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Indymedia UK censors 'un-PC' film criticism of "Inglorious Bastards" movie
How Khazar Jew psychopath actor (writer/director of horror films Hostel I/II & Cabin Fever and gruesome horror movie fake trailer Thanksgiving) rationalize extremely brutal violence against the "enemy."
Censored by IndyMedia UK due to editorial guideline violation. I guess the editor idiots at Indymedia UK (so-called citizen journalism) think anti-Zionism and expose of Zionist control of Western media & government is "vile anti-Semitism."
Another article that condemns the film - Jewish, sadistic hate film promoted to the world while true story of Jewish revenge hidden by David Duke, Ph.D
Inglorious Bastards Film Promotes Terrorism and Torture
Dan Dillon | 08.10.2009 02:48 | Culture | Repression | Oxford
Why was the "psychology" of this movie not more considered in reviews? Yes one can quickly retort that it was "just" a movie, and besides artists have poetic license to be free with their work? Well maybe so, but Mr. Quentin Tarantino addresses a serious subject at a curiously serious time, and therefore he invites serious criticism that he and his critics should get—not a Hollywood club giving wide birth if it was meant to promote more guilt or whatever the U.S. film/ review industry silently accedes as OK—that is a film industry that has become part and parcel of a world not unlike that of Joseph Goebbels.
Inglorious Bastards Film Promotes Terrorism and Torture
Quentin Tarantino's new film, Inglorious Bastards, gets relatively passing grades from a sampling of reviews on the Internet—or at least kid's glove criticism—that is from some prominent and influential cyberspace sights—why? Granted, some aspects of the film were very good. But still one wonders why the "psychology" of this movie was not more considered? And you can pretty much take it as given that if Jewish Americans dominate in the film industry, which they do, then surely they have something to say on how movies are reviewed here in America?
In the larger context of current affairs of U.S. involvement in the Middle East, such as in Palestine, or more importantly another series of likely lies being promulgated to manipulate the United States into "another" war, this time with Iran, with a similar litany of rumors of nuclear weapons, we need to ask why does this terrorist movie not get critically reviewed—save perhaps a few?
But apparently it takes a folksy, Yankee-looking and acting, hillbilly from Tennessee (really making him more a Confederate cracker), who likes the idea of scalping heads Injun style (yes cracker), to beat those savage Germans? But then if you look at Quentin Tarantino's biography in Wikipedia you quickly learn his ancestry is both Italian and Native American, which strongly implies that his screenplay, which he wrote, is more an autobiographical fantasy, rather than some America WASP hero leading young Jewish psychopaths on a rampage.
After all Italians tend to be proud of their ancestry, including some aspects like the Roman/ Machiavellian/ mafia style of violence used to condition future Roman soldiers to a cruelty of war, by having acts of cruelty acted out in coliseums for their "glorious" pleasure, with gladiatorial debuts, and the feeding of criminals to tigers, bears, etc. Apparently terrorism was not as squeamish a subject to an ancestry that could identify with Mussolini's fascistic "fasces," that is bundle of sticks that could be used to beat like baseball bats to the brains of a captured enemy.
Still, despite Tarantino's own partially native American background, one almost has to doubt that most native Americans could cherish the idea of a WASP running around Europe in the 20th century demanding that his subordinate Jews scalp despised German enemy combatants—that is given America's European ancestry which subjugated Native Americans in, sometimes, less than humane ways. If we explore the body of Quentin's work over the years would we really find the "soul" of a Native American?
The likes of Brad Pitt deliberately provoking Nazis with terrorist war crimes seems awkward, given that our nation, at this time, is trying to come to terms with levels of perpetrated torture that our American mass media has more or less denied for both Iraq and Guantanamo.
But then maybe that was Tarantino's impulse—to act out a humiliated hatred with explicitly shot bashing of brains of a recalcitrant Nazi officer, while a nonchalant Brad Pitt acts more cowboy than George W. Bush or sociopath shadowing Rumsfeld? Yes according to this pulp, it takes a backwoods justice kind of guy, to show those urbane British, and any polished film community like in Germany, a thing or two about being mean and revengeful—that is justice American style, given that there might have been some "rogue" black op translators from Titan, CACI, or other private companies, involved in U.S. related episodes of torture at Abu Graib?
David Denby's review in The New Yorker said this about this bastard movie: "Inglourious Basterds is not boring, but it's ridiculous and appallingly insensitive—a Louisville Slugger applied to the head of anyone who has ever taken the Nazis, the war, or the Resistance seriously."
But then who can like a Nazi—especially given Christoph Waltz's rendition of Col. Hans Landa—a psychopath more eerie than the recent Joker's black humor that so well parallels the banker/ finance industry of New York Gotham City? So obviously busting heads is OK in this instance—that is the hindsight we have on the evil and racism of the Nazi regime. But then the SS would never have thought to return the favor to their captured enemies? Nevertheless now Americans soldiers and spies can no longer expect any Geneva Convention on Torture to apply to them—thanks to our current state of affairs.
Yes one can quickly retort that it was "just" a movie, and besides artists have poetic license to be free with their work? Well maybe so, but Mr. Quentin Tarantino addresses a serious subject at a curiously serious time, and therefore he invites serious criticism that he and his critics should get—not a Hollywood club giving wide birth if it was meant to promote more guilt or whatever the U.S. film/ review industry silently accedes as OK—that is a film industry that has become part and parcel of a world not unlike that of Joseph Goebbels.
We, as a culture, have recently witnessed lies to the American people from such pillars as Murdock Inc., the New York Times, the Washington Post, etc., and the inner sanctum of the "Goebbal," id est., Feith, Perle, Cambone, AIPAC, Krauthammer, Wolfowitz, Rosen, Pipes, Ross, Abrams, Kristol, Hadley, Goldberg, Lieberman, Leeden, Libby, 'Peretz, Luti, Grossman, Shulsky, Foxman, etc., which helped launch the propaganda campaign that mysteriously took us to Iraq to kill, murder, main and torture Iraqis—and the story is not over.
Granted, Inglorious Bastards is not a Jewish propaganda movie; but we can apply another Neocon's style of analysis, namely Leo Strauss's looking for the "secret" message in events—in this case what amounts to as a product of a disinformation campaign. (As an political philosopher Strauss argued for the "noble" lie to deceive "The People" with his disdain for democracy, not unlike the Old Testament lied about a monotheistic tyrant of a tribal God who, we are told in the Bible, wanted Hebrews to kill off the inhabitants in Canaan during the time and revisionist propaganda of Moses—which atavistically gives Israeli, right-wing, jackboots the same justification to steal land and kill Palestinians today). That is if we can be led to believe Jews must have their own nation state, and if should be strictly Jewish, and it can be acquired by any criminal method that works—that is they have a preemptive right to own nuclear weapons, bash up recalcitrant Palestinian homes as they steal the land, and even torture in their own prison systems (see OCCUPATION101.COM).
Yes for years films have come out of Hollywood depicting Arabs as primarily camel jockeys or cardboard characters on a terrorist bent. Even such organizations as Simon Weisenthal Center showing films like the Clarion Fund's "Obsession" that promotes Islamo-phobia. Or if you were to study which syndicated columnists, in our Jewish-American owned newspapers, used terms like "Islamo-terrorist" or "Islamo-fascist" the most over the last years, you'd find these terms especially used by Jewish columnists (not exclusively but the Jewish propaganda machine has been alive and well here in the United States). And this clamoring hate machine, that never gets cited by ADL for hate crimes, extends to the likes of Michael Savage on talk-radio, as one hate-mongering demagogue, who helped "create" the latent hatred and fear of Arabs and Islamists, that when the gloves came off, our personnel in secret prisons allowed murder to ensue (not just water-boarding that the MSM so focused as a kind of cover). So perhaps this culture's anxiety is looking for scapegoats in history to project elsewhere—and what better subject than the Nazi's treatment of Jews—that is while Israelis steal more resource and land settlements?
We should be asking why all the films lately about Nazis when today's politics is so different? Or was it just a coincidence that the two main German characters in The Reader movie were blonde—the reader himself as a youthful kid, who had some miraculous capacity to read from youth's naiveté the correct pronunciation of any novel or book no-matter how foreign or difficult? And Kate Winslet as a kind of dumb ox blonde concentration camp boob? Was this casting merely coincidence—branching the dumb blonde German to that of the extreme of cerebral—or was it playing on the cliché that "blondes" were the reason for Nazi's Shoal that some find convenient because it fits their comfort zone? Yet neither character was believable—even if it was an interesting plot. No young man (not even a Bar Mitzvah child candidates working on his Ph.D. these at the age of 12) can automatically read that well. And attractive blonde women don't need to seduce young men—they always have men chasing their skirts.
Furthermore most of the top Nazis were brunette—not blonde. Hitler was Jewish and he had dark hair and dark eyes. So this brings us to the curiosity of why the young girl (supposedly Jewish), who managed to escape from machine gun fire, while hiding underneath a floor, and who then escaped to Paris, in Tarantino's film, evolve into the "typical" Hollywood Anglo-Saxon Barbie-doll blonde? How realistic is that that Melanie Laurent, with her very non-Jewish goyim face, was chosen to play the blonde star in this Hollywood-like cinematography?
It was all so suave. The dark colors in the movie house clashed dramatically against the whites and reds—it really looked like the Academy awards with everyone drinking Champaign. Yes there were plenty of brunette males milling around and partying just like at Academy awards, and of course the beauties that stood out were blonde babes in striking costume or just being a cigar tart—very Hollywood. Funny that Hitler's blonde lady friend didn't show?
But it is also quite a "Italian" thing to "readily" hire blonde women, for example, who know practically nothing about Italian lifestyle, food, or history, to play hostess, barmaid or bar-tender in an Italian restaurant—yet if you scoured 50 Italian restaurants you would not likely find "one" blonde male hired to work a customer relations job unless he truly was Italian. Or, for that matter, it may be true that minorities better represent New York City in shows like Law and Order, but somehow there is always plenty of availability for Anglo-Saxon women to be on the legal team. Which is exactly why the minority of blonde males in the movie industry, like Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, are encouraged to die their hair to a darker hue—so they can square off against "all" the blonde women who get employed in Hollywood.
Yes progressives, who are so into the promotion of advocating human rights for every "-ism" imaginable, will readily defer to what amounts to as the promotion of a blonde female aristocracy, while in this case, making a movie that smashed brains up because a Nazi ideology claimed a so-called Aryan race was superior?
But this minor detail of actress choice shouldn't arouse any curiosity. After all the racism card regarding superiority evolved after Darwin and then Herbert Spensor arguing for the survival of the fittest—which led to a broader notion of racial superiority in Europe—that was not some exclusive idea strictly held about blondes. This notion further led to the idea of the superiority of nation states and cultures in general.
And not surprisingly, if we take off gloves here a moment and ask—have not some Jews lately conceived their own notion that their culture as somehow superior? What exactly is it that allows for some minority of American-Jews, especially the Neocons, to disdain the very idea of democracy, while promoting deceit of the masses, and working for goals the basically ruin the American experiment, if it seems to benefit Israel, so that we can "devolve" back to a right-wing notion of fascism and criminality that now seems to dominate in this culture? Isn't that what the Old Testament really exemplifies—the idea that a God can be a tyrant while castigating and misleading his subjects, but still claiming the moral high ground (read Jonathan Kirsch's Moses: A Life)?
Yes the whole Leo Strauss notion is to lie to the people, to trick them by deceit—id est to criminalize the government, while mobilizing against an outside enemy, and to close off the territory to outsiders—it is a notion that has no respect for equal rights or the questioning of authority.
Nobody is suppose to question the Zionist project or the so called "right" of Israel (as a theocratic state that pretends to be a democracy) to exist. Yet it seems extremely ironic, given so many Jews who have gone secular because their reading research has led then to realize the Bible is at best myth, and who have come to appreciate such philosophers as Nietzsche, despite the accusation he inspired the Nazis, and Nietzsche's "rejection" of the herd mentality and Christianity's rejection of elitism. Yet when it comes to Zionism "all" Jews are expected to "conform" to the plan no matter how retrograde.
But the problem is this—Judaism promotes scholarship because of the heavy emphasis on reading the Torah and other religious literature—and since reading is so highly valued—Jews have studied every kind of philosophy and politics and therefore have a higher rate of dissent against their religion—basically motivated by the religion as intuitively repressive—that there will always be Jews who rebel against the totalitarian notions and demands that their right-wing diehards expect—even if there are still many who conform to the herd. That is Steve Walt and John Mearsheimer wrote the truth on the AIPAC lobby. That is why Seymour Hersh wrote Chain of Command, and why Kirsch wrote the definitive story on Moses. That is why Mordechai Vanunu revealed Israel's secret Dimona nuclear base, and why Finkelstein wrote about the Holocaust industry, and why Sand Schlomo wrote an alternative history of the Jews in Europe, that is that they, etc. The fact is the dike is breaking, and it is not just because Nietzsche, the isolationist who could not compromise to any society, declared that God is dead. Well Nietzsche was both right and wrong. He was right in the fact that the Judeo-Christian God was dead—and halleluiah to that truth since the God of the Abrahamic religions spurred on so much repression base on such authoritarian judgmentality. But, God as mystery and as fate is not dead, we are all dependant on an ecological system that we have but little choice but to appreciate.
There is little to nothing particularly profound in the Old Pentateuch—that is if you are not into reading all the tribal lineage of who was the son of whom as ancestry. The Bible is basically one culture taking history and giving it a cosmic spin—any culture can do that. The reason Jews are smart is because they have interacted with many cultures, languages, histories, ideas such as those of the Hellenes, and writers and thinkers of all sorts—not because of some excessive wisdom of their religion or of some DNA. They have been culturally adulterated and no retroactive building of Eden will change the fact.
Still we have a serious issue when people like Dershowitz as a Harvard law professor writes defenses for Israel that are dishonest, and when we have rabbis like Elliot Abrams who recently is quoted to have said something to the effect that Americans will tolerate an attack on Iran. He had a job title under George W. Bush that was designated as something like human rights liaison!
But especially since 9-11 our culture has found cause to engage a major campaign of harassment and persecution of everything Islamic here in the United States. These "dark-skinned" Semites are presumed guilty by profiling—as if there are no passages in the Hebrew Torah or Christian Bible that could not be interpreted as terrorist or threatening to other cultures?
It is as if some people were thinking—we can't have these Islamists moving to the United States and getting friendly with Americans. They come over here and buy up liquor stores and hotels—and perhaps they will eventually want in to other profitable businesses. Plus they have their own counter-arguments about Middle Eastern politics.
After all the U.S. has been such a cash cow for a few select countries, especially Israel, and Israel's constant history of crisis, and their constant reference to the Shoal, and their psychology of blackmail by quilt-tripping, and what seems to be a secret disdain of Christians and dumb Americans. And how interesting that Jewish politics on American campuses lately corresponds to a campaign to censure anyone who criticizes the policies or Israel or trying to get people fired for the same thing?
Apparently some thought this country was getting "too" liberal by such notions of treating all ethnic groups as equals—not like in Israel in which you have to be Jewish to be a real citizen (of course that's not genetically so or most of the "Caucasian" Jews of Russia, Europe of the United States would never be allowed to be part of that culture since the original peoples came from Ur, Iraq with Abraham—that is according to the myth). And you wouldn't have people singing Christmas songs about Goldie Hawn being Jewish.
We are at another critical point in history in which our leaders are basically being tricked into going to war which will likely turn into a "major" world war, because again the same behind the scenes pressure groups are blackballing our country with more propaganda of a nuclear threat—this time in Iran. Despite the changing of parties in power, and the changing of the Presidency, the same pattern of lies reappears almost as a duplicate replay of what happened leading up to war with Iraq, and again it is right-wing Jews who are pushing this war. Is this why we keep getting Nazi films lately since 9-11?
But now at least The American Conservative magazine has come out with a story the media has been suppressing—the Sibel Edmonds story in which she tells us that Israeli and closely tied Turkey spies have been stealing nuclear secrets and are involved in mafia-like activities.
So it is puzzling why we are sending troops to Afghanistan to fight terrorists who "might" get their hands on nuclear weapons when such theft is going on in our own back yard? Besides the only thing we have done in Afghanistan is re-open the heroin trade that the Taliban and Bin Laden had shut down.
You can argue a potential oil pipeline from Turkmenistan to Karachi is reason enough to stay in Afghanistan—but it is not likely. Yet the facts on the ground unequivocally show that since our invasion in 2001 the heroin trade has blossomed 20-fold, and this reality must mean that some mafias and money launderers are making a killing, and feel the profits are worth American and NATO lives. Maybe investigative journalists ought look more at this angle-that is a connection in the U.S.?
Meanwhile the British government, via Tony Blair, had lied to their, and to our people—so what ever Gordon Brown has to say ain't worth nothing. Nor is France's Sarkozy a dis-interested party. Furthermore the competition for fuel in future times is equally competition "between" Western countries, and other European countries, such as France or Germany, have no reason to cry a crocodile's tear if we blunder badly. So this lead up to a major war is like a trick. The truth is that America really has "no" friends—and Israel is not a friend of the U.S. unless one thinks that dysfunctional and co-dependency relationships are friendships. And no one will care if we collapse to a Euro-dollar. Afghan involvement or war in Iran can lead to little good—it is far too much vulnerability.
Furthermore, the fact that the U.S. put the brutal Shah into power and allowed him to reign for a quarter century in Iran doesn't bode that well with Obama's preaching to Iranians about democratic principles. It is hollow as D.C is corrupt.
But I'm sure street-smart, Lt. Aldo Raine from the slave-holding south and all their Southern Baptists, had he lived in the U.S. today, could explain this all to us, in his good-old-boy plain Tennessee language—that is to us less than sophisticated American bumpkins—even if he has to read a little pulp fiction to get up to par?
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This recipe turned out so awesome! Definitely will be making it again. H was really impressed too.
No picture, I was too eager to eat and completely forget to take one. :(
- 3/4 lb. (3/4 of 16-oz. pkg.) frozen prepared meatballs (used what I had left, I know it was more, but not sure how much more)
- 1 pkg. (16 oz.) frozen stir-fry vegetables (sliced green, red and yellow peppers and white onions)
- 1/4 cup apricot jam (doubled)
- 1/4 cup KRAFT CATALINA Dressing (doubled)
- 2 Tbsp. soy sauce (doubled)
- 80z. can of pineapple chunks, with juice (great idea to add!)
- Combine all ingredients in large skillet; cover.
- Cook on medium-high heat 10 min. or until meatballs and vegetables are heated through, stirring occasionally.
- Serve over hot cooked rice or pasta, if desired.
Next Time- This recipe is pretty good as is. I might want to add more pineapple next time. 8oz was good, but you can't go wrong with more!

