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As is the case with most of your posts, this was very interesting and informative. While I understand that the morality expressed in the Hebrew Bible was rather progressive for its time and the New Testament has been the inspiration and/or basis of much of the more advanced ethical theories in Western philosophy (Kant's categorical imperative being one as you pointed out), I have a few problems.
Surely you would agree that some of the laws in the OT are rather unrealistic in the punishments they prescribe for transgression, and in many cases just barbaric (e.g. Deut. 21:18-20; Num. 15:32-36). Now, my problem lies in the fact that Jesus seemed to affirm and condone the law of the Old Testament (Matt. 5:17). It's hard for me to believe that stoning children to death for disobedience (see the Deut. passage) is compatible with the character of Jesus Christ, who seemed to love children very much (Luke 18:16-17) and opposed those who wished to impose the death penalty on the adultress (John 8:1-11).
My question is, how do we make sense of this? Do you think evangelicals are wrong when they argue that Jesus saw the Law as infallible?
The examples of verses you give say this:
example (1)
Deu 21:18 ¶ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and [that], when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Deu 21:19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
Deu 21:20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son [is] stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; [he is] a glutton, and a drunkard.
Deu 21:21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
Example (2):
Num 15:32 ¶ And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
Num 15:33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
Num 15:34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
Num 15:35 And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
Yes, these passages are a problem for me as well. Frankly, I find it hard to accept the OT or the idea that God would really mandate such a law. They are unjust, the leave no value for the individual, you are part of the tribe, the tribe does x, you do x, the tribe does not do y, you do not do y, you don't get to choose. that is all. I couldn't live that way. I can't believe God would really impose such vengeful and unjust ideas. So the question is, because Jesus says "the law will not pass away" are we believe that therefore, Christ supported everything prescribed in the OT? The conservative Evangelicals would have us believe that because Jesus says the law wont pass away, therefore, he's supporting every stoning of every child who may have ever been stoned in Israel. I don't think that's a fair conclusion. Jesus just didn't really really interested in sysetmatic theology. My theory, that's why he drafted Paul. Jesus was a lot more concerned with modeling behavior for us.
The answer to this question will reflect our overall theological tendencies and it will center around our views of inspiration. Those who follow verbal plenary view of inspiration ("inerrency") are bound to believe that these dictates of stoning people (almost every kid in modern middle America would wind up dead) are really God and Jesus endorse Them. I can't believe he would, they do seem antithetical, and I dont' think the "law wont pass away" passage establish that he would support it all. Jesus never gives us a theological answer about inspiration or hermeneutics or any of it. He doesn't tell us how we know, he just shows us what to do, how to be, how treat people. It's that treatment of people that is most troubling. Because how can one says who says "love your enemies" endorse killing rebellious children?
Now mind you the passage above is not talking about Theadore Cleaver skipping school to seem himself on tv. That passage is talking about drunkards, late teenage kids who really live in Sin. Be that as it may I can't really see putting them to death.
One Clue we might take from this is that Jesus tells us the summartion of the law and the prophets, the whole OT, is "love God, love your neighbor." That makes it seem even more absurd to think that he would support stoning an unruely kid, even he was drinking and smoking pot and sleeping with every girl in class; he still could be brought back. What about the story of the prodigal son, he went off as a rebellious teenager to live in sin.Jesus didn't say anything to imply that he should have been stoned. Instead he said the fathers welcomes him back with open arms when he repents. Kind of hard to do if you've already stoned them.
What about the verse "nowthing hsall pass from the law..." This fundies tell us must mean we have to live by the law, the law is good, the whole OT is inspried. I just got through having a major argumetn with a fundie who tried to prove that the Bible says a follower of Jesus will not believe in evoution because it's oppossed to the law. The logic was so convoluted I can't even repeat it. But this person totally confussed the law in teh sense of Moseic law vs "the law" as a designation for parts of the Bible that aren't the prophets. That allows him to say everything in the Bible must be believed because Jesus said nothing will pass form the law. law= whole bible, therefore, eveything in the Bible is litterally true.
Let's look at the passage where Jesus seems to support the law. Leading up the passage we have the beatitudes. Leading away form the passage we have a veriety of teaching that all center around the idea of being more righteous than the pharisees. This is important because it seems to be the fall out of the passage, nothing shall be lost from the law, do all that it says, and you have to be than the pharisees. This seems to give us a super legalist Jesus, but it's really something else.
Look at the beatitudes, leading up to the statment about the law:
Matthew - Chapter 5
Mat 5:1 ¶ And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:
Mat 5:2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
Mat 5:3 Blessed [are] the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 5:4 Blessed [are] they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Mat 5:5 Blessed [are] the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Mat 5:6 Blessed [are] they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Mat 5:7 Blessed [are] the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Mat 5:8 Blessed [are] the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Mat 5:9 Blessed [are] the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Mat 5:10 Blessed [are] they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 5:11 Blessed are ye, when [men] shall revile you, and persecute [you], and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Mat 5:12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great [is] your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
What do we see going on here.I bet most of us would pick out the idea meekness, peacemaking, name of the blessed states, the poor, ect ect. But what he's actaully talking about is the Kingdom of God after it comes. When are the poor going to blessed? When will the meek iherit the earth, sure wont be in the Bush administration. It's obviously, after the end of thage. That's important because what he says in the major statment about the law not failing, or not being negated is that it will be fulille. He says All will be fulilled.
Mat 5:17 ¶ Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
He is also talking about keeping the law, I'll get to that in a minute. It is important to notice here that the actual statement "I am not come to abolish the law" is about fulfilling the law. The beatitudes are an example of this because they refer to the end of the age. That's what the law predicts, in its broader scope as a designation of scripture the law is about the coming of Messiah, the coming of the kingdom and the end of the age. This is the ultimate point he's making it's an eschatological statement.
But he's going to tie the two ideas together, he's going to tie behavior, doing what the law commands, with fulfilling the propheies of the coming Kingdom. The link is that we are living in the kingdom, in the "already aspect," of relaized eschatology. That is we live in the power of the knigdom, the power to be Godly and do God's work, to bring God's love into the world. We look forword to the complete coming of the Kingdom when God tiumphs over all evil. We are holing up a reare guard action waiting until the main boyd of God's forces arrive, led by Jesus, to complete the battle. That's the connection, because until that comes we are the outpost of the kingdom and it is the power of the Kingdom, not the law, that get's us through.
Mat 5:13 ¶ Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Mat 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
Mat 5:15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
Mat 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
It is our witness that will draw people into the Kingdom. Now he is where the redactor places the statment about presurving the law:
Mat 5:17 ¶ Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
So he is primarily concerned with fuflillment and our part in the fulfillment is to bring in as many as we can to the kingdom; we are the light of the world. We are the city of on the hill. Why does Jesus say "think not that I have come to destory the law?" what was said that in any way suggests that he's abolishing the law? That could be a rhetorical device or some reference of which I'm not aware. MOst of the Q1 statments come from this section, the beatitudes are the kind of thing suppossedly akin to Greek cynicism and thus very Q1-like. So there may even be a Greek rhetorical device at work. Actually I doubt that. I think it's because they knew he was talking about eschatological disruption, so the tendendy would be to think of the coming of the new age and the end of the old.
Now he shifts over from eschatology to dialy life. Here's where he shows us his conservative side.
Mat 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach [them], the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
The talk aobut fulfillment has a downside, we also have to do everything the law says. But it get's worse:
Mat 5:20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed [the righteousness] of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Incidently that statment indicates that Jesus identified more closely with the more heterodox factions, like those at Qurman, he's for being more strict than the pharisees. But why does he make this shift, and how can anyone expect one to be more legalstic than the pharisees?
