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Over the past two weeks, David Bernstein has been bringing VC readers some of the story about the staging and posing of photos of supposed "civil defense workers" and dead children at Qana, Lebanon. My media column today for the Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post also looks at the issue, and reports some of the evidence, brought forward by the blogosphere in the last two weeks, about the many faked, dishonest, or staged photos from the war in Lebanon.
Conclusion: "Notwithstanding the media critics, Hezbollah has, in the war for Western public opinion, sometimes succeeded in subverting Western news organizations into organs of its own propaganda. At Qana at least, it appears that the media may have been complicit in the production of controlled, staged images using dead children as props, which were falsely presented to the public as authentic, spontaneous photos of a rescue operation."
Some commenters on Prof. Bernstein's posts have raised the argument "who cares about staging; all the matter is that the Israelis killed the children." That argument is wrong on two levels: first it is a gross violation of journalistic ethics to present a posed/staged photo as if it represented spontaneous activity; there is little doubt, at this point, that the media at Qana perpetrated this violation, and have been attempting to cover it up ever since.
Second, we don't really know how/why the children died. Some bloggers have suggested that they were hauled into the scene for the rescue. The Lebanese newsmagazine Libanoscopie quotes a source that Hezbollah placed handicapped children and a rocket launcher in the same building, hoping that the children would be killed, and that the media would use the incident against Israel.
We do know, as my article details, that the media were forbidden to examine or inspect the building where the children were allegedly killed; A.P. spokeswoman Linda Wagner, in response to a question from me, did not deny this fact, but instead sidestepped the question.
The question of why the western media at Qana are passing off Hezbollah propaganda as the truth is a question which I leave to other analysts; I suspect that there are several answers, not just one explanation.
Over the past two weeks, David Bernstein has been bringing VC readers some of the story about the staging and posing of photos of supposed "civil defense workers" and dead children at Qana, Lebanon. My media column today for the Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post also looks at the issue, and reports some of the evidence, brought forward by the blogosphere in the last two weeks, about the many faked, dishonest, or staged photos from the war in Lebanon.
So what are we to do? Sigh at the hopelessly Pliestocene nature of our fellow citizens? My tack is to do my bit for rationalism, constantly poking at irrationalism and emotionalism on both sides, hoping to shame people into taking a more mature approach to these problems. It's the best that can be done, I fear. I would suggest that you could help by rising above the emotionalism and concentrating on the facts rather than the emotions.
I disagree with you that the staging is somehow more important than the deaths depicted by the photos, which is the point of the criticism "the child is still dead." I think some posters are reacting to Professor Bernstein's posts by noting that he is more outraged by "staging" of photos than by the deaths depicted therein. I hope we can all agree that one child's death is a worse tragedy than a photographer's breach of his ethics, or the Western media's use of such photos.
Try being skeptical of Hezbollah claims and the journalists that get used by them and maybe people will take you seriously. You claim impartiality - but you only express skepticism against claims by Israel and its supporters... strange.
Just a point, let me refer you again to that article someone else posted that you parroted around as fact (I believe it was the one in teh Irish Times) - depite the fact that two seconds of analysis and criticism exposed it as ignorant at best. The second something was presented that was anti-Israel your "strong" sense of analysis and criticism went AWOL, how very strange.
But it does seem odd for a blog that is not directly devoted to analyzing the media to spend so much effort on this question, rather than other issues related to the fighting. Israeli civilians are being killed too, and they're not getting much play on this or other blogs I've read.
I wonder if it's really a sort of economic issue. The blogs are in a sort of competition with the mass media (and to some degree each other). Hence, there may be a structural internal incentive for blog journalists to attack their mass media competition (and vice versa, of course).
I don't really think there is anything wrong with trying to get sympathy for civilians killed by Zionist terrorists.
You need to go read this, perhaps then you'll understand how it's people like you that get MORE civilians killed in the long run. Please do read it and give it some careful thought.
If there is a bombing, and one side pretends -- through staged photos or otherwise -- that more people or different people (including but not limited to children) were killed or harmed than really were, that's an outrageous fraud. If the bodies shown were killed/injured somewhere else or by something else, that should be exposed and denounced.
If, on the other hand, a bombing (on either side) kills children, and somebody "stages" a photo by having an ambulance or other vehicle that really took the body away redo that action just a bit later, as if the reporter had been there the first time . . . That's not ideal but it doesn't strike me as a big deal because it's not creating a false impression of what happened in any significant way.
Now, folks supporting Israel can still (I believe rightly) argue that even if their attacks kill some innocents, there is a moral distinction between Israeli acts and those of Hezbollah. But the moral distinction is clearer if Israel and its supporters stress that such deaths were accidental and highly regrettable. The moral distinction is less clear, I believe, if our major reaction to pictures of dead children is to insist that it's outrageous that the photo showed what actually happened 10-20 minutes ago in a recreated scene.
Going off of memory, but I'm sure a few of the other battle hardened vets remember, it was the article by the self-described military expert at the Irish Times who claimed that rockets couldn't be fired from buildings.
Also, I seem to remember you parroting around the article from the former NYTimes writer who is now an anti-Isreali lunatic when he argued that Israel purposefully targets civilians and that Hezbollah doesn't hide within civilians. I could be wrong on this last one, but I'm pretty sure your "critical thinking" went out the window with this one as well.
I'm sure others can back me up on this as well.
The point is that criticial thinking and even cynicism can be good. However, when you apply them to the statement's of only one side, its not "rationalism", its complete bias.
I do by the way confess I am biased - but it irks others and myself when you claim the mantle of neutrality. Your statements and arguments betray you.
I've seen him in all the controversial images and videos revealed, thus far, and, I've stood toe-to-toe with men, just like him, who exhibit the same range of emotion when in the presence of, or inflicting horific death.
This was on projects in Syria and Algeria, where circumstances rendered them literally impotent, unless I was stupid enough to push them too far (I pushed, but, only 'so far'). We had discussions of the things they'd done in Battle, when battle was not what they were describing.
They bragged about killing children, and, the ways they killed them. The purpose was to illicit a single spark of fear in my eyes or bearing. I wasn't impressed. One on one, with no weapons at hand (except hands), I've never met one that scared me; disgusted me, turned my stomach, but, not scared, no matter how big he was. I've played their games, and, played games with their minds. Invariably, their only response is confusion.
They're brainwashed idiots who don't know how to react to someone who doesn't respond in the way they're taught to expect.
This man, Greenhat, is a cold blooded killer, and, it would not surprise me to learn that he deliberately killed those children as propaganda props (the visible trauma does not match the descibed cause of death). I'd like to be the one who killed him, just as much as I would have liked to kill the ones described above...some people just need killin'.
