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We first began going to the beach in about 2002, I think. We had a pastor at that time who spoke often in his sermons about Ocean Isle Beach. It sounded good, so we gave it a try. I think Jon was six, Laura was nine, David was eleven and Shannon was twelve, or thereabout. That seems right. We stayed in an oceanfront home called Fisher's Wharf on the corner of Raeford. We arrived as the sun was setting, to a magical sky full of amazing pastel colors. The children ran around the decking to the front of the house and out the boardwalk to the ocean where they sank directly into the foaming ocean waves, in their clothes, and Shannon called out, "Mom! How did you find this place?" It was a very comfortable house; I slept to the roar of the ocean like I'd never slept on vacation before in my life. We enjoyed the beach, which was very full of shells. I'd bought a guidebook about North Carolina, and it spoke of Sunset Beach, 20 minutes to the southwest. We drove over to check it out one afternoon, and loved the fine white sand and the quiet atmosphere. We decided to try that island if we ever came again. Our house on Ocean Isle had everything we needed except good knives. After we got home, I bought a special knife for taking on beach vacations. Mama gotta cook.
Our next beach vacation was in April of 2005, I'm pretty sure. We went to a house on Sunset Beach called Amazing Grace. It was on the extreme eastern end of the island (more extreme then than now, as that end has since been further developed). It was a two-story turreted house, and the windows surrounding the sitting room off the master bedroom gave a circular view around the end of the island from ocean to channel to bay. We were delighted to discover that pink sunrises awoke us each morning, with lovely views right from the bed! That house also came with an impressive supply of toys for the kids to take to the beach. It was a good week.
We went back again in August of that same year (2005). Our house was called Southern Comfort, which I did not approve of. It was a classic beach house floor plan with living/dining/kitchen down the middle and two bedrooms and a bathroom on either side. I remember lots of white wicker and high, vaulted ceilings with ceiling fans. It was a second row house, just across the street from the Fifth Street beach access. It's been rebuilt, or at least renamed (renaming could only have been an improvement). That was the year we bought an inflatable raft and the kids navigated the channel to visit Ocean Isle. It was also the year when Shawn and I spent evenings walking along the shore under a full moon at high tide.
I think we went right back again in 2006. That would have been the April when Shannon was a junior, David was in ninth grade, Laura was in eighth grade, and Jon was in fifth. I think that is right? That time we went in April and it was cold. We stayed in a lovely home on the back bay on the east end called Conch Out, and I think it may have been my favorite vacation. David had his saxophone. There was a crab trap and a floating dock to the bay where we could set the trap and catch crabs. Jon made friends with the people next door. Our friend TJ drove up from SC to visit us.
It seems like in those days we meant to go to the beach every other year, and then to Minnesota on the alternating years. But then we started going to the beach in April and to Minnesota over the summer. Maybe this is accurate? We'd gone to Maine when Jonny was two (1997) and it was freezing. Then we went to Cape Cod in about 2000. That was even colder than Maine (it was one of those summerless years). We flew all the way to California and explored the Pacific coast from Pasadena to San Diego in February of 2001, but that was cold too (at least we had a heated pool at our San Diego hotel). Finally, we found the Brunswick Beaches of NC, which even when they are cold in April are not as cold as Maine in June. In August the water is like a bath, and even I can walk straight in.
Anyway, that 2006 vacation in Conch Out was the last beach vacation we took as a whole family. It was a good one, full of sweet azaleas and bitter sunscreen. Little did I know that we wouldn't have the whole tribe together at the beach again. Well, perhaps some day we will, but it hasn't happened yet.
April 2008 we went back, this time to the west end of the Sunset Beach, near Bird Island and the marsh. We stayed in an amazing home called Tranquility Base. It was on 40th Street and had double decks overlooking the marsh and the sunsets. Everything about the house was fabulous, from the decorating, to the kitchen equipment, to the large soaking tub in the master bathroom, to the sunset views. They even provided kayaks, although the marsh was low and we didn't have much luck using them. The only drawback (besides that it was cold) was that Shannon wasn't with us; she was in college, and her spring break was different from everyone else's. David and Laura got sunburned studying for AP exams on one of the roof decks. It was a fabulously beautiful house, and I remember Laura saying, "If their beach house is this nice, can you imagine what their regular house is like?" This house is no longer available to renters. I think one of the most memorable things about that vacation was the trip back up north to New York. Spring was full blown in North Carolina, with spring green leaves spreading gentle shade over colorful bulb flowers everywhere. As we headed north, the flowers disappeared and the leaves got smaller and smaller, until finally we reached the land of bare branches. It began to snow, and we arrived home to a blizzard and a snow day school cancellation that Monday.
In the summer of 2009, we went to Texas to see Shawn's paternal grandmother, whom the children had never met. We did the Riverwalk in San Antonio, visited the Alamo and swam in the gulf around Port Aransas. This was our last family vacation, and it was one to remember forever.
August 2010 we went back to Sunset Beach. That summer we stayed on Fifth Street, towards the east end of the island, farther back from the ocean than we'd ever stayed before. We used the money we saved on the house rental to rent a vacation package that gave us a grill, a beach wagon, four beach chairs and an umbrella.
It turned out to be a fabulous way to do things. The house was called Carpenters' Cottage, and it was really cute. The background colors were neutral and light, the bedspreads were eye-poppingly bright and beachy, the furniture was comfortable and the kitchen was very nicely equipped. We took David, Laura, Jon and a friend of Laura's, and much Boom-o was played. It was a great vacation until Thursday, when Shawn received an email that threatened a ferocious lawsuit against the boss at his previous company. This event put a major damper on our memories of an otherwise lovely vacation.
Nevertheless, we went back for another round in August 2011. We tried the same strategy: rent a house farther from the beach, and spend the savings on a grill and beach gear. The house in 2011 was called Three Sisters, which was ironic because we had three children, but only one sister: David, Laura and Jon.
Although we missed Shannon immensely, we had a magical, beautiful time together in this well maintained and equipped pink house. It was not the fanciest house we've stayed in, but it was one of the most comfortable and livable houses; I loved it. It was the first time we stayed in a pink house, and every time I came "home" to it, I had a little thrill that this pink house was mine for the week. The kids got along well, Laura was happy because she had her own bathroom, and the waves were warm and wonderful. I think this was the year Jon bought his first skim board and learned to use it. Friday, as I was beginning to think about packing up to leave, I opened my computer and found a message from my niece Abby, saying that my father had suffered a heart attack, but that he was okay. So that vacation had a less than ideal ending too, although it was a blessing that we did have immediate confirmation that all was well. Shawn and Jon and I headed to Minnesota to see my parents after dropping Laura off at college, so we got an extra trip that summer.
August 2012, we set forth again. This time, we took a houseful: our youth pastor, his wife and their two little children, and a friend of David's, as well as David and Jon (Laura had already gone back to college by the time we went). That year, we got a house called Sand In My Shoes. It actually had a sort of separate apartment upstairs, with a kitchenette and everything, so our youth pastor's family could have some semblance of privacy. I'd always wanted to have the joy of watching little children discover the beach, and it was exciting and rewarding to practice up on some grandma skills. That was a busy vacation because, besides having extra people along, I was trying to prepare for my job teaching English at a Christian school (the vacation had been planned long before the job offer came along), and this was totally overwhelming to me. I don't have many clear memories of this vacation, but I had an impression of other people playing a lot of Settlers of Catan and watching Batman movies late at night.
The summer of 2013, we moved from New York to Illinois. We did not have a vacation. The summer of 2014, Laura got married and we did not have a vacation that year, either, unless you count the trip to Ohio for the wedding.
Last summer, 2015, we went to the beach for two whole weeks! The house was called Beach Time. It was, perhaps, the shabbiest house we had ever rented, although it provided everything we needed, even boogie boards. The kitchen was decent except for the knives (and I had to go to Walmart and buy a pan to bake chicken in). We didn't rent a beach package because the price had more than doubled, and being there two weeks made the cost ridiculously prohibitive, but they did furnish a charcoal grill with the property. It was a super vacation, despite the shabbiness, and you can read about it in my August 2015 logs, if you wish. We had Shannon and Jon for the first week, and then our friends Ann and Walter joined us when Shannon left, for the second week.
Most recently, we stayed oceanfront on Sunset Beach for the very first time, about a week ago (April 2016), in a house called Dune Our Thing. This sounds fancier than it was. It was a pet friendly oceanfront rental, and it was affordable, so that should give you some idea. It may have been even shabbier than Beach Time from last summer; at any rate, the washer and dryer were rustier. I quite enjoyed the "art" on the walls in this house, and I got used to the bright colors after a few days, and began to feel fondly about them. We took Schubert, and spent some time just the two of us and our little brown dog (who was not much enamored of the beach). We might have gotten lonely for family, but David and a friend of his joined us for a number of days, so that was a blessing. Shawn had a blast setting up a ham radio and contacting many people in many places, from Uruguay to the United Arab Emirates to Russia and Ireland to Australia and back to Cary, NC!
So that is our history, to date, of beach vacation rentals.
To recap:
August 2002, Fisher's Wharf, OIB
April 2005, Amazing Grace, SB
August 2005, Southern Comfort, SB
April 2006, Conch Out, SB
April 2008, Tranquility Base, SB
August 2010, Carpenters' Cottage, SB
August 2011, Three Sisters, SB
August 2012, Sand in My Shoes, SB
August 2015, Beach Time, SB
April 2016, Dune our Thing, SB
Ten vacations, ten houses, ten sets of precious memories.


