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Daguerreotype Photographs the Old Fashioned Way
Introduction: Daguerreotype Photographs the Old Fashioned Way
Step 0, Pronunciation: "DUG ARROW TYPE".
My name is Jonathan Danforth and I'm a Daguerreotype artist.
My Website http://www.shinyphotos.com has lots more information, go check it out, OK?
The Daguerreotype was the first patented photographic process. Patented by Daguerre in 1839 after ripping off substantial portions of the technology from Joseph-Nicephore Niepce in the 1820s and 1830s, the Daguerreotype was heralded at the time as an amazing invention. The Daguerreotype remained popular for only a short time (25 years or so at the most) because it was (and remains) expensive, irreproducible, and tricky to make in the first place. Why did a technology that had so much going against it stick around for so long? Daguerreotypes are beautiful in the way that diamonds are beautiful. Precious and rare is the Daguerreotype.
Silver + iodine + light + UV = photograph.
Check out the attached video clip to see what it looks like to hold a finished Daguerreotype in your (my) hand.
I'm dumping a lot of information about the process in the various steps so check 'em out.
Step 1: Getting Started
Get a shiny piece of silver or silver plate. I buy pre-plated pieces of copper from Theiss Plating (see my website) but you could plate your own if you want. There's no reason why you have to make pre-prescribed image sizes either. If you have a 4x5 view camera then make a 1x5" faux panorama or something... make a circle. Who cares? You're going to need to polish this sucker to a mirror finish so break out the bench grinder. The silver plate will be pretty thin so you want to use a non-abrasive polishing rouge on your new buffing wheels. I use red jeweler's rouge from Metalliferous in New York. Start by buffing the plate on a stitched wheel and then proceed to an unstitched wheel.
You should get pretty damn close to a mirror finish with this process. Most daguerreotypists will next go on to a hand-buffing stage. I use powdered black iron oxide on a velvet board. See image.
Step 2: Sensitizing (making It "film")
Once you have a beautiful blemish-free silver mirror plate, it's time to go to the darkroom.
Basically, you're making old-school film here. All modern film is based on the principle that silver halides are light-sensitive. What's a silver halide? Go ask Google. Simply put, exposing the silver plate to Iodine vapor in a darkroom turns your shiny silver plate into a heavy-ass hunk of film. Get it? The plate IS the film, therefore there is no negative, therefore this is a unique piece of art. No editioning of prints here.
My sensitizing box is made out of poplar, glue, Pyrex(C)(TM), and Lexan(C)(TM). The Iodine crystals go in the glass dish and, when not in use, the Lexan slides over the top of the dish to keep the corrosive fumes from turning various metals into various powders. Don't inhale Iodine fumes, quite exciting and dreadful things happen to the color and composition of your respiratory system. The Iodine crystals never get used up in this process. Just buy enough Iodine to cover the bottom of the glass dish that you're using and you'll be set for a long time.
You slide the polished plate face-down over top of the Iodine crystals. Depending on temperature, humidity, astrology, and voodoo, the plate will turn a pretty rosy purple after a minute or two. Every 20-30 seconds or so, I pull the plate out of the sensitizing box, flip on a light, and look at the color of the plate.
Why doesn't this screw up the plate? The ISO of a Becquerel Daguerreotype is about .0004. To fix the issue of exposing the plate to white light in the darkroom, just cram it back in the box over the Iodine for another 15 seconds or so.
Once sensitized, load the plate up into any ordinary modern film holder.
Because I'm tired of searching eBay for photography arcana, I have just reverted to taping the daguerreotype plates on to the septum of the film holder. Not very classy, I know but it works. I'm sure you can figure out a way to mount a silver plate to a film holder!
Step 3: Picture Time!
It is not necessary to use a view camera to make Daguerreotypes but it helps. Since there is no enlarging, your final image is only the size of the plate that you started with. My view camera can accept up to 8x10" daguerreotype plates which are quite excitingly expensive. There isn't any reason why you couldn't do this process with a 35mm camera and a postage-stamp sized silver plate.
Since Becquerel Daguerreotypes have an equivalent ISO of about .0004, the exposure times can take a little while.
I can give you a general rule of thumb but many variables effect the exposure including your polish. In FULL sun with a well-polished plate, you should be able to get 45 seconds at f/5.6. This would mean that you're reading EV16 on a grey card. That's REALLY DAMN BRIGHT. For comparison, an exposure based on EV12 on a grey card would be about 6 minutes, 45 seconds at f/5.6.
Becquerel Daguerreotypes also suffer from limited dynamic range. While modern slide film or digital cameras can give you 7-9 stops of dynamic range, you'll be limited to about 3 with Becquerel. If you're metering a scene and the sky is 5 stops brighter than your subject, you're in solarization-ville.
Check out the attached PDF showing my cheat sheet for exposure calculations. I use this in the field and then adjust based on experience.
Step 4: Time to Develop
If you thought that your exposure took a while then you're in for a treat. This step in the process is the main point of deviation from Daguerre's method. Becquerel discovered that you can use a red filter and sunlight to develop your Daguerreotypes. Cool, huh? The downside is that it takes about 2-3 hours of sunlight.
Buy a pad of lithographic sheet called Amberlith (I've never tried Rubylith... let me know if you do). You can get amberlith from any decent art supply store. Tape a sheet of the amberlith over your film holder with light-sealing masking tape. The point of this is that the film can't be exposed to any more white light or else you will fog the image. If you're not using a film holder, you need to invent some kind of carrier out of cardboard or something and transfer the exposed daguerreotype to the developing apparatus in the darkroom. You can do this part under safelight.
Set the aparattus in the sun for about two hours. If you don't have two hours of sunlight, use a tungsten or halogen lamp as close as possible to the red film. Pro tip: get a big box fan or else your amberlith will melt and ruin the daguerreotype and your day. If using a lamp, the developing time will be closer to three hours.
If all went well, your image should start to appear on the surface of the silver plate within 15 minutes or so. If the image takes longer than 30 minutes to appear, you've blown the exposure. Don't worry, I do it constantly. Try, try again.
Step 5: Clear Away Unexposed Silver Iodide
Once the daguerreotype has finsihed developing, you need to clear away any remaining unexposed silver-halides.
This is the wet part of the process. Under normal room light but not direct sunlight, remove the developed plate from the developing apparatus. The image will have some weird and cool colors to it. As far as I know, you can't preserve these.
Mix 35g of Sodium Thiosulfate (AKA "Hypo") clearing agent with 1000ml water. Pour the solution into a developing tray. Tilt the tray so that half of the tray is dry and place the daguerreotype to be cleared on the dry half. Slowly lower the tray back down to the table letting the hypo gradually coat the plate. You're trying to prevent bubbles from forming here because a bubble will destroy the image. Destroy=bad.
