told him that we were law abiding citizens and would leave if he asked us to. He seemed hesitant to do so, and ultimately left the room to speak with the staffer without asking us to leave. After several minutes of pow-wow between the officers and the staffer, we decided to leave before the situation escalated further. It was clear, with six officers on hand, they did intend to arrest us.
Although it's a big deal to Mark Meckler, I'm going to set aside his position in the Tea Party Patriot organization. Why? It's a side issue. What matters to me is the fact that this gatekeeper gorilla got insufferably snarky with three citizens who wanted nothing more, nothing less, than their constitutional right to speak to their employee, Senator Joe Lieberman. They wanted to talk, respectfully, with a man whose vote on the DeathCare bill could have a disastrous impact on every American citizen, including the three in Joe Lieberman's office.
When confronted by three sovereign American individuals, who just wanted to talk to their employee, this gatekeeper gorilla piece of shit went gutless and girlie, then ran caterwauling to the Capitol Hill cops. I suspect that the only reason he called the proper authorities is the fun fact that it would take too long to summon a gang of SEIU thugs to break some Tea Party Patriot heads.
Congratulations, Kong, in addition to being a pimple on humanity's butt, not to mention a craven coward when confronted by we the people, you're also the Politically Incorrect Gazette's Girlieman of the Week.
Sen. Baucus: "Senators do NOT need to Understand the Health Care Bill"
In an exchange between Senator Tom Coburn and Senator Max Baucus, Baucus admits that Senators don't need to understand or read bills before voting on them!
From Thurber's Thoughts -- (Bold Added)
Most people who get their news from the Internet didn't miss the news of Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) objecting to the unanimous consent to forgo the reading of health care bill amendment SA#2837 (co-sponsored by our Sen. Sherrod Brown). As a result of his objection, the clerk started to read the 767-page document - a process that was estimated to take about 38 hours.
The issue made news when, violating Senate rules, the amendment was withdrawn during the reading process.
However, you might have missed what happened just prior to Coburn's objection.
Sen. Coburn asked unanimous consent for an amendment certifying that all senators had read and understood the bill prior to voting on it:"Mr. President, I have another unanimous consent request. Following consent request would be associated with a Coburn amendment that would certify that every member of the Senate has read the bill and understands it before they vote on the bill. And the reason I ask the unanimous consent that that amendment be agreed to and accepted is that's exactly what the American people expect us to be doing. And so we don't have a bill right now. We don't know what's going to be in the bill. The chairman has a good idea of what's going to be in the bill, but he doesn't know for sure. Only two sets of people, Senator Reid and his staff and CBO know what's going to be in the bill. I suspect somebody at the White House might. But we ought to -- we ought to take and embrace this idea of transparency and responsibility that the American people can expect every one of us to have read this bill plus the amended bill and certify that we have an understanding for what we're doing to health care in America with this bill. And I'd ask unanimous consent that that be accepted."So, the Senators, prior to voting do not have to certify to the American people that they have read - and understood - what they're voting on.
Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) objected and here is the exchange:
"Reserving the right to object, I certainly agree with the basic underlying import that we should know what we're voting on here. I must say to my good friend that presumes a certain level of perception on my part and understanding in delving into the minds of the senator, that not only do they read, but take the time to understand. What does understand mean? Understand the first, second levels of questions? I think it is impossible to certify that any senator fully understood."
Senator Coburn: (12:00 PM) Responded.
"I would clarify my request, that the individual certify themselves. I'm not asking some group of senators to certify some other senator. I'm saying Tom Coburn tell his constituency, I've read this puppy, I've spent the time on it, I've read the manager's amendment, and I, in fact, certify to the people of Oklahoma, I know how terrible it's going to be for their health care."
Senator Baucus: (12:01 PM) Responded.
"The senator is always free to make any representation he wants. If he wants to certify he has read it, he has understood it, that's the senator's privilege."
Personally, I think every bill in the House and Senate needs to have this certification on it. Maybe then, we'd have less ridiculousness coming out of Washington.
It is a privilege for a Senator to make any representation that he wants? I guess that means lying is acceptable!
I bet if this bill had specific pork barrel earmarks for them or dealt with their pay -- these Senate Stooges would know the location of every comma and/or period contained in the bill. When it comes to our future the Democrat Senators just say "Screw it & Sign it".
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Senator Sherrod Brown won't face OH voters but will be on Face the Nation
If you wish to retain your breakfast, we highly suggest you keep from eating it before watching what is sure to be a barf-inducing interview with this spineless Senator.
From The Daily Briefing --
Sen. Sherrod Brown fought for a government run health plan he counted as a critical part of health care reform, but the Ohio Democrat is scheduled to go on CBS' Face the Nation Sunday morning talk show to praise a final product that doesn't include a public option.