And, I run through the same emotional rollercoaster when confronted by any brainwashed idiot, especially Anti-semitic left wing Liberal idiots that spout programmed hatred (best described as "Libberish," or, Limousine Liberal gibberish).
To the 'person' who wrote the first post (won't grant him the courtesy of using his 'chosen' screen name): I suppose you believe that Hizb'allah raining Rockets on innocent Civilians is OK. In case you hadn't noticed, they're not 'fighting' the IDF, they're fighting civilians, on both sides. In a parlance you probably won't understand, "They're eating their own," as well.
Gordon Arthur DeSpain
(ex-King of the Punching Bag, at Gilley's, one of the real, original "Urban Cowboys"...trained in most weapons, and, most forms of combat)
Let's do this again for you people. By the numbers, because I have No patience, and no time.
Here's a report from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs listing Hezbollah attacks since 2000.
And here's another article of the events prior to the 'unprovoked' Hezbollah attack.
And Tom952, follow the link above.
On another note, the Bookish-Nebbish/Cracker-illiterate mix on this site is fascinating. Now I understand the philosophical underpinnings of modern intellectual conservatism. It's the logic that the entire working class is as unintelligent as your fan base.
You have contempt for the people who listen to you. Straussian lite.
Sorry that we don't measure up to your intellectual standards. Perhaps you're just in the wrong neighborhood. We peasants are blessed that you deign to take a few moments of your precious time to educate us with links to your favorite foreign policy organization. And I won't hold it against them that they made a ridiculous error in their second paragraph. See if you can spot it.
It is also shocking to me the blatant anti-semitism prevalent on this thread. Did Israel deserve to have 2 captured and 8 killed? This is more of a hate site than LGF as far as I can tell. (Full disclosure...I occasionally read their comment sections...I do not post there).
But what I don't appreciate is that these photos are "sold" as if they were reporting reality, whereas, it appears that a great number of those in Lebanon were staged by Hezzbollah, complete with bodies of kids used as props, empty ambulances lined up to rush off with sirens blaring, etc.
When journalists stoop to using staged photographs from staged photo-ops, the journalists are no more than propogandists for the party staging the shots. They are no longer reporting "news", but rather, what they would like the news to be.
Zombietimes has a good summary of the type of fraud that has gone one with this Israeli incursion.
July 13
Israeli planes strike Beirut for the first time, an escalation of the crisis that prompts fears of war with Syria. The US calls for restraint but reiterates Israel's right to self-defence. Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, says western supporters of Israel should be "prosecuted" but Saudi Arabia blames "elements" within Lebanon for the violence.
July 12
Hizbullah guerrillas capture two Israeli soldiers during fighting close to the Lebanese-Israeli border. Israel describes Hizbullah's move as an "act of war", threatens to bomb Lebanon "back 20 years" and makes first air strikes in southern Lebanon. Kofi Annan calls for return of Israeli soldiers and criticises Israeli attack. Condoleezza Rice says Syria has "special responsibility" for the situation.
Tell me where the other report is wrong.
The mistake I noticed is in the first paragraph where it says "Hezbollah forces haven't killed any Israeli civilians for more than a decade." The number I've read (since 2000) is 6.
There has been a heated debate on the internet about whether the two Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hizbullah that day were captured in Israel or in Lebanon, but it now seems pretty clear that they were seized in Israel. This is what the UN says, and even Hizbullah seems to have forgotten that they were supposed to have been found sneaking around the outskirts of the Lebanese village of Aita al-Shaab. Now it simply states that "the Islamic resistance captured two Israeli soldiers at the border with occupied Palestine". Three other Israeli soldiers were killed by the militants. There is also some dispute about when, on July 12, Hizbullah first fired its rockets; but Unifil makes it clear that the firing took place at the same time as the raid - 9am. Its purpose seems to have been to create a diversion. No one was hit.
But there is no serious debate about why the two soldiers were captured: Hizbullah was seeking to exchange them for the 15 prisoners of war taken by the Israelis during the occupation of Lebanon and (in breach of article 118 of the third Geneva convention) never released. It seems clear that if Israel had handed over the prisoners, it would - without the spillage of any more blood - have retrieved its men and reduced the likelihood of further kidnappings. But the Israeli government refused to negotiate. Instead - well, we all know what happened instead. Almost 1,000 Lebanese and 33 Israeli civilians have been killed so far, and a million Lebanese displaced from their homes.
On July 12, in other words, Hizbullah fired the first shots. But that act of aggression was simply one instance in a long sequence of small incursions and attacks over the past six years by both sides. So why was the Israeli response so different from all that preceded it? The answer is that it was not a reaction to the events of that day. The assault had been planned for months.
...A "senior Israeli official" told the Washington Post that the raid by Hizbullah provided Israel with a "unique moment" for wiping out the organisation. The New Statesman's editor, John Kampfner, says he was told by more than one official source that the US government knew in advance of Israel's intention to take military action in Lebanon. The Bush administration told the British government.
Israel's assault, then, was premeditated: it was simply waiting for an appropriate excuse.
Of course your curiosity is curiously unpiqued by the fact that HzB attacked on July 12, the very day that the G8 summit was due to address the matter of Iran's reprocessing of Uranium.
And of course Israel had a plan. During the Cold War there wasn't a day that we didn't have a planned for dealing with a Soviet attack.
Here's one for starters. Speaking the Obvious posted that semi self-refuting article from salon.com about about the "hiding among civilians" myth.
What's the first thing you posted in response?
Gee, isn't it interesting how a dose of actual observation on the ground can change a debate? I had not considered the possibility that Hezbollah would avoid civilians; I had assumed that they would use this tactic. I was wrong -- as was just about everybody else here. Thanks for providing some actual information to illuminate our hot air, 'Speaking the Obvious'
Where's your "rationalism" and critical thinking?
Everyone is wrong because of "oberservations" from one article. However, whenever Prof. B or someone else posits some information in favor of Israel, suddenly, it must be doubted, criticized, etc. So, lets recap. Pro-Hezbollah news/propaganda = You treat as the Word of God. Pro-Isreali news/propaganda = extreme criticism.
That's why your calls for neutral analysis fall on deaf ears. Decrying bias while refusing to admit your own prevalent bias destroys credibility. Btw, I completely admit I am biased - as would probably most of the pro-Israeli posters here.
But my bias is pretty thin and would not include siding with Israel if they had initiated the current conflict, Mr. Edenbaum's confusion about the meaning of "premeditated" notwithstanding.