Actually he doesn't say to be legalistic at all. He says to be more righteous. That's the whole point of Jesus' ethics all along. He defines keeping the law in the most compassinoate sense. While the Pharisees say "put a fense around the law, make sure you keep every letter" Jesus says Yea, yea, letter, letter's good, but keep the letter but keep it in love. So even though he might say the law is ture and the law will endure, would he actually say "stone the kid?" the law doesn't have to stone the kid. You can always find that he's not that unfurley. The law allowed for sroning adulteresses but Jesus let one off the hook.
Jesus principle of keeping the meaning (which includes the compassion) and rather than the letter, or perhaps filling the contnet of the letter with meaning (spirit) is seen in the following passages, where he goes on to define what means by "your righteousness must exceed that of the pharisees."
Mat 5:21 ¶ Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
Mat 5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
He's going further than just the letter here, he's dealing wiht the motivations for killing, or motivations for anger, or the subtley of anger.
Mat 5:23 Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
Mat 5:24 Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
the letter of the law would say leave the gift at the alter. Jesus says hey that's not enough, bo make it right with your brother so your gift will be sincere.
Mat 5:25 Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
Mat 5:26 Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
He's making an analogy between being held accontable for hatred of the brother and dealing with a legal advesary.
Mat 5:27 ¶ Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Mat 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
It's not enough to just not commit adultery, but one must also snuff the motivation for straying. In all of these things he's going further than the law. He's always going in direction of compassion. Compassion would reconcile with the brother, compassion would refrain form saying the most damaging thing, compassion would not objectify a woman and would work on restoring the relationship in marraige.
Here we have one of my favorite verses because, in my view, it is tricky.
Mat 5:29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast [it] from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not [that] thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Mat 5:30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast [it] from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not [that] thy whole body should be cast into hell.
What a super legalist one might say. He's actually saying we should cut off our hands if they offend us or pluck out our eyes. Does Jesus realy expect anyone to do this? Of course not! why would he? No Christiain I know has ever tried it either. Do Christians hands offended them? I've never ask but what does it mean? There's one use of the hand that offends when I was kid that I would have gotten in trouble for if my parents knew about it. In the context of adultery what do you think he's saying? The eye is offensive becuase it leads to lust, what does the hand do? well as James Joyce once said, when a woman at a party ask "may I kill the hand that wrote Finnigan's Wake?" Joyce replied "It's done other things as well."
Jesus is not telling us to cut our hands off. He's using humar, this is actualyl some of the law mid eastern ancinet world humar of the bible, and it's sarcasim. he's saying "if you have a lame excuse such as 'my eye can't stop looling,' or 'my hand can't stop flogging the log' then cut it off!" But he know these are merely lame excuses and one doesn't control lust by putting out one's eyes. One doesn't lust becuas the eyes refuse to cooporate. Self control begins in the mind. You learn self control in the mind the eye and the hand can't help but follow. He's saying congront the problem where it exists, dont' give me lame excuses. Why is he talking about this at all? He's still working on the idea of living righteously.He's still working on Keeping the law, and he's laying out the principle that we keep the law not by keeping the letter, but by keepign the spirit of the law. This passage is proof of that. It would be letter of the law to say cut off the hand, pull out the eye. He's saying go further than deal with the motive for sin.
Mat 5:31 ¶ It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
Mat 5:32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Here again we have this principle enunciated even more clearly. In our modern times all we can see is "dont' get divorced." In Jesus say what they would see here is, You owe your wife something. The wife could not make a living on her own. To be divorced would be a total disaster for a woman, a come down to poverty or even worse. she should not run down and get the want adds to look for a job. There were very few opportunies for an unmarried woman to make a living without sinning.
Jesus is saying sure the letter says you can get a divorce, but the spirit says you can't. Becasue the meaning of the law is not "you get off scott free" the meaning of thel aw is a way to protect women. The divorce thign was originally good for women becuase it meant they could be let out of a marraige without being thought sinful. But then the econimic situation make it a disaster. Jesus is saying you must consider the woman's plight and you can't divorce just for convience or so you can have your own affair.
Mat 5:33 ¶ Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:
Mat 5:34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne:
Mat 5:35 Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.
Mat 5:36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
Mat 5:37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Again, go fruther than the law. Instead of having a list of what not to swear by, just don't do it.
Mat 5:38 ¶ Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
Mat 5:39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Clearyly this is that principle, turn the other cheek. The law says you can take equal revenge but Jesus says you dont' have to, you can offer the other cheek, forgive, use non voiolence.
Mat 5:40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have [thy] cloke also.
Mat 5:41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
Mat 5:42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Give more than is asked, go further than the law.
Mat 5:43 ¶ Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
Mat 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
Isn't that horse dead by now? Go further than the law. Don't just love the nieghbor love the enemy, make him a neighbor.
Mat 5:45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Mat 5:46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
Mat 5:47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more [than others]? do not even the publicans so?
Mat 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
As a legalist he says "be perfect" which on one can do. In defining perfection, however, he does not order legalism, in every examle it is not the letter of law of which he is convered, it is goign beyond the law to find the meaning of the that with which the law deals, the motivation for sin, the nature of the problem, and then we apply love. That is what being perfect his, and he says it right here: eveyrone loves those who love him and hates those who hate him, when yo love everyone you are perfect as God is prefect.
Now in thinking about that stoning passage. Having my sense of hwat Biblical inpsiration mens I can see that as aamn attempt to come up with a law that we humans think is divine. I am certain Jesus really understood that that he really secretly knew all about Buatlmann and exegesis (at least on some level) and would have not really accepted such a passage.But even as an inerrentist I would not accept that Jesus would stone the kind. The principle of Jesus seems to always been the Spirit give life, the letter kills, go beyond the letter of the law and do that which is in keeping with the sprit of the law. The letter of the law says sotone the kid. The spirit of thel aw says protect the community but try to reach the kid.
No reason to think he would support everything. you can't jump from a summary that says "the sumary of the law is love." to stone the kid. It's not logical, and Jesus' standard was clearly go beyond the letter to the spirit of the law, which is love.


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Morning Memo: Debris Comes In All Kinds of Sizes
Let's see what's in the Morning Memo:
Yep, finally saw some of that mysterious debris which NASCAR officials seem so fond of throwing yellow flags at. It was laying there on the track surface near the start/finish line at Martinsville last weekend and aren't you conspiracy freaks feeling a bit shamed about your wild theories about phantom cautions now.
Through the miracle of big-screen, high-def television and pretty darn good – though glasses-aided – eye sight, I was able to discern exactly what the piece of debris was. It took no longer than a few seconds to recognize and identify it.
It was…a race car.
John Andretti's race car to be exact. About 3,400 pounds, without the driver. Big number and some words clearly printed on the side of it. In about 3-foot tall letters.
There would be no speculation about why this caution was called and called quickly. Except, well, no caution was immediately called. Not until after it appeared a ghastly physics experiment was about to be held.
On went the race. About 15 seconds after Andretti's car crashed and came to a rest during the green-while-checkered restart at Martinsville, out of Turn 4 roared the field.
For the most part, the momentum of taking the corner at 90 mph pushed the cars out to the wall, making the Andretti debris, which was low on the track but very much on the track, less scary.
But the incident still left some wondering; what up with that? They'll flip on the yellow lights for a match stick on the track – the little cardboard ones, not the big, huge, giant wooden kind, mind you – but not for a stalled car on the front stretch during a Martinsville mad dash to the finish?
Interesting, driver Jimmie Johnson said.
"The caution at the end," the Chase points leader, said, "I didn't know until I came off of 4, and my spotter had mentioned there was a car sitting on the inside, and when I looked up I could see the caution and the checkered at the same time.
From that standpoint I see that they are consistent and waited until the last possible second to throw the caution out so that the finish could be as exciting as possible. It makes me a little nervous as I'm charging into the start/finish line there's a car sitting there. I wish it would be thrown a little bit earlier for safety reasons. Might as well be on the safe side."
Andretti, still sitting inside his car as the field blew past, said after the he was not all that concerned.