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Oh my! Ang yummy naman ng mga fresh meat teenagers na itech sa PBB: Teen Edition. Grabehhhhh! Slurpee slurp slurp talaga! At ang vetsin ng lowlah nyo ay walang iba kundi ang Amboy Hottie ng Gensan daw na si Gerald. Yum, yum, yum! Lickit! Hahahahahaha!
Friday, April 28, 2006
Friday, April 21, 2006
The Amazing Frat Guys
Salamat sa mga homo-erotic moments ninyo sa latest season ng Amazing Race, charoz!
Jeremy (solo)
Eric and Jeremy (twosome)
The Fratguys and The Hippies (orgy)
Jeremy (solo)
Eric and Jeremy (twosome)
The Fratguys and The Hippies (orgy)
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Just Friends
Ang cute nila di ba?! Bagay! Si Papa Jake and his high school sweetheart, este, bestfriend na si Papa Austin Nichols. Aaaaaww!
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Apple Cake
It's apple season. If you're like us, you'll have the opportunity to pick your own delicious apples. Thank goodness for the beautiful orchards in the Georgia Mountains!
My mom makes a fantastic apple cake. Jill suggested I share the recipe with you. It's super easy.
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Two men made the news this week, both of whom said the right thing when it mattered most: one after being in the wrong place at the wrong time, one while being in the right place at the right time.
Rodney King became a household name in 1991 after a bystander videotaped him being beaten by Los Angeles police officers after a traffic stop. The release of the video and the subsequent acquittals of the police officers led to days of race riots, more than 50 deaths and $1 billion in damages.
He was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but he said the right thing when he made his televised plea, �Can we all get along?�
He drowned in a swimming pool this week at age 47. His death sparked a family discussion around the dinner table where my wife and I explained the story to our daughters.
The man who is in the right place at the right time is Frank Luter Jr., a New Orleans pastor who on Tuesday was elected the first African-American president of the Southern Baptist Convention. He also said the right thing.
�We cannot do anything about the past,� he said. �It�s gone. It�s over with. However, we can do a lot about our future.�
Luter is pastor of Franklin Avenue Baptist Church, an inner-city congregation that grew to 7,000 under his preaching before Hurricane Katrina destroyed the building � just the building � under nine feet of water. The church rebuilt and now welcomes 4,000 members and guests to Sunday services.
This is a historic moment. The �Southern� in the Southern Baptist Convention�s name is there because of a pre-Civil War split with other Baptists over the appointment of slave-holding missionaries, and the convention remained segregated until the recent past.
Although things are better now than then, most Baptist churches today, like most churches of all denominations, are not racially diverse. In fact, only about eight percent of all churches in America are multiethnic, meaning that no one race makes up more than 80 percent of the congregation.
That�s a little harder to explain to my children.
With 16 million members, the Southern Baptist Convention is the second-largest Christian denomination in the U.S., though its membership has declined each of the past five years � one of many reasons to reach out to people from different backgrounds.
In Arkansas, it�s one of the state�s dominant institutions. In a state of 3 million people, there were 520,521 Southern Baptists at the end of last year. In many Arkansas communities, the biggest Baptist church is the biggest church in town. Baptist Health is the state�s leading heath care provider.
An Arkansan can be born and die in a Southern Baptist hospital, be educated by the Arkansas Baptist School System, attend one of the state�s two Southern Baptist colleges, work for a Southern Baptist-affiliated employer, and retire in a Southern Baptist retirement village. The Bible says that we are dust and will become dust. In Arkansas, there�s a good chance you�ll be Baptist in between.
I grew up in a Southern Baptist church, graduated from Ouachita Baptist University, and now attend a church whose belief structure is similar to the SBC�s.
While the convention doesn�t have a proud history when it comes to racial reconciliation at home, it long has reached out to people of all backgrounds worldwide. The convention sponsors 5,000 missionaries in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean and another 5,000 in 153 nations elsewhere. Southern Baptist Disaster Relief, which has more than 100,000 trained volunteers, is one of the country�s three largest relief organizations.
Southern Baptists in recent years have been trying to make amends. The convention voted in 1995 to repent of its past failings and issued a strongly worded appeal for forgiveness.
In 1963, another King, Dr. Martin Luther King, said at Western Michigan University, �At 11 o�clock on Sunday morning when we stand and sing, and Christ has no east or west, we stand at the most segregated hour in this nation.�
Sadly, 49 years later, that�s still mostly the case. But this week, Southern Baptists took a step � a small one, but a step � in turning that present reality into a memory. That�s good, because in heaven and on earth, we ought to do more than simply get along.