Agitate the clearing agent over the daguerreotype plate and watch as the unexposed purple, blue, and gold particles clear away and you're left with (hopefully) a perfect black and white image on your mirror of silver.
After the image is cleared, transfer the plate from the clearing bath into a bath of distilled water. Make sure that you repeat the part where you ease the water over the plate. Agitate the plate in the distilled water bath for a minute or so and then transfer the plate into a tap water bath. Run tap water into the tray for about three minutes or so to make sure that you've washed all of the chemicals off of the daguerreotype plate.
Step 6: Gilding (blowtorch!) [optional]
Finally we get to use the blowtorch! The surface of the daguerreotype plate is seriously fragile. You can wipe the image completely off the plate with your finger and a water drop will obliterate it too. Gilding helps to protect the image from tarnishing but the surface will remain relatively fragile.
The gilding solution is a combination of two solutions:
Solution A: 500ml distilled water to 1g of Gold Chloride
Solution B: 500ml distilled water to 4g Sodium Thiosulfate
Gilding solution: Add 125ml Solution A TO 125ml Solution B while stirring (in that order)
Remove the plate from the tap water bath, briefly rinse it in the distilled bath again, and transfer the plate to a gilding stand (see pic).
Pour an appropriate amount of gilding solution on the plate (50ml or so should do it for a 4x5" daguerreotype). Use your finger to move the meniscus of gilding solution around the surface of the plate so that the whole plate is covered. Don't touch the surface of the plate! Only move the liquid. If the gilding solution has been sitting for more than 24 hours, filter it a couple of times through filter paper.
Light your blowtorch and begin rapidly moving it back and forth on the underside of the plate at a distance of about 6-8 inches. If you linger, the image will get extremely black in that area and will be ruined. The contrast will slowly enhance after a few minutes of doing this. If bubbles start to form, you're too close and you're on the verge of ruining the plate.
Once the contrast has changed to your liking or the color has changed to your liking, pour on a generous amount of water from above. The plate will be perfectly cool to the touch after doing this so pick it up and put it in the distilled water bath (use the tip n' tilt method). Rinse as in the clearing step.
Step 7: Drying and Finishing
Dry the daguerreotype using a high-volume hair dryer. Don't use the kind of hairdryer that spreads out the stream of air, use the kind that's like a jet turbine. Remove the daguerreotype from the water bath and hold it in your palm as vertically as you can without dropping it. Aim the hairdryer as close to the image as possible starting in a top corner. Once you see the image start to become dry in that corner, push the remaining water down with the force of air towards the opposite bottom corner. This will give you the minimum of water spots.
Again, I can't stress enough that the image is extremely fragile. Dust, water, spittle from your exclmations about how wonderful you are, and lots of other stuff can ruin the image. Put it behind glass.
The easiest method would be to get a frame shop to cut you a black mat and a piece of glass beforehand. Feel free to explore framing options here but whatever you do, don't touch the surface of the plate or attempt to clean it in any way. Only remove dust by using a dry-air blower, never your own breath. If you don't believe me, check out this video!
Step 8: Conclusion
I learned this process after a couple of years worth of idle research and a 1-week seminar. I highly suggest that you see a demonstration of this process in person. It's not hard to do but you do have to have access to a lot of weird, custom equipment.
I'm happy to answer questions and provide more details where needed. Please visit my website, http://photographs.danforthsource.com to see some examples, click on ads, buy custom brass mats, cases, and original art!
how does this method compare to the original Mercury method? Is there a lack of quality in the image?
Rubylith does work. I'm not sure if there is any difference in developing time or image quality as i don't seem to be able to buy Amberlith from anywhere in the UK. If anyone knows where i can please let me know.
What kind of Bromide do you use? Cadmium Bromide? Ammonium Bromide? Potassium Bromide? And what kind of Iodide do you use? Where did you get your chemicals? Any help would be great.
Hi, i'm starting with daguerreotypes, I was wondering if you know what is the specific action of the Gold Chloride in this part of the procese? is it for tone only? thanks Jorge Marzuca Chile.
I'm not sure of the specific chemical process but the point isn't to color. The point is to convert some of the free silver into a less reactive state. It's my understanding that this is the action that helps to ward off tarnishing. The contrast improvement is a real bonus!
what a fables instructable you are so right about the art of it although i have not made dagers but he was a gennous in my eyes although i only found out about him some time ago but you are a true artist in the making you must get a huge buzz with all of this.you lucky devil iam codwithchips
Words of advice. Photoshop. Plugins Easier, cheaper, look almost the same. To much work for to little return in this mechanical process.
Easier? Yes. Cheaper? Yes. Looks almost the same? Not a chance. Check out the final video. It can be a pain but it's very rewarding and beautiful to make a Daguerreotype the way they used to be made. There's somethign to be said for homemade ice cream too, you know?
I agree. The as a member of the "photoshop generation" I am actually sad to see that most people just use programs to do photographic effects that are so much better when done in camera. Even things as simple as filters. CS2 = $650, a perfectly good filter = $10. Your initial photography will be better if you just learn to use a camera and not just take crap pictures and trust you can fix them with some goofy plugin. I really enjoy using 400TX in my 35mm because you really do get more enjoyment out of the images and thus better art when I have to sit and hand mix D76 developer and have to enlarge my own negatives in my closet.
congrats this is just wonderfull i attndd a mono photography course and since then i have been arguing with peoples about the possible demise of the old system this is so sad they seem to give it up so easy its lovely to see that there are a lot of peoples still doing it . codwithchips
This information has been great I am tracing my family history,My great great grandfather James Gow was a Daguerreotype artist in San Francisco around 1840 and later circa 1850 here in Australia.I have been unable to find out much information on the process until now.Thanks for the information and the links that are here have also been helpful. LATER IN AUSTRALIA
No problem, Paul. How cool to have a daguerreotypist in the family! I wish I could say the same.
this is to duckarrowtypes, would be great if you could put up an explanation on how to 'combine 2008 methods with 1839 methods by dialing in your transparency in Photoshop and printing on to transparency film with your Epson.' am very very interested. great work
Sorry I missed your comment. I elaborated on this very subject on my site here:
http://www.shinyphotos.com/2008/01/28/contact-printing-a-daguerreotype

J

Great article! I have been looking for "how to" info on dags, and this really clarified things. I have one question though. Do the silver plates have to be exposed with sunlight (I'm talking about the actual "picture taking" part, not the "developing" part)? Couldn't you conceivably expose the silver plate in a darkroom using an enlarger? Pardon my ignorance, and my apologies if this question has been asked already.