"I think NASCAR makes the best calls that they can make at the time," Andretti said. "They have to make split-second decisions like we do. It wasn't a bad call. To me, I wasn't in a great position, but I wasn't in an overly dangerous position. Again, NASCAR focuses on the race itself, and they want to see the winner come across the finish line.
"Had they finished on the back straightaway, every result probably would've been the same. But, it's not the same for the people sitting up in the seats. So I can appreciate that. I don't think I can ever say that was a bad call. It's probably the call I would've made."
Me, I was concerned and I was on my couch at the time.
And, glad that wasn't a horse race.
Memo to self: Just a little consistency from race control is all we ask.
In a related matter:
Perhaps the best line of the weekend from a television booth came from former driver and blunt announcing instrument, Randy LaJoie.
When, after a caution was called in a race for debris and it turned out the debris was just a wad of paper, a fellow boother defended the call aloud; how could NASCAR officials to tell that it was just paper?
Lajoie offered: With binoculars.
Memo to self: Remember, paper does not crash cars, drivers do.
Don't blame Dodge
Kasey Kahne's Chase is all but mathematically over. He's 11th in the 12-driver playoff and 439 points behind leader Jimmie Johnson.
In half of the six Chase races, Kahne has finished 30th or worse.
Could it be that current Detroit partner Dodge has been slow to help Kahne after it became known that his team would move to Fords?
Not a chance, George Gillett, co-owner of Kahne's Richard Petty Motorsports said a couple weeks ago.
In fact, Gillett said, Dodge has been wonderful to Kahne and all of RPM since the Ford decision was announced.
Memo to self: Still, don't tell the mechanic that you plan to start going to Pronto Change for routine maintenance in the near future.
Good read
Good friend and sports writer extraordinaire Joe Posnanski recently spent time with three-time champion Jimmie Johnson in San Diego. Posnanski is doing a big story on Johnson for Sports Illustrated and the thought here is that if anybody can mine a gripping story from professional sports' most challenging interview, it's Poz.
Can't wait to meet Jimmie via Posnanski.
Memo to self: Reserve opinion that not all writing done with ink on paper is becoming an embarrassment to journalism's past.
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Last year was our first year doing this event and we had such a great time that we decided to do it all over again this year. Words cannot describe, so I'll just say this: if you only take one vacation a year, this should be it.
The trip to Disneyland alone is a blast- I was actually amazed at how the "bats" took over the place. There's almost a sense of comraderie that takes place as the "normal" become the "abnormal". I do have to giggle a bit thinking about those poor families from the midwest that unknowingly decided that this would be a fabulous weekend to take the kids on a trip to Disneyland...
Bloodbath will be at The Black Market selling an array of horrifying bath products, along with tons of amazing vendors. You will want to sell a kidney beforehand to have enough cash to buy all of the things you won't be able to live without. You may even want to stock up and give as gifts later- you just can't find this stuff anywhere.
Bats Day in the Fun Park consists of 5 events:
The Bats Day Dark Park Festival™: Saturday May 1st-A concert event festival that features bands and DJs from the Dark Alternative Subculture.
The Bats Day™ Black Market: Saturday May 1st- A vendors event where you can find that extra spooky thing for that spooky thing in your life. Over 50 vendors will help you find what you are looking for, from clothing, music, artwork, books, collectable's, toys, to other original items.
The Nightmare before Bats Day™: Friday April 30th- Dinner Meet & Greet: Have you ever wanted to spend the night in a haunted ballroom during a full sit down dinner? Meet your fellow attendees who are attending Bats Day in the Fun Park, and enjoy a unique opportunity to dine with the entertainers who are performing throughout the Bats Day weekend. All attendees receive a full three (3) course sit down dinner, a special limited edition "Nightmare before Bats Day™" keepsake and other surprises all within this intimate setting.
The Bats Day™ Ghoulish Gala: Saturday May 1st-Adorn your best attire and attend The Bats Day™ Ghoulish Gala. Enjoy catered Hors D'oeuvres in this spooky atmosphere. Attendees of the Ghoulish Gala are entered in the Bats Day Ghoulish Gala Raffle with a chance to win some great prizes provided by our features vendors and sponsors. All guests will receive a special limited edition "Bats Day™ Ghoulish Gala" keepsake and we other surprises fill your night with mystery and fun.
*Bats Day in the Fun Park™: Sunday May 2nd-Our annual spooky trip to Disneyland, CA. with several opportunities for meets and photos.
For more info including specific times and locations, click on the title link to take you to the official site.
The group gathering for a photo in front of the castle. Note the sea of tiny umbrellas. Remember zombies... these, along with those tiny little hats, do not do a damn thing to prevent your pasty flesh from rotting in the sun. Just sayin'
The young batling was infatuated with this gal. She was pretty darn cute..
And Mr. Bloodbath seemed to take a serious liking to this gal. I have affectionately named her "The Anti-Goth". I think I'm feeling a tinge of jealousy...


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"It reached the country as the country hasn't been reached"
Lots of Kerrycrats are going stark-raving crazy anticipating Senator Kerry's address at Faneuil Hall Saturday. And who can blame them? It's starting to look like C-SPAN is going to air the speech Sunday, somewhere in the programming vicinity of American Politics and Road to the White House. (I am naturally hoping for RttWH, what with my penchant for the symbolic and sentimental, but as long as I get to see what goes down, I'd even settle for Tonight from Washington.
In the interest of getting properly psyched, I checked out the 1971 interview that Diane of Tough Enough was kind enough to recommend. I thought it would be cool to use the internet to spend some time looking at what people my age used to do before they started spending all their time on the internet, so I watched it with great curiosity.
Apart from being completely blown away by seeing John Kerry before he was, you know, JOHN KERRY (he was, now that I bring it up, sort of a Beatle look-alike with a little bit of a William Daniels accent), I couldn't believe how much of what was said could be applied to Iraq today. And so it's worth pointing out that, while I spend a lot of time lauding Senator Kerry's experience and his legislative record (and I don't think I'm wrong to do so) I was reminded that, from the very beginning of his public life, there's been an emotional maturity that's given him an authority to evaluate whether or not the government's policies were reflecting the moral priorities of our nation.
And even if you're not a Kerry fan (and if you're not, I am beginning to lose my patience with you), even if you're not a Democrat, this video is refreshing just because it comes from a time when an interviewee could finish a sentence, and not have Chris Matthews or Katie Couric jumping in after ever third word with hard-hitting questions about why what he ordered for lunch makes him a total flip-flopper.
The interviewer is Betty Groebli, and the program was called Viewpoints. It aired November 6, 1971, and, according to The Washington Times, "Mrs. Groebli, who is retired and lives in her native Santa Barbara, Calif., doesn't remember much about the chat, except Mr. Kerry's stature. 'He is so big. I think he makes a point when he meets women of sitting down right away so as not to intimidate them,' she said."
Again, you can watch the interview here, or, since I couldn't find a full transcript of the interview anywhere online, I typed one up below. Just call me "Democrazy."
The Kerry comments, if not immediately obvious, are signified by that little JK's head bullet point that I am WAY too proud of.
So, without further coment from me, Betty Groebli, John Kerry on Viewpoints, November 6, 1971, transcribed from video.
Groebli: You're looking at a picture of a veteran who is throwing his medal away. This is one of the photographs included in a new book by our guest, John Kerry, former lieutenant. The book is called The New Soldier: Vietnam Veterans Against the War, by John Kerry and David Thorne and George Butler. Will you explain this picture, please?
- Well that, Betty, is a picture of one of the many veterans who came to Washington last April and decided that the last resort that they had to try and wake the country up and tell it what was happening in Vietnam, as well as what was happening back home to men who were Veterans, was to renounce the symbols which this country gives, which supposedly reinforces all the things they had done, and that was the medals themselves. And so they decided to give them back to their country, and –
- I gave back – I can't remember. Six, seven, eight, nine medals.
- Well, and above that. I gave back my others.