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New member, actually found this forum looking for this part but wasn't available when I got here so thought I would post a wanted.
Looking for a rear GTI valance so I can add a GTI style exhaust to my car. Currently I have the downward pointing exhausts and a solid rear valance.
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The trip is over. The killer jet lag, three days of 14-18 hours of sleep a night, has abated at last. I've ticked another country off the list and am getting ready for a cross-country jaunt from San Francisco to Boston by bus.
But before I do that, there are a few loose ends to tie up.
For one thing, Iran ain't Persia. Persia is a nation with a thousands-year-old history that's fully capable of integrating itself into the modern world. It's got the technology to do it; it's full of intelligent people with a zest for life and a love of culture. It's a nation that wants to be a friend of ours and that should be.
Iran is a corrupt, terrorist state that enjoys hurting people. Look what it's done to Iraq and Lebanon. The theocracy has managed to have a toothless toy democracy as a loincloth to cover its privates.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the puppet president of Iran, has announced that he's going to address the UN, and that's his right. He's an annoying buffoon, but we can't and shouldn't stop him. The question is not what we're going to have to do about HIM, but what we're going to have to do with his master, über-fürer Ali Khamenei, who had appointed himself to the job and threatens to remain there for life (He's been there almost twenty years). He's part of the group of thugs in antique clothing that defrauded Persia when the people demanded democracy and overthrew a tyrant.
We can't get rid of him, of course. In 1953, the CIA sent Teddy Roosevelt's grandson Kim with a suitcase full of cash to get rid of a semi-democratically elected prime minister, and he did, but only because the powers that be in Iran, including that prime minister being deposed permitted it. Mohammed Reza Shah fled in 1979 because Jimmy Carter refused to support him, and that caused all the trouble.
The Russians and the Brits have really good relations with Iran. The Russians helped install Reza Khan and the Brits got rid of him. Eisenhower sent Kim Roosevelt to Tehran as a favor to Winston Churchill. Stalin occupied much of Northern Iran during the 1940s, but they have very good relations with the Iranian government. The Soviets were the main backers of Israel during its first five years of existence.
So why is it just US who's picked out as the Great Satan? Diversion, mostly. If they refuse to talk to us, and go around shooting missiles and enriching uranium, they can go around saying..."Those bastard Americans are picking on us for no reason!" and all the problems like inflation, energy and the environment (to be fair, they've been pretty good on that) and feel like a righteous victim. But the Persians, Azeris, Kurds, Jews and others know what the real deal is. Unfortunately, the Mullahs haven't agreed to go, and unlike the Shah, don't care if a Jimmy Carter is going to withhold his support or nor.
Iran's like Burma in that way. Myanmar goes under the wrong name as well.
Well, that's it for now. I hoped you liked the series.. Now it's back to important
things, like the cover of this week's New Yorker…
Sunday, March 21, 2010
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whats up everyone
Just saying hello while I read through the posts
hopefully this is just what im looking for, looks like i have a lot to read.
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I'm scared of the air bag inside my steering wheel.
I've heard people say that if you have your thumbs on the bit of plastic that is the air bag cover in the centre of the wheel, and the bag is activated, it can seriously break your thumbs. It really worries me that I'm going to get more hurt by the bag activating than I might be from the actual crash.
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Here are my favorite gifts for the home. I often purchase goodies for my house, but that kind of goes with the territory. (most designers and creative types never stop thinking about how to beautify the world around them)...I find my friends and family much appreciate being given gifts for the their homes.
Happy Monday! Cheers to a short and grateful week!!
#6 - a set of these salad plates are on my wish list!!


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I took my daughter to see "The Princess and the Frog" this afternoon. I'm not always a fan of Disney movies but she's been bugging me to see it and my husband and son were gone for the day, so thought we would check it out.
Tiana, the Princess, was missing out on much of her youth as she worked hard to fulfill her dream of opening a restaurant as her father had wanted before he died. The Prince, on the other hand, just wanted to have a good time. Typical hard-worker character meets carefree character and everyone is challenged to re-think their priorities.
Somewhat of a cliche, but I think worth thinking about. The problem is in the extremes. Spend all of your time on work, you are not going to be happy. But you also won't be happy if you don't have any focus in your life. In the end the Princess found happiness with the Prince, realizing that loving someone was more important than owning a restaurant. But, she also got the restaurant too. (Sorry for the spoiler if you haven't seen the movie yet, but really, did you expect different for a kids movie?).