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These flowers are made from an antique poetry textbook.
The rosettes in the center are rolled from vintage patterns.
First, cut petals from the textbook. I cut them freehand, but you can make a paper pattern to make the petals symmetrical if you like. I like things a little "off."
From heavy card stock, cut a circle about 4" in diameter. I used a little urn for the pattern. You will need 2 circles for each flower.
Cut a smaller circle in the middle of the card stock circle. The size of the little circle will determine how many petals you can fit onto the flower. I didn't want too many petals, since these are package decorations, so I cut the circle quite small.
The base of the petals should be about 2" across.
Fold each petal base into a pleat, as shown.
Fold the pleated base under about an inch, and glue onto the circle, as shown.
When you glue the folded petal onto the circle, hold it in place for several seconds.
Overlap each petal. When you get to the end, you might want to lift up the first petal to tuck under the last
petal. I don't always do this since the center of the flower is covered with the tissue rosettes.
For the rosettes: Cut a length of old pattern tissue, about 8" wide. I like to use uncut patterns so the pieces are large. Roll the length of tissue loosely.
Twist a 10" length of wire around the center of the tissue.
Repeat to make another rolled and cinched tissue roll. Fold each tissue roll.
Place them closely together, and twist the wire in back to secure the rosette.
Place the wire through the center of the flower. To cover the back of the flower,
glue your second card stock circle over the first circle.
glue your second card stock circle over the first circle.
Stabilize the rosette by dabbing a little glue on the outside of each rosette and pinching onto the nearest petal. You can make the tissue flowers look more like roses by folding over
the edge of the outer tissue on each one.
the edge of the outer tissue on each one.
My sons are going to be so surprised when they come home from college and find these on their gifts!

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Alright appears in the following palindromes (phrases that read the same backward as forward):
- "Des, I, Tina Smith, girl-at-call, I will act alright: I'm sanitised!"
- "But, animal Sir, one task's alright?" a bath girl asks a tenor I slam in a tub.
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Definition of the adjective alright
What does alright mean as an attribute of a noun?
adjective - degrees: -
- nonstandard usage
- similar: satisfactory
Alternative definition of the adjective alright
- [alternative spelling of, all right] Satisfactory; okay; in acceptable order, but not necessarily "'all' right".
- synonym: all right
Definition of the adverb alright
What does alright mean as an attribute of something other than a noun?
- without doubt (used to reinforce an assertion)
- alternative spelling: all right
- an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence
- in a satisfactory or adequate manner
- usage: colloquialism
- alternative spelling: all right
- synonyms of alright: O.K. / okay
- "Alright" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Janet Jackson for her fourth studio album, Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814. It was released as the fourth single from the album on March 4, 1990, by A&M Records.
- music by Janet Jackson, James Samuel Harris, Terry Lewis
- some of the awards:
- Grammy Award for Best R&B Song nomination for Janet Jackson & Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
- Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single, Female nomination for Janet Jackson
- "Alright" is the third single from British funk/acid jazz band Jamiroquai's third studio album, Travelling Without Moving. It was released on 28 April 1997 on Sony Soho Square in the United Kingdom and 23 September 1997 on Sony Music in the United States. The song was written by Jay Kay. The song peaked at #6 on the UK Singles Chart. It is the group's only single to chart on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The group recorded an updated version of the song for their 2006 greatest hits compilation.
- also known as Alright (vocal version), Alright (Tee's in House mix)
- music by Toby Smith & Jay Kay
- "Alright" is a song by British alternative rock band Supergrass. It was released with "Time" as a double A-side single from their debut album I Should Coco on 3 July 1995. The song is featured in several films including Clueless, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Astro Boy, LOL, High Lane, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! as well as in Intel's Pentium TV advertisements.
- also known as Alright / Time
- music by Gaz Coombes, Mick Quinn, Danny Goffey
- "Alright" is a song co-written and recorded by American singer Darius Rucker, lead vocalist of the rock band Hootie & the Blowfish. It was released in April 2009 as the third single from his first country music album Learn to Live. Rucker co-wrote the song with producer Frank Rogers.
- "Alright" a.k.a. "Alright!" is an album by Bogdan Raczynski. It was released in 2007 on Rephlex Records. Alright! is Raczynski's latest album.
- genres: Intelligent dance music, Drill 'n bass, Drum and bass
- released on (8 years ago)
- "Alright" a.k.a. "Alright!!" is a song by Japanese recording artist Superfly. It is her first single that was exclusively released digitally, rather than being a promotional single from one of her other singles or albums that was released through digital means. The song itself, made popular and originally only known by its "Na-Nana" hook, was used as the theme song for the Fuji TV drama BOSS. A ringtone version of "Alright!!" was initially released on May 6, 2009, and the full song was released to the iTunes Store and the Mora stores on June 3, 2009. "Alright!!" was subsequently released as the first track on the Box Emotions album three months later.
- also known as オールライト
- music by Tabo, Koichi & Ochi, Shiho
- lyrics by Ochi, Shiho
- "Alright" is the first single released from Kris Kross' second album Da Bomb. The song was produced and written by Jermaine Dupri and featured reggae star, Super Cat on the chorus.
- "Alright" a.k.a. "Alright!" is the seventh single released by Japanese singer Ami Suzuki under label Avex Trax. It was released in May 2006 in two formats, CD and CD+DVD, and the first pressings of the single included a limited 32-page photobook.
- "Alright" is a 1997 single album by Jamiroquai.
- also known as Alright Remixes
- released on (17 years ago)
- "ALRIGHT" a.k.a. "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)": "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan and first released on his 1965 album, Bringing It All Back Home. It was written in the summer of 1964, first performed live on October 10, 1964, and recorded on January 15, 1965. Described by Dylan biographer Howard Sounes as a "grim masterpiece," the song features some of Dylan's most memorable lyrical images. Among the well-known lines sung in the song are "Money doesn't talk, it swears," "Although the masters make the rules, for the wisemen and the fools" and "But even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked." The lyrics express Dylan's anger at hypocrisy, commercialism, consumerism, warmongers and contemporary American culture, but unlike his earlier protest songs, "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" does not express optimism in the possibility of political solutions.
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- music and lyrics by John Power
- "ALRIGHT" is a musical album of Motohiro Hata.
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- "Alright" is a 1990 single album by Janet Jackson.
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- "Alright" is a 2010 single by Pitbull.
- released on (5 years ago)
- "Alright" is a cataloged instance, composition.
- music by Lisa Miskovsky & Dennis Lyxzén
- lyrics by Lisa Miskovsky
Alright is the second single by the Liverpool britpop band Cast, fronted by ex La's bassist John Power. The song is taken from the debut album All Change.
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The Dimwit's Dictionary (2002)
5,000 Overused Words and Phrases and Alternatives to Them by Robert Hartwell Fiske
alright. Solecistic for all right. □ It looks alright from this view, but Pooh's ...
English-Spoken Khmer Dictionary (2012)
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alright adj. ot aae tay: Don't wony, it's alright. -- Kum ba'rum, vee'a ot aae tay. Alright! interj.
The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style (2000)
by Bryan A. Garner
The one-word spelling (alright) has never been accepted as standard in AmE. all together. See altogether. almond is pronounced /ah-mand/ — not /ahl-mand/ or ( worse) /al-mand/. See prONUNCIATION (b). almost. Like only, the word almost ...
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The lead single from the Pleased To Eat You EP (2012 - Hive-Mind Records.) You can sing along if you want to!!!! What happens at karaoke, stays at karaoke.
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Don't cry for me
'cause I'm not going
somewhere you cannot reach
keep me in your heart
and I'll always be around.
Don't cry for me
'cause I'm alright
as long as you keep me in your heart
it's enough reason for me
to be alright. (Marites C. Cayetano)
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Scrabble value of A1L1R1I1G2H4T1
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When we set out to build Westman Village, we wanted to build in convenience, one of a kind design, services and amenities that would allow our residents to have more.
More connected, more engaged, more passionate about the things that matter most to them. Beyond homes and amenities, what we really build is more moments for your life. Because it's the moments in life that matter the most, and that's what we all need more of.
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Queen's Chess
If life was a Play of Chess,
with you being my Blanche,
I would be your Eleanor.
Why would we live for nothing less
than whispering love
and amore?
If life was a Play of Chess,
we'd live each of these Louis XIV rooks.
Guarded by brave and dodgy knights,
however, loyal and discrete when we undress.
We'd be safe and secure,
every day, all nights.
If life was a Play of Chess,
loyal bishops and an army of pawns
would assist us – every single day.
We'd redefine Royalty, more or less,
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Secret surveillance on the rise
Secret surveillance of consumers' cell phones, computers and other electronic devices dwarfs the use of sealed orders for national security investigations, according to a disturbing new paper by a federal judge.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Smith estimates there were more than 30,000 sealed electronic surveillance orders in federal courts in 2006 issued under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, in a forthcoming article for the Harvard Law and Policy Review.
That's 30 times the annual number issued under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, established to regulate surveillance of foreign intelligence agents. And by all accounts, electronic eavesdropping under the ECPA has increased sharply since 2006, particularly smartphone tracking.
"ECPA surveillance orders all but vanish into a legal void," Smith wrote. "It is as if they were written in invisible ink - legible to phone companies and Internet service providers who execute them, yet imperceptible to unsuspecting targets, the general public, and even other arms of government."
Smith's paper, first covered in the New York Times, adds more color to what's becoming an increasingly detailed picture of how law enforcement pries into digital communications.
Earlier this year, the ACLU reported that police departments routinely track personal cell phones, often without warrants, based on hundreds of open records requests. A subsequent congressional inquiry found that cellular carriers responded to at least 1.3 million such requests for subscriber records last year, a notable increase based on carriers that provided figures from earlier years.
Unknowing targets
Smith's estimates, extrapolated from a Federal Judicial Center report that examined all 2006 federal court cases, drive home the fact that subjects of such inquiries may never know they were a government target. He was quick to note that some temporary secrecy is reasonable, since disclosing surveillance can jeopardize ongoing investigations.
"The problem is that these surveillance orders remain secret long after the criminal investigation comes to an end," he wrote. "This means that, unless the investigation results in criminal charges, targets who are law-abiding citizens will never learn that the government has accessed their e-mails, text messages, Twitter accounts, or cell phone records."
The Supreme Court has regularly recognized the importance of transparency in judicial proceedings, noting it discourages misbehavior by litigants and witnesses, acts as a check on judicial abuse, and promotes public confidence in the courts, Smith said.
One big problem is that the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 was written in ... 1986. That preceded the rise of the commercial Internet, not to mention the emergence of smartphones and social networking. In other words, it was enacted before our tweets, texts, clicks and check-ins revealed so many intimate details about our lives.
Yet under the ECPA, law enforcement can put a magnifying glass up to our digital tracks without so much as probable cause, so long as it's only looking at the parameters of our communications, rather than the content. If that seems like a vague distinction, you're catching on.
Basically it means a police officer generally can't open your e-mail or listen in on calls without a warrant, but often he or she can look at whom you e-mailed or called so long as "the person acting under color of law has reasonable grounds to believe that the contents of the computer trespasser's communications will be relevant to the investigation" (emphasis mine).
On the same basis, police can also look into what cell phone towers might have caught your signal - in other words, your location.
Wealth of data
To get a sense of what kind of sensitive information can be revealed by knowing where you've been, take a look at what the Supreme Court recently said on the issue.
In the United States vs. Jones decision earlier this year, the court unanimously ruled that attaching a GPS device to a vehicle constituted a search.
In the concurring opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted: "GPS monitoring generates a precise, comprehensive record of a person's public movements that reflects a wealth of detail about her familial, political, professional, religious, and sexual associations. ... And because GPS monitoring is cheap in comparison to conventional surveillance techniques and, by design, proceeds surreptitiously, it evades the ordinary checks that constrain abusive law enforcement practices. ... Awareness that the Government may be watching chills associational and expressive freedoms."
The other critical flaw of the ECPA - and the one most germane to Smith's article - is that it includes "secrecy rules not typically applicable to ordinary search and seizure warrants." Indeed, specific clauses protect "sealing and nondisclosure" for certain orders concerning wiretaps and devices that record dialed phone numbers, often without time limits.
Why not warrants?
Given the vast opportunities for abuse, the ACLU argues strongly that warrants should be required for gathering any information of this sort.
Unlike many court orders, warrants restrict searches to information relevant to an investigation, require notifying the subject at some point and provide some recourse for those searched improperly or unjustly.
"A probable cause standard is what's required to protect Americans, and it's what's required under the Constitution," said Catherine Crump, staff attorney for the ACLU, in an earlier interview.
In his paper, Smith argues the ECPA should be amended to require notice to targets of electronic surveillance, at some point, and says the courts should report statistical data about the use of this sort of surveillance.
"Publication of this data will allow the press and the public to better understand the extent of government intrusion into our digital lives, so that the balance between privacy and law enforcement struck by our elected representatives will more likely reflect the informed will of the people," Smith said.
James Temple is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @jtemple