- I think it did, yes. I think it did. A lot of people are shocked by it. A lot of people feel that it was the wrong thing to do, in terms of showing respect for those things and everything, but I think it basically, it reached the country as the country hasn't been reached in terms of telling them that veterans who came back were against the war, that they were not all that they were made up to be – that is, the Vice President and the President had said they didn't consider themselves the best men of America. They didn't like what they'd done, and they didn't like what was being done in America's name, and it was terribly important that America come to understand that there were these men who were part of the so-called establishment or structure who were also against the war, and, as such, I think it was a very important stepping-off point for bringing a lot of other people to the level of disgust which they felt inside of them, but they didn't know how to show.
- I've been called a lot worse than a hypocrite. Sure they have. Of course they have. And they do call me worse things, for a lot of other reasons. But as far as when I learned, we just all come into our consciousness at a different stage, and I unfortunately was one of those – I mean, I joined the Navy in 1965, before the first draft cards had been burned - and my consciousness just didn't really come around, full-scale, until I got to Vietnam. But once it did, there was a consistent effort on the part of myself and the other people who were opposed to it to oppose it right there in Vietnam: to continually raise it as a point of discussion with our commanders, and to fight it, and to fight the policy from there to when we came back and got out.
- Oh, no. No. That has never been a question.
- Well, I think that's very true, Betty. The point is that men were taught how to kill. You are made into a killing machine if you are an infantryman or a Marine – the grunts of the war. And you have to be depersonalized to a point that you are willing to pull triggers against other people and see them blown away. And that's what killing is. That's what war is. It's settling political differences by killing other people, and I don't think it's a natural part of man to that; I just don't believe that. So you have to teach them how to do it, and in that sense, thousands of men are sent to Vietnam, have gone through the training, have been through that depersonalization process and come back with an intense sense of bitterness about it. And for a lot of these guys, particularly – and these are the most significant numbers of people who saw combat in Vietnam – your minority groups, they come back to a country that isn't realizing the promises that have been made to them for years and years, for chances for jobs, for equal housing, for pay, for anything. And the one thing they have been taught to do, as one of them said very well, he said this at hearings before Congress, he said, "You know, I learned how to do two things in the Army. One was to be an accountant, and I can't get a job as an accountant in this country, and the other thing I was taught how to do was kill." And I think that all of these men have an intense capacity for violence. Now, on the other hand, thank God, for some reason they also come back as very gentle people, in a sense, because they have seen so much violence, and that has done another thing to them: it's turned them away from any desire to see more. And I think The New Soldier is really trying to say that. It's trying to point out what caused those changes, what they have as hopes for the future and how they want to realize them, but most realistically, it has pointed out how they are just meeting a wall, a barrier of frustration which can make them turn toward that violence…
- Well, I say it can be. There's no excuse for it not being stopped. The only reason that it hasn't been stopped is that the president and the people who hold the keys to stopping it just still see an important something to be won in Vietnam. It's not a question of their wanting just to get out. They see it as being important to our commitments in the world, to the question of American security. And they are committed to a non-communist government, which is the old policy of containment, the extension of John Foster Dulles' theory that got us in there, the containment of communism. And they're still playing that game, and that's why we're not out, in the last analysis.
- I get sick. Like a lot of other Americans. I cannot believe that America's conscience is at the point where it is willing to accept a body count that says "only so many men have been killed." I think that everybody in America really believes that one man is too many in Vietnam now. And I, I –
- Well, of course it is, but you see, it's repugnant but it's hard to summon all the indignancy [sic] to express it at this point because it's no more repugnant than all of those statistics that say we're still winning the war. It's just one more computer aspect of this war which says, "we're doing this, we're doing that," which reduces the war to statistics. And as someone once said very poignantly, statistics don't bleed. And that's the problem, is that we've become accustomed to listening to it in terms of statistics, and of course it's repugnant.
- Well, my impressions are very hard to convey because…
- It's difficult to convey an image of somebody who's lying in a bed, who, who can't move, who has to be fed, who isn't aware of what's going on around him, or somebody on drugs. Drugs is one of the ones – I'll tell you about a guy; his name is Joey, I don't need to say his last name, but he's been – he came back from Vietnam, got back in 1965. He's been a hardcore heroin addict for six years.
- Over there as well as here.
- Started over there, he was shipped to Japan. They then shipped him back here and they discharged him. He walked out of El Toro Marine base with nothing, except the desire to have more drugs. Only in this country, it costs a lot more. So he's robbed stores, he's robbed private homes, he's sold stuff, he's been all around the country, ripping off places in order to pay for his habit. He's been on it for six years. He's OD'd – he's taken an overdose – on heroin seventeen times. He's taken an overdose of barbiturates six times. He's cut up his girlfriend with a knife when he was on the stuff once. He's been in a room with another girl who OD'd and died, and he left that place and went out to a phone booth and called the police and told them the girl was there, and they went and got her. He's, you know, now he's off it. But he's not off it for good, because there is no cure, you see. And this is the terrible thing. We have, there's a veteran who literally has given up his life to be with Joey, to walk around with him, to take every day to see that he doesn't go out and get on it again. But it's like alcoholism; it's that kind of disease. You are never really cured, and you always have the chance to go back on it. Well, that's just one of them. There, there's 6000 – Joey tells me himself there's 6000 of them that he estimates, anywhere between 6000 and 10,000 on the streets of Boston. There are anywhere between, he says, about 20 to 30 thousand in New York, and I think the statistics of the city confirm that. They are all over this country.
- I have. I've called and asked for an appointment to see Mr. Kissinger, and I – it's my own fault I haven't followed up on it; I haven't had time yet. I do want to see people at this point, yes, because something has got to be done. They have got to get the money, and they've got to appropriate it. And they've got to take a different attitude about it.
- Appropriate money for drug centers that are not necessarily going to be within the context of the VA. They've got to have more methadone maintenance programs, but they've also got to have more therapeutic communities wherein people can seek help. They've got to have an outreach program that's going to reach these thousands of veterans and let them know there's something that can help them.
- I certainly will.
Groebli: Thank you very much. Our guest, again, former lieutenant John Kerry and his book, The New Soldier. Thank you very much.
- Thank you, Betty, very much.


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Today I smell like vanilla parfait. That might be a good thing, generally, were it not for the fact that it's the kind of sweet, edible scent that sends you into cravings for anything involving whipped cream and a cherry on top. But while I may be at risk of running off to the nearest cake shop, or gnawing off part of my own wrist, I can't think of any other real downside. If I'm going to smell like any kind of food-selling establishment, it may as well be a French Patisserie.
I'm testing out Bahoma London's offerings, which range from scented candles to bath & body products, to home fragrances. The thing that got my attention about this particular brand was that their products are designed and produced in London. Sometimes, you just want a break from the usual fragrance suspects – whether just to dabble in something different or establish your own signature scent – that didn't come off the same factory line as everyone else's.
Fragrance expert Malgorzata Strug-Guzowska conjures up the perfume side of things for Bahoma, and while you're likely to find that not every one appeals to you (scents are a subjective thing, after all) that to me is a good sign. If they did, they'd probably be sticking too close to the safe middle range of generic appeal rather than testing the boundaries of fuller and more impacty scents.
With that said, here are a few of my personal favourites.
Bahoma scents: top picks.
Vineyard: this has a particularly sweet smell, but in a refreshing way – it almost makes me think wine should be made out of bubblegum.
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Health Tips: 4 Dieting Strategies That Almost Always Backfire, According To Science
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Sorry, but your fitness tracker isn't a magical weight-loss device.
Spoiler alert: Some of the pounds-shedding strategies that are touted as top notch might actually be sending the number on your scale in the wrong direction. Sticking to your weight loss goals is hard enough as it is—the last thing you need is all of that effort going to waste because of some (seriously) flawed advice.
Here, we've outlined some of the common pitfalls people run into when trying to lose weight and what to do about it, so you can get it right and get it tight.