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Millions of us (myself included) have turned to diets to help us to lose weight...South Beach, Atkins, Jenny Craig, SlimFast, the list goes on and on and on... The problem is, the more diet programs that offer "the solution", the fatter our country becomes. So, what's the deal? The problem lies in our perception of the word "diet". When you hear the word diet, you subliminally register "strenuous", "difficult", "deprivation", "not enjoyable" and "short-term". And honestly, who wants to commit to something that seems so completely awful?!
Instead of viewing dieting as a short-term fast after which you can return to your old ways, try to view diet changes as healthy lifestyle changes. Any alterations you make to your eating or exercise should occur slowly and in a sustainable way. If you jump in too quickly and make too many changes at once, you're bound to revert back to your previous habits. It takes 30 days to program a lifestyle habit. So, make small changes that you can sustain for 30 days, because after that initial period, it will be much, much easier to keep with the healthy modifications you've introduced into your life.
My suggestion? Make it fun! Try a new, healthy recipe a few nights a week. Learn how to cook nutritious, wholesome food. When you grocery shop, switch out some of your staples (i.e. pre-packaged cookies, chips or sugary granola bars) for whole food options (i.e. unsalted roasted nuts, berries or fruit). Include a veggie or fruit at every meal or snack (i.e. add banana to your cereal, have an apple instead of pretzels with your sandwich, have roasted red peppers on your chicken at dinner). Talk to friends whose healthy eating you admire and learn their tricks. These small inclusions will begin to shift your perception of what eating healthy foods really entails. Also, if you're feeling super motivated, try incorporating just 10-20 minutes of exercise 4-5 days a week and really begin to see the results of your healthy lifestyle!
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Eco-Friendly to the Grave: Japanese Manufacturer to Produce First Hybrid Hearse Tuesday, June 30, 2009
By Fadia Galindo
(CNSNews.com) - The Japanese hearse manufacturer Lequios is going green with its new model, the Toyota Prius Hearse. Lequios says it is responding to the increased demand for eco-friendly transportation.
The hearse, when production begins, is expected to cost about $80,000.
"It's nice to know that every market niche is being catered for," said Myron Ebell, director of energy and global warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI).
"Even people who are worried about their carbon dioxide emissions can rest easy, knowing that they are being transported to the cemetery in a Prius," Ebell added, tongue-in-cheek.
In its design stage, the new hearse is rumored to be 21.34 feet long, which comfortably fits a large casket. At 44 miles per gallon, the hybrid has a decent fuel efficiency compared to most hearses in the market.
To view photos of the proposed Toyota Prius hearse, click here.
"I don't think it's going to have any environmental impact at all, even if you do believe in global warming alarmism," said Steve Milloy, founder and publisher of JunkScience.com and a columnist at FoxNews.com.
"The only thing that I can see that the hearse is appropriate for is to bury the green agenda in," he said. *
CNSNews.com contacted leading environmental groups for comment, including the Union of Concerned Scientists, who refused to respond.
*I agree!. Yes, as Christians we should care about the environment.States like California, however, want to take is as far to to you what color of car to buy.The "governator" should save the science fiction for his movies! Trouble is, its hard to separate the science from the socialism and outright lies. After all, God is still in control. Want to read God's take on "global warming", read 2 Peter 3:10! God bless...keith


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Midshipman's Butter Sandwich (There's no butter in this sandwich--the Avocado is the "butter")
1 large piece of toasted Tuscan Bread
1 ripe Avocado
3 very thin slices of Vidalia Onion
Or other sweet Onion
Lemon Juice
1 small Plum Tomato cut in strips
4 sprigs Cilantro (c'mon! Try it!)
Spread some mayo on the toast, then sprinkle the onion rings over that. Peel and slice an avocado, then fan it over the toast. Squeeze a little lemon juice over the avocado, sprinkle with tomato shards, salt well with a good sea salt, then lay the cilantro sprigs over the top.
Yeaahhhh Baybay!!!!clicky on pix for a more delicious view!


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Over at Just magnolia the challenge is to use your favourite colours. Well being fickle in the world of colour does not help as this can change at any given moment - however as we played with chocolate over on Try it on Tuesday this week chocolate brown has been at the fore front of my crafting time - here is a gorgeous combo of Chocolate, pink and lime mmmmm sounds good enough to eat! teamed with my fav little Tilda image I think this is sooo cute x
Thanks for stopping by x Janet
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Sunday, 20 March 2011
Favourite colours
Posted by Janet Clarke at 08:49
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Hi hun, I love this image of Tilda and fabulous colour choice, my eyes are starting to wonder towards that little cake though, great cardReplyDelete
Hugs Kate x
You do love this image my friend, the card is lovely, luv GeorginaxxxReplyDelete
Its a real gorgeous image, the cake looks yummy. xxReplyDelete
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pretty much sums up my feelings about things. I like how he compares PvP(RVR) in Warhammer to chocolate. I like it, I even love it sometimes, but I can't stand it for very long as it quickly raises my insulin levels so I have to just have a little every now and then.
Dexter Tiberius: 2:20 PM
Bought Lotro at launch, felt a distinct lack of pvp, left it for warhammer when it came out. After a month of warhammer, i realised (for me at least) pvp was like really nice chocolate, nice to have once in a while, but you get tired of it really fast. Especially when everyone's in a scenario and too busy to chat, makes the game seem really empty =/. I did have some really good times in warhammer, but with the current state of the servers, and really empty public quests( xp in scenarios are too good, plus since you get xp AND renown for renown gear, no one does PQs very often =( I decided to try MoM. So far i'm liking the new classes XD hopefully will reach 50 by the end of december so i can enter moria.
I know return you to your regularly scheduled monster slaughtering and 2GB downloads.


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This picture is as pink as the song "Carwash".Sone songs have colours, don't you think so too?I like it.Seems like Barbie has her clothes washed here.
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I am starting to feel that this should possibly be my husband's blog because other than coming up with the ideas, he is doing everything for this project. I think it helps that this gets him out of "keep an eye on the kids" duty but he is really busting it on this.
Last Friday night my mother took our 2 year old daughter to spend the night at her house which meant that we could both put some effort into things Saturday morning. And we got to sleep late! (If 7:30 counts as late!)
Hubs got the sink cabinet fully installed and a wall cabinet hung above it, got the counter tops installed, built the pantry shelves and case, finished up trimming everything out, and got the sink installed. The counter top above the washer and dryer isn't fully installed because we plan on using a peg system to hold it in place so that it is fully removable should a situation arise where we need to quickly get at the back of either appliance!
We have started some of the cabinet and shelf painting to increase our odds that the paint will have time to cure before we put stuff away.
This final week we have to focus on getting the wall shelf and rod over the washer/dryer installed and trimmed out, installing the faucet, finishing painting all the cabinets, installing hardware, and putting everything away! It's a good thing we have the eleventh off for Veteran's Day!
During the little downtime we have this week you know I will be checking out what everyone else is up to!


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Happy Birthday, USA
From the Declaration of Independence
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And what a brilliant document it is.
Happy 4th of July! I hope you have a good holiday.
Thanks for posting part of the original deal. It's still mighty good reading!
Thank you for the reminder. Happy fourth!
The best 4ths of July include a reading of the Declaration of Independence, so thank you for this. Have a safe and happy holiday!
Happy Independence Day to you from your neighbour to the north.
I was just thinking about that the other night. Thank you for the reminder.
Very poignant...
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." Yes, it is.
Hope your holiday was wonderful!
If ONLY!!!
I feel sometimes like we are just mucking our way through *until* this is over...but will it really be over until this actually is implemented?
Goddess help us, I hope so!
Thanks for the read!


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This is from our garage/shop, looking at our neighbor's place, with a new 'lake' in our yard.
And next we see the view looking east toward the mountains, also from our garage/shop. Patches, the mini goat, is standing on his house and you can just see Jet, the Airedale, standing by our storage building. The lake extended out to our gate.
And finally a couple of shots of the south side of our house, showing what the wind can do when it gets a chance.
Blessed rain, but doggone the wind!


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A 360TB disc that holds data for more than 1 million years? | Crave - CNET
A very interesting development for storing massive amounts of data. Very long term preservation is problematic: will the human or non-human being who discovers it a million years from now have the device to read this data?


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Our flexibility in capital allocation – our willingness to invest large sums passively in non-controlled businesses – gives us a significant advantage over companies that limit themselves to acquisitions they can operate. Woody Allen stated the general idea when he said: "The advantage of being bi-sexual is that it doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night." Similarly, our appetite for either operating businesses or passive investments doubles our chances of finding sensible uses for our endless gusher of cash.Although Buffett is willing to draw parallels between the behavior of his company and bisexuals, he refuses to pose for any joke photos with business students implying teh gay.
Unrelated: Earlier this year, Buffett tweeted a photo of himself as Breaking Bad's fictional meth manufacturer, Walter White.