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Because I'm sooooooooo behind in blogging this past month and a half, I'll just do a quick recap of what I would have said if I had been keeping this thing up to date:
Will sick
MC sick
Caroline & Anna Cate sick
Everybody sick sick sick
Registered Anna Cate for pre-school for the fall and watched this video that same night - bawled my eyes out because she is growing up too fast.
Had three fabulous sewing workshops! I met so many new friends and had fun catching up with old ones I hadn't seen in a while. In all three, I never once remembered to take any pictures, but I've got some pics to share soon of all of the amazing projects these ladies have made...adorable outfits, shower curtains, dolls, window treatments, etc!!
Will sick with the flu...
Anna Cate sick with the flu...
Celebrated turning the LAST year of my twenties in the doctor's office with a dehydrated Anna Cate.
and then Caroline sick with the flu.
And if turning 29 wasn't enough to make me feel like a full fledged adult, saying goodbye to the car I've had for the past ten years and hello to my new mommy mobile definitely did the trick. I also realized that if I drive this car for as long as I had my blue blazer, I'll be *gulp* 40 (!!!!) when I get a new car. weird, weird, totally weird.
Took my first road trip with the new car to Charlotte for a long awaited IKEA trip with my sister!
Anna Cate sick again with the ever dreaded stomach bug...
and last, but not least...
my baby sister got ENGAGED!!!
Needless to say, we've been busy and sick (or just busy being sick) this past month. In fact, I looked at the calendar and realized that since the last week of January, we have all four been healthy for a grand total of only 8 days. I'm ready to say hello to warmer spring weather and goodbye to all our germs!
And for all of you who have sent e-mails and left me messages, I apologize that I have been so slow to respond. I've been treading water just trying to stay afloat taking care of my family and the house, and I promise to get back to each of you very soon.
Totally un-related, but just thought I'd share:
"If I had my child to raise all over again,
I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later.
I'd finger-paint more, and point the finger less.
I would do less correcting and more connecting.
I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.
I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.
I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.
I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars.
I'd do more hugging and less tugging."
Diane Loomans
That's all for now!


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The homie William Yan recently got together with We Are Not Pilgrims to produce this quick look into the Perfecto brand by Schott NYC. We got to see a nice screening of it last week, and now you can check it right here...
Will handled the art direction and the interview, while We Are Not Pilgrims took care of the actual filming and editing portion. Overall a really dope view into how the brand is run and what their vision on style and quality is. (and some of those jackets are just so badass!)
As always, you should be checking out WilliamYan.com for the latest in NYC street style, events, and coolness. And also peep WeAreNotPilgrims.com, who are some really cool guys that know their shit when it comes to film and have a pretty dope documentary series, "The Gatekeepers", among other projects on their site.


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Okay, French for "tent" is just "tente" and "namiot" is Polish. You have to admit that namiot is more fun to say than plain old tente.
Here is an example my new tent, complete with videos. So far it takes me much longer than the chap to pitch it, at least in the sitting-room, and mine has a blue cover. B.A. made me take mine down before supper, so I have had practice striking it, too. That was easier, let me tell you.
The couple in the video are rather funny. They are slim enough for this tent, but I suspect they are actually too tall. B.A. and I crawled in, but we did not at all resemble these charming young people. Way too many clothes, for a start.