I remind you that the article in question was never refuted; as far as I am concerned, the observations of the reporter remain useful evidence. There is other evidence, of course -- mountains of evidence, pointing in many different directions. I had made an assumption the Hezbollah was hiding among civilians and, when confronted with contrary evidence, I altered my position. Would you have me do otherwise? Would you refuse to alter your position when confronted with contrary evidence?
These are rhetorical questions; I really don't think it's necessary for you to answer them. Can we please get back on topic now?
One last thing, then sure we can get back the issues.
Here's the point, which I raise continually with you, that you refuse to address. You are very critical and skeptical of anything (or everything I can think of) that is pro-Israeli. Yet, you do NOT apply the same critical thinking and general method of analysis of pro-hezbollah information.
That article illustrates my point perfectly. You completely accepted the pro-Hezbollah propaganda, without questioning in any way its accuracy. Yet you constantly, criticism and express extreme skepticism towards information presented that is pro-Israeli.
This example is made more egregious because it was an article that should have elicited skepticism from any reasonable person - let along one like you who calls on cries for rationalism constantly.
You only call attention to your blatant double standard because of the strong positions you take. You constantly decry what others say, calling for rational thinking and critical analysis. Yet, conveniently, you only apply to one side.
So, to oversimply, the problem is this. "Pro-Hezbollah news/propaganda = You treat as the Word of God. Pro-Isreali news/propaganda = extreme criticism."
- So, please, either stop condemning others for their lack of rationalism and/or critical thinking or please acknolwedge that you either can't or have no desire to do so yourself.
- Btw, I like discussing issues with you, but I just can't get past your constant hypocrisy - especially since you put it out there so much.
If you're a terrorist organization, or anyway somebody who is into getting media bang for the buck above all, just stage events of interest to soap opera women.
That's all there is to it.
Why? There's no sustainable interest in hard news, so no way to support a news organization on hard news. They need an audience every day, news or no news, in order to sell them (audience is their product) to advertisters.
Soap opera women, about 40% of women, can be attracted every day, and are a big enough bloc to sustain a news organization.
Not a majority, but it's the best bloc available, so that's what edits every national debate, driving out everything else.
Terrorists simply hitch on.
Maybe you caught the debate between Chomsky and Dershowitz a few months back at Harvard? Two of the most brilliant Jews in America. One of the two is wrong. Chomsky got the worst of it in my opinion.
And will you be pleased when Israel is destroyed. Well, I guess so since racism is worst sin imaginable. Worse than murder.
More ignorance. More idiocy.
Read any one of the links I included. Read Uri Avnery. Don't assume you know what I'm saying... read what I'm saying. Read about the history of Hezbollah.
"...racism is worst sin imaginable. Worse than murder."
Again wow. You love to argue but refuse to learn.
... if you assume that this is the only fake in existence.
If Hezbollah is faking pictures this way, they're probably doing more fakes that just happen to be harder to catch--and which could be a lot more serious.
The mistake I noticed is in the first paragraph where it says "Hezbollah forces haven't killed any Israeli civilians for more than a decade." The number I've read (since 2000) is 6.So random attacks that kill Israeli soldiers are apparently not even worth noting. I wonder if Seth would have eagerly signed up to be on a Judenrat in Europe.
From War in Context
Nor, it seems, do IDF officers take seriously the more graphic defense of IAF targeting, as justified because Hezbollah uses human shields. Israel also co-locates many of its basing operations in cities and amongst the civilian population -- simply because of the ease of logistics operations that such co-locations necessitate. "The human shield argument just doesn't wash and we know it," an IDF commander says. "We don't expect Hezbollah to deploy in the open with a sign that says 'here we are.'
I included a quote from and IDF comander, on the same subject why don't you respond to that?Leaving aside that the "quote" is from an anonymous person, not "an IDF commander," because the quote makes no sense at all. It doesn't say anything with any content.
""We don't expect Hezbollah to deploy in the open with a sign that says 'here we are.'" doesn't mean anything. Heck, I don't expect that either. But what on earth do our expectations have to do with anything? The only relevant issue is whether Hezbollah in fact uses human shields. If it does -- and this anonymous quote doesn't seem to deny that -- then what's your point? What's the point of the quote? Hezbollah is not criticized because it accidentally kills Israeli citizens when it engages in combat with the Israeli military.
The two statements by the IDF commander are seemingly contradictory - though not necessarily. Regardless, I'm not much for taking random quotes, without context from a site that I've never heard off and that doesn't sources its material. Further, even if accurate, thats one "IDF Commander" vs. the rest of the IDF that disagrees.
I can go find plenty of quotes from teh Druze in Lebanon that agree with the Israeli offensive and argue that Hezbollah does hide behind civilians, but that will hardly advance my case either.
Let me add. I do appreciate you marshalling evidence of a sort to support your viewpoint. Nevertheless, one anonymous source, without context is hardly enough to change my opinion after the countless photos and various videos I have seen that run directly contrary to your narrative.
"Racism," is a great sin, I agree, exceeded only by determined ignorance. One thing we need to define in this discusion is "The Arab Mind" (Raphael Patai), and, their concept of 'Truth and Reality.' To an Islamist (actually, a Muslim concept, paraphrasing Raphael Patai): Truth and Reality bear no relation. Reality is what actually happened, and, is unimportant. Truth is the spoken word, and, defines the reality you must consider and believe (I.O.W.'s, don't think. We'll tell you what to think).
It bears a striking resemblance to the 'Moonbats' concept of "Truthiness": something that never happened, but sounds good, therefore it becomes the accepted "Truth," which allows them to ignore what really happened.
The prisoner who qualifies as "longest held" is one (of two) that infiltrated into an Istraeli community (Haifa?) seeking to force their way into an Israeli Kindergarten, and, slaughter the children. They were thwarted by armed Guards. Seeking to hide from the guards, they broke into an apartment house, and, abducted a Man and his young daughter (5? 6?). The Mother was able to hide in some type of cubbyhole, with her baby.
They left the Apartment house seeking to take them back to Hizb'allah territory, but, were intercepted by Police and forced onto a rocky public Beach, where one was killed. When the remaining Terrorist realized he was trapped, he calmly executed the Father with a shot to the head, then, threw the little girl down on the rocks, smashed her head to an unrecognizable pulp with his Rifle Butt, and, surrendered.
Israel does not have the death penalty, even for such heinous crimes as this, so he knew that the only thing that would happen to him was a pleasant stay in a place where they would provide him with "three hots and a cot." And, plenty of time to sit around and describe his great feat to fellow prisoners, hereinafter referred to as 'wide-eyed admirers.'