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Original design concept for a new type of Personal Rapid Transit system addressing the problems of user access and economic viability. The unique configuration brings the cars to street level which eliminates platforms, providing much greater convenience, totally unassisted, no cost-added access for physically challenged persons, improves personal security and safety and greatly minimizes cost of construction and maintenance. For operating safety, the PRT landing area would be separated from pedestrian areas by an enclosing wall having doors similar to those on elevators. The car distribution system would be computer controlled.
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Well, right now, neither. But we might be embarking on a three-hour tour.
Friday: Twins 7 - Royals 5 (at least I got to go to the one the Twins won)
Saturday: Twins 7 - Royals 10 (11)
Sunday: Twins 5 - Royals 7
Twins drop series 1-2. I guess that's why the Royals are currently in first place, and we're, well, not.
Those pesky Royals are pretty annoying, aren't they. Just when you think the Twins have them where they want them, they change course and adjust their ways back into it. And just when you think the Twins are sailing right along, they hit some rough seas. Hell, in Sunday's game, they went from smooth sailing to getting sucked right into the vortex of a whirlpool (and I don't mean the Jacuzzi®-type either). These things are the makings of a shipwreck.
I know, I know, it's early. But if the Twins don't batten down the hatches soon, they'll certainly be lost at sea.
And, with that, I'm done with the lame nautical metaphors.
Dear Joe Mauer,
I hope you're back is 100% better, because it's pretty clear you'll have to carry the whole team on it. So far, you're doing an outstanding job (nice pinch-hit hit today). Keep up the good work, my friend.
As predicted, we have to say goodbye to Jose Morales. As much fun as it was to watch him play (especially hit), now he'll have a chance to play everyday and polish his defensive skills. I wish him all the best, and I'm looking forward to seeing him again when the September call-ups come up (and not before because that would require either Joey or Red-Dog to get hurt, and I certainly don't want that).
Oh goody. Up next, we have two games in Detroit and then two in Baltimore. Ugh. What's up with the stupid even-numbered-game series? And two-gamers are the worst.
Do the guys even bother unpacking their suitcases for a two-game series?
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Are We Sailing, or Are We Sinking?
Posted by k-bro at 5:05 PM
2 comments:
- Katie said...
As a huge Mauer fan, I'm excited to see him doing so well, when so many people were expecting him to do so poorly.
Jose has a lot of potential with the right practice and training. I seriously hope we see him again in Sept, like you said, not that I want Joe or Red Dog to end up hurt.
- May 3, 2009 at 8:29 PM
- Jim H. said...
Mauer's pinch hit in the ninth on Sunday was cool. He just calmly smacked a single like it was the easiest thing in the world. Ho hum. Need a timely single off the bench? No prob. He's now batting .700, which of course he can't sustain. But, damn, what a sweet swing.
- May 4, 2009 at 10:18 AM
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Announcing a new CD release!
The Bedtime Sh'ma: A Good Night CD was recorded by Rabbi Julia Andelman, with guitar accompaniment. The CD is a collection of 9 lullabies taken from the text of the bedtime Sh'ma, and it is the companion to an illustrated children's book called The Bedtime Sh'ma: A Good Night Book. (The book and CD can also be purchased together.) It's the perfect gift for young Jewish kids!


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"You were not the appropriate person..."
FRONT-PAGE billing for anti-fascist article in Morning Star after Socialist Worker had commissioned it, then refused to publish because of author's unspecified "differences".
WELL, the London elections are over and we'll know shortly whether Boris Johnson has become London's mayor and if the racist British National Party(BNP) has gained itself a place in the London assembly.
That large numbers of people were disillusioned with Labour and Ken Livingstone was becoming clear before, and shown not only by right-wing gains but by low votes in local elections, particularly in what should be strong Labour areas.
Add to this the failure of the divided Left to revive class consciousness, or offer a credible socialist alternative, the success of right-wing media and politicians in diverting frustration and resentment on to "immigration" as the source of all problems; and the way liberal media and other institutions have been collaborating, whether from conspiracy or mere cowardice, in giving the fascists and their arguments the respectability they have recently pursued.
With Labour committed to Washington's "war on terror", London suffered some of its worst ever terror attacks, while two daily papers stoke up Islamophobia on which the fascists have thrived.
Anti-racist campaigners have fallen back on phrases about "diversity", and appealed to people to turn out and vote less the low-turn out helped the fascists get the percentage they needed.
Yet even with such lowest-common denominator appeals to unity, the anti-racist and anti-fascist forces have remained divided, and unity has been given a low priority on the Left.
The May Day Morning Star yesterday carried an article by Dave Landau warning people not to be fooled by the BNP, which had placed a paid advertisement in the Ham and High (Hampstead and Highgate Express) and other local papers saying "people like you vote BNP".
Dave noted that the BNP is currently playing down its anti-Jewish (and we might add anti-Irish) past record in order to win more respectability (and votes), while concentrating on Islam as the main enemy. He also quoted a spokesperson for the Jewish Board of Deputies who had observed that "The BNP website is now one of the most zionist on the web - it goes further than any of the mainstream parties in its support for Israel".
Warning Jews and anyone else against falling for this, Dave Landau said the BNP "remains a fascist organisation and racist to the core", and antisemitism with its conspiracy theory remained at its heart, even if it was currently being hidden. He urged "Jews, Muslims,people of all faiths and none" to make common cause with the workers' movement to beat the fascists.
(How Islamophobia is masking the BNP anti-semitic heart, Morning Star, Thursday May 1).
Article also available online at:
You might think it unusual, or a good sign of unity, that Dave Landau's article on fascism has appeared in two quite different places.
But it was originally intended for neither.
It was Ken Olende, an editor of the weekly Socialist Worker, who approached Dave Landau to write on this subject. Dave, a longstanding and dedicated campaigner against racism and fascism, had been recommended to him by an SWP member from east London.
But having submitted his article, Dave received this strange apology from Olende:
Dear David,
Thanks for submitting the 'Ham and High' article as requested, and the work you have done. However, I'm afraid the editorial board has decided not to run it in Socialist Worker. It was felt that due to past and present disagreements you were not the appropriate person to write for the paper. I'm sorry to have inconvenienced you.
Now of course, an editor, or an editorial board, is entitled to edit. If the Socialist Worker editors felt that Dave Landau's article was incorrect, or not up to their standards, they could have told him what was wrong with it. Maybe they did not like a passage in the article which refers to the strange character Israel Shamir complaining that the BNP has succumbed to Jewish pressure by going soft on Israel? Dave Landau remarks that Shamir's work "is greatly admired by Gilad Atzmon". (Jazz saxophonist Atzmon has played at benfits for SWP-backed causes and appeared at their 'Marxism' fete, though he's certainly no Marxist, nor man of the Left).
The editors could have queried this, checked with Atzmon, or suggested to Dave Landau that he take it out as unnecessary to his article. But Ken Olende's communication gives no indication that there is anything they object to in Dave's article. Rather it says that due to "past and present disagreements" he is not an appropriate person to write in their paper. So Landau is banned, whatever he writes! This is not so much editing, as blacklisting.
In thereby ensuring the article about the BNP received a wider airing, and leading to it appearing in the daily Morning Star (which also gave it a prominent blurb on its front page), the bureaucratic hacks hiding behind poor Ken Olende have done Dave Landau, and the anti-fascist cause, an unintended favour.
With such heavy handed intolerance that they gave the formerly Stalinist Morning Star an opportunity to show itself more open and democratic-minded, they have done themselves no favours at all. For those of us who have been around for any time, and have a sense of history, this contrast has an amusing irony. But United Fronts? The SWP-led Unite Against Fascism urged people to vote "anything except BNP". So they might be prepared to support Tories, Liberals, and right-wing Labourites, and unite with businessmen and clerics, but they won't tolerate a socialist who has "past and present differences" with the SWP! And to think some of Dave's pals have been voting and even canvassing for their "Left List"! Thanks for warning us, comrades! A cross on a ballot paper is more writing than you deserve.