Brown said in a statement this afternoon that he views the bill, even without a public option, as one that will help millions of Americans gain health insurance and protect people who have insurance now from losing coverage.
But Brown maintains that, "This bill is an important step toward strengthening Ohio's middle class families. When it comes to health insurance, this bill would help those with insurance, those without, and those who fear they won't have coverage tomorrow. It would immediately reduce insurance premiums for small businesses and over time would reduce the $1000 hidden tax that every family with insurance now pays to make up for uncompensated care provided to those without insurance."
Thank You President Obama
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Daily KOS Kook's Crying the "Blues"
In describing the Democrats as a bunch of spineless, dithering fools, the korrectnik kooks over at the Daily KOS have their onesies in a bunch over their realization that their wished Christmas gift of a government take over of our health care system may be ablaze like a gay yule tide log in the fireplace.
But in the progressive version of this story they are making Senator Leiberman out to be the Grinch that stole their Government-run health care Christmas....
Before we begin what I suspect will be a furious attempt to rebrand the reported "compromise" (read: capitulation) on health care as the most meaningful piece of progressive legislation since ever, I think Senate Democrats deserve recognition for doing something that most thought would have been impossible--crafting health care legislation that will, ultimately, please no one.
The Democratic base is going to voice strong objections, because instead of taking bold steps in the face of a health care crisis, you allowed a guy that spent 2008 campaigning for a Republican presidential nominee to have unilateral veto power over the legislation (the optics of that aspect of this story could not possibly be worse).
Good luck getting that base to the polls in 2010. Their motivation to keep or expand a Democratic majority looks like it was rendered meaningless.
Don't be mistaken the KOS kooks do not want to expand the Democrat majority -- they want to expand the Democrat Party with more progressive pukes. The same ones that have hijacked the Democrat party and turned it into the socialism pushing sect that it is today.
Showing just how out of touch the progressive pukes are with most of the Americans in this country today, the following statement completely ignores polls showing nearly 60% of the people in this country (Independents too) are against the Senate Health Care bill....
The "independent voter", meanwhile, has seen the spectacle of the past several months. They have seen Senate Democrats, "led" by their Majority Leader, adopt six different bargaining positions a day, where reports of negotiation (and/or capitulation) were met with an immediate forceful denial from some spokesperson, only to be confirmed within hours.
They have concluded that Democrats cannot govern worth a damn. They may well be right. (Daily KOS)
I wonder if sucking on a "Tea Bag" is helpful for crying babies?
Sunday, December 13, 2009
The Messiah Offends A Monarch
"We imagined Barry, and we thought the story would be inspirational to all Indonesian children that when you dream big, they can come true," said Ron Mullers, chairman of the nonprofit group Friends of Obama.
It is in a park near one of the Indonesian schools Obama attended as a child. "I'm proud because he used to study in Indonesia, and now he's the 44th president of America," said Hendrawan, a sixth-grader who wants to be a lawyer. (CNN)
The White House has cancelled many of the events peace prize laureates traditionally submit to, including a dinner with the Norwegian Nobel committee, a press conference, a television interview, appearances at a children's event promoting peace and a music concert, as well as a visit to an exhibition in his honour at the Nobel peace centre.
According to a poll published by the daily tabloid VG, 44% of Norwegians believe it was rude of Obama to cancel his scheduled lunch with King Harald, with only 34% saying they believe it was acceptable.
"Of all the things he is cancelling, I think the worst is cancelling the lunch with the king," said Siv Jensen, the leader of the largest party in opposition, the populist Progress party. "This is a central part of our government system. He should respect the monarchy," she told VG. (The Guardian UK)
De-funding of Obama's "Nuts" ruled Unconstitutional
U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon issued a preliminary injunction against the government, saying it is in the public's interest for the organization to continue receiving federal funding. Gershon found that ACORN had was "singled out by Congress for punishment" without "any judicial, or even administrative, process adjudicating guilt."
ACORN, or the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, describes itself as an advocate for low-income and minority homebuyers and residents in communities served by its offices around the country. (Washington Post)
And it's anyone's guess of how fraudulently registering hundreds of thousands of dead people and cartoon characters as voters is advocating for low-income and minority homebuyers. In Cuyahoga County alone there were over 13,000 dead voters registered and thousands more casting their vote from the grave.
Since ACORN has deep ties with the political prostitutes and act as advocates of corporate welfare for the big money men in NY, it is no mystery why the case was heard there. But to ignore the fact that there is currently a congressional inquiry into ACORN and to claim it is in the "best interest of the public" to continue funding these sham artists is a nothing short of a intellectually vacuous conclusion and an affront to the American public in general.Just recently, after 8 years of cooking the books, Dale Rathke, brother of Wade Rathke the founder of ACORN, has been accused by ACORN insiders of embezzling over $5 million dollars from the organization over the past 8 years which prompted a raid and investigation by the Louisiana Attorney Generals office.Since 1994 ACORN has received approximately $53 million in federal aid for their so-called community group. They have also received money from the Justice Dept. through the back door from their affiliates.Equally disturbing, and possibly even more, is the ties of ACORN founders to the SEIU....