Hmmmmmm? Y'know...I might consider trading him to Hizb'allah, but, I'd send him back with the "Family Jewels" (all of them) in a brown paper bag.
I agree that if Hezbollah is shown to be faking a picture in what I consider the less serious way ("restaging" an event that actually happened a bit earlier), that should raise everyone's guard that they could be faking in other ways -- possibly including the much more serious deception of attributing deaths to bombings that didn't cause those deaths.
But I would want to see some proof of the second before I thought this was a big issue. Believe me, I have no brief for the murderous theocrats of Hezbollah. Again, I'm proud Zionist. But I think it's counterproductive from the Zionost side if the main thing we say in response to a picture of a dead child that Israel unfortunately killed is that we're outraged that the picture was a restaging of events that actually did take place a bit earlier.
Israelis during the occupation of Lebanon and (in breach of article 118 of the third Geneva convention) never released. It seems clear that if Israel had
handed over the prisoners, it would - without the spillage of any more blood - have retrieved its men and reduced the likelihood of further kidnappings.
But the Israeli government refused to negotiate. Instead - well, we all know what happened instead. Almost 1,000 Lebanese and 33 Israeli civilians have
been killed so far, and a million Lebanese displaced from their homes.
The people held by Israel aren't prisoners of war but criminals fouhnd guilty by due process with no entitlement to protections under the laws of war.
Sneaking into another country in civilian clothing aiming to attack noncombatants and civilian infrastructure is a war crime plain and simple.
I find it bizarre that you keep linking to a single post by some blogger I never heard of quoting an unnamed (and probably nonexistent) IDF "commander" (there is no such rank!) as stating that Hezbollah isn't really using any human shields. You seem like a smart guy, don't you have any critical faculties. Wouldn't you like to at least see a real name attached to that alleged quote? And even if one Israeli "commander" said it, does that make it right? Even if every other Israeli disagreed with his analysis?
"The full sequence of AP photos and captions from the incident at Qana on July 30 reflect that reality."
Green Helmet had estimated that there were 210 casualties at the site of the collapsed building.
It has since been confirmed by the Red Cross that there were 28 dead and 35 survivors.
In Newsweek a woman told her first person account. She had put her two daughters to sleep on mattresses in the basement. She slept with them. The house collapsed. She was dug out by her family. Her two young daughters were also dugout, but were dead. Their corpses were found ONTOP of their mother. Newsweek reporter claimed to have spoken to other survivors.
But, by Green Helmet's estimate, there must have been another 147 survivors -- now unaccounted for. So the questions are raised:
1. On what did he base his original estimate of 210 casualties? For instance, did he have knowledge of more people at that place prior to the collapse of the building?
2. Where are the survivors of the house that had collapsed the previous night? How many were men of fighting age? And how come they had not recovered the bodies that Green Helmet rescued the following morning? The photos show that the children's bodies, for exmale, lay ontop of the rubble. The hands and clothes of the rescuers did not appear to be very dirty or dusty.
3. Where was Green Helmet's refrigeration truck the night before? Where there bodies in the truck prior to his arrival at Qana?
Qana is midway between Tyre and Ben Jublait, where heavy fighting has taken place. The Tyre area is rocket-launcher-central for the Hezbollah. The site of the collapsed house in Qana is at a strategic 5-road crossroads.
Okay, sure then stop pretending you are all about "rational" analysis as if others aren't. My only point was to show that you hardly apply your rational thinking in an unbiased manner. I provided a great example, that you refuse to respond to. Stop the pretensions of neutrality and I'll stop calling you on it.
So the thing will have to be restaged for those who arrive later.
If there is nothing wrong with restaging, what would be the problem in labeling it so on television? "What you are about to see is a re-enactment of what [Hezbollah wants you to think] happened in an Israeli missile strike."
If it's okay to restage, it ought to be unremarkable to mention it. I don't like to talk in absolutes, but this seems to be one. Absolutely no reason not to mention it.
I guess that brings up the question of why it isn't already being done.
Surah 116: The Pervert
And it came to pass that Muhammad was growing ever hornier and more depraved: In a dream it was revealed by Allah that he was to molest a young girl named Ayesha.
Drunk on strong wine, the Prophet looked to a follower named Khalil and announced, "Allah has said I am to have sex on this day with a child; the virgin daughter of my brother in law Abu."
"What?" asked a frowning Khalil, holding a wine bottle, taken back by the remark and turning to Muhammad.
"I am to know Abu's daughter Ayesha," declared Muhammad, a finger in the air, becoming visibly aroused at the thought having sex with her.
"She is but a little girl who plays with dolls; her womb does not yet weep, are you insane?" asked Khalil, knowing in his heart that the Prophet was little more than a pervert, thief, liar and murderer.
"Probably, but it is the will of Allah", Muhammad said to himself, staggering off to the hovel of Ayesha.
"What a twisted devil the Prophet is -- the will of Allah my ass, he's just an evil, depraved monster who lusts after the flesh," Khalil mumbled, putting the bottle to his parched lips.
An oblivious and uncaring Muhammad blundered down the street, weaving as he went, arriving at the hovel shortly thereafter.
Knocking on the door, Ayesha's mother Umm appeared.
"What do you want Prophet?" she asked, staring at the debauched Muhammad, clad in a filthy tan robe covered in dust and wine stains, a lone flea crawling upon his moustache near his nostrils.
"Bismillah, I am here to take your daughter Ayesha in bed," the Prophet answered, slurring his words.
"You licentious beast!" exclaimed the girl's mother, "She is only six years old, if it is indeed the will of Allah, take me instead to satisfy your wanton depravity!"
"Taking you is not the will of Allah," retorted Muhammad, the scent of wine heavy on his foul breath, "You are a wrinkled and faded flower without comeliness; be gone with your favours; I could never get a hard on at the likes of you."
Enraged by her rebuff, Muhammad smote her upon the face with a backhand.
"That's what one gets for disobeying the will of Allah," declared Muhammad, his words punctuated by a loud belch, "Take me to Ayesha, that I may know her on this day!"
Obeying, Umm reluctantly led Muhammad to the room of Ayesha, opening the door.
"This perverted Prophet here wants to screw you," announced Umm with a frown, Muhammad ogling the virgin child in double vision.
"But you knew my cousin Abdullah, younger brother of Ahmed not an hour ago," replied a shocked Ayesha, dropping her doll, revolted by the sight of the filthy, lascivious paedophile Muhammad.
"Be that as it may, Allah has said I will also know you," said Muhammad with an expectant smile, the gleam of lust in his eyes.