I routinely expose under artificial light but the exposure times are quite long. An exposure under an enlarger (even wide open) would be quite excitingly long such that it would be better measured in days rather than hours if it works at all, that is. What's far easier is to make a contact print! A contact print is made by placing a positive transparency over the sensitized daguerreotype and then exposing to sunlight. The exposure time is just a few seconds and results in a very respectable image. If you really want to be cutting edge (like yours truly) then you can combine 2008 methods with 1839 methods by dialing in your transparency in Photoshop and printing on to transparency film with your Epson. Perhaps I should write up a tutorial on that...
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I have been tinkering with making these and now have 2 successes. Once you get the exposures and fuming down it's not too difficult. I am going to post my experiments on my site.
What's your site? I'd love to see your results. Feel free to e-mail me with questions. Congratulations on the success! I still don't have the exposures down but I'm getting closer every day!
http://www.tylerrobbins.net my dags are at http://www.tylerrobbins.net/images/dags/index.htm
I do a lot of photo work, I am a grad student at UW Madison, I think I will be using dags in my MFA show. I just built a really nice iodine fuming box I can't wait to try it out. I looked around the net and found a few designs and made my own new box, the old one was decaying in places..... iodine is nasty to the max. Your instructable helped get me going, I went and read every book I could find on the topic, collected materials and started trying.
I think it's really important to have people still interested in the actual process of photography, which means I think you are doing something really important by sharing this info with us. Thanks! Keep it up and ignore the photoshop idiots.
I just had a look at your site, great photo's. An instructable on how to make the leather binders would be great too.
OK. As soon as I finish up the Ambonya burl inlay case for a piece I'll make a leather case and take shots as I go.
Wonderul instructable. You've inspired me to get out the old Speed Graphic and start building.
Go for it! One great thing about making daguerreotypes is that there is a treasure trove of equipment on eBay for next to nothing.
Hey, I make dags, too! This is such a cool site, but I have to say making dags is not as easy as it looks...
Check out myspace url to see some of my pix (yeah, I know myspace is pretty dorky, but as an anachronist I find myself simply unable or at least unwilling to make a real webpage.)
Great job!
THAT IS AWESOME! I never thought in a million years that I would find another Daguerreotypist by posting this. I'll link to your page on my site.
did you (or someone) try (or could you commercialize) the idea of having a well polished (inside) silver (flat) medallion, to be exposed inside directly with the pict lets say of some (or something) well loved ? and later the medallion could be sold with the pict directly made on the inside as a well protected dag ?
and did someone already try to reproduce by contact a 35 mm bw negative (or positive) using that way ?
you could even cut the negative to fit the inside of the medallion, wich once exposed by contact and directly "developped" receives the cover ( supposedly a desarmable hinge, to faciltate processing , would be used) and becomes a directly made artwork. decorated silver outside, a dag inside... woawww
(idea TM Zappymax... :-) ... just in case. and franchising or partnership welcome !!!
if silver medallions are necessary, in Taxco or other parts of Mexico they could become available and made on precise demand. silverwork is a real craftmanship there. also plated plates could be produced at a lower price than in the Usa i suppose. so next year have travel to those places and check that... and call me to see if practically and commercially that would be interesting...
I've thought a great deal about applying daguerreotype images directly to silver-plated things. The challenge is in protecting the image. Other daguerreotypists have tried and failed to pour a liquid surface protectant on a dag.
hi, just finding this site by chance.
i saw in washington a serie of dags in a low light gallery. its important to remember the dags must be protected from light, therefore the covered box or frame.
the low sensibility also reserves the dag to artistic/nature morte use, no way to pose for a wedding pict.
even if old picts *bromure) were made using "immobilisation" brackets to keep the people steady for long seconds if not minutes, meanwhile the pict was made.
but there are many portraits made with dags. so the model had to be a real "patient" , waiting and suffering... but after all...
also well considered, the secrecy of access (the result is visible under the cover of some box...in low light conditions .. ) rejoins an interest to avoid "exposure" of oneself or one object to the eyes of anybody. Dags are a kind of retro fit into privacy. you keep the pict of your loved one (any kind) under cover, for your eyes only, and a few others. restricted access. even a small one (wich now could be made with a modified 35mm) inside a silver or gold medallion on your neck. not a bad idea after all,
Gosh, there's an almost eerie, ghostly quality to dageurrotypes that I don't think can be imitated by a digital camera and Photoshop. Not even black and white photographs made on film by the great photographers (such as Ansel Adams) has that same quality. Even images of contemporary subjects end up looking like they're from another place beyond this one. I've seen the results of attempts to try to "antique" a photo, and it just never looks quite right. If tercero cannot see the difference in artistic quality between a true daguerrotype and an imitation, then the loss is his. This is a FANTASTIC and very informative instructable which has been a privilege to find. I also really appreciated erinwilliamson's pictures, which I think to an excellent job of illustrating my point.
Tercero, don't insult people about their hobbies and work. This site is called "Instructables" in case you missed that. As in, "instruct others how to do something that's cool". Overall, a wonderful instructable. That was an interesting read, and I can tell you put a lot of work into it. I think I'll look at daguerreotypes with a little more respect next time I see one!
Agreed. It's not something I'll be doing, but it's very interesting, very well documented and not something you see every day. Good work and thanks.
Wow, I think it seems too pricey, and too much work. But wow, it looks great. I can only imagine having a wedding photo on one. Well done


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Week 30: Capital hopping
I finally left Riga for the "Switzerland of Latvia", Sigulda. As nice a place as it was I would say that the label is a little generous. The autumn leaves were pretty though, and I had a great guide who I'd met at a couchsurfing meeting in Riga and who happened to be heading up to spend the weekend with her parents. She drove me around to some of the medieval castles in the area and to the Baltic States' deepest cave (obviously there aren't many caves around) which has a tragic love story associated with it. Details vary a little but a beautiful young woman, the Rose of Turaida, and a handsome young man were in love and planned to marry. Another evil (probably ugly) man wanted her and planned to rape her in Gutmanis Cave. She decided that death was better than the other option and convinced him that she had a scarf that would protect him from death. To prove its magical properties she put it on and told him to try to kill her. Of course the scarf had no magical properties and she was killed.
People have been visiting the cave for centuries and leaving their mark on the reddish sandstone. A sign outside said that the oldest visible graffiti is from 1667 but the oldest I could identify was 1822. At least back then people took some time with their vandalism, or paid others to take the time. Maybe it's just the mists of time but the historical carvings seem a whole lot more beautiful than "Frank waz 'ere, 2008" scratched furtively with a butter knife.