1. Choosing (Another) Fad Diet
On-again, off-again dieters can gain more weight than those who don't diet at all, thanks to the brain's built-in survival mechanism, according to a recent study published in the journal Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. In diet mode, the brain considers the temporary calorie restriction to be a short famine—and once the diet is over, it signals the body to store more fat in case of future shortages, dooming your upcoming weight-loss endeavors.
"Uncertainty about the food supply triggers the evolved response to gain weight," writes study author John McNamara, professor at the University of Bristol's School of Mathematics in a press release. Non-dieters, on the other hand, learn that the food supply is reliable and they don't need to pack on extra fat as insurance.
Get it right, get it tight: Instead of going balls to the walls with a weight-loss plan that eliminates lots of calories and ends in an epic pizza binge, take a one-step-at-a-time approach.
By mastering one healthy change at a time, like cutting your chip addiction back to one snack bag per week or swapping your sandwich at lunch for a lettuce wrap, you'll slowly adapt to a lower calorie intake and healthier eating habits without feeling deprived—and so will your bod.
2. Noshing on Fitness Foods
Research suggests that when a food's packaging gives off a fitness-related vibe (think: protein or granola bars) it encourages dieters to eat more of these foods and exercise less. During the study, published in the Journal of Marketing Research, participants were given trail-mix style snacks marked either "Fitness" or "Trail Mix," and had eight minutes to taste and rate the product.
Fun fact: To make the "Fitness" snack look even healthier, researchers added a picture of running shoes to the packaging. Post-nosh, they were asked to work out as vigorously as they liked on an exercise bike. As you might have guessed, the people who ate the fitness snack ate more of it and worked out at a lower intensity than those who ate the trailmix.
Get it right, get it tight: While protein and energy bars can be a good snack or meal replacement in a pinch, assuming that they'll help you get closer to your weight loss goals is a mistake. Many bars don't have enough protein or fiber to keep you full for long and contain enough sugar and carbs to spike your blood sugar, leaving you hungry soon after snacking.
Instead, keep healthy eats like nut butter and whole-grain crackers in your desk drawer and keep bite-sized veggies and whole fruit in your fridge for healthy, low-calorie snacking.
3. Relying on a Fitness Tracker
According to a 2016 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, dieters who wear fitness trackers may lose less weight than tech-free dieters. For the study, participants were split into two groups—one was provided with a wearable to track their activity, while the other recorded their progress on a website.
Both groups were placed on a low-cal diet, prescribed higher doses of physical activity, and participated in group counseling sessions. By the end of the two-year study, the participants sporting fitness trackers only lost an average of 7.7 pounds, while the tracker-free group lost 13.
Unfortunately, researchers can't exactly say why this happened—especially since previous short-term studies suggested that trackers boosted people's weight-loss success. However, they suggest these results show that trackers can boost your-short terms success, but they lose their effectiveness in the long term.
Get it right, get it tight: Taking 10,000 steps today doesn't necessarily mean you burned enough to make a dent in your weight-loss goals. Instead of solely relying on your tracker stats to assess your progress, measure your success in the number of healthy meals and snacks you ate this week and how many times you made it to the gym.
4. Severely Limiting Calories
A 2016 study published in the journal Obesity tracked 14 contestants from The Biggest Loser for six years, and found that all but one contestant gained back most of the weight they lost. The study authors found that their regain was caused by a drastic change in their metabolism.
After losing weight, their metabolic rates were much slower than the average person of their size, causing them to burn roughly 600 fewer calories per day than they should be.
Get it right, get it tight: When you have a lot of weight to lose, it can be tempting to drastically cut your calories, but that can lead to a sluggish metabolism (and a serious case of mood swings). Instead of dropping your energy intake to 1,200 calories (the minimum number you should never dip below) right off the bat, start by decreasing how much you eat by 100 calories for every 10 pounds you lose, says Wesley Delbridge, R.D., spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
You can also boost your metabolic burn by lifting weights to build muscle, he says.
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When you think about the history of crafting and the myriads of inventive food recipes, textiles, clothing and furniture, and so much more, you probably think that necessity is the mother of invention. In this home, however, there is not much of that kind of creative genius going on. There is however, a lack of pre-packaged variety and some serious enjoyment of time well-spent in the kitchen. I enjoyed cooking before moving to the other side of the globe. But since arriving here, I've found myself seeking out the means to making a host of items I never even considered before.
Noodles would be on that list. I remember watching my favorite Italian kitchen guru, Lydia from the PBS cooking network whip her way through pasta making like it was easier than boiling water. It looked fun, time-consuming, and maybe the sort of thing you would do if you were trying to be ultra-homemakey or a serious gourmet cook (the kind that comes home from a glamorous day working uptown, pours a glass of wine and whips up something from the latest issue of Martha's-Awesome-Recipes-with-Impossible-to-get-Ingredients).
I have to be honest and say; I enjoy cooking, I wish I was awesome, I wish I made things form scratch purely to make them organic or whole-wheat or what have you, but often it is purely from necessity. In a way, this has made me grateful for the inconvenient situation we can sometimes feel like we are in. It has made me make more, think harder, get creative, and enjoy the process of the making as much as the eating.
And it has of course involved more hands than mine. If you spend more than five minutes doing something with extra little people around you all day, you will inevitably find them doing it as well. It is endlessly interesting to see the way a different makeup in a different set of limbs and hands and head of hair will lead to different interests.
The oldest loves to think hard, reason like a lawyer, and plan plan plan. The Busy little Scout likes to climb on the table and somehow stretch her arm out like Gumby to grasp whatever it is your making that you thought you had placed out of her reach. And my cozy, quiet, curly haired second-born loves to help me cook. He asked me the other day, during our noodle adventure, "Mama, why do you like to make food?" After talking for probably too long, I then asked him why he liked to help me and he said "because you need me to!" I really do think he believes that all our loaves of bread would not make it without his 3 year old kneading expertise.
Necessity means that it took one day to make the noodles, and the following day to make the broth from scratch, as well as a loaf of braided friendship bread. We ate it all in under 30 minutes, but surprisingly it didn't bother me... we had fun along the way and those moments of making were just as important as the meal we sat down to in the end.
Her hands found their way into nearly every picture. First the salad, then the soup, and then...
...two big smacking bites right out of the loaf (can you see them?) I guess I could have put her in her chair while I took the pictures, or in her bed for a few minutes, but I didn't think of that until I wrote it just now.
And just for fun, a pic of my proud boy after helping with yet another floury project. Who likes to eat mouthfuls of flour? Do you? Do your kids? Are mine not well fed?


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fruitcake wrote:'Barbarella' came to my mind, how about changing that into 'Barbarilla'. A little feminin touch is much needed as a contrast to all the boyish predator stuff....
Barbierella? Cinderella?
Phoenix needs a new name
Discussion of general topics about Mozilla Firefox
Barbierella? Cinderella?
How about
- Withnail
- Fargo
- Izzard
- 42 (as in hitchhikers guide)
I also liked the previous suggestion
Don't you mean Barbierilla? Cinderilla?
Marvin? Zaphod Beeblebrox? Ford Perfect? (oops, this last one seems already taken)
I always thought 'Basilisk' sounded cool.
Here's another idea for changing the spelling. 'Phenyx' or maybe 'Pheonyx'.
Oh, and here's a link for other mythical creatures:
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/index.html
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Websplorer or Mozplorer then ?
or back to Hermes
-- http://cdn.mozdev.org/ --
-- http://themes.mozdev.org/ --
That's lizard in finnish. Probably derivative of basilisk.
Hey, while I'm on it, maybe a better one would be Sisilisko, that's the small and quick lizard that can drop off its' tail in a tight place.
the skink.
Drachen (i think thats german for dragon)
the chimp(anzee)
Priapus - but, seriously, they make bioses, not browsers ...
Very good !
I also thought about 'Morilla', but that's too offensive towards Mozilla.....