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It was Saturday and I was planning on staying in bed until my body felt energized and ready to do nothing for the rest of the day. No one could scold me for doing exactly what Saturdays were made for. Jews would be very proud of me. Not sure Jesus would feel the same way. He might want to have words with me later but I'm sure he wouldn't be too angry.
My plans for executing a successful weekend day were well on their way. That is, until at eight o' clock in the morning when the power went out in the entire neighborhood. It's not something I can easily ignore. Even as a heavy sleeper, the abrupt silence caused by the lack of the AC's gentle whirring will alarm my brain with the message something's different.
Then, when I was awake enough to realize this, there was no turning back. I desperately tried to go back to dreaming about Japanese people speaking Spanish and teaching me the awesome ways of the Samurai. Just go back to sleep, I told my brain with a soothing tone. But overly observant as he is, he just went on to point out everything that bothers him.
"But the AC's off now. Aren't you warm? Wouldn't you rather sleep with a cool constant breeze? I can hear everything! Don't you get it? Don't you hear that bird chirping happily outside your window? How can I ignore that? See! There's your dog, barking away because the grass moved and he's sure it's an invisible ninja walking through your yard. Okay… you can't tell me any of this isn't bothering you, can you?"
"Just shut up. Shut up, shut up, shut up."
"But don't you hear it? What am I supposed to do?!"
"Sleep, Brain. You're supposed to sleep. Please… stop thinking."
"Why were you dreaming of Spanish talking Japanese people anyway?"
"If you don't know, how should I know?"
"You're strange… that's all I have to say."
This battle of random questions and arguments went on until Brain decided the noises aren't going anywhere and half Hispanic, half Oriental people seem much more entertaining. I felt my body relaxing, the sweet threshold between reality and dreaming, so close and tangible. And then…
A persistent knock on the door.
"What do you want?!"
It was my little brother telling me he needs me to take him to some school event but only bothered remembering twenty minutes ago. Of course, no one else is in the house so I am the only one with a legal driver's license that can fulfill this task. Curse being an adult!
Halfway through driving my little brother to his destination, I decided I can either be cranky all day because things weren't going my way or I could seize the day and take advantage of the fact that I was up early. That seemed like the reasonable and adult oriented alternative. I spent the morning driving around town doing all the errands I was going to leave for Monday, a sense of pride bubbling around my midriff, reminding me that I could easily be a multi tasked person if I so desired. It felt nice.
When my brother had finished, I felt really hungry and I was sure my big brother at home felt the same way. Normally I'd cook something for myself and they'd apply the only cooking technique they're aware of… microwaving. But then Brain decided to be helpful, or unhelpful, however you want to look at it.
Brain: Hah! There's no electricity at your house!
Me: But maybe the power came back. It doesn't take too long for it to come back.
Brain: So… you want to take the chance of coming home without any take-out and see if the power's back on so you can cook? See? You're strange.
Me: Touché, Brain.
So I thought what the hell? Let's get a pizza. Let's get two pizzas! Little Brother was stoked and I'm sure Big Brother's eyes would've beamed with excitement as well. As Brain predicted, the power hadn't come back when we arrived. Everything was dead silent apart from chirping birds and faint sounds produced by the neighbors. It was even quieter while the boys munched on thick slices of cheesy gooey pizza. I was tempted but decided not to.
Remember how I have relationship problems with my weight scales and can't bear to face their anger? I didn't want to add any more tension to the situation between us so I decided to make myself a turkey sandwich with whole wheat bread. I wanted to continue the pride-bubbling sensation throughout the whole day. As they gobbled pizza, I was so proud at myself for being so strong and not even having a nibble. You have no power over me pizza! So stop trying to look all delicious and soaking in pepperoni fat there!
To perpetuate my new belief of seizing the day, I thought "It's a beautiful day outside! Sun is shining and the weather is nice… why don't I have my sandwich with a tall glass of lemonade outside in the hammock?"
See, there's this perfect isolated spot in my backyard where a mango tree is located. It's probably my favorite spot in the house and I often imagine myself there sitting in a rustic chair with a glass of wine, reading a great book. So I had the brilliant idea of getting hammock – or begging Mom to get one- to make the mango tree my own personal space to relax whenever I so desired. I've barely used it because I spent most of the day locked up inside or sleeping. Now it was the perfect time.
It was probably the best idea I'd ever had. In the beautiful surroundings and perfect shade created by the mango tree, the sandwich seemed to taste even better. The combination of dense bread, succulent turkey and fresh tomato was practically to die for. Why hadn't I done this before? Why wasn't I doing this every day? It was almost the perfect life- no distractions that would numb me from enjoying the little things of life, peaceful silence that allowed me to hear my true thoughts and not what TV or Internet had programmed me into thinking.
It seemed Brain and I were finally in harmony, becoming one in our points of view. It was then that I began pondering what I wanted out of life. Not the grand steps of a career or marriage, but the little great joys that I wanted to accomplish every day. I could play piano more, practice every day an hour or two. I would feel so accomplished when I could play Fur Elise flawlessly or Back in the USSR (don't be fooled, it's fast paced and complicated.)
I could be inspired by nature and my new Zen state and write every day, become disciplined and organized. With such positive attitude, I would undoubtedly become the next best blogger and everyone would be pleading me for a new entry every day. And I would deliver, because I would be organized and disciplined.
But I knew what I wanted most of all. I wanted to learn how to play the guitar! For some reason, I had made up my mind from a very young age that guitar was the most difficult, most mind boggling instrument that had ever existed. What was the deal with having six strings that played a random selection of keys that followed no particular logical pattern and when pressed in different frets it would emit the sounds of other random positioned keys? It was like the Sphinx had invented it as another method of a riddle that humans would clearly fail at and therefore, give him an excuse to kill them. My aggravation would be worsened by seeing people playing it with such ease and the fact that Big Brother learned how to play like a rock star without ever taking so much as a lesson.
It was beyond embarrassing that everyone seemed to possess the skill to learn how play guitar (not to mention play and sing) and I couldn't even remember where G-sharp was. Maybe it's because I have been conditioned my entire life from playing piano that the keys should be fully displayed in front of you in a gradual order from low to high sounds. Now what, I need to find them somehow while pressing my tender fingertips into the tough, callus producing strings, and keep a rhythm and look cool at the same time? That is too much work!
But now I was disciplined and by God, I would learn to play guitar in the next few hours even if it meant having blisters on my fingers! I had a Guitar 101 book to show me the way. How hard could it be? If all else failed, I would ask Big Brother to aid me. It would probably be like having a guitar lesson from Hitler, but that was my last resort.
I went in search of my dusty guitar pamphlet and borrowed Big Brother's acoustic guitar. I figured since the hammock location seemed to inspire me, it would be best to learn there. So I sat down, with guitar in hand and pamphlet carefully propped up. It was challenging straight away when I realized my miniature hands could barely grip the neck of the guitar properly. It was even more difficult when I had to position my fingers in ways that were not only uncomfortable but painful. Why would anyone do this to their hands? Maybe I was under the notion I had normal hands but they were actually below average size and everyone else had perfectly long fingers that could find their way through the frets.
So what?! John Lennon never gave up and I sure as hell wasn't going to either. Maybe I would learn to play magnificently and would gain great fame and respect for learning guitar while having such short hands. Maybe I'd be like Beethoven who never gave up even though he couldn't even hear what he composed (seriously, I don't think anyone would've condemned him for quitting after losing his hearing, but he doesn't strike me as the guy who gave a damn what people thought and I was going to follow that example.)
I was driven by images of me playing like Jimi (there's no need for a last name, you better know who he is!) and singing Purple Haze with a sultry voice while waving my wild locks back and forward. God, I felt cool! If it hadn't been for day dreaming about Jimi, I probably wouldn't have gotten through those first three chords. I repeated them constantly. I didn't want to move on to the next until I mastered them; until I could create an award winning song with just those three chords. I struggled but that only made me keep going, making sure my struggle would mean something one day. I strummed each one slowly, repositioning my fingers when it sounded like a cat was being strangled.
After an hour, I was so proud of my mediocre achievements that I had to show Big Brother how capable I was and subtly let him know he better watch his ass, because soon I was going to be so skilled I'd have to challenge him to a guitar battle, however that works or if it even exists. I was Eric Clapton, Zakk Wylde, Carlos freaking Santana rolled into one or at least a very spitting image of their raw potential when they were starting out.
As I made my way inside the house and spotted Big Brother sitting on the sofa, Brain immediately realized something was wrong.
Brain: Why is it so bright in here?
Me: You're right.
Brain: It feels breezy in here even though the windows are closed.
Me: We should totally be the next Sherlock.
Brain: We? Pfft. But seriously what the hell is going on?
I must've looked like a complete idiot, standing there in the living room gazing at my surroundings like I had never seen them before. Big Brother would've been worried if he hadn't ever seen my odd behavior before towards everything. But even so, he demonstrated his own version of concern.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" I know. He's a sweetheart.
"Why are the lights on?"
"Oh, the power came back," he said while flipping through TV channels.
"The power came back?"
"We have power?"
"Yeeees," he replied exasperatedly.
My grip on the guitar slowly loosened. "How long has it been on?"
He shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know… about an hour."
Whaaaat?! So for the past hour of torture and false hopes of ever becoming the next guitar legend, my house was running perfectly in order with high quality electricity?! I wanted to feel angry and betrayed and blamed Big Brother for letting me sit out there for an hour without warning me that I could stop being all high and mighty about my little dreams and get on with it.
But instead, all I could say was: "Wanna play Rockband?"
And that's how I opted for practicing my recent knowledge of guitar and applying it to a much simpler method of playing while still looking cool, I could only hope.