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I'm glad that regular television is back. One of our favorite summer shows, "So You Think You Can Dance" featured kids dancing this year. A bunch of the dances struck me as really inappropriate for kids that age, so I refused to watch it.
Style: Biere de Garde
Trivia: According to the brewery website, "Uinta Brewing Company embarked upon its mission of brewing world class, full-flavored, craft-brewed beer in the winter of 1993. From a small, renovated mechanic's garage located in Salt Lake City, Uinta began distributing a tasty variety of beer ranging from 4.0% to over 10% alcohol by volume to local bars, restaurants, and liquor stores. Demand escalated, resulting in the installation of a bottling line in 1996. Then, in 2001, having outgrown its original building, Uinta built and relocated to a 26,000-square-foot facility, pictured above, specifically designed for brewing beer. Uinta Brewing is named after an east-west mountain range located in northeastern Utah. Many of Uinta's beer names are inspired by Utah's diverse landscapes or have historical significance. Cutthroat Pale Ale, Uinta's flagship beer, is named after Utah's state fish. Subsequent beer names followed suit, such as King's Peak Porter, named after Utah's highest peak, Golden Spike Hefeweizen, named after the spike used to commemorate the completion of the transcontinental railroad in Utah, and Dubhe, named after the Utah Centennial star."
Random: I'm craving Thai food again.
This beer poured with a three finger, thick, off white head. It took a long time to dissipate and left some lacing on the glass. The body was a cloudy, dark orange with a lot of floaties in the glass. I couldn't see how much carbonation was in the beer because of how cloudy it was. The nose was filled with oak and grape notes. There was also an alcohol note. The taste was incredibly bready. There was also a nutty note with yeast and light spice notes. The alcohol was not as apparent in the taste as the nose. Grape came through as well with light spice. The body was on the thicker side with high carbonation. It had a quick finish with yeast and light spice. The bomber was $9, which came to $.41 per ounce. I enjoyed this beer, but I wouldn't rush back to have it again. I wanted it to have more oak.
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Yankees Sign Ponson
Which is probably a good thing. I had a case in Scranton a few years back. Not to put too fine a point on it, but there's not a ton to do in Scranton, so it's certainly not the kind of town you want to send a guy with anger-management and drinking problems.
9 comments:
- Mac said...
This seems like where an Andy from "The Office" reference should go.
- June 18, 2008 at 6:15 PM
- Jason said...
I guess his 10+ ERA from his short stint on the Yanks last year, coupled with his sparkling personality, made him a team favorite.
- June 18, 2008 at 8:13 PM
- Justin Zeth said...
Not that you're allowed to answer the question or anything, so it's just kind of rhetorical, but... what the heck were you doing in Scranton?
Oh, and as for my expert analysis on this acquisition:
- June 18, 2008 at 9:05 PM
- Craig Calcaterra said...
Client just got sued there. In recent years I've had clients sued in Peoria, Great Falls, Youngstown, and Mobile as well. They NEVER get sued in, say, San Francisco or Miami, or Seattle.
Dumb clients.
- June 18, 2008 at 10:09 PM
- Rob said...
Wow, Ponson and a Hard Rock Cafe moving into the South Bronx.
Do you think he gets the employee discount?
- June 18, 2008 at 10:24 PM
- themarksmith said...
Dumb lawyer for working for the dumb clients ;).
- June 19, 2008 at 12:06 AM
- Dre said...
Desperation at its finest
- June 19, 2008 at 8:38 AM
- themarksmith said...
Yeah, damn that whole feeding your family thing.
- June 19, 2008 at 9:55 AM
- Osmodious said...
Didn't they 'take a chance' on the Ponson monster once before? Wasn't that an absolute disaster (or close to it)?
What is the DEAL with the Yankees' prediliction for aged, overweight, ineffective, overpriced pitchers? I don't get it.
I mean...if we want an old fat guy on the mound, Boomer Wells is looking for a job (kind of). At least he has some, um, personality (and a perfect game, in Pinstripes).
- June 19, 2008 at 10:49 AM


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It's been POURING out for almost 2 days....
I'm starting to feel like this :)
The story behind the picture is that a church member dropped him off for the kids to enjoy on Monday. After our schoolwork was done the kids went out to "play" with the turtle:) We let him roam around the fenced in but he had ONE goal.... escape:) LOL
He did eventually escape. Contratory to common belief, turtles move fast when they are on a mission to escape:)
Anyone see our missing turtle??? The kids are missing Sweetie Pie.... LOL
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Ever feel like this???
Posted by Kelly B at 12:00 PM
2 comments:
- Bunch of Barrons said...
I used to LOVE catching turtles when we were little, you're right they can be fast! :) Merrick and I caught one on a walk one time, he loved it, too! :) Cute pictures!
- November 12, 2009 at 1:54 PM
- Drea said...
turtles kinda are weird to me lol, the necks! ew.. haha but they are cute 2 for some reason.
kinda like a bull dog... they are so ugly they are cute.
we are glad today is clearing up SOME.. its cold but atleast its not pouring.. the weekends suppose to be nice!!
- November 13, 2009 at 10:47 AM
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Wicked Nights
Book 1 in the Angels of the Dark series
Author: Gena Showalter
Publisher: HQN Books
Release date: 6/25/12
Author's website: Link
Leader of the most powerful army in the heavens, Zacharel has been deemed nearly too dangerous, too ruthless-and if he isn't careful, he'll lose his wings. But this warrior with a heart of ice will not be deterred from his missions, at any cost...until a vulnerable human tempts him with a carnal pleasure he's never known before.In Wicked Nights, the angel Zacharel meets a human that can see angels as well as demons. Annabelle Miller has been marked as a bride by a demon who turns her world upside down. When she meets Zacharel, she realizes that he is her way out of the institution that she has been placed in. Zacharel agrees to help her leave because he's never been around someone like her. He's used to people following his orders and Annabelle stands her ground against him.
Accused of a crime she did not commit, Annabelle Miller has spent four years in an institution for the criminally insane. Demons track her every move, and their king will stop at nothing to have her. Zacharel is her only hope for survival, but is the brutal angel with a touch as hot as hell her salvation-or her ultimate damnation?
There are plenty of action scenes as the angels find themselves battling against demons. They really aren't safe anywhere and there are times when it seems like the demons have the upper hand. But Zacharel and his angels do what they must to keep Annabelle and other humans safe. With the help of the awesome Lords of the Underworld, they battle back as hard as they can.
I'm giving Wicked Nights a rating of:
I was really looking forward to reading Wicked Nights and unfortunately I was somewhat disappointed in it. The overall excitement that I'm used to reading in Gena's books just didn't seem to be there for me. I also had a hard time connecting with Annabelle's character and Zacharel's as well. I was kind of shocked at this because I enjoyed his character when he made previous appearances in Gena's Lords of the Underworld books. However in his book, he seemed to lack some of the mystery that had surrounded his character and he just seemed a little bland to me. This won't deter me from reading the future books in this series. I felt that the secondary characters were very interesting and will add a spark of excitement to the series.


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A couple of housekeeping items...
For those of you referencing the toddler alphabet activity posts: Mr. Linky is still not working for us, but I've hardcoded the existing links into all those alphabet posts on the right. And if you've got your own posts about toddler activities related to a letter of the alphabet, please leave a comment on the appropriate post so we can find them! I'll add your post to the list.
And we have a winner for the Father's Day Photo Canvas Giveaway! Debbie at Suburb Sanity - Mr. Random.org picked you! So he's the one who should get the thank you note. After you receive that photo canvas of all four of your kids posed appropriately at the same time, of course.
But I'm thanking UPrinting.com for sponsoring this giveaway. They have been a great company to work with and have followed through wonderfully in every dealing I've had with them. So if you're looking for a Canvas Printing or a Poster Printing, by all means check them out!
Now I'm off to see if I can sleep in the spotlight. We've got tax dollars at work in our front yard right now. The highway (which runs through our property) is down to one lane for a stretch over the next 6 days. And the spotlight is shining brightly (into our front windows) to alert drivers that they'll need to slow or stop.
It's great for the cat - less worries about high-speed accidents out there. And it's kind of fascinating watching and musing about all the drivers stuck in their cars waiting for the oncoming vehicles to make it through. It makes me glad I'm not a flagger. And it's a little disconcerting to realize our property is (very) slowing eroding into the North Umpqua River - the reason for the roadwork.
Enough profundity. Have a blessed weekend!