"Why me?" asked Ayesha, looking to the Prophet with trepidation.
"Because Allah has said it and I am horny, let us lay down, that I may know you," ordered Muhammad as he removed his robe, Ayesha's mother shaking her head in helpless disgust and closing the door.
The media censored film of the 9/11 victims hitting the ground because they did not want anybody to get angry at their heroes, Muslim terrorists. This is the same reason they kiss Green Helmet Guy's butt, with the extra added fillip of imaginary Israeli war crimes.
Wow, Seth. So your idea of a credible source only requires a few blurbs from journalists making general statements about a blog that probably came from who knows when?
I looked up Mark Perry's bio, here it is
Mark Perry is co-director of the Conflicts Forum, a Beirut-based nongovernmental organization that has, over the past three years, put former senior American and British policy-makers and intelligence officials in talks with Hezbollah and other militant political Islamic groups in Lebanon. He formerly worked as an adviser to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and as a reporter for Newsday.
Very interesting.
I read your links, but The Guardian article is not convincing, partly because it is too narrow.
Left out is consideration that Hezbollah's (and Iran's) stated goal is the destruction of Israel. This is a big omission. Such an open statement of aggressive intent would provoke a prudent government to make preparations, so I am not surprised that Israel developed detailed plans to respond to the possible courses of aggression Hezbollah and Iran may take to achieve their goal. The Guardian reveals their tilt by labeling Israel's defense preparations as "premeditated".
The assertion that the over flights of the border justify Hezbollah's subsequent action is weak. I expect the U.S. would certainly keep an eye on Mexico (for example) if it had similarly pledged the destruction of Texas, and I would not be surprised if a few sonic booms were involved during the surveillance flights. It sounds like the author is imtimating that Hezbollah's actions were justified by the overflights and sonic booms (violating his own "proportionate response" rule...).
The argument for "Proportionate Response" by IDF assumes a set of rules that do not exist in war. It isn't like a football game where a player has a duty to respond to a foul with restraint. When one initiates war with a nation, the possible outcomes include one where you no longer exist and the winner keeps your former lands.
Also omitted is mention of the hundreds of rocket attacks aimed at Haifa and other towns and small settlements in northern Israel since the eruption of hostilities. This can only be a manifestation of Hezbollah's pledge to destroy Israel and kill all the jews, and as such it undermines any restraint Israel might exercise in their response. They are going to go full throttle to stop Hezbollah any way they can when their citizens are being rocketed.
The overwhelming issue is the pledge by Iran and Syria to wipe Israel off the map. There is not going to be peace until they relinquish that goal, and they leave Israel no room to negotiate.
then isn't Israel wasting its time attacking Lebanon?
That's a rhetorical question. But Israel does not have the military capability to defeat both Syria and Iran, so it should be obvious that a policy of confrontation with Iran won't work. It seems to me that Israel's best strategic response to Iran is to have a happy, prosperous Palestine right next door. The Iranians wouldn't want to nuke Israel if the fallout would wipe out Palestine.
The Iranians wouldn't want to nuke Israel if the fallout would wipe out Palestine.You've got to love the naivete. It's cute. Or it would be, if it weren't for the damaging policy it could lead to if people with actual power were infected by it. Of course they would. You think they care about Palestinians? No; they hate Israel. They couldn't care less about Palestinians. The latter are a p.r. excuse for the West, because it sounds better than saying that they want to kill Jews over dirt.
We are saying that if the Holocaust occurred, then Europe must draw the consequences and that it is not Palestine that should pay the price for it.
Five million Palestinians have not had a home for 60 years. It is amazing really: You have been paying reparations for the Holocaust for 60 years and will have to keep paying up for another 100 years. Why then is the fate of the Palestinians no issue here?
I have no doubt that the new movement taking place in our dear Palestine is a spiritual movement which is spanning the entire Islamic world and which will soon remove this stain of disgrace from the Islamic world.
[The UN Security Council lacks courage to condemn Israel's attacks on the Lebanese and Palestinians, the head of the world's main Islamic bloc said Thursday]
Why does the Palestinian nation have to be suppressed and have its land occupied?
Believe that Palestine will be freed soon.
Iran has previously said it will give money to the Palestinian Authority to make up for the withdrawal of donations by Western nations who object to Hamas' refusal to recognize Israel and renounce violence. But no figure has been published.
They destroy Palestinian families and expect nobody to object to them.
There you are. Where's yours?
My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Saviour as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognised these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognise more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow my self to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice...and if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.
Hitler, Speech in Munich (12 April 1922)
Hitler never bothered with the real precepts of Christianity. He only used it as a tool to further his goal of eradicating the Jews as is Ahmadinejad today. The thrust of your quotes from Ahmadinejad parallel quite nicely to this except from Hitler.
If it weren't for the fact that it was Israel the Palestinians were arrayed against, Ahmadinejad wouldnt care about the Palestinians at all.
For example, how much do Arab governments actually protest the oppression of ethnic groups within other Arab countries, compared to their codemnation of Israel? More pointedly, how much has Ahmadinejad condemned such oppression in other Arab nations compared to Israel?
Yes, it is personal choice. But, personal choice based upon context and observing the characters involved. Your personal choice seems to naively accept the words of a rather disturbing political figure - which personal choice is more plausible?
Ever been to Iran? Ever talked to an Iranian, Ever seen a film by Kiarostami? M. Makhmalbaf? By his daughter Samira? What was "Savak?" Ever spoken to or read...
And on and on.
You defend freedom, but you refuse to work for it. Not all humility is false, but yours is. "In dreams begin responsibilities" but you're interested in one and not the other. Lawkid, you should travel more. Don't let unimaginative law professors do it for you.
(it's hard to break away. Sometimes it's fun being a troll.)
We must give Erasmussimo the benefit of the doubt, as we must give Ahmadinejad the benefit of the doubt when he says -- according to Mike Wallace -- that he has no quarrel with Jews, he just wants to wipe Israel off the map. See, he's not anti-Semitic; he just wants to destroy the Jewish state. We must believe that wiping Israel off the map is has no basis in anti-Semitism. And once you believe that, virtually everything else comes easy.
Quite a nice riposte, that, I agree with you. It would seem that few here understand that Ahmedinijad is Persian, not Arab, with a generally abiding hatred for those of other races. He not only condones oppression of "lesser races" (i.e. - Iranian Jews, Kurds, etc.) he especially condones attacking and oppressing those whom he perceives as enemies of Iran. The Palestinians have never been known, to my kmowledge, to have any affinity for Iran, nor, espoused any great brotherly fondness for those they consider to be apostate (Persians of any stripe).