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Over 400,000 people live in an area of 40 square kilometers in Cazenga, a poor area in the west of the capital Luanda. There are no tarred roads and many houses lack electricity. Many politicians of the governing MPLA party come from this area. Yet none of them has managed to initiate a development or infrastructure program for Cazenga.
"MPLA is the party of the president! He has been trying to hand over power since the civil war, but the people still want him. So he continues." This is how 27-year-old Euricleurival Vasco explains his 2012 vote for the MPLA. But critics says that Jose Eduardo dos Santos has not kept a single electoral promise up to now. An example is providing access to running water and electricity.
Around 40 percent of Angolans live off less than one US dollar (75 eurocents) a day. Many had hoped for more job opportunities and wealth from the oil boom. But little has changed and they live from hand to mouth. Many, like these biscuit vendors, work informally.
The oil riches have only reached Angola's capital, Luanda. It is already one of the most expensive cities in the world. The rent for an apartment can cost US$5,000 (3,750 euros) or more. The wealth is especially visible in the Baia de Luanda, the city's bay area. New skyscrapers are emerging all over the city.
Angola's new parliamentary building is being constructed near the Baia de Luanda. The ruling MPLA party currently has 175 out of the 220 parliamentary seats. UNITA, the biggest opposition party, has 32 seats. The opposition parties often lament the MPLA's strong grip on Angola's political scenery.
President Jose Eduardo dos Santos gazes out from this campaign poster. Critics say he controls everything from the executive to the judiciary and legislative power. Dos Santo has ruled Angola for 33 years. He succeeded Agostinho Neto on September 20, 1979 as the president and party leader while the country was embroiled in a civil war.
Far from the capital, undiscovered landmines still litter the countryside. Such an area exists near the northern town of Soyo, even ten years after the civil war (1975-2002). A road network now exists between the various provincial towns. In 2002 it was almost impossible to cross the country by road.
Angola's wealth is not only in the form of oil reserves. Just off its coastline, natural gas is also being extracted. The first liquid natural gas (LNG) plant was built in the northern town of Soyo, but it is currently still undergoing tests. It is expected to produce 5.2 million tonnes of gas every year.
Angola is heavily dependent on its oil. In October 2012, the government started a natural oil fund to invest inside and outside the country. With this it hopes to protect itself from the volatile market prices. But oil reserves will only last for another 20 to 30 years. Experts see an alternative in the expansion of agriculture.
Advertisements for Chinese firms can often be seen in Angola. The Chinese are the largest expatriate community in the country, followed by euro-crisis driven Portuguese and the culturally close Brazilians. As Brazil cannot compete with the Chinese investors, it is focusing on technical training.
Angola's government should "invest in its people and not in the tarmac," says teacher Fernando Pinto Ndondi. He earns US$300 (225 euros) a month, with which he feeds his five children. Ndondi is officially homeless and lives in the suburb of Viana. His former house in Luanda was in the way of a governmental road project.
Angola ranks 168th out of 182 countries on Transparency International's Corruption Index. The regime faces accusations of embezzlement of funds. What happened to the US$32 billion (24 billion euros), which the state-run oil company Sonangol earned between 2007 and 2010? It says that the money flowed into infrastructure projects. However, it remains unclear which projects these were.
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Things on the list morph. There hasn't been any white bolognese, and there may not be, but there was homemade chicken pot pie, and there were potato latkes and Croque Monsieur made with waffles. Cooking has been the best part of break, and if anyone ever tells you that people do not change, I offer that statement coming from me as proof they do. Tom makes the coffee most mornings, drip rather than the moka pot, but the eggnog used in place of milk has the same indulgent feel and it's amazing how long the one container of it lasts. I did get around to the apple cider caramels, and my stubborn determination to get Baked Alaskas from Trader Joe's in Bellingham didn't abate even when I saw that they were pepto bismol pink and not actually intended to be baked. We are stocked with snacks for a New Year's Eve spent in a fortress, and I keep thinking maybe it's time to pull out a trillion piece puzzle and cover the dining table with pieces, pop a few in whenever we pass by. I'm fine with eating on the couch, laps covered in handknit blankets.
I've been ignoring performance reviews, and I think that's fine, since my laundry is halfway done and I've cleaned out some shelves in the pantry and dropped off the dry cleaning and along with it those pants I've been meaning forever to get hemmed. No Goodwill runs yet, but maybe tomorrow. Maybe. Or not. When does Downton Abbey start again?
Saturday, December 29, 2012
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- Barb said...
Your life does sound blissful to me. I don't know if your actual life is this slow-paced and full of real breath, but as someone who has felt like I'm rushing everywhere and never really taking deep, nurturing breaths any more, this post sounds really beautiful and peaceful and full of rich, soul-engaging life. Maybe they could start a show called "Life Swap" and we could trade for a few days? :) Although if you were going to be trapped in an insane life with kids, I'm guessing your sister's would be way more fun for you.
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I am a helpmeet to my husband and hard-working mom to my 4 kiddos. Even though I am often busy with housework, homeschool, errands, etc., I believe that nothing is too good for my family. If I can't find quality items at the grocery, I make them myself! After all, nothing is ever as good as homemade :)
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Homemade Raw Goat's Milk Soap
Recently, I became aware of a local goat dairy from which I could get raw milk- was I excited! I have made soap with canned goat's milk, but it's just not the same; even the technique to making the soap with raw milk is different. If you have ever made soap before, here's a recipe that you will thoroughly relish:
20 oz coconut oil
20 oz olive oil
12 oz goat's milk, frozen and broken apart.
6.08oz sodium hydroxide (NaOH)
The reason you need to freeze the goat's milk is that the NaOH will burn it otherwise. If you have ever burned milk, you know that it isn't pleasant- and the soap will be ruined! What's great about this technique is that the lye solution doesn't even get above 100 degrees, so as soon as the oil is heated to the correct temp. it's time to mix! No waiting needed.
Step 1: Mix your NaOH into the frozen goat's milk. **Please use precautions when handling lye, as it is caustic and can cause serious burns. Use eye protection and long gloves to protect any exposed skin.** Once the milk is thawed, leave the lye solution in a protected area.
Step 2: Heat your oils to about 100 degrees. This will not take long at all :)
Step 3: Mix the lye solution into the heated fats in a stream no larger than a #2 pencil. Stir with a metal spoon until incorporated.
Step 4: Using an immersion blender, mix the soap until a light trace (thin pudding consistency). Add any additives at this point, then mix until incorporated. I used about 0.3 oz ground lavender buds and 0.7 oz lavender essential oil.
Step 5: Pour your soap into a prepared mold. I used a commercial-grade 9x13 baking pan, lined with plastic. Cover your soap with plastic and wrap your mold in a blanket.
Step 6: Remove your soap when it hardens. This can take anywhere from a couple hours to a day. Cut into bars (From my pan, I cut 10 2 1/2" x 4" bars and several "samples") and let them cure for 2-6 weeks. **Always test the pH before using soap!**
The finished product is a cleansing, hydrating bar that makes a gazoodle bubbles! I can't wait to try this out in the shower and breathe the calming lavender scent... I have tried a couple sample slivers, and it is definitely one of my favorite soaps thus far!
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Thanks for sharing your recipe. Can you tell me what pH your goat milk soap usually ends up at?ReplyDeleteReplies
Mine has been curing for about a week, and it has a pH of 9. I don't expect it to get any lower.Delete
This soap sounds great! I'd love to try some! I'd really like to try making it too.ReplyDeleteReplies
I have a sample soap with your name on it! :) Unfortunately, all the large bars have been purchased. I will have to whip up another batch asap!Delete
- AnonymousApril 4, 2012 at 3:18 PM
I was curious, if your ingredients are measured according to weight or liquid volume?ReplyDeleteReplies
I measure everything by weight. Thanks for asking :)Delete
Are your oils in liquid form? How long does it need to cure?ReplyDeleteReplies
Since I measure by weight, the coconut oil doesn't have to be liquid. It melts when I heat my oils to 100 degrees. I usually let me bars cure for at least 3 weeks, but 6 weeks is ideal! Thanks :)Delete


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Not so long ago clips from the Daily Show began to appear on YouTube. Stewart could have brought lawsuits, he could have railed against thieves on his show, instead he did something very intelligent, he adjusted his business model. The Daily Show now has all their video clips on their site with commercials. Stewart treated the YouTubers as a de facto focus group/test market.
Now instead of litigation draining their purse, Comedy Central has an additional revenue stream. I don't have any use for content thieves; but clearly there are more intelligent responses than litigation.


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BCS to the Rescue
by Anthony Gonzalez, BCS Crew Supervisor
On the morning of July 5, 2016, BCS Community Service crew members Corey Hatton, Intern Jamal Carmichael and I, along with three BCS clients, set out to one of our regular work sites. While riding in the van on Jerome Avenue, we noticed an enormous amount of trash and debris left behind by crowds of people celebrating 4th of July the previous day. Even though this was not our original destination it was obvious Mullaly Park was in desperate need of extreme clean up. I asked the park supervisor (one of our partners from Parks Department District #4) if we could lend a hand. They were very grateful to utilize our assistance and we were grateful to take advantage of the chance to help our partners, neighbors and Bronx community.
|Mullaly Park in the aftermath of July 4th celebrations (3 pictures below)
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
I Think Gummi Grits Would Be A Good Name For A Band
Now that we know what's in my stomach, what's in my Blu-ray player?
The Golden Compass
I don't understand this film's poor reception. Even though the ending seemed abrupt, and the runtime felt short at 113 minutes, it's a well cast re-imagination of Pullman's world.
I met Phil Pullman once when he was speaking at Memorial High School. I waited for his autograph long enough to come up with my own trilogy about being pushed over the edge by waiting in line. It was more of a YouTube series like Chad Vader.
We interrupt this post to link you to Madison's own Chad Vader singing Chocolate Rain
So Phillip Pullman, I asked him to sign The Amber Sypglass: "Chris, put down Harry Potter and read this book!"
Pullman gave me a withering look as only the Oxford educated English can, and said, "I would never tell a child to put down a book."
What about the Unabomber's Manifesto, Phil?
Regardless, 4 out of 5 tapeworms
One of the best looking movies I've seen in the fits of BD gluttony. Captivating story of a young girl who grows up in Iran and escapes to France. Insert French joke here. Gorgeous, funny, sad, fiercely creative. I hear the graphic novel is even better.
4 out of 5 tapeworms
The Dark Knight
There's nothing left to say about this impeccably crafted film, except see it on the IMAX because the Ultra Screen pales. And let your chihuahua wear the DVD as a hat because you must own it on Blu-ray and Blu-ray only.
4 out of 5 tapeworms
This movie doesn't deserve a single tapeworm. Despite Kevin Spacey, whom I love, it's stagnant enough to make me want the boring mess to end Sopranos style. Don't stop—
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snort, lol lol LOL!!!! I couldn't stop laughing and my kids thought I was crazy (y'know...not that I'm sane or anything...) There ARE gummi tapeworms, and they look every bit as uhm, segemented--as I thought they'd be. :)ReplyDelete
Only you, Jeanna. You are a true connoisseur of obscure candies.
I have the Golden Compass. My kid says it was good. I haven't watched it yet. Maybe I should.
Gummi tapeworms? Ew! I haven't seen most of those but the Dark Knight was very good. :)ReplyDelete
Yeah...that's the first thing I thought when I saw the graphic: that it looked like a green intestine.ReplyDelete
That said, Gummi Grits as a band name certainly wouldn't be worse (or less colorful) than, say, Godsmack (which I once mistakenly called Gobsmack to the delight of all).
So, Persepolis. ...Gorgeous, funny, sad, fiercely creative... I think I'll have to check this out. (HOW sad is it, on a scale from 1 to 10 with 10 being the biggest inducer of weepy-eye and hurtful throat?)