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Comics, video games, what's missing? Giant monsters, namely from Godzilla. Nothing beats watching a Godzilla fight from one of the films. One thing I would have liked to see more of was other monsters battling each other. We have Mothra who battles King Ghidorah and Gigan, King Ceaser vs. Mechagodzilla, but it's usually Godzilla against someone. So here I'm doing a fan favorite match, two of the strongest characters of the Heisei era: DESTOROYAH and SPACEGODZILLA. This will be different than the rest, cause there is no dialogue. No more time for talking, let's get on with the latest addition of BATTLEZONE!
Destoroyah vs. SpaceGodzilla
THE PLACE: Monster Island. Let's head to the deeper part of the island, where two beasts are locked head-to-head, well, one of them anyway. One of, if not the most powerful monster ever, was breaking apart his latest kill, Kumonga. The over-sized spider had put up a decent fight, but Destoroyah hadn't needed to use even a bit of his strength. Suddenly, the ground shook. Destoroyah threw what was left of Kumonga futher into the island. He sensed some something, something powerful.Then out of the ground near him a giant crystal emerged. Then another one popped out. Destoroyah roared, he sensed a powerful presence approaching.
The ground shook once again.
In the sky, Destoroyah could see a rather large figure coming. It was levitating slowly to the ground. As it got closer, Destoroyah looked almost shocked. It couldn't be! He sensed an identical DNA pattern of that from his previous foe, Godzilla. There was something different about this one though. It had two large crystals sticking out of his shoulders. On its head it had a strange looking yellow thing, it looked a bit like a crown. Destoroyah sensed great power in the creature, even more so than his old foe.
SpaceGodzilla had arrived.
The Godzilla clone stood a great distance from Destoroyah. SpaceGodzilla wasn't one for long, drawn out fights. He wanted to end this quickly. He lifted his right hand. Destoroyah looked down. He was being lifted off the ground. However, in mere seconds, he was back on the ground. SpaceGodzilla roared in defiance. How could any creature be strong enough to resist his telekinesis? Destoroyah saw that SpaceGodzilla was annoyed and did a roar that sounded like a cackle. SpaceGodzilla knew he wasn't going to win with his special power, so he did the thing a Heisei monster would do: shoot a beam. Destoroyah was caught off guard by how powerful it was. It was similar to the spiral beam Godzilla used against him. Destoroyah also had a pretty power beam, and used it. SpaceGodzilla has high durability, but Destoroyah's micro-oxygen destroyer ray hurt. It stunned SpaceGodzilla, and Destoroyah took this as an opportunity. Despite being a hulking figure, Destoroyah could fly, pretty fast I'd have to add.
He flew toward SpaceGodzilla.
The latter, however, was but stunned for a few moments. He shot a beam at the coming Destoroyah. The latter didn't bother attempting to dodge, he took the beam and collided into SpaceGodzilla. Like sumo wrestlers, they struck the ground slowly. SpaceGodzilla mustered some telekinesis strong enough to throw Destoroyah off. They both stood up, inches apart. They roared, then went at it. SpaceGodzilla hated close range combat, but he had calculated a few different ways taking of Destoroyah by surprise. The latter banged into him. He purposely fell a little aback to get some space between. Suddenly, a large crystal sprung out of the ground to the right of Destoroyah. The monster looked, and then suddenly another crystal sprung out to his left. Beams shot out, stunning a surprised Destoroyah. SpaceGodzilla then shot a spiral blast at the two crystals, creating an explosion. He then struck Destoroyah with a beam, making a huge explosion.
Out of the explosion crawled out three aggregate Destoroyahs. SpaceGodzilla at first didn't know what to make of these things, but then roared with pleasure. He lifted up his right hand. The Destoroyahs were lifted up in the air and suspended. They no longer had the weight of the adult Destoroyah. SpaceGodzilla roared with pleasure again. He had outsmarted his opponent, as he had expected. In his arrogance of roaring with triumph, a sinle aggregate Destoroyah managed to evade his sight from the explosion area. The little thing went to the back of SpaceGodzilla. Its second mouth appeared and dove into SpaceGodzilla's tail. Green blood appeared from the wound. SpaceGodzilla roared in surprise and turned around. The other Destoroyahs were let go and they walked toward Godzilla's clone. The one behind him had climbed up his back. Now the other aggregates were climbing him.
SpaceGodzilla was getting overwhelmed. However, he still had a few tricks.
The crystals sticking out of his shoulders shot beams. It struck the Destoroyahs. SpaceGodzilla then used his telekinesis to hold them in the air. He held them together close, so he could marvel at how pitiful they were to him. He roared, but soon realized his fatal mistake. The aggregates were close enough to merge back into the adult Destoroyah. He hit the ground, creating a small tremor. He then unleashed his deadly x-ray katana. The slashes penetrated SpaceGodzilla's skin. Green blood covered him. Destoroyah then shot a direct hit of his micro-oxygen destroyer ray at SpaceGodzilla's right crystal. It shattered. SpaceGodzilla roared in great annoyance. But then that was stopped when Destoroyah grabbed his jaw. He was attempitng to break it. SpaceGodzilla wasn't going to let that happened. A beam shot out. Destoroyah attempted to move his head, but the blast struck a bit of it. breaking off a few pieces. He had already done his job however. He had a shot a very small blast of micro-oxygen destroyer ray into SpaceGodzilla.
SpaceGodzilla could feel something inside him. He roared once again before blowing up. He turned into motes of energy that drifted up into space. He would reform eventually. But Destoroyah had won this day, and longed for more carnage and destruction.
WINNER: Destoroyah
Yes, I went with Destoroyah on this. These two monsters are very impressive, and rank among the strongest. Godzilla himself wasn't able to beat them without outside help. I think Destoroyah would win, cause I just don't see him going down. Without ice, it'd be pretty much impossible to stop him. It'd be a very close fight.
NEXT WEEK: The Man of Steel battles a Super Saiyan.


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Planlos, just to rain on your parade a little more.... I've got that exact same drill press but with a Busy Bee sticker. Early on I tried to do what you are intending. I even modified the drill press to make it more stable. I added pressure locking screws to lock the column so it wouldn't rattle around. I also make up a way to lock MT2 end mill holders in the stock quill.
But it was all for naught.... it shook, rattled, squealed, danced and just about any other description for "vibration" you can imagine. About the only thing it was good for was paper thin milling of aluminium and for making mortises in wood. In fact making mortises in wood is where it shone. I did this long before I got a mill and never did mill anything else with it other than the wood mortising on a couple of projects.
Now you suggested making a new quill shaft. But the thing is that's where the problem lays. It's simply not large enough and the bearings will not allow you to make it larger. Between that and the small ram diameter you're hooped. It simply is what it is and that's a decent enough drill press.
If you want to use one for something your better bet would be to turn it sideways and use it as a wood lathe along with some made up options for a tail stock and movable tool rest. I'd modify the arm for the table into the tail stock with a fixed center. To tension the wood between head and tail use the drill press ram and lock the ram.For this sort of use it would be pretty darn good.


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By Angel Diaz, Complex Sports
Anthony "Spice" Adams has a lot of time on his hands.
The current free agent and former DL for the San Francisco 49ers and the Chicago Bears hasn't been picked up yet, so he decided to tryout for the 2016 U.S. Men's Olympic Gymnastics Team.
Watch the video above as he tries his hand at various forms of gymnastics such as, the Vault, Parallel Bars, Pommel Horse, the Rings and Rhythmic gymnastics (which was brilliant, by the way).
Someone sign this man asap! A guy this funny is great for the locker room.
[via BlackSportsOnline]
NFL Week 4 - 9/30/12


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"For example, if you take an infinite number of moments, number them all as moment one, moment two, etc., and subtract all the even-numbered moments, you have an equation where "infinity minus infinity equals infinity". If you then take the same infinity of numbered moments, and subtract only the moments numbered higher than 3, then you have the equation "infinity minus infinity equals 3". If you take the same numbered set of moments and subtract the entire set, you have an equation that says "infinity minus infinity is zero". You can actually get any answer you want for the equation "infinity minus infinity" depending upon how you word the equation! This shows that infinity is just an idea in your mind, not something that exists in reality. David Hilbert, perhaps the greatest mathematician of the 20th century states, "The infinite is nowhere to be found in reality. It neither exists in nature nor provides a legitimate basis for rational thought. The role that remains for the infinite to play is solely that of an idea." – http://www.allaboutscience.org/cosmological-arguments.htm
Infinity does exist, I'd say. If I write '10', and keep adding zeroes to its right, I can continue and never stop. Until I die. Someone else can continue and never stop until they die. And so on. It can continue infinitely. The only problem is, it's not feasible. It's beyond me. Or anyone alive. Infinity does exist. But it's incomprehensible to a human mind. It's too vast for our small heads. We cannot hold infinity even in our imagination. Neither infinitely small nor infinitely large.
The above equations are absurd. We are calling all the numbers beyond us as infinity there, and so we end up with such brilliant-looking and awe-inspiring equations. If I can comprehend all the numbers, I can get proper numbers for each of the above equations. They all will be different numbers. But I choose to call all the huuuuuuuuuuuuuuu(infinite 'u's)ge numbers 'infinite. And conclude that there's no infinity. Of course there is not. If I can keep counting even after I die, there is no infinity. Sure, it's in my mind.