During the Iraq/Iran 'Gulf War,' he was one of those recruiting children to become martyrs, pumping them up with Hashish and Opium and marching them into the Guns of Iraqi's, so that artillery spotters could plot Targets for their Tanks, Mortar and Rocket Crews. These were preferably 'not' Persian, but, those they considered to be of lesser races, or, religious sects. The only quality required was religious fervor.
Sorry to break it to you, but I actually DO have experience. I have spent some time with an NGO in Iraq. During that time, I actually met a fair number of Iranians. While, my purpose in Iraq wasn't to discover their thoughts on their country or their regime, it did come up.
Some commenters on Prof. Bernstein's posts have raised the argument "who cares about staging; all the matter is that the Israelis killed the children." That argument is wrong on two levels...
No, its wrong on three levels and the not mentioned third is the worst. Staging a photo in any story displays an utter disregard for honest reporting. If a photographer is willing to set forth photographic falsehoods, what else will they lie about? "Oh, but what about the senseless killing of children undisputedly displayed in the photos," wallow some. WHAT? If the photo's already has been proven to be a lie, why in the world do you expect me to think the narrative about that photo is accurate? That another buys into the narrative, even when presented with incontrovertible evidence of photographic manipulation, exposes a credulity worthy of the utmost distain.
It's as if someone admits to photoshopping Karl Rove into a Hieronymous Bosch painting and still maintains that its proof that Rove bites people's heads off.


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Gabi has been
diligently posting updates on Facebook about my recent illness,
and I can't begin to tell how many wonderful friends have wished
me well. I can never thank them all in person, nor can I thank
all the nurses at St. Pete's. They were terrific.
So here's the story of how I was struck down by a strange and creepy muscle-eating disease (slight hyperbole).
It started while playing water volleyball at the Y with a bunch of old farts and a few youngsters (50-something to 80-something). Suddenly, when I hit the ball, there was a stabbing pain in my forearms as if I had strained muscles in both, and then my legs started aching and I got tired more quickly than usual. A few days later we went to Costco to pick up Gabi's new glasses, and on the way in the store I stubbed my toe on the edge of a carpet and was momentarily thrown off balance. I thought I'd caught my balance when all of a sudden I felt weak and dropped to my knees. Gabi uses a walking stick because she has balance problems of her own due to a combination of inner ear problems and neuropathy. So I grabbed for her walking stick. I wanted to push down on it to help myself up, but she wanted to help pull me up, so we ended up briefly fighting over the walking stick and making a spectacle of ourselves right there in Costco.
After that I began to notice more and more that it was all I could do to lift a pot off the stove or bend over to put on my socks or lift myself out of the bathtub. And then my pee turned dark. It was the color of Coca-Cola. Gabi told me I had to see a doctor. This was on a Thursday or Friday and I had already scheduled a physical for the following Tuesday, so I figured I could wait a few days.
Meantime, I have chronic unstable angina, which we've been treating and watching closely for years, with stints, surgery, medicine, diet and exercise (Dick Cheney's got nothing on me, 'cept the only thing he exercises is his big mouth). When the attacks started coming more frequently (three Friday), and then two more during the night waking me up at 3 a.m. and again at 5 a.m., we knew it was time to call 911.
They ran blood tests and the ER doctor said I had elevated CKP enzymes, which meant nothing to me, and a condition I'd never heard of called rhabdomyolisys. He described it as muscles dissolving all over my body, a description another doctor later said was very inaccurate.
From Wikipedia: Rhabdomyolysis (often shortened to simply "rhabdo") is the rapid breakdown (lysis) of skeletal muscle (rhabdomyo) due to injury to muscle tissue. The muscle damage may be caused by physical (e.g., crush injury), chemical, or biological factors. The destruction of the muscle leads to the release of the breakdown products of damaged muscle cells into the bloodstream; some of these, such as myoglobin (a protein), are harmful to the kidney and may lead to acute kidney failure. Treatment is with intravenous fluids, and dialysis or hemofiltration if necessary.
Rhabdomyolysis and its complications are major problems in people who are injured in disasters such as earthquakes and bombing. The disease and its mechanisms were first elucidated in the Blitz of London in 1941.
The ER doc said (I paraphrase) You're on statins and guess what is a side effect of statins? CKP.
He sounded rather proud of himself. At that point I had no idea what the hell he was talking about.
Then they sent an internist in who tried to explain it more thoroughly. He scared the crap out of me. He started talking a lot about end-of-life procedures and do-not-resuscitate orders. I understand they always have to ask about that stuff, and we came prepared with paperwork, a living will, durable power of attorney and all of that stuff. But as he was talking I was thinking why is he going into such detail about chances of survival when brought back after a few minutes or hours as opposed days or weeks? I did not want to hear that crap.
They checked me into the hospital and hooked me up to IV fluids and a heart monitor. I asked a lot of questions because I'd never heard of this stuff before. My cardiologist said he didn't know what caused it. He said he knew it was a known side effect of statins, but I'd been on statins for eight years with no side effects, and he'd been monitoring by CKP level. It was 230 the last time he checked, which is apparently within a safe range, even though one nurse told me the normal range is under 100. My CKP when they brought me into the ER was 32,000. Yes, that's three zeroes on the end. So they flushed my system out and brought it down day by day: 2nd day, 19,000; 3rd day13,000; 4th day, 6,800; 5th day, 2,900 (if I remember the numbers correctly). That's when they sent me home. Now I guess the treatment is just to relax, drink a lot of fluids, avoid strenuous activity, and wait and see. I'll be seeing my docs frequently.
My first day home I slept nearly all day. So did Gabi. Yesterday was my second full day at home. Friends came by and brought me food. The visits were wonderful but a little exhausting, and we're deeply grateful for the food and friendship.

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Archive for March 16, 2013
Make Your Lawn Beefy And Make Your Neighbors Jealous!
By using just a small amount of organic compost on your lawn once a year you can give your lawn better nutrients and help reduce weeds and grubs. After using grass seed to buff up your lawn using compost can ensure that your lawn will be lush and long lasting with the proper care. Using lawn seed will definitely beef up your lawn and make it the Muhammad Ali of lawns. Your neighbors will be so jealous when they see how great your lawn looks after using grass seed! By using grass seed you can also make your soil less acidic. Shooting for an acid level of somewhere between six and seven pH can help increase grass growth and discourage weed growth. Using grass seed has many benefits to your lawn which end up being benefits for you and your family. If you and your family are outdoorsy the first thing you will want for your home is a cushy green lawn. Using grass seed when taking care of your lawn can ensure its health and make it look better than it ever did, before you started using grass seed. With the weather constantly changing in the United States some home owners might want to consider drought resistant grass. Certain areas of the country will be able to get more use out of drought resistant grass than others but it can be worth a shot for people who need it. Because the United States and a few other countries around the world are starting to seriously embrace the eco friendly movement, new methods of overall landscaping care are becoming more eco friendly. In 2004 the number of people that use all natural lawn care was about five million. Since then that number has grown to twelve million and is still rising. Using grass seeds to take care of your lawn can help you make sure your yard always looks great.