Wade Rathke also founded SEIU Local 100 in New Orleans (more broadly Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas) and is still the "Chief Organizer" of the local, which is headquartered at the ACORN office.
Meanwhile, in 2000, Dale Rathke, was the Treasurer for Local 880 in Chicago, while at the same time being CFO of the national ACORN organization. According to the Illinois State Senate in 2001, Local 880's email address was firstname.lastname@example.com. (The Next Right)
Friday, December 11, 2009
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
Steaming Load of the Week Award: Chris Matthews & Barbara Boxer
From Politically Incorrect Gazette --
Steaming Load of the Week Award: Another week, another pile of turds.
Turd 1: Chris "The Tingler" Matthews shows his true, traitorous rat bastard, colors.
In the throes of his leg-tingling man crush, that titanic turd, Chris 'The Tingler' Matthews, reached a stunning new low, following his love god's photo op at West Point. Outraged that the corps of cadets weren't thrilled spitless that Messiah Barry used them as a stage prop for the latest TOTUS bloviating, Chris insulted the cadets by calling West Point 'the enemy camp': "Obama went to the enemy camp tonight, didn't he?".
THE ENEMY CAMP! If West Point is the enemy camp, where is YOUR 'Friendly Camp'? In a cave with Osama? Taliban HQ? Mahmoud's 7th century circle of hell? In the Fort Hood Jihadikaze's hospital room? Where indeed?
Do you hate America that much, you broadcast blowjob pile of shit? Are you so obsessed with that Dumbo-eared Marxist, that you'll insult the men and women who will put their lives on the line to defend a pimple on humanity's butt as loathsome as you? Die in a fire, asshole. Die in a fire, and do it RIGHT F-ING NOW!
Turd 2: Babs Boxer tries to change the ClimateGate subject.
Mexifornia's titanic turd, Senator Barbara Boxer, is pissed over the ClimateGate scandal, but, as usual, she has her head up her ass on this important subject. Instead of being outraged that some Ivory Tower Eggheads played her, played all the Globally Warmed retards, for a fool, by inventing, manipulating, and destroying, climate data to whip the world into a Globally Warmed frenzy, she wants to kill the messenger:Leaked e-mails allegedly undermining climate change science should be treated as a criminal matter, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said Wednesday afternoon. Boxer, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said that the recently released e-mails, showing scientists allegedly overstating the case for climate change, should be treated as a crime.
"You call it 'Climategate'; I call it 'E-mail-theft-gate,'" she said during a committee meeting. "Whatever it is, the main issue is, Are we facing global warming or are we not? I'm looking at these e-mails, that, even though they were stolen, are now out in the public."
"We may well have a hearing on this, we may not. We may have a briefing for senators, we may not," Boxer said. "Part of our looking at this will be looking at a criminal activity which could have well been coordinated.
"This is a crime," Boxer said. (The Hill)
Isn't it time for someone in Mexifornia to make my day, by flushing Babs Boxer out of the United States Senate and out of America's misery?
Christmas Trees Banned at Dopenhagen
A sponsor providing fir trees for the conference's Christmas trees learned this the hard way when it was turned away by planners of the international event, the Copenhagen Post reported.
The trees – the most common species used as Christmas trees in Denmark – were intended to be placed as decorations for the entrance of Bella Center, where the conference is taking place.
"We have to remember that this is a U.N. conference and, as the center then becomes U.N. territory, there can be no Christmas trees in the decor, because the U.N. wishes to maintain neutrality," said Denmark Foreign Ministry official Svend Olling.
Fir trees otherwise reach the climate-friendly standards of the conference planners. Firs bind carbon dioxide and prevent its release into the atmosphere. (Copenhagen Post)
Interpretation.... we must have neutrality and cannot allow even the remotest symbolism of Christianity to compete or interfere with our cult-like religion of Global Warmingism. Not even an undecorated Fir tree!
But when it comes to the presenting the facts.... neutrality has no place! We are allowed to lie, cheat and fleece the world when it comes to imposing our devious doctrine on the world.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Girlieman of the Week Award: Mike Huckabee
From Politically Incorrect Gazette --
Girlieman of the Week
Date Awarded: December 04, 2009
Girlieman: Mike Huckabee
Girlie Antics: "The buck doesn't stop here."