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I haven't done much in this blog in the past days because I have found out that I was polluting it too much with posts on Java stuff - it happened that I entered in a project where my C++ expertise is not useful, and I have to get focused on Java instead. I wondered if it wasn't the case of split the blog, keeping This Thread mainly for C++ (and something more) and moving all the Java related stuff somewhere else.
Well, I did it. And Biting code is its name.


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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Your Sunday Poem
The Archivist
I found him, as they said I would, walled-up
by tree-calf and buckram.
Anglepoise, lectern, stool,
stylus, dividers . . . He crouched
in a funnel of ivory light;
I heard the creak of vellum,
then my own breathing, then his – a rich
cackle of tar rising
in either lung. He sifted the arcane,
part-chanted, part-sung –
dates and times as usual, the usual rhymes
but also the way a name might sometimes become divisible by number.
'Your children admire you. Worse than that,
your wives kept back
all the old stuff you thought you'd thrown away.
Your parents loved you in their secret selves.
Because you hated them they lean
towards you to apologize.' He clicked
his tongue: 'There's little more to learn, but why
did you come to me? You could have got
this much and more from any girl
with a pack of cards, a gift-
shop crystal and a borrowed shawl.'
As he bent back to trawl
the page, I heard a rustle like something
stirring a fall of leaves, and a worm
came out of his head, a thin
filament, breaking the skin
of the waxy crescent
just behind his ear, nosing the air
for the hint of burning
back along the stack.
'You have wasted your life.
I can't give news of the journey
you want to undertake,
but everything here says pointless,
ill-advised; look for yourself . . .' He was cupping
a mirror; I saw my image flow
from the glass to the sieve of his fingers.
He spread his hands: 'What else . . .?
What else do you want to know?'
4 comments:
- franc4 said...
this ain't a poem, but thought your readers might get a kick out of it.
Subject: History 101: Liberals Conservatives
This is very good and explains the differences between liberals and conservatives in an understandable way! :)
History 101
For those that don't know about history...... Here is a condensed version:
Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.
The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:
1. Liberals
2. Conservatives
Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed.
Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement.
Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Q's and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement...
Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as girlie-men. Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided.
Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.
Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare. Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't fair to make the pitcher also bat.
Conservatives drink domestic beer, mostly Bud.. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, athletes, members of the military, airline pilots and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.
Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America. They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing.
Here ends today's lesson in world history:
It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it.
A Conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers and to more liberals just to tick them off.
And there you have it. Let your next action reveal your true self.
- 8:32 AM, October 25, 2009
- Churadogs said...
Hmm, I would suggest that a proper response by intelligent, educated "liberals" and educated intelligent "conservatives" might well be Embarassed Silence at a public display (anonymous, of course, because who would put their real name to this sort of silly internet chain letter) of immature ignoranance disguised as "humor," and a ferverent hope that the poster doesn't actually believe this stuff, because if he he/she did, well, Oh, Dear, what can one say?
- 7:39 AM, October 26, 2009
- franc4 said...
I'd say, you get it.....it's just what you politely called "immature ignorance", but then consider the mentality of some of your "commentors".
- 6:13 PM, October 27, 2009
- Churadogs said...
Ah, yes. Ah, well . . .Oh Dear . . . sigh.
- 5:43 AM, October 28, 2009


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Oh my ... it has been over a year since I got to my poor blog, Cathy's LOGS.
Updates ...
- The household has grown from 2 to 4 as of Feb 2006. 2 furry friends have joined us, Astro and Cosmo, extraordinary basenji dogs! Astro and Cosmo are nearly 1 year and 4 months old now.
- Work is closing down the SJ facility and moving the work to Illinois. As a result, I'm out of a job as of June 29th. If you ask me how I am, I'm likely to bore you with intense details of how much I hate job searching.
- Consumer Report -- We got a brand new 2007 sage (green) colored Toyota Prius in October and a big old King Sized bed in February. Both items are quite luxerious. I am enjoying being able to drive in the car pool lane.
- I have cut down my hiking from once a week to maybe once a month. Instead I do more dog walking, working, or movie watching. I want to get back to hiking but need to decide what to do with the dogs (take them with us on the hike, put them in the pet hotel, find a pet sitter, etc. etc.).
- C. has added another volunteer job to her list. She now volunteers at Sally Leibers office once a week for an hour or two. She also spends lots of time at the dog park with Astro and Cosmo much to their delight.
- My weight is 178 lbs. I want to get back in better physical condition and lose 30+ lbs at a nice slow rate. However ... I seem to be having difficulty find the motivation to do this. I continue to hover around the high 170s. Oh well.
I just put money in the soda machine looking forward to a Mountain Dew and instead a diet iced green tea came out. This is a decided dissappointment when you are looking for a Mtn. Dew.
Cosmo chewed up my cell phone last night. It fell out of my pocket on the couch unbeknownst to me and he found it later and had a chewfest. The front little screen with a nice clock time was punctured but the inside screen still works and the phone works. It just has loads of teeth marks on it. We got insurance on our phones with just this kind of event in mind. Perhaps I swing by the cell phone store after work and see if they can replace it with a new one.


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** College football rivalries can be a lot of fun and certainly very interesting. USC & Notre Dame have a long-standing feud, but it isn't as intense as some of today's battles. One year, Notre Dame showed up for the game wearing gold helmets. At the Army-Navy game, the two corps would try to out-cheer each other. Syracuse-PennState was always very heated, but nothing like Auburn vs. Alabama.
Both schools are in the same state and are only about 150 miles apart. Close enough that there are many families in the state where one spouse went to Auburn, the other to Alabama. We've seen pictures of houses decorated Orange & Blue (Auburn) on one side, Crimson (Ala.) on the other. One Rabid (and I mean RABID) Alabama fan actually poisoned two iconic Oak Trees at Toomers Corner in Auburn. The perpetrator has been arrested, but I'll bet Auburn fans won't be satisfied until the punishment fits the crime.
So this game - called The Iron Bowl - goes on about 6:00 P.M. tonight.
** Up north, another civil war is taking place. Ohio State is in Ann Arbor, MI, to play Michigan. This little get-together has it's die-hard fans, too. A car salesman in Ann Arbor is offering free cars if Michigan shuts out Ohio State, while the governor of Ohio has issued a proclamation, forbidding the use of the letter 'M' on Saturday. This one's being played at noon.
** So lets all get ready for "Saturday Bloody Saturday"
Florida vs Florida State (Seminoles vs 'Gators in the "Non-PC Bowl")
Duke vs North Carolina (This is more heated during basketball season)
UCLA vs USC (Can this be called the "Initials Bowl?)
Baylor vs TCU (I think the TCU Horned Frogs were last in the team nickname line)
** We know athletes are always trying to get an edge on their opponents, even to stretching the rules when they can, but now coaches are doing it too.
-- Steeler coach Mike Timlin stood ON THE FIELD during a runback against Baltimore, impeding the path of the Ravens runner, which may have prevented him from scoring. No call from the refs and Timlin just grinned. Nobody from Baltimore thought it was funny.
-- In a game against the Lakers, Brooklyn Nets coach found a way to stop the game to set up a shot, even though they had no time outs left. He "accidentally" spilled a drink onto the court, forcing the refs to stop the game while it was being cleaned up. Later, Jason Kidd explained that in the "...heat of the moment, his palms were sweaty." Nobody could keep from laughing at that excuse.
** On the baseball front, A-Rod keeps adding to his lawsuit against MLB, the latest charging Selig for not testifying at his hearing. There is a rumor, unverified, that A-Rod's next lawsuit is against Bud Selig personally for having a "juvenile nickname."
Congratulations to Vin Scully who just celebrated his 86th birthday. Probably the best sportscaster ever!
"Georgia Southern beat Florida without completing a pass. That's right, no passes. Which reminds me: Kobe Bryant said he's almost ready to play." -- RJ Currie
" Dennis Rodman has a new line of signature vodka: "One shot and you want a nose ring. Two shots and you're flying to North Korea." -- Greg Cote
"A celebratory balloon released during a Nebraska football game eventually landed in Ludington State Park in Michigan — 565 miles away." -- Dwight Perry
Alert statisticians immediately declared it the longest touchdown in Husker history.
" Green Bay Packers cornerback Tramon Williams shoved a referee. That's a new low - you're playing the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving and you end up looking like the bad guy" -- Brad Dickson
"Denver blew a 24-0 half-time lead and lost to the Patriots in November's second-largest collapse. The largest was Heidi Montag having her F-cup implants removed." -- RJ Currie
"There were something like five 5K runs in the Omaha area on Thanksgiving Day. Well, four 5K runs. The last one was a group of people chasing a turkey" -- Brad Dickson
"The Bengals-Chargers game in San Diego will be the first NFL blackout this year. Yeah, that's the way to raise interest in a team that can't sell out its games – make sure local fans can't watch." -- Janice Hough
"A Target store in Jacksonville is giving away free Jaguars gear. A spokesperson said, What else can we to do with all this stuff that's been returned?" -- TC Chong
"At Walmarts around the country, fights reportedly were breaking out on Black Friday. The line continues to blur between holiday shopping and a WWE cage match." -- Brad Dickson