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re: authzTo/From - Sounds good to me. re: OpenLDAPaci - yeah, I think it would be an improvement, not sure if people are relying on its current format.
I note that ordered_values don't cope well with slapadd; it appears the syntax validate/pretty functions must be aware of the ordering. Am I correct? I'd prefer a solution analogous to that of the matchingRule, where a wrapper handles the ordering and the original validator/prettifier handles the rest. Is this the way to go or what?
Yes, that would probably be best.
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Monsignor Michael Duca, rector of the Holy Trinity Seminary in Iring, Texas, will be the new bishop of the Diocese of Shreveport.
Here is the official announcement from the Vatican (the English version should be posted later this morning. And here is a little more scoop on the new shepherd from the ever-present and very helpful Rocco Palmo.
Bishop-elect Duca should be present at this morning's press conference and I'll certainly have more to share here and at shreveporttimes.com.
UPDATE: Here's the official release from the Diocese of Dallas.
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Bishop watch comes to conclusion
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Please do not celebrate as this could be a WAYANG KULIT by the govt because THE GENERAL ELECTION is coming soon. As Parties in the Pakatan Rakyat Group is fighting among themselves, it is a good time for BN to call for a GE.
Unless Dr GIGI is proven guilty in court,we cannot celebrate like what happen to Eric Chia and Kasitah Gaddam where in the end both was set free by the court.It would not be a surprised to me if DR GIGI trial is for SHOW ONLY and in the end DR GIGI has NO CASE TO ANSWER.
As we all know .we cannot trust the MACC and the AG given their track record,but my trust in both this agencies will improve if they can CONVICT DR GIGI AND SENT HIM TO JAIL AND CREATE AN EXAMPLE OUT OF HIM.
I will also not surprise if Char Koay teow Ling Liong Sik is set free by the court.
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This is a blog about the Magic the Gathering decks I make, the games I play and the general thoughts I have about the game...and occasionally other stuff but hopefully only as it relates to play.
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Another Day, Some Other Way
And boy, did I get that.
Aggro decks. Lauriel was playing a very nice BRW tokens deck and just killing it. While I had...well, you can see the picture. Nothing.
Granted, I had scooped my board at that point but the fact remains! I had nothing and did very, very little.
So I took out Brainstorm and Ancestral Vision for Anticipate and Gitaxian Probe (as suggested by Matt), removed a Stormtide Leviathan for Kruphix, God of Horizons, along with adding three Prophet of Kruphix while removing Fable of Wolf and Owl.
Games against Matt the next evening merely enforced the weakness, though: I can't stabilize the board fast enough. I don't have enough action to start forcing opponents to play the game on my terms. I need to try and brainstorm something for this deck that can't quite be a combo deck and isn't exactly a control deck.
So, what next?
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After I published my post on iPhone and iPod Touch magic tricks, it seemed to renew some discussion on whether such devices could be effective in magic routines. I'd like to take the position that it can be effective.
First, people too often only think of the software magic apps that are available. Many of poorer ones are already simply rehashed versions of tricks that have already been overexposed on the internet (Flash Mind Reader, Princess Card Trick, and so on). Many of the remaining ones are obviously the unit itself doing the effect.
What makes the use of an iPhone or an iPod Touch effective when used for magic? Let's explore some of the principles that could make it more effective.
One idea is using the iPod only as part of the preparation, not in the effect itself. For example, if you have to memorize something in order to perform an effect, you could practice this with any one of the numerous Flashcard apps I mentioned recently. In this case, the iPhone's role is well hidden, as the audience never sees it in the first place!
What about when using it in the performance of an effect? Is it still possible to use it deceptively? It sure is.
Even Martin Gardner himself thought enough of magic on computers to give the idea serious consideration in his 2001 book, A Gardner's Workout. Fortunately, the entire chapter on magic and computers is available in the Google Reader preview, and can be seen here (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). The principles here are a good starting point for iPhone magic routines. Some of these wouldn't work too well for
One woefully unexplored area in iPhone magic is the idea of the iPhone world and the real world interacting. Sure, there are plenty of magic apps where something from the real world goes into the iPhone, and/or vice versa, and even a few that can seemingly interact with real world magically, such as Alakazapps' Magic Compass and Magic Tattoo. The basic principle could be taken much farther, however.
Here's an example idea. Imagine you're performing Twisting the Aces (for those not familiar with the effect, here's a video performance of it). However, instead of twisting the aces to get them to turn over (or shaking, as in the linked video), you hold the stack of four card up to your iPhone, and a video plays of someone who seems to be taking an ace from the pile, turning over an ace, and then apparently putting it back into the pile. You then show that the same ace really has turned over!
The iPhone is effective in this magic performance because there is no possible way that it could be responsible for actually having the aces turn over. While you're giving credit to the device, you're also allowing the audience to see through the ruse, which in turns makes them give you credit for the magical happening, and helps take the focus off of the method. Wonder Words fans and NLPers will recognize this as a form of a metaphor restriction violation.
Barry and Stuart's ESP Test is another good example of this principle. If you're unfamiliar with the method, you can learn it here. This is an effect that someone needs to port to the iPhone as soon as possible.
One principle of iPhone use that is little talked about magic is incidental use. In other words, the iPhone is used in the routine, but isn't central to the magical effect. Yet, as Lior's Mobile Opener shows, this can be powerful usage nonetheless. The portability, capabilities and capacity of the iPhone put more information at people's fingertips than ever before, and our presentations should take advantage of this. Before I got my iPod Touch, I had to carry a perpetual calendar around in order to perform the Day of the Week For Any Date feat, but now I have several apps allowing me to verify the date (the one I most often use is QuickCal, if you're curious).
Incidental use is also important to note, as it can be a two-edged sword. Asking yourself what information people have access to can greatly affect the deceptiveness of your routine and the effectiveness of your presentation. It's not unreasonable for a person with any kind of smartphone to have instant access, online or offline, to a literally encyclopedic amount of information at their fingertips. If you think I'm kidding, consider the fact that it's possible to have the complete contents of Wikipedia on your iPhone, even while it is offline! Again, consider the good and bad sides. Sure, you might not be able to get away with some white lies that you did in the past, but consider the new possibilities for presentations that weren't possible before, too.
The discussion over the possibilities of mixing new technologies with magic has gone on a long time. David Bamberg once performed an effect with Orson Welles across a movie screen. If you've seen David Copperfield's 14th special, Flying: Live The Dream, you've seen this same routine performed. The effective usage of television and landline telephone magic is still thoroughly discussed and debated among magicians.
Have you found any effective ways to take advantage of the iPhone in your magic routines? Maybe you disagree that effective use of iPhone magic is impossible. Either way, I'd love to hear your thoughts about it in the comments!
iPhone/iPod Touch: Effective in magic?
Published on Thursday, August 06, 2009 in magic, Martin Gardner, software, videos
After I published my post on iPhone and iPod Touch magic tricks, it seemed to renew some discussion on whether such devices could be effective in magic routines. I'd like to take the position that it can be effective.
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Is an Iphone a nice size for concealing a card? While someone watches a video on it, a card could be accessed and dropped onto the top of a deck or adhesively lifted off?
An iPhone itself sitting on top of a playing card won't fully conceal a poker-size playing card on its own. However, if you hold the iPhone in a left-hand mechanic's grip, so that none of the poker-size card's right edge shows, you can easily cover the exposed left edge with your left thumb.
This, of course, can also be adapted for a right-hand mechanic's grip by reversing the directions.
If possible, an even simpler solution is to use bridge-size cards, which fit almost perfectly underneath an iPhone!
I just had one additional thought, Mike.
There are many iPhone cases out there that add just enough width that they could help conceal a poker-sized playing card.