The nicest thing I can say about this Huckabee loser is this: Mikey's Harry Truman impression needs work. Apparently, for Mike Huckabee, 'the buck stops anywhere, but here'. In fact, instead of accepting his part of the blame for commuting the sentence of that rat bastard who mowed down 4 police officers in Lakewood, Washington, Mikey went gutless and girlie, by blaming everyone else:
Mike Huckabee, who as Arkansas governor commuted the sentence of the man suspected of killing four Lakewood Police officers, said Monday night his "heart is broken" but insisted that prosecutors and judges were derelict in keeping Maurice Clemmons from returning to prison. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
I've had my fill of gutless and girlie assholes with delusions of grandeur. I've had my fill of craven, finger-pointing, cowards who sleaze their way into the Oval Office. I''ve had my fill, to put it bluntly, of Mike Huckabee. With his abject failure to accept any responsibility for his own actions, Mikey has proven himself UNFIT for the presidency.
If Mikey REALLY had the right 'leadership' stuff, he would have owned up to his critical role in Maurice Clemmons' release from custody. Instead, his first instinct was to do a Bart Simpson, by bleating "I didn't do it." For passing the buck, instead of accepting it...for shifting the blame, instead of shouldering it...for trying to vote "present", when it comes to Mauricce Clemmons' release from prison, Mike 'Holier Than Thou' Huckabee is the Politically Incorrect Gazette's Girlieman of the Week.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Health Care and Cap & Trade Bull
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Global Warming: The Mother of All Frauds
The only problem is that it appears they threw the good information out....
The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals — stored on paper and magnetic tape — were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building.
In a statement on its website, the CRU said: "We do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (quality controlled and homogenised) data." (Times Online UK)
What does this really say? Let's translate.... they threw away the 'real' info that showed their global warming cash cow is a farce. So they can keep milking the cow -- they kept 'doctored' information justifying their paychecks and existence.
Take Phil Jones, the lead liar and main figure in climategate -- from 2001 to 2006, Jones increased his take of ($19 million) of global warming/climate change type grants to six times more than what he was getting during the '90s.
The Wall Street Journal shed's some light on the monies be spent on the "sky is falling" farce of global warming/climate change...
....the European Commission's most recent appropriation for climate research comes to nearly $3 billion, and that's not counting funds from the EU's member governments. In the U.S., the House intends to spend $1.3 billion on NASA's climate efforts, $400 million on NOAA's, and another $300 million for the National Science Foundation. The states also have a piece of the action, with California—apparently not feeling bankrupt enough—devoting $600 million to their own climate initiative. In Australia, alarmists have their own Department of Climate Change at their funding disposal.
And all this is only a fraction of the $94 billion that HSBC Bank estimates has been spent globally this year on what it calls "green stimulus"—largely ethanol and other alternative energy schemes—of the kind from which Al Gore and his partners at Kleiner Perkins hope to profit handsomely.
Supply, as we know, creates its own demand. So for every additional billion in government-funded grants (or the tens of millions supplied by foundations like the Pew Charitable Trusts), universities, research institutes, advocacy groups and their various spin-offs and dependents have emerged from the woodwork to receive
None of these outfits is per se corrupt, in the sense that the monies they get are spent on something other than their intended purposes. But they depend on an inherently corrupting premise, namely that the hypothesis on which their livelihood depends has in fact been proved. Absent that proof, everything they represent—including the thousands of jobs they provide—vanishes. This is what's known as a vested interest, and vested interests are an enemy of sound science. (WSJ)
Global Warming / Climate Change will go down in history as one of the biggest frauds ever pulled on the world!
A New Name for Obama's Nuts?
ACORN, the troubled community service organization, recently considered changing its name in a bid to rehabilitate its image, according to an internal memo obtained by POLITICO.
The document, which will be released Tuesday as part of a Republican congressional forum on ACORN, illustrates the internal deliberation the group has undergone after a year of embarrassing scandals.
"Our members are having a vigorous discussion about how to move forward most effectively to help working families win living wage jobs, stop foreclosures, and strengthen neighborhoods," ACORN spokesman Scott Levenson said in a response to inquiries from POLITICO.
In an emailed statement, Levenson brushed off Tuesday's Republican hearing.
"We believe their time would be better spent solving, as ACORN is doing, the foreclosure crisis," Levenson said.
The memo addresses, in bullet-point format, the pros and cons of a new brand, saying that it has "spent 39 years building the reputation and track record of ACORN." ACORN officials write that the bad image would "blow over" in the next year or two. And they believe that even with a name change, "right-wing attackers will say we are ACORN in disguise – so do we really gain much by going with a new name?"
The group does acknowledge that working with elected officials "is much harder now" and "while some foundations are still will to fund us, more are not."
The one-page document also discusses the optics of a name change, saying it "should be very obvious that we are not going to choose a new name because funders or politicians want us to." The memo also acknowledges that it has encountered organizations and individuals who want to work with group but "can only do so if [ACORN changes] its name."