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Wayne Mills arrives in the UK next week and will start his tour with a big bang, in London, on Bonfire Night!
The dates of the Regional Heats and the National Final, plus contacts, are as follows:
Monday 5th November: London: firstname.lastname@example.com [Sue]
Tuesday 6th November: Essex: firstname.lastname@example.com [Roslyn]
Wednesday 7th November: Norfolk: firstname.lastname@example.com
Thursday 8th November: Coventry: email@example.com
Friday 9th November: Yorkshire: firstname.lastname@example.com
Monday 12th November: Central England: firstname.lastname@example.com [Sue]
Tuesday 13th November: Oxford: firstname.lastname@example.com -
email@example.com - firstname.lastname@example.com
Wednesday 14th November: Portsmouth: Liz Bridge :
Thursday 15th November: Cardiff: email@example.com
Friday 16th November: Cornwall: firstname.lastname@example.com
Tuesday 20th November: Bolton: email@example.com
Wednesday 21st November: Belfast: firstname.lastname@example.com [Tanja
Thursday 22nd November: W Scotland: firstname.lastname@example.com-
Friday 23rd November: E Scotland: firstname.lastname@example.com [Duncan Wright]
Monday 26th November: North East:email@example.com
Monday 3rd December: Final: Seven Stories, The Centre for Children's Books, Newcastle upon Tyne:
Wayne will add to the blog after each Regional Heat and give the names of the winners, etc.
Tuesday, 30 October 2007
The UK Kids' Lit Quiz 2007: Dates of Heats
Posted by Kids' Lit Quiz at 06:15
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- Kids' Lit Quiz said...
Only a few days to go now before the 2007 KLQ Heats are underway!
Wayne left New Zealand today and will arrive at Heathrow on Friday morning. After spending a happy week-end visiting his new baby Granddaughter
he will be putting on his Top Hat and asking questions at the London Heat.
- 1 November 2007 at 11:11
- Kids' Lit Quiz said...
Wayne has now arrived safely in the UK
- 2 November 2007 at 23:03
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Sunday, May 13, 2007
Open Late on Weeknights. Marin Brewing Company is one of the few restaurants open late on weeknight in Marin County (besides places like McDonald's or Denny's). Handy information if you are coming home after a very late project at work, or just off a plane from another time zone and your tummy's rumbling. Marin Brewing Company is open until midnight on weekdays, and 1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights.
Actually, I enjoyed lunch here. It has been at least a couple years since I've been here, and I found they still had my favorite grilled chicken tostada gonzora on the menu. It's a kind of Mexican-style chopped salad with bits of tomato, grilled chicken, red onion and flavorful crisp lettuce all tossed together with a topping of cheddar and side of sour cream.
Happy Mother's Day, and I hope you all are enjoying it with her!
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Collected a bag full of Conrad bears, wedding favours given at friends' lunch reception last month. Apparently not everyone's a bear lover, so I brought home those abandoned ones. This is one bear sitting on top of the bear tower.
Monday, February 1, 2010
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- Anonymous said...
i didn't know you love bear that much. that's a lot of bears! cool dof. =)
- February 2, 2010 at 12:59 PM
- pleasantinterlude said...
haha.. I'm not that into bears.. but my friends painstakingly collected those abandoned bears from neighboring table, so who am I to refuse?
- February 2, 2010 at 8:42 PM
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Last night I ended up at The Bowery Poetry Club for their open mic night..I used to go to the one at the St. Marks Underground theatre thingy but it shut down..this one is basically all the same people..I had a fun time heckling and took a lot of pics..and got pretty drunk. Yup. First, we have Rob Shapiro who was pretty funny..He has a kinda well known twin brother Rick who does comedy as well. Wasn't there like some Gallagher scandal where Gallagher's brother took over and they didn't tell anyone or something? Twins are weird-they freak me out. Like doublemint gum.
Then the host..Victor I think? (who was very funny..had a contest where you put the weirdest thing you can text a girl who he had gone on a date with a few days before in a hat and he would read them aloud and choose a winner and text the weird message to her..The winners got to chug-a-lug some beer..My entry was something along the lines of, "Had a great time with your vag last night..I'm gonna say those 3 small words you've been dying to hear..FULL BLOWN AIDS!" I didn't win but the bartender and performer Touching You liked my entry enough to keep chanting "Full Blown Aids" randomly..That was pretty neat.
I got a pic of Victor hosting, one of some weird shit on the walls, the chug-a-lug contest, my friend Ilya with a VERY strange guy who later sang "Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer..This was the fault of awesome sound guy Ed, my friend who encouraged me to attend the open mic.
I got some pics of Touching You singing his hit song, "Subjugate your Tits" while he sat on the bar and everyone threw stuff at him. That was pretty cool..Then I got the weird guy doing MC Hammer..and the No Sale register..
I had a fun time and will most likely return..Bowery Poetry Club..monday nights Open Mic at 10:00pm..Be there!