The castles were cool and I realised just how little I know about the history of this part of the world. It's a convoluted sequence of influences, conquests and occupations by Germans, Poles, Swedes and Russians with overtones of religion which only serve to make it more confusing to someone who doesn't really understand why these Christians fought against those Christians when the basis of their beliefs seem so similar. Though the Baltic States didn't seem to be the focus of most of the struggles they had the misfortune of being on the way as larger powers fought for trade rights and souls to convert. I've never associated the crusades with this part of the world but apparently a northern crusade came up this way in the 12th century to convert the stubborn pagans.


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HERE'S WHAT I know about Kyle Boelte: When Karen Green's memoir Bough Down came out in 2013, he was one of only a handful of reviewers who wrote about it without identifying its subject, Green's late husband, David Foster Wallace. Boelte could see that her book, while apparently about Wallace's suicide, was really about something else entirely: how a person survives in the face of violent, instantaneous loss. In Boelte's review, Wallace's name is never mentioned; Bough Down wasn't about Wallace, after all—it was about grief.
After reading Boelte's new memoir, The Beautiful Unseen: Variations on Fog and Forgetting, the origin of his empathy for Green could not be clearer. Boelte's brother's suicide is at the heart of The Beautiful Unseen, a book that's equal parts memoir and historical excavation. It's about Boelte's brother, Kris, who hung himself at the age of 16, but it is most of all about grief. It's also about the fog of San Francisco, which, interspersed with meditations on childhood, serves as a metaphor for the blindness brought on by receding memories, the isolation of pain, and the impenetrable nature of suicide—a loss that will never make sense.
Still, Boelte does look for answers (or at least origins), unearthing artifacts from Kris' life—his adoption papers and his death certificate, his CD collection and his disciplinary record—and seeking out scientific studies on fog and suicide. Throughout, he discovers that opposition to building a much-needed suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge is "mainly based on aesthetics", and that fog, sinker of ships and life force of California redwoods, is "only fog when you are inside of it." The Beautiful Unseen is a first book, and at times you can tell. Boelte's got some repetitive, throat-clearing sections that detract from the book overall. And I found his conclusion to be too neat, especially for a book that's most powerful when it's describing, without restraint, the infinite reverberations of suicide.
In one of these moments, Boelte shares his heartbreaking conclusion that a mix of factors that might normally be innocuous on their own may have fomented into something monstrous for his brother, as when the neat patterns of weather systems are disrupted—ruinously—by the arrival of El Niño. "Some researchers cite chaos theory," writes Boelte of El Niño, "which postulates that tiny differences in initial conditions can result in radically different outcomes." This is a nearly perfect metaphor, joining the consequences of destructive forces of nature to those of violent loss, made even more powerful by its subtlety: the translation of El Niño is, of course, "son." Boelte never states this explicitly, and he doesn't need to. Because moments like these are his bravest and best. Like W.H. Auden's poem, which goes, "stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone," they offer no false resolution, but instead look straight ahead, into the churning storm of a complicated grief.


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SYLVANIA, OH -- (Marketwired) -- Most organizations struggle to understand this one simple truth -- employees are people too and they want something more from their job than the daily grind. They want to feel that their work matters and that they're an important part of the team -- when employees feel deeply committed to their companies, everyone wins. The challenge is that leaders aren't equipped with the skills to make those connections for their people. Root Inc. has set out to tackle the engagement challenge with a new animated white paper, "E is for Engagement."
Through a series of video vignettes, "E is for Engagement" explores the concept of engagement as a bridge -- connecting employees and their leaders to one another, and connecting everyone to the overall strategy and mission. Without those bridges, companies can fall into a canyon, which costs businesses in the United States an estimated $550 billion in lost productivity every year. To avoid the canyon, companies should follow the three keys of engagement that will help everyone, from leaders to managers to employees, be engaged in the overall mission of the company:
- Align and Engage Leadership - Disengaged leadership can lead to confusion and disinterest; align on the strategy and lead by example as a good "Business Gandhi."
- Engage Everyone in the Big Picture - Employees must understand the company's mission and how they are going to help make it happen.
- Sustaining Engagement - Constantly reinforce the company's commitment to long-term goals to ensure everyone stays on the path to success.
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Jesus said that prostitutes were getting into the kingdom before the religious leaders.
Here's Tony Campolo's classic story from The Kingdom of God is a Party. I'm excited to share share this story at a middle school camp this week. We can throw our theological terms around all day, but stories like this are the Kingdom of God.


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Are churches a good place to hit for accounts?
i gained a church on friday. 5 acres. 2hrs and get 85$. but it took 2hrs cause grass was real long. this week itll only take about 90min or so. so i'd say yes, as long as they pay.
My experience, they're cheapskates.
well my neighbor hired me to do the church, and he pays me, idk what his position he is at the church, but as long as he pays me i dont care and its not like i dont know where he lives
you could say that about anyone! well almost anyone
i think the only way your gonna get paid from a church is to take from the offering plate every sunday
No, not really. The people we service are the one's that accept my price that I'm happy to work for. The one's that try to beat me up on money, and in the situation of churches, try to use it as an excuse to bend me over. No thanks, nada. Let some other chump do it. If you are getting good money, great. I haven't had that experience with any yet.
My church wants me to cut the grass next year. They are paying over $350 a week for 6 acres of grass. (another 4 acres are woods). I figured $200, because I am a nice guy. The $150 is more than what I put in the offering plate each week. So to them they make out better in the end. Which was their comment for wanting me next year.
At least the snow get plowed for free by another member. I don't have the time to do it. Other wise I would get stuck doing it.


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The small Sofreh Haft Seen is the ones my children made and the other one is from truly yours.
Har roozetan Norooz, Noroozetan pirooz!
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Hello! I'm Tom. I designed a game called Gunpoint, about rewiring things and punching people, and now I'm working on a new one called Heat Signature, about sneaking aboard randomly generated spaceships. Here's some more info on all the games I've worked on, here's the podcast I do, here are the videos I make on YouTube, here are some of the articles I wrote for PC Gamer, and here are two short stories I wrote for the Machine of Death collections.
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What is Rent to Own? What benefits can it provide? Here, we have listed some of the advantages a buyer can gain through Rent to own transactions:
What is Rent To Own?
Rent to Own is a transaction that allows buyers to rent properties with the possibility of an eventual sale. The buyer and seller enter into a contract which includes the certain amount of rent which the renter has to pay each month and a set date by which the property can be purchased entirely by the renter. A portion of the monthly rent acts as down payment that reduces the money needed to buy the property.
Here are just some of the benefits of rent to own:
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You found the home but still working on the money to purchase it. Rent to own transactions will give you the time you need. It will also give you the opportunity to live in the house until you decide to utilize the option of buying it. No down payment is required, rather than an upfront option fee, otherwise known as a rental deposit.