Raptor - would be nice, but it would also mean looking for trouble with Symantec. It's also the name of the successor to the F15 Eagle...
I'd like Daedalus, but I think it's also taken.
What about Phaeton - you know, the guy who drove the chariot of the sun and set the world on fire?
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how about panther or gamecock
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The following statement from Women Living Under Muslim Laws explains how Islamic laws can be feminist, instead of the way the name of Islam is used to justify many patriarchal and un-Islamic laws such as FGM (female genital mutilation) - which is nowhere to be found in The Qur'an.
Some of my favorite statements:
"WLUML knows from its own research* that laws said to be Islamic, which laws are said to derive from Islamic jurisprudence or 'fiqh' (often wrongly referred to as 'sharia'), or considered in conformity with Islam vary enormously from country to country - hence proving laws and the jurisprudence (fiqh) they are said to have been derived from are man-made rather than God-given. Furthermore they include elements from culture and traditions that have nothing to do with religion, as well as colonial laws when these best suit the interests of local patriarchy. This is how local traditions such as muta'a marriage or FGM (female genital mutilation) are adopted as part and parcel of 'religion.' This is also how the newly independent Algeria in the 1960s deprived its women citizens of any access to contraception and abortion, using a long abandoned French law dating from 1922."
"From the religious point of view alone, the Qur'an itself can be read and interpreted in different ways. Diversity (iktilaf) is an accepted tradition in Islam. Tunisia took the historic decision in 1956 to forbid polygyny (aka polygamy), as legislators pointed out that the Qur'an clearly indicated both that equal treatment between wives is required and that it was not possible for a man to treat several women perfectly equally; conversely Algeria in 1962 used the same verse to allow a man to have 4 wives and legitimize polygamy. Which of these contradictory interpretations conforms with 'sharia'?"
For feminism,
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Can Sharia/Muslim laws be feminist?
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Friday, August 12, 2011
Preparing to Remember to Never Forget.
HAMILTON— The township received a steel beam from the World Trade Center today as a tangible reminder of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
A flatbed truck made the trip to an airport hangar at John F. Kennedy International Airport to pick up the 9-foot, 674-pound beam, said Brian Moss, chairman of the Hamilton Township Fire Chiefs Association's committee, which applied for the steel.
The beam will be permanently erected in the township's 9/11 memorial in Veterans Park, he said.
The township lost four residents on Sept. 11, 2001, and two township firefighters as members of the Urban, Search and Rescue team were sent to the city on a recovery mission, Moss said.
"It struck pretty close to home," he said of the tragedy.
The piece's arrival today at around 11 a.m. was met with firetrucks, an honor guard and a bagpipe band lining Tampa Avenue, Moss said.
After the Department of Public Works weatherizes the steel beam, it will be unveiled and formally dedicated at a ceremony on Sept. 10, Mayor John Bencivengo said.
"This is an ongoing remembrance of that day," he said.
The Port Authority has been giving pieces of steel from Ground Zero to local governments and community groups who are preparing 9/11 memorials.
Moss said the fire chiefs association received a smaller piece of steel from Ground Zero last September from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The smaller piece is often brought to schools, libraries and police and fire stations for display, Moss said.
A 10-foot piece of I-beam steel from the World Trade Center site is being fashioned into a memorial in Mercer County Park. Dedication of that memorial is scheduled for Sept. 11.
By Cristina Rojas/The Times of Trenton
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(1) How did he know?
A man was waiting at an airport for a plane to arrive. Suddenly, he heard someone call his name. Looking up, he saw an old friend of his hurrying toward him. "Hey, Bill!" called his friend. "How are you? I haven't seen you in years!""How are you?" exclaimed Bill. "Wow, you look great!""I am married now, to somebody you don't know," said the other. "This is my daughter. "Bill smiled down at the little girl. "Hi, young lady. What's your name?" "It's the same as my mama's," said the girl. "Is that so," said Bill, winking at his friend. "Then your name must be Cindy!"
Q : How could he possibly know this? ____________ _________ _________ ______
(2) The strange sisters.
It was the first day of school. The teacher had several children in her class. She asked all the new children to write down their names and their date of birth for her. The first two names she looked at were those of girls. She saw that they both had the same last name. They also had the same birthday - June 9,1973. "Will Jane and June campbell please stand?" asked the teacher. Two girls stood up, and the teacher saw that they were just alike. "Oh, you're twins," she said. One of the girls shook her head. "No," she said. "We're sisters, but we're not twins."
Q : How could they be sisters and be the same age, but not twins? ____________ __
(3) The mystery of the missing fish.
Two fathers and two sons went fishing. Each caught one fish. However, only three fish were caught.
Q : How was this possible? ____________ _________ _________ ________ ______
(4) The tennis player.
Once there was a tennis player. In the tennis game, she played very well and won great fame. Jane was her first name, What was her last name.
Find Jane's last name ____________ _________ _________ ________ ______
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.(1) How did he know Bill knew the little girl's name because it was the same as his friend's name. His old friend, to whom he was talking, was named Cindy, and she was the little girl's mother.
(2) The strange sisters Jane and June Campbell were sisters, born on the same day the same year. But they weren't twins. They were two of a set of triplets. The other triplet, Jackie, was sick that day.
(3) The mystery of the missing fish. The two fathers and two sons who went fishing were actually only three people a grandfather, his son, and his grandson. The grandfather was his son's father, and of course the son was his grandson's father. That makes two fathers. The grandfather' s son was one son, and his son was the other. So, if each of them caught one fish, only three fish were caught.
(4) The tennis player, The first and last names are given in the last two lines of the poem. Jane was her first name, What was her last name. The two lines make one complete sentence. And there is a period at the end of the sentence, not a question mark. So the sentence doesn't ask a question. It tells you that Jane was the first name and that What was her last name. Her name was Jane What.
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That happened on Monday. I had purchased a Touch 'n Brush a few years ago to try and save my sanity due to obscene amounts of toothpaste left all over the counter top in the bathroom sink. It revolutionized my life. Which I guess is a sad, sad commentary on my life if this is revolutionary......
I knew as soon as I removed it, I could not look at this for two more years and I would have to repair it right away. Apparently Monday was the day to remove and repair it...and Friday is the day to post it. At least I didn't post it two years form now.
I figured I'd let you know how it went by showing you how to repair things like this. Pretty easy actually but it does take a bit of finesse if you want the repair to be almost invisible. I say invisible because if you are anything like me, I will notice it for 2 more years if it isn't exactly right even though all others are just glad the dang thing is patched. Hi Honey!
Grab your tools and let's get to it. You will need:
sanding block
drywall mud
plastic scraper
spray primer
paint to match wall
good paintbrush, like Purdy (my ab fav!)
or a small paint roller
When you first peel off the plastic, try and do so with minimal tearing off the drywall. It can be done and if you are careful, you will have less work to do down the road with the patching and sanding.
Use your sanding block and sand down the patch. Feel it with you other hand as you go. More is not better here though so be careful again. You can rough up the drywall too much and make more work for yourself. You are just trying to make the perimeter smoother and knock off any major dings and dents.
Wipe the area clean with an damp cloth.
Take your drywall mud and load your scraper. Make sure the whole blade is covered from end to end.
Start in the middle and pull the scraper at an angle to the outside of the patch
Continue all the way around the patch starting in the middle and pulling outward. WHY do you ask? Because the edge of the patch is where the difference in height is and what you are trying to camouflage. By pulling outward, you force the mud to build up at the edge where you want it. If you were to pull outside to the inside or up and down, your build up will be in the middle or only at one end.
It should look something like this when wet. I took a hair dryer and helped it along since I wanted this done asap!
This is it dry, only took about 5 minitues with the hairdryer.