"(W)e should probably think through this problem carefully and figure out what it all means for our ability to survive and thrive without losing a lot of ground over the next year or two," the memo reads. (Politico)


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I was collecting these car vs house stories as I was flabbergasted about how so many cars manage to be driven into people's places of residence in Perth. I have no idea if this is a prevalent thing in other Australian cities but it is shocking to me how often it happens here. It got to the point where I gave up because if I kept sharing them, my blog would be full of them and not have enough proper cycling content.
This one is worth mentioning though because it involves a fatality and serious charges by the Police (finally).
Some of the article text from PerthNow:
A WOMAN has been charged after crashing a Toyota Hilux into a home in Merriwa in the early hours of this morning, killing a sleeping eight-month-old baby inside.
It will be alleged that at 2:30am, the 35-year-old woman's vehicle mounted the median strip, ploughed through a wooden fence and into the wall of Nate Dunbar's bedroom in the Tug Cove home his family lives in.
Emergency services tried desperately to save the baby boy, but tragically he died from his injuries.
The Quinns Rock woman has been charged with dangerous driving occasioning death. She is due to appear in Joondalup Magistrates Court on February 11.
RIP Nate, my thoughts go out to his family.
Unfortunately this isn't a 'freak' occurrence, drivers attempting to demolish houses with their motor vehicles happens quite frequently. Those who escape unscathed are lucky. Perth's luck ran out on this one though.
The major factor in all of these cases appears to be alcohol (although the Police are still investigating in this case so I can't say one way or the other whether alcohol was involved).
The driver was walking at the scene and was taken to hospital but is in a stable condition. As cars get more and more safety features built in, the mortal threat to the driver seems to be diminishing. This isn't the case for those innocent people outside of the car.
There is something seriously wrong with our thinking here. Why do people continue to drink and drive? Is it because they don't see an alternative? Is it because they think driving is a right, not a privilege?
I hope we see some serious sentencing for this woman. Perhaps making an example of her would help curb reckless behaviour for Perth drivers. Perhaps it won't, it might be something that is just deeply ingrained into our driving culture.
I need to go for a ride to cheer myself up.


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The What To Expect series is now on its fourth edition!
The most recent updates to the What to Expect When You're Expecting book include answers to dozens of new questions and a detailed week-by-week fetal development section in each of the monthly chapters, an expanded chapter on pre-conception, and a brand new one on carrying multiples. There is an expanded section for work place concerns and additional material covering physical, emotional health and nutrition.
Since I am not a parent, I have never read any of the What to Expect books, but when they generously offered to give two sets of books to two of my readers, I wanted to check them out. So I decided that since I work with babies, it would be useful to read What to Expect the First Year.
So far, I have been surprised about how much information this book covers. It covers everything from baby's first medical exam, advice for soothing a colicky baby, signs of common illnesses in babies to baby's first bath. It has a detailed section on breastfeeding vs. bottle feeding and the advantages and disadvantages of both. The month by month chapters show you what to expect during each month of your baby's first year. The developmental chart of milestones is meant as a guide, but as the book reminds us, each baby is different and will develop at their own pace.
After your baby's first birthday, What to Expect The Second Year picks up where What to Expect the first Year left off.
This book covers milestones (from first steps to first words, first scribbles to first friends). There are chapters on growth, feeding, sleeping, behaviors of every conceivable kind, discipline (including teaching right from wrong), and keeping a toddler healthy and safe as he or she takes on the world. There is a developmental timeline of the second year with special milestone boxes which help parents keep track of their toddler's development.
Two of my readers will win a copy of each book! Meaning three books for each winner!
How to enter:
1. Leave a comment on this post telling me which book you would find the most useful.
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The giveaway ends on Friday July 20th at midnight Eastern
Thank you and good luck!
Friday, July 13, 2012
What To Expect Books Giveaway
The What To Expect series is now on its fourth edition!
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The first year -- our daughter is due in August!ReplyDelete
I follow What To Expect on Twitter. My handle is @msbruschetta.ReplyDelete
Also now following @play2grow. My handle is @msbruschetta and my email is email@example.com
I would find them all useful! Currently What to Expect When You're Expecting would be most helpful!ReplyDelete
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I follow via GFC. My email is in my profile (kg88451 at gmail dot com)ReplyDelete
- Megan bJuly 14, 2012 at 10:56 PM
All of them....what to expect when expecting would be most useful right now!!ReplyDelete
- RAbdinJuly 15, 2012 at 2:27 AM
I have the what to expect when expecting book and loved it! Read it religiously throughout my pregnancy. My little one recently turned one year old, so I would find the what to expect the second year very helpful! I love being able to review milestones! I do not have a twitter account, so I will follow via email firstname.lastname@example.com (rabdin at gmail dot com). Thank you for the opportunity to receive such resourceful books!ReplyDelete
I would find the pregnancy book most helpful initially. ssremington (at) gmail (dot) com.ReplyDelete
- Jhanell TJuly 17, 2012 at 10:49 PM
followed @play2grow and @whattoexpect handle is (@mzzblackeauty)...subscribed to email handle is (firstname.lastname@example.com).ReplyDelete
- Jhanell TJuly 17, 2012 at 10:52 PM
what to expect when your expecting would be most helpful, because seeing my sister go through a pregnancy she didnt expect to be going through the 9 month trip of ups and downs of having a baby. i like to be prepared for whats coming and know what changes i will be experiencing!ReplyDelete
Thank you for your comments! I read them all and I appreciate each one. I often reply to comments so feel free to check back for a response.