2. Flexibility
Rent to own will allow a buyer to establish a sense of certainty with regard to the property and the environment before committing to the purchase. The buyer will have the flexibility to walk away from the property once he/she felt that it's not what he/she is looking for. The buyer will have the opportunity to test and inspect the property and the living conditions of the environment.
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On the agreed contract the buyer will have the advantage of having to lock a purchase price that will remain the same even if property prices rise in the future, unless it is not specified in the contract. So before entering an agreement make sure to seek legal advice from lawyers to avoid legal complications.


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Nice simple way to get in a good breakfast with few ingredients. While berries are on sale during peak times, why not stock up and freeze them for wonderful smoothies?
- 1 medium
- fresh banana, in chunks
- 1/2 c
- frozen blueberries
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- low fat milk
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- peanut butter (low in sugar) or almond butter
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- honey
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- 1Grind flax or wheat germ in blender/grinder to breakdown further if you wish. This helps with any bitterness from the flax if this bothers you.
- 2Place ice, banana, blueberries, milk, flax and/or wheat germ and pulse. Add remaining ingredients of peanut butter, honey and yogurt and blend. If you wish, you can add additional ice to this to make it cold.
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Berusaiyu no Bara is in part fact and in part fantasy, mixed in a way that you probably won't doubt the truthfulness of it's characters, to the point that if you ever get your hands on a book about the French Revolution, you'll probably look through its pages trying to find the name Oscar and the troops that participated on that terrible day of July 14.
This is thanks to the talented imagination of Riyoko Ikeda, a young 25 year old woman, that created a story within a story, making it so real, so strong, so close to historical facts, sustained in between these but not interfering in them.
Ikeda as a philosophy student had the knowledge and having researched the events that caused the French Revolution, wanted to give these events a feminine point of view, her point of view, a deeper glimpse than just political highlights that would reach Japanese girls of all ages. Creating though this Berusaiyu no Bara, an 1700 page manga, an epic that reached non-imaginable popularity by its editors. It appeared during 82 weeks between 1972 and 1973 in the magazine titled Shukan Margaret, that now a days is re-edited in a five volume collection.
Ikeda's drawing style is Shoujo, its classic form, its stylish characters, with big expressive eyes, the main characters with blonde hair, their antagonists with very dark black hair, like the femme fatale of Spanish literature. The background set in 18'th century Versailles, the language and clothes of the time, Riyoko Ikeda left nothing to chance, explaining though, that the military war style was used in the Napoleonic period. Berusaiyu no Bara unites all the attributes of Shoujo, in a way that it was made a standard; having fans all over the world.


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Lila's Apartment Building on DexterSep 30th, 2009 | By Lindsay | Category: TV Locations
A few months ago, my fiancé and I started watching the Showtime television series Dexter and I have to say that it didn't take very long for the two of us to become completely and totally obsessed with it. So, as I'm sure you can probably imagine, I've also become pretty obsessed lately with the Seeing Stars website page that catalogs the many filming locations featured on the show. In fact, I can't even watch an episode of Dexter now without having my laptop next to me and open to the site! LOL Anyway, after my fiancé and I had finished watching the series' second season, I was absolutely dying to stalk the apartment building belonging to Dexter's psychopathic girlfriend Lila Tournay on the show. And, while I actually could NOT stand the character of Lila, I absolutely loved her loft-style apartment, which is one of the main reasons I wanted to stalk it. But that's not actually the whole story. The biggest reason that I wanted to stalk it is that it was actually thanks to Lila's building that fellow stalker Chas was able to locate the Girls Just Want to Have Fun apartment for me. Apparently, Gary from Seeing Stars was having a hard time tracking down Lila's building, so he enlisted the help of master stalker Chas in his hunt. And while Lila's building and the GJWTHF building don't look all that much alike, they do both have central courtyards and are both made out of brick. So, during his search for Gary, Chas came across the GJWTHF apartment and took a close look at it. And, while he quickly realized that it wasn't the Dexter building, he remembered it later when I mentioned my GJWTHF quest. And the rest, as they say, is history! If it hadn't been for Dexter, it's quite possible Chas never would have found the GJWTHF apartment, and because of that, Lila's building will always hold a VERY special place in my heart. 🙂
The exterior of Lila's apartment building was shown repeatedly throughout Dexter's second season, beginning with the episode entitled "Dex, Lies, and Videotape", and I am very happy to report that it looks exactly the same in person as it did on the show. Well, sort of!
As it turns out, the view of the building shown on Dexter is not actually the view of the building that is visible from the street. The view featured on the show is actually the building's side entrance, which can only be reached via a gated parking lot located just East of the complex. You can compare the view shown on Dexter to the street view of the building in the screen capture and photograph pictured above. As you can see, they look nothing alike.
But if you go around to the East side of the building, you'll see the entrance that was shown on Dexter, looking much the same as it did in the series. 🙂
Sadly, though, that entrance is located behind a locked gate and is not accessible to the public. But as it turns out, when Chas stalked the building back in February of this year, the stalking gods were smiling down on him because he was actually invited onto the property! 🙂 As fate would have it, when Chas first showed up to stalk Lila's place, a gentleman happened to be outside painting the gate and when he noticed Chas snapping photographs, he, of course, asked why. When Chas explained that the building was featured on Dexter, a show which the painter had never heard of LOL, he opened the gate and allowed Chas to step inside to get some better photographs. YAY! You can see Chas' pictures here.
And while the interior of Lila's apartment was actually filmed on a soundstage at Sunset Gower Studios and not at this location, as you can see in the sign pictured above, the building is actually made up of loft-style apartments just like Lila's. 🙂
Big THANK YOU to Chas for finding this location! 🙂
Until next time, Happy Stalking! 🙂
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Police were on alert in Brooklyn Tuesday night following violence stemming from a deadly officer-involved shooting, as crowds gathered again to protest for a second night in a row.
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Did whites riot and loot in Vancouver a couple of years ago? Yes. But jeez, how many videos of these events are of Africans and Hispanics? 97%?
Are you questioning whether blacks or whites riot more? I don't like the "black bloc" anarchist types anymore than you do (although had you met me 10 years ago, I would have)… but yeah, those whites are expressing more political /ideological outrage than these blacks. Also, doesn't happen as much as when Blacks do it. Also, they don't do as much damage.
Europeans, I must say, seem to be addicted to left wing socialist protesting and rioting… I think it's stupid and entitled of them. American whites are just too lazy and busy watching reality tv.