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For the Dough
All purpose flour / Maida - 2 cups
Oil/ Ghee - 1/4 cup ,
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Water for kneading
1. Mix the flour and salt, Add the oil/ghee and mix till you get a bread crumbs texture.
2. Slowly add water and make a soft dough. Knead well for about 8 minutes.
3. Cover and keep aside to rest for atleast half hour. Special Tips / Notes for the dough:
- Keep the dough covered at all times, if not it will dry up and not puff up when frying. If the dough is made right wet cloth can be used if not just a towel.
- The dough could spring back for many reasons:
Not kneaded for enough time.
Oil is less.
Not rested enough.
For Pyaz Filling
Onions - 2 cups, finely chopped
Nigella seeds (kalonji) - 1 tsp
Fennel seeds (saunf) - 2 tsp
Bay leaves - 2
Green chillies - 11/2tsp, finely chopped
Bengal gram flour (besan) - 2 tbsp
Coriander (dhania) powder - 2 tsp
Chilli powder - 2 tsp
Garam masala - 1 tsp
Chopped coriander - 3 tbsp
Oil - 2 tbsp
Salt to taste To make the onion filling
1. Heat the oil in a pan. Add the nigella seeds, fennel seeds, bay leaves, green chillies and onions and sauté till the onions turn light brown in colour.
2. Add the gram flour, coriander powder, chilli powder, garam masala and salt and sauté for 2 to 3 minutes.
3. Add the chopped coriander and mix well.
4. Remove the bay leaves and discard.
5. Allow the mixture to cool completely
6. Divide into 12 equal portions and keep aside.
To make kachori's
1. Make a small ball from the dough.
2. Roll out into a 2 inch diameter circle.
3. Or flatten the ball using your fingers having the center thick and sides little thin.
4. Place about 1.5 tsp of the filling in the center of the rolled dough.
5. Cover the filling with the dough by slowly stretching it over the filling.
6. Seal the ends and remove excess dough.
7. Repeat with all the balls and keep aside for 5 -7 mins.
8. Then using your palm, flatten the balls by lightly pressing it, as using the rolling pin will make the filling come out. (See notes below). Keep aside covered. Repeat with the remaining dough.
9. Meanwhile heat some oil for deep frying.
10. The oil should not become smoking hot.
11. Test to see if the temperature is right by dropping a tiny ball of dough and see if it is rising slowly to the top.
12. Drop the kachoris in batches of 3-4 gently into the oil.
13. Cook both sides till both sides are golden brown and delicious.
14. Serve with coriander chutney and tamarind chutney
Special Tips / Notes for making the Kachoris:
- You can fry 3 kachori's at a time.
- The oil should be at a heat when you drop some dough it should come up slowly, if the dough comes up too fast the oil is too hot, if it does not come up then the oil is cold.
- It will not be crisp if the oil is too hot.


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Bob Barrick
Here are my 2 trucks , a 1960 5E6 Champ with a transplanted a289 fullflow engine , I've had this truck since '99 and have completely rebuilt it , we drive it everywhere epecially to International meets.
The 1950 is a 2R5 that took me 10 years to do up but most parts are NOS.
I fashioned this truck after my grandfathers service truck at his Texaco garage.


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Author: Ruth Ware
Publish Date: May 29, 2018 by Gallery/Scout Press
Genre: Mystery / Psychological Suspense
Hardcover: 368 pages
My Rating: 4 stars
On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person—but also that the cold-reading skills she's honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money.
Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased…where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the center of it.
Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware's signature suspenseful style, this is an unputdownable thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time.
I'm a huge Ruth Ware fan, ever since I read her first book In a Dark, Dark Wood. One thing I like about her writing is that she continues to reinvent herself with each novel. No two books are similar in plot or characters. They are all very much stand alones, giving readers stories that are fresh, inventive, and engaging each and every time.
Ruth Ware is the present day queen of the locked room mystery: In a Dark, Dark Wood takes place in a remote cabin in the woods; The Woman in Cabin 10 on a cruise ship; The Lying Game at a boarding school; and a decrepit mansion in the English countryside in The Death of Mrs. Westaway. When I heard about the setting of this book, which has a sense of gothic mystery about it, I couldn't wait to read it.
This is a modern day suspense story, with a gothic atmosphere, and the feel of a classic crime novel of the past. I was very much immersed in the richly developed world that Ware has created with this one. Throw in a family with lots of secrets and a creepy, old housekeeper to round out a satisfying plot.
I also loved that our main character, Hal, is a tarot card reader by profession. She's flawed, but not in the way of so many other novels where our protagonist has a drinking problem or is in an relationship gone bad. Hal is a bit flawed morally – wouldn't you have to be to try to lay claim to a vast inheritance that doesn't rightfully belong to you – but we love Hal all the same. She's quick-witted, spunky, independent, and endearing. Somehow the author gets us to root for Hal and I really hoped everything would turn out okay for her. All of the characters in this story were well developed and felt very real to me.
This is not a violent or twisty suspense story, but the plot is driven forward by the unraveling of family secrets that tie this dysfunctional family together. If you like three-dimensional characters that feel real, and settings that draw you in, you can't go wrong with Ruth Ware. Fans will be happy to add this book to their collection.


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This lovely set of mini Christmas Tree baubles will look amazing in your home this festive season. In three colours, the hanging decoration will really add to the beauty of your Christmas Tree. There are three different finishes in one pack, including gloss, matt and glitter. Can be used year after year.
- Each baubles approximate dimensions are 3.5cm (h)
- Available in 3 different colours
- Set of 10
- Can be used year after year
If traveling to one of our stores to purchase this item, it is advisable to call ahead first to ensure goods are in stock and available, as not all stores stock the same range.


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Life is full of options. Of course, it would be up to someone to choose what destiny they would take, and how they would go about it.
In my case, I chose this life. Some people may think I have chosen the wrong path, others think that I have been stagnating for so long, and others even question what my purpose and intentions are. I, on my part, have resolved to take this path and wait, and do what I must while at it.