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Don't miscontrue my words: I'm a total fan of Patrick Senécal's novels and I own all of them. However, the mention of Éric Tessier, the director who slaughtered Sur le seuil, in the credit left me icy. Honestly, 5150, Rue des Ormes sure has its strong moments, but it remains an entertaining film at most.
Yannick Bérubé (Marc-André Grondin) just got accepted at a cinema school. After he had moved in an appartment, he begins to film his first film project for school. While he was bycicling in a residential neighbourhood, Yannick falls of his bike. Because of the scratches on his hands and his elbow, he asks Jacques Beaulieu (Normand D'Amour), a cab driver who is not on a shift, to call a cab for him.
Since he has to wash the blood off his hands, Yannick does the mistake of entering Jacques's house. Furthermore, because he discovered an agonizing man kept in an empty room, Yannick will get locked in this room by Jacques for the time being. Obviously, Jacques's family looks normal on the surface. However, Jacques is, in actuality, a psychopath (he kills people "who deserves it") who believes he's the last of the Just Assassins (a reference to Albert Camus's play?); Michelle (Mylène St-Sauveur), the teenager, looks more dangerous than her father; Maude (Sonia Vachon), Jacques's wife, blindly obeys to him and is a Jesus freak. As for Anne, the youngest daughter, she's mute.
While he has always tried to escape, Yannick will receive a proposal from Jacques. The only thing he has to do is to beat Jacques once in chess.
Unlike Sur le seuil, which was a total mess, 5150, Rue des Ormes surprises us with its fairly good combination of Misery and the TV series Dexter. However, the script has a minor problem. In the first half, we sense that the film's pace is not as quick as that of the novel. This is why it takes time for the film to install its sources of tension and to make Yannick fall into madness. In short, if you really lack patience, you might lose interest for the film very quickly.
On another note, while Sonia Vachon's character is as interesting as any given home appliance, the performance from the other members of the cast makes this film a treat in the second half. Obviously, pretty much everything has been said about the marvelous confrontation between Marc-André Grondin, who portrays well the loss of sanity, and Normand D'Amour, as an average Joe who hides a dark secret. While Yannick is obsessed in beating Jacques in chess, Jacques, on the other hand, is obsessed to prove that he's not out of his mind by winning at chess. As for Mylène St-Sauveur, besides looking very lovely, she sure knows how to play a character who can't suppress her psychopathy.
Finally, 5150, Rue des Ormes is far to be as intense as the novel. However, if you're patient enough, just wait for the second half of the film, because it really is, in the end, the only part that is worth watching. Moreover, the film is lucky enough to have competent actors.
Rating: 2.5/5
|Canada (2009)
|110 minutes
|Psychological thriller
|Patrick Senécal
|Éric Tessier
Marc-André Grondin, Normand D'Amour, Sonia Vachon, Mylène St-Sauveur and Élodie Larivière


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However, one of my favorite Iowa bloggers has a plethora of baked oatmeal recipes on her site. I took a few notes from this recipe and doubled it - because if I'm spending this much time making breakfast, it had better last for a couple meals.
I also suck at eating bananas in time for the still-partly-green form that I prefer, so it gave me an excuse to use a couple of these guys:
- 2/3 cup rolled oats (a.k.a. old-fashioned oats)
- 2/3 cup milk (any kind… I used 1%)
- 2/3 cup water
- 2 overripe bananas, mashed
- handful dried cranberries
- dash vanilla extract
- dash cinnamon
- dash salt
- handful sliced almonds
- sprinkle brown sugar
Turn the oven to 375 degrees. Mix together the first ingredients, through the salt. At this point I was a little nervous because it seemed like way too much liquid:
Pop it in the oven for 25 minutes (without the topping at this point). When you take it out after 25 minutes, it will be set up a little better so you can put the topping on. Look what my brown sugar looked like when I took it out of the box!