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A sports riot is a very different thing from a riot which strikes at the very heart of civilization itself. The black rioting in that video are not in rebellion against "racial injustice." They are in rebellion against the very idea of a civil and orderly society
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I thought ideological riots required a greater degree of intelligence?
Again assuming you really are an MRI, as you claim – hey, it's the webytuby, you know – I find your honesty refreshing.
How much black are you? I know you alluded to being a mix of all three, but don't remember the breakdown. What do you consider yourself? Most identify with? Just interested because you have an interesting perspective and tweek many posters here, lol…
Which means you're probably really some depressed 40 something white guy living in his mom's basement with time on his hands and a libertarian bent nursing failed dreams of Randian greatness after all…hee hee…
I mean, back to the premise that you really are an MRI…do you kind of feel like a "Ruckus" some times in regard to your black side? I'd like to think that if I were black I'd be a Ruckus. I know they're out there… I've personally known a few. That's gotta be weird.
Well more power to you, MRI.
a multiracial individual
I find it very interesting that people feel a need to be skeptical of my identity. There is a fraudulent libertarian gentleman here that thinks I am some kind of subversive, gay, white troll. I am not a troll, I am a person genuinely interested in race issues. I am a young (mid 20s) dark skinned male. I resemble Dodger outfielder Andre Ethier in appearance. In high school, undergrad, and now in graduate school I have had almost exclusively White and Asians classmates. Although in my travels throughout the city I have met and befriended people from all manner of backgrounds. In high school I hung out with some kids from the city for a while, and guess what? They were less interested in school than my suburban classmates. I didn't think much of it at the time. I just said to myself, "Hey most kids don't like school."
My black grandmother was a very positive influence on my childhood. She was basically the last generation of Black Americans that grew up with a sense of shame for taking handouts unnecessarily (she never went on welfare). She was also one of the pre-1960s Blacks that experienced some actual racism. Interestingly, it was the kindness of some white housewives she met as a domestic worker than enabled her to secure a job she might have other wise not been able to ontain. The white housewives asked their husbands to help find her a factory job. She was very grateful for that.
I am here for very different motivations than most Amreners. I am not necessarily a white nationalists per se (although I am very opposed to illegal immigration). I believe that a widespread acceptance of race realism is perhaps the only way in which some groups (Blacks, Abos, Hispanics, Gypsies, etc.) can be lifted out of their difficulties (medical/scientific interventions). I take no pleasure in seeing the sordid lifestyle choices of my ethnic kin. I am part white as well, and take no pleasure in seeing a "can't do anything right and are eternally evil" handling of whites in America. I do not harbor any ill feelings toward an entire race. However, I have to be honest with myself about average differences. There is certainly some distance between myself, and all the groups that make me. I am most a person that occupies my own space. However, I do not feel uncomfortable when around people of different ethnicity.
LOL the guy at 0:33. In case anyone was wondering what that neighborhood is like.
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The insurance companies in America allegedly have more money than all the governments in the world combined and they don't like riots because large payouts affect dividends which upsets shareholders whom pick the CEO. There fore theft and vandalism of the insured ( claimants asking for money ) is seriously frowned upon , remember Watts , California in the sixties burn baby burn !
I thought most insurance does not cover riot and civil insurrection. On the other hand, the media love a race riot.
This episode is framed as black teens vs cops. So I'm guessing the cop who shot the Trayvon was black. Had he been white, that would have been the center piece of the reports.Just a guess.
A 30-year-old sergeant with eight years on the job shot four times, a source confirmed. A 26-year-old officer who has five years on the job fired seven times, the source added.
The sergeant who shot Gray is black and the officer is Hispanic, the Post learned yesterday.
Hmmm… Kinda takes the wind out of their sails after shouting RACISM, and throwing things at police, huh?
Here's another little-known fact: The two Black Panthers, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, that were shot and killed by Chicago police in 1969, were shot by Bantu police officers.
Some people are questioning the actions of the polices' response? Who would that be? Black folk? Notice who those people aren't questioning the actions of the 'mourners'.
They destroy their own neighborhoods and they wonder why they can't have nice things.
These people have no sense of self-awareness. Their neighborhoods are ghettos and they blame racism.
Any reason to riot.
They always complain about "food deserts," that there is no fresh fruits or vegetables available in the ghetto.
Watch this video to find out one reason why that's the case.
I believe the PC term is "food security," and I think you've identified the MAIN reason why it's lower in the ghetto.
Over-night outdoor produce section?
So the only thing that can be left out on the sidewalk safely in Brooklyn is produce?
Anybody notice the shiftless unemployables wandering behind the reporter?
So the only thing that can be left out on the sidewalk safely in Brooklyn is produce?
Only if it's rotten produce…and then only if it's lying on the pavement.
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I was thinking the exact same. Who the hell wants to run a business in those hell holes? Not even curve blowing blacks, LOL. The Deeeetriotification of America's once great cities at least shows the reality of "black self rule", a reality that will become increasingly hard to ignore as one after another bites the dust and sinks into black anarchy.
You're absolutely right, Neanderthal. Back in the old days after the '69 riots, Detroit used to have one (1) Kroger grocery store that was located right on the edge of the city (8 Mile Road). Whenever upper management wanted to get rid of an employee, they would transfer them to that store. The smart ones quit before they were shot, mugged or robbed, usually within one week. The ones that belonged there ripped the store off so badly that it eventually shut down – lots of inventory turned over but there were no sales. What's left are bodegas or convenience stores that sell bread, milk and soda. The store owners – Hispanics, Indians, Pakistanis or Koreans – are armed and very willing to shoot when provoked.
Blacks are aggressively hostile to police, including black cops, because they see cops as a symbol of white power over them. That white power is simply what we call civilization–rationality, cooperation, the nonaggression principle, a commitment to community. I know of no other ethnic group that is so self-destructive as blacks. Apparently, they cannot participate productively in a civilized society.
Look at most of Africa as evidence that blacks cannot create or maintain a civilized society.
They looked like chimps flinging feces.
I know many white liberal friends of mine who defended- and applauded the rioting that took place in England. To white liberals this is just more "rising up against the system, man"!
Having lived into early adulthood in Appalachia, the move I made to this neighborhood a couple of years ago has been the most stressful, but eye-opening experience of my life. Of course, I moved here for all the wrong reasons (none have them having to do with a desire to live in a city or in an epicenter of corruption), but I sure have learned a lot. I was essentially unaware of the nuances of cultural tension, the origin of the majority of U.S. policy, and the extreme denigration of myself and my people. What really blows my mind is the complicity of Whites in this sort of behavior.