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We all know that it has been a fantastic year for Apple. However a new UK poll from Harris Interactive suggests that Apple's position as the king of cool gadgets might be under threat as young consumers and early adopters take another look at other brands.
The figures highlight that the iPad is clearly the number one tablet with a massive 6:1 ratio lead over second placed Samsung. Apple can also boast the top smartphone of 2012 with the iPhone 5 selected by 39%, a nine point lead over Samsung's high profile successful Galaxy S3.
However if you look at the figures among early adopters – the people who buy gadgets first and set the trends – the gap is narrowing. Apple's lead over Samsung in tablets is reduced from a 6:1 ratio among all consumers to 3:1 among early adopters with those influencers eyeing up devices from Samsung, Amazon and others. Apparently the gap between the two brands is even smaller among 16-24 year olds.
Meanwhile the next generation iPhone is the most anticipated smartphone release, but its lead over Samsung is down to just 5%. And, most interesting of all, 25% of current iPhone users are anticipating the release of other smartphones more. And the list of the devices they are looking at includes new phones from Blackberry and Nokia – companies who once dominated the market but have hit hard times lately. Could it be that consumers are missing their old brands? It should be noted though that the research was completed a few weeks after Nokia announced its new Lumia 920 to the world.
As for the iPad Mini, the device entered a market segment that it not only crowded but features some high profile devices from well established aspirational brands.
Ultimately you can make of the report, which you can see in more detail here, what you will. Apple is clearly going to be the dominant force in consumer electronics in the UK for the foreseeable future. However the huge lead it created in the tablet and smartphone markets is likely to disappear. It is not a new problem for Apple though. For a while in the late 90s Apple's iMac was a massive player in the PC market. However after a few years and a few iterations, consumers got bored of the product and began to spend money on new brands and new formats.
The gauntlet has been thrown down to Apple now to create something truly unique and innovative once again. Our money is on Apple TV.
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Spitsters – lesbian spit swapping videos: Big-tittied Jezebel and Kodi really love large knockers. Not just on their bodies but on the body of the girl they're sucking spit off of! See some serious spit swapping combines with big breast worshipping!
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Allison and Tangent strips naked and enjoys some nasty spit swapping
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Wednesday, thanks to a bit of a glitch in the agenda, I sat in the Dallas City Council meeting for almost seven hours. Quite an experience to take in almost all of the entire meeting! My hat is off to our mayor and our council members for their willingness to do so for the common good.
During the afternoon session, the meeting room filled with very well-dressed people, well over 100 of them. When their time on the agenda came, it became very clear that the group was divided between those who favored the development of a luxury hotel/condo project down along the Katy Trail and those who were against it.
The testimony was interesting. The project fairly amazing. The conversation among council members very civil. The project was approved unanimously over the judgment of the City Planning Commission.
When our business was completed (the council voted to award our citywalk project $1.5 million in bond funds for homeless housing), I decided to drop in on The Bridge, our new homeless assistance center Downtown. I walked in and began roaming around asking folks how they liked the new facility.
Lots of honest conversation ensued. There are some bugs in the new building and the staff is working hard to resolve them. One fellow told me he believed the whole project was to provide a place for the homeless to be hidden from the rest of Dallas. Almost everyone I spoke with was grateful for the place.
The overriding impression I received was that of an extremely welcoming place.
The numbers seem to back up my impression. The Bridge is seeing about 1,000 people a day! I expect that is about 50% more than anyone planned for. But, that brings me back to that welcoming thing.
The place could just as easily have been named "The Oasis," because that is what it feels like to lots of people who are coming there. Just a place to sit down, to rest, to regain one's legs, to feel as if someone really cares. . .unconditionally. Clearly, The Bridge is not a place of condemnation, but a place of hope and friendship.
Not surprisingly, I ran into a number of men that I knew, guys who had passed through my world at CDM. Felt like a reunion!
As I drove away, I couldn't help contrast the two worlds I'd experienced in just a few hours. Two very, very different worlds. Two worlds that are drifting apart quickly, as the economic gap between the two widens daily.
The gap is sad to me. The people aren't all that different, though they may all think they are. But, they aren't.
Discovering beauty in both worlds is the challenge. Putting an end to the divide, slowing the division, the call.
And then, there is the small matter of justice, human dignity and simply loving "Lazarus."
Monday, June 02, 2008
The gap
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- Adam Gonnerman said...
The gap is enormous in Brazil, where I served and hope to serve again as a missionary. The amazing thing to see, though, were the mansions in Rio de Janeiro surrounded by favela (slums). Right up against the shiny white walls of mansions there were shanties. Next door but worlds apart. Remarkable.
- Monday, June 2, 2008 at 3:48:00 PM CDT
- Jeremy Gregg said...
The Dallas Morning News cited this blog on their blog here:
- Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 2:27:00 PM CDT
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Why am I stating all of this? Because this will have a bearing on my interpretation of the learnings from this edc mooc, and the way in which I present my artefact for assessment.
The questions that are beginning to form themselves in my mind are around the application of technology to work places, particularly within the `traditional' apprenticed trades and what this means for jobs, apprenticeships and workplace learning.
How much and how fast are our industrial workplaces changing? Can training keep up with the pace of change of technology at work?
Will technology save us?
It's 3 years since I first saw the Patti Mae MIT lab sixth sense presentation on TED http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html In those 3 years, our smart phone technology has allowed us to seamlessly integrate internet capability into every aspect of our lives. Yes we can use Qreader to scan digital barcodes and get product information, yes we can quickly check our flight details, however it is still a device separate from our bodies. Patti's teams research seems to suggest a deeper integration. I think we may well be on the edge of an integrated smartphone / sixth sense technology. (Just read media release about Google Glasses http://www.google.com/glass/start/how-to-get-one/ ).
Since 2009 there have been massive advances in bio-tech. Will the speed of research into bionic eye development, DNA memory storage and patenting of DNA strands, 3D human cell/organ printing challenge our humanity? What will this mean for the workplace? What will this mean for the possibility of thought control? What will it mean for legal safeguards? Will the right to independence of mind become enshrined in law?
Would the loss of independence of mind / thought be the point at which we decide we are no longer human? If you control someone's every thought, are they human?
Has my thinking about `Being Human' changed?
I still think that there are innate qualities to being human. The first quality is that of The Seeker. The restless need to explore, to know, to find out. Not every human exhibits this quality strongly, but I believe we all have it and I believe that it is not the same drive as that which drives other animals to seek better food. The second quality that we seem to have is that of needing to believe that there is some being greater than ourselves, and that we have a relationship with this being(s). Stephen Fuller presents evidence of this in his `Intelligent Design' theories. In essence he believes that the hand of god is visible through science.
Is it possible to be spiritual without being religious?
After watching the Google Books story (Storyville BBC, thanks Andy Miller) I thought that yes, the other thing that really defines us as humans is greed. The opposing force to seeking and having a spiritual belief is that of greed. This too appears to be primarily a human quality.
Is there a point at which we are no longer human?
This depends on whether we define being human as physical, intellectual or spiritual. Is the quality of being a seeker, simply an emotional reaction driven by the endocrine system, or is it part of our spirituality? Is the quality of greed purely driven by instinct to hoard, control and secure resources for one's own survival, or is it a product of warped spiritual belief that one had the right to control others & benefit from them? (I am the son of god!)
I am choosing to define being human as a spiritual quality in which humans collectively believe that they have some kind of relationship to a higher order. Unfortunately I keep thinking of `wild' children, those rare occurrences when human children have been found raised by wolves etc., and this ruins my definition.
So this then tells me that the notion of Being Human is one that has been constructed by our developed cultures and that it is not a natural occurrence.
It then follows that if `Being Human' is a cultural construct, we will be able to remain human, no matter what we do to ourselves as we will simply modify our cultures to cope with it.
Do I now believe in a utopian vision of the future or a dystopian vision?
Neither, I believe that we hold the power to create the future, but that it is those human qualities of greed that have the potential to create a dystopian future and of seeking that have the potential to create the utopian future. Again utopia and dystopia are cultural constructs, and have been opposing forces throughout known history.
Will my grandchildren's education be better than mine, worse than mine, or just different from mine?
The Seeker drives us to learn, the Greed drives us to control others. Education is a political act. It can be used to control or to free people. This MOOC experiment is tipping the scales towards the Seeker. I'm pretty sure it will get reined in by the Greed fairly soon. (just look at Google Books)
I know that most of the discussion about moocs in higher education circles, revolves around the question of `how can we make it pay?' and `we can control it by with-holding the issue of certification unless there is payment'. This will become the limiting factor for moocs.
Technology will improve the access to information and the ability to share, collaborate, communicate and create as we learn. It will not change the instinctive need to seek, to find passion in what we do and learn, to make meaning of our world. Culture is the change agent for those aspects.
What does Being Human mean for Education?
The Seeker strives to find enlightenment and this often leads to the notion of `Greater Good', in this instance that education is for the `Greater Good' of the people. The principles of Instructional Design encourage us to `engage the learner', to elicit interest and stimulate enquiry, analysis and evaluation of information. The Seeker uses education to empower all humans. The Greed utilises education as dogma to enslave, restrict free thought, refine automated response and disempower others.
The need for a sense of spiritual connection can be used to activate the seeker and pique their interest.
What do the new technologies that challenge the current culture of Being Human mean for Education?
I think the biggest influencers of the new technologies will be Memory technologies and communication technologies. The body altering & enhancing technologies are less likely to affect learning capabilities. The most extreme future I can think of, (& I know this has been proposed in science fiction) for education is that we will have memory encoded DNA implanted in us at a young age, that will hold all knowledge that we need to access, and learning will be confined to learning how to recall, catalogue, analyse & evaluate the information at any given time, in any given situation. Learning will be all about problem solving, action planning and implementation. Our DNA memory will KNOW that 1+1 = 2, but will it know what to do about it?
In a Utopian vision of education, knowledge will be free, learning how to apply it will come from the ability to use enhanced communication technologies to seek collaboration and cooperation on all learning problems.
What have I learnt over the past 4 weeks?
That the human is (still) a social animal
Being human is still a topic of discussion
If you can imagine it, it can be created, (eventually)
There appears to be almost universal belief that Total Social Control = Dystopia, however I could also ask "is this just ratbag social leftist university environment & propaganda?"
Freedom of thought = Utopia, (as above)
Eugenics is still alive and well, and
The relentless advance of technology continues to tempt people to believe that they can use it to create their own version of the perfect world
The eugenics debate goes back to the `us & them' culture.


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The new compromise immigration bill is drawing lots of flak, not least from conservatives who object to granting amnesty to millions of so-called illegal aliens in the country. (I prefer to think of them as independent migrants.) Here I have to agree with the conservatives. The illegals shouldn't be granted amnesty. Amnesty connotes forgiveness for doing something wrong — and they have done nothing wrong. Indeed, the government should be asking forgiveness from them.The of my op-ed, "Immigration Policy Reveals What We Are," is at The Future of Freedom Foundation website.
Saturday, May 26, 2007
More on Immigration
Posted by Sheldon Richman at 6:53 AM
Labels: immigration, property rights, the state
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