I just bought it the other day. The dry Nevada air must have gotten to it. Per the instructions on the box, I wrapped the sugar brick in a damp paper towel, stuck it in a paper bag and microwaved it for 2 minutes. It was scorching hot but crumbled easily at that point. 5 more minutes under the broiler and my oats looked like this:
In conclusion, I still suck at cooking oats. Maybe I'll buy a torch for my next stab at brulee. Refusing to throw away my hard-earned oats, I scraped off the burnt parts and can happily report that what lies beneath was still delicious:
Rated: fail - redeemed!


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Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
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Worthwhile mix of alterna-rock and mellow songs
Daniel J. Hamlow | Narita, Japan | 10/05/2003
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Those who expected songs that might be titled "On Your Side Of The Bed" or would have formed the Bangles fourth album, think again! Susanna Hoffs has teamed up with songwriters including David Baerwald, late of the short-lived 80's duo David & David. The songs are acoustic, folky, and more like Aimee Mann, although there are some sounds closer to alternative. There is a bittersweet touch in some of her songs. Her sugary voice sometimes becomes grainy and hoarse when she tries to hit the high notes, but overall it's recognizable and sweet."Beekeeper's Blues" is lover's karma. The woman has been burned in tangling with some slick lady's man, but bravely and stoically says, "No good deed will go unpunished/No beekeeper goes unstung" And there is a nod to Nancy Sinatra when she sings "and these boots are made for walking"."All I Want" is a dreamy but mid-paced semi alt-rock number, where she basically wants to follow her feelings and make a difference for tomorrow, because tomorrow's here. "All I want to say/is everything I feel from now on". And whoever is around had better listen to what she says."Enormous Wings" begins with Susanna speaking through a tape recorder, which repeats the verses in a weird distorted backing vocal in the verses, then exploding with an expansive alternative-rock guitar sound. I can't imagine this on any Bangles album or Hoff's debut, When You're A Boy."Falling", co-written by Charlotte Caffey and with drums by Mick Fleetwood, has a light-alternative sound. A more melodic sound is present in the tender acoustic guitar/piano ballad "Darling One". This is one of the two favourites here. She offers a shoulder of comfort for someone searching for that something not lost."King Of Tragedy" with its steady pulsing bass and drumbeat, and a bluesy guitar, is about a guy with a girlfriend a cross between Gwenyth Paltrow, Emma Peel, and Kathy Lee--hard to picture that one. Anyway, the protagnist is emotionally bound to help this guy, especially when he presses her guilt button."Eyes Of A Baby" is about a blind date that becomes a dream come true. "Did you see him smile?" she sings triumphantly. Things go from "eyes of my baby/eyes of my man" to "eyes of my baby/eyes of a child", i.e. they've taken that step beyond. Love that snarling altenative fuzz guitar. A similar sound is evoked on "Happy Place.""Those Days Are Over" is a reunion between two people. The man was lost in a drunken haze and now he's returned, apparently renewed. The tempo is languid but lacks anything that tugs at me.With 8 December 1980 mentioned, people familiar with that date will know what this song is about. The appropriately titled "Weak With Love" brought memories of John Lennon's death flooding back, and she tells of how shocked her brother was upon hearing the news, that he says, "I do not want to tell you this" and "would not meet my eyes": "Please comfort me/and shelter me/I am weak with love" she sings. This is my favourite song here and serves as a great way to end the album, fitting as the Beatles were an obvious influence to the Bangles.The two hidden tracks are cover songs, Stealer Wheels' "Stuck In The Middle" and Lulu's "To Sir With Love." She does a great job on both, particularly the latter. The soaring strings are replicated on that song. As for the other, there's a nice bluesy guitar with that 70's wacka wacka guitar sound, but also a blast of searing fuzz guitar.The results are mixed, and it shows she can handle a more laid back sound as well as alternative. It doesn't always work but it shows she's evolved from the Bangles and the pop of her debut album. Worthy effort worth listening to."
Time to reflect...
V. Berrini | NJ, United States | 10/03/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"What with the Bangles reunion happening as we speak, why not take a moment to honor this wonderful neglected gem of a pop album?In direct contrast to her first piece-of-garbage solo effect When You're A Boy, Susanna Hoffs' 1996 self-titled effort showcases her strengths perfectly. With an ultra-cool supporting cast (Matthew Sweet, Jon Brion, Charlotte Caffey, Jellyfish's Roger Manning and Jason Faulkner, That Dog's Petra and Rachel Haden) and clean but ever-so-slightly-edgy production of the consistantly melodic, interesting, and lyrically intimate songs, Susanna did everything right on this album. It didn't do her much good commercially, but hopefully she'll get her reward in Pop heaven.There's the gorgeous seductive pop of "Falling", the keen Aimee Mann-esque character sketch "Beekeeper's Blues", the crunchy, grungy "Enormous Wings", the heartbreakingly gorgeous "Darling One", and the deceptively sprightly "King Of Tragedy". There's the Lightning Seeds classic which Susanna turned into a (very) minor hit, "All I Want". And then there's the duo of wonderful (and uncredited) covers at the record, "To Sir With Love" and "Stuck In The Middle With You" (which, incidentally, you don't have to buy the Japanese version to hear). Susanna's voice is slightly huskier then usual throughout but it works perfectly for the material.A brilliant power pop album for anyone who reveres the likes of Michael Penn, Aimee Mann and Matthew Sweet, and a welcome return to form for Susanna following a nasty, nasty fall from grace brought on by egomania and misguided artistic decisions. "Eternal Flame" and When You're A Boy can fall of the face of the earth for all I care, but I'll love this album until the day I die."