Of course, I have grown the utmost respect for my home region and those people, and now know my calling. Having just graduated university with a liberal arts degree in an epoch of financial malfeasance, cultural upheaval and political depravity, I am now preparing a way to extricate myself from the madness and return to my environment of origin in a capacity that meets the demands for a decent life and cause. Of course, prospects are bleak within a certain framework, but dedication and ingenuity seem to, at least historically, pay off.
Re the shooting: The neighborhood can be and is dangerous. Thankfully, I've yet to have negative encounters. I also try to stick to the axiom "when in Rome," despite how dishonest it sometimes feels. At the end of the day, it might be the mentality that's part of the problem, but for me it's simply a matter of safety.
Though I live in the area, I first learned of the incident on this website, which, admittedly, I haven't been a reader of until now.
As has been noted by several commenters already, blacks in these locales generally view police as attached to a power structure that has as its origin White, racist policy makers. Indeed, black and white cops alike are viewed in equal contempt by these ghetto stars. Marked police officers who patrol these areas are literally walking targets. Indeed, many (most) plain-clothed cops in Flatbush, etc. (NYC really) are giant in stature and can assume intimidating airs. It's just an insane amount of tension to be burdened with. In the end no one really benefits — though NYPD officers, if surviving their time on the force, are compensated fairly well.
It is certainly telling of both people's and a newspaper's moral and political convictions when not a single newspaper will report the obvious — that this kid was BLATANTLY affiliated with one of the most notorious black gangs in the country's history. Indeed, how hard could it be to confirm, in print, the honest truth that this kid was carrying a concealed weapon illegally. It's all too common for these street thugs to be carrying guns, and police officers have to worry all shift long about it. It only takes a split second for things to go south. By the same token, it's worrisome that police had not determined if a bullet had been fired through the chamber, and can't simply explain the situation. Of course, when kids like this become martyrs in the eyes of their people, it only ads fuel to the fire. All the attention simply legitimizes hatred of Whites, anti-White racism/violence, anti-White policy.
Needless to say, I am looking forward to my departure and hope to find myself in some sort of honorable capacity serving my region and community. The people of the South, for example, should not be burdened culturally, financially, or politically with the problems and dysfunction of an alien group.
Indeed, how hard could it be to confirm, in print, the honest truth that this kid was carrying a concealed weapon illegally. It's all too common for these street thugs to be carrying guns, and police officers have to worry all shift long about it.
We keep hearing blacks talk about how evil these guns are. You'd think they would appreciate the NYPD wanting to liberate one of their adolescents from the evil clutches of one of these guns.
It's all nonsense and typical of an underdeveloped cognitive mechanism. When reading any story like this, one is immediately overwhelmed with the feeling that the members of the black community see it as normal that thugs carry guns and regard them in the same manner as they regard a pair of sneakers. The reality is that these blacks walk around the house waving guns in front of their mothers, sisters, baby mamas, and children. That's why it's absurd to hear any black pundit talk about gun control or gun regulation. Aside from the obvious facts about the sheer imbecility of "gun control laws."
It's becoming clearer and clearer that this is about disarming the dwindling segment of the population who respects firearms and knows how to use them, namely White Men. The result, in context, should be obvious.
How can an inanimate object made of wood and metal be either good or evil? If the .357 in question was simply sitting on a kitchen table it would not go and shoot someone of its own will….mr. gray made a very poor life decision in pointing a firearm at the NYPD….most police officers and CCP holders will react very quickly to defend themselves….if this kid had not died he would have been charged with brandishing and public endangerment, as well as violating NYC's admittedly stupid gun control laws. Even in texas i'm pretty sure someone has to be either 18 or 21 before they can legally purchase and own a gun. Maybe the next young punk will be thinking twice about that cold, dark hole in the ground before they brandish a weapon in public at the NYPD.
Maybe the next young punk will be thinking twice about that cold, dark hole in the ground before they brandish a weapon in public at the NYPD.
Nope. They are incapable of rational thought.
Thats pretty sad….I would probably be considered lower IQ in my demographic but even I'm smart enough to realize that pointing a lead delivery device at police officers is a pretty poor decision and one that would have severe and immediate repercussions. I think between trayvon and kimani maybe they'll get the idea to start minding their P's and Q's if they want to continue enjoying the EBT card and the view above ground.
How can an inanimate object made of wood and metal be either good or evil?
The base quasi-religious mentality of blacks is animism/totemism. Under that mentality, the gun causes you to commit violent crimes, and the piece of paper that is the medical degree gives you the power to heal.
QD, Bantus consider German Shepherd dogs to be "racist" dogs – I'm not kidding. It goes back to the days of Bull Connor in Birmingham.
Here's another: Bantus consider a type of shotgun used by the South African police in the Old South Africa – known as the "South African streetsweeper" – to be "racist".
I'm surprised they don't consider the tse-tse fly to be a racist insect!
I guess this explains why they think obama has infinite money to re-distribute to them….the native amerindians also had some pretty primitive animism/totemism beliefs but most of them are pretty ok with the 2nd amendment. If guns caused violent crime then rural georgia, tennessee, minnesota, wisconsin, louisiana and texas would have the worst crime rates in the world considering there are probably more handguns, shotguns and assault rifles in those states than in middle east war zones. The ones in my house haven't forced me to rob a bank or liquor store yet.
If guns caused violent crime, then it turns out I bought a defective one just after I turned 21 years old, a Ruger pistol, and I'm about to turn 36.
I'm from that area as well, and I look forward to the day when our children are off to college, so we can sell up and move back.
The cops just need to back off and let them assault each other. When the PM's are all rioted out, then they can move in.
How's that Emancipation Proclamation working out for ya?
Good luck with that.
These attacks lasted less than 2 minutes, so even if the police had an amazingly excellent 3-minute response time it would be too slow.
This also illustrates why we need high-capacity magazines.
I noticed the video is using a photo of the dead future astrophysist from when he was 12 years old, rather than showing him in his more recent thugged-out appearance. They did the same with St. Skittles, showing him as a happy smiling 12 year old instead of an intimidatingly large 17 year old thug with grillz and tats.
The picture shows a little kid. Is the Media up to its tricks again as in the Trayvon Martin case.
I was thinking about this. I don't know if it is a conspiracy. I think it might be just practically after age 10 or 11 or so, the typical black male probably simply refuses to stop to pose for photos for his momma. Afer this age it is probably just F— you mom I don't want to pose for no damn photo. I mean the guy that got shot was 16 and already a hard core gangsta, the outdated photo was probably from the last time his momma had any sort of control over him whatsoever….
Lol…apparently in the black community 16 and 17 year olds 1-2 years from being legal adults look like 10 year olds.
Now you know why blacks don't bother opening stores in their crapola neighborhoods. Those Orientals are taking great risks.
But I thought black people say asians and whites are just as violent as them? LOL
The difference between asians and blacks in the hood: they don't commit crime…they work.