Take your sanding block and sand again. You really do need to wipe away the dust every so often and see what you are doing as well as feel the edges to make sure you are not feeling any ridges. At first you can be rigorous with your sanding but once you wipe the dust away, then yo need to evaluate the surface. Light imperfections take a light sanding to make them disappear so just take your time on this part. A beautiful foundation will look great painted. One that has ridges and divots, does not.
Wipe the entire area and wall clean with your damp cloth
Apply one coat of your spray primer. WHY spray primer?
You gals are such good students and ask such good questions!
It is easy, of course! And when you rolled your original paint on the roller left some subtle texture to the wall. Brush stokes would be noticeable with primer because it tends to be thicker than paint. If it is a
bigger patch, then thin your primer a bit and roll it on.
I used my Purdy brush and painted this. Stir you left over paint really well if it hasn't been used in a few years. If you don't, there will be differences in shades once dry. Also, clean your wall if it hasn't been cleaned in a while before painting. This will also show differences even if your paint is mixed well.
Put on a coat of paint on the drywall mud patch and let dry about 30 minutes.
How do you blend the edge into the existing wall paint? More great questions! Once you have your patch painted with one coat, go ahead and give it a second coat. When you are applying the second coat, feather your edges by using a fairly dry brush where most of the paint has been used. Then criss- cross your brush as you paint in an arc around the dry wall patch and into the already painted surface. You should not be able to see the difference even wet when you feather your edge.
Here she is all patched up!
See, can't even tell
So go forth and patch you drywall mud divas!
But don't wait two years.....
Always being renewed,


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I thought id just blog these boots on their own ,even though they are part of the winter set collection -
These sculptie boots are in the ugg style
First a tan lace up style calf length in a tan suede with a faux fur top and are available in small, medium and large sizes - please come to the store and try the demo to find your size if you are not sure.
The second a short suede boot with sheepskin style fold over top , they come in both tan and light tan
For the first time I am having to make my boots copy only , I have tried to maintain mod/trans because i know alot of my customers wanted it that way particularly with boots and shoes but having been alerted to 3 different 'designers' over the last couple of months who have or are selling replica of my boots my hand is forced into doing this. You can expect people to make similar styles Im not talking about that, Im talking about exact copies and one of these shop owners even had my handmade pixie boot texture. ( Fortunately she had the grace to apologise and take her (my) items down.)
Therefore boots in the future will be copy only - if you would like to give these boots as a gift please let me know , likewise if you have trouble fitting them.
SF Design - serving the men and women of Second life® since 2004 http://slurl.com/secondlife/Penryn/69/81/36 and also Inworldz since 2010 http://places.inworldz.com/SF%20Design/137/69/35
Friday, 30 November 2007
sf design 'winter warmer' collection
Finally!! this set has taken me way longer than intended but at last its out, winter sets for men and women and all available as separates too!
I chose natural colours and natural looking textures for the winter warmers outfits and boots.
The coat comes with 3 versions - vest , bomber jacket, and coat, each with prim attachments - the coat with flexi - 2 sizes included.
The suede pants are available in 3 colours , the chocolate pair is included in the winter set. The come both on pant and underpant layer. If youre in the sf design update group the tan pair are free!!
You can buy the set which includes coat, pants, sweater and boots ( plus skirt and tights in womens version) for 500 lindens or as separates.
Lots of options so do come and see them at SF Design Innisfree
these items are no trans so if you would like them gift wrapped and sent , please let me know - they will be available on slexchange very soon though.
Models in individual ads- Benu Boyer and Melinda Jensen
Melinda is wearing a skin by Ayiki Takakura, called AYSK-Normal NS2 package - Ayiki skins are now available at the SF Design store Innisfree and well worth trying a demo :)
Wednesday, 21 November 2007
SF Design re-opening party
Sophie very kindly videoed the opening party last thursday with the awesome singing of Guy Goodman. Thanks to everyone who came and made it such a successful evening , we filled the sim and didnt crash it - thank you Phillip Linden lol.
Special thanks to Guy for his great performance, friends and customers,the Lions Pride and True Brits groups for their support, my wonderful models for their hard work and dedication to sf design, lastly to Pie for the great new building SF Design is now housed in.
Thursday, 15 November 2007
sf design heavenly corsets by Elle
I know I said I'd bring you 4 corsets this week but they lent themselves to full outfits as well as stand alone corsets and I got terribly sidetracked (making a matching mens tux lol.)
The first corset - floral by Elle I used in my sf design 'flora' adding a heavy full skirt in cocoa silk covered in fine lace I created from the floral fabric, and matching gloves.
The overbust corset alone retails at 100 lindens ,( buy in rl here Heavenly Corsets)
the full evening dress 300.
The second corset is this wasp waist underbust corset by Elle in a muave silk dupion that postively glows and gives a 'dramatic silhouhette' I decided to match it with some lacy lingerie in an outfit called Petite Coquine for obvious reasons - its definitely cheeky! - the outfit includes stockings , garter/suspender belt,lace flexi frill, 2 lace tops one transparent one opaque and lace panties as well as the corset.
Underbust corset alone - 100 lindens - buy in rl here Heavenly Corsets
sf design Petite coquine - 200 lindens.
More Elle corsets coming to you from SF Design soon
Models Melinda Jensen and swaffette Firefly
SF Design Tripper shoes for men and a new tux
Heres the latest release for the guys at sf design if you get yourself down to Innisfree between the hours of 11am and 4pm game time today you can pick them up for just half price!!
SF Design Tripper shoes are equally at home with jeans or a tux they come in 2 styles one with a chain across and one with laces. Lots of guys have been asking me for plain black lace ups so here you go :)
Unfortunately due to how things are in sl at the moment I am selling these shoes no mod no trans but i have put out a demo shoe so you can try for size , they come in large , medium and small sizes. As always if you have any problems just im me and we can get you some to fit , but im pretty confident one of these sizes should fit you well :) normally these will retail at 200 lindens.
The latest tux from sf design is the SFD cocoa tux with floral tie - the fabric for the vest/waistcoat and tie are the same as the new corset from sf design Flora so you can match your lady. This tux offers lots of options the pants come with prim legs, the jacket comes with flexi tails, long coat, or regular flexi length. There are 2 vests one with a sleeve filler incorporated. Normally this will retail at 400 lindens and is mod/copy
Model Dice Stonebender
You are invited
You are invited to the official opening of our newly refurbished store at Innisfree - any excuse for a party :) I'll be kicking off with some djing at 11am game time followed by the wonderful live singing of Guy Goodman at 1pm - then DJ Forever Delaid promises to rock your socks off at 2pm.
SF Design models will be available to show any items you would like to see and the new releases.
New releases both for men and women will be available during the opening party hours only at half price! (Check this blog later today for details)
Goodie bags available for customers during the party hours too :)
Hope to see you later @ Innisfree
Tuesday, 6 November 2007
SF Design joins real life designer Elle of Heavenly Corsets
Some of you may have heard the exciting news that SF Design have been given full permission to represent real life designer Elle of Heavenly Corsets here in Second Life, by recreating her designs exclusively for your avatars.
I am able at last to give you a preview of whats to come :) The corset shown here is called Flora and you can read all the details of the real life item on Elles website
'Heavenly Corsets have been creating bespoke corsetry and corseted wedding gowns for over a decade, and they are proud to offer an unsurpassed service for made-to-measure tight-lacing corsets at an unbeatable price'
We hope we can do justice to Elle's designs by bringing them to you at SF Design
Four of Elle's corsets (including the flora corset) will be available in our shops from the 15th of November which will also be the grand opening of the new shop at Innisfree - details to follow.
Saturday, 3 November 2007
sf design cordelia
I made the bodice of this dress some weeks ago inspired by some lace, I thought it was about time i finished the outfit off so here it is :)
It includes prim shoes and 2 flexi skirts one slightly slimmer fitting - although the item is modifiable.