What a great discovery!
Aaron Blight | Westminster, Maryland United States | 12/05/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Remember the Bangles, the band that was wildly popular in the 1980's? Well, this little lady was their lead singer. I recently purchased this CD, and I must say that this album demonstrates that Susanna Hoffs is a wonderfully talented musician. This CD is packed with well-written songs (Susanna was a contributing writer for most of them) that include infectious, soaring melodies carried by the voice of an angel. This is a predominately folksy soft rock album, which in some instances could pass for today's modern crossover country music. In fact, on the opening track, "Beekeeper's Blues," Susanna could almost pass for one of my favorite country singers, Deana Carter. Susanna's voice closely resembles Deana's, especially when she sings such a country-sounding song. "Beekeeper Blues" is a wonderfully entertaining opening track, and after that Susanna keeps rolling out the excellent songs on this disc. "Darling One" is a particular favorite; it's a dreamy, beautiful song, graced by Susanna's soothing vocals and the steady strumming of her guitar, which almost feels like a gentle caress. "Eyes of a Baby" is another gem, a clever song about meeting a man and starting a family. This album has upbeat pop music; groovy, funky rhythms; and soft, introspective ballads. Susanna has the confidence to persuasively deliver the range of tunes, and her voice is mesmerizing on all of them. Don't take the lack of a hit single as evidence this album is not worth your money. To the contrary, one listen to this album makes you wonder WHY nobody ever paid much attention to it. This is an excellent CD!!!"


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Carburetors one of the most important component when we want easy to motor roads. Must be diligent, industrious cleaning the carburetor.
1. Clean the air filter / dust collector.
Remove the air filter attached to the mouth of the carburetor, remove the foam filter and clean it with cleaning fluid, then let it dry itself. Do not be cleaned by spraying them with high pressure air, because it can cause damage to the pores of the foam filter.
2. Clean the carburetor.
Open the carburetor by removing the bolts fastener, close the carburetor, choke valves / chokes, valves gasoline. Use the appropriate keys for these tools is not easy dol. Remove the carburetor components and place in a container containing a cleaning fluid, let's easy paka wrote the liquid gasoline. Remove the carburetor bowl, float and float needle, main jet, pilot jet, and others. Beware of small parts and seals / rubber protector, place it in containers that are easily seen, for later when the installation is not confused look.
If you've released all the bersihakan carburetor with a brush, then spray the holes moved at a high pressure air. Use fine sandpaper to clean the dirt on the nozzle-nozzle, mengamplasnya Not too much, because it can cause a change nozzle diameter size. Once clean, replace the nozzle-nozzle. Use a screwdriver nozzle and pengecangannya not too hard, just use two fingers on the tip of a screwdriver.
3. Set the float height.
Before you install the components of the carburetor, do not forget to set high gasoline gauge using the term slide / stigmat.
4. Raft carburetor.
Reinstall the carburetor parts that had been removed. Raft carburetor and air filter with a pair back in the engine hole. Then set kongdisi langsam motors on the machine state of life. Set spuyer winds by turning it clockwise smpai stuck, then turn back a few rounds in accordance with the standard engine or the condition of our motor engines.
Set screw setter langsam also located on the edge of carburetor body. Set in an ideal state of engine heat. Setting engine speed should not be too low or slow, this can cause the oil can not rise because it is not pumping due to low engine speed.
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Some of you may worry that that with the pay hike our ministers will lose the sense of empathy towards ordinary Singaporeans who have to struggle for a living. Don't worry our ministers are all very high calibre people they are so high calibre they can have empathy even though they make in a few hours what the average work makes in a month. Now you see how high quality our ministers are? We know they have alot of empathy because they proactively seek out needy Singaporeans to find out how to help them. The basic needs of Singaporeans is foremost in their minds.
Singapore is so lucky to have leaders whom the Straits Times describe as compassionate, dedicated and sacrificing. It is clear they work for our interests and not their own. They are leaders who keep their most poignant promises such as "no one will be left hehind".