The talking head moaned that a peaceful vigil turned violent. Therefore stop calling it a peaceful vigil, and instead call it a Cat 5 CO. But the truth is far from the MSM.
I'm always in a quandary when it comes to blacks and cops. I don't much like either. They both tend to behave in uncivilized ways. When a black shoots a cop and they catch him, I tend to think — yes — we've got two for the price of one.
The police tend to be belligerent and over-the-top in their behavior. The do not view themselves as peacekeepers and our protectors despite the fact that it often says "protect and serve" on their cars. They view us as the enemy. They are armed like occupying soldiers. Never trust them.
Blacks are violent, uncivilized, savages with low intelligence that provide fodder for this site. Most of us just wish they were gone.
As a local guy in suburban NYC, I feel a duty to keep you guys updated with the local news. An NYPD officer has been smashed in the face with a brick and 50 blacks arrested. This is still going on.
The white man's burden; a concept that has been around for
centuries, and is as old as cohabitation with the black, sub-species of human,
has already cost the white more than any white could possibly have seen in the
earlier days of said cohabitation.
The smell of liberal ideology and it's socialistic, immature,
mother hen idealism emanates from the concept with all the magnitude of that
smell from the old town dump. Not only does the burden reflect the liberal
ideology it helps advance the cause of liberalism which ultimately is the new
world, one world order of globalism, socialism and democracy. A two tier world
with a few ruling elites, themselves, enjoying the power, fame and fortune of
elite leadership, and the great unwashed masses, everyone else, suffering under
the great weight of tyranny, poverty and misery.
Blacks occupy lowest man on the cultural totem pole
everywhere in the world they exist. The reason for this is not exogenous, other
people, but endogenous, themselves. Blacks are such failures in the higher
cultures of civilization because their gene pool produces a human fit for
tribal life but not fit for higher civilization. Further, blacks prefer to dump
the blame for their incapability in the "higher than tribal cultures" existence
upon whites, rather than mature, and admit to themselves it is their own fault,
and the fault of their own gene pool.
Tribal existence finds a harmony with nature when a tribal
sub-species of human is of smaller intellect and of greater reproducing
capacity than its counterpart, civilized, sub-species of human. Quantity over
quality is demanded in part by the higher numbers of an earlier death, as by
disease, starvation or spears, suffered by tribal people.
Both white liberals and blacks embrace the black illusion
that it is evil whitey persecuting them which causes them to be losers. This is
the excuse that releases blackie from his responsibility to mature and be the
best that his nature allows him to be in the white, higher culture of
civilization world, which the black intellect is ill-equipped to handle.
However, the black incapability problem plays well for
liberals in their pursuit of superiority over non-liberal whites, which
unfortunately, comes at the expense of whites and the white gene pool. For
white liberals, nation states, free enterprise and Republics are evil. Only
socialist democracies, and eventually a single socialist democracy, with
themselves, the God complexed narcissistic liberals ruling everyone else is
acceptable to them.
Civilization began 10,000 years or so ago with the
achievement of agricultural and animal husbandry. From here city-states arose
with a King ruling the land. It was the King, the man in power who had to
decide between sacrificing his people for his selfish gain, or sacrificing his
selfish gain for his people, and further, it is from here that comes the ideas
of liberty and tyranny.
America's Founding Fathers gave birth to liberty and a free
enterprise, nation-state Republic. This and the white man's rule made America
the richest, most powerful nation-state ever known on planet Earth.
Liberals, using their loser cohorts, blacks, browns and
Islamics, have not only begun destroying our most powerful nation-state, but
also transmogrifying said state in their loser socialist democracy. Allowing
this process to continue will result in tyranny poverty and misery for the
However, the liberals and their allies have achieved power
by larger numbers in our fully enfranchised democracy. Therefore only secession
by non-liberal whites, outlawing all others can save the white gene pool and it's
naturally arising culture of liberty, wealth and happiness. Thank you.
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They're called "protesters." Okay, so where are their signs and pickets? And why do it in the middle of the night?
Protesters my paw. They're rioters.
Two words on how to handle this "delicate" situation: RUBBER BULLETS.
A "peaceful protest" turned violent? Is there any kind of event that doesn't turn violent when blacks are involved? Shoe shopping, award shows, music concerts?
I worked in Baltimore. Within a five year period starting in 1968 there were four major black riots:
1. MLK assassination
2. Garbage strike
3. Police strike
4. Blizzard
So what else is new.
When I was 16, I had a job.


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More than 100 years of tradition will end at Eton College today with the closure of its boat building business, a victim of cheap imports from China.
Racing boats have been built by craftsmen at the Rafts boathouse since 1888. The workshop has made boats that have been crewed to victory at Henley and in world championships.
Its racing shells are regarded by many as among the best available, but the yard is no longer commercially viable.
The closure of the yard is a particular sadness for a college with a long boating tradition. The Eton Boating Song, beginning with the line Jolly Boating Weather, is sung at the end of each year's concert and at other important occasions.
Andrew Wynn, the bursar of Eton College, Berks, said: "The decision has been taken because it has proved not to be possible to return to profit after a chapter of losses. As Eton Racing Boats is part of the trading subsidiary of a charity, Eton College, there has really been no option but to close down.
"It is a special regret that the closure will result in redundancy for most of the 19 staff of ERB, whose product has been very high quality. Some have many years of service, three of them more than 20 years."
Eric Sims, the yard manager, said: "This is a very sad time for us. We are the oldest boat builders of our kind in the world. We have taken great pride in the quality of our workmanship and the way in which we have developed the business to be one of the best in the country."
ERB made a range of racing and training rowing boats to include eights, fours, pairs and singles.
The yard was started in the 19th century by a small number of individual builders making boats to sell to Eton students. Their activities were incorporated into a single business which was eventually acquired by the college and run as a commercial enterprise.
Its boats are mainly bought by rowing clubs and schools, with Eton College Boat Club buying about eight of the 100 it makes each year. They sell at up to £18,000 each for eights and £4,500 for singles.
A firm of consultants was brought in to review the commercial viability of the yard, which has faced stiff competition and has been criticised by some for making boats that were too heavy and too expensive.
Mr Sims said the college's status as a charity made it essential that the yard was profitable.
"It is a fact of life that boats can be made more cheaply elsewhere in the world. China is now a big player in the market but its boats do not match the quality of those we made here."
Mr Sims has been at the yard for 14 years. He will remain, with a couple of staff, and continue to run a boat repair and maintenance service. In the summer, ES Rowing Services will move to Dorney Rowing Lake, which belongs to the college.
The yard, in Eton High Street, is to be redeveloped.