It's been five years since I left college, and I had been eyeing for a job in the mainstream broadcast media, which was aligned with the degree I took up at the university. But as what I had observed and experience, there are two basic qualifications in joining the major networks (and even the minor ones): having connections inside the company (which I have none), and being an over-achiever (which I'm not). I was desperate for a job at that time, since I had a conflict with my parents and thought I wanted to make some money to prove that I can fend for myself.
And so I landed into the call-center industry. Way back college, I declared that being in a call center would be the last thing I would ever want to do in my life, and won't take that career path if I had a choice. I used to think that being a phone operator was a no-brainer job: just answer people's phone calls, answer their questions — that was about it. But at that time, I was left with no career options. With huge competition in the broadcast and journalism industries, with no room for me who had yet to settle a conflict with my academics, I took back what I had said. I was in the call-center industry, and my first job didn't give me enough money to pull me through the next pay day. Not that it was mediocre — I am a big spender, especially on food, and the industry itself is specially stressful. Though, it was not that stressful, since I was still in training. Two months later, I was axed. While I had no regret leaving the company, I regret having to part with my colleagues, considering that I had already established a friendship with some of them.
So there I was. I was back into the employment "limbo," being practically jobless for over six months, and my mom was berating me for it. Then, I was approached with a job offer: a graphic artist at a company that sells game currency, particularly World of Warcraft gold. There, I saw a stark difference. My pay was at par with my skills, and my bosses were generous, but the office environment was kind of uptight. There were just a few of us in the department where I belonged, yet I felt kind of being limited. That, coupled with the fact that the job description wasn't as what I've expected, and I lasted only six months in the job.
Again, I was into the limbo. I tried applying for numerous jobs at the graphic-design and the mainstream broadcasting industries, to no avail. One time, though, my feet were leading me to some place, and I found out that they took me to the recruitment office of another contact center. So I said to myself, "Why not give it another shot?" since I had a couple of résumés at hand. I played around with the recruitment process, and was not taking it too seriously. Now at that time, I was expecting something like this: "Sir, we will just call you whether you passed the recruitment process." (That is what most employers would tell you once you failed.) To my surprise, they handed me a contract and some tote notes, and told me, "Come back next week to this place at the time stated on the notes, and bring along these requirements." I blankly signed the contract, and did come back.
And that started my two years of realization. I had gone through hell and all, being in an environment whose policies and environment keep on changing every time and being with colleagues who had yet to accept my quirks; a old maid who had the hallmarks of Gordon Ramsay in Hell's Kitchen and a flamboyantly gay guy for managers; a schoolteacher, a goth girl, a call-center veteran, and a flight attendant for supervisors; and a diversity of personalities for teammates. While I was able to look up to my colleagues as my saving grace against leaving a job I diddn't like doing and was really pushing me to my limits, in the long run, it was no longer working. My work statistics slowly deteriorated, and I attempted resigning, but at first, the management refused to let me go, since they still considered me a hard worker and a special individual. Well, would they consider someone who constantly breaks business policies and gives out discounts and unauthorized workarounds to customers an "asset"? Perhaps not. But in the end, they relented, when they had finally realized that it wasn't working anymore.
It was at the end of the year, the option that I chose now presented itself. We had some family friends into our home to have lunch. I was tasked at that time to pay the bills, and when I came home and saw them, I was like, "I know these guys! I've read about them!" And yes, I've read about them on the Autism Society Philippines blog site, since they were prominently featured there. I had a chat with them, and they were inviting me to their activities. Initially, I balked at doing so, but in the long run…
Here I am.
I'll tell you more about my adventures pretty soon. Right now, I have Big Bro duties to do. And I chose to do those. And I have no regrets.
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Anyway, Angel's Walk for Autism is a few days away! Join us and be an angel for autism. See you on Sunday, 20 January 2013, at the SM Mall of Asia! For more details and updates, visit Autism Society Philippines' blog site, autismsocietyphilippines.blogspot.com.
Don't forget to catch my live status updates, too! Add #BigBroAngelsWalk to your Twitter feed to keep yourself updated with live updates at the event. And, oh, I have a big surprise for you, too! Want to know? Stay tune! 😉
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Western New York Woodturners Club 1
Newsletter & Minutes of June 02, 2011 Meeting
Maryvale High School Woodshop Room #120
1050 Maryvale Drive
Cheektowaga, New York 14225
31 Members present.
The meeting was called to order at 1900 hours by S.A. Imerese - President.
Treasurer's Report by: Norm Kosmerl:
May 2011
Available balance May 01, 2011 $3,390. 69
Expenses Postage/Stationary (44.12)
Supplies/Materials (194.20)
Receipts Split Club 29.00
Cash on hand 38.00
Sale of Hats 36.00
Membership Dues 20.00
Balance as of 06/01/11 $3,319.49
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Jim Rupracht has tickets available for the Binh Poh decorated lathe. They are $10.00 each and are available from him.
Larry Scaglione volunteered to provide the lodging for Glenn Lucas when he is here to give us his demonstration in March. More will follow on this.
Brian Effinger advised that Dick Sing has been contacted to provide a demo on Sunday September 11, 2011 at the Pembrooke High School. There will also be a hands on demo available for about $90.00 per person at the Erie Turning Club on September 8th and/or 9th. More information will be available after the plans are finalized.
Jim Cunning is looking for some input and ideas on what we would like to see along the line of demonstrations. If anyone has specific ideas please send them to me in an e-mail and I will pass them on to the VP's committee.
Richard Mialki has made a new sign up sheet for the Fair. Please take a minute to look it over and give us some help this year. It should be available on our website soon, and will be updated weekly. Thank you.
The 50/50 Club paid $18.00 and was awarded to Laura Schirle.
Show and Tell participants included:
Jim Schnellinger, Richard Mialki, Frank Stanko, Bill Perry, Larry Scaglione, Frank Becker, Don Hoffman, and Brianne Corbett, Great looking items. Thank you all for your participation.
Club Demonstration:
Our demo was done by Richard Mialki with help from Paul Wilhelm. Jacobs ladder toys for the fair. They did a great job.
We are always looking for members to do demonstrations. If you would like to do one for us please contact one of the Vice President's committee members. Jim Cunning, Paul Wilhelm, or Brian Young.
Next Meeting:
Our next meeting will be at the Maryvale High School Shop on Thursday July 07, 2011 at 1900 hours (7:00 pm.) Please remember the new time and parking restriction! Thank you.
Jim Rupracht will do our next demo.
The meeting was concluded at 2105 hours.
Please notify me of any changes in address or phone numbers at the e-mail shown below.
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