Come and check it out at the newly refurbished store at Innisfree
Friday, 2 November 2007
Lord Lace Ice
I was asked to recreate Lord Lace in a bluish white that would match someones wedding dress, my heart sank at white lol but I finished it just in time to wear for halloween with a Nomine skin and white hair - so I decided to release it both for women and men as Ive enjoyed wearing it so much.
It comes as all Lord Lace outfits with prim shoes, flexi lace, and prim collar, the guys version includes 2 flexi lower jackets one for slimmer fit avs and the standard skirt lower jacket as optional. - wear which suits your particular av.
Find them at Lotus and the new shop at Innisfree :)
SF Design facelift at Innisfree
Well after a nightmare of a day yesterday moving hundreds of boxes we finally have got the new shop in place at Innisfree without having to shut the island at all :) yay.
Thanks to Pie, Axel and Jamir for their help , particularly Pie for building the new store :)
surprisingly it looks like a smiley face from a birdseye view lol.
Hopefully its not too confusing although the mens dept and womens dept have swapped sides. There is a map and tp board to help and just im me if you need assistance.
Freebies and some discounted bargains are in the balcony areas above each dept, there are changing rooms for those who like to check out their new outfits before going public :)
Theres still some work to do but all the items are in place i think - with new things to come :)
Keep a look out for your invite to the official opening coming sooon I hope !
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In my last post, I mentioned how much I had enjoyed reading Elizabeth Gilbert's The Signature of All Things, which chronicles the life of a nineteenth century woman botanist, Alma Whittaker and especially tied in with the fact that that my mother too happens to be a botanist. While growing up in Oman, though, surrounded as I was by a lively garden and well, botanical talk, I wasn't particularly an enthusiastic budding (pun unintended!) botanist. I loved collecting and identifying rocks and shells and even attempted bird-watching but - plants?
However, I then began reading a column about desert plants of Arabia in a weekly Dubai magazine in which an enthusiastic amateur botanist would report details of her weekend expeditions into the desert, presenting her findings as notes from her diary - and having been an avid diarist since the age of eight, I too was compelled to unmask the desert of its seeming barrenness and document all that thrived within it. I even bought the book the columnist had written about desert plants, absorbing all that she had to say in great detail about the various plant species and when and where they happened to grow; later, whenever we would go out into the interior, I would diligently seek to locate and identify these plants and later on, jot down these findings, occasionally accompanied by sketches. Yet, say, unlike rocks, of which there were multiple varieties and Oman being one giant, fecund rock garden, we were in a desert, after all, and there were only so many plant species that my child-mind could find and examine. Needless to say, the plant mania wore off quickly.
Ever since then, I have always keenly observed the foliage surrounding me wherever I have happened to live but I have never been driven to identify the species; I am simply content with the diverse greenness encircling me rather than worrying about the specificity of the greenness!
Nevertheless, the botanical genes endure and soon after arriving in Pittsburgh and spotting the shiny glass world of the Phipps Conservatory, I immediately wanted to pay a visit - but the opportunity only came a few days ago.
I visited the Conservatory on a relatively warm, sunny day but I can easily imagine what an escape and respite it must be to enter this glass-enclosed world bursting with so much green and plenitude while the world outside is snow-blanketed, silent and seemingly dead. As we roamed from one room to another, it was indeed quite easy to forget the world outside and immerse ourselves in this parallel botanical universe. In this museum of plants, I could not help but marvel at both nature's artistry and diversity which was at display: numerous varieties of orchids, cocoa trees with their fat yellow pods, mosses (I paid attention, thanks to Alma's meticulous meditations upon on the subject!) dozens of cacti and faux flower succulents, and the bonsai trees, assiduously trained to micro perfection. In the beginning, I did dutifully study the names of the plant species and their stories - but after a while, I simply lost myself to the revitalising sight of all that green, a balm for the eyes after months of glimpsing the austere winter landscape.
Here are some photo notes...
|In Full Bloom
Perhaps, thanks to the inner-desert girl in me, the Desert room happened to my favorite what with the desert landscape yielding a huge variety of cacti, some enormous while others almost akin to sculptural art. I particularly liked the faux flower succulents, such as the one above; I forgot to take a picture of it but there was a lovely melange of botany and art in the form of a Christmas-tree shaped piece composed entirely of a family of succulents.
When we entered the Bonsai room, we were greeted with a pan of tiny pebbles; we were then asked to grab a handful of pebbles and place them inside glass jars standing next to the various trees. The trees with the most pebbles would be deemed the favorites. I personally thought all of them were fascinating although I have ambivalent feelings about so severe and stylised a manner in which a tree's growth is restricted or in bonsai parlance, trained.
|Glass Explorers: Longfellows, Hans Godo Frabel (2009)
|Crystallised Sun: Desert Gold, Dale Chihuly (2007)
Throughout the Conservatory, I spotted numerous stunning glass sculptures and installations juxtaposed alongside the plants, such as these examples above in the Orchid and Desert Rooms respectively. I thought it was such an innovative approach to breathing new life and character into the glass works, uprooting them from the white cubes of a gallery or a museum's minimal environs and literally transplanting them into this garden. These works in turn transformed the conservatory to an even more magical and enchanted place, an unique and exciting example of a partnership between botany and art...
Have you visited a conservatory? What were your experiences like?
Have you visited a conservatory? What were your experiences like?


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A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
Suicide is man's way of telling God, You can't fire me - I quit
One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world
Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.
I bought some batteries, but they weren't included
I can't even get three weeks off to have cosmetic surgery.
I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.
Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.
People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.
The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two...
As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas'.
When you become senile, you won't know it.
I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
You don't know a women till you've met her in court.
Women are like Elephants. I like to watch them, but I wouldn't want to own one.
Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.
Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and three dollar pantyhose that won't run.
Women are like elephants to me: nice to look at, but I wouldn't want to own one.
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Tony Blair is like an actor who doesn't really believe in his script himself but has the incredible skill to make everyone else believe in it.
Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.
The execs don't care what color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not really black or white. It's green.
In Beverly Hills...they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.
Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness you send out for it.
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.
Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign.
The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.
Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired.
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.


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THE WALKER BOYS {austin child photographer}
The Walker's are some of my favorite kids around. They are SO much fun and super adorable. I have the pleasure of spending almost everyday with them… most of our days are spent playing dragons. While playing in the backyard the other day, I was able to capture just a few quick pics of them. Tell me that these boys are not the cutest…
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Cute kids! Whose kids are those?
01/21/2011 at 11:07 pm
they are so cute and you did a great job capturing them. Are you sure you won't consider coming to Colorado Springs if I win :-)
01/21/2011 at 11:31 pm
These Walker boys are amazing!!! Those pictures are awesome. Love those cuties!!
01/22/2011 at 11:42 am
Those are the cutest pictures!!! Love those boys to my core!! Amazing, amazing job!!!
01/22/2011 at 11:57 am
Those are the cutest pictures!! Love those boys to the core!! Amazing, amazing job!!
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
The Grocery Bagger
I'm going to dedicate this blog to Marlo Root. On my facebook profile status update I said that the kind've guys I'm into are NBA players, Wrestler's and grocery baggers. She totally raised her eyebrow at me when I dropped grocery baggers. And I was like what.....? I think grocery bagger dudes are hot. Here's a picture of one of the guys I'm talking about, doesn't she look thrilled that she has a hot guy bagging her groceries?
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Among Washington's most impressive landmarks and tourist attractions is the Gothic-style ecclesiastical seat of the Episcopal Bishop of Washington. The official title is Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, but it is far better known by its unofficial nickname: the National Cathedral.
Tomorrow, 83 years to the day after the cornerstone was laid on an undeveloped hill in northwest Washington, the final stone will be ceremoniously inserted in this soaring monument to the glory of God and the artistic inventiveness of mankind.
Dignitaries expected at the outdoor ecumenical celebration at the west end of the cathedral facing Wisconsin Avenue are the Most Rev. Edmond L. Browning, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church with offices in New York, and the nation's most famous Episcopalian, President Bush.